The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

'VP:NINO- EDITION. ZY MARK ET and CITY NE WS (MONDAY EVENING.) 'IES.—The o pinion gains ground in the City that , lief is about to be offered from the Treasury to holders of Exchequer bills, in the shape of an ad in the rate of interest, but at present the only ground for it appears to be the trifling rise which has oc curred in them. They are all most indignant at the trick practised upon them early in the year, now at tributed unhesitatingly to a collusion with *he Bank, in bringing . 'about the renewal of the whole of the floating debt, on most favourable terms, and con triving at the same time to extend the period at which they should become payable for duties. They do not expect the same interest from them as from I the best mercantile paper, but contend that a certai n ratio, as was invariably the case formerly, should be preserved between them. When those now cur rent were issued, the terms of the Bank were 34 or 4 per cent ; the merchants and bankers scarcely so high. Now 6 per cent is the lowest, and money not easily ob tained at that rate, /et Exchequer Bills yield little more than 2i per cent., and yet the holders are com pelled to keep them because they have become of late, in large amounts, almost unsaleable. Their great value and utility heretofore has been their easy convertibility at any time, and the remedy afforded, in cases of sudden pressure, of payment for duties. All this is gone, and the outcry is general against the Treasury in this matter as guilty of a positive breach of contract. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he comes fairly into this part of his duties, must either change his system or abandon the thought of sustaining a large floating debt. CHRONICLE. —It has been said, with reference to the statement of the affairs of the United States Bank, " that the questionable securities must be of an enormous amount, when it is considered that the vali dity of a great proportion of them must have been mainly dependent on the continuance of that support from the United States Bank which the situation of its affairs will no longer permit." We anticipated this argument on Saturday by o bserving, " that if an attempt were made to bring them to market at present, a serious defalcation in all probability would ensue ; but the sus pension of specie payments will enable the Bank to retain those securities, so as to turn them to the best account." It is useless, however, to indulge is suppositions, either with regard to the 17,782,317 dollars " Stock Accounts," or the 35,781,648 dollars bills. Different interests will take different views on this subject. It is important, however, to remark, in regard to the Stock Accounts," that a considerable proportion of Thee Securities was deposited by various parties with the Bank, for advances made upon them, and that they are only stated at the amount actually lent ; therefore, ' even supposing that they could not be realized without a defalcation, yet they stand with a large margin to guard the Bank against loss. The Bank will be more able now to support the parties to whom those loans were made than it was previous to the suspension of cash payments, instead of being less able to continue that assistance, and will have it far more in its power to allow a reasonable time and accommodation to the merchants to re tire their discounts. The change of position is thus all in favour of the foreign creditor, and, were we given to prophecy, would strongly induce us to " pre dict a favourable result." Some parties imagine that there has been a concealment of the affairs of the Bank in question, and the Times also " alludes to the long silence sustained on the subject." We understand that the vnonthly returns are officially submitted to the Legis lature, which are published during the sittings of that body, but not during vacation. The returns are, how ever, regularly furnished every month throughout the year, and are open at all times to the public for inspec tion, when the Legislature is not sitting. The Morning Post carries its demands for publicity to the greatest extreme, insisting on a detailed account of "the names of the drawers, acceptors, and indorsers of the larger bills, the dates at which they are drawn, and the periods they have to run." This we apprehend I would be not only a bulky, but a very useless docu ment ; and not one in a thousand on this side of the water would be the wiser for it. HERA LD.—A strong impression has prevailed to day that the late heavy discount upon Exchequer bills will shortly induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to raise the rate of interest from 2d. and lid. per diem on all classes to 2d. In consequence Exchequer bills, which left off at 12 a 8 dis. on Saturday, have advanced to 6 a 5 dis.; whilst India Bonds have advanced from 12 alO dis. If it turns out that the interest upon Exchequer bills is raised to 2d. per diem it will have an important influence upon their market value. There cannot be any doubt but the heavy depreciation in the premium upon Exchequer bills has given our im porting merchants lately a great opportunity of pay ing their duties in Government paper to much ad vantage. But although the operation on the part of the merchant is perfectly fair because it withdraws a certain' portion of the floating debt from circulation, n evertheless, to a Chancellor of the Exchequer of the present day it is a very ugly operation, inasmuch as i u e rate of discount with even the rate of interest at id per diem, would deter capitalists from any desire to encourage a funding at the current rate of Consols. The advance of id per diem in the interest upon Ex chequer Bills will cause them to be more sought for as an investment ; but, urder the existing relations be tween the monetary and commercial interests of this country with the continent of Europe and that of Ame rica, id per 'diem per cent. will do but little towards bolstering the premium upon the floating debt. SUN.—The state of commercial credit in the City is i mprov ing ; in fact, the effect of the late unfavourable news from the United States has altogether disappeared, and though some of our Contemporaries talk very londly of the bankruptcy of the United States Bank, thus: interested in the American trade fear not that it will be able fully to meet its engagements in due time, and that it will still hold its position among the institutions of the American Republic. Business is improving in the City, and a very considerable amount of East India, West India, Mauritius, and other pro duce, is announced for sale this week. The merchants only require money, to be more easy, to induce specu lation in produce of all kinds. The Tea trade is still brisk, but the clearances last week were rather under those of previous weeks. Baltic produce is on the rise, the deliveries last week being rather extensive, The Funds left off pretty firmly this afternoon at 90i -' for Money, and at 904 for the Account. The value of Exchequer Bills is now Gs. discount ; and of India Bonds lOs. discount , India Stock closed at an cuprovement of 1 per cent. on Saturday's value. The unfavourable effect produced by the news from Lisb in was only partly removed up to the termination of business this afternoon. The Five per Cent. Stock ( Portuguest.) lett off at 32 to 32k, and the Three per Cents. at 223 i ; Spanish Stock closed at 9.71 l-, ; Dutch at 52i for the Two-and-a-half per Cents., and at 98 99 for the Five per Cents. ; Belgian Bonds have risen to 10s. The Share Market has been brisk this afternoon. The principal Railway Shares all look better. London and Birmingham have risen to 50 premium ; North Midland to 7 discount ; Great North of England to 25 a :,count ; Great Western New 24- discount ; and Nanchester and Leeds to 6i 7 premium. ......gpeasizemelfr - h ~ . ~~ ~~L' :ti- • of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE 31ORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. POST.—The argument of Counsel before Mr. Jus tice Littledale, one of the Learned Judges of the Court , of Queen's Bench, in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard, occupied a considerable space in our paper of yesterday, a ,ad its conclusion, together with the pithy and sound dec.sion of the Learned Judge, appears in our impres sion o'f this day. The object of the motion submitted to the Learned Judge was to stay the execution of a writ of inquiry before the Sheriff of Middlesex, which had been sued out by tho plaintiff in consequence of the defendant hiving suffered judgment to go by default. The argument in su pport of ti,is mo too onsisted merely of the allegation —an u ndeniable one --t the Sheriff by the execution of the writ would be placed within the scope of the minatory i resolution s of the House o,+' Commons, threatening with I,, , tri c resentment of that Honourable House all persons \who .t,. should in any manner assist in the enforcement of ,!: e lr of the land in the case of libels printed, pub i li t hd and sold by its order. The Learned Judge is, seems . of opinion that it is the imperative Sheriff of n duty of the iddlesex as of every other minister of the law, to perform his allotted duty in the regular and faithful administratio never of justice, just as if the House of C n o mmons had passed any resolutions whatever. 'This opinion harmonisesalike oli with constitutional prin shense. Judges and lawyers, 1 7 p . laintiffs and defenda nts , 1 the land, and have noth o i i ng C w o natever to do with re eve. to do with the law of ti solutions of the House attention to So far from defendanto the latter, neither being bound to pay any can legally be ,f,ldge, I ,wy er, plaintiff, nor presumed to be aware of their.e xistence . Mr. Justice ht with great propriety have , Littiedale might speak et Kennedy when this gentleman first began speak Mr resolutions the record of which the Lear ne d — J entitled, and, indeed, bound, to regard as mere was paper. But, perhaps, he pursued the more r dig w:te d course in hearing the Learned Counsel out,and di spos i e n of his motion by the quiet remark, " I think in this case there is not sufficient ground for the , Court to interfere, and therefore there must be no rule. Mr. ) Stockdale , Our 'laws b ro ught another action against Mr. Hansard, printer ' ‘ to the House of Commons, and that the question of the • right of that House to violate with impunity the law of the land is again to be mooted. Mr. Stockdale has, on 1 the present occasion, laid his damages at 50,000/. Mr. _ . thinsard has allowed judgment to go by default. The 1 decisiou of this question of Parliamentary right are can sc arcely, Therefore, be delayed much longer. We I very sure that Lord Denman and the venerable Jud g es ~ by whom he is surrounded, will riot deviate from that s trai g htforward course which they have already ir, apted. a d It is their duty to expound the law of Eng- laud, and to take care that no mal-administration on their part shall sanction the perversion or corruption of that law. Most nobly have the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, hitherto, performed hat duty ! The pretensions of the House of Common- in this matter are of the most preposterous kind. To ' tolerate these pretensions, would be to establi-h a tranny of the most odious nature. The claims the House are condemned by law, by common sense, and by public opinion. Mr. Sergeant Wilde , in his very clever speech on this question in the House of Com mons, recommended the House to attach the Sheriff, and, if necessary, to commit the Judges to Newgate. Neither Mr. Sergeant Wilde nor his official patrons, o on t s, however, will in reality dream of pushing matters such extremities. No ; the House of Commons will swagger, and talk fustain about its privileges, and, finally, succumb, as it did, on the last occasion. To borrow Sir Robert Inglis's illustration, " the leek" will, again, " be eaten" —although " horrible vengeance" may be threatened by the l ee k-eaters ! (From the T imes.) We recommend to the notice of our commercial readers the subjoined extract of a letter from Lima, written by a gentleman fully conversant with the case which he discusses. The boasts of Lord Minto, re ferred to by this correspondent, are still ringing in our ears, when the Scotch First Lord had the modesty to get up and attempt to contradict such a man as the Duke of Wellington—the most guarded and cau tious statesman living—in th e r e presentation of facts with resrect to the condition of our navy. So far from our distant squadrons being equal to those of Foreign Powers on their several stations, it now appears that on the very important coast of South America, where civil wars and convulsions are tor ever raging, our Admiral has been for many months together left, trusting to a single frigate, on board which his flag was flying—a frigate not of the most powerful description as to force, and with a crew not exceeding, if it equalled, 400 men, while a United States man-of-war of 90 guns of 1,000 mi n lay on one side of him, and two sixty-gun frigates with 550 men each were on the other side of him, to the no small mortification of British feelings, and exposure of British interests to ruin. Even the most ordinary services, viz., those of communication and of the transport of bullion, were so entirely un provided for by the Admiralty, that our Admiral is constantly obliged to have recourse to merchant ships, from the absolute want of vessels of ever so small a class carrying the Queen of England's pendant. This is one sample of Lord Minto's good faith, out of many. And yet no Englishman can venture to make known and denounce to his country such disgraceful contempt of her most important interests, and her national honour, without being assailed by the vulgar imperti nence of some jackanapes of a clerk in your public offices, or hired to write audacious lies in the columns of Treasury Newspapers. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIMA.) We observe in the English papers that Lord Minto told the Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, that we have plenty of ships, and that our force on all foreign stations is equal to that of other nations :' whilst, at the time he was making that assertion, the British Admiral commanding hereabouts, was in our roads in the President frigate, his flag-ship, having an American 90 gun-ship on one side of him with 1,000 men on board, and two French 60 gun-frigates with 550 men each on the other side of him. to the no small dis comfort and annoyance of our English feelings and in terests. The sad state of this country, and frequent forced changes of its Government, necessarily kept our Admiral here for our protection nearly a year, and there are so few of our smaller ships of war for the duties of this station, distant and important as it is, that we are constantly obliged to have recourse to merchant ships fer the conveyance of our treasure. Such is our real state on this foreign station.' Surely Lord Minto must beta bold man." YROM THY EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Amid the indignation and disgust called forth by the recent effusions of disloyalty and sedition at Tory feasts, and the excitement and alarm naturally produced by Chartist violence, public attention has been diverted from the brilliant success of British enterprise and valour in the East. That the Opposition journals should touch as slightly as possible the splendid triumph achieved by the band of heroes under Sir John Keane, will not excite surprise. Having condemned the policy of our Indian government, and denouncedthe proceedings of Lord Auckland as preg nant with danger to our Eastern possessions, it is not to be wondered at if the Tories manifest a desire to say as little possible concerning what is a complete falsification of their predictions, and—their " wish being father to the thought"—the prostration of their hopes. We, how ever, owe it both to those who projected and to those who executed the brilliant operations against Dost Mahomed Khan, to recal public atten tion and to direct public gratitude towards them. The wisdom which planned the expedition, and the brave officers and men who so fully justified the confidence placed in their enduring courage and enterpris ing valour, deserve a nation's plaudits. There are few pa rallels to the achievement in the history of modern warfare. The length of the march—the nature of the country to be passed through—the difficulty of obtaining the necessary supplies, and the consequent necessity of employing an army signally small when compared with the magnitude of the undertaking—these, combined, strike the mind with admiration approaching to astonishment at the indomitable bravery of British troops. Since the march of Alexander into India the achievement of Sir John Keane and his army of heroes has not been surpassed. It was Caesar's veni—vidi—vici, illustrated with a yet nearer approach to fact. Nor was this exhi bition of what British troops will nobly dare, when the honour aed interests of their country demand such services and sacrifices, uncalled for by the circumstances which induced the Governor-General of India to de termine on the expedition. Intrigue had been long busied in endeavouring to detach Dost Mahomed Khan from British interests. His successful defection would have been followed by that of other native Princes, who only waited to ascertain the result of his treachery to imitate his example. We need not inure distinctly allude to the quarter whence these intrigues proceeded. The spirited remonstrances of Lord Pal merston with the Court of Russia, and the lame and impotent explanations of that power with respect to the conduct of her agents at the Court of Cabool, are fresh in the recollection of all who take an interest in public ,iffairs. The promptitude and firmness of Lord Auckland in meeting the exigency, and, by march ng an army into the very heart of his territory, punish the delin quency of Dost Mahomed, gave occasion to Lord Aberdeen, the Marquis of Londonderry, and other statesmen, to express their disapproval of the measure, and to prognosticate the worst of consequences from is adoption. (From the Courier.) The Morning Chronicle, with the Ministerial Press in general, either is, or affects to be, mightily bewildered by a sort of Scotch mist from getting into the right track of the Welch insurrection. With ludicrous obsti nacy, the Ministerial advocates seem determined to go any road but the straight one, and with grave industry beat about the bushes and bye-roads, when the broad highway lies plain and open before them. We will venture to offer to them a few hints, therefore, which may perhaps tend to assist them in their investi. gations. It may be worth their while to consider how the simple unsophisticated Chartists were to comprehend that the sacred right of insurrection ceased, so far as they were concerned, on the dissolution of that solemn compact of political unionship by which the games, the outbreaks, and the bloodshed of Bristol, Birmingham, and Nottingham were for merly justified during the progress of the Reform Bill. There was no lack of evidence before them that tha right was and would be acknowledged so long as it could be exercised to the exclusive profit of the Ministers, and their adherents ; for, even now, indications are given with tolerable breadth of significancy, that Chartist sedition be comes palatable and legitimate when directed against the Lords, the Church, or Toryism, in any shape, which means, of course, according to their own showing, the great mass of the property and respectability of the country. In this same sense of " war to the knife against Tories;' " but touch not one hair of the head of Whiggery," the Chronicle teems rampantly, day after day. (From the Standard.) THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 18394 THE ALLEGED SMUGGLING 01 ENGLISH WOOLLENS. (From the Daily Express, Oct. 15.) The opinion of Chancellor Kent, which we this day present to our readers, will be read, we doubt not, with great interest in many other places besides the city of New York. It will be seen that this opinion goes against the legality of all the seizures (and of course against ail arrests for the same cause), made in Phila delphia, Baltimore, and Boston. Indeed if the collectors of these ports possessed, legally, the power which they have exercised of seizing goods which have passed the custom-house regularly, there would be no safety to the mercantile community whatever. It is to be hoped that the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade will take up this subject immediately. 'I he entire foreign trade in woollens in this country is almost at an end ; and our extracts from English papers, published last week, show ; that the course of the collector has almost entirely crushed the American branch of it in England ; indeed, the withdrawing of so many millions of dollars as now, in the shape of goods, are locked up in the Custom-house, being more than the property burned up by the recent fires in New York and Philadelphia to gether, and for which the money, in most cases, is re mitted to England, has no doubt tended to increase greatly the present commercial distress. [The Express then gives five questions, submitted to the Chancellor for his opinion, and the opinion thereon. We extract the most material parts of that opinion :]—" I am of opinion that the collector has no right, under the 68th section or any other section of the Act of 1799, to seize goods after they have been passed regularly through the Custom-house under the inspection of the proper officer and paid the duties thereon. The Act of 1799 gives no colour for such an act or assumption of power. All the powers conferred upon the collector under sections 66 67, 68, and 71 of the Act of 1799, evidently apply . only to goods while in transfer and under the control of the Custom-house department, and the package, un broken, or it smuggled into the country without pay ment of duties. The right of seizure is for concealed goods, or ,paods suspected to be concealed, and which are subject to duty, that is, in cases where the duties have not been paid. . . . . I am of opinion that in cases of seizure the onus probandi is thrown upon the claimant, when the seizure is made pursuant to the Act, and that is when there is a suspicion (and that means a just and bona fide suspicion) of fraud after entry, and the packages unbroken, or where goods are suspected to be concealed to evade the duty. In other cases Ido not apprehend that the onus probandi is cast on the claimant under sec. 71 of the Act of 1799, nor ought in justice to be in any other cases ; and the reason why it is cast on the claimant in these two cases, is because the conduct of the importer has raised in the mind of the collector reasonable ground for suspicion of fraud, as to the entry and invoice, or as to the concealment I am of opinion that the duties ought to be charged upon the actual cost of goods obtained by purchase. It the transaction be fair, this is the true te-t of value, and what was intended by the Acts of 1799 and 1832. The 15th sec. of the Act of 14th July, 1832 (the latest Act on the subject), ex pressly declares, that the ad val. rates of duty upon goods shall be estimated upon the actual cost if actually purchased. This is the true value meant by the Act, .4 hen the actual cost can be ascertained, and the ap praisers must take it for the actual value. Any other test more against the importer would be unjust and oppressive, and most unreasonable. The positive words of the Act which I have referred to are decisive. the judgment of appraisers, unless duly appointed, is of no moment ; but if duly appointed, and they be duly called upon to appraise the goods, their appraisement would be prima facie evidence of the prime cost of thl purchased goods, and sufficient in the first instance, and until rebutted, to go as evidence to a jury. lam of opinion finally, . . . . that if goods be unlaw fully and without due warrant by law, seized by the col lector, the importer has his action of trespass or trover agninst him for the violation of property. But if duly seized, even after the duties have been paid, and before the packages have been delivered up, for fraud, as in the supposed case of false and fraudulent entries and invoices, I do not believe that the importer could re cover back the duties paid. His fraud would bar him. (Signed) " JAMES KENT. " New York, Oct. 9, 1839." RECEPTION OF A NUN AT THE PRESENTATION CONVENT, LIMERICK . This imposing ceremony took place yesterday, at Bethlem House, Sexton-street ; the lady about to be admitted was Miss Margaret O'Gorman, youngest daughter of Mr. P. O'Gorman, Patrick-street, bookseller and stationer. Long before the com mencement of the proceedings every seat was taken, and the chapel was filled to-excess with families of respectability, .anxious to witness so interesting a scene. The Right Rev. Dr. Ryan, R. C. Bishop, attended by the Rev. Mr. Raleigh, as Deacon, and near thirty of the clergy of his diocese, entered. The Prelate, in his pontifical robes, having ascended the altar, the organ pealed forth, and the nuns en- I tered (each bearing a lighted taper in her hand) by that part of the building on the right of the altar reserved for them. The " Veni Creator Spiritus" was then sung by the ladies of the Order, with very superior taste and execution, and the Bishop, as sisted by the Deacon, proceeded with the service. The novice was led forward, and presented by two of the sisters arrayed in her secular robes. She appeared quite calm, and wrapt in the contempla tion of the scene in which she was to take so pro minent a part. Her features were prepossessing, her deportment dignified and resigned. Dr. Ryan having descended from the altar, pre sented the young lady a lighted candle, and read with her for some time ; after which the Very Rev. Dr. Coll, of Newcastle, entered the pulpit, and delivered a most eloquent and touching discourse. The Rev. Prelate then directed Mr. Coll to make it knowti that " the last Council of Trent repre senting the Roman Catholic Church, had issued an order excommunicating any parent, guardian, or other person, who would force any one to enter a convent, and also the same denunciation against all parties, who would prevent any persons de sirous of doing so from fulfilling their intentions." The Bishop again addressed her, asking if she was quite satisfied and content with the choice she was about to make ; whether she had made herself parti cularly acquainted with the rules of the institution, and learned the discipline of the order, with the other interrogatories us,val)x „put •,.4:6 a4-W)l,t4v r replied in the affirmatiVeoviEli an iizdout that's-Lowed how intently she was bent on the consummation of her wishes ; after which another hymn was sung, and the young lady retired for a short time, but again returned in the dress of the Presentation order, escorted as before by two nuns, and having trampled under foot the gay apparel in which she was attired at the commencement of the ceremony, she assumed the veil, and embraced each of the sisterhood, then sung in a firm and harmonious voice, the beautiful Psalm, " In exitu Israel de Egypto," accompanied on the organ ; the Prelate, and Clergy offered up a prayer, in which ail present joined, the procession returned, and the ceremony t erm in a ted.—Limerick Chronicle. FRENCH COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. PARIS, Nov. 9.—The news of the failure of the Bank of the United States has produced a profound sensation here, and notwithstanding that fer some time past the houses which are connected with America here have been doing all in their power to prevent their being ruined by the duration of the commercial crisis in that country, very serious consequences may be ex pected. The friends of Messrs. Rothschild say they are amply secured, and that time only is necessary for converting their securities into cash ; but in the interval a large sum is locked up, and trade is deprived of a considerable amount in the representation of its trans actions, without which credit must suff, r. The greatest hardship, however, is that sustained by American residents in Paris, who derived the greatest part of their income from funds invested in the banks which have suspended payment. Many of these persons will be for a time at least reduced to comparative po verty. The blow comes at a most unfortunate moment, for credit was already in such a state that it would ill hear this additional check upon public coo& denee, The paper money system, never since the day of Law in very good odour in France, but without which France cannot become a great commercial coun try, will be now more than ever descredited, and even the notes of the Bank of France will be looked upon with suspicion in large towns, as they have always been in small t owns anti villages, where, if. a man receives a 5001. note in the course of the day. he cannot sleep un less it be converted into silver. To such an extent do the majority of the French in the provinces carry their dislike of paper money, that in the few districts in which , there are banks which issue notes, the confidence of the inhabitants is limited to the town itself in which they are made payable, and a peasant residing at a distance of only two or three miles can hardy be induced to receive them in payment, preferring, if he is unable to go at once to get them changed, to accompany the person offerin g them to an agent who converts them into specie at a high rate of commission. In some parts of France it is very common to pay 1 per cent. to get a note of the Bank of France cashed when remittances are to be made A grand C -7 3 7-7 nstT ---- Cardinals of ;is to be held to a distance, and then to pay for the carriage and in in Rome this month, to consider the Piessut situation of surance of the specie, whereas the note itself ought from ecclesiastical affairs in the Archbishopric of Posen. its convenience to bear a premium. M. Lafitte, when The Queen's Ministers received on Saturday. at the Lord Mayor's dinner, a pretty unequivocal intima tion of the place that they hold in the opinion of the res pectable and middle classes of the We refer for the par ti c ul ars of this tremendousmetropolii. rebuke administer ed to Lords Melbourne, N n t e : the or- manby, and Palmer ston, to our report, and re marks of the Morning Post, merely adding, f rom our own sources of informa tion, that never were men mo cordially, and scar cel y ever more unanimousl y , Ilis.orie hooted, and groa ned u p on any public occasion. The ( s ). semi* , of the Guildh all, it is to be remembassereemd as. an assembly indifferently collected, if such an exists anywhere. The members of the Corporation a n d the higher class of citizens generally have from usage a right to an invitation ; and it is not even insinuated that in the present instance the established usage has been de- ' parted from. Now, in this so indifferently constituted assembly, representing the fe.eling of the metropolis, if any assembly can represent it, were the Queen's Minis• ters hissed, hooted, and groaned, with A degree of fer vour wholly unexampled, and the disapprobation was vir tuallybl unanimous ; for, though clew plaudits were audi .t.,iern,etnhtsey plainly proceeded from gentlemen who think. t wt o tle g as ( v m a i s s t takingly in our opinion) that the occasion t . hem oT sve o m ne ajo s r u it i v ted b to the expression of political sen timents, sought to neutralise the indignant voice of however, the resultYleofptpnoosituenernearntai:sttyatatosntso know, bare made this apology. As it was, t w em e ptof which her Majesty's Ministers hatred and ; th s e om de e e O p f dareecetihveedobQjencete.n had been could wish our beloved and cruelly been present to witness the scene he opened his new Bank and issued notes, made them bear a current interest of 3 per cent. ; but this, not withstanding the known solvency of his concern, has not brought them into general circulation, and I am sure that if they were • ndorsed by all the bankers in Paris, many years must elapse ere they would b , come a ge neral circulating medium. Ot all the events of the great revolution, that of which the French have the most vivid recollection was the failure of paper credit. It is in the national character to do everything by extremes ; and from having deluged the country with notes of every nominal value, down to five sous, they are now uneasy if they cannot turn good thousand francs notes into metal lic currency. Since the unfortunate transaction between the Bank oi . England and the Paris bankers, for it was un fortunate in many respects—the French have been con stantly jeering the English on their being obliged to come cap in hand to France for pecuniary succour ; but there is really no cause of triumph here. It will r• quire all the skill of the Government to prevent a financial catastrophe, for the mere sight of specie does not con stitute national wealth, and no trading at all is quite as great a calamity as over-trading. The number of bankruptcies has not been diminished by putting a check upon credit. In the last twelve months there was nearly double the number of failures of the preced ing year, and if we have not a m,rcantile catastrophe here in less than six months, it will be wonderful, for the commercial existence of France depends in a great degree upon the prosperity of other countries. There was a meeting here this morning of several of the mer chants and hankers connected with the American trade, but nothing has transpired as to its prtcise object. The effect of the news from America upon the French Funds has been very trifling as to price. There have, however, been very few transactions to-day at the Bourse, and there is a general gloom over persons who ar; connected with money matters.—Evening Paper. LAW INTELLIGi-.N B ROLLS' COURT, Nov 11. HEMMING V. PINKERTON. The Court was occupied a great part of the morn ing in hearing Mr. KINDERLEY'S reply in this case, which came before the Court upon exceptions to the M.i,ter's Report. The case was devoid of any feature of public int erest, the dispute out of the accounts of the partnership carried on by the plaintiffs and de fendants as engineers. His LORDSHIP allowed the exceptions. OPENING OF WATERLOO, SOUTH WARK, AND VAUXHALL BRIDGES. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Pimlico was held on Thursday evening, at the Royal Standard Ta vern, Vauxhali-bridge-road, Pimlico, for furthering this beneficial public object; Mr. Williams, of Pimlico, in the chair. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 11. IN RE WM. WILLIS AND ANOTHER. In this case a rule had been obtained, calling upon the defendant, Wm. Willis, an attorney of the Court of Queen's Bench, to show cause why he should not be struck off the roll, and why the defendant, Wm. Allen, siiould not be detained a prisoner in the prison of the Court. The application was made under the provisions of the 22d Geo. 11. chap. 46, sec. 11 (a penal statute), by which it was enacted, " that whereas divers persons not duly qualified to act as attorneys had, by the con nivance and assistance of certain sworn attorneys, intruded themselves into the office and busi ness of attorneys and solicitor•, to the great prejudice and loss of his Majesty's ?übj cts and the great scandal of the profession, any person being a sworn attorney who should act as the agent of such unqualified person, or woo should suffer his name to to used for such purpose, on compaint being made, such attorney should be struck off the rolls ; and, further, that it would be lawful for the Court to sen tence such unqualified person to imprisonment in the Queen's Bench prison for any term not exceeding one year. Sir W. FOLLETT now appeared to show cause against the rule, and argued at some length, that unless the af fidavits distinctly showed that there had been a partici pation in the profits the case would not come within the terms of the Act of Parliament. _ _ Sir F. POLLOCK appeared in support of the rule, which he said had been moved for by the Law Society, not from any personal or vindictive feeling, but merely to support the character and respectability of the pro fession. _ _ The Honorary SECRETARY, in reporting the favour able progress of the Association, stated that Alderman Lainson had on that day honoured it with his support, he being the fourth Alderman who signified his advocacy of the object, the other three Aldermen being Sir Chapman Marshall, the Lord Mayor, Sir Mat thew Wood, Bart., and W. Venables, Esq., and that each day was adding to the influence as well as the numbers of the Association. The Secretary said he could not but congratulate the meeting on this point, because it was a convincing proof that the foul libel which had been circulated in regard to himself; and of which he had only been informed within a few days, and the author of which he was unable to discover, was not believed by the public, and that his character for probity and honesty stood far above such malicious and anonymous calumny. It had been asserted that he had been receiving large sums from the public for the purpose of promoting those objects, which he not only advocated, but which he had founded the Association to secure ; and that instead of so ap plying them he had put them into his pocket for his own benefit ; whereas the very reverse was the fact, and he had individually trenghed on his own resources for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Associa tion, the fact being that the Committee had incurred an expense in the very month of its formation of a sum nearly equal to the whole amount of the subscriptions hitherto received, and that merely for printing, adver tising, and stationary. And although the announce ment of intended subscriptions was, he was happy to state, large, and would, as the measures became better known, be considerably increased, yet the amount ac tually paid was very small, and, consequently, he (the Secretary) had already paid nearly 1001. out of his own pocket. Although having no individual interest in the freedom of the bridges beyond the amount of subscriptions paid, the parties most interested having hitherto withheld their support of or assistance to the measure, he felt it necessary to notice the circumstance publicly, as such a slanderous rumour was likely not merely to injure himself' in that point where all men were most vulnerable—their reputation, but to affect the best interests of the society. In reply to questions whether all the Surrey and Mid dlesex county and borough Members had yet declared their patronage of the Association, Mr. COPE, jun., observed that Mr. Kemble had written him excusing his previous neglect from absence from town, and promising to give the matter his serious consideration. That Mr. Byng had written him a letter, which he read, promising to give the matter his unremitting attention ; but that neither Col. Evans, Mr. Leader, nor Mr. T. D'Eyncourt had yet replied to the communication of the Association ; but he attributed it merely to absence from town, as every Member of Parliament with whom he had yet held communication had expressed their approbation of the object; and those whom he had named represented parties who were directly interested in their attainment of it. At the desire of the meeting the prospectus and Re- After a lengthened argument, the case was referred to the Master for his report. BAIL COURT, Nor. 11. CRIMINAL INFORMATION-THE QUEEN V. LEE AND OTHERS. Mr. ALEXANDER moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the proprietor and publisher of the Stafordshire Exa miner, for a libel on Mr. Henry Hill, one of the Ma gistrates of that coun►y, in imputing to him and his brother magistrates that they had been actuated by political motives in the distribution of licenses, having refused them to Liberals and granted them to Con servatives. His LORDSHIP granted the rule nisi. THE QUEEN V. BROUGHTON. Mr. RICHARDS moved for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to Mr. Broughton, one of the Magistrates of the Police Courts, command ing him to hear and determine the complaint of Mr. Child, the inspector of weights and measures, relative to fire weights seized by him from the shop of Thomas Hill. Ttic Act of Parliament under which the eaie arose was the sth and 6th Wil. IV., c. 63, and the Middlesex Magistrates were anxious to obtain the opinion of the Court as to the construction of the Act. His LORDSHIP granted the rule. THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM HARLAND. Mr. NEWTON moved that an attachment issue forth with against Mr. John Bailey, Clerk of the Assizes of the Northern Circuit, for contempt of this Court in withholding his return to two writs of certiorari issued in Hilary Term last, on two indictments found at the Summer Assizes in York in 1838. His LORDSHIP, after hearing the facts of the case, said he would take time to consider. port of the Association were read. Atter which, a dis trict petition, setting forth several urgent and impo verishing grievances under which the landowners, traders, shopkeepers, labourers, and residents of those districts especially labour, from the tolls on the bridges, and praying relief, was read. The CHAIRMAN expressed himself warmly in favour of the petition, and urged the claims of the Association on the public at large in a forcible speech. Mr. WALFORD moved, and Mr. DUNCAN seconded, a resolution for the adoption of the petition in this dis trict, in conjunction with the, (general public petition al ready signed by '20,000 persons. The resolution was unanimously adopted, and the petition ordered to be printed. Mr. COPE, ju:i., in moving the, next resolution, that such of the gentleman as were present who would under take that duty should form themselves into a district committee for promoting the object, and that the pre vious appointments made in such districts be confirmed, explained the object of these appointments, and cli.arly showed the necessity of such a measure, in order to ascertain the sentiments of so large a portion of the metropolii as the city of Westminster constituted. The resolution, after being seconded, was put from the chair, and unanimously carried. Mr. MILLER moved a resolution that a subscription be forthwith entered upon for defraying the expenses of the measure, and carryiag it before Parliament ; and the Chairman offered some pertinent remarks in its favour. The resolution was cordially seconded, and carried unanimously. Mr. THOMS said he considered it necessary, as the members for Westminster had not replied to the appli- cation from the Association, that some step should be taken to evince to then: the interest their constituents andtook in the, sticipsvpf:thepreasure, aild he .suggested,i ultitUtlely .tifovetT,. crbat4 answer ati)t3ld be re ceived within a short time from those gentleman, that a deputation should be formed from the constituents of Westminster for the purpo,e of waiting in deputation on their representatives." Mr. MAY, in seconding the resolution, said it app..ared to him wholly inexplicable why their Members had not re plied to the communication of the Secretary made a month since, more particularly as they found several other Members, over whose proceedings they had no direct control, had voluntarily proffered their services. The resolution was unanimously carried, and several gentlemen announced their willingness to join in the depu tation, whose nann s were handed in to the Secretary. Mr. COPE, jun., announced the amount of the con tributions at the meeting, and named Mr. Moy as treasurer for the district, and Mr. Williams as district auditor. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. William Frederick Box, who stands committed on a charge of stealing a ruby pin, value eleven guineas, from the shop of Messrs. Howell and James, of Regent street, was yesterday brought up for re-examination, charged on suspicion with forging a bill of exchange for 851. purporting to by accepted by Mr. Storey, a solici tor, residing at St. Alban's, and brother-in-law to the prisoner. Mr. Humphries conducted the prosecution, Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Rickards appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Humphries said it would be necessary to have a further remand, as a second summons had been served upon Mr. Roach, the indorser of the bill, and it ap peared that he was not in attendance. Constable 18 A proved that he left a second sum mons at the house of Mr. Roach, and be was informed that he would be home shortly, to attend at the Court to give evidence. . Mr. Hnmphries was aware, that he was not in -atten dance, but the gentleman WhO had 'paid the bill to . him was present. Mr. Henry Breddon, solicitor, of Frith -street, Soho, proved that his clerk paid for a bill, similar to that produced, in July last, the date of which was 25th June. He thought the bill produced was the same which he had desired his clerk (Foreman) to give to Mr. Roach, and which he received from the prisoner, but. he could not exactly say on what day it happened. Witness was to have given money for it, but be did not, neither did he get it discounted. The reason why he gave it to his clerk was to get it discounted, and he did not think he had any hooks which would give any account of it. The prisoner gave him the bill, but witness could not say whit conversation took place on the oc casion. Witness knew the acceptor of the bill to be a respectable man, and he had also known the prisoner before. He had no other bills of his, but he might have had some about twelve months back, and the pri soner applied for it more than once about six weeks or te.o months ago, and witness told him he would get it back - . but although he made repeated applications he (lid not succeed. The nomination was unanimously adopted, and those gentlemen declared their acceptance of the trust. After a vote of thanks had been given to the chair by acclamation, the meeting was adjourned, the Hon. Se cretary announcing that the next district meeting would be held at Vauxhall on that day week, and that on Tuesday the first of the appointed public ward meetings of the City of London would be held, and that these would probably continue throughout each ward on every succeeding Tuesday and Friday, and he added that the measure was most cordially responded to by the citizens who had been seen on the subject. A friend has handed us the following as a part of the recommendation of the Naval and Military Com mission which has engrossed so much attention, and which has recenily made its report. It it be correct, the division of the captain's list is bad, as there cannot be three-deckers for all the elder meritorious officers, whose services may be required, and if no three decker is vacant the usefulness of many a valuable officer may be lost. With respect to the pay also, the sums should have respectively been 7001., 6001., and 5001., and commanders 4001. .Ve never had a doubt but that the attention of the Committee would be much more drawn to the effective rather than the non-effective portion of the service. " Captains are to be divided into three classes : first class to command three-deckers ; second el,iss ditto, two-deckers ; third ditto, frigates ; their full pay to be 8001., 6001., and 4001. per annum. Commanders never to be styled captains ; instead, they are to be designated com manders of corvettes.' First lieutenants to have in all classes I Is, per diem ; all other lieutenants, actually serving afloat, 9s. per diem. Mates to have 151. addi tional pay, and those serving under lieutenants in brigs, cutters, packets, Ste., 2s. extra. The uniform generally to be altered, and assimilated with the French. Adju tants in the army to b e pa id as first lieutenants in the navy. , '--Hanipshire 'Telegraph. By an order of the Spanish Government, dated the 6th of October, vessels c oming directly from New foundland are permitted to re-ship their cargo of dried codfish at Cadiz for any other Spanish port, notwith standing their havin g previously touched at a port be longing to England. They .tre likewi , e permitted to re-ship, in tile port of Goliz, codfish previously declared in trAnsitu, 08 paying the transit duty of 1 per cent. Mr. HALL—Did you mention anything respecting Mr. Storey on that occasion? Witness—l did not consider it necessary, as the prisoner appeared to be a respectable person. Mr. Humphries asked what. were to be the terms of the discount ? Witness said that the Bill had not been discounted, and he did not think there was any mention made respecting the terms of it. In answer to Mr. Clarkson, the witness said he had no mark upon the hill, and so far as bid kn'wledge went, the prisoner never got anything for it. Mr. HALL—Can you take upon yourself to say that there was any other bill ? Witness—Toe only bill I had was for 851. during the time I have mentioned. Mr. Nias, who discounted the bill, proved that he received it on the 2d of August, and he had previously held tt bill -4 4'r dirt Mr. -Roach, which was overdue, for 681., and after discounting the bill in question, he re tnained a debtor to witness for the remainder. The witness then went into a detail of the manner in which this bill with others had originally come into his posss sion. _ _ Mr. Clarkson observed that it was quite clear the prisoner had never received anything upon the bill. Mr. Breddon declared that he never received a frac tion for it. Mr. Clarkson said that no person ever insinuated that such bad been the case. Mr. HALL inquired who Mr. Roach was ? Mr. Breddon said he lived in Chelsea, and he had known hi m for about two years. _ Mr. HALL said the evid..nce went a great way to identify the bill, and as the testimony of Roach was absolutely necessary he would remand the prisoner until another summons could be served. Mr. Clarkson hoped that the absence of Mr. Roach would not be imputed to the interference of the pri soner's family. Mr. Humphries said he had reason to suppose that such could not be the case. The prisoner was then ordered to be brought up again on this day week. CUARACTER OF NELSON BY KING WIL LIAM IV.—( From Fisher's Illustrated Life of the Naval Hero)—" I was then a midshipman on beard the Barfleur, lying in the narrows off Staten Island, and had the watch on deck, when Captain Nelson, of the Albemarle, came in his barge alongside, who ap peared to be the merest boy of a captain I ever beheld ; and his dress was worthy of attention. He had on a full-laced uniform ; his lank unpowdered hair was tied in a stiff Hessian tail of an extraordinary length : the old fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to the general quaintness of hisfigu re, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed, when Lord Hood introduced me to him. There was something irresistibly pleasing in his address and conversation ; and an enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being. Nelson, after this, went with us to the West Indies, and served under Lord Hood's flag during his indefatigable cruise off Cape Fran cois. Throughout the whole of the American war, the height of Nelson's ambition was to command a line of-battle ship ; as for prize money, it never entered his thoughts : he had always in view the character of' his maternal uncle. I found hi:n warmly attached to my father, and singularly humane : he had the honour of the King's service, and the independence of the Briti , sh Navy, particularly at heart ; and his mind glowed with this idea as much when he was simply Captain of the Albemarle, and had obtained none of the honours of his country, as when he wag afterwards decorated with so much well-earned distinctien," DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A CHILD — Yesterday morning Aim Griffiths, a child two years and a half old, fell out of her mother's arms from a second floor back window in Gray's Inn -buildings, Manchester squ into the bck yard, and was so dreadfully in , c ured that no hopes are entertained of its recovery. HEN LEY-ON-TUItiM E. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—This aft': s:ie ( Nov. II) as two brothers, named Parson-, f,rtners Kilmort. End, were crossing the river at Wargrave, near Henley on-Thames, with 84 sheep, in the ferry-boat, which they had just taken from a flood , d meadow in the neigh bourhood, accornnaniA by thesir s, enhe. d an:' a wat, r man, when ab.ut cold-tream, the si,pherti's dog organ barking, and the sheep running to one end of the boat, it immediately sunk, and, we lament to add, the two brothers and the shepherd were drowned, and the waterman with difficulty saved. Every exertion has been made to recover the bodies, but hitherto without effect. The mother of the young men was only buri,d Yesterday, and the father will, an untimely end by falling from his horse about five months since. From the immense flood in the Thames, it is likely the holies may he carried a considerable distance from the spot by the current. The whole of the sheep were Saved. GREAT FOOT RACE FOR ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS. The great foot race, for 501. aside, between Towns bend and Mountjoy, the veteran pedestrians, took place on Monday, and was one of the finest pedestrian strug files ever witnessed. Its sporting interest was of the first order, and the attendance even greater than the anticipated excellence of th , sport and the exceeding fineness of the we,ther would have induced persons to expect. It was a straight forward bona fide t ratisaction, and betting was exeeedingl) b isk at 5 to 4 on Mount joy. The Swiss Tavern, St. John's Wood, was chosen as head-quarters, and the task performed on a half mil3 piece of ground on that road. The distance was such as would try the stamina of any man. It was to walk twenty miles, run one mile, walk a mile back wards, run a hoop one mile, wheel a barrow one mile, and pick up forty stones one yard apart by the mouth. The start took place just before twelve o'clock, in the presence of some hundreds, amongst whom were many of the leading sporting men of the day. The start was slightly in favour of Mountjoy. He did the half mile about four yards in advance of his opponent, and came up to the starting post (a mite) ten yards be fore Townshend, and in nine minutes ten seconds. Mountjoy continued to gain and completed six miles in 59 minutes, having increased his lead upwards of three hundred yards. Mountjoy at the conclusion of twelve miles, done in two hours and three minutes, headed his adversary by two minutes and a half, and betting was high in his favour. Mountjoy fi nished the twenty mile walking in three hours thirty-five minutes and a half, and the veteran three minutes later, on a very heavy road. Mountjoy then ran his mile in about eight minutes and a half, and To wris bend, although behindhand, occupied about the same time. Mountjoy then walked a mile in thirteen minutes and a half, and his opponent occupied half a minute less. Mountjoy was now weak ; the mile backwards made a wonderful alteration in the struggle, and was accom plished by Townshend in thirteen minutes and a.hall, being nearly two minty es and a-half less than that occu pied by Mountjoy. Trundling the hoop was the next operation, and, although Mountjoy first commenced this, Tov . nshend passed him, and for the first time in the match had the lead. Towtishend finished wheel. ing the barrow, and had picked up several of the stones before his opponent begun. Townshend had executed ( t winner) the whole of this arduous performance when his adversary had ten or twelve stones to pick up. The men were immediately taken to bed and rubbed, to prevent the effects of cramp. A LOST STOMACH. A gentleman who attended a late house-warming in Hereford, was heard on the eve of the festival to la ment that he had " lost his stomach,' the days having gone for ever when he could play as good a knife and fork as most men. It not having been our usage to re port these dinners, we can only allude to this one, in order to show that our friend found a small part of his long " lost stomach ;" nis bill of fare will prove that his gastronomic capacity of " other days" must have been of a dimension that makes us in these times of high priced provision, bless the good fortune of the state, that it has not " troops" of such subjects, and also pray, for the sake of this city, that our friend's lost sto mach may be, " Like the lost Pleiad, seen no more below." The dinner was sumptuous, our hero comfortably ad justed his " bib and tucker," cast a look on the viands that smoked upon the board ; he safely deposited under his waistcoat— 2 plates of soup. 1 heaped plate of cod-fish, veiled by halt a pint of oyster sauce. 2 full plates of soles, scarcely visible through a blended covering of melted butter and anchovy sauce. 2 handsome slices out of a splendid boiled leg of mut ton, with an addendum of caper sauce. 1 wing of a fine fowl, with a slice of a delicious tongue. 1 wing of a giant goose. ' 1 haunch of a large hare, with a luscious slice out of his back. 1 wing of a Well-fed pheasant. 1 " mountain" of pudding. 2 jellies. 2 custards. A series of bread, cheese, celery, water cress, &c. The above was seasonably seasoned with div, rs jugs of fat ale, and sundry glasses of wine challenges ; the whole of the before-mentioned " agitated mass " was lulled to peace by a bottle of fine old port, and our friend of the " lost stomach" then quickly departed ; when our hero took up his hat and walked, a Scotchmau ironically exclaimed —" He's nae belly-god, that's ae blessing ;" though responded a neighbour, " he could eat a horse behind the saddle ;"—" Poor fellow !" cried a third, "he has this day sent both fowls of the air and fishes of the sea down his throat in search of his long " lost stomach."—Shrewsbury News. HALF-Y EARLY PUBLIC EXAM NATIONS AT SANDHURST. The usual half-yearly public examinations of the offi cers and gentlemen cadets studying at the Royal Mi litary College took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs lay, the sth, 6th, and 7th inst., on which occi ston the in,titution was honoured by the presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. At the close of the examinations, the following officers were pre sented with the usual certifica..es of qualification ; Captain R. Kinuers Captain M. W. Smith lsth Hussars. Lieutenant A. H. Russell Leutenant A. Barton 9th Regiment. Lieutenant H. D. Fanshawe In consequence of the very superior acquirements displayed by Captain Smith, Lieutenants Barton and Fanshawe, and Captain Manners, in the highest branches of mathematical science, a special honorary addition was made to those officers' certificates. The high qualifications of the first three of these officers, viz., Captain Smith and Lieutenants Barton and Fanshawe, in military surveying, were also particularly noticed ; and the following gentlemen cadets, who had completed their qualifications for commissions. were recommended to the General Commanding in Chief for appointment. to ensigncies in the line, without purchase ; 1. John H. Dickson 2. Robert E. Stratton. 3. Robert Carey. 4. William Crawley. 5. Denis Gadley. 6. Henry Rice. 7. Augustus J Roberts. 10. Edward W. Donovan. 11. Hugh G. Colvin. 12. Robert. Portal!. 13. John L. R. Pollard. 14. Hon Percy E. Herbert 15. George R4b.tu. 16. Robert N. Clarke. 8. Arthur Oakes. 9. James Woods. 17. Charles H. eillet;. By the result of the examinations about fifty other young gentlemen were declared to have made various steps towards qualifying themselves for commissions in those branches of the mathematics which are applicable to military purposes, in permanent and field fortifications, and the attack and defence of fortresses, in Latin and general history, and in the modern languages ; and nineteen had also during tile half-year completed the course of professional education in military surveying, and twenty-six in the actual construction of entrench trints and saps in the field, poutooning, &c. SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A 80 , . S—An inquest was held on Friday night before M Higgs, at St. Gt orge's Hospital, on the body of Edward Lyne, aged eleven, who committed suicide under very extraordinary circumstances. It appeared that the deceased was in the employ of Mr. Goodson, poulterer, of Jermyn street. who is also cook to the Benchers of the Temple. On Thursday the deceased, who was very attentive to bussiness, was sent with some sweetbreads to tbil Duchess of Bedford's, in Belgrave-square, but in an hour from leaving home his body was found in the re servoir in the Green-park, and the basket of sweetbreads and his c.ip filming on thi, water. When tmken out he was quite dead, and he must first have got over the rails and placed the basket on the water, otherwise it would have been upset if he had jumped in with it on his head. Since the last prec:pition from the Monument he had frequently asked Nhat sort of suicide was the easiest death, and slid he should like to be talked about as the boy Hawes had been. At no one was present who saw the deceased get over the 44, the Jury were obliged to return a verdict of round drowned, and how the deceased got into th e Water there was no evidence to show, ___ THE WEATHER.---DUBLIN, SATURDAY.-- bas kaen raining ever since our last, with short inter vals, heavy, close, constant rain. The turf is deStroyed for the present season, we fear, and the potatoes terribly, if not irretrievably, injured. —Dublin Paper. The preparations are progressing with consider able activity for carrying into effect the popular project of a general penny post, at the commencement of the new year. This plan, besides other good effects, will occasion a considerable number of persons In - be em- PI" yeti in the Post-office es , ablishment, in addition to those already employed. EVENING EDlTTOlsi_._ THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY )! PR;rE I ~11C, 0, Bread in 11' lir mi may ht , had at • Pill+ ES 01 Bit EA D. e lietropolis is 10!; 2 6. tor the 41b. SEE.H. Per Quatte: St. loin —s 49 66 orass 4os 44s ~' •trey ......... --s —s - 1..,,eed, for teeth —s 4,5 , 2 s Attu, for ......—s• Ditto, for crushing...--s 42s 466 I. anal'' , Hemi —s 33' 40s Per Bushel. White Mustard...lls. 14s. tld. Brown Ditto l 5 B. pd. Ws. rd Tares 5B. tid 7^ 6d. tst) 28 1 . 31/. Foreign 261. 21. 1 !. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to 'l , (Horse Hides, , erman . 12 2 2 Spanish 13 24 Calf Skins,3 , to 4- lb. (doz) 15 22 40 59 ---50 60 . ~ 21 2S 100 H 2'2 Seal Skins, large... small .. 20 22 16 20 6 11 7 9i 9 12 New I.lnglish “cd cr...55, 90, Oki DAM Ditto Nev. orergn 011 ttf: N. ')ld . 6- SO, . 0 65s 70 30 1.!2, 1. tt - •-, V!, 3 0 s T-eitilium English Carraway -r. U.. 56. -s. abs. 56s Forum} Ditto Coriander -s 20s. 25s Rapeseed, Engl. h .'tit- per ~, PRICES OF P2r lb. c'. to d Crop H ides,3 to -:0Ib each 11 i;11 1:2 16 ' - BUT - 1 Hides: --- -4:1:1 . - .65! :. • • :: : . I ' l l ' 7 l ' 1 14 11 ; i Butts, V triol ... . Engl sh . 15 2 's - E, , reign ... 14 , 18 1. °reign Hides ..... 10 1.! I- Dressing Hides ... ... 11 14 I Kips ... Shaved... .13 17 Basis.- - Be , Saddlers' i I ides... 15 Ili t Bellies .. Horse Flicks, Engosh ... 11 I • Shout ers Cal t Skins, if rounded 2d. io 3d. por lb. snore. PH ICLs OF HOPS, Farnham est' , (per cwt.) O ., 1 Os. es. 0 5 1 i. 1 Vss.to 6 . to 0 !1 0 Ct East K •:, , Pockets. Ditto Bags . 3 los. 0 O. to 1 , 4- ;lid Kent Pockets 3/. 10s. 41. 10s. to 5' FP Ditt Bags ~ , 0.. 0. Os to 4 Os , nissi-x Yearlings O/. Os. 3/. 3s to 3/ 1 0 . Old Olds Old Duty estimated at 225,0001. PRICE OF OIL. Rapeoll,brown,pe ton, 3 /. Os.-Reticed,36/.los -• irseed • 11, 231. Liikeed , it Cake at the Mill (I , 00), 12/.1:25.-Rape take. per t0n,17 PRICE sit' 'l' ALLoW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town I allow Yellow Russia ',os. 6d. Mottled White -s. Od. Curd ..• ... • -s. Od• ' Soap Ditto ... Melting Stuff ... ..... 41s. I'd. i,lood Dregs...... ss. 6d , ' Dtto Rough 'RICE F RAW FAT, per stone of 81 , .. , . Price of Fallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 2s. 10. PRICE ~ F CANDLES. The price of good Store • andles in the Retail Shops is as f .. .;ilows :- Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, )s. Od. ; Moulds, its. 6d. Sixs:ence per doze discount for cash, CAL MARKET. s, d 5. cl. Adair's Ch,ster .. 23 ,„P Carr's Hartley Holywell Main 2l F Walls End K e ll oe 24 0 Leaz's Main Tanfied Moor Butes 2O I - ' Walls E4cl Barrett Townley l9 0 Walls End Cl arence T ees , , . '.":0 ~,, Wylam. Walls End Gosforth .... 23 6 Wall s E n d T ees .., .. ... ... ~ 24 () Walls r'nd Heaton Walls End Hilda '22 3 Walls End Tenrw ti i t .. .... 24 Walls End Hotspur s' Walls End Riddell's ... '4 0 Walls End Vk ft - toria Tees.... 23 Walls End BraddylPsHetton 24 0 Walls Eiv.',WestHetton .... 23 ~ •• Wal's End Haswell 24 0 Hartley ..„, .. 21 '. Walls End Hetton Walls End Lambton .... ..... 24 t ciSilkstone Simpson ;I . Walls End Russell's Hetton 24 1 ships arrived sinee last market.day, 26. --- HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. vv heat. Marks 420 to 450 Barley, Mecklenburgh 225 to 2 0 -- Magdeburg 402 to 444 -- Magdeburgh, to --- - Anhalt, white 420 to 468 -- Holstein 225 W 27 2 red ... 414 to 4:8 -- S ummer 192 to 1 9 : - Brunsv ick 414 to 450 Oats, Eider ... „ , • 120 to 14 ---Mecklenburg 4O to 464 -- Mecklenburg ... 162 to IL, ---- Polish - Holstein 126 to IY , -- 'holstein 378 to 43 ,-- Elst Frieland,.. 115 to j'''' Rye, Mecklenburg .... '219 to 276 Pease, Mecklenburg ... 240 to 31 1 -- Dantzic -- Elbing .'nd Ko- Buck Wheat. __ to --- nigsburg - Upland - Riga 2.16 to 251 Tares - to --- COTTON. Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 4t0 9% Maranham Georgia. Ist sort 9 914 Madras 5% ° N 2d 3d and 4th .... 11% 74. Domingo ..... . 7 r i , 7% COFFEE. Mocha Bto 11% Domingo sgl 634 Batavia Sumatra - Porto Rico 5% Rio 4% 54 Havannah 5 6 Bahia SUGAR.- (Wit 8% Discount.) Havannah, White Brown ..... .. 5N 5;4, Brown 54 a Rio, White 6 7 Pernambuco, White ...6 l i i Brown 4% 5% Brown ...4% " 7 . Manilla, Brov la, 5% to SN. SUICIDE BY TAKING MURIATIC ACID.---°n Monday, at six o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr Payne, at the Skinners' Arms, Skinner-street, Bishops gate, on the body of Thomas Cullimore, aged 67, a rag and bottle-merchant, in an extensive way of lrasiness , residing at No. .5, Union -street, who committed self destruction by taking a large quantity of mirziatic acid on Saturday morning last. Elizabeth Brinkman, daugh ter of the deceased, said she resided with her father. On Saturday morning last, shortly after the de ceased had got up, she was sitting in the parlour, when he came through and passed into the s 1301). He returned in three or four minutes, exclaim ing " I have done it." Witness said " Good God, what have you done ?" to which he replied, .‘ I have taken muriatic acid." She urged him to take some salt and water, and instantly sent for a medical man, w ho at tended. The deceased continued getting worse, and died at six o'clock on Sunday evening. Th e de ceased bad been in a desponding state of mind for som ! He drank, at past, but witness w as no t cogn i zan t of the cause. e He was not in emb a r rasse d c i rcumstanc es. f at least, two ounces of th e liquid. Thomas W hite, No. 28, Myddleton.st ree t, spoke to the deceased's ge neral desponding state of mind, but was not aware of the cause. Mr. Rance, the surgeon, who was called in, said be had, attended the deceased for f our years . Hi s raiod was much affected at times. 'He was sent for at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, and found that the de ceased had taken a large 'quantity ohnuriatic acid: 116 administered an emetic, but witho u t e ff ec t. H e wa s much surprised death did not take place instantaneously on drink' ing the poison, and could only account for it by the acid not touching the throat, for had it done so strangulat ion would have immediately followed. By the Coroner,-.- I have no doubt but the deceased drank it from +lie bottle produced. A quarter of the quantity would pro-- duce death.—Verdict Temporary Insanity. Count Decnidof is now the lion of Paris. The Earl of Pembroke has cut with the Parisians ." for ever," having sold his hotel, carriages, horses, furniture, &c. ; and intends to pass the residue of his der; in his owu country. Wilton House is now undergoir ig m any improvements, and agents are at work to find oat a first rate mansion in town. INFANTICIDE. —On Tuesday afternoon an in quest was held at the Barley Mow, Mount -street, Grosvenor-square, before Mr. Higg , ,, on view of the bodies of two new born female infr.ots (unknown), who were found in the Serpentine-river, in Hyde-park wrapped in a piece of old check handkerchief. A surgeon expressed an opinion that they were twins, and had been born alive. A juryman said the bastardy clause of the new Poor Law Act had been the cause of many cases of infanticide, and that there was no restriction upon the father. Another juryman thought that they ought to express some opinion upon it in their verdict. The Foreman said he did not see what it had to do with the case, Verdict—" That the two deceased children had been wilfully destroyed after birth, and then pl ace d i n t h e P ar k for concea l m ent." The following resolution was attached to the verdict :--- " That the numerous cases of infanticide are mainly at tributable to the bastardy clause of the New Poor-law Act, and they hope that the Legislature will ere lev g modify that Act." At the Woolwich Petty Sessions yesterday gr• ; Lewis Davis, p awn b ro k er , appeare d on a c b a ,, ge having aided a cadet, of the name of Laurie, t o desert from the Military Academy. Mr. CoNub ouch citor, who attended on behalf of the Br,ard o f Ord i 1 nance, called the cadet to p rove t h at he ' da d purehas,e: a suit of plain clothes at th e s h op previous to "s going to London without l eave , and pay for it, he offered his regirlient , ; lB i n par t o f paylne n l aaving no mope,' tO. ty which the shopman declin e d, b u t h e a f terwar d s wra pped them up and left them at anothe r shop. The Belle ii. gave it as their opinion that a cadet could be treated itt:' a deserter, but th e y did n o t cons id er t h e charge mad out in the case, before th em , and therefore dismissed tb`" , iwormatiol, _ • , __-- POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in w.oc m , cases, 12 inches long by five inches wide, each playing four s, with the mechanism finished in a very superior manner , ti; offered for Five Guineas each. Also a few of the s ° l ' description, larger sizes, at the following prices:— Six Airs £7 70 i Eight Airs extra, 0 Eight Airs ... 818 6 large . £l4 14 r Three Overtures 14 140 0 At T. COX SAVORY'S, W or ki ng Silversmith, Th.ro smith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cor n hill , Landon (Seven J."— from Gracechurch-street). N.B. The small Musical Boxes, 3i inches long, contil, selling in tin cases, pric e 19s. each, or in composition sn r oases, 25s each. be 11 . 41 A Catalogue containing a List of the Music may v i er gratis, or be forwarded by post as a single letter In a rils ___........_2 0 BIRTHS'. ing e Es • On the Bth inst., -at Oakendean, the l a dy of Mark Pi q., of a son. • On the 9th inst., at Clapham-common, the lady of Joh n IC. Gilliat, Esq., of a son. MARRIAD. On the 9th inst., at St. Pancras New Church , fleorge gar . Herbst L a k e, E sq., of Keppel-street, Russell-square, Woiße. riet M ary , e ld est d aughter of the late John Wall, EWA' gent-square. On the 21st ult., at her Majesty's Consul's, MaeAeira , Gellie Hamilt on , E sq. , o f t h e i sland of Teneriffa, 1 4 .5. eldest daughter of Thomas Howard Edwards, D IE ii„ On the fith inst., in Southwick-street., Ozfor4-sere' Maynard Eliza, the beloved wife of James Thounion, of the Bengal Civil S erv i ce , an d e ld es t d aug hter of J. " Grant, Esq., of Elchies, North Britain, aged 28 years o f On the 6th inst., Margaret, wife of James Burt, Esq.' Chorlton House, Manchester. On the 7th inst., at Middlesex-:place, Dr. William Carh abfy aged 67. On the 6th inst., in Cumming-street, Pentonville , George James, late of the firm of G. and R. James, Cliffo:fi street. On the Sth inst., at Harrow, Elizabeth Catherine, di-fig ht of the Rev. S. F, Statham, aged 18. On the Bth inst., George Keith , Esq., of Alfred-Ilace, Bed ford-squit-ke, aged 78. aCtßrlriesggiPhnes-liplZk Aerts Edward 'O ath-. r g:sa. aged 18. On the 7th inst. , at Southall . _ w n O y t n e , t s h e e co 7 n t d h i s n o s n t .0, of Charles park, Mr. Matthew Dqu' late of Calcutta, aged 36. On the 3d inst. , Eliza b eth., the wife of Thmas Stott, Esq'' I of Brannton, near Barnstaple, Devon. On the 3 1 st ult., at Genoa, Ha rr i o t A nn, th e widow of the late Major-General. Horace Churchill London . ?tinted and Published by MITRDO YOTINP No, IN, strand. at The 81171 Ofgee, No 112, Strand, In county of Illiddlesex.—Tuesclav, November 12, 11339• 1 7 , I