The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS. (From the Paris Papen.) The Minister of War has received several reports from Algeria; the first Is from General Lamoriciere, dated the 17th, from bivouac of the Oucd Teiata, near Nedroma. It is as follows: '• I set out on my march from Djemma Ghazaouat on the 13th, as I announced to you I intended to do by my letter of the 10th, in the direction of Nedroma, and the Col d'Ain Kebira, which gives access into the country of the Traras. I left at Djemma Ghazaouat a certain number of fatigued men, and three squadrons of cavalry, with whom I could for the moment dispense, being i■ the mountains. I marched with about 4,500 bayonets, 650 sabres, and 10 mountain guns. On arriving on the Oued Telata, at the spot where I am bivouacked to-day, a great many of the Beni Menir loot soldiers (a frac. tion of the Traras), and some horsemen, approached my left flank and began to fire. In the horizon, on the crests of the mountains, on both sides of the Col d'Ain Kebira, I could distin guish a numerous body of cavalry, immovable spectators of the battle, which the Emir had ordered the tribe to engage in with us. I did not think it proper to suffer them to be emboldened by con. timing an offensive position, I therefore.. formed my convoy en masse, and sent against the assailants some battal ons without their knapsacks, with a few squadrons, which drove the enemy back into the mountains. This engagement cost the Beni Menirs about 15 men, and as an officer, M. Burcaille, of the 15th Light Infantry, a non-commissioned officer of the 41st, and a chasseur of the 2d regirrict.e,Lilled. 1 came to my bivouac at Nedroma without being followed ror arnoment. The ardour of the insurgents had alreAy subsided. Tt,e chiefs of Nedroms came in the evening to my camp, to make their excuses for having, through neccs,,ty, submitted to pay a contribution in money to the Emir, and furnishit g him with barley and other provisions for his troops. The ga'es, however, re- roamed shut agaii:st him, and the inhabitants .howect too much firm ness for him to attempt to force them, or talk of an emigration to Morocco. I learned through the chiefs that the Emir,with 2,800 horse, rested at Ain Kebira, fomenting the insurrection of the Traras, the Grossehs, and a feeble portion of the Beni Amer Gar.sbas, whom, however, he could not succeed in seducing into Morocco. All these populations were heaped together in the mountains which All the triangle formed by Lalla Maghriva, Djemma Ghazaouat, and the mouth of the Tafna. All the combatants had given this as a rendezvous for the defence of Ain Kebira, by which I must necessarily enter the mountain. I shall ascend the Col to-morrow morning, the 1:11th of October. General Cavaignac lurched to the' left of the position by a path which we had perceived the evening before. I arrived with difficulty at the height by a narrow path on the right, proceeding from the gate of Nedroma. Colonel Cheydesson, of the 15th Light Infantry, marched at the bead of the column with his regiment and two battalions of the 6th Light Infantry. We perceived in front of us, and principally on the . . left, the heights covered with numerous bodies of Kabyle Infantry. A steep mound, well provided with troops, rose in the middle of the hill, and, advancing, separated our two attacks. I directed Colonel Gachol, of the 3d Light Infantry, to remain there with a battalion of his regiment. I kept myself near the 44th of the line, as a reserve at the head of the convoy. At 11 o'clock the three columns moved forward together, and were received by a well.. sustained fire. That on the left, having to climb up, in the teeth of a numerous farce, sharp slopes, exposed in all their length to the fire of the enemy, appeared in some danger ; but such was the impetuosity of the 41st of the line, animated by General Cavaignac and their Colonel, M. de M'Mahost, that the position was at once carried. Many of the enemy were killed on the opposite side of the hill. On our side, Chef.de.Battailon Corondelet, of the 1 lth Regi. meat, was grievously wounded in the head with a ball; and Capt. Moonier, of the same regiment, was mortally wounded, as was a sol►lier; five men were more slightly wounded. The height of Ain Kebira was thus occupied, and I established my camp there. General Cavaignac came and joined me in the afternoon, after having pursued to a distance 411 the foot soldiers that attempted to make a stand on the neighbouring heights. A section of the 6th battery and of the 14th Regiment, commanded by Captain Geslin, seconded his movements by a well-direifed tire. The cavalry of the ex-Emir was not engaged iriqhis difficult ground; it had at an early period evacuated the heights on the lett before being engaged. General Cavaignac had seen it descending towards the Oued Telata, and had heard the cries of the Traras abandoned by it. The next day, the 14th, I made a movement of a league and a half only, to encamp at the Marabout of Sidi Mohammed el Kraouen, where I knew where to find abandoned silos, filled with barley for my cavalry and my convoy. I thus penetrated into the heart of the country of the Beni Ouersous, the most host hostile fraction of the Tares, that which fought, on the 22d or 24th of last September, two desperate combats with General Cavaignac. I drove before me towards the sea all the populations in my way, and I began to block up for them the roads to the west. The object of my move. anent then began to be seen by the Arabs. The tribes understood the consequence of it, and, in the evening letters were brought me on the part of the chiefs of the Beni.Ouersous and the Grossils. I combined my movement on the morning of the 15th, and established myself at Souek.Ouled.Aloui. The rocky cliffs which surroundedl i this kind of funnel were covered with armed men, who prepared themselves to receive us. General Cavaignac, who was the first to go out from the inextricable defile, which !eade to Souek.Ouled.Aloui, had kept up a brisk fire with the Kabyles, among the rocks of Bab Messemar, a passage which leads from the Lent Ouersoua to the Beni Missci. I formed my convoy en masse, and as soon as Colonel Chadeyson had arrived with the 6th and 15th light infantry, I put it in movement by the right to attack the positions, while Gen. Cavaignac advanced on the left. The principal resistance took place on this point, where thz enemy showed himself in force. The battalion o the Zouaves, which formed the head of the column, with the squadron of the 4th regiment of Chasseurs, under Captain Vernon, did not act less well than the 11th had done on the 13th, and were more successful. Only a Zouave was wounded. More than 40 dead bodies of the enemy were left on the spot, and our only losses during the day were whilst the fusillade was going on which preceded the princ.- pal attack to the left. A non commissioned ()Meer of the 41st was then killed, and four soldiers wounded. This affair dis couraged the Trans, and on the morning of the 6th 1 commenced my march towards the Peak of Tadjera, drawing nearer and nearer to the sea. The chiefs came to meet me, accom panied by the Caids of the Grossils, and those of the fractions of the Beni Amers. All these tribes were at my' discretion, being beta een my camp and the sea, from which I was only a league and a half distant. I could have sent into the frightful ravines, into which they had plunged without having the means of escape, some battalions of infantry, which would have taken com plete vengeance for this insurrection, but in the then disposition of our troops this vengeance would have been toe severe perhaps. I was very anxious to regain the plain, and to draw near to Nedroma, in order to watch the movements of the Emir, whose camp was visible at Ain Kebira, at a short distance from us, but separated by rocks and inaccessible precipices. I granted the pardon that was solicited, and came here this morning from Hadjera. I have pre scribed; to the Grossils and the fractions of the Beni Amers to remain shut up in the mountains of the Traras, or in those of the Oulasses, until the security of their plain shall be sufficiently re established, It is already a result to have closed this fortress against the Emir. lam now in a condition to follow him in the plains if he should attempt to bold out there." The report concludes with an eulog,itim on the troops engaged, and with a mention of the persons who had most eibtinguished thernielves. General Lamoriciere incloses a letter from M. Courby de Cognord, chef d'escadron of the 2d Hussars, who was supposed to have been killed in the affair of the 23d ult. ; but who, after having been severely wounded, was taken p,isoner. His letter, giving an account of the affair in question, and which differs in no material point from what has already been published, was sent to GeLeral Lamoriciere by Abd-el.Kader. The following passages, however, will be read with interest : " Colonel de Montagnac, who had just been wounded, gave 'orders to thecompany of Captain Chargere to charge the enemy, who was pursuing us in great numbers. In an instant he was surrounded, and entirely decimated. A part of the id company remained with me; the other part, commanded by Lazzaret, sub-lieutenant, followed the movement of the first, and met with the same fate. M. Laeseret received two wounds, and was made prisoner. M. de Charger'', and his lieutenant, M. de Raymond, were killed in the charge. Finding myself now the only officer, in rallying all the men who remained, my second horse was killed under me by the Kabyles, who pressed closely upon us, and it was at this moment that Colonel Montagnac gave up the command to me, his wound not permitting him to act any longer. Seeing, at a little later pe. riod the critical position in which we were, the Colonel ordered Marichal.des.Logis Barbut, who was performing the duties of adjutant to me, to desire Commandant Froment Cos:e to hasten to our relief with one of the two companies remaining at the camp. Thie non-commissioned officer hastened to perform his mission, but unfortunately it was already too late, for the force that enveloped us was constantly increasing, and in a few in stants we were surrounded by between 4,000 and 5,000 men. Ano. ther column directed Its course against the company which was coming to our relief, and prevented its joining us. In the combat which took place with it, Commandant Froment.Coste aed Adjutant-Major Dutertre were killed. Captain Burgard was seriously wounded and died soon afterwards, Adjutant Themes, of the St h battalion, and Marechal.des-Logis Barbtu, were made prisoners. Not seeing the infantry arrive, and abandoned to my own resources, which consisted of about sixty men, infantry and cavalry almost dismounted, I prepared to defene the position which I ozcupied as long as I should have a man left, We were here assailed for at least an hour and a hclf. At each instant my men fell mortally wounded, and at length I had only twelve to fifteen combatants. At this moment I received three balls and fell. The enemy, seeing no more officers, set up loud shouts, charged us in every direction, and carried our position. A few seconds afterwards I was raised in a senseless state, having also received two wounds from a yatagan, and was carried away as a prisoner by a capta i n of the regular seahis. I annex to my letter alit of the men who were taken prisoner.. In the detachment of 66 men of ea Hussars. under my orders, there remained only the )1 tritichaux.des.logis Barhut and Barber, and 10 privates. Akri el.liader has given orders to all his chiefs to treat us with hums. nity, and up to the present time we have only to congratulate ourselves en their conduct towards us." THE COAL-PIT ACCIDENT AT THE UPPER SOUNDWELL. DOWNEND, Orr. 31.—The inquest on the bodies of the five un fortunate men who lost their lives by the late accident at the Sound. well collieries, the particulars of which appeared in The Suss of Tuesday last, was held this day, at the Horse-shoe Inn, in this village, before William Joyner Ellis, Esq., one of the coroners for the county of Gloucester, and a jury selected from among the most respectable residents of the neighbourhood. George Wiltshire deposed that he was a collier, and brother of one of the men who was killed. On Saturday last he was at work is the Soundwell pit with the other men. At about one o'clock, when it was time to go up out of the pit, the deceased colliers got into the cart, and he (witness) should have got in also, but that a man behind him caught hold of an old sack, which he bad put over his shoulders to catch the water drippings, and pulled him back. He turned round to ask him why he did it, and in the meantime the rope gave way. When it broke, the five men who were killed were in the cart, and Brittan (the survivor) was standing on the side of it. They had not begun to hoist up the cart, as they were waiting for the usual signal. The rope was a bad ono, and did not look fit to haul the cart up and down. On Saturday fortnight it broke .with a cart load of coal, and since that the men had all been afraid of it. Could not say whether anything had been said about it to the overlooker of the works. The men had all talked about it among themselves, and had ea.. amined the rope, and said they would not go with it, but they did go, as they had no other wolk, and did not want to lose their bread. They were not prevented by any one from complaining to the overseer. The rope wasan old rope. Did not remember at what time it was placed on the drum. The depth of the pit was about 200 tat horns. The distance the men fell was about twelve or thir. teen fathoms. By the Jury--Refused to go down on Tuesday week, and told the bailiff that he was afraid, as the rope was not safe. The bailiff told him to go down the other pit. Could not say whether after that anything was done to make the rope more safe. They always considered ten to be the proper number of men for a jour ney up and down the pit ; but since the rope broke with the cart of coal, orders had been given not to bring up more than eight at once, as they were afraid to to let a greater number go up and down. The weight of eight men was nct equal to that of a cart of coal by about six cwt. Could not remember the rope having been changed. Had worked at the colliery for more than twenty years, and at the pit where the accident occurred about five years. Joseph Garland deposed that on the day of the accident he was at work in the pit. He saw the men fall, and, as fast as he could get down, went to their assistance. Found Brittan alive; Basset also gasped three or four times; and Wiltshire was in his brother's arms, praying the Lord to save his poor soul. The others were dead. The rope was at the bottom of the pit; the cart was lying on its side, having been turned over. Witness bad considered the rope as unsafe since it broke on Saturday fortnight. The masters did not wish the men to go down by that rope, but to go down the other pit. Witness did not, nor did any one else that he knew of, complain to the cverlookers of the state of the tope. After the breaking of the rope on the Saturday fortnight, some rope which had been lying by disused for several months, was made use of to mend it out. That rope was only intended to be used till a new one could be obtained. Wm. Marsh said it was his duty to be at the mouth of the pit, where he could see the state of the rope. The men complained to him of being afraid of the rope. It was his duty, if aught was the matter with the rope, to report it to Charles Stone. Told the bailiff that the men were afraid to go down, and be ordered them to go by the other pit. Could not say that he told Charles Stone per sona►ly that he considered the rope unsafe. Charles Stone deposed that he was foreman of Mr. Whitnell's coat works, and had been so about two years and a half. Was not satisfied lately with the state of the rope, and told the man under him, William Watts, to tell the men, if any of them were afraid to go up and down on that rope, that they were to go down by the other pit. This was on the Monday after the rope broke first. Told Mr. John Whitnell, a fortnight ago, that he did not like the rope, and should be glad when the new one was ready; and Mr. Whitnell said, "If there is any danger, tell the men to go down by the other pit." The men did not like to go down by the other pit, because they had the trouble to get 350 yards from one pit to the other pit. Mr. Benjamin Dodd deposed that he was a colliery viewer, and had examined the rope. It was in a very bad state, and appeared to have been in use a long time. The rope was a four-stranded one, two strands joined in some places, and in others three strands. In several parts the stitching was gone altogether. It often hap pened that ropes were worn on the edges, but seldom on the lice as that was. Witness would not allow any men of his to go down upon such a rope. Considered that it must have been ia a dan gerous state for some time past. George Hall, foreman to Messrs. Terret and Son, gave similar testimony. They very often had better rope brought Into thei - yald as old junk. The jury returned a verdict of" Accidental death,with a deodand of 1001. en the rope." ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Lieut.-Col. Gore Browne has relieved Lieut.-Col. Scott in command of the Athlone district, Ire land. Col. Scott has held the command since October, 1840. Capt. Mee and Major Lock's companies of Royal Artillery are shortly expected to arrive at Woolwich from Halifax and New Brunswick. They embarked from Canada on the 6th of October, in the Baretto, Jun., transport ship. SINGULAR AFFAIR.—It was recently stated that a Mr. Smith, the proprietor of a house called the Hope, in Back. moor -street, Drury-lane, had found a number of coins and pmers, written and printed, relating to the rising in 1745, and which were alleged to have been found in a picture of Jack Sheppard and his mother, Mr. Smith having purchased them of Mr. Cools, an a•rc tioneer, at a sale at the Bell, Willesden. Mr. sr.tith, having sold the paintings. made arrangements to send tike papers to the Mu. seum. On Thursday a respectable, middle. aged man, accompanied by two gentlemen, called upon the landlord, and desired to see the paintings, which being shown to him, he immediately declared them to be his property, asserting that he knew of the existence of the papers, they having been with lair family upwards of seventy years ; that he had left them in tl', e care of his brother-in-law, the proprietor of the Bell, Willesden, about four years since, he having obtained a situation in 'Lie Custom-house, Dublin; that, upon his return to Londrna a short time back, he cou l d learn no tidings of his b7otber or his property until he accidentally titw the paragraph in the papers. This statement being corroborated by his two companions, be demanded the paintings to be given up to him. This Mr. Smith refused to do, he having sold them to Mr. C. H. Merivale for 97 guineas ; it was ultimately arranged to send for Mr. Merivale, when the latter declared him. self so satisfied with Mr. Burdwell's statement, that he consented to give up the property, Mr. Smith immediately expressed his willingness to do so with the paintings, but the papers had never been sold, and be should not part with them. The conduct of Burdweil here became very violent; he declared the documents were invaluable; that there were several letters amongst them written by the Pretender with the pan he wrote with the night before the battle of Culloden, and many other articles not pub lished in the papers; ultimately Mr. Smith was compelled to call in the police, and have him removed. On Friday evening Mr. Smith was served with legal proceedings by Mr. Burdwell•s solicitor, and as Mr. Smith purposes resisting the claim, Jack Sheppard and the Pretender, after a rest of a hundred years, will Agure in a court of justice. THE GAME-LAWS.—Numbers of gamekeepers, when they inform, look more to the pelf they may get (in the way of half penalty) than a duty towards their employers. Man) have been heard to say, when they knew a person could pay, that he would pay rather than go to gaol ; meaning, thereby, they should pocket by the information. Again, when a small penalty has been inflicted, in cases where the penalty and costs have been paid, the keepers have growled because they only got so little, and that it was "but poor encouragement to inform." These are well-known truths, and show that the iniquitous game-laws are a premium to perjury, for who doubts that many keepers over-rate facts in order to obtain a conviction, and something more—half of penalties.—f From is Cerrespondeesl). FIRE AT WALTON CASTLE, SOaIERSETSIIIRE.—In teIIigence was received at Bristfil on Sunday evening that an exten sive tire was raging in the fartnyard of Walton Castle, the residence of Mr. Greyburne, on the *.anersetshlre coast. Several engines In connexio:t with the fire ineurance companies were immediately horsed and dis•,atched to the sr,ot, but the distance being considerable they did not arrive till abreat eleven o'clock at night, by which time pro perty to a considerable amount had been destroyed. The fire was first discovered about half past four, or from that to five o'clock, among the Has, with which the farmyard was thickly crowded. An alarm was promptly given, the servants and neighbours assem bled, and nil that could be done to arrest the progress of the flames was dorm. The materials were, however, of too inflammable a nature for the tire to yield to any ordinary efforts for its suppress:on, and it spread from rick to rick. Fortunately the wind was in a direction svhirAblew the dames andsparks off from the buildings, otherwise the resent might have been far more disastrous ; as it was, the devour ing element p•as not subdued until six valuable ricks -three of corn and three of hay—had been completely destroyed. The fire, by some, is rapposed to hags been the work of incendiaries, but this supposi*ion Is ;enerally believed to be incorrect. The owner of the propeeLy refers the loss to a snore probable cause,—spontaneous com'mation. The Walton Castle estate belongs to Mr. W. Miles, for West Somerset. JOINT-STOCK CompAigins.—By a Parliamentary paper just issued, an, account is given of all joint-stock companies registered under the Act 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110. It appears that of comoanies existiug before September last there were 965, and 48 for foreign operations. Of the total number 105 were rallw:,y com panies. From the Ist of November to the 7th of June last 355 were provisionally registered, and 17 for foreign operations. Of the 355 as mans as 252 were railway companies, and 11 others for foreign opera tions. Between the '9th and 30th of lune 57 railways were regis tered. For a provisional registration a fee of Si. is paid. After all expenses, the Registrar-General had in hand a balance of 1,294!. 6s. 2d. It seems, fr ,n 1 the amount of fees received, that horn the let ot November to the 31st of I:ecember, 590/. was received for provisional registration ; from the Ist of January to the 31st of March, 3101. ; and front the Ist of April to the 7th of June, 785/. ; making a total for "provisional registration" of 1,6901. The return extends to 163 pages. The list of prisoners is altogether 96, all more or less wounded. Some of them had received as many as six or seven wounds. It will be seen by the above letter that M. Dutertre is dead, and that the account of his havin, been decapitated by Abd-el-Kader for his exhorting the men in the marabout to held out was an invention. The letter of M. Courby is followed by a report from General de Bar, dated Algiers 14th, but containing no facts which have not already reached us. There is also a report from General Thierry, dated Oran :10th, giving a resume of the proceedings i❑ that pro vince, and particularly the operations of General Lamoriciere. Ge neral Thierry states that Abd-el-Kader, who, after the first com bat, had ceased to take any part in the fighting, left in the midst of the second engagement amidst the hisses and imprecations of the Arabs who witnessed the flight. ADMISSION OF INDIAN CORN —The Chairman ct the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, has received a letter fro.n Lord Sandon, expressing his Lordship's approval of the memo rial to the Privy Council in favour of admitting Indian corn. IL , Lordship thinks that such a course on the part of our Government would greatly strengthen in America the hands of those who advo sate the relaxation of the tariff. On Saturday last, Henry Peirce and Henny Ad each, privates in the 17th Lancers, now in Canterbury barracks. were had before the city magistrates on a charge of having passed counterfeit cola, and having other in their possession which they Intended to pass. It appeare that the prisoners had been to various houses and tendered bad coin in payment for different articles ; Put only one of the parties, Mr. Banister, of the Spread Eagle, North gate, appeared against them. They have been suspected some time by Sergeant-Major Dugin, who had consequently watched them, , and found all the apparatus for coining in their quarters. They were remanded till to-day, when it is expected still further conclu- TIIE LA TE F ATAL A CCIDENT ON THE CROYDON R,hersday.ive evitlen (Amm ce will be produced against them.—Kentish er of A TMOSPIIE aic RAILWA f Y.—Friday evening, the a dj ourne d i nquest on DANGEROUS FEMALE EMPLOYMENT. —ln the the body of William Shannons, the young man who was killed on agricultural districts it has .hecome a very geneal plan to employ the above railway on Saturday night last, was resumed and eon- young females In the ilangeaous, and to them improper, labour o f eluded before Mr. W. Payne, at Guy's Hospital. The only ztldi- " serving" thrashing machines. A short time since, a poor girl was tional evidence of any importance was that of the traffic master, dreadradly injured while so employed on the farm of Mr.l'arrott, of forest-lull ; and a few days since, a similar accident befel Caroffne who supposed that det'eased was sitti ng as l eep on the atmospheric Crowdy - a young woman employed in serving a machine on the fat an pipe, when, hearing the whistle, he jumped up anti was struck in or Mess ' rs. W. aud T. fine, of Christmas-common, Oxon. Ti se the back by the buffer of the engine. Mr, n o w, the surgeon, machinery eangat a portion of her dress, tore her clothes, Injured h ir said the deceased's death arose from extensive injury to the lower person, and would probably have killed her bad it not been for th. part of the spine.—Verdict, " Accidental death." energetic exertions of one of the attendants. THREE PERSONS SUPPOSED TO BE POISONED.— EWELL CATTLE FAIR, SURREY.—This autumn , On Friday afternoon, considerable alarm prevailed in George -court fair concluded on Wednesday. Stock of all kind was offered for and Off-alley, West-strand, in consequence of the report that seve- sale, and of which there was more than usual, and a lively business rat individuals had been conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital, in a tended done. overTbe saheweilli wide pens were i confined und m to o pa rt p o r t; n th ci e p fair, an sheep si and I dying state, from their having eaten poisonous lozenges. On re- cattle breeders Sn " S ra u i rr ig e e y o fi g m r d o Sussex °s ls tn :e o r f e tl p 'e resent. Southdown pairing to that institution, our informant learnt that no fewer than wethers, nine individuals had been brought in, suffering greatly from in. fat, 'Aide 4s. Bd. per stone ; ditto, for feedine - , from 325. to Cit.; tags, roni 278: to 325. Lambs, fat, made ss, a stone; ditto, tense inward pain, which was attended with violent vomiting. The for stock atom IGs. to 23.5. a head. Leicesters and half-breds, fat, sufferers were promptly attended to, and they were in a short tittle! sold well, but inferior hung cat hand. There were several pens . relieved. Three childr en, h owever, belonging to a woman na of °".perior bred S ou thd own ewes, w hi c h so ld at pr i ces varying • rriec't front 35s to a head - and aged ewes averaged Its. ;. heath, are still very ill. It was subsequently ascertained that .4 Lin,-.s, • 355, ; 425. L eicesters, ' 40s. ; Rents, 32e. to 315.; So man named Edwards, a marine-store dealer in Off-alley, had, lo.rseta, from 36e. to 40s. There were a few pens of Dorset couples, among other things, purchased at a sale a number of bottles, seve- *shich made front 425. to 30s. Welch ewes fetched 18s. to 235. sal of which contained lozenges. These were alistributed by the Buses beasts, fat, made 4s. 6d. per stone ; ditto, for stalling, from son o f Edwards to several persons, who partook of them in lats... 101. to 14 1 . a head. Prime Scots were caught up at ss. per stone. quantities, and they were soon after seized with alarming pains its r ( 0 0 , t , .. , - s i c a n n l d vi c n alv f c;s om ma i di . front o 141. n t i o re l r ft s t f ; ro l n y t ell B - I br i si o l 1 1 - 2 0 / r . k . si_ii t r t e de e rn as e v v ir the bowels. The lcizenees were subsequentlyanalysed by Mr. BurP.ass, cows with sm g all calf, 151. The Welch cattle droves exteinled over a one ofthe medical racers of the institution, and were found '„ u b e large portion of the field; they were in good condition, considering composed chiefly of ipecacuanha. the distance they travel daily, and many were sold tin* the London DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCIL—On Saturday tl•. e new l irke t cs on a i t goal tioni2oCeSt.. each;l lor.aes ,n , , rung, made iro I f u rozn to l i 1 5 8 1. 1 t0 f i l o. /. ,. ; cart law with respect to documentary evidence (8 and Si Vi cul ts, c. 115) months old.. 95.; three mouths, 14Isi.ag; nags, frost six months, 355. to 425. ; same into force. Its object is to receive in eviden.ce officially fat pigs a 35.. Gd., and porkers, 48.6 d. per stone. The pleasure fair required to sealed or signed documents which had been previoup:sy was small. be proved in regard to the seal or signature. DIDV:ERTISEMENT.]—A CERTAIN CURE FOR SCEO• PROTECTIO N TO .MERCHANT SEA3I2.N.—The Act of TULA OR. KING'S EVIL, lay HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OlNT last Session (8 and 9 Vic., c. 116) came into operation on Saturday MENT.---4, FRIGHTFUL CAM—A young man named Bowman, (the Ist instant). It is to afford protection to seamen, and the se- a shoemaker, living in James-street, Manchester, had been vent objects have already been noticed in this paper, afflicted from childhood with the most malignant kind ol ACTS 05' PARLIAMENT. --All the public Acts of last . scrofulous ulcers, covering various parts of his body ; besides Session, numbering 130, are now in force. Theprivate Acts of ' ot her sufferings, they had deprived him of the use of his left last Session exceed the number of the other Acts. leg • yet, extraordinary to relate, this poor fellow has not only Mr, kVreford, for many years clerk in the long- I had all the ulcers soundly healed, but has likewise regained the ' • roo m in the Exeter Custom-house, has been appointed b y portof Foray. comp) etc use of his limbs by means of these two wonderful the Lords medic , Ines. Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 1 of her Majesty's Treasury to be Comptroller at the ..Dstrift Chronicle. , ) 244 ;strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by annost il ... I all re spemiblo Tenders of medicine throughot.", the civilised wonder A THRENODY on the APPROACH ING DEMISE of OLD MOTHER CORN-LAW. BY THOMAS 3100.118. I see, I see—it is coming fast, Our dear old Corn-law's doom is cast ! That ancient lady, of high degree, Is as near her end as she well can be ; And much will . all vulgar eaters of bread Rejoice, when they see her fairly dead: For never, from ancient Medea* down To the late Mrs. Broivnrigg, of bad renown, Has any old dame been known, they aver, Who could starve and carve poor folks, like her. But, dear old damsel, they wrong her sadly, 'Twas all by law she behaved so badly; And God forbid, whate'er the event, That free-born Britons should e'er repent Wrongs done by Act of Parliament. But is it indeed then come to this, After all our course of high-bread bliss? Poor, deur old Corn-law !—prop of Peers, And glory of Squires, through countless years, Mist all thy structure of Pounds and Pence, Like another Babylon, vanish hence? Must towering Prices and Beets sublime Thus topple, like turrets tonch'd by time, — And all. for what? that each shirtless oaf May bolt, for breakfast, a larger loaf! For this one vulgar purpose alone Is all this inelegant mischief dune. For this poor Knatchbull—hard privation— Must lower a peg his " social station !" For this, even lords (distresing thought) Will soon to short commons all be brought; Will fall with their wheat so much per quarter, And get to look blue as Bucky's garter. And stars will grow pale as prices fail, And fees in tale will be cut off for sale, And all will sink by a sliding scale, — As "slips o'er its slime the sleek slug-snail,"f Nor leave one corn-lord high and hale, Though they flourish now to tell the tale ! * This lady, as is well known, was in the agricultural line. See, for an account of her farming operations, Ovid, Meta morph. 1, vii. v. 227. Her skill in "carving" is thus briefly described by the same poet— "---- stricto Medea recludit Ense senis jugulum." t A line borrowed, with but little alteration, from one of the Lake poets, the original being as follows : " Slow sliding o'er its slime the slippery sleek slug-snail." SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY. The first ordinary meeting of the Shareholders in the South Wales Railway was held on Friday, at the Great Western Railway Station & Paddington; Mr.C. Russell, M.P., Chairman of the Board of Direetbra, in the Chair, The meet ing was made special for the purpo i se of giving auttiatity to the Directors with respect to ary agreements with other Companies, and application to Parliament, which they might think it expedient to make in the ensuing session, and generally for other matters. The common seal of the Company having been formally affixed to the registry of shareholders, and It having been announced that the whole of the capital had been sub. scribed, The CHAIRMAN said the Directors had great pleasure in meeting their proprietory, and they congratulated them on the success which had hitherto attended their operations and proceedings in Par liament. The great difficulty they had met with proceeded from the obstacles which bad been thrown in their way of crossing the Severn. It was impossible for the Committee of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons to resist the authority vested in the Board of Admiralty by law, but both Committees did all they could for them. T:iev gave them their line complete, with the exception of that portion of it which embraced the passage of the Severn, which bad been reserved for the next session. The question was certainly a most important one, and it had since occupied the deliberate and serious consideration of the Directors, who still continued of opinion that the place they had selected for crossing the Severn was in all respects the most advisable. They believed, in fact, that it would not only be beneficial to themselves, but it would tend greatly to improve the naviga ion of the Severn itself ; but it was not fer them to impugn either the judgment or the authority of the Board of Admi ralty. They had, however, lately been in communication with that Board, and they were not without hopes that some plan might yet be devised by which they would be enabled to carry out the project in the mode and manner they had originally wished. It was, nevertheless, desirable that they should not enter more largely into a discussion of that question then, and they had therefore not required their engineer to make any special report upon the subject. Sinc e their Act had been obtained their engineer had been ern_ ployed in revising the surveys, and he had the authority of Mr. Brunel for stating that they were nearly completed Immediately that they were so the shareholders might rely upon it that the Directors would enter into contracts and proceed with the works with the utmost possible diligence and rapidity. The attention of the Direc tors had, of course, been called to the numerous projects for new lines, which form almost a net-work over the whole of the Principality of Wales. It could not be expected that any very considerable portion of these lines would be entertained, much less passed, by the Legislature. From many of them they had selected such as they thought were likely to prove advantageous to the South Wales Railway, and to these they were willing to give their entire, their friendly support and co-operation. The Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, and the Hereford and Shrewsbury lines were likely to be of great importance to the South Wales Railway Company, in so fir as they would tend to convey their traffic to the north and they had accordingly entered into an understanding with them. Previous to their going before Parliament they' entered into an agreement for the purchase of the Forest of Dean Railway, contingent upon their own Act passing. Their Act had of course passed, and the agreement had become binding upon themselves. It was, he might add, their intention to enlarge and improve it, and then they anticipated it would have the effect of bringing a large and important mineral traffic upon their main line. They had thought it ex tremely desirable that they should encourage and support a line of railway running up the Vale of Neath, and it was pos sible and far from improbable that a line of railway would also be formed from the top of the Vale of Neath to join the Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, passing by Merthyr Tydvil and Abergavenny, in order to afford railway accom modation to a large and no less important mineral and manufacturing district—(Hear, bear.) If this Neath Company should be able to make an arrangement with the Hereford and Gloucester Company, the South Wales Coin pany would also be disposed to give it its utmost support. He believed these were the only lines with which they had formed any connexion, and in the present state of the money and railway market they thought it advisable not to encumber themselves with any fresh or extraordinary under takings. The report, which was simply an echo of the Cha►rman's speech, and contained no statement of the accounts, was then read, and afterwards adopted. The present Directors were then confirmed, and their salary fixed at 1,8001., and Messrs. Dobree and Gower having been appointed auditors; with an allowance of 251. each, the secre tary's salary was fixed at 7001. per annum. The purchase of the Forest of Dean Railway was confirmed, and the Directors empowered to take what steps they might deem necessary in the ensuing session of Parliament for the general interest of the Company. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting terminated. GREAT WESTERN SHARES. (mom A CORRESPONDENT.) Cost. A person buying 10 Great Western shares in Oct., 1844, at 621. prem. on 801. paid £1,420 0 0 He has since received a new issue in respect of above, of 20 quarter stares, worth 181. prem each, reducing his cost Real Cost 1,060 0 0 The present value of 10 Great Western shares, "ex New Issue." is 145/. to 1501. each—say 10 shares, at 145/. Leave a profit of £39o 0 0 Instead of a loss of 1,0001., as represented by the Times. Any Stock-broker in London will confirm this, and it ought to be noticed. The new issue has been altogether lost sight of, both by you and the Times, and was a great boon to the Shareholders. It is rumoured in Leicester that the Roman Ca tholics are about to purchase the Three Crowns, and in its place to erect a magnificent cathedral, similar to that lately built at Nottingham. They are now erecting a very large college at Ratcliffe, near the Syston station ; and on-Charn wood Forest is a monastery inhabited by about thirty monks. The latter possess a farm of about 250 acres, which they themselves cultivate, and to the poor of the neighbourhood they are exceedingly charitable.—Derby R porter. MR. OAKELEY.—It is not true, Iv stated by the Morning Post, that the Rev. Frederick Oakeley's resignation of his fellowship at Balliol College (in opposition to the advice of Dr. Pusey) is founded' on the decision of the Arches Court against him, and on his not being permitted to perform his duties. Mr. Oakeley has resigned, in conse quence of formally entering the Romanist communion at Oxford, on Wednesday last.—Church and State Gazeta JESUITS.—The number of Jesuits already arrived at Lucerne amounts to nine. A correspondent in that place assures us that they will gain no ground, not at least in the town itself. The barricades erected by order of the Govern ment are still standing, the National Guards are still under I arms, a considerable number of citizens are living miserably away from their country, and banished far from their families. 1,500 men are already condemned; oilers are amenable to capital punishment, all their fortunes are confiscated, and it is in this state of things that the Jesuits have just been installed in Lucerne. The Court of Appeal has sent back to the inferior court the prosecution instituted against Captain Ulmi and Jost Barth. It has decided that they are not amenable to the penalty of death decreed by the inferior court. The news of banishment of Dr. Feni and Professor Daffner is confirmed. It is still thought that they will be imprisoned in a fortress of Piedmont.—Constitutioneet. SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN HARDY.—On Friday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Blue Boar, Caro line street, Bedford-square, on the body of Captain Hardy, late of 8, Tavistock-street, aged sixty-five. The deceased bad been originally attached to the East India Company's Marine Service. After leaving the service he became one Of the most active and liberal governors of Middlesex Hospital, , and a director of the poor of the parish rf St. Giles. From the evidence before the coronee it appeared that shortly after retiring to rest, in his usual health and spirits, last Wednes day night, he felt himself so suddenly attacked with illness, that he called his nephew, and desired him to send for Mr. Combo, surgeon, of Caroline-street. who immediately at tended, and applied stimulants, which afferded temporary relief. But scarcely had Mr. Combo left, when his illness, accompanied with the most alarming symptoms, returned. It was then deemed advisable to call in Dr. Arnott, of Bed ford-square ; but all his effoits were unavailing, as his patient was a corpse in a few minutes after he first saw him. The medical witnesses gave it as their opinion that deceased died of a diseased heart, and a verdict accordingly was returned. THE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR.—The recent affair at Madagascar naturally draws attention to that island. After New Holland it is the largest island in the world. Its length is about 900 miles; and its central part is about 400 miles in breadth. It is supposed to contain about 250.000,000 or 300,000,000 of acres. The climate arid soil are generally highly favourable to vegetation, including all the choicest productions of the tropical regions. It is rich in minerals, particularly in the metal, with forests of tine timber, and, not improbably, fields of coal. Its geographical position renders it capable of becoming one of the richest por tions of the globe. In attempting to bring its barbaric sovereign to reason, a better way may be found than that of attacking valueless towns and useless forts on the coast. The capital must be reached or threatened; but to accomplish this by marching a force through the marshes is clearly im possible, or most hazardous. Is there any other way? In the common maps, a river rising not very far from the capi tal, and within the healthy region, is conducted, by the mapmakers, to the sea on the west side of the island near the 20th degree of south latitude. But it is supposed by others, that this river, instead of running west, runs north, and falls into the sea about the 16th degree of south lati titude ; and it is supposed to be navigable to within four or five days' journey of the capital. This river, it is said, was once frequented by Arab vessels, and a fair was held at the point where it ceased to be navigable for boats, &c. Ra dama's father, and afterwards Radama himself, becoming jealous of this near approach of foreigners, prohibited this traffic, and endeavoured to conceal the real course of the river. Should the Admiral or the Governor of Mauritius wish for certain information concerning it, they may find fugative natives of Madagascar in the island of Mohilla, near Johanna, who would gladly act as explorers.—South African. FOREIGN CATTLE AND FRUIT, &C.—The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Sir Edward Banks, from Ostend, a day or two since, brought 32 packages of Belgian poultry, a quantity of fresh fish, eggs, plants, &a. The Company's vessel Belfast, from Calais, brought 25 skins of walnuts ; the Harlequin, from Boulogne, 64 skins of walnuts, four packages of poultry, and other articles. . The Venezuela, from Itottordarn, brought 91 sheep, eight calves, 17 packages of poultry, eight packages of yeast, a large quantity of cheese, butter, seeds, roots, &c. The James Watt, from Havre, brought 39 skins of chesnuts, the first importation of the article, we believe, this season—a quantity of peas, eggs, and other articles ; and the Soho, front Antwerp, brought, amongst a variety of other articles of French produce, 41 baskets of smelts, &c. Two or three sailing vessels have also arrived, laden with fresh ripe fruit fer the metropolitan markets. The Alexandre, from Grave lines, brought 11l packages of walnuts, besides a large quantity of eggs and other French produce. The Express, from Jersey, brought 1,500 bushels, one barrel, and three boxes of apples, the produce of that island, besides a quantity of pears, &c. ; and the Guernsey Lass, from Dunkirk, brought about 30 packages of apples, the produce of Normandy, and other articles. WOOLWICH, OCT. 31.—The Avon steam-vessel, Commander Denham, F.R.S., left Woolwich on the 27th inst., on her surveying expedition to the coast of Guinea, including the mouths of the Niger. The Devastation, Growler, and Ardent, paid off during the month, are to undergo a refit, and be again made ready for commission. The shipwrights are employed build. big the Sphynx and Niger steam.vessels by task work, as it is de. sirable they should be ready by the close of the financial year. The Amphion frigate, building, will be ready for launching early next year, and is to be fitted with a tcrew propeller. THE LEIPSIG FAIL—The fair just over has been an excellent one, except for woollens and hogs' bristles. Very ex tensive business has been done in cloths of 11 descriptions, at higher prices than those which ruled last year. The produce of the &dive rein manufactures, as well as articles of luxury and fashion, were in great demand. Leather sold f ree l y at advanced prices.--Frank fotkon4 !Wpm. , Week Last gt,, ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. r, a Oct. 25 Arbroath and Forfar ••• •• • •• ••• • • • 142 150 - Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • - • • • • - 24 Chester and Birkenhead .••• • • . •• • • 759 778 23 Dublin and Drogheda•• ••••••• • • - • • • • 715 624 28 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • " 872 834 26 Dundee and Arbroath . • • - Durham and Sunderland .•• ••••• - • • • • - 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3,15 G 2,522 26 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 6,748 4,335 25 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,104 1,702 25 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• • • 963 872 24 Grand Junction .. •••.••••• • • • • • • • • • 15,000 13,012 25 Gravesend and Rochester. •••••• • • • • • 226 Great North of England .. 26 Great Western .•••••••••• •• • • • • • • • • 18,982 16,511 - Hull and Selby •. • • • ..• ..... .••• . • . - Liverpool and Manchester •••• .. • ... 25 London and Birmingham •• • 21,330 16,048 26 London and Blackwall •••• • • • ....... 875 761 25 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • • • 5,591 5,041 28 London and Croydon .•••• • • • • • 1,752 1,405 - London and Greenwich .• • • 2G London and South Western .• • ...... 7,353 6,248 26 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 1,000 925 24 Manchester and Birmingham •• • 4,271 3,267 25 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 7,220 5,576 28 Midland Counties .• • • ...... ••••• • • • • 17,519 1 3 , 567 25 Newcastle and Darlington •• • • ...... 2,856 1,882 25 Newcastle and Carlisle ...• ••• • • ..... 1,613 1,873 26 Newcastle and North Shields•• ••• • • • 433 375 24 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,570 1,503 27 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans. 6,540 5,735 27 Paris and Rouen ..• • • 25 Preston and Wyre. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 514 - 25 Sheffield and Manchester .• •• • • •• • • 1.121 661 25 South Eastern.. 1,183 816 26 Ulster. .. - Yarmouth and Norwich •••••• • • • • • • 25 York and North Midland ...• • • • 5,169 4,847 TM, OREGON QUESTION AND LYNCH LAW. New Yoax, OCT. 15.—1 n regard to the question of Oregon, in. telligent men on this side the Atlantic (and, it is thought, the cor. responding class on the other side) are of opinion that it should be settle:l with as little delay as practicable. Procrastination, with the tepid settlement of the country, will increase the difficulty of an arnletfAst arrangement. The correctness of this remark acquires strength t a reference to past negotiations. It is much fit he regretted that a disposition to lower the standard of this country in fffte estimation of Europe too often appears in leading journals abroad. All these matters serve to irritate the public mind here, and leased/ she ability of thshe to whom is con. tided the management of Government affairs to sustain that friendly deportment they might naturally desire; and hence it is that of late so ready a conviction on the part of the mass is manifested that a deep and settled hostility exists among European Govern. ments againsi the institutions of the United States. It is not in- tended, by these remerks, to attoch any blame to the Government. In Great Britain, as in this country, the press is free and un shackled. Nevertheless it sometimes has, as in the present instance. exercised a most baleful influence. I wish it was in my power to say that the President and his constitutional advisers are prepared to make any reasonable sacri. fice to pre►erve the peace of the country—but it is net. I see no evidence of any such disposition. Mr. Polk appears to be cau. tiously feeling his way. He is evidently without system in regard to foreign affairs, and will probably remain in that state until Con gress convenes. If south-western counsels prevails there will be no concession or compromise on the Oregon question. Nothing short of the 55th degree of latitude as the boundary will satisfy that class of politicians. If they find themselves in the majority, one of their first moves will be to abrogate the existing arrange ment between Great Britain and the United States, as to the joint occupancy of Oregon. But I still entertain a hope that this will not be done unless it is done in a friendly way and with friendly views. It is certain that in the present state of public feeling in both countries great circumspection is necessary. No exciting or irritating measure should be adopted. The friends of peace and humanity should pour oil on the troubled waves of discord and con tention. A sacrifice should be made of all false pride. Cassius M. Clay, whose printing-office, in which the True Ame ricons,an abolition paper, was printed, in Kentucky, has prosecuted a number of citizens for having taken possession of his office by violence, and transported it into the state of Ohio. The parties charged admitted the fact of taking and transporting the printing materials, but justified, alleging that the paper was a nuisance. After the testimony had been closed, the Court instructed the jury upon the law of the case. The defendants then asked the following instructions:— I. That as the proceeding was quasi criminal, the jury were the judges of the law and fact. . . The imports of fruit from abroad into Hull have nearly ceased for the present season. Since our report of Thursday se'nnight, the arrivals chiefly of apples, per steam conveyance, have been :—Oct. 17, by the Hamburgh, from Hamburgh, 242 packr.::es ; 20th, Emera'd Isle, from Rotterdam, 261 packages; 23d, Queen of Scotland, from Hamburgh, 32 packages ; the Transit, which was the neat in rotation of departure, brought 12 caske 3 cases of apples, whilst the Leeds and Helen 31•Gregur, which followed on their pointed days, did not bring a single basket, bus, or case; and the Emerald Isle's productions in this line has fallen off to 178 baskets of apples, landed: on Monday last—the fortnight's imports amounting to only 828 packages, whilst in the preceding week one importer aim laatled vpwuds vi I,69o.pactalimniaain livrcad. 2. That the people have a right to abate a nuisance, and in its abatement to use just so much force as might he necessary for that purpose. Court gave the first instruction asked by the defendants, with the qualification, that although not legally, the jury were morally bound to decide according to the law given them by the Court. I he second instruction asked by them the Court refused. The defendants then asked the following instruction :—That if the jury believed that the True American Press was a public nuisance, and could not exist in its then location and condition without being a nuisance, the defendants were justifiable in abating it—which the Court gave, and the cause went to the jury. The definition of a nuisance, as given by the best common law writers, was then read to the jury in the following terms :—A common nuisance is an offence against the public, either by doing a thing which tends to the annoyance of all the King's subjects, or by neglecting to do a thing which the common good requires. After full argument the jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict of " Not guilty." The steamer Great Britain arrived here last evening, having lost a mast and being short of fuel. A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. —Times. FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Mucklow, pablican, Birmingham—first div. of Is. 9• d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. H. J. Dixon and J. Dixon, carpet manufacturers, Birming ham—first div. of 13s. 4d. in the pound on new proofs. also a second dir. of 4d., any Thursday, at the of&e of Mr. Valpy, Birmi n sham. T. Newton, cattle dealer, llolbeach, Lincolnshire—first div. of 31. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. • Barker and Adams—third div. of id. in the pound, any Thurslay, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. J. Crabtree and W. Burnley, woollen manufacturers, Turn stead, Forrest Rossendale—first div. of 13s. 4d. in the pound, any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. 3 . . Irving. linendraper, Blackburn—firl div. of llid. in the pound. any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. T. Clifton, bookseller, Barnard Castle—first and final div. of ls. 10d. in the pound, any Saturday after Nov. 8, at the office. of Mr. T. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Pallister and Newrick, grocers, Sunderland—second and final div. of Bid. in the pound (in addition to ls. 3d. previously declared), any Saturday after Nov. 1, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle upon-Tb ne. W. Parsons, brewer, Bristol—first div. of 3s. in the•pound, any Monday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. Johnson, ten., W. Johnson, and C. Mann, hankers, Ilomford, Nov. 21, at twelve—C. Mann, banker, Rumford, Nov. 21, at twelve. _ In the Country. J. Bourne, printer, Bemmerslev, Staffordshire, Nov. 26, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. K. Cotterel, grocer, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, Nov_ '27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—J. Hutchings, shoemaker, Bath,3 Nov. 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—. Warr, currier, Bridport, Dorsetshire, Nov. 28, at one, at the Exeter District Court—H. R. Osborne, grocer, Truro, Cornwall, Nov. 21, at one, at the Exeter District Court—F. Ridd, surgeon, Nether Stowey, Somersetshire, Nov. 27, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Marshall and T. Collier, mer chants, Manchester, Nov. 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J. Clarke, R. Mitchell, J. Philips, and T. Smith, bankers, Leicester, Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Birming ham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day her e i n men ti one d. J. Guy, publisher, Bury-street, St. James's, Nov. 19—E. Cook, grocer, Little Newport-street, Soho, N0v.,22-11. Mac kenzie, commission agent, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, Nov. 21—R. Hill, tailor, Newgate-street, Nov. 2l—C. Bailey, wholesale druggist, Garlick. hill, Nov. 21—J. L. Machu, silk trimming manufacturer, Macclesfield, Nov. 21— J. Giles, publican, Headless-cross, Worcestershire, Nov. 22 T. Barlow, grocer, Nov. 21—J. Gibbs, grocer, Ramsay, Huntingdonshire, Nov. 21—W. Henderson, mercer, Sunderland, Nov. 21—H. Samuel, cigar manufacturer, Leadenhall-street, Nov. 21—M. Wrake, jun.. bricklayer, Canterbury, Nov. 2I—J. Stonehouse, mercer, Scarborough. Nov. 21—J. T. Taylor and T. P. Watkinson. plumbers, York terrace, Regent's-park, Nov. 21—J. C. Dempsey, stati.ner, Bristol, Nov. 21—A. Green, apothecary, Brighton, Nov. 21 W. R. Watts, chemist, Bath, Nov. 21—J. Mitchell. livery stablekeeper, Montagu-street, Montagu-square, Nov. 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. _ _ W. Pigott Saile, R. Pickles, W. Pickles, and J. Wil cock, tar distillers. Barnsley, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Wilcock) -J. R. Cousins and J. King, farmers, Dork ing—T. Beswick and W. Shoebottom, coach proprietors, Bolton—H. and C. S. Parker, wine merchants. Hull—C. M. Jopliug and S. E. Bilbrough, slate agents, Liverpool—U. Wackrill and J. Gath, brewers, Tiverton—W. Cont.) , and R. Dycr, common brewers, Boston—W. Colley, G. Hill, and R. Dyer, wine merchants, Boston—T. Bell and R. Watson, naphtha manufacturers, Ferryhill, Durham—J. Squire and B. W. Wells, floor-cloth manufacturers, W indmill-lane, Cam berwell—L. Laidma- and E. Cox, law stationers, Chancery lane—R. Morce and J. Clayton, mordant manufacturers, Chorley, Lancashire—T. Weir and C. Glascodine, provision merchants, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire—T. Thorne, sen., and T. Thorne, jun., plasterers, Hastings—J. Moselv, L. Woolf, and A. Isaacs, watchmakers, Bury-street, St. Mary Axc— R. Gardam and J. B. Hill, house joiners, Hull—H. and W. Carr, shipbuilders, Hylton, Durham—E. Nixon and R. Fen ton, earthenware manufacturers, Newbold Astbury, Cheshire —C. Bunion and W. Wilks, coal factors, High-street, Wap ping—J. Warburton and B. P. Mitchell, coach proprietors, Liverpool—R. Clough and C. Edmondson, worsted manufac turers, Addingham, Yorkshire—j. Hall and T. Mapp, malt stars, Bridgnorth—T. Moore, G. Moore, and R. Moore, card makers, Godley-bridge, Yorkshire—L. Parry, A. Parry, and S. W. Peake, milliners, Shrewsbury (so far as regards S. W. Peake)—E. Evans, J. Evans, and J. Roberts, woollendrapers, Toxteth-park, Lam ashire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ Thomas Fraser, coach balder, Inverness, Nov. 4 and 28, at twelve, at the Chambers of Mr. Macandrew, Inverness. Robert Taylor, manufacturing chemist, Glasgow, Nov. 4 and 28, at twelve, at the Chambers of Messrs. Strathern and Douglas, Glasgow. THE PROVISION MARK ET.—ln the list of imports of a single week into two of the secondary ports of Great Britain, we find the following edumeration, which certainly shows no want of food for either man or quadruped:— Bristol Presentment.—ln the Otto Ferdinand. from Dantzic, W. Player, 1,300 quarters of wheat.—ln the Yorkshire. from Quebec, 2 barrels of wheat flour.—ln the Ayrshire, from ditto,l,ooo barrels of flour.—ln the Margaret, from St. Kitt's, 5 casks of pickles, 1,000 cocoa nuts, tamarind.% &c.—ln the Sabrina, from Cork, 6 .boxes of eggs; 48 barrels of white and 23 of black oats, 10 bales of bacon ; 150 barrels of black oats; 25 bags of coarse flour; 10 firkins of butter; 1 cask of ham's ; 22 bales of bacon ; 4 boxes of eggs ; 60 bar rels of black oats; 6 boxes of eggs; 1 chest of poultry ; 1 cask of honey ; 4 cases of eggs ; 150 sacks of oats; 20 sacks of oatmeal ; 1 cask of whisky , 15 casks of porter ; 2 casks of lard ; 42 boxes of eggs and fish ; 30 head of cattle ; 112 pigs. —ln the Osprey, from Waterford, 80 barrels of black oats; lii sacks of barley; 19 chests of poultry; 20 firkins of butter; 29 chests and 3 cases of poultry; 1 crib of live ditto; 4 hampers and 1 case of wine; 420 sacks of oats : 125 bales of bacon ; 80 casks of lard ; 90 pigs.—ln the Shamrock, from Dublin; 50 hogsheads, 10 barrels, 150 kilderkins of Guinness and Co 'a extra stout; 7 casks of bottled wine; 33 sacks of malt; 33 sacks of meal ; 4 casks of whisky ; 3 barrels of ale ; likewise 120 pigs.—ln the Friends, from Da . ngarvan, 80 rigs.—ln the Heroine, from Dungarvan, 200 pigs.-1n the John and Marv, from Duugarvan, 120 pigs —ln the Nora Creina, from Waterford, 50 sacks of black oats; 25 packs of poultry ; 1 crib of live ditto; 50 firkins of butter; 19 chests of poultry; 20 firkins of butter; 85 bales of bacon; 1 case of eggs; 6 hogsheads and 1 firkin of porter; 59 pigs.—ln the lonia. from Yougbal, 75 - pigs.—ln the Kate, from Cork, 200 firkins of butter; 128 barrels and 132 sacks of oats; 50 firkins of butter.—ln the Landshipping, from Waterford, 900 barrels of oats, 40 sacks of barley. But we have not room suffi cient to enumerate the whole. Let us then take Liverpool : —From the north and south of Europe the import consiqs of 3,202 quarters of wheat and 600 quarters of beans; and from Canada and the United States of 463 quarters of wheat and 5,084 barrels of flour.— Hereford Journal. DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL BREDIN.—We re gret to record the death of Major-General Andrew Bredin, of the Royal Artillery, which took place on Wednesday last at hts resi. Bence, at Fox-hill, Plumpstead.common. The deceased °Meer, who was in the 74th year of his age. received his commission as lieutenant on the 9th SAptember, 1794; captain, 6th July, 1798; brevet major, 25th July, 1810 ; regimental major. 12th June, 1613 ; brevet lieutenant.colonel, 17th Oct , 1823 ; regimental colonel, 28th July, 1834; and major-general, 23d Nov., 1841. Previous to joining the Royal Regiment of Artillery he belonged to the Royal Irish Artillery, and joined the service from that brl gale. His services are stated to be as follows :—He was at the capture of Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and also served in the Penin,sula. He retired from the corps on attaining the rank of major-general. His body was interred on Saturday with military honours, FALL DOWN A PIT .SHAFT.—An inquest was held on Tueaday, at Low Moorsley, on the body of John Brown, ag d 28 years, a hewer in the North Hetton colliery, who, having on the day previous descended the pit as far as the main coal seam, was about. to make a signal for the breaksman to lower the cage further down the shaft, when he slipped and fed to the isottom, a depth of about forty fathoms. He fell into the water at the bottom of the shaft, and it was obliged to be pumped out before deceased's body could be recovered ; he was quite dead when found. Ver. cict, " Accidental d:a:h."—Durhanz .1d verti4er. FLEET-STREET.--The thoroughfare of Fleet-street and Temple-bar will be opened about Wednesday neat, after being 03f6id ttc•lKtr* ileao7 4y, Re*. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Friday a Court was held. THE LORD MAYOR AND CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. The LORD 11.1nYou made the following statement to the Court ; " October 30. " I have now to report, according to my statement made to the last Court, I caused a General Court of the Governors of all the Hospitals to be called by the Town Clerk by letters to the Presidents, to meet in the Guildhall, on yesterday, at one o'clock precisely, when I was attended by " Sir Chapman Marshall, Knight and Alderman, " Mr. Prendergast, Mr. Crqucher, Mr. Deputy Stevens, Mr. Deputy Westwood,' Mr. Molt," Governors of St. Bar tholomew ; "Mr. Selson, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Hill, Mr. Deputy Obbard, Mr. Deputy Evans, Mr. Deputy . Mitchell, Mr. Deputy Dixon, Mr. Parker,* Mr. Laurie,' Governors of Bridewell and Bethlehem ; "Mr. Jerram, Mr. Prior, Mr. Lister, Mr. Deputy Bedford, Mr. White, Governors of Christ's Hospital ; " Mr. Bennett, Mr. Jupp, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Brass, Mr, Muggeridge, Gogernors of St. Thomas's; "'No lists were delivered in, but communications were re ceived from Bridewell, St. Thomas, and Christ's Hospital, addressed to the Town Clerk, and are now in Court to be read if required. The Court will remark that different rea sons are assigned by the different hospitals for not delivering the lists, which is a circumstance worthy of observation, when it is recaected that all the hospitals had one common origin. were all originally under the same Government, and are still under the same agreement and Act of Parliament, which, although it gives the management to the Governors of the several hospitals, leaves untouched the title to the property, the general superintendence of the Corporation, and their interest in the incorporated body of all the hospitals. "It was observed by two Goverrore members of the Common Council, and by one of the other Governors, that they were not a sufficiert number of Governors present to constitute a Court. I have only to say, as to the discharge of my duty, that the Governors who were summoned by the Town Clerk were more than sufficient to form a proper Ge neral Court, hod they attended to the summons. "For myself, my course is clear ; my term of office will soon expire. I have only interposed officially, being deter. mined, that during my year of office the rights and privi leges of the Corporation should not be weakened or usurped without my resistance. It is impossible not to say (whether intentional or not) that the rights of the Corporation have been infringed. It is, therefore, my duty to report the pro ceedings to this Court, having no doubt that proper steps will be taken to secure the rights and privileges of the Cor poration." Mr. Low, the Chairman of the Royal Hospitals Committee, then rose and stated, that the managers of the hospitals had, by their crowning act, consummated their contumacy to their legitimate head, the Lord Mayor, and reiterated their defiance to the Corporation, and their determination to re . cognise them in no other light than as ordinary governors o the hospital. Mr. Lott. in analyzing the replies of the various officers of the different hospitals in excuse for not delivering in the lists, stated that they presented the reverse of the proverb, that "in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom." The reply of Christ's Hospital, that the lists were delivered in according to ancient custom, was incor rect. The innovation,' which, mole-like, was imperceptibly widening the privileges of the Corporation, was the subtle creation of the last three years only, the ancient custom for upwards of 200 years being to place the Lord Mayor at the head of the lists. The authorities of Christ's Hospital said truly they had placed the whole management in the almoners, but from whom had been carefully excluded the corporate Governors, the original and legitimate trustees of these royal foundations. The reply of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hos pitals was a mere quibble, they asserting they would have inaele the return at Christ's Hospital (whence the Lord Ma y or was shut out), but would not do se at Guildhall; and St. Thomas's took time to consider that which required little time to deliberate upon. Mr. Lott moved that " the whole matter be referred to the Royal Hospitals Committee, with power to consult counsel thereon ;" and he trusted the Court would now proceed with zeal and dignity to vindicate their much abused rights and privileges. Alderman Wiesen.; was strongly in favour of supporting the dignity of the Mayoralty, and opposing the arrogance and pride of Christ's Hospital. It had, he said, been stated upon a firmer occasion, that if any charity in the kingdom required to be looked into very particularly, Christ's Hospital was that institution.—(Hear, hear.) He completely agreed with that opinion, and be believed that it was the bounden duty of the Corporation to do all they could to control the extraordinary efforts made to destroy that power.—(Hear.) Mr. GADSDEN said he had been given to understand that the legal opinions delivered to the Court of Alder.'nen upon the subject of the right of the Lord Mayor were decidedly in favour of the Corporation. He had been also informed that the opinions of the few authorities consulted upon the part of the Governors of tie Hospital were as decidedly against the City. He spoke as an impartial person, and he could not but say that while the Corporation gave 100/. within the last ten years to support the charity, the Governors not con nected with Cie C. rporation gave 100,000/.—(" >To no.") Mr. R. TAYLOR said, the purchased Governors dthe Hos pital were wrong in the course they had adopted, and hoped that the Corporation would make every effort to regain their lost rights.—Hear, hear.) The communication of the Lord Mayor was then referred to the Royal Hospitals Committee. • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1845 WHIRLWIND AT PINANG. A whirlwind, giving rise to the appearance of a water-spout of extraordinary beauty, was observed in the northern channel on the 16th April at mid-day. The American ship Anna Maria was coming into harbour at the time, and from it the phenomenon was very distinct. Captain Millet, her commander, thus describes it I—Before it commenced, he says, the sky was rather cloudy, the winds baffling —not blowing from one point more than a minute at a time—requiring the sails to be continually braced. Suddenly a very heavy cloud gathered over the town, from the edge of which a body of theshape of a cone began to form, and quickly lengthened and chopped in a sloping direction to the sea, a little to the north of the fort, and somewhat nearer the opposite, than this side of the channel. When its point was still at some distance from the sea, the water seemed to become agitated as if it were in a state of ebul lition, and ultimately it appeared to rise also into the shape of a cone, and meet the one from the cloud with which it then united. The cone was now observed to be transparent, but at the circum ference to have a greyish look, and a spiral stream of water was seen to flow through its centre—it was thought from below upwards. This continued for nearly five minutes when the appearance broke up. The wind blew from the south, but almost immediately afterwards it again became variable. The cloud was still heavy and dark, and a second time theplienomenon took place precisely in the order and manner described above, but it was a little farther from the harbour, probably half-way be tween the Fort and Palo Moose. The Anna Maria was now within the segment of the arch which it formed, and the cons mender being under some apprehension fur the ship's safety, imme diately brought her head to the wind, let go the anchor, and dewed up all the sails. An eddy wind now caught the top sails, and blew them up with considerable force from the yards, but they were ultimately with considerable difficulty secured. It then broke, not more than three times the ship's length off the Anna Maria, but the water continued agitated for a very long time, sometimes spreading, and again contracting into a smaller compass as if it were a third time going to rise. At the moment of break. ing there was a vivid flash of lightning followed by thunder and some heavy rain. The second continued fur fully fifteen minutes before it broke. The sea fowl kept flying about it apparently in a state of great alarm.—Pinang Gazette. FOREIGN CORN.—Our Dublin correspondent, it will be seen, repeats his statement that foreign corn is to be admitted duty free into Irelund, only, however, for the purpose of mention ing that the authorities have fixed the 22d, instead of theist Novem ber, as the day on which such suspension of the law is to take place.-4ldeertiser. LooK OUT I.—As a canal-boat was passing under a bridge, the captain gave the usual warning, by calling aloud, " Look nut I" when a little Frenchman, who was in the cabin, obeyed the order by popping Lis bead out of the window, which te ceived a severe thump by coming in contact with a pillar of the bridge. He drew it back in a great pet, and exclaimed, " Dese Amerikins cry look out, when dey mean look in." The public have learned from the daily journals that - Sir Robert Peel, during his recent visit, with Lady Peel, to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, was unfortunately attacked with gout. But it has not been stated—though the fact is of no slight importance—that it was the Premier's first attack of that painful and insidious disease. We are happy. however, to state that he is now quite convalescent, and that no uneasiness is entertained by his family as to the result of the attack, but rather the reverse. We may add that Sir Robert returns to Drayton, with Lady Peel, on Monday, and that a distinguished party will be assembled there. —Court Journal. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A GUNNER OF ARTILLERY. —The accident which occurred on Thursday se'nnight to a gunner of the loyal Artillery, named Francis Collons, of the Royal Horse Artillery, whilst that corps was at exercise on Woolwich Common, in the presence of Colonel T. De Koudriaffsky, an officer in the Russian service, has been attended with fatal results. It appeared that whilst Collons was engaged ramming home the charge in the usual way, the gun exploded, the charge tearing off the thumb and mutilating three fingers of his right hand. He was removed to the Royal Ordnance Hospital, where the three fingers were amputated, but after lingering for more than a week, death terminated his sufferings on Friday morning. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained, as the gun was sponged as usual, and the vent was properly stopped, as the man who had his finger on it was burnt by the discharge. The gun has also been examined, and found to Ise perfect. Colonel Koudriaffsky kindly sent the deceased a pre sent of 51. on Monday last, and Mrs. Marshall, of Shooter's-hill, who was present at the time of the accident, also sent him 2L, bene factions which the poor fellow did not live to enjoy. The deceased was a single man, and had been about five years in the service. IV INDSOR .ELECTION.—FRIDAY EVENING. -- The " coming off" of the election, it Is now rumoured, will probably be postponed until early in the week after next, as it is now stated that it is fully expected the writ will not be received by the mayor (who is the returning officer) until Monday. The ensuing week or ten days will be a more than usually busy period in this generally quiet borough. To.morrow the election of town councillors for the year ensuing will take place, and Tuesday next has been appointed for the holding of the Quarter Sessions. The present mayor, Mr. Thomas Clarke, retires from office on Monday se•nnight (the 9th falling on a Sunday), when the new mayor will be elected ; and on the following day a public dinber, in honour of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, will take place at the Royal Adelaide Hotel. The canvass is still in progress, and the friends of both caniidates are equally sanguine of success. THE FEVER QCTESTION.-IMPORTANT ORDER.- Irlpursuance of directions from the Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, signified by a communication from Mr. Bathurst, one of the clerks of the Council, the Commissioners of the Customs have caused instructions to be given to the revenue cheers and coast guard at this port, and at every outport and station along the coasts of the United Kingdom, to be most parti cular in future in the examination of the masters or officers com manding vessels (more particularly of steamers) arriving from the coast of Africa or the West Indies, by putting the quarantine ques tions to them, and taking down their replies, so as to have their papers to refer to if necessary, as in the case of vessels arriving from the Mediterranean or the Levant, and especially with reference to the quarantine questionsll,ls,l6, 18;19,and 20, the replies to which are do be taken down most fully. observing that, in the event of their having been any suspicious sickness on board during the voy age, all such vessels are to be detained under the restraint of qua rantine, and their quarantine papers forwarded to the Board. Th is order has been issued, in consequence of the late deplorable awl tatal case of the discovery of an alarming and devastating fever, existing in a certain ship which recently arrived from the coast of Africa, and has been lying under the restraint of guano. tine t u a considerable time off the Motherbank, and it is the wish and it itentien of Government, by taking every possible precaution to pre vent the spread of anything so alarming and frightfirl as the dims !. alluded to. In the event of any disease of the kind having shown itself during the voyage from the places in question, the atricte st inquiry and examination will be made previously to the yes. el being relieved from quarantine, in order to prevent the exte n sion of any contagious illness which may actually, or be sup pose d to exist on board. ['BADE WITH FRANCE.--A Parliamentary paper has, just been Issued. showing the exportations to and importations from Trance for a number of years. Last year, it appears, that the total amount of the articles exported to France from Great Britain was 5,204,176/., and the total imports from France 3,687,8781. The imp. rrt duties were 1,879,799!. Of the exportations, only 828,9481. wer. articles of colonial and foreign merchandise ; so that the bulk of e oods sent to France consisted of British and Irish produce and mar atfactures. PROPOSED GOVERNMENT PIER AT WOOLWICH.- Th ere is a rumour prevalent in the town and garrison of Wool wi that her Majesty's Government have it in contemplation to c. ,use an extensive and commodious pier to be erected by the side f Globe-lane, on the bank of the Thames, in a direct line with leresford.street, which leads to the Royal Arsenal, to accomplish which a number of old dilapidated houses, nearly fallen into decay, between Beresford.street and the water side, will have to be rased o the ground, which can easily be done, as the leases are nearly e spired. A more eligible site could not be fixed, as it leads to the s lost public thoroughfares of the town as well as to all the Govern s cent establishments. A company was attempted to be formed t +me years ago, to follow out a similar plan fora Woolwich pier, by raising the capital in shares, but the promoters not meeting with that success and support they anticipated to carry out so important . an undertaking for the benefit of the town, they were compelled to s .banden the project altogether. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The a mtemplated matrimonial a liance between Lord Curzon, eldest son t l oir Earl Howe, and Miss Sturt, daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte , Stull, is fixed to take place in the ensuing week. The Noble Lord, w'bo is in his 24th year, and first-cousin to his bride elect, will, it is understood, inherit the large estates of his uncle, the Earl of Cardigan, in the event of that Noble Earl leaving no male issue. ABUNDANCE OF LABOUR.—So great is the scarcity of labourers in some agricultural districts that the crier has been sent round to announce an increase of wages; with the drain upon the labour market, consequent upon the railways about being laid down, labour will be exceedingly valuable next year, if it be not scarce enough to retard or prevent the gathering in of the fruits of the earth.—lTerOwd Journal. CONMJAIPTION OF FOOD IN BELGIUM.—The Minister of Finance has just published the table of alimentary sub stances which have been imported since the Ist of January last up to the present period. The following is the general result :—Wheat, 63,866,965 kilogrammes ; rve, 10,216,909 kilogrammes ; barley and annel-corn, 28,081,879 kilogrammes ; maize, the same quantity • black corn or buck wheat, 271,814 kilogrammes ; beans, 1,659,717 kilogrammes; vetches, 69,468 kilogrammes ; pear, 316,842 kilogrammes ; oats, 4,407,794 kilogrammes; groats and pearl barley, 66,153 kilogrammes; potato lees, 188,068 kilogrammes; vermicelli, macaroni, ecc., 7,997 kilogrammes; potatoes, 58,001 hectoli tres; rice, 5,499,043 kilogrammes. We could have wished hat by the side of this table the Minister had published the nportations in the corresponding nine months of last year. -Courier Beige. • RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 31. STOCK Exestaiicik.--ThB tales art-Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 10%--Boltoii, Wirt, and Liverpool,. 32 -Buckinghamshire, 4-Caledonian, 124-1'369,0- Exten sion, 434 -Cambridge and Lincoln, 5%-Chester and anhead, 5234-Chester and Manchester Direct, 465.-Derby aiid B36....Eaatern Counties, 23-Ditto, New Shares. 15 -Edinbiirgt AA northern, 15/. Shares, 2-Edinburgh and Perth, 41/ 2 -Glasgow' and Belfast Union, 3 %-Grand Junction, 221-Grand I.Tni.,n, 23.4-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 16,74-Goole and Doncaster, 4-aslitalderstield Canal and Railway, 15-Leicester and Bedford, B-Leissai ter and Tamworth, 31. 6s. 6d.-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 3% -Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 5034-Liver pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 536 -Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6/. 11s. 3d.-London and Birming ham, 215 1 ,4-London and Manchester (Rem.), 3%-Lon don and York, 5%-Direct Northern, 2%-Leeds and Thirsk, 13 3 4-Msncheater and Birmingham Continuation, 2 - Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 4-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 6 1 4-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 124-Manchester and Southampton,4%-Matlock and Mid land, 6 1 4-Midland, 157-Ditto (40/. Shares), 25%-North Staffordshire. 6% -North Wales Mineral (New Shares), 5% -Notting: am, Erewash, and Ambergate, 434-Oxford, Southampton, &c., 2 4-Oxfard, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 914-Preston and Wyre, 40-Ditto, New Shares, 10-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 936- Sheffield and Lincoln, 5-Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford, 81s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, nswestry, and Ches ter, 676-South Eastern and Dover, 384-Ditto, Consoli dated Thirds, 14%-Ditto Half Shares, 4%-South Mid. land, 676 - South Staffordshire Junction, SA-Tean and Dove Valley. 174-Trent Valley, 18-Ulverstone and Liver pool and Carlisle Junction, 2%-West Riding Union, 11- Great County Dawn, VA-Great Southern and Western, 22 --Newry, Banbridge, and Belfast, 545.-Dutch Rhenish, 9% North of France (Lebeuf's). MANCHESTER, Ocr. 31. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9 3 / 4 -Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, 2 3 / 4 -Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, x n, 7- Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 4%-Caledonian Extension, 4 1 4-Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 1 4-Ditto New, 43/4-Chelms ford and Bury, 1%-Eastern Counties, 234-Ditto, New, 13%-East Lancashire, No. 1, 20-Ditto, No. 2, 14%- East Lincolnshire, 4--Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 3 1 / 2 -Goole Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 6 c. n- Grand Union, 2%-dreat Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 17 1 ,4-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4%-Great Grimsby and Dock Extension, 874-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 15 c. n.-Huddersfield, and Sheffield Junction, 25 -Lancashire and Northern ' 'Yorkshire 336-Leeds and York, 3 3 / 4 -- Leicester and Bedford, 3-Leicester and Tamworth; 276 -Liverpool and Bury, 31-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 3% -Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle Junction, 6-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 1 4-London and Birmingham, Third Shares, 4314-Lon don and York, 5 1 4-Manchester and Birmingham Continua tion and Welsh Junction, 2%-Manchester and Bury Atmos pheric,l74- Manchester and Leeds ( Fifths), 13- Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, 4-Manchester and Southampton, 4A, -North Staffordshire, 6 %-North Western, 4 3 4 -Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester,4%-Oxford, Worces ter, and Wolverhampton, 9%-Sheffieldand Lincolnshire Junction, 5 1 4-Sheffield and Manchester (Quarters), No. 1, 16-Ditto ditto, No. 3,91 A Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1%-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 6%-South Eastern and Dover (Halves), 4 1 4-South Staf • fordshire Junction, 5 3 4-South Wales, 6-Trent Valley Mid land, 3%-West Lancashire Coast Line, 3%-York and Carlisle, 3%. BRISTOL, OCT. 3L STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter, 86-Ditto New, 9%-Bristol and South Wales Junction, 3- Bristol and Liverpool Junction, 2 1 / 4 -Eastern Counties, 234 -North Devon, 2%-Portbury Pier and Railway, 2%- South Wales, 5%-Vale of Neath, 3 3 4. EXETER, Ocr. 31. STOCK E VCRANGE.-The sales are-Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % p.-North Devon, 1 p.-Taw Vale Exten sion, % p.-Devon and Central Cornwall, 14 p.-Eastern Counties. 24-Exeter and Crediton, Topsham. and Exmouth (Daw's line), p.-Ditto (Head's), 3 % p. SHEFFIELD, Oct. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.-Tbe sales are-Grimsby and Shef field, 18%-London and Windsor, 225.-Sheffield and Lin colnshire, 54-Wakefield and Harrogate, 44. HULL, Oct. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guar.), 102-Ditto, Half Shares, 20 -London and Brighton, 64-Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 10%-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Quarter Shares, 4/. 145.-North British, 23-Ditto, Carlisle, 4% -Ditto, Dalkeith, 6%-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hapton, 10-Axholme„ 476-Boston, Newark. and Sheffield, 54-Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 3% -Derby and Gains borough, 2/. 16s, 6d.-Dudley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 31. I Is. 6d.-East Lincolnshire, 4%-East Coast, 24-Grand Union, 2%-Great North and South Wales end 'Worcester, 1/. s.-Hull and Barn , ley Junction, 58s. p.-Leicester and Birmingham, 2% -Lincoln -Lincoln and Wainfleet, 3-Liverpool and Leeds, 4-London and York, 6%-London and Norwich Direct, 55.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 5%-Not tingham and Gainsborongh, 2s. 6d. p.-North Staffordshire, 6 3 /-Rugby and Huntingdon, 2%-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 4. LEEDS, Ocr. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Leeds and Manches ter (Fish Shares), 12% pm.-East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington),l4- Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 18-Hudders field and Manchester, 1534-Leeds and Bradford, 48%- Ditto, Extensions, 42-Leeds and Dewsbury, 25-Leeds and Thirsk, 13%-Liverpool and Bury, 32-Newcastle and Berwick, 16-North British, New, 6-Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 3 3 / 1 -Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 19% -Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 53-London and York, 5/. 18s. 6d.-Sheffield and Lincoln, 5-Baston, Newark, and Sheffield, 5-Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 1 / 4 -Ditto, Exten sions, 4%-Chelmsford and Bury, 2s p.--East Lincolnshire, 4 1 4-Grand Union. 245. p.-Great Eastern and Western, 10s. pa-Leeds, York, and Midland, 2s. 6d. p.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 275. 6d. p.-Leeds and York, 16s. p.- Leicester and Bedford, 35s p.-Leicester and Birmingham, 20s. premium-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 5 3 4-Manchester and Birmingham Continua tion and Welsh Junction, 2147 -Manchester and South ampton, 4%-Midland and Thirsk Junction, 12s. 6d. p.- North Staffordshire, 634-North Western, 476-Rugby and Huntingdon, 2 1 4-South Midlands, 574 p.-Wakefield and Bradford, 295. p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 565. p.-Welsh Midlands, 3% -York and Carlisle, 4. YORK, Ocr. 31. STOCK ExermaaGE.--=Tbe sales are-Ipswich and Bury, 4 1 4-Midland, 157-Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New (Brandling), 54-North British (Carlisles). 4-York and North Midland Extension, 28-Axholme, 5%-Cam bridge and Lidcoln, 5 3 4- Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 34-Grand Union, 276-London and York, 6 5 /-Manchester, Buxton, &c., 6 p., ex n.---Newcastle and Berwick, 17%-North Staffordshire, 7 1 4-North Western 5 -Welsh Midlands, 4-York and Carlisle, 4. EPINBURGH, OCT. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 5%- Aber deen, Banff. and Elgin, 505.-British and Irish Union, 90s. -Caledonian, 11-Caledonian Extension, 82s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 535.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 695. 6d. -Edinburgh and Granton, 24 34 - Edinburgh and Lochgelly, 445.-Edinburgh and Perth, 825.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 58s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 425. 6d. -Forth and Clyde Junction, 705.-Great North of Scot land, 845.-Lanark and Lothians, 50s. p.-North British, 22 -Ditto, Fifths, 634-Ditto, Carlisles, 775. 64-Perth and Crieff Direct, 625. 6d.-Perth and Inverness, 515.-North Wales Mineral, New, 64-Scottish Central, 17-Scottish Midland, 4%-Scottish South Midland, 605.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 325. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 65a.- Surrey Grand Junction, 275. 6d.-Tyne Valley, 20s. p. GLASGOW, Ocr. 30. _ STOCK Excnixoß.:The sales are-Aberdeen, 51i-Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 625. 6d.-Caledonian Exten sion, 41/0 -Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 514-Ca ledonian Direct Northern, ss. p.-Clydesdale Junction, 10-Cornwall and Devon Central, TX-Dundee and Perth, 9-East Indian Railway, 725. 6d -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 855.-Edinburgh and Northern, 6-Edinburgh and Perth. 855.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 755.-Glasgow General Terminus, 15-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 655.- Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 605.-=Glasgow and Greenock. 20-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 655.-Great North of Scotland, 855.-Larne and Carrickfergus, 545.-London, Bris. tol, and South Wales, 425. 6d.-Lanark and Lothian*, 225. 6d. p.-Manchester and Southampton, 80s.-Perth and Inver ness, Ms.-Perth and Crieff, 605.-Sanquhar and Muirkirk Junction, 505.-Scottish Western, 515.-Scottish North Western, 525. 6d.-Scottish South Midland Junction, 3- Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 585.-South Unions and Potteries; 555.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 648. -Strathern Junction, 675. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction, 30s. DUBLIN, Ocr. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Great County Down, Belfast, and New, 2X-Bandon and Bantry, 1%-Cork and Waterford, 1 3 . 4-COrk and Yougbal, 2%-Dublin and Belfast Junction, 10%, with new-Dublin and Kingstown (Extension Quarter Shares), 11-Enniskillen and Sligo, 2%- Great Southern and Western, 23-The Midland Great Western and Railway Canal, 5 3 4-Ditto Extension to Sligo, 2%- Killarney Junctions, 2.4 4 -Limerick, Enniskillen, and Kit laloe Junction, 5- Larne. Belfast, and Ballymena, 2%- Waterford and Limerick, 0-Waterford, Wexford, and Dub lin, 134 -Waterford and Tramore, 2%-Wexford, Water ford, and Valentia, 2%. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TaATFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail- ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made. together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : TIIE PR rpoSiLD TERMINI IN FARRINGDON• STREET. Deputy BEDFORD presented a petition from the• tenants and occupiers of Farringdon-market, for provision to be made for another market in the event of the erection of the proposed railway terminus. Mr. NORRIS a-ked whether the petition was signed by persons who had a public meeting on the subject? The answer was, that such was the case, and the petition was signed by 24 or 25. Deputy BEDFORD proceeded to state that the petitioners required nothing but remuneration in case the chanh°e con templated should take place. Here a member stated that there was no Court, there being but one Alderman prekent bee - ides the Lord Mayor.. The LORD MAYOR said there was no Court. _ Several members of the Court rue and expressed the strongest indignation at the absence of Aldermen when busi ness deeply afl'scting► the Corporation v► as coming on; but the Lord Mayor repeated that there was x►o Court, and the business terminated. * Not Corporation Governors. BRITISH PHILANTHROPIC P,EN- SION SOCIE FY. TESTIMONIAL TO MRI PHILIP LEWIS. A party of the leading gentlemen of this prosperous an excellent institution dined together on Thursdaynight, at Mr.. . J. Titchiner's, the Britannia Tavern, Bishopsgate-street With out. They had assembled for the purpose of presenting their late treasurer, Mr. Lewis, with a mark of their esteem for the generous and kind manner in which he had discharged his duties in that capacity. The excellent din ner which their host had provided, was sufficient in Itself to account for the good-humour which prevailed throughout rho ; evening; but it is only reasonable and just to assign tor i t a far nobler cause, arising from the intense satisfaction always in separable from benevolent actions. Few societies which have commenced on equally small beginnings, and have derived strength from the same number of years, can boast so proud a title to the respect of the country. It was established in the year 1838, for the purpose of affording relief to the infi-m and needy. Within the space of five' years twelve pensioners were on their books, and at the end. of that time their subscriptions had so far increased as toe enable them to allow ss. a week instead of 2s. Where could. the philanthropist look for stronger encouragement, or for more judicious i• struction in the direction of his energies? Societies of this d escr ipti on a l ways f orme d a prom in e nt trait in our national characteristics; they remove an astounding mass of misery, and entitle their members to the respect 0 their fellow citizens. The chair was to have been taken by the President of the Society, Peter Morison, Esq., but a tall from his horse bad unfortunately prevented him from attending. Mr. Wallace. Chairman of the Licensed Victuallere Asylum, was called to the chair. 'The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts proposed from the chair and enthusiastically drunk, The Cuarnatax rose and said, that an important task bad devolved upon him in his having to present Mr. Lewis with a testimonial of respect from the members of the Society, He felt extreme pleasure in taking that duty upon himse lf though he deeply deplored the absence of the President , who would have discharged it more efficiently.—( no.) But he regretted it the more that it should hav e been occasioned by a severe fall from his borne. The Ow sure of the present occa-ion was, however,s - some compel"' sation to them, and, for his own part, he estsemed it ah honour to present so excellent a man as their late treasure r ,' with this testimonial of his merit. Charity ; the brighter diadem of the Christian, and thcssurest indication of pure rely . gion, was of him a token and a sign. On all qx.casious he W 5 ready at his duty, distributingto the poor their usual all° ante ; and when the carelessness of a secret try had left hi?' unproslded with the necessary means, he had, u nhesitatingq ; supplied them from his own purse.—(Ch eers ..) He had not even contented himself with that, for he had, on many ne cie sions repeated his benevolence. Under those e i r curnstanli he wa- proud and happy to p resen t M r . L ew i s w ith the g of the Society. The Chairman then handed Mr. Lewis a ?handsome sa ver snuff-box, of large dimensions and elegant diesign. Mr. LEWIS rose to receive the box, and thunked the cane r pany in warm language for the highly complimentary rites, ner in which they had expressed themselves ,an his disevu" of duty. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the he a lth or the Presid e°St which was drunk with three times three. r Mr. PERRIN acknowledged the toast on. behalf o pjr MoMr.rison. / the TITCHINER begged leave to propose the health Chairman, to whose strenuous exertions in t heir cause 60 were deeply indebted, and without wh om their pensio n would not now be receiving so much as they did. Drunk with three times three. )00 The CHAIR3IAN then proposed the health of? the Son. .; Harley, the lady Patroness, and co nc urre d hi. a since for her recovery from a di s o r d er o f th e e ye, under whi ch was her misfortune to labour. ho - , 'The toast was drunk with three times th re e, after jar those of the ladies and vi s it ors were p r oposed and dull floured, and the evening was s p en t mos t agreeably. PERILOUS SITUATION OF TIO GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-:SHIP. The Manchester Guardian says—We have been fair° lll 7 with the following extract from a letter written by onef.";A the passengers in the Great Britain steamer, in her out/I'X passage, dated Holme's Hole, Mass., October 12. says--- " On that day (date left blank) we made Capeßace, NI: foundland. At that time our compasseS, were in Pv t feet order. On Sunday, the 12th when we took observation, i t proved we were forty miles farther north than the distsn97 we had run by the log, and the course we bad steered shoil have placed us. This made the captain mow alert, wad i t was remarked. About six o'clock this morning, Ic am ,„ e f r d deck. When I awoke, the engines were stopped, and t h at ll * e the boatswain calling the soundings. KriONVILIg W., could not be in soundings unless something was wrong, dressed hurriedly, and on reaching the deck, fined we wet; close to land, with breakers all around ue. N o one kne where we were, nor could any one hazard more than _ guess. At eight A.M. we made out a lighthouse, and ten it was 'moved to he Nantucket ; it was now only that knew we were on the most dangerous (-ciao . , and shoals o the Atlaiitic (West). We fired guns and hoisted the flag! for a pilot; at niue A.M. sent a boat ashore, a man, who, on bearding us, said, in reply to the questiorn. what are you ?" " A farnici and a &herniae." Howev: he proved good at the. bottom, and placed us deep wat e ' We then dodged about, firing guns, &c., until at eleven A• 3l . • a pilot , was placed on board; he would not take us back to I the Pla c° and procufca FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NEWS, at." SITE. THE '6' UPPLEMENT TO 21/TE S (IN Li' THIS DAT mow!! Prildid and PUbliSllofl 1)V MURDO YOUNG:4 N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at The Suffice Sian O, lio• Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COuuv Midee4rxt Monday, Normulor 3, ' proc We r( at fi Utifi, ci afar; John ttinif New aPpa sprit the 1 ST to T A a dal tits at and rate one ton, of rate the othe taj n and in tl chur main defr. Path may ()Ric( with Jar n i Nl,ll . 22,1 kind oft ter the till