The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 4, 1845,

the statements given in the ConAitutionnel are a faithfll
outline of its contents. According to these tl-1,. French
steam navy is absolutely useless as fighting vessels ; they
• are deficient, even the crack vessels, in f rce and speed,
and incapable of contending against an enerfiy. The re-
port, according to this journal (and probably it is well-
informed, for ill() I"ririce de JOIRVILLE seems to
have a leaning towards the TRIERS' party) admits all
the conclusions to which that Prince had come in his
pamphlet on the navy ; it admits that the French have
no steam fleet, and that the work of constructing war-
steamers must be commenced anew. The report, how-
ever, is not without grounds of consolation, fur it ex-
tends to the British steam navy, and declares that equally
inefficient. Though we may not be disposed to go the
whole length with the Commission on this head, it cannot
be denied that the report is entitled to serious attention,
and that it contains truths for which the Admiralty
ought to be thankful. Some of the facts to which it ad-
verts have been repeatedly adduced in this journal, and
indeed they are so manifest that they could not fail to
be palpable to the most careless observer. If the Lords
of the Admiralty have advanced one step, they have been
pushed forward by public opinion, and shamed out of
their listless inactivity, by the activity, enterprise, and
invention of companies, and even private individuals.
The Constitutionnel, therefore, says justly :—" Private
builders have alone improved in England— they have
built vessels capable of going at the rate of thirteen or
fourteen miles an hour. It is they who hare applied the
screw." The French, therefore, may take courage from
the fact, and begin quietly to form a new system. In
fact that appears to be one of the recommendations of
the Commissioners ; " For," says the Constitutionnel
" after pointing out the state of the navy, it only
remains for us to paint out the measures which the
Commission proposes for establishing in this part of the
public service an entire system, and placing the steam
navy on a more respectable footing." With the excep-
tion of the last paragraph, which we have embodied in
the preceding remarks, we subjoin the statements pub-
lished in the Constitutionnel

" The Commission formed by the Minister of the Marine to
examine questions connected with steam navigation has re-
cently terminated its labours, and is consequently dissolved.
The Prince de Joinville has presided at almost all the sittings,
and has given the deepest attention to the subjects under con-
sideration, some details of which have transpired. The first
point submitted to the examination of the committee was the
present state of our steam force, and everything connected
with the merits of the flotilla which we possess. There was
only one opinion on the subject, our present materiel was
unanimously condemned. The conclusions of the pamphlet
of the Prince were admitted without reserve and to their fullest
extent. It is not a steam fleet which we possess, or scarcely
anything resembling it. Our two largest specimens have far
from realised the opinion formed of them, and the frigates
of 450-horse power are wanting both in force and speed. 'there
is no one of them which can be considered as a fighting vessel
capable of contending with advantage against an enemy. They
are more useful for purposes of transport than those of war.
The Gomer, the Asmodee, and the Infernal, the only ones of
this class of vessels afloat, have none of the qualities on which
confidence can be reposed. If steam power is to be used as an
efficacious arm, models should be sought for in which the
motive power should be more in harmony with the purposes
for which the vessel is required, and where the exigencies of
speed should not be constantly opposed to those of armament.
The opinion of the members of the Commission on the first-
class vessels enables us to anticipate pretty correctly what their
ideas of the inferior class would be. The only steamer of 320
horse-power, the Cuvier, has been already judged of, and
amongst those of 220-horse power. there could scarcely be ass
exception made in favour of the Pluton, the Arehimede, and
the Veloce. It is the same with the mass of vessels of 160-
horse power, which only cut a figure in the navy list, and which
vessels, it is known, have become on account of their small
dimensions scarcely available as transports. Thus through-
out the whole scale of our steam-vessels, from 540 down to
160-horse power, weakness, want of harmony between their
force, and their speed have been fully and clearly pointed out
by the Commission. With regard to the large transatlantic
steamers, which a recent ordonnance has removed from their
original destination, and devoted to another service, their whole
construction has been misunderstood. The idea of the Go-
vernment, which presented the Bill to the Chambers, was more
particularly to form a fleet capable of being used for purposes
of war ; their pacific destination being a secondary object. They
were called packets, and were to be employed during peace in
the transatlantic service, but it was in reality frigates which
were to be constructed. This has not been sniliciently
understood; the Government which succeeded that which
introduced the Bill has only built packets very costly, but of
very mediocre qualifications. Considerable sums have
heen expended in their internal fittings up, and everything
has been studiously avoided which could make them
serviceable for purposes of war. The result of this has been
that we have eighteen vessels which it would be very dif-
ficult to turn to any useful purpose, and which will remain
as a sample of a bastard fleet. The Commission has not he.-
sitated to condemn these packets, both with regard to their con-
struction and their fittings up. Justice should nevertheless be
done; these essays, these mistakes, are almost inevitable with
regard to a new force like steam. In turning its attention to-.
wards England, the greatest maritime country in the world, the
Commission has had to point out the same faults, the same
weakness, the same errors. The steam fleet of our neighbours
is little more advanced than our own. There have been on the
other side of the Channel as on this, several experiments at
once onerous and unfortunate. Several steam-frigates have
been rebuilt as many as three times, and others have met with
those modifications at sea which are common to vessels of infe-
rior speed. Private builders have alone improved in Eng-
land; those of the Government have been left far behind. It
is private builders who have built vessels capable of going at
the rate of thirteen or fourteen miles an In ur ; it is they
who have applied the screw, and who are every day making
fresh improvements."

The P, esse gives some additional extracts from the
French paper published at Otabeite, which show that
there had been another attempt at insurrection in the
island, and that the disposition of the natives was not
so favourable as represented in the Mon iteur. Governor
BRUAT had issued a proclamation in their native lan-
guage, addressed to the chiefs and all the inhabitants of
the islands under the protection of the French. It re-
fers to affairs of old date, to the visit of the Queen of
ENGLAND to the French Court, and the return made to
the compliment by LOUIS PHILIPPE, and the great vic-
tories gained by Marshal BUGEAUD and the Prince DE
JOINVILLE over the forces of the EMPEROR of Moaocco.
The following is a literal translation :

" The Governor of all the French lands in the Pacific Sea,
great orator of the King of the French near the King-woman
of all the islands of the Society, to all the chiefs and all the
men of all the lands of the Society. Friends, health to you all.
This is my speech to all of you. Two great battles were gained
by the armies of the King Louis Philippe, the protect or of you
all, and of us the sovereign, the one on land and the other
below on the sea. In the battle on land were beaten forty
thousand soldiers of the kingdom of Morocco by ten thousand
French soldiers; the son of this great land of Morocco was the
great chief of all these soldiers. At the other battle were
ravaged two towns by the cannonading of the French ships of
war, commanded by the son of Louis Philippe, Prince de Join-
vine, French Admiral. And in the great consternation of the
enemy was demanded by him peace. Eight hundred men of
Morocco were killed and two thousand and upwards wounded,
and the enemies lost their ground-muskets (cannon) which were
taken. And a glorious treaty for the French was concluded
afterwards on that land. Here is another speech. There
came the King-woman of Britain into France a few moons
since, and then went also our King, your protector, into Bri-
tain to visit Victoria. Grea were the honours given to these
Kings in France and Britain, and well felt one for the other
the two Governments. Such is the true speech that I make
known to you all, that you may not be deceived by lying words.
" Pas3aete, March 11, 1845. " BRUAT."

The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance, revoking
the ad irate' int appointment of DUCEATEL, Minister
of the Interior, to the direction of Foreign Affairs, M.
GUIZOT having resumed the management of his own de-
partment.
According to accounts in the Paris papers from Ber-
lin of the 20th August, the Ambassador there had re-
reived information that the Empress of Russia would
arrive in about a fortnight, on her way to Italy, and take
up her residence during her stay at Berlin in the hotel
of the Ambassador. The EMPEROR, it was said, would
have St. Petersburgh about the same time for the
Crimea.

On the French Bourse on Monday the Three per Cents.
closed at 84f. 30c. ; the New Loan at 841. 25c.; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f. 95c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,322 f. 50e. ;
Rouen, I,olBf. 75c. ; Havre, 9211. 25c; Avignon, 1,087 f
50c. ; Vierzon, 817 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 7221. 50c. ; Boulogne
638 f. 75c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 5461. 25c. : Basle, 2861
25c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 311/8 ; Spanish Passives, 6%.
Th following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 42f. 50c. ; ditto (Colon), 20f.;
ditto (Ganneron), 22f. 50c. • ditto (Lapinsonniere), 151. ;
Northern Lin* (Laffitte), 80i. • ditto (Rosamel), 43f. 75c.;
ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Decan, Lebeuf),
32f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 221. 50c.; ditto
Ilinguerlot, 20f. • ditto (Bache), llf. ; Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie), 20f. ; ditto (Drouillard), 7f. 90c. ; ditto
(O'Neill), 7f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 50f. ;
ditto (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 201. ;
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 101. ; ditto (Espeleta),
161. 25c.; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 9f.; ditto (Ca-
' rette), 101. ; ditto (Colbert),9f.; Charleroy (Kysaens), 55f. ;
Maubeuge (Kysaens),6f. ; Dijon and Mulhouse (O'Neill), 11. ;
ditto (Allegry), 2f. 50c.; Dieppe, 45f.; Dieppe (Selberes),
40f. ; Caen ( Delamarre),.Bf. 50c.

LYONS, AUG. 29.—Ai;ignon and Marseilles, 1,060 f, end
of August ; Paris and Orleans, 1,290 f., ditto ; Orleans and
Vierzon, 797 f., ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 720 f. ditto;
Montereau, 540 f. ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 2.
Anglo-Belgian.. — Orleans and Vierzon .. 221/41
Boulogne and Amiens 114 Orleans and Bordeaux 14%
Bordeaux & Med i t erran Over Yssel
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2% Paris & Lyons ( Lafitte) 4
Do. and Cette 2% Ditto (Ganneron's). 2%
Central of Spain .. — Ditto ((Won's).— .. Vi
Dendre Valley ... 2 Paris and 0r1ean5...... 5041/2
%
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 93% Paris and Rouen -
Dieppe & Paris Junct. Paris and Strasburg
vsn)rce:)s2a.
31/4
Dijon and Mulhouse ... (Ganneron's)
East Indian ...... ........ 1144 Do. (Compte de L'Est) 234
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laftitte's) -
Ditto (Itosainel's)
Do.P
Pariseppi Peppin
andle Hal
Lyons leur
251/4
Strasbourg Sambre anda
nMeuse
8a51e....
_874
Great
Jamaica Junction
Do. North Midland Tours and Nantes
—: . .
... i % 1 r
eD(
rMoo
ll'. I ia( ear fne zfaei ebA'
LyonsL u v a i
annadn
Ad
vJ
iegmn eo pnp. e. .. 4.
West Flanders 4IA
Luxembourgh..
' Namur and Liege 7

We have accounts from Madrid to the 26th ult. The
intelligence from the provinces is favourable. No at-
tempts had been made in any quarter to imitate the ex-
ample of the capital, or rebel rgainst the new system of
taxation. The Heraldo, but lately a Gevernment paper,
renews its attacks on certain members of the Cabinet,

but, from all accounts, for selfish and despotic purpoEes.
The Dictator, NARVAEZ, is the favourite of this journal,
and of cou-.-ie he is the exception alluded to in the fol-
lowing paragraph:—" The whole of the departments,
With one sole exception, are replete with that inertion,
that apathy, and that inexplicable slowness, which cha-
racterise the present Administration."
The Funds were firm. The Three per Cents. closed
at 31 13-16 cash, 32 1-16 at 60 days-5,737,000 done ;
the Five per Cents. at 22+ at 60 days-1,660,000 done.

MONEY:and COMMERCIAL NEW S.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 8,000 or
9,000 bales, at firm rates. Shares were extensively dealt in
again.
According to advices from the interior of Russia, very dif-
ferent weather must have been experienced there to that we
have had in this country, the drought having been excessive.
Grain in consequence had risen at Odessa. In Belgium rice,
and other faruaceous products, are to be admitted free of
duty until the harvest.
An instance of the injurious effect of excessive protection
upon the prosperity of a country is afforded by a comparison
made as to the cost of railway iron in France and Belgium,
and from which it appears that there is a difference of 914
per cent. against France. This is the effect of preventing;
foreign supplies being brought into fair competition with
home products.
The necessity of repressing speculation in every mere
" bubble of the day" that courts the gaping multitude, be-
gins to be felt by those who, undoubtedly to some extent,
have profited by the furor—viz., the brokers; and it is be-
lieved that formal discountenance will be given by the Com-
mittee of the Steck Exchange to all dealings in scrip
not issued. Present profits, indeed, should not be the guiding
star of the brokers and jobbers, fer the loss of a single day,
by the failure of clients, as we could illustrate by nume-
rous examples, would shear off the profits of many a
toilsome year.
There is an arrival from Sydney, but the accounts (to
April 21) are not of interest.
The market for the English Funds has been very dull.
Consols have been marked 983/4 /4 for Money, and 99 to 14
for the Account. Exchequer Bills have been done again at
475. to 455. premium, being almost nominal. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1021/8 to 102%; and the
Three per Cents. 99114 to WI. Bank Stock is shut.
~ India
Stock realises 27114.
The Foreign Funds are drooping. Spanish Five per Cents.
have been 2714, and the Three per Cents. 3814 ' • Mexican
have receded to 32% ; Brazilian are steady at 893/4 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 621/2.
Shares generally have been flatter to-day, and many of the
Scrips have given way a little. Among the exceptions are
Dublin and Galway, Shrewsbury and North Wales, Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, Direct Northern, Grand Union, North
Wales, South Wales; and one or two of the French lines.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced .... 99114 9914
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9B % 3/4 98:14
N7ew 31,A, per Cents .. 1021,4V/8 1021/8
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 11 7-16 11A1
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 111/8
India Stock 271 IA 2711,4
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001.
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1',,4d.... 47 45 pm. 45
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 BB 88
Dutch Exchange 21/ per Cent 613/4 61%
Equador
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 33 32% 32%
Ditto, Account — 32%
Ditto, Deferred l7 16% 16%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
--_ --.

Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Dutch, 21A per Cent .

2714
6-K3
621

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSINO
RAILWAY SHARES PAID' AT ONK O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush 136 2% 31/4 314
Birrnin. and Gloucester. 100

Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and EXeter
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 5% 43A 43/
Do. New
Canterbury and Dover.. 1% 2%
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2%% 2l/2
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1 ...... 314 2%
Cornwall
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 2% 2l/234 9IA
Dublin, Belfast, and
Caleraine
Dublin and Galway.. ... 2% 6l/1
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 20% ... ...... 20%
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d. —
EastDereh'm and.Noech 1
....
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension ~ ... 1% 33% %% % 31h
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 - . 91
Ely and Bedford
Glouc., Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales
Grand Union l% . 4%... 4%
Great south. and West.
( Ireland)
Great Western BO ...... 176 175 175 ex n.
Ditto %Shares
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports.
_2 % ... .. 3% 3%

Hull and Selby

Do. Half Shares
Leicester & Birmingham 225. 2 p
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
London and Birminghm kStock) 225

2 p 9. 1,4/Shares
- ,

281 A

DittoEx tension
London and Blackwell. 161. 135.4 d. 10j8% lOll,
I !Do. New
London and Brighton
L adon and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 26% 27 ..
Do. New l3s 4d l%
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Ilereford .. 1%...... 2%14 214
Lond. 8c S. Western 411 6s 10d......
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 6% 7 6% 63%
London and Windsor ... 1
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ....... ...
Londonderry &Coleraine 21,4 5 43/4 5% 5%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2% 314 314
Lynn and Ely

Lynn and Dereham IX .... ....... ... 5 "-
Manchester and Leeds—. 76 2171% 218 214... 214
Do. V 2 Shares
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 225....... 183 A Y 3 B% p
Midland 100 175 174
Do. New
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 5414. ........ .. 54%
New..as;le and Berwick 1% lB% 17%
Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire Junction.. 1 N...... 5% 4%... 4%
Newpt & Abergavenny 2%
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ..... 3% 314
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
N. Kent & Direct Dover 23/4.... 41/23/4.. ...
North Staffordshire 22s. ..... •5% p .)%
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 14
D 0.,. New ... ..... ..... I
Oxford and Worcester... 2% ll% 103/4 ..... 10%
Portsmouth Direct 2% 7l/21/8 7'4
Preston and Wyre
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Midland ll,x. .. 314 314
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 814 vra 73/4
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union 22s.
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
and North Wales 2% 5% 43/4 ..... .... 43/4
South Midland 22s.
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 48% 48
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond.. 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23/4
South Wales 2% 6l/23/4% . 6%
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Warwick is Cheltenham 1%

HEIL .I‘IAJESTY'S visiT TO TILE

CONTINENT.

SAXE GOTHA, AUG. SO.—This place was yestertily
the :Awn° of a fif:sLival, n.t v4hich MajeAy cad the
Prince and all the royal personages who are no,: here
assisted.

There ir, it seems, iu Gotha, an asociati,in caged the
Rifle Society, established, as the nand: implies, for the.
purpose of rifle practice. They have, at a distance of
about a mile from Gotha, a place specially devoted to the
use of their society, where there are all sorts of targets
for the rifle-shooting, and more particularly one mark
towering high above the rest, and which gives its name
to the festival of yesterday. It is the image of a large
bird—some may call it an eagle, others will insist on its
being a goose—bet the point is a knotty one to decide,
seeing that its head has been long since shot away,
and its body and wings are riddled and battered
with rifle shot. Once a year a whole week is (nomi-
nally) devoted to the rifle-shooting, and especially to the
demolition of this devoted bird. The reigning Duke,
or the Prince of the house of Saxe Coburg who may
happen to be in Gotha at the time, opens the festival or
sport by aiming the first shot at the bird. There :re
three crowns on its head, all of which it is the especial
privile;..e of the Duke to shoat away, and then the
general sport begins. The reader will at once perceive
the resemblance of this game to some of our own old
English rural sports at home. We should, probably,
call it shouting at the popinjay. Here it is called the
" Vogel- Schiesscn."
Attached to the shooting ground is a very handsome
hall and concert room, and all around the grounds
during the week the festival lasts the owners of itinerant
booths are accustomed to cluster, with the never-failing
instinct of those mysterious migratories.
This year the festival fell during the Queen's
visit. It began the other day, and in the common
order of things would soon wear itself out. Three
of the six balls have already been held, and, if we
may judge from the deserted state of the shooting-
ground, the sportsmen are already pretty well tired of
that part of the amusement. But yesterday a new fea-
ture was added for the amusement of the Queen—no
less than a grand procession of some thousand or twelve
hundred peasants and villagers, male and female, all in
their national costumes. This Her Majesty signified
her wish to attend. _ _

Accordingly, at a little before three o'clock the whole
royal party, the Queen, Prince Albert, Lord Aberdeen,
Lord Liverpool, Mr. Anson, Lady Canning, Lady
Gainsborough, the King and Queen of the Belgians, the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and the princes of
that house, with a long trait: of distinguished persons
in their several suites, left Gotha for the scene of action.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the King and Queen
of the Belgians left Friedrichsthal, the palace where the
Queen is staying. The other members of the royal
party came from their different residences in other parts
of the town. The streets through which the Queen
passed were densely crowded by a gay and most pic-
turesque-looking population. It was a general holiday;
there was nothing but mirth music, and dancing
throughout the city of Gotha.
Arrived at the ground, the royal party took their
stations in a spacious gallery overlooking the whole
scene, and a singular scene it was to be witnessed by
those, to most of whom it must have been so new.
Imagine all the din of a fair—showmen puffing their ex-
hibitions with lungs of brass, and brazen trumpets blow-
ing notes of iron, cymbals, gongs, automaton bands—in
short, all the uproar, the mingled sounds of time-ho-
noured St. Bartlemy crowded into half the space once
allotted to that now neglected festival. Add to these
elements of gleeful discord dense crowds of people of all
ranks, some in the oddest possible costumes, smoking,
beer-drinking, laughing, shouting, and you have some
idea of the scene that assailed the Queen's eyes when
she mounted her high post of observation, if indeed it
was to be seen at all through the clouds of dust.
With the arrival of the royal party came the novel
part of the festival—the procession of peasants. A de-
scription of one section of the endless line of horsemen
and vehicles that wound itself past the royal party will
serve for all. The procession was headed by a large
body of peasants, farmers, and small proprietors on horse-
back, dressed in their close fitting coats of green, black,
or blue, the little bizarre German cap, with its long front,
stuck on their heads. These ambled or paced along two
abreast, most of them puffing the eternal pipe, as with
astounding gravity they defiled before the royal party,
saluting them as they passed. After these came the
lumbering waggon peculiar to the country, consisting
generally of 'e few boards nailed together rudely into a
form resembling a beat. These were sometimes decorated
with garlands, and were filled with the peasant women
in their national costume, and especially the tower-
ing head-dress with its hearselike plumes. So many
villages, so many of these waggons, or nearly so ; and,
painful to add, so mans- village bands also, who politely
persisted in playing "'God save the Queen" with a dis-
cordant unanimity which even royal ears could not tor-
ture into flattery. These horsemen, bands, and wag-
gons, multiplied endlessly, formed the long and appa-
rently interminable procession which passed before the
royal party, and what with the din of the fair, the
roaring of the emulous bands, and the elands of dust,
long before the last heavy vehicle had passed the royal
party, the whole had become sufficiently wearisome.
One thing alone made it endurable—the extreme, and
at the same time the very peculiar beauty, of the great
majority of the peasant women.
'Phis part of the festival over, the royal party re-
turned to lteinhardtsbrunn to dinner, and in theevening
there was a grand reception or levee at Friedenstein
Palace, at which a great many of the chief people of
Gotha attended.

The following were present :—The Queen of Great
Brituin, the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent,
Alexandrina, Reigning Duchess of Saxe Coburg Goths,
the Queen f the Belgians, Prince Albert, the Grand
Duke of Baden, the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar
Eisenach, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar
Eisenach, the Prince of Reuss-Schleitz, the Reigning
Duke of Saxe Coburg, the Prince and Princess of Ho-
henlohe Langenburg, the Prince and Princess Hohen-
Hie Waldehurgh, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg
Gotha Kohary, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg Gotha
Kohary, the Grand Duke Gustave of Mecklenburg
Schwerin, the Prince of Reuss Ebersdorff, the
Prince of Leiningen. the Duke Alexander of Wur-
temberg, the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg. the Grand
Princess Anna Feodorowna of Russia, Maria, the
Duchess Dowager of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Prince of
Furstenburgh, Prince Clodwig of Hohenlohe Schillings-
furst ; the Count of Mensdorf, Count Alexander of
Mensdorf, Lady Gainsborough, Lady Canning, Countess
Stratten, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool,
the Count of Erlach, Colonel Wylde, the Hon. F. R.
Forbes, Ambassador of her Britannic Majesty at Dres-
den ; Lieutenant-General Both, Baron de Rendufle,
Ambassador of Portugal at Berlin ; Colonel de Dies-
kau, Major de Beust, Lieutenant-Colonel de Watzdorf,
the Count de Beust, and the Count de Werthern.
Meanwhile the scene of the festival had become some-
what changed. The people had their enjoyments and
happiness also. Outside, on the grounds, there was a
complete fair. Roundabouts, swings, shows, booths,
'everything in short to please the people, who strolled
about smoking, or drinking their beer, or riding like
mad on the hobby horses, and all so orderly and
peaceful amidst their happiness that one's heart re-
joiced to see them.
The hues for of the dancing saloon exhibited what you
mveorsyt refined kind. But within the little above the lowest, and
would in vain look for in England. The admission
price was 6 J. only, a sum which in England would imply
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notpeople
the
scene was far different ; an immense dancing-room, bril-
iantly lit and handsomely decorated, wasfilled withyoung
people of both sexes, theyoung ladies (and they would have
been recognised as such in any society in England)
dress9d fur the most part in white, and the young men
all in evening dress. An excellent band stationtd in the
and
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w a
s seldomabun_
gallery played the best waltz music, and as many as a
hundred couples at a time were to be seen whirling
letiaynht,g: hour ; and, although
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mar these pleasures, nothing could exceed the decorum
of the whole party. A more brilliant array of female
beauty—Lot mere prettiness, but symmetry- of form,
grace, and expression—could not be easily produced in
any country, and, although our English girls may
vie with all the world for beauty, it would be
ridiculous to expect from the daughters and
sisters of the same class of persons (a majority me-
chanics)
the same combination of attraction. A rule
prersili, that any gentleman may ask any lady to dance
without introduction. All rely on the good conduct of
all. There is not the most distant approach to in-
decorum.
HER MAJESTY'S RETURN FROM GERMANY.
According to present arrangements her Majesty and
Prince Albert will arrive at Antwerp on Saturday next,
and embark on board the Royal Victoria and Albert
steam-yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzelartnee,
G C. 11., and proceed the same evening to anchorage
ground off Flushing, where the royal yacht will remain
during the night, and on Sunday morning start for the
Isle of Wight, where the vessel will again anchor, and
her Majesty and his Royal Highness will disembark on
Monday morning, and proceed to Osborne House.

COURT CIRCULAR..
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, rode
out on ponies in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne-house
on Monday afternoon.
The Royal Family all walked on the beach on Tues-
day morning. The Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal were taken a carriage drive to Wootton in the
afternoon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton ;
and Prince Alfred and Princess Alice rode on ponies in
the pleasure-grounds.
The Earl of Dalhousie arrived in town on Tuesday
night from Dalhousie Castle, Scotland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday morning. The Right Hon. Gentleman left
town in the afternoon, on his return to Betchworth.
Disp itches for the Governor-General of Canada, and
also for the Governors of the other North American
Provinces, were salt off yesterday evening from the Co-
!oniul- office. Dispatches were also sent off last even-
mg for the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

depTthu iNsNIBOEL
feet.°} TAI ibliou tSair
PERT H. —This tu- nel is about three-fourths of a mile in length,
running from near the Tay to the river Earn. Its greatest
the different
. shafts they were sinking, I found the workmen
excavating a stone resembling ago when I went to examine
trap, of a grey colour, which
they told me was a bastard freestone ; but, on testing it with
muriatic acid, I found it to be
50 feet below the surface, and about the centre and highest
part of the hill. On • • examining the external appearance of
a strong limestone. It was about
these hil!ocks, I found they exhibited all the undulating v.nd
rounded. forms seen in such formations ; and I have no doubt
from similar appearances, that limestone may be fund, for
some distance along the south bank of the Tay, between the
river and the hill of Monerief.—Dundee Advertiser.
week rilEAltil RAILROAD, NEAR

ASTLEY'S THEATRE.

The autumn season of this popular place of amuse-
mect hay arrived, and Mr. Batty has produced a grand
equestrian spectacl,:, entitled, The Bi ide of the Nile,
which bids fair to rival in its powers of at i.ractionthemost
popular piece that has been produced of late years at
this favourite piaee of am:lse:l:ant. Mr. Denvilhas joined
the corps drag: pique at Astley's, and his vigorous and
powerful style of acting is exactly suited to this locality,
where, we have no doubt, he will become a favourite.
The French equestrians have been re-engaged, and we
have no doubt but that the winter season will prove
most successful.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WARWICK RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Foal Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added, for
foals of 1842 ; colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 41b ; those got
by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, allowed
31bs ;if both, 4lbs. Once round and a distance. (9
Subs).
Mr. J. J. Bristow's f Carissima
Sir C. Cockerell's b c Rodney
3 to 1 on Carissima, who made all the running, and
won by a length.
A Swerpstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, for two
year o!d cults, Bst 61b ; fillies, Bst 31h. Winners be-
fore starting to carry 41b extra. T.Y.C. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Holloway's br c Baronet, by Sir Isaac, Bst 61b 1
Sir C. Coekerell's f Amazon (h b) .
Mr. Walker's b f Regalia, Bst 31b

5 to 4 on Baronet," who made all the running and won
by a length.
The Warwick Cup, in specie, by subs. of 10 sovs. each,
three years olds, 6st 51b ; four, Bst 31b ; five, Bst 131 b ;
six and aged, 9st 31b ; mares allowed 4lbs and geldings
7lbs ; winners extra. The winner to pay 5 sovs. to the
judge. Four miles. (12 Subs.)
Lord Warwick's b h Yardley, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b
Mr. Collins's br h Rochester, 6 yrs, 9st 31b
4 to 1 on Yardley, who won very easily by a length.
The Town Plate of 501.;; three-yrs-old, 7st 41b ; four,
Bst 81b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and aged, 9st 61b. Winners
this year, once, to carry 3lbs ; twice, slbs extra.
Mares and geldings allowed 4lbs. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Raworth's br c Kilgram, 4 yrs (Bradley) 3 1 1
Mr. G. Shepherd's b f by Glaucus, out of
March First, 3 yrs
Mr. Walmsley's ch g Heir-at-Law, 3 yrs
Won easy.
ST. LEGER BETTING ON THE COURSE.
3 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Miss Sarah
11 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor
15 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Merry Monarch
15 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
15 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's The Pacha—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
20 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin
20 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Duc-an-Durras—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Mid-Lothian—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's The Baron—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Merry's Collier—taken
1000 to 15 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Harker's Robin Burns—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way—taken.
ECCLES RACES—TUESDAY.
The Hunters Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added ;
three-years-old to carry 9st 51b ; four, lOst 71b ; five,
I Ist 51b ; six and aged, l2st ; winners extra ; gentle-
men riders ; twice round and a distance, were won in
two heats by Mr. Robinson's b in Wasp, aged (Barker),
beating Mr. Griffiths's b f, Lucy, 4 yrs ; Mr. Sheppard's
Mudlark, aged ; Mr. Peel's The Irishman, aged ; Mr.
Heap's b c Chintz Print, 5 yrs ; and Mr. Storey's ch f by
Ebberston, out of Blue Bell, 4 yrs.
The Garrison Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with a gold
mounted riding whip added ; three-years-old, 9st 41b ;
four, lOst 71b ; five, 1 Ist 7lb ; six and aged, 12st 21b.;
thorough-bred horses. 10Ibs extra ; the second to save
his stake ; twice round, were won in two heats, by Mr.
Carter's eh f April Noddy, 4 yrs (Duffle), beating Mr.
Peel's The Irishman, aged, a,.d Mr. Mackinnon's b g
Fidget, aged.
The Gentlemen's Purse of 25 sovs , added to a Handicap
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each. The second to save his
stake. Heats, twice round.
Mr. Tempest's br g T'Auld Squire, 4 yrs,
Bst 131 b (Stagg) 0 1 1
Mr. Carter's ch f April Noddy, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b 3 0 2
Mr. Davie S's b c Talleyrand. 4 yrs, Bst 31b
Mr. H. Evans's b m Cerito, aged, Bst 51b
Mr. Bennett's br f Ada, 3 yrs, 7st 31b 0 2 dr
Mr. Clifford's bl g Erebus, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Mr. Bowers's b c Phmnician, 4 yrs, Bst 41b 0 dr
Mr. Clarke's br f by Physician out of Colum-
bine, 3 yrs, 7st 31b
The first and second heats won by a length, and the third
by a head.

GORTON RACES.
Acceptances for the Manchester Cup.
Roderick, 6 yrs—The Nobbler, 4 yrs—Jack Sheppard, aged
—Nottingham, 4 yrs—lronmould, 3 yrs—Gibby Young, 3
yrs—Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs.
Acceptances for the Sloan Purse.
Bretwalda, 3 yrs—Princess Royal, 3 yrs—lronmould, 3
yrs—North Britain, 3 yrs—St. Cuthbert, 5 yrs—Xanthus, 5
yrs—Dr. Husband, yrs—BroDmstick, 3 yrs.
MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
ST. LEGER.—No betting.
LEAMINGTON STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet—taken
to 1 agst Mr. W. Johnstone"s Pythia—takon

SOUTHWARK ELECTION,
MEETING OF MR. MIALL'S FRIENDS,

On Tuesday another district meting of this gentl,--
man's supporters was held at the Marquis of Granby,
Union-street, Borough. The chair was talon by Mr.
Newson, the tea-dealer, of High-street, who wariaiy a,l-
vccated Mr. Miall's claims to the representation.
Mr. APSLEY PELL= neat addrist.ed the meeting in
explanation of some expressions made use of by
with regard to Sir William Molesworth's university
education, and which he said the Hon. Baronet had
misunderstood. Sir William, in speaking on this sub-
ject, had used the most unjust expressions towards him,
and the only revenge he would take would be to state
a fact, which greatly redounded to the Hon. Baronet's
character. Some time since he had been called on by
a Dissenting clergyman to give a subscription to-
wards the erection of a chapel, and he was then
informed that Sir William Molesworth had, in the
most handsome manner, made a present of the site.—
(Cheers.) He felt bound, in justice to the Hon. Baronet,
to make this statement, and to say that in many of his
public acts, especially of this nature, he was extremely
kind and generous, and it mattered not to him what was
the creed of the party soliciting his aid.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MIALL next presented himself, and was received
with loud cheering. He began by congratulating Sir
William Molesworth, in ironical terms, for the good
temper and good taste displayed in his speech of the
previous evening, but as he thought it unworthy of a
great contest of principle that candidates should employ
themselves in bandying personalities, he would not c
cupy the time of the meeting by replying to the char ,res
that had been made against him. Notwithstandin.;t t.
peaceable declaration, however, Mr. Miall proceai-d to
charge Sir William Molesworth with having edited the
works of infidel authors, which, in his opinion, was a
much worse preparation for a candidate for the.r slifirfTe:
than preaching the Gospel, as he had done for lour years.
His principles were based on the New Testament, and
he challenged Sir William Molesworth to state from
what source he derived his. He next referred to the
support given to Sir William Molesworth by certain
newspapers and members of clubs, and denounced them
all as endeavouring to gull the electors by false pretences,
and being hollow and insincere in their professions of
liberality and Reform principles. After entering into a
lengthened vindication of his views on the Maynooth
and corn-law questions—which, as they have been so
frequently stated in this paper during the progress of
the present contest, it is unnecessary to repeat here—he
concluded by declaring that he and the party with whom
he associated had set their hearts upon the cast, and
they would abide the issue without fear. They were of
a small school, but they were honest and sincere men,
who would speak what they thought, and perform what
they promised.
Resolutions were subsequently adopted, pledging the
meeting to support Mr. Miall ; and thanks having been
voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated.