The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FRIDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The last accounts from New York make it cle. - irly appear that war of the banks with each other was the order of the day, and something of the kind is now coming on, as it would seem, on this side of the At lantic, in consequence of the late interdict of the Bank of England on all papers bearing the endorsement of joint-stock banks. As the quarrel is °Re which may possibly " give honest men their due," and cannot be of any detriment to the public, there should be, by all means, a clear stage made for it, and as the Bank Di rectors have their organs for attack in these cases, it is right that there should be a medium also for the defence, and that the parties, moreover, should be allowed to speak for themselves, instead of having their argu ments submitted by us at second-hand. Annexed are some extracts from the numerous letters received on this subject : " Liverpool, October 13. " The Bank Directors, it seems, came on Thursday last .:o the conclusion to refuse discount to all bills which may happen to bear the signature of a bank of issue, whether joint-stock or private; and let it not be supposed that this applies only to such paper as is accepted or drawn by them, but if the signature of such a bank as endorser hap pen:. to appear, this is sufficient to call forth the anathema' of the Bank of England. A strong instance of this I may notice, which occurred a few days ago. A bill was pre sented for discount. the drawers and acceptors of which were in themselves unexceptionable; then followed several endorsers, who were also creditable parties; but following these names the signature of a bank of issue appeared, and hence the bill was discarded. Such a proceeding needs no comment. Let it be borne in mind that the institution which acted thus despotically has had occasion to solicit assistance from the Bank of France ; that the same men who seem to descise public opinion so much here, have evinced themselves to be dependent on the aid of a foreign banking company. The more important inquiry is, what is likely to be the result of such a course of proceeding ? The inconvenience will be very shortly felt to a very great degree, for, high as is the present rate of interest, it will doubtless be yet increased on that class of paper which the bill brokers find will not be received by the Bank. The con sequence will be a determination on the part of the ag grieved parties to bring their great adversary to a different conclusion ; and it is well known that the only way to do this is to fight our opponent with the same weapons. Pe titions, representations, are known to be useless; hence, as persuasion will fail, coercion must be resorted to, and I fear much that the Bank of England will soon have ceuse bo admit the justice of the old adage, That those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.' What sortie of the leading joint-stock bankers are said to medi tate by way of retribution is, that such an amount of Bank of England notes should be collected in the country and presented fot' payment in London and at the branches, as will cause the Old Lady' to beg :or quarter, or resort to an Order in Council for the issue of 1/. notes. I feel per suaded that in preference to the dilatory course of peti tioning for an alteration in the Charter of the Bank, some course founded on this principle will almost immediately be taken." Another letter, dealing with the general policy as well as with this particular measure of the Bank, re marks as follows : " One of the complaints against the Bank of England is hostility to the Joint-stock system. Now the Joint- Banks, both of issue and deposit, throughout the kingdom are established under the sanction of the Legislature just as much as the Bank of England ; they are a part of our national system, and if not cherished as such, the enmity directed against them falls indirectly upon agriculture and commerce. It cannot be denied that the cultivation of the soil, the prosperity of legitimate trade, and the employ ment of the working classes in the provinces, depend upon the country banks just as much as the Bank of England, and the capricious imposition of any severe rule which may have the effect of withdrawing from the control of the country banks even 1,0001. of capital, may inflict upon the industrious population of the circle a pressure to the ex tent of 1,000,0001. The Bank of England, therefore, from the high position which it occupies, should be the parent, rather than the foe, of these Institutions, and, if this were the case, they would gradually fall into unity of action with that establishment, and cherish it as the na tional fountain or reservoir. . "The hostility complained of is, that the Bank of England decline discounting any bills that are drawn, ac cepted, or endorsed by joint-stock banks of issue, and the Morning Post of yesterday, by way of justification, gives reasons for such conduct as are ludicrously erroneous. They say, in the first place, that the conduct of such banks should be strictly watched, and the mode of watch ing them, forsooth, is a capricious and selfish attempt to cast discredit on their paper. A morning paper, which is losing all character by becoming a thick-and-thin partisan of the Batik, labours to justify this system by stating, that if A, a Lancashire bank, discounts a bill for 5,0001. to B, a customer, and afterwards sells the same bill to C, another customer, who remits it to his friend in London, it is then highly proper in the Bank of England to refuse discounting this bill, because the transaction would be what is technical* called a double issue, and would re present two quantities of currency issued upon one and the same security. Now nothing can be more futile or unsound than this doctrine. " When the Bank A discounts the bill originally to B, it gives for it 5,000/. of currency ; when it afterwards Belli the same bill to C, it receives from him for the bill the like sum of 5,0004 currency, thus withdrawing from circu lation the same quantity that had at first been issued. C again remits the bill to his friend in London in payment of a debt, and if this friend discount it in London, he re ceives for it the like sum of 5,000/. Whatever, therefore, may be the number of hands this bill passes through, it never can represent more of the currency than 5,0001. " If the Bank of England persist in refusing such paper on such pretences, it will infallibly lead to an issue of cur reney on fictitious securities, and will he giving an actual eocoaragement to the very system which the Bank professes to guard against. In the year 1825, when the same re- Istrictive system was pursued, what was the consequence ? Many of the merchants in London, who received remit tance% from the country in the bills of joint-stock banks, Otrulel not get them discounted at the Bank, and so were obliged to keep the ♦ery best description of bills in their repositories as waste paper. But they soon found a very simple remedy ; they laid their heads together, and manu factured bills upon one another, which were at once wel comed into the parlour as friends, and treated as the legiti mate offspring of real mercantile transactions I " Thus we see the absurdity of making such exclusive distinctions, and the mischief to which such policy ma y lead. " There is another rule adopted by the Bank of England which is still more capricious and absurd—namely, the re fusal to permit the joint-stock banks now forwt• d or formieg in London to open deposit accounts with that establish ment, Now, setting aside the obvious advantage to the Bank of England arising from such accounts, this is ac tually a refusal to bodies of individuals of an accommoda tion to which they have an unquestionable right, as re ceivers, distributors, or circulators of its paper currency, whereby the Bank profits so largely. The capital of some of these. banks is not less than 2,000,000/. ; and suppose any of their directors or officers go to the Bank of Eng land and propose to deposit 1,000,0001. of their notes, how ridiculous it is that a national establishment should decline receiving such a deposit. The directors of the joint-stock bank might say, with great propriety, " If you refuse to take our Bank of England notes in deposit, and force us to keep them in our own repositories, we will rather ex change them for a million of sovereigns, and lock up the gold till it be wanted.' " It is childish in the extreme, and unworthy the cha racter of a great national establishment, to act in this man ner. The joint-stock banks of London cannot by any pos sibility do the Bank of England any harm, but much good by circulating its paper. Such institutions may, indeed, compete a ith the private bankers of London ; but the Bank of England has nothing to do with such competition, and it would do wisely not to lean to one side more than an other; for if it do, inquiry as to the use made of existing privileges will be the consequence, because both sides are strong enough to protect their own interests, and quick--ighted enough to perceive when a national esta b ishment is swerving from its legitimate path, and from the pursuit of these objects for the promotion of which it holds its charter." These will serve as specimens of the feeling against , the Bank which the late severe measure has excited. I 'There is reason to believe, that though some slight re- laxation of the rule may have taken place, sinceth the Liverpool deputation left town , there is nothought of abandoning it ; on the contrar y , it is affirmed that a bill drawn upon one of the most eminent of the London banking-houses, and endorsed by a joint stock bank, had been refused discount to-day at the Bank of England, as if it was intended to mark the adherence to the rule in the strongest mariner, by showing that considerations of credit could not possi 1Y have anything to do with the rejection. That discounts are about generally to under g o a rigid cut tido:lent is a, impression very to-day, as well prevalent in the city as that re-payment of the temporary leans advanced in c the beginning of last month, and which are now due, will be strictly enforced. Regard is to be had, moreover,uotvit is said, when bills are pre vented for discountt ; coa d oily those of shortesw dates will which they have to run, ill be taken—a proceed ! iaig which is thought preferable for the purpose of cur -1 tajitigg the circulation to another advance in the rate of interest. This latter course is believed to have been under consideration yesterday r - eekly Board of Directors, but to have b en abandoned d in consequence on the uhject, of strong rt presentations made to t7h n e e have on all the pointing out the injurious effect it woumld other money tran sactions of the c ountry, and its inutility onl at the same time for the p ur p ose in vie w. Some imagine that this expedient of takin g in short bi lls for dis count is intended to obviate the necessit y of j it an interdict on bills o f an y p articular class ; but t be unsafe for al l concerned to place any such reliance'ould at that on the Ban k Court, who now appear determined, at whatever inconvenienc e elsewhere, to consult nothin g nut their own safety. for Account. Exchequer Bills closed at 4s. to 2s. dis. and Bank Stock at 178 to 9. In the foreign house Five per Cent. Dutch Stock was quoted 1004 to -a, Two-and-a-Half per Cent, ditto 524 to 3, Five per Cent. Portuguese 33i to 6, A , tive Spanish with the coupons, 30 i 1 ; to i, Colombian 3_l to and Mexican 31f to 2. The Share Market was almost entirely neglected. Scarcely half a dozon of the numerous schemes con tained in the daily list of prices obtained a quotation, and it seems difficult to understand from what source the necessary funds are acquired for carrying on the various joint-stock undertakings now in progress. The calls made by the different Companies may, in all proba bility, account in a very great degree for the embar rassed state of the Money Market. Great Western Railway (new shares) were done at a dis. to par, London and Brighton at 13* to 13 dis., London and Blackwall at 2 to If dis., and Loudon and Birming ham at 50 to 1 prem. per share. British and North American Bank left off at If to f dis. per share. We have no amendment to notice in the conti nental exchanges. The quotations are still droop ing, and, but for the support given to the market by the house of Baring, Brothers, and Co., who are believed to be acting for the Bank of England, it is riot too much to suppose that they could not be maintained at anything like their recent elevation. It is a question not very easy of solution, how it is that a balance of trade should still be in operation against us. The payments made and making, for foreign grain, are, it is to be presumed, much more considerable than the public are aware of ; and the ex portation of our manufactures are still so inconsiderable as to be hardly worthy of being taken into account at all, as a medium of exchange. Last year we shipped nothing to the corn-growing districts of the Continent. This year there is the same absence of orders, and we suppose it may now be fairly understood that this branch of our export trade has all but ceased. Bills on Paris were quoted (three mouths) 23 62 , k to 65 ;,Ham burg, 13 10f to 10 ; Amsterdam, 12 41 to 4 ; Ant werp, 12 3f ; and Frankfort, 150/. There were hardly any bills offering ; and we understand that something was done on Amsterdam as low as 12 3/ at three months' date. Letters have been received from Guayaquil, by the way of Panama, to the 11th of August. Everything was then quiet in that direction. A treaty of com merce had been concluded between Mr. Cope, on the part of the British Government, and the authorities of the Republic of Equator. Peru was equally free from po litical agitation, and it was thought that a state of re pose might be safely calculated upon for at least a twelvemonth to come. We hear that a fast-sailing vessel, of between three and four hundred tons burden, named the Mor, is about to be sent to Canton with orders from the British Go vernment in relation to the misunderstandings which have sprung up between the Chinese authorities and Captain Elliott. It seems to be understood that Lord Palmerston so far supports the views of the latter (Elliott) as to have expressed a very distinct wish that no further dealings should take place between the two nations, otherwise than upon the most clearly defined principles. The Chinese are so little to be found fault with in the stand they have taken against the contra band traffic in opium that concession on their part is not to be expected, and the trade are consequently pre pared for a continuance of the existing difficulty and sus pension of all intercourse for several months to come. The Mor, a beautiful little ship, built by Messrs. Wigram and Co., goes armed with eight 12-pounders and two long sixes, besides which she has an ample supply of small arms, manacles, &c., on board in case of need. She will be the bearer of some private letters, and a few articles of merchandise to serve as ballast. She leaves Plymouth immediately. Some interest was excited in the City this morning by the re port of Captain Jackson, of the ship Premier, just arrived off the Isle of Wight. It appears that on the 3d ult., on his voyage from Bengal, Captain Jackson spoke the Panama, off St. Helena, and was informed by the commander that, upon the departure of that vessel from Canton for New York, all British ships, except the Anne Jane, had left Whampoa laden for England. He reported further that the British resi dents were all at Macao, and that the merchants had refused to take upon themselves the management of ships consigned to them if they attempted to pass the Bogue, or in any way contravened the orders of the Superintendent. The Belhaven would have proceeded up the river but for this interdiction, so that Captain Elliott's arrangements would seem to have been per severed in up to the above date. CHRONICLE.—The Consol Market was in an un settled state to-day. In the early part the Market looked firm, but subsequently, without any sales of mo ment having taken place, showed weakness, and the prices closed lower than on Thursday. We noticed yesterday that the Bank of England bad discounted some bills drawn by country banks of issue on London bankers which had been sent in by the holders; we have now to mention that the Bank has acted precisely in the reverse way to-day, having returned similar bills, to some amount, to the parties by whom they had been presented. In the Foreign Securities some considerable sales took place in Peninsular Bonds, which, with the de pressed state of the English Funds, caused a decline in most of the other Securities in which business has been doing. Dutch Stock appears to be still pressing on the market, which we believe to be caused principally by large sales made in Holland for English account, assisted, perhaps, by the rumours which are abroad that the Dutch Government may be obliged to have recourse to a loan, should the Belgians not be soon enabled to pay the first instalments of their debt now over due. At the Corn Exchange, the market in wheat and oats was decidedly firm to-day at last Monday's prices, and some large sales were made in the latter. A private letter, which we have just seen, from an extensive agri culturist well acquainted with the counties of Glouces ter, Worcester, and Hereford, states that the yield of wheat will not be so good as last year, and that the extra land planted, though very considerable, will not make up the deficiency. The rainy weather had not done much damage to the wheat crops in those counties, but the spring crops had suffered considerably by it. Most of the wheat had been harvested only in middling condition, so that it would require a longer time in the stack than usual. ____ HERALD.—Money continues in severe demand for commercial purposes, and, according to circumstances, it rules between the bankers and their customers at from 6 a 8 per cent. on discounts. There has been but little business doing in the Con tinental Exchanges to-day ; they remain but merely stationary. By the official returns it appears that the actual ex ports of bullion from the 10th to the 16th of October were—of silver coin, 140,825 oz. ; of gold coin, 2,733 oz. ; and of gold in bars, 3,730 oz. It would thus ap pear that the principal exports are, for the most part, confined to British Colonies. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN—BY HIS SON.—The follow ing remarks on this work, which has of course created a great sensation in the political world, are from the Naval and Military Gazette :—" That the Life of such a man as Grattan should so long have remained un written, we cannot but regard as no less singular than we must deem it fortunate, since it has now been exe cuted in a manner that we could scarcely have hoped for, had it been undertaken by any any one else but the pre sent author. The Life of Grattan is so intimately and entirely bound up with the history of his country, during the period comprised between his arrival at man's estate and his death, that the present volumes offer us a com plete history of Ireland during that period—and not only so, but the only efficient history of that period which has yet been placed on record. But for the general reader they do more, and infinitely better than this ; they offer us under the best possible form—that of an epistolary autobiography—one of the most interesting histories that can be conceived of the mind and heart of one of the most extraordinary and gifted men that have illus trated and benefited modern times. The large body of private correspondence which is here brought to bear upon the early and private life of Grattan, will be read with an eager and intense interest. Moreover, there is a fund of personal anecdotes scattered through the vo lumes, all of which are characteristic as well as new. This truly valuable work will unquestionably form one of the most important and interesting additions to our bio graphical and historical literature that our own day has produced. COMMISSION OF LUNACY —On Tuesday last a Commission of Lunacy was held at the Cups Inn. Colchester, to inquire whether John Shaw King, Esq. of Head-street, was of sound mind. F. Smytbies, sen. Esq. sat as Chief Commissioner. It appeared that the unfortunate gentleman has for the last eight or nine years been in a complete state of nudity, and that during the time he had not been shaved nor had his hair been cut. Other symptoms of insanity were proved, and the jury returned a verdict, finding that POST.—The prospects of the Money Market havegreen, yellow, and crini ofthe lovely rose colour, some entirely N ws l Qren.7l(aoinfndgvsahrai various been colours,of b unsound row n , mind since the 15th of October, 1831.—Chelinsford Chronicle. A FLIGHT OP CttossstLLs.—Last week, at West Felton, Shropshire, this rare and beautiful bird was seen in a flight of about eighteen or twenty, alighting on the tops of pine trees and larch, the cone of which it opens with adroit neatness, holding it in one claw, like a parrot, and picking out the seeds. They ue.lergone but little change since yesterday. There is hangin g and climbing in fanciful attitudes, and ranch certainly no improvement to be perceived, and we ac- resembling a group of small paroquets ; their unusual cordin g ly a dhere to the opinion we ventured to express note, resembling the quick chirp of linnets, but much last we e k. as t o th e views e ntertained by the most in- louder, first attracted attention. These birds are na telligent an d i n fl uen ti a l class of merchants upon fioan- Lives of Germany and the Pyrenees. cial subjects. A distrust prevails which is now becoming The tax on hats commenced Oct. 2, 1784. The e a a h r a f t o u r i l t li b s ou li t ee th n e se u to ov s e e r ll am ha e t a s t , s a t n a d mp if apparent t o every one engage d i n money and other ahagteteartlpemaidaa2al.seady business-lik e pursu i ts. The publi c F un d s are becoming i exceedingly heavy, in it he forfeited 101. T he tax was 2s. per hat if worth 'and matters a re b y no means better n the produce 12s. ; Is. if worth 75., and 3d. if it were made of leather, market and other commercial departments. Consols wool, stuff, or any thing else, and worth only a shilling. left off this evening at 90i to ~ Money and 904 to i 1 Mr. Pitt introduced this tax. THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1839. RESPECTABILITY IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. One thing is well worthy of remark in this French plan of Parliamentary Reform—it is the contrast between the English and French Reform Bills in the qualification required for voters. In England, if we put aside that amiable enthu siast, Major Cartwright, and the very unamiable universal suffrage rabble which he had at his heels, no one ever thought of any other than a property qualification for a voter. The question was, whether it should be a 51., a 101., or a 201. qualification. No person ever looked beyond that, or asked whether there were any other distinctions, which were not entered in the parish rate-books, but which might point out classes which should, for the public good, be enrolled as voters. Nay, so strong in England is this idea that the property of money and houses, and nothing but property, declares a man's capa city and respectability, that the same standard is applied to jurymen. Sir Isaac Newton would not have been qualified to sit as a petty juryman had he lived in a lodging ; but the chandler's-shop-keeper in the next street, who could not read a letter, and let out his house in single bed-rooms, would have been compelled to sit for three days, and decide upon an involved and intricate question of real property—if he had been rated at 301. a year to the poor-rates. The French proceeded upon a different plan. They felt that there were two descriptions of wealth, each of which was of equal importance to a country—the wealth of money, and the wealth of intellect. In the formation of their jury they con joined these two, and strove to ally the acuteness of intellect with the solidity and prudence of property. Their jury list is composed of the three hundred inhabitants of a department who pay the highest taxes ; but it is also composed of doctors, licentiates of the faculties, correspondents of literary societies, notaries after three years' practice, and all who have discharged a gratuitous public office. These men are jurors whether they rent houses and pay direct taxes, or whether they do not ; and these are the men who are now proposed to be also made electors. This habitual belief in the omnipotence of pounds, shillings, and pence, is deservedly looked upon as one of the most unpleasant and vulgar of our national characteristics. Landseer and Etty would be feted and admired in France because they are illustrious professors of an intellectual art : we question very much whether they do not acquire their chief im portance with many of their English acquaintance from their being able to get a certain number of hundreds of pounds for each of their pictures. Southey and Elliott, on the other side of the Channel, would take rank only in proportion to public opinion of their genius ; but here the upper and middle class multitude have a very different opinion of the rank of the " Corn-law Rhymer" of Sheffield, and of the Poet Laureat, who, in addition to a fixed stipend, can get heaven knows how much for anything that may fall from his pen, whether it be poetry, or politics, or any other style of fiction. Of course there are illustrious exceptions to this general state of things ; but such is the rule— pounds, shillings, and pence, form the great prin. ciple of our society, both social and civil. The necessary consequence of this is to depress intellect among us, to render living genius ridiculous, and keep it poor. 'We have always thought Con greve right in preferring to be known to his con temporaries as a country gentleman, and not as an author—although he was wrong to expose himself to the ridicule of Voltaire ; and we are quite sure that that man spoke the opinion of Robert Boyle's contemporaries when he sums up his eulogium by saying he was " the father of chemistry and the the uncle of the Earl of Orrery." We have never heard that even German Barons of sixteen quar- terings found fault with the appointment of Goethe as a Privy Councillor ; nor do we see it insisted upon as a possible objection to Thiers, Guizot, or Barrot, that they are homates de lettres. With us, however, it is very different. Even the title and estates of Lord Mulp,rave could not pre vent the ridicule of having written a novel from weighing against him when he made his debut as a politician—an article in the Keepsake was fastened upon Lord Morpeth as a fool's cap, which neither great political acumen, nor great power of public speaking, could for some time take off. Even at this moment it is made a decisive objection to Mr. Macaulay that he can write philosophical essays ele gantly ; and the idea of Shiel being a man of sense or useful information is laughed at, because he has written a tragedy.—Atlas. FARM LABOURERS. It has always been a painful task to be obliged to di rect attention to the miserable pittance which, in some parts of this rich county, is doled out to the labourers as an apology for wages, and it is with a feeling of pleasure that we are enabled to soften the sad picture by giving, this week, an instance where a different system is adopted, and where, as a natural consequence, that kindly feeling which ought to exist between the men and their employers is found to prevail. At Wilsford, the principal occupiers are Mr. H. Hayward and Mr. W. Hayward, who do all that lies in their power to promote the comfort of their men by fur nishing them with constant work, and by paying them with a liberality that, we are sorry to say, is rare. No able labourer receives less than 10s. a week, and the old worn out men, who cannot do a good day's work, instead of being driven to the Union-house, are kept on at Gs. Nor is this all. Every male in the parish, old enough to value the privilege, is provided with an allotment of land rent free ; and not only do the Haywards give the land, but they give it cultivated and manured, leaving nothing for the la bourers to do but to put in their seed, keep it free from weeds—which we hope, for their credit's sake, they do most scrupulously—and gather the crop. At Christmas time the good old customs are followed. Here is no' forgotten— ," the rare time, when the Christmas chime Was a merry sound to hear ; And each Squire's hall, and Cottage small, Were full of good English Cheer." Meat and bread are plentifully distributed, and every heart is made glad. We need not add that discontent is unknown in the parish, and that the men are ever ready to give their best services to their kind masters. —Wiltshire Independent. On Thursday afternoon, an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the Hand and Shears, King-street, Cloth-fair, on the body of Richard Cole, night constable in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great. It ap peared that on Wednesday night, about half-past eleven, deceased was standing drinking gin and water at the bar of the above public-house, when an alarm was made that a house in New-street, hard by, was on fire. He went to the watch-house, and, assisted by two other men, dragged a heavy parish engine to the scene of the fire, and afterwards exerted himse lf in extinguishing the flames. In the course of the night he returned to the public-house, and complained of having injured himself in dragging out the engine, and shortly afterwards his arms fell, his eyes sunk in his head, and on examination it was found that pulsation had ceased. A juror re marked, that the engine was so heavy that it would re quire two horses to draw it. Mr. Lunn, a medical man, was of opinion that deceased died from having ruptured a" blood-vessel in the stomach, through over-exertion in dragging the engine. Verdict accordingly. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Thursday an in quest was held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Old Queen's Head, Lower-road, Islington, on the body of Quartermaster• General Francis Hoye, aged 62, residing at No. 8, City-road, Finsbury-square, who terminated his existence by drowning himself in the Regent's Canal. The finding of the body having been proved, a son of deceased said deceased was at times very depressed in spirits, and had of late frequently complained of the fatigue of his duties. He would sometimes say "he wished there was an end to his troubles," from which witness inferred that he wished he was dead. Mr. Wakley said the body of the deceased was extremely emaciated, evidently the consequence of a mind dis eased. It was frightful to think of the many cases of self-destruction which had occurred lately. Verdict— " Temporary Insanity." NAPOLEON'S WAY OF MAKING AN AL PINE ROAD.—Four of the strongest oxen of the coun try, led by the best guides, trod down the snow, in which they sank, and almost disappeared ; they were fol lowed by forty peasants, who cleared and formed the path. A company of sappers assisted them, and perfected the trench ; two companies of infantry, marching in very close files, completed the operation of smoothing and consolidating the snow. This vanguard was followed at some distance by a company of dragoons of the 10th regiment, then came a detachment of artillery, and a hundred beasts of burden ; and the escorts closed the march.—Memoirs of His Ow n Time, by count Dumas. Nightly depredations continue to be very alarm ing in and . around the nei g hb our h oo d o f Bi g gleswadc ; hardly a night passes but w h at we h ear o f' some cow ardly deed or other. In the past week great quantities of onion seed has been stolen, principally from the poorer sort of gardeners. Many of the cottagers' gardens about Girtford and Blunham have been completely stripped of their little patches of seed ; in some instances they have lost as much seed as would pay rents.—Bedford Mer cury. BLOCKADE OF BUENOS AYRES.. POLICY OF ROSAS. MONTE VIDEO, JULY 27. Sin,—Since I wrote you by last packet, on the 20th ult., things have remained without alteration regarding the French question. In my former letter I mentioned that all hopes of an adjustment on this side of the water were at an end. The foreign agents and " peace-makers" here are only rendering the matter worse and more intricate every day by their meddling. Rosas is a man who will allow none of them, nor any person living, to converse with him on political subjects, whereby a diplomatist might possibly come at the true intent and the meaning of his views. He stu diously avoids confidential intercourse with them, but if he is forced to meet them by the laws of etiquette, or if he condescends to enter into conversation with them'on topics of a familiar nature (for the purpose of reading their character), it will be composed of an assortment of ideas which they can make neither head nor tail of. Several persons of distinction have lately had private interviews with him—Xaptain Mac kenzie, of the United States ship Fairfield, a clever man and an author ; Commodore Nicholson, also of their navy ; Mr. Mandeville, our Minister ; and others —not one of whom, I will venture to say, can give a correct description of his political views. Therein con sists his tact, which, in the present instance, is leading them and their Governments widely astray, while at the same time he is benefiting by the lights which they thrown on the question at issue. But to come to the point. England, and England alone, has the power to raise the blockade when she pleases. Where her commerce is so much interested, why dally about it for such a length of time ? It has now become solely a question of national honour on the part of both France and Buenos Ayres. The indemnity (or, as I wish to be understood, the pounds, shillings, and pence part of the business) is totally forgotten ; conse quently, the only mode of adjusting their difference is either by force of arms or mediation. The latter, I should suppose, could not well be refused on the part of the French ; and if offered in a proper manner, I could safely vouch for it, would not be rejected on that of the Argentines. Rosas has sent his Minister, Moreno, to England merely for the purpose of gaining time, and you will find that he has despatched him with a sort of " rig marole" commission, which the British Government will not feel itself authorized to act on. By the time this reaches you, you will be able to judge of the truth of this assertion. .... The fact is, that nothing less than a special midister from England will now satisfy Rosas. Were this ac corded, the whole affair might be settled in a few hours. If such a negotiation be not entered into be- fore the French bombard the city (which is now their only resource,) you will only prolong the war, impo verish the country, destroy our commerce, and ulti mately have to mediate among the ruins. As for the landing of French troops to conquer the country districts, while Rosas lives, it is all out of the question. In the first instance he might perhaps amuse them, as he did the Indians in a former campaign, wherein he sacrificed a few hundred of his best men, merely for the sake of seeing how they came into action, but there his loss would end. He is a man of most extraordinary talents, and the greatest fault the French agents and others commit is underrating them. He is by no means the " blood thirsty" tyrant that he is painted, inasmuch as he will meddle with none who do not interfere with his go vernment. He has undertaken the grand work of or ganizing the whole of the South American Republics, and if he flinches now, he is a lost man, and he knows it. Although Iby no means admire his policy, yet I must do him the justice to say that I do not believe it to be sordid or selfish. His ruling passion and his present aim (in my opinion) may both find utterance as follows :—" I must organize my country in such a manner that the husbandman can sow his crop with a certainty of reaping it. In that consum mation, after all the shocks she has experienced from her disorders, will consist her true happiness. To accomplish it, I must trample on her nominal consti tutions and on all the thenretic rights of man. This resnonsibility I take upon myself. If I fail, Igo down to my grave as the assassin of my countrymen ; if I succeed my name will be immortalized as their saviour." I sincerely sympathize with many of the suffering Argentines, who now too late see the false position into which their folly has brought them. They may, how ever, rest assured that the dictatorship of Rosas (what ever may be its end) will afford a useful lesson, not only to themselves, but to all the South American Re publics, and must ultimately lead to the grand result of their organization and union for mutual defence, if in no other way, by showing them how easy it is to establish despotism on the ruins of anarchy. —Times. A BRITISH RESIDENT. EXECUTION OF TWO NATIVE MURDERERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Yesterday morning being the time appointed for the execution of Yerr-i-Cha. who was condemned in the Supreme Court last week for being engaged in the murder of William Duffell ; and Wang Nucha, who was condemned for the murder of James Thompson ; at an early hour in the morning preparations were made for the execution. A scaffold had been erected in front of the iron stores on the Park Land, North Adelaide, to which, at eight o'clock, the criminals were conducted in a cart, guarded by a strong body of police. James C roa k, th e inter preter, walked alongside the cart, to whom Wang Nusha kept talking most of the way, from the jail to the place of execution. By the time they arrived at the scaffold a consider able number of people had assembled round it. After the warrant for their execution had been read by the Sheriff, the unfortunate men were led, or rather dragged, upon the scaffold, and placed by the execu tioner on the fatal drop. They then seemed quite aware of the fete which was overhanging them. Their coun tenances, especially that of Yerr-i-Cha, betrayed every symptom of terror—exhibiting none of that stern de ' termination which despises to show a fear of death—a characteristic of the natives of some countries—but on the contrary evincing every sympton of apprehension and dread of dying. Yerr-i-Cha's limbs quivered, and his whole frame was agitated ; while Wang Nucha, though showing fewer symptoms of trepidation, made violent protestations in his own language, as we under stood him against being hanged. On the signal being given by the Sheriff, the drop fell, and, after a few struggles, the unfortunate crimi nals ceased to live. After hanging the usual time the bodies were cut down, and afterwards interred within the gaol in accordance with the sentence. By nine o'clock the persons who had assembled to witness the execution had dispersed, and in a short time everything was again as quiet as usual. One circumstance connected with this execution, we must not neglect to notice. It seemed quite evident, from the remarks and conversation of the other natives, many of whom witnessed the execution, that they were aware of the cause of the death of the criminals ; and most of them seemed to agree in the justice of the sen tence ; and we have no doubt but the example thus shown them will act as a terror to them, and will be a means of deterring them in future from interfering in any way with the property or lives of the settlers. On passing the native huts immediately after the execution, we found the women and children and many of the men lamenting, in a most piteous manner, and with their sable faces bithed in tears, the death of the two men ; thus showing the sympathy existing among them in their native state, not only among the members of a family, but between all the members of a tribe.— South Australian Gazette, June 1. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) Dam., Ocr. 17.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Orissa, B. own, Port Adelaide ; Duke of Buccleugh, M'Leod, Calcutta; Agnes, Cumming, Matagorda, with the rest of the outward bound. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 17.—Wind, variable.—Arrived the Integrity, Horton, Richebucto ; St. George, Crawford, Paraiba. Sailed the Guiano, Nicholls, Bahia ; Idry's Wife, Reehan, Halifax; Sisters, Short, St. Kitt's. Off Port, Statesman, New South Wales ; Adelaide, St. John's, N.B. PORTSMOUTH, OCT, 17.—Wind, E. S. E.—Arrived the James M•Queen, M'Coll, St. Kitts. Off Port, the Boyne, Richardson, from Bombay, sailed sth June. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Wind, N. \V.—Arrived the Henry , Townsend, from Malaga ; Royalist, Seward, ditto. Sailed the Surrey, Huxtablc, for Sierra Leone. FALMOUT H , OCT. 16.—Wind S.W., stron g breezes and squally.—Arrived the Columbine, Reed, from the Cape of Good Hope; Lord Althorp, Jackson, Bahia; Diadine, Bocaci, Odessa. SWANSEA, OCT. 16. Arrived the Ocean, from Cuba. STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 17.—Arrived the Slater, Re bow, and Sadler, from Denia ; Clementina, Wopton, Ali cant ; Renshaw, Mogadore. DOVER, O CT . 17 . —Sailed, the Neptune, for Havannah. LEITH, OCT. 16.—Arrived, the Matilda, Bukenbuy, from Dantzic. SHIELDS, OCT. 16.--Arrived the Charlotte, Graf von Essin, from Dantzic; William, Freeman, ditto; Forti tude, Clint, Memel. Off port, the Ida, from Quebec. HULL, OCT. 17.--Wind S. S.W.—Arrived Lady Jane, Logan, from Riga; Ajax, ditto; Hope, Sawyer, ditto; Johanna, Dantzic; Louise, Buch, Memel. VESSELS sroitEN WITII-Turk, Penton, and Mary A nn , Atherton, 30 t h u l t. , in the Gut of Gibraltar, by the Slater, Rebow, arrived in the Creek ; Orlando, London to Jamaica, 3d inst., lat. 41. lon. 13 ; Thetis, Barber, bound to Rio Janeiro, Bth, lat. 44. lon. 14 ., by the Cora, Paine, arri ve d i n t h e River ; Elizabeth, Hore, London to Algoa Bay, 22d May, by the Syntreer, Brown, arrived at Algoa Bay ; Olympus, hound to Valparaiso, 15th June ; Hindustan, Lamb, London to Hobart Town, 26th Juno, by the Mary Anne, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. av A , d by P FROM LAS T NIGH'T _ novel organ has been erecte( py 'rince Bran, canforte, upon a hill in his park, near Messina ; it is supplied with wind by a windmill, and can be distinctly heard two or three miles distant.—Musical lorld. GAZETTE. ! PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c.&.. WHITEHALL, Ocr. 12, 1839. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Admiral the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Meming to be Master of her Majesty's Hospital at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in the room of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart. deceased. WHITEHALL, OCT. 17. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Henry Thompson, 8.A., to the Rectory of Fobbing, in the county of Essex and diocese of London, void by the resignation of the Rev. John Honywood Randolph. WHITEHALL, OCT. 16. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Lieutenant George Edward Turner, of the Royal Artillery, her Royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of the National and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand, of the first class ; the insignia of a Supernumerary Knight of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles the Third; and the insignia of a Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic ; which the Queen Regent of Spain has been pleased to confer upon that Officer, in testimony of her Catholic Majesty's royal approbation of his services in the field while attached to Lieute nant-Colonel William Wylde, of the Royal Artillery, British Commissioner at the head-quarters of the Spanish army, and of his conduct during the operations in Navarre, in April and May last; and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto annexed ; provided, nevertheless, that her Majesty's said license and permission doth not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertain ing unto a Knight Bachelor of these rr !alms. And also to command, that her Maj esty's said concession and especial mark of her Royal farour he registered, together with the relative documents, in her Majesty's College of Arms. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 18. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham...Average 97/. IBs.sh. 129 ~082 4i. Ashby ..e-1e.Zu....h A-orage 1151.5 h '7l 1,260 ...... ... Basingstoke 1001.0. 5 1 ,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. - 13 , 000 1.4416:01. 91.65. Birmingham, 1.16 th share .....811. & 71/. 220 a 000 ...... . Ditto and Liverpool Juncti . Q o /. sh. 100 pd 26 600 ni. Bridgewat e r and Taunton .1001. sh. all pd - 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 101 500 481. Caventry 100/.sh. 690 4,545 Croydon .. Average 31/.23 10d. sh. - 2,0604 41. Os. Dudley lOO/.sh. 100 60',1 141. Derby 1001. sh . 13. 10,0 1 J0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 4l/.135. 4d .pd 2‘. 3 , 1 11,75; 4/, Ellesmere and Chester... Average 133/.sh. R 231 621. Erawash 1001.811. 80 1,297 30/. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4001.165. th. 60 ~600 10 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 18 2,8491 1!. Grand Union 1001. sh _ 8 :1,500 Grand Surrey ....... 0,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 1 3,696 Grand Western 100/. sh. all pd 600 131.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Aver, cost 172/.135. 4d. 2 749 10t. Grantham l5O/. sh. 2 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. sn. 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 5,328 I/. ss. Kennet and Avon, Aver. 391.185. 10d. sh. 2,8971 30/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001.,h. 5451 151/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton Aver fS3/.los. 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 150 10/, Milton Mowbray lON. eh. 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 3,000 11. 10s. Afacclesfield 1001. sh. all pd 247 171. Neath 100/.sh. 2,400 51. Peak Forest Avci.ge about 78/. sh. 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Av. 331. Ifis. Bd. sh. 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 8.51.5 h, 500 8/. Shropshire .P151. sh. 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 3,600/, 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 500 91. Shrewsbury 125!. sh. 300 91. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Average 791. 9s. kl. sh, 533 161. Swansea 100/. s h. 3.762 U. 15s. Severn and Wve and Railway Av 35!. sh. • 2,6001 eh. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh,' 8,149 I,ooosh.] 161. Warwick atid Birmingham lOO/.sn :,0001sh. 900 15t. Warwick 7,:. llapion lOO/. sh. 6,000 4/.os. Worcesicr and Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh 5, 4 '00 25s Wilts alid Berks Average 67!. 10s. Bd. sh. 805 n,, :iv yriev and Essington 1251. sh 126 'W'sne•tcn lO5l. sh. 1 ,905 11. Wey and Aruu llOl. h. DOCKS. 2600 & 1,.06515h.1 3p. c. Commerc al • 1001. sh. East and West India Stock 3,238,3101/. 60s. p.ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 2,209 2/. I9s. Bristol 68,324/. 5/, per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 1.500 , ~. Deptford Pier "01. sh. 201. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 10s. liammersmiti 5O/. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 r cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/. pd 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,000/ 5/. per cent. Ditto Bond:, 5,848 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 50,0043 [ 6 fn e c r i c l e s n c t 'l Alliance British &Foreign 1001. sh. 111. pd 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 1,200 ish. 5/. Birmingham 1' ire .. 2501. sh. 55/. pd 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 12,000 61 per cent. British Commercial 5O/, sh. 5/. pd 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medi,:rl Life, 160/. sh. 2110 s pd 4,000 2/ 15s County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20,600 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. 51. pd 0 ,, r 5 per cent.] economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 250!. pd •"" /and 30/ be . 2,271 225. percent. European Li i • 0 0/. sh. all pd 50,000 Os. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1,000,006/. 6/.per ct Globe Stock 20,000 5/. Guardian 100!. sh. 2711 pd yi,ooo s. 6d. Hope _ 5O/. sh. 5!. pd I 0001. sh. 50/. 202 200 565 50 325 104 9)1 71 28 75 45 22 22 II 131 i 35 5i 137, , 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. _mperial Fire 500/. si -pd . ~i 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10/. pd 101 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8!. psi 25 2,020 31 lOs Kent Fire 50/. oh. all pd 92 3!. Ditto Life. 50/. pd 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 291 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 103. pd 184 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 181 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 500,0001. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Ps 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fire 2O/. sh. 2!. pd 16s Od 2,500 1/. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 101. pd 20 00,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd 64 89,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 210 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 54 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 74 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 8 per cent. Agric. and Com. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 65 10 0 i00 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/. sh. 10/. pd 231 3),000 5 per cent. London and Westminsterloo/ sh. 201. pd 211 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 12 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 50 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 234 50,000 74 per cent Manchester and Liver.] 50/. sh. 151 pd 12 pool Distrizt 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Irelandloo/. sh. 25/. pd 44 rO,OOO National Bank of Ireland 5 0 /. sh. 171/. pd 16 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 1001. sh. 351. pd 341 10,004 Ditto New lO/. sh. 10/ pd 17 10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 2Ol. sh. 10!. pd 23 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 18 Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 25 5, 00 0[ 5 a / n .p d e ß rc s e . n 6s t:l 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 1,250 '2l Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 56 2,250 31 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 114 750 3/ 10s Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 61. 10s. Continental Consolidated 751. 6241. pd 105 1,000 10/. City of London ....... ... . .100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 60/. pd 114 4,000 3/.os. Equitable 51* pd f.'6 1.0,000 22 per cent. Iniperial 800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 2,350 61. per cant. Independent 3O/. ah. all pd 9,000 4/. per cent. Phoenix 501. all. 391. pd 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 80/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 6,200 41. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 9,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5(l. oh. 10/. pd 780 51. per cent. Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 10s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 4,434 ez. East London lOO/. sh. 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction Average 41/ 13s. 4d. O. 2,000 2/. Kent 100' sh. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2/ 108 Now River London Bridge Water Ann 6,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. oh. 8,294 41. West Middlesex Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby SOL pd 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 30 pd 1160 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 301. 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001 pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 5/. pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 181. pd Grand Junction lOOl. sh. 100/. pd Great North of England '.Ol. pd 5,000 Great Western lOOl. sh. 651. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 8000 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington .50/. sh. all p d 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchesterlo(/.sh. 100/. pd 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 36,000 London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 301 pd 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh. 101. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich .. 2Ol. sis. 20/. pd 25,000 London and Birmingham 1001. sh. 90/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 36,090 14,000 .. ...... 6,000 Ditto New Scrip 7/.. pd 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 5/. pd 13,000 Manchester and Leeds ...1001. sh. 601. pd 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 25/. Ditto Extension 71. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 851 pd Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 25/. pd 2,601 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover l5/. pd 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwlcblso/. sh. Si. pd 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 30/. pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. s'i. 311. psi 4,000 11. ss. Alten 15/. sh. 12/. di, pd 10,000 ......... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.loo/. sh. al d Ditto Subscription 25/. 1 ,0 2,000 10/. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all p 1 10,000 11. 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 351. sh. 20/. pd 6,000 Nlacaubas Sc Cocaos United 251.1 h. 25/. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 14/. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 20/. pd 10,000 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 10/. psi 20,000 British Iron . 501. sh. 501 pd 6,000 i t ish Copper 5l. sh. 414 psi ("VI,. . dica 61/. pd Canclorlra. .. . 10,000 11 Copiapci W. Columbian, iss . se. pm.... 55/. sh. 551. pd ') .., English l4/. Cs. pd 20,000 General Mining Association2ol. sh. 184 pd 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh. 54/. pd 3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8?. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 90,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. .404 sh. all pd Ditto.. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pa West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket......7sgs. sh. 1500 London University lON. sh. all pd 700 King' College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 16,000 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/. sh. 2014 pd 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 2:',. pd 10,000 61. per coot. Canada Company 1001. sh. 301. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana.ia Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 20,000 I/. Os. General Steam Navigation 15/. sh. 14/. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 1211. pd New Brunswick Land Compasuf...s ol pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c....100/. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New.... ., 1001 . sh. 851. pd 4,000 10,000 Os. Van Die,ner.'s Land ......1001. sh. 171/. pd LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, SEPT. 28, 1839. BANKS. 1,500,0001. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland...B3/ 6s. Bd. sh, all pd 178/ . 2,000,0001. sp. ct. Rcyal of Scotland ........... .100/. sh. all pd 1684 500,000. 8 p. ct. British Linen Comp 5001 all pd 4,34/. 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh.l. 00/. pa 1734 5,000,0004 n. Cr. National lOO/ sh 101. pd 2,0011,0001. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 4,000 0 0 0 6 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h 64 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 28s. 7,500 04 p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 13i/ . Imm o sp. C. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 101. OF, 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101 . pd 194/ . 1,000 s p . ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 191.105. 5,000 p. ct. Edinburgh Ede 100/. sh. 10/. pd 14/10 s. 100,000 3j p. ct. West of Scotland lO /. p d 710 s. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ..... V to i t n. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. s h. a ll pd 161. Allocated 96/. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 25/. s h. a ll pd 354 Carron Iron Comp a ny ...250/ sh, all pd 441 0000 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. .sh . 48/. pd 54/, 10,000 3 pe r cent. Edin burgh & Leith Glacs 20/sh. 16/. pd Si. 4,500 10 per ce n t. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25!. . sh. all pd 50/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 50/, 75n l7a per cent. Leith Coal Gas Edinburgh and Dalkeith R 2O ! . sh. all pd 5Q !,200 3,090 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Compan7 a 4s7. a sh Ys .p ° d l. 9 sh .. 1317111. DEATH, OR SERVITUDE.--We really begin to think, with " Widow Work'em," that there will soon be no servants to be had on any terms, such is the rage for the genteel, the craving after fine-ladyism. This week another victim to the false views of life prevalent, has committed suicide. Her parents being poor, placed the girl out as servant. This transition preyed on her mind, till " reason reeled overloaded from its path ;" and she then, in the madness of mistaken notions, destroyed herself with her own hands. WAR OFFICE, OcT. 18. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—• Cornet R. B. Prettejohn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice J. E. Geils, who retires, Oct. 18. W. K. Fraser, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Prette iohn, Oct. 18. 2d Regiment of Foot—Paymaster . f. Moore, from the 57th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Darby, d !ceased, Oct. 18. . _ 17th Foot—Ensign E. H. Cormick tobe Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Mathews, who retires, Jani. 11. Ensign J. L. Croker to be Lieut 4 maid, by purchase, vice Cormick, whose promotion, on the 22d Feb. 1839, has been cancelled, Oct. 18. _ _ . E. W. J. Knox, Gent., to be I. Insign, by purchase, vice Croker, Oct. 18. _ 19th Foot—Assistant- Surgeon J. Young, from the 78th Feot, to be Surgeon, vice J. Wyer, ho retires upon half-pay, Oct. 18. 22d Foot—Brevet Colonel J. Campbell, from Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting District, to be Lieutenant-Colo nel, vice Falconer, appointed Inspecting Field Officer of a Re.. cruiting District, Oct 18. Mair J. L. Pennefather to be Lim tenant-Colonel, by pur chase, ♦ice Campbell, who retires, Oct. 19. Captain J. Poole to be Major, by purchase, vice Penne father, Oct. 19. Lieutenant W. R. Preston to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Poole, Oct. 19. Ensign T. L. P. Moore to be Lieutenant, by purchase, ♦ice Preston, Oct. 19. 52c1 Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. Wilson, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Browne, deceased, Oct.lB. 60th Foot—Lieutenant J. Crawford, from half-pay of the 43d Foot, to be Lieutenant repaying the difference, vice Fitz Gerald, appointed Paymaster, Oct. 18. Second Lieutenant J. S. Robinson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crawford, who retires, Oct. 19. J. Breedon, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robinson, Oct. 19. 78th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon G. Archer, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Young, promoted in the 19th Foot, Oct. 18. 85th Foot.—Captain J. H. Dundas" from the half-pay Un attached, to be Captain, vice the Hon. .1.. Stuart, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Oct. 18. 99th Foot—Major Sir J. G. Le Marchant to be Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Johnston, vvho retires ; Captain E. Last to be Major, by purchase, vice Les Marchant, Oct. 18. Lieut. A. Warren to be Captain, without purchase, vice Canny, deceased, Oct. 7. Lieutenant H. F. Alston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Last, Oct. 18. Ensign I. H. H. Gall to be Lieuten ant, vice Warren, Oct. 7. Ensign and Adjutant R. B. Deeriiug to have the rank of Lieutenant, Oct. 17. Ensign H. J. Jauncey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alston, Oct. 18. _ . J. J. Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Gall, Oct. 17. R. H. W. De Winton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jauncey, Oct. 18. Lieut. E. Pratt, from the half-pay of the 87th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice W. F. Webster, who reverts to his former half-pay, Oct. 18. 2d West India Regiment—Assistant- Surgeon J. Shirrefs, from the Staff, to be Asssistant-S urgeon, vice Wilson, pro moted in the 52d Foot, Oct. 18. HOSPITAL STAFF.—C. hart, M.D., to be Assistant-Sur geon to the Forces, vice Archer, appointed to the 78th Foot, Oct. 18. W. A. Heise, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Shirrefs, appointed to the 2d West India Regi ment, Oct. 18. BREVET.—Lieutenant-General Sir J. Nicolls, K.C. 8., to have the local rank of General in the East Indies only, Oct. 18. MEMORINDUM.-The Christian names of Ensign Westropp, of the 58th Foot, are Michael Lionel, and not Michael Lewis, as stated in the Gazette of 20th September, 1839. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. ADOLPHUS EDWARD SHELLEY, coal-raerchant, Lower Halliford, Middlesex. JOHN MICHAEL DAVID KIEFFER, baker, South ampton-street, Covent-garden. BANKRUPTS. JOSHUA KIDD, coach currier, Brownlow-street, Drury lane, to surrender Nov. 1 and 29, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee ; Fry, Loxley, and Fry, Cheapside. JOHN HOLT, banker, Rusholme, Manchester, Nov. 11 and 29, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Hampson, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London. DAVID WELCH, scrivener, Derby, Oct. 25 and Nov. 29, at eleven, at the New Inn, Derby. Capes and Stuart, Bedford-row, London ; Flewker, Derby. JAMES HOWIE, merchant, Manchester, Nov. 4 and 29, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Makin.- son and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; At kinson, Birch, and Saunders, Manchester. JAMES ALEXANDER REYNOLDS, hatter, Birming ham, Nov. 1, and 29, at eleven, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row ; Marshall, Birmingham. THOMAS SO WLER, bookseller, Manchester, Nov. 1, and 29, at one, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple ; Seddon, Mawson, and Lyeett, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. F. T. Cooke, tobacconist, Queen's-row, Pimlico, Nov. 8, at half-past twelve. G. Potts, cabieet-maker, New Montague-street, Spitalfields, Nov. 8, at one. J. and C. Mould, cheesemongers, Newgate-street, Nov. 8, at half-past twelve. J. Galloway, ironmonger, Theobald's-road, Red Lion-square, Nov. 8, at half-past eleven. J. Sell, baker, Union-street, Southwark, Nov. 8, at half-past one. P. Van den Ende, wool-merchant, London-wall, Nov. 11, at half-past twelve. J. Jeffs, hair-dresser, St. James's-place, St. James's-street, Westminster, Nov. 11, at half-past one. D. Tobin and B. J. Mitchell, ship-chandlers, Broad-street buildings, London, Nov. 8, at half-past one. W. Keens, button-seller, Bedford-place, Commercial-road, Middlesex, Nov. 8, at eleven. C. Apthorp, wheelwright, Cullum-street, London, Nov. 8 at half-past eleven. In the Country. T. Jackson, hemp merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 19, at one, al e Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. J. Smith, baker, Newbury, Berkshire, Nov. 20, at two, al e George Inn, Reading, Berkshire. C. Stovin, coach-proprietor, Birmingham, Nov. 11, at one the Hen and Chickens, Birmingham. C. Ives, grocer, Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, Nov. 11 at twelve, at the Angel lon, BurylSt. Edmunds, Suffolk. W. and W. Rich, timber-merchants, Wigan, Lancashire Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Bolton, Lancashire. W. Cattle, cattle-dealer, Sheriff Hutton ' Yorkshire, Nov. 12, at twelve, at the White Swan Inn, York. J. Clarke and T. Parry, drysalters, Manchester, Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. E. Clarke, builder, Leamington-priors, Warwickshire, Nov. 13, at one, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington-priors. J. Willett, grocer, Brandon, Suffolk, Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. P. and J. C. Rose, booksellers, Bristol, Nov. 14, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. J. Poulton, grocer, Lane-end, Staffordshire, Nov. 14, at one, at the Eagle Inn, Lane-end. R. Evans, coal-dealer, Grimley, Worcestershire, Nov. 9, at one, at the Crown Inn, Worcester. CERTIFICATES.—Nov. 8. S. F. Gwynne, coach proprietor, Llanvair ar y bryn, Car. marthenshire. J. Ralfs, printed furniture dealer, Tavistock-street, Covent garden. R. N. Jenkins, butcher, New Windsor. G. Chapman, chinaman, Bath. J. Lock, miller, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. H. Swan, jun., grocer, Little Hampton, Sussex. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. and D. Northey, drapers, High-street, Whitechapel. J. Burton and J. Slattery, pig -dealers, Bristol. W., H., and T. Floate, farmers, Wiston, Sussex. C. Jones and C. Vaughan, watchmakers, Liverpool. J. Shakeshaft and E. Griffith, stone-masons, Lower Bebbing ton, Cheshire. C. Wills and W. Smith, tailors, Sheffield. G. Drysdale and H. Wegg, surgeons, Kennington, Surrey. M. A. Pain and J. J. Tipper, parchment-makers, Evesham, Worcestershire. J. Hackett, J. Kent, and J. Brooks, wire -drawers, Bramp ton, Derbyshire (so far as regards J. Brooks). G. M. and A. S. Braithwaite, agents for the sale of new inventions. W. Pinder, sen., and W: Pinder, jun., saw-manufacturers, Sheffield. J. Smith, W. Durrant, and D. Duffield, linen-drapers, South Audley-street, Grosvenor-square. E. M. and A. Oakes, scissor -manufacturers, Attercliffe bridge, Sheffield. T. Viner and C. Bilton, hop merchants, Hungerford, Berk shire. J. Whitehead, jun., J. L. Allanson, and G. G. Allanson, dyers, Manchester. J. Torrington and H. Gibb, sub-contractors on the Man chester and Leeds Railway, Sowtheram, Halifax, Yorkshire. J. L. and G. G. Allanson, dyers, Broughton, Lancashire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ALEXANDER TROTTER LAWRIE, druggist, Edin burgh, Oct. 25, and Nor. 8, at one, at Ferguson's Ship Ta vern, Edinburgh. WILLIAM CHRISTIE, draper, Stirling, Oct. 24, and Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Eagle Inn, Stirling. VIOLENT ASSAULTS BY A LUNATIC LADY. —For several days past complaints have been made that a female, calling herself the Lady Francisca, has been in the habit of violently assaulting with a stick women and children walking in the Hippodrome, at Notting hill. On Thursday she was brought before the Ken sington Magistrates, and the case was fully investigated. The result left no doubt as to the insanity of the unfor tunate lady, whose name it appears is Clayworth. She is about thirty-two years of age, and of prepossessing ap pearance. The Chaplain to the Russian Embassy, who is her guardian, being at present out of town, the Ma gistrates gave her into the c harge of a female keeper from a lunatic asylum in the neighbourhood, who is to I welt upon her at her own residence unt il h er friends can take charge of her. EVENING EDITION. THE MAR PRICE OF The highest price of Bread in th, Loat, Good Bread may be had at ii SEEDS. PRICES 0_ Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red C10ver...555.9N St. Foin —s 450 66s Old Ditto Ditto —s. a. —s Rye Grass —s. 405. 44s New Foreign Ditto ...—s. 565. 30s. Pacey Grass —.s. —s• - mo d Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —3. Linseed, for feeding—s. 455. ss. New White Clover sos. 655. 70s. Ditto, for sowing ..... .—s. 545. 56s Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —B. Ditto, for crushing...—s 423. 463 New Trefoil —s. 18s. 305 Canary —s 705. SOs. Old DIM —s. los. 223. Hemp —s. 33s 40s. Trefoil= —s. Wis. 30s. Per BusheL English Carraway —s. s:s. 565. White Mustard...l l s. N. 14s. od. Foreign Ditto —s. MM. 50s. Brown Ditto lbs. Od. 19. i. Pcl Coriander . —s. 20s. '2ss Tares ss. 6d. 7. 60. Rapeseed, English fine (per Last) 281.311. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d Per lb. cl. to d. Crop Hldes,3o to4olb. each 11 13 1 1 Horse Hides, (4erman... 12 22 --4 n 50 ---50 60........ l3 18 CalfSkins,3o to 4olb.(doz) 15 22 Bull Hides ... .... 10 13 ---40 50 Butts V.triol ... English - 70 100 ......... 18 22 Foreign t oreign Hides ...... ..... 10 12 I 5ma11.......... 20 22 Dressing Hides _.., ....... 11 14 'Kips Shaved... 13 17 Basils... . 6 11 ' 91 Best Saddlers' Hides.... 13 16i Bellies Horse Hides, English ... 11 I.} Shoulders Cali Skins, if rounded 2d. to 4d. por lb. more. PRICLs OF HOPS. Farnham rockets (per cwt.) 0! Os. 0/. Os. to East Kvr}t Pockets Ditto Bags 3/, los. 0/ - Oi. to Mid Kent Pockets 3/. 10s. 4/.los. to Ditto Bags 5 . 103. 0 Os to Sussex 3! 0 . . 01. Os. to Yearlings O/. Os. 31. 3s. to Old Olds Old Duty estimated at 225,000/. PRICE OF OIL. RapeOil,brown, per ton, 36/.105.--Refined, 34.0 s ' mseed , 1 1 , 211 . I°s Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (100), IS/. tis . .—Ra:ie take, per ton,7/. PRICE OF TALLOW SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow sss. 6d. Yel' ,w Soap ..... .. ...... — B . N. Yellow Russia sls. 6d. Mottled White Soap Ditto . Melting Stuff . Ditto Rough PRICE C.F RAW FAT, per stone of 81t. iz," Price of Tallow (as stated by th e T a ll ow M e l ters ) ......... 511. }.7s— 01. 6s. 01 0.. 14 57 1`.2 0 os. 3 5 , 3/. 10 , . 2: 10s. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store candles in the Retail Shops is as follows Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, 7s. cd. ; Moulds, 9s. bd. Sixpence per doze discount for cash. CAL 11 :ARKET. s, d Adair's Bell, Robson & Co. Hartley 18 0 Chester Original Windsor's Pcntop 29 6 Ord's Redhugh Tan fled. M oor Butes 2O 0 Townley lB 0 Wylam. 2O 4 Walls End Chirton lB t Walls End Dunn's l7 3 Walls End Gosforth 23 t Walls P' n d Heaton . 23 t Walls End Hutton l9 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Northumberland 21 6 Walls End Perkins 2l 6 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Belmont Walls End Haswell Alps arrived since Walls End Hetton ............ 0 Walls End Lyons. .........••••• Walls End Lambton ...... 24 6 6 Walls End Pemberton ...... 22W 3 Wallsal End nd R s t u e s w s ealrPts,sH..e. ....... ... tz 4 24 Walls End Adelaide: ...... 24 0 Wlls End Clarencton 22 W a lls End Gordone Het ........ 2 Walls End Seymour Tees... Walls End South Durham... 23 " Walls End Tees ...... . .......... 9 Walls End Tennant' .•••• ' 7ll 0 0 Walls End Victoria Tees.... Walls End WestHetton ...... v Rl 0 Walls nd west fees ....... 6 Llangennech Coal Nevill's Llanelly . .. . 19 v 2 51 e, Stavely Main .................... last market-day, 78. (From the London New Price Current of October 1 1 " SUGAR. -From the grocers there has been a fair de. mand for middling and good yellow descriptions of British Plantation, and the supply not being large, the nierc ban" have obtained prices on a par with those of thi4 For refining purposes the transactions have been very grey limited, but the prices remain firm for strong sorts. There have been two auctions of Barbadoes., consisting of 240 hhds and 8 tierces, the whole of whic a found buyers ; middling to fine qualities brought full 67s to but the low sorts went rather cheaper-tine sold at 67s t o 68s, good 66s to 66s 6d, middling to good middling 6 i a day week. 65s 6d, low 61s 6d to 63s ; 7 hhds and 22 barrels Trinid.a. and Jamaica were disposed of--the former at 59s for greyish yellow, the latter at 60s 6d for strong brown ; good grer s brown Jamaica have been sold privately at 60s, better Tobago 665, Nevis, Trinidad, and Jamaica with colour 60s 6d to 61s, good middling Demerara 635, Antigua, 655. This afternoon the operations were on a small seale• amounting to only 350 hhds, &c., and Sugars under 6 31 must be quoted 6d a is lower for the week; the quantity sold is 1,800 hhds and trs. REFINED.-For home consumption the demand h as been limited for Refined Goods, the trade still purchasing fine middling only sufficient to supply their immediate wants, althougl the refiners have again submitted to lower prices : stande u _ lumps have been sold at 78s 6d a 795, and brown lump: 76s to 77s per cwt. For exportation, Goods Refine a , under bond have been in fair request ; crushed has fetchee 34s 3d a 34s 6d, 101 b loaves 395, and 141bs 38s per C wt. In Dutch crushed no change has taken place. MAURITIUS.-For yellow and strong grey qualities the demand has been steady, at 60s; brown qualities, however, have sold slowly, and prices have given way is to 2s, the greater reduction is on the lower sorts. At tuxedo , 2,960 bags have been offered, a small pile of Sulphurl kinds was withdrawn, the remainder went as follows :--- good bright yellow at 64s to 655, middling and good middling 62s to 635, low middling 60s 6d to 615, good and fine strong brown 58s 6d to 60s, midi to good middling 54 s to 58s, low fox y brown 53s to 53s 6 , to very inferior dark 48 s 6 d to 51s, middlin g grey 618 61s 6d per cwt. ; the stock is 14,400 bags lar g er than at this time in 1338• al EAST INDIA.-For the coloury descriptions of Beng t rather higher prices have been obtained ; Comm have maintained previous rates : 1,276 hags at auction k i sno readily, good and fine white at 68s 6d to 69 3 6 d , good mid dling 66s 6d to 675, damps and washed 63s to 6 88 6d. FOREIGN. -For Havannah the private operations h ave been on a small scale, and confined to 250 chests at 43a for good quality, 42s has been refused for a similar qua!' tity. There has been no public sale of Havannah ;u' chests yellow and low white Brazil at auction sold rather lower; the stock of Havannah consists of 28,300 chests, Lc., nearly the whole yellow. MOLASSES.-This afternon prices are rather lower ; 3 6 1 puns 4 tierces from Halifax were offered at auction, for all taken in at 30s ; a part has since been sold a t 29s good fair dark Trinidad; privately, fine Antigua has been sold at 335, and fair St. Vincent's at 313 per cwt. , COFFEE.-The clean middling descriptions of British Plantation have been sought after by the trade, an d the purchases by private contract have been upon the tents of last week. This afternoon the public sales consisted n.t. 240 bags Manilla and 147 bags Ceylon , which sold at full prices; the former fetched 79s for good pale, and the latter at 101 s 6d to 102 s for fine ordinary; by private contract there is little doing in any kind. RUM, BRANDY, AND BOLLANDS.---The operations in Jamaica Rum have been on a more extended scale, and a fair business has been done at the rates of last. week ; the purchases amount to 400 puns, 20 to 22 per cent. over' proof at 5s ass 2d, 24 to 26 over ba 3d ass 4d, 28 to SO over 5s 5d ass 6d, 31 to 34 over, 7d aßs Bd, 35 to 37 over 5s 9d a 5s 11d, and favourite marks up to 6s 3d. Leewards of strong quality have been taken more freely, and prices are firm, but in common there kas not been much passing ; 180 puncheons have been dis posed of, proofs to 6 per cent overproof at 3s 3d a 35 4d, sto 8 over 3s 5d a 3s 6d, 10 to 12 over 3s 8d a3s 9d , 15 to 20 over 3s 10d a 4s 2d, and 25 to 28 over 4s 6d 4s 10d, some parcels of St. Kitts 35 over have fetched 5s 2d, and 24 over 4s 6d. Although the arrivals continue rather large, and have amounted to 800 puns since our les t report, still some holders are not inclined to sell at present rates.-In the better qualities of Brandy the purch ase/ have been to a fair extent at rather higher rates; com m kinds are held firmly. PROVISIONS.-A good demand has prevailed for Irish , Butter, particularly for the better qualities, and Pri.c a u continue to improve ; fine commands 92s to 935. F orog 100 s to 102 s per cwt. Bacon, prime, 55s to 565. SPICES.-This afternoon 1,231 bags Pepper at auellu d sold at steady prices, viz., at 3,id to 3id for fair a nd goo light. OILS.-250 tuns Southern at public sale were onli partly disposed of 251 5s a 31l for low to fine quail" . 80 tuns very fine Newfoundland Whale 261105 a held Cod 331, pale Seal 341 a 341 103 per tun. Sperm is -6 u ed firmly at 951. for fine quality. Linseed Oil 2 1 s 3d to per cwt. Palm at 37s 9d to 38s, and inferior 34s X ° Ea This n noon st Idia Cocoa Nut is held or 43s 445. afternoon 50 tuns Cod f and 75 t0 tuns Seal Oil we e r offered at public sale ; the former withdrawn at 331; Ist" sold at 331. 5s for pale. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. pease. ' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s • t° ,?; Abingdon.— 56 86 38 46 99 33 4 0 Andover...—,, 55 SC 34 351 27 2 9 Banbury 37 44 28 34 -- 40 Basingstoke., (16 86 32 37 24 29 42 46 Cirencester —5B 79 :'8 40 - 40 42 C,,ven r y 72 37 —3O 33 50 -- 3° Daventry— 68 72 33 44 28 34 30 52 44 •••••• H e 68 7 38 48 99 3.5 wden 72 6 24 50 42 4 0 Hungerford— 57 /.2 32 42 23 30 36 43 3latton --. 68 76 35 38 22 34 Maidenhead.. 63 84 35 4 25 32 37 42 ..•••• Nottingham 60 77 :15 47 :27 32 48 5 , 6 Wastage t 2 70 no 40 22 98 36 Warwick-- 37 47 34 .....- Wor;ester 72 36 99 -- York 72 82 32 38 22 33 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s. d . s d sd. s, d+ d d Birmingham 80 96 4 59 . 39 46j 50 6 CORNWALL MARIf'S . (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat 3arlej.____ ..... ti , n d. d. to r. d. s. d. to s. d. s• ,; 1 3 ~;* Truro — 0 88— 0 48= !.: 0 • Helstone - 10 ;' 0 44 — • g 2 St. Austell 0 94 0 4 6 .6 31 1 Bodmin 0 'll l 4 0 50— il 3 l', Liskeard 8 3 0 0 0 5 C f , 3 " Launceston 5 2 - 7, i 3 6 Camelford 8 4 4 0 -•• 0 5 ~.• " - ° Penzance 7 5 8 4 0 6 • -- ' ---------- 5 Cwt. e 13 MINI SG INTELLIGENCE. To , i Quantity of Copper urea sold at Itedruth last week...1,6•"87,. A vet, I:rib Prruitlf, ...................................................t : .„. 4 0 —so _ D YI a Quantity of Copper il u N r i es S s G old iN at T Quantity oProduceffinec Copper .................................... 24:1°11. Amount of 5aie,10,561 .15 .07-77;.;;:a.e.e .................. 0, ed. - - - -- ---- SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, °lOll §TRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selectee . f ‘46°tile Patterns, A price 161 . the Set, or Sets of the same Patter* i: Argentine Metal, quite equal te plated in appearance, pries 07er and a Half Guineas the set. The Set consists of One e 4" _ A 20, 18, 14, and 12 inches in diameter. A Set of Fear Platri Corner Dishes and Covers are ornamentedpl for a ir s, Guineas ; or a Set with richly Edges, fli tn h . Sic., for Ten Guineas. The Handles take off the Covers, t Set thus forms Eight T. C DishOX es, wh SeAVOn requißYre,d. Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Corn' hill, London (Seven doers from Gracechurch-street.) .liTEri: On the 19 th of August, last at. sea, Mr. Samue l James 13311/' mate of her Majestys ship Vestal, aged 27. Mr. On the 6th inst., in Great Dover-street,•So uthwark, John S. Butterworth, aged 66. rg er On the 7th inst., at Pitferrane, Fife, Admiral Sir Halkett, next., .. H. aged 74. Gray s, On the 9th inst., at Islington, James Hill, Egl , of ran, London, and of Bradwell, Buckinglia_2 2. 2l ._— —- 7721- - 7----= - ---- -_—,.._--- —— - -------- ,„ T T N 0 ° ' London: Printed and Published by MURDO i ""., ~ 'the No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, county of Middlesex.—Saturday, October 19, 183 ---...° 1.1gt... N o 112, Stra_ou) , STERDAY.) ' BREAD. le Metropolis is 10%cl. for the 41b. ki, ,