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birb Mbttion THE FUNDS-(C OSING PRICES). FUNDS BRITISH Bank 5t0ck.."........ex dtv 20b per Cent. Red 99 per Cent. Cons. ...... 99% 8% per Cent. Red New 3% per Cent. IOIX New 5 per Long Annuities to expire Jan. 12 Oct. 1859........»..... 11 15-16 Jan. 1860..........«« Ditto Bonds £l,OOO rm IDitto under £I,OOO 9O pm. !South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities 1,0001. 134 d 66 pm. Ditto 5001. ..... 66 pan. Ditto 66 pm. Bank Stock for Acct.... Consols for Act.... ..... 100 India Stock for Acct.... Indian 5t0ck....... ......... ... FOREIG FUND& Austrian, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per CenL .... Brazilian' Bonds ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chßien, ri per Cent ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 19.45, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, l per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct 81 Russian, 5 per Cent.... .» 118% Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 2 — T9 Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1843...»..........«.» — Ditto, 1848 Ditto, •3 per Cent ....... 3.sThi Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French 5 per Cent. ~.«.. —t • c. , , French,3 per Cent • —f. —,. Exchange ..., .......... „ , —f. --, Dutch, 2% per Cent llitto,:s per Cent 99 SHARES Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Churnet Valley, 2 paid Direct Northern, 2% paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 2113 s 4d. paid,No.l % Ely and Bedford, 1 paid l% Great Western (75 paid) Hull and Selby, 50 paid 68% Kendal and Windermere, 154 paid 6% London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 754 London and Croydon Lynn and Ely, 14 paid Birmingham and Derby, .£lOO paid 78% Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid North British, 5 paid Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares, 4 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) 113% Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 79 Central of France, 2 paid 4% Ditto Constituted Boulogne and Amiens , 2 paid •....... Orleans, Tours, and ourdeaux, I paid ............ 4 Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3 /ads and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We find the following sentences in the Herald of this morning :—" Whigs and Tories are of accord that the allotment system at least deserves a fair trial. The Chronicle only doubts whether the landlords' intentions are sincere ; the Globe admits that allotments, or some better plan, ought to be im mediately brought into general use. The only re maining dissentients are the League, the Times, and my Lord Radnor. And as we believe that none of these parties possess much influence among the landed proprietors, we trust that we may expect the experiment to be fairly and extensively tried." We cannot but smile at the good fellowship with the landed proprietors into which the Ministerial organ brings us with our respected Contemporary the Chronicle; and the variance with them at which it places the Times, which, at the last general election, thundered against our party expressly in behalf of the agricultural interest. These are the " revenges" which the whirligig of time brings about. But, o:nitting these, it appears to us that the allotment quesiion lies in a nutshell; and that the benefit of its discerning application is not, at this cay, mere matter for experiment. The rationale of the allot ment system—so far as it does not profess to bring about a revolution in property—is simp'y that of a sort of agricultural truck system. It is part payment of the wages of farm-labour in commodities—or the use of the instrument (land), by aid of which commodities are produced. - We call this the rationale of allotments. We do not mean to say that this is the shape they have always taken. But we say it expresses the principle on which they are to be defended, as a general benefit to labourers. Looking at allotments from this point o f vie; at once strips them of the prestige, whether of exaggerated anticipations or exag gz.yated alarms. Labourers' allotments, of them selves, would effect no sweeping change in the present rural economy. They would not (generally) effect the object, which we think highly desirable, of throwing smaller parcels of land into the market, for ownership or occupation, than our present propped-up system does. They would not, of them- ' selves, replace the agricultural interest on its old na tural level. But the agricultural interest, willy-nilly, is rapidly subsiding to that level. The failure and re laxation of monopoly—colonial and foreign competi tion—are doing that business for it. And it seems to us that the allotment system may ease the pre sent epoch of transition. And we do not wish !er disguise our hopes that while labourers' allot meo!s would give something of more stabi lity to the lowly footing of labourers on the lands they extension of the system would also af ford opportunitie' to energetic members of the class to rise into a more independent yeomanry. Money has reigned long and exclusively enough in all landed calculations. We want restoration of the breed of men. The high pressure system has been tried and found wanting. The Herald observes—" Go through Lincolnshire ; observe how general the tenure of land by the labourer in that county is ; and you will find also that it affords them that kind of independence which upholds wages, which in that county are com monly 12s. per week." We ourselves cited an instance the other day from the Journal of the Agricultural Society, of small beginnings in the occupation of land leading to circumstances of independ ence. There are, no doubt, other things besides allotments wanted to place land on the best footing, as the most important instrument of production of the prime necessaries of life. The undisturbed ownership of land is doubtless mainly essential to all improvement. But all the incidents and conditions of that ownership—all the regulations of its transmission, or succession, are within the competence of the Legislature. Property has it , daries, as well as its rights ; and the State has the right 1 ,- ; enforce its duties—so far as those duties admit of enforcement by general measures. A pro prietary class should never be allowed to lose sight of these axioms. If a garden to every cottage is universally conducive to the labourer's elevation, the State would have an unquestionable right to enact that every cottage should have a garden. If game-laws, or any other laws, limit production in a degree nationally injurious, the State has an unques enable right to devote game—or whatever else—to desti . !iction. Otherwise, the nation exists fur the sake of propelly—not property for the sake of the nation. The nation reight be doomed to decry in the sinews of its strength at the will of proprietors-- whereas all reasoners of any authority are agreed that proprietors are amenable to the sense of the nation for every general effect the exercise of their rights may have. That the benefit of such general effects greatly outweighs their evil, is the sole broad and sufficient basis for upholding the right of property. But wherever the evil out weighs the benefit,:the State, which sanctions, has a right to modify it. Such interference only becomes tyranny where it is exercised partially, er on other than general grounds. We have said thus much to show that no ulterior resulting change in the distribution of landed property would lead us to c ondemn allotments, merely as leading to it ; unless it could .tee shown that such ultimate change would be nationally injurious. Now we believe that con siderable change; might take place in the present distribution without being injurious, but much the contrary. Without den.fiog the advantages of large farms, we see limits to thest' advantages. Those lirnrs are found in the moneyed means of the tenants t.' keep their holdings in high condition. It is evident that when those means fail, large occupations become impracticable. It appears to us no less evident that the failure to support all the year round the la bourers wanted on the land, must be viewed as a failure of those moneyed means and as having produced a state of things which Mr. Laii.g notes as existing on the Continent. " Agricultural improvement," observes that writer, " consists mainly in the j udicious economy of labour. But en the Con • tinent there is no outlet for surplus labour, or for a superfluous agricultural population , in munufacturing districts or colonies. The land must support the people either as labourers or paupers, so that large farms, with few hands comparatively living upon the produce, are impracticable abroad, as a general arrai:(eement of the agricultural land." Now, is not this precisely the state of things which is taking place here, so far as we are told of a surplus popula tion in rural disi`.ricts ? We require to distinguish in talking of that surplus. It may be a surplus over the numbers wanted for the highest culture of the soil. Or it may be a surplus over the means of the farmers to maintain them throughout the year It is this latter surplus to which allotments alone are applicable—so far as those allotments are meant as merely supplementary to the wages of farm labourer=. It is only the labourer generally employed who can swell be expected to pay rent for allotments. It is only to the number of labourers, therefore, generally wanted on the land that the allotment system, at present prti;osed, can well be considered ap plicable. If is a surplus over this number (as in some r "qrts it would seem there is), other means must - be taken . to it, in dependent of And these allotments, allotments conceded to laboui7 B . as a w t e began by . stating, may be simply considered as itself in in kind for la bour—or permission to pay pr inkind. For they result simply from the apparent wages in inability of landed employers to pay their labourers sufficient money throughout the year. This is th plain state of the case—continually recurring to observation, blazed forth in the fires of 1830, and has smouldered or burned on since. The New Poor-law did not create, though it has made it more manifest and fla grant. For it has docked off (so far as enforced) the ' money aids to the money deficit of the farmers. All parties interested in the land must put their shoulder to the wheel to get over this rut. And certainly the State should aid them, so far as relief from fiscal burthens can be given. Certainly the State should aid them, so far as it can open new outlets or fields for labour. We have been too pre-occupied by these considerations to take up the Examiner's renewed challenge on the subject of " Labourers' Prizes," and our (so called) " defence " of them. We pay our Contemporary the compliment to believe that it is merely as bearing on public interests that he notices our supposed heresy. And it is in continuing our discussion of those interests and the matter of La bourers' Prizes, as well as Allotments, in due con nexion with them—that we shall find opportunity to answer, so far as needful, the challenge to ourselves. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle this day announces the retirement from the bench of the Common Pleas, of Mr. Justice Erskine. The universally regretted bad health of the excellent judge is the cause of his retirement, about which there is, we believe, no doubt. Our morning Contemporary, however, follows up its announce ment by an article which we think it must be extremely difficult to defend. Five or six distin guished members of the bar are named as can didates for the vacant seat, without ony one of them, as we are firmly persuaded, ever having been guilty of the indelicacy of preferring a claim ; and Sir R. Peel is lectured as to the choice he ought to make among the five or six presumed candidates. This is surely injustice to the bar, and injustice to the individuals named—injus tice to the bar in assuming that the gentlemen named are the only members of the profession qualified for the judicial office—an assumption wholly contrary to the truth. Were we disposed to imitate an example so invidious, we could name a dozen gentlemen as well qualified to fill seats on the bench with honour to themselves and advantage to the coun try as any of those named by our Contempo rary. Some of those un-named gentlemen an well known to the public, some are not ; yet experience tells that among the class the very best judges may be, and frequently are, found. We have heard that when the late Lord Ten terden, a great lawyer and an excellent judge, was called to change his stuff gown for the judicial robe, the universal question was, who is this Mr. Abbott? And we remember that the like question was in every one's mouth, when probably the best lawyer among the fifteen judges, and one in acuteness, firmness, and uprightness, second to no judge that ever sat in a court of law, Mr. Justice Patteson, was elevated to his present rank. These examples, and we could multiply them to a large amount, prove that the very best judges may fre quently be found among members of the profes • sion, of whom the public hears little or no thing. Let us not, however, be misunderstood ; we have not, at present, the slightest means of guessing the gentleman who is likely to succeed Mr. Justice Erskine ; he may belong to the class of the well-known or to the comparatively unknown. We have cited the examples' referred to merely to show how unjustly the profession is treated by the publication of an exclusive list of candidates : how unjustly, indeed, the public is treated, for, as fur as the publication is available for any purpose (and it is not made, we presume, without some purpose) the exclusive list must go to limit the selection of the best judge. The worst injustice, however, is that offered to the published candidates, and the injustice is nearly equal whether the party is named for commen dation—whether he is successful or unsuccessful in the competition. If commended and successful, he is degraded to the condition of owing his success to newspaper patronage ; if commended and unsuccessful, a numerous body are interested in showing that the pretensions assigned to him are fallacious ; if de nounced, we need hardly say how unfair it is to make a man a candidate against his will, for the purpose merely of abusing him, his family connexions, and his friends. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4 1844. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. I.—The sales of combing and clothing wools this week have been limited to the immediate requirements of the manufacturers. Purchases have been made by them with caution. We do not quote any alteration from last week's prices. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, Nov. I.—A co mpara tively limited business has been done in foreign wools this week, but, since it is so generally known that the continental markets are almost cleared out of wool, and that the importations into this country must necessarily fie very scanty until next clip, no disposition whatever exists amongst the dealers to give way in prices, but rather on the contrary to hold their stocks with the prospect of realising an advance. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. I.—We have no new feature to report in this week's market, which upon the whole has been a very quiet one; the few sales that have been made are upon the terms of last week. LEEDS.—The demand for fine and middle qualities of cloths has been very dull at our cloth-halls this week, but in heavy winter goods there has been a little improvement over the markets of the last few weeks. Prices continue pretty steady, and the stocks, although on the increase, are lower than usual at this season. In finished goods there has been but little doing. Few of the larger buyers have been at the market during the week, and the foreign houses are doing less business than for some months past ; on the whole, there has been much below an average business done in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is not the slightest improvement in the demand for Wool since our last, and what has changed hands during the past week is only in very small quantities, and at about last week's prices. The disposi tion to still further decrease the production is progressing, for the spinners complain of the great disproportion in the price of yarns with the raw material, and unless the latter recedes to meet the spinners, it appears almost certain that the opera tives are likely to be only very partially employed, which is much to be regretted. If anything a little more business has been done in pieces to-day, but the prices are very discouraging, and will in no way tend to stop the progress of doing less, which is daily going on. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had decidedly less doing in cloth this week, arising, in some measure, from the high rates asked, and this arising out of all but a general advance in wages. It is doubtful whether the manufacturers will succeed in realising an advance equal to that on wages. In that case the manufacturer will be in no enviable position. A large business is, nevertheless, doing, and generally at previous rates. Yarns are still in brisk demand, and prices, if anything, the turn higher.—Leeds Mercury. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 2.—At a Congregation, just held, the following degrees were conferred : Masters of Arts—Joseph Walter Stockdale, Trinity College—John William Irving, Trinity College— Samuel Doria, St. John's College—Henry Fullelove Mogridge, St. John's College—Alfred Wrigley, St. John's College—Robert T. Porcher Broughton, Clare Hall—William Clayton Green, Clare Hall—Henry Staverton Matthews, Clare Hall, Grand Compounder. Bachelors of Arts—Raymond Blathwayt, Christi Corpus College—Thomas C. Childs, Sidney College. The Seatonian prize, value 401., for the beat Eng lish poem on a sacred subject, has just been awarded to the Rev. Thomas Rawson Birks, M.A., and Fellow of Trinity College. Subject—Esther. This is the second year Mr. Birks has obtained the above prize. ANATOMY.—The Professor commences his course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human body on Monday, November 18, at one o'clock, in the Anatomical School. THE CHURCH. The following appointments have taken place : The Rer. Josiah Pratt, M.A., of Trinity College, to the vicarage of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street. The Rev. Ralph Clutton, 8.D., of Emmanuel Col lege, to the vicarage of Saffron Walden, Essex. MILAN, OCT. 24.—Among the personages of dis tinction who have visited the city during the present month are the Dowager Viscountess Galway, Sir Fre derick Trench, Sir George Palmer, Lady Wilmot, Lord and Lady Worsley, Sir Wiliam Follett and family, Viscount Lewisham, General Napier, Captain Colville, Sir James Strong, Prince and Princess Doria Pam philea, Prince Aldobrandini, the Duke de Serra Ca priole, Prince Poniatowsky, Countess Woronzoff, Mar quis de Custine, &c. Miss BURDETT COUTTB.—I have to-day heard a piece of intelligence which I think will take the'general readers of newspapers, both here and in the country, with some degree of surprise. It is said that Miss Bur dett Coutts has at length fixed on an individual whom to bless with possession of her hand and immense wealth, and that the fortunate winner of the golden lady is a young surgeon, the junior partner of a house in one of the Burlington-streets.--Private correspondent of the Hampshire Independent. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. A special session of the above Court was held on Saturday, in accordance with the provisions of the Central Criminal Court Act, for the purpose of fixing the days for holding the sessions in the ensuing year. The Learned Judges who attended were the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Patteson, Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Erskine, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Wightman, Baron Mettle, Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Cresswell, and Mr. Justice Coleridge. The Learned Judges were ushered into Court by the Lord Mayor. Mr. CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns of the Central Criminal Court, then said that the periods for hold ing the sessions for the ensuing year had been fixed as follows, by order of the Court. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said it was not the order of the Court, but according to the terms of the Central Criminal Court Act—the order of not less than eight Judges. Mr. CLARK suggested that the Learned Judges formed a Court for this purpose. Mr. Baron ALDBRSON intimated his opinion that the term was not in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The form was then amended. The following list of the periods for holding the sessions was next read : 1844.—Monday, Nov. 25; Monday, Dec. 16. 1845.—Monday, Jan. 6; Monday, Feb. 3 ; Mon day, March 3; Monday, April 7 ; Monday, May 12 ; Monday, June 16 ; Monday, July 7 ; Monday, August 18 : Monday, Sept. 15 ; Monday, Oct. 27. The LORD CHIEF BARON then inquired, whether there was any other business to transact, and Mr. CLARK having replied in the negative, the Court was adjourned to November 25. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A well-dressed man, named James William Poyntz, was placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, charged with obtaining a gig from Mr. Holdman, a coach maker, and selling the same. Mr. Samuel Holdman, of 128, Long-acre, stated that about eleven years ago, he believed in January, 1833, the prisoner came to him and ordered a tilbury to be built for him. Witness agreed to perform the job, and the prisoner then said he wished to have a vehicle which he might use until the tilbury was finished. Witness said he could lend him a gig, and the prisoner desired it might be sent to a livery-stable in Marylebone, which was done accordingly, and witness never heard of the prisoner or saw him again until this morning. He heard, however, that he had sold the gig for 15/., but the person who purchased it was not present. The prisoner had called at wit ness's shop last evening, and said he wished to pur chase a vehicle, if Mr. Holdman would give him six months' oredit. Witness was not at home, and his clerk could give no answer, and the pri soner desired that if Mr. Holdman would agree to his terms he would meet him at his (prisoner's) agent's in the City. The address given was " Mr. Wentnall's, 1, Angel-court, City." Witness went there, and recognised the prisoner as the . person who had obtained the other gig. He entered into conver sation with him, and at length gave him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, declared that the gig had been purchased by him and paid for. TWYFORD said it was a very suspicious case, but he must have the evidence of the person who pur chased the gig before the prisoner could be committed for trial. He therefore remanded him until Wed nesday. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. started for Paris, but before she had arrivedTwoyoung country-looking girls came before Mr. spent-n Hardwick most of her money, owing to her inexperience a to make the following statement : travelling and a delay on account of the illness of her i They . saidstreet,Yße they took a lodging at No. 2, Heddon child. This, however, was not her greatest misfortune landlady, Regent-street, about two days ago, telling the she had lost the addressC of the hotel, and had and that they were Thomas, lik that they were shoe-binders, no clue by which to find her lover. As long as her i e n ly L t o o n h d ave visitors, as they had money lasted she remained at a small hotel, devoured several acquaintances had two young ' men in on their On room, Frid when e n evening their ,theylandlord sent for two police-co stabl with grief, and ‘,,% hen her pecuniary means were ex hausted, was driven into the street, where she had on giving all of them in cha rge.n police-constables, insisted fallen from weakness, the result of hunger. thm off were constables e It was in this state that she was found. ransacked their box, and ulti ma t e l y carr i ed [he worthy couple, after havin g heard her to the Vine- street station-house, w h ere t h ey locked up, and detained about an hour. They w lo were liad sad narrative, took her to the Sp anish Embass y , where she was interrogated by M. d'A g uileira, the then discharged, as also the two young men, also been in confinement, and they were obliged to Charge d'Affaires, and in a few days, her account find lodgings elsewhere, as they were given to under being confirmed by letters from Valencia , in re p l y to ' stand that they would not be admitted again into the inquiries M. d'Aguileira had made, he presented her : , house in Heddon-street. Yesterday they applied for with a sufficient sum for her journey home, and their property, and this was retused, and they, there the Chevalier Roubio, the Spanish Vice-Consnl, fore, came to this Court, to ask for the assistance of her to the diligence, in which were two accompani . L 4 the magistrate. Spanish ladies, on tn . e'.,:: return to Spain, and who, on hio of the history, I Mr. HARDWICK said the proceedings, on the part hearing a few words from M. J.. " . 71 way. , pf . lll .4 e Q police, appeared to have been so perfectly un kindly undertook to attend to her on the hle, that it was necessary the trut'a of the ap jusloA a.... Every inquiry had previously been made to discover g,h,euld be tested. Mr. Hardwick re anxious to but in vain. The poor girl, although plicants' storr . to receive her father's forgiveness and bless- i quested one of the constables to go for the inspector on mg, could hardly be induced toleave Paris, until it 1 duty the overnight. was suggested to her that her lover was deal ' She 1 Inspe ctor Baker shortiy entgrO the court, and, on would not all ow the idea of her having been abandoned being put in possession of' the particulars 4 the by him to en t er h er m i nd, i young women's statement l said he I , elieved' that they had not quite disclosed the whole truth, as they had omitted to state that the young men in their room were in bed with them—at least, so the landlord of the house declared. Mr. HARDWICK said, even supposing the women had brought these young men into their own room for an immoral purpose, what authority had the police for interfering ? A landlord might find out that he had unawares introduced an improper lodger into his house, but it was no part of the duty of the police to assist him in turning out this lodger. The landlord must take those steps to clear his house which the law pointed out. Inspector Baker said the landlord, Thomas, and a person named Gabriel, whose house communicated with Thomas's, made the charge against the two young men and women. Their charge was, that they believed the young women had obtained possession of the room by fraudulent representations, and that they had introduced the two young men into their room for the aurpose of planning a robbery in Gabriel's house. This belief was strengthened by the fact of one of the young men having been formerly in Gabriel's employ. Mr. HARDWICK said the story of the contemplated robbery was apparently got up for the purpose of procuring the assistance of the police in ridding the house of an improper lodger. But he wanted to know, as these parties were in custody and locked up on so serious a charge, how it happened that they had been discharged without the sanction of the magistrate ? The police had no authority to discharge of their own accord any case when once given, and so jealous were the Legislature of entrusting them with any portion of such power, that they were expressly forbidden, notwithstanding the inconvenience which occasionally occurred to discharge cases of drunkenness without the sanction of the magLitrates. Inspector Baker said there was a mistake here ; the parties were not locked up on any charge. It was true that they were taken down to the cells by the gaoler while the charge was being heard, but as soon as he ascertained that the charge was not likely to be pressed, he directed all the parties in custody to be liberated. Mr. HARDWICK said it was quite clear the police had exhibited most extraordinary ignorance of their duty. They had no authority, and as far as he could see, they had no excuse whatever for acting as they had acted. He had always been most ready to afford protection to the police, and to bestow approbation where they did their duty properly and efficiently ; at the same time he felt it to be his duty to mark his sense of misconduct on the part of the police in an equally stringent manner. He hoped the inspector wouli teach the constables, who had so completely mistaken their powers and functions what their duty really was, that he might not have the painful task of animadverting on the conduct of men who were intrusted with important responsible situations. The inspector said he never would have sanctioned the interference of the constables had he been made acquainted with the circumstances of the case. Mr. HARDWICK desired a constable to go to Hed don -street, and see that the young women obtained their property. A tbreigner of military appearance, accompanied by another foreigner, who could speak English, ap plied to Mr. Hardwick for some pecuniary assistance. The spokesman said that he had recently become acquainted with the state of distress to which his foreign companion was reduced, and he had consented to accompany him to the court, to ask if the magis trate would relieve him from his distress. The foreigner was an Austrian Pole. He had resided at Warsaw and in other Polish places, and had contrived to render himself so obnoxious to the Russian govern ment that he had been obliged to fly for his life. The political offences had been so distasteful to the Russian government, that his own government would not give him shelter, and after making his way to Trieste, he was enabled, through the kindness of the English Con sul, to make his escape to England. He landed at Liverpool, and was recommended by the police there to make his way to London. He had taken the advice, and had been living for some time at an hotel in Leicester-square, but being without money, or means of getting any just at present, the proprietor had told him he could not be allowed to stay any longer. The Pole, who was of high connexions, and whose only offence was of a political nature, was exposed to perish for want in the streets if some relief were not afforded to him. The Pole had neither papers nor persons to refer to in support of the truth of his story, and he (applicant) knew nothing but what the Pole had told him. Mr. HARDWICK said he would not pronounce an opinion one way or the other as to the accuracy of the Polish gentleman's representations ; but the term " political martyr" had a wide range of meaning among foreigners, and frequently included offences which went by a totally different name in this country. It could hardly be expected that every foreigner who was obliged to fly from the police of his own country should have a claim for support and assistance on the police of this. It was placing magistrates here in a very invidious position. Looking at the applicant's case as one of personal distress, and without reference to his alleged political offences, he would present him with half-a-crown from the poor-box to help him to communicate with his friends. UNION-BALL. Two policemen named Gough and Brooks, of the L division, were charged with the following miscon duct towards Thomas Thornton, an inspector belong ing to the Phoenix Gas Works. The charge was sent by the Commissioners of Police for investigation at this Court, and Mr. Grensell, the superintendent of the division to which the defendants belong, attended to hear and report upon the result. The complainant stated that on Saturday week, about one o'clock in the day, as he was crossing from the end of Suffolk-street to Blackman-street, he was followed closely up by the defendants, and when he got to the other side of the street they both came up, one on each side of him, and asked him what he had got. Before he had time to answer, they hurried him through an iron gate near the footpath, when Gough, feeling his trousers pocket, inquired what he had got there. Complainant, surprised at such a situation, imme diately drew forth a memorandum book, saying that he had nothing but that, upon which the defendants said he must accompany them to the station- house, Brooks saying to the other defendant, " Charley, let us take him to Tower-street," and he was then taken to the station-house in that street, and when the In spector Fergusson saw him, and was informed of the circumstances under which he was brought there, he said that he had known him (complainant) for several years, and that there being no pretence for charging him with an offence, he should discharge him. Com plainant added that he had been twenty years in the ser vice of the Phoenix Gas Works, and that having always borne an irreproachable character, he, for his own sake as well as the public, considered he was called upon to bring such a case under the consideration of the Commissioners, to whom he represented the cir cumstances. Gough upon being asked what he had to say in answer to the charge, replied, that he mistook the complainant for another person, against whom he had a charge of felony. He admitted that he felt his pocket, as described, and that he afterwards took him to the station-house, where, upon finding that he had made a mistake, he expressed his readiness to apolo gise to the complainant, who rejected it, and would not be satisfied unless he consented to insert an apo logy in the newspapers. With this latter demand he could not comply, the:Commissioners not allowing him to make a public apology, and the complainant, therefore, resorted to the present proceedings against him. Gough then spoke of his not having used any degree of harshness towards the complainant, and in taking him to the station-house held his umbrella over him to shelter him from the rain. Brooks made a similar defence, saying they were mistaken in the man, but that he did not lay hands upon the complainant at all, and who also expressed his willingness to apologies to the complainant. In reply to Mr. Trail!, the complainant said that he knew Mr. Brooks before, and mentioned to him who he was, but no attention was paid to what he said, and he was complied to go to the station-house. He added that it was a deirradation to be taken through the streets in custody without the slightest grounds for charging him with any offence. Mr. TRAILL said it was obvious the defendants had made a mistake in the business; and that, under that impression, he should dismiss the complaint; but it was still in the power of the complainant to bring an action for assault and false imprisonment, at all events against Gough, if he was not satisfied, or re ceived compensation for the inconvenience to which he had been subjected on the occasion. The complainant seemed to be surprised at the de cision, and left the court with two friends. CORONERS' INQUESTS. _ - - - --- - Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Royal Yacht Tavern, Stanhope-street, Clare-market, on Saturday on the body of Mrs. Sarah Anne Willeter, aged 22 years, wife of Mr. Willeter, the extensive tallow. chandler, of Clare-street, who committed suicide under the following circumstances : Mr. G. A. Walker, surgeon, of Drury-lane, said he was called to attend deceased on the afternoon of Thursday last. On his arrival he found the deceased vomiting excessively. Upon making inquiries de ceased told witness that she had taken twopenny. worth of arsenic, but she refused to tell of whom she had purchased it. Witness attended her the whole of that day until nine o'clock in the evening, when she died. A post mortem examination subsequently made by witness proved that the stomach was much in flamed, and the coats in a partial state of corrosion. The cause of death was from swallowing arsenic. Charlotte Allen, one of the servants of the de ceased, said her mistress complained on Thursday morning last of having a violent headache. Shortly after breakfast she sent witners for a pennyworth of , sal volatile, which she divided, and drank one part herself and gave the other to her husband. About I ~' v ~ t' ten minutes subsequently she sent witness to Mr. Walker's for a penny worth of magnesia; on her re turn she sent witness down stairs to ask her husband for a glass of brandy. As she entered the room again she observed deceased drinking what she thought to be the magnesia, but no sooner had she swallowed it than she was seized with sickness, which continuing, her husband requested to be allowed to send for medical assistance, but deceased replied, " Oh, never mind, I shall soon get better; it is only the bile." `Witness could not tell what could have induced de ceased to destroy herself, for she always appeared ex ceedingly cheerful, and lived upon very happy terms with her husband. After taking the poison she said, " I took it to die, and I hope I shall ; and then added, " Oh, Lord, have mercy on my soul." By a juror—Deceased was not in the habit of going out alone, but on Tuesday last she went out by her self, and must have purchased the poison on that oc casion. • By the Coroner—l was sent three times down to empty the pail, containing what deceased had expec torated, she saying she had brought up the magnesia. Deceased was of exceedingly sober habits, and had been in the country on account of ill-health. Jane Elizabeth Brooker said deceased had been married only about eight months. Of late she had been very indisposed, and appeared low spirited. A day or two ago she called upon witness, and seemed exceedingly depressed, which witness attributed to her ill-health. She was unable to speak positively as to her state of mind. The Coroner, having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." On Saturday Mr. Wakley, M.P., opened an in quiry, which lasted upwards of six hours, at the Ele phant and Castle, King's-road, Camden Town, on the body of Mrs. Mary Anderson, aged 70, the wife . of a gentleman holding an appointment in the Excise office, who was killed by the furious driving of two persons in a cart belonging to Mr. Gilbert, wax and tallow-chandler, of Tottenham-court-road, on Wed nesday evening last. The accused parties, William Limand, the driver, and Frederick Cloke, late shopman to Mr. Gilbert, were produced before the coroner by inspector Froud, having been remanded from Marylebone Police-court to wait the result of the inquiry. From the evidence of two labouring men, named Wildman and Coates, it appeared that on Wednesday evening last, about ten, minutes after six o'clock, they were standing in the vicinity of the Wire's Head, when they saw the deceased crossing the Kentish Town-road from Jeffry-street to Hawley-road. As she neared the centre of the road the horse attached to a covered cart drove along in the direction of Camden Town, at the rate of between seven and eight miles an hour. The horse knocked deceased down, and one of the wheels passed over her. The driver of the cart was then called to by Wildman to stop as he was known, but instead of doing so they went on at a much greater pace, and he could not keep up with the cart. There were a number of lights in the road at this spot, three outside the Wire's Head, one at the corner of the Hawley-road, another immediately op posite at the corner of Jeffry-street, and another gas light about ten yards from the corner of the Hawley road. It was a dark evening, but the witnesses could plainly see there were two men and a woman in the cart. They heard one of the men call out to deceased. Mr. William Anderson said he was a clerk in the Admiralty, and resided in Exeter-street South, Haw ley-road. The deceased was his mother, and resided with his father at 5, Prebend-place, Kentish Town. On the evening of the occurrence she was coming fro.n her own house on a visit to him. She had good sight, but was somewhat deaf occasionally, and had not long since expressed to witness's wife that she feared she should some day be run over. Eliza Gilder said she was single, and lived at No. 4, Church-way, Somers Town, with her mother. She knew both the prisoners, Cloke and Limand, but had never seen them before Wednesday evening last. She met the two men at Highgate, on her return from Finchley, and asked them to give her a ride, as she was tired, and they did so. They came through Kentish Town at a rapid pace. There was no romping whilst doing so. The cart belonged to Mr. Gilbert, wax and tallow-chandler, of Howland-street. They were all sitting together on the seat nearly in front of the cart, and the prisoner Cloke was driving. On arriving at the Wire's Head she heard Limand call out, " Hoy, hoy," and she then saw the deceased in front of the cart, near the horse's head, and in a minute after the horse knocked her down, and, she believed, one of the wheels passed over her. She believed so, as one of the young men said as they went along, "By God, you have run over her." After deceased was knocked down, the man Cloke, who was driving, was about to pull up, when Limand snatched the reins from him, and drove like lightning. They went up Park-street, through Grove-street and Mornington crescent, into Cumberland Market, and when there they stopped, and Limand looked out and said, " We are all right, no one is after us." The Coroner inquired how it was that these par ties were traced ? Tiffin, the summoning officer, said in a very sin gular mariner. The last witness came on Thursday to the workhouse for a medical order, and whilst there, hearing the occurrence talked of, she said, " Oh, I know all about it ; I was in the cart at the time." This coming to his ears enabled him to trace them out, and the girl identified them. The room was cleared of strangers, and after a con sultation of about twenty minutes' duration, the jury returned a verdict of" Manslaughter against William Limand and Frederick Cloke." The Coroner made out his warrant for the com mittal to Newgate, but gave Inspector Proud, is whose hands it was placed, instructions not to execute it until after the prisoners were again taken before Mr. Long, the magistrate. MEDICAL TESTIMONIAL-SIGHT AND HEARING. From T. J. Pettigrew, Surgeon, F.R.S. to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,—Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in replying to your inquiry as to the results obtained by the use of your Improved Spectacles ; being in the constant habit of reading and writing for many hours together by lamp light, it is but justice to say that your newly invented Spectacle Lenses have afforded me the greatest comfort. When I employed the ordinary pebbles, I never failed to experience in the morning a great irritation i n th e e y es . Since I have used your admirable glasses I suffer from no inconvenience of the kind, and my vision is much im proved. I shall ever feel grateful to my good friend, Dr. Blundell for having drawn my attention to the sub ject.—Believe me to be yours, very respectfully. T. J. PETTIGREW, 8, Saville row. Also, newly invented Acromatic Waistcoat-pocket Telescopes and Opera glasses of the same kind of Lenses.—Every kind of Te lescope of larger size and increasing powers for shooting. sea purposes, and upon stand for astronomical observa tions the powers are so great and the lenses so bright and brilliant that minute objects at an extraordinary dis tance is brought completely under the eyes. Sportsmen tourists, and sea-side visitors will indeed here have a great treat. Acoustic instruments of every description for deafness. Caution.—Messrs. S. & B. Solomons, opti cians and aurists, are not in any way connected with a person of the same name in th e i r i mme di a t e neighbour hood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent mis takes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 39 Albemarle -street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. INFAMOUS CASH REPORTED IN TIIE " TIMES" OF SATURDAY, NOV. 2 —REFUSAL OF :A MEDICAL MAW TO GIVE A CERTIFICATE OF BURIAL.—PeopIe of Eng land,—One of the infamous powers granted to doctors in order to put money into their pockets is, that no one can be buried without H certificate from one of them—this is, in other words, to force people to employ them in sickness, whether they feel disposed to so do or not. Read the paragraph which appeared in the Times of last Saturday. When wilt people awake from their lethargy on this question? Do you now understand what flygeists mean by the medical liberty of the subject? Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British College of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the body of fiygeists, who contend, that since all diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Universal Medicine, which being composed of innocuous ingre dients, may be taken by any person without the aid of a doctor. THE OVERLAND PASSAGE TO INDIA.--The antici pations which were excited by the announcement of Major and Mrs. Darby Griffith's description of their Journey Across the Desert, and the various exciting incident of their Overland Passage from India, have been more than realised by the publication of the work, which turns out to bo as entertaining a companion as it was pretty sure to be useful and valuable as a guide. The pecnliar facilities and advantages which Major Griffith and his lady seem to have enjoyed, and the unusual stay which they made at the principal points of the journey, have given a value to these volumes which no mere hasty and passing glance at the various features of the work could have afforded. The Journey across the Desert from Suez to Alexandria ; the novel description of our new military colony at Aden ; the account of the passage of the Red Sea, and the voyage on the Nile ; the full and interesting description - of Malta ; and the rapid and spirited sketches of Sicily and Italy—all these features of the work give it a value and attraction not belonging to ordinary books of travel. THE SUICIDE AT KILMARNOCK.—We gave on Wed nesday last the particulars of a very singular suicide eommitted near Kilmarnock, by an elderly gentleman and a lady presumed to be his wife, who had drowned them selves in the river Irvine, after having tied their arms together with handkerchief's. We understand there is every reason to believe that the parties were a Mr. Jo seph Barker, formerly of this town, and his v%ife. Mr. Barker vs as one of the firm of John and Joseph Barker, Cromford-court, who were largely engaged in th e German trade. and failed somewhere about the year 1814. Mr. John Barker, we believe, died very shortly afterwards ; but Mr. Joseph B R ace; sub sequently resided in _London, an d more recently travelled for sometime for a house at Birmingham. This employment he left a few months ago, with a vi. 7 to a connexion with a house in London; which, how ever, he did not succeed ; and it i s supposed that disap pointment on this score, and probably the exhaustion of his resources, led to the commission of the fatal act.— Manchester Paper. LATE VISIT TO PORTSMOUTH OF THE FRENCH SQUADRON. A letter, of which the following is a translated copy, has been received by the chief naval, military, and civil authorities at this port, acknowledging the universal courtesy, hospitality, and friendly disposi tion exhibited by the British officers and civilians towards the officers of the French squadron, on their recent sojourn at this port : " Paris, Oct. 26, 1844. "TO ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES ROWLEY. " Sir,—The official reports which I have received from Vice-Admiral Baron de la Susse contain the most minute accounts of what took place at Ports mouth in the reception' given to the officers of the French squadron by the eager assembly of the population of that port, together with every honour able manifestation from the English royal navy, which was added thereto. " I have at the same time received an account of the additional splendour which was united to these noble demonstrations by the visit which her Majesty the Queen of England condescended to pay to the frigate Le Gomer, after the departure of his Majesty the King of the French. "The first professions, which, according to the example constantly given by your Excellency, had so handsomely taken place on the part of the officers of the English Royal Navy, and of the principal autho rities and other inhabitants of Portsmouth, have been crowned in the most flattering manner by its having pleased her Britannic Majesty to grant the distin guished favour of her presence on board the vessel which bore the flag of Vice-Admiral de la Susse, and these testimonials have been warmly felt by the whole royal navy of France. "I come, therefore, M. Admiral, in the name of the naval and military body at the them' of which I have the honour to be ✓ placed, to request your Excellency to receive for yourself our thanks, and to express as much as possible to the Royal Navy of England, as also to the different persons who were kindly pleased on that occasion to unite in the feelings by which they have shown themselves actuated, the deeply gratify ing remembrance which we all preserve of the recep tion which has been given us in that port of Great Britain where the flag of your Excellency floats. " This reception, which accords so well in every re spect with the existence of the reports of the perfect harmony which I have so frequently seen manifested between the navies of.the two countries, is at this time the indelible sign of the just and mutual esteem which unites them. " In congratulating my self most truly, M.*.Admiral, on being called to become the faithful interpreter of these sentiments, I esteem myself happy in having to add thereto the personal confidence with which I have the honour to be, your Excellency's very humble and obedient servant, " Baron MACKAU, " Vice-Admiral, Peer of France, and Secretary of State for the Navy and Colonies." TREMENDOUS STORM. PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF BIRKENHEAD MARKET. BIRKET4HEAD, CHESHIRE, SATURDAY.—During the whole of yesterday the weather was extremely boisterous here ; but as evening closed in the wind blew with great violence, and eventually became a complete hurricane, sweeping along the Cheshire shores with the utmost fury, to the great alarm of the inhabitants of the several towns and villages which were exposed in succession to this fearful visitation— namely, Runcorn, Eastham, Birkenhead, Seacombe, Egremont, New Brighton, Liscard, &c.; but, with the exception of Birkenhead, so recently the scene of high festival, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the new dock—with the exception of that rapidly-improving place, little, damage was sus tained beyond the blowing in of a few windows, and the effects of no slightly-grounded apprehension. At about eleven o'clock this morning, the storm then being at its greatest height in and around Birkenhead, a large portion of the wall of a new market, now in course of erection in that town, gave way before the fury of the blast to which it was opposed, and fell inwards with a crash so terrible, that the shock startled many persons who w ere up wards of two miles from the spot at the time. I- fortunately happened that most of the workmen were occupied in the central avenue at this juncture ; the vast descending mass, however, reached two of them, who were severely injured; and another man, who had just mounted what is termed the second story of a scaffolding, was hurled amongst the frag ments of the shattered structure, and literally bur it d beneath them. He was subsequently rescued, with great difficulty, but was quite insensible, and for some time his case was considered hopeless. The sufferers were promptly conveyed to the Dispensary, where every attention was paid to them by Mr. Stevenson, surgeon, and the house surgeon, Mr. Evans ; when it was found that one of those first alluded to, named James Ellis, aged 32, had received a com pound fracture of the leg, and was otherwise much injured ; that the other, named Samuel Hughes, aged 22, was dreadfully contused on the head, loins, and other parts of the body. The unfortunate i n n who was thrown from the scaiTold, named Jr,hn Can non, and aged 27, was also bruised in a sh - icking,., manner, but it was really wonderful that he escaped with life, considering the awful situation in which he was placed, with a weight of brickwork to sustain which seemed more than sufficient to crush the strongest mortal frame to atoms. The astounding nature of this fact will he gathered from a brief de scription of the edifice. All who have visited Liver pool must have seen St. John's market ; the erection mutilated by the accident just recorded is on the same plan, and nearly as extensive. It forms an oblong square, 430 feet long by 130 feet in breadth ; the onter walls, however, were only nine inches, or the length of one brick thick ; and though this was strengthened by pilasters at intervals of 13 feet 1 0 i nches on every side, yet, considering the height of the wall, which is nearly 30 feet, such thickness, even with the aid of the bolstering afforded by the pilasters. 20 inches, is pronounced by competent judges to be utterly inade quate for that assurance of safety which the public have a right to demand, and which the lamentable frequency of fatal accidents of the kind renders it so necessary to exact. About 80 feet in length of this wall fell, and a large portion of it covered the un happy victim to whom reference has last been made. The fracture, however, extends to nearly the whole length of the wall, on either side of the formidable breach; it will, therefore, most likely be found neces sary to rebuild the whole. Messrs. Tors and Ren ders, it is said, are the parties with whom the contract for the erection of the edifice was made. Some of the Liverpool papers published second second editions this evening, giving a most ex 4 ger - ac count of the above affair, together yvith a statem en t o f . ever, are only the number killed ; as thesP,, now news paper deaths, the Cor':::;*r will, happily, not be troubled to " sit" on thg bodies. During the violence of the storm, it was not with out great difficulty that even strong men could with stand its force. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT KIRKSTALL FORGE, NEAR LEEDS.—A lamentahle circumstance took place at Kirkstall Forge, the iron works of Messrs. Beecroft, Butler, and Co., on Wednesday mornin g l ast , ar i s i ng out of a quarrel which took place between Wm. F ox and John Atkinson, two of the forgeuien employed at that place. The workmen are divided into two classes, one set working by night and another by day. Atkin son was a night man, and it seems that a quarrel took place between him and Fox, in consequence of his not having got the furnace properly ready for the latter, who is a day man ; the custom being for those work during the night to have the furnaces in a cert'ain state of preparation for the day men when they aa.rie e in the morning. In the course of the quarrel ,2 ox was struck by Atkinson two or three times, but did not re turn the blows, his anger, unfortunately, man if est i ng it self soon after in a much more , l - esperate form. Bars of iron, five or six feet lone. called ‘• staffs," are us. , cl o for the purpose of forgiei,ne end being we ld e d to the ball of metal which is to be operated on, and which can thus be mono about, in or oat of the furnace, as the woriarecii May require. Both parties had resumed their werei, and about five minutes had elapsed, after the quarrel had apparently subsided, when Fox took one of these " staffs" out of the furnace, and raising it above his head, and directing the end, which he had brought to a white or welding heat, at the body of Elkinson, he darted it at him like a lance. It struck the unfortunate man on the left side of his person, inflicting a frightful wound, and he instantly fell with his face on the door. He had fortunately observed the unusual warmer in which Fox held the staff, and by turning partially round, had prevented the heated iron from entering the middle of his body ; otherwise instantaneous death would in all probability have been the consequence, as there was no thickness of clothes to prevent the blow taking full effect, the forgemen, in consequence of the heated atmosphere in which they work, wearing nothing but their shirts on the upper part of their persons. The end of the bar was at such a terrible heat, that the metal or dross is said to have fallen from it in liquid drops, even after the blow was struck. Atkinson was imme diately raised from the ground by his fellow-workmen, and conducted to the house of a relative, when medical advice was promptly procured ; and we are glad to say, that there are some hopes of his ultimate recovery, the iron having missed the more vital parts. Fox was ap prehended by Mr. Glover, the constable of Chapeltown, and brought down to the prison at Leeds, where he now remains in custody, until the injuries inflicted un Atkin son, shall be known. Both the men are young ; Fox being only about twenty years of age, and Atkinson about twenty-five. The former, who comes from Derby shire, had only been two or three weeks at the forge; the latter had been there some months,-_-.. eetls Tines, MISS STRICKLAND'S 1411144 PT THE ( .44SENS OE ENr-LA:rig.--,lt is but due to this accomplished authoress tot state that in the article on * 2 - .le itoyal Exchang e , which appeared lrl the Imes of Monday last, we were , indebted l eer recent volume, " The Life of Queen .ziizabeth," for that portion of it which related to the opening of the first Exchange by that illustrious Sove reign, S o mild has been the weather that a fine straw. berry was yesterday gathered in the garden of Mr. Stoke - terrace,—,Plymouth Journa l NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—The Vesu v ius steam-314, Commander E. Ommanney, arrived y es t e rday 1 0( ! a4 a , ing from Malta. The i n t e lli gence s h e b r i ngs ply the late affair of General Corum a an d th e K a bytoo, a different light to that shown by th e F renc h jourosZ, The battle occurred outsid e th e f or tifi ca ti on s of Biers, and the French killed amounted to 300. T P s : Vesuvius has come into harbour, it is suppsed, to paid off, having been in constant service upwardi three years. The Fair Rosamond schooner, Lieut.-Command er ,t A. G. Bulman, came up t o Spith ea d on Thursde f ; I from Halifax. She came int o h ar b our , an d the or having been inspected yesterday by Captain Rovil for the Commander-in .Chief, s h e w ill b e pa id din day or two. The Eclair, steam-sloop, Commander listcourt , !!! Spithead on Thursdaymorning for the coast of Aft; with stores, &c., for the ship s on th a t sta ti on . wander S. H. Usher goes out in her to join his S it '"'' the Wasp, 16, vice Bagot, invalided. The following was the British naval force on tb e China station on the 30th July : At Hong Kong—The Agincourt, 72, Capt. 13 11 4 flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. C oc h rane; th e Minds 20, Capt. Quin ; the Sapphire, 22, troop-ship, Mast er Commander I. R. Fittock ; the Spiteful steam-4 1 o ° , Commander Maitland; the Vixen s t eam - s l oo p, C°_ll.l mender Giffard ; and the Hon. C om p any ' s stem Proserpine, Commander Hough, R.N. At Whampoa—The Wolverine, 16, Commander v , G. Morri3; and the Pelican, 16, Commander Josti ty At Chusan—The Castor, 36, Capt. G ra ham; Wolf, 18, Commander Vyner ; and Hon. Compski steamer Medusa, Commander He w itt, R.N. At Amoy—The Plover, surveying -vessel, Cal',"3lo „,, Collinson ; and the Young H e b e sc h ooner , Liell" nant-Commander J. Bate. The Volcano steam-sloop was paid off in this b ri e hour on Thursday, and rec omm i ss i one d on the '°.,„ lowing day by Lieutenant Miller, her former P°'" mander. iV The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidget remain at Tarbert during the winter. The Alban steam-transport, Lieutenant-Coat i der F. Lowe. has arrived at Tarbert from Cork. are informed this vessel will be manned by a color ment of 43. The Griffon, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Comms 2l , 4 C. Jenkin, was at Jamaica on th e 20th o f Septet:lP' refitting, prior to sailing for England. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. Elliot, Port Royal on the 17th of September wi;li dispate i t! for Captain Fremantl e , o f th e Incons(ant, 36 ' Vera Cruz. The Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, was at fi lre fax on the 20th of October. The Hermes steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Comma W. Carr, arrived at Halif ax on th e 2 5t h of Sept from Port Royal. The Styx, 6, steam Surveying-vessel, arrive Faval on the 19th of September. The Coast Defence Commission. —Colonel IN le — slt R.A., Colonel Sir G. Hosts,R E., and Captsil l „A T. Hastings., R.N., have been, during the past r - 0 00 inspecting the fortifications of Portsmouth, all" l , 4 sf Cumberland, Mon c kt on , Bl oc kh ouse, and .11,01 forts, &c. After i nspect i ng C alshot and L one Castles and the defences of the Solent, th e Coto 1 : 31 1 sion will conclude its labours at Portsmouth, report the result to the Master of the Ordnance. A In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Victoria,s o , Albert, Nautilus, Volcano, Fearless, Comet, X 4 4 ".. and Dwarf. Bln Dock—Prince R egen t, Vengeance, li°s- 11 Locust, Athol, and Scourge. At Spithead—None. DEVONPORT, Nov. I.—The Linnet 6, Lieuten Commander Dick en , h av i ng h ad her defects P7l l , good, sailed on Thursday (yesterday) for - Falasol l to take out the next Brazilian mail. The Adventure, Master-CommanPaer W. 10s sailed yesterday, with victualling stores, for Cork' y The Amethyst, 26, is, we are informed, t A ° • t y launched from thi s d oc k yar d on the 21st, 1111'0 Avenger, first-class steamer, to be l a id down her slip. The Devon lighte r , Master-Commanderk - sailed yesterday, with stores, for Pemb r oke. • The Duck lighter, Master-Commander Tric e ' laden with stores, for Woolwich and Deptford; the Goodwill, a l so w i t h stores, for Sheerne ss Chatham. Both wind bound. P is The Eclair st eam - s l oop, C ommander EstcelliVis into this port, this morning, from P o rtal:1100m? route to the coast of Africa. She p rocee d s to-oor morning. 0 0 The Netley tender returned from Portsmout h ' Tuesday, having disembarked supernumeraries. The Rochester arr i ve d f rom S heerness, ou ,ovr day, with stores. The Semiramis ; 42, was finished breaking oP Wednesday. The Se...n Josef, 110, Captain Dixon,—Baroo,frm—f carpenter's, ma t e , sentence d to b e hanged for the boatswain of the Resistance, is still a clog r i e ne r on board this ship, awaiting order'. fr° °l Admiralty. VI Strong winds, am oun ti ng to ne' a rly Pit ss° been blowing here since Thursd!- 4y at dayligi' " continue now with unabated fvrv. A rumour is curr en t th at t ' ne k arl of Haddllt: is about to resign as First Lord of the AdnairtakTli s ti consequence of ill health, and that Earl Southern "t Lord Ellenborouel) will be appointed to the °fil iT In Harbour— San Josef, N e tl ey , Sylph, _,.14i0 am*, FlaTner, S n ip e , H amoaze, Rochester, Good and Duck. In the Sound—Resistance and &lair. il ° l SHEERNESS, No v . I.—Th e Hercules, 701.0 brought down from h er moor i ngs and docke d tiny as an advance ship on Tuesday. tie The Thunder, 6, Commander Barnett, wa s or docked at Chatham to-day and masted, and _ A O wards conveyed alongside the Hussar hulk, to Tr' her stores. The Trafalgar, 120, is still at moorings 0 1 / 40 0 the Basin, w a iti ng f or t h e completion of sto':as fox London, 90, an d H owe, 120, to enter and 10 the same equipment as an advance s;ap. The Brilliant, 31, razeeing, stripped of her deck and bulwarks, and pro4resses rapidly. pit ) The Sinbad lighter let Chatham on Tuesday' stores, for Port.mnth. tY In Harbour-_-:•..rhe Ocean, the Africaiae, od. Raven. • J..,,11 Dock—Th e H ercu l es, t h e Herald, the 8101 11. ` and the Spy. 0 In the Basin—Th e H owe, t h e L ondon, t hp/ ture, the Vernon, and the Amazon. At Chatham.—ln Harbour—The Poict".ls Bl/ Thunder. MOTIONS PR. t Commander—W. H . Hall, to tcie rank of r O o f Lieutenant—William Trir.igham, to the Pi -- Commander.lO Mates—Hon. G. H. I .i)ouglass ; L. P. J i g ° tw the rank of Lieutenant, ?OINTMENTS. ice; J. A. M'Donal • - -.A, to the Coast Guard Serve C. Miller, to the Volcano. Chaplain—Rev. P. Smith, to the Volcano. Mate—W. C. Forsyth, to the Volcano. to°. Second Master—G. H. Loveridge Octmg , ' Volcano. a .Midshipma n —H. F. M'Ki llop, te, the Cals-°OO 0 • Masters' Assistants—F. Brown en d A. ges°1111) the Volcno,to ice , Cit.-ills—G. Reilly, to the C a l e d on i a; -0 fano. the Daedalus ; F. Gilb e rt (i n c h arge), to t h e v°`" ROYAL MA7IINRS. OSP First Lieutenant—T. C. C . M oore, to be tea r vice Waters, r e ti re d on f u ll- pay ; Second Lieud, B. Ellis, to be Fi rs t, v i ce M oore, pro mote o ipts' o i His Grace the D u k e o f Wellington has 91/1 ;0 Captain Edw ar d H arvey, R.N., to be OW Weimer Ca.tle, vice Fisher, deceased. __doe'," BIRTHS. v icet °l On the 31st ult., a t Islington, Mrs. J. B. ' l. d daughter. n '' On the 31st ult., th e w if e o f M r. S. W. IL -r araPtg tot Royal Hill, Q ueen ' s - roa d , B ayswater, of a son. , x e ir On the 31st ult., a t th e Paragon, Blackheath, iv Ai - et . Bruce Turner, of a son. ri il stb On the Ist inst., a t Hyd e - par k- square, Mrs. W . A.- . (r 0 PA . ington, of a daughter. il l ' On the Ist inst., a t L ans d owne-v il las, ..efotting-13 poi T. W. Younghusband, of a son. On the Ist i ns t., a t B ayswater, t h e, wife dB. T. 00 Browne, Esq., of Lauuton, Oxon, of a ; son. fi n' On 1 ,,, tbi A rli On the 28th ult., at St. Georg and Rev. Henry Montague Viifiers, Rector, Will i l, 0 ,41 second son of the late Admir.til Butterfield, to Mar i 0, daughter of G. B. Ashmear' a , Esq , Haves, Middlesolg'd, tr. o f ZS BloomsburY , -. f:- • On the 31st ult. at Christ Chiirch, Blackfriars-Os EAT,' o f Ivison de Viale, Esq~ - Fletc h er Ivisoi,th c om Cadiz, to Mary, second daughter of the late John ' Esq., of Penrith, Cumberland. Cbti rci l #ll • lif On the 31st ult., at St. Andrew's National Sow% part,.of London, the Rev. William Cameron, Minister of ti logbt e ,: di Lochbroom, Rossshire, to Martha Isabella, eldest it ris' ameron, o f the P the late Rev. Alexander C M i n i s te rVP' Edderton, Rossshire. bff'• • don , On the 29th ult., at Salter's-hall Chapel, Lop Gobor , Davies, of Crown street, Finsbury- s q u are, to Mi ss Macleod, of Stoke Newington. gr , lED ne - ar LineallL lire ' On the 23d ult., at Som er b y ,Bri gg, .....„Isce , henry Brown, aged 37. On the 26th ult., Mr. Francis Slater, of Montag" r ~,/,. S' Clapham road. On the 28th ult., in St. Alban' t Moore, aged 86. e ll° s-s reet, On the 29th ult., in Bennett-stree,',, Bath, Robert roe Windsor , the infant son of A. H. John Fszn-ssmann, Esq., of 54. Wif it66 burgh. Tintlisto On the 30th ult., a t Hi g h Wycombe' " it h te /4 Esq., aged 77. the On the 31st ult., at Croydon, Anna, re lict of o f Price, Esq., a g ed 78. , .1. no On the Ist inst., Henry John, second son of Au-- __„.....r: Fortress -terrace, Kentish-town L'andon: Printed and Pubiisit ed by Pi lUl/1 111 (411:11 0i . No. 112, Str an d, P r i nter , at The Sun " in thy toga Strand, in the Preci nc t o f the Savoy, Middlesex, Monday, Neireinbar 4,1844. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, OCT. 30.—Among the petitions pre sented to the Second Chamber, respecting the tariff of import and export duties, there is one from the Chamber of Commerce at Tilburg, in which it is affirmed that the woollen manufacturers are not in general sufficiently protected ; that they require to be powerfully supported; and that it is of the greatest importance to the Netherlands that suitable measures should be adopted to make them flourish. It is stated that, in England, France, Germany, and Belgium, manufacturers are infinitely more protected than with us ; that in all those countries the importation of woollen manufacturers, if not wholly prohibited, is subject to such heavy duties that the importation is impossible. The Chamber goes into the subject at great length, and proposes an import duty of 34 florins for every 1001bs. of woollen manufacture. THE HAGUE, OCT. 31.—1 n the sitting of th,:. Second Chamber to-day, the debates on the address ended with the adoption of that proposed by the Com mittee, but modified in some particulars, so that it was sent to the First Chamber. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 31.—We hear that his Majesty the King may be expected in this city on Saturday next, to see the exhibition. We have received the following intelligence from Curcao, Sept. 8 : " We have had this year a very remarkable mete orological phenomenon in these countries. While in Cuba and other places to the north there has been no rain for several months, such heavy rains have fallen on the Continent, that some parts present the appear ance of the deluge. The valleys are inundated, the tops of the trees and the hills rise above the vast expanse of waters ; the cattle attempt to fly to the higher land, and perish in the flood ; the people are obliged to use canoes in some villages, and the crops are partly de stroyed. These heavy rains seem to have prevailed very far inland in the northeastern part of South America, for we read in a Venezuela paper that the members of the Congress have not been able to reach Bogota in due time, because the roads had been rendered impassable by the floods. A letter from Maracaibo, of the 24th of May, says—" The whole valley of the Rio Cacho, from Cucuta to Maracaibo, a distance of snore than 600 miles, is entirely inundated ; the planters have been obliged to leave their plantations and fly to the hills. All the coffee plantations in this valley are under water, and the cocoa is gathered by means of canoes. The lanters are very unfortunate with respect to the cocoa, for a few days before the rain set in, there was a prospect of an extremely good crop. In consequence of this disaster, the prices of coffee and cocoa have risen at Maracaibo." " The communication between Maracaibo and the interior is wholly interrupted, and many vessels have been long waiting for freight. The communication with Valencia, Caraccas, La Guayra, and Porto Ca bello, has long since ceased." ROMANTIC and AFFECTING TALE The Constitutionnel of Tuesday contains the follow ing, the truth of which it guarantees. The facts, divested of the embellishments of the narrator, are as follow :—ln the early part of the month a work man and his wife, returning to their lodgings at about ten o'clock at night, found a young female lying insensible in the street, and having a baby in her arms. Like good Samaritans they raised her up, and, after obtaining some refreshments for her, had the satisfac tion of seeing her fully restored to life and conscious ness, but, on addressing her, discovered that she was a foreigner, and unable to understand what they said. They took her home, and treated her with great kind ness, and then set about the means of ascertaining who she was, and what had brought her to the state in which she was found. In a day or two, amongst the friends of this kind couple, who, being acquainted with foreign languages, visited their lodg ing in the hope of being able to converse with her, came an old soldier who had been long in Spain, and spoke Spanish well. On addressing the female in that language, her eyes lighted up, and she told him that she was a native of Valencia—that about two years ago (she is now only twenty, and very beau tiful), she listened to the seductions of a young foreigner, and, loving him, had at length committed a fault which compelled her to quit her father's house, and fly with him to Madrid to conceal her shame. At Madrid she remained with her lover several months, who one day told her he was compelled to go to England on urgent business, but would be in Paris on the Ist of the present month, and, presenting to her a purse well filled with gold, gave her the address of the hotel at which he was to be found, and requested her to meet him there, She A . 13 E R Capita 111° MAS BLA I Right Hun tl JG .ll'' The l; teek r i L I P_ P:PI34dI tn e b r r l.rei oi Prov ost ) ; 1 1:1!Sa o u ::tittltt s :h r i t ttt3 c o aor! l oren f e:fn ! nni F.91 0 E 1 The „. 11. 41n,a1P1co le ' rle o n f n il e r f " Dor, Esq, _..n Adanl, Es c l 'l Yilqarn AdDa t Barclay o 81 J id aikie, Es Blaiiq le, E sq., of 'lr*P Major. General By 11 B • Lew k e urntt, E "alMe e ts E WilliaCr F,b L. car, "kiwn Es „abaft E u .; „ q.. tl ern 449., Aberc unem . 0 1n J am .. David so n Jato Farquha rson' r arq u h ar E ...an'es Farquhar; ,a...ttain Fraser , Colonel Gran t • w 111 . 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