The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

pm 11111► 0 ..... osermy, t°% AL — , b °Her of justice. A persen was at the first lodoment s f-ent to him, in all haste, by his family, to pre pare him for the announcement of the catastrophe. On Thursday night, also, his medical attendant and the eldest daughter of Madame de Praslin left to join him at Geneva. It is hoped that the presenee of his grand d.arighter will soften a blow so frightful, and so difficult 4.3 support at such a great age,, and by a father's love. Madame de Praslin was Isis only child, and the consola tion of his old aF 4 e, She ww. the pride of her father, by the qualities w)atch so eminently distinguished her, and by the virtue?, which ma.de her so highly respected in the highest circl , e s, whilst her charity caused her to be blessed by the wre'whed." The r e ;overness who has been arrested is not an Englis'z lady, as has been stated, but is French, and is gr`Anddaughter to the Baron de residing in the Chaussee d'Antin. Her father and mother are both dead. Her name is Mdlie. Henriette de Lucy, or Luzy, and her age is from 33 to 35. Until the age of about 20 she studied painting under M. De lorme, when finding shci did not shine as a painter, she accepted a situatior4 as governess in an English or Scotch family, in. England, where she resided six or seven years. F.kle returned in 1842 or 1843, and was recommenc'zed by a lady to the Duchess de Praslin, and ri,,lded in the family, as governess, until about five or six weeks ago, when she went to live in the Rue dt- A parlay. When Mdlle. de Lucy entered the fam' Ay there was an Englishwoman, named Smith, who left shortly after she came (but she was not a governess), and this has given rise to the error. Tt Je same correspondent writes : " The Duchess arrived, about nine in the evening, at tb a hotel in the rue du Faubourg St. Honor& About 11.1 e same time the Duke went to the rue du Harley with three of his daughters and a son aged about eight years; be did not remain very long, but could scarcely have returned before eleven or twelve o'clock at night." The Duchess of Praslin was born at Constantinople while her father was Ambassador there from the Court. of France. Her mother died of her accouche ment,, and her remains were conveyed fcr interment to Otmeta, in Corsica, the family seat of her husband, and were probably the late Duchess will be interred. At tl se same time that the body of the mother was cony eyed to Corsica the infant was sent to France in chat ge of a nurse. We extract the following from the Gtazette des T'ribunaux of Saturday : " As we have already announced, the water-closets of the hctel were emptied the night before last, and in the prt.tsem;e of the Inspector-General, M. Brissot Thivas, ar.d one of the examining magistrates, the most minute search was made for the weapon with which the wounds were inflicted. The search commenced at nine in the evening, and was continued till the same hour on the folio wing morning, but without success. While this fruitless operation was going on, the magistrates pro ceeded to a closer examination of the private apartment of t'oe Duke, and it was thought fit to remove him from his bed-chamber, where 119; had been till then kept closely gnat tled and watched, to 'another room on the third floor, look ing into the garden's of the Elysii3 Bourbon. Follow ing t tp this search the ?magistrates at length discovered in the ( !rawer of a desk in the cabinet adjoining the chamber the t roken hilt of a poniard,t upon which were fresh stains of bl pod. It has seen impossible to find the blade of this weep an, which, according to very warrantable presump tion, had been used in the perpetration of the crime, but had l)roken is the hand of the murderer, and thus ex plained the supposed employment of the butt-end of a pistol, svich deep traces of which were found on the per son of the Duchess. On being interrogated as to his being it , po-session of this fragment of a weapon of which he hrsd evidently made use, the Duke declared that he coult In of give any explanation of the circumstance. As he r 'fused to tell what ho had done with the blade, a search was made in the garden of the Elys‘e Bourbon, which is divided from the Hotel Sebastiani by a low wail, and also a narrow street or lane belonging to the prop, Fey of the late Countess of Castellsne, but without any r esult. Mlle. de Luzy, whose arrest was announced on T hursday, was again interrogated yesterday, when she 0 .enied having had any intimate relations with the Duk( de Praslin, and protested with energy her deep at tachr. lent to the noble family, who had loaded her with benet its. She expressed great regret at having been coast rained to quit the hotel, and the young ladies whose education had been confided to her, and endea voured' to explain thereby the terms of a letter addressed by her to the Duke de Praslin, which had been found among his papers. Nothing has been changed in the measu res adopted on Thursday. The Duke continues to be carefully watched ; but it is thought that the man dal d irret f.,r transferring him to the prison of the Lux embo arg will be signified to him in the course of to-day, all O . .e necessary arrangements for that purpose having been made." T he Duke de Praslin was removed from the Hotel Seb astiani to the prison of the Luxembourg very earl y this morning. He was in a private carriage, acc( Impanied by the Chief of the Police de Surete, fella awed by two hackney coaches, in which were the exa fining magistrates, commissaries of police, &c. It is stated that the Duke, before his removal, con fess ed his guilt to a relation of the family. A couteau de c lutsse, with which the murder is supposed to have beet z committed, and several napkins have been found in r t cesspool. '1 'kte Gazette de France publishes the following furt her particulars relative to the discovery of the knit is with which the unfortunate Duchess of Praslin was t nurdered : " '1 he last act of the judicial investigation in this affai r took place last night. As, notwithstanding all the sear cites made, it was impossible to find the weapon with ch the murder was perpetrated, a requisitory, signed by t tie Attorney. General, was signified to M. Richer, the 'contracter for cleansing Paris, who sent six carts the Mtn Pe night to empty the water-closets of the Hotel Se btu .ti ani, when the weapon was discovered. It is a cot ti&alg de chasse, and is said to belong to the Duke." MOTHER MURDER IN PARIS. The neighbourhood of the Bourse was on Friday thrown into consternation, a little before two o'clock, by the intelligence that a murder had just been committed on t, le clerk of M. Meyer-Spielman, money-changer, Rue Neuve Vivienne, 26. It appears that the clerk, a Ger man, aged 18, was sitting behind the iron railing whir iih is usually found in such shops, when a well drea sed man, of about 90, entered, and presented a bill of e =change. Whilst the young man was unfolding it, the other stretched forward his hand through the little ope u.ing in the grating, and seized on a wooden cup, fiilr si with gold, and a handful of bank notes, with which he attempted to make off. The clerk, however, who per ceived the movement, rushed round into the open pai tof the shop and seized the thief. The latter then, dra wing out a poniard-knife, stabbed the young man on th e hand and forehead. The clerk, however, strug gleel with him, crying out all the time loudly for help. The • clerk, however, contrived to force the weapon from him, and in his turn plunged it into the man's leg, and cut ti le fingers of his right hand. In the midst of the strug ale the knife fell, and the thief' stooped down to pick it up.. The clerk availed himself of the chance, and opening the door, again shouted for help. A servant girl g a the same moment entered the shop from the in terio. r of the house, and the thief finding himself hard press ed, made a last effort, and snatching up the knife, pluni ;ed it twice into the lower part of the abdomen of the t .nfortunate clerk, who fell to the ground in an ex rix , g state. Th e m ur d e r e r then darted towards the o un 'se, but was overtaken by a commissionaire and M. Fris.ahmuth, the proprietor of the baker's shop opposite. On !his perso n were found another poniard-knife and se' oral gieces of gold. The police-agent who first came up recogn.ised him as a thief by profes!ion. The unfor tunate 'clerk was t a k en to hospital of the Hotel Dieu, on a litter, but expiredon the way. We may be per 'mated on this occasion to express a hope that the money-changers will abandon the system of display of go Id and notes which they make in their windows, and which has proved so frequently a temptation to robbery, and more Loan once has led to murder. il'az MUTILATION NEAR RIEGIATE.—The man Job n AVCarthy, who was so savagely the labourer Fisher, is progressing maltreated by very favourably, in Guy's Hospital. The cut which he received upon the arm was so deep that it severed the musc le and tbroke the bone ; the limb, however, was not cut through, as has bee n re p resen t e d. From further inquiry it seems that word s h a d ar i sen b e tween both men and women, in Chepstow, respecting the quantity of corn each of them had cut in a given time, the Irishman contending that he would accomplish a greater breadth of cutting than the English labourer. This led to some ill-feeling, and M'Carthy left the house. Fisher at the moment jumped up and swore th at IP i Carthy should not leave n that manner, but that he (M'Carthy) should return and sing a song, or stand a pot of beer. Dl'Carthy would not do so, and Fisher struck him; blows were exchanged, and finally M'Carthy was wounded in the arm and cut upon the head in two or three places, small bits of skin being picked out of the scalp. Happily none of the wounds are so dangerous as at first represented; it will be some time, however, before the poor fellow has suffi ciently recovered to be able to leave the hospital to give evidence. - -- - DEATH or GENERAL SIR GEORGE C O cllri e CURl4oc.—kbWurne announ ce with regret that General Sir Geor ge died on Wednesday morning, a t shanganagh, his r es i deuce, near Bray , in the count y of D ublin. The : esti mable and warm - hea rted veteran had at tained thea t i i'anced age of eighty-four. trp to the l as t y ear, he 'retained excellent h ealth and spirits. ALARMING FIRE IN TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD. This morning, shortly after one o clock, an alarming fire broke out on the extensive premises in the occupation of Mr. Walker, organ-builder. No. 26, Francis-street, Tottenham-court-road, communicating to Mr. R . ipley's, tailor, and Mr. Bernasione's, modellers, adjoining, and alsoigniting a number of habitatio ns occu p ied by poor peopleinNew Inn-yard, as well as Dunbar's ircn factory. The Fire Brigade . of England aid o companies and engines of . the County and West . with the _mpanies . were quickly on the spot, and subduing the f a a plentiful supply of water succeeded in liewsrs. Waikeeamlt' by three o'clock, but not before were cora PcetelY a'l eY's. and Bernasione's premises CROWN .E.ETENT A gutted. The property is insured. MST A POST-OFFICE KEEPER. —On Saturday a writ G 4 . t Burchell,extent was j executed before Mr. Under-Sheriff_sot ascertain what property Ed ward Dear, of Red Li on Holborn, was possesse d Zn e b s t, t. The d e f en d ant was a post-office keeper, and of on the 7th of Augu a st tor to the crown. A sei zure had been made for the income creditors, b ut no op ome tax, and th ere were executions at the suit of judgment. Th a verdict for e property havtihnagt position was offered to the exle n t been valued at 1601., the jury gape amount. The amount of the crown debt WAS stated to be 147/. The quantity of iron produced by Sweden in 1846 Inns 115,105 tons, of which 11 0 , 000 were exported. THE so. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENLNG WI be presented RORY O'MORE. Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, 0. Smith, Selby, and Cullenford ; 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. Whittington Widgetts, wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. Munyard Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan ; Mary Wbite, Miss Woolgar Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, 31i.ss Eninaa Harding. To conclude with THE DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM. Mr. Dul cimer Pipes, Mr. Lambert ; Mrs. Deputy Lomax, Mrs. Laws. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer Season—Lyceum Company.) THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CROWN PRINCE ; or, The Buckle of Brilliants. Priste ♦lbert Augustus, Mr. Emery ; Frederick Storke, Miss Hill. After which, THE WATERMAN. Tom Tar, Mr. Barker. To be followed by a Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Five Sons of Ethiopia. To which will be added, a new Ballet called THE PEASANT'S DREAM, in which the celebrated epanish ..ancers v. appear. To conclude with the Drama of THE NOYADES. Characters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Oxb_rry, and Kmlock ; Miss Arden, Mrs. Griffiths, and Mrs. R. Honner. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Manasrement of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. Re-en, 'gement of Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY for Six Nights more. THIS F.VEN ENG Will be presented the popular Drama of THE DUSTMAN'S BELLE, Ned Windfall, Mr. Keeley; Sally Bloomly, Mrs. Keeley. Atter which, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. Pierre Flea, Mr. Keeley. To be followed by the popular Extravaganze of VALENTINE AND ORSON. Valentine, Mrs. Keeley ; Orson, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with Buckstone's Drama of THE BEAR HUNTERS. Principal characters by Messrs. T. Fredericks, Tindell, Phelps, and Neville ; Mrs. W. Daly, Mrs. H. Vining, Miss E. Terry, Miss Love. and Miss Daly. lit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence Half-Left Six. _ ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING A grand Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PRINCE OF CYPRUS; cr tie Horse of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Entire' r new Scene in the Arena, and first appearance of Signor Ricardo in England, supported by the talented Artistes of the g-sta blistment, in the % ariou modes of equestration. To conclude with ALESSANDRO MASSARO.7T. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. 1111'; WEATHER.—Sux OrncE, Au°. 22. r JE:IMONETER, Lowest, 56; Highest. 74; Noon, 64, BAROMETER, 29.78.—W1ND N.N.W.; showery. AUGUST 23. Tnistemostwrzß, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 67 ; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 30.03.—W1ND N.N.W. ; sbowery. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Ninri:ing.. 13 minutes after 11. J Evening .. 48 minutes ate! 11. • P . ' • . Vie 2 41111,1 -A' V:411;X:1411 . 1& - . . .1177;iiiik..C .41-1 ' ,4 41111040 - 0 4 i-d A'qui - blZr ~ • ..„•••.. titning :Atz LON )ON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1847. Public attention is at this moment directed to the political and social relations of Parisian society by the revelation of three crimes, evincing in their per- petrators the most heinous depravity or the most dia• bolical guilt. From the recurrence of these crimes certain factious individuals are endeavouring to cast odium upon a great nation—to involve an entire city in a certain degree of complicity—to attach to the most venerable institutions of France an aspect of such atrocity as could only be imparted to them by direct participation in the evil deeds of the rogue and the assassin. Without pretending to become the pane gyrists of our neighbours across the Channel, with out, indeed, any inclination whatever to become their apologists or vindicators, we do most solemnly pro test against this species of wholesale impeachment, we do most explicitly deny the logic of these infe rences by which calumnies are distorted into evi dences of crime, and insinuations are magnified into testimonies of conviction. Because M. TESTE ; s proved to have disgraced his official authority by the most flagrant acts of pecula tion—are his Ministerial colleagues to be regarded as, ipso facto, lovers 4nd promoters of corruption ? Because M. DE BEAUVALLON is proved to have pistolled M. DUJARRIER to the death, with malice prepense—are the journalists of Paris in a body to be scouted as cut-throats and desperadoes ? Because the unfortunate Duchess DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN is butchered under the most suspicious, as well as the most diabolical, circumstances—are we to abhor the august nobility of France as a race inured to infamy and capable of acts of the most hideous and tremendous character ? Were such a system of reasoning admitted as just and sequential, who could escape from a similar degree of complicity ? Could any class, could any city, could any profession, could any handicraft, could any nation ? Good GOD ! the whole globe would be darkened by supposititious as well as by actual criminality,—it would be peopled with imagi nary monsters as well as with those demons of huma nity by which the land is polluted, by which OMNI PYTENCE is derided, by which the face of His divine creation is profaned. The population of the four continents would be one enormous congregation of men habituated to licentiousness and bloodshed. Not one creature would be free from the general leprosy of suspicion, not one but would be morally in the eyes of his neighbour an outcast and a ruffian. And yet it is by this ruthless principle of insinuation that the factious logicians we have alluded to are actuated ; it is this horrible principle which is avowed by some of our European Contemporaries ; it is with these insinuations that their columns are disgraced. It is impossible to deny that the present Adminis tration of France is composed of statesmen odious to many millions, that the literary world of the French metropolis has been rendered to a considerable extent notorious from the shameful lives and vicious propen sities of its most conspicuous ornaments, that the Peers of France have not been very materially elevated i i public estimation by many recent disclosures. Yet, acknowledging all this, it would be a grievous misprision of justice, it would be totally opposed to the dictates of common sense, to deduce from three isolated occurrences the infamy of the French Ministry, of the French Press, and of the French Peerage, in the aggregate. As well might we say that all Italian princes must be ruthless and tyrannical, because C,Esett BORGIA desolated that peninsula by his arms and his diplomacy. As well might we loathe the noble name of SHIRLEY, because LAWRENCE, Earl of FERRERS, was hung on the gallows at Tyburn, as the murderer of his steward. As well might we despise every coachman in the United Kingdom, because DANIEL GOOD had driven a carriage; every school master, because EUGENE ARAM had fingered the grammar ; or every member of the constabulary, because JONATHAN WILD had practised as a thief taker. While, however, we express our indignation at the manner in which the conduct of M. TaSTE and of M. DE BEAUVALLON is made to reflect injuriously upon all contemporary politicians and journalists in the French dominions, we would especially protest against the line of argument which has been adopted since the dreadful assassination of the Duchess DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN. We would insist upon the in justice of the latter inferences, inasmuch as the guilt of the accused is as yet only hypothetical, morally conclusive as the details of that frightful catastrophe are, the wretched husband of the Duchess DE PRASLIN has yet to be declared her murderer. His hair matches with the lock found in the dead hand of his wife ; the embossed coronet on the butt-end of his pistol has left an impression on her ghastly forehead; the floor conducting from their separate sleeping apartments is dabbled with blood ; the hilt of a poniard, marked with the same damning stains, is discovered in his chamber, — all these things may seem to the majority equivalent to a verdict, but his guilt or innocence has yet to be pronounced. The imagination of the public is suffi ciently harrowed, moreover, by the circumstances of this dismal tragedy, to require its horrors to be enhanced by virtually implicating in its atrocity the ancienne no T b h ie e ss s e ud a d n e d n th a e ed parvenus peers dpeeeartsh o oft f he a F h re ig nc h h empire. . born lady, so ge o n fd tl e e eilts i a n reel d fd i s t p eo o n s o i h t u i ag o v n he , a nt n oo d rk s aoni known a r m t he l e ne s e s m i y n on earth, e th ar a t t h, she is is po pular passions to an extraordinary extent, and to enkindle indignation in the hearts of the most frivolous of the Parisians. Her destruction, too, in the dead hour of the night, stabbed and cut about the throat, and bludgeoned over the head ; her mortal struggle with her destroyer ; the marks of a bloody hand upon the wall and bell-pull ; the " ruffled" sound of the bell itself; the groans of the victim, the furtive shadow of the murderer, the breaking in of the room door, and the spectacle which thereupon discovered itself to the domestics, are sufficient to fill the whole capital with commotion. Why then, at such a moment of unnatural excitement, are these dastardly insinuations thrown out—that the infamy of one =if= is to be considered as the Prevailing °ha' •: SUN. LONDON, racteristic of a noble and august body ? Let this be remembered—M. TESTS is not the French Govern ment—M. DE BEATMLLLON is not the French Press —and the Duke DE CuossnuL PEASLIN (whether guilty or innocent) is not the French Peerage. The Irish Relief Commissioners have published their fifth, and probably their penultimate report. From this document we are informed on the best au- thority of the extraordinary extent of the operations carried on for the relief of the distress in the sister kin ;c1 m ; and we are enabled to form some estimate of the fearful amount of the destitution that required sic 1 gigantic aid. The efficiency and beneficial re • ult of the system adopted have long since been es- I abl shed on the most incontrovertible evidence. It was impossible to deny the advantages of a course that banished famine from the land, and supplied a sufficiency of plain and wholesome food to millions who would otherwise have fallen victims by a linger- ing and painful death. The extraordinary number of claimants who had recourse to the assistance thus afforded, amounting to more than one-third of the entire population, proved the extent and universality of the calamity by which all parts of the kingdom was affected, and also the impossibility of the evil being adequately met by any less comprehensive and decided course. The statement of the Commissioners, " that no in- direct method of affording relief could have been of avail, nor could any measure, short of distributing food to the multitude, have prevented the effect of absolute famine widely extended," will, therefore, command a prompt and ready assent, and the states manlike and judicious measures of her MAJESTY'S Government will be fully appreciated. These mea sures have necessarily occasioned a heavy expendi ture, but three millions of people cannot be fed with out a proportionate outlay, and the success of the great experiment, the preservation of the lives of so many of our Irish brethren, their extrication from the wretchedness and misery by which they were surrounded, would far more than compensate for the increase to our national burdens, even were we never to obtain the repayment of one shilling of our advances. 'We have shown huw truly we regard, how deeply we feel for our fellow. subjects in that country, when we so readily interposed ourselves between the famine and its vic tims, and at a season of commercial distress and inactivity—when the great bulk of our own people were obliged to submit to a great reduction in their ordinary comforts, occasioned by the double action of increased prices and diminished means—unhesitat ingly shared our resources with our still more needy brethren. Surely such conduct should satisfy the rescued people of the true character of the feeling of the Saxon towards them, and be far more convincing than all the diatribes of the M'HALES and LAFFANS, and their brawling coadjutors, who, for their own unworthy purposes, strive to propagate dissension and strife between those who should be united in the most amicable relations. " The greatest number of electoral divisions under the operation of the Act, since the last report, has been 1,826, and the largest amount of gratuitous relief (which attained its maximum at that period) supported 2,920,792 persons per day, and the number to whom sold 99,920." This enor mous number had, " up to the Ist of August been re duced to 2,467,989 gratuitous, and 52,387 sold," showing a decrease of nearly 453,000 in the nu, ber obtaining eleemosynary relief, and of more than 47,500 in those who paid for the rations obtained, " The cost of each ration, including establishment and expenses, averaged 2d." If we contrast this with the expenses of maintaining prisoners and paupers in either country, it will at once be seen with what eco nomy and prudence the relief funds were managed, and it will explain the reasons why " the amount of the expenditure on this vast measure has been less than was at fir-t anticipated." In a system of such magnitude, and of so novel a character, it would be unreasonable to expect that some abuses should not be perpetrated in Ireland, especially, where a system of jobbing in the county funds, by road-making, and other improper practices, has too long been a matter of painful notoriety. These abuses were unhap pily too numerous, and were, of course, depre cated in the strongest terms by the Commissioners, whose circulars, instructions, and regulations, were pointed at the evil with a view to its suppression. It will be in the recollection of our readers what intense indignation was excited amongst the Irish Members thereat—with what energy Sir H. WnisloN BARRON and other Members repelled what they were pleased to term the unfounded accusations, and demanded a Parliamentary inquiry as to the grounds on which they had been founded. In vain they were assured that it was by no means intended to have a universal application, that no imputation could be justly cast on relief committees in general for the delinquency or negligence of some few. They would not be appeased or contented with the assurances of the Premier and of other Ministers, but required that an opportunity should be afforded of vindicating themselves from the aspersions cast upon their honour, and thrice the battle was renewed by the chivalrous Member for Waterford. Those indignant feelings will probably be assuaged by the amende honorable contained in the present report—an ex planation which would, doubtless, have been earlier supplied, if the Commissioners could have supposed that their stringent and well-merited censure could have caused such anger. They now explain, as any cool and dispassionate person would have collected from the former documents, that the occasion for the complaint was far from universal, and that they had the zealous co-operation of the greater number of the committees. The Commissioners also pay a compliment to the exertions of their inspecting officers, who (they say) have carried on a most difficult and arduous service with a degree of temper, energy, and intelligence highly creditable to them. The termination of all advances must necessarily take place in the course of next month, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament ; indeed, unless it were intended that the Irish people should be per manently maintained from the Imperial Exchequer, it could not be further protracted. The intervening perioa will be the time when there is the greatest demand for labour, and when the produce of the soil will afford an abundant supply for all the people. The casting of so many persons suddenly on their own resources must, however, occasion, even under the most favourable circumstances, much distress and difficulty, and will require all the energy, benevo lence, and public-spirited expenditure that can be applied to meet the emergency. We trust that the landlords of Ireland will not be found wanting to themselves. A new duty is imposed upon them. They must henceforward provide for the wants of the people, who have now a vested right to a maintenance out of the land on which they were born, and to which they belong; and the owners of the soil may be well assured that their own future prosperity will, in a great degree, depend on the efficiency and fidelity with which they discharge that duty. They must no longer look on with spiritless apathy -while their burdens are borne by others. They must help themselves, and when they have manifested an anxiety to do so, they may be certain that British sympathy and British aid will not be withheld. They must support their poor either in unproductive indolence or in works of utility. A wise, a reasonable man will not require to be told which course is most for his private advantage, or by which, the future welfare of his country will be attained. The Levant mail brings intelligence from Con stantinople of the 6th inst. The Journal de Constantinople has the following on the Greek question : " By the French packet boat, the Pericles, which arrived on Thursday last, we have received news from Athens relative to the Turco-Greek difference. The question does not yet appear to be completely resolved. It is known that the first letter of M. Coletti, which was sent hero by the Vulcano, not having been considered sufficient, the departure of M. Muisurus fur Athens was delayed, and it is known also that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, H. E. A'ali Effendi, had in his reply pointed out this circumstance to the chief of the Hellenic Cabinet. M. Coletti was simply required to authorise the Minister of Foreign Affairs to transmit the expression of his re grets to M. Mussurus. The Minister of Foreign Affairs I.arned on Thursday, by the Pericles, the answer of M. Coletti to this communication; and, if we are well in lormed, this reply leaves the seine obstacles to the return of M. Mussurus in existence. The delays which have just occurred are much to be regretted. Tho Porte has given proof of gnu forbettrituce, and even the form in MONDAY EVENING, AUG-UST 8, 1847. which it would accept the satisfaction due to M. Mus surus shows its moderation, and the spirit of conciliation by which it is animated. Consequently the last resist ances which have just been manifested at Athens have naturally surprised us, and may again put in question a difference which appeared to be resolved. We are con vinced that the Cabinet of Vienna will not follow M. Coletti on this ground, and that Prince Metternich will act at Athens in a manner to put an end to this situation, and to prevent the complications which might result from it. At the present time the opinion of the Austrian Cabinet on this question must be known to the Divan, an extraordinary courier having arrived last Wednesday from Vienna with dispatches for his Excellency the Count de Sturmer." The same journal states that the rebellion in Albania is acquiring a gravity which alarms the Porte : " The insurrection gained ground every day. The number of rebels was estimated at 6,000, Those Upper Albania are commaninql by Z-invi Bey, and these of Lower Albania by Dj..uleka. It is known that great rivalry reigned between the populations of those two dis•ricts. This time it appears that the interests of the revolt have superseded ev-ry othar consideration, and that the imurtents of Upper aid Lower Alhanig fraternise, make exchanges of arms, ammunition and provisions, and concert their means of defence. This understanding creates a new situation which, however, is not without precedents, and the Porte has taken energetic measures for suppreesing the revolt. Till now no engagement has t k n place between the rebels aril the regular troops. Toe military authorities have wisely thought that it WAS preferable to wait the arrival of the blockading squadron which is to cruise on the coasts of Albania, and the reinforcements of troops which will be sent to the army of itoumelia. Besides several regiments which are cn the spot contain a considerable number of Albanians, and it is necessary to take some precautions to be quite certain of their fidelity before leading them against the rebels." Letters from Ferrara, of the 13th, state that the Austrian troops on that day took military possession of the city, and placed loaded cannon, attended by gunners with lighted matches, in the public squares. The Legate again protested against this step, as a violation of the treaty of Vienna. The Patria, a Florence journal, of the 13th, says— " Two of the four little forts raised since 1831 along the Po, about a league and a half from Brescello (Modena), were given, 13 is well known, to Austria after the death of Duke Francis IV. These two forts have ❑ow an Austrian garrison. Ten or twelve Austrian battalions are concentrated on the left bank of the Po, opposite Brescello. They are building at present a bridge of boats, to be able, if necessary, to cross the Po. A great number of arrests were effected last week at Reggio and Modena. Matters remained in the same position at Ferrara on the 10th." Another Florence journal, named the Alba, has the following, in answer to the question, "Has Austria the will or power to intervene in Italy ? " "To the forty or fity thousand men of Austria Pius IX. can oppose upwards of four hundred thousand men animated with that spirit of liberty which gives birth to prodigies and heroes. A single cannon-shot in Italy would set Europe on fire. A single cannon fired in Italy would accelerate the events which Austria should be prudent enough to postpone with the greatest care. In one word, Austria would not have to struggle against a few insurgents, as in 1831, but against the national guard and disciplined troops, supplied with cannon, arms, provisions, e ntrenchments—in a word, against troops possessing all the means, both moral and material, which a well-constituted Government can supply. And if the fate of arms, as it is probable, should thclare in favour of right, what would be the future of Austria in Italy ?—and if the events of the Roman States should produce a counter. stroke in the other pro vinces of Italy, what would be the consequence ? In cu e word, the Italians are ready to receive the Austrians; and Nletternich and his Hungarians intimidate no onein Ica!y." It is said that the object of the late conspiracy at Rome was to seize on the person of Pius IX., and to carry him off to Subiaco, towards the Neapolitan frontier, where he was to be kept as a hostage by the Cardinals. Five hundred carbineers were for that purpose to have spread terror through Rome, by falling on the population on the night of July 17, throwing about inflammable matters, and setting fire to the hay stores of CICERONACCHIO. The civic guard of Bologna is actively organizing. The Swiss Federal Gazette announces that the ma jority of the Swiss Diet has just fixed a delay of a fortnight for the Sonderbund to destroy all the forts that it has raised, on pain of a vote from the Vorort for their destruction by the federal troops. The Executive Council of Berne has just ordered the calling out of several battalions. We do not yet know whether it is as Federal Directory, or simply as Cantonal authority, that it has come to this deci sion. However that may be, it is to be supposed that circumstances of a certain gravity could alone have called forth the order of the Executive Council. The Moniteur Grec of the 10th gives the KING'S speech on the opening of the Chambers at Athens on the preceding day. The following is the passage in which his MAJESTY alludes to the differences between Greece and Turkey :—" I should have been happy to have an nounced to you, gentleman, that the differences which I regret to say have arisen between my own and a neighbouring Government had received a settlement, to bring about which I have expressed my desire, and used every effort, but I have reason to hope, that this solution will not be much longer delayed, and that it will be in conformity with the dignity of both States, whose interests are becoming every day more and more identical.' The payment of the instalment due on the loan Our engagements to the protecting is s thus it our duty to direct our serious make measures, which while they soatte h Powers al ti l o u o de to d those to :—" support the interests of the Exchequer, of agriculture, and of navigation, shall p!ace us definitively in a po sition to liquidate thestir t y i o loan aq t n o u paye. itself , Faithful it thenhtf u e r l e t s ot, this nd honour and credit of the coun principle, my Govern ment has satisfied the reiterated demands of one of the three Powers for the payment of the half-year's in terest and sinking-fund due in the month of March." Madrid journals of the 15th and 16th inst. have been received. The Palace questiond still continue unsettled, and it was stated that the QUEEN had signified to Senor PACIIECO that if, in consequence of no reconciliation having taken place, any or all of the Ministers should sbi io egndeastironu: SALAMANCA,ofreigrli she w ou ld acce pt their re it was said, would, as warm• ing pan to .N ARVAEZ, bi the ad interim chief of a new Cabinet. Tnus the intrigues of the Afrancesados are hastening to a crisis, and with the return of NARVAEZ will come the forced abdication of the QUEEN, and the virtual destruction of Spain as an independent monarchy. The country of the Cid will become in fact an appanage of the House of Orleans, adminis tered by the Duc DE MONTPENSIER, as Algiers will be administered by the Due D'AUMALE —that is, if, as the Afrancesados and their masters fondly imagine, corruption has completely destroyed the old Castilian spirit. RAFAEL TRISTANY, at the head of 100 Carlists, was on the 9th defeated by the QUEEN'S troops at Balsaremy, in Catalonia. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 16.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26i for cash ; the Coupons at 15; the Five per Cents. at 17 for paper ; and the Debt without In terest, at 51. We have received the Paris pap ers of Frida y and Saturday. They are principally occupied with the details of the murder of the Duchess DE PRASLIN by her husband, who is in custody on the charge, and for whose trial the Court of Peers has been convoked. The whole of those details, together with the royal ordonnance convoking the Court of Peers for the trial, appear in another column. As might have been expected, the National and the other Repub lican papers take advantage of this dreadful occur rence to excite the popular indignation against " those in high places," and it must be confessed that the conduct of the upper classes in France has been such as to make the remarks of the National tell with crushing eff ec t aga i ns t ex isting institu tions. " The Peera ge i s ca lled on by royal ordinance to con stitute itself this day into a court of j ustice. Yester day morni ng arrest of the D u k e de Praslin. Ce rtainl y j ustice re- M. Pasquier had issu ed a warrant for the quired nothing less, and the Parisian p o p ulation, excited to indignatio n by the recital of the assassination, found it strange that, b y a scan d a l o us exception , t he man a g ains t whom su c h crushing and arose , shou l d enjoy a particul ar f avour, and be simply detained in his own house. Th e sent i ments of equality whic h al w ays exist in the m id s t o f the people did not deceive it . But the rigorous terms of the Charter, the D uke de Praslin, Peer people must be told th at, accordin g to the ot France, had the right to go about in all liberty. But what he did was execrable. That matters little. But the dismal scene, such as it is record, 1, creates a sentiment ot horror. Introduce himselt in ~ chamber lighted by the flickering of a night lamp—surprise a ' —and k fi nf::, r i l .t: i . is li c ary:th:vrorat throwing the furniture, seeking is rampart somewhere against her executioner, pursue her like a wild beast— engage in an unequal struggle—beat her face with the butt-end of a pistol—hack her bleody flesh—and aban- don her at last when the rattle of the last agony tells that all the blows have told—it is crime pushed to the extreme of savage ferocity ! Yes, without doubt ; but if Article MI of the Charter be observed, the criminal Peer of France has the right to be indignant at being detained even in his own house. His inviolability is complete, absolute; no Procureur du Roi, no judge can touch his person without committing an act of illegality. M. Pasquier himself, in ordering yesterday that this chevalier d'honneur should be thrown into prison, openly violated the charter. The Droit showed this yes terday morning in a very remarkable article. The text of Art. 29 is formal : No peer can be arrested without the authority of the Chamber, and can, only be tried by it in a criminal matter.' For the Deputies an exception is admitted in the case of fiagrante delicto—for the Peer of Frauee the fiagrante delicto does Hot exist. lie may kill, steal, assassinate, be surprised at the very moment, and say to the authorities who arrest him, ' If you have not a vase of the Chamber of Peers, ou commit en ille gality in touching me.' It is consequently necessary that the peerege should be assembled, that it should de liberst,. that it shoul.l ~uthorise the arrest ; till then All that is done against a peer, even if he be the most atro c;ous of assassins, is null, contrary to the most in disputable text of the fu,damental law. M. Pasqui:-r not au! horised by the peerage, has no more tight than khe first commissry i f I.4olice w h.. may arrive; al M. Praslin, armed with Art. 29, may attack the Procureur du Roi, the Procureur GA 4, al, the J Lige dlestruelion, and M. Pas quier himself, for the il,egal constramtexei cised on hi. in vieluble psrs , en Let us incline ourselves with respect be fore these dispositions which consecrate equality before the law. Let us repeat, in bowing to them, the profound motives which M. Mahul, Deputy and commentator of the Charter, has given for this difference in the condition of the Deputies aed the Peers; the former are subjected to the rules of the common law in all times, in cases of fiagrante delicto ; the Pe:l.s are at all times above the common law. Why? The illustrious Mahul will tell It would not have been becoming,' this learned writer affirms, to unite ths supposition of fiagrante de licto committed by members to that body of the State wnich is the most eminent in dignity.' Thus a Deputy is surprised with his hand in the money-bag, and he is arrested ; that is becoming ; but a Peer during the night cuts the throat of the mother of nine children, and the Charter will not suppose in a member so eminent in dignity a case of ,fiagrante delicto—that would not be becoming. The authority of M. Mahul is immense ; but this great genius has not discovered the true reason. In a democratic society like ours the Peerage is an institution so useful that the inviolability of its mem bers is an affair of public order; and especially in the time in which we live, each of the Peers has the virtue of the wife of Caesar, which suspicions cannot reach. Suspicions must appear absurd to everybody after what we have recently seen. Suspect M. Taste, Peer of France and a President of the Court of Ces sation, of having made a traffic of his functions for 100,0001.—that is abominable. Pretend that Mr. Cu bieses, Peer of France, gave all, or part, of those 100,000 f.—that also is shameful. Noblesse oblige, and the new knights think on this point like the old ones. What a pity that the Prince de Berghes gave himself up in his youth to a little fantasy for forgery! And why was M. Gudin in such a hurry? With a little more skill his fortune would have progressed rapidly. We have at present only two Ministers condemned for corruption, an officier d'ordonnance, a chevalier d'hon neur, stealing at play; a chevalier d'honneur accused of assassination; these are trifles for persons eminent in dignity. From this we conclude that Article 29 of the Charter makes a very useful exception to common law, to good sense, to public morality, and that in vio lating it M, Pasquier has been guilty of an evident ille• gality, and of an unconstitutional act. We demand, therefore that until the vote of the Chamber be given, the Duke de Praslin, Peer of France, and Chevalier d'honneur to the Court, shall be permitted to go at large." The Journal des Debats affects to be excessively indignant with the National tor attempting to make " the solitary crime and inexplicable firy of an out rageous madman a pretext for unworthy insinuations" against society as a body. The Republican Na tio,al is, however, not alone in its opinions on this matter. They are the opinions also of the great body of the people. Among the crowd assembled in front of the Hotel Sebastiani on Friday there were con stant allusions to the " Affair e Teste," and to other recent revelations of the corruption and immorality of the higher classes of society. Even the Siicle, which is any thing but Republican, being the organ of the dynastic Opposition, and which may be con sidered !s speaking the sentiments of the great ma jority of the respectable middle classes of France, has the following comments on the ordonnance for con voking the Chamber to inquire into the charges against the Duc DE PRASLIN :- The Chamber of Peers is again summoned to assem ble as a court of justice. A terrible and melancholy task have its own privileges brought on this assembly during the present year! After an accusation of swindling and corruption against two of its Members, it is now called on to pronounce judgment on an accusation of murder. What a deplorable tatality at a moment when so many scandals or acts of corruption, frauds and perjury, are imputed to men who have under the present system en joy ed that share of influence and honour; at a time when the trials of MM. Teste and Cubiires, of Benier, of of Lagrange, without speaking of those which the Government has suppressed, follow in succes sion, to the stupefaction of the justly alarmed country! It would appear that it was not sufficient to have seen in the heart of the Government, and even in the most ele vated sphere, the development of the most odious cupi dity, it was necessary that a crime almost inconceivable, which at intervals impresses the imaginations of nations with terror, should warn society that it is no longer go verned by the laws of morality, and that it is at length time for it to offer sacrifice to other deities than selfish ness and fear." As if to add to the excitement which has been created by the murder of the Duchess DE PRASLIN) another murder was committed on Thursday, in the open day, in the shop of M. MEYER, a money changer, near the Bourse. A man entered and pre sented a bill of exchange, and whilst the clerk was unfolding it, seized a bowl of gold and notes, and attempted to run off. The clerk seized him, and immediately the thief drew a poniard and stabbed the clerk to the heart. He was at once seized and committed to prison. The Court of Peers met on Saturday, under the presidency of Duke PASQUIER, the Chancellor,and the ordonnance constituting the court for the trial of the Due DE PRASLIN for murder having been read, the Attorney-General presented his requisition, and the following were nominated a committee to conduct the preliminary investigations :-The Duke DE CAZES, Count DE ST. AULAIRE, Count DE PONTE COULANT, M. VICTOR COUSIN, M. LAPLAGNE BARRIS, and M. VINCENT ST. LAURENT. The National still continues to denounce the scandalous corruptions of the Government einployds of all grades, more particularly those connected with the commissariat of the army of Algiers. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Saturday, at 76f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 35c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2301. ; Rouen, 950 f ; Havre, 600 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 5331. 75c.; Avignon, 625 f. ; Vierzon, 5751.; Bordeaux, 475 f .; Boulogne, 3651.; Dieppe, 280 f.; Base, 1751.; Paris and Strasburg, 392 t. 50c. ' • Tours and Nantes, 3724 . . 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 395 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avig non, 4481. 75c. MA.ItSEILLEI, AUG. 17.-Marseilles and Avignon, 6071. 50c. ; Northern, 5261. 25e. LYoNS. AUG. 19.-Paris and Rouen, 957 f. 50c. ; Avig non and Niarseilles. 607 f. 50e.; Viozon, 5651. ; Northern, 528 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 3921. 50e. ; Orleans, 1,236' 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE., AUGUST 21. Boulogne and Amiens, 14-Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16 1 / 2 -Dutch Rhenish, 3-Northern of France, 10F4-Orleans and Bordeaux, 5-Paris and Orleans, 48- Sambre and Meuse,B7/s. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PAISLEY RACES.—FRIDAY. The Anybody's Stakes, of 5 soya. each, 2 ft, and 20 added. From the North-East Corner. Once round. Mr. Merry's Pilot, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b walked over The Silver Bells, with 50 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, the second to save his stake. Two miles and a dis. (4 Subs.) Mr. Merry's Ohanticlear, 4 yrs (H. Robinson 1 Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, aged, Bst 111 b Mr. H. H. Johnstone, Roper's Daughter, aged 3 The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 20 added. Heats. 2 miles. (4 Subs.) Mr. Speirs's Alligator, aged walked over The Railway Stakes of 10 sovs.° each, h ft, with 25 added. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Heats. Once round and a dis. (5 Subs.) Mr. Merry's John Harris, 5 yrs (H. Robinson) 1 1 Mr. Brunel's Titus Oates, 4 yrs, Bst 61b The Aftershots Free Handicap, of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added. One mile and a dis. Mr. Nicoll's Moscow, 4 yrs (H. Robinson) 1 Mr. P. Flood's Pawnbroker, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 2 Mr. Campbell's Waverley, aged, 7st 71b Toddy Ladle, Bst, Titus Oates, Bst, and Alligator 7st 51b, also ran. The falling stars which generally appear about this time of the year were observed in Belgium on the nights of the 9th and 11th instant. On the first of these occasions, as seen from Brussels, they were compara tively few in number, but, on the second, they amounted to about twenty eight or thirty per hour. At Bruges Mr. Forster counted thirty-five in an hour, and describes one as leaving a column of sparks of reddish colour behind it. M. Mceler made similar observations at Dorpat. A CHARTIST DA-rm.—The Chartists are raising sub scriptions to establish a hank, to be called tile: " Labour Bank," with a capital of 50,0001. RFFUSAL OF CHURCH-RATES. --At a vestry Of St. Gttaberwvll, Ins , : week, a church rate of l 1. in the i.ound was rejected by a mpjority; hut a poll of the parish was demanded, and will take place to-day and to-morrow. This is the first time that the aplutal rate has been refused iu that parish. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool was heavy on Satur day, and there was no alteration in prices. Sales 3,000 bales. Railway Shares generally were better, and prices still rather tended upwards. There are advices of three days later date from New York. The Money Market was easy, and it is stated in the accounts before us— " We do not see any immediate prospect of any specu lative movement in anything but Cotton. Unless some unforeseen accident should happen to the grain crops now on the ground, there will be no chance for any speculations in breadstuffs; and the only article in which we think a movement of that nature can spring up is Cotton. Account: from the growing districts are uni versally had, and if the injury to the plant anticipated is reali,e'l. there wilt be another short crop, and course a err. spoodi, g itoprov !petit in [Aces. It is pretty well settl , d tie new crop uow coming to market wilt not exceed eighteen hundred thousand bales, and should the cop m w inaturii.g be an' ) where in the neighbour hood of that quantit), we see nothing to prevent, prices adv,incipg at least 25 per cent. above ruling rates. " The great lulling off in the exports to Eurtpe or to for,ign ports sine the Ist of September last, has re duced the stocks in those parts to a very low point, they being oily about euc.halt what they were last year at. corresponding periods, and even a moderate demand fi r consumption, without any increase in the rate of supply would clear out the stock altogether. It will re quire a crop equal in extent to any we have ever had to bring up the stocks to the point they needed from. A yield of two millions of bales or less from the crop now growing, will compel the manuf,cturers to reduce the consumption below their facilities. In anticipation of another defi cient crop, hold , rs are very stiff, and more disposed to hold at prey, nt prices than to accept them." The exchange on Loudon was supported at about 1054 to 1064. The state of affairs in Mexico had not assumed a more definite appearance, but the American journals still manifested some confidence in the success of the negotiations entered into by Mr. Trist. The India Overland mail brings precisely the news we anticipated after the account of the extraordinary pressure experienced in the English money market should have arrived out. Produce and manufactures were pressed upon the markets of Calcutta and the other Presidencies, and at the very period when, from the reduced imports comparatively low stocks, and commencement of the business season, an active trade was experienced, the account of the panic here has disturbed every reasonable calculation. There are no other failures actually reported in the Corn Exchange to-day, but the stoppage of Messrs. W. R. Robinson and Co., the senior partner, being the Go vernor of the Bank of England, is stated in some quar ters to be heavier than at first mentioned. The English Stock Market has been in a very quiet state this morning, but there is a decline in the quota tions of -a- to per cent. There have been further money sales of Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities, and al though cash is not quite so scarce in the Stock Ex change, it is far from easy. From Amsterdam we hear of loans for a month upon stock being made at four and four and-a-half per cent., a decided in crease, resulting, no doubt, from the recent ad vance here. The exchange also comes lower from Paris, and these circumstances, conjoined with the aspect of affairs at Madrid, and the mistrust in commer cial circles, checks the improvement in prices which otherwise might occur. Consols have been 87 to 4 for delivery to morrow and for Thursday, while the rate for October is about 87 The value of Exchequer •bills has reached par to 3s. premium. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have been 89i to 89. Bank Stock is steady at 1961. The Foreign Securities have been very quiet again. Spanish Three per Cents. are about 30 to 1, and the Five per Cents. 201 to a. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been market' 271. Mexican have been done at 18: ant-I (Milian at 90. Dutch F.ur per Cents. are 888 , 2" , - R.,il , s ay Shares have varied but little. We quote Caledont.nt. 32; E.,stern Counties. 181 f 4-, ; Great North of England, 230 to i; Great Weston, 110; Great Northern, 2-1-, t 3; IS, ighton, 48i il; North- Western, 1631} to 164; South. Western, 60- i; Midland, 115 to 117; N.,rth Stafford. 911 i; :Nowt, Easton), 35; York and North Midland, 76k; and Rouen Laid Havre, 23i to 24. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIi. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 1961 ,4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 7%% 3 per Cent. Consols Anus New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities iJong Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 , A, 9 Consols for Account .... ......... ... 87 , t , 1/ 87 futchequer Bills. 23. 1,0004 500/. Small It.ICE oF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent 9O 51exican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 181 1 / e Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto. 4 per Cents Ditto for the Account 27% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BIISINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE SHARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2 5 / i 14...— to Ayrshire and Galloway 2 lh, — Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. liirmingtiam & Oxford Junc... 15 Birmingham, `Vol., Esc Dudley 10 ... . Birming., \Vol., & Stour Val. 8 ...... . Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 6 l/:2 — ..... to Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter D0., Thirds Buckinghamshire.. ......... ...8/. 4s Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 35 Chester and Holyhead... 32 114 Cheltenham and Oxford Clarence. lOO Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Cornwall ...... Ditto, Half Shares Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 12 1 / 2 — to East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. & D Ditto, 18/., E. & H 25 .... . . Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 1 Eastern Counties 2O .. .18 IA V 8 x. div. to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... ...... to Do., York Extension ...... 7LA ...... Eastern Union ... . .. 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12 1 / 2 — - 4d. ti Ditto., Thirds l3s East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do., Extension Scrip... 14 — to East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow SO Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 ...... Ditto, New 2% — ...... to Ditto, Newport .. ... ...... .. 7 Ditto, ditto, New ... 1% — ...... to Edii,burgh and Perth Ditto, Extension - Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to Ditto, New ... ...... ......... 2 3 / 4 — Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 6..8d... Uiasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New 'ls D 0 . 14 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% Great Northern ... 6 Do. London & York Exten. 2% Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North or England 100 ...230% ex div to Ditto, New 40/ 5 ... 59% ex div to Ditto, Nww 30/ ... 30 ... .. - .. ... to _ Ditto, New 151.......... ...... 1%. — ..... to Great Western Ditto, II alt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 17/ Huddersfield and Manchester 19 .. ... Date, Thirds... Hull and Selby SO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto. Quarter Shares .. 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 32 1 / 2 — Do., Branch % Shares 7%...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 21 ,4 Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to -- Do., New Exten. (Pink)... 21rz — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ............•• 31 - .... . to Ditto, New ..... .... ...... .. 12 1 / 4 . Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - Liverpool. Crosby, and Bout h port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% ...... ...... to London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d. — ...... to Ditto New, No. 1,. Ditto New, No. 2 3 l. 13s. 4d.... -- Do. Extension 2 1 A2...... ...... to London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... to Ditt o Preference ......... 15/ • 17 s 2 d... to London and North Wes tern..loo .. 164 163 x d to 163% Do. Quarter ... ..L. and B. 12 to Do. do. New •••••• .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths ............... ..... ....,• to to Do. Quarters ......... G. J. 20 Do. 401. Shares ..... L. & M. 15 Do. 401. Shares... M. and B. 40 .....• to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . .... _ .... Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 411. 6s 10d 60%4 to Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 501. . . 2 1 4...... to Ditto New 40/........ - .. . 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto Scrip 50/ 5 . Ditto ditto 401 Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 48A%% xdto Do. Consolidated Eighths... 20 ...... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ....• Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... 49 1 4 London, Oxford, and Chel ttn. 2 . ..... I 1,01 ,1 0-1 tali3huty, & Yeovil 11,1 1 — ..... to Loildoilderry and Coleraine... 25 1.0nd0. - -deciy and Ennibkiilen 24%...... Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425....... I% dis to Alancheaterand outhampton 2 1 4..,,.. •••••• to •"" ---....—.................. ... to .... Manchester and Leed5......... 82 .. ... 95 ... . to .... e• _. ...... Ditto Half Shares ......•.. 38 ...... •-• •• • to --• Ditto Quarters l4-4 ............ to --• Ditto Fifths 6% ...... -- .. . to ...- Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... 614 ...... -- ...... to ... Ditto Thirds (Reg.) 7l. 4s. ...... . .:. to " Do. Liverpool and Bury 29 ...... -- Do. Half Shares (late Hud- ,„„ to --' derstleld and Sheffield 28 ...... -- ...... to -- Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc 100 ...... —• Ditto 1 / 1 Shares (No. 1) l3 ...... --- .to --- Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 ...... ..... t o ... .... ...... Ditto, % Shares (No. 3) 7 14• ..... ' .... to -- Ditto Grimsby - ..... to -- Ditto, ditto. ••••• , to ••••• Ditto, ditto ... - 0 ..... Ditto, Sheffield, and Line 7 14.••••• .... to 1 11 • Midland 100 ...... 115 x d••• to ...., • Ditto Fifths - ....... to ~.., Ditto, 401. Shares 4O ... 44 1 :11 , ‘ 1 u to -.- Ditto, 501. Shares 6 ...... 8 1 ,4 4 to NI id loi. :time, and Derby 100 ..• •• •••• ..... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingh lin 6 per cent. .100 .•••..1 2 1 ...... t to o ...." Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 ...... --- ..... to ' Ditto ' . — ditto 71.95.•• .. ...... Midland, Leices. and Swan- to -- Dingtor, (S per ct.gua.) 5O .... •-- ....... to ...., Ntidid. great. Western(lrish) 30 ...... ..... . to 26 Newcastle and Berwick . to Ditto New 5 .••••• 8 '.. to ''' Ditto North Shields.. Newcastle and Carlisle: lOO ...... -- ..... , to .0 Ditto Quarter Shares - •• ••••• to ' " Ditto New Quarters.. 8 1 . 18 s. 9 d..... --• •'• . to Newmarket and Chesterford 13A, lO% .. .to ' Ditto Extension - •"'' . t o , --- N e wp o rt Abergyand Here). 4 ...... -- ..... to ..... Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 •••••• " to --• Norfolk - ...... to .... Ditto New 20/. 5 ..... ,-- ..... to .., Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk '2 ...... -- ...•• . to ••••• Do. do. Waveney Valley 2 - ... Newry, Warrenpoint, and to " Rostrevor - ••• to .... Northern Counties Union . to ' North British Ditto Half Shares Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 sa" to ' Ditto, Extension ............ % to ...... Ditto Thirds .... 1 ...... ... to ••••• N'erthern and Eastern 5O ...... --...... .. to - Ditto Quarter Shares - ... to --• Ditto New V 5 •••• 4 . t ° North Staffordshire 7% ...... 9 ,s , " t o North Wales 3% ..... -- ...... to - North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- •to ...• verhampton - ...... to ..., Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre - ...... to ...• Ditto, Half Shares .-.(A) 8 1 % ...... 12% ...... to ... Ditto ditto (B) OA ..... ... to ... Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% — ...... to •••• Royston and Hitchin - •••" . to ••••• Scottish Central ... 20 ...... -- ..... . tom Scottish Midland .... ... 17% ...... •-• ••••• to •••• Ditto, New lO ...... •-- ..... Sheffield, Rotherham, and .to - Goole 5 ...... -- ...... to Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3%...... -- ..... to Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 ...... Ili= i... Shrewsbury and Chester .to -- (Nor. W. Min.) —• Ditto Halves, Ditto 8 ... .. --' • • •• . to ' Ditto, Oswestry .... to Ditto (New) I ...... -- ...... to ' Shrewsbury and Hereford - .....• to " Shropshire Union - "to " South Devon ....... ...... Ditto, Preference lO ...... --- ...... to ... South Staffordshire South Eastern and Dover Ditto, New, No. 1 - ...... to "" Dit to, N ew, No. 2 l7 ...... -- ...... to ••••• Ditto, New, No. 3 l5 ...... -- ..... to ••••• Ditto New, No. 4. 6 14 ...... ..... ..... , to South Wales - •*.- South Yorkshire, Doncaster, , to / and Goole 2 ...... -- •"" Swans. and Loughor and Ca- to ...• moron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 2 ...... -- ..•• •• Thames Haven Dock and to ... Railway 17% ...... -- ...... to .. few Vale Extension - •*".. (0 "''' Vale of Neath - .- " Wakefield, Pontefract, and to ~ ..." Goole - ..... to W atertbro and Kilkenny 13%.....• -- ..... to "'•• Waterford and Limerick 32%••• .. -- ..... W at ern) rd, Wexford, W icklw, • to and Dublin - tO '... West Riding Union 4/. 28...•..• -- " ''. to ". West Cornwall 4 ...... -- ...... to ~, Whitebaven and Furness.-- 8 ...... -- ..... NN indsor, Staines, and South to ..• Western 42s. ...... -- .... ,to / Wilts,Sonierset,&Weymouth 25 ...... -- •, to ••• York and Newcastle 25 ...... ,••" t o ••• Ditto, Extension - ...... -' Ditto, Preference lll xd••• to / Fork and North Midland .. „ Ditto. Extension - •"' . 0 ... Ditto, Preference - Ditto East and West Riding . t° Extens i on FOREIGN RAILWAYS. .to ... - Anglo-Belgian 4 ...... ''''' ' to Barbadoes - ..... to , Boulogne and Amiens 2O to ... Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Constituted) 4 - ...... Central of France ( Urleans ..... 14 to / and Vierzon ) -- Central of Spain - ..... to ... Ceylon ... Demerara. - ...... to '''• Dendre Valley - ...... to 3 "'.. Direct Bombay and Madras ss. •••• • --- ....... to ''''• Dutch Rhenish 7 ..... . .... to ~ East Indian - ....... to Great Indian Peninsular ss. ....- --- '''•• .to "•• Great Southern of Madras - Great Western Bengal 5 5. ...... -- •.„ ••••• •• -• ••••• w .. Great Western Canada - ' .. to _,, ...... .. 0 - Italian and Austrian . •• ... Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 ...... -- • .., to Louvain ala Sambre 6 ...... --- '. to ".••• 6 ...... • Luxembourg Luxembourg ••• Lyons and Avignon (Con- . t° Madras - ''• • to ''' stituted) 1 .......... Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % ...... . •-• --- .. to ..... Madrid and Valentia - to .„ Namur and Liege... ..... . l2 . ..... ""- ' 5.. ... t ° ...• Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... - 6 ...-. -- •••••• t ° ..... ..• Over Yssel 413 s 441.... - --- ...... t° Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O ...... --- •••••• to "_, ••• .-- Paris and Rouen - •• .... to ..„ Paris & Strasbourg ...... •-- ..... to Rouen and Havre .... •••,, Sambre and Meuse • •••• ./ Strasburg and Bale ..... .... to Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... - " to Tourney, Jurbise, Landon, •••• .•-• and Hasselt - " to „ Trinidad.. ........ ......... 8 ...... -- . West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. ,to ~ Australasia - •••'. to ,„.• British North American •••• 50 ...... --- ..... ... t: Colonial .. ••• t •-,, Commercial of London - . ,to „ ••• o London Joint Stock ..- - •• t London and Westminster 2O ...... --- ":', t° ~. Ditto, New ...... •13 ..... -- 'd•• t ° ~.• National Provincial of Engld. 35 ....... 36%%:: to ~ Ditto, New .... 10 ...... -- •, 10 .„, National of Ireland •2 21 - •' t° ~. Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New - ••"•• to , . Union et Australia - . ... .... . to t° - Ditto, New 2% ...... -- .. ..... to Ur, ion a London ... 10 ...... •-- . .... Union of Madrid - / MINES. to .... o An to Mexican lOO ...... --- ..... t ..• Astrian Mining Company - .. t ° .• Australian 2 •••••• " •'''" t° .... to Blaenarvon Iron and Coal - ' .•- ..• •• to British Iron - ::: ... 0 •••• Brazilian Imperial .... .. Cobre Copper ... •• - / Galvanized Iron 3,,....,, to Real Oct Monte, Unregistered ..... __2 s ...... United Mexican 28?. 2s. 8 3 / 4 d. .. •• 5 9 1 ;p0 09 LLOYD's silippiNci_(Tl-11 II LONDON, AUG. 23.—Wind N.N.W" --"14e1.11 and cloudy. .0 1. 0 00 tier Bull. AUG. 21.—Arrd. Traveller, Queheklyedotio* lepearr,ds, 22d, Planet, Booth, Jaalsi"a*erfirts; 14$0falt tpelVv l e h r and sailed, Henry James, Dernivinislo sir Q Y,"r e k lsJamaica . ec; 2 ; Anna. 2 , d i) ,"vZi David ie o rr i a i jeLraVtoPievii•ilisoL ..._killovoleiroeitipl Q m u ti . i . i b r e a c s ; ; Luckie, Honduras ct ; 00001, isitoth Sultana anC(idoleSlunemellibgnial',6,MCAhloigdneaand;o;rßAll_,ll;eu: Cap all de OFF HASTINGS, AUG. 22. • 11111- S. 9 0 ' 5 1 4 1 ''' srl e haOtB;FQULITL7I.EHAMPTON, AUG. i '' Vr A ideo ....Tftee''S ' ff r nada, for A FALMOUTH, AUG.—wind N.v.. -- • 00 Antwerp. is l• 11C1 :! . cane, Adamson, Valparaiso , }orcor Arra. 1 ,B ee Jr Liverbsoinet otst March, freight 71,000 dollars. Off Ig i t te cidee 3 o ol l3 4 sen, Sierra Leone, for Hamburg h • Shearman, Gambia, for Antwerp; ii°TrGeerlitilleff ait.thif Baltimore, for Antwerp ; WousleY, •••-• a t ' Cowes. Slcl, Messen ger , p, a. t i o lis CORK, Aua. 19.-- Wind S.S.-----rr 00- Havelock, Barbadoes ; Tynwald' jscksonirebec6a t' ld l : 4 f l r( V )M _ PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 21.--Wile PS. ;o'o,ll fliele. S gPr, Boston ; Henrietta, NV 0, 11. 00g' -- t a r p r e d .ofHGeroMociajHesotyp'es 5.... p. A:1,o p t. f j . 14th in' OW 28th, and Ascension 4th ult., her Dia) m ioll• metheus, Sierra Leone, left 15th ult .t SUNDERLAND,AUG .--Arrane,..-- o er ditto ; 21, Norma, ditto. __, , nnebec;lCw A r __Arra, t,1610a1 LIVERPOOL, AUG. 22.--W illo IL • ~,Tori, JO -- lane, Henderson, Savannah ; CalYPso. abol. f o pef York; Ferczepore, Oliver, ditto; Ettrop:..__'-treol; oettoo Condor, ditto; Catharine, Thonar•on, x,`46; 14.,,i00' Dean, Quebec; Howard, Brown, Philaderto V,o7fiel, New York; General Taylor, Redman, 0,11:40, PLoi Eldridge, ditto; Victor, Clarke, ditto; <a''';eft 4th,,.ifii, Quebec; Sarah Sands steamer, New YO.!:,'‘, left Dine Dromabaer, ditto; Clarence, ditto; PlPsof 13t ohs Jamaica; Regalia, Ferguson, St. Steplwa4 20. li t ter wick; Sophia, Prince Edward's Island.a. tto' C°/ii°;icit; P. Hayward, New Orleans; Barnholza, I_,p'e, PO r ot, Quebec; Rose, Newfoundland. 21. Lai_ vnteltotu United States, Boston; St. Andrew, Plete",. rornify off pa.. , p.P . Quebec; British Princess, ditto. dy Aralif" a, Lydia, Carena, Lady Milton, Ls pa' - Queen of Scot,, and Swan, ---• vawcstt, SLIGO, AUG. 21.—Arrd. Sarah Maria, ..- _ o re , bee ; Autoleon, New Oilean , fri, LOY Fanwd#' BERWICK ON TWEED, AVG 21.--..-e . ber e to" Of and for Dundee, from Newcastle, put In ~,,, beellide with cuu.iderabie damage and leaky, has:r,aol9ollv• contact with a French vessel off Biernoulo known.