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said. about the middle of October, but it does not ap )ear
yet decided whether the King will open the Session in
peon.

lIRUSSE.I.B,. SEPT. O.—Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Co-
burg, accompanied by the young prince his son, and an
Aid-de-camp, arrived at Leige on the 4th instant from
Cologne, on his way to Compiegne.
The Echo du Luxembourg says, " The continued fine
vve4.ther has dispelled all apprehension respectinz the
harvest. All the corn islhoused. The quantity is abundant,
and the quality not at. all inferior to that of last year.
We are convinced that unless exportation to a great ex-
tent should take place, the price of corn will fall consi-
derably. At the last market at Arlen, wheat of last
year's crop was ~old at only 17 francs per hestelite.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 7.—His Royal Highness Prince
Henry of the Netherlands paid a visit, on Tuesday last,
to the atelier of Mr. P. Van Schendel, painter in this
town, and examined with the greatest attention the new
improvements in the motive force of steam-boats, in-
vented by M. Van Schendel, for which he had obtained
a pateat for ten years. On this occasion he explained
to his Royal Highness in all the details the simplicity
of the power and the excellence of his invention, his
improvements being applicable as well to steamers navi-
gating rivers as to those navigating the ocean.
• R3TTERDAYL, , SEPT. 6.—His Royal Highness the
GcrLnd Duke of Baden arrived here yesterday.
The Second Chamber of the States General had a
:sitting to-day with closed doors, in which the Minister
.of the -.lnterior gave some information required by the
sections, respecting the project of law concerning the
Eenevale4s §ociety.
By an ukase of the Emperor of Russia the importation
of gunpowder into ;he Tauscamarian provinces is wholly
prohibited, as well from Turkey and Persia as from the
sea.—Amsterdam,. Sept. 7. St. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 26.—The reports from se-
veral governments of the interior of the empire,- espe-
cially the southern provinces, give by no means a fa-
vourable account of the hal.vest of the year. The great
drought in July had a bad effect on corn.
CoLOGNE, AEG. 31.----We learn , from an authentic
source that the viier:ible Bishop of Paderborn Tred
Clement Baron Von Sidebuhredichteu, D.D., &c. &c.,
died at Paderhori, at a late hour yesterday evening.—
Bor sen Hall , Sept. 8.
ty'Jkit FU D3.-Alld STE II DAM ,
L.EPT;.
v i 6.
Actual De c. •
Jitto, . `l4 Per ( ent *z***--
r..A!,iert svll-lic per cent
cent
4% pe lo 91434 lot
Q. tat ,x) 31, 754
c*,narnerr. , per cen
Ditto Comany, 4.‘, cent.nt z 5% 'f6
, 35 and 1837) 5 per
n. r 437 5 percent. 97% 98
•iCII, age on London One month l'2 ON
Two months ......
Hamburgh, One month 35 75
Two months
Dutch Papers, Sept. 7. 35 LO
at;Ltitht4 (.INl):,.—Llausestaa, SEPT. 7.
actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
51
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per
........ 101
Loan of Thirty Flilltons, 4 per,2ent.

Thirty•seven•

;en t. -

iry.
- ' (1d40)............ ....... lel )4
Loan of Cit y, If23f), 4 per Cent.... ....... ...... 90,4
.!S"clety of Corm su. rce, 4 Siper Cent...—.. ..... 93%
-Sank of Beigiu• ra, 5 per Cent.......,...
National Soeiet y."""••• . 74
}....thange on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, Sept. 7.
A ()LITMAN FUNDS.—VIETrikus, AUG. 3).
Fire per Ccnts. Mctalliques - ION
'Fear per Cent 5........... ......... ...... .. 97%
'Three pa* Cents.
Bank Shares
...Alreemeine &flung. Sept, 4.
HAMBURG BORSr.NHALLE, SEPTA.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
....... l3llls. Money
Bans Shares — 107
AHRlo.itussian Loan — 15 5
10 % 10814
IRussian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Ca' tificate
nscription, Ist SeriGs.. ..... .............-...
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
98%
Mitt° in Certificates
..........
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)
I
Ditto 57/er Cent -
86 tqf Dutch Actual Debt, 2% mr Cent to 14
% L 034
Polish Bonds
"'149 ...
New Ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, n. pe )59 r Cent. 75% 75%
Norwegian Loan, 18'34, 4 per Cvn lif 102!
:...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
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..-,-- ------
MO

RTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the` results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in, the week ending Sept. 4, 1841." The Table is
issued from, the Office of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
Total. Average
9-
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases. 1601838-
2040
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and ,Senses 137 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, . Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion 7l 60 3
4
Diseases of the Kidncys &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
91 103
O'd Age, or Natural Decay 45 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or interopei mice 22 25
Causes not specified .............. . .. 2 8
Average Weekly Deaths.. 788
Deaths from all causes
-
926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40
Western Districts ....-.. 1/2 ...... 139
North Districts
Central Districts 175 ... 190
East Districts
South Districts ... ......

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total 7BB 926
It is stated tlJat under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts klrein meutioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with iuld without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminst,,ir the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—
an tithe Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fu, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea),
dingtan, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber • 011, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for
183 S, 1839, and 1810, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Aug. 28. Sept. 4.
77 no
51 51
63 64
9, 1841.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean .
General Register Office, Sept.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY. '
On Wednesday, during the entire day, much excite-
ment prevailed in the neighbourhood of the terminus of
the Great Western Railway, in consequence of a report
that an accident of a frightful character, and attended
with loss of human life, had occurred on that line to the
alp-mail train from Bristol. This was in some measure
corroborated by the lateness of the post delivery of letters
from the western part of the kingdom. On instituting
inquiries into the matter, it was ascertained the report
was not without foundation, as the following particulars,
btained from an official source, will testify.
It appears that the mail train from Bristol,which was due
at the Paddington terminus at five o'clock that morning,
not making its appearance for some time after that hour,
'considerable apprehension was manifested, and a pilot
'engine was despatched 30 or 40 miles down the line to
Ascertain if anything had happened, but it returned with-
out any intelligence. A few minutes before eight
o'clock the mail train arrived, and the cause of its delay
was ascertained to be as follows :—Nothing whatever
happened to impede the progress of the engine and train
until its arrival at the 87th milestone from London, about
four miles on this side of Wootton Bassettx At this spot,
owing to an extensive slip in the newly-formed embank-
%tient, one of the rails got displaced and shifted outward.
On the arrival of the engine and train, the joint of the
line flew up and caused the former to go off the line at
full speed into the embankment, in which it becatr bedded to a considerable extent. Tice sudden stoppage
carriages, of the train caused a tremendous collision .netvreen the
carriages, two of which were 'literally ;mashed, and the
guards and engineers were thrown off with consider-
able violence. As soon r.s the cattfusion occasioned by
the occurrence had in F.ome measure subsided inquiries
were made as the state of the passengers, several of
was aFcertai
whoni it wasnefeared were more or less injured, and )..t
ti at two gentlemen had got their ancles
dislocated, and „-.ea„tr
third had were
with severearlwtreuisseris oaugoliitintredb ;E,a
and a fourth was severely cut with the glass 'of body
andwindows, in the face, as were also other pwrsengers
,
more or The guards were also cut and scratched
ahout th,.; face and hands, but singular to relate the
enginee es escaped without any injury. The sufferers
were conveyed with all possible speed to Wotton
33assett, where surgical aid was promptly procured, and,
With the exception of one gent's tnan, they were in the
course of the day able to proceed to their places of des-
tination. Immediately on the intelligence reaching*,
:London, Mr. S. Clarke, the chief superintendent of the
:line, together with some of the Directors, proceeded to
the spot and entered into a minute examination of all
the circumstances connry.aed with it, and to see that
"proper attention was paid to the sufferers. They found
-them to be as describ.d above. After a delay of about
hree hours the line was cleared of impediment, and the
Plards, engineers, &c., were sufficiently reccverei from
the shock to resume their duties.

FALLING OF TWO HOUSES--SERIOUS Ac-
cIDEN T ANA 7111RACULOITS ESCAPE.—On Tuesday after-
-11,011, abc.ut five o'clock, much excitement was occa-
lone.l lin Velson-place, Circus-street; Marylebone, in
?Clcns(luence of the falling of two houses therein, Nos.
and 21, and it being reported that two children had
bbeen kir ed' which report, however, happily proved to
~Ite ue. It appears that the above place, which runs
-wr_in Circus-street and Stingo-lane, is the property
`_`• *a gentleman named Findley, and consists of about 30
a-ouses, let out in tenements, and occupied by very poor 3)ersons. For some time past they have been in a very
lettering condition. The house No. 20, had only recently
been empty, having been vacated by its occupants as
tlnsafe, and at the above hour it suddenly fell in with a
tremendous crash, carrying away part of No. 21, greatly
Iklarnaing an Irish labourer and his wife. who were in the
Parlour sitting at tea, and aninst whom some bricks,
tiles, and part of the wood-work fell. They had a very
liarrow cane A lad, named Kinley, was struck down
tar
some bricks ; he was carried to the Marylebone In-
lu ld 1141 try, where it was found that •his skull was fractured,
that he was otherwise severely injured.
CoRN.LAws.—On Monday, August 29, the
...ev• William Marshall, assisted by the Rev. Francis
'l3llr. , of Leith, gave a most interesting account to his
Zngregation, of the meeting of ministers lately held at
-manchester, in :reference to the Corn-laws. The cons
gl.egation again met on Monday last, when petition-
Were adopted to be forwarded to both Houses of Parlia-
ment, praying for " a speedy and entire abolition of the
Cow and Provision-laws." It was also agreed to me-
erialise her Mpjesty on the same subject, to be signed
/I females only.—Scotonan.

MESMERISM, BY LAF.ONTAINE.
The Professor, whose lectures and demonstrations at
the Queen's Rooms, Hanover. square, we have already
noticed at some length, gave yesterday his first exhibi-
tion in the " City," at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street. The visitors were not very numerous, certainly
not exceeding eighty persons ; but from the number of
ladies in the company, and from the presence of seve-
ral leading merchants, we must infer that unfavour-
able reports from the West End have not succeeded
yet in sending the curiosity of the East into a Mesmeric
sleep. The proceedings of the evening were commenced
by the interpreter (Mr. Sinnot) reading an eloquent and
somewhat detailed account of the history of Mesmerism
from its first. introduction into Germany, by the half-
enthusiast, half-philosopher, whole name (Mr. Sinnot
says) it improperly bears. The readers of The Sun are
already acquainted with all the important facts, which
Mr. Sinnot's discourse communicated ; but, in abstaining
from a fresh relation of them, in a report of his lecture,
we must say that they seemed to be heard with wonder
by a majority of his audience, and that he was much ap-
plauded at the conclusion.
• -
M. Lafontaine then produced in the youth (Eugene)
who had been the principal subject of his previous exhi-
bitions in London, the mesmeric sleep, insensibility, and
concomitant phenomena, precisely as we have already
reported them. There was, however, one variety. The
young man, having been for a long time in a state of un-
deriab!e insensibility, although sonambulist, was led
about the room by gentlemen from amongst the com-
pany, having no apparent connexion with M. Lafontaine.
and in the course of the progress he was repeatedly, and
each time instantaneously, rendered rigid and motion-
less by a gesture of M. Lafontaine, who stood at a
distance from and behind the patient. . To us
the experiment was not new. But its effects
upon those who had not seen or perhaps heard of any
thing like it before, were very remarkable. Whilst we
say " remarkable," we must confess our poverty of lan-
guage, which does not enable us to express more ade-
quately the sentiment of admiration manifesting itself,
first in murmurs, then in applause.
A gentleman who gave his name as " Reynolds," but
whose address we did not hear, although he formed one
of a party with the family df a most respectable physi-
cian, from whom we might have learned it, presented
himself as a volunteer subject. He stated that, until
four days previously, he had been a determined disbe-
liever in the reality of animal magnetism ; but having
submitted to an experiment, he felt sensations which
convinced him that the magnetic influence did
exist. He came forward now to experience in public,
whether M. 'Lafontaine could again produce upon him
the same effects. After a long experiment, however, the
professor acknowledged his inability to mesmerize Mr.
Reynolds effectually, and the latter having stated that
he had on this occasion felt himself sufficiently affected
to convince him of the truth of mesmerism, promised
that he would at a future time again subject himself to a
public experiment.
Several other gentlemen were Afterwards subjected
similarly to the manipulations, but without the slightest
visible effect ; and the experiment upon a boy, who was
subsequently placed in the patient's chair, proved
n )thing in our estimation but the extreme naivete and
good faith of M. Lafontaine.
Before the company separated, Mr. GRANT, the
Portsmouth banker, stated some very curious cases of
mesmeric phenomena, (amounting to clair-voyance) which
had occurred in the neighbourhood of that town, to his
knowledge, and which were brought about by his friend,
an eminent physician, Dr. Engledue, under circumstances
which could admit of no suspicion. Mr. Grant was de-
sirous of undergoing an experiment on the present occa-
sion, but he was dissuaded from doing so by the re-
monstrances of friends, who considered it unadvisable,
on account of the state of his health.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Western
District of the parish of St. Pancras. was held last even-
ing, pursuant to adVertisement, in Lawson's Assemby-
rooms, Gower-street North, for the purpose of forming
an Anti-Corn-law Association for the district, and to
receive a deputation from the Central Association, con-
sisting of Sydney Smith, P. Harwood, and P. E. Tay-
lor, Escps. About half-past seven the Chairman, ac-
companied by the Deputation, entered the room, and
were received with great applause.
Josu. Ivianc, Esq., having been proposed and se-
conded, took the Chair, and proceeded to open the busi-
nees of the meeting. He said that that meeting arose
out of another that had taken place lately in the parish
of St. Pancras. Some of thegentlemen who were expected
to attend that evening, had sent excuses for their ab-
sence. Mr. Cobham, M.P.., was in Manchester ; the
Hon. C. P. Villiers had a previous engagement ; but
Dr. Bowring was present. lie believed their object was
first to hear such arguments as might be adduced by
gentlemen ' hostile to the existing Corn-laws, and
who believed them to be injurious to the manufacturing
interests, and the country. at large—(Hear, hear.)
There had been a great religious movement on the sub-
ject, and the evidence of ministers of almost every per-
suasion had been brought to bear on this subject, and by
that it appeared that the present Corn-laws were also
injurious to the moral and religious condition of the
people.—(Cheers.) Upon these grounds they had come
to a determination of forming an Association against the
present Corn-laws. He apprehended that at the present
meeting they would first have to determine whether they
were convinced that these laws were injurious to the
nation. This was not at all a political question ; he
therefore hoped that the meeting would not have political
feelings, but simply ask themselves whether those laws
were just or not.—(Cheers.) With these observations,
he would propose Dr. Bowring, M.P., to the meeting.—
(Great cheering.)
Dr. BOWRING, M.P. then came forward amidst great
cheering. He said he had been called upon very unex-
pectedly, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Smith, to
address that meeting on topics of the deepest interest.
He rejoiced to have occasions like that of addressing
portions of the community, and to contrast the honest
feelings which were excited, with that resistance to all
improvement—that deafness to the public complaints—
which he had too often the burden of witnessing else-
where. The public mind was at last being awak-
ened to the great public question which had then called
that meeting together ; and if nothing else would force
it on the attention of the people, it would be the great
suffering which those laws had brought about.—(Cheers.)
They had been reasoning and reasoning long in vain.
They had argued to show that the honest artizan of this
country had a right to go to the markets of the world,
and brinn• home the-productions of the world, as the re-
ward and payment of his labour, but they argued
in vain. Our laws had been made for centuries by mono-
polists—monopolists of power, monopolists of religion,
monopolists of law, monopolists of civil rights—(Cheers)—
and the law was as might be expected from such legis-
lation. He did not forget that the power of legislation
was still in their hands, and nothing would wrest that
power from them but the increase of knowledge and in-
creased experience of the people.—(Cheers.) He should
not, on that occasion, go into the question of politics,
but he did not hesitate to declare that he believed that
radical reform was necessary to satisfy the people.—
(Cheers.) He strongly sympathised with those sorrows
which were the result of our monopolising laws ; and he
should not hesitate, on every occasion to declare that im-
portant radical changes must take place in our Cr- .

.
reform-beforet' , -
f
could rest in peace, ...a met o:
this country iion—thorough searching
fort ' dh ' ' 'of
\Th . ....e _ th mppineps .
the people._(cheers.., . ,
directed to its proper end—the c'' --,01 ItetlittiOn be
dri -, proSpeets of the tietopit ot
this country were
a dark in the Ho ....c and gloorriv-,,j(itiar, hear)—
of the walls -
..so of OonurrentV'mid dark outside
called f-
'.; that Illoaselieers.)—He had, been
who e
, .„,on to repreetint that portion of the community
T_..at that a4tioment were suffering most.—(Hear.)—
-le had ii-.,e, u with his own eyes much of the wretched,.
nest, the recollection of which filled his mind with
gloom. A responsibility had been east Upon him-
that of endeavouring to the utmost of his power to remit
that weight of suffering and sorrow, and wit% This
object had he been again sent to the House 'ef llmmons.
They had failed for the present, The seats in the
House of Commons which were tiled by the friends of
the people—(Cheers)—Wire now occupied by their
enemies. Tne CsoMervative party had an immense
majority—while the multitude—the many—had lost soore
of their best, their wisest, their truest adrekiteti.—
(Cheers.)—But was that any reason w They should
tlespair ? They must rememl!oetu tttb 'beautiful line of
our great poet—who by 4kit Blindness was shut out
from the sight n everything —" Consolation is
found in th.e.Pa that alone serve—who stand and
wait." Thry stood and waited, they stood firmly',
they wvuld wait patiently, but they were readi
to act.--(Cheers.) It had been said that it wet S. great
calamity for one nation to be dependent upon another,
but so far as his knowledge went, the intercourse be-
tween man and man was the great source of human
happiness. If the zurunest looked around him he could
not but feel that Europe, and Africa, and America had
contributed to his comfort, he might say to his necessity,.
hear.) And what was that but the result of
rntelireeoamr;nunication ? 'There were
places where the
inhabitants could not consume the
production of the
soil, and there was another country
where the industry
of the industrious labourers produced the articles which
the agricultur
ntolerab ists rle equired
tame desired to consume, and
was it not i that should be a law stand-
ing- between the working Englishman and the industri-
ouspropose was " That
t
labourer of America, and when they desired only to
,oppressive and interchange that which each of them required to con-
sumeand
bepror(oi
promptly
resolutioncorn a.latNvos he
bearheac,lwothpooplly
intole-
rable, he
gadT h
The
'it would
repealed." He thoughtto
consider what were theanrg
justice to the resolution
ought
guments of the opponents to the repeal of the Corn-laws,
burden pressed heavily on
.
which was, that the public
the land of this country. That argument came to this,
that because they had an enormous amount
taxes, therefore they must pay a great sum to pay for
for food.pr It
seemed to him that the more they had to pay to her
not burdens.—(Hear, hear.) But it was the fact that
Majesty's treasury the less they contributed to the public
b
the land of this country supported the public burden.
Tne truth was, that no land in the world, inhabited y
a civilised community, was so little burdened as this--
He had moved in the House of Commons for a return of o_
t le taxation of different nations, in order to ascertain
the proportion this country bore to others with respect
to the land supporting the burdens of the State. About
150 years ego th J land of this country suprorted one-half
the burden of the country, now itwas not one-fortieth,
although land had increased tenfold in value. In France,
nearly one half of the taxes were paid by the land. What
did tne land pay in this country ? Only ono million
and a quarter. That state of things was intolerable.—
(Cheers.) When this fact was spread amongst the.
people, there would be such an outcry amongst them that
Parliament would not be able to resist their call. His
honest belief was, that if the Corn-laws were to be re-
p •aled, it would be a benefit to the labourer. What 6i I
t feir great merchants do when they accumulated for-
tunes ? What did Lord Ashburton, Who had accumu-