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• • w rt , lt A T I ONTDON-11Milotil."rHle. DAY. Mernin7.- 22 minutes after 11. 1 Evening 63 TAP/n(3 if'f" 11 4111157.1.1117"-mrSAILWAY sAAILES BY PUBLIC SALE. ...WE.,235. LA:4OND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends tie FIIOIIC for their continued support and patronage, and announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares. &c., ske pls-Ns every WEDNESDAY, at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday an t i lr ridan at hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle- Street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a references, are respectfully r :quested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advice; of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds !same (lively disposed of according to instructions. I I N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stock and shares fretted by private contract, every day, as usual. Cinces. fall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management et Mr. R. webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING - _ Will be perfbrmed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Si' Benjamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan; Joseph Surface, Mr. Creswick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless. Mr. H. Irandenhoff ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Moses, Mr. Webster ; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Harry, Mr. Caulfield ; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip, Mr. 13rindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Candour. Mrs. Glover ; Lady Sneer well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Messent. To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRUCCE: or, The Island. of Tranquil Delights. Ship Manager, Mr. Farrel 2; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25. ; Upper Ga ller y , ls. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. • PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagenirtint of Mr. MACRE A.DY and MISS CUSHMAN. THIS EVENING Will be - presented the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Iktr. Coor,er ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. After: which, a new Piece, called A ROMANCE OF THE RHINE. Characters by Messrs. James Vining, Palmer, Neville, Compton, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss Villars. To conclude with the Farce of LOVE, LAW, and PHYSIC. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mn.s F. Davidge, No.), Davidge•terrace,Kensiagton-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, October ,4 1847, the performances will t.ormnence with the celebrated Opera or THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. The music by Mr. Balfe, the libretto by Mr. Bunn. The whole of the scenery by Mr. Grieve. The properties by Mr. Blamire. The mechanism by Mr. B. Sloman. An enlarged chorus and increased orehertra, on a greater scale than any hitherto introduced on these boards, will be directed and conducted by Mr. J. H. Tully. Dramatis Personae—Coant Arnheim (Governor of Presburg), Mr. Domini ; Count Florestein (his nephew), Mr. Rafter ; Thaddeus (a us , L • iv Harrison; Devilshoof (leader of a gang of Er . . Constantine; i Gipsies), Mr. H. Horncasfie; First Officer. Mr. Sanger ; First Peasant, "Ai t Mr. r: Bohemian Girl), Mr. Summers; Servant, Mr. Richards; Arline (theeliohemirtin Girl), Miss Romer; Budda (her attendant), Mrs. W. H. Bayne : • Ulrica (Queen of the Gipsies), Miss Rebecca Isaacs. Nobles — Messrs. Tyler, Loveridge, Jones, Fraser, Massotd, &c. Ladles— Mesdames Turner. Gardiner, Rooke, Foster, Levite. &c. Pages : Misses Dosborough, eves, Seaman, Harris, &c. Hunters :—Messrs. J. Field, Richardson, Platt, Look, Godfrey, Thirlwall, Jonas, and Wyatt. Retainers : —Messrs. J. Sanger, Kitchener, Cooper, Mos sop, Gladstaines, Mawby, Boyce, Woolf, J hnson. Peasants : Lea Sceurs St. Louin, Misses Fenton, Maurice, Sophie, Clifford, .Mars, Beaatort, Ives, Desboreugh, I. Laws, Smiths n, Angeline, Rosa Tayler, &c. Gipsies :—Messrs. C. Constantine, Sum mers, Miller, Dobson, Foster, Weston, Roberts, Rowland, I. Price, rendygras, Jones, Henri, Galli, Lawler, Santry, Beale, Sharpe, Stirling, &c. Mesdames R. Hughes, Somerv,lle, Maynard, Anderson, Rabino. Deither, Mapleson, Tully, Connelly, Miller, Williamson, &c. Law Officers :—Messrs. Peters, Driffield, liobins, J. Boulanger, &c. Solditrs, Citizens, Attendants, Banner .ikearers, Heralds, Servants, &c. Mr. Grieve has prepared the following New Scenery : —Grounds and Chateau of Count Arnheim, Presburg by Moonlight, View in the Vicinity of Presburg, Publ,c Place in Presburg for the celebra tion of the Fair, in which takes place a Pas de Deux, by Les Seers St. Louis, and a Dance by the whole Corps de Ballet. Procession of the City Trades the Banner of the Butch is Company ; the Banner of the Goldsmiths' Company, the Banner of the Drapers' Company, the Banner of the A rmourers' Company, the Banner of the Bakers' Company, the Banner of the Wax-Chandlers' Company, the Banner of the Shoemakers' Company, the Banner of the Fish mongers' Company, the Banner of the Bookbinders' Company, &c. The Hall of Justice, Saloon in the Count's Chateau.—The Opera of The Bohemian Girl is published by W. S. Johnson, Nassau Steam Press, 60, St. Martin's-lane ; and may be had in the Theatre, and of all Booksellers, price Is. After which LA BAYADERE. To conclude with Mr. Bunn's Farce of MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somertun, Mr. F. Vining; Mr. Smith, Mr. Oxberry ; Mr. Brown, Mr. Attwood (his first appearance) ; rs. Somerton, Mrs. , Hughes (her first appearance these five years) ; Mrs. Smith, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. R. Hughes.—Stage Director, Mr. Ellis. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. 1 kiEA RE KOYr L, ADELPIII. tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented RORY O'MORE. story O'More, Mr. Hudson; De• Lacy, Mr. Worrell ; Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Selby, and Cullenford ; Miss _Marian Taylor, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. Laws. After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD (the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To conclude with the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr. Wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. Munyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan ; Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma Harding. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. A Love Story. After which THE DREAM SPECTRE ; or, th e L eges d o f th e Sleeper's Shrift. TO conclude ♦ith the comic Burletto, called THZ CAPUDIS NOT A-MISS. Boxes, is. ; Half-price, 6d .; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 342. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. First Week of the Winter Season. Mr. Batty has engaged Mdlle. Valentine, from Paris, who Will In troduce her beautiful aad highly-trained leaping horses. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CATARACT OF TUE GANGES. The Ballet of the TRANSFORMED LOVER. Entirc:f new Scencs In the Arena, supported by the talented Ar tistes of the k.stab.i4tment. in the various modes of eqsastration. Box-office open from 11 till b. Stags Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. iik WEATHEIt.—SUN OYFICE, OCT. 5. .:,-T:3IOIWETER, Lowest, 45; Highest. 56 ; Noon, 53. BAROMETER, 29.76.--WIND E.N.E. ; fine. ebiening io\D+►N, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1847. Every reasonable effort is being made by Senor SALAMANCA to extricate Spain from her financial and commercial involvements. Whether or not the course adventured upon by that intelligent statesman tallies with our own opinions as to what is most advisable, we are compelled to acknowledge that he evinces both integrity of purpose and the earnestness of prac tical patriotism. Not satisfied with the popularity acquired by his Administration in consequence of the generous amnesty granted immediately upon its esta blishment, and in consequence likewise of various other acts of clemency —among which the restoration of the illustrious Duke of VICTORY to wealth and influence was not the least commendable—the new Go vernment of Madrid, under the guidance of SALA MANCA, is striving to restore to that division of the Peninsula the prosperity so long denied to its inhabitants by commotion and maladministration. Naturally, Spain was capable of becoming one of the wealthiest kingdoms in Christendom. Its geogra phical position was, if possible, more inestimable and more calculated to pour riches into its coffers, than its vast and magnificent possession in the western hemisphere—or rather its geographical position ena bled it to turn those territorial acquisitions to the best advantage. To appreciate the excellence of its geographical situation, be it remembered that the coun try of the CID is placed immediately between the moat civilised and enterprising nations of Europe and the cc/a3G ur Africa ; that it has ports advantageously commanding the waters of the Mediterannean sea and the Atlantic ocean ; that its western shores form the most natural point towards which the current of American trade should run ; that, being at the very entrance of the Mediterranean, it has the capacity, with a properly organized maritime force, to become the medium through which the traffic of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, and America might ebb and flow—arousing the constitutional sluggishness of the Spanish popula tion into a health-givin g and wealth-giving activity. That is but a miserable and short-sighted policy which teaches one country that its own affluence is in any manner dependent upon the deteriorated manu factures or neglected agriculture, the abandoned enter prise or forgotten industry of adjacent principalities. The true principles of political economy demonstrate, in a beautiful and conclusive manner, that each country should (even from motives of self-interest) yearn for the extension of the commercial undertak ings of its neighbours. Free trade teaches us that the greater the prosperity of the different kingdoms of the earth the greater will be their reciprocal be nefit, and that the larger their exportations the larger will their importations necessarily become, and that the productions of Nature and the contrivances of human ingenuity must be thereby rendered the more plentiful. It is upon this enlarged and ennobling principle that we should, with all the earnestness of a national unanimity, strive to promote the efforts Of SALAMANCA and his colleagues for the re-adjustment of Spanish finance and the re-animation of Spanish commerce. This sympathy has induced our Ambas ssador at the Court of ISABELLA 11. to concede to the wishes of Senor SALAMANCA, and, although the Ministerial project is in a great measure discounte nanced in Downing-street, to unite his voice with that of the chief statesman of Madrid in recommend ing to the Government of Lord JOBN RUSSELL the scheme of a commercial treaty between Spain and Great Britain. ►SALAMANCA'S project in this particular has at least one excellence, namely, ale .4. 4,0 --- (..:‘, • . • ~• ~....r , ) > ...< i. • a 48, . s avr .uo•st , i• , , - *et ct, i 7. , ' - •••.' 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Such is the skeleton of the new commercial treaty as imagined and propounded by Senor SALAMANCA. As a legis lative movement it is admirable, for it is a movement in the right direction ; but it is far from being suffi ciently in advance, and would tend in no manner to ensure to Spain those commercial advantages which the Minister is manifestly solicitous to ensure to his fellow-countrymen. As a preventive against smug gling it will prove altogether ineffectual, for the cupidity of contraband traders will still be excited by the continued costliness and the abbreviated petti coats of the dark-eyed damsels of the Peninsula. English cottons have long become a positive essential to the toilets of Castile and Estramadura, and so long as the Catalan continues to minister to the wants of the Spanish ladies, so long will the national revenues be defrauded, and the intended benefits of the com pact between ,Spain and Great Britain escape from the possession of the former. So notorious, indeed, is the system of smuggling as conducted along the fron ' tiers of Spain, that it is estimated that the Government lost. ...Dually a portion of its revenues amounting to between 4,UUU,VOOZ. and 5,000,0001. sterling ; and it is, therefore, against the contraband traders that the Administration should first of all direct its inge nuity. What so instantaneous in the de s tru c ti on o f the ayatem of 3rnu At olo 6 establishment of Free Trade ? In comparison with that most rational measure of amelioration, the Pre y entive Force is as a wicker hurdle in comparison with a petard. The one is to the fraadulent system an in effectual and insecure obstruction, while the other is a plan which annihilates and scatters it to the winds of heaven. However much we may and do deprecate the commercial project of SALAMANCA as insufficient when contrasted with the exigencies of his position, we are still ready to award to him that commendation to which he is justly entitled ; we are still compelled to acknowledge that SALAMANCA bas avoided the retrogressive policy of his predecessors—that he has, in fact, advanced and advances in the right direction. The day for the execution of the unfortunate woman, MARY Anna HUNT, convicted at the August sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the murder of MARY STOWELL, has been appointed. If no fur ther interference should take place, unless her MA JESTY should exercise her prerogative in favour of the wretched criminal, on Monday next her grievous offence will be expiated by an ignominious death upon the scaffold. We do not, in any degree, at tempt to impugn the verdict returned by the jury, nor the punishment assigned to an offence so grievous as that of which she was undoubtedly guilty. Neither shall we at present enter into the evidence brought forward on the trial for the purpose of showing that at the time of the murder she was not in such a state of mind as to be legally responsible for her actions, nor to the explanation which she afterwards gave as to the causes which led to the unfortunate transaction, and the manner in which the unhappy victim was deprived of life, which cer tainly bore every appearance of truth. Many per sons, even of those who conscientiously believe that capital punishment is absolutely necessary, and that the wilful shedding of human blood can only be adequately atoned for by the public execution of the delinquent, still conceive that in consequence of the weakened state of her mind from the fits by which she was frequently affected, and which left her for half or three-quarters of an hour- after her recovery in a state of delirium, and also from the apparent ab sence of anything like premeditation, that she would be a fitting object for the royal clemency, and that the extreme sentence of the law might, in her case, be very properly commuted to perpetual banishment. There are other peculiar circumstances, howevs r, that would, in our opinion, render it most inexpedient and unwarrantable—indeed little better than a judicial murder—to permit the original sentence of death to be inflicted. In another part of our columns we publish a letter from an esteemed correspondent, on the absolute inefficiency, the utter futility of the present mode of testing the truth of a prisoner's assertion, or rather plea of pregnancy, in bar of immediate execution. In that letter the subject is most fully and ably treated. It is the just, the humane policy of the law, that the innocent are not to be punished for or with the guilty, that the hapless child whose rights are protected from the earliest moment of its existence, who may succeed to honours and property, who is defended from any violence (an attempt to procure abortion in any manner being punishable with trans portation for life), cannot legally be cut off, by the tit xecution of a justly merited judgment on its mother. The law declares that if the prisoner be pregnant with a living child —or, to use its own quaint phraseology, be quick with child—her execution must be postponed until the birth of that child, or until the lapse of time has sufficiently proved that she could not possibly have been in such a state. This question, which has been shown to be one of extreme difficulty, frequently baffling the closest investigation, of competent and skilful practitioners, who have particularly devoted themselves to feminine diseases, is left to the decision of a jury of twelve matrons, who are not even b oun d t o call in the assistance of a ' qualified medical man ; who do not understand the use of the stethoscope, or other instruments by which the accoucheurs can detect the presence of the child, even when the mother herself is ignorant of its exist ence ; who may possibly be imbued with prejudices, and ignorant of the real meaning of the words " quick with child." These persons return a hasty verdict, without having adopted any of the means necessary to insure its accuracy, and an innocent and helpless being way, ILI be sacrificed as a vic tim io cu w, by which it vshoultl nave uer,i protected. If the woman is at all pregnant, who can dare to say at what period the child was not a living creature ? It is the policy of the law that the benefit of any reasonable doubt should be given to those charged with the most atrocious crimes : why should it not also be extended to one incapable of crime ? The inadeq uac y, th e wort hl essness o f t h e mo d e of trial, i 3 proved beyond any manner of doubt by the number of instances in which juries of matrons have returned erroneous verdicts. Indeed, we believe their opinions were positively proved to nave been erroneous in the great majority of doubtful cases whi c h h ave of late years b een su b mitted to their judgment, and, strange to say, the error has never been on the side of mercy. In addition to the compa ratively recent and well- known cases of MARY WRIGHT and CATHERINE BYRNE, cited by our correspondent, we shall add that of a woman named BRIDGET BuT TERLYI who was convicted of murder at Dublin in the year 1823. She pleaded pregnancy; the jury of matrons were duly empanelled, and, as usual, it eedily returned a verdict that the convict was not quick with child. In her case, unfortunately, no medical man interposed between the law and its victim, the wretched woman was, in accordance with the then state of the law, executed within forty eight hours, and on dissection it was found that the matron' had been mistaken, and that she was between four and five months pregnant of a male child. We hope and trust that a similar legal murder may not be suffered to take place in the present case. On the trial of the miserable offender Mr. M'Mußpo, the surgeon of Newgate, a gentleman whose effi ciency and zealous attention to the duties of his station have merited the highest approbation, and whose opinion is entitled to the greatest respect, de clared on oath that he believed the woman to be enciente, and to have been in that condition for more than three months. We confess that such evidence ap pears to us of much greater weight than that of the matrons who flippantly, and without consulting a medical practitioner, returned a verdict that was to consign a human being to the scaffold. We are about to return our hearty thanks to the ALmiGnry for his great mercies manifested to us in the bountiful harvest he has been pleased to send. It would be a fitting period to show our sense of those mercies by extending mercy to our erring and suffering fellow-creatures. Prisons have frequently been thrown open, the sword of justice has been blunted at periods of national thanksgiving and national rejoicings, and as there are some mitigating circumstances in the present case, we would gladly see the example followed, and that mercy should at once be extended to MARY ANNE HUNT, so that she should not be exposed to the protracted agony of awaiting her punishment for many months, and finding that the deliverance, which is so anxiously looked forward to by other women, is only to be the signal for the shameful termination of her miserable existence. The Emperor of RUSSIA and the Imperial Family have fled from Petersburgh to Moscow, to avoid the cholera The EMPEROR has ordered a new levy of 80,000 conscripts, partly with a view to exterminate the lower order of the nobility of Poland, wha are compelled to furnish one man for every ten inha bitants, and partly to make up for the ravages which cholera has committed in the army. Letters from Berne of the 29th ult. state that an affray took place on the 18th instant in consequence of the outrageous conduct of the national militia of Friburg. These partizans of the Jesuits, who were returning in a large body from the capital of the canton, crossed the frontier and fired a volley of ball cartridge against the village t f Abligen, in Berne. This brutal and unprovoked act has created an im mense sensation throughout the country, and the Vorort had in consequence written to the authorities of Friburg that if a prompt satisfaction was not afforded, measures would be adopted to enforce it. Letters from Rome of the 25th ult. contradict the rt'Pnr* nrthA r..;Tnattnn of Cardinal FrutchrTt. Rome and the Legations continued tranquil. The follow ing is the latest intelligence from the duchies of Modena and Parma : " The occupation of Brescelle by Austria is not yet effected, but it appears to be only postponed. Every day the troops expect orders to march. The Austrian General Radetski is consulted by the autho rities every two days. The strictest watch is kept on Fanano, and two hundred men are preparing to march to the frontiers of Lucca. There are at this moment at Cologno, eight miles from Placentia, on the left bank of the Po, a great number of troops." Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. ESPARTERO has refused the offer of the post of Spanish Minister in London. The Government having called upon NARVAEz either to return to his post in Paris, or to permit them to appoint a Minister Plenipotentiary to act during his absence, had tendered his resignation, and the Ministry, instead of accepting it at once, commenced negotiating with him to induce him to withdraw it. This temporising on the part of the Ministry is worse than a fault, it is a mistake. The Carlist chieftain, MARTIAL, has been defeated in the neighbourhood of Saragossa. He himself was taken prisoner, and his band dispersed. It is announced in Madrid that a company is to be established to work the copper mines of Cuba. Several persons of distinction were, it is said, ar rested on the night of the 27th ult. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 28.—The Three per Cents. were at 25k cash. 26 paper ; the Five per Cents., 17,-1 ; Passives, 5i ; Coupons, 14. Exchange on London, 48d. 80c. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Constitutionnel, in announcing the arrival of Count WALEWSKI at Toulon, states, that after Lord HOWDEN had raised the blockade of the Rio de la Plata by the English squadron, the French Plenipo tentiary, who all along refused to acknowledge the authority of ORIBE, considering the Monte Videans justified in refusing to accept the armistice proposed, had ordered the blockade by the French to be conti nued. Previous to his departure he had obtained from ORME the liberation of M. BALLESTEE and M. ROLID.AN, French merchants of Monte Video, who had been taken prisoners at Colonia and Mercedes. The French naval forces in the Plata consist of two frigates, a corvette, six brigs, four steamers, and two ketches. The armistice was broken on the 2d of August, and ORME commenced firing on the city. It is said that RoSAs is preparing to invade the pro vince of Corrientes. The Courrier Francais says— " M. Guisot on Friday handed to the Marquis of Nonnanby a note in reply to that in which Lord Palmersto❑ demanded explanations relative to the nomination of the Duke d'Aumale. if the rumours which are in circulation relative to the contents of the note are to be believed, the Minister has therein declared, in substance, that the appointment of the Prince did not imply any change of principle in the state of things adopted since 1830 by the French Go vernment relative to England. This reply allows the famous question of secret engagements to subsist in all its plenitude." We find in the same journal the following intelli gence from the Black Sea:— " The Emperor of Russia has lately published a ukase which involves one of the gravest questions of international law. This ukase has for its object to suspend the exercise of the right of fishing along the coasts of the Black Sea, from Anapa as far as Batoumi, in order to prevent assistance from being afforded to the populations of the Caucasus. This interdiction, according to the circular addressed to the foreign consuls and agents, is to apply to all nations. Toe Czar, by this measure, appears to arrogate to himself the exclusive property of the Black Sea; for other wise he would have the right of surveillance only over the coasts of Mingrelia, Abasia, and the other provinces of that part of his states, but he would not possess any right to interdict all nations from an in dustry which they have exercised from time imme morial. The ukase in question, therefore, moots a point that demands to be seriously examined." The Journal des Daats, in the course of a long article on the commercial crisis in England, which it attributes to the deficient harvest of 1846 and the failure of the potato crop, takes occasion to recom mend the establishment of free trade in France as the most effectual method of preventing the occur rence of a similar crisis in that country, as the stock of old corn at present on hand is very small, and there is a failure in the crops of beans and potatoes, while the'wheat harvest is not above the average. The following is the conclusion of this well-argued article ; " When the Uhainber of Deputies voted the law which extended the provisional permission to import corn until the month of January next nobody could foresee the result of the last hx, mo d , we - persons who are systematically opposed to every measure which appears to be an encouragement to free trade, combined so effectively that the extension of time was limited to the month of January, 1848. We shall have time, said they, to procure supplies during the summer and autumn, as if it were prudent to haggle about a period of time when *the question regarded the food of a nation. We now see that those persons were mistaken. A commercial acci dent has caused a suspension in the arrival of grain. Nobody is now purchasing corn either at Odessa, New York, or New Orleans. How should we act were the present fall in the price of grain in France, which must be partly ascribed to the commercial crisis in England, to be followed by a considerable rise in two or three months ? Does one imagine that it would be sufficient to extend the period for importing corn free of duty to January or February? The example of last year has demonstrated the danger of waiting for those tardy laws. The year through which Western Europe has passed has demonstrated how chimerical were the assertions that Russia and America were capable of inundating Europe with wheat. It was asserted that it was only necessary to strike one's foot on the earth to see millions upon millions of sacks of corn produced at a low price. With regard to the low price, the returns of the prices in the different markets have shown us the truth of the assertion. If after a consideration of those facts any party should coolly maintain that agriculture would be endangered should the restrictive laws of 1819 and 1832 be relaxed, we should begin to despair of the public common sense." The Constitutionnel has alsoan article on the crisis in France, which it attributes to the shameful and whole sale corruption practised by Government, in making places, and granting concession s of railroads. " The financial world in France," says the Constilulionnel, " is particularly anxious to know if the Minister of Finances will decide upon negotiating the loan at once, or if he will postpone it to another period. It is said that M. DumoN is in the greatest perplexity, that he flies from one opinion to another, and that the resolution which he takes one day is no longer his Position resolution on the day aft er . It i s eel that his is very embarrassing, that en the one hand the loan in present circumstances would be contracted on deplorable conditions, and that on the other hand it appears difficult and even dangerous to postpone it. But whose fault is this ? Have the Ministry any one to blame but themselves ? They commenced by increasing beyond measure the salaries of all public functionaries, and creating forty thousand new places. This retail traffic in consciences did not appear suffi cient when the elections arrived. The wish was to purchase the country wholesale by means of the railways. The budget of public works was over charged to an enormous extent, the savings of the country were expended without heeding the reaction which was inevitable. Hardly had the last session commenced when the financial crisis showed itself• The rise in the price of food came afterwards to double its intensity. It was in vain that a hope was entertained that the evil might be stopped by aban doning a portion of the works voted with such an ab sence of foresight. Private industry renounced the execution of the railways from Bordeaux to Cette, and from Lyons to Avignon ; the railways from Dijon to Mulhausen, and from Gray to St. Dizier remain without adjudication, and the Chambers reduced from ninety-three millions: the extraordinary budget of public works. It was too late, and besides the mass of the works voted was such, that even after some of them had been abandoned, there still remained more than the strength of the country could bear." The Constitutionnel thus sums up the financial con dition of France at the present moment : " The total amount of the advances and debts of the Treasury, at the end of 1847, will amount to 700,000,000, without reckoning the sixty or seventy millions required fur current expenses. It was esti mated at the end of last session that the ordinary budget for 1848 would show a deficiency of forty millions, and that the extraordinary works would ex ceed the reserves of the Sinking fund by sixty millions. This, then, is 100 millions to be added to the previous deficiency of 800 millions. how is this to be met ? \Vill a new issue of boos de tresor he tried ? This was formerly the economical mode of borrowing, but it is so no longer, for the interest is now 4f per cent., and must be raised to 5 per cent. Let us add, that the floating debt has limits which cannot be exceeded without danger to the public credit. There is a moment when the most vulgar prudence coun sels the wisdom of consolidating it. It is impos sible not to be frightened at the situation of France if any grave event happened in Europe, with a floating debt to so exaggerated a❑ amount as it is at the present. But if recourse be not had to an augmentation of the floating debt, it will be necessary to have recourse to the negotiation of a loan in the midst of a crisis. At what rate must it be contracted ? Probably at 72 or 74, and it will be recollected that M. Lacave Laplagne, that insufficient Minister, concluded this loan at 84! Let Id. Dumon choose; but whatever be the resolution at which he may arrive after so many tergiversations, it is neces sary that he should make a public declaration of it. Affairs must not be left any longer in a position that paralyzes commerce and industry." We copy the following on the progress of the in surrection in Naples from the Presse, and on this subject the Presse may be considered a high autho rity : "It is positively stated that grave intelligence has arrived from Naples. The insurrection which had declared itself in Sicily has, it is said, gained the continental part of the kingdom, and even the capital itself. The situation of thfs Government is said to be seriously menaced, to such a point, indeed, that its friends manifest very lively apprehensions as to its existence. The pitiless character of the repression, far from having put down the movement, appears to have only aggravated it." The Three per Cents. were done on the Passage de l'Opera on Sunday at 75E 22ic. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 29.—Marseilles and Avignon, 535 f .; Northern, 5251. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 4. Boulogne and Amiens, IVA—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 14%—Dutch Rhenish, 2 1 4—Northern of Frazee, 10—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 1 / 2 —Paris and Orleans, 44—Sambre and Meuse, 6—Tours and Nantes, VA...West Flanders, 2%. PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 5.--The Jupiter arrived from Lisbon this day at noon. Her news is not very important. The Terrible had not arrived from An- gola with the Count Ronan and other prisoners. The present Ministers were manifesting a disposition to fulfil the terms of "the Proiocol, and conciliating the popular party. It was reportiad that the Cabral and S.lldanha factions had coalesced against their common foe, the rival Septemorist Miguelist confe deration. There seems, however, to be some doubt on this head, as it was asserted that Marato, Roma, and others, had strongly objected to it. The squa dron was still at Lisbon. The Teviot, from 'the West Indies and Mexico, is hourly expected at Southampton. REGIST RAT lONS.-(T HIS DAY. A111)1)14E8E:X. Lancelot Shadwell, E,q., the barrister appointed by the Lord Chief Justice to revise the li,t of voters fur the county of :Middlesex, held his court t.) day at the Green Man, Bethnal green, fur the revisi.,n of the lists of the parishes of Bethnal-green, Hackney, Christ Church, Shoreditch, Norton Folgate, and the Old Artillery-ground., In consequence of the decision of the Learned Gentleman yesterday AA ith respect to Mr. Shepherd, the principal objector for the Comervatives, the revi sion to-day was almost a matter of course, and no case of any interest came before the Learned Gentle man during the morning. Mr. Shad well concluded his labours in this district at an early hour. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) William Dennis Daley, a tailor, was charged with inter-marrying with Mary Anne Barry, his first wife, Susan Galbally, being still aliv e . It appeared - from the statement of the second wife that she became acquainted vich the prisoner about two years ago, when he represented himself as a single man. They were married at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, on the 29th of last December. For some time after her marriage she never suspected anything wrong, but she eventually ascertained that lie had been previously married, and that his first wife was then living with her mother at No. 3, Crocker's-buildings, Hoxton Old Town. She taxed the prisoner with the deceit which he had practised on her, when he treated the matter with the greatest levity, and said he thought his first wife had been long ago dead. He was then given into custody. Mary Galbally, the mother of the first wife, proved that she was present at the marriage of the prisoner with her daughter, in December, 1841, and her daughter was residing with her at present. He treated her very badly, and left her very shortly afterwards, and they saw him two or three times during about a twelvemonth, after which they heard nothing of him, until they were told he was in cus tody upon the present charge. 'file prisoner wac r,-,-,,ded to Wednesday, in order that tha n otice might procure copies of the re(Yi , .r...a and other formal evidence. ---------- LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) A young man, who gave his name as John Nelson Hiseoch, and surrendered himself yesterday to police constable P 295, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, charged, on his own confession, with having robbed his late etnployers, E , ssrs. Jeffery and 'Morris, mercers, Liverpool, of a large quantity of silk pocket handkerchiefs, and other goods. The case was remanded to this day week, for fur ther evidence, before he should be remitted to Liver pool. MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF SOUTH WARK AND L#Bl3ETH.—L ast night a numerously it tended rni:ki-trg t' , Fthe R oman C a tholic i n h a b itants of the borou g h s of Southwark and Lambeth was 11,11 at f the:Temper ance ' Hull, Waterl, o-road, to adopt measures for the formation of an association similar to those lebone, for th e v i n di cation of Catholic rights and the esta blished in th e c i ty o f London, W e siminstPr, and Mary protection of Roman Catholi c p r ivilm, 7 ,, es, by increasing as far as possible the number of Catholic electors, anti organish "r the Roman Catholic residents of the metro polis. M. Forristol, Esq., took the chair, and explained the object o f th e meeting. Several persons having ad dressed the m ee ti ng , a 'wenn vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated. THE LATE BURGLARY IN ESSElL.—Yesterday a reward of 1501., and her Majesty's free pardon, was offered for the discovery and conviction of the men who, on the 17th ult., b ro k e into the dwelling-house of Mr. Abraham Offi n , i n H utton, Essex, the whole of whom had their faces covered with black and wore long black cloaks ; one of them presented a pistol at Mr. 011 in and threatened his life, whilst th e others ransacked th e house, carryi ng off above 70/. in money and a large quantity of silver plate. 1001. is offered by Mr. Offin, and 501. by Government, with pardon to any accomplice, not being the person who pointed the pistol at Mr. Offin. DEATII OF REAR-ADMIRAL BANDIERL—Letters frcm Venice of the 22,1 silt announce the death of Rear- Admiral Bandiera. With him the last Of his race is consigned to the grave, a race that the two noble youths who fell on the scaffold of Cosenza were to have continued to posterity, The hand of fate fell heavy on the veteran's whit e h a i rs, who in the self-same hour was informed of th e t rag i cal death of his suns and his dis missal from the command of his frigate. He Was buried with all the Rani honours clue to 144 rank. rd,'ST Tlf ocTonnzt 1, 1#4,1 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUANTEI? TO THREE. The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was fur ther depressed, being 4il. per lb. lower than on Friday last. Sales, 4,000 bales, including 3,000 bales American at 54d. to qd. per lb. Very little business was done in Railway Shares. Prices were lower, and the market was as gloomy as ever. Great anxiety prevails in the city to ascertain whether any announcement will result from the interview which took place yesterday between the Governor and Deputy- Governor of the Bank, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the city a most gloomy state of feeling prevails, and although the "fourth " has gone off better, perhaps, than might have been anticipated, it is certain that there is much of this result to be attributed to the excellent feeling which prompts par ties to exercise mutual fOrbearance towards each other The failure of Messrs. Rougemont Brothers, and Messrs. John Thomas, Son, and Lefevre must inevitably bring about other suspensions, and hence the danger of suf fering a day to pass without making a vigorous attempt to restore confidence, as each house which falls increases the danger to solvent firms, and probably brings down two or three more. The Bank of England is discounting as freely as possible, but money still commands a high rate of in terest, and is in most active demand. Indeed we see no prospect but that the intensity of the pressure will in crease unless relieved by extraordinary measures ; for we know that difficulty is being experienced in quarters which have ample property. The Public Securities have fluctuated violently this morning, and parties possessed of spare cash have taken advantage of the demand fur money to pur chase stock at the existing low rates, and re-sell it for the settling nine days on whereby they obtain a profit of half to one per cent. This bonus, however, could not be expected to last, and the conse quence is, that Ci,nsols have jumped up within the last half hour from 83i to 84 for Transfer, being 84i to 85 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 255. to 30s. discount, and no large quantity could be sold even on those terms. Bank Stock is at 1911 to 196. The Foreign Securities are quite neglected. Spanish Fite per Ct•nt. Bonds have been 19 ; Mexican 184, and zilian ex. div. 78. Dutch Four per Cents. have b. en rnark. , (l 82i. There has been very little doing in Railway Shares, hut they keep steadier than might be expected. It is not probable that large sales could be made at present rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK; (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anns... 81% 83 3 / 4 844 83% 84% Long Anniiitie, Expire Jan. sth, 1860 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8% Bank Stock fur Account 191 1 , 196 Consols for .A.ctount E , xcheqtier Bilis. 2d. 1,000/. 500/. Small ••• 215 dis PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Ceut l B 3 /4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONT, IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. rim sibtaz. Aberdeen Amber., Notting.. Boston, &c to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County D&wn .. 10 Birmingham & Omford Junc... 15 •• •• - - to —. Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . ...... to Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 8 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 6 l /2 — ...... to Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire.. ......... —B/. 4s Ca , edonian D , tto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 40 Chesterand Holyhead 3 2 1/ ..... 16 1 ,! to Ditto, Preference • 4 Cheltenham and Oxford Clarence. Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 12 1 / 2 to East Anglia, 251., L. & E. sod L & D. ...... to Ditto, 181., E. & H IS Ditto, 31. 10s, E. & H... 1 Eastern Counties Do. Pe rpe t., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... par to Do., do. N0.2,6/. 138.4 d... - Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern— 50 ...... Do., Quarters . Do., _New i_ast ern Union Ditto, Quaver Shares Ditto., Thirds .. ........ ....13s. •Iti — East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do., Extension Scrip... 1 1 / 4 East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Gla§gow ..... 50 Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l / 2• to -- Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 - Ditto, New Ditto, New port.. ... .. . ... .. 7 Ditto, ditto, New ... 1 1 / 2 Edit:burgh anti Perth Ditto, Extension ' 105....... to ... Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% l l / 2...... to Ditto, New ... 9 5, .. AI Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 6i.8d... Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. - 1 /, Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% Great Northern 8 Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 / 2 — Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 Ditto, .New 40/ 5 Ditto, New 301 .. •30 ... .. .. ••• to Ditto, New 15/.......... ...... 1 1 /....... . ... to Great Western B5 — Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/ Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. ... Di ttc, Thirds Hull and Selby SO ~. .._ ... Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /2 Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 21 / 2 — - Lancaster and Carlisle.... ....50 Do., Thirds Lancashire and Yorkshire DM. and L ) 82 itto Half Shares - 38 - Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths 6 l /2 to -- Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 1 4...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) 71 .48 — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 - Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 28 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 4 2 1 /2 to Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2s 2% dis. to Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 - Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) 1 1 A Leeds and Bradford 45 ..... 86 ..... to Leicester and 13edfo•:d Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 37 1 / 2 to Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 714 — ...... to Ditto, :New Branch (blue).. 2% Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2 1 /. — Loada azi,l Tili...a. Ditto, New , ... . 17 1 / 2 . .... Liver Do., do., Prefer., 6 pe , - Cent. 3 1 / 2 . .... '— pool. Crosby, and South- port. - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction.. ..... ... 21, _ to London Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 5 .. ... to Ditto New, No. 1 . Ditto New, No. 2 3/. 13.. 4d.... Do. Ex tenion .. 15 Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...-• Do. Fret. Cony. 5 per C ent. 50 ...... Londoi. and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... "-- Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... ...... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11 4 — London and North Wesitern..loo 153 151... to 154 Do. Quarter ......L. and B. 17 Do. do. New .......... ...... 2 ...... 8 to Do. do. Fifths to Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J. 20 Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 15 ...... ...... to Do. 40/. Shares... ill. and B. 40 ...... Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . .... - Do. lot ~. M. and B. (B.) 5 Do. 10/.... AI. and B. (C.) 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltm. 2 London and S. Western.... 41/. 63 8d... Do.. New ConsolidatedBths. 40 Ditto New 50/....... ..... 32 1 ,...... to Ditto New 40/.........: .. - 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - Ditto, Thirds ... 6/. 13s. 4d... Londonderry and Coleraine... ?.5 Londoaderry and Enniskillen 22 1 Manch, Buxt on . & M a tl oc k 3 ...... to Manchr, Sheffield. and Line .100 Ditto 11 Shares (No. 1) ~.. 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) .. 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3).... 7% ...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... . 4% to Ditto, Sheffield, and Li.ne. 71 / 2 —••• - Manchester and Southampton 2 1 .41 — ...« to Midland ...MO lO9 ... . to Ditto, Como'. Preferencet....100 Ditto, 40/. Shares "•• 40 Ditto, 50/. Shares-- ____ 10 Midland, Birm., and Dero.l r.-1 0 0 ••• - - Midland, Cons&. Bristol i md. Birmingham 6 per cent,.....100 119%...... to 120 Midland, Bristol and Glo'ac. 34 Ditto ditto .... .71. 95.... .. Midland, Leice s . an d S wan . • ningtoa (8 per ct.gua.).... 50 .... • Zaisil4 emu Western (Dish,) 30 .. Nowcaatlo ` and Dist-Nick Ditto New 5 -to _ . Ditto North Shields.. ..... 25 ...... Newmarket and Chesterford 13 1 / 2 ..... . Ditto Extension Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Newport Abergy., and Heref Norfolk Ditto New 20/. Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847,N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and _ ~ . . . Rostrevor Northern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares, . 12% 12% , 8... to Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 4 . 3 /8 Ditto. Extension % % to Ditto Thirds ... .......... ..... 1 ...... North Staffordshire... .. ...... 7 1 / 8 North Wales North Western 4 Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wol- _ . verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% Royston and Hitchin ... l% — ...... to Scottish Central ... 20 - Scottish Midland ... 17% — to Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole ' 5 - Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 ...... Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester ' (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) . : ......... ....... 1 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... Ditto, Preference lO South Staffordshire 2/. 12e... .....to ;•+outh Eastern and Dover Ditto, New, No. 1 .I)itto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. .. .. 6 1 % 3% ..... to 4% South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca- meron's Stm. Coal Climes Faven Dock and Railway l 7 l /2 — to Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath W aterford and Kilkenny I3L4 --• Waterford and Limerick..... 32 th... .. - V aterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin Vest Cornwall Nhitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 25 ..- -to York, Nevrcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 281 2 %... to 28 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. -.... to - Do. N orthShields Purchase 25 .. to Do. Exten. No.l (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 5 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. S York and North Midland .. 50 ...... 69% to Ditto. Extension - to Ditto, Preference ' 6 Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes ......... ...... 1 Boulogne and Amiens 20 Bordeaux, Toulouse. & Ce.te , . (Constituted) .... 4 Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon .... 53. Demerara. Dendre Valley Direci. Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish East Indian Great Indian Peninsular Great Southern 01 . Madras , ss. Great Western Bengal ss. - to Great Western Canada 3 14 -•••• Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ......... 6 Luxembou.g Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) : 5 Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... % — to Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege.............. 12 ..... Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4/33 4d..... - Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasboulg ...... ..... 8 ..- Rouen and Hrvre Sambre and Meuse strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & .Nunes ... .. ...... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt Trinidad.. ...... .. ......... .- 2 1,4 — to West Flanders 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London - London Joint Stock ... lO London and Westminster... 9 0 Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of lrOand 22q ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2 . — to Union ol' London ...... .. ...... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — to Astrian Mining Company ... 10 . — . - Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 21 ...... Cobre Copper Galvanized Iron Beal del. Monte, Unregistered LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. s.—Wind E.N.E., light breeze and fine. DEAL, OCT. 4.—Wind E. by S. ; P.M., R—Arrd. from the River and sailed, Lady Nugent, Calcutta; Co nondah, Rio de Janeiro ; B eau f or t, N ewport an Thomas's. FALMOUTH, OCT. 4.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Lucy Sharpe, M‘Fee, Pernambuco. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 4.—Wind E.S.E.— Arrd. Oscar, Blacklick, Brass River. Sld. Herculean, Savannah. Off port, Tuscar, New York ; Mary Atkinson, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. MARGATE, OCT. 4.—The Vigilant has been righted. A large schooner is sunk about two miles N. E. from the Knock light ; crew saved. STROMNESS, SEPT." 27.—The Elfrida, of Runcorn, and the Sceptre, of Fleetwood, have been hauled on the beach leaky. HULL, OCT. 4.—Sld. Isis, Rio de Janeiro. CLYDE, OCT. I.—Sld. Ceylon, Bombay ; Scotland, Savannah. ABERDEEN, OCT. 2.—The Lady Fife, of Port Gor don, from Cockenzie, was totally dismasted on the 24th ult., off Stonehaven. WELLS, OCT. 4.—The vessel reported yesterday as waterlogged in Brancastet Bay, is the Sommerin, from Hernosand to Calais; will partly discharge, and be brought in here. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) HAY IVIANILETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 2/10s to 31125; New ditto, 218 a to 31 8s ; Old Clover, 4/ to 51; New ditto, 3/ 12i to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 13s per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. CLIMEtEnLAND —Old Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ 15s; New ditto, 21 lOs to 31 8s ; Old Clover, 41 to 4/ 15s ; New ditto, 3110 s to 44 8s; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 14s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 12s ; New, ditto, 21 lOs to 31 8s; Old Clover, 41 4s to 51; New ditto, 31 12s to 41 10s ; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load. Supply moderately good, and trade dull. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation wears a heavy appearance, and including la public sale of 150 hhds Barbadoes and crystalised Demerara, which were only partially realised ; the transactions barely amount to 450 hhds, at prices establishing a decline of is 6d per cwt on last week's currency. There have likewise been offered by auction 7,725 bags Mauritius, which was all realised at a reduction of about is per cwt on the rates of this day week, via., 31s to 36s for low to good brown, and 36s 6d to 44s for low to fine yellow, the greatest de cline being upon the lower descriptions. The principal transactions privately comprise 350 chests brown Bahia, at 39s 6d, and 2,000 bags Pernambuco and Paraiba, at 395. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,854 hhds, 454 tierces, 194 barrels. There were taken tor home consumption 1,394 hhds, 154 tierces, 543 barrels. The stock in the same places is 19,575 hhds, 2,386 tierces, 5,127 barrels. COFFEE.-300 bags Plantation Ceylon was only partly realised, at 51s for fine ord, being rather lower. 500 bags Brazil realised 29$ for good ord. Rust —The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,042 puns 233 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 654 puns 25 hhds, and exported 231 puns 19 hhds. The st oc k i n the same places is 12,252 puns 1,705 hhds. RICE —Some Java has been sold at 16s for good bold white. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 47s per cwt on the spot, and Town 50s 6d. TEA : —The market is quiet, but the consumption is not quite so large as of late. TOBACCO.—We have had no change in the market last month deserving particular comment, and with the exception of one or two trifling instances, we have re sumed our pr ev i ous quotat i ons; b uyers i n mostinstances have supplied themselves as in need, and have shown no dispositi on to i ncrease the i r stoc k s muc h beyondim mediate consumption. Prices may be considered firm, with a slight tendency upwards, but there has been no disposition directed to speculative purchases. Sales during last month have been 800 hhds, imports 476 hhds, deli veries 801 hhds, against 1,145 hhds in the corresponding month of 1846; stock 25,680 hhds, against 28,354 hhds, in 1846. In Virginia sales have not exceeded 200 hhds, and have chiefly consisted of selections of good and y ekvecatez ,4s fine qualltlea for spinning ; Lsaf at ad, istei Strips at s}d to 6d ; in descriptions suitable for cutting purposes there has been scarcely anything done. In Kentucky Leaf and Strip,, although the market has been comparatively quiet, sales may be estimated at-600 hhds, nearly equal quantities of Leaf and Strips ; in some instances a trifling advance has been submitted to for selections of the latter. Maryland, a few hhds have been taken at 5} to 60. Stock almost bare. Ha vannah Leaf of fine quality has been in good demand, but the limited stock of this descrip tion has prevented any business being done, ex cept of a retail character ; the quality of the new crop, which has arrived, is considered by the trade as very ord. In Havannah: Cigars the demand has been very limited for all descriptions, and the trade have been purchasers as in need ; a few cases of mid and ord have been taken for exportation at low rates. Manilla Cheroots have been in moderate request at previous rates. , Cuba of good and fine quality has bean sold at improved prices. In Columbian Leaf business has been limited, and the trade have supplied themselves as in need. St. Domingo, nothing done. Havannah Seed Leaf, stock almost rare of fine quality. Brazil has been neglected, although the stock has much improved in character by recent importations ; new parcels generally are of mid and good quality. Porto Rico Leaf of mid quality for fillers has been in demand, and taken at low prices. German Leaf of good and fine ,descriptions has been in fair request, at steady prices, parcels of ord, badly assorted, and soft in condition, difficult of sale at low rates. In Amersfoot nothing done. In Negro Head and Caven dish sales have been very limited, and almost confined to small parcels for stores; for export very little done. Prices are rather firmer for good and fine sorts. Com mon stalks are in fair demand. Virginia and Kentucky scarce. Adair's Main l6s 6d Middle's W. Hartley Itis 6d Burnhope Hartley- 16s Od Davison'sWest Hartley 18s 6d Original Tanfield Ord's Red beugh Tanfield Moor Townley l7s Od West Wylam Wylam Wall's Ertl, &c Acorn Close Bewicke and Co lB4 3d Bell and Brown lBs 3d Gosforth . 18s 3d Northumberland Wh trncliffe ...... 18s 3d Eden Main 2os 3d Braddyll's Hatton , Crawford East Hatton COAL MARK ET.—MONDAY. Haswell 2os 9d Hetton Keepier Lambton Murton ... 2os 6d Russell's Hetton 20s 6d Shotten IS :ewart's 'Washington Whitw ell Hudson's Hartlepool l9s 6d High Thoraley • l7s Od Kelloe .. .. 20s 3d South Durlam Seymour Tees Teo, West Cornforth Whitworth l6s 6d Derwentwater Hartley 18s Od ►r . Hartley Netherton 18s 6d Sidne3 's Hartley is-74 sold. 102 arriv, HAYMARKET THEATRE. Miss Helen Fauoit made her fist appearance for the season at this theatre last evening, in the cba• racter of Pauline Deschappelles, in The Lady of Lyons. Miss Helen Faucit originally made this character, and perhaps it is not going too far to say that that character also made Miss Helen Faucit. At all events, it secured to her an undisputed supra• macy as the heroine of young tragedy, a supremacy which she has enjoyed without a rival up to the pre sent hour. She looked well, and acted the part, as she always does, in the most interesting manner. She was excellently supported by Mr. Creswick, as Claude Melnotte, who acted the character with excel• lent taste and judgment. We prefer his Claude Mel• notte to Macready's. Equal to Macready's in power and intensity, he has the advantage over his great, predecessor of youth. Mr. Creswick looks the young and romantic enthusiast which Claude . Melnotte is supposed to be. After the play Keeley and his clever little wife made their first appearance before a Hay market audience, in the farce of Twice Killed, and kept the house in a roar of laughter. The theatre was very well attended. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. _ -- After a short recess, thi s elegant- little theatre opened for the season last evening. Mr. Maddox seems determined to be " all at." Tragedy, comedy, and opera are each to have a turn at this theatre, and his company in each department is a strong one. For tragedy we have Mr. Macready, Mr. Cooper, the Misses Cushman, and Miss Emmeline Montague; in comedy Miss Emma Stanley, Mrs. Gordon, and that accomplished artiste and truly Shaksperian actor, Compton and for opera we hav e M a d ame A nna Thillon, Miss A. Romer, and all our old favourites. The theatre Opened with Macbeth—Macready of course acting Macbeth, and Miss Cushman Lady Macbeth. On a former occasion we gave it as our opinion that the Lady Macbeth of Miss Cushman was the best which bad been seen since the days of Mrs. Siddons, and her performance of this most arduous character last night completely confirms us in the opinion which we heretofore ex pressed. 't here is a terrible earnestness throughout her representation of the character, which enables the spectator at once to realise the conception of Shak spere. Never have we seen an actress exhibit such intensity—such enorgy, and then the last scene— the " Out, damned spot 1" was thrilling in its pathos. Notwithstanding the horror which the crimes of Lady Macbeth had inspired, it was impossible not to feel for her while undergoing this agonizin? punishment. Macbeth is one of the best of Macready s Shaksperian impersonations, .and he never acted better in his life than he did last evening. Both he and Miss Cush man were called for at the conclusion of the tragedy. Matthew Locke's music was superbly given. The house, as might have been expected, was crowded in every part. VICTORIA THEATRE. A new domestic drama, entitled The Merchant's Clerk; a Love .Story, was produced here last evening with the most unequivocal success. This is one of those intensely interesting domestic dramas for the production of which this house is so celebrated. The interest of the piece turns upon the adventures of Mary Hillary (Miss Vincent), the daughter of a merchant, whose clerk, Elliott, is in love with her. Old Hillary, in order to break off the match, concocts a charge of forgery against Elliott, which eventually recoils against himself. Mary, who is married to Elliott, and cast off by her father, suffers all the misery and wretchedness that want and poverty can inflict, but Old Hillary, who has been through out the tool of a designing housekeeper, who wishes to estrange him from his daughter, in order to marry him herself, at length discovers the machinations of this "fiend in human form" (we quote from the bills), and all ends happily. Miss Vincent's impersonation of the character of Mary Hillary was distinguished by a pathos and intensity of feeling which not unfrequently drew tears from her audience. She was well supported by Mr. Hicks as Elliott. The Old Hillary of Mr. Dale was a fine piece of acting, and richly merited the applause that was lavished on it. Artistically viewed, it was the best thing in the piece. There was an excellent low-comedy part for Forman, who made the most of it. The drama, which is admirably put on the stage, met with the most deserved success, and will have a long run. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. -- The annual meeting for the distribution of prizes to the successful pupils took place yesterday (Monday) in the theatre of the institution. The Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton, the Principal, took the chair, and amongst those present were—the Hon. and Rev. Chancellor Law, the Vice- Principal of the college ; the Hon. and Rev. Grantham M. Yorke, Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, Dr. Booth, Mr. Sands Cox, the Dean of the Faculty, the various professors, and a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen. The following prises were awarded :—First Warneford gold medal, Whittell, Leamington ; second Warneford gold medal, Bird, London ; the Jephson prize, 20 guineas, Bird ; Protessor Sands Cox's prizes, Bird and Whitten ; the governor's gold medal, Barrett, Birmingham ; anatomy first medal, Bird ; materia medics ditto, Moore, Hale's Owen ; certificate, Ireland, Malmsbury; chemistry, first medal, Lane, Grosmouth, Monmouthshire ; certificate, Stead, Congleton ; medicine, first medal, Bird ; certifi cate, Brown, Birmingham ; surgery, first medal, Patter. son, Stourbridge ; midwifery, first medal, Whitten ; certificate, Brown ; botany, first medal, Lowe, Birming ham ; certificate, Moore. The vice-principal's first priz.) of 321. 10s. was awarded to Bird • and the prizes in the junior department to Fryer, Wall, Edney, Wil kinson, and Stead. DIOCESAN Counrs.--By an Act of Parliament passed in July (10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 98) the several diocesan c.iurts in England will be opened for the transaction of business from and after the first day of next month. Much inconvenience, it is declared by the preamble, ensues from the continued suspension of the jurisdiction of the several diocesan courts in Eng land, and it is then enacted, " That the bishop of every diocese in England shall, by himself or his officers, exercise throughout the whole of his diocese as it now is or hereinafter may be limited or con stituted, save only in causes and matters testa mentary, or relating to the administration of the personal estate of intestates, the same jurisdic tion and authority which before the passing of this Act ho or any bishop lawfully could or might exercise by himself or his officers within any part of such diocese.' The officers of the court are to pay over the net amount o f fees to the treasurer of the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne, to be carried to a separate account, , 6 and retained until Parliament shall provide for the ap• propriation thereof." _ _ HAMBURG, OCT. I.—Mr, R. Cobden arrived on the 29th of September at Lubeck, on his way from Stockholm. The following day a grand dinner was given in his honour at the Hotel du Nord, by the mer chants of Lubeck. Mr. Cobden, being anxious to return home, set out next morning for Hamburg, where he ar rived about noon, and took up his residence at Streit's hotel. Great preparations have been made in this city for his reception. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES OF CASH AND BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—Yesterday information was received by the police, that the dwelhm2-house of Mr. G. Howarth, of Cadisht ad, near Manchester, bad been plundered of 90/. in gold, and 350/. in Bank of England notes, and that a lodger, named Elias Field, at Mrs. Dorothy Tyas's, Castlercagh-street, Barnsley, had gone off with 65/. in gold, and eleven five•pound notes of the Barnsley and Wakefield Bank. 11, t eel" T 1 auth it , with 'with Thei lielee meet coed the t T 1 fi voi In lel; Vttn few exce • Fc tear' enga shir e e ° ll 'l l for ti T 1 Fret( 9 esti f X:rit the of t 50 Ri (lout 3,0 T 2,00