The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-21 00:00:00

..►u.. - En! O. eglan eleven i s composed of A. Mynn, Esq., 0. C. I 11, sq., , Dean liillyer,ngoal Cl Sewe l ork, Pilchll,, Guy, Dorrington, G. arr Murti r .........., _ _ CO Wlis ) . , - ISLE OF WIGHT. irrtolit OIJIL OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AUGUST 20. • , ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. The third cop was won by the Fawn. This appears Ittll:see ho'dn the best contested match of the season, fir t° ita accitlerital termination she appears to have ivell tack and tack with the Secret, sometimes one vessel tuckth I tring the a d vantage, sometimes the other. The Secret e ' ?f fi re ground near Ja• k-in the• B as k e t. Th e di sp l ay ;6otworks by 1-t u b son, of tVo„lwieh, was a very ext.:ol- one —that from the yach ts f ar excee d,- (1 anything Oefere seen her e . There were about seventy sail in the roadstead. 'Those most noticed w ere th e A rie l, Flirt, C amilla, - trUly brilii C ant a•Prieurn, and Brilliant ; the Brilliant was the whole evening. Many cf the other 3:!ichts were, } fit up with red, white, and blue lights, and disc e re , 'some hundred rockets. The rowieg . matches t hrough .she day were contested with t, ri.at spirit. int Sr •llng Match between bats not exceeding 25 feet e r'i.igth, was won by the Aurora; the Albion was !co' Ad; Elizabeth, third; and Louisa, fourth. This was V ell contested race. *Rowing Match, between boats not exceeding 19 feet, moved,. by four hands, with a coxswain—Ocean, I; 454 'ts)', 2; Daring, 3. . Itowing Match —a Duck Hunt, a punt chased by two RiuNoared boats, tho Jane and Daring. The duck was "Right by th e D aring 11 • It r„ iprig M atch between. four-oared boats not exceed -1;.,1°0t--GeDri, 1; Green Linnet, 2; Daring, 3. Z it , ii we 'ig Match between punts not exceeding 14 feet— jilt 1; /Medina, 2; Jenny Lind, 3. ib.."rin Match, between four-oared boats not exceed ...r. 22 feet, rowed by apprentices of shipwrights others—Leonida s , 1; True Blue, 2; Albion, 3; ae.ver, 4. • wing xi • • bitg tho se - — ale]; open to any four-oared boats (inclu d of the to P 1 2 1 feet,—., Royal Yacht Squadron), not exceeding ; Fair itosanaond, 2, Blue Belle, 3. 8 wig M ac'punts not exceeding 17 feet—Black ell ) 1 ; Au -• ' P A Duck I. `ra, 2; Wild Duck, 3. T._ 10, /zi , T , Mace, rowed by apprentices belonging to the tlue. • L e Jane, True Blue, and Duck, caught by True Ito. • liar.t;v2ing Match for Yacht's boat:—Alarm, 1; Bril kilha e A riel, Pro serpine Flirt, Esmeralda, Coral Queen, 1 1 41 _agie are already entered for Prince Albert's Cup. ' /CAW tnou t h I -a, unfortunately, run on shore . off Yar rd. proc e " e t t i ni ght• Lord Wilson and his friends landed, ''uot of H o _ e d in three carriages for Cowes; but at. of .....tarriage olvhridge-hill they fell in in a long train f the,k_tlic g . returnit+g towards Newport, from the Royal ' 4 ' l Z: r " Regatta, and one of them came in cionr "4 arld m --3 "e' in which was Lady Wilton, atuasjaitioehione,s the A a • Lord ce, h of AilesburY, and Lord Charles, ~, i : h e t 'afts, &c., and throwing off the driver and ally ser' Lit het Bery t f rtunate.ly without doing either Cow lolls d an ', ° W., ~ altage. The seat .' a aistat,,,, gentlemen had to walk to fnearly four miles, the ladies taking 4 4 in Lad • o ii , or e , •. Y Chesterfield s carriage. '' —l• go •h' h the assistance at Z oira. no down in -is yac tto of The . Duke ot to ats s lin C OURT CIRCULAR. ined th -Y , 41 Highnvss the Duke of Cambridge . has re litreittrol.Z.uartitcehress of Cambridge at Rompenhein . i, near pa , ing a visit to his august relative, his d i... ct "7 the Ring ) f H •ver at Hanover. telfZ il t de Bres-s-on, had an an ' inierview with Lord J. Rus jsc'elerday, at his thew residence in Downing- street. "eniep."44 tlebhouse returned to town on Thursday bisa',,,,_ ° Mee ff.,7",4 were received yesterday at . the Col?nial. ,Di 6b - ,.. 14 the Governors of the West India Colonies. I,tl4r:tte.s.fri.r the Govern . or of ong-Kong, and aso et lth4 rer -I `," r " -digh Commissioner of the Lillian . I,land.:, ‘'ele rf !tee Govel nor of Malta, were sent off from the 'e 411beffice on Thursday evel'if g . 141'4 e': ( l 4 ". r i of Dalhousie had an interview yesterday --- u°} ln Russcdl. tO N -- ---- It etitf-AT THE CONCERT- A -.ou x , trtti'''' gra 3 13 P ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. me d - fe,,t,-t concert, for the benefit of the choral e 1 1‘ 3' itf t ; t c`f her Majesty's Theatre, took . place 3 ester it vin w _ a re otre cimnlythe concert-room in the theatre. 4 4 will concert in which . Madlle. Jenny 1 '41 11 ,,,, a PPear in the metropolis, and therefore it ' L '.feessary to add that the room was crowded to l'ia,-,7`,'". The "Nightingale" sang the exquisite bto 4,,tualldo lasciar la Normandia," from Ito er . ,tellk;710, the duet " Sull' aria," with Madame Cais obEllitli ) 117, °1 •Pigaro, and two of those Swedish me o- Zneatre4 Performance of which at her Majesty's ,- .41 . IP tne few weekg since produced such a sinsa ‘ z ot . thoeth these melodies were encored, although tZ v eti thf 4 ,?nly was repeated, and certainly they de ntie i 4 unnour. There is something . perfectly IVhie ll 1,11 tile mingling of simplicity with i re . finement btative cltracterises her manner 44 liclee 4°o notes wild" of her native land. We had of " warbling these. h ve -40 4 to " the Lind," the two Lablacbe!,who 'let, tts h „ t he d g,, from the Matrzmonio 0... u, withueintfin"itSeegi.uasttoo,_staudigi, qiii._rditillie rernanza from Balfe's Castle of A.Y;Pn— who sung a '' P a ' /14 ° gave the romanza " Spirito genttl, from 14 l' '6l4 trt the .romanza that made him first with 4 4 ,-..nali sh _. , .. . 't I,Ntiperr,hruol4c) with exquisite taste . and feeling, C 34! eon ` 1 , the most flexible of baritones, whose . ,Cttelj ah B :vece " was superbly rendered—Colletti, 4.l4:ertei end. Fraschini lent their assistance in the itp kiwi Pieces. A solo on the violoncello . . was . . 1 1 1 .4 3 ' 0 ,g_iven by that accomplished artist Platt', az i e4 of'7_gavF a solo on the oboe, which was a ton `s Balfe presided at the pianoforte, ‘he • " tile most essential assistance and support I* 1 'van e 9te itt,w,ls artistes by the careful and masterly h he accompanied them. x ,, ,, ---- 14 . 11 ,,, so. morn -4 the T amil ß FIR E. —About two o'clock this I'44 ' .- , Y ° f Mr. Elocidy, coffee had a very narrow . coffeehouse-keeper, eet' I°tterthrs'inscourt-road, t he Pe ' fk ut the Graf elteirds,e. ,T? outbreak of a fire in arrivedth lower part of e was that .. t he 1 . -o .e first engine that '4'4 caeti:we-street brigade station, quickly followed tre e Nin es , VI West of England, and sevnernahl was the po tt .teas t h e Invere worked vigorously, but s 1 14, 1°111 of ~," bad made, that by three o'clock . eve n ry . '''h i , ie th e litireperty 14„1"1-40„.(:,,hceniz Fire-office.' W a 4 consumed. Mr. Buddy is i h. - cm Q„ - ulec e ~ N ISLAND.—TheBer -414t ' , tett e s ., J TERY OF A EW 4 ly 4 1)pe at . '.'Yri the followin very questionable sttat th Il ehv e B ln the St Thomas's 7 imes of the 22d ul . Q uz i)kl ish r37 B ), ( l a 1 1(-sv island by Captain L. Paulson, of lili, (: 1 ' Loup, Triton, on his last voyage f om Santa !yar d . lar to "M-A few days afttr leaving r th . e West li t i u 80 .4 - 8 ) on the 26th of March, in the evening, to- . S.Si i ''.g, let, the weather cloudy with thunder and ete k i e e orie"otlYthing set except staddings . ails, wind h tl' 4 S ee 1 %the crew informed the captain that he 1 te mve ; b„,,11", which report the captain could not 1 i. i . s 'e the b, ,l," "II l ooking over the side th( ught he could ~e 11 , 141 si.xtt,"t,4„. The - lead was immediately hove, and lel a s theis.thore,;made f ready to everything . being 14cIted , lead was hove again, and e fathoms. 1.11;;;SW.1 u '1 ,7 41 steered all night with Nsin.lEa'l,l and dil soon ta lk' Ite hiantaiYlight tacked and stood E . a l eet t , al . direct ahead; anchored in . a . bay with ik •, % rid w in sevrn fathoms. The captain went on te 4l ! cot,,r_4,ltt.d round the island in about ha _ . 9,n il h e o t u b r e ; to?dtitip saki,,,m'ea th green grass and bushes. While l'r hi % ti le k g an observation, the crew came a a n n d . tt i Z e ttdin g J o "ad discovered the body of a dead m iect l iee , l Ppae, a , t i l le spot he found with a cave it! a per and *oft wi li arld k mt Y ! !ant dried up, long whiskers 0 4 ,.. cla so Ye.low hair. He found also an oval box „„ gall!, tome letters were inscribed, and a small boat ,e74l3lhtlethol:rutztructed, which was fastened together with kletjtttt?etto'hie.ntdeleeciuld find no nails. The whole of these p .. 1 t e , „ ..eio 33 ino.!umbled into dust. He found the , •'et i• , +-le j ud '' IN, longitude 42 39 W., by chrouo vilielth. ged the island to be from sixty to seventy 1,4.-4 ed 01418 Planted the Dutch colours on it, and th o ( I P Lot „ v °3'age." • k X Z." So 4 : 44 T11 Di LONG-ACRE.—Yesterday 6 113,t t p" .. he So at rs for Westminster and part of Middle.. fit toft e ' Cad the Beavers' office, Greek-street, Soho- It eeto -te 'utin e bin, took the chair at twelve o'clock. dime I.llnrbUtint-'''ttlia, having been transacted, Mr. Le , h )1 11 -t''' be 4 !ne following notice, " That imme 11.-iivt: 41-le/ w"neva r'°-o.T.:::haenaraeken,)ava - ,elent d r „ - ewe s , -3 e xist at present, and to repair or new sewer or sewers in 11:010::tocithk:entr4eetstil'; tt3tl rta ii a te'er enee r 31 be a fforded in tothtahtes h tr o e u e s t e , s so th. t e. h r a e t , lew erafr e4.4( l to broirco accommodation of the adjoining A ght forward a resolution and : o f i c t nit 3 d ' tietsq the last"le loaniediate v. defective -acre which, ofLon state of t . h e e . 4 ree s '" 4 te e tv ,_ "aYB, had obtained melancholy not . a poor man, from the pest], Ili e Q„ agedrair, c! , art unsecured drain. The want of Iteti i ,133tilis,(_1n Long-acre had brought discredit upon veh el ,_"ti, ~ke , „e,lB. bu:it should be borne in mind that 14 ' no oe i t '„ , last session they could not make sewers kittireepoasibieirinre existed. That Act, however, threw I :lell, s _ i 'ecl m ei :3', 01 ". the Court of Sewers, and if they tt , ,, , t r , vibi,.,_ G.uties, left them liable for the cense -I.or k oatt`r Might ensue in their district. Mr. Le add° by movie that the surveyor be di '4ll 1 'elth O ng ttleeetearvhl,,i,possible dispa g tch to prepare a report, and All e 4l ffiel ex i t F d 'a . s and estimates, with a view of afford t le Y 3, ito.i re , nage in Long-acre and the streets, tettr,s9Pteo'dett°ll..rts.adjoining, and that' when the report 1t,,,v 1 atm t4,7,Peeial court be summoned to consider the Itztrtr_gmall, , ee ,,..tt, all necessary measures thereon. Mr. 3. w i ir (led the resolution, which was supported by hies .4, l'ughby Hawkes, Comberlege, White, and 14 -- i e lr ovo s izoe cotitended that the drainage of the entire liti /l qk require rclunied careful looking after and improve -14, 4 Itndert,toll:tiution was then unanimously carried, it 1 , 11 ,, ech ieted that the preliminary inquiries should t hot v_ ord 2ro ..„.with the greatest practicable expedition. `Coe,,, di a'nt.,the court for several works were then air 4 iit: ErtEL " the Meetin g broke up. t„ %tri val b Conti MARKET, FRIDAY. --WO have '"fill, 3 of alt grain except of wheat, which is only tre k , ,The p r „ e , lo w c)t harvest rain ' fine weather and favourable pro. t o tie,o of -80, operations, together with the continued most at Liverpool, causes the demand hare h e ' 3 rif th e tieto at i s seielbi os limited character ; fresh English bir tc t redactioo in retail quaniities at 3s. to 4s. in- b t it ?• • O at , ,n ; for .foreign there is little or no in z-1k: 13,- ae m a .,:, ll s/.., '11ne., are abut the same as last C,l Pis inqui ". 4 Talhez lower and the bale slow, Yew fe lt • 1-11:Liste.--Th • re, z ; 4 ecl h 0 ,,,, e ,; 3 Past week has been retna_rka c b , l3: frC'd in go:;AEg cperaiiors have conquently G u t... us h ohis all quartet._ arethe favourable, arid if the weather only 1 111 . i gp° at this critical period we have prospects of ectionarduit lield f -li ki n h s of grail!.—Carlisle o . a 7:9" SUN,_ LOND'ON, SATURDA EVENING-, AUGUST 21, 1847. THE GEN it LEL C 1 10N KILKENNY COUNTY. CLOSE OF THE POLL. Greene ... ... 276 Butler ... 261 Hely 248 Th 3 High Sheriff then declared the two first duly elected. KILDARE COUNTY. OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL. On Wednesday the High Sheriff announced the state o• the poll to be The Marquis of Kildare ... 544 Mr. Soutnwell Bourke .. 413 Mr. J. A. ... 301 and declared the two first duly elected. THE MURDER OF THE DUCHESS OE PItASLIN. The dreadful fate of this unfortunate lady (whose murder we announced yesterday) has filled all Paris with consternation. We suljom the extracts which we find on the subject in the different Paris papers. It will be at once seen, from reading these accounts, that the crime is still involved in the greatest mys tery, and that the efforts of the magistracy to clear it up, at least as far as is communicated by the press, have been hitherto by no means successful. It is perhaps as well cot to repeat th-,. whole of the stories in circulation with respect to this dreadful affair. Many of them are, no doubt, untrue, and most of thetn are incorrect or exaggerated. There can, how ever, be no impropr.ety in stating, that the idea of the crime having been committed by persons whose object was plunder has been greatly attenuated in the course of the inquiry, and that it is feared that it will be ultimately found that vengeance or jealousy was the true motive which led to this frightful crime. All the persons who were in the house at the time of the murder have been arrested, and among others the Duke de Praslin himself, who is not allowed to leave the house, where he is kept under the close surveil lance of the police. (From Galignani's Messenger.) We mentioned yesterday the murder of this lady, who was the mother of nine children, the only daughter of Marshal Sebastiani, and niece of Lieut.-General Tiburce Sebastiani and the Duke de Coigny. The details of this lamentable event, which took place at the hotel of Marshal Sebastiani, in the Rue de Faubourg Saint Honor 6, 55, near the British Embassy, are various in many respects; but all the accounts concur in stating that the Duchess, who arrived only on Tuesday evening from the country, had retired to bed at her usual hour, but very early in the morning the bell of her bed-room rang, and a servant rose and went to the room, but could not enter, it being bolted in the inside. The door was forced open, and the Duchess was found weltering in her blood from several stabs—not quite dead, but utterly unable to give any account of the murderer. She ex pired soon afterwards. As no robbery had been com mitted, it was evident that the act was one of private vengeance; but suspicion could not be fixed on any par ticular person, as the amiable character of the Duchess did not permit her to have a known enemy. The autho rities were instantly informed of the lamentable event, and by six in the morning the Procureur-General, M. Delangle, the Procureur du Roi, M. Bondy, and two examining magistrates, MM. Broussais and Legonidec, arrived at the house. All the servants were closely interrogated, as was also every person who called during the morning; and in the course of the day the police went to a boarding school in the Marais, where resided an English governess who had lived with the Duke and Duchess, and who received a pension from the family. She was absent when they presented themselves, and all her papers were seized. It is not, however, be lieved that she is involved in the crime. During the whole of yesterday a large crowd was stationed opposite the door of the Duke's hotel, and various rumours were, as usual, current; but as tew persons were allowed to quit the house, very little information could be obtained as to what was passing in it. The late Duchess had not yet reached her 42d year. She was alike remarkable fur her elegance of manners and the superiority of her education; and, in addition to being an excellent mother, was distinguished for her active and extensive benevo lence. (From the Moniteur Parisien of Wednesday.) The Duke and Duchess arrived yesterday (Tuesday) evening, at about nine o'clock, from a watering-place, with the intention of staying a few days iu Paris before their return to the country. As they had been for some time absent, they permitted, on their arrival, most of their servants to go and see their friends and relations, and to remain absent unfit the following day. They kept near them only two or three persons. After seeing their children put to bed, the Duke and Duchess re tired to their separate apartments. Their servants who remained in the house, being, I:Ice their master and mi , s tress, fatigued with their journey, did the same, and every thing was soon silent; but two or three hours afterwards, viz., towards two o'clock in the morning, the noise of a bell, irregularly rung, announced that the Duchess required the attendance of some person, and a servant rose and proceeded to the room of the Duchess; but the door was fastened in the inside. The servant was about to retire, but, hearing some groans, forced open the door and entered, when a frightful sight pre sented itself. The Duchess was lying in her blood, which was flawing from some large and deep wounds in the threat; her hands were covered with blood ; the mark of a bloody hand was seen on the bell-pull, showing that the Duchess had rung the bell after she was struck. Some hair torn from the head of the Duchess was lying on the floor, and showed that she had struggled with her murderer ; but there was no trace of any theft ; no drawer or secretary had been broken open, and there was merely a confusion as to the situation of some light furniture and moveable objects which might have been caused by the struggle or the precipitate flight of the assassin. The cries of the servant roused the Duke de Praslin, who hastened to the spot, and threw himself on the bleeding body of his wife which he embraced. Surgeons were instantly sent for, and everything possible was done to save the Duchess, but unfortunately the wounds were too serious; she died two hours afterwards. The magistrates who who had arrived examined the hotel and its depen dencies, and endeavoured to find by what issue the mur derer could have escaped. but nothing could be ascer tained. The medical men who were present, amongst whom were MM. Orfila and Pasquier, were of opinion, from the appearance of the wounds, that they had been inflicted with a kitchen knife or a cutlass. (From the Patrie.) The Duchess de Praslin came from the chateau of Praslin to be present at a distribution of prizes at an in stitution where several of her children were placed. The Duchess, fatigued with her journey in the heat of the day, retired early to rest. Her femme- de-chambre was lodged above her. About half. past four this morning, this woman was aroused by hearing the bell rung, and was surprised that her mistress should have awoke so early. The femme-de-chambre got up, dressed herself, and descended to her mistress's room, where a terrible spectacle struck her with astonishment and horror; the room was all in disorder; a pool of blood inundated the floor; and in the midst lay the unfortunate Duchess, the body still warm, having the head nearly separated from the trunk. The femme-de-chambre gave the alarm, and the servants and family flocked to the spot. It was then found that nothing had been stolen; and it was re marked that the person or persons who committed the crime must have got into the hotel by the back, where, there were houses in consttuction, and must have es caped by the same way. At six o'clock the Prefect of Police, the Procureur du non and it is even said the Minister of Itnerior, were at the Hotel Sebastiani to commence an investigation. The hotel had all its issues carefully guarded, an last night the law officers were still on the peetnises. Marshal Sebastiani, the father of the Duchess, is at present absent in Corsica. Another account says : " The Duchess de Choiseul Praslin, who left Paris at the beginning of last week to visit her estate at Praslin, and be present at the distribution of the prizes of a school placed in some respect under her patronege, and in which two Of her children are educated, returned to town on Tuesday evening. She intended to pass only one night in her hotel, and was to have left yesterday with the Duke her husband for Dieppe, where part or their house le .1d had preceded them. Fatigued with her journey, the Duchess went to bed at an early hour, and as per mission had been given to most of the domestics to ab sent themselves, she remained in the hotel with her femme de chambre, who sleeps in the story above, a go verness of the children, and two male domestics. The hotel of the Marshal Sebastiani, which was occupied by the Duke and Duchess de Choiseul Praslin with their family, only presents on the Faubourg Se Honors a very narrow façade, composed on the entrance door sustained by two columns, and of a small apartment on the right serving as a place for the concierge. After having passed the door a long avenue has to be traversed, at the end of which the façade of the hotel developes it self. The back of the hotel, or rather the second façade of the hotel, faces the gardens, which extend in the direction of the Chumps Elysees. The apartment of the Duchess de Praslin, situated on the ground floor but at a certain height (a flight of six steps having to be ascended to reach it), is on the second façade, and the bed-chamber in particular, situated towards the south, has its windows on the garden. From eleven o'clock in the evening a profound calm reigned in the hotel, all the lights were extinguished, and the concierge himself went to bed, thinking that every person was asleep. Between four and five o'clock, when it was broad daylight, the femme de chatnbre, who, as already said, slept above the apartment of the Duchess, was awakened by the noise of a bell pulled with violence. She rose in great haste, and ran to the apartment of her mistress, the door of which she in vain tried to open. She lis tened, and thought she heard a feeble groan; she then called the domestics to her help, and in uniting their efforts they succeeded in breaking the door open. They then saw lying on the floor, in the midst of a pool of blood, their unfortunate mistress, who appeared to give no sign of lite. A wound, in which three fingers could have been put, was seen gaping on the left side of the throat ; there were two other profound wounds in the breast, and a fourth had almost entirely separated the little finger from the right hand. These different wounds appeared to have been made with an instrument have a large double-edged blade. Every thing in the bed room showed besides that, though sur prised in her slumber., the victim had offered a strong overthrown;resistance to p th or e ce m la u in rd a er a e n r d; s a om l e ittl o e bje ta c b ts le of h artad been overthrown ; porcelains and some objects of art were spread about; the drapery on the wall bore the traces of a bloody hand, as did also the rope of the bell, the ringing of which had awakened the femme de chambre; and finally between the clasped fingers of the left hand there was some of the murderer's hair, whilst a more considerable quantity of the hair, pulled out in the struggle, was scattered h ere and there on the floor, on which the coagulating blood had fixed them. The ma gistrates hastened to the theatre of tee crime. At the moment of their arrival a judicial examination was com menced. At the same time the medical men who had been called in tried to save the Duchess, but their efforts were useless; she expired in some instants, without having been able to utter a single word, without even having recovered her consciousness. The very first ex aminations made by justice showed that no robbery had been committed or even attempted. The garden was examined with the most minute eve in eel parts. and seas found in such a state that it esas evident t.'eat no one had penetrated into it, either to enter or to leave tha hotel ; and nowhere could any tracte of breaking-in or of breaking -out be found. until five o'elc:± i n semi 10 the morning the afternoon, the Procureur-Getieral, the Procureur iiu Roi, M. Brousstiis and M. Legonidec, juges de ?instruc tion, were occupied in interroetorie6, at Which the chief of the secret pike was present. Last evening the in vestigations were resumed, and they appeared to occupy likely the whole night. The medical men who were called in under these painful circumstances were M. Orfila, M. Pasquier, M. BLh de Loury, and M. Tar. dieu." Another circumstance has added to the general con sternation caused by this tragic affair. In the same quartier, and nearly the same hour, a daring attempt at burglary was committed. Four men, armed with knives, and provided with skeleton keys, introduced themselves into the upper story of a house iu the Rue Neuve des Mathurins. The cook of Madame de Maupas, who oc cupies the house (No. 11 ) , was asleep with her husband in the upper story of the house, and owing to the sultry weather had left the window open. Being awoke by a slight noise, she perceived the forms of two men cross ing the leads. She aroused her husband, who, being a . man of some courage, steppe d out i n pursu it. One o f them succeeded in making his escape by the roof, but the other, having made a false step, fell off the roof on to the balcony of the boudoir of Madame de Ver neuil, from whence he rebounded and fell into the street, where he was killed on the spot. Another was arrested at the gateway. On examining the miscreants, a bunch of false keys and pointed daggers were found in their boots. The body was conveyed forthwith to the Morgue. ASSASSINATION OF A FATHER- IN-LAW. A man named Mann was tried last week by the Court of Assizes of the Bouches-du-Rhone for the assassination of his father in-law, named Imbert. The prisoner was born at Strasburg, but got hi s l i v i ng as a stone c u tter at Marseilles. There he married the daughter of Imbert, at that time aged o n ly 1 6 . In 1846 t h e pr i sone r, his wife, and father-in-law went to live at Ala. The prisoner was remarkably jealous of his wife, even to the extent of seeing with pain her communications with her father. Notwithstanding this, he took one of his workmen, named Vogt, to live with him, and, having only one room, made him sleep in the same chamber as himself and wife. His business caused him frequently to be absent from home, and he never theless allowed _Vogt to continue to sleep in the same room with his wife. This led to a criminal inter course between them, and on his return home one even ing the prisoner found them in the same bed. Although he Was of a violent and i rasc ibl e c h arac t er , he made no complaint or reproach at t hi s di scovery ; but his wife, fearing that his calmnes s was on l y t h e result of a de termination to take terrible vengeance, left him, and went with her children to reside with her father. He complained of being thus abandoned, and accused Vogt of having taken away the woman. He, however, would not allow Vogt to quit him, or to cease to work with him. Having during a whole week made in vain repeated entreaties to his wife to return to him, he went one morning to her father's house, where he found them seated at table together. He again begged his wife to return to him, but she refused. He then cried, " A misfortune will occur?" At the same moment he seized a knife. His father-in-law begged him to lay it aside; he refused, because be said he intended to kill himself. "You are too cowardly for that!" retorted the father-in-law, thereupon the pri soner rushed on him and stabbed him. The man cried "I am assassinated," and fell dead. The prisoner then stabbed his wife several times, though fortunately the wounds were only slight. He then rushed into the street covered with blood, and cried, " I have done what I wished. I have satisfied my caprice." He held his young son by the hand, and sa id , " C ome my son, your father is about to die." He proceeded to his pllce of work, no one daring to stop them, and shouted to some men t h at if they did not fly he would kill them. H e s h ort l y after plunged a knife into his throat. With blood streaming from the wound, and with the bloody knife in his hand, he hastened to the . guard-ho use , an d sa id . " Arrest me ; I have just killed my father. in-law and my wife." At the same moment he fell exhausted. For some time after he was unable to sreak, but he signified by signs that he killed those two perbo.ts. H e was con ve) ed to the hospital, where, after a chile, he began to recover. A close watch was placed on hi m , a L eeper being continually by the side of his bed. He neverthe less conti hod to escape by rising oue night, an d putt i ng on the clothes of another patient. fie then hastened to his own house, where he found Vogt and his wile together. He tried to seize them, but they escaped. He then called the neighbours to bear testimony that adultery had been committed by them, and a f terwar d s went to the commissary of police, and reconstituted him self a prisoner. tlis wife gave evidence aga i nst hi m, and in doing so admitted with great effrontery that she really did not know who was the father of th e child will had . driven him to which she was enceinte. The :prisoner said that a ll th e thatfacts t he alleged misconductag a ins o t f himh wife but he pl ea d e d were true ; with having carried des peration, and he accused his father-in-law of h av i ng en couraged it. He even charged him on an incestuous connextion with his daughter. This, however, was not proved. The jury found the prisoner guilty of murder without premeditation, and on provo cation, and the Court condemned him to five years' im prisonment. LOLA MONTES AGAIN.—The Gazette des Tribunaux publishes the following letter, dated the 12th inst., from Wurzbourg, in Bavaria:—" The bull dog of Mdlle. Lola Montes, which, as will be remembered, was the cause of a great tumult at Munich in February last, has just put the town of Wurzbourg in commotion. The day before yesterday (Sunday), at about eleven o'clock in the evening, Mdlle. Lola Montes entered the King's Garden, the public promenade, followed by this animal, which, it appears, accompanies her whenever she goes out on foot. The sentinel placed at the gate of the garden told her that dogs were not admitted, and he stopped the passage with his bayonet. The impetuous Spaniard became irritated, and struck the soldier such a violent blow on the head with her parasol that his shako was knocked off. A crowd of persons assembled, and shortly after the commandant of a batta- lion, chief of the post of the garden, presented himself to Mdlle. Lola Montes, with whom he was acquainted, and politely invited her to withdraw, in order not to cause a disturbance. Mdlle. Montes replied that before speaking to a lady of her rank he ought to take off his hat, and which she requested him to do. The officer declared to her, that, being in the discharge of his duties, he would not and ought not to uncover himself before any body, and that he would cause her to be arrested if she did not immediately go away. Mdlle. Lola biomes complied with this order—she returned to her hotel, fol lowed by a multitude of the lower classes, gro aning at and hissing her without intermi ss i on. I n t h e evening Mdlle. Montes went to visit a councillor of state. During this n a t m h g e oa w nt e i si sr o ue w l tt s ue drwn by yj h t s ih t ne o n a e s . car people, time crowds assembled b e f ore the house an d smashed a m fi d e i r ie t . he to m u i t l e i a tar l y eft h ‘ a v d u b rzeeb o stationed themselves W r a h g e eh n , t a o t a h e l r a t e h r o h t e o l r s , h lN e l d w i l a e s . in all the neighbourin g streets, w and did not retire until The Brighton Gazette h as the followin: " The chronicles n our c g all t e o d re o t u u t r . o t T o h li e fu n u e i x u t h. Lay of' scandal announce p os i t i vely that the King of Bavaria has become wearied of the infamous Lola Montes, and that he has already take n a R uss i an C ountess into favour in her place. But the bola Lola swears she will not be turned off, and vows vengeance on the Majesty of Ba varia. The King, it is added, is so frightened, that he runs from place to place to avoid her." MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.— Monday last was an eventful day in the village of Kirkconnell, Dumfries shire. Rich and poor, Young and old, were early astir, bent on having a holiday. The opening of the Glasgow , Dumfries, and Carlisle R a il way , or a ro y a l visit, could not have produced a greate r sensa ti o n than the mere fact that Mr. John Hy slop, a farmer, High-Cairn, the oldest tenant of the " bold Buccleuch" in that district, had been " proclaimed" on Sunday, and was on that day to be mar ried for the second time. Mr. Hyslop, though not a native of, has long been resident in, the parish of Kirkcon nell, and by perseverance and industr) has now acquired a competency, being, as he himself sap, " the proprietor of a nice bit lairdship the parish of Dunscore. The late partner, to whom he had been married for the long " period of sixty years, died about six months ago in her ninetieth year. Throughout a wide extent of country they were familiarly known by the homely names of Johnny and Jenny, and a more loving couple, notwith standing the many peculiarities of both, we have seldom, if ever known. They had seen grow up around them a numerous race ofchildren, great, and great grand-children, when Jenny, in a ripe old age, was peacefully gathered to her fathers. This event bad not long occurred, when Johnny, an enfeebled old man, who required to be taken to the field in a cart, to superintend the operations on his farm, like the eagles, seemed to "renew his youth," for he soon afterwards went "a wooing." Meeting with a number of refusals from those who might be considered on a footing of equality, he was somewhat daunted, but, like a `• brave knight," ho determined " never to give up" till he had obtained a " help meet." A few weeks since he proposed to a buxom widow of about 60, a pauper on the parish, who, without hesitation, preferred the "broad" lands of Cairn to the paltry alms of Kirkconnell. That the widow had an eye to the main chance there can be no doubt, but with Johnny it must have been " all for love." pdrov G i otan— e providedwith s s b u s ile and the other arrangeme nts havin g been also completed , the " happy couple," a fter a three weeks' acquaintance bthclaotthwiansg her by t n h a e ln "eg—aywas speedily Lothario," acquaintance ship. were, on Monday last, in the presence of a few friends, united in the "holy bands" of wedlock. Their united ages amount to abaut 150 years. On taking their departure, immediately after the ceremony, for the High Cairn, where they will spend the honeymoon ' they were most enthusiastical l y cheered b y the cr owd. After this, it may be truly said, " wonders will never cease," and that " truth is strange, stranger than fiction," the pauper of yesterday, depending for sustentation on the alms of a parish or the charity of neighbours, being now mistress of the " broad" lands of Cairn, an d joint pro prietor of Stepfoord.—North British Mail. INCREASE OF SCURVY IN LONDON.— From the last weekly report of the Registrar-General, it appears that this frightful disease is greatly on the increase, as during the quarters of 13 weeks each, ending g March and June, 1845, the number of deaths registered amount d to only six, whereas during the same period in the present year they had increased to 41. This great mortality is no doubt owing to the recent scarcity of potatoes and the high price of vegetables generally. From the same report it appears that the number of deaths from all causes, registered during the past week amounted to 550 males, and 558 females —total, 1,108; the number of births registered in the slim-, period being 639 males and 593 females—total, 1 232 ; the weekly ..vt_rag? dc-rived froca deaths if 1842-3 4 5, acrd, 6, ant! corrected for incraas© of population, bt..it..g 41-D muLiz anti 431 fercalcs—ote. , l, 940. POTATOES.—Abuneip.nce of fine s' - iund ot3. p t°Qh- ro-vn in the fields, are now brougi-J 3 3;.i , yket daily.' They are sold at sixpence per stone at present, but low as the price is, the good wives daily expect a reduc Um—lnverness Courier. HORRIBLE MUTILATION AT REIGATE. On Thursday morning the quiet village of Chepstow, Surrey, situate about six miles from Reigate, was throw n into a state of painful excitement in consequence of a most alarming riot between a large number of English and Irish reapers. It appears that about midday on Wednesday a party of reapers and their wives assem bled at a public-house called the White Hart, at Chep stow, Surrey, where after a short time they commenced singing and drinking, until a man named M'Carthy was called upon to sing a song. He refused, and walked out, followed by a number of men and women, and when they reached a spot a short distance from the public house, one of the ringleaders, named George Fisher, told M'Carthy that if he did not go back and sing a song, or pay for a pot of ale, he (Fisher) " would cut his arm off with the fagging-kook." M'Carthy refused, and the next moment Fisher, who had the sharpened hook in his hand, raised the weapon and inflicted a most awful gash on M'Carthy's head, who raised his left arm to defend himself, when Fisher again rushed forward and gave him two more frightful gashes across the left arm, which completely separated both bones of the limb, which was shockingly mutilated. By this time some assistance arrived, when the wounded man was carried into the White Hart public house in a state of total insensibility, and bleeding most copiously from the several wounds. In the meantime, the pot man was dispatched for the nearest surgeon, and in a short period one arrived, who promptly rendered every necessary aid in dressing the wounds. The left arm seemed to be completely amputated by the violence used, and the head of the unfortunate man had sustained se veral extensive lacerations, and several portions of the skull had been shaved off by the weapon used by the man Fisher. The man (Fisher) was, soon after the murderous affair, taken into custody with the other ring leaders, and removed in charge of several active officers to the county gaol, Reigate. Yesterday morning the prisoner George Fisher, Ann Fisher, his wife, and others, were brought before Mr. John Currie, of Gatton, Surrey, one of the magistrates for the county. Mrs. White, the landlady of the White Hart public-house, and several important witnesses, swore positively to seeing the pri soner Fisher strike M'Carthy on the head and left arm several times with the instrument called the " fagging hook," and to using other violence. The magistrate, upon receiving information that the unfortunate man M'Carthy was in a very precarious condition, proceeded by railway to London-bridge terminus, and thence to the accident ward of Guy's Hospital to take the depositions of the injured man, who had been removed to that in stitution. On Thursday evening, at half-past six o'clock, Air. John Currie, magistrate of Reigate, and his chief clerk, proceeded to the accident ward, where they were introduced to the wounded man. The prisoners Fisher and his wife were present in custody. The wounded man, M'Carthy, on being sworn, gave a clear account of the transaction, but he could not swear posi- tively that it was the prisoner. He was sure it was a man who cut him first on the head and then on the left arm. The man was dressed like the prisoner. He (M'Carthy) had nothing in his hand when the riot commenced. The man who inflicted the injuries threw the hook at him, which he picked up, but at that time he was so weak that he fell from Kiss of blood. 11/Carthy, in answer to the magistrate, said, " I never used any violence, nor did I strike any one in defence. I left my fagging-hook in the field where I had been at work." The prisoner having put a few questions to the man M'Carthy, which did not shake his evidence in the slightest degree, Mr. G. Hinton, the house-surgeon, was next called, and said that M'Carthy had received very extensive incised wounds on the back and top of the head, and two wounds on the left arm, separating both bones near the elbow. He was in a very precarious state, but was going on as well as could be expected. The prisoners were formally remanded to Kingston gaol until Monday next. RUMOURED MURDER AT PORTSEA.—An inquest was held last evening on the body of John Hines, late a bandsman in the Victory, at the Portsea Island Union-house. It appeared in evidence, that the de ceased was discharged in July last, in consequence of misconduct, since which time he has been wan dering about the town almost in a state of destitu tion. The last time he was seen was in Portsmouth at three o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday. His body was found upon the slope leading to the rampart, at the end of High-street, at three on Sonday morn ing. He was perfectly insensible. There was a recent wound over the angle of the right eye, and some spots of blood traced from Barrack-street to near the place where the body was found, which appeared to be con- nected with the circumstance of his death; but it appears some Marines had been fighting, which accounted for the blood. Deceased was removed to Portsmouth station• house, and afterwards to the union. He was diligently attended by Mr. Garrington up to the time of his death, which occurred about fi ve o'clock the same evening. Deceased remained insensible until about four o'clock. He had been bled, and became sensible for a few moments, when he asked the nurse for a pint of beer, for which he said he would pa y to-morrow. The nurse asked if he had been fighting? He said no; and made some declaration that he had been struck Jy some person; but as it did not appear that the deceased was aware that he was in a dying state, the Coroner refused to take that declaration as evidence. The Coroner stated that any statement cal culated to criminate another was inadmissible, unless the party making it felt himself to be in a dying state ; and cautioning the jury not to allow it to operate upon their decision. Mr. Garrington, who examined the body, was of opinion that the death of deceased was from apoplexy, and that apoplexy was the result of either a fall or a blow. The Co• roner observed that the police had been indefatigable since Sunday morning to unravel the circumstances con nected with his death. He put it to the jury whether the inquest should be adjourned or not ; but as it ap peared from the statement of Inspector Way, that it was not probable that he could produce further evidence, the coroner summed up, and the jury, after 1, few minutes' deliberation, returned: the following verdict:— " That the deceased, John Hines, died of appc!plexy, produced by external violence ; but how such violence was inflicted, there was no evidence before them to s how."—Hampshire Guardian. THE LATE CASE OF MURDER IN EDINBURGH.— The following are further particulars regarding this melancholy occurrence, a notice of which we gave in our last :—" It appears that a broker and seller of watches in the Cowgate, of the name of James Edie, after having been for several years a member of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, had been in duced four or five weeks ago to violate his pledge and since then has been almost constantly under the influence of liquor. This continued dissipation so affected his mind, that he frequently acted in the most outrageous manner, and sometimes force had to be used to restrain his violence. On Thursday his behaviour was of a most violent character. Notwith standing the exertions of some of his neighbours, he proceeded up the Cowgate in an excited manner, threatening and assailing all he met. His attention was unfortunately directed towards a man of the name of John Scott, who was standing at the bottom of the Fish-market Close, and who, it is presumed, was obnoxious to Edie from the odium which attached to his profession, as being the common executioner for the city. After i) brief altercation (though it is also said that no words were exchanged), Edie assaulted him in the most violent manner, knocking him down by repeated blows on the breast ; and on Scott being carried to an adjoining shop he was pursued thither by his assailant, who again struck him on the head, which produced immediate insensibility, and resulted in the death of Scott in a few minutes after -wards. Scott bad been for a long time past in a deli cate state of health, which it was supposed had rendered the assault fatal; but on a post mortem examination of the body on Friday by Dr. Tait, we understand that the cause of death was found to be suffusion of the LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. BA INKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From t:Tz e Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Nance of Company, per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price ------- —, Australasia .......... X I. d. X S. d. 40 0 0 40 0 0 iiritsh.North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 "Jommercial of London 61. per. cent 100 0 0 20 0 0 olonial.. ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Londn and Westminsti 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London .rolnt-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 Metropolitan ......... 25 0 0 710 0 Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0. 25 0 0 43 Ditto, New—. .. .• • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 !Cational of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 80 0 0 20 0 0 Nat. Provincial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 l 3634 Ditto, New... ••. • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. , 50 0 0 10 0 0 , 13% THE NEW IRISH MEMBERS. In prop-ntion to the number of Members for Ireland, the pers:inal changes in the representation have been very numerous. The following are the alterations in the counties:— Antrim—M-Naughten for Sir H. Sc) moor. Armagh—Caulfield for Lord Acheson. Clare—Sir L. O'Brien for C. O'Brien. Galway—St. George for Bodkin. Kerry—Herbert for Browne Kildare—Biurke for Archbold. Kilkenny—Green for Smithwick. Louth—Fortescue for Dawson. Leitrim—C. Clements and Tenison for Lord Clements and S. White. Limerick—Nlonsell for Powel. Longford—Fox and Blackall for White and L2froy. Mayo—Moore for M'Donnell. Monaghan—Dawson for Shirley. Queen's—Fitzpatrick for Sir C. Coote. _Rose )Imi:ion—Grace for O'Conor Don. Tipperary—Scully for Fitzgerald. Waterford—Power and Keating for Stuart and Carew. Westmeath—Nugent and Mahan for Tuite and Chap man. Wexford—Fagan and Morgan for Power and Hatton. Wicklow—Lord Alilton for Howard. The total number of new Members in the counties is twenty-five. Changes of representatives have occurred in the fol lowing boroughs : Athlone—Keogh for Collett. Belfast—E. J. Tennent for Ross. Carrickfergus—Cotton for Kirk. Carlow—Sadleir for Layard. • Cork—Fagan for M'Carthy. Downpatrick—R. Ker for D. Ker. Dublin—Reynolds for Gregory. Dundalk—NliTa.vish for D. O'Connell. Ennis—O'Gorman Mahon for Bridgeman. Galway—O'Flaherty for Monahan. Kinsale—Guinness for Watson. Limerick—J. O'Connell for Kelly. Lisburn—Seymour for Maxwell. New Ross—Talbot for Gore. Portarlington—Dunne for Damen Waterford—Meagher and D. O'Connell for Barron and Wyse. Wex•orl—Devereux for Esmonde. Youghal—Anstey for Cavendish. The changes of persons in the boroughs amount to nineteen, making the total number forty . four. But the political changes are, notwithstanding, com paratively few, as in the majority of cases the late Members have been succeeded by persons of the same politics. Liberals have displaced Conservatives in the following places : Dublin City, Reynolds for Gregory; Longford County, Fox for Letroy ; Monaghan County, Dawson for Shirley; Queen's County, Fitzpitrick for Sir C. Cuote; Portar lington, Dunne f6r Rainer—in all five. Conservatives have dkplaceil Li:erais in— A:111one, Keogh for Collett; (3 al.vay County, St. George for Bodkin; Kidlare County, ,urmo for Archbold; Kin sale, Guitines, for Watson—in all four. The Repeaters have gained in the following places:— Dublin City, 1; Galway Borough, 1; Longford County, 2; Waterford City, 2; Waterford County, 2; West meath, 1; New Ross, 1; Youghsl, 1 —Total gains of Repeaters, 11. The Repealers have lost the following places :—Athlone Borough, 1; Ciare County, 1 ; Galway County, 1; Limerick County, 1; Mayo, I.—Total loss 5; leaving a balance in favour of the Repeaters of 6. AN ORATRESS.—Abby Folsom preached a 4th of July oration, of two days' length, from her chamber- window in Boston—commencing on Sunday, and getting through on Monday night. The Mail says—" She preached enough during the two days from her window to wear out the lungs of a lion and make an elephant hoarse. Her physical powers are tremendous, and her love of the freedom of speech stronger than death."— New York Mirror. We learn from Genoa that a duel, with swords, took place there on the 10th, between M. Geniole, a French artist, and the Chevalier Sebastien Fenzi, of Florence. The Chevalier received a wound in the breast, which, however, was not of an alarming cha racter. --- - OBSEQUIES OF THE LATE DR. GRIFFITHS.--A solemn high mass and requiem were celebrated yester day at the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Mary's, Moor fields, on the occasion of the obsequies of the Right Rev. Dr. Griffiiths. The late reverend prelate held the rank in the Catholic Church of Bishop of Olena and Vicar Apostolic of the London district. The Right Rev. Dr. Briggs, Bishop of Tachis, officiated, assisted by the Rev. G. Rolfe, the Rev. P. O'Dwyer, and the Rev. J. Walshe. The Right Rev. Dr. Waering, the Right Rev. Dr. Uilathorne, the Right Rev. Dr. Morris, the Right Rev. Dr. Wilson, and upwards of 100 of the inferior clergy, were also present and assisted at the so lemnities. _ _ DISTILLATION FROM SUGAR.—" Mr. Green," said a tolerably-dressed female the other day, entering a grocery store in which were several customers, " have you any fresh corned pork ?" " Yes, ma'am." " How much is this sugar a pound ?" " One shilling, ma'am." " Let me have," she continued, lowering her voice, "half a pint of gin, and charge it as sugar on the book."— American Paper. A Mexican artist has published a caricature, repre senting an American surgeon in the act of amputating the leg of General Santa Anna, who is inhaling the vapour of ether from an apparatus held by Mr. Polk ; but the sponges containing the ether are represented by money bags, marked " 3,000,000 dollars." THE CHARTIST LAND SCHEME. Monday last being the day fixed tor a grand demonstration to cele brate the location of allottees on the Lowbands Chartist estate, at Redmarley, on the confines of Worceslershire and Gloucestershire, crowds of visitors began to arrive at an early hour. Notwithstanding the rain, the com pany, consisting of at least three or four thousand people, many of whom had arrived from many miles distance, remained patiently all day, hoping that the weather would clear up. A band of music was in attendance, and dancing, and a variety of amusements were in tended to form part of the day's proceedings, but the weather proved an Effectual bar to enjoy ment. About fitty deligates were in attendance, prin cipally from the manufacturing districts of the north, and some from Scotland. These delegates are to hold a conference daily during the week on the affsirs of the company. On the Lowbands estate forty five cottages have been built. and nave been allocated to that number of occupants. To the cottages are attached two, three, or four acres of land, to be cultivated by spade hus bandry, and the proprietors assume that out of this land the occupants will be able to maintain themselves in comfort, and pay interest in the shape of rent to the company, at the rate of five per cent. on the outl ty. All the delegates, and a large proportion of the com pany, appeared very sanguine as to the success of the plan. On the estate is an extensive building, intended to be used as a school, and also for lectures and social meetings of the community. At three o'clock the band, headed by a number of banners, marched to a hustings which had been erected on the estate, but the audience that collected round it were informed that the rain would prevent Mr. O'Connor from addressing them, as it would be cruel to keep them longer exposed to such weather; and as to Mr. O'Connor himself, it was necessary that he should husband his strength in order to enable him to fight their battles in another place. After this announcement a great number of the com pany departed, but between five and six o'clock the weather improved, and during a cessation of the rain Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Mr. Donovan, and one or two other delegates, briefly addressed such of the company as still remained, on the advantages of the land plan as a preventive of pauperism, and an encouragement of honest independence. A CHILD RESCUED FROM DROWNING..--A boat laden with salt was passing on the Regent's Canal, at Paddington, about lialf-past five on 'Thursday evening, when the boatman's daughter, a child ten years :of age, overbalanced herself. She was sinking from exhaus tion in eight feet of water, under a bridge, when Mr. H. J. Smith, the collector of the Regent's Canal Company, most humanely dashed into the water, with his clothes on, and succeeded in restoring the little girl to her agonised parents, who were unable to afford her any assistance. Ax ODD FUNERAL.— A few days ago there might have been seen two persons conveying down Kirkgate the mortal remains of a young child; the first indivi dual bad the coffin under his arm, walking along at a good pace, while the second jostled along as a mourner, with a short black pipe in his mouth I—Leeds Intel& gencer. LLOYD'S.—VOTE OF THANKS TO HIS HIGHNESS MEHEMET ALI PASHA.—The agent to Lloyd's at Alex andria, in a letter dated the 27th of July last, states that the vote of thanks passed at a meeting of the committee of Lloyd's, on the 941 of June lest, to his Highness Mehemet Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, on behalf ot the subscribers to Lloyd's and the commercial and ship ing interests, for the generous, prompt, and valuable as sistance rendered on all occasions by his Highness's orders, to British vessels stranded or in distress, on the coast under his Highness's government, had been pre sented to his Highness, who expresed himself much gratified at the mark of the attention of the committee, end desired it to be made known that it would always be a source of gratification to him whenever he could render :assistance to British vessels in distress, or requiring aid 0: any kind. PERSONS EMPLOYED ON RAILWAYS, &c.—A return r: oved for by Captain Gladstone, shows that 256.509 persons were employed on a ll t h e - railroads io cour.e ot construction ou the Ist of May Est, t 11;, li:ngth tin.? lines amounting altogether to 3,455 Niles. are 232 secretaries, 34 treasurers, fe.l2 enTr ' ineers, 2,352, su perintendents and store keepers, 264' uccodut_n,.s and • cashiers, 1,437 drau,,ht.sTen. and clerks, 240,301 arti ficers and labourers, e it n usi.ectors, laud-surveyors, 6,741 miners or quarry 1,087 foramen or overseers, driy l22 eproaliorceolorteen, comers, aid andporte4resi z a ti l e t ia 7 u 6 ecto plate e = 1,793 C.a.278363. Names of , 7.): Dividend , Names of 4 Dividend' Companies. ; 4 per ' n "' Companies. 5 Per Price. cc Annum. co A Annum. ishtn & Oldh 97'51.55. p c 70 Monmouthsh 100 101. _ Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. - Mntgomrysh 100 51. - Barnsley 'l6O, 121. 180 :Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Basingstoke ' 100 ; - - Neath ......100 201. 340 Brknk&Abrg;lsol 5/. 1 85 Nottingham. 150 12/. - 3romford !100 14/. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley lOO 4/. - Regent's •• • • 33 1/. 4s. 20 Derby • Ellsmre&Chs 133 4/. 51 Shropshire • - 125 81. - E:mash - Somrset Coal 150 7/. 10s. 130 Forth & Clycl ' 100 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 6/. p. c. - OraudJunctn 100 6/. 80 Stffrd &Worc 140 281. 275 t.rand Union 100 1/. 10s. 21% ' Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - Glarnorgnsh. 172 , 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 305 iilstr&Brkly 'OO - - Strtfrd on Av 79 1/. 10s. - Cirantham • . ,150 12/. - Severn and/ 26 1/. Bs. - Huddersfield., 57 - - Wye Rail. Kennt & Avn , 39 7s. 6d. 5% Tnit& MI 50 301. - Lancaster - sey • ... Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 505 Thams &Med 19 - - Leicester Leicstr &Nth 83, 4/. 36 Birming. 78 21. I 41% Loughboregh ,142, 701. 530 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11 DOCKS. Diyldend Amount per ' of Name of Company. Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Commercial .... ..... 31, per cent. 8. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 s. d. East and West India...' 61. pr cent. East Country •-•• • • • It. per sh. f andon . •. 51. pr cant. St. Katharine •... •.. 5 per cent. Southampton • • ...... 2/. per cent. Stock. Stock. I 50 0 0( 126 103 - i 65 0 0 01 - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 4 s. d. ; 4 s. d. Albion ...... ••-• • • • 31. 109. 500 0 0, 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0I 11 0 0 17% Ditto Marine....• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5% Atlas 13s.6d.prsh. 50 0 0 ; 5 0 0 14% British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 00j 5 0 0 6% Cleriel,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 I 210 0 20% 31. 100 0 0 j 10 0 0 Crown ..........•• •• 12s. 50 0 0+ 5 0 0 11 :i:a%le 6s. 50 0 0 5 6 0 5% Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - Freemasons' .• • .... • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 127 Guardian ........ •• . • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47 Imperial Fire ••.• • • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 21) Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - LAw Life l/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - London Fire -..- -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% London Ship •.•.• • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% Marine • • •••• • - • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Bs. National Lean Fund • . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 - National Life ••••• • . • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - PAlladium Life ...... .. , 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 41s ad Phcenix • • ..... •• • . 31. p. et. & be. - - 185 Protector Life •• • • ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 3s. Provident,Life •••• • • .. 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life .••••• • . • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 180 bun Fire..... • • • ... - - 210 Data Life . 11. 6s. - - 49 VicLria Life .... - - 4 0 0 41% rasT 01' SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. 4 s. d. £ a. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 169 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 151 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200 Commercial Bank .• • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 162 National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13% Union Bank of Scotland 7341. pr sent. - 50 0 0 88 Western Bank... • - 50 0 0 82% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. , - 5 0 0 6% Clydesdale Bank.... • . 61. per cent. I - 10 0 0 131. 2s Eastern Bank ... . • - 10 0 0 111.108 Caledonian Bank - 210 0 41. 98 Edinb.&Glasgowßank 61. per cert. I - 5 0 0 61. 14s City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 112/. 11 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent., 20 0 0 1 0 0235. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. ,100 0 0 10 0 0 I 1234 Insur. Co. of Scetlnd.• Si. per cent. 'lO 0 0 All paid. I 9 Korth British Insur. • • 5341. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 i 26 Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22% I Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. ,100 0 0 12 10 0 j 18 Edin.&Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pers. '5O 0 0 50 0 0 j 63 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares•• • • 7s. 6d. p. s. jl2 10 0 All paid. I 16% Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 120 0 0 20 0 0 19% Glasgw & Ayrshirßail. 7/. percent. 150 0 0 All paid. I 61% '3lasgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. '25 0 0 All paid. ' 18% 'llsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. j 39 Dundee & Arbrothltail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. ' 39 Atandaril LifeAssnrnce.l 51. per cent. 150 0 0 I 210 0 , 9 brain, the result of the blow - which Scott - had received on the head while in the shop. Edie was immediately taken into custody, and a ft e r a n investigation of the case by the authorities be was committed to take his trial for the offence.—Edinburgh Witness. POISONING IN PRANCE.—An elderly man, named Descombes, and bis son-in-law Couturier, were recently indicted before the Court of Assizes of the Ain for having poisoned Marguerite Descombes, daughter of the former prisoner. The deceased being of weak intellect, and unable to work, was a burden on the two prisoners and the wife of Couturier, her sister, all of whom were in a state of great poverty. One day, in March last, the two men went to a notary, and asked him if the deceased could not transfer to them her share in a house and a small parcel of land, which she possessed in common with her sister. The notary answered in the negative, on account of her state of mind. Some time afterwards the wife of Couturier pre pared a supper, consisting of soup, for all four, and she partook of it in company with her husband and father. She then went away, leaving the two men alone in the room. Some time after the sister came home from church, took the soup, and in compliance with Couturier's request, drank rather more than usual. Shortly after she began to vomit, but Couturier would not allow his wife to approach her. He gave her wine and tea, which caused her violent pains and vomitings. Whilst this was going on her father came to her bed-side, and the deceased throwing her arms round his neck begged him to remain, but he re fused. As he was leaving the house, he said to a neigh bour, "My daughter is very ill ; if I do not see her again alive, may God take her." All the next day and night she continued to suffer cruelly, especially when ever Couturier, who scarcely quitted her, gave her any thing to drink, though she was relieved by what her sister gave her. At last she died in great agonY, and on her body being opened a large quantity of arsenic was found. There was no doubt that she bad been poisoned. In addition to these facts it was proved that, about a month before the murder, the two prisoners went to a druggist's to buy the arsenic, and when they received it, Descombes gave it to his son-in-law, and said, " Take care of your conscience, and do not make a bad use of this poison. The jury acquitted Descombes, but declared Couturier guilty, and the Court condemned himto death. The wretched wan shed tears on hea rin g the sentence. No condemnation to death had been pro nounced for many years by the Court of Assizes of the ' L • L HER MAJESTY'S Th E ATRE.—TO- nigh t : the lasi, of the season. No other representation will be given. Jenny Lind leaves on Monday to fulfil her provincial engagements. Lablache goes to Paris. DIE MAILS. —SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 20.—The Pe ninsular and Orient al Company's steamship Indus, Captain Soy, with t he East India and China mails, left the (17,cks at 3 P.M. this day e r Al talt - r, out a full end vplunble c:,:rqo of Man3bester and other goods, and 65 passengers. The Waghington, Cap tain Hewitt, is expected early next week United States Mails v ia w Yozk. Trio Gibroltar ‘J•r,..ii will be brought by the Madrid, Captain Weeks, and is due ' on Wednesday next; and on the same day may be ex ' pected the Ripon, Captain Moresby, with the remainder of the bland WATZII,I.I7O Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of i Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .£ a. d. East London..• •••• • • • SI. 100 0 0 195 Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 90 3/. 100 0 0 Vauxhall •••••• .• • • • • 100 0 0 West Middlesex . • . 5/.lsa.prent. 63 12 9 ' 122 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 14th day of August, 1847. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes i55ued........ 22,648,450 £22,648,450 Dated the 19th day of August, BANKING D. Proprietors' capital •• 14,553,000 Rest • • . ..... 3,717,357 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) • • 6,358,298 Other deposits Seven day and other bills • • • • • • • • • • • • 805,825 Government debt • . 11,015,100 Other securities •• .. 2,983,900 Gold coin and bullion 7,577,307 Silver bullion ••• • .• 1,071,143 1 £ 22,648,C , .0 M. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. 1347. 'AITMZN T. £32,948,371 Dated the 19th day of August, 11 Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 11,636,340 Other securities .• • • 16,681,409 Notes .. •• • • Gold and silver coin.. 638,377 £32,948,371 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Aug. 20.) SUGAR.—To-day a good demand existed for West India for all purposes, 450 hhds and tres finding buyers at an advance in most instances on the rates of Friday last of 6d per cwt. The total sales for the week are 2,110 hhds and trcs. The market closes with a firmer appearance for Raw Sugar generally. R EFIN ED.—To -day Refined goods were in much better demand for home cons umption, but in the value no im provement took place. Bonded Crushed Sugar sells slowly at 31s 6d to 325. MOLASSES.—Tbere are sellers of West India upon reduced terms, still the amount of business done has been small, and amount to only 100 pns of St. Vincents at 14s 6d to 17s per cwt. The market is well supplied with all sorts. Bengal Treacle is dull of sale, and prices nominal. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the demand was active for all kinds of Mauritius Sugar, and 6,832 bags 146 casks at auction sold at 6d to Is per cwt advance, viz., fine yellow 455, good 41s to 43s 6d, mid 38s, low 37s to 37s 6d, fine brown 355, very low soft dark 30s to 318, washed 29s to 39s 6d, syrupy 30s to 41s, sound grainy fine 49s to 52s 6d, good 45s 6d to 475, and low mid 40s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 1,600 bags Bengal Sugar were offered, and sold at stiffer rates; fine grainy yellow at 47s to 50s, good 44s 6d to 46s 6d, damp and washed 44s 6d to 49s 6d, brown 40s, good sound white Benares 46s to 475, middling 445 6d to 455, low 435, damp and washed 43a to 465, goVs 6d. yellow 41s 6d to 425, damp and washed 2a 6 4 d 05 to for middling 01 Madras 600 bags sold at 31s 6d to been of little moment yellow, damp and washed, being ri_t FOREIGN.—The arrivals hav l e vessels are near at hand. been e 3 r lower rates. since this day week, but firmnessseveral this wee , k and less Importers have shown moreke to notice in . no improvement t withtbeavlialkai:ds,Easptinllrttehrearearies freely supplied the mar . still desirous to operate, a prevail are taken into consi nd which is not to be wondered e for extensive parcels not th d but specu ators ra er un er present only by shippers, daetrawthieelthoeffleovws braavteesbetheantmlad rates, butrejeacutetd of ForeignThehom Sugar, etrade and thehowever, a t presentpurchases a re little in n want ma de privately b y them are small, and not worth enu merating: Our refiners working under bond are still cautious in their proceedings, although quotations r'tnge low, and they obtaining good prices for their Loaves and Crushed Sugar. At public sales 100 hhds of Porto Rico were sold for shipping ; the duty of 20s per cwt to be allowed. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no p u bli c sa l e o f 4 b f ro3 u ar s tm i bh n aee e rgr s s rates. whilstmCea publiclr 1 1 Ceylon n t s there C a: 01 o er f f wE e e eo‘ , rrs e.ee a i rognenndl ready se p ia r ngd i ; 7 : a t e e srt lsaeon l rl i dsd t t l a3 e at:9t w a 5 ci o T n h e e t o w f er ß r io ett i s t , bags good ordinary at 31s 6d to 325. and real good ordinary 32s 6d to 333. For auction 2,000 bags Costa Rica, 0 ,600 bans Plantation Ceylon, and 103 f raz il s o f M oc ha, are declared, TEL.—There has been less disposition evinced to pur chase the better sorts of Green, whereas merchants have been more inclined to realise, and supplying the w arket more freely, produced a decline in the value of 2d to 4d per lb for llyson and Gunpowders of good anti fine quality ; Imperial Is offered rather un d e r p revious prices. The amount of business transacted by private treaty has been upon a small scale only . all the week. The low and mid kinds, however, met with more atten tion, but holders, have been compelled to accept previous low rates. Holders of Black still evince firmness, and insist upon full quotations ;w hilst they offer but a mo derate quantity for isle. The home trade, however, purchase all descriptions with cautie .n by private treaty. To-day the Tea market had a quiet appearance, and of 3,800 packages offered at auction, on ly 900 were sold at barely former rates. SaGeris little wanted, and 1,250 boxes at public sale went at is per cwt decline, fine sm all Pearl went at 19s 6d ;ta 20s, good 19s to 19s 6d, mit Idling 18s to 18s 6d. The market is dull for Farina at 24s to 275. RICE. —To-day little desire was shown to operate in East India Rico : at public sale 977 pockets Benrral sold at is per cwt decline : fine white, bold grain, but ra ther dust', went at 16s 6d, low siftings lOs 6d, OA damaged .7s to 15s 6fi : of 1,758 bags 995 pockens Ma dras, the sound was all taken in at 13s to 15s for pinkey white Bengal grain, being above the value, but damaged sold at 6s to Ils 6d. SPICES.--To-day, at public sale, 310 bags African Ginger we're taken in at 33s to 34s fox good bold, and at 32s for middling. 116 cases Cassia Lignea nold at lower rates ; mouldy, pile 1, mid 55s ; pile 2, low mid 53s to 53s 6d ; pile 3, good ordinary coarse 51s 6d ; broken 535. 6d, and half bundles 525. Hors.--There are sellers at a further reduction in the value, still all kinds have been operated in with much caution, and there are several parcels pressing for sale. The accounts from the Plantations are of a satisfacto: ry nature. The duty for the kingdom is estimated at 185,000/. SerarTs.—lmporters of Jamaica Rum have been free sellers this week, but submitting to a reduction on for— mer rates of Id to 2d per gallon occasioned the demand to be good for all sorts, but the home trade were the chief operators. The total sales amounted to 400 puns, 31 to 38 per cent. over proof of middling to good mid dling quality at 3s 8d to 3s 10d; 31 to 36 over good 4s to 4s 2d ; 36 to 38 over find and supetior 4s 3d to 4s. Bd. Demerara is not cheaper, but the sales are only 100 puns at 3s 6d to 3s 8d for 38 per cent orerproof. There are sellers of Leeward Island upon reduced terms, but the purchases made have been trifling at 2s 4d to 2s 5d proof strength. East India is dull of sale and prices are on the decline. A t auction 130 hhas of fair brown Madras only fetched 2x per gallon proof with certificate. Of Calcutta only small parcels found buyers at 2s ld to 2s 2d. The market is. well supplied with all sorts of Rum. In the prices of Brandy there is no variation to notice this week, but all kinds have met with a d►nll sale. INDIGO. - The market for East India is in a dun state, and there are sellers in some cases rather under last sale's rates. Spanish is not much in request. This afternoon a public sale of 148 serons Guatemala went at a decline on former rates of 3d per lb, but nearly the whole sold : Cortes at is lid to 2s 9d,. Sobres 2s 9d to 3s sd, and Flores 3s 6d to 3s 11d. Oms.—This afternoon at public sale 95 pkgs of cocoa nut oil were sold at 48s to 56s 3d, and very low 435; 115 casks Palm, middling and goad 34s to 365, bleached. taken in at 41s; Sperm Oil is che&yer, but 195 tuns were sold at 831 to 864 Headmatter 841 to 074 of Southern 70 tuns sold at 2515 s to 271; of Sea 101ephant 100 stuns 24/ 5s to 261 10s. SITALLow.—This afternoon, at public sale, 139 pipes 35 hhds South American sold at 41s 6d to 48s for It tw to fine; 56 casks Australian 44s to 47s 6d; 100 casks Odessa 45s 6d to 46s 6d; 22 casks East India 45s 6d I;c4 46s 3d, which are all lower rates. BURGLARY AT BIRMINGHAM. An atrocious burglary occurred in this town yes.. terday morning. The premises lately occupied by Messrs. Hall, grocers, High-street, in the Bull-ring, have recently been taken by Mr- J. St. Losky, im porter and manufacturer of cigars, of No. 9, Bishops... gate-street-without, London. The house at present remains comparatively unfurnished, and Mr. St. Losky slept in the room behind the front shop. He retired to rest about half-past ten o'clOck yesterday night, and soon fell into a sound sleep. Abcut one o'clock in the morning on Thursday he was .disturbed by a noise in the shop or his bedroom, and ca,iling out " Who's there ?" he was immediately seized by the throat by a man whose figure he could discern by the feeble light which proceeded from the back w:j.ndow. Mr. St. Losky grappled with his antagonist, anal both fell to the floor. Both parties cried aloud for assist ance, and in an instant a companion of Mr. St. Losky's assailant rendered his fellow aid, when Me. St. Losky by strangulation and heavy blows on his head was rendered unable to offer any further resist ance to his assailants. The miscreants, conceiving that the cries of Mr. St. Losky had aroused some of the neighbours, made their escape through the back door. After some time Mr. St. Losky was enabled to make his way to the front in the Bull-ring, and the police, when all was over, having arrived, the premises were searched. It was then ascertaiv.ed that the burglars had packed up two carpet bag's of cigars ready for carrying off, and that they had succeeded in possessing themselves of about 301. in cash, with which they have escaped. Mr. St. Losky's person presented a most frightful object. His head was most dreadfully beaten, and his night-shirt saturated with blood. lie was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed. We are happy to state that, although serious, they are not considered to be dangerous. The be(3-room floor exhibited proof of a sanguinary struggle. There were pools of blood, and the walls stailned with bloody hand marks. The burglars left behii:kd them cloth boots of neat make, hats of high finish, one of which was trimmed with mourning crape, and two jackets, all of which are in excellent condition. Mr. St. Losky imagines that he can identify them as two , men who represented themselves as farmers, and who. on several occasions purchased articles at the shop.. The police, however, have no clue to the offenders.. The thieves are supposed to have entered through the grating of the cellar window in the Bull-ring. FAILURE OF THE ATTEMPT TO DRAW OFF THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A correspondent of the Souther* Reporter writes as follows :—" Dundrum Bay, Saturday Evening.—When I wrote to you two days ago of the Great Britain I little anticipated the unexpected result of this day's labour. Sorry am Ito acquaint you that it has proved a most signal and decided failure, in the broadest sense of the word. Though aided by a Govern ment steamer (the Birkenhead), of 600-horse power, yet they could not move her one solitary inch, whicb seems a most incomprehensible thing, as the officers who. conducted the experiment, engineers, &c., were so san guine of the result as to have all their luggage sent on board, so as to take a passage to Liverpool or Bristol in the ship. The conductors of the great experiment' have been most plentifully abused, and their abilities not a little questioned by the thousands who have been watching the result in almost breathless anxiety for the last four days. Indeed, after all that has been done, I am satisfied that no other like effort will be again tried, and that she will have to be broken up at once rather than be exposed to the effect of another winter on this iron-bound coast. Even the operation of taking her to pieces will be attended with vast expense, and must necessarily prove 'a heavy blow and great discourage-_ _ merit' to mercantile enterprise in building vessels o c f her class. It is altogether a most unfortunate affai r , uselessthis failure dis c u has ssi o n againo of through caused rough to what emri misfortune, e t fra h e ta t now ya, ill-judgment, or whatever other cause, she here. From the nature and obj ect of m y visit necessarilyconnected with a go dh o detrb ; and I t am deal in pn i e n c ati expectations clearlycommunicationofhf o erocleverwithpil was sio those n that builders she fully sat is fied b an os d in o e f ss h , heraprreoepsrtisebtalirl,ead a newand impo r tant nd would, but for h tisu era is steam navigation. Lieutenant Waghorn, who for some time has been engaged in organising a more extended steam commu nication with our Indian possessions, has just obtained a charter of incorporation for a new company, in cone junction with several eminent merchants. The route to be adopted, and which has been approved by the Board of Admiralty, is by the way of Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Batavia, Port Essington in Torres Straits. and thence by Wednesday Island to Sydney. It I calculated that Sydney will then be brought certainfzy. within 64 or 65 days, and probably within 6 13 0 days of London, and within 30 of India. The tim e In es : l 4 7 i vided:—from London to Singapore, 8,39 mu dlaoys days;; fro mandSinfrgoampore Portto Es Port s i en i s n to;_i_ yan 2 „t o e o y _ rf o .o m 2rm, i 3 leg i,_ miles, 12 days; total, 12,795 that, th t e o je De r will be no in 641 days. from Newcast e, e at 7s. to 7s. 6d. per toe, ton,wa boefinfgueslu, where the coal can be s shipped 22s. per ton; and another subject to a freight 0f . 20 . to papslisedlcitepiost can be f o rmed a w t s r o o u r t t h Ee Nv a al is t g e l: Le at b Lo o ansoboorckßoorrnt a v o t r a f t r o om b e k c e s p l t cu u t p t m so tig h m ß in r e i stish Main of FATHER MATHEW IN DERBY.—For some days past Father Mathew has been administering the tem perance pledge in the city and county of Derry, where, amidst the Protestant, Presbyterian, and Roman Catho lic population, he was m r . e p ee ., iv a e n d a w t i h th e great ßight c ß or e d v i o ali Dr ty.. n i iet t ghß eyp Or Roman co' Brien ,pr oceedings adTnini C gßs a E t o h En ol tT i h c ae ßishop, took part in the o occasion. M int M ar it e g r i o e nS s ß nin t u i h P information was r ece i ve d by thoneepposii.—ceYtefshi: terday t 3,0001. in Bank of England notes, namely, one of 1,0001., and four of 5001. each, had been stolen from No. 36, Half Moon-street, Mayfair. WASTE or CORN.—" What is the chief production of your district of country?" said an eastern traveller the other day to a young farmer in the Miami Valle* as he was refreshing himself with a glass of " bald fae s ? r, while the sta ge - cole h stoppe d t o wieer. 66 C (!s To the corn; we rais e o n our l an d a bo u t seventy buqr l t o gay acre, which we manufacture into whisky - , nothing of the quantity that is wasted Burritt's Christian Citizen. For some days THE WEATHER AND HARVEST.-- th • the weather has been rather variable t h h a a d n so heavy e fau sft this quarter. On Friday • l evening ac w ce e ptable elesihread!"— to theygar of rain, which was exceechng a p s ro a c l e s e o d s in h:w w - e i r t y h ; little but the cutting e e v l e t u a7es i t t i w s d on e n t e h r e . vOhno Saturday weather has preponderated; and interruption. Judging from what w e have seen of the field in this neighbourhood, we think that very little grain will be left standing by the end of the present w i nhT t e h an e t h b i h r Ai e e s ay t degree..- s g tTi t r iel o . a - lt - IL C it i ih ; n rn na b b r o i u c st iA t g e ft : v z• wee k ; and the crops of all kinds appear to be luxuriant e e r x ti c s e er p . tions, the parts of this county are suaiciettly ripe,o cut and cast;; but an old practice corn arrives ma.turity.2 i i n ns3.t t eu o a_ o ds, l o 7 i n ase y in ' ttl instances that of employing prevails riuomttbhesim, e n ;11 Fo e ,,,ir ta id, labour edsieti r0,7 ;: a 10 n1 n , 7 „ uodl a .l3l ; as e m r certain is now abroad vklii;h might have been stacked or housed. Two men only are frequ-ntly seen reaping or mowing, where four or six might be raoro profitably employed.— Essex Herald,