The Sun. — London, England, 1837-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of James Chaplin, and the jury returned a verdict of wil ful murder against George Smith, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards. The foreman intimated that the jury had wished him to express a strong protest against the improper practice of allowing soldiers to wear side arms ; and it certainly does seem strange that soldiers, when off duty, should be allowed to wear deadly wea pons. If gentlemen were led to discontinue the prac tice of wearing swords, from a conviction that no man ought in his moments of excitement to have constantly at hand a deadly weapon (and Dr. Johnson, we be lieve, states that the fatal affair in a tavern, in which a man fell by the hand of Savage, contributed greatly to produce this conviction), surely there is much more reason to be apprehensive of the discretion of men in the station of soldiers in their quarrels. In this coun try the army is not recruited from sober and prudent men, but generally from men of strong passions and little prudence, who are driven by indiscretion to what is considered the last resource of desperation. The circumstances under which the army is re cruited are assigned as the reason why the prac tice of flogging cannot be discontinued. And yet men of this class, at all times prover bially reckless, and, under intoxication, particu larly prone to quarrel, are to be suffered to wear mortal weapons, while gentlemen, who are in the habit of putting a rein on their actions, have discontinued the practice. After the fatal affair at Woolwich, some years ago, in which a poor woman was stabbed by a marine, an end ought to have been put to this nui sance. Hardly a day passes in which soldiers, in their drunken quarrels, do not draw their bayonets ; and though the results may seldom be fatal, yet the public ought not to be kept in a constant state of alarm on this account. Some of our Contemporaries attribute the determination of the heads of the army to the Machiavelian policy of breeding hatred between the soldiers and the people, but we attribute it to no such deep design. We are inclined to believe that there is really nothing more at the bottom of the determination than a piece of silly affectation. It is thought, no doubt, that to refuse to make any concession to a de mand, however just, of the people, is a proof of spirit. Of this the people may rest assured, that if they do not take the matter seriously up, they will continue to be exposed to the insults of soldiers armed with bayo nets. The Horse-Guards may be inclined to capitu late after a few murders, especially if public indignation be roused by the loss of some individual of considera tion. As Chaplin is merely a poor man, it is probable that this matter will have no result.—Morn. C'hronicle. A Ministerial print was pleased to declare, a night or two ago, that "the Queen is with the kingdom, and the Court with the country." Plain people, we ac knowledge, may fail to hit the meaning of this ver biage ; hut being somewhat conversant with the Sphere from whence it emanates, we venture to say (what is rather rare in that quarter) that one of two interpretations is all it admits of—either that her Majesty, concurring with her ancient Protestant kingdoms of England and Scotland, condemns the O'Connell Government ; or that, in opposition to the British coestituency and the House of Peers, our liege Lady, siding with a Popish minority of her subjects, considers Ireland alone as constituting her " kingdom and country." To the former of these hypotheses we 'yield, of course, our ready assent ; not merely because we deem it to be more honourable to the Crown, but because we have every reason to hope it is more con sistent with fact. The people of Great Britain, con stituting an overwhelming, majority of her Majesty' subjects, have ircently given allistinct and emphatic deliverance on all the great political questions of the day. They were asked to do this by the o*Conne:l Ministry, and they have done it under all the influential appliances that could be em ployed to bias their honest sentiments by the official dispensers of patronage. Pensioners, with their incomes in abeyance, were reminded that the civil list niioit possibly undergo a revision. Purveyorships to the Queen were hung up to he played snap-dragon with all over the kingdom. A heavy file was kept up by the Ordnance and Admiralty, both upon garriNon towns and naval dockyards. Our mAiden Monarch was subjected to the indignity of signing the me inerable Mulgrave letter, which, though purporting to be only a written character ill tavuur of a sus.peettd servant, was confessedly put forth to answer the pur pose of a successful " electioneering squib." Lord Durham and Lord John Russell were simultaneously coganed in the same enterprise : the one saying to the Givc up ;" and the other to the South. " Kerp not back." Now, although the grand object of this combined effort was undeniably to persuade F.:nglishinen that the political predilections and inte rests of the Queen were identical with those of her Whig controllers, the failure of the conspiracy has been in exact proportion to its impudence and base ness. The British constituency have shown by their election returns, that the habitual " postponement of truth" which a Radical journal imputed to O'Connell is, in their opinion, equally chargeable upon his Cabinet tools. The Ministerial cant of " vote for the Queen," as implying a request to vote for the Mi nistry, has been scouted in every Protestant district of the country ; and if anything could show more clearly than another the shameful indifference of the Whigs to her Majesty's popularity, the fact of their havin g identiti,..d her august name with such exch.] par tisanship (as if they are to be believed) must lead to the conclusion that Great Britain has actually declared against her, is sufficient to demonstrate it to every unprejudiced mind. But no—the shrewdness of our countryme n in detecting Whig artifices is at least eqUalled by their generous and confiding loyalty. Exonerating their youthful Sovereign from all conni vance in the scandalous uses that were made of the Royal authority, they have voted throughout the greater part of these Protestant realms in the perfect convic tion that her Majesty is a Conservative, and an enemy to democratic innovations. They have accordingly returned a House of Commons as much as possible to the Queen's mind. The British counties and boroughs have. elected a constitutional majority deci dedly opposed to that wretched faction from whose fet ters the Royal captive is panting to be emancipated. Her subjects generally desire to set her free. We therefore agree with our Contemporary, that " the Queen is with the kingdom ;" and more than this, we will gratify him by adding, that her redemption draweth nigh. But as it is probable that the meaning we have thus put upon the writer's expressions may be not exactly such as he and his employers will like to own, we now submit for their adoption the only other interpretation of which those expressions are susceptible. " The kingdom" which he speaks of, though not excluding Ireland, is generally understood to comprise Great Britain, as by far its larger section. Nobody can deny however, that Ireland is also a kingdom, as part of Victoria's united dominions. Now, observe how the case stands. The constituency of this country and the Popish majority in Ireland are divided on sundry great questions ; the former proceeding on enlightened prin. ciple, because they are educated ; the latter being the dupes of priests and demagogues, because, in the ab sence of mental or moral training, they are the un reasoning and unresisting victims of Papal imposture. But on no question are the two sides of the channel more thoroughly at variance than whether the O'Con nell Ministry be entitled or otherwise to the confidence of the public. Considering the insatiable demands of Popish aggression, especially as illustrated in the case of Belgium, whose Romanist population would never rest till they had thrown off their allegiance to a Pro testant Govern ment , t h e people of Gr eat Britain, per ceiving that the analogous elements of disruption between Ireland and this country are so fostered and fomented by Whig policy that the repeal of the Union is the only consistent and inevitable terminus to the existing system of clamour and concession, have shown their disgust at the Melbourne Administration, and have ignominiously blackballed it. On the other hand the papists and priests of Ireland, convinced that the joint Cabinet of O'Connell and Lord Mel bourne is securing to them every thing they can wish, have declared that that Cabinet is the very best they have yet seen. If, then her gracious Majesty be not with her British subjects in the view they take of this matter, it follows, as a matter of course, that she is with her Popish ones ; and if, notwithstanding our pre ceding reasonings, it is still argued that the " Queen (as a supposed supporter of 0:Con nt .11) is with the king dom," then the predicament in wlaic h our C on t emporary places her Majesty is just this , that the Royal Lady, adopting Ireland as her only and exclusive kingdom, is prepared to spite the resolutiontl, and throw off the allegiance of her loyal British sub jects. Such is a spe cimen of the counsel and suppotrt which Victoria re ceives from the Whigs. If absurdity or infamy can be found deeper than this, we at hvaitt have no plumb to fathom it. Whether the logic or ?atriotism of the Pal merston journalist be most worthy,. 'of admiration, we are at a loss to say. He is said to plume himself upon both !—Times. " Prove your grievance," said Sir Robert Peel, when he had not the honesty to grant, nor the hardi hood to deny, the claims of Reform—" prove yoer grievance," echoes the Times, and re-echoes the whole gang of Tories when they wish to conceal their hos tility to popular rights, under pretence of a desire to abolish all recognised abuses in our institutions— " prove your accusation," excla;,ms the conscience-con vict when he "fancies that, from want of evidence, pro fessional quibble, or legal su'btlety, he may escape the penalty of his offences ; and throughout every fraternity of political and social knavery the cry for redress and justice is ever sought to be defeated by an evasive de mand for proofs in demonstration of the wrong. To witness the air of confident insolence and affected indig nation with which the Tories vociferate " prove your " grievance," one unaccustomed to their subterfuges and devices might be induced to believe that our laws had attained perfection, or that it would require micros copic powers of vision to detect a flaw or defect in the statute-book ; that, in fact, the offer of the Tories to remedy abuses was merely given to appease the cla mour of a few malcontents, and not in expectation of being ever called upon to fulfil their promise—the Constitution being already considered to be without blemish. And such is in fact the view which the Tories take, and intend should be taken, of our institutions, when they profess themselves ready and desirous to effect all necessary ameliorations. To state unequivocally that our institutions are perfectly free from abuses and need no improve ment, would be a falsehood too repulsive to common perception and common sense, and too monstrous to be digested by the British people, as was experienced by the Duke of Wellington, when he dared to as sert in his place in the House of Lords, to the amaze ment of Europe and indignation of England, that the rotten-borough House of Common: was the per fection, the ne plus ultra of human wisdom—that the ingenuity of man could not devise a more perfect system of legislation. The effect produced by this daring assertion was such as to make the Tories ever since shrink from exhibiting themselves in their true colours—the enemies of all Reform. It is not to the leading measures of Reform only they are hos tile : they are actuated by a common sympathy which, even at the removal of the slightest wrong, makes every Member of their unholy fraternity thrill with apprehension for the safety of that abuse in which he is more immediately interested. Such is at heart the feeling of every genuine Tory, however concealed under false professions, or disguised by such seem ingly honest demands as " prove your grievance." To this demand we have only to reply circumspice. Those who can look at the mass of injustice and evil accumulated on the statute-book, and the machinery which gives it operation, the condition of the plun dered peasantry of Ireland, and the burdens despoti cally imposed on the people in all divisions of the empire—taxation without due representation, the ex orbitant exactions of the Church, the equally enormous bread tax upon a manufacturing population, which ought to be done away with at once, and numerable, or rather innumerable, abuses on all sides around us those who can look at these things and demand a proof of grievances, must he either blind to what is visible to all others, or determined, for the sake of their own selfish purposes, to uphold institutions and modes of management utterly at variance with the best inte rests of the country. "To prove the grievances" of the country would be an idle task. Let those who deny that any exist, recapitulate those which have been redressed by the Governments of Lords Grey and Meaourne and we will furnish them with a list of those which still require to be redressed, which shall shame them from their pretended " conceit. " Morning .4,lccrtiser. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. WHITEHALL, OCT. 16, 1537. The Quecu has been pleased to present the Rev. John Kirk to the Church an parish of Arbirlot, in the presbytery of Arbroath and sounty of Forfar, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, late Minister there, to the Greyf►iars Church in Edinburgh. CROWN-OFFICE, OCT. 17. MEMBI:RS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NEW rnIII.I.AMENT. CARNARVONSHIRE.—John Ralph Ormsby Gore, of Pockin:ten, in the county of Salop, Esq. CARNAKVON.—WiIIiam Bulkeley Hughes, of Plaseoch, in the county of Anglesey, Esq. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Wilts. Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry.—Salisbury Troop.—The Right Hon. Jacob Beuverie Lord Viscount Folkestone to be Ccrnet, vice Craven, deceased, Oct. 2. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM ALLEN, innkeeper, Yeovil, Somersetshire. BANKRUPTS. FRANCIS GILES, silk-manufacturer, Fore-street, Spital fields, to surrender Oct. 28, at half-past ten, and Nov. 28, al twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-build ings, official assignee ; Smith, King's Arms Yard, Coleman-street, TUOMAS JOHNSTON and WILLIAM BEVERN, tailors, Panton-street, Haymarket, Oct. 21, at one, and Nov. 28, at ele ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Jonhson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Davies, Leicester-square. ROBERT WICKSTEED, victualler, Paradise-street, Bother hithe, Oct. 27, at twelve, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee ; Asprey, Furnival's Inn. RICHARD CARR, butcher, Headington, Oxford, Oct. 20, at ten, and Nov. 28, at one, at th e R oe b uc k Inn, Oxford. H. and J. Walsh, New Inn, Hall- s t ree t, O x f or d ; Pownall and Cross, Staple Inn, London. EDWARD KNIGHT, currier, Ulverston, Lancashire, Oct. 30, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Ulverston. Yarker, Ulverston ; Bignold, Pulley, and Alawe, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. WILLIAM LINEHAM, slater, Cheltenham, Nov. 3, and 28, at ten, at the Fleece Inn, Cheltenham. Stephens, Blaekfriars-road, London ; Stephens, Cheltenham. JOHN WELLS licensed victualler, York, Oct. 24 and Nov. 28, at two, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Fiddcy, Sergeant's-inn ; Rayner and Thompson, Sheffield. EDWARD MI FIN, general warehouseman, Lancaster, Nov. 7 and 28, at three, at the Commissioners'-rooms, in St. James's square, Manchester. Cooper, Marsden -street, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row. CERTIFICATES—Nov. 7. S. Worthen, miller, Hinckley Mills, Drayton, Shropshire. R. Reynolds, bill-broker, Leeds. J. Holt, inn-keeper, Balton, Lancashire. H. Brown, carrier, Gloucester. E. Allwright, cheesemonger, Little Newport-street, Newport market, Middlesex. A. S. Stocker, machinist, Birmingham. W. And erson , baker, New-road, St. George's in the East. T. G. Poston, auctioneer, Aldersgate-street. T. Barro w , innkeeper, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancaster. J. Rees, chymist, Stratford, Essex. H. Pegg, hotel keeper, Tonbridge Wells, Kent. C. Bean, coach-maker, Long-acre, Middlesex. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Gaskell and J. Schofield, cotton-dealers, Liverpool. T. Hill and W. Morgan, bankers, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. A. Price and M. Andrews, milliners, Llandovery, Carmarthen shire. J. Rowley,J riest, W. M'Kenzie, R. Roberts, and A. Hop kinson, fancy woollen manufacturers, Huddersfield. T. Cex and T. W. Ingram, horn and bone button manufac turers, Birmingham. R. and J. C. Jones, corn and flour-dealers, Liverpool. T. Underwood and J. Penfold, London. J. and W. Robinson, colour-manufacturers, Burslem, Stafford shire. T. Moore and G. Moore, card-makers, Halifax. L. Bennitt and E. Robison, linen-drayery, Sherborne, Dorset. R. Matthews and J. Conte, auctioneers. Witham, Essex. J. Maunders and J. Drew, jun., confectioners, Weymouth. J. Leigh and J. Scholes, calico-printers, Denshaw -vale, Yorkshire. J. F. Burkill and I. Burkhill, jun., corn-factors, Leeds. J. E. Down. and C. Edwards, solicitors, Totnes, Devonshire. A. Sawer, R. T. Toms, and H. Godfrey, silk commission agents, Milk-street, London. H. Ade and J. Filder, farmers, Jevington, Sussex. G. Day, M. Hirst, M. Milnes, J. Wharton, J . Newsome, B. Armytage, W. Crossland, G. Lister, D. Wilcock, M. Fox, J. Dixon, E. Fozard, J. Wharton, C. Wharton, J. Parker, J. Por ritt, and A. Naylor, scriviners, Batley Carr, Yorkshire. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From the New London Price Current of this Evening.) SRGAR.—West India has fully supported previous prices, and in some instances an advance of 6d. has been obtained; The market has been very lively, both grocers and refiners have purchased freely, and the private purchases since our last have been 2,700 Mids. and trs. Even at the present rates some of the importers are not inclined to sell, and when it is considered the great deficiency there is in the stock here when compared with that of last year at this period, and that at the principal outports a further falling off of above 9,000 hhds. is known to exist, it is natural that many of the holders should be very con. fident, in the expectation of this difference showing itself very much by the end of the year, and that they continue conse quetitly sanguine in the opinion of a further advance in prices. At the opening of the market this morning, the importers demanded rather higher prices than were paid on Friday, which they again easily succeeded in obtaining, and the market was exceedingly brisk ; the demand from both grocers and refiners was extensive and general, and an advance of 6d. on previous rates has been established, even at which several holders are unwilling sellers. The deficiency in the stock, and the favour able turn the refined trade has taken, has given them increased confidence. The private purchases amount to 1,300 hhds. and trs. There was no public sale of Barbadoes, and none is declared. The stock of West India Sugar is now 31,527 Mids. and trs., being 12,561 less than last year. The stock of Mauri tius is now 64,995 bags, which is 24,341 more than last year (including the East India Dock.) The delivery of West India last week was 2,659 hhds. and trs., which is 273 more more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius was 4,567 bags, being 1,447 more than the corresponding week of last year (including the East India Dock.) Of Refined goods the grocers have purchased freely, paying 745. for Lumps rather under the standards, and 755. for those entitled to the double bounty ; for shipping there has been a very good business done ; double Crushed has been selling at 345., and there being only a limited quantity ready for im mediate delivery, difficulty is now experienced in purchasing under 345. 6d. Pieces and Vastards have been in brisk de mand. Treacle has been taken readily, particularly ord. and mid. qualities, for which rather higher prices have been ob tained. Dutched Crushed Sugar is held for 325. ; 31s. 6d. has been offered and refused. This afternoon the market was exceedingly brisk, both grocers and shippers purchasing freely at an advance on pre vious rates of Is., the former paying Ms. for Lumps rather under, and 765. for those passing the standard, and the latter 345. 6d. to 335. for double Crushed ; even at which rates there are now few sellers, goods being extremely scarce. Treacle and Bastards in brisk demand, at former prices. For Dutch Crushed Sugar 335. is now demanded. MAURITIUS.—The buyers have purchased freely of all de scription ; brown and low middling yellow qualities have fully supported previous rates, but good qualities of the latter have advanced 6d. to Is. At auction 6,173 bags went rea dily ; ordinary to good middling yellow at 575. to 605., very good 635. per cwt. There has been no arrivals, and no thing is advertised for public sale ; the stock is now chiefly held by one house. This afternoon the buyers pur chased freely, and previous prices were fully maintained, 748 bags at auction went briskly, very low to middling yellow at ses. 6d. a 385., good 635. a 645., middling brown 535. a 545. 6d. per cwt. EAST INDlA.—There has been only a limited demand from the grocers by private contract for Bengal, and none has been offered at public sale, but former rates have been fully sup ported. For exportation the transactions have been trivial, at late prices. 1,700 bags are announced for auction for Friday next. Manilla has again been much sought after, at fully the rates previously established, and the private purchases have been 4,000 bags at 17s. 6d. to IBs. 6d. for low to fine brown. In Siam business have been prevented, owing to there being no supply at market, there has been several inquiries, at fully former quotations. FOREIGN.—The demand for yellow Havannak has much abated, and the pcivate transactions have beon very limited, but fully previous rates are demanded by the importers ; white has been in improved request at former prices, and the transac tions have been 700 chests by private contract at 38s. to 40s. for mid. and good ; the scarcity of Brazils prevents much busi ness ; all descriptions are much wanted at fully the prices quoted ; the purchases have been only 40 chests at 245. 6d. to 28s. for very fine yellow to mid. whit.; but some floating cargoes of Havannah and Brazil are offering at fair prices, without finding buyers ; for auction on Friday next 200 chests Bahia are advertised. Mot.esses.-Fine descriptions of West India have been in good demand at fully previous rates; sales of Demerara made at 335. to 335. 6d. ; 160 puns. will be offered at sale next Friday. The deliveries of West India Molasses from the ware houses for home use for the week ending Oct. 14th were 2,144 cwt. This afternoon several enquiries, and sales of fine Demerara and St. Vincents made at 335., but there are not further sellers under 345. per cwt. TE.I.-Company's continues in brisk demand and improved price: have been obtained, making the advance since the last sale 4d. per lb. In Free Trade there has been a s•cady business doing at fully the rates previously established of 11:1. a 2d. per lb. profit on the last public sales. COFFEE.-The grocers have purchased very sparingly of both clean and unclean descriptions of British Plantation, but the importers continue firm in their demands, and in prices there has been no variation; the quentity offered at auction has beeu very limited, consisting of 152 casks Jamaica, low mid. and mid, went at 975. 6d. to 1033., good to fine fine ord. 60s. to 87s. ; 173 casks Jamaica are announced for auction on Thursday. The demand for East India for shipping has been exclusively confined to small parcels of ord. ungarbled Mocha at 58:i to 603. 2 and the supply at Market is short ; Ceylon, Samatat!g, end Sumatra are held for previous rates; Ceylon airnissi:ole for consumption at the Gd. duty has fully sup ported former prices, and 540 bags at auction went without spirit, low ordinary 61s. 6d. to 655., fair and good ord. 66;. 6-L to 683. 6d., fine ord. 695. to 705., line fine ord. 725. to 76;. ; for auction on Thursday 2,500 bags are advertised; Mocha continues to sell steadily for home consnmption, and previous rates have been fully maintained; 86 bales at auction went at B2s. to 83s. for good mid. yellow, and 6.65. for triage. The demand for Foreign has been principally confined to St. Darniego, which has been in good request, and fully previous rates have been obtained ; privately 700 bags have been disposed of at 41s. for fine ord., and 642 bags at auction went at 40s. to 41s. for good and fine ord. mixed, or 375. to 38s. ; for Brazil there has not been a single inquiry for the low ord. descrip. tiens, and there are sellers at rather lower prices, good and fine qualities continue to be wanted, and fully previous rates would be paid, but owing to the supply at Market continuing short the transactions have been limited, and confined to 300 bags Rio at 38s. for good ord. This of amoon the Market continued quiet ; at auction 337 bags Ceylon admissible for consumption at the 6d. duty, and 116 casks 15 brls. British Plantation were offered, the former were take❑ in, being held for higher prices, fine ord. at 70s. ; the latter went without briskness at previous rates, Jamaica low mid. and mid. at 100 s. to 1095., fine fine ord 86s. to 905., new Berbice at 975. 6d, a 10155. Gd. for middling. The total deliveries of Coffee from the warehouses for home consumption for the week ending Oct. 14th are 182,413 lbs. of East India, and 194,544 lbs. of West India. FRovistoNs.— The arrivals of Irish Butter have been heavy, and the demand has been very moderate ; in prices there is no variation. Foreign has been in good request, and the best Frieziand remains firm at 102 s. Bacon has baen less in de mand, and prices have declined Is. for both inferior and prime qualities, the latter selling at 645. landed, and 60s. a Gl‘. on board. Lard has been taken steadily at 7Gs. a 775. for the best Waterford. Cocoa.—The demand for British Plantation is still limited. Middling and very good red Grenada went at 39i. 6d. a 425. 6d. TALLOW.-There has been a very steady demand for St. Petersburgh Yellow Candle for consumption at 395. 6d. 395. 6d. is asked for delivery up to the end of the year, and 40s. for tha three first months the New Year. The stop page of of an old and influential house (Parsons) for a heavy amount produced great consternation in the market this after noon, there was nothing doing, and prices are rather lower. SPICES.-There has been very little business doing in Pi. Trento, and a further reduction in prices of 3. has been sub mitted to; 627 bags offered at auction, only partly found buyers at W. to 3kd. for good ordinary and good middling quality. Pepper is sold firmly at previous rates. West India Ginger has supported former quotations. Jamaica sold at 3/. Bs. to 101. 6s. for ordinary to good white. Malabar at 20s. for middling quality, being 2s. under former rates. This afternoon Pepper was dull of sale, and 1,026 bags at auction were all taken in at 31 : d. for good half heavy Siam ; there was not an offer within id. per lb. of that price. INDIGO.—The sale concluded yesterday. Previous to the opening, and during the progress, 1,572 chests were with drawn, and the quantity bought in is estimated at 1,300 cheats. Soon after the close of the July sale, the improvement which took place in most of the leading articles of raw pro duce employed in our manufactures, extend also to In digo. On the first day the biddings were brisk and prices ruled from Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. above the July rates; as the sale proceeded, however, most of the proprietors appeared unwill ing to realize even on those terms, and withdrew and bought in nearly one-half of the quantity declared, obtaining for the small proportion which they sold a full average advance of Is. 6d. on the prices of the last sale. Of the quantity sold (about 2,600 chest), 800 are estimated to be bought for con sumption, 1,200 for export, and 600 on speculation. The Madras and Kurpah were generally of very ordinary quality the only good mark of the former being withdrawn), and sold at an advance of 9d. to ls. on l ow an d or di nary , an d Is, to Is. 4d. on middling; a great proportion of the Kurpah was bought in, at about the same rates as the Madras. Ricx.—This afternoon 749 bags Java at auction went readily at very stiff prices. Middling and good bold white at lls to 12s. per cwt. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.--The Rum market has been quiet, the demand for Jamaica as well as for Leewards having been very moderate. The former 30 a 32 per cent. over proof at 4s. a 4s. Id.: 33 a 36 over 4s. 2d. a 4s. 4d. ; and the latter, proof to 2 per cent. over at 2s. sd. ; 4 to 7 over 2s. 6d. a 2s. 7d. For Brandy there has been a good de mand at previous rates. In Geneva the transactions have been limited at former prices. The trade have purchased sparingly of English, Irish, and Scotch Raw Spirits at 9s. 9d. per gallon. COURSE OF EXCH2 Amsteroam C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 Antwerp... Hamburg. M.B. 1314% Altona Paris, 3 days'siiht 25 70 Ditto ............. ....... .3 Ms 26 0 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 158% Petersbuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Berlin Vienna, effective fl 2 M. 10 15 rrieste ditto lO 16 Madrid 33U Cadiz „ 34% Bilboa ..~ Barcelona NGE.-(THIS DAY J Gihrattar 4B Leghorn 31% Genoa 26 15 Milan '3l Venice 46 Naples 39 Palermo ....... ......... ...... per oz. 115 Lisbon ..... 52% Oporto 52% Rio Janeiro ~. 26 Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres... ...... Dublin, 21 days' sight I % Cork I PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin ....... £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bar 5...... 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9% Silver. bars. standard 0 4 11% Seville The great sportsman, Mr. Thornhill, of Riddles worth Hall, in Yorkshire, is entertaining a large party them PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES)&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 17. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Mares. Annum. Paid. Share 1.766 7 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. 18s. eh. 135 1 .482 4/. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 1181. sh. 66 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 5 1,005 5/, Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 100 8,000 1-1601. 9!. 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share 8 9 4 1. & 711. 220 4.000 Ditto and Liverpool 3unct...125/ sh. 100 pd 26 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ...RV. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 31/. 25.10 d. sh. 3 2,060/ 41. Os. Dudley lOOl. sh. 83 600 71. Derby 1004 sh. 133 20,000 3,575/ 34 Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 79 231 404 Eyewash 1001 en. '7OO 1,297 284 rorth and Clyde Average 46.01.165. th. 600 11,900 121. Grand Junction 1001. sh. 200 2,849/ 11. Grand Union 1001. sh. 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 20,000/. 4!. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan ... lOOl. '7O 3"6 600 13!.125. Pd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 101. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 2 5,328 14 ss. Kennet and Avon, Average 391. 188.10 d. sh. 25 2,8971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 1004 oh. 590 5451 131. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 225 1 ,897 41. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 03/. 104. 88 2,400 101. Monmouthshire 1004 sh. 195 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 565 3 . 00 0 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 1004 sh. all pd. 52 247 17/. Neat h t 786 301 . Oxford 1004 sh. 530 „%dfo 5!. Peak Forest Avenge about 781. sh. 104 1,118 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 334 16.. Bd. oh. 16 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 86/. sh. 111 500 8/. Shropshire 1:151. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 150 3,6004 4.1 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock P 2/. 10s. oh. 11/ 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 91. stourbridge 3,647 21. l's. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. bd. sh. 50 533 121. Swansea 100/. sh. 239 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...AT 351. sh. 26 1 2,600/an, 321. 10e. Trent and Mersey, / share 100/. sh. 560 8,149 Thames s.nd Medway...Aver. 191.55. 3d. sh. 2 I,ooosh. 1 ,0004 , h. 1 154 Warwick aid Birmingham 100/. sh- 265 2AO 11.. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 185 6,000 4/.oe. Worcest , r and Birmingham.. .Av.76/.Bs. sh. 1•111 5,000 255. Wilts an., Berke .. Average 671, 10s. Bd. sh. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 Wisbeach ........... ...................... lO5l. sh. 45 905 i s . Wcy and Arun llOl. sh. 2;1 DOCKS. 2,600& 3o c . Commercial OOO/. sh. 55 1,0650 h. • 199,617 f/. 6 per ct. East India ....Stock 108 3,238,31014 50s. p.ct. London Stock 534 Ditto Bonds • 99 . 1,380,000/. W. p. ct. West India 2.`-'O9 W. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,`1.52,7:x21i per cent. St. Katharine Stock 921 500,000 4; per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds to 10 years 991 Shoreham 11,tbour 2.500 ........ Deptford I'ier BRIDGES. 1,(700 Fs. Hammersmll , 5O/. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. (331. Os. Rd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 141 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 5!. 6Ol. pd 19 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 16/ 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 5,848 14s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 161 ASmDRANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 ... 3/ las _ Albion 500/. sh. 50/ pd 80 50,000 [ s fn e :i cent.}Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10f/. pd 12; 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 51 24,000 fl per sh. Atla' 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 13i 1,200 ash. 5/. Birmingham f ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 42 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/, O. Si. pd 6 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi. al,&c. Life, ICol.sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 501. eh. 5/. pd 5 ~„.,,, r 5 er cent:l ''" Lan p d 301 bs. j Economic Lile lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 375 2,271 225. per cent. European Lii..! °I/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 '2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd If 1,000,008/. 71. per et. Globe Stock 145 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 33 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 5; 2,100 W. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 1211 7,500 91. Imperial Lite lOW. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,458 41. per cent. Indemnity Marine ROL sh. 8/. psl 161 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 82 3/, Ditto Life. 79 10,000 Ms. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 26 5,000 les. London, Firs 251. sh. 12/. 103. pd 151 3,900 10). Londen, Ship 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 151 30,0; 0 :A/. per cent. Palladium Lit,' 50/. sh. 21. pd 2/ Ss Od 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 2O/. sh. 21. pd las Od 2,500 I/. Provident Loe lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 191 100,000 ss. Rock Life 'NM. oh. 1/, pd fif 650,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Sto k... 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 ptr cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,0 0 0 8 per cent. A gric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Atirdrila-ii 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 58 10,008 10 per cent. Bank of Bit iningliam 5ll. sh. 101. lid 13 10,000 IP per cent. Birmingham Bank .... • ...... .. 501. sh. 5/. pd 14 :MOO 5 per cent. Lon,lon and Westminster...lool sh. 20/. pd 211 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 2f ~.!08 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 23 50,000 71 per cent. Marrhester sod Liverpool] 100/. sh. 15/ p d 20 Discount 2 , ,000 7 per cc:A. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial It ink of I rcland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 49 20, , (3) National Bank of Ireland s'l. sh 1711. pd 13 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. :35/. pd 321 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/, sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 pr cent. Hampshire 50/. eh 5/. pd 9 0 kS LIGHT AN 0 COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 it .5s 6d Bath s,(ii)o British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 and 51.percent.1 s, '"'" tand Bs. ss. .5 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19 pd 224 929 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 1,250 2/ Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 36 1,509 3 lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 11 750 31 les Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd lt, 2,471 41 per cent. Brigtiton General 9 0/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 6214 pd 85 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 183 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. fns. Equitable . . 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 5.. per cent. Isle 4Thattet 25/. sh. 201. pd '2O 2,350 01. per cont. I ndependent 3O/. sh. all pd 481 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .. 5O/. sh. 391. pd 22 1,000 41. per cent. Ratclit£ 100/. sh. 804 pd 57 1,000 South Metropolitan 5Ol. sh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United flennal 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 25 210 51. per cent. Warwick 50/. sh. 50 400 10/. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 421 12,000 3/, Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5(l. sh. 104 pd 81 SCO Yarmouth 261. sh. 18/. pd 9 WATER Vi ( JAKS. 1,000 9s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 211 1, CA 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 140 .0,500 21 lOs grand Junction ....Average 11/ 138. 4d. sh. 52 2,000 2/. Kept lOO/. sh. 43 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 9204 sh. 3i - 6 1,500 2/ lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,436 11 15s Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 53 1,000 1 per cent. South Lon.lon lOO/. sh. 87 8,294 311. West Middlesex ....Average 001. I2s. 9d. sh. 504 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby l5/. pd 84 9,5149 ... ...... Birmingharil and Gloucester I2I/, pd 4 7,500 ...... ... Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Of 15,r 1 00 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 10 pd 24 (16)) Calcutta Ind Saugur 50/. sh. 21. pd pi 7,500 .... Cheltenham and G. Western...too4 sh. 71/ 1 3,00 A Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/, pd 40 12,000 8.000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 21 pd 0; 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/ sh. 3/. pd Of Grand Junction 1004 sh. 951. p i 185 Great North of England 7l. pd 51 25,003 Great Western lOOl. Si). 55/. pd 641 2,0 1 0 Ilartlepool 100/. eh. 100/. pd 100 9,000 Hull and sclby 501. sh. 101. pd 5 10,003 Leeds and Manchester 1004 sh. 5/. pd 14 2,100 31 per cent. Leeds and 5e1by.......,. 100 sh. 44 1,500 115 s. Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 70 5,109 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo43h. 1001. psi 202 - 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 61 36,000 London and Brighton 504 sh. 5/ pd 14 12,000 London and Blackwall 50/. sh. 3/ pd 9s 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sh. '2Ol pd 141 :!5,000 London and Birmingham -.1004 sh. 90/. pd 141 Ditto Quarter Shares 54 pd '2Ol 20,000 London and Southampton ....50/. sh. 45/, pd 24 Ditto ditto New.....: 3- pd 101 7,000 7,000 - Ditto Scrip ' ' i• - -1.4 t 5h..2"/\, p 4.- -.6 12,000 - Londan , Grand Junction $;1,,615. 51 1 pd' ' 1. )4 10,009 • North Midland 100/. sh. 15/. pd 12 Northern and Eastern lOO/. sh. 8/. pd 24 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 84 pd 98,000 South Eastern and Dover ... .71. pd 3 1,000 194 per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 6,000 York and North Midland 50 sh. 31. pd Of MINES. 9,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 344 psi 12 4,000 IL ss. Alien 15/. sh. 124 lOs pd 124 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription .251. pa 4 2,004 104 Bolanos , 150/. sh all pd 774 10,000 IL lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 204 pal 53 6,0 0 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 94 pd 24 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company VI. sh. 201. pd 5 10,000 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 8/. pd 6 20,000 British Iron 50/. sh. 50/ pd 361 6,000 . ...... .. British Copper 5/. sh. 441. pd 1; Cata Branca T. pd 7 Candonga 74'l. Ixl 64 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 124! pd 104 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 3/. English 121 Its. pd 20,000 General Mining Association-201. sh. 151. pd 11 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 551/. pd Oi 3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. Si. pd 3 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 124 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 1124 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 40/. sh. all pd 2 Dittc. Scrip 2l Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 3 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY 1 NS'rIT UTI ON S. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 204 1,500 London University 100/. s h . a ll p d 23 4 700 King' College 1001. pd 28 MISCELLANEOUS. . 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh. 2e41. pd 34 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company .. . 23/. pd 14 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 100/. oh. 261. pd 35 2 0 , 000 51, per cent. Upper Canada Loan 95 City Bonds, 4 per cent lOl 15,000 11.60. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 221 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 25/. sh. 24/. pd 14 New Brunswick Land Company 43/. pd 11 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100L sh. 100/. pd 125 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 70/. pd 86 4,000 10,000 os. Van Die...ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 10 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. SEPT. 23, 1837. BANKS. 1,500p091. 6/. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 531.65. Bd. sh. all pd 19f1/. 2,000,0)C 1 . 5f p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1561. 500.0Je 1 . Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :di pd 2321. 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1704 5.000,00 0 k o. ct. National lOO/.811. 10/. pd 161. 2 , 000,0001. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd (WI/. 4,000,0801. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland _ 2001. sh 30/. pd 3'70. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOIIIIII, 17, 1831. INSURANCE COMPANIES. -______-_—__ ..-- ------- 256.0005 h ..,,. 61 p. ct. Scotti s h U n i on 20/. sh. 1/, pd 26s 7 ,500 61 p. cL Hercules 1001. sh. 10/. pd 131 15s. 101',000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd ni. 50,000 6F. et. North British 2001. sh. 104 pd HI. 1,000 sp. ct, Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 181 Os 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. pi 14110 s 100,001 31 p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 ...... ... Edin. and Gins. Up, Cana1...501. sh. all pd 224 Ditto Allocated 961. s h. a ll pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.-Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 341. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 454 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotta Iron Foundery 501. sh 3t•Il. pd 44/6 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 161. pd Si. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 56/. 4,150 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas .51 0-, :0 1 ni 611 . „ . 750 7i per cent. Leith Coal Gas 201. en. 411 pd 45 1 . 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rail way... 50/. a h 554 3,000 5 per cent, Equitable Luasi Oomperiy 201. ob. W. pd 101. SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 25.—The dark spirit of domes tic slavery overshadows with his raven wings all the southern states of this republic ; and as education and ci vilisation advance, the more frequent are the collisions, both within and without the walls of the Capitol, between the champions of that odious tyranny and the advocates of is entire abolition. The march of the latter is not slow, but silent ; and, like all questions that are to be ultimately settled by the irresistible influence of public opinion, the probability is, that the result will he favourable to liberty. Slavery is almost the only social fault of America—the only political shoal upon which she is likely to be wrecked. The " Abolitionists" as a body are, of course, confined to the middle, northern, and north-western states, where slavery does not exist. To preach abolition doctrines in the south would be to court, through the agency of " Judge Lynch," imprisonment, misery, and death. And yet much is to be said for the south, in favour of the gradual eman cipation of the negroes, at the least ; though it is to be la mented that they are opposed per fas ant nefas, to emanci pation at all. They contend that they did not make slavery, but they found it interwoven with their institutions, and fully entailed upon them by their British ancestors ; that cotton, rice, and tobacco plantations could not be culti vated by whites ; that their slaves are their most valuable property ; that the northern Abolitionists do not offer to pay the value of their emancipation ; and that neither Con gress nor any power out of their own separate States can have any controul over the question, it being entirely a matter of domestic state policy. The latter argument is true, and founded upon the con stitution of the Union. If it were possible to alter the system, as a matter of justice, the slaves ought to be paid for. But it does appear to me singular that " the plan tations could not be cultivated by whites" should be brought forward as a serious reason why the blacks should be held in a state of bondage. Surely, if they were all free to-morrow, laws could be enacted to compel them to work for their living, somewhat on the principle of the poor-laws of England. And what reason is there to be lieve that they would not work as cheerfully as white la bourers ? It is not my intention to enter deeply, however, into this exciting subjcct ; but only to supply you with sufficient particulars to enable you to judge of the state of par ties here on the question of slavery, in order that you may be in possession of a key to the most extraordinary pe tition presented to Congress a few days since by Mr. John Quincy Adams. It is, perhaps, the strangest me morial that was ever presented to the Legislature of any age or country. Two facts are important to be understood. The number of slaves in the republic of the United States is, at the present time, about two millions and a half. No one state has a right to interfere with the domestic affairs of any other state ; neither does Congress possess that right. Therefore, the question of slavery in Louisiana, 'Virginia, Alabama, &c., is entirely a question for the con sideration of the citizens of those states. No otlier citizens have any business to meddle with it. But the Abolitionists of the north endeavour to bring the powerful lever of public opinion to act upon their bre thren of the south, and every meeting of Congress they also try to make slavery a national affair in that body, though clearly against the spirit of the Constitution, which guarantees to each state the integrity of its separate laws and institutions. The following are the means and present state of the Abolitionists : The first abolition society was established in Philadel phia in 1833. In June, 1837, there were 1,006 anti-slavery societies in the republic. These consist of more than 100,000 members of all reli gious denominations. The number of tracts and other publications issued by the societies in New York last year was 669,387. The average increase of the societies during the last three years was 60 per cent.; during the last year 100 per cent. The master-spirits are Messrs. Garrison, Tappan, Bri ney, Weld, Stanton, Gerrit, Smith, Delavac, &c. Coloured schools in the free states are increasing rapidly, and are found to be attended with good effects. I cannot ascertain the amounts annually collected, but they are immense ; and the spirit of abolition daily spreads more and more in the ❑orthern states. But to the petition presented by 4 Mr. Adams, I give the particulars in the language of the Washington corres pondent, to whose intelligent communications I have be fore alluded : " Mr. Palk, the Speaker, in accordance with the rules of the house, called on the states for memorials and petitions. When Massachusetts was called, Mr. John Quincey Adams rose and handed in a petition from a citizen of Sandwich, in the state of New York, praying Congress to make him (the petitioner) an alien J. " Mr. Adams said that a petition of a character so ex traordinary might cause doubts in the minds of many as to the sanity of the petitioner. But, ❑otwithstanding this, Mr. Adams was prepared to show that in his memorial the petitioner had embodied many grave and potent argu ments involving the right of Congress to make a citizen an alien ; and, therefore, he wished the paper might be read and printed. " Mr. Palk decided that, under the rule adopted, the petition must lie on the table. " This memorial was from a citizen who, disgusted with the curse of negro slavery, had become ashamed of his country, and therefore wished to be alienated !" I will further remark, that several hundreds of petitions and memorials from citizens of the north have been already presented against negro slavery in the south.—Morning Chronicle. A rustic Paganini was so fond of accompanying his performance on the violin con spirito that it frequently brought him into scrapes as well as distress. A gentleman meeting him one day, looking very dolorosa, said, " Why Jack, what ails you, isn't your fiddle in tune ?" " No, Zur (replied Jack), it be in pawn."—Musical World. . - The abolition of the punishment of death, so much desired by the philanthropical spirit of the age, appears to be as remote a contingency in France as in England . Amaly, who was condemned, at the last Montpellier assizes, to death for robbery and murder, and who obtained a re prieve in consequence of an appeal to the Judges on a point of law, was guillotined at Montpellier on the 4th inst. No execution having taken place in that town for many years, a great crowd assembled, of which, as a disgraceful proof of the abortiveness of these sanguinary spectacles, it may be stated that the greater part were women, and some with children in their arms. A feeling of sorrow mingled with the indignation thus occasioned at the sight of the grey hairs of the aged criminal, who was dead in heart with anxiety and exhaustion before he reached the steps of the scaffold. The clergy of the diocese of Durham, at their last meeting, memorialized the Archbishop of York against the registration of births and deaths, and also against that portion of the Marriage Act doing away with the religious ceremony in that ritual.—Tyne Mercury. We learn from the Journal de Cherbourg that an English gentleman, long resident at Barfleur, who was fond of fishing, went out to sea on the 3d inst., accompanied by an English lad, a man named Leonard, his son, and another fisherman. When about a league from shore they were caught in one of the dangerous currents which infest that coast, and the boat was in a moment upset. Leonard's son immediately disappeared, and never again came to the sur face ; the rest caught and clung to the oars for a time, but at length all in turn became exhausted, and were drowned, except the English gentleman, who, was seen and picked up by the brother of the unfortunate Leonard, who was fishing at no great distance. The English gentleman was brought by him into Barfleur, where he still lies in a very precarious state. THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.-At an omnium gatherum, or " general dealer's" shop in Tottenham-court road, near Percy-street, is to be seen a jar full of small cockle-shells, with the following inscription .—" Shells for cureing werts and corns, two-a-penny !" The Abergavenny Eisteddvod will be held on Wednesday and Thur;day next. Among the prizes to be awarded will be a most elegant brooch, in the shape of an ancient triple harp, to the best amateur lady-performer on the harp, the gift of Sir Charles Morgan, of Tredegar. - - On Saturday last, as the Duke of Orleans, who had been out shooting, was returning to Trianon with the Duchess, in a pony phaeton, one of the ponies became res tive at the gate entering the court-yard, from the narrow ness of which some serious accident might have happened, had not the sentinel thrown down his musket, seized the heads of the ponies, and stopped them. Immediately on alighting his Royal Highness sent 7 out of 8 hares that had been shot to the post at the chateau, with a sufficient quantity of wine to promote their digestion, and, at the same time, desired to be informed of the name of the sentinel. At the Hereford musical festival the musicians and vocalists offered to give up one-third of their emoluments should the funds for their payment require it. This muni ficent and unsolicited offer of those receiving the smaller salaries ought to become an example to those singers who were so highly paid for their services, although the success of the festival will not render the sacrifice necessary on their part.—Her eford Gazette. On Tuesday evening, a very respectable party of gentlemen, friends and admirers of Mr. Mackay, the Come dian, gave that gentleman a very beautiful gold snuff-box, richly worked in basso relieve, with the national emblem of Scotland. The box bore the following inscription :—" Pre sented to Charles Mackay, Esq., of th e Th ea t re R o y a l, Fr':nb.'"7l!, by frior,d s i n professional talents and private virtues.-10tit Uctoner, 1837.".-.Liverpoo/ Ckrotticle. REGISTRATION OF VOTER for Middlesex,Messrs. dmaYn adjournedan d rf AltL c Y o N u MIDDLESEX. Conduit House, for the revision of the parishes of St.- a nd St • Leonard, Shoreditch ; St. John, Clerkenwell Mary, Stoke Newington. , rt th th e i :e d v a i y si a n t g (Before Mr. COVENTRY.) The Rev. Mr. Mardon was objected to as having 11 .° freehold in the office of minister, for which he claimea• Mr. Mardon produced s e veral deeds which the learned ball risters perused, but could n , t distinctly collect the eNa e situation of the property to which they related. thbear.srvisritrief Mr. Adey said it wasquite clear th:.`; gen tl e man had Cu freehold in his office, an q d, without inter ling any offence, he had thought it right to take an objection to his nalrit being retained on the lists, with several others in the same situation, in order that the opinion of the Court might b e taken on the question. - Mr. COVENTRY—AS Mr. Mardon you say you have 3 friend in the law with whom you have already conimou'' cated, if he will draw up an abstract of the voluminous parchments before me, or prepare a statement from them which will show a clear estate of freehold in you , so hide ; pendent of your office that if you should resign you would still retain the property, I will admit your claim ; b ut otherwise, both this and that of Mr. Apiland, which er pears to be similarly circumstanced, must be expunge d " The reverend gentleman then withdrew to consult his friend. (Before Mr. TAmLYrc.) Mr. TAMLYN gave judgment to-day with respect to tilt claim of the New River shareholders, which was a r g ueal at this place on a former day. The argument vast n' ake on the case of one of the shareholders, namely , M r " Richard Smith Appleyard, who holds an entire adven turer's share in the New River. There were three jections taken to the claim : first,, that the property 1° .. respect of which the parties claimed was not freehold secondly, that the incorpor a tion o f the shareholders into a Company destroy e d th e i r r ight t o vote ; and, thirdly, that there was an intervenient trust in the Governors and Directors of the Company, which, under the 23d sectgal of the Reform Act, destroyed the shareholders righ t t° vote. Mr. Tamlyn said he . did not consider it necessary teci go into the question of whether this property was freeh old or not, as he thought it bad been satisfactorily proved In the judgments already delivered on the subject by M r ' Coventry and Mr. Reeve that it was freehold property, such as under the statute of Henry the Sixth entitled th e parties beneficially interested to vote. The most material question was, whether these claimants were entitled to vote under the circumstances of the Reform Act and the charter of the Company. Mr. Tamlyn , after referring at' some length to the history of the formation of the New River Company, and after reading the charter, said that be was of opinion that the governor and directors were merely' the stewards or agents of the shareholders generally, an d that the shareholders themselves were the parties bene ficially interested, and in the actual receipts of the rents and profits, and that consequently they were entitled to have their names retained on the list. The result of the day's revision is, that the Overseers made and sustained 17. objections ; the Reformers objected to 19 names, and succeeded in six cases ; the Tories mad e 83, and sustained 43 objections. EAST SURREY. (Before Mr. TURNER and Mr. BRETT.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 16.—CAMBERWELL Car-LEW I ' S SCHOOL.—This case came under the consideration of th e Revising Barristers, in consequence of a claim made by "' gentleman named Bean, as grantee of a rent-charge of per annum issuing out of the Camberwell School Estate. After Mr. Corner and Mr. Meymott had been resPe c ' tively heard against and in support of the claim, Mr. TURNER pronounced judgment, disallowing the ob•- jections to the vote of Mr. Bean and of the other claimants. In the case of three claims made by three gentlemen, named Cramley, Curtis, and Rental], out of freehold peg } in the Episcopal Chapel of Camberwell, Mr. TURNER held that the fee of these pews was in the trustees, that the right to the pews was a mere easement, and that no freehold right existed. The claims were COl i. sequently disallowed. 'Thus closed the revision of the lists of East Surrey. EAST KENT. The following statements will show the relative strength of the Conservative and Reform parties in this division on the close of the Registrations which have just concluded, as compared with the returns at the last election. It fur nishes a fair outline of the numbers entitled to go poll, should an election take place before the Ist of N°- vernber, 1838 : to 60 COUNTY LISTS. Conservative Objections. Reform Objections• Made. Allowed. Made. Allowe d ' Sittirgbourne... 25 20 3O 23 Faversham 2 1 lB 15 Canterbury ... 60 14 ll4 6 9 Margate 2B 13 2B 1 1 Ramsgate Sandwich Deal Dover New Romney 21 9 ...... Hythe Ashford - -- 239 104 353 194 :.„ This gives a majority of 94 in favour of the Reform'" terest as the result of this Revision. On Mcnday last the prisoners confined in the f10n.56 of Correction, at Peterborough, set fire to the beds tberV; with a vie w of causing a mob to ass emble, and in t n t hope, no d ou bt, of th e ir own esca p e , b u t in this nir a tte they were defe a t e d, as it w as soon ex tinguished, SP riti n s : the keeper, not allowing any person to enter bridge Chronicle. ker, A pretty girl was complaining to a young qu a last week, that s he wa s d rea df u lly t rou bled by chaps ° i l d ie s : lips. " Friend Mary 1" repli e d B roa dbrim, " thou slAuker° not permit the c h a p s t o come so near thy lips."—Cuni— land Pacquet. A i There are at the present time 254 craft erq.7,age", o -1 0 3 the herring fishery at Yarmouth alone, whi c h employ' 2, ` r hands. There are fifty curing houses assessed to the Plci rates in the town, making the number of persons emPl°/ . ., about this article of consumption exceed 3,500 80'5' Norfolk Chronicle. Creosote, the new Prussian remedy, which, ac co i.,o jog to a variety of statements from an almost equal nu ms s , of practitioners, can cure all the ills to which frail " i t TO nity is liable, it is now sa id h as prove d ver y success ful n a . res treatment of sea-sickn ess , anu a hope has been ow that it will be i n th e power o f the chemist to disgwse Ito unpleasant taste. r s h l Captain E vans Ll oy d state d, at t h e St. Sic - Temperance m ee ti ng , th at t h e men w h o wor k in a q - •, i gi near Snowd en , i n W a l es , h ave save d near ly 800 sove rel ' a month since th e y un an i mous ly agree d t o exclude stroo drink from the quarry.—Welch. Paper. Tri s PATENT LEVER WATCH Price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Coruhill, London. SILVER CASES. ................. £6 6 0 6 16 6 11 11 0 With double-bottom cases With hunting cases COLD CASES. Size for ladies, with elegant gold dial Size for gentlemen, with enamel dial '''''''''''' '' 14 1 11 5 °n 'e:h the This celebrated construction (the . ' .r;IC; ************** watch can be made) is now offered at the above prics, withea latest improvements, i. e., the detached escapement , Je w . e ,in:rig four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, and ma in — power to continue going while winding up. T. COX SAVORY, ,hillr Working Silversmith, Gold sm ith, an d Watchmaker , 47, `"-- _........r. Londen. On the 14th inst., i n Tr B IRTHS. evor-square, Knightsbridge, the Sony Sony of _ Lieutenant Munro, of th e R o y a l Horse Guards (Blue), o_lAiottl, On the 13th inst., a t K ent s h-t own , Mrs. George IT' 15 of a son. o f s s° ° On the 13th inst., M rs. Willi am P a ll, Pateinoster-r-' r ra"' du O s n ou tl r i b e ie ti r t , h inst., at thelißirAitßishßElmEbDas.sy, Paris, Af(ngieu the du of s E te sci ad .:o E f sq K ., e o n f si t i h t o th ok i e tist E , sti a . t , S o t f .. Kensington, t o. former n, to plHae Hull. l Josephinel. . Mary's, J. May, Esq. o , f of V l e i r a s l a c il , le i s i , an to t, Emily, youngest daughter ofEts4, On the 12th inst., at Dunham Notts, Joseph 800 rd,,,. Nov 13Klailtieoeonsrig,inne,i1.vntEloogtso'et,o;nc,1- cresee n t , t o Mary Anne, ' eldest daughter of 1 Mr. o r jsiti co , ear sollit 1 .1 1 3 -Tie; of t" gobet t 0 n the Hull,o o f fthe s to to cllaria Exchange. Frane es, youngest Fell, of e j. On the 14th inst at St. George's Church, Mr. Geofrgtombar Piccadilly, to Elizabeth, relict of .1. Blaehford, Esq ., ° Afore' street and Stafford-place, Buckingham-gate. Tames the On the 12th inst., at Hinton Amphion, Hants, - S hepherd y E o s l q in ., ge o s f t A da b u e g re h a t i e r r ne o y f A t h b e b l e a y t , e Pje.rtrrhhshornirea,s,toEsll,ll.a,ryof Igii....._.,...iherirr bush, Middlesex daughter Dewey, -- -- ---_ DIE D. WI 1 ' On tho 15th inst., in Thayer-street, Manchester-se ~o,otl On the 14th inst., Amelia; Rebecca, Esq., of the Council-office, and of Kingston, in toe ' of Salop, aged 36. al Wh !te ' Esq., of Clapham, S • ut rey, age aa. goug e ' On the lst inst., Richard Jackson, Esq., of Betchton near Sandbach, Cheshire, aged 71. . 0 n , of On the 13th inst., in Russell-square, Robert Stodart, I's'. Atholl-crescent, Edinburgh, aged 50. vvife Of Percival tt On the 11th inst.. at Brighton the Rev. Joseph Halle D.D., late Principal of the East 'lndia College, Haile&ulderge On the 2d inst., at Wyke Rectory W th the SO' , eyrnou I Chamberlain, aged 75. -------- ---- ----;-7---------. 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