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and bowing plumes—were all calculated to impress him who beheld them with a belief that ghostly influence was at work ; and had he yielded to his fear and rushed from the place, he would have given another phantom-story to the al ready existing veritable stock. But, though only sixteen years of age, the youthful Baronet was one of those few persons whose presence of mind rarely deserts them. Summoning his faculties, and coolly investigating what he saw, he ascertained that the pale spectre was a reflection in a pier-glass (till then unperceived) of him self in his night-gear, which, as he moved, would of course seem to be moving towards him ; the wailing noise was produced by wind through partially-opened windows, near which the corpse lay ; this wind, increasing in strength during a gusty night, had forced open the fold ing-doors that had been only imperfectly and hastily se cured (perhaps in trepidation) when a bed was prepared for the youth ; and the strong breeze had also given a waving motion to the black plumes placed on his father's coffin. Having fully ascertained these points, the young mourner retired to his inner apartment, deliberately bolted the f o lding-doors, offered up a prayer to his Maker, and was again blessed by sleep." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. In a temperately written article on the " General Policy of the Government," wherein Fraser seems to lee doubtful whether he ought to praise or blame Mi nisters for the conduct they pursued during the last session of Parliament, he insists on the expediency of the Premier's putting a final stop to the conciliation system, as regards Ireland. " Let him only appear to waver," says our monthly Contemporary, "let him take but one step further in the way of conciliation, towards those whom no concessions will mollify, nor any reasoning convince, and there is an end to his Govern ment at once, perhaps to the monarchy." On the con trary,there is an end to Sir R. Peel's Government if he does not attempt to conciliate Ireland, for recent ex perience must have convinced him, as it has con vinced many other Conservatives, that a coercive system of policy will never be productive of any other result than that of increasing the exas peration, already quite bitter enough, in the sister country, and placing additional power in the hands of the repeal agitators. Fraser next proceeds to eu logise the honesty of Government, and instances Lord Lyndhurst and Sir James Graham as patrons of spotless integrity. The selection is an unfortunate one, and, to our thinking, wears an aspect of the most refined irony. " Courses of English Reading" contains some pleasant literary criticism and gos sip. The Reviewer, however, in accordance with the tiste of the day—a taste more remark able for its eccentricity than its soundness—is over-rigid in his strictures on " Johnson's Lives of the Poets," which is a work replete with mascu line sense and judgment, though it may be, perhaps, deficient In that quick and impassioned sensi bility which is so conspicuous a feature in the poetical criticisms of llazlitt, Coleridge , and Wilson. Speaking incidentally of Drvden's trans lation of Virgil, the Reviewer tells us that "it is remarkable for its occasional splendour, but it is not happily accomplished I" This is a just observation ; the version has passages of exceeding excellence, but, as a whole, is anything but Virgilian in its tone. The sixth book of the " 2Eneid " is nobly rendered ; in places, indeed, the translator equals, if he do not surpass, his original ; but we miss the tou chin g pathos of the fourth book, to which Dryden knew not how to give effect, for he had nothing of the pathetic in his na ture. In reference to Pope's " Eloisa to Abelard," the Reviewer maintains that it is an immoral and impious poem. This is sheer cant. The poem is neither one nor the other, but is unexceptional in both respects. Even John son, the most fastidious of moralists, says of it : " The Epistle of Eloise to Abelard' is one of the most happy productions of human wit; the subject is so judiciously chosen that it would be diffi cult to find another which so many circumstances concur to recommend. The heart naturally loves truth. The adventures and misfortunes of this illustrious pair are known from undisputed history. Their fate does not leave the mind in hopeless dejection, for they both found quiet and consolation in retirement and piety. The story thus skilfully adapted has been diligently improved by Pope." The " State Murder" is a striking tale, trans lated—or rather adapted—from the French of George Sand. " Classics of the Table" is an amusing article on the subject of after-dinner wines. In " Roadside Sketches" the writer explains the causes—which are anything but flattering to our national vanity—why he English are so generally unpopular on the Continent. En voici : " How they hate us, these foreigners, in Belgium as much as in France 1 What lies they tell of us, how gladly they would see us humiliated 1 Honest folks at home over their port wine say, ' Ay, ay (and very good reason they have too), national vanity, Sir, wounded—we have beaten them so often.' My dear Sir, there is not a greater error in the world than this. They hate you because you are stupid, hard to please, and intolerably insolent and air-giving. I walked with an Englishman yesterday, who asked the way to a street, of which he pronounced the name very badly to a little Flemish boy; the Flemish boy did not answer, and there was my Eng lishman quite in a rage, shrieking in the child's ear as if he must answer. He seemed to think that it was the duty of the snob,' as he called him, to obey the gentle man. This is why we are hated—for pride. In our free country a tradesman, a lacquey, or a waiter, will submit to almost any given insult from a gentleman—in these benighted lands one man is as good as another ; and pray God it may soon be so with us ! Of all European people, which is the nation that has the most haughtiness, the strongest prejudices, the greatest reserve, the greatest dulness ? I say an Englishman of the genteel classes. An honest groom jokes and hob-nobs, and makes his way with the kitchen-maids, for there is good social nature in the man ; his master dare not unbend. Look at him, how he scowls at you on entering an inn-room ; think how you scowl yourself to meet his scowl. To-day, as we were walking and staring about the place, a worthy old gentleman in a carriage, seeing a pair of strangers, took off his hat and bowed very gravely with his old powdered head out of the window. lam sorry to say that our first impulse was to burst out laughing—it seemed so supremely ridiculous that a stranger should notice and welcome another. " As for the notion that foreigners hate us because we have beaten them so often, my dear Sir, this is the greatest error in the world : well-educated Frenchmen do not believe that we have beaten them. A man was once ready to call me out in Paris because I said that we had beaten the French in Spain ; and here, before me, is a French paper, with a London correspondent discoursing about Louis Buonaparte and his jackass expedition to Boulogne. He was received at Eglintoun, it is true,' says the correspondent, but what do you think was the reason ? Because the English nobility were anxious to revenge upon his person (with some coups de lance) the checks which the grande homme his uncle had inflicted on us in Spain.' " This opinion is so general among the French, that they would laugh at you with scornful i ncredulity if you ventured to assert any other. Foy's history of the Spanish War does not, unluckily, go far enough. I have read a French history which hardly mentions the war in Spain, and calls the battle of Salamanca a French victory. You know how, the other day, and in the teeth of all evidence, the French swore to their victory of Toulouse —and so it is with the rest ; and you may set it down as pretty certain, Ist. That only a few people know the real state of things in France, as to the matter in dispute between us ; 2d. That those who do keep the truth to themselves, and so it is as if it had never been. These Belgians have caught up, and quite naturally, the French tone. We are perfide Albion with them still. Here is the Ghent paper, which declares that it is beyond a d , übt that Louis Napoleon was sent by the English and Lord Palmerston ; and though it states in another part of the journal (from English authority) that the Prince had never seen Lord Palmerston, yet the lie will remain up permost—the people and the editor will believe it to the end of time." TAIT'S AIAGAZ ISE. In his monthly political article Tait, as might be expected, rejoices in the liberation of O'Connell, which he calls the " reversal of a series of injustices," and adds, " never surely was a Government so dis graced ! They have done the thing at last which they were eternally twitting wiser and warier men with cowardice for not doing—measured their strength with the Agitator ; and they have got a most tre mendous fall. They have been exulting for many a month past with rude unmannerly insolence over convicted conspirators ; and it turns out that they are the convicts, false imprisonment the crime. They have taken all sorts of knavish advantages, and they have taken nothing by them but defeat and scorn. This is strong language, but we are not at all pre pared to say that it is stronger than the circum stances of the case warrant. Ministers have played snunfair game as regards the Irish State Prosecu sit r.s,and it is but fit that they should pay the pe nalty of their unscrupulousness. " Our Hearth and Homestead" is the continuation of a domestic tale by Mr. Mills. The descriptive portions are full of fresh 1108S and vivacity; and the character of Mike, a good hearted but somewhat scampish fellow, half labourer, half poacher, whose notions of meunz and Muni are exceedingly vague and indefinite, bears every appear ance of having been drawn direct from the life. The 41 Carpenter and the Capuchin Monk" is a wild legend, translated from the Swedish of Nicander. There is much truth, vividly expressed, in the parallel between " Burns and Byron ;" and we agree with the critic that the former's thoughtless follies have been too often harped upon. Hundreds, we might add thousands, of men infinitely worse than ever poor Burns was, and without a tithe of his redeeming qualities, have passed through life esteemed and loved, and been ho moured after death with an epitaph commemorating their virtues, merely because they possessed more worldly wisdom and hypocrisy than fell to the share of the lofty-minded peasant bard. We subjoin a por tion of the parallel, previously observing that the critic presses rather too severely on Lord Byron : " There is little of the effeminacy of poetry about Burns ; and, much as has been said about it, there is little licentiousness, properly so called. It is true he is often coarse, indelicate, unscrupulous in his phrases ; but he is so, purely for the sake of the humour or the satire —not for the sake of indelicacy. There is no gloating 'over vice as in Juvenal—no painting of it for its own stake. Holy Willie's Prayer' and The Jolly Beg. gars' may be too strong for refined tastes ; but the one is a richly-deserved castigation of a class too numerous , in this country, and the other is life, real life, though it he the dregs of it. But his highest efforts are his purest, and they show the natural bent of his mind, which was virtuous and honourable. The Cottar's Saturday Night' is a picture of piety, benevolence, love, affection, and contentment, which, we believe, could only come from a pious and benevolent mind. No radically vicious man could have so ardently delighted in the description. It came fresh from an honest unsophisticated heart. His thoughtless follies' have been rather too often harped upon. With his festive soul—his adoring companions— it is wonderful they were so few. But he has himself immortalized them by his touching confession. There was at least no hypocrisy in his character. He would have pleaded guilty at once at any bar of morality. He would have given judge and counsel no trouble in search ing for evidence. They and the world were welcome both to the full knowledge of his sins, and his manly repentance of them. His works have toned and improved the feelings of his class. " Byron's weakness was, to be thought strong. This desire shines through the most of his poetry. He wished to appear above prejudices. and opinions, and rules. He was too high to be guided by them. He despised the vulgar elements of human composition, and looked upon himself as half dirt, half deity.' Byron was a weak man, and the weakness of his nature was the strength of his poetry. His works were the diction of his passions. He was their intellectual bondsman. It was his slavery to their mandates—his entire devotion to their gratifica tion—his intimacy with their operations—his intense concentrated experience in their indulgence and contern plation—his long obedience to their slightest impulse — that enabled him to paint and shadow, and compare and contrast them so vividly. He was a poetical gladiator, exhibiting for fame and gold the nakedness of a mind diseased.' His feelings were passions, and his passions crimes. Under their command the voyage of his life was made with a false compass, and a false chart. He read history and used it, not for healthful instruction in the ways of man—not for great, or correct, or useful views of legislation—not for philosophical analysis—not for the sake of tracing to its source any art, or any sci ence, or any profession he read it to illustrate his pas sions—his own passions—pride, revenge, love, fear, ha tred, jealousy. Often he lauds highly and enthusiasti cally, the wise, Ole brave, the virtuous, the patriot, of a past era ; but it is to gratify his scorn of the fool, the coward, the libertine, the traitor, of a later time. He draws an angel of light ; but it is to contrast the angel with a demon. He looks into the grave of a father for a scourge wherewith to lash the son. He raises the dead, to mock the living." NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW. Like most first Numbers, this is got up with con siderable care, and if the work be carried on with the same tact with which it has been commenced, we see no reason why it should not meet with a fair portion of success. At any rate, its cheapness is in its favour, for it costs but a shilling, and for that small price, gives a very liberal amount of matter. The first article is entitled "Advances Since the Peace," and its object is to show the rapid strides in social, poli tical, and commercial improvement that the country has made since the memorable year 1815. Great Britain—says the writer, who, like the celebrated Doctor Pangloss, is something of an optimist— " seems destined to reach a pitch of unrivalled power, splendour, and happiness ; and the more serious maladies that now menace her, we feel convinced, are medicable, and the result of too rapid, rather than too dilatory, an advancement. Time has been hardly left for arrangement, but with freedom to urge all claims, there is little doubt of a final equitable ad justment." " Gipsies" is an intelligent essay on the subject of these migratory vagabonds, whose numbers, it seems, are now fast diminishing in every country of Europe. " Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon" is a review of Mr. Horace Twiss's recent memoirs of this eminent lawyer, who is no favourite with the Reviewer as a politician, but is accused, and not unjustly, of being actuated, throughout his public career, by the most selfish motives. We quote from a notice of the " Diaries and Correspondence of the First Earl of Malmesbury," an account of Catherine the Second of Prussia, and her favourite Minister, Prince Potemkin. " But we must hasten to accompany Lord Malmes bury to Petersburgh, where he became stationed in 1778. Here the Sovereign was a woman, and amongst the most remarkable of her order and sex. She had dethroned her husband in self-defence, and usurped his place. As Grand-Duchess she had shown herself a su perior person, cultivated her mind, and was distinguishd for beauty, accomplishment, and ability, which had been evinced by an equitable code of laws she prepared for the future government of the empire. But her frail hus band, insensible to her deserts, attached himself to a low female, and pretending to be jealous of the Empress, pro jected her perpetual imprisonment, and perhaps violent death. Apprised of his designs, Catherine anticipated their execution. Availing herself of her popularity, and the services of a few devoted friends, Peter 111. was seized, and after a short imprisonment destroyed; one of the Orlows performing the office of executioner, first by clandestinely administering a stupifying dose, and next, aiding its effects by a vigorous manual grasp, the traces of which were visible on the neck of the wretched Prince, when his body was exposed to the gaze of the populace. Whether the Empress was privy to the latter part of the tragedy is doubtful ; it was certainly not displeasing to her, for when the horrible news was communicated, it made no abatement of her gaiety at table, and Alexis Orlow became her first favourite. " The first seven years of Catherine's reign were the most splendid in the Russian annals. She governed judiciously and with dignity. Firmness and regularity were enforced in the public administration, and order and exterior decorum maintained in the palace. But the female Sovereigns of Russia, however capable, had never been able, throughout their career, to resist the seduc tion of licentiousness. Certainly the private virtues of Princes are not equally important with public capabili ties; between a Sovereign orderly, pious, and decorous, but weak, prejudiced, and obstinate, and one able, wil ling, and zealous to advance national happiness, there can be no hesitation about preference. But Catherine was needlessly obtrusive in her abandonment ; more shameless than any of her predecessors. The post of favourite was as public an appointment and as open to competition as that of Minister. Handsome men of little minds were mostly preferred. No confusion of function was allowed, the Empress being too shrewd to allow the minions of her pleasure to intermeddle with the higher duties of government. After her passion was satiated — a short term mostly sufficed—they were dismissed, ge nerally with an injunction to marry or travel, and loaded with magnificent gifts of lands, presents of jewellery, and pensions. " Lord Malmesbury says of the Court—' the leading men hero are too rich for corruption' (a mistake which his Lordship found out), too headstrong to be persuaded, and too ignorant to listen to plain truth.' The two most influential personages at the time of his arrival were Prince Potemkin and Count Panin. The Count was Foreign Minister, a man of no great capacity, indolent, deceitful under a guise of frankness, and in the pay of Prussia. The Prince had been a lover, but was then set aside; he always maintained a great influence over the Empress, and directed her in the choice of his successors. Ile was a man of brilliant but superficial parts, like the Beckinghams of the Stuarts ; sagacious and quick of discernment; full of wit, levity, and cleverness, but im pulsive and without steadiness of purpose. He lived without order, eating, drinking, and sleeping at all hours, and thought nothing of treating our Minister to an airing in the rain in an open carriage at midnight. Discontented and satiated with voluptuousness, Potem kin often said he would withdraw to a cloister, deter mined to lead a life of total abstinence. He was sud denly carried off by fever, which he vainly . tried to baffle by the force of an iron will and constitution; appearing abroad half-dressed, and eating raw turnips to allay the fires that consumed him." NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHT ON BRUSTERORT, BETWEEN PILLAU AND MENIEL. In consequence of an error in the translation of the following notice from the Prussian Government, which appeared in this paper of the 26th inst., it is repeated : (TRANSLATION.) " The Sea Light exhibited on Brusterort has been improved, so as to show two fixed lights, the position and elevation being the same as the former, and visible in clear weather at a distance of about 24 German miles, within 101 degrees of the horizon—namely, from West by North, as far as N.N.E. (W. by N. bis N.N., Ost.)" Both Lights will bo exhibited for the first time on the evening of the let of October, 1844, and kept burn ing from sunset to sunrise throughout the year. Sir Robert Sale, in addition to being appointed to the command of a regiment, has received the lucrative appointment of Quartermaster-General of her Majesty's forces in India, for which place he proceeds overland in December.—Liverpool Albion. Thu GREAT WESTERN.—This fine steamer, which sailed hence on the 17th alt., arrived out at New York on the 31st ult. She left again on her return, on the 14th instant, with between twenty and thirty pas sengers, was telegraphed off Holyhead at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and arrived in the river about mid night, after a passage of fifteen days and a few hours.— Liverpool Albion of Monday. RAILWAY FARES.—The travelling public will be agreeably surprised in the ensuing week to find that the great northern lines, including the London and Birming ham, Grand Junction, and York and North Nlidland, have spontaneously agreed to make for the future a large reduction in their fares. A boon so unexpected, and some would even say so uncalled-for, must be regarded as a great public benefit, the value of which will be en hanced in the estimation of the public by the good grace with which it is bestowed. These very men whom the public have been taught to regard as grasping monopo lists, have shown in this case, as indeed in ever other case throughout the whole history of railways, that the pub ic interest and that of the railways mutually depend on each other, and that the latter can never seek to develop it.elf without consulting and promoting the former. — Railway Chronicle. ATTACK ON A DUBLIN GAMBLING HOUSE.—ln formation having been given to the authorities that gambling was carried on at a house at Pembroke-quay, which had been opened extensively for cigar and read ing-rooms for the military, on Friday night Mr. Super intendent O'Connor and some of the detective force effected an entran ce i n t o t h e prem i ses . They did not, however, find perso ns at t h e t i me engage d in gambling, but among other articl es w hi c h were in th e house they got possession of an ivory tee-totum which was loaded, and by turning the handle of which a party in the secret could throw a high number for himself and have a low one to follow for a player unconscious of the deceit. The accounts of several officers of the garrison with the con cern were also taken possession of, showing that the business carried on was of rather an extensive nature.— Saunders. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-. OCTOBER 1, 1844. .4 btrb Ntatton SUN OFFICE, Snot o'clock. PRICES OF SHARES EN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 1. THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT THE HASWELL COLLIERY. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (mom A CORRESPONDENT.) HASWELL, MONDAY NIGHT. We are now enabled to give positive intelligence respecting the extent of this melancholy occurrence. On Monday afternoon an inquest was held at the Railway Tavern, Haswell. We have received a re port of the examination of some of the witnesses up to the mail leaving, but as it is so full of technicalities, and could not be properly understood without refer ence to a plan of the working of the pit, we have thought it better to give a condensed statement of the facts elicited, with such other information as we have been able to procure calculated to make the occur rence intelligible to our readers. _ _ _ Haswell colliery is one of the most extensive in the county of Durham. It employs upwards of three hundred men and boys, and it is celebrated for the very superior quality of its coal. The pit, though essentially one, is divided into separate workings, called respectively the Big-pit and the Little-pit. The explosion took place in the latter. The number of men and boys usually employed in this part is about one hundred, and when the explosion took place there was ninety-nine down—ninety-five of whom have perished. The other four would also, without doubt, have suffered had not the course of the explosive current been intercepted by some wag gons laden with coals, in what is called a " rolley" way—a railway used for the purpose of conveying the coals to to the bottom of the shaft to be drawn to bank. The four men who escaped were at the end of these waggons nearer to the shaft. They saw the flame approaching, having the appearance of forked lightning, when it fortunately struck the waggons referred to. The horse attached to them was killed, and thrown completely over in the form of a somerset, falling on his back. The first appearance of the fatal occurrence arose from a mass of rubbish and foul air making up the shaft, when the man stationed at the pit's mouth at once suspected the pit had fired, and immediately afterwards gave the alarm. The intelligence spread through the village with the rapidity of lightning, and in a few minutes brought the relatives of those who were down to the pit's mouth, in all the agonies of dreadful anticipation. As sistance was immediately procured, and every exertion made to ascertain the exact extent of the calamity, and to render assistance to any who might have escaped or survived. However, with the exceptions stated, not one survives of all who were down. The works of the Big-pit are separated from the other only by doors ; so that had the explosive current not been checked or dissipated, as stated, the probability is that it would have entered the Big-pit, and those who were in it—upwards of 100—would have been added to the dreadful list. At the inquest upon the bodies, now being held before Mr. Maynard, the coroner for Easington ward, three witnesses were examined, viz., Mr. John Whittle, an overman, and C. Brown and J. Scott, underviewers. Their evidence as to the cause of the calamity being altogether founded upon inferences drawn from what they observed on examining the pit, is therefore only conjectural. Their opinions were essentially the same : that the explosion had commenced at a part of the pit called the " Meadows," at " the ninth head way," about a quarter of a mile from the shaft bot tom. In that part of the pit it appeared three men— John Williamson, a deputy, John Curry, a hewer, and Henry Weetman, another workman, were en gaged in what was called " drawing the judd," that is clearing away the pillars or blocks of coal which are left to support the roof of the mine when the mine is first excavated. After this first working these pillars are subsequently taken away, and the roof supported by props of wood. It was conjectured that in removing one of these pillars of coal the roof had fallen, an accident which sometimes occurs, and damaged the Davy-lamp, held by an at tendant, by which the flame of the lamp escaped, and coming in contact with the hydrogen gas which ge nerally escapes when a fall takes place, ignited it, and produced the explosion. It had then rushed along the air courses, as it always does in a direction against the fresh air that is coming in, and being fed by the latter, increases in intensity, until it finally escapes by the shaft. How far this opinion is correct it is not for us at present to say. The opinion of some of the men on the colliery may, however, be noticed, as contradic tory to this. Their impression is, that during the late strike there had been, from the mine being unworked, an accumulation of fire damp in some part, which had not been properly attended to; and although it is stated that lamps only were permitted to be used in this part, we conversed with a workman who de clared that on the very day of the occurrence be was working within a short distance of the part with a candle, by the permission and knowledge of the viewers. The funeral of the sufferers took place this day, and was indeed an extraordinary and melancholy spectacle. Between fifty and sixty carts were em ployed in conveying the dead bodies to the places of interment. Fifty-four were buried in the burying ground of South lletton Church, the others at Easington and Hallgarth villages, about three miles distant. There were thousands of per sons present. The procession to South Hetton Church seemed to be upwards of one mile in length. Many families have lost three and four each. The dead belonging 'to each family were placed in separate carts, and each followed by the friends and relatives of the parties. We trust that a subscription, prompt and noble as the occasion requires, will be set on foot for the surviving relatives, the widows and fatherless children who are left. COURSE OF EXCHA: Amsterdam ...... CF. 12 6i Ditto, at 5ight......... 12 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 7 Antwerp 25 90 Hambur g h M.B. 1314-} Altona l3 14 raris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourde,aux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine .NGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice ....... Naples ........ Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia • PRICES OF BULLION, PER OR. Foreign Gold, bars f. 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in ears 0 4 111 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. fi. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36/ Cadiz Itilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville -- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. -- condition of Ireland becomes daily more portentous. A spirit of mutation sheds its influence upon leading men of opposite parties. A restlessness and dissatisfaction with the existing state of the political institutions of the country per vades the whole population. Important organic changes are demanded, as essential to effect the im provement of the social and moral condition of the po pulation. This demand does not now proceed from the "agitators," the "demagogues," who " enrich themselves at the cost of the miserable dupes whom they cajole." The Act of Union is now denounced, and is sought to be repudiated, by men of weight and influence in the Conservative party, merly employed t o maintain the order of things, as it was settled by the Act of Union ; by whom repeal was contemplated as fraught with calamities to Ireland, and repealers were deemed malignant rebels, whose machinations were but little less than treason ; whose purpose it was the duty of Government to overturn by the power of the law, enforced, if necessary, by mi litary execution. The reversal of the judgment against O'Connell and the other repeal leaders, added to the absence of any remedial measures for the grievances of the people, by which the popular feeling might be con ciliated, has produced a deeply-seated conviction—even among a large number of Protestant Conservatives— that the existing relations of the two countries, or the mode in which Ireland is at present governed, must be materially changed. The Dublin Mail (which is, beyond comparison, the best written and most widely- circulated Conservative journal in Ireland), in alluding to Dr. Maunsell's speech on his motion brought before the Town Council of Dublin on Wednesday last, "for an address to the Queen, praying her to hold her Court and Parliament in Ireland once in every three years," says, that the Learned Doctor's speech on the occasion " has excited more attention among the citizens of all classes and denominations, than any project of a sane character that has been propounded in this land of pro jects for some years. It appears also to be universally popular, notwithstanding the truly Irish paradox of its not having had a seconder." The cause of Dr. Maun sell's motion not being seconded, and its consequent failure, is thus ex pl a ined by the same Conservative organ :—" The handful of Conservative councillors who so magnanimously deserted Dr. Alappoll, were Names •f Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham.. 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Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Lean Fund Neptune Marine.., Palladium Llfe Protector Life...— Providentlate,.„ Rock Li !Isn't Sun Fire Ditto University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasia.... ..... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial et London Colonial London & Wostminstr Ditto New..„. ... London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Engind Ditto New Gloucestershire .... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslicht da. coke Bath British ..... Ditto Provlacial Birmingham Birming. & Staffordsh Bristol .•. ..... ...... .•••••• Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New.... ........ Continental Consolid Ditto New Equitable. Imperial .......... Isle of Thanet Independent . ....... Phoenix Rateliff South Metropolitan..... United General ..... Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New....• •...••• Water Works. Birmingham ••• East London Grand Junction av Kent ..••• Nw Riv Lon. 13ridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall late S. Loa. Wost Middlesex av Yrk BultigCo.Les.Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Ceti Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction.......„ Great North of Engine( Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ....... . Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... . Lancaster and Carlisle; Leeds and Selby ..... Liverpool Sr Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares Loudon and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes.— London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Cropion Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchatr and Birming Midland Counties North British Norwich & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. die Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Angle Mex., iss. 54 p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 5/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 54 p.m General Mining Hibernian .. ... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex.,issal. pm Ditto scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn,with Sin:Ticket London University Russell King's College ..... Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds glen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Preperty Met. Wood Pay., iss. 1/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Dieuien's Land Amount of Paid. Share. £ s. d. 07 10 e 115 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 se a. & 1 —_ No b o 41 13 4 1 - 'lOO • 0 [OO •0 to a man in favour of the proposition; but it came so MARKET INTELLIGENCE. suddenly upon them that they had not time to learn What would be thought at the Castle of (From the London New Price Current of Oct. 1.) their voting for it ; therefore they valorously SUGAR.-For Westlndia Sugar a reduction on previous ' ' rates of is having been accepted for low and middling, stayed away from the meeting, or, as was the t and 6d per ceor i th b e better qualities, caused the trade case with two or three individuals, they wentdb ahas freedom, ror a there to render themselves ridiculous by making ing come purposes forward a good wt ialeadi for To-day rß a n it publicly known that they were in favour of the there was a good business transacted P in the West ! movement, but had not yet received the signal to India Sugar market, and the rates previously established I join in it." For Conservatives to devise such a supported. The purchases amount to 580 hdds, including mode of suppressing the repeal agitation, and divest- 148 hhds 2 tres of Barbadoes Sugar at public sale, which, ing O'Connell of the influence which he holds and however, went off with much heaviness at prices 6d per exercises in Ireland--and this is one of the argu- cwt under those of Friday's sale ; excepting for fine, ments adduced to recommend the scheme of an am- which fetched the former currency-low yellow sold at bulatory Court and Parliament-is indicative of the 55s to 55s 6d, middling 56s to 58s, good middling to good 58s 6d to 595, and fine els to 65s per cwt. change that has come over the spirit of the party REFINED -The purchases made in Refined Goods since the defeat of the prosecution they counselled ' s • . have been large by the home trade, and prices remain the Government to institute against both. They firm. To-day the low and middling descriptions of evidently despair of entangling O'Connell in the Refined Goods were in excellent request by the home meshes of law, and abandon all hope that the trade; standard lumps at 74s 6(1 to 755, and brown lumps Government will risk the defeat of another prosecu- 73s to 73s 6d, per cwt, but of such not many parcels are tion. They have, therefore, set on foot a counter- to be had ; in the finer sorts there is not much doing agitation. A proposed change, as chimerical as that 1 but prices are firm. Bonded crushed Sugar is much of O'Connell's repeal of the union, is launched on the I wanted, and prices closed firmly at 27s 6d to 27s Oil restless waters of popular discontent; and numbers Per ewt s commit themselves to this crazy project, believing that MAURITIUB.-There has been a good business tran it will deprive repeal of its influence, and afford to s b ac ee t n ed co i ni n th e i l i e d d es t c o ri s p u t b to m n it ot t ' o Sugar,but importers have a reduction cwt te on deprss the distracted and suffering population a refuge from rates of 6d to Is per previous on the accumulating grievances which afflict the country. being still principally upon inferior and brown sorts. Another section of the Conservative party in Ireland This afternoon 754 bags were submitted to public com is busily engaged in discussing and recommending a petition, and went Gd per cwt under former rates ; very Federal Parliament project. This they also believe low brown sold at 40s, mid 43s 6d to 46s 6d,good to flue will wean the national mind from repeal, and provide 47s 6d to 50s, good middling yellow 565, middling 53s a remedy for the numerous causes which have pro- Gd to 55s 6d, for low 52s 6d per cwt. duced the present disorganised condition of society in EAST INDIA.-This afternoon several public sales of that country. This project the Belfast Bengal Sugar took place. The t o tal quantity offered News Letter (a Tory journal) regards as little less mischievous than sa.ms,oeudnotefdptoate7,9a4n7dbal,g)s, damp chief b portion of o tb f e w se hi a ch s c m o a n li repeal ; but states that its projectors are daily receiving 1 t part only sold at ra w ther am l powerrownaccessions to their ranks from among the Protestants of rates-damp brown went at 48s to 50s, low and middling 43s 6d to 475, the northern province, and that a formidable agitation mid sound yellow Date 54s to 555, good ditto 56s to for its adoption is rapidly organising :-" We deem it 58s, damp and washed 52s to 545, mid sound grey 56s necessary to be plain with our readers, and to in- to 57s 6(1, other sorts were held for the former currency, form them, without disguise, that the crisis of Ireland's but a small proportion only sold ; fine white at 65s to fate is approaching, and that whole masses of nominal 665, good 62s 6d to 63s 6d, low and mid 59s to 60s, damp Protestants are preparing, not to join the O'Connellite and washed 57s to 65s 6d, mid strong yellow 61s Gd, movement in the first instance, but to adopt a sys- good 63s to 63s 6d, fine 655, and damp and washed 58s tem of organisation which, without any effiart on his to 63s 6(1. Of Madras 133 bags were sold at 41s 6d for part, will enable O'Connell to carry his most atnbi- low' F heavy brown.. FOREIGN.-Prices are fully supported for Brazil Sugar, these schemes to an easy and triumphant issue. In and all descriptions have been in good demand. 'To- , these remarks, we refer in an especial degree to the day all descriptions of Foreign Sugar were sought after, plan of federalism, which is now beginning to be but the stiff rates asked operated against business. A openly supported by men who have hitherto stood floating cargo of 2,600 boxes fine yellow llavatinah was high in the ranks of Conservatism ; and let no mistake sold at 22s per cwt deliverable at Antwerp. exist-federalism is repeal in all its essential ele- Moeesses.-There has been little business transacted ments the only difference between the parties being in West India, but holders are not inclined to submit to as to thel quality and powers of the legislative assembly any further decline in prices, which vary from 20s to 24s which is to be established on the ruins of the union Per cwt. The stock is nearly three times greater than it was last year at this period. settlement. By both the Act of Union is denounced, COFFEE. -This afternoon the market was better sup toand doomed to utter abrogation." It is not Pied with East India Coffee. At public sale 892 bags be regarded with surprise that the Irish Con- teeylon, 38 casks of Mocha, 18 bags of Madras, and servatives, as a party, should be dispirited and be- 1,198 bags various sorts of East India were offered. wildered. They plainly see that the policy of Sir Ceylon went at a decline on former rates of is Robert Peel's administration in Ireland is doomed to 2s per cwt, very good ordinary bold pale Plantation to failure. With respect to the nation, it has effected kind selling at 575, fine bold pale coloury 60s to 645, nothing. Its only positive attempt to do something fine fine ordinary coloury 69s 6(1, fine fine ordinary pale was a specimen of ' craven courage," the proceedings greenish 65s 6d, middling coloury 83s, country damaged under which were marked by a reckless disregard of 555, sea damaged 52s to 60s. Pea Berry sound 76s to those high principles which ought to characterise the 79s Gd, low 90s, and Triage 14s to 48s. Mocha sold at acts of a Government. The process of law degenerated low rates, good ordinary yellow Mysore at 48s to 495, into a struggle for party triumph. A court of criminal good ord greenish yellow i sOs to 51s 6d. Madras fetched . jurisprudence was degraded by being made the arena B s o i s for fine green. hi ( e ) h t s t o i l e d a E t aLt i lndia rices half o, c )d on o s r is d t i e n d a of of a paltry contest between political gladiators ; and y e n l l g o a rs h fetched 418 to 41s 6d, or i ciinars: g mixed 31s to the very judges sullied the purity of their robes by 325, very ordinary 255, country damaged 34s 6d, sea descending from the bench into the arena of strife. damaged 27s Gd to 28s, the remainder was taken in at No wonder that the proceeding was deprived of moral 24s for ordinary sound mixed Sumatra. A few lots of influence ! The public looked on the protracted pro- damaged were sold at 20s to 22s 6d fur first and second ceedings without a single sentiment of respect. class. The verdict was denuded of all claim to moral convic- TEA-To-day several purchases were made in Tea at tion of its truth ; and without the concurrence of pub- full but not higher rates ; Congou common and good lic opinion in the finding of a jury, the result is a common 10d to lld but middling coarse to but middling mockery of justice. The abrogation of the monster rather blackish leaf lld to is lid, superior is 2d to proceedings was hailed by the mass of the people as 2 1 a s 1741 a e n r d li :rwa T it e ssy common yellow n c l i e t af wb ll cb liel dut to triumph of right over oppression ;while the minority, Patthis quantity of tea 87 P Olb during the y was paid who had counselled the prosecution, or hoped that a past past week. sustained conviction would silence O'Connell, and Seices.-This afternoon at public sale 675 bags of thus afford a triumph t o th e i r p ar ty over a trouble- Sumatra Pepper were all sold, but at easier rates, and some political opponent, now reproached Ministers, went at 24d to Sid for common light dusty and stalky, as the authors, with a failure for which they were not and two lots tad. 300 bags of Malabar fetched full chargeable ; and, as is not unusual with a defeated rates-good light clean selling at 31d to 3id and grey party, having been foiled in the field, employ their 3-ad. 808 pockets 496 cases East India Ginger were partly sold, Malabar bold at 70s to 72s and small 45s to s weapons against each other. 50s, Bengal was taken in at 2 ' 0 , 60 brls Jamaica were STANDARD.-The oracular Times has at length all disposedof 1. at 313t0 71 lOs for lo w t o goo d mid broken silence on the subject of the mayoralty, and, dting as might have been anticipated, insists that it . could Rum, BRANDY. AND HOLLANDS.-F or J ama i ca R um have prevented the election of Alderman Gibbs to the demand has been extensive for all descriptions to the civic chair, had it been so disposed ! But mercy supply home and export orders, the rates paid show an is an attribute of valour, and our Contemporary has, advance on those previously quoted of ld per gallon, and according to its own account, exercised extraordinary the large quantity of 550 puns found purchasers, 27 to forbearance in the matter. It dwells with much self- 29 per cent over proof, fair quality at 3s 10d to 3s Ild, gratulation on the success of its resistance to Mr. 30 to 35 per cent over, good 4s to 45 4d, 35 to 38 over, Ald. Wood and Mr. Ald. Harmer, although con- fine 4s 6d to ss, and superior 5s 3d to Gs per gallon. strained to admit that the cases of those gentlemen Leewards at 2s 4kd to 2s 5d proof strength. Demerara were by no means analogous to that of Mr. Gibbs. at 3s 5(1 to 3s 6d, for strong quality 32 per cent over On the contrary, whilst its charges against the for- f Proof. bcs C k alcutta 2s 3d per gallon proof w l i e th certificate. mer gentlemen were clear and well defined, it has (it compared witu fRh t h u a m t o sf hlast s e a ar convi w er h low an tc m re i a d s d e lin as says) " assumed nothing" against Alderman Gibbs- d escr i pt i ons o f Bran d y are wanted, and the supply being organised no opposition to him ! The readers small, prices rule firm at 2s lid to 3s 3d for the former, of its columns during the last fortnight will and at 3s 4d to 3s 104 per gallon for the latter. Cognac know what degree of credit to attach to these best brands of the vintage of 1838, selling, hhds assertions; end will be enabled, from the 58 ld, puns 4s lld ; 1839, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; evidence of their own senses, to say if a 1840, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1841, hhds 4s 9d, puns more virulent system of persecution was ever 4 s 7d ; 1842, hhds 4s 6(1, puns 4s 4d per gallon. Geneva organised against any public man than that sales Ln 2 t s h 6 e d q t u o ay s s m 6 a d d e at is 9id to Is 10d, fine fit f or which has been hounded on by the Times against lish y Corn Spirits. ToP-dayatheon. N l o s aleration in Eng the Lord Mayor elect. Freem the heavier metal of at firm rates, a parcel of 60 pPuanrseeja of . Rum sold were its leading columns, an " long range" of Mr. over proof, fetched 4s 6cl, proof Leewa Jamaica, 34 per cent Leewards are 2s 5(1 per Rock, to the tiraillage of scores of petty assailants gallon. in the guise of correspondents, whose small arms CocoA.-Importers of West India still refrain from have been directed through its medium at the offering any at auction, by private contract some parcels Alderman every attempt has been made that it was have been disposed of at stiff rates ; the stock is still on possible to make to keep him from the civic the decrease, and in first hands there is little remaining. chair. Need we remind our readers of the cleverly- For Foreign prices continue firm. concocted and most elaborate forgery by which on new w a sold,neia Raisins being the first this season, the citizens; and the refusal of the Editor of the Times quality was s fine bu d t at the low rate of 44s per cwt ; the to contradict, either as an advertisement, or in the body much lower thanawn as c e o x ndition d. good, the price has opened of the paper, his statement that the Alderman had been RICE.-The demand P l e r c as te been brisk for Bengal Rice, already rejected by the Livery ;or of the numerous ex- and the rates paid are rather above those of this day cerpts from the attacks of other journals. All these ex- week ; good middling white at lis 6d to 12s, for mid ertions,althoughbackedby the G/obe,andcountenanced ding bold yellowish white rather dusty Ils to his Gd, by Punch, have miserably failed. The power of the middling new rather dusty and broken lls to lis Gd, assailant has been weighed in the balance, and found sea damaged Gs to I Is, and Indigo damaged lOs to les Gd. wonting; its jokes have fallen cold and corpse-like on Privately sev era l parce l s h ave b een di spose d o f ; goo d the ears of the Liv er y ; and its thunder has created no bold clean whi te f etc h e d 12s : to 12s G d per cwt. J ava low white rath er b ro k en and dusty at 9s Gd to 10s, mid mo re alarm in their minds than the imitative peal 's Wells. white broken 9s 6d t o lO s Gd, goo d mid ditto lOs Gd to shaken out of a sheet of co pp er at Sadl er Old Prosy (vide Moore) hardly found greater diffi- lls, sea damaged 7s Gd to 10s, and very low ditto 2s Gd c ulty in obtaining a hearing for his exposition of the I p tt er Bs cw G e d : i to n Os th fo e priv n ate mar d ket several purchases made rye ow, -n 9s 6d to 11s per cwt for merits of his "annual pill," or more pathetically white. Madras yellow at 83 Gd to 8s 9d. Holders of East deplored the impracticability of his audience- India Rice show firmness. The market is firm for cleaned " Pless ma heart, pless inn heart, let m e say va t I will, Rice. Patna at 13s to 17s, and Carolina 21s to 26s Not a Chrishtian or shentleman minds vat I say." per cwt. But the Livery of London were well aware of SAGO.-Of Sago Flour the supply is still scanty. the character of their monitor, and the motives Prices are supported for Arrowroot ; 99 pkgs St. Vin which prompted its denunciations, and attached c l e .. nt's at au s f citta fetched scl to 7d per lb. At public sale no more importance to them than they de- c Cuba Honey went ron a t t i 48 m s e rr y, c i. i t t increased SALTPETRE.-TO-day, . served. Its influence, exerted to the utmost, has attention, and 1180 bas .-, of rough at auction were all been tested, and found, so far as the City of London sold at very full rates ; good dry grey fair chrystals 3i is concerned, insufficient to enable it to crush one poor per cent. refraction went at 26s to 26s 6d, mid dull grey alderman! This is a mortifying discovery; and we 7i per cent 25s to 25s 6d, low dingy grey sk per cent accordingly give our Contemporary credit for the sin- 25s Gd to 265, 7} per cent do 25s to 25s 6cl, and unre cerity of its desire that the "affair may now be con- fracted 24s to 24s 6d per cwt. signed to oblivion." COCHINEAL-Honduras very low and damp foxey at 4s 5d to 4a 6d, middling ditto 4s 7d, good 4s Bcl to 4s 9d, - fine large bold dry 4s 10d to 5s ; 97 bags Black, ord to mid 5s to 5s 4d, and good to fine bold 5s 5d to 5s 11(1. Garbling, fetched is 5d to Os 4d, and overtakers 3s 7(1 per lb. INDIGO.-In consequence of the quarterly sale of East India commencing on Tuesday next, and the quantity offered to be large, amounting to 12,915 chests, little business has been transacted by shippers or the home trade. Holders, however, remain firm, and nothing is to be purchased excepting at the rates of the last quar terly sale. OILS.-Olive Oil is not much wanted at present, but prices do not give way, Gallipoli selling at 441 to 451, Spanish 41/ to 431, and Barbary 391 to 40/ per tun. In Linseed Oil a considerable business has been tran sacted at 24s 3d to 24s 6d per cwt ; prices are 6s to 7s per cwt lower than they were at this period last year, and there is a very large consumption going on. Rape, pale at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s Gd per cwt. Palm has been little inquired for. Cocoa Nut at 27s Gd to 30s per cwt ; Fish Oils, Cod at 33/ 15s to 344 pale Seal 341 15s to 35/, and Southern 281 to 321 per tun Sperm Oil, fine British has been selling at 901 to 92l per tun. This afternoon at public sale 53 hhds 4 butts Cocoa Nut Oil were sold at 27s 3d to 29s 6cl for Ceylon, and 27s 6d to 28s per cwt for Cochin China. Pale Seal Oil was held for the advanced rates 351 lOs to 361 per tun. TALLOW.-The transactions in Russian Tallow on the spot have been upon a limited scale only, and holders experience difficulty in supporting previous rates ; for old P. Y. Candle the demand has been only for small parcels at 41s to 41s 3d, and at 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt for new. For delivery there are sellers upon easier terms, but few purchasers are to be met with-. 51s 6d per cwt accepted for the next two months of the year. Town Tallow, however, still sells freely at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett cash. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30. .. , The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. A. Turner to the charge and office of Second Minister of the church and parish of Dunfermline, in the presby tery of Dunfermline and shire of Fife, vacant by the re signation of the Rev. J. 'l'. Brown, late Second Minister thereof. PORTSOKEN WARD.—OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF ma POLL.—Yesterday afternoon, at five o'clock, a wardmote of the ward of Portsoken, adjourned from Friday last, was re sume d at t h e late workhouse, in the board room, Cock and Hoop-yard, Houndsditcb, to re ceive the official declaration of the poll, upon the elec tion of an Alderman, in the room of Alderman T. John son, on which occasion there was a numerous attendance of the electors, principally of the Jewish race. Mr. D. Salomons arrived a few minutes before the Lord Mayor, accompanied by his friends. Mr. Sheriff Moon was not present. The Lord Mayor, preceded by the mace bearer and the sword of state, having taken the chair, announced the result of the poll to have been for Mr. D. Salomons, 168, for Mr. Sheriff Moon, 136, and declared Mr. David Salomons to have been duly elected Alderman of the ward.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. D. Salomon& then addressed the electors, and moved a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor. Mr. Hill seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously, with loud cheers. His Lordship thanked the electors, and the wardmote was dissolved. A remarkably fine woodcock was shot near Rain bow, by Mr. Ribbert, surgeon, of Bollington, on Wed nesday last, an unusually early period of tho season.— Macciesfie/d Courier. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. EDWARD DICKEN, grocer, Tycock, Denbighshire, Oct. 22, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. BANKRUPTS. CHARLES KERRY NICHOLLS, banker, Bridge road, Battersea, to surrender Oct. 10 and Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Townaheud, llowland-street, Fitzroy-square. HENRY HAYNES, innkeeper, Scole, Norfolk, Oct. 9, at one, and Nov. 12, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; White and Borrett, Lincoln's Inn fields ; Muskett, Diss, Norfolk. RICHARD ROBINSON, coal merchant, Strand, Oct. 16, and Nov. 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Yonge and Hancock4Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. EDWARD ASHWELL, butcher, North W alsham, Norfolk, Oct. 15, at eleven, and Nov. 12, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Fre d,rick's-place, Old Jewry; Clarke, Medcalf, and Gray, Lincoln's Inn- fields ; Beckwith, Dye, and Kitton, Nor wich. MARTIN MASLIN, coal-merchant, Croydon, Sur rey, Oct 19, at eleven, and Nov. 12, at half-yast twelve, at the Court of' Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Ashurst, Cheapside. JONATHAN THOMAS MA - CND, Leeman, Bir mingham, Oct. 15, at tw elve, and Nov. 12, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as signee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside. FRANCIS DEFLINNE, check manufacturer, Man chester, Oct. 14, and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London Crossley and Sudlow, Manchester. _ RICiIARD JOHN WEBB, wine and spirit mer chant, Bath, Oct. 14, at twelve, and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Dimmock and Co., Sise-lane, London. ROSS WATSON and ROBERT MORRIS, brokers, Liverpool, Oct. 15, at twelve, and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Inner-temple, London. THE WOODEN PAVEMENT.—On Saturday last it was agreed to unanimously, at a vestry held in the parish of St. Marylebone, that part of the wooden pave ment in the said parish should be removed, and that a granite pavement should be substituted. Dividend per Annum. 41 per cad. 41. 44 Ms. Pl. 4 per cent. 4/. 401. .155. 71. IL 5. ti. 31 128. Id. 1. lee. 141. 101. 171. SOL 3134 178. 6cl. 10& 6 percent. 28 ii:. 11. 16s. nil. 381.705. 101. 108. az 1. 48. cent. 4 per gent. 41 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. lie. 3 per cent. E per cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. ii per cent. I/. ev. Bd. Ifs. Id. per cent. 14 Is. lit. Is.. 1 percent. 6 per cent. C per cent. 3s. 6d. pr A SI. SL Pershare 5 per cert. 31. en. per cent. k 345. los. 43 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. s per cent. 4s. Is. 641 per cant. :19s. 12 ih. i bi. 14 5a is.. 10e. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. S per cent. 4r. 5 per cent. IN per cent. IL 4n. 5 per cent. 103 i per cent P per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per coat. 6per cent. per cent. per cent. 3 per cent. 8 per cent. Cls per share is. per share 10 per cent. per cent. lee. 11. ss. 11.7.. M. and bs. 441. and bs. per cent. neat. 1111. 111. &pm sh tss per ills 24 6 per cent. 5 per seat.' 8 per cent. par cent, B pm colt. It 4 per cent. 34 12e. 21. les. 11. les. It. 10s. 5 per cent. 4/. 16.. 11. 14s. M. per sk 11. 4s. per cent. Si. per •h. V. 5a per sh If per cent IY4 per cent. 31. ss. per sh 1%1. per ch. P 2.. par A. per cast. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1341. per sli IC/. per sh. 11.14 a. U.per share 3s td per sh 31.175. pr sl 113 s per sk 1L IL ss. 15s. a a; led. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. 11. 9/. Is. 6d. 10 per cent kV. per sh. it. 104 per sb. 11. 4s. 11. 15s. &per cent t per cent. Ape. andl 1ia.641, bs. .5 Eper cent. 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Testssday afternoon, the presentation of the Ile! Shari'l's (Messrs. Aldermen Hunter and Sydney) too place in the Court of Exchequer, before the Cursitor Baron (Banks), at Westminster. Th e c i v i c proces sion arrived shortly after t wo o ' c l oc k, by wa t er , accom p a nied by the state barge, with the Lord Mayor and the civ! ° authorities, at Westminster-bridge, when his LordshiP and the Corporation immediately proceeded to the Court of Exchequer, wher e th e y were rece i ve d b y t h e C urs it?r Baron and a large body of spectators. His Lordsl- 1 1 and Sheriffs elect were ushered into Court by the severw officers to the Chief Baron. The RECORDER addressed the Court to the following effect :—Mr. Cursitor Baron, I have the honour to pre' sent to this Court William Hunter and Thomas Sydney' Esqs. chosen by the citizens of L on d on t o fill th e office of Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex. Mr* Hunter has been for upwards of twenty years a me mber, of the Corporalion of London, a n d a representa tive of the Ward of Coleman-street, in the Court of Comm° Council; placed during that period in nearly all the standing Committees of the Court, he has been. s uccer sively called upon to fill the chair of each Committee: On the retirement of Sir William Heygate, occasione d , by the election of that gentleman i n t o th e o ffice ( 31 Chamberlain of the City, Mr. Hunter was unanimously chosen Alderman of the ward lie had so long and ably represented in the Court of Common Council, and be has now the happiness to find that the opinie! l formed of him by the inhabitant householders of 11 ward, founded on an experience of hi s c h arac t e r and conduct for so many years, is entirely i n accor d ance wit'l the sentiments of the citizens a t lar ge . Th e Li ve ry °`; London having conferred upon Mr. Bunter the shrie alty on Midsummer day last, he will, at the expired° of his year of service, have perfected the legal qualifier • Lion of candidates to fill the office of Chief :Magistrate, of our ancient city. Th e Li ver y h ave appointed wi t ' Mr. Hunter a gentleman and a merchant of London el‘ . tensively known, esteemed universally, and in every re' spect worthy of the same important trust and distior tion. And I may be permitted to anticipate the acce tomed forms and solemnities of admission into offic e ' when I announce to you, Sir, the fact of Mr. Sydney! recent election as alderman of the war d o f Billi ng sgin' so recent, indeed, that the interval required by law be' tween election and admission h a d no t ex pi re d w h en tb. Court of Mayor and Aldermen were assembled on Sanl r day last. The transaction in whi c h we are now eng ar a is not an idle and unimportant ce r emon y— a va i n a t ° empty pageant. The citizens of Londo n (th e metroril of the commercial world) in the exercise of their anthil l and chartered right—of their undoubted right to pis c !, whom they will, as " Sheriffs of London, and Sheriff", the metropolitan county o f Middl esex ," h ere , i n her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, present these gentletuil thus discreetly chosen, in token o f th e i r l o y a l t y to 11l Sovereign, and in the exercis e of a grea t p u bli c tra s, ; will which the administration of the law, and the libell; of the subject, are intimately connected ; exhibiting; after the lapse of centuries, the unabated energy, wo usefulness, and the security of free popular municill io institutions, which, taking root in th e foundations of monarchy and the Constitution, have grown with til e d growth and flourished with the increasing prosperity the empire. The Recorder, in a few words, complimen te d Mr. Musgrove and Mr. Moon, the gentlemen who ,b e d just filled the offi ces o f Sh er iff s o f L on d on an d Sherin,, Middlesex, so much to the satisfa c ti on o f th e i r fefiew citizens, and to their own honour. The CURSITOR BARON then addressed the Racist er to the following effect:—His Lordship said that to ° d o ( Court of Exchequer e x c l us i ve ly b e l onge d t h e duty 0 recognising and superintending the rights and of the citizens of Lo n do n t o c h oose t h e i r own mngo,' tracy and sheriffs, w hi c h r i g ht s , a f ter many cen tell a were granted to them by the Crown, and after has been severed from the royal p reroga ti ves h a d b een gif t ,, to the citizens of London, which they had retained uP the present moment, and which these gentlemen, on part of the citizens, attended to claim. The Learl o Baron said he fully agreed w ith th e Learned Recorur that this was no idle pageant in whi c h th e y w ere gaged, but that it WAS a s o l emn recognition on the 0 6 of the Sovereign to the au th or iti es o f the first city in empire, of their full rights and privileges, and on he'd of her Majesty th a t C our t f u ll y recognised the right 3 ,lo privileges which were claimed at their hands. 1 0 Cursitor Baron then p a id th e Sh er iff s e l ect an d the;',/ Sheriff a high compliment for the manner in which had been chosen by their fellow-citizens. He then Pr o t it must be a gratification to the gentl emen w h o had retired from office that they had received the unanin l ",o thanks of their fellow-citizen s , an d h e t ruste d t h a t ffro the term of the year of office expired with the She i/ o s elect that they would meet with the lik e hi g h an d chei ing reward, which would be the highest reward T r e t could be paid any individual ; and on behalf off b a Majesty ho begged again fully to recognise the and liberties of the citizens of London, and the P'ift desired the officer to record the names o f th e She r elect. ne e The usual ceremonies of th e C our t were thin iitfr formed by Alderman Thomas Wood, as the senior 01 1 derman (not having passed the chair), doing suit o s/ service by counting the hobnails and horse-shoed' re chopping sticks, after which the civic procession turned by water. Last night the Sheriffs of London and Nlicle i c° gave a grand banquet in honour of their inaue:o, into their high o ff ice at th e L on d on T avern. Alde rto William Hunter, the senior Sheriff, presided, serge by his colleague, Thomas Sydney, Esq., the Lord tb a of London, the Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Gibbs c ,./0 00 , Chairman and Deputy-Ch a i rman o f the East Int:he-40r pany, Lord J. Russell and W. Masterrean, Esq., Pure bere of Parliam en t f or t h e Ci ty of London, a veil fa re number of the Aldermen, including Alderman Sell tV the Recorder, & c . Th e di nner an d w i nes were ( I to V first order, and neither p a i ns or expense appeared eir spared by the providers of the feast in furnishing : n o es' tertainment worthy of their character and of the fo ot , sion. One feature of the scene w as no t l ess imPe , bef though perhaps not quite so obvi ous , as th e goal 'or displayed on the well covered tables—namely, the bee , tilation of the room. It appears that it has the thoroughly ventilated by ar tifi c i a l means , s° of. comfort and pleasure f e lt by th e w h o l e p a rth d ' o o l every reason to believe th a t th e rea li ty di able fall short of the appearance. About two hu the and seventy gentlemen sat down to dinner, 5°,", 9 gallery was filled with ladies. A m ili tary band ',AO/ attendance, and a company of g l ee s i ngers ad d e d g r o g' to the entertainment of the eveni ng . Th e routine two'', on such occasions—namely, the Q ueen , t h e Queen stogy ager, Prince Albert, the Prince of W a l es , an d the rei.o4, the Royal Family, and the Ar m y an d N avy, were 'tor° with the usual enthusiasm. The health of the/ o tt Mayor and the Lord Mayo r e l ec t were d ran k , the °soil° with considerable approbation, the latter with f the manifestation of dislike on the part of a portion ° co (of company. In replying to th e t oasts o f t h e Moab. the City of London," a the Lord J. RUSSELL, after thanking the Sheriffs sc l ipe' meeting, observed that the example of the City m e dal don was looked up to by the whole country for ,f r and commerce, and by following that example D li g e or u 4 surpassed every other nation in the world.- - t Ato st The country at this moment enjoyed the inelo,',„ th e blessings of peace ; if it were a peace obtained uf,lesir dishonour of the Eglish name, it would not be s 0!, ing but a curse ; but he w as h appy to say thatit one in which the honour and best interests of th° tbo,' had been consulted. I n conc l us i on, ho trusts?! CD; when the time should come for the Members for to e t heir to relinquish their charge, they would be found b 1 pee constituents not unworthy o f t h e honour that kg" conferred on them.—(llear.) a °. The remaining toasts were then disposed oft party broke up about eleven o'clock. ,ple d A MAN K ILLED DT ♦ Bur.L.—.A. man, fiAope' , ' Daniel Jon es , a tenant of Mr. William Thomas' " ,1"- Carmarthen, was tosse d b y a two-year-old b e' farm in Ll an ll aw d dog parish, on Wednesdal. A ug' animal thr ew hi m hi gh i nto the air, and as he fell ' t ,j 3 o'' him on his ho rns an d aga i n t h rew him. His de ll o , el most immediately ensue d. Th e ver d ict returned hoe . 1 coroner's jury, who me t a t t h e h ouse o f t h e de c. ' br Clwtancochon, was to the effect that Daniel Jon/tote. met with hi s d eat h, b ut h ow did not appear in el Welshman. BIRTHS. ail be On the 26th ult., at Amble, in th e coun t y o f North eh land, Mrs. Tho m a s B r own e , o f a d aug h ter. _ fr Ifti t On the 26th ult., M rs . P egg , o f t h e R oya l Tor' _„ 1 , Brighton, of a so n , s till-b orn . L. On the 26th ult., at B r id ge H ouse, H ampatea d-roA A , 0 * John Shnons,jun., of a son. 04 11 c 6 On the 26th ult., at Upp er Seymour-street, Porten-'pr,",, the lady of John Newman Tweedy, Esq., o f Port-sw of a daughter. s ille° On the 28th ult., a t C roy d on, Surrey, Mrs. Willis, 13 of a son. MARRIED. 11°lli On the 17tk ult., at Holly Lodge, Louhborough , i li cb e d eo J. 13ow1es, D.D., Rector of Woodstock and domesti c to kyo, to his late R o y a l Hi g h ness the Duke of Sussex , Mary, the youngest daughter of the late Sir Williams lBr , High Sheriff of Leicestershi re . ) 11) of On the 24th ult., a t Rendham, the Rev. Stanl e y Vicar of Tannin g t on , t o Anna Maria, youngest e r, the late James Rowland Morgan, surgeon. be ° of On the 26th ult., at the Collegiate Church, 1f ..- 111/ / e bter Alfred Woods, Esq., of Liverpool, to Jane, Wiest o ' l ' Joseph Higgin, Esq., o f M anc h ester, „ of P' o l On the 28th u lt., at Croydon, Samuel Thomas, scn l ter Charles Jones, of Stratford. to 'Emma Josephine, — l3 Mr. Joseph Moate, of Warlingham, Surrey. DIE , ..ta gti l'Ar l ' On the 23d ult., Samuel Emden, Esq late of • f b elL d ' Surrey. On the 21st ult., at Oxford, Adam Sedgwick C iiall °ll;v °II' Buckland, youngest son of the Rey. Dr. Buckla nd, ''''.- 0 Christ Church. of t " On the ad tilt ., Captain Jo se ph H amm ell, late ,he Regiment of Foot. fo On the 15th ult., at Liege, Jessie, eldest daug hter late John Wigstone, E T - it, Middlesex. cor's .....in W igst .., .esq., Trent-park, ....add. , On the 23d ult., at Fairy Croft, Saffron Waldel, , ,0 f ) "' Fiske, Esq., aged 69. rc' On the 25th ult., atEast- roa d, H or ton, Moll t a li ' rOO William Potter, aged 72. hire' On the 25th ult., at Guilsborough, NorthalliPt°lls- rer Anna Oliphant, aged 72. wfoilf ,aool On the 26th ult., at John-street, Bedford-row , ,E sum man, second daughter of the late T. Edwards, go!' c i# Clapham, aged 17. ,„, vox On the 22th ult. at Earl's-terrace, ICensini6 , " - AlePt i TAdlow Holt, Esq., , Q.C., and Vice-Chancellor of "" roo k of Lancaster. of $ On the 29th alt., Mr. John Davis, news-agen t, op street, Bloomsbury. ht, , On the 30th ult., Mary, the wife of John Brig rfiso V.l4 6n S. t ' h o e f 30 13ru th ns u w 1t. ic , k a -p t aithar astoff I H ac i e, gh ß am ritz g h e tll w .. Maria, the wife of E. A. Lloyd, Esq. O DE r ~ r London: Printed and Published by MURDO -. 7 4 13 0 . 1- 4 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sex Oilcaticoti" Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in Ole iiiicialeiez, Tuesday, October 1,144. /. IN. !Price. lii7 31U 66 456 110 lel 10% 90 640 141 120 188 11 480 258 72 137 113 g 72y, 19 18% 1% 480 Ups. 4.9% 631 182 15% 27 45% 1 6 5 15 2 40s. 21s. 22% 44% 17 16% 33% 25 26% 12 73 150