The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-24 00:00:00

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Sixteen coupl es of Scot t' sh men and women, who were the most graceful dancers of Taymouth Castle, are to proceed to Windsor Castle, for the exhibition of their grace and skill at a forthcoming entertainment. Four hundred and sixty whales have just been cap tured at Westray,in the Orkneys, all of which a mer chant bought, before any competitor arrived, for 5001. Another shoal of sixty whales has also been driven ashore at Channvinrict, and the blubber sold at 7 per tun. ANV INTELLIG ENCE BANKRUPTCY. --(THIS DAY.) IST RE THOMAS WEBSTER. The bankrupt had carried on business as an Ame rican merchant. He had also traded extensively as a genzral outfitter, in Upper Thames-street, but sold his zatereit in the stock-in•trade and premises to his brother-in-law, as it was alleged, for a sum of 3,0001. The amount of debts and liabilities in connection with his American transactions were stated in his balance sheet to be 4,9001., and the assets that were likely to be realised from the same source was about 1,500/., Of Which about one-half was debts, several of which Were described as doubtful. The debts and liabilities incurred in his trade as an outfitter were about 7,0001. The case was eventually adjourned for the purpose of affording the trade assignees an' opportunity for further inquiries respecting the alleged sale, and also his American dealings. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELI. ) LETTER STEALING.—John Burt, a lad, who pleaded tiilty to a charge of stealing letters belonging to the Post-office, was brought up this morning for judg ment, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Cresswell to so lilry confinement to the end of the present session. INIUHDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.—Philip Partridge, the master of a brig called the Jarrow, who was yes terday acquitted of the charge of the wilful murder of Nose Maria Balagar, was again indicted this m orn i ng with the wilf u l murder of Mariano Mandiola on the high seas, within the jurisdicti o n o f th e Ad m i ra lt y o f Engla n d. Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Waddington conducted the case for the prosecution ; and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. C. Jones were counsel for the prisoner. The facts of the case were nearly the same as those detailed yesterday. The offence was committed on the same day and in the same vessel, and under simi lar circumstances, except that the treatment of the deceased was more severe, the prisoner besides flog ging him most inhumanly having struck him several times on the head with the log slate, and having caused him, when in extreme ill health, and almost in a state of nudity, to Work for hours in the rigging in the severest weather. John Fisher, who was first-mate ,on board the vessel when it left Liverpool, but was afterwards dis rated by the prisoner, deposed to the ill-treatment the deceased had received from the prisoner. He began to beat him in about a fortnight after they left Prince's Island, and continued at intervals to do so till his death. On one occasion the Kroo boy beat the de ceased with a rope, the prisoner looking on and d esiring him to give it him well. The deceased was at the time extremely ill from hard work, ill treat 'nerd, and starvation. On another occasion, when _the d eceased was obliged to leave the pdmp from ex haustion, th e C ap t a i n run after him, called him to h im, beat him severely with his fists, and knocked him down several times. After this the Captain came to witness, and said th e d--Ld fellow was go i ng t o s t r ik e me . Thi s was in the day-time, but witness did not see the de deased attempt to strike the Captain. The deceased died the day before Christmas Day, which was about six weeks after they left Prince's Island. A day or two before the deceased's death, when he was at the wheel the prisoner stru c k hi m w ith t h e l og slate several times on the head and face, and bruised him very much. This was done with the flat part of the slate. He afterwards struck him with the edge of the slate across the top of the head, which broke the frame. Witness, ou examining the head of the deceased discovered a wound that he could put his thumb into; his face was in a dreadful state; he was bleeding very much, and his eyes seemed starting from Ills he a d. O n anot h er occasion, when the deceased 'was able to relieve witness at the wheel, the prisoner told him to take off an old jacket that he had on to keep him warm, and the deceased not understanding what was said, the Captain tore it off his back. The day after the Captain struck the deceased on the head with the log slate, after he had left the pump and gone down t o th e forecastle, witness saw him hauled uP apparently dead ; the Captain was standing by, ami had a rope in his hand. When he was brought upon deck, the deceased lay down as if he was dead, and while in that state the prisoner beat him severely on all parts of his body. Witness did not see the ',deceased get up, but when he saw him next he was at the pump, but be was doing more harm than good. The prisoner sent him afterwards o h e e, and into the rigging, although there was nothing for him rig g i ng twas a very severe ni g ht. Wh en he was do in th e the pri soner s t ruc k hi m on t h e feet with a rope. The till break of d ay, and whendeceased vvi witness e was a s s a i w n the him r h i g e g w i na was resting his head on the ratline, hishands were d ban g- lug down, hi s eyes were set, and blood from his eyes and nose . W itness thoug w ht as him ropLi a ny as he was cold and stiff. When the Captain came up, two hours afterwards, he said, " Take that fellow down out of that." Several of the men fetched him down ; he appeared to be lifeless, and was taken to the forecastle, and there left. Witness went to him in the evening ; he found him cold and stiff, but now and then there was motion in his body. When the Cap tain came up, he said, " How's that fellow ; I gave hirn some brandy a short time ago, and he will soon come round." The Captain stayed there about five ininutes. Witness never saw the deceased again a live. He died during the night, and was thrown overboard the next morning. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The African c oast was a very un h ea l t h y one, and was not much liked by English sailors. Witness was never drunk tiring either the outward orhomeward bound voyages; he never drank out of the demijohn till he fell on the deck, and nev e r attempted to break open the door t . the spirit-chest. On one occasion, the Captain and vit ness quarrelled, and he struck the prisoner, who !.aid he must b e drunk, or he would not have done so. Ca ptain was not d run k, an d never h a d b een so. The L' a Ptain required hi m t o wr it e an apo l ogy i n the log book, but wit ness did not reco ll ect whether he did so o ' , vv r , not. Witness wrote something i n th e l og -b oo k nieh did not satisfy the Captain. Ne ve r wro t e an the vessel fo r b e i ng d runk. Was ill of a fever while e vessel was at Benin, and was given some medi cine by the d oc t or o f a b arque Galled the Peru, that doctor lying in th e roa d s o f B en i n. N ever h eard the ti n'r say that hi s ill ness arose f rom d run k enness, an d , a little wor k wou ld d o hi m goo d . H e eliev ed, however, that he had said so. When the d eased w as fi rs t s t ruc k b y t h e Capta i n, witness thought he w as storing very well, altho ug h th e Cap am did not think so. The vessel was then on her c ( roper course for a vessel beating to windward. 'ea the C ap t a i n came up , h e sa id , " W hy, where the devil are you go i ng to now ?" The sails were 11 : /t flapping at th e time. Aft e r th e d ecease d was lek by the Capt a in, he remained a t th e w h ee l more than half an h our. Wi tness cou ld not say whether 11 e deceased after this altered the course of the ship. Dever heard a word of any canvass being lost until the e ceased wa s flogged for stealing it. Never saw any sewn 1 3 rudely i n t o a jac k e t, and never saw the deceased with an y i canvass except an old pair of trowsers. This was - I ,:stcond beating the deceased had since he came to the k s hin ! and it was inflicted with a rope's end. After beatingn the deceased went to his work as usual. He glut to grow worse about the beginning of De "lnber, about three weeks before be died. a T v h a ed a e h. - de eased was a mulatto, an d born in the Hnn that deeeased' s allowance was reduced about the time he was beat about the canvass, as was also wit -1,11,-1!:5* 'Witness heard the Captain tell the perso n ' " 0 served out the provisions to give that fellow (mean etip‘,g the deceased), half the allowance the rest of the yhad. Did no t thi n k t h a t a t an y time there was ess than four feet water in the hold, and such was the "at e of the vessel that she would make it in an hour + ll : . id a h a lf . Before t h e th i rd beating o f t h e d ecease d ; Il e Pumps had been going day and night. The crew N -ons i.sted of about sixteen or eighteen men. The crew vas in a b a d s t a t e o f h ea lth, and witness and the car penter had b a d l egs . It was necessary t o save the ni g ht, of all th a t th e pump s s h ou ld b e wor k e d d a y an d ignt, and w ith th a t exer ti on , if a ga l e h a d sprung up , n ' e v essel would have foundered. When the Captain said that t h e deceased was going to strike him witness raa de no reply. Witness believed that the Captain hed to kill all the Spaniards, and tried pretty hard serve him in the same way. Never said, when the ro Cap interly knocked histooth out, God, reta- After he was removed from " B the y Captain's table, meals we re sen t reg ularly from it for a short time, ,ver said to the Boy Fare, who acted as steward— and'y terror Strike ; may they come to want, their children to poverty I hope the ship will i n k, and that God will answer my prayer." There s log -slates two on board, and when the captain N , -Il ek the deceased on the head with one the frame 81 : 8 4 brok en to pieces. Did not know whether the st - Produced was the one by which the deceased was l a ,, r ,_ e4 - Witness was not in the main-rigging at de edth ee'uoard side, but at the pump at the time the (l„ was sent into the rigging. (T he trial was proceeding when we went to press.) Ga- • G- 4Riticz.—A clergyman once asked Mr. rarrici w" hy a church congregation were seldom moved tears, when the same people, placed in a theatre, Quid be worked up to grief by fictitious distress ?" The truth," replied Roscius, "is obvious ; we re rue ,s,. t. 4 J—lion as though it were a truth —you repeat a as though it were a fiction. —Musical Review. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTPMBER 24, 1842. Mr. J. Osborn's fby Physician, out of Duchess. 2 yrs 2 Captain Crofton's Muleteer, 5 yrs Mr. Potto's Short Bob, 5 yrs Mr. James's Wideawake, 3 yrs 5 The Option Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, and 30 added. Heats, mile and a quarter. Mr. Merry's Smike, 3 yrs (Lye) 3 1 1 Mr. Skerratt's Hudibras, 4 yrs .. . 1 2 2 Mr. Dawsou's The Biddy, 3 yrs .2 3 3 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. FRIDAY, " QUARTER PAST TEN O'CLOCK. (From the Second Edition of the Liverpool Mercury.) It is with feelings of the most painful .nature that we lay before our readers some particulati of one of the most, if not the most, calamitous and devastating conflagrations that has occurred in this town for a considerable number of years, whether we regard its extent, the rapidity with which it spread, the destruc tion of property, or the loss of human life. This morning, about three o'clock, information reached the fire-police station that a cooper's shed, in Wood-street North, was in flames. Immediately the engines were dispatched, and Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, with a number of the fire police, were speedily on the spot. At that time, however, the fire hadgained considerable progress, aided as it was by a strong breeze from the north-west. The shed in which the fire originated was situated amidst a number of other sheds of slendercon struction, principally made of wood, and containing vast quantities of materials easily of ignition. These blazed furiously for some time, illuminating the whole town, and creating considerable alarm in the minds of persons at a great distance from the scene of the de vouring element. The flames were carried from Wood-street North, to the back of some large ware houses, principally stowed with cotton, and these speedily were enveloped in clouds of smoke, which but too truly told that the work of destruction was going on within. In a very short time the flames burst forth with awful fury, warehouse after ware house was ignited, and ultimately the whole of the warehouses on one side of Formby-street were in a blaze. The spectacle was truly grand, yet awful, and then it was perceived that all attempts to save the property then in flames was useless. The attention of the firemen was therefore directed to the north side of Formby-street, with a view of saving some of the fine warehouses there, but the street being very narrow, and the wind blowing very high, the suc cessive and well-directed efforts of the fire-police were but a short time of any avail. The north side, in its turn, was soon a prey to the devouring fire, and, like the rest, the warehouses then were soon razed to the ground. The Mayor and Mr. Rushton were early on the spot, and aided the officers of potice...in their arduous duties. A number of men - from the Redwing (her Majesty's steamer), attended, and, under the direction of Mr. Ladd, assisted in supplying the. engines with water. Water was obtained in great abundance from the Waterloo Dock, but, in consequence of the height of the walls, and no aperture being trade in them, it required a great f orce t o ra i se it. M r. Ilighton, Go vernor of the Borough Gaol, was most actively en gaged in every place where he could make his ser vices of any avail. Messrs. Superintendent s Leverett, Quick, and M'Donald were early in attendance, and, by their judicious arrangements, cleared the way for the uninterrupted exertions of the firemen. No person who attended the fire could for a moment doubt the efficiency and excellency of our fire brigade and police establishment. Mr. Whitty placed himself in the most imminent danger, being entirely absorbed with an evident anxiety to save property and prevent injury to life. Much, however, as we regret the immense loss of property, the most painful part of our task yet re mains ; it is to record the death of several indivi duals. One of them was named Hodgson, officer 347, who bore a most excellent character in the force, and many of our readers may recollect him when they are told that his beat was in Castle-street, oppo site the coach-stands. About half-past six, he, along with officers Tuck and Bates, were holding their branches opposite a warehouse, near the top of Formby -street ; Tuck said to the men, " That wall is going to fall." They stood but for a moment or two, when Hodgson walked up the street. A large bale of burning cotton fell into the street ; Hodgson burying Hodgson in ld of Bates, stopped to d as h it ou t, as it was blinding all a roun d, and he had j us t com pl e ted his task when th e wa ll fellthe ruins. with T a tremendous in c s r w ash t , s b e u i r z y ed • pulled him away, and by the greatest miracle almost both escaped unhurt, the branch being knocked out of Tuck's hand by part of the wall, as it fell. Lower down the street, the wall of Mr. Gray's yard gave way, just as three or four labourers were removing some timber, and th e y w ere buried in the ruins. In spectorfalling of flidthine wags s I N I MS , alsohad his leg broken. He was at this spot, and by the taken up by the men, and conveyed to the Northern Hospital, BE* were also several other men, who were severely injured, but the number we cannot at pre sent learn. The fire, at the time we are writing, is still raging with intense fury. ADDITIONAL PARTICULA RS. ELEVEN O'CLOC K . 'We have th e p a i n f u l d u ty to record a calamity which, whether as regards the loss of life or of pro perty, is calculated to excite the most painful feelings at the present moment, and will form a sorrowful page hereafter in the annals of the town. As the fire is still raging over many acres of ground; it is impossi ble to give, as yet, a correct account of the destruc tion en masse, much less in detail • but we shall sup ply throughout the day, in succeeding editions, such particulars as we may be enabled to ,rather. The fire origi na t e d in Crompton-street, formerly Wood-street, at th e north end of the town near the docks. The three principal streets affected —namely, Crompton-street, Formby-street, and Neptune-street, west, between Gr ea t H ow all nearly oppo s it e th e B orough Gaol, run east and ard-street (in which the prison stands) and W aterloo -road, close to th e d oc k s . The three streets an d th e i r boundaries, east an d west, occupy an area of fr om s i x to seven acres, an d th e whole of that space is even now in, with few exceptions, a mass of fire. It appears that at three o'clock precisely, a watchman named Barnard Coyle, who was employed to guard the premises of Mr. Pennington, bone grinder and drysalter during the night, found that fire had broken out in the engine-house, the fire having been kept in all night to keep up the steam. He immediately gave the alarm to police-officer No. 24, who exerted himself to the ut most, but before the engines could be brought up an immense quantity of warehouses and three yards were on fire in Crompton -street. The combustible nature of the premises was such, together with a strong breeze from the north-west, that Mrs. Isaac's oil and colour store soon took fire, as well as many small crowded workshops of mill-wrights, smiths, &c., in that immediate localit y . The fire next got to " Poole's" bonded cotton sheds, in Great Howard street, and finally swept to Formby-street. The whole of the warehouses in that street were successively ignited, and are burnt to the ground, with a vast de struction of property, and, we lament to say, several lives. The fire-police officer, Samuel Hodgson, of No. 1 engine, was killed and crushed in the ruins of one of the walls. Two of the engines were also smashed, and a considerable number of the firemen and others were killed. On calling' at the Northern Hospital at ten o'clock, we were ' informed that the following was the state of the parties who had been removed there :—John Martin and Luke Smith, dead; one man dying; Robert Black, skull extensively frac tured, not expected to recover ; Superintendent Rid ings, of the police, compound fracture of the leg; and 18 or 20 more or less dangerously hurt. Many other cases of a minor nature have been sent to the hospital, and discharged, after having their hurts examined and dressed. Several men were carried to the hospital badly burnt or hurt, some of them mortally. From eight to half-past nine o'clock the fire in Formby-street, and in the adjoining cotton sheds (Poole's) in Great Howard street, raged with an intensity that heated the at mosphere to a great distance round. Great exertions were made to save the top houses in Formby-street, but those on the north side, dwelling-houses, caught fire chiefly by the intensity of the fi re j us t below of the burning warehouses, the ruins, and burning ma terials of which, were piled to the height of eighty to ninety fed—throwing up immense volumes of flame and smoke. From time to time the high walls of the warehouses fell with a thundering crash, and shortly after nine o'clock one man was killed Outright by the falling materials. The wall of a large w are h ouse i n Formby-street, - which had been on fire som e time, and had reached, with the cotton within, almost a white heat, at length fell upon some of the sheds on the south in Neptune-street, and the Conse quence i n a short time was, that the whole range of sheds at the top part of that street, used for bonding cotton and as cooperages, were ignited. A great quantity of staves, poles, hoops, &c., were carried out, before and after the ignition, to the neighbouring vacant ground. The flames during the whole of the fire were throughout :most intense, and at intervals terrific. They rose, on some occasions, apparently to the height of 150 feet, or even higher. he heat and sparks were such that the eyes of the parties near w ere so much affected that they were obliged frequently to turn away and procure water to wash before they could distinctly see. The whole of the police, in cluding Mr. Whitty, head,constable, and Mr. llewitt, of the fire-police, were so covered with dust, mud, water, flour, and other materials, and their faces so begrimed tha i t they could scarcely be recognised by their most intimate acquaintances. At ten o'clock, the sheds and cooperages in Neptune-street, some of them new buildings and full of goods, were in a state of rapid combustion, a nd little of the property would be saved from them. "There was a report that about 30 individuals connected With the en g i ne , had perished ; but this will, we hope, be found to he greatly exaggerat e d. At present no correct ac coun t of the - loss of life can be obtained ; and even in the end, the probability is, t h a t some of the bodies, if found a t a ll , will he so burnt and calcined that they may not be recognised. One of the fire -police, John Rogers, (No. '215) was close to poor Hodgson, of Engine No. 1, when he was struck down by the ruins and killed on the spot. 'The hose was cut off, as if by a hatchet, by the materials ; and the piece near the t pipe (which Hodgson held, and whi !It is buried with him), was scorched to the hardness of bone. • Amongst the warehouses, sheds, &c., burned down, were Poole's two sheds (before noticed) in Great lloward-street, both filled with cotton, the-masses of which, in a burning state, and closely compacted, re sembled immense broken rocks in a state of red heat at every interstice. In Formby-street there were five warehouses belonging to Mr. Maw, two to Mr. J. H. Rayner, and others belonging to Mr. H. Horseley and Messrs. Waterhouse and Son. In one of the ware . houses there was said to be a quantity of saltpetre, and a kind of explosion in the falling of one of the . walls favotired the supposition. Amidst the destruc , tion in Neptune-street, besides the cotton sheds, were the cooperages and timber-iards of Messrs. Chapman and Dean, and Lythoe. The vacant ground between the prison and the canal bridge, on the east side of the street, was covered with staves, hoops, felloes, &c., saved from the yards and sheds ' • but the greater part of the property, as we ll as the buildings, were com pletely destroyed. It i s state d , b ut we thow not as yet with what accuracy, that the cotton destroyed amounted to about 3.5,000 bales. Cotton, we may state, fcrmed the great bulk of the property destroyed. ACCOUNT OF THE BUILDINGS AM) PROPERTY DESTROYED. The following is, as near as we can- ascertain, a statement of the buildings destroyed, and the goods supposed to be destroyed : Raner's A 309, B 315 ; ditto, C 309, D 315 ; Maw's 4 warehouses, no numbers; Grey's E '228; Grey's C 229 ; Taylor's 233; Rogers s 256, two; Rayner's shed, 252; Gregson's 319, two .;• Horsley's two sheds; M' night's one ditto; Poole's two sheds; Taylor's cooperages and other timber yards. The whole is assessed at an annual value of 3,500/. The value of the buildings, exclusive of the land, probably from 35,000/. to 40,0001. The property which they contain may be estimated at the value of 300,0001. to 400,0001. The principal contents are cotton, turpen tine, flour, &c. The brokers can add up to 20,000 bales ; but there must be more. The following is an estimate : £250,000 in cotton. 150,000 in other goods. 35,000 1 . in buildings. £435,000 The following is a correct statement of the buiiii ings burnt, for which we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Samuel Ilolme, who was for a long period on the spot :- 4 warehouses (Gray's) North. Burnt. 1 ditto (Taylor's) do. do. 2 ditto (Rayner's) do. do. 2 ditto (Poole's) do. do. 4 ditto (Maw's) South. do. 1 ditto (Roger's) " fire proof," now on fire. 1 ditto (Rayner's) Burnt. • 1 shed (Rayner's) do. 2 sheds (Horsley's) Neptune-street, now almost burnt 1 shed (Mr. Knight's) west of the above, on fire. Taylor's cooperage Molyneux's timber-yard I Burnt. Cart-houses, stables, a row of about sixteen houses, and a large mass of property of various descriptions. Seventeen men have been carried to the hospital, one of whom is dead, and three more supposed to be dying, and, probably, eighteen to twenty more are buried under the burning piles, together with one of the engines. Mr. Holme states it as his opinion that the value of the buildings alone which are burnt will exceed 30,0001. ; and we have been informed by several brokers on 'Change that the quantity of cotton alone which has been destroyed exceeds 40,000 bales, together with an immense quantity of other foreign and colonial produce. (From the Fifth Edition of the Liverpool Standard.) STANDARD -OFFICE, lIALF-PAST Two o'CLocx. IVe have again visited the scene of the conflagration, and are happy to state that the flames are so far sub dued by the falling materials, and the exertions of the firemen in the outskirts, that the destruction will in all probability be confined to the buildings already noticed ; the goods in which (a comparatively trifling quantity being got out) are doomed to entire de struction. We have just taken a tour of the whole area. In Formby-street the row of dwelling-houses at the top on the north side, which had before ignited, were in a blaze all through, reaching thefloors and roof of the lodging-house at the corner of that street and Great Howard. street. The house just opposite (also at the corner) will probably be saved. The furniture had been removed. The yard and brick-field opposite to Poole's cotton sheds, on the other side of the street were strewed with bags and heaps of loose cotton, bags of flour, furniture, &c. The lodging-house became in flames at about a quarter-past twelve, o'clock. The interior of Poole's sheds was still ' when we left a mass of burning cotton, like red-hot rocks ; and the outer wall was in so pre carious a state from the floor, &c., being burnt, that the police were active in keeping parties off, lest some further fatal accident might take place. The scene in passing down Crompton-street (the northern boundary of the fire) was painfully interesti ng . Th e site of the yards, smithies, and other workshops, where the fire had originated, still enclosed by a Ivan on the north, presented a large area of burning materials and ruins, not, however, rising to any great height in that quarter. The remains of the bone grinding steam engine with its small chimney ; the chimney of an other small engine to the eastward of it ; heaps of paint that had been in barrels burnt out, and leaving only a few of the iron hoops, formed the foreground of the picture from this point, and other materials. More behind were two " burning mountains" of cotton, one on the site of Dennistown's (called yayner's) large warehouse, and the other in Taylor's. That on the west side was about 60 to 70 feet in height, burning and flaming all over, and resembling a perfect volcano previous to or after the subsiding of an eruption. The mill where the fire originated was Mr. Peniston's. The adjoining paintworks which were ignited belonged to Mrs. Isaac. From the door of a shed a little lower down, and the whole of which had interiorly fallen, a most imposing view of the general conflagration was obtained. Even here, though to windward, the heat was very great. Indeed the whiffs or gusts of hot air that passed along all the neighbourhig streets were at fifties al most stifling, being as hot as the breath of a furnace, and surcharged withal with motes, dust, and sparks, exceedingly injurious to the eyes. Some hig►h por tions of the ruins rose in majestic isolation behind, and had a truly romantic appearance. Sudlow's free cotton-shed, in the same line a little below, was saved, as were the buildings (boat-builders, &c.) facing Wa terloo-road on the west. We passed up Neptune street—the southern boundary of the fire ; the sheds at the top,, on the north side—with the exception of the corner one just opposite the Borough Gaol—were all burnt out. Some staves, hoops, &c., were saved from the cooperages and yards above, but a great deal of cotton in other sheds was consumed, many of the bags retaining their shape though red hot; and re duced to tinder. The back or north wall of a ware house lower down had fallen down from the effects of the fire, so that it could be seen through to " the burning mountains "of cotton on the north. Out of this warehouse a great quantity of rice, in bags, was lowered and taken away in carts, and great part of this property will doubtless be saved. A fireproof warehouse near the bottom of Formby street, stood the cirects of the flames surprisingly. lt closely adjoined one of those warehouses to the cast, the contents of which formed the larger " Vesuvius." Men were employed in hoisting buckets of water into it to cool the walls, which, however, were by no means so hot as might be expected. The wall of the ad joining warehouse burned down, against the gable end of this fireproof building, still stands, and forms a sort of protection from ignilon by the immense pile of red hot cotton still blazing against it. Much damage is done to the premises of Messrs. Grayson and Bannister, shipwrights and smiths, and to those 14' other smiths, &C., a little lower down. Men are employed carrying the timber and other combustibles out of Messrs. G. and 13.'s. One shed, between two other sheds which have ignited, has not taken fire, and is, we learn, filled with "guano" manure. - In Formby-street there were a l so ware ho us es k nown as "Gray's,' in which it is stated, there were 24,000 bales of cotton. In taking the rice out of " Sudlow's" a bag fell upon the head of a man in one of the carts, and con siderably stunned and injured him. lie, however, walked away to obtain rest at a neighbouring house. It was at first thought that he was killed, but he hap pily escaped without any bones being broken. Se veral other and more serious accidents took ►lace in various parts within the site of the fire, besides the tittalities before referred to. It is, therefore, quite impossible to give the precise number of unfortunate Olen killed or injured. This cannot, indeed, be ascer tained for sonic days; for, though the missing police may be reckoned, there were some few others who were strangers who were hurt or killed, of whom no account can yet be supplied. The rumours abroad on this point are, we feel assured, as before stated, much xaggerated. 11'e have not yet been enabled to ascertain the re 'ye amounts of insurance effected, but we fear the S to individuals will be very great and disastrous. rATEST INFORMATION FROM THE FIRE. The fire, we should think, when at its height, which was from five to six o'clock in the morning, must haw been discernible for miles round. From the Cheshire shores of the Mersey the appearance was terrific. Seen through the rigging of the shipping in Prince's and Waterloo Docks, it appeared, upon a first view, that these docks were themselves on fire ; and on looking closer, the inhabitants of Seacombe. Egre mont, and New Brighton—many of them our leading merchants—imagined from the extent of ground covered, that the destruction extended over a great fortion of the north part of the town, the extensive POLICE L\TELUGENCE. GU ILDHALL.-(TH18 DAY.) Elizabeth Blakeley, an extremely good-looking girl, was charged with attempting to destroy herself by throwing herself from Blackfriars-bridge. Wm. Putt, P 13, stated that he was on duty on Blackfriars-bridge last night, and he saw the prisoner walking up and down in a very singular and suspicious manner, and he watched her. He observed her get upon the seat s and he immediately went across the road to her, and he was just in time to catch her dress as she was jumping from the bridge, whereby he saved her. She was taken to the station-house, and there she attempted to strangle herself with her handkerchief. All she said was, " Why did you not let me do it ?" The girl's grandmother stepped forward and said that the prisoner had no parents. She had been in service till about six weeks ago, when she was se duced by a young man who lodged in the house, and who wa's said to be a compositor on a Morning Paper. Ever since she had left her situation she had been very low in spirits, and had once or twice attempted to make away with herself. The MAGISTRATE ordered her to be taken into a private room, and he would consider what should be done with her. MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.) Four well-known thieves, named Edward Oliver, Luke Grant, James Burke, and John Grogan, were brought up before Mr. Long charged with an assault. John Mullins, landlord of the "Red Lion," Edgeware-road, stated that yesterday evening, about eleven o'clock, the prisoners came into his house and ordered a pot of beer; he entered the tap-room, and seeing a young man there who had been concerned in a robbery at the Lord Hill public house, he ordered him out, when the prisoners caught and threw him down. His brother and the barman came to his assistance, and they were served in the same manner. With the assistance of the police, how ever, they were taken to the station-house. William Mullins and an Jther witness corroborated the preceding evidence, and a policeman stating that they were notorious thieves, Mr. Long fined each 20s. or fourteen days in the House of Correction. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) John Saboni, a man describing himself as an officer in the army, was charged with obtaining money under false pretences. The complainant said that he was a servant, and that the prisoner came to him and said that he was a half-pay officer in the army, and that he was going to be married to a lady of fortune at Gravesend. He then asked witness for the loan of 501., and which he advanced him on the faith of his representation, and he subsequently wanted the loan of 1001. more, when the witness discovered that the prisoner was in the habit of raising money by similar means. The prisoner gave the witness two documents, sealed as he said with his crest, and which he was to hold as security for the money. The.documents turned out to be valueless, the prisoner absconded, and witness having met him by accident, gave him in charge. The MAGISTRATE said, that it was clearly a case of obtaining money under false pretences, and committed the prisoner for trial. CITY OF LONDON REGISTRA- TION.—(THIS DAY.) The Clerk of the Needle-makers' Company applied for permission to insert in the list the name of a claimant which he had accidentally omitted. The application was made under the 50th sect. of the Act. The REVISING BARRISTER did not think that the section in question empowered him to insert the name. The section did not apply to cases of total omission. Mr. Marr objected - to the name of Samuel Lips combe, who was described as of " Blackfriar s bridge." That could not be considered an address. The Beadle of the Company said that the man had been a waterman, but he had not been heard of for the last thirty-five ears. The REVISING B ARRISTER thought that in this case no address was in reality given. The man might be under the bridge as well as over it. lle should strike out the name. Some other cases arose, but they offered no poin of general interest. WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION (THIS DAY.) Mr. ARNOLD, the Revising Barrister, gave judgmen t this morning in the following cases:— James Vine had been objected to on the ground that his name was not upon the register in 1832 and 1833. It appeared that in 1832 no name of Vine was upon the register, but, in 1833, John Vine and Joseph Vine were on, and evidence was produced to show that James Vine was in reality the person meant. He (the Revising Barrister) thought that that was suffi cient, and, in conformity with the case of Lovett, he should retain the name upon the register. James Sandfrith Taylor had claimed to be regis tered in respect of a workshop which, in fact, con sisted of one attic in the house of the claimant's brother, for which he paid 101. a year rent, and for the use of fixtures, including a bench, &c. (The argu ments in this case have already been published at con siderable length in our reports.) The claimant said he considered he was bound to keep the place in repair, but he had no agreement to that effect, though he had once whitewashed it; in that attic he slept, took his meals, and worked. His brother resided in the house. It appeared to him (the Revising Barrister) that this was simply the case of a party lodging in a house where the landlord resided, and the case was not altered by the mere fact of the lodger using the room for the purpose of working at his trade ; he should, therefore, disallow this claim. Thomas Hodgson, the beadle of the parish of St. Anne, had been objected to on the ground of his being a constable, and therefore disqualified by the 10th Geo. IV., c. 44, sec. 18, " No person belonging to the police force shall be capable of voting." The appointment of Mr. Hodgson was ostensibly to keep the peace—in reality it was to serve certain duties in the parish of St. Anne, and as he received no salary from the Police Commissioners it appeared to him (the Revising Barrister) that he was not appointed by the Police. Commissioners under the 10th Geo. Iv., but by the 2d and 3d Victoria. His name would, therefore, be retained. John Wm. Allen was objected to on the ground that he was concerned in the management of the as sessed taxes, but the Revising Barrister did not con sider the objection valid, and his name would, there fore, be retained. The parish of St. James's was then proceeded with. There are only 23 claims and 23 objections made in this parish by both parties. r.: - /ORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LINCOLN RACES.—THURSDAY. The Brocklesby Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 7 ft, and 25 added. Mile and th ree -quarters. Mr. Brook's Idolatry, 3 yrs .(Frost) 1 Mr. Bell's Frea, 3 yrs Mr. Morris's Dubitatus, 3 yrs Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added two miles. Mr. Raworth's Chance, 5 yrs walked over. The County Cup of 1201., added tos Handicap of 15 soya. each, and 5 only, &c. Two miles and a half. Brook's Idolatry, 3 yrs (Holmes) 1 Cook's Waterlily, 3 yrs 2 Kirby rid Helpmate, 4 yrs Milner's Humphrey, aged KELSO RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Roxburgh° Cup of 150 guineas, added to a Sweep stakes of to soya. each ; second saves his stake. Mile and a half. Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera, 2 yrs (H. Robertson) 1 Mr. Johnstone's Charles .XII., 6 yrs 2 Mr. Robertson's Little Wonder, 5 yrs 3 The Border Racing Club Stakes (Handicap) of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared ; 100 added. Mile and three quarters, Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs (M. Noble) 1 Sir C. Monck's bc by Master Syntax, dby Filho... '2 Mr. Robertson's Little Wonder, 5 yrs. Sir W. Scott's Harrier, aged 4 Mr. Merry's The Augean, aged 0 The Border Racing Club Plate of 50 sovs. each. Heats, mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 3001., &c. Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Foxberry (H. Robertson) 1 1 Sir C. 111onck's Flagsman, 3 yrs 3 2 Lord Eglinton's Patroness, 3 yrs 2 dr Mr. Williams's Cyclops, 5 yrs . THURSDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 100 added. Two miles and a half. Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs (Robertson) 1 Mr. Johnstone's Charles XII, 6 yrs Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added. Two miles. Mr. Ramsay's Foxberry, 3 yrs (Robertson) 1 Sir C. Monk's cby Master Syntax, dby Filho, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Meiklarn's Temptation, 3 yrs LIVERPOOL RACES—YESTERDAY. The Eglinton (Handicap) Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added. One mile. Lord G. Bentinck's St. Jean D'Acre. 3 yrs (Howlett) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's The Yorkshire Lady, 3 yr:, Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 3 yrs Colonel Crawford's fby Langar out of Mermaid, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Holker's Tariff, 3 yrs Sir R. W. Bulkeley's fby Bay Middleton —Adriana, 3 yrs The Palatine Stakes (Handicap) of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft and 5 only if declared, with 100 added. One mile and a half. Lord G. Bentinck's Proof Print, 3 yrs ...... (Eldalc) 1 Mr. Orde Powlett's Disclosure, 4 yrs Mr. Painter's Ernest the First, 6 yrs The followi ng also started, but we re not placed : Mr. Goodm an ' s The ShadOw, 6 yrs—Duke of Rich mond's Mus, aged—Lord Chesterfield's Henri Quatre, 4 yrs—Mr. Hornby's Champagne, 5 yrs—and .Mr. Fer guson's Fireawav, 3 yrs. The Mag a g d e d r e n d. ie Castle Stakes le Stthae Bridgekesof Turnsvs.anedacilin,. with 50 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's f by Bay Middleton—Adriana , 3 yrs (Darling) 1 Heats, Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer cbandize : Week Name of Railway. Miles ended Opened. Sept. I7Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 16 Birmingham and Gloucester... 55 10 Brandling Junction - 25 16 Chester and Birkenhead 18 Dundee and Arbroath ..... 164 17 Edinburgh and Glasgow 18 Eastern Counties 17 Glasgow and Ayr .. ..... 40 17 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221 17 Grand J unct, Chester &Crewe 113 17 Great North of England 45 18 Great Western Hayle l6 17 Hull and:Selby Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a 16 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 17 London and Birmingham-- 1126 22 London and Blackwall 34 17 London and Brighten Ditto Shoreham Branch .....• 56 20 London and Croydon lO6 22 London and Greenwich 3l 18 London and South Western 15 Manchester, Bolton, and. Bury 10 17 Manchester & Birmingham 17 Manchester and Leeds 17 Midland Counties 576 17 Newcastle and Carlisle 6ok 15 Newcastle and North Shields 7 18 Northern and Eastern 17 North Midland 16 North Union 17 Preston and Wyre 196 17 Sheffield and Manchester 7 22 South Eastern 17 Taff Vale ..... 10 Ulster ...... 17 York and North Midland 2B Total. £. s. d. 1,570 7 4 2,121 6 5 806 15 2 625 17 0 274 0 1 3,008 12 1 1,170 17 5 1,133 16 10 921 19 5 7,887 16 3 1,432 19 6 14,661 7 7 1,100 1 11 4,581 13 10 18,061 19 5 926 13 2 4,499 6 11 343 5 0 739 8 r 7,133 3 5j 560 111 0 2,647 15 2 5,120 16 5 3,205 12 11 1,695 3 9 376 1 5 1,299 13 0 5,704 19 1 1,346 6 0 331 0 6 202 13 6 1,518 11 I 553 11 9 386 10 6 1,845 6 2 30 WATER COMPANIES. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. . Sin,—As you have inserted in your valuable Paper the complaint of one " Householder" in the district of St. John, Lambeth, against the imposition about to be inflicted on the inhabi tants, perhaps you will hale tire goodness to no tice this, for the benefit of those similarly situate. Your Correspondent complains of the extra charge of 4s. upon 245.; but what would he have done had he been served with a notice, as I have, and many of my neighbours, that we are to pay, after the 29th, 120 PER CENT. more, raising the charge from 11. 12s. to 81. 18s. !! and this for a ten-roomed private house. We have no remedy, as your Correspondent observes; the two Com panies having agreed together. Perhaps a little showing-up in your Paper would make this mo nopoly a little insecure, by the establishment of another Company ; and 1 know, in that case, nine-tenths of the inhabitants would support them. ANOTHER HOUSEHOLDE St. John's District, Lambeth, Sept. 23, 1842. THE SHERIFF'S LIVERIES.—The state liveries for Mr. Sheriff Eicher have been manufactured by Messrs. Swain and Co., tailors to her Majesty. The coats are of a lightish blue superfine cloth, trimmed with gold lace, on which are worked the rose, sham rock, and thistle. They have 9paulettes on each, and are lined with scarlet silk. The gold lace, which is very broad, displays good taste in its design, and is mas sive and rich. The smalls. are very plain, having no ornament about them except gold bands at the knees ; but the waistcoats are very handsomely trimmed, and are quite worthy to be worn with the coats. The smalls and the waistcoats are of scarlet cassimere, and the whole will surely enhance the re putation of Messrs. Swain and Co., who have had such great experience in this kind:of manufacture. Though we have little skill in criticising such works, we can safely say, that in our humble opinion, work manship and taste displayed, do great credit to the manufacturers. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.--A proof of the extraordinary reduction or friction on a railway as compared with that of the common road, may be arrived at by the fact, that a four-horse coach, run ning between London and Birmingham, left, by the wear of horse-shoes and wheel-tyres, 11 lbs. of iron on the road each journey of 118 miles • while at the present time a first-cl ass carriage, weighing 31 tons, with a brake, is now running on the Manchester and Leeds Railway per 25,000 miles with Banks's tyres, having lost in weight by this distance not more than n lbs., and, from every appearance, this carriage is likely to run a distance of three or four times the cir cumference of the earth without the least repair to the wheels. The wheels were old ones, repaired on Banks's plan, when put under the carriages, the cost of repair not being more than half the price of a set of wheels for a stage-coach.—Railway Times. MURDER NEAR MALLOW.-011 Tuesday night last, between 10 and 12 o'clock, a party of persons pro ceeded to the orchard of John O'Brien, Rockforrest, near Mallow, for the purpose of stealing fruit, being driven from the premises a few nights previous. On entering the orchard, the owner, O'Brien, resisted them, and they murdered him brutally, having fractured his head with stones. The persons of the locality are making every exertion to render amenable the perpe trators, and four persons are already in custody on suspicion.—Cork Examiner. Several persons on the Grand Parade were very much surprised on Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, at witnessing a most beautiful and perfect lunar rainbow. The moon was shining full and bright at the time ; but the part of the heavens in which the rainbow was observed presented a dusky appearance. This curious phenomenon lasted for about seven minutes, and was a perfect arch running from south to north, and as distinct as if the drops of rain had been acted on by the rays of the sun.—Cork Examiner. We find the following under the head of " Rare instance of conjugal love" in the Espectador of Ma drid :—" A few days ago there died at Ibirieu a man named Huici of some injuries which he had received in a quarrel. His wife, unable to bear up with her grief at his loss, committed‘suicide the following day." THE LATE DR. IRELAND.—The late Dean of West minster was no ordinary character. The life of Dr. Ireland, like that of his friend Mr. Gifford, in the early part of it, was a chequered one, struggling with difficulties. Let others speak of him as a scholar, learned divine, and philanthropist, as he was in the true sense of the word. His benevolent actions while living are known within the precincts of Westminster Abbey, as were his charitable donations at Islip, Ash burton, and Oxford ; and the disposition of the inward man may be collected from the following bequests in his will :-1,0001. for the Western Dispensary, after a life interest therein in Islip ; 2,0001. Westminster Hospital, after a life interest therein in Westminster; 5,0001. for a chapel in Westminster; 2,0001. King's College, for promotion of religious education ; 1,0001. Society now forming in London for the education of the sons of clergymen ; 1,0001. Trustees for poor per sons in Ashburton ; 10,0001. University of Oxford, for a professor of theology; 2,0001. Oriel College, for an ex h ibition.—Morning paper. _ _ OTTERY ST. MARY.—On Sunday morning last, as divine service was about to commence, the church in this place presented a scene of an unusual and riotous appearance, occusioned by the Rev. Vicar's claiming a pew in the church lately occupied by the Rev. G. Smith, and subsequently claimed by his executrix. The Rev. Doctor on Sunday came to take possessi on of the seat for the first time, when it was occupied by three persons on behalf of Miss Smith, the executrix --her servant and two tenants. On seeing this, the Rev. Divine at once sent for the two constables, Reed and Mayne, also the two churchwardens, Messrs. Coleridge and Newbury, when a scene of hauling and hustling took place, which ended in the summary ejectment of those occupying on behalf of Miss Smith, but the whole affair had more the appearance of a skirmish in an ale-house than an assembly for worship in the house of God.—Exeter Times. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—IES Ex cellency Earl De Grey leaves St. James's-square, to day, not for Dublin Castle, as erroneously stated, but to visit Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, Herts. From thence the Noble Earl goes to Wrest Park, his seat in Bedfordshire, and afterwards to Newby Hall, Yorkshire, where his Lordship :einains a few days, and from thence will go to Ireland to re sume the high duties of Viceroy. Capt. A. Magennis, Private Secretary to his Excellency, has left for Dublin. WINDSOR CASTLE.—IIer Majesty the Queen has caused cards to be issued by the Lord Chamberlain, inviting a numerous and distinguished circle at the Castle from to-day until Wednesday, to meet his Im perial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. The Duke of Wellington, who arrived at Apsley House yesterday from Widmer Castle, goes to-day, and Prince and Princess Leichtenstein left Mivart's Hotel yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty until Monday. The Earl and Countess of Jersey leave Middleton Park, near Bicter, on Monday, for Windsor Castle and many other personages of dis tinction ha ve likewise received the Royal commands to join the brilliant party partaking of the regal fes tivities at the Castle. In the course of Tuesday night a cow was run over on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, about two miles frcm Spetchley. The poor animal was cut to pieces, and some luggage trucks were thrown off the line, but beyond that, :and the necessary dela, no other Inconvenience occurrecie—Worcester Hera l d. warehouses of which contain a mass of property whose value is incalculable. The early boats, it will readily b , be lieved, were crowded with parties anxious for the safety of mer chandize And buildings belonging to themselves and their connections; and tl.e vague rumours brought at a very early hour of the destruction of life which had unfortunately occurred, rendered many, we have no doubt, anxious for the personal safety of parties far removed from danger. The scene in the neighbourhood of the fire, and particularly in that of the hospital, to which many of the unfortunate sufferers were carried, was distress ing in the extreme. The police and firemen on duty were distracted by the application of parties anxious for intelligence of fathers, brothers, or sons, missing and supposed to be buried in the burning ruins. Of course, as yet no satisfactory a nswer can in many cases e returned. Many parties missing are no doubt actively engaged at the fire, and well. Many, no doubt, will never be heard or, unless the calcined bones which may be found on clearing away the ruins may he imagined to belong to them. At the Northern hospital, crowds of distracted persons were gathered round the gate anxiously inquiring after the condition of friends known to have been admitted, or seeking intelligence of persons for whose safety they were under apprehension. The scene, as a whole, may be imagined, but cannot possibly be described. Of the men admitted here, as described in former editions, we find, up to this hour, two o'clock, that two, John Martin and Luke S m ith , are dead, besides one man, name unknown. Robert Black is dangerously ill (skull fractuted). The remainder, more or less se verely injured, are doing well. Two more have been admitted within the last two hours, and discharged, after having had their w oun d s dressed. We have just heard, as the latest estimate. on 'Change, that the quantity of cotton consumed is 37,000 bags. This will make the total loss half a million sterling. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) LITERPOOL, FRIDAY NIGHT, SEVEN O'CLOCK. Throughout the day the fire continued to rage with awful violence, defying every effort to.check its progress, the heat being so intense as to prevent ap- roach Within working distance. Towards four o'clock every building contiguous being destroyed it abated, though at the present :moment it presents a dreadful scene of destruction—one burning =Ss of ruins, consisting of about forty warehouses, dwelling houses, and bonded sheds. Several fatal accidents have occurred, principally to the firemen, from the falling of the walls. The scene of this terrible c,on tiai.4.ration has been visited by thousands (hiring !the day, and the town is in a state of great excitement. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—The duty upon Colo nial Wheat and Flour having again further advanced, is now at the highest point prescribed by the existing Corn Act, viz. ss. per quarter, and 3s. per barrel, re spectively ; upon Foreign Wheat also it is raised to 18s., on Oats to Bs. per quarter, and on Flour to 10s. 10d. per barrel, being a virtual prohibition of their release for home consumption. The general imports of the past three days , are ex tremely light; notwithstanding, we have continued to experience a heavy sale for all articles of the trade in the interval from Tuesday last, though at no percepti ble difference from the currency of that day. having no lively reports fr - om London or other markets to animate the trade here, and the millers Feginning to receive rather better supplies of new Wheat direct from the growers, enable them to pro ceed with a less portion of old. At our Corn Ex change this morning, therefore, all descriptions of Foreign seemed to he nearly without demand, receding in value at least Id. to 2d., and Irish new, 3d. to 4d., in some instances 6d. per 701bs. below the current rates of Tuesday ; whilst English new, although very few samples appeared, was decidedly cheaper. States and Canadian Flour, upon a very limited in quiry, was 6d. per barrel lower ; but English and Irish, being scarce, remained at late prices. Of Malting Barley we have no supply; meantime Grinding qualities continue in slow request, on the terms last noted. Malt, Beans, and Peas, exceed ingly dull, and each Is. per quarter cheaper. Oats were taken off very sparingly, at our last quotations : and Oatmeal, attended with a slow, lin gering sale, declined Is. per 2401b5. COTTON MARKET, TIIREE o'Ciocx.—The dreadful fire, which has devastated more Cotton than any other produce, consuming, it is estimated, fully 50,000 hales, has caused an uneven sort of market to day, many parties refusing, or perhaps being un able, to show their stocks ; notwithstanding, 3,000 bales have been sold at the full prices current during the week, and in some instances a slight advance has been paid. The sales of the week are again only 12,710 bales, principally taken by the trade. THE METROPOLITAN PARLIA MENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION. On Thursday night a very numerous Conversa tional Meeting of the Radicals of Bermondsey, was held at the ship Tavern, Long-lane. The meeting was one of a series which have been lately held in different parts of the Metropolis, with great success, lbr the purpose of producing a good understanding between the various sections of the Suffrage part•. Mr. MATNARn, the Secretary of the National Charter Association, moved a resolution, expressing the opinion of the Meeting " that the grievances of both the working and the middle classes can only be redressed by obtaining the Charter, which might soon be done, by a union of the middle and working classes in their common cause." A long and animated discussion ensued, which lasted until a late hour, and in which Dr. Black, Messrs. Duncan, Charles Westerton, Morton, Fall child, Ross, Stanwood, Ruffy, Ridley, and Wheeler, took part. The resolution was seconded by Dr. Black, put to the Meeting, an d c arried unanimously. The best feeling prevailed, and the Meeting seemed cordially to agree with the speakers in the necessity of such a reconciliation as would prevent a continu ance of that system of quarrelling and denunciation which has hitherto kept them separate, and impeded the progress of their common cause. SUICIDE OFF THE CHAIN PIER, BRIGHTON. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Sussex County Hospital, on the body of George Adams, aged '2O, a private soldier in th►e 19th regi ment of foot. John Golfe, a gentleman residing at 1.5, Upper Rock-gardens, deposed that on Wednesday evening last he was on the Chain Pier, accompanied by his wife. A soldier was standing at the Pier-head, look ing over the rails apparently very thoughtful. Ile then got up and got over the railings, holding by his left hand. Witness cried out, "'('hat man has no business there." The deceased then pulled off his belt, and placed it upon the railings. Witness noticed some ladies speaking to him, and immediately one of them called out, " Ile is in." Witness look4l over and saw him in the sea. He appeared ns if he could swim. Witness commenced ringing the alarm bell, and told a female to continue ringing whilst he ran for assistance. James Barber, special constable on the Chain Pier, deposed engaged l t i h g l i t tin a g bo t t h tt e paieqrlaamrteprs, when seven ‘ le ile o nhemet l t l i e le N i t a T t witness, who told him he thought a soldier was drowning himself. Witness got a cork buoy, and ran to the further end of the gallery under the pier, and threw out the buoy to the soldier. Seeing it was no goal he jumped into the sea and swain with the buoy towards the deceased; but when witness was within four yards of him 'he disappeared. Witness swain about for two or three minutes, and gave up, think ing the flood tide had carried him away. Witness on his return struck against the deceased with his right. foot, but being nearly exhausted, be seated himself on one of the cross pieces of the pier, when he saw some ' thing come up. Witness then stretched himself out, and got hold of the collar of deceased's coat, and drew deceased towards him. Witness unclasped his stock, and threw it away, thinking it would relieve him, and then held him until Pearce, a fellow-worlonan. came to his assistance. There was a heavy swell at the time, which completely covered the three; witness thought they would have been all lost, when Mr. Matthews, the Pier-master, called from the top, and sent a rope down. The deceased was then drawn up over the rails apparently dead. Witness had not strength to keep the deceased's whole body out of the water, having met with an accident whilst saluting Queen Adelaide, in 1833, which partly deprived h im of the use of one arm. The depth, from the p ier to the sea, was about forty feet, and at the time th ere was nine feet of water. Edward Pearce, carpenter to the Pier Company, confirmed the evidence of the last witnes s. James Magnus, lance corporal, and George Season, a private,. gave evidence wtts as a ht‘onytshe low-spirited, of nind irited, but the deceased; he :111 way appeared very a r 3 s 7 i if he h a d more particularly within the last day or tw o previous to the oce , i ) i l r d r i e e i r i , ce and i ; discon tented at being a soldier, felt some one behind him. On one occasion he ad mitted being low-spirited, through leaving a g i r l h e kept company with, and would often say he wi s h e d himself home again. He had just finished his dr'll which appeared to please him very much listed at Paislev on June 17. His character wa s very II . I ' punished, recorded, regiment. good, and he had never been found fault with, since he had 1) or In answer to a question by a Jur • any other. . was particularly soldiers said the drill of the regiment light, more so than in Coroner a n , one of the The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary In ssaaltiiistty.a,:tiaonndartetqhueesntoebdlethaneto append their and gallant conduct of James Barber. e TCORONER heartily concurred, and hoped he would be rewarded by the Royal Humane Society. A Juryman said a subf,vrrp tion , for him ' was already on foot MONEY MARKET and CIT y NEW CITY, FRIDAY EVENIN FROM THE MORNING PAPER S OF THIS oAT. TIMES.—The Stock Market was in rather excited state to-day, owing to some reported faih, said to have taken place at Manchester; but, thoui every possible inquiry has been made among par* who were most likely to be acquainted; with such news had it reached town, nothing of a satisfactory tenour could he learned. The mystery observed re specting the names of these firms, or any mention -Of tie trade in which they were engaged, 'rendered almost nugatory the effect which these report's were otherwise calculated to have upon prices, since, not withstanding some little fluctuation was occasioned by them and the heavy appearance of business, no great depression ever presented itself, while at the close of the day's transactions quotatins • had almost recovered their former position. The few sales of stock made during the day were in Consols and New Three-and-if-Half per Cents., and cash during the temporary excitement created commanded a rate varying from 3 to :34. per cent. simitii:'lliriea(r)tfei imperatively cE m aill a st i f i i y nins c (o i i re ima e u c m no s mo t t a pai n ce e t e i s 3o,f, a at t hned pr fi e t hl s i e ea i l l i t seti: wil e ti po c o h i s.s o lo i t i mb. r i monetaryeect, calculations whichsa cti cin have with ale lndi abeen fu ge rn i i i s e h r ed a 11 7 ) , it appears that a most extraordinar on fa ti ll e l to n hi l i g e pp o r r ii i ,raect i e i t a p s rws e t o a on k u o t f re e a x s e u h r a ie n s ge in dra th is e -n fo ty r taken place e y n a T e ni e (lial i si n l the amount remitted months that have elapsed since last April, as corn rrldesswtihthan a l, s l i : n i li , l : a 3 r l6 p ll i ;D: l . G i l. 1841, bei ng indeed i This reductjon of the amount of remittancesisattrlibutedtothe lgll r o f f o e r n t i l l i a e n ir g6 hills;lls') fixed by the , Court of Direc tors and the correspondent wh o furnishes the calculations observes, that the Go vernment, having advanced the rate of exchange to a prohibitory degree, without notice, will pro biddy pursue the same course in India, the eff ec t of which would be to depreciate the value of all merchandise, by the producer and merchant being forced to rely for the sale of hills against goods, upo n the funds of private individuals, the supply of which would be by no means adequate to the demand. T he object, it is said, which the Directors had in view i n raising the rate of exchange was to force private per sons to send out bullion to India; but this, our Corres pondent says, has proved a failure, as the whole afuount remitted in bullion durin g th e four months referred to has not exceeded 150,0001., while the value of trea sure drawn from India within the last three years is estiMated at 13,000,000/. This drain, our correspon dent remarks, has quite deranged th e cur r enc y o f th e country; and the only way to reform it would be for the Government itself to make shipment .of bullion, the Treasury aga i n being throw n o p en f or sale of hills, at a r a te no t worse t h an b u l l i on shipment ' would yield. Thus the Government might remit liiillion to , IseNs the amount of 2,000,000/., and replace that value in the home-treasury . by passing draughts at such rates as the bullion when coined would realize; or the bul lion might be replaced by the purchase of bills collate rally secured by the shipments of merchandise from India. POST.—The American correspondence received from New York by the Cambridge, the arrival of which at Liverpool has been already announced, being but one day later than that last received —namely, to the 2d instant—possesses no novelty of importance to commercial readers. States' stocks were still heavy in the Wall -street market, as well they might be, so poor as was the prospect of any immediate atirention, on the part of the States' Governments in 'default, being paid bathe liquidation of the dividends. The stocks of the suspended banks, of which a large pro portion is, unfortunately, held in Europe, more par ticularly in England, were in scarcely better odour than the State securities, although, in the case of the latter, the observation is made, that " the neglect 'of several . of the States to discharge their dividends has assumed the character of a settled disease." Such an admission, coming, as it does,' from the pen of an American, will not fail to be regarded by the European stockholders with feeli ngs o f mingled disappointment and indignation, for the only rational interpretation that can be put upon so discouraging a statement is, that not only do th e de linquent Governments omit to provide the moneys re quisite for the payment of the interest due on their external debt, but the omission itself, and the effect it may be supposed to have upon American credit abroad, are alike viewed with a calm impenetrable indifference betokening no disposition whatever to return to a more honest course of proceeding. It is acknOwledged, it is true, that " the conduct of the non-paying State Governments may be expected to have a very serious bearing on the American character in Europe, and give rise to bitter and unrelenting denuncihkans of American probity, honour, and integrity ;" but thi s , is, perhaps, an acknowledgment that includes but little of the actual feeling of the creditors of Ameriea io this country, who are so shamelessly deprived of their due. Of the great principles named, " probity, honour, and integrity," nothing has been uttered fur 'some time in connection with American finances. The repudiation system has effectually ex tinguished the notion of the - existence of either one or the other; nor is an expression of opinion ,On.the sub ject of the defalcations of the American States the policy adopted by British capitalists in treating' of the past. The market for their stocks and bank shares is totally impracticable here, and the contempt evinced for such commodities far more intelligibly explains the feeling, of the sufferers towards their callous debtors, and the course of proceeding that may, at their hands, be expected for the future. A paper, claiming to stand high as a mercantile authority, says, " What the result of European public 41pinion on American sensitiveness may be, it is immible t o predict ; but, as a nation, it must be felt as a humi liation, that so many rich and prosperous'States should give examples of such faithlessness; di honour, and disgrace. This state of things cannot labt for ever." The only thing that need be said, in reply to such an observation as the concluding one, is, that it has lasted much too long already. SI N.—lf there were any alteration to be noticed in the market at the close of business, it would be thsit prices were not quite so firm. As if t o con firm tht, .• • hell this morning, a few s ales of a very opinion trifling extent caused Consols to leave off - at •92 921„ for Money, and 93 sellers for the Account. India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills Old, 51 53; New, 49 51 premium. The chief feature in Foreign Securities was a fur the depression in Dutch Bonds, upon the supposition that a further loan is about to be contracted for. The highest amount of it w hi c h h as yet boill). ' ,named is half a million s t er li ng , an d as t h ere can be no doubt but that if it be actually required it would be easily raised in the country itself, it is somewhat .litlieult to ascertain the precise cause for the -prices declining here. Two-and-a-Half per. Cents., closed at 524 523 ; the Five per C en t s ., 102 102-; Bel gian, 102 103; - Danish, 83 84 ; and Braziliau,•66 67. The quotation for Mexican was 34:1 354. Brighton Railway Shares advanced to 331 34 ; London and Birmingham were 181 183; Birming ham And Gloucester, 40 4`2 ; Great Western, 82 11;1 the Ball Shares, 59 59) ; South Western, 57 i o a s % North Midland, 56 58; th New Shares, 27l Counties, South Eastern and Dover, 22 22 4 1 ; 8 8:, ; Northern and Eastern, 3C, 38 ; lii 7 per share. and a shade The rates of the Exchanges wereflat,.. Amsterdam, 121), to l' tter below those of Tuesday. _ ~ _ Ilantburgh,. 41nnt, 12 61 ; Antwerp, 12 -I: 4 ', 1;2 1 , 4 1 I rtt . rig, Zit'. 75c., Eaterl l l 3ll ck wall, 13 11, .13 111 ; Frankfort, 15 .. (q (0 . 2 .1 : Vienna, 9 sii, 25f. SOc. ; Gunon, 25 90, 2 " ,* ,? 37 ; Lisuni, 52i; 9 56; Madrid, 37 37A ; Olin'' , ;::!1.. Spanish and Naples, 40k, all at threeiniw mont h s . t,re—Colembian, 20i The quotations of th.e Bonds i 'ortngue.se Five pet Cents . , 21 ; Peruvian, 15', 35-1 35: 4 ' ; the Three i 2e Three per Cent; . ; 21i ' ' 16''' ; r Cents., 21 21i ;. Five per Cents., 161 161 ; . .41-t. An Evening wary in referring to - the n• • Contempt , 1 . . , navy ' contract mentioned in the ..econ4 e d i t ion of The sun of this evening, concludes that the decline In prices b, tween the present and former Contracts into .be so l e ly attributed to the effect of th e tariff Upon th e home market . Such, however, i s i ncorrect, it may be sti ii,i y considered that a large proportion of the N44'1111(1 pork thus about to be supplied will really be of foreign and not of British curing From all that has been ascertained of the quality of the one and of the other, but little difference exists, and when the duty is once paid, and the contents of the easki repacked into suitable tierces and barrels, it will not lie an easy task to discriminate between American and English pork. From the retied when America was a Go vernment monopoly to the present time, many thou sands of simulated packages and marks 'have been annually imported and shipped to and from this country, and the practice cannot now be easily stopped. But this contract has been more especially noticed, from the fact, that it demonstrates that the poorer arises will for the future be enabled to purchase pro visions at a much lower rate than formerly, in con sequence of the importation of foreign Produce. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY. 1 Amsterdam CF. 12 9 'Gibraltar ... ....... ' 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 9/'Genoa , 'l6 5 Antwerp 12 7 0 Milan ...... ; . .... 31. Ilamburgh 51.11. 13 14/ Venire ................. ... 47 Aliens 13 15 Naples ......... ..... 40 Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz .......... 1 . 20 120 25 90 Lisbon ,- 52 Ditto, 3 months Marseilles ........ ... . 25 90 Oporto 54i 9.5 95 Rio J ane i ro Bout deaux 23/ Frankfort on Maine... 151/ Bahia Petersburg h, 3Us ... 36/ Buenos Ayres - • — Berlin. ........... 7 New York,2ldays sight 414 1 Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 959 Philadelp hi a........:.. .; Trieste, ditto 10 PRICES OF BULLION , 'PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz - 5 Bilbao 36 New Doubloons : 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville 36 ,Saver in Bars... ..... Q 4 11# The Earl of Devon arrived at Powderham Castle on Wednesday, from visiting his estates in Ireland. !"P' . - rAd. ~_. S.. ~~ NT