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London, England, 1847-09-08 00:00:00

LIVIMUT

Ll_ OND')N, WEDESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1847

One of those horrible cases at which humanit;
shudders has recently taken place in Lincolnshire.
A poor Irishman named KANE was engaged ii
gathering the harvest for a farmer named SPENCER
who filled the situation of overseer of the parish o
Horkstow, in which he resided. KANE was accom
panied by his wife and six children. During tilt
period of his engagement his family had been per-
mitted to shelter themselves in a barn on the lands
When his employment ceased, on Friday, the 27t1
ultimo, his wife and four of his children wer(
seriously ill with fever—the mother, who had beet
attacked on the previous Monday, being also far ad•
vanced in a state of pregnancy. The unfortunate
man, having stated the severe illness of so mans
members of his family, more particularly of his wife
entreated that they should be permitted to remain in°
the barn until they were sufficiently recovered
to undergo the fatigue of a removal. This
was, however, peremptorily refused, and he was
told that he would not be paid the humble
pittance he had earned by his honest industry until la
had removed his fever-stricken wife and diseased
children out of the barn into the road; in vain he
implored for a cart to convey the enfeebled sufferers
to a neighbouring village, where some shelter might
be obtained. He was told that no cart could be ob-
tained, and that he had better take them to South
Ferriby, where he might perchance get a cast in a
carrier's cart to Winterton. He had no alternative.
He was compelled to bring his wife, already affected
with the pains of labour, into the road, and then, and
not until then, did SPENCER pay him the amount of
wages due to him, 1/. 19s. Before she had proceeded
twenty yards the suffering creature was compelled to
sit down on the road side, and a considerable period of
intense suffering and bitter anguish was endured be.
fore the anxiously-desired resting-place was attained,
Here it might be supposed that in an English village
immediate help and shelter could be procured
for a person so afflicted, but such was not the case,
the miserable woman was forced to remain in the
public street, while her half-frantic husband hurrieu
from place to place, seeking permission to bring her int(
some empty barn or stable, but in vain. During his
absence, the children of the village gathered rounc
her, while the women, many of whom themselves were
wives and mothers, looked on at a greater distance,
regarding in silence, and without rendering the
slightest aid, a fellow-creature suffering under cir-
cumstances that should have awakened the warmest
sympathies of every heart possessed of the commonest
feelings of humanity. At length one, more compas
sionate than the others, approached, but being too
frightened to remain, she retired to seek further as-
sistance. Before the return of the husband, who had
failed in his mission, or of the woman who went for
assistance, the unhappy woman alone and unattended,
had given birth to a female child, which, as might be
expected, did not survive,indeeddoubts were entertained
as to whether it had ever breathed, and the coroner's
jury returned a verdict that it was not born alive.
At length the suffering parent and her children were
removed into the stable of a public-house, where,
after an interval of nearly twenty-four hours, she
was visited by the parish surgeon, who found her in
a state of delirium, and in the greatest danger. It is
due to that gentleman, Mr. MOBLEY, to state that
the moment he became aware of the real circum-
stances of the case he afforded every assistance in his
power, and spared no exertions to counteract the
sad effects of her fearful sufferings. She was re-
moved into oee of the rooms of the public-house,
where every attention that her situation required was
1,1/4sstow ed. Three of the children—one of them but
- • o years of age—remain in the stable still afflicted
tl`b, the fever, while the fourth was permitted to be
with . '"vi its mother into the inn.
takletn
iwgll.-alvas -st incredible that such things could
in a civilised, a Christian country
have taken plant
,ling accounts of districts sufferir g
The most heartrea,
-til.ence or famine scarcel si,r-
under the effects of pe,, .+ y
y. If it were recorded in
a work of fiction it would bt.
pass it in its horrible rem...
• said that the writer had
far surpassed the bounds of pro. ,i
ability—that it was
stances could have
utterly impossible that such circurfa.
VI be no doubt
occurred. And yet we believe there L.
-gent. It is
of any portion of the heartrending state,,
possible that the farmer, SPENCER, was 1..0t fully
aware of the extreme urgency of the case—a.c the
fearful sufferings and risk that would be encountes.nd
by enforcing her immediate removal. But still he
must have seen enough to have convinced him
that she was not in a fit state to travel,
and the husband told him that she was too
unwell to be removed. There was, to say
the least of it, a very culpable degree of
negligence and carelessness as to what might
be the result of his mandate. He desired to
get rid of the poor women from his premises, and
from the Parish of which he was an officer, and that

seemed to be his only care. Her pains, hei
misery, were objects of secondary consideration.
Not a single farthing would he give until the barn
was vacated, and the haplesss family exposed,
without shelter or covering, to the inclemency of
the weather. Again, how long was it before
assistance could be procured after they bad arrived
at Ferriby, and even when the full circumstances of
the case were manifested ? The English nation has
deserve3ly gained the highest character for humanity
and philanthropy. No people since the creation of
the world have made such sacrifices in the cause of
charity. Witness the twenty millions of pounds
sterling freely and readily paid to extinguish
slavery in our dominions, and the annual expenditure,
not only of money, but of the far more precious lives
of our gallant sailors, in order to prevent the hor-
rible trade from being carried on, and the appalling
atrocities that were perpetrated by the slave-
dealers. Witness the ten millions sterling
so willingly advanced for the relief of our Irish
brethren (half by way of loan and the residue as a
free gift) during the past year, and the voluntary
contributions, exceeding half a million more, for the
same benevolent purpose. Why then are there such
painful exceptions to the general rule in individual
cases ? The causes should, as far as possible, be
searched out, and adequate remedies applied to the
evil—remedies that we trust may prevent the possi-
bility of a similar occurrence.

According to ancient usage, a day of national
lamentation was ordained by the Legislature during
the crisis of the late scarcity of provisions. So
alarming were the prospects of famine (and its fearful
sequence, pestilential disease), that the Government
deemed it advisable, even in the nineteenth century,
to announce the necessity for some general act of
humiliation, whereby the scourges of hunger and
death might be removed from the land, and the
mercy of DIVINE PROVIDENCE be, in some measure,
propitiated. If nothing better were the result of the
public fast, it must have acted beneficially upon a
large proportion of the least educated classes, by re-
minding them that there is a Divinity to be adored,
by calling to their recollection that throughout all
grades of the human family there is a common de-
pendence upon an omnipotent but invisible CREATOR.
Chat these sublime and everlasting truths are but
icantily comprehended among certain portions of the
population of these islands, is a fact as deplorable as
it is notorious. It is declared not merely in the ficti-

tious delineations of Sir BULWER LYTTON—as where
ae describes, in " Ernest Maltravers," the ignorance
of Alice of the name and the nature of the God-
head—but it has been proclaimed also, in accents
that defy incredulity, in the examinations made be-
fore the Commissioners sent by Parliament into the
mining districts and the factories. To such mi-
serable and debased creatures, such an event
is a national fast must present a spectacle
At once striking and suggestive. It must
convey the greatest truth of creation to their minds
more forcibly than the sententious paragraphs
of a catechism. It must stamp upon their imagina-
tions the idea of a God—that knowledge which affords
consolation even to the sceptic, and produces virtue
2ven in the worldling. Whether the macerations of
the flesh by abstinence from food, or by acts expres-
sive of humility and submission, are requisite under
he new law, may remain a matter for the discussion
of theologians. It may continue questionable whe-
ther the inhabitants of London should, by fasting,
emulate the sackcloth and the ashes of the inhabitants
of Nineveh. But it is most certain that no ill conse-

quences can flow from such expressions of national
grief and supplication. They not only effect an in-
estimable advantage for those who are immersed in
ignorance, by revealing to them, as we have already
observed, the most majestic of truths in a light the
most startling and impressive, but they must by ne-
cessity exercise a sustaining, a purifying, and an
ennobling influence over every member of the corn-

rnunity.
Before the prospect of a famine in Ireland the
people of the United Kingdoms bowed their heads in
iorrow—the Legislature ordained a day on which
their affliction should be expressed simultaneously.
Now that these privations are diminishing, and that
there is a probability of our experiencing the joys of
a plentiful harvest, it becomes manifest to every
rational man that the nation should give some token
of its happiness and its 'gratitude—that the Legis-
lature should ordain a day of general exultation and
thanksgiving. Otherwise the reproach of hypocrisy
will attach itself to the country; and the faith of
Englishmen mill be regarded as nothing better than
a desperate refuge in the hours of their extreme deso-
lation. Not to apply it jestingly, the fickleness of
the religious sentiment of the empire will be reflected
in the old rhyming proverb :

"When the devil was ill, the devil a saint would be;

When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he."

Such, however, is the ordinary indifference to good

fortune as compared with the emotions evinced at cir-
cumstances of a calamitous character, that Lord
BYRON has scornfully remarked that revolutions,
plagues, invasions, comets, and wars are the favourite
dates of mankind—" who have so many blessings in
their lot that they never make their calendars from
them, being too common." In illustration of this
argument, he continues (See MooKE's " Life of
Byron," vol. vi., p. 261), " You see, for instance,
the Great Drought, the Thames Frozen Over, the
Sever, Years' War broke out, the English, or French,
or Spanish Revolution commenced, the Lisbon
Earthquake, the Lima Earthquake, the Earth-

quake of Calabria, the Plague of London, ditto

of Constantinople, the sweating sickness, the yellow
fever of Philadelphia, &c., &c., &c. ; but you don't see
the abundant harvest, the fine summer, the long peace, the
wealthy speculation, the wrechless voyage, recorded so
emphatically r Flippant as this observation of the
illustrious poet is in tone, there is a profound wisdom
in its raillery, and a wholesome moral in its bitter-

ness. It will be well for us, just now, to appreciate
that moral and to recognise that wisdom. A hap-
pier opportunity could not be afforded than the one
which arises from the abundance and excellence of
our crops in grain, in vegetables, and in fruitage.
Surely there is as much reason to rejoice over the
ripeness of an orchard as to lament over the rotten-
ness of a potato-field ! And those who are, from
certain ethical objections, disinclined to bow the knee
or to stint the appetite when the granaries are void,
will not be disposed to clamour at the tokens of na-
tional happiness which result from the unusual pro-
ductiveness of the season. Few men can be
found who would raise a dissentient voice against
the official appointment of a jubilee in considera-
tion of the plentiful harvest which has followed an
unusual scarcity.

Letters from Athens of the 22d of August state that
a Government proclamation had been issued the day
before, announcing that a battle had been fought near
Chalcis, between the Government troops and those
under the command of GRIZIOTTIS, in which the
latter is stated to have been mortally wounded, and
his followers completely routed and dispersed. The
killed and wounded on both sides are said to amount
to above 400 ; and GRIZIOTTIS' defeat is attributed to
his despising the regular soldiers sent against him
who attacked and carried all his entrenchments at the'
point of the bayonet. The Government irregulars,
under General GARDISIOTTI GRIVAS, have since been
amusing themselves, according to orders, in burning
the villages and murdering the old men and women
they contain ! These are the troops conveyed to the
scene of action by the French war-steamers.
This is the third insurrection that has taken place
since the illegal proceedings at the elections have
driven the people to despair. A number of surgeons
have been sent off from Athens to Chalcis with mules
loaded with beds and large sacks of lint. The Go-
vernment is endeavouring to disguise the number of
killed and wounded, as the people do not admire
the carnage, and say that in civil war there can be no
victory.

A pitched battle, with thousands of men in the
field, fought within thirty miles of the capital ;
such have been the effects of the illegal measures
at:opted by COLETTI to stifle the expression of public
opinison, at the suggestion of his French masters.
These lu,
tters do not state whether or•no the crews of
the French
steam .boats took any part in the action.

We have rec;ived the following account of the
sitting of the Swis; Diet on the 2d, on the question
of the Jesuits :
"The debate was opened :by M. Furrer, Deputy
from Zurich, who, passing 17 the motives on which

the order was expelled from all the states of Europe,
and declining to enter upon an examination of their
moral system and their writings, confined himself to
a general view of their manner f acting in the Con-
federation. Their expulsion, he said, was proposed
by the canton of Argau, which, as a mixt canton,
was best able to appreciate the pernicious effects of
their mode of proceeding in Switzerland. The states
in which the order was established assumed that the
question involved much less the expulsion of the Je-
suits than the annihilation of the cantonal authority,
but that it was not difficult to prove that these
states had fallen into an error, public opinion was
against them, their presence excited disturbance
throughout the Confedration, and yet they would
not yield any of their pretensions—blood had been
shed, and they threatened to bring about a schism,
which would be the ruin of the country. Having no
country themselves they could not have any patriotic
feelings. After a few further arguments he declared
that as the representative of Zurich he should vote for
the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Swiss territories.
M. Fisher, from Lucerne, said he did not rise to de-
fend the Order of Jesus, but to declare that the people
of his canton would be ready at all times to defend its
independence and sovereignty. Having discussed
the question at some length, he concluded by saying
that he was charged by his Grand Council to declare,
that the Government and people of Lucerne would
never acknowledge as valid a decree of the Diet, pro-
nouncing the expulsion of the Jesuits. Lucerne
wished for peace, but if forced to take up arms to de-
fend her independence, whether against the Diet or
against the free corps, she would not shrink from any
sacrifice. The Deputies for Uri, Schwyz, and Under-
wald, spoke to the same purport. The Deputy for
Glaris conceived that public tranquillity in Switzer-
land demanded the expulsion of the Jesuits. The
Deputy from Zug supported the arguments of
Lucerne. The Deputy from Fribourg pronounced
the proposition for the expulsion of the Jesuits to be
the most impolitic that could be conceived, and as it
must be considered as an attack upon the sovereignty
of the cantons ought to be branded with reprobation.
History and treaties, he said, proved that the tran-
quillity of Switzerland arose from the entire freedom
of the confessional. He then quoted the federal
compact to establish that the internal police of each
canton was under its own direction, and that the
Diet was incompetent to interfere with it, and
that as to the Jesuits it was yet to be proved that
they compromised the tranquillity of Switzerland.
The Deputy for Soleure stated that it was precisely
because his canton was entirely Catholic, that it
knew the distinction between the true interests of
religion and the existence of an order which, far
from serving them, only tended to compromise them.
He maintained the competency of the Diet to inter-
pose in supporting the internal tranquillity of the
country as well •as its peace with foreign powers.
The Catholic religion, he affirmed, could exist with-
out the Jesuits, as was proved by the cantons of
Soleure and Tessino, which would have none of
them; and by the cantons of Uri and Unterwald,
which, though without having any Jesuits, never-
theless proclaimed themselves to be the best Catholic
cantons of Switzerland. The Deputy for Bale town
expressed the pleasure he had felt at seeing Lu-
cerne spontaneously decide upon expelling the
Jesuits, which, he maintained, was a cantonal mea-
sure in which the Diet was not competent to inter-
pose. lie drew a dark picture of the present state of
Switzerland, as being on the point of becoming a
prey to foreign Powers, and intreated both parties to
act with moderation, concluding with quoting the
motto—" Union is strength." The Deputy for Bale
country voted for the expulsion. The Deputy for
Schaffhausen spoke in a contrary sense. The Deputy
for Inner Appenzell desired that the question should
be withdrawn from the order of the day. The De-
puty for Outer Appenzell was of opinion that the
Diet had the power of expulsion, and ought to exer-
cise it. The Deputy for Saint Gall argued from a
conviction that the order was incompatible with the
public repose of Switzerland, as history had proved
that its principal object was to contend against Pro-
testantism, and therefore there could be no peace so
long as the two confessions were in hostility with each
other. It being then three o'clock, and there re-
maining nine other Deputies to express their sen-
timents, the debate was adjourned till the next
sitting.

The Roman Advertiser of the 28th ult. has the
following :
" It is said that an answer to the protest of the
legate of Ferrara has arrived from Vienna. The
Emperor declares that the occupation was ordered by
Radetzky alone, who had, however, been invested
with the power of judging when it might be right
and necessary to take such a step; that this pro-
ceeding is not considered an infringement of the
rights of the Sovereign Pontiff, but is a right
vested in the Emperor by the treaty of Vienna ;
that if his Holiness is of a different opinion, Austria
consents to have the matter referred to an arbiter at
the choice of the Holy Father. Pro-Governor Morandi
issued a decree at Rome on the 25th ult. against the
clandestine press. When,' says he, a law already
exists, that admits of the expression of opinion within
just and reasonable limits, and whilst his Holiness is
again preparing to reconsider the existing laws on the
press and the censorship, no violation of the existing
laws should be tolerated.' By this decree the authors,
the abettors, and distributors of an unauthorised print
are punished with imprisonment during a term not
exceeding a year, and with a fine of from 50f. to 300 f."
Cardinal OR.tom, Prefect of the congregation of
bishops at Rome, has addressed a letter to Cardinal
OPIZZONI, Archbishop of Bologna, directing him to
effect by persuasion or force the disarming of the
volunteers of the legations, a sort of irregular militia
instituted by GREGORY XVI. to act against popular
demonstrations, and composed of individuals of ques-
tionable character, and disaffected towards the pre-
sent Government. The Archbishop has, in con-
sequence, addressed a circular to the curates of his
diocese, enjoining them to aid in persuading
these individuals to lay down their arms peaceably,
and submit to the civic guard, now instituted through-
out the province. The Cardinal Archbishop of Ra-
venna has addressed a circular, dated 20th ult., to the
curates of his diocese, prescribing rules for the orga-
nization of the civic guard, and enjoining them to
preach to the people obedience and fidelity to their
Prince in this crisis. The last sentence of the circu-
lar is as follows :

" Lastly, join in prayer with us, that the God of
Armies may vouchsafe to bless the weapons which the
Holy Father with paternal confidence trusts to the
hands of his sons for the defence of our religion and
eountry ; and to shed his blessing over the citizens
of Ravenna, who, firmly united in so sacred a cause,
receive them from him, who is their glory and de-
light."

The following, which appears in the Austrian Ob.
server, may be considered as the official defence ol
the Austrian Government of their occupation of
Ferrara :

" The Gazette de Bilancia, published at Rome,
containing a long article relative to the late events at
Ferrara, in which there are many errors, we think
it our duty to endeavour to correct them. All the
question with regard to Ferrara is reduced to this—
whether Austria possesses the right of garrisoning
Ferrara or not. Article 103 of the treaty of Vienna
places the matter beyond a doubt, notwithstanding
the attempt of the Gazette to make it appear other-
wise. If it is thus proved that Austria has the right
of garrisoning Ferrara and Comachio, all the diffi-
culty raised on some measures recently ordered by
the commandant-in-chief at Ferrara, and which are
only the application of the general orders of the
army, fall to the ground. The Bilancia adds
—' We will go back to the treaty of Vienna,
and in seizing with respect the august word
of our Sovereign, we boldly say that the mo-
ment is come to give the full effect demanded by jus-
tice to certain protests which have been made.' As
this imprudent declaration of the Bilancia is of a
nature to explain the springs which are put in motion
by parties so irritated at the late events at Ferrara, it
is important to thoroughly examine the character of
the protest alluded to. Three days after the signature
of the final act of the Congress at Vienna—viz., the
12th June, 1815—Cardinal Consalidi, the Plenipo-
tentiary of the Pope, handed in two protests. In one
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the Cardinal protested against all dispositions contrary
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to the interests of the Catholic religion and to the
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buted n -re
to the different temporal Princes (Catholic and
non-Catholic). 2. The non-restitution of ecclesias-
tical property left in part in the hands of the
new possessors under the co-operation of the
legitimate authority. 3. The non-re-establish..
ment of the Holy Roman empire. In the second
protest the Cardinal thanks, in the name the of
Father, the Monarch who had restored it into the
patrimony of St. Peter ; but, at the same time, he
protested against the non-restitution to the Holy See
of the province of Avignon, the comitat of Venaisin,
and of the part of the legation of Ferrara, situated
on the left bank of the Po, as well as against the
right of garrison of Austria in the places of Ferrara
and Comachio. It suffices to throw a glance on the
objects against which the Court of Rome has pro-
tested to be convinced that they wished to attack the
irresistible force of things which had shaken
European order, and changed the face of that part of
the world. It is evident that the protest of Cardinal
Consalidi cannot be considered but as a formality
commanded by the ancient traditions of the Roman
See, as the reserves which had been made after the
, peace of Westphalia in 1649, that of Alt Ramstadt
in 1707, and of Baden in 1714. It is really in this

1
point of view that the powers assembled in Congress
at Vienna considered the protest of Cardinal Con-
salidi." _ __. .

The Nuremberg Correspondent has the following :
" France having admitted the right of Austria to
garrison Ferrara and Comachio, the occupation of
the former place will raise no difficulty between
Austria and France. It is certain that M. Guizot
has not addressed any protest to the Austrian Go
vernment, and will make none, whatever may be the
conduct of the Italian Government. On the con-
trary, France has invited the Holy See to examine
whether it would not be better to take no fresh steps
relative to the occupation of Ferrara, which is in-
contestably a right on the part of Austria, as the
fermentation which prevails in Italy cannot but
increase, and settle the affair not by protests but by
diplomatic negotiations. With regard to diplomatic
negotiations, M. Guizot has rejected all mediation
in the affair, and declared that direct negociations on
the part of the Pontifical Court will be attended with
the better results."

The Prussian State Gazette publishes a comparative
table for 1846 and 1847 of the imports and exports of
Odessa. It appears from this table that the exports
during the first six months of 1846 amount to
7,867,485 silver roubles (31,469,940 f.), and those of
the corresponding six months of 1847 to 16,863,956
roubles (67,455,824 f.). This enormous difference was
occasioned by the increase of the trade in corn.
A letter from Warsaw, of the 26th ult., says—
" The Emperor of RUSSIA is expected here, to be
present at a grand review in the environs. On
January 1 the new penal code will be put in force.
Poland will then be incorporated with Russia."
Madrid papers of the Ist have arrived.

The Gaceta publishes the list of the new Ministry,
which we gave in The Sun of yesterday. NARVAEZ
will not be suffered to return to Paris, and
it is even said that he has been banished to Burgos.
The Presidency of the Ministry is to be offered to
the Duke of FRIAS, and should he refuse office, to
General ALAIX, who was Minister of 'War at the time
of the Convention of Bergara. The Eco del
Comercio declares that nothing could exceed the
joy of all classes at the narrow escape they have
had from the sanguinary rule of NARVAEZ and
the Afrancesado faction ; and their gratitude to the
QUEEN, for the spirit and decision which she has
manifested, is in proportion.

These journals contain letters from Lisbon of the
28th ult. They state that the acts of the new Minis-
try had been very unfavourably received; that a
spirit of insurrection had begun to develop itself at no
great distance from the capital, and that a chief of
pirtisans, well known for his ferocity, had put himself
at the head of a guerilla in the environs of Aldea-
Gallega. The Nacional, of Oporto, had announced
that the dissolution of the Chartist battalions appeared
to be determined on, but that they would be allowed
to retain their arms. They were said to amount to
17,918 men, being only 82 fewer than the legal
strength of the army. The new Minister of Finance
had demanded a return of the number of Government
employes, and had, it was said, determined on taking
all the revenues of the capital for the service of the
State.

MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. .—The Three per Cents
26 paper ; Fiveper Cents., 17f paper, 17i cash ;
Debt without Interest, 5e paper. Exchange on
London, 49.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Debats anxious, if possible, to divert the pub-
lic attention from the results of the policy of M.
GUIZOT in France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy,
treats its readers to a dull leader on the sub-
ject of the progress of fever in Ireland. This
attempt at herring-trailing is clever, but it will
not succeed—the scent of corruption lies too
strong to be overcome for anything else. The
Presse, too, has doubtless received the mot d'ordre
from the Palace, and it also treats it readers
to a leader on Irish affairs. This paper, how-
ever, also publishes the following important statistical
details, drawn from official returns, of the commercial
movement of France during the past year :
" The ensemble of the exchanges of France with
her colonies and the foreign Powers amounted, in
1846, to 2,437,000,0001. ; viz., 1,257,000,0001. for
importation, 1,180,000,000 f. for exportation. If we
take a glance at the last fifteen years, and divide
them into three quinquennial periods, it will be seen
that our general commerce has always been on the
increase during those three periods; but that the
progress of oar exportations abroad has not followed
with an equal advance the increase of the foreign im-
portations into France. During the first quinquennial
period, from 1832 to 1836, our exportations exceed
by 239,000,000 E the amount of our importations. In
the following periods the proportion changes, and
turns more and more in an opposite sense. In the
second period, our exportations fall by.71,000,000f. be-
low the importations. In the third period the fall is still
heavier—our exportations being 573,000,000 f. inferior
to the amount of goods coming in. This result can-
not be attributed to errors arising from the mode of
valuing the products exchanged. The Custom-
house, in fact, values those products, both in entering
and leaving the country according to a scale of official
values which has remained unchanged since 1826.
Ever since that period, the merchandise sent from
abroad to France, as well as that leaving France for
foreign countries, have been estimated on the same
bases. It is consequently the movement of exchanges
which has been modified. In the 2,437,000 f. of
articles exchanged between France and the different
countries of the globe, 72 per cent. or 1,755,000,000 f.
were conveyed by sea. What was the part of our
flag in those conveyances ? At the first glance, we
find 828,000,000 f. for the national, 926,000,000 E
for foreign ones. Thus, even in that case, we should
not convey half the products exchanged on our coast.
That already would not be very brilliant, for if we
examine the returns of the maritime movement in
England and the United States, we see that these
two Powers keep for themselves the greater part of
the transports which are effected between their ports
and foreign ones. But how far we are from pos-
sessing even that modest part I To arrive at the
figure of 828,000,000 E, it has been necessary to count
the mass of transports effected in the domain of what
is called the reserved navigation, such as colonies,
fishery, &c. Now, as foreign competition is pro-
hibited by our laws in this domain, as we reign there
alone' and without division, it is very evident that to
have a correct idea of the success obtained by our flag
in its struggle with foreign ones, that element of com-
parison must be struck out. That makes 285,000,000 f.
to cut off, and there then remain only 543,000,000 E
of transports to oppose to the 920,000,000 E, which
form the share of the foreign flag. The countries
with which our relations are the most active are as
follow : they are numbered in the order of their im-
portance (let us observe that we are here referring to
the importations and exportations united, or what is
:-1. United States; 2.
tEernmgleadndg;en3e.ral
Switzerland;commerce 4. Sardinian States; 5.)
Belgium ; 6. German Association ; 7. Spain; 8. Al-
geria; 9. Russia. For the special commerce this
order is somewhat modified. The United States
and England still retain the first rank; but Switzer-
land descends from No. 3 to No. 8 ; the Sar-
dinian States ascend to No. 3, and Belgium takes No.
4. Do our readers desire to know the order in
which the countries that send us the greatest quantity
of products are ranged? We now only speak of
special commerce :—United States, 141,000,000 f. ;
Sardinian States, 107,000,000 f. ; Belgium,
101,000,000 f. ; England, 79,000,000 f. ; Russia,
.53,000,000 f. ; German Association, 47,000,000 f. ;
Turkey, 38,000,000 E ; Spain, 36,000,000 E ; Switzer-
land, 29,000,000 f. The order in importance of the
countries to which we send the greater part of our
products is as follows :—England, 113,000,000 f. ;
United States, 100,000,000 f. ; Algeria (French
colony), 94,009,0001. ; Spain, 73,000,000 f. ; German
Association, 62,000,000 f. ; Sardinian States,
49,000,000 E ; Belgian, 48000,000 f. ; Switzerland,
47,000,000 f. ; Martinique (French colony),
22,000,0001. Let us remark, first, that our Antilles
are, with respect to their extent, one of our best
markets. Martinique and Guadaloupe received for
their part, in 1846, 42,000,000 f. of products from
the home country. Should not this consideration,
even in the absence of every other, suffice to
impose on us great attention to all that concerns
their future prospects ? Algeria, as a market, occu-
pies also an important position. She is worth almost
as much to us in that respect as the United States.
But what causes Algeria to be so great a market to
us is, that we ourselves convey to it consumers who
purchase our products—an army
of 100,000 men ;
and let us remark, moreover, that it is with the money
we send there—upwards .f 100,000,000 f. per. annum
—that these products are purchased. There is, there-
fore, a great deal to be deducted from the real value
of this market. Let us state, that until the last few
years, the Custom-house permitted free trade in
Algeria. Foreign merchandise was admitted on
almost the same footin as our own. What hap-
pened ? Our own goodg s . did not sell. It was the
English especially who supplied Algeria. We had
the charges—they had the profits ! This kind of
division suited them, and aided them to support with
resignation an occupation which their diplomacy has
never fully recognised. But at length it was per-
ceived that we
played the part of dupes ;
desired that Algeria, French by what i and it was
t cost us,

should a!so be French by what it bought from us.
The tariffs were modified, and it is in consequence o!
this reform that we must now count Algeria as one
of the best customers of our home market."

The Madrid correspondent of the National gives
;he following account of the causes which led to the

ill-success of NARVAEZ in his attempts to form
Ministry. He says that NARVAEZ has been merel3

acting a part. He knew beforehand what names te,
present, to ISABELLA, to cause her to reject the list
with disgust. By a singular chance it so happened
that the men whom he had chosen as members of his
Ministry were precisely those who had been pointed
nut, in various reports presented by the police, as
members of a conspiracy, the object of which was to
procure the deposition of the QUEEN ; among them
were persons who were in constant communication
with M. DE GLUCKSBURGB and with the KING.
Therefore to assure the rejection of the list by the
QUEEN, it was only necessary to recal to her recol-
lection their acts and their plots against herself. This '
was alone sufficient to make her consider the offer o'
such a list:as]:►n outrage against herself. She believed
she was about to be again delivered up to her enemy
to be re-crucified to PAQuo—delivered over to the
tender mercies of her mother and her uncle. She
became furious with rage, as NARVAEZ expected she
would be, rejected his list, and gave him his dis-
missal." The National considers this version of the
story not at all improbable, because NARVAEZ, who had
always been a supporter of the Trapani alliance, was
much offended by the contracting of the French
marriage. his pride was cruelly wounded by the
studied insults that were offered to him at the nuptial
fetes by the partizans of the French alliance, at whici,
time he was on the most friendly terms with Mr.
BULWER. NARVAEZ, who sometimes forgets a be-
nefit, never forgets or forgives an injury. He is,
moreover, a clever politician, and must, during his
stay in Paris, have known that the general opinion of
the most shrewd persons in the diplomatic world
has long been that the French system in Spain
was " used up," that its influence was daily declin-
ing, and that everything announced its approaching
fall.

The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, which
places Algeria under a form of government of a more
civil character than previously. After suppressing
the present directions of the Interior, of Colonization,
Public Works, Finance, and Commerce, established
by the ordonnances of the 15th April, 1845, and 22d
April, 1846, it declares that there shall be a direction
of civil affairs in each of the provinces of Algiers,
Oran, and Constantina, and that the present sub-
directors of the Interior and of Colonization shah
assume the title of Sub-Director of Civil Affairs.
There is to be in each province a Council of Direction,
of which the Director of Civil Affairs is to be presi
dent. The directors are to correspond with the
Governor-General. These directors and members of
council are to be nominated by the KING. The
tribes, or fractions of tribes, are to be under the ex-
clusive direction of the Arab officers. Anothar
ordonnance of the same date is calculated to prevent
undue influence or collusion in the grants of lands in

the colony by declaring, with other regulations, that
all grants of from twenty-five to one hundred hec-
tares shall be confirmed by the Governor- General
upon ti:e advice of the superior council of adminis-
tration, and that those of one hundred hectares and
upwards by the KING, upon the report of the Minister
of War, and the advice of the Council of State.
The Courricr Francais comments at considerable
length on this ordonnance, which it declares to be a
mere mockery, put forth for the purpose of gulling
the public into a belief that some reform has been
effected. It thus concludes:—

"To recapitulate, we have to say that nothing has
been done. The new ordonnances maintain the
military supremacy and the system of zones with the
Arab bureaux, increasing the number of employes
under the pretext of suppressing some of the posts.
They augment the confusion of the service, without
adopting any new administrative measure. They
create neither civil institutions nor municipal ones-
they do not even, in displacing what is arbitrary,
improve its organization. What, then, is changed in
Africa ? A Governor-General has been appointed,
who will wait for his emancipation by a Viceroy,
and who has an account of two milliards already ex-
pended, and of a hundred thousand men destroyed, of
whom France deplores the loss !"
General LAMORI cIERE and General BEDEAU are
about to return to Algeria immediately.
Lieutenant- General Count DE BOURKE, Peer of
France, a distinguished officer of the Empire, died
last week at the age of 75.
The Union Monarchique says-" It appears that
the post of Ambassador at Madrid has been given to
M. DE BACOURT, who was for some years Minister
Plenipotentiary at Washington. He was First Secre-
tary of the Embassy of London when M. DE TAD,
LEYRAND was Ambassador there."
The corvette the Meurthe, commanded by M. LE
FRAPPER, lieutenant de vaisseau, has arrived at Brest
from Otaheite. She has a crew of 142 men on
board, and brings back 190 infantry, marine and ar-
tillery. She left at Otaheite the French vessels of war
the Uranie, the Ariane, the Phaeton, and the Fortune.
The crews were in the enjoyment of excellent health.
From Otaheite the Meurthe went to Rio Janiero, where
it remained from June 24 to July 5. Sbe found
there the Charte and Dana 6. frigates.
The Three per Cents. opened on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 76f. 70c., but speedily fell to 76f. 50c., clos-
ing, however, at 761. 55c. The Fivo per Cents., from
which the coupon was to be detached next day, also de-
clined, to the extent of 15c. Shares were even more in
disfavour. Northerns at one moment fell to 5284 f., but
terminated at 5301. Orleans fell 2if., Rouens, 34f., and
Marseilles, which had reached 580 t., closed at 57141.
The Three per Cents. closed at 76f. 55c. ; the Five
per Cents., 1181. 20c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,2271. 50c. ; Rouen, 947 f. 50c. ; Havre, 5781. 75c. ;
Great Northern, 5301. ; Avignon, 571 f. 75c. ; Vierzon,
562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 452 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 2701. ;
Basle, 1701. ; Paris and Strasburg, 3851.; Tours and
Nantes, 367 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 3821. 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 447 f. 50c.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 2.-Marseilles and Avignon,
575 f. ; Northern, 533 f. 75c.
LYONS, SEPT. 4.-Paris and Rouen, 948 f. 75c. ; Avig-
non and Marseilles, 571 f. 25c. ; Northern, 531 f. 25c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 3921. 50c. ; Lyon and Avignon, 572 f.
50e. ; Orleans, 1,2281. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMEEP. 7.
Italian and Austrian, 11,4-Orleans and Bordeaux, 411--
Paris and Lyons, 3N-Paris and Rouen, 37.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times.)

The Journal des Debuts announces that a royal
decree was signed at Madrid on the 2d, authorising
the return of all political emigrants without exception,
and that all prosecutions commenced against them
should be annulled.

The Duke of Frias left Bayonne on the 4th inst.
for Madrid.

The Duke of Sotomayor likewise left for the
capital on the same day.

Sir George Larpent, as Chairman of the Com-
mittee for extending Steam Communication between
Australia, India, and England, has received informa-
tion from Sydney by the last mail, that the Legisla-
tive Council of New South Wales has voted .5001.
per month out of the colonial revenues towards
carrying out this great object ; thus incontestibly
proving the anxiety on the subject of the southern
colonies, which is net surprising, as they are the only
portion of the empire excluded from the benefits of
steam intercourse with England.
WELSII GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.—Through the muni-
ficence of Mr. Phillips, a native of Wales, a Welsh
Grammar-school has lately been endowed, which is
to be established at Llandovery, for the education of
twenty free scholars, natives of the dioceses of St.
David's and Llandaff. This benevolent gentleman,
being aware of the great deficiency existing in \Vales
of elementary instruction in the Welsh language,
combined with a classical education, has supplied the
want, and by the above excellent institution has pro-
vided all that is needful for the training of youths for
the Welsh ministry, to enable them to write and
compose in their native language with elegance and
accuracy, which is not only required in the pulpit,
but, from the number of periodicals which are pub-
lished monthly in the Welsh language, it is indis-
pensable that there should be qualified writers belong-
ing to the Established Church. The master is to he
in full orders, but is not to undertake any weekly
parochial duties, and has the privilege of instructing
as many pay scholars as will not be injurious to those
on the endowment. The Learned Bishop of St.
David's is appointed visitor, and a public examination
will take place at stated periods.
DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT BUST.—An interesting
discovery si as made last month at Tunis. In clearing
away a mount in the inner port at Carthage to extract
some stone for the repair of the quays at Goletta, the
workmen found a colossal marble bust, which is sup-
posed to represent Juno, in as perfect a state of preser-
vation as if it had been just sculptured.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS•
CITY, QUARTER TO TIPLEE.
In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales
were only 1,500 bales, at previous rates, and included

1,200 bales American, at 6d. to 7i-d.; 6& Parnam, at
B,id.; 60 Egyptian, at 81d. to 9d.; and 60 Surat, at
to 6i(l. per lb.—Shares were flatter, and generally
lower.

The election for Deputy-Governor at the Bank of
England is now in progress, and no doubt Mr. Prescott
will be chosen, as there is no other candidate.

There does not appear to be much known in town yet
respecting the houses at Manchester reported to be in
difficulties. According to the accounts received, how-
ever, ono firm is pretty well ascertained to be
embarrassed. Much greater interest than usual
attaches now to the Manchester market, because
of its possible derangement by failures ex-
pected in the United States. A Manchester firm,
in their " Circular for last month, states that " The
depression which recently prevailed in the Manchester
market has had a correspondent effect on the business
done in the raw staple. Although the sales have been
rather under an average amount, yet the rates have ex-
perienced little fluctuation, owing to the comparatively
-mall stocks held at the ports, as well as to the advices
received from the United States, which represent the
growing crop as not likely to yield more than two mil-
lions of bales. As the recent advices taken out may
tend to prevent further shipments of grain, a decline in
freights, and a tighter money market, may lead to the
export of some of the stocks of cotton, which have been
Accumulating ; but it seems unlikely that arrivals in
this country will be sufficiently considerable to influence
prices for some months to come.
" Within the past week a movement has been got up
by the operative classes employed in our mills, with the
view of inducing manufacturers to simultaneously close
their mills for a month or six weeks, during the autumn,
in preference to reduced wages or half time during the
winter months. It appears probable that the suggestion
may be acted upon, in which case stocks of goods will
be eagerly sought, and the cutting off one-twelfth
the annual consumption must have its effect on cotton."

We regretito notice in nearly every recent Gazette a list
of bankrupts among the middling class of traders, which
tells an unmistakeable tale of suffering and loss. Five-
and-twenty persons, in very varied occupations, are thus
unfortunately chronicled in last night's publication; and
we greatly fear that the pressure experienced some
months since from Peel's Currency Bill, and manfully
withstood by many, will begin to tell now more than

ever. Dear money and dull trade must bring down
the steady as well as the speculative man,

and at present cash is by no means easy, or proportion-
able in value to the range of profits. It is consolatory
that even the Government income is maintained, but
we should be glad that it were so from the briskness of
our foreign commerce, as much as from the stimulus
imparted to consumption by the active employment
afforded on new railway works.
The Stock Market has been rather flat this morning,
and sales for money continue to be pressed. Consols
are 87-k for transfer, and 87i for October. Parties
who have obtained loans upon stock are preparing in
time, probably to meet the repayment ere the close of
the month. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 89-1- Bank Stock is worth 1951 to 1971,
and India Stock has ranged from 239 to 241. Exche-
quer-bills are rather firm at ss. to 7s. premium.
The Foreign Market looks heavier. Spanish Five per
Cents., however, keep up nominally at 191 to 20, and the
Three per Cents. at 294. Mexican Bonds have declined
to 19i . Brazil Stock is worth 85. Dutch Two-and-
a-Halt per Cents. have been 5.5 i.
Railway Shares are lower, and there is more inclina-
tion to press sales.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 1951/ 197 1951 A

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7l/2%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. sth, 1860 9 1-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 15-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jau. 5, 1860.. 834
India Stock 241 239 240
South Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities
3 per Cent; Annuities, 1751
Consols for Account 87%5/83/4
Exchequer Bills. 2d.
1,000/.
5001.
Small
I'RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B5
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 84%
Dutch 21 per Cent., 12 Guild 56
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 19%%
Ditto for the Account . 19142
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 '2o 19%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 3 per Cent 29.%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 - n• Cents .. _ . 5573

,uteL /2 per
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... 8914

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 1 ...... to
Ayrshire and Galloway 2% — to
Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. ..
Birmingnam & Oxford June... 15
__.

Birminiham, "%Vol., & Dudley 10 ... .
Birming., Vol., & Stour Val. 8
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junctio❑ 6% — ..... to
Boston, Stamf., & Binning... 5
Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds

Buckinghamshire.. Bl. 4s —
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 40
Chester and Holyhead 321/2 .....
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clarence. .
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
_.,

Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 121/ — to
East Anglia, 251., L. & E.
awl L. & D

. •.••• to •••--

Ditto, 181., E. &II lB ......
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & 11... 1
_ _ .

Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... % p... to
Do., York Extension
Do., Northern & Eastern— 50
Do., Quarters .... . ......... 121/2 —
D0., New
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares l2l/2 — to
Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do., Extension Scrip... 11/
East Lincolnshire ... 9
Edinburgh and Glasgow SO
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 ......
Ditto, New 2l/2 — ...... to

Ditto, Newport .. ... ...... .. 7" — ...... to
Ditto, ditto, New l% — ...... to
Edinburgh and Perth
Ditto, Extension ... 105...... ...... to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to
Ditto, New
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6s. 8d... ..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Ditto, New
Do. I,i Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ...... ..... to
Great Northern
Do. London & York Exten. 2% IIA to
... ,_ ... ..„ .v . __.

GL South. & West. (Ireland) 35 - . .... to
Great North of England 100 229
Ditto, New 40/.
Ditto, New 30/
Ditto, New 151..........
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares ls
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Do. New 171
Huddersfield and Manchester 19 .. ...
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby 5O lOl
Ditto, Half Shares

Ditto; Quarter Shares :. 121,

Ipswich SZ, Bury St. Edmunds 15

Do. do. and Norwich
Do., do., Extension Scrip
(late (Camb. and Ely) 2% 3%14... to
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds...
Lancashire and Yorkshire
(M. and L.) ...100
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ..„....... 614 — ...... to
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) 71.4s l) dis. to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 29
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 28
_.. _

Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole 42%
Do., West Hiding Union —4/. 2s % dis. to
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto ..............(B) VA — to
Leeds and Bradford
Leicester and Bedford
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 321/2 — to
Do., Branch % Shares 71,6 —
Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2%
Ditto, Extension (green)... 21,G —
Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to
Leeds and Thirsk 3l
Ditto, New ..
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 %. .... 2%
Liverpool. Crosby, and South-
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2% ...... to
London N: Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 554...... to
Ditto New, No. 1..
Ditto New, No. 2 3/. 13s. 4d....
Do. Extension
London and North Western..loo 165
Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 12
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J 2O
Do. 40/. Shares.....L. & M. 15
Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 ......
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . .... _
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (130 5 ......
Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 ...... • to

Loud., Brig_ ~.,
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 20 ...... 16%....••
to
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... ~,...
to ---
Do. Pret. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... 49% ......
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... ...... to -.d.
_ ~„,, to ---
Ditto Preference -
..... 6l
London, Oxford, and Cheltm.lB
London and S. Western 4ll. 6s 10c1 60%,••••
/ 1 d's 2.. d.
..
..
..
...... .
IS
. to --
.....
••..
Do. New ConsolidatedBths. 40
Ditto New 40/.... ...... .. -. 28
Ditto New 50/......., ....... 32% 34 ...... t.°,.
....
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - ..... '-'-'
Ditto Scrip 501............... 5
4
Ditto ditto 401
...... to -"'
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1%••••••
Londonderry and Coleraine 25 ...... ......
Londonerr and Enniskillen 22% ...... ...... w -
Manch,d Buxy ton, & Matlock 425. ...... 1% dis. to --*
.
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo ...... ..... to
--•
. to
Ditto IA Shares (No. 1) - .....
.....
Ditto, ditto (No.
...... _ .. .. to
..
.
Ditto, % Shares (No. 3) 7%.•••••
.... 0--
to ---
Ditto Grimsby - ......
•••••• to -
„„„„ .
Ditto, ditto.
.. t° •
Ditto, ditto .. -
. to -'-'
Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%...... ..... 0 ....
Manchester and Southampton VA ...... -- •" ; 1184
Midland lOO ...... 117% ...... t
Ditto Fifths
.. _
..... to •••"
....
..... to
to --•
Ditto, 50/. Shares
_I2IA
..........
Midland, Birm., and Derby 11100 ..
..
..
. .•..
..
Midland, Consul. Bristol and to 10
Birmingham 6 per cent 100 .....•122 .... o
...... ,
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 ...... --• ..... to
Ditto ditto 71.95.••• .. .....
Midland, Leices. and Swan- . to ---
nington (8 per ct.gua.) 5O .... . --- .. to ''''
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 30 —.. 3
...... , . to
_2
Newcastle and Berwick - " .... to 1
Ditto New 5 ~.... 814 .....
. to •••"
Ditto North Shields..
Newmarket and Chesterford 13% '-- .to •"'
Ditto Extension - ... to .---
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... --- ..... ,to •••
Ditto Quarter Shares - '•r., to •"'"
Newport Abergy., and Ileref 4 ...... ...... to --•
Newry and Enniskillen - .... --• :
to
Norfolk ....... ~... "" to "e
Ditto New 20/. " to
Ditto Extension
10110 .... ... .. ......
____---
Do. Scrip, 1847,N. ofNorflk 2 ...... ..... to •'"
Do. do. Waveney Valley 2 ...... -- •" "
Newry, Warrenpoint, and to
Rostrevor - ••• "to ....•
Northern Counties Union
North British •• .........
28%. ..... to %-
Ditto Half Shares. •
1214 ...... -- ..... to ---
Do. Quarters 4%...••• -- .....
to .. to '''''
Ditto, Extension
Ditto Thirds ... ........... .•• 1 ...... 1-7Fr''" .to •-•
North Staffordshire 7% ...... 9% .... to '''
North Wales 3% ..... -- ... to
North Western 4 ...... - .....
R e-ta- edrihn, r
up
uu
ton
27 Oxford Worcester, and Wel- .. to
dfd., & Reigate 7%% ...... 1...8-1/4 ......... 11
.. ...,;.'
Royston and Ilitchin
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland ..... ... 17% '-'" ..... t° ....'
Ditto, New
Sheffield, Rotherham, and to '".
Goole - •,•; ... to ''''
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 , 4!,et 8... to '''..
Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 ...... -- ...... '
••••
Shrewsbury and Chester to
(Nor. W. Min.) - ...... to
Ditto Halves, Ditto 8 ... .. -- • ' to
Ditto, Oswestry l2 ...... -- • ..... to
Ditto (New) 1 . --- .... tO
Shrewsbury and Hereford - ...... to '
Shropshire Union . 4 ... IS -•' to •-• ,
South Devon 4O ...
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Ditto, New, No. 2
Ditto, New, No. 3 l5 ...... -- .. to
Ditto New, No. 4.
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South Yorkshire, Doncaster, " to
and Goole 2 ...... --- •".
tO ..• ,
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Railway 17%...... ...... ...... to „...
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Ditto, Preference 8 ..... 11S•••" to
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Ditto. Extension - •••'" to 1-1
Ditto, Preference
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Great Western Bengal ss• ...... ... .
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Great Western Canada
Italian and Austrian - . to
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Louvain ala Sambre 6 ...... -. '.. to "-*
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Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon (Con- .. to 5
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atituted)
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Madras, .Nellore, and Arcot ,}i ...... ...... to '
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Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux .....6 - •••••• to '.
Over Yssel
Paris and Lyons - ••"'. to '•
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Paris and Rouen
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Trinidad.. ......•. ... 214
West Flanders 8
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JOINT STOCK BANKS. t:`' ,--
Australasia
British North American
.... 45 ''''' is.
Colonial - ' t° ~•
Commercial of London - '''''. t° ..-•
London Joint Stock
London and Westminster. .. 20 - "...' t° 5
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t°
National Provincial of Engld 35 ...... -- ".... to
Ditto, New '
National of Ireland 22lA'a ...... --• ". ':
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Union of Australia - . ,
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Australian 2 ...... -- ...,....• ts ...•
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal - •
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British Iron - ..•••tO
Brazilian Imperial ...,. .. .., 21 ...... --- ...... t° ••••
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LONDON, SEPT. B.—Wind W. by N. 2
cloudy. S.S• iir'lif zi,
DEAL, SEPT. 7.—Wind N.W. to iota. i
Aigle, New York, and sailed for Amster sirisOlet
from the River, Cadet, Hobart Town; J011e,,14 14°11
DOVER, SEPT. 7.—Wind W.S.W.-11" ..
Ellery, Quebec.
DUNGENESS, SEPT. 6.—Arrd. Lune, rugrpl•erttil°
SHOREHAM, SEPT. 7.—Wind S.Vir.--15' pet
Mills, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 7.—Wind W.S-s‘..o;;ee°o rCiff.
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Field, Valparaiso; Wilson, Stoup,
Jemima, Calcutta; Otterspool, Calcutta; Queen
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Bombay; Token, Mauritius; Alexander, GoeighAbbf
Haidee, St. Thomas; Herald, Hondtirtul.n; oh; erlsoef,
bile; Margaret, Savannah; Eliza, Sali7; 111;o0)%
Pratt, New York; Elsinore, New "for,7,',ll,_,liich"
Wiscasset; Cervantes, Boston; Sarah P,sl"-Soir
Clarence, St. John's, N. B.; Elizabet°' Jane' OW
Helena, Richibucto; Amy An, Montt:,eillYtssogeear' be_,,rs'
foundland. Off port, Charles Walker, Ate 1011,.. IcP"'
modore. The Inca, Field, for Valparais°, to Ili/
was in contact with the Geneva, B°sl°ll vir sl‘l'P
20th July, and both received damag- Vir.S• - . 4,
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—Wind N. IT •t° o„6iir" f, P'
Crane packet, Madeira, Teneriffe, and ?....1 .d, Sollite
HULL, SEPT. 7.—Wind N.N.V17.--;irl'ilihs, GM 013'
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CLYDE.—Arrd. Mary Campbell, LieStaiieuiof ,
/Eolus, St, John's, New Brunswick ; •L Olgt,
rara Dalhousie, Trinadad. , ...1110rfo _
OFF DUNGENESS, AUG, 30.--Flora, 1:11:170 0
pore, and sailed for Hamburgh. Sept' 1. B Y 1, flit(
Batavia, and sailed for Amsterdam. eutht J.'
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CARDIFF, SEPT. 6.—The Flirt, a 000, P""
cargo of coals, while lying in the But°
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calamitous fire six hundred and eight)" hotlf,e 0 01
burnt to the ground. The greatest credit is drilt. TV
parties for their activity in aiding to extinguil'Yogliolib;
crews of the various vessels, especially th.e; 5 tO ,t' i
rendered immense service, exerting then:lsooe a w-
fiutmost amidst the raging flames. The reflect/ 013 TO
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RKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) . some further observations from the Chairman, the each of her Majesty's ships. The motion of LATEST PRICES OF SHARES.
CO-Dv-- ______„„_____ meeting separated. the Great Britain was diligently watched. AIN BAT SST AND OTHER COM-
R2tA-1 rACHANGE-WEDNESDAY. messenger came for men to take up hawsers and bring PANIES' STOCK.
in the paddle-box boats from the distance of near two From the Official List,
IVreact6hlia'n da y a very moderate supply of English GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP. miles. The boat was presently manned and pushed PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
!hew of
samples of
fresh to hand for our market. The The following letter has been addressed to the off. It was toe dark to see what was going forward. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.
Itas., of both red and white was small, yet., as
10° suPpliesof • • • . Editor of the Times :- But soon the foresail was spread-the wind which -----sos---.
tot. , ioreign Wheat and Flour still continue 30INT-STOCK BANES.
lhe c the demand was in a very sluggish state, at Sir,-Having written from Tyrella on the failure had lulled veered round from south to west, and now
lateen, decline in the quotations: IV-e were again of the former attempt of her Majesty's ship Birken- a gentle breeze from the north-west came off the 1 Dividend Amount
:Came of Company. 1 per of Paid. I Price
'll4 ! supplied with foreign Wheat, the sale for which heal to remove the Great Britain steam ship off the shore, and favoured the floating off the Great Britain : Annum. Share. 1
‘ Ittitr:Ltretnel_
ri_e
atcd it
iiildi Barley
g
IY inactive, at barely stationary prices, beach in Dundrum Bay, I now venture to request from the beach. She evidently approached the ------
x s. d. Z s. d.
moved off at full currencies, but grinding you will allow the particulars herein related, which Birkenhead, insomuch as to create some apprehen- Australasia •• •• •• •• •• 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
sorts were dull. The Malt trade was cannot fail to be interesting to the public, to appear sions of her running foul of her. With her came the Britsh Isorth American 51. per Cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45%
7dehey. I.rn solue instances the rates had a downward in your widelv.extended journal, notwithstanding the , paddle-box boats, and then the crew of the Birken- commercial of London 1 Si.s. pere cent.cent. 100 00 00 20 00 1
_-
h.ere was rather more doing in the best much that has been already written on this triumph head to heave up the anchors. It was then made i-
,s,,lrt:antjuill prices, but the middling and inferior kinds 4.,,,ndn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
4titi 'giQelod. Beans were of British energy and skill. known that Captain Claxton had been forced to slip London Joint-Stock:.. 61. per cent. h 0 0010 0 0 -
ilthj - 25 0 0 710 0
here dreg. er figures. Indian Corn and Flour were a
case "hear that "the Great Britain has been got off," afresh on the shallows of Dundrum Bay. Provincialof Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 441
- Ditto, ••.• • • • • sl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
but many dream not of the exertions made to effect To enable the men to heave the anchors they had gational of Ireland .• 5/. per cent. 50 0020 0 0 -
NI! ARRIVALS, Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0035 0 0 -1,,,,, ill ~.. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Flogr. the object, nor of the perils attending it. From some been taken from the pumps. Meantime it was appre- Ditto, New.• ••• - •• 5/. per cent. 20 0010 0 0
Pp' 5.,. '' 1,7" m qrs. 250 qrs. 40 qrs. i 1,090 sio, accounts published in this wonderful port, it might headed that the leaks being so great, and the accumu- Union of Australia• ••• , 61. per cent. 25 0025 0 0 -
Pt '•• 720 Union of London..• - ' 5/. per cent. 150 0 0 10 0 0 -
-- -- I and •
easily be imagined that certain persons celebrated for lation of water so rapid the ship would scarcely keep
4 ,••••• 15,960 -- 18,530 I 15y410brls _.-------
Malt. 1,730 ors. their success in such sort of undertakings had accom- afloat. It was a moment of intense anxiety. The CANALS.
The 8 . WHITECHAPEL. plished this great work alone ; that even Captain labour of heaving the anchor seemed to have increasd ,
t 4 ill aPplies of each kind of meat were somewhat on Claxton had had little to do with it, and that her tenfold, and every moment begot the painful feeling Names of 'I; Dividend N of t; Dividend
t„ applies and i t-,4 Price. ;` am" ,-, per Price.
'lll nlet ' of very middling quality. All descrip- Majesty's ships, with their gallant officers and crews, that without help at the pumps she must go down. Companies. 1, jurr , Companies. A Annum.
int • a very dull
to stisns , ,inquiry, and in some instances the had been mere ciphers in its completion, and the She appeared low in the water, and, in fact, the engi- 1 if. , num. 40
_ --_,--.
4 8,8%i0d; Iltir.ct a downward tendency. Beef, from 2s lod -
Government hardly to be commended for the aid ren- neer betrayed such misgivings as to require that both X i x
, lod, utton, 34 4(1 to 4s 10d; Lamb, 4s lod to Ishtn& Oldh 9715/.55. pe 70 Monmouthsh 100 101. -
dered in this great national achievement. the Birkenhead's paddlebox boats might be lashed
it lcu, veal, 3s 103 to 4s 101; and Pork, 3s 8d to Ishby-d-la-Z 113 4/. •- llntgomrysh 100 51. -
"" per Blbs by the carcase. Far be it from any one to diminish aught from the alongside for safety, in ease of an emergency he Barnsley •• .• 160. 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15
merits or the exertions of the engineers engaged ; but seemed to dread. The anchors up, the towing haw- Buraiusiiiigstoke.. 100 - - Meath .• •• - 100 201. 340
ItAVT, - k&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 12/.
-La-a-RUPT C Y.-( T HIS DAY.) the notion prevailing in Liverpool, that her Majesty's sers were soon attached, and when she yielded to the Dromford.... 100_, 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
BeforeG Mr. Commissioner FoNBLAmtuE.) ship had been employed as a mere tug to tow away paddle wheels of the Birkenhead much anxiety sub- 20
Teirdblevy ...L.:: 1121 6111: -63 Re
eat',....
83, 11.4145.
54
'llli ASIIION V. MATTHEWS. the iron steam-ship, as they say, floating and ready sided. The return of men to the pumps reduced the i
Ellsmre&Chs 1331 41. 51 Shropshire .• 125 81. -
for sea on her approach, however trifling and absurd, water mark. Fresh hope was excited, and Strang- Erewash ••• ;001 321. - Sorurset Coal 150 71.105. 130
tile d !was a summons under the Small Debts' Act,
defendant
ford Bay, some two hours' distance, promised secu-
g_t:i erra ti r, ithr&u(2. icyt-na
Iltt i, 'ant is the well known comedian. lle was ought to be completely set aside.
Grand Unionlloo 11. 10s. 21% Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 7
100 ti. 80- . spta°l-2;dosrt 14012 6t.c. 2";
1111 - attel d •
.0n Monday, the 23d of August, her Majesty's ship city to the heavy charge. The sun began to dawn,
to-, J ance but sent a letter, in which he
Birkenhead took up her station for the second time in and we passed St. John s, Lighthouse, when " Direct Glamorgnsh.ll72 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 201. 305
q‘vt.l illness as an excuse for his absence.
liitZlyet.Plaintiff's ,4lstr&Brkly 100 -
~Dundrum.
.Bay, about a mile and a half from the for Liverpool " was shouted from the sister vessel.
3rantliam .. 150 12/.
solicitor said, there had been 5026 I/. as. -
boy ft,lcuses th tI e did not think that Great Britain. She brought with her two lighters, On reflection, however, it was deemed by Captain Ruddersfield., 57 - - Wye Rail.
-__ Sstert,,,frrdßoanndAi 79 1/. 10s. -
4k(l f'•"ner delay ought to be granted, the defendant
already
made
al
V% hich she had taken in tow off Carlingford Lough, Claxton, that men of whatever mettle, exhausted as gennt & Avu, 39 7s. 6d. 5% Trnt &MI
Lancaster... 47 1/. 10s. -' sey 5O 30/. -
q his and cast them off, anchoring herself and sending her they had been by the almost incessant labour of three Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 505 Thams&lVled 19 - -
1..13 et y promised to pay after the termination
boats to tow off the lighters without loss of time nights and days, could not stand to the pumps, Leicester .... 140 101. 75 Worestr 178 2/, , 41%
'l4 r._ gageMent fit the Princess's Theatre, but he . ___,_ ..,__ 0 ..,,,, 4. T2”;fnin teuether with a party of as it was needful, for the many hours ere t6eDinc;ltTb&orNogtlhillB4t 7401 i. 560 Itißilits s4.llks 67 11- ' 11

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`NKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
ASHTON V. MATTHEWS.
the t 1.4. Wat a summons under the Small Debts' Act,
sot i''endant is the well known comedian. He was
atteLdance, but sent a letter, in which he
illness as an excuse for his absence.
Plaintiff's solicitor said, there had been so
boy furtherer already made that he did not think that
ll4dro.rther delay ought to be granted, the defendant
qhilalthfully promised to pay after the termination
; engagement at the Princess's Theatre, but he
1/751), With his wife into the country.
4-I°NotTR said, it would be rather harsh if pro-
ktos,"rs were pressed when the defendant's absence
°ol illness—that was the excuse, although it
111,,: not verified in proper form. He would allow
INCe to stand over for a week when the defendant
4t44"elaci or send a certificate supported by an

each of her Majesty's ships. The motion of
the Great Britain was diligently watched. A
messenger came for men to take up hawsers and bring
in the paddle-box boats from the distance of near two
miles. The boat was presently manned and pushed
off. It was too dark to see what was going forward.
But soon the foresail was spread—the wind which
had lulled veered round from south to west, and now
a gentle breeze from the north-west came off the
shore, and favoured the floating off the Great Britain
from the beach. She evidently approached the
Birkenhead, insomuch as to create some apprehen-
sions of her running foul of her. With her came the
paddle-box boats, and then the crew of the Birken-
head to heave up the anchors. It was then made
known that Captain Claxton had been forced to slip
his cables and cut his hawsers, to escape being stranded
afresh on the shallows of Dundrum Bay.
To enable the men to heave the anchors they had
been taken from the pumps. Meantime it was appre-
hended that the leaks being so great, and the accumu-
lation of water so rapid the ship would scarcely keep
afloat. It was a moment of intense anxiety. The
labour of heaving the anchor seemed to have increasd
tenfold, and every moment begot the painful feeling
that without help at the pumps she must go down.
She appeared low in the water, and, in fact, the engi-
neer betrayed such misgivings as to require that both
the Birkenhead's paddlebox boats might be lashed
alongside for safety, in case of an emergency he
seemed to dread. The anchors up, the towing haw-
sers were soon attached, and when she yielded to the
paddle wheels of the Birkenhead much anxiety sub-
sided. The return of men to the pumps reduced the
water mark. Fresh hope was excited, and Strang-
ford Bay, some two hours' distance, promised secu-
rity to the heavy charge. The sun began to dawn,
and we passed St. John's, Lighthouse, when " Direct
for Liverpool " was shouted from the sister vessel.
On reflection, however, it was deemed by Captain
Claxton, that men of whatever mettle, exhausted as
they had been by the almost incessant labour of three
nights and days, could not stand to the pumps,
as it was needful, for the many hours ere
the port of Liverpool could be made. The
pilot provided was well acquainted with the narrow
passage into Strangford Lough ; but it was very nar-
row, and the current very strong. The Great Britain
was very unmanageable. She would neither lead nor
drive in any steady course ; sometimes she seemed as if
she would go right ahead and give the Birkenhead the
go-by, had it been possible. Again she crossed her
towing path to try the starboard side, and then, as if
sulky under her restraint, presented herself almost
broadside to the draught. The pilot looked aghast,
and said, " The hawsers must be shortened; I cannot
take her in if she yaws this way." At this critical
juncture, near the shore, and narrow entrance to the
bay, a thick fog came on, so dense as to render the
land invisible, and the very sight of the huge vessel
near as she was to be indistinct. The Birkenhead's
head was turned to the sea, and Belfast Harbour was
determined upon. This was made with all the speed that
could be made with such an unmanageable floating log.
Off the Copelanes, where the current is strong, the
Great Britain seemed to set at nought her guide, broke
the hawsers, and threatened great obstruction to every
effort made in her behalf. Boats, however, were
lowered down, and fresh hawsers being soon attached
we arrived without further accident in Belfast Lough.
The Birkenhead cast anchor, loosing the hawsers from
the Great Britain, which was towed into more shallow
water by the Scourge, and finally was grounded on
the mud, which helped to stop her leaks. On the
following day, with fresh hands engaged by Captain
Claxton to man the pumps, the Great Britain was
taken in tow again by her Majesty's ship Birkenhead,
leaving the Scourge at anchor, and without any
remarkable or untoward event but that of yawing
from side to side, and now and then presenting
almost her broadside, the greatest steam-ship floated
gallantly and quietly to within about an hour and
a half of the bar of the Liverpool port. The wind
had now begun to blow fresh, the tide being at the
same time very strong, when, in reply to the
summons of a gun and signal, a pilot came on board
the Birkenhead. The Great Britain, profiting by
this slight alteration of the hawsers, began to be un-
manageable. Striving with wind and tide for her
liberty, she broke the starboard hawser close to her
bow, which recoiled with violence upon the poop of
the Birkenhead. The line prepared to lay out another
hawser next snapped like packthread. The second
hawser and the second line soon shared the same fate,
and with terrific rapidity threatened desolation. The
boats were soon lowered and fresh hawsers were soon
stretched out and fastened to the steam-ship. Now,
one of the large beams shipped in support of the
substitute for a rudder to the Great Britain, gave way,
and falling overboard caused much anxiety and delay.
At length, with difficulty, through the swell that had
arisen and the increasing wind, we proceeded slowly,
and with much apprehension, lest through any fur-
ther delay the present tide, together with all the
labour, should be lost, the ship being wild and ungo-
vernable. A second pilot boat came alongside, and
was eventually towed astern of the Great Britain,
acting beautifully as a rudder, and facilitating thereby
the entrance of the Birkenhead, with her charge,
over the bar and through the channel into the Liver-
pool harbour.
This service was performed after the rate of six
and a half knots in the hour, including all stoppages,
without loss of life or limb, and it may be said, with-
out injury, save a few bruises sustained by a few in-
dividuals of the gallant and indefatigable crew, and
the Great Britain was triumphantly brought into
port in the presence of thousands, who rent the air
with their joyful and congratulatory acclamations.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN EYE WITNESS.
Liverpool, September 2.

GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP.
The following letter has been addressed to the
Editor of the Times :
Sir,—llaving written from Tyrella on the failure
of the former attea.pt of her Majesty's ship Birken-
head to remove the Great Britain steam ship off the
beach in Dundrum Bay, I now venture to request
you will allow the particulars herein related, which
cannot fail to be interesting to the public, to appear
in your widely-extended journal, notwithstanding the
much that has been already written on this triumph
of British energy and skill.
The " gentleman of England who sit at home at
case " hear that " the Great Britain has been got off,"
but many dream not of the exertions made to effect
the object, nor of the perils attending it. From some
accounts published in this wonderful port, it might
easily be imagined that certain persons celebrated for
their success in such sort of undertakings had accom-
plished this great work alone ; that even Captain
Claxton had had little to do with it, and that her
Majesty's ships, with their gallant officers and crews,
had been mere ciphers in its completion, and the
Government hardly to be commended for the aid ren-
dered in this great national achievement.
Far be it from any one to diminish aught from the
merits or the exertions of the engineers engaged ; but
':e notion prevailing in Liverpool, that her Majesty's
ship had been employed as a mere tug to tow away
the iron steam-ship, as they say, floating and ready
for sea on her approach, however trifling and absurd,
ought to be completely set aside.
On Monday, the 23d of August, her Majesty's ship
Birkenhead took up her station for the second time in
Dundrum Bay, about a mile and a half from the
Great Britain. She brought with her two lighters,
hich she had taken in tow off Carlingford Lough,
and cast them off, anchoring herself and sending her
boats to tow oft the lighters without loss of time
towards the Great Britain, together with a party of
men in aid of the operations on the beach. Her
Majesty's ship Scourge hove in sight early on
Tuesday morning, and anchored about a quarter of
a mile outside her Majesty's ship Birkenhead.
Her men were soon sent on board the Great
Britain, contributing their welcome and much re-
quired services along with their comrades of the
Birkenhead. These had been this day engaged in
transporting the spare screw of the Great Britain
from her deck to that of the Birkenhead, whereby the
great ship was relieved from the weight of four tons.
Next day the carpenters of the Birkenhead and the
Scourge were busily engaged in making the tempo-
rary rudder and preparing the lighters for their posi-
tion alongside the Great Britain. This position was
to be under large logs of woods stretching out from
the ports, called outriggers, kept down by large tim-
ber shores. Others of the ships' crews were employed
in securing the " camels," which, however they might
have served as levers when filled with sand, were ill-
adapted to the work of lifting the ship as now ap-
plied; for, being neither wind nor water tight, they
were most of them as useless as they were unmanage-
able. Others were labouring heavily at the pumps.
The tide rose high, and it was whispered that the gallant
Captain Claxton, whose energy is no less conspicu-
ous than his judgment, had determined, if pos-
sible, to heave off his heavy charge upon the hawsers
and cables of the iron ship itself. Surprise and
anxiety mixed with misgivings accompanied the
announcement. The Great Britain, lifted by the
lighters, camels, empty barrels, and rafts of wood,
evidently moved, and very slowly yielded, and only
very little to the strain employed. All was anima-
tion, hope, and joyful expectation, every heart re-
sponded to the captain's hearty Cheers. Darkness
came on—a sudden crash was heard, as the falling in
of a roof, and now a noise like the report of cannon
announced the failure of the blocks of wood, the
wedges, and the camels, which, bursting from their
hawser bands, by which, under the engineer's direc-
tions, they had been too lightly fastened, became
useless. It seemed, in fact, as if the enormous body
with which they had to deal had surpassed their
calculations and baffled their energies.
The Leviathan, however, had moved above 20 feet,
but she was yet deep in her sandy bed. At the ebb
of tide her Majesty's ships' respective crews were
again required, and their exertions were renewed as
well in keeping down the water in the Great Britain
by continual pumping as in repairing and replacing
the various apparatus for lifting the mighty prisoner.
On Thursday her Majesty's ship Birkenhead
steamed quietly into her position as it had been pre-
viously occupied, and carefully marked by buoys,
having let go both bower anchors and veered to 100
fathoms upon each cable. The hawsers, 400 fathoms,
laid down on the former trial, were taken in through
the stern horse holes, and on this occasion they were
passed over the large paddle-box boats, each capable
of containing 140 men, lashed together and placed
close to the screw cf the Great Britain, to which
they (the hawsers) were fastened. A fulcrum was so
provided for the lever which the hawsers would thus
form for lifting the massive burden they were de-
signed to move, without diminishing the force of the
tremendous strain to be employed in dragging it
from its stronghold. The signal was given—the
bars of the capstans were ready manned, and they
began to heave, but they heaved in vain. When the
Birkenhead took up. her position the water was smooth
as a millpond, the sun smiling upon the operation,
although the light clouds upon the caps of the Morne
mountains indicated change of weather; symptoms of
a breeze from the south so much, and with so much
reason, to be dreaded in this dreary bay, " moved
upon the face of the waters." The rising tide
lifted the lighters with their logs of wood up
to the outriggers, and the rest of the varied appara-
tus ; but the Great Britain overwhelming these with
her monstrous weight seemed to bid defiance to the
means devised by human skill alone, although applied
with steadfast perseverance ' • some power superior
was requisite. The camels, which were water-
tight, were too large to be confined with the
hawsers used, powerful though they were, and they
bounced out of their strongholds with loud reports.
Such as were leaky became waterlogged, and helped
to obstruct the heave. The lighters seemed to slip
from under their burden ; the blocks flew out of their
places, some of the outriggers and their shores yielded
to the pressure, cracking with a frightful noise, and
the great and powerful, but steady strain upon the
hawsers, by the purchases and capstans of the Bir-
kenhead,' was utterly futile. The iron mass could
not be moved this day by those means, added to
the lesser, although more numerous, purchases em-
ployed in the great Britain itself. The signal, " She
won't come off this tide," cast a damp of disappoint-
ment over every countenance, and of despair as to the
result over the spirit of many deeply interested in the
stirring event.
The wind had, indeed, set in so fresh from the
south, the very quarter fraught with peril to this
shore, and of whose ravaging effects Captain Claxton
had had such dismal proofs, that the apparatus could
not be replaced for further trial on the next flood
tide, and early the next morning, with the aid of such
of the ships' companies as could be spared, and with
care, as much as possible, to remedy the causes of
failure in the former application of the lighters, &c.,
and the reduction of water in the hold, a renewed
attempt was made on the part of her Majesty's ship
Birkenhead with the rising tide.
The dreaded south wind had brought in an increase
of tide. The officers and ship's company of the Bir-
kenhead had made every arrangement for the renewed
effort with a more powerful and effectual heave, such
as sailors seem alone qualified to make. The power-
ful steamer was brought into her position again. The
most watchful attention to the minutest points was
observable in every. officer of the Birkenhead, each
one in his place, aiming at the success of all that was
entrusted to him. Not a word transpired amongst
the seaman. Signals were agreed upon. " Heave"
—" Heave with all your might"—" Avast heaving"
—" She won't come off"—and " She moves."
On the first signal " heave," the hawsers already
on the stretch were hove with a steady working step.
" Heave with all your might," was responded to by
the increase of pace applied with all the vigour of the
men, each vying with his fellow to lift the vessel off.
She moves," animated every countenance; each
eye sparkled with the light of hope, which warmed also
every heart
_with an inexpressible mixture of grati-
tude and joy. The hawsers came in nicely. " She
is all your own, my boys," was responded to with
cheers and fresh exertion. The great steam-ship
obeyed the hempen calls of her iron consort. The
weight again seemed all at once to increase, as if the
sand had come in contact with the Great Britain;
but it was not so. Her gallant captain, elated, as he
well might be with success and gratification, had
prudently cast his anchor, limiting the distance of the
first movement of the leaky vessel to a point so near
the low-water mark as to secure her floating with
the next flood tide ; but still so high and dry upon
the sand as to admit of an inspection of her bot-
tom, and such reparation as might diminish the in-
flux of water, and justify or not the attempt to float
her on the ocean.
The retiring tide exhibited the celebrated iron
steamer, upright, high and dry, at once the astonish-
ment and the admiration of every beholder. Now
were to be seen the carpenters, and every one else
fitted for such work, with staves and wedges of wood
and oakum, and grease, and everything that could
he used with probability of success, stopping up
holes, repairing breeches and stanching the leaks,
isvohich were terrific. At this juncture the Irish la-
3urelarsboruefrus fserdomt o
her
Majesty's crews. whichTheseid
compelledne
new .
fatigable men were ready,esy,a though their summons was
an-
nounce the w
exceedingly short.
l Alight
u at,
and in five minutes,
the Peak v was to n
IlAen wen
a'bourt
intsoyr-fi
woafs
tbsse men
•henit
waphpaearheadd, a
bN se• ae yn
dark though it
previous days and nights, from

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
04 4,, (THIS DAY.)
lY4lesl)7 absence of the Assistant Judge, Mr
,10,4,1? resided this morning.
- i''abrier was indicted for stealing 30 yards o
igt, fro "amber of towels, and a quantity of sheet.
Iltit,;:r111 the premises of Mr. Edward W ells, draper
1111 eel', of Dean-street.
e prisoner used to do occasional jobs in. theh
S'-t,clf Mr. Wells, and on last Sunday week e
twhiet by a policeman carrying a large bundle,l
~ql4,was found to contain the above property. . n-
`4l7°4 was given to Mr. Wells, who identified
kti"l'Verty, as having been safe in his store on
,rcittY•
'l44‘/.48 found guilty, and sentenced to six mcnths'
Wrialent with hard labour.
4,4, lit,4,Pringle and James Pocock were indicted for
V 6 a setofskittles and two balls, the property
1.
„Tilt latu Rowe.
N • prosecutor's wife said that her husband re-
°l in Leicestershire, and they were in the habit
lott}.;,ekling races and fairs, with a set of skittles,
Yt; Purpose of play. On last Thursday she took.
'°4 ;id at the fair held at the North-road, Isling-
st;,44, during her absence the prisoner managed to
opi'lu_ituself of the van,. and make off with them.
'tty over was taken into custody with the pro-
I '4 11,ois possession.
Ls.tl4 %"arY returned a verdict of Guilty, and sen-
‘44:4l deferred, in order that inquiries might be
ht '3
to their previous career.
JQ
t
,1-AARO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
t~rthe woman who was brought up on
Zt eh? last charged with concealing the birth of
4' Was again placed at the bar for final exa-
Iltrttl'i,
elcith ueing no additional evidence adduced be-
titiAt Which has already appeared in this journal,
kk-Atriltsitions were taken and the prisoner fully
sllicit,;tti to take her trial at the ensuing Old Bailey
t4:llAe
orci Coleman and James Squires, two young
kr, h. re,
le appearance, were placed before
ti,llo-41:,!h_ii:rfleectahbarged- with-04 being drunk and riotous.
ciltioek jt.able C - she
that about half-past
morning h was on duty in Mad-
t'tp4ttget,
L lttention was called to the pri-
tt,44t...4l,l,l"?%:eerne viesrya much inebriated, and larking
I,l):',es4t,._utrier. He went up to them and told them
the from their larks and go home. Th. ey,.said.
au,4 W°llld see him " blow'd first," and refused
aY at his bidding. They had at length be-
-al thme °
11°163' and riotous that he was compelled to
,11,t711 to the station.
(144:e defendants, who pleaded intoxication as thehd
hargeTir foolish freaks, were fined ss. each a

j tbTRAIVIES —k
!THIS DAY.)
pd
to
-le 0 e log of 'the court this morning,poor
ablind,
NitiOW,Psenveiity.nine years of
age,
nearlybe assisted
14(17,414ra that- he was compelledl.
to
oation to the
tlitiit'L'e witness-box, made an
tjlittlagistrate, Mr. Yardley, under the following
le stances
li atated
I:4Pit4ti, that he was an out-patient of Guyo'sf
hilat arid although he had been a native.
not obtain any
q Parish since 1794, he could
it,„- tinin
A 411)1e f • went
."° -"s he into the house,
014 ~, or him to do, as he could nwothwielialkitfrO.ams
•every
(').-rli„.4) Gny's Hospital
j,kiit,,,"e Years at sea, and was quartermaster .
day. He had been
V 1 hi hen that ship took fire, which,,hDadr.soDianl --
(1,11:1)1e.11141,1hat, to quote his own words,
ktrhalef,aq, since almost taken his eyes out at the
tti hi 'e Infirmary." He be g v n
141.14. p 'ionie relief, as he wags.setdarthieg. magistrate to
It RI3L
acCtiFC in . ET, having ascertained that he
lAy'aastntohwe'
thvo:,4e Borough directed him t.o app
NI, . rtile, 0 Police-court.
''°lll
''tj4
1)°1'
- t. Idtistlacst,agbauitn,stinhitshreulperteo.
cii,'nistall' lit of his own .
1 :I?tecl NI") he would deviate from that rguivlee, and
ileZit %.--1.• Symons, the chief clerk, to
r 4
-..ttilt,-°. Cd. from the poor-box, to relieve his im-
.,ecessities.
AN
.-.-
'riltß. FIRE AT GRAVESEND.
tll inh b
ae . k quits of Gravesend were last night
'l.liQh Irlt° a state of alarm by the cry of " Fire !"
tt44
I.NI
regtot to say is not an uncommon occur-
of tll'tl, .'"re. The fire was first discovered about
At tII:a ICICI'CIi, ard by half-past twelve the wholes,,a
Zblit.hPr"zises known as 46 The Compasses
of a
-Nlv°ll4 in Bath-street, in the occupation
1:14klil .11" there in a blaze. The town engines werea
it4til °art spot and, after some little delay, -
11;1,11,ive4tvP4tiliii,ZPwlYi(t)::wa'tehrhfavin been obtained, the enh
in the i')e ly,rt
tioTusuchdeneedctuugnptiolnatnheadfljaomtheins
g;
whhouicse,
,--q etillij4tion of a fishmonger named Lawrance,been
-11 ti• re4.-,14) and, with " The Compasses," 'll%
ea
qestroyea.
f the
''.• During the early part
f(/t the tlAresa was dispatched to€' Rochester
of r it, ati!..l,nes there, but a countermand was sent
l' iillY ti,:: `"Y could not have arrived in time to be
-qt°l tb-rviee' Pour other houses to the right and
b°t'ver;eserrieowsiere more or less injured, although
I) *(4 esti Y.
ascertained,
.14 it „, taated damage could not be
% be , ”ita not vEry
Ille elillured, r,,_ Feat, and both houses aresaid
the
therefi ibroke out in the cellar of
(44Passes, but origin is at present unknown.

1 Dividend Amount
Sane of Company. 1 per of Paid. Price
Annum. Mare.
---....--- _ _--- -- ---
I X s. d. X 1. d.
Australasia •• •• •• •• •• 40 0 0 40 0 0
Britsh North American 51. per Cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45%
commercial of London 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 I
3olonial. 1 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
Londn and Westminstr ' 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 I
London Joint-Stock .•• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0
klettopolitan — 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland— 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44%
Ditto, New.
National of Ireland —5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0
Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0
Ditto, •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia •• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Union of London..• •• ' 5/. per cent. '5O 0 0 10 0 0

DOCILS. •
Dividend Amount 1 i
Name of Company. per of i Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share. ; i
--- ----
£ s. d. ' X 5. d.
: : : : : :
.. ...
2557/ .
per.
pp er r cent.
cent.
cent. , s
os Stock.to
oet.
Commercial - -
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 126
East Country - _
E.andonlo3
S Southamptont . l i at l aari ne-
-
0 0 0 0 8-3
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
£ a. d. £ s. 4.
Albion -•••••• • • • • • • 31. 105. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 1714
Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Atlas . 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11
British Commercial . • 75. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 634
;leriel,Med.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 20
County ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11
Eagle •••• • • • ..... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5%
Eng.& Scot. Law •• .• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
European Life ........per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
Freemasons' .•• • • .... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe - 125
Guardian ••• • • • ••• .• . • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47
Imperial Fire •••• • • • . 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Indemnity Marine •. • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 -
Law Life •••••• • • • • • • H. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Legal and General Life -'5O 0 0 2 0 0 -
Landon Fire • •
London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14,%
Marine .. ••• • • ...... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 g 2 0 0 2/. 85.
National Lean Fund•. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life .• • • ..... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Palladium Life •
Phoenix .. .. . - - 185
Protector Life •• • • ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
Provident,Life.. •. • ... 11. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life.. ••••• • • • • • 45. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 181
Sun Fire ..... • • • • .. - - 210
Ditte Life . 1/. 6s. - - 49
Victoria Life . - - 40 0 4
LIST or SCOTTISH contrzartEs, PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. 1 Price.
Innum, Share.
--- ------ -- --
X a. 4. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 169
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200
Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 102
National Bank ... --. .. • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 88
Western Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 82
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 6%
Clydesdale Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. is
Eastern Bank.. •• • - 10 0 0 111 is
Caledonian Bank ••. • • 7%1. pr cent.l - 210 0 41. 98
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per test. , - 5 0 0 '61.11s
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. ' - 10 0 0 121. 11
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I 235. Od
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ' 12%
Insur. Co. of Scetind• • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9
north British Incur 5% /. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 26
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin.&Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 60
Ditto, 54 Shares •• • . 7e. 6d. p. a. 12 0
010 0 All paid, 15
Edin., Leith, Sc, Grantn - 20 20 0 0 19%
Glasvw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 61
elasgw& Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18%
Glsor & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
etandard LifeAssitruce. I 51. per cent.l 50 0012 10 0 9

--------
IXT.A.T ER-WORMS.
Dividend Amount
Namc of Company. por of , raid. Price,
Annum. Share. 1
.------- -
£ s. d.
Bast London.... • • •• • • 81. 100 0 0 i 195
Grand Junction .... • . 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 ' 00
3/. 100 0 0 1 84xd
Vauxhall .• • • • • • • • • • • 100 0 0 —
west Middlesex • . . 51.15s.prent. 63 12 9 ' 120

THE PRETTY BIRD.—" That's a pretty bird,
grandma," said a little boy. " Yes," replied the dame,
" and he never cries." " That's because he's never
washed," rejoined the youngster.
A CIIARACTER.—A Mrs. Davy, giving evidence to
character in the case of a woman charged with theft,
said she was "a decent, honest, drunken crature."
EATING BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES FOR A
WAGER.—Two privates of the Royal Marines, just paid
off from her Majesty's steam-vessel Pluto, Lieutenant-
Commander Low, at Woolwich, for a trifling wager com-
menced eating several 51. Bank of England notes with
" bread, cheese, and onions," but were stopped by so ne
of their more sensible comrades, who came up at the
time, and compelled them to desist. Fortunately, the
numbers of the notes remained unmutilated. The Pro-
metheus, Commander Hay, and the Phoenix, Commander
Dennis, have just been paid off, and the seamen have
been playing similar absurd tricks. Most of the sailors
have received nearly WO/. each.
ROBBERY IN AN OMNlBUS.—Yesterday information
was forwarded to all the metropolitan police stations
respecting a robbery in one of the Knightsbridge omni-
buses. It seems that a female, named Mary Brummell,
of Guildford-street, Southwark, had been on business to
some friends at Brompton, and when she reached the
end of Sloane-street, she got into an omnibus, taking
her seat by the side of a respectably dressed young man,
who it was subsequently supposed belonged to the swell
mob. She continued in the vehicle until she reached the
end of Farringdon-streot, when she alighted, but to her
sad dismay she discovered that her purse, containing two
sovereigns and some silver, had been cut from her pocket
by the person who sat by her side, and he got out when
the vehicle reached the end of Piccadilly.
OFFICIAL INQUIRY ON TIIE LATE EXPLOSION.

Kent• • • • • • • • • •
ha.ll. • • • • • • • •
West Middlesex . . . 51. 15s. pr cut.

COURSE OF
imsterdarn • • ....C.F 12 7
Ditto, at sight •• „ „ 12 3
Rotterdam ••• . • • 2U. 12 _7%
,kntwerp •••. . • • • .• 25 95
ilamburgh .•.. • • M.B. 13 15
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 55
Ditto, •••••• • • . • • • 25 9(:)
Marseilles • •
Courdeaux.. •••• • . • • • 25 95
Frankfort on Maine— 122%
Petersburgh, 3Us .• .•
- -

EXCHANGE.

Gibraltar. • • • • • •
Leghorn . .....••
Gemoa .. • • • • • • • • • . "
95
Naples .. .. •.••• • • • • • 40x,
Palermo, per oz . •
Lisbon .....
Oporto .... •••••• • • • • • • 53%
Rio Janeiro ••••• • • • • • 26

Berlin . • • • • • • • ....
Vienna, • effec. Ito ••• • • • 10 9
Trieste, ditto.. • • • • 10 10
Madrid ••••• • • • .. .. 7
Cadiz • • ••• • • ........ 46
Bilbao •
Barcelona ••

Bahla .......

Buenos Ayres •••• • • • •
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia . • • •
plucks OF BULLION, PLR 01,
Foreign,,, Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
SilverSisp°' 'nr teewiwegihalDGo bars uo Dollarsti
.oC. o 0000 4400 1100: :4

51- fl-Vii10........., ......

The official inquiry respecting the late explosion on
board the" Cricket " steamer, now taking place, has been
ordered by the Board of Trade, under the provisions of
an Act which came into force on the Ist January last
(9th and 10th Vict., cap. 100), entitled " An Act for the
Regulation of Steam Navigation, and to compel sea-
going vessels to carry boats. There are four sections
in the Act on the subject of an official investigation,
requiring a report to be made to the Board of Trade of
all accidents of a serious character ; empowering the
Board to appoint inspectors to make a report, with au-
thority to examine witnesses, &c. It is the first time
the Act has been enforced on an accident, and from its
provisions much good may be expected on Steam Navi-
gation.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Last night (Sunday), about
half-past seven, a young lad who wanders about town
and country as a strolling fiddler, went into a lodging
house in Carrick-street, Anderston, and asked for some-
thing to eat, for which he paid. His manner and ap-
pearance at the time attracted the notice of those in the
place, and they were still more surprised and alarmed,
when, after attempting to swallow a few mouthfuls, he
gave a loud cry, and springing to the door fell on his
face outside. He was immediately raised, but only lived
a few seconds.—/Vorth British Mail.
DEATH or BLACKSKIN.—The Grand River Rapids
(Michigan) Eagle announces the death of an Indian of
that village, known as Blackskin. The Eagle says he
lived to be upwards of a hundred years old, and has
enacted, at the head of his tribe, many exciting scenes
in his life. His hand first applied the torch to the city
of Buffalo in the war of 1812. The old man, with the
remnant of his tribe, has long been on friendly terms
with the whites, and his death is a notable event in the
history of his tribe.
DEATH OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE BOLTON
UNIoN.—The death of Mr. Richard Robinson, who has
left a widow and large family unprovided for, has, we
lament to say, been followed by that of Mr. Henry Hat-
ton, a young gentleman only twenty-eight years of age,
the medical officer of the western district of Great Bel-.
ton, who caught the fever in the discharge of his duty,
and sunk under the dreadful malady on Tuesday last.
Memorials have already been forwarded to the Poor- law
Commissioners from various unions, praying that pro-
visions may be made for the wives and families of those
officers who have, or may hereafter become, victims of
malignant fever caught in the discharge of their duty to
the public, and we feel no little surprise that the Go-
vernment have so long delayed their decision on the
m a tter.—Bolton Free Press.
SHAKSrERE'S BIRTHPLACE.—On Monday evening
the Metropolitan Dramatic Society, an amateur com-
pany of comedians, gave an entertainment at the City of
London Theatre, in aid of the funds for purchasing the
birth-place of Shakspere. The play represented was
the first part of Henry IV., and the amusements of the
evening concluded with the trial scene of the Merchant
of Venice. The house was numerously attended, and
the results are likely to form a handsome contribution
to the fuhd.

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DISPENSARY.----"''''"l--I-A-1—:-
_ (THis DAY.)
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rneeting of the governors and trustees
at tht ptitution was held this day at twelve o'clock,
„IV, 4,Pensary house, Aldersgate-street.
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.. The ''” of the subscriptions and donations.
of
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"e present that the finance departmenta_
rated referred to the sub-committee already y.
t!.l Yi t° ennside the general arrangements, with
tiort beeW of pl,_
"*"in r the circumstances of the institu-
ktitiffiti,f'ate the pifblic when they hoped to obtain
tqsvf°re tit
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44 f iverl frorn the most distant parts of
th, . t th
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Jet 11,„-Luer of patients relieved was 5,12.1.
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silo .'ll t 11,4,
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ter, . e.:- a ver
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these circumstances, he
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beerl ~,l'lnnites of the last quarterly meeting having
1,11.,`a„ and received,
Atkinson,
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the'h,"t;,; .1. Wood, Isq , had been recommended. by
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vately at rather higher rates. Mace is in sh ort. sup-
ply, and being wanted prices tend upwards. Cloves are
not much required.
SPIRITS.—To- day Jamaica Rum was only in moderate
demand, but holders refuted to sell any sort, but' upon
full terms. For all other kinds the market is in 0 dull
state, and former prices are with difficulty supported.
INDIGO.—Since our last report, purchases to :a fair
extent have been made in all descriptions of East. India
for home consumption, whilst the export demand has
been rather better, but the contracts condo ded at
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present have been chiefly for the Russian market. There
are few parcels of any kind on offer in the market. The
demand it is, however, expected will continue to im-
prove, as the importation is less than it was last year,
whilst the home and export deliveries are greater, prices
are lower, and the stock smaller. Spanish does not im-
prove in value, but there has been rather more business
transacted.

CocHINEAL.—This afternoon there were 3 parcels
brought forward of the new crop, amounting to 334 bags
Honduras, and there being a good demand, the whole
was sold at very full prices—very ordinary small and
foxey, to extra fine bold silvers 4s 10d to 6s, very low to
fine

shelly blacks 5s 6d to 6s 9d, and extra large grain
6s 10d to 7s Id per lb.
SALTPETRE.—In the valve of Rough there is little
variation to make known, but the purchases made by
private treaty by expoiters and the home trade have been
limited, whilst holders are more inclined to sell.
British Refined has met with less demand. In Nitrate
of Soda several purchases have been made, whilst
holders evince more firmness.

Ou.s.—This afternoon of Palm Oil 155 eks at auction
were sold at about the former value—middling and good
33s 6d to 34s 6d, fine 355, and low dark 32s 6d to 33s
per cwt.
TALLOW.—There has been little disposition evinced
to operate in Russian on the spot, although there are
sellers of fine new P.Y.C. at 46s 6d, and old at 45s 6d
to 46s per cwt. An impression exists that prices will
further recede on account of the large quantity there
is to arrive. For delivery in the last three
months of the year, there are few buyers to be met
with, although at 45s 6d purchases can be easily made.
Town Tallow has fallen in value, and the amount of
business concluded has been to a small extent only at
47s nett cash, whilst there is a fair quantity on offer.
All other sorts are dull of sale, and rather cheaper. At
auction 19 casks of New South Wales went at 45s 6d to
45s 9d for good, and at 435 3d to 45s 3d for low and mid
quality, and 172 barrels North.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE
REMOVAL OF THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS.
The members and friends of this newly-formed but
important association, to the number of about 120,
met last evening at the Fishmongers' Hall, St.
James's-place, Aldgate, for the purpose of celebrating
its first triumph in returning Baron Lionel de Roths-
child for the City of London.
The chair was taken by J. Mitchell, Esq., the
chairman of the association.
The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Queen,
and in doing so, said that it was pleasing to look
back to a not very distant period, when under the
reign of the Sovereigns of this country certain por-
tions of the City of London were set apart for the
dwelling of Jews, beyond the bounds of which they
were not permitted to reside, and to compare that
time of despotism and intolerance with the present,
when there was no member of the Jewish persuasion
in this country but was entitled to call himself a
freeman, and who entertained the highest feeling of
respect for that gracious Sovereign who now swayed
a sceptre over the most extended, the most liberal,
and the most civilised empire on the face of the globe.
The health of the Queen was then drank in the
most enthusiastic manner, as were also those of the
" Queen Dowager," " Prince Albert, and the rest of
Royal Family."
The next toast given by the CHAIRMAN was that of
" her Majesty's Ministers. There was no doubt but
that great good might be expected from them, if they
were powerfully supported by the public opinion of
this country. He firmly believed that they were
prepared to remove from the brow of the Jew even
the last badge of slavery with which it was then de-
graded, and were prepared to carry out the important
principles announced by the citizens of London at the
last election—that of perfect and equal rights to all,
without distinction of creed or colour, the just, the
glorious principle of civil and religious liberty.
The toast was responded to in the warmest and
most enthusiastic manner.
H. EMANUEL, Esq., the secretary, read a number
of letters from noblemen and others favourable to the
objects of the association, and expressing deep regret
that other engagements prevented their attendance.
Among the number were letters from Lord John
Russell, Mr. Patteson, M.P., Baron L. de Rothschild,
M.P., Sir G. Larpent, Bart., F. Goldsmid, David
Salomons, Esq., Dr. Rafael of Birmingham.
ISAAC LYONS, Esq., proposed " the Health of the
Liberal Electors of the City of London, who sup-
ported by their votes the cause of civil and religious
liberty at the last election for the City of London."
The great body of the Jews, not only in this country,
but in all parts of the world, were under deep obliga-
tion to their friends of the Christian nation for the
course which they had so nobly adopted.—(Loud
cheers.) They owed to them a deep debt of grati-
tude, one which he trusted would never be erased
from the heart of the long-oppressed Jew.
The toast met with a warm and cordial response.
W. CARPENTER, Esq., gave the next toast, that of
" Baron Lionel de Rothschild, and civil and religious
liberty." In proposing that toast he congratulated
the meeting on the result of the late election. There
was but one drawback to the success of that measure
which was, that they had only secured the return of
three instead of the four Liberal Members. That loss
was not, however, as had been erroneously stated,
owing to the conduct of the Jewish body. It was
due to them to say, that they had fully done their
duty. At a late hour of the day of polling it was
found that Baron Rothschild was lower on the poll
than any of the Liberal Members, and it was then that,
acting upon the advice of the committees, that
Christians as well as Jews felt it to be their duty, not
thinking that they were thereby jeopardizing the
return of Sir G. Larpent, to plump for the Baron.—
(Cheers.) He rejoiced to see the progress of the
cause of civil and religious liberty, not only in this
country, but in Rome itself, and the other kingdoms
of Europe ; and it was a pleasure to see that the
conduct of those who had had conferred upon them
the just rights and immunities of citizenship had been
such as not to make their friends regret the part they
had taken in endeavouring to break down the barriers
of distinction between man and man on account of
religious creed, but had been such as to make them
proud, and to recognise them as a part of one great
brotherhood, offering up prayers to one common God
and Father of them all.—(Cheers.) It was his fervent
prayer that they might never live to see the revival
of such a state of things, which had hitherto separated
man from man because he happened to differ from
his brother upon religious grounds. (Cheers.)
With respect to the return of Baron Rothschild, he
looked upon it as the triumph of a great principle,
and he sincerely trusted that he might be made the
instrument of working out for them, and for all, those
great and important objects which were so closely
identified with the interest and well-being of the
country.—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was received with the most rapturous
applause.
JOHN MOTTRAM, Esq., in a neat and appropriate
speech, in which he took occasion to enforce the
necessity of such an association as the present, and to
defend it against some of the attacks made upon it,
proposed " Success to the Jewish Association for the
Removal of Civil and Religious Disabilities."
LEWIS ISAACS, Esq., proposed " The Press," and
acknowledged the services which it had rendered in
" the good cause," and the debt of gratitude which
they owed to it for its efficient services.
Mr. MEAD returned thanks on behalf of the press.
The health of the Chairman and several other toasts
followed, and the company separated at a late hour.
During the proceedings of the meeting a large
number of persons present enrolled themselves as
members of the association, some of whom bestowed
more substantial marks of their approval of the
objects of the association than the mere enrolment of
;heir names.

theyful fully w
MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Sept. 7.
SUGAR.—To-day the market for Raw Sugar presented
a firmer appearance, exporters as well as the home trade
showing more disposition to do business, whilst mer-
chants offered a less quantity for sale. West India
Muscovado was sold to a fair extent for all purposes,
and
equaler were
rather
total purchases amounted to 550 hhds and trcs, includ-
trdaeteeds
ioab tsaoimneed cases
er°
w includ-
ing a public sale of 151 hhds 6 trcs Barbadoes, which
to
thoseabov oa . f FriTh
day
;hioa
went at fully former quotations : fine yellow fetched
44s 6d, good 43s to 445, good middling 42s 6d, middling
40s Gd to 425, and low 39s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar met with a full de-
mand from the home trade, and prices further declined;
brown grocery Lumps selling at 54s to 54s 6d, and to
pass the standard 555. Bonded Crushed Sugar is little
wanted, and 34s 6d is the nearest value of fine, quality.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon
Sugar offered at public sale amounted to 1,275 bags, and
the demand was more active, the rates obtained were
6d per cwt above those of Friday. Privately several
sales were made in Bengal, and Madras also sold more
freely at stiffer rates.
Mannirriva.—This afternoon Mauritius of all kinds
met with more attention privately, and 2,410 bags at
public sale were sold at a rise on former rates of is
per ewt.
FoREIGN.— To-day there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, but privately there was much enquiry from ex-
porters, and stiffer rates were offered. The sales of
China since Friday are 5,000 bags at 18s 6d to 19s for
low brown—and 600 chests ord brown Ferman 20s.
COFFEE.—This afternoon the public sales of Planta-
tion Ceylon consisted of 1,823 bags, which went off
flatly, and a small part only sold at about former rates,
viz., fine ord greyish at 46s to 485 6d., fine fine ord 505
to 51s, low mid 54s ; Native pea berry 41s to 425, and
sea damaged 30s to 455; the chief part was taken in at
51s to 63s for sound, and at 64s to 66s for pea berry.
Privately few purchases wereaathe general
in any l
tende kind by ex-
of
porters or the home trade, ndmtendency
prices is downward for Coffee.
COCOA.—Although there are sellers of West India
upon previous reduced terms, yet buyers have been
cautious in their proceedings by private treaty, and none
has been offered at auction. We quote Trinidad red at
46s to 50s, grey 44s to 478;. Grenada 42s to 46s and St.
Lucia at 38s to 455. Foreign is little required, and 36s
to 40s is the value of Para.
TEA.—The amount of business transacted in Black
has been unimportant since the issuing of our last Price
Current, whilst merchants have been more inclined to
sell, and the rates taken are rather under those that
previously prevailed; common sound Congou selling
for cash at 9d, good common Sid to 9
and Pouchong at 5d to 9d for ordinary to fine.
Green met with little attention, and can be obtained
upon rather lower terms ; even the good and fine kinds
are dull of sale ; Twankay common yellowish leaf is
only worth 7d to Bd, Hyson, common, is 2d to is 4d,
Imperial and Gunpowder of low quality 10d to is 2d.
With all descriptions the market is well supplied.
RICE.—To-day East India Rice of every kind was
extensively dealt in, chiefly by exporters, and the rates
obtained were rather above those that existed previ-
ously. The private sales since Friday are 30,000 bags
on the spot, and the latest prices paid are, Bengal white,
low to, fine 16s to 18s 6d, Cargo 13s 6d; Madras, pinkoy
white 145, and yellow 13s 6d per cwt. None offered at
public sale.
SPICES.—There has been little desire shown to operate
in any kind of Black Pepper, and there are sellers of
Malabar id under previous rates. P rivately Sumatra
met with a dull sale at 21-41 to 21d, and Penang at d
to gicl per lb. At public sale 106 barrels were
sold. Pimento is held with firmness ; and pri-
vately a fair amount of business has been concluded
at stiff rates. Cassia Lignea is little required, but owing
to the small supply, holders demand full rates. In Cin-
namon, there has been little passing. In Nutmegs,
purchases to a fair extent have been concluded pri-

ASTLET'S AMPHITHEATRE.—BENEFIT OF MR. W
D. BROADFOOT.—We observe that Mr. W. D. Broadfoot
the acting and stage manager at Astley's Amphitheatre,
takes his benefit this evening. The bill of fare is most
attractive, but independently of that, the merits of Mr.
Broadfoot, to whose talents and industry in devising,
getting up, and superintending the gorgeous spectacles,
which form the staple of the amusements at this
favourite establishment, its patrons are so much in-
debted, are of themselves sufficient to secure for him a
bumper.
CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.--Monday, Sept.
6.—The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-pmket
Company's steam-ship the Queen of the Belgians left
Folkstone for Boulogne, at 7.15 P.M., with 56 passen-
gers, and the Queen of the French arrived at Folke-
stone from Boulogne at 8.40 P.M., with 34 passengers.
Tuesday, Sept. 7.—The Queen of the French left Folke-
stone for Boulogne at 8.30 with 70 passengers ;
the Queen of the Belgians arrived at Folkestone from
Boulogne at 10.45 A.M., with 81 passengers ; the
ith Pri
21
n-
cess Helena left Ramsgate for Ostend at 8 w
passengers, and the Princess Mary arrived at Ramsgate
Ostend at 1.30 P.M., with 40 passengers.
THE REPRESENTATION OF YARMOUTH. Mr.
Goldsmid has been very warmly welcomed
sanguine then
that friends,
and the Liberal party generally are he
will, ere long, take his seat as one of the Members for
the borough ; the opinion expressed in our last being
almost universal, that the present M must, on
petition, be unseated. Mr. Rumbold, it is understood,
has expressed his intention not again to contest the
borough, but to retire into private life. Under these
circumstances it let° b® hoped that a good understand-
ing and perfect unanimity will exist amongst the Liberals.
We know of no two men who would better represent
the opinions and feelings of a vast majority of the in-
habitants of Yarmouth than Messrs. Goldsmid and
Bagshaw ; and we are convinced that they will meet
with the cordial and united support of the Liberal party.
—Norfolk News,