The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-12 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. BRITISH CORN. A reaction ha taken place in public opinion since our last, And it is now the general belief that there is no foundation for the rumours which have been circulated by a portion of the press during the past fortnight, respecting the probabi lity of an immediate Ministerial interference with the exist ing torn- laws. The effect of the reports alluded to on the trade in grain has undoubtedly been of a mischievous ten dency; the regular course of business having been disturbed thereby. All parties, whether sellers or buyers, have na turally, whilst any doubt was supposed to attach to the main tenance of the present regulations, refrained from entering into fresh engagements. Under these circumstances the transactions of the week have been on a comparatively re stricted scale, and it is probable that, until uncertainty on this important subject be wholly removed, merchants, mil lers, and others, will continue to employ more than ordinary caution in their operations. The fall of 2s. per quarter, which leas taken place in the price of wheat must be mainly attri buted to the depreesing influence of the state of doubt and uncertainty above described. The auspicious weather ex perienced for the conclusion of the northern harvest may have had some effect ; but this alone would not, we think, have been sufficient to occasion a decline in the value of wheat, the quantity of that grain grown in the north being, in a national point of view, unimportant. We are, therefore, inclined to believe that the present languor will prove temporary, and see no CAUSE! to alter the opinion we have previously expressed, viz., that prices of bread stuffs will be higher than they have yet been, either before the termination of the present or early in the ensuing- year. In stating this to be our conviction, we have not the slightest desire to aid those who have for some time been labouring - to produce that alarm they profess to dread. That the yield of wheat is defective, as well in quantity as in quality, admits of no doubt ; but to represent the deficiency to be so great as to threaten a famine is a gross exaggeration. It is perfectly true that prices are likely to rule much higher than in any previous season since the present corn-laws have been in force ; but, indifferent as has been the 'harvest on the Conti nent, we have no doubt we shall be enabled to draw sufficient supplies from foreign countries to make good our deficiency. To do this, however, the value of the articles must rise here so as to cause the duty to fall to a low, if not the lowest, point. Under the existing laws it requires an average of 725. per qr. to admit wkeat at is. per qr. duty, whilst the last weekly return for the kingdom is 60s. Id. per qr. It must be recollected, however, that a large proportion of the wheat usually thrashed soon after the completion of the harvest, consists of the most inferior qualities, and that the condition of even the worst will be improved after it shall have been subjected to the action of frost. It is, therefore, very pos sible that a rise of Gs. to Bs. per qr. on the present prices would be sufficient to lower the duty, without any interfer ence of the Legislature, to a point to encourage importations. That such will take place we fully expect; but this does not necessarily imply that misery and want are to be the portion of the poorer classes of the community. We need not look back many years for a period when wheat was much higher than it would be were the anticipated rise on present rates realised ; at the same time there was a great want of employ ment for our artizans and labourers; but even then, though the pressure was severe, things were not nearly so bad as the alarmists prognosticate will be the state of affairs during the coming winter. The flourishing state of trade in the manu facturing districts, and the increased employment created by the formation of the numerous railways, afford a guarantee against the distress predicted ; and as 'far as regards England and Scotland, we see no grounds for gloomy forebodings. As respects Ireland, we must admit we entertain serious doubts. The potato failure appears to be more General there than on this side or the channel, and though the grain crops hare as a whole probably turned out better in the sister isle than with us, the people are, unfortunately, too poor to obtain even oatmeal as a substitute for their staple article of food; and without assistance in one way or the other from England, much misery must result. Government have for some time been alive to this state of things, and should the potato crop really prove so bad as represented, the Legislature must in terfere. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have been fair, the quantity reported up to this (Saturday) evening amounting to 8,995 quarters. A considerable proportion of the preceding week's supply having, however, remained un sold, as well as tha major part of Monday's show by land carriage, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, the stands have been well filled. The millers have throughout the week acted with the utmost caution, being anxious to have all doubts re moved regarding the Ministerial intentions relative to the talked-of Order in Council to admit grain free, before they replenish their stocks. On Wednesday scarcely a transac tion took place; indeed, so unimportant were the sales, that quotations were perfectly nominal. On Friday affairs under went a slight improvement, and at a trifle below Monday's currency the greater part of what had previously remained unsold was cleared off. Holders of free foreign wheat have firmly refused to sub mit to lower terms, and where it has been necessary to buy old for mixing, purchasers have had to pay previous prices. The advance established on bonded wheat about the close of the preceding week has been maintained, but the high rates demanded have checked speculation, and comparatively few contracts have been closed, either as regards parcels on the spot, or cargoes to arrive. The averages rise so tardily, in consequence of the very inferior quality of much of the new wheat, that it has become questionable whether the duty will, for the present, fall below 13s. per qr., unless circumstances should occur to give a fresh impetus to prices. The last weekly return for the kingdom is 60s. Id. per qr., though moderately good qualities have for some time been worth at least 70s. per qr. at the principal consuming markets. It is not at all probable that holders of wheat in boad here will enter for consumption unleis the duty falls cobsiderably lower than it appears at present likely to do, th chances being greatly in favour of higher prices in the ring. The ale I ( of town-made flour has not been lively since our last, but the previous value of the article has been steadily supported. Ship flour has been more pressingly offered, and in some cases Norfolk household and similar marks have been, sold at prices which would not have been accepted the pre ceding week. Canada flour has also moved off somewhat tardily at late rates ; nor has there been much doing in United States and other sorts under lock. Though the arrivals of barley have not been by any means large, this grain has been rather difficult of disposal; it has, therefore. been impossible to recover the decline of Monday; indeed, for all but choice qualities, the rates then current have been paid with considerable reluctance, and present appearances indicate a further abatement. The inquiry for malt has been of a retail character; but the quantity of superior quality on the market being small, the best sorts have brought quite as much money. With slightly increased supplies of oats (25,256 quarters having come to hand, including foreign, within the past eight days) the upward movement in price has been checked. It being the general opinion that rather a large supply must be on passage from Ireland, which the pre vailing westerly wind may be expected to bring to hand, the principal dealers have refused to purchase, and though prices at least Is. per quarter below those at which sales were made on Monday would have been ac cepted on Friday, factors were unable to make sales of any importance. Meanwhile the stocks in the hands of the large dealers have been reduced into a very narrow compass, and their actual wants will soon oblige them to purchase more extensively ; it may therefore be questioned whether the value of this grain will give way much more. The duty fell 53. per qr. on Thursday, and will be down another step next week; this being, however, anticipated, it has not had much influence on prices of bonded oats. Archangels have been freely offered at 265., and other sorts at corresponding rates. There was not much passing in beans either on Wednesday or Friday, but former terms were well maintained. Peas of all kinds were scarce, and brought high price. The duty on beans has for some time past been at Is. per qr., and that on peas also declined to the minimum point on Thursday last THE SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNAL& FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE—It is of no use any longer trying to hope where there is no hope. It would now be sheer trifling to affect to con. ceal from ourselves the truth, that " nothing will be done." the law of artificial famine is to take its course. The sliding-scale has three months given to do its worst. Three months—three winter months—of British scarcity and Irish famine, before the Govern ment will lift a little finger for prevention or relief AU the Ca binet Councils of the past ten days, with their adjournments and re-adjournments, have come to nothing ; and Cabinet Ministers are quietly slipping out of town to enjoy the rustic o!ium cum dignitate which has been so disagreeably disturbed. The exigencies of a crisis the most alarming that has occurred- for a quarter of a cen tury, are gravely ignored, after protracted deliberation, by the man who makes-believe to govern the empire. The country is turned adrift, and left to the tender mercies of potato-plague and averages. The 'amazement with which one contem plates the reckless and daring hardihood of this deci sion of Sir Robert Peel's, rejects, as totally inadequate, all the ordinary language of mere political censure. Indignation is, for the moment, lost in astonishment. We did not believe that the wan lived, out of Bedlam, who would dare to assume the re.. sponsibility of three winter months of famine prices and prohibi tory duties. Least of all could we have imagined that Sir Robert Peel— a statesman so nervously irritable at the bare mention of " responsibility," and so thoroughly well cognisant of the nature and power of those terrible realities with which his legislation has brought us face to face—could be the man to charge himself with this burden, That " Sir Robert Peel has a heart, after . all," we did not take it on ourselves to affirm very positively ; but we cer. tainly never supposed him to have those nerves of iron which he will need between now and next February. We knew, of course, that he would have some trouble with certain of his colleagues; but the well understood relative posi tion of Premier and colleagues in the Peel Cabinet left little to be apprehended on this score. We had always considered that the egotism se conspicuous in the Pre mier's Parliamentary oratory was something more than a mere piece of rhetorical bad taste —that it accurately indicated a real domination of his mind and will over the second and third.rate men with whom he has surrounded himself; and we made no doubt of its being asserted to good purpose In a crisis so momentous. Little as we were justified by experience in looking for a simple, straightforward, and timely act of statesmanship from Sir Robert Peel, we did not think it necessary, in this instance, to make ex perience the rule and measure of expectation. Exigencies so novel and alarming would, we believed, suggest and enforce new counsels. Necessity has no law ; and this seemed a necessity strong enough to overpower even the law of habit and character, and to extort wise and decided measures from a Minister who never, in all his life before, did the right thing at the right time. That Sir Robert Peel would venture to disappoint a national presentiment so strong and general as that which has pervaded this country during the past fortnight, and which reiterated and protracted Cabinet meetings had raised into a sort of certainty, we freely took for granted to be morally and politically impossible. This strenuous inaction of the Govern ment is the more amazing, when it is remembered that not only has nothing happened, since the first summons of a Cabinet Council, tending to abate public and Ministerial anxieties, but everything has contributed to their confirmation and increase. The accounts from Ireland, with some few partial discrepancies, have, in the main, been more and more gloomy and ominous. The last intelligence is ever the worst. • The " enemy whose history and habits are yet but imperfectly known"—and to whose ma'ig. nant sway Sir Robert Peel has now made over that miserable coun. try—has continued and extended its devastations. Every day cuts off many Jays' food from four millions of the Irish people—accelerates, by many days, the arrival of the last horrible reality. And yet, knowing this—knowing this of f icially—the Prime Minister of the empire, instead of instantly sweeping away his sliding-scale and his shillings, and raising the siege of the averages, insults the world with the promise (if we are to believe the announcement, " by authority," of the Dublin Evening Mail) of "a commission of intelligent and experienced officers to consider the measures which it may be proper to take with a view to provide," &c. " Experienced in what, we should like to know, are these officers to be ? In checking potato rot, or in making the rotten potatoes sound again ? "The selection of persons," we are coolly told, "has occasioned some delay ;" the writer does not sate that the potato rot is delayed in the meanwhile. But " the arrangements are now nearly completed, and it is hoped that in a few days the com. missioners will be able to commence the arduous and responsible duties'' of improving the fastenings of the stable. door after the steed is stolen. Meanwhile the same calamity is making fearfully rapid strides in certain districts of this country. We shall pre sently have a little Ireland of our own in our southern counties, Our readers will have already appreciated the signifi cance of the dismal fact, that the " enemy whose history and habits are yet but imperfectly known," is committing the moat deplorable ravages in the agricultural districts of the south of England. Already the mischief done is enormous. It is now for the people of Great Britain, from one end of the country to the other, to pretest, in a tone which no Minister can dare pretend not to hear, against the insane and criminal obduracy of maintaining the prohibitory duties in the very face of famine. The protest must be prompt, loud, unceasing, and unsparing. We warn the country—though the warning is now superfluous—that it will take a most determined effort to bring to his duty the Minister who shamelessly abdicates the functions of Government, after having distinctly acknowledged the urgency of the crisis call ing for their exercise, and who manifests a hardened indifference to the reality of that " responsibility," the merest allusion to which he affects to resent as an outrage. TIMES.—We have recently had oecasion to remark, that the annual supply of food in the world is so determined by the laws of Providence, of nature, and of trade, that we are always dependent on the products of the current year, and that a slight defalcation in the harvests, or the failure of any one species of food, immediately inflicts considerable and inevitable privations on a large portion of mankind. The scarcity which at the present time threatens Europe is not, perhaps, of so frightful a character as the famine sometimes occasioned by the total failure of crops in particular districts, but the evil is general and almost universal in extent, and no country can expect to derive much assistance from any of its European neighbours. To establish this fact, we have endeavoured to ascer tain from our own correspondents, and from other sources on which implicit reliance may be placed, what are the real prospects of the supply of corn in different countries; and we shall leave our readers to draw the obvious inferences which are suggested by the following statements. The principal countries of the west and south of Europe are at no time exporters of wheat. In France the export and import of corn is about equally balanced in ordinary years; but wheat is not the cus. tomary food ofthe French people, and the demand for it and for the lower kinds of grain must be increased beyond the average, if not beyond the supply, by the failure of the potato crop this year. The harvest in France is, probably, not much below the average, but it is insufficient to compensate for the destruction of other food. In Spain and in Italy the harvest has been indifferent, and very little, if any, corn can be exported from either country. The progress of population i►► the Spanish peninsula for the last century has been far more rapid than the extension of tillage or the improvement of agriculture. The consequence is that Spain has comparatively little agricultural produce to export; and her own colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico now draw their supplies of food from the United States. Throughout the Austrian dominions, with the exception of Hungary, great privations will inevitably be felt. The large stock of corn usually warehoused at Trieste for the pur. poses of foreign trade has never been known to be so much reduced as at the present moment. From Fiume we have received no recent accounts, but that place is the sole por► of Hungary to the west; much of the corn grown upon the plains of the Danube is brought thither up the Save; and It is not unlikely that a supp:y might be obtained from thence by foreign vessels, if measures have not a'ready been taken by the Austrian Government to appropriate it to the uses of the empire. But although the harvest of Hungary is abundant, the surplus of that country will certainly not suffice to satisfy the wants of el its neighbours. In the lower provinces of the Danube and in Moldavia the scarcity is already great, espe cially in those districts which are within reach of water commu nication ; higher up the country the crops are reported to have been better, but the means of transport are wanting. The pro vinces of Russia and Poland, which are usually the most fertile wheat lands of Europe, are this year dependent on foreign importation; and as a necessary consequence, the Prussian ports of the Baltic, wbieh commonly export the produce of the interior of Poland, of Western Russia, and in part of Sile sia, will be unable to furniish any considerable amount of corn to the foreign market. Sweden and Norway do net once m five years grow their whole consumption ; but it is a curious circumstance, that in the midst of this sweeping calamity, which has impoverished empires, and threatens to spread famine over so many parts of Eu rope, the little kindgom of Denmark has been blessed with a bar.. vest of singular abundance, and may export a quantity of corn, large in proportion to its territory,though very small as a measure of relief to the necessities of other countries. We turn then with the deepest Interest from this dreary picture of European agriculture to the boundless lands of America, and especially to the corn• growers of the United States. There at least it is admitted that the harvest has been excellent, and the crop of Indian corn especially abundant. The potato disease has, we fear, shown itself in New England and some of the northern States, as well as in some of the British North American colonies; but the consequences of this disaster are less formidable in America than in Europe.• Let us, then, inquire what are, in a good year, the re. sources of the United State for the supply of food ? The answer to such an inquiry is a matter of great interest, not only as it affects our present necessities, but with reference to the whole questiou of the corn duties; and we have no hesitation in replying, upon the authority of tables and statements of great minuteness and accu. racy which are now before us, that the agricultural produce of the United States available for the purposes of food in foreign markets has been greatly exaggerated by the hopes and fears of contending parties in this country. It is demonstrable that in the United States, as well as in most other countries, the consumers of agricul. tural produce increase more rapidly in numbers than the producers; and that the progress of the production of wheat has not been more rapid than that of the population. In 1 790 the population of the Union was 3,929,323, the estimated produce of an average crop of the wheat lands was 17 millions of bushels of 601 b. , and the quantity of wheat exported was 4,750,000 bushels, or 28 per cent, of the whole wheat crop. In 1840 (a year in which the export was unusually large) the population of the Union had risen to 17,068,666 ; the estimated produce of the wheat crop was 80,000,000 bushels; the export was 11,300,000 bushels, or 14 per cent, of the whole wheat crop. The states of New England, Maryland, and Virginia no longer produce wheat enough for their own consumption ; and we are told by an able writer in the Phila delphia Commercial List for 1342, that— " If we make a natural line of the Mississippi to the confluence of the Ohio, and up this river to Pittsburg, and thence draw an imaginary line north to Lake Erie, and continue it round the northern and eastern frontiers of the United States, it will be found that at this time the wheat raised in all this section of the United States is about equal to what is consumed in it, and that the whole surplus shipped from the United States to foreign countries, including Canada, is, in act, produced in the states and territories north and west of the Ohio river." By calcifiations based upon the official returns made by the Mar. shals in the United States in 1840, and taking into consideration the constant progress of the population, it appears that the utmost amount of wheat and wheaten flour which may by possibility be exported from the United States from the present time to 1850, with average harvests, will not exceed twelve millions of bushels per annum.* The whole wheat produce of the country is con siderably below 100 millions of bushels. The greatest quantity ever exported was in 1840, when it reached 1,720,860 bushels of wheat, and 1,897,501 barrels of flour; but in 1837, when the preceding harvest had been below the average, no less than 3.921,259,bu5he1s were imported into the Union from foreign countries. If this be the whole available produce of the United States, it is evident that the proportion of it which will reach the English market is still more limited. The largest quantity ever exported to England direct was 615,972 bushels of wheat and 620,919 barrels of flour in the year 1840 ; but the effect of the Corn.laws has of course been to render this trade excessively variable ; though for the last five years another branch of the same trade, by the extort to the British North American colonies, has been regular and considerable. But it must be borne in mind, that under any circumstances almost all the West Indian islands draw a large portion of their supply of wheat, as well as of Indian corn, from the United States. Our own islands take about 250,000 barrels of wheaten flour per annum ; the Danish, 50,000 ; Hayti, 40,000 ; and Brazil more than 200,000 barrels; and this is independent of a consumption of about 364,000 barrels of Indian coin meal in the West Indies I alone. It is true that we have here confined one observations to the American wheat crops, and that in computing the supply of food in the United States, the enormous production of Indian corn is the most important element, and constitutes the bulk of the food of the people. But to the people of England in ordinary years the supply of wheat is the principal question. Indian corn is little known in this country; and it never will be known, except under a very extraordinary degree of pressure, as long as it is subjected to the same duties which are levied on foreign barley, and is therefore, for all practical purposes, a prohibited article, FOREIGN CORN. The accounts from the Baltic are of much the same cha racter this as the preceding week. Prices of wheat have risen so rapidly there that few of the orders from hence to purchase wheat have been executed, higher rates having been paid by speculators than the limits of the British orders have admitted. Letters from Dantzic, of the Ist instant, state that about 16,000 quarters of wheat had changed hands during the week almost entirely on speculation. There was not much being shipped to England ; but vesels being very scarce, high freights had been paid fir the few ships engaged to load wheat ; 53. 6d. to 6s. had been paid for London, 53. 3d. to ss: 9d. for the East Coast, and 6s. to is per quarter for Liver pool. At Hamburg, on Tuesday last, there was not much doing, the very high prices asked for wheat having checked the dis position to buy. From the south and east the reports also represent the value of wheat as rising rapidly, and a letter from Mar- seilles states that it was the belief there that the exporta tion of grain would be prohibited in the Ottoman empire; and a similar step would, it was thought, be adopted by the Neapolitan Government. In consequence of these ru mours, and the lively advices from Great Britain, a good deal of speculation hail taken place in wheat at high prices, say' 50s. to 525. for fine Polish Odessa and Marianople, and from 455. to 48s. per quarter for secondary qualities. From Leghorn we learn, under date of 31st October, that a brisk inquiry had been experienced there for wheat for export, and that equal to 495. Gd. had been paid for Polish Odessa. At Trieste, on the 30th ult., the greatest excitement pre vailed, and rather large sales appear to have been made there at prices varying from 365. 9d. to 40s. per quarter free on board, according to quality. At Odessa, according to the most recent accounts, prices of wheat were also moving up, as much as 31s. per quarter, having been paid there for the best Polish. —Mark-lane Expre4S. MILEAGE OF A MAN.— The number of square inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2,500 ; the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000 ; and the number of inches of perspiratory tubes is 1,750,000; that is, 145,533 feet, or 46,600 yards, or nearly twenty-eight miles.—Wilson. DEATH OF THE REV. DR. SMART.—This esteemed minister died on Tuesday last, in the house of his son, Campbell Smart, Esq., Elm-row, Edinburgh. He was the senior minister of the first United Secession Church, Stirling, in which he laboured for the long period of 57 years, and was only the fourth minister who has presided over this congregation since the famous disrup tion in In% when the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine left the Established Church with his congregation. Dr. Smart was, we believe, in the 84th year of his age.—Scotsman. ROCHESTER. — The staunch: Conservatives of this ancient city dined together last evening at the Crown Inn, to cele brate the election of Robert Clements, Esq., to the civic chair, which he so ably filled to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens a few years since. His known integrity and kindness of manners, accompanied by an indefatigable disposition to uphold and secure the rights of his fellow citizens, shows the esteem he must be held in by their again placing him at the head of their corporation. The dinner and wines were of first-rate character, the whole well served under the superintendence of Mr. Calder. ROBBING A UNIONI:VOIIfiHOUSF.—On Monday a man named George Green, was finally examined before the Bench of Magistrates, at Brentford, on a charge of having stolen a dial clock from the board-room of the Staines union workhouse. It appeared from the evidence, that sometime between Monday, the 3d i nstan t, and Wednesday, the sth, the eight-day dial clock was found to have been stolen from its place in the board-room of the Staines union workhouse, between Bedfont and Staines, an entry having been effected by the thief breaking a square of glass in the window of the ante-room leading to the board-room. Immediate information of the robbery was forwarded to the police, but no trace of the thief was obtained until about noon on Friday last, when that prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Upjohn, clock and watchmaker, New Brentford, and offered an eight-day dial, with. out a face, for sale. The prisoner was fully committed to New gate for trial. FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AMALGAMA TIM—The long pending treaty for an amalgamation of the Leeds and Dewsbury, the Leeds and Thirsk, and the Hud dersfield and Manchester Railways, although at one time promising so favourable a result, and which would have been beneficial to the West Riding of the county of York, from the combination of the interests of these important lines of communication, and their contemplated branches, have entirely failed, at least for the present, —we wish we could add, with a reasonable hope of t h eir renewal at lone future tirae,4 o cedi Zorcury. * Or 1,500,000 quarters. It may be convenient to remind the reader that the American barrel of flour contains 196 lb., and j a uk en by act of l'arlttuaat to Do equal to 38)4 UN, LONDO'. W 1 REMARKABLE EXPOSURE OF AN ANTI-MESMERIC DOCTOR. The following castigation (revised and abridged from the Leamington Spa Courier), was recently administered by Mr. Spencer T. Hall. It was at the close of a course of lectures, before a numerous and highly respectable audience, that Mr. Hall calve forward and said— He held in his hand a news paper—the Warwick Advertiser of Saturday—upon a letter in which not mesmerism only, but humanity, demanded that he should now make some remarks. That letter, entitled " Mesmerism in a Dilemma," and signed " Scrutator," could not originally have been intended for the paper in which it appeared, but for the Leamington Courier, for it began as follows : • "To the Editor of the Warwick Advertiser. "Sir,—l happened to be in Leamington in the early part of this year, when a person named Donovan was lecturing on Mesmerism, and also on Wednesday last, when Mr. Spencer T. Ha'l gave his first lecture on this subject. I was amused and gratified, in common with the visitors and inhabitants of your beautiful Spa,—(do any of you know of a Spa at War wick; asked Mr. Hall, amidst laughter ?)—"by the straight. forward, prompt, and effective manner in which Dr. Lietch exposed the hollow pretensions of the former lecturer, and by the manner in which he followed it up, as I saw by your pa per proving that the four Leamington boys who ex hibited the 'phenomena' on that occasion were 'rogues all.' I was glad to see that the aulience on Wednesday last, warned, I suppose, by their farmer mistake, did not attempt to hiss down the gentleman alluded to. In my own opinion, and it was the opinion of many who sat near me on Wednesday evening, Mr. Hall's exhibition was the most lame, ridiculous, and transparently artful, on the part of the b iy - s, that could well be shown to an andiene: a-gape for wonders. The two young rogues should he well whipped, and taught some honest way of livelihood." • * • " Mr. Hall, though evidently wishing to shirk the subject of clair voyance, was compelled, by the questions of the querist, to assert that he believed in clairvoyance." * * " Havin got all this distinctly asseverated by the lecturer—as, indeed, with his book, and all books on the subject staring him in the face, he could not well avoid doing—Dr Lietch then very naively declared that, for his part, he believed in the old fashioned way, that people saw with their eyes, and with nothing else.' Then comes (said the speaker) Dr. Lietch's challenge, with further compliments to Dr. Lietch, and abuse of myself ; and the letter ends with a date from " Leamington." Now, it will be found in my book of " Mesmeric Experiences," which Dr. Lietch says he has read, that there is a history of my connection with the cases of Wm. Holbrook and Henry Wigston, the youths alluded to, one of whom is a native of Nottingham, and the other of Leicester, in which towns re spectively they are known to persons of station and in iluence, who can speak to their characters—characters in which I knew no blemish. I have at my command, at least four hundred cases in different parts of the country, for any one of which I could send on an adequate occasion, but I prefer, at present, to operate upon these, because I have the most per fect faith in their integrity. " Scrutator" has ventured to assert that they are " rogues ;" and, away as they are from their parents, by whom they are entrusted with me as their temporary guardian, I have felt myself called upon to repu diate, in the most emphatic manner, such a fa!se imputation. —(Cheers.) It was in this capacity, and from a due regard to the feelings of Henry Wigston, who is more specifically alluded to in this gross libel, and to the feelings of his parents, to whom his character and future prospects are most dear, that I called this day upon Mr. Sharpe, the publis'er of the Advertiser, to demand the naive of the author. Having myself been connected with the public press, for nearly sixteen years, and having in that time been identified with the man sgement of several leading provincial journals, I am not unaware of the liability of an editor to be imposed upon by unconscientious contributors. Although knowing that the publisher of the paper was liable to an action for libel, in consideration of what I have now stated, I felt that it would be sufficient for the present case if the name of the writer were given up to me, that I might deal with him alone. Calling upon the publisher (Mr. Sharpe), he told me that he did not know the author, and argued somewhat irra tionally in extenuation of the libel ; but referred me to the editor (Mr. Hersee), who, without hesitatior, and in the most prompt and courteous manner informed me that Dr. Lietch himself was the guarantee for its insertion—(Cheers and confusion.) As a further confirmation that it was Dr. Lietch who bad thus been complimenting and endeavouring to raise himself 'sy abusing me and my patients, I can now repeat what I have already stated, that the day before that paper was published, Dr. L. used precisely the same lan guage to me which lie there applies to the boys, against whom he cannot prove a single act of dishonesty. In whom, then, is the deception ? The boys or Dr. Lietch ?—(Cheers, hisses, and signs of interruption from some individual in the back seats.) Now all that I require is, a fair hearing and clear justice. When Dr. Lietch wrote that letter, I was not there to interrupt him, nor will I now be interrupted by any man in my reply. Dr. Lietch has complimented himself on the " naive' manner in which he professes to have drawn me into certain admissions regarding clairvoyance; and having told us that he regards clairvoyance as the key-stone to Mesmerism, and that if it fails the whole structure falls, he considers that he has completely established his point. You have most of you heard the anecdote of " the brow-beating barrister," in Tyas's "Heads of the People," who, having done all in his power to shake the testimony of a conscientious witness without success, boldly asks him if he has ever been at Birmingham? Being answered in the negative, he repeats the question with still greater pertinacity, "have you never been at Birmingham?" " No. " Then tell me, and remember you are on your oath, have you never been at Manchester?" " Yes.' " There's a pre varicating fellow," concludes the barrister, and turning to the jury with a leer, says, " I do not think it necessary to ask such a witness as this any more questions." Just such was the course of conduct pur sued by Dr. Lietch. When I was lecturing upon a class of phenomena totally different from clairvoyance, and whilst confessing that at that time I had no certain means of illus trating it, he "naively" drew me into the simple admission that I believed it, and then professed to have disproved all the rest I had shown, and you, Mr. Chainnan, and others had tested. As well might he have argued that because clairvoyance could not. In circumstances - inimical to its de velopment be proved, that would be sufficient evidence that James Wombell's leg had not been amputated without pain. Presuming (and fairly too for the reasons I have shown), that Dr. Lietch, either wrote or dictated "Scrutator's" letter, he further compliments himself, and endeavours to depre ciate me and Mesmerism, by alluding to the " naive" manner in which he exposed Mr. Donovan and his boys.. Not being acquainted with Mr. Donovan, of him in this case I can say nothing; but there are gentlemen of veracity and honour in this room, at the present moment, who have furnished me with incontrovertible documentary evidence as to the trap baited hyDr.Lietch to catch one or more of the boys ; gentlemen who will come forward and support it with their names should it be questioned. After these boys had been mesmerised by Mr. Donovan, Dr. Lietch took a policeman.—(Cries of "No, no.") Well there was one present at Dr. Lietch's house, as if in attendance to apprehend a criminal.—(Mr. H. Young here exclaimed—" Only part of the time.") This observation was followed by mingled cheers and jeers.) Mr. Hall con tinued—Be it so—" only part of the time." That a police man was there, with handcuffs, is established by the fact that he received a fee for his services, and was subsequently repri manded by his superior for taking any part in the transac tion.—(Cheers.) By way of invalidating mesmerism, Dr. Lietch then told one of the boys, in a stern manner, that if he did not confess that he had been tricking those who b lieved in mesmerism (the handcuffs having been displayed before his eyes), he would be taken to gaol.—(Sensation.) After this confession, thus wrung from him, he received from Dr. Lietch five shillings as a reward for his delinquency.—(More sensation.) You have all heard of Jonathan Wild, the thief-trapper, who, to satisfy his own selfish ends, bribed Jack Sheppard and others into one crime, and frightened them into another, that he might afterwards receive the benefit of their conviction. —(Hear, hear, and hisses.) Is not Dr. Lietch, so far as science is concerned, in a position strictly analogous to this ? —(Cheers.) Have we not many instances in the history of our race, not of merely poor uneducated boys, but of great men who for years have endured the severest persecution rather than relinquish a faith upon which they believed the eternal salvation of their souls to depend, but who at last have been driven by fear of the screw, and other tortures, to confess to imaginary crimes rather than incur the pains and obloquy of further persecutions. And may it not, therefore, have followed that the boy to whom I have alluded, with the handcuffs and gaol before his eyes, and with no extraordinary degree of moral courage to sustain him, was, by the stimula tion of his fears, and the other means used on this occasion, driven into betrayint,r his conscience, unjustly to Mesmerism, and for the gratification of its opponents ? And let me ask whether or not, if a professor of Mesmerism, had ever employed similar means to induce a boy thus to belie hi mse lf in his favour, any man would have been more ready to con demn, and to hold him up to shame, than Dr. Lietch ? (Cheers.) There is at the present time in Leamington a do cument, signed by the same boy, in the presence of a gentle man of the highest respectability, in which he avers that he really had been put into an abnormal condition by Mes merism by that gentleman, subsequently to the scene at Dr. Lietch's, and further that he bad been induced to confess what he had done there, although that confession was false, by the fear of the punishment, and the hope of a promised bribe from his tempter and convictor—Dr. Lietch !—(Cheers). Now for myself, it is of comparatively little consequence what Dr. Lietch says of me. After all that I have done and endured, in defence of this great truth—to say nothing of the reputa tion I enjoyed as a literary man before—l may be considered as one belonging to his country and his age, and not to be judged by a single locality or the doings of a single hour. Misrepresentation has done its worst forme,—persecution has been carried to my fire- side, and invaded the sanctuary of my dearest affections; but whatever I may have done, — and we all do something to repent of,—although there may be errors of judgment which were life to come over again, I would carerully avoid ; I defy any one to injure my moral character, either as a private or a public man, if I can only have art impartial hearing, and both sides be fairly judged; and that hearing I can obtain, because I have not only some degree of influence with the public press, but can, if occasion require it, write my sentiments in a book, and print, arid bind it with my own hands. But it is different with these boys whom I have brootght before you; and considering the faith they have in me, and in humanity,—a faith that no one is justified. in abusing, —considering that, from time to time, they have allowed ins to pass them into conditions, for the elucidation of truth and the promotion of science, conditions in which they have no command of themselves; 1 should ill be perfenx ,ing my duty to them, their parents, and my own conscience , if I did not stand up and defend them with as much en ergy as I would defend myself from the libellous attacks of Di Lietch, or any other man.—(Cheers.) Two very strong it Lotives to good conduct, especially in youth, are self-respect, and the estimation in which others hold us. Take away these, by imputing to a boy faults of which he is not guilt: .--perse cute him for those imaginary faults, and you will SI ion make his existence so degraded or so intolerable that it b ecomes of little consequence to him, so far as this lite is concerned whether his practices be right or wrong. Theref pre, I hold it to be one of the highest crimes, first to pollute. the mind of a youth by stimulating his fears, or temptin with a bribe, and then to damn humanity in his estimation for ever, by his tempter turning round and be:toi ning his accuser.—(Cheers), And who after all is Dr. LL3tch ? (Cheers). Cuvier, the great naturalist; Liebeg, le great chemist; Archbishop Whateley, a divine; Shelley, Cae poet; Combe, the mental philosopher; Dr. Elliotson, flan physio• logist; Dr. Dick, the astronomer, and others scan .ely less eminent in every walk of science and literature; to ese are virtually called dupes and impostors, by Dr. Lietch, w ho im putes imposture or delusion to all who believe in, or al .vocate, Mesmerism;—and again I ask, who is Dr. Lietch?----4 Cheers and laughter.) One word more for him, and I have don e. Had he known me better, he had let me alone ; but since w e have become acquainted, this I can promise him, that shc iuld he on any occasion think fit to apply for the situation of a police spy, a thief-trapper, or a minister to some inquisition, if he will refer to me I will give him a recommendatior 1.--(Con fusion.) Dr. Lietch has chosen to attack me the ough the newspapers ; let him if he will defend himself. in the same way; or if he does not prefer that course, by t has still ' the same chance that I have, that of hiring a room and giving a lecteti, :in which he my, if he likes, speak as boldly and as honestly of me, as I have now done of ' him.—(Cheers.) For the satisfaction of this large, respectable, and attentive aualence, I have now to state that, as I have to stay in this town for a 4193 end lAo pretecvtics of aty private Mail* if a N moderate number of candid and intelligent gentlemen will form themselves into a Committee of Investigation, I shall be exceedingly happy to associate with them for the purpose of bringing Mesmerism to such tests as those best acquainted with its practice consider most leAitimate and fair. These gentlemen shall have the choice of subjects for me to operate upon : my next lectures (to be given in Noveniber) shall be exclusively illustrated, if required, by experiments on the parties, thus chosen, and the surplus proceeds, if the pheno mena are not perfectly sat isfactory to the Committee, be de. voted entirely, as those of the first lecture of this course have been, to some public charity.—(t heers.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 11. PICKFORD V. THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.- JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before his Lordship upon an appeal motion from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of England. The plain tiffs in the case are the Messrs. Pickford, the celebrated car riers, and the defendants the directors of the Grand Junction RailvrayCompanv. The plaintiffs filed their bill, charging the delindants with having made certain charges fur the carrying of goods which were illegal, and they prayed a declaration of their rights, and also an injunction to restrain the defendants from making the charges complained of. Upon the case coming on Wore the Vice-Chancellor, he refused to grant the injunction asked for on the ground of delay, the plaintiffs having allowed a considerable time to elapse between the filing of the bill and the application for the injunction. From that decision the plaintiffs appealed to the Lord Chancellor. His Lordship, after going shortly into the facts of the case, stated his opinion to be that the plaintiffs had failed upon all the points urged by them in sup port of their application ; and the appeal must, therefore, be refused, with costs. -- • - - IN TIIE 3IATTER OF STAIR. This ease was ordered, upon the application of counsel, to stand over to the next day of petitions. DAVENPORT V. BISHOP. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were then resumed, and occupied the Court the remainder of the Morning. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 11. His Lordship sat at ten o'clock, and was occupied during the greater part of the day in hearing unopposed petitions. These were chiefly praying that money lying in the Court to the credit of certain causes might be transferred to the petitioners. His LORDSHIP, in the course of these petitions, expl•essed his determination to enf.'rce strictly the 122 d order of the Court, by which any pleading, petition, motion, or affidavit, that might appear to be of unnecessary length. should be re ferred to the taxing. master, who • might be directed to in vestigate the same, and if it should appear to him that they were of unnecessary length, that he should make such an order as might appear to him just, as a set-off to the demand for the costs. VIOE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 11. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) NIXON V. THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY COMPANY'. The arguments in this part-heard cause were resumed to day. The question in the case relates to certain contracts for the construction of part of the railway. The case occupied the whole morning. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) LIEVESEY V. WILLCOCK. Arguments were heard on both sides, and judgment given in favour of the defendant. It appears that the plaintiff:, Lievesey and Knowles, were on terms for a coal mine near Wigan, when they met with defendant, who, in considera tion of Lievesey and Knowles giving up their interest in the lease to him, contracted to pay each of them 30s. a week for their personal services as underlookers in the mine, and to give them or their executors 5 per cent. on the profits. Defendant, however, dismissed both from his employment : Knowles for intoxication and neglect, Li - resey for neglect only. They came into Cor.rt to sue performance of contract. In consequence of the nature of the evidence by which the charge against Lievesry was supported, his Honour hesitated to pronounce against him ; but as Knowles, in the opinion of the Court, had by his conduct broken the agreement, and as Lievesey had assumed him as a go-petitioner, his Honour decided that the Court could net afford relief to either. The bill was dismissed with 20/. costs, without prejudice to the cause. Counsel for plaintiffs, Messrs. Wigram, Q.C., and Blun dell; for defendant, Messrs. Russell, Q.C., and Milne. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) TAMLYN V. REYNOLDS. The plaintiff appeared to plead his own cause , below bar. The case arises out of the sale of devised estates, over which plaintiff, as a devisee, declares he holds unsatisfied claims. So far back as 1818, Mr. Tarnlyn appeared before Sir John Leach. His HONOUR deferred judgment. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 11. ELWELL V. THE BIRMINGHAM CANAL COMPANY. This was an action taken by the plaintiff against the Birmingham Canal Company, for a false return to a writ of mandamus, issued by this Court ; damages were laid at 10,000/. It appeared from the statement of counsel, that the objections of the Canal Company were, that notice of the damage done to the plaintiff's mills had not been given within one month, as required by the Act; that the venue should have been laid in the county of Stafford; and that the notice did not specify the extent of the damage done, as required by the tifty.second section of the Act.. Plaintiff's Counsel contended that the notice was sufficient, and that it was not necessary to lay the venue in Stafford. inasmuch as the action was upon a writ of mandamus. The damage to the defendant's mill was alleged to have been done by the Canal Company erecting an engine to pump up the water from one level to another, whereby his mill was deprived of the water necessary for the working of it. Counsel argued at great length that the plaintiff had made good his right to the compensation awarded to him by the arbitrators to whom it had been referred, even in accordance with the provisions of the Public Act, and the Canal Com pany's Private Act, and that therefore he could not see why the Company should resist the award. The case occupied the entire day. Counsel for the de fendant having stated his case, and counsel for the plaintiff having replici, with which he occupied the Court until near three o'clock.—Judgment deferred. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 11. (Sittings in Banco.) JOYCE V. GREENE. Mr. JARVIS, Q. C., moved their Lordships in this case, which had been prosecuted in the Liverpool Court of Requests for a rule of prohibition to set aside the proceedings in the case. The defendant was an attorney, and having subpcened the plaintiff on a trial in which he was professionally concerned, the plaintiff summoned him for his expenses, which amounted to a guinea. Now the Learned Counsel contended that the defendant incurredno liability in subpmning the plaintiff, but the party for whom he acted did. Mr. Baron PARSE—That depends upon the conduct of the attorney: prima fade the client is liable, and not the attorney. Mr. JARvis apprehended that it did not. Mr. Baron PARKE—WIIy if an a tt orney prom i ses to see a i witness paid his expenses f he will attend a trial the attor ney renders himself liable. Mr. JARVIS urged that a promise of this sort must be specially stated in the summons, but nothing of the kind appeared upon the face of the summons in this case. The LORD CHIEF BARON—What state is the case in ? Mr. JARvis said judgment had been recorded, and the amount levied for. It was not so much f or th e amount they were contending as for the principle involved in the case. The plain titiproduced witnesses to swear that the defendant promised to see him paid, and on the other hand witne sses were exa mined to prove that he did not. lie contended that the Commissioner of the Court. of Requests had no jurisdiction in a case like this. The LORD CHIEF BARON—Was that objection made before the Commissioner? Mr. JARVIS replied that it was not. The LORD CHIEF BARON—It is too late then to urge it now. You have said enough to inducectoourtof R theequCeosutsr.t—tßo Requests.—Rule fu the application. It .should have be en ma d e wh i le the pro ceedingssed. were pending in the POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Monday Mr. Alderman Wilson attended at the Giltspur street Prison, to hear the charges against persons who had been apprehended in any part of the City since Saturday evening, in order that their imprisonment might not be pro longed by the recurrence of civic rejoicings. There were many charges of drunkenness. Robert Scott, residing at the Bricklayers' Arms, in Earl street, Blackfriars, was charged with striking bis mother on the head with a poker, by which she was so much irjured that she was unable to attend. Edward. Knight, a policeman, stated that be was called into the house at three o'clock on Sunday morning by the prisoner ; and, on enteri n g , h e perceived by his lantern a woman lying on her face at the foot of the stairs. The pri soner was quite drunk; and funding that the poor woman was much injured, and that the blow had been inflicted by the prisoner, he took him into custody. The prisoner said it was a blow inflicted entirely by mis take lie thought a thief had got into the, house, and he struck her under that misapprehension. Mr. Alderman WILSON said it was a very unfortunate mis take, arising, probably, front his intemperance. It was to be apprehended that her life was in some danger, and he should therefore remand the prisoner till Saturday, unless his mother should be able to attend sooner. . . Witham Dennzan, a labourer, was charged with attempting to commit suicide while in a state of intoxication, about eleven o'clock on Sunday night. He went down the steps on the Surrey side of Blackfriars bridge and plunged into the water; when he was got out he said he only wanted to have a swim, but from his general behaviour it seemed that he meant to commit suicide, and that he was one of those who, when drunk, become un happy, and can think of nothing but their share of human miseries. Mr. Alderman W ILSON fi n ed him ss. for being drunk, and to be imprisonel th ree d ays if the money were not sooner paid. CLERKEN WELL. Thomas Mathews, a power f u l -looking man, was charged with the following brutal conduct : It appeared from the evidence that he wa s misconducting himself in a very gross manner in St. Luke's, between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday n ight. Police-constable 108 E interfered, and seei ng that 'he was somewhat under the in fluence of liquor, procured a little boy to clnduct him to his home. The prisoner had not advanced many paces in com pany of the lad when he turned round, and, without receiving any provocation, declared the policeman was a meddling vagabond, and appli ed a var i e ty of the coarsest epithets to him. The constable, with a forbearance not often exer cised by his class, took no notice, but was walking along his beat, when the prisoner suddenly seized him, threw him into the kennel, and beat and kicked him in so dreadful a manner that the blood poured from his nose, mouth, and ears. The poor fellow has since then been suffering from a violent pain in the head and spine. The prisoner, who had no excuse to plea d, was sentence d to a fortnight's imp r i sonmen t i n the Hsuse of Correction, without the power o f re l eas i ng hi m self by the payment of a fine. QuEEN-sQuARE. Monday Dona!d Donald, a respect ably dressed, middle-aged man, was charged with affixing a printed no tice, intimating an intention on the part of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests to apply to Parliament for leave to make certain public improvements, on the doors of West minster Abbey. Burrows, a porter and constable at the cloisters, stated, that in consepuence of notices having been previously posted on the Abbey doors, he watched last Sunday morning, and saw defendant during divine service paste a printed notice on the doors, and then took him into custody. Mr. BOND inqui re d w h et h er an y orders had been given by the Dean and Chapt er on t h e su bject? The porter replied th at t h e y had given strict orders to pre vent its being :?one. Defendant said, that the notices had been given to him to affix in the reqn!red places, and he was not aware that ho was doing anything wrong. A gektaullea, oil behalf of the defoudaut, pointed out to SDAY MORNING NOVEMBE the magistrate a standing order of the House of Common-, requiring that notices of contemplated improvements shou!d be posted on the doors of the parish church. Mr. BAND said, that the order did not apply to this case, as Westminster Abbey was not the parish church. It wi s extra-parochial. A gentleman, who represented the Dean and Chapter, said they were not desirous of pressing this case, but, if it were repeated, they must do so. He could not refrain from ex pressing his opinion, however, that it was very improper to select a Sunday as the day to affix these notices, and more especially the time in which divine service was being per formed. Mr. BOND concurred ; and, having cautioned the defendant against a repetition of the offence, discharged him. WORSHIP-STREET. On Monday a young man named William Beale, described as a professional singer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having forcibv administered a certain white powder, supposed to be poison, to a little girl only eleven years of age, named Jane Eastman, the daughter of an undertaker in Somerset-place, East-road, Holton. The complainant, a pretty and intelligent child, who gave her evidence with remarkable clearness and fluency, stated, that while passing down Peerless-row, City-road, at a quarter past eight o'clock on Friday evening she was accosted by the prisoner, of whom she had some slight previous knowledge, and who, saving that he was going to see his brother, asked her to accompany him a short distance, promising, if she did so, to give her a mince pie. After walking a few yards in his company, she told him that she had been sent on a message by her mother, and that she could not proceed any fu , ther, upon which the prisoner threw his arm round her neck, and partly carried and partly dragged her nearly half the length of the street. She struggled violently to extricate herself, aad the prisoner at length set her down, but had no sooner done so than he seized her by the throat, and compressing it violently with his fingers, compelled her to open her mouth, when he instantly puled from his pocket a small packet con taining some white powder, which he forced into her mouth, and the greater portion of which she involuntarily swallowed, on seeing which the prisoner took to his heels and escaped. During the whole of the time she was being forced along and the powder was being thrust into her mouth, she screamed loudly for assistance, and her cries ultimately attracted the notice of a lady who was passing, and who kindly assisted her to the house of her parents. The witness added, that the mo ment she had swallowed the powder she felt a burning sensa tion in her throat and stomach, from aehich she endured the most excruciating pain, and that since then she had been con fined at home under the care of a surgeon. In cross-examination by Mr. Heritage, who attended for the prisoner, the witness positively persisted in her identifica tion of the latter as the man who had assailed her in the manner described, and stated that she had seen him only on two previous occasions, the first of which was on her calling at a shop he kept about ten months before for some sweet meats, and the second five months since, when he called with his wife to look at some apartments to be let in the house of her parents. The mother of the complainant . stated, that about nine o'clock on the evening in question her daughter returned home in a state of great alarm and agitation, and observing that her eyes and face were much swollen and her throat discoloured, she questioned her as to what had happened, when she immediately communicated to her the particulars she had already given in evidence, and described her as sailant as the man who had called some time before to look at the vacant rooms. The child appeared to be in agonizing pain, and complained that her inside was swollen and scorched, on which the witness took her to the house of Mr. Young, a surgeon in the East-road, who at !once pro nounced it as his opinion that she was suffering from the effects of poison, and administered two powerful emetics at short intervals to remove the contents of the stomach, which now remained in his possession. The surgeon directed the child to bs instantly taken home and placed in bed, which having been done, she continued in a state of partial delirium and acute suffering the whole of the night, and had not yet entirely recovered from the effects of the treatment she had received. Mr. Arthur Hayes, assistant to Mr. Young, proved that on the complainani being brought to his enplciyer's house she manifested all the appearances a person labouring under the effects of an active poison would exhibit, and that Mr. Young, who had since subjected a portion of the contents of the stomach to chemical agents, had detected the existence of an acrid poison of a powerful description, but that he was anxious to have more time allowed him to enable him to complete the analysis. Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was very essential for the ends of justice that the chemical examination should be per formed with extreme- care, and, as Mr. Young's other profes sional engagements might disable him from paving that at tention to the analys.ition that was imperative, the rejected contents must be carefully preserved, and submitted to Dr. Leeson, the chemical lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital. 'Sergeant Brannan stated that information of the occurrence having been forwarded to the station-house on Saturday evening, together with a description of the prisoner's personal appearance, he proceeded in company with the complainant to a public-house in Holborn, where he had ascertained that the prisoner was engaged as a singer, and, on going up stairs to a concert-room, in which there were about thirty persons assembled, the little girl immediately, and without the slightest hesitation, pointed out the prisoner, who was seated amongst the company, as the person who had committed the offence. The witness accordingly called him out of the room, and having apprised him of the nature of the charge against him, the prisoner expressed the utmost surprise, and declared that he could prove that he was a considerable distance off at the time-the transaction was alleged to have taken place. The prisoner, through his solicitor, denied most positively that there were any grounds for the charge. Evidence was then gone into for the purpose of proving an alibi, which Mr. BROUGHTON considered to have entirely failed. The prisoner was ultimately held to bail in two sureties of 1001. each, to appear in a week to answer the charge against him. THAMES. Isabella 211' Lean , a Highland woman, was on Monday brought before Mr. Broderip, charged with the following ex traordinary conduct. Whilst in the dock she vainly endea voured to check the laughter which shook her sides through out the whole inquiry. Edward Yates Denton, proprietor of the Dundee Arms public. house, Wapping-street, St. George in-the-East, stated that the prisoner was his servant. On Saturday afternoon his sister desired her to prepare the tray for a gentleman who was in the habit of dining at the house, but though the di rections were repeated three or four times she never moved. Complainant, who witnessed her conduct, took her by the arm, and asked her why she behaved in that manner, but she only laughed in his face. Mr. BnonEtur—Why she is laughing now, and has been ever since she came into the Court. This observation only increased the mirth of the prisoner, who laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. The prosecutor proceeded to state that since the very ex travagant manner in which the prisoner conducted herself, he sent his boy for the woman by whom she had been re commended, and before he was aware of what she was about, she ran to the engine, and opening several of the taps, rum, gin, brandy,&c., began to flow away. He stopped them at once, but she soon seized another opportunity and set them flowing again. He, then, seeing his property so wantonly destroyed, thought it high time to send for a constable, but even then she made another attempt to set the liquor afloat, and kept laughing all the time. More than this, she attacked the customers at the bar. One man came in for half a pint of beer, and as he was drinking it she hit the vessel on the bot tom and cut his mouth. To another man who had a pot of half-and-half, she cried out, " What do you want here? We are all drunk here." And in proof of the assertion she turned the pot of beer upside down. Mr. BRODERIP—Was she drunk? Complainant—l don't know, Sir. She has no opportunity of getting spirits at my place. Mr. BRoDERIP—What did she say for cutting the man's mouth and spilling the beer ?—She only laughed, your Wor ship, as she does now. The loss sustained by her operations on the engine was not more than a few shillings. Gilbert, 245 K, the constable who took her into custody, said that when he came he found the landlord trying to keep her from the taps. Mr. BRODERIP—Was she intoxicated? Constable—She smelled very strong of spirits. your Worship. I advised her to quit the place, but she tried to get at the counter, and when I prevented her she struck at me, kicked me violently, and endeavoured to bite me, but she laughed still. Mr. BRODERIP (to the prisoner)—tip hat have you to say to this conduct ? The.prisoner, after a strong effort to check her laughing propensity, said :he was sorry for it. Mr. BRODERIP—Your lips express sorrow, but your de meanour exhibits the contrary, and my experience here has taught me that female servants imagine that they can do anything with impunity. Unfortunately too much lenity has been extended to them ; and, presuming upon this you, after destroying the order of a peaceable family, when the nuisance is about tobe abated, attack the officer, kick at him, and bite at him whilst in the execution of his duty. I wish it may be publicly noticed that I will not countenance female servants in the supposition that they can do what they please. You seem to think it a matter of mirth, for you have been laughing the whole thus you have been in the dock. but Pll change your tone. You shall pay for the da mage you have done to your master's property, and for the assault on the constable ; I shall send you to prison for three weeks. The worthy Magistrate miscalculated his power. He did not change her tone, for she laughed as she left the dock ; laughed in the gaoler's room, laughed in the cell, laughed in Gaelic with another Highland dame, who was allowed to see her before going to prison, and laughed loudest and longest on entering the prison van. HAMMERSMITH. Monday John Leyden, a man having the appearance of an engineer, who has been in custody since the 12th of October last, was brought up before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magis trate, for final examination, on a charge of having attempted to murder Frances Wheeler, a woman with whom he had been cohabiting. Frances Wheeler, who was not a voluntary witness, but attended on a summons, deposed that she was the wife of George Wheeler, and lived at No. 2, Oakum-street, Chelsea. She had been parted from her husband for eight years, and had been living with the prisoner for nearly the last seven years. Eight or nine weeks back they had a quarrel, and witness left the prisoner, but used to go to him for money to support the three children she had had by him. On the night of Saturday, the 11th of October last, after witness had received some money from the prisoner, she went home with a man of the name of Langston, and while talking to him in the presence of his (Langston's) daughter and son-in law, the prisoner came in and ordered witness out of the house. Witness refused to go, and the prisoner left the house. Soon after Langston's daughter and her husband left the house, witness remaining. Langston was drunk and went to bed. Witness's child, eight months old, that witness had with her, she put into the same bed. Witness then sat herself on the bed, and about two o'clock on the Sunday morn ing the prisoner came to the window, and asked witness again to come out. Witness again refused, and the prisoner said, " If you don't come out I'll make you." Witness locked and prevented hint coming in at the door, and he then broke in and forced himself through the window and struck witness a violent blow with his fist in the face. Witness en deavoured to get away from him and fell over a chair. Di rectly witness got up the prisoner struck her three or four blows, and she then fell against a carpenter's bench and• hurt herribs. The prisoner then went away. Witnessfound that she was unable to walk, and a police-constable afterwards came and took witness to St. George's Hospital, where she remained until Wednesday. the 29th ult. Witness is still an out-patient of St. George's Hospital. Mr. Nichols (the clerk) informed the Magistrate that the 'witness could have told a great deal more had she chosen, but she was a most unwilling witness. George Langston deposed, that he lived in a cottage in Holtnes's bricktield, Gloucester-road, Kensington. On the ;night of Saturday, the 11th of October, the witness Frances Wheeler went to witness's cottage to spend a few hours with - witness's daughter and her husband. Between one and two .o'clock in the morning witness was tired and a little the worse tfor liquor, and went to bed, leaving Mrs. Wheeler and wit ness's daughter and her husband in the next room. Shortly _afterwards witners was awoke by hearing the prisoner r s • an.l titua all cut of the house. When they appeared quiet witness went to bed . again. Some time after that witness heard another voice, and, on raising himself up in bed, saw the prisoner upon ',Ream Wheeler, who 1 7 35 upon theground, and In thou 11, 12, 1845. S3NV the prisoner stamp upon the lower part of her person, and strike her with his fists a number of times. Witness then jumped out of bed and seized a pistol, and said to the prisoner, " Leyden, if you don't get off my premises I'll blow your brains out." The prisoner than ceased ill-using her, and witness again returned to his bed. Between 6 and 7 o'clock the next morning witness was called up, and then found Frances Wheeler lying on the ground by the car pewees bench. Witness then went in search of the prisoner, and found him at the Ceach and Horses public-house, Ken sington, and said to him, "Do you know what you have done ? You have been guilty of housebreaking and murder ;" to which the prisoner replied, " You -old fool, I'll serve you the same." Witness then procured a cab, and, with the as sistance of a policeman, conveyed the injured woman to St. George's Hospital. By Mr. Cray;—While the prisoner was striking Frances Wheeler he said, " You old fool, I'll murder you ;" and he dragged her along the floor and kicked her violently. henry Trumpfield deposed, that he lived at No. 1, Augus tus-court, Lawrence-street, Chelsea. On the morning in question he went to Langston's cottage, and there saw Frances Wheeler lying in the corner of the porch by a carpenter's bench. The prisoner was there, and said to witness, "Come in and look at her." The prisoner then took Frances Wheeler by the hair of her head, and flung her over a block 10 inches high, and then kicked her violently. She was at that time insensible, and the prisoner declared he "meant nothing but murder." Mr. A. Johnson deposed that he was house-surgeon of St. George's Hospital. On the morning of Sunday, the 12th ult , Frances Wheeler was brought to that hospital. She had most severe bruises and contusions, principally over the fore part of the head, the face, chest, trunk, and legs. .She also E . , had tcactures of the Bth and 9th ribs on her right side. She was at that time sensible, but in a state of great exhaustion. She remained in very imminent danger for many days. She was made an out-patient on the 29th ult. The braises ap peared to have arisen from severe kicks and blows. Policeman Henry Tells, B 69, deposed that on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, about half-past 10 o'clock, he was fetched to the witness Langston's house. On going he found Frances Wheeler lying on a bed covered with blood. She said her ribs were broken. Witness took her to St. George's Hospital in a cab. On witness's return he found the prisoner in custody. Policeman Amos, T 157, deposed that on Sunday, Oct. 12, from information he received he took the prisoner into custody. Witness told him that he took him for a most murderous assault upon Frances 'Wheeler, to which the pri soner replied, " I wish I had broken her head." The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he was very sorry for what he had done, but he had received great pro vocation. Ha was sorry as soon as he was right in his mind. Mr. Crave; said it was his duty to commit the prisoner for trial on the capital charge, and as he considered it a case in which the Government should prosecute, he should write to the Secretary of State for the Home Department to that effect. The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail. Mr. CLIVE said he was aware he had the power to admit him to bail, but he did not feel disposed to do so. The prisoner was accordingly committed to Newgate. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES S BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVEN.T.NG LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBE R 11. JOINT-STOCK. BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. s. d. s. d. Australasia ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 Brits!' North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47% Commercia lof London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 .... •• • • •..... 51 ••• 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15 4 Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 r,ondon Joint-Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11% Nletropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 47 Ditto, New... •. • ... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 24q National of Ireland • • 57. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 191' Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 8 Ditto, New... • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 24% Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. £ s. d. Albion ••••• • • • • • .... 3/. 10! 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0j 11 0 0 20 Ditto Marine. ••• • .. 6/. per cent, 100 001 5 0 0 6% Atlas . British Commercial . • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 734 Cieriel,Med.& Gen• Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County .............. 31 . 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown .. ••• • • • ...... I :9s ss. bs. . and 1 40 0 0 I 5 0 0 ' - 61. Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 54 ,E Economic Life & 30s.bs. 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 European Life ...... Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe . • ... ••••.• • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 14234 Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. i 100 0 0 36 10 0 51 Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 150 0 0 235 Imperial Life... ••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0I 10 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine •• • • I/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 ! 513 1 29 Law Life • ... •••• • • • • 3/. ss. 100 0 0i 10 0 0 51 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 6% London Fire .. •••• • • . 10s. 25 0 0112 10 0 15% London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 1 12 10 0 15% Marine ... • . Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund• . 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life ••••• • . • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life. ..... • . 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. 2s. Phoenix - - 210 Protector Life •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 2s. Provident Life •••. • • • - 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life.......... • . 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange ...... 5/. per cent. Stock. - 186 Sun Fire • - - Ditto Life . • • • . • • ... 11. 6s. - - 18 Universal Life ....... 10441. pr cut., 100 0 615 0 18 • - - LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price Annum. Share. --- - £ S. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland .•... 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 174 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. .- 100 0 0 166 British Linen Company 8/' per cent. - 100 0 0 230 Commercial Bank •- • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 170 National Bank. ..... -6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 16% Union Bank of Scotland 7 1 %1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 98% Western Bank ...... • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 86% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. , - 5 0 0 7% Clydesdale Bank-- -6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% Eastern Bank . ... Si. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank • • ... 7%1. pr cent. - 2 10 0 6 Edinb.& Glasgew Bank 6/. per cent. - 50 0 7% City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 815 0 15 1 % J Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 2O 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Enna'. Co. of Scotlnd• • 5/. per cent 110 0 0 All paid. 10% North British Incur. • . 5% 1. pr cent. '2OO 0 0 10 0 0 284 4 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.,loo 0 0 10 0 0 24 1 % Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 72 Ditto, I,i Sh ares •• • • 5/. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 18 Edin., T,eith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 24% Glasg,w & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 72 41asgw & Greenek Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22 1 ' 0 Isgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. , 45 Du:vice& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36% Standard Life Assarnee.l 5/ per cent. 50 0 0I 210 0 1 8 CANALS. Names of p: Dividend ' Names of s., Dividend er Companies. A per ' Price. Companies. ;2Annum. Price. cn Annum. -- -. £ X Ashtn & 0141 h 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 97. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 5/. 98 Barnsley .• .. 1601 12/. 180 Macclesfield . 100 - 15 13asingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 365 Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 12/. 260 Cromford.... 100. 18/. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley...... 100, 4/. - Regent's •• • • 33 1/. 2514 • Derby .... • . 100' i 81. 103 Rochdale ...• 85 41. I 54 Ellsmre&Chs,l33. 4/. 80 Shropshire • • 125 81. - Erewash . -1100; 321 . 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth Sc. Clycli 100' 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJunctnlloo 71. 100 Stffrd&Worc 140 28/. 440 Grand Union 100 if. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230 Glamorgnsit .1172, 13 5 4 3 1. 210 sSttouirrbdroin Av dge 79 6 . : 1 2 45 1 111 2 .. 1 0 8 / a • ss.. 7 " Glstr& Brkly, l 00, - - rt Grantham • .150' 12/. 100 Severn and H 20 Wye Rail. udderslield.l 57 - Kennt & Avnl 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt& Mr-1 50 30/. - Lancaster ...1 47 11. 10. 40 sey, 14 sh. j Leeds& Livrplloo 34/. 525 i Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester .. • • il4O 10/. 105 ,Worcstr 3c 1 Leicstr&Nthl 83 4/. 62 1 Birming. j7B 4/. 49 Loughborogh,l42 701. 850 iWilis & Mks 67 11. 4s. 11 MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY 13 &T raasuivra. SMITRFIELD.—Meadow Hay, from 3/ lOs to 5133 ; Clover ditto, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 163 to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 183 to 2l per load. Trade steady, at about last week's quotations. CUMISCRLAND.-Meadow Hay, 31 125 to 5/ 5s ; Clover, ditto, 4/103 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ I6s to 1118 s; Wheat Straw, Il 18a to 2/ ls!per load. A fair average supply, and a firm demand. ------- WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 108 to 51; Clover, ditto, 41 103 to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 11 16i to 1/ 16s; Wheat Straw 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull cozflN=sL. SlMAR.—British Plantation has been firm. Bengal good to fine greyish yellow has been sold at 53s 6d to 56s 6d for Dhobah kind. Barbadoes Molasses have been taken in at 23s to 23s 6d per cwt., and brown Bahia Sugar has been sold (for refining in bond) at 22s per cwt. COFFEE.—CeyIon low good onl mixed has been chiefly bought in at 48s to 49s 6d per cwt. Mocha has been mostly sold at 64s 6d to 70s for good mid clean garbled. SALTTETRE.—BengaI, 1,359 bags only partly found buyers at 25s to 27s 6d for I.li to 4i per cent. refraction, being about the previous value. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 42s 3d per cwt., on the spot, and Town 44s per cwt. TEA.—The market is firm, and the deliveries are good. (From the London New Price Cu?rent of Nov. 11.) SUGAR.—To-day there was a fair business transacted in British Plantation Sugar for grocery and refining purposes, and the rates paid generally exhibit an advance on those of Friday of 6d per cwt. The operations would have been to a much larger extent had it not been for the small and indif • ferent show, together with the stiffness of the merchants. There are many town and country orders unexecuted for all qualities. REFISED.—To day Refined goods were in excellent request by the home trade, and the market has a very firm appear ance, brown grocery lumps were sold at 65s 6d to 665, and standard lumps 675. Bonded Crushed Sugar was purchased wit h caution, and 34s 6d to 35s per cwt taken for the best. MAURMUS.—This afternoon Mauriths Sugar met with eager purchasers, and 4,805 bags 39 casks at auction went at an advance on former rates of 6d to is for yellow, and Is to 2s per cwt for brown and grey. Syrupy 45s to 54s 6d, and Sugar drainage damaged 49s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in excel lent request, and 2,880 bags at auction were all sold at full rates for white, whilst yellow brought 6tl per cwt advance. Benares fine white fetched 59s to 605, good 58s to 58s 6d, damp and washed 57s to 59s 6d, good strong grainy yellow Dobah kind 55s to 55 5 6d, middli ng 53 s 6d to 548 6a, low 50s 6d to 51s 6d, damp 51s to 54s 6d, washed 51s 6d to 54s 6d, middling strong grey grainy 52s to 535, damp 525, washed 51s 6d, middling yellow Benares sound not grainy 53s per cwt. FonErcsx--Although the stock of Foreign Sugar ha s b een further increased, still holders have refrained from offering any at auction since this day week, but there are few ship ar-1 ;,,:r retiner, u.ple: bond arc rally supplied for the present. The rates taken for all kinds of Brazil have been rather under those previouslyquoted, still onlylso chests Bahia have been sold, white at 275, brown 225. Yellow iimagah has been parchaaid with . caution, and 1 holders are more inclined to sell. The business transacted is all other kinds of Foreign has been to a small ex tent. done , bu t Hors.—There has been only a limited busiiess full rates are insisted upon. The duty for the king dome" timated 155,000/. to 60,000/. CoeFlie.—This aftern l om the market lyres musli brfer s u P t ; plied with Ceylon Coffee, and six parcels, amountingeti., 4.741 bags and 5 casks, were submitted to public 011011 Lion ; the trade were less inclined to operate , and s ea t he proportion only was actually sold. Plantation sustain r, f irmer val h ue, wilst Native went 6d per cwt cheelle. Of Mocha t sere was a larger quantity offered at public wog Of Madras two cases sold at 53s for good ordinary green '5O bags of sea damaged ditto 50s, and inferior 333 to 3 5 5; rc • barrels and 15 bags of Rio taken in at 57s for middling 01°,11 TEA. —There has been a falling off in the demand girl. descriptions since this day week, occasioned by the s w ill public sales declared for to-morrow ; the quantity offeredy,,„ amount to 20,000 pkgs. Congou has been pur ehesP caution, and in some cases rather lower rates hav e been takes'but Pouchong is held for 5d to 10;1 for low to good qu ality , e r, there has been little business doing. Twankay is not the but the trade operate with caution. Although ete bt Gunpowder are offered at low rates, still few buyers in with. r IVe 4 Molasses.—There has been much inquiry e.t e- pri• India, but purchases of moment have been prevent vately, by the advanced rates insisted upon by holders. ' an d a considerable increase will shortly take place ia the a red e for Molasses there can be no doubt, especiallY if th e Y o lcl allowed to be used in the distilleries. Honey has been to a large extent, and at advanced rates. This afternoon Cif" public sale 99 hhds of Bengal Treacle said at 19s 6d per for dark thin. fi tioth Srices—This afternoon Pimento met with less atte a and 362 bags at auction were only partly sold 3%d for ge , ° , 3 ep pe " 42 , middling, being barely the former value. Black I purchased with caution privately. Barbadoes Gieg e , i r s te• per cwt for middling quality, being above its eg g, The market was much better supplied with nut in ti btio Imperial Of Mace the large quantity of 54 chests was offered etl is to sale, but a few only sold at a reduction in pr ices is 3d. Singapore pod quality went at 3s 9d, good inl° 4 d to 3s 5d to 3s 6d, middling 3s to 3s 4d, and mould,' 25 d for 3s 4(1. The remainder has been taken in at 4 s to 48 6 Penang of sound quality. ren d in re' SPlRlTS.—Leeward Island Rum has been much d og and prices continue on the advance: large parcel s 3 1 first and accord hands have been at 2s 2d to b l ot per gallon proof strength. Calcutta has been Much n i ie.o after, and further advanced rates are offered, bunts bus is still prevented by the unwillingness of mercha tortrtes. The business transacted in Demerara has been at sac tits Jamaica has fully sustained the former value. 1 31.4 ., 11 "15fer met with little attention, and there are sellers o . ,P for er terms. Geneva is held with firmness, and is want e ", - 'OO portation at 2s 2(1 to 2s 4d ; fine for home constunr fetching 2s 7d to 2s 10d. SALTPETRE.—To day 738 bags were submitted to ; b e l l competition, and sold at a decline on former rates ef, f a ir cwt, S per cent refraction ; pod middling yellovos' y fajr chrystal went at 25s 6d to 265; 51 per cent, goo d g re 'ge °6 chrrstal, but inferior colour, 26s to 9 6s 6d; 4 4 pe r cent, od dull dingy grey, 26s ; unrefracted '2ss to 25s 6d, low 235' sea damaged 22s to 23s per cwt. y— tesn, RlCE.—Bengal has been purchased freely--the i ll " are fully equal to those previously quoted - an d the 5 : 0 01 0 i - still insufficient for the demand. Madras has been '°,41,0F better demand, and prices are still on the ascendancY• .orste4 fitte st os much wanted, but there is scarcely any to be had, and would be given. Patna has been in excellent requel t slgl to 28s. Caroline is fetching 36s to 40s, and is want e 7,becir has been much sought after, but business has been " by the high prices insisted upon. ted Tam. ow.—There has been a large business trains ac „ i . c7i Russian on the spot, and an advance of 3d to 6a P.',400' has taken place since Tuesday last. For delivery ka yo' deal has been doing at improved rates. Home trade for has been in excellent request, and fetched 42s net cas b f i et ieel all other descriptions a good demand has been exp el : and in some cases the rates obtained have been r at ' those previously quoted. to fOr 01L5.,-Further reduced rates have been submittie.pn Linseed Oil. Rape Oil is still wanted an'', por rule firm. Cocoa Nut has been in excellent 'ewer) and the rates paid are rather above those of this ditY ss bee° Palm is rather cheaper ; the demand, however, , P A ,,rB_l os good. Olive has met with little attention, and 1 10 `"i4 , inclined to sell. Gallipoli at 401, Spanish at 30/. pte' tefi l to Oil further reduced rates having been takellt w buyers to operate with more freedom, and at 28/ lOs per tun a fair business has been do n e b tb however, has been purchased with caution, althoug are sellers at the moderate rates of 301 for pale , 281 to (dry straw, 261 to 27! for yellow, and 251 to 25/ lOs Per bee brown. The business transacted in Southern tbr, small extent, notwithstanding the low prices at vin t berj r are sellers. Holders of Sperm are not inclined fu sae reduce their prices, but the amount of business Ira" privately has been to a small extent. v , 10.' m OPENING OF THE PORTS.— MANCHESTER , II° , -. .0 A requisition is in the course of signature, call i°6 A it t lisel Mayor to convene a public towns meeting, to reera °- free Government in favour of opening the ports for th e mission of grain and all kinds of food. g0n .. „ 0 ( 14 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LEIVISHAM.—t , " A y e nij afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a destructive ".iij, out in the farm.yard belonging to Mr. John Duncan. jt 0! , victualler and farmer, situate at Russia.green, Lew i s hate. e 0_ 1 !, ginated in the centre of a large stack of rowing , whep.,,e g tended to a couple of ricks of hay. The alar m promptly given, not many minutes elapsed before the 41 1 gines from Lewisham and Greenwich arrived. I. "„ e tig.,l quickly set to work, but owing to the very inflammable ":50s,,ti the stock, the fi re travelled with great rapidity, and two . 60 7; clover standing on the ground also became ignited. T b e e oinios progressing, a messenger was dispatched to London, reto o f aid of the brigade engines, and Mr. Henderson, th e fotew il o 1 1 district, dispatched the Southwark-bridge-road engine I and as soon as Mr. Connorton became aware of the ottin o, s o $ l . ; also started to the scene with the West of England engineoo Oro men. The neighbours and police exerted themselves fully, and by throwing buckets of water upon, and b y rick standing under a long range of buildings, the son served from destruction. The firemen laboured un fr 7 b e o'clock, when they at length obtained the mastery nvi r .;• g _LIO The damage done is very considerable, the stock of 1 1, °1S o P . ;" consumed. Two ricks of hay are partly destroyed, e n " Lei, 1 :4 of clover are extensively injured. The fire, it ts suPPy:. iel from spontaneous ignition. Fortunately Mr. Dunca n W.- in the Phcenix Fire-office. 1 0 pai pIC .‘l°. 5 ACCIDENT TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS „ t ll POLO OP SaxE-Contact.—Sir John Cope's pack of foXIW:it yesterday morning at Cumberland-lodge, in Windsor Cirt; at the especial desire of his Royal Highness Prince Al!,,es field, which was exceedingly numerous, included the r'l„, I,eord, sort, the Duke Ferdinand, and the Princes Augustus annoleos, of Saxe Coburg, who were attended by Major-Gon er 0 1 Mr. G. E. Anson, and several other members of the 0110. hold. A fine fox was unkennelled at Cranbourne, 019 about half an hour's cover hunting, broke into the elliert,V and was killed, after a sharp run, at Fyfield. Prince fort_ .., his illustrious relatives, and some of those in the rer'ibaklll' the field before the hunt had concluded, and proceeded t° to luncheon at two o'clock. The brush was secured bl o ts ( 41 bury, who was the first up at the finish, At the rein Tills-1,4 Anson, the " cox-hunter's trophy" was given up by O f Mr. Anson expressing his wish to present it to the Princ"„or„,r as a birthday present. The horse ridden by Prince 'cuirioto Saxe.Coburg started off shortly after the Prince had ie t o ia„Of land-lodge, and running against a tree (the branches c ° ,110",0 contact with his Serene Highness's forehead, which °14,0119.1 cut) threw its rider, but fortunately without the Prince ,- re it' any serious injury. His Serene Highness immediateiY .eotl/00 to Cumberland lodge, and was shortly afterwards s ur d jsi e covered to mount another of Prince Albert's hunters sn royal relatives in the field. 14 of A / MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. —ERECTI° pil4roo, ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH OVER THE WHOLE EXTENT eF 114 'd CO U :11 We are happy to state that the Directors of the Vicllsn 041 Railway have determined on establishing the electric tele! nee, icot the whole extent of railway under their superinternierothef:oo lamentable accidents that have occurred upon these and ,1011:1 inducell the board to take the subject into serious cue., l 91# with the view, if possible, of giving the public increeo 4,0 Lion, sad of facilitating the business of the company. extent of railway is ISO miles, and the cost of the to fill r J O• lie" amount to the large sum of from 30,000/. to 40, 00° ,efrof i, quite sure that it will be money judiciously and proper), ~,ill and that the Directors, the Company, and the public, Isilleof abundant reason to rejoice at the satisfactory resu lt 0f .. 1 0 ° ,411 10 4' expenditure. An electric telegraph was erected t°o Cross tunnel some time ago, and we believe the manng.etiod teed to extend it over the entire length of the lines n' t 01 0 —Derby Reporter. We understand that Joseph Eaton, ra:fcls,"o9/ gentleman who has made the munificent offer goo p wards the enlargement of the Bristol Genera/ 0 11 Bristol Mercury. . • mo 11 , 0 0 a , / [ADVERTIsEMFIST ]—ANASPASIA. IN 1.- ",y r estr MENT or CONSUMPTION.—The Dispensary for the (O' V Consumption, Asthma, and ether Affections of the Ch.:we./ pasia), is removed from 113, Strand, to 1 4 , Leicester'r 6 , C Cronin, physician to the Institution, has removed o.°°) street, Strand, to 14, Leicester place, Leicester-803re' OPP EADVERTISEMENT.]—BOTANIC WATER Affillit/ GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, a nu e, r,t, the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the he ° l „,...tt, of the t iro above-named articles, applied alterna te 'oil, tanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf and e 3: r and the bear's grease as a nourisher. If any fo rt o e fat i4 e#: was required of the virtues of bear's grease for re ° 06 1 ,, preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account of the 9 rth pr o 4 and the length of hair obtained by some of the snms,, rican Indians, would be a sufficient answer. 11 _1 9 : c edr. 9,8 119, and 120, Bishopsgate-street, who first intoTkiii of bear's grease in this country, and who fat 1 10 e r b°,004 mals, recommend the public to purchase none o,_chso their names and address printed on the pot , or Wil, ell 4 their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable° colt 4 the hair are worse than useless. ,notO / /A f il I [ADVERTISEMENT.] --AN EXTRAOR ,-- 400- t Or A DISORDERED LIVER AND STOMACH le r .,og °ell Pitta.—" To Professor Hollow ay. —Sir , - - t- w- tote° - O r r Earl of Aldborough was cured of a liver and theos,, plaint by means of your Pills, I was induced to 140,1000 . 0 ;0 have the satisfaction to inform you that our a in °, Ot t o tainly, in a very short time, done wonders for I°" t complaint, when calomel and other medicine ,s,,d(lrrT"i, to give me any relief. I send you my name attl;;lbi. P A iel"4 would rather that you did not make them public' o f r" o communication is from a counsellor or barrister, _ bo sest t fttci nence, of the Inner Temple, whose letter would h i e ll ' eo o e t v respectable person. Sold (also Holloway's ()int sod fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strap d . venders of medicine __................. Of° BIRTHS ~,, if° er 1 On the Bth inst., at Barrosa-place, Chelsea, '""-• ti p P le of a son. Mrs' jo ,et r . On the 7th inst., i!..t. Yine House, Old Bromptou do elYn, of a son. v oOf f Ce° l # On the 15th of September, at Calcutta, the la— A , OP v bunter, Esq., of a daughter. ~ Gia jdOn b ~.t A On the let inst„ Mrs. Thomas Mayhess". 01 —.Ow daughter, who survived only a few hours. F,sriv, 11°P. 1 ° e i ii — On the 3d inst., the lady of Charles Sturg eon, law, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Westbourne-terrace, IfYO-114riso T. Fitulconer, Esq., of a son. --------- ibbe MARRIED. f „ t inC• l4 f O l 0:1 Thursday, Nov. 6, at Gretna-green, CaP— e 0 tl,l s n' 10:0 1 lth Iltiss:rs, to Lady Adela Villiers. On the 7th of June, at Adelaide, South Austrapidefr°;;e,lo Church, James, second Ant of Lieutenant-Colonel _' /3 . Ise the Royal Engineers, tonie, third daughter of • Esq., Sheriff of the province of South Australia. --------------- soll' C. a•ft C DIED. te' On the 3d inst., at London, William C. - 10' felt Gartmore. On the 7th inst., at her residence, South Parade, Batil ot .• Se;fv-ir-• eldest daughter of the late John Wreford , y eoman,. oil* Devon. , 5° . On the 26th ult., at St. Alban's House, Ityde, t ll s d . wife of Henry Fawcett, Esq. ► , e r p j On the. 23th ult., at Cilrhiw, Pembrokeshire, j' Allen, Esq., aged 71. t er,, ,, ; On the sth inst., at St. Petersburgh-place, Ba. ►'' Rienbeau, aged 67. 1, 4 of On the 7th inst., in Windsor-barracks, Captain tl -- ; l it II(.1o., - 1",(:kt i,tc , r, of the. Ist Tleghnent of Grenadier Gn: . -,,10• Of if( 0 I:b t pe 110 ' O f Or Lys ST" 0.1•M0ra....ini..••••••• London : Printed and Published by 141.11tD0 YOUN Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, /Co. 112, Str and, of the Savoy, in the County of Idliddlosext W 12,1845. ■ L'zinob ~F~