The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

some odious. With all tb,at, he has not returned me Elie china he took from me ; what has he done with it ? Has he them still f At the bottom I believe it ; will he return them to me ? there is a world of ifs trost subject. He has not expressed regret as to t he has broken for me ; he smiles when I speak to bam of it. I t‘m inclined to believe that he felt a *Night degree of anger on that point. It is very .vi ,dent that he had a mind to our being recon si led. Never have I so strongly believed in his aclination in this respect. "Will they let him do Lit ? I much fear that he may be yet impelled to do many things, against which I shall not know .'Dow to confine myself to a quiet regret. I strongly dm!, that in spite of my affection for him, I cannot 1,3 bappy if I do not occupy in a complete and irre sacuble manner the same apartm ent with him, so as to return to that intimacy which naturally and alone brings about that pouring of the soul, that unlimited confidence, that double existence which is the happi ness marriage ; neither can Ibe so unless I parti cipate in all his cares for my children and their society. But, my God! snatch from me, if it be necessary, every happiness, the affection of all those that I love, and re-unite us one day in your bosom. Save us, my God ! Give us eternal happiness, and do with us what seemeth fit to you in this life. My God! thou knov:est that this is from the bottom of my heart ; I wish for what seemeth fit for you ; but give me strength and resignation to support it." PAPER FOUND IN THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN'S SECRETARY. "Preslin, Sept. 15, 1842. "You are, Theobald, I am convinced, far from sus pecting your harshness towards me, and how much at makes me suff-r. It is a very slow hut very pein iful death, I assure you, to die 0f grief! Oh, Theo bald, how much I loved you! how much I loved our children ! I have no longer anything in this world ! Of our union nothing remains for inc hut your name. .1 live alone forsaken, despised, and I have a husband and nine children ; another, before my eyes, enjoys all these blessings! and you would have me think that natural? Well, Ido say, and truly, that of all tortures the most cruel that could be imposed on me is the life I lead. My crod! what crime would not be expiated by such anguish! You no longer love rue ! you abandon me ! though of all pains this is the most acute for me, who have never ceased to love you -with so much ardour. I understand it; but, to de • prive me of my children, and to give my place about you and them to another! Oh ! no, you have no right to do that, Theobald. Can you be so weak and so blind as to abandon my children to a brainless woman—a woman without shame, without principles, without tact ?" -LETTER WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE DUKE DE PBASLIN ' S SECRETARY AT PRASLIN. " Do not believe, my dear Theobald, that I am not aware of my error, when I have forgotten myself so as to tell you, in language too violent, what I have suffered, and what afflicts me still. However well grounded and reasonable my grief may be, I ought either to conceal it or express more calmly the natural auaxiety it causes me for our children. Now things are come to this point, I assure you it would be better :for us to separate quietly, privately, without speak ing to any one. Time brings things about; it will ems day open' your eyes to the sad and deplorable in fluence which you have suffered to gain such ascen dancy over you, such authority over our children and your house. Let rue await that moment in peace and solitude. For years past I have made vain efforts to appear calm and resigned to a state of things which I firmly believe is as injurious to our eldest daughters as it is painful to myself. For a long time I believed in your affection ; and that gave me patience under my sufferings. Now, all illusion has ceased; I see that I never could have occupied the place I coveted in your heart, as I once supposed. You were for a long time so very kind to me, that I believed you loved me with a reciprocal affection, and that you would one day be mine again. This illusion is destroyed. If I was not able to win your affections formerly, I cannot hope to do so now, after so much trouble has soured my temper, of which lam fully aware. My heart is stilt the same, entirely devoted to you and our children ; but I see that I am nothing either to you .or the children. You have annulled my life ; you force me to be only a spectator, hereas I ought to be the second head of the family. I see a thousand things aroued me equally obnoxious to my princi ples and my affections. I grn evidently a burden to you, and some of my children, in appearance at least, for you are far from knowing their real feel ings. In fine, you have male Inv life useless here, and you let me feel that I am in the way, and only tolerated. I know I can do nothing to change an iota of your determination ; I only ask you, there fore, to make such arrangements. that I may not he compelled to witness things which I cannot help blaming from in very heart. You have shown in every way that you feel neither esteem nor friendship fsr me, and that you would have our children share your sentiments. I wish tor nothing but to 1,4 you enjoy in peace the kind of life you :save chosen, without being an unwilling sepcta tor of it. I suffer too much here, deprived of every thing in the place I loved, in the midst of those I bold dear, but who are snatched from me by an in triguer. I cannot understand why my unhappy life should give a relish to your pleasures. Do what you please, but, for mercy's sake, do not force me to wit ness it. If Aline should be ordered to take the Teeters, allow me to conduct her there. Ab, if you allowed me to devote my life to tho-e of my children that please you least, to those whom nature has less liberally endowed, it would be a great blessing tome. If you knew how much you make me suffer! I only ask you as a favour to allow me to retire to solitude, and for a year past you have found time to think of it. You laugh at my sufferings, but I tell you before God that there is no more cruel torture than the life I lead meanwhile. You will force me to fly : would it not be better to make an amicable arrangement ? Certainly, you cannot propose anything more painful to me than what I now undergo. Ah ! how many times have I seen you allow yourself to be deceived and fascinated by intriguing women !" This letter was enclosed in an envelope, bearing the address of " Monsieur le Duc." EXTRACT FROM .1 LETTER - WITHOUT DATE FOUND IN THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN'S SECRETARY, AT PARIS. " I go, my dear Theobald, for I confess I no longer know what conduct to adopt; I thought I yesterday acted very well in quitting in silence, in order to avoid the bitterness with which you reproach me whenever I open my mouth. This new plan has so 'badly succeeded with me that I require time to col lect inc ideas as to what course I shall pursue. You hare frequently repeated that you despised me ; you have for so long a time proved it to me, that I unior tunately can no longer doubt it ; but I admit that I do not well understand it. Besides, you sadly mis understand me ; you always suppose that I fix all my ideas on the suspicion of one guilty act, and I com preltend that that ide a revolt-6 you, particularly under these circumstances. It is not only this which is blame able and painful toaffeetion ; certainly to see you prefer the society of another, to Rive her - lt my rights . to your friendship, to your confidene c e all those which I had over my all confidence, to In h t e i:nacy, real and profound subjects of grief. Add ' to are the e pain of seeing my children in 'the handsof who, because she commits no fault, takes upon herself to be inconsistent and familiar ; to employ her influ ence to direct you, and take possession of all the house; who looks upon the usages of meciety as absurdtties -- candidly, there is enough in this to cause unhap piness, sorrow, and anger. TO continue life in this Way is impossible. Call to m i ni that before all things rwish for your hapuinese but I cannot secure it at the Trice of my consei,nce. If I remain . • • I will propose an arrangement to you, reflect. If you are I will get my physician to order me sea-bathing, ani will go alone to Carteret. I will stay three months; if the life you lead with Mdlle. D— and our children suits you for a permanency, without having the troulle of a woman who wants to be the compinion of her husband, the mother of her children—il, in short, you prefer being a widower, tell me frankly, and I will stay there - if on the con trary, aft e r thr ee mont h s, you remember that you lave a loving wife, and if yo u feel the want of a friend wh o will devote her arrive tell me so, an d I s h ould grateful. D o not accuse f very happy, v e ry m thoughtless ness i n offering you this alternative, presencei!e wish o you to be happy ; I know that m yburden, ofn gone on on use fo to that my ab sence will be no privation, as 1 am a any body for anything, as thin gs have goo time past."—This letter is addressed, " M. le D r uc' some LETTKE WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF THE DUCHESS OF PRA.SLIN, AT PRAISLIN. " I see well, my friend, that you take my grief for ill-humour—but you are altogether wrong. Seri ously, now, put yourself in my place, and say, should you be happy if you had a husband, and that he lived under your eyes, in the same house, with another Woman, in a degree of intimacy and familiarity such as you live in with Mdlle. D.? Say, should you adopt the plan not to bring up your daughters, if you were a mother, to see them in the hands of a person whose c on d uct nor inciples could inspire any confi dence, and w ho hasp uch d etes t a ble manners ? . . • Say, should you be h a ppy t o li ve isolated as I do in the midst of my own family, to be neither wife, nor mother, no r m i stress of {the house ? You deprive me of the occup a ti ons that the duties of legitimate affec - - condemn me to live like an another take my place. Oh ! le you know what I suffer. that thi s lif e is a dreadful . a vague h ope ofa opinion eyes to g such youa bad ar themthe injury of such such an educationncip with such false pri ieswi ti ould 'not stay another momentut .t my age, not to have k home ~ with a husband and children The all, 71,3 .:)arms' imagine what your contempt • 0 I 3 4 t; 10 . In % it at k azi al W a bring, ''Y to see ' ow littl know f:t. - .:thout t c Crl n ;I ' 84- Rims • . -`" e . mpies, aft hope I cc under your roof At like other waxen, f ' ~~ ~ TtlE SUN, then, will conduct and direct them in Society ? Cer- , tainly, you will not think me worthy, and if you did from respect, could I, who do not know them, and they who have no confidence for her whom they do not esteem—could I direct them ? Accustomed to the impudent, free, and familiar conduct of Millie. De Luzy towards you, and accustomed to consider her perfection on earth, they wilt laugh at my advice, or take it for the advice of hypocrisy. On the other hand, if you take them into society without me, that would be dishonouring me ; and to cause them to be accompanied by her would be to parade her in the eyes of all. Mon Dieu! do not believe me so absurd as to think that you have a grand passion for Mdlle. De Luzy. I know that would appear to you a very immoral idea, but if it be her object is she a fit person to educate the children ? Even if she do not trouble herself about that, and she only puts herself prominently forward in order the better to secure her absolute empire, is it becoming that your daughters should be in the hands of a per son who has no regard for her reputation, who tramples under foot all the received ideas of decency ? Appearances make reputations; we can only judge after what we see in this world. You mill admit that and harshness make me suffer ! Give my place near you, near our children, to another, under my very eves, whilst you have not bolts enough to keep me from you! What ! do you not see the affronts you put upon me, the humiliations I undergo before my children and your servants ? I confess that this life is unbearable ; if you persist in it, allow me to go, to retire ; I cannot endure it any longer. If we con tinue to live so we shall only become more embit tered, and what good will that do ? Our daughters will perhaps acquire talents, but they will receive a s.td education. Thank God, their natural characters a re good, but they are not brought up as they ought to be. I see that, and I can say nothing : and yet I am their mother, and my life has been pure. I re peat to you, mon ami, if you will continue this con duct, I cannot, I ought not to remain. My presence is of no use, since I cannot prevent what I blame, and I suffer in vain." LETTER, WITHOUT DATE , FOUND AT PRASLIN. " When I arrived here I hoped to have some mo ments of amusement and of truce; but the illusion has not lasted long; the steps of the carriage hod not been put down, before I read in your icy, disdainful, and discontented air, in the constrained expression of the looks of my children, in the little green eyes which appeared behind your shoulder, that I was about to be subjected to the most humiliating treat ment, to the most painful life, to support the spectacle of the most improper things, not to make use of a more appropriate phrase. Believe it, Theobald, if I still stiuggle, it is because I am firmly conscientious — because it is my duty not to renounce the struggle to obtain a factitious peace and tranquillity, not to give by my silence an appearance of tacit consent to a state of things which concerns my children, and which I strongly d'sapprove, and because I firmly believe it to be detestable, grievous for the present, pernicious, dangerous in the future. You may do all that you will, detest me as you will, I am still the mother of those children, whom you give to the first corner. I know very well that you are" the master, that you can do all you will with me ; but there is one thing in which the rights of a wife are almost equal to those of a husband—you entirely forget that. Do you not know, then, that the laws, if I were to invoke them, would decide in my favour ? You know that I shall never do that; but is that a reason for making a bad use of it? You believe yourself obliged to cede in all things in order to preserve Mademoiselle D— at every cost. Yot believe that it would not be pos sible to replace her near you, near my dear children. But why do you, who believe it so simple, so easy to replace a mother, think it so prodigiously impossible to replace a governess ? If you had desired it she might have been a good governess, but you have changed her functions, her position, and those who shine in the second rank are cast into the shade in the first. How is it possible that her head should not be turned when your conduct says to her every day still more clearly than your words, 'I have a wife, but I prefer your society, your attentions. My children have a mother, but though I scarcely know you, and you are younger, I have more confidence in your principles, your experience, your attentions, :four devotedness, your manners, your judgment, your tenderness, to be everything to them. Take, then, the place—command, ordain; she who must be the mother of my children must be sovereign in my house ?' Theobald, that is logical, but you start from a false and dangerous point. You yourself have not the right to condemn me to this ignominious civil death, and you can only do that in leaving me to be suspected of infamous conduct and vices, and by my children, too ! Oh !I am richly punished to have loved you so much—to have preferred you even to them ; but was I not already sufficiently punished to have lost, without return, without hope, the only true happiness for me—your affection ? But to see my children conducted in the path of false and frivolous principles, accustomed to blind, inconsiderate con duct, and false and unbecoming positions, unnatural ;did improper! If you would reflect yourself, you would feel that, in setting aside all my personal sentiments of joy and happiness destroyed, I must cruelly suffer to see my numerous children under a direction so pernicious to their future conduct. Ask yourself frankly, what you would feel, what you would do towards any one who should deprive you at once of a woman you loved with ardour, and of :our children, to give them false and dangerous im pressions ? When I had the weakness, by excess of love for you, to make you an immense sacrifice in abandoning my children to you, picturing to myself in a guilty blindness that this sacrifice, on account of its greatness, would most certainly restore me your affection ; p.-r•uaded by your promises in this respect, I committed, I admit, a great fault ; I ought to have died sooner than have made this sacrifice. And I male a very false calculation, for this -acrifice made to my love gave you a bad opinion of .ny principles, my judgment, my heart; I conceive that; yet I ought to add for my justification that my tenderness confounded all our rights in me only. I. believed myself a portion of you ; it seemed to me 1 (hat all ought to be common between us and sup s ported mutually. At present you have established a complete separation between us; we are nothing more than strangers one to another. I for a long time llittered myself with illusions of a return of affection, of trials, of all the possibilities of this world, to picture to myself that it was a time to be passed, that you loved me, and that you would return to me, that all mysteries would be cleared up by you in a natural and satisfactory manner ; in short, I long made every dream of happiness to come with confidence, and still more with hope. At present—but let us talk no longer of it, happiness is no longer in question ; but ,ince I must abandon the hope of your return and that of my children, I must at least know what I have to trust to. My life is not supportable; it is painful, disgraceful to me, and, do nut deceive your -elf, very dangerous to the future prospects of the children. Things cannot endure in their present state. Therefore, reflect; remember that I supplicate you to give me at last a becoming position, and an interest in life. Oh ! but you are weak ! You have arrived at such a point that you dare no longer go out with your wife and your children, without being accompanied by that person for whom you have taken from me what you gave me in the first days of our marriage. You are so much under her yoke that you dare undertake nothing without her. You would consider it wrong to leave her fur a moment, and your wife, the mother of nine children, must live and die alone." LETTER, WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF THE DUCHESS DE ?RAMAN. " I cannot understand what are your views as to the future of our children, nor by what principles you direct your conduct, nor what is the nature of your sentiments with respect to me. You will not under any pretext read my letters, nor accord me a serious conversation, nor any explanation of any kind. If it be the dread of an explanation on your private con duct, you are wrong to fear that I will enter on that subject. I for a long while expected, hoped for, that moment almost as much as I desired it, but it is now an allusion completely destroyed. You have too clearly proved that you no longer love me, and that all reladon3 must cease between us, for me to be ab surd enough to expect from you any mark of affec tion. I therefore only demand of you, I swear it, teat which is not refused to any woman, unless she be a monster of corruption ; and that is, the permis -ion to do my duty towards my children, and to enjoy the consolation that I can find in the midst of them alone, in the se rv i ces t h at I m i g h t ren d er th em , and in their te n d erness to so f ten t h e bi tter regrets hich wring my heart at having lost your affection. I would have gi ven a ll my blood t iregain your ten ti (leress, to enjoy it again fir then to die; but I have been c t owa s trly e , selfish,mo nten ts , andguilty, you . all my share of I admit it, in abandoning rights over our havingchildren, o lu p u i d c r t e u d redto myself you, times tht than that this sacrifice, greater a that of my life, would touch would return to me, and that you would give a youri o e u lf to me a second time. But I take Heaven to - witness, I would never have made a similar concession for any motive, if I had not been convinced that you would put them in respectable hands, and that only for teeir instruction. Never, never would I have willingly consented to be deprived of all relations with my children, to no longer occupy myself with their health, with their comfort. But that was not the case. Never have I bsen sufficiently unnatural, sufficiently infamous to renounce the care of my children, not to live with them, and to exercise no moral influence over them. You must be vary blind not to see that you are in the hands of an inteifiante. Yes, the per son who is capable of profiting by the dissensions which she remarked between us on her arrival, in order to increase her authority, which has completely separat e d us , w hi c h h as tota ll y separa ted a mother from her children, is profoundly immoral, and un worthy of th e con fid ence w hi c h you p l ace i n her. A woman who accepts such a false position is the most dangerous example for young girls ; she purchases authority at the price of her reputation. Women t w a h k (e) make s e such themselves b arga i nsi n fahoatvenos theynl anhoathveer already p ad t y o lost themselves in appearance. Ha v i ng h a d th e mis fortune to thrustir she had lf th e int o a very false position, Mdlle. D. ou g ht, s entiment of modesty or the least tact, to have reserved becomingly towards you ; instead of which, to act '3 which, by h er conduct, shameless toward s you, house, scandalous to me, she puts herself in th e in a scandalous manner. You do not forward not find me sufficiently good company for my childr en ; b ut in seeing the bold , unbecoming , and often scandalous arroganther conduct of their governess, what will my children soon think of the conduct of the mother from whom they are separated? Do you not feel, then, to what an extent you brand me in their eyes ? Ah! you have not the right. If I had been guilty, you would have believed it your duty to secure me the conside ration of my children; and you sacrifice me. You abandon them to a person who knows not, or who laughs, at modesty and decency, for she observes 1 rv,ither. What a Mentor for rung girls! W1:16, shall be arranged between my fath-r, you, and my self, without the intervention of other advisers. You hive often expressed to me, my dear Theobald, the desire to see things take another face, because you really feel the discomfort of our home ; but you always draw back. I now count on your co-opera tion, as in everything whiith concerns the happiness of our children. " FANNY SEBASTIANI PRASLIN." LETTER OF THE DUPLIESS DE PRASLIN TO !MLLE. DE LUZY. A COPY'OIeWHICH WAS FOUND ON AUG. 20, IN THE DUKES SECRETARY, AT PARIS. " June 19, 1847. " Mdlle.,—l regret exceedingly that you are un well, and that in such a state you have taken the trouble to write to me (*) for a matter which your attention to my children rendered so natural. If circumstances important for their interests have pre cipitated an event which I regarded only a few days back as being still distant, do not doubt that I shall in consequence seek out with greater zeal all occa sions to be- useful to you, and that I shall be well pleased if you point me out the way. I have heard it said thritch;lau wish to go and see Lady liislop; is that be the ycase, I can offer you a letter to Lady Tinkerville. who, I am certain, will earnestly second Lady Ilislop in all her endeavours to forward you► plans. If you thought fit to have letters also for Mde. de Flahaut and Miss Elphinstone, dispose of me most freely. I reme►nber you asked me to lend you a book on arriving at Praslin ; I hope that you wili not refuse to accept that little souvenir, which I have great pleasure in offering you. lam anxious to re peat to you, Mademoiselle, that I shall seize with eagerness on all the occasions that occur, and such as you may be pleased to afford me to be of use to you. " S. .PRASLIN." I lead a shocking life, that you yourself would not support it. You say that it only depends on me to change it. Eh ! mon Dieu! I know very well that it' I would consent to find everytaing that Millie. D. does charming, to close my eyes on what I find wrong, to appear not to perceive all that there is sus picious in the mysteries which surround you, to re nounce the right of having a fixed opinion on certain principles, and on what is proper ; I doubt not that if would say amen to all that I blame, my life would be quite different in appearance, that is to say that you would consent to speak to me more gra ciously, as as ould also Mdlle. D. ; that I should ne sometimes admitted to promenades and parties of pleasure; that you would consent to talk to me from time to time as you talk to anybody else ; that you would come to see me some moments if I should be unwell ; that you would appear to take some interest in my health or my pleasures; that you would perhaps have some attentions for me, some presents to offer me. Yes, I believe all that, and I know that by fifteen days of falsity I should obtain that change. But if I were cowardly enough to purchase that calm and consolation (for it would•not be happiness) at the price of sacrificing all my prin ciples, I should deserve to be despised. lam mo rally and physically exhausted by this long and cruel struggle; but even you yourself could not advise me to purchase repose by the sacrifice of my conscience. Should I die without having obtained a moment of relief; I will never cease to tell you the truth. You are in a fatal path; you are ruining our children by giving them ialse principles, by teaching them to despise their mother, by giving them the example df a disunited family, in which a person occupies ttie place of their another, of your wife. You feel thalt the state of my health would nut be a plausible pre text to any one, owing to the manner in which I am rejected from the family ; for it is evident that if you believed me ill, and we were not separated by your aversion, and especially by fatal influences, you would tend me, and the children also, instead of abandoning me. Assuredly you would not render 'a woman who was indifferent to you so cruelly un happy. It is therefore hate which you feel towariis me, and that is the fruit of my love so constant and so devoted!" * LETTER FRoM DIDLLE. DE LUZY TO THE DUCHESS PRASLIN ON THE i 7TH OR 18TH OF JUNE, 1847. " Madame la Duchesse,--I should have wished to ex ; press to you in person the sentiments which anima:e m , but I feel that under present circumstances it would fe.- a task above my strength. Permit me to postpone to $1 more calm and more happy period the thanks which 1 dei.ire to express to you with my own lips for the gene r„sity w i t h w hi c h you remunerate my feeble service , . At the moment of quitting children to whom I have (levoted the most lively tenderness, I find in the testi mony of your satisfaction a powerful consolation. i accept with gratitude the offers of r,commendati , t , which you have the •goodaess to make, and I shall ha 7... ten, Mudatne..to avail myselt of them as soon as circum staric-s will render it advi,able for me to do so. The ill health of my grandaather, exeeedimziy precarious several months past, imposes on me the duty of beiti: with him at present.. I shall demand permission to form you at a later period of the steps which I shat think it advisable to 'eke, and I pray you, Madame, t.; accept the assurance of My profound respect. " H. DE LUZY." FOREIGN PRINTING. —An importation recently :0 )k grip of a quantity of printed pipers, in which ti,. leeislon arrived at as to their liability to duty or other wise was of much intere4t and imp ThesL printed papers were simply specimens of type connect* , with, or rather comprising no particular book, but ser, ing only to illustrate the form of the types, which haci been fixed in this country, and sent to the printers i, Germany, in order to have the specimens struck oil there, and sent to this country as samples of printing and on their arrival the parties requested their deliver:, as such tree of duty. It appears that by the Bth ani 9th Victoria, cap. 86, sec. 63, paper printed on in th, English - language is absolutely prohibited to be im ported ; byt- r that these printed sheets were merely in tended as specimens of type, and unfit for any other purpose than distribution as patterns, and to show th, effect of the same when put to press ; and it has on a Former occasion been decided, in a communication from LETTER WITHOUT DATE FOUND IN THE SECRETARY cir THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN, AT PRASLIN. " On quitting the spot where 1 have been so happy, and where I have suffered so much—where I thought of always living, where I leave all that is dearest in the world to me—all the objects on whose tenderness I had founded all my hopes of happiness, my heart, Theobald, is breaking ; but it must be so; a mother ow ,-s to her children not to allow herself to be treated as a guilty person, particularly when nothing in her conduct has ever justified the estrangement which has taken place between them. When I shall be no more, perhaps your eyes will be opened and you will comprehend that she who has founded her domina tion by embroiling you with the mother of your children, in accustoming them to avoid that mother, is not worthy of bringing them up. You have feared the influence of your wife, who has always loved you above all, and you are the puppet of all the caprices of that woman, who is void of principle and of delicacy. All I ask of you is, to remain what I should naturally be, your wife, your companion, the mother of our children ; she has excited you to Separate yourself from me, to give her my place near you, near my children, and in the house ; and you have yielded it to her. I asked you only to accord her the consideration due in every house to a governess; you did not consider that sufficient. She had incited you to ill-treat me, to drive me from your house, to break everything in my apartment, to deprive me of my chil dren, to take from me all authority over them and in the house, and you have yielded to her in everything ; with a look, with a sign she makes you act and obey her. You are afraid that in seeing my children I should influence them against her, that 1 should un mask her, and the idea has never occurred to you that it was much more distressing for the children to he continually with a person who speaks ill to them of their mother; who incites them t., doubt her affec tion., her intelligence, and her reputation. Oh when I had so much confidence in you, so much tenderness that I gave up all my rights to you, to rely on you for everything, even for the tenderness of my chil dren, I was far from imagining you to be so weak, so . readily blinded. This weakness, which causes my misfortunes, forms your excuse in my eyes; but for this incredible blindness you could not have seen so cruel towards me. Ad'eu, Theobald ; it a feeling of false shame prevents you from ever repairing the wrongs you have inflicted on me, God is my witness that I leave with a broken heart, but in offering up prayers for your happiness. I know that, whatever may be one day your feelings towards me, your ideas of dignity will never permit you to be well with me; it is therefore only for the interest of my children that I beseech you to open your eyes; they are in bad hands. Farewell, farewell. Have pity on my poor children, who are so badly trained !" (comprising an order of) the Board of Trade, that the prohibition with respect to the importation of paper printed on in t►e Enllish language, was not intended to Dave the effect of preventing the importation of articles which must be con,.idered as legitimate objects of trade, but simply to preclude any evasion of the prohibition with respect to books, .• Kish might otherwise be accom plished by importing them in detached sheets of printed paper ; and although in the importation under notic; there were several hundred copies of each sample or pattern, they were strictly fragments of works, containing each a single page, and in no instance hoeing a continua.ion of the subject,- but a repetition of the same words, and for these several reasons these pat terns of printing have been directed to be delivered free of duty. FIRE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. —Yesterday, about half past eleven in the morning,- a very alarming fire broke out in Q.O en's-gardens, Knightsbridge, near Sloane street. The police were soon on the spot, and, before the flames had extended themselves to any great extent, - - - - messengers were sent in various directions for the en gines. The greatest fears were entertained for the safety of the neighbourhood, from Cuthbert's mahogany factory and a large tallow melter's being situated near ; but, very fortunately, the engines of the brigade of the West-end and Chantios-street stations, as also those of the parish, were in such quick attendance, that by th, timely exertions of the firetnen only one house, that in wl.ien the fire originated, was destroyed, though the two adjoining ones Pie stip,htly damaged. The cause of the fire. and whethet the r aqy was insured or not, could not be useertiinf4l _ _ _ ---, - WHITBY, SEPT. I.—The price of flour fell this day Id. per st n, , with , he prospe 't of a runner speedy &- idol , . Thirty-six ears ago a fine new brig, in ballast., ealied the Lord Nelson, was driven on shore to the t i,,th ot the per, in a gale of wiurl. An attempt was made to float h, r off, which failed, and exertiems were then usia t „ s „- e t h, ,% hole of the wreck above the 'ands. Shortl) after the kelson with about seven feet ‘f flooring on each side, disappeared under the sand, and on Saturday last the ribs became once more visible. Sever& unemployed inert of the town commenced orratimas to recover the wreckage. and this evening by means of di,zgirig, much _and the employment of empty casks, the poor rvice. have been rewarded with success. Tte brig, en drivel' out sh.ire, was the property of and commended by Master Wilson, an o ld f r i en d an d ship ne of C CURRENCE AT H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ye between the hours of four t ser tl :i t a o gallant hero of Trafalgar. FATAL tthe ait , mon, and five o'clock, a horrible accident occurred at her Majesty's Theatre, the Italian Opera, Haymarket, and which it is to be regretted was attended with fatal Con , sigut. , nces to a workm an emp l oy e d on t h e b u ildi rg, namt , d John Chapman, aged 47, under the circumstances sub j„i ne ,l 4s - i iseems that at the period alluded to, in consequence 4 close of the theatre, a number of workmen we ee l _en?ployed on the stage in removing the scenery, stage property, &c., and the deceased was perched upon the to t of the stage, and by some acci• tital cl-cuoi.tattee slipped on one side, thus losi , tg his equilliteium, he fell from a height upwards of 37 feet, flat on to the stage. The poor fellow was picked up in a trigh fully mutilated condition, the blood streaming from his head, and was conveyed immediately to the Charing-cross Hospital, when Mr. G. M. Young, the resident medical offi!.:er, was in prompt attendance ; but upon the examination of the wounded man it was ascer tained ile‘t he had fractured his skull extensively, re ceived a compound comminatt•d fracture of the left clavicle, fx•-ken his left lee, and several ribs, with a fearful contusion on the forehead, besides other eaten• sive injuries, so as in-fact to defy the most competent human skill. Everything that could be thought of was done ; but notwithstanding all efforts, he di, d at half past six o'clock, about two and a half hours after his ANOTHER LETTER FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF THIS DUKE DE PRASLIN, AT PRASLIN. " Paris, June 15, 1847. " My dear Theobald,—l have waited until this moment for the result of the promises that you re newed to me, on my return from Italy, to change the organization of our home. You appear to have for gotten them, and I find myself obliged to tell you that I do not think I ought to return to Praslin Without it be to re-enter on the exercise of my rights and to fulfil my duties of mother and of mistress of the household in their fullest extent. The system of governesses has always succeeded badly with us, and it is time, for the welfare of our children and th e dig nity of our home, to abandon it. So long as my daughters shall not be married, I will reside every where among them, I will be present at all their tic cup itions. I wilt accompany them everywhere. All my plans are formed, and when you shall have re. fleeted you will certainly find as many motives for confideece in the educatiou of our daughters under the care of a mother as under that of a governess. Masters will supply as easily at Praslin as at Paris the lessons of a governess, who has always stood in need of their assistance. I have foreseen every thing, and all will he - easily arranged. My father, I know, has offered to Mdlle. D.,-- an honourable pension for life. In going with it to England, her talents and her patrons will procure her a more becoming position more easily than at Paris. You would be wrong to be disquieted with the grief that our daughters would feel ; it would be much shorter and much less profound than you imagine ; I have certain reasons for not doubting that. For a long tine back you have expressed yourself with respect to the conduct of Mdlle. D— in a manner to leave no doubt that you have opened your eyes, to a great part at least, of its grave im lsaundda,en propriety. What would secure her retiremement in an honourable manner would be a pension from my p a f o t r e t r e rh having n father, guaranteed by me, and her journey to Eng . - wdhepicahrtorwo,:ulcul By delicacy away favourably first sought a sup porter pa lof u; n a y st f a a t the le r ngt to h ay ou w e ait f e a d m s i fu l o y brm in .ttho ord re e s r ol t t o i o o p; o y o fo u r r 3 e ,e y a e r s s ! to children. the leg i t i mat e When desire yo u speak to you in the name of the veritable interests of our i my . natural supporter, fail me, I must let myself be guided by my father. I do not doubt that when the first ennui shall have pa sse d away you will rejoice at a crisis which will re- es t a bli s h natural order in our home. If it enters into your arrangements that Mdlle. D— shall return to Praslin to seek her things, I will wait until she shall return before going there ; if they must simply be sent to her at Paris, I will start as soon as you please for Praslin. After all the rumours which have been current, I have shown her sufficient kindness to restore her character, as you pointed out to me, in so far as it depended on me, in order to snake her to leave with honour. I have fulfilled my task; the welfare of my children, that of their establishment, will not permit me to prolong by resignation a state of things pernicious to all. Let not the fear of re crimination on these painful matters torment you. It enters into my views as much as it does into yours not to return to them. My silence on previous cir curnstancesalmost the same is a sure guarantee o f this to you. The first condition of fami l y life is peace and a good understanding. That is my object, and it will be easily obtained when no attempts shall any longer be made to separate children from their mother, and to r e i gn by division. It is not without serious reflection, nor without the assurance that I follow the opinion of my father, that I have deter mined to adopt such a serious resolution. It would have obtained, I am sure, the approval of my uncle De Coigny, who is to me the representative of my mother, if I h a d no t avo id e d till now to speak to him of theses ad details. My wishes are that everything admission. %VOOLWICH DOCKYARD, SEPT. 3.—Commodore Sir Gori'on Bremer, K.O B. and K.C.H., superintendent of her Ma;eety's Dockyard here, returned on Wednesday afternoon from leave of absence, and in the evening, when the men of the dockyard battalion assembled for drill, and after .goi - g. through several of their evolu tions, they were formed into square, and addressed by the Gallant Cotemodure to the foll,%wing effect:—" I am exert mely sorry to learn that during my temporary ab sence seine of the In% n should have misconducted them selves as thy have done, and I have only to look to the conduct pursued within the dockyard, and have nothing to do with Oaten when they leave; but I trust their good sense as meni*viLlainduce them in future, when they are dismissed for the day, to go quietly home to their temilies." Duyijegieeehe time the commodore addressed tie men several expressions of " Hear, hear," were used, and at the conclusion he was most cordially cheered. The Commodore shortly after assembled the other workmen of the yard not belonging to the bat talion, and addressed them in a very feeling manner on the necessity of being careful of their conduct, if they were desirous of remaining in the employment of her Majesty as dockyard artisaive or in any other capacity. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND BIR MINOHAM RAfLWAY.---GLOCCESTER, FRIDAY--A fatal accidertmeaurred this Mori.'" on this -line of railway, at ale embatekenent in the parish of Churchdown, or Chasen, k> en Cheltenham and Gloucester. The de ceas..ed, a labourer named Barnes, was at work as usual, and, en the approach of the 8-15 A.M. train from Bris tol, was cautioned by some of his fellow-workmen, one of whom called to, him, " Hallo, do you see the train coining ?" Instead, however, of get dng off the line altogether, as'fie should have done (his duty being to re move the iron "chairs" on the " batter" by the side of the rails) he got on the down train line. At this mo ment, the Birmi, , gham 8 AM. down-train was coming up. end the buffer of the engine struck the deceased, in_ quest. flicting such mortal injuries that resulted in the poor t;:l e li r s o d n e e a r t ,s h shortly ini afterwards. lie was taken to the Infirmary in this eby, and, on surgical examination, it was hound that the right leg was nearly severed from the body, hear the knee; the left leg was also much crushed, Tuesday and the abdominal parts were also greatly presied and injured. The boily now lies at the infirmary, awaiting FIRE IN BRISTOL.—An alarming fire broke out on night on the premises'of Mr. Richards, the Three Sugar L oaves, Christmas - steps , w h i ch threatened to he prod uct i ve of very serious consequences. The alarm was first gi ven a b o ut half past ten , and the en gines of the pelice cud various fire offices were speedily on the spot; but the 'building consisting principally of old and dry niaterials, it was found impossible to get the flames under until near three o'clock, A.M., when the interior of th e h ouse was a lmost destroyed. The house and shop of Mr.. Merry, baker, which is contiguous, had a very narrow escape from destruction ; the flames caught a porti on o f t h e roo f; and a large quantity of flour lying in a lett was also destroyed. By the strenuous tl ithickly t exertions Of t h e fi remen , & c., the flames were prevented extending further, and the fears at first entertained for themtick fthe fire propertyori originated. iidend. that w hie understand popu latedsnd iNghbourhooti were fortunately not realised. It is "otfliy of known the that Mr. Richards is insured.—...ariefrl Gaze*. LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT`EII4tEit 4 1847 BAN 4ETI N S. ‘ From the London, Gazette of Tuesday.) In Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, ."ap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, a the several Banks of Issue in England and \Vales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur. day, the 21st day of Aug., 1847: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. :Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—ltaapp and Co 24,528 kndaver Bank, Andover—Heath and Cc..._. 17,838 ‘shford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,978 ylshatn bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,320 kylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and llunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade tr..k, Nogg, and Lindsell... 26,223 darn itapie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co 13,692 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and C.v. .1,..,1f0rd Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Ledford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford — Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. teudley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and I;cane 'ic2stet and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank. Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co. iientitigham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 24,651 lirtnirgham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming !tain—Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 16,286 3tand turd Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak loston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 75,830 ,Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 10,274 tridg .v .ter Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 8,001 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Hayford, and Co. 36;220 1 3roseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,621 3,lokinl , ,ham Bank, Buckingham —Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. .3nry and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. :la. t ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 32,445 ianbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... 45.959 3nti. City Bank, Bath—Molter and Son iedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 34,637 li.r.oingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds .. tiradtord Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshira-11 and A. Harris ,:reeon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 69,091 Irldpnrt Bank, Bridport —S. and W. E. Gundry 22.360 ',righton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West. and Horror 6,5(11 6,847 ATerllg C. AT:WM!. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 43.800 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,682 ?eterborouo Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—M.t-rs. Yorke Peterborough BAnk, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pewbrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—e. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank. Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—jtickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—alimonus and Co 35,497 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co._ 31,624 Richmond Bank, Bich raoml—Stapleton and C 0... 5.135 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,550 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,665 Rugby Bank, Ituzby-13utlin and Son 12,772 Rye Bank, Rye —Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 17,305 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross Old Bank, H.Tefordshire, Ross—Pritchard ant Allaw ay Saffron Walden and Nortl, Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury —Burton, Lloyd, and Co.. Scarborough Old Bank, '3carborough—Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan,s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eyt6ns, and Co . . Sittingbourne an,l :Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddir.on and Son Sonthwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alhan's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2.104 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,80' Shaftesbury Bunk, fthafiesbury Brodie and 8,371 10,056 4,216 12,E30 4,487 23 680 6,789 34,259 9,846 King Southampton and flitnpshire Rink, Southamp ton—Atherly an 1 Fall :';tone Bank, Stour--W. Moore • - ;tourbridge Barg:, St. ,urhridte Ruff. , rd, Wran~ and 'Stafford Old Bank, t . ; , ifford—Stvsenson and Co 13.660 Stamford and Rial•on; Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley. and Co . Stourbridge Old Li Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward. and Co. St. Alban's and Hart. , Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 2.250 Taunton Bank. Taunton—Me:srs. Badeock 25,290 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 13,84 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and 5,•65 6:718 18,394 Par,b Tiverton and Devf al.hire Bank, Tiverton— 1 )uns- ford •und 'lame Thrapston and Kett. ring atnk, Northampti in shire, Thrapston--Yorke and Eland '['ring Bank and Chesharn Bank. Tring--But cher and Son TowcPster Old Bank, Towcester—.l. and S 10,069 9,406 Percival anion Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co 8,448 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,960 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,451 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. 24,037 Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weytuonth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth--Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesw , ,rth —Arkwright and Co. Wisbech arid Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. • • 47,171 Wiveliscorn;a3 Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester —Farley, Lavender, and Co. 11,160 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester —Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 75,731 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster —Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and 20,670 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— NleAsrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbe . tk. and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk. and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth--Sir E. K. Lio', Bart., and Co 10,420 Yoovil 01-1 Rank, Yeovil— E. and J. Batten York Bamic. York —SW2,IIII. Clourh. and Co 42,197 14.987 6,155 9,572 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. lank ,if Wnstmoreland. Kendal ... Barnsley B inking Company, Barnsley Bradford ilinking Company, Bradford 46,338 Bihton District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of W riit,ehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- 1 ford .... .... ........ Burton. U tt, oceter, and Staffordst ire Union Banking C. ,npany, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company. Chesterfield Cumberland llnion Walking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Chdtenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Li nion Banking Company, Coventry 12.262 Count) of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,919 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 40,131 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,361 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 145,804 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,156 Hull Banking Company, Hull . 24,056 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 37,501 Helston Banking Company , Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,230 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbrid , re Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,314 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 50,408 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,020 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Bunking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenhury Bank, Ludlow 10,940 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham .. .. N o tti ng ham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company. Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 70,074 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilt- Banking Company, Melksham 51.558 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,19' Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- .... 28,754 23.15 56,84 ampton . , • _ North and S,,tii.h Wales Bank, Liverpool — • Pares's Leic•isti rshire Banking Company, Lei cester • Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,914 Sheffield Bank w 2; Company, Sheffield 35,358 Stamford, Spa!ding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Starmord Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking***************** : '''''''''' ''''' '' '' '' ******** 29445,419956 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking. Corn pang, Stourbridge ................ .. • ............ 36.317 Sheffield and 11-01..mshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... .... .................................. 22,076 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, SI-,113,vd .... .........kin ....... Company-, ........... 51,310 Swaledale and Wensleydale Bang Richmond... .... .................................. 36,525 Storey . and Thoruas's Banking Company, .............. 9 , 120 Shaftesbury ....... ..................... Sheffield and Bede& Bank, Sheffield .• Wolverhampton a. I. I Staffordshire Banking Com- 36.407 pans, Wolverhampcon Wakefield and Bitroiley Union Bank, Wakefield 13 469 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, 26 727 Whit e haven . •.• .. Warwick and L.N.ion.gton Banking Company, 34,917 Leamington .... . . West of Englat... l and South Wales District B l ink. Bristol •• • ... . ..... Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 65,979 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whit c hurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester. . • , York Union Banking Company , York 68.745 York City and County Banking Company, York 82,143 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds' P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Ref irks. *War sad Tex% Alva zs, ise. ... 29.449 '4irlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmund Bank, Bury St. Edmund.;— Worliedge and Co. irmnsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 16,648 anibridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and 12.72 S 3,217 18,816 Sons =bridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters 'anterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and (30 'arinarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons hertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste 'olchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. •olchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Radleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co :ornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co 7oventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock 46,108 19 . 075 9,527 'llty Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 20,705 ,raven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. liristchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co lardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co . Ihepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. )erby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans I)erby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,383 )pvizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 16,660 i)iss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 9,634 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew end Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster - Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, &Co 76,150 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. 14.:ast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. l , :ast Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Cheimsford-Walford, and Co. 44,167 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 28,313 Pakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Parringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 8,34: Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 11,780 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. 5,393 ;orialmtng Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen ;rantham Bunk, Grantham-Kewney and King 15.891 (;ttildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon... 12 165 lirantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0.... 24,392 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hihier, and Co. 27,16 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware- S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull --Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich -Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton -Flood and Co. Elertfor dshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. 34,615 loroforcl Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, tool Co 23 000 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. p, wich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, lladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley :lank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alextr Alers an.l Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton-J. Davies and Co 5,480 Knaresnorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna.-esborough-Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Cc, 39,692 Kettering Bank, Kettering-aut.:l and Sons 7,637 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C y and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds-Beckett and Co 52,914 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W.Williams, Brown, and C.). Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Co.tgleton Bank,Leek-Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 391 I..a.tester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby 22 648 Lewo:- Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co.._ 33,6 3 7 1,;,;11Feld Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green 16.726 Ltneoini Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co 87,093 1;7.n lovery Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very -David Jones and CO. oughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St. 2.700 7,020 16.784 13.761 45,357 5,217 Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 38,647 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co 10,742 \lanningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 7,023 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny —Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth 13,393 9,803 6,713 17,800 25,258 15.262 —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Suns. Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury. Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. 'Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Dies—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and if wlsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and New Serum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co . .................. Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. Jswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westrv—Croxon and Co .......... .............. 'Oxford 'Bank, Oxford—J. and R • M0rre11...... Oxford 'Jld Bank, Oxford—Robins on, Parson s , 29,145 and Thompson:.. .. . ..... . ..................... .... Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, 'Tonbridge and Ton . bridge Walls and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beechinz and Sons... .................. Oxfordshire Witney Beak Witney—N l 11,164 snd 8.611 21,565 41.916 29,450 20,545 2,941 41.217 60,606 9,872 4,115 23,498 13,860 26,711 13,142 12,561 7,708 KA IL tt A'V SIIA li 1.., 31 Ait Kel"). BRISTOL. SarrKstni• a 3. STOCK E X CHANGE.- The sates are-Bristol and Exeter, 744- Great Western, New, 2/. 1 Is. 3d. p.-I.ancssbiro and Yorkshire, Thirds, R , .g., I ~ ,i dis.-Miillnd, New, I‘ll 7 ' -Newcastle and Berwick, New. 334 p. ---ig Vale, Sew, pit , LI V ERN )4 )1„ SEPTEMBER 3 STocK EXCHANGE. -T ,, e market has been firm to•dsti anti the ranev mar k e t improves, of which there are Pun o indications. We in v I ok for an improving husineas, The salts are-Birkenlmitt. Lancashire, anti Cheshire Junatioim (late C. and 8., 531. Shares), 3934 -Eastern Comiti dis.-Liv es, 18 4 , -East Lancashire, New Q ua tern, R., erpee Crosby, and Southport, R., % p.-London and No_r h : Western, 165. 1 - Ditto, N...,w, Quarters, 9 p.- London , agg„;.,.. ton, and South Coast, 4S'' -Midland Stock, 1191/9,--u"5: New Ilalves, `2,‘,' 3 p.- cirt.ti Staffordshire , bury anti Chester, ,New, par-Ditto, 10/. Preference (gtlr•g, per cent.), 2%, p.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, G• .N• 4 purchased (guar. 6 per cent.), 3 1 / 4 p.-Ditto, Newcastle an Berwick, New, S., 3tA p. LEEDS. SEPTEMBER 3. • sev 1 v STOCK EXCHANGE.-Tile sales are-East Lancashire, _ 413. 6d. dis.-Ditto, New Scrip, Bs. dis.-Great Northety,. 21/4 p...-.;,hrew 6 3V dis.-Ditto, Extensions, 20s. dis.-Ipswich and Burysb_r, Edmunds (Cambrith2,e )Lancashire _IT Yorkshire (West Rieiing Union ) ), 10s. dis.-Leeds and Lr_': bury, Iy, p.-Ditto, Halves, 12s. 6d. p.-Ditto, Extensl7, scrip (green), 255. dis.-DitExtensions, scrip (11, 1 1 ,‘, 17s. 6d. dis -Leeds alai 'IL irsk, New, 834 dis. - " Dit"N ss, 6f l . f er e nc e, 16s. dis.-Leeds. Wakefield, and Midland, 1 o h dis.-Leic”ster and Bedford, 3s. dis.- Manchester,She.;c k, and Lincolnshire, Preference , 7s. p . -New castle and Ber; o l rt t i New. 3/. 68.6(1. p.-North British, Thirds, 245. 6d. p• Staffordshire, 2i. Bs. IL-North-Western, 23/4 dis. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3. . 1 004 STOCK ExcitaxoF..-The sales are-Eastern Cantle dis.,, East Lancashire, New (5 per cent. till 1850) , l A . ::_ s _oudi Fleetwood, Preston, and \Vest Riding, 2 7 1 6 4 - 1 . i ''.,. r." Lancashire and Yorkshire. Fifths, derstield and Manchester Railway and Canal, A..,.',_, id ing Union, 20/.), J.A 2 dis.-Manchester, Sheffield and 1 ,, " A v r t. SOO . it'' '. shire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 3 3 / 4 dis.- -- . 0-11 Gooje, 12, shire, 2% p.-South 3 1 4 c. p.-Ditto( 0,,e,'0,10. Yorkshire, Doncaster, and 3.16. dis.-York and Newcastle, Extension, (No. 2 ) , 5 , .„ HULL, SEPTEMBER 3. ,_..f, (1/01. - STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Great Nortif...-,eo. don and York Extension). 1% -Ipswich and B'r).:11(j bridge and and Ely), 17;4. 9d. p.-Leeds, Wakefieh2,±er. 301 a land, 18s. 6d. dis.-Newcastle and Berwick, 1N w' p.-North British, Quarters, 18s. P. SHEFFI ELD, Stn 3.. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -East ~,ine,...imsby Ana R. -Marlow-ter, Sh, add, and Lincolnshire ( . u e ,', and Lin- Sheffield). 20/. Shires, 314 dis.--Di,to (SbeTini......,yoo, co o) Preierenee, 6s. p.-N'ortli staffordture, )3krp. Newcastle and Bern ick (G. N. E. l'ar chase) ' 1 r olnsbire, -I'S aledunian and Dumbario" .s,Tocr, E.xutialloi , ;.-The sales are --- C'''',! Du ndee on GLA-,lit) q, SErvolissur2a pnio , New. 2 8 1 Perth, Quarters, 645. 6.1.-East l'itilan't 1,840 w, 'en Lehi', and Granton, Quarters, 103. 6(.1.---i acrd Carlis, z!'" nock, anti Ayr, 1[191.-Glasgow. Ouinfrie3, and Canjt s 'j. miock, intl Avr, t)9l._GlasgOW. Ownfnt 9,_NortU Orr 35.--11Anchester and Southampton, 1 83. 9 / __york , N egi t . tish, "fhirds, 42.:•. 91.-Scottish Centr.d. 27 - d Fa rchs , ' :ire, castle, and Berwick (Great North o f Engla n 115.-Edinburghl W. 11i. _ An Account, purst ( !n ro BANK OF ENGLANP. inot nighttAct7 the Week ending on Saturday, the 24 th day of .A•"'" ISSVB DIPARTMENT. So• 015r iv ' •C• Notes issued.... •• . • ' a a nd Gl t z b e o tt i e: s?l ctor l.. --'s, tri P s irfcr other securitieS !lion•• •• 7,606:3,57 Gold coin a nd 059,. : 22,565,900 Governalent debt •• Silver ' •• A 56 1,9° ' .C 22.* e y• £22.565 90U I CO ° Oated the 2d day of September, 007. M. tAIiSIIALL• Chie SAN Kl.tiO pgFASTHEST• 'lest •• • .... ...... . 3,684.2 03 eurut:ilir:di:sp:::l:ta(il: I 1,L,000 t;overninent 11 l'''',l ties (including v , .. , 1.3 • Weight Annuity) ►6, el eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of Notes •"••• • • • • ,_... •• • • b 73,7 National Debt, Say• thild and silver join •• and Di vidend Other securities •• • • 1 4 .33 0 40 accounts) • • 7,193.740 se_cueri: . . 40 Other deposits ••• • •• 7,103.7'•t Seven day and other bills. ..... .... •• • • 74:1,710 £33,316,35 MAICSIIALL, Cble( Citx.-••• 1847. -------------- fe ci t h e wield L e o ANOTHER HORSE TRICK.—About a far- the day of Tuesday last an old gentieruull,_Aki fru; named Mark Major, from Foxhall, about fiV e T o o Stw r Ipswich, was superintending the s t ile of iii 9., o f rid!,, B e sheep in the Ipswich Fair-field, when a °',, a `"a the Pr n - 0 respectable exterior went up to him and es oe _ 0 ,00 11. 0 of his lambs. After some little conversetiooniona the such occasions, a certain number were picke t ; na reba se ; price agreed on ; " but," said the suppose r,t as " rill i tut going to look round the field; I 'l a e s lai lig ; for them now, I will see you again presellol, ~ yes: , i " Don't you see that mare stand/tie yoner?' ho perr r de," replied Mr Major. "Wt II," said th e a t he ou rfia t have been trying to purchase the animal, hot _ r i c e, bit_ and I can't agree; I must buy the mare at a:liori. ti p as e e us the man and I have been quarrelling, i t , .03 spun h , my attempting to purchase the mart', as . . r e .. ou w ill won't sell her so me at any price. Now,' 3 1 . i. teouh ie % and buy the mare I will give you 2/. for fi ha Went to Mr. Majer said he had no objection; auk (' mare , i t% make the purchase. He examined w e „,,,, for that agreed to give 30/. for her, tendering a ch e w' la p ow amount; but the owner remarked that he own iti oe , sovereigns, as he was going to leave the town to e diately. and that cheques were " awkward things the „to A cashed." Mr. Msjor accompanied the gentles/A' a tow Blue Bank, at which place the gold was proell re 4 .lo handed to the seller of the mare. who said he e ia n - ff h e very great hurry, and, bidding Mr. Major adic ° ; c i eot i f scampered Mr. Mjer returned to the Fair h el ; or , ' as our readers m y imagine, the person WhO "roe gained ter the lambs awl comasiseoned him to P il e otor the mare wa non eat inventus. The mare ur, al 100: oat on turned out to he hu'''h ebeut 3/. or 4 f tb; , ll•ite steps were talicrt for the apps. hen la t i e est( o -wind', rs, one of wl.oin teas apprehende d " Ii „teterfrlP last, at the Cock Inn, ie this town, but WaS .• dischurged.—lpetvich Express. aft er' FIRE IN RATCLIFFE-lIIGHWAY . 4 ASV i,.. 6 1 ..tt. were, shortly ate--r five o'clecit, a fire .ibroeserecttiirt, ini;lit ,xtenuive manufactory belonging to it ' . un til th e 1 George'sestreet, :"hadwel!, the street whichhfe.highw;e; twelve months has been known at NW,. re hee o ,' The premises destroyed are these which %,"ii afsetorPo the last half c • A Iter's reran roo c o e f l 4 e J b u r r a lll te a d ri a t s ial bt e enit i nu i y e t e lkie : l: s telbi caps. The property on tile prenit,es, a " v ieeu ti t ig heel' totally deit , oi-d, was es itnated a l "t-4 }the b - ro and 3,000/. 'File cot-fl t . was C4"' ° gration Aea e the i 'Mien ot gas in the teeter and So OP „ i ninat e a rri• guess of the flare s, that in less than le" 0 0 the _ . 0,, hal env. to 41 the who:.. of the pretnise24. , et to w' t he eetely •„a ~ vel of the etige es they were totto"G-- ~ie s tto - , ,i& Frill , lllloiigi they prevented the centUl“. osijule..eoiit• re.aelsnr°6ls.lle-pw4prilel(dtilersl3o'iltefahrro-g.hheliecth.°ooo.olt: fire to the atijact of !must., it wa , leul di iciP ii , et th e orlt• ally of Mr. htii..rt's property. At the Li s :ere a t t o or break of the tiie upwards 111 fifty' pir."`" ll ,, . t' ; t tl os all of whom .ortunateiy made their f , c'' h r , e d: had i o ee , Mr. Stuart 'e, however, mu , t have perish` f the esr foam been rescued by the intrepidity of one,°,4 i„tot he f r eo who, at the eat: ifice ot his own bite rtis7_ it oval lose where the uncon,ctous child lay, aed 14i e r ' s grea t s oo s its perilous pesition. Mr. Stuert will h er s ta'ie e by the fire, although the property t Job ° insured. Med et n 0 9 , 0001 )1 ; AWFUL DEATII.--A. poor .--- 'n,ea i „, oe Mos•oil, 32 years of age, (Heti in the '4de/A ii ii , on Thursday tact, in consequence of all 6 d u eco sed .^ an d with so long &telt as the 16. h ult. T he ,. ,his tOe /a ",ter 'll servant in the employ of Mr. Turner ot .. L' hi,, or,our. en the day above named he went Wolle " ti l e et tila ted waggon to assist in the delivery of s i t . o „. a hill ° , 1 . , Bei' bridge. On their return, e bile descentelled a je ,r, ' t iller between that town and Hales Owen, dread o f - ' 0 tb o loway," the deceased was holding th e ea 00.01 whet) horse of another teats' belonging to • the till' t he d th l e ive h r o f r o s u e n( f i e sll , lme br ditlith g einugitY the untor' u hies he i dopP ea ground, and the f. re wixel passe.d o v e r inst otlY o 0 0 0 situation was observed. The driver wheel rem ite ei to in descend_intiagte reolfotroe. hi, the wheels, but he found the hind callede oa t to f o e shoulders of the decersed, h° e t he 7 P o se ibie 0 back rout' . ta li drive on, and as it was impoe :, Every exe 00 0 the hind wheel passed over hila.the Queen'ii f his r ec r made to get him spfedilY l u o wed 0 hi e 1 0 e nter took P and for some days hopes rtificatiun emorrhaf:l very; but on the 26th cit., It'" _reducing IL,,tit .... the arm, and an arterY burs: dpeatb. Anbreabove Psid which cawed almost itotuediati st. w hen l _ 0 ad doce I held on the body on M"`liattYr,:,,t vend' ell, 7f4couideritO -f the tog. _barn el s d w re ar aa Was we re, ticulars transpired in the u. miry 0 rtisee. and at the close e __ fl i r ouny , IA foug 1 death was returned. ii due t with he military be' ho e , On Monday a fat a ' two Pil s e n[pu il ft was carried toey; near Enghien, bcovcc.i. the w f l,. re h e eepir er a of Saint Cyr. 0" e ' at Eughieu, w h e re They 14 d e , house of the physiciann . 0 ; brought ln. ii,. The „ few minutes after v6 two other puP , hi , h e attended to the wound by ot a Colonel, SUU . ceased is said to cc the S t -- , ani, . 00 c iavyn 4 0030100000 sary is only 20 }ears old. Exit ', ol .i' llis 0 00 0 10 r ADVERTISEMENT.] --":1'111.;,,,ndi i g cure by txtract 0040, AND HOLLOWAY'S I'ILLS.-An sltlrad medicine, after every other aleale3v PrintSl3oT Holloway - sir : I beg to aCqu il er and 'l el° hoot, "-lite hot dship's letter, dated .. Ville .les!liaaiani.etti.cogagheathri (hoelaii:Platill0130151; effected a cure of a disorder in ate lor over t he coot isiod of 0 0 eminent of the factilty, at home and all _ tea , of Curia Pi lls ye been able to effect ; nay. not ever the v"'' woudeo 1000/00 rieuroad. %Signed) - ALDBOROUGH." These•;old ("310 .01316' cure arty disease of the liver or stoinach.--,-c, 2 44, a ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishirs Ir.worid. by all medicine venders throughout the civil aj Dated the 2d day of Septeliber, —____ ------------ Of .. .8.1 ftrit2l. ,—betloll' On the 30th ult., at Croy-don, Surrey, M r s . Du' of daughter. _,etjoth On the 30th ult., at Balharn-hill, Mrs. Paul l" ~ a daughter. ~.„001 gr. On the 24th ult., at South -hill-grove, Liveir- ' 14 , Claxton, of a eon. ~,-,001, r.. On the tat inst., at A.bererornbie-square, Liven Johnston, of a eon. m r 0. G°v-. On the 2J ins`., at Camden -road-villas , •- -s. of enough Smith, of a dmgliter. a are On the 2d in-t., the lady of Robert Clay, Ee , ' 6 the Wanusworth-roan, of a daughter. 1 4ef' ,11211.' MED. This morning, at St. Martins-in -the Fields, cylleeof 4 ° Arthur Wilkin, M.A , William Yardley-, Esq.. Jillugghtor Supreme Ctairt at ttomb,y. to Amelia, third " bi John Wilkin, Esq., of Spring- g irdens. fl' _ 43. s sciariv to On the 2 d in st , at Abney Chanel: coke the Rev. John Jef ferson, George Wilson St rxeusoilf Matilda, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Hooper. DIED. W 1 fe O f On the 31st ult., .1. Augustine Sophia, the Arnold. Esq. , o f Sackville•street. T. ‘ 11‘11"' On the Ist inst., at Dome House, Bognor, t he Re Woodhouse , aged 48. --;;To of 1.1.. 4:0 61 Len , Jo : Printed And Publndied by AI UNDO Yov, t and, Printe at Ph , (ace. ;:. Inseitom of the savoy, In the Cowl: of Itftddietex, Sstards/' 3,315 3,45 9,749 comp .-Nnk Mak e coni u %en Poin itoon Atrib 4 Ugeit4 and of the . ton , T the tora n p BAteil EL: at T P oti for ~h ? a G `li ~' 4 ' q :~ 1 1 ;~