The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-22 00:00:00

LITERATURE. Faris from Giceedore. Compiled from Notes by Lord °noun R AIILL,M.R.I. A. (Second edition.) Hardy and Boas, Dublin. 1846. At a period when there is an imperative call, both from nature and society, that the duties of property should he exercised ne le ss than its rights ; and when the last men in the world who should seek to evade such duties are doing their utmost, in so many instances, to shift the local burthens from their own shoulders upon the government, and upon the humane feelings of the English people ; it most always be a most gratifying teak to point out any striking excep tions to the class. It is tree that such exceptions are comparatively few ; but the more prominently, there fore, do they stand forth from the unreasonable ness and short-sightedness of those who surround them, and the more marked and praiseworthy , does their example become. Among the foremost of these we must undoubtedly plate Lord George Hill. Very considerable and important evidence to justify this, will be found in the Facts from Oweedore. This little compilation is full of peculiar amuse ment, even apart from the interest, both narrative and practical, which pervades every page of it. From the wildness of the region and the primitive nature and habits of the people, we are really often reminded of scenes in the voyages of Captain Cook, or of the ad ventures, destitution, and ingenious practical shifts of Robinson Crnsoe. But before introducing the English reader to the wilds of Gwecdore, with its mountains and bogs, and little rocky speeks of islands, and morsels of arable land in the parish of Tullaghobegly, it will be well to offer a word or two in explanation. The Facts are divided into two parts. The first division displays the condition of Gweedore previous to the purchase of the " property" by Lord George Hill, and exemplifies the ruinous system entitled Rundale, which was in full practice among its wretched and lawless population. We will begin with this first part. The Itandate system may be thus briefly described. It consists in the division and subdivision of farms, fields, and patches of land or potato-garden, to an indefinite degree: earl; of' the children in a family frequently having, on the death of the parent or pre "loam possessor, a separate allotment ; which separate allotment is again divided among children or others; and thus 'n, till the allotment in question arrives at the narrowe.at strip of land, or the smallest patches and corners ( t •evend, perhaps ninny, and all in dis tant places from each other) ; and eventually, after the squabbles and varrels of a few seasons with the owners of the adjoirtiw,; lands, the little morsel or narrow strip of inheritance cannot de found even by its claimant. This extraordinary but characteristic system, added to periodical famine and fever, eventually re duced the population of Gweedore to the last stage of destitution and misery. In this final condition of ex istence, when it had become quite plain that the people must die or find help somewhere, the poor schoolmaster of the parish of West Tullaghobegly, in the barony of Kilmacrennan, one Patrick M'Kye, manfully took up his pen for a reat undertaking, end wrote a memorial to the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. Patrick M'Kye, the head and sole teacher of the Na tional School, with a family of nine children, and depending upon a salary of Bf. a-year, c o mmenc ed his memorial by stating that he was not a man of merely local experience, having travelled in nine counties of Ireland, in parts of England and Scotland, and British America. and that he had " likewise perambulated 2253 miles through seven of the United States. and never witnessed the tenth part of such hunger, hard ships, and nakedness." Patrick M•Kye immediately goes to work with his Memorial in a very original and striking way. lie says there arc 4,000 persons in the parish, and he then gives tt list of things which they have got among them, and hive 7.0 t got. "One cart; no wheel car; no cone], or any other vehicle ; one plough ; thirty two rakes; seven table forks; no pigs; three turkeys ; one priest; no other resident gentleman ; no bonnet; , no boots; no turnips; no carrots; no parsnips, 8:c." All these facts Patrick M'Kye had the means of ' ascertaining; but a note in the margin of the book before us says, that the schoolmaster was not aware of the real number of the population, which in 1811 was upwards of 9,000. 1-1 is Memorial was written only some three years before that time. It produced a good effect of a temporary kind, in the shape of' im mediate relief; but no more, so far as official authority was concerned.' The same system continued ; the same disorder and the same destitution speedily returned. This wild mountain district, prior to 11438, was divided into small properties there were no reakient proprietors. The estates were of such little value that no gentleman, or scarcely a respectable person would, or could, act us agent fur them. Bents were very email— almtet nominal, and there WAS no regularity as to collecting them: trifling sums were taken at fairs, or whenever or wherever they could be got ; often no receipt was ;riven- no accurate accounts k e pt ; consequently the greatest confusion prevailed, as to what was due upon the properties. There were arrears of eight, ten, and Even twenty years' standing : some of the tenants not having paid rent for that period, and many lived on the estates quite unknown. A part of one estate, of the value of C2O per annum, appeared not to be known at all to the prison who sold the property to which it belonged, as it was not even mentoncil in the reutsroll returned to Lord 0. Hill, when he purchased. The reader in England will have experienced some surprise at the use of the terms " property " and " rent roll " and " purchased." lfe will be yet more surprised when he hears how the amount of these rents were settled, and how they were collected. In the first place, there were abundant instances in which the tenant fixed the rent himself; that is to say, he payed what he chose to consider was quite enough for his holding. As for the collection of it, the agent had to go " front house to house through the mountains in order to pick up the rent, having thus to take whatever the tenants were pleased to offer." In mane cases it would naturally follow that tenants chose to keep out of the way, or flatly refuse to pay ar.y rent. The ,ia't extraordinary devices were had recourse to, in those parts of Donc,ml, in order to beguile the people into paying their rent; the following plan, which is trite in every particular, has, ut all events, the merit of being pretty original. A liaLiff had repeatedly gone to a mist's house, that he might seize his cattle and put them into V.; pound for rent long due ; but he could never find them, as they had, previously, on each occasion, been removed out of the way. The Last time be was thus diaapiwinted and mocked, he became so ve ry angry and excited, that lie took hold of the man by the collar of his coat, and drugged him over the mountains to the road, swearing that he would now "put himself into the pound, and where he must rcinonLintil the rent was paid, just to teach him not to hide his cattle The county erns collector, meeting one of the bailiffs, asked him how he was netting in the rents of his diri4on ; the bailiff replied that he was dying very well, and expected they would be all peal in a kw days. The collector remarked, "if he got the rent from the tailor, he would be a cleect fellow, as he hod never been known to ray rent, ez.s4, or any other tax." The bailiff said he would do his best, and having heard, a few days after, that the tailor had engaged a horse to go to Intufanaghy to purchase potatoes, he took the oppor tunity of his being from home. and boldly went to his wife for the rent. She assured him that there was not one shilling in the house! But the hailif an: intending to la so easily pat off, told her "that was not true :"that her hudiand hid sent him for it: and if two years' rent was not instantly paid, they would get none of the land that was dividing • and, contiaued he, "by the same token, the money Is in the cheat, in his breeches pocket!" The hit was a fortunate one, and succeeded; the tailor's wife hesitating no longer, immediately ran to the cheat, turned out the garment speeifled, and handed the bailiff the two rears' rent! With it he pretty courtly and triumphantly decamped to the office, and bad scarcely paid it In, when the breathless and terrified tailor arrived Jien at b out of al,Lmd e r anded a ure warrant as he vg bailiff for rolawry and at the same time commenced furiously to abuse him ; but the bailiff had his reward, and, in the Mame at his triumph, took not the slightest notice of the tailor's wrath, but coolly o', , erved, addressing the agent —" (ieh, yer honour, was not I the lucky man that happened to say, it was in the breeches-pocket 1 It may be readily conjectured thase 99 wild people were totally ignorant of agriculture, and con tinually committed the ereatest absurdities, of course to their own injury. their farming implements and methods were all in accordance. A harrow has often been seen made fast to a pony's tail, and in this way the land was harrowed. Lord George Hill found it impossible to put an end to this cruel and ridiculous proceeding, until he induced one of the peasants, by way of an experimental arguateitt, to draw a weight after him by the skirts of his coat. This reasoning proved convincing. The system of Bun dale may be said to have reached its utmost limit in this district. In some instances a tenant who claimed and possessed a proportion of a town land, had this proportion (no matter how small) " in thirty or forty different places, and without fences between them." But this preposterous system was originally founded in a certain degree of reason, the qualities of the land being very various. To meet this, it was originally thought the fairest plan to divide every portion into three, and place them perhaps at the greatest distance: a bit of good land here ; a bit of bad land over there; and a bit of middling between. Then, each of these three patches being subject to any number of after divisions, the condition of the tenants was at length brought to its last degree of absurdity, confusion, trespassing, fighting, helplessness, and destitution. Lord George Hill tells us that, besides instances of no less than twenty-six people holding one small field of about half an acre, the bargains made in cases of sale, mortgage, and transfer of any subdivision " were of the most complicated nature." To such small portions had the subdivisions been reduced, that the people had ceased to let, sell, or de signate land by the acre or half' acre, but by " a cow's THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1646, 3 to I mat. Van Tramp 20 —1 f=ra 20 1— DIBBY. 130 to 1 &gat Gleotilt (offs. to take) 40 —1 Loneroost oolt (t.) WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEF.TING.—TUFJ , DAY. nor 011 RAT wrgrrits MT or 3201. roa 32 nest's or 1843. Mr. Long's Syringe beat Captain Wyndham's ; Mr. Chase's Jupiter brat Mr. Keay's lludibras ; Mr. W. Etwall's Winter beat Mr. B. Smythe'. Science; Mr. Eddleston's Forest Flower beat Mr. Good , lakes Glideaway ; Captain Wyndham's Wildfire beat Mr. Chitty's Canard; Mr. Parkinson's Sempstress beat Mr. Browne's Beware; gin tr. Anstruthees Walbertha best Mr. Etwall's Errand Girl; Mr. Fowle's Jack Sheppard beat Mr. W. Etwall's Whitefoot ; Mr. Lawnsoe's Lucy Neale beat Mr. Clowns Cinder ; Lard Eglintoses Anehinleck beat Mr. Matthew's Bugle; Dr. Browne'; Opinion beat Mr. Fowles Flattery; Mr. Jones's Jorerna beat Mr. Bosworth's R ai nbow; Mr. Jones's Jasmine beat Mr. Rasworth's Roby; Mr. Miller's Magog brat Mr. A. Graham's Knight Marshal; Mr. P. Parkinson's Perhaps nest Mr. Langtry's Fort William; Mr. Bucknell's Burgomaster agat Sir W. Anstruthees Flora. Darn err of 3201. for 32 all-aged dogs. Lord Egliaton's Eessy Bell beat Mr. Parkinson's Chester ; Mr. Etwall's Etonian best Dr. Brown's Confessing Penitent ; Mr. Good lake's Gaslight beat Captain Squire's Clear-the-way ; Mr. Wyndham's Wilutibald beat Mr. A. Graham's Curry Powder; Mr. Keay's fimusr Bier Dill beat Mr. Eddlestsn's Alice AL More; Sir H. Floetwood'; Fancy beat Sir W. Anstruthees Willibald ; Sii H. Fleetwood's Fleet wood beat Captain Squires Old England; Mr. Rake's Reserve beat Mr. Matthew's Brilliant; Mr. Wyndham's Walbergha beat Sir H. Fleetwood's Fleur de ntarie ; Mr. W. Etwall's Enferd Lass beat Mr. Clown's Prince of Wales; Mr. Chase's Probity beat Mr. Parkinson's Spendthrift ; Mr. Lawrence's Swallow beat Mr. C'hitty's Chorister; Mr. B. Smythe's Spinster beat Mr. Gordon's C'ockfighter ; Mr. Good lake's Goddess best Mr. Fowles' Fop; Mr. Miller's Magic beat Mr. Clown's Crazy Jane; Mr. Rake's Reciprocity beat Mr. Langtry's Storm. lab) Kidd Usenet COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-YESTERDAY. Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblaziaue. IN RE MOREL.—The learned Commissioner was occu pied in hearing arguments pro and con, on the application for the certificate of this bankrupt, who had carried on ►.usi. new as a dentist in Langham-place. His debts were 4.0001., and assets stated to be less than would pay the costs of the commission. His expenses during five years had nearly doubled his income, the bankrupt living at the rate of 1,000/. a year. One ground of opposition was that certain articles of furniture had been removed shortly before the bankruptcy. His Honour deferred judgment far a fortnight, the bankrupt to consider in the meantime about making an arrangement for paying his creditors 10s. in the pound, and he must bring back this property. THE DIAMOND TuADE.—B. L. Rothschild, a dealer in dia monds and precious stones, applied for his cerrifioate.—Mr. Sturgeon, for Mr. Jessop, opposed on the ground of extrava gance, and that the books were improperly kept, so that there was no detection of the abstraction or substitution of stones. He had been in trade eighteen months, over which period the balance sheet runs. The debts and liabilities were 16,0001., and the assets only 4,0001. — Mr. Lowrance, solicitor for the creditors , . opposed. The bankrupt had stated thzt certain goons cost him 6,0001. and sold for 3,0001. This would just make up the profits. If the goods had cost 4,0001. the profits would have been none. The , bankrupt is not only bound to ptrge himself from fraud, but suspicion, and he is bound to show the stock given up is the lame as he bought. It had been proved that there was a substitution of stones, and two stones had been taken to Paris by the official assignee to see that they cost what the bank rupt stated they had ; but he (Mr. Lawrence) believed that the official assignee was not "up to the tricks of the trade," and omitted to inquire whether they were taken in barter or not.—The Official Assignee said that he took somebody with him who was.—Mr. Lxw•rance: Either the bankrupt has carried on his business judiciously or not. If he hos, is it consistent with the fact of paying 6,000'. fir goods worth only 3,0001. If not, it is reckless trading. Under all the circumstances of the case, he hoped that the court would not allow the bankrupt to go into trade again for some time. There was another circumstance, paying 1,0971. to a Mr. Hennell in 12 days, and shortly before this stoppage.--Mr. Hennell said the money paid to him was the produce of his own goods—The bankrupt was then examined: Had been unfortunate in Denmark as a lineudraper, to the extent of 5,000/. The coun sel for the bankrupt then went through the whole of the facts of the case, remarking upon the very stringent manlier the bankrupt had been opposed from time to time, and the attention which the court had paid to the case. The accounts had passed, and why bring the same points up again, but for the purpose of wounding and lacerating his feelings It was not right now to throw another bolt at him. There had been no less than seventeen failures in this trade. The market was glutted with precious stouts, and it was a wonder the stock sold for what it did. Under these circumstances, the granting of the certificate was prayed for. His Honor said that there was no substitution of stones. He must consider the expenses and profits, they being fictitious. There was a very romantic story as to transac tions with Sleshinger. lie has been guilty of culpable negligence. I must suspend the certificate for nine months. hood of Pimlico, said that about the 12th or 14th of August, the prisoners became his tenants, and remained so ever since. About five weeks ago the female prisoner diaap peareJ, and he had not seen her since till to-day. They lived together am man and wife, and he always knew her as Mrs. N a me. This being all the evidence at present against the prisoner, Mr. Bush, who appeared for the prosecution, applied for a remand. The prisoner said that he thought there was not sufficient evisizace to justify a remand, espe cially as there was no distinct proof of the handwriting. Mr. 'Henry thought the evidence sufficient to justify a re mand, and he would therefore remand the prieoner till Tues day. He thought it advisable also that the female prisoner should be brought up again on Tuesday, MARYLE BONE. RUFFIANLY OUTRAGE UPON • FEMALE.—George Sampson, • hairdresser and perfumer, residing at No. 2, Little Marylebone - stre et, w as c har g ed be fore gr. Long . with the following ruffianly outrage upon Elizabeth Wilding, an elderly woman, his lodger.—Com plainant, whose arms were much bruised, deposed that about three o'clock in the morning, the prisoner came home drunk, and entering her room pulled her out of bed : he then thrust her down stairs with great violence, and also struck and kicked her several times ; he at length forced her into the street in her night dress. Bartlett, 82 D, de posed to finding the complainant in the &tee described ; he then took the prisoner into custody.—The prisoner, who said that complainant owed him 26. for rent, which he would freely forgive ber if she would quit her apartment, was fined 405., in default of payment, one month's imprison ment. CLERKENWELL.--Striouxas. CASE.—Mr. George Jo seph,a fashionably dressed young man, wearing moustaches, who resides at 91, Newton-street, Portland-town, was charged by Madame Marie Ann Louise Dumont , with hav ing assaulted her, also with assaulting Madame M. A. Joseph, his wife.—Mr. Beckett, for the prosecution, stated that the defendant, about two years ago, married the young lady who now complained, at the early age of fourteen, against the consent of her parents. The circumstances of the case were singular. Madame Dumont resided in Port land-terrace.—Madame Dumont deposed that she and her daughter were sitting in an apartment in the Crown Tavern, where they had been placed by their friends, when the defendant and two other persons entered; he rushed upon his wile, seized her by the shoulder, struck `her, and tore her dress. Witness, alarmed, went for assistance. De fendant exclaimed that he came for his wife, and would not allow her to return with witness. His wife said she would not go back with him. Defendant then threw himself on i witness, knocked her down, and gave her a severe blow on the stomach. One of his associates exclaimed, " Put the mother out, take your wife." Witness screamed. The pri soner threatened to cut her throat. Assistance at length arrived. She went in fear of her life from his threats. — Madame Jeseph deposed that her mother had correctly stated the facts. The prisoner had on this, as well as on other occasions, used her violently, which induced her to leave him and seek protection in her father's house. She felt her life was in danger from his violence.—The prisoner said he had unfortunately been married to Madame Joseph, and they had one child. Her parents had inveigled her away, and did everything to spirit her against him. They kept • gambling-house in Sc. John's-wood, and wanted his wife there as a decoy.—Mr. Beckett checked him.—Pri soner I went to Doctors'-commons, and was there told by the Proctor that no one had a right to take away my wife from me. My wife and her mother tore my clothes on the occasion they refer to.—Mr. George French, 1 A, Portland street, St. John's-wood, was called on behalf of the prisoner. Accompanied Mr. Joseph on the occasion in question to the Crown. Saw so blows struck. Mr. Joseph, taking his wife's hand, said, "Man-, come with me," and Madame Dumont cried out, " Murder,' " Assassin."—TWO other persons, who said they witnessed the occurrence, swore they saw no assault. —John James, footman to Mr. Joseph, de poeed to the same effect.—Mr. Combe (to the prisoner) : You must find bail to keep the peace.—Defendant: I hope my own recognisances will be enough.—Mr. Beckett con sented to this, and he was bound over in 100/, recognisance to keep the peace. SOUTHWARK.—Ties CASE OF MARGARET WALSTIE. —Mr. Evans, the medical officer of the Workhouse of St. George the Martyr, attended before Mr. Seeker for the pur pose of contradicting the statement which appeared in the papers, of his having attended with Mr. Robinson, the master of the workhouse, in order to get the certificate of Margaret Walshe's insanity signed, the fact being that he did not attend the court at all, and was of opinion that the woman was not insane, and therefore not a fit subject for a lunatic asylum. LA.MBETII.—ROBIIEILV AT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN TERHuay's.—Yesterday, after the night-charges had been disposed of, a young man, named William Durant, who held some subordinate situation at Addington-park, Surrey, the country residence of his grace the Archbishop of Canter bury, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of robbing his grace.—Mr. Roger, an inspector of the L division, deposed that about ten o'clock on the night before, while he was on duty at the Tower-street station-house, the prisoner and a female, named Sarah Wall, came there, and the former said he had been robbed of ss. at a brothel kept by the latter in Buckle's-buildings, Waterloo-road. The female, in reply, expressed her doubt of his being robbed at all, but said that in the bed she found seven duplicates, which he owned, and which she had delivered up to him. Witness asked the prisoner for a eight of the duplicates so found, and he handed them to him, and on examining them he observed that they represented property similar to some that bad been stolen from Addington-park, the residence of his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. On making this discovery he asked the prisoner if he had been to Croydon or its neighbourhood within three nights, and he replied that he had not. He next asked his name, but he refused to give it, and also denied that it was Durant. He then told him he should detain him on a charge of stealing a work-box and other property from the residence of his grace, near Croydon. Tho prisoner, after a few moments' hesitation, exclaimed, " Well I did do it, and I don't care ; I may as well be trcnsported as not." He (witnew) observed that it was a trifling thing to get transported for; upon which the prisoner said, " Why, it is; if the dog had not harked, I would have had more." The duplicates he found upon the prisoner he then produced ; he had seen the property to which they related, and he had no doubt whatever it belonged to his grace. Mr. William Humphrey, house-steward to the Archbishop of Canterbury, deposed that on Monday morning last it was discovered that in the course of the preceding night the house hai been broken open, and various articles of property carried off. Witness could identify the work-box end other articles then produced, as a part of the missing properts .—Mr. Matthews, a pawnbroker in the Princess ' road, Lambeth, produced two taper candlesticks and a bronze image, which the prisoner pawned at his house on the Monday, representing them to be his own property. The prisoner also pawned his coat with witness on the same day. —The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was re , mantled. ----- THAMES.—Gitoss PERJURY AND CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN.—A poor man named Nott, a tailor, re siding at Gurney-place, Commercial-road, appeared yester day before Mr. Broderip, to seek kis advice and assistance under the following circumstances : A young girl named Mary Evans, servant to a Mr. Still, in Lucas-street, accused him of stealing a quantity of children's wearing apparel, and though not more than 14 years of age, contrived to give an appearance of truth to her tale, by drop! ing some articles belonging to her master in the applicant's house, and strewing others along the back premises, which led from the residence of Mr. Still to that of Nott. To her statement against Nott she added a tissue of other lies, affecting a respectable woman, named Swift, who also lived in the neighbourhood, to give a colour to which she even went to the extent of inflict ing personal injury upon herself, alleging that Mrs. Swift had assaulted her. Nott was taken up for the felony, and sent to the Clerkenwell sections, where he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The girl Evans was subsequently found out in several malpractices, which proved her to be of a most fiendish disposition, and sa Nott always bore a most irreproachable character, Mr. Still felt it his duty to que.tion the girl closely as to the statcn'.ent upon hich he had been convicted. She then admitted that all she had stated with respect to Nott and Mra. Swift was a mere fabrication. A statement to that effect was forwarded to the office of the Secretary of State, accomlninied by a letter from Mr. Still, expressing himself satisfied of the priso ner's innocence, who was notwithstanding kept in durance for a fortnight longer..—Nott's application yesterday was to know how he should act, so as to procure some redress under the circumstances.—Mr. Broderip admitted that it was a hard case, and regretted that he had it not in his power to redress it. The only mode was to indict the girl for perjury. —Nett: I am too poor, Sir; I could not afford it.—Mr. Lindley, the junior clerk, told him ke had received some thing on his account, which he would hand him in the office. He then received two pounds, one of which was colari bated by the committing magistrate. The poor fellow was very thankful, and said he would spend a part of it in resent ing the slur which had been thrown upon his character. MONEY MARKET. WEDNESDAY EVENING. The movements in home stocks have been of the slightest possible importance, and prices may be repeated for Consols 941 to .5 for money, and for time 90 to /. Reduced Threes 931 to 4. Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. 951 to 1. The government broker took 5,000. Three-and a-quarter per Cents. at 95; for the savings banks, and a small amount of new South Sea Annuities at 911. Exchequer-bills 13s. to 16s. premium. The publication - of the Mexican envoy's justification this morning, which according to the very liberal con struction of a liberal evening paper, was received with much "satisfaction" by the bondholders, led to the ungrate ful result notwithstanding of a decline in the prices of Mexican Bonds. They lett off 221 to 31. It may be pro perly noticed here that much discontent is expressed in various quarters with the bearing of Messrs Schneider, the Mexican house of agency for the conversion scheme, who, when applied to by parties having converted old bonds, re questing to know whether they may not have their former bonds restored in re-exchange for the new at such time as may be convenient, or whenever a new arrangement of the bonds shall take place; cut the inquirers short with the nbrupt declaration that it is a very " improper question" to be asked. The impropriety, however, is very far from being apparent. People are certainly justified in looking after their own property, and the position of the house of agency in this conversion business is not exactly so clearly ascer tained, as to purge their responsibility for property deposited, or to exempt them from the obligation of satisfying duly au thorised inquiries about it. Some reaction took place in the quotations of Spanish bonds. A sort of vague expectation prevails that the affair of the double marriage may lead to unpleasant results either in Spain or out. The Fixes were heavy at 261 to 1 ; the Threes, 371 to 1. Portuguese, 42 to 3. Dutch Two-and-a half per Cents, SSI to 91 ; the Pours, 91: to 21. Belgian Two-and-a-half per Cents, 541 to 51. Venezuela, 42 to 3. ENGLISH FUND&—Ocv. 21. Bank Stock, 2061 India Saida under 1,0001., 27 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns., 931 4 South Sea New Annuities, 941 3 per Cent. Commis, Anne., 9.5 4j Consols for Acct., 9515 New 34 per Cent. Anna., of Ex. Bilk. alp , 0. 144 ., 13 16 13 Long Mann, Exp. sth Jan., 1860, Ditto, t5OO, 13 16 9 IS-16 15-16 Ditto, Small, 13 16 India Bonds, 1,0601., 27 FOREIGN FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Anatrian Bonds, 10 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Div. Ou..t, 111 j from Nov. 1840, 214 5 per Cent. Brazilian Bde., Small, Ditto, Acct., 30th Oct., 261 8.31 3 per Cent. Sputish onds, 37f 21 per Cent. Dutch Ecuador Bds., 2 per Cent. Venemsela Bnds, 421 3f 2, pee Cent. Belgian Bonds, Ex. 1 5 per Cent. Mexican, Acct., Oct. 25fr., 55 30. 231 l 3 21 per Ces:t. Dutch Exchange, 12 4 per Ct. Portuguese Ma, Acct., niL, 39e 4_2_4, 4ee Ct. Du:ch Certiti., 911 21 2 MEXICAN LOAN APPAIRS.—There is IN:t one opinion abroad about the statement of Senor Murphi, ex-envoy of Mexico, now before the public. It is throug:gmt a trans parent diplomatic attempt to fence oft' facts. We shall not, for the present, deal with his figures, in which l:ry' and by we may have to bring him face to face with Messrs. Schnei der, and the Spanish American Committee, the collet's, ues of both in the conversion scheme, but confine ourselves to the simple review of the tortuous course he has pur•ned under the one only obligation imposed upon him, and the singe e duty be w..s bound to discharge, and had undertaken to discharge. It involved no question of figures; it was purely a question of fact. Senor Murphy reverses the order of things, and overwhelms the bondholders with a world of loan mongering arithmetic, furbished up for him from City quarters well practised doubtless in that branch of the art, to stave off and mystify the very plain but particular point in debate. The question to be resolved, and which he undertook to resolve to " satisfaction," was—had he the full powers and instructions to conduct the conversion upon the terms contracted ? The ready and only answer to such an inquiry should have been the publication of the powers and instructions themselves, for which he was fully authorised, and whith should have been produced before, and required by, the Spanish American Committee at the period of the conversion, but it appears were not, from some curious, unexplained oversight, in that body. But although Senor Murphy does not find it convenient to bring forward his powers and instructions in extent°, he can cite a small morceau which he thinks may suit the purpose of justifica tion. After re-asserting that he had " full powers "to ope rate the conversion, he proceeds to the proof, and such a proof as must for ever damage a reputation for diplomacy. "I proposed it(the conversion)," sayshe," in virtue of the fug powers which were conferred upon me in the instructions which I received from the Finance Department, dated 7 (of) March (strong cf City abbreviation), to remove what ever obstacle might oppose itself to the execution of the de cree of the 5 (of ) March, on THE BASIS of converting the De ferred bonds and debentures at eowry per cent." Here we see that the full powers were unequivocally and rigidly restricted to the basis of converting the Deferred, &c. bonds at the rate of 40 per cent. Butthey were converted at the rate of sixty per cent., in direct opposition to the decree and instructions! How will Senor Murphy reconcile that glaring contradiction of his instructions ? If lie have any really discretionary powers, why not produce them ? The public might almost be led to conclude from a following paragraph that Senor Murphy was not the envoy acting for the Mexican govern ment, but the charge d'affaires for Messrs Manning and Mackintosh, merchants in Mexico, of whose interests he appears se tender. The introduction of their names is a new element in this ambiguous and most suspicious Mexican conversion, although indeed the intelligent correspondent in Mexico of the Daily News had, and exclusively, ripped open the veil of this nefarious transaction, and justly exposed some of the parties concerned in it, to the particular astonishment of the unsuspecting bondholders here. Those bondholders are, we assert, to a man in dignant at the gross deceptions practised upon them, less a few members of the Stock Exchange, some of them we are concerned to learn of the committee, who happened to be large holders of deferred stock, but only small holders if holders at all, of the Active debt. and therefore, having pre viously made a good bargain for themselves with the com bined conversion people of Mexico and here, supported the scheme as altered in their favour, which in its legal integrity, according to decree, they had previously repudiated. Much more remains to be said about this most discreditable affair. It is high time that the public should find protection somewhere against these ruinous loan-mongering combinations,bv which, it would be difficult to say, whether the foreign states con cerned, or the British public, are most intolerably aggrieved. The envoys of foreign states, innocent of intention them selves, are too apt, when entrusted with loan transactions, to fall into the hands of designing parties. But in the present instance much of the mischief appears to have originated in the malpractices of English residents in Mexico, backed by parties here—not unknown perhaps to the Spauish-Ameri can Committee. SPANISH ACTIVE AND PASSITE.—Sir : The letter which your correspondent, "A Dutch Holder," animadvert, on in the Er press, of Friday last, as haring appeared in the C'hconicle, is apparently the game as that I teed In the columns of your paper, of lredneislar last, the reasoning of which he appears to have mis understood, and has much miorepresented. The argument of the writer of the letter commented on, is obviously this :--Spain, by a solemn set of her government, haring provided for the conversion of the Passive into Active Bonds, guaranteeing to the former a market able value of 21?. per cent. should now tee required by the holders of the former to fulfil her engagements; their claim is the more equit able, inasmuch as they gave full value in arrears of intermit (he should have said in capital) of the original bonds, whereas, the pre sent foreign holders of • large portion of Active Bonds purchased them for a small part of their original oast. There is nothing In this repugnant to my English notions of pastice. Although, I confess, I dialer altogether from the writer in his endenrour to enhance the fair claims of the Passive Bondholders, by contrasting them with those of any other class of creditors, either English or foreign. The obvious course to pursue in any future settlement of the debt, would be to re duce the claim of all classes into their original element. Assuming the actual holders of the different bonds to be identical with those who first: advanced their money to Spain—l must deny the applica bility of the phrase " struck off the original bonds," made use of by your Dutch correspondent, in reference to Positive Stock, arising out of the first composition, the conditions having been that (sayl for every 3001. Stork cot original Ponds, the holders were to receive 2001. in Attire Stuck and 1001. in Passive (the latter, however, to become Active at as early a date as the financial condition of Spain would admit) and the amount of overdue coupons in Deferred Stock. Sub ss)iently to this, Spain decreed the conversion of Passive into Active Bonds, in the terms stated by your correspondent, noel if she had ful filled her engagements with the Passive creditors in like manner as sae has with the Deferred, their bonds would now be of the same value as the active ; sad, la any future arrangement of the debt, if founded on an equitable Innis must, I presume, be se considered.—A Scustuour to van "Bout Maws." grass," three cows' grass, half a cow's grass, a quarter I of a cow's grass, actually down to " the eighth part of a cow's grass," or half a fro . tof land ! The shape which " a farm" often took in consequence of this system was nest whimsical, yet unavoidable; the length of the best circumstanced farms being from thirty to sixty times that of their breadth ; and the worst had its length three hundred and thirty-two ' times its breadth! I tat the aim el meads wee sot scrined to the land, the say ids ses lama to is,. beer Mused asissier Naples ; haws; sal the tellterha thebeess, at sa earth seer be depended am at teas t--la se Miami kiss; time ire sae coasted in • sae kale bat the peer hide me asired meree t se the valbeta i loot of the warterwimorarry la natio* mebee, am a then Ming willing to anambeas tiernassay, fir sesesetheity it Wane quite broe. Ilea rue new Medias tem sa tae masa; et With one a the " sormar ans be the naiad. @Maned on a Nedletrats kr advice, deft Oa the Waal wee Mindy useless stow ; that he bed not My art ea dusty. Ids paper hoof, et his ova mem, bat bad shod thin Meth hot twine, to beet! yet the ether two propthare resolutely rallased to shoe mere than their 0115 hot t In their dwelling habits, there was the same con fusion. It often happened that a man had three places of abode : " one in the mountains, another upon the shore, and the third upni an Wand, he and his family flitting from one to another of these habitations." Change of pasture for the cow, or for two or three starving sheep, was the sad yet amusing excuse for these peregrinations. The cabins of those who remained stationary were in the most abject condition of destitution and filth. The Memoir of Patrick M'Kye states that there were some cabins which had from 1 to 30 ewts. of manure inside the walls ; and " others, having from 10 to 15 tons weight of dung, and only cleaned out once a year!" The boats used by the peasantry were a sort of basket-work cot, covered with tarred canvas ; and as they had no keel, they required a constant care and balancing of everything within them, alive or dead, or they would immediately capsize. The cargoes, nevertheless, were ingeniously and safely conveyed in them, though often at the greatest risk. The follow ing extraordinary narratives appear to be well au thenticated : Paddy M'Bride, like Crime, was sole lord of the small bland o Hooey, about two or three miles north of Ballyrnes, between Tory island and the mainland. Paddy was a cattle breeder in small way ; he hired a bull fur the wagon, which was landed on Dooey Island. When the season had passed, he w. , s tied four shanks together (on a small strand, the only one spot on the island from whence the bull could be chinned), and rolled into a corragh of wicker work seven feet long, four feet beam, and two feet to depth of hold ; all this was done by Paddy and two sons of his, then well-grown young men, Charley and Hugh. The corragii was propelled by a paddle wrought by threes ; and Hugh, who was the stoutest of the two, took charge of the bull; and occasionally steered the corragh with a spare paddle. Away they Merged, Cluirley, the bull, and Hughey. They got on cheerly until they were half way, when the bull broke the lashing of his shatilut, and threatened death and destruction to all bands. There was no time to hesitate; Hughey threw himself on the bull , and taking off Ms hat or " caubeen, ^ pulled it over the nose of the bull, and Charley turned and got his feet to the snout of the animal, and both succeeded completely in stopping respiration, so that in a few minutes the bull was dead. Both Charter and Hugh M'Bride are alive and well, and still on Island Llooey. Hugh bad a knife, and first thought of cutting the bull's " wizen," but a lucky presence of mind suggested the " eaubeen," width ended the animal's life without a dying throe, the fear of which deterred Hugh from using the knife. The M'Bridas were sued for the value of the bull, but under the cir cumstances of the case, the jury decided in their favour. Another instance of the rash and reckless daring of these islanders (beinem pLae here) may be told—it happened recently and in the neighbourhood. A man and his wife coming out of the Island of Arranmore, in a little boat filled with turf, had a horse standing on the top of it ; with the roll of a sea, the animal was thrown out, and as they were a long way from land, must have been drowned, had not the man eleverly succeeded in getting him into the boat again!! Nor are feats of generous daring and true heroism wanting among these poor people, not merely to wards each other, but when the life of a stranger has been in peril. We gather from Lord George Hill various facts and statements, that the inhabitants of this wild region are for the most part generous, droll; reckless of life when excited, ingenious in contriving, quick and clever in action; they are also quick to understand, but puzzling themselves by the con fusing perplexities of all imaginable provisions against being cheated, and to secure their own interests and purposes. This latter characteristic, with the ludicrous confusion it necessarily induces, is commonly observable in all the Irish peasantry. That the people of Gwcedore did not owe their destitution and misery to idleness and depravity, but far rather to adverse circumstances and the want of help, let the following facts attest and explain: The nearest market towns being nine, sateen, and twenty-eight mile. di.tant ; they had thus far to go in order to purchase the smallest or commonest articles, such is Iron to oboe a horse, boards and nail. for a coffin, ice. ; and a man going such a distance, with a horse-load of oat. e., a sack-fullidungaticroas its back), would =cid any price which might be offeetid, rather than bring it back; advantage was consequently taken of this very circumstance by the trailer+. The general system, or alternative, therefore, was to make the grain into whisky, which was certain of paying a remunerating price, besides that this mode of trading was more agreeable and con genial to a people fond of excitement and en irregular life, though, of cour-c, the practice was sure to load to idleness and dissolute habits. In fact, the people were, in a great measure, driven into, and exposed to, these snares, owing to what has just been stated, six., the want of a more legitimate mart for traffic. Such was the condition of the people and their affairs, previous to the arrival of Lord George Hill among them. What he did for them, and how he effected the change, is comprised in the second divi sion of these very interesting Facts, and will ap propriately form the subject of a second notice. fllntbessitp anti Clerical Athos. CAMBRIDGE, Oer. 21.—At a Congregation held this day, the fol. 1 lowing University Examiners fer 11347 were appointed by grace of the ~enatc:—For Medical Deserts: : Dr. Paget, Cahn. For the Mathe matteal Tripes: Mr. Mathison, Trin.; Mr. Sykes, Perob. Of the Quenionists, not Candidates for Honours.-3tatliematiral : Mr. Black all, John's; Mr. Goodwin, Cetus. Classical: Mr. Thacker, Thin. ; Mr. Atlay, John's. Acts of the Apostlesoke. : Mr. Edleston, 'frin.; Mr. John's. For the Classical Tripes Mr. Beiitson, Pemb.; Mr. Freer, Tells.; Mr. Harper, John's; Mr. Frame, John's. For the previous Examinations, Lent and Michaelmas Teems Mr. Thomp son, jun., John's ; Mr. Fowler, Sidney ; Mr. A. T. Cory, Pemb. ; Mr. Marsh, Trin. At the same Congregation, the following graces also passed the Senate : To allow Mr. Power, of Pembroke College, to take out of the University Library the manuscripts marked 'Ee 2, 3." and "Mm, 3, 21," under the usual bond. To grant to the lalirary of King C,ollege, intim Isle of Mon, copies of all books which have Men printed at the Pitt Frew on account of the University, and also such editions of the Bible and Prayer Book as mac be selected by the Syndics—the library of that institution, which included a former grant of books from this University, baying been destroyed be fire. On the recommendation of the Woodwardian trustees to affix the seal to a tease of the 'Charlton Hall Farm to Mr. Frederick Grimmer. To allow Mr. Bernard, Ochre,' Teacher, thirty pounds from the l'nirer sity cheat. To appoint the examination of the Questionists who are condidates for mathematical honours, to begin on the Wednesday week preceding the ling Monday in the Lent thatn to be continued on the Thursday, Friday, and Sattoday of week, and on the Monday and Tuesday of the following week. To allow Mr. Skinner, Jona, Mr. Gall, Clare, Mr. Marsh, Trin.-hall, and Mr. Frerc, Down ing, to resume their regency. The following was also offered to the Senate, but thrown out on a division, the plocolo and non-place's being equal, viz., 13 : To rapt t he the proposal o • f the Yeneratile Arelulesoon linrney, D.D., as the representative of the last surviving Trustees of a Fund which was raised for the benefit of the late Professor Porson, for founding from , the residue of the said Fund now in hishands and the interest theme n, l a Scholarship to be culled the Poison Fcltolarship. At the same eon ' gregation the following degrees were conferred :-31rtsters of Arlo : G. S. Drew, B. Whytehead, John's; It. E. Roy, Corpus.—Brtehrlors ) of Arts: P. J. Ablxit, Corpus ;C. E. Douglass, Trinity ; S. Prince, NAVAL. We,oLWTCR, OCT. Fearless, s.T., Master-Com mander Brockway, arrived on Sunday from Chatham, to have her cugines repaired.—The Sphynr. a.y., Commander Cragg, will he ready for sea this week—her destination is net yet fixed.—The Gladiator, s.v. Captain Robb, will leave to-morrow (Thursday) for Portsmouth, from whence she will proceed to Scotland, in company with the other ships which arc ordered to convey provisions fur the relief of the destitute population in the Highlands and the Hebrides. The Gladiator will afterwards return to Portsmouth. where she will embark Sir Henry Pottinger and family for the Cape of Good Hope. The Sidon, 8.f., Capt. Henderson, has been lashed alongside the Salsette receiving hulk, in order to prevent her lurching so fearfully as she has done during the last few days. She now lies heeling over to starboard so much that only . one streak of her copper, instead of three or four, is visible. Sir Charles Napier does not visit her so often as he used to do, and she is pronounced on all hands " a failure." She will require an enormous quantity of ballast before her hull will be sufficiently immersed to enable her to " stand up right." The detachment of Royal 3larines, intended to be quar tered on board the Hebe, were marched down to the dock yard yesterday, accompanied by their band and colours. — Captain the lion. F. Pelham, Commander H. W. Crainford, and Lieutenant J. H. Lysatt, hare been permitted to study in the steam factory at Woolwich. Ships in Harbour. — William and Mary Tacht ; Sidon, s. v. (Capt. Henderson) ; Black Eagk, Gladiator (Commander Cragg); Liglitniog and Dwarf, s. vessels ; Hebe, marine ship ; and Plover, brig. In Dock. — Garland and Monkey, a. v. In the Basin Sphyris, Commander Cragg; Amphion (36), and Medea, Eisen, Rosamond, Geyser, and Fearless, s. vessels. MILITARY. WOOLWICH DIVISION OF CHELSEA PENSIONERS.—The enrolled pensioners of this division have received orders from their staff officer, Capt. J. Forbes, to prepare for the usual annual drills and inspection. The four companies are to assemble on Thursday, the 29th inst., and two following days. Oa Saturday, the 31st, they will be inspected by Sir T. Downman, C.B. and K.C.H., commandant of Woolwich garrison; and on Wednesday, the 4th of November, they are to proceed to London, where they will be billeted till the following morning, when they will march to Hyde-park, where they will be inspected by Lieut.-General Sir John Macdonald, K.C.8., Adjutant-General to the Forces. It is stated that his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington will be present at the inspection. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCITESTER.-Tvmmr. cas. lan wz ...ma. 7 to 2 agst Alarm (t. c Mi 4 to 1) 23 to 1 agst. Sting (t. & aft offd.) 8— 1 Joanna colt (t.) 23 1 Ennio 10 —1 Lino 23 1 Fable Report 18 1 Red Robin (t.) 53 1 Laundryntald 18 —I Conspiracy (t) 40 —1 Tenter (t) 20 —1 Lady Wildar (t.) Ilo 1 Buttress (t.) 20 1 Alexa (t. 8; aft. offd.) ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS. The October Quarter Sessions of the county of Essex commenced yesterday, in the Shire Hall, Chelmsford, for the trial of prisouers, before C. O. Round, Esq., M.P., , and a large number of county magistrates. There are upwards of SO prisoners for trial, many of them, however, for most trivial offences. On Tu esday the quarterly meeting of the magistrates took place, with reference to the business of the county, but nothing of importance to the public gene rally was brought forward. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN TIES RAILWAY.— IVilliam Clare and Philip Quinlan, the engine-driver and stoker of the Fire-fly engine, which caused the serious and fatal accident at the Stratford station of the Eastern Counties Railway in July last, surresalered, in pursuance of their recognisance', to take their trial for the misdemeanor, under L.ird Seymour's act. It will be recollected that the first-named was tried at the Central Cri minal Court on a charge of manslaughter, in causing the death of Mr. Hine, one of the passengers, ar,d was acquitted, the jury being of opinion that the compar.y were to blame in entrusting him with an engine, he I .,eing of imperfect vision. On the conclusion of that trial it was thought by the legal advisers of Clare that bawl , 1 g been tried on the most serious charge they would not pr °teed against him for the misdemeanor, but in this they • /fere mistaken, as the company were bound over to prow Atte, and also, they say that they would not be doing their duty to the public if they did not proceed against Clare for „ieglecting to stop when he saw the signals. The grand jury having returned a truo bill against the parties, Mr. Parry, for the accused, said, before the parties were arraigned be had to apply to the Court for a postponement of the trial, on the shortness of notice that had been given, and also on account of his leader's, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins' (who hr al not then arrived), absence.— Mr. Marsh, on behalf of the company, trusted that there would be no postponemr nt. The company bad been at con siderable expense and trouble in getting all the witnesses down there, and were quite ready to proceed. Captain Cod dington, the depute inspector of railways, was present to give evidence, but i f the case was put off they might not be able to obtain hi' . attendance on a future occasion.—Mr. Parry said his cl'. ea n s need not have surrendered on the first day of the seen ms, and then the other side would have been compelled to a g ait.—After some further discussion, the case was ordered to stand over until the last day of the sessions, in order to enable Mr. Serjeant Wilkins to attend. WATFORD PETTY SESSIONS. HA' LW.a CONVIrrtoN.—A. petty session was held yesterday at tb e Essex Arms, Watford, before Mr.M archbanks and other magistrates, for the purpose of adjudicating on a charge, !lade on the part of the London and North Western Railway Company, against Mr. E. C. Milne, a solicitor, residing at Manchester, for an alleged attempt to defraud the said com pany of the proper fare to which they were entitled.—Mr. Barker, the superintendent of the company, stated that he applied for a conviction under the act Bth is ,c. 20, s. 103, commonly Hied the Railway Consolidation Act. The 103rd section of this act was as follows.—" If any person travel or attempt to travel in any carriage of this or any other com pany, on any railway, without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof; or if any person, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such carriage beyond such dis• tanee, without previously paying the additional fare for such additional dist:nee, with intent to avoid payment thereof; or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuse, or neglect, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such carriage, every such person shall, for every such offence, forfeit to the company a sum not exceeding 40s."—It ap peared from the evidence of the station master at Watford, and other witnesses, that, on the 30th of September last, the defendant arrived at the Watford station by the train from Manchester, accompanied by his lady and a child. Having no ticket for his child, which he admitted to be upwards of four years of age, the half fare was demanded, the payment of which, however, was refused by Mr. Milne, and accord ingly his address was taken, and a summons subsequently obtained against him.—The Bench consulted for a few minutes, and convicted the defendant in the full penalty and costs, under the provisions of the clause above quoted.— Intimation was given that an appeal would be made on the part of Mr. Milne against the decision. POLICE.—YEsTEnnAy. BOW-STREET.—THE LATE FORGERY AT MES:RS. I Cotrrs.—Bridget Sulliran, who has been severed times re manded upon the charge of uttering a forged cheque upon the bank of Messrs. Coutta and Co., in the name of the ; Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, was brought up for final examination, and Villiers Pearce was placed at the bar with her, as accessory both before and after the fact. The evidence given on the former occasions was repeated to day, and Lady Queensberry herself was in attendance. Her ladyship stated that the cheque produced was not in her handwriting. She thought she knew the handwriting, having often received letters in a hand which she believed to be the same.—upon this evidence Sullivan was committed for trial.—The case against Pearce was then entered into. --Policeman F 91, said that last night he followed the prisoner to his lodgings, and there took him in charge. He found a great number of papers on him, which were now produced.--Lady Queensberry said that she had known Vil liers Pearce by name for many years, but had never before seen him. She had often received letters from Villiers Pearce, and had answered them, so that a correspondence had exulted between them, from which she could know and swear to his handwriting. The cheque produced was in a hand very like his, but she could not positively swear to it. She had written letters to Villiers Pearce, directed 17, Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, and also to several other ad dresses. A number of letters which she produced were in the hand of Villiers Pearce. Eight cheques on Messrs. Coutta' bank, purporting to be signed by her ladyship, were now produced, and she gave her opinion that they were in Vil liers Pearce's handwriting. They certainly were not in hers. Policeman Thomson (detective twee) said that he had made inquiries at the various addresses mentioned by her ladyship, and had found that the prisoner formerly had lived at three of them. Mr. White, a builder, living in the neighbour- RAILWAY NEWS. Altogether the scrip and share market was not so active and well supported yesterday. In East India scrips transactions of some consideration took place, at fluctuations of price between 15s. to 205., leaving off 15s. to 17s. Gd. Some improvement may be observed in Birmingham and Wolverhamptons, and Birmingham and Oxfords. North British recovered from the depressed quotations of the morn ing, and closed about the same as before. The Liverpool market was tolerably well supported, and there was • fair amount of business done. London and North•westem stock was scarce at 199, which was paid towards the close. There was a good deal of speculation in Ormskirks, which closed at 44 pm. Shropshire Union opened brisk, but dropped to Is. 3d. dis. The Manchester market was much quieter, and only a moderate extent of business was done. Prices were slightly in favour of the buyer. A fair amount of business was done at Birmingham, with litt!e variation in prices, with the exception of Shropshire Unions, which receded from 4 pm. to Is. 3d. dia. Stour Valleys were also somewhat lower, the sales effected being at 4 pm. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley scaip maintained the quotations of yesterday ; there were also sales in the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, at 1 pm., and in the South Staffordshire Junction at 6s. 3,1. pm. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton were a trifle better, there being buyers at 51 die. At Leeds there was fully as much business done as on Tuesday, but the improvement noted that day was not sus tained, for most of the transactions were done at a decline in price. New East Lancashires receded from 41 to 31 ; Hud dersfield and Manchester, from 21 to 11; Leeds and Dews burys. from 34 to 24 pm. ; Newcastle and Darlingtons, from 121. to ill. 10s.; Ormskirks, from 4 to 44 ; North Staffords, from 21. Gs. to 2/. ; Huddersfield and Sheffield and Dewsbury Extensions, ss. per share less each. The Bristol market was again pretty firm, and hopes are entertained that it is assuming a more healthy appearance. There were inquiries for South Wales, which were done at 41, to 41. 13s. 9d.; Manchester and Leeds Extensions ad vanced to 1 to 1 1-16 premium; Bristol and Exeter New Third Shares, 91 to 94 ; Great Western Fifths, 314 ; Great Western New, 71; North British Quarter Shares, 31 to 31. Gs. 3d.; Taff Vale Quarter Share., 28, 281 ; Taff Vale New, 4 prem. ; London, Newbury, and Bath Direct, 17s. rid. ; West of England and South Wales District Bank, 13. MEETING THIS DAY. Trinidad Great Eastern and South Western, King's Held, Poultry, 12 noon. LONDON.—EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DOSCH ESTER.—Yes terday a general meeting of this company was held at the London Tavern, to receive the report of the directors, and on other business. Mr. Woolmer took the chair. He regretted the loss of the bill in par liament through the virulent opposition of the Great Western Com pany, and the grat expense that had naturally followed. It was, however, gratifying for them to hear that Lord Beaumont, the chair man of the committee, thought so favourably of a fine from London to Exeter, that he pledged their lordships to a favourable consideration of this line in the next session if it were brought forward in an improved form. Ile had to inform them that the South Western Railway Company hal agreed to lease this company's line at the rate of 54 per cent in perpetuity, and to share both the past and future expenditure for procuring the act of parliament. The report was then read, from which it appeared that there remained out of the first deposit about lls. 6d. per share, which would enable the company to go to parlia ment next session in conjunction with the South NS astern Company. The second deposit would remain intact, in consequence of this agree ment, to be returned to the shareholders in care of failure. The total receipts of the company were 100,142/. 10e., and the expenses 57,2541. 6s. Bd., leasing a balance of 51,865/. Jo. 4,1. It was agreed that the shams should be converted from 501. to 25!. each : and the report was adopted unanimously. A shareholder asked if this corn. pans had any interest in a line below Exeter. The chairman replied In the negative, but said the South Western had a grand project going to Plymouth and the Land's End. A vote of thanks was passed unanimously to the chairman and directors, when the meeting ad journed. TILE JOCKEY CLUB AND VIE NEWMARKET AND CMES TIMFOID RAlLWAT.—Yesterday, sass a correspondent, a very full meeting of the members of the Jockey Club took place, at which the following resolutions were passed :—" The directors of the New market and Chesterford Railway Company having, at a special meet. Ling convened for the purpose, on the llith day of October, MG, laid the stewards and members of the Jockey Club the plans and sections of the proposed extensions from Newmarket to Thetford, end from Newmarket to Bury, with • branch to Ely, and the same haying been duly examined and coosidered, it was resolved unanimously, that the plans and sections of the railway from the Newmarket sta tion eastward are very preferable to any that were submitted to the Jockey Club last year, and arc approved accordingly. That the New. market and Cheeterford Railway Company are entitled to, and will receive, the support of the Jockey Club in proceeding to parliament for the above extensions, in preference to any other company, both because the Newmarket and Chthterford Company have most satis factorily carried out, and are prepared to further carry out, the views of the club in obtaining the act for the hoes from Chesterford to Cam. bridge and Newmarket, and Krause, as it appears to this meeting, there is no other company having so legitimate a claim to the exten sion, or in whose hands they could be so safely and beneficially en trusted." COLONIAL.-Ittananots.-In the course of .. of the Barbados /louse of Assembly on the 15th of .- -- -- e.,,, Attorney. General, a ft er enlarging upon the invottallee of eett - t .; the island, especially at this time when an untried mm.. -._, inertial policy was about to be entered upon, saki )..... ii; - .`,K awn, that no member of the house was otherwise Mu ' that the time had come for such an establishment, ass r boded the only question was, to what extent the icons al the project ; and if he may be permitted to occupy th e , the house at the next meeting, he would now give poke, MID to move the whole house Into committee at its a ea the _subject of the railway petitions, when he be able to propose ouch resolutions se he trusted stability to the railway undertaking." mu ) , ~, was made In the course of a diacussion raised by • (member for Bridgetown) in the presentation ofpetiticag, .. signed, being presented from that city and from four mr a • ing the legislature to take up the remaining shares of the - 7, speculation. Mr. Presood Raid it was said in the whims thy shares of the 3,000 allotted to the island remained to be tak,, it had been stated at public meetings by parties comma' undertaking that 1,301 to 1,600 shares had been taken a , explained that the petitions were drawn and agreed • many had been taken. Mr. Present asserted that the idea l ing the legislature to take up the remaining abor ts h., with Sr It. Sehomburgk, agent of the company. Mr. It that Sir Robert might have suggested or spoken privatdy i such • step but that the pennons were the spoin2atota Let who 'treed them. Mr. Springer stated that the mai d s Lucy bad been adopted long before Sr Robert addressed v in that parish. Dr. Bascom recommended the House to • tiously before undertaking any pecuniary liability, but a in favour of a railway, and emphatically contradicted lte. ~_. 9,..... . 1 ` 4e , n r ,n ti ticns oned ud. last:lerthwteotinemtictithiwnen:cnemli:erhmisthede sPeitogtLliticton'uurespohiailieb:iliuletlittait„ ,i Anii i ber t be A droee lL ,. AY ISHAIR:01 i LIS S TS.- D.. 14 4,4 7:x, A. 0e: 2 1 Nora: -The quotations of lines in Roman characters dew... ) transactions: those of lines in Italws eelleth' - *". 6 PLED. 1144 10 Manchester & Rimy_ ; 5 Do. Do. 1) .... .th , , 74 11 ,j,'2 . 1 11 ;,* ( 3` . 4. 6 . 74d.), -1 20 32 I Do. Do. C .., .... 4' 4 2 Birm.Sr Oxfor, 1 Juue. l 6l 4 4 424:31anch., Bun, &Math, 7 , B , isia ~,,,d I,j, der 57c. d. 2 Miusch. it Soethamp. r 3 Do. New 50 Bristol and Clay. r•• .0 22p. 24 Do. New ... ~..... . , Il Brsekinghasukire .. • i i i I s vcDo. Bien & orthrtsi II 21 1 00.4 1 r e, e t ., l i d. 25 . Do. North Slidds ll26 4 24 Do. Larnsion ... l4' 24 Newm. end Clnetd.. 174 Chester *llolyhead. 415 1 ei- 25 North British ..... 2 C hur n rt and Blythe. II Do. 4 shares .... .. ' S l'orawall 44 4d. 5 Do. Fifty...... .. :: . 24 Direct Northern ll 4 11 Do. I „h em........ , to Goblin* Belfastbst 9 7d. WO Norfolk .... . 4 .... 1 . i 14 Ea tern Counties 2l/ 4 56 Northern ,}Fa 14 1 Do. New 4 Ip. 45 Do.Serip(io.3di t .)ll ! 6 D0.P.3 per C. No. 1 1 Ip. 426 North Staffordshire .)4 i 80. Do. 2 Lpp. 2 Northompt. Bantam, i 2 Do. Yrk. Extension SI e Irf., %%Arr & weL ' 14 Ent Lancashire 3 I/o. New 84 2 Preston and Wire._ 11 East Lincolnshire 1 41 On. 4 5h0ne........ 113 Eastern Cajon 42a Rafe 4 Lea SO EdinlatitykreG 69 71 100 She hi # Menet_ 10 Do. 4 shares. lB 111 . Lisunis. J 0... 124 Do. 4 shares 16 17 10 leu. Gt. Grimm*. 10 Editsh. and Northern Id. Ip. 42s 1 Do. do. &tension 71F4 54 Huntingdon . lil 3 1 7 121.Seottish Central 30 'Glasgow, Mina. 4 63 70e.n. 121 1 . 4 k0t tisk Midlasd 4 2711 Gt. Yo. 4 West. Ire 2 9p. S IShremsbary 4 Bina ' 1 Gt. North of 237 i 42e.Shropshire Union... r: 46 asp. 33 )Bouth Down .. . . 10 Do. 1 share u 5 01 5 614 Do.DopoD° Do. New 4,NN;rternee enures i.,.. 01.aF tst 39 41p. 334 S. Eastern and go e r Dl i 1 214 20 D0.N.(b0.32 ( .'N0l 1371 12 Do. N. ( t3t. 0 4.')d.).! it 80 15 Do. N. (do. 301.; 1! 194 20 24, Do. N. (do. 151.) 4' 31i 3 'South Wales 7 4 il 11 !Waterford 4 Kilken4; 4 1084 42s West Riding Unite a 102 p . 10 Wilts,Som., & Wry& 114 Ipser.4l Barytit..Eilm i 24 30 20 12 2 i Hu p o pli D 11: : : : a n Nl :i i d e s et : A Selby i bB ,;:e l is . . . .. 2B 25 York and Neweastln't 31 Do. Do. Norwith 3 Do. New ......... .. _ ! 29P. 21 York #Carliste 15 Lancaster # Carlisle. IS 17p. 30 York and North NM; S Do. New !Dr 25 Do. 1 /Kara ....._ g 30 Lords.. Bradford ill3 44p. 25 Do. Scarlserusgh. .g g Ledee , rer & Bedford rar.'ld. Do. &My lq 22 Leites.#Biraninghans 1 01d. 20 Do. Extension. *1 21 Lir. Man. 4. N. June. 3 Do. EAW.Sidglagi 161 London & Blackwell.. 91 1 FoitcPDP Kalman. s Do. New ;2 2 1P. 16 Boulogne and Arneas,l4l SO London & Brighton 594 601 1 2 hoed TurLerroCruel 10 It,. Corti. Fifths 9i 9p. 4 Deadre Vallee . . t II London & Croydon '224 3 Dj,,,t B om b, & 12 London # Greenwich 194 6 Dutch Rhenish .... il I London &N. Western'l9B 9 7 5s East Indi...n 2 Do. 1 shares 123 5s Great I. d. Penland' x. 44 I Do. New shares-- 1161 4 3 'GC %olio'. ft liadrai. 1 I De. FipAs 'l7l 184 5 Great Witt. Beneati 121 Do. Eighths 4 G. 3 Cl. Nur. Fral•recon.743 5 Do. N. 4 sh. { 31 Gt. Western Canada .1 8 Do. 401.5 A., L.# M. 6 LOOM iIIa la Sander:it lg. 414 London Sr S. Western.7oll 4 1 4 Lorrwborny . 2, 714 40 Do. New urns. &Ma 13 15p. 4 Mad ras,Nellore,and, 221 Do. New 31 304 4 elreot . ... .. . .. . ..) 18 Do. Neu' Bl GI p. 8 Namur aid 1.i.ne..... 1 21' London & York .. .. 1 4 10 Orleans sad 1'i,•,:0 * 21 Lon.,Solis., 4 Yeovil 11 11d. 6 Orleans & Bordenz.. 1211 Londsry. 4 Coleraine 3 Piais& Leona, Came 1 15 ! Lynn and Ely l4 154 20 Paris and Orleass... 4ii 15 Lman and Dereham .. 82 Manchester & Leeds lO 4 41 3 Paris +Streak. 38 Do. 4 shares lB 9 20 flaxen and Hodes. L{ 2 Do. 1 shares. lO *maitre and Meese .14 4(t 1 3 Do. Fifths SI 51p. 14 SfrarSoirrg ,i• 8a4.111 Hi 110. Sietersiths 42,1 , Do. Extension 1 4p. West Render. . . 111* ...._ ._ LivaanoL. Ocr. 21.- sales :-Oreat f -- London N. Western, 198, Bi-Do. (ne G. J.), 221 p.-Manchester, Leeds. 25 L,scrten. h.) 1, 21 s. 3d., 11 p.-Midland in) 14 p.-Do. (new sh.) 4 p.-N (1 sh. No. 2), 21-8. r Da. (sew No. 4), 6s. 3d., p.-N. lenreabire, 44 p.-Do. (new C. and IL, (11 pd.), 11, 2, 21 p.-Do. Drivesbury, 21, 1, 3 p.-Do. (branches, 54, 1 d.-Liverpool, Bury, 41 p-Do. (new 3a. 9d, 4 p.-Idirmingharn, Dadley, 34 , in., 34 p.-Liverpool, Oreaskirk„ Preston, shire 21, 41 1 . 3d., p.-Newry, Wr ---- - --- R. and C., In. 3d. p„ par, is. 3d. Doncaster, 1 d., par._ COMMERCIAL PRODUCE.-511NCONO-LSOr., OCT. a very firm appearance, and more time past. Consumption in going press sale, 550 hhdn. of Went 11 several thousand bags of Mauritian 1 tract. Refined continues very firm, hand ready for delivery.-Coffee: were offered in public nate ; a small mainder sold averaging last week' of 1,500 bags of Bengal., a further establishing a decline of fully la 6d white sold, 18s., Ittn. 6d.—Pepper 31; Eastern, 21, 21 lb.—Rum : Firm —Cotton : About 1,000 bales sold at tinues to advance; our quotations 49e. for December and January Duties paid in 1846 to last week pool, 4,599,570 Ito.; Bristol, 627.' 1,585,853 lbs. Total, 27,974,7931 COTTON.—LSTAPOOL, OCT. 21. the sales were 7,000 bales, about "peculation. CANADIAN FLOT*I.—A vessel named of Liverpool from Quebec, has I' wood goods, the large number produce. So large an importation arrivaln to the same extent have, United Staten of North America, notice, and therefore the mention of will, for various reasons, be Interesting . STAT/14 PItOI.I . CT- —A veB44 has arrived in tlw vin's Docks, from Boston, United Staten, with a cargo of ire, prising, according to the amount of tonnage, about AO met dt article. There is now no novelty in such an arrind, bat 09 ! 1 vessel brought (with the exception of the ice, the only deter6 l l o merchandise on board) eight boxes of peaches of American the importation of which it , rather remarkable from ‘'lli ts ‘ tame, and may be, on account of its novelty, particularly asta6 COALS, Ocr. 21.—Ships, 17 ; sold, 13. PUNDERIAND. 18s Od Wallnerd Braddyll's Ilet. 17s 6d Wallseud Lanibum.... 184 Id 17s id Chester Main Mired' Mein ...... Steirart'e Ilartley Wall end Clarke tk Co SHIPPING INTELLIORNCE.-MAILL r ARR. DER. ARR. WI. 3 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 sydncy, NO 2 Waterford 0 1 France 0 130..5 11786A1 ,,,, I Donaghadea 1 Guernsey & Jas. 0 0 Mediterranean ... 0 W e s lota 7 . 0 Hamburg .......... 0 i 0 India (car South- limed --A I 0 Itolland 0 1 ampton) Oaftreuumi, Ocr. 21.—Arrived : Prince Rupert, from finr. Bay; Be ll m ona, from Grelines; Victorine, from GrAirlift ,l. from Sutton; Lody Courteney, front Mal..ga; Junto., tna 00 " Juliana, from Guernsey; Skandinftvean, from Naliftkov.. -,4111d,1+ (*Ade, for Cadiz ; Fulmer, for Genoa; Ilebe, for Cioinini!; % for Neweftstle ; humn, far Black Sea; Light and Sign, to BIA . Livetuftaut, Ocr. 21.—Arrived : Ipswich, from Mace %elm.'" Aug. 17. Shc brings a special memenger, with de.•;,cirl tt.. Foreign-office from Mr. IWod, our envoy at Buenos AyIVI! ,l '' Anglo-Saxon, for Boston. Extra Arrivals: Elyrees, froia. Itn 0 1 Tom and Jeanie, from Seguna; Martha, from Antwerp. 11, 2 of Itoehester, that arrived at Liverpool on the 3rd iret, to!, Onega, and not from Magaguadevie, as reported. Extrs w. Brout, for Danteie. [Advertisement.] SURPRISING CASE or Rirovi fIY OF Maven by iiOI.I.OWAY% Pm... —Mr. lioherts , f ticman residing in New-Street, Birmingham, had been res a t sears from a disordered liver, s t o mach, I rl heart, shortness of breath, swelling of the hands feet, lowness of spirits, and want of strength and energy, things was slowly breaking up his constitution: tiodultr o fit from the medical treatment of Birmingham, he 1. 1 d ,,s don, where he resided for six months, in order to coasult„ .. .i. eminent of the faculty, which he did to no advantage. ""T o i these extraordinary pills, which in three weeks reitorel Moro feet health and igour. Sold by all =L., and liolkiway's Edabliment, 244, Strand. BIRTHS. Oet 19, at Kingsbridge, Devon, the wife of Capt Client:OP° LH., of a daughter. Om. IS, at Romney, Mn. Armen WILLOCORDT. of a eon. Oct. 16, at Artnaturiedge, llooterstown•avenue , the EDWARD Touren Coacuaau, Esq., of a eon. issf o Oct. 19, at ChiUlagton, the wife of T. W. Girt tee, EM • 0 .„ . j ‘,ll Oct. 17, at Rom•hill, sear Whitehaven, the wife 010. of a daughter. MARRIAGES. 1 1 * Oct 70, at St. Werbargh's chumh, Derby, Cossets Snelo, of ETWRIOR•R OOO . rtereDS ° (Dr, to E . "'h" :111 I da daughter of Fltiat.Dilro,r, Fat f Oct. 11, at Manceter church, Wnrwickehire, Wittise Mtstta. ease, Esq., sea of the Hon. 31•Jor Witti.te Esosiss graadson of the late Earl of Des con ito, to M ,sr. mitt Olio! sett, Esq., and youngest daughter of WILL I v. Oct. In, at at. Marylebone church, If [NI. Nit... third •W new, Eaq., of Illakeecy, Norfolk, to Louis., third Oughts. , of L Eq., of Baker.strec:. Line 001. TO, at et. Greenwich, J. T. Nicene. TA .. of Exuma. r Rees., a. yURRIONt daughter of the late CiptAlß Ter s ,, 0ct.17, at Neigh church, Jou. Faster, Y.M-. Lit R n4U ,tialt Haggett, to Jana, eldest daughter of Trion. . DEATHS. ttliS Oct. IS, at her son'. ftlideßft, Abbey street, Dublle, Bent 1 , Es q. , orNaven, county Meath. ,ger Cl O Oct. 9, at Norbiton Hall, Kingston, Barmy, Meet , D°-,.. Livaaroot, aged 69. C.l 2' Oct. 13, nt Mu/. county Derry, the Rev. Jana Carol . parish of Faugheeveie. Oct. 14, at Liverpool, Witt, to (*Lila CkLDWZLL , gelth regiment, having 'arrived his brother, Captain C. 71 57th regiment, who died as the 11th July Met, only three rdAir„ Oct. it at Pealee Villa, Devonpon, In her 11st yet, Mrs,w. Ass t of the late of Cosa youngest daugOlt r Ase te of at. Mary, Jemal Oct. 13. at Brachia Nairnshire Ca tale Fase• t Via. Printed and Puto naiad by WILLUN A.M. dr D in Use patina a at. Bride, in fine City at_in/d.. t o, Mmes. Saari n .. anal Erman, lu Lanattanamintat i o Whitstrars. I the City of London, Canal at Oelanala V. -Omit Southern nod Wmagi,l v t -Do. (new . -1308 sh.), 114 p red*, 22 r.-Do. (4 Q.), Ili 4.-k LAidlauld (SOL x.),124 p - xsrd p.-N. Union (A), 3:21-‘lld4 -S. Eastern (new No. 1). 14 3- N. Midkusd (new loud h., No. IL rn fp.-11 -EM. (Ellen. aL), 31 ranches, blue), I A.-Lewis, Thin -Do. (new sh.). 14 p.-Amber4ala .. tdir7, p.-Birminghahh• uhm It. Freston, ri, 4, u-N. 4 Varrenpoint, par. -Shrimalihe L p.-W. li, p.-Zait -- AND MARKETS. OCT. 21.-Sugar : This article MS ore confidence calms than fx ng on largely, and importers do st t India have been told today, ar tius have been bought by pr.varg so firm, with but a small quantity* w: About 2,000 bug. of *saw nail portion was bought in, the* echo pen:ea.-Bice: In a polite al ter decline of bd. was aultautudt .6d. from the laic highest point; pr *r told at previous rates. Watt Firm ; proof Leeward: o , lo . 4 o ,llh tal at yesterday's prior--ialTr Oa ms now are 49.., 4 95. od., on tiler% ry delivery. - Tea remain. am eek : London, Z0,938,1;2 lbs. ; Ls* )7344 lbs.; null, 291,1511 M; OP 21.-This market is rather 61 8 out one.balf of which was tits tamed the Belinda, arrived at thrjh brought, in addition to a quash , of 9,530 barrels of flour, of Oirahr, lion of flour from Canada. Wan ve, we believe, taken (dart front ca, has nut before come Odd! an of it, especially at the presents erecting and a ! m in" l r: a, cal IT " ! Neu 5 tail eV ensl2ll l c , .....1",...* TO He en, a, • A m, CYQ • THI — d elli taft alit . . es etabl ik : f u l tn.... ft % IL si e iNir b' . other 1 skt Mlteire . _ Eve mi. fti fi Z il l - EXPI r MI o f 19e. i ft , dot / peremn i , Meal, t 1 that a Mel alk ~ 90, Fli 'tl I. ' II IN ;. O fl to t O O % II W• nowt unk , Lely b i / 47., , ',Cr A set 4a Z 11 1 tital lima it The b '' 1 2711114 abVe. to Preppy., Seigel t ep*,. ....- • Mr. p i tt gu 'hhide xioakis t a , nn i ar k , e tabie. pu li,lll rATD. //bite pK III LOT pabli • NO. I Cow: W. No. I Moo No. . I by BAR No. 1 Word. Lend Avenue whom. In steam Mail, by th day at is pro Thi at 0r eveni Fran< ceive were Th 16th. steeri Th , Oribc Mr. beim tithe] will • rival "1, Lion iost Mont o . tentia went' N.:bed ritory _ " 3, sons a forenc, found, Th senge Harb rv. ilvy w but here torn on and of it hat lie and plae withheld iroverey On the war hcld we. £U. worthily: I !~,:T 1~ i 4 iii ll' I