The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S
RAILWAY COMPANY.

cotton, and, all the year round, British emigrants, vi
settlers, planters, farmers, cultivators in both hemi- (
spheres, north, south, east, and west, remonstrating
against what may be called organic grievances in the
political or social condition to which the Colonial

journeyman tailor, was shot outide the Toledo gate,
having been sentenced to death 17 the court-martial, for
stabbing an officer during the ckturbances. The tran-
quillity of the city had reinaaed undisturbed. The
shops were in the same state as on the previous day—
the doors being only half open This plan of passive
resistance was spreading. Sevcal provincial towns had
followed the example of Madtd, and the conductors of
the Andalusian diligence cmplain that it is im-
possible to purchase anyting along the road.
According to the Tiempo, several eminent com-
mercial men had given official notice to the
Chamber of Commerce of teir intention to retire
from business. The municipa authorities have laid in
large stores of provisions, so tlkt the inhabitants may not
wait for food by the closing of he provision shops. The
Minister of the Interior had olposed a proposition made
in the Council to declare Madrd under martial law, and
it had been accordingly rejecttl.
The coachmen of Madrid ton the 20th to petition
against the tax of six dollars yearly imposed on them by
M. MoN.

• Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEETING
of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Offices
of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on Fatnar, the 12th day
of September nest, at one o'clock in the afternoon prec:icl,y, for the
general purposes of business.
And notice is hereby given, that such meeting will also be held
fbr the special purp,,se of increasing the number of Directors named
In the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that
purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rota-
tion in which such increased number shall go out of office; and also
for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par-
liament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enabling this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging
from the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near
to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and
also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament
in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua-
tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to
join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge,
with or without branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the
Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway-
Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for the
several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such scrip, and to adopt such
measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and
take such steps in reference thereto, and in furtherance thereof, as
they may deem necessary or expedient.
Four of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go out of
office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer
themselves accordingly.
For the oonvenience of Shareholders in London, it has been deter-
mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street,
as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer-
tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and
conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst.
JOHN CHEVALLIER COBBOLD, Chairman.
By order of the Board,
JAMES F. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845.

Government of the Noble Lord has reduced—or
which, if it found, so it will also leave them. Fur our
own part, readily conceding to Lord STANLEY the
possession of great powers, of signal talents and (the
more homely but very important praise of) good inten-
tions, we are at a loss to account for the discrepancy
that is thus fatally palpable between his capacity and
bia acts ; for aptitude for business, and his ingenuity in
managing it. Jamaica protests against him as the
author of her apprehended ruin ; and cries, loud and
deep, are wafted hither from the Southern Ocean and
the Pacific in deprecation of his measures. He, himself,
seems to be at once the child and champion of incon-
sistency. He represents the true secret of West
India depression to be, the increasing deficiency of
agrastic labour, consequent on the great measure
of 1834, for Negro Emancipation. Yet his vir-
tual reprobation of, or cold assent to, the importa-
tion of free Coolie labour from Bengal into Jamaica and
other islands, has left them in a state which has already
paralyzed their trade, and threatens at no distant day to
destroy the entire property invested there in the land
and its cultivation. The same Noble Lord spoke and
wrote of New Zealand, as if, after having stipulated for
and established certain conditions on behalf of the tights
and authority of the Home Government, he meant to
take it under his peculiar protection and patronage.
But New Zealand had twice already nearly expired
under his embraces, when, as if disgusted with his pro-
tegee, he handed her over to the persecutions of the na-
tive chiefs, and the barbarous impetuosity of JOHN HEEL
Just before the rising of Parliament for the rt cess—
that is to say, on the Bth of this month, a Bill was
brought into the House of Commons by his Lordship's
" Man-Friday," Mr. G. W. HOPE, entitled " a Bill to
amend an Act fof regulating the Sale of Waste Land,
belonging to the Crown, in the Australian Colonies, and
to make further provision for the management thereof,"

PRICE .
DUTY. •

The Three per Cents. were (one at 311 cash, and 31
at 60 days ; 8,800,000 done. °illy four operations. The
other securities are not quoted

We have received the Parispapers of Tuesday.

WEST OF SCOTLAND INVESTMENT
COMPANY.

The National states that ' on Sunday evening, at
seven o'clock, was signed a treaty of fusion between the
Company Decan-Lebeuf and he five other .companies
already united. For price of the abdication the ci-devatd
company receives 41,000 share:, or 20,500,000 f."
Tuesday was the last day 'or submitting tenders for
the concession of the northern line, and no tender had
been received except from Ba.on ROTHSCHILD, the re-
presentative of the coalesced companies.
According to the Constitatintnel the treaty concluded
between France and New Greiada, on the 29th October
last, has been ratified by the RING.
It is announced in the Setnyhore de Marseilles of the
11th, that the squadron of evolution, commanded by
Aimiral PARCEVAL DESCHENZS, which was then lying
off the Ilieres Islands, would slit for Marseilles towards
the close of the month. The squadron consisted of the
three-decker Ocean, bearing the Admiral's flag, the ships
of the line-Inflexible, Triton, Diademe, Jemmapes,
Neptune, and Alger, and the steam-frigate Asmodee.
Little business was jdone in the Stock and Share
Market of Paris on Tuesday ; but the promises of the
new lines had been in considerable demand.
The Three per Cents. closed at 841. 25c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 70c.: Orleans Railroad shares, 1,3131.
75e. ; Rouen, 1,120 f. ; Nrerzon, 817 f. 50c. ; Havre, 9151. ;
Avignon, 1,077 f. 50c. ; Basle, 283 f. 75c ; Spanish Active,
36% ; Spanish Three per Cents., 383%.
The following are tae quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 222 f. 50c. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
premium ; Troyes anontereau, 52f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
(Laffitte), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), 10f. ; ditto (Ganneron),
17f. 500. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 80f. ; ditto (Rosa-
mei), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (?epin), 25f. ; ditto (Decan), 32f. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes I Mackenzie), 20f. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), 31. ; ditto (0'eill), 10f. ; ditto acques Lefevre)
4f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 22f. 50c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 451. ; ditto :Compagnie Meridionale), 131. 50c. ;
Bordeaux (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c.; ditto and Cette (Espe-
leta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 6f. 50c. ;
ditto (Carette), 9f. ; ditto (Colbert), 2f. ; Paris and
Strasbourg (Ganneron), 151. ; ditto (Bechet), 6f. 50e. ;
ditto (Hinguerlot), 17f. 50e. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par;
Dieppe, 42f. 50c. ; Charleroy, 601.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
_ LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 27.

The Committee are ready to receive APPLICATIONS for the
office of MANAGER of this Company. As it is necessary to secure
the services of a party fully qualified to fill the responsible situation,
the salary will be sufficiently liberal to render the office an object of
attention. Of course all applications will be considered as strictly
confidential.

Applications, with references, either personally or In writing, may
be made to GEORGE BOWMAN LEECH,
133, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, Interim Secretary.
Glasgow, August 21, 1845.

THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE for
SEPTEMBER contains upwards of One Hundred Illustra-
tions and Initial Letters. The Dead Guest, from the German of
Zschokke—The Boy of the Mountain—Sketches of Indian Sport—
Whom the World Understood hot—The Life and Adventures of Bob
Thin—The Recreations of Mr. Zigzag the Elder—Zara, the Rich
Man's Daughter—A Warning—Popular Rationale of Ghosts—Past,
Present, and Possible—Fates—Reviews of Books. Price Eighteen-
pence.

Joseph Clayton, 320, Strand.

CAUSES of RAILWAY ACUIDiN'I'S
accurately described and illustrated in the PICTORIAL
TIMES of SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 ; Twenty other splendid En-
gravings, illustrating the Queen's Visit to Germany ; the King of the
French teaching the infant Compte de Paris the Art of War, &c. &c. ;
all the News of the Week, Railway Lists, Stocks, &c. &c. To be had
of all Booksellers and News Agents. Price Sixpence, stamped.
Offic, 153, Strand.

which does not solve the problem we have above al
luded to—the discrepancy between the capacity to do
and the mode of doing—so remarkable in his Lordship's
official career, but further illustrates the singular notions
which the Noble Secretary appears to entertain of the
means most available for developing and cherishing the
native resources of a valuable dependency. The reason
or exigency for the Bill is declared to be that—

NEW NOVEL, BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
L 0 V E and MESMERISM.
BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ.,
Author of "Brambletye House," tce.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

" Doubts have arisen whether, under that Act, her Majesty,
or any person acting in the name and on behalf of her Majesty,
can convey of alienate any waste lands of the Crown in any
such colony by lease or demise, reserving an annual rent or
payment for the same."

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An-
thony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H. Holl ;
Faulkland, Mr. Stuart; Acres, Mr. Webster; Sir Lucius o"rrig,ger,
Mr. Hudson ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ;
Lydia Languish, Miss Julia Bennett; Julia, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold.
In the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing his New
Song of " Young England."
To be followed by HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson ;
Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. Holl ; Mrs. Montague,
Mrs. W. Clifford.
After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled
MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES ; or, Matrimonial Chap-
ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and vne Guinea and a-Halt each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. L T. Archer at the Box-office,
rom Ten till Five o'clock.

And it is in the first clause declared that as to the 5
and 6 VICTORIA, C. 36

" Nothing in the said recited Act contained shall extend or
be ,zonstrued to extend to prevent her Majesty, or any such per.
son acting in the name and on the behalf of her hlajesty, as
aforesaid, from demising for a term of not more than seven
years, any waste lands of the Crown in any such colony, at an
annusl rent payable to her Majesty by the lessee for and in re-
spect of such lands. Provided always, that all leases so to
be made and granted shall contain clauses of forfeiture and pro-
visoes for re-entry for non-payment of such rent, or for under-
letting or assignment of the whole or any portion of such lands
by such lessee without licence in that behalf first obtained from
her Majesty, or such person acting in the name and on the be-
half of her Majesty as aforesaid, and shall be offered by public
auction to the highest bidder for the same, after due notice of
such public auction given as in the said recited Act is directed,
together with a specification of the lands intended to be de-
mised, and of the duration of the proposed term. And pro-
vided also, that during the continuance of any such lease it
shall not be lawful for her Majesty, or any such person acting
as aforesaid, to sell the reversionary estate expectant upon the
determination of such lease, without the consent in writing of
the lessee or other party to whom the lease may then belong."
The limitation of these Crown leases to seven years is
very good; but surely the disabling Crown tenants to
underlet, without such licence, is at once an arbitrary
and a most impolitic restriction. Arbitrary, because
one can readily imagine bow small a chance a tenant of
the Crown, who may have seen reason to oppose the
measures of the colonial authorities, will possess of pro
curing such a licence, however advantageous a contract
he may have entered into with third parties for under-
letting his lauds. Impolitic, because if it be his interest to
transfer, or rather delegate, his holding, it is not less
that of the colony and the Colonial Government ;

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELLSTI,
THIS EVENING

Will be perforated SWEETHEARTS and WIVES. Billy Lacka!ay
Mr. Munyard; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates; Laura, Miss Woolgar.
After which, will be produced, THE ,Y KING; or, Petite
Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; De Lauzum, %liss Wool-
gar. In the eourse of the piece, Grand Review of the Infantile
Infantry.

Boulogne and Amiens 11
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. and Cette
Central of Spain .. ll/
Dutch Rhenish
Dendre Valley ..... 214
Dieppe & Paris Junct.
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Grt Northern of France

Orleans and Bordeaux 1214
Over Yssel
IParis & Lyons (Lafitte)
I Ditto (Ganneron's).
Ditto (Calon's) —2 LA
.Paris and Orleans.--
Paris and Rouen 42 V 3
!Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)...
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 3
Paris and St. Quentin.

To be followed by a farce. in One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE
ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs.
Caudle, Mr. Wright.

To conclude with Pollio, Miss Woolgar ; Norma, Mr.
Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright ; Oroveso, Miss Reynolds,
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.

(Laftitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons 214
Jamaica Junction 5
Do. North Midland 3IA
Louvain and Jemeppe 5
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourgh..
Namur and Liege ... 7
Orleans and Vierzon .. 22

IPeppin le Halleur 4%
Rouen and Havre— 31
Royal North of Spain. 2%
Sambre and Meuse 8
Strasbourg and Basle .
Tours and Nantes
(M‘Klenzie's) 2%
Do. (Lefebvre's)
Verona and Ancona 31,4
West Flanders

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
BY ROYAL COMMAND.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Farce, entitled ENQUIRE WITHIN.
Principal Characters by Mr. Meadows, Mr. Emery, Miss Arden, Miss
Grove, and Mrs. A. Wigan.

To which will be added a Comic Drama, in Three Acts, BY ROY AL
COMMAND. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Vining, %Ir.
Emery, Mr. Turner, Mr. Bender, and Mr. Meadows; Miss Fair, bro-
ther, Mrs. Woollidge, and Mrs. Keeley.

_ .
After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les
Danseuses Anglaises will appear.
To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE
GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and
Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley.
F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, ,ties Dawson, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. Characters by
Messrs. Meadows, Wigan, Turner, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FOIIBLANQUE.)
IN RE ALDBURY.—IMPORTANT.

the natural presumption being that he underlets
at an advanced rent ; and that his sub-tenant paying
more for the rent, will invest more in the cultivation or im-
provement of the property. The Crown officers cannot—

This insolvent carried on business as a butcher, at River
Head, Kent, and was opposed on behalf of Mr. Moyce, a
butcher.

if even they be disposed to do so—exercise as much
vigi-
lance and caution in imparting this beneficial character to
original Crown leases. The same spirit of interference
produced all that mischief, and that long depression of
the natural energies of Canada, which the home Go-
vernment itself has repeatedly denounced as cons, quent
on the absurd incumbrances of the " Clergy reserves
blocks of land whose tardy reclamation long prevented
tuey were situated. In our colonies, the primary
element of improved value in every property is the im•
provement (the clearing or the cultivation as the case
may be) of the adjoining lands.
Clause 2, which reserves to the Crown, or rather
authorises the reservation to it, of all minerals in any
such leases of waste land in Australia, is also, in our
judgment, very unwise, and behind the enlightened
spirit or English legislation generally on these points.
We all know how many years had elapsed be-
fore the Crown either discovered or dreamed
of improving any former discovery of metalliferous
districts in New South Wales. We have only to con-
trast the recent accounts received of the astonishing
success and extent to which mining operations have
been pushed by private British capitalists in the colony,
or resident British agents there, to sae all the short-
sighted fully of the Crown's proposed reservation of

The insolvent was examined as to whether he had not re-
ceived a large snm of money from Lord Holmsdale, and had
not increased the debt to the opposing creditor, by promising
to pay that amount over. He admitted having received some
money, but could not tell how much or when.
The Learned CoustisslorrEa said, the insolvent's answers
were very unsatisfactory, and if he did not give more definite
ai.swers he would commit him for a month to refresh
his memory.
On being questioned as to his profits, he said he did
not make 10s. a week. The prof. t was only 11. on a
• ~to was a ram pront on a bul-
lock, and insolvent killed one a week, besides sheep and calves.;
The Learned ComMIsSIONER said the case was anything but
satisfactory. The insolvent must pay 10/. in six months, and
he should adjourn the final order from time to time, to ensure
future payments.

BO W-STREET.-(THIS DAY)
Lydia Gillard was charged with stealing a trinket-box, a pin-
cu,hion, and other articles, from the stall of Mr. Samson, :in
the Lowther-arcade.

James Ellard, a lad employed by Mr. Samson, said that he
was standing outside one of his employer's shops the previous
night, and saw the prisoner looking at some goods. After
taking some things up and laying them down several times, she
put something under her shawl. He then called to the beadle
of the Arcade, and gave the prisoner in charge to him. He
identified the goods found on the prisoner as belonging to
Mr. Samson.

James Hitchcock, the beadle of the Arcade, corroborated
part of the last witness's evidence.

John Turner, F 156, was on duty as gaoler, at the station-
house, when the prisoner was brought there by the last witness.
He saw her take the pincushion produced, from her pocket, and
put it behind a bench whieh is there for the prisoners to sit
upon. She was then searched, and the other articles produced
were found upon her. He heard her s,y that she took them
from a stall in the Arcade, and that she was starving.
The prisoner made no defence.
Mr. JARDINE committed the prisoner for trial, at the
ensuing sessions, for larceny.

. .
mineral rights. Lead, silver, copper, are now largely
added to the coal treasures of our Australian pos-
sessions. • What more legitimate or reasonable course
can be taken with the private adventurers who find and
work the veins, or smelt the ores that contain them,
than to give them every benefit which they have merited
by their industry, skill, and spirit. The Crown or the

public is sufficiently enriched by the indirect advantage
derived from the realising so large an accession to the

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
DARING ROBBRRY.-George Morton alias Morgan, a
young man of respectable appearance, was charged with steal-
ing several rolls of cloth, of the value of between 201. and 30/.,
from the shop of Mr. James Cooper, of No. 23, New Bond.
street, tailor.

capital and the staples of the colony. To the power
given by clause 4 to the Governor, to grant licences for
the occupation of waste lands, we do not object ; but
the terms of clause 5, inflicting penalties fur the un-

authorised possession of Crown lands, are much too

It appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock this morn-
ing, the prisoner deliberately walked into the prosecutor's shop,
and seizing hold of the cloth from off the counter was running,
as fast as he could, away with it, when he was espied by one of
the shopmen who pursued and overtook him with the stolen
property in his possession.
Mr. HARDWICK asked the prisoner if he wished to say any-
thing in his defence ?—The prisoner said he supposed it was no
use his saying anything.
Mr. HA anwicic asked if he was known?
Police-Sergeant West, No. 106, of the F division, said he
was a well-known thief, and had only come out of prison a
week or two ago. The last time he was convicted was at the
Central Criminal Court, for robbing a shop in the Strand ; and
he was then sentenced to six months' imprisonmeot to hard
labour.--He was fully committed for trial.

srs eeping.
_Great tenderness should alnays be extended

to the hard-earned homes upon the waste acquired by
the enterprising " squatters" of the colony, against
whom this clause is as much directed as if they were
mere vagrants or bush-rangers. We have other remarks
to submit on the remaining clauses of the Bill, but these
we reserve to a future paper.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th have been
received. These accounts announce a most important
change in the Turkish Ministry. The Seraskier, RIZA
PACHA, who for five years has been all-powerful at the
Turkish Court, has been dismissed, and SULEYMAN
PACHA has been appointed Grand Vizier in his room.
This is a change with which all the friends of progress
and civilisation must be delighted. RIZA PecE♦ was a
bigot ; SULEYDIAN is a man of education and liberal
views. He was President of the Council of Justice, and
has recently proposed the adoption of a scheme of public
education, and the establishment of something like re-
presentative government by the convocation of delegates
from the provinces at Constantinople. The change is
attributed to the advice of Sir STRATFORD CANNING and
M. DE BOURQUENY. The following is the substance of
the note on the affairs of Lebanon, which the Porte has
presented to the ambassadors of the five Powers, as
stated in our impression of yesterday. It an-
nounces in this note that, in order, if necessary, to
enforce the execution of its orders, and to re-establish a peace
promptly, the commander of the army of Arabia, Namick
Pacha, will quit the neighbourhood of Aleppo, where he is
encamped, and advance towards the mountain with a force
sufficient to keep down the contending parties. The note
then proceeds to fix the internal government of the
Lebanon, by confiding it, as has already been stated,
to two Vekils, viz., one Druse, the other Maronite, for each
district, and a Moukotadji, who is specially charged with the
interests of the government, and is to serve as the medium be-
tween the district and the authority of the Porte. The superior
authority is represented by two Turkish functionaries, viz., the
Caimacans. By this last note it is decided that the Maronite
Vekil shall be the judge in all contestations between Maronites,
and the Druse Vekil the judge between the Druses. Differ-
ences between a Druse and a Maronite are to be decided con-
jointly by the two Vekils, with the right of appeal to the two
Camaicans. The Moukotadjis are exclusively charged with
the police and the general administration of affairs. The Porte
has called upon the ambassadors to communicate to it the in-
structions which they are to send to the consuls of their respec-
tive nations in Syria.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Slll,—ln the report of the trial of a cause of Furneau v.
Smith, which appears in your paper of yesterday evening, it is
stated on the authority of Mr. Thomas, a barrister, that the
defendant NI as a partner in the firm of Payne and Smith's,
bankers.

We are desired by Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's, to
inform you that this statement, as applying to any member of
their firm, is wholly without foundation, and to require that the
report may be contradicted in your next publication.—We are,
Sir, your obedient servants, _

C. and H. FRESHFIELD.
New Bank-buildings, Aug. '28,1845.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—Nine of Lord Fores-
ter's keepers and watchers at Willey had a serious affray on
Wednesday night with poachers. The keepers had gone out
to watch his Lordship's preserves at Barrow-lane, where they
had been but a short time when a large gang of poachers casee
up, and began to set the gates and hedges with nets. A hard
fight ensued, the two parties being armed with sticks. The
poachers, finding that they were getting the worst of it, took
to their heels ; three of them, named John Bowdler, an en-
gineer from Madeley ; Thomas Turner, an engineer from the
same place ; and Thomas Gough, a collier from Wenlock,
were subsequently arrested by :police-officer Dovey. After an
examination before the magistrates they were committed for
trial at the assizes.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Yesterday a notice was
posted at the chief office and principal receiving-houses that
the Duke of Cornwall would sail from Southampton with the
mails of the morning of the 3d of September, fer India,
Egypt, the Mediterranean, Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, and the
lonian Islands ; and that the next mails for the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, vid Marseilles, would be de-
spatched on the evening of the Bth of September.
A BRIDGE WITHOUT ITS PIER IN ENGLAND.--The
report that Westminster-bridge is to be pullet, down rests, we
regret to say, upon the slightest foundation. Many people de-
clare
that the bridge is no better than the report.—Punch. g
THE ‘VEATIIER AND THE CROPS.—We have es
yet had no encouraging prosp,cts of harvest. They are gloomy
as the weather, and must always be in matters ever the des-
tinies of which the weather presides. The past week has been
a most disheartening one to all, except, perhaps, the dealers in
corn and meal, who have taken advantage of it and the pre-
ceding dull days to raise the price of these commodities. In
our last, we mentioned that the barley harvest had commenced
in the Enzie, and ere now, bad we had ordinarily fair weather,
some fields would have been ready for the sickle in this neigh-
bourhood, which is none of the earliest. Those, however,
that were the most autumnal-looking here have made but very
little progress in the deepening or rather lightening their hues
during several days past. A week's dry weather now would see
harvest begin with us.—Aberdeen Herald.
COURT-MARTJAL AT LimErticx.—The sentence of
the court-martial assembled in this garrion last June, for the
trial of Lieutenant John M'Court, depot Ist battalion Royals, on
a charge of embezzlement, preferred by Major Deane, was
dismissal from the service, and which sentence has been con-
firmed by her Majesty; but, in consequence of his long services
and good character, that officer will be allowed to receive the
regulation sale price of his commission. Mr. M'Court did not
purchoaf speaaynmyasstteep in h
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M'Courtquartermaster,
as such heldthe
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tionr e
of supplies to the depot at Tralee, and subsequently at -Clare
Castle.

We learn from the New Zurich Gazette, of the 23d
instant, that the Session of the Diet bad been brought
to a close on the proceeding day.
The following is the President's Speech :
" Gentlemen,---The business of the ordinary Diet for this
year is terminated. As far as regards the Government and the
care of the ordinary affairs of the Confederation it has fulfilled
its task, and has done all that it was possible for it to do in its
position. There remains much yet to be done, for in an assem-
blage of so many independent states it is impossible to proceed
rapidly. Several questions, therefore, remain undecided, and
cause uneasiness to the public mind ; but this has been unavoid-
able from the state and circum.tances of the country. Let all
friends of the country, and particularly the magistracy, occupy
themselves energetically to accomplish this duty, which will
alone give strength to the confederation."

Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the

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TH,E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 11145.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Weck ended Ang. 23, 1845, made up from the Returns of th
Inspectors in the diderent Cities and Towns ra England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.

WHEAT. 129 sI29s
BARLEY.'22s OATS. I
3RTE. I4ls
BEANS. I3Bs
1 PEAS.
57s Od 9,1 8(1 3s 4d 8d ld
18s Od 9s Od 65 Cd 9* 6d 2i 6d 3s 6d

MARKE NE WS -(THIS DAY
HAY MAIZZ.ZT.S.

SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/18s ;
ful ditto, 51 to Si 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 103 to 5/ 15s
Clover Hay, 4112 s to 61 68 ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s
Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 is per load. Supply but mode•
rate, and trade rather dull.

CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/18s to 4118 s ; use-
ful ditto, 51 to 5/ 10s; fine Upland ditto, Si 12s to 5/ 17s ;
Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1117 s to 11193 ; Wheat
Straw, 21 to 212 s per load. A fair average supply, and a
steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 153 to 4/ 183;
useful ditto, Si to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ lOs to
5116 s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 12s to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1118 s
Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 21 per load. Trade steady, at the
above quotations.
New Meadow Hay 3/ lOs to 4/ 12s 6(4, and New Clover
4/ to 512 s per load.

MEAT MARIEETS.
SOUTHALL, AUG. 27.—Although the supplies of stock on
offer to-day were by no means extensive, die demand was
in a sluggish state, at barely last week's quotations :
Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s ; Lamb, 4s 6d
to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 8d
per 81bs.
ROMFORD, AUG. 27.—Prime old Downs sold freely,
other kinds of stock slowly, at late rates :—Beef, from Ss to
4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d ; Veal,
4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs. Suckling
Calves, 18s to 23s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and
Mild) Cows, with their small Calf, 16/ to 181 15s each.
LEWES, AUG 26.—Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 4s
to ss; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; and
Pork,3s to 3s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a dull
trade.