The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

THEA.TRE ADELPHL Under the direction of Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, ' *C7III. be performed the celebrated comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT, SIAISOK PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Signor Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Woolgar; Co lumbine, Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. After which, the laughable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST ROSE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee; Bellamy, Mr. Worreil ; Harriet Miller, Miss Col rir_s ; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new and laughable Piece do Circonstance, entitled BLOOMERIM; or, The Follies of a Day. Mr. Agricola Green, Mr. Honey ; Mr. Flighty Bounce, Mr. Paul Bedford ; John Airey, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Portia Lu egezia Green, Miss Woolgar. ro conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S TROLICS. Robin Bunghhestd, Mr. Emery; Rattle, Mr. Worrell; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin, ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Foxren- TrielerldOns success of Azael, and Caught in his Own Trap. THIS EVENfisTG, WTI be performed GIRALDA. Characters by Messrs. Compton, H. Farren, G. Cooke, W. Farren, jun., Mesdames L. Howard, and With, CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP, in which Mr. Farren will appear. To conclude with AZ .EL ; or, the Prodigal in London, supported by Messrs. Compton, Shalders, Norton, Kinloch, Clifton; Mesdames ♦. Phillips, Fielding, Ellen Turner, and Lees. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The original Bloomer Costume received nightly with shouts of laughter—the Hit of the Day. THIS EVENING, 'Mute performed THE ARTIST'S WIFE. Characters by Messrs. Bolton, Hudspeth, Moreland, Misses Saunders and Marshall. After which a new petite Comedy, entitled THE HOPELESS PASSION, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton ; Mrs. Copeland, and Miss Maskell. To be followed by a new Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, Oa Bloomer Costume, in which Messrs. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Miss Marshall will appear. Witn THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, and Miss Saunders. The prices of admission are arranged as 101/0W : — Orchestra stalls, ,4 ; ; hexes (first circle), as.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven precisely. A second pSwill be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —Arst circle, - second circle, ls. ?:;vale Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. under “to Patronage os her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. ree , rieter and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Another Week of Glorious Triumph. The most attractive Speceiling nightly ev produced—crowded to the c er tly. Last Week of Mazeppa. The 'Hippodrome having closed after a most successful Season, and Mr. Batty, ever anxious to produce all the novelty it is possible to be got, has arranged with Mons. Sollier and the whole of his troupe to perform at Astley's every evening during _this week. previous to their provincial tour, in conjunction with the numerous equestrian artistes already engaged, making this the greatest combination of equestrian talent ever produced within the walls of any Theatre in the world; in consequence of which it will be necessary to dispense with the usual Atterpiece. THIS EVENESTG, Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPPA ; or the Wild Horse of Tartary, which has been continued, in cense tinence of numerous appl;:ations from Persons of all .Nations to wit ness the magnificent Spectacle. Wit; Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British :dale and Female Artists of superior talent. Tiokets to be had at the Bea-office from Eleven till Four daily. . 1 4:age manager, Mr. T. Thompson. .1 wAT ER AT LONDON BRIDGE TIEN DAY —Morning 53 rain. after 10 Evening 26 min after 11 To-Moasow—Morning 0 min. ar-er 0 I Evening 56 min after 11 _ THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OcToBER 21, THERMOMETER, la via SHADE. 61—highest since neon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 58 —thii day, at noon. BAROMETZR, 30'03. WIND E.S.E.—Morning, cloudy; Afternoon, fine. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesteriay morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PUrSIOUTH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. itiusstrrox—Wind S.W., calm—overcast. 11A3TINGS—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. FoLkirsToNE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. T UNBRIDG E —IV in d W., gentle breeze— overcast. t_SINGSTOKE —Wind S. 'vv., calm—overcast. GREENWICH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze— overcast. 3wmpors—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Lautrrox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. COLCIIESTEZ—Wind S.W., gentle breeze — foggy. CamnatEDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. PETERBOE.O ccm—Wind S.W., gentle breeze overcast. YAn.stotrrx—Wind W., calm—cloudless. La2rcesTEß—Wind E., calm—overcast. DA.atnsurox—Wind N.N. W., gentle breeze—overcast. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless authen. ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. Ct ) :2 „. 4 .1r 'O. .1.,)-: - ),''' , 10 1 4,,,,.> l ', l ,- ocf C.:I 1 • M 4 4 _., ,: 144 ? ';'rfe,L , ! -- 7-7:4•I - 1--"iw 1 , e 4 vV-,-r 1 1 - 4 . .41*- ,..........,,,,t 7. ti _ ,p",.. , ja. , .,.. 27:i 7 , itT ,....,.„, ? .. ,; 46. A r ... 4z , ~..,,-. .. ,..re zi0, ,,,,,..,, . ,;- .- ..., %Atuc. LONDON, TUESD kY, OCTOBER 21, 1851. The calumniators of the glorious KOSSUTH are doing yeoman'i service to the cause of constitutional liberty, by their constant attacks on its most illus trious representative, his It xcellency, the "de jure' Governor of Hungary. We give to KOSSUTH this his legal title advisedly—for the Red EMPEROR is only ruler over Hungary after the same fashion, and by the same right, that the late Mr. LEVI HAR WOOD was for a time despotic ruler in the Frimley parsonage ; he has murdered some of the lawful oc • cupaiats, forcibly expelled others, and, like his pro,totype, is now plundering the premises. Had the partisans and agents of Austrian despotical in this country been content to have ob•• served a decent, becoming silence, or had they left the dirty work of calumniating the Hungarian patriot and whitewashing the woman-floggers of Austria to those ingenious and Right Rev. Gentlemen who re pudiate, with the system of constitutional government, the system of CorunNicus also, and who include in offs and the same anathema KOSSUTH and Sir ISAAC NEWTON, the glorious demonstration of the citizens of Westminsteryesterday would, in all probability, not have been called forth, and we should have been without that clear, and forcible, and undeniable de monstration of the entire and strict legality of all the proceedings of Kossuzu, and of the treason and terjut of the Austrian EMPEROR (treason and per jury grosser than any ever committed by any executed traitor in any age or country), which have been fur nished to us by the speeches of General Sir DE LACY EVANS, M.P., and of Lord DUDLEY STUART. That meeting, as was justly remarked by Sir DE LACY EVANS, was assembled to do honour, through LOUIS KOSSUTH, to the sacred cause of which Louis KOSSUTH was tl9e champion. That cause is em phatically the cause of constitutional liberty, the cause of right as opposed to might, of justice as opposed to fraud, of legality as opposed to treason and perjury in high places. To quote the words of Sir lila LACY EVANS--- " Ile found that the cause in which the Hungarians had bled was identically the cause in which Englishmen themselves werehad struggled s for many centuries.—(Cheers.) The factsand admitted, when broadly stated, of no cavil.—(Cheers) Hungarians was twofold. First, The object of the e ir r s s i ) , they sought to main- Lou pure and inviolate their .national independence,those privileges which had national rights and their 7:i t ars.— remained with them 800 ( o ll i e m a p r ; 0 vand theirch e cheers.) . n ) In the next place, their object t alwaysia.—(Cheers.) This was domestic and internal con exactly the object we had have in 'view.—(Cheers.)Their ou Constitution was, in had, and would still own ; and, indeed, many rekepects, very hear.) The they had possessed their Diet 20 years before we had ob tained our regular Parliament. throne ; house of Hapsburgh held their crown; b t r ,i, Hapahurgii had not conquered the Hungarian house of the Hungarians had looked around them for -- : to dike throne, and unfortunately—(fluar, heasr3ccesser had selected Lne house of Hapsburgh to wear the — t t i h n eY garian crown. That crown was to be worn o n cond, " tions; and it was obtained by treaty. The elected En: peror of Germany, whose descendant was now the Em. peror of Austria, bound himself, when he obtained th e kingdom of Hungary, to o bserve the national rights, and to maintain the national independence of the liungarian people." - • . - Those rig and it hts the Emperor of Ausraubas violated, that national indepe n dence he has destroyed, was to uph o ld those rights, to mainta i n th a t indepen dence, and to preserve pure and intact the ancient and time-honoured constitution of his country, that t ossu - rix loused his countrymen to take arms ; that the movement was intensely national is proved by the fact that the raw undisciplined levies of Honveds de feated in repeated actions the elite of the forces of the Austrian EXPEßoll, drove back in succession the bravest and the most accomplished of the Aus trian generals, freed their country from the presence and esence of every Austrian who was not there as a bad it not been for the t reason of GoßGEvvlou b ld have defeated and expelled th e R ussians also. is alone is sufficient to prove that KOSSUTH, illustrious as he is, was but the expone n t o f t h e universal feeling of his country—a Hungary incarnate and in action ; but we go further, and from the evidence of Lord ICT:t DUDLEY STUART we prove that KOSSUTII had tilleUktgle Ilega 1i ty on bis side, and that 7- ' ' ''' --411179. 1 13 rPer of AUSTRIA was throughout the ---..- ' - t# l - fill of one of the_least causes for rejoicing 7i -;.,i4-41,,i'i'..-.t.r4.ie gikiit:i.46y,; --", Iti 11 S at the glorious Westminster demonstration of yes terday, is the opportunity which it afforded Lord DUDLEY STUART of exposing the sophism of the question constantly asked, with a self-satisfied air, by the partisans of Absolutism, —How is it possible that a Sovereign can be a traitor? Let Lord DUDLEY STUART show how not only this is possible, but how it has actually occurred, and prove that in this in stance the Sovereign was the traitor, the insurgent the true man. " The Hungarians," said his Lordship, " led by Kos suth, rose but to defend the rights they had enjoyed for eight centuries.—(Cheers.) That was all they wished to do—to preserve their Constitution, and to endeavour, as Englishmen were seeking to do even at the present day, to improve it. And this they endeavoured to effect by legal means. They even got their Government to sanction those reforms, the importance of which had been mentioned by his Hon. and Gallant Friend the Chairman, in his most able and eloquent speech.— (Hear, hear.) Both Kossuth and Hungary would have been willing to continue under the sceptre of the house of Hapsburgh, could they but have found a Sove reign of that race who would have taken the oath to the Constitution and would have kept it.—(Loud cheers.) But if they were driven to resort at last to physical force, it was because the Government forced them to do so.—(Cheers.) So long as it did its ' duty, so long as it preserved even the semblance of doing its duty, the Hungarians were loyal; but when the Emperor attempted to trample down all the rights of their country—when he attempted to rule without the Diet —why then they did wbat all free men ought to do— (Loud cheers) —they refused to submit to tyranny, and they had recourse to arms.—(R. , newed applause.) lie did not hesitate to say that if placid in a similar situa tion Englishmen would have done the same.—(Loud cheers.) The conduct of the Emperor of Austria was just this—although to bring it home to themselves he should have to suppose a case which he felt it was impossible could occur. It wou ld be little praise to say that the Sovereign of this country was the best in Europe—(Loud cheers) —but it might with truth be said that there never was a monarch in the history of this country who was more worthy to fill the exalted position she occu pied, or who better understood the duties of a constitu tional Sovereign.—(Loud cheers.) But this attempt of the Emperor of Austria was just as if the Sovereign of England had attempted to rule without a Parliament, to enforce his laws without having any regard to the people, and to introduce a new form of government before un heard of.—(Hear, hear.) If such a thing as that were to happen here, what would be the course which Eng lishmen would adopt ? Why would not even those men most attached to order think it their duty to rise up in arms to defend the Constitution?—(Loud cheers.) He could not doubt that there was any man who would not be ashamed to say " Nu."—(Applause.) Well, then, that was what the Hungarians had done, and no more than that.—(Hear, hear.)" And that they were amply justified in doing that, and would have been, and will be, when the time shall come, justified in doing much more than that, no Englishman who has not disgraced himself by accepting Cossack service will venture to deny. Desperate have been the efforts of the Austrian agents to make it appear that the movement in favour of KOssUTH is not a national movement in England, that the working-classes hold aloof from it, and divers letters, pretending to come from working-men, have, from time to time, ap peared in the columns of the Absolutist organs; it was represented, however, that it was quite as easy for the Chef of the forgery department of Austria to sign himself a working-man as any thing else. At length, yesterday morning, there appeared in the columns of the Times a letter with a real signature and a real address, purporting to come from a real working-man, and denouncing KOSSUTH. The history of this working-man is thus detailed, in a letter ad dressed to Mr. 131DGooD, and read by him to the meeting : " London, Oct. 20, 185.1. " Sir,—A letter appeared this morning in the Times, from a Mr. Edward Stokes, ' A Working Man.' I have taken the trouble to go to his residence, 23, Pleasant row, Pentonville, to make the proper inquiries."— (Loud cheers.) Lie (Mr. Bidgood) wondered if there were two No. 23's.—(Hear, hear.] " I have been to No. 23, Pleasant-row, Pentonville, to make proper inquiries, and I find that he has only resided there one month—(Loud laughter)—and that his landlady, Madame Labour, cannot pt her rent—(Laughter)-- that he leaves his apartment to-day ; that she knows nothing about him, and intimated to me that if I was about to receive him into my house as a tenant to look sharp after him for my rent—(More laughter)—and, lastly, that Mr. Edward Stokes was, by profession, a compositor to the public press."—(Loud cheers and laughter.) [He (Mr. Bidgood) would leave the meeting to draw its own inference.] " Now, si:, as lam a rate payer, householder, and an elector of the borough of Marylebone; and as I have had to do with the Times and their falsehoods—(Cheers)—if any doubt exists in the minds of any impartial person, let him go to 23, Pleasant-row, and see whether he can ascertain the whereabouts of Mr. Edward Stokes.—(Cheers.) I send you my name and address, which you can state to the meeting.—l am, Sir, your obedient savant, " THOMAS ANDREW EVANS. " 9, Park-street, Camden-town." This letter, says the report, appeared to create much amusement, and no little sensation. We congratulate the partisans of Austria on their alliance with Mr. EDWARD STORES, and suggest to them that the least they can de for him is to accept him as a tenant. Doctor JOHNSO7.i was wont to " judge of a man by his company ;" let us adopt the model of that axiom, and proceed to judge of a merchant by his bill book. A. reference to the panics which periodically convulse our money, manufacturing, home and colonial pro duce markets will be, we feel assured, sufficient to show the importance of a searching investigation into the causes which have led, and, without doubt—judg ing from the present tenor of our " Money Market and City Intelligence"—would appear to be again leading to similar disastrous consequences. 'We select a " bill book" as being the mysterious crucible, though fascinating but fallacious agency, of which too many merchants of the present day convert paper into gold, but who, unlike their philosophical prototypes of past ages, forget that their success can be made complete only by a restoration of all the primitive elements and integral parts to the original nature and substance from whence they had been transmuted, an end, we need hardly remark, never yet achieved by those theoretical originals, and but rarely by those whom we may term Les Marchands Alchemiques. The aforesaid "primitive elements" in the first in stance have been universally found ungovernable when once within the influence of common air, and in the latter almost as much so when exposed to the destructive powers of heavy discounts, trade and per sonal expenses, bad debts, acceptances for which no consideration had been received, losses, deficiency of capital, &c., &c. We must not, in repudiating the iniquitous abuse of, be construed as possessing con tracted opinions relative to, a free and fair exercise of that most necessary privilege to a foreign trade, " ex change operations," nor of the equally necessary facility to the home trade of a free and fair credit, both, as a general rule, converging to one centre, the " bill book," through whose " accommodating," until ultimately crushing, agency we will trace transac tions, unfortunately too common, between England and India, a model that will, in many respects, serve for other important export trades. Whilst de nouncing the incubus whose fitful and unhealthy nature produces the dreaded convulsions, we are not unmindful of the sterling virtues possessed and prac tised by those highly respectable, well-conducted, and responsible establishments, whether merchants, bro kers, or factors, who, while they suffer with exem plary forbearance the evils inflicted on them by the more unworthy members of their body, form at once the support and ornament of our commercial exist e practicability e th nce that sho u ld b y its vigilance --a body to wh om we ma y h erea fter point out l a organising a annihilate s n i i n h g an i usages so muc h to be deplored, latetheasnsoefcairaitoiouns and the coadjutors thereto, p ar i pa„; these slaughterer s of public property, a certain Iva of prod uce b ro k ers an d bill m discounters. Messrs. USHROOM, MAKcsmar, and Co., merchants, draw upon Messrs. SELLAWAY, STOP ONEDAY, and Co., brokers, at four accepts ; the former, in return, months, the latt er enters into a viva L • or perhaps written engagement of but voce, doubtfullegal v alue, to send proceeds of the bill, when disc ta in money or goods, as the case may be, to India or , elsewhere, with orders to buy produce of any kind or kinds in which the benevolent acceptor may deal— the engagement further obliges the " merchant" to hand over to the broker bill of lading and policy o f insurance upon receipt thereof, and empowers the same to sell on arrival. This bill must, as a matter of course, be renewed, four months being insufficient to take out order and bring the goods from India. Ne. matter, the crucible is at hand. What manifest injustice on the part of Messrs. S., S., and Co.! Can they be sworn brokers, under oath to do justice to the beat of their knowledge and belief between buyer and seller, whil idantified with 6 their o w n interest is exclusively ex that of the l a tt er ? What a reckless posure of capit a l • will* for the sake of those with whose property they are entrusted, they are doubly bound to protect. What legal indemnification can they hold against the chances of insolvency on the part of either the so-called merchant or his agent abroad ? In addition to all that they are some times directly, often openly, parties to a whole sale fraud upon the mercantile world, inasmuch as that money thus raised acts as a sti mulus to the false credit of the merchant, who of course passes the amount through his banker's hands, but too glad to make such a display of means. The unwary is thus decoyed into selling him goods upon credit, through references to, and the good word of, his banker, who is blinded by the amount of his ac count ;or his broker, who may be on the look-out for another parcel of goods, from the net proceeds of which to stop the gap caused by a loss on some pre viously ill-considered and disadvantageously-pur chased shipment, or local speculation, in which the broker, by some übiquitous power, is both buyer and seller. _ ---- A second illustration of the abuse may be traced in the shipment of British manufactures bought upon credit, through the aforesaid references, which are shipped to India, shipping documents being accom panied by orders to ship, on receipt thereof, pro duce of an amount equal to their "salted" value— this, with the facilities afforded by the native Ban yans and local banks, is easily managed (8 to 12 per cent. being nothing to M., M., and Co. for interest in advance). Hence the immediate shipment of pro duce, for which shipping documents are dispatched overland. These find their way to Messrs. S., S., and Co., who in return give their acceptance for this " pig in a poke" to Messrs. M., M., and Co., which, under discount, or nearly so, pens the acceptance given for British manufactures, it being " desirable," i❑ the first or second instance, that they should do promptly, and then perhaps they may get an occasional renewal of their acceptance for subsequent purchases, in order that they may, what they call, " trade" with the money, that is, employ it in any hazardous speculation of tempting prospects that may have been put before them by their wily broker, or engendered in the half matured brain of M., M., and Co., until the London, Manchester, or Glasgow warhouseman finds himself where most people do who follow a false light—in the mire. Here, then, we have the fertile sources of " panic," inasmuch as that both operations glut the home and foreign markets with goods heavily embar rassed, which must be sold at some price " to keep the pot boiling." A third and yet more serious evil is that arising from produce shipped in India for England, without either money or goods having been sent there for that purpose. This is done annually to the extent of many millions sterling. The produce thus shipped may be traced in publications issued by her MAJESTY'S Cll3- tOlllll as consigned " to order," which means simply that the policy and bill of lading for the same were by, say Messrs. EITORIIISS, LucKIsALL, and Co., " hypothecated"—" pledged" is too coarse for Orien tal ears—to one of the moneyed houses, as a collateral security to their draft upon Messrs. M., M., and Co. for a certain sum, which, i❑ fact, is neither more nor less than an " advance" upon the shipment. _ Now no person possessing any knowledge of the mercantile world, and the absolute necessity for some medium of exchange, could object to a party abroad drawing upon another in England or elsewhere, pro vided always that the party accepting had a specific and valuable consideration belonging to the drawer in his hands. That, however, is not the case in this instance, though prima facie it would appear to be so—the " consideration" in fact being attached to the draft—nor can possession of the former be had until the latter shall have been paid. What is to be done ? Ob, nothing, as Messrs. M., M., and Co. would say ; just write in red ink across the bill when presented for acceptance the admission of your interest or agency in the shape of those potential letters, figures and words B. P. No. 3,656 (any thing under 2,500 looks " slow "), " accepted payable on production of shipping documents herein named at Messrs. BULLION and Co,, London, Ist January, 852," finishing with your " usual signature " (in black or blue ink), and then you may say, as poor SHERIDAN used to do with his bills, " Thank good nos, that's off my mind," at least, until the arrival of the ship—when the holders of the bill will send you a polite message, that as the good ship Charlotte, BAILER, from Calcutta has arrived in the Downs, having on board the security for your acceptance No. 3,656, they wish to know whether you will pay the amount thereof under discount, or they shall ware , house the goods in their own name until the ma turity of the bill, which generally has two months to run. If Messrs. AL, M., and Co. be in good feather with their brokers, Messrs. S., S., and Co., they will answer off-hand—" Oh ! just send in the draft and documents to-morrow with a memorandum of the amount, less the discount " ("Bank rate," mind, as though from the abundance of their idle capital to allow an infinitesimal fraction above that would break their hearts), " and we will give you a cheque for it." So far, apparently, all appears en regle. In the meantime, perhaps, "on 'Change," our mer chants arrange with their brokers for some of the " stiff " to an extent varying according to status with them, or the applicants being " flush" or "short" at their bankers, with which to charge their vade mecum, the "crucible" whence, by noon of the succeeding day, may be seen issuing the bright product of their alchemy—gold. Away with it to the bankers :—that excitement over, the scene wears the aspect of a calm, calculating house of business. The document and draft are presented— the latter paid, less " Bank rate," of course. Messrs. M., M., and Co. feel ala ROTHSCHILD. The late holders of the bill believe them to be so, and ac cordingly advise their Calcutta friends to buy, par preference, bills upon them. The next matter is to see the goods, because the broker has neither the will nor the means to be under advances of " cash" for other people's business, which he must at maturity of his acceptance if the goods were not realised by that time, or the draft renewed—a courtesy he not always cares to extend, having once got the goods into his clutches, preferring to save his name for a new trans action to bolstering up an old one. In this virtuous determination Messrs. M., M., and Co. join, having other transactions coming forward, the proceeds whereof they will require to " anticipate" in like manner—the result of that decision being a sacrifice of the shipper's interest, be be some luckless " na tive," who may have vanished upon receipt of a redraft of excess of advance over nett proceeds—be they Messrs. H., L., and Co., who are debited with the loss on account current, pending a clear remit tance to credit thereof—or be they Messrs. M., M., and Co., who coolly carry the amount, or figures representing it, to " profit and loss account." There is a fourth " dodge," of which Messrs, M., M., and Co., in the plenitude of their mischievous power, might have availed themselves—that of buying goods on credit in this country for shipment to India, drawing upon the latter ,place against them, just reversing the last operation, except that money realised in India upon England, is mostly either paid to the shipper, native, or European, as an advance, or if shipped, by and on account of Messrs. H., L., and Co. to their " Banyan," who knows sufficient English to understand that " short reckonings make long friends." The usance in this case is 60 days' sight instead of six months as, upon England, ergo, the consignee must pay the draft long before even the ship arrives. These statements are true ; let the sceptical reader but turn to the columns of our pro verbially accurate contemporary, the Times of 1846- 47, and he will find there, in the smooth language of an accountant, many items that took their rise from similar sources. us attempt to prescribe a remedy. In the first, se cond, and third instances, the brokers who lend Having stated a few of the most glaring abuses, let themselves t o suc h sur r e ptitious methods of o bt a i n i ng business should be scouted by their more respectable brethren, and especially by those merchants who import produce and hold the same unencumbered until a remunerating exchange can be effected, goods for money, which they have a just right to, and with wholesome markets would realise, having, through their agents abroad, given money for goods. There are other abettors to the literal fraud practised in the third instance, the large Calcutta houses and the Honourable East India Company, who both (though the latter may not have done so within the last six months) make exessive a d vances upon shipments of pro duce to this country. Th e latter, we c once i ve , have no right to interfere with the mob; 'llarket of that trade, because they deluge it at their own convenience to the total annihilation of all fair principles of exchange, leaving the merchants, who perhaps may have responded to the call from Leadenhall-street, by paying them in ster ling gold for bills upon the Governor-General of India, to get their money back as best they may. This anomalous proceeding once permanently discon tinued would give rise to the establishment and healthy working of a new class of moneyed firms, confining themselves to exchange operations with England, India, China, &c., and who we may hope would discountenance the practices of the present soi•disant merchant princes—that of interfering with the local tradesman, by selling retail from their " godowns" saddlery, spirits, guns, wine; . &c., an act which should appertain exclusively to those who are obliged to keep heavy stocks of them, and who have allowed those same merchants a fair participation in the importation of them to India, either as indents to their order, or by the purchase of them as consign ments. Through such improved channels as these, then, we would wish to see the currency of the country directed, a measure that would effectually stop the present system of advance, careless as to quality and excessive as to quantity, indeed, start ling as may appear the assertion, too often upon neither quantity nor quality, but upon mere bills of lading that have been signed by captains at the re quest and under the illegal guarantee of the shipper, avowedly to " save the mail," before the goods are in many cases even bought, much less shipped. The Honourable East India Company would then have ample means of remitting through these channels, between which and their bills issued from Leaden ball-street upon India, the whole of the three millions necessary to the payment of dividends, &c., might be realised, thus rendering their finan cial identity with India a boon instead of a bane to the mercantile community there, who in detail (that is, men with moderate capital engaged in the importation of British manufactures, and the exportation of Indian produce,) would derive new life from the extermination of such foolhardy brethren as Messrs. HITORMIBS, LuciusALL, and Co. The fourth instance we trace to the moneyed interests in England, connected with India. now can any mer chant or banker (we mean branches from the East) for one instant support so palpably rotten a course as that of advancing money upon the security of goods for which they must know that the buyers have had credit, and that they must lose in commission and in terest upon advances in India the little they may gain by the exchange upon that place, to say nothing of prejudicing the sale of such goods by having en cumbered the consignees, as before explained, and which goods may go into the market to compete with their own shipments or those of their manufac turing supporters? 'We trust, therefore, ere long, to find that the East India Company have finally en gaged to discontinue their participation in the present pernicious system of advances. Indeed, their pecuniary position in this country having barely, since the commencement of their financial year, in May last, realised half a million towards the thre e millions required, must have shown them that some thing more secure than a conditional and temporary cessation is necessary to the mature development of the desired regeneration of mercantile interest in the East. Based upon a surer foundation, India possesses a s ample a field for occupation as for improvement, and we could wish to see a powerful concentration of talent, wealth, and experience resolve itself into a body for the purpose of regulating the acts of such high-pressure fortune-makers or breakers as Messrs- S., S., and Co., M., M., and Co., and H., L., and Co., and of anticipating the interference of the Imperial Par liament with India generally, inevitable at the ex piration of the present charter in 1854, by framing for its consideration particular measures extending equitable protection to our .enterprising and indus trious countrymen, and insuring a more effectual maintenance of our credit in that quarter—acts in which we have no doubt they must receive the cordial co-operation of the wealthy "Kootee Nallas" and "Banyans" of that favoured country—thus creating India (for the chief presidency, whereof at this moment read " City of Paupers," instead of " City of Palaces"), as far as Englishmen are concerned, a fimer and more permament source of prosperity to England, a safer field for the employment of its capital, ability, and industry, than it has ever been ; and last, though not least, protecting their unoffending country men "at home" from the ruin and ever wide-spread ing disasters of au event, in which the East India House have ever taken the initiative, a " commercial crisis." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Pays says—" We have announced that M. BILLAULT has had several interviews with the PRE SIDENT of the Republic. We believe that we may state to-day that these conferences have not led to any result, and that M. BILLAULT has not undertaken to form a Cabinet. Moreover, we still have reason to believe and repeat that as yet nothing has passed be tween them respecting the other elements to be in troduced into the Ministry, and that no proper name has been pronounced, We may, however, consider it highly probable that the portfolio of war will be reserved for General SAINT ARNAUD. It is said that the PIZESIDE/iT has sent for M. Ducos, to form a Ministry. Under Louis PHI LIPPE, M. Ducos was a member of the Gauche Dy nastique, distinguished for his hostility to the Legi titnatists ; it was he who in the Chamber of Deputies proposed the resolutionoffiettrisure against those who visited the Duc DE BOURDEAUX in Belgrave-square, and who proposed the ordre du jour motive in relation to the Tahiti affair. The Permanent Committee held a sitting yesterday. The members present were :—General Bedeau, who presided; Messrs. Base, Yvan, Chapot, Birard, Deupin, Moulin, 11. Didier, General Changarnier, Sauvaire-Barthelemy, Passy, de INlortemart, Olivier, General de Bar, Druet-Dasvaux, Admiral Cecile, de Melun, de Montigny, de Kermarec, Dufougerais, Hubert de Lille, de la Tourette, de Montebello, Goum, Vitel, Poujoulat, de Bernady, General de Grouchy, and General Rulhieres. Messrs. Berryer, Bocher, and Blinvilliers, were absent. The sitting did not occupy more than half an hour, two or three members only taking part in the conversation. At the opening of the meeting General BHDEAU read some reports from the police. In one of them a re port was mentioned that the 6th regiment, just ar rived in Paris under Colonel GARDENENS DE BOISSE, had been received at one of the barriers, near the Ecole Militaire, by groups of persons who endea voured to provoke a manifestation. The committee came to no resolution, and adjourned to Thursday next. The Bourse was more firm than for some days past. The Fire per Cents. opened at 90f. 30c., and closed at 90f. 80c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 55f. 75c. for the end of the month; Orleans Railroad shares, 855 f.; Rouen, 552 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 453 f. 75c.; Avignon, 2101.; Vierzon, 420 f.; Bale, 145 f.; Paris and Straaburgh, 347 f. 50c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 258 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 20. Boulogne and Amiens, 10 1 / 2 —Tours and Nantes, 61/2. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived. The approaching departure of the Duke DE RIAN. ZARES for Paris is, it is said, entirely unconnected with political circumstances, being to arrange some business matters. He is to be absent for three weeks. There were, as usual, reports of modifications in the Cabinet. The Herald() had been tried for having published an article attacking the Government, but had been acquitted. MADRID 13oLsa, OCT. 15.—The Three per Cents. were done at 36 9-16 for time ; the Five per Cents. at 16i ; the Debt without Interest, at 6 3.16 ; and the Coupons, at 81. GERMANY. - The Austrian Finance Minister has announced that the loan is complete, but as he does not conde scend to particulars his statement is doubted. The Archduke ALBERT, the new civil and military governor of Hungary, arrived at Pesth on the 15th, and was received with great enthusiasm by all classes of the population. In the evening there was a grand illumination in honour of his arrival. The Cologne Gazette has the following from Posen, dated the 15th :—" Our last accounts from Poland do not speak of any extraordinary movement of troops. We only learn that there will be formed in Bessarabia an army of observation against Turkey, composed principally of regiments which have served in Hun gary." On the other hand the Breslau Gazette states that there is no truth in the statement of an army of observation being formed by Austria on the frontiers of Turkey. The Hon. Lady Grey passed through Inverness on Thursday last, from Glenquoich, for the Doune, th e res i , dente of the Duchess of Bedford, which she left on Saturday for the south. THE SHARE MARKETS, BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railways, Aberdeen • . .. • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Binning., Wol7erhamp., and Stoar Valley .. Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331.65. Bd.. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., 501. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. • .. • • Bristol and Exeter.. ..1 Caledonian • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead Jublln and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dandee, Perth, and Aber teen Junction .. • • Do., New .. • • • • East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • • • Do • (181. E. & H.) • • Eastern Countle,s Eastern Union, class A, to E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire • - • • De. New quarters • • East & West India Docks and Birra. Junc. .. East & West York. Junc. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and Sputli-W est, Do. do. G. D. & C stock Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Great southern and Western, Ireland • • Great Western .. • • Lancaster and Carlisle Do. thirds .. • • • . Lancaster and Preston .. ' Lancashire and orkstdre Do. quarter sl area .. Do. fifths .. • • • Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Cresby, and Southport .. .. • • London and Blackwell .. Do., Tilbury Bat. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters . • Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M.& /3 (c) London and S.-Westerx Do. new 501. .. .. Do. new 401. .. Manchester, Buxton, and _ _ Matlock •• Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Uaion .. Midland .. • • •• • • Do. 501. shares • • .. Do. Binning & Derby Midland Gt. Went. (Ire.) Nevveastle and Carlisle.• De. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. Newport, Abergevenny, e.ndllereford . Newry and Enniskillen • • Newry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • • .. •• Nerfotk Do. New 201. shares • • Northern Counties Union North British • • • • • • North Devon • • • North Staffordshire • . North-Western North & Sth.-West. Jane. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. Scottish Central Scottish Do. new .. Sbr3w3. Yz Birm., Clas 9 A Do. Class 8.. Shrews. & Hereford., Ohl Do., do., New • . Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves .. • • • . Do. Oswestry • • .. Do. New.. Shropshire Union .. .. Do., A, B, C, & D, ftilly paid up at per cent South Devon .. .. South-Eastern .. • • South Wales.. .. South Yorksh. and River' Shoff., Roth., and Goole, South Divlslos •. .. Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea k Loughor, kc. Taff Vale .. • • • • • • Taw Vale Extension • . Thames Haven Desk and Railway .• • • • • Vale of Neath •. • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin • . West Cornwall • • • • Whitehaven and Farness York, Newc., & Barwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland LINES LEAS' .A.T rxxxD =TILLS. Leag Business Compan sin ies. Paid. Nominal Prises. done to-day. Bir. and Ditford Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a guarantee • • Gt. Western all 283( —293 s Do., without a guarantee .. Do .. • • all 28 —29 WoL, Dud.,calls duly paid, or with a guarantee •• DO .. 15 8 10 p Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • • • 15 7 —9 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 17% 173( Clydesdale June Caledonian all 44 —46 E. Lin., Guar. 6 Per Cent. G. Northam all 3235; •••• 32% k.d 82% % x.p Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 134 —23 ti p llartlepl Dock 5 - Yrk, New., 1 all and Railway L an 1 Ber. Hull aad Selby Yk. &N. M. all 100 102 De. % Shares Do .. • • all 50 —5l Do. % Shares Do • • .. all 28 —24 Leeds and Brad. Midland • . all 98 100 993( % Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11% —l2 12 Do., Pref. .. Do .. .. all 23% 2434 Lowestoft, GAI.4 per Cent. • • Norfolk • • all 13 —l4 De., 6 per cent Do .. • • all .. Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all • • N. & East, 6 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all . Do., 5 per cent. Do. .. all 54 —56 Do. New .. Do .. 43 4 6 p Preston and S L. &N. W. all 43 —45 Wyre • • •• 1. & La.& Y. Do. % Shares ADo .. 11 834 934 p. Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern .. all 21%, 2134 Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern all 2 8U Do. Shep. Ex.. Do .. 5% 2 p. Shef., Roth. and Goole, 5 per et. Lane. &York 16 11 6 South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 9% 354 —27 i 6% Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. • • Stock.& Dar. all —• . Do. do. .. Do .. •• 25 26 —27 Do. do. Do •• .• 25 .• Wilts &Somers. (2t. Western 100 90 —9l INC 'REX% sm.aums, Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business deco to-day. Aberdeen •• all •• •• dia. Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. • • Caledonian io/. .. 10 6 34 —6% Chester and Holyhead .. all lb 1514 18% Dund. Per. & Aber. June. all % (1. East Angliaa (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. .. .. all 1 34 Eastern Counties Exten., per cent. No. 1 .• all 14 —34 p Pm Do. No. 2 .• • • • • all 4 dis. par x.d 34 dis. par X.d Do. New 6p. neat. Stock 10 10% —ll 10X Eastern Union, Scrip gnaran. 6 percent. • • all 9% 10% Do. 101. Deben. Shares. all .• —.• East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. all •• •• E. &W. York. June. sths all .. EdLn. Per. & Dun. 51 p.ct. all 1 dis. Glasgow & 5.-W. Consol. 100 .. Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 13% 13% 13% % Gt. Do., sp. c. Redeem. Scrip 3% • • Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. 5 1 34 p, Gt. Western (Barks and Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) 6 34 1 p. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. • • • • • • 6 •• '• Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 129 131 Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.. • • .. 11 .• P Do. quarters, 1848 .. $ •• P London, Brighton, and S. Coast, guar. 5 per et. 100 .. •••• •• Do. pref., 5 p et. 5k,1851 100 .. •• 138 Do. new guar.. 6 per ct. 100 .• •• Lon. & N. West. (Coy. 34 IS% Nuneat.) 5 per cent. .. 1334 .• London &S.-W., new • • 5 2 P' Stanch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 1036 1 1 34 yi Do. new, 101. .. all 1136 —• 12 11 % Do., 61. • • • • • . 3 —36 P 3 3s Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 • • —• • Do. Consel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... 100 127 —129 12834 Do. Bristol Ps Gloucos. all .• •• Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. . 10 0 •• Do., Preference • • .. 5 " •• Norfolk Extension • . all 15 —l6 Do. guar. 5% per cent. all 4 434 North British 5 4% 5 Oxf. Wor. &V? 01.151.6 p.c 6 % die rar Shrows. & Bir,, new guar, all 9% 103( Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 1534 16 South Devon • • • • - • all 11 —l3 South-Eastern, 436 p. st. 10 .. York, Nowc., and Berw., Gt. N of E. Fur. all 15% 16 York and North Midland 3% _' H. and S. Punch. .. 10 1 -1 % dim, FOREIGN. Boulogne and Amiens all 10 10 1 % 10 Central of France (Or. leans and Vierzon) 16% Dutch Rhenish • • .. 1 6% 16% 8 5 % — 5% di s . East Indian .. 18 2 , • — 2% P. Do. do. do. .. 20 • • Great Indian Peninsula.. all Ditto ditto .• % P. Louvain ala 6aralare 7% % %P. . Luxembourg .. .. 10 Dittc, Half Shares 2 / /2% —2% Ditto, Quarter Sh ares 1 j Madrid and V aientla 2 Maria Antonia •• 1716 s 84 7 x.d Ditto, New .. 8% 334 x.d Namur and Liege 6% 7 Northern of France .. 16 13% —ll 13% 14 Orleans and Bordeaux .• 9 5 d. Paris and Orleans all 83 — 35 Paris and Rouen .. .. all 214( —22 4 21% 22 Paris and Strasbourg •• 17 6% 636 dis. 10% Rouen and Havre .• •• all B '4 836 34 x.d Sambre and Meuse .. all Tours and Nantes .. 1G 10 —5% dis. Toarnay, Jarbise, Lan- den. and Raseelt ' "" " West PlanderS. 8 % 1 Paid. Nominal i Business don: Prices. to-day. Asturian •.. Anstrallan .• •• •.• 4 1% Barossa Range .. • ..... 113 0 33r" Blaenarvon Iron and Coal all • • Bolanos Scrip ..... • • British Iron.. ••.. • ..... 13 5 .• —•• Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. F.) 243( —•• Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba all Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 204 —2l 20; Cobre Copror • 4O 35 34% Copiapo ..• ••• 14 6% 734 General.. •• . • • all 13% 14 Mexican& S. American 9 3X — 43 G Real Del Monte, Unrcg. % % Do. Black Debentares. Do. Red Debentures .. • • • • Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 4 Tin Croft.. • • • • • • .... • • 7 6% 8 United Mexican— •• •• 28 2 8 3 —2 JOINT STOCN. BANKS . Australasia all 37 38% British North America.. 50 45 —46 Colonial 25 1074 11 Commercial of London.. 20 25 -- 26 London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% 18% Lenkin and Westminster 20 283: 293 29% National Provincial Eng. 35 Do. New lO • • • • National of Ireland 223{ 18 3 4 173 Oriental Bank Corporat. all 26 —26 Provincial of Ireland •• .. 25 42 —44 Do. New all 157 16% Union of Australia .. • • all 35 36)4 Do. Now ............ 2% 3 34 Union of London •• •. •• 10 14% 153 Union of Madrid •• -- all .. • MISCELLANEOUS. Canada .• Gen. Steam Navigation Penin. & Oriental Steam. all 65 —67 Si Ditto ditto 10 11% IM. 15' Royal Mall Steam .. • 60 80 8334 79 Ditto ditto Royal Mall Steam .. -- Settling days in the ml 10 60 nth of October. Ticket Account days. lit he errors of the 01 .d correspondents.) 15 1 4 days for regis th and 31st. fticial Lists, and 2V, dim. 20 3 /, 20 f3i l 51 , 38 9214 53% 58 1 /, 90 it Business done to-day. 9 li 8% 78% 11' % 16% 4 Nominal rrices, 83( to 9 4 -41 i 9 - 10 11 9d. la —l9 78 —BO 11!,‘ 11% 16 --17 23 —2l d. .. •••• • • 2% —2% I% —2% bib —6% 4 ..-434 2X - 3',6 13%(-144 49 -51 25 -27 4 - .. .•••• • • 15% - 15% 4% -4% 11% - 12 33 -35 sog —Bl% 76 -78 734 - B%P. .. - .. 54 -54% 8X —8% d. 6% —6% d. 11 ....- 12 •• •••• •• 6% --6% 92% 93% 11314 —113% '4 , 4 -2% p. 13' i — 2 l l . 1% I %P. I 81% —82% 9% —8% die. 8 7 din. 2 -2( 26 .- 97 3 1 4 —2% die. 47 1 4 —47% •• —•- dis 23 —25 - - 814 .. dis, 17 —l9 14% 13% 413. 3 —2% db. 5% 5X 83~; 8% dis. par 4 P 13 —l4 12.,4 —l3x 9 61 5% 4 4jy dis. 14 —l6 7 8 10% 1“4 % % Ms. 3 3 i —3% cl. 12 -14 18% - 18: , ;,, 27 .... 27% 4 -3 I. 11 —l3 x.d 160 163 1 .. r — .. did. 16 —l5 die, •• •• •• •• ....• ••• .. —.. dip. 1N 17% 7% —7 d. 3% —3% d. 184 is% 100 8 6 8 100 all 1 13 4 47l 100 all 13 1N 4 2 0 100 as 100 47% 16 2-3 all 126 tered shares, Itith and 30th. r We cannot be answers will not be influenced by Ible for ti intoreste, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken for ex port. The sales comprised 3 ; 500 American, 200 Pernatn and Muranham at 54d. to 61d, 150 Bahia at std. to 500 Egyptian at 5/d. to Bd., 400 Surat at 20. to 4i., and 70 Sea Island at Is. to Is. 3d. per lb. The market was dull.—The Share Market continued depressed and prices were lower than en Saturday. The Hamburgh advices of last Tuesday quote the rate of exchange on London firm at 13 51 for three months' paper, with a good demand for bills. Gold was at 4281. Coffee was still in favour, and Wheat rather dearer. We are of the number who have from the commence ment locked with extreme dissatisfaction upon the policy of the Spanish Government in reference to the so-called settlement of its debt, and there has certainly been no thing within the last few weeks essentially to mitigate our disgust. At the same time we have felt that the poorer class of creditors were being worn out by the slow torture of official as tuteness; and insensibility. Year after year has rolled away, and still no measure of relief has come. We hear of increasing prosperity, of a flourishing revenue, of lavish outlay, but not a syllable of payment of latex est on the foreign debt. At length public opinion and latent indications of a resolution on the part of the dif ferent Governments to take up seriously the claims of their respective subjects rouse the Madrid Cabinet to something like action. A scheme, more disgraceful even than the former disregard, is broached by the Finance Minister, and when this is met with well-merited deri sion and contempt, an amended and certainly far pre ferable scheme is propounded, the most damaging evi dence that could pos3ibly be afforded of the inclination to defraud the creditors, and not the inability to meet their demands. Deaf to all remonstrance, the confisca tion of 50 per cent. of the coupons is persevered in, and, as unfortunately the bondholders are divided among themselves, even this crying injustice has had to be submitted to. Ye.,terday the committee made their report to a public meeting as to the result of their labours, and although we could have wished them better success, we are sure they well deserved the gratitude of the bondholders for their unceasing efforts. One point they have yet to gain, viz , the official recognition of the certificates or receipts for the 50 per cent. of coupons not included in the conversion. If this is got, Spain must, in after years, make a provision to discharge them. It is highly satisfactory to find that the committees here and on the Continent will stamp the new bonds to pre vent an over-issue, if the creditors be only wise enough to pass them all through their hands. The exertions of Lord Howden, Mr. Weisweller, and Mr. Capel, and the warm support of Lord Palmer stun, were all duly acknowledged at the meeting, but the Spanish Ministers stand in the unenviable position of having been dragooned into a settlement, and of having given, after all, what no one thanks them for. The question of "prices" is always a difficult one to handle, but Mr. James Harvey, of Liverpool, formerly a member of the Anti Corn-law League has come forward to direct public attention to it, and contends that remu nerative price, not cheapness, is the desideratum. Mr. 11 arvey is a currency reformer, and seeing that free trade, to be fully developed, needs an expansion of paper issues, he takes the unwise part of abandoning his for mer opinions and hanging on to the skirts of protec tionism, in the futile hope that from that phantom he may obtain the object he desired. This relinquish ment of ono positive good, even though in exchange for another, cannot be expected to enlist the sympathy of The Sun, nor, as we hope, of any individual or body pretending to conscientious reliance in the ultimate triumph of right. Currency reform, we trust, will not find many advocates upon such slippery ground as that of Mr. Harvey, and if, as that gentleman properly remarks, an amendment of our monetary system is to become a hustings question, we trust also that no former adherent of free trade will assert that an ex tended cur rency would be desirable with the restoration of thpro tection. The writer of the letters observations we now make states::ll‘4,iih 1 r vw of London, with the plan proposed by Mr. John Tainie thet l r l o s al .o p u elude question, a gentleman who has thoroughly it, and and has philosophically examined and elucidatesr a national pape whichableandand issue should never exceed in year the amount paid of the annual taxation. g or re l c ia e h iv le ab t l o e d fo e r . officers, for the dividends of the away by Government for the Th is debt,and monosalaries fofl l e its x t p a e x n e s s e: , wouldwou l d neverbe a legal b o e ittennedreri,nanedxnbeesign preciation. As the pennY - Postsge stamp collects th e whole revenue of the Post-office, so would this money collect the whole revenue of the nation. The arrange ment of this plan would be matter of detail, and would present no real difficulties. toprivate withbanksaslittle and e b an ki ng c ompanies , let them interfered as possible, onlytakwintgth proper publicity as t o their care to make their iss ues as secure as possible, partners and ss carities—that so the currency of the m i g ht be made as safe as gold itself." Y k a are very firm again , but there is not much cou s n to tr e doing. Consols have been 97i- to for Transfer and Account, and are now 97/ I. Bank Stock is worth 2121 to 213, and India Stock 264 The New Three aud.a.Quarter per Cents. have been 97i to 98k, and the Three per Cents. 96* to Exchequer-bills are 51s. to 54 9 . premium, being fully previous rates. Foreign Secureties are dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 20i. and the Three per Cents. 33i to 3Si. Sardinian Scrip is discount. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been at 32i to 32k. Mexican Bonds have been 261 to 26k.' Railway Shares have been firm generally, and there has been a moderate business doing. Rather increased transactions have taken place in foreign shares. CLOSES G riticEs. 213 96% 97 1 % 97% 7 6 3 / 4 262% 97% PRICES OF BRITISH. FUNDS O'C O L N O E CK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. New 8 14 per Cent ..,.. * ... :: .. Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o 6 15-16 7 Ditto, 30 yearn, Oct. 10,1859 6 34 India Stock ' 26 2 1,E Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 1 i i; a. 1,000/. 5001. Small, .. ONE 1 ' PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. •• ...... -- Equador Bonds •........... —3/ Mexican, 5 per et,, ex Jan. Coupe. 2634 Ditto, Account .......• •••••••••••• 26% Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent-. ...... Portuguese 5 per Cents. ............ Ditto, 4 per Cent. .................. 32%%, Ditto, 3 per cent. ..... Russian Bonds . ................. .... Ditto, 414 per Cent ............... Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... Ditto, Scrip .......................... 2% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 2 0 34 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 4% per Cent. — Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild — Ditto, Account Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 59% 51 p 51 p 51 p CLOSING PRICES. 3E4 26 3 / 4 26A 32 1 % 32;,i 101 3 4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 21.—Wind at noon E., light airs and dull, hazy weather. The Lafayette steamer was burnt at Chagres on the 11th instant. RIGA, OCT. 15.—The Wellington, Davidson, Dundee, to this port, has been on shore, but apparently received no damage. BLANC SABLONS (LABRADOR, SEPT. 25).—A French barque, Quivers, Masten, has been wrecked at Feroll Harbour, Newfoundland. Fourteen men drowsed. TABLE TAT, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, OCT. 12.—The Clarinda, Shields, to Simon's Bay, has been on shore on the Sand Bank, inside Mouille Point, and received considerable damage to rudder, false keel, &c., is dis charging. The schooner Natal, from Mauritius, has put in partially disrnasted. The French barque Actif, from Calcutta, has put in, with loss of mizen mast, &e. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 20.—The Pratt, of Sunderland, and the Falmouth, of London, were in contact in the 1534 % 8 oii 81 % li 78 [8254 54% 3 55% [541( 41( 5% 93% 93 t 13% % 115 24% 14 2% Sl% 82% 82 3334 48% 50 49 24 134a434!4 sN 74 14 12% 18 18% % % lsh 19 % ------------------------. , d n e ig m la l t ge o . f the ISth off the Spurn , and both reergea tha D g o e v iaa. En, 00frepTv.it2,0.—ind W.—Sld. i t Leone. s REDCAR, OCT. 20.—The Victory schooner, of Low e ; T to e ffe, is on shore on the Coatham Sands, near the doe a s repairinga b'a n do n h c e d r. _- , s, and will probably be a wreck: crew saved * ! i to means of ua I v ARIS, OCT. 19.—The Joseph Prosper, GODSIVII to to 27th Sept.,Loins,Str. P lin ie ta rr il e, re : Gielirißl3l:,bnPediri:C'6sl; pt., the master not being able to obtalo4° rwto , QUEBEC,OCT.4.—The port schooner Santos urnrw for Quebep, W 9.3 wrecked on White Islan d, 30th Per OFF D B i ll a i crew saved. i art ni a3n o ion n ua T hT , 11 0 f0. t ... : Ct . 20e07.—cos.yDneef,enedearic,tiQtr,uaebeAc. Sicilian barque, PLYMOUTH, 0 —Wind S W Prince Edward's OCT.. . LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—Wind S. to S.S.J,•--- o r ilso; Louis ' Manilla ; Charlotte, Moulmein; Impostor. 0 to , Barbara, Gordon, Valparaiso; Persagno Florio, Kferltaile; buco; G Holywood, Matanzas; Stirlingshire, 'uc'self 'e Grace Darling, Baltimore; Jatncs, St. Jolla t rel . Brunswick , Snowdon, Quebec; Alice Wilson, ditto; v 'toor e ' turion, Valparaiso; B a ltt Charles Clarke, An ello ' Sld. Bernard, Monte Video; Myth, ditto; ,-g Barb Bah• • Othello , Ciudad Bolivar; Whitehaven .00, dons; m min Prince of Wales, St. Thomas; Bono' a' _Acrd. SzirAbl uwcnel cutta; Daiio,rnEkN, , tLede:ww yn Catharine orkl , Off ß io port,Janeiro; N e r e i. G d go; Coronella, La Guayra; Walton Muncaster, Ali, Shallcross, and au American screw-steal:Or, wh00 351 , C O al c c T u . tt 2 a o ; .— se W er i e n t d . mS.oWuica, leiignh.t.A.---nAnapda• :10,„nocia; Callao; Greyhound, ditto; Thomas 'Snoo fe,,r;beg, `l l e alt 7 rit rl itiT; la M nd il ; an W , P__o. Arrd. from the River Katherine Stevvart -cutford, ersa,cedaDleden3oneirs3,gle;:rib: Nowilm iiyde, ditto. Orleans; American I York. MARKET NEWS.—(TH IS 1) 1 ) 5i; 11131. Y In.A.RIESTS• SMITHFIELD —Meadow Hay, 21 153 to 3/ ,, ii 51 per load. ditto, 31 . 5 s to 4/ 7s 6d; and Straw, 1118tt'iceo, Trade very dull, at barely last weeo P i r 1 70 i load. full Nl average M eadowi supply, il 3 y ' 21 1 ditto, 3! 5s to 4! 6s. and Straw , 1 11 , 1 A u e s3 o4 lIITECJIAPEL.-11c.LidOW H. a and ;j 2 a l 51,11;15 ! 1 i i i - 0 1 1 11551 Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4l Si; and Straw, per load. Supply good Sales about 1,500 , and , trade dull. SUGAR.—British Plantation continues in . goed.,cl; , 01 c1 8 , 1, c""j". week, are fully 6d per hhds,cwtedeaarnedr Pricl:ur'iltilinces, '6uS'lilggs/1' sold briskly at former prices, but 2 900 bags 4O 6di a ne d dat, fine grainy yellow, only,oo andpartly found buyers; onares ' at 37 tcl i'o -11°1 percl ocwvlFa' of 00 0 v 03 1:0 6 g j l i ü b n ro c w a n e lih k a ili n d r, 3soosldtoat372 eon sad f o o f r A jY 4 Manilla only about 500 sold at 29s t° 31g boeif, floating cargoof 2,00, bo y °{ yellow x por t l 13aa9vt3atnlon,a'il1,3:131;09:::'i j n ii i i i e ° , (! has b British Plantation landed last week at • the Eagt„harre',' India Docks was 3,107 hhds 493 tierces 1,19VA-11139 i a n ucc 2 lo 2 . t l te 6 re ti were taken for home conmmption 1 ,7 "; f loc ° 3 ce b s 790 barrels. The stock in tho 0 0 at ,rsYhhds 3,243 tierces 6,268 barrele. 4 4 r EE.—Plantation Ceylon, 150 C 96l ' s ' °P O I° 360 bags was withdrawn above the market valne37oo were La G ags fine Malabar, 160 bags Costa Iliethalla ceyil u so ay d ra a , t o 4 f o ' import;o s h 6 i tiand hut 79 casks were soid at 40s Gd, and privatelY 1,000 i:gtrot 414' to 41s 63 per cwt. ' Cocoa.-216 bags Trinidad were, with tb e e5, 4 8°13 former ram few small of 1 ... .1 lots, withdrawn for want ' A 90 3 v RICE.—Of broughtlo3 so t l o d proportion 8,300 bags pinkey Madras, ° lll/ 13 6 44 1 6 310 broken white. it y 58 ,1 d 3 e4 io a s t 6,l7sfor6dfinet,oaBnsd6(Bls; 5tto1081:6g8, r IP RUM continues in fair demand. The quo" 5 11,:5 last week at the East tnd West India Docks wag puns lt 67 hhds; there were taken for home 001 2 puns 9 hhds; and exported 61 puns 70 lab; 0 stock in the same places is 13,738 puns 16196 bb I ft° SALTPETRE.-966 tb° Bombay, were withdrawn. cwt . TEA.—The — a 9 r TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 37s to 373'19t3d per e• , spot, and Town, 40s. SkGetbaisgsstoßaednyg."Land '::dliegilleilel s4:d6.d . Privately,l,oreig nO5, t° 3) it 91 were large. -------------------" 0 MIDDLE SEX SESSIOP I ' ~i seg e ' t (THIS DAY.) Joseph Willis Ford was indicted tind er T r tik r j cil or indictments fur felonious assaults upon 00 ; 0 ,5 0r/ t y cllildren under ten years of age, one of tbeel b e : ts is r fourhouse years. The children lived with their par b er to file he ties usewhere the prisoner lodged, which got?, w iliel l blo for committing the heinous offences ratueoslo W.as charged until the consequences were r 4 0, in the health of the sufferers. t iek e , Mr. COCKLE defended the prisoner at g resl tb ei lr and called a medical gentleman named r grey, /itta sident surgeon at Wurburton's Lunatic AYlll—', nal-green, who stated that the prisoner w ay 4n etr of that asylum from 1835 to 1841. ~,, reg r A is Mr. PARRY briefly replied, observinV, be be ' t oe that the defence setting up insanity could 00'1100;0 out, because be thought it would be very vi e x , r el prisoner should be locked up for the reni tli 6 t l; life. :„„ I'o 4 . T s he jury, after a few minutes' consultOu' oit' priTree,rdliGsdsuinsiolTttyAmNiTnea-tjuhuetvofioprEsrtoicocefaoes(rer, nuepdpoonnhiviahheitclloDsot;c:beetfjc,'s: cution the evidence being precisely the sons ''' fri e ",xi cases. It was said that the prisoner's 11010 were highly respectable, and if sow,b Plot that in future they would net allo „ c e eb b that to go at large. There had been evia e " t i o ii o " he was a man of weak intellect. There was l it ife, that he would become more so in advancing shat Hersthee could be no doubt that he ought to b e t ! t bO li ti fis entenced him to be imprisoned nine 0 1 °.:;:i It would further consider what should be done "" t ,i,l a fter that. ~ fai, v Th e prosecution was institute d b y the Societl Protection of Females. ,) BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAlfrett's A young man, named Gomshall Dwire, 0 ° o re) rented himself to he a German, but who had Pi de J i f/ accent and appearance of an Irishman, was chstli 10° having committed a violent assault. Vo t io' Mr. Henry Sampson, of Sr. John's stree, t ' iliag• n `,l' stated, that last night, as he was crossing / e aele h 'io street, ho accidentally came in contact with the :01 ant, who deliberately turned round and 103c h e ai e ) l down. He struck him a most violent blow 00 i'ofter and ho bled copiously for at least an heur ,Deo assault. ,icl,"sll e The defendant, in answer to the charge, s'4looft the complainant ran against him, he asked , bl ,, nl e tio e 4 o did that for, and he replied very pertly, naes.'Lper7 filthy expression, which had the effect of e '" il , di t/ t# him at the moment. dele'd i j A German was called to support th e fo ral c OP; statement, but Mr. Uccle., the inspector, i e , 0°,10 4 ' Magistrate that no such defence was made h" o ile' the charge was taken. The defendant s'ii iii i f eo immediately after ho was taken into custedf•Tivg de The complainant emphatically denied ) 3 D oe d th 0 1 the imputed provocation, and Mr. Jardih e no fle e fondant 20s. or ten days' imprisonment. -I paid. P f ------------- fro o , 0 1 , We have received various communicatioo;e3 lVi ties who feel that they have been aggrie.„.oo,beri decisions of the Great Exhibition jurers,ooPoo which communications are addressed to Pr i t hee r o oll and the Royal Commissioners. It is rig ht 0 11 should be informed that these communiesti°°s IV J appear as advertisements. 0 1 oel, oet c l NEW MASTER IN CHANCERr.----Mr. A iv 11 .,1 ot i4 Chancery bar, it is understood will be the 9- o iatc-, 1 4 Chancery, in the room of Mr. Kinderslen aP P eo ts A s i a VoD the Vice-Chancellors. The Chancery aPP° iat it in r 0 o'C'll be considered as settled—Sir James Kflight,,irr, ''',../if, l 0 Cranworth as Lords Justices ; Mr. James i 4 .,', a c esa' A g; Mr. Kindersley, Vice-Chancellors; and gr. '" a "p've''sC u '" in Chancery. The Lords Justices will ea chLe as e ": o l. , s or year, the Vice-Chancellors 5,0001., and the "-` ~V, 07 0' LAYING-UP OF THE RIVER STEA•lolls"„iseli,e",,el4o; day the Watertnen's and Old Woolwich Stes'aoltowo f e panies, in consequence of the sudden decree-se took ot,o) sequent on the close of the Great Exhibition,( th e co i n than eight vessels off the station, and Wes t rt , SLc' o ci ti ,pe bridge steamers to Richmond, Hampton-col been otiois,i. running altogether. The past season has be All tit/ exampled success for steam-boat proprietors. o ta 4 . t a panies declare dividends of from 71. to 10/. Per c ~/,:d tion to releasing themselves of old debts. OW OF 80 15 1, j SUDDEN DEATH OF Dn. Fox, o f. -f' -.- r h He a s : pw - e eec t st h et i a, s o x w a, e no e df k Nb to eol ro r t e lh, c e o wd r .o d o d t ihsiei near e a amdreeuantrthie:dt ow d i _ e h c i e ca a hg s ettrio - etoo l 5 in cti ei , ip 0 , Sunday last, was very sudden : he had at to ail3 esaV service in the morning, and, after sitting doWt i, a d 0 v' f ,e usual, with his family, he was suddenly seiz eu bo y, Vie in a few hours. An inquest was held on the v itie ~ 0 of , day, by turned a verdict of " Died by te visitation of di% g W. Joyner Ellis, Esq., coroner, whe,FiGod',ol,o cording their verdict, the jury handed a pePe r . ar y, 1 o re of which the following is a copy :—" Th e 3 ,00 10 ,,itY, their verdict, beg to record it as their 11 01-1 1 . 1 ", at v t olijOr that the deceased conducted his establis!?l,,ality_, Ote/ greatest possible kindness, humanity, and 1 0 - ) ':oloa:,, Of all his patients, and are of opinion that tho,n,4 ll i ly displayed by him, in the arduous duties of 1? 0 _ c'atietio 4e, ened his respected and valued life. That ti;e ct to o g c o spectfully requested to give a copy of this V . ,r u i ; q a ti ` of the deceased, and also the chairman 0 1 , 1 '00 0 0j 01 sions." The coroner said that he did rw_ L ' t he 1 0 ,10 append such A document to the verdict, be. artier ,a care that it should be forwarded to the partie:, ~ort4 , a t til v ll. the jury.—Gloucester Journal. ti , ' Dicv o r 4 FIRES IN THE FORESTS.--.WO lear .l l3 sine , iC e j t jl o i 0; fiagration of the woods in the State of . e _ , i ,cll.„ z ol, been burning for upwards of a fornight,ll.ool.l,oe.oe'ot V tent of ninety miles to the south and Ives' v a ag' i O' f fe far as Mount Desert. A number of mills, ecoopaPpi thy of lumber had been destroyed, en e , o lialy " 40 sustained losses to the amount of 130,000 u /f + 4 ' 5° o l li Courier. ,rA to ii gYPO .c I I 0 THE NEW CARRIGE-ROAD IN M rbl e 3- O le P l '? new carriage way which runs from the ri a_„ e r, t oe, P. lei venor-gate, is now completed and throw 'l",,,,Air.;;V 'tailings are being put down. and a br o o a t ; i :bel „, 0 0. 0 6 run along the side. The old carriage-r (I . to ber i ol‘.4 alterations l ' r ' Is o. ll °Ye and other improvements and _ _ be . iv , 0 ridges and other vehicles will enterlaUrnbi" le-a rcb aP d d venor-gates, but the gates of the . 1! , egress ,„ , t iCv i r , Jo o' Lord C bie' ti ° 14 einpteonethdeenratrhkes.oecasions of her Majesty s u LORD CAMPBELL.--The , „ 1„ JO II at t e . the aEnglanductience iso f nowhislTaetl in i e l° ss m t e l ' ie arnQdpe," the - \''3tiCail. 1141) FAILURE. —A failure is report e _ ci w in t, trade, with liabilities to the extent of Vl' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOB Paid. 17i 100 100 42% Ljy 6 25% 21, 1851. ~, II Co t , 110„ e'hi4 )li te ll r it , ' 01,0 t 1E 1 , 41.1, eo u P ••'ei rite k t , ett P, Q „ 4Q,.' „' , ul k •