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come odious. With all that, he has not returned me the china he took from me ; what has he done with it ? Has he them still ? At the bottom I believe it ; will he return them to me? there is a world of ifs on that subject. He has not expressed regret as to what he has broken for me; he s:niles when I speak to him of it. lam inclined to believe that he felt slight degree of anger on that point. It is very evident that he had a mind to our bei n g recon ciled. Never' have I so strongly believed in his inclination in this respect. Will they let him do it ? I much fear that he may be yet impelled to do many things, against which I shall not know how to confine myself to a quiet regret. I strongly feel, that in spite of my affection for him, I cannot be happy if I do not occupy in a co mplete and irre vocable manner the same apartment with him, so as to return to that intimacy which naturally and . alone brings about that pouring of the soul, that unlimited confidence, that double existen ce which is the happi ness of marriage ; neither can I be sio unless I i para cipate in all his cares for my children and ther soo;ety. But, my God! snatch from me, if it be nr J e es sary, every -ha.ppihess, the affection of all those that I love, and re-unite us one day in your bosom. Save us, my God! Give us eternal happiness, and do with us what seemeth fit to you in this life. My God! thou knowest that this is from the bottom of my heart ; I wish for what seemeth fit for you ; but give me strength and resignation to support it." PAPER POUND IN THE DUCHESS DE PRXSLIN'S then, will conduct and direct them in society ? Cer tainly, you will not think me worthy, and if you did trom respect, could I, who do not know them, and they who have no confidence for her whom they do not esteem—could I direct them ? Accustomed to the impudent, free, and familiar conduct of Mdlle. De Limy towards you, and accustomed to consider her perfection on earth , they will laugh at my advice, or take it for the advice of hypocrisy. On the other hand, if you take them into society without me, that would be dishonouring me • and to cause them to be accompanied by her would be to parade her in the eyes of all. Mon Dieu! do not believe me so absurd as to think that you have a grand passion for Mdlle. De Luzy. I know that would appear to you a very immoral idea, but if it be her object is she a fit person to educate the children ? Even if she do not trouble herself about that, and she only puts herself prominently forward in order the better to secure her absolute empire, is it becoming that your daughters should be in the hands of a per son who has no regard for her reputation, who tramples under foot all the received ideas of decency ? Appearances make reputations; we can only judge after what we see in this world. You will admit that I lead a shocking life, that you yourself would not support it. You say that it only depends on me to change it. .Eh mon Dieu! I know very well that if I would consent to find everything that Mdlle. D. does charming, to close my eyes on what I find wrong, to appear not to perceive all that there is sus picious in the mysteries which surround you, to re nounce the right of having a fixed opinion on certain principles, and on what is proper ; I doubt not that if I would say amen!' to all that I blame, my life would be quite different in appearance, that is to say that you would consent to speak to me more gra ciously, as would also Mdlle. D. ; that I should be sometimes admitted to promenades and parties of pleasure; that you would consent to talk to me from time to time as you talk to anybody else ; that you would come to see me some moments if I should be unwell ; that you would appear to take some interest in my health or my pleasures; that you would perhaps have some attentions for me, some presents to offer me. Yes, I believe all that, and I know that by fifteen days of falsity I should obtain that change. But if I were cowardly enough to purchase Oat calm and consolation (for it would not be happiness) at the price of sacrificing ali my prin ciples, I should deserve to be despised. lam mo rally and physically exhausted by this long and cruel struggle ; but even you yourself could not advise me to purchase repose by the sacrifice of my conscience. Should I die without having obtained a moment of relief, I will never cease to tell you the truth. You are in a fatal path; you are ruining our children by giving them false principles, by teaching them to despise their mother, by giving them the example of a disunited family, in which a person occupies the place of their mother, of your wife. You feel that the state of my health would not be a plausible pre text to any one, owing to the manner in which I am rejected from the family; for it is evident that if you believed me ill, and we were not separated by your aversion, and especially by fatal influences, you would tend me, and the children also, instead of abandoning me. Assuredly you would not render a woman who was indifferent to you so cruelly un happy. It is therefore hate which you feel towards me, and that is the fruit of my love so constant and so devoted!" and harshness make me su ffer ! Givenindeyr p m la y ce v n e e r a y r I you, near our children, to another, u eyes, whilst f:oni you! What !do you not see the tuoffrkoenetps youme put upon me, the humiliatio?nslleuonodfeesrsgoth at before this life my children and your ser vants is unbearable ; if y ou p ersist in it, allow me to go, to retire ; I cannot endure it any longer. If we con tinue to live so we shall only become more embit tered, and what good will that do ? Our daughters will perhaps acquire talents, but they will receive a sad education. Thank God, their natural characters are good, but they are not brought up as they oug h t to be. I see that, and I can say nothing : and yet I am their mother, and .my life has been pure. I re peat to you, mon ami, if you will continue this con duct, I cannot, I ought not to remain. My presence is of no use, since I cannot prevent what I blame, and I suffer in vain." LETTER, WITHOUT DATE, FOUND AT PRASLIN. " When I arrived here I hoped to have some mo ments of amusement and of truce ; but the illusion has not lasted long; the steps of the carriage had not been put down, before I read in your icy, disdainful, and discontented air, in the constrained expression of he looks of my children, in the little green eyes which appeared behind your shoulder, that I was about to be subjected to the most humiliating treat ment, to the most painful life, to support the spectacle of the most improper things, not to make use of a more appropriate phrase. Believe it, Theobald, if I still struggle, it is because I am firmly conscientious — because it is my duty not to renounce the struggle to obtain a factitious peace and tranquillity, not to give by my silence an appearance of tacit consent to a state of things which concerns my children, and which I strongly disapprove, and because I firmly believe it to be detestable, grievous for the present, pernicious, dangerous in the future. You may do all that you will, detest me as you will, I am still the mother of those children, whom you give to the first comer. I know very well that you are the master, that you can do all you will with me • but there is one thing in which the rights of a wife are almost equal to those of a husband—you entirely forget that. Do you not know, then, that the laws, if I were to invoke them, would decide in my favour ? You know that I shall never do that; but is that a reason for making a bad us.e of it? You believe yourself obliged to cede in all things in order to preserve Mademoiselle D— at every cost. Yot believe that it would not be pos sible to replace her near you, near my dear children. But why do you, who believe it so simple, so easy to replace a mother, think it so prodigiously impossible to replace a governess ? If you had desired it she might have been a good governess, but you have changed her functions, her position, and those who shine in the second rank are cast into the shade in the first. How is it possible that her head should not be turned when your conduct says to her every day still more clearly than your words, ' I have a wife, but I prefer your society, your attentions. My children have a mother, but though I scarcely know you, and you are younger, I have more confidence in your principles, your experience, your attentions, your devotedness, your manners, your judgment, your tenderness, to be everything to them. Take, then, the place—command, ordain ; she who must be the mother of my children must be sovereign in my hsuse ?' Theobald, that is logical, but you start from a false and dangerous point. You yourself have not the right to condemn me to this ignominious civil death, and you can only do that in leaving me to be suspected of infamous conduct and vices, and by my children, too ! Oh !I am richly punished to have loved you so much—to have preferred you even to them ; but was I not already sufficiently punished to have lost, without return, without hope, the only true happiness for me—your affection ? But to see my children conducted in the path of false and frivolous principles, accustomed to blind, inconsiderate con duct, and false and unbecoming positions, unnatural and improper ! If you would reflect yourself, you would feel that, in setting aside all my personal sentiments of joy and happiness destroyed, I must cruelly suffer to see my numerous children under a direction so pernicious to their future conduct. Ask yourself frankly, what you would feel, what you would do towards any one who should deprive you at once of a woman you loved with ardour, and of your children, to give them false and dangerous im pressions ? When I had the weakness, by excess of love for you, to make you an immense sacrifice in abandoning my children to you, picturing to myself in a guilty blindness that this sacrifice, on account of its greatness, would most certainly restore me your affection ; persuaded by your promises in this respect, I committed, I admit, a great fault; I ought to have died sooner than have made this sacrifice. And I made a very false calculation, for this sacrifice made to my love gave you a bad opinion of my principles, my judgment, my heart ; I conceive that ; yet I ought to add for my justification that my tenderness confounded all our rights in me only. I believed myself a portion of you ; it seemed to me that all ought to be common between us and sup ported mutually. At present you have established a complete separation between us ; we are nothing more than strangers one to another. I for a long time flattered myself with illusions of a return of affection, of trials, of all the possibilities of this world, to picture to myself that it was a time to be passed, that you loved me, and that you would return to me, that all mysteries would be cleared up by you in a natural and satisfactory manner ; in short, I long made every dream of happiness to come with confidence, and still more with hope. At present —nut let us talk no longer of it, happiness is no longer in question ; but since I must abandon the hope of your return and that of my children, I must at least know what I have to trust to. My life is not supportable; it is painful, disgraceful to me, and, do not deceive your self, very dangerous to the future prospects of the children. Things cannot endure in their present state. Therefore, reflect; remember that I supplicate you to give me at last a becoming position, and an interest in life. Oh l but you are weak I You have arrived at such a point that you dare no longer go out with your wife and your children, without being accompanied by that person for whom you have taken from me what you gave me in the first day s of marriage. You are so much under her yoke that you dare undertake nothing without her. You would consider it wrong to leave her for a moment, and your wife, the mother of nine children, must live and die alone." SECRETARY. " Praslin, Sept. 15, 1842. " You are, Theobald, I am convinced, far from sus• pecting your harshness towards me, and how much it makes me suffer. It is a very slow but very pain ful death, I assure you, to die of grief ! Oh, Theo bald, how much I loved you! how much I loved our children ! I have no longer anything in this world ! Of our union nothing remains for me hut your name. I live alone forsaken, despised, and I have a husband and nine children ; another, before my eyes, enjoys all these blessings ! and you would have me think that natural ? Well, Ido say, and truly, that of all tortures the most cruel that could be imposed on me is the life I lead. My God ! what crime would not be expiated by such anguish ! You no longer love me ! you abandon me ! though of all pains this is the most acute for me, who have never ceased to love you with so much ardour. I understand it; but, to de • prive me of my children, and to give my place about you and them to another ! Oh ! no, you have no right to do that, Theobald. Can you be so weak and so blind as to abandon my children to a brainless woman—a woman without shame, without principles, without tact ?" LETTER WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE DUKE DE PiIASLIN'S SECRETARY AT PRASLIN. " Do not believe, my dear Theobald, that I am no aware of my error, when I have forgotten myself so as to tell you, in language too violent, what I have suffered, and what afflicts me still. However well grounded aF.d reasonable my grief may be, I ought either to conceal it or express mo re calmly the natural anxiety it causes me for out children. Now things are come to this point, I assure you it would be better for us to separate quietly, privately, without speak ing to any one. Time brings things about; it will one day open your eyes to the sad and deplorable in fluence which you have suffered to gain such ascen dancy over you, such authority over our children and your house. Let me await that moment in peace and solitude. For years past I have made vain efforts to appear calm and resigned to a state of things which I firmly IK-lieve is as injurious to our eldest daughters as it is painful to myself. For a long time I believed in your affection ; and that gave me patience under my sufferings. Now, all illusion has ceased ; I see that I never could have occupied the place I coveted in your heart, as I once supposed. You were for a long time so very kind to me, that I believed you loved me with a reciprocal affection, and that you would one day be mine again. This illusion is destroyed. If I was not able to win your affections formerly, I cannot hope to do so now, after so much trouble has soured my temper, of which I am fully aware. My heart is still the same, entirely devoted to you and our children ; but I see tha I am nothing either to you or the children. You have annulled my life ; you force me to be only a spectator, whereas I ought to be the second head of the family. I see a thousand things arotod me equally obnoxious to my princi ples and my affections. I am evidently a burden to you, and some of my children, in appearance at least, for you are far from knowing their real feel ings. In fine, you have made my life useless here, and you let me feel that I am in the way, and only tolerated. I know 1 can do nothing to change an iota of your determination; I only ask you, there fore, to make such arrangements that I may not be compelled to witness things which I cannot help blaming from my very heart. You have shown in every way that you feel neither esteem nor friendship for me; and that you would have our children share your sentiments. I wish for nothing but to let you enjoy in peace the kind of life you have chosen, without being an unwilling sepcta tor of it. I suffer too much here, deprived of every thing in the place I loved, in the midst of those I hold dear, but who are snatched from me by an in triguer. I cannot understand why my unhappy life should give a relish to your pleasures. Do what you please, but, for mercy's sake, do not force me to wit ness it. If Aline should be ordered to take the waters, allow me to conduct her there. Ah, if you allowed me to devote my life to those of my children that please you least, to those whom nature has less liberally endowed, it would be a great blessing to me. If you knew how much you make me suffer ! I only ask you as a favour to allow me to retire to solitude, and for a year past you have found time to think of it. You laugh at my sufferings, but I tell you before God that there is no more cruel torture than the life I lead meanwhile. You will force me to fly : would it not be better to make an amicable arrangement ? Certainly, you cannot propose anything more painful to me than what I now undergo. Ah! how many times have I seen you allow yourself to be deceived and fascinated by intrigu in g women !" This letter was enclosed in an envelope, bearing the address of " Monsieur le Duct' EZTILACT FROM A LETTER WITHOUT DATE FOUND IN THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN S SECRETARY, AT PARIS. " I go,_ my dear Theobald , for I confes s I no longer know what conduct to adopt ; I thought I yesterday acted very well in quitting in silence, in order to avoid the bitterness with which you reproach me whenever I open my mouth. This new plan has so badly succeeded with me that I require time to col lect my ideas as to what course I shall pursue. You have frequently repeated that you despised me ; you have for so long a time proved it to me, that I unfor tunately can no longer doubt it; but I admit that I do not well understand it. Besides, you sadly mis understand me ; you always suppose that I fix all my ideas on the suspicion of one guilty act, and I com prehend that that idea revolts you, particularly under these circumstances. It is not only this which is blame able and painful toaffection ; certainly to see you prefer the society of another, to give her all my rights to your triendship, to your confidence, to your intimacy, all those which I bad over my children; these are real and profound subject s o f grief. Add to this the pain of seeing my children in the hands of a person who, because she commits no fault, takpeisoy herupon herself to be inconsist ent and famili ar ; to . ern influ ence to direct you , and take possession of all the house; w ho looks upon t he usa g es of societ y as absurdit nh ies ap candidly, there is enou g h in this to Cause unhap piness, sorrow, and anger. To continue lif e i n t hi s way is impossib le. Call to mind that before all things I wish for your happiness ; but I cannot secure it at the price of my conscience. If I remain . . . I will propose an arrangement to you, reflect. If you are willing, I will get my physician to order m e sea-bathing, and wil l g o alone to Carteret. I will stay three months; if the life you lead with Mdlle. D— and our children suits you for a permanency, without having the trouble of a woman who wants to be the companion of her husband, the mother of her children—if, in short, you prefer being a widower, tell me frankly, arid I will stay there ; if, on the con trary, after three months, you remember that you have a loving wife, and if you feel the want of a friend who will devote her life to you, then you will tell me so, and I should arrive very happy, very grateful. Do not accuse me of thoughtlessness in offering you this ve ' alternat . l I wish you to be happy; I know that my presence a isa I • a burden, that my ab sence will be no privation,am of no use to any body for anything, as things have gone on for some time past."—This letter is addressed, " M. le Due." SCaE JETTER WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN OF THE DUCHESS OF PRASLIN, AT TilE PRASLIN.SECRETARY E T 6, I see well, my friend, that you take my grief for oill-humour—but you are altogether wrong. should s Seri ously, Dow, put .yourself in my place, and say,uhad a husband, and that you be happy if youhe lived under your eyes, in the same house, with another wo man, in a degree of inti !lacy and familiarity suc h as you live in with -NI file. D.? Say, should y ou adopt the plan not to king up your daughters, if y ou were a mother, to see them in the hands of a person whose conduct nor principles could inspire any confi dence, and who ha; such detestable in inners ? . . Say , should you ba hsppy to live isolated as I do in the midit of my on n fa•oily, to be neither wife, nor mother, nor miitrcs; ofjthe house ? YOH deprive the of the occupations that the duti-s of legitimate affec tion always bring. You con e . .old maid, and tc.d r - rm '' to live like an see lttle another take my place. Oh ! Illy God ! how you know what I suffer. You do not know that this life is a dreadful torture, that without a vague hope of your eyes being one day open to the. injury such you are doing- our them daughters, by g iving had in opinion wth suc o h f their mother, and so improper an education t dangerous examples, such false princip l es—vvithout moment a this vague hope I could not stay childrenhome under your roof. At my age, not to have like other women, w ith a husband and allepbald, you cannot imagine what your contempt LETTER WITHOUT DATE FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN, AT PRASLIN. " On quitting the spot where I have been so happy, and where I have suffered so much—where I thought of always living, where I leave all that is dearest in the world to me—all the objects on whose tenderness I had founded all my hopes of happiness, my heart, Theobald,. is breaking; but it must be so; a mother owes to her children not to allow herself to be treated as a guilty person, particularly when nothing in her conduct has ever justified the estrangement which has taken place between them. When I shall be no more, perhaps your eyes will be opened and you will' comprehend that she who has founded her domina tion by embroiling you with the mother of your children, in accustoming them to avoid that mother, is not worthy of bringing them up. You have feared the influence of your wife, who has always loved you above all, and you are the puppet of all the caprices of that woman, who is void of principle and of delicacy. All I ask of you is, to remain what I should naturally be, your wife, your companion, the mother of our children ; she has excited you to separate yourself from me, to give her my place near you, near my children, and in the house ; and you have yielded it to her. I asked you only to accord her the consideration due in every house to a governess; you did not consider that sufficient. She had incited you to ill-treat me, to drive me from your house, to break everything in my apartment, to deprive me of my chil dren, to take from me all authority over them and in the house, and you have yielded to her in everything; with a look, with a sign, she makes you act and obey her. You are afraid that in seeing my children I should influence them against her, that I should un mask her, and the idea has never occurred to you that it was much more distressing for the children to be continually with a person who speaks ill to them of their mother; who incites them to doubt her affec tion, her intelligence, and her reputation. Oh ! when I had so much confidence in you, so much tenderness that I gave up all my rights to you, to rely on you for everything, even for the tenderness of my chil dren, I was tar from imagining you to be so weak, so readily blinded. This weakness, which causes my misfortunes, forms your excuse in my eyes ; but for this incredible blindness you could not have been so cruel towards me. Adieu, Theobald ; it a feeling of false shame prevents you from ever repairing the wrongs you have inflicted on me, God is my witness that I leave with a broken heart, but in offering up prayers for your happiness. I know that, whatever may be one day your feelings towards me, your ideas of dignity will never permit you to be well with me; it is therefore only for the interest of my children that I beseech you to open your eyes; they are in bad hands. Farewell, farewell. Have pity on my poor children, who are so badly trained . ! " ANOTHER LETTER FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF THE DUKE DE rRASLIN, AT PRASLIN. " Paris, June 15, 1847. " My dear Theobald,—l have waited until this moment for the result of the promises that you re newed to me, on my return from Italy, to change the organization of our home. You appear to have for gotten them, and I find myself obliged to tell you that I do not think I ought to return to Praslin without it be to re-enter on the exercise of my rights and to fulfil my.duties of mother and of mistress of the household in their fullest extent. The system of governesses has always succeeded badly with us, and it is time, for the welfare of our children and the dig nity of our home, to abandon it. So long as my daughters shall not be married, I will reside every where among them, I will be present at all their oc cupations. I will accompany them everywhere. All my plans are formed, and when you shall have re flected you will certainly find as many motives for confidence in the educatiou of our daughters under the care of a mother as under that of a governess. Masters will supply as easily at Praslin as at Paris the lessons of a governess, who has always stood in need of their assistance. I have foreseen every thing, and all will be easily arranged. My father, I know, has offered to Mdlle. D an honourable pension for life. In going with it to England, her talents and her patrons will procure her a more becoming position more easily than at Paris. You would be wrong to be disquieted with the grief that our daughters would feel ; it would be much shorter and much less profound than you imagine ; I have certain reasons for not doubting that. For a long time back you have expressed yourself with respect to the conduct of Mdlle. D in a manner to leave no doubt that you have opened your eyes, to a great part at least, of its grave im propriety. What Would secure her retiremement in an honourable manner would be a pension from my father, spiitdretdn reer guaranteed by me, and her journey to Eng land, which would explain away favourably a havingdeparture.io oorwaited f a m ß iflo y yr indelicacythe orderres uI t first o i nopen:ai y n soughtofourr eye a years, e s a u r p s I must at length submit to the legitimate desire of my father to speak to you in the name of the veritable interests of our children. When you, my natural supporter, fail my father. n ui crisisshall which av e wrisns re-establish m do e, I must let myself be rejoice eh u je i o d i : fi d e r s at b t y e na doubt that when away you will iot youro natural order in our home. If it ente r s arrangements that Mdlle. D --shall return to Praslin to seek her things, I will wait until she shall return before going there ; if they must simply be sent to her at Paris, I will start as soon as you please for Praslin. After all the rumours which have been current, I have shown her sufficient kindness to restore her character, as you pointed out to me, in so far as it depended on me, in order to make her to leave with honour. I have fulfilled my task; the welfare of my children, that of their establishment, will not permit me to prolong by resignation a state of things pernicious to all. Let not the fear of re crimination on these painful matters torment you. It enters into my views as much as it does into yours not to return to them. My silence on previous cir cumstancesialmost the same is a sure guarantee of this to you. The first condition of family life is peace and a good understanding. That is my object, and it will be easily obtained when no attempts shall any longer be made to separate children from their mother, and to reign by division. It is not without serious reflection, nor without the assurance that I y ,wh o is to me the representative of my follo w th e op i n i on of my f at h er , th a t I have deter mined to a d o pt suc h a ser i ous reso l u tion. It would i have obtai ne d, I am sure, the approval of my uncle De Coign mother, if I h a d no t avo id e d t ill now to spe ak to him of then sad d e tails. DZy mhos are that everything LETTER, WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OT THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN. " I cannot understand what are your views as to the future of our children, nor by what principles you direct your conduct, nor what is the nature of your sentiments with respect to me. You will not under any pretext read my letters, nor accord me a serious conversation, tior any explanation of any kind. If it he the dread of an explanation on your private con duct, you are wrong to fear that I will enter on that subject. I for a lm; while expected, hoped for, that moment almost as much as I desired it, but it is now an allusion completely destroyed. You have too dearly proved that you no longer love me, and that ail relations must cease between us, for me to be ab surd enough to expect from you any mark of affec tion. I therefore only demand of you, I swear it, that which is not refused to any woman, unless she be a monster of corruption ; and that is, the permis sion to do my duty towards my children, and to enjoy the consolation that I can find in the midst of them alone, in the services that I might render them, and in their tenderness to soften the bitter regrets which wring my heart at having lost your affection. I would have given all my blood to regain your ten derness,to dieto; enjoybut I h i a t ve againen cowardly,for a e selfish, moments, guilty, nd then I admit it , it it, in abandoning to you all my share of rights over our children, h • aving pictured to myself that this sacrifice, greater a hundred times than that of my life, would touch you, l that you would would return to me, a n d th a t you wo give yourself' to me a second time. But I take n e aven to I would never have made a similar concession witness,for any mo tive, if I had not been convinced th a t you would put them in respectable hands, and that only for their instruction. Never, never would I have willingly co nsented to be depri ved of all relation s with my children, to no longer occupy myself with their health, with their comfort. But that was not the case. Never have I been sufficiently unnatural, sufficiently infamous to renounce the care of my children, not to live with them, and to exercise no moral influence over them. You must be very blind not to see that you are in the hands of an intriyante. Yes, the per son who is capable of profiting by the dissensions which she remarked between us on her arrival, in order to increase her authority, which has completely separated us, which has totally separated a mother from her children, is profoundly immoral, and un worthy of the confidence which you place in her. A woman who accepts such a false position is the most authority mgerous example for young girls ; she purchases at the price of her reputation. Women who make such bargains have only another step to take to lose themselves• in fact as they have already lost themselves in appearance. Having had the mis fortune to thrust herself into 11 , 111 e. D. ought, if she a very false position, had th e sentiment of modesty or the least tact, to have reserved manners, to act becomingly towards you teNav ; instead rd of whi c h, by h er conduct, shamel ess house, scandalous t o me, she s you, arrogan t i n th e puts .o herself f orwar d in a scandalous manner. me sufficiently good company for n i childrendo not ; b u t not find in seeing the bold , unbecoming, and my often scandalous conduct of their governess, what will my children s oon think of the conduct of the mother roth whom they are separated ? Do y ou not feel , then, to what an extent you brand me in their eyes ? Ah you i have not the right. If I had been guilty, you would have believed it your duty to secure me the Conside ration of my children; and you sacrifice me. You abandon them to a person who knows not, or who laughs at modesty and decency, for she observes neither. What a Mentor for young girls! Who, Titti SUN, LONDON, Shi.TUR,DA.Y nvigkiNG, SEPT :EMBER 4,114 L B&W shall be arranged between my father, you, and my self, without the intervention of other advisers. You have often expressed to me, my dear Theobald, the desire to see things take another face, because you really feel the discomfort of our home ; but you always draw back. I now count on your co-opera tion, as in everything which concerns the happiness of our children. " FANNT SEBASTIAN' FRASLIN." UTTER. OF THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIR TO MDLLE. DE LUZY A COPY OF WHICH WAS FOUND ON AUG. 20, IN THE DUKE ' S SECRETARY, AT PARIS. " June 19, 1847. " Mdlle.,—l regret exceedingly that you are un well, and that in such a state you have taken the trouble to write to me (*) for a matter which your attention to my children rendered so natural. It circumstances important for their interests have pre cipitated an event which I regarded only a few days back as being still distant, do not doubt that I shalt in consequence seek out with greater zeal all occa sions to be useful to you, and that I shall be well pleased if you point me out the way. I have heard it said that you wish to go and see Lady Hislop; is that be the case, I can offer you a letter to Lady Tankerville, who, I am certain, will earnestly second Lady Hislop in all her endeavours to forward your plans. If you thought fit to have letters also for Mde. de Flahaut and Miss Elphinstone, dispose of me most freely. I remember you asked me to lend you a book on arriving at Praslin ; I hope that you will not refuse to accept that little souvenir, which I have great pleasure in offering you. lam anxious to re peat to yoa, Mademoiselle, that I shall seize with eagerness on all the occasions that occur, and such as you may be pleased to afford me to be of use to you. " S. PR ASLIN." *LETTER FROM DIDLLE. DE LUZY TO THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN ON '1•11E 17TH OR 18TH OF JUNE, 1847. " Madame la Duchesse,—l should have wished to ex press to you in person the sentiments which auima:e m , but I feel that under present circumstances it would hr a task above my strength. Permit me to postpone to a more calm and more happy period the thanks which I desire to express to you with my own lips for the gene rosity with which you_ remunerate my feeble services. At the moment of quitting children to whom I have devoted the Most lively tenderness, I find in the testi mony of your satisfaction a powerful consolation. I accept with gratitude the offers of recommendatiiir which you have the goodness to make, and I shall has ten, Madame, to avail myself of them as soon as circum stances will render it advisable for me to do so. The ill health of my grandfather, exceedingly precarious fo• several months past, imposes on me the duty of bein4 with him at present. I shall demand permission to in form you at a later period of the steps which I shall think it advisable to take, and I pray you, Madame, to accept the assurance of lay profound respect. " 11. DE LUZY." FOREIGN PRINTING. An importation recently took place of a quantity of printed papers, in which the decision arrived at as to their liability to duty or other wise was of much interest and importance. These printed papers were simply specimens of type connected with, or rather comprising no particular book, but serv ing only to illustrate the form of the types, which had been fixed in this country, and sent to the printers in Germany, in order to have the specimens struck oil there, and sent to this country as samples of printing. and on their arrival the parties requested their delivery as such free of duty. It appears that by the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 86, sec- 63, paper printed on in the English language is absolutely prohibited to be im ported ; but that these printed sheets were merely in tended as specimens of type, and unfit for any other purpose than distribution as patterns, and to show the effect of the same when put to press ; and it has on a former occasion been decided, in a communication from (comprising an order of) the Board of Trade, that the prohibition with respect to the importation of paper printed on in the English language, was not intended to have the effect of preventing the importation of articles which must be considered as legitimate objects of trade, but simply to preclude any evasion of the prohibitio❑ with respect to books, .oich might otherwise b© accom plished by importing them in detached sheets of printed 'paper ; Red although in the importation under notic.. there were several hundred copies of each sample or pattern, they were strictly fragments of works, containing each a single page, and in no instance being a continuation of the subject, but a repetition of the same words, and for these several reasons these pat terns of printing have been directed to be delivered free of duty. FIRE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. —Yesterday, about half , past eleven in the morning. a very alarming fire broke out in Queen's-gardens, Knightsbridge, near Sloane street. The police were soon on the spot, and, before the flames had extended themselves to any great extent, messengers were sent in various directions for the en gines. The greatest fears were entertained for the safety of the neighbourhood. from Cuthbert's mahogany factory and a large tallow welter's being situated near ; but, very fortunately, the engines of the brigade of the West-end and Chandos-street stations, as also those of the parish, were in such quick attendance, that by the timely exertions of the firemen only one house, that in which the fire originated, was destroyed, though the two adjoining ones were slightly damaged. The cause of the fire, and whether the party was insured or not, could not be ascertained. _ _ _ WHITBY, SEPT. I.—The price of flour fell this day ld. per stei., with the prospect of a further speedy de cline. Thirty-six years ago a fine new brig, in ballast, called the Lord Nelson, was driven on shore to the north of the pier, in a gale of wind. An attempt was made to float her off, which failed, and exertions were then used to save the *hole of the wreck above the sands. Shortly after the kelson with about seven feet of flooring on each side, disappeared under the sand, and on Saturday last the ribs became once more visible. Several unemployed men of the town commenced operations to recover the wreckage, and this evening by means of digging, much labour, and the employment of empty casks, the poor men's services have been rewarded with success. The brig, when driven on shore, was the property of and commanded by Master Wilson, an old friend and ship mate of the gallant hero of Trafalgar. FATAL OCCURRENCE AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of four and five o'clock, a horrible accident occurred at her Majesty's Theatre, the Italian Opera, Haymarket, and which it is to be regretted was attended with fatal con e—t Chapman, seems con sequences to a workman employed on the building, n aged 47, under the circumstances subjoined in that at the period alluded to, in cons equence of the close of th e th ea tr e , a number of workmen were employed on the stage in removing the j ed oh : scenery, stage property, &c., and the deceased was perched upon the top of the stage, and by some acci • Idental circumstance slipped on one side, thus losing his equ i i iib r i ue s, he fell from a height upwards of 37 feet, flat on to the stage. The poor fellow was picked up in a frigh'fully mutilated condition, the blood streaming from his head, and was conveyed immediately to the Charing-cross Hospital, when Mr. G. M. Young, the resident medical officer, was in prompt attendance ; but upon the examination of the wounded man it was ascer tained that he had fractured his skull extensively, re ceived a compound comminattd fracture of the left clavicle, broken his left lee, and several ribs, with a fearful contusion on the forehead, besides other exten sive injuries, so as in fact to defy the most competent human skill. Everything that could be thought of was done ; but notwithstanding all efforts, he died at half past six o'clock, about two and a half hours after his admission. WOOLWICH DOCKYARD, SEPT. 3. Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, .K.C.B. and K.C.H., superintendent of her Majesty's Dockyard here, returned on Wednesday afternoon from leave of absence, and in the evening, when the men of the dockyard battalion assembled for drill, and after going through several of their evolu tions, they were formed into square, and addressed by the Gallant Commodore to the following effect:—" I am extremely sorry to learn that during my temporary ab sence some of the men should have misconducted them selves as they have done, and I have only to look to the conduct pursued within the dockyard, and have nothing to do with them when they leave; but I trust their good sense as men will induce them in future, when they are dismissed for the day, to go quietly home to their families." During the time the commodore addressed the men several expressions of " Hear, hear," were used, and at the conclusion he was most cordially cheered. The Commodore shortly after assembled the other workmen of the yard not belonging to the bat talion, and addressed them in a very feeling manner on the necessity of being careful of their conduct, if they were desirous of remaining in the employment of her Majesty as dockyard artisans, or in any other capacity. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND BIR MINGHAM RAILWAY.---GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY.—A fatal accident occurred this morning on this line of railway, at an embankment in the parish of Churchdown, or Chasen, between Cheltenham and Gloucester. The de ceased, a labourer named Barnes, was at work as usual, and, on the approach of the 8-15 A.M. train from Bris tol, was cautioned by some of his fellow-workmen, one of whom called to him, " Halo, do you see the train coming ?" Instead, however, of getting off the line altogether, as be should have done (his duty being to re move the iron "chairs" on the " batter" by the side of the rails) he got on the down train line. At this mo ment, the Birmingham 8,. A M. down-train was coming up, and the buffer of the engine struck the deceased, in flicting such mortal injuries that resulted in the poor fellow's death shortly afterwards. He was taken to the Infirmary in this city, and, on surgical examination, it was found that the right leg was nearly severed from the body, near the knee; the left leg was also much crushed, and the abdominal par t s were also greatly pressed and injured. Th e body now lies at,the infirmary, awaiting the coroner's inquest. FIRE IN BRISTOL.—An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday night on the premises of Mr. Richards, the Three Sugar Loaves, Christmas -steps, which threatened to be pr o d uct i ve of very serious consequences. The alarm was first given about half past ten, and the en gines of the police and various fire offices were speedily on the spot; but the building consisting principally of old and dry materials, it was found impossible to get the flames under until near three o'clock, A.M., when the interior of the house was almost destroyed. The house and shop of Mr. Merry, baker, which is contiguous, had a very narrow escape from destruction ; the flames caught a portion of the root, and a large quantity of flour lying in a loft was also destroyed. By the strenuou exertions of the firemen, &c., the flames were prevented extending further, and the fears at first entertained for the safety of much o f the property in that thickly pope_ I lated neighbourhood were fortunately not realised. It is not known how the fire originated. We understand that Mr. Richards is insured.--Bristol Gazette. Carlisle Average Amouute Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,682 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—AlPt-rs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 10,056 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—.l. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—itanonas and Co 35,497 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 31,624 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 5,135 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co 4,216 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches- ter—Dav and Nicholson 9.550 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,665 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12.772 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 17,305 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 12,E30 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 15,005 Scarborough Old Bank, ..icarborough—Woodall and Co 23 680 Shrewsbury and Market.Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan,s, and Co 6,789 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Roeke, Ey tons, _ . 4,487 and Co . 34,259 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,315 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddisnn and Son Southwell Bank, Svuthwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,104 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,800 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King • . Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 6,718 Stourbridge Banc, Stourbridge Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,660 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 21,920 St. Alban's and Harts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 2,250 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 25,290 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 13,841 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,069 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival 9,846 9,749 Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. 14,987 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co 8,448 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,960 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leathatn, Tew, and Co. Whitby-Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,451 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester— Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 6,155 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 11,160 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 75,731 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbe?,k, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,420 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clough. and Co 42,197 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. flank of Westmoreland, Kendal .. Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 46,33S Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford . 19,301 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Checterfiehl and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12,262 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company _ _ _ 25.800 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,919 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,361 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 145,804 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,976 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,156 Hull Banking Company, Hull 24,056 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 37,501 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,501 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,230 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 23,650 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,314 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . . 50,408 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,020 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,940 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank- Compan• Nottingham. 21,20 ing Company, _ Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle. Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 70,074 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilt!. Banking Company, Melksham 51,558 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,191 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton . . 23,151 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 56,841 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,914 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,358 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and H9llumshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking 51,310 Company, Redfield ................................... m..p..a.n..y., Swaledale and Wensleyda le 36,525 Richmond .. . ......... Storey and Thomas' s Ban king Company, 9,120 Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton ao.lStaffordshire Banking Com pany:Wolverhampton , . 36,407 Wakefield and Bari ley Union Bank, Wakefield 13 469 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven . .. Warwick and Leo oingtoa Banking Company, Leamington West of Englaiee awl South Wales District Bank_ Bristol . .... 75,400 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 65,979 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch . .. Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester. . . York Union Banking Company, York 6B 745 York City and County Banking Company, York 82,143 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Return.. Stimps awl Tow, August 211 1647. K RETURNS. \ From Val? London G unite of Tuesday.) An Account, g ursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, .:r.p. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Cixtulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 21f,t day of Aug., 1847: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bulk, Abingdon--Knapp and Co—. 24,538 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and C 0... Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,978 tylshain Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,320 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt 42,637 ()o'clock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade .laldock—Wells, Hogg, and 14116(41 26,223 thrnitalle Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co 13,692 3asingstoke and Odihact . Bank, Basingstoke— Colo, Seymour, and Co. iedfrad Rank, Bedford—T. Barnard cdford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— ri apt-, Halfhead, and Co. lewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crone 6,501 ..... 13,308 Icestei and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co. ... 2,327 tirmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co ,651 clirmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham—Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 16,286 rilancltord Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak 8,066 !loston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 75,830 , Inston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 10,274 , tridgwiter Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 8,001 3ristel Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 36,220 tiroseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and ' Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,621 lackingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. 3ury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co 69,046 ilaol ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 32.445 tanintry Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 45,959 ,Intr. City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son . tedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 34,637 tiriningham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 69,091 itridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 22,360 irighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer turlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co ilury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Worlledge and Co. Eiromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 16,648 lambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons 24,651 3,217 18,816 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters (lanterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co. Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. 19,075 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co ilornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co, Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co 20,705 Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co 2,700 Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co 7,020 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,383 Devizes and Wiltshire Bauk, Devize3—Hughes, Locke, and Co. 9,634 Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew And Co. 12,239 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, &Co 76,150 Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. 98,287 East Biding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford. and Co 44,167 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 28,313 l'akenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Parringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 8,347 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messra. Knight 11,780 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. 5,393 Godalming Bank, Godalming—klellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 15,891 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 12.165 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 24,392 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 27,160 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford — Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware — S. Adams and Co. _ 13,760 16,784 Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,217 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. 13,669 Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitehen—Sharples and Co. Hereford ; Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford —Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 23,000 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Sank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— A lexatders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gota and Sons... Lane z.::•A Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. llarv. y and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... Lincoinl Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Liandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very —David Jones and Co. oughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barba 68,528 12,680 22.871 5,480 19,055 39,692 7,637 5,391 52,914 35,814 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co \lanningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough sad North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural aad Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead. Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury:Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hullsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0... New Strum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co . Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Crox on and Co ......... (Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford 31d Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson... ........ . ...... Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbrid g e Wells and Sevenoaks Ban k, • Tonbridge ..... . .. Old Rank Tonbridge, Tonbridge .. Beaching and Sons... ..... . Oxfordshire Witney Bank Wilsey—Williams, Clinch, Dud Co 391 22.648 33,637 16,726 87,093 25,205 6,847 4,084 38,647 12,239 10,742 7,023 13,393 9,803 6,713 17,800 25,258 15,262 8,631 21,565 41,916 29,450 20,545 2,94 41,217 60,606 9,872 4,115 23,498 13,860 26,711 13,142 12,561 29,145 7,708 11,164 -•-• - - . _, . • - - ~, , ~, ... . RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' L, SsPrEN.reßEit 3. STOCK. EXCHANGE BRISTO .-The sales a -Bristol and Es her. 74t,4- Great Western, New, 2/. I Is. 3d. p.-I.ancril,%"" and Yorkshire, Thirds, Reg., 1% dis.-Midland, Sew , '''',4 , -Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3.‘ p.-Taff Vale, New, P ' LI VERPOOL, SEPTEMBER 3. Swim EXCHANGE.-The market has C been firm to.doirn and the m oney nairket improves , of which there are PI rrkr indications. We may look for an improving business. • v sales are-Birkenhead. Lancashire, and Cheshire JouctisV (late C. and 8., 55/. Shares), 39% -Eastern Counties,' -East Lancashire New Quarters, R., % dis.-Live,rprcl". Crosby, and Southport, R., % p.-London and I' o . l h , Western, 165 1 A - Ditto, :New, Quarters, 9 Ito ton, and South Coast, 4,3%-.slidland 5t0ek,,1194. ow New Halves, 2% p.- North Staffordshire, 2 1 ,i P.-Sbr _..s bury and Chester, New, par-Ditto, 10/. Preference cq x : f, per cent.), 2 1 A p. _York, Newcastle, and erwick , ti *, od p.- Londn, purchased (guar. 6 per cent.), 31A p.-Ditto, Newcastle Berwick, New, S., 3% P. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 3. STOCK ExcfrANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, S4/1: 41s. 6d. dis.-Ditto, New Scrip, Bs. dis.-Great ;turf 11 3 1 A, dis.-Ditto, Extensions, 20s. dis.-Ipswich and Bl a nd Edmunds (Cambridge and Ely), tios. p . Leeds (West Riding Union), bury, 1 1 / p.-Ditto, Halves, 12s. 6d. p.-Ditto, E%te,n (Fins., scrip (green), 255. dir.-Ditto, New Extensions, acriP °re 17s. 6.1. dis -Leeds and Thirek, New, 8% die. - " D GI 10s. dis.--Leeds and 1/:`_:‘, ference, 16s. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midlandeld, dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 3s. dis.-51auchester,1""wick, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 7s. p.-Newcastle and Bersoo New, 31. 68. 6d. p.-North British, Thirds, 245. 6d. p• Staffordshire, 2/. Br. p.-North-Western, Va die. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBIE 3. .. ~ 1 81 A STOCK ExcitatrGE.-The sales Cent. till Counnodis„. East Lancashire, New (5 per cent. till 1850), 4 . _o l id- Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 2 7- 16 d ie. , -- derstield and Manchester Railway and Canal, A,,"stliid si o h n e , ffi 2o el / . d ) , Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 3% c. IN-Ditto( Treincoki. shire U ( n dis.-Nortk!,e, iV, a lA2 n d d '.L i Tn .. ; o A l i n 3 s n h c i r h e e shire, 2% p.-South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and 1 0 . ° 2 dis.-Yo k 4 ' r and Newcastle, EXtellSioll, (No. 2), 5 3 HULL, SEPTEMBER 3. ~ , m . ti (Loa . )s,te3r3A, Sheffield alia..:,.siford, STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are :Noel , ' icor don and York Extension). 1%-Ipswith and flurY,) Mid. bridge and Ely), 17s. 9d. p.-Leeds, Wakefiel.:: 3 L 61. land, 18s. 6d. dis.-Newcastle and Berwick, ...7.c" p.-North British, Quarters, 18s. P. „,„„ 5. SHEFFIELD, SEPTEm B L„ - -- STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are --....--t Lincol n .nisby an p.- Man thester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grdi sad Lin. Sheffield), 20/. Shares, 34 dis.---Ditto (Sheftiel yoric, coin), Preference, 6s. p.-North Staffordshire, 224 P:,. -- Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase)," r GLASGOW SEromon 2. , n 5e ,,,,,,29 . 4 ehire,l3/4 CBledOnla._., odee so STOCK EXCRANGE.-The ;ales ars -6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 16sc_uu 3 Ediburgb• Perth, Quarters, 645. 6d..-East Indian, • ~,,,r , I(ilms . Leith, and Granton, Quarter!, 10e. 6d.---614",--lisle SI. nock, and Ayr, 109/.- North 'l3ri' 3s -M. . , anchester and S th m ton, 18s. 9 th' k Sew' Sou a p , , ~,,/.....yor , .1_ fish, Thirds, 42e. 9d.-Scottish Central, bi A parch aoun castle, and Berwick (Great North of Englan' 111. 11e. lilasgovr, Danifries, Oa t,lii BANK OF AO ENGLAPW' (From last n's Gazette.? op. ight An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth of N 4 7, the eek ending 0, o n Saturday, the 2$ th day of M l 6— W ISSUE PS PARTMINT . A. a 010 0 - 0 Notes issued . • . • • • • • 2 4,565,908 Government debt .• Other securities •• • • 7 .5 n; sGuo,idacoulaan s o n a d b . U 111 ... Q . A . 72.: f ) e r. • M. MAUSIIALD, cblif , 1547. ,arAsilax T. X 22,565, 900 Dated the 2d day of September, NANZINO D; X. rroprietors' capital .• 14,553,000 Rest .... •• • ....... 3,664,2 03 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say- ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) • • 7,193,740 Other deposits • • • • .. 7,105,701 Seven day and other bills . • • • • • • • .• .... 78:4710 Government see' ties nlding llesd . ~,11,340 Weight AnuitY) • • i,`9! h ill Other securities •• • • '030,045 I•Totes •••.•... • • • • • • 0110 Gold and sllYer OUP. £33,326,354 33 30 ' 15 31. MARSUALL, Clllet Cosllj.f. 1847. <ila 0( ti,te,l the 2d da. of September, ----- ANOTHER HORSE TRICK.—About the ii :for ° ,:'s the day of l'uesday last an old gentlereuth,„-aes ir o j named Mark Major, trom Foxhall, about dY" %lobs so Ipswich, was superintending the sale of hi'„ .- f r st r ' er respectable cehehloccasions,s in la t m h e bs i . P exteriorsaw certainlAftere h w oFairsnot number some field,up emp t.eo him when and 4 , o il 1 ~et op i os c e t i I'm just going to look round littleweretrhe price agrred on ; " but," said the pposed P t tir es/2„1 0 s t for them now, I will see you again sena' • P i s pr ld e ~, , e " Don'• - ... jou see that mare standing yonder 4 boi ler' er do," replied Mr. Major. " Well," said the 5 tbe oon, t o cfiosente pickedr i s t w i tiooon:t- sendlicia:tiire: have been trying to purchase the animal, hot r ice.u s , and I can't agree; I must buy the mare st, 811 3 / e f no ti be as the man and I have been quarrelling, tt i , ste sail 01 my ti , ttempting to purchase the mare, $ 5 .1,,, 0 u will; won t sell her to me at any price. N°Y r, I y our rattailsb and buy the mare I will give you 21. for d Y off b e n j Mr. Major said he had no objection; ° the I nsre ' t l / 5 / make the purchase. He examined che ,„ se for , er agreed to give 301 . for her, tendering s he o bluld P re o ',e amount; but the owner remarked that sovereigns, as he was going to leave the town ttroligeitrl3os: diately, and that cheques were " a"" entle ° Tod cashed." Mr. Major accompanied th d e w g 3 procure 0 • Blue Bank, at which handed to the seller ofPitaheee mtlia:reAg.lor7lhAeloiseoirdandieefklilj: very great hurry, and, biddin„ s a e s l o m u P r e r r e e a d ders M m r. a 'N ; Pe ed him to P life o lsl ' gained for the lambs and commission the mare way non est inventus.theThe evi l ' lI I ' O p imagine, the t the Fair fieldd, or nation turned out to be eorth abourmtso3:l,l.-ew__:,,:o,ll"oie: diate steps were taken for the sppreer_leo'svedee7.4 swindlers, one of whom fterW s ' A T af ter last, at the Cock Inn , in this torawebnfie,:ebdu_td:cs:oo 0 discharged.—lpswich Express. y ester A .0 tb t FIRE IN RATCLIFFE-HIGHWAY'. noon, shortly after five ow'calsocaltP,P --brolte 005 extensive manufactory belonging to M. r,i ll ' or itil th h e o st George's-street, Shadsvell, the street wne:cbgebig'o fol, twelve months has been known at , I/ :', hoe f a cto P , The premises destroyed are those whles,'s geautowortiol the last half century known as " Salt o l a rge P o 0 : celebrated as being the place from wh : e d w ith b 4 . t c b t i of our maritime force has been stiPP ILe all °I sr u bj 2, °" :, caps. The property on the pretoises, t vt wee- the iff' been totally destroyed, was estimated toed °rale and 3,0001. The conflagration wro c o - id was t s he! nit ion of gas in the meter, and sown t4 ten t t A i rt nti tli e te ar s e gress of the flames, that in less thL e s. `l7 t o % 1 ; had enveloped the whole of the Pre`7 l : e t ely 03 ". 0 of - t o val of the engines they were in300%,,,,n0t,0„,00,,, and although they prevented the CO t he e u j o fire to the adjacent house, it was thef°tlll" tinie °I e t o o i any of Mr. Stuart's property. At of w ere ebil a 0 1 break of the tire upwards of fifty Pers op e ; f' a it v o , all of whom fortunately made thei r _ p e r s t s hed , 11 ,totO o e ttl Mr. Swat t's, however, must have 1"'",. o f the bo e 0 been rescued by the intrepidity of one o f te to t it , ro of who, at the sacrifice of his own life, rush ed it e vo l y le 0 where the unconcious child lay, s° ! -f, be a 13 1. eii e its perilous position. Mr. Stuart wltt to OP 1 1 J° ll ,l by the fire, although the property i s ec , 'so insured. , nal l , ijosf i d AWFUL DEATH.--A poor l' 111 : - 41tee n „y bas! 0 Muff years of age, died in ti r l,e_ ti se cicle'Ll „j dp Thursday la?,t, in consequence oV ka d e ceu,;,, 0, ta ws with so long back as the 16. h ult. - 1 ",4 t jii3 tv D aSt c . .i, servant in the employ of Mr. TtaLle.r witho his ist, „.;tou tei t on the day above named be yod e l ' som e 0 1° 5 s ititi , waggon to assist in the delivery nu .. g Oh l vii n r bridge. On their return, while des' between that town and Hales Owen e ,, ll : a k illi e l o e d d ° or t _ l :::a t iS 9 Lowey," the deceased was holding tnea s i e e Oa f il l, oP, IO horse of another team, belongineg.te°:Siog the ' l l , to ` o is driver found some difficulty in d sicortuntite Ulbsefertlppej the horse fell, bringing the u n ,,, i ove r hid i t ty 0°- t lif ground, and the fore wheel passc!' _ r i n stil° ; 1 1 ,g 0° tO situation was observe El. The dflY v bee i res tl o 10 0 the wheels, but he found the hind wh eel out thet ilogo shoulders of the deceased, who ettd_'; oe lt rt iati " t o, drive on, and as it was impossible to qe 00 01 4 , the bind ' wheel passed over Oa, ^ c4 Queen ,s 00014, blase 11%0 made to get him speedilY t° tile rtain ed °I ^-S• re elit e topi c r b S N and for some days hopes we ificatiou ~oporr wet very; but on the 26th ult-b,un3r:trtraoli:cillo7oo4,teyset pored, the arm, and an artery which caused almost inimediate ele f beo t he '''' od da 11 * held on the body on MondaY 1 _ 9 1; t i l e ei'idllecit iet° ticulars transpired in the eettT s ' 0 , yerdiot f r, ¢0 and at the close of the ine!tirram e rrs w ise fotic oe i death was returned.—Bi'revioi,ith On Monday a near Eughien, between thwue;aiftlePtii,isalsdr:l:earl‘sie ichitiltreareire:d'ScitP:lbra: of Saint Cyr. One ef 17, pighie d .,7 ; e n The, (la' house of the physician -.:, 05 brought ..•• .4. leceyor few minutes afterfil:edl by tw o other p i u t f u l u, '„ his 0 attended to the gi- - , * f a Colone , ~ son v • tla ° ceased is said to be to%; Go ugaun A , 9 00 0 0 01 sary is only 20 years o ld. --- lc BARI, Or l'or oro o i, ,, [ Anvv.RTisEmENT.l---111, undin g c ure _bi eitr ot r i r i, 0 . 7 4 AND HoLLowAvs L'iLt.s.--An a 31,0 faile Se e ,, , fel). „ 0 10,..i medicine, after every other ltrans3joing„ Logi'°''';_t yoaryip.ol,s4 Lordship's letter, dated " bit 3 acquaint you , ':,, e n A I : AO', Professor Holloway—Sir : I tO nay Over And 1NM,10074 o r c o l; effected a cure of a disorder in evert rii., oTv.,:aertie tb erswo e fodoe f rrui tsb op e) eminent of the facnlty, at home an d been able to effect ; rienbad. (Signed) •• ALDsoltot/G2t. c . .....,,id t .. gtt ,- cure any disease of the liver or stetnabilli•hin--ent 244 s Ointment) at Professor Holloways ~s s tai ,i'vilised Tod d• by all medicine yen' throughou t "' - nay. not ----- BIRTHS. , Eraberg°l3'' oi On the 30th ult., at Croydon, Surrey, 3ara. daughter. Pi r' On the 30th ult., at Balhani-hill, Mrs. Paul li e s a rg oo et4° : a daughter. On the 24th ult., at South -hill-grove, Li f- -r' 1, orl. Claxton, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Abercrombie -square, liiVerP°° 600'1' .0' Johnston, of a son . ..- 1 i On the 2 d i nst., at Cam hter.den-read-villes, A.`l. et 0 aug enoug h Smith, of a d On the 2 d in st., the lady of Robert Clay, Esq . ' 8111. the IVamisworth-road, of a daughter. . . -----_ ll e( ; is r.tiyiriikliinng,ma.tA StivlNifillAlaiaratßinisyE-Dit;. t h e cli T 91,15, jogiettoef Arthur Ti' Supreme Court at notnbay,mto Yardley, thcii.r"d ,13* bf John Wilkin, Esq., of Spring-gardens. '110,,A13' t ° On the 2d inst., at Abney Chapel, ‘'toke 5° 1 ,, .t ,- ;' the Rev. John Jefferson, George Wilson Stevens° Matilda, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Hooper. IJ' DIED. A, Of "' On the 31st ult., Augustine Sophia, the w"" 00 Arti. , ld. Esq., of S a ckville.street. tc 0 11 On the Is! inst., at Dome House, Bognor, the Ile" Woodhouse, aged 48. -- 9. ----------'---- u ° i rre London Printed and Published by lifillilDo YO- . , 0,01 Strand, Printer, at The Bun Office, No. 112. Stil i o n ,r fier of ale &My, ill UN COsaty elMiddlestx, Saturvistr 184 T, C Of th Roth be 1% for pi Dept WIC OAT Sa by ti Tend afly thori Co/n 1,4,' Fill Tor, 1114, kin Vitt -, A ttt, kibj A 461, D 1 ty ett 1 i