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London, England, 1838-09-06 00:00:00

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SUN Qftice, 112, Strand, Sept. 6, 1838.

HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH,
And

HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK,
beg to state, that Orders, with Remittances, will meet due atten-
tion, and that they are able to execute orders of various amounts,
from 101. to 501. Orders for less than 10/. cannot he attended to.

HEINE BROTHERS have remitted on the 25th July, 60,000
mares from LUBECK to LONDON, and hope to remit in next
month large sums from HAMBURGH to ENGLAND, SCOT-
LAND, and IRELAND.

HAXIBURGH and LUBECK, August, 1838.
Postscript.—Persons desirous to obtain large Sums from
FRANCFORT may also address HEINE BROTHERS at
LUBECK, but they must n..t address Heine Brothers at Ham-
burgh, the Hamburgh house having no transactions with Francfort.
For Hamburgh and Lubeck concerns, those ordering may ad-
dress, either HEINE BROTHERS at HAIIIBURGH or at LU-
BECK, at their own convenience.

300,000 Mares equal to 17.500/. may be received from Francfort
110,000
50,000
together 460,000 Mares equal to 27,0001.
Lubeck Mares 24 being XI .5 7
Hamburgh Mares 90 ... 5 7 0
Francfort Mares 135 ... 8 1 6
Thus 151. still do for engaging in THESE THREE MONEY
CHANNELS, 301. for a double, and 45/. for a treble speculation.

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THURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 6, 1838.

The Corn Averages published to-day give 725. lld
for the six weeks ending August 31, which reduces
the duty to 2s. Bd. The weekly average is 745. sd. ;
the weekly average on July 27 was 695. Id. Next
week this last average will be excluded from the six
weeks, and the average for the week ending September
7th will be added, and unless this average shall be
b,:low 695. ld.—the average of the week to be ex-
cluded—the next six weeks will be 735., and the
duty will be down to its minimum of Is. In these facts
we see some matter for observation worthy of the
attention of agriculturists.
It must be observed that to bring down the averages
the highest price which they can obtain for their corn
can be only 695., but the average price which deter-
mines the importatiou duty will be above 725., thus
they will be sc.!i;ig their corn at nearly 45.,

at least, lower than the price on which their

pretended protection is founded. That fact de-
tnonNtrates that the. averages—even supposing
no artificial means have been used to .raise them, no
fictitious sales, a dozen times repeated, at high prices,
have entered into the calculation—do not give the
farmers that degree of protection, by several shillings
per quarter, by which the lying landlords, looking only
to the terms of the law, insist on rack-tenting their
tenants. But the farmers must not suppose that this
could be improved. To raise the average price at
which corn may be imported, and so to raise the duty,
is impossible ; and they will find in practice that while
they are mocked with a nominal protection of 738.,
the price at which they sell their corn is always far
below that price which determines the duty. We
should suppose that there is not at present a score of
farmers throughout this wide empire, who have put
725. 11d. per quarter into their pockets for any corn
they have sent to market. On this subject we insert
elsewhere some observations from a Provincial Paper,
which throw an additional light on the operation of
the averages as they affect the farmer, and are worthy
his attention.

Another consideration is, that the apparent delay in
carrying the averages up to the point at which the
minimum duty begins, has enabled the speculators to
add to the quantity of foreign corn in our ports
and bonded warehouses. The farmers have, we
believe, endeavoured to prevent them reaching that
point at considerable sacrifices. They have hurried
to market with their corn ; and, according to a Maid-
stone Journal, some of them have cut their wheat be-
fore it was ripe, and have rendered it unsaleable, ex-
cept at a great loss. They are, however, on such a
point, no match for their opponents, and the money
speculators commanding the market have made it
oscillate throughout for their advantage. The Corn-
laws convert a wholesome and necessary trade into a
gambling speculation, of which the monied classes are
sure in the long-run to reap all the benefits.
It will be seen by the averages that the rise has

chiefly been in wheat. Barley, oats, rye, beans, and
peas are at moderate prices, and high importation du-
ties. What the farmers do not gain on their wheat, they
will not gain on their other crops ; and the fact
that they have not risen proportionably to bread corn,
seems to indicate that dearth will not be known, and
that the wheat growers have been the victims of that
speculation which is the offspring of the Corn-laws.
Wheat has been accumulated in our ports and ware-
houses, by the hope of introducing it at a low duty,
instead of bringing it gradually in to supply the
markets, as the wants of the people demanded it. The
landed interest contributed to the accumulation by re-
jecting the Bill for grinding corn in bond, and now it
will all be poured in on the market at a low duty, cor-
responding to a much higher price of corn than the
deluded farmers will obtain. The palpable result, then,
of the Corn-laws is to supersede the wholesome, na-
tural, regular rule of supply and demand in the market,

and to substitute for it the chances of the money
classes pocketing a million of money, or 1,500,0001.,
in proportion to the quantity of foreign corn they
can bring in at ls. duty per quarter. We should like
to know how long the best interests of this extensive
community, so full of varied employments, so liable to
derangement and injury from great changes in the
price of food, are to be removed from the ordinary
operations of supply and demand, and remain ex-
posed to the chances of a lottery more tempting, more
extensive, and more mischievous than ever Mr. BISH
established—or than ever landowners in Parliament,
when they were most smitten with a love of morality,
and a tender care for the virtue of the people, thought
it their duty to suppress ?
In another part of our Paper will be found the re-
port of the first meeting held in the metropolis to pro-
cure the repeal of the starvation laws. Had we been
informed of the intention of those who called it, we
should have furnished a more extensive report to our
readers.

We insert an article from the Chronicle, concern-
ing Dr. Hoof[ and his reported dismissal from the
office of Queen's Chaplain. It will suffice to put our
readers fully into possession of the facts of the case,
and we shall not, by any comments of ours, contri-
bute to hoist this little bit of Tory and Ecclesiastical
quackery into undue importance. Dr. HOOK
is, we believe, a brother of THEODORE HOOK,
of John Bull notoriety, and seems not averse
from sharing his brother's reputation. That
Mr. MoßrsoN, we mean he of the gamboge pills, or
Mr. CURTIS, of auricular celebrity, should
,have pa-
ragraphs concocted for the Journals, which prate of
their whereabouts and their doings, seems quite in
order, and the thing passes unnoticed for what it is
worth ; but when a learned Divine adopts a similar
method to attract public attention, and with
a boldness far surpassing any thing known of MORI-
SON and Co., weaves the name of the highest
Person of the realm into his scheme, all the Press
treat the piece of quackery as something of pro-
digious importance. The Tory Journals promise
to print Dr. Homes sermon, " Hear the Church ;"
rich Tories run to buy it ; and no doubt the
sermon and the Doctor will be the thing and the man
of the day, eclipsing for a time, in certain circles, all
lesser Tory lights. For our part, except thus ex-
pressing our contempt for the whole worthless pro-
ceeding, we decline to puff Dr. HOOK and his " Hear
the Church" into notice.

We inserted yesterday an article from the Scotsman,
on Limited and Universal Suffrage, which demands a
brief notice from us. The history which is there
given of the change which has been effected in our
Constitution, by reporting the debates in Parliament,
is especially worthy of observation. It comes appro-
priately, we think, to strengthen the observations
we made on Monday on the political influence
which is or may be obtained by individuals who have
no part in electing Members to the House of Com-
mons, or in the actual business of making the laws.
It comes, therefore, appropriately to confirm our re-
commendation to the working classes not to rely so
much on the power of making the laws to insure their
own welfare, and not, therefore, to prefer the distant
and doubtful ailvantage of obtaining a voice in electing
Members to the House of Commons by Universal
Suffrage, to the present exercise of the influence they
can and do exercise over those Members in procuring
a repeal of the starvation laws. It comes usefully be-
fore the public to prove that a great number of ele-
ments, more powerful than that of legislation, contri-
bute to the progress of society, and continually set
aside the best devised laws. The change effected
by the influence of reporting was in defiance of
the privileges of both Houses of Parliament, and
by means of the Press, which the Legislature and
the lawyers have continually sought to control and
suppress. It has, in spite of them, grown into
power, and, as the exact organ of enlightened publie
opinion, has become their master. In other words,
it is an organ by which the majority of the enlight-
ened members of society influence the whole, and sup-
press all those—Peers or Princes, as it may be,—who
stand opposed to irs progress and its welfare.
But the Press is not one of our institutions ; it has no
legal existence ; it, grows and extends every day ; it
increases in power, in utility, and in moral grandeur ;
and to us, consequently, it seems more rational in the
working classes to make their opinions tell for what
they are worth through the master Press, than to en-
deavour directly to controul the servant Legislature.
Their present striving seems not only ill-timed, but
comparatively inglorious. It falls far below the high
object within their reach. They are lowly wooing the
maid when they might have the mistress for the ask-
ing. They do, and might to a greater extent, influence
the progress of society, but they turn from that and
content themselves with seeking to have a Parliament
shaped according to their own notions.

In our columns of this day will be found a con-
densed report of certain proceedings represented as
having taken place at the Half-yearly General Meet-
ing of the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company.
There are numberless public meetings at which no-
thing is less desired than impartial publicity, and we
have yet to learn that the meeting of the Dublin and
Kilkenny Railway Directors was not one of those to
which the only reporter usually invited is the Secre-
tary. At all events we heard nothing of this meeting
before receiving the report of which we this day
publish the substance, and for the correctness of
which we do not therefore hold ourselves responsible.
But, setting aside the principle of impartial publicity,
so essential to public confidence, we do not find that
the Directors bad much to do save to attack, in
speeches not remarkable for brilliancy of wit,
keenness of satire, or soundness of logic, the Se-
cond Report of the Irish Railway Commis-
sioners. We are not surprised at the outcry which
has been raised against that Report by the Dublin
and Kilkenny Railway speculators. There is much
in it to provoke the animadversion of factious mono-
polists. The preference given in the Report to the
interests of Ireland over those of certain knots
of interested individuals, designated by courtesy
Companies," is a startling—an alarming inno-
vation in Irish politics. Tried by the law of
precedent, the Commissioners have been guilty of
the very grave offence of disturbing the old associations
in the minds of Irishmen, between the appointment of
a commission and the commencement of a new, or
the perpetration of an old and lucrative system of pri-
vate jobbing at the :expense of the country. But,
having allowed the Directors of the Dublin and Kil-
kenny Railway Company to make a serious charge
against the Report of the Commissioners, it is only fair
that we should quote so much of that Report as bears
directly upon the questions at issue—namely, the ad-
vantages or disadvantages of the Company's line,
and the policy of surrendering to the control of pri-
vate individuals the main trunks of road connecting
the capital of the kingdom with the chief cities andb
towns standing in an important political and social
relation to it :
We shall commence with the line from Dublin to Kilkenny,
for the execution of which an Act of Parliament wasobtained
during the last session.
This line commences at Kilmainham near Dublin, at the
distance of about two and a half miles from the General' Post_
office, and taking a higher level, continues for the first seven-
teen miles in a line nearly parallel to that adopted by us : it
then diverges to the southward, and crosses the Grand Canal

at Sallins, eighteen miles from Dublin; afterwards it traverses
the Curragh of Kildare, then falls into the valley of the Bar-
row, and crosses that river at Athy; from this point it follows
the right bank of the Barrow as far as Leighlinbridge, where
it leaves it, and skirting the base of the hills of the Kilkenny
coal district, takes a nearly north-western course to Kilke•any.
Tbis line has been laid out with great judgment, and its
gradients are very favourable, but we strongly object to it as
the Main trunk to the south of Ireland :

Ist. Asa line to Cork, it is 4 miles longer to Cahir (which is
a common point) than that by Maryborough. 2dly. The
communication from the City of Limerick to Dublin, by any
connexion with it, excepting by a branch line diverging at a
short distance from Dublin, is quite out of the question.
Thus, as a trunk line to the south, we think it deficient in
the most important points—the objects sought being the hest
communication, consistent with economy, between the leading
cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny.
Adopting this as a principle, it becomes evident that the
most economical line for connecting Kilkenny with Dublin
will be by the branch from the Maryborough Summit, which,
as already mentioned, is but twenty-six and a half miles in
length, in preference to making a line for the entire distance
from Kilkenny to Dublin of seventy-three and a half miles.
It is true that the line to Kilkenny, by the Valley of the
Barrow, hc., is five and a half miles shorter than that recom-
mended by us, but taking into consideration the great expense
of a line of seventy-three and a half miles for the sole object of
connecting Kilkenny with Dublin, we are of opinion that this
line is decidedly objectionable. Besides, this railway would
interfere in some degree with the Barrow navigation, though,
perhaps, not materially, as there is no passenger traffic on the
latter, and it is probable that heavy goods will at all times be
carried cheaper by water than by railway.
At the same time we are fully alive to the importance of a
direct railway communication through the rich and populous
valley of the Barrow, which contains the towns of Athy, Car_
low, Bagnalstown, and Leighlinbridge, and which would
greatly facilitate the intercourse between the city of Dublin
and the south-eastern portion of the county of Wexford, in-
cluding the towns of Wexford, Enniscorthy, and Ross. The
present post-road from Dublin to Enniscorthy and Wexford,
passes through the town of Tullow, situated but eight miles
to the east of Carlow ; consequently, all passengers could,
without difficulty, join the railway at Carlow, and by these
means reach Dublin two hours sooner than by the present
road, and at a much cheaper rate; the passengers from Ross,
by joining the railway at Leighlinbridge, would save upwards
of four hours, making the journey in eight instead of twelve
hours. Under these circumstances, though we consider the
Kilkenny line highly objectionable, as the main trunk to the
south and south-west of Ireland, and also as a distinct line from
Dublin to Kilkenny, we think, that it might be desirable to
connect it as a branch, with the main southern line recom-
mended by us, at some point in the neighbourhood of the town
of Kildare. Should this plan be finally adopted, a change
might be made in our main line between Sallins and Mary-
borough, so as to pass a little to the northward of the town of
Kildare ; from whence the country is favourable for the con-
struction of a railway to or near to the town of Athy, where
it would join the Kilkenny line, as at present laid out.
By this arrangement the railway distance from Dublin to
Kilkenny would be about seventy-six miles, or two and a
half miles longer than the original line ; but the length of the
branch from Kildare would be but forty-five and a half miles,
instead of a line of seventy-three and a half miles.
This view is thrown out for consideration. The Kilkenny
Railway Company having already obtained an Act of. Parlia-
ment for their line, may determine to persevere and complete
it for the whole distance from Dublin to Kilkenny. Should
they do so, we are of opinion that the main southern line from
Dublin, recommended by us, possesses so many important
local advantages over the Kilkenny line, that we should
strongly recommend its adoption, notwithstanding the loss
which must ensue from their running parallel to each other
for the first eighteen miles from Dublin ; a loss which would
he very injurious to the main southern, and absolutely ruin-
ous to the Kilkenny line. We have no hesitation in saying,
that any proposal to prolong the latter, in order to substitute
it for a main trunk line to the south-west, is inconsistent with
the general interests of the country, and directly opposed to
those of several extensive and most important districts.
For reasons already given we deem it highly inexpedient
that the main trunk line into Dublin should be placed under
the controul of any Company whose pecuniary interests might
clash with those of the public, or with those of any other
Companies who might make branches connected with it.

The concluding opinion is one in the soundness of
which we entirely concur. No monopoly could pos-
sibly operate more injuriously upon the commercial in-
terests of Ireland than a monopoly of road, and we
trust that every means will be adopted, consistently
with a proper regard to existing interests, to prevent as
far as possible the establishment of any. " There
can be no doubt," as the Commissioners state in ano-
ther part of the Report, " that parties will be found
ready to undertake certain portions of these lines,
which hold out special prospects of advantage ;
such, for example, as the first twenty or thirty
miles leading out of Dublin, over which all the
traffic with other places, near as well as remote,
must necessarily pass. But since, according to
our calculations, the return of profit on the whole
system could not be expected, for some time, to excoed
31. or 4 per cent., it is manifest, that if the best and
most productive portions are taken possession of un-
conditionally, there can be no reasonable hope that
the remainder will ever be carried into effect. It
would be more advisable that no partial line should
be sanctioned until the country should possess within
itself the means of undertaking the whole system, to its
full extent, than at once and for ever to obstruct and
paralyze all future exertions for its accomplishment, by
abandoning to parties, having particular and distinct
interests, the monopoly of some of its most productive
detached portions." Such opinions as these do honour to
the political sagacity of the Commissioners, and had they
been delivered in time enough for the guidance of Parlia-
mentary Committees upon English railways they would
have had the effect of saving this country some mil-
lions of useless expenditure, and placed our public
roads under a greatly improved system of popular
control.

But, having obtained an Act of Parliament, the
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Directors already
begin to cry out for compensation ! It is rather
early yet to estimate their losses ; but, should
the Government be persuaded to take their claims into
consideration, we beg to recommend to the especial
notice of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the
following pithy statement upon the subject, which
we copy from the Chronicle of this morning :
irjust read the remarks of your City Correspon-
denSto;i havethe Irish Railway Commission, and am induced to
make a few observations on the Dublin and Kilkenny Rail-
way, which I hope you will insert in justice to the unfortunate
subscribers.

Now, Sir, the number of shares in the Dublin and Kil-
kenny
Railway is eight thousand, and out of this number
6.300 shares remain unregistered, and the holders preferbmpg
the amount already paid, viz., 21. 10s. per share, to risking
further capital ; and these shares are to be bought at ten shil-
lings per share in the Stock Exchange. And, moreover, every
one of the original subscribers who has signed the Parliamen-
tary contract has received a lawyer's letter, threatening legal
proceedings unless the call is paid. These facts are sufficient
to show that the opinion of the public is much against the
Railway being a remunerating one, and that the Directors
are obliged to raise the capital by coercive measures.

C. D

And now that a cry from certain parties in Ireland
is beginning to be echoed by the Tory Press here
against the Report of the Railway Commissioners, we
shall not be backward in the expression of our opinions,
both as regards the intrinsic merits of that document,
and the value of the evidence produced by its assailants.

The following notice was posted at the Bank to-
day :

The Governor and Company of the Bank of England, do
hereby give notice that, on and after the 6th instant, they
will be ready to receive the applications for loans, upon
deposit of approved Bills of Exchange, not having more than
six months to run, such loans to be repaid on or before the
19th October next, with interest at the rate of 3i per cent.,
to be for loans of not less than 2,0001. each.
Bank of England, Sept. 6.

Brussels and German Journals of the latest dates
have reached us this morning. Subjoined are extracts
from them :

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 3.—The storm cn the 29th of August did
great dalnage in West Flanders, and in part of the province
of Antwerp.
Count Velain XIV. arrived the day before yesterday at
Brussels, from Constantinople with the treaty of commerce
concluded between the Ottoman Porte and Belgium, by our
Ambassador, Mr. O'Sullivan De Grass.

Count Henri de Merode having been made a Knight Com-
mander of the Order of Leopold, and thereby vacated his
seat as Senator, an election to fill up the vacancy took place
this morning. The number of voters was 265. M. de Me-
rode was elected by a majority of 240.
24,500 tickets were delivered yesterday at the stations of
the iron railroad at Brussels and Malines.

Yesterday, at noon, the steam-boat towed into port off
Ostend, the Russian ship Nestor, of Beorborg, of about 300
tons burden, which two fishermen had found at sea, on the night
of the 31st August, same miles from the coast of Blackenberg.
There was nobody on board, and no papers were found. The
ship is in ballast, two masts are broken, and the mizen-mast is
cut away ; the anchors, chains, and cables are in good condi•

tion, and the ship does not seem to have suffered much. It
was met with at sea on the 29th August, by the pilot-boat of
Flushing, which took the long-boat on board,whence it is feared
that the crew had perished. The captain of the pilot-boat
gave notice to the fishermen of Blankenberg, who immediately
went in search of the ship, and found it on the Ist, in the
morning, but they were too late, for two boats from Ostend
had already taken possession of it. This ship was probably
exposed to the storm of August 28.
FRONTIERS OF BOHESIIA, AUG. 23.—Marshal Marmont is
Still at Dresden, from which city he daily makes excursions
on foot to the Saxon and Bohemian mountains. From the
notes which he is seen to enter in his pocket-book, and from
many expressions which he has let fall, it seems certain that
we may expect a continuation of his memoirs. When at Vi-
enna he visited the Marehfelds and the environs of Linz and
Ens ; a few days ago he was at the place near Dresden where
Moreau was killed, and as he intends to go to Leipsig, where
he distinguished himself in the great battle in 1813, it may be
expected that the sequel of his memoirs will be more interest-
ing and important than his " Reminiscences of the East."
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 4.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
An Syndic, 4% per cent 95. 95%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. —
Commercial Com . any, 4,,i per cent 167 168%
Ditto (1832 and 1:44) 5 per cent.
Loan 1836, 4 per cent.. lOl 101 X
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. 99% 19%
Exchange on London, One month l2 12%
Two months
BELGIAN I. UNDS—BaossELs, SEPT. 4.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. ..... ...,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. —
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 149
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4O
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 4.
AUSTRIAN FUNDEL—VIENNA, Auo. 27.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1436%
—Aligemeine Zeitung, Sept. 2.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE. SEPr. 1.
Bills. Money,
Austrian Metal'iques, 5 per cent.
Die° ditto 3 per cent. SOX
Ditto ditto 2; per cent, —
Intto Bank Shares 1427 1425
Ari,glo-Russian Loan lOB% 118%
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent lOl% 101%
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bends, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 3 per cent —
Dutch 2% per Cents. 53% 53%
• Ditto 5 per Cents lOO% 100
Polish 13onds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets 155 154%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72% 72
Norwegian Lean of 1834, 4 per cents.
~.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent l9
Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France -
-Hamburg Papers, Sept."l.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday contain no po'itical
news of the slightest importance. What little intelli-
gence of a general character can be gleaned from them
will be found in the following extracts
The following are the contents of a letter from Munich of
the 26th of August :
" Prince Polignac arrived here this morning from Augs-
burg, where he has spent some time with his son. He in-
tends shortly to go to Verona, where he will pass the winter,
his health being too delicate to bear our climate. This arrival
was expected by several of his countrymen, among whom are
the Marquis d'Ormond, Count de Custine, the Count de la
Rochefourchen, the Ex-Minister (Count de Guernon Ran-
ville), who has announced himself as a private gentleman of
Normandy. The arrival of these gentlemen will be followed,
it is said, by that of the Duke of Ragusa, and of Count de
Ferronays, who will pass some days at Munich. Persons who
are well-informed affirm that the motive of the presence of
these gentlemen is a project for the marriage of a member of
the elder branch of the house of Bourbon with an august
Princess."
It is generally asserted that Duke Maximilian of Leuchten-
berg, will enter the service of Russia, for two years, with the
rank of Major-General.
Sir George Villiers' the English Ambassador to the Span-
ish Government, who has obtained leave of absence, and left
Paris a month ago, is going to return to his post. The Whig
Cabinet alarmed at the critical situation of Spain, has judged
it necessary that its Envoy should be at Madrid.
The Attorney-General in the Royal Tribunal of Douay, has
appealed to the Court of Cassation against the division
which reversed the sentence passed in the first instance against
the Liberal.—Le Commerce.

A report has been circulated this morning that the Minister
of War was attacked by a serious indisposition yesterday,
which compels him to abandon his functions for the present.
Count Mole having consulted with M. Rosamel, and the Mi-
nister of Finances, will be charged with the portfolio in the
interim. A courier fias carried this news to Eu, with a
draft of the ordonnance, which confers this interim on the
President of the Council.

The Commerce gives a letter of the 19th ult. from St.
Petersburgh, stating that the Emperor of Russia has given
orders for the formation of an army of 60,000 men and 120
pieces of cannon, to be stationed on the extreme frontier of
Bessarabia, near Ismael, so that it may be ut the disposal of
the Sultan, as well as the squadron commanded by Admiral
Cumanets off Trebisond. We published a rumour of this
kind in a letter from Constantinople a short time since, but
we attach little or no weight either to the report or to this
i s apparent confirmation. The letter quoted above further
states that the Czar has directed a corps of observation of
20,000 men to be collected on the Araxes, which bounds
Persia, and a corps de reserve of 30,000 men at Erivan.
QUARANTINE.—The Board of Health at Marseilles has
placed all vessels coming from Algiers under a quarantine
of fifteen days, having learned that a Turkish brig from Alex-
andria had clandestinely landed a number of passengers on
the coast about twelve leagues from Algiers, whence they
had dispersed themselves through the country, and some of
them had entered the town. A similar regulation exists at
Genoa.

SPANISH FINANCES, —We quote the following from the
Journal de Paris :—" A grand meeting of the French and
English capitalists is to be held shortly at Paris, at M.
I.Jaffitte's, to take into consideration several important ques-
tions relating to the commercial interests of the Peninsula.
The chief object of the assembly will be the turning to profit
the colonial possessions which still belong to Spain. The
Philippine Islands, hitherto so much neglected, will form the
subject of a new India Company ; which being placed under
a neutral flag, will be free from all the chances of war. The
Charter which is being prepared will create new maritime
rights in conformity with a. true spirit of justice. Article 23
of the Navigation Act, passed in the reign of George 111. can
no longer be admitted; and, it will be recollected, that Sir
Robert Peel, in the conferences on the formation of an Anglo-
French Society for South America, in 1836, expressed his
desire that this reform should be made."
Mraneit FROM JEALOCSY.—A traveller for a mercantile
house, named Barenne, about 60 years of age, who had lived
in the Rue de la Verret ie for the last fifteen months, was assas-
sinated the night before last by his mistress, who is not more
than 22 years of age. The crime is attributed to jealousy ;
the young woman, who states that she is pregnant by her vic-
tim, having complained bitterly of the attentions paid by him
to another female. In order to divert suspicion from herself,
the murderess, who remained with her paramour during the
whole of Sunday night, was the first to divulge the crime to
the neighbours next morning, by her cries of help, murder,
&c. The house was immediately surrounded by some muni-
cipal guards and soldiers of the line ; and the Commissary of
Police for the quarter, who had been summoned to the spot,
interrogated the female in the presence of the corpse. On
her person was found the sum of 150 f., and her answers to
the questions addressed to her having excited suspicion, she
was taken into custody and transferred to the Prefecture of
Police.

Between the 25th ult. and tha Ist inst. 22 packets entered
Boulogne with 1,504 passengers, and 24, with 1,383 passen-
gers, sailed.

The number of animals by which the menagerie of the Gar-
den of Plants has been enriched by the Prince of Joinville
amounts to 22—viz., two chacmas (simia porcaria of Lin-
naeus) ; a bear from the American Cordilleras ; a brown coati,
from Rio Janeiro ; a young lion from Senegal, so tame that
he is taken out in the gardens for exercise when the public
are absent ; a female jaguar, from Cayenne ; a marguay (the
fells tigrina); a beautiful speckled . cat, from Brazil ; eight
accouchis (cavia achui of Linnaeus) ; a grimm, or beautiful
antelope, from the coast of Africa ; a rose ibis (tantalus roseus)
with a long beak, but resembling in colour the Egyptian ibis;
a boco, with the red caruncle ; four land tortoises, one the
testudo tabulata, and the three others of the species testudo
carbonaria, His Royal Highness had procured several other
rare animals, but they unfortunately died on the voyage home.
He succeeded in bringing several varieties of the palm-tree,
but was unable to transport the great baobab, which he bad ob-
tained, but it would not bear the passage.
There is at present at the Clinical Hospital of the Ecole de
Medicine a woman who has been 22 months enceinte. The
Caesarean operation has been contemplated, but cannot be
ventured upon, in consequence of the child having become too
closely enveloped in the ligaments.
A WELL-INSTRUCTED PARROT.—The proprietor of a cafe
in the Rue Chabannais has a parrot, which, from his con-
versational powers, has long formed a great attraction to
his establishment. Two afternoons since, while the cafe
was deserted for the more substantial enjoyment of the
restaurants, a rogue made an attempt to carry off the bird,
and, by throwing a cloth over the cage, succeeded in getting
the captive to a certain distance. A neighbour, how-
ever, had seen him, and cried out after him, " Au voleur I"
upon which Poll, recovering from her surprise, began to
scream out also, with all her might, " Au voleur / Au
voleur I" 6' Stop thief I Stop thief !" This unexpected out-
cry so astounded the robber, that he hastily dropped his prey,
and was making off by the Rue Richelieu, when he was ob-
served by the sentinel at the guardhouse of the Biblioteque du
Roi, and taken into custody. At the same moment one of
the waiters came up, and claimed poor Poll. The rogue was
taken before the Commissary of Police, and committed to
answer for the theft.
The poet Beranger is now residing in a small house in the
Rue Chanionon, at Tours, where he sees very little company,
and passes his hours partly in exercise, but chiefly in study.
A small but excellent bust is said to have been taken of him
by M. Dantan, jun.
There has just arrived at Nantes from South America, for
the menagerie at the Garden of Plants, a tapir, sent by the
French Vice-Consul at Brazil. It is eight months old, and
weighs nearly 2001bs. ; but, if it can support the climate, it
may attain the weight of 6001bs. It is remarkably tame.
M. Troussard, a notary at Laval, in the Mayenne, was last

week killed by a pistol-shot, in his office, fired by a man to
whom M. Troussard refused to pay over a sum of money,
arising from a sale by decree, without the express order of
the Court. _ _

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPTEMBER 4.
Five per Cents., llif. 20c. SOc. 45c.
Four and a Half per Cents. 106 L 50c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 50c.
Filter per Cents., 80f. 70c. 65c. We. 85c.
Bank Actions, 2,620 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 65c. 75c. 00c. 80c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 h 'X.
Spanish Actives, 2074
Spanish Passives,
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 234.
Haytian Loan, 350 f.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
Ore month, paper, 25f. 37%c.; money, 2:1. 35c
Three months, paper, 25f. '2sc. ; money, 25f. 20c.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 1 1 lf. 60c.
Three per Cents. 80f. 90c.
Bank Actions, 2,62
Romans, 101 X.
Belgian Loan, 1033.
Spanish Actives, 21.
Spanish Passives, 4%,
Haytian Loan, 350.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, SEPT. s.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrived and pro-
ceeded for the river, the Vigilent, Strickland, from Liverpool ;
Cherub, Black, from Demerara; Tancred, Crosby, from St.
Lucia. The Belvidere, Bailey, from Antwerp to Maderia,
remains.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. s.—Wind S. S. E., squally with rain.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind E. to S. E.—Arrived, the
Columbus, Gray, from Onega. Sailed the Reliance, Wal.
tern, for Malta.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4. —Wind E., fresh breezes and fine.—
Arrived off port, the Lapwing, Packet, from Halifax ; Levant,
Bartlett, from Havannab. Sailed her Majesty's Steamer
Meteor, for Plymouth. The Lapwing Packet, Lieutenant
Coghlin, from Halifax, was seen in the Mounts Bay this after-
noon ; the wind being easterly it is not likely she will reach
in time for this mail.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s.—Wind S., moderate. Sailed the
George Canning, for St. Petersburg; Champion, Warren,
for St. Joseph's ; Eliza, Warwick, for Lisbon and Canton ;
Gannett, Tyrrell, for Africa; Snowdon, for ditto ; Mary Jane,
for Copenhagen ; Glide, Riley, for Baltimore ; Rosaline, for
Naples ; Osprey, Kirk, for Bombay ; Mary Ann, for Genoa ;
Margaret Ellen, for Newfoundland; Ruby, Wcstcott, for

Quebec.
BRISTOL, SEPT. s.—Arrived Marina, Sseak, St. Vincent's.
SHOREHAM, SEPT. s.—Arrived Einigkeit, Shiliff, Memel.
SOUTHAMPTON, SEFT. s.—Arrived the Amitie, Schultz,
from Memel.

JERSEY, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Elvira, Volketzen, from
Stettin ; Wilhelmini, Jules, from dittos Wolf, Langhoff,
from Dantzic.

WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 4.--Arrived the Thomas, Martin,
from Quebec.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 4.--Arrived the Hope, Harmer, from
Quebec ; Manby, Campbell, from Antigua ; Mary Eleanor,
from London.

CORR, SEPT. 3.—Arrived Sarah Stewart, from Pugwash.
BELFAST, SEPT. 3.—Arrived Giraffe, A'l•Kenzie, Alicant.
ABERDEEN, SEPT, 3.—Arrived off, St. Nicholas, Bathurst.
SHIELDS, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Margaret, Wood, from
Montrose ; John Cullum, from Riga.
HULL, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Edward, Sutton, from Stock-
holm ; Caroline Amelia, from Memel ; Vine, Batty, from
St. Petersburgh.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. s.—Arrived Venus, Simmonds, Quebec.

ANTWERP. SEPT. 2.—The Vroio Amia, Langothee from St.
Petersburgh to Antwerp, was wrecked on the 30th ult., on the
Island of Vlicland.—Crew saved.

NEWPORT, SEPT. s.—The Pheasant, of Mevagissey, in
proceeding down the River to-day, was driven on shore, but it
is expected will be got off without damage.
HARWICH, SEPT. s.—The Emperor, from Rotterdam to
St. Übe's, has been brought into the harbour with loss of an-
chor and chain, having been assisted off the Shipwash Sand.
A Spanish brig, from St. Übe's, got on shore on the Shipwash
Sand this morning, but is reported to have been assisted off.

The Littlehampton, Islemonger, from Sunderland to
Worthing, was run foul of in the Gulls yesterday, by the
Diana, of Greenock, and sunk—crew sated.

The Hiran, Ballry, of Dungarvon, in proceeding down the
River yesterday, caught the bank, and laid on her broadside,
which has since been got off without much damage.
The Columbine, Bartlett, arrived at Liverpool, spoke Po-
mona, from London to Quebec, on the 38th ult., lat. 29, lon.
18; and the Severn, from Liverpool to New York, on the
Ist inst., off Cape Clear.

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The Sarah, Norm-, arrived at Cork, spoke the Tiffer,
from Workington to Miramichi, 15th ult. lat. 46., ion. 50.