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possible means, the close pursuit] which the large
reward offered for the apprehension of the former
had occasioned. The " tours de force" of the former,
his springing over four or five horses, appear to be
equally without foundation.
The attack on Curraghmore, the residence of the
Marquis of WATURFORD, is also wholly uncorrobo-
rated. It appears that some alarm was entertained
lest some attack might take place during the absence
of the Noble Marquis at the Curragh races, and that
the Marchioness, who had remained at home, had
made every preparation to give a warm reception to
any assailants that might venture to lead the
forlorn hope in so dangerous an enterprise.
The house it appears is strongly fortified, and a
well trained and duly organized band, with abun-
dance of arms and ammunition, maintain a constant
watch, that would render it certain that the sacking
of their stronghold would be a work of time and diffi-
culty which could not be effected until the military at
Waterford and in the neighbouring stations had re-
ceived full notice of the siege, and had ample time to
move to the rescue. In this instance, therefore, we
may venture to proneunce the reports to be altogether
untrue.

THE FRE

PUBLIC.

bling together of the insurgents, and was condemned
to imprisonment for one year.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The speech of M. TRIERS on the right of labour
is the great event of the day, on which all the papers
comment, and they all without exception, friends as
well as foes, admit that it was one of the most elo-
quent and brilliant rhetorical displays ever offered to
the attention of a deliberative assembly. M. VICTOR
CONSIDERANT, who undertook the defence of So-
cialism against M. THIERS, demanded permission to
speak for four consecutive days in reply to the speech
of M. TRIERS, which had lasted about half the
number of hours, and was of course refused. The
President, M. MARRAsx, reminded M. CONSIDERANT
that the National Assembly was a legislative body,
convoked for the purpose of making laws, and not a
class assembled to listen to the lectures of a peda-
gogue. The following is a summary of M. Lama
speech :
M. Thiers said, that he and his friends attached the
greatest importance to the constitution. They had not
desired nor founded the Republic; they accepted it loy-
ally and sincerely. In the eyes of every honest man and
every good citizen a legal government was entitled to
respect. They had neither flattered nor betrayed mo-
narchy; and they should neither flatter nor betray the
Republic. They would tell it the truth. They had never
conspired, and never would conspire. The instrument
with which they wished to effect the happiness of their
country being broken, they would continue the work
under the Republic. They desired the welfare and
grandeur of France, a national policy, and they would
pursue the realization of those objects in the future as
they had in the past. The question before the Assem-
bly was not a mere question of political economy—it was
a social question. It was not enough to ridicule
the old science; if the Socialists had anything but
dangerous generalities to expound, any secret to
disclose, they would be guilty not to proclaim it from
the tribune. In the name of society in peril, he sum-
moned them to make known their remedies. He had
listened to them with the attention they merited, and
hitherto he had found nothing serious, nothing new, in
their doctrines. Society rested on property, liberty, and
competition. Its principle was labour, without which
man would be the most miserable of beings, and society
itself plunged into misery. God and society told man,
"Work, work, and you will receive the reward of your
labour. The produce of your toil shall be your patri-
mony and that of your children." And man laboured
to the end of his life supported by that consolatory as-
surance. The prosperity of a country was to be judged
from the more or less respect enjoyed by property. In
the East, where that respect least existed, the soil was
neglected, because it was must exposed to the rapacity
of despotism; it was abandoned to slaves. Trade
alone was there in honour, because capital was more
easily screened from rapacity. Where property was
respected, the land recovered its importance, in-
dustry flourished, usury disappeared, and money was
abundant. By liberty he (M. Thiers) did not mean
political, he meant social liberty, which allowed a man
to choose his profession. The old society told man,
" Labour; if you are skilful you willbecomo rich; if not,
you will be poor; labour, at your risks aid perils." It
explained to him the laws of contract. Some men suc-
ceeded, because they were more highly gifted than others
or favoured by circumstances, some who were rich be-
came poor, and vice versa. As to competition, M. Thiers
maintained that it was not the people who suffered by it.
The operative had been better paid since the introduc-
tion of machinery; he was no longer a beast of burden,
he was more comfortably clothed, and had benefited in
many other respects by the improvements introduced in
industry. If an inquiry was ordered by the Assembly,
it would be found that ho advanced nothing lightly.
The workmen in the vicinity of Paris who earned, in
1814, 24 and 30 sous a day, now gained 40. In many
branch, s of industry the salaries had doubled and
trebled. On the other hand, the price of the articles of
manufacture indispensable to the working classes
had considerably diminished. Cotton goods were
80 per cent. cheaper, cloth 40 per cent.; and
lodgings alone had increased in the propor-
tion of 90 to 120 ; but it was in conse-
quence es' the tendency of the manufacturers to establish
themselves close to the great centres of population. (The
accurecy of these statements was repeatedly contested
by the Ultra-Republican Members ; and M. Thiers,
amidst the noise occasioned by those interruptions,
having pronounced the word " faction," the greatest con-
fusion arose, and one of the Montagnards called him a
Royalist. When silence was restored, M. 'Thiers re-
sumed his discourse.) The Hon. Member showed that
the cotton manufactures of France had increased be-
tween 1835 and 1845, from 35,000,000 kilogrammes to
65,000,000 ; that the 35,000,000 of kilogrammes cost, in
1835, 630,000,000 f., whilst the price of the 65,000,000 in
1843 was only 650.000,000 f. The salary of the work-
men, in the same interval, had augmented from 330 f. to
400 f. M. Thiers then proceeded to examine the doc-
trines of the four Socialist sects. The first, the Com-
munists, said he, denied the right of property,
and, consequently, of liberty. Should their doctrines
prevail, they would create an idle and slavish society.
No man would labour for tho community. A patriot
was ready to die, but not to work for the country.
The second system, that of asvociation, was characterised
by M. Thiers as anarchy in industry and monopoly.
He next referrt d to the system of M. Proudhon, who
wished to create cheapness, and began by proposing
that a law be passed to effect a reduction of 25 per cent.
in all property, salaries, &c., and his object would then
be attained. Those were tire pitiful schemes of which
their authors were so proud and with which they
imagined to reform the world ! The right to labour
was net less absurd. The partisans of that right only
sought to remedy the condition of the operatives in the
towns, who were to the country operatives as 1 to 36.
When the workmen should come to claim labour from
the State, how could the latter employ them ? It could
not employ them in manufacturing silk, lace, jewellery ;
it ought to open national workshops, where the silk-
weavers and jewellers would be emplo3 ed in works
which, not being familiar to them, must of
course be unproductive. The State would be
often obliged to propose to them to expatriate
themselves, to proceed to Brittany, Normandy, Africa;
and everybody knew how such a proposition had been re-
sponded to by the insurgents of June. If that right was
inscribed in the Constitution, its full execution would be
insisted upon by the unemployed labourer. The State
could only give him wherewith to enable him to live, and
he would demand, in virtue of that right, the wages he
was accustomed to earn. "Remember," exclaimed M.
Thiers, " the 14th article of the Charter of the Restora-
tion, and beware of arming our new Sovereign with an-
other 14th article." In conclusion he stated that, if the
systems proposed were to be realised, the indigent popu-
lation would be the only and real sufferers; that, if the
property of those who were called rich was to be sold,
its proceeds /mold not amount to one year's revenue ,of
France, and, as the classes the Socialists intended to re-
lieve would be the first and only victims, he appealed to
the humanity and justice of the Assembly not to inscribe
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has been, a tool of Russia, who, if elected President,
would be what CHARLES X. was, as King,
Vice-
roy of the Northern AUTOCRAT. Under the head
" Encore Louis BUONAPARTE," the Reforme says
"We have made too light of the correspondence of
the Chevalier St. Georges. We have in all this smuggled
diplomacy put Prince Louis in the background,although
he appears by the presence of his agent. Wo have the
evidence of his handwriting, which was taken from the
luggage of M. do —.
"Tell me,' positively writes Prince Louis on the 2d
of May, 1839, if Charles expects to receive a latter
concerning me from Leonard.'
"Leonard is not, therefore, a person unknown to his
Imperial Highness. As to Charles, the intermediate
correspondent, he is no other than Charles Durand, then
editor of the Capitole, and formerly editor of the Journal
de Fran/fort, a paper said to have been in the pay of
the Emperor Nicholas. His name is printed in full.
"Prince Louis again writes on the 22d May:—
" lam very happy at the co-operation of which you
have been assured, and I beg you to thank Charles for
the zeal he has shown. I see with pleasure his letter
to Orloff; I sent it off immediately.'
" On the 14th August he writes :
" ' lam pleased to see that your efforts have already
had a commencement of success with Leonard. His
antecedents (to Charles), which are useful to me if they
have the appearance of being independent of me, but are
injurious if thought to be dictated by me. A great
power who adopts me exalts me ; but for me to adopt a
foreign alliance, it would ruin me.'
"' He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how
to reign,' and Prince Louis is well:acquainted with this
maxim. Look with what precaution he acts. All the
letters pass through his hands. He is pleased with the
secretary, but he fears his antecedents ; he would not
have his connexion with him known. It is necessary to
obtain the support of Russia, without appearing per-
sonally to solicit it.:A great power who adnpts exalts. If
it were suspected ho would be lost. It is no less a farce
than that played with the faubourgs.
"It appears that the answers are sent in a no less
mysterious manner. We find a letter of M. de
which begins thus—' The same young man who had
previously called on my friend says that the letters
from Russia were still in your power.'
" We have only wished to re-establish in its integrity
a fact which we had not before taken sufficient notice of
—the alliance of his Imperial Highness with the
foreigner. We wished to show that this superb Prince,
who treated with such contempt the revolutionary scum
of the fauboures, cringed, through his subordinates, to
the guardianship of a power which had dethroned his
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shall have the right to warn our fellow citiz'ns against
the candidateship of a pretender adopted by Russia."
The trial of M. PINED GRAND CHAMP, a surgeon
residing in the Faubourg St. Marceau, and mairo of
the arrondissement, who was charged with taking an
active part in the insurrection of June, was brought
to a conclusion on Wednesday. He was acquitted
on the count charging him with having been guilty
of an attempt to destroy the Government and to give
over the capital to massacre, devastation, and pillage,
but found guilty of having, during the course of the
insurrection, encouraged and facilitated; the ;assem•

Great complaints are made that unfair means are
1
being resorted to for the purpose of coercing the votes
of the military during the approaching election, or
of depriving them virtually of the right of suffrage.
Several soldiers of one of the regiments stationed in
Paris have addressed the following letter to the editor
of the _Reform on this subject :
" Monsieur le Redacteur,—The revolution of Febru-
ary admitted and proclaimed our rights as citizens—we
who were only soldiers before that immortal event. The
Thpublic, in taking for its motto those sublime words—
' Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,' has admitted us to
the banquet of political life, where fresh duties await us;
for the first time our voices are to be counted—we are
going to choose those who will discharge the debt of
the past. If we have not been able to prevent the elec-
tion of certain men, the born adversaries of the people,
as sincere and devoted Republicans we shall, at least,
have protested; but this right—the right of Universal
Suffrage, purchased with the blood of our brethren, has
not delayed becoming, at least in our regiment, com-
pletely illusory, the manner in which things are ma-
naged rendering the exercise of it virtually impossible.
" Be assured, Citizen Editor, that this has deeply
grie►ed us; we, therefore, protest, through the medium
of your journal, and point out the following facts:—
" 1. We only heard accidentally of the day of the
election, and when we did hear of it it had terminated;
when we went to our superior officer to complain, we
were told that the elections wore all over: On observ-
ing to him that we had only just come off guard, and
that more than sixty voters for the department of the
Seine had thus been unable to exercise their right of
voting, we were told that a time should be fixed for
our doing so, since which we have heard nothing more
of it.
,6 2. We have today taken fresh steps by applying to
the sub-officer, who is the scrutineer. He replied that
we annoyed him; in other words, he sent us about our
business.
" We will further remark that the Members of the
bureaux were not properly chosen, and were chosen
without our consent.
" We submit these facts to your judgment, persuaded
that you will do all that is possible to preserve rights
so dearly acquired by our glorious revolution of
February.
___

The mail-coach was certainly stopped for a short
time at Granagh-bridge, a short distance from
the town of Waterford, but no mischief was done
beyond a delay of about an hour; and as to the attack
on the police station, it appears to have been merely
for the purpose of plunder, it being supposed that the
small body quartered at the out station had
effected their escape, leaving their property behind,
which could be obtained without risk or trouble. A
few shots from the small but gallant and determined
party speedily dissipated this illusion, and dispersed
the plunderers, one of the assailants remaining
wounded on the field.

This appears to be the extent of the disturbances
about which so much has been said; and although it
is distressing to find that such a spirit is extant in
the country, and that bodies of even two hundred
men, some of them armed, can be got to assemble to-
gether and make such illegal demonstrations, there
is nothing to excite any well-founded alarm in the
most timid mind, or to lead to the supposition that
Tipperary is in a more disturbed state than has been
the case for many years past.

"Health and Fraternity.
" May God preserve the Republic.
(Signed) " The Soldiers of the —of the Line.
" Paris, Sept. 12, 1848."
"These facts," observes the Reforme, " are serious,
and call for a serious inquiry, which we demand. It
would, in fact, be better to suppress the right of the
army than to thus stifle it by a denial of justice and by
hypocrisy.
" We have had other facts brought to our knowledge
on the subject of the elections, which we publish without
reserve. On Sunday the sergeant-majors received
orders to prepare the bulletins for their subordinates,
and to inscribe on them before their distribution the
name of Marshal Bugeaud. Several soldiers refused to
vote, not seeing themselves free in their choice. In seve-
ral arrondissements, and principally in the 2d and Bth,
every demand for inscription has been refused since the
7th inst. In the 2d arrondissement more than 3,000 re-
fusals of this kind have been pointed out."
Some of the journals having stated that a spirit of
discontent and insubordination had manifested itself
among a few of the soldiers stationed at the Ecole
Militare, on account of the substitution of bisciut for
bread in the rations, the 11-Eniteur Soir contains
an explanation on the subject of the biscuits given
out in lieu of bread for snaking soup, saying that it
was true that the soldiers at the Ecole Militaire cried
out against the supposed innovation under mistaken
impressions, that were explained, and the matter set
to rights.
In consequence of the dispute existing between the
master builders and their workmen, on ;the subject of
the hours of labour, M. Ducoux, the Prefect of Police,
has issued a proclamation, stating that the law of the
Assembly has not at all altered customs established
in trades anterior to the 2d March last. That
when before that date the custom was to work a less
number of hours than twelve, that custom is still in
force, for the new law only prohibits the working
for more than twelve hours.
A new candidate has started for Paris in the person
of Admiral DUpETIT THOUARS. Count D'ALTON
S HEE has retired in favour of the Socialist candidates,
and it is said that negotiations are going on for the
retirement of M. RASPAIL in favour of Louis NAPO•
LEON BONAPARTE. Both Orleanists and Legitimists
have united to support Marshal BUGEAUD, who is
said to have made his peace with the Bourbon Pre-
tender of the elder branch, and to have written him a
most penitent letter. The Marshal, moreover, hath
indited a most gunpowder letter to the electors of
Paris, in which he expresses his ardent desire to fight
everybody everywhere.
There is to be a grand fete on the 22d inst., the
anniversary of the foundation of the first Republic.
The debate on the right to labour was resumed
yesterday, and, to the astonishment of every one, M.
BILLAULT made a furious attack upon M. THIERS,
and r
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the qM. DE LAIIARTINE followed, and de-
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the right to labour. Ultimately the amendment of
M. MATHIEU DE LA DROME was withdrawn, and M
GLASS BIGOIN was left proposing an amendment
which recognizes the right of existence by labour,
and to assistance in distress.
BOURSE.--PARIS, THURSDAY, ST. 14.
THREE o'Ceocx.—Very little business was done to-
day at the Bourse, but a successful attempt was made to
maintain prices. Bona du Trisor were done at 21
discount.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 14.
.Namur and Liege, 4—Northern of France, 6%—Paris
aad Lyons, 5 (Ai —Ditto, ditto, 414,

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived.
The Gazette contains a decree enacting that the
ssue, payment, and paying off of bank notes shall be
conducted by a separate establishment of the Bank
of San Fernando, under a special board of direction'.
that in that department ithere shall be an office'
specially charged to pay in specie the notes which
may be presented; that the amount of notes to be
continued in circulation shall not for the present ex-
ceed 500,000,000 reals ; that those now exceeding
that amount which may be brought in shall be an-
nulled by being accepted in payment of the forced
loan or the Customs duties, or being paid in specie
that 100,000 reals in specie and good securities shal
be deposited in the new branch as security for all the
notes in circulation ; that the notes of the Bank shall
be everywhere received in payment of taxes, &c. ;
that the public treasury shall maintain constantly a
quantity of specie equal to a third of the amount of
the notes in circnlation, and to have the other two-
thirds in good securities easily realised ; and that
no increase in the above fixed amount of notes
(500,000,000 reals) to be in circulation shall take
place without a corresponding increase in the securi-
ties to be deposited. This decree produced a good
effect in commercial circles; the discount on bank-
notes fell to 2i per cent., and it was believed the
notes would soon be at par. Some political arrests
had been effected.

A Montemolinist and Republican conspiracy had
been discovered and put down at Saragossa.
The Duke D SOTOMAYON, Ambassador from the
Queen of SPAIN to the Republic, has arrived at
Bordeaux with his family and suite, on his way to
Paris.

MADRID BoLsA, SEPT. 9.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 19 cash, and were to 7-16 buyers after
the close; Five per Cents., 101 buyers, 1 sellers ;
Coupons, 7
'sellers ; Passive Debt, 31 buyers, sel-
ers ; Bank Shares, 50 sellers; Exchange on Lon-
don, 48.

SWITZERLAND.
Letters from Berne, in the Augsburg Gazette, re-
port the proceedings of the newly assembled Diet, and
the acceptance of the federal constitution by the
Canton de Vaud. A report read to the Diet on the
affairs ?of Italy confirms the statement that King
CHARLES ALBERT had agreed with Austria to enter
into a direct negotiation without any mediation, and
that the city of Verona had been selected as the place
of meeting for the Plenipotentiaries. The Prince
VON Scnw.tazExrmac is appointed to act as the Pleni-
potentiary for Austria.

CAVAIGNAC'S FILE FOR FRENCH NEWSPAPERS.—
---------- - ----
G(nl GIN, t.
- , f ignac has recently taken out a patent for
an improv, d File to hold (very fast) French newspapers.
We are enabled, by the court‘sy of the gallant patentee,to give a laitliful engraving of the instrument (a sword
-rarun through a host of newspapers). It will be observed,
that although it already holds many
newspapers, there
is ample room fur many more, Indeed, it may be made
to file every newspaper throughout France.—Punch.
Sir John. Gerard, Bart., is endeavouring to raise a
troop of yeomanry cavalry in the neighbourhood of his
demesne and residence. A considerable number of in-
dividuals residing iu St. Helen's, Ashton-in-the-Willows,
&c., have signified their wish to enrol themselves mem
bers of the Lancashire regiment of yeomanry, under th
captaincy of the worthy Baronet.—. Liverpool Times.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1848.

ITALY.

VENICE.

The Alba, of Florence, of the 6th instant, publishes
the following letter, addressed by a native of Venice
to the advocate PANATONNI at Florence :—" If you
believe that (the resistance of Venice will serve the
cause of Italian independence, the people and the
Governments of the Peninsula must aid us with
money, which at present is our most pressing want.
With that assistance we might hold out for a long
time. It would be a disgrace to Italy to suffer
liberty to perish for want of money. Let the mag-
nanimous Tuscany, therefore, give the example."
The Austrian Lloyd's, under date of Trieste, Sept.
6th, says.--" This afternoon, at two o'clock, the war-
steamer Maria Dorotea anchored here, having on board
the courier Chevalier MATTASZEWAKY, with dispatches
from Field Marshal Baron Wimpy( to the Sardinian
Rear-Admiral. This officer brings the intelligence
that the Piedmontese squadron, consisting of men of
war, eleven in number, together with the troops in
Venice, and those of General DELLA MARmons,
forming the garrison of the forts, would, according
to ALnim's assurance, sail early this morning, and
that the Venetian ships which were previously with
the squadron, had retired into the canals.

ROME.
The POPE prorogued the Roman Chambers on the
2d instant.

PIEDMONT.

_ -
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 9th instant an-
nounces that General DEMAND° has been appointed a
Royal Commissioner at Genoa.

DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 11.—The visit of his Majesty to
Tilburg seems to have excited the moat lively satisfac-
tion to his loyal subjects. his Majesty has inspected
the new palace, and expressed himself much gratified
with the internal regulations,
AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 12.—Integrals and Four per
Cents, maintained their prices, and the Three per Cents.
wero more in demand. Spanish funds maintained their
rates. Portuguese improved at the commencement, but
closed at yesterday's prices. Austrian, in cons( quence
of the depressed state of German exchanges, rather
flat. Five per Cent. Russian without variation. Four
per Cents. are improved ; and the rest of the Funds
maintained their price.—Amsterdam Courant, Sept. 13.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 12.
Actual Debt, 2 Money. Bills
% per Cent.. ••• • • 44% 45
Ditto, 3 per Cent •••..••••• .• • • • • 52% 53
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • • .• • •• .• 68% 69th
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent...... ••• • 58 68%
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent ..
East India Loan, 4 per
Exchange on London, at sight • • 11 95
Two months...... ••• • • • 11 87
On Hamburgb, at sight • • 35
Two m0nth5.............
On Paris . • ...... •••• • • • • 56 50
Tweinontite.
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HE COMMONS ALPHABET
(From Punch.)
A stands for Anstey, who talks the House blind;
B is a Bentinek, so stable of mind;
C is Dick Cobden, who " worked the automaton;"
D is Disraeli, who always tries sum'at on;
E stands for Evans, who lately has sold 'em;
F is a Fox, the staunch Member for Oldham;
G is a Graham, who open'd our notes;
II is Joe flume, for retrenchment who votes;
I is old Inglis, the Protestant brick;
J stands for Jocelyn, who's rather a stick;
K is a Keogh, who wants calling to order;
L is a Law, the famed City-Recorder;
M is a Morpeth, the scourer of cities;
N is a Newdegate, good on Committees;
0 is O'Brien, who was nabbed at the station;
P is Bob Peel, famed for tergiversation;
Q is Quintin Dick, who just occupies space;
is John Russell, too small for his place;
S is old Sib. who'll be buried at home;
T is a Tyrrell, in terror of Rome;
U stands for Urquhart, the Eastern intriguer;
V is a Villiers, the veteran Leaguer;
NV is Charles Wood, who heaped budget on budget;
X the Xchequer, from which he should trudge it;
Y is Young England, so youthful and green;
Z is the Zany-1-10'er mind who I mean.
Thus ends the song which I, Punch, dedicate
Unto the Session eighteen forty-eight.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Thursday next, being
St. Matthew's day, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
Sheriffs, with the govervors of the several royal hos-
pitals, will attend Divine service at Christ's Church,
Newgate• street, where a sermon will be preached by the
Rev. Samuel John Phillips, M.A., of Pembroke College,
Cambridge; after which they will repair to the great
hall, in Christ's Hospital, where orations on the benefits
of the royal hospitals will be delivered according to
custom by the four senior scholars who are about to
proceed to the Universities :—in Latin, by Charles Deere
Craven, second Grecian, who is to proceed to Lincoln
College, Oxford; in English, by D'Arcy Wentworth
Thompson, third Grecian, who is proceeding to Trinity
College Cambridge; in Greek, by Robert Black, fourth
Grecian, who is proceeding to Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge; and in French, by James Lcmpriere Hammond,
first Grecian, who is proceeding to Trinity College,
Cambridge. Seven noPms will also be delivered by
others of the senior aelatlar s; viz , an Alcaic Od., on
" Cleopatra," by Allred Sw .eting, tenth Grecian; Greek
lambics," Manfred's Soliloquy," from Lord Byron, by
Hermann Charles Heilbronn, fifth Grecian; Latin
hexameters, " British Freedom," from Goldsmith's
" Traveller," by Laurence Craven, sixth Grecian; Greek
Sapphics, " Ode to Evening," by Thomas Mil-
brow, seventh Grecian; Latin hexameters, on " The
Death of Socrates," by, James Gill, eleventh Grecian;
Latin Elegiacs, by Henry Charles Pryce Jones, twelfth
Grecian, on " Mary Queen of Scots;" and an English
poem, on " Borneo," by George Hector Croad, eighth
Grecian.

310 NE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton yesterday at Liverpool were 4,000
bales, at firm rates. Railway Shares were in a very de-
pressed state.

The Continental advice; received to-day are not of
special import. The crops in most parts appear to hate
proved good, and there is no danger of scarcity throat
although the large exports from Belgium to Englitnu
certainly appear to have excited a little unessincie•
'Jere all the foreign wheat received seems to pus
quield/
into consumption.
The American journals received per Cambria!siTe the
exchange on London steady at 109 to 1091. In bills onthe other cities of Europe there was very little doing.
The accounts received out from England had givefl
stimulus to the grain trade, and prices were firmer.
Liv
cotton the yield promised most abundantly, a hifigil
satisfactory circumstance to our manVacturers.
The Irish accounts are considered 4o be more cheerful,
and it turn; out, as was expected, that very gross exalt'
geration has been indulged in the account both of the
number of the deluded rioters—rebels one can scarcely
call them—and their doings. No one feels alarm upon
the subject, whatever annoyance may be express/AL
The following satisfactory correspondence upon the
subject of Mexican claims bas passed between the Cour
mittee of Spanish American bondholders and the
agents:—

" Austinfriars, Sept. 13, 1143.
" Gentlemen,—On behalf of the Committee of Spaniel'
American bondholders I have to acknowledge the reoeiPt
of your letter of the 7th instant.
" The Committee presume that they are CCTIT43I ttl
understanding that any funds transmitted to you on ne.
count of the Mexican dividends are kept in a distinct
account from any other transaction that you may hs"
with the Mexican Government, and aro considered by
you as applicable to no other purpose whatever than the
payment of the dividends on the Mexican Consolidated
Debt of 1846. The Committee will be obliged by the
favour of your reply.—l remain, &c.,
(Signed) "G. IL ROBINSON, Chairmui.
" Messrs. John Schneider and Co."
To this Messrs. Schneider make the followint 111.
meet—,

" 10, New Broad-street Mews,
Sept. 14, 1848.
" Sir,—ln reply to your favour of yesterday's date, we
beg to say that the funds to which you refer, remitted Or t°
be hereafter remitted to us, are applicable by us to to
other purpose than the payment of the dividend nu the
bonds of the Mexican foreign debt, and that the saw.
cannot be mixed up with any other transaction whatever.
" We remain, &c.
(Signed) "J. SCHNEIDER AND CO.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq., M.P."
The English Stock Market has been very inactive to'
day. We hear again that an arrangement has bees
made by which the two millions of new stock will net
have to be brought to sale, and it is said that this st"
rangement is in connexion with Long Annuities.
Consols are 85k to 86 for transfer, and 66 to for 00*
count. Exchequer-bills 28s. to 29d. premium. The Nee'
Thrt e-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 86k to 87 re&
special transfer. The market could scarcely be duller
than it is at present.
Less business has been done in Foreign StDekim
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 22/ ; Chilies
Three per Cents. 45 to 46 ; and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 44i to 45. Mere
have been no bargains in Portuguese or Maxi"
can Stock. The accounts from Mexico seem „r
promise better as respects the tranquillity of the Ito"
public, and this we hope will be the precursor to
gradual restoration of its financial credit.
There is, we regret to observe, not the slightest ins'
provement in the Railway Share Market. Not a elle.
can be effected unless upon reduced terms, even in whet
are considered the best lines.

ONE P ;1 c
.1.,,4 OF I,RITIBII Fillip& G'CLOC.K. VireIL
CLOSIICI
3 per Cent. Reduced Arns B6 86 5*
3 per Cent. Consols Annuitlea.
86%
853 i 86 56
New 3-‘ per Cent. Anns. ..
India Stc,ck
India Bonds, 1,000/. ............ .
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... . 29 p 29P
Consols for Account, Oct. 17
H x chequer Bills.
1,00 slid. & 2d.0/. March
....•• ........... 29 25 p
1,000/. June 23 26 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN / UNDS. DYE
O'CL 9C/C.

21?
26?
CLOSIO
gelgE/'
Milan Bonds 6 per Cent.— - _,ri --
Ditto, 3 per Cent 46 45 45
bilex,can, 5 per Cent. 1846 — 16%
Spaat4h 5 per Cent. 1840. -
Ditto 1843 101, 104
Do -.1846 9% eV
Do. 1843 8% /35,,i
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent - .. 92% 23
Venezuela Bonds, 214 per Cent... -- 14
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch DA per Cent., 12 Guild.... 41% 45 45
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 70% % 70%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
,?AILAVAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen / 5O ...... .......... 18
Amber. N ott., Boston, .....
and Eastern_ J unction 33(4 ...... --
--

Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2iA; — ............ --
Belfast & County Down 17% ... Birmingham and Ox-
......... .....
ford Junction .... ... 20
Birmingham, Wolver-
•••••.•.. ....•
harni,ton and Dudley 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,

and Stour Valley: "13/. 145... . .
Birkenhead, Lancashire, ........
and Cheshire Jun,; 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm 5
„. ........

Bristol and Exeter ...... 85 ......
Ditto, Thirds .... ..... 25
Luckinghainshire... 14/. 4s.
4% die
Caledonian .. 50 ...... 19%% 185(1 10 19
Ditto, Half Shares
.. 8% ......
Do. New 101. Pref..... 2%..... 2
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 ....
Chester and Holyhead... 47%...... •—...
CDitto, Preference
larence
DDo. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
o. 21 Class, 5 per Ct. 10
............
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. ........ 10
Direct London & Ports-
............
mouth - .. ...... Dublin and Belfast June 3O
"'.........•••Dunda1k & Enniskillen 20 . .....
...........
...
East Anglia, 254, L. &
E. and L. and 25
... Do., 181., E. &H lB .
...... .
Do., 3/. 10s. ......... ..
........ .
........ Eastern Counties...
...... ......
.....
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .....
.... 8 ......
Ditto, Extension,s per ...........
Cent., No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d.... I„.i die. .......
Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 135. 4d...
DDo. North. & Eaatern 50 ...... ..........
Doo., 5 per cent. ...... 50
......
D. Quarters ... ...... 12% ...... ......
o. New .......... . 23 ......
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto. """••••••••-.. 1 •""' "'Ditto, Class B &
Diand B.) ............... 20
tto, Class C, ditto... 17%. ..............
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10
• •••• •• .....
Ditto, ditto .. .......... 20
Ditto (C. &E.) guar.
5 per cent...... ...... 21,4
East Lancashire ......... 25 •15 16
Ditto, New
....
Ditto, New Quarters 614..—.
.. .. ..
...............
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 414 "•'•••••••••..Edinburgh and Glasgow
East Lincolnshire .... 23
50 .........
.....
......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15
..........
Ditto, Quarter Shares
... ........
Edinburgh and Northern
..............
Ditto, New..
61 4 ....... ......... .•••..
Ditto, Newport....... 13
Ditto, ditto, New...... 33 ......................
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 27;4 —▪ .....
.....
Ditto, New .... ...... .....
...........
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ..... ....• .81.65.8 d.. Glasgovr,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50
.....
........
.........
Ditto, New ... ••• 40 . ..... Do.Preferenee ..... . ........
Great Northern Consol. 15 ...... ..... .
17
Do., London and York 2% ▪ ...... .......
(;reat South. and. West.
(Ireland) ... ............ 421,x
Great North

It is rumoured that Lord Gough, the General
Commander-in,Chief in India, will remain in Bengal for
another year, to give the new Governor-General the
benefit for that perie4 of his experience in the East.
BRIDTORT.--HORRII3LE DEATH.—On Friday last
an inquest was held by Mr. S. S. Corry, on S. Hodder
Mabb, aged six years. It appeared from the evidence
of the mother of the deceased, that her son was playing
in the yard of Mr. Legg'a brewery onp
the side of
Wednesday even
ing about six o'clock, when, in climbinga
hearing
t
shelaarrwelacsoinntahienrindgwheolitinwg adjoining the yard,ater, he accidently ti
felland iia
e, ; a
rt
ih
plungesaonin
sheeffran
rts out
to and
extricatediscovered s
eherltg,
that she lost no time in taking him out, and sending fur
the in
barrelthe makingwater,
medical assistance, when it was found that he had sus-
tained injuries so serious that recovery was hopeless.
The lad died on the following evening. The jurors, after
viewing the body, returned the following verdict,
"Died from the effects of scalding water.”—Sherborne
Journal.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDA.T, SEPT. Irince
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte arrived here this morning
from London, and after taking lunch at Silva's Hotel.
embarked by the South-Western Company's steamer
Wonder for Havre.
GLASGOW.—THE WEATMER.—Tuesday, thou
somewhat chill, was remarkably favourable fur
harvestgh
operations. A great amount of grain is now secure in
the barn-yard, and should the remainder of the week be
fine, " harvest home" will be proclaimed over a wide
extent of country. The following, per electric telegraph,
is a note of the weather yesterday:—Liverpool, Man-
chester, Leeds, London, Brandon, Cambridge, Chelms-
ford, Chesterford, Colchester, Gosport, Ipswich, Poole,
Portsmouth, Peterborough, Harrow, East Dereham,
Norwich, Edinburgh, Leicester, Nottingham, Hull, and
Birmingham, fine; Derby, Masbro', Normanton, Yar-
mouth, and Lowestoffe, cloudy.
CONVICTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALRB.--The Eden,
hired convict- ship, arrived at moorings opposite the
Royal Arsenal, Wuolwich, on Monday, to receive on
board 300 convicts for conveyance to New South Wales.
Captain Smith, of the 65th Foot, with one sergeant, one
corporal, and eighteen privates, and Ensign Benison, of
the 99th Foot, with twenty-six privates, go out in this
vessel as convict-guards, and,
will join the head-quarters
of their regiments, the former in New Zealand and the
latter in New South Wales. Seven convicts have been
put on board to-day, and 150 will be taken down from
Millbank and Pentonville prisons to-morrow, and the
remainder on Saturday.
THE LATE ACCIDENTS ON THE LONDON AND
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We understand that the
expenses caused by the late accidents, including all
claims, will amount to about 2,6001. The relatives of
the late Colonel Baird have, in the handsomest manner,
intimated their intention not to make any claim on the
company.

14 dii

-.01 _of England.loo ..... -
Ditto, New, 401. ..... ... 40 -
Ditto, ditto l5 - ...
Ditto, New, 301 3O - 000000000000000
14
..
......... ......
Ditto, New, 151
90 ... .. 74 •74% .......
Great Western
-- ..... •••••••••
Ditto, A Shares
no-.
Ditto, S
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... 17 ...............
Ditto, New 17/ l3 ... 9
..... .
.........
Shares 5O
Huddersfield and Manch. 28
...............
Ditto, Thirds ......... 9
Hull and Selby •• ...... 50
...
................ ~..., .
Ditto, Half Shares ..• 25 .
..
..... _
.. .....
....
Ditto, !,4 Shares .... 12%7.
..
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
-. .
Ditto. Thirds ......... 10
.. Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ... -
- ...............
DitDitto, ditto ......... E 6 - ....... ...... •
to, 1/2 Shares ...... 43 .. - . •••••••
DoDo. Quarter Shares... 171,2 .. - ••• • ..... ••••
. Fifths... ......... ... 9 - ...............
Do. Sixteenths. ...... .. 64 - - .......... ••
Do. Thirds (Reg.).... 13 ...... 21 ........... - -
Do. New,Gua.6 perct. 234 -
•••
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43
.. .............
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 43
- ..
Do.( Waketield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50 Do. ( W ..•... -- ..&
. Riding
..... - ••• ...... -• •• Union) 6
Do. (Preston IVyre) 25
...... - . ............
Do. 1,. Shares (A.)... .2. ..... -
.. ......
Leeds and Bradford ...... 5091 ...... - .
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 .
..... - ....
Do., Half Shares ...... '25 - .. .........
Do., (blue) Scrip...... 21;4- - - ...............
..
Leeds and Thirek 50
Ditto, New ...... ...... 30 -
. ....... ...,4;
Do.. Prefer., 6 per Ut. 31 -
Liverpool, Crosby and/2...•• ........... ••••
Southport . ........... . 31
... .........
Liverp., M /2 -
...anchester, and
Newcastle Junction... 21/. ...
London & Black wa11...13/. 63.8 d -
Do. Extension ..... ... 22% - ... • - .........
London, Brighton, and
DSouth Coast
o. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 - • • .........
Ditto, ditt0...... 18 -
Do. Pref. Con. .5 per et. 50
.. -
-
.52 50
- •••••••.!`.**P-•et, , ---1
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent. ... ...... l. ~. i • ermir lauj ....
r.f...
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d -• .... . -
Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17s 2d - .. .
. ..
-
London and N. Western 100 10914 lON
.... -. 1 f
Do. Quartere (L. & B.) 22 .... t
~,
- ..

Lady Hamilton and. suite. left London yesterday
morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's
steamship Soho, for Antwerp.
REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY.—The Galway Vin-
dicator says that Mr. Blake Foster, of Barna Villa, and
nephew of Lord Ffrench, is to be a candidate for the re-
presentation of Galway.
REDDITCIL—A LIBERAL LANDLORD.--The lion.
R. 11. Clive, in the most kind and considerate manner,
returned half the amount of the year's rent to the
various tenants of the allotments at Redditch, b-
heath, and the Lickey, in consequence of the failure of
the potato crops. Too audit was held at the Unicorn
Inn at Redditch, on Wednesday last, and whin the ge-
nerous conduct of their excellent landlord was made
known to the poor men, amounting to nearly 300, the\
assembled upon the bowling-green, and passed, amids.-t
enthusiastic cheering, a vote of thanks to the honour ble
gentleman for his human,, and handsome Conduct to.
states
wards them.— Worcestr Chronicle.
JURORS IN JEOPARDY.—A eontem
tuhreorlsasteubtrnri3itit.ie.d,
that in Ireland "no fewer than forty-si
to the penalty of 50/., rather than atte:dj
the peculiar mode
We do not wonder at this, considering.
prevails in the Sister island.
of challenging jurymen which
—lA'unirika.rsiDsomE EXCHANGE. We see that Russia,
among other things, has just
uncle
to the Enelish market
and still keeping- the -ID:1' sug,gests„.as.a liberal
" 15 barrels of tongues.'
we should send to Russia,
return,
in tvv.o seip,a„rvact4e barrels, " One
ance in our favour, that
Anstey," and "One Urquhart"—

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