The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

T ig Ting ' $ A ,511,!e: ~~..~' Ta s :se ; 3tanleyo ger; 11'€d" del 'ark ; Tor' -104. CoketuOir :otland A5ll ,ors of 46 ; early' as e xibted i f ng ales ° Lie 13 ID It was tk e , tam-5, as i t very ,co .0 told etim t" in ho lire , he See o ,•! thwack. ow :• . 4 5 ,f beer n o f genri ,Lich t be , l . l !atherille s poilers , gat a tlllB weak Pr of to n tinue d ll v asiona ,h at hal e ; T"Ile. ;et, : iouris be ° e g i res , Average. he ,„;te al st 1 ' f s lOl • Ulo' antlq rs r B. - . fg;:hicb „„ho, , stk. u J o „, re f e o f 7 rai l° •r iOta S P P i ri d° 3 besid e n a c , lo t p ( 3 O a t of a s , s at sur. st; See t t i gl • t e " • P° r •seJ sur pri , the froP, you ell' LATEST PA ICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER CON PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, ITBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, JOINT-STOC: wine of Company. Australasia " tritshlcorth American Col onial Collnnercial of Lond on • ******* • • Londonnd Westminstr Joint -Stock Me tropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New. Xational of Irel an d • Ditto ICat. P royncial of Eng. ••• • ) ITnio n of A ustralia Union of London... Dividend per Arinum. 6/. per cent 4/. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. OCTOBER 24. BILNXS, 8/. per cent. 81. per cent. 5/. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. Amount of Share. £ s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 & 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. DOCKS, O 32 O 47 O 24 0 I 26 0 14 ''''ame of Compaiiy. O 47 o 24 o 19, O 37 0 25 0 13 Dividend Amount per of I Paid. Price, Annum. Share. £ s. d. s°l/)lnercial . . !_ , atat •and West India 534./. pr cent. Stock. Zast Country I ftd Et I; on .. • /pr cent. Stock. • k, atharine .... ••.. 15 per cent. Stock. "Adhampton • • 4/ per cent. 50 0 0 £ s. d - I 110 50 0 0 l 30 TNSURANCE COIVIPANIES, l '"anle of Company. Dividend per Annum, 3/. 10s 6 per cent. 6/. per cent, 13s. Gd. pr sh. 7s. per share Si. per cent. 3/. I:9s. and 61.55. bs.j 68. 5 per ct., i& 30s.bs. j Si. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. per cent. 5/. per cent. 12/. per cent. 12s. 11. sh. & bs. I/. ss. 108. 10s. 51. per cent, 51. per cent. 8/. per cent. 5/. per cent. 3/. p. ct. & bs. 51. per cent. IL ss. 4s. 5/. per cent. 6/. 10s. 1/. 6s. 1031. pr cnt.] 20 0 0 [OO 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. Amount of Share. X s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 [OOO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 Paid £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 1 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 2 0 0 All paid. '3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 414/lee Brit. and F Dit ty Marine. en n a3 trish Commercial & C:ounty • • • • •••••• • • ***** • •eollonite Life . 1 , 4 g.& S ept. Law Life p4r-'Pean Life.. re aeons' • • • !I)e ri al Fire • VtDeria tainitl L ife... •• • aW Life . Viel Alarine— • • al y • ..... • • • , 4 tr ,olition e nd Gene ra l Lif e !t `io n Ship •• • • • r ine . ••• • • u ))atonal Loa n Life. ks•iiklinni life.. •• • zu%) 1 1 . , . . • • • • • • • . .... kkkeelor Life— rovident Life • • kcseit Life... ..... • • • 'IQ Ezell n e 444 Fire a tk t tt o bi Life .... ersal Life -„ rs ,.. -.. .... ... 1 11. 6s. I - I - I 18 x;:-. .' -L ife • • ••••• 1103“. pr cnt.lloo 0 I 615 0 i 18 ' L el' 0 ---- '--,. r SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES --________ . IG - L i iii „, Dividend Amount 'of Company. per of Paid. P r i ce s•-•............... Annum. Share. N k ------ -- al B of Sco tland ... • • Cl. per cent. £ s. d. 100 0 0 178 , 7,44 a !lk of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167 t'. i t l ', n en Company 81- per cent. - 100 0 0 230 t,., lll oh, a t 'l Bank • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 170 I v "lor liaa .ank.. - 10 0 0 16% $p tern e' of Scotland 7% 1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 98% h per 50 0 0 86% )..Eictland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% ''Zl.ert i a l e bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% 1?„1.Nol l i a a nk • • ...• • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% ,t,, .tt! of Qi,'''li,, II ank skew Bank 7 6/. p er 1 cent. - 50 0 7% lq tl Bll76,„'gnw per cent. - 11 0 5 0 15% 1 4 1 ,Nesr„ . " °11 lux. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 1% k 7. (..,, “snrance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 ( . .,,j'h it r i, ( . 4 Scotlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. % /4 10 10," - ' 11 . Insur 5% Lpr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% t . 4,44, 11 rtre Insur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% i lp,t,, , i' l l Life Insur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% kt i 'ttn I, aß g• Railway 5/.er cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 76 t, 0., 1.,,,A S hares.. .•• 5L percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 19% Cvei lth, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 25 ( 15' 1 'sltir Rail. 5L per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 73 )1) 4,7843 reenckßail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22% !!.t erkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 -.14N,,.....0.....:1_:r0th1tai1. 6 7 . per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36% "ir Assurrice. Si per cent. 50 0012 10 0 8 WATER-WORKS i a . or ,_.... Divide o f Aount I `N ,....., C° MPany. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. I' ----________ I As (, 1 l„ I £ s, d. 1 ki r,t. Aietion . k4l • 4, 4°n -•• • ' 100 0 0 - 230 ,• •••• , 87 31. 46 13 4 - 92 ~, ell •••• • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - - \c& . ,,', 1 "••• • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - - \l3O ~..„.........T x ••• • •• 41.169. pr ct. 63 12 9 , -• A CANALS. t, 44 • 'lt t , Of E I Dividend 4 4,„ Dividend Price. Names of ~ N' . q per 1 Companies. per Price. "g xi Annum. 5t :,,,.... . 9 Aunum. l x Nylgh 4 .£ N o < t .i a..7 .97 ' 5/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160 ''l',. ` ! 1 3 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 bl. 98 r"ti 0 1 / 4. ' !GO 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 P, k ik t Ab r , I °° - - Neath ...... 100 201. 365 , 1,1.. 150 57. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. 260 1t.,, .. • • 10 0 181. 150 Peak Forest .78 31. 40 ,Itt,• . , 10 0 4/. - Regent's .... 33 1/. 2534 IN, .b . ; ° 0 81. 103 Rochdale .... 85 41. 54 t:the .. 133 4/. 80 Shropshire.. 125 81. - N•el yl 100 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. I Os. 123 t;IN , !Oet h i 1 ,,,,, 110 4/. - Do•LkFd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 tii'N,Olo 4 ',„, ‘ '''' 71. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 i,,k'sial, ',;% 7 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230 111t t ono,: ''2 13 %t. 210 Stotutridge.. 145 201. - kkilt h .,o .;i: ° °, - - Strtfrd on Av 79 1/. 10s. - L k ti 9 olti . i'"° 12L 100 Severn and] 9 6 1/ Bs. - t, 41%1 .. 91 - 20 Wye Rail. - ' 1 t 7 t,, ,, t :r .9 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 ca 30L - 1 4 ,. 1 .11:,• D ' . i „ 47 1 11. 10. 40 sey, 34 sh. j -- INkN L., 1," 01 34/. 525 Thaxn s &Med 19 - 10 Nti l ' 4 : 10/. 105 Worcstr ki 78 41. 49 V 11142 740/1 . 850 W B ilts ankt , g in ßr . ks 67 11. 4s. 11 ik ' , I VI N A IN OOn P -41,1iET INTELLIGENCE. I] at 11 ,1 1 4 41 1.1iET 1N TELLL ENCE. Ic i ttc All al the London New Price Current of Oct. 24.) ktili:lltciro-day importers of British Plantation displayed an d ' ll lness, grocers and refiners were desirous to pur tnei4 good business was transacted; the private sfiles, I t t lt i ia 70 0 hhds and tierces, and the . rates obtained Er,...l .t anc i e of 6d per cwt for all quahties. 'de .° - .Qay the home trade were induced to pur rlN e„,._ sc rlPtion s of refined goods with much more free trocquenee of 63s to 63s 6d have been taken for th I CP %%and 64s to 65s for standard l um p s . I n b on d e d „1 - to 37 there there has been a good business transacted at )tt t t j t, tr ; ate ° Pe r cwt, and there are not further sellers under e . 1 4 , tb „ qr•--.. This afternoon the parcels sold privately t ot 12, k i lb advance in prices. 167 bags at public sale 1 4,, gh.,, Py to 458 Gd f or was h e d, an d a t 42 s t o 47 s 6d per t;;41)14 to . _•" - -This afternoon Manilla sugar met with 4 1 1,c`s. '"", and 774 bags at auction, duty paid, sold at ''‘ti tong greyish yellow fetching 48s to 48s Bd, low 90 a' c r a shed 45s 6d. Of Penang 57 bags were disposed -fiasi v . f °Y good strong brown but damp. Bengal of In good request privately, and brought stiff ' - `,,,,There has b een mo r e desire shown to pur tillotellios,d'l, avannah by private treaty, but holders not ve nt take former rates; business of moment has V,c l 1 110 1 . White is held with firmness. White Brazil il: 4 te,,,: c lquired after, but holders not being disposed h k ) ",r (t )4 e. l'„ 6 Previous prices, there has been little busi i,,Zelt ali ght 'n Brown there has been more business sold a dvce in prices. Of Porto Rico some parcels ,Tne' ands prices that could not be obtained re leyo)„,rob,salarket has decidedly an improving appear se4lt4•,-•-sisip Sugar. vCep erlitta n Noeb; l3 ,afternoon there was little desire shown to 11 1 Z n t , offee, and 122 pkgs at auction were early ;°, B for middling greenish, which is above the to q t ,; ° l at 53s to 53s 6d for middling brownish. Of kis've." 4 1. .,9 1 3' offered at public sale was very large and ti(,„tlrt,ll:`‘B bags ; the whole, however, found pur- T Nei,„itatton fetched full rates, but Native went Gd t hat. 4 . , •,; 5 •1 4 r ) fine and fine fine ordinary greyish Planta it4 th .tie re to 625, kll l4 1/ I ' B N , q ,a- 1 generally been more activity in the e'c, bpre are prevented from Con a+ o>> green the large stock here. In ' 'As bugsneol 4 , hn . s has been transacted, in consequence L'ltikay' ; has - Lng willing sellers upon former terms. sold to a fair extent at 4d to 10d. the st - `ed, and nri es ruled firm. For Hyson prices 1 1 11 en ock b • c c. % • % I ein very large,but several parcels have ' 1 ' 04 4 t rits. lll Owder is dull of sale, and there are sellers 4 1 tle t tl Or, s aperial has been purchased with caution. 4 c , -`11:,"e Pekoe there has been more business !t, , , 41 k3 1 1; t,, k ,tit ~„'ternoon Nutmegs met with attention, and at l° sold at stiffer rates. 9 chests of cloves ,111 in den tan ( Is 11d for damp Penang. Pepper is only t kh ilt t 11 1 4 4 a and 880 bags Malabar at auction were d hit ?i• Of white 41 bags sold at 4-id to f l t lit`• .` at 38 — 13 not much wanted. 46 bags African he wn t° 3 8s 6d per cwt. t , AND u tek.v- , 4 44 to pnr,,_ oLLANDS.—There has been a strong f i Ni t ha ft t4 Pti ou 'uase 01 qualities of Jamaica Rum for IN 0 b e , n and exportation this week ; indeed the i' l lel.:niri t ll i s t hos e n r a :_ ll Y cleared, and the rates paid exhibit an , tu e h P " I ° ll sly quoted of ld to 2d per gallon. h t i ,_ tt 4 li j e a llo p ill manvyPurch and prices are still on the rise. II eh at mar , of Leeward Island at stiff rates, „N IN, 4 ra _ Ket Is not ample for the demand. Cal e, "e at , uted, and commands stiffer rates—sales of 't' et o 4, is Ild to 2s, and for 100 hhds of very lo ck -I 'g 2s _ l 6 Was paid for proof strength. orlviii7„ft al.l,enescriptions of Rum is on the de an, :It deliveries are on the increase. lar .,f as . been purchasedu with increased free ;,,,t`st(ll.47 sto e k' i ' s business been transacted at higher or still on the iner 4 4 , , fo r -,, Gd per gallon ease at Genev. The ad „-oritish C orn s . net cash, which occurred t ,head H f or 2 , spirits is well supported. Gin is ro arket 9s 4d for 17 per cent. under a ttn r 'nere b I ° o as very fi rm ar e 48 been mil l• • Otr y undi spes _, y a imited business transacted, `Bo lo-tom lin fav n :: a nd the eu to take lower rates; picking is rabie. ,„..accounts relative to the . yield are I d be, wished new q ished_or sample are not In general ,§1 5 ,, t `klAr vas the case in former li n 0 his aft erno al e nag e c on there was an increased desire sal,_and three parcels offered at tintin g to f'r*.t '-- 1 0 bags, were all sold at very , i„, bags f C aclect t w ta er • e t? of^" , and t., -. ` t aY the market was better supplied „ Fr .. - ..v () p ar ffered at public sale, con -4tr,cheev't.'ol,alt w ee ant „the demand was good, and " lorinerr ""y disposed of at an advance of Ri ' 1 for "tensi lees k om e d emand 4 , 0 it 11, e c onsum , has been experienced for Lin -3 Pese e d • P.tlon, and further advanced rates q e .01 44 b aser p urnh in brisk demand • atk, are .veer . 11 , and prices have risen. For o. g iven _,'.411 creased freedom, and further uocoa N Olive p rmea Nut has been in. excellent are not so firm. For Seal Oil t, - - '..•--.__,-, lower rates have been accepted. Cod has been purchased with caution, although 28/10s to 29/per tun have been taken. TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 80 packages of Cape Tallow were sold at 39s 6d to 43s 3d; 440 packages of New South \Vales 40s 6d to 43e 3d, inferior 38s 9d to 40s; 214 packages South American 393 3d to 41s 6d; 14 brls North American 39s 9d ; 50 brls East India 39s to 42s ; 80 brls of tine sort Siberia 39s 6d to 39s 9d. Wolverhampton add Staffordshire Banking Com- Average Amount. pany, Wolverhampton 34,500 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 14,425 Whiteharen Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven ... , Warwick and Lew oif .gton Banking Company, Leamington West of England and South Wales District Bank,l3ristol. ...... . Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 76,211 West Riding Union Banking Company, Find dersfield ....... Whitchurch and Ellesmere Bankiiig Company; Whitchurch . ... Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... York Union B an ki ng Company, York 70,669 York City and County Banking Company, York 93,311 Yorkshire Banking Company, Letils . 124,579 P. DEANS, Registrar e f Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Oct. 18, 1845. BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 11th day of October, 1845 :- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co 25,915 Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 17,125 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 12,819 Aylsliam Bank, Aylsharn-R. and E. Copeman 5,614 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade /3 tr.ir, ;laldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell 31,660 ie Bank, Barnstaple -Drake and Co 16,371 Basingstoke and Wiliam Bank, Basingstoke- Colo, Seymour, and Co. &dinar! Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford 'J Half head, and Co. flew d ley Bank, Bewdley-Nicbols; Baker, and Crane Bluster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Biceater-Tubb, Wootten, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 24,441 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 15,978 Bltrndloid Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 70,003 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 14,373 Bridg ter Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,952 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 40,048 Broscloy and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Bro.seley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 23,772 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, l'arrelt, and Co. Bury a:.d Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 80,709 Bank ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 37,345 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 46,754 Bac. City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 36,405 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 58,480 13ridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 25,561 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Briggs, and Co. 15,92 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forstcrs Canterbury Bank, Canter - Wiry-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-R oun d, Green, and Co. 23,666 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co - Coventry Bank, Coventry -Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter -Milford and Co 21,288 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,589 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 18,210 Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes , Finchatn, and Co 10,534 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover-Latham, and Co 9 ,378 Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, and Co 88,35 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor- 8,335 BANK OF ENGLAND. ACCOUNT FOR THE WEE!: ENDING OCTOBER 11m, 1845, AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE PRECEDING WEEK. In the Issue Department—Notes issued £28,068,820 In the Banking Department--Notes remaining 7,037,600 8,969 Circulation, last time.. 21,031,220 21,260,055 Decrease in the circulation of notes with the public 228,835 Seven day and other bills . Last time .. 1,081,206 ,088,160 Decrease in the bills ...... Public deposits Last time........ 8,782,975 8,703,497 uerease in the public deposits.. 79,478 'rivate or " other deposits".. .ast time 8,474,856 8,167,961 nerease in the private or "other deposits" 306,895 Government securities ... ........... ........ . 13,348,643 [No alteration.] Private or "other securities" Last time . 15,133,966 15,188,965 Decrease in the private or other securities.. 54,999 Gold and silver coin and bullion - 14,580,654 Last time 14,865,043 Decrease in the bullion, &c., in both department& 284,359 ncrease in the circulation, as compared with the corresponding week of last year ncrease in the bullion, ditto, ditt0....... 803,160 135,650 TO THE EDITOR OF THE From my Chambers in the West, Oct 18, 1R45. Sin.,—The above account is more satisfactory :than the re turns of the preceding week; the extension in thve circulation has been checked, and the tables turned the other way. The large increase of 306,895/. in the private or other deposits, on the eve of the.dividends is of a very unusual character, and shows the abundance dmoney. The decrease in. the private or other securities of 54,9991. is but the beginni. lg of a consi derable reduction under that head; for if pa rti:es can get bills discounted in Lombard. street at 2% or 1 :14 per cent., they will of course cease to apply at . the Bank ; the consequence will be, that large ,sums will remain in the banking depiwtment un productive. It is true their Government securitie s are great ly reduced in amount. On the 12th October last year they had 16,353,8341., now they have only 13,348,6431., being a reduction of 3,005,191/. in the twelve months ; this amount can nol r be advan tageously replaced, paying even a better rate of ;arterest than discounting bills at ; three per cent., at the pr( se ut prices of the funds. The bullion is again decreased ; still„ the amount is above the returns of the corresponding week 3f last 3 ear, and the present rates of exchange even more fav csurable than at that period. 3,070 19,85 The gunk having raised its discounts to three 1 )er cent. will, it is said, have the effect of making some men more sober ; of course in the same proportion as three bears to• two-and-a half, that is to say, the maximum of speculation is to be re duced in the inverse ratio of twenty per cent. on; the aggre gate amount, by the increase of one-half per t it. in the value of money, eras credenzas, hodie addl. The: :real cause, however, for this alteration, is stated not to ar at: so much from apprehensions of a domestic nature, but that t he Directors have at last found out that money is of more v al ue on the continent than in this country ; but this fact was: :known to them last autumn, and had they then listened tto Cosmo polite's remarks they would not have reduced thei r discounts from three to two-ant-a-half per cent. at all, fcr.r at that very period the Bank of France was discounting bills at the current rate of four per cent. The thirst for specu la tion was at that time also in an incipient state, which the p ro ceedings of the Directors since fanned into an unquenchable flame ; besides it would have prevented this early and i. aj udicious tampering with the value of money at the rates s , recently established. 2,240 6,903 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 25, 1845 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow, Walford, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon -Hull Bank, Hull Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Rer.3ford Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and A.rchenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Iladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexat_ders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Kraresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knamsborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and C. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons Latupeterßank,Larnpeter—Jones,Evans,andCo Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C llarv.y and Son • Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds 'Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C.►. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,G aunt, and Co. Lenwster Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—• Smith and Co Ll.ndovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. r.ouf.Pliborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t.,ns and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St. Barbe 110,744 49,474 52,420 21,196 8,485 13,643 6,326 6,688 17,105 15,255 28,403 31,324 19,295 18,463 18,857 53,763 5,220 20,573 15,259 37,379 26,610 23,284 15,270 23,337 9,359 21,768 42,910 9,855 5,616 51,114 37,760 3,758 30,899 44,626 21,555 86,739 32,607 7,353 4,635 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynnßegis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank, Man ningtree—Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Nt wport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Newark Bank, Newark—tiodfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark —Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and II udsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and Co 25,547 New Scrum Bank, Sarum—Hitley, Everett, and _ _ Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 30,050 44,797 13,563 11,786 6,377 16,365 11,520 10,035 18,202 30,160 14,560 8,430 27,785 47,398 35,297 24,053 3,628 49,178 77,831 11,543 4,885 Price Average Amount. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westrv-Croxon and Co Oa lord Bank, Oxford-J. and R. Morrell Oxford aldßan k, Oxford-Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson 26,495 Did Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wcll,, Old Bank, Tunbridge and Tonbridge Wei s and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge- Reecning and Sons Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney-Williams, Clinch, and Co 11,276 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and • Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co . 47,966 Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co 11,540 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough-Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough-Simpson, White, and Simpson 13,066 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance-Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading-simonds and Co 36,815 Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens,Bl an dy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond-Stapleton and Co 5,636 Ringwood and Poole Bank, an d T own an d County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter-Day and Nicholson 10,328 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey-Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston--Fordham and Sons 15,049 Rugby Bank, Rugby-Butlin and Son 13,224 Rye Bank, Rye-Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 27,003 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and barking Bank, Reigate-Nash and Co 14,400 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, and Co 17,835 Scarborough Old Bank, 3carborough-Woodall and Co 24,66 Shrewsbury and Markel. Drayton Bank, Shrews bury-Adams, Ada,res, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocke, Eytons, and Co. Sittingbourne art.! Alitton Bank, Sittingbourne -Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton-Maddir.ort and Son • . 16,418 Southwell Bank, Suuthwell-Wylde and Co. ... 14,450 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story 2,903 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messrs. Brodie 21,425 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury- Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton-Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stont -W. Moore Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford, Wragg, and Co .. . Stafford Old Bank, fltafford-Stevenson and Co 11,616 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, • Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury -Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,266 St. Alban's and Hefts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib son and Sturt Taunton Bank, Taunton--Messrs. Badcock 29,274 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonsh ire Bank, Tiverton-.Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 12,486 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co. 16,613 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. 22,978 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. 9,407 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Kelynge, Greenway, and Co, 25,940 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, Brothers West Riding. Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-Leatham, Tew, and Co 44,525 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearce Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank; Wirkeswnrth-Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Ilolyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley,Lavender, and Co. 12,021 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 87,486 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,213 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 9,008 Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten 8,431 York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 4,6059 6,950 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,211 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com- parry, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 13,005 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,085 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,765 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Cora- 12,364 pang, Darlington 24,102 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 155,670 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,750 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,237 Hull Banking Compaly, Hill - 29,015 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,365 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 44,653 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,456 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,042 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knare sborough 25,102 Kingsbr idge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,202 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,631 Leeds B anking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,596 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, _ __ _ Leeds. ... 17,216 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,694 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,936 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 30,827 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock :Banking Company, Newcastle 71,879 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, :Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, Londt►Lt North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksham 61,690 Northamrptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 88,491 Northara i ntonshire Banking Company, North 27,143 54,433 amptoal North awd South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's L eicest( rshire Banking Company, Lei cester.. . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 5,585 Sheffield Bankif:g Company, Sheffield 30,545 Stamford, Spalow, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamfold Stuckey 's Bankit.g Company, Bristol Somerset shim Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- 3 4 65 7:6 1 4 7 3 2 Sh i ro r p t' sl ii;ll9.nl, * ************** , * **** fr n . a** ** * ******* ** Stourhr idge and Lidderminster Banking Com pany., Stourblich;e Sheffield and liii:umsbire Banking Company, Shoff eld ..., ... 21,080 Sheffi , .)3 d and Roti , f rham Joint-Stock Banking Conlinany,Shefliojd Swalect Ile and W:..,:sleydale Banking Company, Rich] nond 50,454 Stockt 0 n and Ilic:iam County Banking Com- 7;9 4 8 pany, Stocktrr Storey and ]kiduas's Banking Company, Shaft 'sbury Sh44fielld . and Rd trod Bank, Sheffield ... Suffolk :Banking Company, Ipswich It is an old adage, that large bodies move slow;. ;so it in deed appears, for the gentlemen in the Bank-ma aa gement have required an experience of twelve months to 'discover that if certain parties could get bills discounted here: .at two and-a-half per cent. and employ the proceeds in the discount markets abroad, at from three-and-a-half to fie e. and-a half per cent., it would yield a large profit to tho se so en gaged and ultimately bring a vast number of co tat:mental bills in this country for the like purpose, which, sit hough drawn by foreign houses, yet being accepted or end or sed by our first-rate merchants- and capitalists, must ofcourse 7oe con sidered as unquestionable paper at the Bank and di: iunted accordingly.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant, COSkOPOT . 4 - 1 TE. COWES, ISLE OF "WIGHT ' (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OCT. 24.—We have a continuation of the most s]plen did weather, no rain baying fallen for the last foi ight. The barometer at 30.33 ; the thermometer at 56' ?:n the shade. Amongt o ur f as hi ona b le departures at • e- —Si r Bellingham and Lady Graham and family, from N =folk house, fur 131, Park-street, Grosvenor-square ; hit ,jor- General Richardson, Mrs. Richardson, and Miss Ri, ?,11 ard son, from Mill-hill-house, for Sydney-place, Bath ; Mr. Sergeant Shee. from Gothic-villa ; Lady Pigott, groin No. 1, Bath-buildings ; Mr. Burton, from No. 2, Bath buildings. The yachting season is fast drawing to a close, but we have still some few yachts in the i:oltds. Captain Ponsonby's new schooner yacht proceed ed to the westward yesterday to try her trim. The Flit t also stood to the westward. The Vice-Commodore is at Harriet-lodge • Sir L. an d L a d y Sh a d we ll a t E ,vy pt house P. Erie, Esq., at Beach-villa ; Sir Edwart l and Lady Paget, at the Castle ; Lord Yarborough is. at Appuldurcombe ; Sir William and Lady Montagt t :are are expected at Grantham-house, and Lady Conw: iy at Norfolk-house. We continue to have numerous arri but the greater partof them proceed on toVentnorfc rthe winter. That part of the island is more full of corn )8 ny than it has been for years. GAS.—The shops and public lamps of this town rriTe lighted with gas this evening, for the first time. IS4:trny of the cld'uns are very anxious about the fire-engi it es, and hope they will be kept ready. A number of".old ladies will have a sleepless night—to introduce sue a dangerous thing in the town, and on a Friday, too 1 THE MANCHESTER ATHEN/EUiti. MANCHESTER, Oar. 24.—Last evening, the member •B of this literary association gave their third annual soirée at Free Trade-hall, Peter's -street. The attendance, as on pr a vious occasions, was very large, the vast hall, capable, it is said, of accommodating 3,000 in a sitting posture, b , jin g crowded in every part by well-dressed ladies and gentlen let The chairman, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, was supported: the right by the Mayor, on the left by Mr. Cobden, M .P., Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Mr. M. Gibson, M.P„ Mr. Brother toi t, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Douglas Jerrold, and sev ers . 1 literary gentlemen from London. Mr. Charles Dickens •wa s to have come, but was pr even t e d by the delicate state.. 'of Mrs. Dickens's health. N. Thiers was also invited, but wa s unable, on account of engagements in Paris,- to proceed: 1. 0 Manchester. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who was received with lewd cheers, commenced the proceedings by briefly adverting t, o the splendid talents of some of his predecessors in the ch Impressive as the scene before him would be in any place., became solemn, 'almost awful, when the true relations, Iche real significancy of its splendour were revealed. When thtey considered that this festival of intellect was held in the ca pi-, tal of a district which comprised scarcely less than two m iP lions of inhabitants, engrossed in a far greater proportion Ja3 • the toils of commerce and manufacture than any other dis trict in the world—when they remembered that this gr , tat assembly indicated an unprecedented desire upon the part of those who directed the labour of these large classes to she ue with them whose labour they thus directed, and whose int e rest they thus guarded, that literature, which was once tl ie privilege of the cloistered few, but now formed the fine st social links of this vast society in this vast, city—whe ti they bore in mind all these considerations, they felt that the object which this society represented, although in- • tensely local, was yet of universal concern, and they- would cease to wonder at that familiar interest which:: he, a stranger, took in it, whenever it was presented.. to his notice.—(Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman pro- ceeded to congratulate the meeting upon what. their institution had accomplished —upon what had been accomplished, too, in Manchester, in a spirit kindred to. the exertions of the institution whose members he was ad uressing. He especially congratulated them, on the boon which they had secured to the toiling thousands of Man chester, the precious Saturday haltholiday—that boon alike precious to man as to boy—when manhood borrowed the en deaiing name from childhood, and sought to enrich it with all that remained of childhood's still-remembered feelings — (Cheers)—precious in the impulse which it gave to labour, and most precious in its result, when, brightened and graced by those modes which this association indicated, it left body and mind more free for the service of earth and heaven (Cheers.) In considering the benefits which the Manchester Atheneum was likely to be the source of to those among whom it was founded, he would regard them not so much as afford . . ing a path bywhich a feiv 'light rise above their station, as promising a means of adorning and gracing that sphere of action in which many must continue to move. It might be that some master• mind might start into fame from their ranks; and should such rare felicity be their lot, with how great pride would they expatiate upon that greatness which they had watched in its dawn, and with how pure a satisfac tion would they commemorate the achievements of their the ustrious townsman, when, satiated with the applause of strangers, be would revert to those scenes among wnich his genius found its first expression, and earned its first prize. But it was not in the culture of such rare minds that he an ticipated the happiest fruits of their peaceful victories. The talents which in darker ages might have suggested the de..ire to guide the obscure but honourable sphere of peace ful labour in quest of literary distinction, could at present only be safely employed in adorning the path in which they originally moved. But if it were too late to be ambitious except on , some rare occasions, fur the immortality which earth could bestow, yet, for that true immortality of which time's longest duration was only a vivid symbol—for that immortality, the cultivation of wisdom and piety was as momentous now as ever. They would believe him when he said that there was no path more open to the influenoe of heaven than the common path of daily duty. On that path the lights from various departments of their institution would fall with the steadiest lustre, and by that light they might walk in peace and gladness, if not in glory, happy in the opportunity of elucidating some great truth which might be reflected from the polished mirrors of thousands of asso ciated minds.—(Cheers.) After alluding to several other points, the Learned Gentleman touched upon the financial 16,717 12,861 9,033 4,625 4,140 9,772 4,324 8,594 5,518 6,864 12,575 9,412 9,742 14,07 6,616 affairs of the institution—a sketch of which we have already given —and concluded by urging forcibly upon the assem blage the duty of supporting strenuously and unweariedly the institution whose anniversary they were met to celebrate. To the young he especially committed it. For their benefit it was especially founded—for its welfare they were especially responsible. Let them never forget, in this great capital of physical labour, how important it was that spiritual power should be awakened into like activity. Canning once said that he had called a' new world into existence to redress the balance of the old; but let them keep the balance even, be tween the world within and that without, keeping steady the social vessel with contemplation's immortal freightage. Mr. MARK PHILIPS, M.P., was the next speaker. He re gretted that it had not been in his power to have attended other and former anniversaries of the Manchester Athenaeum. If they had ever entertained any doubt as to the success of the Institution, he trusted that those fears had been as fully removed on their part as he was sure that they were upon his own. It was evident that the mind of Manchester was set Upon effecting its object. He saw before him the as suranee that the Athenaeum would not stand still, much less retrograde. On the contrary, he looked forward to the pe riod when almost every young man of Manchester should be a member of the Athenaeum, or of some kindred institution, the whole to work together towards one common object, and with one common aim. There seemed to be but one opinion in favour of the Institution. It was founded upon the best of all principles—self-government. They were responsible to themselves for the management of their own affairs, and lie trusted that that management would continue to be as prosperous as it had hitherto been. The Honourable Gentle man proceeded to allude to a part of Mr. Disraeli's speech last year, in which he dissected the lonely condition of a young man arrived from the country in Manchester, lowly and unknown. To all such the Athenwum afforded a rally ing point, t he best possible refuge for a young man so situated. There he would meet with welcome and instruction—there lie might amuse, while he instructed himself—there, while morally and intellectually lie was cultivating his faculties, he would also feel that socially he was not alone. After an ap peal to the ladies, who had done so much for the Athenaeum, and an energetically expressed hope that they would con tinue their exertions in its behalf, the Honourable Gentleman resumed his seat amid hearty applause Mr. F. STONE, who was introduced by the Chairman as an artist of celebrity, who left Manchester when young to push his fortunes single-handed in London, next addressed the meeting, and dilated on the advantages which such an insti= tution as that whose prosperity they were now met to cele brate held out to young students in the fine arts. He in ferred from the success of the Athenaeum a sympathy for the line arts, properly so called; and he ventured to hope the time was fast approaching when a public school of art would be established.—(Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., disclaimed all pretensions to literary or scientific distinction ; he professed to having attained only to this degree,—that he had learned to admire and honour those men who, by their deep thought or eloquent writings, had done anything to improve and elevate man ' kind—(Cheers)—and when he looked at that vast assemblage, he might say there were thousands present who might claim not to be literary men, but at least to have warm sympathies with the feelings they expressed, and to honour those who thus led the minds of their countrymen.—(Cheers.) They were met not for the .purpose of engaging in a frivo lous amusement, or passing an idle hour, but for the pur pose of supporting an institution of the very best and noblest character—an institution which had for its object the promo tion, among those who at a very early period must. become themselves the directors and controllers of public opinion and intelligence in that district, of those sentiments and that die meter which'would enable them satisfactorily to fulfil those high duties to which they would speedily be called. The very character of the district presented one of the strongest argu ments in favour of such an institution. It was more populous, more wealthy, and had more powers ofproducing wealth than any other part of the kingdom. For activity of mind it was unequalled ; he doubted if it were equalled by any other por tion of the British empire; and if there were such a popula tion, such wealth, such power to create wealth, and such activity of mind, was he wrong in coming to the conclusion that the course which should be pursued and the opinions that should prevail there would greatly influence the destinies of the empire and of the world ?—(Cheers.) The records of the past were these cf error, crime, and suffering, and was it too much to say that mankind might yet be made more happy__ was it an irreverent thought that they might by cultivation more largely develop the divine faculties within them, and thus aid at once the human happiness a n d th e h onour and re nown of the Creator himself? Time was when the destiny of nations was in the hands of one, or a few men; but a mighty change was now taking place, and in proportion as nations became informed and intelligent, power was diffused among them, and became transferred from the hands of the few to those of the many. Public opinion was daily gathering strength, and was marching on to omnipotence and an undis puted dominion.—(Cheers.) He admitted that much bad been done in Manchester,—he doubted whether any town in the kingdom had made such rapid strides,—but still he could not conceal from himself that much remained to be done. They must erect for themselves a high standard and a noble aim, and rest satisfied with nothing while anything re mained to be achieved. It was not enough for them in Man chester that they clothed the world cheaply; it was not enough that many merchants and manufacturers amassed wealth, and that multitudes of industrious artizans were well paid, and in comfortable circumstances; more than this was wanted. Measures should be taken to secure a sound and real education, not so much among the operative classes as among his own class and rank, connected with the manufac tures and commerce of the district. He held it to be quite impossible that there should be a great up-raising of the ope rative classes unless there were a corresponding improve ment in the class next above them in the social scale.—(Cheers.) A great effort at some not distant period must be made for this purpose. When he recollected that the so-called national universities were not fur them, and that from their honours and advantages the vast multitudes of that district were effectually debarred, it was not for them to fold their arms in apathy because they found diffi culties in their path. If they were surmountable, why should they not be surmounted? He pictured to himself the good, the intelligent, and generous people of Lancashire and Yorkshire, dissatisfied with things as they were with respect to educational means, gradually rousing themselves from their apathy; and he saw a long list of names denoting large subscriptions for the purpose of founding, building, and establishing some great fre e college or university which should be for the especial service of those who were engaged in the vast commerce of the district.—(Cheers.) The principle on which it should proceed must be, that it should be free, open to all—they should not suppose that the teaching, the imperfect teaching, of a couple ofdead languages was educa tion, any more than they were to consider that true nobility consisted in a long line of dead ancestors. He hoped that the education which would be imparted would be of ai prac tical character, and that with all the knowledge communi cated there would be associated those noble sentiments and generous sympaties which •_formed the essence of tr u e wis dom, and enabled its possessors rightly to use the informa tion they had acquired.—(Cheers.) He did not despair of seeing what he now suggested accomplished" at no distant day.—(Cheers.) They had warred with the elements, and chained the powers of nature to do their bidding. The very air they breathed would speedily propel them across a kingdom in a few hours. With increased physical comforts and advantages would they neglect the far more noble, be cause the indestructible portion of their being?—victors in the material, would they be content to gain no laurels in the intellectual world ?—(Cheers.) Rather would they not, diving to deeper depths and soaring to loftier heights, rise in moral stature, and add to all those outward blessings with which they were surrounded those which were purer and more lasting, which would spring up as a rich harvest from the culture of the mind? He trusted every one he addressed would that night form a resolution to do what he could to make that county and district educationally what it ought to be, and what it must become, if they would have social order preserved, and the prosperity continued. —(Cheers.) The Cerarnmeer begged now to introduce a gentleman who had been long known to him, and with whom in spirit he was quite sure they had all for years been familiar, one whose graver writings had been devoted in the most earnest and thoughtful manner to the great interests of his species, and whose lighter works displayed the greatest mingling of wit and wisdom of any writer of his time, whether presented before the curtain of the theatre, or, as was sometimes whis pered, behind the curtain by a certain lady friend of his not necessary to mention.—(Loud cheers.) He saw they under stood well whom he meant, and therefore he would at once call on Mr. Douglas Jerrold to address them. Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD was received with the greatest en thusiasm. After the cheering which greeted his appearance had subsided he spoke as follows :—The high object of your Institution—its many refining tendencies—have been so fully discussed—have been set forth with such various and com manding eloquence by your distinguished Chairman, that little, indeed, on such points is left for me to utter; and herein do I hold myself peculiarly fortunate. I congratullte myself, and I especially congratulate you, upon the VEry subordinate part I must necessarily play in the drama of this evening. I have, you will perceive, already touched upon the drama. I thought, before my present audience, I might venture to do so ; though, I assnle you, there are certain circles in the great city I quttted yesterday, in which I fear, any such allusion would have been considered to be very vulgar indeed. But having alluded to the drama, ► and having still your cordial welcome, I cannot but com pare myself to one of the very many walking gentlemen with which the drama abounds. It is the great occasion on which they appear that allows to them even the most passing attention ; not to themselves, but to the principles with which they are humbly associated—principles carried out by stronger, loftier agents—that they owe their presence on the scene ; and such, ladies and gentlemen, do I feel to be my position this evening. The success of your admirable Insti tution has been made so manifest to-night—its prosperity has been so full and complete—its noble uses have been so widely acknowledged, that it is as difficult to find anything new to praise as it seems hopeless for me to discover aught to con demn. Indeed, did I selfishly wish for matter for a more lengthened speech, I should wish for the revival of some good old wholesome wrong, and desire the presence of one of those bugbears of the good old times, one of those creatures ' of ignorance, that condemned knowledge for the like reason that the owl flees the sun —(Cheers.) It had not eyes, poor thing, to bear that light created for the health and happiness of the meanest man that lives.—(Cheers.) But there is no such antagonist to fight —no such bugbear to grapple with.—(Cheers.) The Lady Knowledge, too long :pent up in her tower, guarded not only by giants, but, :more provoking still, by dwarfs—(Cheers)—and we have only to look back a few years, a very few years, to own there have ibeen dwarfs as mischievous as any in fairy tale—(Cheers) — E tthe Lady Knowledge, I say, is no lo nger a p r i soner .— (Cheers.) We have killed the giants, we have slain the (dwarfs. (Cheers,)—And how have we killed them ? Why, us Luther rebuked the Devil, by throwing inkstands at them.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) Her music is no lkmger made the idle luxury of the few, but is acknow hedged in the daily want of the many.—(Cheers.) It is a proud thing for you, peopl e o f Manchester, that you bare erected a temple to her—a temple, wherein the hum blest of your fellow-townsmen may come and listen to her. an. 4 feel his nature at once softened and elevated by the magic of her voice. —(Cheers.) To say that it offered to such the sweetest solace after the day of toil—to say that it imparted to him a keener consciousness of the dignity of his na ture—to say, that whilst teaching them their own right fill position in the world, it makes them respect the riE htful position of others, is only to translate into the nu rest common-place the oft-repeated eloquence of gifted ' mcn.—(Loud cheers.) These things are now truisms. But human nature is apt to be ungrateful to truisms; for, let us not forget how fortunate it is for us that we live in an age when they are truisms.—(Cheers.) For truths, like oaks, are of slim growth; and it is with the early truth as with the acorn—show it to merest ignorance, and it cannot conceive how that little germ should hold within it a latent power that, duly developed, shall breast the billow, and defy the thunder.—(Loud cheers.) And so has truth grown, but with this sad difference, that it has too often been watered with axe blood of those who bare dared to plant it.—(Cheers.) Happy then is it for us, and for the blessing ought we to render up most humble and hearty thanks that we may to night be gathered together under its branches—(Cheers), for your institution is a great truth—( Cheers)—a truth, it may be, planted amidst the fears of the timid, the sneers of the foolisb ' the misgivings of really w e ll- mean i ng f o lk s, who still thought that that truth for the masses was the barley sugar of children.—(Cheers and laughter.) They might }lave A little—just a little when very good—but to allow , miloll. , O=C 6,954 -7 than to have their fill of it, was to risk a terrible derange ment of the body social.—(Loud cheers.) With the success of your Institution made as clear as the sun, it is amusing, it is more, it is instructive ' to remember the prophecies of certain men, who p r edi c t e d that the very light that would play about instruction guch as yours would only herald what to them appeared the total destruction of what they consi dered the best foundations of society.—(Cheers.) These men have reminded me of a story I have read in one of Captain Parry's voyages of a certain bear.—(Cheers and laughter.) The poor beast had drifted upon a loose piece of ice into the sun. And as he was borne into a yet warmer and warmer latitude, he felt his footing melt and melt away ; and then, the story says, he growled and roared as though heaven and earth were coming together.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) And so was it with these men—and the species, I fear is even now not wholly extinct—(Cheers)—they could not conceive that the very current of time that was bearing them yet nearer to the sun of knowledge, was not bearing them to destruction. But it i s not so, for it is not with men as with bears.—(Cheers:) The tide that carries us on in knowledge, which is power, gives to us that best, that noblest element of power—gentleness, which, in the fullness of its teaching, will bear all men to that happy end, ,of which institutions like yours are the most hopeful beginning.— (Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. M. GIBSON congratulated them on the improving prospects of the Athermum. They heard in other places of panics, and of stock being down in the market ; but, judging from that meeting, lie might say the Athenreum stock was at a high premium. It was an excellent investment; a per manent investment, which if it did not give a direct pecu niary return, offered one which money could not purchase, but which all could attain in the advantages of true mental culture. It was natural to found such an institution in a commercial community. The genius of commerce was diflitsion, and not content with extending the material co:n forts of life, they were combined together for the purpose of diffusing intellectual and moral blessings. The first English printer, Caxton, was a merchant, and that great mercantile community was now engaged in extending through all its members the blessings which the printing-pi ess had bestowed on society.—(Cheers.) Their friend Mr. Bright had referred to Oxford and Cambridge ; he might also have dwelt on the powerful influence which such societies as this had on those older institutions, the universities of the land. There was a time when it was thought dero gatory to men of noble birth to possess the commonest rudi ments of knowledge. They were told by Mr. Southey, in Iris work on " The Progress of Society," that the time had not long gone by when a nobleman would think it a test of his high birth that he should be totally ignorant, and not even be possessed- of the pewer of reading and writing. Was it possible to believe that such a state of things existed? Such undoubtedly was the fact; and at our national univer sities degrees were conferred on men of high birth without preliminary examination. But knowledge was becoming spread through all classes of society, and the consciousness that knowledge is power had brought on the necessity of giving a sound education to men of all ranks and condi tions. He congratulated them on the success of their insti tution, and hoped that kindred societies would spread over the length and breadth of the land, confident that with an improved mental culture there would come happiness and prosperity, and, with general education carried into practice, additional force and effect would be given to those words of Scripture, " Honour all men."—(Cheers.) Mr. LOVER, who had often appeared before the members of the Manchester Athenmuin as a public servant, was proud at the invitation to come among them as a guest. He bad tra versed every quarter of England, and had never met with so intelligent an audience as in the manufacturing districts. Many a time and oft, when, before the titled audiences of Hanover square, he had ventured to utter what he thought a pleasantry to the cold simper of the "reserved seats," had he longed for the generous laugh and ready sympathy of the back seats of the Manchester Atheneum.—(Cheers.) Ile had always found that the circles of society were like the circles of the atmosphere—the higher, the colder they were. —(Cheers.) He rejoiced that he had been enabled to be pre sent en.that occasion to see so brilliant an assembly, which was large enough to make half-a-dozen good audiences; for at one time he much feared he should have been prevented by his engagements in another part of the country, for indeed he might say he was almost in the same predicament with Mr. C. Dickens, for the place he was very nearly detained at was called Beddicomb.—(Cheers and much laughter.) Mr. COBDEN proposed a vote of thanks to the Directors of the Athenaeum, to whom they were all so largely indebted for providing that delightful meeting. They were the first to set the example of drawing from their privacy literary men to take the lead in assemblies of that sort ; and in so doing he thought they were placed in their proper sphere.— (Cheers.) When Mr. Dickens two years ago crone forward from his closet to preside at their meeting, and when he saw assembled around him all the wealth and intelligence and influence of the district, he felt that there was an era in the social history of the country.—(Cheers.) Literary men had not held their true position in this country. While in France the leading men, the natural leaders of the country, were those renowned for their genius and intellect, in England they held no social position, but were like hermits living in their cells. The reason, he believed, was they did not know j the literary men of their country.—(lfear, and cheers.) They were indebted to their Committee for making them better acquainted with their literary men, and he had little doubt that among other contributions to public usefulness that institution had made, it would be recorded that it had been instrumental in produc ing a new estimate of literary men, which would not stop in their appreciation of them as the leaders and champions of a large section of the most intelligent portion of the middle classes ; but they would, ere long, see the men of science and literature holding that rank which they did in France— (Cheers)—and proud indeed:they would have reason to be when they thought that the course of the Manchester Athe mum had contributed to so desirable a result.—(Loud cheers.) They had Mrs. Caudle with them that night— (Cheers and laughter)—and, therefore they must not forget that the hour was getting on, and there were other amuse ments in store for some of them ; he would not, therefore, detain them with any further observations.—(Cheers. ) Mr. HEYWOOD seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation, and responded to by Mr. E. Watkins. After a vote of thanks to the and three cheers for his lady, the seats were removed, and dancing corn menced Tw•o military bands were in attendance, and played during ie evening many favourite overtures and grand selections of music, IMPORTAN RAILWAY AMALGA MATION. A considerable sensation was caused yesterday, in Liver pool, by the intelligence of the amalgamatio n of the L on d on and Birmingham Railway Company with that of the Grand Junction, a measure which involves important and valuable consequences to the proprietors, and will, it is expected, lead to results very advantageous to the public. On a calculation of the respective interests of the par ties, it appeared, that while the London and Bir mingham line yielded the full dividend of ten per cent., the Grand Junction was in a condition to pay twelve per cent., so that the equalisation of the two properties, for equal dividends in future, required that the Grand Junction shares should be "written up" twenty pounds per share; and it was, therefore, agreed that new shares, of twenty pounds each, should be created free of cost, to be added to the original shares, and the whole formed into common stock, entitled to common dividends from the Ist October inst. It has been determined, also, we understand, that on the London and Birmingham line: the Company will now commence being their own carriers, and that a considerable reduction will at once be made in the charges for the conveyance both of goods and passengers, so as to render the calculations upon which any project of competing lines may be based extremely unpromising. By arrangements in progress the consolidated company will proceed to establish what has long been con sidered a desideratum, a complete system of trunk lines from London to Glasgow (via the Carlisle and the Caledonian); and from London to Holyhead; and across Ireland ; and they have decided to encourage in every way the formation, into such trunk lines 4 of the most direct lines subserving the trade of the country.—Liverpool Mercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Daniel Garrett, who stands charged with committing nine robberies from railway stations, was brought before Mr. Al derman Hughes Hughes for final examination. The prisoner looked pale and less at ease than before. He had been al ready committed on seven charges of felony. Mr. Clarkson said he bad a little evidence to add in one case, that of stealing a black portmanteau with its con tents, value 201., the property of Mr. Daniel, of Bath, who was a passenger on the Great Western Railway, on the 29th of July. Collard, the officer employed to superintend the railway police, produced a pair of Wellington boots, which he took from the prisoner's feet at the last examination. Mr. Daniel identified them as part of the contents of his portmanteau. A further portion was found at the prisoner's lodging. The depositions were read and signed, and the prisoner was committed on this charge. The depositions, as originally taken, respecting the stealing of Mr. Prance's writing case, and upon which Garrett is to be indicted jointly with Maynard, the estate agent, were then read over to the witnesses, and Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES committed the prisoner on this charge. Mr. Nash, clerk to Messrs. Swain and Co., the solicitors for the prosecution, in reply to a question, stated that some pro perty supposed to have been stolen had not yet been claimed. Mr. Clarkson applied for a certificate, allowing the expenses already incurred. Mr. Alderman lIUGHES HUGHES said it was a case of the utmost possible importance to the public, and therefore he would grant the application. The book-keeper at the Blossoms Inn appeared to answer a complaint for not delivering five packages of fruit which arrived at his inn, addressed to Edwin Price, No. 8, Three Dagger-court, Cripplegate, within 24 hours after their arrival It appeared that the goods were sent by a van in due time, but the driver had directions not to deliver them until he had the innkeeper's demand for carriage, &c., 225, first placed in his hand. The carman obeyed his order. Price claimed that the goods should be first delivered, but exhibited the 225., and offered to stake the money in the hands of the nearest publican ; but the carman was im moveable, and drove off with the goods. The book-keeper claimed the right to bold goods for the carriage due in respect to them. Mr. Alderman Woon said it was necessary that he should remove a misunderstanding upon the point. To prevent frauds, and for the protection of the public, the law required that the goods should be delivered within a certain time at all events, and whether the carriage and porterage were paid or refused. But the statute gave ample protection to the innkeeper, for it provided that if a p erson rece i ve d th e goo d s and refused to pay the proper charges, a warrant might be forthwith issued by a magistrate, to bring the party before him, and saddle him with costs for los s c f ti me . Il e there fore fined the defendant 20s. for non-delivery. WORSHIP-STREE7'. CRUEL CASE OF DESERTION.—Jaynes Panther, a middle aged man of respectable appearance, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, charged, at the instance of the parish authorities of St. Luke, with having deserted his wife and five children, who had been for upwards of two years charge able to that parish. Messrs. Blake and Gregg, the overseers, attended in sup port of the complaint, and said that they were instructed to prosecute the prisoner to the utmost - extent, as a more heart- less and aggra . vated case had never come under their cogni sance. The prisoner's wife, a woman of very lady-like address_ and deportment, her ap ohrnmstbaenndtin h had forate c i l t length of time at aofslar held acommercialv of 2001. per annum, and that they had lived together in comfort and happiness until about two years and a half ago, when she discovered that he had formed a clandestine intimacy with a woman of abandoned character. About a week after the fact had come to her knowledge, the prisoner suddenly left home under the pretence of being called into the country upon ur- gent business, and she had never since seen or heard of him until they met that day in Court. Having no friends to apply to for assistance, herself and children were reduced to the utmost distress; and they were at length reluctantly compelled to throw themselves upon the parish, by which they had been entirely supported for the last two years. Mr. BALLANTINE—Not exactly, for in this case your client has broken bulk and pawned the articles. In any ease which looks like a felony, where these lodging-house keepers are concerne', I shall certainly send it for trial. A law kill sou come into operation which will act as some check upon them, by compelling them to take out licences. The fact of pawning was fully proved against the priscne-, who was committed for trial ; Mr. Ballantine oliserving tha: there was one peculiarity connected with it, namely, that ai the prosecutor, being a witnes s , cou ld not join ship, the • advance note became valueless. The ship's husband applied to know whether he could not have the prosecutor committed to hard labour for thin v days for not joining the Cumberland, but the idea Iv.s scouted. The tailor who sold the clothes (not worth 27.) for 41. CR. then presented himself, and asked to have evidence heard for the prisoner; but Mr. Ballantine told him a jury must deter mine the merits of the case. The prisoner was then removed, with permission to put in bail, himself in 801. and two sureties of 401. each. • U PENING O}.ICHE NE NV PUSEYITE CHURCH IN LEEDS. Tha Puseyites are next week to commence a ne w and forward movement in this town. It is known that through some munificent donations of persons at a distance, a church has been built in Leeds, of a very costly and splendid architecture, and bearing many of the rerane ea of the churches prior to the Reformation ; and that it is designed as a model of the churches approved by the highest Puseyites, and as an exhibition of the modes of w ors hi p and of the doctrines approved by that stet of (Word churchmen. The name given to this church by its un known founder was very significant of the al liance between Puseyite and Romish doctrine, being that of the church of the Holy Cross. But the Bishop of Ripon, notwithstanding his timid caution, positively objected to consecrate a church bearing that name ; and it has therefore been changed for the name of St. Saviour's church—which title to us un learned Dissenters, has always appeared very absurd, and as designed either to reduce the Saviour to the rank of the Saints, or more probably elevate the Saints to the dignity of the Saviour. St. Saviour's Church, however, is, according to the official announcement, to be consecrated by " the Lerd Bishop of Ripon," " on the ensuing Feast of St. Sims n and St. Jude ;" which be it known to those who are net learned in Saints' days, falls upon the 28th of October. And though the Lord Bishop is to preachin the morning a sermon whichwilldoubtless be quite inoffensive, there is to come on in the evening of the day the Apostle of Anglo Catholicism or Semi-Popery, the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D., of Oxford. All the world knows that this gentleman was suspended from preaching for te 0 years, by the University of Oxford, for his sermon on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which made the doctrine of the Church of England, according to his interpretation, hardly distinguishable from the Romish doctrine of Transubstantiation. All the world knows, too, that Dr. Pusey was the colleague of the Rev. Mr. Newman and the Rev. Mr. Ward, writers in the Tracts for the Times, both of whom, with &eve; al others of the school, have since openly left the Church of England and joined the Church of Rome. To Evan gelical Dissenters of every class the doctrines held by Dr. Pusey, and propagated by him with ardent zeal, ap pear to contain all the essential qualities of Popery, and to make a very near approach to an acknowledgment of the Roman Church as the true and infallible church. The real closeness of the connexion between Dr. Puse3's Anglo-Catholicism and absolute Roman Catholicism, ism evident from thn fact, that so many of the ablest cham pions of the former system have found themselves com pelled by their own principles to go all the way to Remo. Several of the Evangelical clergymen in this town are so scandalized by the bringing of Dr. Pusey, and by the outrage which they conceive to be committed on the Protestant feelings of the country, that they have de clined to attend the Bishop at the consecration of a ne w church. Of course Dr. Book is not one of this number. We perceive from the official announcement of the services at the consecration, that a series of services is to be kept up for seven days, on every onqof which (ex cept Sunday, Nov. 2) they are as follows :—" At 7 A.M., Prayers ;at half-past 10 A.M., Holy Communion and Sermon ;at 3 P.M., Prayers ; and at half-past 7 P.M , Prayers and Sermon." It' the above chrueh had been one avowedly Romsn Catholic, we should not have noticed the fact, ex • cept as a mere article of news, however much wo might lament the spread of those doctrines. But believing, as we do, that Puseyism is Popery in disguise and treason to Protestantism, we feel not only solemn regret, but that indignation which disguise and treason naturally provoke. We regard this new Church in the light in which we believe ail Evangelical persons in and out of the Establishment look upon it, namely, as an edifice from which substantial Popery is to be diffused by public and private efforts, in the struc. ture itself, and from house to house, through the tow n and the country.—Leeds Huang/. DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHESTER Riiriv4 —The companies (Rastrick's and Renn. have, t'io it isw ' ellltnown, united. The two engineers, ni Mce. , .sr.. Rastrielc and Remington, attended a meeting of the board of the Direct 'London and Manchester, at 48, Mth.r gate-street, on Wednesday ; and we have good autho • rity for saying they gave the directors the strongest assurances that the whole lino was surveyed, and ready for Parliament. Two' cases of defalcation, one of rather a serious character, have been discovered the Bristol Post-office.— Bristol .211 in Mercury. Her Majesty has granted a pension of 2001. a year, from the civil list, to Mr. James David Forbes, professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. DIEPPE, OCT. 23.—M. Thiers and Count Wa lewski were among a large number of passengers who landed here last night from the steamer Magnet, from Brighton. The Right Hon. H. L.forry had an interview with the Chancellor of the Excheqt7r yesterday, at his official real. deuce in Downing-street. , , ,-, ,_ • Charles Garner, a parish beadle, stated that si nce th prisoner had absconded every effort had been made to trace his retreat, but without success, until about a week ago, when it was ascertained that he had established himself in business at Exeter, where he was living under the assumed name of Brown, in cohabitation with the woman with whi m he had eloped. Witness accordingly proceeded to that place with a warrant for his apprehension, and on his ar rival was directed to a well-stocked mercer's shop, with the name "Brown" inscribed over the front; and after waiting ' some time the prisoner made his appearance with a quan , ity of goods he had just purchased. The witness immediately addressed him by his real name, and charged him with abandoning his wife and children in London ; but the pri soner, with affected indignation, declared that he was ads . taken, as he had been in business in Exeter for many .years, and threatened him with the severest consequences if lie ventured to act upon the false information he had received. Witness, however, was so positive as to his identity, that he at once took the prisoner into custody, and brought him to town, when he was immediately recognised as the person s: ho had absconded. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that when lie lift home it was his full intention to return to his wife and family as soon as possible, but having been seized in the country with a rheumatic fever, he was reduced to such a state of destitution, that he had not the means of carra ing out his - design. He was now both ready and willing to r into an arrangment to relieve the parish of the burden of sup porting his family, and would defray all the expenses that had been incurred in their behalf. Mr. BROUCHITON said that a more heartless and profligate case of desertion had never come before him, and he should be wantin g in his duty to the public if he did not visit it with adequate punishment. Ile should, therefore, convict the prisoner of being an idle and disorderly per,oe, and commit him forthwith to the House of Correctian fer one month's hard labour, and at the expiration of that pealed, the parish authorities might still proceed against him r the amount of their claims. THAMES. A POLITICIAN. —Paddy Donnelly, a broad-sllculdersal, big-featured, son of the sod, who, though 35 years in-t!•i3 country, is quite as vivid in his political feelings, ss ;Oa n ncens nnbutus, was charged with assaulting police-arm stable Mumford, 207 C, whilst in the execution of his detaa Mumford stated that about ten o'clock on the previou4 night, as he was going through Cannon-street, St. George's in the East, he heard cries of " Murder," " Police," which, on coming up, he found proceeded from the prisoner. Ile said, " I am a constable; what do you want ?" But the prisoner continued his cry, and created such a disturbance that witness was compelled to take him to the station- house. On arriving there, the prisoner, without any provocation, gave him a blow in the month, which cut his lip, and made him look down his nose, as if he had stolen a hammer, say ing, " Take that, you Orangeman." Mr. BALLANTINE—Why, Mumford, I think you're en Englishman ? Mumford—l am, your Worship Mr. BALLANTINE—Then it is not likely that you'd indulge in any of these silly disturbances. Donelly—Faith then did he, your Worship. Arrah, was'nt it himself that made me cry murder? There, this is the way of it. Him and me had some little talk about politics, wile., he took something amiss, and began to pummel me right anti left. May be I had no right to cry out murder afther I was kilt. Mr. BALLANTECR-If you are well advised, Mr. Donelh, you'll abstain from political discussions. The subject is rather teo exciting for the generality of your countrymen. Donelly—l had the best of the argument, and that's the raison he struck me. Shure any one that was kilt that way would cry out murder Mr. 13ALLANTINE—I cannot believe your statement. As I observed before, Mumford is not aware of the silly disturb ance to which you allude, and for the assault on the con stable I shall send you to the House of Correction for four teen days. Paddy was led from the dock with the conscious dignity of a political martyr who is proud to suffer from the avowal of his opinion. A CRIMPING COMMITTEE.— William Fieldgate, a lodging• house keeper for sailors, and a dealer in their advance notes, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes, the property t f a Jersey lad. The case, in all its phases, showed the impo sitions to which seamen are at present liable from the par ties with whom they have to deal during their short so journs ashore. It appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday three weeks the prosecutor left the Jersey Lass, and went to lodge with the prisoner, at 41, Lower Grove. street, St. George. in the-East, taking his kit with him. He stayed there three weeks and two days, during which time he gave the pri soner the whole balance of his wages, amounting to 41. 17s. 6d., and an advance note for 2/. 55., which he received on joining another vessel called the Cumberland. When his bag was sent on board the Cumberland, he missed the suit of clothes for which the prisoner had paid 4s. 6d. out of the money ad vanced by the prosecutor. He asked the prisoner for them on Sunday, when the latter said he had pawned them for 145., alleging that the 4/. 17s. 6d. cash, and the advance note for 2/. 58., did not make them square as to the clothes, diet, and lodging. On Thursday evening again the prosecutor de manded his clothes, but the prisoner, who was standing at his door, which was elevated by two steps, gave him a kick in the mouth. He was then given to a constat)le on the pro-. sent charge. Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the defence, said the pro secutor had given his client permission to pledge the clothes for a balance due for board and lodging, as well as for cash advanced at different times. This, however, was denied by the p rosecu t or, w h o sa i d - he never gave him leave to pawn the articles, nor had he received any cash. Mr. Pelham said if, as he would call evidence to prove, his client had taken the clothes, the case was the same as if a landlord distrained for rent. es l g it °lig t wo bed t to IO )0 the 93Z V. 2s. 210 Price, 14234 235 16% 29