The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

THE S UN, LON DON, 'WEDNESDA Y MORNING, ArGITST_ 27,_

results which have been arrived at, in the series of ex-
periments to which we alluded in our paper of Saturday
last, as having been commenced for some days on the
London and Croydon atmospheric line of railway, should
operate to deter all men from pronouncing, too con-
fidently, on the impracticability of novel projects of me-
chanical application, however startling by their boldness
or their simplicity. In the late experiments, the success
of which we have already had the pleasure of announcing,
the two main difficulties that we have instanced may be
considered to have been finally disposed of ; and this,
too, with an ease and readiness that reflect the highest
credit on those who originated and devised the particular
modes by which the possibility of vanquishing them
might be tested. As to the first of those difficulties the
exhaustion of five miles length of tube, at a barome-
trical pressure of 27 degrees and four lines, and the un-
impeded traversing of that whole extent by the piston,
we take to be an experiment on a giant scale, the con-
clusi,m of which can leave no sort of reasonable doubt as
to its prolongation throughout any extent of space that
railroad purposes can require. As to the second diffi-
culty, it was extinguished and utterly removed by the
propulsion of a carriage train, dead weight, without mo-
mentum or impetus of any kind, up an incline of 1 in 50.

On the various accounts we have mentioned, and
especially because of the saving of human lite which we
think we !ray safely anticipate from its more extensive
application to railway lines—we regard these experi-
ments on the atmospheric principle with much gratitica
tion. We heartily wish the individuals under whose
direction and auspices it is being thus admirably ap-
plied every further success in their spirited endeavours,
not at all doubting that they will soon be enabled to
bring their results into almost universal adoption in the
practical construction and management of railways.

The last advices from Madrid bring intelligence that
a species of insurrection had broken out in that capital
on the 19th instant, in consequence of the discontent
excited among the middle and lower classes of the
people by the refusal of the Queen's Ministers—the
Finance Minister more especially—to make certain
modifications in his new tributary system. Angry
groups of people assembled in the squares and place-=,
and the authorities having been compelled to call out the
troops, several charges of cavalry were made on the
people, against whom several discharges of musketry
were also levelled. The garrison was under arms
Considerable reinforcements had arrived from Gua-
dalajara and Cuenca. ; and the Captain-General
had been vested with extraordinary powers, and autho-
thorised to declare Madrid in a state of siege, should
circumstances occur to render such a proceeding neces-
sary. Great consternation existed among all classes,
although the city was tranquil at the departure of the
mail.

From many circumstances we are strongly disposed
to think this ebullition of popular feeling is by no means
the termination of the hostile movement that the Spanish
Minister's plan may expect to encounter. Still less is it
any adequate indication of the intensity of the disgust, or
the force of the passive resistance, which the tradespeople
of Madrid oppose to the excessive and unjust asse,sments
he has subjected theta to, or the apportionment
of his forced contributions. We fully agree with the
Madrid correspondent of a morning Contemporary, that
perhaps the most formidable resolution at which ant•
large section of the Spenish people can arrive, is to
oppose passive resistance to the collection of the reve-
nues of the Crown. The Spaniard, beyond every other
European denizen, can bear and endure. His " passive
resistance" does not evaporate in party excitement,
or factious speeches ; nor can he be wheedled out of
his settled purpose by the cajolery and clap trap speeches
of the most favourite ewpecivado. His resolutiot;
once taken, he seems to make it a peit.t of honour
and self-respect inflexibly to adhere to it, until either
the object it proposes be accomplished, or the chaeces o
its attainment has been risked and lost upon actual alto
determined contests for its attainment. We have form, d
this opinion on some personal knowledge and experience
of the Spanish character, especially us it develops itself
among the remarkable population of the metropolis of
Spain. But when we find that the Finance Minister him-
self, Senor MoN, is so alarmed by the voluntary closing
of shops and cessation of trading, that he makes
tours of personal inspection through the city, in
order to ascertain by personal inspection to
what extent and in what quarters this emphatic
though silent token of resistance and defiance prevails ;
—when we read that many hundreds of workmen have
been already discharged by their employers, on account
of the anticipated pressure of the new fiscal arrange-
ments, we tremble for the consequences. To crown all
the other disastrous aspects of affairs, NARVALZ, to
whose unprincipled ambition and unsparing cruelty
Spain is already indebted for so large an aggregate of
political oppressions and civil misery, has been clothed
Kith renewed and enlarged capacities to degrade, en-
slave, and exasperate the unhappy country whose liber-
ties he has bereyed. The mournful present wil:
be followed, we suspect, by a terrible future, and
that not a distant one. Senor Mote is, it seems, infleei
ble. The Madrid men are resolute. The Minister is
a man of his word. The citizens are men of their
purpose. The passive resistance to arbitrary and CX •
cessive taxation which is announced by closed shops,
disbanded establishments, and discharged workmen, ha,
been displayed by the same people, in precisely the
same indications, where the immediate excitement has
been caused by the forced military occupation of their'
capital by an invading army of foreigners. Those of
our readers who may remember as well as we do, untie:
what circumstances the French forces took armed pos-
session of Madrid in March, 1808, will not forget the
terrible retribution inflicted on those forces, in Madrid,
just two months afterwards (en May 2). It is earnestly
to be hoped that after the bitter experience which
the Spanish people have had during the last twelve years
of the unproductive results of the most sanguinary tu-
mults and revolts to the cause of civil liberty and con
stitutiorial results, so lunges they have no leaders of tried
fidelity to those ennobling and salutsry principles, they
will not pass from this condition just now to one of more
direct cu lision with their military oppressors, which
would only result just now in the closer rivetting of
the fetters which have been imposed upon them, and the
still more prodigal shedding of that blood which ha,
been already so lavishly and vainly shed in the cause c I
a country still noble in its decay, still precious to them
under all the sufferings they are compelled to endure
from the successful traitors to its liberties and its laws.
In this last intelligence from Madrid we see fresh occa
sion to express the apprehensions we have long enter-
tained, that there is no Court of Europe at which the
influence of this country, or the authority of its example,
or the tendencies of its public opinion, are less felt or re-
sponded to than that of Madrid. Since the successful con-
spiracy against, and rapid downfal of, ESPARTLRO, we
appear to have lost even the privilege of addressing
Spain in the warning language of an old friend and a
tried protector. To what is this owing,—this loss 01
consideration on the part of the most p .werful with one
of the weakest, though most arbitrary, Governments in
existence ? We are compelled to believe that the cha-
racter and dignity of this great country cannot be ade-
quately upheld by our diplomatic representative there :
and, indeed, we have, of late, seen by far te,o
much of drawing-room and banquetting flirtation
between the British Minister and the adventurer
NARYAEZ, and the poor tools and creatures of
his who infest the throne of the young Queen
of SPAIN, rendering it inaccessible to the just
complaints and remonstrances of an outraged and in-
sulted nation. We would rather hear our Minister to
Spain blamed for a too distant deportment, than feel
thus compelled to censure his too great forwardness
towards a Court and Government which have earned
for themselves so unenviable a reputation for perfidious-
ness and cruelty.

News from Poland to the 12th instant has arrived.
There had been an erneute in Lithuania. Several minis-
ters of the Greek Church had been dispatched to a vil-
lage in that duchy, for the purpose of converting the
inhabitants. The Russian Government, in order to
render their preachings more efficacious, and to quicken
the perceptive faculties of the peasants as to the sup--
riority of the Greek Church over the Roman Catholic, had
placed at the orders of those reverend missionaries a de-
tachment of troops, consisting of an officer and forty
men. Tnc peasantry, however, enticed the Greek priests
into a forest and murdered them ; and then setting fire
to a barn in which the soldiers were quartered, had sur-
rounded it, and drivon bask into the flames all who
attempted to escape. There had occurred in the town of
Luck, in Lithuania, no less than six destructive fires
between the 6th and 26th of May.

No intelligence has been received from Madrid of a
later date than that we gave yesterday.

We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday.
The Moniteur announces officially the elevation to
the Peerage of the following Members of the Chamber
of Deputies :—Generals Viscount BoNNEMAINS, Baron
ThrustEy, and Blrou DOGUEREAU, Count DE MoNTo
ZON, Baron TUPINIER, and Messrs. FULCHIRON, GIROT
DE L'ANGLADE, HARTMANN, and RAGUET LEPINE.
The He:sayer des C ,ambres publishes an official con-
tradiction of the statement which appeared in La
announcing that the French troops in Algiers
had received a check in the neighbourho of Orleans-
vine.

Marshal BUGEAWD is to leave Algiers for France on
he sth of September

ABD-EL-KADER is encamped ou the frontitrs of
Morocco, at the head of 6,000 bum.

The National says that a caravan of black Eaves,
brought from the interior of Africa were publicly put up
to auction in the market of Medeah, and asks how it is:
that Marshal BUGEAUD tokrates such monstrous con-
duct in a French colony ?
It appears that the journeymen sawyers of Paris have
struck for wages. Several of them were arrested on
Thurs-lay and Friday. The trial of the carpenters out
on strike, before the Police Correctionelle, on a charge
of conspiracy, commenced on Friday. It was expected
to last over two days.
On the evening of the 22d a destructive fire took place
at Bordeaux, in the warehouses of 31. TASTET, which
contained large quantities of brandy and spirits of wine.
The fire promptly communicated to the neighbouring
houses, and would have been far more extensive had not
the authorities succeeded in saving :evvral warehouses,
containing three thousand pieces of brandy and other
spirits. The loss is estimated at 120,0001. in the tele-
graphic dispatch which conveyed the news of the
disaster to the Government on Saturday. On tha
morning of the 23d, a wall of one of the burnt
houses fell, and killed the commandant, adjutant, a
lieutenant, and three privates of the Pompier corps.
The report of the adjudication of the Grand Northern
Railroad having been postponed, is officially contra-
dicted.

The Conatitutionnel says that the Count DE MONT-
FORT (JEROME BONAPARTE'S son), who has spent
some months at Paris, has been ordered to quit France
within the period of eight days.

General LARNE had returned to Faris from Morocco,
where he had been as Envoy.
General RAFAEL URDANETA, Minister Plenipoten-
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic of Ve-
nezuela at the Court of Madrid, died in P.tris on the
23d inst.

The Moniteur inserts, by order of the Minister of
Commerce, a letter from Tangiers, dated 24th utt., which
announces that the Director of the Custom. house office
had published a decree of the EMPEROR, reducing by
25 per cent. the duties imposed in May last on foreigii
merchandise. That debree had been likewiso promul-
gated at Mogadore, Tetuan, and Rabat. The same letter
mentions that the Government had declared the sale of
eggs and oranges an Imperial monopoly, and granted
the privilege of exporting them, for a sum of 14.000
francs, to the son of one of the administrators of the
Custom-house department.
The weather continued remarkably fine. The Three
per Cents. sold at TORTONI'S for 84f. 17ie.

The following are the quotations of the new lines :
.I,Yoss, AuG. 21.—Avignon and Marseihes, 1,100 f., end
of Augus.t ; Par.u. and Orleans, 1,320 f., ditto; Paris and
Rouen. 1,106 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 813 f., ditto;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 725 f., ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 25.
Boulogne and Amiens.. 11 Orleans and Bordeaux 124
Bordeaux & Mediterran !Over Yssel
Bordeaux and Toulouse Paris & Lyons ( Latitte)
Do. and Cette 2 Ditto (Ganneron's).
Central of Spain .. — Ditto (Calon's).....
Dutch Rhenish
Dendre Valley ...... 21,i3 Paris and Rouen .. 42112
Dieppe & Paris Junct. Paris and Stra,hurg
Dijon and Mulnouse I (Ganneron's)... .....
East Indian
Girt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.

(La!line's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) ... 3 Rouen and Havre__ 34:i
Great Paris and Lyons. 2%3 !Hoyal North of Spain. 2:%
Jam iica Junction — Sambre and Meuse .... B:j.ii
Do. North Midland — !Strasbourg and Basle .
,ouvain and Jemeppe 5 (Tours and Nantes
yons and Avignon — 1 (M'Kenzie's) —
Luxembourg-h..
Namur and Liege 6.3 Verona and Ancona....
Orleans and Vierzon

31/13

FOREIG N MAILS.- POST-OFFICE NOTICE,

Mori lav th fiito vity.; n Aiee relative to the g!epar-
tire cif favign tnaili was posted at the Chief Office, St.
AL.,rtiti's le G,-and

PHNINSULAR MAILS.—The Royal Tar will nil from
Southampton with the Peninsular mails of the 27th inst.
(to- morrow).
MADEIRA, BRAZIL, AND BUENOS AYRES.—Her Ma-
jesty'. brig Crane-, for the mails of the evening of the 2cl
of Sept. tuber (from August to January inclusive the
pocket touch.-s at Pernambuco al:dB-Alia on her outward
passage to Rw Janiero, and the other six on her home-
ward).

WEST INDIES.—The Dee will sail from Southampton
with the mails for the morning of the 2d SepteMber, foi
he British and Foreign Colonies in the WeA Indies
(except thrmuda), Ventzuela, Madeira, and Mexico.
AMERICA.—The Britannia for the mails of the evening
of the 3d September.
SYDNEY AND NEW SOUTH WALES.—The Persian,
for the mails of the evening of the Ist of September.
The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the
lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Southampton, will
be dispatched from hent:e on the morning of September 3

PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTH-DAY.—Yeziterdoy
bells of the various parish churches in London ushered in the
anniversary of the birth of the Consort of our beloved Queen. The
guards g:f the third regiment assembled on the Horse Guard's pa-
rade before ten o'clock, and from thence proceeded to take the
usual duty at St. James's Palace, where the band of that regiment
played several beautiful pieces of music, principally tha com-
position of his Royal Highness. There was a very numerous
and distinguished company present on the occasion. Ar one
o'clock the Park and Tower guns were fired in honour of the
event.

ANOTHER BALLOON ASCENT BY MR. C. GREEN.—
On Monday Mr. Green ascended from Cremorne Gardens, in
the Royal Nassau Balloon. It was anticipated by many that,
in consequence of the accident. which occurred to the veteran
aeronaut at Gravesend, he would not have been able to proceed
on another aerial journey ; but, though suffering severely, Mr.
C. Green was determined that the public should not be dis-
appointed, and at ten o'clock yesterday morning he was in the
;rounds, superintending the inflation of the balloon, which is
capable of containing about 70,000 cubic feet of gas, and which
was supplied from the Imperial Gas Manufactory. It was
announced that the ascent would take place at six o'clock. Pre-
vious to that hour the wind was blowing strong from the south,
and in consequence Mr. C. Green dissuaded Mrs. C. Green and
two other ladies from venturing with him. Shortly after the
above hour Mr. C. Green, Mr. H. Green (his brother), Mr.
T. Green (his son), Mr. Littlejohn, Mr. Spencer (a solicitor),
and another gentleman, entered the car, and Mr. Williams,
with Me,,srs. G. and W. Green took their stations on the
hoop. The wind having abated Mr. C. Green then, by means
of the liberating iron, released the balloon from terra firma.
After leaving Cremorne Gardens, it proceeded in the direction
of Highgate, where it met with a more westerly current. when
it went Inwards Essex. On coming between High !leach and
Waltham Abbey, Mr. Green, perceiving a fav, urable oppor-
tunity to alight, made preparations for his descent. By this
time, a great crowd of persons had collected, but the object of
the veteran aeronaut. being perceived by a number of policemen
they hastened to his assistance, and formed a ring of the body
Lf people collected, in the centre of which the magnificent
machine was safely landed and emptied of its gaseous contents,
amidst the cheers of the populace. It was then packed up, and
being platted in a chaise, was taken by Mr. Green to his resi-
dence at Highgate. Mr. Littlejohn, who ascended with the
balloon, arrived at Cremorne Gardens between twelve and one
yesterday morning, and communicated to the company the safe
descent of the balloon.

SiiitirixiNG OF THE PAPER IN IMPRESSIONS OF
ENG KA VI %Gs.—ln the course of the evidence on the London
and York Railway Bill, a very remarkable instance came to
light of the effect of the shrinking of paper in impression; from
c3pper-plates. By the deposited plans of this railway, the
elevation at a particular spot, called Greenwood-place-road,
appeared to be only 413 feet, while it was found by acteal level.
ling to be 422. Air. James Wyld, by whom the plans were
engraved, being called to explain this discrepancy, gave the
following evidence :—" The copper-plate produced was en-
graved by him, and sheet 6 of the section (the one on which
Greenwood-place-road occurs) was printed from that plate.
The height of Greenwood-place-road measured on the
copper is 422 feet, and on the printed copies of the section there
is a contraction of about nine feet, in reference to the scale, so
that the height, as shown by the copies, measures only about
413 feet. Had often known as large an amount of contraction.
He explained the mode in which contraction took place, by
showing how the sheets of paper, in the damp state, after being
printed on, were hung up to dry across a line. In consequence
of this the gravitation of the paper prevented the horinontal
contraction from being so great as the vertical. The contrac-
tion of paper varied very much, and was often equal to 1 in 40,
and even lin 36. Witness measured the contraction of the
scales and of some of the figured heights on a sheet of the sec-
tion printed by him, and found it equal to about 3 feet in 200
in the longitudinal direction, and 5 feet in 200 in the vertical
direction."—Mechanics' Magazine.
GALLANT CAPTURE OF A PIRATE SLAVER.—By
pArfirivactaewaedivlacren that s whichata we
report have
prevailed
received
of
a from
mo the h
gallant
coast a
oodf
successful engagement on the west coast, between the boats of
one of her Majesty's ships and a large pirate slaver. The
name of the vessel to which the boats belonged did not trans-
pire, but of the tact of the engagement, which, though most
desperate, was completely successful on the part of the gallant
crews, there was not the slightest doubt. It was said that
one or two of the officers distinguished themselves in the ex •
treme.

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PLYMOUTH FORTIFICATIONS.—Government cona
menced the fortiication of Staddon Heights on Monday. The
improvements in the fortifications of Maker Heights, on the
opposite side of the Sound, and of Drake's Island, have been
progressing for some time. Blockhouse Fort, at the
entrance to Portsmouth harbour, is in course of
.partial reconstruction to form a double-banked bat-
tery. The upper works have been entirely demolished,
and a platform for a tier of 32-pounders is rapidly progressing
in formation. The lower tier, formerly comprising 32-pounders
only, will consist of 62-pounders, forming a battery of thirty-
two heavy guns, commanding the - entrance and approaches to
the harbour, and crossing fire with Southsea Castle. This
fort has further keen mounted with several long 18 and 32-
pounder pivot gur.s, and, when complete, will be one of the
fo:tified positions on the coast.— Naval and Military
Gazette.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PECKIIAM.—On Monday
night, about nine, the inhabitants of High-street, Peckham-
% ere alarmed by an outbreak of tire in the stables of Alt. Walton.
Not a moment was lost by the inhabitants in rendering every
a•sistance to stay the progress of the flames, and messengers
cswe dispatched to London for engines, when that from the
Chandos-street station of the London Establishment, as well
as several caber', with a strong body of firemen were in at-
The water was abundantly supplied, and the
utron-t ~xertions were welt Out unfortunately the whole range
of st„bling, &c., was destroyed. The caw of the fire was not
asner: at ned.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION'. ThQ
second section of the Archeological Association will bold their
meeting at Winchester in the week commencing Monday.
September 8, under the presidency of the Marquis of Not th-
ampton. A numerous meeting of the local committee was held
on Fr day, at the 'l'own.hall, for the purpse of makinz the
final arrangements. In point of numbers the attendance at the
next meeting vriil, it is anticipated, be much greater than
the last.

HE it MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

Cosuao, AUG 21.—At length, after more than ten days
of tlmust incessant travelling, the Queen and her Consort are
resting in comparative quietude in the residence of the Prince's
ancestors. Her Majesty, it is said, slept last night in the very
room in which Prince Albert was born.

The journey from Wurzbarg here, except that the weather
was not quite propitious, was not the least interesting part of
the whole tour. There was much that was new in the scenery,
the little incidents of the journey, and the picturesque costumes
el the people. Bamberg, through wh oh the route lay, was
ull of the inhabi ants of the surrounding country, who gave
the Qaeen a hearty reception during the few minutes she re-
main .d in the town. The distance from Bamberg to Coburg
is about twenty-eight miles, through a fertile and populous
country. After passing Zapfendorf, the road runs along the
hank of the Main—a river presenting, at some points, Sefll cry
scat cely inferior to that on the Rhine—and passes Staffelberg,
a hill of remarkabie form and commanding aspect. On the
other side of the road riaes a height, on which stands the
palace t f Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, which was formerly
the convent 01 Bans. Passing Lichtenfels, a town of some
importance, the frontier of Bavaria and the Duchy of Saxe
Cohourg is soon reached.
Here the royal party were met be the King and Queen of
the Belgians, who had preceded them to Coburg. and now
returned thither with them. There was a pretty triumphal arch
at the boundary, and the cortege, as it passed on towards
Coburg, preceded by the postilions (in their gay and charac-
teristic blue dress and with plumes of white feathers in their
hats), looked picturesque enough, and certainly quite different
from anything of the kind we see in England. Carriages
belonging to Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg and other mem-
be rs of the family also swelled the procession, which W.lll
emitted by a large body of huntsmen of the House of Coburg,
dresseei in their uniform of green and gold, and with their
carbines :dung over their shoulders.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg was also at the frontier
to receive his brother and sister-in-law, and he rode by the
side of the royal carriage, the King and Queen of the Belgians
being within.
'fate whole reception at Coburg was the prettiest thing ima-
ginable. At the entrance to the town the burgomaster and
town-councillors were stationed to receive the royal party ;
and from this point throughout the city the eye saw but one
long festoon. At the boundary a splendid triumphal arch
stretched across the road, from which hung flags, and every
house in the long line of street through which the royal
cortege passed was gaily . decorated with garlands, festoons,
flags, and flowers. Better and prettier still to see were the
smiling faces of the inhabitants, lining the streets, and clus-
tering in all the windows. The great buildings of the city
were also profusely ornamented. The town-house and the
palace of the. Prince of Furstenberg were especially decorated
with garlands, festoons, and flags.
Arrived at the palace of the Duke, a fine building in the
modern Gothic style, forming three sides of an immense quad-
rangle, and with a turreted entrance, the royal party alighted
and partook of a slight refreshment. A guard of gene darnses
were drawn up here. After; a short delay the royal party
lett the palace (it is the town residence of the Duke), and
proceede,t ,to the summer palace, Rosenau, situate about four
miles trout Coburg. The road'-to this place runs through a
va4", in whi Ih are crowded in picturesque variety all the most
charming feasures of English rural scenery. A little further
on and an a vetue of trees, perhaps two miles long, leads
up to the palace; through a country which has all the charm
and beauty, all the richness and massiveness of forest and
verdure, that you see in an English nobleman's park, without
that exclusiveness which in our country is a check upon all
enlist went. You cannot *tee where the public road ends, and
where the domain of the Prince begins, so entirely open is the
place to all corners.
Rosenau itself is the beau-ideal of a summer-residence.
Alt hough built on a princely.scale, it looks like an enormous
cottage orio:e, embowered in trees anti flowers. The name,
Rosenau, ~the meadow of roses," aptly describes the lovely
valley from which the palace :rises. he views commanded
from the windows are of the finest kind. A landscape of more
than English softness and rich luxuriance--meadow, woodland,
and stream—is spread at the foot, while all around, as far as
the eye can reach, mountains of Highland grandeur, clothed
to their summits with fir or with rich woods, inclose it and
develope its beauties by a noble contrast. In the distance, at
the extremity of the valley, lies Coburg itself,
After the natural beauties of the place, the next peculiarity
that strikes an English mind is the utter absence of all cere-
monial and exclusiveness. There is none of that sulky solitary
grantieura, with which English noblemen and pr:nces are so
prone to surround themselves. There is not a gate or a sen-
tinel in the whole place; but the country people (and happy
comfortable people they seem) come and go, and look about
them as they please, under the very windows of the palace,
with tin other restraint upon them than their own sense of self-
rtapect, and those habits of decorum which characterise the
Germans.

Not more than four miles from Rosenau, and nearer Coburg,
there is another summer residence, the palace of Prince Ernest
of Wurtemburg, from which a very fine view is obtained of
the vale in which Coburg is situate, the spire of the Church of
St. Maurice. riming boldly from the centre of the city. On
the opposite heights is the fortress of Coburg, which her
Majesty went last evening to visit, driving over from Rosenau
for the purpose.
As to Coburg itself, the notion entertained of it in England
is rise of the most absurd and outre in John Bull's bundle of
prejudices. That its situation is picturesque will have been
gathered from what has already been said. But the city itself
is much larger and of much more importance than is generally
supposed. The palace of the king is a noble structure, and
the great buililings of the town are very little inferior to any of
the same recent erection in the chief towns in Germany.
These are comparatively modern, but the town itself' is much
more ancient. The streets, however, are wider than in moat
of the older towns in Germany. The houses are for the most
part white ; and, above all, they seem remarkably clean. The
market ,p'.ace is a fine large area, very similar to the great
square at Bonn, and there are some magnificently quaint old
houses in it. The theatre, al,o, is a fine building ; and the
suburbs of the city, in which there are villas in abundance, are
of remarkable beauty, combining a very rural air with much
elegance. But what is, after all, much more interesting to the
stranger. and more surprising to the Englishtnan, than the
rnsrely physleal aspect of Coburg, is the wealth and comfort it
displays. The residences of the better classes are dis-
tinguished by much elegance ; and the re is no
poverty or squalor, but, on the contrary, much ap.
pearance of substantial comfort in those of the lower.
Of course
~ Coburg cannot compete in sizis with the
capital towns of larger states; it is, in fact, a sort of miniature
city, in which everything is perfect, alihoseli on a somewhat
small scale ; but in the possession of all those features which
are desirable for the happiness of the people it seems unique. It
has its historical associations too. Wallenstein besieged it in
vain in the thirty years' war, and it boasts of being able to
show the room where Luther slept while in concealment here,
arid the:pulpit from which he preached.
In the theatre operas and German plays alternate. It is
under the direction of the Grand Duke, and it bears a high
character for musical and dramatic excellence. Her Majesty
and the rest of the royal party now here went there last
night. The opera was the Huguenots, and the theatre was
s
densely filled. The population of Coburg is about 10,000.
That of Gotha, ,which is about seventy five miles from here,
is 14,000. When her Majesty arrived at Coburg the whole
population turned out to meet her. There were dense masses
all along the road between the frontiers and the town. Not
only these were there, but also the people of the surrounding
s , country in a circuit of many miles, came in crowds into
cobto g. Some came as much as twenty German miles, and
some from Leisesit'•
It was stated that theft would be at Coburg a grand re-union
of royal personages—that not fews: than fifteen crowned heads
would here meet Queen Victoria. At besides the
members of the Ducal house of Saxe Coburg. tier° are
the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, and
he
half.
brother of her Majesty Queen
the
the
PrinceKng andef
LQeu t
ie eng oeft,,
Victoria. 'The Palace of Rosenau is occupied by the Queen
and Prince Albert. The ether royal personages, with their re-
spective suites, stay at the town Palace of the Duke.
Her Majesty h. s since her arrival rested of er the fatigues of
her incstsant travelling. Beyond an occasional drive out in
the neighbourhood, and through the town of Coburg, there has
been no movemerA of the Court,

prices are almost 'nominal. The Five per Cei2t4.
have been 27'/, and the Passive 634. Columbian have Leen
steady, at 181/4 %; and Brazilian, at 89%. The Equador
Stock is worth 4% %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been 624 to 63 ; and the Four per Cents. 1001 A to %.
Railway Shares, generally, are capitally supported.

ONE CLOSINf;
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLo K. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
99,,s
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99% 98%, 991 59%
tiew 314 per Cents
LongAnnuitles toexDireJan.lB6o 11 7-46% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ll 5-16 11 5-16
India Stock 271 273
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001... ... - 66 66
Consols for Account - ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 Phd 49 50 51 pm. 51

. . , .
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 5Ol/2 -
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 18%14
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Deferred lB3/4
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account 000000 •-•••—•.• 27%
Do., 1843
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred
•
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ... ..
Ditto, Account — 38%
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific 100%% 100%
Equador .. 41 4%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 133
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O —
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2...... 3%14 3l
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% 7i
Dublin and Galway..

pm. 49
pm. 54
CLOSING
rim EA
501/2
18 LA

Eastern Counties r 141. 16s: 193 i i 4 ...
Ditto New 4/. 16s.

18
64

27%
221/1.

14,3

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, .No. 1....51.135. 4d l4
Eastern Union 2O ..... .

Ditto Extension . ... I% 3%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New 4 Shares... 5
Great South. and West. •
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..100
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares 5O ll6 117%. ll7 1,
-

8914
141/4

Ditto Fifths

46

Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 21/2 ... .. 314 . 31/2
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Quarter Shares l2', —
Leicester and Bedfjrd... 225.
London and 'liming= k Stock) 227 925 225
Do. Thirds
Do. IA Shares
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d lOl .%
1014
Do. New
London and Brighton
London and Manchester

(Remington's)
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 2614%
...
..
Do. New - 13s 4d 1%,,t;
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d......
Do. Consolidated Bths 20
Do. New
London and York 2% • 6%%14
London, Salisbury, and
n,ovil „ 21,4.... 2% .
Lynn ra:l Ely
Lynn and li7ellam l% 4% . ..... .......
Manerlester and I,:fds... 76
Do. Quarters
Manchester and I3irmin. 40 ....“ 66 65
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2

Manchester,liuxton,and
Matlock 225....... 7%3s 7% P
Midland 100
Do. New
4
Nlidland,Binn., Derby 100 133
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 53 52 ... ...... .. 531:
Do. New Brandling
New,!aFule and Berwick 1% 24 ...
Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire Junction... 1%......
Newark and SLeffield .. 1% 3311%14 ...- - !34
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45

Do. Quarter Shares... 12% l9
North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 4%3,1 p
Norwich and Brandon... 14
Do., New
/8.
Oxford and Worcester... 21/ 7, %
Portsmouth Direct 2% 6l/2'1,4
Preston and Wyre
Richmond 1
Rugby, Worstr, Sr 'Fling 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2lh• ••• 5%:h •••
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
ard North Wales 2%
South Devon... 2O ... ..
South Midland 22s.
South Eastern Sr:Dover 33/ 2s 4d...
Do., N 0.2.
Do.. No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
south Wales
frent Valley 2 .... .
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Düblin
Welch Midland - ' 2%...... 3%1
Worcester, Shrewsbury
and Crewe Union..... 1%..... 37412 8 34'
,
York and Carlisle- 2:%4 4 ...... ........, 3%
York and North Midland 50 108
Ditto Scarboro' Branch: 25
Do. Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
!ioulogne and Amiens... 6
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux,Touleuse, and
Cette ......... ..... 2
Dendre Valley
Dutch Rhenish 3
East Indian
Great North. of France
(Lallitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain ain.: JenlePPe 4
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourgh
Saniur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux 4 ...,
Over Yssel 413 e 4d....
raris & Lyons, Laflitte's
Paris and Lyons, Gan-

_ gil•
.... 12Wp l2
... 01 p
.. 31A2 %...
2%
2!i
42%% .. 421/2
2%
.... . 271
•••
2;vs
•. •••
23/4%.. ...... . 21/2
8%
41/294.• ••• ...... 3'%4
NE

neron's, 2
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
PAris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg

(Ganneron s) 2
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2
Peppin le Halleur 4
Royal North of Spain 2
-timbre and Meuse 6
West Flanders 2
MI

Real del Monte, Unregis.
COURSE OF EXCHA:
Amsterdam CF. 12 8
Ditto, at sight l2 6
Rotterdam 2U. 12 81
Antwerp 26 0
aamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona

Paris,3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 0
Frankfort on Maine, 1221
Petersburgh, 3 Us..
Berlin

,••• 21/8
••• 814%.*
~. 614 ix 6 I/2
3
5 4%••
~. 3
21/2.
65,44% 6N,

Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 361
Cadiz
I.lilbao
Barcelona

21,(2 .......«..

--
iGE.—(YESTEKDA X )
Gibraltar...
Leghorn 30 60
Genoa ...
Milan ....

Naples .. .
F:llen130, !pis, 0A 120&
Lisbon s3*
Oporto .. .
Rio Janeirn ....

Bahia ..
Buenos Ayres —
Newl'aik.::?dyssight
Philull:lE46i.

PaR.34,4 .7.1' !IV LLION, PER oz
Foreign .;t,:sl, bars. £3 17 9
Portuga' Coin 3 17 5
Taw Poublaons 0 0 0
Now D(A.:.al a 0 4 9i
Silver ir. rive . 0 0 0

Seville —

TAILORS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-011 Monday
the half-yearly meeting of the supporters of the Institution for
the relief of aged arid infirm journeymen tailors, was held at
the Freemasons' Tavern ; Mr. Adenay in the chair. The re-
port of the Committee stated that the funded capital had now
reached the sum of 12,0811., and that there are seventy-three
pensioners depending upon them for support in the new asylum
at Haversteck Hill. At the last anniversary dinner of the
masters, 7991. was added to the funds, and at the journeymen's,
1201. Two of the pensioners had died since the last meeting,
but the health of the inmates of the asylum was generally good,
and the conduct of all was characterised by order and regularity.
On the motion of Mr. Rolphe, seconded by Mr. Prior, the re-
port was adopted, after which two additional pensioners were
balloted for, and the meeting separated.
SERIOUS CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—On Monday after-
noon, between two and three o'clock, a serious accident
occurred to Stephen Walker, a ceachman in the service of
Braithwaite, Esq., a gentleman residing in Seymour-street,
llryanston-square. Walker had been desired to have the
carriage in readiness at three o'clock, and in driving through
the yard where the horses are at livery, I;e incautiously
neglected to lower his head whilst passing under the gateway,
and in consequence he was precipitated from the box with con-
siderable violence. He was immediately picktd up in an in-
sensible state (the wheels of the carriage having gone over
him), and was conveyed without delay into the house of a
surgeon, when it was ascertained that Walker had received a
severe concussion of the brain, in addition to inward injuries
of an alarming description, which leaves bat slight hopes qi his
recovery.
NEW NOVEL, BY HORACE SMITH, Esq.—We are
requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-
street, has th:s day published " Love and Mesmerism," by
Horace Smith, Esq., author of " Brambletye House, iSI:c„
3 vols , post Byo., which can now be had at the Libraries. Mr.
Colburn has also just published the following popular new
works of fiction :-2. The Story of a Royal Favourite, by
Mrs Gore. 3. Count Konigsmark, by captain Vrederiok
Ctiamier, R.N. 4. '1 he White Slave and the Russian Prince,
by the author of " Revelations of Russia." 5. A second edi-
tion of Self; or, The World as it Goes, by the author of
" Cecil." 6. Maids of Honour ; a Tale of the Court of
George 1. 7. De Rohan ; or, The Court Conspirator, by M.
Eugene See, author of " lie Mysteries of Paris,"
TllO 1;444 IriTo4l4. '1.'11F4.-44.-..—t—Are Perceive
that Mr. C, Lawrence (late of the English Opera) will take a
benefit at the above theatre this evening. The bill of fare
is of a very attractive character. There cannot be a doubt but
that Air. Lawrence will have a bumper, and he deserves it.

LLOYD'S S

LONIX)ti, AUG. 26.—Wind this day at a..on fresh bretze
at W., and fine clear weather.
WEXFORD, AUG:22.—SId. John, Connor, Miramichi.

DEAL, AUG. 25.—Wind W. and W. S. W., moderate.—Arrd.
Eden, Parsons, Calcutta; Duke of Wellington, Duncan, Cal-
cutta; Penelope, Picot, Bahia; Feliciana, Sail' Francisco,
Bahia; Westbrook, Baxter, Trinidad; Sarah, Chapman,
St. Vincent; Spheroid, &tithe, St. Vincent ; Amelia, Hill,
St. Kitts; Chactou, Hetrier, St. Thomas, for Hamburgh ;
Don Giovanni, Bann, Jamaica; Flora, Leveque, Jamaica;
William Nicholson, Forbes, Jamaica; Thetis, Honduras,
Helen, Ritchie, Tobago; Cordova, Morse, Virginia, for
Bremen ; Traveller, Watson, Pugwash. Arrd. from the
River, Amelia Mulholland, Brown, Mauritius; Pilot, Hall,
St. Andrew's; Ruby, Stoker, Miramici:i.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 23.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Louise,
Nyman, Cape of Good Hope. 2 Off port, Great Liverpool
steamer, Alexandria.
OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 22.—Louise, Sams, Havannah.
LIVERPOOL, AUG 25.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. Earl
Powis, Wilson. Hong-Kong; Janet, Brown, Valparaiso;
Henrietta, Balbury, Bonny, sld. June 7, and Fernando Po
15th ; Penelope, Ward, Trinidad ; Deneson, King, Antigua ;
European. Gay, New Orleans; Richard Andersen, Beonett,
Virginia; Samuel sleek, Burke, New York; Ann Hall. St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Aurora, Henderson, Cal Atha ;
Mersey, Boyd, Bombay; Johnstone, Harrison, Port Philip;
Eleanor Chapman, Furnies, --; Kingolwell, Burke,
Newfoundland. 24. Off port, Richard Anderson, —.
NEWHAVEN, AUG. 24.—S1d. Ocean, Warren, Quebec.
OFF SClLLY.—Dennison (supposed), Halifax.
PwwiELl, AUG. 22.—Sid. Aurora, Scott, Quebec.
LYTIIAM, AUG 25.—Sld Jane and Esther, Quebec.
WATERFORD, AUG. 24.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd.
Salkott, Godre, St. John's, New Brunswick.
Co it. AUG. 23.—Wind W.S. W., moderate.—Arrd. Bride
of Abydos, Hill, Cape of Good Hope ; Syren, Brown, Saldanha
Bay ; Robertson, Neill, ditto ; Amanda, Simy, Newfound-
land ; Eliza Janet, Lucas, ditto. Oil. port, Favourite, Allen,
Saldanha Bay •, Prince George, Hepplewhite, ditto.
LIMERICK, AUG. 23.—S1d. Barney O'Donnell, Quebec.
HULL, AUG. 25.—Wind W.N.W., light.—Arrd, Wood-
house, Bennett, St. John's, New Brunswick; Persian, Hall,
Nova Scotia • Triune, Everett, Pugwash; Vansittart, Rich-
ardson, Quebec.
YAn3iouTir, AUG. 24,—The Jane, pindor, of Wisbeach,
has been towed into the harbour leaky, and must discharg*
to repair.

GLVESEND, AUG. 24.—The Bell'and Anna, Ford, sank off
13..d.15ey, 21st instant, having been in contact with the Ocean,
of Wlntby ; crew saved.
SmEws, AUG. 23.—The Felix, Leadbroke, from Wark-
worth to London, was abandoned in a sinking state, 20th
instant, off Flamborough Head—crew saved. A brig of
about 18 keels, painted with a broad blue streak, was seen
to go down oft' Demlington, 21st instant—crew supposed to
be drowned.