The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPHT. Under the direction of - uadame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented RORY O'MORE. Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson; Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, 0. Smith, Selby, and Cullentord ; Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. Laws. After which a new and original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. WhittingtMo Widgetts, Wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. liunyard; Squibb, r. n Redmond Ryan; Mary White, Bounce. Misa Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Emrna Harding. li a ble Farce of SEEING WRIGHT. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. ruder the Manageme nt of Mrs. Frances Davidge. Lessee. se-engagernsint of Mr. T. P EVE. COO NN KE G for Six Nights more . THIS I Will be presented the popular Drama of THE LITTLE DEVIL. Ferdinand, Mr. Healop; Gil Vargos, Mr. Neville ; Don Rafael D'Estunego, Mr. R. Horner ; Isabel, Mrs. H. Vining ; Carlo, Mrs. B. Horner. To be followed by Haines's Nautical Drama, entitled MY POLL I.ND MY FAR FN ER JOE. Harry Hall!. ard, Mr. T. P. Cooke Joe Tiller, R. R. Hollner ; Mary Maybud, Mrs. R. Homier. To conclude with WEALTH AND WANT ; or, the Village Po liticians. rtoxe::. 21.. Tit, la.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence Ilalf•rrrt Six. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE• THIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE CARPENTERS OF LAMBETH ; or, The Bride of the Tharaes. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Theirs, Searle, and Miss Vin,ent. After which, TILE WILD IRISH. GIRL. To conclude wiih the Nautical Dra. aof THE PILOT. Boxes, ► s. ; BAR-price, Gd. ;►Pit, 611. ; Geier'', 3d. Doors open at Six, to commence at linlf-past Six. ASTLEY's ROY AL C liE 1 itE, rnirietor and Manager yr. ilam Batty. P THIS EVENING A grant!, Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PRINCE OF cypraT4c cr tt e Hor se of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Nater. Entirely new Seen- in the Arena, supported by the ta'ented Ar tistes of the EstabliAment. In tt arlou modes of equestration. To comligle with . THE LAWYER'S CLERK. To-morrow (Wednesday) Grand Military Fete, on which occasion the Boys of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea (the Duke of York a School) will visit the Th etre, attended by their juvenile Military Band, in full costume. First night of Turp'n's Ride to York, and other splendid Novelties ; with, for the first time, Four celebrated Clowns in the Circle, Messrs. T. Barry, Twist, Guest, and "foetus. Boa-office open from 11 ti 15. :gage Manager, Mr. W. D. _ _ . ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOiIICAL GARDENS. Represen t a tion ot SkIAKSPE RE' 4 Bl' 'T I-PLACE. The British Army and Navy Quadrilles eaeh Evening. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Evenings. The celebrated Ba ot the Establishment, seleeted from the Owen', Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite ot M. Jullien's }band, will perform a Grand Selection • it Ancient and Modern Music, and Jullien's Army =A Navy Quadrilles; aytiglit View ot Gib raltar. Splendid Menagerie. t•hak.pere'+ rh ace,from Draw ings by lifted Crowrinin. Porcelain Tower at Nankin. Conaluding with the Siege ot Gibraltar- ..lreedivg Vie Anima's at haltia at TOUT Concert at nalf-paat Five: Fireworks, at halt-past Eight. Ni es'ra charge. Admandon to the whole, One ra W EATHEK.—srN IFrms. SEPT. 7. TITERROMETER. Lowest, 39; Highest, 60 ; Noon, 59, BAROMETER, 30.05. --WIND W. , • fair. tg I . AT OAY, Morning.. 14 !Mutates after 12. • - • 4. 4 „re , ' s e ON I h 1,4, , A , r w; IT' 43 MO H • Ala 4 iio z • • Q'lTtinnA LONDON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1847 If we mistake not, the year 1847 will, in after ages , be celebrated as the year in which the first practical step was taken for the permanent amelioration of the condition of the human race by securing to industry its just reward, and by rendering wars so contrary to the material interests of every human being as to en tirely do away with them. On the 16th of Septem iser,lB47, there will be held at Brussels a Free-trade Congress (the first ever assembled), at which delegates from every civilized nation of the world are invited to attend. The members of the Belgian Association for the Liberty of Commerce, on whose invitation this congress is about to be assembled, will hence forth be numbered amongst the greatest benefactors of mankind. Their invitation to the Free-traders of all countries, which will be found in another column, sets forth in a sufficiently succinct manner the motives by which the me mbers of the Belgian Asso ciation have been actuated in convening this congress. o By assembling at Brussels the individuals who, from their exertions and position, are at the head of the politico-economical movements of the world, the Belgian Association for the Liberty of Commerce apprehended it should take the shortest road for re ducing the difficulties, and destroying the prejudices which continue to be opposed to the extension of the commercial relations between different countries;" and " therefore took advantage of a meeting at Brussel, for the extension of reformative punishments (c.mgre4 penitentiare), and of the fortunate coincidence of an exhibition of the products of Belgian industry, to call together the present congrei , s of the friends of political economy and statistics. Its meetings will take place four days before those of the meeting on reformative punishments ; that is to say, on September 16." The Free-traders of South Lancashire (on this as on every other occasion, the first in the field when ever there is work to be done) have deputed their representative in the British Parliament, W. BROWNE, Esq., M.P.,to be also their reprt sentative at the Brussels Coligrebs. We earnestly call upon the other Free-traders of the British empire to assemble in their districts, and to follow the excellent example set by South Lancashire. Let the West Riding depute its RICHARD COBDEN to do for the world what he has already done for England. Let Colonel PERRONET THOMPSON, the patriarch of Free-trade, who by his Anti-Corn-law Catechism struck the first blow at mo nopoly, be deputed for some other large district ; and let the manufacturing capital of England, Man chester, send her answer - to the invitation by the re presentative of her choice, JouN BRIGHT. It is to be hoped that this is but the commence ment of a world-wide agitation on the subject of free trade. But a short time remains in which to elect delegates to the Congress and to give them in structions, and we trust that one of those instructions will be to invite all the free-traders of the Continent, through their representatives assembled at Brussels, to send delegates to attend a second world's free trade Congress, to be assembled either in London or Manchester, in September, 1848 ; and if the Congress should assemble in London, we call upon the corporation of the City to follow the example of the civic authori ties of Brussels, and to place the Guildhall at the dis posal of the Committee of the Congress. We shall watch the proceedings of this Congress with intense interest. We regard it as the commencement of a great movement for the regeneration of the human race—a movement which cannot but be successful, as it works its ends by moral means alone, and against which all theefforts of tyranny and monopoly,which work by brute force, must, for that very reason, be powerless. A congress of Free-traders as sembling every year would be more effective for good, than could be all the effete and worn-out Go vernments of the world for evil. It would be impos sible for any Government to persuade two nations, each sending representatives to such a Congress, to go to war with each other. Like the Amphyctionic Council, such a Congress would be a court of arbitra tion, to which nations could satisfactorily refer for a settlement of their di ff erences. It would con stitute, in fact, a federal union of all the countries of the earth. All honour to the Belgian Association for the great work they have commenced, and ra•ty success attend them in their earnest endea vours to promote the best interests of their fellow • • creatures. A guerilla warfare may yet afford the Mexicans the most terrible venweance for the unprovoked inva sion of their territories. Even while we are assured by the intellizence which reached Southampton on Sunday mornim by the Great Western, that no serious itnpoliment interposed between the American forces under General SCOTT and the capital of the Mexican Republic, we are satisfied that a recourse to the plan of indiscriminate blau4hter, common to the in guerilla captains, would result the utterdiscom fiture, if not in the total annihilation, ofthe vam glorious assailants. SANTA. ANNA, who . still the exercise of a military and civic dictatorship, has more than the opportunities afforded to ZUMALACARAGUI. If, with these opportunities, he combine the enter prise and audacity of that adventurous bandit, he must bring dismay and confusion into the ranks of his antagonists. In all essential respects perhaps Mexico is better adapted for that species of defence than the Spanish and Portuguese peninsula. Geo graphically it presents to an invading force many a spot suited for a Thermopylae and an Arbela. `Vera patriotism and courage among the characteristics of its inhabitants, it would be altogether impregnable. Among its mountains there are localities where an army might be crushed by the stratagems resorted to among the T 3 rolese passes, when ANDREW Horzu wa tha chieftain over his countrymen ; and among its t.:Tnts and pcl , l2l:Als citia i,s ri. 2 c4 SB:%lXlealy TELE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1P47. enough cause to arouse the most passionate sentiments I of wrath and indignation—such sentiments as were ; 1 enkindled in the bosoms of ou r forefathers during the 1 civil wars of England , an d as are expressed in the -- _ earnest verse of :kr. MACAULAY " Quarter? —Foul fall your whining noise, Ye recreant spawn of fraud! No quarter t think on Stafford, boys. No quarter! think on Laud. What hol The craven slaves retire. On! Trample them to mud. No quarter! Charge! No quarter!—Fire. No quarter! Blood! Blood! Bluod I" By driving the population of Mexico to despair, the Americans are goading them on to a frenzy like that of the Cavaliers, and may draw down upon their own heads the lightnings of a nationality which they have hitherto insulted and defied. Supposing, moreover, that the people of the Aztec empire were to arise on finding themselves in the last extremity, and, contrary to the pusillanimity and sluggishness which they have hitherto evinced, were to exterminate the armaments of the United States, even those who are opposed on principle to the system of war and bloodshed would be ready to applaud a cruelty originating in the law less movements of its victims. Little as we anticipate any such heroic manifesta tion of patriotism, we are, nevertheless, prepared to witness the ignominious withdrawal of an army which has been organized by cupidity and marshalled with a caution very nearly allied to cowardice. Its expul sion at the point of the sword or the bayonet seems to us altogether hopeless, from the miserable degeneracy of the men under the banners of SANTA ANNA. Even his Lieutenant, VALENCIA, the most warlike officer on the Presidential staff, appears to be animated merely by the valour of a Henriot. Rage supplies in his heart the place of a chivalric devotion, and alcohol instead of affection for country is, according to all accounts, the principal source of his courage. Still, with a fickle population, a variable priesthood, an in experienced body of soldiers, and an indifferent band of officials, both municipal and military, President SANTA ANN A may yet brave the authority of the Congress of Washington, and carry butchery and terror into the camp of General SCOTT. After a protracted delay, the Americans are marching upon the metro polis—the time, therefore, has arrived for bringing the most powerful defences of the invaded Republic into operation. An outraged nation may revenge itself for the inhumanities perpetrated at Vera Cruz, for the irruptions into the Rio Grande, for the seizure of California, and for the villanous and perfidious conduct adopted towards it during the last half eentury. It is evident that the intention of Mr. Presiders' POLL was, originally, to associate with his adminis , tration a vast amount of national aggrandisement, both pecuniary, commercial, and territorial. Possibly he was solicitous to ensure by the prestige thus given to his "reign" the renewal of the trust already deposited in bis hands. Authority was sweet to him, and he resolved to contrive its continuance in his possession at all hazards. Is there, we ask, up to this moment any token of his project being successful ? Where is the pecuniary aggrandisement? Where the commercial aggrandisement? Where the terri torial aggrandisement ? Everybody knows what vapouring and bluster there was about Oregon, and every one remembers how that vapouring and bluster terminated. Everybody knows, in like manner, that the spoliation of Mexico and the annex ation of California are as yet anything but faits ac eomplis. And yet the time of Mr. Poi.x.'s president ship is dwindling down from a comparatively few months to a comparatively few weeks. On its termi nation, where will be its prestige? In the splitting of the difference in Oregon ?—in the ineffective, pro longed, and ruinous attack upon the Mexican domi nions ?—in the erratic marches of TWIGG3 ?—in the doubt and precautions of SCOTT ?--OT in the sojourn ZAcuArtr TAYLOR at Monterey ? Which ? That is the problem to be solved at Washington ; and in its solution will be discerned the claims of Mr. PoLL upon the reverence or detestation of his fellow citizens. It will then be manifest whether he has trifled with the national resources—the arms, the revenues, the commerce, and the lives of the United States' men—for the furtherance of his own selfish iispirati , ins , whether he has jeopardi.ed the national credit (-nal of it as there was to jeopardise) for the preservati.m of his own individual popularity I There is now an absence of that political excite ment that invariably is manifested during the con tinuance of the Parliamentary session, when questions of the deepest interest are brought forward and dis cussed in the Legislature. The hustle attendant on the general election has also terminated. The im portant task of selecting fit and proper persons to represent the wants and wishes of the several con stituencies—to take their part in the promotion of the several measures that may be introduced for the purpose of sweeping away the abuses that have gra dually accumulated about many of our institutions, of effecting reforms and ameliorations, by which the national industry may be stimulated, and the na tional resources fully developed—has been brought to a conclusion. It is the holiday time of the Ministry, when they may enjoy themselves in peace and tranquillity, undisturbed by the pressure of business, by the necessity of explanations, or of framing fitting responses to unpleasant interrogatories —when leisure i 3 afforded to them to take large and comprehensive views as to the several matters demanded by the exigencies of the country—and when they may enjoy that domestic happiness in their family circles from which they are practically excluded during the more busy and stirring periods of the year. At such a season the re-unions, that become more frequent, are not to be regarded merely as festive celebrations, valuable only for the conviviality and enjoyment thereby afforded. They possess a deeper importance in bringing together the different classes of society, in promoting a mutual kindliness of feeling, in drawing closer the ties by which they are united, and cementing the amicable relations between all. Here the statesman reaps the best reward for his toils and labours, in the enthusiasm with which he is greeted, the full appreciation of his public services, that is made apparent in the manner of his recep tion. Those of less exalted rank, of a more humble grade, are delighted to find that there is an anxious desire to promote their social improvement, to extend their means of happiness, to cultivate and refine their tastes, and to increase their intellectual enjoyments. Lord MORPETH, who is peculiarly happy on such occasions, who rejoices to meet his fellow-subjects on every legitimate opportunity, and who never fails to delight and improve his auditory, of whom it may be said,— " IsTihq tetigit (pod non ornavit," has well expressed his sense of their value and use. stiys—" I view with grew fulness, Ilis Lord s hi p satisfaction the continuance of these hospitable meetings on a scale of even increasing liberality and splendour. I like the composition of these meetings, which bring together the heads of great houses, the possessors of extem,ive acres, the members represent ing the great agricultural interests of the country, that and the representativ es of the energy and enterprise have given wealth to these busy towns and their populous me ne i g hbourhoods. In th i s res p ect they seem to to be an appropriate representation of the framework of English society, which makes so many differing interests, so many distinct classes, the dispensers and recipients mutually of benefits to each other." On the preceding evening his Lordship had attended the laying the foundation-stone of the Sheffield Athenaeum, and had pointed out, with a grace and beauty of language peculiarly his own, the advan tages arising to an industrious community from such institutions. It was at the feast of the Cutlers' Com pany, on the installation of the new Master Cutler at Sheffield, that he gave expression to the sentiments l ' we have just quoted, when returning thanks for the loud and enthusiastic cheering and that of his colleague in :litewt,ri which his health e t u h pLesentation of the Ilt: % 1 . 1 e i r r e e --- r received in b that C°B D s s E d e s m ' b t l h y e . a \ N p r o e s s t t l e ll' o i ( f l i f n r g e a ( - ) t f r free-trade—were On both occasions he was equally felicitous, much instruction was to be derived from his ' c a l ' : although he did not introduce disputed quesTonenscoef policy; or follow Lord FITZWILLIAM into the con sideration of topics scarcely suitable for the festive board. He gracefully alluded to the difficulties we have surmounted and the more favourable p ro3pects opening before us. He says-- " Looking to the p ast, I feel a satisfaction that England has passed through the crisis, without rais ing any piteous cries for help to herself on account of her own ore - pla.c.:s, and has done her best in ezat iatel al to stanch tho wollacis of tilakizg Itelsi. I hope that easier times are now at hand, that a brighter I dawn is breaking around us. More frequent gleams of light streak the distant horizon. I trust that the resources of your trade and industry may prove as elastic even as those railway carriage-springs which now form a considerable source of employment to this town. I trust that the harvest, which now embrowns the fields and clothes the hills and valleys with gol den waves, may be made the happy instrument of in terchange with the looms and anvils of Yorkshire, and may tend, under the Divine blessing, to the per manent well-being of those interests so fitly repre sented by this plenteous and friendly board." That these aspirations may be verified to the fullest extent is our earnest hope. Our trade and commerce has been liberated from the fetters and restrictions by which they were so long impeded. The great principle of free trade is recognised, and the various measures calculated to bring it into full operation, will, doubtless, be introduced and passed through the Legislature with all convenient speed. Ireland, aided by the fostering assistance which she requires, will be elevated in the social scale, and have no rea.on to fear a repetition of the horrors with which her children have been afflicted ; and the fa mine year will be recollected chiefly for the evidence it afforded of the fraternal feelings entertained to wards her people by Englishmen, and the bonds by which we are united will be cemented and per petuated. The Augsburg Gazette of the 31st ult., in speaking of the advance of troops intended to reinforce the Austrian army in Italy, declares that they are solely intended for Lombardy, and that the mission of Count FIQUELMONT is of an exclusively diplomatic character, In speaking of the occupation of Ferrara, it says that a simple declaration on the part of Austria will show to the Court of Rome how ill-grounded was its protest. The writer then goes on to declare that it is an error to suppose that Austria is desirous, by any of these acts, to exhibit any hostility to the Papal Government, or even to blame, directly or indirectly, the reforms so approved of at Rome. The article concludes in these words :—" We may then regard the future without inquietude. The value of the ameliorations attempted to be introduced by the POPE is too justly appreciated for them not to meet with an entire approbation." A letter from Bologna, of the 28th of August, an nounces the arrest of Don BERTON; curate of Borgo, and of two other chiefs of the retrograde party who, under the protection of Austria, were organizing a corps of brigands in Romagna. They were arrested in the neighbourhood of Faenza. The Italiano publishes a letter from Ferrara which states that two English vessels were seen on the 17th, taking soundings in the Bay of Valano, province of Ferrara, at the mouth of the Po. The Austrian Ge neral left on the 22d to reconnoitre the advanced posts of the Pontificial army. The Austrian Prince SCHWARTZEMBERG, has, it is said, been insulted by the populace in the streets of Leghorn. Madrid papers of the 31st ult. have arrived. The Gaceta publishes the list of twenty-five new Senators. The QUEEN has commissioned Senor SALAMANCA to form a Ministry, and he has invited Generals CORDOVA and Ros DE 0L.5.r40, and Senors VARREY and SOTELO, to join him. The Duke of FRIAS and General ALAIX will also, it is said, be offered seats in the new Cabinet. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 31.—The Three per Cents closed at Madrid, on the 31st ult., at 261 cash. Five per Cents., 17 cash. Passives, 5i paper. Coupons, 15 cash. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Presse gives the following particulars of the reception of NARVAEZ by the Queen of SPAIN : " The Queen of Spain was not only inflexible in refusing to accept the Ministry proposed by Marshal Narvaez, but that her Majesty received him in a manner which he did not expect. Amongst other things, the Queen told him that she was determined to call the Yrogressistas to her councils, to which Narvaea replied, Your Majesty forgets, no doubt, that the Prugressistas are by tradition, by position, and by system, the most dangerous enemies of your throne, and the adversaries of your prerogative.' Her Majesty—' I forget nothing; my resolution is fixed ; and, at the worst, I shall retain my present Ministers." Your Majesty will permit me to observe that it was not necessary to summon me from Paris to tell me this." It was not I ...ho summoned you: Then my mission is concluded." Completely con cluded, and you may withdraw.' At that moment a Cabinet Council was sitting in the Palace. Marshal Narvaez repaired thither (in what temper may easily be imagined), and after having recounted the conver sation he had with the Queen he withdrew, declaring that he was not the man to suffer himself to be mys tified. This observation applied particularly to M. Salamanca, who, holding to his portfolio, and sup ported by Mr. Bulwer, spared no pains between seven in the afternoon and midnight to captivate the Queen, and it appears he succeeded completely. General Narvaez, by his firmness in repellibg a proposition made to him by General Serrano, has doubled his in fluence with the moderate party, of which he is more than ever the personification. The two parties are in presence of each other, and the contest being fairly engaged the conclusion cannot'be long delayed." This statement by the Presse that the QUEEN said to NA&YAEZ, "It was not I who summoned you," is important. It is a distinct admission that there is at the Spanish Court a Viceroy over the Monarch, a spy of the French Court, who commands the use of the French telegraph, who orders officers, nominally in the service of the Spanish Government, to quit their posts without the QUEEN'S knowledge, and con trary to her wishes. Who is the traitor ? Could not the Duke of GLUCKSBURGE. point him out ? It appears, from a letter of M. EYNARD'S, inserted in the Journal des bibats, that the worthy PHILLELLIENE is a very Greek—the Coster of finan- chi' diplomacy. He has refused to accept COLLETTI'S Bill for the instalment of the interest due to England, notwithstanding his public announcement of his wil lingness to do so many months ago, upon the faith of which he has been so long enjoying a character for honour and generosity as it would now appear upon false pretences; but let us chronicle his shame in his own words : " 1. I affirm that the bill of exchange has not been accepted, and, consequently, Lord Palmerston cannot ha Ye said so. "a. I give as a proof, the protest for non-accept ance by the banking house of Pillet, Will, and Co., who presented the bill to me, and protested it on the 27th of August. 3. I du not retract a single word from the letters I wrote to the British Government in favour of Greece, nor from the reflections I made on the subject ot those letters. "Now, I declare, that with regard to the bill of exchange of 500,000 francs ; I will do that which I shall believe useful to Greece." It is to England a matter of perfect indifference what M. E YNAIID may choose to du. If he does not find the money COLETTI must be prepared to submit to the consequences of his dishonesty. Lord t'an- MERSTON is nut the man to be trifled with, and all England will back him in any steps he may take to compel the fraudulent Government of Greece to pay its debts. According to the Journal des Dads a concordat has been concluded between the PorE and the Em peror of RUSSIA. It would appear from the following article in the Constitationne/ that Austria, in consequence of the energetic remonstrances of England, is inclined to pause in her crusade against Liberal principles in Italy. After stating that Prince METTEISNICH, alarmed at the attitude which Italy has assumed, endeavours to throw the whole responsibility of the occupation of Ferrara upon General IiADETSICI, the Constitutionhei thus proceeds : "We are assured that the movement throughout Italy has not alone caused Prince Metternich to reflect and to adopt a wiser course. lle has experi• enced from England an extremely energetic opposi tion, and one which he was far from expecting. AN ot only has the British Government taken care to communicate to the Holy Father (through an inter mediary not official, because the English law forbids such a course, but) through a friendly channel, how much the British Government and the British nation applaud his courageous and liberal conduct; but, further, the Cabinet of Vienna has been apprised that any armed demonstration against the independence or the territories of the Pope or of Sardinia would call from the further part of the Adriatic the naval force of Great Britain—a dangerous neighbour for Venice or Trieste. Prin c e Metternich, consequently recedes I gradually, and has begun by retracting his menaces." The patriots of Italy will henceforth be able to distinguish between their true and their false friends; they have learned by experience on whom they can rely in the hour of danger, and the comparison 71lieb, dotltleb, trey 7,i11. pate Intivtet tit. iidiV of the French and that of the English Government , cannot but be advantageous to the hitter. These papers are filled with letters complaining of the brutal conduct of the police in dispersing a crowd which had collected round a bootmaker's shop in the ' Rue St. Honore. The authorities employed ruffians armed with clubs to run amuck not only at the people assembled in the street, but at those standing quietly at their doors, many of whom were knocked down and taken to the Conciergerie, without hats, land with only slippers on their feet. A letter from Toulon of the 31st of August says— The ships of war Jena and Jupiter, and the steam frigate Magellan, which were stationed at Tunis, sailed from thence on the 23d, in obedience to orders brought to the officer commanding the squadron by the steam-ship Infernal. These ships were to proceed to the bay of Naples, to join the squadron under Rear-Admiral TREHOUART, who has received orders to cruise off the coast of Italy. The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de I'Opera in Paris on Sunday at 76f. 57ic. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 1. Marseilles and Avignon 587 f. 50e ; No: thern , 535 f.; Lyons a nd Avignon, 450 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SErramnEs 6. Boulogne and Amiens, I37—Namur and Liege, 5% — Northern of France, 11 1 / 4 —Paris and Lyons, 3 1 A—Paris and Rouen, 3634. —Rouen and Havre, 22%. XPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Times.) The Madrid Gazette of the Ist contains the names of the new Ministry. General Fernando Cordova, War. Pacheco de la Escasara, Political Chief of Madrid, Interior. General Ros de Olano, Public Works, Commerce, and Public Instruction. Antonio Cabellero, Under Secretary of State, Minister of that Department, ad interim. Salamanca retains the Finance, and Sotello the Marine Departments. Duke of Frias was offered the Presidency of the Council. Senor Gayenas, Minister of Justice, and General Alai; the post of Captain General of Madrid. It was expected that /sTarvaez would resign his post at Paris. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (TIIIS DAY.) The September sessions for the county of Mid dlesex commenced this morning, before the Assistant Judge and a full bench of Magistrates, at the Court house, Clerkenwell-green. The number of prisoners amounted to 11 l, and out of these, twenty-five were stated in the cdendar as being unable either to read or write, twelve able to read only, and the re mainder capable of reading and writing only " imperfectly." Fourteen of the prisoners for trial were under sixteen years of age. Henry Richards was indicted for stealing a quan tity of wearing apparel, the property of John M'Carthy.. The prisoner lodged with the prosecutor, and on the 3d inst., while the latter was absent from home, he (the prisoner) packed up almost the whole of the clothes belonging to the prosec utor and his wife. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labouT. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales. The market was flat, about Friday's rates. The sales included 3,000 bales. American at 61d. to 7kd. per lb. The Railway Share Market was firm. North Western and Midland were in demand. The exchange from Hamburgh comes over at 13 6, with the price of gold at 4331. The firm of Gammell Brothers, of Glasgow, an nounced as being in difficulties, is believed to have heavy liabilities, but the branch house at Valparaiso is said not to be affected. Much anxiety is felt for the receipt of intelligence from Manchester, where for the last two or three days there have been sinister re ports affecting the credit of some important houses. The correspondence received from Mexico by the committee of Spanish American Bondholders, has given great'satisfaction here. During a period of ex citement and warfare, it was scarcely anticipated that any serious effort would be made to improve the posi tion of the foreign creditors, bat the exertions of Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, who act in Mexico as the agents of the bondholders, have again been attended with decided success; and there is, besides, a fund in hand of 55,0001. to be remitted by the next packet, the prospect of recovering indirectly the amount of duties which were hypothecated to the bondholders, but which the Mexican Government, we may hope only from its extremely exigent circumstances, has for some time past withheld. It is now proposed to admit Cotton into the Mexican ports, at a duty of 6 dollars 6 reels per quintal, and this plan, if successful, will yield a large amount. The next packet from America is now anxiously looked for, though the news will probably not be by any means of so important a character as that by the succeeding arrivals. The English Securities keep steady this morning, but business is exceedingly dull. The state of affairs in Italy is by some rather more favourably construed. Consols have been 87i to $7l for transfer, and 87i to 88 for account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 89j to 89k. Bank Stock has realised a little, viz. to 1951. Exchequer-bills are 4s. to 6s. premium. In the Foreign House the transactions have been rather more animated. Mexican have been in favour among the speculators, and have touched 19i to 20. Portuguese Three per Cent. Bonds for Account have re alisee 26i. Venezuela -Stock is at 381, and Grenada Bonds have been marked 19. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are quoted 55i to 56. n the Railway Share Market there is scarcely any ness doing, and the quotations are rather heavy. cLosr.NG PRICES. 197 87 3 4 87 1 4 119% 914 ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne..., V% 88 87% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 87% %% New 3 1 ,4 per Cent. Annuities B 9 l / 2% Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 9 1-16 IA South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 85 %7 Consols for Account BB tv7 Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,000/. 500/ ..... .. 95p Small ONE O'CLOCK 85X 87% 10p cLosniG PRICES 84% 84'4 'RICER OF FOREIGN FUNDS. onh ß i r are a erxin z i : le l hd i aaann, Bonds, 5B Bonds,op n r d I s Bl 2 Cent . sp ,e r 3 1 — c p m e e r C 6R.t.. e . . n . t . .. .. 1 8 9 4 14 % 19 Ditto, Account 1 9 54 20 19% Portuguese 5 per Cents. - .— Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account 2 6 3/ Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account 26 Russian Bonds .. lO B l4 ex div Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 3 8 14 Ditto Deferred ll %Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Ceat. Dutch 2 1 6 per Cent. . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 89 1 4 89% PRICES or PAID.' BUSINESS DONE CLOSING R XILWAY SHARES ''''' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... 19% 19% 80 Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 - Belfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ••• •• Birming., Wolverlepton, and Stour Va11ey..... 8 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 6% Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 75 - Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire B/. 4s ,:metionian Ditto, Halt Shares..... 2 1 .4 Ditto, Clydesdale Juno 40 'll.teter and tiolyhead... 32 tA Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clarence 78 4 Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO Cornwall Ditto, Halt Shares Dublin and BelfastJunc 2O Dundalk & Enniskillen 12% — East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. 25 •••••• Do., 181., E. & 18 Do., 3/.105., E. & 11. 1 ~ .a.sterii Counties 2O .. 18% Ilittc, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d... Jitto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10 .....• V i e% Do., North. is Eastern 50 ..—.• 53 Do., Quarters Do., New l4 ~.stern 1.:Ilioli Ditto, Quarter Shares 12th -- Ditto, Thirds ........13s. 4d — .Eitat Lancashire . Ditto. New Do.. do., Exien. Scrip -t IA - ••• 2614 25►% 108 1 A 38% 11% L.- ! list Lincolnshire ...... 9 ...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ....- -- Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Edieburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New 2% ...... Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 ..... Ditto, uitto, New ..••• 11 'Ai — Edinburgh and Perth... 2 ...... -.- Vitti., Extension ..... -10 s. Exeter, Yeovil, tli. Durch. 2,/, - Ditto, New , - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ............... 81. 6s. 8d - !_lasgow, Kilmar.,ZsAyr 50 Ditto, New ........... 35 Do., 1 A Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... ...... 12 1 / 2 .....• Great Northern Do., London and York •1%•...• ... Great South. and West. (Ireland) ............... 35 Great North of Englan d.. 100 ......229 Ditto, New 40/. ......... 5 ••••••• Ditto, New 30/ 30 — Ditto, New 151.....•.... I % — Great Westetn Ditto, % Shares ... 50 Ditto, IA Shares ...... 15 ...... 181 4% Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... 24% 25 Ditto, New 17/.......... 7 Huddersfield & P.lanches. 19 ...... ......... ... •• Ditto, Thirds ... 7 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares 25 Ditto, V s Shares.. 12% ... Ipswich & Bury St. Eam. 15 Do., do., and Norwich 12 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late lamb. & Ely) 2%...•.• 34% Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 :AU°, Thirds lO Lanca-hi: e & Yoikshire 82 ....• Ditto P . Shares... 38 _ . ...... sth 1 1 4 94 52% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction ...... L , ndon andl3laeltwall. 161.13 e. 4d. ..... Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 3/. 13s. 4d. Do. Extension 12% London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consul. Eighths.. 20 ••• • Do. Guarant. 5 per et. 9 Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 ...... London vadGre l / 4 nwich 121 15s 4d... Du. Prei,.rvnce lB/1;s 2d... oodun arm N. Western 100 Do. Quarters L. & B. 12 Do., no., New Ditto Fifths Do. L 4 Shares (G. J.) 20 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 ........"•..•• Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10'. (M. & B.) B. 5 ..... .......... Do. 10/. Ji. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and 2 •• ........ •• Cheltenham Long. & ... , .Western 411 tio 10d....•• Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 ...... Do. New 50/. ..... 32 1 4.. • Do. No .1(.1 7 26 1100 .0 ."lir .08 64 18% 25 94 50 1 ,4 42% Do. Quarter Shares._ 14% .— Do. I. ifths 6% Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 6!4 1)o. Thirds (Reg.). 71.45. - ••••• ••• — Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 . Ditto I- (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 28 Do.(W akefield, Foote fract. & Goole - •••: ........ •• Do. (W. RidingUnion) 4 /. 2 a s 4' (Its % dis. Do. (Preston & Wyr«) 25 Do. % Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1 1 4 ..... Leeds and Bradtord 45 - ••••••• ....... Leicester and Bedf.wd... 16a — .. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 32% 33%•••• ....... .... Do., Branch 1 12 Shares 7 1 ,4.. Do. New Branch(blue) 2% Do. Extension (green) 2 1 ,4.. ... Do.NewExten. (pink) 2 1 ,4 — Leeds a d Thirsk 3l ...... Ditto, New ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 / 1 ..... 33 1 ,4 484 26 3 4 10% Do. Tenths (Consul.) 50 Ditto ditto ...••.. .... 40 Ditto Scrip 501. Ditto ditto 401 4 ...... Lundon, Saiisnury, and l'eowil ....., , ..... —1%.„... Londonderry &.;oleraine 25 ...... ....... Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 22 1 /...... ..... Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 445....... PA dia. ..... ... 1 1 4 dig. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire - ... - Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... '5 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7 1 ,4 Ditto and Grim-by.... '25 Ditto ditto : ... ... 7 Ditto ditto ....• -; - Ditt. Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7% — Manchest. ec Southampt. 2 1 / 4 ......• - Midland lod Do. Consolidated Pref. Do. .101. Shares D... , . 501. Shares .. . . . Do. Rim.. and Derby 100 - - Midland Consol Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent.loo ...... ..• — Midlnd, Brist. &Ulocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto BEdlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, S per ct.guar. 50 ...... -• Midland Ureat Western Irish Newcastle sad Berwick 25 Ditto New Ditto North Shields... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Do. Quarters 5O . ... - Newmrket& Chesterford. 13% Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • 4 •••••• --- - Newry and Enniskillen 7 - ..... Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor lO - .• ••.••.•••••• Norfolk Du. New 201. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk Do. do. Vaveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 12%...... Do Quarters ...... .. 4 3 4 — - Do. Extension Ditto Thirds .... North Staffordshire...... 7%...... 9s/ 4 North Wales - North Western Oxford, WorceBter, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and ... Reigate .._- 714 8 % /4 Rovstcn and Ilitchin ... lAi —- , , :Scottish Central Scottish Midland l 7 l-4 , • — Ditto, New •.. 10 -3hetlield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 - Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. ii. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 Ditto Oswestry - ..... Ditto New - Shrewsbury and liereld. 2 ...... Shropshire Union soudi Devon... 4O Do. Pretereuce South Staifordshire 2/. 125.... South Eastern tic Dover 33 tA s 3.0i... Do., No. 1.. - • tio., NL , 2. Do , No. 3.. ..... ...... 15 - ....... ... Do., No. 4 South W' a l es ls out., Yorkshire, Don castor, and Goole 2 - Swans. Sc Loughor & Ca meron's Sun. C0a 1.... 2 law Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Duck and Railw,:y Vale of N eath 4 W' atertOrd and Kilkenny 131, 2 — .• ... W aterford and Limerick 35 Watertd,Wxird,Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall 4 ... .. -. Whitehaven & Furness 8 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 425. — Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth - York and Newcastle. . Do. Extension( Do. Preference York and North Midland 50 Ditto Extension . ..... 25 ...... Ditto, Preference - ••• ;)o. East and NV est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWATS. Anglo• Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 •••••• Boulogne dud Amiens 2O ...... bordeaux,Toulousa, and Celt( (Constituted ) 4 .. ... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... '2 Ceylon ss, Demerara w 2 1 ,( 2 Dendre Valley ...... .. 4 ...... Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 East Indian ... ss. Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras ss. Great Western Bengal... 58. Great NV extern Canada... 3IA .. . . 34 1 / 4 italian and Austrian.... 4 ..... 11,4 ll Jamaica S.Mid. J unction 1 Louvain it la Sambre ... 6 ... • •••••• Luxembourg...-. ..... .. 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 Madras ...... .. - Madras. Nellore, and Arcot l, A Madrid and Valentin.... 2 ... .. Namur and Liege Northern of France. lO ..... Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over 1 ssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons .. 3 •••••• a 1 h%... • Paris And urrealo, — Paris and Itoiten earls and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 - ...." - Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 • Tours and Nantes ....... 8 ' * «. ••• . Tourney, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 12 Irinidad West Flanders .. 8 MINE-3. Real Del M , nte, Unreg. United Mexican 2*. 8 3 / 4 d. LLOYD'S SHIPPING---(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 7.—Wind S.W. by S., light pleasant bre, vs, Lod tine. DEAL, SEPT. 6.—Wind N.W.; PM. N.N.W.—Arrd. BritAtha'', Allen, Mauritius ; aterville, 31111 i, ditto ; Cuba, Dean, lavanhab, for Hamburgh ; Charlotte, 13uleracq, Rio Janeiro; Sisters, New Yolk. for London; Penelope, Dicey, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, and sailed, Bride of Abydos, Cape of Good Hope ; Apollo, Demerara; Hersella, Boston; St. Fillan, Newfound land. Sid. George, Singapore ; Mary Ann, Algoa Bay; Golden Rule, Bermutie ; British Queen, Mogadure. OFF BEACHY HEAD, SEPT. s.—Neptune, Olups, Rio Janeiro, for Ilumburgh. LivEneooL, SEPT 6.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Mary Jones, Stephenson, Antigua ; John Fehrman, Beater, Boston. Off port, Inca, —. Sld. Frederica, Monte Video; Corsair, Halifax; Richard Cobden, ditto; Lord Harding, Bombay ; Archimedes, Monte Video ; Lord Seaton, New Orleans; Fortitude, Portsmouth, Now Holland; George, Pictou; Lady Milton, Quebec; Moun taineer, Pugwash. POOLE, SEPT. 4.—Sld. North Pole, Newfoundland. OFF PIL, Sum. 4.—Arrd. Caledonia, Belden, St. John's, New Bi unswick, for Gloucester. BRISTOL, SEPT. fi.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Sld. Sarah, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 6.—Wind N.--Arrd. Caledonia, Gordon, St. John's. LANCASTER, SEPT. 3. Sld. Jane, Grenada. PENTLAND FRITH —Arrd. John and Hannah, Quebec. LocasaADDY, AUG. 31.—The Reform (sloop), M'Pey, of Greenock, For Buvra, was totally wrecked 22d inst. near Loch Buiadale, South Ultit, master and one man drowned. FISHGUARD, SEPT. 4.-=The Active, owner, of Car digan, is supposed to have foundered in Ramsey sound, on the night of the 31st lat. KIRKWALL, AuG. 30.—Her Majesty's steamer Mas tiff, which went on shore on the Island of Sands, has been got off and taken to Strotnness. YARMOUTH, SEPT, 4.—The Coburg, Southampton to Seaham, was in contact with the Fanny, of Newcastle, and lost bowsprit, &c. The Joseph Alexander, of and from Yarmouth to Goole, was' In contact with the Hope brig, off Husborough, last night, when the former was abandoned. 6th. The Fanny, of Newcastle, has arrived here with damage from contact with the Coburg, of Whitby, but will proceed. The Jos. ph Alexander has been picked up at sea, abandoned. A piece of wood, with the word " Helen" in gilt letters, supposed to be the whole or part of a VCSierS mime, was picked up st Sher ringharn, 4th inst. MARKET NEW S.—(T HIS DAY.) BAT 24.11.31311:1 S. SMITLIFIELD.—OId Meadow lib), 3 1 to 31 Iss; New ditto, 215 s to 315,; Old Clover, 41 to 5/ ;Na ditto, 31 5. to 41 46 ; anti Straw, 11 6s to 11 12b per lid. A moderate suppl), and a steady trade. CUMBERLAND —Old Meadow Hay. 3/ 3s to 3/ I>i3 ; New ditto, 21 5s to 31 Si; Old Closer, 41 to 41 14-1 N ovvi ditto, 31 3s to 44 4s; and Straw, 11 is to 11 13b per load. Trade firm .t the aboveq a u l o , ta 3 t l io s 7. to I Si 15s• WIIITEC II AP F.L.--Oid Meadow n New, ciao., 21 5a to 3 153 ; Old Clover , 41 to 5 / ; Ne . w ditto, 3/ Ss to 4/ 5A ; and ,Straw, 1/ 64 to 1/ 12b per load. Supply moderately good, and trade firm. 5 COLONIAL. SCGAR.—The market for British Plantation remains without material alteration, 460 hbds having been dis posed of at about previous rates. The public sales have comprised 8,645 bags 481 casks Mauritius, 983 bags Bengal, and 1,755 bags Madras, which went off very heavily, but chiefly sold at lower priers, particularly the former, which eonsi-ted chiefly of unclean qualities, upon which a reduction of 6d to is was submitted to. The prices obtained were, for Mauritius, 86s to .42s for low to good yellow, and 3 . 1 s 1- to 851 for Ivy low to go-ai vita cryiltao SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) - - - Two women, named Brown and Wilson, were charged with stealing a great coa t from a gentleman's house. It appeared that the prisoners called at the com plainant's house, and, under the pretext of obtaining some assistance to take one of them to the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary at Margate, took a great coat, which was hanging up in the hall. Horsford, of the Mendicity Society, identified both the prisoners, and stated that Wilson was committed fit three months to gaol some time since, for obtain ing money by means of a petition with forged signa tures to it. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he should not deal sum marily with two such dangerous characters as the prisoners, but should commit them for trial. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) William Shadbolt, a labouring man, was charged with violently assaulting police-constable K 383. The constable stated that last night, when he was off duty, accompanied by another constable be went into the Coach and Rorses public-house, Stratford. The prisoner was there, and entered into conversation with him. Shortly after he said to the policeman, " Come outside, I want to say something to you." The witness did so, when the prisoner said, " I owe you a grudge," and knocked him down, and kicked him violently about the legs. This evidence was corroborated by police-constable K 324. For the defence the prisoner called a man, named White, who swore most positively that both police• men were drunk, and that they themselves were the assailants. by handing in a written document Mr. "YARDLEY (perusing it)—This was not in to ll t e h e concluded Magistrate. in tended for me, I ansede ; it t is com not intendemences, " M d r. to l Editet torhe ." Witnes—Yes ; i ma tter drop here ; that letter shall go in. What particular journal, however, was to be favnured with the communication, which extended over an entire sheet of foolscap, Mr. White did not mention. The sergeant who took the charge was then sent for, and proved that the prisoner and his witness were both at the time very drunk, and the policemen, on the contrary, were sober. Mr. YAUDLET said he could not, after, this, believe the statement of the prisoner's ambitious witness, and he much doubted if his communication would not be thrown in the fire b's any editor into whose hands it might fall. He should fine the prisoner 20s. or eight days' imprisonment. He was locked up in default. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.— Yesterday afternoon, , an accident occurred on u' a e :a e l k artn to the passe . egers, in aLb,,,k,uet_hsavhlfi-cpha,ct aulisateri board one of the iron steam-boats—the La i) • of the cr, ased by the circumstance of the late expl‘Aion. When the boat had reached within a short distance of Bat tersea-bridge, a noise was heard, and immediately the off-paddle box was broken and pieces o f wood -were forced up, at which much anxiety was expressed, and some on board seemed as if they expected an explosion to follow. It was, however, soon ascertained that one of the floats of the paddle-wheel had given way, and y corning in contact with the w heel , th e p addle -box was broken in severa l p laces. The teearner was towed b s a e n n o g t e h r e s r a until bo a rd o a n T e l d o f the company's boats took the pas landed them at Cadogan-pier. The ' vessel was anchored to be repaired before another trip. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY POINTSMAN.—On Tuesday, a pointsman, named Morrisby, met with a fatal accident near the station in York, by an engine running over his legs and one of his arms. An engine was coming into the station, when Morrisby, whose place is near the arch of the bar-walla, gave a signal to the engincer to stop. At that moment another engine was going in a court ary direciion, which knocked him down, and the wheels passed over his limbs. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he expired the following night.— Yorkshirman. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE, AND ELOPEMENT. —Yesterday information was received by the metropolitan police that Dinah, the web Pape, a stonemason, taking of Josenh Hill, of Castley, n. ar Otley, Din a h, had - sconded from her home with a young man named Thomas with them 2301., the pro perty of the husband, consisting of Bank of England notes, viz., one for 100/., and two for 501., the remaining sum of 301. being banknotes of 5/. each, and 51. in gold. It is supposed the guilty pair are in London. OFFENCES IN THE PARES. —According to the official return the following convictions for offences in the Parks took place last month, viz., for offences against decency, 5 ; for drunkenness, 2 ; for personal annoy ance, I ; and for cutting the trees and defacing the seas, 2 ; total, 10. DEATH OF BUCKINGIIOI, THE ComEotoL—Yes terday afternoon Thomas Buckingham, the well-known comedian, expired in Lambeth Workhouse, after suffer ing gn at privation arid distress, owing to infirmity and lont,t-standing disuse. On Saturday week he was taken to Lambeth Workhouse, where he was removed into the infirmary, and received every attention from the officials, but gradually sunk, and died yesterday from general debility. DEATH OF SIR Wu. NIGE L GRESLEY, BART.— We have to record the death of i his Reverend Baronet, who died on Friday last a t Nether Seale Hall, in Leices tershire. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 6.-- lier Majesty's ship Amphion has an apparatus on board for converting salt water into fresh, but there is risk in working it at sea. An inspection and survey is ordered to be n.dc. There are not any other orders about her. A journal of the proceedings of Rear-Admirawhl Sat sea, h butr Carles the cr ier' s Nap squadron has been received ile uiz was most monotonous and unintere sting. There was but one entertaining trial, and that took place on Satur day, the 14th of August, off Cape Finisterre. PRINCE HENRY or TUE NETHERLANDS.— Ilia Royal Iligh;less Prince Henry of the Netherlands and suite went on Wednesday to Glasftow, where he visited in the course of the day Mr. Napier 's works, Mr. Dixon's iron works, and several othe r p laces in that city. His Highness returned to Douglas's Hotel here in the even ing. Yesterday (Friday) Prince Henry went out to shoot over the lands of Sir George Clerk at Pennycuiek; and in the evening he dined with Lady Drummond at Hawthoruden, where a distinguished play bad assem bled 0 meet laimi.eatota;T. ••••••••••••••••..................................... lieneal. 49* at 42.; to 50s for low to good bright yell , w; e d Mares, to 48s for low soft to fine white B. mires; ee esitock of 30s to 345 for low to good soft blown. The i,.„;, wee British Plantation in the port ut London on the .4e i res 17.025 hhds 2,302 tres agains t 15 223 Le tO 4 at this time last year. The stocks ut East Judie Mauritius are also larger . COM:E.-1,547 bags Plantation Ceylon , 2,319 ba s 6 ... 4 Padang, and 364 bags Costa Rica offered by auction, . 1 The former was chiefly rettezed at rather (lister prices. vii,, 42s to 65s for tine ord to low mid; a few lots of the Costa Rica sold at lower ra tes ; but the Padang wag withdrawn, at prices rather above the market value. The stock of Britkh Plantation in the port of Lond p, on on the Ist inst. was 2,9 53 hhds , 3,522 barrels and ba against 3,101 ithds, 2. 497 barrel s and bilge to the Nl' responding One or 1846. R var.—Tile quantity landed in the port of London to the Isi, inst was 15,451 pens, 3.156 hhels, puns, 5,207 hhds at the same time last year. 1id...,, The k 5 4 1 4 tac to the same date was l q , 977 puny, 2,89 6 h 1 , . a slight increase over those of la st year. likened 14,33$ •,." ~,. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 47s to 463 9d p er cid o p Ole spot, and Town 49e 6d. TEA —The ma ket has been quiet, with a steady con• SU inpaull. 'TOBACCO.--The market has continued in nearly .tbe 'TOBACCO.--The state as presented in our la st and at previeu!, quotations. Saks may be estimated at 860 bbds with the exception of about 100 hhds) consistieg of 1101" trade qualities. In some instances buyers supplied then!: selves freely, and at rates whieh may be considered eat. vantageous, if the prospective views of holders be eoliths Parcels of some descriptions have been withdrawn, ari:.`o,B character of the market has been more contracted ~.8 allude more particularly to Western Strips of her e quality. Latest advises from the United States nt;:er brought higher quotations for fine Virginia, but o ther sorts remained nearly the same. Imports, 7'36 11 .i.ii , deliveries, 845 hhds, against 1,114 bhds la % I m o time last year. Stock, 26 005 hogsheads. . against 24,:;86 hogsheads in 1846. In Virginia, 3 neirlY have b, en limited, not exceeding 200 hhds; ene, -- etw e all of spinning quality, for cutting purposes the dery has latterly fallen off very much. In KentuckY I:.', and strips the largest proportion of transactioneu::: consisted, without having affected any change in e q op p. tions. Sales have been, with very fe rd to 5 0 tions, of good and fine qualities, at 4 4 A b e en in one or two instances higher price s , ba:-eed for obtained. Maryland sales have been 33 bbu s t' Le ' a f of heated and laded, and &id to bid. Ile/anatii'd, a t ad good and fine qualities has been in good derointhe bo a vanced rates, and two or three small parcels in t h e war' of the trade have been sold at full, er,'-c °l f ; g ood wi t ! parcels of the new crop have arrive at of been 7. quality. In Havannah Seger' slightly improved inquiry for there . tioa a of eligible size and good brands. have been steady in price, with a limitefillers, bale Cuba of good and fine qualities, suitable for full rates. been in fair request, and sales road° tmaes Columbian Leaf sales have been limited in cor?e_ ,soter ,. of the small stock and the almost general opieionuel too tamed by the manufacture's that prices rule sn .A ll . fte r; fineadneillcral: high. Havanna', Seed Leaf has been more iequirfevw""sgea Caheeniroitented. stuck is small of fine quality. madeengal 5 _ but' of good quality have been 0 fi ll 0 he ve Porto Rico Leaf, of quality' suitable for fill e . r ,„:„reeed been in good d. mend. In German Leaf a n i t 7 t eected, business has been done, and sales to ionic exte n o f g oon at steady prices. In Ameraloot a few coe T s n Neg ev quality h.oe been taken, for segar purposes. e"tisebin% head and Cavendish there lies been scarcely a _. toat el done ; fur good and fine sorts prices hale , co r a' vie. steady. Centrum' .talks are more inquired afte . ' s lide and Kentucky in good demand. Od COAL 31A Rli El'.—Mole per. eos Buddle's W. Hartley 18s Odißelinont .................. 206 9 ,1 Charlotte M3in 1: . ,8 90113ratid s 11's Bettors •• ~, 6,1 Chester slain lBs OdilEast Retell ............ i . ,., 3a D,,,i8.,, , z,W0q Hartley 18s Odillsswell .................. i lr o 0 1 Deati'a Priinroma Dipton Tahtield ...... 2 0 s " ci Hasting's H a rtley lBs Od Lambton .............. 205 94 Ht,lvwell Main ...... , lB5 9d Russell's Hato' , ...... ',Os 33 , , Ord's Reoheugh S - mth l'eareta Tailtittld Moor W)lam 20 0 Wall's End, &c. Hudson's Hartlepool'" os Od Acorn Close 19s 6• - i High Tboruley ....... 2 05 , Bewieke and Co 2os Od Kelloe ........... • ...... ... 1 , e_i Brown's Gas . l6s Od Thornley. ...... ••• eon 3 ,1 Clarke and Co Hotspur . A , 1 liedwurtla Hilda l9s 6dißichardsone Tee. ...... .i 1 :1 , e oa Northumberland ° )(4 64 Wh irncliffe Eden Main 2os 00 Derwentwater IlerP i 133 arrivals-112 sold. THE GIS" F---------ORT H CO--------MIN 67 it question of thile'R g A r T en l t O es N t . imports,cetsernii.nllugh: ":, arg A ued at the next regisiratiOn court for tn° "`" g of Lambeth, in which district alone neet l Y -1 ce names have been added to the list of vo e° si :00 1841. An objection has been made to „Pltert whom the overseers have placed upon th e . e s . the and it is intended to try, in this single it 3s ' l.. otn" right of persons living in what are called c h i3e. pounded houses," to exercise the elective franc the Should the objection be held valid, it will have effect of disqualifying not less than 10,000 a 1 6,. a voters in the metropolitan boroughs alone, who shor e this year, for the first time, in the election of Me lt :, bets of parliament. The custom of "compoundinic for the payment of rates has become very genera l L l r, all large towns. It is an arrangement ,I',e t ween the parochial authorities a nd ; P e owners of houses, by which the latter olPea to pay, all the year round, the rates cbfati, upon their property, whether occupied or 150 • on con3ition of the parish making a deduction.°oja per cent. upon the rateable value. The s ystole ° be j to benefit both parties. The collectors makehil.n. debts, and are saved a world of trouble; end t ' e d o'h, lords, who are able to keep a sharper 100'4 ti„te,flea take care to charge the tenants with the full r- 0 ,010 that a reduction of one-half the parochial el r e lee' up for losses and " empties." During the tou t tnlls which followed the Reform Bill, the ceettPr. but the these houses were never placed on they,reittee ;ipti. Pro spect. com, labours of that indefatigable ' t ais r e aw l i el L y e in a g gue n , n effected a revolution in : ion pro taththeeodu strength gf,r io,sitigti_L.,t. the rates th e e s y ep n a e r c a n t p e i l e y; ta un s ced by the late Chief Justice Tiod6:t• taup e's e lfiiiii‘ ins to the right to vote of certain 0 0-Ic f ra mill th th e h rates and taxes, the agents of the P"o4teaceef seeded in placing, w ithout 0 sition in yllOllllO Wh° eoiypioiertriponliiii:thaeueeillale, list of $ . 0 ,,c to ttie 'wilts of all personsPPo°n the had rented a " compounded " house during en s ac preceding twelve months. The result has t et t,. tbe an i occasion to the Radical party in jamb 0 01 Tower hamlets, and other large boreng,_ ll6s ,e I ; 111) , D quality of the constituency is entirely o°.oo hence the altered character of the late r-,s v ele - I be 'arnantent. Above half of the electors !lica,:f c ortle tore exercised the right of voting', ana . .. i t Oli o adopted, as was natural, extreme vievie, vv e 7 ii, mot e tor the sake of novelty and excitement. ~._ w ill than likely that the question DOW in disrl_t'n't. TO settled nyxt session by legislative enactrnrr_i theeli authors of the Reform Bill will no doubt T nr ieti .0, selves bound, whilst concurring' in the Pr v e rimite,'" widening the basis of the franchise, to fix son t wer 0 ( (it s ; the growth of a system which leaves the P° Pa s of f e _A franchising thousands of voters in the hantl_li,ooo7 landlords, who, if they find their tenants lonyliii oftbe to suffer dictation, have only to negl" t P w bollf rates of the 20th of July to deprive theln _ po t th . . the right to vote. It is not reasonable to f.. 0 ovo: one man shall loose his privilege unless_Plyeotiorio; person he fulfils all the requirements et!' tholl t b lo t r. law, whilst another enjoys the right wl the 05:0., called upon to trouble himself at r ail in of , co n Nor is it consistent with the principles _ l l so , ia h is tional law that a privilege which a rilantoicenti sb°°oo, own right, by virtue of a legal en a flr e rent P e , r • s d ill only be exercised at the will of an in'l.o„,olve" ' at From the magnitude of the interests shouldl be bet ro , highly expedient that the question the regie t o t rest, which it will be, no doubt, so W I gisof 000 tion courts are concerned, in a eolli ) e furthest.—Observer. d ro volt Lord The — l , r s ef t he TER MACEDONIAN FItIGA.T.P.A wetn-e--- a h „,. and magistrates of Glasgow, titntelief 13° , 6r isisce' Glasgow section of the Ilighla" ar s of til e jou invited Commodore de Kay and the offs dinner to be i , a s, donian, American frigate, to a public 0....-Sco"" ...... at the Town Ball, Glasgow, on gocrillY giTozGltar°,/.0 WILD DUCKS AND THE ELECTS° w ild dilc" os e - On Saturday morning last, a flock ot a. so d i r , cr iron. seen flying from the direction of IlePr°a% at the vie rs ing the Manchester and Leeds Ea"vi-;o'f thec s i c e bridge kear the Blue Pitts station, tvo. es o f the e killed on the spot by flying against the stir u t the tric telegraph.—Manchester Guardia. .3. v &'"gc',ll‘) TROOPS FROM INDIA.--On StsturuN.,,,,t iip._ed remaining divitiion of the 63d Begirriest O d ' in o joo th arrived at Chatham garrihon fr 4 in I " ia ' firl f4 0 1 ' 60 ' their head-quarters. The divi,ion consists 0 _ hi ore.. and 0 ' A pril , 1. eorporal, and 93 privates, with wonsen s„„,i, of i- .., e troops embarked at a l ms on the - Au ~ u. or i a f te r a Pa's" fricltti on board the ship wards of four mouths arrived at Gray t•s. night, the 3d instant. nen Dio l ot A. 1•.1.Ew WAY or RECOVERING ,-,.-- ~.1 , t ~.. M a ke out a full statement of account, taking ‘'iiiitilr•i the name and addivss of the party. be yeqour fill. Place the same in a prominent position in ) reol oo wind w, and write at the bottom that it will be, when the acc,-unt is eettled,—/Veeccattle • , hivurvat.ritilt`l7 TIM EIGHT MILLIoNS LOAN ---'..--° c f i d a y 04 ,0 r‘i the tool of 8.000 000 1 ., w ho. On or belof e r f f,,ie nt ' lO the 10th iesttint. mar F a) Went of any ine.lo,oo, • resp,at of tho same, not actually Oho et the t i , 56. ' o be allowed uic:er the Act 10th ind 111.11 Viet* . —0..0.1,, ter..st by ~ ,ay of discount on the sum, paid b,): . o y o'"' be computed trom the day of p.tyracnt to the C° l ' which the payments would 13, come due. Se VI • eti OxroaD.—The vacancy occasioned at t s joie d lege, by the resignation 01 Mr. Darnell, w' ) , tilfdtvgfi the Rorni,h Church, has brett filled up, bl r • . 4 jell o Fiev.nes Trotman having bet n admitted an sc 1 1 1 : 0 0 011 ' of that society, as a founder's kin. on FridnY Ol t ., tt e BIRTHS EXTRAORDINART.--OH the g i s t o r t yftlet wife of Mr. Scott, itirdtt per, of Stainfortb, 12 ° sil was safely cltliyored of tbere. doughtervi Win. . ..... 134 93/4 - IA .‘.,_ BLLGi tb :r of h l ei 4 ki