The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

EVENING 9r14 THE NEW NOVEL. S TA NLEYYHORN. By the Author of " Valentine Vox." In 3 vuls. post tkvo., with numerous Illustrations by George Cruiksbank. Leech, and Crowquill, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRRIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. 'DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 29, Will be .repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY ?—Hon. Charles Nor wold, Mr, J. Dicing ; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley; Captain Scrope Tarradiddle,lMr. W. Farm) ; Lady Norwold, Mrs. Glover ; Marian Mayley, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss De Vere, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Mrs. Orger; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. HUmby. After which, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.— Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut lass. Miss Cooper , Dorothy, Mrs. Tayleure. To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF ICELAND.—Hans of Iceland, 'Mr. W. H. Payne ; Gill, Mr. .1. H. Ridgway ; Frederick, Mr. Gilbert ; Oglypighp, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Iceland Boy, Master Marshall ; Guth Stasen, Miss Bailin ; Iceland Girl, Miss Marshall. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to exinmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cirees, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2.. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Roses to be had so!ely of Mr. Andre tes, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, What Will the World Say? with Hans of Iceland iIOYAL SURREY THEATtiE._ UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND AIR. WILLIS JONES. Unparalleled success of the Military Old English Equestrian Spectacle, " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the 18th Century. Overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING. SEPT. 29, Will be 'presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Ducrow'smag nificent StUd of Forty Hones, highlly-trained Palfrep, Fairy Porter, Equestrian 'troop, and Companies of both Theatres; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig ner Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signer Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE HAUNTED WRECK. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. • THIS EVENING. SEPT. 29, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FRIEND-IN-NEED SOCIETY, The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPLEY; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. To be followed by THE HUNTER OF THE ALPS ; OR, THE FOREST OF SAVOY.—Felix, Mr. Osbaldis ton ; Ferdinand, Mr. Dale; Helena, Mrs. Lee. To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN; OR THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale ; Toby Varnish, )Jr. Seaman; Peter Von Hummel, Mr. Gardner; Lestelle, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Luellen , 6d. Half-price to the Boxes •nty, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Susan Hopley, Raffaelle, and the Flying Dutchman THE RAILWAY SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Aug. 30, 1841. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 4 minute. atter 1. I Evening..... minutes after I. Parliament, that it may be spread all over the land. Instead, too, of listening to the landiards ad monition not to excite dissaffection to them and their iniquities, the Opposition ought to tell them in Parliament that such a law is con trary to the - principle on which men obey Go vernments, and that it forfeits the right to the allegiance of the people. The landlords rely on the general reverence for law and order to in duce the people to submit to their injustice, and if they were told openly in the House of Parliament, so that all the people might know it, that their law ought not to be obeyed, they would see probably, that to persevere' in main taining it would endanger interests, infinitely more important than those of the owners of rent. There has lately been published an account of " the aggregate demands made through the clearing-house upon the bankers, who use it on each day in the year 1839, together with the amount of Bank-notes employed in the clearing house on the same day, omitting fractions under 1001." The result stated in this paper is, that in the year 1839 the mutual aggregate demands Of the bankers who use the clearing-house on each other amounted to 954,401,6001., all of which demands were settled by employing bank-notes to the amount of 66,275,600/. Payments, there. fore, to the former amount were, in fact, made and settled by the latter sum of actual currency. In other words, the contrivance of the clearing house enables men to transact business by means of one-fourteenth part of the currency they would require without it. By a sort of magic the bankers pay fourteen pence by means of one penny, and their magic saving, of which this in dicates only the principle, extends over the whole community. Some of our readers may ask what is the clear ing-house ? It is simply, we understand, a room, somewhere near Cornhill, where a clerk from each of the London bankers who use it attends every day, and exchanges or balances with the other clerks all the demands which each of those bankers has on the other, paying in notes only those demands which they cannot liquidate by some counter claim either on the banker who makes the demand, or on some other who has a demand on the claimant. The amount thus set- tied, nearly one thousand millions in the year, seems enormous, and yet only a portion of the London bankers use the clearing-house. They are in number twenty-nine, and the following are their names : Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Co.; Barnard, Dimsdale, Barnard, and Dimsdale; Barnetts, Hoare and Co.; Bo sanquet and Co.; Brown, Janson and Co.; Curries; De nison, Heywood, Kennard and Co.; Dorrien, Magens, Dorrien, Mello and Co.; Fullers and Co.; Glyn (Sir B. Carr, Bart.), Halifax, Mills and Co.; Hanbury, Taylor, and Lloyds; Hankeys and Co.; Jones, Lloyd and Co.; Ladorokes, Kingscote, and Gillman; Lubbock (Sir John W., Bart.) Forster, Clarke and Co.; Masterman, Peters, Mildred, Masterman and Co.; Prescott, Grote, Ames, Baillie, and Grote; Price (Sir Charles, Bart.), Marryatt, Coleman, and Price; Roberts, Curtis and Co.; Rogers, Olding, Sharpe, Boycott and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Smiths; Spooner, Attwoods and Co.; Stevenson, Salt, and Sens; Stone; Martin, and Stones; Veres, Sapte, Banbury, Muspratt and Co.; Weston and Young; Whit more, Wells, and Whitmore; Williams, Deacon, La bouchere and Co.; Willis, Percival and Co. Besides these there are about twenty-eight bankers in the metropolis who have no connec tion with the clearing-house, and amongst them the extensive houses of COUTTS, DRUMMOND, HERRIES and Co., the London and Westminster Bank, SCOTT and Co., &c. &c., who transact an immense deal of business, and settle their mu- tual demands on each other by individual com munication. Although their mode is not so con venient, perhaps, nor so striking in its imme diwe results as the clearing-house, yet do they, by mutual communication like the other bankers, balance large demands on each other, or effect great payments by means of proportionably small sums of bank-notes. What takes place in these instances, however, occurs through every part of society, and payments are made in the aggre gate of several thousand million pounds sterling by means of paper and banking, which no amount of gold and silver could liquidate. But this is by no means the only mode of economising the use of currency which has lately come into vogue, or been much extended. Every person must have observed that the prac tice of keeping accounts at bankers has of late years very much extended. Almost all trades men, however humble, now keep an account at a banker's; and a great number of private indi viduals, who a few years ago never thought of such a thing, now keep a banker's book. The consequence is, that whereas they formerly kept a stock of cash always in their houses, 201., 301., or 50/., as might be, in gold, or bank-notes, they now only keep a banker's book, and a sovereign or two, and pay all demands on them by checks. The result is that a much less amount of cur rency than formerly, whether it consist of gold or bank-notes, now suffices to carry on the busi ness of society. There are some statements on this subject in the evidence of Mr. KENNEDY, the Manager of the Ayrshire Bank, given before the Committee of the House of Commons on Banks of Issue, the truth of which must be apparent to every body, and which we shall now quote : " Since 1825 (he said) the number of Banks (in Scot- land) has diminished ; 'in 1825 there were 32 Banks of Issue, and by the last return there were only 29 ; but the number of agencies in agricultural districts, the remote and poor districts, has been increased very much. In my own district, in 1825, there were only seven banks and branches, and there are now 27, but those are placed in small towns and villages, chiefly in the pastoral and agricultural parts of the country, and they are for the purpose of drawing in as much as we possibly can of the savings of this description of population, and that we may also give out in such sums as suit that description of people, the capital which is accumulated by their industry." " Has any increase taken place in! the circulation of Bank-notes in Scotland in comparison with the in crease of the banking establishments ?"—" I should say (was the answer) that there is a diminution in the amount of Bank-notes circulated." Again Mr. Kennedy was asked by Mr. Clay—" The explanation which you would give of the circulation di minishing subsequently to, or in consequeice of, the esta blishment of Branch Banks is, that in the localities where the branches have been instituted the persons s who . formerly kept the notes now hare a deposit account with those branches ?"—" Certainly," is the answer. " That extension of banking accommodation supersedes the note circulation ?"—" Yes, I think it 19oks as though it woull do away with our circulation altogether beyond one pound notes." " The banking facilities, in fact, discharge the function of a note circulation ?"—" To that extent I should think they do." This is remarkable evidence, because in Scot- land the one-pound circulation is continued, and the contraction of the circulation of notes in England, which we shall advert to immediately, has not, therefore been the 'consequence of the abolition of the one-pound notes, as some per sons might suppose. The conclusion, from these circumstances, which appears to us perfectly natural and just, is so contrary to the common run of assertions that it requires the reader to remember con tinually that " banking facilities discharge the functions of a note circulation," in order to believe it. " Then (said Mr. Gisborne) you do -not think that free competition, and the multipli cat i on of banks and branches has a tendency to incr ease t h e amount of ' cir culation ?"—" I think it the reverse." Free trade in banking, therefore, facilitates the increase of banks and banking accommoda tion, and checks the amount of circulation, con trary to the assertions of most of the persons who have written on the subject. The evidence we have quoted seems to us to be a tolerably correct description of what has taken place in every part of the kingdom, viz., a vast increase in banking facilities whi c h discharge the functions of a note circulation, and tend to extinguish it altogether. This is a somewhat remarkable termination (euthanasia) of that system of issuing notes, promising to pay on demand, which just now engages the at -tention of politicians who, with their usual fore sight, are about to make a mint of money by monopolizing the right of issuing promises to pay on demand, which really has ceased to be of importance, and seems likely to come to au end. The increasing facilities of banking explain the remarkable diminution in the aggregate ,A„, tjAp L 4 i t • ... , t , 2 " ‘ ,-', Mt " d . 'L' -, I' i '"' %),,...&*` ... -N.,. < • --, S --,— ri - * - ',":"N • • 1 11,. o- - • , ...*Wilw . , , ~, • -I . ''' ~ t “1.-414 *a it t4 - •., 0 , ~ '... st. _ik. , ,• . tJe ‘,suu. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1841. A more impudent piece of humbug than Sir R. PEEL'S demand for time to mature his mea sures was never witnessed. He and his colleagues have decided, out of office and in office, that there shall be no alteration 'in the Corn-laws. They have decided over and over again that protection, alias taxing other people for the benefit of the landowners, is indispensable ; they have come to that decision long ago ; they have repeatedly declared that they adhere to it, and yet they tell us now, when, by being placed in the Government, they have become responsible to the country, that they require time to consider what they shall do. Such a barefaced attempt to befool the people is only worthy of the performers at Bartholomew fair. They want time for things to come round. When the Corn-laws have done their work, when they have starved down the population to a level with the supply of food, then the first average year will bring relative abundance and prosperity; the people, rejoicing that they have escaped starvation, will hasten to forget their privations, and the Government is sure of being unas sailed in a season of abundance. From being eanfined nearly to our own soil years of abun dance and dearth are of periodical occurrence, and Sir ROBERT PEEL asks for time that the people may stiffer in silence and patience durinc , the present season of scarcity, .and a season of abundance may-give him an opportunity of say ing there is no demand for the repeal of the Corn-laws. He asks the Opposition, in fact, to sooth the people and induce them to submit to starvation. Instead of being silent, and granting Sir Ro- BERT PEEL'S wishes, it is the duty of the Oppo sition to speak out, and expose his miserable subterfuge. His mind is completely made up against the people. We consider it useless, how ever, for the Opposition to taunt him with his silence, or bore him and the country with ques tions as to what he will do. He will do nothing good. It is the business Of the Opposition to expose that, and speak through the House of Commons to the country. Though PEEL will not discuss the Corn-laws, they should lose no opportunities to expose their effects. Though he will not prescribe a remedy, they ought to dwell on all occasions on the alarming symptoms of the disease. The distress of the people is great — crimes arc numerous and alarming—the disposi tion of the people is unfavourable to' tranquillity, and the I - louse of Commons, , or at least the country, ought to be roused, if possible, in de spite of the Minister's silence, to a true sense of the deplorable situation into which we are fall ing. This is what the Opposition ought to do, i ns tead of asking Sir R.. PEEL continually wha t he means to do. We repeat, he will do nothing for the people unless compelled, and the Opposi tion mu st try, with the h e l p o f the people, to compel hint. They a dopted a proper course in eagerly seiz ing hold of Lord . STANLEY'S admission th at t h e Corn-laws do raise rent, which ought t o b e worked at continually, as a proof that the land y lords have avowed that they have passed a law t o take care of themselves. But some of the Mem bers, to our astonishment, after fixing on Lord were on Friday evening STANLEY'S admissio n, eager to acquit the landlords of having had any selfish motives in passing or maintaining the law. That was wrong; to do justice to the people, they Ought to accuse the landowners of having made the law to enrich themselves. The proofs of this are not wanting , and it is playing false with . everything which ought to be sacred to exonerate the landlords of selfish- and evil intentions, when - they have been avowed by themselves. For ex an kple:—. Sir J. GRAHAM asserted in 18-26 (see Corn and • Currency), " that their constant and avowed ob ject had. been to raise the price of agricultural produc e in this country greatly above the level of the continental market." He also said, that "rents are raised by high prices," therefore, on Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S authority the landlords, instead of being screened, should be openly and boldly accused. of having constantly and avow edly endeavoured to raise prices and raise rent. He said, " they have fought for high prices," and he blamed theta for "having bargained with the Ministers to suppo r t a contraction of the cur rency, provided their monopoly were maintained.' It is not, therefore, that the effects of high prices and high rents, have followed the Corn-law, un willed by them, and enriched them by chance. C.iput they passed the Corn -law to enrich them . let its co aSequenees on the community be what they migi it. That important truth ought to be proclaime cl by the Anti-Corn-law party in , r THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBIZR 2g, _ 4_l. amount of bank paper in circulation between the years 1817 and 1841, which puts to the route a whole army of errors. In the former year the Bank of England circulation was 3),000,000/, and the country bank circulation of England, ac cording to Mr. M'CULLOCH, not less than 20,000,0001., making an aggregate for England and Wales of 50,000,0001. bank-notes in circula tion. In-December, 1841, the joint circulation of all the banks of issue in England and Wales was about the half of this sum, or 9.5,463,309.1. There has been, then, a great and a continual decrease in the amount of bank-notes in circula- tion for the last twenty years. In the same period, however, the population and trade in the country have continually increased, and it is probable that by means of 25,000,0001. notes in 1841, at least one-half more business is trans acted than by the 50,000,0001 notes in 1817. At the same time, as the Times, with a view of frightening the isle from its propriety, informed the public, a few day ago, there has been a great increase within a few years of joint stock banks— thus confirming Mr. KENNEDY'S statement, that as banks are multiplied the issue of promis sory notes decreases. Thus a great and con tinuous reduction of bank-note circulation has accompanied, and must accompany, an increase in banking facilities. There are a great number of important deductions from this view of the subject, but we must content ourselves with stating that the issue of bank paper, to which so much good and evil, is attributed is of much less influence than is generally supposed. The Paris Journals of Monday contain but little political news of any interest. Their in dignation against the Government, which they regard as bent upon the destruction of the free dom of the Press, engages their attention to the exclusion of nearly every other topic. The Dc hats and the Presse alone support the policy of 'the Cabinet, but yet with reservations which in dicate that they would rather certain stretches of power were not had recourse to by the Go vernment. The Presse repeats its former account of the decline of British influence in the East. In confirmation of its statements it quotes the fol lowing extract from a letter from Alexandria of the 7th inst. quoted by the Commerce : " You must not fancy that British influence is so powerful here as is imagined in. Europe. The Pacha is fearful of the English ; he therefore does not act openly, but he loses no opportunity of using underhand means of showing his aversion to them. In Syria they are not in an enviable situation. A red coat cannot show itself in the country without an escort of a hundred men. If the English penetrate into the mountain districts, they must lake off their uniforms, and declare themselves Catho lics. They lately attempted to take away from the Druses the arms lately . attempted themselves given to these mountaineers for the purpose of insurrection, but they did riot succeed. " Mehemet Ali is deluding both Russia and England, because he first of all wishes to make himself secure ; but he acknowledges that, in spite of her late conduct, France alone possesses his sympathies, and those of the people of Egypt and Syria." We shall not contest the statements of the French Journals upon this question. That ME HEMET Am should profess to tear the only Power that left him at the mercy of his enemies, when he trusted to her for support, is something more than improbable. But if by such braggart unfounded boasting as this, the self-love of the French people is at all gratified, we shall not be at the trouble of disquieting them. The following mysterious statement appears in the Temps. We must say that we attach not the least importance to it. It appears to us a fiction, but if true the concealed persons were very likely thieves. In France treason assails Royalty at noon-day encircled by the national chivalry : " A few nights ago three persons got secretly into the little park of St. Cloud, and were proceeding by stealth towards the palace, when they were seen by a sentinel, who cried out " Qui vive," to which they replied "Ronde de surveillance." The sentinel having desired them to advance, they did so, but no sooner were they close to him than one of them attempted to take his musket from him, another struck him on the side, and the third seized him by the throat, as if for the purpose of strangling him. In the struggle of the sentinel to extricate himself, the musket went off, and his assailants, alarmed lest the report should bring assistance to the spat, made their escape. Some doubt was at first entertained as to the truth of the story told by the sentinel, but drops of blood were found on his cross-belts, although he was not wounded, from which it is inferred that one of the assail ants had received a wound in the struggle, and his sides were found to be severely bruised by the blows which he had received. He stated that he could only distinguish the . person of one of the assailants, who, he said, was respectably dressed." The following extracts include all the miscel laneous news in the French papers : A letter from Copenhagen, in the Bamburgh Gazette, states that two delegates from the Anabaptists of Eng land have recently presented a petition to the King of Denmark, soliciting the liberation of two of their com munity, who had been arrested in his dominions. The King replied that they should be immediately set at liberty, if, they would give a formal promise to abstain from all acts affecting public worship, until it should be legally decided within what liMits they might enjoy the liberty of exercising their religion. The imprisoned parties replied that their consciences would not allow them to submit to such a stipulation ; and so they re main in confinement. Extract of a letter from Beyrout, 29th ult., in the Semaphore of Marseilles:—" Some Protestant Ministers, having obtained a few proselytes, had proposed to build a church at Chawaifat, a village to the north-east of Beyrout, but the English Consul has diverted them from their purpose, as being likely to call down the anathemas of the Patriarch, not only on the Protestants, but on the English in general. There has just been decided a suit between the nephew of the Emir Bechir, now at Malta, and the three sons of the Emir Youssuf, of which the following is the foundation. When the old Emir Bechir, 35 years ago, treacherously seized the three unhappy brothers, put out their eyes, and cut out their tongues, he divided their domains between his own three sons and his ne phew. Since the publication of the hatti-scheriff, and the loss of power of the old Etnir, the three victims of his barbarity have reclaimed their property. The ne phew refused to restore his share of the spoil, on the ground that the claimants were precluded of their right by lapse of time, but our Cadi has given proof of his justice by decreeing an entire restitution to the rightful owners.' The following railroad accident is related by the Me morial Bordellis to have taken place on Tuesday last : " The branch leading from the Bordeaux and Teste road to St. Medard had not been closed, through negligence, and the live o'clock train consequently deviated into it, and came in contact with four waggons, two of which were laden with earth. The shock was so violent, that these last two were broken into frag ments, and the others thrown upwards of 300 yards along the rails. Through a wonderful piece of good fortune, not a single passenger was hurt, and the men on the engine escaped as by a miracle. Signals being made, another locomotive was brought and drew the train back into the right•line, and then on as far as Gazinet. Here, however, the axletree of the tender broke, and the whole of the passengers were obliged to pass the night on the road, and did not reach Teste till five o'clock the next morning. The same fate•befel those who took their departure from Teste for Bordeaux at the same hour, and who did not arrive at their desti nation till seven in the morning." Three days ago, the body 01 a gardener, named Theu nis, was found on the railway near Antwerp, with the head actually severed from it. An Antwerp journal states that there is every reason to believe that the man had placed himself across the rails in order that he might thus put an end to his existence. This is the second instance of such a suicide. On the night of the 28th ult., during the voyage of the Tancrede French steamer from Constantinople to Smyrna, a seamen, who was entrusted in the Sea of Marmora with two bundles of despatches for the shore, fell into the sea as he was getting into the boat, and every attempt to save him was for a long time fruitless. At length, however, when all hope was nearly at an end, they heard a voice exclaim " Fear nothing, I am safe," and sending a boat to the spot from which the voice pro ceeded, the poor fellow was found with his arms out of water grasping the despatches, of which notwithstand ing his danger he had kept last hold. The Memorial de Rouen gives the following from Bar neville, in the Eure : —" A young female, apparently at her ease as to fortune, and who had evidently been accus tomed to superior society, some time ago fixed her resi dence at Barneville, where she continued to live in a state of seclusion, having for her companion only a female ser vant, who did not, however, sleep in the house. Re cently, this lady, whose name was Mademoiselle V—, lost the key of the outer door of her house, and had an other one made. Shortly afterwards, on returning home in the evening, she heard a noise in her bed room, and having called in the neighbours, and made a search, a young man of Barneville, was found concealed in a chest. His answers to the questions which were put to him left no doubt that his object was theft, but Mdlle.V— entreated, from considerations for his aged mother, that he might not he prosecuted. He was arrested, however, and when called upon formally to defend himself, he had the infamy to declare that he was a lover of the female, in whose house he had been found, and that she herself had given him the key of the outer door, in order that he might enter. Mdlle. V—, on hearing how she had been calumniated, was so much affected, that taking one of the loaded pistols, which she kept by her as a security against housebreak ing, she put its point to her breast and fired. She died a few hours afterwards in great suffering."' The following horrible murder was committed a few days ago at Hurtrel, in the Vancluse, by a farm servant, named Montjalard, aged 20, on the person of a female servant named Saignon, aged 25, who was in a state of pregnancy by the murderer. In order to conceal the connection between them, and avoid the consequences, the murderer induced his vi,tira during the night to leave the house where they 1.1% - :?(1 and walk with him. Having arrived near a deep well, he threw her in. The poor girl in falling caught at the branch of a tree which was hanging in the well, as low as the surface of the water, and entreated mercy. The ruffian however threw an enormous stone at her, in hope of forcing her to let go her hold, but as the stone missed her he left his vic tim for a time to go and fetch his gun, and on his return, finding that she was still clinging to the branch, he pre tended to take pity on her, and gave her his hand to raise her out of the well. She- had no sooner, however, got out than he struck her violently on the head with the butt end of his gun, and repeated the blows until he had crushed her scull. The murderer returned home tran quilly, but was soon after arrested, when he confessed his critne, and related these horrible details. A disgusting scene was witnessed at Toulouse a few days since. Two women, of the lowest class had a quarrel, and set to fighting in the street ; when one of them, who was pregnant, received a kick from the other which caused her death the day following. Extract of a letter from Constantinople, Ist inst. : " Said Bey is still treated with great consideration by the Government, and it ip affirmed that his suit for the hand of the young Sultana Adiieh, who is only eleven years old, has been favourably- received. Preparations are making for some grand ceremony. Large purchases of silks and furs have been effected for the Sultan's harem. We shall not therefore be surprised if, in a short time, an intimate alliance between the Sultan and Me hemet Ali is formed." The. frigate La Forte, of 60 guns, which has been twelve years on the stocks at Cherbourg, was launched a few days ago. The Gazette d' Auvergne says :—" On Saturday last the soldiers in garrison at Clermont, after removing the barricades which they had erected in their defence at the Place d'Espagne, the Poterne, and all the streets leading to the Hotel-de-Ville, returned to their barracks, and the free passage of the streets was again restored. On the same day the Cathedral was re-opened, and public worship recommenced. Some more arrests have been made at Clermont,. and some of the small towns in its neighbourhood. The total number of arrests is 125." The Correctional Tribunal of Paris was yesterday oc cupied with the trial of eighteen more of the men arrested during the recent disturbances in the Faubourg St. An toine. Acquin, a hair-dresser, was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, and a fine of 100 francs. All the rest received judgments of from three months down to five days' confinement, except an Englishman, named Hewett, who excused himself on the ground that being a foreigner, and not acquainted with the laws and cus toms of the country, he did not know that the rolling of the drum meant that the crowd should disperse, and upon this plea got off with only twenty-four hours' in careration. One man only was acquitted. The Rouen journals give an account of an accident which happened, a few days ago, to the steam. boat Union, No. 1. She had left La Bouille, in the evening, with upwards of 400 passengers, many of them return ing from the fair of Bourg Achard, and . had arrived off Dieppedalle, when the boiler exploded, and all were soon covered with smoke and flame, water and steam. The alarm and confusion on board was na turally great, but, fortunately, a number of boats came off from the shore, and took about 200 in, though with great difficulty and delay, on account of the dark ness, and most of the people being females. Two men jumped into the from the cabin, and one woman, in her terror, threw herself from the deck, but they were all saved. The .steamer being thus lightened, and the flames got under, the rest, with the crew, waited the ar rival of the Union No. 2, which left La Bouille an hour later, and, on coming up, took the disabled vessel in tow, and brought her safe up - to Rouen. It appears that no one received any injury beyond some slight contusions. " About a hundred workmen," says the Moniteur Par i- Lien, " left Paris on Wednesday for Havre to embark in the Caroline for Brazil, with the intention of establishing a phalansterian colony in the country. A second and more numerous emigration of workmen of this society is, it is added, to take place in a few months." The same journal informs us that the Abbey of Citeaux, with all its dependencies in the department of the Cote-d'Or, has just been purchased _by Mr. Young for the purpose of converting it into a - phalanstere upon the principles of Fonder. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 27. _ ?Int Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pm. , Price french 5 ner Cents. ex. div. 114 55 ... 114 69 ... 114 54) ... 114 50 44 per Cents 10.'• 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 4 per Cents l)7 50 .. 97 50 ... 50 .. 97 50 3 per Cents 79 79 ... 78 10 79 Rink of Trance Leine /tank I,ooof. Starer 1025 —11'25 ...11.21 ...Irian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. per Cents., 1840 104% ... 104% ... 1044 ... 1944 ipanish Active.... .........» 124 ... 224 ... u 2% ... 22% . . Neapolitan ........ 105 .5 —. 105 25 —. I 'ls 25 .05 y 5 Roman 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034 NAIEWAY A IlEg. R. Germain -- -- 725 ... 721+ ... 723 .... 725 • • Versailles. L 8..... 206 25 .. 206 25 ... 205 ... 205 K. B Rouen 4no ... 450 ... 4 nil ... 450 Orleans:. HELL; t Aft! P !LNlls—BaussaLai, SEPT. 25 • Actual Debt, 25i pet Ccnt. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, t per Cent 93 --- 3 per Cynt. ----Thirty .11gV en ---.---. (1 S4O) ----"' •• • I 2 71% --------- Loan of City, 1'232, 4 per Cent 1) 0!4 Society of Coronwrce, 4 ki per Cent 933, Bank of Belgium', 5 per Cent .. 14 Nationa IS4ciety . Exchange on Lund,' (short) Brussels Papers, Sept. 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIaNNA, SEPT. 19 rise per Cants. Metalliques Four per Cents. psg Three per Cents. Bank Shan., :563 ...Alizenteine &Using. Sept. 22 HA SIBURG BORSENHALLE, SEPT. 24. Bills. Money 107% Austrian syer Cents. share - ! —..—.. . Amirlo-11.ussian Loan 10.% 10S% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series IOIA 101 k Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series .... ........ ... ..... ....... ........... .. ...... 984 98 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)..... ..... „..„„ ....... .. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent N'swegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Ciro:. .. SpAnish„ New 5 per Cents.... lsg _ EXCHANGES; ON LONDON. !Umatilla, SEPT. 24.-13 0. 2 .—Tw0 months, 13 4N. PETPRSIIIMGII, SEPT. 14.- 1 wo months, 39 pence. RIGA, SEPT. Hi —Three Months, 394 v. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, SEPT. 1 . 1. Bitls Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 ,,, per cent. lOO4 104 1 4 Prussian English Loan, 1&.30, 4 per cent 102 igxclmnge on Landon, three months 6 19 , A i - -Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 19. BENEFIT SOCIETIES AND THE CORN-LAWS.-It is said that the funds of Benefit and other similar Societies are fast: disappearing in the manufacturing districts. We cannot-conceive a greater calamity for the morality and tranquillity of the people, than that the classes who, by such institutions have provided for the casualites of life, should now be obliged to devour their resources, and become, in any time of trouble or difficulty, wholly dependant on the parish. When we reflect, too, ow the evils which the Corn-laws inflict on the re cipients of the funds of Benefit Societies, we know not if any of their effects sets their inhumanity in a clearer light. We know a case, for example, and we dare say there are hundreds and thousands of similar cases, of a hard working man who has for many years subcribed to a Benefit Society ; he is now sick, and his club allows his wife Bs. a week to maintain her sick husband, herself, and a family of four young children. The payment does not rise with the price of food, but as this rises the value of the Bs. is diminished. Now the Corn-law, without a pretence of affording them any re muneration, cuts a large slice off her loaf and her children's loaf, and they must cry for food, perhaps perish of hunger, that the mortgaged acres of the landlords may be preserved. A sick husband, a hard working man when in health, his industrious wife, and their children, must all give a portion of their poor pittance of Bs. a week to swell the rent-roll of the Duke of Buckingham and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Justice and hunianity cry aloud against such a flagrant violation of their laws. But what happens in this case happens to all the pensioners on these savings-of labour funds throughout the empire. All these humble people subsisting on 55., Gs. or Bs. a week, must give of their little to add to the great heaps of the nobles of the land. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET—WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BETTING.—CESAREWITCH STAKES. 6 to 1 ngst The Squire—taken ' 12 to 1 agst iliona—taken freely 18 to l'agst Zelmyra—taken • 20 to 1 agst Flambeau—taken 22 to 1 agst Bosphorus—taken ' 50 to 1 agst Errnengardis—taken THE DERIIY. 18 to 1 agst Attila—taken 20 to 1 agst Wiseacre—taken 26 to 1 agst Hester c 50 to 1 agst Joanna c—taken OAKS. 50 to 1 agst Eusebia—taken Entry for the D. I. Plate (Wednesday).—E. 0. and Flambeau. Handicap Sweepstakes TX.C.—(Wednesday).—Ma rifler, Jabot, Bst, f by Bciram out of Dahlia, Bst ; Haitoe by Sir Hercules, out of Apparition, Bst 41b, and f by St. Patrick, d by Emelius, Bst 41b. St. Leger (Wednesday).—Joachim, Syria, Simoom, Thistle Whipper, Palremon, and Jack Sheppard, are scratched, and St. Cross is not here. SEPT.SAVIN GS BANKS, W 0 `'WORCESTER, 2B. —(Fitom A CORRESPONDENT.) —Peers statement con cerning th e S av i ngs ' Banks is, so far as the manufactur ing poor a re concern ed, unfair. In the months which he has purp ose l y picked out of the twelve, large sums are paid for harvest-work, and there can hardly be any doubt but that the deposits he so plausibly and .cunningly re fers to arose from this source. R A ILwAys.—We. understand that a railway is pr.jected between Aberdeen and Ranchory-Ternan. We be lieve that it will be the commencement of the best line of a railway between Aberdeen, Perth, and Glasgow, and form a direct Communication with the whole of the English railways. This line off ers f ewer g reat obstructions than any line between Aberdeen a n d P er th which has yet been mentioned. The railway no w pro might easily be j oined b y the D undee , Arbroath, and Forfar Railways, thus making a grand northern line, conneetheg the five largest towns in Scotland—viz., Glas gow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Perth, and an im mense number oftowns of less importance. —Aberdeen Journal. An author that lived somewhere has such a brilliant wit, that he contracted to light the parish with it, and did it. S AMYOF NEWS AND Out)la Opinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, the Com merce, the Siech, the Gazette de France, the Quotidienne, the France and the Journal du Peuple of Monday condemn the circulars of the Minister of Justice in terms as energetic as those employed in their respective columns of Sunday. They contend that the Government aims at nothing less than the destruction of the freedom of the press, and the virtual abolition of the right of Parliamentary petition. The war between the Government and the press is now of the most deadly nature. They may be said with one accord to hurl defiance at the Crown and Cabinet. The Memorial Bordelais has the following article rela tive to the reported marriage between the young Queen of Spain and the second son of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, alluded to in The Sun of yesterday :—" We are informed that the Whig Cabinet, before it retired, made overtures in the name of her Britannic.. Majesty in support of a proposed alliance. between the Duke of Cadiz, son of Don Francisco de Paula, and Queen Isa bella 11. This Prince was born in 1822. England, in taking the lead on this question, wished no doubt to defeat the projects for a union with the eldest son of Don Carlos, or a Prince of the House of Orleans, and to flatter the pride of the Spaniards by giving them a king of their own countrymen, over whom at the same time England would re tain political influence."—This paragraph is caused by the statement of M. Hoyos having been sent from Ma drid on a mission to the Infante. With regard to this mission, a Madrid letter of the 18th instant says:—" It appears certain that the object of M. Hoyos' journey to Bordeaux is to make a verbal communication to Don Francisco de Paula of the resolution adopted by our Government with regard to him, and to make arrange ments with his Royal Highness for his return to Spain." Another letter of the 19th assigns a matrimonial object, such as is indicated by our Contemporary, to this mission. The Marseilles journals state, that on the 22d instant that town was completely inundated by a deluge of rain. A horse and cart were carried down one of the streets. The lightning nearly destroyed the Church of the Peni tents. The Moniteur gives the following account of the arrival of the King of the French at the Palace of Compeigne. It will be seen that nothing is left untried to make the King appear a favourite with the army :—" On the morning of the King's arrival, when his Majesty's ap proach was announced, all the troops of the second divi sion, or the Orleans Camp, appeared on the road with out arms, but with torches in their hands, the drums beating a salute, the bands playing, and the men shouting Vive le Roil This reception greatly affected his Majesty. The Dukes d'Aumale and de Mont pensier, the Russian Ambassador, the Neapolitan Am ; bassador, with the Duchess de Serra Capriola and their daughter, the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency Ge neral Cass, with Mrs. and Miss Cass, Mr. Bulwer, Bri tish Charge d'Affaires, Lord and Lady Mahon, Marshal Molitor, the Minister of the Marine, the Duke and Duchess Decazes, and General Pajol, arrived at the Pa lace in the course of Saturday. The King gave a grand dinner to 100 guests. At eight in the evening the Royal party adjourned to the theatre of the palace, to witness the representation given by the company of the Opera Comique." The Presse has a second article, endeavouring to show that the English no longer possess any influence in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. The Courrier Francais, or the .National, or both, will pick up the gauntlet thrown down by the Presse. For our own part we are content with the state of things in the East, so far as regards British influence, if they be only left in the condition Lord Aberdeen found them on taking possession of the Foreign-office. PAILLIAWLENTAILY. The Lords merely passed the Frogmore Estate and the Kensington Gardens Bill through the stage of a second reading, after Lord Brougham had expressed his regret that it was so easy to get large sums for Royal accommodation, and so difficult to get small sums for the education of the people. Their Lordships ad journed till Thursday. In the Commons Mr. Cochrane's return for Bridport was petitioned against. On the Administration of Justice Bill being read a third time, Mr. Ward again adverted to the scandalous job of giving an annuity out of the public purse to Lord Abinger's son, and properly referred to the much more honourable conduct of Lord Brougham in somewhat similar circumstances. But, although Sir James Graham then took sound views, of which he was toad last night, and though the present job was indignantly denounced, the Bill was read a third time and passed, and the annuity is now safe. How the Scarletts will rejoice. The House was occupied through the remainder of the evening with the Poor-law Bill. On the motion to com • mit it Mr. Sharman Crawford moved a resolution to prevent the formation of new Unions, and to allow of the Guardians giving out-door relief. A tedious and protracted debate ensued, which was, however, remark able for a potent speech by Mr. Ferrand, for Sir James Graham declaring that the Government adhered to the principle of the Poor-law, for a captious speech by Mr. Wakley, and a castigation which he received at the hands of Mr. Ward. He was told that there was no Member of the House so audacious in making assertions, and so cowardly in giving effect to his assertions by his votes. Mr. Crawford's resolutions, though Mr. S. Wortley said he would support the first, were lost, and the Bill com mitted. It is to be read a third time on Friday. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald praises in exaggerated terms what, it is pleased to call, "the forbearance and good sense" of the landed interest, observing :—" It is highly to the honour of the landed interest that, after the un measured and coarse imputations which their support of the Corn-laws has drawn down upon them at public meetings in manufacturing towns, their own forbearance, and good sense, and a just appreciation of the danger of loosely , accusing of unworthy motives an interest of such immense and extensive , influence as the manufacturing masters and mill-owners—have mani fested themselves in a remarkable degree of for bearance and even of good feeling. Every lover of his country will pray for the continuance of such 'friendly relations' between two such ' pillars of the State.' " It is easy to talk of the " forbearance and good sense" of the land-holders, when they have everything their own way; and as for "friendly relations," of course they will always be ready enough to cultivate such " relations" with the manufacturing interest, when, like Irish reci procity, the advantage is all on their own side. But wait t,Lil the land-holders are imperatively called on to relax the cresent despotic Corn-law system, and then see how far their " forbearance" towards the manufacturing interest will extent: t The Timer, after quo:.'ng some remark on the present dis Satisfied and distressed s,!.‘t? of the country from a Liberal Journal of yesterday, goes on to sax :—" Let it be observed, that this is a descriP! i ",7 in a Whi g Journal, of England as left by the. Whig!, after their having had the management of its affairs for a neriod of ten years. This is the state to which they have duced her ! They have brought the machine of Go vernment to a standstill, and now hand the country over to their successors, by their own showing, with a bankrupt Exchequer and a population on the brink of insurrection ! Let it ever be borne in mind that this is a Whig's own confession of the lamentable predica ment in which the nation had been involved by the blundering and mismanagement of his own party."— Has our Contemporary no recollection of the state to which the Tories had reduced the country when they left office in 1830? Has he forgotten the blazing hay ricks and farm-yards; the all but general insurrection of the peasantry in the agricultural districts; and the alarm so generally prevalent in the metropolis, as well as the provinces, that the King was actually recommended not to expose himself to the perils of a carriage-drive into the city of London ? Though the country be certainly just now in a state of great distress, yet that distress is nothing to what it was when the Tories quitted the helm. There is no Swing abroad now to carry dismay to the hearts of the Borings; though as this monster was ex clusively of Tory creation, it is not improbable that, under their fostering patronage, he may again appear, like the Devil, in flame and smoke. The Morning Advertiser contains an article on the subject of the progress of Puseyism, which, if we may rely on the following .passage, would seem to be endea vouring to insinuate itself into Scotland :—" As the first sttp towards their contemplated incursion into Scotland, the PUseyites are now busily engaged in raising funds for the erection and endowment of an episcopal university in Perth. The Perthshire Advertiser, we observe, hints a doubt as to the accuracy of the fact. There is no ground for the doubt. With regard to the success of the scheme in Scotland, that is another matter. Scotland is not the soil for Puseyism. The intended Perth university may breed as many clerical Puseyites as it please ; but the projectors of the scheme reckon without their host when they calculate on being able to find a resting-place for its foul spawn on the other side of the Tweed. Episcopacy of any kind will never flourish in Scotland ; the genius of the Gospel and the memory of the Covenanters equally forbid it." The following is from an article in the Chronicle, on the subject of the Tory system of tactics :—" The late Ministry conceded to the suffering people, suffering by no failure of theirs, a bold (but to themselves suicidal) effort at relief. The present Ministry declares no effort to be necessary, and postpones any inquiry about the matter, that Members may go a-shooting. This is the plain difference between the t wo G overnmen t s . Accord ing to the Tories we ought to be contented, thankful, and hopeful. Our troubles will all blow over. We are rich enough to plunge a few millions deeper into debt. The loaf is 10d. here, while it is only sd. in Paris ; but there is cash in the savings' banks, and why should we dream of mitigating the bread-tax till the deposits are drawn out ? No occasion for hurry. Honourable ,gentlemen have just got into the receipt of official salaries, after not having touched public cash for ten long years ; and if we ask how they intend to earn it, there is surely some consolation in being told that till next year they will think for the money. Of what is really their own condition, the people themselves are the best judges. Those who neither feel, see, hear, nor read of any considerable public distress, or reason to apprehend it, will of course applaud Sir Robert Peel for his present system of post ponement. Though even they may think he would have been an honester man had his conversion to procrastina tion been somewhat earlier. For those who think dif ferently the course is plain. They see a progressive evil at work in commercial restrictions, the ravages of which cannot too soon be arrested." The Post says :—" Such leadership as the Opposition can boast of in the House of Commons, seems to be left , in the hands of Lord Palmerston. We do not think he _ . . shows much fitness for the post. Ile is well enough fOr a light skirmisher, but, for many reasons, incompe tent to the weightier matters of debate. The men tion of one of these reasons will be sufficient. No one. feels that Lord Palmerston is in earnest. Lord John has, or had, his little tricks, which were any thing but creditable to a man in his position ; but still there was in general an impression that he felt the im portance of this or that course of policy, and was really concerned beyond the mere strife of the hour in what ho contended for or opposed. This gave a weight to what he said, which is wholly wanting when Lord Palmerston speaks. A few may smile at the smart things of the ex- Foreign Secretary (though most of them are but old spangles brushed up to look almost as good ac new); but no one confides—no one attaches importance to the views he throws out." The Cambridge Advertiser gives the following cha racter of the Tory Premier :—" Thy whole public life of Sir Robert Peel demonstrates that his country is nothing to him. He is not ambitious to serve her, but to gratify his own vanity. Egotism is the ruling prin ciple of his mind. He has no object in view to ennoble the petty and paltry means by which he tries to im pose upon the world.' Through all his doubling and turnings, self, predominating self; peeps out. All his stratagems have but one end, to gain applause ; he would sacrifice the most patriotic measure ever proposed to obtain a few cheers from an audience." From the following passage, it seems that the DuOn Pilot has no hope of redress from a Tory Government:— " Peel's policy is still postponement—postponement of relief to England—postponement of persecution to Ire land—and the English will be lucky if they are as sure of relief as Ireland is of persecution." The Tyne Mercury observes of the present Minis try :—" Our opinion is, that they will not agree in any considerable haste—that even five months' delay will net produce any agreement—that Sir Robert's time for con sideration, and for maturing his pins, actually means time to mix oil and vinegar, to make ropes of sand, to cause carriages to run smoothly and circularly upon square wheels, to make misers liberal after a life of hoarding, to make rivers flow up hill, to compound es sence of sunshine, and to perfect the patent of forming timber out of sawdust. Sir Robert's consideration, and the maturing of his plans, consist in arranging the dis cordant elements by which he is surrounded, but when will that be effected ? Not as long as those elements are together." ;~ 1• • , MONEY-TRADE-COMMEZCZ. At a Special General Meeting of the British Iron Com pany, held yesterday at the London Tavern, it appeared that the uninterrupted action of the works would un doubtedly produce success, and an ultimate profit of 38,000/. The accounts were ordered to be ready, and a meeting to be held to audit them on or before the 20th of November. The question respecting the dissolution of the Company will also come under discussion at the next meeting. AGRICULTUEAL. A farmer in Huntingdon has in his possession a bean grown this season, the height of which is about seven feet. It has four stems, on which are 155 pods, the number of beans in which is estimated at about 400. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Admiral Sir Philip H. Durham, the only surviving officer who was saved at the sinking of the Royal George at Spithead, in 1782, has given 1001. towards the pro posed monument to be erected at Ryde, in memory of the crew who perished. LAW AND POLICE. A number of American sailors were taken before the sitting Magistrate at Thames-street police-office, yester day, charged with outrageous assaults upon a woman and a British sailor. They were all . remanded ex cept one, who was discharged. At Guildhall, a man of the name of M'Donnell, who keeps a book and print shop in Long-lane, was com mitted by Alderman Humphery, to the House of Cor rection, for one month, for exposing in his shop-window five indecent pamphlets. The information was laid by the Society for the Suppression of Vice under the Va grant Act, passed in the first year of the present reign. At the Brentford Petty Sessions yesterday William Fuller, a tailor, about fifty years of age, having a wooden leg, was committed to Newgate for having stolen and stabbed a horse belonging to Mr. Racklitf, of Ealing. Numerous horses and cattle have recently been stolen from the neighbourhood of Hanwell, and stabbed and afterwards sold to the slaughterers. 11.i.ZCTZONEEILING. The Right Hon. Henry Corry was re-elected on Tuesday last for the county Tyrone. COURT-FABBZON4LBLE. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford returned to Wo burn Abbey on Friday last. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for Bowood. The Earl of Radnor arrived in Grosvenor-street on Saturday. The Marquis of Waterford arrived in Waterford from Bristol on Saturday. THEATRICAL. The English Opera House will open with promenade concerts, a la Musard, on Thursday evening. MISCELLANEOUS. This day, the festival of St. Michael and all the Holy Angels, commonly called Michaelmas Day, has long been dedicated to the election of the governors of towns and cities, the civil guardians of the peace of men, be cause at the feast of angels, according to the old opinion of tutelary spirits, they are thought to have the particu lar charge of certain bodies of men, or districts of coun try. On this day the Lord Mayor of London is elected for the year ensuing. A numerous and respectable party (amounting, as was said, to 180 persons) left Nine Elms station in seven car riages on Monday morning at seven, reached Southamp ton at nine (seventy-seven miles from London), embarked on board the Grand Turk steamer, and having per formed the circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight, a circuit of seventy-six miles, in seven hours and a half, returned to Southampton, stopped at Winchester for some time to visit its antiquities, and arrived in London about ten in the evening, having thus performed a jour ney of 230 miles in about fifteen hours. The report of the death of M. Laporte is confirmed. He died of apoplexy at Corbeil, near Paris, on Saturday morning at five minutes to one. The band of Drury-lane take a benefit this evening. They have been great sufferers by the deficiency of sa lary, and we trust their appeal to the public will not be without effect. BLAKESLEY THE MURDERER. This morning a report was circulated throughout the Neighbourhood of Eastcheap, that Blakesley the mur derer of Mr. Burdon, had expired in Newgate during last night, but on inquiry at the proper quarter it appeared that the report was at least premature, though, from his altered and emaciated appearance as well as general health, it is not expected by some in attendance on him that he can survive till the day of his trial. As the prisoner with others will have to attend the chapel next Sunday to hear the service, many applications have been made for admission by the curious to see the unfor tunate man, but the civic authorities have resolved to admit only those belonging to the gaol. Mrs. Blakesley is ills : recovering from her wounds. CITY or WESTMINSTER REGIS. TRA rION.--(THIS DAY.) • (Before Mr. ARNOLD.) The revision of the lists for the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, was continued to-day. The Hon. Wm. Booth Grey, the brother of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, claimed to vote in reapect of a house in Charles-street; Berkeley-square, which he had let to Captain Martin, but in which he had retained a bed room, in which a ser;Ant of his slept, together with a store-room. Mr. HUGGETT, on behalf of the Reformers, contended that this was not a sufficient occupation to satisfy the statute, and that if it was Mr. Grey did not reside within the limits of the city, the Hon. Gentleman living at Berkhampstead. From the evidence of a Mr. Harford it appeared that Mr. Grey had apartments in the house of his brother, the Earl of Stamford, to which he had at all times ac cess, and to which he could bring his lady and family. Mr. SCORE, on behalf of Mr. Grey, submitted that this was sufficient residence to give Mr. Grey a vote, even if the occupation by him of the house in Charles-street should be held to be bad. Mr. ARNOLD was clearly of opinion that sufficient re sidence had been proved. but with respect to the occupa tion of the house in Charles -street, he would reserve his judgment. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT• (THIS DAY.) A number of town and country bail cases, and unop posed applications, came before Mr. Commissioner Rey nolds, in which there appeared no feature of public in terest. Y•) GUILDHALL.—(THISD A Wm. Johnson was placed at the bar. before the sitting Alderman, charged with stealing a handkerchief, the property of Richard Wilson. It appeared that the prosecutor was going through Fleet -street, when a policeman saw the prisoner follow ing Mr. Wilson, and knowing him to be a bad character he watched him, and saw him take the handkerchief from his pocket. The prosecutor said he was unaware he had been robbed uttil informed by the constable.—Committed. TUE WEATHER.—NooN, SEPTEMBER 29. ROYAL G ALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELATDE-STIIEET. Barometer Thermometer... L 9 f Highest 59 1 Lowest ... 43 Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. DISTRESSING SUlClDE.—Between six and seven o'clock this morning, Richard Malian, a master coach smith, residing in Grosvenor-mews, New Bond street, committed suicide, under the followin g circum stances :—A little after six o'clock this morning he got up, telling his wife that he should go to work, but at seven o'clock, on her corning down stairs, she was struck with horror at discovering his lifeless body suspended by the neck to a cord fastened round a beam in the shop. The deceased was about forty years of age, and has left a family of four young children. For the last two or three days he had been in a very low and desponding state of mind. The course of the river Cann on the west side of this town, has been diverted by the Eastern Counties Rail way Company, and the old channel being rendered dry, work men are engaged in excavating therein fur the piers for the viaduct to be erected over the river. When completed the liver will resume its original course.— Essex Herald. mv.twxxcr SUN ..._.., ELECTION OF LORD AIAYOR'. COMMON HALL.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, according to annual custom, a Common Hall was held in the 'Guildhall of the Cit t y of Lonilon , for the purpose of presenting tiro Aldermen to the Court of Aldermen, in order that the Court Might c hoose one of them to fill the office of Lord Mayor f o r the ensu in g year. As no oppo s iti on was e x pected, the s canty" attendance, and the comparatively noiseless n ow" of the assemblage, contr as t e d strongly with the s cenes. which took place last year at the election of Lord MAP; Shortly after eleven o'clock the Corporation proceeded in procession to the Church of St. Lawrence, JewrY, t o attend Divine service. Shortly after one o'clock the Corporation returned 14 Guildhall, and the Hall was opened in the usual form by. the Town Clerk. The RECORDER then came forward and said, Gent ly' men of the Livery of Loudon, you are called on this of to exercise one of the principal privileges you sul ° ; namely, the election of the Chief Magistrate of r ° ancient city;_ to be Alderman of London, a nd to nav e served the office of Sheriff, are the necessary quoli fi k , c l - tions to fill the office of Lord Mayor. The course wi`". the ancient customs and charter of London prescribe'', this, - you should nominate to the Court of Alde rme t t two members of this body, and the Court of 20 16 ; men should select one of those so nominal to fill the office of Lord Mayor. According to uPP °ill 4,4 usage, the Learned Common Sergeant will, in th e instance, present to your notice the names of tho se dermen who have not yet passed the Chair ; but iti; your undoubted privilege to put in nomination any Aldermen duly qualified, without regard to the cirettu_ l ; stance of their having previously exercised the function_ of Chief Magistrate. Our free and ancient institutioni have stood the test of time; they have resisted, with 'q u h. success, the assaults of democracy and the . ene rose ments of arbitrary power. In order that the 31agiv trate may be independent in the discharge of his anti the office of Alderman is of a permanent character ; W I " to arrive at any further distinction, it •is necessary "; should acquire the good will, and possess the confidene,c,t, of his fellow-citizens. He presents himself to the grey popular popular body of the Livery, when he solicits his . 4„. tion to the office of Sheriff of London and i‘li ° - ae ° sex. He again constitutes the Livery of L " r i l re the judges of his public life and conduct when he t s ,P,i, t: to the office of Lord Mayor. The trust, then, "td reposed in you, is equally delicate and importan t, % a y have no doubt that you will wisely ex e rci s e it to th e mon benefit and the good of the state. . The COMMON SERGEANT having submitted to me offit , the names of the Aldermen qualified to serve th e „ f of Lord Mayor, declared that tho Sheriffs opinion that the choice had fallen on John Pine der . Alderman and plasterer, and Thomas Wood, Esq. , .I ‘ .. man and frame-work knitter.• The Members of the Corporation then retired 0°01.5,e: port to the Court of Aldermen the decision of the mon Hall, and on their return The RECORDER announced that the election had fallea on John Pirie, Esq., Alderman and plasterer. • n g, This announcement was received with loud ch e er t g e , Mr. Alderman PIRIE then came forward, onl i thieb neral cheering, to return thanks for the honour ': for ty had been conferred on him. He had little though t A (rot a years ago, when he came up to London a poor so the banks of the Tweed—(Cheers)—that so 1 "b joss , honour awaited him. He would make no profesf be but would confine himself to expressing a hope, I De appeared before them on that day twelvemontl's' rto would be found to have done everything in his PT:, to uphold the dignity of the City of .London, as wel l maintain their privileges.—(Cheers.) 00° The Sword-bearer then invested the worthy Aki" e . with the chain of office. te the Mr. 1). W. WIRE then moved a vote of thitb",,g,ooll, late Sheriffs, Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. 1 61 '. 0 Farneombe, for their e ffi cient discharge of the dat! 6o 0 their office, for their hospitality, and their Atte° the charities of that great city. Mr. STEPHENS seconded the motion: - -i"e se et Sheriffs had, by their impartiality, won the app ly both both parties. A to. The vote was then put, and unanimously agree,- Mr. Alderman GIBBS said, that after his ansious)oo of office, it was highly gratifying to him to rece ive tt lial,' a flattering mark of their approbation, more parb, c ,ler' for the mode in which they had presided over til e , for tion. He offered them his sincere acknowledgel be° the honour they had conferred on him.—(Cheers.), Mr. Alderman FARNCOMBE begged to repeat, t ` h ' e v hi e pressions of satisfaction which had been expresseo worthy colleague. He was rejoiced to find that by 14 conduct he had given satisfaction to the i LiverP g ht taking o ffi ce he had determined not to look to the rfle hand or to the left, but to do his duty.—(Cheers ) thanked them again and again. )f r ' On the motion of Mr. WIRE, seconded by STErHENS, the vote of thanks to the late Sher" Y ordered to be advertised in the usual Morning a" Co o' ing Papers, and the TOWN-CLERK declared th e mon-Hall dissolved. W' MONEY and COMVIERCIAL N E ck , CITY, TWELVE O'Cg e i s tit LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 28•` o dere ness done in the Cotton Market to-day is 0a w „ hiP extent, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, ° are taken by the trade. — The 0 14 LIVERPOOL SLIARE MARKET, SEPT• e s beep business doing in the Share Market to-day has dop e Grand Junctions; the Half Shares have been boo' at 984. and the Quarter, 264. , b e SEPT2 B .Ie • MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, z- „ f. have no material alteration in the Shire Mam ct i l abi following are our transactions :--London an d :ter 4 ham, 1554 ; Do., New Thirds, 224 ; M a nch ,el, Ne e Birmingham, 214 ; Manchester and lA' Quarters, 14s. prem. ; Stockport Bank, 2f. THE FUNDS. fOr Consols opened at 884 89 for Money, and 89g 4 Account. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem. Brazilian Banks have declined full three &c h i consequence of the advertisement not appearlD6 payment of the dividends on the 17th Octe 6l ? er ' $1 6 1 ,7,i Stock is now quoted at 63 5 • Spanish „c tl „id'l ll 224 ; Portuguese Five per dents., 304 . ; t he per Cents., 18.. c u itoco s ' o io By the o ffi cial returns published by the a col o export of the precious metals to foreign an un de r parts for the week ending Thursday last was 65 oun c ,,n es. Silver coin to ilamburgh 4 s ' 4 , ) , u ije Silver coin to Rotterdam 65 ,3 91 Silver coin to Mauritius Silver bars to HamburEh HALF-PA S ' wit a4 no The English Funds continue steady, vvi lh -t o'l 4 business doing. Consols for Money are t i q °ter WO ; and for the Account 894 ; Exchequer Bills premium. ittle In the Foreign Market there is also but r Cad r e Brazilian Stock, 62 64 ; Portuguese Fiv e r s , h Al lf l 30 I ; and the Three per Cents., 18 ; SP" . Vt# Stock, 224 4 ; Passive, 54 I ; Deferred, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 per Cents., 1024. a t he si r el' The Share Market presents no alteration, a ll are s, ' 4 l scarcely a bargain doing. Great Western Sb, t o, 4 1 have been done at 534 ; London and B ri g' London and Blackwell, 94 ; and London ' 1 Western, 504. .oC P 'er' TWO O't,/- -00911 Consols, Money, 694 ; Account, 894 a ' , 894 4 ; Spanish, 224 4. i • e% Q DAR TER r 0 OAI The accounts from the manufacturing dist:l,. io ceedingly unfavourlble with respect to r: j rov," Lion of the industrial population, which is tr o ui c elt o 4 be regretted as the foreiern exchanges begin l ht to leis taken and some revival o b f business is thoug . ," o o le; taken place here. The only inference to be ur ed ; d it seems to be, that th e system is radically t dist• - 4 no temporary derangement causes the existing CLOSING PRICES. o4i BRITISH FUNDS. Stock... e • Bank India 5t0ck............ 3 per Cent Red.. Ditto 80nd5..... alto s 3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Ann „. 141', 3i per Cent Red.. — Ditt o New `2l' 14P A ' New 34 per Cent 98% Ex. Bills, 1, l New per Cent — Ditto 5o0e•• . „0. • Long Annuities to expire Ditto OPP ' Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16 Bank Stock Acct•••• Oct 1859 lndia Stock for e t ... ...... Jan. 1860. Consols for M / FOREIGN FUNDS. o pt. ei Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portug uese, 5 per . / Belgum —, 5 per cent D i t to ,l New Ditto. ... . ' „ ,41 Brazilian Bonds.— Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ' Russian, 5 per ceet..,,,. Chilian, 6 per cent — )Ditto, Nletallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent —i Spanish, 5 per cell." 0 o f , Ditto, 1824. ...... Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cen t ' Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange ........•••' .1 Zia Mexican, 5 per cent — ,French, 3 per cen t 01 Ditto, 6 per cent, 1 6 25 — ;Dutch, 24 per cent. • I Peruvian, 1E125, 6 per ct — 'Ditto, 5 per cent..."... SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... Ditto New Shares (50 p a id. ........ ... ••• 4 "; London and Brighton (50 pai d)... ......••• • g ai London and Blackwell R a il w ay (25 PIO' . 6 " London and South Western ........... North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ......... 0 York and North Midl an d Railway (5 0 P .. 7 Ditto New Shares (15 al' Pr - 1 1 ' THE MARKETS—T L. CORN EXCHANGE. I s•er e t, The arrivals of all kinds of grain, since MondAY o jot' pe e re!tbee o There have been many tramactions in Monday's prices. In other grains very littl or e d, and the rates remain as last stated. Flour two" j e s) COLONIAL M RKE T. tr e y,' There was little life in the market, both the ,67 t, ho id4 - 4. 4 0 .'y shippers being cautious in their proceedings, !',;` cie o r firm, and little variation took place opt prices,4 l .„,oc r pear to have seen their lowest for most lands i imports continue large. HALL' fl f' TE AND LEADEN nam e 0 volt G GAD:IE AND POULTRY.--The demand f or slack, and prises of last week barely maintained 00 , :;" befit day being Michaelmas Day, we had a Fre ( 11 he t o t l a bo o , ;) at Market in the early part of the rnorning,_ : exp ec t e is t' l l largely, but not to that extent which ..was.. ai d o t o j i weather been more settled, and the ra e tri....F o ,,bt e i , p er i l were fully supported. Some fine Gees Dr '7 7 ,, to as i° o l and 12s. each. Eggs dull of sale, at 43. 6 d• untr y, w n „ r o,A, Meat of all descriptions, both .town and , co t , 0 10 0 , iv ••• supply ; the demand being brisk, cause l as , ' _ co fold 2J. per stone more money, and in some ta" • 0 stonewas obtained. sr e4 , TALLOW MARKET . t he Il i Prices were steady for Russian Tall ow, but for th e u ocl e ' in a dull state, 'ho trade taking only aoll 4 tbe had wants. P. Y. Candle ou the spot could no per cwt. WOOL MAR K ET- d Prices were steady for both Eng lish an' foto , business was done. The arrivals were alna cnre igo , o °l : l ' l I and the market looked firm. itt d!► "Jc tra il ); 4. 'd . 115 st) t , IdAtiod 54 2_ bad Y 41 .*ll ot Anl bo tie " ids " 4 4 fit asw affe I L .rt. ita A`T