MONEY-MARKET.

This has been another dull week on the Stock-exchange, the variations in the price of consols not having exceeded per cent. from Saturday to Saturday. The opening price of consols for money, on Monday, was 87i, and from that time they fluctuated from 871 to 871, which was the clos- ing price on Friday afternoon. There were no rumours of importance to affect them, and indeed the funds latterly have become so steady that it must be something more than rumour or the mere tricks of the market to produce a rise or fall of 1 per cent. Some persons seem to think that the next news from Russia will have some effect upon them, and that the fall of Shumla, as demonstrating the growing power of Russia, will have a tendency to lower the funds—such, however, is not the opinion of the experienced jobbers. They do not deny that at any other time advantage would be taken of such a circumstance, to bring about a fall, but they say that the large speculators have now so closely balanced their accounts that they are unwilling to try extensive operations. This does indeed seem to be the state of the market, and even Mr. Rothschild is known to have become more indifferent to jobbing speculation.

During the week large investments have been made through respect- able brokers, in the French 5 per cents., but for what purpose, beyond. the realization of a better rate of interest than can be obtained in the English funds, and the conviction of the stability of the French rentes, does not appear. The fact, however, of extensive transfers having been made, is certain. In India bonds and exchequer bills during the week, there has been very little done; the former opened on Monday at 113 to 115, and were yesterday as low as 107-105, but no cause has been as- signed beyond that of an extensive sale for one of the transfers before alluded to. Exchequer bills opened at 71-73 on Monday, and the last quotations are 71-72. The variation in these during the week has not been sufficient to demand notice.

In the foreign market nearly the same steadiness of prices has been noticed as in the English funds. There have been no arrivals to affect them, and the bonds of the different loans having, at length, after various convulsions, got for the greater part into the hands of extensive holders who are not hastily terrified, the rumours which formerly produced a panic, have now but little effect. It is only with the speculators for time that such a degree of anxiety exists as to cause hasty fluctuations. The Continental securities are not only steady, but, with few exceptions, on the rise. Russian bonds, which on Monday were at 94,1 were done freely on Friday at 9611, and even at that price there was for a short time dif- ficulty to obtain sellers. In Austrian bonds very little has been done. Brazilian bonds fluctuated from 60 to fiat which they reached gradually, and the French 3 per cents, have been in good demand at 721 with an exchange of 25. Generally speaking, the tendency in both markets this week has been for a rise; but as the securities of respectable foreign go- vernments offer a larger interest, most of the investments have been made in them. In four days in the week little was done in Colombian bonds, but on Friday they were in demand at 237;-24, and Mexican, at '111.--439. Prussian bonds have risen to 102. Greek are at 18. Spanish, 3at8 SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

There has been little business done to-day—Consols are now at 87ii. In the foreign market, the only variation is in Brazilian bonds, which have advanced to 621-63.

Fouls o'caoca.—The market remains without variation.

The annual rumour, that the King intends to pass a part of the winter at Brighton, is current there.

The royal birthdays come in clusters at this season. The Duchess of Kent completed her forty-second year on Sunday. On Thursday, the Duke of Clarence completed his sixty-third year. The Duke has been elected a freeman of Dartmouth.

The Duke of Gloucester visited Portsmouth last week, for the first time since his appointment as Governor of the garrison ; when he received a con- gratulatory address from the civil authorities. The Duke of Cumberland and his son, Prince George, landed on the 15th at Calais ; whence they proceeded to the Hague, to visit the Kin of the

Netherlands; and on the morning of the 19th they set out for Germany.

The office of First Lord of the Admiralty remains vacant. Club-room report has assigned it to Earl Grey ; but this, though often repeated, is be- lieved by few. The Standard of Friday says that the office has been offered to Lord Melville, who declined accepting it. A Plymouth paper gives it to Lord Maryborough. The Archbishop of Canterbury will take formal possession of Lambeth Palace in a few days. The confirmation of Dr. Blomfield as Bishop of London took place at Bow Church this morning.

It has been' whispered for several days that Mr. Peel has addressed a con- fidential letter to some of his leading constituents of the University of Oxford, informing them that he, in conjunction with his Ministerial colleagues, is of opinion that some legislative measures must now be adopted to remove the disabilities affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.—New Times, Friday. We have authority to state that no such letter has been written, and that there is not the slightest foundation for the rumour alluded to.— Standard, Friday.

Viscount Strangford left London on Wednesday evening, for Portsmouth, on a mission to the Emperor of Brazil. The Gloucester frigate was ready to receive his Lordship ; and it was expected that he would embark to-day.

The Duke of Wellington is recreating at Cheltenham. On his arrival, on Friday, the bells were rung to welcome him. His Grace drinks the wa- ters of the Spa, and bathes at the Montpellier baths ; and as he appears in public at an early hour in the morning, all the fashionables are in full acti- vity at seven or eight o'clock. Earl Bathurst arrived on Monday, and had a long conference with the Premier.

The Duke of Manchester is also at Cheltenham.

Lord Chesterfield and Lord Castlereagh have gone to France.

Major-General Ross, it is said, will succeed Major-General SirJ. Colborne, K.C.B., as Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and Alderney.

In the Secondaries' Office on Wednesday, a jury assessed the damages in an action brought by Major Austen, of Goodhurst, against Lieutenant Nares, of the East India Company's service, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife, at 1000/. Major Austen's age is 67, Mrs. Austen's 37, Lieutenant Naves' 22.

The Lord Chancellor has closed his sittings in Lincoln's Inn Hall, till the 16th of October.

At the Common Council on Thursday, Mr. Peacock gave notice of a mo- tion to be taken into consideration on the next court-day—" to consider the propriety of this Court expressing its opinion with respect to the policy of continuing any political restrictions upon the plea of religious principles."

A meeting of Jews was to have taken place on Monday, to petition Par- liament to remove the disabilities under which they lie, from their adherence to the faith of their forefathers : it has been postponed to Tuesday next.

The Thames Tunnel is now entirely at a stand for want of funds to carry it forward. A water-tight brick wall has been completed at the further extre- mity of the excavation, to prevent any water oozing in in that part. The water the Tunnel makes at present is very trifling, and the whole of the interior is as fresh and firm as before any accident happened. The workmen, with the exception of a very few hands who are employed in thoroughly removing every appearance of the late disaster, have been discharged ; and even the few now at work will in another week no longer be needed.

UNIVERSITY OP LONDON.-Mr. Campbell, the distinguished author of " The Pleasures of Hope," is to deliver a course of Lectures in this Univer- sity next spring, " On the History of Classical Literature." It is a part of the plan of this establishment, that, in addition to the Lectures of the regular Professors, the Council shall have the power of engaging individuals of cele- brity, in literature or science, to give occasional Courses ; and that, too, upon subjects for which a Professor has been appointed. The buildiug in Upper Gower-street promises to have a beautiful effect when the cupola and portico shall be finished. The greater number of the Lecture Rooms, &c. are now ready for the reception of the Professors and their pupils, and the University will certainly open, we hear, on the 1st of October, the earliest day which the Council announced for that purpose.—Times.

The amount of contributions towards the King's College, in donations and shares, now exceeds 100,0004 A Ministerial journal pronounces the under- taking "God-like.' The King of Bavaria has presented to the Medico-Botannical Society of London, of which he is a member, a collection of nearly 600 plants indige- nous to his and the neighbouring dominions, arranged according to the natu- ral system, by Professor Martins, of Munich ; whose travels in the Brazils, at the expense of the late King of Bavaria, have added great riches to every department of natural science. The colours have been perfectly preserved by the peculiar mode of drying adopted by this learned botanist. The old line of houses opposite the northern extremity of the New Post- office are at present undergoing demolition, for the widening of that part of St. Martin's-le-Grand opposite to St. Anne's-lane, in order to afford the dif- ferent mail-coaches a full sweep into the area in front of the office. It is supposed that part of the church of St. Anne, which fronts the street, abut- ting towards the new lines in an irregular manner, will be also removed. There is much ship-building at present in the dock-yard at Woolwich. The timber is in preparation for a vessel of 120 guns, to be named the Tra- falgar, and for a steam-vessel of 700 tons, to be called the Dee. There is to be a large basin or wet-dock for ships to float in ; it is 400 feet long, by 250 wide.

It is said that a renewed effort will be made during the next session of Parliament to obtain an act to enable the Governors of Bridewell and Beth- lehem Hospitals to employ the whole of their resources in the support of poor lunatics of all descriptions. It appears that the income of Bridewell (which has some time since ceased to be an hospital) may be estimated at 10,000/. per annum, and that the income of Bethlehem (which has never yet had its full complement of patients) may be estimated at 20,000/. per annum, arising from funded property, lands, and houses ; and it is computed that adequate means will be thus provided for meeting all the wants of the county for its lunatic poor.

The Hon. Mr. Yelverton, Lord Avonmore's brother, has been committed, in Dublin, on an unintelligible charge of sedition. He seems to have la- boured under the influence of the moon or of the bottle.

A few of the Portuguese Refugees appeared on 'Change on Wednesday, and excited some attention.

A new Spanish loan was again talked of in the City on Thursday ; and, strange to say, Spanish bonds experienced a rise of one per cent.:

The sale of Archdeacon Cone's library at Bemerton, last week, produced upwards of 1500/.

The emigration to Canada has fallen off considerably this year as coms pared with the last.

The Eidderminster weavers dismissed their committee last week, and are returning to work at the manufacturers' prices.

The blockade of Madeira, which our Government recognizes, extends no further than the port of Funchal.

The 'commercial distress in the United States increases : a great number of new failures are announced at New York, Philadelphia, and the other principal ports.

The Bishop of Lichfield, at a late triennial visitation of the clergy of Stafford, alluded to the prevailing causes of irreligion : " One of them was the diffusion of education divorced from religious principle. He thought it behoved the clergy to keep a jealous eye upon what were called Mechanics' Institutes, and to use every exertion to convey religious principles in con- nexion with other knowledge."

A gentleman who, one evening last week, had accompanied some ladies to the Haymarket Theatre, left them, and shortly after returning to the box, fell forward insensible. He was conveyed to a neighbouring tavern, and it was then discovered that he had swallowed laudanum. To counteract the effects of the deadly drug, a solution of sulphate of zinc was administered at different times, to the extent of five drams ; and his life has thus been saved.

Mr. John Shakeshaft, a chemist, residing on Rotherhithe-wall, was last. week found lying dead in the coal-cellar, with his throat cut nearly from ear to ear, and the razor with which he inflicted the wound lying by his side. The deceased was only thirty-four years of age ; and, on the death of his aged and infirm mother, was entitled to considerable property. The Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of insanity.

A pretty-looking girl, named Mary Ann White, only eighteen years of age, was last week charged at the Mary-le-bone police-office, on suspicion oi having stolen some articles of plate, the property of her master, a gentleman living in Guildford-street, Russell-square. There being no evidence to criminate her, she was discharged, and went back to her master's house. In the even- ing she became too unwell to prepare tea, and ultimately acknowledged having swallowed a quantity of arsenic, being unable to bear up against the accusation. She was directly removed to Middlesex Hospital, where she died the next morning.

Mr. Aulder, a coal-merchant, in Goswell-street road, was killed last week, close to the Green Man public-house, Finchley-bottoms, by the Barnet coach running against his gig.

A drunk man, who had been to Camberwell fair, on Monday, entered one of the booths in which wild beasts are exhibited, and foolishly thrust his hand into the lion's den. The lion seized his arm, and tore off the muscles to the bone, from the elbow to the wrist. It is probable that his arm will he amputated.

An innkeeper at Charleston, Stirlingshire, lately used a loaded fowling- piece as a staff to aid him in stepping into a boat, on the Forth. The piece exploded, the shot lodged in his body, and caused his death in a few hours.

Yesterday, as a youth the son of Mr. Marque of Great Smith-street, West- minster, was bathing in company with another named Burt, near the Peni- tentiary, one of them was swept away by the current, when time other, en- deavouring to assist him, also sank. A fisherman on the spot succeeded in raising them in about eight minutes, and conveyed them to the White Hart,

Millbank, where they were immediately attended by three medical gentlemen of the neighbourhood. Mrs. Marq nit arriving, instantly conveyed both (" Give me them both ! one life is as precious as the other!" she exclaimed) to the Westminster Infirmary, where all the means at the command of that institu- tion were actively employed till ten o'clock, but without avail.

The Rev. James Moir, tutor to the family of General Dalrymple, at North Berwick, went on Wednesday week into the sea to bathe, with one of his pupils, Master James Hocking, a ward of the General. The sea was running high, and was breaking heavily on the shore. Mr. Moir, however, being an expert swimmer, went out beyond the surf, and was sporting among the rolling waves, when suddenly, as if by a great effort, he seemed to start up- wards out of the water, throwing up both his arms, and calling out, in a sort of faint scream, the name of his pupil, who had not ventured so far, and who was at the time on the shore. He then disappeared, and his companion going on a rock to look for him, saw him in a sinking state. A boat was instantly despatched to the spot ; but by this time he had sunk ; and though the men continued their search for the body till late at night, at the peril of their lives, it proved unsuccessful.

A singular but serious accident lately occurred in a cloth factory at Woodchester. Females are employed to attend the operation of tearing the fine from the coarse parts of the wool—an operation which is performed by an instrument called a "devil," a name given to it from its having five double claws. A woman who was attending one of these instruments, had her arm actually " stragged " from her body by incautiously putting her hand too near. She was unconscious of the injury at the moment she was knocked down by the shock, and did not know what it was that was Tearing to pieces, until she looked into the machine, and then at her right shoulder, when the pangs and the surprise made her exclaim " Oh, God ! it is my arm !" She was conveyed to the Infirmary, the remainder of the stump was amputated, and she is doinpvell.

A parcel to Esdaile and Co., London, containing silver to the amount of two hundred pounds, from the bank of Sir E. K. Lacon, Yowell, and Co., Yarmouth, was stolen last week from the Yarmouth Telegraph Coach, and gravel substituted in the place of the silver, which was not detected by the guard till the coach reached London. The robbery is believed to have been effected by two passengers, one of whom got down at Colchester, under the pretence of being ill.

Johnson and Wills, who were under sentence of death for robbing a. Frenchman in the Mint, Borough, have been respited.

The Times, some days ago, published a pathetic tale of the misfortunes of a French lady, who had been engaged as governess in a respectable family in Ireland. The story of the Times was afterwards divested of half its ro- mance by a communication from Mr. Scholl, the French Minister, one of the stranger's friends. The following is deemed a correct statement of the cir- cumstances. "Mr. Stackpole, a gentleman of fortune in Ennis, Clare, having been in Paris, had Elize Sermirot, of Bordeaux, recommended to himn as a nursery-governess. Upon the recommendation he engaged her, and brought her to London, on his way home. He engaged places for himself, his servant, and the young lady, at the Swan-with-two-necks, for Liverpool,

to leave town on the 29t11 of June. He had seated himself on tile front of the coach, and his servant was assisting the lady to ascend the Py a ladder. While she was standing on the ladder, a porter who had been placed at the head of the horses left his situation, and the horses starting forward threw her down, by which her thigh-bone was fractured. She was immediately taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and placed under Mr. Laurence, but this gentleman being obliged to leave town, the care of the patient devolved on Mr. Lloyd. For nearly a month, every exertion was used to save the limb; but amputation at last became necessary, in the hope of saving her life. She gradually grew worse and worse, and on Thursday morning she expired. During her illness, several sums of money were sent to her, and assistarce was offered by the French Ambassador, the Marquis of Lansdown, the Marquis of Hertford, and other distinguished persons."

EARTHQUAKE AT LIMN —The following is abridged from a letter dated Lima, April 21, in the Boston Daily ddvertiser, received last night. This city has been visited by one of those dreadful earthquakes which are looked for about once in a century ; and had it continued a few seconds longer, the whole of Lima must inevitably have been laid in ruins. The calamity oc- curred on the morning of the 30th March, at about half-past seven o'clock; and although only of thirty or forty seconds duration, was of such prodigious violence as to prostrate many holdings and injure all, including the stupen- dous churches, some of which are so much shattered that it is contemplated to take them down, their massive walls, of six to nine feet thicknes,:, being rent from the top to the bottom. The injury to the city is estimated at six millions of dollars. About thirty bodies have been dug out of the ruins, but others are still supposed to be there. The great shock was followed by five or six slight tremblings, in as many days, which excited great terror ; for upwards of a week hundreds were stretc'hed upon mats in the squares.

A boy of twelve years old, the son of a dustman in Clerkenwell, has died in the hospital, of a wound in the head, inflicted by his father with a pewter pot, in a moment of violent passion.

A man named Bernard, who followed the profession of a money-lender at Sens in France, has been condemned by the Tribunal of that place to six months' imprisonment for habitual usury. On Monday week, the lightning struck a wheat-rick in the parish of Great Fero, Oxfordshire, and killed two young men, who had taken shelter nader it, and four other individuals were thrown down by the violence of the shock. One end of the rick took fire, but it was speedily extinguished.

In the parish of Cults, Fifeshire, during a storm on the 5th, the electric fluid struck the schoolmaster's house, passed through two TOOMS to the kitchen, where it prostrated the maid and a little boy on the floor, without doing them much injury. There was an explosion in the kitchen louder than that of a musket, and it was found filled with smoke and dust. The archiepiscopal town of Kalocze, in Hungary, was nearly destroyed by fire on the 11th July ; three hundred and forty-seven houses, with the town- hall and many principal buildings, were reduced to ashes.

On the 2d of August, a fire broke out in the castle of Ragnit, Germany, used as a house of correction, and in which a great many prisoners were lodged. In one part of the building, four noblemen, of whom some were condemned to the barbarous punishment of the wheel, were placed in much danger. A reward of 150 dollars was offered to any one who would save them ; upon which, a mason's apprentice offered to hazard his life in the attempt, but declared beforehand that he would not accept the proffered reward. By means of ladders, he climbed up to the window ; and there, surrounded by flames and smoke, he succeeded in filing, away several of the bars, and rescuing the unhappy creatures from what appeared a certain death. It was remarked, as a singular circumstance, that those already condemned to death, and whose execution was fixed for the 18th inst., were exactly those who seemed to return the warmest thanks to Providence for their preservation. Of the other prisoners, some were killed in attempting to escape from the flames, and some others were wounded.

A tremendous hurricane was experienced on Friday evening, at Devonport, which did considerable damage to the small craft, though the shipping rode it out safely. Two boats were dashed to pieces, and six lives lost ; and, to add to the calamity, some of the sufferers have left widows and families.

The orchards have suffered severely in the late hurricane, and in many places, the foliage has assumed an autumnal tint; it is supposed to have been blasted by lightning.

A letter from St. Columb, dated the 11th, mentions the loss of one boat and two men in a gale, on the previous Friday. Another boat, with all her crew, was lost near Padstow. Two boys from St. Agnes, who went out to take up their spiller lines, have been drowned.

The efforts of the Russian squadron fa- the Mediterranean, to avoid an English port, have been unavailing ; six of the ships having put into Ply- mouth, on Monday, for provisions and to repair damages, having parted from the Admiral off Scilly, on the 1st current, in foul weather.—Hampshire Telegraph.

The Alexander, from the Mauritius, from which ship the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, landed at Deal on the 8th, ran on shore the next day on Coal- house Point near Gravesend, and is a complete wreck. Her valuable cargo (principally cinnamon, from Ceylon, on Government account) has been saved, but with considerable damage.

A letter front Halifax, dated the 14th July, seems to leave little doubt of the total loss of his Majesty's sloop Acorn, and the gun-brig Contest. The latter was coining from Bermuda, and the former was going to that island. Both are supposed to have foundered in the Gulf-stream, in a severe gale of wind on the 16th April. The Contest had 10,000/. on, board for the use of the Commissariat department.

Some parts of the French coast are represented to have been strewed with wreck, chiefly of boats, the consequence of a severe hurricane. One or two vessels, with their crews, are believed to have perished in the storms.

The true name of the great bulwark of European Turkey, nchommliew, is, upon the French map, Ciumla ; in the French papers, Chumla ; in the Berlin papers, Chounda ; and frequently, in the English papers, Shunda. It is said that the beautiful daughter of a banker, who was the admiration of the circles of fashion about three years ago in London, and who could never be prevailed on to sing at the concerts given at her own house, is on the point of exercising, on the Continent, those vocal powers with which she is so extraordinarily endowed. The misfortunes of her father (who had not secured the most trifling provision to himself or his family) are said to occa- sion this great reverse,---Morning Paper. The solitary newspaper published at Naples related, some time since, that an English surgeon had killed his wife with apokero ; and added, in a note, " we do not know if this poker° be a domestic or surgical instrument."

A dozen sets of cricket apparatus are about to be sent from Nottingham to Italy. There is not a street in Boulogne, however small, or a village in the neigh- bourhood, near or remote, which does not contain an Englishman or au English family.

The English managers of theatres might take a lesson from those of France, in the invaluable art of puffing. Our managers boast of the " first-rate talents," or the " flattering reception" of an actress ; the French, of her beauty, her disposition, and her diamonds. At Verdun, where Mademoiselle Georges lately played Merope and Semiramis, the manager issued the follow. ing circular to the play-going public :—" Gentlemen and ladies, I dare to hope that you will come and encourage our efforts, by a tribute of admiration in favour of the handsomest woman in Europe, a pupil of Telma and of Made- moiselle Rancourt, and, above all, of a benevolent and generous disposition. In coming to admire Mademoiselle Georges, you will at the same time see Nature, Rancourt, and Talmo. In the fine character of Semiramis of Mon- sieur de Voltaite, she will be covered with three hundred thousand francs worth of diamonds. Note—All these diamonds are real ; Mademoiselle Georges wears nothing false." These diamonds sometimes prove too strong a temptation for the honesty of the actress's waiting-women. Her maid Zanli was lately tried at Rouit for stealing one of Cleopatra's ornaments, and condemned to four years' imprisonment. When 'Genii was detected. she implored mercy, saying that she had 'lever cm-mired theft before. Mademoiselle Georges replied, "I thank you for the preference." A few days ago, an optician named Thenard, who was tipsy, met a person who in derision said, " Good morning. uncle." Thenard, believing that it was his nephew, invited him to take part of a bottle of wine, and they went together to a wine-house. Here Thenard went to aleep ; and on his awak. ing, missed his nephew and his watch, the snit/isn't/ nephew having profited by the maxim, that no ceremony should be used with relations.—French papers. PUBLIC EXECUTIONS AT Psers.—Any person who has had an opportu- nity of witnessing an execution in Paris, will testify to the levity and indiffe- rence which prevail among the spectators. The number of females, even of respectable appearance, usually exceeds that of the men, and it might be imagined the ceremony was intended to celebrate some joyful event. All the wine-shops in the neighbourhood are crowded with labourers, who usually leave their work to carouse on these occasions. Cakes, lemonade, and refreshments of various kinds, are hawked about the crowd, who amuse themselves with every sort of badinage, without appearing to reflect on the suffering about to be inflicted. At an execution which took place a year ago, a hearty laugh broke from the assembled crowd at the moment the axe felt upon the neck of the criminal, which was caused by the shrill cry of a woman, who, without paying the least attention to what was going forward, and solely intent upon selling her cakes, vociferated" Gateaux de Nanterre," just at the fatal moment. This matches the Irish execution which we men- tioned two weeks ago.