The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

0012= 1........ erttrO /Ratio* SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. I N BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PITBLLSHED EVERY TITEADAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. JOINT-STOCK BA7N2S. ' Dividend Amount i Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. i — --- £ s. d. £ s. d. Australasia •• • • •... •• 1 40 0 0 40 0 0 BritshNorth American 151. per eent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Commercial of London 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 !I!olonial. •••••• • . • • 1 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Londn and Westminstr , 10 0 6/. per cent. OO2O 0 0 96 London Joint-Stock ••• ' i 61. per cent. 5 0 0 10 0 0 16 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, New.— —— 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .• 51. per cent. SO 0 0 20 0 0 — NAL Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 35% Ditto, New....• —.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 1 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Union of London... .. 151. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 , • CANALS. Names of ! :,.., .; Dividend Names a . ..i Dividend Companies. i A per Price. . Companies. As Annum. per Price. ci: Annum. fc - -... £; X Ashtn& Oldh 97 51.55. p e 70 Monmouthsh 100 101. - Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. : - Mntgemrysh 100 51. - Barnsley.... j 160 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Basingstoke.. i 100 - - Neath •• • ... 100 201. 340 Brktik&Abrg ,150 Si. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. - .Dromford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley - '100: 41. - Regent's •• • • 33 11 . 4 s. 20 , , Derby .•. • • '100: 61. 63 Rochdale .. • . 85 41. 54 Ellsrure&Chs'l33 41. 54 Shropshire .. 125 81. - E:ewash ....100: 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 Forth & Clyd 160, 41. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. - GrandJunctn• 100. 6/. I 80 Stffrd &Wore; 140 281. 275 Urand Union 1001 It. 10s. 21% Shrewsbury.. l l2s 151. - Glamorgnsh. 172, 13%1. - Stourbrldge.. 145 201. 305 f4istr &Brkly, 'OO - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 108. - Grantham • . 150 121. - Sevens and] 26 11. 82. 30 Huddersfield.' 57 - - Wye Rail. K ennt & Avu • 39' 7s. 6d. 5% Trnt Ss Mr- i5O 301. - Lancaster ... '47 11.10 s. - sey •• . Leeds& Livrp 100, 341. 50-5 Timms 8011 . 1 ed 19 - - Leicester .... 140, 101. 75 Worcstr &1 . 78 v. 41% Leiestr tsblth 83 41. I 36 Binning. Loughborogh,l42, 701. , 530 Wilts & /irks 67 11. 11 DOCIMS. 'Dividend Amount same of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Z 0. d. X s. d. Commercial •• .• - I - East and West India - 1223 East Country ••. • • - - I andon .... • • - i 102% Si. Katharine •• • • - I 83 Southampton • • - INSURANCE COPI/PALNIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. I £ 5. d. Albion ...... •••• • • • • 31. 1012 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0I 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine. ••• • .• 61. per cent, 100 0 0 1 5 0 0 - Atlas ..... •. • • - British Commercial • • 75. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 6% Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 20% Crop County •.••- • . - • • 12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 Kahle ....... ..... •• •• 6s. 50 0 0 5 8 0 5% Eng. & Scot. Law - European Life - Freemasons' ..• Globe - 124 Guardian ...... ••• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 46% Imperial Fire .. ••• . • . 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210 Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Indemnity Marine •• • . 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Life.. • ... •• • • Lr•gal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - London Fire ••-• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - L.mdon Ship .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - Marine .. ......... . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Inviiil& Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 j 2 0 0 - National Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - rational Life .. .. - Palladium Life ...... - Pacenix . - - 105 Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 35. Provident Life.. •• • ... 11. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Bock Life . ............ 45. 5 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 181 3 tn Fire ........... - - - Ditto Life ..... - - - Victoria Life .... - - 1 4 0 0 - LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. i Price. Annum. Share. i - ri:•,,. X s. d. X 5. d ' - Br ~ iatlk of Scotland - 100 0 0 t 167 . ItOyal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150 _ British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200 Commercial Bank -• . 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162 National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13% Union Bank of Scotland 7321. pr tent. - 50 001 88 Western Bank . 6l. per cent. - 50 0 0 81 Northof Scotland Bank 61. per cent. ! - 5 0 0 6% Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent. , - 10 0 0 12% Eastern Bank 5/. per cent. ; - 10 0 0 111 55 Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. Rs Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. I -- 5 00 i 61.8 a City of Glasgow Stank . 151. per cent. - 10 0 0 12/. 8s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 120 0 0 1 0 0 '23s. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. , 100 0 0 10 0 o.' , 12% Incur. Co. of Scetind • • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. Va l ' fdorth British Incur 53¢ I. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 j 25% Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ! 223 s Edinbilrgh Life Insur. 161. per cent. jlOO 0 0 12 10 0 18 Edin. & Gime. Railway 'l/.105. pers. i5O 0 0 50 0 0 51xd Ditto, 1 4 Shares .• •• 75.6 d. p. 5. ' 12 10 0 All paid. 13% EJ lin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 193% Glanw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 61% 'Aaagw kGreenck Rail. 21. per cent. :25 0 0 All paid. 18% ...11sa:w&Garnkirit Rail. 51. per cent.' 25 0 0 All paid. 39 Dundee & Arbroth Rail. . 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. , 39 standard LifeAssernce.l 51. per cent.l 50 0 0 1 210 0 ; 94, WATER-lITORIES. ' Dividend Amount Name 01 Company. i per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. • £ a. d. East London..• •••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 195 Grand Junction .... - 31. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90 31. 100 0 0 - - Vail xllall .. .. - - .... 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex . . • 51.15a.prent. 63 12 9 - - 118 .N GE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar.. • • Leghorn ........ ...... 30 90 Genoa .. • • • • . ..... 26 Milan .. • • ....... ..... Venice Naples .... • • .... •• 403( Palermo, perms.. ...... 120% Lisbon ........ ........ 52 yi 0p0rt0.......... • 52 Rio Janeiro ........ • . 26 Bahia Buenos Ayr . e . l .. • ..... New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia .......... Meta OF BULLION, Pll OZ, Foreign Gold is bars.. X 3 17 9 Neiv Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Myer its bars . 0 0 0 }• COURSE OF EXCH, Amsterdam .......... 12 656 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .... -•.. • . Antwerp..... .. . • •• Ilamburgh Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 12 3 12 6% 26 - 13 15% 25 60 Ditto, ............. 25 95 Marseilles • ..... • ..... 26 •• 26 Frankfort on Maine.... 1221 i Petersburgh, 3 U 0.... • • Berlin . ~ Vienna, effec.flo•• •• • • Trieste, ditto.... • • .... Brad'id .............. Csdis .. ............ Bilbao. Barcelona .• • ... 10 8 10 9 46}i 4654 S©v LUe ............... . SWEARING IN OF THE NEW SHE Itlk FS.-(THIS DAY.) A Common Hall was held this day at .two o'clock, in the Guildhall, for the purpose of swearing in the new Sheriffs, Messrs. Cuhitt and Hill. The friends of these gentlemen met to-day at Fishmongers' Hall, London-bridge, and, after partaking of the hospita lities of this eminent company, they proceeded to the Guildhall, where they arrived shortly before two o'clock. The new Sheriffs are William Cubitt, Esq., fishmonger, and Charles Rill, Esq., spectacle-maker; and the Under Sheriffs are Thomas France, Esq., and David W. Wire, Esq. _ The Lord Mayor, accompanied by several members of the Court of Aldermen, the new and th e l a t e Sheriffs, the Under Sheriffs, &c., entered the hall a t a quarter past two o'clock. .The new Sheriffs were then sworn into office and invested with their gold chains. - Thanks were returned to the late Sheriffs, who acknowledged the compliment. Several of the officers of the Corporation were re elected, and the Court broke up. THE LOJNDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28, 1847. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Isidro Lopez de Arce, as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. WAR OFF, SEPr. 28. Royal Re g i ment of Horse lCE Guards—Curnet Duncan James Baillie to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Sir Charles Slingsby, Bart., who retires ; the Honourable Philip Sydney to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Baillie, Sept. 28. 2d Dragoon Guard s — Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Smith, M.D., from the 93d Foot, to be Assistant Sur geon, vice Wheeler, appointed to the Staff, Sept. 28. 3d Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster Joseph Cart mail, from the 83L1 Foot, to be quartermaster vice Culborn, who exchanges, Sept. 28. , 20th Foot—Lieutenant Mansfield Turtle*, from the 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Patterson, who ex changes, Sept. 28. 29th Foot—Ensign Richard John Evans to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Galiffe, who retires; Ensign James Fraser Draper, from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Evans, Sept. 28. 32d Foot—Lieutenant William Patterson, from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Turner, who ex ubauges. Sept. 28. 33ct Foot —Staff Surgeon of the Second Class James Townsend Oswald Johnston, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Sept.es Murray Drysd a l e , w h o ret i res upon h a lf- pa y, 28. 39 t 4 Fuut—Llugh Robert liibbert, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Draper, appointed to the 29th Foot. Sept. 28. 48th Foot—Henry Grattan Bushe, Gent. , to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires , 28. 54th Foot—Gtorge Kinahan, Ge n t., to be Ensign,,, • without purchase, vice Hall, deceased, Sept. 28.- 66th Foot—Ensign Nicholas Kendall, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Potts, who ,mi . 4 4 ,A mbiba i d . Hamilton Dunbar, Gent., to be Eniiiß' by purehaie; -'1 - Vice Kendall, Sept. 28. •.., 73d Foot—Assistant Surgeon Benjamin... SWift, M.D., from the 63,1 Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Foster, who resigns, Sept. 28. 75th Footi—Lieutenant Henry M‘Farlane, from half pay 49tli Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Piercy, appointed THE SUN, Paymaster ; Ensign Charles Frederick Tyler to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice M•Farlane, who retires ; Arthur Mowbray Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tyler, Sept. 28. 83d Foot—Quartermaster William Colborn, crom the 3d Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Cartmail, who ex changes, Sept. 28. *7th Foot—Second Lieutenant Hugh Lloyd to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Patterson, who re tires; Henry Stephenson, Gent., to be Second Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Lloyd, Sept. 28. 93d Foot—James Webster, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Smith, appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, Sept. 28. 94th Foot—Lieut. John Mills Hewson, from the 78th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice M'Alpin, deeeased, Sept. 28. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Major George Cochrane to be Lieut. Colonel, by purchase, vice Tranchell, who re tires; Captain William Twisleton Layard to be Major, by ,purchase, vice Cochrane; Lieut. William Charles Yanderspar to be Captain, by purchase, vice Layard; Second Lieutenant Alfred John Douglas Smith to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vanderspar ; Andrew Campbell Knox Lock, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smith, Sept. 28. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major Walter White, from Captain half-pay Unattached, Town-Major of Dublin, to be Major, without purchase, Sept. 28. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon Thomas Honer Wheeler, from the 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Johnston, appointed to the 33d Foot, Sept. 28. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 24. Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet Major Henry Rowland Brandreth to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Brevet Major Charles Ogle Streatfield to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Grierson, retired on full pay ; Second Captain Frederick Avgustus Yorke to be Captain, vice Streat field First Lieutenant Augustus Frederick Hippolito Dacosta to be Second Captain, vice Yorke ; Second Lieutenant' Honourable John James Bury to be First Lieutenant, vice Dacosta, September 1 ; Firit Lieutenant John Bayly to be Second Captain, vice Laffan, placed on Seconded List ; Seconded Lieutenant Alexander Mackenzie to be First Lieutenant, vice Bayly, Sept. 3, Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex. Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia—The Right Hon. George John Frederick Viscount Cantilupe to be Major, June 16 ; Francis Charles Hastings Rus sell, Esq., to be Captain, Aug. 9. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. Duke of Cornwall's Rangers—Francis Glanville Gregor, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Sept. 22. BANKRUPTS. William Henry Hitchcock, William Connor, and John Enoch Hitchcock, saw mill proprietors, Broadwall, Blackfriars-road, to surrender Oct. 8, at twelve, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, City; Solomon, Chester-terrace, Bo rough-road. Thomas Halstead, publican, Arundel-street, Strand, Oct. 8, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Gates, Theobald's road. Meadows Montague Wildbore, manufacturer of orna mental papers, Newcastle-street, Strand, and Calais, Oct. 11, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy ; Graham, official assignee, Coleman street ; Sorrell, Fenchurch- buildings. Donald Mackintosh, tanner, Russell-street, Bermond sey, Oct. 9, at two, and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy ; Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildingsl 1P • Cox, Sons, and Walrond, Sise-lane, Buck- lersburi. Samuel Williams, brush maker, of Sloane-square, Chelsea, Oct. 12, at eleven, and Nov. 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Bas inghall-street ; Lloyd, Milk-street, Cheapside. Martin Buggeln, victualler, Great Homer-street, Li verpool, Oct. 15, and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Liver pool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Kirk, Symond's Inn, London ; Parsons, Liverpool. James Griffiths Davies, glass dealer, Manchester, Oct. 14 and Nov. 4, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Reed and Langford, Friday-street, Cheapside ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs. each, h ft; for two yrs old colts. Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 51b, &c; the second to receive 501. Last half of Ab.M. (28 Subs.) Teetotum Lucy Ashton ... ... ... ••• 3 The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 51b. A.F. (17 Subs.) Red Hart Conyngham ... 2 Marpessus 3 Lazarillo Won by a bead. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft. No weights or course mentioned. Con tessa and Cavatina ran a dead heat. MATCH.—Vert Vert beat Cosachia. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; fur two yrs old, 6st iib; three, Bst 71b; four and upwards, 9st. T.Y.C. The winner to be sold for 50 sovs., &c. Radalphus ... 1 Ould Ireland ... ... 2 Layla filly ... 3 Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if &claret); for three yrs old, &c. T.Y.C. Cocoa Nut ... ... 1 Vert Vert ... ... 2 The Buckenham Stakes of 300 soya. each, h ft; colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Surplice receives from The Idol. COCHINEAL.—On the part of holders there is more firmness, and they supply the market less freely, but privately there are at present few purchasers for home consumption or exportation. At public sale 7 bags of Honduras went at 4s lld to 5s 3d for middling to good silvers being the full value. Fur auction 160 bags are declared. The stock is smaller than it was last year, and the deliveries ate greater, whilst prices are as low. Tie arrivals, however, are much larger than they were in 1846 up to this time. FRlllT.—Currants are still wanted, and of old large parcels have been sold, Zante and Cephalonia at 40s, and Patras at 38s. to 40s. New are wanted, fine Patras at 455, on the part of merchants there is firmness. Valentia Raisins have been operated in with cau tion, owing to the high rate of 50s being still asked for new, and the supply is on the increase. Muscatels are only in moderate demand at 60s to 755, Sultanas 70s. New Turkey pulled Figs are in demand at 60s to 70s. New Jordan Almonds sell slowly at 101 lOs to 11/. The accounts received from Malaga of the destruction of a great portion of the new crop, caused holders of old to advance their prices 4s to 5a per cwt. Chesme Raisins are firm. . . . Oils.--In the value of Fish Oils little variation has taken place since our last report, and the arrivals have been unimportant. On the part of holders there is firm ness, and the market has been again moderately sup plied. In Seal purchases to a fair extent have been made upon the following terms :—pale at 281 lOs to 29/, straw 28/, yellow 251 105 to 261 lOs, and brown 241 10s to 251. Cod met with a good demand, and is with difficulty to be obtained under 28/4 Southern of all kinds is wanted, and the parcels disposed of by private treaty were at fully former rates, whilst at auction 40 tuns found buyers at 241 103 to 271 103 for low to fine. For Sperm a good demand has been experienced, and the prices obtained have been 84/ to 861 for fair to fine quality. On the part of holders there is firmness, and they supply the market less freely. At public sale 6 tuns found buyers—good quality at 84/, low and very low'7o/ to 801 per tun, and the value of headmatter is 851 to 871. The home trade continue to be almost the exclusive purchasers of Fish Oils. There is less demand for Olive, and merchants are not so firm, only a limited business has been concluded. Gallipoli at 481 to 48/ 10s; Spanish and Sicily 461 lOs to 47110 s; Barbary, Levant, and Portugal 44/ 103 to 46L The deliveries, however, still exceeding the arrivals. For Linseed the home demand has been good, whilst shippers have been pur chasers to a fair extent, and the rates paid on the spot have been 26s 6d to 26s 9d. TALLow.—For Russian prices have not much im proved, but on the part of the home trade more desire has been manifested to operate. On the spot a good demand has been experienced, and 46s 6d to 46s 9d have been the rates obtained for fine new P. Y. C. At auction 129 casks of old went at 45s 6d to 45s 9d for first quality, 50 casks of Odessa Ox 45s 9d, and 25 casks of Archangel 43s 9d to 455. For ferward delivery many contracts have been entered into at 45a 6d for P. Y. C. Rome-made sells more freely at 47s to 48s net cash. All other kinds of Tallow are more required, and former rates are fully supported, but the supply continues to be good ; at auction 235 casks Australian were sold, fine at 46s to 46s 6d, and low to good at 44s 3d to 45s 9d per cwt. The stock has been further increased, and is greater than it was in the past year, still prices are above those of that time ; but the deli veries are larger, and the arrivals show an increase. At St. Petersburgh the shipments of Tallow have exceeded those of the past season by nearly 20,000 casks. For auction here 400 packages are declared for Friday. The value of Rough Fat is 2s 9d per stone. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 27. HENRY FISHER'S BANSRUFTCY. The bankrupt was a colonial broker in Great Tower street. This was the certificate meeting. Mr COOKS opposed, and Mr. Lawrence supported The debts and liabilities were 6,3331. and the as sets will do little more than pay the expenses of the fiat. _ _ The bankrupt commenced business on his own ac count in October, 1842, having been previously in partnership with a man named Clarke, since a bank rupt. When Fisher so commenced he was insolvent. It appeared by the evidence, that he did not confine himself to brokerage, but traded on his own account very largely, and inserted such transactions under fictitious heads in the ledger. The Commissioner asked him why he made such fictitious entries The bankrupt replied, after much hesitation, that he did not wish to let his clerks know he traded upon his own account. One of the main charges preferred against him was extravagant expen diture. This charge was proved. The bankrupt admitted that he spent 11. ss. a week on wine and spirits alone, and that an establishment at Hackney, which he was in the habit of visiting, and in which a single lady lived, cost him more than 100/. a year. Another charge was, obtaining money by false re presentations from a creditor. This charge too was completely proved. Mr. Charles Barry, of Fen church-street, lent him upwards of 2,0001, the bankrupt, with whom he had long been on terms of friendship, assuring him that he was then in solvent circumstances, and that he wanted to invest the money in a Government contract for cocoa. The bankrupt admitted that at the period he obtained this loan he was insolvent, and that he had stated he wished to invest it in a Government contract, but he denied that he said he was solvent. At the time of the loan he, fully expected a large bequest from his father, who was aged and ‘s ealthy—a hope which was not realised. He invested the money so borrowed in -_tocoa, and lost 3001. by the transaction. It appeared ;hat Mr. Charles Barry charged the bankrupt fifteen per cent. on the loan. In addition to these charges, there was another in reference to a certain bill dis counting transaction, in which the bankrupt did not act with perfect fairness towards his bankers, who, however, did not oppose. Mr. L AWRENCE: and Mr. CooKE having severally addressed the Court, The COtirMISSIO/iER said that he considered the charges urged against the bankrupt as proved. He must say that he quite disapproved of the bankrupt's conduct in reference to those fictitious entries in his books. As far as he could learn, the bankrupt's con duct, in dealing upon his own account whilst a broker, was in direct violation of the bye-laws of the city of London—laws which were made to preserve the purity of trade, and which ought to be strictly upheld. The bankrupt's conduct in reference to his bankers wa s blameable, and his treatment of Mr. Barry was atrocious. He borrowed more than 2,0001. from that person, none of which was paid, and made representations to him which were wholly untrue. He considered that he would not be acting in accordance with his duty if he did not suspend the certificate for one year from the present date. No protection. WE S TAIHNS 7ER COUNTY CO URT, Sept. 27, (Before MOYLAN, Esq ) LORD BURY V. CLARK. In this case, which was tried without a jury, a verdict with 201. damages, had passed against the de. fendant. The action was for an assault, committed under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff having posted a letter at the house of the defendant, who keeps a stationer's shop and post-office in Jer myn-street, entered the shop and asked for some pencil-cases. A dispute about the quality of the pencil-cases ensued ; it became an angry one, and the defendant ordered the plaintiff to quit his shop. The plaintiff refused to leave, and defendant sent for a policeman. While the defendant's messenger was in search of a policeman the plaintiff saw one passing. He went out to him, and returned with him. The defendant then, after in vain requesting the plaintiff to withdraw, as he said—but without such a request, as plaintiff contended—ran from behind his counter and pushed the plaintiff with considerable force into the street. Mr. Keane subsequently moved for a new trial on the grounds-1. That the defendant having revoked the licence for entering his shop, which as a tradesman he had given to the plaintiff as one of the public, had a right to turn him out of it if he did not go on request ; and that, supposing there had not been in this case a second request, the first was sufficient to justify the defendant, as the plaintiff's conduct rendered a se cond request unnecessary. 2. That the verdict was against evidence. 3. That the damages were exees, sive. Mr. Dod having shown cause in the first in stance, the Learned Judge took time to consider his opinion; and, at the sitting of the Court yesterday morning, said he saw no ground for disturbing the verdict. There was most distinct evidence of the assault. Lord Bury swore that the defendant pushed h Ih here a f t rh s ee a w w w i s ttah g statement thenerm:s v not in ntfe o ioln tnhfd eetahneoca cage s e e , ep andthe tuawsnhoy his motive policeman witnessesL Lordship r thowfh aiaps s, believed, that oi eiivietviolently.edr menus imposuit. The defendant had himself ad mitted the animus with which he had committed the assault. Admitting, for argument's sake, that a tradesman could revoke his general license to the public—but only admitting it for argument's sake, as it was unquestionably bad law—was this defend ant, who kept a post-office, who was, therefore, a public servant, to clear the post-office at his plea sure ? Much stress had been laid on that part of the n applica ss tion damages.%- c related T h e t yo were h e e r e s n u p i) t p o e s x e c d e s e s i x v c e e s ; s ive- and the application, therefore, must be refused, with costs.—Rule refused. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. A middle-aged man, named George John Hewson, described as a working jeweller, was charged with having concealed the birth of a newly-born female infant. Patrick Curtin, a shoemaker, occupying a house in Rosetta-place, Sandy's-row, Spitalfields, in the rear of the street in which the prisoner lived, stated, that upon going to his water closet between 10 and 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, he was shocked at dis covering the body of an infant partly immersed in the soil, head downwards, and distinctly noticed a tremu lous motionof the limbs, which satisfied him that it was alive. He immediately called to his neighbours; and, baying run for the police, found upon his re turn that the'body had been got out and_ placed in a tub of water, for the purpose of cleansing it, by a man named Josphs ) W l l9 afterwards sent for an adjacent MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Frice Current of Sept. 28.) SIICAR.—To-day a decline in the value of several sorts of Raw Sugar took place, in consequence of the great increase there was in the supply at market ; but the home trade were induced to operate upon a larger scale, whilst shippers directed their attention more to the article. In West India Muscovado a large business was transacted both for refining and grocery purposes ; but tie rates taken privately were Gd per cwt under those that existed previously. The total purchases were 720 hds and tea, including at public sale 123 hds 9 tcs Bar badoes, which sold at full rates. REFINED.—To-clay refined goods were purchased to a fair extent by the home trade, standard lumps fetched 54s 6d, and brown grocery 54s per cwt. Bonded crushed Sugar is heavy of disposal at 30s to 31s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the quantity submitted to public competition was large, and amounted to 14,331 bags 2 hhds, comprising five sales ; nearly the whole sold, in consequence of the merchants submitting to a reduction on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon Bengal was operated in with more freedom, and 3,620 bags sold at steady rates —Benares fine white at 48s to 50s 6d, good 46s to 47s 6d, middling 44s to 455, damp and washed 41s 6d to 48s 6d, fine soft yellow 41s to 425, good 38s, damp and washed 38s to 41s 6d, middling strong syrupy yellow 40s, damn) 39s to 40s. Of Madras 60 bags sold at the low rates of 313 6d to 32a for ordinary soft yellow. FOREIGN.—This afternoon sales to a fair extent were made privately in Foreign Sugar, but easier rates were taken: 868 bags Bahia at public sale sold 6d to is per cwt reduction. COFFEE.—This afternoon the public sale of 533 bags Plantation Ceylon went off heavily, at barely former rates; fine to fine fine ordinary at 46s to 50s, good ordi nary 43s to 445, low ordinary unclean 38s, triage 32s to 365. Native was in good request privately, and 670 bags at public sale went at the full value; low ordinary ragged 34s sd, and damaged 31s to 34s 6d. Of Jamaica, 7 barrels at 34s forlaw ordinary. 73 barrels I half barrel Rio were taken in at 32s for fine ordinary. TEA.—Since our last report holders have manifested firmness, and refrained from submitting any to- public competition. In Black only a moderate amount of busi ness has been transacted, but holders are firm. The purchases made in Green have been of little moment in any kind; still, on the part of holders there is firm ness, and up t o o n thjesfol4lodw, ingmirdatesa:n—dHybsuoiti, ordi nary mid Is 5d to 2s Od, good 2s 2d to 25 6d, fine 23 8d to 3s ; Gunpowder, Canton kind lid to 6d ls , 2 . , lL o H p y r s ia. on i sort is 3d to 3s 3d, superior 3s 4 d to 4 s Canton sort 9d to is Id, Hyson kind Is 2d to 2s Bd, superior 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Caper 8d to Is 6d ; Twankay, low to good 7d to Is, fine is ld to is Bdi klyson skin 7d to ls, better quality ls 2d to 2s 8d ; Young Upon, low to middling is to is 6d, good to fine Is 8d to 2s 6d. Pekoe Tea has been sparingly dealt in, moderate as prices are ; Orange Pekoe is only worth 9(1 to Is 4d, and better sort is 6d to is 10d ; Pekoe, black leaf is to Is 10d, flowery Is 6d to 4s per lb. SPICES —(This afternoon at auction 72 his of Jamaica Ginger sold at easier rates ; 500 bags Malabar in part sold at 24s for hold wormy shipping sort. Nutmegs are wanted, and 10 casks at auction sold at full rates. SPIRITS.—Since Tuesday last exporters and the home trade purchased all qualities of Jamaica with reluctance, although merchants have been desirous to sell, and ac cepted prices rather under those that existed previously. The total sales are only 200 puns. There is a fair supply, especially of the low and middling qualities. Demerara is dull of sale, and prices are on the decline, only 100 puns have been sold since our last report. Leeward Island is Offered upon fur ther reduced terms, still the purchases made have been trifling at 2s ld to 2s 2d proof strength, and the supply is good. For East India the market is in a dull state, and there are sellers at is 10d to 2s proof with cer tificate, whilst the e iy continues on th e i ncrease . n For Havannah theft , ariti, w home or export buyers. Brandy is yet little- required•tbar shippers or the home trade, and the re is still a - deiire Aube part of holders to sell at low rates. Geneva setls ilo.wly , at 2s 8d for ex - ortation sorts, and 3s 2‘3,4..,, 7 4a 6a for fine home corn gumption kind. For British 4.M.F,Spirits the m ar k e t i s , e p quiet at lOs 6d proof. Gin is °Win moderate demand; 17 per cent under proof . a6.9a Ati; aid 22 under 9a 2d per gallon. RICE.—To-day the business transacted by private treaty in East India Rice was of,,littEP moment, either for exportation or home consumption. At public sale 4,803 bgs have been offered, and nearly the whole taken in at the former value. The market looks very dull for all kiudi of Ent India Rice. LONDON, T UES DAY EVENIN Gr, SEPTEMBER 28, 1847. surgeon ; but the latter upon his arrival, pronounced it then to be dead. Josephs corroborated the preceding witness's state ment; and Mrs. Frances Nathan, a lodger in the same house as the prisoner, deposed, that while in her own apartment, below that occupied by the prisoner and his daughter, who lived together in one room, and the latter of whom she had noticsd lately to be very far advanced in pregnancy, she heard a noise of great confusion in the room overhead between 6 and 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, and hearing the male prisoner shortly after going up and down stairs, as if procuring something for his daughter, she went to her window, and on looking out saw the prisoner cross the yard to the vvatercloset with a pail in his hand, and in a few minutes re turn with the pail empty. As soon as he had gone to his own room the witness also went into the yard, and distinctly traced spots of blood all the way down the stairs and along the passage and yard to the water closet, the seat of which N% as much stained in a similar manner. Upon the alarm Leing afterwards raised of the child's body having been discovered, the witness directed the attention of the prisoner's daugh ter, who was looking out of window, to the stains of blood in the yard, when she rapidly withdrew her head, without making any observation, and pulled down the sash. _ _ Two witnesses deposed to an interview with the prisoner's daughter, in which she avowed her own criminality, and declared her father's ignorance of her condition ; but Sergeant Price, through whose intelligence and perseverance the circumstances in volved in the case were brought to light, and who caused the prisoner's daughter to be removed, in nominal custody, to the infirmary of the White chapel Union until she has recovered, informed the magistrate that at the next examination he should be able to produce several witnesses who would conclu sively establish the case against both the prisoner and his daughter. Mr. Meares, the divisional surgeon, stated that he had ascertained upon examination that the prisoner's daughter had given birth to a child within the last two or three days, and, having since seen the infant discovered in the water-closet, was perfectly satisfied that it was of mature age and growth, and had not been long deposited in the place where it was found; but whether it was born alive or not, he was incapable of stating until he had performed a post mortenz exa mination of the body. The prisoner, who did not offer any defence, and maintained an obdurate silence throughout the pro ceedings, was ordered by Mr. HAmmILL to be re manded for a week, to afford time fur the completion of the evidence. PORTSMOUTH, PORTSEA, AND GOSPORT HOSPI PAL PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The foundation-stone of this institution was laid this afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, by the Prince Consort. His Royal Eigh- - ness arrived in the harbour at a cluarter to 4 o'clock, under the customary salutes and ceremonies, and , landed at the Albert-pier, Portsea, where a guard of I honour of the 52,1 Regiment, under the command o f Major Davies, Lord George Lennox, Mr. Grant, chairman of the committee of management of the hospital ; the directors of the pier, and the heads of the naval, military and civil, departments, re ceived him, and conducted him in Sir Charles Ogle's carriage to the site of the new charity, near All Saints' Church, and close--very much too close perhaps—to the tallow-melting and candle manufactory of Messrs. Doudney. On arriving on the ground, his Royal Highness was re ceived by the local authorities, the Warden of Win chester College, the Vicar of ortsmouth, the Rev. J. P. M`Ghie ; and a large body of the clergy. Three cheers were given on the Prince ascending the plat form, which having subsided, the Mayor read an ap propriate address to the illustrious mason, to which his Royal Highness replied as follows : " I hare received with much pleasure your address. I very willingly consented to lay the first stone of the hospital in your borough, for nothing can be more gratifying to my feelings than to be able to pro mote and encourage the useful and charitable insti tutions of the country ; and no undertakings can be more deserving of such a description than those that provide refuge, assistance, and medical skill for suf ferers under the combined misfortunes of poverty and sickness." The Warden of Winchester College then offered up a suitable prayer, and the stone was laid with the usual formalities ; and, after another prayer, his Royal Highness, with his cortege, left the ground and embarked for Osborne in the Fire Queen steam yacht. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK. A special meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Waterford ; Mr. T. Meagher, M.P., in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the directors had examined the reports and estimates of the engineer for a deviation line from a point a short distance above Carrick, passing on the south side of the river Suir, and also one on the north, between Grannagh and the Kilkenny side of the bridge at Waterford, with the estimates of the ori ginal line between Grannagh and the Game point above Carrick. That there was no decided advantage in favour of one side or the other. Taking into con sideration the general state of monetary affairs, they consider that the operations of the company should be confined, in the first instance, to the completion and opening of the line from Limerick to Tipperary, so as to have an early return upon the capital ex pended, which will require for the present all the means of the company ; and secondly, the purchase of the land and the prosecution of the works in ex tension to Clonmel, to ensure an uninterrupted traffic of fifty miles. They strongly recommend the share holders to defer any decision upon the approach to ' Waterford until the next half-yearly meeting, being of opinion that the bridge formerly contemplated at Grannagh is impracticable, and therefore recommend the proprietors to confirm its abandonment. That, being within 8,0001. of having half the capital paid up, the directors requested authority t.? borrow any portion of the sum the Act entitled them to raise. On the motion being made that the report be adopted, a discussion arose as to the necessity of coming to a decision with respect to a north or south line from Carrick. Lord GLENGALL said, there were advantages and disadvantages at both sides, which left the subject perfectly doubtful to his mind. He saw much dif ficulty in going to Parliament for either of these lines ; there was a movement in England opposed to the passing of railway Bills. He did not think it wise, in the present state of the money market, to employ the engineers and staff to go to Parliament at a time when their services would be wanted on the line between Limerick and Clonmel. Resolutions were passed adopting the report; aban doning the proposed bridge at Grannagh, and autho rising the directors to borrow 250,000/. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. TVANDSIVOR7 11. Thomas Badcock, Henry Badcock, and Henry Driver, three powerful young men, were charged before Mr. Paynter with the following attack on two labourers, working on the Richmond Railway. It appears that these men, whose names are James Smith and Jesse llaydon, went on Saturday night into the tap-room of the Rose and Crown, and had hardly been there a minute before henry Badcock knocked Smith down anti kicked him, Ilaydon picked his companion up, when he was struck and knocked down. .With considerable difficulty they got out of the house, and proceeded towards home. In passing up Garrett-lane they were met by the pri soners Thomas Badcock and Driver, who attacked them with the ferocity of wild beasts, they fdled them, and then in the most cowardly and brutal manner kicked them with their nailed and plated shoes over the face, head, and body. The poor fellow Smith became insensible, and the moans of Haydon were distinctly heard thiee hun dred yards distant. Their cries of murder brought Police-constable Webb, 334 V, to the spot, and the prisoners then made off, but were ap prehended in the course of that night and Sunday. When found by the police the navigators were lying in a pool of blood, Smith's frock being completely saturated. Both men exhibited such marks as proved they had been most ill-treated, while their assailants were without a scratch. Mr. PAYNTER said the assault that had been com mitted on the unoffending men was one of the most brutal he had ever had to adjudicate upon. But that the injured parties were poor and could not afford the cost of going to the sessions, he would have sent the prisoners for trial. Thomas Badeock and Henry Driver, would pay 51. each, or be committed for two months; and the other prisoner would pay a fine of 41., or be committed for one month. HAMM EPSMITH. Christopher Charles 'Thurston, who stood charged on suspicion of having, with two others not in custody, been concerned in stealing, on the 3(1 inst., from the premises of Mr. William Redkinson, the Sussex Arms Tavern, Broadway, Hammersmith, a cash-box, containing Bank notes, &c., to the value of 1001., and a cheque on the banking-house of Messrs. Drewett and Fowler for 121. 3s. 81, was placed at the bar, for the fourth time, for further examination. The prisoner, it will be recolleeteil, was remanded for the third time on Thursday last, in order to afford the police more time to trace out the residence of an apple-woman, who on the day of the robbery had a stall in Hungerford-street, Strand, and informed Ser geant Mount that she saw the prisoner, who got off an omnibus on which he rode from Hatnmersmith, directly after the robbery, and that he joined two men, w hose description, as she gave it, corresponded with that of the two men who stole the cash-box. I n spector Morgan, '1 division, on the prisoner being put to the bar, informed the Magistrate that the po lice were unable to carry the case further against the prisoner. Mr. I'AYNTER said he did not think the case suffi cient to obtain a conviction, if he was to commit him for trial. lie should therefore, under those circum stances, discharge him. The prisoner was consequently discharged. ATTEMPTED MURDER. BEECIIWOOD-GREEN, lIERTS, SATURDAY.-DUTiEg the past few days a feeling of horror has prevailed throughout this neighbourhood, which has been caused by the following inhuman outrage upon a poor old man, which, us all probability will terminate fatally. The following are the short facts of the case :—On Thursday se'nnight, Henry Bodsworth, a labourer, who resided at Lilley, left his home for the purpose of proceeding to the above place, to purchase some wearing apparel. Upon arriving there he met his nephew, with whom he spent the evening at a beer shop. At the hour for closing the landlord cleared the house, and Dodsworth, eith e r from dri n king too much, or from fatigue, went into a cart shed at the back of the house, and lay down OR some straw. Shortly after being there two men entered, who had been drinking in the same house, and had seen Bods worth change a sovereign. They immediately assailed him in the most brutal manner with a heavy bludgeon, with which they beri.t him over the head till the blood issued most copiously, and he was almost senseless. He, however, managed to crawl into a brickfield, abut 100 yards off, when he was attacked a second time by his brutal assailants. In this field were marks of men's shoes, and about a quart of coagulated blood between a number of bricks and the hedge, where the old man was thrown, the villains, no doubt, supposing that he was quite dead. Inspector Good, upon being informed of the out rage, commenced an inquiry with the view of finding out the guilty parties. From certain information the inspector received he apprehended two men, named Thomas Hide and James Claridge, who were kept apart, one at Whitwell, and the other at Stevenage. Upon examining the clothing of Cla ridge, fresh marks of blood were found. He ac counted for this by saying his nose had been bleed ing. Similar marks were found upon the clothing of Hide. Mr. Curling, one of the county magistrates, and Mr. Hawkins, the chief clerk, have since taken the depositions of the evidently dying man. He, upon being shown Hide, at once identified him as being the man who inflicted the wounds, and he stated that Claridge knelt on his body during the tithe the blows were being inflicted. Mr. Phillips, surgeon, of Whitwell, said that there were serious wounds on the skull, one four inches in extent, laying bare the skull, the scalp falling over the ears. There were six others on the left side of the head, one so ex tensive that two fingers could be placed in it. The face was so disfigured that it was with difficulty it could be diAinguished from the back of his head. He entertained little hopes of his recovery. After so cruelly treating the poor fellow, they took from him all the money he had about his person. The prisoners will not be examined till Wednesday next, to afford time to see whether any favourable change will take place. THE CRICKET STEAM-BOAT.—Through some mis management on the part of the authorities acting in the late coroner's inquiry into the circumstances connected with the explosion of the Cricket steamer, which has occupied so much public attention, the engineer (Henry Robert Ilaisruan) on the day of the melancholy occur rence, and against whom a verdict of " manslaughter" was returned on last _Friday night, has contrived to effect his escape. It appears that at his examination on Friday last he gave his address at No. 8, Temple lane, Fleet-street ; but. on Lisp( ctor Marsh, F division, preceeding to the house in question, he found that the witness had given a false address, no such person being known there ; and, although there is every reason to believe that he did at one time reside at No. 8, Temple lane, Borough, no clue has as yet been obtained by the police to,his retreat. FORGERY.—On Saturday information was given, with a description of a person who on Thursday uttered to Mr. Holbrook, a hatter, No. 46, Strand, a forged bill for 5/., upon the Branch Bank at Birmingham. He en tered the shop and purclued a hat, in payment for which he tendered the forgery in question, but a shop man being sent out to procure change, the fellow left the shop also, and made oil; leaving the hat behind him. Ile appeared to be about thirty years of age, five feet six inches high, rather stout, with fresh full face, and rather curly hair, with small sandy whiskers. DONIZETTI THE COMPOSER. This eminent man, who, as our readers are doubt less aware, has been for a considerable time past afflicted with mental derangement, is at present re siding, under the care of his nephew, in an asylum near Paris. The following particulars, related by a friend who recently visited him, will, doubtless, be read with interest :--" The other evening we went to pay a visit to poor Donizetti. His nephew Andrea, an amiable young man, devotedly attached to his uncle, is unremitting in his attendance on the inter esting invalid. 'When we arrived, Donizetti was in the garden, seated in a large arm-chair. He held in his hand a bunch of flowers. his head was inclined downward ; but his countenance was inanimate. He seemed, as it were, to be dreaming awake. In the garden a little parterre of verdure and flowers is re served for his use ; and on one side there is a mar quee, into which he occasionally retires to shelter himself against the chilling breeze, or the scorching rays of the sun. When we spoke to him, he gazed on us with an expression of interest. it would ap pear that the sight of his friends created in his mind a feeling of sadness, for I observed a tear glistening in his eye. M. Ricordi spoke to him of Italy; of his native city Milan. Donizetti then half closed his eyes, and an expression of deep melancholy overspread his countenance. Ile seemed to say within hinaserf, " Pity me ! I am very miserable !'' A few moments afterwards he rose from his chair, and we conducted him into the house. His nephew sat down to the piano and sounded a few chords. Doni zetti thai became more cheerful, and whilst his nephew continued to play he marked the tune with his foot. This fact leads me to hope that his case is not so des perate as was at first apprehended. Walking, or any kind of motion, has a favourable effect on him. Riding in a carriage seems to be the sort of movement which agrees with him best. He has been taken out for carriage drives about ten times within the last month, and on none of these occasions did he manifest the least fatigue or impatience ; on the contrary, the excursions evidently afforded him pleasure. His mental malady does not appear to have affected his bodily health generally. His colour is fresh, and his countenance has no trace of feebleness. His right arm is almost totally paralyzed; but his legs, though exceedingly weak, have not lost all their muscular power. The seat of the disease is in the back of the head, and the dorsal spine is affected. Medical science daily accomplishes so many miracles, that, even though Donizetti should never be perfectly cured, .we may still hope to see his present sad condition greatly ameliorated.—From the Lady's Newspaper. TREATY WITH TUSCANY. An order of her Majesty in Council declaring a treaty of commerce, &c., which has been concluded, and is now subsisting between her Majesty and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, has been furnished to the Commissioners of Customs by Mr. Trevelyan, one of the secretaries to the Lords of the Treasury, by direc tion of their Lordships, for their information; and copies of the same have been forwarded to the prin • cipal officers of the revenue at the several ports and places throughout the kingdom for their government in the matter. The order, after citing an Act passed in the 59th year of the reign of his late Majesty king George 111., entitled "An Act to carry into effect a convention of commerce concluded between his Majesty and the United States of America, and a treaty with the Prince Regent of Portugal ;" and the provisions of an Act passed in the Bth and 9th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled "An Act for granting duties of customs," extending the privi leges contained therein, with respect to shipping, trade, and duties, to such other states as her Majesty may subsequently by an Order in Council, declare and determine—sets forth that "now, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in her by the said Act of the Bth and 9th years of her Majesty's reign, doth declare that a treaty has been concluded, and is now subsisting between her Majesty and his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand luke of Tuscany. (Signed) W. Bathurst." It will be recollected that a Treasury letter was sent to the Customs Board about the end of March last, to the effect that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs having signified to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade that the Tuscan Govern ment had issued a notification admitting all British and lonan vessels into the ports of Tuscany upon the footing of national vessels, without awaiting the ratification of the commercial treaty then in course of negotiation, the Lords of the Committee had recommended that corresponding privileges should be conceded to all the vessels of Tuscany which should touch at British ports, and that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury therefore desired that the Commissioners of Customs would take the necessary steps for giving effect to the recommendation of the Board of Trade, which was done accordingly. This notification of the Order in Council, therefore, although giving no additional privileges to the trade of either state to those ' contained in the Treasury order of March last, may be said to confirm the commercial privileges tem porarily granted, and formally promised by the Government. RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—By an Act of Parlia ment which came into force on the 26th of August, 1846 (9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 93), pi °vision was made for compensating the families of persons killed by acci dents. Lord Campbell, in the early part of the session, called the attention of Parliament to the law of deodands and to the anomaly in the law which provided compen sation for injuries received, but gave no damages in eases where death resulted. On the 18th of August, in the same year, an Act was passed to abolish deodands (9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 62), and from and after the Ist of September last deodands were abolished. On the 26th of the same month an Act was passed to afford compensation to the families of persons killed by acci dents, and to these two Acts Mr. Coroner Bedford referred on Friday night, in summing up the evidence on the late explosion. The Act is entitled "An Act for compen sating the families of persons killed by accidents." It contains seven sections, by which it is provided that an action may be maintained against any person causing death through neglect, &c., notwithstanding the death of the person injured. An action so brought is to be for the benefit of certain relations, and to be brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator. In such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportionate to the injury resulting from the death to the res; ective parties for whom and for whose benefit the action is brought, and the amount recovered, after payment of the extra costs, is to be divided by the jury among the relations mentioned in the Act. An action under this statute must be brought within twelve months, and in the " particular" of demand full informa tion is to be afforded. MR. COBDEN AT Moscow.—The celebrated Cobden is still among us. He came from Nishni Nov• gorod, where he had been attending the fair. The im mense variety of articles which were exposed for sale, and the admirable order which prevailed at the exchange of goods, have quite exceeded his expectations. On the road of Nishni Novgorod Mr. Cobden visited several manufacturing districts, and here it was that the in dustry of our peasantry astonished him. " Here we have manufactures in full perfection," he exclaimed at \Vochna, where it was well known that silk goods to the value of several hundred thouand roubles are annually manufactured. At Moscow, also, several manufactures have•Txcited his astonishment and admiration. Mr. Cobden assured M. Gutsehkow, the proprietor of ealicO printing mills, that he had nowhere seen so completely organized a manufactory of this kind. He highly com plimented M. Prochorow, another manufacturer, for the care which he bestowed upon the children in his mills. In the cloth• factory of M. Kotow he was especially pleased with the order which prevailed there, and the admirable combination of the isolated divisions of the manufactory. Mr. Cobden said, " You need not be afraid of any competition; cloth-weaving is in the most favourable state in Russia, and all circumstances com bine to bring this branch of industry to the highest per fection." He expressed his satisfaction, and his desire to become better acquainted with the state of the menu , ' factures and of the labouring classes. ULSTER. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at Belfast; Mr. J. Goddard in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the traffic returns for the half-year ending 31st of August were 22,1151 Os. 11d., and the expenses of working the line 8,3251. 12s. 9d., leaving a balance of net profits of 13,7891. Bs. 2d. Out of this sum the directors recommend a dividend of 245. per share be declared, which will leave 1,3291. 16i. 2d. to be added to the reserved fund. The directors congratulated the company on the progressive increase of their traffic. During a period of severe depression this railway has not only maintained, but considerably added to, the amount of its receipts in both departments of its 'trade. Past experience, therefore, falrly warrants the expec tation, that when the railway was open to Armagh, that a very large addition would be made to the business of the Ulster Railway—an increase more than commensurate with the outlay r: quired to complete it. By this extension districts of the country hitherto comparatively unaffected by it will be brought within its influences, and so long as Belfast maintains its pre eminence as a mercantile town this railway must participate in its prosperity, Along with the increase of receipts, particularly in the goods department, there has keen an increase in the working expenses. On comparison with the expenses of the previous half-year this increase of expenses is not proportionate to the increase of trade ; for while the expenses of the previous half-year amount to 391 per cent. of the gross receipts, those of the late half-year amount to 371 per cent. That there was a most unequal pres• sure in the goods traffic, it having been necessary in the spring to send out very frequently extra trains, which increased the cost of working. The inconve nience, too, attending the alteration of the old line of rails to the new gauge has also led to increased ex • penditure. When the alteration has been com pleted, and a double line of rails thus available through the whole distance, the luggage trains will be able to run with the same regularity as the pas senger trains. The directors are informed by Mr. Dargan that the extension to Armagh will be ready for opening in the course of a very few weeks ; they are most anxious that net a single day should be lost in opening this important addition to the line at the present season of the year. The engineer's report stated that the railway had been worked with great regularity, and that the line, the engines, and working stock of the company were in excellent order ; that the traffic had been trans ferred from the broad to the narrow gauge without interrupting its regularity; that the alteration of the old line of rails to the new gauge had been nearly completed. The alteration of the old engines, to adapt them to the narrow gauge, was in actual pro gress. Three of them have been completed, and are ready for work. The line from Portadown to Armagh was to be ready for opening in the first week of November. The capital account to the 31st of July showed that 622,496/. had been expended on the railway. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded and agreed to. After which, resolutions were passed, approving of the dividend of 245. per share; placing 3771. at the disposal of the directors, as a remuneration for their services ; and re-electing six out of seven retiring directors, and electing one new director in the room of the one who retired. The Rev. Mr. FITZGERALD made some observations on Sunday travelling, and concluded ! by moving " that it be discontinued in fu ture., No one appearing to second the motion, it fell to ground. The CHAIRMAN said, in answer to a question, that besides one train, morning and evening, on Sundays, there was also a mid-day train ; that there was now no more Sunday travelling by rail way than there was when the coaches ran along the, road ; and besides that the engines did not require so much brushing up and cleaning as the horses. He considered that it would prove a great inconvenience to the public if Sunday trains were discontinued. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday, at Dublin; Mr. J. Ennis in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the line from Dublin to Enfield had been opened for traffic on the 28th of last June. The trains had kept time with great regularity; the arrangements of the different classes of carriages and the rates of fares had met general approval. The receipts for the twelve weeks ending the 19th of September instant, amounted to 4,8221. on the railway, and 6,2441. on the canal, being an average of 9221. per week, producing a fair return on the amount expended upon the por tion now in operation. The revenue of the canal for the half-year ending the 30th of June, had been much larger than heretofore, and this increase had steadily continued since the opening of the railway. The works from Enfield to the hill of Down were in a forward state, and the directors expect to be able very shortly to announce the day of opening for public traffic. The remaining portion of the line to Alullingar will be opened early next year. The conveyance of the mails along the line is to commence on the 9th of October. One-half the capital having been paid up, the directors have re newed their application to the Government for a loan, and they have no doubt, from the excellent security which the railway affords, that it will entitle them to the same assistance which has been extended to simi lar undertakings. They propose to borrow 330,000/. That the Bill for the extension line from Athlone to Galway had received the royal assent in the late ses sion, by means of which the traffic of Connaught, as well as the shortest line to Galway, was secured to the company. That upon the completion of the rail ways in course of construction, the harbour of Gal way would be brought within eighteen hours' distance of London. The depression of trade and the scarcity of money prevented the board from pushing forward the works to the extent they would otherwise have done. That a call of 51. per share had been made lAyable on the 21st of August, of which 66,3001. had been already received. The balance-sheet to the 30th of June showed, that 478,4441. had been received, and 583,7741. expended, leaving a balance due to bankers and others of 105,320/. The engineer's report stated, that the cost of the line between Dublin and Enfield, 26i miles, for a single line, was at the rate of 6,0001. per mile, ex clusive of land, stations, and carrying stock. It having been determined to make a double line, the cost will be increased, under similar circumstances, to 8,0001. per mile. That the next ten miles beyond Enfield will be ready for trains in a few weeks. That the distance between Dublin and Mullingar had been shortened one mile by deviations, principally through bog. These deviations have turned out more satisfactory than had been anticipated, and the cost of construction more moderate. That the work ing stock consisted of six locomotives, to which five more were shortly to be added ; 53 carriages, and 20 goods waggons. There was no instance of failure or sign of instability in any of the works on the line. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, congratulated them on the circumstance that scarcely 20 months had elapsed since the works were commenced by raising the first sod, and that they were enabled to accomplish so much in so short a period. 'With respect to the increase of traffic on the canal, he stated, that it should be also borne in mind they had acquired possession. of that property, on which 1,500,0004 had been expended, for 300,000/., d being only one-fifth of the original cost, and it Wt be fund that they had acted wisely in securing that desirable navigation. Ile regretted that the country through which it passed was almost wholly agricul tural. The railway would have its passengers and the canal its heavy traffic, each independent of the other. He hoped that when the question of Government loans to aid Irish enterprise was again agitated in the House of Commons, that the Members would at least prefer their country to the Minister. He felt that everything which affected the interests o f the Irish railways also affected the interests of Ire land. He begged to remind the proprietors, as he did on 3 former occasion, that it was not upon the Government aid of loans or borrowing that they should rely, but upon their own energies and resources. Mr. PERRY, in seconding the motio n, said, that after the full statement that had been made relative to the concern, very little remained for him to say. ast ear He stated that the receipts on the canal fo r the p rtain y had been upwards of 1,0001. more than on any pr.e vious year, and he had no doubt that, when ce improvements now going on were completed, they woull find that their profits for this year would of be . upwards of 5 per cent. upon the purchase money the canal, and 6 per cent. next year. That when the line was completed to Mullingar they would have a receipt of between 6 and 7 per cent. upon the entire expenditure. Resolutions were passed adopting th e report, re electing the five retiring directors, and auth orising the directors tol borrow 333,000/. on mortgage de bentures. Mr. llunsoN said that if the company on it would be a most successful undertaking. ./ considered that it would be ruinous to the concern _l.• they now attempted to raise so large a sum as 330,00,00i_ by mortgage at 6 per cent. ; that if they waited r, some time he thought the money could be borrowed at 4 per cent. t o t ed After some further observations, thanks were went steadillYo to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' LIVE, 27. STOCK EXCHANGE RPOOL ,—There has SEPTEMBER not been such a good in., ket for shares to-day, and rather lower rates have been tak,e,7 Shares, 5 1 / a Ditto (late C. and B.). The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, ii", Gres —Ditto, 22/. Shares, 4 1 1, dis.—Eastern Counties,l7i4 Northern, 4 1 4 dis.—Ureat Western, 171. Shares, I.i P.r s .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Fifths, 1 3 / p —Ditto (Fester,an Riding Union), Fifths, I % dis.—Liverpool, Man p ri d , Newcastle Junction, 2 1 A 3 p.—London - and North - lit t r o , 159 1 , 2 —Ditto, Fifths, 10 1 A—Ditto, 401. Shares,_2l 11.—„, Ditto, 1591,2—Ditto, New, BA,', p.— Manchester and Sheffield, lv" ri 55/. Shres, out gal"s'hig ference, 1 4 p.—Miuland Stock, 115—Ditto, New affords p.—North British, New, Thirds, % p.—North St 1% p.— South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 1 % dia..... Dutch Rhenish, 4', dis. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 27. Lanai . STOCK ExcIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, le7' 7 4 shire, and Cheshire Junction, 5 dis.—Eastern Counties, lhe,s, —Leeds and Thirsk, 15 dis.—Ditto, New, 11 dis.--Al a n,„ r fb ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 1-1 6 1 , '•"; - ' " t b. Staffordshire, 1 5-16 p.—Preston and Wvre, 4 / 2 -4 Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 ' ' Berwick, Extension, No. 2, 2 3. ;, p • LEEDS, SEPTEMBER . 27. hirer STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancasderr New, 3:- : i n. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 16s. 6d. dis. --I ! i n i d - o k• 1 4 dis.—fork , Newcastle, a. field and Manchester, 225. n. dis.—Lancashire and ',w a it shire 321. Shares, 3 1 A Riding Union), 365. dis.—Leeds auf Thirsk, 14:5 P. c liS. diF.—DittO, Fifths, 4s. 6d r .... ~, Ditto, New, 11 n. dis.—Leiuster and Bedford, North 13 It e l r st°, —London, Brighton, and South Coast, 45:A-- North Statt, _a_ Thirds, 6s. p.—Ditto, Quarters, ss. 6d , P- - York, :Nei' shire, 31s. n. p.—North-Western, 3 3 4 d ie. — castle, and Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 21 / 4 1 1. SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 27. 4 .. 'Setting' i% p.---DitO (d 78..... STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Amberga,.., - cis. Qua rters , eri d ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—East Lancashire, Shetlield), 121. 10s. Shares ,2% dis.—York, dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby 0 4 Berwick, Extension, No. 2, 2.1/ t p. EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 'Off STOCK EXCHANOE.—The sales are—Caledonian, L'eitb, 375. —Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 65s.—Edinhurgh% aed and Grant-n, Quarters (scrip), Gs. 9d.- Edinhurgikl 5 0d Northern, Newport, New, Reg., 275. 6d.—Edinburg gri• Nort l , l ~,•,. Perth, Halves, sa. 6d.—Great Northern. 713. tish, New Quarters (Scrip), Ditto, ThinP , . I ' el ; t iid tared, 27s.—Ditto, ditto (scrip), 265. 6d.—Shrewsba r i Hereford (8 per cent. guar.), 58s. 6d. . GLASGO I % , SEPTEMBER 25. . ,c'ea", STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonian, 'and Newcastle, A 13s.—Direct Bombay and Madras, Is. 9d.—DuocieesN Perth, Quarters, 655. 6d. —Edinburgh and GlasgoNottii ex div.—Manchester and Southampton, 13s. 6d.--4 British, Thirds, 275. 6d. ; How A W `FIFE WAS WON AND Los c T,--- A our , b 0 circumstance occurred in Newport last week, wb, le e or record as a practical lesson to all naughty boys o i b ge• 30, who dare to think for themselves at that cbildiso i; and pretend to be men enough for matrimony. l' o f s tbe fell out. On Wednesday morning Captain Bank s ' k to, Carleton, from Loudon, with the boldness of gi 4 /c o niing presented himself at St. Woollo's altar, with a become 0 lady who had just put off widow's weeds to b oti T io li bride. Here, after some little delay, they were reo ed t he " spliced" by special license ; and, having duly ! e t , boat officials, away the happy party steered to bat to Magub's, of the Commercial Inn, near the dock, tn . 4) spend the day, &c. The flags waved gailY °a bn"drodulb a and treble grog allowance• Carletonmorning the. were put ° wept , and a splendid Ali vi ee ,l a happy party were to be found at the inn. fe d as merry as a marriage bell," as saith the poetn;ed 10 breakfa st -t when night approached, the blushing bride hast e ,. Nof her chamber to await the coming of her liege lor" rO OO, the worthy bridegroom, albeit an abstemious Yougstsiii was this night induced to pro l o ng his stay bel°,9r Fool with his friends, just to take " one glass more. vo ice delay! The " very glass" was at his lips, whe n % c e ie prmounced his name and desired his appea r oo /0 another apartment. It was verily mother, who had come down on the wings of ra t _ m ile solicitude—not to bid her son good cheer, and to b_ o dg upon his marriage, but to interpose her stern corn°3_sool between her son and his happiness—in fact, to Pr', t he the marriage of " her boy." Did he resist, and , loc' t b e r, the old lady up for a few hours? Did he say, ' 3 ; 1° 0 4 lam of age, and can answer for Myself?" NaP " - l ied+ we are to record, the expectant bride *as .dese i d and the submissive boy of 30 years of age 11$5 ,,„01 1 away by his mamma, and made a prisoner 'Ou v iler his own ship with an intimation that he should e l t bsi the bridegr coot resign his wife or his ship. 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The porf neP valuable new invention are so great as to brin g very deactiveoplo lug, of long standing, to its perfect an d natural state, and r c iil or ° deal persons to enjoy general conversation , to hear glistintio church, on the bench, at the bar, and at public assemblie'; r aoY e t pleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears are entirely' 7,100' and it affords to individuals affected with this dreadful Mal, a 100 1 1 assistance that possibly could be desired. Also iMprove"„,tacief: Trumpets of every descript on. The newly-inventeds'o, toT immediately they are plated be ore extremely imperfect visrealoce:,' mist and duline.s which appear before the eyes is' at olio , 40 .1 1 "'' eery object becomes clear and dis•inct, so that them e' t i, ' NO; perfects gh becomes bright and brilliant, and is brough t !! e s, 014 4, till, natural and origi al state. Also Achromatic Teles"1;u1001%, Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Caution—Messrs. S. 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Sold by all ~'",i- d on. ~. at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, strand, Lot outs Holloway—Sir, had suffere n. _to, frig. f LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—An American C . c Ico r r ougn , , el man, fresh from magnificent woods and • - „ - oftn -e da ings, was one day visiting the owner of a b'al , lied, it ' in :Bookline, and, walking with him thr eli g n eleai grove, out of which all the underbush had be - the ru' - , paths had•been nicely cut and gravelled, aadiatjtair'P: covered with woodbine, suddenly stopped, and and hei r the beauty of the scene, lifted up his Il an ) , her P.- claimed, " This I like; this is nature i4' combed."—American paper. 1.1? burette.. f DC* 14 On Tuesday morning, at Leckham, the Wife n- J , linder, of a daughter. f e ;e*'. On the 16th inst., at Eton College, the wife 0- t he of, William Hawtrey, of a son. oil' On the 18th inst. at Balmacarra House, the la dy 4 Lillingston, Esq., oflochalsh, of a daughter. la dy 01 On the 22d inst., at Cockairnie, I'• ' h . e the i l i e s tr , f. ife of 11. Mowbray, Esq., R.N., of a daughter. e 11 On the 23d inst., at Ileadington, Oxon,. t h ,b 0 bire, ' Lathner, Esq., of a son. nerbY e On the 23d inst., at Ridgeway Parsonage, - etas On. fi d lady of the Rev. A. Crawford Bromehead , Je n :: Niro. Il e ' On the 24th inst., in College-street, White, of a eon. a allow On the 24th inst., in Park. road-villas, VPI 3- f if e of Mr. Robert Hayes, of Lincoln's In Mrs. Edward J. Cole, of a daughter. i . ~ tbe ~. On the 24th inst., in Pembroke. road, Kensing,od-, oghte-'0 L gi fi gto./ On the 25th inst., in Montag ago-place , lady of W. R. Kelly, Esq., of a-suoji. -liblelodnsialu-s-qauare, ti) to tA MARRIED. 1;11, tel On the 23d inst , at Dawlish, Captain John V-Idatlgh the 11th Regiment . , to Mary Theodosia, youngest of Major O'Hara Barnes, 11. Ito 'al Artillery. gig M os e-o inst., r. owson, of London , On the 9- 0 D to Simmons, of Milton, Kent. Eo fs o q.j., r ,t i mo tl fe t sc e , On the Hall, near e 22d Bury St. au_gbief Sn O u i t t h lh i e l. 2o . th inst. Robert Ern . ly: L i off . trn, Esq., ::::: ' J E: i i i in n ü ß n e n n ' n s / „01-11819.ndttehdinnhigs:tos. tEt , i.s, a ig t ,a G . II riaLeegerenutpdswv,:3iaci7l94nh.e.: aged - ---- .g Louisa, ill y , oung e s t cl C 'lisle' On the 22d • , Just., at Scarborough, Henry .---. On the 22d inst., Mrs. Simpson, of Castle-storenevtie--°ooier ed 76 ' On the 23d inst., at Dewlish House, near Blantli, Rev. Edward Jones Walnieslev Rector of Hilperton, 1 : ' d os( On the 23d inst., in Geo l . -'' Eduburgh, "° ge s-!quare, 1 0 ( Grierson, Esq. 'Llo sf - On the 24th inst., in Welbeck-street, AT --argaret, VI the Sir • eatt,eEds6q4., late Richard Croft., Bart., M.D., aged 77. gr. i' ', On the 24th inst., in Cunnuing-street, Pentouville, Wood, aged 44. of Ipswich, al t i_ tb o ~ i the i On the 24th inst., in Dean's-yard, Artlllet the Wile ° Rev. John Clarke Haden , Rector of Hutton, EsseX. veoser On the 24th inst., in Potter-street, Be df o rd, Tneed ' Esq , aged 83. • ____--- -- --- -- lig' Lon , on: t•:''need and Publ!sted by MIIIIDO YOUX.• ..." rr ecP:a MT. - - - oiStrthaneds,arydo;:eiar,tabtorchoeunSutym t..offnlacei,cuuNoes.ext:ZiSestrarimityd,,J.ritpoliegior so "Aldilhl6' `- ~- :