The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

MONE Y MARKET and CITY NEWS (MONDAY EVENING.) POST.—The Funds have been pretty stationary to clay in both markets. There was, however, nothing doing to affect prices, unless in one or two descriptions of Foreign Stock. The advises from Lisbon caused some little speculation in the Portuguese Securities and an announcement from La Guayra, under date the 14th of August, that a further remittance of 10,0001. on the Colonial Bank, in liquidation of the dividends due from New Grenada, was coming forward by the opportunity advising it, and th.A. Messrs. Fortique and Toro, with two attaches, hal embarked on board the same vessel, produced an advance in Colombian Bonds, as will 'oe seen by our quotations. Money was tolerably easy at the Stock Exchange, at an interest of about per cent, per annum, the same rate being de manded also by the discount houses in Lom bard-street. Consols left off at 90} to Money, and 901 to a for the 15th instant. Exchequer Bills closed at 4s. to 2s. dis., and India Bonds at 3s. to Is. dis. Five per Cent. Dutch Stock, ex-divi dend, was last quoted 1001 to 1 b ; Two-and-a-half per Cent. ditto, 33; to ; Brazilian, ex-dividend, 73 to r i ; Five per Cent. Portuguese, 35i to 61 ; and Active Spanish, with the overdue dividend coupons, 301 to An unpleasant business connected with the Stock Exchange was made known in the course of the after noon. It appears that, about a fortnight ago, Mr. W. Taylor of Birchin-lane, who has hitherto en joyed considerable confidence, received Colombian Bonds to the extent of 3,000/. to sell at a price, or to borrow money on them for his principal, a Mr. M' Allan. He had orders to -day to purchase 5,000/. Consols for money, which he did from Mr. C. Morti mer a little before noon. At the hour of one he was asked for bank -notes, which he said he could not give, as his principal had paid him a West-end check. On being pressed to produce the check he admitted that t,-he money had been received, and that he could not pay for the stock that had been placed in the name of his principal. A distringas has been put upon it, and so the matter remains up to the present time. The Committee of the Stock Exchange, who were sum moned for the purpose, sat some time in delibera tion on the subject, and at the close of their dis cussions several of the number quitted the house in company with the defaulter. It was, we believe, the wish of the Committee to keep all quiet for the moment, in the hope that some arrangement or other might be made with the friends of Taylor ; but as the property of individuals is at stake, we feel it incumbent upon us to give all publicity to such proceedings when ever they come to our knowledge, and this we do the more readily as the affairs of the Stock Exchange have for some time past been involved in a certain obscurity that seems to us to be little compatible with the public interest. The -flair to which we refer could not at all events fail in the course of a day or day to become ge nerally known in the City, and we deem it by far the best plan to give a correct outline of the case in the first instance. It turns out that Taylor has been in difficulties ever since 1814 ; there is accordingly no ex pectation of a satisfactory result. TIMES.—One of the leading jobbers at the Stock Exchange has sustained a loss this morning of 5,000/. Consols in a very extraordinary manner. He hid sold to another jobber stock to that amount, and a transfer was made out to a name given in the usual 'way, but ,‘ hen applied to, the purchaser declared his inability to make payment. On referring to the boe,k at the Bank, it was found thst the individual to wh om the stock was transferred had made his appearance there in the inter val. iind entered his acceptance of it—a practice some times resorted to by purchasi.es, for greater security. The seller was therefore pre eluded from any claim on the stock, and could only e the temporary remedy of a distringas, to prevent . its re-transfer, remaining, mean time, without either ',money or stock. The purchaser not only declares 11; Loself unable to pay, but avers that payment is also refused by the party into whose name the stock is conveyed, under the plea of a counter claim of equal or greater amount upon him. The matter has been refereed to the Committee of the Stock Exchange for investigation. HERALD.—Tae extreme anxiety which prevailed Taring the last week has temporarily abated, and money for discount purposes as well as upon the Stock Ex change is still decidedly more easy. An advance has taken place to-day at ME.:k.-lane in the value of wheat, of from one to two anillings per quarter. This improvement does not, by any means, indicate any preparation for speculation wheat, though some millers have been anxious to obtain fine samples with a view " to make hay while the sun shines," as it Were, In fact, the late as well as the prospective accounts from the United States, have put a temporary check upon all speculation, wh;'lst the favourable harvest will enable them to pay the remainder of the unsettled score in corn and cotton, unless the money markets of the union become seriously deranged. It is not at present intended by the Bank of England direction to issue 11. and 2/. notes , other rn.easures, we believe, are under consideration, which wiVi, it is appre hended, entirely relieve our Money Market ; at the pro per period we shall refer to them. CHRONICLE.—The inforrw , .cion in our City ar ticle this morning on the subjer,c of the affcirs of the agency of the Bank of the r .inited States has tended to remove the doubts rela(Ave to the stability of that establishment. In the English Funds 'there were no operations of mag nitude, but the marke, has been firm throughout the day, and although monev 4 is still tight, yet it is :cot in so much demand. The ra'.,e of interest may be stated a shade lower on the Stack Exchange than l'ast week ; and the dividends, no•A in course of payment, will give further relief at le Ast for a time. The monotony of a very quiet day was interrupted towards the close of business by an ‘Jxtraordinary transaction which happened on the Stock Exchange, and which has since form e d the subject, of general interest—a broker, who has hi therto held a very high reputation, having committed am action of a most equivocal nature. It seems that this broker came into the market and purchased of a jobber five thousand Censors for money. He then gave the name of a west-end tailor, to whom the Stock was to be transferred. When the transfer had been made, the broker took his principal over to the Bank, and ac cepted the Stock. He then said to the jobber, "My principal has given me a check upon a banker at the west-end, and I fear you cann•t have the money through the clearing till to morrow." The jobber asked to see the check, and the broker then confessed that he had no check, and that the Stock which had been transferred into ',he principal's name was Stock that he, the broker, owed to his principal. The jobber imme diately placed a distringas upon the Stock at the Bank, which he 'Ras allowed to do, because the principal had not paid any money for the Stock this day, but had had a runaing trust account with t h e b ro k er f or some time past. A s it was not a bone fide money transaction, the Stock cannot be placed to the credit of the broker's principal. The above is almost an isolated ease in the annals of the Stock Exchange. It was submitt,ed to the Committee, but they have advised the kabber to consult his solicitor. We forbear in the maantime from mentioning names, or from making any remarks on this transaction. The party implicated has been under difficulties for some years, although trusted to a largo amount. He has friends able to hrip him, and we trust they will see the propriety of co , A i ng promptly forward, and assisting him to make a sr,cis".actory arrangement. EVEN INC; EDITION. HORRID -MURDER. --...,....._ LISBON, SE PT . 30.,— .. A horrid murder of an appalling nature,:and which 'aras caused much dread and sensation among the inirl • Atants of the ca pit a l, was comm i tted on the night of r Aursday last in the house of Physician Andrade, ' . ..4 Rua do Aleeriin, iu the very centre of the city, dur.,,,c his absence iron. town. A lady, two grown up da , ..ghters, and a son,lately returned from Angola,were fou'ad on the subsequent day in the supper-room, the fJrmer barbarously strangled, and the later with his throat cut and much mutilated. The servant man has disappeared, who is supposed to he an accessory, and by Whose means "the assassins must hay.! had access through the stable. however, they succeeded in stealing only a st i r '_%si . lver forks, their object being to break open a 4 ." s. tree chest in which was deposited a large sum ° l,""il° but noise in tiley . a Y. a no tlecr, pe d without effecting their purpose. As yet ! tblrd murder ot• a similar kind that has taken place these past sioxn.,, "The C months within 100 yards of each other. Lisboa, Nacional, and Director journals are clanOrdoe Upon the melancholy event, and vehemently invite thso beceutilye to bring forth the many criminals who have h fet i i nlerin g under sentence of death fbr y :ars from their may undergo the extrem e dungeons, that they Penally . , and thereby set an examp l e for the future. The first of these journals thus e;.presses itself upon the oce,i, n . We h ave bee; informed that M. A n d ra d e wished.ro‘ a de , r'fnt burial to the four victims assassinated in I g li i s ve h this, however, was not permitted, fearing that suocuhser: spectacle would augment the indignation already mani fested by the public against the laziness and torpid in capae:iv of those to whom the security of the citizens of the capital is entrusted, and who, it seems, contri bute only to the ostentation arid vanity of a few pre sumptuous persons, whose embroidered coats form the only distinction they possess from the most incapable and unapt of all men.' " Poor Mr. Ex-Sheriff Parkins, formerly of Lon do 1, and not long out of a New York prison, hai been again held to bail for an assault on a Sheriff's officer. TIIE ATLANTIC STEAM . SIIIP.—This fine v ssel may now be seen, in all her proportions, in the building yard of the Messrs. Wilson, north side of the Clarence dock. She is building- for the Transatlantic Stearn Company, and intended as a companion to the Liverpool in tl e New York trade. Her tonnage ex coeds that of the Liyerpoool by nearly 500 tons, and s h e will be ready for launching. in the course of six 1 weeks or two months.—Liverpool SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOVRNALS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.) (From the Morning Advertiser.) Our attention has been pointed to a statement in a Sunday paper of the 29th ult,, tivhich the conduct of the Commercial Gas Company is severely handled gross exaggeration; tontained— an d the most palayalete falsehoods asserted. The inserti o n of th'e article upon the part of the journal alluded to, may readily enough be excused, for it would be an absence of cha rity as well as of justice, on our part, not I to admit that the DispatfA, as well a s every other public jour nal, may not be occasionally be imposed upon by stater , ments wearing the guise of truth, which are thoroughly based on falsehood or misrepresentation •i but there is no similar palliation for the author of the state men t, who, if we are rightly informed, is a discharged servant of the Company, and, as such, must hav e b een we ll aware of the difficulties which the Company had to encounter, and the false construction which would be put upon its conduct. From him, of a ll p ersons, what ever the conduct of the Company may have been, such statements ought not to have proceeded ; for if the example be imitated, as it might be, in other cases, all confidence between the employer and the employed would not only be destroyed, but superseded by a sys tem of suspicious tyranny on the one hand, and of con tracted zeal on the other, which would be painfully in jurious to both parties. Such breaches of confidence are fortunately rare, an d generally terminate, as they ought to do, in the di scom fi ture of the assailant, and the triumph of the i nten d e d v i ctim of falsification. That such will be the case in the present instance, we cannot entertain the slightest doubt ; for although we are not prepared to state that the whole of the circumstances asserted . resp ect i ng t h e C ommerc i al Gas Company are false, yet th ere are some o f t h em so utterly at variance with truth, as to induce us to place very little reliance upon the others. Thus, for example, Mr. Morris, lately an active member of the Committee, is reported, by the Correspondent of the journal alluded to, to have retired from it in disgust ; whereas, the real truth is, that the said Mr. Morris informed the Com mittee a few days ago, that though he must for private reasons cease to be a member of the Committee, the Company might not only depend upon his warmest support, but that he had formed so high an opinion of their straightforward, honest, and i nzenitous con d uct, that if his pecuniary resources should admit of it, he would place at their disposal the whole amount of capital necessary f or t h e comp l et i on o f t h e wor k s ! This is one sample of the accuracy of the statement in the Dispatch, and another is to be found in the alleged retirement of Mr. Hodges. This gentleman is still a Director of the Company ! We should not have been so particular in alluding to this matter, had not the question been one of a public instead of a private cha racter, and the Company which is the subject of dis cussion had enough to do in contending with the oppo sition of interested parties, without being troubled with those of disappointed individuals, The Lighting Board of the Mile-end district, without for the present alluding to other obstructions, might occupy its time more use fully than in impeding the progress of a Company which has no other objects in view than the supply of a portion of the metropolis with a necessary commodity, at a cheap rate, and the realization of a fair per centage upon the outlay of its capital. We shall watch its conduct as well as that of some other public bodies, and expose it, if necessary, with care and attention. (From the Times.) The enemies of the Established Church (who pre tend all the while to be its friends) extol the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland for denouncing to their con gregations the atrocious conspiracy of Ribandism, and institute a comparison, which they mean should be a wonderfully advantageous one for the priests, between this discharge of duty and the supineness of " the ministers of Mammon" (which is the charitable nick name bestowed upon the clergy of the Church of Ire land), in ❑ot issuing a similar denunciation " against Orange Ribandism, that worst kind of Riband ism—that real, that nefarious, that truly trea sonable, that often sanguinary system," &c. We question whether even the readers of such a jour nal as that from which we copy the foregoing piece of vulgar virulence will sympathise in this aggres sion upon a body of men who so unequivocally command the respect of their neighbours, that \Vhiggery itself, in the days of appropriation, durst not mention them to Parliament, except in terms of reverence ; bat this we notice only in passing, and by way of protest against the assumption, tacitly involved in this extract, that there is a class of reading people among our country men to whom such calumnies on the resident work ing clergy can be acceptable. Further than this, we shall not condescend to notice the libel. Two or three questions have been asked of Major Warburton about Orange societies ; with a view to get up something like a recrimination upon the Protestants, that witness stated, that the Orangemen had secret oaths, of loyalty to the Crown, mutual sup port, and nondisclosure of passwords ; and he expressed his opinion, that Orange processions and demonstrations •• had an injurious effect upon the peace of society." Of this the Orange leaders themselves became indeed S.) well convinced, that they voluntarily dissolved the asso ciation,vvhich has now accordingly ceased forseveral years. The only relic of it is an occasional display of Orange tins, by some of the lower classes, in an anniversary procession. To pretend any sort of similarity between Orangeism and Ribandism, even while Orangeism re mained in full force, was the emptiest thing imaginable. Both, indee3, had affiliated societies, with secret oaths 1 and passwords ; but so much may equally be said of the Freemasons, and more cannot be predicated of the Orangemen. (From the Morning Post.) The enemies of the Church of England and the para sites of the Whig Administration do not scruple to ap plaud with great vehemence what they call the "firm ness" of Ministers touching the new plan of public edu cation under Government inspection. They are pleased to say that for Ministers to have done this, under the circumstances of formidable opposition with which they had to contend, they must be endowed with great " moral courage." Courage indeed ! For " moral courage" read " monstrous impudence,"and the affair would be correctly described. With a falling revenue— falling under the reckless mismanagement of stupid and fearful Ministers—they have assumed leave to dis tribute a certain portion of money voted for public education in such a way as may most promote their eown advantage. They have resolved upon coupling the advancement of this money with such conditions as will throw it chiefly into the hands of their own crea tures, and they have devised a plan for inspection which will give rise to new appointments, and enable them to apply the money voted for education in pampering the puppyism of certain hangers on who have not abilities to earn their bread by honest industry. This is their " moral courage !" It is a matter of boast also with the parasites (some of them, no doubt, being on the look out for inspectorships,") that in doing what they have done Ministers have " utterly disregarded" all who remonstrated against their proceedings, and all the ar guments which the remonstrants brought forward. This we shall look upon as no more than the usual insolence of a set of empty tyrants, rejoicing in their temporary triumph over the people, whose reasonable representations have not been attended to ; but we find it coupled with something like an appeal to the favour able opinion of that very people whose most serious feelings have been outraged by these Ministerial pro ceedings. This is certainly carrying audacity to a won derful pitch. (From the Morning Herald.) In the second chapter of the Government pamphlet, intitled " Recent Measures for the Promotion of Edu- cation in England," we are presented with what is . ---- absurdly termed " Results of Reformation in European Protestant States"—from which we might suppose that we should be furnished with a regular account of the educational history of these states, from the times of Luther and the Reformation. But it begins only "as early as the year 1736," with a slight notice of the erection of schools in Prussia! The famous Frederick 11., no less celebrated for his infidel principles and writings, than for his abilities as a warrior, was, in fact, the great founder and promoter of that system of Prussian education which it is the object of Mr. Wyse and the Privy Council Committee now to introduce into these kingdoms. This was the Monarch who assem. bled at his court Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alembert, and all the infidel spirits of the age—who no sooner con quered Silesia than he covered it with deistical schools —and whose educational measures are held out as the " beau ideal" for our institutions. His object is repre sented " as the spread of true religion, the maintenance of social order, the diffusion of useful knowledge and virtuous habits," p. 21. Such was the origin of that Popish-infidel system of education, which has since emasculated the spirit of the Reformation in every part of the Continent, and which is now to be set up in England by State authority, for the destruction of our Protestant Church and Constitution. The late disputes between the Court of Prussia and the Papists have, however, somewhat cooled the admi ration of Mr. Wyse and his associates for the Prus sian schools. We are told, therefore, that " the change for the better, consequent on the system of instruction introduced into Prussia, seems inferior to that which has followed the introduction of national schools into Wirtemberg, Baden, Bavaria, and gene rally in all those States included in what was formerly denominated the Confederation of the Rhine," p. 24. It is n o t diffi cult to arrive at the mean i ng o f t hi s dis tinction. P russ i a has leaned, on the whole, to the. s i de of Protestantism, b u t t h ose ot h er S tates are almost "No ex clusively u n d er t h e dominion of a Popish influence. in any ypaorf the tieulasroLsoia in temef‘rveitetohrg l r igioni e sallowed and m to e b s e t . t of the aught s e e t ti h o er eo G oe er ? ma T nic ha S t t G at e e r s m ," a p. 25. And, n ia d h , u w t h a a n t oitshr,enceonine for modern infidelity, and n t n h e a o t the spirit of Luther no Tlohneger373i6g4ns oßvaevratrhiaeoGaeorhmoaonla schools and uai.versities. containi ngßtooi itahn ad i iol e 4 r. 9B g , r o e o d o e the . e f oun- 1 pupils, have only reduced Bava'ria of European unimportance ! But try in which, according to this Priv y -Co unciLma m m o e d s e t r o r: i we are to look for the chief triumph of t system of national edtkca''Son. " The great principles and truth' of YTh'ristianity, in which all are agreed, n rg ii.kor'.se carefully inculcated ; but those pointfi which are the subjects of indifference and te4ion'ii eiinii4- versy form no part of .ttie in3triictiong of' the schools. This department o religious reaching is confided to the. Mini'%?.rs of each persuasion, who discharge this portion of their duties out of the school ) )) p. ifo . more effective method of rentlei:ifig tti'd thilaren either bitter and bigoted its their tintred of each other, or to tally indifferent Iv) Ali Ottrinal distinctions, could nk be devisekt THE LATE BIR3IINGHA3I RIOTS (From the Morn imi2 The Protestant Assee 4 .ation, or Perambulating Fire brand Society, tontinues its locomotive anniversaries ; finishing at Liverpool the lengthy declamation which teas too much for one day at Manthester and varying the brimstone brethren of O'Sullivan from Stowell and Co., to Nl‘Neile and Tetteshall. The chief claim on public notice of the furious absurdities of these bigot agi tutors is the illustration they afford of the condition and tactics of the Tory party. The Tories cannot obtain pre dominance without the co-operation of these fenatics ;nor tan they secure that co-operation but by expectancies which they intend to disappoint ; or which, should they not disappoint, must, in the accomplishment, be fatal to their retaining the Government. "No peace with Rome," is their motto ; and by peace with Rome they mean the treatment of Roman Catholics as fellow-sub subjects—we had almost said as fellow-men. No aid to their college institution, no eligibility to public ap pointments, no share in the advantages of national instruction ; these are amongst the most distinctly defined and broadiy avowed particulars of a proscrip tion the spirit of which, could it be established, would reduce the great mass of the Irish people to a degradation less tolerable than ever was that of negro slavery. Neither the Tory press nor the Tory leaders have the moral courage, or the common ho nesty, to say how they would deal with these ascen dancy fanatics, were they in power. They dare not ; for they know they could not move towards contenting them without the outburst of that civil warfare in Ire land which they have once before shrunk from facing, and which would now be ten times more formidable. Nor is it cowardice alone that keeps them on silent terms towards the theological savages. It is down right dishonesty. 'they coquet with the fiend of per secution, and allow it to be assumed as the condition of assistance, that the emancipation of the Catholics may be an occasion of repentance, and consequently the subject of revision. And so the coolness of political knavery, and the heats of theological animosity, meet together, like the snows and fires on the summit of a volcano, in pestilential unison. /ROM TEIR EVENING r.A►l'Ene OF YESTERDAT. (From the Globc.) The discussion which took place on Friday in the Court of Common Council may deserve a passing no tice. It is about to elect a Commissioner of Police, to manage the City division of the metropolis, and the cor porators want to get a long-headed clever man to take that office and defend the rotten cause of corporation abuses, which they cannot do unless they give him a salary infinitely beyond the value of his services. 1,0001. was proposed-8001. was the minimum inserted by the corporators in their Police Bill. Some of the Common Councilmen, and especially Mr. Brace, much to his honour, considered that 8001. would be quite enough. The corporators were ashamed of the position they had taken, but the sham Radicals, not liking to be defeated of their man, became convinced that 8001. a year was enough, but then they agreed that the sinecure Commissioner should have a house paid for out of the poor citizen's pockets, and there is no doubt that a house in the city will be found, with splendid apartments for feasting ; for it seems, according to Mr. Patriot An derton, that most of the gentlemen in that Court lived at the rate of a thousand a-year ! (query, shillings or pounds ?)—and that he ( Mr. Anderton) cannot entertain his friends in style under that sum. The citizens have no thing to do with heavy dinners given in the private houses of the City jobocrats, nor in the houses of the City placemen and pensioners —all they have to do is to pay at the full market price for useful services ; but in this case, to please a few soi-disant Radicals, the citizens are to be taxed 1,0001. a year to pay a man, as Commissioner of Police, who will not have one hour's work a week to do. A Commissioner is not wanted at all ; the City is not larger than many of the me tropolitan divisions of police, which are managed by a Superintendent who has 2001. a year ; the City Super intendent has 4001. The two Commissioners, Colonel Rowan and Mr. Mi!.'ne, received until lately only 8001., and they managed 1G or 17 divisions of police. Accord ing to this rate of duty, the City Commissioner having only one superintendent to look after, he ought not to be paid more than 1301. a year—or in truth he ought not to be at all, and his appointment is a mere City job, especially as a Police Committee of jobocrats will he appointed at a further expense of about 2001. or 300/. per annum. (From the Courier.) Mr. Macaulay, it must be confessed, is well fitted to act as one of the leaders of the " Movement." At all events he seems determined to move on, himself. On the :27th of September he is gazetted as a Cabinet Minister ; on the 30th he is appointed a Privy Coun cillor ; on the Ist of October, he gives out to the world in general, and to his Edinburgh constituents in par ticular, that he is domiciled in the Queen's Palace, and he takes upon himself to date his first political manifesto as a Cabinet Minister, from WINDSOR CASTLE ! His address to the electors of the city of Edinburgh, which appears in another column, is dated " October Ist, 1839, Windsor Castle." The large letters in which the words " Windsor Castle" are printed above are ours : the large presumption which prompted him thus to divide the Royal Residence of England with the Sovereign, is his own. We will not, however, dwell on the indelicacy of this young Cabinet Minister seeking, by " a proclamation," to identify himself with the Queen, and the Queen with his politics. As a matter of taste, we think there can be but one opinion on the subject ; as a matter of policy, it is in strict accord ance with the system of her Majesty's Ministers, to make use of the Queen's name and of the Queen's Palace in any way that may best suit their own purposes. (From the Standard.) Instead of selecting the new Governor of Greenwich Hospital from the host of veterans, whose gallantry at St. Vincent, the Nile, Trafalgar, Camperdown, St. Domingo, and elsewhere, had covered them with stars and medals, wrung from the too reluctant gratitude of the country by deeds about which there could be no mistake, Lord Melbourne's choice has fallen on a man who, beside being one of the youngest officers of his rank in the ser vice, has had the singular ill luck never to have taken a part in any battle of the slighrest importance in his life, or to have performed a single exploit which has afforded his Whig friends an opportunity of conferring on him one order or medal of any kind whatsoever! Is it not a farce to charge us with desiring to sully the professional, reputation of an officer, who, in the ordinary acceptation of the phrase, has no such reputation to sully ? Admiral Flee ming (says the Globe) is a Whig, and therefore the Standard desires to represent him as devoid of all professional or personal merit.' We have no dispo sition to do anything of the kind." BERLIN, SEPT. 25.—We had to-day a very in teresting sight, the arrival of a whole army by the iron railroad. The King has had the infantry of the Guard brought at his expense by the railway, in order to save them the exertions of the march, back to Berlin, after the great fatigues they have undergone in the late reviews and manmuvres. About 8,000 men came in ten trains. At the head of each regiment was a band of music. The Directors of the railway received a round sum of 1,000 dollars. In truth, we had not a great idea of the importance of this mode of communication, till we saw a large body of armed men, so speedily con veyed, as by enchantment, from one place to another. ONE POUND NOTES.—The belief seems to gain ground that the Bank of England will attempt the experiment of issuing 1/. and 2/. notes, to enable her to prolong the struggle to support herself under this interminable succession of disappointment s in her en deavours to turn the exchanges and to correct the cur rency. Notwithstanding this, we adhere to the opinion we have before expressed, that it would be a most rash and hazardous attempt, which would probably end in the speedy suspension of cash payments by the Bank ; neither can we imagine that her Majesty's Ministers would take upon themselves the responsibility of sanc tioning such a proceeding, without seeing the utmost necessity for such a step, and which certainly does not exist at present. An Order in Council permitting the issue of 11. and 21. notes,accompanied with an order for suspend ing specie payments, we can readily conceive would work well for the Bank, and would relieve the Directors from all further anxiety ; but without the order for suspend ing specie payments, the permission to issue 1/. notes would be their funeral knell.—Allas. D READFUL COLLISION AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—As Mr. Sutton was returning home in a gig with Mrs. Sutton, the horse took fright and threw Mr. Sutton out ; the horse continued his course with fearful speed, and ran towards a garden wall. At. this critical juncture, Mrs. S. seeing death apparently before her, jumped out of the gig, but such was the velocity ac quired, she was thrown affainst the wall, and fell, her head covered with blood ; but an instant elapsed, and the horse and gig came with a tremendous crash against the same wall. At this moment Mr. S. came up without his hat, his face streaming with blood, yet regardless of his own welfare expressing the most poignant grief at the condition .of his wife, who was taken up for dead, and carried to the house of a re lative near the spot, three surgt!ons rendering prompt assistance. Mr, and Mrs, S. - are doing well.—Don cosier Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, is S. no disapprobation to any one, and to keep the thorough kres clear, particularly when any coaches came to the :Oelio • tm. I never saw the thoroughfares obstr"cted by the people. The iooinatli by the Market Fall was , sometimes crowded by people ii , h6 appeared to come from curiosity to observe what was done, father than to ' take yart in the meetings. There were generally 400 Or i)YO Pefsena prevent at the meetings. The principal business was reading tae da?l,' trao ether newspapers., with comments by the reader as he prOdehAest Three l Or tollr persons used to address the meeting In the course of the etenhag, Occasionally there was inflam matory language used by,tt speaker, On one occasion A sPelhei' aihided to Mr. :Tames Taylor, of Moseley Hall, having inclosed " Yardley Itig field ' 1 which, he said, used to belong to the poor inhabitants to turn their cattle on ; and that he thought Mr. Taylor had no more right to enclose it then they had. The meeting received this with disapprobation ; one person in the crowd saying, " They wanted nothing to do with Mr. Taylor, they wanted no man's property, but only a fair day's wages for a fair day's work." To wards the latter end of June some stones were thrown into the body of the meeting from the roof of a house which was then building close by, and which is now occupied by Mr. Leggett and Mr. I3elcher. I saw two stones thrown from this house, and also some from the roof of the Market Hall on the same night. I believe this to have been on the night of the 27th of June. On the following night some stones were also thrown. I saw the heads of three persons on the Market Hall when the stones were thrown on the first night. The meeting was very indignant when the stones were first thrown, but the speaker said, " Take no notice, men of Birmingham, they are only foolish counter-skippers." Upon this some one cried out, " They would go and fetch them down ;" but the speaker said, " Do no such thing, it will hurt the cause ; we shall soon have the Town Hall." This was all which took place re specting it. I believe there was at the time negocia tions on foot for the use of the Town Hall. About the same time some of the Birmingham police-officers at tended the meetings, and inquired of the people around the names of the speakers. They once asked me, but I was unable to give them the information. I never saw the police when so engaged insulted in any way. The people used to say, " Mind the police, they're going round." On two or three nights I saw the police endea vour to make their way to the speaker through the meet ing, but the people on every such attempt being made prevented them from advancing, by placing their arms round each others' necks. The police said, " It's of no use your resisting, we will have the speaker." The people asked, what they (the police) wanted with the speaker, "he had done no harm but had been only read ing the paper." lam quite sure that no violence was ever offered to the police on these occasions, and no violent or threatening language used towards them, and no other resistance than that I have named. One night, just as the meeting had broken up, a police officer attempted to seize a man who had struck a woman at the corner of Philip-street, and killed her. At first the impression of the people was, that the officer was attempting to arrest one of their speakers, and they prevented his progress ; but on learning what had really happened, they assisted the officer to capture the man, but he escaped. On July 3 it was announced, that they would meet earlier the next night, in order to have their usual procession over before ten o'clock, to prevent alarm, as it was said some people did not like it. They were also urged not to cheer, orshow disapprobation to any one in their progress. This I myself heard the speaker say on the night of the 3d, as they were break ing up. On the following night, when I got into the Bull-ring, about half-past eight, the meeting, which was thinly attended, there not being more than between 300 or 400 persons present, was about breaking up. The speaker said " That was all they had to lay before them," and told them to get themselves ready for the procession. Upon this a man came up from towards Moor -street, and told the speaker something which I could not distinctly hear, but I heard the word " police." I was then standing about two yards from the palisades surrounding the Monument, and be tween it and Moor-street ; and turning towards Moor-street, I saw the Mayor and Dr. Booth on 1 horseback, at the head of a body of London police, who followed them abreast. The people on seeing them, said, " Here are the railway men." The speaker held up his hand, and said, " Men of Birming- i ham !" Just at this moment, he turned his head, and 1 saw the police at the corner of Moor -street, and he said no more. I heard Dr. Booth say to the police, as they turned the corner of Moor -street, " Quick ! march!" and they went up to the meeting in a body. Neither the Mayor nor Dr. Booth went up to the meeting first, leaving the police behind ; the latter fol lowed close to the horses of the Mayor and Dr. Booth, and did not halt. W hen they got near the Monument, the Mayor told the police to seize the speaker. The police immediately made their way towards the speaker, striking every one before them. When they commenced striking, the people groaned ; but, up to that period, nothing had been done or said against the police, and no resistance of any kind had been offered them. The people did not lock themselves together, to prevent the progress of the police to the speaker, as they had previously done when the Birmingham police made a similar attempt, The people ran away in all directions from the Monument— the speaker escaped. The police followed the people, beating them with their staffs. Some flag staffs were then broken up, and used by the people against the police. The people rallied, and a general fight took place be tween them and the police. I saw one policeman knocked down, and beaten very much when he was down, opposite the Red Lion, in the Bull-ring. I saw Dr. Taylor, one of the Convention delegates, come out of the Red Lion, and run to the assistance of the policeman. He picked him up. and asked the people, " For God's sake, what were they doing—they would ruin the cause ?" The people said, "They had no mercy for us." Dr! Taylor told them to go home ; and with other as nce, I believe Mr. Fussell, took the injured policeman into the Red Lion. Six or seven other policemen immediately came running down the Bull Ring. I was making my escape, and had got to the corner of St. Martin's Lane, when the police knocked down a woman and child. I turned round, and was in the act of picking up the child, when I was struck on the back of the head, and knocked down. There was also another man down near me. The policeman swore at us, and said they would give us more ; and with this, struck me another forehead. I was afterwards several s t g i e u m v a e e g r s c e struck, blow towards althoughon the them, except x e did ep not t t o resist, tell i s: e r m u I s e had dy donelan - no thing. I was picked up by some one, nearly sense less, and led away to Mr. Dobson's shop ; and when somewhat recovered, I was supported home by some man. I was ill for some time after, and have not now perfectly recovered. No meetings were held after this in the Bull-ring. On Sunday, th 14th of July, I was going to St. Thomas's church, and heard that a sermon of Mr. Stephens' was about to be read to the people at Holloway-head. Finding myself too late for church, I went to Holloway-head, and found about 400 persons present, they were orderly and quiet. Many of them were well dressed. The sermon was read to them ; and after wards, one of the speakers said that Mr. Attwood and Mr. Fielden were expected to come to address them to-morrow, and he hoped they would attend ; and after the meeting, " form themselves into a peaceable procession, and walk through the town, and show the Birmingham people they were not short of intellect." Another speaker got up, and said he hoped they would not go near the town at all. He did not give any reason, and I at this time left, leaving the meeting behind me. The following day I waa at a friend's house, in Exeter-row, and about one o'clock, heard a bellman, who had on a straw hat with blue ribbons in, give notice that Mr. Attwood would address the people at Holloway-head a little after one. The people about said, "Take no notice of him, he's only sent for a joke." I immediately went to Holloway-head,and found about 200 persons assembled. No one was then addressing them, and I left in about ten minutes. On my return down Exeter-row, I heard another bellman, whom I have also heard cry fish for the fish company. He gave no tice, ~ that Mr. Attwood would address the men of Birmingham, at Holloway Head, at six o'clock that night." I left my work at seven o'clock that night, and went to Holloway-head. When I got there, three were about 400 persons present. Mr. Wilkes was ad dressing them, and advising them to walk peaceably and orderly in procession, six abreast, by Lucy's Mill, down Exeter-row, up Suffolk -street, along Ann street, and down Bull-street, and then where they liked. Some one cried out, " Go to the Bull-ring," and immediately a man, whom I took to be the same as had addressed the meeting the day before, in the same strain, got up and said," if you go near there, you'll have the police out to you ; and if . you wish w e ll f or yourse l ves , you will not go, as it will stop an effusion of blood," or words to this effect. The meeting heard this, without any expression of feeling ; and about fifty directly formed in procession, and were going towards Lucy's mill, but on seeing the bulk of the meeting go the short road to Exeter-row, by the instruction of ano ther speaker, turned round and followed them. They went in procession down Exeter-row, and halted at the corner of Suffolk -street, when Wilkes got upon some steps and addressed them, telling them to go down Smallbrook-street, along, Edgbaston-street and St. Martin's-lane, down Deritend, and so to the Warwick-road, to meet their two friends, Lovett and Collins, who were coming from Warwick that night. They then walked in procession, as Wilkes had directed. There were none of them armed, not even with sticks. They had no flag or harmer. They walked quietly along, and did not offer any obstruction or insult to any one. When they got to time corner of Edgbaston-street and Spiceal-street, they cheered. Many people were at this time standing in the Bull l ie i r -t of jeg.St.TAhleayrtaigna'si-elaenieeearnedd when they not learn why they c h eere d, an d c annot conjecture, ex glotdtido the ex cept it were intended as a sort of invitation to those in the Bull-ring to join them. When they got to the Three Crowns in Derite n d, Wilkes halted the proces- I sion, and recommended that the children who were ULSTER RAILWAY.—TE e total number of passengers carried in the first mol lth upon the portion of tbis line now open (from B e 'fast to Lisburn) was 44,432, being about 1,481 per day, s tnd the total receipts were 1,2311. 13s.—Railway Times. §o;+. 2;.—The omiiiittee of the 'Town Council resumed their inquiries this morning, Council lor Lucas in the chair, in the absence of Alderman Sturge. Charley Thhifipt;Ofi, Chdrfih-§irkiet; eat kted the bight of the 15th of July, about a quarter Be fore eight, I was passing down Moor-street, in the direction of the Bull-ring, when saai approaching, in tilt ti t - TO:Ate direction, two of the Birmingham strect keepers, with a man between them in custody. When I first saw them, I was near the Woolnaek, in Moor street, and they *tire emiling across the Bull-ring, from towards Spiceai-street. There were at that time a good many people scattered over the Bull-ring. The street keepers, with their prisoner, having got to the corner of Moor-street, a number of people from the Bull-ring rushed upon them, and rescued the prisoner. Whilst this was taking place, seven or eight of the London police, whom I had just before seen at the public office gates, ran past me to assist the street keepers. The police commenced beating off the people with their staves, during which the pri soner made his escape. I saw his hat fly off, a distance from him, and he ran away without it. I do not know exactly the road he took. The people did not retaliate upon the police, and the latter were speedily called back to the office, whilst in the act of driving away the people, by one of their superiors. Soon after the rescue, a number of persons came to the end of Moor-street, daring the London police to come out. I was then passing up Moor-street. I went up Carr's-lane, with the intention of going home, but seeing a good deal of excitement about, I passed down High-street into the Bull-ring, where a great number of persons had collected, most of them armed with sticks. They went up Moor -street to the Public (Ace, and shouted for the London police to come out. I heard a great crash of glass at the Public-office ; when this took place, the mob ran away towards the 13011-ring, as if afraid of the police. Finding the police did not conic out, the mob again came into the Bull-ring, with shouts of defiance against the police. This was about nine o'clock, and up to that time no damage whatever had been done in the Bull-ring. I saw two boys, about the ages of thirteen and fifteen respectively, separate themselves from the mob, who were then opposite Bourne's house, and about twenty five yards from it, and go to Bourne's house, saying, " We'll fetch the police out." At the same time striking the shutters of Bourne's shop with strong sticks. I believed this was done in the hope that the police, when they heard that property was being attacked. would come out, and give the mob an opportunity of en countering them, for this seemed to be their object. Whilst the boys were striking the shutters, several ruf fianly looking men left the mob, and with heavy stakes and pieces of wood began to batter in the shutters ; the pannels quickly gave way, and a great many boys and youths entered the shop through the apertures, and tossed out the stock into the street, which the mob kicked about. The men continued battering the shop windows, until they were entirely demolished. 'Whilst this was going on. parties of two or three left the mob, and began demolishing other windows up the High street, with sticks and missiles. Seeing the mischief growing to an alarming height, I left the Bull-ring, and went to the Public Office to seek for the Magistrates. They had not yet, however, arrived ; and I went up Carr's-lane, and down High-street, into the Bull-ring, when I saw Bournes' and Leggett's houses were on fire. I went again to the Public-office, where I saw Mr Walker, the Magistrate, in conversation with several gentlemen, who were urging him to order out the police. He refused to do so, without the sanction of another Magistrate, stating that course had been previously agreed upon. In a few minutes afterwards, the military came down Moor-street, the police were or dered out, and I left and went home. Hannah Heath, of No. 23, New Church-street, Hospital-street, examined—l am the wife of William Heath, brass-founder. On the night of the 15th of July, between twelve and one o'clock, I and my hus band went to bed, leaving my son, who is twenty years of age, and who resides with us, down stairs, with his coat and shoes off, and about to follow us to bed. I had just reached the top of the stairs, when my son asked me if I did not hear horses' feet, at the same time opening the back door which opens into a yard. In a moment, I heard some persons swearing in a tremendous manner, and using threatening language towards my son. He immediately came into the house, and shut the door. I and my husband left our room, with the candle in my hand, with the intention of coming down stairs, to see what was the matter. I had only stepped down one stair, when I met four London policemen coming up. My husband was behind me, undressed, except his shirt and trousers and one stocking, and the police seeing him, exclaimed, Here the -- is," and ordered him to conic down. He said, "He had done nothing ; what was he to come for ?" They rushed past me, and entered the bed-room, where they seized wiy husband, and dragged him towards the staircase, beating him with their staves upon the back, shoulders, arms, and knees. I shouted " Murder,' and of them threatened to blow my brains out, if I made that noise. My husband at first objected to go, but find ing himself over powered, and dreadfully beaten, I said to him, " Do go," and he consented, but asked them to let him dress. The policemen refused, and said he should go as he was, at the same time dragging him towards the staircase. They dragged him down stairs, and along the entry into the street. When they were in th e s t ree t, my son came from the back kitchen, where I afterwards understood he had been, and told the ' policemen, it was not his father whom they saw, but him. The policemen ordered him back, and threatened to beat out his brains, if he spoke, and he returned into the entry. When we got into the street, a party of dragoons were waiting at the entry end, with Dr. Booth. Dr. Booth asked why we were up at that hour ? My husband said, I had been busy, but we were going to bed, and that my son had opened the door for his convenience. After some remarks from Dr. Booth, the police and soldiers went away, leaving me and my husband in the middle of the street. I had been very busy that day, and was ironing till twelve o'clock at night. My husband came home about eleven o'clock, and did not afterwards leave the house until the police took him. My son returned home from his work about eight o'clock, and did not go many yards from our own door ,afterwards. There was a talk among the neighbours of the disturbances which had been going on in the town. There had been no crowd in our erect that night, and no disturbance of any kind. Every thing was very quiet when we went to bed. My husband was much injured by the blows from the police. He kept his bed several days, and was not able to go to his work for ten days after, and then worked in considerable pain. Mr. Raley, surgeon, of the Old Square, attended him. The police at no time made any charge whatever against either my husband or my son. William Heath—l am the husband of the last wit ness. The evidence she has given, so far as lam con cerned, is correct. On the afternoon of the 15th of July, I went on a visit to a friend's, in the Bristol-road. I left there about nine o'clock, and came down Small brook-street, along Edgbaston-street, and up Spiceal street, with the intention of going up High-street and Bull-street home. When I got to the corner of Bull street, I saw some houses on fire in the Bull-ring. I did not stop in the Bull-ring. I was prevented by the dragoons from going up High-street, and so turned along Bull-street, and went along Colmore-street and Queen-street, and up Temple-street. When I got to the corner of New-street, I met my employer, Mr. Suffolk, of Ludgate-hill, and his brother. We all went together up Cannon-street, Cherry-street, and through the Church-yard, and down Church-street. I parted with my employer and his brother at the corner of Great Charles-street, and went straight home. In my road, up Little Hampton-street, when near Bond-street, I saw a man, whom I had pre— viously known, named Havens, bleeding like a Pig, from the head. He was not far from his own house and told me he had been cut by a soldier, one of a partY of dragoons who had just passed up the street. I went with him to his own house, and I saw his wounds dressed, after which I went straight home, where I arrived about eleven o'clock, and did not again leave the house, until I was dragged into the street by the police, as described by my wife. I found my son at home when I returned, and he did not leave the house, except as described by my wife, just as the police came. When the police had dragged me into the street, they told Dr. Booth they had just seen me out. They did not say I had been doing or saying anything ; and this was all the charge they made. I denied having been out, and Dr. Booth said if I could not give an account of myself he must send me to prison. I persisted I had not been out, and that my son had only opened the back door for his convenience. The officer of the dragoons asked me if I was sure of that ? I said I was ; and Dr. Booth then requested the police to be quiet, that he might hear what I had got to say'. I repeated what I had be fore said, and explained that the reason why we had been up so late was because my wife had been busy ; and Dr. Booth then said, Well, my man, I hope you'll go to bed sooner in future ;" and they then all left me. The street and neighbourhood, when I got home, and up to the time of my being ill used, was perfectly q u i e t. I and my son were quite sober. Some of the police ap peared intoxicated. SATURDAY, SEPT. 28. The Committee of the Town Council met this morn ing. In the absence of Mr. Alderman Sturge, Mr. Lucas was called to the chair. Thomas Maley, of Court 1, St. Martin-street, ex amined :—I am now in the employ of Mr. Farmer, up holsterer. In July last I was in the employ of Mr. Simister, of Bull -street, and then resided in Crowder's court, Deritend. I used to leave my employ in Bull street at half-past eight in the evening, and passed down High-street and the Bull-ring to my residence. In so passing I have seen the meetings held by Nelson's Monument. I used generally to stop on the outside the meeting to hear what they had to say'. They were always very quiet. The person who first got 1 up to address them made a practice of commencing by requiring them to be peaceable, to show EVENING EDITION. with them should not Be permitted to go further. as it would be late before they rettirtred with Lo vett and Collins. The procession then moved on, till it got to the corner of the Coventry-road, when a man came running after it, without a hat. When he got dp to the rear of the procession, he said, " The p'olic'e were heating the people who were left in the Bull-ring," and urged them to go back. The people, however, still kept moving on, and the man made hi; war to the head of the procession, stating, as he went, that the police were beating the people in the Bull-ring; When he reached the head uf the procession, it was just beyond Trinity Chapel. He kept persuading them to go back, and at last induced many of them to listen to him. Some wooden palisade, and an iron hurdle were then broken up, and the people armed themselves with the fragments. Some of then, begged of the others not to go near the Bull•ring, and said they would not go with them. The bulk, however, paid no at tention to this, but returned towards the Bull-ring, in the direction in which they had come. I, with many others, who had recommended them not to do so, left them, and went down Bradford-street. I went home, but afterwards went up Spiceal-street, and into the Bull-ring, to see what was going en. I saw the armed mob come up the Bull-ring. There were many with them who looked like navigators, and whom I had not seen attending the meetings which bad been previously held. These persons were not with them when I left them at Trinity Chapel. When they got to the end of Moor -street, many of them threw down their weapons in the middle of the street, and left the others, apparently afraid of the police or soldiers. I was standing by the churchyard gates, opposite Moor street. The main body of the mob went along Moor street. When opposite the police-office they shouted, and soon after I heard glass broken there. The mob then ran along Moor -street, towards the Bull-ring, as if afraid, but finding the police did not come, returned again. This they did several times. At length the mob came into the Bull-ring, and commenced an attack upon Bournes' house. I heard Bournes' names men tioned in connection with the London police, and a re spectable man near me, who was smoking a cigar, said the mob had got it that Bournes had given something towards bringing the London police down. Another gentleman, with whom he seemed to be in company, said, " What ! are they paid ?" to which the first one replied, " Yes, by voluntary contributions." The mob then broke the windows of several houses in High-street, and brought out the stock of Mr. Leggett, and made a bonfire of it, just below Nelson's Monument. They took fire from this towards Bournes' shop. I went up to the shop just as some young lads were throwing through the doorway some lighted ticking. They were all lads. I saw no man engaged in this work. I laid hold of one who had lighted ticking in his hand, and said, " For God's sake don't go to set fire to anything, do go into the shop, and doubt' it." A lad who was near, with a stick in his hand, struck at me, saying, " He's a spy, give it him." I missed the blow, and, being ;harmed, made the best of my way home, running all the way. I did not come out again that night. The Committee, at its rising, adjourned until Thursday. THURSDAY, OCT. S. Mr. Alderman Sturge in the chair. The following witnesses were examined this day. Henry Green, of No. 4 Court, Fordrough-street, lamp-maker, examined. On Friday, the 12th of July last, 1 was coming up Peck-lane, about two o'clock in the day ; there was then no excitement whatever, and nothing more than the usual traffic in the streets. I had just , turned the corner of New-street, when I saw at the top of Peck-lane one of the London police strike a very respectable old lady, whom I judged to be about sixty years of age, upon the shoulders with his staff, and knocked her down in the horse road ; he then struck a man who was near, and knocked him down ; the man had on the dress of a stonemason. I did not hear the policeman previously speak to either of the persons he so knocked down. Immediately after he had knocked down the man, he met another, near the en trance to the Grammar School, with a whetstone, such as is used to sharpen scythes under his arm. The po liceman stopped the man, and took the stone from him, and asked him where he had it from ; the man replied he had bought it for his use ; policeman said he was a d—d liar, he had got it to strike somebody with. The man said he had not, upon which, the policeman gave him back the stone, and struck him with his staff across the shoulders, and told him to go on. The man asked him what that was for, and the policeman told him again to "go on," at the same time giving him a poke with the end of his staff, and pushing him on. He then left the man, and walked towards High street. I followed him. When at the corner of High street and New -street, he said exultingly. to two of his comrades who were standing there, " he would lay a wager the b—'s shoulders would ache for a month," or words to that effect. On the night of the 15th July, I was crossing from Edgbaston-street to Moor-street, about half-past seven in the evening ; there was then no crowd, either in the Bull Ring, or the streets adja cent, and nothing more than the ordinary traffic going on. At the corner of Moor-street and High street, I saw six or eight of the Birmingham street keepers talking together. I passed up Moor-street, and at the Public-office gate I saw several of the London police standing. Moor street was perfectly clear, until I got to Castle-street, where there were about half-a dozen people standing. One of these was a neighbour of mine, a master stonemason, who was talk ing to another man whom I also knew, and was telling him that the procession had passed• down Digbeth, to meet Lovett and Collins. Having spoken with them a short time, I parted with them, and went on business to Mr. James's, at the Star, in Lichfield-street. Whilst there, between eight and nine o'clock, a man came in and said they had been breaking the public office win dows. I and Mr. James went out together, between nine and ten o'clock, to see what was going on in the town. We came down Bull-street and along High street ; when near Carr's-lane, we heard a noise in High-street. We passed down Carr's-lane, and when near the chapel, we were overtaken by forty or fifty boys and youths, of from fourteen to eighteen years of age. Ido not think there was a man among them. They did not look like persons who worked for their living, but idle vagabonds and thieves. They were running quickly, and one of them, with a velveteen jacket on, said, as he passed me, to one of those about him, " Well, l'll be d—d if I haven't done my share." When I got into Moor-street I saw flames issuing from Bournes' house, and I met the soldiers coming down Moor-street. I then returned to Mr. James's, in Lichfield-street. William Blaxland, of Bull-street, woollen-draper, examined.—On the Bth of July last, I was coming along Dale End, towards High -street, about nine o'clock in the evening, when I saw a number of the London police, attended by a party of dragoons. There was no crowd in the street, and nothing unusual going on. I went up the Lower Priory, and when about half way up, two or three boys ran past me, followed by four or five London policemen. The last policeman, in passing me, struck me a severe blow with his staff, on the left arm, and ran on without speaking, either before or after the blow. At the same time I saw a man or boy before me, struck to the ground by a blow from another policeman. I ran af ter the police, one of whom turned round. I said to him, " I am returning home from public business, and I demand, that you either arrest me, or see me safe home." They made way for me, and I passed them, and went home. I inquired the next day, of persons living in the street, whether they had observed anything in the street on the night before to occasion the police to act in the way I now describe, when I was told by two boys at Phillips's hat shop they believed that, immediately after I passed up the Priory, the police were either hissed at or a stone thrown at them. I did not throw, nor did Ido or say anything to the police until after I was struck. The Committee, at its rising, adjourned until Tues day, the Bth instant. GAITIES AND GRAVITIES.—The loveliest and the gayest are subject to frequent inroads upon that most valuable personal distinction, a clear and ani mated complexion ; whether in the shape of cutaneous irritability incident to autumn, discolorations, or an abatement of occasional freshness, are, however, success fully removed and averted by the use of Gowland's Lotion, a preparation so singularly elegant and long established as to claim a place at every toilet where judicious selection aims to secure favourable and pleas ing results. Of not l e ss i m p or tance is Shaw's Milldam Oil for the Hair, an article of genuine purity, fragrance. and highly restorative properties. The Aberdeen Herald says--There is a great effort making to get up " Revival" demonstrat i ons here, but hitherto, thanks to the good sense of our citizens, without any perceptible effect. Dr. Dewar detailed to a meeting in the East Church, on Monday evening, what he had witnessed at the recent celebration of the sacrament in Kilsyth. He tried to throw discredit on the newspaper reports that have reached us, but he was not very successful. As he was actively engaged i n t h e p ecul i ar business himself, and fel t a assistance—or, in other words, thought himself inspired—it was not to be expected that he could be able to give so impartial and accurate an account of what wa s go i ng on as a cool spec t a tor. Of the preaching all night—the bathinc , in the m ill-dam—and other facts, about which there could be no dispute, the Rev. Pri nc i pa l , so f ar as we are aw are, wisely said nothing. Wednesday was our fast day, and, from the nature of the sermons delivered in some of the Established Churches, there seemed to be a preconcerted attempt to get up some unusual excite ment. Nothing, however, worthy of notice happened— even the flaming appeal of the Glasgow Mr. Smith, in which he advised the audience to " agitate in the mat ter that very evening," produced no remarkable effect. RAPID RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The rate of travelling o I the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railway line has recently exhibited a very considerable acceleration. Tuesday last, the London morning mail train to Liverpool and Man chester completed its journey from station to station under nine hours.—Doncaster Gazelle. HAMBURG MAIL. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 28.—His Majesty the Em peror and the Grand Duke Alexander arrived at Zars kcjestelo yesterday evening, after nearly five weeks ab sence, to thq great joy of the Imperial Family, and of the whole popelation of the capital, who were informed of the happy event by the flag which has been flying ever since the morning on the Imperial Winter Palace. FRANKFORT, SEPT. SO.—We hear that the French Charge d'Affaires in this city had made a complaint against the Journal de Frankfort on account of its articles directed against the conduct of the French Go vernment in the affairs of Spain, and the Censor will pro bably be induced to be more strict. HANOVER, SEPT. '2B.—lt is said that the police in the great towns is to be entirely re-organized, and with drawn from the magistrates, under whose direction it now is, conformably to the several charters of the towns ; and it is reported that a beginning has already been made, which as it is an infringement of the char ters of the towns, would give occasion to fresh diffe rences. PRAGUE, SEPT. 24.—A great work is now in pro gress here, viz., a suspension bridge over the Moldau. The present long bridge over the Moldau is supposed to be not quite safe for heavy loads, notwithstanding the many Saints to whose protection it is confided. BELGIAN AND GERMAN MAIL BERLIN, SEPT. 29.—Two more Roman Catholic families, consisting of twenty-nine persons, have lately joined the Protestant Church, because on occasion of marriages the Romish clergy required a promise that the children should be educated in the Roman Catho lic religion, a promise which the parties refused to give, had the ceremony performed by a Protestant Clergy man, and with their relations quitted the Roman Church. MORAVIA. -- SEPTEMBER. Some Commissioners lately appeared without any previous notice, in the vil lage of Stephanau, where, as has been mentioned in the Journals, several Roman Catholic families have em braced the Protestant religion. Circumstances have come to light which indicate the existence of a kind of Propaganda. Many bibles of the Bible Society Were found in the possession of the country people, wh° could not exactly state how they came into their hands. The most remarkable thing was a written manifesto of the Emperor Joseph, which was found carefully framed and glazed, in the possession of a man ninety years of age, and in which the Bohemians were invited to separate from the Romish Church. He would not say it was a forgery, and the old man afterwards said that he had purchased it of a travelling pedlar.-- Hamburg Papers, Oct. 5. fIELGIAN I UNDS—Bautione, OCT. 5 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per" Cent...„ 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ........... .44... c 95 Society of Commerce, 4 4 per Cent JOS.% Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent 744 National Society . —Brussels Papers, Oct. 5. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT 27. Five per Cents. Metalliques Font . per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgemeine Zeitung. Oct. 20 THE MARKETS. PRICE OF The highest price of Bread in thl Loat. Good Bread may be had at J PRICES OF BREAD. le Metropolis is 103¢d. for the 41b• F SEEDS. Per Quarter. St. Foin Rye Grass s. 40s. 4 45 P.scey Grass --s. Linseed, for feeding --5, 4os. 52". Ditto, for sowing —s. 545. 560 'Ditto, for crushing —s 423. O¢• Canary —5 70s. 80s. Hemp 533 40s. Per Bushel. White Mustard...lls. 001 . 145. Pd. Brown Ditto ...... I7s. Pd. 2ls. t'd. Tares ss. ed. 83. 64 'et) 301.3'l Foreign 2111/. 304 LEATHER. P Horse Hides, e r (T . e titian Sranish Calf Skins,3o to Illb.(doz) Per Cwt. New English Red Clover...sos. 6 Is Old Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditto -s. 603.635. Old Ditto Ditto -s. 0 -8. New White Clover 4ss. 555. 6.ts. Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. New Trefoil -s. 18s. 30s. Old Ditto -s. 12s. 225. Trefolium English Carraway -s. 545. 58s. Foreign Ditto -s. 508.5.‘35. Coriander . -s 20s. 255. Rapeseed, English fine (per La PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d d. to d. Crop Hides,3o to 401 b. each 11 13 1 12 2 2 ----4,0 50 l2 16 • 13 S 4 -t.O 60 13 18 i 15 2 2 Bull Hides Butts, V triol . . - English . ... 15 2s --- 70 100 -- Foreign . l4 18 Seal Skins, large Foreign Hides ...... ..... 10 12 i-.---- lar ge ....• . 2O 22 Dressing Hides .......... 11 14 IKips . .............. . -Shaved... 13 17 Basils... ..... ... • ......-.. 6 7 11 Best Saddlers' Hides..... 15 101 Bellies lli Horse Hides, E n glish .. 11 11`, Shoulders Calf Skins, if rounded 2d. to 4d. por lb. more. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham Pockets (per c wt.) .. . ... Of Os. 0/. Os. to 0/. Os. East Kvnt Pockets.. ................... 4/ lUs. 5/. 15s. to 6/. Os. Ditto Bags ............................. 3 s l. lin. 01." 00. to 4/. 4s. Mid Kent Pockets ......... ... ......... t. 103. 41. - 10 s. to 5 1 N.'. Ditto Bags ........................ ,„ S 10s. 0/. Os to 4. Os. Sussex ............................... ... Bl Or. 01. Os. to 3' 54. Yearlings ,.. 01 Os. 31. 38. to 31.10 i. Old Inds Old Duty estimated at 225,000/. PRICE OF OIL. mg/ HO RapeOil,brown, per ton, MA Os.-Reflned,3q.rri.opli •eedr lll o - - ' l7. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (10 00 ), 131 . Os. -r ape Ca :e, per tor , ' PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. .per 1121 b. Oil. Town Tallow s4s. Cd. Yellow Soap... s , _ 4. Od. Yellow Russia sls. ed. Mottled White . ......... . ........ -s. Od. Curd Soap Ditto • .-s. Od. Graves Melting Stuff .. Ditto Rough „.. PRICE ' F RAW FAT, per stone of SP% Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meiters) 3s. 134 d. PRICE CF CANDLES. The price of good Store t andles in the Retail Shops is as follows Candles, per dozen, Bs. Od. ; inferior, ;s. ')d. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d. Salience per dozen discount for cash. ( OAL MARKET. s, d Adair's Original Windsor's Polito', 29 0 Pontop Windsor South Hartley lB 0 Tanfied Moor Butes 2l Wylam. Walls End Brown's ...., l4 0 Walls End Clarke and Co l9 9 Walls r'nd Heaton ........ 22 Walls End Hilda 22 Walls End Perkins. Walls End Belmont Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 24 0 Walls End Haswell 23 Walls End Hetton chips arrived since s. d. Walls End Lambton ..... lfi 0 Walla End Stewart's ..... ' 24—. ?, Walls raid Whitwell ...... 23 u Walls End Hartlepool 24 0 Walls End Adelaide: 23 0 ' Walls End Barrington Toes :I 0 , W Its End G , rdon Walls End Nevin's Tandeld li. 0 Walls Ind Tees 23 Walls End , WrstHetton Hartley 2O n Stavely Main l9 4 0 Preston;Grange l6 g Leazes Main l7 0 last market-day, 135. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK• Wheat. j Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Hexham ••••••••••• Morpeth Penrith 8. to 5. s. to 8 38 L 6 72 25 46 60 72 32 40 65 59 77 34 Winchester —. &4 rail 37 39 Per ffnshel. s.d. s.d. S. s.d. Cardiff.--..... 0U 98 0 0 40 Carmarthen.... 0 0 8 7 0 0 4 6 Cowbridge-10 0 11 0 3 8 5 0 Swansea 9 4 10 41:56 6 0 s. to s. Per 8011. Barnardcastle 13 0 2C 0 8 0 9Si Durham.—.... IP. 6 IS 0: 0 8 0 Richmond 16 0 23 0 7 0 9 0 5t0ckt0n,.,..... 17 d 19 0 11 0 991 S. •. 41 - 28 36 F3l r. 3 - 29 42 44 Pease. v. to v. 29 23 27 s. d. A. d. 00 44 00 29 0 40 38 44 70 88 70 83 50 80 76 80 46 48 42 45 s. d. v. 4. 00 00 56 00 50 5 3 5 6 601 00 120 10 0 11 0 99 110 76 8 G HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. Wheat. Marks 450 to 504 Barley, Mecklenburgh Magdeburg .., 444 to 495 Magdeburgh... Anhalt, white 456 to 52•:? Holstein ........ red - Summer Brunswick 435 to 481 Oats, Elder ....... Mecklenburg 424 to 49: , Mecklenburg ----- Polish Holstein - East Frie.land... Rye, Mecklenburg - Dantzic - Elbing and Ko. Buck Wheat. nigsburg - Upland Riga COTTON. Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 9A.; Maranham Georgia, Ist sort 9% 10 Madras 24 s, B4 Surats 3dand 4th .... 8 Domingo COFFEE. Mocha f to 11 Domingo .................. Batavia Sumatra Rio 4% ' 35 38 s. d. s. d. 00 0 0 00 PO 00 00 00 • ' 76 0 0 86 9 0 0 90 ° 00 00 216 to 245 to 216 to 24 0 Is 6 to 20 1 no to 1 32 15') to 01 mg to 1 66 125 to ' 35 234 to 300 236 to V II to Bel to 4 " 330t• 14 to Porto Rico ............. •»• Havannah ».•••••••• Bahia SUGAR.—(Wit'' Havannah, White Nto 10 Brown SY4 Sap Rio, White 6 7 Brown Manilla Brow to 9 1 - 1 ' 4% t° s4 :: t b g 514 :.: 5% 0% 8% Discount.) 7% t 074 B a h i a, White ........ ..... Brown ............... 53i 51 1 P. Pernambuco, Whitewn ...7 2 ` Brown ...5 A u, 5 to Mi. CORN-LA ws.—To what cause must be reter,.- the present alarm, mischief, and ruin ? We owe them , no doubt, to a combination of causes. We owe them to a bad banking system, badly directed ; to an unforta" e nate harvest and other casualties ; but,above all, owe them to the Corn-laws, which Sir James Grattan' and the Duke of Buckingham declare to be the !e r Y * props and vitals of the Constitution. Wel l In A lgh- o t f Burke exclaim that bad laws are the wo rst kin" - tyranny.—Gateshead Observer. ---,..- PATENT LEVER WA TC H E S ' : ( I; With silver double-b o tt om cases 1 With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate en w „.. a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest lilaP r° _f e ",, ments i. e. the detacheil escapement, jewelled in four hu tin" taining power to continue going capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and m_ price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London, while winding up, at the ab v. (Seven doors from G r acachurch-street) . N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchai_2l:ooo BIRTS. On the sth inst., in Whiteh ha ll place, Lady Rennie, of daughter. On the 4th inst., at Guy's Hospital, Airs. James Stocker, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Bath-place , Peckham, Mrs. g• Enthoven, of a daughter. On the sth inst., at Aldbury , the lad y of the R e v. Jam es Galloway, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth inst. , at St. Mararet's, W estminster, Mr. Jam es Percy Phillips, of Camberwell,g to Malvina, second daughter of Christopher Bodien, Esq.; also of Camberwell. On the Ist inst. , at the English Embassy, Paris, Willitt H o ustown, Esq., late Ca p tain of the 10th Hussars, tourt. Matio." - Fraser, slaughter of Edwa rd Jesse, Esq., of Hampton-co DIED. On the bth inst., awe sghton, Robert George Clarke, Efq" of Parliament -street, tminster, aged 69. On the 4th inst. at Teigntnouth, Devon, Mary, only of Edward Marsha'll, Esq., of the War-office. On the 4th inst., Emma Sophia, daughter of Mr. Joseph Brittan, America -square, aged lb months. On the 4th inst., at Southampton-row, Russell-square, jyir• William Cribb, aged 54. London I Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG2,e No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in county of Aliddlesex.—Tuesday, October 8, 1839. daughter