The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

however, of any authority or right which we pos-
sessed, had the French previously, even, enacted the
tragi-comic burletta of their descent upon Otaheite,
to question the " business of the latter," whilst we
were negotiating the Pottinger Treaty, " in risking
the peace of their neighbours," by playing off their
squadrons in the waters of China, or elsewhere, "for
the gratification of national vanity." If, without any
trade to defray the cost of such extravagant follies
they will perpetrate them in those distant seas, they
must pay the penalty of a favourite caprice—as private
individuals do—by standing the brunt of dispropor-
tionate charges. But how far their mode of indulging
this caprice may put in jeopardy the security of life
and property with our own subjects, resident within the
same regions, is a matter for our legitimate considera-
tion, and abundant justification for any precautionary
measures which the depositories of British authority
there may think fit, in the exercise of their official
responsibility, to adopt. We are, therefore, fully
alive to all the dangers that may accrue from unfortu-
nate collisions between the native Chinese, and the
crews of American and French, or other European
ships. Perhaps it is to be regretted that the Pottin-
ger Treaty contained no effectual stipulations against
the admission of other flags into the stipulated Chinese
ports, except on terms less favourable than those which
we had won for ourselves; but it is not certain that such
stipulations could have been, under the circumstances,
insisted on by our Plenipotentiary ; or that, if granted
to his demands and representations, they would have
been ratified by our Government at home. The case
of American interests in China, and the manner in
which any mal-administration of them, or any dis-

able enemy. It is the odious, paltry system of Exclu-
siveness, which for the best part of a century has
been yearly on the increase among us, that has
brought about this injurious state of things; and
never will it be well with England till rank and
wealth have learned to abate something of their pride
and assumption, and to recognise the social claims of
humanity, no matter whether it be clad in a smock-
frock or a fustian jacket, and call itself an operative
or a labourer.

Madrid journals, of the 4th inst , announce that
the differences between Spain and Morocco have been
adjusted. The conditions, according to the Heraldo,
are as follow :—" The Arab who caused the Spanish
Vice- Consul to be assassinated is to be severely
punished. Our Government will receive indemnities
for all the acts of piracy which have been committed
on Spanish vessels. Two leagues of territory are to
b~ granted to Spain beyond the lines of Ceuta. The
Spanish flag shall be saluted by the Morocco cannon."
It is thought that the Government will not hesitate to
ratify this arrangement, which will appear imme-
diately in the Gazette. The troops which were as-
sembled to form part of the Morocco expedition are
already ordered to march back into the interior.
This conclusion of our differences with the Emperor
of MOROCCO is generally attributed to the good
offices and intervention of Mr. BULWRR.
The elections in the twelve districts of Madrid
continued favourable to the Government candidates,
among whom are MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, ALCALA
GALIANO, the Duke DR CASTRO TERRENO, the Mar-
quis DE MIRAFLORES, &c. The leaders of the Pro-
gresista party had given up the contest in despair :
so it is extremely probable that NARVAEZ will have a
Parliament sufficiently pliable to register any act,
however unconstitutional. He and his colleagues, of
course, will obtain an indemnity for all their illegal
deeds since the abrupt dissolution of the last Cortes.

sensions between subjects of the United States and
those of the Celestial Empire, might compromise the

rights and privileges, the property and security of
British subjects, living within the EMPEROR'S domi-
nions—presents additional features of difficulty, and
will demand more circumspection in the dealing with,
than even the possible objects or results of the French
squadron off the Chinese coasts. These additional
features consist in the long establishment of the United
States Factory, and the extent and variety of the
trade carried on by American speculators with the
Chinese at Canton ;—in the identity of their lan-
guage and manners with our own ; and even in the
similarity of their costume with our's, this last ele-
ment of resemblance being far from an insignificant
one in the eyes of an Asiatic people. How are they
to distinguish between the subjects of a flag with
stripes and those of a fiqg with crosses, in the confu-

The Three per Cents. were done at 271 at sixty
days; the Floating Debt at 61 at sixty days; and the
Coupons at 25i at sixty days.

The Prince Da JOINVILLE has forwarded another long
dispatch to Admiral Mactuu, the Minister of Marine,
giving numerous details of the attacks on Tangiers and
Alogadore. The publication of this document, so long
after the bombardment, has taken the good people of
Paris by surprise. Some believe that it is the first
dispatch with emendations and additions, others that
it has been drawn up by authority to put to shame
those jealous Englishmen who would allow the French
no merit in silencing the forts of Tangiers. For our-
selvcs, we see nothing new or extraordinary in the
details, but are nevertheless glad that they afford
great satisfaction to the French.
" The French cannon," says the Constitutionnel,
" which have battered down the walls of Mogadore,
has at the same time silenced the insolent remarks of
the English press on our action at Tangiers. The
affairs of Mogadore and Isly are the peremptory
reply of our seamen and soldiers to their unworthy
calumniators. Unfortunately we have not similar
answers to return when the English compare with
pride the all-powerful action of their Parliament
to the limited action of our Chambers, and the con-
stitutional independence of their Ministers to that of
ours, who are always as it were in leading strings.
When the English tell this to us, a country of repre-
sentative institutions, a country which consequently
ought to have the will and the means to make use of
its own physical energy in its government, it must
be acknowledged that such language is humiliating
in the highest degree to a free people."
The National thus accounts for the publication of
the dispatch, taking care, of course, to show bad feel-
ing towards England and M. GUIZOT :—" The dis-
patches just published from the Prince DI JonsviLLE,
although they give us nothing new, are yet a com-
plete, though tardy, reply to the insolent and stupid
letters of the officers of the Warspite. Our sailors
had been amply revenged by the contempt with which
these calumnies had been received in France. They
nevertheless met with a kind of support in the silence
observed by the Government on the first operations
of the fleet. It would appear that his report con-
tained some political remarks which were not favour-
able to England, and a fresh report has been ob-
tained, which might be published without giving
offence to the particular friends of M. GUIZOT. This
report again mentions that the Prince had been for-
bidden to take possession of Tangiers, and this pro-
hibition extended also to the other places on the
coast. What the result of this line of policy will be
time will show."
The Revue de Paris, which, from the precision
with which it gives sayings and doings in the British
Cabinet, would make the world believe that it has a
reporter standing behind the President's chair, gives
the following as matters of fact :
" We have received curious details respecting the de-
liberation of the English Ministers, in consequence of
which the arrangement of the Otaheite affair was con-
cluded. It appears that the question of war was first put
and debated, and that the discussion left in the minds of
the majority of the Ministers a conviction that it was
impossible for England, at the present moment, to go to
war. This impossibility being acknowledged, the mem-
bers of the Cabinet agreed as to the interest which Eng-
lish policy had in the maintenance of M. Guieot's Mi-
nistry. That consideration contributed in making it
accept the terms proposed by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. It is said that the Queen interfered actively
with regard to her Ministers, in order to give a pacific
solution to the quarrel. Commodore Toup Nicolas, and
the commander of the French forces in the South Seas,
are the arbitrators of the indemnity to be accorded by
M. Guisot to the missionary Pritchard. The English
Ministry make this indemnity an important portion of
the arrangement. It reckons upon this condition to jus-
tify to the Parliament the assurance given by Sir Robert
Peel, that the honour of England would be taken care of.
He sees, and with reason, in this indemnity, a recognition
of the injustice done to Mr. Pritchard."

sion and resentment of a popular melee ? And yet,
on the fact and correctness of this distinction, may be
hazarded the valuable lives of English residents and

mnouncing that the Government of the Two Sicilies
is at present revising its tariffs, with a view to dimi-
nishing the iuties now pressing on foreign exports.
The letter adCs that the Neapolitan Cabinet has re-
nounced all hope of concluding an advantageous
treaty with France, England, and Spain, but that it
was on the point of entering into negotiations with
the Zollverein.

their families in China—the security of their property
—or the inviolability of their personal liberty in those
ports where we may not have at hand a sufficient
protective force.

We are glad to find that at Cantor), after the affair
of the weathercock, which we have above alluded to

(and where, probably, it may turn out that the un-
designed offence committed by the American Consul
was the adoption of a figure hostile and defying in
the eyes of a semi-barbarous and Tartar-governed
people, namely, an arrow), a very proper step was
taken by the resident foreign gentry (English, Ame-
rican, &c.) They issued a placard, strongly incul-
cating the maintenance of a good feeling to, and
a good understanding with, the natives. Of course
otir accredited authorities on the spot must be the
best and most competent judges of the course to be

taken under such emergencies as have so recently
happened, and may so soon again break out. But we
may, without presumption, express a hope that it will
be a standing principle, for the future, in their admi-
nistrative and executive proceedings, sedulously to
keep up in every Government act, proclamation, order,
police regulation, &c., &c., a clear and explicit
distinction—an exclusive identification —of English
rights, interests, and responsibilities also, as contra-
distinguished from those of every other foreign na-

tion, having established relations in the Chinese ter-
ritory. The Chinese themselves will be the first to
recognise the propriety of these distinctive arrange-
ments ; and their natural good sense, as well as their
respect for tranquillity and order, and their disci-
plined observance of them, will make them not
merely willing observers of, but active auxiliaries in,
enforcing arrangements which, whilst they wilt pro-
tect the peaceful foreigner, conforming to the requi-
sitions of those who represent his own Government,
and to the laws of the empire wherein they are esta-
blished, will not afford the dangerous shelter of diffi-
culty and confusion in identifying offenders against
those laws, to any parties under English jurisdiction.

The proposal for making free public parks and
walks in the neighbourhood of Manchester and Sal-
ford for the recreation of the labouring classes, is fast
increasing in favour with people of all ranks in that
populous district. The manufacturers, in particular,
who have been so often accused by the monopolists
of indifference towards the comforts of the operatives
in their employ, are taking up the matter with great
zeal, and have already handed in subscriptions to a
considerable amount—the surest guarantees for their
sincerity in the cause. Sir RonEwr Pim, too—who
owes so many obligations -to the industry of the
Manchester working-classes, of which to his credit be
it said, he is not unmindful—has contributed the mu-
nificent sum of one thousand pounds ; so that the
scheme thus fairly set a going and under
the most fortunate auspices—for the Premier's
approbation is " a tower of strength"—will
not henceforth be allowed to slumber, but
within a short space of time will be successfully
accomplished. We must confess, notwithstanding its
obvious simplicity, which :we fear will not recom-
mend it to those who maintain crotchety theories on
the subject of the improvement of the humbler orders
of society, and who are apt to turn with philosophic
contempt from all plans but such as are abstruse and

mpracticablc—notwithstanding, we say, the obvious
simplicity of this scheme of public paths and. walks,
we entertain the most sanguine anticipations as to its
results, and are confidently of opinion that it will do
more to raise and refine the character of the opera-
tive classes than all the churches and cone
venticles that could be erected, were one to be
built in every street and square and alley of
Manchester. Health has more to do with
religion and morality than may be imagined
when the body is in a sound state from the combined
operation of daily fresh air and exercise, it imparts
its genial, bracing tone to the mind, which is conse-
quently full of cheerful thoughts, and grateful emo-
tions—the soil most favourable to the growth of
virtue ; but when, on the contrary, the body is en-
feebled by the pressure of disease arising from in-
ability to get a mouthful of pure air, the mind,
almost of necessity, takes the same sickly tone, and
becomes jaundiced, splenetic, and a prey to feelings
and reflections of the most injurious tendency. To
make the operative classes happy and contented with
their lot, we must give them health ; and to give them
health, we must furnish them with the means
of daily enjoying a country walk, and ex-
changing the stifling atmosphere of the fac-
tory for the fresh, invigorating winds of
Heaven. The establishment of public parks will
place these inestimable blessings within their reach.
Hence there is no question of the day in which the
statesman, the patriot, and the philanthropist are
bound to take a deeper interest. Bat not only will
this scheme be attended with the most favourable
results as regards the health of the working commu-
nity, but it will be still further beneficial, inasmuch
as it will tend to bring all classes of society in Man-
chester and its neighbourhood much more in contact
with each other than they have yet been. In the
course of his evening walks in the park,
when the day's toil is at an end, it will frequently
happen that the operative will meet his employer;
and gradually, as each sees more of the other, the
haqteur of the one and the distrust of the other
will abate, and feelings of mutual respect will grow
up between them, productive of the happiest conse-
quences to both. It is the separation of rich and
poor, of high and low into distinct classes—a separa-
tion which was unknown in England before the Re-
volution of 1688—that has done so much mischief to
society, and rendered popular legislation a task of
such difficulty; and we gladly hail, therefore, as •an
improved sign of the times, every attempt that
is made to throw down this absurd wall of
demarcation; and bring the different orders and
degrees of
people, who go to make up our com-
plicated social system, freely and fairly face 1
to face with each other. It is by no means a matter
of course that the poor man should distrust the rich
man, and the latter regard the former as his inevit-

We subjoin some miscellaneous extracts from the
Continental papers.
The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Pres-
burg, of the 31st ult., which gives some details of a
sitting of the Chamber of the Magnates of Hungary.
It says :

" The sitting of the Magnates of the 28th was exceed-
ingly important. It turned on the reform demanded by
the free cities and supported by the Chamber of the
States. The latter body insisted on the reform which
the upper Chamber opposed, strongly denying the right
of the other Chamber to use such language as they em-
ployed with respect to them. Count J. de Palffy, the
head of the Opposition, maintained that the Magnates
had no right to interfere, and impede the progress of the
democratic feeling, denying also that a set of men, igno-
rant, in debt, and servile, could be reckoned a real aris-
tocracy. Count Teleky went still farther, and moved
that the Upper Chamber should be abolished altogether,
as being animated with sentiments hostile to the nation
and the Constitution. On this, a great uproar arose, and
the Palatine who filled the President's chair endea-
voured to obtain silence, but ineffectually. Count Otto
Zichy even reproached the Conservative party with the
troubles which had recently taken place in Bohemia. In
the end, the propositions of the States were rejected."
A letter from Hamburgh, in the Journal de Franc-
fort, says :

" A fortune of a million and a half sterling has just
been inherited by a poor workman of Altona, in the
employ of MM. Baur. The Governor of Demerara
lately wrote to Lord Stanley,! mentioning that an indi-
vidual had just died in the colony who had, in 1790, left
in the bank of Altona a capital which would now amount
to a million anel a half, and that his son lived in that
city, and was entitled to the whole amount. Colonel
Hodges, the English Charg6 d'Affairs, was directed to
examine into the matter, and the result is, that the son
of the deceased being dead, the brother of the former is
considered the heir. He has chosen an able lawyer to
act for him, expressing his intention to continue in his
position of a workman until this colossal fortune shall be
handed over to him."

The Observateur Suisse states that the Prince D
METTERNICH has very recently declared the deter-
mination of his Government to see the independence
of Switzerland established on a firm basis, and to
recognise no distinction of parties.
We give the following from Ancona, 28th ult., in
the Augsburg Gazette :
" Three weeks ago a cutter, which left Malta under
the Greek flag, and which sailed in the direction of
Corfu, had on board some persons who are suspected of
having kept up relations with the committee of the party
called Young Italy in London. We now learn that these
incorrigible enemies of the public peace are preparing
1 for a new expedition against the Roman States. S'alva-
tore Fata, who is charged with the execution of this pro-
ject, was on board the cutter. He has for his mission to
receive into pay some Albanian brigands on the coast of
Greece, and to attempt with them a landing on some
favourable point. It is stated, from Calabria, that a
captain, who was in the Neapolitan service, is endea-
vouring to get up a revolt. The authorities, notwith-
standing their vigilance and activity, have not been able
to arrest him. There reigns in the Romagna, and par-
ticularly at Forti and Imola, a certain degree of agita-
tion, but the mass of the population is perfectly tran-
quil. They know well what they have to expect from
the malcontents ; they are aware to what the anarchical
and fanatical spirit of these misled men might conduct
them. Considerable sums of money have been lately
sent from Marseilles to Corfu and Calabria, for the
agents of the committee of Young Italy at London."
The same journal contain-3 n letter from Naples,

THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 12 1844.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 12.—Wind N.W., fresh breeze, and
fine.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 11.—Arrd. Toronto, Champlin,
New York. Sid. Queen, Calcutta. Off, Sylph, Tread-
well, AntiguA ; Agnes, Burgess, Jamaica.
SHOREHAM, SEPT. 11.—Acrd. George, Foley, Quebec.
COWES, SEPT 11.—Arrd. Thalia, Ichaboe.
DEAL, SEPT. 11.—A.M.Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.; P.M.
N.N.E. 10. P.M., N.W.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington,
Cole, China ; Lady llowden, Manilla ; Devonshire,
Stevens, Batavia ; Needands, India, ditto for Amster-
dam ; Edward, Java for Rotterdam ; Benares Gilki-
sin and Jagar, Reddington, Calcutta ; Fatima, Hawsen,
Rio for Altona ; Maria Christina, Voss, Porto Rico for
ditto ; Hayle, Lampson, Laguna for St. Petersburgh ;
I'anthea, New York for ditto. Sld. Sir Robert Peel,
Hobart Town ; Wm. Wise, Port Adelaide ; Mary Ann,
Ichaboe ; Bethea, Itio ; Hendrick Hudson, New York.
OFF TORBAY.—Bombay, Finley, China, sailed from
St. Helena, July 20.
OFF DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 11.—Andes, Smith, Bahia.
FALMOUTH. SEPT. 11.—Wind variable and light.—
Arrd. Elizabeth Baynon, Lower, Macao. Off, Baltasara,
Kuton, Valparaiso ; Ocean, de Rita, Port Republican,
sailed July 31, and sailed for Antwerp.
OFF PENZANCE, SEPT. 10.—Sultana, Lyall,
New South Wales.
OFF SCILLY, SEPT. 7.—Emma of Hamburg,h,
for Cowes.

ILFRACOMBE, SEPT. 11.—Arrd. Union, Newport,
for Liverpool, with damage, Sze., having been in co:itait
with a schooner, supposed of Buxhaven, which lost bow-
sprit, but proceeded.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 10.—S1d. James Daly, Bristol ;
William, Quebec.
SWANSEA, SEPT. 9.—Sld. Cobrero, Cuba.
MILFORD, SEPT. 10.—Arrd. Bristol, Sierra Leone.
ABERDWEY, SEPT. 10.—Arrd. Fury, Glaister, Quebec.
LLAMNADOCK, SEPT. B.—The schooner Margaret, of
Bristol, was brought into Whiteford Bury River, last
night, where she now lies much injured.
BANGOEWEUYEE, APRIL 15.—Proteus (whaler), of
Sydney ; first and second mate and one man drowned.
OFF THE START.—Elizabeth, Hamburgh, for Cape of
Good Hope and China.
SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 10.—Ski. Precursor, steamer,
Calcutta ; Circuvative, Cape of Good Hope ; Haaelugg,
Miramichi.
OFF SCILLY, SEPT. 3.—Sophil, Batavia, for Harnburgb.
OFF BIDEFGOD, SEPT. 10.—Arab, Howe, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
DUNDALK, SEPT. 9.—Sid. Alexander, St. John's, N.B.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 11.—Wind W.N.W., light.—Arrd.
Echo, Dunlop, Trinidad ; Hope, Robertson, Quebec.
Sld. Windermere, Africa ; Student, Pernambuco ; Sus.
E. Howell, Baltimore ; Roscius, New York ; Alemplus,
New York ; Caithnesshire, Halifax ; George Ramsey,
Quebec ; Royal William, Montreal. Off. Isabella,
Singapore, an American ship, supposed New York pac-
ket, off 16th ult.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Sept. 7, /E 44, made up from the Returns of
the Inspector: in the different Cities and Towns in Englan,? and
Wales, per Imperial Quarter
Wheat 4lts Oats ..... 21:. 5.1.1 Beane 3Bs. Id
a-rley 35, I Od. Rye ...... 345. 4d Pease 33s. iOd

AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS.
Weeks ending ;WHEAT. BARLEY.I OATS. I EYE. BEANS.

F BASS

Aug. 3 5l 03410203,(37 6 34 7 36 5
10 5B 10 34 6 20 1 35 9 35 0 34 2
• 17
24 4O 4 33 3 20 4 36 8 35 10 34 0
31
Sept. 7 .....
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES or THE SIX WEEKS
Wheat 49s 9d 1 Oats , ..... ... 20s 3i.1 8ean5.........36, Od
Parley 34s 6.1 I Rye
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.
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NAT ATARILETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 41 4s ;
Useful ditto, 416 s to 41 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 to
518 s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 6/ 65 ; Oat Straw, 116 s to
11 Es ; Wheat Straw, 1/ Es to 1/ lOs per load. A mode-
rate supply. Trade tolerably steady, at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—OOBXSC Meadow Hay, 3118 s to 4110 s;
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 513 s to
51 lOs ; Clover Bay, 4/10s to 61; Oat Straw, 118 s to 11
10s; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 12s per load. Sup-
ply good, and trade rather dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/15s to 4110 s;
Useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3s to
51 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/
6s to 11 Es ; Wheat Straw, 11 Es to 11 lOs per load.
Trade throughout rather dull, at the above quotations.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

West
North
Central
East ...
South..

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday at firm rates. Sales 1,200 bales American,
and the total 7,000 .bales.—South-Eastern and Dover
Shares were rather better, and a fair business was done
in railways. Birmingham and Gloucester, Quarter, 27i;
Bristol and Gloucester, 56f ; Chester and Wrexham, 41;
Dublin and Belfast, 4 6-20 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
664; Glasgow and Greenock, 12i ; Graad Junction,
Quarter, 394 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 351;
London and York, q; Midland Counties, 107.; North
British, 5i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 93f ; South-
Eastern, 38i; Ditto New, 12 ; York and North Midland,
104 f ; York and Selby, 37 ; Paris and Lyons, 2L 14s.
The delay in the arrival of the West India mail has
caused some uneasiness, as it is now four days over due.
In the Sydney papers received this morning to the
3d of May, there are many details relative to the affair
at Otaheite which has not yet appeared in the published
accounts from that quarter, connected with the late opera-
tions of the French against it. It is scarcely known
here that many of our countrymen who have settled in
Australia have had a constant commercial communica-
tion with Otaheite and the other islands, of a standing
equal to a quarter of a century. The bod) of the resi-
dent Protestant missionaries in the Georgian Islands
addressed the Governor of the French posses-
sions in the South Pacific Ocean, declining an
interview that had been asked to discuss af-
fairs upon three grounds :—First, that the changes or
occupation was contrary to the great law of equity be-
tween man and man, nation and nation. Secondly, that
to accept the invitation would, in the estimation of man-
kind, amount to a compromise ; and thirdly, that though
exhorting the people to peaceable obedience, they had
never intended to recognise French authority. M. Bruat
eventually promised his protection to the missionaries.
There appears to be a considerable degree of excite-
ment in the colony on the subject of the fixity of the
tenure of land on the frontier, a proclamation on the sub-
ject having been issued by the Governor, which had
given great disapprobation on this matter.
The accounts from Port Philip received to-day are not
of interest.

The Funds are dull, Consols 99} 4 for Money, and 99i
for Account. Exchequer Bills 765. to 745. prem.
The Foreign investments still have rather a firm ap-
pearance. Spanish Five per Cents. are 239, and the
Three per Cents. 34f to 9 ; Mexican are 359, and Bra-
zilian 87 to 874. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
62* to ; Portuguese Converted being 46.
The Railway Shares have not been much dealt in,
and exhibit, with one or two exceptions, a want of
buoyancy..

BIaTISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.) 5
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities.... 0000000 ..„....„ 99% % %
India 80nd5,1,000.. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Ditto under 1,0015.......•.„.„.....„.• 04
Consols for Account „....„...„.......•.....„.„.•• 99%%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 1 y4d.
10_004 ..................... •••••••••••• 76 74 SIR.
MIN. I SOO?. .11141• ••••••••••••• ..... •••••••••••• 74 76 pm.
. Ditto 5ma11..„.„.„.„.„.. -- •••••••••••• 74 16 pm.
Ditto Advertised.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account B7
Mexican Bonds, 1237, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 46
Spanish Bonds., Five per Cent 1840 23%
Ditto Three per Cent. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 31%%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42
Dutch 234 per Cent 5...............„ ............. ..
Dutch S per Cents. .............. ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 100% 4
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER XXA RR.
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester ••• 83 ••.. ..... 54% •••••• to
Dublin and Cashel. .... 234 IIU %... to
Eastern Counties .....„..........„.. 25 ....
Ditto New Registered Si. Gs. Rd.
Great North of England
Great Western ..„........ ..... ..... 73 149
Hull and Selby
Ditto % Stares
London and Brighton .' ............ 50 ......
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 41% 79 ... .. ... to 77%
London and Croydon
London and York 2% 5 .... to WA
Manchester and Birmingham ... 44)
Midland Counties lOO lO 5 W
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ......... 48 ,15 to
North British 6 ....... b ...... to
South Devon . ..... . . .....
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto New
Whitehaven and Marypott
Yarmouth and Norwich lB ..... .... 28%
Ditto New ,
York and North Midland .. ... 50 ........•
Ditto 34 Shares 25 ..
Ditto Scarboro' Branch ... ...... 23{ ...... 23 ... to
Ditto Selby Scrip
Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1
Paris and Orleans 2O 30%)43i to

remand Rouen ..... ........ 20 ..... 354":::.. to
MA.NCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 11. —We
have had a fair amount of business done, but generally
lower prices have been accepted. Barnsley Junction, 3:I;
Blackburn and Preston, 84; Churnet Valley, 3 5.16 4 ;
Great North of England, 121; London and York, 44
7-16 ; Manchester, Bury, and Bossendale, 64; Manches-
ter and Birmingham, Quarters, 5L 4s. 3d.; Manchester
and Buxton, 24; Sheffield and Manchester, 93; Trent
Valley, Si; Boulogne and Amiens, 24; Manchester
Assurance, 114.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
7th of September, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:

Weekly
Total. Average oi
Five years,
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 266 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat ..... .... 87 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 134 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 25 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles lO 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay 57 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified
Deaths from all Causes 915 946
DEATIIS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER

THE ABOVE HEADS.

Total.
Consumption 129
Scarlatina ........
Pneumonia
Dropsy .. •• ..
Hooping Cough
Typhus .........
Small Pox
Disease of the Heart
Measles
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain..
Diarrhoea.. ..••••
Sudden Deaths
DISTRICTS.

Weekly Average
of Five Years.
147
34

99

39

157 138
162 171
148 188
205 207
243 242

Total ... ...... ....... ..... 915 946

ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICII.—Within the last
fortnight, a number of hands, to the extent of about
twenty blacksmiths and a similar number of men for the
carriage and the laboratory departments, have been en-
gaged to work from four to six months certain, to com-
plete the works in progress for rendering the vessels of
war, and war steamers, and works at the outports in a
perfect and efficient state, according to instructions
emanating from the Lords Commissieners of the Admi-
ralty, and several workmen in these departments are
still required to complete the order within a limited
time. A report prevailed at the latter end of last week
that the nineteen brass howitzers said to be missing, had
been recast without being entered ; but a printed bill,
subsequently issued, offering a reward of 1001. for in-
formation leading to the detection of the parties guilty
of breaking them up or abstracting them from the
Royal Arsenal, must remove any impression that they
were recast for Government purposes without being
entered on any of the books of the departments. The
nineteen howitzers of 2i cwt. of brass or gun metal are
not the only articles unaccounted for, as four Coehorns,
a species of ordnance of the same kind of metal, and
weighing l cwt. each, were abstracted from the wharf
of the Royal Arsenal some time ago, and although
every search and inquiry was made relative to them, no
information could ever be obtained to lead to their
restoration, or the detection of the parties who must
have removed them, whether for an innocent or felonious
purpose.

- At an inquest held yesterday on the body of a
child aged 2} years, who in the temporary absence of
the mother, and dressed only in her night-gown, ap-
proached the grate so near as to set it on fire, and was
in consequence nearly roasted alive, and died in three or
four hours after, the Coroner remarked, that strange
though it seemed, children were frequently burnt to
death by the ignition of so light a garment as a cotton
night-gown. The surest remedy possible for burns, par-
ticularly as a first application, was pure flour, when it
could be had, and no family should be without some.
TITHE COMMUTATION.—Yesterday a Parliamen-
tary document, which was moved for by Mr. Manners
Sutton, was printed, embracing returns of all agree-
ments for the commutation of tithes which have been
confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several
counties of England and Wales, from the Ist of January
to the Ist of July last, specifying also in each case the
amount of rent-charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes,
and showing whether the same be payable to appro-
priators, impropriators, or clerical incumbents ; of all
awards for the commutation of tithes which have been
confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several
counties of England and Wales in the same period ; and
also of all appointments of rent-charges in the period
mentioned. It appears that under the first branch—
agreements for the commutation of tithes which have
been confirmed by the Commissioners—the balance
in
crease
in was 6911. 17s. Od., which, with the
in former returns of 54,7221. 2s. lid., makes the total
increase 55,4641., so that in England and Wales " rent-
charges" will be the term used, instead of the ancient
word " tithe," which existed from the earliest period,
and was provided for the support of the clergy. Ey the
second head —the awards for the commutation of tithes
confirmed by the Commissioners—it is stated, that in
England and Wales the total rent-charges of the present
return were 92,3601. 6s. 514. ; the total rent-charges of
former returns, 856,3711. 19s. lid. ; and the total rent-
charges, 948,7321. ss. 51d. Under the third branch, a
return was made of all apportionments confirmed by the
ri, he Commissioner:: in the period or six months ending
Lily ; over Ho:
,ther
.)ranches hay,' reference.

Sir John Brooke Peehell, Bart., continues much
indisposed, at his residence, in Hill-street.