The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

COURT CMCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen walked for some time this morning in the pleasure -grounds around the Castle. Prince Albert, the'Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Hardwicke, Captai n the Hon. Nelson Hood, and Colonel Bouverie, left the Caste at ten o'clock on a'shooting excursion. The royal party returned about two o'clock. Tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing in a pony landau and four, accompanied by the Ductless of Bedford. The Royal Family were all taken f or th e i r usua l exerc i se this forenoon. Her • Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal ; u gliness driving, in th e a ft ernoon , f o ll owe d' in a pony landau and four, in which were the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess Delawarr, and Lady Peel. A second pony landau contained Lady Caroline Murray and the Honourable Misses Stanley and Dawson. The Earl of Hardwicke, the honourable Colonel Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, attended the royal party on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duches s of Gloucester this afternoon at the Castle. Sir Henry Wheatley left the Castle to-day. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon are expected this evening on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner circle this evening will include her ''°3lall Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Mari Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Colonel Sir George ennPer, the Very Rev. the Dean of Chester, the Rev. Frederick and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in at tendance during dinner. C astle er . Maj es ty' s p r i va t e b an d a ft erwar d s a tt en d e d i n the Mr. Frederick D. Danver had an intrvie w . ith th Chancellor of the Exchequer s yesterday, at e w his official resi e ihince in Downing -street. l)i spatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and also t " 11 1 the Governor of the other North American provinces, Were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. • HAYMARKET THEATRE. kite on a song (and a very excellent farce it is, innitied o n a very b eaut if u l song ) was pro d uce d h ere 72 evening, entitled, Who's the Composer ? The re is laid in one of the petty dukedoms of Italy, and I t e . principal characters are the prosy, fussy, old , 411 cPlis di Pompolo (Mr. Tilbury), Minister of t r Grand Duke ; the Marquis's daughter Doro pett (Miss Fortescue), who is affianced to Count Af.e. e— " (Mr. H. Holl). Cafarini (Buckstone), wi V l a in., pedantic B u ckstony sort of musical composer, is in love with the lively, chattering, soubrette i i P t rla (Mis s J u li a B enne tt), by whom, of course, he is Cgued at, but who is devotedly attached to his pupil, 16 ,e 1 3', vivacious, mercurial Filippo (Mr. ti t d,:, ° , l) ), who sings the song, " Love's sere nn which the whole plot turns most by rally. This said serenade, originally written ten k e sno, and intended for Dorothea, has been sto lova the Marquis, who has the audacity to make t 2 ,0 ca the Grand Duchess, being by hira entrusted re am -a tirti to compose, and afterwards actually ad- D ukP ,to the Grand Duchess herself. The Grand fter e ~, Is outrageous. Who is the composer ? teat e a"ftmences the imbroglio. Count Fiesco is ar ia ? .." --- Pilipp o is denounced—Cafarini's handwriting off ° gnised in the score—and Cafarini produces the 1 1 0 ; 4141 serenade in the handwriting of the Marquis. eg e u nately the Grand Duke knows nothing of all this, L be ept the arrest of Fiesco, whom he orders to be set at lk oh tt Y ; and as the tag of the farce runs, if all have 1 10 ; 'unused, it matters not who is the composer. As, lvef the serenade is a very beautiful composition, Po s is r ",_hound in justice to state, even at the risk of ex the co ni rn to the displeasure of the Grand Duke, that pit?'-11P0ser is Mr. T. German Reed. The farce was well acted. Hudson was perfectly effervescent as fttli v P P ° . He was in excellent voice, and sung delight and his manner of conducting the concert in the a gn i.- Duke's gardens, in the last act, was worth y . of . tad` e ,n, himself. Buckstone was very quaint as Cafarini, The `Be other characters were admirably supported. tlie: iBe en scene was perfect, and, if we mistake not, bigestion, Who's the Composer ? will be asked every t at the Haymarket for many weeks to come. SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE . To—EWMARKET HOUGHTON or t,l 1,,,,,c81)4tY EVENING.—The settling e MEETIN G . Cambridgeshire in reality, c e n r e ratOPParently pretty easy, but far otherwise been only partially adjus . e . alCr `threeg account havin stood over altogeth t d , kk r `wo or others having Mr. Greville and oe,,va,?, notwithstanding, was a harmless horse for the ring, trio ' e w having won to any amount except k decidedly of the settle teat gentlemen, who are stated to have netted 2,000/. rlit tl i We shall not be able to speak decidedly on Monday text,: until we see what is done at kt,, , racing afternoon, disposed 4" ofany importance was .. ( , The this preceded bS' a sale of blood t ( ,! at which nothing 14,,"1118eneed at one o'clock with . . '-‘lher, and was attended by his Royal Highness Prince W e l ge of Cambridge, and a large and fashionable company. 1„i, subjoin the usual returns : ying a feather; three, j •• tY Founds, for two year olds, car! i st t . five, 9st 31b , six and aged, 9st 71b. 1 1 , -4), four, Bst 91b ; engagements, to be sold for 300 .... e winner, with his Las t three miles of B.C. ),,,ipl.leas, if demanded. (W. Abdale) 1 1. 4 ,1 ti. Bentinek's Clumsy 2 Att , A lhermarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, 2 yrs 4 14 derbert's b c by Venison, out of Pet, 2 yrs 3 i t . I I • 4. Shafto's Metal, 3 started, 130.41 e, following also but were not placed :—Mr. Mr. A. Well's Tiptoe, 4 yrs; Mr. W. 4 ,3 1 h 8 Misdeal, 6 yrs ; Mr J. Osborne's c by the Hydra, 2 elr'S Pretender, 2 yrs; , B rYs. Ihesterfield s as :Fl hof Lightning. 2 yrs. ~ and Lord C It 3 to 1 agst The Hydra co , 6 ettt ng-5 to 2 ags 6 to 1 agst Misdeal, and 6 to 1 agst 11: 4 1 agst Clumsy, t Metal, tvi.l,l ntil ,110" Hydra Lightning.clt his before starting, ran nearly lo tli es, and threw us jockey, was caught, brought back kw e 1 lost, and went off with a tremendous lead, which he - ‘- int aaled till near the new ground, when he . bolted out of ryceurs e to the right, was again brought into it at the Pla.,, ~1 0 .lghinin t e ' V2'fing-postand went in advance to the Red House; DentUlkar Boy and 1 ltue's Stan 'w on with th •-, the p l v to the g t hen went in front, and with The Little d her two followers (1, w i et colt at her heels, made p a . , iere sh e was b ea t en , an ran thus to the d ' Stance, r unning Clumsy lying up. Theyand very easil a r ta b l ‘ l . ce ..' ; w here dumsy passed' his . horses, won I fourth, ' . 7 a length, the Pet liv e fillies, 88t 41b.colt third, and Metal a bad eepstakes of 10 sous,each • for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; manded, &e D M The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. if de t. rd w , • • • k • 1 owlett's cby Montreal, dam by Dr. Syntax 2 1 k r r .. '3ltellY's by C. isto • • k„ st.3.n s Sharpshooter '8 Pawnbroker.. Le . e tt a ' aPe lit: i in g --5 to 4 agst the Montreal colt, 'and 7 to 4 agst_ v b . ". The Montreal colt made running all the way, and ti t a fine race half-way up the cords, won by a head, Tit 4.4ever having got up ; Sharpshooter a good third.__ . ,7, P 8 lak e s of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, 7s 101 b • four, r ., fo r Lib ; five and upwards, sold Bst 81b. The winner to be r l, - ,"n goys. Last half of Ab. M. ),1 1 , r eel's eh g Caen, 5 yrs (Nat) 1 k).(l:arry's b f Sally Brown, 3 yrs L'`.". C. Gill's b g hichard Cricket, 3 yrs , to , B it i h 'a ndwich's Prairie, 3 yrs Caw son's Kiss-me-Quick, 3 yrs running, and W ellT tin g-6 to 4 on Caen.—Caen made all all the claimed. ~ )4. 41 , canter by two lengths, d A at , • • • at s ' e b 50 h ft 7st 51b each. an w art' ig Course—Duke of t cB , t i ,' 8 Black Cat (Whitehouse) e bea ti t Sir W. W. Wynn's % NI a en k ann..— ' 4. 11 b. •M ) 5t04 on Anna Bullen. Won by a s a ,',_ ' l B t k,'en, 100, h ft. First half of Ab. M.—Lord G. Ben by v 8 Terrier, 2 yrs, Bst 61b (Nat), beat Lord Glasgow's f 1 01 eleeipede, out of Miss Whip, 2 yrs , 7st 51b ( Mann ) .-4 tin" Terrier. Won by three lengths. yn as 's .Stoker, 7st 111 b NT l t r ell, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.—Lord GI gow's Physalis, Bst ttly,'„ l. ','lrlles), beat Sir W. W. lati o p•--4 to lon Physalis. Wo N n V IV n a neck. i 7st 21b 1 if ' t all Plate of 100/ , for three yrs old and upwards. DI. liti..-,Stradbroke's Boar.ding-School Miss, 4_y_r , 2 ThWhitelock's Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs, 6st 91b ~.... not placed :—Mr. 4Q,,,,ge following also started, but were k etf atti a Intrepid 4 aged, 7st 91b t .( ; 78t 111 b—Colonel Peel's I-am-not-awar ., e, t 9 b— yrs_,_ Bst,—Lord G. Ben n it nck's Naworth, 1 Mr. J. 'tholl,r4 S andwich's Plantagenet, 4 yrs, i s Utz Psons Lord Saltoun, Mil tiqi,a T omaeha, srs 7st 21b—Mr. W. H. Johnson's . _ 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mr. Forth's Yrti,' Yrs, Fat 21b Y Si ' r R. W. Bulkeley's Queen Pomare, 3 121b—Mr. J, k,lit 121b —Mr Wi ram's Kesheng, 3 yrs, ' Petit li4slll'oBlS:vs.-t3h Main, 4 rs, sst 91b-11 5 I s r t . Newton's Mie, Sevens-the sst 6th—Mr. Osbaldeston s_ ___ . „ e t i e , t l ll, sst 2 1b—and Mr. Carr's Deodara, 3 yrs, 4 -st 11 Yn , "ht f l 'g - --3 to 1 agst Boarding-School Miss tak e a n n ) t , 5 8 to i 1 to 1 joßBt titiln-not-aware, 5 to 1 agst Rosamond,Fairha tcok the lead, fol tZed b v e aPomare.—Bourra Tomac l• 'll -', Deodara, Kesheng, Queen Pomare, and Milden, it t4 : 4'' lrr av " weights and the favourite lying off. These posi th 're tu • di t e li , k. , aintamed at a good pace to the turn of the ak,,, ao ia ,`,re Deodara took up the running, Bourra Tomacha lyii i 'e 4 , 1 67„ , and Naworth, Fair _Rosamond, and I-am-not mond and the fa -1.• llf awe towards the front, Boarding-School Miss still ':° s ' l 't - f h • At the distance Fair Rosa s i .4 J ,, - - , d. the front rank:, headed them at the cord?, and Queen IV' by ,;' e , race, the favourite having the lead, and winning third, beating Th e te r a,re b y 'ength ; Naworth a good %t.'ijierieLl'irtki: of 30 sovs. each; for two yrs old colts, ,k,, 11 „,e 1 - ;, tile se a c e o a nd to save his stake. From the turn of to ' ,,' .04 1 4 C 8 : i n. (45 Subs.) T 4 I i t h - 1, 8 b r ,C Sting, by Slane (71bs extra) •••(H• Bell) 1 2 $ e he We's Joy (21bs extra) G. O t hlel• , ° % Ying also started, but were not placed :—Lord r... le ace';', ' 4 r f Ennui (21b extra)—Mr. Bouverie's br f li l l o,%42l),,:xtra)—Mr. Isaac Day's The Crown Prince -I.l)4PsonceuT br c Footstool—M_ . r.. Hook's Buttress—Mr. QSto c k n - Dulcimer, out of Milliner r. Osbaldeston's tt7, , Port, out of the Mountain Sylph's darn—Mr. W. ur.,,e Malt (21b extra). bJo isettin 6t04 on Sting; 7to 2 agst Joy. it u f • kalt,— q i , Y malt, and the Stocport filly, went off together, and ott g b c i n pinning to the Duke's Stand, Footstool and , ( Itr B iaid g, till then, about fourth and fifth, with all the k t, Wi t , „ . aP, but wide, except Buttress and the Dulcimer i t t ; gf II "ere beaten early. Joy now took a decided lead, k.. -41 43 (1 " l a hi *th the race in hand ;at the cords he - ' o ot -8 ll moderate l ' 'ltl)Ne " Pastg hirn ia , w and wo t n ha in a canter, by two lengths. n half a length for second ; ~Bto , l ~ n f more (; ;r 4 a t t e b , " 51: ;: , I our t h . The pace was excellent. L i v111,, s „.. 11 . ft, Bst 41b each.. Last half of Ab. M.—Mr. act( e mama receives forfeit from Duke of Bedford's k a at, klirl a t ik h ? I°°, 11 ft, Bst 41b each. T.Y.C.—SirW. W. Wynn's I,,Alti tt ' v t ' A ll _ell receives forfeit from Mr. Shelley's Blanchie. t_ I) " ( I , 111 a 1-3 : -- Dake and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke of Ru t oke, eltua or Exeter, Marquis qf A arl Countess and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and of Waterford, Earl of Strad thitt,lnlarle, Earl of M - Ito n, Earl of Orford, Lord G2d_loasl i`lsob'e°rdiSidney Osborne, Lord a Edward Russel, Lord Lord W. ' ' ''Wl. I.B ' L 'ord George Manners, a Lord Maidstone, ( 11 4 ett, Lord lo' t re 's, Lord les Fitzroy, Lord James - _ Alexander Lennox, Lord H. Lennox, Lord 1, 4 4 0 .„ , _. Bentinck, Lord C ar vine wle'y, 'CrjArownl(!w Cecil, Count Bathany, Sir Jl?sePtl I,e co, itenry. Mildmay, Sir Minto Far uharson, Sir St. keel, ty gen, Sir Watkin Wynn, GeneraliGrosvenor, Col. k e so u, " ion. .).?. am and Mrs. Rous, o . )3 PIM, u He Forrester, Hon. Horace Pitt, Hon. Capt 'lll -"Iii• Ca t • H n Colonel and Mrs. Messrs. s-aat. , cm. 1 raser Villiers, Hon. Spencer Littleton, er c -rn, Pettat S xi, 'N u, -,,.. , helly, Jacq ues , , v. 4 King, Palmer, Rush, M. Campbell, Balfour, Clifton, Greville, Waller, J. Bayly, \\7,11,1,. Johnstone, Meikla G. H. Moore, Magennis, Peyton, 14 , 0 11, FaYne, Neville, Me rick Fitzroy, Cockerill, Bat Stanley, Brook, &e. Y ' THE BARON T he folio • ' • es rtly wing Was posted in the Subscription-room y morning • k t , Tne . • , l io n,, eting of the Jockey Club, held on Monday in ,I)ll.id_,,L.lton Meeting, 1845, for the purpose of taking into I)4',.lr,li,trijile circumstances attending the sale of The li t „heabi ra ~,,Lne betting against that horse for the Cam '"4 141( 1 ,', t ,ake8;it was resolved, that no evidence had "aore the meeting to induce them to proceed fur- k a • • re ported the a u ' t d 010 Ling r all ere rev enue s cl• l 'Or y n e s: 4l ' IlYlitt Yicre:l 1 in cOP fortniil,l during ing, l'il' tena er, cted 1" ,s• Stle eCte' l 10 u11 0C1; ranee t: Arai thr oug d O e A ll/ : n c , t : r ok: ay D v , I a idaNs 31 , f 1C0: jAr ries oj i eIY apa' l , 0 ' fro nt ' • bIY 00 rcroof, ther in the matter, or to attribute improper conduct to any parties." (Signed) G. BENTINCK. EXETER. The subject, we understand, was brought before the Club by one of the Stewardq, at the request of a gentleman whose conduct had been impugned, and, as his betting-book proved, without the slightest possible foundation. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NE W MARKET—TUESDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 501. for three-yr-olds and upwards, A.F. —Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ; Little Hampton, 4 yrs, Bst ; Welbeck, 4 yrs, 7st 101 ; I-am• not-aware, aged, 7st 101 b ; Alamode, 4 yrs, 7st 71b ; Duc-an-Durras, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ; Sister to John o' Gaunt, 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; Alice (h b), 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; Pergularia, 4 yrs, 7st ; Longitude, 3 yrs, Est 91b ; Kesheng, 3 yrs, Est 91b ; Leopard, 3 yrs, Est 91b •, Little John, 4 yrs, Est 71b-; Master Stepney, 3 yrs, Est 71b ; Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs, Est 71b; Scarlet Runner, 3 yrs, sst 71b; Jet, 3 yrs, sst 71b. Subscription Plate of 50/., for two and three-yr olds. T.Y.C. : —Energy, 3 yrs ; Master Stepney, 3 yrs • Nell Cook, 2 yrs ; Miss Love, 2 yrs; Miranda, 2 yrs; Blackbird, 2 yrs; Ter rier, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sows. each ; the winner to be sold for 150 sous:—My Old Back, aged; Khorassan, 5 yrs; Doctor Hill, 4 y-rs ; Devil to Pay, 4yrs ; Skeleton, 4 yrs ; Alamode, 4 yrs ; The Attorney, 3 yrs ; Jessie Hammond, 3 yrs ; Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs. Acceptances for the Nursery Stakes.—Polka, Bst blb ; Free Lance, 9st 31b ; Fugitive, Bst llb GI een Pea, Bst ; Chamois, Bst ; Tugnet, Bst ; Dexterous, 7st 121 b ; Curiosity, ist 101 b ; Benevolence, 7st 91b ; Tell, 7st 91b ; Regalia, 7st 91b ; Col lingwood, 7st 91b ; Morocco, 7st 81b ; Mecca colt, 7st Gib ; Cerberus, 7st 21b ; Guzman, 7st 21b ; Sister to Fickle Vs Rose, 7st. . . SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The new sliding scale bids fair to enjoy a. short though by no means a glorioos existence. For three brief years it has suf. fered the singular infelicity of not answering either of the purposes for which it was devised : it has neither procured a good price for the farmer, nor a sufficient supply in the hour of need. The fourth year hss come, and, with it, the emergency which was to test the virtues of the scale. Now is the promised day which was to unite those much desired contraries, dearness and abundance—to bring up wheat to 70s. a quarter, and to pour millions of quarters through the Cus tom-house. But behold, instead of the regular operation of the sliding scale, a coup d'etal ; instead of a long foreseen emergency, a sudden surprise—instead of a splendid proof of Ministerial sagacity, a - sudden disclosure of the most inexcusable folly. The wheat crop is by - this time ascertained to be indifferent in the quality, and short in the yield. So it is generally throughout Europe, in some countries even worse than in England. The accumulations of the corn-growing districts have been reckoned up with t lerable cer tainty, and found wanting. The Continental prices aro at this moment rivalling the English prices. The potato panic, which has so mysteriously risen and fallen, is much too universal not to be well founded. If there has not been a serious failure. never was there so wide-spread and so audacious a conspiracy to terrify the world. The result is a commercial phenomenon almost unparalleled. At this moment it is impossible to say in what direc tion the currents of human food will run for the ensuing twelvemonth —whether from Ireland to England, or England to Ireland ; whether from Odessa . to England or to Belgium ; whether from England to Belgium or vice versa. Where there are so many calls, the pos sessors are beginning to discover the value of their store. From one end of the continent to another the fortunate holders are beginning to hoard corn either for wealth or for subsistence. There is a rising cry to open the ports or even to prohibit exportation. In Ireland the calamity seems imminent. Sensible people are counting the months. Next January say some, next April say others, dire scarcity will begin her reign. The cry has at last reached Down ing -street, and to-morrow, it is said, there is to be a Cabinet Council to discuss the famine question. It is then to be settled whether the ports are to be opened by an order In Council, or whether, as some think necessary, by a special session held for the purpose. Such is the early catastrophe of the sliding-scale. It is impossible not to wish an end to this ill-fated contrivance by any means whatever. We are convinced that its existence so far will be found to have seri ously aggravated the difficulties of the next few years. England, and indeed all the civilised world, has just embarked in a vast aggre gate of enterprise beyond all former precedent, and beyond all mo derate computation of our powers and resources: Works have been undertaken, and wealthy companies have been pledged to their ac complishment, which will require the labour of millions, all to be supported out of the existing store. At any price, labour, iron, stone, wood, food, and other raw material must be procured, for the works once begun, it is ruinous to stop for the smallest breathing time. The pressure on existing capital bids fair to be greater than at any former era of our eventful history. So great a human effort, one so far beyond the probable powers of man, demands every possible alleviation and assistance. For our own part, we do not hesitate to express our conviction that the undertakings to which 'England is now irrecoverably pledged, not to speak of those which are further meditated, almost require another whole harvest, another whole year's supply of the necessaries of civilised life. Putting the future out of the question, we laid ourselves under the necessity of procur ing by any honest means an immediate supply. Whatever course is adopted at to-morrow's Council, it is, we believe, certain that the ports will be opened by same authority, and for some time. The authority is a constitutional question ; the time is one for common sense and common feeling to decide. To open the ports and then to shut them, to lay on duties and then withdraw them by a special Act of the Legislature—by an effort of the whole nation represented in Parliament—seems so impossible a folly, that it is scarcely worth while to discuss its propriety. The sliding scale was to discharge this delicate office. That elaborate piece of legislation, that wheel within wheel, has failed. Will a succession of special Acts be a less cumbrous affair? Will a living sliding scale— not so much Parliament as an actual convention of the nation assembled for this purpose—be a more na tural and praCticable plan ? It is impossible to suppose—that Parlia ment would meet and prorogue with the intention of holding another extraordinary session in order to watch the progress of the scale— that the Legislature will stand, like Justice in the Westminster Hall cartoons, everlastingly poising the scale—everlastingly re-adjusting the fulcrum, weighting the beam. Such is the happy and honourable conclusion of the Premier's master policy. The nation is forced at last, on its very knees, to do what even fouryears back it might have done as au act of justice and humanity. Famine now extorts from our grasp what might have been even regarded as a willing boon to universal man. So far Sir Robert Peel has degraded us to the reign of slavish fear and brute necessity. Once we might have declared a free trade in corn, now we must. The only consolation is that per haps the work will be more effectual, though less prudent. Four 3-ears since it might have been a fixed duty, now it is total repeal. That is all the landowners now gain by their devout subjection to Sir Robert ['eel. POST.—The mercantile newspapers seem to be exceedingly pleased at what they now consider the certain doom of the corn-laws. They rejoice in what they are pleased to term the clear and intelligible in dications of the public mind that these laws must be abandoned. The evidence to which they appeal consists of speeches which have been made, or letters which have been written, by Captain Row, Mr. Escott, and Lord Ashley. We own that we should not ourselves have chosen these persons as the most adequate expounders of the public mind. Nor do we think the mercantile newspapers would have done this honour, had they not made up their opinion before hand that anything which gave hope of tire repeal of the corn-laws, must be in accordance with the public mind, and must be clear, and must be intelligible. The case of that l.igh authority the Hon. Captain Rouse is rather peculiar. He is a much misunderstood gentleman. Some after-dinner reporter s animated with the zeal of a corn-law repealer, and probably with something else, told the world through some newspaper that the Hon. Captain had made a flaming anti-corn-law speech. This was copied into all the other newspapers, and the weight of the Captain's political reputation was added to the repeal cause. At the end of a tortnight, or so, it was discovered by this M.P. for the metropolitan city of the empire that the newspapers had made a corn-law repealer of him. He wrote to say that he was no such thing—that he had said nothing like what had been attributed to him, but, on the contrary, had maintained that restrictions upon the import of foreign corn were wise and neces sary, and that the relaxation of the restrictive system so far as re garded import of colonial corn from Canada was unwise. To no pur pose, however, has the Hon. Captain written. Even the Times will still have the Captain out in the same rank with Lord Ashley and Mr. Escott, to vouch against the corn-laws, and to make him (on the strength of an erroneous and repudiated report) an„expounder of the clear and intelligible opinion of the public against Legislative protection of British agriculture. This is the way in which that poor monster, the public, is pulled about by the ears. Writers of newspapers and Members of Parliament take equal liberties with that monster. Each drag:. him his own way, until at last the monster, partly frightened and partly enraged, kicks up his heels and rushes madly forward, roaring and bellowing and tossing about whatever he fancies for the moment to be an obstruction. Such is the folly, such the madness, which every now and then sways the gravest affairs of national concernment in countries which are governed by what is called public opinion. We are told that a repeal of the corn-laws would soothe the general irritation, and would mifetter commerce from unnatural restrictions. The commercialists think, of course, there are no human beings to be cared for but themselves. Little does it matter to them that between four arid five millions of people in Great Britain—two-thirds of them able-bodied men—would find the business by which they live injured everywhere, and in many localities utterly destroyed, by this altera tion of the law. This does not concern them. Their sympathies arc only with busy towns—where there are steam-engines heaving and straining hr the midst of smoke and noise—where there arc busy, bustling, speculative men—where there are smart talkers, and news-rooms, and reading-rooms, and mechanics' institutes, and a hundred contrivances to rive wealth and effrontery the advantages which modest merit seeks in vain. Such communities as these, in which the philosophy that the weakest roust go to the wall, and ought to go to the wall, is openly and impudently professed, are those alone which are cared for by the commercialists and their organs. The scattered ham ets of the country are nething to t hem ; and, because moth rig to them, arc nothing in the estimation of a Minister whom no spark of generous feeling ever visits—whose mind is the condensation of a compting house, and his best eloquence a balance-sheet of opposing items o 4 argument, set forth with the coldness of an arithmetician. The main question is this—does the business of agriculture in this country re quire Legislative protection in order that it may be carried on ? Would that business be extensively given up if protection was aban doned? Would it take another form than it wears at present, and become a business which would give less employment to the people than it gives at present? If these questions can be answered in the negative, the corn-laws are not wanted. If, on the other hand, they must be answered in the affirmative (which we believe they must be it answered truly), then the Legislature which abandons protection deserves to be abandoned by the people, and to suffer destruction at their hands. CHRONICLE.—We hear that it is the intention of the Cabinet to consider the railway question generally, and the proper mode of dealing with it in Parliament, at one of their earliest meetings Most people will say that they are not only right in their determi nation, but that they ought to have done it long ago. It was matter of notoriety last session that everybody was doing too much except her Majesty's Ministers ; that the Speaker was over-worked —that the Committees on standing orders was over-worked— that the Committees on Bills were over-worked—but, that the only paid persons in the State were standing at ease, and doing no thing. Mr. Estcourt looked at Sir George Clerk as a day-labourer surveys his overleoker. The one was continually active, the other continually idle. The one was unpaid for over-labour, the other was paid for doing nothing. But this is the least part of the evil. The truth is, a new pressure has come upon the Legislature, and they have not tire means of meeting it. Sir Robert Peel praises indus trious committee-men, and has already rewarded Mr. Darby for his septuagint in group XX. But the machine will not work. Another seed time has come, and when the crop is ready for the sickle there will not be labourers to reap it. In agricultural affairs we have the advantage of Irish assistance, but in railways our ju dicatures must be Saxon. But whether there are labourers or not, the thing does not work. Too many Bills must pass in any given year, whether your system be equal or unequal to the pressure, so long as the system continues as at present. There is a want of ge neral control—a want of some superior committee, or some superior tribunal, which shall deterniine how many millions may safely be expended. The individual Committees decide only upon the Bills, and deal with them, either l'or approval or rejection, on the merits. They do not take into account financial or monetary questions. They consider whether the London and York, or the Caledonian, is a good line, not whether the country can afford it within the next three years. They are assembled to do justice between the parties. They have nothing to do with the state of the exchanges—nothing to do with the proceed ings of other Committees —nothing to 'do with the important con sideration of the pressure of their decision on the country. We have laboured in vain, whilst everything was at premium, to bring this before the public, but to no pnrpose. We have laboured in vain to bring it before her Majesty's Ministers, but ineffectually. Sir R. Peel stood aloof, saw forty or fifty millions voted without an cbservation, and would still, we verily believe, stand aloof another year, were not the symptoms become alarming, atatthe necessity of some Ministerial intervention beet - me apparent. He must now, malgre lui, make himself a real First Lord of the Treasury. To Trim the country looks for safe pilotage in the monetary convulsion that may ensue. His reputation is financial, or nothing at all. When millions and tens of millions are concerned, it becomes a Government to show itself. But what, it will be asked, ought to have been done, and what can be done at present? Our own notion is, that her Majesty's Government last year, in conjunction with the Bank of England and tine Treasury, should have predetermined in their own minds how many millions might properly be voted for railways. Having done so, they should have adopted some mode of selection, by which those which pressed most, on the ground of public convenience, should have had precedence. It would have been difficult, no doubt ; but all useful things are so ; and Governments are established for the prevention or solution of such difficulties. It would not, however, have been impossible. A selec tion might have been made by the Board of Trade, and would have met with public support, had the reasons been obviously of a public character, unconnected with private interests. If the Board of Trade had taken such a course, instead of attempting what was imprac ticable, and therefore done imperfectly, we should have avoided half the mischief, perhaps half the gambling, certainly a great deal of the confusion that has occurred. But it could not have been done with effect without far more energy, and far more determination on the part of Sir Robert Peel to support his colleagues, than was witnessed last year. They do not commit such follies in other countries. The consummate pedantry of such proceedings Is the peculiar glory or reproach of the British Parliament. But be this as it may, a committee, or a commission, or the Board of Trade, or any authorised tribunal should have selected the lines which required precedency. There might no doubt be mistakes—there are mistakes, and have been always ; but there would, at all events, have been all due !ream to avoid them, and we believe that they would scarcely have occurred. Nothing, hew ever, of the kind was done. Everything was in confusion. Let us now see what must be done next year. For our own parts, we have nothing to recommend but what may be gathered from the observa tions already made. If Government consider that it is safe to spend any more money in 1846, they should first say how much. They should then set themselves to some mode of ascertaining what the lines should be. Now, it is manifest that the lines which have al ready made some progress should be the first to receive a decision. In fact, whatever be the state of the money market, it cannot be bad enough to justify any further postponement of those parties; but with regard to others, we would leave the selection to a commis .ton. If this is neglected, Parliament must, of course, deal with Individual Bills as before, and three or four times a greater number will inevitably pass than is compatible with public safety. RELATIVE CLC RA ILWA PRINCIPAL CITIES Al SCOTLAND, NAMES or RAILWAYS. Aberdeen ...... ....... Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath and Forfar • ... Ditto Half Shares • . • . A rinagh, Colr., & Fortrush Bandon and Bantry . Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down Birknhd,Lan.&Ches.Jne. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New (iss.at 714 dis.) Ditto Half Shares • . Binninglun &Oxfrd.June. Blckburri, and Preston.. flick burn, Darwn,& Boltn Bolton, W feint, & Liverpl. Boston, Stamfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter • ... • • Ditto New .. • • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. Cale,lon. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. & Duinbar. June Cale& Wan .•........... Ditto Extension .... Oambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares .... Ditto Half Shares • ... Chester and Holylwad Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley . • • • . Clitheroe Junction ...... Clydesdale Junction ..... Cork, lilackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon ... Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford Cork and Youghal Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Cornwall . • . • • • . • . • • I and Crewe ....... Direct Lon. and Manchstr Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth DirectMan.(Remingtou's) Direct Northern • • Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Coirne Dublin and Drogheda.... Dublin and Galway . • • Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . • • Dundee and Perth .• • • • • Durham. and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) Eastern Counties . • • Do. New ' ..... • • • Do. Perp. 5 pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. N 0.2 East Dereham & Norwich East Union Ditto Extension Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shares • Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Granton Do. Pref. 5 per Cent.. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peehles.• Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon • . Enniskillen and Sligo • • • • Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Fitwood, Prstn, & W. Hid. Ganiklrk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr. • • •• • • No Derby betting. NEW MATCHES. Thursday—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9st 71b, agst Mr. G. 11. Moore's Wolfdog, 7st 71b. A.F. 200, h ft. Friday—Duke of Bedford's Prologue, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Meiklam's Grimston, Gst 71b. A.F. 100, h ft. Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly, 7st 71b. T.Y.C. 50. Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst, agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 7st 101 b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Saturday—Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst 51b, agst Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, Bst. T.Y.C. 100,11 ft. Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Mecca, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's Emilia filly, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Either horse running in the Nursery Stake allowed 31bs. THE SAVOY CHURCHYARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,— At a time like the present, when the public health seems to be an object even with the Government, you will not perhaps consider me a serious intruder upon your time in directing your attention to one great source, not only of originating, but of exten sively propagating, disease. The churchyards in and about Lon don are perhaps some of the most prolific sources from which ori ginate malaria, and all its direful consequences, and I think I shall not have much difficulty in enlisting your powerful co-operation in endeavouring to expose and suppress these nuisances, when I call your attention to one in your own immediate neighbourhood. I allude to the Savoy churchyard. At all times there is a most noxious effluvium from this churchyard, and when (in a heavy dense state of atmosphere, as at the present time, and as has been for the last five weeks) a grave is opened,* the stench and emana tions are really intolerable, and truly deserving of public reprehen• sion and denunciation, as most fertile causes of producing and spreading pestilential disease. A corner for this communication will much oblige, yours truly, D. CRONIN, M.D., Physician to the Strand Dispensary for Consumption, &c. 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-square, Oct. 27, 1845. * Several graves have been lately opened within the last month. In one' day there were in this small churchyard no less than three open at the same time, the noxious exhalations from which were so overpowering as to produce on myself faintness, succeeded by violent retching. I have had to keep the windows battened down for seve ,id days, during which time I was obliged to burn myrrh, aloes, and other chlorine pastiles, and failed in overpowering the putrid odour. Several medical gentlemen who called on me at the Dispensary have complained of this noxious exhalation. _ - - Do. Quarter Shares.... Glasgow and Greenock.. Ditto New.. ......... JOSEPH ADY AGAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ditto Preference • .. lasgw, Dmfries, and Car. I ilsgw, K lima rnck, & Ant Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster • • Grand Junction .. • . Ditto Half Shares • • . • Ditto Quarter Shares . Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths brand Union . Great Eastern & Western tit ( irimsby &Dk Extens. (it Grimsby and Sheffield (it Stlirn & Wstrn (hind) Ditto Extension Great Munster • • • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Ste,—The inclosed letter is one of a numerous lot received in this neighbourhood from the notorious Joseph Ady. If you think it worth noticing in your Sun daily paper, it may prevent many of your readers from being victimised.—l am, &c. Colne, Oct. 26, 1845. T. THORNBER. "The undersigned is able to inform you of something he believes considerably to your advantage on receipt of twenty shillings for his trouble, by post-office order, on Whitechapel or otherwise. " Respectfully, " JOSEPH ADY, Acccountant. " No. 5, York-street, Charlotte-street, a quarter of a mile east of Whitechapel Church. " A housekeeper forty years, and personally known to each of the Aldermen of London. " October 18th, 1845. Do. New 401. Shares Do. New 301. Shares .. i;reat Western ......... Ditto Half Shares .... "Voluntary Referee—The Right Honourable Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House every day before eleven o'clock, who will seo justice done you, free of expence, except postage', which you must pay both ways.".: Ditto Fifths .......... Gulllt•d, Farehm, & Ports. Harwich . .• . tairsflii & Man. R. & Canl liuddersfield and Sheffield and Gainsborough • • (lull and Selby • •...•.. Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shares • • • • Inverness and Elgin .... Isle of Jersey ..... Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray .... Killarney Junctions ..... Lancaster and Carlisle .. Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford .... Ditto Extension ...... Leeds and Dewsbury.. • . Leeds and Thir5k........ Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford I,itnrek, Ennis, & Kil. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds l.iv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. !,iverpool and Manchester IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE NEW GAMING ACT. RIGHT OF STAKEHOLDERS TO RETAIN STAKES. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY NIGHT.—A decision of itself unim portant as to the amount in dispute, but of the greatest consequence to the sporting world as regards the question involved, was given this day by Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., Q.C., Recorder for the borough, at the Mayor's Court. The facts of the case are briefly these :—The plaintiff and defendant are both publicans, residing in this town. • At the close of the past year a wager was made be tween the plaintiff an d a man name d B ar b er , to play a game at "put," the plaintiff sta ki ng ii. 55. , and his opponent I/. In con sequence of a dispute having znisen in the course of the game, and Barber affirming that he had won, owing to some mistaken play on the part of Smith, that party at once threw down his cards and re fused to play any further; at the same time denying that he had lost the game, and asking for his money from Mr. Chattaway, the defendant, who refuted to give it him, but handed it over to Battler. The consequence was that Smith sued Barber for the 11. 55., and the case came on for trial this day, when Mr. W. Morgan appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. T. Harding for the defendant. A witness having been called by the plaintiff's attort.ey, who proved that the money was paid into the defendant's hands in his capacity of stakeholder while the game at cards was being played, Mr. T. Harding said he thought that that fact having been admitted by the plaintiff's witness must put an end to the case—to show which he would refer the Learned Recorder to the 18th section of the Act of Parliament recently passed to " Amend the law concerning Games and Wagers," in which it was enacted, " That all contracts or agreements, whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming and wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing, alleged to be won upon any wager ; or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event OA which any wager shall have been made. Provided always that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription, or contribution, or agreement to subscribe and contribute for, or to. ward, any plate, prize, or sum of money to be awarded to the winner orjwinners of any lawful game, sport, pastime,:or excercise." The Recorder having looked over the clause and the Act in general, expressed some surprise at the construction of it, and said, that if the Parliament were obliged to. put a reasonable can. struction upon all the Acts that they passed, he was afraid that they would not often find time for a recess. Although the Le gislature might think that by preventing actions being brought against stakeholders, they should be tatting an end to parties en. trusting stakeholders with money, he did not anticipate any such result, nor did he think that they would retain the money for their own use, but give it to the parties they might deem the winners, and of course such a decision would be final, as no remedy could be obtained from the stakeholder. Dian Half Shares .... Ditto Quarter Shares.. '.lverrl, Ormskrk, & Prstn London and Birmingham 1 )itto Thirds.. ...; .... Ditto Quarters . ',option and Blackwall Lndn. °std. & Chltnham. L tuition and Brignton • • . Ditto Consolid. Eighths i,ontion and Croydon .... Ditto New . ••• • • • • Do. (luarant. 5 per Cnt. t.onilon and Greenwich . Do. Pref. or Privilege.. f,ondon and South Westrn Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501 Shares.. 1)o. New, 401. Shares.. London and York Ditto (11 awtry) London and Windsor.... Lomb', Salsbury, & Yeovl London,terry & Coleraine Londozelerty & Enniskilln Lynn and Ely . • .. • • • Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds .. Ditto half Shares .... After hearing Mr. Morgan, who sought to explain away the meaning of the clause, but without effect, the Learned Recorder, presuming that playing the game in question was unlawful, decided that the plaintiff must be nonsuited.! IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. Din.tri, Ocr. 27.—The weekly meeting of the Association was held this day, J. P. Somers, Esq., M.P. for Sligo, in the chair. ])itte Quarter Shares.. Ditto Sixteenths • • Stanelre r and Birkenhead Hanel ieqer &Birminghin Ditto ..luarter Shares.. Ditto New Quarters ... 80. Con. & Welsh June. annhestr, Boltn, & Bury Mnelistr, Buxtn, & Matik Sian. Shef. and Mid. June. Mancliestr & Southamptn Midland Ditto Fifths • • • • DIV o New ... - Pi Mr. O'CoNNELL observed that he had received an elaborate letter from Mr. John Augustus O'Neill, on the subject of the horrible potato disease that was afflicting the country. He would abstain just then from having that letter read. At the termination of the proceedings, for which we are unable to find room, the rent for the week was announced to be il4Bl. 15s. 11d. The meeting then adjourned. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BIRMINGHAM LAST NIGHT. —We regret to state that an accident occurred at Birmingham yesterday evening (Tuesday), which terminated in the death of Mr. Simmonds, the highly efficient and much-esteemed secretary of the Birmingham Insurance Company. It appears that yesterday of ternoon Mr. Simmonds, in company with Mr. Mills, a cabinet maker, residing in New-street, went out for the purpose, as is sup posed, of enjoying a ride, and that about seven o'clock in the even. ing the carriage in which they were seated, and which was drawn by a spirited pony, was observed passing along Suffolk-street at a rapid pace. When near the bottom of a hill in that street the car. riage overturned, and the two gentlemen were precipitated into the middle of the road, where they lay until they were raised by parties who came up to their assistance. It was then found that Mr. Simmonds was quite insensible, and that Mr. Mills, although not so severely injured, was only able to state where he resided. A conveyance was procured, and the two gentlemen were at once conveyed to the residence of Mr. Mills. Surgical attendance was promptly rendered, but without the desired effect as far as re gards Mr. Simmonds, who expired (it is presumed) shortly after the accident occurred. Up to this hour (10 p.u.) Mr. Mills re. mains in a state of insensibility, but it is expected will ultimately recover. Owing to the hour at which the accident occurred, and the distance from the residence of the parties to the spot, we are unable to furnish our readers with an account of the origin of the accident. _ ~ Vv Died, at herhouse, Edinburgh, on the 11th current, Mrs. Frances Ingram Spence, widow of the late Rev. John Thomson, minister of Duddingston. AMATEUR THEATRICALS. — The town was curiously amused a few weeks ago with the rumour of a private performance of Ben Jonson's Every Matt in his Humour, which took place at the little theatre belonging to Miss Kelly, in Dean-street, Soho; and highly eulogistic whispers were circulated concerning the apt ability of " Boz," the accomplished John Forster, and the numerous wits connected with Punch, who sustained the leading characters. The audience consisted of the most distinguished literary men and critics of the day ; and their testimony to the merits of " the players " evidenced in their consummate tact and perfect knowledge of stage business—seems to be warm and universal. Stimulated by the suc cess of the experiment, a second performance is talked of; and we have not only some reason for knowing that it will take place on Saturday the 15th of November, but that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will honour it with his presence. The " company "in the former instance included the names of Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, John Forster, Mark Lemon, Dudley Costello, Leech, Frank Stone, and others of kindred repute ; and we presume there will be no alteration in the arrangements when the ghost of " rare Ben " summons them together again. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUP PRESSION OF VlCE.—Within the last few days the greatest consterna tion has been caused among the vendors of obscene prints in different parts of the metropolis, in consequence of immense seizures which have been effected by the officers of this Society, not only of books and mints of a disgusting character, but also of copper-plates and letter-press amounting to several tons, which must put a check is, if not entirely abolish the trade in such articles, as all the goods found have been removed from the different premises and destroyed. In two shops in Holywell-street, Strand, there were seized no less than six thousand prints, several hundreds of books, copper-plates, and other articles, upon which very high prices were placed, together with the autograph letters of persona who had correspondence with the establishment for such articles. In Wych-street, Strand, and Fleet street, similar seizures have been made ; and in Russell-court, Drury lane, the enormous number of sixteen thousand prints, coloured and plain, have been taken and destroyed, with other property of the same description. A Custom House officer was also in attendance, by whom French prints and books were seized, as not having passed the Custom House, and for which duty could not have been paid. CLEARING THE RIVER THAMES. —During the last fortnight Captain Fisher, R.N., the principal harbour master, jab been engaged in removing by explosion, three vessels, sunk te tween Northfleet and Sea Reach. The weather has been extremely favourable for the operation, which has been most successful; the cylinders containing the gunpowder used on this a oc a c c a h s a lo o n ne w t e lad re e o n f as improved constructio n, and so well placed that with stone was nearly all destroyed by a single charge. This mode of clearing the River Thames of wrecks is proved beyond all doubt to be the most expeditious as well as the least expensive, and re flects great credit on the Corporation of London and Capt, Fisher, for the effectual means taken to preserve a free navigation. DEATH OF M. FORTIQUE, THE VENEZUELAN MINISTER.—We regret to have to announce the sudden death of M. Fortique, the Venezuela. Minister, at his residence in Wimpole sireet, yesterday morning. M. Fortique had lately returned from a diplomatic mission to Sweden, and had complained for some time past of cough and difficulty of breathing, but not to such an extent as to excite the alarm of his friends. It is, however, the opinion of Mr. Erichden, the deceased's medical attendant, that the immediate cause of the fatal result was a neglected cold and inflammation of the lungs. M. Fortique was about 45 years of age, unmarried, and much and most deservedly respected by the corps diplomatic in this country. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Late on Monday night Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the Bakers' Hall, Harp-lane, Tower-street, on the body of Thomas Cooper, aged 28, tide-waiter in the Customs. It appeared from the evidence that, about a week ago, the deceased had been reprimanded by his superior officer for absent. ing himself from duty without leave. This appeared to have a great effect upon his mind. On Saturday last he reported himself "sick," and on the same day took a lodging at the King's Head Tavern, Harp-lane. On the following morning the servant went to call him at ten o'clock, when he replied that he would be down in a few minutes, but not making his appearance at eleven o'clock, he was again called, and his door was found to be fastened. The police were called in and the room-door burst open, when the deceased was found suspended by a piece of rope from the rail of the bedstead. Verdict— " Temporary Insanity." PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY.—Yesterday a special general meeting of shareholders was held at their offices. Mr. Malin was chosen chairman. He stated that the meeting was to take into consideration a plan for increasing the capital to 500,0001., in order to meet the largely increasing operations of the company, not galvanizedclienofrtaihlesi,rbpoailteern-tplates, andall ire o n th , e b r ut des al c so rip h . ! tions of iron, which the company manuf acture in Staffordshire and t o h n e ly ir i :l general the p e coperationsiala article Wales, and for those purposes it was proposed to call up immediately 100,0001. of the increased capital. The motion having been seconded, was unanimously adopted by the meeting. Do. Con. Binn. & Derby &Mixt l;t Westrn (Trish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newest I & Daringtn June. Do. New (Brandling).• Newcastle and Berwick.. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Nwestle, Durham, & Lan. Newport & Abergavenwy Newry and Enniskillen.. Newark and Sheffield . • • North British • • • • • • • • • • Ditto New Shares . • • • Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dls.) Do. Quarter Shares North I►evon North Kent . • • • • • . ..... North Staffordshire .... North Eastern.. North Union (A)........ Ditto (B) • • ...... North Wales Mineral.... Ditto New Shares .... North Western .. • • North Wales • • Norwich and Brandon .. Ditto New.. „ „ Not., Belvoir, & Granthm Nottingham and Boston.. Noll., Er wsh. Val. & Mae. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester .. Oxford and Cambridge .. Perth and Inverness .... Portsmouth Direct...... Preston and Wyre Ditto Half Shares .... Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Freston & Wyre Extens. Richmond & W. End June Rugby and Huntingdon Scottish Central • • .. • • • • Scottish Midland • • • • • • • • Slieftkid and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto ditto (No. 2) • Ditto ditto (No. 3)• • Sheffield and Lincoln • • • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry Ss Grand June. Slu•ewsb., Wor., & Crewe Slaws ,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir ithrwsbry & Trnt Shrws, I lerefd, & N. Wales Slamannan . • . • • • • • • • • • • South Devon . • • • • •• • • • • South Midland • • • • • • • • • • South Eastern and Dover Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I 1)o. (155.33/.65.8d.) „ 2 Do. (ids. 301.) „3 Staines and Richmond . • • Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales • . • • • • • Tean and Dove Valley • • Trent Valley Do. and HolyheadJunc. Vale of Neath • • • • • • • .. West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford and Carlow • • Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfd,Wxfd,Wick& Dub Wakefield and Bradford.. Wakfld, Penteirct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . West fan icashire Worcester and Tring.... Whlteharen and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh Midland .. 150 87 35 2% 5p 4% 156% --- _b PI West Cornwall West Yorkshire Wilsontwn, Id .& Coltness Wiita, Somrst, & Weymth Wilts, Somrst, & Southam Yarmouth and Norwich Ditto New . York and Carlisle .. York and North Midland Ditto flail Shares .. • . Ditto Searbro' Branch Ditto : , elby Ditto Extension .. • Torkabi I a St Glsgow Unn ISING PRICES OF Y SHARES Tint rD TOWNS IN ENGLAND, ASD IRELAND. 1 2 5 - ; IA G~ 2tS% 6IA 4 160 IN 1%, 24 ..... 11359 a 125 - I 2%pi EXETER, Ocr. 28. 2.. p 1 486dp1 8 P 1 -3 P 4%p 124 s p 1 4386p1 IClos'd: within the last fortnight, and I of them are wholly insigni& therefore soon be expected :-- London and Birmingham .... London and Brighton .... • • •• Great Western ..... Bristol and Exeter ...... • • • • London and South-Western South-Eastern and Dover • • • • SrocKIE XCHANGL—The sales are--Exeter and Crediton, 5 3 / 4 —Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % p.—North Devon, THE'STIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING.. OCTOBER 20, 1845. DA—Exeter, Topsham, sold Exmouth Mewl's Central Cornwall and Devon, % p.—South Wales, 5j Cornwall, 3 lA—Bristol, New, 91-A. - - SHEFFIELD, Om 28. STOCK saes are—Derby and Gains borough]' 2%—Grim-by and Sheffield, 1634—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 4 1 1—Wakefield and Harrogate, 3%. HULL, OcT. 28. The demand for shares at low prices is very great to-day, and far less disposition evinced by sellers to quit ; indeed the market is decidedly better. The sales were—Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guar.), 100—Ditto, Half Shares, 21—York and North Midland Extension, 25 1 4—Great Grimsby and Shef field, Quarter Shares, 4 3 4—North British (Dalkeith), Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 1 3 4—Axbolme, s—Cam bridge and Lincoln, 4—Derby and Gainsborougb, 2%—Dud ley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 3 1 4—East Lincolnshire, 326 —Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 3 4—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, par.—Hull and Barns ley Junction, 21. 6s, p.—Leicester and Bedford, 21. 3s.—Lin coin and Wainfleet, Bs. 6d. p.—Liverpool and Leeds, 3% — London and York, s—London and Norwich Direct, 9s.— Nottingham and Gainsborough, 7s p.—Nottingham and Boston, 31. 13s. 9d.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 2 1 4—South Midland, 6/. 3s. 3d—Wakefield and Bradford, 3%—Welsh Midland, 3. YORK, OCT. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington, New (Brandling), 47%—North British, New, 4t 4 Ditto, Carlisle?, 326 —York and North Midland Extension, 23 1 4—Axholme, s—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 2—Grand Union, 2 1 4 —Leicester and Bedford, 226 . —Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%—Lon don and York, s—Newcastle and Berwick, 'OA—North Kent and Direct Dover, 3 1 4 —Welsh Midlands, 3%. THE EASTERN COUNTIES EX TENSION, AND TUE CAMBRIDGE AND WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Yesterday a general meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extension, and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railway Company, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Committee of management. Mr. RISING (a director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway) having been called to the chair, observed, in reference to the importance of a direct line of railway between Cambridge and Worcester, that an unbroken line between the two great centres of traffic, namely, that of the Eastern Counties pt Cambridge, and that of the mineral districts connected with Worcester, through which the proposed line would pass, was an undertaking likely to be combined with the greatest future advantage, as well as with the best chance of pecuniary success. Such a line would also serve as a junction between several important railways, as the London and Birmingham, the Northampton and Peter borough, and the proposed line from Warwick and Leamington, to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of England, the effect of which he thought would tend greatly to enhance the value of their plan. He then stated the object for which they were called together, and remarked that he had no doubt they would be able to select from their provisional committee a most powerful and im. portant acting committee. _ Mr. D. C.l-11cos then proceeded to give a statement of the proposed line, which he stated, after commencing at Cambridge, which had become the traffic centre of the Eastern Coun ties Railway, by the line of railway intended to be formed by that company, would pass in to Bedford, go to Olney, and cross at or near the Blisworth station of the London and Birming ham Railway, where it will communicate with the Northampton and Peterborough line; it will then advance westward, and cross the Oxford and Rugby line at or near Fenny Compton to Stratford on-Avon, joining there the proposed line from Warwick and Lea mington to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of Eng land. Continuing its course through Chester, the line will go direct to Worcester, and thus terminate the great centre traffic for the mineral and manufacturing districts of South Staffordshire, Shrop shire, and North and South Wales. The proposed line does not inter fere with any existing railway, and presents an unbrcken line be. tween two great centres of traffic. Negotiations have been entered into with with the Eastern Counties Railway Company, whose sup port and co-operation will be ensured for obtaining the line, and an arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Alcester, by means of which the Eastern Counties traffic will pro ceed to Worcester. The directors will have power reserved to them to amalgamate with any other existing or projecting com panies. The project promised the most important results as son nected with the Eastern Counties. A Committee was appointed. MIDLAND RAILWAY ACCIDENT. INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MR. BOTELER, Q.C. After the examination of several of the officers of the Company and other witnesses, whose testimony went to show that there was great blame due to Wheatley, the driver of the assistant engine, for neglecting the orders given him, Mr. Palfreyman stated that Wheatley was ready to answer any question that might be put to him, or to make a statement, if desired. Wheatley then described that he saw a white light and then a red one. That on finding he was approaching them, he told his stoker to put on the break. He immediately also reversed the en gine, but it was too late, and just as he was preparing to jump off the collision took place. He was thrown on the ground. The Con°Nna then read over the whole of the evidence, and mane some observations as he proceeded. The jury were then locked up for half an hour, after which they returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Thomas Wheatley. Wheatley had been present during the inquiry, but when the verdict was delivered it was found that he had decamped. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The share market was decidedly better. Now that the first excitement has passed, and much of the rubbish that before encumbered business has been removed, prices exhibit a healthier appearance, and are progressing towards a fair value. The settlement in several of the new scrips to-day was effected with ease. The account of the last fortnight, which will be arranged on Friday, promises less difficulty than was at first apprehended. The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille , which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOod. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44 ; and theexchange at Paris on London at short being 25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than hi Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 430 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10%d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13s. 7W. ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 7f, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on Lemiun is 1091 per cent., and the parof exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.18 per cent. in favour of England ; but the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. On the amalgamation of the various French projects with the Great Northern of France, it has been customary to return so much of the deposits originally paid as exceeded the amount of the deposit required on the shares of the "constituted" line appro. priated to the original shareholders. The directors of the Pepin Lehalleur project have, however, formed an exception in this respect. Instead of returning the whole difference, they have de tained Ss. 6d. on every "constituted" share (one of which is appro. priated to the holder of every 12 original shares), on the somewhat indefinite plea that it is to cover "expenses." The other com panies not having required anything for "expenses," and it having been generally believed that the interest on deposit libel the state of exchange between the two countries were quite sufficient to cover all preliminaries, the holders seem to think that a particular ex planation of thisdeviation from an usual course is required. What was anticipated with respect to the bankers giving infor mation about railway deposits proves to be quite correct. A cor respondent, who has applied to one of the leading houses in Lom bard-street, was referred to the " Committee" of the Company in question, with whose permission, but not otherwise, the state of the balance would be made known. On the other hand, few of the companies seem disposed as yet to volunteer the information. It will evidently therefore take some time to get at the truth, though ultimately it will come out. in Parties the City interested in railway stock are watching with some solicitude the effect which the exposure and fall in price of the mere visionary schemes and bubbles may have upon the old-esta blished undertakings which having got into steady work are paying good dividends. In all such cases it is not to be expected that they can wholly escape from the influence of the general alarm, principally because persons who are in want of money to fulfil obligations for scrip will part with solid stock rather than allow their credit to be injured. In the ordinary state of business buyers and sellers balance each other, and there occurs no excess either way; but the best securities cannot stand under any sudden pressure, and this seems just the case at present with the tried descriptions of railway property. Unless, then, there exists some reason to the contrary, they will soon regain their former estimation, as the prudent capitalist who has kept aloof from the prevalent infection will always have funds in hand to purchase what the other, through his distress and folly, is obliged to throw away, or to part with at a great sacrifice. Great fluctuations in railway shares have necessarily, however, this injurious conse quence—that they prevent timid persons from resorting to them for an investment, and even one instance of the kind may produce both a deep and a general impression. None of the companies stand in a much better position than the Great Western, yet the fact that a purchaser of 10 shares in its stock, less than a year ago, would be now at least 1,0001, the poorer by the transaction, must render a return to the confidence formerly enjoyed a long and difficult work. This great depression has not been wholly pro duced, as it need hardly be stated, by the present crisis ; though the property has materially declined since the publication of the Bank notice. Annexed are the variations which have occurred it is gratifying to obserre that some :ant, and that steadier markets may October 14. October 27. ilighest.l Lowest. I Highest.) Lowest 218% 217 217 214 70 6814 6314 GO 162 160 149 145 101 99 90 85 77 77 75 72 41% 41 1 A 38 37 CHRONICLE—The "standing order," regulating the pay. ment of railway deposits, to which we alluded yesterday, provides that It shall not apply to any railway Bills which have been before Parliament during the present session (that is, session 1845). and which may again be introduced in the next (1846), or which are already provisionally registered, or the subscription contract for which may be already executed, or partly executed, on the 29th day of July, 1845 (not 1844, as stated yesterday by a misprint), but with respect to such Bills a sum equal to one-twentieth part of the amount subscribed shall be deposited as before provided—that is to say, previous to the presentation of a petition for the Bill. The Act, which is ',printed in the appendix to the standing orders, namely, the Ist and 2d Vic., c. 117, enacts that every sum paid Into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General, shall be paid in and placed to his account there pursuant to the method prescribed by the Act 1 George IV., c. 35, which Act simply provides that, when any persona are ordered to pay any sums of money, or any Exchequer-bills, bills of exchange, or other negotiable securities into the Bank of England to the account of the Accountant-General, the party so ordered shed' pay the same into account in the name of that officer, and shall take receipt for the same from one of the cathiers, " which receipt shall be delivered to the Accountant-General." It is not the money or securities that must be delivered to the Ac countant-General, but simply the " receipt," and there can be no legal obstacle, therefore, in the way of an arrangement between the banks who hold the railway deposits and the Bank of England to have the required amount at their credits in the books of the Bank, so that when the Speaker's order is issued for paying the deposits to the Accountant-General, the amounts may be trans ferred from the credit of the banks to an account in the name of that officer. Such railway companies as may have invested their deposits in securities may make the arrangements with the Bank of England themselves, and have the amount transferred to the credit of the Accountant-General. It does not appear to be neces nary that they should realise their securities, hut they may be placed to their credit at the market price of the day, the depositors, of course, making good the difference should the market price de cline, and receiving the benefit of a rise. Last year the Accoun. taut. General insisted on being paid in " money," strictly so to speak ; that is, in coin and notes, and would no doubt enforce the same rule again, unless the deposit banks and provisional com mittees of railway companies take steps to arrange the business in a more easy and convenient manner. To use inferior hay, cut all the hay and straw to gether; then form a gruel of offal grain and linseed cake ; steep the grain and cake for may-eight hours; mix it hot, 'press it down and leave it forty-eight hours. The cattle eat it eagerly and thrive on it. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Ocr. 27, The Queen has been pleased to appoint Elizabeth Lucy Countess of Desart to be one of the Ladies of the Bed chamber in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Cathe rine Countess of Dunmore, resigned. ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 14. Corps of Royal Marines—T. B. V. Fitzgerald, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; J. T. Haverfield, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; J. Sangster, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Mi litia—C. James, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Oct. 22. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewsbire. Renfrewshire Regiment of Militia—A. Campbell, Esq ,to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Oct. 20 ; P. Maitland, Esq., to be Captain, Oct. 18; A. Pollock, jun., Esq., ti be Captain, Oct. 20. BANKRUPTS. _ - James Summers, cabinet-maker, Cambridge, to surrender Nov. 6, and Dec. 12, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basingliall-street ; Daddeley, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields ; Bin,,, Cambridge. George Michael Von Dadelszen, merchant,- Mincing-lane, City, Nov. 6, at one, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court 01 Bankruptcy. Green, officival Lszignee, Aldermanbury ; Law rence and Plews, Bucklersbury. George Hoskins, watch andchronometer maker, Peckham, Surrey, Nov. 6, at twelve, and Dec. 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, -Alderman bury; Ashley, Shoreditch. William Bellami, builder, Clarence-place, Middleton-road, Kingsland-road, Nov. 4, at twelve, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole man-street, London ; Kearns, lied Lion-square. Isaac Blackburn, engineer, Minories, Nov. 7, at twelve, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chamhers ; Barber, Fur nival's Inn, London. Edward Leman, wharfinger, Church-row, Newington, and Thomas Kinsman Bryan, wharfinger, Upper Thames street, City, Nov. 7, and Dec.l6, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, City; Matthews, Arthur-street - West, London-bridge; Matthews and Hilder, Gravesend. Henry Tune, boot maker, Blackfriars-road, Nov. 5, at half past twelve, and Dec. 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Bickley, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury. Sophia Smith, grocer, Garboldisham, Norfolk, Nov. 5, at eleven, and Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Torkington, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. William Burns, draper, Rhyl, Flintshire, Nov. 10 and Dec. 8, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Reed, Cheapside, London; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. James Docker, joiner, Birkenhead, Nov. 10, and Dee. 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Frampton, Gray's Inn, London; Hilliar, Birkenhead. Richard Warr, auctioneer, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, Nov. 13, and Dec. 4, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Pearson, Essex-street, Strand; Cox. Beaminster • Bishop and Pitts, Exeter. Thomas Howarth, woollen manufacturer, Rochdale, Lan cashire, Nov. 12, at eleven, a- d Nov. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester • Clarke, Medcalf, and Gray, Linc o l n ' s Inn-fields ; Whitehead, Rochdale. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. W. Hill and W. K. Wackerbarth, ship agents, Leadenhall• street—fourth div. of Sid. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. T. Seddon, upholsterer, Caithorpe-place, Gt ay's Inn-road-- first div. of 20s. in, the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. J. M. Leader, coachmaker, Oxford-street—first div. of 4s. 10d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of ➢lr. Graham, Coleman-street. R. Currie, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne --third and final div. of 3 1-3 d. in the pound (in addition to 4s. Bd. pre viously declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Brewer, pavior, Liverpool—first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. G. Byford, grocer, Liverpool—first div. of ss. in the pound; on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. I. Hughes, shoemaker, Chelmsford, Nov. 19, at twelve — J. Welch, licensed victualler, Ring-cross, Holloway, Nov. 19, at twelve—C. Schofield, timber merchant, Kingston-upon- Thames, Nov. 19, at - eleven—J. C. Crespin, shipping agent, Eastcheap, Nov. 19, at half-past twelve—A. Morton, A. Rodick, and C. Morton, bankers, Wellingborough. Nov. 18, at half-past one—G. H. an d G . C. Green, wholesale stationers, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, Nov. 18, at eleven. In the Country. W. M. Onions, ironfounder, Westbromwich, Nov. 27, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Scett, gro cer, Manchester, Nov. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court—W. Summers and N. Rae, rope makers, Strange ways, Lancashire, Nev. 19, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—E. I'. Thomas and H. M. Crosskill, book sellers Rochdale, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict book sellers, and S. Seccombe, tailors, Tavistock, Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—W. J. J. Coall, grocer, Exeter, Nov. 20. at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—W. Reay, shipbuilder, Walker, Northumberland, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court— G. Walker, shipbroker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court —J. Palmer, sen., and T. T. Barker, cotton doublers, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—T. T. Barker, cotton doubler, Sandiacre, Derbyshire, Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Clarke, banker, Leicester, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Philips, banker, Leices ter, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Birmingham DiArict Court— T. Smith, banker, Leicester, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court—J. Heaton, stationer, Ludlow, Nov. 21. at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Guy, publisher, Bury. street. St. James's, Nov. 19-1. De J. Ventura, merchant, White Hart. court, Bishopsgate gate-street, Nov. 19-IV. Soffe, printseller, Strand, Nov. 19—H. D. Coggan, warehouseman, Friday-street, Nov. 18— R. Garrett, linendraper, Henfield, Sussex, Nov. 18—E. Malian, dentist, Brook-street, Bond-street, Nov. I9—G. T. Peers, plumber, Ironmonger-Jane, Cheapsitle, Xov. 19—J. H. Suckling, ironmonger, Birmingham, Nov. 21—J. hike-, merchant, Liverpool, Nov. IS—J. Braithwaite, innkeeper, Morpeth, Nov. 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Robinson, M. Midgley, and W. Midgley, milliners, Liverpool—G. Stebbing, sen., and li. N. Stebbing, opticians, Portsmouth—A. Fenton, R. Marsden, and G. Marsden, merchants, Liverpool—H. J. Marcus and J. Naylor, stock brokers, Leeds—T. Bartle and J. Jarvis, tailors, Strand — G. Mountain and J. Mountain, warehousemen, Manchester —F. Piggott and T. F. Giles, coal merchants, Richmond, Surrey—C. Lowe, E. Lowe, and F. Oakley, milliners, Hyde, Isle of Wight—B. Squire, N. Clough, and Henry Lepping well, painters, Leeds—C. Bartlett and C. C. Pilfold, mer chants, Gloucester—J. M'Whan and W. Haughton, tal low-chandlers, Liverpool—C. Binning and W. Hurman, linendrapers, Bridgwater—J. Cox, J. F. Cox, and W. Cox, brewers, Brampton, Cumberland (so far as regards W. Cox) —G. Beaumont and A. M. Beaumont, merchants, Aldmond bury, Yorkshire—J. S. Harford, A. G. 11. Battersby, T. K. Bayly, J. W. Miles, and W. Miles, bankers, Bristol—F. Arnold and E. Cooper, perfumers, Budge-row, City. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Commercial Price Cu; rent of Oct. 28.) B. P. SUGAR.—The West India market has opened with an appearance of considerable firmness. -The transactions reported this day amount to 640 casks, at full former rates to 6d per cwt advance. 103 casks Barbadoes went at from 51s 6d to 54s 6d for good middling to very good quality. Of MAURITIUS SUGAR 5,343 bags were brought forward and partly sold at previous rates; good middling yellow at from 51s to 52s 6d per cwt. BENGAL SUGAR.—A large quantity has been brought for ward by the public sales to-day---6,922 bags, a large propor tion consisting of the grainy descriptions. Former prices have generally ruled, and but little remains unsold. Fine grainy brought 59s 6d to 625, good middling to good 52s 6d to 595, middling 47s to 52s per cwt; soft white, grayish, good middling, from 52s to 51s per cwt. REFINED has partially recovered from its declined state last week; prices are tending higher, but there is no great activity in demand at presei.t FOREIGN.—The parceli offered by auction this day have met no demand at the rates required; 540 brls middling to good, soft Cuba Muscovado taken in at 255; 135 chests Bahia, grayish white 27s to 295, brown 23s to 255. COFFEE. —Nothing of importance has transpired in this market. Of Mocha 191 bales were partly sold at from 63s to 69s 6d per cwt for good quality, which is according to its market value. COCOA is without alteration ; 57 packages Grenada brought 39s to 43s per cwt for ord to good red qualities. Of Pimento 173 bags good sold at 3id to 3id per lb. 251 pkgs Bermuda Arrowroot partly sold at from 10d to is lid per lb. small parcel of 220 packets Bengal went at 21s 6d to 22s per cwt for good white of the sound portion, being about its former value. CINNAMON.—The public sales were commenced yesterday. and closed this afternoon. 2,375 packages were offered, of which 600 packages sold. Good qualities of Ist, 2d, or 3d sorts sold well, and 2d to 3d per lb advance were realised; but the bad qualities were unsaleable, even at a considerable reduction. Government sort brought 3s 5d to 3s 6d for 2d, and 2s 7d to 2s 9d per lb for 3d sorts. CorroN.—The market here is very quiet. At Liverpo o l also there is no animation in the demand, only 2,000 bales having changed hands yesterday, but with ou t i nvo l v i ng a change of rates. The Cambria from Boston was off that port. TALLOW continues very firm, 41s 9d being the price on the spot for Y. C. and 42s for delivery next month. The letters from St. Petersburgh report that market steady. About 5,000 casks had been sold at from 109 to 112 rbls, at which the market remains firm. Exchange 37 29-32 15-16. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Ann Craft, a very respectably dressed girl, was plaeed at the bar charged with having robbed her master, the Rev. Mr. Reeve, of Mortlake. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mrs. Sophia Reeve (wife of the prosecutor) corroborated the former evidence. She admitted, on cross.examination, that not three or four, but at least a dozen servants had been discharged. Caroline Taylor, kitchen.maid, proved having taken a box to Elizabeth Neeves ; and, on cross-examination by Mr. Clarkson, admitted that in the nine months in which she was engaged in the reverend prosecutor's family no less than nine servants had been discharged. Mr. CLARKSON then, in an eloquent and telling speech, pro ceeded to address the jury for the prisoner. In the course of his remarks, the unfortunate girl, who was probably exhausted from standing for three hours at the bar, sobbed very violently, and, although supported by the humane gaoler, the hysterical paroxysms increased till she fell back in the arms of the officials behind her. A murmur of a very mixed character pervaded the Court. The Learned Counsel concluded by praying the jury to mark their hatred of persecution—a persecution which ought to be foreign to the reverend gentleman's profession as a minister of the Gospel— by acquitting the unfortunate girl at the bar of the crime imputed to her charge. Several respectable persons were called as witnesses to character, who each and all bore testimony to the honesty and sobriety of the girl. The RECORDER then summed up. He said that the principal matter for the jury to inquire into would be, whether the articles were taken with a felonious intention, or whether they were not rather abstracted because they were deemed of no further use to the family. If they thought the former, they must—however paltry the theft, or however they might think this prosecution had been pressed on with more vigour than charity or necessity demanded— they must still perform a duty, painful though it might be, by finding against the prisoner ; but if, on the other hand, they came to the conclusion that there was no felony intended, they would acquit her. The jury requested leave to retire s and, after being absent a short time, returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended her to the kind consideration of the Court on account of her previous good character. Thla extraordinary verdict—extraordinery, Ole* the eunantliig up of the judge, and the whole tenor of the evince—was re. ceived with the utmost astonishment by ail who had attended to the case, and the only persons in Court whe seemed unmoved were the reverend prosecutor and his wife. The Learned RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence, but was in. terrupted by the reverend gentleman, who, in obeeillice to some wish of Mrs. Reeve, expressed in `• dumb show," ru*ed to the witness-box, but was in the same " dumb show" requested to re tire by the Recorder and the Alierman sitting beside him. The Learned JuncE again proceeded. He said that, in ac cordance with the recommendation to mercy given both by the jury and the prosecutor-- Mr. CLARKSON suggested that the prosecutor had not shown or expressed any such merciful disposition. _ _ The RECORDER—Then in consequence of the recommendation of the jury, he would not remove the prisoner from the present gaol ; he would, as it was her first offence, not order her into the society of felons, and the sentence of the Court should be that she be kept in the gaol of Newgate for fourteen days. This, although considering the verdict a very lenient sentence, had such an effect upon the prisoner, that she fainted, and was car.. tied from the bar by the gaolers. The reverend gentleman and his wife then retired. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MAiVSIUN-BOUSE. A female of respectable appearance named Ann Fox, aged between 34 and 35 years, was brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody of In , pector Waller, charged pith having tired a pistol, at and wounded a young man, of the name of Thomas Monis, with grape shot. The prisoner. upon being placed at the bar, appeared to be agitated in the extreme. She was defended by Mr. Pelham, and did not utter a word during the examination. The prosecutor said he accused the prisoner of having shot him in the thigh. On the preceding evening he was coming out of a chemist'.4 warehouse, in Laurence Youltney lane, in which he was assistant, and the moment the prisoner, who was opposite to the warehouse, got sight of him, she fired a pistol at him. About twenty shots penetrated the skin, and most of them dropped out of themselves. Wben she fired she was at the distance of two yards or two yards and a half from him. He immediately closed the door, and went into the warehouse to examine the wound which he felt she had inflicted. The pistol produced was a small one, and had been pur chased by the prisoner a short time before she used it in the way described, at the shop of a pawnbroker . in Oxford-street. Mr. PelLam--llid you see her level the pistol at you ?a Prosecutor—l saw the flash in front of me, and felt that I had received the contents of the pistol. Mr. Pelham—You have known her before, I presume? The prosecutor—Yes, I have known her before. The Loan MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—This is the female you had brought before me some time ago for following and annoying you, and whom I held to bail to keep the peace? The Prosecutor—She is the woman. Mr. Pelham—You knew her formerly at Islington, where 3 ou were foreman to a chemist, and she was your fallow-ser vant? The prosecutor—She was servant in the huuse in which I was assistant. Mr. Pelham—You were paying your addresses to her ? The prosecutor—Not at all. . . Mi. Pelham—You have had intercourse with her ? The prosecutor—Yes, certainly. Mr. Pelham—Have you not seduced her ? The prose cutor—l do not think 1 have. Mr. Pelham—Have you not promised her marriage over and over again ? The prosecutor—No. Mr. Pelham—How long is it since the intercourse com menced between you ? The prosecutor—About two years and a half ago. Mr. Pelham—Have not several letters in a complete love strain passed between you ? The prosecutor—Not upon my part. (Here the prosecutor gave the Lord Mayor to under stand that there was nothing at all in the sentimental way between them, and that what did take place took place at her request. ) Mr. Pelham—Are you not two or three and thirty ? The prosecutor—No. I am but twenty-three ; she is thirty-five. She has been ever since annoying me. Mr. Pelham—To perform your promise of marriage? The prosecutor—l never promised anything of the kind. Mr. Pelham—Have you not sworn to stick to her and pro tect her as lung as you had life? The prosecutor—No. The only promise 1 ever made to her was to call and see her now and then, and she is for ever annoying me and f o ll ow i ng me . Mr. Pelham—Was she not in the family-way? The pro secutor—l do not know. Mr. Pelham—Did she not tell you that your treatment of her, on refusing to marry her, had so severely affected her feelings that she was seized with premature labour? The prosecutor—She said something of that kind. (Here the pro secutor repeated that his only object was mere animal grati fication.) Mr. Pelham—Do you recollect that she was bequeathed some money by a relative? The prosecutor—l do. Mr. Peihain—You then recommenced the intercourse which had for some time ceased between you? The prose cutor—Yes; but not on that account at all. Mr. Pelham—Pray, are you married? The prosecutor (to the Lord Mayor)—Am I bound to answer that question? The Lonn MAYoll—Yoll need not. The prosecutor—Then I shall not answer it. Mr. Pelham—Did you tell her you were married? The prosecutor, after some hesitation, said " Yes." - Mr. Pelham—Has she not told you she would destroy her self? The prosecutor—Yes, and that she would destroy me, too. She has frequently threatened me. Mr. Pelham—The wounds you say are superficial ? The prosecutor—Yes; they only passed the cuticle, ai.d a great many of the shots dropped out when I laid the place bare. Mr. Pelham—Might not the pistol have gone otl* by acci dent ? The prosecutor—No, not at all. Mr. Pelham—Have you and the prisoner not had quar rels? The prosecutcr—No, not to say any particular quar rels. Mr. Pelham—And when did the intercourse between you entirely cease? The prosecutor—Some months ago. Mr. Pelham—Did she not appear to be in a distracted and frenzied condition upon the occat.ion of your separation ? The prosecutor—No, not more so than usual. Mr. Pelham—She has several letters of yours? The presc cutor—l dare say she has. Mr. Pelham—And you have several of hers? The pro secutor—No, I have none of hers; they are all destroyed. Mr. Pelham—Were they not tilled with expressions of love and affection? The prosecutor—No, not upon my side. Mr. Pelham— Then it was upon your side nothing but a brutal acquaintance? The prosecutor—Call it as you please. It was just the same on her side. I saw her three nights after the Lord Mayor held her to bail, and would have given her into the custody cf an officer, but she got away. The LORD MAYOR—Was it before or after that she threatened to destroy you? The prosecutor—A month or two before that she said if I did not continue my visits to her she would certainly shoot me. Mr. George Mallison, who is always employed on the pre mises in Laurence Pountney-lane, stated that he came out of the warehouse before Mr. Morris, and saw the flash of the pistol. He thenseized the prisoner, who, he believed, had fired it, and the pistol was found at her feet. Policeman No. 491 stated he went, upon being sent for, into a public-house in Laurence Pountney-lane, where he saw the prisoner in a fainting state, with several people about her administering water. She appeared to be greatly agitated, but said nothing. She was then taken to the sta tion-house. Inspector Waller said that he asked her at the station whether she had anything to say, and she replied with a simple negative. The female searcher found some powder and shot in her pockets. Mr. Pelham said he should reserve the defence, and the Lord Mayor immediately committed the prisoner for trial. BO W-STREET. A young man of fashionable appearance, named Richard Mar tin, was brought before Mr. Twyford for re-examination, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for 121. 125., with intent to defraud Mr. James Taylor, a hosier, carrying on business at 13, Cornhill, and also with swindling several tradesmen of their goods. Mr. Edward Lewis attended for the prisoner. It appeared that on the Bth of September the prisoner entered the prosecutor's shop for the ostensible purpose of purchasing goods, and having selected a quantity of scarfs and other articles, he directed them to be sent to his lodgings, at 36, Craven.street, Strand, which was accordingly done the same evening, with the understanding that they should be paid for on delivery, and on the return of the shopman he brought back the cheque, which subse quently turned out to be a forgery. - - Joseph Pamplin, an assistant in the service of the pro. secutor, said that he was deputed to take borne the goods, and upon seeing the prisoner he desired hint to step in and untie the goods, which he did. The prisoner having looked over them, expressed surprise that the entire of the articles had not been sent, and on being told the amount, he wrote a cheque, saying that he would require other goods of the same description. Witness repeatedly told hint that he had directions not to leave the goods unless be got the money for them; but he was prevailed upon by the prisoner, who said that he wanted them for immediate use, and accepted the cheque, which he brought home to his master. Mr. Charles Hollyer, cashier in the bank of Sir Wm. P. Call, of Old Bond-street, proved that he did not know the prisoner, and no such person kept an account at his employer's house. Henry Tate, 136, O division, said that after meeting with much resistance from the prisoner, he apprehended him on the 23d in stant, in Charles-street, Lowndes.square, and on telling him that he was charged with forgery, and also with obtaining, from several tradesmen, goods under false pretences, he said that the charge of forgery against him was wrong, but " what I have done I am ready to acknowledge; with respect to Taylor's cheque, it will be settled." lie was then conveyed to the station, and several pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon him. Mr. Lewis submitted that no case of forgery or fraud had been made out against his client, for he had not forged any person's name, and, admitting that he had no account at the bank, it was clear, from the statement of the prosecutor, that the prisoner had selected goods at his shop for which he agreed to accept a cheque, which put an end to the transaction, as the shopman represented his master in accepting of such an instrument. Mr. TWYFORD said that such observations might have effect be fore a jury. He should commit the prisoner for trial. A bootmaker,:carrying on business in Oxford-street, said that In the month of June last the prisoner called upon him, and having tried on a phir of dress boots, he desired that a person should be sent after him to his chambers in the Albany, and bring some French polish with him, which was accordingly done; but on making his appearance he told the messenger he should wait, as his servant was then out of the way. 'File messenger waited outside such a length of time that the porter inquired what his business might be, and on relating the nature of his business, he told him that he was " done," and that the prisoner had a faci lity of getting away by a private passage, which he showed him, and which subsequently turned out to be the case. Mr Tw yeoan observed, as other charges might be brought for ward, he would have the prisoner remanded for a week. The constable said that there were abaut twenty tradesmen in attendance, who were prepared to prove that they had been swin dled by the prisoner in a similar manner. A bootmaker and a hairdresser, from the Burlington Arcade, said that they had sent home goods to the prisoner's chambers, in Chelsea, for which they never received the amount, and upon snaking inquiry for Mr. Pembroke, their customer, they discovered that he had fled. It was stated that the prisoner bad been in the service of Lord Saye and Sele, when he occupied chambers In the Albany. He was ordered to be remanded. COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 1O& Ditto, at sight l2 7 Rotterdam 2U. 12 11 Antwerp Llamburgh M.B. 13 13i Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75 Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Marseilles 26 10 Bourdeaux 26 10 Frankfort on Maine 1221 Petersburgh, 3Us — Berlin Vienna, effee, fib_ 10 6 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Bilbao b ••• Barcelona Seville 1G E.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar...,.. Leghorn Genoa .. 26 5 Milan ...... 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