The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

OtTvnias 2"ate, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1844. In the last number of the Edinburgh Review there is an article entitled "The Results of Tory Rule," which is penned in a moderate and—considering that the writer is a partisan of the Whigs —an impartial spirit, giving all due credit to the Ministry where credit is due, and pointing out their numerous errors frankly and boldly, without, however, indulging in the slightest exaggeration or acrimony. In the course of this article, the Reviewer makes one or ta 0 remarks, which, at the present crisis, are worthy of particular attention. " The growing inattention," he observes, " manifested by both Houses to the performance of their functions, is, we know, daily more and more complained of ; an,i this subject is of infinitely greater moment than it is generally considered to be. T. re-pect and confidence which the public have been ac customed to feel for the deliberations 2nd decision:; of Parliament are, indeed, lamentably diminished. The keen interest which its proceedings formerly ex cited, exists no longer. Even the ambition to obtain a seat in Parliament is lessened ; the difficulty of in ducing well-qualified candidates to come forward complained of; and the whole relations between the public and both !louses are, we grieve to say, altered for the worse. The tone in which public affairs are discussed, is lowered, and a languid Indifference is, by degrees, extending its chilling influence over the representatives of the people and the people themselves." Disheartening as is the tone 0! these remarks, no on e can d eny t h at they have their foundation in truth. The deep interest with which the public used to regard the proceedings of their representatives in Parliament has of late—that is to say, since the accession of the Tory party to office—given place to a sort of phlegmatic indiffer ence, which is one of the most dangerous symptoms that the popular mind can possibly exhibit. Through out the last session, this indifference on the part f the re )ple was specially marked, aad towards the close, men atemed to think no more of what was doing in Parliament than if there had been no such institu tion in existence. A slight stir, indeed, was create.] by Sir ROBERT PEEL'S announcement of his intention to pr pare, during the reees=, seine remedial measures for the benefit of Ireland, for which he was paid in advance by the applaus, of the Liberals ; but if we except this momentary excitement, nothing could be more humiliating nothing more decided than the general indifference which existed when the House of Commons closed its labours for the year. There must be some cause for this apathy on the part of the people, and that cause may, we think, be found in the conduct whi c h our Conservative Government has thought fit to pursue since it first established it self in snug quarters in Downing -street. Instead of steering its course by the steady light of principl e , it has allowed itself to be led out of th e r i g h t track by the irk/at/us of expediency. It wa s pl ace d i n office by the ,thergeti ,effr:4-ktc„the Monopoli s t s , under a firm ciinviction which bigoted and weak-minded raep ,,,, enterta i ne 4 • 1114,,A would do th e i r bid ' `~=L~ 2 /..1/4,:v ding promptly, cheerfully, and successfully. In stead of this, however, no sooner was it fairly installed in power, than it began to look coolly on its supporters, and even attempted to kick down the ladder by which it had risen. The principles it professed on the hustings were all for gotten. The measures which it had scouted in oppo sition, were fostered the instant it had taken up its position on the right hand of the Speaker's chair. From having been the partizan of Monopoly, Govern ment became all at once an advocate for " free trade in the abstract." It had previously lent a willing ear to the sophistries of Mr. BANRES. It now listened with deference to the suggestions of Mr. COBDEN. By such equivocal—such shuffling conduct it succeeded in alienating one large portion of the community—namely, the Monopolists, while it failed in securing the confidence of another numerous body—viz., the Free-traders. Both equally felt that it was making a tool of them countenancing or discountenancing them, just accord ing as it suited its own interested views; consequently, both hold it in distrust, and despairing just at present of obtaining a change of administration, have fallen into a state of calm indifference from which we see no immediate prospect of their being roused. The equivocal proceedings of Government are, we contend, :the chief cause of the existing apathy of the people, and this apathy bids fair to continue so long as Sir ROBERT PEW. sees fit to legislate on what he calls, the " expediency system." Expediency! We contemn and abhor the phrase. It is in direct antagonism to principle, and is in too many instances the pretext put forth by knaves to justify their most indefensible practices. The two besetting sins, and most characteristic distinctions of our days, are, certainly, cant and cox combry. A meddling patronage jobbing Prelate is the type of the one—a ceremonial-loving, priestcraft preaching parson of the other. Of such Prelates, the " Church-multiplying-principle" Bishop of LONDON— and of such parsons, the Puseyite crotchetty Vicar of Ware, are about the most obtrusive examples that occur to us. Tho readers of The Sun cannot have forgotten the account we gave some months ago, of the rise and progress of the parochial polemics which had then involved, and have ever since retained, the contumacious vicar and his offended parishioners in terms of mutual but most unseemly dissatisfaction with one another. The Bishop, being appealed to by the men of Ware, did interpose, to some extent, be tween them and their pastor ; but so reluctantly and ungraciously, that, like a certain other peace-maker, his intervention did but " worse embroil the fray." Die churchwardens addressed a respectful letter to his Lordship. The Right Reverend Father snubbed the churchwardens in reply, with no more of forbearance or meekness than one of his prelatical predecessors would have exhibited to a body of disputatious lay men in the palmiest days of the Popedom. The churchwardens renewed their representations ; but brought down only a rude and ill-bred notice from the Right Reverend " CHARLES JAMES'S" secretary, haughtily intimating—if we rightly remember— that the churchwardens, having thought fit to publish their correspondence with that gentle Bishop, with out previous permission obtained from him, his spi ritual Lordship declined to favour them with (the or ainary civility of) an answer. Therefore the church wardens and the parishioners, who were of the Esta blished Church, left to their own remedy, and finding the vicar inflexible in his resolution to uphold the literal injunctions of the Rubric, even as to those ob servances which they deemed most offensive to the opinions of the great bulk of the Church in the pre sent day, and utterly opposed to the practice of its ministers during the last century and a half, had re course to other modes of proceeding. They required that, having declared himself bound by the letter of the Rubric in all things, he should in all things con form his official deportment to it, and, inter alia, pub • licly catechise the children of the parishioners after the second lesson. This observance the vicar could not well escape from, and therefore complied with, until almost a month ago, when he discontinued it, on an alleged pretext which will be found to form the main subject of a further correspondence, terminating only a few days ago, that we print in another column. From this last correspondence it will be seen that, notwithstanding the lofty pretensions of indefeasible religious dug and solemn convictions, operating with the Fuser' -fear to follow the letter or the Rubric "even t. of his being enjoined to the con rary" by his spiritual Lordship, they have not been sufficiently founded in the good faith of primitive Christianity, or the stern truthfulness of a pure mo rality, to induce the Rev. Gentleman to redeem his own pledge to his parishioners (as to his concurring in the certain conciliatory " arrangement" referred to in Mr. COBHAM'S letter to the Bishop), or to with hold him from starting, at the eleventh hour, a pe cuniary difficulty, of his own suggestion, as the flimsy plea for his departure from his reverend word. This `act supplies "le mot d'enigme." Nothing can exceed the Lord Bishop of LONDON'S disinterested anxiety to multiply new churches within his diocese, except — his interested anxiety to secure the presentation pa tronage which they give him. So this reverend vicar, Mr. CODDINGTON'S, enthusiastic reverence for the Rubric commentary on a discipline and doctrine of which the ritual enjoins, among other things, a lowly and charitable bearing on the part of the minister to his flock—is to be moved from the inflexible ad hesion of a Puseyite "purist" to the letter—of his own undertaking, by a "pecuniary difficulty." We are really disgusted with the disgraceful exhibitions which this fashionable purism—this "favourite fancy" of fanatical incumbents and ambitious prelates, whose bowels yearn for the re-installation of Romish power, with Romish forms, in the ministers of the altar— this vain and insidious Puseyism, in short, is con stantly tempting our Protestant Churchmen to make of themselves. The evils it works to the cause of the " Reformed Church as by law established"—an epithet of constitutional modification which your Puseyites naturally detest—are incalculable. Whole congregations desert her service, and are forgetting her communion. In another town of Hertfordshire, not long since, the offended parishioners fitted up a Dissenting meeting-house, we are told, for the cele bration of the form of worship which should have been presided over by their minister ; but he had become tainted with this spiritual coxcombry—(we know no better designation for it). And when the Church at large finds its own Prelates abetting the mischief— like our sleek Bishop, in his correspondence with Mr. ConitAm, as representative of the churchwardens of Ware—it will soon begin to doubt how fur its alle giance can be tendered to a hierarchy of which some leading members so ill discharge the reciprocal duties of protecting it from vain and schismatic innovations, whether of ceremony or of doctrine ; and of meek and Christian patience and gentleness in communing with their flocks. Does the Bishop of LONDON prefe r to aid the peace of the Church or the progress of Puseyism ? Do his notions of pastoral love and epis copal responsibility attach the stronger claims upon his countenance and favour to the respectful but earnest remonstrances of a congregation, devoted to the religion, and the modes of worship, adopted by them, after their forefathers, for many past generations ; —or to the fussy mummery of a Pusey-struck vicar ? Does the Right Rev. Prelate opine that the Church was instituted for the people, or for its bishops ? Does he hold it better, wiser, more Christian-like, to vindicate the freaks of this Mr. CODDINOTON, or to cut off from the Church the congregation she has hitherto possessed at Ware ? Will he have Puseyism or Protestantism ? The Paris journals, for want of a better subject, still keep up the war with each other about the result of LOUIS PHILIPPE'S visit to England. The Globe thus attacks certain ill- natured comments in Queen CHRISTINA'S journal the Presse, and with some effect. These malignant war journals vainly claim the merit of representing tho feeling of universal France : " The LORD MAYOR of London, in having done to wards the King of the FRENCH what has never been done for any Sovereign, by going out of the City, and carrying to Windsor the expression of the sympathies of the great capital towards his Majesty of FRANCE, has, in the opinion of the Presse, done nothing more than an act of com mon politeness, which established no distinction between the visit to Eu and the visit to Windsor ; and exclaims—' Acknowledgments for such a trifle ! Can any one think of it !' But might not England have left undone what she has done? If the LORD MAYOR, for example, had chosen not to disturb himself; if he had con- , fined himself within his city, we should have had war pro claimed against all England to teach him his duty. The Debats considers that the shouts of Vive la Reined' Angleterre, uttered by the French squadron, was the faithful expression of the sentiments of France. No ! that is false ! replies the Presse, and attempts, as follows, to prove it so. At the discussion of the next address, it says, the Ministry will not again talk of the entente cordiale, or if it does the Chamber will modify the paragraph more essentially than last year. What other answer can be given to this than that the Ministry will again talk of the entente cordiale , and that the Chamber would not modify the paragraph more essentially than last year. What will the Presse say then ? Why, if that hap pens, as we do not doubt it will, the Presse will say that the manifestation of the Chambers is not the sense of the nation, as it now says of the manifesta tion by the squadron. The KING, the Ministry, the officers of our squadron, or the Chambers, neither of them represent, neither of them compre hend the national sentiments. Messrs. DE GI RAEDIN and DUJARRIER alone represent and comprehend it. Is not the Presse the representative of the nation, at the rate of 48f. a year a head ?" The reconstruction of the Polytechnic School, which excited considerable interest throughout France, has not yet been finally decided. We may infer, how ever, from the following remarks of the Journal des Debate, that the severity with which the ardent spirits of that establishment was threatened will be greatly mitigated, and perhaps a general amnesty granted. The youths of the Polytechnic had a hand in the days of July, and were the foremost in every attack upon despotism : " Several journals have announced that the commission aapointed to re-organise tho Polytechnic School proposes to exclude a certain number of the pupils sent away in August last, some saying 70, others 20 or 30. We do not believe this news to be exact : we do not think the commission has had any occasion to make a proposition of the kind, and we are of opinion that a partial exclu sion would be but little just, and not handsomely done. The Polytechnic School is not to be decimated : deci mation is not the custom of our time. The fault, for we acknowledge that some existed, was common to all ; the measure of exclusion ought therefore to be general. But that would, in truth, be to punish with a rigour which belongs neither to our epoch nor our Government. It is just to add besides, that except the passing infringement of discipline, of which the pupils were not perhaps the most culpable, the conduct of these young men was ad mirable. We persist, therefore, in believing that the school will be re-opened to all. If there are to be any changes to make either in discipline or in the system of studies, let them be made ; that will be good and useful, whereas it would be unjust to make some bear the fault of all, and cruel to punish 300 families and 300 young men full of promise, for a moment's error. If the school needs an amnesty, never will an amnesty have been more happily applied. A journal makes this remark, and we willingly adopt it." The Consithitionne/ contains the following biogra phical and political details of the new Austrian Am bassador to the Court of St. James. Whatever sub ject this journal writes upon, England is sure to be mixed up with it in an invidious sense : " Count Maurice Dietrichstein, who has just been ap pointed Ambassador from the Court of Vienna to that of London, belongs to one of the highest families of the Austrian empire. Ilis father, at one time Minister of Francis IL, was the Governor of the Duke of Reich stadt, and with w;lom the new Ambassador passed the days of his youth. Count Maurice is still young for the eminent post to which he is called, being only forty years old at the utmost. He for several years was Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of King Leopold, who re ceived him into his intimacy. His nomination may be taken as a symptom of the decline of the influence of Prince Metternich at the Court of Vienna. The father of Count Maurice is, in fact, on the line of aspirers to the political succession of the Prince Chancellor, with whom he, in a measure, stands in rivalry, since the Prince has refused to give one of his daughters in mar riage to the new Ambassador. For a long time Austria has had no Ambassador at the Court of Queen Victoria. The policy of England, whether the Tories or the Whigs be in power, will always be to give checkmate to France, by opposing to her the fasces of the great European powers. Austria is at this time making advances to the British Cabinet, of which it will not fail to take advant age, in spite of all the cordialities of Windsor." The Siecle gives the following statements respecting the new French loan : "It appears the Minister of Finance is determined to dispose immediately of the second series of the loan, and that it is to be made by a creation of Three per Cent. Stock. The sole question to be determined is— whether the amount of the loan is to be 150 or 300 millions. That will depend, probably, on the courage of the contractors. The immediate conclusion of the loan will have the unpleasant consequence of adjourning the conversion of the Five per Cents. for two or three years. We deplore this bitterly. The immediate re mission of 80,000,000 Dutch Rents in Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock is anuouncnd. I.lctween French and Dutch Stock - Ike btock-Ex.ch.tr.F,u — ls about to have au harvest, which will no doubt calm the senseless taste which has arisen for new shares, or promises of new shares." The Madrid mail of the 15th, had not reached Paris at the usual hour of post. Some attributed this to bad weather, and others to a rising of the Carlists. Letters from Perpignan state that Generals AMETTLER and SANTA CRUZ, together with five Captains of the Progesista party, had been arrested by the French Douaniers just as they were about to enter Spain. THE BOURSE-.-MONDAY, OCT. 21. First Highest Lowest Las Price. Price. Price. Price. French:Five per Cants...... 118 23 .. 118 40 .. 118 23 .. 118 40 Fours .....• •• •• .• •• 107 23 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 Three per Cents..... 82 05 •. 82 15 .. 82 05 .. 82 10 Bank of France Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o —ll2O ..1120 ..1120 5,000 f. Sharesso43 75 •-5043 75 "5052 50 ..5042 50 Belgian Btuik .. ••• . • 66o_ • • 660 .. 660 .. 660 Bolgian Fives 1831. _ _ 1840 •• 1031 •. 1031 1842 ........ 165 i 105} .. 1051 105 i Spanish Pa55ive..•......... 51 .. 51 .. 51 .. Active •••••••••• 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321 Threes ••..•.• • . • • • 351 • . 354 • . 351 • . 3t 1 Neapolitan••••••••••••• .. 98 65 .. 98 65 .. 98 65 .. 98 65 Roman .• •• •••• •• . MR. lIORACE SMITH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now real at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., A RTHI JR ARUNDEL; A TALE OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. By the AUTHOR of " BRAMBLETYE HOUSE," &a. "One of the best of Mr. Horace Smith's works."—Morning Chron. " This tale is even far superior to the author's first and beet known work, 'Brambletye House.' "—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW ROMA:s.iCE, BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE KUZZILBASII," "ALLEE NEEMROO," &c. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 4 vols., post Bvo., THE DARK FALCON. A TALE OF THE ATTRUCK. By J. B. FRASER, Esq. Author of " The Kuzzilbash," " Alice Neemroo," &c. " This Persian fiction of Mr. Fraser Is perhaps the completest ful filment that can be conceived of an historical romance; where the history and historical persons of a given period are so intermixed with the events and characters of the fiction, that it is d.flicult to tell which predominatzs. This is accomplished in ' The Dark Falcon' by selecting a period of history full of remarkable persons and strikingly strange events ; so that tho truth itself is stranger than fictiou. There is no lack of sustained interest in the work; the reader has no desire to quit it unfinished."—Spectator. . . Richard Bentley, New llurlington-street. THEATRE ROY A t, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, OFTOBER Will be performed a New Grailid Opera, in Thiee Act!, entitled rtiE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnhclm, Mr. Berrahi Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton; Arline, Miss Rainforth I Queen of the Gipsies, MiS3 Betts. To conclude with the G , and f airy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM, In which Mdlle. Plunkett, Mdlle Clara Webster, Mdlle. O'l3ryan, Mrs. W. H. Payne, and Madame Oulhilei will ap Th pe r. e Box.otfice Is open daily, from Ten In the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tusked may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 23, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W, Farren, Buckstoue, and C. Mathews, Madame Veatris, Miss P. Horton, Mra. E Yarnold, Miss luila Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Mover. _ _ _ _ - - - Alter which, willbe produced a New Comic Drama, founded on Den Caesar de Ram, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart Don Sebastian della Ross, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Juba Bennett. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone. entitled THE 3 ill JiBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. litickstone , Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orche,tra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even. ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, es.; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery. (28.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock —Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, I s .; Upper Gallery, fd. Doors opened at Haltpast Six, Per formance commence at :,even. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, from fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 23, Will be performed an en.irely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE BAZ AN ; or, Love tnd Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Cesar de B min, Mr. Welist.r ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Wooigar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowe ll . To be followed by a New Comae Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilharn. Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, lir Pitt ; Leader of the Baud, Mr. Mellon.—Box- o dise open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STUEL.T. LESSEE, hir. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 29, Will be perform. d THE SY REN. Principal Characters by Messrs Walton. C. , Horti, Jun., Leffler, Allet , ,,ind Mdlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CESAR DB BAZAN. Don Cwsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Second, Mr Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countesi di Rotondo, Mrs Fo.broke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 48. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. lid.; Boxes, '2a. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, lid. Private Bores, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Halt first Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. fdassingham. Private Boxes and 1. rce Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LAZE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. First Week of the New Grand Tale of Enchantment. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 23, Will be reneated THE SEVEN CAS TLES ok , THE PASS .ONs With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principa l Charaters Ihr Mr. Diddear Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gourlet, Craven, and Mr. Keeley; bliss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli tge, Mr, A. Wigan, Miss Turner, bilis James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fort scue, and Mrs. Keeley. To conc ude with a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE... W ff. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, Llner) F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, stallion, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, and Keeley; Miss rortescue, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, see Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIeony Boxes, 41.; Upper Boxes, Si.; Pit, 2a.*; Gallery, 6d. Second nice—Balcony Boxes, Sr. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the 11.4.1tAny (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Seconi: Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Privat, Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guit.ea' I Ire Box..ittice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. Ow of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTI. EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every everiing with its unequalled rotation Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 2:3, and during the week at Seven o'Clock„ The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter Scott ' entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of N e th er , iy, arid hteed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and mvel feats of Horse. manship, by thee x teneive corps of French and Br fish riders. To conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War_ riots of Palestine. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. K. Smith daily. DAVIDGES ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS EVENING, ocroßEn, Will be performed a New Dram; enti led DON CESAR DE BA ZA N, supported by the entire Company. To conelu, e with a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Sup. orted by the whole Company, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. at the Box office, from Kleven to Four. ROYAL vicToßin. THEATRE. TIDS EVENING OCTOBER 21, Will be pencnnea—ocrio AA.] Principal Cha ratters by Messrs.. sU Odiston, Dale, Hobert and Nisi Vincent. After which, TH&I RON CHESI. Sir Falward Mortimer. , r gr " ba m ; Wiirn ' a 7 [lbs. W. (Vest. or, Family r euds and a _ , ampins Legacy SrPate Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and -£1 11s. 6d. H WEATHER.—Suta OFFICE, OCT. 23. Titeascomwricx, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 52; soon, 45 BAROXICTKR, 29.95.—Wnm, E. Narm..—The ntnnber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the ft*ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair it aqt ally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE THIS DAY. 0 minutes after 0 j Evening ... 1 minutes after 0. tt .e. 4.: ‘, 4 .-''Aiioak 7- tr , t , vy • no PRore 45;" , 'NW* SECOND EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1844. RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain . . . 912 50 .. 912 50 .. 912 50 .. 912 50 Versailles, R.B. L.B. ..... ....... 277 50 . 278 75 .. 277 50 .. 277 50 Rouse .... .. Rouen to Havre 770 .. 770 .. 770 .• 770 Orleans .....-.....1017 5O ..1017 50 ..1016 25 ..1017 50 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 277 50 .. 278 75 277 50 . 278 75 Avignon to Marseilles— —.. 781 25 . 782 50 .. 781 25 7b2 50 RAILWAY SIIARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31. Versailles, R. 8.. • .......... 395 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395 L.B. • ........... 277 50 .. 280 .. 277 50 .. 277 50 Rouen SO ..1032 50 ..1023 75 ..1025 Rotten to Havre•• 770 Orleans •• •• •• ••,•• • . lO2O .. 770 ..1020 .. 770 .. 770 ..1016 25 ..1017 50 Strasburg to •• 277 50 .. 278 75 .. 277 50 277 50 Avignon to Marseilles...... 782 50 .. 782 50 . 780 .. 782 50 lIAMBURGH MAIL. RIGA, OCT. 6.—A report is again in circulation that it is intended shortly to issue the third series of the loan contracted with Strelitz and Co. for the con struction of the iron railway from St. Petersburgh to Moscow. The whole loan is for the sum of forty millions of silver rubles, to be issued in eight series of five millions each, of which only two series have yet been issued. We have hitherto had no sails factory account of the progress that has been made this summer, and a report has even been spread that the work has been indefinitely deferred. This, how ever, can hardly be the case, since, considering how regular the financial administration of Russia is, it cannot well be supposed that the produce of the loan is applied to any other purpose than that officially announced. Private letters from St. Petersburgh say, that at the expiration of the mourning for the Grand Duchess Alexandria, a distinguished visitor WWI CI, meted, for whom the hand of the Grand Duchess Olga is said to be destined, if the august persons in terested should prove agreeable to each other. VIENNA, OCT. 10.—The investigations respecting the officers of our navy at Vienna in consequence of the treasonable conduct of the brothers Bandiera, are Not yet terminated, but seems, on the contrary, to become more extensive. More witnesses, and persons inculpated, are summoned and examined. The cap tain of the ship of the line, who succeeded Admiral Bandiera in the command of our squadron in the Levant, is also recalled. MUSICAL. CHIT-CHAT.—lnchindi, the talented basso, has started for Paris, where he intends to pass the winter. Mr. Henry Phillips has made a successful hit at New York.—Salvi, the tenor, has gone to Russia.—The fol lowing performers were added to her Majesty's private band during the visit of the King of the French at Windsor Castle :—Messrs. T. Cooke, Loder, Blagrove, W. Blagrove, A. Grieshach, Hill, Lucas, Howell, Steel. 1.4.tp ioli festival ienegot no i e s i ie e iinnprfipi superintendenceivri et o e c 3c e e s aa s otrf o si f l. .:_ei formation o pTß r sh m iacei a ,nw t ii i n l oa n r:hc, i s n oemyop:l. Germany,eiritleaul form,elss,t and J. B. Chatterton ; Director, Mr. Anderson.—A vocal , r i t appearnouaunder takedaer are in London, under the auspices of M. Bunsen.—Thalberg has decided on settling in Paris. He will take a select number of pupils at the hotel Horace Vernet, where he resides at present. Ire has purchased a house. A translation of Marpurg's work on music .is in course of I publication, by Mr. Stimpson, of Birmingham.—Musical Examiner. Tuesday was the last day of the season for the Tweed salmon fishing; the fish have this last week been taken in much greater numbers, but the greater part of them were not fit to send to market. The prices of clean fish have been from 6d to 7d. per lb. ; black fish and kip pers, 2d. to 4d. The Spittal fishers have commenced their usual system of night poaching, which they . carry on to a great extent in defiance of the water bailiffs ; this illegal fishing, it appears, will never be done away, unless Government place the fisheries under the protec- 1 tion of the Coast Guard.—Newcastle Advertiser. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. THIS DAY'S NEWS. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir C. F. 'WILLIAMS). IN THE MATTER OF THOMAS FRIEND. The insolvent, an appraiser, at Canterbury, applied by his counsel, Mr. Hughes, for his final order, and was opposed by Mr. Sturgeon, on the part of Mr. Delausaix, a creditor to the amount of above 301. The circum stances were these. The insolvent had accepted two bills of the respective sums of 20Z and 10/. in favour of a Mr. Baker, and had upon these bills paid three instalments. They had been, at a subsequent period, passed into the hands of the opposing creditor in this case, who brought an action against Mr. Friend in the Sheriffs' Court at Greenwich, for the amount. The defendant entered a plea that ho had not accepted the said bills, but was cast the amount at issue, namely, about 151., with 19/. of costs. The insolvent was this day opposed on the plea of vexatious defence in that action. Mr. llughes said, that if an adjournment were given he should prove by the evidence of Mr. Baker, that the insolvent's debt to him had been but 31., and that was, therefore, all the amount the bills really carried when paid over to Mr. Delausaix. All things considered, he did not think the defence before the Sheriff a vexatious one; and were the whole case properly sifted, he did not doubt that the lion. Commissioner would come to the conclusion that the insolvent was, in truth, an injured man. Sir C. WILLIANs said, that in order to give him every chance. be should adjourn the passing of the final order till Friday next, when they might produce Baker in evidence. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. At ten o'clock this .morning Mr. Justice Maulo and Mr. Baron Rolfe took their seats on the Bench. THE SLAVE-TRADING CASE.' Tho COURT gavo judgment to-day upon the points raised by counsel on behalf of Captain Jenkins, the commander of the vessel supposed to be a slaver, in con nexion with which the trial of Mr. Zulueta took place some time ago at the Old Bailey, and decided that some of the counts were good, and that the trial must take place. THE CASE OF THE HON. WM. ROSS Tou- CHET BROTHER OF LORD AUDLEY. _ _ After the 'above case had been disposed of, the lion. Mr. Touchet was !placed at the bar, charged *ith shoot ing at Mr Thos. Smith, on the 6th. of last July, with in tent to kill him. Mr. Charnock conducted the prosecution • Mr. Clark son and Mr. Bodkin were retained for the defence. Mr. CHARNOCK having briefly stated the case, as de tailed in the following evidence, said in conclusion, that he understood the defence in this ease would be that of insanity. If that were so, the jury would require to be satisfied on that peint, and it would not be enough that the prisoner was insane at that time—it should be shown that he was so at the time he committed the act for which he was brought before them that day. He felt it due to the prosecutor on this occasion to say that he was not actuated by any vindictive feelings ; and however cala mitous the occurrence was to him, he did not harbour any ill feelings towards the prisoner ; but he thought it a matter due to the public that the subject should be investi g ated in a court of justice. The following evidence was then adduced : Thomas Smith, who seemed to be labouring from the effects of his wound, was the first witness called aiel sworn—l reside at 288, High Holborn. I keep a shoot ing gallery there. On the 6th of last July the prisoner came to my premises. I was in the gallery. That is a place where persons practise pistol and rifle shooting. I had a son. His name was Alfred. The prisoner asked me if he could be accommodated with a brace of duelling pistols. I said you can, sir. I gave him one pistol. It was loaded with ball. I loaded it myself. He fired that off. He complained that the pistol threw off too bard, and wished for one that would go easier. I gave him the second pistol, which he also fired. off. He said that went off too easy. he then asked for one loaded as the first, which I gave him ;he fired it off and hit the mark. He was distant thirty yards from it. I then gave him a fourth pistol. I loaded it. I proceeded to load a fifth, and stood about two yards from him. I did did not feel anything till I was shot. I fell down, and said " Good God, lam shot," and could not speak any more. A medical man was sent for ; the ball was extracted five weeks afterwards. lam still labouring under the effects of the wound. Alfred Smith, the son of the last witness, was called— I saw the different pistols fired. My father was standing in the loading-ring. I saw the prisoner turn round and deliberately shoot my father. My father fell, and said, " Good God, lam shot in the back." My father said, " You rascal, why did you shoot me ? " He said, I did it on purpose, I wish to be hanged." I went for a policeman. Adolphus Lonsdale, a police constable, proved that he was called into the shooting-gallery. He saw the pri soner leaning against the bench. I asked him why he shot Mr. Smith. Ile said he was tired of his life, and wished to be hung. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—He stood with his arms folded when I went in. George Royde, house-surgeon to Bartholomew's Hos pital, examined—Thomas Smith was admitted into the hospital on the 6th. The wound was in the right of the spine, and above the loin. I probed the wound, and found a hard body. On the 6th of July , a small piece of bone was extracted, and also a bullet. On the 14th of July a piece of cloth came away of its own accord. Ho is, stilt isessurine; under the effects or tie wound. Ile is not altogether out of danger. Ile is not fit for business. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury for the defendant, and said that ho did not mean to dispute the facts which were adduced in evidence. His object was to show that at the time of this accident Mr. Toucliet was of unsound mind, and he could not but help thinking that when the jury had heard the evidence they would be of that opi nion. The first thing that would strike the jury in this case was that there was no earthly motive why the pri soner should have committed this act, nor could it be accounted for on any other principle than that he was not of sane mind at the time. If he was to be believed himself, he committed the act in order to be hanged. But he would not rest the case on that point, however strong, but would call before the jury the persons who were best acquainted with the prisoner. He would call Lord Audley himself, and several physicians, who would describe the state of the prisoner's mind. The prisoner was the second sou of the late Lord Audley. He was now little more than twenty years of age. The late Lord Audley had entered into speculations upon his estates in Ireland, the result of which turned out to be most unfortunate. The family were reduced to the greatest straits, and this circumstance seemed to have pressed most heavily on the mind of the prisoner. Ilis mind took a misanthropic turn, and he seemed to avoid all intercourse with society. Ile frequently complained of pain in his head, and was continually brooding over the circumstance that the family could not hold that position in society to which their rank entitled them. The prisoner was the descendant of Sir Ross Donelly by his mother ; and there was no doubt that he was a con firmed lunatic. He mentioned this to show the proba bility that the prisoner might have inherited this malady from his maternal grandfather. He had declared that he would commit a similar act again, and said ho could not prevent himself from doing so . Lord Audley was then called and examined—The pri soner is my brother. He will be twenty-three next November. Before my father died, his property was the subject of considerable litigation •, practically it was adverse to my family, and has left them in very em barrassed circumstances. The prisoner has been from his youth a person of a susceptible mind. I recollect the loss of a young friend of his, named Weston ; it seemed to make a very strong impression on him—stronger than on persons generally. The circumstances of the family tAeighed upon his mind, and disposed him to notice things which other persons would not. I saw him fre quently in 1842. He came to London in 1843. I was in Ireland ; I did not see him till April in that year. From that time to the period when the present occurrence took place he was living with me. He was generally of a reserved dis position, Sometimes he was cheerful, but he was usually silent and reserved, and wished to evade conver sation. I have observed changes in his countenance, but the expression of it was generally of a very austere and settled character. He appeared dreamy. lie com plained of persons opposite to where we lived watching. Ido not consider that we were watched. Ile used to go to one or two places in particular to dine. He com plained of being known there, and of the poop]c making obocr -rations upon him. I went to see whether it was so, and found that he was not known. He did not show any disinclination to walk the streets, but on some occasions I used to observe a singularity in his :walk. He showed a disinclination against walking in a particular direction, and seemed to be annoyed if I stopped at a window. He would not look at the window, but on the ground. Lord Audley, brother of the prisoner, was then called and examined by Mr. BODKIN, and gave evidence as to the insanity of the prisoner. lie was continually com plaining of ill health, agony of mind, and giddiness in the head, and that he could Lot pay attention to his affairs. Witness advised him to consult a physician, but ho seemed careless - about it. Witness looked into a box of the prisoner's, and found there poison and morphine. Witness had noticed an alteration in the dress of the prisoner. He was formerly neat ; latterly he had left off shaving, and became very slovenly. Cross-examined by Mr. CI aesioex—Witness thought the prisoner highly eccentric. Mrs. Charlotte Lawley stated that prisoner lodged at her house in Weymouth-street, Portland-place, from January, 1843, till July, when the present charge was brought against him. Lord Audley had also apartments there. The prisoner was very quiet and inoffensive, but latterly he complained of a boiling in his head ; he seemed unhappy, and anxious to he alone. Ile was at first cleanly, but latterly he did not change his clothes for a week. He was formerly very communicative, but latterly he avoided it. Witness had noticed the peculiar turn of his mind since last November. Cross-examined by Mr. CITARNOCK—The prisoner always behaved like a gentleman, although at times he was eccentric. Joseph Lawley, the son of the last witness, corrobo• rated her evidence. visit i ) tth l‘ e lu p n rrson l e V r a i s n the ealle m d on u t p h o o n f b j y uly L , or a d Au ndh d a l d ey ais t o o seen him yesterday in Newgate. On many of the occa sions he had been accompanied by Dr. Sutherland. lie had also attended Sir Ross Donally, the grandfather of the prisoner, who was in an insane state of mind. The first time witness saw the prisoner was in Clq - kenwell. Ile then told him that he was melancholy, and had been brooding over murder and suicide for years, and that he was sure he should soon attain the greet object he had in view—that of being hanged, and that if ho had a pistol he would shoot the first person be saw. Witness had no doubt whatever of the insanity of the prisoner. It was in the common order of things that where insanity was in a family that there Should be members of it in a perfectly sound state of mind. Cross-examined by Mr. CHARNOCK-Sir Ross Don nally was feeble minded though he was a hale old man. Dr. Warburton—Had visited the prisoner six times since the unfortunate event for which he stood at the bar, and from those visits he was firmly convinced that the prisoner was of unsound mind, and was so at the time the transaction took place. Witness believed that the prisoner committed the act when his mind was in a state of uncontrol. Cross-examined by Mr. CllARNOCK—Witness's opi nion as to the state of mind of the prisoner was formed from his visits to him, and what he had seen that day in Court. Mr. CHARNOCK replied. Mr. Justice MAIILE summed up, and The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity. The prisoner was then ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. /VE IV COUR T. (Before the COMXON SERGEANT.) Ann Sntith and George Davis, the latter described as a bootmaker, and both of whom were remanded from last session, were indicted with stealing a watch, a gold pin, and 145., the property of John Horsford, from his person. The prisoners were Acquitted. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Two little boys named Evans and Jones, who are known to the police, were brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having two valuable jewel-cases in their possession without being able to give an account of how they came by them. The officer saw Evans in St. Martin's-lane showing one of the cases, which was elegantly fitted up, and covered with crimson velvet, to the ether prisoner. Suspecting that it had been stolen, he took them to the station house, and upon Jones being searched the other case was found upon him. The cases were not at all soiled, and there was every reason to believe that they had been re cently stolen. Mr. TWYFORD said he had no doubt that the jewels for which the cases had been made had also been stolen. The prisoners, in their defence, said that a man had given them the cases to hold. They were remanded till Saturday. UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Ann Ryan was charged before Mr. Traill with striking Rosina Connor with a flat iron, and seriously injuring her. The complainant,whose face presented a shocking spec tacle, stated that she went home on the preceding night, and finding the prisoner there with her husband, she de sired her to quit the place. The prisoner, however, re fused to go, saying that she had as much right to com plainant's husband as herself. This language caused a dispute, which ended in a scuffle, during which the pri soner procured a flat iron, and, placing it in a handker chief, struck the complainant a severe blow in the face, which knocked her down, and rendered her completely insensible. It was stated that had the blow been a little higher up, it must have killed her. The prisoner said that it all arose out of jealousy on the part of the complainant, and denied she struck her with a fiat iron, but that she pushed her down, and her face striking against the fender inflicted the injury upon it. Mr. TRAILL, at the request of complainant, dealt sum marily with the prisoner, and in default of paying the fine, committed her for 14 days. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, OCT. 20.—A letter from Leipsie informs us that on the 7th of this month the first meeting of the German merchants took place, conformably to a resolu tion adopted at the fair at Easher, and that between 150 and 200 persons were present. The assembly resolved unanimously : " That with regard both to quantity and quality, our linen manufacturers can no longer refrain having re course to the spinning of thread by machinery. That this should be encouraged, both by a more extensive and careful cultivation of lax, and then by an import duty on English thread, and a bounty on the exportation of linen. " A proposal was laid before the meeting on the ne cessity of improving the condition of the working classes, and of zealously turning their attention to the means of effecting that object." The assembly resolved to offer a prize for the best work on the following question :—" By what measures, the execution of which may be practicable in the pre sent state of things, aid which shall promote the interest both of the manufacturers and the workmen, may a du rable improvement in the situation of the latter be ef fected." BELGIAN FUNDS.—EsussELs, Ocr. 20. Actua Dobt, 2% per Cent., 6O Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent ............ 102 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% Three per Thlrty-seven Millions, ditto ...... 76% (1840) 103% Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. lO3 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Ceut. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 60% Issue of 1841... . ... ...•" ....... «••••••••«••••••••••• ••••• —Brussel...Papers. ' Oct. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Orr 14 Five per Cents. Metalliques, 109% Four per Cents. lOO Three per Cents Bank Shares .. - ...... ..... . . ..... 1600 if ilgenzeineZeitung, Oct. 18. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY A fair average quantity of English Wheat has been received up to our market since Monday, yet the demand for the best parcels was rather active at full prices. Other kinds hung heavily on hand. In Foreign Wheat both for and in bond, very little was doing, at late ratss. Barley and Malt moved off steadily at full prices. Oats, Beans, and Peas supported the previous advances. English Irish.. Foreign Wheat. 5,310 qra. ARRIVALS. lEarley. 2,760qrs- Oats. 1,900 12,51 U qrs. 3,070 1,780 6,00 Malt, 2,050 Ors. WITITHICNAPMI. Flour 2,120 Each kind of prime Meat, the supply of which was small, sold readily at full prices. In other qualities very little was doing. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, tos 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s per Sibs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Ocr. 23.—Eight to nine A.M., dense fog ; noon, moderate breeze and fine. DEAL, OCT. 22.—Wind W.N.W. to W., moderate.— Arrd. Venerable, St. John's, for Hull ; Anne Louise, Kiel', Montreal. Ski. Alice, lehaboe; Vernon, Madeira. t f o or l S V oi — th A am " p d - . Dart, P o Rrs London,oua r f r o , r ( Iv ) l e a T d . e 2 i r2a. and %Vi d r e N e . N d d ton; her Majesty's steamers Monkey and African, Sheer ness, with the Menelaus in tow. Ski. her Majesty's steamer Firebrand; her Majesty's ships Cruizer, Water witch, Pantaloon, Daring, Flying-fish, ()Trey, Mutme, and Espiegle, on a cruise; Duke of Wellington, Halifax. CowEs, OCT. 22.—S1d. Lady of the Lake, and Salem, Bombay ; Margaret, La Guayra, and the rest of the outward bound. PooLE, OCT. 22.—S1(1.11ebe, Newfoundland. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, OCT. 22.—Sld. Jupiter, Havannah, and nearly the whole of the outward bound. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Emma, Spicer, Quebec. Sld. Prince Albert, St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, OCT. 22—Wind variable and light.— Sld. British King, Plymouth, waterlogged, in tow of a steamer. Off, Theodore, DofTry, Honduras, sailed Ist ult., and proceeded for Hamburgh. GUERNSEY, OCT. 19.—Sld. Monarch, Valparaiso. JERSEY, OCT. 21.—Sld. Swift, Fortune Bay. NEWPORT, OCT. 22.—Sld. Apollo, Charleston ; John Caskie, Boston. MARGATE, OCT. 22.—The sloop Endeavour, from Wisbeach to Sandwich, has been assisted in here with damage and leaky, having been on the Mouse Sand. COWER, OCT. 22.—The E'nigheden, from Taganrog to Falmouth, which put in here 18th inst. leaky, must dis charge her cargo, it being heated. CARDIFF, OCT. 22.—The Phoenix, of Bideford, from Youghal to Newport, got ashore on Breaksea Point on the night of 17th inst., and is expected to become a wreck ; part of crew saved. DUBLIN, OCT. 21.—S1d. John, Port Royal ; and Mo zambique, St. John's, New Brunswick. KINQCTOWN, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Hibernia, Quebec. CORK, OCT. 20.—Arrd. William M‘Dougall, M`Dou gall, Buenos Ayres ; Severn, lluveall, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Try Again, Quebec ; Terra Nova, Slater, Newfoundland. LERWICK, OCT. 15.—About 1,000 battens and a num ber of mats have been saved from the wreck of the Jes mard, from Archangel to Hull—one man drowned. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Antilla, Bushby, Bar badoes ; Cambridge, Barstow, New York, 4th inst. ; Ca tharine, Mould, Halifax. Sid. William Worthington, Shanghae ; Carib, Singapore ; Blackatter, lehaboe ; Pur suit, Columbia River ; Romulus, Lima ; Victoria, Ja maica ; Aurora, Havannah ; William and Elizabeth, New Orleans ; Courtenay and Tallhassie, Apalachiola ; Ashburton and Remittance, New York ; Sir Henry Pottinger, St. John's, New Brunswick. HARwrcrr, OCT. 22.—A sloop, name unknown, i 3 ashore on the Shipwash. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES AT LlVERPOOL.—Yester day information was received and circulated that a japanned tin cash-box had been stolen from an office in Liverpool, containing 10L in gold, a 20Z Bank of England note, endorsed "J. H. S. S." and " J. M." a 201. note marked " J. J. S. S." and " J. M.," another 20L and a 5/. note, 100 Lyons and Avignon Railway shares (being English Scrip issued to " J. Potts Halbert Aunay,") and also a quantity of receipts and memorandums. The thief is described as a man of dark complexion, thirty-five years of age, and five feet seven inches high, with black hair and whiskers, and black mustachios, lusty in person, and of gentlemanly appearance.—Two days afterwards an office in Brunswick-street, Liverpool, was robbed of another japanned cash-box, in which were a5l note of the Shrewsbury Old Bank, payable in London, which had been cut in two and the halves pasted together, two 5/. Bank of England notes, 331. in gold, 3L in silver, a policy of insurance of the Liverpool Company, several small bills, and a letter of guarantee, signed by Mr. Callon. The thief in this case is described as a female, seventeen or eighteen years o f age, of li g h t complexion, with light brown hair, very low set and stout, with full face and very red cheeks. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES Bnux.--We under stand that a branch of this banking company is about to be opened at Birkenhead, land having already been pur chased for the erection of a bank. A not h er banking company, also in connexion with the Live r p oo l , i s about I to open a br anc h i n this improv ing township.—Chester Courant. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO TIIRE E. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, at previous rates. Sales 2,000 bales.—South-Eastern and Dover Shares were supported, but other railways were dull. Bristol and Gloucester, 421 ,• Caledonian, 4i : ; Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 71. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto and Holyhead, 71. ; Dublin and Drogheda, 70; Eastern Counties, 13; Grand Junction, Half, .102 f ; Kendal and Windermere, 5i ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 13i ; Liver pool and Manchster, Half, 991 ; Ditto, Ormskirk, and Preston 2f ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 35i ; Ditto and Brighton, 47 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 125 ; Manchester and Leeds, 111 ; North British, 54 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1L 18s. 6d. ; South-Eastern, 411; Ditto, New, 14k; York and Selby, 454 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2 6-20 ; Paris and Lyons, 24 ; Paris and Rouen, 394 ; Ditto and Strasburg, 2 1-5 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 3d- ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4 1-20. Each day's post from most of the principal parts of Scotland brings additional information of measures of opposition to any interference with the Scotch banking system by the Government, being in most active pro gress. The Premier will have, therefore, no easy task to perform in inducing a majority, such as he would wish to have, to pass any Bill for the suppression of the IL notes, and otherwise interfering with the banking institutions on the other side of th,l? Tweed. No concessions will be received. The reso lutions that have been passed at the meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, by merchants, brokers, and traders, unconditionally assert that any—the least—in terference with the present system, must be fraught with the greatest injury to all her Majesty's Scottish sub jects. However, on this side of the border, very different opinions are entertained ; the leading bankers and capitalists holding the fate of the small note circulation of Scotia, as already sealed. The proceedings in Parliament upon this subject will be vigorously conducted by the Scotch Members, almost to a man, and no doubt by a fear of the English and Irish representatives. It is understood that some weeks before the session is opened the delegates of the Scotch banking interests will reach London, to frame a mode of proceeding the best calculated to maintain in tact the present system of banking and currency of Scotland. The general result of the recent important public sales of colonial wools and of indigo has been already noticed in the usual market report of The Sun. A word or two of remark is worthy a place under this head. It is with regret that, as winter is fast approaching, we find the employment in the woollen districts of this country is rather falling off than otherwise. To this circum stance may be ascribed the fall that has taken place in indigo, which amounted all round to full fourpence per lb. ; and of what was really sold, full two thirds of the samples were bought for exportation, the manufacturers on the continent being better em ployed than those of this country. As to the recent sales of colonial wools, the lower qualities fell slightly; the purchases, however, of the finer samples were made with much freedom. As there will not this year be any further public sales of wools from the colonies, ample time will be afforded to work up most of the present stocks. For the spring trade a good demand is looked for on United States' account. There are accounts from New York to October 4. The cotton market was dull, and the exchange on Lon don continued high. The papers are filled chiefly with electioneering proceedings. The amount of business transacted in the Funds this morning has not been considerable. The price of Con sols for the Account have been at one-eighth and at one fourth per cent. over par. The Commissioners bought 10,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 991. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been again den, at 2 per cent. above par. In most of the public secu rities a good amount of business has been transacted to-day. Old South Sea Annuities have risen to 98a. Exchequer Bills are fiat, at 71s. premium, and India Bonds at 91s. premium. Bank Stock is rather flat at 204 Not a single bargain was quoted in the Spanish Bonds to-day. Portuguese Converted have advanced from Wl to 51i ; Belgian at 1041 • and the Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. at 63. Hussisn Bonds have rallied to 1181. Mexican may be quoted at 15} 1, and Colombian at 14k. Much fluctuation has taken place in the Railway Share Market this morning. The Great Western shares have just receded about 41. per share, being at 137. The Midland are at 6 to 7 premium, the York and North Midland are at 57 premium. The French lines are scarcely as much in demand as they were yesterday. The Real del Monte Unregistered has been sold at 4-i. The Joint-stock Bunk Shares are nominally the same as yesterday. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock.. ... ....... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99%% % 3 per Cent. Consols. Anna New 3 1 ,( per Cent. Annuities. .... ..... 102 101%102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. ..... 12 14 India Stock 296% India 80nd5, 1 ,001. 1 9l Ditto under South Sea 5t0ck...... Ditto Old Annuities 97% 98% Consols for Account 100 >a% Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• 73 71 pm. •••••••••••• 73 '7l pm . Ditto 7 3 71 pm. Ditto Advertised......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO4 Columbian 14 Mexican Bonds, 1827,5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 154 t% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ........ Ditto Converted 5l 50% 51% Russian Bonds, 1822,5-per Cent 118%14 Dutch 23f per Cent 5............. .. . ......... 62% t 3 PRICES OF SHARES I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pan SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ..... to Ditto New ........ ............ Bristol and Gloucester........ ..... 90 43 44 to 42% Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 ........ 6% Churnet Valley ........ 2 ..... 4 E 'stern Counties 25 ......... 13%34 Edinburgh and Glasgow .......... 50 62 to Great Western ..................... 75 l4l ..... .to 137 Ditto % Shares ..„.«.„........... 50 ..» 85 Ditto 12 ......... 2534% London and Birmingham—. ..... 100 .... 212.....„ to 213 London and Greenwich ........... 12% 9% to London and South Western ..... 41% ...... 72 ......„ to London and Croydon ..... 13% ...... 16M % London and to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ......... 51 - ~t . „„„ to Midland Counties ..... 100 .......107 North British 5 ......... 5)4% ... to Norwich and Brandon - Ditto New ..... South Eastern and Dover 32% ssms 42 % to 42 Ditto New 4 15% t o Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ..... 25 York and North Midland ......... 50 .........108 Ditto Scarbore' Branch ..... 10 Ditto Selby Scrip ..... Central of France ......... 2 ....... 3% 3 4 ... to Boulogne and Amiens 2 ..... 4% Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... 3 ..... to Paris and Orleans ..... ..... 20 ..... 39%% %)4. ... to Parisand R0uen.............."..... 20 ..... 39%34 ... is Paris and Stra bourg ......... 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 22.—There is less activity in the market to-day, without much varia tion in prices. Barnsley Junction, 5 1-16 ; Accrington, 3i ; Churnets, 41 ; Windermere, 5i ; Dewsbury, 6 1 1- ; London and York, 3i ; Manchester and Bux ton, 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, 110 ; Manchester, One- Sixteenth Shares, 3 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 52 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 28 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 9-16. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.) CHESTER OCTOBER MEETING—TUESDAY. The Military Challenge Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added. Grosvenor Course. Capt. Boyd's The Dog Billy, 3 yrs (Hon. S. Erskine) 1 Capt. France's Brenda, aged Capt. Bigge nd Catharina, 5 yrs A fine race with two. The Dee Stand Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, if de clared, with 50 added; the second saves his stake. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Mostyn's Alamode, 3 yrs, sst 101b......(Duff10) 1 Mr. King's Yarrow, 3 yrs, 4st 71b 2 Mr. Flintoff's The Elbe, 3 yrs 3 Mr. Thompson's Hudibras, 6 yrs 4 Won easy. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats, the Grosvenor Course. Mr. Robinson's Wasp, aged (Hopwood) 3 1 1 Mr. Halford's Pickwick, aged Mr. W. Scott's lleslington, 6 yrs Two others were distanced. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDA Y. CESAREWITCH STAKES.--6 to son Foigh-a-ballagh -10 to 1 agst The Cure-16 to 1 agst Evenus-20 to 1 agst The Altered One-20 to 1 agst Newcourt-25 to 1 agst Philip-25 to 1 agst The Emperor -30 to 1 agst Glossy—and 30 to 1 Discord. DERBY.-10 to 1 agst Alarm-18 to 1 agst Cobweb colt-18 to 1 agst Kedger-25 to l agst Newsmonger -30 to 1 agst Rebecca colt—and 30 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1845. WEDNESDAY. Sir W. W. Wynn's Stoker, Bst 71b, agst Lord Hun tingfield's f by Muley Moloch, out of Barbelle, Bst 41b. D.M. 100, h ft. FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1845.-MONDAY. Duke of Bedford's Captain Phebus, agst Mr. Greville's Sir Francis, Bst 71b each. D.M. 200, h ft. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1845.— TUESDAY. Sir W. W. Wynn's Anna Bullen, agst Mr. Shelley's Blanchie, Bst 41b each. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1846.— THURSDAY. Lord Maidstone's Atropos, agst Mr. Greville's Apricot. T.Y.C. 200, h ft. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The contractors, Messrs. Ross and Mitchell, are getting rapidly forward at Cockbarns-path with this work. They have laid above 1,200 yards Of temporary rails, and have above 400 workmen employed. One of the workmen named Ro manis, from Stow, was returning home on Sunday night to his house in Little Dublin, when he lost his way, and fell over Linhead Linn, a height of 60 feet—the first fall being 25, and the second 35 feet. Ile was sadly injured, and, when found, was carried to Mr. Weatherley's, Lin head, who immediately sent for medical aid, when his wounds were drc ssed, and he is now in the way of re covery. They are getting fast on with erecting planks, &c., for Douglas Dean-bridge, which is to have six arches. It is not yet known when the foundations will be laid, but it will not be for a month to come.—Berwich Advertiser. EFFECTS or GAMBLING.—A gentleman's servant, out of a situation, who had been out on Monday evening with some friends, and having entered into play at cards, had lost between 4/ and 51., returned to his lodgings be tween I and 2 o'clock yesterday worming much intoxi cated, and cut his throat. He was removed to the hos pital without hope of recovery. F PR r 3 7 7 7" r l ”! ' f l 6 ti, AND )uWtt Opinton. " Who runs may read." POSIZIOI4I. According to a letter from Eu, of the 19th, the racer Lions by the King and Queen for the previous two Jai! have been very numerous, and each day there WW I large dinner party. To-day, the King, accompanied b! the Ministers of Justice and Public Works, Gened Audenarde, de Rumigny, and Friant, and several °del persons, took an airing in the park. Their Majestie, „ had again a lar g e p ar ty t o di nner . Amongst the gives; were the Prefect of the D e p ar tment, and the Gene ra ' Commandant of the Divison. at The Duke d'Aumalc has r ece ived, through the Cee de Fl a h au t an i nv i tat i on to v i s i t t h e I m perial &Mil! t Vienna, with his young bride, immediately after tleu marriage. s it The Phare de la M anc h e , o f the 17th, says:—` steamers which formed the royal squadron in the ‘ l5 . to England, returned to our harbour (Cherbourg) 9, Wednesday aftern oo n. Th e El an a rrived at two, 07, Gomer and the Caimon at three, and the Pluton at F o ur., The police of Perigueux have discovered that Geiser: Amettler and five or six other Spanish officers, to vh° , that town had been assigned as a residence, have J as . ciestinely taken their departure. Later accounts stat e that they were arrest e d a t th e f ro ntiers by French C 5 torn-house officers. Prince Albert of Prussia returned from Toulon n t° Marseilles on the 14th inst., and, on the following ev s _ s s ing, set out for Nice. He is b e lieved to have defe r his visit to Algeria. • beg A letter from Constanti no pl e , O c t. 2, in the Außs 1 „ Gazette, says:—" The Porte seems to have sertetl, come to the resolution to fortify and place in a 0 , 1 5 of defence the entrance of th e B os ph or us on the Buts Sea and the Dardanelles. Several officers of eng.,i°Z o t have declared that the present fortificationsareinsome', 0 to prevent an enemy's fleet from effecting its paasag e de . it could compass its object by landing artillery to _ stroy the Turkish batteries. Artill e rymen, to the pLIM, tier of 3,000, will be sent to the Dardanelles, and 2,e'''' to the forts at the entrance of the Bosphorus. the fi-' ll° „ vi d: The Lyons journals of the 18th announce ing melancholy accident:—" The Directors of the Fe, t l r u ei , ling Hospital at Lyons having called in all tiheniehuuder who were out at nurse, in order to place see- t . tho u more immediate superintendence, twenty-eight ° ho ar,. were embarked on Monday last a t th e p o rt of C _ t4• on the Rhone, in an op en b oat , to b e b roug ht to lAY__°•S, The poor young creatures, sep a r a ted from their nur'v one and frightened at the water, all rushed at parting t i. e ie to side of the boat, and caused' it to upset. Laments.'" et , relate, all of them, together with the two boatmen , w drowned." e nd o f It appears, from an official return, that at the 45 August last, there had been compl e t e d in Germany ein , French leagues of railroads, and that the capital fifty ployed amounted to 136 m illi ons o f florins (abou t millions sterling). The Commission of Statistics .of the Scientific C ° o gress of Milan reported to that body that there o o seventy savings' banks in Italy, having forty in", ) ," - e se (1,600,0001.). Th e same C omm i ss i on declares that 1 , 60 are 114 houses of refuge for poor children, where PO are nourished and educated, at an expense of 18, 0 e ier annum, collected by volunt a ry con t r ibutions- to 'apal States are not i nc l u d e d i n t hi s accou nt, for ti , Pontifical Government has hitherto rejected the l e t a tution of houses of refuge for children, as tending favour the principles of Protestantism. xii,srew MAIM I' 0141:11111. Pre'' At the Central Criminal Court Johai George, a , l, tage. alias John Bracebrid g e, was conv i cte d o f h'g7, o :e and sentenced by the Recorder to one year 's fee meat, with hard labour. 4 lir In the New Court John M urp h y , age d 53, w as dicted for stealing several le ng th s o f canvass, t",'„sre party of Messrs. S. P erro tt an d Co. his enlPZ s s de The evidence was so co m pl e t e th a t Mr. Payne, w" Gov' fended the prisoner, admitted it would be folly t° 3 iS, tend against it. The p r i soner , w h o h a d l o ng ur ry of the confidential employ of th e p rosecutors , a t a Salr'efe° 70/. per annum, was con v i c t e d, an d sentence d to Se years' transportation. The October Adjourned Sessions for Middlesex c o ° ,iff menced at the Guildhall, Westminster. The 0 11 %0 contained the names of 41 prisoners, 38 of wheF i ,,, s ,air charged with felony, and the remaining three with 00 demeanour. The Court sat up to a late hour, i° o lo. purpose of going through the whole of the comlu it°l o l4 Not a single case of interest came before the during the day. lel sj James Murphy, the pr e t en d e d d ea l er in celi a naas tea and tobacco, was convicted at the Surrey P' - u ade" of obtaining 2/. from Edward Horn e , a grocer , 000 pretence of selling him two packets of tea. Ile wi per ref convicted of stealing half a sovereign f rom a nothe r is r son. He was sentenced to twelve months' hard b is or at Brixton. The Court refused to allow Horne penses. 0 tilld ern Yesterday, a young wo man , name d M a ry w a s ,is°' was brought before Alderma n Gibb s , at the 3 1s orer house, by Mr. Owen, proprietor o f th e Yorkshir e ers oo; tavern, in Lower Thames-street, as a destitute P et s se She had been brought up f rom H u ll, by her luill t fy De' mistress, who decamped with her bundle, and f i e rio joiT' without money or friends in the streets of St 11 She was ordered to be taken care of, and broils again on Friday. L I * An attempt was made a t th e G u ildh a ll, by Staridge, of Cornhill, to con v i c t a f armer named Ar of cruelty, for using th e or di nary ca lf ca rt. ' 0' peered, that several experiments had been tried V oil e' onstruction of calf carts, and that, after all, the,°,,,so thod was the best. One of the " humanity carts, G ist* had been adopted o n th e sugges ti on o f Alclertnan w et' had smothered so m an y ca l ves , t h at t h e farme rs, le forced to give it sip. In the ordinary cart, th e TO slept comfortably the greater part of the journey' complaint was dismissed. el Three men, named Street, Wyatt, and Long' se ' committed from Bow-street, for burglary in the 1 0 4 00 Mr. Nicholas Walker, landlord of the Barley Drury-lane. t , et" At the Thames Police-court, Herbert Hohnes,e.,,, 0 riner, and late second mate of the Cuba, uosv 1 1 1- the river, charged with cutting and •woundiugye , tarn Matthew Macintosh, th e mas t er o f the same bead with intent to murder or do him some grievous 0 0 harm ; and John Newman, carpenter of the Cuh s ' d ,a 0 came to give evidence for the other prisoner , 110 . i jia apprehended late in the afternoon, charged with vice: and abetting Holmes in th e comm i ss i on of the' s ° „,fe:e" and also with assaulti ng M r . J o h n B e ll, th e chief of the ship, were committed to Newgate for trial- laz ier' At Clerkenwell, William Powell, a painter and eg b j residing in Johnson's-street, St. Pancras, wa s I, ° erl`,, up in the custody of 205 S, charged with having ( ..,, o ciP - 0 his wife, whereby she became chargeable to Sts r ' 0 :d en parish. The prisoner had been locked up I t° ,,, PI A ; o'clock at night until a quarter after three in t ,,,„'",issel'e noon, in consequence of the parish officers neg'`,,Ol c attend. It appeared moreover that the warrant ° " - te OP': he was detained was not legal, and the Magistll ot i , mented on the neglectful conduct of the pari si s i A r i d rities. The prisoner, who cohabits with another Josli; was discharged, on agreeing to allow his wife 43 4 ‘`jate l i John Watts, a man in the employment of Mr' mitred Evans, of 20, Lower Sloane-street, baker, was c 0 bled from Queen-square, charged with having robbed I,ioB ployer to a very consid era bl e extent . , ice . n a At Lansboth-street, John L ar ki n , a sma rt- ess m ' a young fellow, was detained f or h av i ng i n his P‘," - ,s t ee a new patent powder-flask, of which he could 11 °'''' satisfactory account. te°' 1 gtil li . 0 Two women, named Moss, alias Smith, and •- r 01 were committed from Union-hall, on a charge cl- A stealing. d (e o .°l. l. There was not a s i ng l e c h arge at t h e Is s v i f ,se 0 , Police -court, no t a warrant or a summons t o u" „ r t 's 0 " . nor even an appli ca ti on t o occupy t h e M a gistra te tention for a brief period. 0 0 ' CI I OII73M—FAB PMEOZIAZI ZAN. to We are happy, says the Post, in being able' tee' nounce the intention of her Majesty to honour ill t ee' quis and Marchioness of Exeter with a visit 7, , at princely residence, Burleigh House, near Staraf°r 'i n g i early a period as possible subsequent to the elle li tt el' the new Royal Exchange. It is probable the et e tics I leave Wind sor f or Li nco l ns hi re, about the ce r° „"is au f ment of the ensuin g mon th. Th e Noble Ma r ? - ievo family have a l rea dy arr i ve d at Burleigh Housei ea the necessary prep ara ti ons f or the recept i on o f IP" visitors. „ I , fle,A - -e The Duke and D uc h ess o f Cambridge and bit"' ditary Grand D u k e an d Duchess of Meckl ev 4 0 gi ll ir Strelitz have accepted an i nv i tat i on from the . t b the e and Marchione ss o f Ailesbury to honour them v f' ( Jeri% company at Tottenh am Park near Marlboroug"/„ I jeof A the ensuing wee k. Their Royal Highnesses vv u o alle" Kew for Tottenham on Friday next. A dis till party are invit e d t o meet their Royal Highness e i l t tel The Duke and D uc h ess o f B eau f ort have e ceo'"e to join the family circle at Badminton. Their u v r : t e jo rS oc S , invited to me e t th e roya l an d d i stingu i s h e d Tottenham Park, the sea t o f the Marquis and t he: chioness of Ail es b ur y, on F r id ay next. for is The Duke and D uc h ess o f S omerset renal ° the °lt f present at Wimbl e d on P ar k . T he p e riod for ee Graces departure f or B r i g h ton is not yet (le,e r liy,,l o n °e on, and it is feared the Noble Duke's indisees"4, tc‘4o probably have the effect of detaining the family 'iseo,,,,, The Countess of Wilton and family have er oVii: Grosvenor-square, from Binstead Cottage, Isle e n afe h 'i; ller Ladyship leaves town on Friday for ble nc " iu v ), bray. The Earl of Wilton left. Ryde on Mondli s nu e , beautiful yacht, the Xarifa, on a cruise in the sclsD 4 and it will probably be some ' days before his l ' ° "" e l e joins the Countess in Leicestershire. The Earl Fitzwilliam has been lately wine jo en tel itost o , distinguished party at Wentworth House- Th e ejt tjti of Normanby, the Earl and Countess of II! r v e ` s ic ' o , o l s 4 ' Earl and Countess of Zetland, Viscount an ( ' .. i; n a ,lif Ilowick, Viscount and Viscountess Milton, D e "a Isil",' countess Milton, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord an or' Howard, and others, have been visiting the isi° ll ' e WI 03113MAJATE017111. erer t ee' During the last few weeks most extensilly eA-1 tions have been making at the magnificent mans - e l 0 . Marquis of Exeter, Burghley Park, for the r e° ,,,4- rda f her Majesty the Queen, who has signified "L - fee c 1 leasure of visiting the head of the noble hous e ° ~ in the early part of the ensuing month. „ Tiled"" It is stated that her Majesty - and his Ril e. ' Oft, ° t! Prince Albert, accompanied by some portsu'a day e' fast Royal ......, s . s Family, will visit Claremont for P , . 1 .05, two previously to proceeding to London for the I ) " ; l es' of opening th e New Royal Exchange. F . at urcigi t f tf#l . I s v t i h n e d sdoaryfospoken r comfofnotriithoeudieparture o f the C o° gaol delive ry e. It is now d e fi n i t i ve l y fixed that a winter deh f l vi or shell take pla ce , b ut i t i s b elieved that the suheidj Tersav san s t raugeMents will not be wide till the beginuo'D ° - : 'l lll vrhj Va r Ser 1.41 n