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

fIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Unr Mgr the direction of madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be preget sted RORY O' ,LORE. Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson ; ILathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed- Ord, 0. Smith , Selby, and Cullenford ; Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. Laws. Altar whizi', a new and original tarce, called HOW TO SETTLE Accouyv, WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr. Wright ; sack Brown. Mr. Mutiyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan; - Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma:Harding. To conclude with the laughable Farce of SEEING WRIGHT. just no* being made to render the birthplace of SHAESPRICE the property of the nation in perpetuity. Lord MORPRTH commended those exertions—could he do otherwise ? And he applauded those who would preserve from sacrilege the shrine and the home of the the Poet of Poets after pronouncing his own feelings of veneration in these emphatic syllables :—" I say that a man may almost be said to be above the world who possesses his Bible and his Shakspere—his Shakspere for his leisure—his Bible for all dale!" It i s n ot, however, to any panegyric upon WILLIAM SHAICSPERE that we would so much direct attention, as it is to a practical suggestion made by the noble speaker in regard to the subscriptions now set on root for the purchase of the butcher's stall in a little village in Warwickshire. "In pursuit of such an qlject as this," said Lord MORPETH, " permit me to say that Ido not see why the members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution, and of every Mechanics Insti tution in the country, should not resolve to give some Mlle token—sixpence or a shilling per head, to mark their sense of the greatest genius which ever adorned English literature." Surely that recommendation will not have been liven to no purpose ? Besides this admirable Bug ;estion, the Noble Viscount made an evident allusion to the unmerited neglect of JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES. From this harangue we would augur happily, and already, in anticipation, see SHERIDAN KNowLes established at Stratford-upon-Avon as the worthiest guardian of the home of SHAxaPERE that could be appointed by the voice of a loving people. not touched on the deeply important matter intro duced in his Lordship's letter, because we think there is a higher ground wholly apart from politics, and even from the power of benefiting a nation on a sub ject of the most vital importance. We com mend it, however, to the public attention as worthy of the most attentive consideration. A letter from Berne states that, on the 2gth ult., the Vorort, in reply to the communication it had aieressed to the cantons, of the different decisions of the Diet respecting the Sonderbund, had received a formal declaration from the Council of State of Lucerne, contesting the validity of the decrees of the 20th, 23d, and 31st of July, although they had been adopted by a majority of 12 and two half-;:antons. The Council of State, moreover, added, that it would resist their execution by every means in its power. The example of Lucerne would, in all probability, be followed by the other Catholic cantons. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 1";,1•1- the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. Engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE for Six Nights. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the serio-camic Drama, entitled TR?, LOVE TOKEN. Philltppe Gautier, Mr. Neville; Francis, Mr. Fredericks ; JuiHnßan.nanire. Mr. S. Cowell; Therese, Miss E. Tarry. To be followed by Haines's Nautical Drama , entitled MY POLL IICD MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Haily ard. Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Houner; Mary Maybud, Mrs. R. lionner. To conclude with the Drama of BLANCHE H i. RIOT. Neville Audeley. Vr. R. Homier ; Hugo La ntret, Mr. T. Fredericks; Blanche Heriot, Mrs. R. Homier. 61. D oo rs open at Six , commence it, Is.; Gallery, flalf .rvrFt Sta. As VLEY'S ROYAL. A.MVITHHEA.TR.E, iprlewr and Manager sir. William Batty. THIS EVENING A pram' Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PRINCE OF GYEPttr,3: cr tY a Ilorae of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Aratkr. y pew Seen- in the Arena , and first appearance of Signor Ricardo in England, supported by the to ented Artistes of the 6 sta- DM . =pent, in tut.. ariou • modes o' equestrar on. To eoiteluile with ALESSANDRO MASSAIIONI. Stage Manager, Mr. W. L. Broadfoot. ROYAL, SURItEI ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Representation of SIIAKSPERE' BD I'd-PLACE. The British Army and Navy Quadrilles eaeh Evening. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Evenings. The celebrated Baud of the Establishment, selected from the Queen's Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite of M. Jailleres Rand. will perform a Grand Selection Ancient and Modern Music, and Jullien's Army and Navy Quadrilles; ,frayiight View of Gib raltar. Splendid Menagerie. Shakapere's I:,rth P , ace, from Draw ings by Alfred Crowquill. Porcelain Tower at Nankin. Concluding with the Siege of Gibraltar. reed i t g the Anima:s at half-past Four; Concert at half-past Five; Fireworks, at half-past Eight. N extra charge. Admission to the whole. Ot.c Shilling. The address of the Earl of DUNDONALD to the Elective Peers of Scotland, in offering himself as a candidate for their suffrages at the ensuing election at Holyrood House, will, we trust, be responded to in a manner worthy of the gallant veteran himself, and Hof the ancient nobility of which he is a member. Few men have distinguished themselves more 'bril liantly than he has done in a service where daring exploits and unflinching bravery were the character ' istics of all. Few men have better deserved the thanks And gratitude of their country, and few have suffered more deeply from the effects of an unjust accusation, ascribing guilt of a sordid and degrading character, the most inconsistent with and opposed to every feel .ng and sentiment of the high-minded and disinterested , ailor. The Earl of DUNDONALD was a sincere and zealous Reformer at a time when to avow such doc mnes was to become the object of every species of uontumely and reproach—to expose yourself to every description of annoyance that could be inflicted legally or illegally—by public prosecutions or private ? ersecutions. Advantage was taken of circumstances inducing a suspicion, which every act of his life luring a career of the utmost brilliancy and the most effective service should have been sufficient to VirtATElSit.--SuN Onus, .SEPT. 4. T w - tMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest. 57 ; Noon. 56 BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1ND N.W. by W.; cloudy. .1 +it WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 10 minutes after 9. 1 Evening .. 51 ,ninutee Atter 9 rebut, and he was brought to trial before a political judge and a political jury, deeply prejudiced and in flamed against the accused. We shall not now comment on the circumstances of that trial. There is little According to letters from Leghorn of the 27th ult. a plot has been discovered in that city. It was formed by the Austro-retrograde party. It was intended, by attacking the person and house of the Austrian Consul, to furnish the Cabinet of Vienna with a pretext for intervention. This conspiracy was defeated by the vigilance of the patriots. The Turin Gazette states that Cardinal CIACCHI has published a proclamation, in which the inhabi tants of Ferrara are invited to quit the town and take refuge with him at a place not far distant, thus leaving to the Austrians only the empty town, which they occupy in contempt of treaties and of the laws of nations. Sardinia, which has protested against the occupa tion of Ferrara by the Austrians, has now a popula tion of 5,650,368 persons, and an army, for a time of war, of 100,000 men. Her navy consists of 28 vet eels, five of which are 60-gun frigates. The King of PRUSSIA left Berlin a few days ago for Ischl, from whence he will proceed on a visit to Italy. On his return he will have an interview with Prince CHARLES, at Meram, and will afterwards proceed to Munich. His MAJESTY is expected at Coblentz about the 20th, and will return to Sans Souci towards the end of the mouth by way of Hanover. The Queen of PRUSSIA will remain at Isehl until the 13th, and will then proceed to pay visits to several of the little German Courts. The King of PRUSSIA has just elevated M. Ds BODELSCHWING, Minister of the Interior, and Royal Commissioner in the Diet, to the dignity of High Chancellor of the Kingdom, which has been vacant since the death of the Prince DE HARDENBERG. It is said that Count D'ARMS( is about to enter the Cabinet, but it is not yet known what department will be confided to him. Count DE FIQUELMONT, Minister of State, left Vienna on the 23d for Venice and Milan, where he will remain some time, to aid the Viceroy of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom with his advice in the management of affairs. prospect of our again witnessing a similar case. Suffice it to say, that the jury (possibly led astray by the extreme virulence of the judge's charge, and for ;etful of the benign principle of the British law, that it was better that ninety-nine guilty should escape than that one innocent person should be unjustly convicted,) to their eternal disgrace found the gallant )fficer guilty of having promulgated false reports for the purpose of influencing the public funds ; and the oresiding judge, not contented with pronouncing a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment and a fine of one thousand pounds, dared to sen tence a captain in the British navy—a iii ight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a oobleman of unblemished lineage, the representative of an ancient name, and the heir-apparent to an otarldom—to the most infamous and ignominious pu nishment known to the law. Yes, Lord ELLENBO aouGn had the brutality to order that Lord COCH RANE, a man looked on and regarded as a second NELSON, should be exposed on the vile pillory—a i entence more disgraceful to the judge who pro nounced it than to the nobleman on whom it was ordered to be inflicted. The latter part of the judg ment could no', of course, be carried into execution. The public were literally astounded ; and, even then, no Minister dared to brave the voice of public opinion. Many amiable and distinguished men re fused to credit the charge, and unhesitatingly and openly denounced the verdict of the jury as un 'winded in fact, and unwarranted by the evidence ; and his colleague, in the representa tion of Westminster, Sir FRANCIS Bug- DETT, in a spirit of enthusiasm worthy of immortal honour, declared that he would partici ,ate in the punishment and appear on the pillory with the deeply injured and unjustly condemned ea-rifleman That part, therefore, was remitted, nominally in m.rcy to the prisoner, but really because the authorities dared not, encounter the tumult that would have been inevitably occasioned ; but the im prisonment was sustained, and the fine enforced, and he innocent victim was deprived of his rank in the -orvice, and struck from the list of the British nary, of which he was one of the brightest ornaments, and degraded from the knighthood he had won by ex ploits unsurpassed in the annals of his country, and his banner, ignominiously torn from its assigned position in Henry's Chapel. Few, indeed, could have stood against such a series of persecutions ; but Lord DUNDONALD was sustained by the pride of conscious innocence, and animated by an indomitable spirit. Although stricken to the heart by the stigma affixed on his time-honoured name, he bore the inflictions with meekness and pa tience, resolved to redeem his character by every exertion and energy, and to enforce a universal ac knewledgment of the gross and unmerited injuries he had endured. The arms rejected by his ungrate ful country he bore to other climes ; his services were ever rendered to the sacred cause of freedom, and, like the ancient Grecian warrior, although virtually ostracised, he acquired undying glory, and caused his name to he hailed and reverenced as the benefactor of a liberated people. But still, not withstanding all his fame and all his honours, he bore the barbed arrow in his side ; there was a grief preying on his heart which no distinction could as suage. He was still regarded as a criminal, or at least his wrongs were unredressed, and he was ex cluded from the service of his country, a country loved not the less devotedly and sincerely, although he had been the victim of oppression. He was, however, spared to witness the full recog nition of his innocence, the restoration of all his honours. The people, the Legislature, and his sR Royal Mi s t ress , i n t urn , h a il e d t h e excu lp a ted hero. His name was again placed in our naval lists, to inspire con fid ence i n the people, and strike terror into foes. Again he was authorised to bear the insignia of the Bath upon his breast, and his innocence , his wrongs, ack now l e d ge d an d lamented in Parliament, disseminated on the wings of the Press through every part of the empire, and responded to by a people actuated by a singular and wonderful unanimity, were no longer doubted or controverted. Even party feeling itself was hushed, and to the credit of all, whether English, Scotch, or Irish, no political opponentinsinuated or breathed a desire to revive the ancient calumny. There is still one class or body of men who have it in their power to confer an additional honour on the veteran, to add another testimonial to the many he has received from every side. To his brother Peers he addresses himself. With a dignified and graceful modesty he shows, in one brief sentence, how deeply he would be gratified by his election as one of their representatives. He says that " the honour of becoming a representative, under the peculiar circum stances of my case , I s h a ll no t a tt em pt to undervalue." Perhaps this simple sentence speaks more forcibly than the most eloquent and brilliant lan guagedo of how oo n fi e d a e g n e o r e l y andhe d e r s e a i r p e e s c t . this I If d di e t i on a l could mark should by a possibility conceive that it could add to the universal conviction of bit, innocence, the Gallant Earl is mistaken—that is now to o universally recog nised to require additional corroboration. B u t the Scottish nobility may testify their sense of the in justice perpetrated on one of themselves, and prove that they believe the peerage of their country to be without stain and reproach. They will do them selves even still greater honour by the selection than the distinguished object of their choice, an d we should hope that politics for once would b e forgotten, and that the Earl of DUNDONALD would be unanimously returned to the Legislature as one of Scotland's sixteen representative Peers. We have Accounts have been received from Lisbon of the 24th of August, on which day the new Cabinet was completed under the directions of Marshal SAL DANHA, who, however, it appears does not take office, the Presidency of the Council having been conferred on CARVALLO, the Minister of the Interior. The following are the members of the Cabinet : Brigadier Baron DE Lvz, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Colunel FRANZINI, Minister of Finances. Dom JOAO DE FONTES PEREIRA, Captain in the Royal Navy, Minister of the Marine. Dom ANTONIO AVEZELLO MELLO B CARVALLO, Minister of the interior. Dom ANTONIO FERNANDEE DE SILVA FERRAO, Minister of Justice and Public Worship. Baron DE ALmoraLLA, Minister of War. The new Ministry has issued a programme of the principles upon which it takes office. In this docu ment the Cabinet declares that it has adopted concili ation between all parties as the basis of its policy, that it is determined to respect and observe the charter, and to fulfil all the diplomatic engagements contracted with foreign Powers. They declare that the object of the men now entering on power is to carry on the Government on principles of morality, honesty, independence, and virtue. The Minister of the Interior, Dom A. MELLO a CARVALLO, was for a short time a member of the Cabral Ministry, but he quarrell,ed with his col leagues, and has ever since been strongly opposed to them. It was not expected that this Cabinet would last many days. The Cabralists are using every effort to bring back COSTA CABRAL. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. The QUEEN, on the previous evening, had instructed NARYAEZ to form a Cabinet, and the following has been handed abuut as a list of the new Ministry : The Duke of Valencia, President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs; General Cordova, Minister of War ; M. Orlando, Minister of Finance; M. Sartorius or M. Seijas Lozano, Minister of the Interior ; M. Arazola or M. Gonzales Moron, Minister of Justice ; M. Olivan, of Marine; and M. Sartorius, of Public Instruction, if he was not charged with the Home Department. Previously to his visit to her MAJESTY, the General was occupied in receiving visits at his residence from almost every person of note in Madrid. The crowd in his apartment was in fact immense ; all the Ministers, and General SERRANO himself, were amongst those present. On the 28Lh NARVAEZ went to the Pardo to viyi :he KING. MADRID BOUM, Au° 28.—The Three per Cents. were done at 27 for cash ; the Five per Cents. ai 171, and the Coupons at 15. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday, and extract from the National the following admir able review of the position into which the miserably selfish policy of M. GUIZOT has brought France. After alluding to the observations of the foreign journals on the recent events which have occurred in France, the National thus proceeds :-- " It is necessary, however, to protest, as we have ealready done, against the xaggerated and unjust con clusions deduced by certain foreign journals. They mistake the confined circle of the Government and of the persons who surround it for the vast and pure atmos phere of France. Those journals have, if they will use it, an easy mode of acquiring a knowledge of the truth. Let them consult their correspondents, and they will tell them whether the recent scandals excited anywhere a stronger emotion or a more profound indignation than in our country. No, we have no occasion to take lesson* from any body in dignity of morals, in admiration of what is just, in the love of propriety, or in a desire for moral grandeur. It is particularly because the present system has despised those sentiments that it has fallen in France, as in Europe, into the last stage of dis credit. It still possesses the materials of Government, but all moral authority has withdrawn from it. It endures without life—shrivelled and diminished, and it vegetates like a stalk from which the sap has been exhausted by an internal malady. In such a state what have together c aai a eteg n ioiivut w iirmt e ; ja d tx)mt e e m irgo a aph n npt d of it? What political energy can we expect from a system upon which France and Europe genius of ud p outt a uwr s t ru s uin e nt judgment? ahi d isttiion iseapS pain, that Switzerland, Italy, tarnis h the itoh re dem o nstratingmoa tF re n c natural Government t s h p a h t e r o e f with tho whichu ar ale. All the Italy, Germany, are excited by our ideas. The sy ten% seems to have no oth er m i ss i on than to betray them W treatie s e ourselves have cance ll e d the of 1815, . ' which imposed on us th e elder bran ch of the Bourbons and' a kingdom of the Netherlands. We have raised a standard which the coalition bad van quished. We have proclaimed the sovereignty of the people. We have exercised the right which belongs to every free society, to constitute itself internally as it thinks best. The Helvetic Republic wishes in its turn to remodel its constitution—to give such institutions to the majority as may impart to it power to execute its wishes. M. Guizot interferes with Aus tria. He speaks the language of Austria. He reasons like Austria on the maintenance of the treaties of 1815. lie regards those treaties as a chain which paralyses the sovereignty of an independent state. He denies in his ardour the rights of the cantons, and, it be carried the audacity of his language into action, he would make the arms of France serve to maintain the sinister pact. of the consequence of our defeat of which Switzerland wishes to rid herself as much as we do. What then stops him? Two causes which he cannot remove. First, his own impotence; and next, the attitude assumed by England. We must repeat, with a sentiment of grief, that the British Government is jealous of the part in Switzerland and in Italy which belonged to France. It has anticipated us. This will be denied in vain. The facts are evident. The King of Sardinia made an energetic demonstration in favour of the Pope's policy only when he had received encouragement from the British Ministry. Bavaria, the Duchy of Baden, Wurtemberg, Sardinia, Tuscany, and shortly, perhar . the King of the Two Sicilies, will bo unite by Great Britain against the perverse designs of Austria, secretly su pp or t e d by Guizot. It it not THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEP I EMAIL 4, .1847. merely at present that this alliance exists. It dates from the Spanish marriages—those ' fortunate unions.' ' that great affair, which we opposed, to the great scandal of our dynastic contemporaries. It was next endeavoured at any cost to prevent the great Powers from joining in the protest of England. The Govern ment, as usual, acts the part of a mendicant, and it is now known what is to be the price which France is to pay for her silence. To ally herself with Austria in order to suffer her to oppress all Italy, would have been too perilous an act of extravagance. But the Cabinet adopted a crooked policy, and it wus agreed that, if an Italian prince should demand the assistance of Austria, bayonets. France would not give to it my eeposi tion. The same tolerance was accorded in res9ect of Swiss affairs. Let one Banton demand ass' st ance from Austria, and Preece will agree to it. Foreige intervention in an independent country was then accepted by M. Guisor, and he hastened to treat it as a pies:, of good fortune by joining England in the question of Portugal. It was a road opened to a hew ally, Prince Metternich, whose hand we eerdially shook after the massacres of Gallicia. Unfortunately, the British Government became too soon acquainted with these private conventions, and it was sufficient that they originated in Spanish affairs that she should cross them. Thus, whilst the Austrians were making menac • i ing demonstrations at Ferrara, England gave orders to her fleet to sail towards the Adriatic. Whilst our am bassador, M. Bois-le-Comte, was rid,culous and imper tinent towards M. Ochsenbein, Lord Palmerston wrote to his Minister at Berne a letter filled with polite com pliments, and encouragment for the new chief of the Verort. The sane antagonism occurs in all places, and what is distressing for us is, that the British Govern ment, assuming everywhere the honourable part, inte rests the population, flatters their tastes, and offers her sympathy and her assistance to all who aspire to liberty. The English journals are eagerly sought in Switzerland as well as in Italy. The feeling of the British Government is supposed to be found in them ; and, as that feeling responds to the popular wishes, those journals are translated and distributed in all public places. To this point ire we fallen I A Government sprung from the revolution of July allied at present to Metttrnich 1 The name of France united with the odious name of Austria, which represents the oppression of twenty different nations ! Tbsegenerons force of our country asseciseed with a false Government, , without dignity or pity 1 The young and hardy spirit of the Frenekraeelution dragged after that old Teutonic body, worn caftaavitea debauchery and violence 1 All that con . stituteinß li•Qy, our moral force—all that cbaracte -1 rised our stun and interested popular sympathy— the protect the weak—the useless struggles for the liberty of ths,Acorhi—all that has crowned the brow of our country, and Ist i Meli rendered it dear to the oppressed as a hope for thenefall have been immolated and sacri ficed by that miastralie. - system of which the passage will retain in our sirliiiitit4he recollection of a public degrade :ion and a scoalir'' •-•it r The protest'ivith' which the National commences its observations is, as far as the great majority of the English journals are concerned, quite unnecessary ; they have never been so unjust as to confound the French Court withlhe French People. The Gazette des Z'ribunaux gives the following ac count of the reported assassination of a woman by the Princ of ECKMCIIL : " About a month back Prince d'E—, who for the moment was living in an apartment in a furnished hotel in the Rue St. Dent re, kept by the son-in-law of one of the huissiers of the Tribunal of the Seine, was sud tteely seized with a fit of madness, just as he was ascending one night to his bed-room, preceded by his valet de chambre, who held a light. Without any ap parent motive, he threw hini , elf on the servant, struck him repeatedly,_ end, after having forced him doWn on the stairs, trampled him under foot. ' But do you not know me, nme:gm-in ?' cried the kill me !" I know perfectly well who you are !' man ; 'it is I, your servant ! you want to replied the Prince, redoutaing his blows ; • but I must absolutely kill yon, and I will let you go only when dead!' The cries of the valet roused up the other (weu. pants of the hotel, and they rescued the unfortunate man from his master's hands; the Prince, however, in place of entering his own room, slipped out of the hotel and escaped. It would seem that it was at this moment, whilst atilt under the empire of his fit of madness, that he proceeded to the residence of a woman with whom he had previously been on the most intimate terms, and who had even accompanied him in a voyage of circumna vigation which he made four or five years ago. He gave way on seeing her on the night in question, it is said, to great violence, and even gave her a stab of a knife in the breast. yet without doing her any great injury. However that may be, the Prince's mother came the next day in her carriage, accompanied by a physician, who declared the Prince's mind to be considerably af fected. She carried him off, it is said, to her property in Berry, and shortly after he was taken to Aix, iu Savoy, for medical treatment. No declaration was made to the authorities of his conduct, amt no complaint was preferred, These circumstances were, in fact, a month old, when public report seized on them and gave them to the world with versions both inexact and contradictory." The Gazette de France says it is able to contra dict the report of the young Duke DR PRASLIN having committed suicide. The Duke, adds the Gazette, is Dilly between thirteen and fourteen years old, not seventeen, as the journals have stated. The Toutanuais of the 29th contains the following account of the disturbances in Naples : " Tee Neapolitan frigate, Stromboli, has just arrived here from Naples, which she quitted on the 22d, bound for Marseilles. She put into Toulon on eceoutit of bad weather. She left at Naples the Souverain, the Ocean, and the Frieoland, men-of war, the Psyelif steam tt igate, and other French vessels. According to private letters events had assumed a very serious appearance in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies; the insurrection had made great progress, and the troops of the Government h a ving been defeated in different encounters, showed at that time some hesitation. Several towns were in the power of the insurgents." These accounts are probably exaggerated, in order to prepare the way for Austrian intervention with French connivance. This assemblage of French ships of war in the Bay of Naples denotes a foregone conclusion. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 76f. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 1181. 30c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,227 f. 50c.; Rouen, 9501. ; _ ilevre. i72t. 50c.; Greet N or th ern , 533 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 5851.;risand S Vierz;7: 567 f. 50 c . ; I )i eppe, 265 f .; Basle, 175 e; Pasburg. 3901.; T o u rs and Nantes, 370 1 .; Paris and Lyons, 3931. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 448 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LON DON STOCK EXCEIANG t'., SEPTEMBER, 3. Dutch Rhenish, 3 %--Italian and Austrian, 1 1 / 4 —Luxem • bourg. 7,8 —Northern of Fravice, 1 l Ai—Paris and Lyons, 3 5 1, -R ou en and Havre, 2 2 3 / 4 —Sambre and Meuse, 8%. i MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THPEE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, ' and prices were in some instances Id. per lb. lower. The sales of the week are 20,600 bales, and were yester day 3,000 to 4,000 bales. Shares were better, and a further improvement was expected. The features in the Bank of England statement of liabilities and assets for the week to the 14th inst. are thee Notes issued Decrease 49,040 Rest, decrease Public deposits Increase Other deposits, increase Seven day and other bills, decrease 26,449 Government Securities, increase ... 75,000 Other securities, increase 594,842 Notes reserved, decrease Bullion . - Decrease 99,936 Active circulation Increase The return indicates, consequently, a more active banking business, induced by the renewal of loans and discounts to more than the extent of the reduction which took place in the previous week; and for this purpose, it may be assumed, both the bullion and the reserve of notes has been made available. The Bank had loaned upon stock as well as commercial bills, and will no doubt pursue this course until about the end of the present month, when the advances will have to be made to the Bank, in order to meet the dividends. The Money Mitrket is rather tight on account of the la rge amount of bills usually falling due on the fourth, and the instalment paid yesterday on the 8,000,000/, loan has also absorbed some of the surplus cash. The assistance by the Bank, therefore, is very opportune. Besides the failure of M. Roux at Paris foe 100,000/., there are rumours of houses here being in &Acuities, but which we can trace to no positive foundation 3 et. Even if correct, the fact could hardly be announced where there is a hope of bills being paid before the close of banking hours. In the Funds there is very little animation treday. Consols, however, have improved a little since the open ing, being now 871 for transfer, and 88 to 1 for time. Bank Stock is marked 197, and India Stock 241. The New Three. and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 891 tot. The Foreign Investments are quite neglected. No minally Portuguese Stock is rather better, viz., 241 to 251, and Spanish Three per Cents. have been done at 30. Brazilian Small Bonds are at 85: Austrian Stock is at 1051; Dutch Four per Cents. are at 891. Railway Shares are fer the most part tolerably well supported, although there is not a great deal doing. • ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES. Bank Stock 197 197% 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 87 74 88 88 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities CEA % 87% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 8 9 14% 891/, India Stock 241 241 Consols for Account B7 88 1, s 88 Exchequer Bills. 2d. I,oooe. 500/ 9 p Small 3p 9p 14p oNE CLOSINc RicKs OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK NOCE,' Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... 105% 105 1 ,4 Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, Small B5 85 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. " — Ditto, 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. • ;..3uich 24 pc. Cent. . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 89% 89% eltic.ES Or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RaILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 1% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 1 ,4 — . _ Belfast & County Down 10 - Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... Birming., Wolverh'ptou, and Stour Valley... .. 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 6% Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, Thirds Backinghamshire ......81. 4s. — ualedonian Ditto, Half Shares..... Ditto, Clydesdale June 40 Chester and Holyhead... 32% — ••• Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clarence 7 8 14 — Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. '2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. .. 10 Cornwall ... 7 14 — Ditto, Half Shares ... 3%...... Dublin and Belfast June. 20 Ountialk & Enniskillen 124 — East Anglia, 25/., L. k E. and L. and D. ..... . 25 Do., la., E. & H.... 25 Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 1 Elstirn Counties 2O ...... 18% 1 i Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... % p ... ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... . 1 / 4 p Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 9% Do., North. h Eastern 50 ...... Do., Quarters Do., New l4 Eastern Union 5O .. ... ... ...«... ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d — East Lancashire Ditto. New Do.. do., Ext en. Scrip 1% East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .... 60 ......... ... .. Ditto Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% — Edinburgh and Perth... 2 ....• . Ditto, Extension los. - ......... •••••• Exeter, Yeovil, 84,Durch. 2% Ditto, New Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle B/. 6s. 8d Glasgow, Kilmar.,esityr 50 Ditto, New Do., % Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... ...... 12 1 ,4...... Great Northern 6 Do., London and York 2%..... Gr , at :south. and West. (Ireland) _. . . 21% 32 1 4 VA THE LATE . LIEUTENANT -GENERAL SIR EDWARD BARNES.—TiIe Inangut a iou of the bronze statue erected , to the mem ory of the la te Si r E. B arnes , Go vern o r of Ceylon, in testimony of the re•p,:ct felt for him by the European and ,native inhabitalts of the island, and by his friends in England and in India, to.:k place at Co ll.', e r imbo present I t , h ) , v t e e h r e 2 t r i s o g t r h e , i L i c r ul j d u e l n n te o , rbrlFti:toicnniv, the i e arn p aE r nt s n e jei n rt e ,; : orn t:t .Ten the A salutel3-A fired on unveiling the statue, and 0 bandthel 17ofguns guW the7th Regiment played an appropriate air. Frt.m the inscription on the pedestal it appears that the services of the late Lieutenant-General are pro perly estimated by those wh o h ave survive d him ; and from an article in the Colombo Examiner on the subject Ceyion it may be inferred that his ff gaid . roads hare been of great service , andworthy e'fror° a tas r d e -tomafukrai ing in of being imitated by his successors. He is said to have laid the foundation of the prosperity of Ceylon, and to have changed the island from a military garrison to a large exporting and impirting colony. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.— The ar rival of grain is again small. There is a moderate demand fur wheat at nearly the rates of last Friday ; some samples of new brought from 48s. to 545. per quarter. The little new barley offering sells readily at 343. to 365. per qr. Oats are dull sale, and id. to Id. per stone cheaper. In beans, and other articles, no material alterati n. GOVERNMENT E MIG RATION. —Yesterday her Ma jesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners announced their intention of dis p atchin g two vessels, of 400 tons burthen, from Deptfi.rd, on the 14th of Otto ber next, with mule and female emigrants to SAney and Pert Philip. The report of the death of M. Soulie is contra dicted. His health is, on the contrary, improving. HIGH COURT OFJUSTICIART,EDINRURGH.—A man named Thomas Leith was tried at Edinburgh, on Wed nesday, for murder. The Lord Justice Clerk presided, supported by Lords Ward and Crichton. The evidence gi it v d en p oi was son of e a h it ip J kindw wife, and ttthneopdno,buabbtlethcaatutshee appearedpris o n er to be a quarrel resp,-cting a w oman with whom the prisoner was connected. The Jury found him Guilty, but recon mended him to merc y , simply, it appeared, from an aversion to capital punishment. The prisoner was sentenced to death, and the execution fixed for the 22d instant. The Queen of Holland is about to proceed to Malta and Madeira. Her Majesty will be accompanied by her second son, Prince William Alexander, who it is said will remain some time at Madeira in order to re establish his health. CORONER'S INQUEST. —An inquest was held yes terday by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital, on the body of Abraham Edminston, a gun-case maker, of No. 12, Macclesfield-street, Soho. It appeared that, on Monday last, a gentleman br-ught a pair of pistols to the deceased to make a case for them. In the afternoon the deceased asked his son fora bullet or a marble, SS he wanted fritioot a cat. The boy It-ft the room by order of th7i'deceased. Shortly after a report was heard, and th e d eceas ed was found lying up on the fl oor , and one of the pistols, who fodtt, be of his which had been recently dis charged Vis side. He was atten ded b y two sur g eons, j a ws fractured, :indwas removed to the abetvßlOLVital, where he d i e d. The jury returned a verdict, " gti 'th e dece as ed died from the effects of in.',uries cause -1 1112y a pistol being exploded in his mouth, but whether with a kuicidil intent or not there was not sufficient evidencelitOow." INCENDIARIS e iterday information was re ceived by the li i fflitt on the nig h t of the 30 th ult. some wickedly ;re , person or persons had set fire to no fewer than six"teenintacks of wheat standing in a field belonging to Mr.:rill:6as Wall, a farmer, of Gladeitry, in Presteign, Radnorshire. 18 lA3 P Ai P 91/4 10% 60 2% 30 30% neat Northof England.. i 00 Ditto, New 40/. 5 .. _ Ditto, New 30/ 30 Ditto, New 15/ l% 16% l Bl • eat Western B5 10 9% 108 . 107 Ditto, 1 , 2 6hare s . . , Ditto, 1 4 Shares ...... 15 Ditto, k ifths 2O Ditto, New 17/ 7 Huddersfield & Mooches. 19 Ditto, Thirds .... 6 Hull and Selby 5O .. ... l ) itto, Halt Shares 25 - ••• •• 000000000 Ditto, 1 4 Shares 12% Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 ... Do., do., and Norwich 12 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & F.ly) 2% 9 1 ,E Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds lO Lancashire & Yorkshire 82 — Ditto % Shares . ... 38 ...... Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 ,E Do. Fifths 6%. . Do. Sixteenths 6 14 — Do. Thirds (Reg.). 71.4 s 1 . Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 _% d is. .... lA: d d i is. e. Ditto 4 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 28 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract. & Goole Do. (W. RidingUnion)4l. 2s % die Do. (Preston k Wyre) 25 DC). 1 4 Shares ZAS 9 Ditto ditto (B) 1 1 4 Leeds and Bradford 45 Leicester and Bedford... 168......• Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 32 1 / 4 — ... Do., Branch Shares 7 1 ,4.. Do. New Branch(blue' 2 1 ,4 - Do. Extension ( green) 2 Do. NewExten. (pink) Leeds a d Thirsk Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% ..... ..... Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... .......... 2 Liverp., hinchstr& New castle Junction 2%...,.. . ....... .... London and Blackwall. 16/.135. 4d. .... Do. New, No. 1 •••• Do. New, No. 2 3l. 13s. 4d. Do. Extension 12% London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consol. Eighths.. 20 De. Guarant..s per ct. 9 Do. Pref. Con.s perct. 50 London and Greenwich 12115 a 4d... Do. Preference lB/17a 2d... L quion and N. Western 100 167 168 ......... , Do. Quarters L. Is B. 12 Do~ au.. New Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 20 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (111. & B.) A. . 5 Do. 10/. (51. & B)13. 5 Do. 101. al. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham LonA. & S.Western 411 6s 10d — ••• ..... Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 D. New 50/. ..... 32%.. ............ Do. New 40L . 26 ... - Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 ...... Ditto ditto ....... 40 ...... Ditto Scrip 50/. Ditto ditto 401. .— 4 --- London, Salisbury, and Yeovil - Loadoaderry&k.ktlerause 92 3 / 4 48% 166 27 64% 47 33 3 / 4 26% Londonderry and Ennis k Ilen 2 2 IA Man.bester•Buxton.and Aiatlock . . 423. ..... . 1 di5............ 1 dis. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters_ (No. 1) 13 _. _. Ditto ditto (No. 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... Ditto and Grimsby.— 25 Ditto ditto ... 7 ••• _ itto ditto ..... ....... . .•• Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7% Manchest. & Southanipt. 24.-- 1 1 % Midland ... too Do. Consolidated Pref. Do. At. Shares Di. 501. Shares .. .10 and 1)erbyloo \I idland Consol. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent.100 Midhid, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto Midlud, Leicest. & Swan ningt on, 8 per et. guar. 50 Miditaid Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick. 25 3 2 IA ex div.... 32% x.d. Ditto ‘evc Ditto North Shields... 25 \ eweastkand Carlisle...lot) Do. Quarters 5O .... . Newmrket & Chesterforil 13% Do. Extension .........21. 12s — Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 ewry, Warren point, and Rostrevcr lO ...... ...... ...... Norfolk —. ........100 Do. New 201. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1647, North of Norfolk... 2 -- ..• ••• ••••• • Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 , orth &atm; ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shan s (2%—.... Do Quarters Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 . . 2 North -itattordshire... —7%...... is i i 10 ... North W ales ........... 3t%_ — North ‘Vestern... OXtoi :, W ..reenter, and Wolverh&lipton Reading, 6uiltitord, and i ilieigate . 71,4 — Roystcn and Hitchin —. 1% ... ........ •• Scottish Ututral Scottish Midland 17% — . .... ...••••• Ditto, New ......... ....• 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Boole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. \V . Min.) _,. __ . .... 106 61, Ditto Halves ..I ditto 8 Ditto Oswestry - - Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ...... Shropshire Union soutn Devon Do. Preference South Staffordshire 21. I 25.... ~ , uth Eastern & Dover. 33% — ••• .•• • Do., No., 1 26 .... . Do., Nc . 2. Do , No. 3.. ..... ...... 15 ...... ..... Do., No. 4 South Wales ......... ...... 15 th Sou Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 2 ...... X i ..• Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's stns. C0a1.... 2 ...... ... ...... .. law Vale Extension ... 4 - ••• •. 000000 ••• - Thames Haven Dock and Railway Ville of Neat ii , i , atertord and lid Kenny 13t12 .... IA aterMrd and Limerick 35 A,' atertd,W xird • W ick iv. , and Dublin \Vest Cornwall ...... 4 ... •. Whitehaven & Furness 8 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 425. V‘, ilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth York and Newcastle. . .. 25 Do. F.xtensiox Do. Preference York and North Midland 50 Ditto Ex , erkion .....• 25 ...... Ditto, Preference Do. East and NN eSt ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian... 4 Barbadoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Ce.tte(Constituted)... 4 .. ..• Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 • Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon Demerara 2% ••••• Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras - ...... .• •• • • Dutch Rhenish 7 t-..ast Indian ... ..... .... ss. Great Indian Peninsular - ss. Great Southern of Madras ss. Great Western Bengal... 5s Great. Western Canada... 3 , 4 Italian and Austrian.... 4 ••• , jairia.ica Ntlid..) um: tam 1 I , ouvain ala .-Jamore .. 6 ... . ...... ........ i.uxembourg ..... ....• .- 6 % ••• • ....... ••• I.yons awl Avignon 5 ad ras .............. ...... 1 Madras. N ellore, and Arcot Iladrid and Valentia.... 2 % — ... .. Namur and Liege Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux 6 — Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleang 2O ••.... --- Parrs and nouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 •••• — " Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes ...... 8 .... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt. l2 Trinidad West Flanders .. 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 London Joint Stock London & Westminstur. 20 Ditto New............. 13 Ulinm of London... lO Union of Alivirid t poimercial of London 20 National Prov. England. 35 Dito. New............ 10 \ational of Ireland ...... Provincial of Irelaud Di - to, Nett Union of Australia Ditto, New ...... ... 2 1 h — . MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO A4turian Mi.iog Comp. 11 Untied Mexican .....aBl. 29. £3:, 4 d. Galvanized Iron Real vet Monte, Unreg. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.) LosinoN, SEPT. 4.—Wind N.W. by W.,moderate breese and fine clear weather. OPP THE NORTH FORELAND, SEPT. 2.—Hindoo, Ba tavia ; City of London, Moulmein. 3. Robert Stewart, Havanuah and Matanzas. DEAL, SEPT. 3.—Wind A.M. W.N.W., moderate. P.M. W., fresh and squally.—Arrd. Dumel, By er, Rio Janeiro; Indus, Bahia; Martha, Porto Rico; Peytona, Brown, New York. Arrd. from the river, Kelso, Sydney, New South Wales ; Queen, Calcutta ; Blue Bell, Algoa Bay ; James, Demerara ; Audabon, New York ; Mary Ann, Henry, Halifax. The Macedon, London to Madras, was in contact to-day with the Oberon, Hambury to Marseilles, and damaged her boats. The latter lost her jibboom. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. George Hudson, Richaby, Montreal. LIVERPOOL, SEPT 3.—Wind S. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Venture, Fullerton, Philadelphia ; Carl Johann, Berg. strom, New York ; Rover's Pride, Bowen, ditto ; Lan cashire Lass, Mazagtsn. Sld. Sarah Sand (steamer), New York. Off port, Leonora, Demerara ; Rundur (,ei , ooner), OFF TORBAY, Auu. 31.—Laurence, East Imies, for An' werp. Sit. Sept. 2, City of Adelaide, Cape of Good Hope. OFF SALCoMBE, SEPT. I.—Edmond, Quebec. OFF FALMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Countess Canning, Sierra Leone. hE, SEPT. I.—Acrd. Oho. Williams, Quebec, DUNMORE EAST, SEPT. I.—Arrd. Abertoyle, Wil liams, Qui bec. CORK, SEPT. I.—Wind N.N.W. very strong.—Arrd. Camilla, Lawton„ tiloPtreal, and BIS. for London. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—The Infanta, of and for New castle, was towed in here to-day, with damage, having been run into while at anchor in the Roads by the Finance, of Sunderland. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) GOVIIINT.4:II 4I .YAD MN. Plums, 2s to 6s ; French-beans, is to is 9d; Apples, 13 3d to 35 9d; Pears, 2s to 45 6d; Bread beans, is to Is 6d ; Cucumbers for piekling, 2s to 2s 9d per half-sieve ; English Walnuts, 8d to 10d per hundred ; Greens, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; Turnips, 2s to 38 ; Onions, is 3d to 26 ; and Carrots, 5s to 7s per dozen bunches; Red Cab bages, 3s to 6s ; and White ditto, ad to Is per dozen heads ; Melons , 2 s to 58 ; and Pine Apples, 2s to 7s each ; Horse radish, is 6d to 3s 6d per bundle ; Mulberrit.a, 4cland Mushrooms, Is to Is 6d per p r ; Cucumbers, ld to - 5d each ; Hothouse Gray« a, 2s to 4s ; and Filbert..., 3d to 8d per lb ; Peaches and Nectarines, 6s to 8 ; Apt icots, is to 2s 6d; and Table Orleans Plums and Greengages, 4d to 8d per punnet. ZN.VGATE AND I.II4LDMIO HALL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s Sd; Mutton, 3s 10d to 43 10d ; Lamb. 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 33 10d to 4s lOd; aid Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. A few arrivals of Game took place this morning, but the general demand was heavy, at barely late rates. - ~ am 4-1 k It, -4 .. ... 4 i 'a _.,, T _ afr '4' , A I A ii. , i ._ a .---, ..., ...,..- gobik , r ,- ,.. ._..,. 466: 7,,,it -)" Allift L \‘ ',.'.-:, ~ .g,- - , . I:2_ Ul *, - • ,4 7 II FINFAVIIi ' ,7 .V.A . , DIE *...',. Iwto , ~ ‘ 40.2271,1' 1 7 v- cbtning I OND.)N. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1847. The most brilliant of our living Essayists remarks In his inimitable criticism upon " Some Statesmen, who have written Verses," that the present Adminis- tration is, perhaps, the most literary of any of the Governments to whose wisdom the destinies of Eng land have been committed. Therefore it is, that we have been sanguine in anticipating from the mem bers of this Literary Cabinet that encouragement of our National Literature, which circumstances have of late so imperatively demanded. We have looked with confidence for Ministerial assistance to such living writers as have been undeservedly unfortunate and for official interposition wherever the mementoes of bygone geniuses have been threatened with dese- oration or destruction. That we have not altogether been disappointed in our anticipations is shown by • - the different pensions awarded by the munificence o the Administration since Lord J. RUSSELL was sum moned to the direction of affairs. When the orphans of T. Hoop and the widow of T. CUALMaRS are not overlooked, and when the declining years ot Lstora HUNT are relieved from anxieties of a pecu niary character, we have no reason to complain of the indifference of our rulers to those who have adorned our literature iAith the breathings of their philosophy, the music of their eloquence, and the splendours 01 their poetic creations. An interesting occasion elicited from the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Woois and Forests, on Wednesday evening, certain observations, which will not be considered lightly by the people of these islands. Despite the pressure of political exciteinel consequent upon a general election, there has been anything but a manifestation of indifference at the sale of SHAKSPERE'S birthplace, at Stratford••upon- Avon. Now that those elections are completed, and that that excitement is abated, it is not very probable that an allusion to the home of the infant SHAKSPERE from the lips of Lord MORPETII Wit be listened to in careless negligence by the thousands who venerate the memory of our matchless bard. In making the allusion to which we allude the Noble Viscount seemed to avail himself of an opportunity for which he had long tarried. The occasion he elected was in truth most appropriate—it was on the laying of the foundation-stone of the Sheffield athenaeum and Mechanics' Institution by the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY; and the exordium by which the Noble Lord's allusion was introduced was no less appropriate than the occasion—being a panegyric upon the advantages accruing to an in dustrious community from the intellectual cultivation of its youth. After expressing a hope that the fore most attention of the members of the Sheffield Athe naeum would be directed to those studies and objects which are most important for advancing the real, moral, political, and social improvement of the mul titude, Lord Moat. erg remarked that it would be judicious to combine with those investigations some attention to the higher walks of elegant ac complishments and graceful literature because, said be, " the cultivation of a taste for art, poetry, and music tend so much not only to relax, but to re fine the human mind." That is a recommendation which would scarcely have been comprehended by the obtuse conservatism of our ancestors, by that respectable old Toryism that regarded a merchant's clerk as not mor e worthy of care or embellishment than a calculating machine, that looked upon the artizan merely as an instrument made to saw, and hammer, and so forth, and viewed an agricultural labourer as a machine of a value scarcely equivalent to that of a sub-soil plou r h, and possessing the additional blemish of re quiring food for deglutition. Nobler ideas have since then become prevalent, and statesmen aspire, in these our days, not only to insure quietude and plenty, but to purify the morals and arouse the dormant intellects of the hind and the journeyman. They no longer regard the aggregate mind of the nation as a spiritual microcosm, not more worthy of examination and en largement than the sliding-glasses of a raree-show, or the orifice of a phantasmagoria. The mental specu lations of Governments are gradually becoming as exoteric in purpose as they were formerly esoteric in principle. That some such change has affected the administration of thes e islands is manifested b y — the language addressed on Wednesday to the inhabi tants of Sheffield by the Noble Viscount the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests. During the course of his very animated address Lord Aloft ?ETU illustrated, by a Grecian myth, the utility and necessity of combining with bodily industry the charms of intellectual loveliness. " Those of you," ha said, "who have the opportunity of consulting the old legends and classical mythology are aware that among the fancied deities with which they peopled their world, one more especially was regarded as the god of labour, and of handicraft, VULCAN by name, who was always represented as employed in huge smithies and workshops, hamtrenrig huge an vils, blowing h uge b e l lows, heating vast . urnac es, an d Well, begrimmed with soot and dirt. f ladies and gentlemen, for this hard-working and swarthy-looking divinity they wished to pick out a wife. And they did not select for him a drab --not a person, taken herself from the scullery or kitchen dresser, but they chose for him VEN us, the goddess of love and beauty. Now, what is the especial meaning of the marriage of VULCAN w ith V E N US—of the hard-working arti ficer with the laughter -lopin g queen—of labour with beauty ? What is it, ladies and gentlemen, but this, that even in a busy hive of industry and toil like this, even here, upon a spot which is in many respects no inapt representator of the fabled workshop of VULCAN, even here, amid the clang of anvils, the roar of bellows, and the sputtering of forges—even here, amid stunning sounds and sooty blackness, the mind —d untrammelled m i n d— may go f ort h, ma y pierce the dun atmosphere w hi c h i s po i se d aroun d us , may wing its way to the freer air and purer light which are beyond, and m a y all y itself with all that is Lost fair, geni a l, and lovely in creation." Let that great truth, so exq u i s i te l y and nobly nob lyenun - elated, be to all a proof that stat esmen are beco ming alive to the advisability of enlar g i ng the field of po pular education, and teaching the masses something more than great A and symmetrical pothooks. It WU after the declaration of this ennobling truth that Lord Mare=s referred to the efforts which are NEWP 011 T. Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 4s to 5s ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10th; Veal, 4s to 41 IChi ; and York, 4s to 55 per albs. WIIITECIMPIII .. Beef, from 2s 10d to 8 s 10 d; Mutton, as ad to L. arnb, 4s 10:1 to 5 s 10 d; V eal, 3s 10d to 4s 10i; and Pork, 4s to 4 s 10 d per 81bs. BILLIN GSGATX. 4 s 1011 Fair average supplies of Fish were on sale t his morn ing, yet the demand was s tead y , at full peces. sNoEsiroart. Although the supplies of most articles here to-daf were by no meal s large, the general demand Was in 0 sltr4ish state, at but little alteration in prices. . BREAD. The prier s of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis a pe r 410 re from lid to 8d; of Househo ld ditto, sid to 7d loaf. 'CEDE IKAILICET. ditto Market. Hides, L6ib to 641 b, lid to 21d per lb; - 6411 b to 721 b, 34 to 31t1; ditto, 721 b to 801 b. 3itt to ak t i ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 4d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 4Pc. sd; ditto, 961 b to 1041 h, sid to sid; Calf Skins (est , D . l_ 4,6 d to 6s 611; Horn Hides, 135; Shearlings, 7d; and Lamb Skins, 1.; 7d to 2s 6d. HAY IVIATCHETS. 1 410' SMITHFIELD.—OId Altadow Ha), 31 to 3/ 18s; ~., New ditto, :AZ ditto, 215 s to 3155; Old Clover, 4/ to 4/ 16 , ; to 41 4s ; and Straw, I/ 8s to 1/ 13 5 per load. moderate supply, and a steady trade. . New CUMBERLAND —Old Meadow Hay. 3/ 1s 3d to is ditto, 21 5s to 31 ss; Old Clover, 41 to 4/ 15''; look ditto, 31 to 4* 4s; and Str,tw, 11 8s to I/ 14s Pe r Trade tolerably fi rm, at full prices. _ 41; WinTECHAPEL.--l•id Meadow Hay, sj to . ., few to 41, so New, ditto, 21 5s to 3/ 53; Old Clover, 41to 51; f oo l . ditto , 3/ to 41 4s ; and Straw, I/ is to 11 12s per i A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. COAL 111 ARK. ET. Fatt,AY. 21 0 3d Buddle's W. Hartley 185 Oti Haswell ................... 20 4 Davison'sWest Hartley 18* Od Helton ... .............. 20 , 6 4 Dean's Dipton Tanfield... 156 6.1 Lambton ............... ~ ;( 1, 9 d Hasting's Hartley lBs Olt Morton ................ . ; 9 , 6d Holywell Main .. 18s 6,1 Whit well ... ........ .• 4 5 .6 d Ord's Redheugh ..... 16s 90 lielloe. ............... .... 0 d West Hartley . Wylam 18s Od Seymour Tees ........ 205 Od Wall's End, &c. The Dukes .............. Y,: 9,1 Clarke and Co Gosforth 203 0,1 %Vest Betton ............. ri t ; 4 Hebburn l96,lrpen !ladle,' . .... .... 1 71 6 Killingworth 2os 0,1 Derwentwater Hartley i. 7, 9d ~Hartley Eden )Bain — 2os Od Sidne) Braddyll's Hetton -49 .0 11 . • •••"• M 56 arrival BOW-ST D AY) --------"'"—REET._cruts , ~,: t Giles' 6 James Casey, one of the inmates 01 .`''' ha ving Workhouse, was brought before i 11r • ' lg o i n rdl a n :li !leg e of been remanded from this day w eek ' cutting the throat of Ck of the workhouse Wench ha d b een . in the infirmary v. - o we, house ever since the murderous attack NlSto.day. al : tt t: l e :::: prisoner Nil:iiceho,p It and was not in a state to give d g e neono' bin , on appeared that the held as pite t° wing . account of the active part he had taken in stl being _Mtn when refractory, as he (Wencb).', to Powerful man, was called ilr The aass_vtery ri i . s the wardsman on such occasion. ._ . 411 timsoner had on one occasion threatened ta°rlcea out.. On the 26th ultimo, witness h ila rr e be pri' sorer prisoner in by force at dinner time. but.in the course talkin gbehind with some other intnates, the Pri s f le drew f' him, seized him by the hair, so : a rWO d. small table knife across his throat. mene ril as -- e e st ' . rlesa d rmed by the other inmates, and ch was to the infirmary, the wound in his throat Pi ing profusely : Thomas Williams, another inmate, c°rrlesrttecl* this evidence. The knife was Casey's ow ° P It Al He had ' eaten his dinner with it that (UP, 4 W ere unlike all the workhouse kniv s The in itl 'inti e r not allowed to have the knives ein.their possess"— by cept at meals, and Casey could only toe h c l°lle 5° stealth. Other inmates corrobated this evidence. d the The assistant surgeon described the nature wound, T from which he was now fast recovefing;e in' prisoner, when called on for his de re° o ta'ke r ' c il o a h o e h r t e e h ntly muttered that he was insane e of workhouse;the ewhen partand li He was fully coilninitiliciatettewdhae.shfeaelsne.yery touch i ..--1------ --- n AI.) TaiMARLBR(Y-SEET---(911115 fr'nlarl.A. Charles Andenson, young man, ‘l4t he ad Ole"- able sinister expression of countenance, wott: before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealinfir. Soh five yards of gingham, the property of e t linendraper, Prince's-street, Leicester-squilr:rstree John Biggs stated, that he WO in Cont u a to the this morning, when his attention wi's cal cling at. prisoner and another man, who were run- Wit' s ure bad a • rapid rate from the direction of Princes-50w, bit „ ness observed that the man, not in cu d ' i i,' % ioug bundle under his coat, which he aPPeareA he vis., de t ; conceal. This excited his suspicion, and then ' I3 "A termined to pursue them. Ile followe,. • a , afr Soho-square, when the prisoner turne d rclin iol l tg seeing that he was followed told his Carr K O bolt." Witness then got the aid of the sr tbe keeper, who followed them into a yard n e , e t 0 Three Tuns public-house, and in a water-en:oe one corner of the yard, found the prisoner /".- bi i property in his possession. Ihe ether Man Ede escape. . 01 c le. . oner, who declined to say The prisoner, anything fence, was remanded till Wednesday. v 'ed b i i Thu remainder of the morning was 0ceti,.014., the Court in disposing of several charges or • o f SP" ness and asgault, but not one of them villa least importance to the public. tend w i:tt:which family 0, day -----------...... n 1 04 Prince Consort, C ---- -- - - Ve.. ;,. Consort, according to present arrfieg.e.w.,9lfalltf °1 eunymsiodgthauu,e7.—lt i s stated that the to , .- b)rd the royal tt g i y.e a n faolnr L tdF o i d ts,hi g re e nt t o : i t lit)ohsei t i l: 1 l ''' n e s i b l or i t : one time contemplated . the royal __ o ‘-' the . north. House, LHaou ll ee i rl s ,fa ß ron o md yal Highnss Prince us sult of oa rtg attended by the • Count Oriolaa,3tCerOnlinct;to si : ' ig- . a numerous suite, has a tour eif visits. rear b ustli The Count and Countess Woron%lPOl:esCrretls 1.) dukoff•Karsalioit returned Hotel from visiting VlTiddetinit..,,, boo, 00 , ;co:pa:lied by the Countess sorisebkineanu ntanrorddatr.i,ol3ber Majesty cu a e hk g s to 411' ton House, Salisbury. v''dl return st°e;°, of ha rk °l:riled:lig:a:7: the Coguiti.teess nand fe6tieeruldublr°l‘e, 16t 1:08 n A IOP+ r. v 90 3 _ 4 The Duchess of Sutherland and cif tiso3 'Of s L •veson Gower have returned to Tredepobetlire 14.,rdshire I r ian vision h 1) ulie tin 131s° Lodi atA r Erskineg ) .llatl H ov' o e t r is a , ry . Castle, and Loru and Earl of f th e mattP ° e 0V loarciaErliliNjw!raur.iLLlrasdy.--The a 00 _ ,,, , 0 , Aie„,drie eso o f coed daughter of the Marquis and Mac hin° el 4ll donderry. took place on Wednesday last. 1.,.. .11r . e fa d SHREWSBURY AND CilEOlig RAllloscriger°ool traffic for the week eluting Aug. 27 221 1 ifli. parcels, 3461 3s. 9.i. ; goods, cattle , Ik e " 00 receipts, 5681. Is. 9d.enlle Of • the g vise l ‘ Henry James Prescott, DA., is f the occe recommended by the Court of Director* ° fo t, 0 sioned by England to fill the vacancy of Deputyo°e' <l4" the recent election 0 9 Governor. I Jona Morris, 1" .--- g E T. 3 •3 90 011 ' THE MAILS. -- SOTJTUA MrTori, - - o r ° tale - li ) oltlit Oriental Company's steam ship Erin , . ""tra for t he left the docks at three o'cl,,elc, P.M. lII'S u'd Ise '0 P yAI en route for Constantinople. Tu the forag er .., e the ic r lO takes the East India and China mail, Vile: Tv reo be re-shipped in the Ariel for Alexia] L I ca rgo ° p op' takes out twenty- seven passengers aud 0 o dis e:', / er tons of bale goods. The Royal West 4o f pot_Jibe packet Forth, Captain Chapnian, went -V-ioo, Witn-ielt' terday fat the West Indies and Gulf of .100e4e, o f (lu d o. usual mails, _a full general cargo, ,rh I,olslbrtilellaPti'int?: silver, and fifty passengers. -- e J ePi eniorr-et, . 0 0 ham, with Peninsular m ails, Westis ti°o-dies may b the Great Western from the 'llltliri petted on Sunday. __Upon 1 os te THE EXPLOSION OF THE CItICS. to the 00 . 090°4 r fa l exPl°bl,a last night at the Charing-cross recent a - .ents we,- of the surviving sufferers in trthot t he 1111.1 e left 00 on the river, we were inforele...ere 00 but 0 1 ° ite 0 0- fovafastthreecoorvigeirninagi 13;117bde,ri,ndeed, nyjog becom e c i ti e t h e 0# 1 last night: 50 d . io' fortunate parties, left the nc,spits o9 one ni vire -.Tinted , lescent, a nd gone swayth.reWSisinan, Birk h Birk., w ose leg was sii-r - A' Off or- 111 0 vouratily. TAN ON.----The IWO" '0 .. BOTANICAL SoCIETY OF ..,-- D , h ,„ sooietY .„ 94, meeting was held last evening St T . Grar i o ir 20, Bedford, street, Covent garden. ... i. e ' t i . 0 0. 6 After tut' Oft F.R.S., president, in the chair. .... , o f• a , uneas 03100° is going OR some new members, and the atm° 0 c oal Lo re dtioonostw i oans s re to ad th il e om libr i‘ a i r r y ..j a a n o3 d e t s b ea lv isd u o se n tin i n' ,ll o o 3 _ l3.eer; s ,to.lo cium, named by him bieracium heterop )._ _ Ad o p 4 ,,, stated that, before the next meeting, he eon. t he te' h y society about 100 specimens for distribution o f pi' hers. Mr. James Hussey presented a er e „ore. sit !aria utriculata, discovered by him in pors'irToiier...e Dr. Brunton, professor of Hebrew tot he,'" joe , lif o cl f er E g d y in fo b r ur s g o h, has in consequence of tudißr-.7 the i _ / at• signed his chair. 'Dr. Bruntf.o has been eye unrofee to 0 ship since 111y3e.arrirkhael.dpah,arsonhtielgde tohfe pheebyrea:dinteonbo.o2:l4 vested in the town council, and as the 0 13° ,00 . i ott not large (275/. per annum by last public re ''. o 0) 13 likely that the appointinent will again forgo 0 113' to a parochial c harge. th e ~a It is understood that Captain Willialo7,l ono Spector of Prisons for the midland district, %li e d by r oi to the inTectorship of the home district,voe,%o3 illor death of Mr. Russell. Captain O'Brien wit! ioleegi(l, the Scotch district to the midland ; and 01e i{itic"all appointed for the Scotch district is Capten'2ooo' who has for many years been the governor ot s' Se'' prison. tri / 4 , 1 ,40 DEATH OF ANOTHER ROMAN CATOOI.-ibe 0.-tie —We have the nielancholy task of recording ht lajef, of another clerg) men from typhus tever, CallgrrheP 0 discharge of his minis!erial duties to the p00r.,,,1. se, Robert Johnson died yesterday, at South-006 Chorley, whither he had been removed fro°. b0„0, where he had caught the disease, In the h°P - The " ti change of air might proote relative recoverP, Joliette ceasad, who was a near of the 1 / 1 .0 in .0 Johnson, of St. Francis' Xavier's, in this Owl] , ^Ol4 prime of life, and was much beloved and reel ° • who knew !l m.— Merriery. , 7/ /8 45% 12% 5% 2y B 10 17 1 ,4 34% 14N 11% 77% 13% - 3i 45 3 4 ...... 44% ..... 314 M 4 11 1 4 1 0 . 11( ;w