The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. alcr direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be pill* eod ROILY O'MORE. Rory O'fore, Mr. Hudson ; Kathie." , Ml's Weolgur. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ihrd, O. Binith , Selby, and Cullenford ; Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Ellen Chap • ln.' Miss Brooks, and Mrs. Laws. After ' a new and original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNT: , V TITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr. Wright; 'Jack I ttrown, Mr. Munyard; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan ; Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma Harding. To ceneitlO with THE DOUBLE BEDDED ROOM. Mr. Dul cimer rip's. Mr. La filbert ; Mrs. Deputy Lomax, Mrs. Laws. T, HEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Suns mer Season —Lyceum Company.) • THIS EVENING *ln be presented the Comedy of SPEED THE PI.OITGIi. Cha *eters by Messrs. F. Vining, Leigh Murray , Kinloch , Bender, Tur ner, and Emery; I ,liBs Vinare, Miss Arden, Mrs. Griffiths, and Mrs. B. Bonner. 'lb be fellewed by a Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Five Sons of Ethiopia. Afta which, THE CROWN PRINCE ; or, The Buckle of Bril "1""** Print . Albert Augustus, Mr. Emery Frederick Storke, Miss To which I'4ll be added , a new Ballet called THE PE &SANT'S DREA M, a which the celebrated Sp anish ~ancers w'll appear. .clude with a Burlesque, c ank.4 THE BABES IN THE To WOOD. Characters by Messrs. G. Wild and Green; Miss Villars, Mina I .rden, &c ROYA L SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Havidge, Lessee. igement of Mr. an d Mrs. KEELEY for Six Nights more. THIS EVENING Will ha presented the popular Drama of THE DUSTMAN'S BELLE. Ned Windfall, Mr. Keeley; Sally Bloomly, Mrs. Keeley. After which, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. Pierre Pica, Mr. Keeley. To be followed by the popular Extravaganza of VALENTINE AND ORSON. - Valentine, Mrs. Keeley ; Orson, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with Buckstone's Drama of THE BEAR HUNTERS. Vrincipal characters by Messrs. T. Fredericks, Tindell, Phelps. and Neville ; Mrs. W. Daly, Mrs. H. Vining, Miss E. Terry, Miss Love, And Miss Daly. Boxec. as.. fit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. Doors open at Six, commence Half-prst Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AM I : E AYRE, Proprietor and Manager Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING A grand Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PIING,': OF 'CYPRUS; cr tie Horse of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Entire' 9 new Scene in the Arena , and first appearaner of Signcr Ricardo in England, supported by the talented Artistes of :in i-sta teliattnent, in the anions modes ot equestration. 'To conclude with ALESSANDRO MASSAR')N7'. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. WE'ATHER.—Stni OFFICE, AUG. 25. ir "MONSTER, Lowest, 51; Highest. 66 ; Noon, 64 BAROMETER, 30.15.—W1ND N.N.W.; fine. kil• act We:I:FAL AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tills DAY. M , rning.. 4L minutes after 12. i 'Everunz .• 8 minutes after 1 • - t -.A fk- • ; f _ q 11- t c „ Wit HA( I' t . -. .$ • 4 , .. ~.. ~ / . • ,Aa ) 11 rib ' '':,:.- -'-- '•.S. - (rl7 , 1,_ . _,,,_ -- ' / '4';"• •,: 0 ' ' 4 , 47:0 04, -' 'a 0 " ~,, bents iim LON)')N, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1847. -T Rome and Austria are now in direct collision Abandoned to it,,elr, we are satisfied that Rome will not be assailed with impunity. The Pontifical IlLineas.voit has surrounded himself with bulwarks =ewe impregnable than fosse or rampart ; he has 'raised a phalanx more invincible in its organization than that of the Phyrrics. Italy is armed with en thusiasm, and that enthusiasm is rendered the more irresistible by its unanimity. Whatever may have hitherto been the successes of METTERNICH, he will inevitably meet with discomfiture in his infamous aggressions upon the Papal States, for Pope Pius IX. has rendered those states the abode of strength, and loyalty, and power, and confidence by invoking the Spirit of Patriotism. The Spirit of Patriotism is the Palladium of Rome, and it is better than that of 'Troy, seeing that its influence cannot be counteracted *by guile or audacity. Impregnable, however, as is that portion of the Italian peninsula which is subject to the authority of the Sovereign PONTIFF, it is impossible to conceal the fact that the Government of Vienna has still the capacity to cause the most deplorable excesses and bloodshed by its hostile movements, and its many diabolical machinations. The conspiracy which was almost consummated in the Piazza del Popolo on the anniversary of the amnesty, shows this ; and the recent occupation of Ferrara is another emphatic cor roboration. It becomes, therefore, the bounden duty of those kingdoms which are allied to Rome and its reforming Chieftain, in the spirit of liberality which is the very genius of their constitutions, to afford either countenance or assistance to them in their present dangerous and deplorable predicament. Civi lisation demands this; religion demands it ; srlf interest demands it; reason and humanity a:ike de mand it. What would History say if the Free Nations of Christendom looked on with a passive indifference at the invasion, and possibly the subju gation, of the Roman territories by the hireling troopers of despotism, at the very dawn of that liberty which promised the emancipation of many millions ? She would say that those nations were culpable beyond the mere culpability of indolence ; she would assert, and assert truly, that they were parties to the retrogressive movements of the German EMPEROR, that their neutrality covered them with the guilt of complicity, and rendered them odious and contemp tible in the eyes of posterity. That would be the certain deduction of History, supposing the more enlightened Governments connived at the evil deeds of the - crowned criminal of Austria. Already has the Ca binet of Vienna prospered with impunity by following the dictates of its avarice. It has fomented such villanous passions in Gallicia that the country has been saturated with the blood of wholesale assassina tions. It has exulted in the spoliation of Cracow with no more serious consequence than a formal re monstrance from the Court of the United Kingdoms. It has endeavoured to effect the massacre of the Roman population by plots more dastardly than those of CETHEGES And LENTULIJS. And, notwithstanding all these infamous proceedings, it is still unembar rassed 1:13 the opposition of those Governments who should strive to suppress its malign influence, and de stroy its most execrable devices. Austria has at length taken courage to itself from the apparent lethargy of its natural antagonists.. Lieutenant Marshal Count AUERSPERG has taken mi litary posseabion of Ferrara in the name of his imperial master; and the brave Ciaccui, the Cardinal Legate of the province, has solemnly protested against that invasion of the dominions of his Honneess, "in the most holy name of GOD !' Austria, then, has drawn the sword ; the scabbard will soon be flung away, and the Romans will have to fight for their freedom, and not only for their own freedom, but for the freedom of many generations. The Romans! Let that name inspire them. Let them press onwards under the banners of the great FERRETTI to the measure of the war-song of the kindred Tribune—the last of the Tribunes-- RIENZI : "March I march ! for your hearths and your altars! Cursed to all time be the dastard who falters. Never on earth may his sins be forgiven ; Death on his soul slut the portals of heaven ; A curse on his brow, and a curie on his brain Who fights not for Rome, shall to Rome be her Cain !" Every generous heart in Europe throbbed with in dignation at the news of the American invasion of Mexico, how much more at the Austrian invasion of Italy —of Italy, just awakening to the light of free. dom—of Italy, led in the van of the nations by the enlightened and patriotic Pius ! England cannot remain idle whil e th e emancipated population of the Roman provinces is threatened, and is not only threatened, but actually assailed by the forces of the Vienna Cabinet. From France all aid to the Sove reign PONTIFF is hopeless. M.Gtrizor is so bewitched by the evil eye of Absolutism ; he is so inoculated with the virus of Retrogression, that his HOLINESS can not look for assistance, and scarcely for neutrality, in that quarter. One reprisal remains open to the POPE, and it is a reprisal imperatively demanded by nature, sanctioned by policy, enforced by religion, and required by decency. By granting a divorce to ISABELLA 11. a terrible blow would be struck at the Power of the Tuileries' intriguers, the Spanish nation would be released from shame and ignominy, her Catholic MAJESTY would be restored to her self-respect as a woman, and her indepen , lence as a Queen, the KING-CONSORT would be left to his imbecility and his orisons, and Italy would be backed, not merely by the aid which we anticipate for her from England, but by the friendship and gratitude of Spain. Once restore the Spaniards to a sense of their nationality —once inflame their hearts wits the memory of brighter days, and render their Monarch, as of 3 ore 'The glory of old Arragon, and the pride of old Castile!" Once do this—and the divorce would do it !—and Spain would be prepared not merely to abet Rome in of Leper assailants, but to work out in the --tiero regeneration. The Py renees would tbim be - n s r ed again among the mountains of the g lobe, nil Fratkce would be left to her internal crim es • c' _C"1"~=: ==t?~~i IJ. S TRE SUN, LONDON, WE DNtSDAY EV and disaffection, and to the cos tl y atrocities of her legions in Algeria. FEADINAND would then find that he can no more hope to compete with NAPOLEON in capturing Rome and incarcerating the PONTIFF, than the hair-brained nephew of that great Emperor could vie with his return from Elba by cracking a few pistols in the streets of Boulogne. A week has passed since the verdict of a jury stamped Lieutenant Muria° with the crime of wilful murder, and that unfortunate gentleman is still the inmate of a condemned cell, and subjected to all the privations incidental thereto. No option, in such a case, is afforded to the authorities of the prison certain regulations are laid down which must be; strictly adhered to. Indeed, no additional comforts, not rendered necessary by the health of the party, could be allowed save on the authority of the Secre- tary of State for the Home Department, and the gallant and chivalrous soldier—the man who by his own irreproachable conduct elevated himself from the station of a private to a commission in one of our most distinguished regiments—who so deservedly obtained the respect and esteem of his brother officers and of the soldiers placed under his command—is restricted to the same diet and allowances that would be given to the most degraded and in famous malefactor. It is perfectly impossible that the sentence could be carried into execution ; indeed, the preaulingjudge, although deprived of all discretion as to the nature and extent of the punishment he was by law compelled to award, expressly stated that it should not be carried into effect, although it was for other parties to decide to what extent it should be mitigated. Surely, under such circumstances, it is desirable that no time should be lost in deciding the question, and relieving his mind from the painful and harassing suspense to which it has been exposed. There cannot, we should hope, be any necessity for much consideration in apportioning the punishment to be inflicted. The public are unanimous on that point ; it is generally felt that Lieutenant MUNRO has already bitterly expiated his crime—a crime into which he was forced by unfortunate circumstances. The usages of society, and more particularly of that branch to which he belonged, placed him in a dilemma from which he could not extricate himself without either violating the laws of his country, or forfeiting the position he had attained for himself, and being looked upon by his friends and brother officers as a disgraced and degraded man, with whom it would be impossible longer to associate on terms of friendship or equality. The strongest opponent of duelling, the -rtost zealous advocate for its total abolition, we will venture to say, would feel rejoiced that her MAJESTY should exercise her royal prerogative to the fullest extent, and by a free pardon, remit all the future consequences of the act, and restore Lieutenant Murat° to his home, to his friends, and to society in general. It has been stated, and w•e believe truly, that his brother officers, anticipating that full and per fect acquittal which had in every former case of a similar character been obtained, in a manner alike honourable to themselves and to Lieutenant Mulino, subscribed a sum of moneS , sufficient to purchase a commission in his former regiment. Gratifying as such a compliment must necessarily be to the gentleman on whom it was about to be conferred, we should hope that it would be rendered unnecessary, and that her MAJESTY'S most gracious pardon will be speedily followed by his re-instatement in his former rank and position. Although we have thus earnestly desired that Lieutenant MuNno should be immediately released, we are not the less alive to the evils, or less hostile to the practice, of duelling. It should be put an end to by every possible means. New laws suitable to the crime should be enacted, and it should be fully understood that their provisions would be strictly and rigidly enforced in every future case; but nothing can be more unjust than to judge and con demn a person for an act committed several years ago, according to the altered state of feeling that now prevails with respect thereto. Why should not the Legislature grapple with the admitted evil ? Duelling is not of yesterday—it has been practised fur ages ; philanthropists have deplored its fatal results, and have desired to put an end to the prac tice, but in vain. It never received a legislative notice, and our voluminous statute-book is without one single Act relating thereto. But then our legis lators themselves were, generally speaking, duellists, and it could scarcely be expected that they would have enacted laws against a system which they sanc tioned by practising. The military authorities would have cashiered an officer who neglected to demand whatthey termed honourable satisfaction for an insult ; it was recognised in every rank and station in society ; and it required a degree of moral courage which few men possessed to encounter the trials to which any person who refused to submit a trifling dispute to a mortal arbitrament, would be exposed. Although a great change has taken place in the public mind within the last few years, and a healthier feeling now exists with respect thereto, no person can look upon one who has slain his antagonist in a fairly-fought duel—where no undue advantage was taken, and where the deceased was not compelled to fight by unreasonable conduct on the part of the survivor or his second —as on a par with the midnight assassin, the fiend-like poisoner, the cold-blooded and deliberate murderer, or deserving of an equal punishment. He may, according to the strict letter of the law, be equally guilty of the offence, but the public will not regard him in such a light, and the infliction of the extreme penalty would be repugnant to, and shock the feelings of all. A sentence that will not or cannot be carried into execution encourages the offence it is intended to repress. If parties escape altogether, the impunity encourages others to perpetrate similar acts. If, on the contrary, there is a conviction, the extreme severity of the punishment takes away from its effect. The public lose sight of the crime, the horror of the offence is merged in sympathy with the sufferer. Either result is equally injurious. It is not the severity of a punishment, but its certainty that is efficacious. The great object is example ; it is not for vengeance that an offender is made to expiate his guilt, but that others may be de terred from similar crimes. Now let us see what has the effect of preventing duelling. It is found that the most noted fire-eater will not fight if he is bound over in a heavy penalty to keep the peace, and it is looked upon as a sufficient excuse for his refusal. The man who will not be deterred by the danger to his own life, or the possibility of being executed as a felon, will shrink from the pecuniary loss which he knows he must sustain. Let every subject be considered as bound over to keep the peace, should he be guilty of fighting a duel (which should be made a separate of fence and indictable as such), let him be heavily fined according to his means, and also imprisoned and kept to hard labour for a certain period. Let this punish ment be invariably carried into execution without reference to the result, and let no rank, no provoca tion, no circumstances of any kind exempt any of the parties, principals or seconds, therefrom ; indeed, the seconds should, if possible, be treated with greater severity than the principals, for they can have no injured or outraged feelings to plead, but wilfully and unnecessarily involve themselves in the transaction ;—let this be done, and we venture to affirm that duelling will be suppressed. It must be made an expensive luxury; and if, in addition, the parties who fancy themselves heroes are subjected to the prison discipline for a few months, a wonderful change will to wrought in their feelings, and a holy horror will be felt at the offence which had been regarded with the utmost levity. We find the following in the Nuremburg Cor respondent :—" We announced some time since that a Polish lady wino had arrived here for the purpose of seeing one of the accused Poles .n_o r m h a :). t d i 0 n been of sent her back, in consequence of the l journey, which had been given by M. G j euui journals, s t , to tl the tthheee a uthorities. The French officialf M Moniteur and the Journal des Debats affirm fact is false. N o t withstan ding these that t he e t rt t io li n a s w affirm that the fact is true. It is said h is the sister of t he accused MIEROSLAWSKI and ady 'that ,he wished to s ee her brother once again." We have no doubt but that the assertion of the Nuremburgh Correspondent is correct. We know from his own lips that M. GUIZOT does not consider it necessary at all times to tell the whole truth, and acting in this instance as he acted towards the Mar quis of Nonsa.anr, he will no doubt say that he did not give information of the journey of a Polish lady, of which he was accused, but of the journey of a French lady, inasmuch as Mdlle. MIEROSLAWSKI was born in France, and her family claim to be French subjects. This is just one of the subterfuges in which M. GUIZOT delights. Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. It is said that the QUERN has consented to certain terms of reconciliation, and that the Minister of the Interior had gone to the Prado to lay them before the KING. A Ministerial crisis is expected, and it is said that SALAMANCA has made overtures to NAR VAEZ. General PAVIA has, it is said, been dismissed from the office of Captain-General of Catalonia, in consequence of a note presented by the British Am bassador, denouncing the atrocious cruelties of which PAVIA had been guilty to his Carllst prisoners. MADRID BOLSA, Ave. 18.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26i for cash ; the Coupons, at 15 ; the Five per Cents., at 17-1 for paper; and the Debt without Interesipat We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The constant exposures that are taking place of the scandals and corruptions of the haute societe of Paris are beginning to tell. The Ministry not daring to accept the challenge thrown out by the National and - - Courrier Francais—not daring to offer to those jour- nals, by prosecuting them, the opportunity they have so long sought, of publicly proving before a court ofjustice the truth of the charges of corrtption which they have brought against it, has adopted the plan 01 seizing those journals which comment on the reve. lation; so made. This is a confession of weakness on he part of the Ministry for which we were by no means prepared. It is a proof that the lessons of TALLETRAND have been forgotten. It is worse than a fault—it is a blunder, and a blunder of the very grossest kind. The journals seized are the Gazette de France, the Reforme, the Charirari, and the Union Monarchique. The latter journal thus com ments on its seizure : "The Union Monarchique is prosecuted for an article on honesty, and for the reproduction of a few lines from the Charivari, on the overwhelming flood of crimes with which society has been affitcted. To prosecute journals for making moral reflections on scandalous transactions, on extravagance and waste, and on murders, is to us in conceivable. Is a man culpable because ho thinks that society has fallen into sickness, when such symptoms of immorality and decomposition are evident in its bosom? No one dare venture to maintain this seriously. The Ministry, by seizing the journals, has fancied that it can put a stop to these redoublable accusations. It will not allow of the imputation that it has thrown France into a frightful condition, both materially and morally; and to escape from the responsibility it has incurred, it relies upon intimidation. It hopes to impose silence upon the press, thinking that the public would not of itself draw conclusions from the sad events which have put all social principle and public integrity in peril. The Ministers who have had M. Teste for a colleague will not have-pe culation, forfeiture, dciapidations, and other scandalous acts and deeds any longer talked of. For ourselves, we have obeyed the dictates of conscience, and we will persevere in the mission we have undertaken. Strong in our intentions, we will appear with confidence before the judges given to us by the law, and we shall see whether a jury can be found to punish us for having spoken honesty, for having invoked honest men, and for uttering a cry of alarm, not against society as it is, but to preserve its safety, by protecting it from new crises." The National, in allusion to the seizure of those journals, and to the accusations against the Ministry, thus turns to terrible account the doctrine of " moral complicity" proclaimed by M. HEBERT, the present Minister of Justice, in his prosecution of M. Du- POTEY, the political writer, and adopted by the Chamber of Peers in the conviction of that gentleman for " moral complicity" in the attempt of QUENIssET. After reciting the various accusations of corruption which have been brought against the Government, and quoting the doctrine of " moral complicity," ac cording to which those whose acts tend to suggest or to tempt to crime are equally guilty with the parties committing it, the National continues— " Let M. Hebert interrogate himself. When we see issuing from the bosom of the Government or its flanks so much effluvium of depravation, does not reason de mand that we should inquire into the cause? And when the accused and the guilty are so closely connected with our rulers, are the latter to complain if we show that this perversity reaches even them? And now an atro cious and barbarous crime is added to these odious offences. This column of corrupting and corrupted Ministers, of an officer of the Court driven out as a cheat, of gentlemen greeks and thieving functionaries, has for its head a Peer of France accused of murder. and yet M. Hebert will not allow the instinct of the public and the logic of the press to show the connexion there is in the facts. No I We have not said that your course of policy had put arms into the hand of the assassin—we have not said that you were guilty of the disgusting atrocity revealed by this crime. What we said, and what we repeat, is that the society that you have composed round you betrays its morals and its ideas by its acts, and that those acts are hideous. Have you Ministers no share in that ? Look at the examples given by you and the doctrines you have inculcated. As Ministers, you have regarded truth as a mockery. As governors, you have been influenced by a factious spirit. You, being cor rupt, could maintain yourselves solely by corruption. You could not exist but by denying your faith in great actions. You have denied it. Your system required that you should degrade the banner of France. You have laid it under the feet of Prince Metternich. It was for your advantage, in order to arrest all attempt at action, to waste the finances, and you have squandered them. You have supported those practices by maxims the most exciting to cupidity. And you are astonished that this abominable system should have engendered vice and crime amongst those who received its first contact I No ! that society fortunately confined within a circle, from which the population shrinks with dis gust—that society is yours. You have cultivated, che rished, and excited it. It belongs and is united to you by the most tender bonds. It is the offspring of your ideas. And the press is not permitted to denounce the infamy, nor demonstrate the relationship, nor evoke public execration upon you ! Since what period has a Government been established which is to escape all re sponsibility ? Since when have we' been obliged to treat with delicacy the virus which affects a Ministerial atmosphere ? Well, let the Government prosecute the papers ! It is not the latter, but the Ministers who will be brought before the Court of Assize. We ask pardon of our cotemporaries if we congratulate them on being at length enabled to drag before the justice of the country those who ought long since to have received the chatisemest of their crimes. M. Hebert has not thought proper to include us in his anger, and whilst we express our opinion with all the candour which the laws permit we will not assuredly challenge the law officers by any vain bravado. We shall, however, always wait their attack with a firm and tranquil con science. And it, by chance, the Ministers suppose that others are more deeply impressed than we are with the profound disgust with which we are inspired by this regime, it would be a calumny upon the .National—a calumny against which, as our readers know, we have no need to protest." The feelings which are thus given utterance to by the National are not confined to the Republican party, they extend through all classes of society. The Siècle says— " The Reforme, the Gazette de France, and the Cha rivari were seized on Saturday. The object of this step appears to be to impeach different articles appreciating the moral responsibility of the Government in the crimes and scandalous acts which have one after another spread abroad shame and alarm. We have not immediately under our eyes the text of these articles, and we cannot point out the passages specially incriminated ; but we doubt not that these three journals have, in avowing their opinions, said nothing that goes beyond public opinion. If the Ministry wishes to know what is thought of it, let it listen to the murmurs in the streets, in the saloons, in the workshops ; and it will find that never has there been a judgment more formally, more unani mously pronounced." It will, however, be impossible for the Ministers to prevent a public investigation into the charges of conduct in Algeria. corruption br oug ht aga i nst t h e Mi n i stry o f W ar, f or itspub lishesThefrCoomurrmie.rwFArlianzicaEßisy,the the followin g letter delegate for the city of Bona : " The Univers calls for a legal denunciation. Under this bead I am about to put forth a summary of all my revelations up to the present day. To this summary I shell add four letters, which I yesterday addressed to the Minister of War. These letters enumerate more than eighty instances of peculation and plunder, with the names of the persons, all of whom are public functiona ries, for I know what it costs to denounce as immoral men who are nut invested with a public character. This summary shall be addressed by me to M. Delangle, the Procureur-General, with a letter of denunciation in legal form. If several printers bad not refused me their concurrence, being in fear of the laws of Sep tember, my denunciation would have been already sent and published. " WARNERY, "Delegate of the City of Bona." The Journal des Debats states that Marshal NARVAEZ left Paris on Sunday for Madrid, in con sequence of an order received from the QUEEN of Spain. The same journal, compelled at length to admit that Ferrara has been occupied by Austrian troops, preaches moderation to the Liberal party in Italy, and submission to the will of Austria. M. GunoT does not even remonstrate, but, as the Na tional justly observes, " lowers the flag of France to the foot of METTERNICH." Matters are strangely altered from the time which France took possession of Ancona on an occasion much less menacing. The body of the murdered Duchess DE PRASLIN was deposited on Sunday morning in the vault of the Madeleine. The trial of the Duke will take place in about a month. The loan of 3.50,000,000 to the Government is to be adjudicated on the 10th November, the con tractors to pay instalments of 9,000,000 a month to the Treasury. The Three per Cents. closed at 761. 60c. ; the Five per Cents., 1181. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,228 f. 76c. ; Rouen, 9481. 75c. ; Havre, 6021. 50c. ; Great Northern, 531 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 592 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 567 f. 500. ; Bordeaux, 4701. ; Basle, 175 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 391 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 371 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 395 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 447 f. 50c. MARSEILLES, Auc. 19.-Marseilles and Avignon, 607 f. 50c. ; Northern, 5251. ; Orleans, 1.230. LYONS. Au0.21.-Paris and Rouen, 95Sf. 75c. ; Avig non and Marseilles, 6051. ; Vierzon, 560 f. ; Northern, 5301. ; Orleans, 1,238 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 24. Northern of France, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, •tys. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The fifth half-yearly general meeting of the pro prietors of this company was this day held at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington. The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by C. Russell, Esq., the chairman of the company. The norke convening the meeting having been read, and the common seal affixed to the registry of the shareholders, The CHAIRMAN said that, in the present state o the money .market, it had been thought prudent by all companies to abstain as much as possible from the expenditure of any large sums of money more than was actually necessary. This company had also acted entirely upon that principle, and during the last session had not pressed forward any Bills which would increase the rate of expenditure very consider ably. The Hon. Chairman then proceeded to state the course which had been adopted, and the Bills which had been obtained in the last session. Every effort, he said, had been made to prevent the resolu tions from passing prohibiting interest on calls being paid. He, as a member of the Committee of the House of Commons, had most strenuously opposed the resolutions, but was supported in his opposition only by one single Member, the Hon. Member for Salisbury (Mr. Chaplin). Their united opposition was fruitless, and though renewed in the douse of Commons, was equally unsuccessful. He considered that the principle of paying interest on calls was in itself a perfectly sound one, it was one universally adopted by all commercial men in all their transac tions where the gain or profit to be obtained was remote or distant. He and his brother directors regretted most deeply the passing of those resolutions which would have the effect of preventing the direc tors carrying out the engagements they had made with the proprietors. Upon the best advice they were enabled to obtain, they had thought it right to enter into the supplemental contract referred to in the report. The works of the line, he was happy to say, were proceeding in a most favourable manner, and he felt confident that as soon as this line was completed, and its resources developed, all the returns which had been held out to shareholders would be most com pletely realized. The line was one of the greatest importance, not only in a national point of view, but also to the Great Western Company. In conclusion, he would call upon the Secretary to read the report. The SECRETARY then proceeded to read the report, which stated that the sanction of Parliament had bsen obtained in the last session for certain deviations and improvements in the South Wales line, and for the purchase of the Bullo Pill Railway.. The Mor gam deviation, which had been rejected in a former session, had also received the Royal Assent. This latter deviation would enable the company to fill up the only remaining gap or interval in the whole South Wales line, between Gloucester and Fishguard. The Swansea Valley Bill had also received the sanction of the Legislature, which incorporated a separate company, with powers to sell the line to the South Wales Company; but the formal act of sale would be deferred, in consequence of the recent resolutions of the two Houses of Parlia ment, until one-half of the capital of each company should have been paid up, and expended on their re spective works. The actual purchase of the Bullo Pill Railway would also be deferred until one-half of the South Wales capital should have been paid up. An arrangement had been made with the Severn and Wye Company, at the strong recommendation of the Committee of the House of Lords, to the effect that a sum not exceeding 15,0001. should be contributed by the South Wales Company to the former company, for the purpose of rendering that line available for working with broad gauge stock, under the manage ment and control of the engineer of the South Wales Railway. The clause in the " Amendment Bill" of this year, authorising interest on calls to be paid at the rate of five per cent. per annum, in lieu of four per cent., as permitted by the original Act, had been expunged from the Bill by the Committee of the House of Lords, as inconsistent with the spirit, if not the letter, of their standing orders ; but there was little doubt in the minds of the di rectors, that they would obtain power in another session to raise the rate of interest, as contemplated by their Bill of last year. It was intended, with the concurrence of the Great Western Company, that an agreement supplemental to that for the lease, should be made between the two company's renewing the condition of paying the advanced rate of interest in consideration of the contribution afforded by the South Wales Company towards securing the com pletion of the line between W rex f or d an d Dublin. The engineers' report also stated that the works were being proceeded with most satisfactorily, without any peculiar circumstances either of difficulty or delay. The statement of accounts of the company was also laid before the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the re port, which having been sanctioned, Mr. SPENCER wished to know whether the direc tors had pledged themselves to pay all the interest upon die calls which might accrue in arrear when power to do so should be obtained from Parliament ? The CHAIRMAN had not the slightest hesitation in saying that it the five per cent. interest could not be paid by the sanction of Parliament, yet that ar rangements should be made to prevent any loss what ever, arising to the shareholders, in consequence of the resolutions of the Legislature.—(Cheers.) Mr. Du BOULAT wished Great W had `Western Companyto know whether the any power to regulate the tolls upon the South Wales Railway. The CHAIRMAN—They have. In. answer to several questions put by shareholders, Mr. BRUNEL, C.E., stated that he had no doubt but that the line would be completed within the specified time, namely, two years, and that the contracts the line had been let at exceeding the original estimates. p u r p i o c n ea ne l a i r tt ly le, the if whole anythi ong, A SHAREHOLDER thought that it would tend to give stability to the concern if the Great Western Company would consent to give 5f per cent. in per petuity for the concern. The CHAIRMAN could not hold out any hopes whatever of the Great Western Company departing from the terms of the original agreement. Indeed, he thought that it would be most improvident upon the part of the shareholders of the South Wales Com pany themselves to give up a line so full of promise for the additional half per cent. The resolution was then agreed to, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman and the directors, and the meeting broke up. CAETION.--FORGED 51. NoTEs.—This day a pro clamation was issued, cautioning the public against the receipt of forged 5/. notes, of the bank of Messrs. Rud- , ford and Wragge, of Stourbridge, of the date of June 1, 1847. Those genuine and issued by the firm on that 1 day were from Nos. 5,001 to 5,400 inclusive. The forged ones may be detected by noticing that their entry and signatures have been lithographed, while it is not the ease with the genuine ones. Messrs. Wragge and Rudford have offered a reward of 1001. for the detection of the parties concerned in the above forgery. EXPENDITURE OF THE LORD STEWARD OT THE ROYAL llousErtoLD.—The following bill of fare for one year (1846) may not be uninteresting to economists and the public:—Bresd, 2.0501.; butter, bacon, cheese, and eggs, 4,976/.; milk and cream, 1,4781; butcher's meat, 9,4721.; poultry, 3,6331; fish, 1,979/ ; grocery. 4,644/.; oilery, 1,793/.; fruit and confectionery, 1,7411.; vege tables, 4871.; wine, 4,8501.; I:que urs, &c.,1,8431 ; ale and beer, 2,811/.; wax candles, 1,9771.; tallow candles, 6791.; lamps, 4,1661.; fuel, 6,849/.; stati oner y , 824/.; turner y , 3 7 6 1.; braziery, 8901.; china, glass, &C., 1,328/.; linen, 1 , 0851 .; washing, table linen, & c ., 3,1301.; plate, 500/. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. —The Court of Examiners sat for the last time this session on Monday evening, w h en th e f o ll o wing gentlemen, !laving pre• v!ously undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of this College, viz.:— Messrs. William Lawrence Cashel, Nenagh, Tipperary ; Robert Twemlow, Spark, Newcastle, Staffordshire ; Charles Ferraby, Swaffham, Norfolk; Thomas William Crosse, Norwich ; Robert Abercrombie, Manchester ; John Mussendine Camplin Finsbury-square ; Matthew Jabez Booth, Rochdale, Lancashire' ; Charles Thomas Wagstaff, Brixton, Surrey ; William Ottley James Fielding Matthews, Bedford. and, Woollaston, East Derehatu, Norfolk ; and Benjamin . CLASSICALIT Y OF THE LONDON TATEIIN SIGNS.— It Is curious that when we speak of " Whitbread's the carne way En tire, &c., we use a most classical phrase. It is the illerun of the Renans, frequently' translated Wine ; meant wine originally, nor anything of the kind. It indeed, that is what it means. But merum never ration:. entire, f i at is j , sincere, genuine, unmixed. In discovered in a wire work, unni:red.— 1 :ilhot's English Etymolcgies. the Greeks called wine akraton, that is, . T h i s morning, shortly after four o'clock, a fire was No. 56, New Wynd ; hut on the arrival of the enr'ines it wassoon extinguished, with out having done much damage.—North British Mail of I lionclaf. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at ;;Liverpool yesterday were about 3,000 bales, with a firm market. Shares were flat again. There are no later foreign arrivals, but a curious statement is circulating relative to the very threatening aspect of affairs in China. After what has recently occurred the renewal of active hostilities would not excite surprise, but the statement will need confirmation. The discount market is in some quarters reported less stringent, but we cannot find that for the general mer chant there is any particular relaxation. Indeed, both in and out of the Stock Exchange, money is too dear in relation to the profits obtained. The produce markets are not active, but sugar has beon firmer, and tea is held steadily. The general con sumption is steady, but the dealers are compelled, by want of discount facilities, to buy merely from " hand to mouth." The gossips of the Stock Exchange have been edified by the fact having become known that a certain noble lady who has been speculating in the Funds has not come forward to arrange about losses. Tbis, we believe, happened also upon a former occasion, matters subse quently being arranged. Consols have gone down again in consequence to 861, being 864 :/ for October. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 884 to 89/. Bank Stock has been at 197 to 4. Exche quer-bills have been 2s. premium to Is. discount. The Foreign Securities are heavy again. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 194, and the Three per Cents. 291 4. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been at 26. Dutch Four per Cents. are 884. Railway Shares have been steady, but not brisk. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 197% 195 1 ,% 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 87% 1 4 87% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 87% 86% 87 New 34 per Cent. Annuities B9 88% 89 1 88% 89 bong Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 91-16 9 9 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% India Bonds, 1,0001 7 7 dis Ditto under 1,0001. .-.... 7 p 7 die South Sea Stock Consols for Account 874 86% 87 Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,0001. 500/ 5 1 p 3 p Small ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES, 84 PRICES OF FOREIGN F UNDS. Brazilian Bonds Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... .......• Ditto, Account . 29% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent ...... Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent. . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 88% 88 3 / PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21/2 Belfast & County Down 10 Binoingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 16 Wolverh'pton, and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5' Bristol and Exeter Ditto. Thirds Buckinghamshire Bl. 4s. — ..... .... .. t;aledonian Ditto Halt Shares 2 l /4 Ditto, Clydesdale June 35 Chester and Holyhead... 32% — Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clarence lOO Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 3 3 A...... Dublin and Belfast June. 20 - Dundalk & Enniskillen 12% East Anglia, 251., L. Is E. and L. and D. ...... 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 25 Do., 31.10 x., E. &11. 1 Eastern Counties Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1 61.135. 4d. Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 7 V A ..... % Eastern Union 5O ..... 000000 ••• Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Ditto, Thirds 4d — 000 East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do., Exten. Scrip 1 East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 64% ......... ... .. Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... . Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% — Edinburgh and Perth... 2 Ditto, Extension los. Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 5 4 Ditto, .New .. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle V/. 6s. 8d Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 — Ditto, New .. 35 Do., Il i Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Great Northern Do., London and York 2%..... Great South. and West. (Ireland) GreatNorthof England..loo Ditto, New 401. Ditto, New 301. Ditto, New 151 l lh Great Western Ditto 4Shares Ditto 1 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto, New 171 Huddersfield & Manches. 19 Ditto, Thirds ......... 6 Hull and Selby SO Do. Half Shares Ditto V i Shares 12% . . .. .. _ _ Ipswich Wilary St. Enm. 15 — — Do., do., and Norwich 12 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds lO Leeds and Bradtord 45 Leicester and Bedfard... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 32% Do., Branch % Shares 7%.. Do. New Branch(blue) 2% — •••••• Du. Extension (green) 2%.. ... Du•NewExten. (pink) 2% _ • Leeds and Thirsk 3l Ditto, New 1 2% ... ..... .. Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 % — ...... .. .... Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... •••....... 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& N ew castle Junction 2%.••••• London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 6% syi ..... Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 3l. 13s. 4d. Do. Extension 12% - London, Bnghton, and South Coast Do. Consul. Eighths.. 20 Do. tmuarant. 5 per ct. 9 Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 London and Greenwich 121 15s4d — Do. Preference ...18/1;a 2d Loudon and N. Westeraloo 163 % 14% a d... 163% Do. Quarters L. & B. 12 — Do., no., New Ditto Fifths ••••• ••.• 2 Do. - 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 20 Do 40/. Shares(L. M.) 15 — _ _ Do. 404 (M. 8/13.) 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (N. & B.) B. 5 Do. 101. DI. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham - Lond. & &Western 411 6s 10d 6 0 14 6O Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... 00000 32 1 ,4.. Do. New 401. 26 .. Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto ....... .... 40 ...... -- ••••• ••• 41 Ditto Scrip 50/. Ditto ditto 401 4 ..».. 3% 3% _ ...___ _ _ London, — Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry& Jo.leraine 25 Londonderry and Ennis killen...... .-....-....... 22%...... ..... Manchester and Leeds 82 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarter Shares... 14% Do. Fifths VA._ . Do. Sixteenths 6 ,4 Do. Thirds (Reg.). -71. 4s. — Do. Liverp. and Bury 29 Ditto 1 6 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 28 Manohester,Buxton,and Matlock 42s. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... VA Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ... ..... 7 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7 1,4 Manchest. & Southampt. 2 1 ,4, — Midland lOO 116% x d ..... ... Do. Fifths 2 Do. 40!. Shares 116 1 44% 8 Do. 501. Shares 6 Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Consol. Brist. & 122 Birming., 6 per cent.loo Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto 7l. 9s ...... . ...... Midlnd,Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 Midland Great Western Irish ... 30 ...... Newcastle and Berwick 20 Ditto New Ditto North Shields... 25 ...... Newcaatle and Crirlide. • .100 ..•••• .! •.••.• • ie NING, AUGUST 06, 1847. 26 19 3 % 4 1 % 29% 92 1 / 2 Do. Quarters 40% — Do. New Quarters —U. 18s. 9d. ...... Newmrk et & Chesterforel 13% _I Do. Extension .........21..125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford . 4 --- Newry and Enniskillen 7 New iy, Warren point, and Rostrevor .. 10 Nonolk ......... ......... —lOO — - Do. New 201. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 — North British . ....... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 12%...... Do. Quarters ...... Do. Extension Ditto Thirds Northern and Eastern... 50 Ditto Quarter Shares 12% ..... Ditto New ...... ..... 14 North Staffordshire 7% ••—• 9 % North Wales North Western 4 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Portsmouth Direct 3% — Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares (A) ... 8 1 /0 12% Ditto ditto (B) Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% — ... ........ .. 1% Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17% — • — Ditto, New 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 3%.... . 2xi Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury & Chester • (Nor. V%. Min.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 Ditto Oswestry Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ...... Shropshire Union South Devon Do. Preference South Staffordshire 21. 125.... ••• South Eastern & Dover. 33% — Do., No. 1 20 Do., Nc . 2. Do , No. 3 .. ..... ...... ;5 Do., No. 4 South Wales zouth Yorkshire, Don castor, and Goole 2 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1h...••• Vale of N eats; 4 W akefield, Pontefract. & Goole .......4 2 14. ••• ......... Orb Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / i..... Waterford and Limerick 32% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall ............ 4 ... .. ---• ••• — Whitehaven & Furness 8 West Riding Union ...... 4/. 2s % dia % die Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 425. Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth York and Newcastle. ... 25 .. Do. Extensioe 1)o. Preference York and North Midland 50 — Ditto Extension ...... 25 ...... •..• Ditto, Preference ...... 6 Do. East and W est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 13% ilordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted)... 4 .. ... . _ Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ...-.... 2 Ceylon ....M Ss. Demerara 2% ••.••• ---- •••• ****** Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 . 3 East Indian ss. Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras se. Great Western Bengal... 5s Great Western Canada... 3 1 ,‘ Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . Luxembourg...... Lyons and Avignon 5 Madras ... 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot I /8 / -- Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Namur and Liege Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons .. 8 ...... 33 8 Paris and Orleans 2O Pans and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ' tours and Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 12 - Trinidad West Flanders ...... 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 Ditto New... National Prov. England. 35 Dit to, New lO National of Ireland 2 2 1 /2 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, New Union of London-- ..... 10 Union of Australia Ditto,New... ........ 2IA . Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Comp. 11 Australian Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 — British Iron lO — Brazilian Imperial ... 21 — Cobra Copper . Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. United Mexican •281. 2s. B: 4 d. •..••.•..•.. . LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 25.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.W. moderate breezy, and fine. _ _ DEAL, AUG. 24.—Wind N.E. to E.N.E., strong and squally.—Arrd. from the river, Elizabeth, Quebec. It blew hard all night from the N.E., with severe squalls. OFF DUNGENESS, AUG. 22.—Reliance, Gambia for Amsterdam. PORTSMOUTH ' AUG. 24.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Inde pendence, New York. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 24. —Wind N.E.—Sld. Voluna, Quebec. OFF SCILLY, AUG. 19—Kepler, Baltimore for Bremen. BRISTOL, Aua. 24.—Wind N.E., fresh—Sid. Arcadia, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 24.—Wind variable.—Arrd. 21st, Jane, M`Dowell, New York, and not the Jane, Dean, from Quebec, as reported ; 24th, Hudson , Mecklenburg, Singapore ; Lady Milton, Hayes, Quebec. ,Sld. 23d, Charles Jones, Montreal ; 24th, Hudson, Pines, Sydney, New South Wales ; Georgina, Calcutta ; Runje, Africa ; Rothschild, Africa ; Formosa, Maranham ; Ocean Monarch, Boston ; New World, New York; Glasgow, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Messenger, Quebec ; Mary, Newfoundland. CLYDE, Aua. 21.—Arrd. John Scott, Robertson, Tri nidad; Trident, Miller, Porto Rico; Sarah Batsford, Matanzas. 23d, Siroco, Quebec and Montreal. Sid. Tomatin, Calcutta; Favourite, Quebec. DUBLIN, AUG. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Garonne, Dunn, Antigua., Zephyr, Havlock, Barbadoes; Agnes, Hart, New York; Linden, York, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Nicholson, Young, Norfolk V.; Coolock, Quebec. CORK, AUG. 22.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Freetrader, Robles, New York; Browne, Foster, New York; Palls, Hargrave, St. John's, New Brunswick; Cecilia, Jolly, Laguna. Sld. Dominica, Quebec. LIMERICK, Arm. 23.—Arrd. Primrose, Irvine, Quebec. BELFAST, AUG. 23.—Arrd. Thetis, Collins, New York. Sid. Wilhelmina, Quebec. The Ulster, M'Auley, New York to this port, ran on the rocks near Donaghadee yesterday, and is expected off; makes no water. GRIMSBY AUG. 24.—Wind N.E.—And. Varnna, Mould, Qu ebec. WHITBY ' AUG. 24.—The Lochneil, of Stockton, is :a total wreck on the coast; crew and stores saved. WICK, AUG. 22.—The smack Cruiser, of Douglas, Fraserberg to Bristol, was stranded yesterday, in Sin clair Bay; crew saved. On PORTLAND, AUG. 22.—George, Boss, St. Croix for Copenhagen; Nagasaki, Bunnemeyer, Baltimore for Rotten i am. TORBAY, AUG. 24.—The Romp, Jenkins, from Malaga to Liverpool, has dritted on the Island of Grand Canary, a derelict, but making no water; ship and cargo will be saved; one man was found dead on the forecastle. STRANRAER, AUG. 23.—The Elizabeth, of London derry, is on shore at Port Patrick. It blew quite a gale from the N.W. during the whole of yesterday, and until 10 this morning. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.—WEDNESDAY Comparatively speaking, the arrivals of English Wheat for our market this week have been on the in crease, and chiefly of the present year's growth. Al though the show of samples this morning was small, the demand for all descriptions was exceedingly heavy, and to effect sales a further decline in the quotations of is per quarter must have been submitted to. Upwards of 22,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have arrived since Saturday. The continued large importations produced much heaviness in the trade, and in some instances the currencies had a downward tendency. In Barley so little was doing that prices were almost nominal. The same may be said o' Malt. A 13rge quantity of I)reigts Oats, or 25,190 quar:ers, Las come Li this week. Se lected qualities mostly sold at full prices, but the out-of condition sorts were 6d per quarter lower. In all other articles of grain, as well as sour, next to nothing was daNs 6% 64% 2 1 4 57t, 49% 14% 9 3 / 4 5% Whaat. 1,120 qrB. RIVALS. Barley 10 gni. ut Oats. FlOOats.l 1 430 skt , 780 4rS• ' mul 9W 1 I,ooob o 25,190 , English • • • • • • Irish. Foreign • • • • • • 22,460 I 1,9 50 Malt. 970 cirs. 1 WHITECILA.P.IS Z. There was rather more bus iness doing here t °4* and prices were well supported, Beef, from 38 to 3s 10d, Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10: 1 ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s; ires 4 4s to 4s 101; and Pork, as s d to 4s 10d per Sibs by carcase. --------, BANKRUPTCY,( THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUS.) IN BE H. SIDDIONDS. This bankrupt, who was decla red bankrupt de $ 1 1 1 ., stationer in Basinghall- street, but had carried on se_7 l , tensive business as a hop and corn f actor in the bell: C° and had been largely engaged in railway traffic same up to pass his last examinatio n. 0 0 Mr. NORTON, the solicitor to several creditors, itt that the examination had been adjourned till this' fi ll bol i v consequence of the accounts not having been due time. Since then an amended balance shel d 0 0 been filed. The bankrupt had up to 1841 o°, 4i al business at Maidstone, in partnership with his e" gti ltsti hop factors, and in his former examination be i s d 0 that on the dissolution of that partnershiP .11°nessie capital of 15,0001. He afterwards carried on De°"„ t el 0 the Borough, and in 1842 married, having e1ec74014 marriage settlement, settling his leasehold and fr7, 4 or property on his wife, possessing, as he now stated,o capital of 12,0001., he became bankrupt, but, the Croat' was suspended in April, 1845, by consent of tue loc i bd tors, on a composition of 2s. 6d. in the pound , b oo/ borrowed 8001. to pay that composition. no t be sheet had been filed. All the old creditors hat' `";10 the paid, although he said the money had been placeo os . hands of Mr. Kirkman, one of the present ssell The present balance sheet only commenced fin ed 18* ' t it ' ded t ha a Mr. LAWRENCE, for the bankrupt, contended fo rth.- was unnecessary for the account to be car ° AA tO til l back, as his affairs had been ascertained. ."-ostselt peaeynmmenr.tKoifrkthmeancoamndpotshietionselt.hat wag gi 41- L I nonpayment ere 'tor& W as ts.' His HONOUR said the strong Presumption boor the creditors were satisfied as to the state of th e i n tho rupt's affairs when they agreed to take 2 9 . 6u t . bs 03 111. , pound. This case bore out his opinion ss t - Ile' chievous effect of supersedeas and comp sued 00 411$ times out of ten, when a fiat was once isse ed n ' l pte, to be carried out. The official assignee being " ottv" that no advantage would result from further It the present must be received. After a brief examination the bankrupt Passed. THAMES.—(THIS DA q r „ber Dennis Kelly, who has been times o ut of 11°,7,000°0 prisoned for assaults, was charged with to es" Aas r e y desperate and outrageous conduct: — Police-constable H 154, stated that Yest e r na );64 ll 7,,g ing his attention was attracted to Glnss",i - n o ge'v Whitechapel, by loud screams of murder, 5 0 " WO to the spot, he saw a man, with nothing bat 11 ' M OP; running up the yard, pursued by the prisoner+ irWitl3.' charged with having violently assaulted him. eado ll ; told the prisoner he must go with him to Woo)* house, when he attacked the constable furiouslita. Who! him to the ground, and beat him about the bo a Itr_ a _v H 136 came up the prisoner also assaulted bilti'„,tabl_T not till a sergeant of police, with some more 0 40'; came to their assistance that he was ultinistell 'tb • over Wi The person who first charged the pri g Sid if be assault would not come against him, as be 581 el° so his life would be in danger. The prisoner, in his defence , d ' On ed Pi e in loto. _ ( 0 110'.11 Mr. YARDLEY—You are a most malicious if you had succeeded in your diabolical inte"trial.,,, should have committed you to Newgate for Sow" ;fl sentence you to one month's imprisonmen t $b for of Correction, with hard labour. a go! Prisoner (impudently)—You may as well here O n o gle seven years, for as soon as lam out I'll be t e root c# Mr. YARDLEY—You had better control thst disposition of yours, or it will end in murder. CLERKENWELL.—( T 000 Michael Money was charged with the rageous assaults. " le d 0..0, 12°4 Mrs. Mary Young, a respectable atel m o (ft stated that as she was walking in Igare" - fbuov - i pil New-road, last night, with her brother, sn-,,her,„, and her sister-in-law, the prisoner came LIP t " '„,et caught hold of her ; and when she tried ° from him, he struck her on the face. ger br t ; e i ifv'y husband interfered tor her protection, vrti eli m ho also violently assaulted by the risoner, ''; powerful athletic man. He pushedP her sisterlith a the flags, and when the witness remonstrated eisell' he again struck her a severe blow upon the or ; e a el The other parties assaulted having c°l2-rdeft6, statement, the prisoner was fined 51., or l 'a a 10 payment, sentenced to be imprisoned , wi th 1 ,6. for two months. iv SPORTING IN TELLIG I4 „ o pe IS BETTING AT MANCHESrER.--J"'"5001.64 ST. LEGER.-6 to 5 on Cossack (taken t°, to 1 4hO t to 2 agat Planet, 8 to 1 agst Van TromP' 1 1,0°01; 0 Mr. Martin, 15 to 1 agst Eryx, 20 to 1 ags l ,oe o (taken to 501.), 25 to 1 agst Foreclosure small sum), 33 to 1 agat Black Dwarf. 6to ,00)' THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STARES. fre s k Sagacity (taken), 7 to 1 agst Sir Tattoo SY_"",,„a, 10 to 1 agst Pilgrim (taken), 12 to 1 age F.- 0 , 0 DERBY RACES.—Ttlesnal'Aded. • The Trial Stakes of 5 sous. each and 3 0 1 mile and a half. (4 Subs.) , DO OO O . Mr. Brookes' Luminous, 3 yrs, 7st 7 lb " 71b4 Lord Chesterfield's Mainbrace, 3 yrs , 7st Mr. Douglas's Rosalinda, 3 yrs, 7st 71b "' 01 Mr. Choyce's Dime, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ••• 10 0 Won easy. The Tradesman's Plate of 100 sous. added t Ib_... r of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only IL miles. (37 Subs., 29 of whom declared.) e:, Sir C. Cockerell's ongress, 3 yrs, s st 131 b $ Mr. Fox's Shelforth, 4 yrs, 7st 61b ••• 7s t .„.6'.•sss Mr. Cartwright's Princess Royal, 5 Yrs! ‘ s. . 3 r . Romance, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b, Lady TigntLee' _,P" 71b, Faunus, 3 yrs, sst 81b, also ran. W °° , 41 e, Y r/ O r The Two Year Old Stakes of 10 so's. t oe"! added; colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 3w ; ie; V' have been beaten twice or more allowed e to f e o once, 21b, twine, 41bs extra; the s ecoOd stake. Half a mile. (6 Subs •) 30 0 / * Mr. W. Hill's Volley Lord Chesterfield's Sister * it; Ark;right Mr. Pedley's Tuscan •• • 11/ 11 Won easy. ti by The Maiden Plate was won in three hel l— Face. HUNTINGDON RACES.--(T"t be The Hinchenbrook Plate of 501, Wlbile r-° I 1501., &c. Heats, once roue"' Pe ttit) $ Mr. Howlett's Bit Nibble, 3 yrs, 7st 7lb Mr. Shafto's Sharpshooter, 4 yrs, Bst 31b Mr. Stephenson's b c, by the Doctor, 3 Yrs'az. 11,1 e The Huntingdonshire Stakes of 20 soya'soya' --„dde°' 5 says. only if declared, with 50 so us ' , • $ miles. (20 Subs., 12 paid) , Sir J. Hawley's Vanity, 3 yrs, 7st 71b••• (Petri 4 Mr. Shelley's Tarella, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ••• 5l " * ". b Lord Sandwich's Plautacrenet, aged, Bst h ••• Mr. Desborough nd Roderick, aged, 811 , 3 , h 1 " ••• Mr. Rooper nd Bella Deena, 3 yrs , 7sl 016" Won by a eck. ai a 0 0 0 The Three yrs old Stakes of s novs. e ir aeb: to - . of° Winner to be sold for 3001. Ja .e "" I 0 03I M r ( r 1. . 7 0 Dn M S eo a l u u r p b g s s o el • ae nl i ' : s ss Cardinal' s rooriat oivn Youn g BstisTo us i n e l : b e n t . ,21b 'sib Mr. Fellowes' nd Albotti, Bit 51b ..• C Bst 5' r tolcise) A fine race. , tp , ~ oo Sweepstakes of 10 sous.. each, and 40 ou" - fo k i 0 5 old ; second saves his stake. Last half ru .0 0 Lord W. Powlett's Franconi, Bst 71b •" 0 Lord Exeter's Tippet, Bst 41b ••• . 0 1 A Mr. Shelley's Doubtful, Bst 41b out Duke of Rutlaud's b c by Sir F ranc ' s ' Cowslip, Bst 71b ••• ••• D eclar Mr. J. Daley's The Pope. Bst 71b " A dead heat between Franconi and T ,/ heat won clever .0 007 of THE POOR IN ST. PANCRA S t ee , ebx, Yesterday a very numerous meeting c5,. 3 parL i f , directors and guardians of the poor of t h e ootr ✓ Pancras took place, pursuant to sPec h l n estr . :6oo• o ; Churchwarden Howarth occupied I ,'„ e res°All'otiott, Douglas rose to propose the follow,141003133°"000;%, " That the inadequacy of the present accrosia_4,ig the workhouse, for the increased and I ° c , f ear, tht od of poor, be reported to the vestry, w ith s tees„..o tion from this board to take immedia ti i. r enae' b eirelf d ise crease of such accommodation." Pilr',...orde n upnof seconded the resolution. Mr. Chore"- Cops II 0 m ittee moved an amendment, " That a eO O3- in eett, to inquire into, and report upon, th e -- onii lo , lo o o r4o which the relieving o ffi cers act in the to 1 1,01!,: o pt out-door relief; and also as to the i: Z sod,4oe ir oso l the board for granting out-door reli c ven t P-_„i O K t os better method can be introduced to PI de O 9 and to ensure an effectual relief to C l arke s e c ' ab p it p0; 1 0 destitute poor of the parish." M r ' C a lß eiarl at amendment. Mr. Churchwarden se°diaeasi.4ol-o,ege the original proposition. After a I ° l 4, witilutOn °' l ,os ll agreed that the amendment s hould ro posit l , that it should be allowed to follow the.P A n tha t lot " 2 mtt Douglas as a substantive motion , an" I- b'cb, s 0 were ultimately adopted by the board , w 1 Jter ael l o if routine business, separated. terdaY 0 fief $ ll. FATAL BOAT ACCIDEN T.--YeS ers ol " eS i ° tse - small sailing boat, containing four p unsui lfulo gep ed Wandsworth Meadows, through tbd, had rstiddi parties in her, who being becalm ed o ° 4 0,, 11 " 1 ,0 6 main sheet. They were busil ag bre e ' 'OO l oath t he the co sail with water to make it s filled t he) ? O f duo nam es 1:0,4 01}000 sudden gust from off the a nd a_ t es,bseetaibtere tee er 09 5 : 0;: 00: threw the boat on her beam ends, Tw o o 0,10 r , O r unfasten the sail she filled and The ir e ;,b0 and William v u v n i f il o i r a t m un astaelwyyderrr ctdh. 8 0 re s o b h t y h o e rs r ew s . m n T a m m hier e i named w T ot l o c :n ua t p lis s is o s ii rt ea sttindedeudnrlaed:at:,r27,_ tiros us ?port roof South Lambeth, and were the p 0( 1 .'1" vest e fee widowed mother. meet from P o POST OFFICE f tGenerale h t he Lyn Uni t ed er o d ' s l st e .t E oa -h statesllv ° i t , ic g w e r t sa i e n g i a s s 1 1 0 n t ra e e tu r b sit 9 b% 4 : o,in t: r i velt !! tes rate of postage chargeable upon. , r .. ,. e l c ioseu e through the American territory. 1 . !.1 1 1, ,, v , pa p . l oot wren Great .I;ll+:,,in ~nd Canada.isail to ur i ° r -1/9 aster f,rw.,roed Lt.:o CiOsed Vaal and o will be liable to the charge of one rat 7:d_f of one halfpenny', as hyretofore ; " I vo levied on the tiliveorryinofacshdlewspapert " 29% 2 1 A 9% 37 121.; - 1 3 , 4 Al 1% 4 134 1 24% 133 / 4 3 1 % _~ - 3% 33 / 4 13 1 4 - 84 alio 'hi