The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-27 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. 1 Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented RORY O' MORE. Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson ; Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, 0. Smith, Selby, and 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, Mr. Wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. Munyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan; Mary White, Miss Woolgar; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma Harding. To conclude with THE DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM cimer Pipes, Mr. Lambert ; Mrs. Deputy Lomax. Mrs. Laws. Dul- THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer season—Lyceum Company.) THIS EVENING Will be presented the Comedy of SPEED THE PLOUGH. Cha &eters by Messrs. F. Vining, Leigh Murray, Rinloch, Bender, Tur ner, and Emery ; Miss Vi ll ars, Miss Arden, Mrs. Griffiths, and Mrs. R. Honner. After which, a Ballet Divertissement, in whi c har. Mr. Fleamore, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Louise Blanche will appear. To which will be added, the Farce oftIIE MARRIED RARE. Mr. Frederick Flighty, Mr. F. Vining ; s. Trictrac, and Cornet Fitzhenry Fitzherbert, Miss Villars ; Susan, Mrs. Bland. Five To be followed by a Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by ve Sons of Ethiopia. To coact. %de with GWYNNETII VAUGHAN. Owen Williams, 3tr. Leizh _Murray • Gv. ynneth Vaughan, Mrs. R. Honer. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. R e - en 4 k gement of Mr. THISrs,EVEENINGY for Six Nights more. ELE Will be preseated the popular Drama of THE DUSTMAN'S SELLE. Ned Windfall, Mr. Keeley; Sally Bloomly, Mrs. Keeley. After which, JENNY LIND; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Mira Teeny Leatherlungs, Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the popular Extravaganza of VALENTINB kND ORSON. Valentine, Mrs. Keeley ; Orson, Mr. Keeley. Te conclude with MARY, THE MAID 01' THE INN. Richard, Nr. T. Fredericks ; Harrop, Mr. Heslop ; Tricksey, Mr. Morelli ; Mary, Mrs. 11. ;- Dame Harrop, Mrs. W. Daly. is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Sig, commence ITalt-prst ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING A grand Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PRINCE OF CYPRI;3I Cr at!, Horse of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Entire: y new Scene in the Arena, and first appearance of Signor Ricardo In England, supported by the talented Artistes of the t.sta biLstlntent, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with ALESSANDRO MASSARONI. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. 'IIIE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUG. 27. T IV:MOISTER, Lowest, 54; Highest. 68 ; Noon, 69. BAROMETER, 30.33.—Wrtm N.; fine. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE 39 THannlS DAY. 2. M zning.. 18 minutes after 2. Evening .. ntt aft er cot ,;1 44 7. ,e - - 4_, ••• 4-2 ;7 4r • "7"-r "tt0211, ,, .„ • wt. trieningMfl LO N lON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1847. On Tuesday evening the Duke DE CHOISEUL TRASLIN committed suicide while confined in the prison of the Luxembourg. This, we take it, is a conclusive testimony that the deceased nobleman was in truth the murderer of the mother of his nine chil dren. He has escaped the avenging hand of Justice, he has hurried before a more awful Tribunal than that of human authority, he has plunged into the mysterious abyss of Death, after imbruing his hands in his own blood and in the blood of his wretched wife. The departure of a miscreant covered with a guilt so tremendous must make one shudder, but cannot inspire any right-thinking man with in clination t 3 follow the spirit of the dead with :ex pressions of indignation. There is a sanctity even in the death-chamber of the assassin—even over the cadaverous corpse of the suicide—which hushes the voice of wrath, and reminds us that the power of man is impotent before the majesty of the grave. Years hence the tale will be told how the Duchess DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN was killed by the hand of her husband ; the sleeping apartment in the hotel Praslin will possibly be shown as "a place a-: cursed" to those who are yet unborn ; the print of the bloody hand upon the wall will tell of the struggle of the poor lady in her last agony, and will attest the spot in which the deed was perpetrated, like the stains upon the floor of Holyrood, or the broken flag-stones in the dungeon of Berkeley Castle. With ourselves, however, this horrible occurrence must be associated with very different considerations. The self-destruc tion of the Peer who, within the last fortnight, has rendered the name of an august family infamous, and covered its survivors with shame and desolation, makes it incumbent upon us to turn from the imme diate actors in this domestic tragedy, and scrutinize the conduct of those persons who were morally responsible for the life of the accused and for the qex k liation of his crime in the event of his conviction. that the Government has been most culpable in permitting the Duke DE PRASLIN to escape the igno minies of a trial and execution is beyond all denial. It were an insult to the common sense of the people for the authorities to pretend that the suicide was a casualty which occurred wholly and entirely without their connivance. Every circumstance that has transpired since the fatal morning of Wednesday, the 18th instant, has ,betrayed the willingnesa of the Government, or rather of the subordinate officers of the Government, to .facilitate that catastrophe which has just deprived the .ducal murderer of an existence which had be come loathsome and unendurable. We cannot, of course,. distinctly assert that poisons were con veyed to the Duke DB PRASLIN at any direct instiga tion from a high quarter, or that the transmission of that instrument of death was under the express per mission of his official guardians, but we must most plainly and emphatically pronounce our conviction that indirectly the authorities have been accomplices in the suicide—that opportunities must have been intentionally afforded—that precautions must have been wilfully foregone—that efficient remedies must have been purposely neglected. These inferences are ine 'vita& from the facts that have transpired. Why, of itself, is it not a most suspicious particular, that during his life, when in confinement, the Duke DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN is treated as one who had swal lowed laudanum, and after his decease it is disco vered that he had saved himself from the bar and the scaffold by a dose of arsenic ? Antidotes are administered for laudanum, when they should have been antidotes for arsenic, and yet some of the -.most distinguished physicians in Paris were summoned to the aid of the criminal in the prison of the Luxembo u r g How is this be wildering and anomalous fact accounted for ? Why the Journal des Wats endeavours to explain th? circumstances away by an extravagant assertion that a phial-bottle was discovered in the dressing. rn of the deceased assassin, containing the dregs of al poisonous draught compounded of arsenic and lauditnum together ! This is a mere prevarication, a mere quibble to hide the damning complicity of those who si'iould have appeased the popular indignation by vhiting upon the bead of the Duke DE PRASLIN the penalties of a crime which would inevitably have brou,lht the head of a coalheaver or an artizan to the axe 01' the guillotine. That the occupants of the Château should abhor the notion of the execution of a Peer so noble by birth .and position as the Gentleman Bed chamber to Madame la Duches the Bed 'Olitt.EadNs, is very conceivable. They must instinctively e y have shrunk from such a _supposed profa t z s tiono v fthe aristocracy. In yielding, however, to 'lance, the Government of France has n involved itself sentiment iv of repug ave i n a grievous and perilous dilemma. popular Theyindignation di verted upon themselves that - w hi c h was concentrated upon the suicide and the murderer. Public opinion has been so far rouse d in the metropolis, that it must by some weans be appeased. The people are not to be cajoled their fury ; their rage has been enkindled by the many recent evidences of crime, and licentiousness, and depravity among the higher classes of the community. That crime, that li ie.entioustiess, that depravity, :mist be expiated, far the consequences will be ver y sudden and very appalling. France is not in the trifled with; it h as been trifled with of 17... d to be ‘te too re peatedly by the disclosure and of corruption, an,.. 4 lity, and perj ury , debauchery, and bloodsbe amomg its rul ers an d it minions of by the supreme coming ;it has been hastenepdrinces. The crisis is 40 the loftier reVer them. thank themselves for the Tuileries. I . Alt whenet them of tlatir schemes and their policy thel eonsequ,lnct 's that a nation enforces retributionretributi. 3n s remet nbe r and in ac is it , evaded let them call to mind theiraav Spain, in.. Switzerland, in Portugal, procincts o the Tuileries ; let them bear in the eon the u. 'inatural friendship contracted betwe ea France a n d northern absolutism ; and let them, i n the hour of th e . Ir more selfish remorse, curse the d. ty - when they permitted the suicide of the Duke DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN. - The proceedings of the Court-martial assembled at Portsmouth on Wednesday, for the trial o ' JOHN CoNNOR, a seaman of the Agincourt, 72 gun; for striking his superior officer, are worthy of the most serious attention. We do not complain of the deci sion of the Court in awarding the sentence of an igno minious death for a blow, and not a very severe one, struck in the heat of passion, occasioned and aggra vated by drink. Indeed, they had no option, and when they declared the charge fully proved, they were bound to adjudge at the same time the extreme penalty, the Act by which such courts were al lowed a discretion as to the nature and quantity of punishment in similar cases, not coming into opera tion until the Ist of January next, and their earnest recommendation to mercy sufficiently proved that if it had been in their power, they would have ordered a milder and more suit able punishment. We do, however, strongly object to the Draconic severity of a code that could not only sanction, but render imperative, such a sentence for such an offence. It should not be per mitted to exist in a civilized and Christian land. A slight alteration has, undoubtedly, been effected during the past session, but it was by no means adequate to the evil, affording a discretion to the court, but it being still authorised to pass such a sentence, if the majority of the members of which it might be composed should decide thereon. The character of the various provisions may be estimated from that under notice ; and we do not hesitate to say that the entire of the Articles of War should be thoroughly revised, and the most extensive changes effected therein. The circumstances of the case were very simple. There had been no combination or conspiracy of auy kind which would render such an offence dan- FRIGHTFUL SWAM BOAT EXPLOSION made a second and more successful attempt by swallowing arsenic, in which case the question arises, how was it possible for arsenic to be conveyed to the Duke of PRASLIN in the prison of the Luxembourg without the knowledge of the authorities ; for as to the story told by the Journal des Debats, of the swallowing, by the Duke, of a mixture of laudanum and arsenic before his arrest, and which mixture took a week to produce its effect, it is not only ab surdly improbable, but physically impossible. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that the suspicion is generally entertained that the Ministry, having had enough of public investigations into the crimes of those connected with the Court, in the case of M. TESTE, (by the bye, who supplied M. TESTE with the pistols with which he attempted suicide in this same prison?) had purposely caused those precautions to be neglected which are uniformly observed with regard to accused persons of lower degree, in order to prevent them from committing suicide. The National, in the course of an article which will no doubt produce a powerful effect on the susceptible minds of the French people, after stating that three hours after the discovery of the murder, the Duke of PRASLIN was watched by M. ALLARD and his agents, who did not lose sight of him for a moment, asks, " How then, could he poison himself in their presence without their having prevented him ? It was only on the third day afterwards that some mysterious expressions were dropped relative to an attempt at suicide. The public, who were aware that the accused was well guarded, did not believe a word of it. The statement was repeated, and details were added ; ' a phial of laudanum' was found beside another bottle containing nitric acid ; the first was empty, and it was insinuated that the Duke might have swallowed the laudanum. Never theless, nothing was certain. The physicians who attended him were watching the effects of the nar cotic. There were reports of spasms, of prostration of strength, of extreme weakness. Nevertheless, copious vomiting followed; but laudanum does not cause vomiting. The treatment of the malady, which appeared to vary every hour, was most strange. One day the invalid was given broth and wine. The fol lowing day he was made to swallow a quantity of ice, and in this situation he was surrendered to the Court of Peers. He reached the prison on Saturday, and a remarkable improvement in his condition was announced. On Sunday the symptoms re-appeared. He was interrogated on the Monday, and he could scarcely answer. At five o'clock on Tuesday he slept the sleep of the just! But then the cause was ascer tained. It was no longer laudanum, it was arsenic. We are told that he took a considerable quantity of it, and the first physicians, MM. ORFILA, ANDRAL, and Um, never suspected that. They gave him wine and ice! The symptoms of poisoning by ar senic are solittlestudied and so little known that three physicians might have been deceived." The Constitutionnel has the following just observa tions on the consequences likely to ensue from elevating suioide into a privilege for the rich and titled criminal:- " If the honourable families which have the misfor tune to be allied to a great criminal can see without regret a suicide which frees him from a more terrible chastisement, it is not less true that a great social interest demands that in every case justice should take its course. In general, precautions are multiplied to prevent prisoners from escaping by death from the pro ceedings of justice ; morality and example demand that they should appear before their judges, and undergo shame and remorse to the very end. The salutary principle of equality before the law requires that suicide may not be elevated to a privilege. A crime committed amongst the higher classes of society is always a public misfortune ; it weakens the confidence of the nation in those who are placed at its head ; it furnishes to poor obscure criminals a dangerous excuse ; it causes civili sation and intelligence to be calumniated. The repara tion and the expiation cannot therefore be either too complete or too public. Whilst expressing on the occasion of M. de Praslin's suicide those severe but incontestable truths, we do not mean to accuse in any way the authorities of having shut their eyes, and allowed the prisoner to escape his trial by a 'voluntary death. But it appears to us that the facility with which H. de Praslin poisoned himself is perhaps the result of a grave error of the Procureur-General Delangle, which it is important to point out, and to put an end to. If, in place of being merely garde a vue, the Duke had been arrested and confined, it is probable that he would not have found means to kill himself. The Pro cureur-General thought he could not incarcerate a Peer of France without an express ordonnance of the Court of Peers. Wo do not think that this scruple has the slight.. est foundation." One effect of this case will undoubtedly be to de prive by law the Peers of France of the privilege which they enjoy, of being exempt from arrest in all criminal matters, except by the authority of the Chamber, and if once the question of the abolition of any of the privileges of the Peers is mooted, there is no knowing to what, in the present temper of the French people, it may not lead. The Courtier Francais says-" The Austrisin Ambassador at Paris has presented to the French futureGovernmentprl Ferrara ri nr nragaastnhtr destrong n tagheng causesoa r t note s whichf garrison. no resolution. from induced To Prince hf i s n o keepingt ME note the h a a. R occupation :r t E nh oe rt N ey l C ef l i to , rp .7 r6 a 103 e! duced any protest." The Journal des Davis, in an article on the occupation of Ferrara by the Austrians, says the it if it were intended as a provocation by the Austri. sus, the best manner to reply to to such a provocat iron would be to remain orderly and calm, and show that the snare was discovered. The Journal des Debats would, probably, give similar advice if St. mis burg instead of Ferrara were occupied, " alw says supposing " the dynasty got a " consideration " fo The Gazette des Tribunaux announces that, in consequence of a complaint addressed by the Mini later of War to the Keeper of the Seals, and containing a statement of facts implicating in a serious degree. a person holding a high position in the War depa rt ment,AasAwarran functionaryfortwasissued alluded th t eapproe, who hensic of M. L ix; the was s a A r r TL e L s hE t e e dwßaolsnN attached to u afe e s ht d he a de y, F t t in to tEhNeac CH m a a abn is i nd o e n ßt d oo eyf Royal h a l e n F te sa . mecir M l Iry liver . e y et . :LA" to return to Paris on the 28th instant, about . v% rb ich period the accouchement of the Duchess D'Aur st. ALE closed on the P ar i s B e arse, is T e x h p e e c T t h e d r e t t eo per e r Cents. place. on Wednesday, at 76f. 55c. ; the Five per C et its. 118 f. 15c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2 ,3 of. ; Rouen, 950 f. ; Havre, 598 f. 75c. ; Great Nort .11 ern, 537 f. 50c.; Avignon, 595 f.; Vierzon, 573 f. 7 5e. ; Bordeaux, 473 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 270 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 391 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 3 :I'7of. ; Paris and Lyons, 396 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avi pion, 448 f. 75c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 31f. LYONS, AIJG. 23.-Paris and Rouen, 961 f. .'25c.; Avignon and Marseilles, 608 f. 75c.; Vierzon, £701'. ; Orleans, 1,233 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT' THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 26. Northern of France, 10%-Paris and Lyons, 3%- Paris and Strasbourg, 314-Sambre and Meuse, 83/4. gerous to the safety of the vessel, or calling for such exemplary punishment. The prisoner had maintained an excellent character during the entire time of his service, a period of more than eight years and a half, and was regarded by the officers under whom he served as an exceedingly well-conducted man, there having been but one trivial complaint preferred against him during five years and seven months. Unfortunately, on the morning of the 27th April, he was reported by one of the naval cadets for some trifling offence, and, being much excited and irritated thereat, had become intoxicated, whether from obtaining additional liquor, or from the quantity allowed having taken an unusual effect in consequence of his great excitement, it did not appear. When in that state of inebriation, and speaking warmly on the subject, the cadet who bad lodged the complaint came in his way, and called out to him to make less noise, on which the unfortunate man, who was infuriated almost to madness, struck him a blow on the mouth ; he was immediately taken into custody, and has been kept in irons until the present time, a period of four months. We are well aware of the grave character of the offence, and of the absolute necessity for put ting down, by the most stringent remedies, any act of insubordination, or resistance to superior officers in the execution of their duty ; but there are many phases or shades of the crime, and scarcely any that would warrant a capital punishment. It should be seen whether the accused party was associated with others, or was wholly isolated in the transaction— whether a tendency to mutiny existed in the ship—or whether the crew were contented and tranquil. Above all, it should be ascertained whether the act arose from any temporary ebullition of passion, or whether it had been premeditated and brooded over. But the article made no difference or distinction ; it dealt with every variation of the act in the same sanguinary and bloodthirsty spirit—a resistance to a superior authority under any circumstances whatever could only be adequately expiated by the death of the offender. No matter how deeply his feelings had been hurt, his passions aroused, or himself goaded to mad ness, by the taunts and insults of some beardless tyrant, the slightest outbreak subjected him to a painful and ignominious death. It is well known how many opportunities exist of oppressing sailors. A system of tyranny can be carried on for months under which the best-conducted man will be driven to desperation without being enabled to obtain protection in any quarter. He is not merely subject to the will and pleasure of one despot, who may order him to be flogged without trial, or even hearing him in his defence, nay, with scarcely the necessity of assigning a reason for the degrading and odious infliction ; but he has many masters, any one of whom can render his life miserable. There are so many meshes within which he may be entangled, that no man can possibly escape if a superior should conceive an animosity against him. The greatest attention to his duties, the most zealous discharge of everything required at his hands, would be insufficient for his protection. What wonder then, that we repeatedly hear of desertions from a service where such things are tolerated, and where even the remuneration is not proportioned to the toil, or at all equivalent to that which the same individual can obtain in the mercantile marine. No wonder that seamen cannot be procured to man our fleet without a considerable delay, and, perhaps, the operations of the press-gang. We are well convinced that our naval supremacy would not be in any manner endangered by the substitution of a more humane code for that now in force for the government of our seamen. Nay, we are convinced that the efficiency of our navy would be increased, and its discipline as adequately preserved, if our gallant seamen were no longer treated as slaves, who could only be coerced by brute force. At no period could the experiment be more properly made than at present, when, happily, we are at peace with all the world, and when no rumoured wars dis turb our tranquillity. The changes might be gradual, and such as that no risk could be incurred by their adoption for a limited period. We will hope that the next session may not be suffered to elapse without putting the matter in train of settlement, that the claims, the services, and the condition of our gallant defenders may be fully considered, and that every beneficial alteration compatible with the efficiency of the service and the maintenance and preservation of discipline may be effected. In consequence of the military preparations of the Sonderbund, the authorities of the canton of Ticino have called out their military contingent, and it is supposed that the other cantons who support the legi timate authority of the Federal Government will fol low this example. The case of the canton of Ticino is a precedent which settles the question of the right of interference on the part of the Federal Govern ment in continental matters. In 1815 the canton of Ticino refused to submit to the orders of the F e d era l Government, and the canton s composing the now re bellious Sonderbund were the first to insist on the en forcement of those orders, and on the supremacy of federal over all cantonal government. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. The Herald() states that PACHECO, who continues still in office, has demanded an audience of the KING, to " submit to him the considerations of public in terest which exact the immediate reconciliation of the royal pair." The Correo states that the reconcilia tion ought not to be despaired of. It is sa id th at t h e b an k o f S an F ernan do has agreed to advance one-fourth of the loan of 100,000,000 ree l s. MADRID were done a l3° t 25} fo r u ea c. 20.--The . t — he T c he ou T po h n r s e , e a p t er ls C ; en th ts e . Five per Cents., at 17/ fo Interest, at 5/. r paper; and t h e D e bt without We have received the Pa d r i i e s d pa . oninTthe papers of at five o'clock Wednesday. aufeeo. zud p aary r i u s . laolfntpearornft afternoon, particu lars the The Duke DE PRASLIN Luxembourg, from the effects, it is said, of arsbe.e. another circumstances of his death n in Jars of the circumstances will. column. The " the least, very sus p icious. I t is strange that, to kept s" Under the immedi ate surveillan c e of the cleverest police in the world, the Duke DE PRASLIN should h av e managed to elu de their vigilance, and thus escape from justice. It is equally strange that M. OnriLA and all the other physicians should have mis taken the symptoms of poisoning by arsenic for those of poisoning by laudanum ; unless, indeed, we adopt the hypothesis, that having made an unsuccess ful attempt at suicide by swallowing laudanum, he, after his transfer to the prison of the Luxembourg, (THIS DAY.) FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) ELEVEN O'CLOCK. One of the most fearful steam-boat explosions that has occurred either in this country or in America—so proverbial for fearful accidents of the kind—during the last few years, occurred this morning at the pier close to the Fox-under-the-Hill, almost at the back of The Sun office, between which and London-bridge the Cricket, the Ant, and the Bee, three new and beautifully con structed steam-boats ply, carrying passengers at the small fare of a halfpenny each. As may be imagined, these boats, owing to the small cost at which they carry passengers, receive a vast amount of public patronage, particularly at the end of the week, owing to the numbers who avail themselves of the accom modation they afford in conveying goods between Billingsgate, Newgate-market, and the western por tion of the metropolis. Shortly before half-past nine o'clock this morning' whilst the first mentioned boat—the Cricket—which had on board from 150 to 200 persons of all ages and of both sexes, was about to start with her human freight to London-bridge, her boiler burst with a terrific explosion. Several of the passengers were blown into the air and fell into the river—others fell on the deck from a considerable height—and when the immense cloud of steam and smoke had in some degree evaporated, it was found that the decks were covered with the injured and the dying, that the sides of the boat had been blown outwards, and that several persons were in the after-cabin, which had been driven several feet below the ordinary water mark, and that it had been filled with water. Assistance was immediately rendered from the pier and by watermen, when it was found that upwards of fifty persons had been more or less injured. Owing to the great excitement that prevailed, and the crowds that almost effectually blocked up all access to that part of the river, great difficulty was experienced in getting anything like authentic information of the horrible disaster. A generally credited rumour was afloat that several bodies were under the boat and the adjacent barges. From a careful investigation we have ascertained that upwards of eight bodies were picked up and conveyed in shells to the workhouse. The stoker, who was killed, was amongst them. The call-boy is lying in a dying state at the hospital. Up to twelve o'clock more than twelve persons had been taken to the hospital, some of whom were seriously injured. The dead are mostly men and boys. We are informed that but one woman was amongst them. Several women were on board. The number injured cannot be correctly estimated, as those who had the good fortune to escape with a few scratches or bruises made the best of their way from the scene of the acciient. Several fragments of wood and iron were blown a consider able distance, and‘we were informed that the houses in the immediate locality were shaken to their founda tion. The tide is flowing up, and twenty or thirty men are busily engaged in trying to raise the sunken part of the boat, in order to recover any bodies that may be in that part of the boat. The other boats immediately ceased running. Great credit is due to James Dodd, Jeremiah Leary, John Conner, and Joseph Taylor, who are employed as coal-heavers at Smith and Sharpe's, Waterloo-wharf, which is situated close to the pier. As soon as the accident occurred, and be fore the consequences could be known, or whether or not a second explosion might not occur, these brave fellows rushed into the water, waded to the wreck, and succeeded in saving many of their fellow creatures from death. It is not the first time these brave fellows have risked their lives to save those of others. Whenever any accident occurs on the river in the neighbourhood of the wharf these men are always among the first to render assistance. An eyewitness who was standing at the wharf at the time of the accident, states that he saw a young woman with a child in her arms blown up into the air by the force of the explosion, they fell into the river, and were never afterwards seen. This vessel, like the Ant and Bee, was fitted up with Joyces's high-pressure engines, with oscilliating cylinders, and the awful calamity was no doubt caused by an undue pressure of steam. Both ends of these steamers, belonging to the " halfpenny com pany," as it is termed on the river, are alike, and there is a rudder and tiller at each end of the vessel, to enable the masters to steer them without the in convenience of turning round on leaving the piers. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) The following are the names of the persons brought to Charing-cross Hospital up to twelve o'clock as Mr. M'Cain, the secre ftaurrvnioshf e t d he t h o o o s u p r ita r l e : p — orter by Thomas Willa. Thomas Shade (call boy). James Holls. lying Virgoßirks (severe fracture Mr. Cabin ot the leg). Henry Rowland. William Kay. James Sisman. William Ayre. Benjamin Reesse. William Redgrave (a child — Willi a m Rutt. broken leg). There at the hospital whose her name able to obtain. Most of them have re ceived sever e injuries on their l e g s, eis also w o h one av e man not been y and several are severely scalded. Scarcely any hope is entertained of the recovery of the call-boy. With the exception of the call-boy all the others are in a fair way of recovery, but it is impossible to speak with any certainty as to this. Our reporter noted the two bodies now lying at the dead-house of St. Martin's workhouse. One is that of a respectable middle-aged man, apparently about thirty-five years of age. His death was no doubt caused by a severe and deep cut on his right temple. A watch, with the name of "Dent" upon it, was found on his person. The other body is that of a working man, and from marks on his finger it is concluded he is a tailor. He has a cotton night shirt on, marked " J. 8.," and a detached front. He is of a dark complexion, with black whiskers. As there are no marks of violence upon his person, no doubt his death was occasioned by drowning. He wore black trousers, and a satin figured waistcoat. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) The Cricket arrived at the pier from London bridge with a full complement of passengers. As soon as she bad discharged the persons on board, she was taking in another cargo for London-bridge. The master of the vessel, Captain Martin, as is usual when the boats are loading, was not standing on the paddle-box, and fortunately neither the stoker nor engineers were below at the time. A sufficient number of passengers had gone on board to occupy nearly the whole of the seats on the fore and after decks, when a scene occurred of a most appalling character. The centre of the vessel with the funnel suddenly rose a considerable distance, and in an instant a noise resembling the discharge of a hundred cannons took place. At the same instant clouds of steam and showe rs of burning coke, to gether with the ponderous boiler, and we regret to say a number of human beings, were blown high into the air. The after-cabin and deck were simul taneously shivered to atoms, the persons standing thereon were forced into the water. The shrieks of the passengers who were on the fore-deck were truly heartrending, and many of them leaped over board to save their lives. Some few minutes elapsed before the exact mis chief done could be ascertained. When the steam and smoke had in some measure cleared away a great number of the unfortunate passengers were to be seen struggling in the water. The boiler, weighing a ton or two, was forced about one hundred and fifty feet from the ill-fated vessel, to which a, young man was clinging—the funnel of the boat was split completely up the centre, and after being forced a gre at height, it fell at the side of the fore - de ck, after striking several of the passengers on their heads. The parties belonging to the vessel feeling con fident, from the great number that had taken their seats on the after-deck, that other persons must have sank with that portion of the vessel, which it should be stated was some distance under water, they had the search renewed, and very speedily they found the body of a man dreadfully mangled amidst the wreck. The lifeless body was removed to the dead house of St. Martin's workhouse. As one of the steamers was passing up the river the swell of the BRIGHTON AND CHICHES'. VER RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors ( )' this company was held to-day, at their offices, Lc as don bridge station. The Hon. Captain HOTHAM, the chairman Q f the company, presided, and stated that he did not e: xpect that they should have had to assemble again,. as it was supposed the company would be extinct. The only circumstance that prevented their making: their final arrangements was their not having succeed 4 KI in purchasing land at Portsmouth. However, tl 3a line from Gosham to Farnham was nearly complete d, , and would be soon opened, so that there was noth iu ig to prevent their disposing of their line to the Ilc , ndon and Brighton Company. The Chairman con a luded by moving the adoption of the balance-sheet,. from which it appeared that the gross expen liture amounted to 293,0571. 18s. 11d., and which was unanimously adopted. The meeting then separated. We announce with great regret the death of" :Lady Westphal, which melancholy event took place yi ester day at Brighton. Sir George and Lady Westpb la 1 had arrived only a week ago at their residence in Brun 01 Nick square, and the death of her Ladyship, althou gi she had been suffering from illness during the last two y ears, was not supposed to be so imminent as has proved -to be the case. Drafts of Prime, Ward, and Co., of New Y ork, upon Gverenel, Gurney, and Co ., were yesterda y re fused accepta nce , " until the arrival of next packe t " THE ONLY COTTON MILL IN LIVERPOOL.- - .We learn with great regret that it is purposed entire 13 to close the "North Shore Mill," the only one in Livei Tool, on the 11th of next month, and that it is doubtful Iv] hen the proprietors will again open it, the trade—spit to ,ing of twist for ex p ort —b e i ng anyt hi ng b u t re muneri it ive. pAloboymutensZo andope r w a i t t i h ves th w eni will thustak a io r thrown smsll out of emas regards families, 500 more, or in all 1,000. —Live 72:1 aol Standard. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1847. water washed another body out from the wreck, and a fourth was found by a waterman floating toward's Waterloo-bridge. 'With the exce-ption of the call boy not one of the unfortunate persons are known. Those at the hospital are so severely injured as not to be able to tell who they are. The last party picked up is well known to the people on the pier as being a daily passenger. He had 1/. 10s. in gold in his pocket, and 105. in silver. He wore a gold chain and silver watch. Some of his linen was marked J. N. B. There was a letter in his pocket, which may possibly lead to his identity. It was dated Wednesday, and commenced thus : "Dear John,—l am going to Walton's this after noon," and ended, " I shall expect you to-morrow (Thursday) without fail." (Signed) " W. N. SMART." One of the parties who was going by the boat to London-bridge, and who had just taken his seat when the disaster occurred, thus related the affair to the re porter. He said, " I had barely seated myself on the fore cabin deck than a scene which I shall never for get took place. The boat at first seemed to heave up and then down, and whilst I was considering what it could be I saw the whole of the middle blow up with a frightful noise ; at the same time I saw one of the passengers, whom I had noticed standing at the side of the chimney, ascend into the air with the boiler. The rush of smoke and steam that followed prevented me from seeing anything else, and I im mediately leaped over the side of the boat, and by laying hold of one of the chains of the pier I got on to the dumb lighter, and by that means saved myself. I have no doubt that con siderably more persons were driven into the river than have yet been found. lam led to this conclu sion from the number I saw in the boat, and the comparatively few that I saw afterwards leaving. I should think that there were from 100 to 150 on board, and I don't think more than 80 left." There is no doubt that some of the ill-fated pas sengers were carried away with the tide, which was running down very strong at the time. (LATEST PARTICULARS.) Shortly before the fatal catastrophe the captain and crew, and engineer, left the engine-room, where everything appeared in its usual state of safety, and left the vessel to proceed to the pier, for what is at present unexplained, when in an instant a loud and rumbling noise was heard, like the first breaking out of a volcano, which was immediately followed by a terrific explosion, which was distinctly heard for miles round the metropolis, and many persons ima gined that it was the roaring of distant thunder. At this moment the vast concourse of persons who had assembled on the pier were forced back in all directions by a dense mass of smoke arising, and by heavy weights falling upon and striking them. By the time the dense smoke had cleared away, those who were fortunate enough to re main unhurt soon discovered that the boiler had burst on board the vessel, and that the decks, and all the passengers on them, were blown almost to atoms. A most frightful scene here presented itself on the after part of the vessel. The deck had been smashed into a thousand pieces, and all persons there were more or less hurt ; some were literally cut into pieces—legs, arms, and heads were seen flying in all directions. The screams from the persons on the bridges and piers in the vici nity were of the most heartrending character. Some of the persons on the pier had just seen their friends on board, and were only waiting for the vessel to depart, and in an instant they were blown in all directions. The scene is described by a person who was on board at the time as being of a most extraordinary character. The following is the statement of police-constable F 111, who was on board at the time : I went on buard at about twenty minutes to ten. When I had been on board about five minutes I heard a terrific explosion, and before I could recover from the shock I was quite stunned by finding my ife and two children, who had accompanied me on board, had by some means been torn from me, by what means I could not tell ; all I knew was that the boat appeared to be sinking. Large missiles of all description kept dropping for some seconds, and when the smoke which the explosion had caused had cleared away, I succeeded in rescuing my family ; and then I s.,w that the decks of the vessel had been shattered to pieces, and that nearly all the passengers who had not been thrown overboard were either dead or dying. The hull of the vessel was then filled with water, and was sinking fast. Only one body has been identified, it is that of Mr. J. Blunt, of Vauxhall-road, watchmaker. The drags are now actively engaged in endeavour ing to recover the other bodies. It is expected that above 50 persons have lost their lives in the cabins, but as the tide was fast flowing, it is impossible to search for them until after the tide goes down. ness. (FROM ANOTHER REPORTER.) THREE O'CLOCK. It appears, on further inquiry, that but four deaths have been caused by this distress ing accident at least, only four have been found ; but it is presumed that several will yet be found. It was currently re ported that two bodies were found, soon after the oc currence, at Black friars-bridge, they having been carried thither by the tide, which was running down at the time of the accident, but we cannot vouch for the correctness of the infor mation. The beat is completely shattered, and al though every means were taken to buoy it up with barges, the greater portion of it has sunk. It is a complete wreck. The call-boy died shortly before three o'clock, in.the presence of our Reporter. His widowed mother, and some friends were at his death-bed. They were overwhelmed with grief, as may be ima gined. his head presented a frightful spectacle. There were several severe gashes, each in itself suffi cient to cause death. He died from fracture of the brain. Up to the time we write the following will be found an accurate list of the persons killed : The - Call-boy. A man dressed as a sailor—name unknown. John Littleton, 6, Bloomsbury-street. John Blunt, jun., watchmaker, 3, Vauxhall-bridge road. Two, we urnderstand, are lying in a dangerous state at the hospital. The engineer's statement is to the following effect :—He says he was in the engine room at the time, and that he did not re cover his canscionsness until he found himself lying on the pier !! ! There must, to all appearances, have been considerable neglect. We are informed that the sister of the unfortunate boy at the time the disaster happened was waiting on the pier with his breakfast. (We shall give further particulars in our Third Edition.) POST OFFECE NOTICE.—VIGO, OPORTO, LIMN, CADIZ, GIBRALTAR, MEDITERRANEAN, EGYPT, INDIA, AND CHINA.--The Iberia, for the Peninsular, &0., mails on the morning of the 27th (this day). The next mails for Gibraltar,. Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, China, .&c., via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 3d September. The Erin, for the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, &c., mails of the morning of the 3d September. The next mails for the Mediterrat tean, Egypt, India, China, &c., and Mar seilles, will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 7th Septen £ber. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres —Her Majesty ''s brig Crane, for the mails of the 4th September (from August to January inclusive, the packet touchw at Pernambuco and Bahia on her out ward passage, to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward). Sydney, New South Wales—The Kelso, for the mails of the 31st instant. West Indies, &c.—The For th, for the mails of the morning of the 2d September. .America—The Britannia, for the mails of the evening oi • the 3d September. The King; of the Two gicilies has just promulgated a decree, whi eh, after setting forth the reforms he has effected since his accession to the throne—among others the paying of f of the floating debt, the reduction of the public debt,, and the lowering of the duties on grinding corn, on in ea t, on the exportation of olives, &c.—orders that from rb e Ist of January, 1848, the fiscal duty on grinding cur a shall be abolished, that the civic duty on it shall be g-,r eatly reduced, that the duty on salt shall be reduced, q ie-third, and that the duties on the wines of Sicily she 11 be reduced nearly one half. The reduc tion of the d uties on salt and on gr indin g corn will lessen the bu rdens on the people to a very la r g e ext ent. FIRE ars NenTuLEAcu.—On Saturday last . a lad, in the emcniko, of Mr. Garn, of Broadmire incau tiously tiously ustiel a lucifer match for lighting his stack; i s ark immediate-Tit 3inity of his master's hay f ctEo r o o xnu m asr msoe t fi h nop e efrr r . s / if n tab 2 oh h r at sytei:mwfieer were ev‘t.oot totally at n al e tk. o s f ,d tehset containing destroyed.--Chelten ham ricks,yed.andabout tt i e n fn p oiz t ra h t mye MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. v Mid'nd,Leicest.tcSwan nington, 8 per ct.g,uar. 50 ...... ............... CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 61idland Great Western The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were about 4,000 bales, with a steady market at former rates. Ne l w ri c sh astle and Berwick 3 2 0 0 ...... --- 2 6. is ........... Ditto New American sid. to 74d. per lb. There was but little doing Ditto North Shields... 25 - ............ in shares, and prices were again lower. Newcastle and Carlisle...loo - ..... Do. Quarters 4ON.--............ As all attention is now centred in the Corn Market, Do. New Quarters —Bl. 185. 9d. -- ...... .... •••• we may naturally be expected to refer in the first Newmrket&Chesterford 1334 instance to its condition this day. A house of most Do. Extension ......... 21. as — ............ respectable standing, and until very recently in the Ne a w nfil t e ' Hereford ennY' 4 - .............. ............... Sussex trade almost exclusively, has be en declared un- Newr y and Enniskillen 7 able at present to meet its engagements, having liabili- Newry, Rost Warrenpoint, and - •• ......... "' ties to the amount of 150,0001. This firm even taking Norfolk ......... ........... no ..•...112 113..........•• wheat at 40s. per quarter, and flour at 255. per barrel, Do. New 201. .. . 5 ... .. ...... •••••• • shows ample assets and a fair surplus, but we b elieve it Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North is hardly two months since the firm in question an- of Norfolk 2 ...... -- ••• ,••• ••••• nounced, by circular, its intention to retire from bus i- Do. do. Wa vene y Val 2 ...... •;-- .... • ......... - though unfortunately this was deferred. Northern Counties Union 4 ...... ............... 25 -- 4, . The Bank of England is still reported to be acting liberally, and has advanced to some extent upon stock, the assistance being very acceptable now cash is so dear in the market. The anxiety for the next arrivals from New York is becoming very marked. The Public Securities have maintained themselves far better than might be anticipated, possibly in conse quence of the increasing disinclination to loan capital upon bills, while the crisis lasts. Consols have been 86i for transfer, but are now 87 to Time bargains, for October 14, have been made at par to 3s. premium. Bank Stock is marked 195 to 1961. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 881, to 89. The transactions in the Foreign Market are wholly devoid of interest. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been nominally 24 to 26. The Three per Cents. have been done at 25i. Spanish Stock has not been dealt in. There has been an improvement in the shares of the North Stafford and one or two other lines, but the pur chases are not numerous. ORE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 196 196 1 ,4 196 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 87 1 % 11 4 1 4 87% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 87% 86% 87 % 87% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 8874 89% 88% Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 1-16 9 1-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8% India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001. .. Consols for Account... 8 7 14% 87% Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,0001. 5001 4sp 5p Small .. 8 4 8p 8p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 l9 191 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... ........ ..... 25% Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account — Ditto, Small 27 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto 1844 Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account . — Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 % per Cent ....... 92 1 % Dutch, 2 1 % per Cent., 12 Guild.... 55% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 88% 1 , PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2 5, ,i..... 1% l% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 1 ,E - Belfast & County Down. 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 16 Binning., Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley... .. 8 ...... -.- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 6 1 ,1 Boston, StantiVi Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire B/. 4s • 1% dis.... ..... 1% dis, ealedonian Ditto Half Shares...... 21. E Ditto,J 35 Chester and Holyhead... 32 1 Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... .. ....... . ... Clarence lOO Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 - Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... - Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 3/ 4 — North British ... ..... ... - Do. Half Shells IVA...". -- .. ..... •""' Do. Quarters ...... Do. Extension - .......... «.. Ditto Thirds 1 •••••' ......... . ..... Northern and Eastern 5O ...... -- .. .......... '.. Ditto Quarter Shares 12 % ...... -, ........ ' ... Ditto New North Staffordshire 714 ...... 9V23/4 ............ North Wales North Western 4 ...... •• • ••• •• " ..... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 27% ...... ............... .. Portsmouth Direct 3% —.. .. .. ........ Preston and Wyre Do. lA Shares (A) ... 8 1 / 2 • .............. - VA . CLOSING PRICES 19 1 % 25% Dublin andßelfastJune. 20 . Dundalk & Enniskillen 12% East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 25 Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... Do.,York Extension.. _7%...... 6% , - Eastern - Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,4 — Ditto,Thirds ... .....13s. 4d EF.st Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do., Exten. Scrip 1 East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... ......... ... Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... 15 1 4 ___. Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 - ••• Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . Edinburgh and Perth... 2 Ditto, Extension Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2r 2 — Ditto, New . Glasgow Dumfries, and Carlisle B/. 6s. Bd. — Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 ...„. Ditto New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Great Nortkem 6 Do., London and York 2%..... 1% Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England..loo 231 Ditto, New 40/. Ditto, New 301. Ditto,New 151 ll/2 — Great Western B5 - ••• Ditto % Shares. 5O Ditto 1 ,4 Shares ...... 15 Ditto Fifths: 2O Ditto, New 171 ... 7 Huddersfield & Mauches. 19 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O .. .. 1)o. Half Shares 25 Ditto % Shares 1 2 1,4 — ... Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 Do., do., and Norwich 12 Do., do., Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2 1 , x Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Leeds and Bradford 45 Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 321 A — ...... Do., Branch % Shares 7 1 / 2 _ DoNew Branch( blue) 2 1 / 2 — Do• Extension (green) 2%.. ... Do.NewExten. (pink) 2% — __.. . Leeds wid Thirsk - 31' - Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....... Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2%. London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d. 6 .. ••• Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 ..... 3/. 13s. 4d. Do. Extension 12% London, Brighton, and South Coast ...... Do. Consol. Eighths.. 20 De. Guarant. 5 per et. 9 •• ••••• Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 „.... ... ....., London andGreenvach 121 15s 4d... Do. Preference ...1811:s 2d — London and N. Westeruloo ... 164 164 163% Do. Quarters L. & B. 12 Do., d0., New Ditto Fifths Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 20 Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 15 — Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 Do. 101. M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham Lond. & S.Westem 41/ 6s 10d 60% 60 60%.. Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. .. Do. New 40/. 26 ... . Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto Ditto Scrip 50/. - ••. ..... ••••• Ditto ditto 40/ _ London, Salisbury, and .---- Yeovil ...... ........ 1%...... ..... Londonderry& 3;leraine 25 Londonderry and Ennis killen 2 2 1,4 ...... Manchester and Leeds 82 Ditto . 1 ,..1. Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 / 4 Do. Fifths 6 l / 4.. . 9% Do. Sixteenths 6 14 — Do. Thirds (Reg.). —7l. 4s. — ...... Do. Liverp. and Bury 29 Ditto 1 4 .2 (late Hud dersfield and Shell.) 28 Manclester,Buxton,and 42 Matlock s. ...... 1 1 1 4 % dis.... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 71,4 — Ditto and Grimsby.— 25 Ditto ditto . ......... 7 Ditto ditto ... 4% Ditte Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7l Handiest. &Southampt. 2 I/ 4 — ...... „..., Midland lOO ll 6, Do. Fifths 2 Do. 401. Shares Do. 50/. Shares Do. Birm., and Derby100 Midland Consol. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent.loo ...„. . 111id1 .d, Briet. &Glocstr. 34 26% N. "" ............... 2 , ~. 9~ fo. , DittCr ditto (B) Reading, Guildford, and R e i ga t e Royston and Hitchin 8. - .•ottish Central Scottish Midland l7 th — • Ditto, New......... ..... 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm 3%.... 1 ........... ... .. Ditto ditto, Class B. 3- Shrewsbury & Chester • (Nor. W. Min.) ' l6 -..... ... ....... Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 .... .. Ditto Oswestry Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd '2 ...... -- ............... Shropshire Union .. .... ..... . .... South Devon 4O ...... ............ Do. Preference South Staffordshire 21. 125.... ............ ... South Eastern & Dover 33 1 / 8 ...... 34% ... ..... "'''' Do., No. 1 2O ...... -- . ........... Do., Na. 2. ••• ..• Do., No. 3 l5 ...... —.... ...... Do., No. 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 2 ...... % ......... "'". 14 —" ..............••••• Swans. & Loughor & Ca- ' .. meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17% ......... • . ..... • r •.... .......... Vale of Neath 4 ...... ••-• .... Wakefield, Pontefract. & Goole . :....... 42 1 ,4 ...... -- .... ........ .• ..... Waterford and Kilkenny 131...... 4% ..- ....... /2 Waterford and Limerick 35 ...... -- .......... ..... Waterfd,Wilrd,Wicklw, ........ and Dublin - ..... •••'•"' West Riding Union 4/. 2 5..«••• % dill' ... ........ West Cornwall ...... 4... • • •••• • ...... Whitehaven & Furness 8 ...... ............... Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 42s Wilts, Somerset, & 'Wey mouth ... 25 ...... ••••• • . • York and Newcastle. .. 25 .. ... 345 g .............. Do. Extension lO ...... 1414... ......... 8 •••••• 111 A 11 ......... Do. Preference York and North Midland 50 ..... . ............... Ditto Extension ... ..... Ditto, Preference - •• • ...... Do. East and West Rid- .... L 2 W4A 3A ing Extension .. Anglo-Belgian 4 ...... ........ ... ;FOREIGN RAI .... .." Barbadoes 1 ...... .......... Boulogne and Amiens—, 20 5.... . 1334 .......... Bordeaux,Toulouse, and ....... ' Cette (Constituted ) 4 ..... -- ...... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) - ............... Central of Spain ... . " ..- as. ................ Ceylon - ... .. -- .............. Demerara 21,t1 •••••• -- ........ Dendre Valley -- . .......... Direct Bombay and • Madras ~.......... ....-- .................. . • . ........ .. Dutch Rhenish 7 East Indian ... ..... .... 5 , ..... ..... .. ..... ...... ... Great Indian Peninsular 5 8 . Great Southern of Madras 5e....••• -- ........ Great Western Bengal... 59. . ........... Great Western Canada... 3 1 A •••••• -- ............. Italian and Austrian. ... . 4 ... - •• ........... • Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain O. la Sambre ... 6 ... „. ...... ... Luxembourg...-. •••.... 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 ...... ....... . .• Madras 1 ...... -- .......... Madras. Nellore, and •• ••'•'• Arcot l4 ...... -- ...... ...... ..... Madrid and Valentia 2 ....... Namur and Liege ........ , . • Northern of France lO •• ... -- .......... ........ Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4i Paris and Lyons ...... ... 8 - ..... 3% .......... ... ....... Paris and Orleans 2O -- ........ .. ...... ••• Paris and Rouen - ••• .......... Paris and Strasbourg 8 ..... 3% ............ ........ Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Bale - ...... .......• Tours and Nantes 8 ...... 2•• ••''' . Tourney, Jurbise, Lan- ..... den, and Hasselt l2 ...... --• ............. ..... Trinidad - ....... .. ...... West Flanders ...... - ....... JOINT STOCK BANS& .„ ••••••'" Australasia - •• .. ..... Provincial of Ireland ..... 0 Ditto, New lO ...... --- ..... ' MINES. ....... • Anglo Mexican lOO ...... --, i ...... ~..• Real Del Monte, Unreg — ...... 3 ; 4 ....... ........ • ' United Mexican .28/. 2s. 83ad. -- ...... .... • •. •• 00000000 a.. 1% Ditto, ditto ...... ..... 71,% ~~ 0 ..3 - 4% 9%, /I' ~. 7 1 / 4 18 1 4 ••• 414 % P 5f ~ 10% 20% 1514 231 5914 P 6 0 IA 92 i/2 % dis. 48% ' ,62% 26% 10 3 / 4 14 ;r4 , L 137, RA 60 3 4 ...• • .--- 1 4 - 0. 0 ~ • . lam ' 33 51,4 1 1 / 4 11/4 , 0 44 9~~ i, LLOYD's' 1 0.1 f.) LONDON, AUG. HIPPIING—(TI-1151' id sx fine, - hr eeo hiams ~I trill" DEAL, A uG. 26.—Wind N.N.W. to . 0 ' ~ igne"' WalkerDe Commodore, St. Croix, Monte Video • Lady r eel. ge - 1 tralia from the ; river York • Nantucket, Nov, "fori,:tb fros' Newmerara ; Aurora, Chalestoo ; , Arr.' ;Triumph, and sld., Derwent, .Adelaids,°,ur, Csi. Eliza, Trinidad cotta ; Punjab, oofironist; Cape Calcutta ; Jessee, Cape of John's, New Hind, Singapore ; Duke of 13eu'° tloPs' St. LawrenceFi Coast Castle ; Golden Fleee',ois, •1. ad ; Rosalind, Halifax ; titan , s l , fe t, ;BArugnnsews,ickße;stVigiocutteirlyle, ;dittotiiy '',,f5.,110, 0i;e1.,„ and Centurion, Water Hen, Agnes, IWtirotstreol;d• Thomas LIVERPOOL, AUG. 26. Princess Victoria, nor, Ava, catoriean,tTurhiooron,,Q, mueabreacD:aDraou; gx.,Tia,awo,Bitr,ol. 1,,r, Wind 14 ..,, ; • b;th W t o ' Hadwin Orleans ; King, radoes ; Mandane, Hutchinspo 00, So f Storm kin Robinson,Z . Laguna ; Creuions,h 0a5i,11,,;1:, Delano, ditto den, Baltimore Haden, Savannah ; pow;hiidelpcil: Roger Sherman,me ; Monongababt, Julius, x"...onbarby, Brunswick ; ; Gaskill, New Tork 1 j o bo 5, ~,n i sl 1-1 146 Themis, Leighton, S t " n 6 OA . ' er Margaret, Black, Quebee. " ; t to ; gieti Greaves, Bombay - lake, Adby, ; Manilla Ilarrison, e tlic tOV •Of Berbice; I:00 o,ood, Errilig j o util , Orleans ; Al Bombay; Alexander, Lads, Philadelphio ; 14.1..arereog-, Martin, New Prince Bird, St. Andrew's Edwardsetinee,lllaamnadi.ca ;SAldul. era, ilsoo:47%o:svicie;l,ll;tros Quebec; Columbus, nr . ew'2 ; rence, O'Connor, Doyle, St. John's, New Prtood Irlijelf Aviero, C a cti %anodes, ditto. Off port, Iv." .20 Orleans ; Quintin • Leitch, Rival, -----,%, .00 Jel;-01, Sierra Leone, for Hauiburgh; Boding, OFF DUNGENESS, AUG. 21. -- tAstlal 'llOO, ii Aabtoo, rte r, 6 fr)rF BEACH , / HEAD, AUG. 25.---GeOrgo ro PORT I S I M A O B OrleansoFil j Melitta, St. Croix, for Flensburqou. ~ Awrerbds.ter, uTTlNElG,s.A.—uMG.firr_et lEviads,sll.s to 14,140;01 I S , Id. Sutlej,M le d n r z a ie s, oh ;OP William Mitchell, BPLachlan, Lonib, or C ° 4, , avanna ,an art. iSti oort, Bataf f R d i AlehY°3„, , andii Calcuhtts. dOsffaiPlea AlithQPl ia, or otter am FALMOUTH AUG. 1,1 Arr.. - bou.-6' Wills, Quebec. , G. 26. Wind .--,,ert, Bo . Off port, Prince Ail' ..da aeoit , Itaiathan, Bombay. A. a. — AI _.,„ ARYPORT, 6—W ind W r . --. - 11 „ Poole, Quebec. AUG.• • ~.. r. 1.7. a, fork OFF PILL, AUG. 25.—u. ..iaornpaon, ~,, gt• To as John, Nutchius,Queu7,oo to ./ 0 1 , on OBEIIMORY, AUG. 22.--The Aid, Gllolb fee t Ir o to t , was assisted in h v with three Troo9 in her hold; will d ere 'Tester"; bl r Cifirict ischarge. Th s, st n ight; Tyre, was driven out of the harbour is e r , A abandoned, and sa nk Of i iiir g olo F __ ..__ in deep water. , "sERBURG 23.--The sloop Liv ed in ness, was driven; AUG.• among the breakers yesteri and abandoned. 0 1° ' MOW ae On p o C Stadt - • bat- ' RTSMOUTII, AUG. 2,..-- lea, w ill dis c Bloksul Al , atanzas for Amsterdam, A y.) ' AY . ) MARKET NEWS.--(TOIS P ---.0.----- .37 T DA lr ' ACORN EXCHANGE. --F,---- Of ill the— great gloom was thrown over the roarket._t°,liii re:e announcement of the failure of anothe! OW a re s l pectable firm in the corn trade. Til e Abilboughht‘oll ittle, if anything, short of 150,000/. " h oe " - he Frivals of English Wheat since MOW s oil , ! p , but moderate, and the show of samples w,a4, 0 01 1 in demand for that article was excessively do" , ilducti9, seriptions might have bean purchased at s rtetio coSeh;j the quotations of fully 3s per quarter. 'M iris ..;a4 sion of business, scarcely a moiety of tha 5 7 Vore'r been disposed of. ..1. very large gale. oil Oder Wheat was pressed for sale. A i cl os r c were a mere drug, and quite 32 P er I ,,ve cheaper than on Monday. The import's ..000001, ceeded 27,000 quarters. In Barley nest t° ,sodeact was doing, and the currencies had a downward tv ‘s . 15 re' i The Malt trade was excessively dull, sit Is to Of i r quarter less money. Oats were in larger Ptiis F°3ol heavy request, at a fall in value of from 1 5 4 00 5 quarter. All other articles might have been 19' on easier turnas . Cyli.is ARRIVALS. OAS' .... jr t'9 Rl uar 0 lo qrs . 840 o'' _,,,r0 2,350 86,690 Aialt, 2,71'0 4rB. 42N 9% 1 1 Adis. 116% 443 k Wheat. English •••• .. 2,330 qrs. Irish. .. ...... --. F ore ign ...... 27,990