The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-22 00:00:00

. :I. .'"man , named William Gallagher, summoned . : , 1 r ,:„Laptala Knox,nuster of a large East Incliaman, at ~.-• Cannes -street, - tbr a 1-,:-lanco of wages, amounting to 1 8/. 10s., for . his 'services on a vo . va,7e from Port Philip to London. ,Tt was shown that the complain- Ant liSd deceived - the Captain, lw shipping as an able when he ettlnan, was iil, and unable to perform duty. —co Magistrate declined to make an order for the wages. • . Eliza Bailey, recently sent down from Liverpool to be tried at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions on the charge of sterding a large sum of mone in notes from Mr. John Marcpiis, aas tried Knutstbrd on Wednesday, and found guilty. She was sentenced to be trans . Porter's for seven years. rrtvE inner, the architect of the c.zthedral of Cologne, ivili visit England thi: autumn, and examine our old „,ii;-Etßlish cathedrals. the distinguished German sculptor, died at Vassel, at the beginning of the present month, aged seventy- se-en . LITEIZATILTZ T D scrENTxrxc. The sixth known copy of the first Bible printed at Mentz, has been lately found in Belgium, among a heap of old book. Fann TAI' :.t y Elssler has been rapturously received by -, the Court and people of Vienna, and while herself the recei ver o f many g if ts, s h e h as b estowed large e haritable donations on the theatres and artists of that city. COIIIIT—PALSItZON.A.ZIME •.' i cr Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is raring Lord and Lady %Vharncliffe with a visit at Vortlev. Hall, Yorkshire. 114 Inverial Highness the Archduke Frederick of A 4 tlstriti lett Alnw ick. Castle on Friday, for dinburgh. d The Due de Ri c helieu returned to town on Thurs , aV, from a t o u r . • 'Xi* Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, after a short time at Ryde, Isle of Wight, have re ' '' r ri rr ed to T o tt en h am P ar k, near M ar lbo roug h, Wilt s . T he Marquis and Marchioness of Normanhy have returned to Belgrave Castle, Yorkshire, from- Ravens worth c astle, near Durham. fiThe Earl an d Countessof Arundel are staying with e Duke and D uc h ess o fN o rfoi . k, near Bury St. Ed ns. I , E ari , Bathurst left Dunrohin Castle early in the . w eek, where the Noble Earl bad been visiting 7" the , 31 4 0 -t arid Duchess of Sutherland. :ste " L ' - ' 4ll _e . ,Earl and Countess of Essex returned to town T h raay from a tour. i , e Lail. of Lonsdale still remains in town. ..-tr im ,,„Lera Chancellor arrived in town yesterday :a i i47ightem. ord Chancellor of Ireland, accompanied by 4iti o r h l / 4 )ll gden and family, left Boyle Farm, Thames • On Thursday, for Stephen's Green, Dublin. r~l:scE3.LPildo us.. e subscriptions for a monument to the late Earl of Ql est er amount at present to 4,0001. C t he Lincoln " Stuff" Ball, held on Wednesday it • Pi* s Ifi , city, above four hundred persons were kid n tl formi ng a brilliant gathering of the nobility • ii.g e ntry of the county. t h sei zure was made on board the Caledonia steam y, gQff Horslydown, this week, of a large quantity gi ve ll „ ll ,,ggied tobacco and cigars, and the owners have ./T, °owl to pay an y fine that may be imposed. by th ': r epresentation of Butesbire has become vacant death of Sir W. ae, and it is expected that ' ll Esq,, m will ß become a candidate. 41D NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO Ma T r l k J e ß t 1, The report oft the Liverpool Gotton Th The sales of the • E fo E r the week advisa s but a limited business. ‘i bal es h ave have been 16,040 bales. stock is 521,500 • • R : s •• 'There have been taken for consumption it e mo°o bales, and exported 70,000 bales. year. t as show a slight increase over last - it i '' understood that notwithstanding to t t h h e e d e e x p t r e e n s t se o d f ma ns 00 of trade, orders for C b ott n ori 'forwarded to the • 03' millions sterling, have • (lit e ( ' States by the Great ee ‘vhi L r nisi It mu3t , Western steamer, , t e h "as just quitted this e rernemberea, however,_ that this is for the new cr o ,, ~ In °I the staple, and that the shipments . may ex- tem ti. o‘er a period terminating . only - .Frvrland and the with he autumn 1 11,.otat year. The consumption of i:3ll.lcents from cur ports have, a_.. s s .e ' if_ n sh a r n above, 4n abont 940,000 bales,. anal eve _ T O le b e above the mark in estima i the amount of on whi.(,)rders sent out for cotton a g t 20,000,0001, 5 um of_ d o ` h r.it er more . Lil Say • h than half will be for . e P C, ) „,l i ere, and the remainder there will go direct to the bciuLlnent of Europe, the manufacturers afford ailing, themselves however, of the facilities 'ed hy o ur line of steamers ordered . States to forward their '4, to the United via .toLiverpool sustaino Bristol.nannnt be - . in ttiense competition we have a oetter illustrated than by . these ua n b l'ef ,, r ence to the comparative . q in former tit f i n es cts, tak an en d Year t 3'. -n giand and the Continent the \,' 1 tscli batt of cotton we estimate to l ' ll 4 .ue O F 8 /. to 10/., and it re:nains be as see o n f T athan to I , enrhsZell customers as ourselves are to be treated vet '° riff;ta •ithout Brother von •Lve l '"" r t' o nle of the " ;fleets of his policy.. • ry ~.._ • ill t• eipk s ..x rtio n raising consistent with free trade prin ihe i ion I called for in _ t , i. ae " I" Y India. The fae is r e ,P, k • 1 !ion of cotton in. tearxs a t t o - ol a b in ut less clear, that while the. policy our,ur.(-11---:ernnientnhous.been to depress the manuac is . (34 t o f of the landlords, that of America nn _ er the must exorbitantl its native' agriculture, under . d . cleill s'y 1 ' Y Ala ue e l oPe o'' forcing n -acti - ' .irc. s tao,._ (- Port of the 'lol le i , , • . emen in its • is an improv expected • been exut.c , Leipzic fair, now before u . s, the'`,! satisfactory than might have . fr. r l Yers from. ee y o fr, . Greece and the . .East though kor a • f uel rnan and British fabrics, b ow (3 ' the form:y than the latter. ,Most . houses , • evidently 1,, ' in fact ••se are .,, , ; consider . 11.eotati,,-1.! worth their while to have even a repre 4br th 'e • at the great continental marts, much less 4oe s eterineipals themselves to attend, .so steadily e • %011 4) . e, colnpetition and the money power of tu , Thspl'a inerease..: v 4 -Id ig .3 sales are expected to conclude on Mon . n - - I , y Itl l ) ceeli s less business doing the Funds continue to be l'eia 1111343rted, and th e lo w rate of interest—money t 'Niasebtainahle on first-rate bills at 2i pc.cen ttttes. the ollinion to rule in favour of the existi ng e a ""usols are Wi to 931, for transfer next wee k ,. I re 3 lA t ,, te ,. a,3'} for Account,. leaving,. bate 4 ,-s. c Optinuyticm, which, in part, maybe attri therefore, not e nati n ° we\ ei to the possibility of political or other e1 ) - e l"el ' ee sar ' assn •to - catse a re-action in the market. India ~,,410n,h(1,,111=r Billi a; '• 58 to 56 'premium, an d 41 )r - "ava touche. 48s. to 503. premium. New lll h 'arl d'a a If pt 102, being a tot e et . .- a p... Cents., 1011 to ~,i. : 1. 1 . 1 5e ; and the hree per Cent. Annuities -vorh% ''''eug Annu . es are 121 to 5 - 1 6. e , ti.l, ha-:uete Stock less speculated in, and as the , ct i t will Five per 3cl3(' - "0" occ asi' ,3 neclby mere jobbing, we may R eilt. Ti n ,it gradually recede. The New . Nt4e k ' 11)48 'lre 39 and the Converted 33 7, • Mexican N 3 a ' la 32 1. ard I ) i `2lkali A„, t ; and ghilia. n are quiet at 82. bri e t 4 2,.i peal val e 161, and the Three per Cents. , t, Sia 4 : Ilia Duty"' Two-and-a-Half per Cents. hate . 44 , 0 , H) ;32 1 ,AL,. is . a :had° lower. - ktaii, i ..., :!? A ats:_n again or tdropne(iil,'"Asareff have been rather flat. Brighton ih g's line from 13a to 141 discount. The receipts frrea s ,.'ne are slight a givai •at 4.646/., being t i e uati os he Lao .iN otes are 1 to -. 3 2 - prem.; /.,4eurit. a 14 } • and Northern and Eastern, And at,.;r..,atEastern iVestern, New, are 101 premium. o 44 Att3tr.oV, etttninster Bank bring , 2rei ~,i . duel "an Company a Shares z Pltic t Agricultural . t4htlir • aAlt ,C)P; gl-I.( I NEs THIS DAY AT ONE. iprigh, ll -1... k Paid. Per Sl4re. to _ ti C o , end(;auce,s t 100 401 q n, i •, l at kas ......... ,733 .. B i. to , NtW a 1... .. ' ..... .1. ..... . '- ... d. ltil b. est" .... .... 1 - ..... 84. 68. 8 1. 44 . 1 tt0 N ew 4 ........... ';I 65 to o t ` t i u n Itt l e l i . : ... • ......4. 50 !co 0,,44., „rithton . M... bo 1011,_ to -- N°ll ll ll Z ll . :L n4 lleic !an ....0... 1 . ... 10 2 3: gs to _ bi tto '', 4 lla nd stern •t• f t ..... 45 4 thi rd , . .. .......... -...' ..... ...100 .2 kariAN,HESI. .......... 4.... 21/. 13e. 4d. to —1 14 1 . 34 t ,pliß StPCIE. EXCHANGE, 0CT. 19 21.--- . ou r, 'tel. 'N -ell very inanimate to-day, and business Aip Itth AA,' anchester and Birmingham, 191 191 ; ' este d , ;D, _rn_ 3-,, - -..tau l b , il- 58 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 4 , I, iton ure„,„.-n- and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 2 - se d burY; 49 49i-• 1V . .......,............________ . ____ . _______ . _ . _ . N , u r Ili:-- of ti A DD -- , V !DOWERS, BY Mits. THOMSON.— t ut C'tighougt?' SUStailled and highly -wrought effect. high e r e o oc; tne ability to construct, and the skill and R enee , ;I N r a nd finish, have kept pace with the .a4Nas of 1 ,..` the mind ; and cultivation, expo it a,„enecticai ea t : 4 Par a bi . , and imagination have produced ( 4, 13 4 . 1 ra tin 3 the most polished, thoughtful, and of t l h k is a g, e t . 'Mrs. ahomson's writings. The et;le st ory, uN uPon us to touch on the development of 'aiti, i n i. so admirably is it worked out; but we is a fre s h "Ild and considerate regard to the lovers 1 1 as and clever denouement. The heroine %II sweet dart a 3 ere a Portrait of gentle woman (I k Rnd r amend the pages of fiction , sifi,,, t e l a Isre ever one of the actors in the full pc)rtr a f t ° many carefully coloured and diver 'lid' tirlish;,.,ures, and the subordinates not less care sssoi, •,-ii than the principals. In all that Mrs. 4. , ili a% Lin:i tha n there is a fine woman-spirit ; gueti..- a eh a it i s rro; and as salutary for the in lit. a s.x, n calculated to produce on readers of her i n e ,u"nd e h ar s , tll,-! acuteness of her observations on 41 tnti c one , "e.ter, and the general talent she displays 111.1%.y5, B:ttien and conduct of her story.' There is aIY , Whi c h () s ..sPeak; an inborn correctness and pro witi teach without throe inborn the whole without effort, 114t_?'rs" i s 11,_ high lessons.. " Widows and . ~ 'n tl k , •:' lowed, a work. which must take its Y Qcz ette : • - c , ,Qt 1 .): ,1 4.i of lit:',,,,eas iiwrature.—Lile ,, . . 0 1 0 LONDON SESSIONS(THIS DAY). These sessions Comiilenced to:6y before the Lord Mayor, Recordzr, and Aldermen, Sir J. Carroll, Johnson, Kelly, Ire. The Court was occunied the' whole morning with eases of assault, and charges oft,keeplng houses of ill fame, but no case of any interest occurred up to the time of our going to press. POLICE INTELLIGE:°XE. BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) John Bent, a shoemaker, was`c . .bared with the fol lowing offences :—First, smashintin the window of one George Barton, of 25, Pimps-street, a rival shoemaker. Secondly, smashing fie countenance of the said George Barton. Thirdly, mashing the coun tenanee of the officer in the station-house ; and lastly, with attempting to break out of the cell in which he was placed, and damaging the cell. The first charge gone into was that made by George Barton, who stated that yesterday afternoon the prisoner came up to the shop window and commenced ridiculing the list of prices. Witness went out and remonstrated with the prisober, who immediately smashed in the window and then ran at the witness and knocked him down. lie was given into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, to the charge, said that the complainant was selling boots at 3s. Gd., which he had no business to do. The other charges were then gone into, and, it ap peared that when the prisoner was brought to the station-howe he was very quiet for a short time, but when the policeman came up to him he struck him a violent blow in the face. Other policemen were called in, and after a struggle he was secured. When taken to the cell he continued very violent, and on the goaler visiting him some time afterwards he found that he had made a large bold in the roof. The prisoner, in defence of his conduct, smiling, said that he was passionate at times, but it was soon over, but he could not bear to be oppressed. Mr. JARDINE said he should dispose of the first charge, and fine the prisoner in the amount of the damage done to the window, and if that was paid he wouldnot proceed with the case. The money was not paid, and the Magistrate was about to visit the prisoner with further punishment, when his wife stepped for ward, and said, that owing to losses in business, she thought that the last few weeks he had been a little deranged. This Mr. Jardine inquired into, and find ing it correct, said he would discharge the prisoner, if his wife would take him hoMe, and see that he was taken care of. This she promised, and tile prisoner was discharged. It was stated in Court that he had lately lost 9001. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Charles Sharbell, a young' man of respectable ap pearance, was charged with stealing a silver table spoon and a silver table-fork, the property of Mr. John Gregory, the proprietor of the John o'Groat's Hotel, Rupert-street, Haymarket. It appeared that the prisoner had been about a month in Mr. Gregory's - service, as under porter, and apparently conducted himself with great propriety. However, it seems that between six and seven o'clock last evening, he watched an oppor tunity to get unnoticed to the plate-basket, which was under the care of the head waiter, and abstract from it the articles in question, with which he soon afterwards proceeded to the shop of Mr. Fleming, of John-street, Golden-square, pawnbroker, and offered them in pledge, but Mr. Fleming having suspicion, from his confused,manner and appearance, that all was not right, refuld to receive them, and told him that he should detain ,the plate until the prisoner could satisfactorily proVe how he became possessed of it. The prisoner then hastily left the shsp, but between nine and ten o'clock this morning he came again to Mr. Fleming's shop and demanded that the property should be given up to him, upon which police sergeant Squire, C 14, was called in, and the prisoner given into his charge. On his way to the station-house he voluntarily confessed that he had robbed his master of the plate, and gave his name - and address. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, and the witnesses bound over to 'prosecute. MARYLEBONE.,—(T HIS DAY.) John .Dunhur and Bridget Cotta, the former a most respectable man, the other a common prostitute, were placed at the bar. Sanger, 316 D, was on duty in the New-road, late yesterday evening, when he saw seven or eight females surrounding the male prisoner, who was very drunk and noisy ; heard the female say, " I'll have him with me." He went up to the party, and ordered them off, when they all left with the exception of Cotton, who would not leave, saying that Dunbar • was her hus band. He therefore took them to the station-house. The male prisoner had a large sum of money about him. Police-constable 158 E confirmed the previous wit ness's statement. Dunbar, in defence, said he was tipsy, and knew not • what he was doing. He was tined 10s., and the other prisoner was sent for one month to the House of Correction. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS 1)A Y.) William Warton was charged with maltreating a horse. _ . . . . An officer of the Animals' Friend Society in Mark lane deposed that at eleven this morning he saw the prisoner driving an infirm old horse in a cart through Penton-street. He first lashed the horse with all his might, and then turning the butt-end of • a loaded carter's whip laid on the poor beast with all his force, so that it yielded to the very ground beneath the blows. The gaoler said the master of the prisoner was of such a character if his men did not flop the feeble animals, he would run out and beat them himself as long as he could stand over them. . He was sentenced to a week's imprisonment. UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.) - - - - - - HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Michael Davis was charged with knocking down and robbing William Davis of 18s. on the preceding night. The complainant was walking holm ; when a little way down Kent-street the prisoner rushed out done of the numerous dark passages in that locality, and struck him between the eyes, knocked him down, and robbed him of the above sum. ;.The complainant was found lying on the ground with his pockets turned inside out, and from his de scription of his assailant the latter Was shortly after wards taken into custody.—Committed. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) WHITE CHAPEL. There has been but a moderate :supply of Hay and Clover this week, with a good demand, and prices without alteration. Of Straw the supply short, with a good trade. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 51. Bs. • Hay, 21. Bs. 41. 4s. ; Straw, 1/. 12s. to 1 /. 16 s. The trade was good for prime meat of all kinds, and its quantity being limited, prices were rather higher. Rough meat (of which the supply was large) sold at very low rates, a great deal at. and under, 3d. per lb. The market, on the whole, was pretty clear. Beef, ls. Bd. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton, Is. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d.; Pork, 2s. to 55.; Lamb, 2s. to 3s. 8. TALLOW MARKET. Russian Tallow was firm, with an anxiety on the part of the merchants to press sales. Fine Yellow Candle on the spot 48s. 6d. per cwt. The deliveries were very good. TEA MARKET. The market was in the same dull state, the trade not eareinglto purchase.' WAKEFIELD CORN MAIThEr. The market was fairly supplied with Wheat. The trade continued dull, but still the buyers were enabled to purchase on quite as easy terms as on this day se'nnight. Barley ls. per quarter lower. Oats, Shelling, and Deans were steady, Wae.t, Red, Essex and Kent. s 45.. ti 49.. ..,sr 50- Nortutix and SUnt/ik —s, 446. to 483. fine 506 -- Lin. and CAM —s. 11.1,1` —s. I,ne —a. —.— Yorkshire —a. 426. to 445. :Ale •:6 ; White . —s. 48,. to 525. fine F4' ....--- Foreign, tied. —s. —a. to 4” 8. fine 48s ___,...,,—..--... White --s.—a. to—s, nue 3i Barley, Norfolk amf Sullolk '6s. to feSs. fine 30s .--.-- Lincolnshire ------ Yorkshite Wald 45 . ,. to 275. fin: 99s -- Foreign Beans, New . 1 9 s. to 353. fin( Skis. -- Old . Oats, Potato —a. to :Ws, fine t2i —..- Poland —a. —s. to ilos. fine 22i --- Vriezland and Small —s. •••••-r. to —a. One —...5. ---;-- Nealing ... 10e. to 10y4 d. pet Stone ShAling 224. t., 245. per Lo a , Malt Rapeseed . —1 Os :W. W. 21Y. Os. per Las, MANCHESTER AND ITS NEIGHBOURELOOD. — BeIrs Life in London and Chronicler of all Sporting events. —Mr. Clement has reason to believe that the substi tution of another newspaper for Bell's Life in London, by an unprincipled fellow in the vicinity of Manches ter, has recently taken place, and in many instances. Mr. Clement recommends persons who may have been thus disappointed, in having another Journal fois ted upon them, to refuse payment, and order Bell's Life in London from another Newspaper Agent or Post man, of which there are several most respectable in Manchester. Any communication connected with this dishonest transaction, by which legal mea sures may be taken against the offending party, will be thankfully received and acknowledged by Mr. Clement, jun.-- Bell's Life in London Office, No. 170, Strand. A gentleman of Black Torrington has an otter that is . quite dom es ti cate d , and so tame t h at it acc ompanies bringmand themthat o it out will to him about like a d og . Th e an i ma l i s so under corn igdos mater.-- e r i i V ver te rn tnznary. EXTRAORDINARY F ca L tch fish, and ne of the most enor mous skates ever seen was caught at Skegness on Monday last, and purchased b )3T Mr. T. Pridmore, fishmonger, of Stamford, in whose shop was exhi bited. It weighed 1191bs. withoutand thf; liver wn , 411 is t the entrails,. 9 . 11;. t t ttit; size, is excellent.—Stamfor d Mercury. • • LITERATURE. AMI 4N NOTES FOR GENERAL CIR CULATION. 2 Vas.. Chapman and Hall, London, ThOin A ho, remembering the recept;on Mr. Dickens met with from the Americans—the Boz mania, in fact, with which they were infected— expected that on his return home he would pro duce a work filled with exaggerated praises of the United States, will be surprised, on reading these volumes, to find that they are anything but hyperbolical in their eulogiums, but main tain a moderate, and to all appearance, an impartial tone throughout, except on the question of slavery, on which the author ex presses himself with a fervour of disgust and ab 1 lorrence, that proves hfin to be as uncomprom ising an Abolitionist as even Sir Fowell Buxton himself. We should add, perhaps, that he is ! nearly as energetic in his reprehension of the American Newspaper Press generally, which he conceives to be quite a curse to the country, abounding, as it does, according to his account, in slanders and falsehoods of the grossest order, and conducted, in seven cases out of - ten, by mere illiterate adventurers, as remarkable for their utter want of talent, as for their utter want of all principle and decency. HI we except these two points, Mr. Dickens' remarks are, on the whole favourable to the Americans, trot 'ln they are certainly penned in no sycophantic *1)11.4 of adulation, and may pos sibly therefore , disappoiakv.ohose whose national vanity led'ilietiv to.' hope that the feted and lionized B 4 wouldget the whole hog in their favour. e.,;; work opeps with an account of the ' . is VoSVe from Liverpool IO to Halifax, .:, ' ch, as2lit month was; January, was somethirkof..:-the StOrmiest. On - gie third morning of tbeikasel'a . departure, a std lien gale came on ; the i4tiediate results we give in Mr. Dickens' own .Vg-ords*.t - jt is the thiid morn ing; I am awakenedAtamy sleep byta dismal shriek front my wife; WittOlemands to kfiow whe ther there's; any daner.- I rouse myself and look out kfr gr.,1,: .Tl . 444i'ater-jw: iii.. plunging and leapinkUq -a, liar, c 4 dolpl7in all the smaller artic* l'; are 'afloat, except lily shoes, which are stn el • 'On a carpet 7 bag,oiigh and dry, like a ceuple. of coal-barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking-glass, Which is nailed to the wall, stick ' ing fast upon.the ceiling. At the same time the door entirebr'!Visappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state-room is standing on its head." The horrors of sea sickness are detailed by Mr. Dickens with equal spirit and..humour; and indeed the whole chapter entitled t'; he Pas , sage out," will forcibly recal to the re4der's re collection some of the raciest and nufst whim sical descriptions in " Pick wick" and "Nickleby." Of Boston, which was the first American city visited by our author, he speaks .. in high tennis of praise, observing that it is a cheerful and beautiful town, and that the general tone of its society is remarkably refined and in tellectual. He seems to have strayed curiously into all its most out-of-the-way nooks. and corners, and one Sunday morning, "in a chapel down anwng the shipping, in one of the narrow, old, water-side streets," he found a sort of Yankee Boatswain Smith, named Taylor, preach ing a sermon to the jack-tars, , stuffed full of nautical epithets and images.. Portions of the sermon are quoted for the reader's edification, and grotesque enough they are; but bad they been otherwise, we. presume they would have been unintelligible to the amphibious congrega tion. While at Boston, Mr. Dickens took the opportunity of visiting a factory which is esta blished in the immediate neighbourhood, and was surprised to find how much better it was conducted, and how much cleanlier, happier, and More respectable the girls were, than is the case in our Lancashire factories. He saw no squalid destitution—no .reckless, barefaced vice—no deformity, the result of exceeding labour—no brutal overseers with billy-rollers in their hands, for the purpose of hitting a post man's double knock now and then on the skull of some overtasked, sleepy child—no painful scenes of this sort appeared in the factory at Lowell, but everything wore a cheerful, sunny, and improving aspect. Arrived at Washington, the seat of the Legislature, Mr. Dickens was struck with the disgusting practice of spitting, which prevailed among all classes; his remarks on this delicate subject will be found exceedingly whim sical and amusing. Niagara and its far-famed cataract, he describes with the animation usual with all travellers, when alluding to this sublime spectacle; but as the subject is an intolerably hacknied one, we prefer quoting our author's humorous account of a stage-coach drive along a Virginian road : " The first half mile of the road is over bridges made of loose, planks laid across two parallel poles, which tilt up as the wheels roll over them; and in .the river. The river has a clayey bottom and is full of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disappear ing unexpectedly, and can't be found again for some time. " But. we get past even this, and come to the road itself; which is a series of alternate swamps and gra rel-pits. A tremendous place is close before us, the black driver rolls his eyes, screws his mouth up very round, and looks straight between the two leaders, as if he were saying to himself, ' We have done this often before, but now I think we shall have a crash.' He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both ; and dances on the 'splashboard with both feet (keep ing his seat,. of course) like the late lamented Ducrow on two of his fiery coursers. We come to the spot, sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows, tilt on one side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and stick there. The insides scream dismally ; the coach stops ; the horses flounder ; all the other six coaches stop ; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder like wise ; but merely for company, and in sympathy with ours. Then the following circumstances occur : " Black Driver (to the horses)—' Hi ! " Nothing happens. Insides scream again. " Black'Driver (to the horses)—'..Ho " Horses plunge, and splash the black driver. " Gentleman inside (looking out)—' Why, what on airth—' " Gentleman receives a variety of splashes and draws his head in again, without finishing his ques tion or waiting for an answer. " Black Driver k(still to the horses)--' Jiddy!' .' Jiddy ! — "horses pull violently, drag the coach out of the hole, and draw it up a bank ; Eo steep, that the black driver's legs fly up in the air, and he goes back among the luggage on the roof. But he immediately reco vers himself, and cries (still to the horses) ' Pill "No effect. On the contrary, the coach begins to roll back upon No. 2, which rolls back upon No. 3, which rolls back upon No. 4, and so on, until No. 7 is heard to curse and swear, nearly a quarter of a mile behind. " Black Driver (louder than before)—' Pill!' " Horses make another struggle to get up the bank, and - again the coach rolls backward. " Black Driver (louder than before)--' Pe-e-e-ill!' " Horses make a desperate struggle. " Black Driver (recovering spirits)--' Hi, Jiddy, Jiddy, Pill!' " Horses make another effort. " Black Driver (with great vigour)---' Ally Loo! Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Loo !' " Hiirges almost do it. " Black Driver (with his eyes starting out of his head)—' , Lee, den. Lee, dere. Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Leo, Lee-e-e-e-e!' " They run up the bank, and go down again on the other side at a fearful pace. It is impossible to stop them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides scream. The •mud and water fly about us. The black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we are all right by some extraordinary means, and stop to breathe. " A black friend of the black driver is siting on a fence. The blae's driver recognises him by twirling his head round and round like a Harlequin, rolling his eyes, shrugging his shoulders, and grinning from ear to ear. He stops short, turns to me, and says— " We shall get you through sa, like a fiddle, and hope a please you when we get you through sa. Old 'ooman at home, se,' chuckling very much. Out side gentleman sa, he often remember old 'ooman at home sa,' grinning again. " Aye ' aye, we'll take care of the old woman. Don't be afraid: " The black driver grins again, but there is another hole, and beyond that another bank, eloie before us. So he stops short, cfes (to the horses again) Easy, Easy . den. Ease. Steady. Hi. Jiddy. Pill. Ally. Loo,' but never Lee !' until we are reduced to the very last extremity, and are in the midst of difficul ties, extrication from which appears to be all but im possible. And so we do the tm miles or thereabouts in two hours and a half; breaking no bones, though bruising a great many ; and, in short, getting through the dis tance like a fiddle:" Though Mr. Dickens' volumes are hastily put together, and will in some respects disappoint expectation, yet it is impossible to deny that they are highly enterta'ning; but this not so much from any particular shrewdness or ori ginality of observation they evince, as from the rich fund of humour that pervades them, and the frank, manly, firm, but concilia tory spirit in which they are penned. No man of sense in the United States but will rtad them in the spirit in which they were written; but all the touchy, conceited fools in Yrnkee-land will be sure to prick up their long czil s, and •denounce, in good set terms, the ingratitude of the author, reminding him TILE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1342, at the same time that they did not give him a Boz bill at New York, and a Buz dinner at Boston, and make wises of themselves for his sake for weeks together, in order that he might afterwards say of them that, hospitable as they were, he did not altogether find .i.beni prodigies of perfection! A VISIT TO ITALY. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1842. Mrs. Trollops', one of the most indefatigable of modern authors, and to whom .no species of writing appears to come amiss, has just published an account of a Visit to Italy, which she made in the year 1841, and with which, on the whole, she seems to have been better pleased than with all her other continental trips put together. ' Quitting Paris fir Lyons, where she made a brief halt; she thence crossed the frontier to Turin, of which capital she speaks in the warmest terms, observing that it is the most beautifully placed of all the cities she has ever seen, being situated on a fair and fertile plain, watered by a noble river, surrounded by a circle of majestic mountains, and blessed with an atmosphere of exquisite purity. With Genoa " the superb " as it is usually called—she was not less delighted, though, notwithstanding its splendour and pic turesque beauty of situation, she honestly con fesses that she could not endure it "as a home to live in," so lonesome and quiet, even to dul ness, are its splendid streets and buildings. If we remember rightly, Lord Byron has made the same remark in one of his letters dated from Genoa. But it is Venice.that seems to have made the deepest impression on Mrs. Trollope's ima gination, and accordingly she is never weary of chanting the praises of this Queen of the Adriatic. A great portion of .her second volume is devoted to the descriptions of the streets , palaces, bridges, canals, paintings, sculptures, &c., of Venice, which we are glad to learn is by no means in that state of hopeless decay so frequently insisted on, and lamented _by, recent travellers. Our authoress, indeed, asserts that it is exhibiting slow but certain traces of improvement under the foreign sway of Austria; but we question whether she is competent to fornt an opinion on this point, Ibr, in the first place, her stay was too short, and her means of procuring information too limited, to enable her to come to any sound conclusions; and, secondly, in her work on " Vienna and the Austrians" she has shown far too strong a bias in favour of Prince Metternich and his stand-still system of policy, to be able to speak impartially on any subject connected with that dubious system. On the whole, we have been much amused—we wish we could add instructed-by Mrs. Trollope's journal of her Italian tour; she is often flippant and superficial in her remarks, and occasionally dogmatizes, es pecially when speaking of paintings; but the tone of her narrative generally is animated, her sketches are graphic without being elaborate, and she izA, with scarce an exception, uniformly in good humour with the people she encounters, and the scenes which she visits. The following curious anecdote of the once-celebrated singer, Madame Catalani, may perhaps amuse our readers On another evening we again forsook the Cascina for the purpose of passing a few hours with Madame Catalani Valabrique, and very delightful hours they were—for not only did she again sing to us—and still as nobody but her charming self can sing —but she recounted to us an adventure which had befallen her some five-and-twenty years ago, with a degree of spi rit and dramatic effect that was delightful. It seems that while making a professional visit to a certain city in Germany, she heard in every circle of a horrible phenomenon at that time enclosed within its walls—namely, a woman who had been convicted of having committed above sixty murders ! The monster, though 'still a young woman, had for seve ral years, followed the profession of a garde malatie, and, from the evidence upon her trial, it was proved that, beyond the possibility of any doubt, she had been in the habit of making away with her miserable patients by means of poison, which she constantly car ried about her in her curling' papers, and which she had never scrupled to administer when the poor suf ferers appeared to her to linger too long! On hearing this tremendous statement, a most vivid feeling of curiosity seized upon our eantatrice to be hold a creature so awfully marked out as a terrific va riety of the human species. Whether this wish to see her arose from the same impulse as made Garrick visit Bedlam—whether she thought that any index lines of her countenance might create ideas that should become professionally useful, I know not; but so strong was the wish that she mentioned it, to seve-• ral influential people in the place, in the hope that by their interest she might obtain it. But she was as sured on all sides that it was impossible, as the same wish had been shared by so many, that it had been found necessary to refuse its gratification in the most peremptory manner.to all. Yet still the desire pur sued her; and finding herself one day seated at a dinner•party, next the Supreme Judge of the Court in which the woman had been tried,. she once more stated her wish. The venerable Magistrate replied that he was extremely sorry to say that it was impos sible to comply with it. The charming petitioner wss silenced for a minute or two, and then—it was with her own well-remembered smile that she related it—and then she began to revolve in her mind what she could do, or say, that might be most likely to shake the resolution of the recusant Judge. "Je vous chanterai une jolie petite canzonette," she replied in a whisper. An Orpheus may have power on this side the Styx as well as on the other. A day and hour were fixed, before the party separated, when she might repair to an appointed place, and hope to be led where she wished to go. • The appointment was punctually kept on both. sides ; and now, trembling at finding herself on the eve of doing the thing she had so earnestly desired to do, the fair philosopher committed herself to the care o f the official dignitary, and proceeding with him to the prison, reached the small chamber in which this unparalleled homicide was confined. The solitary wretch was weeping bitterly, and the lower part of her face was wholly concealed in the handkerchief which she held in her hand—but the upper part of the countenance was visible, and the animated narrator declared that she thought she had never looked upon a lovelier face. The brow was large, finely formed, and delicately fair; the eye long, having a rich black silkan eve-lash, from be neath which the -big tears rolled slowly down her pallid cheeks. Madame Catalini said that she looked at this beautiful sad face till the memory of her crimes was actually forgotten, and she herself wept too, for company. " N'ayez pas pitie de cette scelerate atroce, Ma dame !" exclaimed the Judge. The criminal removed the bandkrchief from her mouth.-:•-and in an instant, d villany de r that A i t ever ything like beauty disappea re d, l eav i ng an ex pressionfwas impossible to look upon without strong confirmation this of Lavater's theory , that though intellect speaks h ard s h t a through the eve, moral propensities are indicated by the mouth. Madame Catalani told us that before her execution this wretched creature not only confessed her crimes, but explained as clearly as she could the sort of infernal impulse which led her to commit them. She liked, she said, to see the spirit pass away, and it was where this result was doubtful among the unhappy ones whom she was employed to watch that she took means to render it certain. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT . CITY, FRIDA Y EVENING. TIMES.—The house of Evans, Poster, and Lang- r ton, the failure of which has been announced on 'Change, was one of respectable standing, and was connected with Manchester and the Indian trade. Their stoppage has, it is understood, involved the firm of Althoughll em s ley, t ßrothers, e re s importance. othe attendance on 'Change was carried unanimously at the meeting held a few days ago at the London. Tavern, there are still several persons who are not satisfied, and who are resolution fir alteringot* minor inclined to be of the same opinion as the one gentle man who preferred half-past four to four o'clock as the closing hour. Among these, the impression is, that the interests of a few were. rather represented at the meeting, than that of the generality who assem ble on 'Change. The gentlemen for thewho formed them selves into a Committee being , most part, near residents of the Exchange, it is objected that they cannot sufficiently know the wants of those whose business calls them to the more distant docks, or to those public sales which are not over till a late hour in the afternoon. Another peculiarity observed in the Committee is, that it is chiefly composed of gen tlemen Who never attend 'Change , e xcept on foreign post-days, some . of them being'large takers of foreign bills. These, it is argued, might, if th ey p l eased, have made such alterations in their hours of businesS, as would have suited-their oWn convenience, without making such an alteration as should affect the whole of the attendants on 'Change.. • • • On account of the great importance of the news usually brought by the overland mail from India, a suggestion has been made that steam-vessels should be employed to bring up to Bombay the latest ac counts from China, to connect with the departure of the regular mail. What may in this manner be effected was ascertained at this period of lust year, when the mail from Bombay of the Ist of October brought intelligence as late as the 24th of August from China, which arose from the dispatch of a steam= beat direct for Bombay, which made the passage in 37 days, and put the merchants in possession of China letters in 73 days, the shortest time on record. As there is no expectation of the employment of such means for the mail about to arrive, the calculation is, assuming it to leave Bombay on the Ist inst., that it will bring dates from Calcutta to the 13th ult., and from China to the 25th of July, at the latest. The date from China by 'the last mail was the 10th of. June.. In the communications beyond Bombay it,i3 clear that much yet remains to be done by the use of steam navigation, not only as regards China, but the instance of of our Eastern possessions. In the of China the urgency of the case, and the general desire of the ,merchants, will no doubt lead the at tmtion of the Government immediately to the sub ject. If steam-vessels cannot be found for the ser vice, fast sailing vessels might in the mean time be selected, allowing a proper time for the voyage, the main object being to bring the communication with China as nearly as possible to the same regularity as that with India. POST.—The new rule with regard to 'Change hours was very generally observed to-day. The mer chants and brokers came early, and left almost alto gether as the clock struck fuur. It is satisfactory to find that the Lords of the Trea sury have came to the determination of examining into the alleged Custom-house frauds, and it is to be hoped that the investigation will be conducted on an extensive scale, or, in other words, that the system will undergo a complete revision, with a view to the ascertaining whether it be adequate or not to the pro tection of the revenue—the first and most vital prin ciple of the department. It is not intended here to adopt the prevailing practice of finding indiscriminate fault with the superior officers of the Customs, most of whom are honourable, conscientious men, and persons who are desirous of doing . their duty in a faithful manner between the Crown and the public; but a doubt may be fairly expressed whether their vigilance has kept pace with the various alterations, both in the export and import business, by steam vessels, and with the hurried and late deliveries of goods consequent upon the various hours they arrive and depart, coupled with the great increase of inge nuity and the commanding wealth of those who make a trade of defrauding the revenue. The Commissioners of the Customs are selected by the Crown from a class of men highly respectable in society, and very . generally of average talent, but they are not selected for any talent or experience in connexion with the department of the Customs. They are engrafted from time to time upon the Customs, but, like the ornamental branches of an argand lamp, they derive their light from the stem, contributing no fresh power to it. Their subordinates become their practical schoolmasters, the old Acts of Parliament and the records of the usage of the office their only study, and there is no predisposition on the part of any of the higher officers to doubt the well working of their own system, or to institute a jealous inquiry whether frauds be committed under it ; and this arises from natural causes ; for, with the publicity of frauds censure comes, to a certain extent upon the Customs' regulations. Trouble and vexation follow, and an annual report, containing the fewest discoveries of frauds, is the one most desired by the Board of Customs. This may he illustrated by a conversation that is reported to have taken place at the Horse Guards upon the comparative discipline of two regiments. The Commander-in-Chief is stated to have referred the Colonel to the orderly book of another, wherein scarcely a breach of duty or punishment was recorded whilst his contained many cases. The answer given by the Colonel' was, " I use constant vigilance; and. prevent the growth of disorder by discovering it when it first appears ; but if your Lordship requires a clean orderly book I will keep my eyes shut in future." Something like this feeling will always prevent the Customs reforming the Customs, and it has long been felt a somewhat useless task to make representations at the Treasury, because they are always referred back to the . Board of Customs. An exception occurred a few months since. A gentle man, who had retired from the tea trade, and had leisure to reflect that cheating the revenue caused an increase of taxation, wrote to the Chancellor of the,Exchequer to inform him of a laxity in some of the departments, and that he had reason to know that frauds had been, and no doubt were continued. The Chancellor politely referred him to the Board of Cus • toms, but he declined to communicate with it, alleg ing that experience told him that the Board lent an unwilling ear to any communication which informed them that their orders and regulations were evaded. The result was that the Chancellor gave the gentle man several audiences on the subject. The want of a well-organised detective force is manifest in the department of the Customs, and the want of encouragement from the higher powers is now complained of when officers do discover a fraud. It is therefore hoped that the inquiry will, if possible, admit of evidence being received, where practical men may be attended to who single out the vulnerable points, and not be required to turn informers, which is now the case when a useful hint is given to prevent the fraudulent dealer from cheating the revenue and ruining the honest trader who is in the same line of business. CHRONICLE.—The national securities still exhi bit great firmness, with an indication to a further rise. The immediate cause of this buoyancy is the abund ance of money and the absence of demand for com mercial investment. Some symptoms of a revival of the home trade have been . noticed lately, in conse quence of the timber duties having come into opera • tion, and the appearance of country buyers in the produce markets. But with these exceptions, torpidity still hangs over trade and manufactures, which forces the moneyed interests to seek employment for capftal in the public funds, owing to the extremely low rate of interest offered on commercial paper, and thus the price of Consols forms a very uncertain and false cri terion of the real state of the country. Public:credit is not only maintained, btit however paradoaical it may appear, •is actually forced and pampered by the low condition of individual credit. This :5 the key to the constant rise which we have daily to record in the price of the British funds, and, as a truth of the statement, we have to notice this day that the price for money is equal to that for time,. Consols, both for immediate transfer and the account,being now quoted 93 to SUN.—The improvement in Consols is found to have arisen from a purchase by a leading broker, who had previously been taking the Reduced Annuities. The closing quotation was 934 for Money, and 93i for the Account. Exchequer Bills touched 58 prem. this afternoon ; and Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 100-7 s. No bargains in India Stock. The operations in the Foreign Market since our morning's report, have been extended to Venezuelan at 27i to 28 ; Mexican at 32* for Money ; the con verted Portuguese at a decline to 33* ; the Three per Cents., for present transfer, at 23+ to 23k; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 52k. In Shares the sales have been, in Great Western Railway at 18 ; in the Birmingham Quarters at 22* ; in the Brighton Loan Notes at 4- ; in the South Western, 16*; and in the York and North MI land, at 40 prom.; Brighton closed at 13/ ; Blackwell, at 11*; Birmingham and Derby at 58 ; and Northern and Eastern at 9 dis. London Joint-Stock Bank Shares were 3 prem. Accounts received this afternoon from Athens, via Germany, state that the progressive Greek ariff could not be carried out, and that the Government had been compelled to nominate a Commission, with a view to its modification. This is crash the first among the prohibiting Tariff States! The advance in the Foreign Exchanges noticed on last post-day was not quite supported this afternoon, hills being in less request. The nearest rates were these: Paris 251. 87*f. to 92*f. ; Hamburgh, 13 11 4 to 12 ; Amsterdam; 12 6 to 12 6}; Frankfort, 151*; Antwerp, 12 5 to 12 51; and Trieste, 9 59 to 10. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. I Amsterdam CF. 12 96'Gibraltar . Ditto, at sight ...... 12 6i 'Leghorn ........ Rotterdam ...•2 U. 12 10 i Genoa , 26 10 Antwerp l2 81i'Alilan Hambtirsh III.B. 13 15i Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months .t . ,6 0 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 5 Rio Janeiro 23i Frankfort on Maine ...152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 Buenos Ayres ...... _ 7 ,New York, 21 days eight .16& its way in "her native element" to the good old tune of " Hearts of oak are our ships." Three cheers were given her as she went off, which were right heartily returned by several thousands of persons on board, and re-echoed from the shore. Having run her lensth, she wai almost immediately brought into dock. The Cumberland is constructed to mount 70 pieces of ordnance, with dimensions unusually large for that force, and was originally intended for service in the Baltic Sea. Her principal dimensions are as follow : Feet In. Length on the gun-deck lBO 0 Do. of keel for tonnage Breadth, extreme Do. for tonnage Do. moulded Depth in hold Burthen in tons 2,214 The following is her appointed armament : No. of guns. Cwt. Ft. In. Lower deck... 4... 8 inches... 65 ... length 9 0 ..22...32 pounders 56 9 6 Main deck ... 2... 8 inches... 65 9 0 . .26...32 pounders 50 ... 9 0 Quarter-deck & forecastle 16...32 pounders 39 ... 7 6 With these dimensions and armament, and a clean shape below water, her draught of water will be very moderate. The stern differs slightly from that pro • posed by the Committee of Master Shipwrights; it is, however, very elegant, and appears adapted for effec tiveness in service. The general contour of the ship is good ; and her figure-head is a fine bust of Sir J. Graham, who, at the time she was ordered to be built, was first Lord of the Admiralty. The whole of the arrangements were made with a view to the greatest accommodation of the public; a large number of spectators were present; many were on board the ship at the time she was launched ; and the whole went off, we are happy to say, without the slightest accident. It is due to Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright, to state that yesterday, as at previous launches, every accommodation was afforded and every courtesy shown to the press. 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 chandize Week Miles Total. Name of Railway. ended Opened. X. s. d. 0ct.15 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 43 1,517 8 11 14 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 2,077 0 1 8 Branding Junction 25 673 13 6 14 Chester and Birkenhead. .. 16 Dundee and Arbroath ... 15 Edinburgh and Glasgow 16 Eastern Counties 15 Glasgow and Ayr 40 1,038 11 2 15 Glasgow , Paisley, & Greenock 224 762 19 1 15 GrandJ unct., Chester & Crewe 113 7,954 5 7 15 Great North of England 45 1,467 10 4 16 Great Western Sept. 23 Hayle 0ct.15 Hull and Selby Lancaster & Preston Junction 204 14 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,776 5 9 15 London and Birmingham ll4 16,399 17 10 20 London and Blackwall ...... 15 London and Brighton Ditto Shoreham Branch 18 London and Croydon 20 London and Greenwich 34 876 10 4 16 London and South Western 13 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 561 4 104 15 Manchester & Birmingham 15 Manchester and Leeds 15 Midland Counties 574 3,003 16 0 15 Newcastle and Carlisle 6oi 1,426 13 7 13 Newcastle and North Shields 7 381. 1 2 16 Northern and Eastern 15 North Midland 14 North Union 15 Preston and Wyre 194 187 6 6 15 Sheffield and Manchester...— 7 205 15 0 20 South Eastern Taff Vale 16 Ulster 13 York and North Midland 28 1,804 17 1 STAVE — OFTRA DE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OCT. 21.—We can only this week confirm our last report. Prices are at present very firm, and the sales of the past week have, perhaps, rather exceeded in amount those of the preceeding one. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 21.—Our report of this branch of trade is much the same as last week. Sales of combing wools are not extensive, and prices are tending downwards. In clothing wools there is not any alteration. . TRADE OF LEEDS.-=At our Cloth Halls this week there has been a little improvement in the demand for fine and middle cloths, as compared with the markets of the last three months; but prices are exceedingly law. ,There has been a falling off in the demand for tweeds and fancy cloakings, but in beavers there has been rather more done; on the whole the markets both on Saturday and Tuesday may be fairly stated as an average. Business is steady in the warehouses, and a general expectation is entertained that as the season advances there will be an improvement in the demand for winter goods. BRADFORD 31 inIET, THURSDAY.—We are sorry, we 'cannot report any better doings in the piece mar ket. Orleans and Merinos are the least plentiful in the market, and perhaps realising the best price of any thing offering. The fancy trade is rather dull, and the sales made are still at ruinously low prices, which may be fully accounted for by the vast many who recklessly commenced making them, and thus brought a stock into the trade, which, we are sorry to hear, must fall heavy on the manufacturers. We should recommend great caution in the product of articles solely depending on taste, style, and fashion. We hear of many abandoning the use of the Jacquard, and resuming plain manufacture, which has lat terly proved most beneficial. The demand for yarns is very similar to what it has been for many weeks past, very steady, but not exten sive ; the shippers have not taken as much as is usual at this period. The spinners continue to act on the d€fensivc, and the continued short time run by several of the most extensive houses, has had the effect of preventing any accumulation in stock, or material alteration in prices. Although the supply of wool is not considerable, it is fully equal to the requirements of the spinners, who are buying only for immediate consumption, seeing no prospect of any alteration, except a shade in favour of the buyer. TRADE or MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.-- We have been further retrograding in our cloth market this week, that is as to prices, whilst the de mand has been unusually small. We have now arrived at as low a point as to value as was ever known ' and there are prospects of a still further de cline ;.for it is clear that the present increased pro duction cannot find a legitimate vent, and in such cases the result is easy to predict. With the excep tion of some branches of the fustian trade, we have nothing favourable to report as regards the home trade, and these exceptions are the printed and plain velvets. This branch is brisk, and affords remune rating prices. There is little change in twist, but if anything the prices are the turn lower. LEICESTER TRADE.—WooI and yarns remain as they were. The worsted spinners have been reducing their stocks, and are . not inclined to increase them again. In the staple trade, and in the fancy branches, considerable sales h ave b een e ff ec t e d , but not at pro fitable rates. —Leicester Mercury. JOHN - J - AMES AUlltiBON. A few days ago there arrived at the hotel erected near the Niagara Falls, an odd-looking man, whose appearance and deportment were quite in contrast with the well-dressed and polished figures which adorned that celebrated spot. Ile seemed to have , just sprung from the woods. His dress, which was made of leather, stood dreadfully in need of repair, apparently not having felt the touch of the needle woman for many a long month. A worn-out blanket, that might have served for a bed, was buckled to his shoulders, a long knife hung on one side, balanced by a long rusty tin box on the other ; and his beard, uncrepped, tangled, and coarse, fell down upon his bosom, as if to counterpoise the weight of the dark thick locks that supported themselves on his back and shoulders. This strange being, to the spectators seem- LAUNCH OF THE CUMBERLAND ingly half civilised, half savage, had a quick glancing AT CHATHAM. eye, an elastic, firm movement, that would, no doubt, Yesterday (the anniversary of the battle of Tra- cut his way through the cane breaks, both of the 1111- into the falerar) was chosen for the launch of the Cumberland, derness and of society. He pushed his steps . 0 70 gun-ship, at Chatham. The weather was un- sitting - room, unstrapped his little burden, quietly usually fine, and a great crowd of people attended to looked round for the landlord , ht and then modestly at first drew back with witness the launch—a matter at all times peculiarly asked for breakfast. The host interesting to Englishmen, whose flag, to make prose a mong the genteel evident repugnance at the apparition , which thus pro of a verse, as " familiar as household words," has braved p?sed to intrude its uncouth f the battle and the breeze fora thousand years. As usual the most ample accommodation was af-• `ed his doubts. The stranger took his visitors; but a few words whispered in his ear stieedil satisfied forded the public to witness the spectacle. The dock l outright. Yet, reader, in the company, some staring, some shrug- Pt/ lace and some laug - hing gates were thrown open, and the customary booths - in -' in that single man than in all the here was more g. He was an American woodsman, had been erected on either side, and in the rear of the vessel ; and a very brilliant assemblage the booths as he called himself; he was a true, genuine son t rest of the thron g. presented of fashionably-dressed women, attired, per of nature, yet who had been entertained with dis haps, for the first time during the season, in their tinction at the table of Princes ; learned societies, to winter dresses, which a fine brisk easterly wind musthad do wn have ".hick the like of Cuvier belonged, bowed have taught them the value of long ere the vessel WAS to welcome his entrance ; Kings had launched, rented when he spoke ; in short, he was been compli- The time fixed for the launch was half-past one fame will he growing brighter when the one whose o'clock. Within a few minutes after that time every who laughed at him, and many such fashionables thing was declared ready, and Mrs. Airey, the lady ~ than they, shall have perished. yrom h, greater even of Professor Airey, the astronomer royal, christene every hill-top, and every deep shady grove, the the vessel am;dst very hearty cheering. The band birds, those blossoms of the air, will sing his name. Theit little wren will wide 1 -) teats in the river were now warned to take . i with her t . I• me - 13 mn about I our louse ; the 'clock the ex berths ; and at twenty minutes to two o . oriole carol it from the slender d ' • the ow s ,turtle-dove roll of the newly citing notes or the bug:es, from the stern . r ests . the '• • d res , many ce moeking. bird . through the secret fo christened Cumberland, announced to the anxious , , the air • and the imperia l pour it along b multitude that she was about to make , her " first eagle, the bird of Washing move." In a few seconds simultaneous shouts of 'sits • ton, as . he . in his erag t y home, far up the blue mountains, will scream • " she moves," brokefrom all quarters, and, ere they . nles u J . ,►., it to t e tempests and the stars. . He was onn James A had died away, the stern of the launch was ploughing . 5 .alidubon, the ornithologist: — American Paper. Vienna, effee. tl. 3M. 10 2:4)hiladelphia 4V Trieste, ditto ... 10 3 'PRICES OF BULLION, PER 01. . Madrid ... Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11, . _ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH RACES.—THuirsDAr. Her Majesty's Plate of 1051. Heats, two miles . Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs—Robertson 1 1 Mr. Merry's Smike, 3 yrs 3 2 Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 3 yrs The County Members' Plate of 501. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Ramsay's Recorder, 6 yrs ..... (W. Noble) i a Mr. Merry's Cable, 3 yrs 4 0 2 Mr. Meilttam's Temptation, 3 yrs 2 .ir Mr. Birnie's Maid of the Mill, 5 yr 5.....,,., 3 dr Free Handicap of 1 sov. each. with a Purse added. O nce round and a dis. Winner to be sold for 150/. Mr. Ramsay's Zoroaster, 6 yrs (fir. Noble) Mr. Binnie's Maid of the Mill, 5 yrs • Mr. Meiklam's Florence, 3 yrs 3 Mr. Binnie's The Laird's Brother, aged . 4 HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Shute House beagles, Mon., Hunter's Lode, up Lyme. Mr. lure's hounds, Tuesday, Easton; Thursday. Bey. ton-green-10 Mr. Long's harriers, Monday, Ell Barrow ; Friday, Sign-post, Warminster-down-11. Cambridgeshire hounds, Monday, Kneesworth ; Friday Long Stanton—ioi. Essex Union hounds, Tuesday, Asheldam-bridge ; Saturday, Moor-gardens-10 Earl of Harewood's hds.,!111;11., Collingbain Bar; Wed., Boot and Shoe ; Fri., Bickerton Bar ; Sat„ Harwood Bridge. ork York and Ainsty lids., Mon., Strensall ; Tues., ti:ing houses ; Thur., Pill Moor ; Sat., Moreby. Cleveland hds, Mon., Kildale ; Thur., Wilton-lane. end-lo}.' Simmington hds., Tues., Dalby Bush ; Fri., Gilli mere--10. Shropshire lids., Tues., Hawkstone ; Fri., Petton. F. B. hds., Mon., Penwarne Gate ; Fri., Casawes Wood-10. Mr. Archer's hds., Mon., Viverdon ; Thnr., Hornat - tot Chapel. Mr. G. L.Coham's hds., Mon., Ebberley House, Bobo rough ; Thur., Hele Bridge, near Hetherleigh-10. Mr. R. Cockburn's hds., Mon., Worth House ; Fri., Polecleeves, near Bickleigh Bridge-11. Mr. Robertson's hds.. Mon., Link Hall ; Tues., Twizel House ; Thur., Semington Branch ; Fri., Roddatn-114. THE INCOME-TAX-IRELAND. " I have exempted Ireland from the Income Tan." Sir R. PEEL. The sly and cunning Peel never uttered a grosser humbug to the so-called representatives of the people than when he said he exempted Ireland from the In come Tax ; but he had not the candour to tell them that, at the same time, he gave them the new "Stamp Duties' Bill." The (now) old Stamp Duties were always consi dered oppressive in this country ; but what has Sir Robert done ?—He JULY doubled the old Stamp Du ties. has he stopped there ? No ! There is a fiction in law which renders it necessary that on the grant of any freehold, there should be a previous Deed of Bar gain and Sale: this Deed of Bargain and Sale was usually executed in the olden time, when there were n o Stamps but it was found so intolerable a nuisance that an Act of Parliament was brought in, about the year 1710, to remedy the inconvenience, by which it was declared that the recital of the bargain and sale in this grant should be sufficient evidence of it. Sir Robert has raked up this vision, which had slept for ages, to impose a tax upon his great difficulty—lreland. A word to his Tory backers—l mean the Irish Orange landed proprietors :—Most of youhave large properties, and a good many of them a little "dipped." When some incumbrancer squeezes for his charge, you must raise the wind, and when you come to pay your solicitor's bill, then, and only then, when it touches your pocket, you will find out whether Sir Robert Peel has exempted Ireland from the Income-tax.—Southern Reporter. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday evening an in quest was held by Mr. Gell, upon the body of George Ladbrook, stableman with Mr. Battley, of Lower Belgrave-street. It appeared that on Monday morn ing, while the deceased was dressing a horse belonging to Commander Davis, R.N., which was at livery in his master's stables, he went behind the animal, and while stooping to pick up a sponge the horse kicked him severely in the lower part of the abdomen. A surgeon was called immediately, and erery necessary attention was given, but the patient gradually sank, and on Thursday expired. A post marten: examiiation was made by Mr. Jordan, surgeon, of Lower Belgrave street, when it appeared that the smaller intestines were ruptured. The Jury returned a verdict o f " Accidental death," deodand Is. ConisnssioNs OP BANKRUPTCY. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the new Commissioners of Bankruptcy, whose names have recently appeared in this Journal, attended at the Lord Chancellor's residence, No. 25, George-street, Hanover-square, for the purpose of being sworn into their respective offices. His Lord ship arrived in town from Hunslet at an early hour, accompanied by his private secretary ; and the usual preliminaries havingbeen gone through, the customary oaths were administered by Mr. Nailor, of the Crown office. The appointment of a second Commissioner in Lunacy having been conferred, within the last few days, on Mr. Winslow, for manyyears his Lordship's private secretary, that gentleman was sworn in at the ?Anne time; and, in conjunction with Mr. Barlow (of the Chancery bar), who entered on the office about a month since, will carry out the provisions of the Act of Parliament passed last session, by which the law of lunacy has been entirely re-modelled. Richard Clarke, 'Esq. (the Lord Chancellor's nephew), has been appointed to succeed Mr. Winslow, as private secretary to his Lordship. The Lord Chancellor (who looked extremely well) left town during the afternoon, for his country seat. TnE LATE COLONEL DENNIE.—The public will learn with regret that the family of this Gallant Offi cer, to whose heroic conduct the successful defence of Jellalabad is in great measure owing, and whose death on the field of battle, while leading on his troops with but too rash gallantry against Akbar Khan's camp, must be fresh in the recollection of our readers, are by no means so well provided with this world's goods as could be wished. His only son, who is in the army, will, of course, be provided for in his profession, but his four daughters are left with scarcely any other provision than a Tension of 801. each settled on them by the Government. In these times of retrench ment, this may be considered a liberal allowance from the public funds, but we should hope that the East India Company will not allow the descendants of one of their bravest soldiers to remain without some sub stantial mark of their gratitude for their father's services. COVENT-GAnnrs.---The next operatic novelty will accord inglst th o f present November, arrangements,‘yiwith be Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Se grc t o , which, •ai l l l l o b: i o s produced trong o n cast; the the following Carolina, Miss Kemble ; Lisette, Miss Rainforth ; Fidalma, Mrs. Shaw ; the Count, Mr. Leffler • Gero nimo, Mr. Giubilei ; and Paolino, Mr. Harrison. This novelty, it is understood, will be succeeded by a new opera by Mr. Benedict, and Mr. Rooke's opera, which was accepted last season, and in which the character intended for Madame Vestris will be entrusted to Mrs. Shaw, will speedily follow. We sincerely trust that these promisiug arrangements will not be frustrated by the ru moured closing in February to make wa y for a German corps.—Dramatic and Musical Betio:. , e. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT. -011 "Si' C I named Tbombp nesday afternoon last, as a young man, son, who resides in Bedford-street, Abcrcrom y ' -1-street on horse square, was proceeding along Crown -street off at a back, the animal took fright, and dashedPembrokez furious rate along Crown-street, down The young place, London -road, and Shaw's -brow. man continued to keep his seat till the horse reached the bottom of Shaw' s -brow, when he was thrown s t re et at some off, and fell upon t he w dis tance. Inspector Anders, h o happened to be near the with a man named. spot, assisted, together young,, the unfortunate Charles Forde, in c onveying youth to the infirniarv, where it was found he had received a severe contusion on the right leg, and an e xcess i ve fracture of the s kull. He received at th e i nf i rmar the best atten tion and treatment that medical skill could devise, but he lingered only till yesterday morning at four o'clock, when he died 'We believe that an inquest will be held upon the bZdy this . day.---. Liverpool Mercury. THE MORMONITE DELUSION.— it d* • Mor mon is on a visit to this town, and - has iscipla of in the Lion Fields, wh ere h e hired a room. in preaches five or six times a week. The strangene ss of to excite the curiosity of many persons of different creeds, and sometimes he is openly contradicted, when, as may be expected, a noisy discussion ensues. On Sunday last h e entertained his auditory with an account the prayed, Mormon faith, as follows : ne to God for fourteen days without re ceiving an answer,• but just as the fortnight expired, he was struck dead ; after which God commanded him to be baptized (by immersion). When he came to life he exclaimed, " Yes, Lord, I'll go! I'll go! even if the wat er is boiling hot." Being baptized , he can, he says, wo r k miracles, and speak in unknown tongues ; of the latter he often gives specimens, but upon being asked for " the interpretation thereof," he declines. Strange as it way appear, he has made a few converts, who have been baptized by him in the river Stour after dark. — Wolverhampton Chronicle. The Obserrateur of Brussels says "We have just seen a letter from the Hague, which states that a courier had arrived in that town with the agreement of the Belgian Government to the proposal of Holland on the financial questions. It seems that the Ca binet of Brussels has purchased for the State all the estates of King William I. and 11. in Belgium, and that their Majesties have parted with them on terms which do honour to their aisintere tedn s ess. This ces sion comprehends, besides other property, the domi nion of Tervearen, the hotel of the Place Royal, a nd the palace of the Prince of levard. .. the winter. the L re or d d ur W iD y g nford has a rri ve d a t WeyniOuth, to reside