The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-09 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDN_ESDA V EVENING, SEPTEMEER 9, 1846.

January 30th, 1785, the younger son of an influential
director of the East India Company and a Member of
Parliament; the offspring of a man possessing so
much interest both in Westminster and in Leaden-
hall-street, that he was created a Baronet in 1802,
CHARLES THEOPHILCS METCALFE entered life under
the most propitious auspices. After a somewhat pre-
cipitate education at Eton, where the amenity of his
disposition and the precocity of his intellect were
conspicuously evinced, he was dispatched to India in
1800 upon his first appointment in the civil service.

When his great personal merits, the acuteness of his
judgment, the rapidity of his deductions, and the
exceeding suavity of his deportment are remembered,
it is not surprising that he here rapidly advanced to
the most lucrative and authoritative posts, especially
when we consider that his promotion must
have been considerably expedited by the in-
terest still retained by his father in the
Court of Directors. During the period of Lord
METCALFE'S sojourn among the Orientals, the succes-
sive Governors-General of India were Lord WEL-
LESLEY, Lord CORNWALLIS, Sir GEORGE BARLOW
(as acting Governor for a few months), Lord MINTo,
Lord HASTINGS, Lord AMIIEkST, and Lord WIL-
LIAM BENTINCK. Within that interval, extending
from the commencement of this century to 1834, the
services of Lord METCALFE were characterised by their
extreme importance, by the promptitude of his arrange-
ment, the boldness of his policy, and the unostenta-
tious magnanimity of his principles. When accom-
panying Lord LAKE as a volunteer against the Raja
of BIIURTPORE, in 1805 ; when dispatched as plenipo-
tentiary to Lahore, in 1808, for the purpose of allay-
ing the commotions which were then prevalent;
when appointed Chief Secretary to the Supreme
Government, in 1818 ; Private Secretary to the
Marquis of HASTINGS, and resident agent to the
Nizam of the Deccan, in 1819 ; while engaged in the
campaign against DOORJAN LALL, in 1825, and when
summoned to a seat at the Supreme Council, in 1827,
Lord METCALFE incessantly displayed the generosity
of his political views and the richness of his intellec-
tual resources. Time brought the fruits of so much
talent and so much benignity, when in 1834 he was
elevated to the Governorship of Agra : and
upon the departure of Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK,
Sir C. METCALFE (for some time previously he had
succeeded his brother in the Baronetcy) was sum-
moned by acclamation to assume the office of Go-
vernor-General. Such was his career in raising him-
self from mediocrity to the highest dignities
presented by the Oriental government, and
in the prosecution of which endeavour he be-
trayed nothing base or truckling in his nature,
but everything likely to ensure respect and to
win affection. The spirited concessions which cha-
racterised his brief reign as acting Governor-General,
but especially his abolition of all inquisitorial restric-
tions upon the press of India, while they excited sen-
timents of dissatisfaction in the Board of Directors,
and ultimately led to his official resignation and
departure fur England in 1836, will long
continue to arouse the admiration of all sincere
lovers of freedom, and have imparted a perennial
lustre to the period of his Eastern administration.

Of his proceedings as Governor-General of Ja-
maica—to which post he was appointed in 1839, on
the removal of Sir LIONEL SMITH—we could will-
ingly speak at considerable length, but that the recent
period at which it transpired readers any detailed
commentary more than superfluous. Notwithstand-
ing that the Government of that colony was then
involved in a singular state of confusion, the active
interposition and conciliatory bearing of Sir C.
_ _

METCALFE led to the re-organisation of its domestic
Legislature, , if it did not conduce to the
perfect fusion of the contending factions.
Still less can we presume to enter upon any discus-
sion as to the character of his Canadian policy, such
as it presented itself between his appointment as
Governor-General of those gigantic territories, in
1843, and his retirement from office, in 1845. There
is much that is attractive in the adroitness displayed
by Lord METCALFE in amalgamating the divided
interests of the more-liberal among the Canadians,
idannihilating, by one stroke of his pen, a factious
and despotical House of Representatives, and in ever
striving to promote the public advantage during the
alarming ravages and excruciating torments of the
disease with which he was afflicted. Only when life
had lost all its individual attractions were the long
and arduous labours of this eminent man recom-
pensed by his elevation to the peerage—he was
created a Baron in 1844. Towards the conclusion of
the following year he embarked from America. On
Saturday, September 5, 1846, he died from the effects
of cancer in the face.

In taking a retrospective glance at the character
displayed by the deceased nobleman during his
active and eventful existence, we find ourselves
almost impelled to the utterance of a panegyric.
There was so much of simple but real grandeur in
the cast of his intellect, so much- of benignity and
of dignified conciliation in his deportment, so much
of integrity and consistency in his public and private
capacities. Peace to his manes ! The memory of
CHARLES Lord MET CALFE will be long and grate-
fully preserved.

The accounts from Ireland contained in The Sun
of Monday evening are suggestive of the most painful
feelings. It appears that in the county of Tipperary
parties are beginning to take advantage of the distress
unfortunately too prevalent from the failure of the
potato crop, and to organize an anti-rent war. This
may, in many instances, have had its origin in the
harsh and oppressive course adopted by the landlords
themselves. Until within a very short period they
possessed the power of distraining the growing crops;
this right, although in some instances it secured to
them payment of rent which otherwise might pos-
sibly have been lost, was subject to the greatest
abuses, and was productive of evils of considerable
magnitude : it excited feelings of hatred and animosity
on the part of the tenantry towards those to whom
they should have been bound by the most amicable
relations, and occasioned large additional expenses
and much loss to those subjected thereto. The
grievance was brought under the consideration of the
Commissioners for inquiring into the laws relating to
the occupation of land in Ireland ; and by their re-
port they strongly recommended the abolition of the
power, that the occupier of the land might have an
opportunity afforded to .him of bringing his produce
to market, and realising the proceeds thereof, before
he was subjected to heavy legal expenses with respect
thereto. Their suggestion was adopted by the late
Government, and a measure was brought forward by
Lord LINCOLN, when Secretary for Ireland, for the
purpose, amongst other things, of giving effect
to it. It was also approved of by the present
Ministry, and received the legislative sanction im-
mediately before the prorogation of Parliament.
Notwithstanding this enactment, several of the
proprietors of the soil have; immediately on the
cutting of the harvest, thought proper to make dis-
tresses. In one instance referred to it is said that
the rent in arrear amounted to only 161., and that
the wheat crop alone was worth at least 501., besides
a crop of oats and one of turnips. Such proceedings must
inevitably occasion great exasperation on the part of the
public, and it is stated that previous to the days ap-
pointed for the several sales written notices have been
posted, calling on the people to attend and to prevent
the sale. These appeals have been promptly re-
sponded to. Multitudes have assembled on each
occasion, and the law has been set at defiance, the
parties distraining having shrunk from the conse-
quences of the act they had committed. Such a
precedent is of the most injurious character; it
proves to the people that there is a power more
mighty than that of the law—that they can with
impunity set up a successful opposition ; and there is
little doubt that if such a feeling once takes root, that
it will spread widely, and bring forth an abundant
crop of outrage and disturbance. A systematic op.
position will be had recourse to in almost every
instance, and similar difficulties to those which were
found to attend the collection of tithe composition
thirteen years since will be interposed between the
landowner and the attainment of his rents. Much depends
on the line of conduct to be pursued during the present
crisis. The landlord is possessed of a giant's strength,
but he must use it with discretion and moderation,
and, above all things, beware of forcing on a colli-
sion. He must treat with the utmost leniency those
who have suffered losses ; he must afford them every
indulgence in his power, and give them ample oppor-
tuaities of exchanging their produce for money, be-

fore he enforces payment of his demand ; but if he
finds a refusal proceed from one who is able but un-
willing to pay, and that he therefore is compelled to
have recourse to legal proceedings, he must follow
them up with firmness and determination, and under
no circumstances yield to intimidation or succumb to
the power of the mob. By these means alone can
the impending danger be averted from the Irish land-
lords. Their situation at this moment is a most pre-
carious one. Their ultimate safety depends upon
themselves. On their prudence and discretion de•
pends the preservation of the peace and tranquillity
of the nation in general, the avoidance of scenes of
anarchy and intestine commotion, which must be
productive of the most fearrul results.

It is said, and we fear with too much truth, that
the landlords are compelled to act harshly towards
their tenants from the extent of the charges and incum-
brances by which the majority are affected. They
must, under any circumstances, enforce the means of
keeping down the interest of the mortgages and
other charges on their estates. It has been said
by one of themselves, Lord MOM; TCASEIELL, that two-
thirds of the rental of Ireland is absorbed in the pay-
ment of such charges, and that only one-third thereof
remains for the expenditure of the landlords them-
selves, and their families ; if this be so, it will at once
explain the causes of the distress in that country. The
man weighed down by encumbrances is obliged to
exact from those under him the utmost that can pos-
sibly be obtained; he can make no allowance to the
good and improving tenant; he cannot give the re-
quisite employment to the labourers of his vicinity.
The estate of which he is the nominal owner remains
unimproved, and the occupants in a state of destitution
and misery. But why should things be permitted to
continue in such a state ? The axiom " that property
has its duties as well as its rights" now
commands universal assent : if the present owners
are unable duly to perform the duties incumbent on
them, they should make way for those who are more
favourably circumstanced. The distribution of pro-
perty was not merely for the benefit of those
whom it was conferred ; and we have experience
every day of property being taken from the owner:,
for the public benefit, they receiving full compensation;
therefore surely there can be nothing more beneficial
to that public than that the lands throughout the
country should be in the bands of those who can
develop their utmost capabilities, This doctrine may
be very unpalatable to the class, who are little better
than agents over estates, distributing the rents when
received ter the different encumbrances, but it is
nevertheless too true; and ultimately they would
find that they themselves would be in a much bap
pier and better position, as the owners of small un-
encumbered properties, or even of sums of money
invested in the funds, or in any legitimate specula-
tion, than as proprietors of large and heavily encum-
bered demesnes. The question of the means by
which this may be effected may force itself on the
attention of the Legislature ere long. At present we
can only repeat to them our solemn warning—that
their own future welfare, the' interests of the class
to which they belong, are deeply involved in their
present proceedings.

The members of the permanent Government of the
Canton of Berne, under the provisions of the new
Constitution, were elected on the 27th and 28th ult.
They are all remarkable for their democratic opi-
nions. The Grand Council is composed of 226
Members—of these 190 are Radicals. The Con-
servatives have everywhere been defeated.

The patriarch Bishop of Erau, M. LADISLAS
PYRKER, died at Carlsbad on the 28th ult., aged 74
He was the author of several poems, and had in early
life been carried as a slave to Tunis.
It is announced in the Weser Gazette that the
Emperor of RUSSIA has written a letter to the King
of DENMARK, signifying with regard to the succession
to the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein that he is
ready not only to renounce his pretensions to the
eventual succession to the Grand Dukedom, but even
to induce the Grand Duke of OLDENBURGH to with-
draw his protest against the letters patent, on con-
dition that the King of DENMARK will with prompti-
tude and energy oppose all revolutionary proceedings
in the duchies, both now and hereafter.

According to Swedish papers the potato crop in
Scania is attacked by the prevailing disease, and the
wheat and rye crops are very inferior. On the 27th
an ordonnance was issued abolishing all games of
chance at the waters of Ramloese, the only place
in Sweden where gambling was allowed.

We have intelligence from Rome to the 25th ult.
The Porn has determined that a railway from Rome
to Naples shall be immediately constructed. The
funds are to be provided by a daily subscription
during five years, after which debentures of 100
scudi each, bearing interest, are to be given to the
subscribers. One of the journals state that—

" Deputations are daily arriving from different parts
of the Roman States, with addresses of thanks to the
Pope for the amnesty. The Bolognese have addressed
a letter to the Romans, thanking them for their sym-
pathy on this occasion. Copies of this letter, finely
written on parchment, have been distributed to the
highest members of the clergy, the Roman Princes, and
several savans and artists. Rossini is engaged to com-
pose the music of a hymn, written by Count Marchetti,
in commemoration of the amnesty."
In the distribution of his charities, his HOLINESS is
actuated by a spirit truly Catholic, in the strict
meaning of the word. The indigent Jews have
recently shared in his bounty. He has caused 350
scudi to be distributed amongst them in bread. To
the Ghetto he has sent a similar donation.

The whole kingdom of Naples is suffering from
drought. Letters have been received from the capital,
which announce that the extreme heat had entirely
dried up the country parts. The peasants could find
no water for their cattle, which were perishing of
thirst, and making the air resound with their cries.
The shepherds saw their sheep dying daily before
their eyes for want of pasturage. The Government
was occupied in dispatching water to the districts
which suffered most from the drought, at a certain
rate of quantity per family. In some parts of the
country water was sold at the price of wine. The
capital alone was exempt from the sufferings of this
extraordinary drought, which had already led to
tumultuous movements among the people. A vulgar
opinion had spread that Mount Vesuvius had dried
up all the water in the country surrounding it. The
volcano was emitting neither fire nor smoke, and this
gave rise to the fear of a sudden and horrible ern!).
tion. It was stated that the volcano was throwing up
from time to time quantities of boiling water.

Madrid papers of the 2nd have arrived.
The herald() recurs to the subject of the mar-
riage of the DUC DE MONTPENSIER with the INFANTA,
and contends that it is perfectly legal, whilst the
Eco del Comercio and the Espanol as stoutly con-
tend fur its illegality. In considering that question,
it would be w(11 to remember that one great object of
the war of the succession, as set forth in the declara-
tion issued by King WILLIAM 111. at the commence-
ment of that war, was " to prevent the possibility of
an union of the Crowns of France and Spain."
That object was accomplished by the treaty of
Utrecht and the renunciations by which the treaty
was accompanied. The treaty of Utrecht has never
been annulled, and although it may be 'very con-
venient for some parties to repudiate it,
still it subsists, and all who were
parties to that treaty have a right to call for its rigid
execution. The question to be considered is—Will
the marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIER with the
Infanta Lursa give rise to the possibility of an union
of the two crowns on the head of one Sovereign ?
If so, it is contrary to the treaty of Utrecht.
With regard to the other part of the question,
viz., the Act of the Spanish Cortes excluding
from marriage with the SOVEREIGN or with the heir to
the Crown, all who are excluded from the succession
to the throne of Spain, that is a consideration purely
Spanish, and we leave it therefore to be settled by the
Spaniarsis themselves ; but with regard to the treaty
of Utrecht, that is a matter essentially European, and
all the powers who were parties to that treaty have a
clear right to interfere to prevent a violation of its provi-
sions by any of the other contracting powers.
Don FRANCISCO has recovered from his recent
illness.

The Eco del Comercio states that MM. ISTURITZ,
SA Z, and ARMERO have resigned in consequence
of a note addressed by Mr. BULWER to the
Spanish Cabinet on the subject of
,the IN-
FANTA'S marriage. Mr. BULWER) however - as.

cured the correspondents of the English journals 'in
Madrid that there was no 'oundation whatever for
the report that he had entered a protest against the
intended marriage of the IMANTA. The retirement
of MM. ISTURITZ, SANz, and ARMERO, is spoken
of by these journals, not as a fact, but
as a probability. It is said that as soon as the sanc-
tion of King Louts Pnnarrs is obtained the intended
marriage of the INFANTA yin be announced officially
in the Gazette.

MADRID BOL9A, SEPT. L—The Three per Cents,
were done at 34i for cast ; the Four per Cents. at
2l—s' ; the Five per Cents. at 221 ; the Debt, without
interest, at 6i ; and the Cotpons,

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
They all contain commenh on the double marriage,
and they all repudiate the idea that it can be con-
trary either to law or treatT for the Due DE MOND.
PENSIER to contract marrhge with the Infanta of
Spain. It was generally ;onsidered in Paris that
the British Government was not opposed to
the match, because i; was thought most
probable that the intentiors of the English Cabinet
had been tolerably well ascertained before the
decisive step was taken. The courtiers represent the
whole affair as having becn arranged by the KING
himself, and state that the most friendly assurances
were at the same time transmitted to the Queen of
ENGLAND, at the Isle of Wight. " The skill and
adroitness" of M. BBEssoN are much lauded by the
courtiers, and he has, it is said, been promised the
reversion of the English Embassy.
M. GUIZOT, who was to have left Paris for his
country seat, has given up his excursion until the
Spanish affairs are arranged.

General .NARVAEZ accompanied by Count VILLA
HERMOSA. and MM, RASHERAY and- OURITO, lef
Paris on Monday for Madrid direct.

The Duke DE AIDNTPENSIER, who will be accom-
panied by the Due DE NEMOURS, will leave Paris for
Madrid on the 18th.

Don ENRIQUE has left Brussels for Ghent. He
has been ordered to return to Spain, an order which
he says he will obey the moment he has received sa-
tisfaction for the insulting manner in which he was
exiled.

The potato disease is spreading in the north of
France.

During the last month upwards of 500,000 hecto-
litres of wheat and flour were imported into France
Did Marseilles and along the eastern frontier.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Nlonday at 841. 55c. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 50c.ex div. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2851. ; Rouen, 9801. ;
Havre, 727 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 731 f. 25c. ; Avig-
non, 950 f. ; Vierzon, 640 f.; Bordeaux, 582 f. 50c; Bou-
logne, 495 f.; Troy es and Montereau, 362 f. 50c. ; Basle,
225 f. ; Fampoux, 407 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 390 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 507 f. 50c ; Tours and Nantes, 517 f. 50c. ;
'Paris and Lyons, 537 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4951.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 487 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
381 i ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 335/s ; Ditto Passives, 614.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 3.-Marseilles and Avignon, 910 f. ;
Northern, 7101. ; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.
LYONS, SEPT. 5.-Paris and Rouen, 967 f. 50c. ; Avignon
and Marseilles, 93if. 25c.; Northern, 726 f. 25c.; Paris and
Lyons, 536 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 8.
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espelcte), l a—Direct Bombay
and Madras, %—Loavain a la Sambre, I—Madrid and Valentia,
I—Namur and Liege, 2 —Northern of Francp Constituted, 14i
—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5% —West Flanders, 4.

THE LATE MURDER at the GUILD

HALL COFFEE-HOUSE.

RESPITE OF THE CONVICT JOHN SMITH.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
We understand that her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to respite John Smith, during pleasure. The
convict is indebted for the preservation of his life to the
jury who tried him—all of whom signed a memorial
br mercy ; to the untiring efforts of Mr. and Mrs.
Walters and their family, whom he has served for
,eventeen years ; to the members of the Coroner's
fury who signed the general petition ; to the
magistrates, clergy, merchants, and others, in
London and in Norwich, who added three thousand
signatures testifying their estimate of the value of
character under circumstances wherein such testimony
only can avail a prisoner; and, above all, to the kind-
ness and unremitting exertions of Mr. Alderman Sidney.
It is earnestly hoped that banishment from his native
land, where his family connexions have always borne an
irreproachable character, and the severest trials, which
must be the convict's just doom ,for the rest of his life,
will be a warning to others to restrain those bursts of
passion which inevitably lead to so dreadful a result.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY

- - •
A fair average quantity of English Wheat has been re-
ceived up to our market during the present week, mostly
from Essex and Kent. To-day the stands were rather
scantily filled with samples of both Red and White, while
the demand was very steady, at fully. Monday's enhanced
currencies. Free Foreign Wheat was in good request, and
the turn dearer. Bonded parcels were held at is per quarter
more money. The sale for Barley was steady, at full prices.
Superfine white Malt was in brisk demand at extreme value;
in other kinds only a moderate business was transacted. Oats,
the supply of which was limited, commanded a ready sale, at
Lull prices. Beans, Peas, and Flour as on Monday.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
1,310 qrs. 120 qrs.

English •• •• • •
Irish
Foreign

Oats I Flour.
-- qrs. 1,6305k5,
2,190
720

1,430 ,
Malt, 1,320 qrs.
yinlITE CHAPEL.
Each kind of prime Meat commanded a very steady de-
mand, at somewhat improved currencies. In all other kinds
of meat a good business was doing, at late rates.—Beef,
from 2s 10d to 33 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Lamb,
4s 8d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 38 10d to 438 d ; and Pork, 33 8d to
4s 10d per 81bs. by the carcase.

1,170

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,— Three years ago the Government steamer,
Acheron, left Sheerness, to perform duty at Malta. She
returned last week with only part of her crew—l should
say twenty men and four boys minus. Would you have
the kindness to inform me how I can gain information
as to what has become of them ; or, whether the com-
mander can leave his men and toys (part of his crew) in
a foreign country —I remain, Sir, yours, respectfully,
Chatham, Sept. 8. J.
[Our correspondent should apply to the Admiralty.—
ED. Sun.]

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
AND THE LATE MRS. FITZIIERBERT.
We have been requested by Captain Hill to publish
the following correspondence :
"My Lord Duke,—l humbly beg leave to ask if your
Grace remembers that, in June, 1839, a person, under
the name of Sophia Elizabeth Guelph Sims (Mrs. Sims,
the wife of a journeyman baker, Islington), calling her-
self the daughter of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of
Wales (George IV.), alleged that a Captain William
Hill, on marrying Mary White, sister of Peggy White,
her nurse, had received from the Countess of Jersey and
Lord Rivers the sum of 2,0001., for the maintenance of
' the child, Guelph ;' and that your Grace, in reply to a
letter on the subject (September 17th, 1837), said to be
from Mr. Simpson, at once declared—' I have not any
reason to believe there is any foundation for the state-
ment that Sophia Elizabeth Guelph (Mrs. Sims) is the
daughter of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.
" WELLINGTON.'
" Now, the said Mrs. Sims having, seemingly with a
I view to prop up her story, designated me as the Captain
Wm. Hill alluded to in her statement, and having basely
and falsely asserted that I have changed my name from
William to Joshua—whereas the official records clearly
prove that, as far hack as the years 1793, 4, and 5, '
my name, Joshua Hill,' stands duly entered as an officer
of the Honourable East India Company's ship Bridge-
water, under Commodore William Parker—l hereby
solemnly affirm, as upon oath, bef ,re the ever ble,sed
God of Truth, that I am not the Captain Hill in ques-
tion, nor have ever borne that name; that I have never
received any money fir the maintenance of any child
whatsoever; and, moreover, that I never knew anything
whatever about the said matter of Mrs. Sims until it
went the round of the newspapers at the period before-
mentioned—so help me God!
" Be pleased, my Lord Duke, to state as to the fact of
your Grace's reply above-mentioned.
"I have the honour to be your Grace's most obedient
and very humble servant,
"JOSHUA HILL, Capt., 1796, India, &c."
"London, August 15.
"F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compli-
ments to Captain Hill—he has received his letter (25th
ult.) ; the Duke knew nothing of Mr. Simpson or Mrs.
Sims, but he is quite convinced that the late Mrs. Fitz--
herbert never had a child in consequence of her con-
nexion, whatever its nature, with the Prince of Wales,
afterwards George IV.
"To Captain Hill; Tavistock place, Tavistock-square."

WINDSOR,
lli TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. B.—Her
Royal hness the _Duchess of Kent will give dinner-
parties at Frogmore House, this evening, to-moirrow,
and on Thursday. Her Royal Highness went to London
by way of Richmond, yesterday afternoon, on a visit to
the Duchess of Gloucester. Her Royal Highness, at-
tended by her ladies (the Baroness de Spaeth and Lady
Anna Maria Dawson), took a carriage drive through
Windsor Great Park this afternoon, and returned to
Frogmore Reuse to dinner.
GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAlLWAY.—Traffic
returns for the week ending sth of September, 1846:
Passengers, 13,965; amount received, 3361. 19s. I Id.
IMPROVEMENTS IN KENSINGTON.—Yesterday the
workmen completed the demolition of the celebrated
Half-way House, that stood nearly in the centre of the
road to Kensington, and was long regarded as a very
great obstruction in that thoroughfare, the number of
carts and other vehicles occasiona ly assembled in its
yiemity havituz reneered the roadway at times nearly
impassable.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
4,000 bales, at full prices, including 150 Egt ptian, at
6d. to 71d. ; the remainder were nearly all American.
The market was firm.—Shares were again heavy.
Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale yesterday went off rather
flat, and prices somewhat lower. A fair business was
done. Buyers did not come forward so readily. The
following are a few of the sales:—
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate £1 1 0
Reading and Reigate ... 1 1 6
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston
Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. . 0 11 6
Norfolk Extena. to Norwich and Brandon 2 7 0
London and York
Eastern Counties, York Extension 2 5 0
Shrewsby., Wolverh., and South Stafford 2 7 6
Churnet and Blythe ... 1 18 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
East Indian 0 16 0
Paris and Lyons
East Lincolnshire
Direct Northern 1 15 0
Northern and Southern Connecting
West Riding Union .....

Manchester and Southampton 1 4 6
Louvain ala Sambre
Great Western of Bengal 0 11 0
Over Yssel
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 16 0
Vale of Neath 1 0 0
• Cornwall and Devon Central
Leicester and Bedford
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union 0 11. 6
Great Indian Peninsular
Paris and Lyons 5 17 0
London and Westminster Bank, ex. div 27 12 6
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 •
There are no ship arrivals to• day with late intelli-
gence of general interest.
In the produce markets there is more disposition to
offer goods, but it would appear that the failure of the
potato crop, and the state of Spanish affairs, operate
against extended transactions here, the same as in the
Money Market.
Although still rather quiet, the English Stock market
is decidedly firmer than it was yesterday, Consols hav-
ing realised 96 to 96* for present transfer, and 96* to
961 for time. The premium on Exchequer-bills
has rather improved, being now 10s. to 15s. ;
but here the market is not so well supported
as for Consols. Bank Stock has been marked 209* to
210*, being again very firm. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents have been 98* 1, and the Three per
Cents. 96i to *. East India Bonds'under _l,OOO/. have
been quoted at 295. pram. South Sea New Annuities
are 95*.
The Foreign Bonds have been rather quiet again,
but in respect to the Peninsular securities they look
better. Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 42*
to 43, about one-half per cent. advance. Spanish Three
per Cents. have been quoted at 381 Mexican Stock
has been at 258 *, Danish Bonds are 88*, French
Three per Cents. have realised 84f., with the Ex-
change at 25f. 80c.; and Dutch Four per Cents. are 94*.
Shares are dull, and scarcely move at all in price.
There is a slight rally, however, in one or two instances.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock —.2101% 209%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 96U%
3 per Cent. Consols Arms 96%
New 31/4 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 10% 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. ]O, ].859 lO 3-16
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1.0001
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 140.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto Small — .. 10 15 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 88
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 25%
Ditto for the Account 2576
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 85%
Portuguese 4 per Cents • 43
Ditto for the Account . 421%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 38%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 38%%
French Renter, 3 per Cent B4f. —c.
Exchange. 2sf. 80c.
Belgian 4% *Cent 97
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 94%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
15 .....

Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters (A)

Dittc Quarters (0 5

to

. .. . 34

Ditto quarters (0) ...... 1
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Ilancbestel,BirminE;liarn,and
MouWanction

.. to 9

to --

)Stanchest er and Southampton 2
Midland 100
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New 24 A 1/2 to
Midland. Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. to
_ , ,

Midland and Eastern Coutities

Midid. Great Western (Irish) 1.21/ —
Newcastle & Darlington ;Cune. 25
Ditto New
Newcastle and Berwick
Do. North Shields 25
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ......

to

Newport Rad Abergavenny. . 2% — to
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 4% — ...... to
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1% —
Nrorfolk lOO 133
Do. Half Shares

Ditto Extension
North British
Ditto Half Shares..
Ditto Fifths
Do. Carlisle Extension VA. 4% to 4
North cf Norfolk
Northern and Eastern SO
Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 45
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New
North Kent & Direct Dover 2% — to
North Staffordshire 425.
North Wales 3 • • % to
it orth. & South. Connecting 2% to

Northampton, Banbury, and -
Cheltenham '
Nottingham and Mansfield... ..... ..
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Oxfd.,Witney, & Cheltnham 1,6..
Pilbrow Atmospheric -

Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
Ditto, Half Shares _ 21,4, —

Reading, Guildford,& Reigate 42i- — dis. to
Richmond
Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick

Scottish Central ... 12% — .. ... to
Ditto, New, .. 2% — --
Scottish Midland lO
Ditto, Extension 2% to
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot-
teries, and Crewe l% —
Sheffield and Manchester ...100
Ditto M Shares 8
Do. and Lincolnshire Junct. 11% ......
Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10
Do. do. do. Extension... 425.

Shrewsbury and birmhigham 21/2 ...... 2%3/4 ... to
Shropshire Union ... 425. , dis to
Shrewsbury; Wolverhampton,
and S. Staflordsh. Junction 21/2 .. ...... to
Sligo and Shannon
South Devon

South Midland 42s. ... .. % p ... to
South and Midlands Junction 425.
South Staffordshire Junction 2% — to
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 42%8 to
Ditto, New, No. 1
Ditto, New, N 0.2
Ditto, New, No. 3 ls
Ditto New, No. 4. 2% 314%... to
St. Alban's, Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction
Staines and Richmoad.... .... 1
Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% --7__ _ to

_
South Wales
Swans. and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 2
Taw Vale Extension
Tring, Reading, & Basingstoke 514 —
Vale of Neath
Wakefield, Pontefract, and •
Goole ...... 22% —
Warwickshire and London... 425.
Warwick and Worcester 425....... ...... to
Waterford and Kilkenny 8 ...... 3
Waterford and Limerick 22%.....
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw,
and Dublin ... l/2 a .... . to
Wexford, Waterford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42s.
West Cornwall 2
West London, Old Shares ... 20
Wexford and Carlew
Wisbeach and St. Ives

Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 10 ......
Worcester, Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester 425.
Worcester Tenbury &Ludlow 23(1 —

. _ Worcester,WarwiCk,& Rugby 428....... ...... to
York and Carlisle 2% to
York and North. Midland .. 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto. Scarboro' Branch
Ditto, Selby 3O
Ditto. Extension

Ditto East and West Riding
Extension 1 -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4 ..
Bar badoes 1

Boulogne and Amiens l4 ...... 135456._ to
Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 -
Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette
(Mackenzie's)
Bordeaux. Toulouse, & Cette
( F2spelete's)
Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders '2
Calcutta & Diamond Harbour is
Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1

Central of Spain
Ceylon .... 5.3. -
Demerara.

Dendre Valley
—• .

to

Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . % to
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... .. ss. 34% to
Eastern Belgian Junction.... 21,,,i ......
Fampoux and Ilazebrouk..... 4
Great Indian Peninsular bs. ..... . • to
Great Western Bengal ss.
Great Western Canada 3% ......
Italian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Jersey 1
Louvain a la Sambre

Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon 2
Madras
Madrid and Valentia
Mauritius
Namur and Liege
Nn. of France Constituted ... 5 ...... 13% to
North Jamaica 1 . —
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... . 83% to
Over Yssel 413 s 4d.... ,
Paris and Lyons Constituted 5
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 6
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale - 14 ..., to
St. Laurence and Atlantic....
Tours & Nantes Constituted 5
Toumay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hasselt
Trinidad.. . ..... .. .........
2
West Flanders

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia -
British North American .... 50
Colonial
Commercial of London

London Joint Stock 10
London and Westminster... 20 -
National Provincial of Engld. 85
National of Ireland 221/2
Provincial of Ireland
Union of Australia
Union of London ........ 10
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered -
COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 8%1
Ditto, at sight • ..... 12 5%1
Rotterdam .2U. 12 9
Antwerp 26 15
ffiunburgh .... • • M.B. 13 13%
Altona .....
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 80
Ditto, 3 months.. 26 10
Marseilles • ••.. • • 26 15
80urdeaux......... • • 26 15
Frankfort on Maine.... 122%
Petersburgh, 3 Us.. ••
Berlin ....
Vienna, effec.tio•—• • • 10 12
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 12
Madrid • .

33% to
.NGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar.. •...........
Leghorn ........ •• •• 30 AO
Genoa .. •• • ...... 26 15
Venice... ..... ........

Naples
Palermo, peroa.• .• .. 119

Cadiz .. ... :
Bilbao.. •
Barcelona ......
Seville.....

Lisbon
....... 52N
0p0rt0.... •• .......... 62%
Rio Janeiro ....

Buenos Ayres .. —.. • •
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .. .. .... ..

?BAUM OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars .. •• • • 0 4 934
Sliver in bars .. 0 4 11

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 9. —Wind E.N.E., light airs, and line
weather.
DEAL, SEPT'. B.—Wind S.S. to S.S. W.—Arrd. Elizabeth,
Quebec; Hero, Quebec ; Diadem, Montreal. Sid. Albion,
Ware, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, William Jardine,
Small, China; Indus, Brown, Quebec.
COWES, SEPT. B.—Arrd. Josephine, Howes, Havannab.
OFF THE 'WIGHT, SEPT. B.—Charles, New Orleans, for
Bremen.
FALmounr, SEPT. B.—Wind S.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. 7tb,
Clarisse, Petty, Quebec.
OFF PENZANCE, SEPT. s.—Robert and Isabella, Quebec.
OFF SCILLY. ,SEPT. 3. Inconstant, Beacon, Savanilla
for London; Euphrates, Gifford,China. ,
BRISTOL, SErr. B.—Arrd. Sir Henry Pottinger, Corrigall,
Quebec; Marquis of Queensberry, Quebec.
MUMBLES, SEPT. 6.—Arrd. Gauntlett, Power, Callao, and
sailed for Swansea.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 7.—Wind S.W. to N.N.W., moderate.—
Arid. Bengalee, Fisher, China; Chatham, ditto; Guardian,
Singapore; Dorothea, Harrison, Calcutta; Hebe, Kemp,
Paraiba; Phoenix, Trinidad; Charlotte, Carter, Barbadoes;
Felicity, Riddell, Jamaica; Murray, Hughes, ditto; Wood-
pecker, Williams, Cuba; Recovery, Moore, ditto ; Ulrica.
Hija; Matanzas; Theodosia, Irving, New Orleans; Ondiaka,
Clheddin, ditto ; Rhodes, ditto; Washington, Benson, ditto;
Parthenon, Woodbury, ditto; Tory, St. Andrew's; Matta-
keeset, Mobile • Salacca, Pictou ; Union, Miramichi ; Lady
Shaw Stewart, Quebec; Robert Henderson, Todhun-
ter, ditto; Glen Helen, Parsons, ditto. Sid. Liffey, Cuth-
bert, Madras; Springfield, Roy, Quebec. Off pert, John
M‘Vicar, Calcutta ; Mona, Mauritius ; Ann Johnson,
Duchess of Portland, Columbus, Ottoman, St. Vincent,
CLYDE, SEPT. s.—Sld. Anne Milne. Thom, Sydney ; 6th,
Christian, M'Kellar, Demerara.
OFF NEWHAVEN, SEPT. 7.—Xanthus Quebec for Dover.
DUBLIN, SEPT. s.—Arrd. Sarah Fletcher, St. John's, N.B. ;
6th, Science, Williamson, St. Lucia ; 7th, Eleanor, Thomp-
son, Quebec. Sld. 6th, Charlotte, Moran, John's, N.B.
LEIIII, SEPT. s.—Sld. Eliza, Snell, St. John's, N.B.
SHIELDS, SEPT. 7.—The Blessing, Robinson, arrived here
from Quebec, is leaky, having been on shore on the island of
Anticosti, 3dult., and thrown part of cargo overboard.

BOROUGH OF FINSBURY.—D. C. Mo3lan, Esq , the
barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the
borough of Finsbury, will hold his sittings at the Court
of the Vice-Chancellor of England, in LincOn's Inn, on
Thursday, the 17th inst.