The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-22 00:00:00

W s Pir I LORD 1:," f COII St3:' rider Ch° 4P 'olish gists: prince s Szulczews 'n d gr• eh s ocietY e seot ' to pr or , f g old, „ in testirs o l :ympathi Ritd .etf' o ofj o SO ecre tsl7 w ere 5 VI , 0 illy dg ;t y r n d o cr' , 1,0 0 1 „t lon ia fi t, pc- te r, .11 1 Y A DY 0113, i pitoV 17 1 V 1 0 ' 5 011i Ver° iR 1 61 0 1": 31 Pt 0. )0104 15 .4 0 d o t 00 , a th e 10 05 3.13 "r lg t . ‘142. tr tzr* 3bl SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. Even on Jouvence. Frantic was scratched at 4.45 this afternoon. ST. LEG-ER. sto 4on West Australian. sto 1 agst Sittingbourne. 6to 1 agst Cineas. 6to 1 agst Rataplan. 10 to 1 agst Reiver (taken). DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Boiardo (taken). 22 to 1 agst Blight (taken). 35 to 1 Papageno (to 1001.) SPORTING NOTES. The recent Meeting at York may challenge any of its predecessors for superiority—it was a magnificent meet ing in every respect. Sport excellent, weather superb, and attendance of company immense. The results were, however, for the most part, anything but couleur de rose to the fielders. It is really marvellous what an alterative effecit change of place frequently has on the running capability of many horses, even when ground, weight, distance, and weather appear to be most in their favour. Talk td the " holding ' of deep ground—why there is at times much more palpable holding over dry, smooth ground. Some of m", calculations last week were manifestly checked by too much weight on the bridle—others were nullified / . .)y , withdrawals on the ducal principle that every ma n has a right to do what he likes with his own. How fAriking a contrast did Adine's performance at York present to Adine's performance at Brighton ! At the latter place Pantomime carried sst 131 b, Adine Bst 1 01 b, and a l eng th se p ara t e d them at the finish ; at York s Pantomime carried 51b less and Adine 101 b less, and yet Adine never got nearer the front than fifth or s c im ,thy and was many lengths behind Pantomine at the ! These are things which are obnoxious to suspi cion and reproach ; but " That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier were rank blasphemy." 70 be a Triton "in the swim" is one thing ; to be a minnow is another ! The ge — nerai — p w rOgra mme of sport this week is abun dantly varied and attractive. Radcliffe puts forth its claims to patronage to-day, and will " carry on " for three days. The Wilton Cup is likely to be well con tested by Black Doctor and Doubt, and I shall expect to find one of them the winner. In their absence, I should try my fortune with Defiance and Saguenay. If Barrel is not run out by the drawings upon it at York, there may be a good chance of its carrying off the Two-year-olds Stakes, with Ludwig and Gabriel in close attendance. Lough Bawn and The Surveyor I pick for the Stew ards' Cup, IVlocassin for the Radcliffe St. Leger, and Snowdon Dunhill and Missive for the Free Handicap. The Manchester Cup may find a successful Event Without Doubt, and Dear Me may throw his susceptible owner into a fine frenzy by carrying off the Bury Purse. Egham will commence its sport to-morrow on the glorious Runnymede, and terminate on Wednesday. The fields will, in all probability, be short, but interest ing. Epaminondes, Strutaway, and Student I select for the King John Stakes—my preference being in the order named. Frantic, notwithstanding the weight, I place much confidence in, but may find my notions upset by T av istock or Tobolski. Abdallah and Puritan I shall take for the Runnymede Stakes ; Vaultress for the Magna Charta, with Monnie Moses second. Vixen or Wingfield will, I think, carry off the Baron's Stakes, I shall, however, make a reservation in favour of Single. ton Lass. The Amateur Stakes are likely to be awarded to the /feria. Derby has its opening day on Wednesday, Hereford on Thursday ; and as many of the horses which are en gaged at the one are engaged at the other, it would, in the absence of all knowledge as to the intentions of owners, be absurd to attempt to pick out the probable winners. All I can say under such circumstances is, that for the honour and integrity of the noblest of our national sports, my most fervent wish is that honesty of purpose may be crowned with success, and that the best horse may win. A FRESH MAN. Brighton, Monday morning. COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT, Aug. 21. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND. DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL YACHT FOR HOLYHEAD.— Soon after four o'clock this afternoon her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert steamed from this roadstead for Holyhead, attended by the Encounter, Barracouta, Banshee, and Tribune war-steamers, and the Fire Queen. The latter vessel only accompanies the yacht to the Needles. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM OSBORNE.—Satur day next is the day at present named for her Majesty's departure from the Isle of Wight for Ireland. PETE AT OSBORNE.—The rustic games in which the Seamen of the royal yachts, the servants employed at Osborne, Barton, &c., exercise their skill, and to which all her Majesty's tradesmen and their families have tickets of admission, took place yesterday, when the grounds of Osborne were thronged. Bands of music at tended, to which all were invited. There was running, jumping, throwing, &c. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the junior branches of the royal family were on the grounds, and seemed as highly pleased with the sports aa those who took a more active part in them. SCHOONER MATCH FOR 100 GUINEAS.—The match made between Mr. Joseph Gee's yacht Gloriana, of 134 tons, the winner of her Majesty's cup on Wednesday last, and Lord A. Paget's yacht Roseland, is expected to come off early in the week. ACCIDENT. —A boat was capsized off Ventnor yester -Ilives., by which two watermen and a gentleman lost their The body of Wearn, who lost his life by being run „ down by the Medina steamer, was found yesterday. A jury was summoned, which after viewing the body, ad journed till two o'clock on Tuesday next. MATCH FOR 100 GUINEAS.—The highly interesting match between Mr. Weld's yacht Alarm, 248 tons, and the Swedish yacht Aurora Borealis, of 250 tons, takes P l ace to-morrow, and, from the very high standing of the Alarm, bets ran high in her favour, though there Aire many who prefer the Swede. She is certainly as fine vessel as one would wish to look upon. TRE AMERICAN CUTTER YACHT SILVIE..—The owner of this splendid vessel, which won the second prize (a ,I I P, value 501.) on Saturday, not feeling satisfied in ',e, r i r ng beaten by the Julia, is reported to have challenged :- • Peareth to sail his yacht for any sum he may please name. S o cer t a i n did th e mem b ers o f the Royal yacht Squadron feel th a t th e Silvie would outsail all itl2: other yachts entered for the 100 guinea cup, that Yat the la s t momen t gave a secon d p r i ze of 501., as 4 a b h: e re for th e other yachts to contend for, but though seemed almost t o fly along in light winds, she did nothing when the wind freshened. Some think even now that she could have been first if she would. /ETENSIVR FRAUDS BY GAMBLING formation has been received in London to Aus ok his passage . tosubffiee EgraGtßaA captainNTE i. - - Ino of sh in, who, some months ago, rsredoube tralia in a screw -steamer, has others from two well known gam severely,rdnamed to the police, ' this information The victim who has given first enter- Christy' , an ex-publican and Fry, a medical practitioner. states that on the two above named persons feared, an "understand gers, but suddenly from, it is board, they became enter mg the vessel, they were received as third-class passen ing" with some of the officers first-class passengers, and i nn ers without the least r captain, intends to doubt of 3 ,000/. The applicant, n vessel for the recovery proceed against the owners of the ve t o the names of all are winners of hie share, 650/ , and in a lie, Parties concerned. will be fullymade w known to the pub- R BUCKINGHAM METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS PALtiot Works to is ono to enable the Commissioners of Public . hbour the neig — Among the acts of Parliament NEA lately passed ,europlete improvements in Pimlico and contemplated aood of Buckingham Palace. Certain houses specified 2 1. nay be purchased, streets altered, and the con unprovernents forthwith commenced. the I. Tilt MINT. —From statements recently furnished . to the Government of the operations of the Mint during . a. l ast six months, it appears that the coinage during that time has been 9,099,000/. of gold and 416,000/. of silver... The unprecedented nature of this amount may be esti _ Mated from the fact that in the corresponding period of . each of the three preceding years the totals were as fol " ra z ----- vz., in 1850, gold, • 66,000/. ; silver, 129,000/. ; in 1851, gold, 4,199,000/. ; silver, 19,000/, ; and, tin 1852, gold, 4453,000/. ; silver, 82,000/. The rate of coinage this year has, therefore, been more than twice kiegreat as during 1852, when Australia was already icielrding large results. Under these circumstances, u is reason to believe that the aggregate ship tient of sovereigns to the colony, together with the l°ll4atlounts taken out by emigrant; must have been be -lanything hitherto supposed, and that hence the pro late is increased of the recent drain being at no distant e followed by a remarkable reaction. At the same tUPPI I .:I I _ ,_ considerable portion of the enormous quantity :ied from the Mint has doubtless been absorbed at o t p . by the sudden improvement in the condition of the oliofamily Working classes, from the high wages prevailing in all Parts of the United Kingdom, since an extra sovereign in - will be sufficient to account for several Ibli t, e li°uB. Even in this respect, however, the effect will tlMerely temporary, inasmuch as all. beyond a certain anuittityr will, sooner or later, find its way to savings .s. 0 other forms of investment, and there areicos va, con sevaci,flieellti, increased reasons for anticipating that the „etiourwnich has lately carried away our newly - acquired Stren c i es Will return before long, and produce with equal 1541 an opposite effect. LITERATURE. Bleak House. No. XVIII. By Charles Dickens. Not without something like regret do we find ourselves arrived at the penultimate number of Bleak House—conscious that another instalment (the double number concludin g th e ser i a l) w ill bring to a close the chequered incidents of a story told half as a simple narrativ e , h a lf as a y e t s i m pl er autobiography. Our regrets in thi s ma tt er are the more sincere, because of late Bl ea k Ho u se has by its ripened excellence proved in many respects worthy of its incomparable author's reputation. Throughout our perusal of the opening chapters of the tale we must conf ess t o a f ee li ng of rather poignant disappointment. There was such bewil dering confusion in the scheme of the fiction, there was such a distressful sense of uncertainty in a work changing at doubtful intervals from the first to the third person, there was such vagueness in the characters at first introduced, and those charac ters, moreover, made such really mysterious and unexpected appearances on the scene—that with all our admiration for the genius of Mr. Dickens (perhaps we should rather say because of the genuineness and fervour of that admiration), the chief feeling excited in our mind by the tale was, as we have observed, a feeling of disappointment. To this moment we have not the slightest not i on whence came so suddenly in the streets of London the hero and heroine, Ada and Richard. Even now we don't know anything at all, good , bad, orindif ferent, about their antecedents. We can't conjec ture from what points of the compass the two lovers were brought abruptly together. Their parents areas though they had never existed. Their childhood, like a dream within a dream, is wholly unima ginable. Again, up to this instant, John Jarndyce is the merest sketch of a character, without a trait bywh , ich he could be recognised, if we except his reiterated allusion to the east wind. And assuredly if John Jarndyce is nothing more subst a nti a l th an . . the merest sketch, the same may be said of that most silent and vapoury of walking gentlemen, Allan Woodcourt. Another source of disappoint ment to us in " Bleak House" is connected with the wonderful Lawrence Boythorn, who, after pro mising so gloriously on his sudden " burst" into the narrative, wrecked our hopes in his regard by an equally sudden disappearance. Likewise to a cer tain extent has it been with dear little Charlie, who has dwindled from the precocious orphan of poor " Coavinses" into the obscure and for the most part dumb and invisible handmaiden of Esther Summer son. Krook and his diabolical cat glanced for a brief while from the fiction like the veriest night mare, and then made a hideous exit in the glare of spontaneous combustion. Nemo, without uttering a syllable, crawled about for a short time in rags to die of opium in a garret, and then to moulder away in a nameless pit in one of our city graveyards. Jo shouldered his broom for an instant, and then " moved on" in a like direction. Gridley raved about his wrongs during a hurried interval, and then expired in a make-shift bed in the corner of a shooting gallery. Meanwhile, we have had hasty glimpses into the hall at Chesney Wold, where solemn footsteps sound along the ghost's walk at twilight, and where Rosa shows her pretty face at the lattice, and where the honest old house keeper, Mrs. Rouncewell, smooths down her laven der silk while sitting in the storeroom, musing over the fortunes of one son, the " Iron Man," and over the misfortunes of another, the scapegrace. We have peeped into Mr. Skimpole's apartments in the Polygon, where he condescends to a noontide break fast upon a dish of nectarines. We have entered the littered house of Mrs. Jellyby, where Caddy has been in a " state of ink," and Peepy has twisted himself into a laocosn among the area rail ings. We have penetrated the back parlour 'of the Bagnets, where the "mixture" has been placed convenient to the elbow of the old girl's husband, by the hands of that same beneficent old girl her self, the worthy mother of Quebec, Malta, and Young Woolwith—the colour-sergeant of the Non pareil Battalion. We have watched the fair Judy in assiduous attendance upon grandfather and grandmother Smallweed : and have witnessed the devotion of Phil Squod to that stalwart Mr. George, his benefactor : and have remarked the fits in dulged in, off and on, by the faithful Guster in that little underground kitchen of the tenement of Mr. Snagsby the.law-stationer. Sometimes our attention has been called away from the main plot by the hol low piety of Mr. Chadband, and sometimes again by the shallow philanthropy of Mrs. Pardiggle. If we have wandered up to London, it has been now in the direction of the gorgeous town house of the Dedlocks, and now into the squalid haunts of Tom-all-alone's. An attendant sprite in the per son of Mr. Bucket, the detective, has waived a wand of magic over the scene through an occa sional " under current" of forefinger. He has car ried us with him along the trail left by the mur derer of the old man of the name of Tulkinghorn. He has fixed upon Mademoiselle Hortense, the discarded lady's-maid, the brand of midnight as sassination. Throughout all these shifting scenes, and changing persons, and varying incidents, it was impossible not to have a discomforting sense of their pervading confusedness—and yet gradually there has grown out of all this chaos of pre paration a surprising harmony in the un ravelling of the tangled skein of the romance, out of all these regrets connected with the scheme of the narrative there has latterly sprung up a very marvellous fascination. N otwithstanding, therefore, the undoubted shortcomings of the ear lier moiety of the fiction as a work of art—it must be acknowledged by us that we recognise in the closing instalments of " Bleak House" much that is entitled to our warmest admiration. The num ber here before us, that for August, may be regarded without extravagance as one of the most remarkable of the many remarkable literary per formances of Boz. It lures us on from the first sentence to the last with an attraction wholly irre sistible. It carries us breathlessly through all that impetuous chase after the missing Lady Ded leck, keeping perpetually before us the miraculous shrewdness of Mr. Bucket and the dazed solicitude of Esther Summerson. It interrupts the account of their singular journey down into the country to the cottage of the brickmakers, and then suddenly back again to the crowded streets of the metropolis —by taking us into several of the sumptuous cham bers of the town-house of the proud but generous, the forsaken and (literally) paralysed, Sir Leicester. We see him apparently dying on his couch, sur rounded by a cluster of faithful attendants, by bluff Mr. George, by kindly Mrs. Rouncewell, by the inane Volumnia, with her rouge and her sympathy. Then, by a sudden change, we are once more upon the road with Mr. Bucket and his companion—this time, too, actually upon the trail of the fugi tive. We scarcely remember' any imaginary incident more ingenious than the abrupt de tection by Mr. Bucket of the clue which ultimately guides them through the mazes of the labyrinth—the exchange of clothes between Jenny and Lady Dedlock. Certainly we cannot call to recollection any fictitious scene more exquisitely moving in its pathos than that which takes place in the stone-kitchen of Mr. Snagsby, the law stationer. It is marked in every syllable with the touch of the masterhand. If read aloud it infal- libly commands les larmes dans la mix. Under any circumstances it secures our sympathy, rivets our regard, and extorts our admiration. Suppos ing even that Mr. Dickens had never written any thing comparable in merit to these chapters, lead ing us up to the dead body of that lady-mother lying stark in draggled rags at daybreak on the steps of the city graveyard—that description alone would have been sufficient to stamp his reputation as a novelist, proving by the pathos of the humorist the Genius at once of our Tears and of our Laughter. TIIE QUARTERLIES. The New Quarterly _Review. No. VlL—Already we have more than once taken occasion to commend the really delightful freshness of style observable in this new periodical. It evidences a careful and in tentional avoidance of the beaten track—shall we call it the path of dullness?—habitually trodden, particularly of late, by its quarterly contem poraries. Its writers prove, moreover, that they c an be vigorous without b e i ng vulgar, rhe torical without being grandiloquent, and merry without allowing their vivacity to degenerate into burlesque extravagance. Without, too, being in any way pragmatical, the New Quarterly can, both in its literary and its political criticisms, reveal an admirable independence. Under the sarcastic title of the " Cilician Potsherds," Mr. Burckhardt Barker obtains a Rowland for an Oliver, in return for a retort upon a review of his work called "Laren and Penates." There is much deserved dispraise lavished upon Lord J. Russellin his recently assumed capacity as editor—in articles relating to the me morials of Charles James Fox, and to Thomas Moore's voluminous correspondence. Another chapter is given of the history of our Government in Hindostan, under the heading "Recent Progress of the Eastern Question" —a paper from the same hand to 'which we have before acknowledged our selves indebted for similar contributions. A whole some corrective is administered to a certain class of critics, who have recently been doing their utmost to turn the head of an ingenious young man named Alexander Smith—trumpetting a little volume of verse from his hands, crude and unequal as any maiden-work we have ever perused, never yet was trumpetted a " Paradise Lost," as or a " Jerusalem Delivered." Of these critics (so called) the New Quarterly very sensibly observes : " It is a fashion with some critics and cliques to take up' a poet, and whether the poet of the moment turn out to be an ales imitator of the Tennysonian genus, or an original songster of less pretension, we are imme diately summoned to believe in him by the whole coterie in chorus. These people regard matters of poetry and authorship as mere articles of vertu, and would fain earn a reputation for cleverness by the eccentricity of their tastes. They are for the most part mystery-mongers of literature, who wish to spare their own opinions too searching an analysis, and delight in dealing with sub jects transcending sense. The new pet of this class of persons is Mr. Alexander Smitii ; and they are busy in destroying any germs of genius within him by their in discriminate praise. They are- encouraging his faults, urging him to fresh outrages on sense, taste, grammar, and poetry ; and they will, in all probability, cause him to write more and worse, until he will be in danger of becoming a burlesque on Bailey, who wrote Festus, and a travesty on Tennyson. A man of genius like Byron can rise superior to the censure of false critics ; but he must indeed be great who shall triumph over flattery ex hibited in such large doses at an age so young." The characteristics of the author who has been thus extravagantly eulogised, the reviewer truthfully enough declares to be—" bathos, a sort of luminous obscurity and imitative mannerism." The hero of the principal poem in the volume of Mr. Smith is afterwards facetiously, but, again, most truth fully, said to be descriptive of " the strivings and wrestlings of a soul above buttons, discontented with its lot, and wishing to be everybody !" Fin ally, this only rational critic we have yet read upon the book, draws his remarks towards a conclusion by asserting that "To praise Alexander Smith as others have done, would only be to be tray him into further imperfections : it might urge his Pegasus to bolt over plains of blas phemy and bathos, and to plunge into the dirty waters of licentiousness." Nothing harsh in all this notice, but is justified by the produc tion of " proofs positive" in the shape of most copious quotations. In the article already referred to as having allusion to Fox, the following passage occurs, and is not undeserving of particular notice, as having reference to the real value of the late Dr. Allen's reputation : "It was the fashion of the Whigs of that time to _ _ _ ,21 if I RKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 25 - 26, 91 - 10.] 9 diBI 20 - 22 102 - 103 - 67 214 - 22 , 19- 201 j 4 = CP Business done this day. 100 100 100 100 1 11i Iwo all all all 7 100 100 261 5i think Allen a wonderful man, and it iEia tradition of the present day that he was so. He wrote one excessively absurd book, and he committed .the Edinburgh Review to a considerable quantity of very shallow nonsense about our Constitutional History. Beyond this he did no thing. He appears to have been one of those might could-would-or-should sort of men, who have the knack of twaddling to a clique, and who succeed in impressing their intimates with an awful idea of what they could do, if they would only try." An elaborate essay on " Modern Miracles," or, in other words, on spirit rapping and table turn ing, exposes that enormous humbug, the latest and greatest of all popular delusions. The subjoined will afford thq reader a capital notion of— 50 40 25 25 8/26 67 / 21/ 13 i 13 BO 36 5 j 73 x d 84/ 5 41 54 134 114 884 76k 6 Pm lle 154 15 i 100 34 All all 100 100 - 100 47i 17 8i I 103 2* 112 f 6 a d 13 a d ad 87 6i a d x d ad 27i 72 ;I THV SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1853. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAiLwArs. Leasing Compans. Closing Trice this day. Business this day. - - AN EVENING WITH MRS. HAYDEN. "You are dining, for instance, with Mrs. Leo. Hun ter. When you ascend to the drawing room you find a new face among the ladies ; an intelligent, mobile, not undesirable face, probably at the moment pushed for ward in rather voluble conversation. There is some- thing a little not quite bon ton in the lady's manner, and there are grammatical difficulties in her phraseology ; but we must allow for the peculiarities of her position. Moreover, she mixes in so many circles. Perhaps she has just been en rappart with Colonel Crockett, or has been charged with bad grammar by Cobbett's ghost, who has been running a saw' upon her. However, she is lively, agreeable, intelligent, and well-looking ; so, in spirits or no spirits, we have no cause to be displeased with our new acquaintance. She is, of course, intro duced as Mrs. Hayden, the American medium.' " There is a large 100 table in the middle of the back drawing-room, and Mrs. Hayden is reclining in a com fortable chair at about three feet distance front it. Mrs. Leo Hunter is seated on one side of her, and a senti mental-looking young lady is on the other—a lion of unmistakeable pretensions, who is bearded all over to conceal his ugliness, and who speaks very bad English, with a strong German accent, leans upon her chair, and struggles to monopolise her attention. But—a rceuvre— 'Tis time the performance should begin. " Mrs. Hayden now draws her chair forward quite up to the table, takes up a white China silk scarf that lay in her lap, and spreads it over the back of her chair, passes her hand down to her knee, as though to smooth her dress, and then settles herself to her work. Of course, our idea of the audience is quite imaginary ; we describe Mrs. Hayden, however, exactly as we have seen her. These movements are all natural enough. We only record them as an observation for future ob servers. "The German gentleman, who tells the company that he is a convert after long investigation, and that, in fact, he is himself a medium, and who is evidently one of those fetch-and-carry tame animals of society who run to and fro between drawing-rooms and circulating libraries—the German gentleman demands pen, ink, and paper, writes out the alphabet from A to Z, and the numerals from Ito 0. Mrs. Hayden's fair round face and twinkling eyes move round the circle as she places her hands upon the table and begs that the com pany will not disturb her by conversation. " Then she addresses her supernatural friends, who make it their peculiar habit to live always under a table ; and after long expectation some one hears a faint knock. The ice once broken, the little just audible sounds be come more frequent. The alphabet is asked for in the usual way. Mrs. Leo Hunter takes the pencil and the German's alphabet. A knock arrests her hand as she 'Ants to S,' another as she points to a third as she points to ' L,' and so on, until the full word Silence s ' has been spelt. Mrs. Hayden looks on the paper all the time with a quiet smile, and remarks that the spirits are quite right—it is impossible to proceed amid such a buzz of conversation. " And now numerous candidates take paper and pen cil in hand, summon a spirit by a wish, and ask the ini tial letter of his name. Some are very wrong, some are quite right. The majority are certainly altogether wrong, but a fully sufficient number are right to demon strate that it cannot be by mere random guesses that the results are obtained. Those who get wrong answers are usually inclined to sneer, and are scowled upon and scolded at by the busy and enthusiastic German. Those who get right answers declare how wonderful it is, and believe in the spirits right off. Then comes the turn of the sentimental young lady on the left. She throws up her fine eyes and thinks of a friend, a departed com panion of her tenderest woes. With tremulous hand and expectant heart she passes her pencil over the let ters until she reaches ; a tiny rap is heard, the letter is noted down, and the alphabet is recommenced, the young lady looking astonishment and awe through all her features. This time, however, she pauses in the middle of the alphabet, and says that the proper letter has been passed—recommences, 'A," rap, the 'A' is noted down. Again, B,' rap, the B' is noted down. Again, Y,' wrong, try again. Again, E,' right, the E' is noted. L,' right. L,' right again. A,' right. The letters form Sabella.' The other name is Macintyre, and is spelt out with only three mistakes. Sabella Macintyre was the name of the young lady's de ceased friend. Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tensbaut— but the, demonstration is complete ; Mrs. Hayden rises and the séance is ended. The German is in ecstasies, the sentimental young lady in tears, about one-third of the company are seen to smile, and the rest are in a great passion with them." As to table-turners the tables have never before been turned upon themselves more effectually than by this contribution to the New Quarterly ; while, as to spirit-rapping, the media have never before re ceived such smart and stinging raps over the knuckles. INQUEST ON A SOLDIER OF THE 3D DRAGOONS. — GRAVESEND, Aug. 19.—This day an inquest was held at the workhouse, before Mr. G. Arnold, deputy coroner of this borough, on the body of a man picked up in the river, who, by the medals found upon his person, was a private in the 3d Light Dragoons, a large portion of which regiment had been about three weeks since dis embarked at this port from India. The name of de ceased was John Galloway. At the time of the disem barkation of these troops it was stated that a soldier was missing, supposed to have fallen overboard, and been drowned. It appeared from the evidence that the body was picked up last evening off the entrance to the canal below the Terrace•pier, and was apparelled in the undress of a soldier. Mr. Aitkins, coroner's officer, deposed that he saw the body on is 3 being brought on shore, and on searching it found three medals, which he now produced, and which indicated the name of the soldier, as well as the battles for which he had obtained them, viz., Sabraon, Sutlej, &c. • and on the buttons of the undress military jacket which deceased had on was inscribed 3d Dragoons. On the medals witness found the name John Galloway, 3d R.O.L.D.—Ver diet—Found drowned. DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL LORD SALTOUN.—This gallant nobleman died on Thursday last, at his shooting seat, near Rothes, N.B. The noble lord had been ailing for some months, but, until a few months prior to his death, no immediate danger was apprehended. His lordship was in his 69th year, and was highly esteemed by the late Duke of Wellington for his gallant defence of Hugomont, at which place he commanded the light companies of the Guards, and had four horses killed under him. Lord Saltoun served with Moore, and throughout the Peninsula. The 2d Regiment of Foot becomes vacant, of which he was colonel. His lordship was a staunch patron of most of the musical institutions of the metropolis, president of the Mad r i ga l S oc i e t y , chairman of the Musical Union, &c. The Duke of Wellington had once publicly described the gallant lord as a pattern to the army, " both as a man and a sol dier." His lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his nephew, Major Alexander Fraser. The fun eral of the deceased lord is expected to take place at Fraser burgh, in Aberdeenshire. SINGULAR ELOPEMENT.—Elizabeth Gibbon a young lady of considerable personal attractions, 22 years of age, highly educated, and the daughter of a deceased major in th e army , t h e other day eloped from Dublin with a man named Anthony Flannigan, a loader of turf flats, near to her father's residence, where he (Flannigan) became acquainted with his inamorata. He wooed, and wooed successfully, and the lady yielded ; and, as already stated, eloped with him. Her friends sent a relative in pur suit. He arrived here the other day, and the runaway lovers were found consorting together ou board the Esmeralda, having taken a passage in that vessel to New York. The relative induced them, in compliance with the earnest request of her friend to go on shore, and get united in wedlock before departure. All ne cessary preliminaries were arranged, the marriage license procured, and they Were indissolubly united at St, hul'a Church OA Saturday, (Aberdeen . Ambg. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junct Binning. Wolverh. & Stour Valley ... . . Birkenhd. Lancs h. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., ...... Bristol and Exeter.. Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Dublin&BelfastJune Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Do., (£lB E & H) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock ... • ........ • • Do., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire East &West Ind. Dk & Binning. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Duneee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ir Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash.andYorksh Do., Fifths D a., Wst. Ridin g mi Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blaokwall Lond. Tilb. &Sthend. Lend. Bright & S. Cst. Loud. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths ........... Do JO/. London an dS. Westn. Do., .£5O .............. Do., £4O Lndudrry& Col eraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shcf.& Litchi Do., Man. & Lin. liu Midland Do. Birmr . & Der - )y G. West. Ore.; Do. Half Shares N ew castle & Carlisle Newmarket & w arr e Enniskillen np nt Newry 0 Do., BurY 3 xt 9 ne on. Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry and Rostrevor Norfolk .... Northn.Counties North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do. A A Deferred Do., B G uaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Western....... N.& S. Westrn. June. Oxford, Wo7cester,& WO. verhampkm Scottish Central Biim Shrewsbury & Do. L. 4 14 • Wectern Guarsnteed Si cek... (N. W. ?Sin Do. Oswestry D S h o l:e: a b iv y e .t s : Shropshire Union South Devon Shrewsby. Here ' 1 South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do Stockton & Harticpl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall. Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 8- 9 'ia I'2 13 A4 48 - 5 0 35 - 37 ii 1 : 4 52 -= 55 72 - 74 ii = io 84 52 54 ,133 —135 113 115 89 —89 i 7 104 107 17 —1 8 P 76 ti 15 —15 i ••• .• 8i 1d 102 —lO3 d 112 —112 k - 1 - lir 86 87 7 6d 6. 5d 11 13 18 20 27i -28 i 72 —72 A 40 55 - 57 - -- 3 i 34 d 2i -- 3A 51 -- 53 38 -- 2id 32 ... 33 41 - - 9 14 - 2ip 51 - 52 94 - 96 62 - 64 63 - 65 69 71 2a-- 2d 19 21 9a —10 a 14 15 31 —31 d 19 20 71 71a 36 37 32a —13 a . 26 28 2 1 2 141 =154 8 - 32 - 34 9/ - 69 70i 7 - 71 d 2 2d 59 -- 60 12 i x d PREFERENCE SHARES 'Aberdeen. Do. No. 2, 7 p. c 1 Bris. &Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO : 163 105 i 67 Chester & Holyhead' Guar. 5 per cent Cork &Bandonsip.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (X3los; 6 per cent Do: (£5) 7 per cent. Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex. tension, 5 p. c. No. Do. No. 2 . 1f- 2 P lf liPi 141 -- 1 5 20i 21i Do. New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash.6 p. cts. EdinbPrth.&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, Southn. &Westm (Ireland) Eighths) Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c).. Do. cov. red. 4i 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. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, 5 p. c., 1.852 Do, New Guar.6 p. c London & S. Western Con. Thirds ....... . Londonderry& Color. Shares Londy. & Ennis. h Sh Man., Shef., & Shares, No. 1. Do. New, £lO iDi 113 - 1 p 81 9 7 103 104 99 101 101 103 d— P 150 —152 d 31 - 31 lo ni -- 11 141 8 -- 9 loi -- 114 P Do. £6. Ildarypt & Carl. 4 P.C. Do. 4i per cent.... Do Mid. Consol.6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i per cent Norfolk Extension Do. 5 p. c. Ext Do. Guar. 5i per et._ Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c. North British North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do 149 151 par 114 116 118 122 lle —llB 24} —25 i Shrews. &Birm.N.G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New 21 10i -10 f 17i -- 18 14 -- 15 p par -- 1 p 251 -- 261 LlO -- 112 19i -- - S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 N. 6d. Do. 4 percent. Pre. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6g.c. York, Newcastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. Do _ _ 110 . -- 105 York&N.Midlaudll. and S. Purch ..... 5h par 19k - 201 - 6 - P 6k- 6i - k- xIPI FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Charleroi& Erquelin. Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France ,Gt .Western of Canada Shares Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p. c, pref 'Luxembourg Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. pref.., Lyons & Mediterran Madras Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. a Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Sth-Eastrn. of Francc Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland .. 1 d 14 par ip 151 3 p 21 5 li d 11 lb 2 2i p 21 2i i id A — 7 4 id 4 1 ll 1 li 1 1 d ii I .2i; 7 1 7s 35 1 14 . - 14, 8 -- --9 2 i -- 19 49 --i 500 44 -- 45 39 i -39 i 4i -- 5 10 -- 4 i 20 -- 1 4 -- id 9 -- 10 Si -- 6ip A t P -- 4i dis 10 -- 2 i :: Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon. & Greenw Do.Prefcrence Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch.Baton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar 1. dzN.W. Cal don... 1103 —los.xd —ls3lxcl ;150 152 132 33xd Gt.Northn et.lirestn. Yk. New. Berw Y.&N.Md Do Do 113 -- 114 56 -- 57 27 -28 i 144 -14 i 26 -- 27 S. Eastern ,Do Norfolk Do Ln. &N. W dt Midld Stckton dt Darlingt. Midland.,. 98 - 100 3 - Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. & Wyrel 108 109 lE. Count Do 65 - 67 IL. & . W d:Ln& Yk Do 100 100 18i 9i all Do. 1 Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. di Goole g. 5. p.c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do.. Wilts &Somrst Gt.Northn Do 1148 —lsoxd 1148 —lsoad Lancash. & Yorksh.. MrMClean Stockt. & ./4 Darling Do Gt.Westn —ad 31a —32 A 1024 —1034- MINES. 1 all Agua Fria • 1 lip 21 2 10s. all Anglo Californian p 10 2 Australasian ld par 20 5 Australian n -- 2/ 1i 24 1 all Australian Cordillera —I d 1 all Australian Freehold. d 1 all Ave Maria — d 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) dis— par 1 all British Austrin. Gold 1 4 d 20 13.5 British Iron 7 35 24i Brazilianlmp.(issued i at 25 pm 3 - 41 2i 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 21 3 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 32* —33 1 1 Carson's Creek id Par ff 40 all Cobra Copper — xd 1 x d 5 1 Colonial Gold P' .., 14 Copiapo lOl 11 St, all Copper Min. of Eng 55 —65 65 60 25 all Do. Pief. 7i p. cent 6l 7 p 32/ 5 all English and Austin Coppbr Smeltg. Co 2l 2/d 21 20 all General l4 —l6 2 all Great Nugget Vein ll i p 1 3 all Great Polgooth — d 1 all Lake Bathurst .1 a d / 1 all Liberty 1 all Lond.&Califom.Gold Quartz Crush. Co._ # 4 1 all Mariquita d par 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 6 7 1 all New Granada d— i P 1 all N ou veau Monde l.l 5 1 Port Philip - id 1 1 all Quartz Rock ld p / 50 all Rhymney Iron - ". 15 Do. New • • O” 30 101 Santiago de Cuba 3l 41 1 all South Australian 4d— par 10 7 Tin Croft 281 all United Mexican 4 41 44 1 all Waller l d 1 all West Granada — 1 all West Mariposa 1 all Yuba — d 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia Bl 83 81 1 40 all British Colonial Bank ... ... and Loan Company 50 all British N. American „. ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China 1p 2j / 25 5 Chrtd. B nk . of Asia. id 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lond ... .., 20 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd par— i p 10/ 20 15 London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia - 3 p 50 20 London and County ... .., 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 264 100 20 Lond.andWestminst ... ... 100 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New — ••• 50 221 National of Ireland .,. ... 25 all Oriental Bank Cor poration - 51 51 501 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ~. 10 all Do. New — ... 5 1 Royal Anstraln. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co 1 d— par 25 25 South Australia 44 —46 441 25 all Union of Australia_ 71 72 171/ 2 21 Do. New 8 50 10 Union of London .... . ... 1 40 all Union of Madrid .... ... ... 1, Union of London . Union of Madrid .. MISCELLANEOUS. 5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron ... 100 35 Australian Agrieult. 35 37 363 6 20 8 Australsn.Pcifie.Mail 10 6 Australn. Royal Mail 50 38a Brit. American Land 64 67 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 100 323 Canada Company 5 5 Crystal Palace — 2 p 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France - - 1 p 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 20 14 General Screw Steam 20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... 20 4 Magdalena St. Navig. 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel ... 10 3 Netherlands Land ad -- par 3 1 all N. B. Australasian par p 1 20 rh Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 5 all Peel Itr. Ld. & Minrl. 1 lr, p 6 a 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... ... 78 50 25 Do. do, ... 393 2 all Portland Iron Co 100 60 Royal Mail Steam.... I all Scot. Austral. Invest. 1l 2pxd 1 a Do. New Scrip — 25 25 South Austral. Land 37 39 39 I all Submarine Telegraph 100 283 Van Diemen's Land 16a 173 17i LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TRIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 22. Wind this day at Noon, Northerly, and hazy. DEAL, Aug. 20.—Wind, W.S.W., fresh and cloudy. Arrived—Hampshire, Mauritius ; Creole, Dominica ; Fal con, New Orleans ; Republic and Julindar, New York ; W. A. Cooper, John Wickcliffe, and Balmoral, Quebec ; Mountaineer, Smyrna ; Daring,:Patras. Aug. 21.—Arrived—Stately - , New Zealand ; Cambodia, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Ragusa, do. ; James Alexander, Port Philip ; Scotland, China ; Doctor Kneep, Monte Video ; St. Croix, Barbadoes ; Sumatra, Jamaica ; Adams, St. George, N.B. ; Christian, Olivea, and Achilles, Quebec ; Sea Lion, St. John's ; Mary, Patras. Arrived from the River—Bermondsey and Aberfoyle, for Melbourne, and sails to-morrow ; Henry Gillespie, for Melbourne ; Ralph Thompson, Launceston, V.D.L., and sails to-morrow ; Margaret, Madras ; Rubens and Alexander, Mauritius, both sail to-morrow ; Athens, Constantinople ; Cassite rides, Falkland I s l a nd s .—A bottle has been picked up, containing a report, dated Aug. 1, barque Jane Susanna, of and from London, for Quebec, with pumps chocked, &c. SHEERNESS, Aug. 19.—The Leibnitz, Wieting, from the Cape of Good Hope, on her arrival at Chatham, her anchor not biting, she drifted on to the Gravelstone Bank, abreast of the Sun Pier, subsequently got off, and proceeded to London.—The wreck of a vessel, bottom upwards, of about 200 tons, was passed on the sth of August, in lat. 20 N., long. 19 W.—The Hope (barque), of Limerick, from Cardiff, was spoken, very leaky, by the Tamarac, Thompson. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 20.—Wind, W.S. W. Arrived—Choice, Monte Video ; Barragate, Matanzas ; Jane Pie, Prince Edward's Island ; Qeeen (s.), Oporto ; Lady Mansell, Randholm. Sailed—Chandos, genpa._ Aug.DAßTmoun7 21.—A;Tived—Gustave, Baltimore, for Bremen ; Elise, New York, for Hamburgh. BRISTOL, Aug. 21.—Arrived—Foam, Africa ; William Miles, Hercules, Cosmo, Columbus, and Columbine, Que bec ; John Temple, Latakis. GLOUCESTER, Aug .l2.—Arrived—Star, Quebec. Sailed —Confidence, Galat i. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 22.—(10.45 a.m.)—Wind, W.N.W., moderate and fine. Arrived—Camilla, from Maceio • Marathon, New Orleans ; Amelia, Charleston ; Holywood , Richibuceo ; Butius, Montreal ; California, Alexandria ; Elizabeth, Trieste. Off Port—Ariel and lowa ships, Susan barque, and Hunter schooner.—The new ship Melb ourne, from Quebeci to this port, was ashore on Anticosti, Aug. 6.—The Mary, of South Shields, Scott, bound to Quebec, which went ashore on Mille Vaches Shoals, July 26, has been condemned. LYNN, Aug. 21.—The Caroline and Elizabeth Rhodes, from Woodbridge, which put in here on the 19th August, very leaky, &c., has been obliged to discharge her cargo (wheat), about one-fifth of which is damaged. RACING FIXTt AUG' JRES FOR 1853. -lIST. Radcliffe (3) 9 2 Hereford (2) 25 Barnsley (2) 22 Eccles (3) 29 Egham (2) 23 Lichfield (2) 29 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2)..24 Chelmsford (2) 3O I Derby (2) 25 Plymouth 30 SEPTEMBER. Lincoln (2) 1 Bridgnorth Marlborough Cheadle (Staff.) (2) Warwick (2) 6 Totnes & Bridgetown (2) 7 Weymouth Morpeth (2) Western Meeting 8 Rochester &Chatham (2) 8 Western Zoyland and Bridgwater (1) l2 Folkestone, Hythe, and I Sandgate ...............13 Doncaster (4) ............ ..13 Dover ..................... l5 Pontefract (2) l9 Bedford (2) 2O Leicester (2) 2l Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 Canterbu ry ( 2 ) 0 2 Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27 Walsall (2) 28 Northallerton (2) 29 BER. Warwick Autumn (2) lB Caledonian Hunt and Kelso 18 Richmond (2) l9 Newmarket (H.) (6) 24 MBER. y Shrewsbur (2) 15 Newton Autumn (1) 24 A.berystvrith (3) Last week OCTO Chester Autumn (2) 4 Monmouth YorkshireUnionHunt(l) 6 Wrexham (2) Newmarket S. 0. (5) ._lO NOVE Worcester (2) Epsom Autumn- (2) Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9 Litapool okuttuari (2)„ 9 104;x d z d 100 gel 70 121 6 9i 59 1 i i all all all all 2 pm pm 14i 1131 12; 81 i d 25k 7 i i 40 1 i i i pm !Do ~ AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL AUG. 21. By the Roy a l ma il steam-ship Asia, Lott, com mander, we have advices from New York to the 10th inst. She has brought 84 passengers, and 491,200 dots. in specie on freight. The Asia passed the following vessels :—August 10, ships Constitution and Victoria, from Liver pool, going into New York ; 13th, in lat. 44.8, long. 58.10, the Bremen ship George Williams, bound west; 14th, at 3.30 p.m., in lat. 47.13, long. 51.24, the steamer America, from Liverpool, for Halifax and Boston ; 16th, at 8.20 a.m., in lat. 49.58, long. 39.39, the United States' steame7 Pacific, from Liverpool for New York ; same day, at 3 p.m., ship Britannia, steering west. The United States' steam-ship Baltic, Comstock, commander, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 7th inst. The steamer Star of the West had arrived at New York with advices from San Francisco to the 16th ult., and upwards of 1,000,000 d o l s. i n gold dust on reight. The steamer John L. Stevens sailed from San Francisco on the 16th ult., with 1,488,852 dols. in gold-dust, en route for New York. The steamer Brother Jonathan had sailed from San Juan for New York, with 639,200 dols. in gold-dust on freight. A very serious collision had occurred on the , Camden and Amboy Railroad, by which four per sons were killed and several others badly injured. The weather at New Orleans was still very hot, and the fever greatly on the increase. The deaths for the week ending on the 31st ult. were 884, of which 692 were by the fever. In 48 hours ending on the 2d inst. 299 deaths occured, of which 243 were by yellow fever. On the sth inst. the deaths were upwards of 150 from yellow fever. The correspondent of the New York Herald, Washington, of August 9, says : " It is reported that the overtures of Mr. Crampton for the settlement of the fishery question cover a broad margin of reciprocities, to wit :—Free trade with the British North American colonies, American registers to colonial fishing smacks, the privileges of our Californian coasting trade, and a perfect footing of equality to Yankee fishermen in the colonial fishing places, and so forth. Perhaps, something to the genera l cause of free trade may be the result. But, not knowing much of the antecedents of our Premier on this subject of the fishery negotiations, we cannot be more explicit. Re is mighty cautious, but he may prove to be fast enough yet. We hope, at all events, he will stick to it till something is done." St. John's (New Brunswick) papers of the Bth inst. state that fires had been raging in the woods on Prince Edward's Island fearfully during the previous week. Some farmers had lost houses, barns, fences, and all their crops, and very few have escaped without losing some of their fencing and grain. A great number of sheep had also been lost ; in fact, the extent of the damage done cannot yet be ascertained. The news from California is interesting. The town of Ophir had been destroyed by fire ; the loss is estimated at $BO,OOO t o $lOO,OOO. The eautiful village of French Corral had likewise been almost entirely destroyed ; the loss is estimated at $50,000 Lola Montes was married in San Francisco on the 2d ult. to Mr. P. P. Hull, late proprietor of the San Francisco Whig. Mr. Hull was a fellow pas senger with the fascinating countess on her journey to California, and the acquaintance then formed fast ripened into an attachmentwhich terminatedfatally to his bachelorhood. The wheat crops in most of the agricultural districts of California were suffering from rust. The summer fires had also done much damage to the grain crops. The mammoth tree in Calaveras County, the greatest and most wonderful production of the vegetable kingdom ever known, has been cut down for speculative purposes. A letter from Captain Love, of the California Rangers, states that he had captured the brother of the no torious robber, Joaquin, who had offered, on a pro mise of being released, to conduct the Rangers to the place of concealment of Joaquin and his gang. The Fund Commissioners of Sacramento City have paid the principal and interest of the city bonds held in California and in New York, amounting to $llO,OOO. Six months ago, where now stand s th e handsome villa ge o f lone Valley, there was not a house, now there are substantial dwelling-houses, hotels, a church, livery stable, saw mills, stores, & - c. A Chinese church was about being built in San Francisco. It is to be 45 feet long by 42 wide, and three stories high. The Commissioners of the Funded Debt had presented their second annual report, from which it appeared that the total amount of the funded debt of San Francisco was $1,517,652 90e., $92,000 were redeemed in 1852, and so far this year $22,900. A further sum of $lO,OOO will be redeemed during the present month. The real estate sold at auction by the commissioners during the past year nett e d $216,085 95 c., f rom the proceeds of which there has been cancelled of the old floating debt of the city $lBB,BOO 82c. From the Custom-house statistics, published by the San Francisco Shipping List, some idea may be formed of the great importance of San Francisco in a com mercial point of view. A city of only four or five years' growth, upon a ooast before that time but little known and but thinly populated, has with magic rapidity risen to rank as the third seaport in the United States. Within the six months ending June 27, the number of American vessels that entered San Francisco coastwise was 216, with a total tonnage of 148,812. During the same time two whalers arrived, measuring 355 tons. Of these —l7 were steamers, tonnage 18,523 ; 140 ships, tonnage 115,438 • 31 barks, tonnage, 10,813 ; 13 brigs, tonnage 2:331 ; and 14 schooners, tonnage 1,707. The number of foreign vessels enterinc , coastwise, from Benicia, in ballast, during the same time was 7, with a tonnage of 5,143 ; of these 6 were steamers, and 2 ships. The number of American vessels entering from foreign ports was 105, with an average tonnage of 63,055 ; of these 37 were steamers, chiefly from the Isthmus, with a tonnage of 44,565 ; 13 ships, tonnage 7,457 ; 17 barks, tonnage 4,940 ; 22 brigs, tonnage 3,812 ; 16 schooners, tonnage 2,281. The number of fo reign vessels, entering from foreign ports was 231, with a tonnage of 72,600 • of these 52 were s hip s , ' tonnage 25,349 • 103 barks, tonnage 34,774 ; 58 brigs, tonnage 13,351 ; and 18 schooners, tonnage 2,126. The accounts from the mining districts are very satisfactory. New gold diggings had been discovered at Umqua river. The report was that the miners were taking out over 1 dol. to the pan, and some even more than that, with prospects, from the appearance of things, of striking rich lodes in the neighbourhood. A large quantity of rich gulch and hill diggings had been found near Vallecita, sufficient, it is said, to last for years to come. An immense business in the way of minin g was also doing at White Rock, four miles from Placerville. Rich diggings have also been dis covered in the hills at the head of Rich Gulch. One of the parties sunk a shaft some 30 feet and took 10 ounces of gold from eight buckets of dirt. A correspondent of the Shasta Courier, writing from Pittsburg, a mining town in the northern part of the State, says : " Quite an excitement was produced here a short time since by the discovery of rich diggings in the hill this side of Rich Gulch, just where the trail crosses the gulch. As high as $6 was - taken out in one bucketful Of dirt. The depth to the rock is about three feet. People ' run all night' to secure claims, and a friend who was on the ground early on the following morning informs us that he saw some ten or a dozen notices within a few feet of each other, having been posted in the dark. About a week since four Englishmen took out two pounds of gold near the mouth of Rich Gulch." A large amount of business had been transacted in the San Francisco markets during the fortnight. The trade generally, anticipating the arrival of a large fleet of vessels, many of them overdue, had of m tthe with a leading ready articles t i s c a l l e e s at tf rather e heavyn allowed their stock s t o run l ow ; consequently a large m p i_ o r p t tio rt i n s proved rates. I n go ldd us t t h ere had been a decided tendency towards a diminution in the supply, but prices remain e d th e same. Money in demand at 3 t to 4 per cent, p er month. The transactions stocks had b e e n t o aconside ra )1 e extent a t advanced prices. A letter from Surinam (Dutch Guiana) of July 16 states that African slavery is soon to be abolish e d in that colony, and that Ch. mese coolies are to be introduced instead. Advices from the Sandwich Islands of the 15th of June are unimportant. Her Majesty's sloop of war Amphitrite arrived at Honolulu on the 27th of May. Accounts from Tahiti of the 4th of May state that the French Empire was proclaimed on the 17th of April by M. Page, " Commander of the Mar quesas " with 300 guns. In the eve:ling there was au illumination and a dinner riven by the Governor. The Queen and her husband and the Consuls of England and the United States were present. In the New York stock-market but little busi ness had been transacted, and prices had slightly declined. There was a fall in Erie Railroad shares of ; Nicaragua Transit, I. The sales of State stocks were confined to 2,000 dolls. Kentucky Sixes. at 1074 ; Indiana State Fives, at 981: Cali fornia Seveu per Cents., 87. Small lots of City stocks were also brought forward for—viz., New York City Fives, 1870, 1031 ' • 2,000 dolls. St. Louis Sixes, 97 ; 1,000 dolls. Louisville City Sixes, 96. The money-market was unsettled. Loans on call, 7to 8 per cent. for first-class paper. For foreign exchange the demand was limited. First class bills could be had at 109 to 1091, at 60 days, on London ; Paris, 60 days, 5.15 to 5.121 ; short Right, 5,10. We quote... London, 10& to log ; Paris, 5.124- to 5.15 ; Amsterdam, 40/ to 41; Hamburgh, 364 to 36i ; Bremen, 791 to 79g. The advices per Baltic had produced no effect on the cotton market. Business had been almost sus pended by the great advance in freights, from lc. to ic. per pound, and the scarcity of vessels ready to receive cargo. A few hundred bales only had in consequence been daily sold, without change. Flour had slightly declined in price. Wheat had advanced about 4c. per bushel. Indian corn in good demand, at an advance of lc. to 2c. per bushel. Pork inactive, at 15 dolls. 50c. to 15 dolls. 624 c. for mess, and 12 dolls. 75c. to 12 dolls. 874 c. for prime ; dry hams in salt sold at Bc. ; lard in barrels in moderate request, at 104 c. to 11c. ; beef, steady at 8 dolls. to 10 dolls. for country, 12 dolls. 25c. to 12 dolls. 871 2 c. for city mess, and 5 dolls. to 6 dolls. 50c. for prime. Scotch pig iron firm, at 33 dolls. to arrive. Freights to Europe very firm :to Liver pool-wheat Bd. in bulk and 81c. in bags ; flour, 2s. 9d. to 2s. 10d. ; rum, 2s. 9d. ; cotton, 3s. Bd. asked. T o Glasgow -flour was taken at 3s. ; grain 9d. To London-flour, 3s. ; grain, 9d. ; turpen tine, 35.: heavy goods, 255. to 275. 6d. AUSTRALIA. By the Harbinger we learn that the session of the Legislative Council was opened by Sir C. Fitzroy, on the 10th of May, at Sydney. The following is the Governor-General's address : " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, " In meeting you again in session it becomes my duty to declare to you the objects for which you are thus as sembled. I have called you together at an earlier period than usual, in compliance with the request conveyed to me in your address of the 21st of December last, and also because there are some matters in respect of which I am anxious to avail myself of your advice and assistance with as much expedition as may be consistent with their proper consideration and satisfactory settlement. " I desire first, however, to acknowledge with gratitude to Divine Providence the general prosperity enjoyed by all classes of the community. At no former period of the existence of the colony has the material condition of its inhabitants, I believe I may con fid ently assert, been in a more satisfactory and progressive state. Although the prices of the necessaries of life have very considerably ad vanced, yet I am happy to say that they still continue abundant ; while the increased means at the disposal of the people generally have enabled them without difficulty or inconvenience to meet the additional expenditure to which they are subjected. I must except, however, from this satisfactory state of things, the paid servants of the Crown, whose incomes, fixed with reference to former prices, now prove very inadequate to their proper position and reasonable support. It will be my duty, therefore, to invite your concurrence in such an advance on their present remuneration as the altered circumstances of the colony may appear to render just and expedient. " While in the enjoyment of so large a measure of mate rial prosperity, we must not forget the duty which devolves on the Legislature to make some corresponding provision for promoting the intellectual and moral advancement of ttoheyocoumfornruaniugnaty.entelagsures will accordingly be submitted the amount allotted for education, with a view to the extension of primary schools, as well as to the e ncouragement of institutions destined to promote the higher branches of literature and science. " It is with lively satisfaction that I am at length en abled to place before you th e decision of her Majesty's Go vernment on the representations contained in your peti etieomnptloainheiergMoafjetryta, a in do gri pte e d v o a n ee t sth of December, 1851, Majesty would be pleased to adopt the and necessarypra n g t hatmeasures her for their redress. The dispatches of the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington conveying this decision, and of his Gr ace the Duke of Newcastle, confirming the same, on behalf o f her Majesty's present Gtovernment, will be immediately laid before you. To these documents I would, therefore, refer you for the detail of the terms upon which the con trol of the administration of the Crown lands, and the ap propriation of the revenue arising therefrom, will be trans ferred to the Legislature of the colony, as well as those upon which other important concessions will be made, rather than attempt any recapitulation of them here. It is sufficient to state that everything, of material consequence will be granted upon conditions which I doubt not will be considered satisfactory both by you and the colonists gene ' rally. It is a matter of unfeigned gratification to me that these important concessions have been consented to during thetime that I have the honour to administer the govern ment of the colony, as I entertain a confident and earnest hope that, by a wise exercise of the additional powers of self-government which will thus be conceded, this rising and important dependency of the Crown will rapidly ad vance in its social, moral, and religious condition ; and I cordially join in the expectation so ardently expressed by the late Secretary of State, that the effect of these impor tant measures may be such as to cement and perpetuate the ties of kindred affection and mutual confidence which connect its people with that of the United Kingdom. " I have the satisfaction to announce to you that I have received advices of the arrival in England of the remit tances made in the month of August last for the purposes of immigration, amounting to about 105,0001. The ad ditional funds thus placed at the di s p osa l o f h er M a j esty ' s Land and Emigration Commissioners will enable them to increase in a material degree the number of emigrant ships to be sent to this colony during the present year. In addition to the number already arrived, I have received an intimation of nine ships having been taken up for the conveyance of emigrants, and which may be expected in the course of the next two or three months. This acces sion to the labouring population will afford a very season able relief to the pressure for additional labour which is now so severely felt in all branches of colonial industry, and will, I hope, tend to prevent any further rise in the present high rate of wages. The various documents having reference to this important subject will be imme diately laid before you. "I have also to congratulate you on the highly favour able state of the public revenue. The aggregate amount collected in the past year exceeded that which was received in the year 1851 by 100,000/. This increase arose exclu sively in the general revenue. In the territorial revenue there was a trifling decrease, but the funds from this , source have at all times been liable to considerable fivatua tion. In the present year, however, I anticipate a much more favourable result. Regulations have been promul gated for establishing local land offices, and directions given for accelerating the survey of lands, for the sale of which application may be made to the Government. I confidently trust that these measures may have the effect of greatly facilitating the acquisition of land, and thus, by affording a safe and profitable investment for the funds which under the propitious circumstances of the colony have been so largely accumulated by the community generally, tend materially to promote its social and moral advancement objects which, it will be readily conceded, are much more important and gratifying than the mere financial advantages which the mea sures in question are also calculated to produce. The usual abstracts of revenue and expenditure have been pre pared and printed, and will be immediately presented to you " The estimates of revenue and expenditure are in a for ward state of preparation, and will be laid before you on an early day. " During the recess I have received petitions adopted at public meetings held at Sydney and Sofala, and from pet sons engaged in gold digging in the western districts, com plaining of some of the provisions of the Gold Act passed during the last session, and of the regulations founded thereon, and praying that the necessary alterations may be made therein for obviating the objections to these melt• sures, which the petitioners have thus represented, and which I believe h ave a l so b een enterta i ne d b y a consider able portion of the community. It is my intention, there fore, immediately to lay before you a bill to amend this act in such manner as I hope will remove any just ground of dissatisfaction. " It will be duty to lay before you a dispatch from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State, recommending various alterations in the law for preventing the desertion of seamen from merchant ships, founded upon certai n ac t s passed by the Legislature of anada for a similar purpose, and which have been found in those provinces highly useful in effecting the object in view. A bill embodying the provisions of the acts in question, and for further im proving the law relating to merchant seamen, will ac cordingly be laid before you ; and, as this is a subject of vital importance to th e commerce of the colony, as well as to the interests more i mme di ately concerned, I beg to re c o ra l e b n e d g that to o t may recommend receive tyoo youu r tho early attention.resu m p tio investigation, comm ence d d uring the last sessions, of t t h h e e important qu es ti ons relating to the law of marril l ag of ande gi s tn of subjectratio a dibsiplosh, the latterr registration bwuhriiachls'lahnadve marriage s.recently On the received from the Secretary of State transmitting certain forms which have b een f ound very useful. for the purpose in view in the U n it e d Ki ngdom will be immediately laid before you. The considerations involved in these questions being so important to the best interests of society, I confidently trust that the Council will be enabled during the present session to place them upon a satisfactory and permanent basis. " In consequence of the large number of persons passing to and from the gold fields of Victoria, and the instances of outrage and robbery which have occurred, both on the line of the great Southern road and in the country situated upon the boundaries of that colony, I have found it neces sary to increase the police establishments for which provi sion was made in the estimates for those districts laid be fore you during the last session. Patrol stations have been established through the whole of the line of road to Albury, and detachments of native police have been ordered to be _ organised at convenient stations in the border districts. I rely on obtaining your sanction to these arrangements, and a I am induced to believe from recent occurrences that still greater augmentation of the police force of those dis tricts will be required. "Notwithstanding the considerable sums voted during principal leading the last two sessions for the repair of the system of thoroughfares, I fear that under the present management the object contemplated has been but very imperfectly carried out. It is my. the requisite sums to intention , therefore, to place upon the estimates for 1854 provide for the appointment of com petent road engineers t o be provided for t he esta blishment of railway advise and assist the local committees in the proper per formance of the important functions devolving gupon them. Until the necessary means can communication on the great lines o f s most necessary that the ordi nary th oroug hf a res it seem roads of the colony should not be allowed to continue in their present state of disrepair, whereby the cost of tran sit must be greatly and, as regards the interests of the com munity, most disadvantageously increased. I propose to lay before you bills for improving the pro cedure of the Supreme Court both at common law and in equity. These bills are founded on acts of Parliament passed during the last session, and 1 deem it highly desir able that the legislation of the colony on the subject of l a w reform should keep pace with the improvements adopted iu England. " I have received several representations from proprietors of stock and others in the northern districts, expressing their desire to have the country lying to the northward of the present pastoral districts of Wide-bay and Burnett thrown open to location. Measures have therefore been adopted for this purpose. It will be necessary, in carry ing out this object, to establish an adequate police force at Port Curtis, where it is proposed to lay out a town. ship, and provision will accordingly be made upon the estimates to meet the necessary expenditure. " There are various other subjects upon, which I shall have occasion to communicate with you during the session, and I shall avail myself of the ordinary means of doing so by message. " CHARLES A. Frrzßor, Governor. " Legielktive Council•chamber, Mry 10." 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. St. 121, 1 124 25 St. St. St. 20 1.0.61 100 3} 100 100 100 100 100 all all 61 all 100 all 21s. 100 20 110 1100 100 100 100 6 100 100 10 all li all 100 all 3 100 10 20 20 20 rig f 36 15 I 26i 6 _,~