The Sun.
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TtlE SUN,

then, will conduct and direct them in Society ? Cer- ,
tainly, you will not think me worthy, and if you did
from respect, could I, who do not know them, and
they who have no confidence for her whom they do
not esteem—could I direct them ? Accustomed to
the impudent, free, and familiar conduct of Millie.
De Luzy towards you, and accustomed to consider
her perfection on earth, they wilt laugh at my advice,
or take it for the advice of hypocrisy. On the other
hand, if you take them into society without me, that
would be dishonouring me ; and to cause them to
be accompanied by her would be to parade her in
the eyes of all. Mon Dieu! do not believe me so
absurd as to think that you have a grand passion for
Mdlle. De Luzy. I know that would appear to
you a very immoral idea, but if it be her object is
she a fit person to educate the children ? Even if
she do not trouble herself about that, and she
only puts herself prominently forward in order the
better to secure her absolute empire, is it becoming
that your daughters should be in the hands of a per-
son who has no regard for her reputation, who
tramples under foot all the received ideas of decency ?
Appearances make reputations; we can only judge
after what we see in this world. You mill admit that

and harshness make me suffer ! Give my place near
you, near our children, to another, under my very
eves, whilst you have not bolts enough to keep me
from you! What ! do you not see the affronts you
put upon me, the humiliations I undergo before my
children and your servants ? I confess that this life
is unbearable ; if you persist in it, allow me to go, to
retire ; I cannot endure it any longer. If we con-
tinue to live so we shall only become more embit-
tered, and what good will that do ? Our daughters
will perhaps acquire talents, but they will receive a
s.td education. Thank God, their natural characters
are good, but they are not brought up as they ought
to be. I see that, and I can say nothing : and yet I
am their mother, and my life has been pure. I re-
peat to you, mon ami, if you will continue this con-
duct, I cannot, I ought not to remain. My presence
is of no use, since I cannot prevent what I blame,
and I suffer in vain."
LETTER, WITHOUT DATE, FOUND AT PRASLIN.
" When I arrived here I hoped to have some mo-
ments of amusement and of truce; but the illusion
has not lasted long; the steps of the carriage hod not
been put down, before I read in your icy, disdainful,
and discontented air, in the constrained expression of
the looks of my children, in the little green eyes
which appeared behind your shoulder, that I was
about to be subjected to the most humiliating treat-
ment, to the most painful life, to support the spectacle
of the most improper things, not to make use of a more
appropriate phrase. Believe it, Theobald, if I still
stiuggle, it is because I am firmly conscientious—
because it is my duty not to renounce the struggle to
obtain a factitious peace and tranquillity, not to give
by my silence an appearance of tacit consent to a
state of things which concerns my children, and which
I strongly d'sapprove, and because I firmly believe it
to be detestable, grievous for the present, pernicious,
dangerous in the future. You may do all that you
will, detest me as you will, I am still the mother of
those children, whom you give to the first corner. I
know very well that you are" the master, that you can
do all you will with me ; but there is one thing in
which the rights of a wife are almost equal to those
of a husband—you entirely forget that. Do you not
know, then, that the laws, if I were to invoke them,
would decide in my favour ? You know that I shall
never do that; but is that a reason for making a bad
use of it? You believe yourself obliged to cede in
all things in order to preserve Mademoiselle D—
at every cost. Yot believe that it would not be pos-
sible to replace her near you, near my dear children.
But why do you, who believe it so simple, so easy to
replace a mother, think it so prodigiously impossible
to replace a governess ? If you had desired it she
might have been a good governess, but you have
changed her functions, her position, and those who
shine in the second rank are cast into the shade in
the first. How is it possible that her head should
not be turned when your conduct says to her every
day still more clearly than your words, 'I have a
wife, but I prefer your society, your attentions. My
children have a mother, but though I scarcely know
you, and you are younger, I have more confidence in
your principles, your experience, your attentions,
:four devotedness, your manners, your judgment, your
tenderness, to be everything to them. Take, then,
the place—command, ordain; she who must be the
mother of my children must be sovereign in my
house ?' Theobald, that is logical, but you start from
a false and dangerous point. You yourself have not
the right to condemn me to this ignominious civil
death, and you can only do that in leaving me to be
suspected of infamous conduct and vices, and by my
children, too ! Oh !I am richly punished to have
loved you so much—to have preferred you even to
them ; but was I not already sufficiently punished to
have lost, without return, without hope, the only true
happiness for me—your affection ? But to see my
children conducted in the path of false and frivolous
principles, accustomed to blind, inconsiderate con-
duct, and false and unbecoming positions, unnatural
;did improper! If you would reflect yourself, you
would feel that, in setting aside all my personal
sentiments of joy and happiness destroyed, I must
cruelly suffer to see my numerous children under a
direction so pernicious to their future conduct. Ask
yourself frankly, what you would feel, what you
would do towards any one who should deprive you
at once of a woman you loved with ardour, and of
:our children, to give them false and dangerous im-
pressions ? When I had the weakness, by excess of
love for you, to make you an immense sacrifice in
abandoning my children to you, picturing to myself
in a guilty blindness that this sacrifice, on account
of its greatness, would most certainly restore me
your affection ; p.-r•uaded by your promises in this
respect, I committed, I admit, a great fault ; I ought
to have died sooner than have made this sacrifice.
And I male a very false calculation, for this
-acrifice made to my love gave you a bad opinion of
.ny principles, my judgment, my heart; I conceive
that; yet I ought to add for my justification that
my tenderness confounded all our rights in me only.
I. believed myself a portion of you ; it seemed to me
1 (hat all ought to be common between us and sup-
s ported mutually. At present you have established a
complete separation between us; we are nothing more
than strangers one to another. I for a long time
llittered myself with illusions of a return of affection,
of trials, of all the possibilities of this world, to
picture to myself that it was a time to be passed, that
you loved me, and that you would return to me, that
all mysteries would be cleared up by you in a natural
and satisfactory manner ; in short, I long made every
dream of happiness to come with confidence, and still
more with hope. At present—but let us talk no
longer of it, happiness is no longer in question ; but
,ince I must abandon the hope of your return and
that of my children, I must at least know what I
have to trust to. My life is not supportable; it is
painful, disgraceful to me, and, do nut deceive your-
-elf, very dangerous to the future prospects of the
children. Things cannot endure in their present
state. Therefore, reflect; remember that I supplicate
you to give me at last a becoming position, and an
interest in life. Oh ! but you are weak ! You have
arrived at such a point that you dare no longer go
out with your wife and your children, without being
accompanied by that person for whom you have taken
from me what you gave me in the first days of our
marriage. You are so much under her yoke that you
dare undertake nothing without her. You would
consider it wrong to leave her fur a moment, and your
wife, the mother of nine children, must live and die
alone."
LETTER, WITHOUT DATE, FOUND IN THE SECRETARY
OF THE DUCHESS DE ?RAMAN.
" I cannot understand what are your views as to
the future of our children, nor by what principles you
direct your conduct, nor what is the nature of your
sentiments with respect to me. You will not under
any pretext read my letters, nor accord me a serious
conversation, nor any explanation of any kind. If it
be the dread of an explanation on your private con-
duct, you are wrong to fear that I will enter on that
subject. I for a long while expected, hoped for, that
moment almost as much as I desired it, but it is now
an allusion completely destroyed. You have too
clearly proved that you no longer love me, and that
all reladon3 must cease between us, for me to be ab-
surd enough to expect from you any mark of affec-
tion. I therefore only demand of you, I swear it,
teat which is not refused to any woman, unless she
be a monster of corruption ; and that is, the permis-
-ion to do my duty towards my children, and to enjoy
the consolation that I can find in the midst of them
alone, in the services that I
might render them, and
in their tenderness to soften the bitter regrets hich
wring my heart at having lost your affection. I
would have given all my blood t iregain your ten
ti
(leress, to enjoy it again fir
then to die; but I have been ctowastrlye, selfish,mo nten ts , andguilty,
you. all my share of
I admit it, in abandoning
rights over our havingchildren,o
lupuidcrteudredto myself
you, timestht than
that this sacrifice, greater a
that of my life, would touch
would return to me, and that you would give ayourioeulf
to me a second time. But I take Heaven to -witness,
I would never have made a similar concession for any
motive, if I had not been convinced that you would
put them in respectable hands, and that only for teeir
instruction. Never, never would I have willingly
consented to be deprived of all relations with my
children, to no longer occupy myself with their health,
with their comfort. But that was not the case.
Never have I bsen sufficiently unnatural, sufficiently
infamous to renounce the care of my children, not to
live with them, and to exercise no moral influence
over them. You must be vary blind not to see that
you are in the hands of an inteifiante. Yes, the per-
son who is capable of profiting by the dissensions
which she remarked between us on her arrival, in
order to increase her authority, which has completely
separated us, which has totally separated a mother
from
her children, is profoundly immoral, and un-
worthy of the confidence which you place in her. A
woman
who accepts such a false position is the most
dangerous example for young girls ; she purchases
authority at the price of her reputation. Women
twa hk
(e) make
s e such
themselves bargainsi
n fahoatvenos theynl anhoathveer
already
padtyo
lost themselves in appearance. Having had the mis-
fortune to thrustir
she
hadlf theint
o a very false position,
Mdlle. D. ought,sentiment of modesty
or the least tact, to have reserved
becomingly towards you; instead of which,
to act
'3
which, by her
conduct, shameless towards you,
house, scandalous to me, she puts herself
in the
in a scandalous manner. You do not
forward
not find
me sufficiently good company for my children ; but
in seeing the bold, unbecoming, and often scandalous
arroganther
conduct of their governess, what will my children
soon think of the conduct of the mother from whom
they are separated? Do you not feel, then, to what
an extent you brand me in their eyes ? Ah! you
have not the right. If I had been guilty, you would
have believed it your duty to secure me the conside-
ration of my children; and you sacrifice me. You
abandon them to a person who knows not, or who
laughs, at modesty and decency, for she observes
1 rv,ither. What a Mentor for rung girls! W1:16,

shall be arranged between my fath-r, you, and my-
self, without the intervention of other advisers. You
hive often expressed to me, my dear Theobald, the
desire to see things take another face, because you
really feel the discomfort of our home ; but you
always draw back. I now count on your co-opera-
tion, as in everything whiith concerns the happiness
of our children.
" FANNY SEBASTIANI PRASLIN."
LETTER OF THE DUPLIESS DE PRASLIN TO !MLLE. DE
LUZY. A COPY'OIeWHICH WAS FOUND ON AUG. 20,
IN THE DUKES SECRETARY, AT PARIS.
" June 19, 1847.

" Mdlle.,—l regret exceedingly that you are un-
well, and that in such a state you have taken the
trouble to write to me (*) for a matter which your
attention to my children rendered so natural. If
circumstances important for their interests have pre-
cipitated an event which I regarded only a few days
back as being still distant, do not doubt that I shall
in consequence seek out with greater zeal all occa-
sions to be- useful to you, and that I shall be well
pleased if you point me out the way. I have heard
it said thritch;lau wish to go and see Lady liislop; is
that be the ycase, I can offer you a letter to Lady
Tinkerville. who, I am certain, will earnestly second
Lady Ilislop in all her endeavours to forward you►
plans. If you thought fit to have letters also for Mde.
de Flahaut and Miss Elphinstone, dispose of me most
freely. I reme►nber you asked me to lend you a
book on arriving at Praslin ; I hope that you wili
not refuse to accept that little souvenir, which I have
great pleasure in offering you. lam anxious to re-
peat to you, Mademoiselle, that I shall seize with
eagerness on all the occasions that occur, and such as
you may be pleased to afford me to be of use to you.
" S. .PRASLIN."

I lead a shocking life, that you yourself would not
support it. You say that it only depends on me to
change it. Eh ! mon Dieu! I know very well that
it' I would consent to find everytaing that Millie. D.
does charming, to close my eyes on what I find
wrong, to appear not to perceive all that there is sus-
picious in the mysteries which surround you, to re-
nounce the right of having a fixed opinion on certain
principles, and on what is proper ; I doubt not that if
would say amen to all that I blame, my life
would be quite different in appearance, that is to say
that you would consent to speak to me more gra-
ciously, as as ould also Mdlle. D. ; that I should ne
sometimes admitted to promenades and parties of
pleasure; that you would consent to talk to me from
time to time as you talk to anybody else ; that you
would come to see me some moments if I should be
unwell ; that you would appear to take some
interest in my health or my pleasures; that you
would perhaps have some attentions for me, some
presents to offer me. Yes, I believe all that, and I
know that by fifteen days of falsity I should obtain
that change. But if I were cowardly enough to
purchase that calm and consolation (for it would•not
be happiness) at the price of sacrificing all my prin-
ciples, I should deserve to be despised. lam mo-
rally and physically exhausted by this long and cruel
struggle; but even you yourself could not advise me
to purchase repose by the sacrifice of my conscience.
Should I die without having obtained a moment of
relief; I will never cease to tell you the truth. You
are in a fatal path; you are ruining our children by
giving them ialse principles, by teaching them to
despise their mother, by giving them the example
df
a disunited family, in which a person occupies ttie
place of their another, of your wife. You feel thalt
the state of my health would nut be a plausible pre-
text to any one, owing to the manner in which I am
rejected from the family ; for it is evident that if you
believed me ill, and we were not separated by your
aversion, and especially by fatal influences, you
would tend me, and the children also, instead of
abandoning me. Assuredly you would not render 'a
woman who was indifferent to you so cruelly un-
happy. It is therefore hate which you feel towariis
me, and that is the fruit of my love so constant and
so devoted!"

*LETTER FRoM DIDLLE. DE LUZY TO THE DUCHESS
PRASLIN ON THE i 7TH OR 18TH OF JUNE, 1847.

" Madame la Duchesse,--I should have wished to ex ;
press to you in person the sentiments which anima:e m ,
but I feel that under present circumstances it would fe.-
a task above my strength. Permit me to postpone to $1
more calm and more happy period the thanks which 1
dei.ire to express to you with my own lips for the gene-
r„sity with which you remunerate my feeble service,.
At the moment of quitting children to whom I have
(levoted the most lively tenderness, I find in the testi
mony of your satisfaction a powerful consolation. i
accept with gratitude the offers of r,commendati,t,
which you have the •goodaess to make, and I shall ha 7...
ten, Mudatne..to avail myselt of them as soon as circum
staric-s will render it advi,able for me to do so. The ill
health of my grandaather, exeeedimziy precarious
several months past, imposes on me the duty of beiti:
with him at present.. I shall demand permission to
form you at a later period of the steps which I shat
think it advisable to 'eke, and I pray you, Madame, t.;
accept the assurance of My profound respect.
" H. DE LUZY."

FOREIGN PRINTING. —An importation recently
:0 )k grip of a quantity of printed pipers, in which ti,.
leeislon arrived at as to their liability to duty or other

wise was of much intere4t and imp ThesL
printed papers were simply specimens of type connect*,
with, or rather comprising no particular book, but ser,
ing only to illustrate the form of the types, which haci
been fixed in this country, and sent to the printers i,
Germany, in order to have the specimens struck oil
there, and sent to this country as samples of printing
and on their arrival the parties requested their deliver:,
as such tree of duty. It appears that by the Bth ani
9th Victoria, cap. 86,
sec. 63, paper printed on in th,
English- language is absolutely prohibited to be im
ported ; byt-rthat these printed sheets were merely in-
tended as specimens of type, and unfit for any other
purpose than distribution as patterns, and to show th,
effect of the same when put to press ; and it has on a
Former occasion been decided, in a communication from

LETTER WITHOUT DATE FOUND IN THE SECRETARY cir
THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN, AT PRASLIN.
" On quitting the spot where 1 have been so happy,
and where I have suffered so much—where I thought
of always living, where I leave all that is dearest in
the world to me—all the objects on whose tenderness
I had founded all my hopes of happiness, my heart,
Theobald, is breaking ; but it must be so; a mother
ow ,-s to her children not to allow herself to be treated
as a guilty person, particularly when nothing in her
conduct has ever justified the estrangement which
has taken place between them. When I shall be no
more, perhaps your eyes will be opened and you will
comprehend that she who has founded her domina-
tion by embroiling you with the mother of your
children, in accustoming them to avoid that mother,
is not worthy of bringing them up. You have feared
the influence of your wife, who has always loved
you above all, and you are the puppet of all the
caprices of that woman, who is void of principle and
of delicacy. All I ask of you is, to remain what I
should naturally be, your wife, your companion, the
mother of our children ; she has excited you to
Separate yourself from me, to give her my place near
you, near my children, and in the house ; and you
have yielded it to her. I asked you only to accord her
the consideration due in every house to a governess; you
did not consider that sufficient. She had incited you to
ill-treat me, to drive me from your house, to break
everything in my apartment, to deprive me of my chil-
dren, to take from me all authority over them and in
the house, and you have yielded to her in everything ;
with a look, with a sign she makes you act and obey
her. You are afraid that in seeing my children I
should influence them against her, that 1 should un-
mask her, and the idea has never occurred to you
that it was much more distressing for the children to
he continually with a person who speaks ill to them
of their mother; who incites them t., doubt her affec-
tion., her intelligence, and her reputation. Oh when
I had so much confidence in you, so much tenderness
that I gave up all my rights to you, to rely on you
for everything, even for the tenderness of my chil-
dren, I was far from imagining you to be so weak, so.
readily blinded. This weakness, which causes my
misfortunes, forms your excuse in my eyes; but for
this incredible blindness you could not have seen so
cruel towards me. Ad'eu, Theobald ; it a feeling of
false shame prevents you from ever repairing the
wrongs you have inflicted on me, God is my witness
that I leave with a broken heart, but in offering up
prayers for your happiness. I know that, whatever
may be one day your feelings towards me, your ideas
of dignity will never permit you to be well with me;
it is therefore only for the interest of my children that
I beseech you to open your eyes; they are in bad
hands. Farewell, farewell. Have pity on my poor
children, who are so badly trained !"

(comprising an order of) the Board of Trade, that the
prohibition with respect to the importation of paper
printed on in t►e Enllish language, was not intended to
Dave the effect of preventing the importation of articles
which must be con,.idered as legitimate objects of trade,
but simply to preclude any evasion of the prohibition
with respect to books, .• Kish might otherwise be accom-
plished by importing them in detached sheets of printed
paper ; and although in the importation under notic;
there were several hundred copies of each sample
or pattern, they were strictly fragments of works,
containing each a single page, and in no instance
hoeing a continua.ion of the subject,- but a repetition of
the same words, and for these several reasons these pat-
terns of printing have been directed to be delivered free
of duty.
FIRE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE.—Yesterday, about half
past eleven in the morning,- a very alarming fire broke
out in Q.O en's-gardens, Knightsbridge, near Sloane-
street. The police were soon on the spot, and, before
the flames had extended themselves to any great extent,

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messengers were sent in various directions for the en-
gines. The greatest fears were entertained for the safety
of the neighbourhood, from Cuthbert's mahogany factory
and a large tallow melter's being situated near ; but,
very fortunately, the engines of the brigade of the
West-end and Chantios-street stations, as also those of
the parish, were in such quick attendance, that by th,
timely exertions of the firetnen only one house, that in
wl.ien the fire originated, was destroyed, though the two
adjoining ones Pie stip,htly damaged. The cause of the
fire. and whethet the r aqy was insured or not, could
not be useertiinf4l
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WHITBY, SEPT. I.—The price of flour fell this day
Id. per st n, , with ,he prospe 't of a runner speedy &-
idol,. Thirty-six ears ago a fine new brig, in ballast.,
ealied the Lord Nelson, was driven on shore to the ti,,th
ot the per, in a gale of wiurl. An attempt was made to
float h, r off, which failed, and exertiems were then usia
t„ s„-e th, ,% hole of the wreck above the 'ands. Shortl)
after the kelson with about seven feet ‘f flooring on each
side, disappeared under the sand, and on Saturday last
the ribs became once more visible. Sever& unemployed
inert of the town commenced orratimas to recover the
wreckage. and this evening by means of di,zgirig, much
_and the employment of empty casks, the poor
rvice. have been rewarded with success. Tte-
brig, en drivel' out sh.ire, was the property of and
commended by Master Wilson, an old friend and ship-
ne of
CCURRENCE AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
ye
between the hours of four
tser tl:ita ogallant hero of Trafalgar.
FATAL
tthe
ait, mon,
and five o'clock, a horrible accident occurred at her
Majesty's Theatre, the Italian Opera, Haymarket, and
which it is to be regretted was attended with fatal Con-
,
sigut. ,nces to a workman employed on the buildirg,
namt,d John Chapman, aged 47, under the circumstances
subj„ine,l4s-iiseems that at the period alluded to, in
consequence 4
close of the theatre, a number of
workmen weeel_en?ployed on the stage in removing the
scenery, stage property, &c., and the deceased was
perched upon the tot of the stage, and by some acci•
tital cl-cuoi.tattee slipped on one side, thus losi,tg his
equilliteium, he fell from a height upwards of 37 feet,
flat on to the stage. The poor fellow was picked up in
a trigh fully mutilated condition, the blood streaming
from his head, and was conveyed immediately to the
Charing-cross Hospital, when Mr. G. M. Young, the
resident medical offi!.:er, was in prompt attendance ; but
upon the examination of the wounded man it was ascer-
tained ile‘t he had fractured his skull extensively, re-
ceived a compound comminatt•d fracture of the left
clavicle, fx•-ken his left lee, and several ribs, with a
fearful contusion on the forehead, besides other eaten•
sive injuries, so as in-fact to defy the most competent
human skill. Everything that could be thought of was
done ; but notwithstanding all efforts, he di, d at half-
past six o'clock, about two and a half hours after his

ANOTHER LETTER FOUND IN THE SECRETARY OF
THIS DUKE DE PRASLIN, AT PRASLIN.
" Paris, June 15, 1847.
" My dear Theobald,—l have waited until this
moment for the result of the promises that you re-
newed to me, on my return from Italy, to change the
organization of our home. You appear to have for-
gotten them, and I find myself obliged to tell you
that I do not think I ought to return to Praslin
Without it be to re-enter on the exercise of my rights
and to fulfil my duties of mother and of mistress of
the household in their fullest extent. The system of
governesses has always succeeded badly with us, and
it is time, for the welfare of our children and the dig-
nity of our home, to abandon it. So long as my
daughters shall not be married, I will reside every-
where among them, I will be present at all their tic
cup itions. I wilt accompany them everywhere. All
my plans are formed, and when you shall have re.
fleeted you will certainly find as many motives for
confideece in the educatiou of our daughters under
the care of a mother as under that of a governess.
Masters will supply as easily at Praslin as at Paris
the lessons of a governess, who has always stood in
need of their assistance. I have foreseen every-
thing, and all will he -easily arranged. My
father, I know, has offered to Mdlle. D.,--
an honourable pension for life. In going with
it to England, her talents and her patrons
will procure her a more becoming position more easily
than at Paris. You would be wrong to be disquieted
with the grief that our daughters would feel ; it would
be much shorter and much less profound than you
imagine ; I have certain reasons for not doubting
that. For a long tine back you have expressed
yourself with respect to the conduct of Mdlle. D—
in a manner to leave no doubt that you have opened
your eyes, to a great part at least, of its grave im-
lsaundda,en
propriety. What would secure her retiremement in
an honourable manner would be a pension from my
pa
fotretre rh
having
n
father, guaranteed by me, and her journey to Eng.-
wdhepicahrtorwo,:ulcul
By delicacy
away favourably
first
sought
a sup-
porter pa-
lof u;nayst
faatthelerngttoh
ay ouweaitfeadmsifuloybrmin.tthoordreesrolttoioop;oy ofourr3e,eyaerss!
to
children. the leg i t i mat e
When desireyo u
speak to you in the name of the
veritable interests of ouri
my. natural supporter, fail me, I must let myself be
guided by my father. I do not doubt that when
the first ennui shall have passed away you will
rejoice at a crisis which will re-establish natural
order in our home. If it enters into your
arrangements that Mdlle. D— shall return to
Praslin to seek her things, I will wait until she
shall return before going there ; if they must simply
be sent to her at Paris, I will start as soon as you
please for Praslin. After all the rumours which have
been current, I have shown her sufficient kindness to
restore her character, as you pointed out to me, in
so far as it depended on me, in order to snake her to
leave with honour. I have fulfilled my task; the
welfare of my children, that of their establishment,
will not permit me to prolong by resignation a state
of things pernicious to all. Let not the fear of re-
crimination on these painful matters torment you.
It enters into my views as much as it does into yours
not to return to them. My silence on previous cir-
curnstancesalmost the same is a sure guarantee o f
this to you. The first condition of family life is
peace and a good understanding. That is my object,
and it will be easily obtained when no attempts shall
any longer be made to separate children from their
mother, and to reign by division. It is not without
serious reflection, nor without the assurance that I
follow the opinion of my father, that I have deter-
mined to adopt such a serious resolution. It would
have obtained, I am sure, the approval of my uncle
De Coigny, who is to me the representative of my
mother, if I had not avoided till now to speak to him
of theses ad details. My wishes are that everything

admission.
%VOOLWICH DOCKYARD, SEPT. 3.—Commodore
Sir Gori'on Bremer, K.O B. and K.C.H., superintendent
of her Ma;eety's Dockyard here, returned on Wednesday
afternoon from leave of absence, and in the evening,
when the men of the dockyard battalion assembled for
drill, and after .goi-g. through several of their evolu-
tions, they were formed into square, and addressed by
the Gallant Cotemodure to the foll,%wing effect:—" I am
exert mely sorry to learn that during my temporary ab-
sence seine of the In% n should have misconducted them-
selves as thy have done, and I have only to look to the
conduct pursued within the dockyard, and have nothing
to do with Oaten when they leave; but I trust their good
sense as meni*viLlainduce them in future, when they are
dismissed for the day, to go quietly home to their
temilies." Duyijegieeehe time the commodore addressed
tie men several expressions of " Hear, hear," were
used, and at the conclusion he was most cordially
cheered. The Commodore shortly after assembled the
other workmen of the yard not belonging to the bat-
talion, and addressed them in a very feeling manner on
the necessity of being careful of their conduct, if they
were desirous of remaining in the employment of her
Majesty as dockyard artisaive or in any other capacity.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND
BIR-
MINOHAM RAfLWAY.---GLOCCESTER, FRIDAY--A fatal
accidertmeaurred this Mori.'" on this -line of railway,
at ale embatekenent in the parish of Churchdown, or
Chasen, k> en Cheltenham and Gloucester. The de-
ceas..ed, a labourer named Barnes, was at work as usual,
and, en the approach of the 8-15 A.M. train from Bris-
tol, was cautioned by some of his fellow-workmen, one
of whom called to, him, " Hallo, do you see the train
coining ?" Instead, however, of get dng off the line
altogether, as'fie should have done (his duty being to re-
move the iron "chairs" on the " batter" by the side of
the rails) he got on the down train line. At this mo-
ment, the Birmi,,gham 8 AM. down-train was coming
up. end the buffer of the engine struck the deceased, in_
quest.
flicting such mortal injuries that resulted in the poor
t;:lelirsodneeart,sh shortlyini afterwards. lie was taken to the
Infirmary in this eby, and, on surgical examination, it
was hound that the right leg was nearly severed from the
body, hear the knee; the left leg was also much crushed,
Tuesday
and the abdominal parts were also greatly presied and
injured. The boily now lies at the infirmary, awaiting
FIRE IN BRISTOL.—An alarming fire broke out on
night on the premises'of Mr. Richards, the
Three Sugar Loaves, Christmas-steps, which threatened
to he productive of very serious consequences. The
alarm was first given about half past ten, and the en-
gines of the pelice cud various fire offices were speedily
on the spot; but the 'building consisting principally of
old and dry niaterials, it was found impossible to get the
flames under until near three o'clock, A.M., when the
interior of the house was almost destroyed. The house
and shop of
Mr.. Merry, baker, which is contiguous, had
a very narrow escape from destruction ; the flames
caught a portion of the roof; and a large quantity of flour
lying in
a lett was also destroyed. By the strenuous
tlithickly t
exertions Of the firemen, &c., the flames were prevented
extending further, and the fears at first entertained for
themtick
fthe
fire propertyori originated.
iidend. thatw hie understand
popu-
latedsnd iNghbourhooti were fortunately not realised. It
is
"otfliy of
known
the
that Mr. Richards is insured.—...ariefrl Gaze*.

LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT`EII4tEit 4 1847

BAN 4ETI

N S.

‘From the London, Gazette of Tuesday.)
In Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
Victoria, ."ap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
Notes, a the several Banks of Issue in England and
\Vales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur.
day, the 21st day of Aug., 1847: Average
PRIVATE BANKS. Amount.
:Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—ltaapp and Co 24,528
kndaver Bank, Andover—Heath and Cc..._. 17,838
‘shford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,978
ylshatn bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,320
kylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford
and llunt
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade
tr..k, Nogg, and Lindsell... 26,223
darn itapie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co 13,692
Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke—
Cole, Seymour, and C.v.
.1,..,1f0rd Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard
Ledford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford—
Trapp, Halfhead, and Co.
teudley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and
I;cane
'ic2stet and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
Bank. Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co.
iientitigham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods,
Spooner, and Co 24,651
lirtnirgham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming-
!tain—Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 16,286
3tand turd Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak
loston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 75,830
,Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 10,274
tridg .v .ter Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 8,001
Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Hayford, and Co. 36;220
13roseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,621
3,lokinl,,ham Bank, Buckingham —Bartlett,
Parrott, and Co.
.3nry and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market
Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co.
:la. t ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 32,445
ianbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... 45.959
3nti. City Bank, Bath—Molter and Son
iedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 34,637
li.r.oingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and
Lloyds ..
tiradtord Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshira-11
and A. Harris
,:reeon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 69,091
Irldpnrt Bank, Bridport —S. and W. E. Gundry 22.360
',righton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West.
and Horror

6,5(11

6,847

ATerllg C. AT:WM!.
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 43.800
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,682
?eterborouo Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—M.t-rs. Yorke
Peterborough BAnk, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson
Pewbrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—e. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank. Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—jtickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—alimonus and Co 35,497
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co._ 31,624
Richmond Bank, Bich raoml—Stapleton and C 0... 5.135
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 9,550
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,665
Rugby Bank, Ituzby-13utlin and Son 12,772
Rye Bank, Rye —Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 17,305
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co
Ross Old Bank, H.Tefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
ant Allaw ay
Saffron Walden and Nortl, Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury —Burton, Lloyd, and
Co..
Scarborough Old Bank, '3carborough—Woodall
and Co.
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adan,s, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eyt6ns,
and Co . .
Sittingbourne an,l :Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton —Maddir.on and Son
Sonthwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co.
St. Alhan's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2.104
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,80'
Shaftesbury Bunk, fthafiesbury Brodie and

8,371

10,056

4,216

12,E30

4,487

23 680

6,789

34,259

9,846

King
Southampton and flitnpshire Rink, Southamp-
ton—Atherly an 1 Fall
:';tone Bank, Stour--W. Moore
•-;tourbridge Barg:, St. ,urhridte Ruff. ,rd,
Wran~ and
'Stafford Old Bank, t.;,ifford—Stvsenson and Co 13.660
Stamford and Rial•on; Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley. and Co .
Stourbridge Old Li Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward. and Co.
St. Alban's and Hart., Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stuart 2.250
Taunton Bank. Taunton—Me:srs. Badeock 25,290
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co 13,84
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and

5,•65
6:718

18,394

Par,b
Tiverton and Devf al.hire Bank, Tiverton— 1 )uns-

ford •und 'lame
Thrapston and Kett. ring atnk, Northampti in-
shire, Thrapston--Yorke and Eland
'['ring Bank and Chesharn Bank. Tring--But-
cher and Son
TowcPster Old Bank, Towcester—.l. and S

10,069

9,406

Percival
anion Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co 8,448
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,960
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox.
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 13,451
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co. 24,037
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co
Weytuonth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth--Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesw,,rth —Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech arid Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co. • • 47,171
Wiveliscorn;a3 Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co. 11,160
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester —Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 75,731
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and
20,670
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
NleAsrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbe.tk. and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk. and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth--Sir E. K. Lio', Bart., and Co 10,420
Yoovil 01-1 Rank, Yeovil— E. and J. Batten
York Bamic. York —SW2,IIII. Clourh. and Co 42,197

14.987

6,155

9,572

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
lank ,if Wnstmoreland. Kendal ...
Barnsley B inking Company, Barnsley
Bradford ilinking Company, Bradford 46,338
Bihton District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of W riit,ehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
1
ford .... .... ........
Burton. U tt, oceter, and Staffordst ire Union
Banking C. ,npany, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company. Chesterfield
Cumberland llnion Walking Company, Work-
ington .
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Chdtenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Li nion Banking Company, Coventry 12.262
Count) of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,919
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
40,131
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,361
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 145,804
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,156
Hull Banking Company, Hull . 24,056
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 37,501
Helston Banking Company, Helston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,230
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough
Kingsbrid,re Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,314
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 50,408
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,020
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Bunking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenhury Bank, Ludlow 10,940
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham .. ..
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company. Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 70,074
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilt- Banking Company, Melksham 51.558
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,19'
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-

.... 28,754

23.15
56,84

ampton . , • _
North and S,,tii.h Wales Bank, Liverpool— •
Pares's Leic•isti rshire Banking Company, Lei-
cester •
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,914
Sheffield Bank w 2; Company, Sheffield 35,358
Stamford, Spa!ding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Starmord
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking***************** : '''''''''' ''''' ''
''
''
******** 29445,419956
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking. Corn
pang, Stourbridge ................ .. • ............ 36.317
Sheffield and 11-01..mshire Banking Company,
Sheffield ... .... .................................. 22,076
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, SI-,113,vd .... .........kin .......
Company-,
........... 51,310
Swaledale and Wensleydale Bang
Richmond... .... .................................. 36,525
Storey. and Thoruas's Banking Company,
.............. 9,120
Shaftesbury ....... .....................
Sheffield and Bede& Bank, Sheffield .•
Wolverhampton a. I. I Staffordshire Banking Com-
36.407
pans, Wolverhampcon
Wakefield and Bitroiley Union Bank, Wakefield 13 469
Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company,
26 727
Whitehaven . •.• ..
Warwick and L.N.ion.gton Banking Company,
34,917
Leamington .... . .
West of Englat...l and South Wales District
Blink. Bristol •• • ... . .....
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 65,979
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester. . •
,
York Union Banking Company, York 68.745
York City and County Banking Company, York 82,143
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds'
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Ref irks.
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