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the Hessian multitude, the Parliament of that Elec-
torate has since the period of its organization in 1831
retained the exclusive privilege of voting
the annual supplies to the Government, pre-
cisely as in the case of our own House of
Commons. Against this supreme, or rather funda-
mental right, the ELECTOR has long betrayed a horror
as complete as that of CHARLES I. of England. In
order to gratify his hatred of the privilege, and, if
possible, to bring about its ultimate dissipation, he has
at length entered upon a course of proceeding as wild
and 'Anse neate, as violent and, we believe, as disastrous,
as that adopted by CHARLES X. of France. Having
convoked the popular Assembly at as late a period in
the year as possible, the Elector of HESSE caused his
Ministerial advisers to submit to the Chamber the
annual demand for supplies, refusing, at the same
time, to lay before the Parliament the customary ac-
counts and estimates. Of course any vote such as
was required by the Cabinet was indignantly withheld
by the Assembly, and the result was soon discovered
by its abrupt dissolution.
So far the ELECTOR ventured to go, aided and
abetted in his arbitrary decisions by his con-
genial servant, the Prime Minister HASS ENPFLUG•
But they went further. The demand for
supplies, rejected by the Chamber, was sub-
mitted to the Committee—that being a body
which, according to the judicious contrivance of the
constitution, is entrusted with Parliamentary func-
tions at all times between the dissolution and the re-
assembling of Parliament. The Committee showed
itself worthy of exercising those Parliamentary
functions ; it refused the vote of supplies as
indignantly and resolutely as the Assembly.
Thereupon, HassEereLeu, acting in accord-
ance with the arbitrary wishes of his master,
proceeded boldly to extremities. On the sth
of September he issued a declaratory ordinance for
the collection of the taxes, commanding lrit ill direct
and indirect imposts should be levied in the absence of
any legal budget. This was followed on the 7th of
September by another ordinance, placing the whole
country in a state of siege. Since the publication of
those despotic and illegal documents the Electorate
has been subjected to military jurisdiction. All the
institutions of the state, civil and military, ex-
cepting only the courts of justice, have been
placed under the command of a - military
dictator. Journals have been suppressed, placards
torn from the walls, meetings prohibited. The whole
land has groaned under the affliction of a sort of po-
litical interdict. Meanwhile the people (SI-Jesse have
by their conduct proved themselves worthy of
the liberties guaranteed to them by their constitution•
The popular Committee, declaring itself "in perma-
nence," has brought to bear against the unpopular
Minister the whole force of its constitutional
opposition. They have already, in fact, gone so far
as to decree his apprehension and impeachment; while
the ordinances of the Court and the Cabinet have been
formally declared illegal by a judgment of the
chief civil court of the Electorate. Such is the suc-
cess of the constitutional party in Hesse, so complete
is the political checkmate, that the obnoxious ELEC-
TOR, accompanied by the unpopular HASSENPELLG
and several of his Ministerial colleagues, have aban-
doned the field to their adversaries, escaping
from the strong hand of the law by a flight
both precipitate and ignominious. Alluding to
these occurrences, the Journal des Dibats
observes, very justly and sententiously, that the popu-
lation, indignant at such a gratuitous violation of the
National Charter, adopted, with a patience worthy of
a better cause, as a means of crushing the treasonous
enterprize, all the constitutional (and only the consti-
tutional) weapons of resistance. Without an insur•
rectionary movement, without an outbreak of any kind
whatever, the people have triumphed over their arbitrary
ELECTOR, and have vindicated the merits of their libera'

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Hamburgh of the 13th says :—We
have this moment received important news from the
theatre of war in Schleswig. Yesterday, the 12th,
all the Holstein army having effected an advanced
movement, made a general attack on all the line of
the army of Denmark. The battle, like that of
Itstedt, was very sanguinary, especially near
Eckernfcerde, which was taken and retaken
by the two armies, and which finally remained in
the power of the Holsteinere, who established
their head quarters there. The town has greatly
suffered ; the Danish men-of-war stationed in the
port fired broadsides; but, as the Holsteiners were
able to place some large guns on a battery, they
forced the ships to sheer off. The wounded were sent
to Kiel. It has not yet been ascertained whether
the Russian vessels, some of which were sta-
tioned in the port of Eekernfcerde, took part in
the combat. The Danish camp, strongly en-
trenched before Eckenfeerde, was taken after
three assaults by the army of Holstein, and was
completely destroyed by means of fire. It is said
that the town of Friederichstadt has also been set fire
to. The fortified intrenchments of the Danes at Dane-
mark have also been carried by the bayonet ; the car-
nage must have been frightful. After these attacks, exe-
cuted with terrible fierceness, the Danish army, as we
are told, was forced to beat in retreat on all the line ;
but as this is the Holstein account, we must wait for
confirmation of its truth:' Another letter, dated two
in the afternoon, says—" VVe learn that, at break of
day the battle recommenced between the two armies
with renewed fury." A telegraphic dispatch of the
same evening says—" General WILLISEN marched on
Missunda, to force the passage of the Schley ; in the
plain of Cosel he was attacked and driven back by the
Danes ; he retired to this side of Eckernfcerde. The
Holstein army evacuated Eekernicerde, and resumed
the position it had occupied the day before."
For some days past, the rumour of a military
intervention on the part of England and Russia has
become more and more credited. These two powers,
in conjuncture with France, are determined to put
an end to this long war. The Courts of Austria
and Prussia, from the fear of compromising them-
selves in the eyes of Germany, where the cause of
the revolution of the two Duchies becomes more
and more popular every day, remain impassible,
watch each other, and nothing indicates their
determination to take either separately or collectively
with their allies any vigorous and decisive measure.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The following article appears in the acknowledged
organ of the Ministry, the Constitutionnel. It relates
to the supposed consequences of the reconciliation of
the two branches of the House of Bourbon on the
prospects of the PRESIDENT, and, as seriously pointing
out the policy which, under these altered circum-
stances, the PRESIDENT and his Ministers deem it
advisable to pursue, it may be considered as of im-
portance. The Constitutionnel says—
" In desiring the triumph of their principles, and pre•
cisely to bring it about, the honest, intelligent, and mo-
derate men of the Legitimatist party feel that they ought
not to act as revolutionists. Certainly, if they believed
a restoration at present possible, they would attempt it;
but if such an attempt appears to them impracticable
and insensate, they will give the hand to the mainte-
nance, provisionally at least, of the President, because
his fall would be the triumph of the terrorists. The
moderation of the President, his religious and con-
servative principles, his devotedness t) order will, in the
end, artliorate the monarchical question. This is what
the reasonable, practical, honest Legitimatists perfectly
understand. They would overthrow the President if they
believed they would succeed him, but they will maintain
him if, in overthrowing him, they see they will give him
terrorism or even Orleanism for a successor. Their
first suffrage is naturally for the Comte de Chambord,
but the second is for Louis Napoleon. Such is the pri-
vate opinion of the most important and most practical
men of the Legitimatist party. The hostile, separated,
exclusive line of policy, which appears to have been po-
sitively resolved on at Wiesbaden, is subjected to the
possibility of an immediate or very early success: but if
the party cannot effect a Legitimatist restoration it will
not throw itself into revolutionary agitation. This
course, condemned in advance, and disavowed by the
chiefs, will be left to the violent and vain men who are
to be found in all parties. The death of King Louis
Philippe was naturally destined to create, and has
created, a new situation to the old Conservatives, com-
prised under the general name of Orleanists. The
most important men of this party, the most moderate,
the most practical, those who have conducted its
affairs for the longest period, and with most eclat,
consider, like the late King, that there is great utility
as regards the future in a sincere union of the two
branches of the House of Bourbon. But they feel shat
nations are no longer transmitted by the private ar
rangements of princes, and that the House of Bourbon
can never, whatever may be done, be anything else than
a distant port, in which France will have the privilege
of voluntarily seeking shelter, if ever her repose and
prosperity should require it. The authority which
Louis Philippe exercised over his family was immense,
and whatever may be the empire which is exercised by
his memory, it is very difficult to believe that certain
germs t f division formerly existing will not break
forth. The men devoted to the arrangement of which
the Duchess d'Orleans and the Count de Paris would
form the basis, have naturally at present more em-
pire; and whatever be the reserve and the prudence
of the young princes, the democratic penehans which
one of them is supposed to entertain will assuredly
be more strongly excited. Oa the other hand, the
union of the two branches of the House of Bourbon,
even if it were intimately established, would not
the ""less cause profound divisions in the Conserva-
tive party. Public conscience revolts, in these days,
against the transmission of a nation by means of endorse-
ments and stamped paper. France has the profound
conviction that she belongs to herself, and that no one
can dispose, or shall with impunity be allowed to dispose
of her without her free consent. It is then an immense
disadvantage for all the arrangements prepared, or in
way of arrangement between the two branches, to have
the air of being effected with the view of taking posses-
sion of the country. And besides can it be believed
that if the two branches are not absolutely irreconcile-
able, certain political nun are so? It has been found
impossible to cause the Orleanists to lice well together;
can it be believed possible to cause Orleanists and Legi-
tim .vsts to do so? Is it in human nature to forget 20 years
of fierce struggle, insult, calumny, and persecution? Our
readers see then that a man must live in chimerical re-
gions to believe that the union of the two branches of
the House of Bourbon, even if it were intimate and hn-
rnediste, would cause the union, much more difficult and
much more important, of old parties, and would offer to
France an early, serious, efficacious solution of the im-
mense problem laid down in the public conscience."
It would appear from the contents of the Legiti-
matist journals that there are no " honest, intelligent
moderate men," in the Constitutionnel sense of the
phrase, among the journalists of that party, for, with
one accord, without even the exception of the Union,
they protest as vehemently as the most democratic of
the Republican journals against any attempt to pro-
long the presidential powers of Louis NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE, and call as loudly for a rigid investiga
Lion into the constitution and aims of the Society o
the 10th December.

and enlightened constitution. Nevertheless, the danger
to the state is very far indeed from having been alto-
gether avoided. Intervention is still imminent on
the part of some other and more powerful princi-
pality. The ELECTOR may be brought back by the
bayonets of his
_allies, and thrust with his ob-
noxious policy upon the unwilling acceptance of the
Hessian multitude. This calamity, be it observed, is
rendered passible by the existing system of relation-
ship organized among the states of Germany—a
system as detrimental to the interests, and
as prejudicial to the liberties of each
respective principality, as it is injurious
to the cause, the glory, and the power of the whole
Germanic Confederation. It is earnestly to be hoped
that a new and powerful incentive may be given to
the labours of the Central Diet by the late important
struggle between the Hessians and their Government•

We find the following in the Assemilie Nationale :
" The three great Parliamentary clubs were founded
during the last session. One which met at the Palais
d'Orsay, another in the Rue de Rivoli, and the third at
the Hotel Frascati. In consequence of the ideas of con-
ciliation expressed by the Count de Chambord at Wies-
baden, these three clubs are now united under the name
of the Cercle du Droit National."

Although the " fusion of the two branches of the
Houses of Bourbon " is pompously announced in the
Legitimatist journals, and the restoration of the reign
of the parti-pretre, and a crusade against liberty, and
an intimate Russian alliance declared to be a necessary
consequence, it does not appear certain that the said
fusion has taken place. M. TIIIERS, who has shown
much greater shrewdness and foresight than any of
the other ex-Ministers of Louts PHILIPPE, is deci-
dedly opposed to any such fusion on any condi •
tions, and the Duchess of ORLEANS, who has not
yet signified formally her assent to this project of
fusion, has been always hitherto guided by the advice
of M. TRIERS.

Consols

Ditto Account

Repeatedly as we have commented upon the shame-
less extravagance visible in our dockyards, we can-
not but avail ourselves of every opportunity which
appears to illustrate yet more clearly the fact of this
profligate and useless expenditure. Our pertinacity
upon this subject is attributable to a painful sense of
the energies, of the resources, of the wealth, and of
the intelligence which are squandered about in mere
experiments. A letter addressed to a morning Con-
temporary demonstrates in a rather novel and impres-
sive manner the nature of this enormous evil, proving
more conspicuously than ever the necessity fur some
wholesome and comprehensive supervision. "In
the year 1830," says the anonymous writer,
" I visited Portsmouth Dockyard. The Nep-
tune was then building—a magnificent first-rate
—to carry 136 guns. I looked upon her with awe
and veneration, as a type of our maritime superiority,
destined to carry terror to our enemies, protection to
our commerce, and to renew our ancient glory on the
deep." So much for the first act in the Comedy of
Errors relating to the Neptune. The curtain drops
in the midst of the golden dreams of the spectator. A.
considerable period is supposed to have elapsed be-
tween that time and its second rising, for we find the
writer proceeding thus :—" Twenty years after-
wards I again visited Portsmouth Dockyard. I found
my old acquaintance, the Neptune, in dock repair-
ing, though she had never been to sea. The scales
fell from my eyes, and, with something akin to con-
tempt, I viewed her as one amongst the many means
by which Ministerial candidates secure votes for the
borough of Portsmouth—in plain words—a gross and
gigantic bribe." A miserable lesson is taught by
this reflection, such a lesson as it would be worth
while for the electors to bear in mind,
when taking into consideration the merits of
a Ministerial candidate. " If," says the
Writer of the letter, in conclusion, "I survive another
twenty years, and am able to bobble once again
through the dockyard, I expect to find my old ac-
quaintance, like myself, breaking up." The conjec-
ture is unhappily but too reasonable. Of this the nation
has been already assured by a bitter experience. The
Neptune, though a glaring, is anything but an isolated
instance of such extravagance. Fur all the good that is
derived from such product ions,our shipbuilders might as
reasonably have been employed in constructing flj log
machines on the principle of Mr. HENSON, or flying
islands on the plan of Mr. GULLIVER. If such absurdi-
ties are permitted to repeat themselves, when can we
rationally hope to witness either an efficient navy or a
judicious retrenchment ?

The Mayor and Municipal Council of Rochefor
have decided on presenting an address to the PAESI.
- -

e 4 p
87 p
96

DENT of the Republic, begging him to honour the
port with his presence at the launch of the Ville.
de-Paris, line-of•battle ship, on the sth of net
month.

64 p
68 p
68 p

Little business was transacted on the Bourse, owing
to the absence of the Israelite bankers and specula-
tors. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 75c., and
closed at 93f. 55c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at
58f. Sc.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 780 f. ; Rouen,
592 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 462 f. 50c. ; Vierzon,
350 f. ; Basle, 1181. 75c.; Bordeaux, 393 f. 75c. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 3421. 50c. ;
_Tours and Nantes,

ONE CLIN
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.. PRICOSES.G miller, Bonds
Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto, Account
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto,. Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto. Account ..... .
Ditto, Small
Peruvian Bends, 41j per Cent —
Ditto, Account .........
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 41,E per Cent . 97
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account .
Ditto, Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Beligan, 4% per Cent.
YRICEs OF BUSINEIib DONE CLOSI
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE :s
Aberdeen 5O .... — . —
Do.:Preferenee......... 81 ...... die. — dis.
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 81,x......
kyrshire and Galloway.. 7%
Belfast & County Down 32 — Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Do, withoutguarantee 20
firming, Wolverh'ton,
and rudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 15
Do. without guarantee 15
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 14s ... .. .
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 26
.tristol and Exeter 100 ... .. 65 q
.uckingliamshire ...... 1714 •174 ...
Caledonian
Do. New 10/. Pref..— 10
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Direct London & Ports-
month
Dublin and Belfast June. 45 ...... x.d — x.d
)undalk & Enniskillen 30
E sat Anglian, 25/., L. & •••
E. and L. and D... 25
Do. 18/., E. & 11..... 18 ...
Do., 3/. 10s., Pref....... 3%. ...
.....
Do., (SL) 7 per Ct.
Preference. ..... ... 5 ...... ••• •
Ditto, (71. 175.) 7 per
Cent., Preference... 2
-.astern Counties.... 2O •••••• 5% 6••••••••••••
tAtto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13s. 4d.... 1% p.. ••• ••
Ditto ditto. No. 2...6/. 13e. 4d... Ai p
Do., New Preference,
F er Cent.. .. lO ......
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent.
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
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 614 — ..
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ...
East Linco!nshirt., guar.
6 par Cent.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
I,4iin., Perth, & Dundee 25
Ditto, Newport
Exeter.Yeovil, & DerclL 254, —
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and

240 f. ; the New Roman Loan, 74
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 1
Boulogne and Amiens, 7% ex div.—Dutch Rhenish,2%—
Luxembourg, lih —Northern of France, 14%—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 214—Paris and Rouen, 24—Rouen and Havre, 10
—Sambre and Meuse, 23i.

19%

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived.

After the mass for the repose of the soul of ex-
King Louis PHILIPPE, which the Duke and Duchess
DE MONTPENSIEE caused to be celebrated in the
Cathedral of Seville, their Royal Highnesses dis-
tributed 11,000 reels in alms, I,ooof. of them to the
indigent French. The Clamor Publico was seized
on the 10th. General NARVAEZ had received the au-
thorities, and had waited on the KING. He was
afterwards to be received by the QUEEN. He had at-
tended a Cabinet Council. All the rumours of a
change of Ministry had died away.

65%
174
8%
5%

10,6

6
% P
A P

THE QUEEN OF TEE BELGIANS.---The last accounts
of the state of the health of her Majesty the Queen of the
Be'pians are much more favourable. Two physicians from
Paris and her Majesty's ordinary medical attendant have
held a consultation, and have pronounced that the alarming
symptoms have diminished during the last few days.
Auscultation has been adopted, and no imminent symptoms
have been discovered. Her Majesty enjoys good rest, and
there is no fever.

THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMFRS' COM..
PANY.—Yesterday a large number of the shareholders con-
nected with the above-mentioned company met at their
woks on Bow-common, f..r the purpose of inspecting the
progress of the same, and reporting proceedings. Mr. Charles
Pearson, City Solicitor, was present, and also several mem-
bers of the Corporation. The party proceeded to view the
enormous gasometers, four in number, now being prepared
for the supply of the City, and the several subordinate
works, after wit ch they examined the conirecdious premises
which it is intended to use for retorts, refining-houses, coal-
sheds, and other necessary appurtenances. The site is close
by the Blackwell (branch) Railway to Bow, from which
point it may be seen to advantage. It was stated upon the
ground that the whole of the pipes for supplying the city of
London are now laid, and that such supply might be expected
in the course of a few days. Both the quantity required and
the quality of the gas have teen tested, and the result has
proved highly satisfactory. The directors retired, highly
pleased with the statements made by the engineer and his
officers, by whom the shareholders were assured that they
would receive their supply of gas by the time specified in
their contract, viz., the 29th inst.

19
93/4

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Carlisle Bt. 6s. 8d.... .....
& Ayr 50 ..... .
Do. Preference Consol. ......
Gloucester & Dean Forest 14 .........
Great Northern
.....
yo., 'IQ A Deferred
.......
Do., 1/2 13 6 per Cent 111,2......
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 1214 .... 12 .............
,real South.
(Ireland) ........ 50 ...... 334 ....... 33!Axd.
Ditto, Eighths 2 %„.„ •
nat North of Engls.nd.loo •• • •
Ditto, New, 401. ..... ... 40 ......
Ditto, New, 30/ 3O
Ditto, New,lsl l5 ..... .

MORE PENNY SUBSCRIPTIONS.—A news-agent of
this town has issued handbills, inviting parties to contribute
to a penny subscription, the object of which is to raise a fund
for erecting a statue in honour of Barclay and Perkins's
drayraen I•-Liverpool kiail.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1850.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 15,000 bales, of which 500 American were
taken for export, and 7,000 American and 600 Surat on
speculation. The market closed with animation at
to id. advance in American. Other kinds were also td.
per lb. dearer.—ln Railway Shares a good business was
done at much higher rates.
The letters by the American steamer refer very ge-
nerally to the cotton crop as a metier of absorbing in-
terest, and one is still puzzled, as is always the
case, indeed, to arrive at a satisfactory con-
clusion. It is contended, among other things,
that the arrival of the first bale of Cotton is no
index of the aggregate yield, and this is probably true
since there may be a little pride with the American
grower, as with the English hop-planter, to produce the
earliest specimen. Although we may allow, however,
that the receipt of a few bales is not a fair criterion, we
must assert that the fact is often established thereby
that the crop is forward, and that usual!)
further supplies rapidly follow. It is shown by
figures that in the year 1840 the plant was in
bloom on the 6th June, the first bale was received at
New Orleans on the 7th of August, and a damaging
frost occurred on the 16th October; the crop being
1,634.000 bales. In the year 1842 the plant bloomed on
the 17th May, the first bale was received July 25, a
severe trust occurred on the Ist of November, and the
crop was 2,378,000 bales. In 1848 the first bale was re•
ceived August 9, and the crop reached 2,728,000 bales.
In 1849 the first bales reached August 7, and a frost oc-
curred after picking, the crop being 1,950,000 bales. In
1850 the plant was i❑ bloom June 10, and the first bale
was received August 11, but the extent of the crop re-
mains for a future chronicler.
At Amsterdam on Sunday there were extensive deal-
ings in Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds at higher prices.
The ship arrivals from distant parts bring no intelli-
gence of general interest or of later date.
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have received
ad vices from Vera Cruz, dated 13th ult., rid the United
States, by the Europa, announcing the shipment of
40,559 dollars 7 cents by the Great Western, towards
the payment of dividends. The estimate of the amount
pending in Vera Cruz at that date for account of the
bondholders was as follows:

c.
Pending on the 16th July last
Approximate calculation of duties for
July, 1850

16,400 0

Less amount collected to date
14 10
10

---
Pending on 13th August 139,208 32
It cannot fail to have attracted notice that the remit-
tances for the dividends have lately fallen considerably
short of the amount required to pay the three per
cent, per annum, which the bondholders are disposed
to accept, and which, indeed, M. Falconnet will
do doubt have been instructed to acquiesce in. So far
this bears out the tabular statements given a month or
two since under this head in illustration of the dimi-
nished number of vessels that had sailed for the Mexican
ports, and accounts for the insufficiency of the import
duties. At the same time we have to bear in mind that
the Mexican Government promises an appropriation
of other revenue, if the new arrangement proposed is
carried out. One would be glad to learn when Colonel
Facio expects some definite answer from his Govern-
ment as to the disposal of the amount in the Bank of
England, for the holders of Mexican stock are doubly
chagrined at the know ledge that there is money in hand,
and that a mere technical difficulty and differences be-
tween the representative c f the Government and Messrs.
Schneider prevents its distribution.
The English Funds are barely so good as they were
yesterday, but the only security open to public transfer
at present being Consols, there is very little doing. The
number of speculators present is now very small, as the
shooting season allures them to the country. Exche-
quer-bills have been 645. is 675. premium, which is a
shade better. Great uncertainty appears to exist among
the time bargain dealers as to the future course of events.
The prospect of the money market is all in favour of a
rise, but Continental politics are unsettled.
The quotations for Mexican Bonds have rallied to 30
and 301, and there is more life in them. Peruvian
Four-end-a-Half per Cents. are worth 82i. Buenos
Ayres Bonds have been 58kand Brazilian 92. Portu•
geese Four per Cents. have realised 33i, and Spanish
Five per Cents. 191. Belgian Fuur.and-a-Halt per
Cents. have been 91k.
Railway Shares have continued in great favour, and
there is a further rise in most of them.
Referring to the advance in Railway Shares, Messrs.
John Railton and Sons, of Manchester, state that " since
the 26th August we have again made an estimate of
twenty three lines of unguarauteed railway stock, under
the presumption of a purchase of one share in each on
the 26th April, amounting in the whole to an outlay of
7331. 16s. 3d., and we find the result to be as follows--
namely, in one concern there is no variation in the mar-
ket value, on five there is a loss of Si. 2s. 6d., but
a gain on sixteen, of 52/. 12s. 6d., making a further
profit between the 26th of July and the 12th of Septem-
ber of 61. per cent., which added to that of 3/. 7t.t. 3d. per
cent. gained between the 26th of April and the 26th of
July, makes a total of a/. 7s. 3d. per cent. on the 12th of
September, or 68/. 13s. 4d. on the whole adventure of
the twenty-three slarev, or at the rate of 1811. 12s. 4d.
per annum." This, upon 733/., is of course to be con-
sidered a very handsome return, and although it is hardly
to be assumed that a proportionate rise would occur
throughout the year, there are the dividends to be taken
into account, and an averaging of investments is shown
to be both safe and profitable.
QUARTER TO THREE.
... 96i
•• ••• ••• 96/
oNE CLOSING
PRICES OF BEITIsfI IeGNDi O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 ~,01 cont. eonsole ..... 96% 96%
..ong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 8
India Bonds, 1,000/
Ditto under 1,0004..
Consols for Account 96A%
lachequer Bills. 11)4,..fg 2d
1,0001. June .
5001. June
Small. June

;rent Western 100 ... 72% 72 73% 7214 Xi 72
Ditto- New 171— ..... 15 ... 10 9% ... . ...... 93/4
Hull and Se'by .. ...... 50 ...... 95
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Do. Quarter Shßro,... 12% — .. •
Lancaster and Carlisle... 51'
Ditto, Thirds
Lalea.,!hirt: & Yorksiure 100 .. ... 48% 49
Do. Quarters .... ..... 2314 — ...... —
Do. i' il ths ... ......... ... 11
Do. Thirds ... .. .18
Do. New, Gua.6 per et. 10
Ditto (Iludctersfield
and Shetf. ) 5O
Do. (W. Riding, Union) 11
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 6
Do.. do. 'co. 2 17
Do., do. No. 3 5 ..... _.—
... ........ ••
D., Pref. Quar., 1818 9
Liverpool, Crosby and

. ..
Southport l5
London & Black wa11...114 6s. 3d 5%.
Lon,on, Brighton, and
South Coast... .....100
Do.Gusrant. 5 per ct.. 9 -
Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 -
Ditto ditto-- 18f,2 50 .. ...
Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent . ...100
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... - -
Ditto, Preference. 2O
•• .. -
La ndon and N. western 100 . 1151,4 115 115,4 115
Otto. New Quarters 17 l9 ... ... 19
Ditto, Fifths
Do. 101. (M. & B.) C 1 ...... - -
Loadon & :.W-,tern -.100 .....72,1 73 71 71% 71112
Do, New 50/. . ....... 42 %...... - ... ..... -
Do. New 404 .. 84 - -
Do., New Preference.. 6 -
Londonderry&Coleranie 25 ..... - - ....... -
Do. 1,4 Shares . ...... .. 5 - -
Londonderry and Enzus-
killen
Do. % Shares - -
Lowestoft guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... -
Ditto (6 per et.)
Minchester,l3uxton,and
Matlock._ 614 -
M inche,ter, Sheffield, .-
and Lincolnshire ..100 - -
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 ... _ _-..„, -
Ditto, New 1C! Pref... 10 - -
Do., Manchester and
Lincoln Union ..... .41. 2a. - - dis. .... - dis.
Milland
Do. ConsolidatedPref.loo - .....
Do., 50/. Shares
Do.,liirm. and Derby 100
Do. Consolid. Bristol &
Birming., ti per ct.... 100 -
Ditto,BrisL & Glocstr. 46 ...... - ...... ..... -
Ditto ditto .. 291. 16s. Od .•• - ..• •• ...... -
Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 -
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
.-
nington, 8 per et. guar.loo -
Midland Great Western
Irish 47% •••••• ....... ...
Middlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar. - -
Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ....... - -
Do. Quarters - -
Newmarket - -
Do. Extension
N ewport, Abergavenny, ,
i.nd Hereford 6 .•..•• -
Newry and Enniskillen 7 -
Newry, Warrenpomt,
and Roetrevor 2O - .. ....
Norfolk ......... ....... ....100
Do. New 201. ... l5 -
Do. Extension ........ 20 -
Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 ...... - . ...
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... -
N,rthera Counties Union 4 ...... - ...........
North Britisa ~...... ... 25
Ditto Preference 5 - ...... ..... ..
North Staffordshire ... 17% 7% 7...
North-Western . l7 - ............. ..
Oxiard, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Preston & W yre 25 ... .. 19
De. % Shares (A) lO%. 7
needing, Guildford, ar....:
Reigate
~oyston and Hitchin - 614 - ... -
Do. Shepreth Eaten . % -
Scottish Centrist
Scottish Midland - .. ..... ..••• '.
Ditto, New - - ' -....•-• -
Sarev.imary and Biro; Biro; 1314 ...... 8% die
Ditto ditto, Class B. 9% . ..... 7 di5....~.
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... - -
Shrewsbury and ilerefd. 5 ...... - `" --
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W.11.1.in.) - ... -
Ditto Halves -
Ditto Oewestry - -
Ditto New - -
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 - -
Soropsfure Union
S ,uth Devon
Do. Preference
.••• •••• •••• .....
South Staffordshire B% -
..• 4%
5, nth Eabturu ..
Do., No. 3.. ..... ...... 30 - ...... ......... -
Do., Registered No. 410 . 6%%,.......... 6%
South W ales - •••• • -
3....ut.11 Yorkshire, Don-
c ester, and Goole l5 - -
Sheffield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent. ... 18%
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 6 - -
S wails. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stni. C0a1.... 10 - -
TAW Vale Extension ... 9%. - ... ... .....
Taames Raven Dock
and Railway ..... ... 17%...... - -
Vale of Neath ... .. l3 -
Waterford and Kilkenny 20 -
Waterford and Limerick 47% -
N atkr td,W xfrd,Wicklw.
and Dubin). -
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed .. .. 5O
owe ••••••
Do. do. do. ... 25 - -
Do. do. do. ... 15 ..... - ........ .....
.Y est Cornwall ......... 7 %... - -.. -
v hitebaven & Furness 20 - -
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 14 ...... - ..... . -
+V Lab, mnnerset,& VV ESP.
mouth - -
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ... ...... - 25
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20 - x.d ...... .• - x.d
Do. G.N.E. Preference 9 ... -4% 4%
Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway - 100 ...... -
York anti IN ono Midland 50
o,t L.,., Preference
FOREIGN RAIL wAYs.
Aug'. Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian). ... 6% - -
Jamiegue and Animus... 20 ...... 7%% x.d.
Central of France (Ur-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 - -
Demerara -
Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. -
a ast Indian 9 - - Onm•
Ditto ...... ..... .... ... . 20 - -
Great Indian Peninsular 6 - -
Do. Do. ... -..N.. 1% -
Louvain ito f•ambre ... 7% - -
Luxembourg -
Ditto .. .... - •.• •• -
Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... - --
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. - -
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 2%
Vans and Orleans ...... 20 ..... - .... -
Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 2414 24
Paris and Strasbourg ... 14
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... ..'.:—.. ...• ••••• • .....
Strasbourg and Basle -
fours and Nantes . 14 ...... -
Tourney, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ...... 20 -
West Flanders. .... -..... 81/4.. „.. -
JOINT STUCK BANKS.
Australasia , 4O - ....... ....•...
British North American 50
Colonial 25 ...».7%
,oinmercial of London 20
London Joint Stock...-. 10 ...... -
London & Westminster. 20 ..... -
MINES.
(31 ited Mexican

12%

ONIM
191,42
8

10%
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27A

LLO YD'S SHiPPIN G.-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 17.—Wind at noon N.E., moderate
breeze and cloudy.
HARWICH, SEPT. 16.—The Chatham, of Rochester,
hence to Hull, is too leaky to proceed.
JERSEY, SEPT. 15.—A bottle was picked up on the
13th inst., in Boulay Bay, containing a memorandum in
pencil—" Aug. 10, 1850—The Pandora merchant vessel,
off the coast of France, laden with rum and sugar. All
is over, God forgive us.—J. Fitzroy, passenger."
STR,AINESS, SEPT. 12.—The Brothers, from Davis'
Straits, report the Thomas Graham, of Lerwick, with
20.000 cod, and the Reliance, Macduff, with 2,000. 11th.
The Jessie, of Sunderland, tallow laden, which capsized
off Anholt, about the 28th ult., was fallen in with, 6th
inst., floating on her cargo, about two Swedish miles from
the shore, in a dangerous situation for vessels passing to
or from the Baltic, her keel being merely two feet above
the water's edge. The salvors, finding they cannot ex-
tricate her, intend brt aking her up, to save as much of
the cargo as possible.
DEAL, SEPT. 16.—Wind E. to E. by N., fresh and
cloudy.—Arrd. Wanderer, Berwick, Pictou. Arid. from
the river and sailed, Osborne, Cape of Good Hope; Eliza,
Madeira; • Confidence, Lima; Margaret Evans, New
York.
COWES, SEPT. 16.—Wind E.—Arrd. James, But-
rowes, Bermuda.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—Wind E.N.E.—Off port, Duke
of Wellington, Duncan, Calcutta.
LIVEsPooL, SEPT. 16.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd.:Juverna,
Juxter, Picton ; Frances, M.Nulty, Calcutta ; Epami-
Hondas, Poal, Quebec. Sid. Times, Realejo; Swan, Monte
Video. Off port, Rowalbo.
NEWPORT, SEPT. 16.—Wind N.E.—Sid. TELetui,
New York.
SWANSEA, SEPT. 16.--Wind E.—Arrd. Lady Proud-
hoe, CLarleton, Cuba; Edward R.,hinson, Leland, Cuba.

The Archbishop of Yolk has appointed the Rev.
W. Keen, /11. A , curate of St. Peter's, Derby, to the rectory
of Egton, Yorkshire.

A few days ago a boy f,ll overboard from a barge
lying in the Grand Surrey Docks, near to the premises of
Moore, one of the men employed by the company. The
moment the alarm was gives, Moore darted out from his
house, plunged into the water, and brought up the boy from
under the barge in a state of complete insensibility. Moore's
wife was:washing. and a tub of hot water being ready at the
time, she placed the poor child in it, and, before professional
assistance could be procured, bad the satisfaction to restore
him in a few minutes to consciousness, and took him home to
his parents next morning in perfect health. The boy was
the fifth human being saved by Moore in the Surrey Docks,
and the eighth he has saved during his own life by his in-
trepidity and coolness. The Lock Company presented him
with a small gratuity, and instructed their secretary to com-
municate the particulars et the accident to the Royal Litulano
kocietyt '