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London, England, 1838-09-01 00:00:00

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flag ship; Victory, 104, ordinary guard shi , xcellent,
gunnery ship ; Royal George, yacht ; Pantaloon, 10 ; and
Fanny and Gossamer, tenders.
In the Basin—The Hastings, 74, fitting for .he reception of
the Queen Dowager ; Actwln, 28, for Scuth America; and
the Orestes, 18, for the coast of Africa.
In Dock—The Messenger, steam transport.
At Spithead—The Edinburgh, 74, at present fitting a shell-
room, and destined to accompany the Hastings to Malta ;
the Pique, 36, awaiting orders; the Gorgon steam frigate, for
the North Coast of Spain ; and the Stakesby, transport.
ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, &c. DURING THE WEEK.
On Saturday, the 25th, sailed the Tribune, 24, for Lisbon ;
and on Sunday arrived the Seaflower cutter, from Sheerness.
On Wednesday, the 29th, arrived the Gossamer, tender, fi cm
Plymouth, with Supernumeraries. Oa Thursday, the 30th,
arrived the Firebrand, steam 'vessel, from Milford ; and the
Stakesby, transport, from the Eastward. - On Friday, the
31st, arrived the Gorgon, steam frigate, from the Eastward;
sailed the Firebrand, steam vessel, for Woolwich ; the Sea-
cower, cutter, for Jersey, to protect the oyster fishery.

We have not bad any thing of great moment going on here
during the past week. An attetript Las been made to blow op
the wreck of the Boyne. It was constructed by Mr. Abb;nett,
who placed a cylinder, containing 'about five hundred
pounds of powder, near her, which en exploding sent
up a column of water to the height of about twenty feet, and
some considerable quantity of fish, but no large portion of the
wreck ; however, as it is to lie fairly supposed that her tim-
bers have become embedded in the mud, &c., the full effect
of the explosion will only be ascertained when an opportunity
offers of Mr. Abbinett's inspection by the means of his
diving apparatus. The Gorgon will take the old Venerable
in tow to Plymouth, when the former will proceed to the
north coast of Spain, and the latter be broken up ; she
now lays alongside the Jetty, jury-rigged, respectable even
in her last days, for with her, it has been a life well and ho-
nourably spent. The Atalanta has b. en the steam-boat hired
for the transport of troops between this and Jersey ; she will
sail this evening for nat island, with part of the 47th Regi-
ment on board, and will also take her usual number of passen-
gers, as she is a regularly established packet.

RESPITE OF THE TWO FEMALES
ORDERED FOR EXECUTION AT CHESTER
ON SATURDAY (THIS DAY.)

At a vestry meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's held
on Wednesday evening last for the purpose of petitioning her
most Gracious Majesty for a commutation of the extrem? sen-
tence of the law on Dinah Jones and Rachacl Mitchell, con-
victed at the last assizes before Mr. Baron Gurney of the
crime of infanticide, it was resolved that every possible exer-
tion should be used to obtain the signatures of the inhabitants,
and that a deputation should wait upon the Home Secretary
with the same. After the meeting dissolved, more than twenty
of the parishioners, who had attended and advocated the cause
of the two unhappy females, canvassed the parish, and in
less than three hours obtained 740 signatures, amongst
whom were most of the influential inhabitants of the parish.
The petition with the signatures was forwarded 11 et; rasa
(as no time was to be lost) to the Isle of Wight, wuere Lord
John Russel is at present sojourning. In the meantime the
greatest possible exertions were making at Chester to prevent
the extreme penalty of the law upon the two wretched
young women. The Mayor, with a deputation, consisting
of the principal inhabitants, assembled for the purpose of wait-
ing upon the Learned Judge, whose painful duty it it had been
to adjudge the criminals to suffer. They, however, received
no satisfactory answer, as the petition was necessarily com-
pelled to be forwarded to the Home Secretary.
Yesterday evening Mr. Wilks, one of the churchwardens,
and Mr. Simpson, of St. Martin's, waited upon Mr Capper
at the Home Secretary's Office, when that gentleman in-
formed them that the petition had reached the Queen, who
had immediately called a Privy Council upon the subject, the
result of which had been (after a conference of near an hour)
that the two females should be respited during her Royal
pleasure; the happy intelligence was instantly forwarded to
the authorities at Chester, and will reach that city more than
two hours before the time appointed for the execution.

LONDON AND SOUTHAMPTON

RAILWAY.

The eighth half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of this Company was held yesterday at the City of London
Tavern, JOHN EASTHOPE, Esq., M. P. in the Chair.
The minutes of the last half-yearly mee:ing having been
read and confirmed,
The SECRETARY read the Report, which showed a receipt of
1,247,795/. 4s. 4d., and an outlay of 1,241,276/. 19s. 4d.,
leaving a balance in hand of 6,516/. ss. It also congratulated
the proprietors upon the unexpected success of the undertak-
ing, so far as it has yet been opened—it had only reached to
Woking-common, which was a terminus situated neither near
any large town nor did it approach any of the great lines of
road, yet the passenger traffic had greatly exceeded the esti-
mates laid before Parliamcnt.

" During the t‘N elve weeks up to the 12th instant there
have beet, carried 93,795 passengers. The amount received
has been 11,0591. 17s. 3d.
" Of these were carried, during the first four weeks, 29,127;
being a daily average of 1,040 passengers. Amount received,
3,08 A 18s. 11 d.
" During the second four weeks there were carried 31,585 ;
being a daily average of 1,128 passengers. Amount received,
3,7551. Os. Bd.

" And there were carried during the third four week s
33,083 ; being a daily average of 1,181 passengers. Amount
received, 4,2181. 17s. 71d.
" Thus showing a steady gradual increase of traffic.
" As respects a more extended opening of the line, the
directors meet the proprietors on equally satisfactory grounds.
But fur the hindrances which experience proves to be insepa-
rable from the completion of extensive works, the directors
would have so far exceeded their former promises as to have
this day congratulated the proprietors on that further opening
which, by the Roport of the 28th February last, it was con-
fidently hoped to effect during the autumn of the present
year.' As it is, the Directors have fixed the 18th of next
month for that opening. Tbis opening will take the Railway
to Shapley, which is within a short distance of the great
south-western road. The embankments between that point
and Basingstoke will be finished before the close of the pre-
sent year, and the rails (which are already contracted for)
will be laid so as to open the line to that town, or farther,
very early in the spring.

‘-‘ The works between Basingstoke and Winchester are pro-
ceeding, with great energy. The zeal and ability of the con-
tractor are, from previous experience, known to he such as to
afford the greatest confidence to the Directors in the progress
of the works intrusted to him.

" The works between Winchester and Southampton are in
a vtry advanced state : the Directors have not yet determined
whether it will be expedient to open that part of the line be-
fore the coming winter.
" The Proprietors are perhaps aware that the traffic has, up
to the present time, been confined to the conveyance of pas-
sengers. No goods or cattle have been carried along the rail-
way : the means for so doing are in active preparation.
" In conformity with the resolution passed at the general
half•yearly meeting held in February last, the Directors have
caused a survey to be made for a branch line to Portsmouth
and Gosport, and have also taken the necessary steps for ap-
plying to Parliament next Session for leave to make that line;
and they recommend the Proprietors now to adopt such reso-
lutions as will enable the Directors of the London and South.
ampton Railway to complete that design."
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, recapitulating
and dilating upon the facts stated in the Report, and stating
that be and his brother Directors were anxious for the full, st
enquiry into their conduct, and therefore he was ready to
anwer any question that might be put to him.
The Report was ordered to be received, printed, and circu-
lated amongst the Proprietors.
The second resolution, which was in the following terms,
" That in pursuance of the preparatory and preliminary pro-
ceedings, already authorised, for extending a branch of this
railway to Portsmouth or Gosport, both or either, the Directors
he now authorised and requested to adopt such measures and
to enter into such a. rangements as they shall deem expedient
for procuring the necessary capital and obtaining the sanction
of Parliament thereto," was then read, and carried unani-
mously.

Bye-laws founded upon those of the London and Birming-
ham Railway Company were then agreed to, and in answer to
a question from a Proprietor,
The CHAIRMAN said the Company had not yet been applied
to by the Post-office to carry the mails, and he trusted the
authorities of that office would excuse them until the spring.
After a vote of thanks to the Directors the meeting sepa-
rated.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR

THE WEEK.

(From the Gardeners' Gazette.)
Syringe all plants in the stove that have the least indication
of the red spider or aphis.
Admit a good deal of air daily into stove and greenhouse,
and the conservatories in which plants aro in the ground
should be literally uncovered if possible.
Fresh potting should be continued as fast as any of the rpots
fill the old ones.
Persons desirous of raising new fruits or stocks should pre-
serve stones, seeds, and kernels, for the gurpose of sowing.
Trench all pound intended for the planting out of young
trees or shrubs.
Weed seedlings of all kinds, neglect in this particular with
young plants will often totally destroy them.
Plant all autumnal flowering bulbs.
Cut up weeds in gravel walks.
musts, Wall-flowers,
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de r so,u twon yeareither Stocks,
andiseßiennials '
generally,
to remain for flowering or to grow into strength for moving
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into borders at the proper time.
Sow Auriculas, Ranuneulas, Anemonies, Tulips, and seeds
of bulbs generally.
Pipings of Pinks may be planted out.
Clear Vines of all useless shoots : even those which have
bees done require it again.
Gather herbs to dry.
Sow Cauliflower seed, Brom'', &c.
Sow Carrots to stand the winter : also Onions for winter and
spring drawing.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
department from the Government of South Australia.

PIRIT OF TitE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

from a vassal of the Sultan the recognition of sovereign
rights, and made use of her pretended alliance with Great
Britain to exclude our commerce, shipping and manufac-
tures from Morocco to Tunis, and from the Mediterranean
to the Niger. In the reply of the Prime Minister to Lord
Lyndhurst's exposition, it was stated that the difference
which had arisen with the French Government " was now
a matter of negociation." What other negociation is re-
quired than the presence of a British frigate permanently
stationed at Portendic ? If, as Lord Palmerston is com-
pelled to admit in the presence of the representatives of
England, the rights of England are unquestionable, what
possible excuse can be alleged for his conniving in the pro-
hibition by France of an intercourse through which alone
the manufactures of this country may be enabled to with-
stand the successful competition of foreign industry, but
too fatallyestbliehedin every quarter of the Globe?—Times.
The resolutions of the Postage Committee of the late
Session, which we published on Wednesday from a provin-
cial paper, will have been read, we doubt not, with some
surprise by those who take an interest in this important
subject. It certainly will not tend to increase the reputa-
tion of the " Reformed" House of Commons for capacity
to watch over the business concerns of the country, when
it comes to be generally known that one of its Committees
had passed a resolution in favour of an uniform rate of
postage for the whole of the United Kingdom. The many,
perhaps, will pass this resolution over, not understanding
exactly what it means ; but when they learn that the Com-
mittee has resolved that the distance which a letter is
carried shall make no difference in the charge for car-
rying it, and that whether a man live at Edmonton, or
at Edinburgh, he ought, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, to pay precisely the same sum for the carriage of a
letter from London, they will then, we think, agree with
us that the persons who came to such an opinion can have
been little short of crazy. We know that in adopting this
opinion the Committee has merely followed the example of a
gentleman of the name of Hill, who has published an in-
genious pamphlet, containing some important truth, mixed
up with a vast deal of positiveness and extravagance. But
the thing to be complained of is that persons in the situation
of Members of Parliament should have so little sense of the
importance of what they do, and of the care they should
take before adopting any startling theory, as to be led away
by this strange crotchet of Mr. Hill. We do not blame him
for putting this odd idea into a pamphlet, for that does not
signify much, and the more queer the idea started, the more
probability there was of its obtaining some notoriety,
which was perhaps the principal thing that Mr. Hill de-
sired. But the resolutions of a Committee of the House
of Commons do signify much, or ought to do so, unless
that branch of the Legislature is to sink into utter con-
tempt ; and we therefore cannot help lamenting that a ma-
jority of the members of the Post-office Committee were
so silly as to be led away by the most extravagant crotchet
of all Mr. Hill's extravagant and crotchetty pamphlet.
The Government is much to blame in this. Tl-. 0 Ministers
in the House of Commons ought not to have been so far
afraid of Mr. Wallace, the meddling Member for Greenock,
as to allow him to obtain a Committee for considering the
plans proposed in a pamphlet. They thought, no doubt,
that by putting a Lord of the Treasury on the Committee,
they might manage the affair their own way, without offend-
ing Mr. Wallace. But they were mistaken. That gentle-
man, with the very best intentions, but with a fidgetty desire
to be useful, which amounts in his case to a disease, turned out
utterly unmanageable ; and we have reason to believe that
Lord Seymour, after having taken very great pains with
the business before the Committee, and after having pre-
pared a report in which the evidence was very elaborately
condensed and arranged, found himself obliged to abandon
the Committee in disgust before it had concluded its la-
bours. Will the Scotch Journal, which has been so obliging
as to anticipate the printer of the House of Commons, by
giving to the public the resolutions of the Committee, add
to the general information by printing the resolutions pro-
posed by Lord Lowther, or the report prepared by Lord
Seymour ? Let this be done, and the public will then see
the difference between the judgments of men accustomed
to the consideration of important affairs, and the crud,
conceits of fuming, fretting, fussy speculators, who deal with
public matters as if they thought the management of Go-
vernment was like the management of a chandler's shop.
We are very well aware—no one more so—of the
very great expediency of a reform in Post-office affairs. We
believe that the rate of postage is pitched much too high,
both with reference to public convenience, and the produc-
tiveness of the revenue. The existing rules with regard to
double and treble postages in this country are preposterous,
and the abuses—not to say the wholesale uselessness of the
franking system—require to be reformed with a bold and
skilful hand. But the greatest obstacle in the way of
sound improvement is to be found in such mere extrava-
gance as the late Committee has thought proper to adopt
from Mr. Hill's pamphlet, beginning with a resolution in
f ivour of an uniform rate of postage as sung ea the state
of tae revenue will admit of risking a large temporary
reduction." They propose that the rate shall not
only be uniform, but that it shall be only a penny
per half ounce weight, which is about twice the weight
of an ordinary single letter. This they resolve, though
it is clear that, at the present number of letters, that
charge would not pay the expences, even supposing
the public revenue from postage to be wholly abandoned,
and though the instruction to the Committee was to con-
sider what improvements might be introduced without
detriment to the present amount of revenue. Mr. Hill has
entered into calculations to show that the difference of cost
between sending a letter to Edmonton or to Edinburgh is
so small as not (upon each letter) to be measured by any
existing coin. Therefore he would make no difference in
the charge, and this precious logic the Committee adopts.
Mr. Hill, however, has not shown that the expense to the
Post-office of sending a mail to Edinburgh is not appreciably
greater than that of sending it to Edmonton. We repeat
that the Government has been much to blame in allowing
the important subject of Post-office Reform to get into such
hands as the majority of the late Committee. If Mr.
Sprino. Rice wants any confirmation of this opinion, let him
ask Lord Soy mour.—Morning Post.

We have autherily to state, that the Rev. Dr. Hook
has not been deprived of his Chaplaincy, nor directed not
to preach in his turn at the Chapel Royal ; nor has any
notice whatsoever been taken of any sermon which he may
have delivered there.—Morning Chronicle.
" Out of the frying-pan into the fire." The Tories af-
ford a fine illustration of the folly of which this old saw is a
homely but vivid image. The frying-pan represents Irish
Corporation Reform ; the fire is the Corn-Exchange, into
which the Tories have leaped to escape the "ignes minores"
of legitimate and Constitutional excitement. Lest the
sun of liberty should scorch them, they rush into the flames
of agitation to be grilled and roasted. That the country
should feel the kindly glow of freedom is nottobeborne ; and
to prevent such a horror they hesitate not to embroil it in
thefiercest heats of popular commotion. What an odd fish
Toryism is, to prefer being broiled on the live coals, to
the moderated fervour of the comfortable pan. Supposing
the excitement of legally constituted bodies to be an evil,
still there is in the conduct of the Tories a neglect of the
common wisdom which of two evils prescribes the selection
of the lesser. One would say that a Catholic Alderman
was a less formidable person than a Catholic incendiary ; a
Catholic Alderman would have something to do besides
exciting and haranguing ; while the sole business of a Ca-
tholic incendiary being agitation, he can devote his entire
time and energies to that employment. There must and
will be Catholic agitators until there are Catholic Al-
dermen ; but a Catholic Alderman once created removes
one of the motives to agitation, and renders the Catholic
agitator at least one degree less powerful and less alarm-
ing. The folly of the Tory leap from the frying-pan of
free municipalities into the blazing fire of renewed
agitation would not be altogetherso foolish, were
it not that this is a fire unquenchable until the free muni-
cipalities are constituted. And the Tories ought to know
this better than any other party in the State. Can they
have forgotten how they extinguished the great fire that
blazed at the Corn Exchange in the years 1828 and 1829?
Only by taking the course which the foolish fish in the pro-
verb did not take, and preferring the frying-pan to the
fire. But another recommendation of the frying-pan is the
high degree of probability, indeed the certainty, that the
fire will go down, or subside at least to a very tolerable de-
gree of heat, if the prudent side of the alternative be
adopted. The flame that is inextinguishable at the Corn
Exchange would partake far less of the vestal quality were
it transferred to the town-halls of reformed corporations,
and cooled and tempered by the forms of law and the in-
c‘itable routine of municipal business. The example of our
English Corporations might satisfy the Tories that legally-
constructed bodies, even though framed upon popular prin-
ciples, are not in the highest degree retentive of the
heat of party. The Associations at the Corn Exchange
are the bodies that retain heat in perfection, while at the
same time they possess the property of propagating in-
flammation all around them. We shall have more poli-
tical excitement from a single week's working of the new
Precarsor Society than fifty municipal corporations, of the
most liberal fabric, would produce in a twelvemonth. And
the excitement, the Tories may be certain, will not be
limited to the capital, but will spread through the provinces
with the velocity peculiar to the flame kindled by insult
and injustice. The Tories must not flatter themselves
that, by submitting to a college of agitation in Dublin,
they avoid the dangers of schools of agitation through the
country ; for, they may depend upon it, the college founded
by Mr. O'Connell will prove the" alma mater" of a flourish-
ing progeny of provincial seminaries. It is in vain for the
Tories to say, we will not agree to Municipal Reform,
because it will lead to violent popular excitement :
whether it will -or not is matter of speculation ; but
it is no matter of speculation, but matter of fact, that
withholding Municipal Reform leads to that formidable
result. Normal schools of agitation established by law
may be great evils, but when we find that we must have
normal schools of agitation, with the law or without the
law, the objection to a law for establishing such schools
loses all validity. We are far from denying that there are
conceivable circumstances in which even a good measure of

Irish Municipal Reform might lead to results such as the
Tories anticipate : we are confident that were the Tories
to come into office, and, playing the same unprincipled
game which they played on the question of Catholic Eman-
cipation, carry the identical Corporation Bill which they
now oppose so strenuously, or even a still broader and
more satisfactory measure, we are confident, we say, that
anything but a state of political quiescence would result
from it. Such a measure, carried like emancipation,
by a party unconvinced of its justice and wisdom, and only
influenced by the sense that further resistance *.o it, would
be impolitic and dangerous, could not posibly have a heal-
ing or sedative operation ; but, on the contrary, the people
of Ireland would have Another proof that no public object
is attainable in that country except through the instru-

e mentality of the system of tactics entitled agitation ; and if
it were at all practicable to construct an agitating ma-
chinery out of the new municipal institutions, we may be
tolerably certain the prophecy of the " normal schools"
would be fulfilled. The Tories in office would have no
choice between frying-pan and fire : the pan and the fire
would be equally disagreeable. In this case it would not
be "out of the frying-pan into the tire," but the contrary—
out of the fire into the frying-pan, but a frying-
pen red hot—out of the peril of agitation into the peril
of reluctant and compulsory concession—out of the Corn
Exchange into the identical Municipal Reform which they
detest so cordially, and which, unquestionably, passed by a
Tory Ministry, would be only a new incentive to popular
movements. The Scripture says well, " those that are evil
cannot give good gifts." Most true is this with reference
to parties. An evil party like the Tories cannot pass good
measures. The evil of the giver cleaves to the gift. An
Act of Parliament has a letter and a spirit ; and it is not
enough that the letter should he remedial, unless the spirit
be so also ; and the spirit of an Act (in the most important
sense of the term) is the spirit of the Government by which
it is proposed. A measure of relief passed in a spirit of
oppression removes the grievance, but leaves behind the
f. silted and bitter feeling which the grievance generated.—
Morning Chronicle.
Amongst the violations of our commercial and maritime
rights enumerated by Lord Lyndhurst as justifying the
appeal of the commercial towns to the Queen and the
House of Lords, not the least important, as illustrating the
collusion of her Majesty's servants with the Russian faction
in the Cabinet of Louis Philippe, are the transactions on
the western coast of Africa. It appears from the speech
of Lord Lyndhurst, that so long ago as 1834 two British
merchant vessels, the Industry and the Governor Temple,
whilst trading with the Trazars, a native population exer-
cising the rights of sovereignty on the coast, were forcibly
seized by a French ship of war, on the plea of
a pretended infraction of existing treaties between
France and England, and that these vessels have
been since appropriated by the French Marine, with-
out any legal form of procedure and adjudication.
In the present case the amount of the loss to the
owners is not " merely 100 tons of salt," but cargoes va-
lued at 100,0001., and the prospect of a valuable introduc-
tion of our manufactures amongst the numerous tribes in
the interior of Africa. The national importance of our
trade with the country of the Trazars, as producing a su-
perior quality of gum, indispensable in almost every branch
of manufacture, has been so highly appreciated by Holland,
and successively by France and England, that the liberty
of trading with the ports on the coast of Senegal formed a
separate condition in the treaties of peace between France
and England, not only at the conclusion of the seven
years' war, but subsequently at the peace of 1783,
when the loss of our American possessions rendered
peace an object desirable upon almost any terms, consist-
ent with our national honour and our imprescriptible
commercial rights. The 9th article of the treaty of
1783 states—" As to the gum trade, the English shall
have the liberty of carrying it on from the mouth of
the river St. John to the bay and fort of Portendic in-
clusively, provided that they shall not form any permanent
settlement, of what nature scever, in the said river St.
John, upon the coast, or in the bay of Portendic." Du-
ring the late war with France, England recovered posses-
sion of the Senegal and the western coast of Africa, and
subsequently to the treaty of 1814 France has claimed
the restitution of her former possessions in virtue of the Bth
article of the treaty of Paris, which restores to France" the
colonies and fisheries, factories and establishments of every
kind, which were possessed by France on the Ist of Janu-
ary, 1792, in the seas and on the continents of America,
Asia, and Africa." As the French destroyed their es-
tablishment at Portendic in 1787, it is doubtful whether,
under the terms of the treaty of Paris, they have any
legal right:whatever to the re-occupation of Portendic, but
under no possible pretence can they claim the right
of excluding us from
"the liberty of carrying on the
gum trade," which was secured to us by the treaty
of 1783. The explanation of the, conduct of the British
Government given by her MajestySs Secretary oftate for
Foreign Affairs, when the subject was brought before the
House of Commons by Dr. Lusbinaton in May last, in-
serted, together with the justification of the French autho-
rities, in another portion of our columns, may enable the
commercial communities of Great Britain to estimate how
far they may reckon on the maintenance of their rights
in the innumerable questions which may be expected to
arise from similar aggressions on the part of France.
on the coasts of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and
Pacific shores of Mexico, and the coasts of Chili and
d
Buenos Ayres. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State distinctly admits, in the House of Commons at
least, the justice of the claims of the owners to in-
demnity for the losses to which they have been ex-
pose], and allows three years to elapse during which the
honour of England and the rights of her citizens have been
openly violated on a continent in which France has wrested

A large body of people met in Stradbally on Thurs-
day last, for the purpose of cockfighting ; but their projected sport
having been prohibited by the authorities, the fellows retired
in the evening to the public-houses in the town, where several
encounters took place, in one of which a man named Casey
got such a frighVul beating, his skull having been fractured,
that his life is despair-ed of. Two ruffians, coming out of a
public-house, meta man named Salmon at the door of another,
whom, without any provocation, they instantly attacked. Oae
of the fellows struck him with his fist, and the other, it is
thought, with a pair of tongs. When down, the same fellow
continued to strike him with the same weapon, until all signs
of life had disappeared. The unfortunate man's jaw-bone was
broken, and he was otherwise dreadfully mangled. One of
the causes assigned for the murder of Salmon, who was an in-
offensive person, is his having lived with, and been the tenant
of, Mr. Luttrell, a respectable farmer. Strong suspicions of
another murder are entertained, as a great quantity of blood
has been traced up a lane leading to the fields ; and as no per-
son could lose so much and proceed so far, it is thought that
the person, whoever it was, must have been murdered and then
dragged up the lane by his murderers. The police have ar-
rested over twenty persons, several of whom were since Jibe-
rated, but summoned to give evidence. It is thought, how-
ever, that the principals are in custody.—Dublin Mail.

FATAL FIGHT.—On Monday an inquest was held
at Leominster, before Thomas Evans, Esq., on the body of
Ambrose Pritchard, who died in consequence of injuries he
received in a pugilistic contest with Joseph Williams, on the
race course, on Friday last. It appeared the parties quar-
relled on Thursday night, and agreed to fight on Friday
morning for fifteen shillings. Mr. J. Weaver, of Etnam-
street, in whose hands they had deposited the money, much
to his credit, advised the parties not to fight, but they per-
sisted in their determination, and met the next morning ;
the battle commenced about eleven o'clock, Williams being
seconded by a man named Morris, and Pritchard by a person
named John Jones. After twenty rounds, fought in about
half an hour, the parties closed and went down, Williams
falling heavily on Pritchard, who was immediately taken up
senseless, and conveyed to a house ; medical assistance was
immediately procured, but the unfortunate man died at eight
o'clock the same night. It appeared from the evidence that
it was a fair stand-up fight throughout ; the ring was praperly
kept, and the seconds and spectators preserved the utmost
fairness towards the combatants. To the credit of Leomin-
ster not 100 persons were present. Williams was deeply
affected at the melancholy result, and immediately surren •
dered himself to the civil power. T. J. Watling, Esq., sur-
geon, stated the deceased died in consequence of the injuries
he received in the fight. The respectable jury, after due
consideration, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against
Jos. Williams, the principal, John Jones and Wm. Morris,
seconds, and John Morris, ring-beater. Joseph Williams and
John Morris have been committed to take their trials under
the Coroner's warrant. The other men were not apprehended
on Monday.—liereferd Journal.

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STRONG FACTS IN REGARD TO HORSE-RACING.
—A writer in the Louisville City Gazette, thus tersely pre-
sents this matter :—" Races, it is said, improve the breed of
horses. And what if they did, if they degrade the breed of
men? But I doubt the truth of the position. Some few
startling or stubborn facts are on the other side. I sever
heard of races in
mweortdaacraeute
tAhrabia, yet the best horses and the best blood
there. The
theT h e
bloodg rea to
f the racing
Godolphinstock o f
Arabian. England
ainndthAe
Neweo
horses.uonEngland,try.
from
The yhaeofttrystehtsoe
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There are no races
cent.horses
m areore thanivor worth
hs
southern htnehrillB
in Newar i England,n4 only
pricesi in racing sectionsorimproves
of the country than their own horses.ger
the breed of race horses. I was told in Vi
drivers, that their best horses were brought Virginia,
New Hampshire. The Green Mountain horses are the best
in the country for symmetry, strength, fleetness, and en_
durance; ; yet there is no racing in New England. Racing,
thud, i. surely not essential to making good horses."
Manchester is about to be ornamented with statues
of the Duke of Bridgewater, Dr. Dalton, and James Watt.

20,F00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1838.

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &C.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 31.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
Paid. Share
Shares. Annum,
1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. 18s. sh. 135
1.082 4/. Ashby.de-le-Zouch .........Average 1131. s h. 65
1,260 Basingstoke 1001.6h, 5
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 s. sh. 100
8,000 1-16 sh. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-10th share 811. & 71!. 220
A 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...likel sh. 100 pd 241
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001 sh. all pd 64
400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102
500 4el. Csventry 'OOl. sh. 745
4.545 Croydon
2,0601 41. Os. Dudley -slOO/ sh. 63
600 144. Derby 1001. sh. 133
20,000 4 per cent, Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd 30
3,5751 W. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331.3 k.
'7OO
77
231 461. Erewash 1001.5 h.
1,297 281. Forth and Clyde Average 4.001.165. th. 570
1,600 121. Grand Junction WO/. sh. 202
1,8491 11. Grand Union , 1001. sh 25
11,500 Grand Surrey . s., lOO/. sh. 20
0,000/. 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. C 3
3 4196
600 131.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 38.4 d.
749 10s. Granthams
6,T38 2/. Om. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh.
100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd.
25-328 11. ss. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.185. 102. sh.
2,9971 24/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh.
5451 13/. Leicester l4Ol. sh.
1,897 61. Os. Leicester an 4 Nort nampton... Aver Is 3/. 10s.
2.400 101. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh.
150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001.2 h.
500 9.51. Mersey and !swell 1001.5 h.
MOO 11. 10s. blaccles field 1001, sh. all pd.
2417 171. Neath 100/.sh.
2,400 31. Peak Forest Avei.ge about 78/. sh.
1,418 I. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh.
5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. sh.
500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh.
800 91.105. Somerset Coal 150 i. sh.
3,6004 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh.
700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh.
500 91. Shrewsbury 125/ sh
300 91. Stourbridgo ......._................ 1453. sh.
3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ..,Average 791.95. 80. sh.
533 15/. Swansea 10.01. sh.
3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh.
2,(0'148h. 321.105. Treat and Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh.
8,149 „„.•... Thames .nd Medway... Aver. 191.55. Sd. sh.
"Wsh'i 161. Warwick aad Birmingham 1001. sh.
1,0004;11.
980 151. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh.
6,000 41.05. NVJrcest,r and Birmingham...Av.7B/.Bs. sh.
5,000 255. Wilts an Berke .. Average 67/. 10s. 80. sh.
800 31. NAI yrley and Essington 1251. sh
126
POI ti, Wey and Arun llOl. sh.
DOCKS.
I'M" } 3 p c Commercial ,:ool.sh.
1,06515 h• '
East and West India ......5t0ck
3,23i,31011. 555. p.ct. London Stock
Ditto Bonds
2,209 21. 19s. Bristol
611,324!. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts
1.352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock
500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds
20.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
2,500 Deptford Pier ...............-01. sh. 201. pd
BRIDGES.
1,600 10c Hammer= di • 5O/. sh.
7,201 Southwark, Old ....... Av. 631. 2s Bd. sh.
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 rr cent. 5O!. sh.
5,000 „, ...... Waterloo
5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/. pd
5,000 168. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7! 40/. pd
60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds... ............ .. ........................
5,848 17s auxhall Avstrage 701. 108. MI sh.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3110 s Albion 510/ sh. 501 pd
50,000 t 5 fnecr, T. ti Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1011. pc!
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine .....................100!i sh. pd
24,000 ft per sh. Atlas sh. 5/. pd
1,200 tab. 5!. Birmingham I ire ..... .... ........... sh. 551. pd
20,000 4!. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50!. sh. 5/, pd
5,000 5/, per cent. Clerical, 51edi :al,&c. Life, 1001.0 h. 21108 pd
4,000 21 IN County ........ . .......... . .........1001. sh. 10/, pd
20,000 ss. Eagle • 5O/. sh. 51. pd
EasnPedr3ocelnbe.. Economic Lite
1 1000/. sh. 2501. pd
2,271 225. per cent. European Lit.: 2O/. ch, all pd
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd
1,000,0001. 71. per et. Globe Steck
20,000 51' Guardian lOO/. sh. 274/ pd
40,000 6s. od. H0pe............ 50/. sh. bl. IA
2,400 51. 7s. (id. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd
7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10/. pd
13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Msaine...„ 100/. sh. 8/. r 4
2,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire 501. sh, all pd
3/. Ditto Life.
10,000 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101. pd
5 out, 10s. London, Fire 25/ sh. 121. 10s. p 0
3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd
1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh.
30,0,'0 5/. per cent. Palladium Ilk. 50/. sh. V. pd 218 s 04
50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 2O/. sh. 2!. pd 175 00
2,500 11. Provident Lite lOOl. sh. 101. pd c.O
100,000 ss. Rock Life 00/. sh. I/. pd '7
6,0,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 2254
6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 54
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd
JOINT SIOCK BANKS
05,000 8 per cent. A gric and Comm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd
5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 401. pd
10,,410 10 percent. Bank of Bil mingham 5Ol. sh. 101. p 4
.0,000 18 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. pd
31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 201. pd
0.,0044 51. London Joint Stock 51/. sh. 10/. pd
.i,OOO 4 per cent. Lancaster......... ...... .... ........ 1001. sh. 50!. pd
25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. Id
100,000 74 per sent Manchester and Liverpool}
District 5O/. sh. 151 pd
20,000 7 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 251 pd
20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. 25/. pa
`o,' 00 National Bank of Ireland sol. sh 174/. pd
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. -1001. sh. 35/. pd
19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/ sh. 101. pd
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh 51. pd
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 1/ Os Od Bath 2Ol. sh. IC/. pd
5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 101. pd
5,000 15./T.,pdehe3ent.l Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pi
928 at ao. Birmingham 561. sli.
0,250 210 s Bristol zw. sh.
1,500 3/ 106 Brighton 2Ol. sh.
750 31 10. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all p 0
1,000 5/. Continental Consolidated
1,000 10/. City of London ...........„....100/. sh. nil pd
1,000 61. Ditto, New
1,000 4!. 10s. Equitable - 50/. pd
10,000 24 per cent. Imperial
800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd
8,350 61. per cent. I ndependent 3O/.Bh. all pd
9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix . 'O/. sh. 391. psi
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratclig* - 100!. sh. 801. pd
1,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sli. 19/. pd
1,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 401. pd
210 51. per cent. Warwick 512. sh.
400 5/. per cent Waecfieki . ""'.251 sh.
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000 12s. Ditto New . 5t 1. sh. 101. pd
100 Yarincuth 201. sh. 1,1. pd
WATER WORKS.
1,800 9s. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd
1,134 61. East London lOO/. sh.
5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. .h.
2,000 2/. Kent lOO/. sh.
372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh.
1,500 2/ 106 Now River London Bridge Water Annuities
6,126 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford
1,000 4 per cent. South Lonlon 1001. oh.
8,294 41. West Middlesex ....Aver.tge 63/. 12s. 9d. sh.
1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop lOO/. sh.
IRON RAIL‘VAYS,
6,300 Birmingham and Derby .... 40/. pd
9,500 ...... ... Birmingham and Gloucester . . ........ 20/ pd
15; 00 Bristol and Exeter lOW. sh. 15 pd
660 Calcutta and Saugur 50/. sh. '2/. pd
7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 100/. sh.'l2l/
3,008 Clarence lOO/. ,h. 100/ pd
1 !,000
8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny WO!. sh. 24 pd
60,000 Eastern Counties "51. oh. 744 vi
Grand Junction 1001. sh. 9.,./. pi
Great North of England l3/. prl
5,000 Great Western lOO/. sh. 651. pd
2,000 .... ..... Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1'1,!1 pd
8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 15/. pd
10,009 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd
2,100 3/ per cent. Leeds and Selby... ..... • 100 oh.
1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swaimington -.501. sh. all PI
5,100 10 percent. Liverponl and Manchester...lo( Lsh. low. pd
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "5/. pd
30,000 ..... „,. London and 8right0n......... . sh. I I/. pal
London and Blackwell
12,000 551 .
501. sh. 3! pd
20.000 3 per cent. London 31111 Greenwich 2O/. sh. '2Ol. pd
25,000 ... ..... London and Birmingham ...100/, sh. 1)31. I'd
Ditto Quarter Shares 5/ pd
London and Southampton ....50/. sh. 59/. Pd
Ditto ditto New
11,000 ......... London and Croydon Trunk 20/ sh. Oil. pd
6,100 .. Ditto New Scrip
. ......
12,000 .... ... London Grand Junction 50/. sh. Si. pd
13,000 Manchester and Leeds 1001. sh. 20/. pd
10,000 NI inchester and Birmingham 70!. sh. 10!. pd
......... North Midland 1001. sh. 45/. pd
Northe.n and Eastern 1001. sh. 15'. pd
2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3°/. pd
28,000
1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh.
0.000
1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pa
6,000 York and North Midland ..,50 . sh. 124 pd

SPORTIN G INTELLIGEN CE.

7'OTNES AND BRIDGETOWN RACES.

113
105
10'2
1001
11

TUESDAY.
Plate of 50 sovs., the gift of Lord Seymour, for all ages. Heats,
twice round.
__

Mr. Wreford's b. c. Tory, 3 yrs, 7st. 1 Ilb
Sir J. Buller's b. g. Why Not, 6 yrs, 9st. 71b 1 0 2 2
Mr. Taunton's bl. g. Mustapha, 4 yrs, Bst. I Ilb 3 2 3 dr
The Ladies' Plate of 20 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs.
each. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Sir J. Buller's Why Not, 6 yrs
Mr. Horsley's Countess of Devon, 6 yrs
The Totnes Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft., and 25 added from the
Fund. About two miles.
General Gilbert's King of Clubs, 4 yrs ... 1
Sir J. Buller's Percy, 3 yrs
Mr. Brown's Lydia Languish, aged

WEYMOUTH RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Weymouth Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft., and only 5, &c.,
with 30 ;sous. added from the Fund. Twice round. 10 Subs.,
of whom 7 declared.
31r. F. Craven's I-wish-you-may-get-it, 3 yrs, 6st. 61b., walked

over.
The Mountain Harriers' Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added,
for horses that have hunted, &c. ; heats, mile and a distance ; were
won in two heats by Mr. J. Harding's gr. m. Queen of the Valley,
6 yrs, 1 1 st. 81b. (Hopkins), beating Mr. Davis's b. g. Merriman,
aged, 12st. 71b., and three others.
The Members' Plate of 50 soya., given by Lord Villiers and G. W.
Hope, Esq., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each. Heats,

_
abolit two miles.
Mr. Galpine's Arctic (h. b.), 5 yrs, 95t. 51b IL Benskin 1 1
Mr. C. Finch's Mayflower, aged, 9st. 91b
Mr. Squibb's br. m. Susanne, aged, 9st. 21b

HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNZSD.4r.
The Herefordshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if
declared, &c. Two miles and a distance. 8 Subs., 3of whom
pay 5 sovs. each.
Mr. Griffiths's ch. c. Lugwardine, 4 yrs, 6st. 101 b
Mr. W. T. Copeland's King Cole, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b
Mr. Farmer's b. m. Latona, aged, Bst. 811) 3
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with the Coronation Plate of 501.,
added by the Citizens of Hereford. Heats, once round and a
dis. 7 Subs.
Mr. W. T. Copeland's br. h. King Cole, 5 yrs, 9st. 21b 1
Mr. Stevens's gr. c. Gimcrack, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b
Mr. Harris's b. g. Barclay, 4 yrs, Bst. Illb 3 dr
The Farmers' Plate of 50 soya., given by the Members for the
County, the winner to receive 40 SW's, and the second 10 sovs.,
the last to forfeit 2 soya., heats, once round and a distance, was
won in two heats by Mr. Vevers' br. g. Charity, aged, 12st. 51b.,
beating Mr. Tranter's Cholstrey, 6 yrs, Ilst. 91b., Mr. 13ricknell's
br. in. Victoria, 5 yrs, lOst. 121 b., and four others.
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added, heats, two
miles and a distance, Gentlemen riders (3 Subs.), were won in
two heats by Mr. Vevers' Charity, aged, list. 815., beating Mr.
Tranter's Cholstrey, 6 yrs, lOst. 12113-, and Mr. Bosley's Rambler,
aged, I2st. 101 b.

STOURBRIDGE RACES. W EDNESDA Y.
The Ladies Purse of 30 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs.
each. Two mile heats. 6 Subs.
Mr. 11. St. Paul na. Miss Kitty Cockle, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b 1 1
Mr. Painter's ch. f. Patroness, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b 2 dr
Won by half a neck.
•
The Cup Stakes of 100 sovs., by Subs. of 10 sovs. each, the second
saved his stake. Three miles. 10 Subs.
Mr. Fowler's ch. c. Gilbert Gurney, 3 yrs, 7st. lib ...Dodgson 1
Mr. Collett's br. g. Conservative, 4 yrs, Bst. 31b 2
Won by two lengths.
The Himley Stakes of 3 sovs. each, added to a Purse of 30 sous.,
free for all horses that have been entered at this Meeting.
Heats, mile and a quarter. 7 Subs.
Mr. Sanders na. b. f. Miss Kitty Cockle, 4 yrs, 85t...... 2 1 1
Mr. Edge's b. f. The Howdy, 4 yrs, 7st. 111 b
Mr. Collett's br. f. Conservative, 4 yrs, Bst. slb

A good race.

TONBRIDGE WELLS RACES.-.-.WEDNESDAT.

The Tonbridge Wells Plate of 50 sovs., heats, two miles and a
distance, was won in three heats by Mr. Bacon's Sir Felix, 6 yrs,
9st. 11b. ( Higgins), beating Mr. Shepherd's gr. g. Jim Crow, 4
yrs, 9st. 21b ; Mr. Hadland's ch. m. Bessy, aged, 9st. llb ; Mr.
Shelley's Magnolia, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b; Mr. Jackson's b. c. Woodman,
3 yrs, 7st. 11b; and Mr. Dockeray's b. c. Guardsman, 3 yrs,
7st. 11b.

The Stewards' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 40 added from the
Fund, for the beaten horses. Heats, one mile and a hal'.

5 Subs.
Mr. Cassidy's br. f. Maid of Hertford, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b 2 1 2 1
Capt. Pearson's b. f. Munchausen, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b 4 3 1 2
Mr. Shelley's Magnolia, 4 yrs' Bst. 81b 1 2 3 3
Mr. Bacon's br. m. Elizabeth, 5 yrs, Bst. 6119 3 4 4 dr
This race is disputed.
The Tally-Ho Stakes of 50 sous. for horses not thorough-bred,
&c.. heats, one mile and a distance, list. 71b. each, were won by
Mr. Armstrong's Landrail, aged (owner).

FALSE CHARACTERS.—The crafty stratagems of
the metropolis, aided, no doubt, by a cheaper and more expedi-
tious mode of travelling, are rapidly diffusing themselves over
the provinces Among other knaveries, that of endeavouring
to obtain situations by forwarding false characters is, it
seems, becoming very prevalent. A lady of this town, re-
cently in want of a cook, had, among others, three applicants
fur the place, who referred for characters to persons of well-
known respectability at a distance from the town. In each
case answers were received, nominally from the parties who
were to give the character, by the post, and others were
brought by the would-be-cooks themselves, but written in a
real kitchen hand, and in the worst possible style of ortho-
graphy. To refer nEcnip to the roputablic individuals men-
tioned (who were at once known to be entirely guiltless of
such compositions) would have been superfluous; it was pal-
pable enough that the aforesaid ladies of the stew-pan, or
their relatives, had been the authoresses of their own self-
praise. They were of course at once dismissed. In our opi-
nion, they ought not to have been so leniently treated, as a
constable should have forthwith taken them before a magis-
trate, and procured them situations which they might not
have sought, but which, nevertheless, they certainly very
richly deserved. One of these designing creatures said she
came from Collu noon, another that she resided at Tiver-
ton, and the third that she had lived in the service of a highly
respectable family at Bradford, near this town.--Taunton
Courier.

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MINES.
8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. 31/. pd
4,000 U. ss. Alten 151. sh. 121. lOs pd
10,000 .....•.. Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm....100L sh. all pd
Ditto Subscription .251. pa
2,000 IoL Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd
10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm .35/. sh. 20/. pd
6,000 .... .... Macaubas 1} Cocaes United 251. sh, 25/. pd
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 144 tpd
10,000 ..... ... Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 20/. pd
10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 10/. pd
20,001 British Iron .......501. sh. 501 pd
6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd
..... .... Cate Branca 64/. i d
Candonga 7O. pd
io,ooo t/ Copia'. 20/. sh, 131. pd
8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pan.
2.850 31. English 121 ICs. pd
'20,000 ..-..... General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 161. pd
6,155 ......... Mexican Company 1001. sh. 55i/. pd
3,000 Polherou Consols lOl. sh. 8/. pd
11,500 Real del Monte Unregistered
Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd
30,000 ......... United Mexican, iss. 2 pr0.....40/. sh. all pd
Ditii, Scrip
Ditto New Scrip 5l pd
West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS,
1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ..... ...75gs. sh.
1,500 London University 100/. eh. all pd
700
King' College 100/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 261/. pd
6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd
61 per cent. Canada Company
10,000 1004 sh.. 281. pd
400,000 51. per cent. Upper Canai:.a Loan ..............................
City Bonds, 4 per cent
20,000 1/. 6s. General Steam Navigation -.151 711. 141. pd
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
2,000 IL London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh.
8,000
Caoutchouc Company 251. sh. 1211. pd
500,000 L
New Brunswick Land Company .. . ... 50/, pd
2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100L sh. 1001. pd
2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. 701. pd
4,000
10,000 61. Van Die. ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd

GIPSEY PLUNDER.—The following fruits of plun-
(11. were found last week upon a gang of gipsics, consisting
of two men, a woman, end seven children, apprehended at
Birkenhead, near Chester, viz. :—A pair of silver sugar.
tongs, eleven ditto spoons, marked M. C. ; a ditto watch, on
one side of the outside case a pack of hounds in full chase,
and the death on the other; three pepper-box tops ; forty-two
pocket knives, some inlaid with silver; nine pairs of silver
hafted knives and forks, marked with a crested lion ; six pairs
of green hafted knives and forks, silver mounted ; two new
daggers, two steels, ten pairs of black hafted knives and forks,
a large carving knife and fork, a percussion gun, a pistol,
thirty-three ale-taps; a silver bucket, not marked; a ditto old
fashioned cream jug : taenty-three printed gowns, four blue
and red silk handkerchiefs ; four shawls ; a table-cloth marked
M. M. Clapham ; two bolster-cases, five pillow-cases, four
shirts, two bags, seven frocks, a fancy straw bonnet, fourteen
blankets, two pairs of breeches, a new green body-coat, a
white Canton crape shawl, a large silver ring with pearl
stone, five brooches, a small silver snuff-box, sundry other
snuff-boxes, a box of percussion caps, a riding saddle nearly
new, and various other articles. Also three horses—one a
dark brown filly, rising three years old ; a dark brown horse,
aged, hind legs white ; and a light bay mare, aged, with a
white blaze down her face, and a very vast trotter, and a cart
on springs, colour green.

Friday a man was drowned in one of the hot-baths
at Portobello. He was an invalid; and is supposed to have
lost command of himself in the water. A few days ago, also,
we are informed, a child fell from a window in that town, and
was killed.— Scotsman.

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,
AUG. 25, 1838.
BANKS.
1,500,0061. M. p. ct. Bar •of 5c0t1and....... 6s. Bd. sh. all pd 1934
2,000,00(11. se p. ct. liGn. of Scotland 100/. eh. all pd 1l 21.
500.000 k Sp. ct. Braish Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 2401.
3,000,0006 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl sh 1006 pd 1776
5.000,000& sn. et National lOO/ sh 10/. pd 161.
2,000,0061. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 861.
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MISCELLANEOUS. _ _.

In that well-known and often visited Middleton
Dale, where the towering rocks stand in such majestic gran-
deur, capped with forest trees and mantling ivy, the threaten-
ing attitude of which has often struck with the sublimest
admiration and awe the mind of the idle wanderer, the care•
less pedestrian, and the tasteful and enquiring tourist—
amidst the crags which surround the base of one of these
stupendous rocks is a narrow creek, which leads through
a long, rugged, subterraneous passage into a cavern called
" The Wonder," but which, owing to its dangerous and
rugged path, is not often visited, but by the most enterpris-
ing and curious, and the most daring children of the High
Peakers. Four boys of the latter description, from the vil-
lage of Eyam, about the age of eleven years, ambitious to
explore the secret cavern and narrow windings of " The
Wonder," a few days ago, provided themsalv.a with a candle,
and immediately after dinner proceeded to carry their purpose
into effect. Various are the reports as to the lengths of this
cavern ; some asserting that it extends for several miles under
the neighbouring hills. It is not often explored further than
about 300 or 400 yards ; to which point it appears our youthful
subterraneous travellers extended their route ; when, unfortu-
nately for them, a drop of water from the top of the rock ex-
tinguished their light, and left them in total darkness in that
gloomy cavern. Night came on, and their parents began to be
uneasy about their absence, and not returning home when dark-
ness began to cover the earth, immediately search was made for
them, and every inquiry amongst their playfellows; when it
happened that they found one to whom it appears this scheme of
exploring " The Wonder" had been communicated. Provided
with lights and mining clothes, two men immediately started
at midnight to seek for them, when, at the extremity of the
cavern, they found the little daring creatures fast asleep, with
their clothes torn, scratched, bruised and bleeding from the
wounds they had received in their attempts to make their way
out in darkness. From their own account it appears that, after
the light was extinguished, they made several attempts to find
their way back in vain after which they knelt down and re-
peated their prayers, and then tried again without any greater
success ;
they then prayed again and again, and each time at-
tempted in vain to get back, till exhaused and wounded by
falling over the rugged pieces of rock which line the windings
of the cavern, and terrified by their awful situation, they sunk
into sleep, in which state they were found.—Sheffield Iris.
Pious FRAUD.---PLAGIARISM.--The Aberdeen
Herald of Saturday last notices tho publication in that city of
An Essay on Sabbath Schools, by James Robertson Reid,
Honorary. Secretary to the Aberdeen Gratis Sabbath School
Society, in connexion with the Sabbath School Union for
Scotland," which, it appears, is a gross plagiarism from a ser-
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twenty years ago. " And not the arguments merely of Dr.
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guage—.as any plagiarist with common caution and common
impudence would have done—but whole paragraphs filched,
and inserted verbatim et literatim, and when disguised, which
is seldom, the language of the very Rev. Principal always
ruined." This serious charge is fully substantiated by numerous
parallel passages from both works. This Mr. James Robertson
Void is a student (as he himself say,) of all the three facul-
ties, and was the proposer of Lord Lyndhurst as Rector, and
one of the two protesters against Lord Brougham.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE

UNION-HALL.

Two boys, named Hayes and Miller, were charged with
stealing a quantity of cigars from a tobacconist's shop.
The prisoners took an opportunity of entering the tobacco
shop when the young lady behind the counter was in deep
conversation with a young fellow who was engaged in puffing
away at a cigar. One of the boys asked for half an ounce
of pig-tail, and while the aforesaid young lady was in the
act of weighing the article, his companion shoved his hand
into a cigar-box, and having snatched up several of them
ran off. He, however, was pursued and taken at a short dis-
tance from the shop, and upwards of twenty cigars were found
at his feet. _ _

Mr. TRAIL, to the boy upon whom the cigars were found,
and whose name is Hayes—You have been here before ?
Hayes, who is an uncommonly ugly boy (crying)—Lord,
no ; 1 was never here afore, that's God's truth.
Mr. TRAILL—I know your ugly face well. You have often
been at that bar, and you always begin to blubber when you
are brought here.
Hayes again asserted that be was never in the office before,
and said that he should call his father to confirm what he
said. At this moment, however, the gaoler entered the office,
upon seeing whom, Hayes immediately appealed to him, calling
him by his name, and saying, you know, Mr. Blythman that I
was never here afore—tell the truth.

Mr. TRAILL said that, with all the prisoner's ingenuity, he
had outwitted himself. It was quite evident he was an old ac-
quaintance of the gaoler's, otherwise he would not have known
his name so well. _ _ _

The gaoler said that Hayes had been there before, for petty
robberies, and that he was the associate of thieves.
Hayes—Oh, Lord, what a plumper he tells.
With respect to the other prisoner it was stated that he
was not known there, and that on that account, and the fact of
his not having been the perpetrator of the robbery, the Magis-
trate said that a distinction should be made in their punish.
ments, and that Hayes should be committed for trial.
The other prisoner, in a voice sufficiently loud to be heard,
to Hayes—l say, Jack, are we fully ?
Mr. TRAILL hearing the words, said that the word " fully,"
used by Hayes's companion, showed that he was no novice in
transactions of the kind for which he was brought there, and
be was therefore summarily convicted, and sent for two months
to the House of Correction.