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MIDDLESEX QUARTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before B. ROTCH. 'EI., and full Bench of Magistrates.) It having been pretty genera'ly known that the trial of Palmer, one of the bill stealing fraternity, was fixed to come on first this morning, long before the Court was opened the hall was much crowded by a very anxious mul titude. Shortly after 10 o'clock the Chairman took his seat on the bench, accompanied by many of the magistracy of the county. Henry Palmer, a very fashionably dressed man, appa rently about 40 years of age, was then placed at the bar, and the petty jury was then called. On two names being read over, the prisoner objected to them, but without assigning any reason ; their places were supplied by others. The Jury having been sworn, the indictment was read. It contained eieht counts, but the principal one on which the prosecutors rest, is that which charges the prisoner with feloniously receiving ten bills of exchange for 500/., he at the same time well knowing them to have been stolen. Another count charged him with receiving ten pieces of paper, with a stamp attached, value 6s. As soon as the prisoner had been arraigned, Mr. ALLEY (who, wi h Mr. PRENDERGAST, appeared for the prisoner) said, that as he had only received his brief last night at ten o'clock, be had not, of course, been able to make himself fairly master of the facts of the ease. The charge, however, was one of such a serious nature, and one which would naturally raise very nice que-tions of law, that he was of opinion the trial of it ought to come on before a higher tribunal. An applica tion to that effect bad been made to Mr. Justice Parke, not to remove it into the Kit g's Bench. but merely to the Old Bai'ey ; but he was of opinion that he could not grant the application, without the concurrence of the prosecutor. He trusted that his Learned Friend would now give that consent, or, at all events, that the Bench would see the necessity of sending the case to the Judges of the find. Mr. ADOLPHUS (who, with Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. CLAaxsosr, appeared for the prosecution) said he bad never before heard of such an application. He could not for a moment think of giving his consent to it. The CHAIRMAN ruled that the trial should go on. The prisoner then applied that all the witnesses on both sides should be ordered out of Court. The COURT granted the application. The prisoner then said, " Mr. Chairman, you are a witness ; I have served you with a subpsena, and must ex amine you." Mr. Anoemtus—Surely you do not wish that the Chairman should leave the Court. Mr. ROTCH—lndeed I think that is the true meaning of the application. However, I will he in Court, and will he examined if it is considered necessary. Mr. ADOLPOUS then stated the case to the Jury. After some general observations upon the nature of the money lending system, he sail the prosecutor was a man of very great respectability, being the son of Sir Dugdale Astley, Bart. He had also married into a family of equal rank and respectability, ste., into that of Sir Thomas Leth bridge. He had enjoyed the benefits of a good education, and what most surprised him (Mr. A.) was, that a man that had been educated at one of the Universities, and had seen a little of the world, should have been made the victim of such a palpable trick as it was his duty to lay before the jury. Mr. Astley was a man, even now, that might be considered wealthy, and certainly had very great expectations. Like many more in his rank of life, he was in want of a supply of ready money. On looking over the columns of the Morning Post, some day in July last, be was attracted by an advertisement headed—" Money to lend." 2,0001. was to be lent by a retired tradesman, at 44 per cent., to gentlemen of known respectability. The appli cation was to be made by letter to P. Moreton, 35, Univer sity-street. He (Mr A.) would he able to show that the per son who was here called P. Moreton, was no other than the notorious John Minter Hatt. Mr. Astley, seeing this advertisement, and being in want of the money, wrote to this Mr. Moreton, stating to him who he was, what his connections were, and the expectations he had for the future; in fact, stating all that he could think of likely to induce a wealthy man to trust him for a time. In consequence of that letter a correspondence took place be tween him and the pretended Mr. Moreton, and ulti mately Mr. Moreton waited upon Mr. Astley at Basing Park, when the advance was agreed upon,—Mr. Astley to pay the interest half yearly. In the course of the con versation, Hart said it would be necessary that he should draw upon Mr. Astley for the money, the bills to be of a short date, and to be renewed as they fell due, and at the same time produced ten blank stamps, of the value of 6s. each, which be desired Mr. Astley to ac cept, and he would fiil them up at his leisure, and as he had an opportunity of getting them cashed. Mr. Astley wrote across them the words " Pay able," and the name of his Banker. '1 his was no sooner done, than Hart, he supposed, thrown off his guard by what he considered the success of his schemes, put nn h;11. ,bat state, and set off without ever looking at them. When he got to town, however, he found out that his success was not quite complete, for the la s, in their then state, were not so valuable as before they were written upon ; in consequence of which he again wrote to Mr. Astley, and solicited another interview upon the subje ct ; that was granted, when Mr. Astley was induced to add his name to the writing on the bills and the word " accepted." This was done under the promise that the bills were to be discounted in a day er two, and the money to be paid to him. Mr. Astley never once suspected the honesty of the transaction—net even when day after day passed and no money was forthcom ing. He was fed upon and buoyed up by almost daily excuses from the pretended Mr. P. Moreton. Things went on in that wry for a time, Mr. Astley was beginning to doubt, but still had hope of receiving the money some day, when at last he is favoured with a most cunning letter from the prisoner Palmer. That letter was dated 7, Harford-street, Mayfair, 16th August. It stated, that he (Palmer) had got one of Mr. Astley's bills for 5001. in the way of his business; he bad been offered another of the like amount, but first he wished to know whether theywere perfectly r. gular, as from the known respectability of Mr. Astley, he was very much inclined to discount the other that had been offered to him. Now, though that was every deep laid scheme it did not succeed. The intention was to get Mr. Astley to write a letter, stating that the bills were given by him in a regular manner. Had he done so, had he fallen into the snare, it would have rendered him liable for the whole of the bills, for then it would have been proved against him that he hail induced a person to dis count the bills upon the faith of his word as to the regularity of the transaction. Mr. Astley, however, had, at last, had his eyes a little opened—be bad disclosed the facts of the case to his friend., and steps were already being taken to recover the hills ; therefore that scheme failed. The prisoner, fancy ing that Mr. Astley was anxious to keep his friends from knowing of the trnnsaction, and thinking he could make nothing out of him, wrote a letter to Sir D. Astley, and one to Sir Thomas Lethbridge, stating that it had come to his knowledge that Mr. Astley had been en. gaged in such a transaction as had actually taken place, .and that he lad never got a penny for them, and never would ; that the writer was of opinion that be could get them all hack for a sum of money; so that a saying pf motley might be made through his means, as p well as the expense that must otherwise take lace. That la tier he would Inoet distincq prove to have been written by the prisoner, If the parties wished to answer that letter, they were requested to do so by an advertisement, addressed aci 0 P.Q. in the Morning Chronicle. Au answer was in aertael, and that led to an interview between the solicitor for Mr. Astley and the prisoner and his solicitor. He pelted at that time for 20s. in the pound, which was in etently refused, Another interview took place, when Palmer said he would yet the bills up upon payment of 10. i. in the pound, but Mr.Sandiland then said they would neither give that nor a farthing. They were determined to recover them by legal means. Those irttere, and the prisoner's conduct at the in terviews showed the kind of knowledge which he had of the whole transaction. Parc of the bill+ had got into the hands of a person who had been a wine merchant, but who was now a b inkrupt, of course the assignees Fergsed to part with them till they saw what they could make of them for the est a t e. Mr. Ar.t.ny inter rupt e d the Learned opening, He thought that be h a d taken too wide a field fur his it would have been more in taste example set by the S olicitor-General at the trial of Fursey; the trial was for felony, and th e p r i soner ' s Counsel had no opportunity of replying. The CHAIRMAN had watched the opening very nar rowly, and he did not think Mr. Adolphus had yet ex ceeded the bounds of moderation. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS said, it was a case that ne cessarily required that all the facts should be laid before the Jury in detail. Mr. AnoapHUs resumer!. Ile would prove the last letter he had spoken of to be written by Palmer, in whose possession was fuwptise draft of it ; and he would call before the Juri.:epeseffftin, who bad been obtained to draw and fill up order to make them bear a regular appearance, by' ctiiP 'directions of the prisoner. Some points of law iitigtit arise, but, surely, his teamed Friend eiantd isot say that there was no felony because Mr. Miley"' bad given she bills, he would ~~;; } jt LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1833. The Paris Papers of Sunday, which arrived this morning, contain no information of interest relative to Spain. The Gazette de France. however, mentions a report, that BOURMONT had landed in Catalonia, and that that province had risen, and proclaimed Don CARLOS King, There are also many other rumours in the Paris Papers, but none of them appear to us to de serve the least attention. The Journal des Debats contains the manifesto of the QUEEN REGENT, which we were enabled to publish yesterday. One passage of this ma nifesto, which is otherwise of the common-place description of Court documents, is important. The QUEEN says, I shall religiously maintain in full force the fundamental laws of the Mo narchy, without admitting dangerous innova tions, however reputable in principle," and then, as if to show that she considers all innovations to be dangerous, she adds, " The best form of Government for a country is that to which it is accustomed." Whether this maxim, which would have come with equal grace from the Dey of AL GIERS, before the French destroyed his best form of Government, and which must be particularly welcome to the Emperor of RUSSIA and all despotic Sovereigns, be intended merely for the purpose of deceiving the clergy, who are strong partisans of that best government under which they have fattened, or be the real opinion of the QUEEN REGENT, we must regard it in an un favourable light, for it is either weak or trea cherous, and is therefore contemptible or despi cable. It is not probable that the partisans of Don CARLOS, who look upon him as the only true representative of the principles which constitute the admirable system of government to which the people of Spain have been accustomed, will be thrown off their guard by this degrading concession of the QUEEN REGENT ; whilst, on the other hand, the Liberals, without whose assistance, the QUEEN REGENT cannot hope to maintain herself against the Carlists, will know what course to take wish a Sovereign who so unblushingly avows her distaste for every species of political im provement. It is to be hoped that good will arise out o f t hi s spontaneous di s pl a y o f Abso lutism,and turn o t that the Spanish Liberals may be able to Don CARLOS an d account the di ffi culties which the course of their s t , tr‘luegQglue2EaEl alternately r R n a E t e G REGENT N e T ne n o l u ay n , te i r n . For our part, as we do not partake of the enthu siastic admiration professed by the QUEEN RE- 1 GENT for the existing system of government in Spain, we shall be almost pleased at any tem porary success which the Carlists may obtain, convinced, as we are, that it must have the effect of compelling her to seek support from a patty whose members have none of the QUEEN'S horror of innovations, " however reputable in principle." Neither in the Paris papers, nor from any other source, have we any further account of the movements of Don CARLOS. The despatches from Lisbon to our Government and the Por tuguese Embassy would lead us to believe that he quitted Santarem ou the 4th inst. for Spain ; but the French Charge d'Affaires in Lisbon had, on the 6th inst., received an account of his being at Thomar on the evening of the sth, and this, we think, will be found to have been the case. German Papers state, as an on dit, that CHARLES the Tenth has taken a journey to Gratz, in order to avoid the congratulations of the Legitimatist pilgrims on the majority of young Dieu donne. They contain also, in a n article headed the Prussian frontiers, some ominous hints respecting the future intentions of the continental despots, as respects the in terests of Europe. "We are not acquainted," says the article in question—which by the bye has a sort of semi-official air about it—" We are not acquainted with the intentions of the Sovereigns, but no blame can attach to them, if, amid the elements of destruction by which society is threatened, it should be found necessary to abandon a system which aimed at maintaining tranquillity by pacific means, and to proceed instead to extreme measures. The approaching conferences of the German Courts will most probably prove that the time is come when they intend to act, and no longer to be the sport of contingencies." VIENNA, OCT. 4.—Five per Cent. 93 7-16; Four per Cent. 83 15 32; Bank Shares I,l97l.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 9. Some Parliamentary documents have lately been printed which throw a light, which was before wanting, upon a subject of considerable importance to all interested in the coasting trade of the North of Ireland—a subject, said, indeed, by Mr. O'CONNELL and others, to involve a great extension of the internal commerce of the whole of Ireland. Our readers will perhaps recollect that towards the close of last Session Mr. O'CONNELL made great exertions to get passed through Parliament a Bill for making a ship canal from the port of Kingstown to Dub lin, which said canal was to be assisted by public money. We thought we perceived a disposition at the time to take something from the general income of the state, but the loss of the Bill threw the subject over for consideration till next Session. One of the grounds of opposition to the plan was, that a Company had undertaken to form a railway from Kingstown to Dublin without the assistance of public money, and to unload vessels at Kingstown, and transfer their cargoes to Westland Row, to the westward of the canal docks, in two hours. We perceive, from the documents now published, that the Railroad Company is likewise charged with a wish to get some of the public money, and that the fund which it looks to is that of the Corpo ration of Dublin. As the subject will again he brought forward, it seems worth while to look at the state the question is now in. The first document in the returns last made, at the instance of Mr.O'CoNNELL, is a memo rial of Mr. BOURNE ' S) a principal proprietor of a number of steam-vessels plying between London and Dublin. In this memorial we find a summary of the arguments in favour of the ship canal. Correctly to judge of most of them, requires a greater knowledge of the loca lities mentioned than we pretend to have ; hut some particulars are stated which must be con sidered by all uninterested persons as serious objections to the canal being made either at the Ipublic expense, or that of the Corporation. Mr. BOURNE states the estimate for the canal to be 500,0001. Knowing what we do of esti mates, it would not be unfair greatly to augment this sum ; but supposing the expense not to exceed this sum, the projector can find no other certain source from which to pay the inte rest, than the funds of the ballast Corporation, to be made available by the cessation of all outlay on the navigation of the Liffey. Indeed, it seems to be admitted on all hands that the canal and the river could not exist together, both to be in a navigable condition. The Corporation wishes the improvement of the river to be con tinued instead of diverting its funds to the con struction of a canal. Mr. BOURNE and, we believe, Mr. O'CONNELL, contend that the river is unimproveable, and refer to several accidents which have happened in it. Mr. BOURNE'S memorial having been referred to Mr. Inspec tor HALPIN, that gentleman enters into a statement of the former bad condition of Dublin harbour, and of the steps taken by the Corpora tion to improve it. As the question of the canal mainly turns upon the efficacy of these last, we will state them in Mr. HALPIN'S own words:— " To facilitate the transactions of commerce, and im prove the city, the old quays were taken down and the present built ; to those who have seen the former it is un necessary to state how great was this improvement. " The corporation for improving the port, after col lecting all the necessary information, and obtaining the advice of the most eminent scientific and practival men of that day, determined on the erection of the great north wall ; this work was commenced in 1820; it has a S.S.E. direction from the Clontarf shore towards the Poolbeg lighthouse, forming a pier of better than a mile and a half in length. By this it was proposed to confine the tide of ebb and direct it on the bar. As its primary effect, an increasing depth over the bar was found to take place in the line of the present channel, and where, when the wall was commenced, there was a depth of only from five to seven feet, it subsequently i ncrease d to seven a nd ni▪ ne feet. There was also a diminution of the breadth of the bar; this progressive deepening has continued up to the present day, insomuch that there is now a channel across the site of the liar, which in its shoalest part has from 11 to 12 feet depth at the low water of spring tides, and an average depth of 14 feet throughout its length, having directness, depth, and breadth, which were all wanting in the former southern channel. An inspection of the charts made at the periods alluded to will more fully show this important change. " This course of improvement was not in the meantime confined to the bar; the depth has been considerably i▪ n creased throughout the whole river channel from Poolbeg to the city quays. In Poolbeg anchorage, which is now much better sheltered by the raising and proper backing of the lighthouse wall and construction of the great north wall, there is an average depth of 14 feet at the low water of spring tides, the Fordbank has been dredged away, the channel deepsned and straightened up to the Pigeon House, and thence to the Greenpatch bank, which has nearly been cut through by one dredging machine and the lighters now working on it. The additional steam dredge which has been built, and will shortly be ready, will expedite this I improvement. By excavating with these dredges there will be a passage through the whole leneth of the Patch hank this goring, and a channel made from the Pigeon House to the north wall, having seven feet at its least depth at the low water of spring tides, and 150 feet at its width. Even now the greater portion of the vessels trading to Dublin can at high water of the poorest neap tides pass up the river, the improved state of which is evinced by the larger class of vessels which enter it, by the infrequency o' accidents, and the discontinuance of the use of merchant lighters, which were formerly indispensable. With th. present machinery a channel of eight feet deep at the low water of spring tides would he carried up to Carlisle Bridge in a few years ; the steam packets are, however. at present in some measure waterborne at their berths near the quays at low water. Of the little injury sustained if. this way the public have had a strong instance in the London steam trader, lately coppered on th, Ballast-office graving slip the keel bottom and old coppei of which were unbroken, in good preservation for th, time they had been used, and had received no injury iron a six years' trade between this port and London that would not have been incurred in a deep water harbour. " Along the quays the banks have been greatly lowered and levelled, and all stones and inequalities removed. " The graving slip was finished last year ; it is capable of taking up steam vessels of the larg.-st class which cannot be repaired elsewhere in Dublin ; since its completion it has generally been occupied by vessels of from 300 to 500 tons burden, and is likely to prove most useful to the port. Mr. BOURNE, with other directors of the Dublin and London Steam Company, in a me morial addressed to the Lords of the Treasury on the 28th May, of this year, state, in answer to this, the cases of several vessels which have been injured by grounding on an uneven bottom at low water, and add— " Your memorialists beg leave to instance the case ► f the Killarney steamer, which grounded near the Green patch, on the sth of last April, and again on the 13th in. stant, and was obliged, on both occasions, to discharge a portion of her cargo into lighters, in order to get up to the qu rya. In the month of September, 1832, the Mar. yaret, 272 tons, M'Munn master, having a fair wind with a spring -tide, was obliged to discharge in the I.ke manner, at an expense to the owners of upwards of 761. The steam vessels belonging to your memorialists have fre quently been obliged to lighten, by means of barges, to enable them to pass up to the qua) ; and when outward bound, to put into lighters a pottion of their cargoes, which they would take on board after they had passed the shoal water. The assertion that the depth of watei in the river is so much improved that the generality of vessels trading to the port can reach it at high-water ot the poorest neap-tides, is not perhaps sustained by the fact, that it often happens that there is not 10 feet water at the quay ; and that on the 15th of April the Sarah, of Whitehaven, drawing 12 feet, had been three days nraped in the centre of the channel, abreast of the King's Bond yard ; and that the barque Lotus, of and bound to St. Andrew's, was, from the same cause, detained three days opposite Mr. Wilson's stores. The instances of the insufficiency of water in the Liffey, for the purposes of the ordinary coasting trade, would occupy more of your Lordship's time than your memorialists would venture to trespass on." It will be observed that the greater portion o this statement is exceedingly vague, and that the particulars specified by no means invalidate the correctness of Mr. HALPIN'S assertions. He refers to the larger class of vessels which enter the river, compared with former times, as a proof of its improved state, and states that where there was formerly a bar with five or six feet water, there is now, at ebb tide, from 11 to 12 feet. Mr. BOURNE'S story of the Sarah, of Whitehaven, drawing 12 feet water, having been three days neaped abreast of the King's Bond-yard, would be answered by Mr. HAL PIN saying that such a vessel could never have got up there in former times. We must confess that, upon the whole, we think the river Liffey in a course of gradual improvement, which it would be a pity to dis turb by diverting the funds to the formation of a ship canal, which we should fear would ulti mately be thrown upon the public. It is, per haps, but right to confess that before we had got through two pages of Mr. BOURNE'S Me morial, a bias was raised in our minds against his plans, by the following very absurd observa tions on the proposed railroad. He sass— '• The original object of this railroad was confined to the conveyance of pass-ngers, which at present travel by jaunting care and carriages of various descriptions, and fom such intercourse an interest of 12i per cent. was anticipated on the capital embarked in the speculation. Tue new Company now propose to themselves further and more important services, and the Government is solicited to become contributory thereto, by a large advance of put.lic money in furtherance of their plans. The obs.-r -vations which your memorialist takes the liberty to sug gest, do not proceed from a desire nn his part to depre ciate the value of the proposed railway; but he believes, and is prepared to prove, that whatever• facilities it may afford to the intercourse of prssengers, it is incompetent to tender the necessrry and essential accommodation to the trade and commerce of this city that is attainable by a ship can •1. _ . " That the proposed railroad is to commence at the in tended quay or wharf at Kingstown, and to terminate at Westland.row, to the westward of the canal docks; and the prospectus of the new Company promises extraordi nary facilities in the loading and unloading of vessels at Kingstown, and in the transmission of their several car goes to and from Westland-row ;so great, indeed, that a cargo of 200 or 300 tons is to be discbarged and conveyed to town with n two hours. This rapidity of delivery, which constitutes a primary recommendation of the pro posed establishment, would, under existing circumstances, be destructive to a considerable portion of the trade of Dublin ; for what is to become of the several cargoes when thus hurried to Westland row ? From the want of storage there, they must either lie on the highway, or, should it be possible to procure means for their speedy distribution (a question very problematical), a heavy ex pense, in addition to Is. per ton rail dues, would tie in curred in removing the goods to the warehouses at which they are now transhipped at little expense or trouble. " To the coal trade in particular, which unhappily constitutes the chief traffic of the city, the consequence of the proposed rapidity of delivery would be fatal to the generality of those engaged in it, and injurious to the public, but more especially to those of the lower classes of the community. At present every collier is a ware house fir her coals, until they are sold and delivered; but should 100 or 200 tons be poured into Westland-row every hour, the market would be glutted, to the ruin of the dealer; or if it was possible for bite to construct depots for its depositure at the point in question, the c p o re n s t e r n ac t td. extensive e agency in the trade would be greatly It is new for us to be told that rapidity in the delivery of goods is an evil. That rapidity of delivery will injure the business of those who want to continue slowness of delivery is easily imagined ; but how it can injure the public, and ‘, more especially the lower clisses of the community," remains for Mr. BOURNE tO ex plain. The Railroad Company is a private one. Let it have no public money without the public getting some equivalent advantage which the competition of individuals would not have given it. The railroad being made by the unassisted funds of the company, Mr. BOURNE may depend upon it that the public will take care of itself, and receive no damage from a glut of coals, or anything else. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) Mary Shields, a girl of the town, was indicted for stealing eleven shillings from the person of an old man named Michael Currin. It appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor and a policeman, that the former had been out tippling during the whole of the night of Saturday, the 22d Sept., and that between six and seven o'clock on the Sunday morn. ing he tumbled into the Grapes public-house in the Bo rough, where he met with the prisoner. She asked him for something to drink, and taking her into the parlour he ordered some liquor. In a few minutes be felt her hands 'bout his trousers, and directly afterwards she ran out of the house. Suspecting she had robbed him, he put his hind to his pocket, which he found turned inside out, and his money gone. He ran out and gave information of the robbery to a policeman, who in a few minutes apprehended t i er with the money in her possession. Verdict—Guilty. Judgment deferred. The RECORDER said he should not allow the prosecutor his expenses for being drunk in a public-house so early as six o'clock nn a Sunday morning. Cornelius White, a young man, who appeared to have seen better day., was indicted for stealing a set of bed furniture, the property of Robert Tritton Reaks. It appeared that the bed furniture had been hung out to dry on the evening of the 28th of August, and on the 'ollowing morning it was gone. The prisoner had been in the habit of visiting the prosecutor, and was conse quently well acquainted with the premises. A dog was kept in the yard, but as it made no noise, the robbery must have been effected by some one to whom the dog was known. The same night the prisoner carried the bed urniture to his own lodgings, saying he bad got it from rims sister, and he should have the bedstead itself the next night. The following morning the prisoner got a man named Davis to pawn it for him, and Davis was taken i ito custody, and was in prison a week on a charge of sealing the property. However, time prisoner was at I.lngth taken, and he admitted the robbery, which he said he had committed in order that he might be sent out of the country. Verdiet—Gu lty. Judgment deferred. leave it to the Jury to say whether it was so or not, after he had shown the intentions of the pinks. In the course of the proceedines. the prisoner had seve ral times protested aeainst being tried before Mr. Rotch, and now renewed i►. No attention was paid to it. Mr. A LLEY stated th ,t b e and Mr. Prendergast appeared there merely as hottle•holders. The prisoner was deter mined to cross-examine the witnesses himself. Their duty was merely to watch the points of law in the case The CHAIRMAN cautioned him upon the absurdity, and efen danger of such a proceeding, but he said he must stick to his purpose. The case was of too much import ance to him to trust it in other hands. Mr. PHILLIPS then called a witness, and was proceed irg with the examination of him when our reporter left. The case is expected to last till late in the evening. riticas OF .TOCK • T. , h !lank Stc etC ;per Cent. Ref% ........86 5 1 4 6 Tper Cent. Cons. 86%401 1% per Cent. Ditto Red 94 314 New 3% per tent. 95% 5 % , per Cent. Ann. 1726 4 per Cent. 1826 Rank Long Ann. to ex r , re Jan. 5, 1861 , 16% 11-16 , Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 = i Jan. 5, 1880 -' Aprils, 1880 - Jan. 5,187 n -, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 96 1 4, Belgian Bonds Q`2% Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ......6643 % Ditto Account 66 Buenos Ayres Bonds — !Ditto Account... ........ Chilian Bonds ........ Ditto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 2l Ditto Ace•intit 2154 Danish Bon 4 ........... 114 Ditto Accrunt....— ......... OA Y AT OON• O'CI.OrK. yew 5 per rent, India Stock ditto Bonds '29 31 29 pm. South Sea Stock flld Annuities.. New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .. - Ex. Bills, X 1,000 46 45 orr. Ditto .50n 46 44 pm . Ditto Small Ditto Commercial ...... 47 on% Ditto Advertised 'Bank for Account India for Account - Cons. for Account 86% 7 THIS DAY AT ONS 0 CLOCK Peruvian Bonds .... ........ — Portuguese Bonds 7044 Ditto Account 7l Reg .Scrip 1g1i ► 4 1 ,414 Pm. Ditto Ace.... 20 19%4%pm. Prussian Bonds lOl Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO2 4 Russian Bonds, 1822 lOll4 Ditto Account lOl% New Loan 102% Spanish Bonds,lB2l ..22 ) ,4 1 1 4 Ditto Ace. 2 2 1,4 114% , Ditto Bonds, IS V — 1 Ditto Account 2IN ,French Rentes, sp. c. —l ,. —c. fireek Bonds - Exchange . —C 7,7 c. Ditto Bonds, !825 —3 per cent ...... 72 1 25c. Ditto Account — Exchange 2sf 50c Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. - Ditto Account Dutch, 9.1 p. c 473 it 4; Ditto Account 47% Ditto, 13 per cent 14% 5 ' Ditto, sp. c 89% $.16 Ditto Account 35 Ditto Account. s3o Ne3politan...... ........ ... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'cLOCY • Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £4 4% Anglo in ex. M n. ..u. kiss. at Di. pm ) XDIO Rolanos Mining Compan% ..£150 Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss, at 5/. pm.) £2O Ditto National 2O Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes. Cata Branca Mining Company l% British Iron Mining Comoany £5O Columbikn Minim Co. 'iss at 5/. pm.) 51% English Aiii.ing Company 1234 General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co £4B Real del Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) t noted Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company ........... ....... —... l7 General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 Arrived. HAILS. Due. (Arrived. 13234 1% 23 % 43( 27 12% 2714 10 11% 5334 6 5 1334 184 Z 1 5 0 1E44 51 13 .1 , 1004 2% pm. 36 Due . O America 0 0 Hamburg - 1 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 I 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 1 France... ........ ....... 0 0 Sweden Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. sforning —.57 minutes after 3. I Evemng...ls minutes after 4. NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, Ocr. 15. 3/IR. BENTLEY will publish the following NEW WORKS during the present Month : In 3 vols. post Svo., TREVE L Y A N. By the Author of "A Marriage in High Life." Second Edition, revised by the Author, 2 vole. post Svo., ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH. By the Author of " Pelham." 111. The Sixth Volume of the Translation of MADAME JUNOT'S MEMOIRS. Comprising the Eleventh and Twelfth Volumes of the Paris Edition. TV. The Third and Fourth, being the Concluding Volumes of Tur RAW!' INDIA SKETCH-ROOK; Or, LIFE in INDIA. NAVAL ADVENTURES. By Lieutenant BOWERS, R.N. Comprising 36 years' service in v. , rious pasts of the World. 2 vols. post 8 vo. - 411114. eirev GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) FORGERY ON MR. DAVIS THE NEWSMAN.—Edward Kearney, who, it will be recollected, was connected with William Haynen in fording a check for 3001 on the 'tinker of his master, Mr. Davis, a newsman, and for whom, till the present mom.nt, all search had been m de , n vain, was brought before Mr. Alderman THORPE to lay, in custody of an Irish police officer, having been aken some days ago at Cove. The prisoner is charee I with having taken the check to the bankers, and alter having obtained notes for it, converting them into gold at •he Bank of England. As the prisoner only arrived in , own this morning, at the reque-t of Mr. Davis the case was ordered to stand over for a few days. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, OCT. 14.—During last night and all to-day it has blown strong in squalls from S.W.—Arrived the Matilda, Perkins, from Bordeaux ; Africanus, from Africa ; and General Brock, Jones, from Limerick. Put back the outward-bound that sailed yesterday. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind W., blowing hard and .qu illy.—A, rived the Ontario, Sebnr, from New York. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Wind S W., blowing heavy. —Arrived the Betsey, Johns, from Zante. Off port the Leeds, from Bordeaux. FALMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes and squally.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Sparrow, for Oporto and Lisbon, with mails. _ STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Nonpareil, Allen, from Dania ; Essex, Lee, from Malaga ; Antonia, Arreche, from Salon ; and Marianne, Germaine, from Mogado re. RAMSGATE, OCT. 14.—Arrived the George, Munden, from Wexford. COWES, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Economy, Lockie, from Bahia ; and Luna, Lord, from Havannah. POOLE, OCT. I3.—Arrived the Lord Wellington, Col lingwood, from Newfoundland. TEIGNMOUTH, OCT. I3.—Arrived the Abeona, How, from Labradors. BRISTOL, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Thomas Kennion, Lamb, from Quebec. . NEWPORT, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Lamb, from Quebec. LivEuroot, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Andes, Dawson, from Maranham ; Forth, Hunter, and Fenwick Keating, Acheson, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Myrtle, Yabsley, from Malaga; Roylett, Shotton, from Bordeaux ; Lochiel, Soper, from Oporto ; Zero, Mills, and Edward Ind Bertha, fiom St. Petersburgh ; Georgiana, Wylie, from Archangel ; and Adelaide, from Gothland. Off port the Winscales, Fisher, from Bengal ; Europe, Woolley, from Bahia ; Great Britain, French, from New York ; and George Canning, Weakner, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. BELFAST, OCT. 12.—Arrived the Puget, Barnes, from St. Peterstourgh. ABERDEEN, OCT. 12.—Arrived the Agenoria, Prand, from Cape Bteten. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—. At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices as last quoted. coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay A 3 5 to .5.3 10 klew Meadow Hay 3 15 4 8 Useful Old I titto 3 15 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 5 4 8 ..lover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw .E 1 6to .£1 8 I Wheat Straw ... 110 113 SMITH FI ELD. Supply moderate, and trade dull; prices barely stationary. Coarse tieavy bowiano Meadow Hay z 3 0 s. £3 5 •Jew Meadow Flay 3 10 4 5 Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Nye-grass Hay. ...... 'lover Hay (extra fine)....Es 5 ..Generally Oat Straw ... £1 Bto £1 10 1 Wheat Straw 1 10 1 13 GUILDFORD M ARK E r.—Oct. 12. Wheat (Per Load) ...14/. to 161. Oats (Per Qr.) l9s. to 245. - Old 14 16 Beans 17 40 Barley (Per Qr.) 3os. 345. Pease 3B 40 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Yesterday we had plenty of intelligence from the Penin sula, and various other quarters. This morning we ate without arrivals except from New York, from which place papers, to tLe 21st September, have been received at the North and Sow h American Coffee-house ; but their contents are void of interest. Leiters from the Havannah of the 28th of August, and from St. Jago to the 14th, state that the cholera still prevails to a considerable extent on the plantations on the Island. In the city very little alarm prevails at the few cases that occur. Montreal Papers to the 15th September, and Quebec to the same date, have also been received at the above Coffee-house. The Quebec Paper says, " It is with regret we have to notice some accounts of collision between the cit;zens and the soldiers of the garrison, and have read articles by no means calculated to soften the angry feeling, oc casioned by any casual rencontre." THE FUNDS, The funds have rather improved this morning. Consols, which left off yesterday 86i 87 for the Account, opened at the same price, and may now be quoted at 87, buyers for the Account. Little doing as yet. In the Foreign Market, Portuguese Scrip 19i to 20 prem. Spanish 2l We have no reports of any description. HALF-PAST ONE. By the American Papers, received this morning, we are informed that the yel ow fever is raging with great tnalig• nancy at New Orleans. Consols continue steady at 87 to k for the Account, and for money 86i to 87, with little doing. In the Foreign Market, Portuguese Scrip 191 to premium ; Spanish 211 to ; in other Foreign Securities little doing. THREE O'CLOCK. Console for the Account, 87 to 1. " The business of the Assessed Taxes is growing daily more serious." " On Monday there was also a great meeting at the Red Lon Inn, in Westminster." " Mr. Farren, the Secretary, said, &c. &c. &c. " Who Mr. Farren is, is a matter of some speculation; and we think it right to say, that we consider it incum bent upon a Gentleman who has lately appeared much before the public—not on the stage—but in pamphlets and at Court, to put an end to a rumour that he is the indivi dual thus distinguishing himself." The above paragraphs having appeared in the John Bull of Sunday last, I deem it imperative on me not only to disclaim being th., Mr. Farren who spoke on the occasion alluded to (and with whom I am wholly unacquainted), but also to declare that I should think it incompatible with the station I fill to attend a political meeting of any description. GEO. FARREN, Resident Director of the Asylum Life Office. 70, Cornhill, Oct. 14, 1833. THE ANNUALS. LANDSCAPE ANNUAL. " One swallow does not make a summe r 'd or we should suppose, by the appearanc e the one now before us, that the Annual sew was just about to set in " with its usual, A se ; verity."* But the Landscape has burst ; 0 being a little before its time. It is a se l , 4 months', instead of a nine-months' infant. vertheless, it is a lusty bantling ; full of life, al :, grace, and beauty. The illustrations are ove n six in number, and in point of excelleneeo engraving are so nearly equal, that it is dO c r y to discriminate between them. The art is , s , mited one, and gives but little scope for critic What we say of the illustrations of one Annlisto applies, with scarcely two exceptions, to whole graceful fraternity. " Mont Ferft; engraved by Fisher, from a painting by ilar ° 4 l is chiefly remarkable for the bustle and giro air that pervades it. The main street of homely village, with the market wage t o the foreground—the fruit-basket lying in road--the busy labourers unloading-10 i° , group of old women are discussing, no de market prices in a corner, remind us of 01 : 0 1 Gainsborough's landscapes. The fore-short cart in the distance, just about to turn corner of the street, is finely imagined. " Le ri is a delightful sylvan landscape, where the sv lime and beautiful sh a ke h an d s i n grace f u l fe n ship. This, however, is the painter's praise; fid engraving is harsh, and stiff, and wiry. " . ':g teau de Villeneuve" is finished with remerv j neatness and elegance. The scene is a luxl v . ; one, and the engraver (Cousen) has do; justice. " Lyons" is one of the m ost P so , resque views we ever saw of this celell nic city. The painter has been happy in his Cr oy of sight. Even Turner himself, with hi 4 0 ) sense of the picturesque and the poetical, cc :, not have selected a better. " Aurillst a quiet, gentle, unassuming valley, 511'. nestled within lofty mountains, and on f executed by Radcliffe, in whose el, ing we in vain try to detect the slig i harshness or negligence. The horizon n a landscape is marked by singular fineness en licacy of touch. The literary explanatie l l the " Landscape Annual" are from the Fe, Mr. Thomas Roscoe. They abound in anecdote, and description, told in an elle'' , I sant style. Those who have visited, e r intend to visit, the scenes which they del i ' i will read them with considerable interest• had marked one or two of the choicest r for quotation, but find that our limited will not permit us to indulge our readers. ' ll - bly on some future occasion we may extrac t l o While on the subject of Landscape M I we may venture to express our surprise 0 one has yet thought it worth his while O wl trate the scenery of North and South The Principality is not hackneyed grounas i the Highlands. Where twenty tourist 9 , o Scotland, not two think it worth their wh visit Wales—though it abounds in the su b° _ Pteket th e tot tele, re tr tan 1.1 4 , 4 r: dubbed h ay) , the p, t3f litE and, loveliest scenes, from the crag of Llynlv among the Black Mountains in Carmarthe to the Alpine heights of Snowden Penman-mawr, in Carnarvonshire. whole Principality, too, is redolent of romance ;" alive with goblin legends, and, tions of the freaks of Twm John Catt l rival of Scotland's Rob Roy, and E° P 1 Robin Hood), and the stalwort lords Shropshire marches. A Welch Landscape nual, were due pains taken with it, cc' u fail to tell, from its novelty. At any r tit literary and pictorial materials for such are full, even to overflowing. THE AMULET. or. This ninth volume of one of the old es t i .li annuals does not fail much below any ° I i t decessors in its engravings, and surpass eg 4 of them in the literary portion of its ;1 4,, The frontispiece is a beautiful engs ° l Graves, of Queen Donna Maria, fro oll e 9/ 0 ing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in th, 0 0 collection. Graves has faithfully copie cl ri t hro 4 merits and defects of the painting. . O l e graving presents the same strong 0 : rp the Young Queen, with the 55 111 ,191 awkward hands, and the same apP eLl ; womanhood given to a mere chit f, " Death of the Stag," engraved bY, den, and the " Spring Nosegay," I V phreys, are among the embellishments w - i y l p least pleased us ; the first is harsh in treme, the second as coarse and disag r ' e rre the dirty brat it represents. On the there is ample compensation to be 10 ip 0 0 0 6/ " Forgotten Word," by C. Rolls, fr° l7l ceB' ing of Mulready's-...." Sir Roger de "(P i g and the Gipseys," from a painting ftf, Leslie's, by the same engraver—and Coi/ the Robin," by W. Finden, after W's 4 picture of that name. The engravers b : ve ld particularly happy in the two I : is dip' have said that the literary par ° •ag O r) ter than we have seen it in prece to o' bers, of which we cannot give better P" the fact of our having read the g. t e " right through," even as we used 1009 tunes, when unsurfeited in annuals, ,d weeklies, dailies, and every other k i th e o' l There is not much taste at present f or t y o f allegorical style, but Mr. Bulwe r h ti t's hel e , t 'o the editor with one of some leng t- t what subject or style can he 101° P '7 hi e 0 11 making something beyond reads cr ei " Pass of Abdomitn" being a tl . e° 15 1 l oot eo a journey from Jerusalem to JeL n i A Yates,m u ch spun shou out,should h and publishw we r r a e v e : i sri lp 4 ;o % t rig e ;tl ooli the account even for his quartg• obert .oesl quake at Zante, by the Ree• fol ki and the account of the Brazi ll3l- o .e vmuchol volume, e better. however, d o f thereforethe freivsihretsns::: ihe ;::01114$ ton's Narrative p N lea a s r e ra d ti u v s e , is or th a e Visit to ,/ Joanna, off the coast of M h ati : o g :...l( * Since this sentence was written we.:___figdiC Annuals, so that the season has actually o'"- th en Nt% kith 46 ti h itl b e ' Oth hi 0 th 4411 ttln 1 4 444 it ' kete, w rep