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apparent generosity—" I take the shoulders and you
take the tail, or you take the tail and I take the
shoulders, anything you like 1" After this flagrant
act of fraudulence, however, we are satisfied that a
cautious race like the people of Scotland will never
again be gulled by an imposture of a like kind.
coining on the plea of religion, and in the garb of
Christianity. When the screen fell, discovering the
" little milliner," otherwise " Lady Teazle by all
that's damnable," Joseph Surface was not in a more
contemptible or more pitiable predicament than these
very sedate and highly moral directors, who on the
score of conserving the sobriety of the Sunday, break
through all the most sacred principles of honour, of
honesty, and of justice. Their hypocrisy proves to
be as empty as Yorick's skull—" and smells so 1
Paugh 1"

ardent, proud, superb, audacious, who stirred up the
world and froze tyrants with affright? No. The France
of the 10th of December. That France which reckons,
debates, weighs, and calculates, and which is laughed at
and mocked, while her partition and annihilation are
dreamed of—France, which fears everything except the
Cossacks."

"The evil that men do lives after them, the good
is oft interred with their bones." So said Meitc
ANTONY ; but every rule has its exception. In this
present year, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
in an age remarkable for its tendency to look forward
instead of to look back—at a period, moreover, when
royalty is at a discount—it is proposed to hold a
festival in honour of a King who lived a thousand
Tears ago In: the year 849 ALFRED the GREAT
commenced his memorable existence at Wantage, in
_Berkshire, and in the year 1849, at Wantage, in
Berkshire, a jubilee is to take place to commemorate
that event. Utilitarians will doubtless find abundant
'cause for derision in such an apparently useless cere-
mony ; but to those who, like ourselves, con-
, s ider the poetry of life as one of its most
essential and useful elements—useful as is the salt to
?the sea, which it preserves perpetually pure—such an
event will possess a peculiar interest and a happy sig-
mificance. Of one thing there can be no doubt—King
.ALFRED'S jubilee could not possibly have arrived at a
:more appropriate time. Much of the fabulous is very
:probably interwoven with the records of this great
:man, yet, making every allowance for this probability,
ALFRED, in two distinct characters, claims not only
the admiration but the gratitude of posterity. As a
IPatriot, who, hoping against hope, and perseveringin
resistance to apparently invincible foes, preserved the
nationality of his country and the indepensoduegnhcet hof
ills countrymen ; and, as a Governor, who
is
own glory only by ensuring the rights and promoting
the happiness of his people, ALFRED, in the nine-
3enth as he did in the ninth century, may stand forth
as i example to time-serving patriots and pseudo-
-1 i rulers. The example is recalled to us at a sin-

glilarly opportune moment. Never was Patriotism
Is tore in need of the encouraging evidences of success-
i'77,ll perseverance, and seldom have Governments more

e equired a lesson in the art of popular administration.
such encouragements and such lessons are afforded
13y the history of ALFRED. When he led the forlorn
in.ope of Saxon independence that cause seemed
-a tterly desperate, and any expectation of success
she delusion of a madman. ALFRED, conscious
a-f the righteousness of his cause, never yielded
to despair ; the Danes might hold dominion
throughout the length and breadth of the land, but
they never subdued that independent heart. In the
clays of defeat and tribulation, as in the hour of vic-
;c ry, alone and a fugitive, or surrounded by loving
bjects, ALFRED was always more than a king—a
:no ble-hearted and undaunted man. When he burnt
the cakes by the cottage hearth, or when he divided
his last loaf with the beggar, however humble his
cupation or forlorn his fortune, he cherished within
him a patience superior to persecution, and a hope
t;li it would not be gainsaid. That patience and that
hope (as such inevitably will do) brought their re-
word. Let Hungary take courage at the thought.
PLLFRED is seated in the throne of EGBERT, and now we
c antemplate a new phase of his great character. Many
have, like him, appeared great in adversity, but few
have abided the more trying test of prosperity.
ALFRED, as a king, sought no individual glory,
neither did he seek pleasure, except the pleasure of
doing good. His kingly life was even more arduous
than his preceding career. His apportionment of his

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1849.

Poor KENNEY little conjectured that one of the
most felicitous of his farcical characters was destined
to -furnish a prototype to the Sabbatarians. Yet so
it is, that Jeremy Diddler has given a hint to the
Scottish Pharisees. On the commencement of this
humbugging movement for rendering steam-engines
moral and railroads generally orthodox, it was re-
marked by a no less virtuous or enlightened man
than Dr. CANDLISH, that the ultra-Sunday conserv-
ing directors were decidedly long-headed ; and our
contemporary the Examiner has very judiciously
remarked that to be long-headed is syno•
nimous with being cunning. Now, how far
cunning is compatible with the propagation of
real piety, or with the dissemination of a truly reli-
gious observance of Christianity, we leave to the deci-
sion of the common sense of the United Kingdom. It
has been observed by the distinguished author whose
pseudonyms are variously Titmarsh and Yellowplush,
that the vocabulary of the Anglo-Saxon language has
been recently augmented by many expressions not re-
cognised by our standard bibliographers, yet, neverthe-
less, interpolated in the latest editions of their dic-
tionaries. Among these accessions to the English
tongue is a word which we may be allowed to
apply to the conduct of the directors of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, from the circum-
stance of its being the only epithet really descriptive
of the nsture of their proceedings. Indeed the course
pursued by these would-be northern stars of morality
could not be characterised by any other term than that
of a glaring and impudent dodge. A dodge it unques-
tionably is ; and no artful dodge either, but a dodge so
egregious for its transparency, that it could
not but have called up a blush to the by
no means susceptible cheek of that very respectable
young gentleman, Mr. JoliN DAWKINS, a personage
immortalised by the familiar soubriquet of the
" Artful Dodger." The trick to which we are calling
the attention of the public is one played off upon the
shareholders in the line already particularised, the
line running between Glasgow and Edinburgh. On
the occasion of a recent meeting of the proprietors,
the long- vexed question of Sunday travelling was
again brought under discussion, arrangements having
been made for its final settlement. To this end
proxies were distributed among the shareholders, the
directors not being contented with submitting to
them the simple propositions for and against, but
adding to these another class of suffrages,
namely those for " leaving the matter in the hands
of the directors." The result of this ingenious
but disreputable contrivance may be readily men-
Coned. When the numbers came to be scrutinized
there were found to be 7,565 votes for the opening of
the line on Sundays, and only 5,836 votes against the
scheme of Sunday travelling—leaving a majority of
proxies amounting to 1,729 in favour of the system
opposed by the Sabbatarians. According to all honest
principles of action the only conclusion to be arrived
at is, that these exemplary sticklers for a periodical
stagnation on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
were beaten on their own ground. But, no. Recourse
was had to one of the most pitiful and rascally
dodges that could well have been adopted. The
third class of proxies numbering in all just 1,839, the
proxies (it will be remembered) for leaving the
matter in the hands of the directors, were resorted to
in the emergency—in the event of which the plan
had evidently been concocted—and by clubbing these
neutral votes with the minority of votes against Sun-
day travelling, the tables were unfairly and illegally
turned upon the majority of the shareholders, a false
majority of 241 being declared to stand on the side
of the Sabbatarians. Now, we mean to assert that
anything more paltry, more mean, more shameful, or

ti..Tne is well known. To enumerate the benefits
which ALFRED conferred upon his country would be
to enumerate what are even now, after a thou-
Fand years, the chief objects of English pride,
tvad the chief bulwarks of English liberty.
Tradition,
.whether rightly or wrongly, traces
up to ALFRED, as to their source, the principal
elements of our national greatness and glory. To
him we are indebted for our trial by jury, for
the establishment of our universities, for the
foundation of our naval empire, and a multitude of
as enduring and hardly less valuable benefits. But
whatever may have been the boons bequeathed by this
legislator, one thing is tolerably clear, he lived not
for himself but for his people. With a seemingly
instinctive sagacity, the people have appreciated this
fact. Their traditionary lore has rendered the name
of ALFRED immortal. Since the death of the Saxon
Monarch kings and dynasties have ruled over England
and passed away into comparative oblivion. The pages
of our history are occasionally illumined by the glory of
a Plantagenet, sullied by the iniquities of a Tudor,
or stained with the blood of a Stuart; yet Stuarts,
and Tudors, and Plantagenets, and many more, have
gone by, and are remembered only in the transient
memorials of the historian, but no historian is re-
quired for ALFRED ; his fame is perpetuated by
word of mouth. The people have cared for his
memory, who, King though he was, was the People's
friend. Here, again, is a lesson worthy of the study
of all who rule, be they Emperors, Kings, Presidents,
or Prime Ministers. How many of the Legislators
of 1849 will have a jubilee proposed in their honour
a thousand years hence ?

M. TESTE, who was convicted in 1847 of corrup-
tion in his office as one of the Cabinet Ministers of
Lours PHILIPPE, and sentenced to imprisonment for
five years, and who had been permitted up to the
present time to spend the period of his imprisonment
in a Maison de Sante, has been removed to the Con-
ciergerie, by order of M. DUFAIIRE, the Minister of
the Interior.
Letters from Toulon of the 26th state that Rear-
Admiral VAILLANT, second in command of the
squadron of evolution, entered that harbour on the
day previous. He hoisted his flag on board the
Jemmappes.
An Englishman, about thirty years of age, threw
himself from the top of the column of the Place
Vendome, on Tuesday evening, at six o'clock. He
was killed on the spot. There were no papers found
on him that could lead to a knowledge of his name.
His linen is marked "H. N." The body now lies
at the Morgue. This is the second suicide of the
same kind since the revolution of February, and the
36th since the erection of the column.

Sir H. L. BULWER passed through Paris yesterday,
en route for London. _

The celebrated Arabian stock at Versailles and St.
Cloud, the property of the ex-royal family, are to be
sold by auction in the last fortnight of October.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, declaring that sailing vessels pro-
vided with clear bills of health, and coming from
European and Asiatic Turkey, Egypt, and Tripoli,
shall be freely admitted in all the harbours of the
Republic. Steamers shall be admitted into the At-
lantic harbours on the same conditions. Steamers
must have left those countries for eight days,
.and
have a physician on board, in order to be entitled
to free admission in the Mediterranean harbours , and
those that have no physician on board shall be liable
to a quarantine of observation of three days.
The Five per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 89f. 55c.; the Three per Cents. at
55f. 15c. ; Great Northern Railroad Shares, 42M. ;
Avignon, 222 f. 50c.; Basle, 101 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux,
400 f. ; Strasburg, 353 f, 75c.; Tours and Nantes,
I 303 f. 75c.

" Buda•Pesth."

(Signed)

more monstrously in violation of all the lawsof
justice has never been witnessed on the part of any
class of political or commercial thufflrs much less
on the part of shuffiera acting foorsoothse int he holy
the
name of religion. The truth is, that Scottish
public, keen and vigilant as they are proverbially,
have been clearly taken in; and loud as may, as
wid, a, must be their indignation at the impudent
doigo by which they have been victimized, these
pious and Christian directors will stick their tongues
hi their cheeks and laugh at the credulity through
which their fraudulent machinations have proved suc-
cessful. As a correspondent of the Scotsman very
htppily remarks, the proceeding is not only as
knavish as that of the adept at the vulgar pastime of
pitch and-toss, calling out to his antagonist " heads
I win, tails you lose"—but it bears a striking re-
semblance to the conduct of the fisherman,
who, on dividing the result of his day's fishing,
with his negro companion, exclaimed with so much

THE SIJN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1849.

you, Lieut.-Field-Marshal, were to lead there in per-
s. n, in compensation for thN auxiliary corps sent you l
to Deva, commander of the corps Banffy. Head
commander of all the army corps and divisions as-
sembled in the Bacs-Banat, Lieutenant-General Vet-
ter. Other contentions I have settled ; but Colonel
Banffy appeals to your order to serve under no one
but you (on the supposition that you are coming in per-
son) or Gen. Perczel. I have sent him the necessary
instructions; but I beg that you will also have the good-
ness, Lieut.-Field-Marshal, on your part, to inform the
military commanders detached from your army that, so
long as they are separated from that army, they must
regard as their commanding officer the person shois so
appointed by the Government. In the present instance
this is General Vetter, since you are prevented from
coming yourself. I must sincerely and openly declare
my opinion, that if we can ?concentrate our forces rapidly,
rapidly mind, the country is saved; if not, it is lost. My
heart bleeds to say it, but I do say it with the firmest
conviction, that it this were done quickly I would be
ready to give up whole provinces, yea, four-fifths of the
whole land to see our forces concentrated with rapidity.
For so we shall beat the enemy, and the enemy beaten,
the provinces are our's again;
.but the army scattered the
na ion is ruined, and the provinces avail us not a jut.
Therefore it were my
.wish, that you come with your •
whole force to unite with the other corps, and took the
command-in-chief; so shall we beat our enemies in de-
tail, one after the other, and conquer the freedom of the
world. If this is not practicable, then I fear that within
a fortnight we shall have a catastrophe. Mean-
while, I will defend the country to the last man. I
have just summoned the whole of the Hungarian people
to arms. The order. has been dispatched to Grosswar-
dein to get ready the course of this and the next
week the two batteries, and to send them to you imme-
diately, as I promised. Whether they were to be horse
or foot batteries I know not. But I believe that a foot
battery is better to-day than a horse battery in a couple
of weeks, for who knows how long Grosswardein may
be ours? I beg you not to forget to dispatch immedi-
ately instructions to the Banat about the command-in-
chief of Lieut.-General Vetter over the troops there—
it is moot urgent : else all will be chaos there. And com-
mend me to your friendly sentiments, which I highly
value. "L. KOSSUTH, Governor."

" THE GOVERNOR OF THE LAND TO GEL L.F.M. BEM.
" I hasten to inform you that the battle fought yester-
day before Raab has turned out unfortunately for us; our
troops were obliged to evacuate Raab. So much the more
urgent is the necessity for you, L.F.M., and your brave
troops to unite with us; if this junction can be speedily
effected, the country is saved.

" The Governor, KossuTH.

" TO GENERAL BEM.

' -L,1,--;'.., 7 l'' lr'•
"I have received your valuable dispatches of the Bth
and 9th of July, and hasten to assure you, that for the
preset Transyl‘ania has nothing to fear from the Rus-
sians as yet on the side of Grosswardein and Debreczin.
Pesch;
bring
and I have set the upper corps d'armee under the command
of General Perczel, and placed 12,000 new troops at his
disposal. With these 24,000 troops he has marched
from Czegled to Szolnok, ready, according to circum-
stances, to cross the Theiss, or to threaten the Russians
on the right bank. At the same time we caused an im-
mense levy of Landsturm of the brave Camanians, at St.
Agata, not far from Kardszag, under Colonel Korponay ;
and for the covering of Grosswardein we provided with
two battalions of infantry two divisions of hussars, and
eight guns, strengthened by a partial recruitment to the
amount of 9,600 men, at the camp at Paspoki. The con-
sequences of these movements was the rapid retreat of
the Russians from Debreczin, and their evacuation of
the whole line of the Theiss; so that the left bank of
that river is completely free from the enemy, and the
right bank is also in our hands. General Perczel is to •
day in the camp at Szolnok and Abony, with the inten-
tion of covering the right bank of the Theiss, and the
space of land between the Danube and Theiss, together
with Szegedin, as well as, according to circumstances, to
operate on the flank and rear of the Russians, who
sweep with their main force towards Hatyan, and from
thence to Pesth and Weitzel'. The Austrian General,
Ramberg, entered Buda on the 11th, with 6,000 men,
but seems to have retired again. After we have de-
stroyed the fortifications of Buda, no regard will be paid
to the occupation of either of these completely untenable
places. Nevertheless, we would have fain remained in
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have established it as a principle not to make the
operations of the war subservient to the security of the
seat of government, but to suit the seat of the govern-
ment to the requisitions of the war. I know that it is
better so. To-day we are at Szegedin, next week,
perhaps, we shall be at Arad or Grosswardein,
which I should prefer to any other locality. As for
myself, I am on the point of going from village to village
to pick up volunteers, for I wish to form a new reserve
of 30,000 men, and to command this reserve army in
person. In a month I believe that I shall have the
30,000 men. General Vetter has begun to take the of-
fensive towards Jellachich. The brave Guyon has
beaten Jellachich, who is fled to Titel. Guyon pursues
him to-day, while General Kmeti relieves Peterwardein
to-day. Meanwhile Colonel Ba,nffy taking up by forced
marches the columns in Ecsca, Lucacsfalva, and Aradsz,
is speeding towards Perlass, and will try to take Titel be-
fore Jellachich can get there, although he will hardly
succeed, I think, and Titel will again be a hard nut tor
us— Vedremo. The troops and their leaders are valiant.
The upper army (as on that subject I shall have much to
tell you) is still at Comern. On the 12th it had a great
battle without result, is still in the entrenched camp,
great loss on both sides, but the enemy's much the
greater—particularly in cavalry."
* * * *

" General Georgey has been attacked at Raab by
50,000 men, and an immensely strong artillery, and re-
pulsed. In consequence of this the plan that he should
advance against Austria and the lower armies concen-
trated here is become impossible. Hence the resolution
has been taken to leave a strong garrison in Comorn,
and concentrate the whole army lower down, so that the
Transylvanian, the Deutsch. Banat, and the upper army,
together with the corps of Visc,czky, should draw to-
wards Szegedin, and unite with the Bacs-Banat army.
I have to add that the Russian army has sent a strong
detachment across the Theiss at Tokay, of 8,000 men,
and according to other accounts, of 20,000, and that
these are to-day at Nyiregyhassa. The intention of this
movement seems to be to occupy the country between
Debreczin and Grosswardein in your rear, and cut you
off from the upper army. To hinder this roust be at present
our main task, and for this purpose the above mentioned
concentration has been resolved by the Government. It
is midnight: at this moment the Minister Csanyi, Lieu-
tenant-Field-Marshal Kiss and General Aulich start to
take Georgey the decisive order for the concentration of
the troops on Szegedin. I may add confidentially that
the seat of the Government will be also removed
thither.—Perseverance. and hope for the victory of our
just cause.

" L. KOSSUTH, Governor."

" THE GOVERNOR OF THE LAND TO L. F. M. BEM.

" Pesth, July 4.
" The course of action adopted by Georgey during
the last days bespeaks the intention of operating with
the corps d'armie under his command upon his own
responsibility, and independently of the Government.
After the battle lost at Raab it was his opinion that the
Government should transfer its seat, without loss of
time, once more to the other side of the Theiss, as he
could not answer for their security in Pesth for twenty-
four hours. Under such circumstances, as governor of
the country, I conceive it to be my imperative duty
timely to transfer to a place of security the moveable
property of the State, and particularly bank, ammuni-
tion, military clothing, arms, manufactory, &c. ; but to
keep the seat of the Government as long as possible in
Buda-Pesth. The reports upon the march of the enemy
to Grosswardein appear to be not quiet exact, Never-
theless, Visoczky has received instructions to cross the
Theiss on the 7th. Meanwhile Perczel will pass that
river, with nearly 10,000 men, to-morrow. There was
a bloody battle before Comorn on the 2d. It lasted
from nine in the morning till late in the evening, when
the enemy, completely defeated, fled and was pursued by
our troops.
" In consequence of this, the Government is still at
Pesth, and hopes not to be obliged to decamp. Mean-
while, myself must, for a time, take up my abode in
Czegled. Of the main army 20,000 men abide as garri-
son in Comore, and while these keep the enemy busy,
the remainder will withdraw against the Russians, and
in connexion with the army of the Bass-Ranat, hold as
base of the next operations of the war the line of the
Theiss and Maros. General Kmeti goes from Stahl-
weissenburg to Pecs, crosses the Danube with the help
of the boat-bridge which has been floated down thither
from this, and put himself in communication with the
army of the Bacs-Banat, in order to strike a decisive
blow at Jellachich, and raise the siege of Peterwardein.
Arad is already ours, and that Temesvar follow soon,
should be our united aim. Visocsy and Desewffy have
had agents for procuring intelligence. They never know
where the enemy is. The last report is that he crossed
the Theiss at Polgar. If this be confirmed, we will fall
upon his flank with 180,000 men. This is a compressed
sketch of our operations. Let me know, Lieutenant-
Field-Marshal, what is going forward in Transylvania,
and what we are to expect there; and please to send me
reports, if only short ones, daily by the way of Deva-
Banga, Mezo-Tur, Szolnok, and Czegled.
" Lours KOSSUTH."
" Czegled, July 9.
" I hast en to inform the Lieutenant Field-Marshal of
the state of the war here. Cormorn has remained occupied
by from 18 to 20,000 men, to hold in check the Austrian
army, or at least a great part of it. From 20 to 24,000
men are on the march from Watzan towards Hatvan.
General Perczel has the chief command here over two
army corps—his own, which we have newly formed of
10,000 men, and the corps of Visoczky and Desewffy,
12,000 men. The first of these is to day at Abony, and
the second at Tortel. They proceed according to circum
stances across the Theiss, or along it upwards, when the
army moves on from Hatvan. Powerful columns of
Landsturm are at Nagy Ivan, Karczag, and Pi,poki. The
Russians, who crossed the Theiss and marched on De-
brecen, were 15,000 strong; but they have withdrawn
again to join their army at Miskolcz, which consists of
15,000 more. The Austrians are marching on Buda,
and yesterday their outposts were in BO; osvar. The
bridge between Buda and Pesth is broken down. The
Government is going to Szegedin. In the Bacs-Banat,
General Vetter commands; under him Guyon. Ho has
been reinforced by 6,000 veteran troops under General
Kmeti, and has orders to fall on Jellachich. He is, more-
over, to raise the siege of Peterwardein, and take Te-
mesvar. The commander-in-chief of the forces :is
General Messaros, with Dembinski at his side as general
quarter-master. This is the state of things, Lieutenant-
Field-Marshal. I look at the future full of trustfulness,
but under the condition of a smart energetic military
authority being at the head. I offer to you herewith,
Lieutenant-Field-Marshal, the command-in-chief of all
the Hungarian armies, and beg your speedy answer
whether you accept, under what conditions, and whether
you consider Transylvania sufficiently secured during
your absence. I request your answer at Szegedin.

" L. KOssuna."
" Szegedin, July 16.
" Not having any garrison at Pesth, I could not leave
the presses for making bank-notes exposed to the risk of
being taken by the enemy. It was therefore, necessary
to take them to pieces, and to convey them, though
weighing near 6,000 quintals, to Szegedin, and at the
same time I was forced to do the same with the presses
of Debreczin. It required at least fifteen days to place
them in activity, and during those fifteen days we have
not struck off a florin. That is the reason why you have
not received any money, with the exception of the
125,000 florins which I sent you on the 9th from Szol-
nok. Ido what I man can do, but lam not a God, and
I cannot create. For a year there have been no re-
ceipts, the Treasury is empty, and war I At this moment
I have to provide for the maintenance of the following
troops:--
Transylvania
Army of Comorn
•
Army of the South
Army of the Theiss
Peterwardein ..•
Other garrisons and detachments

... 40,000
"' ••• ... 45,000
•••
"'
.. 36,000
... 26,000
.. 8,000
... 10,000

165,000
BAsides the reserve of 18 regiments of Hussars, 20,000
sick, 60,000 men of the Landstrum, the powder maga-
zines, founderies, manufactories of arms, 24,000 priso-
ners, &c. I beg of you to have a little patience. I repeat
that I am not a Gud ; I can die for the country ; but I
have not the gift of creating. In three days the presses
will be in order, and then I will send to your cashier
20.0,000 florins a week. You demand 800,000 florins in
pieces of 30 and 15 kreutzers. I beg of you to remark
that, as we only work with twenty hand-presses, it wouldtake thirty- three days' labour to produce that sum, which
is only the tenth of our monthly expenses. And now
fursomething very important. M. Boleses and M. Bol-
hok, Wallactitan refugees, have proposed to me to form a
Wallachian legion. I have accepted in principle, and
have sent them to you for the details. I recommend
them to you—the thing is very important. If you enter
Wallachia, as I should wish, this battalion should form
the advanced guard. The result would be incalculable.
It things come to that point, I beg of you to say in
your proclamations that
we come as the friends of the
Turks and Wallachians to deliver them from the op-
pression of the Russians.' The Turks are following an
quivocal policy—we must compromise them. I see b y
the newspapers that you have suppressed the civil juris-
diction—this measure cannot take place without my
consent, unless I declare to the Diet that I am no longer
governor. Why do you compromise me, my dear Lieu-
tenant-General? Think of the numerous embarrassments
which I have, and remember that my friends should not
increase them. I count on your support, and I appeal
to our conversation at Grosswardein. I have the firm
hope of conquering
our enemies if we remain united.--
I am, &c., " L. liosauxs, Governor."

The following appears to form part of an earlier letter
from Kossuttr.to Bern :—" There is one circumstance for
me for
.you, and for the whole country extremely
afflicting and painful. General Gorgey wrote from Co.
morn on the 2d of July The battle of Raab is lost.
The enemy out flanked us towards Bicske, for I cannot,
in the face of 60,000 men, extend my line so far from the
point d' appui. The enemy will, within 48 hours, be in
Buda. The Government will do well to think of se-
curing the stores, bank, &c."'

Ile and S ilby ...... 50 ...... 9'1,2 x.d 9214 x.d.
Half .
v. Quarter Share...—. 12;;,9. •• ......
J ~aster and Carlisle... 50 ......
Ditto, Thirds
La,:caf,oire Yorkshireloo
Do. do. M. B. k 13— 98
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, 1, Shares ...... 46 ......
Do. Quarters ... —
Do. Fifths lO
Do. Thirds •... ..... 15 ....•
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent........... 10
Do. Liverp. and Bury 46
Ditto (Huddersfield
and Sheff.)
Do. (W. Riding Union) 9
Do. (Preston dti Wyre) 25
_
Do. %/ Shares (A)... 10

MONEY anted COMME CIA L NEW S,
R r‘; EL,
The Cotton-market at L verpeol was firmer yester-
day, and prices of American had regained the *I. lost on
Wednesday; prices o other qualities were the same.
The sales amounted to about 8,000 bales, 1,000 of which
were taken for export, and 2.500 on speculation, and
included 6,500 American at 60. to 7d., 100 Bahia at
6d., 400 Surat at 4d. to 4 d., and 60 Sea Island at 10d.
to ls, 3d. per lb.—Railway Shares were dull, and prices
were again lower.
The Grain trade in Mark-lane is dull to-day at about
previous rates. The arrivals are moderate.
The Colonial and Foreign Produce Markets have
been moderately active this week, and prices, on the
whole, are fairly sustained. Cotton and Coffee are the
favourite articles still, but at a slight reduction. A good
deal has likewise been done in Sugar. Rice has had a
fair sale.
The following interesting information as to the condi-
tion of Jamaica has come to hand by a recent arrival:—
" There exists, notwithstanding all that has been said
and written on the subject, a manifest unwillingness on
the part of our agricultural community to commence the
cultivation of any other articles than those formerly
cultivated in this island. Many we know are
prevented from attempting anything new or
novel, and obliged to continue a particular
course. Others are unacquainted with the mode of cul-
tivation necessary for the production of articles not
hitherto produced in this island, and a third party is
careless and negligent about the matter. If all were
contented with things as they are, and getting on
smoothly, wo should not be surprised at this unwilling-
ness to turn attention to anything else. We hear
complaints, however, from every quarter, and from all
classes ; and loud and constant as: are these, we can
discover no attempt to introduce new commodities, or
to improve upon old methods of cultivating. Odr re-
marks apply more particularly to the small settlers
and resident proprietors. There is no attempt being
made by these to depart from the system which
existed half a century ago, and none by the better
informed portion of the community to instruct or
inform them. Hence, in an island possessing great
natural advantages, we perceive few, if any, evidences
of advancement or progress. The cultivation of the
great staples has fallen off, and numerous properties
have been thrown up. We see this, but we do not per-
ceive that any other exportable articles are being added to
the list of productions, or that preparation is making
for supplying ourselves with a number of articles that
aro now imported into the island. Nor can we believe
that there is any unwillingness on the part of the owners
or occupiers of land to turn their attention to other
matters likely to prove advantageous. No one offers to
inform them how to produce other commodities. No
one, indeed, condescends to point out the advantages
to result from their making attempts that way. Left to
themselves, the people can only be expected to pursue
the old course, and to do what they have been accus-
tomed to. In the absence of intelligent parties, who
have the time and the disposition to instruct and
improve them, the Legislature is called upon
to make some effort for that purpose. We
hear that our population is retrograding, and
witness the absence of improvement in the mode of
cultivating the land, and in the appearance and comfort
of the habitations. But there is nothing surprising in
this, when it is remembered that no efforts are being
made, no means used to inform the people or to elevate
or to improve their tastes. The next genera-
tion will be no better than the present. Improvement
is, indeed, out of the question. There is little hope for
the island if some means are not adopted at once to
increase the artificial wants, and stimulate the industry
of the masses, and also to teach them new modes of
plying that industry, and realising the means of satisfy.
ing these wants."
This candid statement from a local correspondent
strongly confirms all that we have stated on various oc-
casions as to the supineness induced in our colonial pos-
sessions by the protection system. And was it not until
recently, almost as bad at home.
The Continental markets' stocks had continued
buoyant up to the date of the letters received here this
morning.
The English Stock Market has been very flat again
this morning, and extremely inactive, presenting still, in
this respect, a very marked contrast to the Continental
markets. Consols have been 924 for both Transfer
and Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 934 and the Three per Cents.
921 -I. Exchequer-bills have been 40s. to 435, and
India Bonds 725. premium. The foreign news does not
exercise any particular influence on the market.
The Foreign Securities have been very quiet likewise.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been marked 181, and
Portuguese Four per Cents. 27. Mexican x3onds have
been quoted 274 to 28. The fortnght's account is being
adjusted, and passes on without the slightest difficulty,
so little has been doing recently. Russian Bonds have
risen again, being 109, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been buoyant at 53i 4.
Railway Shares have been very depressed again.
Great Western are nearly 21, worse. Eastern Counties
have fallen I ; Caledonian, to ; North Western, 3to
4 ; and York and North Midland, to 1. Brighton are
much the same, and Midland keep up. South Wales
have been done at 13 to and so far yesterday's
meeting seems to have done some good. In Foreign
Shares there have been but one or two bargains. To
account for the marked depression in Shares, we may
may observe that there is an increased anxiety among
the speculators to close accounts and leave town, and
the public not operating just now, the Rears are om-
nipotent.

DID N...

MI.
.••

. -

... --

ONE O'OCLCK. CLosING
•!z;•');-, cr ,tRIV9III :TINDS AIICES.
3f or Cent. Reduced A,lns ...... 92%5/ 92%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities : ,9211 A! 921/2
Yew 31 per Cent. Anns -
Long Anna. to expireJan.lß6o
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8 11-16 8 11-16
India Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,000/... ...... .- 72 p
Consols for Account 9214%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. & 2d.
1,0001. June
500/. June
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE
O'CLOCK.

72p
92%

40 p
40 p
39 p
PRICES

. • • •••••

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1843 ..
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons..-
Ditto, Ex Coupons
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Deferred —
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted, 5 per Cent 27 ~,
Russian Bonds ... 109 109
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account ... ............
Ditto, 3 per Cent .... —
t.frvidencLs on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 535/41,¢
uitto. 4 per Cent. Certificates
Do. Bonds..

Ow.•

81
83,4

27%
23%
14d/4

181 A
34'4
534

vRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
KA ILWA Y SIIARES. AT 01•1: O'CLOCK. PRICE-.
1 berdeen
Do. Preference ...... 6!4...... -
:mber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 6 ...... . ......
kyrshire and Galloway.. 7% —
:ielfast & County Down 25 -.
Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
IDo, withoutguarautee 20 ...
firming, Wolverh' ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 .....
Do. without guarantee 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145... •••
Birkenhead, Lancashire,

and Cheihire Juno.... 20 -
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 43. - ,
Bristol and Exeter 9O ..., - - ...,
Ditto, Thirds
' ,3uckinghanishire
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 .... . -
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
.... •••
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 -
...
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 -
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... - ...
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. -
Direct London & Ports-
mouth -
Dublin and Belfast June. 40 .....• -•
Dundalk & Enniskillen 221,E ...... - ..
East Anglian, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 -
Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 -
Do., 31. 10s., Pref... 3% ....• -
Eastern Counties...
..... ,
Do. New, Gua.6 per ct
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/. 13s. 4d.... -
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... -
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. .... ..... 50 -
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Ditto, 14 Shares -
Do. New - ...
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25 -
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 31,E -
Do., Class B (L & B.) 25 -
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 221. .... - ...
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 .••••• -
East Lancashire ......... 25 - ••• • ..... .. ••
Ditto, New - ......... ......
, Ditto New Quarters 614
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 614
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
e,dinburgh and Glasgow 50 - • •
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. - ........ •-•••
Edinburgh and Northern 25 -
Ditto, Newport l5 .. ...
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2% -
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. - ...
lila-gow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ....... ... ..81. 6s. 8d.... -
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 .... . ....
Do. Preference Consol. -
- • ..... Great Northern
..... 8
..
Do., ;2 A Deferred
.........
...
..
............
Do., 1/2B 6 per Cent- 7%. ..... __
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 7 EA ...... 534 ... .... ...
••
Treat South. and West
(Ireland)
..
.....
...
= reat North of England.loo
.... _ : -
Ditto, New, 401 4O
.... "'
.. ..._ -
Ditto, ditto 35 ...... - -
Ditto, New, 30/ ..
30 ...... ...
•••
Ditto. New,ls/... ...... 15 . -
-
Great Western ......... 100 ..•.... 69% x.d. 69V or d.
Ditto, % Shares ...,,.10
50
Ditto, AA Shares ...... 23
Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20
12% l 3
Ditto,
13k x.d.
Ditto, New 171- ..... 15 ..11 • • ..... •

Leeds and Bradford - 50
Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50
Ditto, New ...... ....... 50
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 31,x —
Do., Pref. Quar., 1843 9
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . lO
Loudon &Blackwall . 12%
London, Brighton, and
South Coa, L.. .. 50
Do. Guarani. 5 per et.. 9 ...... 9 ...
Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50
Ditto. ditto-- IsrA 50
Ditto, New 51., guar.
6 per cent.
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d...
DAto, Preference .. . 20
L d-r. and N. Western 100......122 123 122% x.d. 121%
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12
2
Do. 40/•Shares(L.M.) 30
Do. 101. (M. .Bc. B.) C. 1
Loud. z S Western 50 .. —. 33 x.d 33 fAx.d.
Ditto, New 501. ...... 421,¢......
Do. itiew 401 34

33/4
37 .4'a
4

7%
11,

20%

Ditto. Thirds l6/.136.4d.... dis; ..... ......
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Londonderry&Coleraine 25 .
.-- ..... „...... .........
Do. I 4 Shares ........ .•••...
ndonderry and Ennis-. 3%
kEhn...... .- ........ ... 25
Do. % Shares
Mancheiter,Buxton,and
Matlock 5
!II inch aster, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire —lOO
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 - •••
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 121/2 —
Do. New 101. Pr0f,.... 10 ...... 102
Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50
Ditto ditto . ......... 19 •••••• --- •••••••••
Ditto ditto - .......,...••••
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 221. ...
Do., Grimsby Dock 25
Do., Manchester and
Lincoln Union..... 41.25. — -
Midland
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo - ,
Do., do., 50/..Shares 30 ... .. 14 %14 ......
Do. Birm., and DArbv 100
.. 3014
Do.Consol. Bristol and
Burning., ti per et.... 100 126
Ditto, Brat. & Glocstr. 40 ...... „..•„••••
Ditto ditto ......18/.125.6d.... -
Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
uington, 8 per ct.guar.loo
Nl,diand ureat Western
Irish -
111.ddlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carhsle 100 , — -

10%

Do. Quarters
Newmarket
Do. Extension - .....
ewport, Abergavenny,
Lnd tiereiora 6 • •••• • .......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Ilostrevor .. 20 -
Norfolk ......... ......... -.100 -
Do. New 201. .. l5
Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20
Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 -
Do. ',..0w estoft(4 per ct) 20
Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... --
N.qthern Counties Union 4 ......
North British ........ ... 25 ......
Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12% —
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, 'Thirds ........84 .. ... .....
Ditto Preference 3% — ••• ..-
North Staffordshire ... 171,E — ... ........
North Wales . 3%
North-Western ..... 13% -
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 4 %.. ... 4%713 ......
Scottish Central -
Scottish Midland
Ditto, New -
Shrewsbury and Bine— 11 —
Ditto ditto. Class B. 7
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury and Herefd. 3
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) lB
Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 -
Ditto Oawestry ..... . 18it
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10
Shropshire Union -
...
youth...
- uth Devon
Do. Preference
South Statibrdshire Bl/4, 4t2 ~... ...... .
South Easter:33% --- ... ..
Do., No. 1
Do., N 0.2.
Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 --
Do., Registered No. 4 10
Do.,
Scrip No 4
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole lO
Sheffield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N.. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent. ... 14% — -
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 ..,,,.. .....
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 7
raw Vale Extension ... 8
••• ••
['lames Haven Dock
and Railway ..... ... 17% —
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 8
Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . — ...
Waterford and Limerick 47%
Naterfd,Wx.frd,Wicklw
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed . .. 5O
Do. do. do. ... 25 .
Do. do. do. ... 15 .. ... ..... .., „ -
West Cornwall ...... ... 6 ... _ -.... •
..-..
v hitebaven & Furness 16
Windsor, Staines, and
&nun iWestern ..... ... 14
W ills, Somerset, & W ey-
mouth 45 — -
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... .. . 25
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 ...." 125/%..,...
.....
Do. G.N.P.. ereterence 8 ....• 3%....... ... "'Do. 11,,rtlepool Dock
anti Railway .. 100
......
York anti k ortli Midland 50
o.tte, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS
knglo Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian). ... 5
doulogn and Amiens... 20 ...... --
Central of France (Or- ••• ..........•
leans and Vierzon)... 20
... _
...
Demerara ..
Dutch Rhenish .....» 8
..
East Indian ..-.....
•
Great Indian Peninsular 5
Do. Do. ... _....105.
Louvain Ila Sambre ... 7" . ...

1634

254

11i

44

634
13%

1214
3%
22a
6%

.....
6,14

4i

. % ...... -
Luxembourg
10 -
Madrid and Valentia... 2
--...... ....
Namur and Liege
Northern of France l4/. 85... dis. ....... 5% dils.
Orleans and Bordeaux
Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... ..
Paris and Rouen 2O .0 .4 ,-.. ...... ..
Paris and Strasbourg
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. ..
Strasbourg and Basle
Tours and Nantes ll ..... .
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ...... 20 ......
West Flanders 83%.....
Ditto ... ........ ..• -
~... ..... 8% — .. -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia . 4O ...... —• . --
British North American 50 .....
Colonial 25 ...... -.
Commercial of London 20 -
London. Joint Stock.... 10
London & Westminster. 20
•• ••• —.
National Prov. England. 35
Ditto New... ..... ...... 10
•• ••• _-
National of Ireland 224...... ..- ....... -..
Provincial of Ireland - ......... .. •••
Ditto, New .... -
of Australia
Ditto,New... ...... ..... 21 ...... - .
Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...,.,
Union of Madrid ... 40 ......
MINES.
An 10-Mexican ......... 100 ...... ....
Asturian Mining Corn... 15 ... -

Australian
Barrossa Range ...
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 ••
.....
Bolonos Scrip ..... ....
British Iron ....., ....... 12
Brazilian Imperial
...... 24% ......
BrazilianCoraes&Cuiaba 30 ......
Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... . .
Cobre Copper
General 2O
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures —
Do. Red Ditto ... .....
Santiago de Cuba lO - ••• •••• ..... ••
United Mexican 28% 33% .... ..... ...

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG. 31.—Wind this day at noon W.N.W'
light airs and dull cloudy weather.
DEAL, Am. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived from the
River, Simlah, Tibbs, Port Philip; Sarah, Graham, Rio
Janeiro, and not from Rio Janeiro, as reported yester-
day. Arrived from the River and sailed, Maria Grace,
Gribble, Newfoundland.

CLYDE, AUG. 29.—A rrd. Calypso, Wilkie Baltimore ;
Clydesdale, Morris, Baltimore; Belmont, Brown, SL.
Kitts. Sid. 28th, Annabella, St. Thomas's.

CARDIFF, AUG. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sld. 25th, Caroline,
Rio Janeiro; Mary Seaton, Valparaiso.

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