The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-20 00:00:00

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LoND9N, THURSDAY. AUGUST 20, 1846.

A question, asked by Mr. BERNAL on Tuesday night
on the bringing up of the report of certain resolutions
agreed to in a Committee of Supply, respecting the
important subject " the means of manning our fleet,"
elicited from Captain 13ERKELEY the pleasing intelli-
gence that " he had long given his serious atten-
tion to the subject of providing a reserve
fore© of seamen in cases of emergency
that he hoped before the next session, though there
might be some difficulties in the way, to submit a
plan to the Government which would place at their
dispooal a body of thorough seamen who, within 48
hours, -would be available at either Portsmouth or
Plymouth in sufficient numbers to man a fleet."
Should Captain BERKELEY succeed to this extent, and
attain the object by just and equitable means, the
country will indeed have cause to rejoice at his ap-
pointment as one of the Naval Lords of the Admiralty.
We have so often exposed the enormities of the
vile system of impressment, the gross injustice
thereby inflicted on a large body of our fellow-sub-
jects, that it is unnecessary, at the present moment,
to recur to it. The public are now fully alive
thereto, and they demand, at the hands of
those to whom the control and superinten-
dence of the navy is entrusted, that justice
shall at length be extended to our gallant sailors,
that they shah no longer be torn from their hours

and friends—forced into an unwilling servitude, at
a rate of remuneration far below that which they can
obtain elsewhere, and subjected to punishments of
the utmost stringency and severity, of the most re-
volting and degrading character, at the mere
whim and caprice of an individual ; that they
should be deprived of the protection which is afforded
to all other classes of Englishmen, and so punished,
not only without proof of guilt, but even without
being heard in their own defence, or permitted even
to explain their conduct. It is an extraordinary, but
undoubted, fact, that while the number of our mer-
chant seamen falls little, if at all, short of
400,000 men, many of whom must frequently be
in want of employment, that if even 4,000 men, the
one-hundredth part of the number, should be required
for the service of their country, on any sudden emer-
gency, they cannot be obtained in less than six or
twelve months, so as to have the vessels, for which
crews are required in efficient working order,
fit to support the honour of the British flag, if it should
be entrusted to their care. Why should this
be so? In every other department of the public
service the candidates for employment far
exceed the number of vacancies, and much anxiety is
evinced to obtain such employment ; in the navy
alone there is such a deep-rooted dislike thereto, that
volunteers cannot be obtained in a case or cases of
emergency ; and, notwithstanding the proverbial su-
periority of volunteers to pressed men, it is
from the latter class that the royal navy is
expected to be supplied under any extraordi-
nary or pressing circumstances. The causes
however, are numerous, and until they are thoroughly
and entirely removed, it is useless to hope for any
great or important change in the feelings of seafaring
men. The very power of impressment itself being
suffered to exist, has been one of the principal causes
for this want of popularity, and for its own alleged
necessity. Were it not for this unconstitutional
and un-English practice, persons in authority would
be obliged to take measures for the removal of the
grievances that so unduly and unfairly affect our
naval brethren. They have relied on the system by
which they can compel the services of competent
men in the time of need, and have not sought to
obtain by persuasion that which they can command
by brute force. Many are to be found who will
raise the cry of necessity, and say that the
safety of the empire demands its continuance,
but no plea can justify that which is essentially con-
trary to the first principles of moral right.
First, amongst the necessary steps for redressing
the evil, the pay of our seamen must be increased; it
must be made at least equivalent to that which the
individual could obtain if permitted to carry his
labour to the best market. It is well known that the
pay of an able seaman in the merchant service amounts,
on an average, to 21. ss. per month, while in the
royal navy 11. 14s. is only given to the same man.
This is manifestly unjust. Why should the nation
expect to obtain labour at less than three-fourths of
the ordinary rate? Our naval estimates amount to
no less a sum than 7,400,0001. sterling per annum.
The article wages does not exceed one-eighth of that
large amount, and a judicious curtailment and diminu-
tion of a part of the unnecessary expenditure would
provide a fund amply sufficient to enable us to do
justice to the hard-working and inadequately-paid
sailor. But, were it otherwise, we do not believe
that the most zealous advocate for economy in the
House of Commons, or in the nation at large, would
object to a proper remuneration being paid for the
services rendered by the sailor. The expense would
be trivial in comparison to the benefit conferred,
the injustice avoided by the nation,
Again, the sailor should not be cast adrift the mo-
ment his services can be dispensed with. A ship re-
turns from a distant station, and the crew perfected
in discipline, efficiently trained, and fitted for
any duty, are dispersed throughout the
country ; their connexion with the service is
severed'; they are suffered to fall victims
to the arts of designing persons who
congregate together to prey upon the simplicity of
the weather-beaten tar, to rob him of his hardly-earned
pay. The men thus turned adrift may beg or starve
they may at the time be unable to obtain employment
of the description for which alone they are fitted, or
if they can procure it they are removed from this
country, and their services, valuable in the higheat
degree, cannot be obtained when required.
This ridiculous, this absurd system must be put an
end to. The lash must be abolished in the navy ;
other means for procuring submission must be resorted
to, and that stigma and disgrace must be removed
from the British sailor. By these and other similar
means the popularity of the service can be restored,
and when that is once effected there will be no want
of men toady and willing to come forward at a mo-
ment's notice. We shall look with much anxiety for
the promised plan of the Gallant Officer, but to be
effectual it must strike at the root of the evil.

A variety of circumstances tend at this moment to
attract the particular attention both of the population
and of the Government to Ireland. The calamitous
disease which has again infected the potatoes, and
which consequently threatens to bring increased star-
vation and destitution on the peasantry, elicits the
sympathies of our Legislators, and promises to
delay the period of the prorogation of Par-
liament. Although they may to a disagree-
able extent interfere with divers engagements upon
the moors, the precocious indications which have
been given of the re-appearance of this vegetable
malady must so far be regarded with satisfaction, as
they afford our rulers an opportunity of preparing
political antidotes for an evil which can only become
more perilous as the winter season approaches, and
the scanty harvest is consumed. It will be remem-
bered how much excitement and trepidation, how
many dilemmas and hesitations, how little
alacrity and decision were evolved immediately intel-
ligence reached the late Administration of the pesti-
lence
and famine by which the poorer classes of
Irishmen were threatened towards the conclusion of
1845. Parliament had been dissolved—the Cabinet
' Ministers were hurriedly assembled together—doubts
and anxieties disorganised the council—resignations
followed, and the whole Legislature of the empire was
thrown into the most grievous temporary confusion
before any adequate steps could be taken to ameliorate
the condition of our afflicted countrymen. It will be
remembered how alarmingly the woes of the peasantry
had accumulated before the differences of opinion
among statesmen could be settled. Fevers and
cholics had spread throughout many baronies ; vast
multitudes had assembled under the black banners of
famine; despair had taken possession of the unemployed,
and the darker passions had begun to develope them-
selves in midnight murders and twilight assassina-
tions, before relief could be tendered by the Executive,
either in the shape of manual occupations or cheap
provisions. During many weeks the ravages of
disease and inanition were altogether unchecked,
and the assistance -which Sir ROBERT PEEL
and his new colleagues were at length enabled
to remit was, contrary to their wishes, both
tardy and crippled. Now, however, the prospects of
the Irish labourers are infinitely more propitious, not-
withstanding their accustomed nourishment is prema-
turely and more extensively destroyed. The present
Ministry is composed of statesmen bound together
by a common determination to assuage the
sufferings of Ireland, and to consult the
interests of her inhabitants by every constitutional
effort within their power. However much, there-
fore, our interest is aroused as to the circumstances
of the approaching season, it is neither darkened by
doubt nor sombred by anxiety.
Satisfied that the nourishment and employment of
the Irish labouring classes will be properly attended
to by the Russell Administration, and especially
satisfied with thst lenient policy which removed from
a generous and afflicted people the ignominy of an
Arms Bill, we can turn with peculiar curiosity to
that great association in which the opinions of the
population are there embodied. During the latest
meeting of tile repealers at Conciliation Hall, namely
on Monday morning, it would appear that
a letter, addressed by Mr. WILLIAM SMITH,
O'BRIEN to the secretary, was duly perused to the
assemblage. And from the purport of that epistle,
and from the subsequent observations of Mr. O'Coi-
NELL, we glean the astounding and prodigious fact,
that he, Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, had not the
slightest inclination to return to the Repeal Asso-
ciation. There is something wonderfully amus-
ing in the feelings of self-importance which
ham) evidently dictated that very remarkabic,

document. Speaking of a trumpery squabble ori-
ginating in himself and a few hair-brained mongers
of patriotism, Mr. O'BRIEN facetiously terms it " a
scene not less distressing to those who witnessed it
than injurious to the cause of Ireland and
disparaging to the character qf Irishmen."
Mr. O'BRIEN need not entertain such melan-
choly sentiments one moment longer if he
ss ill only recognise what is so manifest to every-
body else, namely, that the fact of his walking out of
the Corn-Exchange in a bit of a huff cannot possibly
damage the interests of his country ; that his beha-
viour previous to that movement was rather amusing
than distressing, and that the eccentric conduct of a
little posse of individuals cannot in the slightest de-
gree tend to the disparagement of the character of an
entire nation. The corollary to the above paragraph
is no less grandiloquent ; it explains how Mr. WIL-
LIAM SMITH O'BRIEN "is compelled to record his
dissent ;" how Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN "feels
that entire silence on his part might be construed into
acquiescence ;" how Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN
"disclaims connexion with the Nation news-
paper ;" and how Mr. WILLIAM SMITH
O'BRIEN thinks and does a great number of other
things—just as if the reveries and proceedings of the
said Mr. WM. SMITH O'BRIEN were of the most in-
tense and consummate importance to the whole
civilised world ! The Liberator observed, during
the course of his harangue, that he would
sacrifice everything but principle and the
safety of the association, to induce Mr. O'BRIEN
to return—" that he would, in fact, make
a bridge of gold to get him back !" We regard those
expressions as the most emphatic and conclusive tes-
timony of the magnanimity and benevolence of the
nature of Mr. O'CONNELL. He is pained at seeing
a former colleague cutting so sorry a figure, and, in
his charity, he endeavours to redeem the unfortunate
delinquent from contempt, by resorting to hyperboles.
There is more mercy than justice in the regrets ut-
tered by the Liberator.
Let us examine the circumstances of this move-
ment in the Repeal Association; and when we have
glanced at the few and simple facts of the case, com-
mon sense will compel us to acknowledge that the
Arms Bill was not a greater anomaly in a liberal and
enlightened Parliament, than a party advocating
physical force was an anomaly in Conciliation
Hall !—that the withdrawal of the. former was not
likely to entail more credit upon the national legisla-
tors than the expulsion of the latter was likely to re-
dound to the credit of the Repeal Association. The
fact is—Mr. O'ComsELL establishes a society to
agitate for the abrogation of a certain Act of Par-
liament, with an expressed proviso that that
object should be struggled for only by
" peaceful, legal, and constitutional means." A few
inexperienced interlopers, after the association has
long continued under the guidance of its veteran
founder, declare in favour of physical force, and
malign that venerable patriot for not coinciding in
their opinion, when, without the assistance of Mr.
O'CosnsELL, they would have had no organised body of
repealers to regale with those sentiments. And what,
let us inquire, is the nature of this physical force
movement ? Why, according to the assertion of the
Liberator (no small authority, by the way, in legal
matters), it involves a principle by the adoption of
which the association would be guilty of high treason!
O the sagacity of that patriotism of the
Young Inlanders, which has developed it-
self in the Nation, according to their recusant
leader, "by the extraordinary vigour of its style, by
the dazzling splendour of its prose, and by the glowing
beauty of its verse ! " Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN had
formerly a kind of negative public existence—he has
now, however, committed nothing less than political
suicide.

Madrid papers of the 12th have been received.

It was rumoured in Madrid that MARIA CHRISTINA
has expressed herself in favour of a Coburg Prince
as the future husband of the QUEEN. The Court-
martial on the members of the Insurrectional Junta
of Galicia, which has been sitting at Lugo, has pro-
nounced sentence of death upon some of the prisoners,
and condemned others to the galleys. All the Madrid
papers of every shade of opinion, urge the ne-
cessity of showing clemency to these unfortunate
persons.
MADRID BOMA, AuGUST 12.—The Three per
Cents. were done at 34 for cash ; the Five per Cents.
at 22k; the Four per Cents. at 2.14 ; the Passive, 64;
and the Coupons, 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

The KING opened the Chambers at one o'clock on
that day. His MAJESTY, attended by a brilliant
cortege, proceeded in procession from the Tuileries
to the Palais Bourbon, and was received by the people
throughout the line with the most enthusiastic
expression of loyally and respect. His re-
ception in the Chamber was quite as cor-
dial ; and when the QUEEN appeared, leading
in her hand the Comte DE PARIS, shouts of
" Vive la Reine," " Vive le Comte de Paris," burst
from all parts of the Chamber. We published a copy
of the speech in our impression of yesterday. The
passage in which he speaks of the sentiments of the
Chamber towards himself and his family, and his
Majesty's declaration that there was no trial, which he
was not willing to undergo to forward the prosperity
and grandeur of his country, were received with loud
cheers.

The commission of the Court of Peers charged with
investigating the facts relative to the late attempt on
the KING'S life met on Sunday, at the Chancellor's,
to hear the report prepared by M. LAPLANGE BARRIS.

The death of Marshal VALEE is announcedin the
Malheur. The Marshal was in the 73d year of his
age.

Accounts from Algiers to the 10th instant have ar-
rived. We extract the following from the llioniteur Al-
gerien :—" We learn from Mascara that the Saharian
tribes continue to move towards the Tell. Each takes up
the position most suitable to its habits and mode of
encampment. The hostages who were detained by
ADD.EL•KADER have made their escape, but it is
believed that the Emir connived at this, in order to
relieve himself from the embarrassment they would
occasion him in case of a collision with the Hamy-
anes, or perhaps from the difficulty of finding pro-
visions for them at the Deira. Since AIID-BL-KADER.
has left the south of the division of Mascara, a re-
action favourable to our cause, dictated by the want of
repose, and the essential means of existence, has been
almost suddenly produced. There are no longer in
the south any more than a few isolated fractions
following the fortunes of the influential chiefs,
who are able to dispense for the moment with
the Tell, on account of their private re-
sources, which enable them to procure at a
second or third hand the corn drawn from our Tell.
The maintenance of tranquillity will admit of our
compelling the dissentient fractions to approximate
themselves to us from our being able to separate them
from the submitted tribes. The last arrivals from
Constantina bring us no news of importance. This
province continues to be in a perfectly calm state. At
every point the contributions are got in without any
resistance ; the Kabyles of the circle of Dellys con-
tinue in their pacific disposition. The harvest season
diminished, Ass m had
and
t h gained
e
misfortunes the m
has
keeps them in the mountains, and prevents them from
exercising their usual exactions. The influence which
BEN
been SALEMconsiderablydßEx.
brought upon their country by
an
these two chiefs, who
have so many times deceived them, have deterred
them from undertaking any hostile measures."
The French squadron, commanded by Prince DE
JOINVILLE, arrived at Syracuse on the 6th, at Messina
on the 10th, and was expected at Naples on the 15th,
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 83f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 1221. 15c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2701.! Rouen, 9601.;
Havre, 7021. 50c. ; Great -Northern, 711 f. 25c.; Avignon,
9101. ; Vierzor, 630 f.; Bordeaux, 560 f. ; Basle, 2171'. 50c.;
Dieppe, 3901 ; Pat is and Strasburg, 4971. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 5261. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 492 f. 50c.; Bordeaux
and Cette, 4851: ; Spanish Actives, 33 Spanish Domestic
Debt, 32%.
MARSEILLES, Auo. 12.—Marseilles and A.vigison, 8821.
50c. ; Northern, 7001. ; Paris and Lyons, 5201.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Avousr 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 124—Dutch Rhenish, 6 —East Indian,
—Great Western Bengal, —ltalian and Austrian, l —Louvain
a la Sambre, I%—Luxembourg, 114—Paris and Lyons Constituted,
53,11—Rouen and Havre, 27 —Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell, 6.

GRAVESEND REGATTA.—There will be a regatta at
Gravesend on the 26th instant, in honour of Prince Albert's
birthday, when several valuable prizes will be contended for.
FOOT RACE AT THE BEE-HIVE GROUND, WALWORTH.
—The match between Piddington and Mathews, to run two
miles for 201., was won by the former, after a good race, on
Monday.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

DEFEAT OF THE KAFFIRS.

Important intelligence has just arrived from the Cape
of Good Hope. The advices reach to the 16th of June.
They state that the Kaffirs had been defeated in an en-
gagement at Fish River. The attack took pl3ce under
Colonel Somerset, and the fighting lasted five hours.
There was loss on both sides, but the Kaffirs have,
without doubt, experienced a severe check.
Sir Harry Darell is stated to be wounded in the arm,
and Captain Walpole in the thigh and neck.
_ _

The accounts were brought by the Windsor, arrived
off Falmouth, from Calcutta, she having received, on
touching at St. Helena, some letters and papers from
the Harmony which had arrived there from the Cape.—

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.I
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday was mode-
rate, and prices were much the same. Sales 6,000 bales.
Shares were rather quieter, but the quotations did not vary
much.
The great importance of extended facilities for communi-
cation is evidenced daily by the extraordinary growth of
cities and their increased trade. The American towns are
special examples of this, and with railways and steam navi-
gation in England we can show a parallel. It is mentioned
in advices from the United States, that—
" The Western Railroad, connecting Boston with the New
York improvements, and thereby with the great west, was
opened in 1841. The increase of that city since, in wealth
and population exhibits some astonishing results. In 1841,
the valuation of property in Boston, real and personal, was,
in the aggregate 98,106,606 dollars. The year following it
amounted to 106,633,300 dollars ; and in 1844, the gross
valuation reached the aggregate of 111,450,300 dollars.
" Here, in a period of three years, an increase is shown
of more than 20,000,000 dollars ; and, what makes it the
more remarkable, it is an advance of 21 per cent., or one-fifth
on the original valuation.
"Within three years after the opening of the Erie canal,
the city of New York increased about thirteen millions of
dollars, which was an advance of 121,2 per cent, on the
valuation of the real and personal property of the city.
"In connexion with these statistics, the Albany Argus
refers to Edmund Burke's account of the European settle-
ments in America, written in 1757, eighty-eight years ago.
' There are in all the provinces of New England,' says Mr.
Burke, large towns which derive considerable trade.
Boston, the capital of Massachusetts Bay, is the first city
of New England, and of all North America; it contains at
least 20,000 inhabitants.'
" Since that sentence was written, although Boston has
increased in population more than four-fold, she is no longer
the chief city in America. With a population of 375.000,
not to include Brookly, with its 40,000, the City of New
York has become the commercial emporium of the Western
Continent. Eighty-eight years ago, New York had not
20,000 inhabitants. In a few years she will, with her ad-
juncts number half a million.'
Intelligence of June 16 has been received from the Cape
of Good Hope. The Kaffirs had at last received a signal
proof of their inferiority in close combat, Colonel Somerset
and his force having defeated them with great loss, as is
supposed; though the advices by this opportunity are not
by a direct arrival from the Cape, but by a vessel which
brings the news from St. Helena.
There is not the least alteration in the value of the Public
Securities, and in the absence of activity, the market looks
tolerably firm. Consols are 95% 3/4 for present transfer, and
95% for time. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 10s. to
13s. premium. Bank Stock is firm at 209. The New Three-
and-a Quarter per Cents. bring 97% to 98.
The Foreign Securities are for the most part neglected.
Spanish Five per Cents. realise 251/2 3/4, and the Three per
Cents. 36%; Mexican are heavy at 22%; Brazil Bonds are
quoted 891/2 ; Dutch Four per Cents obtain 95344
The Share Market is quiet, and prices generally are steady.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. 209 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 961 A 96 96
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .• 95%14 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 98 97,7 98
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 5-16 % 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 1-16 10 1-16
South Sea Stock .. .. • •
Ditto Old Annuities 95% 95%
Console for Account .• • • •... 95% 95%
Exchequer Bills. 151 d. d.
1,0001... 13 pm. 10
5001. . 10 13 pm. 13
Ditto, Small 10 14 pm. 14
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 89% 89%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent • • 40.
Equador Bonds .. .. • • 3%
Mexican Bonds, Old, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 22% 22%
Ditto, Small .. . • • 22%
Portuguese Four per Cent .. • •
Ditto, for the Account .. .. • • 40%
bpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • •
Ditto, for the Account 25% % 25%
Ditto, 5 per Cent. '38,39, 40, div.lB4o
Ditto, 1844 .• • • • • • • • 2114
Ditto, 1846 • . .. • • 19 19
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. • • —5%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36% 36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .• 93/s i 94%
PRICES OF BUSINESS
DONE AT CLOSINCI
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.
ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Aberdeen.. .. .. 15 •• 8;4 ••••• • • • .. 85%
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction 2% .... 2 .. •• • • ....
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 5% 65% • • • 5%
Bristol and Exeter _ 75 . 88% .. • • „ ' 865
Caledonian 1534
Ditto, Extension .. _ 214 1% .......... 1%
Cambridge and Oxford .. 1% .... % ••
Chester and Holyhead .. 27% • • ........ 26%
Cornwall .. .. 5 .. 1 ........ 1
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .... 14 .......... 1 %
Eastern Counties 141. 165... 23%% ex d. 23% x d
Ditto New .. 10/. 165..... ••.. • • .... 7% p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 138. 4d. ••••.. • • .. 34 p
Ditto, York Extension 10s.
Eastern Union .. 30 —..........—
Do. Extension to Norwich •.. 2% .... 2• • ........ 2
East Lincolnshire 14 %% •• .. • • 36
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 10 .... 9% •• • • ...... 93/4
Edinburgh and Perth ..
Ely and Huntingdon .... 55%
Great Eastern and Western .. •.••• . • • • •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25 .... 2834% .. • • .... 28%
Great North of England . ..100 • • ........ 230 xti
Ditto, New .. .. • .. .... 184 .. ••.. • ... 18%
Great Western •
........86 ....149% ex div 149% x d
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10 ....23 % 24 23 ex d. 23 xd.
Ditto, Fifths .. .• . • •• 20 .... 3314 ex div.... 3314 x d
Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 55{ % 5%
Leeds and Bradford • • • • .. 26 .... 69 .... • • 69
Leeds and Carlisle .. .. 2 % 14
Leicester and Bedford .. • . 228. 34 di5....... 54 dis.
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. .. • • 425..... 3414 dis di-.
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. _ ,„ ..........
214
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. . .. • • 8
Ditto, New .. .. • • 3 .......... 4%
London and Brighton 50 . 63% x d...... 63rd
Ditto ditto Fifths • • •• •• 30 •.. 42 42
London and Croydon • • ..13/. lbs. 9d .. 23% %..•• • • .. 23%
London ant North-Western • • 100 .... 2085 207 x all 207 lan
Ditto ditto New Shares •• • • .... 16 16 p
Ditto, Fifths .. • • 2 .... 22
London and South-Western .411. 6s. 10d... 74 76 ........ 76
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 57 .......... 57
Ditto, New .. .. .. • • 17%.... 27 ......... 2634
London and York .. 2% „ „ „
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 2% •• • • 134 % ........ 174'
Lynn and Ely .. •• 15 .... 15% .. 153
3lanchester and Leeds .. •82 • • 116% 117...... 117
Ditto, Quarters . • .. • • 2 •• • . 8% • • ........ 8 %
Ditto, Fifths .• • • • • • •
Ditto Extension .• 425. .... 2/4 p• • 23a p
Manchester and Southampton .• 2 1% % 15¢
Midland .. ..180 .. • 141 140 ...... 140
Ditto, New ~ • . 24 • • ..37% 37.. .. 37
Newcastle and Darlington Junct 25 .... 42%.......... 42%
Ditto, New . • • I •• .• 11% •• •.• • • 111,4
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 •• .• 28%.......... 28%
Norfolk .. • • .. 20 •• .. 265,E x div.... 26%xd
Ditto, Tenths .. • • • • • • 2 •• • • 2% •. • ... • ...
Ditto, Extension • . - • • 2 •.. 214 . 2
North British .. • • 25 •• • -30 34% ..... •• • 383
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 8%•• • • 14% • 14%
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 414 4.... • ... 4
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... —• _
Ditto, New • • .. • • .. 1 •• .. 21% 22% 22%
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 25% %
North Staffordshire 425. .... 3 % P 3% p
Northmnton,B anbnry ,& Chelthm. 2 .. 1% .
Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverhmptn. 12% 8
Preston and Wyre .. • • 25 .... 35%
Richmond .. 10 .... 19
Scottish Central .. . 125 .... 195 q % .. • • 19%
Ditto New • .. .. • • • • 2% •• • • 9%.. •• .•
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 3
Shropshire Union .. . 425..... %% dis % dis.
South Midland .. 42a.
South Eastern and Dovor .. 335 .... 44 .. .. •• .. 433
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 25% • •
Do.. New (do 331.68.8 d.) No. 2. 12 .... 17% .. ••• • • • 17
Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... .
19% • • .. • 19%
bo., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. .... 3 t 4 •••• • • • • 314
South Wales .. .•.. .•5 „„ 4 %
',L....
Vale of Neath _ 2 _•
114
Warwickshire and London . . 425. .... 3/4 dis • • ...... % dis
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & 1% •• • • %••••• • • • • •
34
Welsh Midland .. 2% •• • • Xi •••• • • • •
West Biding Union .. 4.25..... p•••• • • • • 2% p
York and Carlisle .. % .54
York sad North Midland .. .. 50 .... • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 45 46% 46%
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 45 .. • •
Ditto. Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 39 3854 39 39
Do. E, and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 •• .- • • 12 74
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Direct Bombay and Madras .. ss. .... .. •• ..
Dutch Rhenish .. G 6% .•• • •
East Indlan . ss. .... 3%
Luxembourg •—•••••• 1%
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 •• .. 123% 12%
Orleans and Vierzen .. 10 •• • • ••. • • •
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 •• • • 5% %•••• .. • • 5%
Rouen and Ilavre . .. 20 .• • •
Sambre and Meuse .. 8 •• • • 4% •••• • • • •
West Flanders . 6 •• • • 4 •••• • • • • 4
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland .. .. 25 ••4734•• • • • • • •
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. • • 35% ••• • • • •• • 35%
EAZATUM.—In yesterday's List, read South Eastern and Dover
(No. 4) 3%, instead of 3%.

LADY MORGAN'S " WILD IRISH GIRL.”—A new edi-
tion of this celebrated romance, has just been published, com-
plete for 65., with a new preface and notes, forming a volume
of" Colburn's Standard Novels." "We are not amongthose"
(says the Examiner), "if any were, who bad forgotten ' The
Wild Irish Girl,' but we are not the less gratified at her pre •
sent re-appearance. ' The Wild Irish Girl' was the first
product of a genius regulated by discretion of the soundest
kind, and aiming at some of the noblest objects of intellectual
ambition, the advancement of the cause of freedom, and the
general elevation of the human species. We have here the
first of a long and brilliant series of services rendered to Ire-
land, through the attractive instrumentality of romance. In
s i story Nus
A dmi
of
ra ty the
Duke
have
e just issued en
the spirited and sparkling preface to this re publication, we
have ample proof that the philosophy of the author has not
enervated her patriotism. We recognise the same true-
hearted and courageous Irish woman, composing' her enthu-
a s
re-editing it opportunely, after many days of various fortune,
on the auspicious advent to power of another Whig Viceroy."
CHINESE
iHe
IE i n theWAß.—The Lieutenancy
order for the distribution of the medals to the officers
and men of her Majesty's ships, who served in the
late operations on the coast of China. It will be remembered
that some months since the Master of the Mint received
orders from her Majesty to prepare a die, which was shortly
lv of Bedford, and
afterwards forwarded to her Majesty, who was pleased to
signify her approval previous to the medals being struck.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—On the 30th ult., while work-
men were engaged raising the black-band ironstone, at the
open cast on Bell's-holm, for the Lugar Iron Company, and
after breaking up a large block about 4 or 5 feet square, they
discovered near the centre of it a toad. It was small in
size, not much larger than a " skep-bee,"
and very black.
As soon as it got quit of its ironstone prison it commenced
those that are
hopping off until it got into a pool of water, and then it
showed the same dexterity in swimming as
not accustomed to so long an imprisonment. The ironstone
where it was discovered is from 3 to 4 feet thick, and 30 feet
below the surface,— Caledonian ilercurs4

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meck-
lenburg Strelitz armed in town yesterday. llis Royal High-
ness returned to Kew in the afternoon.

The Milbank Prison Commission had their first meeting
yesterday, at Gwydyr Ikuse, Whitehall. The Commission-
ers present were the Earl of Chichester, Lord Seymour, and
Mr. Blekham Escett, M.P.
Mr. Uniacke had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday,
at the Colonial-office. Mr. Archibald Cuninghaine had also
an interview yesterday with the Noble Earl.
The Earl of Radnor had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
• Mr. J. M. Rendal had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday at the Horne-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Governor of the Mauritius and from the Governor
of Sr. Helena.

Dispatches were s"nt off yesterday evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon.
Captain Elliot had an interview yesterday with the Earl of
Clarendon at the Board of Trade.

The Duchess of Inverness had a dinner party yesterday at
her residence in Kensington Palace.
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council sat yesterday. 1)r. Lushington gave judgment,
reversing the judgment of the Court below, on an appeal
from Bengal, Cowie v. Renfrey.
Ihe Lords present were the Lord President, the Master of
the Rolls, Lord Campbell, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court.

After hearing Dr. Addams on a petition, their Lordships
rose.

DEPARTURE OF HER ROYAL
HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT FROM

THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 18.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and
Sir George Couper, Baronet, embarked from Mead's Creek,
Osborne, shortly after eight o'clock this morning, in Admiral
Sir Charles Ogle's sailing yacht the Fanny, and the wind
being tair she arrived in Portsmouth harbour by half-past
nine.

The Admiral was waiting in his barge to take her Royal
Highness and suite to the Clarence-yard, and they landed
at twenty minutes to ten o'clock. A guard of honour fur-
nished by her Majesty's 3d Buffs, the commanding officer
of that regiment, and Captain Carter, and the officers of the
Clarence-yard were on the wharf to receive her Royal High-
ness.

As her Royal Highness had arranged to travel by the
mail train, which leaves Gosport at half•past ten o'clock, she
was pleased to accept the offer of Mr. Grant, the store-
keeper of the department, to remain in his house until the
carriages arrived, when that gentleman availed himself of
the opportunity of pointing out to her Royal Highness the
rooms, &c., which her Majesty, Prince Albert, his Majesty
the King of the French, and the distinguished English and
French ladies and noblemen who were with them, used in
October, 1844, when they were prevented embarking in the
yacht and French squadron by a heavy gale of wind, which
compelled his Majesty and suite to return to London, and
cross over to France by way of Dover. The Duchess of Kent
expressed to Mr. Grant her thanks and hearty acknowledg-
ments for his attention, and on Mr.Mears, the superintendent
of the terminus, announcing that the engine and carriages
were ready, her Royal Highness, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
and Sir G. Cowper, were escorted to the platform by Admiral
Sir Charles Ogle, and the train quitted, leaving tne Gosport
terminus at half-past ten o'clock.
The Victory, and the other men of war in the harbour,
were decorated with flags in compliment to her Royal Higii-
ness, and royal salutes were fired from that ship and the
Platform Battery, on the Fanny yacht passing with the
royal standard ing.

WEYMOUTH.-TUESDAY.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Her Majesty's steam yacht has just put into Portland
Roads, with the royal standard flying at her mast head. A
royal salute from Portland Ca,tle greeted her arrival. The
Eagle and other revenue cruisers have gone up into the
toads, and our Town Council are now deliberating as to the
best methods of testifying their loyalty and respect to our
beloved Monarch. Colonel Freestun has most handsomely
placed his yacht at their disposal ; and although it is blow-
ing a heavy gale from the S.S.W., with much rain at inter-
vals, the inhabitants are all on the qua vice, looking from the
Nothe and Look-out, in the anxious hope that the Queen
and Prince will honour us with a visit while their vessel is
lying in the roads.
We believe that guns are to be placed on the Nothe, in
order to salute her Majesty from thence; and that, if pos-
sible, the Corporation will proceed to the royal yaoht with a
loyal address and invitation to honour us with a isit.
P.S. It is just post time, and the gale is increasing, so her
Majesty will not be able to leave Portland-roads to night,
there is such a heavy sea in the Channel, and the wind
seems likely to continue in its present violence.