The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-16 00:00:00

NEWSPAI-Elt STAMP RETURNS.. Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of June, 1811, inclusive ordered by the House of Commons: — Average Daily Circulation. SUN 311,000 Globe Standard Courier. 46,000 615 A Return of the Amount of Advertisement Duty , paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to the sth of July, 1841: — SUN Standard C!ohe Courier £673 17 6 589 10 0 55•.2 9 0 '247 7 0 NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, CHARLES CHESTERFIELD; Or, The ADVENTURES OF A YOUTH OF GENIUS. In 3 vols., post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Phiz. " One of Mrs. Trollope's most amusing novels."—Herald. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FJIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS fer the said DIS TRIBU TION& Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI- VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 And the NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION contains lIIVIDENDS of £lO £l5 £44 £29fil £1,770 11 18 72 640 9,600 13 22 145 740 Sterling. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &e. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 700/. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, Rithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. eir Lubeck, Sept. 8, 1841.—Heine Brothers remit again this day several large Money Dividends to Great Britain. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER do MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, OCT. 16, Will be repeated, the New Comedy, entitled OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mathews ; John Blour.t, Mr. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Robert, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Lady Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistress Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte, Mrs. Humby ; Jane, Miss Lee. After which, THE POOR SOLDIER.--Patrick, Mr. W. Harrison ; Dermot. Mr. G. Horncastle ; Darby, Mr. Harley ; Father Luke, Mr. Brougham; Bagatelle, Mr. Wigan; ISorah, Miss Rainforth ; Kathleen, Mrs. Walter Lacy. Doors to bo 'opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 23.; 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 Boxes to be had solely of alt. Andre/is, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. On Monday, Old Maids, with Fra Diavolo. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Crowded Houses. " Blenheim " a greater hit than the " Bat tle of Waterloo." Splendid New Scenes in the Circle, and, by desire, the Poney Races One Week more. THIS EVENING. OCT. I . Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Duarow's mag mieent Stud of Fort, Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Finer, 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 nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix.Carle, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. Te conclude with THE SEVEN CLERKS. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'NDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Continued success of " Susan Hopley !" Revival of " The Black Domino," and of " Madeline !" and third week of " The Flying Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sail. THIS EVENING, OCT. 16, 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. After which, MADELINE ; or. the WOODEN SHOE MAKER and his WIFE, and the POOL of the DHOW NED. Peter Marcel. Mr. Gardner ; Pent de Gibaut, Mr. Paul ; Madeline, Miss Vincent. Te conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ; OR THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale; Toby Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Hummel, Mr. Gardner ; Leetelle, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2a—Pit, 18.—tiallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, ALSO TB E CHINA SUN. PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Suit Office, Oct. 15, 1841. IHRiIIWA I ER ATJ.ONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning..«..3o n uutus aftir 2 I Evening 4S minutes after 2. LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1841. On Monday last we inserted in our leading article the following paragraph :___. 6 grammar school, founded by There is in Tamworth a for the g ra tu i tous long education of the Sir Robert's father, a Peel shall children of the inhabitants, repre sent the borough; and I am informedcredif)iltyasi that the name, and, as master (Savage by by nature) informed the boys a p f r e i i m v e d slo l t s il . d s i s n e c e e in i h s a e t rvi h i e e nister, ordering had received a letter from the him to discharge the children of all i r l those who signed the petition ! The way b e i ng , colleagues weputeprioliuraild:.tothtehe thus lioviwr Officer and his if they l i t rents Of the children to " inquire" important document. And the public mayigned that. believe that some disclaimers were the consequence. We then said " . We will give no opinion on p a ragraph, till we are assured , any part of the by the silence of the Ministerial Journals, that it is is true." Five days.have we waited; the para graph has been copied into a great number of Journals, both metropolitan and provincial ; and it has not been contradicted. We assume, therefOre, that it is true—that there exists at Tamworth a school in which gratuitous edtica tion is given to children, so long as a PEEL shall represent the borough; and thelpresent Prime Minister has . excluded from its benefits the children of all those who signed the Tamworth Address to the QUEEN. Let us look at both these branches of the assertion. • A school f u r th e gra t u it o US education of chil dren, as long as a PEEL sits for Tamworth, is one o f the most injurious but at the sa me time most direct, pie ces of bribery that ' ever fell under our notioe. Si seat to Sir ROBERT PEEL is indebted for his this system of bribery. Looking forward wi th Prudent calculation, the PEELS have insti tuted a scheme to bribe the electors of Tam worth in _alt t i me by the annual donation of schooling, which is money's worth, t o re t urn a PEEL for th at b orough. W e should think that on a petitiontliell House of Comm ons oug ht t o unseat the Premie r for systematic brib e ry. If that be tol erated, it will b e a scan d a l to t h e Hto House of Conn punish any man for giving a • . pounds for a til.4,4kiiarn_score or tw o o f vo t es to ; et i lament. The PE ELS tg Ai 7, matic bribery, ha ve ,by this piece of Converted Tamworth to a family borough, of which he 774 e representation by gratui tous education. t y purchase th The example set by th e _ p PEELS seems likely to be followed, if it receive t he sanction , of Parlia- legy I , ":: .. I ;,,, .. Li ..ki -, t •,,,,,,.- •. r ' '4 .., ,• .1 0, / , '4 17 ; ,,, , ...:,`; ,i _., , ,,0' • omo , • 0. Veht JAIL merit. The Western Luminary contained, a few days ago, the following paragraph : 7 - DART3IOUTII REPRESENTATION.—It is with pleasure that we are enabled to announce that the Conservative Association has received intelligence of the intention of J. Somes, Esq., one of the largest merchants and ship owners in London, to contest the representation of this borough in Parliament on the next opportunity. In addition to the building and fitting out a 600 ton ship here every year, he will employ a large number of our young men ; besides which, the great influx of trade in this port, con sequent on his shipping coming to it, cannot fail to be felt by every individual in it. This is barefaced bribery. Mr. SOMES an nounces that he will, every year, build and equip a ship at Dartmouth, as a bribe to the electors to return him for that place; and the shipowners may emulate Mr. SOMES, and other opulent cotton-spinners may emulate the PEELS ; and so every borough may be brought, as the counties are already brought, under the domi nion of a few rich men. The rights and liberties of the people, so far as they are defined in Par liament, will thus be sold by the electors, and bought by the rich, till the nation will be forced to repudiate, with the utmost contempt, the au thority of Parliament as an instrument of a nar row and selfish oligarchy. The Premier having established this system to bribe the electors of Tamwortb, carries it out to its clue conclusion. Not only must a PEEL re present the place, but those who receive there gratuitous education must not differ in political opinion from the Premier. For daring to re quest, believing as they do that the country is in great distress, that Parliament should not be prorogued, the Premier turns their children out of his school. We have long dreaded that the gentry wished to get hold of the education of the people, only the more effectually to drill them into habits of slavery and servility. They pretend to be very charitable, and to act in a spirit of kindness towards the poor; but here the real motive creeps out—we have seen it at other places and other schools—and that motive is to cast more nets round the poor, and make them more and more the slaves of the aristocracy and the parsons. Let it not be said that Sir ROBERT PEEL is too much of a gentleman to do such a thing. After Sir ROBERT PEEL has descended to garble the Reports of the Fever Hospital at Manchester, and after he has assumed office as the tool of the monopolists, the head of the Starvation Minis try, deliberately engaging in a plan to continue a great scheme of plunder —we consider him capable of any political meanness. Has not Lord STANLEY, who boasts far nobler blood and a bolder mind than. Sir R. PEEL, unblushingly used arguments, as a means of deluding the people, of which any gentleman ought to be ashamed; and why, therefore should any man hesitate to believe that such Ministers will use any kind of mean artifices which may serve their ends ? Neither Sir ROBERT PEEL nor the Ministerial press has denied the charge, though we have allowed them ample time, and the world has, therefore, a right to regard it as proved. What does it amount to ? That Sir R. PEEL, by gratuitous education, habitually and systematically bribes the electors of Tam worth; and that the Prime Minister carries the system so far, that he excludes from his school the children of those parents who, on one parti cular and very important point of national policy, happen to differ in opinion from him. It is a prevalent theory that strong men and rascally men are disposed to injure weak and honest men, and Government is established for the main purpose of protecting the latter against the former. All its other attributes are subor dinate to this leading principle. It is bound, above and before all things, to protect to the ut most of its power the persons and properties, the liberties and rights, of its subjects from every infringement and invasion. If, instead of per forming this duty, Government—meaning both the executive and legislative powers—becomes itself the instrument of invading their rights, if it violates their property and injures their per sons, it then becomes a mere nuisance, to be abated as speedily as may be. It is far more criminal than the criminals it undertakes to put down, for to their criminality it acids odious hypocrisy and scandalous breach of trust. It is degraded to the level of a bandit, who takes the traveller under his protection the more securely to rob him. On this account it seems to us that the instant it is admitted that the Corn-law plunders the people—that it raises rents, and enriches the law-makers at the expense of the people, all other arguments are superfluous. In fact, the dignity of our cause is degraded by attempting, after the admission, to argue it as a question of expediency. Admitting the plunder, there can be no question of more or less, for whether a highway robber take only a sixpence from any victim, or a thousand pounds, his offence is the same. Admitting, too, that it be plunder, we cannot, without upsetting all ideas of morality, argue about its utility. Whoever heard of the utility of being plundered ? We cannot even, without great danger, tolerate arguments on the subject, still less can we tolerate the plunderer endeavouring to prove that plunder is beneficial. For the landowning Legislature to plunder the property of the people is, as we have said, highly criminal, but for it to argue in favour of the wrong, is adding insult to injury. It treats the people as dolts as well as victims. At the same time the evidence is overwhelm ing that the plunder, is like all other plunders, infinitely mischievous. It wastes much more than it transfers, and the booty obtained by Noble, Right Honourable, and Honourable lawgivers, does not amount to a tithe of the sum abstracted from the people. Like war, too, it carries pestilence in its . train, and dooms the plundered people to famine, disease, and death. We have so often pointed out its deleterious in fluence on the whole society that we hold it to be superfluous continually to produce evidence that its effects are of the most injurious and revolting character. But when we find our Tory Contemporaries labouring to prove, in spite of the urgent distress whith prevails in Glasgow, Paisley, Manchester, Bolton, and Stockport—precisely because they itre plun dered both of employment and money—that our people are well off, we cannot help briefly adverting again to some evidence of the miseries which the Corn-law inflicts. We were yesterday reminded by the Herald, that " Mr. JACOB assured the Committee of the House of Commons which sat on the same sub ject, in 1833, that there must be at least two m ch i i l e li f on f s ood of the inhabitants of England whose is potatoes." Since that time the number of persons whose chief food is potatoes has much increased, and when we add those in • Ireland who live wholly on potatoes to those wbo live on them in England, it is probable that nearly 8,000,000 o f t h e people live chiefly o oes of the w orst ki nd. At present theren are great multitudes who do not get sufficient potatoes, and yet our Contemporaries gravely discuss the question, wh et h er the people of this country get more or less bread than those of other tget bread countries. Why, millions of the m d o o at a W, ll. They li ve on tztaptoceos.: nut a nd oatmeal. At the sam e t i me pie who are so wretchedly fed are the most industrious, the most skilful, the most assiduous, pains-taking, hard-working people in the whole civilised world. The enormous wealth of the empire, which is all the produce of gr their labour, and the eat number of person s who live in ease and opulence, are proofs of their industry and skill. They are sought for in all other countries, and well paid when they go thither. To institute comparisons between their rewards and the rewards of other - labourers is perfectly needless. The fact that our industri ous, skilful labourers do not get food enough, while those who make the laws take away their bread, and revel in extorted luxury, is not to be explained away by any sophistry, nor can the plundering law-makers be defended by any ra tional argument. Perhais the reader will hardly be prepared to believe that the Herald quoted the passage we have borrowGd from it, to show that the agricul turists have gone to decay, under the system of protection, but it was so; and the article which contained the passage is so curious, when found in a pro-Corn-law Journal, that we must beg atten tion to some portions of it. The Morning Herald yesterday said : Whilst we demand for British agriculture adequate protection against the inroads of unregulated importa tions of foreign grain, we disclaim any intention of en deavouring to keep up fictitiously the present price of land, at the expense of the consumer, and to the destruc tion of the capital of the farmer. The worst enemy to the landed interest is a landlord who wittingly lets a farm at a rent beyond its value, or who encourages the ruinous competition of the farmers by letting his land by auction, or to the highest bidder, simply because he offers most money. The general inability of fanners to cultivate their land profitably is ultimately very injurious to landlords ; it exhausts the land, it prevents improvements being made; it is a drag on the progress of agricultural knowledge; but worse than all, it creates a diversity of interests be tween them and their tenants. Good and solvent tenants are now rarely to be found ; and we could point out a system of management on the estates of one of the largest landowners in England, as giving a direct en couragement for the occupation of an insolvent and care less tenantry. It is in vain to give protection to land, if the cultiva tors of the soil are to derive no benefit therefrom ; and it is, we fear, too certain that farmers have not derived the .advantage that might have been antici pated from the existing Corn-law. It was stated by competent authority before a Committee of the House of Lords on agriculture, in 1836, that "no less than half the average rent of the kingdom was paid out of capital instead of profits." The decreasing wealth of the farmer operates most injuriously on the laiourer.. It is as idle to talk of tenants protecting:themselves, as it is to speak of factory wages being regulated solely by the supply of the labour market. The demand for land gives landlords as much power over tenants as the de mand for employment and the low price of food give to to the cotton-spinner power over the factory workers. Should the landlords, as a body, continue to neglect this great duty, they will most assuredly create in their te nantry a body having antagonistic interests, and will ul timately force those agriculturists who have preserved any portion of their capital to transfer it to the cultiva tion of wheat in Upper Canada, or to the breeding of sheep in the Australasian colonies. There is already in the north of England and in the south of Scotland, amongst the wealthiest and most intelligent of the youthful farmers, a strong desire to remove from a soil where high rents are rapidly consuming their capital ; and from the banks of the Tweed, a district, though rich and fertile, by no means over-peopled, there has already been a very considerable emigration of money, education, intelli gence, and labour. The decreasing prosperity of tenants has not, however, been generally accompanied by a permanently improved state of things amongst landlords. The great practical vice of the present age is nowhere to be more easily ob served than among landowners. That vice is, that men of fixed incomes too generally live beyond their means, and by speculations foreign to their habits endeavour to grasp at large fortunes by coups de main. The proprietors of small estates, handed down from generation to generation, with all their fine hereditary feelings and sympathy for the poor, are rapidly disappearing ; their possessions are bought " as an investment" by some cold-hearted millionaire. who purchases pro perties as he buys into the funds, merely that rent-days may come round with the same regularity as dividend days, and who envies in his age the local importance of those country gentlemen whom he has remembered from his youth. Nor has this evil confined itself to small landed proprietors ; it is equally destroying the moral influence, the lofty independence, and the means of dif fusing around them happiness, of too many of the lords of thousands of acres, whose patrimonial, inherited, or acquired possessions, apparently bestowed on them—to use Dr, Johnson's memorable expression—" wealth beyond the bounds of human avarice." The insolvency and embarrassment of some of the highest in honours, the largest in landed, prOperties, and the most active in politics of the present day, are as notorious as they are criminal. We can conceive no sight more contemptible, no influence more demoralising, than a man of hereditary rank, of extensive possessions, and of great political in fluence, ruined or involved by his own extravagance. Who may be meant by this last paragraph we know not; but it draws a Noble Duke to the life now in the Administration, and heretofore the idol of the Herald, as he still is of farmers. We, however, care less for the individual de scriptions than the general statement; and here we have the Herald asserting that, in spite of the Corn-laws, which are notoriously ruining the manufacturers, the landlords are going to decay and becoming insolvent, properties are changing hands, rents are too high, the farmers are getting impoverished and anxious to emigrate, and the labourers in agriculture are reduced to live chiefly on potatoes. All these matters are no t new to us, we have frequently stated them ; butwhen we find them in a pro-Corn-law journal, we ask if it be possible to require further evi dence that the plunder committed by the Corn laws is, like all plunder, equally injurious both to the plunderer and the plundered? That result illustrates and confirms old experience, but we did not need it, and it is a disgrace to the people that they need it, to make them rouse as one man, and put down, with indignation, the robbery committed by the landowning Legis lature. The French Journals of Thursday have all been received. They bring a good deal of in teresting news from Spain, which will be found in another part of The Sun. In the Illoniteur of Thursday we find the following official des patches from the Spanish frontier, containing for the most part repetitions of the intelligence published in The Sun of Friday. The first is the whole despatch of the 11th interrupted by nightfall : " Bayonne, Oct. 11. " THE GENERAL CO3IMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. "No further news from Madrid. The ordinary mails still due. Pampeluna and Bilbao, on the 9th in the same situation. Urbistondo has had a slight engagement, without result, with Iturbe. Some villages in Alva, be yond the Ebra, have declared for the movement. General Alcala still at Tolosa. Colonel Fernandez collecting forces at Bergara in favour of O'Donnell. It is said he has already 500 men. Bands forming in the environs of Valcarlos." " Bayonne, Oct. 12. " THE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTgRIOR, " A manifesto of the Regent states that the banner of revolt has been falsely unfurled in the name of Queen Christina, and promises its prompt and energetic repres sion. On the 10th the citadel of Pampeluna fired can non on the town. The consequences unknown. As serted that the feral deputation of Guipuzcoa is about to declare in favour of Christina. Saragossa has declared against the movement. The second regiment of the Guards, which had pronounced in favour of the move ment, has submitted and returned into the town." " Bayonne, Oct. 12. "THE MARITIME CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE. " Advices from Passages state that the deputation of Guipuzcoa has been to Urbistondo at Bergara. Thought with the view of exciting a le►y en masse in favour of the Queen Mother. .Portugalette has pronounced for her, and Logrono for Espartero. A provincial battalion from Burgos, summoned by General Alcala, stopped at Vittoria with General Piquero. The return of General Alcala to St. Sebastian is expected." The two latter reached Paris only on the evening of the 13th, in consequence of the state.of the atmosphere : " Bayonne, Oct. 13. " TIIE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISER OF THE INTERIOR. " On the 11th Pampeluna was again summoned to sur render. On the refusal of the Captain-General, the firing was continued, and caused great damage. The Regent has replaced Ribeiro by General Ayerbe from Arragon." Queen CHRISTINA, it appears, has given her Royal word that she will not quit Paris without the consent of the French Government. A stronger security than the pledge of a dishon oured and dishonourable woman, was exacted from DON CARLOS when compelled to seek an asylum in France. Is Louis 'PHILIPPE ignorant that by the laws of the Spanish Monarchy CHRISTINA, by her connexion with MUNOZ, cannot fill the office of guardian to the young QUEEN ? His MAJESTY is perfectly aware • that it is' not yet three weeks since she gave birth to a second or a third little MuNoz, and yet hardly do the throes of travail cease to be felt when she sanc tions a murderous night attack on the palace of her own daughter, and against the lives of her guardians and protectors. Wherefore, then, is CHRISTINA not sent to prison to keep com pany with her Royal brother-in-law ? For what does she make war on Spain ? Her daughter, whom she recognises as Queen, is Sovereign of that country. As the wife of MuNoz, she herself can neither be Regent nor guardian of her daughter. She is, therefore, without the shadow of a legitimate pretext for disturbing the peace of Spain, and ought to be proceeded against as the chief of a band of assassins. A few days since a suicide, attended with extraordi nary circumstance s , cast a gloom over the commune of Watermael-Boitsford, near Brussels. On the preceding day, a well-dressed man, who appeared about 40, took= . a vigilante, a n d desired the driver to take him beiond', the atth wood of t o f h Le a h C ad am n b a r m e e ; d t , o h B e o r i eg tsf u o e r s t td . e U t p h o e n d Ei r r iv r e ti r in .to g return to Brussels with aletter to be delivered into the hands . 6 r M. It—, his friend, living near the Canal. • . . j This was punctually performed : I m medi a t e ly a ft er th e ' departure of the coachmaa, the stranger put his me lancholy purpose into execution, and, about two hours afterwards, his body was discovered on the causeway, near Boendael. On the left side was a wound inflicted with a pistol that was lying by his side ; there were also found near him a small phial containing a whitish liquid presumed to be poison, a flask of aniseed, and a drinking-glass. In his pockets were found 33fr. and a ' note, without signature, as follows :—" To M. R--, at the Canal, near the Pig Market in Brussels, who will recognise the unfortunate person who has put an end to his life." M. R-- lost no time in repairing to the spot, and the corpse was found to be that of Jean Verbaere, tax-gatherer at Beerzele, a married man and the father of three children. Hitherto. no cause has been assigned for the act. The Constantinople correspondence of the Constitu tionnel contains the following:—" Two remarkably beau tiful Terkish women have been recently carried off by some Russians. Their master—for they were slaves— laid a complaint before the Porte, and reclaimed them, with some jewels they carried off. The jewels were restored, but the women we r e - placed under the protection of the Russian Chancellery, which refused to give them up, alleging that they were Georgians. One of them is really so, and speaks Russian with great fluency, but the other is a native of Constantinople. They had ccst the Turk 1:5.000 piastres. It is generally be lieved that neither of them will be given up." As a pendant to this story, the Augsburg Gazette says that a female has been lately discovered in the ranks of a Turk ish regiment, in which she had served four years as a common soldier. She had left her home, in Anatolia, from being on bad terms with her husband. She was im mediately taken before the Sultan, this journal &Ids, and his Highness, after giving her several presents, directed that she should have liberty to go where she liked, with out being compelled to return to her husband. Baron d'Este, says the Echo of Lille, has been ar rested at the Porte de Gand at that city. He was re turning into France from Belgium, and, being without a passport was taken into custody. This Journal adds that he was much dejected, and had his eyes filled with tears. It was stated yesterday on 'Change that M. d'Este was going to return to Paris, and endeavour to settle his differences. The Correctional Tribunal of Brussels was occupied on Saturday with a charge of adultery preferred by Mr. J., aged 83, against his wife and a Mr. S. (ex-Captain) both 53 years of age ! The Court, in consideration of the extenuating circumstances, and that the damage caused to the husband did _ not exceed 25 francs, con demned the culprits to only 15 days' imprisonment. The Breton of Nantes, 12th inst., says :—" The Eng lish schooner Warlock, Captain Smith, from Sierra Leone, with a cargo of palin oil for London, has put in at St. Nazaire. This vessel, which carried on the slave trade under Brazilian colours, was taken by the British cruisers, and has been sent to England. The Havre papers state that, during a fire of a counting house and other commercial buildings in that town, on Saturday last, a pocket-book containing bills to the amount of 10,000 fr. was abstracted. On Tuesday morn ing, M. Lecoq, the owner, received an envelope contain ing one half of the bills, with a note evidently written in a disguised hand, intimating that as soon as the detainers of the rest had gained their object they should also be restored. It is affirmed that Espartero intends to form on the other side of the Pyrenees a cordon of 50,000 men against the intrigues of Maria Christina. Several members of the family of Rothschild are now at Paris ; it is supposed that the object of this family meeting is to come to an understanding respecting the tender which the house intends to make on Monday next for the loan of 150 millions.—La Gazette de France. It is affirmed that the commercial negotiations between Belgium and France, which seemed to be broken off, are resumed. In support of this assertion it is added that Mr. Haumanna, bookseller, of Brussels, has arrived at Paris, specially instructed to treat on the subject of lite rary piracy. We do not know what truth there may be in this news, but it seems to us that the Belgian Commis sioners, who left Paris, it is said, for the pur pose of obtaining fresh instructions, must have been very expeditious. As for the mission of M. Han manna (if he has any mission), it appears to us wholly out of the usual way. The literary piracy practised in Belgium cannot be made the subject of a stipulation in the treaty; no compensation, no indemnity, can be asked in return for its suppression. This piracy is a robbery— a spoliation, contrary to the modern law of nations ; to enter into a discussion about this robbery, except to demand that it shall be immediately and unconditionally put a ,stop to, would be only acknowledging the Belgians to have a right, which they have not.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 14. f !rat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents. ex. div. 114 85 ... 114 93 ... 114 89 ... 114 90 4 per Cents 9B 59 ... 1/8 50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50. 3 per Cents... ....... dank in erance:..... ...... Belgian Bank 1841 Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Cents., 1840 IO2W ... 102 W ... 102 1 4 ... 1925( Dutch 236 per Cents. 52 ... 52 ... 52 ... 52 ,p.mish Ac,ive XI' ... 91 ... 50% ... 20% Passive 4% ... 47 8 ... 4% ... 4% Neapolitan lO4 93 ... 104 93 ... .M 4 95 ... 104 95 lonian .... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 8 1 1.1 - I.WAY SHARED. Versailles.R.B 3OB 75 ... 308 75 ... 308 75 ... 308 75 LB 2,8 75 ... 201 75 ... 908 75 ... 908 75 Rouen ..... .......... ...... Itr.isourgtoßair.shares red 237 50 . 237 50 ... 235 25 ... 736 25 THE CALEDONIA STEAMER.—NO accounts have been brought of the arrival of this vessel by the Liverpool train, which left that place about two this morning, and reached London at half-post one this afternoon. This steamer was to leave Boston on the Ist or 2d, and Halifax on the 4th instant, and had she started on that day, and made the passage in the average time, she would have arrived at Liverpool yesterday. It is therefore con jectured that she has been detained in order to bring the account of INPLEon's trial. If any intelligence respecting this event should reach us by the six o'clock train, we will give it in a SECOND EDITION. LLO YD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 16.— . Wind this day at noon W., variable. RAMSGATE, OCT. 15.—Arrived the Briton, from London for Smyrna, with eutwater and figure-head 'car ried away. Ellen, Bremen, for Charleston, with fore yard sprung ; Alniina, do., for ditto ; Eleanor, leaky, having been struck by a sea, and with loss of anchor and chain. DEAL, OCT. 15.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrived the Prince of Wales and Prince Rupert, from Hudson's Bay ; Prince Albert, do. ; Shannon, Taylor, Quebec. Arrived from the river the Markland, for Sydney ; Thames, Jamaica ; Roselle, Berbice ; Penningham, for St. Helena. YARMOUTH, OCT. 15.—The Johanna, of London, was in contact last night off Southwold with a loaded brig, arid received damage. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Wind W.N.W.—It has blown nothing but gales for the last three days, and there is no appeaiance of a change. VZSMS SPOKEN WITH.—The Princess Royal, from Leith, to Quebec, 11th ult., off Bic ;. Java, Bristol, 19th ult., St. Petersburgh, by the Astrea, arrived at Kings town. Arms, Boness to Restigouch e , out 27 days, lat. 48, by the ' Susannah, arrived at Cork. Huron, Quebec to Belfast, lat. 50, lon. 18, by the Naiad, arrived at Cork. Alice, Amsterdam to Miramichi, Ist inst., lat. 50, lon. 30, by the Kingaloch, arrived at Newfoundland. Juliet, Hamburgh to Placentia, 12th inst., 12 leagues E. of Cape Race, by the Margaret and Jane, arrived at New foundland:. Avon, Liverpool to New Brunswick, 28th ult., lat. 53, lon. 25, by the Mary, arrived at Newfound land. Avon, of Poole, for New London, 23d ult., lat. 44, lon. 34 ; Gipsy, of Liverpool, 4th inst., by th e Rapid, arrived in the River. Gertrude, London to New Zea land, Aug. 20th, lat. 25 S., lon. 33 W., by the Mary Taylor, arrived in the Downs. Nymph, of Sunderland, with foremast sprung, Ist inst. lat. 45, lon. 10, by the Hamilla, arrived in the Clyde. THE FUNDS—(CLOsiNG PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. fink Stock 164 India Stock —.244 3 per Cent Red. B6a I Ditto Bonds 2 pr 3 per Cent Cons i 884, Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red.. New 34• per Cent 97i Ex. Bills, 1,0001—.21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/... ..... 13 pra Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto 'Small. ...12 pm Jan. 1860 l2k Bank Stock for Acct... Oct. 1859—, l2 3-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 47 Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... 52 Prussian, 5 per cent -.- Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent._ Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, b per cent 2OA Ditto, 1824 I9A 'Ditto, Deferred . 9;, Danish, 3 per cen t Greek, French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 18:45, 5 per cent (Exchange Mexican, 5 p er cent.... 24 1 French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. --Ditto, 5 per cent 99 per cent, 1825 IDutch, 2i per cent. ... 51 i SHARES Great Western R a il w ay (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid 574 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 384 London and Blackwall Railway (25 Paid)... tii SABBATH KEEPING IN HIGH . PLACES.— From the Court Circular it will be seen that his Royal Highness the Tory Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party last Sunday, at which, among other fashionables, Sir Robert Peel and his lady were present. It will be farther seen from the same source, that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel had a conference last Sunday—doubtless on the affairs of the State. It will be farther seen from the same source, that Sir Robert Peel forwarded an express from London last Sunday, but whether on horseback, or by the railway train, is not stated, for Sir Stratford Canning, the new Ambassa dor to St. Petersburgh. Moreover, though it is not stated in the C our t Ci rcu lar, the fact is nevertheless undoubted, and we h ere by record it in the Scotch Re former's Gaz e tt e , t h at t h e Rev. Dr, Norman M‘Leod, who, we are gl a d t o -fi n d, h a s just received the appoint ment from his friend Sir Robert Peel of one of her Ma jeltrechaplains in Scotland, actually sailed from Lon don on Sunday, and arrived in Glasgow hakrand hearty on Monday. --Scotch Reformer's Gazette. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —An accident took place yesterday morning with the mail train ; the engine ran against a truck full of sheep at Southall, killed twelve of them, and injured several others. It is snie(tiut we have not been able to inquire at the office) :that it arose from it combination among the.rnen, in con .setinenCtof many of thein:having had their pay stopper'. No injury ma done to thg mail passengers, nor incon venience caused, beyond a delay of two hours.—Railway Magazine. S URI ARV OF NEWS AND tittbitt Copintott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The. French Government Journals appear to have received an intimation from the Court to be less enthu siastic in their support of Christina, for the papers of Thursday rather deprecate any interference with the in ternal affairs of Spain. The Journal des Debuts alone contends that the French interest must be maintained at all hmards at Madrid, and broadly asserts that France, and France only, must provide a husband for the young Queen. This is a question which France will not be allowed to settle after this free and easy fashion. On the 10th inst. General O'Donnell summoned the town of Pampeluna to surrender, and on receiving a re fusal, cannonaded it from the citadel. The summons was renewed on the 11th with the same result, when a heavy fire was opened upon the town, which did immense damage. O'Donnell was without provisions, and the troops cf Espartero in possession of the town had en tirely cut off his supplies. Tho result of the cannonade of the 11th is not yet known. The following is an extract from theCourrier Francais, suggested by the reports of a financial crisis in England. We fear that the hatred of this country which it betrays is but too general even among the educated classes in France:—" A bad harvest, the interruption of labour in several of the manufacturing districts, the distress of the working classes, the deficit of the public revenue, and the embarrassment of the Bank of England all com bine to produce a position, which is anything but safe, and out of which even immediate danger may arise. In the event of a war with the United States, for in stance, Manchester would certainly be reduced to close her factories, and the Bank of England to suspend its payments. We do not desire this catastrophe. Nations are now closely connected with each other in questions of credit, and France has nothing to gain by the ruin, or even the derangement of' English commerce ; but it is pleasant to see the situation of those proud islanders, who for a whole year dreamed of enchaining the world in their policy, and rendering it tributary to their trade. There they are trembling before a French fleet of twenty ships of the line, and sinking under the weight of a finan cial operation, scarcely amounting to 4,600,0001. sterling. A remarkable document, addressed by the Pope to the Governments of Germany, relative to mixed mar riages, will be found in another part of The Sun. The pretensions of , the See of Rome are as preposterous as they were three centuries ago. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times, in noticin g Lord Ellenborou g h's appoint ment, which it seems is not yet settled, to the Gover nor-Generalship of India, recommends, as a point of great importance, that the Hindoos should be properly instructed in astronomy, observing—" Our readers are very generally aware of the prodigious advances which have been made of late years by the educated native po pulation in extricating themselves from their bloody and barbarous superstitions. Those superstitions, involving annually an amount of torture, obscenity, and immola tion, which, as practised under the very eye of the British authorities, must make humanity shudder, are for the most part based upon, and indissolubly identified with, certain wild chimeras of theirs, which they believe to be of divine origin, relative to the physical phenomena and go verning spirit of the universe. Of this description in particu lar, is their absurd and monstrous system of astronomy ; and since their ignorant misconceptions respecting the struc ture and changes of the material world form the very life and soul of their revolting polytheism, every person must see that, without necessarily attacking their reli gious prejudices in the first instance, the mere commu nication to them of just scientific views in a popular form, accompanied by that rigorous demonstration which the neuter Hindoos can intelligently appreciate, would eventually involve, along with the demolition of what they deem a heaven-revealed science, a complete disbe lief in the pretended divinity of their worship. Their astronomy and their religion are, in their opinion, equally divine ; and they stand or fall together." The Chronicle observes, while comparing Sir Robert Peel with Pitt—" Without placing Sir Robert Peel in the first rank of Statesmen, it would be idle to refuse to him more than an usual measure of industry and ap plication, and the possession of extensive information on most of the subjects which occupy public men. Mr. Pitt, when he entered on office, could not have posseased any great stock of knowledge, from his youth. Even with out the evidence of Mr. Wilberforce, who knew him intimately, as to his slender stock of knowledge, a very cursory perusal of his speeches will satisfy any one that, however superior as an orator, in political information he was much below Sir Robert Peel. But he possessed what Sir Robert Peel has not from nature, and never, therefore, can have—the firmness of mind to act on his own convictions as to what would most con duce to the welfare of the country. He believed him self to be an honest man, and he would have suffered his right hand to be cut off rather than become the tool of the aristocracy."—lt is impossible that Pitt could have ever believed himself an honest man—commencing public life, as he did, as a Reformer, and then after wards becoming the great arch-enemy of Reform. As for his not consenting to be the tool of the aristo cracy, he was never anything else than their tool—their cat's-paw. The Herald, speaking of Nl‘Leod's case, says --" It is always with feelings of pain, only equalled by the inten sity of our solicitude, that we advert to the case of Mr. M'Leod. But the sense of duty that impelled us (in the commencement of those events, which, accumulating in rapid and fearful succession, have invested his position with an interest so absorbing and so profound) to appeal, on his behalf, to the outraged majesty of his country ; becomes but the more distinct and strong with the arri val of every mail from the United States, that brings us any intelligence of the aspect of his case. We write, at this moment, under a vivid impression of the enormous magni tude of the results involved in the fate of M'Leod. This impression is based on the conviction that, between the restoration of that individual, in safety, to the authorities of England—and war between England and the United States in the event of his destruction—there is no alter native. There is no middle term between these two extreme conditions. The wrong already done—the violence, outrage, and oppression, already visited on a British subject, whose stets have been reclaimed (so to speak), by his own Government, as their acts—and which reclamation of them has been accepted and re cognised by the explicit admissions of the Government of the United States—these things have left no loophole through which diplomatic ingenuity can now drag the national prisoner out of the political. tempest ready to burst on his devoted head, into the favouring obscurity of a private culprit. It has been truly said that in the person of M•Leod the greatness of the British nation is criminally arraigned before an illegal tribunal consti tuted by the United States." We quote the following from the Post:—" It were idle to deny that there are many alarming symptoms in the social condition of Great Britain. It is fearful to behold an enormous mass of people whose means of ex istence are scanty and precarious, and who have thrown off all restraint of reverence for that which is placed above them. Men of the distnrbing and revolutionary school seem to find a degree of triumph in this very aspect of danger. See,' they cry, how matters really are—you must do something—you must alter the laws— you must begin by repealing the Corn-laws.' We answer that changing the laws won't change the people, and that is the only change which can be effec tual. 'While the people of all ranks, or all de grees of property, in the crowded manufacturing dis tricts, are what they are, it is a moral impossibi lity that they should be tranquil, or wise, or happy. It is not in external circumstances, but in themselves that the mischief lies. Changes of the law would signify nothing beyond the moment. The desire of change— the ignorant expectation of advantage from change— would still be there, and presently would arise some new occasion for restlessness and disturbance. Satisfy the turbulent by repeal of the Corn-laws ! As well might you hand the thirsty man a teaspoon full of water, and tell him never to thirst more. Our opinion is either that there is no hope at all, or that the true ground of hope is in the reform of the people, not in the reform of the law. And who is to; reform the people ? We answer that if it is to be done at all, it is to be done by the Church." We quote the following observations from the Durham Chronicle. —" War with America is the very worst evil that could befal this country; and we are thoroughly convinced that it is an - evil.which never would hav,e hap pened had a Whig Administration remained in power. With the Tories at the head of affairs, we believe this disastrous result pot improbable; for judging from past experience, we know that the most impolitic wars have obtained, and do still obtain, that faction's most hearty assent." The Dundee Chronicle, in an article suggested by the present state of the country, remarks as follows : " Should the winter be a hard one, we defy the Tories to rule without shedding blood ; we defy them to check ths clamours of a hungry mass of the manufacturing population without filling the prisons and convict bulks ; we defy them to eradicate the, deep-rooted hatred that lies in the breasts of the people, towards them and their procrastinating Government, without bayoneting or bul leting their hearts." The Brighton Berald, in reference to Lord Alvanley's pamphlet, says:—" Whilst the Anglo-Protestant Catho lics—the Puseyites--are thinking seriously of reuniting the Church of England to that of Rome, and Rome is meeting them half way, Lord Alvanley has published a pamphlet, in which he contends that the State ought now to support all the Catholic priests of Ireland; whilSt he would make the Catholic priests a State Stipendiary, would refuse all State asestance to the Dissenting pastor, to which we are most decidedly opposed. It is enough for the Dissenter to be taxed towards the support of one true and Apostolic Church,' without being saddled with two." MONEY — TRADE—COMMERCE. The celebrated Professor Heeren, of Gottingen Uni versity, has been commissioned, by the Hanoverian Go vernment, to make a careful inspection throughout France and Belgium of the present condition of trade in those countries, and to inquire into the causes which have con tributed to its immense development there during the past few years. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Man chester, held on Wednesday, th% surplus fund, after every diminution, was stated at 19,000/. The greatest distress prevails at this moment among the working classes of the metropolis. The number of unemployed tailors and shoemakers is daily increasing, and the Spitalfields weavers are giving themselves up to despair. The scenes of misery and want, even in that distressed district, are quite unprecedented. The favourite Greek wine, the Vino 811-ito of the Agean, is often sold on the' spot for a penny a gallon. The Marsala vineyards in Sicily, arc occupied at present by English merchants. AGRICULTIMAL. The large quantity of vegetable produce grown in the neighbourhood of Lichfield, may be inferred from the fact that no less than 300 tons of onions have been dis posed 6f at the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other neighbouring markets, within the past year. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The new Board of Admiralty have directed that 100 stout and muscular landsmen shall be entered imme diately for the navy, from 20 to 25 years of age. Great preparations are going on in the Royal Dock yards for fitting out numerous vessels of war. The body of the unfortunate man Wallace, ho, it is alleged, was murdered by a warrant officer Celonging to her Majesty's ship Wellington, at Sheerness, has been found about two miles from the spot where the occurrence took place. Ward, the accused party, is in close cus tody on board the Ocean. LAW AND POLICE. At Marlborough-street yesterday Mr. Laverty applied for summonses against Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, who had, on the 25th of September, accused him falsely with inde- cently assaulting Mrs. Hunt. The summonses were im mediately granted. At Bow- street Joseph Payboddy, a butcher, residing in Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, who was charged, on Monday last, with a person of the name of Biggs, with having forged and uttered a number of checks upon the bank of Messrs. Snow, Paul, and Co., of tha Strand, but who was admitted to bail till Tuesday next, was again placed at the bar on a charge of utter ing two other forged checks of the sum of 1001. each. After a lengthened examination the Magistrate, not judging it expedient to accept bail, the prisoner was re manded. At Union-hall six girls, inmates of Lambeth work house, were committed for twenty-one days to the House of Correction, for disorderly conduct, and break ing nineteen squares of glass ; and at the Greenwich Police•court, three young healthy-looking women be longing to the Greenwich workhouse, were committed for twenty-one days to the same place for similar offences. LITERARY AND ECIENTIPIC. The bridge to be thrown over the river Shannon at Athlone, is progressing fast, and the excavations are already'made several yards below the bed of the river. Lieutenant Stokes, of her Majesty's ship Beagle, has lately sent to the British Museum, a very large sea snake, belonging to the genus Hydrus, which is nearly as thick as a man's thigh, and between five and six feet long. It is the thickest and most weighty poisonous snake known. The architect M. Charpentier has undertaken, for a sum of 450,000 francs (18,0001.), to restore the ancient basilica of Longchamp, as a temple to be exclusively de voted to the performance of oratorios, and other sacred music of the great masters. FINE ARTS. The Committee appointed to superintend the restora tion of Crosby Palace, Bishopsgate-street, are bringing their labours to a close. This palace, with its " richly embowed roof," at which Sir Bartholomew Read, Mayor of London, entertained a solemn Embassy from Maxi milian of Germany—which Sir Thomas More occupied, and afterwards sold to " his dearest friend" Bonoisi, the Lucca merchant—which in 1594 the " rich Spencer" purchased, and " Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother," occupied for a time, was in later years turned into a Presbyterian meeting-house, and afterwards became a packer's warehouse ! From these degraded uses it has now been delivered, and its architectural splendour pre served to better times. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Marquis of Exeter expects shortly to be honoured with a visit from the Queen Dowager at Burleigh. On Thursday her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, who has been staying at Piermont-house, Broadstairs, upwards of two months, left for her resi dence at Blackheath. The Princess is in her 69th year, and is in apparent good health. The Earl of Aberdeen will give a grand dinner on Tuesday next at Argyll House. A sham fight took place yesterday in the Home . Park at Windsor, before her Majesty and Prince Albert, be tween two companies of the 72d regiment. Her Majesty is said to have expressed a wish that her accouchment might take place at Windsor, but the many inconveniences which would attend this arrange ment forbid it. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday, it being the present King of Prussia's birthday, was inaugurated on the Place of La Belle Al liance, at Berlin, a superb granite column, 42 feet high, and surmounted by a figure of Victory, in commemo ration of the successes of the Prussian army over Na poleon. On the 15th of this mouth, in 1555, Bishop Ridley gave a supper to his friends the night before he suffered. This supper presents some idea of the manner of living as well as the price of provisions, at that time :—A pig. 11d.; a shoulder of mutton, 9d. ; a plover, 4d.; bread and ale, 3d. ; wine, Id. ; cheese and pears, 2d. ; total, 2s. 6d. " Quiet yourselves," said he to his friends ; " though my breakfast will be somewhat sharp and pain ful, yet my supper will be more pleasant and easy." Lord Eliot, while riding to his office at Dublin Castle from the Chief Secretary's lodge on Thursday last, was thrown from his horse, and bruised and stunned by the fall. At the sham fight, which took place yesterday at Windsor Park, before the Queen and Prince Albert, it was observed that the old muskets, with flint and steel, almost invariably failed, while the new ones, with per cussion locks, seldom or never missed fire. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 15.—The inquiry for Cotton this week has been to a fair extent from the trade, and has been met pretty freely by importers of American, at last week's prices. The middling qualities are perhaps not so easy to buy, owing to the demand being chiefly for that description. Brazils continue very heavy, and for sawginned Maranhams lower prices have been taken; other sorts without change. At the public sale to-day, every thing was bought in ; 3,000 American and 200 Surat have been taken on speculation, and 150 Ame rican and 250 Surat for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 15.—Very little doing, the only quotation marked is the Eastern Coun ties, 7i ex div. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 15.—The Market continues steady at former prices. We have had some business transacted in Manchester and Leeds at 57 ex 4 Shares ; the latter are selling at 15s. prem. Manchester and Birmingham have been sold at 21 : 1 ; North Midlands are 344 to 34 dis. We have some in quiry for Midland Counties, and London and Birming ham New Thirds. There has been no sale in Bank of Manchester Shares since the meeting on Wednesday last ; they may be quoted at 5 to 5f per Share. TAB FUNDS. The intelligence received by the packet ship Sheridan, from New York, the details of which are published in another part of this paper, is considered in the City to be of an unfavourable nature ; and Consols, which closed last night at 88k for Money, opened this morning at 87i 88 ; and 88+ s for the Account ; Exehequer Bills are steady at Ils. 13s. prem. In the Foreign Market no alteration has taken place. Spanish Active Stock, is now quoted at 20i ; Deferred, 9i 10 1 1 ; Passive, 47,- ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 29 30 ; ditto, Threes, 18i. The Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, compared with the last statement, shows an increase in the circulation of 111,000/., a decrease in the deposits of 523,0001., in securities of 139,000/., and in bullion of 262,0001. The Continental Exchanges were much firmer again yesterday, and bills upon Paris and Amsterdam were much higher. Consols have since further declined to 88 for the Ac count. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ItAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 7i f Gibraltar . .. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa , 25 90 p _ Antwerp 12 7 Milan _ n BambuiTh M.B. 13 14 'Venice Altona - Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 1184 Ditto, 3 months.., ...... 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 371 Buenos Ayres Berlin ..... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight Obi Vienna, effec. ft. 3M. 955 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz 36i Foreidn Gold, bars,..3 17 9 Bilboa Barcelona Seville HALF-PAST ONE. The English Stock Market continues flat and heavy. The following are the fluctuations during the mo r n ing : Consols for Money, 88 87* ; and for Account 88k 87* 88* 88 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 864 4 ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 96i 4 96 ; Bank Stock, is now quoted at'l64 ; India do., 244; do. Bonds, 2s. prem. to par; Exchequer Bills, 1 ls. 13s. prem. There has been a fair business doin g in the Foreign Securities, but no material alteration has taken place. Spanish Active Stock has been down to 19i, but are now 20* ; Deferred, 94 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 294 ; Ditto Threes, 18 ; Brazilian Bonds,. 524 534 ; Mexican, 24:1-; Colombian, 194; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50; ; Five per, Cents. 981, There has been but One transaction done in the Share Market, and that has been in London and Brighton, the Shares of which have receedcd to 38-1 4. QUARTER TO TWO. Consols, money, .874 ; in November, 884 ; Spanish, 20*4. BOth markets are flat. No intelligence of the Caledonia steam-ship. QUARTER TO THREE. TWO O'CLOCK. Now the intelligence has been received respecting the seizure of an American subject, and the high pitch of exasperation to which public feeling has risen on both the British and United States side of the frontier in relation to M'Leod's trial, many parties here incline to the opinion, that the Great 'West ern steamer brought over despatches the other day from Mr. Fox, in which these matters were represented in a strong light, and that some intimation of it having trans pired in influential quarters, this was the occasion of the panic in the Funds. The Produce Markets have been good this week for Colonial articles, but not very cheering for other staples. APPROACH OF WINTER.-011 Monday last Mr. Joseph Furmage, gamekeeper to Colonel Carly on, shot a fine woodcock on the manor of Tregrehan ; ant on Wednesday last another of these brumal visitants was shot in the vicinity of Idless, and presented to C. W. Turner, Esq.—West Briton. THE MARKETS—THIS DAY. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. The supply of meat was good, but the trade bought only a small quantity, and on some descriptions 3 lowrr prices were paid. Beef; 3s. 2d. to 3s. 4d. ; Prim to 554 e, r. Bd. Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. per stone of 81b. Po illtr Y game were in short supply ; trade good, an d last prices were supported. Eggs dull of sale at 4 s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per 120. . to 45.; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d.; Veal, 4s. 8 J find WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The rain had a bad effect upon the Trade, and priced were rather lower. Veal' sold much worse. In Beef Mutton little alteration. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 3111,ti—"' 2s. Bd. 4s. 2d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to . SS. ; Pork, :Is. • S"' to ss. 4d. • Lamb, 4s-to 4s. Bd. Clover, 3Z to 61 ; 31 c0 °W ' Hay, 41. to 41. 15s. ; Straw, It 12s. ; to 1/. 16s. • TEA MARKET. In Free • Trade Tea - there was little business, trans. In pubn (i. acted, the attention of buyers being directed to .sales declared for Tuesday ; but holders were fien l 9, ° f f prices were supported. Company's Congou moven slowly at Is. 9 1 2-d.. cash. The deliveries still keep 1 1,1 :V* TALLOW MARKET. was There was more activity in the Market ; 475. 3d.0„ the value of P. Y. Candles on the -spot ; for deliverY r to the end of the year, sellers at 475. per cwt. . SPI MARKET. ifirg e .For fine sorts of Rumore demand was good, 2n- wer e p rce's were sold at full rates, but common kinds 10 d. dull of sale, and rather lower. Proof Leewards 15...,r•1ts to is. 11d. *Brandy in fair request. British Corn S.P, dull at 10s. 4d., cash. WOOL MARKET. sou Prices firm, but the Market dull, for both Eng lish. Foreign. The arrivals small. Public sales of Colsnia will be shortly declared. ,;.t SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE '' (RECEIVED THIS DAY. ) y , NORTHALLERTON RACES.—Tnu BSD V . 11 The Two-yrs-old Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. Once round. Colonel Cradock's Sally Mr. Kitching's Priscilla Tomboy .. . ......... 3 12 Duke of Cleveland's Cable ............................... '4 The Town Plate of 501. • Two mile heats. , Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn, 3 yrs (Heseltine) 2 2 Mr. Hutchinson's Maria Monk, 4y r s .... . ........ • 3 Mr. Arrowsmith's Ten Pound Note, 3 yrs. . ... . , 4 Mr. Dawson's bc by Macedonicus, 3 yrs .... ' ... Mr. Smith's sis. to Henriade, 3 yrs . . ................ WELSHPOOL RACES.—THURsoAt• odd. The Borough Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 Heats, twice round and a dis. 1 , 1 Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged (Wadlolvi 2 • 2 Mr. Flintoff's Wings, 5 yrs .......................... • Mr. Barrow's Catharine, aged ........................ stske The Tradesmen's Purse of 201., added to a s ' veeP of 3 sovs. each. Mile and half heats. I 1 Mr. Bostock's bf by Sir Philip ,(Marlow) 3 2 Mr. Edmunds' br mby Jupiter ...............• •.. 3 Mr. Pryse's Swiss Boy ................................. ;leg; The Tallyho Stakes of 5 says. each, and 2° i 3l b / v r. twice round and a dis., were won in two hat s / i' l tboi Barrow's Catharine, aged (Hopwood), beating lA3 and another. LATEST BETTING AT MANCIIEST-14/ l ot Mostyn Mile.-3 to 1 agst Lampoon, s t o 1 Shadow, 3 to 1 agst Rodanthe. gsS LATEST BETTING AT NEWMA- 11--- 6to ' Cambridgeshire Stakes.-3 to 1 agst Melody c , g ot agst Iliona, 9 to 1 agst The Young-'un, 1 0 W I A pt Broadwath, 12 to 1 agst Compensation, 15 to .v u lco' Henri Quatri, 20 to 1 agst Zelmyra, 20 to 1 ag st. Derby.—No change. on ti Coursing.—At the Biggar (First) Afecl cn Tuesday and Wednesday last, the Silver Flas k lY by 10 by Mr. Wardrop's Chance, the Lanark Stake s ,, , ; Baillie's Jan Roy, and the Collar by Mr. Dicks°- -- - lu- THE WEATHER.—NooN, OCTODE g o'. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDV*SI. Barometer 29 .43 4 0 Thermometer.. 55 I Highest 55 I Lowest "...' Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 peg' , ii rr THE WEALTHY MISER" SALE OF THE FURNITURE OF THE LATE - 1 '; SII iT he OF GREAT ST. ANDREW -S T R EET , SEVEN 1)1 " 4--. :est er. furniture belonging to this we a lthy old miser wO h J e - a ge' day brought to the hammer by Mr. Moore , t c - a - por tioneer. The interest excited by the event i n le sous a neighbourhood, caused such a rush of Pe ° r n f the the house, as to render necessary the interference sup' to preserve order. The lots were, as m s Y„d'e - /ar il ; posed, of an ordinary description, but rout, - bait vagant prices, owing to a prevalent idea among f t"" that they contained hidden treasures.. The !to rs fortunate man who recently bought a yair or,t r ,'; in which lay concealed a quantity of hank-nT^`' ; c The in no small degree to promote 'this delusiorbitoest library of the deceased consisted of a few sacred delude pot of which the Bible announced in the catalogue Wa 011 0 forthcoming, it having probably been purloined b i l p ete s i one who expected to find it interleaved with 13an d 0 104P eh The late Mr. Smith used to attend the Whitetiei ted ec in Tottenham-court-road. The sister, wh ° n it i c od P e t housekeeper to him, enjoyed an income of one P' I but week, not from the liberality of her brother nrs ogo i right of her father's will, who died man,' Y e ,cf She has long laboured und er an i m becile sto‘Tto- isbota Until within a very few years, Mr. Smi th actively at the forge, which his father . had left hi tail gather with upwards of 20,0001. , but latterlY was restricted to the supply of th e locks, bars , b i t s ,: , :tv d required at his various houses in Mornington - P: o f th i. ° elsewhere. Mr. Smith was, in the strictest sen t !'" ite` word, a miser ; and the anecdotes related in the reline bourhood of his penurious habits, would, fora' $ s l as interesting as that of the ecceptric Mr. B1:le;;; "' was of the Phineas Phiddy school, and r r i;ch striking illustration of the degree of 'wealth to man may attain by regarding self in eireiYlnlonle-, die" movement in life. Mr. Smith is supposed ,t6.h,l,gehil worth two hundred thousand Pounds. It is said that funeral expenses, though moderate, would have 04 , up his expenditure for three years while living" qrf 1 INCREASE IN THE ROYAL I"' (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 01 ,00'; The dock-yards of Woolwich, Sheerness , Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Pembroke, present quite warlike appearance, as for the last three weeks t he g. a - cOV activity prevails in getting ready immediatelYrkfer,l, service no less than twenty-five ships of war. ei " o f ew y . classes, in consequence of the unsettled st' it _ relations with the United States of America ?p d sibt e Great difficulty is experienced in o btainillg on ; bodied seamen to man the vessels put in comis° wee': consequence of which the Lo r d s of the Adm ira l up yesterday the following Notice, which was 1 3 ° 5° 1 . .00 0 ' the environs of the Tower, the St. Katherine, ,-vicht East and West India Dock s , Greenwich and 1 " ) and y extensivel circulated at all the for " Landsmen of good character can b e entered pc& Royal Navy, provided th e y are not less thae 7 inches in height, nor exceeding 25 years of " The above must combine good physical muscular strength, and will have - to undergL ivst e : medical examination. P re f erence w ill be give n v`' cra ft . o . men, or men accustomed t o b arges an d other rI t app'-' FIRE AT ISLINGTON.—On Thursday nig, le e rs attended with considerable loss of property, W k. l' r ron' the house of Mr. Stannard, Annett-terrace, Low e ri a 0 0 ,'" Islington. It originated in the upper '4 o ° r ' G refo'„ l/ „1, discovered by the opposite neighbours b ut to bed, who alarmed the inmates, A nd e n, they were of little use, till at last the for the parish engines from Islingtun'g re P ts j blishment and West of Londn o t, au: withstanding they were well supplied '' vit des tro4 property to the amount of at least 400/. wags England engines arrived ; 11 o teli . It is supposed to have originated from the sP ot re pin e ' candle dropping on the bed-clothes in tie f r° n o ,' ll All the family were absent at the time , oto having been left at home but the female s' o ' l ! o ffice' Stannard is insured in the Licensed Viettiallersoselog! NATIONAL DELUISIONs.—Mr.Ch ades„" ; ch author of " The Thames and its Tributnries, hich pin to publish a work on national delusions , in ,rott ? tl'rlI; curious and decisive information, obtained b)ifs, search and fortunate access to original doetuneoutli 1 . 0 found on the following subj ects, viz.: _“ The Bubble ;" " The Tuliponetnia ;" " Relies t,,,,, JI The Prophecies ;" " Duels and Ordeals ;" s ; Ka tee venous ;" "The O. I'. Mania ;" " The Crus!;" ° ,, ca Witch Mania ;" " The Slow PoisonerS ot hers, - de r' . Houses," &c. Such themes as these, among Ivere ref' not fail to excite and fix the curiosity of tho interest for amusement, who will, in addition t o the olas parted by the perusal, imbibe a store of Veil n a/ knowledge. The peculiarities of Eastern life, s i ° ,, distinct from those of every other portio n of t ! of world, have never been arrayed in the Palappellsii with so much vigour, truth, and animation 1 1 ,„„ '1 Aar the Oriental romances of Mr. Morier. In e ven ,t ties " llu i Baba " and " Zohrab " surPasse r i o ritl io , Hope's brilliant sir, of " Anastasius"—a,.S l i, l r. TitorT , If tributable in part to the long residenc e r ude 'et' .4 Persia and other Eastern countries. It ' that / J O a welcome piece of intelligence to the lovers ( 13 . 0. isig geous class of romance of which the " i t hati' Entertainments " form a part, to be inforin _ • )' Oriental story is about to appear from tn",, r t:7 , author of" Ilajji Baba," entitled, " The 3lict 0 1 f 1,0 fl u • Riches Dawson, the gamekeeper ° w ed liam P ow l ett , of Downham - hall , w ho was missed eg his hou se on Wednesday the 29th ult., a ' S week, was found on the billowing INiondaY n3nicretell ing by one leg ; with his head down, from :do tli re fir-tree, 12 feet from the ground, and had t_v o ` asa n s_r si t dead a long time. The tree was near L. tr i e „ r e ,•' serve ; and as lie was accustomed to i t night to see what quantity of birds there ce_'o%,.'iit C. table his foot slipped, and in his fall was,, c a t th i : ea p, manner in which he was found. At the t i to s -13 be s were his hat and a pitchfork which he us e e t -f the ay the buck wheat that was close by for the lis t _ mr. Brine 1 , man, Coroner, when Mr. Ward, surg!on to , by API, stl sants. An inquest was held on the bodywuhio ex il e the body, said his death was occastot h u ich he o bis which would be caused by the way in ` v . k front bi. pended from the tree ; but he shoiild thince b Ito ele r E —Bury Post. A lately , lac+ pearance that he was probably apoplec SINGULAR MAN.--Onc cla y • . this 13 . .outnn ‘sn ° man qtit the. question to a married w _ og re, rf Did all mankind fall in Adam's first trn .her olt,y o To which the woman replied, A s for , qt „ how they stand, I cannot ; but one tr,„.: s3 ions oft lily man never fell in. Adam's .first transg . ; all the told me that he never ate fruit of any kinu ; t hing I of his life ; so that ye see, Sir, he flits lin with Adam at all."—Stirling Observer. CC ful S c bo int flu m is sh, pry 110 t sith con th o , for th e Was le ri - c fiz e 6 iStu le g) Corn Wit) eXtr cl h ov , ) of , $ ) th 4, 4 4,331)4 EVENING SUN fHE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1 41. EVENING SUN