The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

/" 4 " • S w wir vikr n Erd AND r ip lib ei + o tit 11. " Who runs may read.' rolatilaiss It was falsely reported on the Bourse on Welles.• clay that the King of the French was ill. His Majesty was, on the contrary, so well as to propose entertaining at dinner on that day the Archbishop of : Paris and several newly consecrated prelates, as well as - many dignitaries of the Church. The 2'oulonnais of the 23d inst. anneunces the arrival at Toulon, in the evening •of the 23d, of Dupueh, Bishop of Algiers, with the relics of St. Augustin. The procession crossed the town, by the light of torches, and the grand ceremony, which was to have taken place on that day, was postponed until the next. The Archbishop of Bordeaux, the. Bishops' of Chalon, Digne, Valence, Marseilles, Fevers,-and Frejus, and the entire clergy of Toulon and the vicinity, accompanied the procession. The Augsburg Gazelle, of the 22d inst., states that the Ring of Bavaria, in laying the first stone of the monument erected at Kelheim in memory of the • establishment of the national independence, pro nounced the following remarkable words :—" Let us never forget whet preceded the war of independence, and created the necessity for it, and which gave us the ,Victory. Let us banish all dissensions, and never for , get to honour the memory of the' heroes who fell I'S fighting for their country. Germany united is in- vineible." A letter from Stockholm, Oct. 11, in the Augsburg • Gazeite, states that the Russian Government has no -4• t ided to th e S we di s h C a bi ne t, by th e me di um o f it s • Ambassador, that for the future, Swedish and Nor ' Ive gian vessels are to e n jpy in Russian ports the same Priv ileges as Russian vessels, and are to be subjected to no -higher duties. tune new rifle corps in France, which was some i since f orme d u nder the title of Chasseurs A frique, at present called Chasseurs d'Orleans, has ''be en trained with so much alacrity and skill that the . soldiers o f it are now sa id to equa l t h e b est i n E urope. The Journal de Smyrne of the 9th of this month ves the following news :—" We learn by way of . agdad th a t th e E ng li s h arm y h a d arr i ve d b e f ore C 4 ,1113 1 - 11, and were treasing with the inhabitants of the V. The Engli s h hoped to' obtain the conditions Which they had laid down, but should this not be the e ase, they were resolved to take the place by storm." letter front St. Fetersburgh of The llth of October s ilYs:—" We have this 'm o ment received information t at the greater part of the city of Pekin has been de :, s troyed by fire." The average price of wheat last week at Brussels •7 ' „ 2 0f. 82c., and that of rye 14f. 13c. 4- ur h traeY ection of the iron railway from Tournay to was opened on Sunday. The train set out frol n Courtray at half-past 11, and reached Tournay i less than an hour and a half. A Royal ordinance of the 22d of October decrees t hat th e s hi ps of the United States shall be liable, in the Forts of Belgium, to the duties of tonnage and c o ' q e tege which, according to the existing laws and s; Kul ions, are paid by foreign vessels which do not cnJoy any peculiar favour. DitOrZEIr—TIZADZ--coivirgamacz. - I‘74:ast night a public meeting of the coal-whippers t i; held at the Pheeni x Ta v ern, Ratcliff-cr o ss, re l a s . „..,:• e. to the p ropose d sca l e o f wages. Af ter much dis cau e - s -Yin on th e p o i n t , a reso l ut i on was move d an d . w .led, to the effect that the meeting fully coincide th the rport of the address to the shipowners of and pledge themselves to act in accordance ai«i the propositions contained in it. Minn). Williams, Esq., M.P., in addressing the o ,, l zens of Covent r y on T ues d ay l as t, ma d e a remar k s "_ the comparative cost of Governments,_ stating that tserland was governe d so cheaply that the taxes the peopl e h ar dl y excee d e d i n amount t h e munici !: sao, taxes imposed by the corporation of Coventry. t l, 4ll asia, th e popu l at i on of wh i ch was about equal to sort of England and Wales, the Government cost en millions. Th e G overnmen t o f th e U n it e d St a t es , ca4l a population greater than England and Scotland, si s t five millions ; whereas, the taxes paid by the peo r, of this country, including highway-rates, Church : : s c ".es, tithes, county-rates, poor-rates, and the taxes 'gr. to the corn monopolists and West India mono -Ist; amounted at least to one hundred millions an nually. e „ C ern-stalks in Indiana are now found to produce a Dr „ . 3 i good molasses : eight gallons of juice from them - uaes about two of mokisses. Anti-Corn-law meeting was held at Peckham si;e ul 'l r ednesday, when Mr. Sidney Smith addressed oeting. JUND POLICE. • te s t t he meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates yes resa,3l, Clerlsenweil, it appeared from the Report rQui,i im ."".t upon the completion of the alterations now the llanwell Lunatic Asylum, the Install .ll th e , ixoe°,4l. nlund accommodation for 1,000 patients. P r s isone es of Correction at present, there are 1,025 I n the New Prison, 82. Btreet I' In was again brought up at Lambeth- the _ y estess ItPv. aux, for falsely representing himself to he Rowenagh, of Ballykennew, and thereby ing a ( 2 uh 7 . i° o guineas for the alleged purpose of build- trans • atn elle chel. F further facts which r e a eek. anoth e ' a r Was ap denied r b om ail, and remanded for W It h as b, "T'iNE ARTS. ere -01 suggested that a monument should . be Grace ea ct r i ; d i n sonie public place to the . late heroic of (4 .n g' The proposer has submitted a subscription .'' 4n d a committee will be formed for the purpose. ; tl4. B e a x tt. T h u il e i s ; d ay on lie s r l' Afares ir ty ri 's lic s i tz;g-liounds will meet Wednesday, at Lyttleton, near taines ; and on Friday, at Iver-heath, near Uxbridge. Vi- c o traT—rasItIONAIMIE. day last and Viscountess Sidney arrived on Mon a vNi_aisit:tto, a ti t le th iAL e ia ß rl e .u ll i e s Vue h0te1,... , GreatMalvern, on and Marchioness of Anglesea. C,..,„. °ant St. - Vincent left town last week for the ...- 7 . l , l is 'lnent, w a ," e ° t arl of Denbigh has joined the Countess .at, 6.400 Crescent, Dover. Pas s i h ie l‘larquis and Marchioness of Thomond are jj e - t the autumn at Taplow Court. tient . and Lady Berehaven are Making ,11 tour - Lord a Conti- Ivint e and Lady George Seymour intend to ass the da neat lirighton, where they are expected on Tues . Ord of. 4 111,1 ' 3 'anleY is expected to arrive in St. James's ,l,!'e on Monday next, from Knowsley Hall. 1 31 , ,t'e tarl of Limerick left London on Sunday last, , yo'le steamer Antwerpen. ' ll '4 l l rd a nd Lady Chesterfield will sail immediately, ,„, Lord Wilton, for the Mediterranean, and pro ,l, "loto whiter at Paris. Part rd an d Lady Kinnaird are entertaining Y at Itossie Priory, Scotland. a large (4 Wor . XISCZIaLIINEOUS. 44 Ce:•• ' t °r is about to present a memorial to the ,a in c ow , • eip al , . veil, praying to be one of the five iina res:°wos in the kingdom which are each to have k. ," at local Commissioner under the new Ban -11 ,*2: AO_ ItttleiMeions cir cumstances, it will be remembered. jolf f e " to the account given by a person name. 11),; vale, the being robbed of a bps of diamonds. of .2 .: s 111 11 -e c ' v f 9 ,000/. at Covent-garden Theatre. s He — , ritl etZ,' ( ;en arrested at Brussels, at the suit of a ‘‘ '`' l 'd 4 ' of•', in London, to whom he is indebted up -Iv4 s la; .11°001,and it is reported that he is other his4 - I„g i lY in (1 .• ht • a searching investigation will no r, 14n t D - 17° Plae: It is also stated that the Vogles, ` p -e ' 4.B , are zone to Brussels. 'o4l;iZzn_tornissio-ner, Bowen, upwards of 20 years a °l lni a ."ner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, died in genet s";square yesterday evening, bai 3 l .,' un ev, the 11th of April, was devoted as . aged 74. a -‘lo iar - eT ic iay to the opening of the statue to Sir *,43Put,i•L"rke, who benefited that colony , by vari- "otl, et_' Works, savings' banks, mechanics institu during his administration from 1831 to 1837. l'h -4t. ---___.z__„-----"-------"'"'",_____ 11 ' C U NT( LOSING PRICES.) titik , • BRITISH FUNDS. 4 1)er ' t° ek 3 p er eent. 1i,7•••••••,...166 'lndia Stock 3i ( lit. c o ' ••••,... WA Ditto Bonds ....... N t ,Per c"t ns. ......... 931 Ditto Old Annuities ..• N W ,. a ipe r . c l „ te d•• • .....1001 Ditto New Annuities — 1.,,,'S .,. c,vnt• . .... 1011 Ex, Bills, 1,..:11 6O pm 4, ArlL,,,ijr'- .. • ...... -... Ditto 500/ 6O pm A 180 :) '" to expi re Ditto Small j.. t• lt+s 9 "-•"•• 12 5-16 Bank Stock for Acct. 'tn. 400 ......... __ !India Stock for Acct... ......- ' 12 i Consols for Acct. .....• 93 A ttat . 1 3,1 a Y'an. 5 i FOREIGN FUNDS. b rail n ' 6 14 r c e e _ en . t • . Portuguese , . 5 per cent. (ph.14,,,. , an I sorri _ cent ...... 1034 Ditto, New Ditto 3Bk yres(r••• ..... 63 Prussian, 5 per cent. e01,, a4 , , , 6 I*r Per Cent ..... Russian, 5 pei cent ll3 1)4 6 4 ', 1)1/ti t , 6 . cent. ...... Ditto, Metallic ...... Cub,' ik , 2 4 : ler cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l7i D r,(4,•• .......... 201 Ditto Deferred.... .. (3 re( , l( ' Per F' e r cent. 79i French,, 5 per cent. —f. --c. hi ~...,166, ,•eit. ...... B' l * Exchange I) itt(;(44) 5 ~e`:Per eent. -.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. p c ,,, tlv , . 6 /4 c 4, cent ..... 32i Dutch, 21 per cent. ...... ••.. 14 ' 1 , 2' nt • 137 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100 i iaperet. 16i r.i. -,it,b,'l SHARES. Cr rh and GI ... 464 alto e.. . asgow (50 paid) 84i , "ern, (63 paid) bitt c i• Pw Shares (50 p 'd . tondnl l ithe ( 4 p ai d - ! 1 .... •• ... 8i ,Itadlirightou (50 'di' ••••.‘ ''' 36g / o „ul to L oan 1 , 1 _,_ 3 Dal . (10 paid) .. ...... ... 10 i 10" 4 and lil .k u ' e, idon a , „.ac wall ( paid) ..... ... 6i Nob t i,, 4u lin-rn'nah r i''''' and S '^, "n 00) ...... ....... 181 ior I nern ()nth NI astern (41/ 6s 10dpd) 60 t o st!d E utern (45 paid) — Paps 4„, .!„ - IP ( 5 paid) .................. 7A «m &tout% (18 paid) ...;................. ' 2 /s -......... ... 2 4 " MOINE Ya nd COMAVERCIAL NE WS, CI TY, QU./11?TER TO THREE. By a sail!) kvo zel later, accounts were received to day from tb• Tn ted SfAtes, viz., New York, Oct. 3 ; and from tilt .t °the ;.• ci..tes to corresponding dates. In the brief int erval 4 .:nat had elapsed since the previous accounts cat. ao 6 way, the honey market does net ap pear to have u • .ergolle any partict.lar alteration. On London the 7 .s;xc hauge was . 8 p ev cent. premium, and in Stocks on . 1 3 , a light bu s i ness h ad been done. There are advice - ..‘s also by pri.vnte ship from Rio de Janeiro. ' in the 1 41c.change on London only a limited business h ad been. done at 25 to 25i. The Six per Cent. St ick w atl at 71. • The exports of Coffee tl le 2C th to Ole 26th August were 4'2.74 1 bags, aad previer.sly this year 92,408 bags. Thel Aitical z sews IS nf 4of general interest, but the final "ic jai affairs of the (Government by what we learn from • • .brmed p lilies in the City, were in an unset tied Sta'ze. Th e Liv( lrpool Cott( m Market was brisk yesterday after / i• D on. Exporters took 240, and speculatcrs 1,200 bales ()f /American, forming, with the saes for home consn t iption, a total of 6,000 bales. - Middling and )i • qualities were called id. per lb. dearer. The hare Market had a stronger tone, and a fai r busim . was doin g . :E as t ern Counties, ew were 9/. 16 3. Bd. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 46:1; Grand Junci , n, 172 f ; Great North of England, 54; 1 Great 1 Vestern Fifths, 8 ; Birmin g h am , New, 30:1 ; Ditto. alf, 47 1 ; Brighton, 36-1; t'aris and R ouen, 221 ; ar i, 1 South ERStEVII, 161. Severn l wrecks are reported in the accounts from Liverpo• ) 1. _ It may be interesting to the shipping_ interests to state th: aan Admiralty sur ve y of the Bay of Fundy is now in progress, unde r the superintendence of Captain Owen, assisted by Captain 13ayfleld, who has for year: r been engaged in the survey of the Gulf. Consie rable'interest is 'evinced in the City respec ing the r a [floured intention of Government to reduce the intere s t on the Three -and-a-Half per Cents., and the Goverr or and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England hit we been up to the Treasury, as is supposed, upon this ii nportant subject. Money si cock is a trifle , easier to-day, there having been a sale or two in Consols at 931 to 93i and P. For time, however, th e hi g h est of these rates are current. A s a counterpoise te, the effect private sales migt t produce, the U-evernment broker has again bi "en a purch:iser or 10,5001. in the Threc_ , per Cent. -A annuities n t 93i, this quotation 'to 93 been . the c u rrent v a l ue . It, is rem ar k e d j ust now, when red' lc :tioti of int( :rest is so much spoken of, that the b r(?.ier takes no :.ihree-and-a-Half per Cent. stock, tl sough possibly :ithere may be no meaning in it bey( and mere cone Flience ; and as regards the controvei .sy going on b etween some of our Contem poraries, t we have made in-piries in various quarters, and am( mg parties con - noeted intimately with Stock transact ions, most of whr magree that the purchases for th': East .India and have for the present ham coacluded, and that , those now going on are for the Savi ngs' Banks. 1:7 :chequer Bills are at a rise to and East I n di a B on d s are 535. ruse i 60s. prem. to-s} steady 'at 48s. prem.;: New Three-and-a-Half per Cents;:bave dropped to 101 i and 1041, and the Old Ditto, t 0 100: 1 2 - ; Bank.: Stack is quiet at 165- to 166, and Son th Sea Stock las rer.ilised 104 k. SpaniS, l l Active Bor ids tireSumping up again. Dutch houses are still Ile the p urc h asers , w i t h a v i ew to emplofog (isp t c ;115, of them to o th ers i n pur chases of iaati o r said i o onal p , The prices have been 17 to 181. the Three per Ce n t s , th e quota tioni is firs per at .21'1,-; Portuguese N ew Fi ve per Cents. are in the Converted and Threes no bar gains are -.. !epcirted. Mexican keeps steady at 328, and Coloml )irm at ; Brazilian h ave droppe d to 631; BelgiL 'n S'.ock is 1031 to 103 ; and the Dutch Fives obtain le Of Very litth 5.s doing in Shares, but prices are ood Brighton, 1' ,1 to 13,-1 ; Blackwall, 10-8- dis.; &real Western, 1$ i t p rem . PRICE A OP SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE. RA ix.waYs. Paid. Per Share. Great West era 65 ..... 841 to London an J Brighton Ditto L oan N otes London r Blackwall .... l6i 6* t 0 •ridon an d S out h Western ... 4116 . 59* t o P . — uisa nd Rouen ... ...... IMANCUESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 27.—We hr we had rather more inquiry for Railway Stock to dr and in some instances an advance has been of ..ered. Our quotations are:—Edinburgh and Glas g( csv, 46", ; North Midland, Half Shares, 29i South - tstern, 59 59k; M anc h ester and Birmingham, 191 2(fr .; South Eastern, Scrip, IQ 17. MARKETS. —( THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. `The arrivals were mall of English Grain, and - fe of Irish Oats. Wheat sold slowly at previous prii and Barley maintained last quotations. The Net w Irish Oats were Is. per quarter lower. Flour as last, reporta SMITHFIELD. letterss received this morning from Hull and Sol tthampton we understand the, imports of foreign sto ek ha , :e been extensive in those places during the pr3sent week, they having amounted to nearly 350 Iv lad. In to-day's market the numbers of foreign beasts on offer were composed of 45 head, per the Great Liverpool steamer,- from Vigo in Spain; six oxen and seven cows from Rotterdam, and eight oxen from Hanthurgh. The se - were decidedly the worst importations we have seen, as will be apparent when we ttate that the Spanish beasts did not realize more than 2s. 10d. per 81bs., and even that Miserable figure was not ob tained without great difficulty : hence the importers must have sufferee. severe losses. From Scotland, 35 horned and pealed Scots have arrived in the Pool this week, 15 o' which were brought forward this morning ; the remainder being stores intended for the marshes - near the metropolis. The attendance of both Landon and country buyers being by no means nurierous, we have to report a very he av y in quiry 'for, beef, but the prices noted on Monday last were s uppor. ced ; the primest sorts producing 4s 4d per 811? s. 'The supply of Sheep was, the time of year consid, !reel, tolerably fair. Prime old Downs met a steady ir.quiry, at full rates of currency, but its a whole , *the mutton trade was dull. From Ireland we rec ktived ten calves in very inferior condition, and which produced no more than 3s per 81bs. Other wise he Veal trade was excessively slow, at an abate rneri4.4 on previous quotations, of quite 2d per 81bs. In Pigs, about eighty of which were from Cork, little was do nig, but no depression was submitted to in their value. 81hs. to :sink the offal :—Common and inferior beasts, 3s to Ss 2d; second quality ditto, 3s 4d to 3s 6d; prime large sorts, 3s 8d to 3s 10d; prime Soots, &c., 4s to 4s 4d ; common and inferior Sheep, 3s to 3s 4d ; second quality ditto, 3s Gd to 3s 3d ; prime common woolled Sheep, 3 s Bd. to 3s 10d; prime South Down ditto, 4s to 4s 6d ; large common class, 3s 6d to 3s 10d ; prime small ditto, 4s to 4s 4d ; large Hogs, 4s to 4s 6d ; ; neat small Porkers, 4s 8d to 55,10 d. Sucking Calves, 18s to 295; and quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 21s each. Beasts, 457 ; Cows, 110; Sheep, 5,0F,0; Calves, 252 ; Pigs, 550. . NF ilrd-ATE AND LEADENHALL. The arrivals of country killed Meat up to these maArAs since Monday have been very extensive, Nv - n,i% the general demand here is heavy, at the fol 'iQwing prices, Sibs., by the carcase :—lnferior Beef, 2s 10d to 3s; middling, 3s to 3s 2d; prime large, 3s 2d to 3s 4d; prime small, 3s 4d to 3s Gd; large Pork, 4s to 4s Gd; inferior Mutton, 3s 4d to 3s 6d; middling, 3s 8d to 4s ; prime, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; small Pork, 4s 8d to ss. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The supply of both new and yearling hops on sale here to-day----but more particularly as relates to that of the former—being large, we have again to report a very heavy inquiry for all descriptions, and the quota• tions are with difficulty supported. The duty is called 160,0001. East Kent, in pockets, 4/ 5s to 4/ 15s ; New Sussex, do., 4/ -15 s to Si 5s ; Ditto, choice, 51 lOs to 61; New Kent, in pockets, 6/ 55 to 6/ 15s; Yearlings, in pockets , 3l lOs to 4/ s s; Ch o i ce, d o., 4/ lOs to Si. 10s; Yearling, b ags , 31 to 3 / 13s; Choice, do., qlss to 41. . COLONIAL MARKETS. SUGAR.—A fair'extent of business has been done in British Plantation, at gradually advancing prices, being fully 64 dearer fur all description s since last Friday, more particularly for the better sorts, which are very scarce. The transactions amount to 2,200 Wilds., inclusive of 109 hhds. Barbadoes, which sold briskly by -auction, at 60s Gd to 68s Gd for low to fine quality, being also rather higher. Molasses.—There has • been a fair business done, consisting chiefly of good to fine Antigua, which have been sold at 30s to 31a, and a small parcel, fair Demerara at 265, which are fully former rates. Mauritius—Has been much inquired for, particularly the better qualities, and for the small parcels which have been disposed of privately, rather higher prices have been obtained. 952 bags brought to auction sold readily at 57s Gd to GGs for low to good bright yellow, and low to good brown at 45s 6d to 565, being an advance of fully is to is 6d or. the good. Bengal—The better sorts of white have been in good demand, but from the scar city few transactions have taken place privately. The public sales have contained 3,839 bags, consisting chiefly of low and inferior quality and date kind; the whole, however, went off with more spirit than last week, at fully previous prices ; low greyish yellow to mid white brought 55s 6d to 655, and low to fine brown 48s Gd to 54s Gd. Foreign—Nearly all description s have been in increased demand for export, and for the parcels sold rather higher prices have been paid, but holders being extremely firm, there is scarcely anything sis been t ot. sold 20s the n t r it a h n , s vi ae h t i i c o h n s h c a o v n e at present o ff ering , consequently a7too2obsof/feosrynenlloawverlaigae assortment ; 170 chests brown Pernambuco at 15s to 15s 6d ; 1,500 bags low, ,damp andanti washed, brown Manilla at abett 14s ; 77 h c ests and /" 8 barrels Brazil, consisting chiefly of Bahia, sold readily at 203 to 22s 6d, for low to raid white, and low brown to good yellow at 15s 6d to 19s, being ex treme prices. Refined—Grocery descriptions con tinue in fair demand, end nttlier higher prices in some instances haVe been obtained. A fair business has been done in crushed at 25s 6d, being the former value. CorrEE.—The public sales have contain ed 91 casks, 149 barrels British Plantation (chiefly Jamaica), 1,592 bags Ceylon and 1.717 bags East India, which went off heavily, only part finding buyers, the former at a!)out previous prices, but being chiefly in small lots, affords no criterion of the market. Mid Ceylon B.P. kind brought 94s to 975; low good ord to fair good ord quality were mostly taken in at Gls to 645, there being no purchasers for the latter description at the prices of last wrek ; barely one-half of the East India' was disposed of at 35s to 36s for good ord brown and yellowish Singapore Java; the remainder was taken in at 42s to 45s for fine ord pale and coloury Manila. There is no material change to notice in the value of any description, with the exception of Dutch Company's Java, for which there has been more in quiry, and a trifling advance has been obtained for the. parcels sold privately. Foreign sorts continue neg lected; and of 455 bags Rio brought to auction, only part found buyers at 31s Gd to 32s 6d for good ord pale and colours-, being former prices, but at which there were not purchasers. Small parcels of Padang have been sold privately (for export) at 27's for fair quality; and low good ord St. Domingo at 30s 6d, with 1 per cent. discount, which are very low prices. COCOA-531 barrels and bags, consisting" chiefly o f in Trinidad, w ere M os tl y taken at 31s to 34s Gd for mid greyish to good red, and 30s to 33s for mid to good St. Lucia, being about the previous value. TEA is quiet, and no disposition is shown to specu late, though prices remain abOut the same. Ruhr.--Rather a large business continues to be done in . this article at the prices of last week. The tran sactions consist of 350 puns Jamaica at 3s to 3s Gd for 30 to 36 per cent. over proof; fine quality 3s 8d to 4s 4d; Demerara at 2s 9d to 3s for 32 to 38 over, and 500 puns Leeward Islands at the rate of is 9d fcr proof strength. RlcE.—There has been scarcely any inquiry, and to effect sales lower prices must be submitted to. SALTPETRE. -1,291 bags sold in public sale at 29s ; for 3i per cent. refraction, 28s; and two lots 28s Gd for 7i. to Gi per cent. refraction, being for the better sort rather cheaper. Privately very little Iw4cen done. Nitrate of Soda is dull. . •!' SPICES.-2,244 bags Pepper (chiefly Penang), and 148 bags Pimento were all taken in, the former at lid to 2*(l for fair brownish quality but dusty, and good black Sumatra at 2d, being previous prices, but at which there were not purchasers; the Pime::to was taken in above the value at 2,id to 20 for ord to good mid quality. cassia has been inquired for privately, there being at present but very little offering. COTTON.—There has been rather more disposition shown to purchase this article. Surat went off with rather more spirit at a shade higher prices. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steady. No alteration in prices. THE LATE STORM-- , -LOSS OF LiFE: •, 7 . The accounts re ce i 7e d frau the coast, in the course of yesterday and NVenesday, 11:Intl's° to the effects of the dreadful storm which raged during Saturday and Sunday, were of a most distressing description. The loss of life and property has been immense. Shortly after the ship Hope, from Quebec, had struck on the Goodwin Sands, on Saturday morning, two brigs heavily laden, the Mendingo, Captain Bur gin, bound for Jamaica, and the Felice Rosso, for Pernambuco, were driven by the force of the storm on the shore under Deal C as tl e . Th ey rema i ne d i n a most perilous situation for many hours, both vessels beating violently on the sands, surrounded with a tre mendous sea, which defied all attempts to get at them from the shore, although within 200 yards, and plenty of assistance at hand. One Deal boat, in attempting to reach the Mendingo, was csized by the waves, a n d one of the crew w as drowned; the others saved them selves by clinging to the bottom of the boat. At length a steamer arrived from Margate, the Royal George, and a rope being thrown on board of the dis tressed vessels, they were towed off, but not before they had sustained such severe damage that.the pumps were obliged to be kept in active operation to prevent them from sinking. At Dungeness, the first burst of the storm drove a large fishing-boat on to the hard sands near the middle battery, where she instantly became a wreck. The crew, consisting of six per sons, were washed ashore alive. Directly after wards the Beverley •(a brig), of and belonging to Guernsey, master William Hall, and another brig, called the Rebecca and Eliza, from New ! castle-upon-Tyne, Odden, in ballast, on hen pas sage to Rouen, became unmanageable, and were driven on shore within a short distance of each other at the same place. Within a few minutes after the Beverley struck, her decks blew up from the effects of the heavy sea, which made a complete breach over her, and the crew, to save themselves, • took to the rigging. In this situation they remained many hours, and at last were taken off by a party of the coast guard service, who put off in a lugger. They were in a dreadful state of exhaustion, and were all but dead. Both vessels, as the hurricane increased, became wrecks. Their loss is described as being nearly 2,0001. At Ilfracombe the storm was severely felt. About four o'clock on Sunday morning a large brig, called the Wilberforce, from Saundersfoot, was totally lost three miles up the -beach , by-striking on the rocks under the cliff. The whole of the crew, 10 in number, including the master, Mr. Nixon, perished with the ship. At daybreak the beach was found covered with spars and pieces of wreck belonging to 'the ill-fated craft. In the course of the day the bodies of the 1 captain and one of the seamen were washed ashore, shockingly disfigured about the head and face by coming in contact with the rocks. The Wilberforce and cargo are valued at 1,2001. About the same time a large barque, name at present unknown, was ob served to go down between four and five miles off ,Cromer lighthouse. Her crew (supposed to con sist of sixteen persons) sunk with her, and perished. The catastrophe was witnessed by a fishing coble belonging to Whitby, but the violence of the hurricane, prevented them getting near her to render assistance. On Sunday morning, shortly before six o'clock, the schooner Watt, of Plymouth, was wrecked on the Boulder Bank, off East bourne, near Hastings. The vessel, which was valued at 1,6001., was laden with timber, and upon her homeward voyage from Quebec. Pour hours after she struck, the crew were taken off the rigging by the Eastbourne life-boat. It is feared she will be a total loss. On Monday, early in the morning, a vessel was lost near Eyemouth, by breaking from her moorings and driving upon the beach ; she p rove d to be the Betsey, a schooner belonging to Dundee, laden with a cargo of coals which had been shipped at Newcastle. There were 12 passengers on board besides the crew, consisting of three men, three women, and six young children, and their escape from a watery grave was truly miraculous. After the vess e l struck, a line was thrown from the beach, by which they were drawn one by one through the breakers to the shore. The poor creatures particularly the child ren , were i n a shockin g con dition by the tune they landed, but through proper treatment they shortly recevered. The vessel. is insured for 8001. During the night she broke up, . and her cargo was washed partly ashore. In the course of the same day the Emma, of Swansea, was driven on the rocks at Sker Point, and is expected to. become a total wreck. ,Among the numerous vessels that have driven ashore in various parts of the coast, and in the same situation, are the following:—The Burrnah, of Bergen, at Whitby; the Elizabeth, of South Shields ' • the Unio n , o f Yarmouth, on the roc k s o ff St. Michael's Mount ; the Ann and Ellen, of London, on the Sherrington Shoal ; the brig Timbuctoo, of Bristol, and twenty more. At Bideford the loss of life was dreadful in the ex treme. Several vessels were totally lost on Saturday and Sunday morning. Two cf them are knows, to be the Auspicious, from Lowering, and the Thomas and Eliza of Neath. On Saturday morning a brig, called the Morgan of Tenby, from Hr.yle to Llanelly, laden with copper ore, foundered in St. lye's Bay, and all board met with a watery grave. Another vessel,' the Friends of Carbia, in Wales went down i n the course of the sa me morning in th e dhannel, those on board perishing with her. Many other vessels are known to have been wrecked, but their names and fate of the crews have not been received. CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice.F.RsKiNE and Mr. Justice MAME.) UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Ellen Go nnelc' alias Nyhen, aged 21, was indicted for uttering coun terfeit coin, well knowing it to be counterfeit. - It appeared that she had been convicted at a former sessions of a similar offence, and had suffered twelve months' imprisonment. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Payne defended the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared, had tendered a counter feit sixpence at the bar of a public-house in payment for a half pint of beer. The landlady refused to take it, and prisoner then tendered a good shilling. In change the landlady gave her a sixpence, a fourpenny piece, and a penny. The prisoner returned a four penny piece to the landlady, saying it was the one given in change, and that it was bad. The landlady was positive that the fourpenny piece she had given the prisoner was good, and her inference was that the prisoner had changed it. On her being searched the only counterfeit coin found on her was a sixpence. he Jury found her Not Guilty. LORD Fa ' ANKrORT'S CASE. —The Grand Jury have returned a true bill against Alice Lowe for robbing Lord Frankfort. • NEW COURT. The Common Sergeant was cccupied the greater part of the morning with trying mint cases, of which there were no less than 15 for trial, a most unusually large number. The Learned JUDGE, on the conviction of the first prisoner, expressed his surprise at the number of charges of this description, and stated his deter mination to put 'a stop to the practice, by visiting all offending with the heaviest punishment the law wouli allow. Since he had taken his seat he had been informed that the cause of so many charges of this description was, that the "smashers' town season" had commenced. There was now a season for every thing, and the smashers could not be without theirs. in the summer and autumn they favoured the country with their presence to impose upon the hay - makers, hop-pickers and reapers, and th e s impl e country pco . pie and they made town their q uar t ers f or t h e winter. He (the Common Sergeant) would take care that the present town sewon should not be either a good or successful one, and he was as good as his • word, for in every case of conviction he sentenced the parties to such an extended term as would prevent them visiting the country next summer. James Bird was convicted of stealing a time-piece, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. SINGULAR AND VATAL ACCIDENT. —An inquest was held lately i n th e v i llage of Pontantwn before Mr. W. Denvill e , On t h e body of Mr. Jos. driffiths, of the Brid ge - en d, acc i dentally drowned in a shallow mill leet, near that place, under most singular circum stances :—lt appears that on Tuesday deceased had occasion to go to the village cf o n business,.and that on his return home in the dusk of the evening, within a hundred yards :of his. house, h e had to cross a narrow foot bridge of wood of two planks, covered with stones and clods a grass ; there htppened to . be a hole in the centre of the bridge, into which his, fl)ot slipped up to his lgsee, and he fell backwards with his head in the water, - which was about 12 inches deep. No person being present at the time, he was unable to extricate himself from this singular and was conseque n tly entfo- Lri t d perilous eci. s et i i t n u l a e tio , a f n t e r w a r d s a woman coming th a t , way discovered the deceased a lifeless corpse, sus 11!;ssall?arnduocilhl3; respected by all who being under the wa- Accidentally drowned."— l tp c e n er : Td him. i dllscef V ae''e e et r a diet----' , Welsh Paper. NEW TOBACCO , . A me—We underst an d th a t th e tobacco trade are preparing for, and sending out to bacco in accordance with the late Act, which comes into operation on the Ist of next month. By it manu facturers are enjoined to use nothing in the working up of the leaf but pure water, under a heavy pen a lty, so, that the tobacco will now' have much the colour of new rope. The price, we understand, will necessarily be raised, perhaps Gel. to Bd. a pound. The same re gulation applies to the manufacture of snuff, but the operation of the Act as to it, is suspended for a t welvemonth.— Worcester Chronicle. The death of Lieutenant-General Count Claparede, Peer of France, and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, took place last week, at Montpellier. Ge neral Claparede distinguished himself on various oc casions Napoleon's ca reer , an d t oo k par t i n t h e campaigns Spain, P or t uga l, an d R uss i a. H e was er of France i n 1819. . erea during edo fi 4 taIyPRINCE ALBERT'S HAnßlE ßS .—P r i nce Albert ac companied by his Royal hi g h ness the Hereditery Grand Duke of Meeklenburgh Strelitz, and attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Baron Knesebeck, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, hunted yesterday morning with his harriers, the meet taking place in the neighbour hood of Bears'-rails, close to the- Great Park. They started two hares, which afforded a couple of capital though short runs, each terminating in a take. 'Their Royal Highnesses and suite returned to the Castle to luncheon with her Majesty. SEERS.—The lists of voters for the western division of Gloucester have within the last . few days been revised REVISION OT V r o so :No an i d zsT r s h : m CA or lj e T , l° tl l4 ) . o barristers by Messrs. Kem appointed. The Learned Gentlemen madeTtlelt for the Conservatives. About cir cuit, and were attended by agents for the two parties objections were investigated. —Messrs. Wild and Beck for the Whigs, Messrs. Burgess and Wormsley ne th d ei t r c: negligence to come 1,000 claims and Seve ral of the overseers failed to attend at the places ap pointed, at the last place,poi nt haenrde Borne ee had for O about 50 miles. A circumstance occurred during this circuit which is likely to lead to further proceedings. In two parishes the overseers did not snake their ap pearance, either at the parishes or in the last place, where they had notice to attend. In one of the parishes the list exhibited 95 voters, and in the other 12, both of which are, in fact, by the non-attendance of the parochial officers, disfranchised until the next registration, The overseers are liable to heavy penal ties, under the Reform Act, for their negligence, and to actions at law by the respective persons claiming to be voters.—Hcreford,Joureal. EJECTMENT Or TENANTRT.—TIIO Hon. Mr. Clive, of Berkshire, has an estate of abort 2,5001. a-year in the county Tipperary, between Nenagh and Roscrea. We are sorry to learn that his bailiff has gone over with thirty-five notices to quit, for his signature. Mr. Clive grants no leases except to tenants holding up. wards of fifty acres, and he has n o t more than two. tenants holdi ng th a t quantity of land. Until we have free trade and steady prices we can have neither . peace nor prosperity in the country.— ' Wahrford Chronicle. Captain Taylor, up., has become the purchaser of the estates of the Earl of Courtown, in the baronies of Castleknock and Balrothery, in the county of 'Dublin—thus giving him an additional claim on the representation of the metropolitan County.—Debile MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The business before the. COurt this day was chiefly the trying of persons accused of keeping disorderly houses in the parish of Marylebone. In one. of these, which occupied more than two hours, the Learned Chairman, in his address to the Jury, said that it was not enough to prove that women of bad reputation resided in a house, or that men and women were seen going into it at late hours of the night, to constitute it a disorderly house, and as such subject to indict ment. In the present case there was no proof that the house of the defendant was a nuisance to the neighbourhood, but the evidence was in fact altogether to the contrary. It was quite possible in those cases to be overwise, and he thought that it would be as well not to interfere with those people whilst they abstained from committing any act against pub lic decency and public order. The Jury without hesitation acquitted the pri soner, who was a middle-aged man, of what is called respectable appearance, a n d name d John Futter. Mr. AnoLruus then attempted to address the Jury respecting the hardship so respectable a man had en dured, in being prosecuted on such a charge. The CHAIRMAN—Nonsense ; if I could give a Scotch verdict, I would say, " Not . proven." The less we say of -the case the better. The fellow is ac quitted; but if I met him in the street, I should be very shy of him. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.) Richard White, a. driyman, in the employment of Messrs. CaliTert, was placed at the bar, on the charge of causing the death of a fine child, named Mary Morris, aged 9 years, yesterday afternoon in Far ringdon-street.. It appeared froth the evidence that the child on its way to school was jammed between the wheel of the dray and one of the iron street - pillars, and had its head actually smashed to pieces. Sir P. LAURIE said the prisoner at the bar might be blameless, but this he must say of the body to which he belonged, that they were the most reckless in London, as the weight of their, horses and strong carts made them fearless of collisions. He should order hi:n back to New ;ate until the result of the Coroner's inquest should be known. A gentleman from Messrs. Calverts' brewery spoke highly of the prisoner, and offered to bail him. Sir PETER said he never would accept bail in cases where death was caused in the streets by the drivers of vehicles. He never did, nor ever would, accept bail. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET—THURSDAY NIGHT. DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Murat—t. 140 to 1 agst Aristides—t 40 to 1 agst Oxygen c—t. 50 to 1 agst Languish c.—t 1000 to 15 apt Cotherstone--t. OAKS. 15 to 1 agst Testy —t. First Cass Nursery Stakes. 9 to 2 agst Bizarre filly —t 5 to 1 agst Bessy Bedlam filley—t._ Second Class Nursery. 3 to 1 agst Sister to Combat —t 5 to 1 agst Mr. Oshalth:stun's f.—t 5 to 1 agst Queen of the Gipsies. 6 to 1 agst ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. Audley End (acceptances), Tainburine, 6 yrs, Bst 71b, Una, 4 yrs, Bst 71b, rthodatithe, 5 yrs, Bst Gib, Vakeel, 3 yrs, 7st 91. Handicap, T. Y. C.—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, Bst 61b, Palla dium, 3 yrs, Bst, Cabrera, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b. Vakeel, 3 yrs, 7st 31b, Equation, 3 yrs, 6 s t 61b. Three declared. MALTON OCTOBER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. "The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sons. each, arid 10 added, one mile and a half, gentlemen riders, wore won in four heats by Mr. Hopwood's Birthday. aged (Lamplugh), beating Fitzwilliam and Donna Maria, after a dead heat between the first two. The Easthorpe Stakes of 2 sons. each were won by Mr. Simpson's Aggravator (:arson) beating two others. The Hack Race was won by Mr. J. Benscies Misfor tune. A great portion of the town of 'kr4n, in Russia, has been destroyed by fire. Ttk.E SUN', LONDON, FRIDAY 14],VENING, OCTOBER 28, 1842, duty as a source of revenue, anel for revenue alone, may be maintained, and such an impost would de ceive no one, but all attempts to fix prices by legisla tion, and to give a self-acting protective piinciple to fiscal charges, are self delurions, and tend to nothing but general panic and confasion. Whiggery, they say, is out of fashion. but be, that as it may, Lord John Russell was right—as tina,.l will prove— in re gard to the measures of the present Cabinet. B y their new Co rn -l aw an d Tariff, leaving the great monopolies of corn and sugar still: almost untouched, Peel, - as Lord John Russell observed, " has disturbed everything and settled nothing." These are facts— ' plain truth, and nothing but the truth. They are cognizant to every practical man of business in the City, and cannot be gainsayed. The cattle trade is disturbed—the corn-trade is disturbed--the farmers are frightened out of their senses. The corn-factors arc ruined, and the bill brokers are smothered with unsaleable hags of wheat, instead of flourishing on the profits of commercial paper. The sugar trade is dis turbed. Lie metal trade is disturbed. Our manu factures languish, and prices seem to find no bottom. No one branch of our productive industry is bene fited.; all are unse t t l e d , and all labour under dread of further change. To crown all, money is freely offered at two per cent„ and no bills.. TIMES. —The failure of Messrs. Hunter and Co ventry,. corn-factors, h as created sane sensation in tee City. The ho use i s of high standing, and the liabilities are said to exceed 100,000/. At the same time their assets are spok en o f as co;lsiderable, and some say that little more than time to realise them is required. A failure of sm a ll er i mportance, that of 'Mr. E. R. Foster, Irish provision-merc:zant, has been connected with the other. The liabilities. of this con cern are said to be under 20,0001. We have the authority of Messrs. Denison an d C o. to state that they were not the contractors for the loan to the United States Bank refereed to under this head in the Times of to-day, although it has commonly been associated with their names, but that they were merely requested, as bankers, to hold the securities for the subscribers for two . years. B eyon d that of the ordinary banker's commission for paying the dividends they derived no emolument from the loan, and they neither took any of the bonds them selves, nor did they receive any of the money raised. It should be mentioned that they profess themselves willing to follow any directions from the, contractors. The acceptance of the conversion by the Com mittee of Portuguese bondholders has, as: might have been expected, found several persons w'ao are not at all satisfied with the proceeding. Of this the follow. ing letter is an instance : " TO TILL' EDITOR OF TUE TI. C:ES " Sir,—lt would appear that in cornequence of a promissory and explanatory declaration or decree, signed by the Queen or Portugal and the, Minister of Finance, seating that th e 6th ar ti c l e of the decree o f November 2, 1840, was, as it purports to be, intended only as a guarantee to the British creditor, and not as a mode and means of throwing him on the Lisbon and Oporto Custom-houses for payment, the Portuguese Committee decided to propose to a public meeting the acceptance of the decree of November 2, 1840. " From this, Sir, it would seem that article 6 was the only or the most objectionable one 'in that dis • honest, arbitrary, and illegal measure. Is this the fact ?—No. "Article 3 cuts off 401. per cent. from every 1001. 3 per cent. bond, while it leaves the 5 per cent, bond entire. Article 3 takes away 2,400,000/. capital stock of the 3 per Cents., and from the 5 per Cents. nothing. " Whence this unfair distinction ? The 3 per Cents. came out at the high price of 72/. per cent., the 5 per Cents. at a much lower figure, both positively and re latively. " I find no explanation of this anomaly in any of the reports of the meeting as given by the papers, nor any allusion to the case of the 3 per Cents.; and, therefore, take this means of requesting the Chairman and Committee, jointly and severally, to assign to their 3 per Cent. constituents, of whom I am one, the reasons of their apparently one-sided conduct, and en treat you, Sir, to have the goodness to assist me in, obtaining a reply to my very reasonable inquiry. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your very obedient servant, " A PORTUGUESE BON D HOLDER." SUN,—Public Securities exhibited this afternoon no new feature, and prices closed steadily at about the rtes given in our Evening Edition, viz. Consols, 93 : 1- to 93+ ; Exchequer Bills, 595. prem. ; India Bonds 48s. premium; Reduced Three per Cents 93 ; and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 1011. Batik Stock was at 165 k, and India Stock 253. The Foreign investments were in as limited request this afternoon as in the early part of the clay, the ad ditional transactions being in Spanish Actives for Account at 177 7 , in the Three per Cents. at 21E1 ; in the Portuguese New at 37+; it the Colombian at 20 to 21; in Brazilian at 64+ ; in Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. at 521 to 521, and in the Five per Cents. at 1001. Shares were brisker this afternoon, and in a few instances slightly improved quotations were obtained. Santiago de Cuba Slining Shares were at 2.5 pre mium ; Australian Bank at 12+ to 121 premium ; National Provincial of England at 1 premium ; and British North American at to. 51 discount. The atter were to-day marked with the additional Si. per share paid up. In Railways, Great Western iNew were the Fifths, 4 ; the Birmingham Quarters, 2-)A-, the Thirds,27l; the Paris andllouen, 2-1- to 4 3 1 the Eastern Counties, New, 1* ; and the Nor thern and Eastern Scrip, 11 to 2 premium; Brighton closed at ln dis. WINMARLEIGH COURSING MEETING. MONDAY. , • The . Cup ivas Won by Mr. Simpson's Emma, tho Pat ten Stakes by Mr. Thompscn's Cerberus, the Puppy Stakes by Mr. Wahnsley's Dan.. SPIRIT of ti,e PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES:—The public kill be well satisfied with the finding of the Jury in the Northleach case. The verdict is a reasonable and judicious one. Whatever substantial truth there might have been in a return of " Manslaughter," the practical effect of such a verdict would have been below the result which may be expected to follow from the present finding. A. criminal trial must have then taken place : the special pleadings of an advocate would have perplexed the Jury: the Judge would have thrown his doubts into the prisoner's scale, and a verdict of Not Guilty might have dismissed the criminals, who would thencethrward have been regarded as persecuted men ; so unsafe is it in England (and long may it continue to be so) to press an ac cused person with the least degree of passion or personal hostility. The present verdict, however, avoiding this error, calmly declares a fact which is apparent to the whole world (always excepting the Gloucestershire Jus tices)—that Charles Beale owes his death to the treatment received by him in Northleach House of Correction. This finding, we take for granted, dismisses all the parties concerned in that lengthened cruelty. Their punishment is a mild anti lenient one, and we trust that it will be quietly submitted to. It is but a few weeks since a special inquiry was instituted by the Home office touching the hair-cropping regulations of Dover gaol—an inquiry which at once produced the resignation of the curl-destroying keeper of that prison. But the matter now in - fend isof a graver description. It cannot be that one gaoler shall lose his appointment for meddling with the love-locks of a strolling player, and another pass unnoticed who has "lifted" the victims of his fearful discipline on the tread-wheel, which their failing strength did not enable them to ascend; and who has heard, and passed unnoticed, the re port of his; surgeon, that "he could do nothing more fir them—better living was what they wanted." Enough, however of the minor crimi nals: 'the val ue o f this verdict is, that it deals a heavy blow to the system. The Gloucestershire Sus tices, when next they meet, must occupy them selves to better purpose than in railing at the Times, or in arguing that the prison "cannot be so bad a place as it has been represented, or so many prisoners would not visit it a second time." Comthrtable as they seem to have imagined it— with from 12,000 to 14,000 feet of accent per day, in the nine or ten hours' labour at the wheel, and two pennyworth of bread fine the whole subsist ence of the prisoner —it will now be their duty to augment this comfort into positive luxury, by providing some better resting-place ler the 'M iserable creature, reeking with his ten hours' mill-work, than a cold and damp cell, open to the wind and rain, with a atone for the only scat. Nay, more, the labour must be dimi nished, or the food augmented, and that in no trifling degree. One of the witnesses examined on Monday last deposed, that when sent with Beale into the potato-store, they both fell upon the raw potatoes. He adds, " I dare say I ate halla peck. 1 had a good bellyful that day. and I don't think I had another all the time I was there." "Beale was, like me, pretty nearly famished." Now, we are not aware that there exists, in the. whole accumulated mass of our criminal enactments, any such punishment as that of being " pretty nearly famished," whether with or without the accompani ment of tea hours' mill-work per diem. We must, therefore, either have the punishment legalised, or we must have it discon tinued. About this there must be "no mis take." The next gaoler that is found inflicting this sort of torture (except, indeed, our law makers shall meantime adopt . " famishing" us "a good secondary punishment") must not expect to escape so lightly as will the governor of -.J.North leach. From the whole Press of England, con ve3 ing, not too strongly, the feelings of the en tire people of England, the corporation ofgacicrs have now received finr warning. The system will be tolerated no longer ; " reform it altoge ther." On a minor topic we shall only add one word. In alluding to the still existing doubt and uncertainty as to the character of the Co roners' Court, we had not forgotten the legal arguments and judicial decisions which grew out of the Oldham inquest. We spoke merely of the confusion and want of sys tem visible in the resent case. Here was a Coroner admitting four reporters, as such, and then peremptorily excluding, without any reason assigned, a fifth. Of course he might, with equal ease, have admitted the one, and excluded the four. The only rule'laid down was his own so vereign pleasure. Now, if this were carried out into general practice, we might have Mr. Wak ley, or Mr. Baker, excluding from all the metro politan inquests all reporters but one, or perhaps two, of their own selection. Of course. these favoured individuals would be the sole purveyors for the whole London Press, and the two Core ners would thus gain the patronage of two very valuable appointments. But does any man mean to say that this is the law ; or that such a prac tice would be tolerated by the people of lino-• land ? Nevertheless, it is essentially contained in the privilege asserted by the functionary who presided over the Northleach inquiry. HERALD.—We are informed, on respectable authority, that the King of the French has dis cuSsed with persons in his confidence the pro priety of abdicating the throne in fayour of the Duke of •Nemours. The advantages of, such a step are manifest, and .many persons in the French capital are of opinion that it is the only way of consolidating the Orleans dynasty. Louis Philippe, however, they add, is so foed of power, that tt is riot likely he will voluntarily give up the reins; and the report has been spread more for the purpose of ascertaining public opinion upon it, than with the idea of carrying such a resolution into effect. The Duke of Nemours is not generally . liked, though he is far from being absolutely unpopu lar, and it is more than doubtfUl how far he could manage a nation so difficult to govern as France, in case of the sudden death of his father. Let the first year of his reign be conducted by the able management of Louis Philippe, and the others will follow in the same satisfactory man ner. Custom is as influential with the French as with any other people, and they will, without di fficulty, submit to an authority under which they have lived for a certain period. Without expressing an opinion on the authority of the ru mours which have reached us, we give them for the purpose of preparing the public for an event which is not improbable to happen in the course of the ensuing Session of the French Chambers. CHRONICLE.—The inquest at Northleach has terminated in a verdict "That Charles Beale died of disease of the lungs, brought on and ag gravated by the punishment and mode of treat ment he received whilst a prisoner in Northleach House of Correction, and the Jury express their unanimous disapprobation of the conduct of the Governor Townsend, the Surgeon Bidwell, and the -under-turnkey Harding." All the Jurors at the same time signed a memorial to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, praying for an inquiry into the treatment of prisoners and discipline of Northleach and the other pri sons and houses of correction in the county. The extension of the inquiry to all the prisons is quite necessary. In another column our readers will find a communication from a gentleman, in timately acquainted with the prison system of Gloucestershire, who has communicated to us his name and address, from a wish to decline no re sponsibility. From that communication it will be seen that Beale is but one of many vic tims to the murderous system enforced at Northleach. Our Correspondent states cases that came within his own knowledge when his avocations led him to become ac quainted with the subject—and that the other prisons in Gloucestershire are all more or less chargeable with the rigours, the exposure of which, in the case ofNorthleach, has deservedly excited in the public mind the strongest feelings of indignation. It is now evident that the public have but a slender guarantee, in the official vigilance of a Secretary of State, that only suit able regulations will be enforced in our prisons ; and from what has transpired in the course of the late inquest, and at the Quarter Sessions atGlou cester, it would appear that no great dependence is to be placed on the Visiting Magistrates. The prisoners dare not tell the truth when questioned as to their treatment. The visits of the Magis trates have been few and far between, and, see ing only through the eyes of the gaolers, they have found everything as it ought to be. The death of Beale is laid by the Jury on the system pursued at Northleach, But, though the Jurors have only named T ownsen d an d - Bidwell, and Harding, the public will look higher than these instruments. Lord Erskine leaped into professional eminence in one day by dragging, in the Greenwich Hospital case, the higher cul- . prits before the C our t, i n spite of the threats_ of the Judge. Powerful men are imlicated this revolting system. Throughout tale length and breadth of the land, the indignant voice of the country has been raised against the horrible sys tem of' Northleach. After the medical evidence obtained in the Parliamentarysinquiry, to which the enormous mortality in the Penitentiary, from insufficiency of food, led, there is no longer an excuse for the adoption of a dietary in prisons on which men cannot be maintained in health. The law may be over severe or over lenient; but whatever punishment the law orders should alone be inflicted. When the law says death, let the criminal die. But when the law says, punish this man fur seeking to obtain that work else where which he cannot obtain in his own vil ' lege, with three mouths' imprisonment, he ' ought not to be starved to death, or sent from the dungeon with a broken constitution from in sufficiency of food. The torture of famine is not a punishment ivhieli the law contemplates. If Magistrates will tske it upon them to give effect to a system by which an offence of a venial cha racter is punished with more severity than the law contemplates for the most heinous crimes, on their heads be the responsibility. We are far from wishing to contend for any improper indulgence to prisoners. Nay, we arc doubtful whether the endeavour to make prisons anything but places of punishment be not productive of more evil than good. We wish to see the reform which keeps men from gaohn and not the retinas' which would break down the distinction between poverty and crime. It has always appeared to us that little dependence is to be placed on the reform wrought under the constraint of a gaoler. We wish to see prisons remain really prisons— places not to be desired but dreaded by offenders. ADVERTISER.—The Herald was at consi derable trouble yesterday morning to cry up the demeanour of the agricultural interest, in con trast with the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League—the manufacturing body, and the mass of the people generally. The agricultural classes never, in support of their own interests, did this naughty thing, or that ; never attempted to rouse one portion of the community against an other; never sent nominees into Parliament to maintain there time question of privileges against rights; never struggled to' buy every man's opinion with gold; never convened meetings, ap pointed dinners, speechified at associations, all for the purpose exclusively of their rents; above all, they never interposed against manufacturing protection, no, not they; they were superior to such proceedings—they only knew that the laud " was the source of their country's greatness," and, consequently, were only to be disturbed from their calm and dignified course of action, when the claims of the laud were endan gered—the Corn-laws too rudely assailed ! Even at length in the gigantic changes c&cted against theta through Sir Robert's modified sliding-scale, only just think how magnanimously they have conducted themselves ; still high in their majestic serenity; not giving tongue; carefully refraiiiing from abuse; so meek, in short, as literally to be brought to admit, that perhaps, the modified sliding-scale and the new tariff, are for their own as well as the country's benefit. Admira ble, indeed ! The Conservatives are truly a prodigiously fine fraternity, and the very Herald itself dare not gainsay it. But suppose the Conservatives were in a different position from what they are ; suppose they were in the comparatively depressed and oppressed, hampered, straitened condition of the manufac turers; suppose, not that they enjoyed a mono poly of all the advantages of the State, but that they were prevented, by a monopoly of the ma nufacturers, from enjoying, nut only not the luxuries, but were denied the mere means of gaining a subsistence; suppose that prohibition met them here, restriction there, monopoly— an engrossing of all the good things of man's industry, everywhere;—would the Conserva tives remain passive? Would they not fight a breathless conflict, not for their rights, but for extravagant privileges —not for independence dear to all, but for selfish aggrandisement, for absurd pomp, for just those kinds of patri cian splendour which mean the enervation of the body and the corruption of the soul ? What part of' the kingdom would be f ree f rom Conser vative intrigues, from Tory conspiracies, from even oligarchic swords and bayonets, if time landed interest were the wronged, oppressed, suffering victims the manufacturers and the whole mnanurccturing population are ? But, on the other hand, when was it that the plunderers rebelled against the plundered? What neces sity would there be for it? Are they to fight against what is under subjugation ? Will men in the possession of all play the Quixotic feat of rushing to contend with shadows—ofcon tending where nothing more is to be obtained ? How silly the Herald is! What have the rent holders to agitate about? Have they not more than any other body in the Stnte—not excepting even the Church—possess, or, relatively, have any hope of possessing ? Why, common sense says, instead of agitating, their policy is to re main quiet as mice—not to make a squeak, lest any one should know they are there. The wisest of them, of course, know this, and act upon it; it is the fools among them only that, like the Herald, make a shout to tell the world how beneficent they are. But, then, have not the Conservatives got up agitation, sowed dissen sion among classes, perverted the minds of thou sands with their gold, all for the sake of their Monopolies ' their Corn-l aws , th e i r accurse d feu dal claims ? How was it at Aylesbury last year ? They met under the colours of the renowned Chan dos, for entering a loud and terrific protest against the slightest diminution of their protac tron. How is it their Stauhopes and Riehmonds, as well as Buckingluans, raved in the last ses sion as they did about starvation--of the masses being nothing to time consideration of preserving rents at their fictitious standard ? The Conser vatives never stoop to what is undignified or in correct. No, never ! the Conservatives are your cless for keeping permanent the stability of the nation ! Pretty statesmanship, that of time the land, to be sure, the basis of Eng land's greatness; the culture of the soil, forsooth, because itleaves her people, so "simple" and so humble," the foundation of England's glory . and grandeur! What asinine p r e ac hi ng i s thi s : How ‘vortimv of the Herald, and in consonance with its habitual prating! So the Standard would make us believe that it were happy fbr Britain if the manufacturing- powers were at the bottom of the sea, and the Herald would tell us that agriculture is time principieof her prosperity. What answer could be given to such self-ex posed lunacies—what answer but contempt—or, it' not, 'let us burn our ships, and work our ploughs, and see in what predicament we shall find ourselves in one year after time experiment. MONEY MARKET awl CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. CIIRONICLE.—The state of the corn trade forms a fit and proper companion to that of the cattle trade. Both markets are panic stricken, and prices greatly and unnecessarily depressed. The farmers have them selves to blame very much for having given way to fear from the phantom herds of horned cattle from the Continent, which they supposed were on ship-board to undersell them on British ground; but the panic in the corn trade, and th e ru i nous loss that has been suffered in Mark-lane and abroad by the recent fluc tuations in the pri ce o f wheat, are all to be attributed to the deceitf u l i n fl uence of • the new sliding scale. The new law was framed to abolish gambling and speculation, and to establish a steady trade and equality of prices. What has been the test of experi ence ? Gambling has been as extensive, and speculation as rife as it was before the law of 1828 was modified. I Upwards of 2,000,000 of quarters of foreign wheat were entered for home consumption, under an Bs. duty, in August last; in the weeks ending the 6th of August and the 13th of August last, when the average price was 645. 2d. per quarter, that is, ten weeks back, and now the duty is 18s. per quarter, and the average price down to about 525. per quarter. The vaunting sliding scale, which was prescribed as a specific against the evil of its discarded predecessor, has thus been attended with a fluctuation of 10s. per quarter on the duty, and of 12s. per qua r t er on th e average price in 6e course of a few weeks. The trade has been subjected to a loss of 1,200,0001., and the British farmer has been exposed to the influence. of a market as fictitiously depressed, as it formerly had been unduly advanced, in price; while the consumers have not been benefited by a proportionate reduction in the price .of bread. 'I he millers and bakers may, perhaps have reaped some benefit by these changes, but all other. classes have suffered, and most of all he English farmers — the home producers—have been losers by this extra ordinarily convulsive action in the corn trade. Had the: season proved unfavourable, the dealers would have held back their 2,500,000 quarters until the price had risen to a famine rate, and until the duty had been reduced to the lowest ratio. The game, in that case, would have been in their own hands. It is still on the cards for another day, and will be played while it is open to be won. In the meantime, such is the force of panic at present in Mark-lane, owing to the extent of the recent failures, that the best Dantzic wheat is now offered, for nioney, at 48s. per quarter—less, we believe, than its cost free on board. This, too, at the time when the s Rini'l h farmers are' sending their be s t samples to'l?nar.. ket, which, from their superior quality, support the averages; otherwise the price would be considerably lower. The discount houses in Lombard-street are now the actual holders of foreign corn, in security for the. money advanced on the dis honoured paper of the corn-factors. " Better good corn than bad bills," was the observation of the head this of a leading firm to-d a y ; and is true enough but better still, we say, for all parties, a s te a dy I tp a d; and a fixed duty. If the farmers are to have then there termed " prot ec ti on, " let it be fixed, and then there will be an end to all mystification. It is useless, indeed, to attempt to fix the prices of com modities by means of any Act of P ar liament, for ;we see by the Present state of the corn market that a nominal duty of 18s. per quarter does not keep the price at more than 48s. per quarter. A fixed 4 The intention was intimated in our Evening Edi tion to ascertain the particulars of the Hudson's Bay imports by the ship just arrived: these are now sub-' joined. Bear, 524 skins: fisher, 1,131; lynx, 5,167; beaver, I 0,500; marten, 24,196; musquash, 257,800; fox, silver, 99; cross, 312 ; red, 643 ; white, 92; mink, 5,474 ; otter, 3,131; wolf', 10; wolverine, 39 ; and swan, 19. A FAIR DAY'S WAGES FOR A FAIR DAY'S WORK. Bread at 4d. for a 41b. loaf. Ale at 4(1. per quart. Wages, 9s. per week constant for labour. HOW TO BEING THIS ABOUT. Three shillings per quarter permanent duty on corn for revenue —other food free. Reduction of duty on Malt. Tax on Property, and Currency a silver standard. THE EFFECT. On Land Improved agriculture and increased consumption would compensate for reduction in price. On Commerce Cheap food would restore the pre eminence of Great Britain, and keep labour in constant demand. Preserve Peace and seek no Commercial Treaties — Religion would be guarded from the agitatating empiricism of dis content. A SUBSCRIBER OF TWENTY YEARS' Oct. 26, 1842. STANDING. CAN SUCH THING S BE ? have the King of Hanover's commands, to express to you his Majesty's thanks for the book transmitted by you and containing your speech at the Conservative Festival at Maidstone. The King was greatly pleased ivith the eloquent and brilliant manner in which you had handled your subject, and has charged me to communicate to you his approbation, which his Majesty was only prevented by great pres s of business from doing himself—l haVe the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) .ADOLPH KIELMANSEGGE, 44, Grosvenor - place , March 8, 1 842. To Sir John Croft, Bart. e st3 c -'s mail packet A l l i ed , L o ss or THE F RENCH SCHOONER COUcoNniA commanded etl as in p a r ' eceeding With —As her Mai by Mr. 'William ... , mithett, R.N., the mails for Kingstown yesterd a y morning, after passing the Rock Lighthouse, a vessel was seen b y - Capt. Smithett on Burbo Bank. The life-boat was im mediately got ready, and at ten minutes past 7 o'clock put in charge of Mr. Dillon, second master , who with nine men proceeded t o th e sand bank with a view of saving the perishi ng crew, vessel must go t o p i eces on as it it flowing wasevid tide.ent thiattntlasie blowing very s t rong f rom the nort hwl:th a heavy sea- The life-boat, deeply laden, having in all 17 souls, behaved well, although at times she nearly filled with water. She returned to the packet at half-past 4.1* having th e crew of the vessel, seven in number, who were put into the maceazine life-boat, which Captain Smithett had observecfmaking towards the wreck, and had run to leeward to tow her in case of further need, and afterwards safely landed at this pert, the unfortunate crew not having time to save any of their clothes. The Medina proceeded to Ireland, and when passing the spot on her return this morning, Captain Smithett and his crew saw the schooner a complete wreck, bottom up, on the sand-bank, and felt highly grati fied at having had it in his power to rescue the suf ferers from a watery grave. This is the second in-' stance in which the life-boats belonging to her Ma jesty's packets on this station (which have been fur , niched within the present year) have b een instru mental in saving human life.—Liverpool Courier of Wednesday. Cows.—The Princess Victoria steamer has been lyi n g off here, during th e wee k , w i t h t h e steam up, on the 100k -out for the Belgian steamer British Queen, from New York, but as the time of her de parture from that port is uncertain, the probable thug of her arrival here is all conjecture. It has been blowing very hard here from the south-west. Six seasons since, nine grains of wheat were planted by John Ol man , o f B ox, Wil ts; an d last year the produce was 54- bushel:', which were again planted, and produced this year the enormous crop of fourteen .sucks two bushels, and were sold last week in our mar.. ket to Mr. Scudamore, of Larkliall.—Bath Chronicle e