The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-15 00:00:00

Vi)trb Wibttlicon.

DON-CASTER RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The Municipal Stakcs.

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FRANCE.
The President of the Republic left Paris yesterday
(Tuesday) on his tour through the east and south of
France. At one o'clock he arrived at the terminus
of the Orleans Railway in an open carriage drawn by
four horses, accompanied by Marshal Jerome, his
uncle, General St. Arnaud, !Minister of War, and
General Goyon, his Aide de-Camp. The Presi-
dent's carriage was preceded and followed by bodies
of officers of Carabiniers, Cuirassiers, Dra-
goons, and Lancers, who had come from
Versailles and St. Cloud early in the morning to
request the favour of being allowed to accompany
him to the railway. General Mangan, Commander-
in-Chief of the army of Paris, all the Ministers
(with the exception of Messrs. Ducos and Magne,
who are absent on leave), the metropolitan authori-
ties, and all the Generals present in the capital,
awaited the arrival of the President to take leave of
him. As he alighted from his carriage he was
received by MM. Peraigny, de Maupas, and the
Prefect of Police. The people, who had assem-
bled in considerable numbers at the terminus,
saluted him with cries of " Vive Napoleon !" " Viva
l'Emp6reur !" At a quarter-past one o'clock the
President took his seat in the state carriage, with
the three Ministers of War, General Police, and
Public Instruction, and the different dignitaries of
his household, and shortly afterwards, the signal
having been given, the train moved off at full speed.
The official returns of the foreign commerce of
France now published, show that since the revolu-
tion of 1848 the exports have increased consider-
ably, whilst the imports have diminished from
1,200,000,000 f , in the year 1846, to 1,094,0p0,000!.
last year. This one fact shows that the country is
,00ceo0Oits
not yet relieved from the ruinous effects of
catastrophe of 1848. It must be furthertrie serves
collected
that France, from her geographical position,
as a passage for merchandize to other on,
counties, par-
ticularly to Switzerland. It is not surprisingi
_there-
fore that the merchandize transitu through France
last year should have amounted to 700,000,000 f. It
is further to be remarked, that the merchandize
passing through France to Belgium
184 w
hh
ial has t t
he
increaseda m
amount
übnyt
in transitu to
33 per cent. since the year
England has decreased The
efollowityg 2aBreptehreceimnt
within the same period.
ports and exports of France from and to the principal
countries in the world during the last year :
Imports,. Exports.
F.
England... -• ... 69,000,000 293,000,000
'United States ... 110,000,000 145,000,000
Belgium ••• ••• 114,000,000 123,000,000
Sardinia ••• ... 74 000,000 59,000,000
Spain ... 27,000 000 54,000,000
Switzerland •
23,000,000 55,000,000
Germa-ny
••• 33,000,000 44,000,000
Turkey
• 34,000,000 20,000,000
It appears from those returns that, with the excep-
tion of Sardinia and Turkey, from which countries
the imports exceed the exports, that French produce
exported to foreign countries exceeds the amount of
produce demanded in return. Oa further examina-
tion it appears, that of the 1,694 millions' worth of
merchandize imported into Fruoce last year, 687 mil-
lions are articles of primary necessity. Of the exports
68 hundredths are mlnufi.ctured goods, such as
cotton and woollen cloths and dressed skins, and 32
hundredths are natural produce, such as corn and wine.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MeecnesTarn TUESDAY.—According to the Ca-
nada's advices cotton remained dull down to the Ist
inst. in all the markets of the United States. We
have now, however, accounts of more serious mischief
to the crop from rain, caterpillars, and worms, than
those previouali received ' • but they principally relate
to the Atlantic States and Florida. The storm was se-
vere at New Orleans, and appears to have been of a de-
structive character at Mobile. In the great cotton dis-
tricts of the south, the promise still is for a large yield.
Last week, with no drawback from the favourable
probabilities as to supply, there was a flagging in the
spirit of speculation at Liverpool, and a drooping
tendency in the market up to the close of business on
Saturday. Yesterday, however, there was some
degree of reaction, which appears to have been con-
tinued to-day ; and the loss up to Friday seems to
have been recovered, as prices are reported 1-16 d. to
d. higher than they were then. The reports of
mischief to the cotton crop, vague as they are
at present, are received with much more caution
here than amongst our more excitable neigh-
bours ; and, therefore, their whole effect amounts
to no more than an increnee of firmness in the
rr of jarin., while in cloth not even this is
perceptible. In the former, there was a tendency
last week, similar to that which affected the raw
material, and which appeared likely to throw an ad-
vantage, in the present week, into the hands of buyers.
That result has been prevented. The market has, in
a great degree, recovered its tone ; and spinners hold
to their quotations with a firmer hand. Twist and
weft, from 28's upwards, for home manufacture, are
particularly hard ; and for the better qualities of 40's
mule, in the bundle, higher prices are paid. We can
scarcely say, however, that the general feeling was
quite so good in the latter as in the earlier part of the
(21: The value of printing cloths continues to be
well sustained. In domestics, T's, and long cloths
there is no change. India goods ere still dull.
E
ROCHDAL M , OriDAY.—The flannel market has
been rather quieter to-day, and the merchants have
purchased mere sparinglyet than on the previous week.
Broke wool continues
very scarce, and high prices
are asked for it, which they
manufacturers can ill afford
to pay at the prices they are now receiving for their
pieces.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have little to add
to eur remarks of last week. The state of trade with
more satisfactor than
past,our manufacturers continues
fcr some months past,and the Weavers are better em-
ployed. Thrown Silks—There has been a moderate de-
mand, both from the trade here and for exportation.
The mills are all working full time, but as the silks
in progress are mostly fine and tedious
to work,
.
there is no a-.!cutoulatioq of stock. The complaints
are general that hands are scarce in this department
this also applies to the neighbouring town of Congle-
;
last
to
enter
reported
ton. Raw Silks—The market remains in the same
uncertain and inactive state as we
it. The trade evidently are indisposed
into any operations further than for immediate use.
few
HALIFAX SATUEDAL—Verworsted goods
y
have changed hands in cur
piece-hall to-day, con-
and the
business in the warehouses is also in a languid
dition. The yarn trade has not experienced any
noticeable change. There is a good deal doing, prin-
cipally for the shipping houses, but at prices that are
not remunerative to the spinner. The wool market
is quiet, without any alteration in the quotations.
Short wools, especially the lower sorts, are fetching
hig her prices.
TIUDDEZSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The market here has
heea languid to-day. Although there have been a
fair number of bay era in town their purchases have
11:e:. heel, large. Sbippers hav,i been busy during the
ut
for the Spain American end continental
bmarket,. A fair quantity of goods have been stirring,
tnwly deliveries to order.

FREN-ea
Th,foikmi,,, RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
eeipta of the pi;inare9 the last returns of the gross re-
NoßTlFEltiki. ~.iPal French Railways :--
i g00de%?r,,Aug...06 to Sept. 1: Passengers,
432,002 f.
BouEN.,_prota 4,..'-'9E; total, 707,061 f.
159,344 t.; goo 3, 5,,9:2't,,2.9 to Sept. 4: Passengers,
rllO ,933 f.
A.4.419t4"41, 258.612 f.
HAVR.E.—From
Sept. 4: Passeiwrs,
62,134 f.; pods, 48 849 f. ; totte:
ORLEANS AND BRANett
Sept. 4: Passengers, 335,082es—From Aug. 29 to
596,3071. goods, 261,225 f.; total,
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STuAsBURG —From Aug. 26 to
304,844 L; goods, 157,253 t.; total, 4621);;: Passengers,
BALE.---FrOM Aug. 23 to Aug. 29-4.1.
42.410 f.; goods, 24,078 f. total, 66,488 f. Passengers,
MONTEREAu.—Froat Aug. 26 to Sept.
17041 f.; goods, 14,4481. ; tutal, 31,489 f. 3asengors.
lams.— From Aug. 29 to St pt. 4 passe
299.999 f.; good:4, 152,314 f.; total, 452,313 F. Passengers,
WESTEBN.—From Aug. 30 to Sept. 5: Passe
109,1841.; goods, 13,160 f.; total, 122,344 t. Passengers,'

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. - TralEc for
the week ending Sept. 11, 1852:—
Passengers (23,630), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. 44,060 7 0
Corresponding week in last year 4,526 4 7

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.--
this company, at a meeting held on the 4th inst.,
recommend to their half-yearlyshareholdersedateao
dividend at the rate of three per cent. per annum for
past half-year. resolved
THE LAST ICARCS.--A man, residing in the Rue
for
Quincampoix, formerly the porter of an hotel, who has some time been possessed of the idea that he could imitate
Icarus, and fly in the air, on Friday profited, by the absence
of the person appointed to watch over him, and endeavoured
meeting
of
to carry out his design by flying frem the window, which was
on the fourth floor. He fell into the court-yard, and was
killed on the spot.
THE MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVRIIPOOL.—ThoMaS
Yates was brought up, on Monday, before Mr. Statham,
deputy-coroner, on a charge of murdering GraceJ
fifty-seven years (a brief account of which aearedaged
in '
The Sun of yesterday). After hearing the evidenppones,
ce of the
surgeon, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
the Prisoner, and he was committed to gaol to await his
trial at the next ass.zee.

THE SUN,

SOUTR-E ASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
_

The following is the report of the directors to be
presented at the half-yearly general meeting to be
held on Thursday next :
The accounts of the South-Eastern and Continental
Steam-packet Company, now submitted to the pro-
prietors, show that the gross receipts of the half-
year ending on the 31st of July have been 14,2811.
4s. Bd. ; the working expenses 5,7071. 14s. 3d. ;
the cost of repairs, 3,141/. 10s.; and the
port charges, 1,3441. 1 ls. 2d. ; making a total charge
against revenue of 10,1931. 15s. 6d.; and leaving a
balance of 4,0871. 9s. 3d. of net earnings during the
half-year at the disposal of the proprietors. The
number of miles navigated by the steam-ships during
the half-year was 17,192. A fixed service between
Dover and Calais, in conjunction with trains
leaving London at 8.10 A.M., and Paris
7.30 A.M., commenced on the Ist July; the
Northern of France Railway having engaged to pay
towards the cost of this service a subvention of 10/. per
diem for twelve months from that period. The daily
tidal service between Folkestone and Boulogne is
d some-
performed, as usual, once a day each way,
times twice a day each way,
securing the passage
through between London and Paris by that route
daily, in twelve hours. It is satisfactory to the direc-
tors to be enabled to state that the traffic in merchan-
dize is on the increase. The freight derived from this
source for the last half-year was 1,2781.65. The direc-
tors recommend that a dividend be declared at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, the company paying
the income-tax, which will leave a balance in hand of
1,1871. 14s. 11d.; and this sum the directors recom-
mend should be carried to the credit of the reserve fund.
And this being done, the result will be that the com-
pany have paid up capital to the amount of 109,398/. ;
mtheayry,
, possess eight steam-ships, viz., the Princess
Princess Maude, the Queen of the Bel-
gians, the
the Queen of the French, the Prince Ernest,
the Princess Clementine, the Princess Helena, and the
Lord Warden, which cost, at the original contract
price, 114,5931. 6s. 6d. ; there has been laid out on
these ships in repairs and in improvements,
42,4171. ss. I ld., and they have been and are
maintained in substantial and perfect order. The
company will have paid in dividends from
July,
1845, to July 31, 1852, the sum of 49,263/. 125.,
making an average of 51. 17s. ld. per cent. per an-
num; and, in addition to the • eight steam-ships, they
have a surplus property amounting to 22,9891. 3s. 4d.
in consequence of the death of the late Mr. Benjamin
larding, and the retirement of other trustess, it will
be desirable for the proprietors to appoint additional
trustees at the ensuing meeting. It will be in the re-
collection of the proprietors that the South-Eastern
and Continental Steam-Packet Company was origi-
nated by the South-Eastern Railway Company.
The directors of the railway company had seen the
absolute necessity which existed for establishing
and maintaining an efficient system of intercourse,
by steam-ships of the first class, between the South-
Eastern Railway and the ports of France and Bel-
gium, and in November, 1843, the then directore
recommended to the proprietors of that company,
that they should themselves prepare to supply the
means of carrying on that system of intercourse in
the ;most efficient manner, in default of its being
provided by private enterprise ; and finding that
they could not command steam-ships of a superior
class, and the performance of an efficient service
by other means, the railway company contracted for
two steam-ships, which were delivered to them,
and for three others which were in progress of con-
struction and partly paid for before this company was
formed. The law, however, does not permit railway
companies to hold property in steam-ships unless by
special Act of Parliament, and no such Act of Par-
liament having then passed, the necessity arose for the
establishment of this company, and a circular was is-
sued to the proprietors of the South-Eastern Railway
inviting them to provide capital for purchasing the
steam-boats under the following assurance :-1t is
proposed so to regulate the fares of the steam-boats in
conjunction with the South-Eastern Railway as to in-
sure a net return of Si. per cent. per annum on the
paid-up capital of the South-Eastern and Continental
Steam-packet Company.' This company was, therefore,
thus constituted on the assurance given by the circular,
and also by the chairman and directors of the railway
company, to its proprietors, that the dividend on the
shares would be always five per cent. per annum, with
the contingency of any increase that might happen,
that increase being subject to the discretion or the
governing boards—the directors of the two compa-
nies being the same. Subsequently to the forma-
tion of this company, Parliamentary autho-
rity has been given to other railway com-
panies to become owners of steam-ships, and the di-
rectors have felt it to be their duty to call the atten-
tion of the proprietors of the railway, as well as the
proprietors of the steam-packet company, to the
anomalous position in which the two companies now
stand. The proprietors of the steam-packet company
have no authority by their deed of settlement to em-
ploy their steam-ships except in carrying traffic
between the South-Eastern Railway and the conti-
nental ports, and are thus entirely subservient to the
great interests of the South-Eastern Railway com-
pany_ The law having now sanctioned the direct
ownership of steam-ships by railway companies, it
is obvious that the time has come when the rela-
tions of the two companies should be placed upon a
permanent basis. The South-Eastern Railway
Company, at their general meeting, held on the
9th instant, authorised the directors to negotiate terms
with the steam-packet company for the purchase of
the steam-ships, on the condition that such terms
should be submitted to a future meeting of that com-
pany for their consideration ; and they associated with
the directors a committee of five proprietors to con-
sider and report upon the terms to be proposed. The
directors suggest to the proprietors of the South-
ilastern and Continental Steam-packet Company that
it will be expedient on their part to associate a com-
mittee of five proprietors with the directors for the
purpose of negotiating terms for the consolidation of
the interests of the two companies.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUILUER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1852.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*258
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 44
Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ... 180
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 90
D:seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
••• 40
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... •... 102
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion
,„„ ••• ••• ~•• „.. 53
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• • ... ,„
Childbsr6h, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. „, S
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ...
Diseases of the Skin, &c. •••
Malformations.— ...
••• ••• 1.1.•

_ _ _ ___
Prevezture Birth ••• ••• •• ••• ••• 26
Atrophy ..• ••• ••• ••• 32
Old Age
••• ••• ••• 30
tiudders ... •• • •• • •• • •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 44
Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• 3
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AT-8 FRoX ALL CALIF'S 936
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
F.nureerated, sponding week in the
West Districts... 87185" of WI. Weei,.
.. 147 ... 130
North Districts_ 4960,427
Central Districts 393t9566
East Districts ... 485,522 ...:
:15012: ...,..• 211931
mouth Districts.. 616,635
••• 304 ... 217
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..... 2,362,236
1,026 ••• 936
Blales
•••
Fem.%lcs ... 491
••• ••• 445