The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON : WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1839. , . The stupid and mischievous fallacy, that the abolition of the Corn-laws would not raise wages, to Which we yesterday adverted, deserves to be fur ther exposed. On what are wages expended ? Food, principally food. What does the labourer require ? Food ! food ! food ! If he have plenty of that, everything else comfortable follows as a matter of course. On what is the principal part of his wages expended ? Food. For him it is es -1 sential that food should be cheap and abundant. '. . What are the Corn-laws ? A prohibition for all other countries to grow food for our people. A limitation of our labourers, under a penalty varyin g from 255. a quarter to Is., t o our own so il f or f oo d. They must buy their grub of our own agriculturists. . The torn-laws make them pay for it a monopoly price. The abolition of the Corn-laws would alio- lish the monopoly. It would let in competition. It would make the German, and time Polish, and the American agriculturists rival our agriculturists in offering food to the people at a cheap rate. To suppose that such competition would not be bene ficial to the labourer-, the great buyers of food, is ! a contradiction to all experience. If London were Iconfined to Middlesex for its corn ; if the Strand could obtain bread from only one bat er ; if Mr. CUBITT'S workmen could only huy at one shop, Can any man doubt that London, the inhabitants of the Strand, and the workmer, would he obliged to pay more than at present, when London can draw its suppli_s from the whole empire, and when the inhabitants of the Strand and Mr. CUBITT'S wO:kmen may buy bread wherever they please within her MAJESTY'S dominions ? And why should not the rule be as applicable to the supply of corn for the whole people as to the supply of London, the Strand, or this one body of work men ? g 9 mpetition amongst sellers is the soul of cheap ness ; and while there is a free competition amongst the labourers in offering their services, not to de ' lliettch free competition amongst those who own o t % , I l i* •._ •..! voluntarily to surrender themselves dis - a•Tin:•anio th e h an d s o f th e i r en emies. What -the effect would be of competition betwixt the lamer% of England, and those of Poland or Austria, to supply the labourers with food, may be conjectured by what has taken place by admit ting competition in silks. Before 1824, French silks were wholly excluded from our markets ; since then, French silks have been admitt e d and the i effect of the competiti on h as been to improve ' the article, and lower the price from 50 to 100 per cent. If our farmers had to compete with those of Austria and Poland, they would be driven, like the silk manufacturers, to task their ingenuity to make improvements, and they would grow more corn, and at a cheaper rate. If it be alleged that the wan es of the silk-weavers have been lowered by the com petition, we reply, that they are not consumers lof silk, but all labourers are consumers of f oo d ; and whereas in the case of silk only the rich wh o use that splendid fabric are benefited by the cow petitition, the whole of the labourers would be benefited by the competition to supply food at a cheap rate.. The working classes may, as we are afraid they will, refuse to assist in the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws, but they will then re fuse to make food cheap and plentiful, and will then be the authors of their own poverty, misery, • and destitution, which now are justly lad at the ... door 01 the ,landlords. • 7 . ' 2 .7" '.!!;) tists were much complained of for re ystem of exclusive dealing. They tier, the first to begin that practice, - - he last to carry it on. Its authors tTory c l ergy an d t h e country gen ignified to the tradesmen in a great - number of the provincial towns that they would deal with none but Tory tradesmen. Now after the re commendation of the Chartists has been much and deservedly censured, if we are correctly informel it is acted on by the Tories. At Worcester, some months since, a motion was brought forward in the Town Council relative to the Corn-laws, which resulted in a petition bei n g agreed to, from the Mayor and Corporation, for a total repeal of these imposts. Three members of the Town Council, of the name of HALL, who are large ironmongers, and supply most of the country blacksmiths with bar iron, Szc., voted in the ma• jority upon that occasion. In consequence of this vote the Tories have concocted a Joint-stock Iron Company, the principal shareholders in which are Tory fume's, and they are now about to commence a wholesale and retail immongery establishment at Worcester, in oppositch, to the Messrs. HALL, with the avowed determination of never employing a wheelwright or blacksmith who deals with the HALLS, or who does not confine himself to their joint-stock shop. It would be im possible for the Chartists to do anything of this kind more blameable. It converts political differences into contests for life or death. If under such a system discord and bloody civil war slIon!d spread through the land, when none of the charities of neighbour, friend, and brother shall be regarded, the Tory pars ons an d T ory gent l emen w h o b egan this unsocial syste m w ill b e th e au th ors of the mischief. They aim, we are aware, at obtaining political power by such means, and if they should succeed, it will in practice be worthy of its origin. Founded on such a basis, it can only be carried up and con tinued by tyranny. A part of the Worcester Tories' plan is to strengthen their influence at the elections for the city. The premises they have taken will convert the shareholders into voters, and will con tribute to swamp the independent burgesses. They are not, too, without allies amongst the citizens. The influence of the Cathedral has converted some of those who ought to defend the independence of the town into traitors, who serve the cause of its enemies. It is observed in the Examiner of Sunday, in an article on the bigotry of the Protestant Association, and the remark accords too well with an observa tion of our own to allow us to pass it by, that Sir ROBERT PEEL is placed " in a dilemma be tween his measures and his friends." Our Con temporary says— Welt may Sir Robert Peel avow that Ireland is the grand impediment to his return to power. The Minister who passed the Emancipation Bill can only hold office by the sup port of those who would practically repeal it. His posi tion is a dilemma between his measures and his friends. He must renounce his own works, or his party will renounce him. The men who are cheering him on t re-take Downing -street, distinctly tell him that they Ucsire his services expressly for the purpose of strangling his own Relief Bill. The Minister who opened the door to the Catholics is to slap it in their faces. Sir Robert Peel can appoint no Catholic Lord of the Treasury ; be can place no son of Rome at the Board of Trade ; above all, he can make no Papist a Privy Councillor. The principles avowed by the Protestant Asso ciation, and the other ultra supporters of the Tory . party, are the best guarantees of the stability of Lord MELBOURNE'S power. How is it pussible for any Minister to govern this country on the principle of avowed hostility to the faith of one third of the nation ? Loid MELBOURNE nei ther entertains nor professes the least hosti lity to any great body of the people. The ultra Protestants have endeavoured in vain to make him out an enemy of the Church to which lie belongs and of the creed which he avows. But neither he nor any of his supporters think of hold ing office on the principle of excluding from public situations, or from the Privy Council, either Pres byterians, Independents, Catholics, or Members of the Anglican Church. By that enlarged system, embracing all sects, he holds the Go vernment ; by a system which would exclude one-third of the nation from all the benefits of the State Sir ROBERT PEEL is justly excluded from office. What a frightful thing would it be to have a Government formed on the principle of the Protestant Association. But on that principle, which has been countenanced by Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Tories seek office, and could they obtain it, would be compelled by the bigotry of their sup porters to declare an open war against one-third of the nation. Sir ROBERT PEEL iS justly kept out of office by the exuberant zeal of his friends. He ought to have checked it long ago. He ought to have de nounced the AP GHEE persecution of the Catholics as completely opposed to the law, to pass which he sacrificed his party. He ought to have repro bated in the House of Commons the bitterness of PHILLPOTTS, and discountenanced in the Jour nals the Exeter-Hall crusades. He did neither, and he has become identified with those who cry for Protestantism and PEEL. He must now bear the odium and feel the weakness of being the chief of a party which, by its bigotry, makes its accession to office an impracticability. His ac quiescence in all the rabidness of his friends, brands him with their vices and their incapacities. Some of our Contemporaries have amused their readers by their comments on the case of a youth who was fined by the Magistrates of Loughborough 40s. for disobeying the orders of his master. He had cleaned his shoes of a Sunday, while he had been ordered to clean al! the shoes and knives for the family on Saturday. We have not particularly noticed this circumstance, for we see nothing in which it differs from a multitude of other convictions equally absurd for offences equally trifling. His was a double offence, he both broke the Sabbath and disobeyed his master's orders. His master could appropriate his time, and he was less ex cusable than many of the persons who are daily fined under the New Police Act. We are not displeased, however, to see our minute legislation, against which The Sun has always protested, become an object of ridicule when conscientious individuals, and Magistrates who walk by the letter of the law, act on it. The lad who was punished thought it a greater offesice to go to church with dirty boots than to clean them on the Sabbath, and for that respect to the religious opinions of others he was puui'hed partly in deference to other religious opinions, which require the Sabbath to be unprofaned by labour. This is a knot for the Sabbath casuists to untie. They will probably reconcile the contradictions, and prove which is the greater impropriety, to wash our faces and brush our clothes on the Sabbath, or to go abroad with them dirty. There is a large num ber of persons in the metropolis who keep the Sab bath holy according to the precepts of Mr. BR YA N, the master of the lad, and walk abroad on that day wholly unpurified from the rags and dirt of the week. The freaks of the Magistrates are the necessary consequence of the meddling disposition of the mid dle classes, who seem at present inclined to regulate every part of conduct with Chinese accuracy, and prohibit every act which may offend their fastidious taste, with the strictness of the master of a work house, converting society into a similar agreeable assemblage of human beings. There would be much less reason to complain, were their desire to realise a superfine species of finical order, never the parent of gross wrong. A Correspondent, writing from Sheffield, however, mentions an in stance which deserves notice here. A man was arrested in the streets, who was on his way home from a club, to which he had gone to procure the means of burying his dead child. He was l oc k e d up a whole night , and until five o'clock the next day, and then liberated on bail. He was subse quently obliged to wait two days before , he wa s examined, and after losing three days wages, nothing being even charged against him, he was dismissed with an insult. He was not told, " Eat your pudding, slave, and hold Your tongue," for he received no pudding ; he received only injury, and still the slave was told to hold his tongue. Well may our Correspondent say that it could excite no wonder if men so trel.ted "should take the firstopportunity of joining a riotous party, that they may have the pleasure of cracking the h ea d s o f a - few policemen. As we read, day after day, of the numerous devices that are now fallen on, under the name of police regulations, and laws for the preservation of the Sabbath, of the public peace, and of decency, to har rass and annoy the p eop l e — em bi tter i ng their d a i g sp a o in s s it t io the ns,j w, and a exasperating their en uiities the Magist ra t es , and the upper classes—we look f orward with app,rehension and trembling to the result s . Law is recommended to our respect as a protector ; the instant it becomes an invader and a scourge it is the duty of men to overthrow it. At present it is for the multitude mor e a scourge than a protector, anti it becomes a EVENING EDITION. , I T O the TAILORS of the CITY and WEST END of LONDON. Being solicited by a number of Gentlemen of the Trade, who were present at my Meeting of the 19th instant (when an unanimous vote of appr oval was g iven in favour of m y Sys tem ) , l I have consented to give another LECTURE To-morrow, Tull RSDA v, the 26th, at which time I will give an explanation I of my mode of measurement, and will draft two Coats for one man (of a very straight form), one by my self-varying system, i and owe by the eld system of breast measure, which I contend is fallatt'uus, at the Lowther-rooms, King William-street, Strand. I avail myself of this opportunity of returning thanks to the Trade for the liberal patronage I have experienced at my former i meetings, and beg to state, that having hail completed a nuns ; ber of fresh drafts for various g - arments, those Gentlemen who attend th;s meeting, atol have already purchased my work by bringing it with them, and applying to my assistant, who will be in the room, will be presented with them gratis. 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Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. fiIGH W tTEit AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Morning 7 minutes after 3 1 Evening 17 minutes atter 4, ‘ . F: - Ihr. , r ' , iu li i .3l 4lk i.. 1), , ~ S EI ~: , „.„' ~ ...,10_.„ ...,.....- 4:01:4., r A . \ • 1,-,,,,,t4_ ......,.. ~ 4 64 " :„ , . 6 150 "'' - -•-• ' ' r zsbJe THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1839. doubtful problem how long the people will regard obedience as a duty. The letter headed " Chartism in Sheffield" will be found on several accounts worthy of perusal. The Tory Press has not yet done with the alleged treason of General MA RoTo, and the pretended participation of our Government in the crime of that officer. An Evening Contemporary, following the slimy trail of the Times, unblushingly repeats the falsehoods of that journal ; but with a mock re gard for the national character, pretends that the people have " separated themselves with sufficient distinctness from the Ministry which at present happens to be in office," to escape the imputation of any share in conduct so disgraceful. It is some what curious that apostates always exhibit the keenest sense of the enormity of treason. This is no doubt done to separate themselves from a class of oflenders distinguishable from them only by their comparative innocence. A traitor to his Prince is by no means so detestable a character as an un blushing political apostate. Treason may result from the resentment of a hero, and is not incompatible with the love of country, and a sincere though mis taken regardto the interests of mankind; hut apostacy is a plague-spot which at once contaminates the whole moral being. But, leaving these truths to the reflection of our Evening Contemporary, w e proceed to the correction of the gross falsehoods attempted to be pawned upon the public by the Times. We repeat, then, that Don CA RLos was himself the very first person to recommend General .MAROTo to open a negociation with EsPARTERO and the British Commissioners, for the tranquilliza tion of the Peninsula ; that the Pretender dis tinctly stated the conditions upon which he was willing to resign his personal claims to the Crown ; that he was privy to all that passed before the 26th of August, the clay on which the Carlist council ' was held, at which he denounced MAROTO as a traitor ; and finally, that although the whole was a contrivance of CARLOS to obtain a pretext for the murder of MAROTO, without exciting an in surrection in the army, neither MAROTO nor the English Commissioners entertained the remotest suspicion of the Pretender's treachery, MA- RoTo discovered his danger only in time to save his life, and give peace to his country. The real traitor was C ARLOS , who, to glut an insa tiable craving for blood—to effect the butchery of his General without' perSonal danger to himself, de livered over his army to the QUEEN-REGENT. The Pretender either forgot, or Was riot aware, that the Basques were heartily sick of ihim and his cause, else he could hardly have been such a fool as to venture to make experiments upon their attachment to him. But however it was, he was himself the traitor—himself the concoctor of his own ruin, so far as that was accelerated by the Treaty of Bergara. CAttLOs wants the talent, hut not the will, to be a successful villain on an extensive scale. His genius is of the snake order. He might manage the concoction of a plot, but he wants the courage for appearing on the highway. In the excess of his cowardice he had recourse to the tedious process of digging a pit for MAROTO and—he tumbled into it himself. The French Journals are still without any poli tical news of engrossing interest. The accounts from Spain continue to be satisfactory. In the Moniteur of Monday we find the following tele graphic despatch : " BAYONNE, SEPT. 21. " THIS GENERAL COMMANDING 'IHE 20TH MILITARY DIVI- SION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " Espartero has proceeded to Patnpeluna, where a grand reception was prepared for him. He has left a brigade in the valley of Bastan. Urdax and Vera are oc cupik•cl by the Queen's troops ; the inhabitants remained in the villages, and many of the soldiers have returned to their homes and resumed their labours. Estella and Allo are still held by the Carlists, who have declared that they will make their submission only to Espartero himself." Don CARLOS and his consort arrived at Bourges on Saturday. A Commissary-General of Police was to proceed there by. command of the Govern ment, to keep a close eye upon the movements of the Pretender. The following particulars relative to the family of the Pretender, from the Courier Bordeaux, are not without interest : " Notwithstanding Wednesday was the fast of Quatre Temps, considering the fatigues which the Prince and his family had undergone, meat was prepared for them at M. Coupat's residence ; but, the attendants reminded the Duchess de Beira of its being a fast-day. Her Royal Highness replied that she had a dispensation from the Pope, and partook of a cutlet. Don Carlos also ate some meat. The Pretender appeared to be much depressed, and spoke very little. The only thing he uttered was a sar castic observation on the vigilance of the Magistrates, who were unable to prevent his getting into Spain when he was last at Bordeaux, on his way to put himself at the head of the insurgents of the four provinces. tie was informed that this could not apply to Baron Sers (the pre sent Prefect), who then held a similar office at the other extremity of France. The countenance of Don Carlos is without expression ; the features of the Duchess de Beira, on the contrary, are full of expression and haughtiness. She is evidently suffering from her reverses, but bears them with resolution. 'We have only come into France because we have been driven here by the bayonets of Espartero. We have yielded to nothing but superior force.' Don Sebastian has lost the sight of one eye; both he and the Prince of the Asturias are much cast dow n. One of the guests at breakfast having politely inquired after the health of the former, attributing his state of weakness to the fatigues of vvar—' To the fatigues of war,' replied Don Sebastian, sarcastically ; ' I have not taken ung part in it for the last two.years I' The Duchess de Beira made many purchases for her toilet at Bordeaux, having, it seems, in the precipitation of her flight, brought wits her only the garments she had on. While they were changing horses at Latigon, several Carlists knelt to the Pretender, and kissed his hand ; but he appeared to receive the mark of homage with perfect indifference." The Moniteur announces that some disturbances took place at Lille, on the 21st instant., and that twenty persons were arrested. In the department of Sartre the arrival of the new Prefect operated as a check upon the movements of the Corn rioters : The Plume contains the following letter : " PERPIGNAN, SEPT. 16.—The Queen's troops have been well received in the mountains, because the inhab... tants are filled with extreme indignation at the conduct of Count de Espagne. By his orders, above a thousand houses have been burnt at Geronella, Begs, and other villages. " It is believed that the Count de Espagne is inclined to come to an arrangement. It is said that he has sent to request the English Commissioners to repair to Berga Some persons believe that he is thinking only of means to withdraw to another country." The Eco, of Aragon, says : It is positively ii . nown here that Cabrera has sent orders to Nice, to purchase for him a magnificent estate, the revenue of which is one million per annum. This pur chase has just been made through the agency of a Cation, and great preparations are making in this estate to receive the new proprietor." The Journal of Saint Gamlen; of the 16th inst., con tains the following intelligence :—" An important capture has just been made; it is that of the famous Canon Tr;stany, brigadi7r in the service of Ihn Ca: los, who came from Catalonia to join him, and was endeavouring by aid of a disguise to return to that province. " Tristan) , and the men who accompanied him are confined in the prison by order of the sub• prefect, till he shall receive instructions from higher authority. " Tristany was one of the roost ferocious and odious men of the cruel bands of Catalonia." We have announced, says La France, that M. Decazes had had a long interview with Louis Philippe, and that an important mission would doubtless be confided to him. Persons wbo are well informed say, that the Grand Refer endary is going to Spain to confer, in the first instance, with the Duke de la Vittoria, and then to proceed to Madrid, to negotiate a certain matrimonial affair which C,,unt Mole had in contemplation, and which Maroto is said to have rendered more important.--Le Commerce. French have six ; but though our presence there ' indicates hostility, our ships are on the peace esta blishment, while the French s hip s are o n a war footing. Besides this, France has -two broad pen dants flying, but we have only-one—a clever Con trivance, by which the Government saves ten shil lings a-day, probably to make up the pension of some future SFRING RICE, or Lord Mount- Sparrow ! LLOYD'S StiIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT 24. Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the North umberland, Compton, from Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Wind S , fresh breezes.—Ar rived the Flowers of Ugic, Annan, from Calcutta ; Bo nanza, Cragg, Pernambuco—sailed 16th August; Bri tannia, Vollurn, Alexandria; Prowler, M'Davell, ditto; Francis Lawson, Chaplin, Si. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Speedy, Wills, Malaga; Azores packet, Trigg, Denia; Africa, Ceder, Riga ; Dalkeith, Christie, St. Übes ; John Bull, Lind, Wasa. Sailed the Ceres, Pallot, Honduras ; Jarrow, Walker, Demerara; Old England, Hodgson, ditto ; Clifton, Ingersoll, New York ; Catherine, Ceffey, St. Lucia. Off port the Nimrod, from New York ; Malay, Calcutta; Senator, Macao; Robert James, Haynes, Spanish Coast; Europe, New York—sailed Ist instant; Tiromas . Parsons, Africa : Cintra, Denia. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT 24.—Wind S.—Sailed the Thomas Blyth, Hay, for the Mauritius. Covir,s, SEPT. 24.—Arrived, the Balilutha, Grierson, from Havannah. HASTINGS. SEPT. 24.—Off Port, the Litherland, Haw kings, from Bai ba,ioes. DOVER, SEPT. 24. Off Port, Globe, Cragg, from Lima. PLYMOUTH, 5E1 , 1..24. —Wind S. W.—Arrived, the Kate, for Barrett, Brit t. from i ti, Cape Denia. Sailed, the Ranunala, Banjoker, SCILLY, SEPT. 21 . —Off Port, the Agnes. from Antigua. ria. Coast castle. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 23.-- Wind S. toW. S. W.-- A rrived,the sGteaalmatezr) Rambler, Gilbert, S, Cooper, for Vigo, t he Ann, Burgess, f rom T o b ago . & I, ern e . v y a r n no t a ,ff. Packet,port Sailed,T To t ed IberiafrDm( GLOPCESTER. SErr. 2 4 . —Arrived, the Paragon, Ander son, from Miramichi. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE 0 CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French mail, and ship letcers from Barbadoes, Havannah, Monte Video, and Jamaica; Calcutta, April 23 ; Mauritius, June 25 ; St. Helena, August 9; Cape of Good Hope, July 19. Most of the above arrivals are of old dates, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY —We have had a dull market for cotton to-day with a slight tendency to a decline in prices. The sales about 3,000 bags. Extract of a letter received at Liverpool, from Mar an. band, July 15 : ‘, There are accounts here of Caxias having been taken by the rebels on the Ist inst. It also said it was sacked and great excesses committed, but although very likely, we believe there are no certain accounts. All the troops that could be spared from the city, in fact all the regular forces aitd even some of the local, have been in the country the last two months, and we have to defend us only some Na tional Guards. There is every probability that an attempt will be made on this place, and we do not expect it will be successfully. resisted. Many of the shopkeepers aro pack. ing up to embark. There will be difficulty in loading the Wilberforce and Sherbroke. No cotton arriving-,." MARANIIAM, Ace. 4.—Accounts from the country con tinue very unfavourable. It is said the rebels have left Caxias, and are coining down in three divisions to attack this place. There are probably 1,200 men here to defend us. We do hope the attempt will ❑ot be made ; every. thing is bustle, confusion, and military. The English Consul has sent to Rio Janeiro to request a vessel of war may be sent up. No cotton arriving, and the Wilberforce will not leave before the end of this month, and then pro bably not loaded." We have received Mauritius papers to the 19th June. Exchange on London—Government Bills, 30 days' sight, 3 per cent. premium ; Mauritius Bank Bilk, 90 days' sight, none ; Private Bills, six months' sight, 3 to 4 per cent. discount. lbs. Total, 11 th June 69,456,875 Challenger, for Alton Bay 7,603 For London 700,345 EXPORTS. 70,164,883 Caraccas papers received state that the President of the Republic has appointed Dr. Alejo Fortigne to replace General O'Leary as Commissioner for the settlement of the Venezuelan debt with the British creditors; he is also accredited as Minister Plenipotentiary to her Majesty Queen Victoria. We have another arrival of a packet from New Yolk, the Europe, of the same date as received yesterday, Sept. 2, by the St. James. THE FUNDS. Although of late a very great preasure for money has been experienced, and more particularly among the com mercial community, we are happy to find that in last night's Gazette there was not a single announcement of a bankrupt. This has a good appearance. and provos that our commerce is on a more solid foundation than • gene rally anticipated. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London for the week ending on Saturday last, consist( d, according to the official returns, of 82,000 ounces of silver coin, of which 80,000 were shipped to Gibraltar, and 2,000 to Hamburg; 774 ounces of gold bars to Hamburg, and 1,150 ounces of gold coin to the same place. The Foreign Exchanges were rather lower yesterday, and few bills at the Exchange to be negociated. By some of the brokers it is thought that the exchanges are high enough to prevent the gold going out of the country. It is generally expected that the civil war in the north of Spain being terminated, our commerce with that part of Spain will be re-established, particularly by the old Spanish ho uses who have resided for a number of years in London. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91 i f for the Ac count, Mon !), 901 ; 1 1., opened this morning rather lancer and may be quoted 90i 91 for the Account, Money, 90A 11, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 2 4 premium ; iu India Bonds, nothing done ; Bank Stock for the opening, 187 188 ; India Stock. 2481 2491. The Foreign Market is also heavy ; Spanish Active, witch closed at 31 32k, at present 312 ; Portuguese also receded, dosed 361- at present 36k ; Three per Cents. 24 1; Brazilian, 76 77 ; Colombian. 324 ; Danish, 75 76; Mexican, 281 -; Belgian, 103 k; Dutch Two- and-a-lialf per Cents., 53i 54k ; Five per Cents., 1034 . - 104. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OAT; O'CLOCK. Bank Stock.... — : India Stock 3 per Cent. 1 / 4 al. 3 per Cent. Co ns. 9 05 ,(,,% ' South Sea Stock -- 1.,, per Cent. — ' Old Annuities --- I aro Red... - ' New Dit to - New 3% periCent. 98 1 7 .4 4 :3 per Cent. Annuities, Vial -- New 5 pee Ce at. j-j 1,000"... 4 1 Pm Bank Lon,s - A.: inuities toexiiire Ditto Re... — 1 3 n• Jan. 5, .180. ......... . ...... 1 Ditto Satan 6 3 pin Oct. 111, 1.859 ...... i Ditto Ccinmercial 5 3 dis .1:4n.. 5, 1.860 — i Ditto Advertised ..... P.. Jan. 5, 'LBbO —l Bank Stock for Account ... -- April 1.21,=(1. Jan. 5. ~.il7O India Stock for Account - Consos for Account VI 90 PRICES OF FOBEI ON FuNris THis DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Sends — Peruvian Bond, — Belgian Eon(l 4 D:tto Accoo at Brazilian Bonds Ditto Accaunt it.tX t 5 "ii Ditto Acc • uti• .... ..:',G , i,i,i RIIPIIOi Ayres. Bonds ., — 1 Ditto, 3 per Cant. Ditto Aecotint ......... ..... Ditto Account ° Po :2 Chin., it.,nd,, .......... ....... — I Prussian Bonds — DU° Amos. • —! Russian Bonds, 1b4"1 — Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto• Account —S Ditto Altitallic — Coluirdslan Bonds, 1344.... 32!, Sisani,h nonds.. 31 V ,. 3 4 . 4 4 4 Ditto Account ..._ ........ . Ditto Account. 31X,14 , 34 5,, 1 . _ Danish &Inds Ditto Account —, Del.rred .. 15 Greek Boneiq French, 5 per cent....... —f'. —c. Ditto li.nd., IIVS — 4 per cent ...... —f. —e. . Ditto Account ..... r f. —e Niekican Bonds, 5 per Cont • Ditto Annum Attu, 6 per Cent Ditto Account KtuipOliten Eitchange. —t —c . Dutch, t per cent. 5 3/it Ditto Account - Ditto, 5 per cent 10 3 ,i Ditto _FILICF.S OF SHARES; THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per Sha7e. Er!ghton Railway Miambettar and Birmingham Railway lB Do. Do. Ext enYlon Noah Midland Railway Comi iany 35 COURSE OF EIY CHANGE, YESTERDAY ---- -- - • Amsterdoni --- ti.l.'. ;2 7 , itiira;tar 4B )itto, at ,ight (ioairdzirt 2U. lit 7% Genoa 25 hill Antwerp... ! - Lun!•tirg.. M.B l3 13% Venice A I totia;.... Paris, 3 days' 5ight......... 25. 53 IP.Uerroo Ditt0...... .......... .3 Ms. 25. 75 Lisbon ti3 Marseilles . 25, 75 ! 0 ? .orso 31% Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 1 - .51 , ,6 ; Bahl- ... 27 Detersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us, 38_: IBuenos Ayres BerlinT 0 New York, 21 d aye sight Vienna, effective 11_3 aL 10 7 Philadelphia 4O Fricst. - : ditto lo' 8 PRICE OF BULLION, per Oz. Stadrid 36Ai Portugal Gold, c0in....40 0 0 "di "' -•• ........... ... Barcelona T New Dollars 0 4 10% Seville 36 Silver in Bars HALF-PAST ONE. Censols whi c h have been .heavy during the morning at 904 i fur the A ccount, an d .901 for Money, have rather improved, and m ay b e quote d' . at present 94; Money 94. Money continues scarce, but more particularly in the Stock Exchange, at the rate of 7 to 8 per cent. We do n o t h ear o f any political intelligence , to cause the heavy state of the British marl ;Jet. Mr. Mosguara, the Colornbi a n Minister, has arrived in London from Liverpool. We• have no doubt be will be welcomed by the Colombian borldholders. Exchequer Bills lower, 4 1 premium ; India Bonds, 3 6 premium ; Bank Stock, nothing el one. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active lass experienced numerous fluctuations durinthe eourse of the morning , being 31i- i i /i and 311. ; Passive, 81 : }(;;Deferred, 15 ; Portuguese, lower, 751 :1- ; Colombi an , 39;1 ; Danish, /51,-; Dutch 36 i ; Three per Cents. , 244 1 :i-; Brazili an Two.and-a- Half per C en t s ., 53i ; Fi.ie per Cents., lon. The Batavier, Dutch steamer, -.... is not expected to-day. CAPTURE OF AN EAGLE.---Early on Monday morning one of the keepers of the Girddeness lighthouse, Mr. Black, was alarmed by a sudden and rust ling noise on the dame of the building, and, on going round the balcony, he found that a bird of some kind bad been att ratted by th e light and sought refuge from the storm. He then, at gre at . risk, mounted the dome, and found a formidable looking customer entangled about the cupola. The legs being uppermost,iMr. Black at once laid hold of them and suc ceeded in capturing a bird of the eagle species, which mea sures no less than five feet across the wings, and about two feet from the tip of the tail to the point of the bill. It is of a brownish-grey colour, with white neck,. and has a beautiful crest on its head. It appears to he quite tame and very young. The bird is evidently " a foreigner," and is now in the possession of u gentleman in this city. Con sidering the situation in which the eagle was found, it is truly astonishing how Mr. Black contrived to capture it.— Abti•deen Herald. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There has been a fair return of English Wheat and Flour this week, but very little of any other sort of English grain. Of Foreign wheat and Oats the quantities have been good. The weather has been again changeable, and Wheat fully maintained Monday's prices, with a fair extent of business in English par cels. For other grain more money was asked, with little doing. Flour met a fair sale at the late advances. ARRIVALS. Barley. 160 qrs English •....... Wheat. 3,53 'qrs. Irish Foreign -. 2,0:0 Oats. I Fur :270 qrs. 4,7.30 :1,;:( 5 NEWOATE AND LEADEIHALL. -- brli, Supplies very good of all kinds of town-killed meat-of country killed, small. The demand was dull, and prices droop ing. Beef 3s. to 3s. 83. ; - Mutton 3s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb 4s. 43. to 5s ; Veal 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork 3s. Bd. to 4s. 83. Poultry and Game of all kinds were in large supply ; the d•-mand dull, aud prices a little lower. Geese 4s. to Gs. 63. ; Rabbits Dd. to Is. ; Pigeons 43. to 73. ; Leverets Is. 63. to 2s. 3d. ; Hares 3s. to 4s. ; Ducks ls. 93. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls 2s. tici. to 4s. ; Grouse 2s. 6d. to 45. ; Turkey Poults 4s. to ss. 6d.. ; Partridges Is. 4d. to 2s. Eggs ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per 120. BOURSE.--.PAKIS, MONDAY. SEPT. 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents 1 !0 7J ... 110 80 ... 110 70 ... 1; 0 70 3 per Cents Bl ... 81 25 81 81 15 Laffitte Bank I,IIOOE Sh 1057 50 —ION ...1057 50 ...1060 5,000 f. sh 5220 —5220 ...5220 Belgian 5 per Cents 102% ... 102% 1. 2% ... 102% Bank 775 775 ... 775 ... 775 C.itipons 411 25 ... 46 25 ... 46 25 46 25 Spanish Ac ive Passive SKi ... 14? , ... 8% ... New 1/f ferred Old Deferred 9% ... 9% ... Portuguese 3 per Cents Neai olitan RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 532 . . 50 ... 533 75 ... 532 50 ... 533 75 LB 307 50 ... 3:0 ... 307 50 ... 310 Havre Stra,burg to Bale 3'l7 50 ... 312 SO ... 307 50 ... 312 50 51ulhausen to Thann .. Five perACUenStlßAllAetNalliFqutieNs 1)8.-171'LN:is, SEPT 14 107 N FOlt7 per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Altioneine Zalung. Sept. ii Letters from Athen of the 15th ult. represent Greece as in a deplorable state from the mischiefs inseparable from Bavarian protection. King OTHo is now universally regarded as an idiot by his sub jects, and every act of his G overnment i s calculated to confirm such an impression. W e have received from a Correspondent at the mout h of the Dardanelles some curious information relative to the British and French fleets there, and of the state of affairs in Turkey, to which we shall advert at some length in the course of a day or two. An instance of the economy of the Admiralty is given, which is quite amusing, and which it would he a sin against the Treasury to withhold. We have ten sail of the line at the Dardanelles, and the BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Fish scarce, and prices as high as before ; the demand tolerably good. Turbot, 7s. to 255. ; Cod, 2s. to 10s. each:; Lobsters, ls. to 4s. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. Gd. per pair ; Oysters, Us. to 40s. per bushel ; Whitings, 6d. to Is. each ; and Had docks, Is. to 2s. Gd. HATTON-GARDEN-(THIS DAY.) CONVICTION OF A BEERSHOP-KEEPER. John Herring who keeps a beershop, at the sign of the Blue Lion, in Green-street, appeared to answer a summons charging him with having, on the night of the 16th inst., kept his shop open after the hour of eleven at night. It appeared from the evidence of several policemen of the E division, that on the night in question, there was a great disturbance at the defendant's house, and that at half after eleven they saw a man named Brennar coming out, followed by the landlady, who said he had assaulted her— that they offered to take Brennar to the station• house, but she refused to give him in charge—that they then dispersed the persons who had collected, and afterwards eight or tell of those who had left the beershop with Brennar, returned into the house. This was at a quarter to twelve at night. They had previously warned the defendant that it was past the hour of closing. The landlord, in his defence, said that he had previously sent for the police to clear the house, but that he could not find any policeman; and that Brenuar, who was the cause of the disturbance, had been given into custody by him, and locked up. It appeared, however, from the testimony of his own witnesses, that it was the night after this, and for another disturbance, that Brennar had been given into custody. And they all proved the case against him, by admiting that it was half after eleven before his house was cleared. He was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 40s. gnd costs. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Ann May, a very respectable-looking young woman, the wife of a journeyman harness-maker, was committed for seven days for being drunk and using insulting and abu sive language in the station-house. She sobbed violently on hearing her sentence. Five fashionably-dressed girls were committed for one month each for being drunk and using indecent language in the streets. RINGING AT Doom.— A foreigner named Philip Hayter, was fined ss. for wantonly ringing the bell of the house of Mr. James Bentley, in Frith -street, Soho. EXTENSIVE FORGERY IN MAN- CHESTER ON A LONDON HOUSE. NEW BAILEY, MANCHESTER-TUESDAY Rickard Barlow, a person of high respectability, in Manchester, was brought up before the sitting Magis trate, at the New Bailey, charged with forging a bill of exchange for 4921. 13s. Id. Mr. Joseph Seddon, one of the partners in the firm of Scholes and Co., bankers, of Cannon-street, Man chester, stated that in January last the prisoner came to the bank with a bill of exchange for 2851. 10s., pur porting to be accepted by Messrs. Lcaf and Co., mer chants, London, at Messrs. Denison and Co., bankers, London, who questioned him as to whom Leaf and Co., were, and he said they were a branch of the firm of Leaf, Coles, and Co. Witness re plied that he knew the firm of Leaf, Coles, and Co. and taking the prisoner's account to be correct, and knowing his family, discounted the bill. Between that time and the 21st May, witness discounted four other bills, drawn by the prisoner, and appearing to be accepted by Leaf and Co., and they were all answered. On the 21st May, the prisoner came to the bank with the bill produced, dated 15th May, 1839, drawn by himself on Leaf and Co., and appearing to be accepted by them for 4921. 13s. ld. This bill witness also discounted, but it came back on the 14th instant dishonoured, and they then wrote to Leaf and Co. about it, and from the an swers they received, witness went to London the follow ing day, and met the prisoner on Thursday, in Cheap side, by accident. He gave him in charge to a police man, and said, " I suppose you know what I give you in charge for ?" The prisoner replied, "Oh yes, I thought my father would have arranged that." Witness then took him to the Mansion-house, and he was re manded till Monday last. Mr. William Leaf; of the Old 'Change, London, partner in the firm of Leaf, Coles, and Co., warehouse men, London, and in the firm of William Leaf, Crofts, and Co., merchants, London, stated that there is an other firm of Leaf, Smith, and M`Dougal in London, but with it he had nothing to do. They had no branch firm of Leaf, Coles, and Co. He knew nothing of the bill for 4921. 13s. produced by Mr. Seddon. The ac ceptance, Leaf and Co., was not in witness's handwrit ing, or in that of any of his partners, and no other per son had any authority to accept bilis on their account. He had no knowledge of any previous bills of exchange drawn by Richard Barlow being presented to them Messrs. Glynn and Co. were their bankers for both the firms he was partner in, and he was not aware that either of them had ever any transaction with him. Mr. Smith, police beadle of Manchester stated, that after the prisoner was delivered to him at the Mansion house, he said he met with a young man of the name of Robert Leaf, a buyer of goods in Liverpool, who said he was a nephew of Mr. Leaf, of Leaf and Co., and accepted the bill ; and he (prisoner) had been searching for him in London, but could not find him. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes. CRIM. CON., &c. At the Lambeth-street Pace-office on Tuesday, shortly after the Hon. G. C. NORTON had taken . In . s seat on . the bench, Inspector M'Craw of the K 'mon of po lice, brought before him a young man in the dress of a mate of a ship, who, he said, wanted a warrant. The young man stated that nine months ago he sailed from the port of London as mate of Indiaman, leaving his wife, whom he married from an ardent attachment to her, contrary to the will or wishes of his respectable friends, an order for half his wages, which she was regu larly paid by the owners, and also a comfortable home. On Friday he returned with his ship, and as soon as he could get en shore he went in search of his wife, who he found had moved from where he had left her ; but he ultimately found her out, and having been received with the greatest apparent affection by her, he had not the most remote idea that anything improper had oc curred during his absence, nor did anything occur to alter this opinion until Sunday afternoon. On that da y , just as himself a nd hi s w if e were a b out to sit down to dinner, a gentleman who was at that time a stranger to him, but who he subsequently understood to be a Mr. Godding, a brewer, in Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, entered their apartment and commenced crying and conducting himself otherwise in a very extraordinary manner. He (applicant) remonstrated with him, and asked him to explain his reason for behaving so, upon which he jumped up from where he sat, and drawing a brace of pistols from his pocket, handed one to him, and holding the other himself, exclaimed, " Now you shall shoot me or I you." The applicant replied that he could not think nt fighting with any one without some cause or provoca tion, but that if he, Mr. Godding, was a gentleman, and sent him a proper written message, stating the grounds why he should meet him in a hostile manner, he would do so. At this time, however, his wife had succeeded in securing both pistols, and the gentleman, in reply to his further request to give some explanation of such extra ordinary proceedings, acknowledged th a t, d uring h is absence, he had done him a serious injury ; that his wife had also been faithless, and had been under his protec tion for some months past. He further said, that such was his attachment to her, that it was quite impossible he could live without her, and it being, therefore, im possible that both could en j oy h er soc i ety, one or the other must die. However, by the urgent entreaties of his wire and the people in the house, Godding left the house ; and after he was gone, he questioned his wife on the subject, but she stoutly denied the accusation, and attributed it entirely to some mistaken fancy on the part of the brewer. Since then, however, she had eloped from the house, taking with her the entire of the movable property as well as the whole of his wages, which he had given up to her. He had not found out where she had removed to. Mr. NORTON—Have you any reason to suppose t hat the brewer assisted her in removing the property ; for if 't:) it will amount to a felony ? Applicint—l have no doubt they were removed by his directions, as I understand his servant assisted in removing a part of the goods. I have since, to my great surprise, learned the fact beyond a doubt that my wife had been kept by this man, and that she is four months advanced in pregnancy by him, and further I have very little doubt but they are together somewhere. Mr. NowroN desired that a peace warrant be granted to the applicant against the brewer. It is confidently reported in the best-informed po li t i ca il circles that Lord Clzrendon will be introduced to an itnpu.vtant post in the Government, with a seat in the Cabinet; am.' that Mr. Macaulay will be the new Secre tary-at-War, als, l with a seat in the Cabinet. In the Gazeti:`? of last evening there is not one bankrupt, alid only o.ie insolvent, and the return to Par liament of a Catholic Privy Councillor, a coincidence which certainly has not occurred for the last century and a half. TRADE WITH CANTON. The extreme jealousy of the Chinese Government of all foreigners has hitherto caused our trade with that nation to be se unstable and insecure that the accidental death or capricious extortion of ieeel authorities have often been tee occasion of interruption. The policy of that Govern ment holds all " red haired barbarians" and " white devils," as they call us, u p to t h e di srespect an d contempt o f t h e natives, which subjects us to insult upon all occasions, and endangers our property and lives. Their insulting and irritating conduct towards the lamented Lord Napier, who was conveyed a prisoner in the most public and anno3ing manner from Canton to Macao, caused his illness and eventual death, of which the British Government took not the least notice, which has induced the Chinese authori ties to believe they may do whatever they choose with im punity. The unjustifiable means which they have taken to seize three millions worth of opium, by imprisoning and menacing her Majesty's representative and all our coun trymen, and foreigners, whether implicated or not ; to have it delivered up, renders it impossible for our merchants to reside with, or in any way subject themselves to the Chinese authorities in future. Formerly foreigners could trade at any port they chose, until the jealousy of the Government instigated the mob to plunder and rites sacre all who could not escape ; and if this affair is allowed to pass without notice, the same will surely occur to us. Now that the Chinese have so far committed themselves against the law of nations and individual justice, and shown what they will do when excited by the cupidity of local officers, now is our time to open and secure a trade with the millions of inhab;eants of that country, upon such a basis as not to be interrupted in future, and which car, be done without the loss of life ; let our ships blockade the entrance to Canton, and the whole coast, which can be done with one 74 for the Admiral, three frigates, and half a dozen sloops of war, thereby de priving that country for a time of foreign and coast com merce, and stopping their rail from Heenan and the southern part of the coast, and the rice from Formosa, which is generally imported at Aniai, a splendid harbour. These measures, combined with the discontent which will be produced amongst the nation by the loss of that com merce which the Government pretend they do not require, and depriving them of the .alt revenue, which is eiterni.ere, and starving them for want of the importation of rice, will soon induce the Authorities to perform the " Kou ton" to us, instead of us. the Barbarians, to the Celestials ; but to be secure in future we must have the Island of " Keoie," forming the harbour of " Coin sing Moon," the Island of " Amai." and one of the Chusen Islands, and occupy the large Island of Formosa at our leisure, holding it indepen dently and clear of the Chinese, with permission to trade and ri side at Canton as heretofore, but upon perfect end adjusted terms, so as not to be subjected to insult and ex tortion. Macao is of no use to us, as the harbour will only admit of sh;ps of 14 feet draught of water. The fortifica tions are in ruins, and we have had, and always shall have, as much the benefit of that place under the Portuguese, as though we, instead of them, had the expense attending the possession of it. If our Government choose to pass over the insult to her .Majesty's representative and do not choose to be at the expense and trouble of securing our trade with that country upon that basis so essential to the trading and, in fact, general interest of this country, allow us private individuals and merchants to bring the Chinese to that due respect we are entitled by the law of nations, and our and their own interests and welfare. These measures will be equally beneficial to American, French, Dutch, and all fcreigners trading there. Our American friends expect John Bull to hold the cow by the horns, while they extract the milk, but it is to be hoped that a strict blockade will be kept up until our terms are com plied with. "PAK TOW." Mr. B. Macaulay has been appointed Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet ; and Lord Seymour and Mr. Clay have been appointed Secretaries to the Board of Control. It is stated by an Evening Contemporary (the Globe), that it is confidently reported in the best circles that Lord Clarendon will be introduced to an important post in the Government, with a seat in the Cabinet. The Hon. Henry William Petre, second son of Lord Petre, will embark in a few days for the new colony at New Zealand, where his Noble father has purchased an extensive tract of land for him. Mr. Petre is only in his 19th year. Mr. Francis Molesworth, brother and heir presumptive to Sir Wm. Molesworth, also goes out with Mr. Petre. A fine steam-ship, the Hecla, was lately launched at the building.yard of Mr. Adamson, Grangemouth—di mensions, eighty feet long, and thirty-six feet across the midships ; register about 100 tons. She has two engines of twenty-five horse power each, made by Messrs. Mitchell and Nelson, Glasgow. The Heels is built for a joint corn• pany under the superintendence of the Messrs. Smith, Grangemouth, and is intended for towing trading vessels over the Memel Bar, in Prussia, whither she proceeds to. da d . A trial was made of her engine, last week to Alloa and down to Leith ; she made about ten knots per hour.— Stirling Observer. _ _ _ It is a most singular coincidence, that Mr. Fox and the late Lord Lauderdale, two of the most intimate friends that ever lived, were born on the same day (24th January), and died on the same day (13th September). Mr. Fox was ten years older than Lord Lauderdale, and Lord Lauderdale survived Mr. Fox thirty-three years. " I meant to have tould you of that hole," said an Irishman to his friend, who was walking with him in his garden, and stumbled into a pit full of water. "No mat ter," says Pat, blowing the mud and water out of his mouth, " I've found it." YOU DON'T SAY SO I—A 'philosopher told us the other day, that the body was a lamp—the principle of vitality the oil—this principle isrought into union of life the blaze—a little oh- be.joyful the snuffers or triminers—and death the extinguisher. We didn't ask him how he knew. CORONERS' INQUESTS —lnstructions relative to coroners' inquests, which are intended to be carried into effect from and after the 29th instant, have been issued by Mr. Wakley, M. P., the Coroner for the western division of the county of Middlesex. Among these it is stated - that notice should be given to the coroner, by headborouglis, the police, parochial constables, and beadles, in all cases, when persons die suddenly—when persons arefound dead— when persons die from any acts of violence—when women die during labour or within a few hours after delivery— when persons are suspected to have died from the effects of poison or quack medicines—when persons die who ap pear to have been neglected during sickness or extreme poverty—when persons die in confinement, as in prisons, Police offices, or station-houses—when lunatics or paupers die in confinement, whether in public or private asylums, or in places where only one is kept. We hear from an authentic source that her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager, who has accepted an invitation to visit the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, will not be able to honour his Grace with her company till rather late in the autumn. L. is said that their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have deferred their visit to the Noble Duke until the Queen Dowager goes. Post. COLLISION ON THE RIVER.—On Tuesday morning, at three o'clock, a fine schooner, thy Ham, of Woodbridge, outward bound with a cargo, going down the River on a strong ebb tide, the weather being very hazy with nu wind, the current drifted her athwart hawse off the upper hulk, moored nearly in the middle of the River off Execution Dock, to protect the works of the Thames Tunnel. The mainmast of the schooner and all her after rigging were carried away instantly by coming in contact, with a brig's bowsprit moored right alongside the hulk. The Liebe was detained till the next flood-tide before she could get away, and has sustained great damage. SHAAIEFUL HOAX.--Last 'week some foolish or malicious persons procured a printed summons from Guildhall Police Office, and after filling up the blanks served it upon Mr. James Pickman, landlord of the Sara cen's•head tap, Friday-street, desiring him to attend before the Magistrates at Guildhall, to answer an information charging him with permitting riotous and disorderly con duct in the house. The signature of Sir P. Laurie was forged to the document. Mr. Pickman, who keeps a well conducted houw, on attending at Guildhall with two wit nesses to disprove the allegations in the spurious document, learned that the summons had never been issued from Guil dhall, that there was no complaint against him, and that he had been duped. Mr. Pickman was put to considerable trouble and expense by this scandalous proceeding, and has offered a reward for the discovery of the parties. The city officers arc also endeavouring to ascertain how the blank summons was procured from the Guildhall office, and who forged the Alderman's name. THE LATE DEFALCATION IN Sr. LUKE'S, CIIELSEA.—On Tuesday, in the course of a discussion which took place before Captain Balgue and Mr. France, the Sitting Magistrates at Petty Sessions, Mr. Minton, one of the overseers, stated that Mr. Newland, a , olicitor, had offered 2001. as the first instalment towards a settle ment for the sum of about 1,0001. with which Mr. Turner, the late vestry clerk, absconded from the parish a few weeks since. Mr. France said that to accept that offer would be compounding a felony Surely they did nt,t, mean to employ Mr. Turner again ? Mr. Minton said no ; but they meant to catch him if they could, and then they would surely send him to Newgate, although Mr. New. land would insist that no felony could be proved against his client. It had been stated that Turner had made off to America, but Mr. Newland's proposition convinced him that the delinquent was not far off. ACCIDENT BY FIRE-ARMS.—Yesterday morn ing between seven and eight o'clock a shocking accident by fire-arms occurred to Mr. Joseph Ridley, a gentleman 24 years of age, residing with his uncle, at Willesden. He was with a companion, shooting in the fields near Porto Bello Farm, Paddington, when, in attempting to leap a ditch, he placed the butt-end of his fowling-piece on the ground, and holding the barrel in his hand , by some acci dent - the gun exploded, end the whole contents entered his chest, side, and face. Assistance was procured, and he was conveyed borne, but from the extent of injuries sustained little hope is entertained of his recovery. A convict who had just finished building a num ber of houses in Sydney, wishing to give his speculation an attractive name, applied in a round-about way to a well. known and eccentric auctioneer, now deceased, if he would suggest some suitable name for his buildings. The gen tleman being at the time of receiving the message a good cdealoccupied,m iss io n to and d isp os e perhaps o,f. mthye disappointed houses in st complimentsien not a tdo ot Igetting christening h e . t h e m, hastily replied, I think he had better call it Fetter.lane." The 'eke h for befor e ' h i death ow e ver, turned out a very exp ens i ve one, a considerable share of the convict's patronage had been removed to other offices. --James's South Australia. EXTRAORDINARY OATS. There is now growing upon th e f arm of Garvag , occu h, near Donem ra pied by Mr. Willi am Brolly, a crop of Blantyre oats, a most of the stalks of which have double and triple heads, springing out from the upper joint, both the stalks and heads being very vigorous. Some of these polyanthus oats, if we may so designate them, have been shown to us, and are now in cur possession. There have been in dividual, though very rare, instances of the kind before; but an almost entire field of such oats, is, we believe, un precedented. The crop to which we refer may be made the parent of a new and valuable variety.—Derry Journal, EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen took her usual airing on horseback in the Park this afternoon, accom panied by Viscount Melbourne and Viscount Palmers ton, a-,d attended b : p ,,,,t ) or !He ing Lady Charlotte Dundas, Baroness Lehzen, Co:onot Wemrs, Earl of Surrey, and the Hon. Major Keppel• Immediately after the equestrian party, followed the Countess of Sandwich, and the Countess Cowper, in a pony phaeton The Royal dinner party at the Castle this ev,qiing Is expected to be composed of the visitors am Royal Household at prese n t on a vi s it to her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge attended by Colonel Keate arrived in town yesterd a y m or ning, from a visit to the Princess Augusta, and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot Park. The Du c h ess o f Cambridge cameto Cambridge House in the a ft e r n oon fr o m Kew. Their Royal Highnesses hon ou r e d th e H a y ma rket Theatre with their presen c e l as t n i g ht. A deputation of coffee and eating house keepers, con' sisting of Messrs. John Hinton, Charles Marshall, Edward Brown, John Alhs, James Rogers, and Arthur Stotheuham, had an interview yesterday with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. Mr. Macaulay had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Education Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Council-office. The Lords present were Lord John Russell, Lord Mont eagle, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Viscount Palmerston left town on Monday evening for Windsor Castle. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-oflice. Lord Monteagle art ived at his residence in Downing street yesterday from Tunbridge Wells. FA'NfIIONABLE INTELLIGENC'E• ARRIVALS. Vice-Admiral Sir George Cockburn, G. C. B, i n St. Jarnes'a, square, from High Beech, Essex ; Sir Hume and Lady Campbvll, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from Berwickshire ; Earl Onslow, Lord Cranky, and Lady Augusta Onslow, at ditto, from Surrey; the Dowaor Countess Beauchamp and Lady Louis Lygon, in St. James's-square, from a tour. DEPARTURES. The Right Hon. George Warrender, from Albemarle street, for Chiefden House, Berkshire • Lady Wharneliffe from Curzon-street, for L or d Francis Egerton's, Oatlands; the Marchioness Wellesley for Fern Hill, near Windsor; the Earl and Countess of Galloway and family, from Gros venor-square. for their seat, Cumloden Hall, Newtown Stewart, N. B ; Lord and Lady Norreys, for Yorkshire Lady Ongley, near Shefford ; Vice-Admiral Sir Wil loughby Lake on a tour. CHANGES. Mr. and Mrs. Wise have arrived at their resie,ence, Highfield House, from a tour in Cornwall and the r,ortb of Devon; Edward A. Green, Esq., at Cowes, Isle of. Wight, from St. Petersburgh. On the 24th inst., at No. 10, Upper Be'grave street, the lady of Robert Steuart, Esq., M. P., of 3 daughter. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and the Mar quis and Marchioness of Abercorn are expected to leave Lochlogan Castle at the close of the week for Baron's Court, county Tyrone. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe is now 00 a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, at Fleurs Castle, N. B. We are happy to say her Grace and the infant Marquis Of Beaumont are going on favourably. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Mar quis of Worcester, and Lady Blanche Somerset were to arrive at Vienna at the close of the past week. The las t account received in town left the Duke and Duchess in excellent health. His Grace has derived considerable be nefit from his visit to the German Spas. The Earl and Countess of Radnor and familY are passing the autumn at Longford Castle, their seat in Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Durham, accompanied by Viscount arid the Ladie s L am bt an , were to have 1( . 4 Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Monday, for Lambton Cast le ' for the winter. The Earl of Beshorough, with Lord and k it !, de Manley, after visiting Brighton, and the principal ing places on the coast, embarked at Dover on Thua l last for the Continent, where the Noble Earl, in company with his son and daughter, will pass the auteann. . the - Lord Fitzgerald and V e s c i re t urne d from this Continent early in the p as t wee k, but has since tak es : departure for Ireland. Lord and Lady Fitzroy Som erse t i n t e nd again to pass the autumn a t D over ; a mans i on h as already b een taken for their reception. rantain Lord William Lenno x an d th e Hon' Pitt have return e d t o town f rom a v i s i t to t he Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, Fochabers. Mr. C. W. Codrington, M.P., and Lady Geor giana Codrington, accompanied by Lady Augusta SoMer• set, left Cowes, on Wednesday last. to visit Mr. and Lady Caroline Masse, at their seat near Mirlhursi, Sussex. Major-General Sir John Woodford left Mivart's Hotel, on Saturday last, to visit his estate in Cumberland. Sir John arrived a short time since from a visit to Sir Alen . ander and Lady Woodford, at Gibraltar. We understand, from good authority, that Lord Glenlyon ;s shortly to lead t o th e a l tar t h e accomplished Hiss Home Drummond. L or d Gl en l yon i s t h e heir theto Dukedom of Athol, and also the Dukedom of Northumber land,after the demise of Lord P ru dh oe . CONSUMPTION OF WOOD AND COALS It 4 FRANCE.—The quantity of land covered by forest trees . France, is 8,521 000 hectares, being only half whet I . e 1 was in the middle of the last century. Although the quantity of land in use for fuel is only half what it reed t 0 be, the production is, from a better system of mans,gernent. fully equal to what it used to be. The quantity of w ood thus produced annually is 35 millions of cubic raetries, in addi tion to which 20 millions are obtained from the plantationv and waste lands, making altogether 55 millions, but of this quantity 10 millions are used for building purposes. With respect to coals, it is stated that at the beginning of the great French revolution the atenual production was 2,400,000 metrical quintals ; and th,e importation of foreign coals about the same quantity. In 1814 the consumption was 9 millions ; in 1820 13 millions, in 1825 20 millions, in 1830 24 millions, in 1835 32 millions, and in 1837 41 millions. Of these 4: millions the coals raised in France amounted to 29 millions and a half—viz. 113. millions from the basin of the Loiro, 7 millions from the basin of Valen'- e;cnnes, 2 millions from Creuzet and Blazy, 1 from the Alais, 1 from Aubin, arid the remainder from 55 other dis tricts of less importance. The other 11 millions and a half were obtained as follows : —rather more that 8 millions from Belgium, rather more than two millions from England, god the rest from Prussia ; but since the reduction of the duty on English coals the importations from &gland bear a much largar proportion to those from Belgium. The Teantity of coals used in 1837 was eight times what it yea! in 1789 ; but es a cubic metre (stere) of wood i s equal in caloric to 180 kilogrammes of coals, the wood burnt to France in 1637 is stated by the Commerce to have been. equal to two-thirds of the entire consumption of fuel as re; girds the amount of caloric. The quantity of mineral coat used in France for the iron works has increased coast' d rably of late years, but that of wood for the same PO; pose has also increased—for, in making 300,000 tons of iron, which is the annual production, the fuel used Wa s seven-eighths charcoal to one of mineral coal. I have not time now to inquire carefully into the conclusion of Or Commerce as to the comparison of caloric between coal6i and wood, but I believe it is erroneous. It should be ob served, however, that there is a difference of at leait per cent. of caloric in English coals as compared with the Belgian, and more than 30 as regar d s French coals, taking the average production.— Commerce. TIIE ELECTRIC GIRLS OF SnryttraA.---T h , e two Smyrna girls, whos e p ersons present suc h rem arkable electric phenomena, landed, as you are aware, at Marseill, in the beginning of last month. In hopes of realisin ,g . a splendid fortune, they intended to exhibit themseleres to Vance and other pasts of the Continent. Immediat ely u n , their arrival, several pe rsons , i nc l u di ng various men C' science and professor s , v i s i te d t h em and ascertained tiro' following phenom ena . Th e g i r l s statione d feernselv e facing each other at the ends of a large table, Iceepieg at a di-tance from it of one to two feet, according to, their eLe." tric dispositions. When a few minutes had elapsed, el crackling resembling that of the electric fluid spread l over a sheet of gilt paper, was heard fr. when t'ne table re ceieed a strong shake, whi c h alw I smade it advance f re the elder to the you nger sister. A key, neli, or any P iece of iron, placed on the table, instantaneatesly stopped th e phenomenon. partofthe table W i .h t e p n ro the e i d ron no w e a we s aedizeutpeodntothe extheuptie,aid_je..r... meut. Savi ng t hi s s i ngul a r circumstance, the facts r served constantly followed the known laws of electricity* girls wore silk garments. In e'ne latter case the whether glass insulators were useel, or whether o ne oft h . c properties of both were neutealized. Such was the stag of matters for some days after the arrival of the youti,g, Greeks, but the tempereture having become cooler, 10 ,1 the atmosphere having loaded itself with humidity,' all perceptible electric virtue seemed to have deserted there' One may conceive the melancholy of these girls. sand T o disappeiatment of the two Greeks, their relations, I", have come with them in order to share their to.nticipa te " weal th. —Marseilles Letter. NOVEL CONVICTION.—At the Croydon Peti t electric Sessions yesterday, Mr. George Ball, the proprieto extensive lime w o rk s a t M erst h am , a tt eei ded before the Bench to produce one of his carmen to answer a char' preferred by Mr. Adams, a Magistrate of this Bench, riding in hi s waggon . I t a pp eare d f rom Mr. s'atement that as lie was riding to town he met one of Hall's waggons, and the carman was; riding in it, and w e ', _ i , Mr. Adams requested him to get out and take care of horses, lie refused to do so, and laughed at him. Adams, however, could not identify the man. Mr. Hail now produced a man, who he said was with the wag gat ?P_ the day in question. The man declared positively that .v. had not acted in the manner described, and that , he kn ew , nothing about the matter. Mr. Adams said he , could in' recognise this man as the person who had co ,nmitted tb offence, but that did not matter, a s if Mr. Hall did 00e produce the offender he would be liablo f o :pay the .fine himself. Mr. Hall sa i d he did not u . a d ers tand how be could possibly be subjected to a fine fr jr an offence con'' the person who had offended if he cc uld di sco ver hire''' Tl:e Bench said there was no . that in law he wa g liable, and therefore as he had not. Pocluced the indi vidua i who had committed the offence, el,„ should fine him 10s. a.d costs. Mr. Hall exclaim e d age'l y rist the hardship of t h e proceeding, but the Court said Voat the puf the eare 3o ' bli c must l\ m itted by one of h l a men. Ho was re a d s to b r i ng foram from such proceedings on the par t o and a fine would in every ca se o f the kind be inflicted.