The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN. The means of internal commuication in Great Bri tain are probably superior to those enjoyed by any other I country. Our high roads, which, during the first half of last century were execrable, have been signally im proved since the close of the American war ; and since the general introduction of the practice of Mac adamising, they may be confidently pronounced to be the very best in Europe. With the exception of Hol land and Belgium, no country is better supplied with canals ; and by these means, and the aid afforded by our numerous navigable rivers,tbe conveyance of the bulkiest Articles has been rendered both easy and cheap. Rail roads seem now, however, to be likely to supersede most other methods of conveyance, in so far at least as the transit of passengers, and of the lighter and more valuable species of goods, are concerned ; and the won derful speed with which lengthened trains of carriages are impelled by locomotive engines along these roads is among the most valuable and astonish faci ing results litatinof modern modern science and discovery. By yelling to a degree that could not a few years ago have been conceived possible ; rendering all the great markets of the empire easily accessible to the products of the remotest districts, obliterating local prejudices and customs, reducing the country to a ho mogenous mass, and producing everywhere a spirit of emulation and competition, our improved means of com munication arc exercising an influence of the most pow erful kind, and which cannot be too highly appreciated. Still, however, it has been doubted whether these extra ordinary improvements in the arts, and the vast exten sion of commerce, has conferred any real and important advantage on the bulk of our people. That they have added prodigiously to the field of employment is certain, but it has been contended that the increase of population, and consequently of the demand for labour, has been equal, or nearly so, to the increase of employment ; that the condition of the people has not been materially improved ; and that their command over the necessaries, conveniences, and enjoyments of life has not been aug mented in anything like the degree in which their numbers have increased. There is really, however, no truth in these representations. The condition of the great bulk of the people of Britain, and particularly of the labouring classes, has been signally and indeed astonishingly ire proved since the middle of last century. The greatest possible ameliorations have been effected in the interval in the diet, dress, and lodging of all classes. Towards the middle of the last century, about half the people of England were consumers of barley, rye, and oat bread ; whereas at present not one tenth part of the population use any bread unless made of wheat. The ennsureption of butchers' meat, as compared with the population. has also doubled or more in the interval ; and the extra ordinary increase in the consumption of tea, sugar, cof fee, and such like articles, is too well known to require being pointed out. The improvements that have been made in clothing and lodging are, if possible, still more remarkable. Linen shirts, that were formerly luxuries, used only by the richer classes, are now worn by every body ; and the old, coarse, comfortless home-made cloths have been wholely superseded by the better and cheaper products of the factories. The cheapness, to specify one instance, and extraordinary abundance of cotton fabrics have given the poorest females the means of greater comfort, neatness, and display in dress, than were enjoyed by the highest classes in the first half of last century. And any one who compares the old farm houses and cottages, or the old narrow streets and lanes in any one of our great towns, with the farm houses, cottages, and town lodgings for the poor, built within the last fifty and still more the last thirty years, will at once be sensible of a vest improvement. Es sential as glass windows may now appear, in the six teenth century they were luxuries, all but unknown, in the castles of the principal nobility in England ; and in Scotland, in the early part of the last century, glass was seldom seen in the windows of the first class of country houses, and never in cottages. The latter were then almost universally destitute even of chimneys ! But the liberal ese of these and of glass is not the only circum stance in which modern hous s excel those built pre viously to the American nar. The former arc in all respects superior. They arc constructed on a larger scale the apartments are more spacious and lofty ; they are better ventilated ; and are supplied with water to an extent of which our ancestors had no idea. It is, in fact, to the better construction of houses, the greater width of streets, and, above all, to the abundant supply of water, end the effective system of under-ground drain age that now exists, that the entire lreedorp of our great towns from epidemic diseases, and the wonderful improvement in the health of the inhabitants, are mainly to be ascribed. Signal as the spread of improve ment has been everywhere throughout Great Britain, since 17e0, it has been greatest in Scotland. This, no doubt, has been principally owing to the fact of Scot land being previously in a comparatively backward state. But its progress since the epoch referred to, or rather since the close of the American war, has been all but unprecedented ; and, if at all, bas only been surpassed by the progress made by Kentucky and one or two more of the American States. In Ireland, we regret to say, improvement has been much less rapid than in any part of Great Britain ; but even there a considerable advance has been made ; and the fair pre sumption seems to be, now that the civil disabilities under which the Catholics laboured have been re moved, that improvement will proceed with an accele rated pace. If any thing more than has been already stated were required to establish the . astonishing im provement is the condition of the people of Great Britain during the last fifty years, it would be evinced by the decrease that has taken place in the rate of mortality since 1760 and 1770. The extreme limit of human life assigned by the Psalmist has not, indeed, been extended ; but a much larger proportion of those born arrive at or approach to that limit than formerly. The probable life of a male annuitant, five years of age (a picked life), at the commencement of last cen tury, has been found to 39.03 years ; whereas it ap pears that the probable life of a male of five years of age, taken at an average of the mass of the popula tion, from 1813 to 1830, was not less than 49.80, or nearly eleven years greater than the former ! This ex traordinary improvement must, ns doubt, be ascribed to a variety of causes; partly to the drainage of bogs and marshes, by which agues and marsh fevers have been entirely banished from many districts ; partly to im provements in the diet, dress, lodgings, and other accommodations of the mass of the people ; partly to the greater prevalence of cleanliness ; and partly, and since 1800 chiefly perhaps, to discoveries in medical science, and the extirpation of the small-pox. But, however explained, this and the facts mentioned above show conclusively that the beneficial influence of the extraordinary improvements in arts and sciences made during the last slxty or seventy years has not been coun tervailed by the increase of population, and that it has not been confined to the upper and middle classes. On the contrary, these improvements have been especially beneficial to the labourers. The latter are at this mo ment incomparably better fed, better clothed, and better lodged, than at any former period of our history ; and, in point of fact,- daily enjoy, and reckon as indispensable, a great number of articles of convenience and luxury that formerly could rarely be obtained even by the richest lords.—M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary. THIRTEEN STACKS BURNT —One of the most I destructive fires that every occured in this part of the county, broke out on Saturday last at noo. , upon the farm of Mr. Dixon, of Waddington Heath, near Lincoln. The fire was observed by one of the se: :ants to issue from a seed stack, and in a quarter of an hour the whole of the stacks ie the yard (thireen in number) were on fire. All the cattle were got out, bet a vast quantity of poultry were completely roasted, and served as a dainty meat for those who had come to render assistance at the fire. A building containing about 5001. worth of wool was entirely con sumed, but fortunately not before it was emptied of its con tents. The large quantity of new thrashed barley that was in the barn was got out with great diffieulLy, such being the intense heat from the burning mass that persons were much scorched. The wind blew very strongly from the westward. Mr. Dixon ' e w u nderstand, is in sured in th e Y or k an d Yorkshire Fire Office. How the fire originated is not at l present known, and it is feared will never b e satisfact, ascertained. The stacks de stroyed consi s t e d o f cue r l ' ar Y ge clover stack, two small hay stacks, and the rest corn. The who l e of the agricultural implements also were con '. sumed.—Bo s t on Herald. We are authorised to contradict in the most positive terms the report circu l ated at Paris that Count D Orsay had any partici pa tion Looisor Napoleon whatever of the enterprise of Prince offer? friendship d a s t h 1 p E 0 forul gthhee. Although entertaining the wwaransieaPt hoin : c utter ignorance of Prince Louis, Count D'Oemy his pr)jects, the Prince never regrets, them to him, a si!ence Count D'Orsay now have used every means in his Louis from embarking in such an expedition. diss uade iiad Prince ) Power tgorets" he wouli Count 1 D'Orsay taken the least part in this unfortunate affai r h e I would have passed over in silence the reports cn the sub ject a - Paris, orig inatin g , no doubt, in his bein g known to be one of the most enthusiastic admirers of the Emperor Napoleon, and to have lived in habits of intimacy with nearly all the family. The friendship between rtince Leu's and Count D'Or=ey is of ancient date; and gladly would Count D'Orsay have given what he considers would be the most sincere proof of his attachment, had an oppor tunity been afforded him, by advising the Prince against the rash enterprise.—Morning Post. The Earl of Falfgall is confined to his apart meets, at Crawley's Hotel, Albernarle.street, from the effects of the severe aecident his Lordship met with on Monday, whilst tr eve Iliii e on the Eastern Counties Railway, H... L o rd s hi p i 3 fr • f s e vere con -1.., su ,ering fr o m a t p t ki l k of the knee. The Ladies Emily and Augusta to tha n eßtiobeill Lordship's daughters, whom he was escorting their educatinon Catholic Convent near Chelmsford, to finish , were also passengers in the train, but es caped unhurt. Mr. Tomlinson se ized a fit at the bettin, , of Manchester, was sel with on Wednesday even ing , Doncaster, abut half-past nine could be obtained, w ::::!, and, before medical assistance - corp se Seventeen of the - • onpoitical prisoners of made their escapeDoilllens last, by a subterraneous ' passage communicating frOtrandaY them oh the Prison to the chemin de s uncle, the envir'onesre Eight of fhe of Amiens, almost immt _ diately recaptured in Arniens ' and the police are in active pursuit of the ethers. PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, incorporated by Royal Charter, 1840. Notice is hereby given—That the Proprietors of this Com pany are requested to pay the FOURTH INSTALMENT of 5/. per Share on their respective on Shares, to CHAR LES Sir CH PRICE, Bart. and Co., London, or before the 24th inst. By Order of the Court of Directors, WILLIAM R. C. KENDALL, Sec. 5, Barge-yard, Bueklersbury, Sept. 9, 1840. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS , . I M B. Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ' • F enton, Mr. Binge ; Mrs. Ford , Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Ann Page. Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. To conclude with ar. Original Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled tnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. !ones, &c. &c. On Saturday, a New Play by James Sheridan Knowles, Esq. entitled the Bride of Messina, with the Sleeping Beauty. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2.3._; Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to tommence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat es for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Another New Drama, Revival of " The Law of the Land," and Ninth Week of Haines' "Jane •f the Hatchet." Upwards of 100,000 persons have already witnessed the grand Tableaux traction and military evolutions of the hundred Female War riors. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 18. Will be acted a New French Drama, entitled THE ITALIAN HUSI3AND. After which the Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splendour, entitled JANE OF THE HATCHET. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, and One Hundred Female Warriors. To conclude with THE LAW OF THE LAND. Principal Characters by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Neville, Smith, and Buckingham, Miss Martin, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. fhe vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Damon—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows-- Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Veritas" should send his ingenious commentary on a some w hat remarkable passage in last week's Spectator to that journal. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Mr mg 41 minutes atter 7. I Evening Li minutes alter S. Ine Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sus com menced at 0 minutes after Three. Zln - , lit u. tik _ . - 4 2::', ...., , ~...., t- ~ , , ,4 ~..,‘ .?„. , -C, „1.4,0:,) 4. ' . -. 1 . : . , .i. T7l -- "* -: ;k4.:.. - 1- I ,z,- , - , ..,-ti .). i 4 ...i , S:..k i ~4,-• - •" "\4 .,, ,4'_.p...!!z) I, 4p!!!... ,4,.-,- 1 - .--"' 4 ..,„4...,•,.. _____, LONDON: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1840. Our report of the proceedings of the Bank Pro prietors is of some interest. While other esta blishments, and capital embarked in other under takings, must be content with four or even three per cent., when little or no risk is incurred, the Bank of England, without incurring the smallest danger, shares seven per cent. We would not say a word on the subject, if it were wholly a private establishment, and the profit were the result of fair and open trade ; but the large profit is made by the connection of the Bank with the State, and all that it gains more than other banks is the result of a monopoly given to it by the law against the public. But, large as is the rate of interest, it does not satisfy the Bank Proprietors. They remember the halcyon days of one-pound notes and scores of executions, and they demand back their eight, nine, or ten per cent. Because the poor Directors can no longer command the high profits of a depreciated currency —in other words, of a scheme for levying an additional tax on the public—the Proprietors talk of reducing their salaries. The poor Directors, however, ought to be well paid—not on account of their labour, for that is, we believe, nil, or next to it—but on ac count of the public odium they are obliged to bear. A Bank Director, though he act according to law, is engaged in administering a vexatious monopoly, and he is looked on as opposed to the interest and the welfare of his fellows. Though the profits may be reduced, the odium will remain as long as the exclusive privileges of the Corporation are con tinued, and the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors, ought to be paid for bearing it. Finally, however, a vote of thanks was carried to the Direc tors, who deserve that from the Bank Proprietors, whatever they may deserve from the country. We have on more than one occasion expressed our dissent from the opinions of our Correspondent, " A Commercial Traveller," who writes on banking and money matters ; but, believing him to be a person of considerable acquaintance with these sub jects, we readily give insertion to his communica tions, and place great reliance on the facts he men tions. In his communication, which appears in our journal this day, there is one very important fact, which, as it makes, we think, against his own deductions, and is in strict conformity with the general progress of money matters, deserves especial notice. He first states, that " the use of bank-notes is superseded to a great degree in all our large cities and towns by bills of exchange and the use of checks." He re fers to the well-known fact of millions in amount being daily settled at the clearing-house in Lon don, without the exchange of a single bank-note ; and he affirms that this cleating system is extending itself to other places. Even the farmer transacts his business by a check-book and a banker's ac count, instead of cramming his pockets with bank notes. He then says— Another most, important feature in transacting the business of the present day is to be found in the prac tice which very generally prevails of drawing bills for the amount of an order on the first of the month after its execution, this bill is then sent for acceptance through some bank, and, when accepted, is discounted by this bank, so that instead of our manufacturers and dealers having, as formerly, large capitals absorbed in book debts., this items) is now an nonentity, and the tra vellers of many such, when they go their journeys, have not one shilling to receive, and thus the uses of which money is capable is taxed as far as the ingenuity of man can carry it. This often produces a great pres'ure for money on paricular days, and a greasy laxity on others, giving a very uncertain and irregular character to the money mar ket, and our manufacturers would do well to obviate the inconvenience which this is continually producing by varying their days of drawing. He deduces from this ‘; that there is no connec tion between the state of trade and the amount of bank paper, or bank•notes, in ciiculation," and, of course proves, if he proves anything, that bills of exchange," " checks," and " bills for the amount of orders," are now of almost infinite limportance compared to the amount of bank notes in circulation ; and that nearlythe trade wh o l e ofthe Y f of a th s e ing co le untr bank not e , an d b e indefinitely en utrsaedoe larged or contracted without the slightest altera tion in the issues of any bank. If I • tus be a correct statement, as We believe it is, how ineffably ridiculous appears the inquiry of the Committee of the House of Commons into the issue of bank notes, which, except as it may ploce a few hu rl . dred thousand pounds, more or less, i n the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1840. coffers of a batch of monopolists, can no longer have the slightest influence on the national welfare. Bank notes are gone out of use for all the purposes of large traffic, though still retained in use for the retail purposes of buying and selling. This theory is confirmed by the present state of the Bank of England issues, and the issues of country banks. No person can doubt that the commercial transac tions of England have increased—at least doubled since 1817, but the Bank of England circulation, which was then nearly 30,000,000, is now not 17,000,000. A similar reduction has taken place in the issue of country bank paper, • and yet trade has everywhere increased. To form fine spun regulations on the subject of issuing bank paper, to talk about establishing one National Bank of Issue, to devise restrictions on bankers, and compel them, differently from other traders, to give security to the State for conducting that part of their business which is confined to issuing promis- sary notes payable on demand, when the issue c: bank notes has ceased to have any important im fluence on the public welfare, on the value o money, or on the extent of trade, is to lock the stable after the steed is stolen. The evil of the issue of bank -notes, whatever might have been its amount, is now at an end. That invention to save the use of money has been mainly superseded by more refilled contrivances. The facts stated by our Correspondent are the more to be relied on, inas much as they knock on the bead his own favourite nostrum, adopted, however, from Mr. M'CuLLorH, whose doctrines are daily proved, and very often overturned by new facts—of compelling bankers to find security for the issue of promissory notes. These facts will teach our meddling legislators —if they are not unteachable—a great lesson. The evil they have been troubling themselves to devise a remedy for, which they have uttered more nonsense concerning than would fill many volumes, and have actually filled volumes with their inquiries into it this last Session, no longer exists for any im portant purpose. If they want to control the currency, they must make regulations for deposit accounts—they must make laws for check-books— they must limit bills of exchange—and bills for the amount of orders—in short, they must inter fere with the most private business of every trader and every banker in the country ; and much as those gentlemen demand regulations and co ercive laws for the poor, they will spurn with much indignation this system of meddling with their private concerns. The gentlemen of the House of Commons, finding they can no longer effect any great purpose by making laws about the issue of bank -notes, and being unable to meddle with checks) will have to stand aloof and see other parts of society, like this of bank-notes, run away from their regulations, and even assume a totally new aspect, while they are deliberating about what they ought to do with a system which has almost passed away. The greatest fool on earth, says Dr FRANKLIN, is a legislator, devising laws for the regulation of trade ; and his admirable and foreseeing wisdom receives " comfirmation strong," by the s;ngular ex ample of bank-notes becoming—in a national point of view—wholly unimportant. Madrid Journals of the 9th inst. have been duly received. The towns of Barcelona, Segovia, Gra• nada, Salamanca, and Huesca, have all sent their adhesion to the governing Junta of Madrid. This body has suspended the Regency, and ordered the removal of all Magistrates who, by resisting the Constitutional Government, might interrupt the administration of justice. On the Bth a grand re view of the national guards of the capital took place before Generals lioDir., LORENZO, and Lo- PEZ ; and on the morning of the 9th 3,000 troops of the lire arrived and declared themselves in favour of the Junta. ESPA RTERO had left Barcelona to join the QUEEN at Valencia, in the hope of pre vailing upon her Majesty to yield to the national wishes before it would be too late. The address of this gallant patriot to her Majesty is given in another part of The Sun. The tone of the French Journals of Tuesday and Wednesday is exceedingly warlike. The fol lowing important intelligence, received this morn ing by extraordinary express from Paris, removes much of the unpleasant apprehensions, to which the violent language of the French press might otherwise give rise : Letters from Malta, of the 7th September, contain the following important intelligence :—Cout Walewski has proposed to Mehemet Ali a project of arrangement, which the Viceroy has decided on accepting. The Count has set off in haste to Constantinople, in order to have the project presented to the Divan, through the French Ambassador, M. de Pontois. Among other clauses contained in'this project, there is one, it is asserted, which is likely to facilitate the almost desperate arrangement of the eastern question —riz., Mehemet Ali consents to accede to the proposal of possessing Syria for his lite only. This news is not so improbable as it at first appears from the repeated declarations of MEHE MET ALI that he would yield to nothing but de feat. The bravados of the PACHA were the natural offspring of his Highness's reliance upon the support of France. Finding, however, that France, in taking up arms, hail no intention of de claring war against the Allied Powers, or of re sisting the blockade of Syria, it is probable that the PACIIA prudently resolved to yield to a neces sity which, if resisted, must involve himself and his family in one common ruin. TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. We are enabled to state, that the British and French Commissioner have brought to a close their negotiations for a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and France, and that it contains seve ral clauses highly favourable to British manufac tures. The very few points which may be considered open are mere technicalities, of no importance what ever. But for the unpleasant differences which have arisen on the Eastern question, the treaty would have already received the signature of M. 'rhiers. Mr. Por ter remains in Paris, and there appears to be an under standing that the treaty will be signed the moment the political horizon shall have brightened up.—Galignani's Messenger. TURKISH CABINET.—The following modifications have taken place in the Turkish Ministry :—Rifat Bey, formerly Councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at present on a mission to Mehemet Ali, has ben elevated to the post of Sadaret Mustechari (Councillor of the Grand Vizier ; Ali Effendi, pro tem pore Councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been &finitely appointed to that situation. He is replaced in his office of interpreter to the Divan by Essad Sarfet Effendi, formerly director of the Mimi !cur Ottoman; Muhib Effendi, formerly Sadaret Mus techari, of which office he will continue to discharge the duty until the arrival of Rifat Bey, has been appointed Davi Naziri (Minister of Justice) ; Najd.) Effendi, at present filling that situation, is appointed a Member of the Council of Justice, continuing to hold at the: same time his office of Inteufant of the Sultana Atie. The Monileur mentions that the Governor of Mar tinique had emancipated 134 slaves on the 21st of May and 26th of June last—viz. 41 males, 52 fe males, and 41 children ; and that the Governor of Guadaloupe had emancipated 35 slaves on the 6th of July last—% iz. 11 moles, 16 lemale, and S children. DAMASCUS JEWS.—The Temps asser►s that Me hemet Ali had anticipated the petition about to be presented by Sir Moses Montt_ flora and M. Cremicux for the pardon of the Israelites condemned at Damas cus for the murder of Father 'ihomasc, and had re mitted the sentence, in consequence, us he added of four of the accused having died fron - I, the tortures in flicted on them. The Journal do Havre says, The Minister of War has just announced to the Prefect of the North, and, doubtless, to the Prefect of the oth Qr frontier depart tnents, that 56,000 infantry, and 20 . 000 cavalry will be quartered on the inhabitants of tl ik frontier towns during a part of the year. We are then going to enter on a perms. ' , put situation. It is not a state of war, says a Journal of . Valenciennes, it is doubtless a state of neutrality,—Le Ca,, amerce. A letter from Interlaken, of September 9, in the Observateur Suisse, says— " A terrible catastrophe occurred yesterday on the Harden. Colonel Rowley, son of the Admiral, went yesterday to the mountain with his two daughters and his son, who is still a child, and very impru dently took no guides. When they had got to some height, the youngest daughter, sixteen years of years of age, stumbled and fell down la :precipice. The son and the elder daughter seized with terror fell also, but were so fortunate as to support themselves by laying held of the shrubs till the cries cf the father were heard by a labourer named Goldsedyler, who was mowing at a short dis tance. This man, though he had lost an arm, happily succeeded in rescuing the two cadren from almost inevitable death. Meantime, other per sons who bad hastened to the spot looked for the youngest daughter. The dead body was brought into MN . Interlaken in the evening. lf — mointeur. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. HALF-PAST THREE.—The Market has been brisk, and a great deal of business done. The rise which took place yesterday has been followed by a further rise. The great sales of the last few days have led to repurchases and re alizations of pro&ti. For the Account, the Three per Cents. opened at 731., declined to 721. 75c., advanced to 741. 90c., and closed at 74f. 75c. ; a rise of lf. 75c. The Five per Cents. opened at 1051., fell to 1041. 90c., rose to 1061. 70c., and close at 106 f. 25c. ; a rise of if. 45c. For money, the Three per Cents, are 2f. 35c., and the Five per Cents, 2f. higher. The Bank of France Shares have recovered 150 f., and the Belgian Bank Shares 2W. The Laffitte Bank Shares are as yesterday. The Belgian Five per Cents. have improved i per c , 2nt. ; the Three per Cents. 2 per cent, for the Account—the latter 64f. and 65f. The Spanish Active 4 better, having had but the one price of 23. The Passive is i better. The Neapolitan Bonds are .50c. higher, and the Homan 2 per cent. Railway Shares have slightly improved. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cc nts lO5 ... 101 50 ~, 105 ... 100 tO 4 per Cents 9B 75 ... 98 75 ... 98 75 ... 98 75 3 per Cants 73 25 .... 71 75 ... 73 25 ... 74 75 Rank of trance Latfitte Bank 1,01 , 91. 5,001)1. Sh •••• 502 5 ...5030 ... 50?5 . ..5030 Belgian Bank SO5 ... 1 ;20 ... 8 , 5 ... 820 5 per Cents 96 ... 96 ~, 98 ... 96 Spanish Active t . : 3 ... 0 ... 23 ... ...3 Passive 51 1% ••• 5% .. 51it ... 5 % Neapolitan Roman 96 ... 97 ... 96 ... 97 EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The iTfonitcur of yesterday contains a Royal or dinance, calling into active service the reserve of the classes of recruits of 1834 and 1835. Another ordinance declared that public utility ur vntly requiring the execution of fortifications round Paris, the Minister of Public Works was authorised to proceed forthwith to the appropriation of the ground upon which they are to be erected, and a credit for that purpose was placed at his disposal to indemnify the owners. —....-._. Another ordinance opened a temporary credit of 6,000,000 of francs for tile Minister of War to meet the expenses of these works, which had already com menced at Mont Valerien, St. Denis, Fontenaye, &c. • From the accounts brought by the Papin, which left Alexandria on the Ist instant, it appears that Admiral Stopford, on being informed of the ex pected arrival of a French vessel loaded with artillery and amrnuition for the Paciia, had issued orders for its • capture. The French fleet ;Allier Admiral Hu on was off Cc rigo on the 30th ult. THE CHRISTIAN CHARTIST CHURCH. (From the Scots Times.) The Noddy Church, occupied by the Chartists, which contains at a pinch about 1,500 persons, is now occa sionally found to be far too small for the multitudes who throng to it from all quarters of the city, so much so that the passages, staircases, and every other corner, is sometimes filled even before the hour of commencing the service. We can affirm that this was the case on the afternoon of ►unday last, when we at tended to take notes for the present sketch ; and had it not been for the kindness of one of theinanag-ers, we would have had to depart without accomplishing our object. We come now to the rules and management of the Church. On this head it perhaps would be as well to allow the managers to speak for themselves. In an ad dress to the " Members of the Chartist Worshipping As sembly," which is drawn up in the form of a Report, printed by the Committee, and which we published at length in this Journal a few months since, we find the fol• lowing passages:— " We commenced, then, in the month of September, in the hall in the College Open, under very promising auspices; and although we have been persevering for these five months, we have never found ourselves in want of preachers, who have declared to us the counsel of God, not in the fashionable rhetorc of the day, but in the sim plicity of the Gospel." " Our Society has been commenced and carried on in the true democratic spirit of the Gospel. . . . We therefore conceive that it is necessary that we should ac knowledge all men equal, and that he that is chief should be as he that cloth serve, and that the elder should serve the younger, thus rnanifeving to all that whatever gifts or graces we possess should and ought to be directed to the cause of God, and exercised for the good of all." After some statements respecting the election of a chairman end vice-chairman to conduct the sermons, in the event of a lack of volunteers as preachers, the appointment of a precentor said door-keepers, the report proceeds— " Your Committee think it unnecessary to introduce seat lettirg into your Church. They conceive it breathes too much of shopocracy. They therefore wish to remove this evil also from the Church. The rich and the poor wiil, therefore, no longer sit distinguished from each other ; all will be welcome. As to the doctrine, your Committee approach this part of the report with great caution, not afraid of encoun tering the difficulties attending such a task, but, in defe rence to the feelings of our brethren who may never have had opportunity of examining and weighing the truths of Divine revelation. We would only recommend the Bible as our exclusive rule of faith—and adopt the advice of the Apostle Paul—" Let all things be dune decently a.nd in order." As the affairs of no church can be carried on or con dueted without money, your Committee will depend wholly on the free and voluntary offerings of the people, who may, from time to time, worship along with them. And as the poor have always been the peculiar care, feigned or real, of the church, we recommend that, as soon as possible, a sum will be appropriated fur them. Another very important part of our work we would also bring before your notice—namely, the sending of mis sionaries to explain our views, and, if possible, to establish churches in every town and hamlet. The allowance for these shall be lett to your own liberality. We now come to the outward ordinances of religion— namely, marriage, baptism, and the Lord's supper. As to marriage. Your Committee propose that the parties be attested by two witnesses, and united if of pro per age ; and that the ceremony be performed by the Chair min or Vice-Chairman. As to baptism, Your Committee consider that it may be performed at any age. No particular period if life is alluded to in Scripture. We purpose that the Chairman perform this duty also. As to the Lord's Supper. Your Committee arc of opi nion Caere is no allusion in Scripture to the frequency of showing forth the Lord's death till he come, we would leave it to the members of the Church who shall assist each other in the solemn service." A host of Scripture passages arc then given in support of the views hid down in the report. Then follows an excellent appeal to the members, which is signed by Mr. Malcolm M'Farlane, the Chairman, Mr. Walker, Mr. Bryan, and others. With respect to one of the ordinances alluded to in the report, viz., baptism, we believe there is not a church in the city where it is more frequently performed. Some Sundays not less than nine and ten children have been named. We do not wonder that the clergy of the Esta blished Churches look with peculiar feelings upon an in stitution such as this. Verily, it may be said, if things continue at this rate, their Dianas are in danger. Like the other individuals who generally officiate in this church, Mr. M'Ewan is a working man, and although possessing few of those qualities which some people think necessary to the occupant of the pulpit, is nevertheless a very powerful preacher. He is no ordinary man, DUTCH PAPERS. ROTTERDAM, SEPT. 16.—The CounC,de Survilliers (Joseph Bonaparte) and suite arrived here yesterday from Cologne, and it is said he will embark to-morrow for London. The Prince of Syracuse, after stopping some days in this city, and visiting what is most worthy of notice here and in the neighbourhood, embarked yesterday in the steam-boat for Cologne, on his return to Italy. HAMBURGH, SEPT. 12.—The Countess of Lonsdale steamer, with the Hamburgh wail of the Bth, which left Cuxhaven on the 9th, met in the North Sea the Caledonia, from London, with the engine datnaged, and took it in tow to bring it back to London, but a very strong wind from the west prevailing at the time the machinery of the Countess of Lonsdale was like wise damaged, in consequence of which both vessels put back to Cuxhaven, where they arrived yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, and came up to the city this morning. The mail was landed from the Countess of Lonsdale at Cuxhaven, and will be taken by the Nep tune, Captain \Vhittingham, which leaves Hamburgh for London to-clay.—Hamburghßorsen Ilare,Sept. 12, DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDADI, SEP ne T. y l5 Mo. BM, Actual Debt, 14 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A~nartSvndic,434 per cent tit;yi Ditto, ditto, 3) per cent 711.4 Commercial Company, 4'. 2 per cent I S SX 151 N Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cant. 94i Exchange on London, One month 1:1 Twomonths Dutch Papers, Sept. 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.VIENNA, Skim 7 f ive per:Cents. Mctalliques Four per Cents. hree pc:r Cents. Bank Shares ....Altgenteine Zeitung, Sept. HAMBURG BURSENHALLE, SEPT. 1:?, Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank snares An g lo-Russian Loan lrly, 107 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cqrtiticate I nsc ription, Ist Se. ies ION Russian 5 per Cent. Hop and Co. :id and 4th na Seri' s 9l Ditto in Certificates Dutch ~ ‘ ctital Debt, 4.2% per Cent 49 Ditto 4 ) per Cent 9B Polish 11011(13 New ticket A nglo..llatiish Loan, :I per Cert 73% 73 Norwegian Loan, 1 ,, 31, 4 per Cr C. lOl Spanish, New 3 per Cents. .... PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Berui.trit, Sre-r. 12. Bills. Money St. Schuld. Sch., 44 ; per cent. 1P374 1035 i Prussian English Loan, 18130, 4 per cent 102 li.xailiaiige on London, three months 6 13f A , —Prussian State Gazelle, Sept. 13. --- - NARROW ESCAPE OE THE LORDS OF THE ACMIHALTY.-The Firebrand man of war steamer, with th Lords of th e lAmiralty on board, on her way from Milford to this port, ran upon the Nass Sands on Tuesday morning in thick weather, and entirely. w e are iAtrmel, through the pilot who accompanied her from Milford altering the course before daylight. She struck heavily, although, fortunately for their Lord. ships, there was not much sea up. She was seen by the Bristol steamer from Swansea in her precarious situation. We have authority for stating that there was no Bristol branch pilot on board. The Nass sands are considered extremely dangerous, and their Lord ships' escape was prob,bly owing to the streng th of their ship. Had it occurred on the following day, she must have gone to pieces. She struck near the spot where the Frolic was lost, when upwards of 100 souls }Flashed. The Firebrand came up to Cumberland Basin on Tuesday evening, when Lord Minto and the other L rds took their departure. Sir Wm. Symons, we hear, remained at the Gloucester Hotel, and examined the iron ship in the Great Western Company's yard on Wed nesday. We hear that the Firebrand is gone to Milford to be put into dock and examined.—Bristol Mirror. FUNERAL OF LORD MARK KERR.—The mortal retrains of this late esteemed nobleman were re moved at an early hour yesterday morning from Hen rietta-street, preparatory to their interment in the family vault in Shiplake-church, near Henley-on-Thames. The funeral was, in accordance to his Lordship's desire, strictly private, the Earl of Antrim and his immediate family only following. THE LATE LAPY ISABELLA MARY SMYTHE. —Her Ladyship, who died at Deer Park, near Honiton, on Thursday last, was eldest daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Earl of Wicklow. The deceased was born en Nov. 2, 1791, and in August, 1815, married Mr. \V. Meade Smythe, by whom she bad no famil y . An extensive strike among the cloth-weavers has taken place at Locieve, near Montpellier. The author'ties have taken active measures to preserve public tranquillity if it should be threatened by the workmen. RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain Versailles, It. B 405 410 ... 405 ... 414 255 2CO .., 255 27'0 Strasburg to Bale ... 3 15 3 . 15 ... 315 Orleans ... THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals of English Grain have only been mFderate, and of Foreign Wheat good. The dnty having advanced to 103. Bd., the holders of Old Wheat were firm in their demands, and endeavoured to obtain rather higher prices, but the trade was slow at Monday's rates. In other grain no variation. Flour met a fair sale, the stock being low. London Averages—Wheat, 4,629 qrs., at 68s. Icl. per quarter; Oats, 4,896 qrs., at 28s. Id. per quarter; Beans, 568 qrs., at 455. I Id. per quarter; Peas, 197 qrs. at 475. 9d. per quarter. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The trade was very dull for every thing, the supply being far beyond the quantity required, but no further re duction in Beef or Mutton can be quoted. Lamb was from 2d. to 6d. cheaper. Pork unaltered. Coarse Veal advanced 41., but prime was unaltered. Beef 33. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal 43. 10d. to 53, 4:1. ; Lamb 4s. 4d. to 53. 4d. ; Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.—Beasts 736 ; Sheep and Lambs 7,760 ; Calves 269; Pigs 421. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices remained firm, but there was little life in the market, and privately few sales were made ; the auctions were unimportant. The arrivals of goods have again been small, but few auctions were declared. TEA MARKET. Prices were firm for Free Trade, but there wrs not much business done. For Company's Congou, 2s. 3d. was asked, but there was little done. Several public sales were declared. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for P. Y. C. on the spot and for arrival was dull, but prices were steady at 525. to 5•.'.5. 6d. per cwt. Town Tallow sold steadily at previous rates. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) BURGLARY.—Thomas Griffith and William East were indicted for burglarious!y entering the dwelling house of Mr. John Alphonso Doxatt, of Leyton, Essex, on the 15th September instant, and stealing several articles of plate, his property. Thomas Groom—l am butler to the prosecutor, who resides at Phillibroke House, Leyton, Essex. When 1 came down stairs on the morning of the 15th instant, I found the kitchen door unchained and unlocked, but not open. I found a bottle of orange wine on the mat. The door of the store-room had been broken open, and I missed a silver wine-strainer and some other articles of plate out of it. There were also various articles of plate taken from other parts of the house. It appeared from the evidence of other witnesses that the prisoners had been taken into custody almost im mediately after the discovery of the robbery, and that a portion of the stolen property was found upon them. An objection was taken to the indictment, that the parish in which the aleged offence was committed was improperly described therin. The Recorder, however, overruled this objection. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and the Re corder sentenced them each to ten years' transportation. On sentence being passed, two females in the gallery of the Court, said to be relatives of the prisoners, went into hysterics, and were obliged to be removed by the officers of the Court. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) The Court was occupied during the early part of the day in trying various Mint cases, none of which were of any public interest. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The transactions in the Cotton Market to-day are to the extent of 4,500 bags, prices steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, SEPT. 17.—Eastern Counties 104 ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares New, 514 ; Great Western 84 85 ; Great North of Eng land 474 ; South Western 53} ; Midland:Counties 80. A hir business has been done in the Share Market to-day, and an improved feeling is perceptable. We have received Barbadoes papers to the 28th July, and Antigua papers of the 15th. They contain no news. Extract from St. Lucia papers to the 16th July : " The Columbia, steamer, arrived here on Saturday morning, after debarking the detachment of the 52d regiment destined for the garrison at Mon Fortunee, and taking on board a part of the 14th, she proceeded to Rizen Island, and landed the remainder of the de tachment of the 52d." THE FUNDS. Our speculators in the Funds were rather taken by surprise this morning on learning the considerable rise in the French Funds; a rise was anticipated, but not to that extent of 5 per cent. in the Fives, and 4 per cent. in the Threes. The important intebigence received by private letters from Malta of the 7th September, that Count Walewski had proposed to Mehemet Ali a project of arrangement which the Viceroy had decided on accepting., has not had, as yet, much effect on the British Funds, as little credit is given to the information. Consols, which left off yesterday at 84 a for the Account, opened at at present may be quoted 88i 89 ; Money 88i h. Exchequer Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 170 for the opening ; India Stock, 246 248. - -- - In the Foreign Market Spanish Active improved, left off at 22i 23, at present 23+ / ; Deferred, Ili ; Passive, 5'4- -a ; Portuguese left of at 32:k 33, may be quoted 33i ; Three per Cents., 22,1 1 ; Colombian, 22 i ; Mexican, 24f 25 ; D u t c h Fwo•and-half per Cents., .504 I-; Five p er C en t s , 99 100. SUARES.—Great W es t ern , 19 '2l prem. ; London and Brighton, mingham, 75 80 prem . ; S o uthampton , 53 55 per 10 91 dis. ; Blackwall , 2 1 f di s. ; Bir share ; Croydon, 1 l i ; 3 - per s hare • , Greenwich, 6 7 p e r share. The Dutch ma il, o f t h e d a te 16th September, has Just arrived. The panic had subsided, and the funds rather im proved. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. aart.wArs. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exet er 5O ...... X 31...., to Great Western ... ...... 85 ...... to Ditto New . London and Brighton Manchester and Leeds North ',Midland, (New) York and North Midland ... ... 30 ...... 68 1 to .... 1141 , F -PAS T ONE. It is reported that the Overland mail, going from London to the East Indies, has been stopped at Malta. THE FUNDS. Although the news from Malta that Mehemet Ali was willing to agree to terms proposed by the French Agent, in general is not credited in the City, still the British Funds continua buoyant, arid have reached 89, at present a shade lower, 88- 3 r for the Account ; Ex chequer Bills better, 7-3 8 pretli. ; India Bonds better, 10 8 discount. ; Consols for M oney 88a ; India Stock 248 247. In the Foreig n M ar k e t Spanish Active al so im p roved to 23i, at prese n t ; Brazilian 78 ; Colombian 221 ; Mexican 26} ; P ortuguese 331 Dutch Two and a-Half per Cents. 50 ; Five per Cents. 100. Little doing in the Share Market, and the prices are rather higher. We learn that the Swallow packet sailed from Tam pico for Vera Cruz on the ',lst of August, having a freight of 750,000 dollars on board. The letters of a recent date do not confirm the statement of ser;ous disturbances having broken out in the city of Mexico. The Princess Augusta, according to the bulletin of to-day, is not in so ranch pain as she was. EXPRESS ERPOOL. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT. LIVERPOOL., THURSDAY EVENING. The steam-ship President, Captain Fayrer, ar rived in the Mersey this afternoon, having left New York on the afternoon of the Ist, and made the voyage consequently in sixteen days. This is a long passage for a steamer—the lona.est, we believe, that has yet occurred ; but it is easily accounted for by the tempestuous weather she had to contend with. She brings sixty pass engers, and a large quantity of flour and light freight. The President arrived just in time to enter her cargo at the Cus tom-house, by which a large amount will be saved in the duty QII her cargo of flour. The New York papers brought by her are only one day later than those forwarded by the Acadia. The following are extracts : The exchange on England per the President ruled from 106 i to 107, or $4 74c. to $4 75c. the pound sterling. The sales of bills had not, however, it was reported, been • large. The sales on Paris had been larger than on any other place : the rate was sf. 271 c. to sf. 281 c. " The United States Bank," says the city article of a New York Paper, " is a shipper of coin by this packet to some extent. The specie is the proceeds of their recent heavy purchases of bills on this city, which have caused the depreciation in Philadelphia bills. Their purchases have ceased to-day, and Philadelphia money has rallied a little. The Bank has been buying specie in all quarters. The Philadelphia Inquirer states that about $ . 200,000 in specie arrived on Saturday after noon from the west. This is part of the amount trans mitted to-day to Europe." The shares of the Bank of the United States were quoted at 651 at New York, and at Philadelphia at 68i. The New York Stock Market was heavy, and prices had fallen off, the consequence of a previous rapid rise, and particularly of heavy time sales. Trade, according to the commercial reports, lan guished, end no material improvement was visible. The New York papers do not contain any political or domestic news worth extracting. Presidential elec tioneering engrossed the whole time and attention of the politicians. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, AUG. 31. The Money Market remains without any material change since the departure of the Great Western ; ca pital is still very abundant, the banks discounting readily all good business paper offered them, and investing even part of their means in public stocks and Treasury notes. The money in deposit with them is said to amount to $15,000,000, and besides they have in their vaults an overabundance of specie. With all this, foreign ex changes are decidedly favourable to us, and yet trade languishes ; and, as far as our view extends, no mate rial improvement is anywhere visible. State stocks continue to be much sought for, and though the sales at the Stock Board, have been but limited, private ones to a large amount have been made, particularly of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Arkan sas, and almost in all cases for investment. Bank Stocks remain very firm. Manhattan Bank has been gradually improving, and now remains firm at 93 to 931. Mechancs' Bank has paid a dividend of 31 per cent. for the last six months. The stock is now selling at 100 i to 100i r . The stocks of all our other Wall-street banks are firm and in demand for invest ment. Fancy stocks were very active in the middle of the month and at improving rates. Within a few days, however, prices have fallen off, a natural consequence of a previous rapid rise, and particularly of heavy time sales. We can imagine no other reason for a decline, as money among the brokers is abundant, and is offered freely on loans of stocks for limited periods. United States Bank Stock for delivery is very scarce, the bears sell it to deliver " ahead" at much below cash rates, trusting to future circumstances for a fuller supply. The sales to-day were at 654 to G 4, an improvement of 1 per cent. There has been a good deal doing of late in inland exchanges, and in most instances, particularly those of New Orleans and Mobile, at improved rates. Phila delphia has got a little worse, though it is better to-day. The billowing are to-day's rates of discount on inland paper :—Philadelphia, 31 to 4 ; Baltimore, 21 to 21 ; Richmond, 31 to 3± ; Charleston, 1 to 2 ; Savannah, 54 to 6 ; Augusta, Q to 7 ; Columbus, 71 to S ; Mo bile, 51 to 6 ; New Orleans, 4:1 to 5 ; Mississippi, 50 to GO ; Florida, 30 to 35 ; Louisville, 61 to 7 : einem nati,6 to GI ; Indiana, tif to 7 ; Illinois, 81 1 to 71. 'Fire transactions in foreign exchanges for the steamer to-morrow have not been large, but those on Paris have been to a greater extent than on any other place. The rates were—London, 106:i to 107, chiefly 106 ; Paris, 5 271 to 281 ; Hamburgh, 35a to 351 ; Amsterdam, 39A- to :39:i- ; Bremen, 77 to 772 0 The steamer takes out no specie of consequence. The Havre packet has about $lOO,OOO in Mexican dollars. American half-dollars, par. Sovereigns, par. Mexican half-dollars, 4 per cent. premium. Spanish half.dollars, 2t,- to 31- per cent. Spanish doubloons, $l6 10 c. to $l6 c. Patriot $l5 60 c. to $l5 65 c. The favourable accounts received by the Acadia of the prospects of the coming harvest in England had the effect of immediately stopping the shipments of bread stuffs to that country ; though they were shortly afterwards resumed, but on a reduced scale and at rather lower rates. The expert demand is now nearly suspended. An increased demand for cotton, both for exporta tion anti home consumption, followed the accounts above alluded to from England, which, combined with our small stock, gave an impulse to the market, and present prices show an advance of i fully I- cent. on all descriptions. The present quotations are, Dollars. Uplands, very ordinary to middling . 8 to 81 Fair to good fair and g00d...10 to 10} to 10:-.1. Tennessee and Alabama ... 8 to 101 Fine Mobile, Louisiana, &e 11 to 12} to 13 The sales since the 17th inst. are about 7,500 bales, including 2,300 bales sold to-day. Besides the steam-ship President, which departs to morrow, a packet-ship for London, Liverpool, and Havre also sails. RATE OF SALES AT. THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Arc. 31. $l,OOO Corporation Bonds '4o 100 . k 5,000 Indian Five per Cent 5........... 10 do. Bank of America ll4 100 do. Merchants' Exchange Bank lO 9l 25 do. American Exchange Bank 23 do. Delaware and Hudson 50 do. North American Trust 26± 115 do. United States Bank , 5 do. Ohio Life and Trust 9O 10 do. 7th Ward Bank 55 40 do. Kentucky Bank 59 40 do. Paterson Railroad 39 35 do. Utica Railroad 125 60 do. Utica and Syracuse Railroad - ll Ol 4, 10 do. New York, Prov. and 805...5. 10 days 25 $l,O - 0 - 0 on Philadelphia 96 PHILADELHHIA SALES OF STOCKS, AUG. 31 2,000 Wilmington R. R; Loan, 6's, 1842 45; 100 Lehigh s's, 1841 4 do. Philadelphia Bank _ __ . . 3 do. Girard Bank 3ok 27 do. Penn Township Bank 2 do. Lehigh Coal 4l 11 do. Camden and Amboy Railroad lO7 50 do. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balt 44 (Correspondence of the Courier and Inquirer.) PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 31, P.M At the Second Board this afternoon there was sold but one share of Girard at 39i; rather a small tran saction! After the Board there were sold 75 shares of United States, at 69 for cash ; 50 ditto, 68i ; 200 Lehigh Sixes, 145, 86. PRlCES.—United States ißank, 684 b. 69 a, ; North American Bank, 380 b. 400 a.: Pennsylvania, 304 b. 410 a. ; Philadelphia, 101 b. ; Farmers' and Mecha nics', 54 b. 55 a. ; National Loan Bank, 404 b. ; Southwark, 52 b. 59 a. ; Girard, 394 b. 39-i- a. ; West ern, 41 b. 42 a. ; Manufacturers' and Mechanics', 41 h. 44 a. ; Moyamensing, 42 b. ; Vicksburg, 94 b. 9i a. ; Schuylkill Navigation, 74 b. 75 a. ; Lehigh, 42 b. 44 a. ; Camden and Amboy Railroad, 107 b. 107 a. ; Pal. ladclphia and Trenton Railroad, 102 b. 105 a. ; Phila delphia and Baltimore Railroad, 434 b. 44 a. THE JEWS AT DAMASCUS. The New York Enquircr contains the correspond ence between the Israelites at New York and Mr. For syth relative to the cruel treatment of their brethren at Damascus. We published Mr. Forsyth's letter on Wednesday. The following letter on the same subject has been addressed to the American Consul at Alex andria : Cory OF A LETTER FROM THE SAME TO JOHN GLIDDON, ESQ., UNITED STATES CONSUL AT ALEXANDRIA. Department of State, Washington, Aug. 14,1840. Sir,—ln common ivith all civilized nations, the people of the United States have learned with horror the atro cious crimes imputed to the Jews of Damascus, and the cruelties of which they have been the victims. The Pre sident fully participates in the public feeling, and he cannot refrai n from expressing equal surprise and pain that in this advanced age such unnatural practices should he ascribed to any por tion of the religious world, and such barbarous measures be resorted to in order to compel the confession of imputed guilt. The offnces with which these unfortunate people are charged re semble too much those which, in less enlightened times, were made the pretexts of fanatical persecution and of mercenary extortion, to permit a doubt that they ara equally unfounded. The President has witnessed with the most lively satisfaction the eff.,rts of s everal of the Christian Go vernments of Europe, to suppress or mitigate these hor rors, and he has learned with no common grafica tion their partial success. He Is moreover anxious EVENING EDTION. that the active sympathy and generous interposition the Government of the United States should not be withheld from so benevolent an object, and he has ac cordingly directed me to instruct you to employ, should the occasion arise, all those good offices and efforts which are compatible with discretion and your official character, to the end that justice and humanity may be extended to those persecuted people, whose cry of dis tress has reached our shores. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN FORSYTH. John Gliddon, Esq., United States Consul at • andria, Egypt• CANADA. The Toronto Examiner of Wednesday last comes to tt r us in mourning for the death of Lord Durham , with a long and highly eulogistic notice of him. It says that his loss will be severely felt in every part of the Britis h empire, but in the North American colonies it will b e '74 irretrievable ; that generations yet unborn will be taught to revere him as the benefactor of their co untr y . Governor Thomson has recently been making a tour in Upper Canada, and at the last accounts be was at Niagara Falls. He was received with great cordiality in all places through which he passed, and lie a ppears to be gaining ground in the confidence and affection of the people. An effort has been making to change the scat of Go vernment in Upper Canada from Toronto to Kingston, ,f 1 but it probably will not be successful. The Governor 44. is said to have expressed the opinion that Kingston was too near the frontier for the purpose. -,S;) The electioneering campaign is fairly ulder way i n e Upper Canada, Te Montreal Heralt states, th at there are different rumours respecting the time of meet- 40P d ing of the provincial Parliament. One goes that the• rdl proclamation will take place in January or February, and another, which does not mention the date of the proclamation, but asserts, that the meeting will not take place until after the opening of the navigation next spring, if even then. r o a The Governor-General has power to delay the pro clamation of the Union for fifteen months, from the t23d of July last. Within thirty days after the proclamati on he is obliged to declare the parliamentary limits of the cities and towns ; but he is obliged to call the Legisls" • Lure together only within six months after the date of the proclamation. Within fourteen days after the sealing of the instrument for summoning the Parlia ment writs for the elections must be issued, and re turned before the expiration of fifty days. So that it appears his Excellency might, by the Union Act, delay the assembly of the Legislature for about twenty-eight and a half months reckoned from the •)3d of July last' But were the proclamation of the Union to bede layed beyond the last day of the last session of the Upper Canada Parliament, that Parliament, according to constitutional usage, would have a right to assemble and proceed to business. The provinces are in lavi!. as yet, separate, and will continue so until the date et the proclamation of the Union, but it cannot be the in' tention of the Governor-General to delay the proclaim' tion so long as to give life to the old Parliament et Upper Canada, and certainly not to issue new writs for that province r.lone. So that practically the procla mation must be made before the end of March--thet being about the time of the prorogation of the Uppe r Canada Legislature, if we remember rightly. STATE OF CANADA.—MORE INCENI* AItISM. - The quiet of this unhappy province is every now An d then disturbed by the French Canadians. The follow' ing particulars have just reached us of an outrage cool mitted at Hemingford, on Tuesday last, the 18th inst.: " From the depositions taken on the inquiry whi ch has been instituted, it appears that about two 0' c100.,. A. 5., on the morning aforesaid, the barns of Messrs' Fisher and Mr. Atkinson, of Hemingford, were dis covered to be simultaneously on fire. By the exertioes of Mr. Wilsie, justice of the peace, who resides in the vicinity, the alarm was quickly given, and as soon As daylight appeared a search commenced, and there beiog a heavy dew upon the ground, the footsteps o f thre h e persons were distinctly traced across the lines ; and Sere had been the promptness of the pursuit, that they Were soon apprehended and taken before Mr. Harden, a ma' gistrate of Champlain. The names of the incendiarie‘ arc—Jean Baptiste Fournier, Pierre Monclos, dit.,, i4 f ," Tulippe, and Eustache Seguin. When before . 1 ' . 1 3 . ; Harden, LzeTulippe confessed he had participated in t to outrage, and by his evidence clearly brought 1 1 ° 1118 ,, o f his accomplices, to Fournier in particular, the nr lril- ec l, setting fire to the buildings in question ; and sla t to moreover, that it had been the intention of the p art the set fire to other barns, which was prevented 11 barking of some dogs. gar den " The evidence was so conclusive that Mr. —, hint; decided upon convicting the villains, but, n ot WI, he to take the sole responsibility of the act upon hiMse l ' s .. called in the advice of Mr. Hubbell, a brother M 3 g l t trate and a lawyer. The latter gentleman decided tlin the laws of the United States could not take cogniza nce . of offences committed in Canada, and instanced the case of Dr. Holmes, the murderer, as one in point, and de; creed that the prisoners should be forthwith discharged which was at once acted upon, amid the cheers and acclamations of the assembled mob. Amongst the mist conspicuous of the mob for the release of the villains were Mr. Bromley, the Custom-house officer' and Mr. Blakely, the road commissioner ; these gen tlemen declared openly that the act was perfecof justifiab!e, and the prisoners con!equently guiltless ;; the eye of the law. Immediately after this suroonr. ! i disposal of the business, as if to acid insult to iej ur l warrants were issued against the Messrs. Fisher the°ll, Atkinson, who had gone over to give evidence to i.na facts before stated, which obliged them to 'Taos tie.t, line with all speed to avoid being arrested on the P,, of having brought false charges against the misc,reaniye who have found so much sympathy on the sou th ' at of the line 45 deg. In the search, which took Plac e i 0 daylight, nice of the matches intended to be used by t` , l t villains, and which La Tulippe confessed to have I°- ; was found near one of the consumed barns. It n n " c i sists of a long piece of twisted cotton wick well stacP c in turpentine, and terminating in a cartridge of u t ?: powder, to which is appended a roll of cotton simila r ' steeped. La Tulippe, i n th e course o f his confe 3si l i T, stated that there wou ld b e more b urn ing abou tt t he same time in th e i n t er i or , a ll u di ng , p ro bably, t o Uhambly and L'Acadie fires." THE EASTERN QUESTION . (From the Royalist Journal, the Quotidienne .) olio The - English journal which first revealed to the P o o the understanding - of the Four Powers in the E a ', o f question—viz., th. Morning Herald, published in °ll a c lis its last numbers, the tenor, if not the text, of four thesea tional articles to the treaty of London. Two ou t of tba four articles have especially been commented on 12 f als French Ministerial press. We re-produce them he re : ee ss though we had published them already ; for it is $: to sary our readers should have them before their OF", to understand snore clearly the observations we are g°111.7„.. lay before them. The two articles are the following a ott " In case of need a Russian army shall be directed the Asia Minor, and placed so as to cover and del," tio• capital of Turkey ; but the Dardanelles and the lions rus shall be closed against ships of war of all ns whatsover. . ap le; " The auxiliary troops may proceed to Constantli," 11 0° but they shall withdraw as soon as their services 3PII longer be requisite." the This last article has not been translated alike by la st press. The Ministerial Journals in the place of the member of the phrase have inserted the follow°40;011 " They will remain there so long as the Sul tan 0 00 udge their presence necessary." And thence I's ire burst of anger against that madman (eerveau brute I lo ci Palmerston, for not having managed to shelter Pg from the snares of Russia. t" It might be asked, are the articles publishe- diesel Morning Herald authentic? The Sun has cont r° , that them. But we believe, though we do not affirm 1 ; t , fef they really exist ; and our principal reason, at . 10 mor e the first article is, that it is at bottom nothing c • ri es of than the diplomatic formula of the incessa nt En Ma glaF,d. las t" rk, that it shuts up the Bosphorus as v f el f . Dardanelles ; it prohibits, therefore, Russian ship a-entlY' from entering the Sea of Marmora, and, eon" Con' the Emperor Nicholas can no longer send a flee t lied by stantineple. He is, recording to an expression aPP hia the M. de Lamartinc to Mehemet Ali, consigned wit Black Sea. he par* Well ! this double closing of the Bosphorus an clt e placl t It dandles is European jurisprudence ever since I ." s jab the Sea first bore a Russian ship on its boso r kY bosom. risprudence which Europe proclaimed T at t e rwhen c ba r powerful, and which England invoked in 1804' t.e pars ing failed in her attempt to force her way througli t' la dane Doll es. goo , e you know on what principle Lord Palme r ,. ro th 1833, grounded his demand ot an explanation ! r° tj niti ar ° Russian G o vernment respecting the Treaty, o g' .0011 Cora,Skelessi? Why, precisely on the princip le of ra, He two passages giving access into the Sea o f Marilw r „ tre aty said to Russia, " According to the term s of Y - ci,faoGe' the Porte, which can afford you no effective be at oar, binds itself to close the Dardanelles, should you la_e svarc if with an European power; but you do not saY 7 15i1 , h" the 13osphorus. Will it be closed also ? • o risr 11_ Fur if the Bosphorus be opened you violate the J ot a lio!' deuce of Europe, and it." Thersfore the first additional article .to v n kla of London i 3 a renunciation of the Convention_oolcdod, Skelessi, and is, consequently, a concession te England must not, irreS t f r ia At the same time it is a g:iarantee of the gas' and integrity of the Turkish e mpire. for i dervrtaostao of the iacility of anchoring her vessels before Ere' tinepie. a r t i cle, t" According to the terms of the secon d aro.- peror Nicholas may send troops to the Sultan() to defend his capital ; but those , troops are t r :), 0,. ba. 1 0 by the Four Powers, but they arc to be ensba the ug* merchantmen, and are to remain but so fang 83 , e sla v A e may consider their presence necessary. t n o. -1 0a r. They are to be counted, because they ni ts u: rke d an the Ottoman empire they are to be eT : n Close" ,11' tithe merchantmen, because the Best supporte ships of war. They cannot, therefore, u 'ireatY call o°l navy ; and should the non-execution of t he fleet c"." w ere. Allied Powers tsi Cous'autino pie, a R u ssia e ,, es a, of be placed beforehand across the D a rda n n ec t e i viq of e x: e r ra Ia short, the Sultan is left judge !of the beeao e ' ifih deV en leg the Russian troops in his c apital iated his IP not, the allied powers would have oo tc?-chceoluPrl-te..dci Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE A Story of the Present Day. By MISS ELLEN WALLACE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. • (pi,. lli Prop Ord,