The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1845.

The accounts from Gotha, give_ii in another part of
our paper, will be read with painful interest. To the
manly sports which have long distinguished this country,
such as horse-racing, fox-hunting, grouse-shooting, and
others of a similar character, only few persons raise
any serious objections ; but of that new importation, de-
scribed, too, by a foreign word—the battue—
there is throughout the country almost a uni-
versal abhorrence. The sportsman, if we may use
the term in reference to such an ignoble amusement,
rans no risk, undergoes no fatigue, and the devoted
victims have hardly the slightest chance of escape. It
is regular butchering, and nothing else; and besides,
this so-41114a sportsman has not the excuse
c the ma❑ who is compelled to work at the
trade for his daily bread. While animal food
farms part of human subsistence, some persons
must perform the operation of killing, but, in general,
it is done in the most expeditious manner, and with
as little steering to the brute creation as possible.
Can the same be said of the newly invented mode
of pheasant shooting, or of the scenes which took
ptace in the park or forest of Reinhardtsbrunn ? We
he,ve gison two accounts of it ; and we add
a third in a few words from a Contemporary:—" Within
two hours at the utmost, somewhere about fifty noble
stags were dispatched—shot down within a fence into
which they had been previously driven by a whole
legion of chasseurs and beaters—and from which
the wretched creatures had not the slightest chance
of escape. It was a deer battue, and horrible as
are similar proceedings in preserves at home, where
hundreds of pheasants and partridges die in
a forsuoort to " make an English holiday," there was
something still worse about this wholesale slaughter.
Preserves are not fenced in by nets and canvass. Phea-
sants can fly, and hares can run, and both have, at least,
some slender chance of escape, but in the deer &law the
animals were doomed to death with almost as perfect
certainty as are sheep penned up in the pens of Smith-
field." Eve❑ this description does not come up to
the truth, for some of the wounded animals made
their escape, and did not meet with that mercy
which is found in our abattoirs. But we have no
wish, and indeed it is not necessary, to make
one additional remark to paint the cruelty of this un-
manly sport. Let us hope that battues hare now
reached their crisis that this painful display
will induce the higher classes, fur they alone
are guilty, to adopt other amusements, and that
Englishmen and English women of illustrious birth
will set better examples to the lower classes, to whom
they are bound by their station and superior education
lc become models of refinement and humanity.

crease of Ministerial patronage, by authorising the ap-
pointment of two Chief Commissioners for carrying
its purposes into effect. Well knowing how extensively
altered the clauses of Bills of this nature become in
either House, in passing through Committee, we did not,
perhaps, scritt;.nise with sufficient rigidness the
wording of some of the clauses ; and among
these that as to the appointments in question.
Nevertheless, we appear to hare arrived but at too cor-
rect a '4onclusion as to the actual results which have
ensued. The patronage has been exercised, and in a
manner to cause, perhaps, one of the most remarkable
phases of electioneering excitement which• has been
witnessed In East Sussex for many years past—that is
to say, in the event of Mr. DARBY, Member for that di-
vision, not altogether retiring from Parliament, or of his
failing, after accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, to solicit
anew the suffrages of his present, or some other consti-
tuency.

Mr. DARBY has been appointed one of the two Com-
missioners under the new Act. The " blank "in the
earlier prints of the Bill was filled up in some of the
hurried-over discussions that the measure received, or
was supposed to receive, in the wane of last session, with

the modest sum of " 1,5001." Fifteen hundred pounds
a-year well and truly paid to each of two new
Commissioners, under a new Bill for newly 'de
vised duties, are a remarkably " taking bait," in
political angling, for even a big and fine fish. We shall
not enter into the invidious inquiry,`, how far the
Minister was justified in throwing so precious a fly for
a fish of no higher pretensions than the Darby trout he
has taken. Going to the absolute matter of fact, we
shall equally abstain from inquiring whether the ap-
pointment of the Honourable . Member for East
Sussex has been owing to the solicitude of the
Earl of LINCOLN to neutralise a malcontent
agriculturist in the Conservative ranks by this process
of what IzAAK 'WALTON would call "gorging him," or
to other views upon the representation of the same part
of Sussex, in Parliament, which may be entertained by
her MAJESTY'S Government, and to be accomplished
through the practised agency of Sir J. GRAHAM. But
it seems to be a matter still very doubtful whether Mr.
DARBY will be disposed to raise the question of his re-
election at all. If he desires to continue in Parliament,
it is said he will rely upon the quibble that his
appointment is not derived from the Crown, and does
not, therefore, presuppose or compel him to vacate his
seat. If he has made up his mind to forego the discharge
of Parliamentary duties, it is stated, on the other hand,
that he will voluntarily resigil his trust to his consti-
tuents. But we entreat public attention, first, to the
words of the clause in the new Act, under which the
power to make the appointment he holds is created ;
secondly, to the analogy of the reasons that should just as
much necessitate the vacation of his seat on taking such
office as if he held it directly from the Crown. Now this is
no light or unimportant question. In the Health of Towns
Bill, and other measures, to which Lord LINCOLN has
been a party, there has been a similar tendency evinced
to sacrifice the constitutional and equitable right of
municipalities to elect their own officers, as the Wastes
and Common Inclosure Bill manifests, to with-
draw the nomination of the Commissioners under
it from the control or the gift of the
county and district authorities. In both the
measures we have named there are to be:rioted what we
may call daring extensions of Government patronage.
They must have been strangely overlooked, for no Par-
liament to whom they had been once fairly indicated
would ever have sanctioned them.

Now, in the first place, the words of the clause in the

" Commons and Waste Lands Inclosure" Act make it
" lawful for one of her MAJESTY'S Principal Secre-
taries of State to appoint any twe fit persons to be
Commissioners under this Act, and at pleasure to remove
the Commissioners so appointed, or either of them."
We will say thus much for sound lawyers, even of the
Conservative party, that had the present Lord LY ND -
URST, or the late Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT, been present at
the de,'oate in the Commons upon a clause thus worded,
tluly would nave indignantly denounced the extravagant
powers conveyed by these unconstitutional terms. Two
Commissioners, at a charge of 3,000/. per annum to the
public, to be appointed by one Secretary of State and
removable—not for incompetency—not for mis-
conduct—but " at the pleasure," forsooth, of
another salaried servant of the Crown! The notion is
monstrous. The judges of the land hold their high and
exalted offices quamdiu bene se gesso int, and this noble
tenure, in exchange for that servile and dangerous one
durante bene placito, was the spontaneous appointment
of the Crown itself. Why should Commis-
sioners for other important public duties be
appointed under any other conditions ? The only
reason we ca❑ suggest proceeds on the inference
we are irresistibly compelled to draw from in-
ternal evidence, that the terms must have been intro-
duced at the suggestion of " one of her MAJESTY'S Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State I"—we mean Sir JAMES
GRAHAM. They carry with them all his love of the
despotic centralization of authority, and Lord LINCOLN,
a young practitioner in the same arbitrary school,
we must suppose, had either no inclination, or lacked
the firmness to resist their incorporation in the Bill
for which he was ostensibly the sponsor. In the second
case, what possible reason of law or constitutional ex-
pediency which incapacitates the retention of a seat in
the House of Commons, held prior to the acquisition of
office under the Crown, without the Member's being
confirmed in it by a fresh election immediately upon
his acceptance of such office—what reason of this kind
that applies to such cases does not also touch
the case of an appointment by the Minister of
the Crown, made only in virtue and by reason of the
fact of his so representing the power and authority of
the Crown ? If it be an objection to D that he has just
had conferred upon him by A an office, the tenure of
which raises a reasonable presumption that he may be
unduly influenced• by A, and which objection can only
be cured by D's being restored to the same representa-
tive position, on a new election, which he held prior to
his accession to such office, is the objection less to
C, on taking office at the hands of B, under the
express delegation to B of A's authority ? Or can
such objection be, in consistency or common
sense, obviated in any other manner ? 'We do trust that
if the electors of East Sussex have the opportunity, they
will manifest their sense of the danger of the precedent
which Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Lord LINCOLN have
created—by rejecting the nominee of Government in
the chief office, under which one of the most ill-
judged, ill-timed, and most inexcusable of all the mea-
sures of the Tory Government of 1844 is to be carried
into effect.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been received.
The long-expected interview between the Court of
Spain and the French Princes at Pampeluna had ex-
cited much interest in the capital, and great numbers
had already left to witness the festivities; among others'
Don FRANCISCO" DE PAULA and his family. Accounts
from Mondragon, dated the 24th, state that the QUEEN
her mother, and sister, were to leave that place for Bil-
boa on the 29th, to be at Pampeluna on the 2d
or 3d of September, and to return to her capital be-
tween the 15th and 20th of the same month. The
Heraldo says, " The evening papers state that the
tradesmen of Madrid intend again to close their shops
to-morrow, the day on which expires the delay fixed for
the payment of the taxes on industry and commerce.
For this purpose signatures are being collected, with
promises not to open any shops on that day. They who
manage the affair are doing their best to render this ma-
nifestation as pacific as possible, but we know not how
public order will be maintained when a large population
shall want the most necessary articles."

The Junta of Commerce had an interview with the
Finance Minister on the 27th, who had promised certain
modifications of the new law, and many of the trades-
men had sent in their returns preparat)ry to the pay-
ment of the tax.

cause offends these hostile journals, because so long as
France and England thus co-operate, neither Caplists
nor Republicans can hope for a change of dynasty.
The Royal Family of France, according to the ac-
counts in the Paris papers, seem to be highly delighted
with their residence at the Chateau d'Eu. On Satur-
day, at two o'clock, the KING and QUEEN, the
Princess ADELAIDE, the Duchess D'AUMALE, and the
Prince and Princess of SALERNO, left the château of Eu,
and took a long ride, in the course of which they visited
Tr6port, where the KING left his carriage and mounted
on horseback. The royal party did not return to the
château until half-past six. On Sunday, at eleven o'clock,
the KING, accompanied by the Prince of SAxE COBURG
GOTHA and Baron DE MONTMORENCY, took a walk for
three hours in the environs of *ie château. At two
o'clock, his MAJESTY and her Royal Highness Princess
ADELAIDE went to Treport in a carriage, and there met
the QUEEN and the Duchess D'ORLEANS, and the Princes,
who had preceded them. On their way they were
joined by their Royal Highnesses the Prince DE JoIN-
VILLE and the Prince of SAXE COBURG GOTHA. The
royal pity returned to Eu at five o'clock. The
Prince DE JOIN VILLE, according to the following
account, had just returned to Tr6port from his
visit to the English coast. "On Saturday, &buil
four in the afternoon, the Prince DE JOINVILLE, accom-
panied by M. DUMON, the Minister of Commerce, and
M. D'HOUDETOT, the KING's Aide-de-Camp, arrived off
Havre in the Pluton, Government steamer. His Royal
Highness had been in this vessel from Tr‘port to Brigh-
ton and other points on the English coast, and bad in-
spected, at Brighton, the damage lately done to the
floating breakwater. The Prince, on returning to Tie-
port, found he could not land from the state of the sea,
and therefore seized the opportunity of running along
the coast to Havre, in order to gain some desirable in-
formation, and landed at M. NORMAND'S building-yard.
After examining the framework of a beautiful iron
yacht being built for the KING, his Royal Highness went
to the Hotel Frascati, where he had a long conference
with the chief naval engineer on the projected improve-
ments of the port. At seven o'clock his Royal High-
ness set out by land for Treport, where the Pluton re-
turned on Sunday."
The Revue des Deux Mondes thus complains of the
unfriendly disposition evinced by the British Post-
office :

The Three per Cents. were done at 32 for cash, one
operation only, 1,000,000 reals ; the Five per Cents. at
221 at 60 days, 4,600,000 reals done.

" We had expected that the last postal convention con-
cluded between England and France, although extremely ri-
gorous for periodical works, would be modified so as to favour
the literary interests of the two countries. This, however,
was not the case. Far from opening a wider field for truly
literary and scientific publications, it would appear as if an in-
tention existed to raise every day new obstacles in their way.
To show the ill. will of the British Pest-office towards the French
press, we shall only observe, that the agents of that administra-
tion refuse to attend to the transmission of periodical works of
India, America, and the French and English colonies, by the
transatlantic packets. It thus happens that the numbers of
French reviews which for some time were forwarded by the
rapid conveyance of the steamers, are now two or three months,
instead of a fortnight, on the way. Is that, we ask, that re-
ciprocity of good proceedings so much lauded in the postal
convention of the 3d of April, 1843 ; and should not France
intimate to her neighbours that if she subscribes to sacrifices
to protect the interests of all parties on the continent, it is but
just that they should on their part watch over ours on the
sea ? We beg leave to direct the attention of the Minister for
Foreign Affairs to a question which interests in so high a
degree the friends of science and letters."

The following are additional extracts from the

papers :

The only political articles in the Paris papers that de-
serve notice, and they deserve notice only for their ab-
surdity, appear in the Quotidienne and the Commerce.
These journals, though differing totally in political
principles, seize upon the affair of Madagascar for the
purpose of attacking M. GUIZOT. They consider it a
grievous crime for English sailors and French soldiers
making a combined attack on a barbarous people in de-
fence of their respective countrymen. " One would be
inclined to suppose," says the Carlist journal, " that the
ancient and incontestible rights which the French pos-
sess over this island were of such a nature, that an inter-
vention in its internal affairs would be one of the most
legitimate acts free from English control. Our Minis-
ters, without doubt, have not thought so, or our
Governor at Bourbon, warned by the fate of M.
DU PETIT-TIIOUARS, imagined a new means of chas-
tising the insolence of the natives of Madagascar,
without running the risk of giving offence at London,
and being disavowed or recalled." The Commerce says,
" France possesses over the island of Madagascar exclu-
sive rights, which go back two centuries, which have
been recognised by the whole of Europe, and which are
no longer contested even by England. The affair of
Madagascar is a third instance of the application of that
policy of co-operation which seems to have become the
monomania of M. GITIZOT." This is the real cause of
offence. The co-operation of the two countries in a just

" A letter from Brest, of the 29th ult., states that just as the
Seine corvette was about to sail for Oceanias with troops, a
telegraphic order stopped its departure. It wa supposed that
the news brought to Toulon by the Charte frigate, was the
cause of this change ; and Captain Renaud, of the Charte,
was, it is said, ordered by means of the telegraph to proceed
forthwith to Paris.

" We learn from Havre that the Angelina whaler, which has
arrived there, touched on Dec. 12, at one of the Mulgrave Is-
lands. The canoes of the natives came off, and friendly dis-
positions being manifested, Captain Hyenne, thinking he
could trust them, landed, with the surgeon, mate, and ten
men. The Angelina remained beating about for several days
close to the shore, displaying signals and firing guns, but the
captain and the men whe accompanied him never returned.
It was at last thought advisable to proceed to the Sandwich
Islands, and state what had happened. M. Dudoit, the
French Consul of that group, hastened to transmit to tke
French Government, to Admiral Hamelin, and to Captain
Bruat, an account of the circumstance, and added that he did
not think them to have been massacred, for the following
reason-that about ten years ago fourteen of the American
vessel, the Globe, remained on the island for two years, and
were at last got away by a corvette, sent from Valparaiso for
the purpose, though not without force being found necessary.
" We learn from Smyrna that, on the 27th ult., as the
nerve frigate was getting under weigh from Ourlac, to follow
the Duke de Montpensier to Smyrna, her commander, Captain
Granet, while standing on the forecastle oirecting the ma-
noeuvres, was struck, by a block which fell from the rigging, on
the head, and killed almost instantaneously. His body was
taken to Smyrna and buried with all the boneurs due to his
rank. Admiral Turpin, with all his officers, the Consul and
his assistants, and a great many French residents at Smyrna,
attended the funeral. In the evening of the 2dth the Minerve
sailed for the Piraeus, accompanied by the Cuvier sloop of war.
The Cerf was to remain on the station till the arrival of the
brig La Fleche."
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Avignon, I,oBof. ' • Vierzon, 822 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 72011 ;
Boulogne, 640 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 547 f. 50e. ; Basle,
285 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 311,1; cash, 31% fur time.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 4IE 25c. premium ; ditto
(Calon), 20f. ; ditte (Ganneron), 21E 29c. ; ditto (Lapin-
sonniere), 14f. ; Northern Line (Lailitte), 801. ; ditto (Ro-
samel), 42f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 31f. 25c.; ditto
(Decan, Lebeuf), 3lf. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganne-
ron), 22f. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 201. 50c. ; ditto (Bechet),
I 1 f. 50c. • Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie). 201. ; ditto
(Drouillard), 71. ; ditto (O'Neill), 7f.; ditto (Lefevre), 16f.
50c. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 451. 50c. ; ditto
(Lecointe), 221. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 20f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 101. ; ditto (Espeleta),
20f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 9f. 50c.; ditto (Ca-
rette), 10f. ; ditto (Colbert), 9f. ' • Charleroy (Kysaens), 60E;
Maubeuge (Kysaens), 6f. 50c. ; Dijon and Mulhouse (O'Neill),
If. ; ditto (Allegry), lf. 50c.; Dieppe (Sellieres), 40f. 50c.;
Caen (Delamarre), 10f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 3.

Anglo-Belgian
Boulogne and Amiens lll/4
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2%
Do. and Cette 2 %
Central of Spain ..
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Jumct —
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
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(Lat'ate's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. Peppin le Halleur 51/4
Great Paris and Lyons 2%
Jamaica Junction

Orleans and Vierzon .. 213/4
Orleans and Bordeaux
Over Yssel
Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 33
Ditto (Ganneron's). 2.. y
Ditto (Calon's) — 25/4
Paris and 0r1ean5......
Paris and Rouen 43
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 3
Paris and St. Quentin.

Rouen and Havre....T.
Royal North of Spain. 31,i
Sambre and Meuse.... 8%
Strasbourg and Basle .
Tours and Nantes

Do. North Midland
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourgh..
Namur and Liege 6%

(PKenzie's) • 3
Do. (Lefebvre's)
Verona and Ancona 3l/2
West Flanders 5

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number
of deaths during the week ending Saturday, August 30, was
805, being 9 less than the preceding week, and 69 less than
the average of five summers. With the exception of
measles and vio lent deaths, there is a diminutionfor a very
trifling increase, under all the different heads. The total
number of deaths from measles was 58, exceeding the aver-
age by 34, and those caused by violence amounted to 36, of
which 22 were from fractures and contusions, 6 from drown.
ing, 2 from suffocation, and 6 from burns and scalds. We
find no cases of suicide. The deaths from small-pox were
only 10. Two men died at the respective ages of 95 and 96,
and two women at 90 and 91 years.

FALL IN BREAD.—The beneficial effects of the
late fine harvest weather are being developed on the Surrey
side of the metropolis, in the crowded neighbourhoods of the
New-cut, Blackfriars-road, and the adjacent places, where a
reduction in the price of bread has taken place. Excellent
bread is down to 6id. the 4lbs.

In speaking of the recent collision on the Birming-
ing and Bristol Railway, ►he Worcestershire Chronicle says :
•' Had the gaard of the luggage train been able to communi-
at• with the driver, this awful occurrence would not have hap-
pened. This fact should not be lost upon railway Directors,
who, if they cannot otherwise attain the desired object, should
forthwith co-eperate and offer such a munificent premium as
would ensure the perfection of a plan for that purpose, which
would speedily pay its cost in the saving of property, to say
nothing of its vastly more important object, the preservation
of life.

BONDED WAREHOUSE IN ATR.—We are glad to
understand that Provost Miller, on Thursday morning last, re-
ceived an official communication from the Lords of the Trea-
sury, in answer to the application of the council, through Mr.
Paul, intimating that they " have signified to the Commis-
sioners of Customs their approval of Ayr being constituted a
port for the deposit of all foreign goods, that may be legally
imported therein, whether direct or otherwise ; for tubacco re-
moved coastwise from ports of importation, either for home
use or as stores ; and for East India goods after having been
warehoused at an approved port, upon suitable premises being
fitted up, and secured in conformity with the established regu-
lations."—Ayr Observer.

CAUTION TO PURCHASERS OF OLD TUBS.—A per-
son of the name of Eli Swift, living at Friskney, lately pur-
chased an old tub at a sale, of which he made a rain water tub.
This tub had been used for years for the purpose of dipping
sheep ; and from it the family now drank the water, which
produced sickness and pain, and caused the death of their child
in convulsions from having imbibed the poison from the mother,
as also from its food being made of this water. The wife was
also taken extremely ill, and lost the use of her hands and
lower extremities, being now unable to stand or walk. The
husband is nearly in the same state, being unable to w►lk
without the help of crutches, and having but little use in his.
hands. The cause of this dreadful suffering is only just found
out, they having imbibed the poison for more than two months.
-- Boston Herald.

Against the Earl of LINCOLN'S " Commons and
Waste Lands Inclosure Bill," it may be remembered
that we repeatedly protested, during its progress through
Parliament. as one of the most wanton and uncalled for
aggressions on the few remaining rights of the poor,
which had, fur some sessions past, been proposed to
the Legislature. We commented on the cruelty
of depriving them of those opportunities and
resorts for healthful relaxation, and the benefit
of pure air, which form almost the only un-
alloyed enjoyments that a highly artificial condition of
society yet reserves to the children of labour and po-
verty. Our humble efforts in their cause, and similar
efforts on the part of some of our Contemporaries, were
Dot successful. Upon the last occasion of our resuming
the subject, when the Bill had reached the House
•of Lords, we pressed in particular the objection that
its immediate effect would be to create a dangerous in-

SINDE —The following paragraph, headed "Im-
portant News," appeared in a supplement to the Delhi Ga-
zette of July 9 :—" One o'clock. We have this moment re-
ceived intelligence from Hyderabad, under date the 30th of
Juno, to the effect that 450 men, with head-quarters of the
18th Bombay Infantry, and two mountain guns, with golundas,
had embarked at eight o'clock on the 29th, accompanied by a
commissariat officer, with three months' supplies, on three
steamers, with orders to proceed to the north of Sukkur, and
establish head-quarters near a village named Yumsoor, or
some such name, remaining on board the steamers. 'I he cause
of the movement is, that a party of Punjabees had made a dour
hedisturbed. upon some villages of the Sinde frontier, and killed two men.
The detachment is to keep the country quiet. Sir Charles
Napier declares very properly ho will not allow his frontier to
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1845.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TUBE),
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
12,000 bales, including 5,000 on speculation. With this
demand, prices were advancing. Mid American was 1,0. to
vid. per lb. dearer, but the better qualities were much the
same.—Shares were firm, with a steady business doing.
The state of the Corn-market seems to be still indicative
of the action of the past not present weather, as the duty on
foreign wheat has receded to 17s. per quarter. Some parties
are of opinion, that the harvest has so far advanced as to in-
sure without the aid offoreign importations a full supply of food
for the whole nation, but this we doubt exceedingly, because
we believe it to be an admitted fact that, with a good crop,
we must import more or less corn from abroad. This
and next year's consumption is likely to increase, be-
cause railways will give extensive employment, and
the manufacturing interest being called upon in turn for
larger supplies of clothing, will be more liberal in their ex-
penditure for food. Indeed, the effect must be felt on articles
of comparative luxury, besides mere necessaries.
The Tallow trade is reported just now as being particularly
firm, and there has been large demand fur consumption. The
home supply is expected to be deficient at least one-
third, as compared with last year, while the quantity
used in 1845 will far exceed that of previous
years. By letters from St. Peterabugh, ive find that a
large business had been doing in tallow, from 8,000 to 9,000
casks having changed hands during the week, and 109 to
110 ro., being the latest prices, The shipments, according
to the accounts of 23d August, had been—to London 9,056
casks ; to the outporta ; 12,484 casks ; and to the United
Kingdom ; 21,540 casks ; or, with the shipments to foreign
ports, 43,410 casks.
The Funds are heavy, and there is a decline again of la
per cent. Consols are 983/4 14 for Money, and 98% for Ac-
count. Exchequer-bills have realized 475. to 455. premium.
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102 to 4.
In the Foreign Bonds there is no particular alteration.
Spanish Three per Cents. are firm at 383/4, Mexican are 33
to 3234. Chilian have been 1021,x. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. obtain 62 to 1..
Shares in general range lower to-day.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 98%3/4% 98%
'caw 314 per Cents 1021/ 1024 % 1021 s
Long Annuities tomaireJan.lB6o 11% 7-16 11 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Bonds, 1,0001 .. —
Ditto under 1,0001. . ..... ....... 66 66
South Sea Stock .......

Ditto Old Annuities 991,E 99%
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 47 45 pm. 47
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bends, 6 Der Cent..
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 10212
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 18
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... —
Ditto, Account 33 323/4 323/t
Ditto, Deferred l7 161/2 16%
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted — 64
Russian Bonds .... 115143414 115
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account •••• 383/ 38%
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certific 991/1 99%
Equador
Granada Bonds 22% 231,4 2314
Deferred ...

1021/2

BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
PRICES OF PAID.
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOcIC. PRICES.
Aberdeen

Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 ,
Ditto, Extension__ 1%

Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O —
Do. New
11
Caledonian
Ditto Extension - 33/ 4
0 3 / 34
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%•••••• 4/24 434
Chester and Holyhead... 15 ...... 21A% 203/4
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Cork and Waterford ... 1 lii
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1
Cornwall

Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich o/2 1 '
I )übl in and Belfast June 21/i 9 9%
Dublin and Galway._ .. 2% 5% 63,4 6%
Eastern Counties...... 14/. 163...... 205s'i
Ditto New 4/. 16s. i7% 734 P
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, so. 1....5/. 13s. 4d —
,4
Ea.stDereh'm andNor'eh 1 ...... 2
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension . ... 1% ...... 33/04 334
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 234 3 l'i
Gloue., Aberystwitti, and
Central of Wales
Grand Union l% . 2%... 3%
kireat Munster ... 2%...••• Iljs 2%

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

Great North of England..loo
Do. New .... - ........ 2 ...... 34
Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2% ... .. 4 31r4% ...... , 3%
"lull and Selby SO
2 ..-.
13Q. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 25 55
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
London and Birmingnm kStock) 224 222 222
Ditto Extension
London and Blackwall. 16!. 13s. 4d. 10%
l ondon and Brighton... 50
L )ndon and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 27 26% ..
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford
London and Greenwich 12! 15s 4d... 11
Lund. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 771,
Do. New
London and York ...... •.. 214...... et lA 6lll
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... -...- ...... 21h...... 31h
"'ole line 21.'• 514 54

Londonderry &Coleral t,
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ...... ... ........ ..• 21i. 3%
Lynn and Ely ........•... 21A Bl/ B'
Lynn and Dereham ...... IN 4j18..•
s,lanchester and Leeds... 76 221 21814 218%
Do. 14 Shares ......... 34 104

CONTINENT.

GOTHA, AUG. 31.—Yesterday there was a chasse on
a grand scale for the entertainment of her Majesty and
Prince Albert. The forests of the Duke of Coburg
abound with deer, and although the game is usually
hu..ted, as in the Highlands of Scotland, by stalking,
there is every autumn a grand badge, at Which all tilt
sportsmen of the district assist, the object being to keep
down the number of the game, which increases rapidly
in the vast forests of Thuringia, some of the red deer
being of enormous size. The chasse of the Duke of
Coburg is the finest in Germany, and the whole of his
establishments are maintained upon the most princely
scale, and, in addition to the usual keepers and rangers,
a large body of chasseurs are retained by his Serene
Highness to superintend his hunting menage. At stated
periods of the year a large inclosure is prepared in
the centre of the forest of several acres extent. It is
surrounded by canvas to the height of ten or twelve
feet, and one side of the square is left open for the
purpose of driving in the deer—the huntsmen and
rangers are sent out early in the morning, and a cordon
of some miles in extent is formed, gradually narrowing
as the inclosure is approached, till the herd, which some-
times numbers 200 or 300, is compelled to enter the in-
closure, and a general battfte, which thorough English
sportsmen might designate a slaughter, ensues. The
spot selected on the present occasion was an open space
in the forest, four or five miles from Rheinhardtsbrunn,
and the Queen and the distinguished individuals who
were invited to assist at the sylvan sport left Gotha in
four carriages at half-past nine yesterday morning.
After passing the palace of Rheinhardtsbrunn the road
begins to ascend, the route lying through the neat little
town of Friedrichroda (which was a complete wilderness
of evergreens, flowers, and triumphal arches) to the base
of the Thuringian range. After entering a pass in the
hills, which are here conical and rise to a great height,
the ruins of the ancient Castle of Schaunburg, towering
on the summit of a naked crag, are reached—vast
forests of pine stretching away in the distance, and here
and there naked rocks starting up their bold and
massive outlines, clearly defined on the bright blue sky ;
a rapid stream runs through the valley, the waters of
which are applied to working the wheels of a number of
saw-mills erected on its banks ; the sloping sides of the
hills are covered with the yarn and home-spun linen of
the district, the neat little whitewashed cottages and well
clad peasantry giving the sequestered vale an air of active
and thriving industry. An excellent road has been made
by the Duke of Coburg through the heart of the forest,
and her Majesty was enabled to reach the scene of action
without leaving her carriage, before one o'clock. Here,
on a level plain of considerable elevation, and surrounded
by an amphitheatre of lofty hills, the inclosure was
staked out and hemmed in with canvas. In the centre
a rustic pavilion, tastefully ornamented with evergreens
and flowers, was prepared for her Majesty's accommoda-
tion. The Queen and her suite, with the Duke of
Coburg, having taken their seats, the signal was given
by sound of horn to drive in the deer, and the sports-
men
took up their position about half way between the
pavilion and the remote end of the inclosure. In the
group were Prince Albert, the Duke of Coburg, the
Prince of Leiningen, Mr. Anson, Colonel Wylde, &c.
A. shout now arose from the immense body of spectators
assembled on the hill side, and in rushed a herd of no-
ble animals, sweeping furiously and panic• stricken across
the inclosure. Behind them followed a dense body of
rangers, huntsmen, and chasseurs, armed with hunting-
poles, rifles, and swords, cutting off all hope of escape
from the hapless animals ; and now the work of slaugh-
ter commenced. The sportsmen, who were armed
with double-barrelled rifles, loaded by attendants behind,
singled out the leaders of the herd as they bounded
past, and the sharp ring of the rifle was followed by a
convulsive plunge of the noble animal in his death agony.
At times a wounded stag would limp away from his ter-
rified brethren, and, with drooping antlers, lie down in
the heather to die. These the huntsmen and 3 agers fol-
lowed, and mercifully dispatched with their hunting.
knives. Again a herd of upwards of a hundred, maddened
and infuriated by the noise and uproar, would rush
upon the rank of keepers, and attempt to force their
way through the dense mass back to the forest ; but
the fall of two or three of the leaders would send
them startled and bewildered back again. One unhappy
wretch, singling himself out from the throng, approached
the pavilion, " the big round tears, apparently coursing
each other down his innocent cheeks," as if asking an
asylum, but some hard-hearted sportsmen within the
pavilion put an end to his supplications by a rifle-bullet.
The firing now became one continued platoon, till the
herd suddenly rushed upon the huntsmen, like an
avalanche, and broke their ranks, and escaped into the
forest. The sport terminated at four o'clock, and the
dead game was then collected from all parts of the in-
closure, and laid in a row in front of the pavilion. The
result of the hattue was 48 deer, besides about ten
which escaped wounded to die in the forest. Of the 48
killed 24 were stags, some of them of very large size,
and extremely fat. The Queen and her suite re-
turned to Gotha shortly after six o'clock. Although
this mode of killing the deer has been from
time immemorial practised in Germany, we do not think
it will ever become popular in England. There is
something revolting to the heart of a true sportsman,
in seeing these noble animals driven into a pen like
sheep. and brought down in scores without the slightest
chance for their lives. The accessories of illustrious
and high-born ladies, sitting as spectators, with the
accompaniment of a military band, playing " La Dame
Blanche," or Jullien's last Polka, adds nothing to the
interest of the scene, and the affair would be better
managed if the Duke left this wholesale_thinning of his
game to the rangers and huntsmen.
Her Majesty will attend Divine service in the chapel
of the palace to-day, and the illustrious guests of the
Duke will remain during the day in the palace. The
townspeople are, however, determined to make it a day
of rejoicing after their own fashion, and their will be a
concert and ball in the evening, on the same scale of
splendour as that of Friday evening.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE BATTUE.

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Manchester and Birrnin. 40
Do. Quarter 5............ 4
Do. New Quarters ... 2 ...... 81/.:3 9 lO
Manchester, Buxton, and
% ..
Matlock .................. 225. B% Bl4 P
Midland... .................. TOO ...... 174%...
L
Do. New ............... 2 ..... 25 26 26
Midland,Birm., Derby...loo ....... 1331/2
Newcastle and Darling- 1331/2
ton Junction ........ .... 25 .....
Do. New Brandling... 15 ...... _ ••
Newcastle and Berwick 11/2 ...... 161,4 44
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 3% 17 IA
31/2
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston .... .............. 2%..... 0,.........
c%
North British ............ 15 ..... 3018 A
501/4
.Do. New ............... 1 ...... 1062
N. Kent & Direct Dover 234.. .. 4%%.....
North Staffordshire •••••• 225....... 5% p
North Wales ... ......... 11,4 ...... 5% 43/ 4O
Norwich and Brandon... 14 ...... 231 h 4 4 A
Oxford and Worcester... 21,4 ...... 10F4 11 10 2334
10
Eerth and Inverness ... 2% ..... 2k
Portsmouth Direct 2l/2 ...... 74% 7 7
Preston and Wyre ...... 50 ...... 47 46
Richmond .................. 5 •
.
Rugby, Worst r, &
Tring 1 ...... 2'' 34 ... .......
t•cottish Central ......... 21% ...... 7
Shrews., WolverhamP.,
Dudley,and Birm ...... 2124..... 8% 73/4 73/4
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union ......... 225....... 3% 274 p 2%
South Devon... ............ 20 ......
..... 34:4
South Midland ........... . 225.
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 284 d 483/4 47)4 47
Do., No. 1... ............ 12
Do., No. 2. ............ 7 ...... ......
Do., No. 3 ............ 21/2 91.1/2
1 .. ....
31 A 12A
Staines and Richmond...• 1
South Wa1e5........... ... 21,4
.. 17
Trent Trent
Valley Valley
and... . . . .8..
0..1.7..... 2
head Junction ......... ix 3l/a 2% 2%
Waterford and Kilkenny 1
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklytt
and Dublin ............ 1%.... . 214 l%
Welch Midland ......... 2% ...... 43/4 14 414
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth ........ ... ...... 2% 5
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 29% 291/2
York and Carlisle .......•• 2% 6 ...........•.. 61
York and North Midland 50
Do Selby
Do. Extension ......... I M 25143/4 2434 ... 243/
FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 4
Anglo-Belgian..
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 ; ..... 2,6,.......-

GOTHA, SUNDAY, AUG. 31.—Yesterday was a dies
cartone notanda, and, moreover, a day that should be
marked with a very black coal, since we feel sure that we
are justified in saying that it was the only disagreeable
day her Majesty has passed since the royal yacht
splashed through the sluggish and muddy waters of the
lazy Scheldt.
The royal party left Gotha at half-past ten in six car-
riages and four, and gallopped rapidly through the beau-
tiful little village of Sehnepfenthal to the Duke's noble
palace of Rheinhartdsbrunn, and on through the clean and
quiet little town of Friedrichroda, winding slowly up to
the steep ascent which leads to the Duke's hunting lodge
of Tanzbuch. This lodge is a small place of modest
pretensions; but it is situated in one of the most lovely
spots in the wide world; it lies embosomed among lofty
trees in the heart of the forest, and is surrounded by
scenes of surpassing beauty, which, however, lack gran-
deur and sublimity.
All is on a small scale, for even the highest hill which
her Majesty has yet, seen in Germany, the Niederstrom-
berg, one of the Siebengebirge, is only 1,460 feet high,
whereas the mountain which upheaved its vastness op-
posite to her bedroom at Blair Athol, the Ben-y-Ghlo,
was nearly four,times as high. This portion of the forest,
is, however, remarkably beautiful ; the pine trees raise
their gaunt forms to a height of nearly 300 feet, and the
produce of the building timber alone produces a revenue
of 100,0004 sterling to the Duke.
The carriages drew up at the netting, a portion of
which was propped up, and her Majesty and the
whole of the royal party were ushered into the
firclad house. Three small tables were also erected
in various parts of the ground, and here the
sportsmen (!) were placed ; but Prince Albert killed
several stags from the house in which the Queen and
the ladies were seated, and which reminded me forcibly
of the balcony from which Catherine de Medicis incited
her silly son to blare away at the unfortunate Hugue-
nots on St. Bartholomew's Eve. King Leopold took up
his station, and killed the largest stag shot in the course
of the day ; parties of soldiers were also placed in the
inclosure, and the carnage was enlivened by a military
band, who played waltzes and polkas whilst the noble
animals were panting in the last agonies upon the blood-
stained heather.

The slaughter was carried on for two hours without
intermission, when her Majesty and the ladies of the
Court sickened at the scene and withdrew. When the
signal to cease firing was given, the servants went round
with long stout poles, to which netting was suspended,
and in these they bore up the bodies of the slain, and
laid them between the wind and our nobility.

_
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette
'
......... 2%
Dendre Valley
Dutch Rhenish 3 ...... 9141/s ? ~,
East Indian ... ..... .... ss. ..... 14.....
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 38,3/14i 1/i 3%
Do. Peppin le Halleur 4 •• ••• ~' a?-' 4%
Great Paris and Lyons 2 •••••• 01. 3,—• ••• 2%
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . ./4 78 5%
Lyons and Avignon 2 ...... 274 3 3
Luxembourgh
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 . ..... 221/4 211/
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 .•• • • • , l4l
t'aris ti Lyons, Laffltte's 4 ...... 374 33/4
Pans and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... .. 2 ...... 23/4% 2%
Paris &Lyons, (Caton's) 2 .....• 21/2 ••••••
Pans and Rouen . 2O ......
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) 2 •••••• ~34 3 3l
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ...... '":11 3%.
2Y
Royal North of Spain ... 2 ...... 2A 3 8
Sambre and Meuse ..... 6 ...... B:i3 9 9
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 4 ...... 31
Do. do (Lefebvre's) 2 ...... 214 214
West Flanders 2 ...... •• .. ••••.•••• 4%
MINE.
Real del Monte,Unregis. ...... 4

IVEYMOUTIL—The engineers connected with the
railroad from Bath to this town, have been this week actively
employed in their final survey of the projected line, and com-
pleting the preliminary arrangements previous to the com-
mencement of the work, which, it is feared, the lateness of the
harvest will not permit before the end of October. We hear
it is not yet decided whether the road will be cut down or tun-
nelled through the ridge of the bill to the west of Bincombe.—
Sherbourne Journal. _ _ _

DOVER, SEPT. 3.—This day, at one o'clock, his
Grace the Duke of Wellington and the Commissioners of
Dover Harbour held a special meeting at the Harbour-house,
no doubt connected with the present and the vast contem-
plated improvements at this port. The engineers for the
North Kent Dover Direct Line have been engaged in this
neighbourhood during the past week, and the line appears
to be much in favour with the leading gentleman and autho-
rities of this town, as well as the members connected with the
district it passes. The continental traffic to Ostend, Calais,
and Boulogne has been much increased during the past week.

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