The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

Ifttrb 721Yttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock, PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK• LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 20. Dividend . Per Amount Annum. Names of Com panies. Share. foi per cent. 41. 41. 106. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .159. 11. 63. 91 12s. 941. . I. 10s. MI. "I'. 171. BW. 3_ _ 17s. Cd. 101. 6 percent. 98 204 11. Is.. 154 9Q 1. 1.4.. cent. per cent. 4i per cent. 4 per cent. N. 10s. 5 per cent. L per cent. 6)6 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. IN percent. 1/. Os. Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 71. 3I los. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 3s. 6d pr .b 51.55. per share 3 per 'int. SL per cent.l ir 30; . bd. j 41! per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. in per cent. 44. gt - 6d. per cent. :19s. al. dr be. 11. ss. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. se. s , per cent. 63 2 per cent. 4s. bper cent. 10% per cent at. P percent. 6 per sent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. Cper cent. per cent. per sent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent. Ills per share Its. per share JO per cent. per cent. 16s. 1/. ss. U. 7s. 51. and bs. 4341. and bs. per cent. I cent. 10/. 101. per sh 153 per sh 21. 6 Per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 pa cent. per cent. 31. Q[. 10s. 2!. 19s. 2L 10s. II per cent. 44 164. 11. 14s. les. per sh IL 4s. per cent. ss. per sh. SiYL . perch le per cent 3i per cent. 3L ss. per sh 11341. per A. Ns. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1%1. per sh 101. per sh. 11. 14s. 31. per share . Els4d per sh 2Ll7s. pr s 1 /131 per st U. ss. ISt u I i'.. iod. 16 per cent pee cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL 11. SI. . h. 6d. t:ioe. JOPe;Cent. 101 . Per all. 11. 104 perch. IL 4a. IL 15a. (per cent. bper ccnt. Apo. and/ 146 d. bs. epee cent. 'Oyez cent. ag per cent Sper cent LIST or 6 per cent. 6 per cent. per cent. I_3 . per cent per cent. per cent. *par cent. 6 per cent. ! per cent, per cent. kite cent. e's Per c,nt. per cent. 5 per cent .co For cent. fa 4 6 per cent Ler ceu C Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch-av Basingstoke Breckneck & Abergay Birmingham, 1-16th s h Do. and Liverp. Jura Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Derhy........". . ......... Danube andAlayn e Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and C1yde......... Grand Junction ..... Grand Union .............. Grand Surrey Grand Western........- Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ..... Kennet zod AVOH ...av Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester _ Leicester & Northamp. Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford ..............«,..,.. Peak Forest ,av Regent's (or Landon).. Rochdale av Shropshire ................. Somerset Coal De. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury ....... Stourbridge ........ Stratford-on-Avon...ay Swansea--.. ....... Severn & Wye & Rail Trent & Mersey, sb Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Rirming. Warwick and Naptou Worcester & Binning Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach ......... Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial ....... East and West India London ........ ....... Ditto Bonds Bristol ...... av Do. B nds, var. amounts St. Katharine. ..... Ditto Bonds...—. Ditto B , nds Southampton ......«.« Bridges Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 734 pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. 01'84 Ditto New ditto ef7l. Ditto VauxhalL av Assurances. Albion. ........ ..... Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life European Life ....... Ditto New Freemasons ....... Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire......... Imperial Fi►e Ditto Life Indemnity Marine-- Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Life Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint BM Banks Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial et London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New........... London Joint Stock Metr0p01itan............ Provincial of Ireland, Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Engind Ditto New Gloucestershire Union of Australia Union of London...— Gaslight ds. Coke Bath ...... ......... British ........... Ditto Provkicial Birmingham Birieing. & Staffordsh Bristol Brighten Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New..... Equitable...—. ......... Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent ....... Phoenix Rateliff South Metropolitan United General Chartered Ditto New Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction av Rent Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex......av Yrk BuldgCo.Les Prep Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ..... „ Chester and Holyhead Eastern Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junctiot,.._ Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ......- ..... Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... Lancaster and Carlisle Leath and Selbv Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Hall-Shares London and Brighton_ Ditto Loan Notes London and Bl , ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Dittouarter-Shares Th ird5........., London Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming MidlanJ Cougties North British _ _ Norwi h & BranTOW" , Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 51. die Paris and Orleans, Parii and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lark and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.s/. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. U. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iroa Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobra Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. rd. p.m General Mining Hibernian ......... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican . ............ Mining Co. of Ireland„ Real del Monte, Un reg Ditto Loan Notes Ithymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Max., iss EL pm Ditto Scrip Ditto New Serri s ..:::: Literary. Londn,with Sio.Ticket London University .. Russell ............ King's College..„„ Vliscellaneibus. Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. I/. Zia and S. American New Brunswick ,Land! New Zealand & Orien. 5t earn Royal Mail Stearn Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land - 200 50 0 20 0 SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICE';. SEPT. 2, 1844. Bank of SoaCiand I Royal Bank ......... British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgovi Union Bank Western Bank Central Et. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot'. Edinburgh Lilo Insur. , Scottls Union In@ar Standay Lift. Insur Didkeith Railway Edits. and Glad. Railwv ' (Haag. and (Iron. IJundee4ntl ArkPr I ~ ---- I icTesrTE received TRADE. •I since our last N SA - 176 The BA publication 169 :' from all parts abroad w ith 2'26 a) have been important, and 11 genera y of a character ot7 ;7% very satisfactory, inasmuch from 23 present appear -10 0 23 _ * an t es we may expect a continued good ex p or t de -0 1r o o 1214 !nand for manufactured goods, with a better chance 1 ° 0 ' 0 25 1 i of remuneration to the shipper than for a considerable io o 0 s% 12 10 0 is , time past. 10 o As. In the import trade we can notice no improvement 2 1 a 0 e i 4% have to 5o 50 ; generally, and once more we areport a very 5° 00 s " ' gloomy market for cotton. The accounts from 25 0 9 0 27 i 12 1 4 45 0 % America, in reference to the crop, are so univer- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOB r..—The war journals of • Paris are again attei. - .pt:ly: up an excitement. Oa Ttit3d ,y .. I .l;s6ager published a criapatch ffom °LA-. heite, confirming the report, which had ali easy reached England, of another conflict having taken place between the French and the natives at Otaheite; and stating that the Governor, Bruat, had attacked the natives to the number of 3,000, who had en trenched themselves at Mahabana, and had three pieces of artillery. The redoubts were carried by the bayonet, the cannon spiked, the works destroyed, and the colours, arms, and ammunition captured. The natives had 102 men killed, says the dispatch, but the French had two officers killed and 52 men wounded. Now, considering that the natives were attacked by the French, and that, upon the admission of their own Government, the French authorities at Otaheite had un righteously usurped dominion over the poor natives, who were but defending their rights and those of their legitimate sovereign, we should have thought that the blood of the 102 men who were killed would be justly imputable to the French; and that some regret would have been expressed at a calamity arising out of an invasion of rights already censured by the French Government. No tear of regret, however, is shed in France for the poor slaughtered natives ; but, on the contrary, the Opposition journals in Paris call for vengeance upon Mr. Pritchard, and the English Govern ment, for the French blood that was shed in this con flict. The flagrant injustice of such imputations is manifest. In the first place, Mr. Pritchard was not at Otaheite; and the conflict shows that the natives were not, as the French have pretended, roused from a willing obedience to their invaders by his presence and exhortations. It shows that, although but par tially civilised, they have the consciousness of right and the sense of injury. The expulsion of Mr. Pritchard, whatever influence he may have had over them when at Otaheite, did not suffice to extinguish the feeling of independence and duty. The presence of Mr. Pritchard was not necessary for them to feel that their rights had been violated and their Sovereign outraged. They required no other counsel than their wrongs--no other stimulus than their indignation ; but it must never be forgotten, that whilst they were resisting the agents of France, France her self had repudiated those agents as having com mitted a gross violation of right and humanity. The resistance, then, was a sacred duty—the attack was an act of brutal injustice. M. Bruat and his officers certainly were not aware that the assump tion of sovereignty by Admiral Dupetit Thouars had been disavowed; and, as individuals per forming what they considered to be an act of duty, they may not be held personally responsible for the lives that they have destroyed. But their own Government has admitted that the assumption of the power under which these massacres were performed was an unrighteous one ; and the least that could have been expected from the French press, was an expression of regret for the lives that had been sacrificed by the French force in Otaheite. But, far from finding such expressions in the French journals, we meet with furious attacks upon Mr. Pritchard, the English, and M. Guizot. The Courrier Francais and the National call for re venge ; and assert that the blood of the French which has been shed at Otaheite must fall upon the head of Mr. Pritchard, and on that of M. Guizot, for having disavowed the act of the French Admiral. The National on this occasion uses language of the greatest violence ; it calls down public execration upon M. Guizot, and excites the navy to rebel against the Government for having censured the conduct of Admiral Dupetit Thouars and M. d'Aubigny. A more atrocious and libellous article than that of the National we never read ; and if it be not prosecuted by the Government for its sedition, it can only be because M. Guizot fears that an impartial and honest jury is not to be found to secure a con viction ; in which case we can only pity the friends of order in France, at being thus exposed to the un bridled violence of political incendiarism. The Courrier Francais is little less violent than the National. It denounces M. Guizot to the Chamber of Deputies ; and say that if justice be not done by it upon him, the country will do itself justice upon the Chamber ; which means nothing less than that the mob will get the upper hand of the representatives of the people. The Constitutionizel exhausts most of its fury upon Mr. Pritchard. It is so much out of breath with calling for vengeance upon his head for the shedding of French blood, that it is comparatively lenient towards M. Guizot. STANDARD.—According to the statement of the Moniteur, the French Government has .received intelligence of a sharp skirmish between the natives of Otaheite and the French force on the island. In this engagement, which occurred on the 17th of April, the native's are said to have lost in killed 102 ; the French, two officers killed, and 52 men wounded. The French, though greatly inferior in number, 441 to 3,000 (the natives being also entrenched) were completely successful. What, however, is to be the fruit of this success is left to conjecture, The use which the war journals of Paris would make of the event is, indeed, sufficiently manifest, but reasonable men will expect something more than a topic of railing and an occasion of quarrel as the equivalent for so much bloodshed ; but what that solid equivalent can be, we are at a loss to conceive. Otaheite, in absolute sovereignty and cordial obedience, would be perfectly useless to any European power, certainly not less useless to France than to any other; how much worse than useless then must be the protectorate of a people constantly " straining upon the bit" and seizing every opportunity to indulge a hostile and vindictive feeling. This most silly war is deplorable enough without making it worse than it is; but we must remonstrate with the Paris journals against the imputation of the war to Mr. Pritchard or any other Englishman ; the immediate cause of hostilities has been an act of usurpation, acknowledged by France, and seen by all the world to be such ' • but an act of usurpation has always been admitted as an adequate casus belli, and we therefore need not look beyond M. Dupetit Thouars for the party responsible for the French and native blood shed in April, with which Mr. Pritchard has had no more to do than his accusers in the National, Courrier Francais, and Reforme. Our opinion of Mr. Pritchard—an opinion however formed rather from what we have seen of his exhi bition in this country, than from any report of his conduct in the kingdom of Queen Pomare—is, that he is an indiscreet and perhaps an ambitious man. It is a common calamity, indeed, that how pure soever may be the first stage of religious mis sions, ambition always infects the second and later stages But whatever Mr. Pritchard is, it is certain that neither he nor Queen Pomare sought the French people, but, on the other hand were sought out by French officers when in perfect peace vk ith all the world, and anxious only to maintain peace ; a consideration which candid Frenchmen will admit to be of some weight when the consequences of the initiative taken by France are to be appreciated. Mr. Pritchard may have spoken with patriotic exaggera tion of the promptitude of his own country in aiding all who suffer from oppression; and possibly the simple credulity of the natives to whom he spoke may, in their hopes, have exaggerated even upon his exaggerations. We may concede all this, because it is obvious that if no pretext by oppression had been given, the utmost extravagance of promise on Mr. Pritchard's part, though aided by all imaginable credulity on the side of the natives, would be harmless. The ori ginal wrong-doer in such cases i 3 prima fade the only party responsible for consequences. It may happen that his antagonist, by retaliating with a greater and a disproportionate injury (this hap pened to us in China), shall relieve the original wrong- doer of his prima facie responsibility ; but nothing of the kind can be alleged against Mr. Pritchard; for since M. Dupetit Thouars usurped the sovereignty of the kingdom of Queen Pomare, Mr. Pritchard has done no thing to give offence or to cause mischief. It gives us no pleasure to find our French neighbours in the wrong—quite the reverse ; we heartily wish them quietly and honourably out of this Otaheite business ; but we confess that we do not at present see by what paths they are to escape, even if we could suppose great Britain and all British inte rests sunk in the Pacific to facilitate an arrange ment. To maintain Otaheite by force is out of the question. Otaheite is one of ten thousand islands— all more or less connected, directly or mediately, by relations of friendship or hostility ; the Euro pean Power that would establish a permanent settlement in one of these islands must contem plate the conquest, aye, and the garrisoning too, of the whole of Polynesia—a sufficient explanation, by the way, of the grounds upon which Great Britain declined the protectorate so rashly sought by France. What, then, is France to do in the matter? Perhaps the most manly and prudent course were to back out of it. We are not conscious that England has sus- tained any dishonour in leaving the Affghans to the punishment of their own anarchy, and the protection of their mountains. Why might not France, with as good a gr ace , l eave t h e O ta h e i tans to t h e pun i s h ment O heir o wn ru d e manners, an d t h e protect i on o f t t heir great remoteness and other local circumstances ? s. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 104 10s. 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 50 . T) 0 50 0 0 63 2 9 50 0 0 169 0 0 70 II 9 500 0 0 2500 100 0 0 100 • 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 0 2000 2000 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 • 0 100 0 • 200 0 0 40 • 0 60 - 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 21, 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 • 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 39 0 0 100 0 0 93 14 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 2U 6 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 • 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 u 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 tr 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 24) 0 0 5000 25 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 5000 5 0 0 IL 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 5 - 0 4 2 10 0 10 • 0 5 o 0 250 • 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 30 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 • 0 10 • 0 5 13 0 Id 0 0 1 0 0 12 10 • 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 I 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 20 0 25 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 • 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 • 0 10 0 0 14 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 .... 0 0 0 Pi 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 3t 5 0 28 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 48 9 0 l 0 71 0 25 0 0 100 e 0 100 o 0 70 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 • • 50 0 0 12 0 • i 50 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 3.2 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 6 40 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 4 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 li2o 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 Is e 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 35 25 20 100 2d O 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 31 0 t 10 0 100 • V 25 0 1 . ISO 0 0 21 0 0 25 • 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 =0 I 0 13 0 • 55 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 I 50 0 0 10 10 • 10 0 0 3 0 • 0 • 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 • 2500 O 0 O ) O 0 O 0 O 0 q 0 00 O 0 O 6 50 - 0 - 9 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 50 • 0 10 • 0 40 0 0 - 2 10 0 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 0 35 10 0 3t 10 0 14 o o 1 le o 5 0 0 3 0 • 7 0 0 75 0 0 2.3 0 0 50 0 0 00 00 00 100 0 Paid. X a. ii. 'no 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 -- o 0 A 113 aid Price. 15"7 3"' Ei6 ;37 11*g 101% iiiq 3 54 24;<, 21% 120 P9)4 72% 19 1834 - eq 10% 61( 5% 400 11.135. 4934 6. 2 188 1534 27 4514 40d. 21s. 23% 44U 17 1614 23 9)4 25 Et 3 12 71N 102 79 4% 6 % 11 1I 1134 24A 36 103 503 i 4% 118 7 5 15 J4 %' II 1 4 0 1 44, 28 N I ds pin 1 4 I 4 9E, 20 TFIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBEI 2O, 1844. sally in favour of the largest yield that has ever been produced, that speculation has not been thought of, and manufacturers, pressed by an eager desire to realise on the part of holdeis, have made their purchases this week at prices al-Aays and occasionally id. per lb. below the rates current a fortnight ago, whilst it may still be quoted as a re markable fact, that the spinners have taken less from this market for consumption this year, than they did during the corresponding period in 1843. It can only be supposed that more labour and less raw material is now employed than was required for the heavy ma nufactures then produced. The West India news is not of a very agreeable nature. The planters had not recovered from the discouragement occasioned by the measures in refer ence to their produce passed in the last session. Here the prospect for them is improving, as sugar is daily becoming more valuable now that the first impulses have given way to calm reflection, and buyers and sellers both discover that they cannot, all at once, be overwhelmed with an import of foreign produce.— Liverpool Mercury. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 18, 1844. Ordnance Medical Department—Temporary Assistant Surgeon J. M. S. Fogo to be Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 13. 'VAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 20. 7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant D. J. Dickinson to be Adjutant, vice Dobbie, deceased, Sept. 20. 30th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Heard to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major J. Poynts, who re tires upon full pay ; Ensign A. Lowry to be Lieutenant, vice Heard ; C. Molyneux, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lowry, Sept. 20. 35th Foot—Ensign A. Tisdall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harding, who retires ; A. W. Ord, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tisdall, Sept. 20. 37th Foot—Lieut. C. F. Shum to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Brevet Major Lord Keane, who retires ; En sign T. Hawley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shum ; J. H. Wyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hawley, Sept. 20. 41st Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant J. Gillan to be Quartermaster, vice R. Harker, who retires upon half pay, Sept. 20. 60th Foot—Lieutenant J. Douglas to be Captain, by purchase, vice Townsend, who retires ; Second Lieut. J. Warburton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Douglas ; William Hetherington, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warburton, Sept. 20. 63d Foot—Major A. C. Pole to be Lieutenant. Colonel without purchase, vice Logan deceased ; Captain A. G. Sedley to be Major, vice Ale ; Lieutenant H. W. Coultman, to be Captain, vice Sedley ; Ensign C. H. Bell, to be Lieutenant, vice Coultman, Sept. 2 ; Ser geant-Major H. White, to be Ensign, vice Bell, Sept. 20. MEMORANDUM.—The exchange of Captain Pryce Clark, from the 54th to half-pay Unattached, on the 20th September, 1839, is without the difference, he hav ing repaid, to the credit of the public, the sum he re ceived. BANKRUPTS. FRANCIS SHOTTER, grocer, Portsea, to surrender Oct. 10, and Nov. 7, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Balls, Devonshire-square, London. WILLIAM COLLIER, grocer, Cambridge, Oct. 10, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at half•past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, official as signee ; Ashurst, Cheapside, London ; Hunt, Cambridge. FRANCIS BATES, linendraper, Shoreditch, Oct. 11, at eleven, and Now. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Moger, Paternoster-row. BENJAMIN NICOLL, tailor,Rufford's- row, Islington, Oct. 11, at half-past two, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane ; Fisher, Bucklersbury. THOMAS MARSH, miller, St. Martin's-hill, Canter bury, Oct. 5, at eleven, and Nov. 7, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall s treet ; Smith, Southampton-buildings, London ; Walker, Canterbury. WILLIAM SCOVELL, jun., brick-maker, Chilworth, Southampton, Sept. 30 and Nov. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Paterson, Bouverie-street, -Fleet-street. EDWARD BURNETT, merchant, Riches-court, Lime. street, City, Sept. 28, at one, and Nov. 6, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside. JOHN GRUNDY, woollen manufacturer, Tottington Lower-end, Lancashire, Oct. 4, at twelve, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester ; Clarke, Metcalfe, and Gray, Lincol's Inn-fields, London ; Grundy and Co., Bury, Lancashire. JOHN BALL and WILLIAM BALL, silk manu facturers, Sutton, Cheshire, Oct. 8 and 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee ; Meredith and Reeve, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, Lon don ; Parrott, Macclesfield. JOHN HIGHAM, grocer, Liverpool, Sept. 30, at eleven, and Oct. 31, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Corn - thwaite and Adams, Doctors'-commons, London; Fisher and Stone, Liverpool. ADAM PATTERSON, livery stable-keeper, Liver pool, Oct. 4 and 31, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Moss, Liverpool; Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London. ISAAC ALDERSON, worsted spinner, Warley, York shire, Oct. 9, and 23, at eleven, at the Leeds Distric Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Jaques and Ed. wards, Ely place, London; G. Edwards, Halifax; Cron. helm, Leeds. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Sept. 17, 1844, is 325. 11d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 3i Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp 25 85 Hamburgh M.B. 1313/ Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine, l2l LNGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice 47 Naples 39 Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres — NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 4 111 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 361 Cadiz 36 Barcelona 36 Seville MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 20.) SUGAR.—For West India Muscovado Sugar there has been a falling off in the demand this week. The grocers have purchased most descriptions sparingly, and the demand for refining purposes has been small. To-day importers of West India Sugar were desirous to realise, and submitting to a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt for grey, common, midling, yellow, and brown sorts, tempted grocers and refiners to purchase largely, and the sales reached 650 hhds ; good and fine yellow kinds, however, still support former rates. The total purchases for the week are 2,050 hhds and trcs. REFINED.—Prices have rated firm for all descriptions of Refined Goods since this day week. The home trade have purchased extensively, paying 72s 6d for brown melting lumps, 73s to 73s 6d for brown grocery, 74s 6d to 76s for standard lumps, 748 to 78s for Tittiers, 79s to 83e for fine ditto, 74s 6d to 84s for Hambro Loaves, Bss to 90s for double ditto, and 71s to 73s per cwt for wet lumps. To day the refiners could not obtain higher rates for relined Sugar, but at former terms the home trade pur chased freely ; indeed, the market is bare of goods. Bonded Crushed is much wanted, and prices are firm at 27s 3d to 27s 6d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a large public sale of 9,697 bags. The whole found purchasers, but at a decline, on the rates of the last auction, of 6d to is per cwt for brown, common yellow, and refining sorts but middling, good, and fine yellow fetched full prices ; fine grey sold sold at 58s to 60s, good 56s to 575, mid 53s tid to 54s 6d, low 52s to 53s ; low brown 42s to 455, mid 47s 6d to 48s 6d, good and fine 50s to 52s 6cl; low yellow 53s to 548 6d, mid 55s to 56s 6d, good mid 57s to 58s, good 58s 6d to 59s 6d, fine 60s to 62s ; very fine Barbadoes kind 63s to 65s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—With Bengal Sugar the market has been abundantly supplied this week. The trade, how ever, have purchased freely, and the parcels offered at auction, amounting to 9,253 bags, were nearly all dis posed of—strong yellow, middling, good and fine white fetched fully former rates, but all inferior kinds went at a reduction on last week's prices of 6d to Is per cwt. Fine strong bright yellow Dobah kind sold at 65s 6d to 665, good 643 to 64s 6d, middling and good middling 61s to 63s 6d, damp 63s to 63s Gd, washed 60s to 62s 6d, false packed 66a very fine sound white 68s 6d to 7s, fine 64s to 58s, good 62s to 63s 6d, middling 60s 6d to Gls 6d, low 58s 6d to 59s 9d, damp 60s to 67s 6d, washed 59s to 61s 6d, damp brown 44s to 48s, very low 40s to 425, middling dry grey 56s to 56s 6d, low 54s 6d to 555, good middling 57s to 57s 6d, damp 55s 6d to 56s 6d, washed 50s to 54s 6d, false packed 53s to 555, soft middling yellow 54s to 555, good mid dling 55s Gd to 57s sd, low 53s to 525, damp and washed Sls Gd to 56s 6d, false packed 50s to 535, drainage da maged 51s 6d to 54s 6d per cwt—a fair proportion con sisted of the better qualities. For Madras Sugar prices are sustained, and a fair demand exists for the better qualities. Of Foreign East India Sugar none has been brought to public sale, and privately their is not much on offer. Java has fetched lull prices. The market is still without a supply of Siam. FOREIGN.—BraziI has been in excellent request pri vately, and previous rates are fully supported. Two floating cargoes of Bahia have been sold for near ports —one at 18s 3d for brown, and the other at 22s 6d for white and 18s for brown. The demand has increased for yellow Havannah, and importers have obtained prices they could not previously get. For white there has been a better demand, and prices rule firm ; 300 boxes of good quality have been disposed of at 30s per cwt. COFFEE—West India has met with little attention this week, some holders have been desirous to reduce their stocks:, and by private treaty cheap purchases have been made. This afternoon the large quanty of 485 bales, Mocha were offered at public sale, but the whole was taken in 2s to 3s per cwt !above the value. viz. mid even greenish clean garbled at ! The driver of a Hampton omnibus, w h o h a d b een 725, fine ord green 655, broken yellowish 565, sound pea summoned, pleaded that the public convenience abso berry 84s, 10 bales were, however, sold at 69s 6d for i lutely required that a pause of a few minutes should r'aini , ,h, 43s for tria7e. and Pls' f'+- r•eft Lei ry. ' fli : , 1,4 ioad , • 1 L ta. iwokiilt - F-0%.4s '‘ , ll,n !.4'uifi,_ ur co :iil:.; "" nearl y " 11 ' front such a di-tatlce. - It was :fflpos'sible to collect C ta t k .y e tin in s9 a 2 t b s a u g ti s . w rL e s —br g ° o u u ll d h o t rd fo p r a w i a e rd ;ather mixed at . 575, low mid bold palish colory Plantation kind 745, but 'Passengers and luggage in one minute, and ther e f ore he :l did not think that the ten minutes he took a t th e a few lots were sold—fine ord bold pale colory at 6Gs to 675, pea berry 80s, and triage 50s ;28 bags Bengal, at booking-office was such an offence as the Act o f Par the 4d duty, sound was taken in at 57s for pale rather liament contemplated. broken, but sea damagen sold at 51s 6d, ditto and re- Mr. MALTBY could not excuse the fine in this in packed 45s per cwt. Of Rio, 300 bags of of very good stance, and on the grounds urged, because the Act of ord sold privately at 32s 6d per cwt. Parliament made no exceptions in favour of any par- TEA.—There has generally not been so much busi- titular class of public vehicles. ness transacted in the Tea market as of late ; the better MARYLEBONE. descriptions are held with firmness, but more desire has Yesterday, Richard Pates, servant to Mr. Phillips, been shown to sell all common kinds : none has surgeon, in Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, was been offered at auction. The lower sorts of Congou charged before Mr. Rawlinson on a warrant, with have been taken sparingly, and the prices accepted Navin ng committed an assault of ' a most atrocious na are rather under those previously quoted, common selling at 10d to lOid, good common Ild to is tore upon William Donaldson. per lb, but the better kinds have been in good Complainant, who is a tailor, living at No. 9, demand, and former prices are fully supported. Northumberland-street, New-road, deposed that on To-day there was a good deal of business transacted In Tuesday last he went toßutler's beer shop, in Notting the better qualities of new green Tea. Hyson and Im- ham-street, taking with him a waistcoat which he had perial, at from 2s 9d to 3s 3d per lb, were the most in re- made for defendant, who tried it on. As one of the quest. Fine and good Congou are in request at full rates, buttons required to be moved, complainant took it home and made the necessary a lt era ti ons; h e re t urne d but the lower kinds remain dull of sale a t the d,cht e previously noticed. with the waistcoat to the beer shop, and waited there SPICES.—There has been no public sale of Black some hours in the expectation of bein paid for the ar ticle which defend th d its bet b Pepper this week. This afternoon at public sale 63 an a , upon g brow ht back, casks 53 boxes of Jamaica Ginger - were all sold, but at a decline on former rates of 5s to lOs per cwt, and w e nt at put into his pocket. Compl a i nan t a t l eng th as k e d f or 3/. 15s to 101. 2s per cwt for low to fine quality. a settlement, when defendant, who was helping him- RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum is still self to oisters outside of the door, called him a attracting attention, and the transactions have been to " wretch, ' and threw a shell in his face. He held up a large extent this week, the rates previously established his arm, and in doing so, accidentally knocked off are fully sustained. Leewards have met with free pur- the h a t o f defendant, who thrust the oyster knife chasers ; the quantity sold has been 200 puns, at 2s 5d to against his side with such force as to cause him to 2s 54d proof, and good brown ditto 2s 6d per gallon. 1)e- fall to the ground ; he jumped up, exclaiming that he merara at 3s 3d to 3s 6d for good and fine strong. was stabbed, but fortunately the instrument had not Calcutta sold at 2s 3d to 2s 3id per gallon, proof. injured him. It had, however, from the force with Brandy of common quality is much wanted at 2s lld to 3s 3d per gallen. Cognac best brands of the vintage of which the lunge at him w a s m a d e , p er f ora t e d hi s and passed nearly through a leather case, 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; clothing, 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns containing various papers, &c., which he had in the 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd, and mid to g oo d left side pocket of his coat. H e t oo k p ossess i on o f mid 3s 4d to 4s per gallon. Geneva is not so much the knife, and the landlord, in order to prevent any wanted for shipping, is 10d is the value : of fine fit for thing further of an unpleasant nature occurring, ad duty prices are steady at 2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Corn vised him to go up stairs, which he did. The land- Spirits remain at los 4d per gallon, cash. lord also took home the defendant, who soon after- MOLASSES.—lmporters of West India have been more wards came back and offered a sovereign to any one inclined to realise this week on account of the heavy who would produce complainant, at the same time arrivals, but submitting to rather lower rates buyers stating that if he could get at him he would tear him have been induced to purchase more f ree ly, an d th e large quantity of 400 puns sold at 20s to 24s per cwt for limb from limb. H e subsequently went to com - low to good quality. In East India there has been plainant's house, and aft e r us i ng muc h a b us i ve lan scarcely anything done, and parcels could only be dis- guage to Mrs. Donalds on , ex p resse d a w i s h th a t th e posed of but at low rates. knife had been two inches longer. He was much the CocoA.—For West India prices remain firm ; none worse for drink. has been offered at auction, and little is to be purchased Other witnesses having spoken to the same facts, privately, as the stock is nearly all in second hands ; Mr. RAWLINSON said it was a most atrocious case, several inquiries have prevailed. Of Foreign, some and that he s h ou ld ma k e t h e strongest example of de parcels have been disposed of at very full rates ; there fendant that h e cou ld . H e was fi ned 51., and, i n is little offering for sale. d e f au lt o f payment, two months' imprisonment. RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice met with more attention, The penalty was aid. and the parcels disposed of privately were at stiffer rates; p sales made at Ilstol ls 6d for middling and good A CLERKEIV WELL, middling white. Java and Madras were in increased powerful yo ung man , s i x f ee t hi g h, was c h arge d request at the rates previous quoted. with endeavouring to enter the Clerkenwell Police- FRUlT—There are few purchasers of currants, and the station, and also with a violent assault on police market has a dull appearance. Some holders are ready constable 146 G. 1 sellers at 32s to 42s for Zante and Cephalonia, and 45s The prisoner, who affected to be deaf and dumb, 1 to 48s per cwt for Patras. Other sorts of fruit con- refused to give any name or address. tinue in limited request at present, except for new Va- The constable, the upper part of whose dress was much torn, deposed that on th e p rev i ous n i g ht th e lentias, which are much inquired for, and some parcels are daily expected to arrive. prisoner came to the door of the Police-station and SALTPETRE.—There are few purchasers of Rough, endeavoured to force his way in. .Witness told him and small parcels of Calcutta have been disposed of at 23s 6d to 24s for common, 24s 6d to 25s for middling, to go away, but he placed himself directly in the door 25s 6d to 26s for good, a nd 26s 6d to 27s per cwt for way, so that nobody could pass. Witness remon fine. English refined is not much wanted, and 29s to strafed with him, but he said, in plain English, that he 29s 6d per cwt is the value. • would not leave. Witness then took him into custody. INDIGO—The market is firm for East India, but there He was lying there for two hours. has beeu only a limited business transacted this week to Mr. COMBS—Then he is not deaf and dumb? supply either home or ex p el s orders. For the quarterly Two or three constables Caine forward and deposed sale the quantity declared is 12,805 chests, and which that they had heard the prisoner speak fluently on a quantity is not likely to be much increased. For former occasion, when he was convicted of an offence. Spanish prices remain firm. A fair demand exists; The prisoner was all this while making all sorts of there is little in the market. The deliveries of East India gestures and grimaces, conveying by signs that he are still large. OlLS.—There has been a much better demand fur Li n - could not hear a word. seed Oil this week, parcels having been disposed of on The complainant added that the prisoner refused to the spot at 24s to 24s 3d per cwt. In Rape Oil the ope- leave the cell on that morning. Witness was about rations are upon a more extended scale ; pale at 36s to collar him, when the prisoner darted upon him, to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt ; there and knocked him down in a moment. A violent is not a large quantity being produced. Cocoa Nut Oil struggle took place between them on the floor of the at 28s to 30s per cwt. Palm Oil, fine at 27s to 27s Gd cell ; the prisoner, after tearing open the breast of his per cwt. Olive at 44/ to 451 for Gallipoli, and coat thrust his hand up between his leathern collar 41/ to 43/ for Spanish. Barbary 39/ to 40/ is the and his throat ; fearing he would be strangled, he value. Cod Oil 33/ 15s to 34/ per tun. Other de- shouted for assistance, and 41 G came, who dragged scriptions of common Fish Oils have brought full rates, the prisoner away. The prisoner, however, again at -34/ lOs to 351 for pale Seal, and 27/ lOs to 321 per tuu tacked him, striking him severely on the lower part for Southern. Sperm, 85/ to 861 per tun is :the val ue o f fine British. Although prices rule high, the trade are of the abdomen, so as to cause him great pai n . He disposed to operate largely. This afternoon at public was at length secured by the combined exertions of sale 60 tuns Southern Oil were partly sold at 30110 s to several constables. 3215 s ;15 tons Cocoa Nut Oil taken in at 26115 s to 27/ Mr. COMBS (to the prisoner)—What have you to per ton., say ?—The prisoner, by signs, indicated that he was TALLOW.—Prices have suffered no further decline for deaf an dumb. Russian Tallow this week, but the market has been in a Mr. CoMBE—Lay aside your nonsense, for I don't tranquil state. The small purchases made have been at believe a word of it. 41s to 41s 3d for old, and at 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt for The prisoner was still silent. new P Y Candle. Town Tallow at 41s per ewt, net Mr. COMBS—You must go to the H ouse o f Correc cas duced. This afternoon at p u bli c sa l e 365 . There is only a moderate quant it pipes being pro ds t tion for fourteen days, without fine. of South American Tallow w e r e so ld a t 34 s Gd to 40s The prisoner showed he heard that, for he shook for very low to fine. his head threateningly at the magistrate, and walked off to the cell. CENTRAL CILLMINAL COURT. UNION•HALL. OLD COURT. William Robinson, 23, sailor, was indicted for cutting and wounding John Gay Walters, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Crouch conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Horry defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor is an omnibus driver at Woolwich, and on the night of Sunday, the Ist of Steptember, there was a fight and squabble at that place, and upon the prosecutor interfering and endeavouring to take away his friend who was en gaged in the disturbance, the prisoner stabbed him in two or three places. There did not appear to be any malicious feeling entertained by the prisoner towards the prosecutor, but the affair was evidently the result of a drunken disturbance. A respectable-looking elderly female, named Caro line Powell, was placed at the bar, charged with attempting to cut her husband's throat with a table knife. Complainant, a diminutive sort of a personage, informed the magistrate he was living on a private income, at 14, Bowling-green-lane, Kennington. The prisoner had been married to him fourteen years, and within these last four months had been in the habit of coming home at various hours of the night in a state of intoxication, and not only breaking everything she could lay her hunch on, but threate n i ng hi s an d the children's lives. On the previous night she came home in a state of intoxication, and began to abuse him. She also said she was determined to have his life that night ; at the same time she pulled a table knife from under her shawl, and made an attempt to cut his throat. In warding off the knife he received a cut across his right hand. He then succeeded in reaching the door, when he called police; fortunately a constable was passing at the time, or she would have murdered him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault, and he was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for your calendar months. William Henry New was indi c t e d f or f e l on i ous l y cutting and wounding his wife, Sarah N ew , with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Payne defended the prisoner. The circumstances under which the charge was made against the prisoner have appeare d w i t hi n t h e last few days. The prisoner and hi s w if e , it w ill b e remembered, resided at Richmond, and on the 22d of August they had a dispute whi c h l e d to the pr i soner striking the prosecutrix on the shoulder with a knife. The injury inflicted was not of a very serious cha racter, and according to the admission of the prose cutrix, she had thrown a cup full of hot tea in his face before he acted towards her in the way d escr ib e d. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Police-constable 82 L stated that he found the pri soner very much excited. She was flourishing a knife, and exclaimed that she would cut her husband's throat and murder his children. He took the knife from her, and conveyed her to the station-house. In answer to the charge the prisoner said that her husband received upwards of 1,0001. from her when they were married, which he said he intended to em bark in his own business, that of a watchmaker ; in stead of which he had done nothing but spend her money in keeping his children in affluence. His family turned her out about two years ago, because she would not give them any more money. She had been so cruelly treated by them that she certainly did threaten to murder them. Mr. COTTINGHAM asked the husband whether it was true that he had received that money from her ? —He replied that he had, but she might live comfort able at home if she pleased. A New York paper advertises that the owner of the perpetual motion, lately exhibiting at Boston, has absconded without paying the man who turned the crank in the cellar POLICE INTELLIGENCE. IifARL Walkerßoß O w b rought Gll S T r REET. Yesterday Alfred g ht before Mr. Hardwicke for final examination, i n re f erence to a charge of having been concerned in stealing nearly 5001. in money, and some other valuables, the pro perty of Mrs. Tarbox, the housekeeper, from the resi dence of the Earl of Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square. The whole circumstances of the robbery, and the grounds of suspicion against the prisoner, who was employed in the house in the capacity of bug de stroyer, have already been detailed in the reports of the prisoner's previous examinations. Inspector Pearce, of the A division, who has been actively engaged in tracing out the property, and who had obtained such a clue to the whole affair as to in duce him to apply for more than one remand, yester day made such a communication to Mr. Hardwick as clearly showed that he had lost all hope at present of being able either to produce the property or to bring to punishment the perpetrators of the offence. Under these circumstances Mr. Harwick ordered Walker to be placed at the bar, and forthwith discharged him from custody. The accused has had more than one lucky escape. He has been tried at the Old Bailey for a robbery in the house of a lady in Macclesfield -square, and in other houses where he obtained jobs property has been missed. When the accused was first apprehended, the servant of Lady Thomond was present to put some questions to him relative to the loss of a cloak which had been missed during the time he was occu pied in cleansing the rooms in her Ladyship's house. In the course of these inquiries, the police ascer tained that very great facilities are afforded to persons who call themselves bug or rat destroyers, and whose characters are not ascertained, for obtaining admission into the houses of noblemen and gentlemen. These persons are generally allowed to have free access to every part of the house, and it . is believed that more than one serious robbery has had its origin in want of due caution. The police summoned a great number of omnibus drivers before Mr. Maltby and Mr. Hardwick, for causing an obstr uc ti on in the public streets by stop ping longer than necessary to set down or take up passengers. The defendants were mostly drivers of Kensington and Chelsea omnibuses, and the alleged obstruction arose from the practice of the drivers stopping before the White Horse Cellar and other booking offices for a few minutes, in order to ply for passengers. The police stated that the rivalry of the different omnibus companies produced a serious obstruction at the White Horse Cellar, as, sometimes, so many ofn nibuses were collected in the same place, stopping from ten to twenty minutes, as to render the road almost impassable. The defendants w ere a ll fi ne d in a small pena lty, with an intimation that the full penalty would be in flicted if the practice complained of was not put an ' end to. Mr. COTTINGIIAM - said that very likely some portion of her story was true ; he should, therefore, order her to find bail for her future good conduct for twelve months. THAMES POLICE. _ _ Yesterday John Bolton, a baker, was brought before Mr. 13allantine, charged under the Excise Act, the 7th and Bth George IV., cap. 53, with being in an unentered place where a private still was in ope ration. On Sunday morning last the prisoner complained ;0 a police-constable, named Beale, No. 25 K, that he had been robbed by his nephew, a boy aged ten years, of a half-sovereign, and the policeman accom panied the prisoner to his house, No. 45, Wells street, Poplar, where he carried on the business of a baker, and took the boy into custody. The lad con fessed that he had stolen the gold coin, and concealed it in a tan pit, where it was discovered by the police man. Soon afterwards Bolton's wife came to the station-house, and stated that her sister, Elizabeth Bayntun, the mother of the boy, who lodged in the house, had stolen a pewter pot, which she delivered to the police, and said there were several other pots and a great quantity of stolen property in the posses sion of her sister. In consequence of these repre sentations Beale returned to the house, in company with another policeman named Woodrow, No. 377 K, and found in Mrs. Bayntun's room at the top of the house in which were two young children, five pewter pots, which have not been owned, and some bladders which had been used in the conveyance of "jig stuff," the produce of private stills, and several stone bottles which had contained spirits, and another partially filled with liquor. This induced the officers to examine the house very carefully, and while coming down stairs they found a tub of wash in a state of fermentation ; it was covered over with sacks and a blanket, and contained thirty-six gallons. Beale remarked to Mrs. Bolton that she must have a still at work in the house, which she at first denied, but the officers being determined on making strict search, she said it was no use denying it any longer, and opened a room on the first floor, where astill and every necessary apparatus for carrying on illicit dis tillation on a large scale was discovered. The officers procured further assistance, and sent for Richard 'White, an inspector of Thames police and revenue officer, who seized the whole of the spirits, a hundred and fifty gallons of the wash, a copper still and worm, nineteen tubs of treacle, molasses, and other articles. The liquid in the still was warm at the time when White seized it. The illicit distillation, and the pre paration of the wash appeared to be principally car ried on in the apartments occupied by Bolton and his wife, but there was sufficient evidence to prove that Bayntun, the sister of Mrs. Bolton, ha a share in the business, and sl'e was convicted on Tuesday, and in default of paying a fine of 301., was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Her sister, Mrs. Bolton, pleaded her coverture, and that she was only acting under the control of her hus band, and she was acquitted. It turned out in the course of the inveqti9,ntion who es,:at).- , (i t.I)L: • ;- had cohabited with bon fur SOliie ii!. -e: past, that Bayntun's husband had been separated from her many years, and that Bolton stood in the double re lationship of father and uncle to the boy he had ac cused of robbing him, and his wife was very anxious to get rid of her rival by accusing her of the theft. The prisoner Bolton kept out of the way until yester day morning, when he returned to his home, and a policeman named Wykes, who saw him talking to his wife in the shop, entered and took him into custody. The Magistrate sentenced him to a pay a fine of 301., and in default of payment to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three calendar months. The prisoner was then removed from the dock and put into the witness-box to give exidence against William Bayntun, his nephew and reputed son, for stealing a half-sovereign. • Mr. 13ALLANTINE committed the prisoner for trial. LIEUT. PUDDICO3II3E—HIS "BRO THER OFFICERS"—THE PRESS. (From the Cork Examiner.) " Trial by Jury—the glorious bulwark of the sub ject's liberty !" has long been a cant in the mouths of unthinking and inconsiderate men, even of those who, by their own acts, make a mockery of their words, and a nullity of a great principle. How, or in what terms, can we allude to the reprehensible conduct of the brother officers of an unfortunate young man, who, as yet, has not been found guilty of any crime—who has not, as yet, been tried by a jury of his peers ? We confess we have not language strong enough to express our indignation at conduct so precipitate, so wanton, so cruel, and so unjust. An officer and a gentleman is invited to a ball—he goes there, amuses himself for the evening, and retires at a late hour. Some silver is missed; and, because, in a week after a female offers broken pieces of silver to a silversmith, and tells him that she had received it from this officer, and that the silversmith believes that he can discover the traces of a certain crest, or cer tain initials on the mutilated pie c es o f silver— therefore this officer is guilty of a base and pal try robbery—therefore he has violated every prin ciple which the gentleman and the man of honour should hold dear as his life—therefore he is guilty without judge or jury, save and except the rash judgment and unscrupulous verdict of his own brother officers! The brother officers of an accused man are the first to blacken him in the eyes of the world, by a damning manifesto, in which guilt is not only taken for granted, but positively asserted. We have published this extraordinary document before now, but we cannot avoid re-inserting this single paragraph, at once remarkable for blundering con tradiction and illegal accusation : " Lieut.-Colonel Burton and the officers of the bat talion of Royal Marines serving in Ireland, beg, indi vidually and collectively, to convey to Captain Warren the expression of their indignation at the reported con duct of one of their brother officers, Lieut. Puddicombe, for whose infamous violation of every principle of hos pitality and honour in Captain Warren's house, on a recent occasion, they blush with shame." Here, in the first place, they are indignant at the " reported conduct" of a brother officer ; and then they convict him, on the strength of mere report, of infamous violation of every principle of hospi tality and honour in Captain Warren's house, on a recent occasion." So then, if any man goes before a magistrate, and accuses Lieut.-Colonel Burton of picking a pocket, or stealing a spoon, or doing any act which every rational person ought to be sure he would not do, his own brother officers would be the very first to express their " indignation" at his " re ported conduct," and to denounce him as guilty and disgraced, before he had the benefit of a legal inquest. Mutat° nomine, the case is the same, whether the. ac cused be Lieut. Puddicombe or Lieut.-Col. Burton. But what injury has this document done to the accused ? It has done him the greatest and most grievous injury that any body of men could inflict upon a single individual—it has prejudiced the public against him, and, therefore, the minds of the jury who are to be selected from that public. This is an injury of the greatest magnitude. There is something radically wrong in our nature —a proneness to believe everything bad against our brother; and hence, the rapid acceptance of an evil report, or a foul accusation. We more readily believe in a man's guilt than in his innocence ; and the very fact of a man being accused of a crime, or standing at the bar of justice, charged with the commission of an offence, is in it self sufficient to array the whole prejudices of society against the accused. Was not this prejudice heavy enough against this unhappy gentleman, that his brother officers should fasten conviction on the public mind, and, of course, on the jury ? The fact is, that where ever one turns in this city, in passage, in cove, or for miles round, the cry is, " Oh, what a wretched man is Lieut. Puddicombe I—how could he commit so base an act ?—oh, he must be guilty—for otherwise how could he have come by the silver ?" If ever man were condemned before trial it is this unfortunate young man. The belief of his guilt is universal. And why not, when his brother officers have given the sanction of their belief, and their indignation, to the vulgar rage for false judgment? A very serious question arises from this studiously created prejudice—can this young man be safely tried in this city? Can he hope.for a fair trial ? Is he cer tain of an unbiased jury? From what we know of the present temper of the public mind, from commu nication with more than one hundred persons, we do say, that a trial in this city would be a risk. No matter how honourable twelve men are, no matter how sensible, how rational, how just they may be, preju dice will taint the judgment of the most honourable, the most sensible, the most rational, the most just. In our opinion, it would he far better if the accused were tried at the Fermoy Sessions, when the public feeling would have cooled down into dispassionate calmness, and when the evil influence of the document of his "brother officers" had been in some degree neutralised by time. Now only imagine the cruel injustice of the follow ing paragraph "It only remains for the Lieut.-Colonel and officers to intimate to Captain Warren their intention to see such measures immediately adopted as will remove Lieut. Puddicome from her Majesty's service; and the Lieut- Colonel and officers beg Captain Warren will have the kindness to allow them to make good the articles of plate that have been abstracted." So, before the accused is found guilty, he is to be regarded as guilty, and to be deprived of his commis sion—the means of his existence as a gentleman. We have one word to say to a certain por tion of the local press. For the miserable de sire of furnishing a topic of scandalous gossip to its readers, it has out-Heroded Herod--gone beyond the inconsiderateness and injustice of the " brother officers." Court-martial law is far different from the law of the land. Officers know but the former—a journalist is supposed not to be utterly ignorant of the latter. And yet, the accused has been stripped of his uniform, degraded, debased, found guilty, and held up to public scorn, by a thoughtless writer--all for the sake of appearing to know something of a matter publicly agitated. To our mind this conduct is disgraceful in the extreme, and worthy of the strongest indignation. 'What atonement can this journal make ? Ignorance is no plea for such folly and injustice. We say nothing about the guilt or innocence of the accused—that question is for a jury. Our motto is " fair play." , We conclude by publishing the following letter from the respected agent of the accused, and shall merely say that we fully concur in its tone and spirit : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER. " Sir,—Having read in the Constitution and Reporter newspapers of yesterday, a letter purporting to be from the 'Colonel and Officers of the Marine Force stationed at Spike Island," to Captain Warren, com menting in very strong langua ge on th e alleged mis conduct of their brother officer, Lieutenant Puddi combe, I trust you will give me space for one or two observations. I was called on yesterday to con duct that gentleman's defence at the approaching ses sions, when I hope he will establish his innocence, and vindicate his character as an officer and a gentleman. Until then his case ought not to have been pre-judged or prejudiced by such means. He has been advised, at present, not to notice what has been said, unconstitus tional and unfeeling as it appears. All, but the most ignorant, know that the maxim of our law, founded, as it is, on the purest principles of justice, is to pre sume every man innocent until he be found guilty by the proper tribunal of the country. I say this much to account for his present silence. He does expect that the time will shortly come, when he can both speak and act as the circumstances deserve.--I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, PHILIP 0 CONNELL. 37, South-mall, 13th Sept., 1844. ][. JADVERTISEMENT.] THE TUR N OF IFE !-CURE EXTRAORDINARY BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-A respectable woman, aged 47, named Graham, residing in Scotland-road, Liverpool, was in the most critical and dangerous state for nine months, being sometimes almost choked with phlegm, with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, toge ther with a general derangement and debility of the whole system. Her life was in the grt atest danger when she commenced the use of these miraculous pills, which restored her to the highest state of health in five weeks. They are the finest medicine in the world for females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor 244 , trand HollowLiT's (where advice may be had gratis), and by alms all respectable medicine v,,tidors ihrouglwur the civilised world. The approaching marriage of the Duke d'Aumale, say s Re.v the ue de Pari.y, is no w certa i n. H i s Royal Highness is to be married in November next to A niece of the King of Naples, the Princess of Salerno ; she was born in 1822, and is said t o b e very handsome, and i ./. gifted with remarkable esprit. [ADVERTISEMENT.] IIYGEIAN STATISTICS• Truth n me‘liche must g ; `-'nmullation of Facts !----Facts !—Tact- L;'' view, nearly half a million cases of cure are new re :, corded by the British College of Health, inderd, dently of those which have never been publish They consist of every kind of disorder, and therefor; become highly important in a statistical point ours e ed The same syste m o f recor di ng t h e cases i s pa„ at the Exeter Hyg e i an Di spensary, b y Ri c h a rd S'" hill, Esq. With this strong, and it is su b m ittedu ir answerable, case made ou t b y H yge i s t s against the medical professi o n, are we not justified in asser„„•g that all diseases should be treated with such a P ul l e tive medicine as the Vegetable Universal Medicinhe of the British C o ll ege o f H ea l t h ? According b),er r present state of thin gs , it i s qu i te c l ear th a t eiti lt the Hygeists or Doctors must be in the wrong; file not, therefore, we a s k, a t once, and for ever, se ` this important questi on , b y an i mpart i a l i n vestic , tion of facts ? Let th e Exeter Hygeian DisPet ar jo where the cases of poor people can be gone ia"' ed i, the arena fur deciding the question. Will the 1 13 cal profession accept this challenge ? If they ( 1 ° 1) 4 the worst construction s h ou ld b e put upon their Cl og culative and contradictory theories, for surely a stro prima facie case has b een ma d e out by flYge:of against them. Another i m p or t ant f act, in faoll'ber Hygeists, in a statistic a l p o i n t o f v i ew, i s t h e nu m for of stamps used by Messrs. Morison and Mcia t " . their medicines since 1830 ; w hi c h amount to the en mous sum of 108,6251. t Now, what are the M e di ca l S tat i st i cs of Doc-°rso Why they have none. Ever since Medicine has be l e eo made a trade of, thousa n d s upon t h ousan d s o f O AR and injurious medicines have been brought before S world, in order to my s tify th e ot h erw i se s i m ple rac ist of curing all diseases; and the consequence is, t .„I Doctors, at this day, are all practising diff e rentlytr es do not know the real e ff ec t s o f any o f t h e mecli ci „ l 4 which they prescribe—it. is impossible they sh ° ( o llow different from Hy ge i s t s , w h o h ave onlY 113 ." use of the Vegetable U n i versa l M e di c i nes , end therefore, capable of forming a correct and cell." judment as to their effects. Issued by Morison an d M oa t, o f t h e B r itish ° , 1 1 ( lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on be' of the body of Hygeists.—Sept 19, 1844. STATE Or FIELD-LANE AND ITS V ICINITY.—TD to evidence given before the Commissioners for inquirrd the state of large towns an d p o p u ' ous districts, itlw,r, published by Dr. C. J. B. Aldis, physician to the of riugdon Dispensary, he says, " In the neighbourhoeuio Field-lane some p ersons h ave not even cessp ools orpri l i d, all their excrements are thrown into a little back I where they are allowed to accumulate for O' e r ° , together ; others hay, a cesspoo l , b ut i t i s 1 10 C P i o vided with a dr a i n , so th at t h e excrements run re f courts or streets, where they remain till a shel i od rain washes them i n t o th e gutter. Such are the P o o we are called upon most frequently to visit. deta a, woman informed m e t o -d ay t h at h er hus b an d lay „tosi and that she could no t o b ta i n water without the gre'osii difficulty to was his rags.' I went into her royal , oa l found her hu s b an d l y i ng d ea d i n a coffin ; the rota jo small, dark, and dirty, and occupied by six childr ee ' r e , addition to the fath er an d mot h er. Another female t of presented the place t o be stinking alive' for 1 1;4 water. The court s i n Fi e ld-l ane are low an d ill ono if e j leading to backy ar d s an d h ouses. The yards are W e a r with decayed vegetables, dust heaps, dung, btunen ° oil ments, and other p u t rescent su b stances. I n pile t ,„per I have noticed some pigs. I find the cesspools l e p o is fectly covered, and the privies in a most filthy ee e All this must necessarily occasion effluvial pois ees i x iai s Lion-court, Saffro n -hill, i s qu i te unf i t for human et , pel, to dwell in. O ne y ar d especially, pointed out 'e 01 was filled with a mass o f putridity. Other sou l ; on e unhealthiness may ar i se f rom t h e knackers ' yar ds, l or d of which I was informed that 60 horses were slaugl i be re, weekly. Different kinds of animals are skinne d e ll, and the bones boil e d, w hi c h occas i on a sickeni ng ' 0 , 0 5' and heaps of bones may be seen in the yar d, the, a t , ings from which, w i t h t h e o ff al from the aninl el4 thrown into the Fleet-ditch." Jane' The railway from B ury t o C o l c h ester i s 810 o re and this week a meeting of the shareholders i n thlo r P O ject was to be held, to consider the expediency t i curing a survey, an d t a ki ng measures for con- bits' railway from Thetford through Bury to NewP er tiais o a general meetin g o f th e i n h a bi tants of Bury „ 0 , tb ° of the county i s convene d b y f i ve magistra tes A ' ien t;° 18th, to consid e r w h at li ne i t will be most e xPe" adopt.—Essex Herald. ,l bil AGE OF OUR LI NE - OP -B ATTLE SHIPS. gor flab been asserted th a t t h e s hi ps of the line o f t he 'ti 7,erfi c6 navy are, for the most part, unfit for rough, inasmuch as they are composed of old v essels w bt 0 are kept water-tight, and venerated on e e : their services d ur i ng t h e l ate war. We beg form our Contemporaries, foreign or otherivis e ,t °oo - the thirty sail o f t h e li ne " advanced sh i P 9 op 9 ready for immediate service at the ports , rfb o half of them are not fifteen years 0 . 1 1; aO OO, Neptune, 120, l aunc h e d i n 1832 ; t h e " IP'' 120, launched in 1833 ; the Trafalga.r' i gg; launched in 1841 ; the Nile, 92, launched In Fd~ the London, 92, l aunc h e d i n 1840 ; t h e Super:7 tb ß and the Cumberland, 70, launched in 1843 ; ° oh ist ev i Boscawen, 70, laun c h e d i n 1844, have never yet :hot th " the pendant ; nor h as the Clarence, 84, ant" 11 0 the advanced ships. The Royal Adelaide, 1 ,7,10eP never been at sea ; and o f th e rema i nder, the P 0 $ 92, was launched i n 1833 ; t h e M onarc h, BA' 7411 p launched in 1832 ; th e V anguard, 80, was lauintb o 1835 ; the Superb, 80, was l aunc h e d i n 1842 ; 00 Indus, 78, was launched in 1839. The other nevT,,,,, i l not of the above list, out of commission , William, 120 ; the Goliath, 80, launched in 1 84 ' tor ioo Ilindostan, 78, launched in 1841 ; and the Ce?,, r ale 80, launched in 1844. Of the ships of the line 1 1 8 39% are tber l " ; loe mission the Queen, 110, was launched ri the the Albion, 90, launched in 1842 ; a nu th w i r ty lingwood, 80, launched in 1841. In fact r , e ' that u;i of our nobl es t men-of-war, equal to any launch' . be mustered by any naval power, have been since 1830. d INTENTIONS OP FRANCE.—Resolutely E n glap l there should be no war between F ra nce an u h a t tb e o still we may as well let our counts' en kne w for might hav e ex p ecte d i n t h e event o f hostilities' vreaco hare succeeded in finding out the plans of the ta ", il b t from a commercial traveller, in an Algerine bentteta was bringing some ribands from Paris--a P e r be 11 ,,, id which, as he belonged to the Legion of Hon tl ''li . ,7 4 ; privileged to wear in his button-hole. The F rey sow; tended to have landed 200,000 men at Folkesteneeto pr i Vantelini, of the Pavilion Hotel, would have h e „ ,00; lily puzzled how to accommodate his gallant ey 0 , 0 4 men. They wo u ld h ave t a k en a spec i a l train 111301,13;0 Bricklayers' A rms , sac ki ng the receipts of the ectil'j 01,1 the at all the stations on th e roa d up; and they w o 9 have bivouacked on Kennington-common. morning.they would have marched into London' P ut, lie j. the Mint, turned the coffers of the Bank inside ° t ..eSu have proceeded thence by omnibus to the W e ;aiie!: where they would have declared England e A re l e n the middle of Regent's-circus. They wou l 'i-orl‘ 9 „"" t o marched on to Paddington, bombarded the , s _parTh , Stingy, and sent a detachment round St. Jani ee m dis te a spike the gun belonging to the Gun Tavern , i, W ii, e e rtb s o ( opposite Buckingham Palace. They woula hot erre i s d taken a special train to Slough, and dictated t ,." ‘ , bette, s .ll peace at Windsor Castle. Before showing tu` cis el a treaty, they were to insist on havinc , the Ile f e Wellt the Ministers, particularly that of the Duke o r . t l l , - 1 , ton; after which they purposed deposing the 4 u siste d installing Tom Duncombe as First Consitl , ° ea of t Feargus O'Connor and Joseph Hume, as tribun accou tit re people. It will be seen that the whole of thi s sec ' et very complete and substantial, as far as 61 ' r one '' e a r concerned ; but the statement omits altogethent to e essential point—namely, how the Englishl ne e ti r ibed ploy themselves w hil e t h e scenes above ue6- being enacted.—Punch. RAILWAY PROM NORWICH TO P., T u Friday last a most important and TO , meeting on this subject was held in the `":ia e d. ! t „,.. of with, at which the Mayor of that city PIT, woula11;; resolved, that a line of railway to Ipswich ofliorl°,;ro' vital importance to Norwich and the count) (clan' P. and that it was desirable to further the est e— 'ipSit t posed by the Eastern Union Railway CorePa n Y . Express. •________ L ____. —r-- - o r BIRTHS. the 10ti On the 11th inst., i n Albi on -street, H y d e -park , , A O, John William Woocock, Esq., of a daughter. s tet, ' On the 18th inst ., at Millbank-street, Westting / George Frederick Whit e , o f a daughter. I MARRIED. c 0 41 ; 1 ; On the 4th of July, in Bomba at St. Thomas 'S - ; 3 4. f °ll of Metcalfe Larken, Esq., of the Civil Service,to Ma r ' - ' bar . „ re p daughter of the lion. James Henry Crawford , ' LI ' 1 Council of the Bombay Presidency. 0 INf rA l _ On the 17th inst., at Alverstoke Captain Litre — (10 Navy, to Miss Westmoreland Jane, dauger of Vi e -1%. Mliinley. 1 gbh _On the 17th inst., at Ed ge -hill Ch urc h, Liverpoo Batrsy of Dawson, Esq., Tyddyn- roe , near St. Asar t° Te Iverton, eldest daughter of the Hon. and er• F T . O I I , ° .. e ; On the 17th inst., at St. Alphage, Greenwich, r i .se n rs6 ,s9 son of John Matthew, Esq ,of Lavender-hill, Bt' e t ie 10,,`, 1 -- 4, to Maria, youngest daughter of W. Hartru, Esq. , l' e ldo r iP""to On the 18th inst., at St, Mwic's, Kennington, - - ha w, , youngest son of the ate Samuel Rixon, Esq., of ClsP o f til Louisa, youngest daughter of D. G. Pretruan ,l:sl4 _..." former place on DIED. On the Bth inst., at Hofwyl, Switzerland , Te ri . 1 1, Es • On ..urgeon, Kingston-on-Thames ri i % S ri ' On the 13th inst ,at Tonbrid lls .-- --ar ge-we ~ ,„ fe 4.9 Esq., aged 55. • Georg e so- , On the 14th inst.., at Jersey, William Prior John On the 16th inst., at Rheola, r ° late of Stock House, Essex. Ed s.( h're Glamorgans 1 ~ 3frg. eY 31. Vaughan, ,widow of John E. Vaughan, Esq., torn , is , , A gid ' for that county. On the 4th of March, at Wellington, New ie'* - ' • 0 0 V. Brewer, Esq., barrister-at-law. : A ci w IOP On the 10th inst., a t Cheltenham, ° Maria, wi"-• diet George Hope Johnstone, RN. raw , deb ° On the 13th inst , at Henl , .. -on-Thames , '-'-' ar Henley ames, f s c l' Weedon, aged 78. . a r,, ~..c. On the 13th inst., at Tonbrid e-wells, Edward Su ga lits; , On the 16th inst., T. Dlilne, Egs 'Clff-hill,neare faeill q., of 1 a Mrs. On the rth ' Leamington, the Hon. hire , widow (.f the late Do 'aid Cameron. of Lochiel. . et ers-, Oil the 18th inst., at Barrow-upon - So ar, Le!cm 60;4;11, Elizabeth Stor e r, the lady of Major-General 1 1 0 1 lid o t o f On the 115th inst., at Hasting,:, William Llic'; . L etitevg° 1 7 51., for c.. many years a magistrate and Dep w. .Y" -- the county of SussEx, aged 79. - Ot --,--.--- V $4l - ' ----- ,-, l'O OP London: Printed and Published by i iIII.R I), ',,_ So. If No. 112, Strand. Printer, at Tim Sum 011'bottY Strand, In the Precinct of the Savor, in the Middlesex, Friday, September 20,1. M. CPA btly Bun, At s Ill'Arore' ll* At ' l / 4 14 4 ,1 1 , 1 1 , 0 72 1101 etre II PI `ot alloy %Id brill' mlier wax ?sold f I_l'Sl ooo l Th; drat Sant a ECU SIRE, Pit ,_rt C -,J.wi 1 , bii ,7 1 )41 ...ivi P r , (t on f I th , • : 4114 0 'hue, rt)p. To * OU tatt '*vei 'UV ikrid . tho, - lli, ..,". i