The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

LERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Henry Lowe was charged with stealing two coats, a gold pin, stock, and other articles, from the passage of the house, 13, Lamb's Conduit -street. Joseph Barker said he was a shop-boy in Mr. Wallis's service, and about seven o'clock this morning he was standing in the back yard, when he saw the prisoner enter the hall, the door having been left open by the servant, and take down the two coats which were hang ing in the passage, with which h e ran away. Witness followed him and gave an alarm, when the prisoner find ing himself closely pressed, threw down the coats, but was soon afterwards t a k en i nto custody. Mr. Wallis identified one of the coats as his property, and win n he hung it up in the hall the previous night he placed his stuck, in which was a valuable gold pin, in the pockets, with a pair of gloves and other articles. The other coat produced he belipved to be the property of his lodger, Mr. Graham. The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed for trial. .ONEY aiiti tA ) MMER.CIAL NEWS, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, including 4,600 American, at 4d. to 54d; Fermin and Maranham, at 68d and 74d ; 200 Egyptian, at bid to 7kd ; and 50 Sea Island. The market was quiet, and ord. American qualities were id per lb. lower. In a communication just received from Upper Canada we are advised thus:— " We are happy to observe that the directors of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad have resolved upon commencing that important work, and of proceeding with it through the eastern townships, witl.out present reference either to the general body of scripholders in London, or to the Americans. We have no doubt that by pursuing this course, they will ultimately procure ready subscriptions in England to complete it to the province line, or so far towards it as would be necessary for a purely Canadian. There is no question that it will be of great advantage to Montreal, and as the first sec tions which are proposed to be completed, and at once opened to the public, will command a large traffic ; the attention of capitalists will be effectually attracted." The Peterel packet has arrived at Falmouth, with the mails from Brazil. If we except the receipt of the mer cantile letters, which are usually sent by the packet, this arrival brings nothing new of the slightest import ance, the advices being anticipated both from the northern porta of Brazil and the River Plate. The coffee market at Rio Janeiro had been flat during the Abo ut month of July, Part i cu l arly for the lower qualities. the average quantity had been shipped during the month, the greater part of which was as usual for the United States market. There was no sugar in the market sufficient to govern prices, and as they had not been advised of the passing of the British Sugar Bill, nothing had been done in anticipation. The Money Market was easy, and discounts were obtained on comparatively moderate terms ; and the rate of exchange had been as high as 27d., but the chief part of the business done for the packet was at 261. The Government have remitted 20,0001. on account of the dividends payable in Europe, and the advance in the rate of exchange will be to them an object of some importance. As the free -trade measures adopted may be expected to stimulate the export of all the staple productions of Brazil, there is every probabi lity that the r a t e o f exchange will yet advance further. In the Consol Market to-day there have been some heavy sales made. The price for the Account is heavy at 9.5 i, and for Money at 95k. The premium upon Exchequer-bills bas advanced to lBs. India Stock is at 259. Very little business has been done in the Foreign Market this morning. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 42, the Mexican are at 25k, Brazilian are at 85; the Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cents. at 59f, and the Four per Cents for the Account 92k ex-dividend. The Share Market is flat. Money app • ears to be rather more in request. In letters just received from private sources we are informed that Mr. Hamilton, the excellent representa tive of the British Government at Rio, is coming home to recruit his health. The exchange on London was quoted at the latest date at 261. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BEITISA FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICEs S per Cent.Co nso l s A nnu i ties 95% % 953. 4 Long Annuities to ex p ire J an. 1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 1-16 % India Stock 259 India Bonds, 1,0001- — Ditto under 1,0001. ... ..... - ... . . % 95A p Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 4 d l5 18 Ditto 5001. in. 15 Ditto Small pm. 12 10 259 % PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. oNE O'cLoCR Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 an d 1839 — Mexican ' 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto. Account 25 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 42 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Accou n t 26% Dividends on the above payable in London. 59,1 O'Xi Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates _ Ditto, Account - 92% 3 4 ex div 92 J ricicEs or s USINESS DONE CLOSING PAM' BA/Lw tY SHARES 20 AT ONE O'CL OCK. PRICES. --- ... —. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, ............ and Eastern Junction 2%.. ... 2% 2 ............ 2 Armagh, C o l era i ne, and Portrush .. 1% ............... BAylesbu anyd Theme_ I - ............... - elfast & ryCounty Down 2% N - irmin. and Gl oucester. 100 BirDitming to New ham ... and Ox- ............ 17% , .... .... ..... ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashi re , and Cheshire June 2%....,. Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s — •. ............ Bristol and Exeter ..... 75 Bristol and Gl oucester Ditto, New .......... 5 ... 30 13 ristol and Liver. June . 2% .... - -- Buckinghamshire ...... 425. - • Ditto Half Sh a Caledonian ........ .. ..... 25 . •• •• re 5...... 2% —•-• •-.• Ditto Extension ... 2% — "'— Cambrian & G ran d J ane 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% •— ...... Central K en t 2% ...... .. ... ......... ......... Chester and Holyh ea d 27% 23% Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manche s t er 425. . ...• ........ ... Cheltenham and O x f or d 2 Cl ydesdale Junction 2O ............... Cork, Bl ac k roc k, and Passages ......225. - Cork and Killarney ... 2% 5 Ns... .......... .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% ..... .... .•• Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% ... ............ 1 ierby and Crewe ..... -.. 2% — ............... Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheflil. Jane. 2% Direct Manchester (Remington's) , 2% ....„ ...... ......... Ditto (Rastrick 5)..-- 5M..._. .. .... ........ Direct Northern ... ......... - Direct Norwich - ... ........... Dublin, Belfast, and 2% D..... ............... Coleraine ............. --- üblia and Gal wa y. - • 4, D undalk & Enniskillen 7 1 A.......... .. A ......... 2 1 % Eastern Counties 141.16 s ..... 6% P Ditto New. 12/. 16s. et p ...... . Ditto Perpet ua l, 5 per P Ce nt , 1.......61. 13s. ft i 4 P P Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... L? 1 3‘ Do., York E x t ens i on.. 105....... 2 /I IPs 4 EastDereh'ai andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union ............ 35 .. D itto, ••. Quart er Sh ares 8% — o. Exten.(llarwich) 1% 2%...-- East Lancashire ........ 14 East Lincolnshire ..... 1 .- 3 / 4 1 4 ... East & West of England 1 ...-- Edi nburgh and Gl asgow 50 3 e....•. Ditto Half Sh ares ... 10 ••• Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .... • Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 ••• ......... .•• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .....• ..... .. .... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1 A...-. ............. Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 1 4 Glasgow, Kilinar.,& Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New ....... .. 15 . ..... ...... .. Do., 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... ...... 12 % ...... Glouc.,Abei y s t w i t h , and GoolCentral of Wales ...... IN__ -- ........... ... e, Doncaster, &c. .. 425• ...... Grand Union (Notting and Lynn ... ... . ........ 1% ...... .. ...... Great Eastern &Western 2 %.„ -•— GreatGreatGrimsby and 5hef d.............. .. .... 10 ...... .... • ......- South. sad West. Gre(lreland) ~ ............. 27% ...... 30% ... . at Munster . . ..... .... 2 1 / 2 — ............... GreGreat North of Scotland . 2% ..- — ..... - ........ Dittat North of England -100 o New ............... 5 - Ditto,itto, New ... ........ 15 .. » — ............ ... New ........... . 1% .. Great Western ............ 85 Ditto Shares ...... ... 50 - .............. . Ditto Shares ......... 10 p 20 Ditto iftha .......... 20 ...... 4 .. ... Ditto New ........ .. -- ...... 5% p 5% p Guildfo;cl, Fare'm,Porta. 5 ••• -- •-• r wich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 aull and Selby ........... 50 .. .. ...... . --- —. -Ditto liSharas . 12% -- ,„, n . ~,, ........... —0 ••• a• l.lO th.,',.....1,. _snarea ...... 25 ..... 4 ... ~... t k 37 . , ti at Enry St Edrn. 11% ...... ........... .. ,•- do., and Norwich 2 %....... ............... —••0374711.1411911a ...... 1 ,4 , ,,,,, ism .... ai, ~.,,, CLOSING rxic ES 85 85 -- 1 IA _ . . . 3/4 30% out truckM without putting his name on them. If this truck tta,l had his name on it, the prisoner could nut so easily have got money advanced on it. Joseph Edwards, foreman to Mr. Hawthorn, grocer, in the Strand, was charged, upon r, mend, with stealing 28 pound packets of sugar, the property of his employer; and Richard and Mary Greene were charged with receiving the same. Mr. Hobler appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis for the defence. On Mr. Lewis applying this morning to have the pri soners admitted to bail, Mr. HENRY said, that as a jury might acquit the woman, he would admit her to bail, but as he had no doubt at all about the case as far as it referred to the male prisoners, he could not allow them to be bailed. Twenty-four hours notice of bail must be given. It appeared that there was no additional evidence to be given, except that of a Mr. Farrell, who had fre quently had dealings with Greene, in the name of Ed wards, and as his agent. The prisoners were committed for trial. Kendal and Windermere 1 1 ,(...,.. Leicester & Birmingham 22i; — ... ....... .... Leicester and Bedf.yrd... 225. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22% Lpool., Mnchstr ,& New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury ... 14 London and Blackwall. 16/. 136.4 d. 9 14%% Do. New Ditto Extension Lyndon and Bri g ht on 5O ..... 59 ,4 Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 21% Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 121 15s 4d — Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. W es t ern loo 2OO 199 Do. Quarters Do., QO., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — Do., New .14 Shares (G. J.) Do 401. Shares (L.M. ) 8 — Lund. &S. Western 411 6a 10d 70% 69% .... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 — Do. New Do. New Lendon an , : York . 214 l% Do. % Shales Lyndon and Windsor . 1.... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .....„,.......... 2 1 ,4...... Londonderry &Coleraine 12%. _ ... Londonderry and Ennis killen 12% — ........... Lynn and Ely .....«..... 15 Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds.., 82 Ditto 1 / 4 Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 3 ...... 9 ... ...... Do. Sixteenths 6'4 — .. ... Do. Extension 42 s . I%M p .... Manchester and Birmin 4O — Do. Quarters (A) 5 ..„.. --- .•• ..... Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C)....,. 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock... 42s. 1 0% p Manchester, Birm., and. Mould Junction ..... Manchest. &Southampt. 2 Midland lOO ... .. Do. Fifths 2 — Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo •••• •• . Midlnd& East. Counties 2% — Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrd 21.125. 34 p Newport& Abergavenny 2%...... Newry and Enniskillen 4% —, .. • Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. , 1%..... Norfolk .. Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares ll ...... Do. Fifths .. 5 Do. Carlisle Extens. 1 3%..... North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% .— Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% — North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 2 5 4% p North Wales - • Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 — , , Nottingham & Mansfid. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3% Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond 19 — Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 2%...... Scottish Midland 12% Do. Extension 2%...... Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries andCrewe... 13 i ...... Sheffield .B:Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 114 Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birrn... 0 ••• • • 31 .. •••• ••••, Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsli..iunc. 2% — ..... .. Sligo and Shannon IN - ............ South Devon 35 — South & Midlands J, ~. 34 ~. 2%P 1111111 . .uia, unc. 425...... South StaffordshireJunc. 2 1 ,x ..... . ,s_+outh Ea , tern & Dover. 33% De., No. 1 2G — Do., Ne. 2. Do., No. 3 Do.. Ne. 4 St.Alban'a, Hati e ld, e 4i Hertrord Junction Staines and Rich- ld _..,0m0nu... 1 ..• •••• 0000000 Staflordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 — South Wales 5 ...„. 3 1 ,4 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's stm. C0a1.... 2 .... •• Taw Vale Ext ens i on ••• .. ... 2 ••• ..... Tring, Readin, ig, an Biiingstake . ........ 51,4 Vale ............. , Vale of Neath ........ 2 Wakefield •• •• ..... ••, , Pontefract, & Goole ... Warwickshire & L on d on 425. ... Warwick a n d W orces t er 4 25. ........ Waterford and Kilkenny 14 ..... ........... . ......... Waterford and Limerick 22% ........... and Dublin Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wi c kl w, Waterford, Wexford, an d . .............. Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 ...... ..... ........ Welsh Midland ............... West Riding Union 42s. 21% p. .... West Cornwall WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 2%...... ........... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Heref or d,R oss' and Gloucester 425. Ludlow ...... Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 ...... •.. ••••••• York and Newcastle 25 ••• ... . Ditto New 1 • 10U ........ York and North Midland 50 ............ •• Ditto % Shares .. 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension --- FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian.... Barbadoes i3B oocrrded teet Boulogne aaeuujxi a ta n co d lui A I ond i n i ; ts i i see e 7 n s e 3 anda..n.. ... 14 22 .. .. . . .. .. .. . . . .--- 1 . . . .... .. . ...... Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... .. 7a. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ••• --- ••• •.. ........ Central of Spain ... Ceylon .. .... ss. Demerara 2 I,E ...... Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 ,E Fampoux & Hazebroak 4 o Great G r r e e a a t t sanlwsla,anee Western ts i di. tt a piei n Aerriinid P iul o.cs e rja n eurnn.i n.. n ta na.ie s .d3.t u . a. . i l . .0. .a.. Bengal... . n r . 5 35 231 8 :14 .. ... . . .. .. •• Namur _—__ .... Lyons -- Italian Luxembourga: Jamaica Jersey . a.... 1; Siimbra .... ... 1 ... . : 4 Avignon 2 Madras .... • M a A oldin r ra c o t ....... . ' an d 1 , Madrid and V;l' ... '• ...... A .... s M a st i zi r tiv a s nd .. i.4. e .......... 61 Nn of France Constituted 5 . ... , 4 1 % North Jam aici... ...... ... 1 " Orleans and Vierzon ... 10_ — Orleans and Bordeaux— 6 •. .... Over Yssel ............ 4 / 33 4 d .. .... _ • ............ Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 ...... 5 , . ‘ 2 2 1 1 ............ ...... 4 0 14 ...................... PPatuz:iiss and dd Rouen """"""'• Paris and Strasbourg ..... .. •'•" Constituted ............ 5 •• •• Rouen and Havre ...... 20 • ......... Sambre and Meuse...... 8 •••• ............ .. Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic ••••• ............... Tours and Nantes Con- stituted ... ..... ... 6 — ........ ...... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 -- Trinidad West Flanders .. 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. _ _ Australasia British North American 50 Commercial of London 20 — National Prov. England. 35 National of Ireland 22%...... ......... ••• Union of Australia London & Westminster. 20 MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. :-.-- — 314 LLO YD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT: SS. W., modetato breeze, and ftne dear weather. DEAL, Span. 30.—Wind X.1 4 7V. to N.W.—Acrd. Yaw mug, Westerbury, Charleston, and aid. for Stockholm; Ta ‘ll4 DVtuimca. Ord. from the River and bid., Chance, Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Jo. New Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena - ••..... ........ Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle ..... •• •• 1 1.4 .... % as. 69 1 4 211,4 25% 42 84 23% ... 34 THE suN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN' 104 74U Pernambuco and Bahia on her ontward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward.] SYDNEY, &c.—The next mails for Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand, will be made up ou the evening of the 31s October, to be forwarded vici Gravesend. NE W ZEALAND COMPANY. A special Court of Proprietors was held yesterday at the Company's House, Broad-street-buildings, for the purpose of authorising the directors to borrow and take up a sum of money not exceeding 100,0001., to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, under order of the Go vernment. Mr. Aglionby, M.P., took the chair, in the absence of the Deputy-Governor. The SECRETARY then proceeded to read the twenty first report of the Court of Directors. It stated that an Act was passed on the 3d of August last, authorising the loan of 100,0001 out of the Consolidated Fund to the company, and that a further Act was passed, per mitting a portion of the said sum, to the extent of 32,5001., to be appl ie d to the payment of' debentures falling due in the present and ensuing months, and that the pre sent meeting had been convened, because their formal approval was requisite to the completion of these trans tions. In stating their reasons for applying to Govern ment for this aid, the directors refer to their ignorance till lately of the arrival of Governor Grey, and his proeeedings at the Bay of Islands; to the result of his measures in Cook's Straits being unknown; to the delay of issuing crown deeds, and last, to the unfortunate circumstances which had retarded the progress of the early settlers, and the resumption of the company's land sales. They reminded the proprietors that at the last general court they had urged the closieg of the affairs of the company, unless Government, before the separa tion of Parliament, adopted measures which were thought indispensable ; that they had represented their position to the late and to the present Government, and had received a letter from Mr. Hawes of the 6th of August, enclosing the Bill, which had since become law, and stating that, in the opinion of her Majesty's Go vernment, the dissolution of the New Zealand Com pany would be an event greatly to be regretted, and expressing an anxious desire to concur in any ar rangements for the support of the company amid their difficulties. Application was made to Government for 32,5001 to meet the debentures, and this was granted on terms contained in the Act, which received the royal assent on the 26th of August. They state also that a Bill had been lately passed, bearing upon the Government of New Zealand, but differing in some respects from the memorials which had been addressed on behalf of the company to the Government. Lord Ingestre's letter of the sth May, 1845, suggested to Lord Stanley that the northern half of the northern island should be formed into one province, and that the remainder of the islands should be formed into a separate province, under a new company, having a proprietary charter, and that the company should be bound to grant to the colonists representative institutions within a year. The Act which had passed was based, however, on the principle of separate principal corpora. tions, having the same powers as borough corporations in England; separate permanenent provincial legislatures, distinct from those corporations, and one general legisla ture, having supreme legislative authority upon nine par ticular points, and upon these only. It had no reference to this company, or to any similar body. It had, however, met the views of the company and of the settlers. The details were under the consideration of the present Se cretary for the Colonies. The SECRETARY then read a series of resolutions adopting the report, and authorising the directors to borrow a sum not exceeding 100,0001. from the Consoli dated Fund, and A. Aglionby, Esq., M.P., and S. Marjori banks, Esq., to receive the sum of 32,5001 out of the said 100,0001., and to grant receipts for the same, and any two of the directors to receive any sum not exceed ing the remainder. In reply to a PROPRIETOR, The CHAIRMAN said, that the Government at first had granted a loan of 100,0001. on the security of the lands of the company, the company at that time expect ing to be able to pay their debentures out of their own proper profits. This month, however, debentures were coming due to the amount of 32,5001. in all ' • the land sales, throu g h un f ortunate circumstances, had ceased altogether,4and the company was utterly powerless. The question with the directors came to be, how they were to take up these debentures? It was in this position that they applied to Government. Iler Majesty's Ministers had determined to support the company in carrying out their prime objects, and had introduced a measure to make a relaxation in the terms of their first loan, and to give immediately 32,5001. to be applied for the purpose named. At the same time he (the Chairman) ought to state that this 32,5001. would not be diverted from the first objects of the company--- the purposes of colonisation ; for if the company should recover themselves, this sum would be repaid out of the proper profits of the company, and if not, then the unpaid calls, the surplus capital should be given in re payment of this sum. An HoN. PRopmETon. wished to know what amount of uncalled-for capital there was ? The CHAinmAN said the original amount was just 100,0001. An HON. PROPRIETOR wished to know whether this 100,0001. was in addition to the former 100,0001. ? The CHAIRMAN said the proprietors had given them power to borrow 100,0001., which they had exercised to the extent of 76,5001.; and this was an additional 100,0001 on lands, 20,0001. of it having already been got on the security of lands in Otaga and other settle ments. The present sum was on the security of about 100 millions of acres of land, and the repayment of this was to be, according to the arrangement, within three years. - After some further discussion, the resolutions were agreed to, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL. After a tedious and toilgme day's labour, the work men engaged at Constitution-hill, yesterday, succeeded in safely placing this groat statue on its pedestal. Up to three o'clock, they were engaged in making all the necessary arrangements, preparing all the machinery, regulating the tackle, windlasses, &c., and prope r ly affix ing the ropes and ca bl e slings by hich the immense mass was to be perpendicularly raised to the desired height. The ascent was accordingly commenced a little after that hour, and although Mr. Green, in the Nassau balloon, has often done the distance in &second, he could hardly accomplish it more surely. However, four hours had nearly elapsed before the statue had attained the requisite elevation, during which it hung like Mahomet's coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth, in, as it seemed to the minds of the spectators, a rather perilous position. Meantime the shades of evening were gathering round, and subsequently night fell in, and it appeased as though an adjournment of the proceedings sine die had occurred. The moon soon after rose, and though clouded in the commencement of her career, shone as brilliantly as a young moon could, about half -past eight. The riggers, who had for some time disappeared from the scaffolding, now again began to mount the ladders and " man the yards," and soon after, the large move able platform aloft, on which were the windlasses by which the statue was carried up, commenced its horizon tal locomotive efforts, and before nine o'clock the plat form, statue, and all, had been backed westward, and the precious burden fairly landed on its proposed site. Having viewed it then through the various disadvantages of imperfect moonlight, and intervening ropes and spars, we are the more confirmed in our impression that, so far from the statue being too large in its proportions for the arch, if anything, the arch is too large for the statue. But we honestly think the public will agree when a proper time and opportunity for judging have been allowed, that there could not be found in London a more magnificent position for such a noble work of art as that which the triumphal arch on Constitution-hill affords for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. A great concourse of visitors during the day, and to a late hour of the night, thronged the neighbourhood of Hyde Park-corner ; and indeed the end of the Green Park, near Grosvenor-place, presented more the appearance of a fair than anything else. SUICIDE AND DROWNlNG.—Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, the following melancholy occurrence took place off Chelsea, resulting in the death of two human beings. It appears that at the time just named a decently dressed young woman was observed walking on the banks of the river in a desponding state, when suddenly she jumped into the river. The act being seen by a young man of the name of Payne, who worked near the spot, he plunged into the water after her and suc ceeded in catching hold of her, but she struggled so fiercely that they both got out of their depth. Payne appeared to let go his hold, and the unfortunate woman disappeared. The man struggled hard to reach the shore, but in vain, and before assistance arrived he had sank, and shared the same fate as the female he had endeavoured to save. The bodies could not be found, it being nearly dusk at the time. THE DAGENHAM MuRDER.---Since the verdict in the above affair was returned, a number of active and intelligent officers of the police force have held fre quent communications on the necessity of adopting further measures to secure, if possible, the appre hension of the parties implicated in the brutal murder of poor Clarke. The result was, that the leaders in the movement forwarded to Scotland-yard a memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united expression of the sympathy of the force, by a general subseription for the purpose of offering a further re wad d for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedy at Dagenham, and requesting the opinion of the Com missioners as to the legality of such a course. A favour able answer was returned in reply, and the subscription is now in course of collection. To facilitate it, printed forms have been conveyed to all the station and section hous es. spondedto alacrity; that the ser geants will agree to a contribution of ss. and the subor dinates 2s. 6d. each, sums which, when the numerical strength of the force is considered, cannot fail to secure a munificent amount. IN.—Yesterday the New York packet-ship West minster, Captain lf. R. Hovey, one of the regular liners, left the St. Katharine Docks with 30 emigrants on , board, chiefly small farmers from the home counti es and 2.000 boxes of manufactured tin. This vessel will leave Portsmouth for New York to-morrow morning. A HEAVY WEIGIIT.—On Tuesday evening last, the celebrated " stout lady," Mrs. Armitage, who had been for some time exhibited here, was desirous to change her locality to Glasgow, and found her way for of the railway carriages were found sufficiently capacious that purpose to the terminus at flay W e i ghts; but none to admit her gi eat bulk; and after some consultation among the officials here it was found necessary, as the only alternative left, to put up a horse-box for the con veyance of the nearly 32 swine weight fem a l e , in w hi c h we understand she got safe* and comfortable to the ' west of the city."—Caledonian Mercury. Wrangles, Mauritius; her Majesty's ship Athol, Bermuda; England, Irving, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River, Eleanor, Barbadoes. Sld. Raritan, Adam, Balti more ; Republi c , T egelen, New York ; Windermere, Ross, Hobart Town • Tory, Young, Norfolk Island ; Medina, Napp, Batavia; Earl of Hardwicke, Wh ee l er, C alcutta; Rajasthan, Stewart, Bombay ; Mount Stewart Elphin s t one , H o l st i na, ditto; Thomas Jones, Hamilton, M aur i t i us; Lady Kenna way, Avery, Algoa Bay; Daphne, APlAlallan, ditto; Apame, Wilson, ditto; Ludlow, Watson, Jamaica; Helena, Living stone, Prince Edward's Island, with the reet of the outward bound, except the Alexandre and Thalia. LITERPOOL, SEPT. 30.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. St. George, Moore, Demerara • Aurora, Landeta, Havannah ; Cynthia Ann, Wooler, St. John's, New B runsw i c k ; S o b raon, O'Brien, Q ue b ec ; Britannia, Pictou ; Dreadnought steam tug, Dundrum Bay, with the cargo from the Great Britain steamer - Olinda, Thompson, P ugwas h . The Britannia steamer, arrived here from Boston, passed five vessels lying to, with loss of spars, sails, &c., on the 20th inst., in lat. 45, long. 57; and on the same day saw a brig with only lower masts and foreyard standing; on the 25th inst., in lat. 49, long. 31, passed a vessel under jury foremast, and with loss of maintopmast. The I. and M. Sinnot, Connor, from Tralee to Quebec, was abandoned, on the 23d instant, in lat. 48, lon. 31, dismasted, and on her beam-ends, and with nine feet water in the hold. The master, seven of the crew, and twenty passengers were taken off by the Lord Glenelg, which afterwards transferred the master to the Britannia steamer, the remainder of the crew and passengers were taken off by a French brig from St. Peters to Marseilles. The Britannia, Murray, from Parsborough, New South Wales, was abandoned on the 15th ult., in lat. 48, lon. 40; crew arrived at Boston. FAusourtr, Sart'. 2 9.—Wind N. to N.N.W. fresh.—Arrd. Petrel Packet, Rio Janeiro, with 20,0001., in gold and diamonds on freight. Sld. Ratcliff, Gilbert, Sydney, New South Wales. Dunux, SKrr, 28.—S1d. Sarah, Fletcher, St. John's. The Devonshire steamer took fire in the engine-room, but was put out with trifling damage. SIII-ELDs, SEPT. 30.—The sloop Betsy. and Isabella, of Perth, Robertson, pricked on an anchor 28th inst., ofl Wel lington quay, filled and sank; is being raised, and will be laid on the ground for repair. LAWS RELATING TO WRECK AND SALVAGE. With reference to " an Act for consolidating and amend ing the laws relating to Wreck and Salvage, Aug. 28, 1846," a " list of receivers of droits of Admiralty" has been posted at Lloyd's for the information of parties istetested in the subject, 4ARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) VAT MARXISTS. SMITHFDELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 103 to 31 18s; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 51; and Straw, 11 7s to 11 10s per load. Trade very dull, at drooping prices. CU MBERLAND.—IIIeadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 41; Clover ditto, 31 128 to 51; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 12s per load. Supply good, and trade exceedingly inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 41; Clover ditto, 31 15s to 5/ Os; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. A full average supply, and a heavy inquiry. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, SEPT. 30.—Pritne Sheep and Calves moved off steadily, at full prices. In all other kinds of stock com paratively little business was doing. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 10d to Os; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per Sibs. ROMFORD, SEPT. 30. The general demand was less active to-day than for some time past, yet we can notice no material alteration in the quotations. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 4s to ss; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; V ea l , 3s 10d to 4a 8d ; and P or k, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s; quarter-old store Pigs, 163 to 20s ; and Milah Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each. HAIL.SHAM, SEPT. 30.—We had a steady, though by no means active, demand to-day, at our quotations. Beef, from 38 to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s to Os 2d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 4d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, SEPT. 29.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 10d to Os ; Lamb, 53 to Os 6d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 4d per Blbs. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. CHICHESTER, 30.--The general demand was some what inactive, at late rates. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 4.3 to 5s 2d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 48 to 4s 4d per 81b4. Suckling Calves, 18s to 295; quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to IBs ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 1815 s each. --- NEIVTGATE AND LEADENHALL. Prime Mutton and Veal commanded a steady sale, at full prices ; otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Oct. 1, 1846, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. 1 WHEAT. I BAXLEY.' OATS. i BYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. DUTY... 533 Id 36s 10d 23s 7d 35s 7d 42s 7d 45s Od 6s pd 2s Od Is 6d 23 Od 23 Od 'ls Od rbtrl) Nbttton - p 18 3 4 NEWRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. —(THIS DAY.) A meeting of shareholders in this company was held to-day. at the London Tavern, for the purpose of con sidering the conduct of the directors, and adoptin g the means wreessary to protect their interests. Mr. CONQUEST, who was called to the chair , said that, like th emse l ves, he was an unfortunate shareholder. He had purchased shares, not certainly with a view of re taining, but before :obtaining them three months had elapsed, and he could not sell them.—(bear, hear.) He took upon himself to write to Enniskillen, to procure some information with reference to this line, and from the answers be had received it appeared that there was not a single shareholder in Enniskillen, though the line was from Newry to Enniskillen.—(Hear.) He had also received informaticn to the effect that the line would never be made.—(Hear.) He called on Mr. Speck man to take the steps which would be necessary to pro tect themselves in the matter, and he was glad to be able to state , that that gentl eman ' s e ff orts had been in part successful. He was very well satisfied with the conduct of the gentlemen at Blackburn.—(Hear.) A meeting of the shareholders had also been held at Liverpool, on the 28th instant. A report of the proceedings was in Mr. Spackman's possession, and would be submitted to the meeting. Mr. SPACHNAN read the report in question, which stated that the meeti ng was l arge and resp ectable, re ' presenting personally, or by proxy, nearly 6,000 shares. Resolutions approving the relinquishment of the line were passed, and much distrust of the directors was ex pressed, as well as a determination not to pay any more calls till the affairs of the company were better conducted. He then read his own report, which consisted chiefly of a correspondence that had taken place between him and the secretary of the company, and from which it appeared that the directors refused to comply with a requisition of shareholders to call a general meeting to be held in London. It further appeared that they had refused to comply with another requisition, request ing the directors to call an extraordinary meeting or the shareholders for the purpose of considering the measures to be adopted in the present state of their affairs, and tv suspend further calls. Some discussion ensued, after which it was agreed that a deputation of shareholders should wait on the di rectors to endeavour to make arrangements, which Mr. Spackman stated he believed might now be effected. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. (THIS DAY.) CLOSE OF THE THIRD DAY'S POLL. At three o'clock the polling of this, the third day, closed, and the following was announced to be the state of the poll : Mr. Alderman Wood. 924 Sir G. Carroll 5BO Mr. Alderman Hooper Mr. Alderman Farncomb 1 Mr. Alderman Moon 1 The two last announcements were received with great laughter. The hall was much more crowded than yesterday. After the announcement of the state of the poll had been made, the calls for Alderman Wood resounded from all parts of the hall. The worthy Alderman, however, gave way for Mr. ANDERTON, who wished to explain the reasons that had induced him to call for a poll on the part of Alderman Hooper. • A long and personal discussion then took place, which ended in Mr. Alderman WOOD calling upon the Livery to use all their exertions in his behalf, and the hall was then adjourned till to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock. DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN MAILS FOR OCTOBER. The following notice was issued yesterday at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, giving the dates on which the foreign mails will be made up at the chief office, London, and the dates on which the retarn packets are due at Southampton, Liverpool, and Fal mouth. INDIA, &c.—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, E g ypt, Ad en , C ey l on, India, Hong-Kong, and China, will be made up on the mornings or the 3d and 20th. The mails of the 3d %ill be forwarded by the Tagus steamer via' Southampton ; by the fortnightly closed mail to the Mediterranean, Egypt. India, &c., on the evenings of the 7th and 24th, via Marseilles. WEST INDIES, MADEIRA, &C.— The mails for the Bri tish and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras, Bermuda, and Havannah), Venezuela, and Madeira, will be made up on the mornings of the 2d and 27th; Mexico, Honduras, and Havannah, on the morn ing of the 2d only; and Bermuda, San Juan de Nica ragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the morning of the 17th instant. The mails of the morning of the 2d (to-morrow) will be forwarded by the Teviot steamer, via Southampton. Next packet due from the West Indies, Mexico, Havannah, &c., the Forth steamer, on the 7th, at Southampton. PENINSULAR.—The mails for Corunna, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Maderia (via Lisbon), Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th, to be forwarded via Southampton. Next packet due, the Madrid steamer, on the 6th, at Southampton. [The Peninsula steam packets will not call at Corunna, either on their outward or homeward voyage, during the winter months of November, December, January, February next, commencing from the 7th of November.] BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, &C.—The mails for Bri tish North America, Bermuda, and the United States will be made up on the evenings of the 3d and 17th. The mails of the evening of the 3d will be conveyed by the Caledonian steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. The Britannia steamer arrived on the 30th of September. BRAZILS, &c.—The mails for Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres will be made up on the evening of tho sth, and forwarded via F almouth. Ha Majesty's brig Peterel over due since the 28th of September. [From August to January * , kuclasive, the packet touches at 16 1 ,4 201,i 69 154 12 1 / 2 % P 34 3 / 4 3 / 4 P 3% % dis 39% 2 % . . . . . 3/6 3 / 4 1 3 4 p 10 1 4 4. 5 4 1% 1% 14 48 5 436 MAGAZINE DAY, BLACK WOOD. For a very eccentric and really valuable paper descriptive of a " Visit to the Vladika of Monte negro,'' we are grateful to Blackwood. Before perusal the title itself was an attraction, after perusal the contents formed a delightful compensation. The Vladika of Montenegro ! We can fancy nineteen out of twenty readers puzzling over the words— bewildered both as to the nature of the former, and the locality of the latter. Thousands, indeed, are ignorant of the character, and occasi ona ll y of the very existence, of certain secluded portions of this globe, and those portions not merely secluded by remoteness, as Sabrina Land or Patrocino, but secluded in central parts of Europe, and in the very nucleus of civilisa tion. Of the little principality of Montenegro, situated in European Turkey, bounded on the north by Herzegovina, on the south-east by Albania, and on the west by Dalmatia and the Adriatic, scarcely anything is known, excepting that its inhabitants are warlike barbarians, governed by an ecclesiastical prince. Traffic is maintained in all the surround ing countries ; vessels from all quarters of the globe float in the Venetian gulf; Zante and Corfu are separately the centres of mercantile transactions ; from the Levant to Lesbos, from Byzantium to the Danube, and thence to Carlstadt, the tide of inter course is constantly flowing, and yet, amidst the whirl of land-carriage and steam-ship, trader and traveller, the mountainous frontiers of Montenegro still remain uncrossed, and its people are left behind in the onward march of civilisation. There is something affecting in this moral and geographical isolation. A deep interest is aroused by the knowledge of the absence of all regenerative prospects to a section of the European population. Hence it is that the nar rative contained in the October number of Blackwood, being a description of the interior of this principality by a recent visitor, has exercised over ourselves such a peculiar fascination. Leaving the Austrian gar rison town of Cattaro, the writer, as one of a large and miscellaneous party, entered the territories of the Greek bishop, or Vladika of Montenegro, and was hospitably received by that potentate in his capital city of Zet tinie. The description of the country and its com munity, given in the narrative of this interesting ex pedition, is most agreeable from its naturalness and vivacity. According to the eye-witness himself, the frontiers of Montenegro are so peculiarly precipitous and rugged, as to be rendered by nature absolutely impregnable ; the soil is scantily scattered over solid rocks, and is so singularly barren as to require the utmost industry to extort from it a meagre crop of grain ; the Montenegrini are a hardy and gigantic race, averaging upwards of six feet in height, armed to the teeth even in moments of temporary tran quillity. The women are subjected to the most un mannerly customs, being compelled to engage in agri cultural and manufacturing pursuits, as well as in household duties, while their husbands and brothers are occupied in a ceaseless and predatory warfare, now in one direction, now in another. The character given by our narrator of the reigning Vladika is singularly prepossessing. Of enormous proportions, measuring indeed considerably more than seven feet in his stockings, this warlike bishop attests even in his personal appearance the dignity of his position ; though surrounded by rude and illiterate subjects, he betrays remarkable intelligence, and through the instrumentality of the " übiquitous Galignani " preserves an intimate knowledge of all the occurrences which are transpiring beyond the precincts of his dominions. Invested with despotic power even from his eighteenth year, the Vladika i s nevertheless charact er i se d b y a marked amenity in his deportment and a winning affability in conversa tion. Upon the parapets of the tower overlooking Zettinie the writer observed a striking testimony of the lack of refinement among the Montenegrini, namely, a multitude of human heads impaled on staves, the heads of those followers of Islamism slain in battle, and against which people the semi-bar barous, semi-religious subjects of the Vladika wage an eternal and relentless warfare, bearing before them in their bloody expeditions their national banner—the peaceful cross of Christianity ! The contemplation of these facts inspires us with the hope that some endeavours may be ultimately made to modify the condition of a people so valorous and zealous as the Montenegrini—a hope that some external or internal force may, in the end, conduce to the political and social re-organsation of these mountaineers, that peace and domestic happiness may replace the bloodshed and uncivilised habits to which they have been hitherto accustomed. Far opening to their contemplation a region so unnoticed as this principality of Montenegro, the readers of Maga will be indebted to its contributor. The trans. lation of Schiller's fantastic and glorious "Dance," though elegant and new, is not worthy of a moment's comparison with the masterly translation given in this same magazine some years back from the pen of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. "Around thee in vain the word its harmonies utters, If thy heart be not swept on in the stream of the strain," is a golden version of a golden original. There are seven delicious poems from the portfolio of Miss Barrett in this number. One of them "A Man's Requirements," is an exquisite adjuration—spoiled by no forced conceits, but welling up with music and eloquence from the fountains of the heart. What a world of trysting memories are stored in that simple verse:— "Love me with thine hand stretched out Freely—open-minded ! • Love me with thy late, ing foot-- Hearing one behind it." What strange but exceeding beauty there is in those lines upon "A Dead Rose :" " The sun that used to light thee, And mix his glory in thy gorgeous urn, Till beam appeared to bloom, and flower to burn— If shining now—with not a hue would dight thee. " The dew that used to wet thee, And, white first, grow incarnardined, because It lay upon thee where the crimson was— If dropping now—would darken where it met thee. " The fly that lit upon thee, To stretch the tendrils of its tiny feet Along the leaf's pure edges after heat— If lighting now—would coldly overrun thee. " The bee that once did suck thee, And build thy perfumed ambers up his hive, And swoon in thee for joy till scarce alive— If passing now—would blindly overlook thee." " Maude's Spinning" is a plaintive tale, told with the most simple, and hence the most touching, pathos, in seven brief verses. Miss Barrett has an intense love for nature—who can doubt it after her exulting allusion to those young clays— " When the sun and I together Went a-rushing out of doors!" Sbe regards the veriest leaf as a jewel, she invests the grass and the flower-stalks with a glory more lasting than their own, and " the green blood dancing in their veins" finds a sympathy flowing in her bosom. Hence it is that she can apostrophise them with such a tender reminiscence : " Oh, the birds, the trees, the ruddy And white blossoms, sleek with rain! Oh, my garden, ri c h with pansies! Oh, my childhood's bright romances! All revive, like Hector's body, And I see them stir again!" "Elinor Travis" is concluded, and that with some vigorous writing. A capital bit of pleasantry is, "A New Sentimental Journey," and would have tickled the ribs of that pensive hypocrite, Lawrence Sterne himself. " The Conde's Daughter" is anotherzead able tit-bit,—one of those bits of literary comfits and barley-sugar Christopher North has such an insinuating wayof placing on the public palate. "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands" is a contribution which will be devoured with more relish, possibly, than any other at this particular season, when Egg and Manton have" marched forth upon the heather. To " Letters and Impressions from Paris " we can moreover refer every one with a confidence of its wiling away the next wearisome half-hour. It is a trip to the French metropolis without the perils of rail and steam-boat. In this admirable number of Blackwood, however, commend us to the " Vladika of Montenegro." F.RA SE R. The opening article of Fraser on the " Commercial Relations of the Indian 'Archipelago," is one which our enterprising merchants and manufacturers will read with great interest. There can be little doubt but that our new settlement at Labuan will become a second Singapore, opening up to us the commerce of the vast Indian Archipelago, containing, in the opinion of the Orientals, upwards of 12,000 islands, which, stretching eastward from the Straits of Malacca to beyond the longitude of Torres Straits, constitutes one of the richest and most extraordinary divisions of Asia, inhabited by a race fond of commercial pur suits, anxious to exchange the rich products of the islands (camphor, spices, gold, and jewels) for British manufactures, and who, in consequence of the destructio l g of the piratical establishments of the Sul tan of Borneo by the British fleets, will be enabled to pursue their vocations in comparative peace. The writer expresses a hope that the establishment at La buan may influence even the piratical subjects of the Sultan of Borneo and the savage inhabitants of the interior to substitute industry for the practices of barbarism, when they shall find commerce more per manently profitable than piracy and war. That such will at no distant period be the case, is rendered ex ceedingly probable by what we know has taken place in Mr. Brooke's territory, at Sarawak : " Already in Mr. Brooke's territory of Sarawak we behold the Dyaks actuated by a strong desire to accumu late wealth ; and though they have not yet relinquished their savage propensity to destroy the member of a neighbouring tribe in order to possess his cranium, it is quite clear that they are yielding to the softening in. kluences of civilisation, and adopting gentler and more amiable manners. " As yet, perhaps, it may be somewhat too early to attempt their conversion on a grand scale, and, in fact, we agree with Afx,,Brooko, thnt moral and political in-, NG, OCTOBER 1, 1846 fluences should rather be employed to prepare converts for the Gospel, which is the reverse of the practice hi therto observed throughout the world, than that the Gospel, which was never intended to perfiirm any such service, should be converted into the mere pioneer of the state. No doubt when men, whether savage or civilised, have received into their minds the truths of religion, and endeavoured to bring their conduct into harmony with its dictates, they become better citizens, because necessarily more averse to the practice of injustice, whe ther in themselves or others. But truth addresses itself to the understanding, and cannot profitably be accepted by men blindly, and on the same grounds as a fable. They must know what they believe and why they be lieve it, otherwise, not being able to give a reason for the faith that is in them, they are no better than idola ters, though their opinions should, peradventure, be orthodox. We would by all means convert the heathen everywhere throughout the world, but we would ap proach their minds through the avenues, apparently con structed for that purpose by Providence, and having conducted them up to the high platform of truth, would compel them to come in by that sweet and gentle com pulsion to which honest and ingenuous men most readily submit." This theory of Mr. Brooke that the merchant should be the pioneer of the missionary is certainly novel, but it is worthy of serious consideration, and the reasons which he urges in its favour are certainly very cogent. The writer is of opinion that at the close of the Chinese war a mission should have been sent to Japan, to endeavour to establish commercial relations with that empire; and he thinks that the establishment of our colony at Labuan is a still more favourable opportuniy of doing so, which ought not to be neglected : " The Japanese will distinctly perceive that commerce, not conquest, is our object, since, instead of appropri ating to ourselves, as we might, whole provinces on the mainland, which, by right of treaty, are ours, we con tent ourselves with the possession of a diminutive island, barely large enough to hold our warehouses and our public edifices, and to supply exercising ground for our military and naval officers. "So unequivocal a proof of moderation cannot pos sibly be thrown away upon them. 'While its effects are fresh, therefore, we should send a commercial mission to Jedo, conceived on a statesmanlike plan, and carried out with consummate prudence and caution. It would be desirable to inspire the Japanese Government with deep respect for our maritime power, without insinuating at the same time the least desire to overawe them by its display. Though doing things on a grand scale, we should be thought to do nothing extraordinary, but only , to be unostentatiously exhibiting the grandeur charac teristic of our manner of acting. For this purpose we would have a first-rate line-of-battle ship, the noblest in the navy, sent on the service, accompanied by a frigate and steamers of the greatest possible rapidity and beauty. They could not be better employed. For what is it that we purpose to effect with them ? Nothing less than the throwing open to our commerce of a new market, less rich and vast, indeed, than that of the Indian Archi- pelago, but still in itself most extensive and opulent, and at present enjoyed by none, since Holland, with its paltry establishment at Nangasaky, cannot properly be said to trade with Japan at all." At all events the experiment is worth trying, and by perseverance we doubt not that we should be enabled to enter into such commercial relations with the Japanese as cannot but be infinitely advantageous to both parties. The article entitled Ham House in the Days of the Cabal" contains some pleasant reminiscences of the days of Charles 11., when Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderlade (the notorious Cabal), were v‘ont to as• semble at Ham House, near Richmond (late the resi dence of the Countess of Dysart), and plot the ruin of their country. Our old Friend Colonel Mitchell makes a furious onslaught against the critics, who having ventured to exprcss a doubt whether, after all, Nap o l eon was not a greater man than Colonel Mitchell, are, according to the colonel's idea, as ignorant of the art of criticism as the Emperor was of the art of war. The choler of the colonel is particularly excite , ' against a writer in "a respectable Whig journal," for accusing him of "scientifically trying to prove that Napoleon ou g ht to have been (tweeted." , The colonel declares in reply, that " he has never paid so much homage to modern science as to appeal to any of its maxims, 'and indignantly repels the charge of being scientific as a gross calumny. For once we agree with the colonel. " Retrospective Gleanings" are a series of piquant sketches of some of the celebrities who were assem- bled in the French capital in 1817. Those of Talley rand, Suchet, Cuvier, the Chevalier Langles are dashed off with a free pencil, while poor Colton, the author of "Lacon "—a man more sinned against than sinning, who during his lifetime was never pro perly appreciated—is drawn at full length. The Bobadil German Baron, and the intriguing Portu guese Secretary are also admirable portraits. We hope the author has not yet exhausted his gallery. Mr. Wakley and Dr. Bowring are the contemporary orators. Full justice is done to the thoroughly English qualities, the shrewd mother-wit, the admirable tact, the strong common sense, and the immovable sincerity of purpose of the former, while upon the latter the author has been somewhat too severe. " What is thought of our Commercial Policy on the Continent ?" is the title of the political article of this number. The author admits that the thinking men of the Continent all admire the free trade policy adopted by this country, and that the people are all prepared to follow it. To the adoption of that policy he attributes the cessation of the war. cry among the people of France ; but he considers that, as the Continental Governments dread being forced by their people to adopt free-trade measures, they will be more inclined than they have been to go to war with England, in order to stop the spread of free-trade opinions. " The Memoirs of the Shetlanders" are continued ; and we have, besides, a mashing critique on " Morell's History of Modern Philosophy," a spirited account of a boar hunt in Brittany; and the commencement of a novel entitled " the Rector's Daughter." :I'2ll T. A pleasant and susceptible nature has George Gilfillan, and admirably does he evince these charac teristics of his disposition with independence of taste, originality of illustration, and uncommon vigour of language. His pencil in the present number of Tait is devoted to the portraiture of Leigh Hunt. Every one who has ever revelled over the bonliommie of the "Indicator," who has mused over the pensiveness of "Rimini," who has smiled with a sensation between that of pleasure and derision while partaking of the .“ Feast of the Poets," who has thrown down upon the ground with' scornful impetuosity that miserable ebullition of spleen and vanity, entitled "Byron and his Contemporaries," will refer to this contribution with curiosity. The writer has discriminated the pervading subtleties of the nature of Leigh Hunt ; he has shown him, as he really is, a being of " elegant and airy littleness," but no literary mastodon. He has depicted with faithful accuracy the genial dispo sition of Hunt, his natural gentleness and suavity, his predisposition to think well and speak well of all created things, his enduring love for freedom of thought and for the mental irresponsibility of each man to his neighbour. In looking at the sunny side of his theme Gilfillan has given us a kind of instinctive Daguerreotype--he has eulogised the eternal smile which seems to pervade the writings of Hunt, and has defined with a very singular felicity the many amiable phases of that author's character. But' in the antithesis of that same character be has seen nothing scarcely but a blank, and has consequently there spoken little to the purpose. He has failed to recognise in Leigh Hunt that intellectual, or rather moral chiaroscuro which imparts to his name such a mournful individuality. Mr. Gilfillan has not recog nised the concavity, while he has fully appreciated the convexity. He sees everything to admire in the conservation of Shelley's friendship, and in the imprisontnent for political independence, but he sees scarcely anything worthy of reprobation in covering the memory of a dead benefactor with contumelies! We cannot possibly coincide with this contributor to Tait in regarding an act of such remarkable turpitude with anything approaching to lenity. In the dark some and pathetic glory which invests the closing scenes of the career of Lord Byron, the recollection of that base " stab in the dark" from a hand which had been grasped in that of the traduced stands forth still with the same aspect of callous and impassive cruelty. Time may have weakened the public ex pressions of indignation, but time can never, as long as the memory of that incident endures, lessen the public sense of indignation. We should have ab stained from commenting upon a passage in the his tory of letters so debasi ng an d so i rre d eema b ly v i le as this, but that Mr. Gilfillan has endeavoured to cast fresh obloquy upon the glorious but mournful memory of Byron, where another was alone culpable. It is not by attempting to scoff at the chivalrous undertaking of that great but fallen man for the regeneration of Greece, it is not by attempting to deride that beautiful and adventurous scheme that the celebrity of Leigh Hunt can be cleansed from a tarnish more lasting than the blood-gouts upon the fingers of Lady Macbeth! It is not by calling the withering ari , deadly irony of Th omas M o b re mere " i nso l ence , that ingratitude can be erased from the pages of " Byron and his Contemporaries." Though we can not, of course, expect the ma x im, " D e mor ta l s nil nisi bonum" to be acceded to in biography, and history, and criticism, we nevertheless look for the practice of its, twin adage, " De mortuis nil nu? verum." No one expected Leigh Hunt to com promise the acknowledged independence of his cha racter - by penning an eulogium upon the extraor dinary man who perished at Dlissolonglii ; but no one, at the same time, a n ti c i pa t e d suc h an outpouring of acidity and effervescence upon a heart that was stilled for ever, and a brain that bad lost its sentience. Enough of this, however. The political article ap pended to the October number of nil is dictated in a tone of most unwelcome and inapposite flippancy, and, beyond this, inmost coarse and careless in its selection of adjectives. We are by no means inclined to be over fastidious literary prudery is, in fact, most especial abhorrence ; b u t w h en we fi nd this writer in Tat Magazine comparing the L unfortunate SIR A. BONN YCASTLE'S WORK ON CANADA. TO TH.E EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—Last evening's Sun stated that Sir Richard Bonn) castle is abOut to write upon the Canadas in 1i46, and that he has said that the English, and particularly the Irish, emigrants are deceived respecting Canada. How are they deceived ? What are the official duties of Sir Richard Bonnycastle ? I am, Sir, yours respectfully, INTENDING EMIGRANT. Portland-road, Sept. 30, 1846. [Sir R. Bonnycastle is, we believe, the Surveyor- General of the colony. Our Correspondent must wait for the appearance of the work in order to learn exactly how the emigrants have been deceived.—En. SuNl. The weaving of Brussels carpets, coach-lace, terry velvets, and similar fabrics, hitherto only practicable by manual labour, and at a considerable cost of money and time, is now about to undergo a complete revolution, by the introduction of power looms, invented by Mr. Sievier, F.R.S., by means of which the use of the wires hitherto indespensable in this sort of weaving is done away with. In the old method of weaving it was neces sary, in order to form each series of terrys or loops that extend the whole breadth of the fabric, to introduce a wire while weaving, and after the loop was formed over the wire to draw it out. By Mr. Sievier's process the loop is formed by a simple arrangement of the machinery, so much so, as to reduce the expense of production nine tenths of its present cost. It is unnecessary to state that the public w ill derive great advantage by this inventicn. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, will shortly go to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey to inspect the for tifications of those dependencies. His Grace arrived at Walmer Castle on Saturday evening from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and has only a small circle staying there, among whom are the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot and Lady Charles Wellesley. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are expected to arrive at Weimer Castle about the 20th inst. from Germany. DEATH OF EARL WALDEGRAVE.—We have to an nounce the death of Lord Waldegrave, which took place on Monday last at the family seat in Somersetshire. Leaving no family, the noble deceased is succeeded by his uncle, the Hon. Captain Waldegrave, R.N., C. 8., now the Earl Waldegrave, whose eldest son, Viscount Chewton, married Miss Pym, and his daughter, Lady Maria, married William Brodie, Esq., second son of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. George Edward Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave, county of Northampton, Viscount Chewton, and Baron Walde grave, of Chevvton, in the county of Somerset, anda baronet, was born Feb. 8, 1816; he succeeded his father as seventh Earl, 30th July, 1835; married 28th Sep tember, 184(), Frances Elizabeth Anne, daughter o John Braham, Esq., and widow of John James Henry Waldegrave, Esq. The family name was anciently written Walgrave ; it is derived from a place in North amptonshire, aed we find so far back as the year 1205, John de Walgrave serving the office of Sheriff of London. The pl.( sent tarl was born in 1788, and mar ried on 10th August, 1812, Elizabeth, eldest daughter ..f the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq., who died March 1, 1843. DEATH Or LORD MOUNT SANDFORD.—We have to announce the demise of this Irish Peer, who expired on Friday morning last, at Stowey, Somersetahire, at the extreme old age of ninety years. The deceased George Sandford Baron Mount Sandford, of Casticrea, county Roscommon, in the peerage of Ireland, was fourth son of Mr. Henry Sandford, by the Hon. Sarah Moore, eldest daughter of Stephen, first Viscount Moustcashel. He was born May 10, 1756, and sueeeeded his nephew Henry, second Lord, who was brutally killed in a riot at Windsor, on the 14th June, 1828. The late venerable Peer was unmarried. His brother, Henry Moore Sand ford, was created a Peer of Ireland in 1800, with re mainder in default of male issue to his brother and their male descendants. On the death of the late Lord's nephew, before alluded to, the title and family estates devolved, according to the limitation of the patent, to the deceased. His Lordship had retired from public life for a long series of years. He was formerly in the army, having held the commission of captain in the 18th Dragoons, and subsequently represented Roscommon in Parliament. By his Lordship's death the title becomes extinct, and the estates of his Lords Lip in Ireland revert, we believe, to his nieces, Mrs. Wills and Mrs. Pakenham, the latter lady being wife of the Hon. and Venerable Archdeacon Pakenham. DEATH OF BARONESS MUSKERRY.—After a short illness, and in the prime of life, on the 25th inst., in lifer- Hon-square, to the overwhelming affliction of her sor rowing family, and the deep regret of all who knew her, Louisa, Baroness Muskerry, of Springfield Cattle, in the county of Limerick.—Dublin Evening Mail. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OLD CITY SERVANT.— Mr. Payne held an inquest yesterday, at the Sugar Loaf, Great St. Helen's, on the body of Joseph Bruce, aged sixty-eight. The deceased had been for thirty years a servant at the Mansion-house, and was recently gatekeeper at the Royal Exchange. On Tuesday last, while walking along Gracechurch-street, he burst a blood-vessel in the lungs, and died in five minutes. Ver dict, "Natural death." GREAT STEEPLE CHASE MATCH FOE ONE THOUSAND POUNDS.-A steeple chase match has been made between a Noble Earl, connected with the turf, and J. R. Corn wall, Ebq., the conditions of which are, that both parties shall, in the month of December next, ride a four mil) steeple chase match over the Maiket Harborough country for 5004 a•sido ; Mr. Cornwall to have the choice of time and place; horses to be bona fide their own property. PEDESTRIANISM.—J. ROBINSON AND C. BOO K .— The anxiously looked•for struggle between these " flyers" took place yesterday on the Walsall road, about three miles from Birmingham. It will be recol lected that James Robinson, late of Hucknell, but now of London, known as " Caunt's Pet," was matched, for 251. a side, to run 120 yards with Book, of Stafford, whose fame stands A 1 among his local friends. At half-past two the men showed on the ground, a beauti rul level bit of sound earth, at the top of an acclivity, the rain having delayed the match to that hour. They started from the fall of a handkerchief, Robinson getting off with a lead, which at sixty yards he had increased to a couple of strides ; at a hundred Book had stolen a march upon him, and was within a yard, and the race terminated by Robinson getting home first by a foot only. The betting fluctuated strangely. A little before :he race 5 and 6 to 4 was talked of on Book ; at the ground a level 1001. was laid ; and at starting 5 to 4 was )ffered on Robinson. STOPPAGE OF CITY Tnonononnums.--Yesterday a notice was issued at the Office of Sewers, that during the month of October thefollowing thoroughfares will bo stopped, viz., Lawrence Pountney-hill, Lawrence Pount ney-Jane, Duck's-foot-lane, Cloak-lane, Bell-yard, Grace church-street, Little Bush-lane, Bride lane, Poppin's court, Hosier-lane, Shoe-lane, and Old Fish-street, during the formation of sewers. THE JEWISH " WHITE FAlT."—Yesterday was observed by the Jews as a fast, being what is called " The White Fast." By an Act of Parliament of last session Jews are to be subject to the same laws as Pro testant Dissenters, in respect to schools and places of• tvOrshin. young Queen of Spain with a certain lady of Baby lon, who shall be nameless, we conceive that the proprieties of a free press are, to a very great extent, violated. Mere nicknames and scurrilities are ieuddy weapons of assault, which stick to the hands of those by whom they are employed, without injuring, in the slightest particular, the person against whom they were intended to be ejected. The writer in this periodical is aroused to indignation by the match making schemes of his Majesty King Louis Philippe. Nor when the diplomatic chicaneries of Count de Bresson are remembered can this indignation cause any astonishment. Instead, however, of battling the question of this alliance with logic, or of employing even the shadow of an argument, the writer proceeds with a rather reprehensible alacrity to assail the cha racters, and to vituperate upon the policy of the Or leans family. The King himself " only differs from a tallow-chandler in having to do with ministerial portfolios, &c."—he " has the smirk of a mercer or I man-milliner showing off his wares." The Queen, again, is derided—and for what ? Why, for her piety! Her Majesty has committed no public griev ance ; but, simply because the recent proceedings of the French Government are distasteful, Queen Aine lia—one of the gentlest, least offensive, and most angel-hearted of sovereigns —must be scoffed at as a psalm-singer, an d a " patroness o f missions to the Heathen." We deeply deplore the appearance of such sentiments in the columns of our enlightened and liberal contemporary. The talent and the gene rous freedom of opinion in Tait's Magazine always elicits our esteem, and hence we are the more earn estly grieved at such little ebullitions as the fore going: they are not consonant with the high character already acquired by that publication. It was upon a precisely similar principle that the imperial family of France was traduced in lampoons, and even lengthy calumnies, about the commencement of the present century. It was in such a false and ungenerous spirit that a work, in several volumes, intitled "The Revo lutionary Plutarch," was published by Mr. J. Murray, crammed with the most barefaced lies, and with the grossest insinuations—a book in which the princes of the imperial family, from the Emperor Napoleon himself downwards, were aspersed as ruffians and cut-throats, and the princesses as "no better than they should be." We mourn these unwarrantable modes of expressing annoyance at any national pro ceeding. We have, as the readers of The Sun are already perfectly conscious, no sympathy whatever with the recent machinations of the French Ambassador at Madrid, but, at the same moment, we see no utility in any dereliction of propriety in the manner of protesting against those machinations. Mrs. Gore pursues her new fiction, " Temptation and Atonement" with a vivacity most propitious and a fancifulness most alluring. We are not presented with the lees of a mind exhausted by incessant exer tion ; a new vintage of romance seems to be opened with the story of which these chapters are the con tinuation. An article on " Trees" is a delightful and cut ions composition, but the idea seems to have been suggested by a very similar contribution, published many months back in the Dublin University Magazine, and hence its novelty is rather detracted from. It may, nevertheless, be an unintentional plagiarism. " The Belle" is a clever and lively sketch, sparkling as champagne, but not more heady than the juice of gooseberries. " The World a Sepulchre," and " The Field of Morat" are charming and nervous verses, and are worthy of a nook in Tait's Magazine. Other contributions of superior and inferior merit make up the average bulk of this sterling periodical.