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escape than that one innocent person should be con- '
victed, and juries are almost invariably told that, if
they entertain any reasonable doubt, they are to give
the benefit of that doubt to the prisoner. Now, it
appears to us that the jury, by their statement that
there was a possibility that provocation had been given,
gave expression to such a doubt; and most assuredly
it was a reasonable one, and such as fairly might be
entertained by rational men. Both parties were sitting
at the same table ; each had, unhappily, a deadly
weapon, a knife, in hand; the woman was manifestly
a person of violent passions ; she had been in the habit
of using the most opprobrious language ; she had pre-
viously assaulted the prisoner, having bit his arm on
one occasion and slapped his face on another; the
wretched prisoner had ever behaved towards her in
the most temperate manner, having only held her
hands when she so bit him. Other evidence might have
been afforded as to similar acts of grievous provoca-
tion, but, by the strict rules of law which the presid-
ing judge was bound to enforce, it was necessarily
excluded. Is it not then, to say the least of it, pos-
sible, if not probable, that the pcor girl might not
have acted on that as on former occasions, and again
assaulted the prisoner, and with a knife in her hand,
which she still retained when running up wounded
into the hall, and which remained clasped in her right
hand after death. The prisoner said that she had
goaded him to it ; there is no living witness as
to what was the extent or nature of that pro-
vocation, but taking the previous occurrences into
consideration it could not be of a light or trivial
character. The former excellent conduct of the pri-
soner, his unimpeached character, strengthens the
supposition, and his subsequent conduct corresponds
with a total absence of design—it repudiates all idea
of premeditation. He was transfixed with horror
and stupefied at seeing what he had done. He made
no attempt at escape, but at once submitted himself'
to the officer, and acknowledged that his was the
hand that committed the fatal deed. He was over-
whelmed with despair, and sought not to defend
himself. In fact, as we have already stated, it was
to the humanity of others that he owed the defence
put forward at the trial. All this appears to us to
afford the strongest evidence of the magnitude of the
provocation. We trust that the case may
meet with a favourable consideration from
the responsible advisers of the Crown. One
of their proudest boasts may well be of the
reformation they have effected in the criminal code of
the country--the mitigation in its severity. Already
since their recent accession to power they have ex-
tended mercy to many criminals under sentence of
death for murder. It was our pleasing duty yester-
day to record another instance of that mercy, in the
commutation of the sentence on ROBERT WlLLrams,
convicted of the murder of THOMAS WIGGINS, at the
late Wells Assizes. The case of SMITH may chal-
lenge 'a favourable comparison with that of any
of the recently reprieved convicts, and most
sincerely do we hope that the recommendation of the
jury, and the appeal about to be brought forward on
his behalf by his fellow-citizens, may not be made in
vain.

It has been our painful duty of late almost daily to
furnish the melancholy details and to observe upon
the disastrous consequences which, by a marked and
generally spread visitation of PROVIDENCE, must
fall upon millions of our fellow-countrymen
across St. George's Channel. Merely to have furnished
the fearful statistics of the failure in the potato crop,
whilst it would have corresponded with the rigid
duty of the journalist, would at the same time have
been but an ignoble method of discharging it•
We have, therefore, never refrained from clothing
the details with such observations as seemed
to us justly to emanate from a spirit of phi-
lanthrophy and the purest dictates of enlarged and
national benevolence. 'We have been actuated to
this course, first, because the misery and destitution
of the Irish have for years past become
terms so proverbial, that the better feelings
of the inhabitants of Great Britain are
apt, from the frequent repetition of the pauperism of
Ireland, to relapse almost into indifference, even when
appearances of a novel and awful devastation should
startle our very senses ; and, secondly, because we
wished, with others, to be forward in assuring the
heart-stricken population of the Sister Isle that
our most extended sympathies, with their legitimate
fruits, should not be wanting during the terrible or-
deal of privation and suffering which it will be their
destiny to pass through. And 7.4,ht..--.1.,-
enough has Ireland entitled herself to our
most considerate benevolence. The peaceful
attitude she assumed during the past year, the calm
resignation and well-sustained fortitude which she
now exhibits under the auspices of her self-chosen
popular leaders, in this the second year of an unpre-
cedented calamity, and the laudable manner in
which, under such trying circumstances, she has
repudiated, aye, spurned the traitorous advocates of
physical force, must claim our admiration, and secure
our incessant efforts to rescue her, to the utmost,
from the deplorable evils of threatened famine. In-
deed, the recent decrease in crime gives them an
additional claim upon our benevolent energies. Che-
quered, indeed, as the public peace has been at times
in Ireland, yet we conscientiously believe that no
people on the face of the earth, constituting as
most the Irish do an integral portion of the
civilised empire in the world, would, in a similar posi-
tion, have comported itself with so much of per-
severing and patient endurance, as the Irish
have for a very lengthened period. We ad-
mire them, too, all the more, from their hav-
ing th dared in the British Parliament, through
their confidential organs, that any eleemosynary
relief which they have required, and may yet re-
quire, they regard not so much as a boon, as a posi-
tive right. They represent, and with too much
truth, that as we have for years under-
taken to legislate for them, their present
condition is no political fault of their own,
but that the shame of it must rest with
ourselves ; and it is not to be denied that this repre-
sentation draws conviction after it from the tardy,
but improved manner in which we are now legis-
lating for their several national wants and desires.
It is deeply to be lamented that at the close of a
session, so fruitful in good works, on which we have
elsewhere enlarged, our joy should be so seriously
detracted from by the state of Ireland. Every
day we have hoped for some redeeming intel-
ligence, but each hour has only served to confirm
our worst apprehensions. Last night the Earl of
RODEN, from whom however much we have differed
in politics, still, as a resident, painstaking, and consi-
derate landlord in Ireland, he has acquired an
honourable fame, addressed the House of
Lords upon the approaching distress in that
country. His Lordship described the province
of Ulster, a great portion of which he had recently
travelled through, to be without a field free from the
potato disease, and stated that he had received ac-
counts from the north, confirming all that Lord
MONTEAGLE had represented of the south of
Ireland. An appeal was made by this noble-
man to the sympathies of those who might
be able to assist his afflicted country. "At the same
time," continued his Lordship, " if his voice could
reach the ears of those individuals who possessed any
property in Ireland, and it could have any effect to
speak to them from that place upon so solemn a sub-
ject, he would implore them, under every circum-
stance, to go home to their country and people—
(Hear, hear)—to live amongst them, and encourage
them in their present difficulties—(Hear, hear)—and
to show them that they themselves were willing,
under these great trials, to share with them the
evils they were forced to bear.—(Hear, hear.)"
More appropriate and feeling advice could not
be tendered, and his Lordship's own example en-
forces the precept with a peculiar grace. The evila
of absenteeism has been a Parliamentary theme
for the last three quarters of a century, but, un-
fortunately, has been hitherto dilated upon in vain.
It would seem as if PROVIDENCE, by the present visi-
tation, would compel the proprietors of the
soil effectually to discharge the social duties. -which
they have so long and culpably neglected. Pe►rliament
itself has already been quickened into a sense. of what
is intrinsically required, and has passed a law by
which the rich owners of the land shall, Sue cessary,
be compelled to support the famishing poor . Lord
CLARENDON warmly seconded Lord RODEN'S • appeal,
end in A way which, we trust, will arntal.l9l/ .sly pro.

duce from those, whose duty it is to furnish it, every
posible alleviation of the raging ealamity.

The College of Cardinals, composed as it is almost
exclasively of the most bigotted members of the old
won-out, servile faction, continues to throw every
obstacle in the way of the POPE and of his Minister,
Cardinal Gizzn. Not a measure of amelioration or
reforn is proposed which is not immediately de-
nomEed by the College. The Pore and his Mi-
nister, however, are not daunted by the faction, and
reform in the civil administration and in the muni-
cipal institutions, which have been long demanded by
the people, are in progress of preparation. A letter
from Rb?ne, dated the 18th, says that one of the
Cardinals having observed to the POPE that if he did
not alter his system, the people would demand a con-
stitutbn " and why should I not accede to their
desire;' replied his IlouNEss, " if a constitution was
necessary to the welfare of my subjects ?"

The Frankfurt Journal publishes a letter from
Lemberg, the capital of Austrian Galicia, dated
August 15, which says :—" A new conspiracy has
been d.scovered. The plan has been formed by the
malcontents of Galicia and the Polish emigrants in
France. Three French emissaries have been arrested,
and brcught to this place. Many important papers
were foind on them, and, among the rest, a proclama-
tion in the Polish language exciting the peasants to
revolt against the Government for refusing them the
rewards which they merited for their late conduct."
The same journal states that the Austrian Govern-
ment disapproves highly of the intention expressed by
the PorE of dismissing his regiments of Swiss guards,
and it adds that Prince METTERNICH has made strong
representations to the Court of Rome on the subject.
The Congress of the Zollverein held its closing
sitting on the 19th, at Berlin. The advocates of an
increase in the Zollverein tariff have been defeated,
so that, notwithstanding the demands of the German
spinners, there will be no increase in the duties on
English thread. The British Consul-General at Leip-
sic, Mr. WARD, was present during the whole of the
sitting of the Congress.
On the 21st, the second Chamber of the Grand
Duchy of Baden decided in favour of a measure for
emancipating the Jews by a majority of 36 to 18.
The Emperor of Russu has dispatched M.
BLOUDOLF, his late Minister of Public Instruction,
on a mission to Rome. The Juris-consult RUBE,
who is devoted to the Roman Catholic interest in
Russia, accompanies M. BLoupor.r.
11:11
Madrid papers of the 21st have arrived.

Don FRANCISCO D'AsslS is the object of attention
from all parties. N. SARTORIUS waited on him to
present to him the compliments of General NARVAEZ.
The Prince received him affably, and assured him
that, he harboured no political resentments. The
Prince seems to be acting with great prudence, and
with the except;on of the Tiempo, which
asserts that unexpected difficulties have sprung
up which are likely to put an end to the ne-
gotiations on the subject, all the papers seem
to consider that Don FRANCISCO stands an excellent
chance of being the husband of Queen ISABELLA.
On the 17th several persons were arrested at Bar-
celona, and placed at the disposal of the Council of
War. On the same day several domiciliary visits
were made in the city, and seizures were made of
arms and ammunition. On the same day a riot
occurred at Santander, in consequence of the
arrest of the torreo CIIICLANERO, who refused
to appear at a bull fight. The people attempted to
rescue him from the guards, who charged them with
their bayonets, and two persons were wounded. The
Political Chief afterwards published a proclamation,
explaining the facts of the case.
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 21.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 34 for cash ; the Four per Cents., at
21i; the Five per Cents., at 2i ; the Debt without
Interest, at 6; ; and the Coupons, at 201.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
They are almost wholly taken up with the report
of the first day's trial of lIENRY. During the pro-
ceedings, Mr. COBDEN was present, and according to
the France, made this remark to those who accompanied
him—" This is a madman, who is but too happy to
have found a pedestal for his folly, and persons in
their reason to listen to him." And Mr. COBDEN is
right. A lunatic asylum is the proper place for
HENRY. The trial which excited but little interest
was expected to be brought to a conclusion on Wed-
nesday.

Tho Phs.-.1-... of Deputies was DM/ occupied ill
deciding disputed election returns. M. MATER, who
had promised to resign in a year in favour of a Legi-
timatist candidate, has been declared duly elected.
All the Opposition Members in the bureau voted in
his favour.

The Constitutionnel says, that after receiving the
address of the Chamber of Deputies, the KING will
return to the Chateau d'Eu, where he will be visited
by the Queen of ENGLAND.

PARIS, AUG. 26.—Five per Cents., 21f. 55c. ; Three per
Cents., 83f. 70c ; Four per Cents., 108 f.; Bank Actions,
3,470 f. ; Romans, 102. ; Belgian Five per CeLts., 1840, 1023 A ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 36%; Belgian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 1001/2. Exchange on London, one month, money,
251. 70c.; three months, money, 25f. 521,e.
LATEST PnicEs.—Five per Cents., 121 f. 65c. ; Three per
Cents., 83t. 65c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN. RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 27.
_ _

Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette ( M ackenzie), I4—Ditto (Espelete;
I—Butch Rhenish, 5',7i —East Indian, —Northern of France Coi
stituted, 13 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 87i—Paris and Lyons Consti
5%.

A Commission from her Majesty, giving the Royal
Assent to certain Bills before Parliament, which was
sent from town last night to Osborne House, Isle of
Wight, for the royal signature, was received in town
this day.

ROBBERY AT INlEssrts. BANBURY AND CO.'s BANKING
HousE.—On Thurday infermation was forwarded to the va-
rious police-stations, that on Wednesday a man, named James
Richardson, a messenger employed in the banking firm of
Messrs Hanbury, Taylor, and Lloyd, of Lombard-street, City,
and silver ;AoSrLOnLI/
rc is es;fl
LATEepdr
epresent
fore M.P.
opan.p pFaroetßiol eunGrs ißiOnEll
Et.
had absconded, taking with him upwards of 150/. in gold
at
eo GREENOCK.—This
Highlands,. Th
vetilefraan. Wref
and his countrymen are paying him everywhere that respect
which his services in the cause of social and political ameli-
oration so richly merit. On Monday the burgesses of
Dingwall presented him with the freedom of this burgh, and
on Wednesday the freedom of the burgh of Inverness was
conferred on Mr. Wallace.
THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT LEICESTER.—
Up to the present time active measures have been going on
for the purpose of raising the necessary fund for the repara-
tion of the extensive damage done to St. George's Church,
Leicester. The estimated amount of damage done (as far as
the architect can at present determine) is 2,300!. A meeting
was recently held of the noblemen and gentlemen of the
county and town, at which Earl Howe presided, and it was
unanimously resolved to enter into a subscription for the
restoration of the church. About one-third of the sum re-
quired was speedily subscribed. Amongst the contributors
were his Grace the Archbishop of Canterburv, Earl Howe,
the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, the Bishops of
Peterborough and Lincoln, and a long array of the leading
names of the town and county.
FURNITURE BROKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—
Yesterday the sixth annual meeting of the members of
this institution, which was established for the purpose of af-
fording relief to members of the trade who may be overtaken
by distress, was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand, Mr. J. F. Kelly_ in the chair. According to the re-
port the institution was progressing in a satisfactory manner.
The receipts during the year amounted to 1,333/., which made
the total sum at the disywal of the committee 1,777/. 95.;
deducting a small expenditure, a balance 01 1,097/. remained.
The invested stock amounts to 883/. After the election of
one person to an annuity of 15'., the meeting separated.
ORDINATION.—On Friday, the 24th ult., the Right
Rev. the Bishop of Glasgow held an ordination in Christ
Church, Glasgow, when Alex. J. D. D'Orsey, of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge, Master of the English Depart-
ment in the high School of Glasgow, was admitted into holy
orders. Prayers were read by the Rev. C. F. R. Smith,
minister of Christ Church. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Isaac Ilitchin,M.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge.
The candidate was presented by the Very Rev. the Dean of
Glasgow, and the oaths were administered by Archibald
Alison, Esq. Most of the Episcopal clergy of Glasgow,
Greenock, Paisley, Ayr, and Hamilton, were present. We
understand that the Rev. Mr. D'Orsey will shortly take
charge of a congregation in the western suburbs of Glasgow.
—Glasgow Courier.
it`CULLERS' ATctr.---Yesterday afternoon the scullery'
match, for 101. a side, between Maxwell, of the Custom- house
stairs, and Doyle, of Hungerford, to row from Battersea-
bridge to Hammersmith Church, a distance of four miles and
a half, was decided. Betting was 6t04 in favour of Doyle,
and considerable sums depended on 1110 event. The start
took place at five o'clock, both men getting away well
together ; Doyle, however, gradually drew away from his
opponent, was three boats' length ahead in a quarter of a
mile, ultimately winning by 100 yards.
INQUIRY AT LEWISRAM WORKHOUSE.—YeSterday
Mr. Assistant-Commissioner Hall instituted some further in-
quiries into the conduct of Mr. Burroughs, the master of the
Lewisham workhouse, the former inquiry not being consi-
dered complete in all points by the Poor-law Conunissioners.
Mr. Steele, the medical officer of the union, with his assistant,
were the principal witnesses examined, and their evidence
was, that the woman Margaret Stevens had informed them '
that she had had illicit connexion with the master; these
assertions were, however, positively denied by Margaret Ste.
Yens. The master again entered into a defence of his con-
duct, and i
ng ry
ai m ILI a t
nowio
n o
finallyf the s,lcolsuemd.lmistress. It is believed
that the
FLEET STREET.-- Yesterday the portion of Fleet. street ,
from Temple-bar to Fetter-lane, which having been re-paved,
was passable as a carriage thoroughfare, Was again closed to
remedy powagroct Oa At9laa IT9rk• I

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

Parliament was prorogued this day (by Commis-
sion), when the following Speech was read, by com-
mand of her Majesty, by the Lord Chancellor, sitting
on the Woolaack, in front of the throne, in the
House of Lords :-
4' NY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" We are commanded by her Majesty to express to
you the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for
the public spirit you have evinced in the discharge of
your laborious duties during an anxious and pro-
tracted session.

" Her Majesty trusts that you will be rewarded by
witnessing the beneficial results of the measures which
have been sanctioned by her Majesty for the present
relaxation and ultimate repeal of protective duties on
corn and sugar.
" ller Majesty entertains a confident hope that the
more free admission of the produce of foreign coup•
tries into the home market will inereaseithe comforts
and better the condition of the great body of the
people.
" Her Majesty feels the greatest satisfaction in re-
flecting that her Majesty's efforts to settle, in a manner
consistent with national honour, the conflicting
claims of Great Britain and the United States, with
respect to the territory on the North West Coast of
America, have been completely successful.
" Her 2l:ljesty continues to receive from all
Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their
desire to cultivate friendly relations with this country.
" Her Majesty commands us to congratulate you
on the victorious course and happy conclusion of the
war in India, and her Majesty has much gratification
in announcing to you that perfect tranquillity pre-
vai7s throughout the whole of the British possessions
in that quarter of the world.
" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

"Her Majesty has observed with satisfaction the
care you have taken to prevent permanent loss to the
revenue, and to maintain the public faith.
"Her Majesty has commanded us to acknowledge
the zeal and unanimity with which you assented to
the increase in the naval and military estimates which
a regard to the exigencies of the public service induced
her Majesty to propose for your consideration.
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" Her Majesty has to lament that the recurrence of
a failure in the potato crop, in an aggravated degree,
will cause a serious deficiency in the quantity of a
material article of food.

" Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to
measures by which this calamity may be mitigated in
that part of the United Kingdom where the cultiva-
tion of the potato has hitherto afforded the chief
supply for the subsistence of the people.
" Her Majesty has seen with pleasure that a con-
siderable diminution of crime and outrage has taken
place in those counties of Ireland which had been
most disturbed.

" Her Majesty is confident that on your return to
your several counties, you will find a spirit of
loyalty generally prevalent. The extension of works of
improvement has increased the demand for labour,
and the tranquillity of the country has favoured the
pursuits of industry in all its branches.
"Her Majesty trusts that by a combination of
prudence with enterprise, and of a willing obedience
to law with a desire for social progress, her people
will, through the Divine blessing, enjoy the full ad-
vantages of peace."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER tock the Chair at Twenty Minutes to
Three o'clock.

POOR-LAWS.
A return was presented from the Poor-law Commis-
sioners.

NEW WRIT FOR DERBY.

A new writ for Derby in the place of J. Strutt, Esq.,
the present member who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds was moved for.

On the motion of Mr. CHRISTIE, a return was or-
dered of the number of days, in each of the years 1842,
1843, 1844, and 1845, on which only one Poor• law Com-
missioner has attended at the office, the powers of the
Commis:ion not having been delegated to him
as provided by the Act 1 and 2 Vic., c. 56 ;
specifying each day, the name of the Commis•
stoner whn attended alone on each day ; and wherever
a Commissioner has so attended alone for two or more
continuously, the length of the period during which he
has been aline in attendance, without. a delegation of
powers. Return of the number of orders, in each
of the stone years, which bear date on
days when only one Comissioner has attended at the
office, without a delegation of the powers of the
Commission. Return of the number of letters
in each of the same years, which, having been
written by direction of one Commissioner
when attending alone without a delegation
of powers, hat e been dispatched previously to
the days on which they are recorded in the " Minutes
of the Directions of the Board upon Correspondence,"
as sanctioned by the signatures of more than one Com-
missioner.

Statement of the names and nature of the books frcm
which the foregoing returns shall be prepared.

EXTRAORDINARY IN VE STIGATION.—EA ST MANNING..
FIELD, AUG. 26.—This morning Mary Peters, a young woman
respectably connected, and who has for upwards of eight
months held the situation of governess in the family of Mr.
J. F. Ricketts, of this place, was brought before the dis-
trice magistrates, charged on suspicion of having concealed
the birth of her child. From the evidence adduced, the body
of the infant was found in a highly decomposed state near
the mouth of a drain communicating with Mr. Ricketts's
premises. Jane Grooves depcsed to being nursery-maid
in the family of Mr. Ricketts. Witness and other per-
sons residing in the house had remarked a change in
the figure of Miss Peters for several months past. The
appearances were such as to induce the belief that she was
enciente. Remembers, particularly, one night, about a month
ago, bearing dreadful groans in the governess's room, upon
which she (witness) knocked at the door, when Miss Peters
desired her not to be alarmed, as it was only her old com-
plaint. Some short time afterwards, on the same night,
witness heard her leave her room, and proceed down stairs,
upon which she (witness) entered the room, and perceived
indications which raised her suspicions ; but, observing
that Misi Peters's appearance was not at all altered
in the morning, witness did not know what to think.
A fortnight afterwards, witness, having gone into the
governess's room, and found her asleep on a sofa,
prompted by curiosity, observed her person closely, and
discovered that her dress was wadded so as to give her
figure the dropsical contour so observable. Had kept every-
thing a profound secret until the body of the child was dis-
covered. Miss Peters had given notice some time of her in-
tention to leave her situation. At this stage of the pro-
ceedings the magistrates suggested the propriety of the ac-
cused being examined by a medical man, and the case was
adjourned. Aug. 27.—This morning the magistrates re-
sumed the inquiry into the accusation of Mary Peters, whose
case was adjourned in order to procure medical evidence.
After hearing i.he testimony of Dr. Marsden, of Manning-
field, who bad been deputed to examine the accused, the ma-
gistrates were of opinion that the evidence adduced was not
sufficiently conclusive to warrant a ccmmittal, and she was
accordingly acquitted.
NUMEROUS FIR F:S IN ONE. NlGHT.—Between the
hours of ten P.M., on Wednesday, and one A.M. of yesterday,
not fewer than six fires occurred in the metropolis :—One
happened at 62, High-street, Shadwell, on the premises in
the occupation of Mr. Charles Watson, grocer and tea-
dealer. The flames, when first observed, were burning
furiously in the shop, and the inmates having effected a
sate retreat, the engines were sent for and set to work; but
before the firemen could got the flames subdued the con-
tents of the shop were nearly consumed and the building
severely damaged. The loss will fall u?on the London
Fire-office. Another fire occurred at No. 118, High-street,
Shoreditch, the property of Mr. F. Watts, oil and Italian
warehouseman. It appears that whilst a man was drawing
off some varnish' in the cellar it became ignited, and
falling amongst a quantity of patent fire-wood, set it
on fire; a large glass carboy filled with oil was broken
during the confusion, and it was at one period feared that
the whole building would have been destroyed. The fire-
engines quickly attended. and owing to the exertions of the
neighbours and inmates, the fire was happily confined to that
portion of the premises in which it originated. Mr. Watts
was insured in the Dissenters' Fire-office. The third fire
took place at 4,0; iental-tcrrace, Grundy-street, Poplar, oc-
cupied by Mr. Thomas Penny. It did considerable damage
to the first floor Lefore it could be extinguished. The tow th
happened on the prenises of Mr. John Cooper, No. 22,
Little James-street, Lisson-grove, Paddington. It was
caused by the embers of a tobacco-pipe falling amongst the
straw in the stabling. Four brigade engines attended, but
before the fire was got out the corn-bin and some harness
were burnt. Mr. Cooper was nut insured. The other two
fires were in iitrton-court, Barbican, and South-street,
shoreditch. .

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TU THREE.
There was a good demand for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales' 7,000 bales, about 1,000 of vdi.ch
were on speculation and for export. The demand was
good both for export and the trade. Shares were dull
again..
In our Afternoon Edition of yesterday we gave the im-
portant announcement that the Directors of the &ilk
of England had confirmed a resolution, passed, we
understand, by a large majority of the General Board,
which was held yesterday week. It is not necessary to
.repeat again the notice. Opinions 'are - very much
diversified as to what may be the result of this
change. Comparatively slight it unquestionably
is, but with all the elements of an increase of trade by
the active operation of the new tariff-the rnaintainance
of friendly relations with all foreign powers-with a
rapid increase in the circulation of notes by the Bank,
and an unexampled stock of bullion-very many sound
men, in their opinions, look with some jealousy
to •the consequences which may possibly result from
lowering of the rate of interest, the more so, as appre-
hensions are entertained in but allimited circle, that calls
for extension of railways must place the money market
in an unfavourable position. To our minds, however,
experience will show a state of things precisely
the reverse. So far from money being ex-
pended upon railways being a drag upon the
circulation, it must tend to give increased vitality to
the movements of the Directors of the BaLlt of England.
It would be, indeed, a waste of time to attempt to argue
the right of the directors to suit themselves, as
a Bank of issue, to the wants of the times, its
safe position being considered ; and although in
contradistinction to the repeated assertions of a leading
journal, that the reduction now made would tend to in-
jury, not to the advantage of the commercial body ; the
alteration is, upon the whole, considered sound in prin-
ciple, and no question must tend to help on the full de-
velopement of the advantages expected by the passing of
the Corn and Sugar Bills.
There are no late Colonial arrivals announced in the
City this morning.
Consols .for the Account have been very firm this
morning at 961 I, and fur immediate transfer at 9.5 i, a
fall of one quarter per cent. on the opening, value. Ex •
chequer-bills reached 20s. premium to-day, but are now
•at 16s. Bank Stock commands 209. India Bonds are
at 283. premium.
Mexican Bonds have remained at about NI ;
Spanish Three per Cents. at 37 ; the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents at 9741- ; and the Four per Cents at 94't.
The Share Market is very firm this morning, and a
good deal of business is in progress. •
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. • • 209 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96%1A % 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% 95% 96
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne, 98%14 98%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 7-16 % 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10% 1-16 10 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 28 28
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. 30 30
Consols for Oct. 14 .. • . 961/ % 96%
Exchequer Bills. 134 d, I%d.
1,000/... - .... 20 16 - - pm. 20
5001. - .... 20 -•-- pm. 20
Ditto, Small - .... 15 20 - - pin. 20
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 89% 693
Mexican Bonds, Old, 5 per Cent .. ---
Ditto, 1846, 5 per Cent .. • • .. 241/3 % 24%
Portuguese Four per Cent 42%
bpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. - 25%
Ditto, for the Account - 26
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 5% 5%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • .. 37 36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 9714 971%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 5934 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 94%
PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE' AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. 15 „ „ 9% _ 93g
Amber., Notting., • Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. 2% •• • • 2% 2.... •• .• 2
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. 128 .... .. •• .. 128
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 66% .
Bristol and Gloucester .. .. 30 .... 51 .......... 51
Buckinghamshire 425. .... dis.
Caledonian .• „. 20 .... 16% • • 16%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% ...• I% % ...... • 1%
Cambridge and Oxford .. .. • • 1% •• • • 34 %X•• • • • •
Chester and Holyhead .. 27% 26% ........ 26%
Cornwall .. •••' .. 5 .... 1 1 %
Direct Northern .... I%)''. •• •• •• 1%
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 414 41%
Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 2314 23 23 .
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... p,......, 7% p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. I3s. 4d. - ...... -
Ditto, ditto,.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 34 • • %
Ditto, York Extension 105..... 2% % ..... 2%
East Lancashire .. • • .. 14 22i, 23% •
• • 23%
East Lincolnshire .. I .... 34
Edinburgh and Northern .. 10 .... 10 10
Edinburgh and Pei th .. 3 .... 3% 3%
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. 74 dis % dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25 .... 29 .......... 29
Great North of England. . ..100 .... - .. •• • •.• -
Ditto, New .. 15 ... 51 51
Great Western 85 .• -148 .... ••• • .. 148
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 83% ...... 83%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10 .• .. 23% • • 23%
Hull and Selby .. 50 ....104 104.
Ipswich ai.al Bury St.Edmunds .. 9 .... 8% • B%
Ditto, ditto • • .. • • .. ....
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 45 .... 6474
Ditto New .. 5 .. • • 10% 103.3
Leeds an•:1 Bradford • • • • •• 20 .... 69
69
Lacester anU Bedford .. 225..... 34 die...-.
Leicester, Tamworth, Scc. 425..... % di5...... % dis.
Lirerp., Diahch., & Newc. Junct. - ..
London and Croydon .. -13/. 15s. 9d .. 23%1:4 .••• • • • 23%
London an North-Western . • . 100 .... 206
Ditto ditto New Shares .. .... 16 15% p .... 15% p
Lohdoit and South- Western.. 411. Os. 10d.• • 74 • • • • 74%
Ditto, New .. • • .. • • 17%.... 26% .... • •
London and York .. 2% •• •• 2% • • .... •• • . 2%
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 12% .... 51/e
Manchester and Leeds .. .. •• 82 • • -114% ........ 114%
Ditto, Quarters - 2 .... 8 • ..... 8
Ditto, Fifths .. 3 .... 11% 11%
Ditto Extension 425. •• 2% % p
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 78 .......... 78
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • . 5 13% 13%
Manchester and Southampton .. '2 ....
Midland .. -100 ... 140 139 .• • •
Ditto, New .. 24 .... 37% 37 •• ..
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100•...115113.•
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... VIA 43 .. •• • • 433!
Ditto, New . .. • . • • 1 .... 11% •••.• • • • • • 11%
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .. 28% %%• • • •
Norfolk .. .. 'lO .... 26%
Ditto, Extension • • • 2 •• • • 214 1/4 •••• • • • • 2%
North British .. .. • • 25 •• • • 38% 39% •• • • 391
Ditto, Halt Shares .. • • • • 11 •• • • 17 16X •• • • 167/
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% .... 434 ,
North Staffordshire .. 425....: 3% 43%p • • 334 p
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverlirnptn. 12% .... 8%
Portsmouth Direct • • .. 344 514. 5114
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 425. •• • • 1% dis .... • • 114 dis
Richmond . • • • • • • • •• 10 ••• • 19 ••••• • • • • • 19
Scottish Central .. • .. 12% •
.... 19% l9k,
Ditto New • . • • • • • • • 2%.... 9y„ „•
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 23st .... 3 274 3% • • •
Shropshire Union .. 425. dis % dis.
South Midland .. 425. - ........ % p
Soath Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. • . 44 43% 44 IA
Ditto, New (iss. at 32/4 No. 1. 20 ... 26
Do., New (do. 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 12 .... 18 .... .. 17 %
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% 314 •• •.. 338
South Wales .. .• .. • • 5 .... 434 g, •• ••
Vale of heath .• 2 .... 134 •.
Warwickshire and London •, 425..... 38 dis• .• • 34 dis
Welsh Midland .. .• • • 2% .... X••••• • • • ..
West Riding Union • • 425. •• 31,614 314 p.. 31,4 p
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... - ..... -
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 46% ....... 46%
Ditto. Extension .. 20 .... 39% • • ...... 391,4
ZDo. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 •• • • 13%14 • ..... • • 1318
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 14 .... 1338 IA 131%
Bord., Toul., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 - • • ........
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 114 1 k
Dutch Rhenish .. .• • • •• 6 ••6•••• • - • • • • 6 X
East In !tau . bs• •• •• • • •• •• • •
Luxembourg .. • • • • • • 4 •• • • -••-•• • • • • • 1
arnut and Liege .. 6 • • - •• • • .
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 •• .. 13%
Orleans mind Bordeaux . • .. 6 •• • • 8X ••••• • • • •
Paris and Lyons Constituted. 5 .... 6% „ 614
Paris and Rouen .. • • • • • .
•• 20 ••• • - ••••• • • • • • 3714
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 4% % „„ • ,
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... -

MINES.
Real del.Monte, Unregistered .. • • 3;i ••• • • • ...

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, AUG. 28.—Wind N.E., light breeze, and fine
clear weather.

Dian, AuG. 27.—Wind E. to E.N.E.—Arrd. from the
River and sailed, John Edward, Dell, Bombay ; Ruby, Stokoe,
Rimouski. Sld. her Majesty's ship Athol, eastward.
OFF BERRY HEAD, AUG. 25.—Cleopatra, APEchen, Gre-
nada Florian, New Orleans for Hamburgh.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 27.—S1d. Alacrity, Atkin, Quebec.
OFF TEIGNMOUTH, AUG. 27.--James Anders, Bowker, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
PLYMOUTH, AuG. 27.—Wind E.—Arrd. Industrious, Fraser,
Sierra Leone.
BRISTOL, AUG. 27.—S1d. Penn, Ball, Newfoundland.
NRwroRT, AUG. 26.—Sld. Robert Bruce, Young, Quebec;
27th, Pons lElie, Mock, do.
LErtwictc, AUG. 20.—Arrd. Forth, Rushley, Greenland,
with two fish, and sld. 21st for Hull; 24th, Jane, Nicholson,
Greenland, with one fish, 300 or 400 seals, 25 tuns.
KILLSWICE (SHETLAND), AUG. 14. Arrd. Venus,
Baxter, Davis' Straits, with 4,600 cod ; reports the Prince of
Wales, Lee, with eight fish, and the Traveller, of Peterhead,
wills ten fish.

NEWHAVEN, AUG. 26.—The Vancouve, Howard, from
St. John's, New Brunswick, was in contact this morning off
Beachy Head with the Union brig, of Dunkirk, and received
considerable damage; the latter lost half mast.
NORTH SHIELDS, AVG. 26 —The French Chassee Marie,
Alexandre, was recently fallen in with waterlogged and
abandoned, by the Scotch sloop John, arrd. here.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27.—Wind S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. Cham-
plain, Miller, New Orleans; Oregon, Gliddon, New Orleans;
Concordia, Dorr, New Orleans; Devonshire, Thompson, New
Orleans; Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, Philadelptia. Sid.
John Wickliffe, Daly, Calcutta; Matilda, Kemp, Sierra
Leone ; Coverdale, I3everley, Rio Janeiro • Catharine Boland,
Porter, Jamaica ; Lady Mary, Scott, Berbice ; Brewster, Lin-
coln, Mobile; Niagara, Russell, New York ; Waterloo, Alden,
New York; Laura, Snow, Bucksport ; Corsair, Daly, Hali-
fax; British American, Mills' Quebec; Queen Pomare,
Brewster, Quebec; Q. E. D., Starks,. Montreal. Off port,
Springfield, Richebucto.
CLYDE, AUG. 26.—Arrd. Clymene, Potts, Quebec; Jeannie
Deans, Miller, Quebec. Sid. Palmyra, Campbell, Bombay;
St. Mary, I\l:Beside, Jamaica; City of York, Quebec.
WEXFORD, AUG. 26.—Arrd. Torrance. Roach, Quebec.
WEsTrciRT, AUG. 25.—Arrd. Viola, Wilkinson, Quebec.
NEWRY, AUG. 25.—Arrd. Dolphin, Sullivan, Quebec.
SHIELDS, AUG. 27.—Sid. Hamilton, Reid, Boston, United
States.
HULL, AUG. 26.—Sld. Lena, Valparaiso.

The Hon. and Rev. Henry Robert Pakenham has
been licensed by the Bishop of Bath and Wells to the curacy
of Compton, Somerset.
Lora PantFure, father to the Right Hon. Fox Mule,
Secretary at War, has given tile :um of I,COO/. towards the
Infirmary for the Relief of the Sick Poor at Arbroath, North
Britain.