The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-30 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY.
Much ivaetivity prevailed in the I aeing country
markets held en Saturday. English Wheat—the sup-
plies of which were censiderably on the increase—de-
clined in value quite Is per quit ter; and inferior Foreign
Was lower to purchase. Fun Oats were mostly held at
full prices; but all other spring Corn, including Flour,
Was very dull.
Letters from New York to the 20 h inst. state that
only a moderate business was doing in Bread-stuffs, Lt
about statiereary prices. In the continental markets the
trade was very far f.ote active.
The aggregate arrivals of English Grain up to our
raarke', last week, were very moderate. From abroad,
We rectived 15.023 quarters of Wle et, 2,747 Barley,
5,874 Oats, 295 Beats, 137 Peas, 32 Tame, 6,738 Lin-
seed, 7,799 Itapese: d, 48 Musterdseed, 189 sundry Seeds,
7,850 brls and 4,421 sacks of Flour
The extensive repairs going on in the Old Exchange,
in consequence of the late fire, have greatly iuterfered
with business. Several of the leading factors continue to
be accommodated in the new mat ket.
Fresh up this morning the arrivals of English Wheat
coastwise were somewhat extensive, and wholly of the
present year's crop. Tee samples from Essex and Kent
came to hand in good condition; but those from Cam-
bridgeshire, &c., were mostly light and shrivelled. By
land carriage the receipts were seasonably extensive,
consequently the stands were well filled. Although the
Lumber of buyers in attendance was tolerably extensive,
the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce,
Owing chiefly to the large supplies of foreign Flour
pressing for sale, ruled heavy at a decline in the prices
of Monday last of fully is per quarter, and a total clear-
ance was net effected.
Offers came to hand from the east coast to ship
Wheats at drooping currencies, but the amount of busi-
ness doing was small.
We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied
With Foreign Wheat. Selected samples of both red and
White were mostly held at fully previous rates, but damp
and inferior parcels were the turn in favour of the
buyer.
Notwithstanding that the supply of both English and
Foreign Barley WAS very moderate, the Barley trade
ruled inactive. In the quotations, however, we have no
change to notice.
Malt, the supply of which ready for delivery was
not large, met a slow sale at last week's currencies.
Good sound Oats were scarce and quite as dear. In-
ferior parcels were a dull sale, but not cheaper.
For Beans the inquiry was wholly in retail at late
figures.
Peas moved cff slowly, but we have no change to

notice in prices.
Indian Corn and meal nominal.
The Flour trade was heavy, and, in some inaances,
foreign and ship parcels were is per sack, and 6d per
barrel loner.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Whsat—Essex & Kent, , Malt—Chevalier • • • • .. 525 to 55s
Red, New .• .. 415 to 465 Oats— Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 42s C2i Lin . colnsh., Feed. 16s 17s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red.. •.. 393 44s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White ••• • .• 41$ 468 Black .•••. • . 14 16s
Irish, Re 1.••••• .. —s —s Cork, White .• • l4s 176
Ditto,White ••••.. —s —s Scotch, Iced. •• • • 188 k2s
43re—Oid .••••• .. .. .. 26s 27s Beans—Tick .•••• • • •• 25s 29s
New, .......... .. 28s 293 . Pigeons .•• • • • .... 28s 346
Barley—Grinding .•• .. 21s 23s Peas—Grey .. •• • . .... 28s 306
Malting, .•• • . .... 25s 27s Maple . . ..... .... 26s 328
Chevalier •• • • ... 28s Os White. ••••• . • . . • 2Gs 295
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••. . . . . 30s 349
f01k... •• • ...... 43s 48s Flour—Town-made... 35s 406
Brown ... ... . ..• • 40s 42s Suffolk ••••• . • . . • '29 5 33,
Kingston and Ware 47s 51s Stockta & Norfolk 29s 345
SEED.
The demand for Linseed and Rapeseed is firm, and
late rates are well supported. New Canary is very dull,
and lower to purchase. Tare3—the supply oother f
seeds
which is
large—have a downwsrd tendency. All
!vie heavy. Several purchases of Linseed-cakes have
been made fur the Dutch markets, but at low prices.
The stock of foregn Clover-seed, in bond, is 28,333

CWiS.
Turnlp,White, per bush. 103 to 12s
Red and Green.. 103 12s
Mustard, Brown„ new
93 113
White, new • • • ... Gs 6d 7s 6d
Tares, New Winter .. 5s Od 6s Od
Old .... • • • ..3s 6d 4s Od
Canary,t per quarter • . 56s 62s
Ye grass..... • ... 243 30s
Clover, Red Ett.,. (cwt.) 32s 4S'
White ••• • •, 325 48s
Foreign Red.. •• .. 303 44s
White.. 285 41s
Trefoil les 225,
SMITHFIELD.
The past week's imports of foreign stock into London
have been again very extensive, even the time of year
Considered, they having amounted to not less than 7,872
almost wholly from Holland, and in improved con-
dition, if we except a portion of the Beasts. The fol-
lowing statement shows the quarters from whence the
stock has been derived
DiPoRT3 INTO LONDON IN TIM IAST WEEK.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Amsterdam 59 ... 911 ... 63
196
Harlin en l9O ... 1,314 .. 80 ..
ronningEn 440 ... 33,„,
Rotterdam 367 ... 2,271 ... 67 268 ... 65
Antwerp
Nieu Diep 79 1,007 ... ... 10 13
..
Dor& 65 '225 ... 71 ... 17 ...
Ostend...
Guernsey 1 ...

Carraway ••• • • • ...... 293 33s
Coriander ••• • • • 193 21s
llenipseed, per quarter 343 355
Linseed, Eng• Sowing • • 54s 5Gs
Crushing . ..... • . 403 43s
Baltic •• • • sBs 44s
Odessa •••••• • • • 423 4Gs
Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo—
•• • • . 8/ Os 91 03
Foreign, per ton 6108 71 53
Rape Cakes, pr ton 4/ 59 4/ lOs
Rapesecd,New,prlst24l Os 261103

2G ... - -•- - --
-

.. ......... —.-- --
Total .... 1,217 .. 5,787 ... 133 ... 446 ... 274
The importations during the corresponding weeks in
1849, 1848, and 1847, were as under:—
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves.
... Pigs.
1849 ...... 1,122 ... 4,408 ... ... 165 21
260 ... 27
P 45 950 ... 3,123 ... —.
1847 1,117 ... 5,119 ... -—. 206 ... 16
At the outports, the supplies have not extended 1,000
head, chiefly sheep, calves, and pigs. No purchases of
atock have been effected in Spain for some time past, as
the whole of the supplies from that country disposed of
here and at Southampton have entailed sevrre losses
upon the importers. The foreign Pigs selling in this
market are not worth more than 2s or 2s 2d per 81bs.
13Y sea, from Ireland, 31 oxen have come to band since
our last report. Notwithstanding the heavy imports
last week the show cf foreign stock here to-da as
y w
comparatively moderate. From our own grazing dis-
trict'? the receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were
Considerably less than those reported on
favouthis d
ble
ay
seinnight. The weather being more ra
for slaughtering, and the attendance of buyers
on the increase, the beef trade ruled some-
what active, at an advance in the quotations of from 2d
primest
Scots was 4s per Sibs. The Bullock supplies from Litt.
eolnshire, Lieuestershire, &c., comprised 2,560 short-
horns. From other parts of England they amounted to
400 Herefords, run's, Devons, &c. The remainder of
the supply was chiefly derived from Holland.
heThere
e
Was a considerable falling off in the supply of S
quality of which was by no means first-rate- All kinds
Commanded a ready sale, at prices advanced quite 2d per
81hs; the primest old Downs selling readily at 4s
to 4s
2d per 8 lbs B:bs
. With Calves we were scantily supplied
While the Veal trade ruled firm, at 2d to 43 per
more money. Prirr e small Porkers moved off
as dear as
freely, at
a rise of 2d per 8 lbs. Large Dogs were quite
last week.

S. d. to s. d.
Inferior Slaw • • 3 0 3 2
Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 6
C iarse-weolled ditto 3 8 310
' Southdown Wether 4 0 4 2
Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large Hogs •••• .• 3 2 3 6
Small Porkers • • 3 8 4 2
Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 23 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARET.
Pigs.
Sheep. I CalvKes. I
1 23,310 188 1130
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
EMU. I Sheep.
Calvert, 8f
Pies.
868 I 4,0T0 94
NEVIGILTS AND 36E,A.DEBYLUILL.
Our markets have been well supplied
quality is by
"luaus prime. Generally speaking, owing to the mild-
ness 01 the weather, the demand has ruled very inactive,
and prices have been with difficulty supported.
At per stone by the Carcase.
to s. O. d. to s. d.
s.
eci ,inferior••
•• . 110 2 2 I.lntton, inferior 2 8 3
mid dling ••• .. 2 4 2 6 ---- midme •• dling.. 3 6 3 8
primelarge •• 2 8 210 ---- pri
.. 3 0 3 2 Pork, large •• .• 0 4
2
3 6
Veal prime small "
-• •• •••• 210 3 6 -- small.. ...... 3 6
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELD9.
Dating the week the arrivals of home-grown Potatoes
up to tl.e.le markets have amounted to about 2,000 tons,
wholly by land carriage and in excellent condition. 'rhe
inapoiti from abroad have been confined to 10 bags from
Rotterdam. We have a slight improvement in the de-
mand for selected samples, at full prices. In other kinds
very little is doing.

Per 8114. to sick the offal.
s. d. to s. d,"
Inferior Beasts-- 2 2 8
Seecmd quality .• 216 0 3 4
Prime large OlteR•• 3 6 3 8
Prime Seots
Large eon:: Calrea 3 0 3 6
Prime:small ditto •. 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calvea lB 0 26 0
Lambe 0 0 0 0

Reasta.
1.1'03

BOROUGH.
Kent and Essex Were, per LOU ... 503 to 70s
Kent and Essex Middling ... 30s to 455
Chats ... 25s to 30s

SPITALFIELDS.
Kent and Essex Sham, per ton ... 50s to 703
Kent and Essex Regents... ... 50$ to 70s
Middling Ware ... 303 to 453
Chats ... 25s to 303
ZOROUGIEI SOP M.A2,IILET.
Very liberal supplies of new Hops, a few being
from
Farnham, have reached us since our last report.
on the On the
Whole, an extensive business is doing in them,
following terms, which it must be understood are
futon', consequently cash, prices:—New East Kent
Pockets, 90s to 1205; New Weald of Kent ditto, auto
86s; New Sussex ditto, 65s to 75s per cwt. The
is estimated at from 215,0001. to 220,0001. Yearling
and old Hops aro almost nominal.
WOOL.
Very extensive imports of Wool took place into Lon-
don last we. k, viz., 269 bales from Algiers; 291 ditto
from Gibraltar, 65 from Naples, 231 from Bombay, 206
from Adelaide, 16 from Cons:autinople, 1,380 from Mel-
bourre, 171 from the Cape, 615 from Hobart Town, 81
from Hainburgh, 605 from Geolong, 1,953 from Algoa
flay, 515 from Port 13enufoit, 1,073 from Sydney, 13
from Jamaica, and 47 frchn Mogadore. Although the
private contract market is well supplied, the demand rules
teady at very full prices. The following quotations of
British Wool are furnished by Messrs Marsh and Edin-
corough:—Down Ewes, is to Is id per lb; ditto, Hog-
Fytts, is 2d to is 3d; ,halt-bred ditto, is 3d to Is 3d ;
fleeces, Is 2d to is 3d; Swinton ditto. Is to is Oid;
Lincoln ditto, ls; ditto, Hoggetts, is 0/c1 to is Ild;
Tombing skin, lid to is 2d; new ditto, 91 to 100;
cannel wools, Ild to is 3d; blanket ditto, Gd to 11d.
TALLOW.
Our St. Petersburgh letter states that a steady busi-
was doing in Tallow there, at very full prices

chiefly
Purit.g, the past vvr, 1< f 4 000 c30.7.i.
col,otat, thi.ve cume in. Ibis unporiadou had huti a de-
pressing cif, ct upon this market, and the quotations 1: ave
giVen way Gd ler cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is
selling at 39s to 3Ss 9d for new, and 38s 3d per cwt for
old. For delivery all the year the nearest quotation
iy
38s 9i per cwt. Toti.n Tallow is 38s 31 to 38s 6.1 per
cwt net cash; Rough Fat, 2s 2d per Sibs.

1846. 1847. 1848. 11849. 1850.
6,53 16,47913,722 ,1 33,737 22,940
Stock this day ••• • • 46s Od 47s Od 47s 01 1363 9cl to' 38s 3d
Price of Y. C. ••• • [ to Cs 01 to Os 01 to Os Od 368 61 to 39s Od
Delivery last weak • • 2,30•2 2,6 e 8 1,026 2,290 I 2,2 2
Ditto from Jane 1•• • • 20,93 24,947 , 30,725 23.163 27,798
Arrivals last week • 244 3,000 7,634 6,948 4,029
Ditto from Jane 1 16,837 30,9,7 41,516 36,427 I 21,614
Price of Town .. 453 Od 508 6d 49s 6d 39s 6d 418 03
STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURGII.
1850. I 1849. I 1848. I 1847. 1846.
Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks.
from Cronstadt to
Sept. 14, 0.8. 48,656 59,094 67,654 66,487 42,826
In shir.s loading and
lighters 24,737 23,473 23,233 20,954 24,841
Total loaded eff, Otis
Sept., O.S.
Loaded afterwards• • • ... 35,585 33,617 44,4a3 45,555
Total at the cicse of
the navigation-. .. 118,132 129,`04 131,864 113,223
London• 19,508 20,414 34,258 27,646 15,463
Liverpool •••
Bristol
Other English por ts 3.170 6,867 8,0x3 7,057 6,472
Ireland ••••• • • • . . 2,942 4,005 3,544 5,217 4,690
Scotland .• .. • •
Germany • •
France ••... • • . 2,165 4,920 54 4,340 854
48,6;6 59,094 67,654 66,487 42,826

MANSION-110USE.—(THIS DAY.)
A young German, named Meyer Levi, was brought be-
fore Alderman Gibbs, charged with assaulting Patrick
Martin, and wounding him on the head with a chisel.
It appeared that on Sunday evening the prosecutor,
who was the worse fur liquor, was in the neighbourhood
of Petticoat-lane, and excited the indignation of a num-
ber of Dutch and German Jews, by applying to them
some offensive epithets about their religion and location
in this country, and a scuff:l3 ensued in which the pro-
secutor received a wound in the head, which he declared
was inflicted by the prisoner, who bad a chisel in his
hand.
The prisoner denied the charge.
Several of bis German friends, who witnessed the
transaction, stated that the prosecutor first struck the
prisoner, on which the prisoner returned the blow, but
not with aoy instrument; and added that the wound was
an old one, and not occasioned at the time of the dis-
turbance.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody
stated that the blood was flowing from the wound when
be first saw the prosecutor.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS said, when foreigners came to
this country they were too ready to introduce their
cowardly custom of stabbing, but he should endeavour
to repress such conduct, by punishing all parties who
were brought before him for assaults of this nature.
The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 205., or be
imprisoned for 14 days.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Theodore Staines, a foreigner, who described himself
as a novelist to some of the London journals, was charged
with the following assaults.
Charles George, an artist, deposed that he was going
alorg St. Martin's-lane last Saturday night when he
met the prisoner flourishing a crab stick which was
leaded at the end. Witness endeavoured to avoid him,
but was unable as the prisoner dashed forcibly against
him. Witness turned round to expostulate with him,
but the prisoner pretended that he was the aggrieved
party, and, raising the stick, struck him a violent blow.
He was about following the assault up, but was pre-
vented by the arrival of the police, to whom he was
given into custody. On his road to the station the pri-
soner kicked police-constable 108 F with such force that
he was unable to continue on duty, and on being taken
charge of by another officer he bit a piece of cloth out of
his two coats. Had he not had his great coat on, the
prisoner must have bitten a piece of flesh from his body.
Mr. JARDINE, having remarked upon the brutality of
the assaults, fined him 302. for the assault on George,
add sentenced him to a week's imprisonment fur the
assaults on the constables.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SHOPMAN.—Robert
Symonds, a well-dressed young man, and Susan Harris,
were placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, the former
prisoner charged with having stolen property to the
amount of more than 80/., belonging to his ers
employ,
Messrs. Lawson and Parnell, drapers, &c., 211,
Oxford-
street, and the latter with having received the same,
well knowing it to have been stolen.
William Harrison deposed that he was barman at Mr.
Gurney's, the Clarendon Tavern, Oxford-street, and that
he had known the prisoners for about a month or five
weeks by their coming to the house some times together.
During that time the male prisoner had been in
and
the
habit of leaving parbels in the care of witness,
when he left them he said if the young woman
called she was to have them. The male prisoner left
about a ado
paresis in all. The woman called several
times otter that, but she never took away any of the
parcels herself, she and the other prisoner generally
being together when they were removed. About eight
o'clock on Saturday evening last the prisoner Harris
came to the bar, and asked it Mr. Harris (meaning the
male prisoner) had been there. Mr. Gurney answered
" No, he had not." She then left, aed by Mr. Gurney's
orders, he followed her, and saw her go to Messrs. Law-
son and Parnell's, Oxford street, where she stopped
and looked in at the window. In a few minutes the pri-
soner Symonds came out and spoke to her, and imme-
diately returned into the shop. He then came out again
with a pair of steps which he placed against the window,
and then walked with the woman for about a dozen
yards. Witness then saw him hand her a parcel, and
she then left him. On witness's return to his employer's
e told him what he had seen, and while he was talking
she came in and sat down in the tar, as she said she
was very tired, and would wait for the mule prisoner.
Mr. Gurney then sent him to acquaint the prosecutor of
the whole of the proceedings.
Mr. Lawson stated that he was in partnership with
Mr. John Parnell and that the prisoner had been in his
employ. since April last, and not the least suspicion was
entertained of his honesty. On Saturday night, from
information he received from the last witness, he
went to Mr. Gurney's, and was shown a number
of parcels, which he opened, and found them to
contain a quantity of his property, consisting
of pieces of lace, silks, VelVetP, satins, some
d( zen pairs cf kid gloves, silk eteekings, and other
articles now produced, worth about 80/. lie immediately
gave the woman in charge, and returned to his resi-
dence, and, having procured a cab, called the prisoner
Symonds outside, placed him iu it in custody of a con-
stable, and then drove to Mr. Gurney's, where witness
confronted him with the woman. They were both then
conveyed to the station. Witness subsequently searched
the prisoner's boxes, and found several pairs of drawers
with his private mark upon them. He afterwards w ert
with the constable to No. 19, Cooper-strethereet, Cifounty-road a,
whew the female prisoner lodged, and d
great deal more of his property. He also found a con-
siderable quantity of drapers' tickets, and other articles
necessary for the business of a draper's shop.
Macdonald, 65 11, corroborated the evidence of the last
witness.
Mary Bridge, the female searcher at the police-station
Dilarylebone-lane, said she searched the prisoner Harris
on Saturday night, and found a parcel upon her,
taining six pairs of kid gloves and a piece of ribbon,
which were identified by the prosecutor as his property.
In reply to the charge, the prisoner
pondsSymo said, he
had purchased a portion of the goods, as eed to
enter into business on his own account. The larger
portion be admitted taking from the prosecutor's shop.
The woman said she was not aware that the property
was stolen, or she would not have received it from
Symonds.
The prisoners were both fully committed for trial.

A "Mune INCIDENT.—At the last settling-day
at Tattersall's, an officer who bad to receive largely, by acci-
dent let fall two 1001. notes. Another officer, _a friend, who
there was standing by, picked up the notes, and was about retu-
wa
ru-
ing them to (as he thought) the right owner; but
a third party, who had seen the notes upon the ground, and
had watched the party who had picked them al This gen-
tleman (who had formerly been in the
two servban -ice , went up to
the party and said, I have dropped went
p
you heard of any person finding them ?" "Yes," says the
other, " I have just found them, but I thought they belonged
to Captain The notes were immediately handed over
to the claimant, and nothing more was heard of it for some
days, when the real owner, having discovered his loss, com-
municates with his friend who was present, and, of course,
out came the secret. Application was immediately made to
the gpnt'eman to refund, to which a replyan of mot
was
explanationt offen-
sive nature was returned. Thereupon
demanded, but the bird—we will not say shark—had gone to
Boulogne, where he was followed by the principal and his
friend, and the result was disgorging the notes and a most
abject apology.— United Service Gazette.
DARING BURGLARY IN SussEx.--During the
night of Friday week a daring burglary was committed
ton.
by
three men in the house of the Rev. 0. E. Vidal, of
where t
got two common watches. One of them then went to
Thethe
Rev. Gentleman's sleeping apartment and awoke him.
ruffi wore a blue mask. In cue hand he held a tallow
candle, and the other grasped a sword, which he brandished
backwards and forwards, threatening Mr. Vidal he would
use it, if he made any disturbance. In a few minutes he
left the room, and immediately a second ruffian, of shorter
stature and stouter build, entered the apartment. Like the
first, he was masked, had a lighted candle, and carried for a
weapon the handle of an axe. He demanded where the
money was, and being told it was down
of stair
and, he insisted on
the Rev. Gentleman's getting outed,
going with him to get it. On their reaching the study, Mr.
Vidal -bowed them the drawers where the money was de-
posited, but they, finding they were locked, demanded the
key, and lie was forced to return up stairs, guarded by one
of ie burglars, to give it to him. Having reached the sleep-
jug-room, Mr:Vidal gave up the key, and earnestly remon.
straod te with the ruffian armed with the
he sword,
him f the fate which must await him reafter, if heremindin even
escaped punishment in this world. The burglar, however,
insisted on the Rev. Gentleman's returning immediately to
the study, though still undressed, and, on his hesitating,
dragged him down to the stairhead. Having once more
leached the study, the fellow proceeded to rifle it, obtaining
nearly 401. Air. Vidal remonsttated with him, on which,
using violent threats, he placed the sword across the Rev.
Gentleman's throat, saying, if lie made a noise, he would use
it. One of the other men was then calleded- in,
room,
whilstfinally
,
the Rev. Gentleman was locked up in the b
the darieg scoundrels quietly went down stairs and took tea.
Missionaries from the Irish Tenant-right League
are forthwith to visit the agricultural d dis
tutricts o
res f England,
and by means of public meetings an lec, to solicit
support for the new movement.

THEATRE ROYAL PRINCESS'S.
Alter a doue,lisi cereer of Lorne seree or eeght
years—after haying ben alternately a concert•room,
an opera house, a vaudeville theatre, in short,
"Everything by turns, and noshing long—"
this beautiful little theatre has been rescued from its
previous—in every sense of the word—" doubtful
character," and, under the management of Mr.
Charles Kean and Mr. Robert Keeley, is new de-
voted to the service of Sbakspere, and of genuine
English tragedy and comedy. It opens under
the most favourable auspices ; the names of
Mr. Charles Keaa and Mr. Keeley, as managers,
afford a sufficient guarantee that nothing will be
permitted, either before or behind the curtain, which
can be in the least offernive, either to public morals
or to good taste, and her Majesty has in this instance
come forward as the especial patroness of the legiti-
mate drama by taking a box for the season; the
Royal box is situated at the extreme end of the dress
circle, and has been fitted up with great taste and
elegance. Messrs. Charles Kean and Keeley have
collected around them a company which, in the
present state of dramatic affairs, may well be
called strong ; indeed any company numbering among
its ordinary members Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean,
and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley could not be considered
otherwise then strong; but when we find them sup-
ported by Harley, and Wigan, and Meadows, and
James Vining, and Ryder, and Miss Phillips, among
the old favourites, and when we find among the new
recruits that most gentlemanly young actor Mr. Belton,
and that unctious old man Addison, we feel that we
should be doing an injustice to the management did
we not give them the credit of having collected tcge-
ther the most efficient company in their power, and
of having availed themselves of all the unengaged
talent in the market. The house has been
thoroughly cleansed and renovated, and the scenery
is entirely new. The theatre opened for the season
on Saturday evening, and within five minutes after
the doors were opened it was crowded in every part
by one of the most respectable, most orderly, and
most attentive audiences ever congregated together.
All the notabilities of the literary or of the
fashionable world at present in London
were gathered together there to celebrate
the inauguration of the now " Royal Princess's''
as the temple of the legitimate drama, and the play
chosen for the occasion was well chosen ; it was
Shakspere's most vivacious, most amusing, per-
haps greatest comedy, Twelfth Night. The cast
was perfect, there was not a single weak part
in it. Mrs. Charles Kean, of course, was
Viola, a character which she has long since
made exclusively her own, and which she
performs with a piquancy and buoyancy so chastened
by surpassing grace and modesty as to render it a
perfect marvel of genuine comic acting. In no
character, perhaps, is the versatility of Mrs. Charles
Kean so manifest as in this of Viola ; how strong is
the contrast between her joyous and somewhat saucy
" I am the man," and the tender pathos which she
infuses into her reply to the Duke, "A blank, my
lord she never told her love," yet each is
equally appropriate, equally perfect ; how richly,
humorously comic is her acting in the duel
scene, how excellent her personation of the character
throughout. We are glad to find that Mrs. Charles
Kean has had the good taste to discard the old tra-
ditional page's costume, and to dress Viola as a
Greek boy. Next to the Viola of Mrs.
Charles Kean, the most admirable piece of
natural acting in the comedy was the Sir
Andrew Aguecheek of Keeley. He is the most perfect
representative of the foolish knight we have ever
had ,in our time. In Keeley's hands he is indeed a
foolish and a faded gentleman," and in the Cabinet
Shakesperian gems Keeley's Sir Andrew Aguecheek
is worthy to take its place by the side of his Verges.
Mr. Addison was a hearty Sir Toby Belch, and
Harley as the clown was in admirable fooling; the
little song which serves as epilogue was given
with true Harleyan quaintness. Meadows as
Malvolio was the very essence of self-sufficient
pomposity—the importance and dignity of his strut
was admirable, and in the letter scene ho was superb.
Miss Phillips was very lady-like as Olivia, and Mrs.
Keeley's Maria was full of mischievous fun. Mr.
James Vining made more of the little part
of Fabian than we have ever seen made of it. Mr.
Belton was a most gentlemanly Duke, and Mr. Ryder
a very effective Antonio. The scenery, painted by
Mr. Gordon and Mr. Lloyd, was entirely new and very
beautiful, and there were none of those hitches
in the working of it which too often occur on a first
night. At the conclusion the applause was enthu-
siastic, and the curtain again drew up and discovered
the whole of the performers. The National Anthem
was then sung by Mr. Ransford, Miss Ransford, Mr.
Ransford, jun., Miss Annie Romer, Mrs. Keeley,
Miss Mary Keeley, and the rest of the com-
pany. Then there arose a universal cry for Mr.
Charles Kean, who at last had to come forward
and bow his acknowledgments to the audience.
A bustling and amusing farce by Mr. W. Bayle
Bernard, entitled Platonic Attachments, followed
the comedy. Mr. Thistledown (Mr. Keeley), a
middle•aged gentleman, having abjured the life of
innocent dissipation he has been previously leading
as a bachelor, is living with his wife (Mrs. Keeley)
in a quiet suburban retreat, dividing his time
between the pursuit of gardening and domes-
tic happiness. But, although a doating husband,
Mr. Thistledown is not quite proof against the
charms of beauty in other women; and having acci-
dentally accosted a young lady in the City, a shower
of rain, which comes in the nick of time, gives him
an opportunity of proffering his umbrella, to be re-
turned at her convenience at his place of business in
the City. One day, whilst watering flowers in
his garden, Mr. Thistledown is surprised by the
appearance of an old boating friend of his, Tom
Rawlings (Mr. A. Wigan, who by the by came in
for his share of friendly recognition by the audience
on presenting himself), on the garden wall. This
friend declares he is in pursuit of a fascinat-
ing female whom he has several times seen
in the neighbourhood, and whom he has recognised
either by her dear little black bonnet, or her
robin-tailed polka. The lady is no other than Mrs.
Thistledown, who, pet ceiving in Tom her pursuer, de-
sires his instant departure from the house. Tom,
however, who is acquainted with Mr. Thistledown's
peccadillo with the young lady of the umbrella,
threatens disclosure to the wife, unless he is then
and there invited to remain, Miss Milman (Miss
Murray), a young friend of Mrs. Thistledown, but
who is unknown to her spouse by name, happens just
now to step in to tea, being on a visit to some friends
in the neighbourhood. In this young lady the un-
fortunate Mr. Thistledown recognises his fair incog-
nito. After suffering all the agonies of imprisonment
in a melon frame to escape exposure and questioning
by his wife, the unlucky umbrella at last appears
upon the scene, having been brought from the neigh-
bour's house for Miss Milman. Mrs. Thistledown re-
cognises the umbrella by the peculiarity of its handle,
and the full tide of conjugal jealousy is about
to burst upon the head of the unfortunate Mr.
Thistledown. But Tom Rawlings adroitly gets his
friend out of the scrape by unscrewing the knob of
Mr. Thistledown's umbrella and placing it on his
own, to which his name and address are affixed.
"Thus are Mrs. Thistledown's suspicions allayed,
never, it is hoped, to be revived, and Mr.
Thistledown, by way of " tag," steps forward, and,
after a gentle hint to gentlemen under such
circumstances, exhorts all ladies, when umbrellas
are lent to them, to be cautious as to the
manner of returning them. Mr. Keeley has a part
well suited to him. His look and attitude of stupe-
faction, which gradually assume the shape of a
mesmeric trance, at encountering the knob of the
unwelcome umbrella, was an exquisite piece of
satire on the mesmeric art. Mrs. Keeley oscillated
between the extremes of love and hate ; and Mr. A.
Wigan had a dashing helter-skelter part, admirably
suited to his bustling, mercurial style of acting.
Loud applause followed the descent of the curtain.
A ballet divertissement followed, in which Mr. Flex-
more, was a satyr, and Madlle. Auriol and Madlle.
C. Lecle:cq were nymphs. The brillancy of
the dancing of the ladies, the extraordinary
tours de force of Flexmore, the beauty of the
scenery, and the gracefulness of the groupings,
secured the success of this divertissement, which was
received throughout with marked applause.

ACCIDENT 10 THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AT
LIVEnpOOL.—On Friday evening an accident befel the Mar-
quis 1,
of Hastings, which had well nigh proved fatal. His
Lordship holds an ensigncy in. the 52d Regiment, now in
Everton, near Liverpool. After dinner on the evening stated
his Lordship took a stroll alone, and in his ramble wandered
into the neighbourhood of the docks. About eight o'clock
the policeman on duty in Novascotia, whilst at a short dis-
tance beyond the bridge crossing the gut leading from
George's to the Canning Dock, heard a splash in the water,
in a southward direction, towards Canning Dock, and after-
wards a cry of distress. Several persons immediately pro-
ceeded to the spot, and the individual immersed, who proved
to be the Marquis of Hastings, was rescued with considerable
difficulty, and in a very exhausted state. He was at once
taken to the receiving-house at the south end of the Prince's
Dock, and the usual restorative applications having been
used, his Lordship was enabled to return to his quarters in
a few hours, not, however, without leaving an intimation
that he should be again heard of by those who had so zeal-
ously tended him. It would appear that his Lordship being
a stranger to the locality in which the accident occurred, in,
walking forward lie tripped over the guard-chain surrounding
the gut of the dock, and, not knowing his poition, in en-
deavouring to extricate himself front his difficulty fell from
the quay into the water. His Lordship was in the water for
nearly ten minutes, and having completely exhausted him-
self in swimming, was in the act of sinking when assistance
came to his rescue. His Lordship is now perfectly con-
valescent.
MILITARY KNIGHT Or WINDSOR.—Captain An-
drew Ellison, late of the Eoth Rifles, has been appointed a
Military Knight of Windsor, in succession to Lieutenant
Ragg, deceased.
period of 28 years, 25 of which were passed in the 60th Re-
Captain Ellison's service extends over a
giment. lie entered the army as an ensign in 1107, and re-
tired upon half-pay unattached in May, 1832, and from the
service 112 1835.

SACRED SOCIETY.
niceceors ti,i, iostitu:ion have been for a
cnsiderable tiuxe engaged in making extensive im-
provements in Exeter Hall, calculated to remove its
defects and enlarge its capabilities as a lccality for
musical performances on the greatest scale. The
alterations consist price:pally, first, of the removal of
the fist plaster ceiling, and its re-construction of
wood, in a curved form, upwards of twelve feet higher
in the centre than formerly ; secondly, of the removal
cf the four square pillars, with the beam and cornice
over them, in front of the great gallery; an improve-
ment which, combined with the additional height
gained over the gallery, will obviate all the objections
formerly made on the grounds of want of ventilation
and difficulty of seeing or hearing; and, thirdly, of
the taking down the central portion of the wall at the
east end of the hall, and rebuilding it on a line with
the walls at the back of the recesses ; thereby allowing
the organ to be thrown hack seventeen feet. The
affect of this last alteration will be to gain much
valuable space in that part of the room, and to remove
the great inconvenience hitherto caused by the two
divisions of the chorus at each side cf the organ being
so completely separated by the projection of the in-
strument as to be unable to see or hear each other.
The organ itself i 3 to receive great alterations and
additions, with the view of increasing its power and
efficiency. These important operations are to be com-
pleted early in November, and the next series of con-
certs is to commence immediately afterwards.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, SEPT. 28.—Michaelmas Term begins
October 10. A few days before the term commences
the Vice-Chancellor, at twelve o'clock, rekigns his
office with a Latin speech, and a new nomination
takes place, which is announced to convocation.
Most of the colleges and halls meet either on
October 12 or 19.
NEW ConnEGE.—Mr. Cadwallader Egerton, from
Winchester, has been admitted to a fellowship at this
college as founder's kin.
MAGDALEN HALL.—The Rev. W. V. Ryan, M.A.,
of this ball, has been appointed principal of the
Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution.

SHIP LETTER BAGS FOR THE

BRITISH COLONIES IN OCTOBER.
The following vessels are appointed to sail during
the ensuing month for the undermentioned British
colonies, and will convey ship letter bags under the
regulations of the Act of Parliament with respect to
ship letters and newspapers :—Algoa Bay—The
Heroine, on the Ist of October, from the London
Docks ; the Archimedes, on the 2d, from the St.
Katharine Docks • and the Falcon, on the 20th, from
the London Docks. Port Natal—The Wilhelmina,
on the Ist, from Liverpool; and the Dreadnought, on
the 25th, from the St. Katharine Docks. Cape of
Good Hope—The Giaour, on the Ist, from the Lon-
don Docks. Ditto and Bombay—The Havering, on
the 25th, from the East India Docks. Ditto and
Ceylon—The Albemarle, on the 4th, from the Lon-
don Docks. The Mauritius—The Pauline Hough-
ton, on the Ist, from the West India Docks. Sydney,
New South Wales—The Glenbervie, on the Ist,
from the London Docks ; the Prince of! Wales, on the
Ist, from ditto; and the Tartar, on the 20th, from
Portsmouth. Port Philic—The Maitland, on the 2d,
from Plymouth ; the Geelong, on the 14th, from the
London Docks; and the Himalaya, on the 15th,
from ditto. Adelaide, Port Philip, and Sydney—
The Anglia, on the 20th, from Plymouth. Adelaide,
and Port Philip—The Petrel, on the 10th, from
Liverpool; the Duke of 'Wellington, on the 11th,
from Ply mouth ; the Pestonjee Bomanjee, on the 15th,
St.,Katharine Docks ; and the Success, on the 25th,
from Portsmouth. New Zealand—The Cornelia, on
the ht, St. Katharine Docks. Port Lyttelton,
New Zealand—The Isabella Herens, on the 21st,
East India Docks. Western Australia—The Mary
Ann, on the Ist, London Docks; the Union, on the

10th, St. Katharine Docks ; and the Anne Robert-
son, on the 10th, from the West India Docks. St.
Helena—The Aden, on the 20th, London Docks.
Sierra Leone—The Madras, on the Ist, West India
Docks. River Gambia—The Kate Kearney, on the
10th, from the London Docks, (Newspapers for
these colonies, by private ships, must be prepaid ld.
each, or they will not be forwarded. The postage on
letters optional.) Madeira, &c.—Mails will be made
up on the evening of the Ist proximo (to-morrow),
for Madeira, San Nicholas, St. Vincent (Cape Verd),
Sierra Leone, and the Island of Ascension, to be for-
warded by her Majesty's steamer Firefly, appointed
to sail on the 2(1 irom Devonport. ,Newspapers to
Madeira, &c., 2d. each, and letters ls. 10d. per half-
ounce, which must be prepaid. Sierra Leone, &c.—
Newspapers free, letters ls. per half-ounce; the pay-
ment of the postage optional.

The sale of surplus stores at the Eastern Counties'
workshops, Stratford, on Tuesday and Wednesday, was at-
tended by agents from various railway companies, and the
prices realised were considered good. A large amount was
realised by the sale. It is stated that owing to the reduc-
tions in the number of hands employed, and the late strike,
there are between 200 and 600 railway bands of various
classes in Stratford alone without employment.—Esser
Standard.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.--OD Friday Wm. Adams,
aged 66, an inmate of Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary,
was found in one of the water• closets, his intestines protrud-
ing from his. stomach, which he had cut across with
a razor. The torture which he endured from triple stran-
gulated hernia drove him to the commission of this dread-
ful act.

BUST OF MR. VERNON,m--This Melnor;fil. from a
few artists and admirers of Mr. Yernon's princely gift t. *he
country, has just been placed in the entrance-hall of Marl-
borough-house. It is the work of Mr. Behnes, who has
produced a most striking and spirited likeness of the deceased
gentleman, one that cannot fail to be immediately recog-
nised by all acquainted with his features. Independent of
the undoubted resemblance it bears to the original, it is ex-
cellent, regarded simply as a work of art. It stands on a
square pedkstal of scagliola, whereon are inscribed the names
of the contributors and the purpose of their testimonial. The
position in which it is placed is admirable as regards light
and the colour of the wall at its back; but standing behind
Gibson's group of " Hying and the Nymphs," though at a
little distance from this, it may easily escape recognition by
visitors who proceed at once to the picture•ruoms.—Art
Journal.

SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mr. H. M. Wakley held
an inquest at the Sun, Newman-street, Portman-market, on
Richard Pryor, aged forty-eight, viho was found suspended
by a handkerchief from the ceiling of Lis back kitchen, 33,
Newman-street. Mr. Pell, a neighbour, cut him down, and
Mr. Tucker, surgeon, was instantly called in, but life was ex-
tinct. Thomas Nolby stated that the deceased was clerk of
the works at Lady Vane's, under his cousin, Mr. Arva. On
the day preceding his suicide deceased was greatly excited in
consequence of a portion of a balcony which he had erected
at Lady Vane's being several inches too short. He called
witness out of Lady Vane's drawing•room, and, having bit-
terly complained of the above deficiency, said that he did not
know what to do, as he would lose 161. or 17/. thereby.
Then, taking up a penknife, he rushed at witness, exclaim-
ing, " Either you or Mr. Arva must die." Witness pinioned
deceased, who said, " It's all right ; its only a flow of blood
to the head." Witness then brought him home. He had
been under Dr. Roe's care two years ago for insanity, and
was put under restraint. Since then he placed himself
under Dr. Coffin's treatment. The jury returned a verdict
of " Insanity."

A vast chain of associations is often spread out
before the mind, by a few simple words, and those associa.
tions are nine times out of ten totally different from any that
the speaker intended to awaken.— Eliza Cook's Journal.

It is stated upon professedly good authority that
the average yield of wheat for this county is not more than
three-quarters to the acre. Some of the qualities are so
poor that in last Friday's market at Lincoln sales took place
at the low rates of 225. per qr. The choicest samples realised
51s. ; so that the difference in qualities is 295. per qr.—
Starnford Mercury.
CONFIRMATION.—SeveraI young gentlemen who
were confirmed on Thursday, got drunk at the Crown and
Sceptre, North-street, and behaved with violence and in-
decency. One of them, boasted that he had been con-
firmed, and that he had afterwards committed one of the
seven deadly sins; "and he knew which was best." Bishop
Phillpotts's hands had been laid on their heads without allay-
ing the devil within them; it seemed as if they had all their
bad passions stirred up by whatever cause; one of the ex-
cited youths behaving with great indecency to the landlady's
daughter, was bundled out by the worthy father.— Western
Times.

•
RIVERS IN TUB WEST of SIITHERLAND.—The
following note, dated Lochinvar, lath instant, arrived a post
too late for our last :—" To-morrow is the finishing day of
the salmon angling of 1850, and never-has there been so few
fish taken on the Inver and Kirkaig rivers. The late rains
flooded the rivers to such an extent that there ware few fish
taken. Since Monday last the rivers have fallen and the
sport improved.
Jeans,
of 181 b. ; Walter Strickland, Esq., the following day, took a
25pouuder ;
Thomas
T n e
Hon. Henry Gage killed one fine fish
Esq., and a few other gentle-
men, have taken several good grilse, and it is now that the
fish are taking the rivers here. It is a pity that the angling
does not continue for a longer period-- the Act of Parliament
should vary. All the rivers on the west coast should not
open till the Ist of April instead of the Ist of February, and
be two months later of closing."—lnverness Courier.
Workmen are at present employed in placing
posts along the octroi wall of the Left Bank, to support the
w ires which are to lead from the central office to the ter-
minus of the Orleans and Lyons Railways. On the line from
Paris to Orleans and to Tours the works are so far advanced
that in a few days electrical telegraphic communications
may take place between Paris and Tours. Golignani.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.,.--OH Saturday an in-
quest was held on Jane Ellis, aged 33, the wife of Mr. Ellis,
eating-house-keeper, 63, Paddington-street, Marylebone. It
appeared the deceased, who was pregnant, was passing be-
tween a table and the fire-place on Sunday week, when her
muslin dress caught the flames, and she was so burned that
her stays were destroyed before the flames could be extin-
guished. Her infant was born, died three days afterwards,
and the following Friday she died from mortification of her
wounds, although Messrs. Adams and Chumlev, surgeons,
did all that skill and science could suggest to slave her life.
Verdict, "Accidental Death."
RATTIER IMPUDENT.—About half past eight o'clock
on Thursday night three gentlemanly-dreseed young men
were seen to knock vigorously at the door of the House
of Correcticn, in St. John-street, Nottingham, and then
run away. When the porter answered thereto, he found a
number of broken knockers tied to the bell-handle.—Kotts
Guardian.
Madame Poitevin, the wife of the Well-known
aeronaut, yesterday made a balloon ascent from the Hippo •
drome on the horse which her husband employs. She was
dressed in a riding habit, and before starting paraded round
the Hippodrome. She rose slowly amidst the applause of
the spectators. Her husband and another person were
seated in a car placed above her, Gailynani.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, Sk.rT. 29.

By the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain
Lang, we have advices from New York to the 17th
instant, and in addition by telegraph, via Halifax, to
the 20th instant.

The dispatches brought by the Cambria were
delivered in New York on Tuesday night, being in
ten days and a few hours from Liverpool. This is
the first time such a feat has been accomplished.
Washington intelligence received this morning
mentions further piratical intentions on Cuba, and
that the American Government stands prepared with
preventive means.
The House of Representatives passed a Bill appro-
priating three million and a quarter dollars prospi,c-
tively to meet instalments under the American indem-
nity treaty. Payment will be made by arrangements
with Baring's house as before.
The stock market shows advance on nearly every
description, especially fancy. Sales—Government
Sixes of '67, 106 ; '6B, coupons, 118 i. Reading
Railway has advanced to 59.
The cotton-market has been nearly cleared of all
parcels at quotations of Hibernia's sailing.
The quotations of corn and flour unchanged, but
the market duller.

Our dates from Mexico are to the 19th ult.
The session of Congress had been..opened with a
majority of the Conservative party.
The Bill for abolishing the slave-trade in Columbia
had been ordered for a third reading by a majority
of 22.

The Bill for the delivery of fugitive slaves had
passed the House by a vote of 109 to 75.
A vote had been taken in the House condemning
the present ad valorem anti-protective tariff by a ma-
jority of two.
The public enthusiasm for Jenny Lind continued
unabated.
The Earl of Elgin was at New York.