The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1850

Disingenuous al the Ppologists of Austria have
shoes n themselves from the very commencement of
the revolutionary movement in Ilungary, we cannot
call to remembrance any more tortuous mode of ar-
gument than that recently adopted by them in
reference to the attack upon General HATIcAU in
Bank.lide. With the intention of diverting the
horror of the community from the sanguinary monster
la'ely hooted through the streets of our metropolis,
these sinister supporters of Absolutism have trumped
up an infamous fiction of nearly five hundred execu-
tions under the Magyar regime, five hundred, of
which not one has hitherto been recorded, " besides a
variety of massacres," rxisting nowhere except in
the recesses of their diseased imagination. Against
any such odious misrepresentations we shall never
cease from raising our voice in accents of indignant
abhorrence. Without deigning to discuss the force of
the accusation—regarding that accusation as bring
beyond the reach of discussion—we content ourselves
with reminding the public that until now not one
single charge of the like character has been directed
rgainst the leaders of the Hungarian Democracy. It
has even been asserted of Louts KOSSUTIT, the chief
in that illustrious movement, first throughout the
whole of the period of his political supremacy,
throughout the whole c f the time when his authority
was acknowledved by his ccuntry men in the lofty
and responsible post of Dictator, not one
death-warrant received his signature, not one
criminal was at his manda'a required to expiate
his offer ces by undergoing the penalty of death by
the rope or the bullet. Insomuch was this the
case that the ex-Governor of Hungary has been taxed
with hii abstinence from severity as with a weakness
destructive to the vigour of his administration, and
de•rimental to the interests of the Magyar common-
wealth. While the German Commander-in-Chief was
butchering his prisoners wholesale, flaggellatirg
women, incarcerating the noble and the ignoble in-
discriminately in the dungeons, saturating the planks
of the scaffold with the blood of heroes, strangling the
brave and the good with halters, and sometimes par-
tially restoring them to animation for the purpose of
causing them to undergo the agony once more by a
discharge of musketry (as was the case with the un-
fortunate BATTUTAN]) ; while such inhuman atroci-
ties were being perpetrated in the' principal cities of
the conquered territory, the fallen chieftains of that
country were retreating into honourable banishment
with their consciences unsullied by a crime, with their
hands unstained by carnage or confiscation, with their
humanity only the more conspicuously displayed by
having passed triumphantly through a myriad fierce
and fascinating temptations. Yet, demonstrable as
were these fects to the comprehension of the Euro-
pean multi'ude, there are actually found men at this
period so rash and insensate as to impeach the Hun-
garian statesmen and the Hungarian soldiers as hav-
ing been guilty of cruelty and ferocity, of systema-
tic assassination and organi zed massacre.

Experience has undoubtedly assured us that such
are almost invariably the results of every unsuccess-
ful revolution. Directly the cause of any body of
revolutionists has become fsibly desperate, slanderers
have appeared from the obscurest corners of literature
ready to blacken the reputarons of the purest, and to
render repulsiva and detestable those who were re-
cently the objects of gencr 11 admiration. It was thus
that on the rise of ti e Jxcobinical Triumvirate to
power the shades of the Giron.iists were exposed t.)
undeserved execration. It was this that on the for-
mation of the Direc`ory the memories of LOBES-
PIERRE, of COUTHON, an! of Sr. JUST were laden
down by supposititious enormities beyond even those
which were real y the frui's of them- ghastly domina-
tion. It was thus that subsequently to the 18th Bru-
maire the five.. Directors v e.e accused each with their
peculiar evils, from tle vo'up uousness of the indo-
lent BARRAS to th fanaticism of the dreaming origi-
nator of the Theopla la ohropistA. It was thus that
shortly after the fall of the Prcfs'onal Government,
LAMAILTINB, even LAMARTINE, the patriot, almost
ruined by his selr-. acrifc'n; devotion to Democracy,
.was openly,charged with ht ving surreptitiously de-
voted to his own private purposes the public moneys',

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lying in the coffers of the Exchequer, superadding
the business of the peculator to the fury of the dema-
gogue ! No marvel, therefore, that the deceived and
defeated leaders of the Hungarian Illvolution should
be now-a-days taxed with the culpability always
attributed to mi4ortune. No wonder that the de-
fenders of the Viennese Cabinet at least should
endeavour to justify the proceedings of that de-
testable Government, by enumerating a variety of
executions and massacres. Our only surprise is that
the charge has not been attempted sooner, that
the Austrian organs, both at Vienna and at London,
have not bad the ingenuity to devise this scheme of
prevarication somewhat earlier, so that its delay until
the eleve nth hour should not pro Coke the scrutiny of
the suspicious and the sneers of the sceptical. Even
the most credulous must be startled into some degree
of incredulity as to the veracity of these same mas-
sacres and executions, when it is considered that up
to this moment not one word has been uttered against
the Councils of Debreczin as being harsh in cha-
racter or tyrannical in treatment. But for the
recent explosion of hatred to that most execrable of
the Austrian soldiers, Harzeau, we should, in all
human likelihoo 3, have never heard one whisper as to
the executions ordered by the Hungarian statesmen,
much less of the massacres attempted by the Hunga-
rian warriors. As to the latter, indeed, it would he
Interesting to learn who could by any possibility have
been the objects of these same human battues. Was
the carnage that of cities, villages, or hamlets ? If of
either, in what quarter of the Continent. In Austria
itself it could not have been, because of the short time
during which the Magyar forces were beyond the
frontiers of their own dominions, and because, more-
over, of the ardour with which the German people
sympathise, with the Hungarians. In Hungary itself
it could not be, for this simple reason, that the inha-
bitants of all the towns, villages, and hamlets of that
glorious country were heart and soul with the
champions of their independence. In Transylvania it
was equally impracticable, because of the depopula-
tion which had already transformed that mountainous
province into a wild and precipitous wilderne's.
`Where, therefore, by any possibility such massacres
could have been perpetrated it would be.rather diffi-
cult to conjecture, but that we are conscious of still
more odious abominations sprouting forth, day after
day, in the prurient fancies of similar calumniators of
the unfortunate.

Happily, with the better informed portions of the
community there can be but one opinion as to the
treatment encountered by the German butcher of the
Hungarians when first detected in the streets of our
metropolis. That most infamous woman flogger
could not but recognize in the sudden contagion of
fury against himself personally the wrath inspired by
his atrocities throughout the length and breadth of
Christendom. Many leagues from his own country,
separated by the waters of the channel from the Eu-
ropean continent, he still found that in an obscure
district of the English capital his name was sufficiently
notorious to rouse the passions of the working classes
to a frenzy of abhorrence and indignation. The
lesson accorded to his sombre and polluted conscience
by the yells of the labouring population of Bankside
must assuredly by this time have carried dismay into
bis judgment; for it tells in sounds more comprehen-
sible than articulate language that the vengeance of
the people, in this age of advanced civilization, is in
no mariner restricted to a given territory, but that
henceforth the family of mankind are so bound to-
gether by their common intelligence and their frater-
nal sympathies that a tyrant cannot, as of old, find re-
fuge from the brand of the popular Nemesis. Even
the ruins must from this time forth fail to afford
them protection as they did of old to MARIUS, or later
in the days of R,iman decadence to the blind and
destitu'e BELISARIUS. " The age of Ruins" is indeed
obsolete, and the age of impunity to Absolutism like-
wise. Among all the countries scattered over the
two hemispheres, the pu!ses of emotional sympathy
throb in unison, none the less mysteriously than the
intangible current flows along the metallic threads of
the electric telegraph. The channels afforded to this
sympathy are those, be it remembered, of the Fourth
Estate, and so long as journalism sustains its vigilance
and its integrity, so long will the nations of the earth
be armed against their desolators—rit•ing up to pro-
nounce a malediction over their infamies whenever
they detect a foreign tyrant among their visitors.

Henceforth we would recommend the apologists of
despotic government to contrive some more ingenious
mode of argument for the purpose of palliating the
enormities transformed by them into objects of admi-

ration ; otherwi.e they can only contrive, by their
impotent attempts at reasoning, to inflame still
further the wrath of the community, to render them-

selves contemptible, an t 1 the themes of their pane

gyric more than ever objects of scorn and abom

nation.

It appears to be universally admitted that the ge-
net. 11 body of unguaranteed and non-preferential
shareholders in the railway companies are not fairly
remunerated for the amount of capital expended on
the various lines, to say ncthing of the risk encoun-
tered in carrying their gigantic projects into execu-
tion. The nation has been enormously benefited by
the wonderful facilities for intercourse and traffic
afforded by the iron net-work by which the island is
intersected. Time and distance are practically anni-
hilated ; journeys that formerly took weeks to accom-
plish may now be performed in a single day, and at a
tith: ofthe former expenditure. It is needless toexpatiate
on the economical advantages that have already arisen
and must necessarily arise from these almost miraculous
achievements. They must be obvious to every man
p )ssessed of ordinary powers of observation. From

he most exalted to the.humblest in rank and stati,pn

—the wealthy nobleman, the poor coVier, the mer-
chant prince, and the small trader—all must concur

in considering those through whose spirit and enter-
prise these mighty undertakings were orginally con•
ceived, and ultimately carried into execution, as public
benefactors of the highest order, deserving of the
highest rewards which the nation could confer.

It would, therefore, be an act of but common jus-
tice, as it would undoubtedly be one of sound policy,
;o afford (very possible encouragement to such par-
ties : to endeavour, so far as practicable, to render

their speculations profitable, so that others might be
induced to apply their capital to internal improve-
ments, rather than to lend it to foreign potentates for
the most questionable purposes ; to develop the
natural resources of the United Kingdom, rather
than to enable a tyrannical despot to rivet
the chains of a gallant but unfortunate
nation struggling fur freedom. But public
men are proverbial for ingratitude—they will not
even be guided by expediency, if bold and compre-
hensive views be rt quired to discover that expediency.
The youth who killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs has many admirers and pupils amongst those
who modestly style themselves "statesmen," and who
consider themselves competent to manage the affairs
of a mighty empire.
From the beginning the parties interested in rail-
way property have been fleeced in every possible form
and on the most frivolous pretexts. They were met
at the very threshold by the most extravagant
charges for legal and Parliamentary expenses.
The most vexatious opposition was encouraged, which
had to be, bought off at almost any price. The value
of the land required for railway purposes was not
merely quadrupled—that would have been a mo-
derate demand ; but the companies were taught to
consider themselves well off if they escaped by pay-
ing ten times the pries that could be obtained from
any other quarter. Under such circumstances it is
by no means surprising that the expenses of construe-
tioa before the lines were in good working conditiOn
far exceeded the original estimates. They were, in faci,7
about double what they would have been had the
Government, the Legislature, and the landowners
treated the companies in the manner which they me-
rited. This vast and most unnecessary addition-to
the original expenditure was one of the principal
causes why the profits have not been f quivalent to
the reasonable expectations of the shareholders—that
they are not fairly reinumrived for their enormous
outlay.

But it was not in this respect only that they were
unju►tly treated by Parliament; competition was
encouraged,which must, if fully curried out according
to the trigioal in•entions approved of and sanctioned
by the,Legislature, have proved absolutely ruinous to
all parties concerned. The prevailing excitement was
taken advantage of to extort the baldest terms from
the different companies ; they were bound to give

extraordinary advantages to the community. The
tolls and rates were in some instances fixed so low
that there could not by any possibility be an adequate
return for the capital expended. The companies were
compelled to carry the mails at almost nominal
charges, which hardly covered the locomotive
expenditure, and they were obliged to run what
are termed " Parliamentary trains" on very favourable
conditions to the public generally. It might be sup-
posed that these various obligations were sufficiently
onerous, and that when they were punctually per-
formed no further difficulties would be interposed.
But not only the Government of the country, but
every parish through which the railways are carried,
compel them to contribute to the national or local
expenditure far beyond their fair and just proportion.
From a return which bas just been issued, it appears
that the amount of income-tax paid by different
railway companies for the year ending the sth of
April, 1849, was far Great Britain (Ireland not being
Subject to the tax) 184,9211., representing a net in-
come of 6,164,038/. Of this we do not complain.
It is just and proper that accumulated and realized
property of every kind and description should contri-
bute in proportion to its ability to the maintenance of
the national establishments, and the liquidation of the
national liabilities. But the matter does not stop
there; immediately afterwards we find that the pas-
senger-tax during the same period amounted to
no lees than 237,909/. 13s. 10d. This impost is levied
at the rate of 5 per cent. on the gross receipts from
passengers. No allowance is made 'for the cost of
earning that money, and if we estimate the total ex-
penses throughout the entire country at 50 per cent.
on the gross receipts, and we take that to be a per-
fectly fair average, we find an additional tax of ten
per cent. on the net profits, to which railway share-
holders are subjected. But even this is by no means
the worst feature of the case. The debenture holders
and guaranteed proprietors defray their proportion
of the income-tax. But the passenger-tax falls
altogether on the general body of shareholders,
without drawback or deduction of any kind, so
that it is by no means an over-estimate to say that
the ten per cent. on the net profits, which the pas-
senger-tax amounts to, is increased to at least
25 or 30 per cent. on the amount distributed among
the shareholders. They thus practically pay income-
tax to that extent on their dividends, while the for-
tunate holders of Tbree per Cent. Consols, or,
in fact, of almost any other description of
property, escapes for 2/. 18s. 41. per cent. on his in-
come. Is this equitable or just ? Is it what public
benefactors have a right to expect from their grateful
country ? We fearlessly assert that it is not, and
that it only requires to have the matter properly ex-
plained, and held up to public indignation, to have this
flagrant grievance redressed—to ensure the total re-
peal of the passenger-tax on railways generally
throughout the United Kingdom.

The Piedmontese Minister PINELLI had not been
admitted to an interview with the POPE.
The Statute of Florence has the following, with-
cut, however, guaranteeing its truth :—"lt is said
that Lord PALMERSTON has transtnitttd to the court
of the Vatican a note, drills n up in energetic terms,
recommending it to rt frain from any violent measure
against Sardinia, and pointing nut the danger of the
system adopted by the Roman Cabinet with respect to
that Government."

The Duke of PARMA, by decree of the Mh ult., has
closed the Alberonian College of St. Lszarus, on ac-
count, it is said, of the political conduct of the
priests of the mission. The college had some days
before been strictly searched by the police. The
priests and pupils, who are not subjects of Parma,
were commanded to leave the territory immediately,
and not to return %ittitait special leave. (It has
already been stated that several of the priests have
arrived in Piedmont.) The inmates of the college
who are Parmese subjects were immediately to return
to their respective homes. As the seminary of the
Bedonia is a dependency of the Alberoniau College,
the Bishop of Piacenza was directul to take the ne-
cessary measures for the continuance of instruction
to the pupils of that seminary. The property of the
college was entrusted to the management of an ad-
ministration, and the Holy See was to be informed
without delay of the circumstances of the case.

CRAITHIE, SEPT. 7.—lt is somewhat to be re-
gretted that a stranger on Friday ceased some annoyance to
her Majesty by persisting in following her in one cf her
walks, and latterly threw a letter at her. The contents of
the letter have not transpired, nor the name of the delin-
quent, and it is not likely there will be any investigation re-
gsrding the matter, the fellow having been quietly bundled
off between two policemec, and aftetwards set at liberty.
THE COURT AT BALMORAL.—During the past week
much of the time of the members of the Court has been
passed in excursions around Balmoral, and to the principal
points of interest and beauty in its vicinity. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert. accompanied by the illustrious visi-
tors at the Castle, and the chief members of his suite, has
also engaged in sport with his accustomed zeal and success.
On Wednesday,talking
Thursday, and Friday he went out deer-
each occasion brought home trophies of hie
skill. Several fine stags and roebucks have been brought. •
down in the forest of Ballochbuie. On Friday her Majelke'
and on
s
and a party ascended to the top of Bennaboard, from whence
a commanding and diversified prospect is °teamed. Fortu-
nately the day was fine, and the view was held an ample
recompense for the toil of the ascent. The Earl of Carlisle
arrived at the Castle on Wednesday. The Very Rev. Prin-
cipal Lee, of Edinburgh, a's senior Dean of the Chapel Royal,
preached hefore her Majesty on Sunday.—/Lily Mail.
We are sorry to learn that an accident of a serious
nature happened to the youngest son of Earl and Countess
Poulett. On Saturday, the 7th inst., the lion. Amos Poulett,
when returning from a shooting excursion, had a dangerous
fall from his horse, and sustained a severe fracture of the
right leg, and it is feared a concussion of the brain. It is
hoped that the Young gentleman is progressing favourably.
Professor Airy having stated to the Lords of the
Treasury that M. Otto von Struve, of the Imperial Obser-
vatory of Pulkowa, St. Petersburg,b, is expected to arrive
in England with the standard bar employed in the great
Indian survey, which had been entrusted to the Russian as-
tronomer for comparison with the standards used in the
great Russian survey, and that it was important that the
bar should be landed in its case with as little disturbance as
possible, their Lordships have given directions that the b .r
be examined with the utmost possible care, and at once de-
livered.

THE HALIFAX TRANSATLANTIC MAILS.—The
Lords of the Admiralty have directed that henceforth the
British and North American Royal Mail Steam-ships, sail-
pioagn3h;stswheiepris
sLaiivlienr g pool and New York, shall cease calling at
Halifax on their outward and homeward passage. The com-
Halifbaext, bweoetuhLoiuvterapnodolhoamnde,Baosstuosnual.
will con-
tinue to call at
ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS.—A few days since
Thomas Burnet, gamekeeper to the Duke of Roxburghe, at
Greenhill, fell in with three poachers upon the Duke's lan's
at Blackdean. They refuses to leave the ground when or-
dered to do so, and one of them shot a black cock in his pre-
sence, which another of them picked up. Burnet, who was
riding upon a pony, continued to follow them, and on his
calling to some shepherds at a short distance, the poachers
made off from the Duke's lands, and went over the bill on to
Auchope. The gamekeeper still f 'lowed, and on coming up
saw them squatting on the ground. On coming nearer to
them they sprang to their feet, and one of them presented
his gun and fired, when the shot took effect on the pony.
Burnet then turned to leave, there being no one to assist
him, when two other shots were fired, both of which took
effect on the pony, and partly on one of the gamekeeper's
arms. He is but slightly injured, but the pony has received
a censiderable number of the shot in the neck and shoulder.
—Kelso Mail.
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS IN WESTMINSTER
BLlDEWELL—Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Bed-
ford, in the Westminster House of Cirrection, on the body
of John Smith, aged 26. The deceased was in a frightful
state of emaciation. He was admitted on the 17th of March,
having been sentenced at the Middlesex sessions to six
months' imprisonment for larceny. He had been but twelve
months in London, four of which he had spent in prison—a
part of the time in the House of Correction at Brixton, where
he had the cholera last summer, and the other period in the
Middlesex Prison. In August he was unable to eat food,
and he was taken tolthe infirmary in a very low state. After
several witnesses had been examined, the jury returned a
verdict of " Natural Death from decline."
DEATH BY FlRE.—Yesterday Mr. Payne, jun.,
held an inquest on view of the body of Sarah Ing, aged 30,
a married weenan, living in Middle-row, Old-street, St.
Luke's. On Saturday afternoon deceased left her home to
see her daughter. She returned about nine o'clock, and went
to her husband, who was on the first floor. In a few minutes
she returned with a lighted candle in her hand, when in de-
scending the Stairs she fell, and her gown was set on fire.
She was son in a sheet of flame, and her clothes were com-
pletely burnt before the fire could be extinguished. She was
instantly conveyed to St. Bartholomew's hospital, where she
oied in a few hours. Verdict, " Accidental Death."
THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IN ST. JAMES9s
TALC—The following alterations are to be made in St.
James's and the Green Park, in order to form the public
gardens in front of Buckingham Palace :—The gardens will
be nearly square, and will be situated parallel to each other
on each side of the Mall; the present approach to the
Palace, and the dimensions of each, according to the plan
submitted to Parliament, will be rather more than 200 yards
in length, by 100 yards in breadth. That portion of each
farthest front the Mall will have a semi-circular projection,
adding considerably to its area. In order to make room for
the one on the St. James's-park side, about 2UO yards of the
ornamental lake will have to be filled up, and a new head
to the lake will be formed in front of tl e guard-house, at a
cost of -150/. The garden on the Green-park side will be
similar in shape to the one which encroaches on St. James's-
park, and each will have three gates, one at each end front-
ing the palace; one in the centre leading from the Mall, and
one at earls end extending into the parks. The lower gate
of the Green-park-garden will front Stafford House, and
bears, upon the plan, the appearance of a private entrance;
while the lower gate in St. James's-park will be of large
dimensions; and is the one designed for the use of the public.
The Mall will be ljned on each side with trees, forming a
sort of wide avenue, as the grand approach 4to Buckingham
Palace, and the entrance to this avenue will be formed by
the marble arch, which will be erected at or beyond the
termination of the gardens, at a distance of 300 yards from
the front gate of the palace. The thoroughfare down Con-
stitution-hill will lead passengers past the front gate of
the palace, down the avenue between the gardens, and out
through the marble arch, and a similar route will be open
from the St. James's-street gate. Beyond the marble-
arch will be four rows of trees extending down the Mall, and
these, though an ornament in themselves, will certainly have
the efilet of screening the view of the arch to be placed be-
yond them. Souse entirely new path-ways will be formed
in St. James's-park, and the new head of the lake will be
much nearer to Birdcage-walk, with which promenade it is
not proposed to interfere. The gardens will be surrounded
by a dwarf stone wall surmounted by iron railings. Opera-
tions have already been commenced by marking out the line
of the intended gardens and the removal of the park-railings
in front of the barracks.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A. report is in cir-
culation, chiefly in consequence of a statement made by one
of the provincial journals, that the Great Western and Bristol
and Exeter authorities contemplate making some alterations
in the trains and fares, involving, in a considerable degree,
the comfort and convenience of passengers--in short, that
they intend to take off the se(ond• class carriages from the
express trains; to increase the ordinary fares, and to arrange
the third-class trains, so that two days will be necessary to
go ficin Exeter to London. There is not the slightest foun-
dation for the rumour, so far as the intentions of the autho-
rities of the. Great Western Company are concerned, though
we believe there is some reason to fear that the Bristol and
Exeter authorities may introduce some such inconvenient and
ridiculolis alterations as those referred to.—llerald.

rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The divisions among the reactionary party are be-
coming every day more palpable. The Patrie, the
organ of the Bonapartists' denounces the Legitima-
fists, the Orleaniste, the Assembly, in fact all who
are imagined to be opposed to the permanent estab-
lishment of Louts NArotatopi in terms as severe as
those in which it has heretofore denounced Repub-
licans • while the Bourbonist prints, such as the
Assen:blie Nationale, the Opinion Publique, and the
Ordre, apply to the Bonapartists those terms of vitu-
peration which they have hitherto devoted to the ex-
clusive use of the Red Republicans and Socialists.

General CIIANGARNIER has ordered a large military
force to hold itself in readiness to put down
any attempt that may be made by the Society of the
10th December to get up a Bonapartist demonstra-
tion on the arrival of the PRESIDENT in Paris.

MM. GUIZOT, DUCHATEL, DUMON, and DE MONTE*
BELLO have returned to Paris from Claremont. M.
SALVANDY, who had been to Claremont, has set out
for Froshdorff. This has given rise to a rumour that
the negotiations for a reconciliation between the two
branches of the House of Bourbon have been renewed.
Letters from Algeria mention that five new arrests
have been made at Oran in connexion with the con-
spiracy discovered some time ago there; sixty-four
personF, not including the military, are now in cus-
tody. The Attorney-General was preparing his
indictment.

PARIS EounsE, SEPT. 10.—Latest Prices—Fire per
93g. 40e.; Three per Cents., 57f. 80c.; Bank
Actions, 2,290 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LO.N DOI. STOCK EtCHANGE, SEPT. 10.
East Indian, 914—Rouen and Havre, 9%—Tours and
Nantes, 3%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the sth bare arrived.
...

Their contents ate uhimportnnt.

MADRID BoLsA, Sisrr. g.—The Three per Cents.
33 11-16; Five per Cents., 14 Exchange on Lon,
don, 50 40.

GERMANY.

Accounts from Vienna of the sth state that the
Government has contracted a nen, loan of 7,500,000
florins.

HAYNAU'S visit to London w&, it is stated, for the
express purpose of testing the state of public feeling
towards him.

The Weiner Zeiturg publishes the report of the
state of the Bank. The reserve fund in cash had
decreased by 400,000 florins, which was, however,
counterbalanced by an increase of 2,000,000 florins
of paper-money put into circulation. There has like-
wise been an increase of 2,250,000 florins in bonds
and 1,500,000 florins in deposits in the public funds.
On the other hand, the state loan had been reduced to
4,500,000 florins.
A synod of B'man and Servian Bishops will be
held at Vienna in October.

Accounts from Berlin of the 21 state that the King
of PRUSSIA had announced his determination to make
no further concessions of any description to Austria.
A letter from Frankfort of the 7th says•—" It is
now certain that the ratification of the treaty of peace
concluded between Prussia and Denmark will take
place within a few days. The Restricted Federal
Council will ratify the treaty in the name of the Ger-
mania. Confederation, and Prussia and the States of
the Bund will ratify it individually."
The following is the protocol of the ratifications of
the treaty of peace between Germany and Denmark
xchanged on the 6th inst. at the residence of the
British Minister in Berlin :--

PROTt,COL.

" The undersigned,'.. de Bielke, Cherie d'Affaires of
his Dauish Majesty to the Court e f Prussia, and M. de
Sydow, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of the King of Prussia to the Helvetic Cenfedera-
tion, charged by tt tit- respective Gov. rements with the
exchange of the acts confirming the ratification of the
treaty of peace, concluded.under the mediation of Great
Britain, on the 2d July last, between his 2ilskity the
King of Denmark and his Majesty the King of Prussia,
in his name and in that of the Germanic Confederatior,
met for this purpose, at the invitation of Mr. Howard,
CharE6 d'Affaires of her Britannia Majesty, at the resi-
deuce of the reprecentative of the mediating Fewer.
" The undersigned having produced and read the in-
struments of ratification, to wit, M. de Bitlke seventeen
copies of the Act (signed by his Majesty the King of
Denmark), and M. do Sydew the Acts signed by his
Majesty the King a Prussia, their Royal Highness. s
the Grand Dukes of Baden, of Saxe Weimar, and of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, their Ducal Highnesses the
Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen, of Saxe Altenburg, of An-
halt-Dessau,* and of Bemburgh, their Serene High-
nesees the Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Son-
derhausen, her Serene Highness the Princess of Waldeck,
their Serene Highnesses the Princes of Lippe-Detmold,
of Reuss (elder), and of Reuss (younger), the Se-
nates of the Free Towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and
Hamburgb.
" The undersigned having found the instruments in
good and due form, proceeded to the exchange.
" M. ea Bielke declared on this occasion, in the name
of his Government, that in lending itself to the partial
exchange, at the recommendation of the meditating
Power, it retained the hope that, as the present Act does
not yet contain all the States belonging to the Germanic
Confederation, no delay will occur in his reception of
the complement necessary to verity the ratifications of
this treaty for the totality of the States foaming this
Confederation. In faith of which the undersigned have
signed the piesent protocol, made in duplicate, and have
affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

ELECTRIC. TELEGRAPH ACROSS 'THE MERSET.-:---
We are informed that experiments arc about to be tried on
the Mersey with the view of carrying an electric telegraph
line across the river from Liverpool to Birkenhead. We hope
that the dock authorities will now no longer delay to fulfil
their long-entertained idea of establishing wires northward
along the shore to Formby, &c., and westward to Bidston.
No question can exist of the importance of such a measure,
so largely calculated as it is to render the existing marine
telegraph effective in foggy weather. On the occurrence of
a mist, or an east wind", Liverpool, under the existing system,
is entirely prevented from obtaining intelligence of chips off
the harbour, waiting steam, &c. ; and we trust the opportu•
nity will not now be permitted to lie unimproved. We be-
lieve the wire to be used will resemble that in use for the
telegraph across the British Channel.—Liverpool Albion.
SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday Mr. W.
Baker, coroner, held an inquest at the Shakspere's Head,
Shadwell, on the body of a male child, which was found with
a cord tightly tied round the neck in the Thames. A lighter-
man named Millege early on Sunday morning found the
body floating in the water;
it was quite naked, and a strong
cord was tightly fastened around the neck and under the
knees, which were drawn up. Mr. Henry, a surgeon,
said the child had been born alive, and had lived some time;
but whether it had died from strangulation or any other
Means he could not positively state. Verdict, "Found dead in
the river."

SUSPECTED INcENDraarsm.--Yesterday afternoon,
between two and three o'clock, a fire of rather a serious
character broke out in the premises in the joint occupation
of Mr. Child, a private gentleman, and Mr. Solomon Stern,
an importer ( f foreign cigars, in Matthew-terrace, Hackney-
road. On the neighbours entering the building they found
one of the rooms on the second floor, which was used as a

" Done at Berlin, the 6th Sept( mber, 1850.
~(SignEd) " BIELKE.
" HENRY HOWARD.
" VON SYDOW."
* Coeth( n is adjoined politically with Dessau; so that,
in fact, eighteen Sates assent.

warehouse and filled with cigars, in one mass of flame. The
heat at that time was so intense that it was impossible to
approach near the place to render the least assistance in
checking the fury of the fire. The flames speedily reached
the roof, and were not extinguished until Mr. Stern's pro-
perty was really all destroyed, and the building partially
gutted. From an inspection since made it is the opinion of
Mr. k.-.',.ern that the premises were wilfully fired. Fortu-
nately bis loss *ill be covered by an insurance in the Scottish
Union Fire Office.
Yesterday Lord Fitzroy Somerset, as military
secretary to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief of her Ma;

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
On the 4th Colonel Vox TAM'S endeavoured to
draw the Danes at Frederich•tadt into an ambush,
but not succeeding he returned to Rendaburgh. No
lives w ere lost on either aide.

jesty's Perces, held ;.-leTe-6;t the Hore Guards, which was

attended by the following officers: Lieut.• General Sleigh,
Admiral Si: G. Mundy, Lieut.• General G. Wright, Colonel
Campbell, Mr. Mark Sprott, Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton, Sir
Edward Disbrowe; Captain Campbell, Major Cairnes, Lieut.-
Macqueer, Rev. Mr. Winniett, Lieut.-Colonel Macbean,
Captain Elliott, Major Farrant, and about fifty other officers.

All the accounts received of the progress of harvest
operations in Ireland are highly satisfactory, and in many
places the potato crop is said to show symptoms of reviving.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1850.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterlay were esti-
mated at 4,030 bales, of which 500 American were
taken fur export. Ihe sales comprised about 3,500
American; 100 Egyptian, at 811 to 10d, and 300 Surat,
at 5d to GKd per lb. The market eo steadily.—The
Share Market was animated, and closed firmly.
There is a steady business doing in Colonial produce,
and the gnat decrease
,in the stocks of Sugar is ex-
pected to give strong support to the prices of that
article.

The quantity of English Wheat in Mark-lane to-day
is small, but there are 6,170 qrs. of foreign.
Advices from Copenhagen state that the ratification•
of the treaty of pence between Denmark and Prussia
and the Governments of Germany had been exchanged
there.

A Hamburgh journalist writes that the Danish Gene-
ral Oxholen was on his way to London, and with the re-
ported intention of negotiating a new loan.
At Amsterdam on the 9th inst. Dutch Four per Cents.
were rather higher, but the other denominations were
without alteration. There was no change in Spanish.
Tie Two ano-a-llalf per Cent. Bonds were 571 to 3-16.
Scientific men in the United States are turning their
attention v, ry generally to the consideration of she test
[nude cf effecting a communication across Nicaragua, b
sulject that has been discussed for more than 300 pars,
and in a very elaborate statemeet made to the Ameri-
can Institution by the Chart é d'Affaires to Central
America, there a. e some highly important particulars.
It is shown, for example, that the great chain of the
Cordilleras is wholly interrupted bttween the weAerr,
extremity of Lake Managua and the Pacific, And that
there only exist the great plains of Leon and Conejo,
rising for a distance of about 3,000 yards to an el« ra-
tion of about 60 feet above the lake, thence subsid-
ing in a gentle slope to the ocean, and it is through
this plain that the canal could pass.
The length of the proposed line of communication
for ships from sea to sea can only be determined by
actual measurement, but the following calculations are
made:—

Length of River St. Juan ... 90 m
Part of Nicaragua to be traversed ... 110
Length of Rio Tipitapa
Length of Lake Managua
From Lake to Realijo

... 50
... 45

Total ... 303 miles.
From this must be deducted 25 miles, in case the line
is terminated at the Port of Tamarinda. In case it
should terminate in the Gulf of Fonseca, it is probable
it would not te many miles longer than to Realip;
and in respect to the points to be attained, it would be
nearer. The extent of actual canalization, therefore,
would be to Realijo, 120 to 140 miles; to Tamarind°, 90
to 110; to Fons, ca, 100 to 120.
It is said to be useless to enter in calculations respect-
ing the cost of the proposed work, for until there is a
detailed survey of the entire line, it mu,t be wholly a
matter of conjecture. It has been variously estimated
at from 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 dolls. Assume it to cost
100,000,000 dollars, which may be as near the truth as
any other calculation, still it is enough at present to
know that it is possible, and that its benefits, immediate
and prospective, will be tufficient to compensate for the
expenditure of double that amount, startling as it may
at first appear. It is, of course, impossible to calculate
with anything more than approximate accuracy, the
advantages which, upon the score of economy alone, would
result to the world from the construction of the proposed
canal. Mr. Squier mentioned at the American Institute s
most interesting and important fact, not only as con-
nected with the proposed work, but with the whole
question of steam navigation to the Pacific, that a large
bed of coal had been discovered in Sol Salvador, on the
banks of the river 'Amps, about sixty miles from the
Gulf of Fonseca. It is semi-bituminous in. character,
resembling the Mount Savage coal. lie had sent speci-
mens to the Department of State, at Washington.
In reply to a question as to the probability of the
proposed work, after its construction, being interfered
with by volcanic agency, it was said that the volcanic
force seems to have nearly exhausted itself here many
y ears ago, and that the permanent effects of volcanoes
are generally essentially local, and have in nearly all
instances been exaggerated. lie anticipated no obsta-
cles or dangers on this score. The agitation of this
great question having been commenced, we sincerely
hope it will erase until there is a practical solution, al-
though the American Company, having a concession, will
undertake a railway in preference to a canal.
The Stock Market is influenced mainly by the settle-
ment of the account, and prices have been somewhat
firmer upon it. Consols have been 96i to for Transfer,
and 96k II for October 15. The New Three-and•a-
Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 98k to 99k, and
the Three per Cents. 96k to 97f. There have Leen no
transactions in Bank Stock, and India Stock has been
quiet at2l6n6d.Exoenhis 3
qBuesr:bills have been marked 635. to
665.,
. 'The Foreign Securities have ruled rather flatter, as
far as the speculative investments aro concerned. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been.lBi and Portuguese Four
per Cents, 34. Mexican Stock has been heavy at 291
I. It is mentioned in the Mexican accounts that the
Government, being greatly pressed for money, had been
compelled to negotiate a small loan, and to account for
the de.dine in Spanish we may notice an article of a very
Bearish character that appears in the Espana, received
this morning from Madrid. Peruvian Bonds have been
marked 811, and Buenos Ayres 58i. Brazil Stock has
realissd 921. Austrian Bonds have been 83 to 831. and
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 57f.
Railway Shares continue very buoyant, notwithstand.
ing the sales occasionally made to realise the profits ac.
cruing from the material rise that has occurred.
QUARTER TO THREE.
••. 961 I
... 96k

Consols
Ditto Account, Oct. 15 ...

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF P.RITIMI FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
• per cent. Educed Ann?. • .•.. 97 9636 97% 97%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 96% 96A,
New 31,( per Cent. Anna- ... ........ 9.1 9836 99% 99%
Lung Anne. to expire J an. 1860 —
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 ..„ 8 1-16 8%
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. S
India Stock
india Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,000 r... ......
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consuls for Account 96 L 4
Exchequer Dills. 114 d. & 2cl
1,0001. June 66 63 p . 63 p
500/. June
Small. June 66 63 p 63 p
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
rszilian Bonds C2% 921
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.— 18,4 58%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .....• — 103%
Equador Bonds 3%
Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— ....
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... 29%% 29%
Peruvian Bonds. 4% per Cent...... 81,4 81%
Ditto, Deferred
P( rtugnese 6 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto. Account
Spam. h 5 per Cent. 1840 18%3%
Ditto, Passive
Venezuela Bonds, 21A per Cent
Divisland-, on the above payable in l'Andon.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. ... 57% 57
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificate?... 90% 90%
PRICES OF
PAID. RUSINEtim DONE CLOSIN
BAnWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE:,
therdenn 5O .....
Do. Preference
Amber, Nett., _ Boston,

85 p
:3 p
96%
96%

19

33

—dis,

•
and Eastern Junction 81,4......
lyrshire and Galloway.: 71,4 —
Belfast & County Down 32
' Berks & _Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6
Birmingham and On-
t.( rd Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a gnat n. 20 —
Do, withoutguarautec 20
Bi maw, Wolverh'ton,
and rudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 15
Do. without guarantee 15
Birming.,Wolverh'pton;
and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... .. • --
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 26 - ...... de ••• 04 ..d.
Bristol and Exeter ' 100
' nckinghathshire ...... 171,4
Caledonian
Do. New 101. Pref.—. 10
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 -—
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Direct London & Ports-
mouth .....
Dublin and Belfast June. 45 .....
')undalk& Enniskillen 30 - ••••• ..... .••• ---
East Anglian, 251., L. & .
E. and L. and D... 25
Do. 18/., E. & a ...... 18 -
Do., 31. 10s., Pref...... 31,4 — -
Do., (51.) 7 per Ct.
Preference. ... 5 ... .. ...- --
Ditto, (71. 175.) 7 per
Cent., Preference... 2
d; astern Counties...
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/. 138.4 d.... p.. ... ...... ...
Ditto ditto. No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... p... ....
Do., New Prtf.rence,

28 t,t

- P
- p

6 rer Cent. ..... ..... 10
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent.
Ditto. 5 per Cent
Do. New 43 —
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6
Do., Class B& C 25
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20
East Lancashire - 25
Ditto, New Quarters 6'4 — ..
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 61,4 — ........
.....
East Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
Ed.nourch and Glasgow 50 ...... 25% x.d. ........ 251 A x.d
Edin., Perth, & Dundee 25
.. ......... . ...
Ditto. Newport l5 .. ... .... ...........
Exeter,Yeoril, k Dorch 25, — ......... _
Exeter and Exmouth... 218.
Glasgow, Durntries, and
Car:isle B/.65. 8d..... „. ........... _
Glasgow,Kilmar., Sr Ayr 50 ......
Do.l'reference Congo!. ..... _
........
Gloucester & Dean Forest 14 ...... .
- rcat N oral ern -
.. ..
Do., !~, A Deferred
Do., 1,/, B 6 per Cent 11.4. ..... 7%
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12% ...... 12 ...
:reit, ,louth. and West.
(Ireland) ..«•.......... 50 •••••• 30 •..,
, Ditto Eighths ........ 2 %...... .. .....
•
~,reatii
... • x.d orth of England.loo .. ..."
.......
x.d.
Ditto, New, 404 ..... ... 40 .•"•• -

18%

1114
3.4
7%
12

Ditto, New, 301 3O
Dii to. New 15/
Creat Western 100 ..... 65 65% 6.4...
Ditto. New 171....._ 15 ... .. ...... .. ..... ,
Ball and Selby .. 5O ......
Ditto, Half Shares 25
Do. Quarter Shares—. 1214 — ..... ..........
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lincivtiire/ii Yorkshire 100
Do. Quarters .. ..... 231,4 — ......... ......
Do. Fifths... ... 11 !i
Do. Thirds .... ... ..... 18
Do. New, Gua. 6 per et. 10
Ditto ( Huddersfield
and Sheff.) 5O
Do. (W. Riding Union) 11;4 —
I.e.ick and Bradford Sit
Leads and Thirsk •••••• 50 •••••• 71,"
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 6
Do., do. No. 2 17
Do., do. ......No. 3 5
Uo., Pref. Quer., 1818 9
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . ...... ..... .. 15
Loudon &Blackwell-11/. 6& 3d... 5 ...
Lindon, Brighton, and
South Coast—. ..... 100
Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ......
Do. ['refer. 5 per cent. 50
D.tv, ditto-- trif;2 50 ..... ....
Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent ..........100
i,..ndon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d —
Ditto, Prefeeence...... 20
Landon and .1.,'. We,tern 101'.. 110 11014 109 ',, x.d 1131,t x.d
Ditto, New Quarters 17 ..... 18 17%8 x.d
Olt to. Fift , .
Ito. 10/. (M. & B.) C 1 •.••••
Lendor &-, w diva n ...ICO ..... 67 68 ...
Do. New 50/. • ........ 42y4...... ...
Do. New 40/. '34

1.10., ..,4 ew r,the em.e.. b
Londomierry&Culertunt 23 ..... ....... .....
Do. 1,4 Shares .. 5
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ... ....... .... 25
Do. % Shares ..... .... 71% ......
Lowesfrff guar. 4 per ct 20 ......
Ditto (6 per ct.)
1 anclie*tor.kluxton,and
Matlock...
M 0.1,),* ter. Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ..1(X) - ...... —
Do. Quarter* (No. 1) 25 ...
Ditto. New IC/. Pref... 10
Do., Manchester alid
Lincoln Unior....-..41. 2s. - di5......
Milli ril
Do. t 'On soltuateti Pre. 100
Do., 501. Sharer:
Do., Birm. and Derby 1( 0
Do. Consolid.Bristo: &
Eirming., 6 per (A.... 100 122
Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 46 ...... —...—
Ditto ditto . ..... 29/. 16s. Od ..
Do.,ErcwashVal.,Pref. 50
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo
ilidland Great W estern
Irish
11iddlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carliale.loo ...... ......
Do. Quarters
N‘wmarket
Do. Extension

1114
... lb x.d

N ew port, Abergavenny,
z,nd Hereford
ewry and Ernnskißen 7
..,
ewry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor
Norfolk 100
Do. New 201. .. l5
De. Extension ........ 20
Do. Guaranteed 5% pc. 5
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... --
N,,rtheria Counties Union 4 ...... .........
North 13ritm :....... .... 26
Ditto Preference
North Staflordehire ... 17% 6%
North-Western . l7 ......
Aterd, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Preston & %1, yre . 25 ... ..
Do. % Shares( A) lO%
,teading, Guildford, ..r...
Reigate'
ttoyston and Hitchin ... 64 .. ... ......
..
Do. Shepreth Exten . 54,
, cot ti3b Central
Scottish Midland
Ditto, New
S -,rowsbury and Birm... 134
Ditto ditto. Class B. 9% — die.........
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
quewebury and Heretd. 6 ......
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Ditto Halves
Ditto Uswestry :0
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref
Shr op stur e Union
S .uth Devon
Do. Preference
South Etitfordshire B% —
I,,utt, Easter,_
Do., No. 3 ............. 30 ...... .....
Do., Registered No. 4 10 . ... 5% ........
SO 11/1 1,1, MO i
-..uth Yorkshire, Don-
ctster, and Goole l5
Sbeflield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent. ... 18% — ••• ..... . .
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 6
Swans. fa Loughor & Ca-
rney n's Stm. Coal. ... 10
Yaw Vale P.xtension ... 9% . — ... ... ..... .
P•ames Haven Dock

... 122

26%

•.. ••••• x.d

,9 • • ... dis
~.. dis

• and Railway ... 171 ii......
%%le of Neath ... - ...... 13
Naterford and Kilkenny 20 . —
AT-ter/Ord and Limerick 471 A —
? isterld, IV xtrd,Wieltlw.
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... .. ...... 60 -
Do. do. do. ... 25
Do. do. d 0.... 15
weat Cornwall ..... -.. 71,4 ... -.
4 hitehaven & Furness 20
Nindsor, Staines; and
South Western...., ... 14 ...... .....
A ilts,t,omersct,& W ey-
mouth
»
1 ork, Newcas;:e, and
Berwick. ....... ........ 25
Vo. Newcastle Exton. 20
D+. G.N.E.Preternce 9
Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway lOO ......
.....
rarl. aim /vont, Midland 60 ......1754 18 x.d ... 18 x.d
Ditt4. Ple-ercxm,
FOREIGN RAILW A YO.
Ang Italian (late 'Lit-
win and Austrian).... 6% — ......... •••••
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Contra) of France (Or-
leans and VierzOn)... 20
....
Demerara • 17% — ••• • ••• .
Dutch Rhenish ..... .... 8
East Indian ... ....... ..... 9
Ditto ...... ..... . ..... 20
Great Indian Peninsular 6 ...... --.
Do. Do. ... ..N. 13/4
Louvain lis t'ambre ... 7./2 —
Luxembourg ..
Ditto ... lO . .....
••I
Madrid and Valentia... 2 ......
Naniur and Liege ....... 20 ... N
Northern of France l6
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... .... .
Paris and Rouen 2O ...„. ,
Paris and Strasbourg ... 14
Rouen and Havro ...... 20 .....,
Sambre and Meuse 2O .....
Strasbourg and Basle
Tours and Nantes l4 ......
Tourney, Jurbiso, Lan-
dui, and i1a5e1t....... 20
'Neat Flanders ..... .. ..... 83/4
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
tustralasia .
British North American 50
•••.. ••• ....
Colonial .. -.. 25
,ommercial of London 20 .-31,1
23
;_ondon Joint Stock lO ...... ......... ....- -
London & Westminster 2O
-at ionalProv. England. 35 -
Ditto New.- ..... -.... 10
National of Ireland 221,x...... .... ....... ....
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New ....• ....• 10
Union of Australia
Ditto, New ...... ....• VA.....
Union of London... lO ...... 121....
Union of Madrid . ..... ... 40

12A

MINES.
Anglo-Mexican lOO
Asturian ..... l5 00000 ..••••• ••
Australian 4 ...... ••• • 000000000
Bascora Range
•••• oo
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 OOO •• ••
Bolonos Scrip 000000
Brazilian Imperial ...... 24%
BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30
Do. St. John Del Rey 15
.....
British Iron ....• ..........
Tin Croft
United .Mexican 2B

......
53114 ......

ITICIDE IN THE LONDON DOCKS.--Yesterday
morning, about five o'clock, police-constable 303 K, while
on duty in Old Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe-highway, had his at-
tention attracted by a splash in one of the London Dock•,
and on his looking over the bridge he observed a female
strugg!ing in the water. He forthwith gave an alarm, and
the drags were immediately procured, and in about twenty
minutes after the body was got out and taken to the White
Lion public-house, where the usual means were adopted to
resuscitate the body, but without avail, life being quite
extinct.

Loss OF Two BOATS AND THEIR CREWS.—During
a gale of wind on the 29th ult., two boats belonging to Yell.
in the Orkneys, while crossing Otter Sound, by some unac-
countable cause were swamped, and all on board, viz., four
men z.ncl a buy, perished.

VENTILATION OF THE COURTS OF LAW.—The
Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas at Westmirster are
about to be ventilated by the steam jet. The arrant ements
are settled, and preparations are making by the tffice of
Woods and Forests, under the direction of Mr. G. Gurney,
Fresh air is to be brought in at a high level above the courts
and the vitiated air withdrawn by a separate jet from each
court. In winter they are to be warmed, and in summer
cooled, by a peculiar application of this princip:e. ne ar-
rangements to be carried out under the superintendence of
Mr. William Clark, late of King's College.

EXTRAORDINARY VISITATION OF FLIES.--On Mon-
day last, for two or three hours in the afternoon, Liskeard
and its neighbourhood were visited by a prodigious multi-
tude of flies—the atmosphere swarmed, and the ground was
strewed with them in vast numbers. They appeared to be
ant flies; a few without wings. How far they extended has
not been correctly ascertained—it is eight miles to the east,
and about sixteen to the west. During their continuance,
the sky was beclouded till towards the evening, 'when the
sun shone out, and they nearly all disappeared.—Veronport
Telegraph.