The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

.....--.----- i IN !omp.any, ,, ort in t he Dun kirk• ag certaia uni as too following its on the from that being the case, he was po3itively contradicted by the person with w h om h e had lodg e d in Liverpool. wi T t et: Bench inquired whether Mr. Chew_ intended to call ~, u e:' Mr. Chew wished first to know whether the •uagistrates intend d to the prisoners ? ask4art. Present o.—Theat is commita question you have no business to lia!iiriv• eedh,e,w then called Elizabeth Hughes, Di e .ear the Prisoner Lynch, and was . which 11,...3th1izf. December last' that she went in for 35., . w i h n o his sta h t e e n d se th n a n t b e ': , '-,',3 ... h.owed her. She knew the day s because e she had , 'gilt clock boat, and went direct to his house,,, Stayed the re a tale called " The Wandering. bfl,,-te, a our . or an hour an half, ~ jl and his wife accompanied huernthdomitew. was s H jfllr e there lighted ',rye, and he and his wife went away. "Ary the another neighbour to Lynch, deposed to f e '2' l 4;* into the hou ' se at nine o'clock, on New Year's eve. St s the 1;14 witness sitting in the house with a book in her gam, and , frola in,"' Lynch was reading a paper. Went to borrow e s. w as Jr% Lynch, he got and went away. Thoaltahse l h t ebit of reading aloud to his neighbours. the hoe acnarnara stared that he lodged with .n Burns, at habit of . len % of a man named Halfpenny, and was ? to him, Whi c h Pg Lloyd 's tiscellay, and such publica Johoste,,(witness) has heard him read, though imperfectly. Bi head, stated'', a person employed at the gas-works, te works, and oa that he was in the habit of watching r k en - lo a d m One occasion Lynch lent him for his defence a stick Art. ~,,ith lead at one end. Prov e t `h',',c . w . stated, that the brother of Burns was but he would sot e a n iliu[ter worthlessness of his character, The St n!present to t of court 4,014 agistrates then retired, and after being 14, pleiquarter of an hour they returned, when the the Rev' evideteeelcs said, they had taken into their co w n h s w id d e rah t a i evne l llne pte,lot, adduce' on both sides, and as they l',risont,.,'T°wledge of that to be produced in behalf of the tha t ti . '' It would perhaps be most satisfactory to P_ hed, th r s e t should be afforded to inquire into it. The remanding t he priZ'f're, co to the determination of further Th. 1.1% ,come Saturday next. Th e were then -remandeda,coordingly. Tllt ALGIERS. 4 4 1 h a,-011‘ ith The p MINERALS OF gter v ei 0 .. gives some remarks on the min t i h n e g rez i u t rc h e e s the expression of a fear that . Y th en say s: Pot of excessive speculation and J it:a7alloectoirincipal veins discovered in Algeria are of copper, re jobbing. It B sltS if th e'd• Those of copper and iron may give to good the lead, 1i0N.„,,e 7 are worked with intelligence. Posit ion ra9si ldant it may be, it appears to As be probably str. . a little access"hl • d t , and could not t,slani an _ . . i ( . 3 to in us r 3, . Spain and the Lint ed ~.. inpetition with the rich mines of situated in The '' t " Of Atnetica '' 'ic e , PPPer mine of the'Teniah of Mouzaia, adds the Cmn_ 7 'e, Is the one erornetd 3' one for which there has beenas.tyhentvae Gleod tO ntoil ConeeSSiOn but the wonders related of ' that thercsis demand's for other grants. It appears, however, The we is in Yiel d is by 110 means so rich as has been stated. of it eive a 25 a very niixed state, and only a small portion.s was t p, 1 . 1 . ! -pro._ tioPecernclit.; whereas it , had . been reported that this Per ten. ~._ i. me entire mass, and in 25order . to has ob tn tam un t d h e e rg0 re l ., t .,:p0l the richest portion of the ore it °lily loTer.,age yield of the or ' e is, at a ere"'°4B and expensive process, and has to be A c l arr .e i r e s d . 4 8 th, , a „ t expense to Blidah and from thence c rati ve '''' 12 Per the'cen the speculation cannot be a very _I 0 - f trans,..,(sle, when xp of carriage to Algiers, nd according to the te Comm gl ere n e, veir i ,'' of , to Alarseilles is taken into account. There afe a othe a r_ Tetl "PPer, says our ken clo se to t,Contemporary, h t have been u . n e nt for ue sea, but the works t a sufficiently dt,vanced for r to ascertain their value, are not yet in the environs of ns of 111440141 s richer in iron th in copper. In the enviro the 'geri • an ascertain notion to be formed on the . subject. PortAd i t , lift e iS a compact i sn ron ore, and on the crown d of enp. o aetween Lindell and Medeah, there are iron an other Pkrt i Of great extent. Th' is also the case in many .. tail, _stiAtlgeria, and is the 6 0 n, r iron mines than for those of copper;- n ore, r s fb- • s peculators are not moreanxious hu to t, o as n t t t l l to I],:ii?ce,. observes, it is not sufficient to have iron enn_ n 4411 f ' i; ll ° . w to convert it into iron with speed d ; e t Preseni° conclusion of the Commerce is, that Al -41.r iage B,' as regards mines, such resources for denveived o ' f . c., as to justf the vast ideas that have been 'en ~ . it, ~,, ~ Y . oto and, inerefore, it recommends caution and pro- PA RISIAN gealla smelting, does '"*".........................................••••••' ----ROBBERY AND HO" ~ 4 Rant, ~, CUSSING ,e r •r, vi e n ,4_ r of sixteen, t or a e tneo iast 71.ruieurs (hocussers) to the nu reeernthtne i Co tt : d rt hy of th Ass em i . Net t - 0a1 : ) . f two, :who were somewhat older, all of age. prisoners There tr e? thi r e front nineteen to twenty-five years of g z i n e sb Withoft e the S e e i n x e _, de 101:01011tneginiulcrgst th i em t . ad A es if the men flit:ribetittien::::::i3efaroteotrtse.brlesfo lilao im , oue (4, 1 4. 1 0 regn a! r • tiazlof Diult) a i Ita.yas ) being a m hant, am Th e na h m_ e rs, or hoc, e And had ine- e m o e r n t w w e o re were hi inildTta gerieralts-ereCeived opinion that sev es e , ra an d there tO hi g m With de be in en ere gi as ve t n er to ta t i h lo e r' giii n f o a t i h v o i ee : , c o3yed by them into public-housing thus sent th e , e ;l 3 , h ad }s•i•-'_sles narcotic preparation, and, be %I; h ad 401171 etripped of their andwatehes, however, specified o !td e `;'se ease ne,',l.m.. The indictment, .ace 1 in the house . of 6, 1 ; the ~,,',...u13 kind, and it took lobule,t`" 11 1 the e'lloillnerchant. It appearedp of all that anckPael), il ':,,g,„ 'li' t l i ' l re e °f th4ritils o M ne a l 3-7 ;) l m B4 e 3 t'i L a the street of the Fauta th at iv a l bo ay u L t q, n a i n n d e Ith l i:wet.. yar e tn, Ple a youth named Ledoux, a lad belonging kl ki s ()NJ! , and they decoyedh' to Mulot's, with the . in to' 4.„s f nlc it ;„ l : him " There the made him drink . two wine /In-41d hi nt ,0 'hich Mulot put out something of a nature h i. ad 3 a 4 to innto a deep sleep. They, however, ci ' lan cf e to take I t i e 1.0 his i:Le pan of their scheme, and determine On their 4 t f o lo his 107?, d there commit the robherY• ew e 14 -st n ‘ i e‘PaP) to murder Ledoux (who was . tirn ii .. or Lail'gting MayaS proposed (according to theadllectlhae troZliisCheeePb.), b u t ) proposal was rejected. Finally, him his boots, to ots, ar i d ot l a s aid asleep, they took from ti-can.. N. 11._ 'ler articles of dress, together with some w geld ollated ..,e'sreevother robberies of which the me thi M ' had te_erY numerous, and, like the crime j ustj en - 3 were th e T - toinen place two or three years back. Lettah.B '.iitt e The't din lodgi e h the thieves Th kn e evi 3 - s 0 ' Were nB ' W en - trance by falte r el te h , , i.ind they effected their en artment. eirl: prowled Yaboreaking open the door of the aP ther. and - that 11° osa tes i l eotabilt ill Parties oft wo or three to% s of the dos e of 411r...11131,ey coulCreasiyc Ict(lder4l.(hout 'susrpeisesied, went up and downthey wore blouses, property stolen, stio e t l i v i e s t 0 I`,', uezies, however w e as of a different kioetl, anti Sometime s ncea the' ! he .er 0t th,, ‘i.eseribed for its audicity. l a : I ght of s'ePliaoe hers, named benzene, being temoyet7easaulYr Ili`osieWeller salts Alone containing 401. in gold, h Lanckpaep,. by Whiei; Of the twaonsl.,.yrchan gees wioow n , w e dr l e e N i v i lots as to of glass under !kb, baLcasket I,.".._uto,n_eak the . superb !' stone'4ene fee .I.lln waiting for the passing of . a tu Bt4tit tot e a th_ogred by . Its noise, smashed the pane with the same te ed .snatehe, us,and pieces, and LanckpaeP at sue_ tO h a ''' la ek aia l 4 11 P the casket. They both ran andoff,. 14 (1 - e b een di s lll4 ' The 13roduce of all these robberries seems pti,ogtd at Pa `P°sed of in a variety of ways, part bein g iil t kne w il t C h ra, Ith'vo tfokers, part being sold to one o n f se, th a e n f d em w a e l l e l li:tkil"4l3),o:ert;qo %edisstr:lpeunt,aebrletoloddetlenrihno s clothes. &e. conii,r'hertes,ll° seems to have been present at every one c of 111 4 e's, an d 441 one or two others, split against their a sett \vhih gave important evidence They were all (after iii... l '.llteci t asted three days) found gu . ilty, and severally Ps44 4 s, QZetelle galleys, for periods varying from twentyT to r il l the rliel ltB. ( t the wotnen, eeot, Nilo " o f . the men was furthermore to be expose who were sentenced to mino d hee o '''od, hrrti Another of the convicts (Lepetile) was of keat a 'read y „ . ..It was for the very good reason that he !la t hat he -"sdeoloed to the galleys for life—a now undergoing. punish- t'.4,1). "---.............----------- CROP. Atti;`l-4,1T-TtE of the POTATO harvest have . Rreati,l a the favourable reports of the co tultiiAla layed the feverish excitement into rnwhaic,h_t_hewangerkls ago ,lld ereantile classes were thrown few Doe4to ilsiderable anxie ntinues to be felt. respecting greotptahrt Of ti4r°l), Which is reportd to have failed mand ,Itud ii,",4,1a1, in. Ilelgium Western Germany, disposed to Nie l , `"e United S tates' of America. Some . are .i n l is s p o o on dis_ lepp,4re t_liat this vegetable is worn out, that it France, In in.e4erihety /gest he introduced to !Itiv ~,,lroul the class of edible roots, or at lea w i s a l t re th ( a w t tshoomsee It is one et th e 't Ilse, which are doomed to extinction. take the . p that the parent kit,, niggler facts in natural history )14 ,_ id the Dotato has never been discovered, of south and ziopeCA4lo to be found in the whole extent eagerly sought Sr it 'illtita, though men of science have es And yet there is no ita i lur al all their explorations of those eontinen nct-_ hict,ti,Mettion into Europe is as well know . n, a circumstances, as th e (I. IY.fiseertained in di its times and eircumsir Walter lfaieir,rlo4 of the steana- engine or the railroad: as satis-- lken',3,,,,"rogght the seed from some district in theif nineigthhe tßotirdeeiAlbtof the Isthmus of Panama, and . planted it which i.nlie/ the of the college or 'Olei,hPart of hardenorf ited monastic ' 4l - ii 37 / 7 . 1. bh e The of the plant ar propertgranwtedas soto I, elisdtr iza et . e natureew up, the g t Il ei . , . tood, that when the potatoes gr ,Ileal 1,,,41M to use the seed -apples for food, and, finding '4si- erfhless, began to dig up the whole to throw them tt led • This led to the discovery of the tubers, w our kteralaYintid f°llnd to be excellent. Ilere, ("4 col l i atoPs shot. All inquiries have fhaielwedever, tDVatOrB ed Were led to agate by the tubers to e instead be -414 , i , e ----a matter peatimprta to lucidate grew t r i% the ,11,er e,'",,e„ seeds will produce countless varieties, w t ' 4 Did a -„""nne8 to propagate its own vane yilyTuhne. tXPlai4:l4Csf 'Mato cultivation in Ireland is equa 4 ceriee.. We have 'undoubted evidence that in article of , lal.staple e,3'o_;t became, instead of a foreign rarity, a t euret u, and we can trace historically the orygin n of all the :Pew grown in the world to seed derived from Tarne; itteiuio`aoce agricultural records. have been kept with t he not n ' We llave undoubted evidence that the van e "e rs ti n es ~.,O f to 1,04 e do degenerate; many of which old farminuesn their aa.t,tilave either disappeared, or have lost so much feedlnvgi i ,a ttle ; aniC,TE4 qualities that they are only used f trtbea %lee, Aerrins has been to a remarkable extfenet tploiefacatosehasin. d Ineree'vateri atisees atliteeh9 icaln phrase, h y tb part of Europe. jet:, is4a,sci.an dealeers 'say la;[na new kind of Potate.rmninean Of ,tie leon every seeeria year, We should bfeffladonl nti to the tr)rl'ent)jiginhataYwof Iliom are directing their varieties are not lel:, 4e.V.ett to the net(' whetterthesernithe evil is the more ./„,,Il'nble in the oldsveaariseetiaeasdowr in e the new.—Birmingharn 1 / , 41 it. 1:1.° btaQu'r..—We regret to learn .that the k h ili ori the has attacked the potato crops in this - 1"11„ rh"e c ° fi lms has niade its appear in thish 4 1 3 , e Some of the allotmentors, winceeare informed, are tl.llitiluhe slifferers from this blight.--Leicester Mercury. ittSt,i; "Tko CitoP.--liefore the bench of magistrates r'lle i t s, on konday last, were exhibited several sam.pliels... Airh,,(ie from different parts of the surrounding nelts;he tt as-'?11 lush diseased—a fearful calamity for,Th . %:lefil' Ths:tetpl'ea''s to pervade nearly all parts . of Eras, os diieli„, , e disease is occasioned by excessiverain Icitf,"'gv minuted sunshine were obvious. In the samples Pear., Worrns were visible, which, however, IT e„;! rather the etTeet than the cause of the disesse, which ,zritterised by detached esapots of discolouration. -'u-144 "ru% e rt han t.r.--rtie potato D • this district appear, we l'art eflik ." saY,tyin a,r_noreereheasltihay district than quartersinanyother of t he - e count fr,,4,44exitieute of- ~ We have accounts from all,. nu \ie,.wise in the potato crops.—Carn a tion '44 the 1n.., thtql,arielis di few da3s We have received ation info thgt la. Ne‘ue _, 0, ,rriets of the county, too clearly showing bel... fieZ,4T-.1-ttlt woui,,e_le a," o plague," has extended to C of'el, s _ ti tha t ilhapPe;tr, fron the inquiries we have matd_e:omsnitollive vee,,.Pot to roii was an excellent 9ne— I 1 -v-ri fnselle ....). Pronaisin until about a fortnight ago, when . Rigel healthy' green olour, the tops presented :....,z:.__,. .._ ,:_r_e___„..... ' • - - _____ __...--- _ '. • —.• _...._ _ . . . _ _ ._ _. ___ _ — a , - --- ... - ---- - -__ ---- ... .Z_ _ ..- , - - ---.- e----- ) _ 4_ ) T: , N: .. *-..i. T. . •,, telf.. l t* `4.' 1 . I L 0 ; , ,_ -- ' = A- - .. 4-- it :C:& 11, 4* * v ' , ss: ''' 4' F; , : 4. '- i w - ' , ”: ' ( ... ,"Q. - ..,.. r. • . .11 7 ,4 p t, ,-, .. ..., .... , :,:13, ... , 37' fo . jp. 4 •-.). 1, .. , , 'SA —' l' • &V row` '^ A .•• ~, .. . i;,. 0 7 t ( t s' U r ir: 410, 1 / 4 . - (2 ( 4 t •,7 t. t ....- --44•44, i. , . • 0 ..... Fi , , _ . 4 4 ..,. , $ -4/ ~ N .I ..- , , hero and there a yellowish or greyish tinge, something like the appearance which follows our severe frosts in October. This colour, unusual at so early a period as the Ist of Sep tember, became more and more marked, and at length at tracted sufficient attention to induce the farmer to examine the " tubers" or " roots." To the no small surprise of those who had viewed the changes in the tops or " shaw," as the result of a sharp frosty night, the potatoes were found dis coloured on the surface—soft and friable in places, and the interior much changed in colour wherever the disease had manifested itself. Examining furrow after furrow, as some had done, where the tops showed the withered appearance, and finding the same untoward condition of the " roots," the greatest alarm has been caused amongst those who have the misfortune to possess such crops, and this alarm, we need hardly add, has taken possession of the purchasers.—Cariisle Journal. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANn OTHER COM- PASTIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. JOINT-STOCIE HANICS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. Australasia ..... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 BritshNorth American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 48 Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 Colonial ... ..... 51. per ce 100 0 0 25 0 0 15% Londu and Westminstr 61. per cen . 100 0 0 20 0 0 27 4 London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14% Metropolitan ..... 25 0 0 7 10 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 49 Ditto, New... ... • • . 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 National of Ireland .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 20% Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37 Ditto, New........ 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Union of L0nd0n..... Si. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% FIELD LABOURERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Witnessing the conclusion of a most bountiful har vest, my attention has been called to the state of the field labourers in harvesting the allotments of their half acre, quarter of an acre, and some few from one to three acres. Their little ricks of corn, safely gathered, the spade is immediately at work, women and children busily engaged in getting potatoes and beans. Hundreds of families here have allotments. All hands are employed. Viewing the country from a fine eminence, it looked like a terrestrial paradise, but seeing no labourers' cottages, asked where are the poor workmen? One said, driven into towns or large villages, sleeping four or five in a bed. The Duke, said the man, would build us cottages, but great objections are made by the farmers, who are afraid of having too many of us, and cannot allow us to get a little food and comfort. Three hundred labourers left here for Australia a few years ago ; they blessed the day that caused them to go, where land could be had. Meeting the Rev. Mr. Hawkesley, of Souldrop, he told me he had fifty tenants; the Rev. Mr. Thornton, of this parish, the same ; John Gibbard, Esq., the same, and many others.—Yours, &c., MATTHEW PHILLIPS. Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, Sept. 24, 1845. DOCZS. Name of Company. Dividend Amount per of raid. Annum. Share. X s. d. I X a. d. Jommercial •• • • dart and West India 539 /. pr cent. Stock. East Country •• It. per sh. :100 0 0 London '4),•4 t. pr cent.' Stock. St Katharine •• •• I 5 per cent. I Stock. Southampton ••..• • • • I 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 Price. 118% - I 110 50 0 0 1 30 Price. 142% 50% 235 16% 28% 51 6% 16 10% 3 2% 9% 21. 28. 210 11. 2s. 186 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. s. d. £ s. d • Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 178 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 16934 British Linen Company fil• per cent. 100 0 0 228 Commercial Bank 61. per cent. 100 0 0 171 National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 16% Union Bank of Scotland 734 pr cent. 50 0 0 99 Western Bank •• • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 853¢ North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.. •. • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Eastern Bank ... •• • 31. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 50 0 7% City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. 15 0 15% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 5/. per cent. 20 00 . 10 0 11,( Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Incur. Co. of Scotind 5l. per cent 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Incur 97. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 2434 Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1930 Edin. & Glasg. Railway 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 90 Ditto, Shares.... 5/. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 21% Edin., Leith, 8c Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 25 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 51. percent 50 0 0 All paid. 73 Glasgw& Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22 Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 Dundee &Arbrothßall. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 1 4 3tandard Life Assurnce.l 51 per cent. 150 0 0 210 0 8 WATER-WORES Dividend Amount Name of Company. p er of Paid. nice. Annum. Share. ••••110.1.• X d. East London. .. 81. 100 0 0 230 Grand Junction ...... 31. 46 13 4 91 Kent ....... ..• ' 21. 10s. 100 0 0 Grand Junction .••• I 31. 46 13 4 Kent ....... ! 21. 10s. 100 0 0 Vauxhall ..... • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 West Middlesex .. CANALS. • g Names of Dividend' Names of Dividender Companies. 4 -per 1 Price. Companies. .2 Annpum. Price. co Annum. cc Aslitn & 011 h 97,51.55. p c 72 Monmonthsh 100 91. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z ll3j 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 61. 98 Barnsley 160' 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Basingstoke 100 - - Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 365 Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 I2{ 260 Cromford ... • 100 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's ... •33 11. 25)4 Derby .. •• • • 100 81. 103 Rochdale ..• •85 41. 54 Ellsmrc&Chs 133 41. 58 Shropshire . • 125 81. - Erewash • 100 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd , 100 V. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJunctnloo 71. 100 Stffrd&Wore 140 281. 440 Grand Union 1001 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamergnsh 172, 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 201. - Glstr & Brklyl. 00 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. - Grantham • • 150 121. 100 'Severn and] 26 11. Bs. Huddersfield. 571 - 20 Wye Rail. Kennt & Avu 39 Is. 6d. 13 Trnt& Mr-1 50 301. - Lancaster 47 11. 10. 40 sey, sh. Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 500 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester .• • , 140, 101. 105 Worestr & ) Leiestr&N . th' 83' 41. 60 Birming. 78 41. 49 Loughborogh;l42l 701. -- Wilts & Bits 67 11. 4s. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 26.) SUGAR.—To-day all descriptions of West India Musco vado Sugar were in excellent request for the use of grocers and refiners; there was more doing for the ontports, and in consequence of the firmness of the merchants, buyers were compelled to pay stiffer rates, so that prices are now the same as they were on Friday last. REFINED.—To .day refined goods were only in brisk re quest by the home trade, brown Lumps at 64s 6d to 65s 6d, and Standard Lumps 66s to 675. Bonded Crushed Sugar is offered at the reduced rates of 40s to 40s 6d per cwt for first sorts. Mitunrrius.—This afternoon there was a better demand privately for Mauritius Sugar, and the rates obtained were equal to those of the last public sale; the sorts the most wanted were the low and middling yellow at from 47s to 50s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal was purchased more freely, and, privately, several parcels were sold at fully former rates ; 500 bags at auction went as follows—good white at 565, middling 54s 6d to 555, low dingy 53s to 53s 6d, damp 53s 6d to 555, washed 535, sugar drainage damaged 535. Of brown sorts some parcels sold privately. In all, 1,500 bags of Dobah have been sold at 52s to 625, and 2,000 bags of strong grainy yellow at 54s 6d to 55s Gd per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there was little desire manifested to purchase Foreign Sugar by private treaty. At public sale 29 tierces and 363 barrels of Foreign West India in bond were sold, but at a decline of is to is 6d per cwt; low yellow selling at 233 ; middling 23s 6d to 243; and good middling 24s to 24s 6d per cwt. MOLASSES.—This afternoon West India Molas'es were sought after, and stiffer rates were given, 250 puns of An tigua were sold, fine new at 23s 6d, and very fine 24s to 24s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale of any sorts of Coffee, but 6,000 bags of East India are declared. There was little business transacted by private treaty in any description. For good ordihary pale Ceylon 47s to 48s per cwt are however asked. TEA.—For Congou holders are unable to obtain any further advance, but the demand has been excellent for all descriptions. In Pouchong there has been a good deal doing at 5d to 10d, according to quality, but clean sorts from 6d to 9d per lb are the most in esteem. For Twankly the demand is increasing, and prices are rising. For Hyson no further improvement in prices has occurred. Young Hyson has been sold to a large extent, at 9d to is 10d, and better sorts at 'is to 3s Bd. Of Hyson, some parcels sold at late rates. Gunpowder is wanted, but holders are willing sellers. Imperial has met with a good demand. For Souchong a fair demand has been experienced. Caper sells more freely at slightly improved rates. For Orange Pekoe the demand has been brisker. In the Country. J. Irving, linendraper, Blackburn, Oct. 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J. Crabtree and W. Burnley, woollen manufacturers, Tunstead, Lancashire, Oct. 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Woollams, builder, Charles-street, Manchester-square, Oct. 21—J. Haycocke, jun., corn factor, Wells, Norfolk, Oct. 21—E. Knyvett, music teacher, Great Stanrnore, Oct. 23-- W. Westrupp, miller, New-crane, Shadwell, Oct. 22-1 Ro gers, scrivener, Bromyard, Herefordshire, Oct. 18—J. Acton, farmer, Lichfield, Oct 21—J. Lampray, money scrivener, Warwick, Oct. 23—J. Evans, ironmonger, Liverpool, Oct. 17—G. W. Stocks, linendraper, Norwich, Oct. 17—J. For rester, baker, Hampstead, Oct. 17—F. Page, builder, South ampton, Oct. 17—J. Crich, maltster, Sheffield, Oct. 17—G. Peacock, corn dealer, St. George's-road, Southwark, Oct. 17 —J. Davenport, wholesale hosier, Little Love-lane, City, Oct. 17—F. J. Rawlings, cabinet maker, Cheltenham, Oct. 17—W. Hilditch, druggist, Fachwen, Flintahire, Oct. 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. T. Lister and J. B. Ingle, land surveyors, Bradford—A. Lloyd and M. A. Macnicol, schoolmistresses, Manchester— M. Wynn and W. Tate, timber merchants, Sunderland—J. Welch and J. Latham, architects, Preston —W. H. Roberta and G. Higginbottom, auctioneers, Southampton —J. Shaw and J. G. Kershaw, stockbrokers, Huddersfield—J. Lowry and E. M. Foster, surgeons, Maidstone—C. M. Broadhead and M. Kelsall, milliners, Huddersfield—A. Gugeri and P. Carughi, barometer manufacturers, Charles-street, Hatton garden—G. Wellbeloved and R. Oastler, sharebrokers—T. Madelev and R. Frost, silk manufacturers, Derby—S. Warner and J. D. Foulkes, schoolmistresses, Nottingham —J. Green wood, H. Clough, and R. Turner, coach proprietors' . Man chester (so far as regards H. Clough —S Sherlock and J. Wenman, wine merchants, Birkenhea —E. Marrel and G. Clapham, milliners, New Bond-street-4. B eaton and H. Dawes, tailors, Islington—W. Binnion and H. M. Griffin, carriage lamp manufacturers, Birmingham-$. and E. Evans, engineers, Spring-hill Iron Works, Lancashire—J. H. Graf ton and C. T. Perks, iron merchants, Swindon, Wiltshire__ B. Chaffers, J. Georgson, and W. Robinson, cabinet makers, Burnley, Lancashire—J. Harland, F. Harland, and L. IL Druitt, zinc manufacturers, Cumberland-Place, Newington (so far as regards L. H. Druitt). PRICE OF SUGAR. SAGO.--A good desire has been shown to purchase Pearl Sago, and several parcel s were so ld pr i vate l y at st iff rates ; 110 hests at auction went 2s per cwt above former rates. Sago flour is wanted, but higher rates being asked, checked business, and 250 bags at public sale were taken in at 21s for good middling good colour, being above the value. RICE.—To-day the market presented a dull appearance for all sorts of Rice ; 19s to 20s 6d have been accepted privately for low to mid white Bengal, and 21s to 22s for good and fine. Since this day week several parcels have arrived. FRUIT.—AII the recent arrivals of New Valencia Raisins has been sold at 435. For New Patras Currants higher prices were given. The new Turkey pulled Figs and Sul- COURSE OF EXCHA. tanas go off very slowly at the opening price. Amsterdam CF. 12 9i CoctimEAL.—This afternoon the market was better sup- Ditto, at sight l2 7i plied wiat Cochineal; three parcels, amounting to 192 bags Rotterdam 2U.12 10 Honduras were submited to public competition ; the whole sold A n t werp 26 10 with spirit at a further advance of Id to 2d per lb ; m iddli ng Hamburgh M.B. 13 141 to fine black selling at Gs 5d to Gs 10d, ordinary to fine silvers Altona — 5s 7d to 6s 2d, and one lot of very low foxey 5s Id per lb. Paris,3 days' sight 25 75 SmEs.4-For Black Pepper Che demand has fallen off; Ditto, 3 months 26 0 White, howeVer, commands former quotations, a n d i s wanted. For Pimento much inquiry has existed, and buyers Marseilles 26 5 Bourdeaux 26 10 are compelled to pay stiff rates. For Cassia Lignea former rates - are asked. For J am i ca Ginger there has been a briske r dema . Petersburgh, 3Us - Cloves are held with fi r mn e ss, but there'is a pause in the- - B er li n — mand. The b e tt er qua liti es of Cinnamon are yet wan t e d at Frankfort on Maine 122 Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 4 last sales rates. Nutmegs met with attention, and 32 cases Trieste, ditto 7 casks at auction were all sold at rather higher rates. Mace M a d ri d 367, is wanted, and 12 cases 5 casks at public sale brought stiller C a di z rates. ... SPIRITS. —Th e arr i va l s o f Rum have b een l arge f rom the Bar cel Bilbaoo n ••• --- I a -'West Indi es . F or the better qualities of Jamaica a good de- & v in e — • mend has b een experienced, and full rates given. Leeward Island i s wanted at is 10%cl to is lld proof strength, _ —A short time since a but the market is scantily supplied. Prices are firm for Cal- PRODIGIOUS MUSHROOM. .. . . cutter Demerara is wanted, and fetched 2s 8d to 3s for mushroom was gathered in a pasture strong sorts. Stone, Esq., which Brandy has been in excellent request, and' park, Oxon, the seat of W. F. Lowndes_ _ ... adjoining Brightwell a further advance has taken place iu the prices. measured 1 yard flinches in circumference ? and weighed lilb The Average Price of Sugar , computed from the Return, made in the week ending Sept. 23, was 38s. 534 d. per cwts exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid, or payable thereon. on the importation thereof into Great Britain. fGE. — (YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn ...... SO 65 Genoa ..... ...... 26 5 ➢lilan ...... Venice Naples ...... 394 Palermo, plor 0z....., 120* Lisbon ............... .• 53A Rio Janeiro Bahia •••••....... Buenos Ayres_ NewYork. 2 2dyssight Philadelpl PRRIFS OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign bars E 3 17 9 Port4a: Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Datars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars. 0 4 Geneva has been purchand with increased freedom, and prices have advanced from 2s 4d to 2s 5d for common export sort, and 2s 7d to 2s 9d for fine fit for duty. British Corn Spirits are in good demand at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. INDIGO.—The market has still a very du:l appearance for East India, there having been scarcely any demand since our last report from exporters and the home trade, and last sales rates are not obtainable. The quantity announced for public competition on the 7th of October has been increased to 17,989 chests. SALTPETRE.—HoIders of Rough submitting to rather lower rates has occasioned a good business to be transacted privately. In English Refined a good deal has been done at 28s for large, and at 28s 6d per cwt for small casks. F or Nitrate of Soda pri ces are fi rm. SHELLAC.—An improved demand has at length taken place for this article; an extensive business has been transacted this week chiefly on speculation, and advanced rates are given. Lac Dye has been purchased more freely. TAR is much wanted, and in consequence of the scanty supply a further advance in prices has taken place. Spirits of Turpentine have been purchased more freely. Rough is in good demand. Ous.—Although there are sellers of Southern Oil at lower rates, still the demand by private contract has been limited from exporters and the home trade. Seal has been pur chased with caution, and prices are drooping. The business transacted in Cod has been trifling; and prices downwards. Sperm Oil is not so much in request, but full rates are insisted upon. Although Linseed Oil can be purchased 6d per cwt under previous rates, still the demand from the home trade continues to be limited; there are few ex port purchasers, and the contracts entered into for forward delivery have been trifling. Rape Oil has been sold to some extent. Palm is wanted, and prices rule firm. For Cocoa Nut late rates are asked, but there has been less doing privately. Olive Oil has been in good demand, and holders show firmness. Lard Oil is worth 421 to 43/, and Ground Nut Oil 301 to 311 per tun. TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 187 casks New South Wales were sold—fine 42s 9d to 435, good 41s to 41s 3d, low to middling 38s to 40s 9d; 38 hhds Petersburgh soap Tallow 38s 9d to 39s 3d per cwt. FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24, 1845. The Queen has pleased to present,the Rev. Abel John Ram, M.A., to the vicarage of West Ham, in the county of Essex and diocese of London, the same being void by the. resigna tion of the Rev. Hugh Chambers Jones, M.A., Archdeacon of Essex. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. William Frederick Douglas, MA., to the rectory of Serang ham, alias Scrayingbain, in the county and diocese of York, the same being void by the death of the Rev. Stuart Corbett, D.D., the last incumbent. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Home Drum mond, Esq., to be one of the Board of Supervision for relief of the poor in Scotland. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Sir George M'Pherson Grant, Bart., to be one of the Board of Super vision for relief of the poor in Scotland. CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 26. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE Pi THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Linlithgow—Wiliam Baillie, jun., Esq., of Polkemmet, in the room of the Hon. Charles Hope, who has accepted the office of Governor of the Isle of Man. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 26. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—J. S. P. Clarke, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sitton, appointed t o th e 11 t h Light Dragoons, Sept. 26. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant A. Prime to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ; Cor net T. J. Bridge, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Prime, Sept. 26. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Brevet Major W. Parlby to be Major, by purchase, vice Master, promoted ; Lieut. W. H. Megan, to be Captain, by purchase, vice rarlby ; Cornet F. B. Barron to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Megan, Sept. 26. 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain W. B. Knipe, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice J. W. Rey nolds, who exchanges; Lieut. C. K. K. Tynte to be Captain, by purchase, vice Knipe, who retires ; Cornet W. Forster to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tynte, Sept 26. 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet and Adjutant J. Stephenson to have the rank of Lieutenant, Sept. 25; Cornet H. W. Lindow, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Innes, who retires ; W. W. Codrington, G en t. t o b e Cornet, by purchase, vice Lindow, Sept. 26. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—H. L. Wilson, Esq. (Page of Honour to the Queen), to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, Sept. 26. 11th Regiment of Foot—Ensign G. J. A. Cameron, from the 55th Foot, vice Quantrille, who exchanges; H. F. Bythesea, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Steward, promoted in the 41st Foot, Sept. 26. 30th Eoot—Lieut.-Col. J. Singleton, from the 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Slade, who exchanges, Sept 26 41st Foot—Lieut. A. Sadlier to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Cochran, who retires ; Ensign R. O. F. Steward, from the 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sadlier, Sept. 26. 55th Foot—Ensign G Ms G. Quantrille, from the 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cameron, who exchanges, Sept. 26. 65th Foot—T. E. White, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Moore, appointed to the 97th Foot, Sept. 26. 90th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Slade, from the 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Singleton, who ex changes, Sept. 26. UNArrAcHED—Major H. Master, from the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, Sept. 26. MEMORANDUM. —Lieut.-Colonel C. B. Turner, upon half pay Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the Army, with the sale of an Unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy, he being about to settle in Canada, Sept. 26. WHITEHALL, Sem 16. The Lord Chancellor has appointed C. T. Pigot, Gent., of Market Drayton, in the county of Shropshire, to be a Mas ter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Stocks, merchant, Newhouse, Yorkshire. BANKRUPTS. Edward Jones, sen., paste-board manufacturer, to surrender Oct. 10, at one, and Now. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; May, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. Thomas Cotsworth, builder, Salisbury, Oct. 3, and Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chamber s; Pi nn i ger an d C o, Jahn street, Bedford-row. • George Couper, cinder burner, South Shields, Oct. 7 and Nov. 18, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Harle, Newcastle- upon-Tyne ; Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lin coln's Inn-fields, London. Benjamin Horuby, innkeeper, Hoylake, Cheshire, Oct. 9 and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee; Skilbeck and Hall, Southampton-buildings; Thompson, Liverpool. Sophia Burton and John Burton, chemists, Kingston-upon- Hull, Oct. 8, and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard, London; Tenney, Hull; and Horsfall and Harrison, Leeds. William Charity, builder, Alford, Lincolnshire, Oct. 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Scott and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields; Bourne and Son, Alford; Bulmer, Leeds. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Moyes and T. Moring, carmen, Camomile-street, Oct. 18, at one—R. Mitchell, merchant, Lime-street, Oct. 18, at two—J. Brett, carrier, Bury St. Edmund's, Oct. 18, at half past twelve—T. Bennett, timber merchant, New City Cham bers, Bishopsgate- street Within, Oct. 18, at twelve—D. El stob, underwriter, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Oct. 18, at eleven—J. Moutrie, music seller, Bristol, Oct. 18, at half past one—J. B. King, merchant, Newgate-street, Oct. 29, at twelve—G. T. Peers, plumber, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, Oct. 21, at twelve-9J, J. Brown, grocer, Bury St. Edmund's, Oct. 21, at one. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. A very valuable Parliamentary paper has just been issued from the Vote-office, for which the public are indebted to a motion of Mr. Hasne's, made on the Bth of August last. No document could have been better calculated to exhibit tha present condition of the several main branches of our Indian, Colonial. and general American trade than this. Under the heading of " Exports and Imports," it exhibits an account of " the declared value of the various articles of British produce and manufactures exported to the British West India Colonies, for each of the past five years, ending the sth day of January, 1845, with the rate of duty imposed on each article in the colonies ; and of the quantities of the principal articles of the growth and manu facture of the British West India Colonies imported into the United Kingdom; and of the quantities cleared for home consumption, and the rate of duty charged upon each arti cle, &c. ; also the number of ships, distinguishing British and Foreign, with their tonnage that have entered and cleared for the British West India Colonies from the United Kingdom during the same period." From this well-digested mass of statistics, it results that the aggregate value of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported in 1840 was 3,574,970/. ; in 1844, 2,451,477/. ; showing a de crease in our exports to our West India colonies on the latter, as compared with the former year, of 1,123,493/. This aggre gate decline in 1841 improved in 1842; again in 1843, when it reached the amount of 1840 by less than 700,0001. In looking over the articles which compop these exports we have been struck by the general precision of the relations which they bear to the transition state of these colonies in their progress from slavery to freedom. It is painful to remark how large a decrease there is in articles necessary to the culture or the manufactur ing processes of the principal staple products of these islands, and also to those commodities of luxury or refinement which were till within these few years so largely exported from this country for the enjoyment or consumption of the planters and proprietors. On the other hand, it is at once curious and satisfactory to remark how marked an increase has gradually manifested itself in our exports of those arti cles, not, as heretofore, almost exclusively of necessity, but of what may be called coarse luxury and finery, such as we may well suppose would be among the most favourite and the earliest gratifications of a newly enfranchised race of a rude people. To begin with this last class of exports first, we find, accordingly, a decided increase in "apparel, slops, and haberdashery." In 1840 they were 231,0001. odd ; in 1844, 244,437/. Of manual instruments, within the same period, the exports rose from 5,9511. to 7,045/. Of perfumery (always extravagantly prized by the negro races), from 7,466/. to 9,543/. Earthenware of all sorts, 33,000/. odd to 35,700/.. Against this pleasant glimpse of improvement we must place, with pain, such significant indi cations of decaying tillage and impoverished means on the part of the planters as we fear these must be taken for which follow. The decline on the declared value of our exports to the same colonies in manure was from 9,459/. to 5,850/ ; oil cake, 8,747/. to 7,298/. ; lime, 7,5371. to 6,917 ; bacon and hams, 39,4921. to 20,931/. ; beef and pork (the most enormous decrease on any of the items), from 104,6181. to 15,8771., or 650 per cent. on the five years. Then cabinet and upholstery ware dropped from 15,814/. in the year 1840, to 9,6781. in 1845. Butter and cheese from 111,8081. to 64,707/. Beer and ale from 81,6891. to 57,923/. Cordage from 19,007/. to 15,301/. Cotton manufactures, including cotton yarn, from 1,234,687/. to 637,962/. Linen manufactures and yarn from 332,041/. to 217,071/. Plate, plated ware, watches, &c. ' from 23,223/. to 13;1221. Silk manufactures from 36,2301. to 25,078/. Woollen manufactures and yarn from 90,916/. to 78,695/. Then there is a fall in brass and copper manufactures in the same period of some 12,000/. ; in coals, calm, and cinders, of more than 11,000/. ; in machinery and millwork, of 20,000/. (this item in 1840 was 44,388/., last year only 24,1100 ; in painters' colours, of 5,000/. ; tin and pewter wares, and tin-plates, of 2,0001. These are, all of them, commodities which in a sounder con dition of our West India trade ought to have shown a large rate of increase instead of such a fearful diminution. In addi tion to the very few items of "improvement," we scarcely know whether we ought to take account of so ugly as item as apothecary wares, which have gradually expanded from 18,1231. to 20,3851. " Hardware and cutlery " has risen from 70,8791. to 77,529/. Our imports from these colonies, for the same term, show some contra dictory results which it is not very easy to reconcile. For example, whilst cocoa, at a duty of 2d. and a fraction per lb., rose from 2,045,244 lbs. in 1840, to 2,583,400 lbs. in 1845, at just half that duty per lb., coffee, which, at a duty of 6d. and, a fraction per lb., was imported to the extent of nearly ten millions of pounds in 1840, and upwards of ten millions and a half in 1841, last year, at the diminished duty of 4d. and a fraction, had rapidly run down to 7,712,211 lbs. only, in contempt of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the poli tical economists, and every b o d y e l se who bad predicted a concurrent rise of consumption with lowering of the duty. In like manner, in 1840 we imported of ginger, from these colonies 7,935 cwt., at the d u ty o f Il s . 6 3-sd. per cwt., but directly this duty was reduced to ss. 3d., in 1842, the import fell to 5,068 cwt. It is now so far recovered as to have been, last year, 6,100 cwt. The rum imported in 1840 was 3,772,047 gallons, of which there were entered, for home consumption, 2,498,255 gallons. In 1844 these quantities were, respectively, only 2,506,941 and 1,987,970 gallons (this latter quantity exclusive of 104,793 gallons East and West India rum vatted together). Sugar shows an increase in the same period of about 50,000 cwt., at the duty of 11.55. 2 2-sd. per cwt. Upon the whole, these statistics of our trade with the British possessions in the West Indies appear not only unsatisfactory, but alarming. We shall soon hare occasion, however, to recur more largely to this interest ing point. The return of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United Kingdom to the East India Com pany's territories and Ceylon is far more encouraging. The aggregate in 1840 was 6,023,192/. (declared- value) ; for 1844 it was 7,695,606/. The importations from, and exportations to China, present an interesting feature in the document. The articles of British and Irish produce and manufactures, exported from the United Kingdom to China, consisted of apparel, slops, and haberdashery, arms and ammunition, beer and ale, printed books, brass and copper manufactures, cotton manufactures, cotton yarn, earthenware of all sorts, glass, hardware, and cutlery, iron and steel, lead and shot, linen manufactures, pickles and sauces, plate, plated ware, ewellery and watches, stationery, tin, and pewter, wares and tin plates, woollen manufactures, and other articles. There h as b een a great increase in the last year. The following figures show the aggregate value of British and Irish produce and manu factures during the five years :-1840, 524,198/. ; lB4l, 862,570/. ; 1842, 969,381/. ; 1843,!1,456,1081.; 1844, 2,305,617/. The declared value of hardware and cutlery exported last year was 16,281/. The exportations have increased since the establishment of the tariff with China in a surprising manner, and must have given a great impetus to trade. The articles imported from China are likewise iven. Of course the article " tea" is a great feature in the list. For the five years the following return is given :-1840, 22,576,4051b5.; 1841, 27,639,8171b5. ; 1842, 37,409,5441b5. ; 1843, 42,779,265 lbs. ; 1844, 51,754,4851b5. The quantities entered for home consumption are for the years respectively 31,009,9661b5., 33,588,1221b5., 36,003,4671b5., 38,686,2621b5., and 40,118,782 lbs. The rate of duty charged is 2s. 2 1 ,4 d. per lb. In the accounts rendered of shipping, it appears, with respect to China, that the vessels that have entered and cleared for China from the United Kingdom, in the last two years, ending in January last, -numbered, as "entered inwards" in 1844, was 84, and in 1845 104, British ; and "cleared out wards," in 1844, 73 ; and in 1845, 78 British ; and of foreign there were 3in 1844, and sin 1845. Our exports to the Mau ritius in the same term had declined from 325,812/. to 285,6501., whilst those to the British North American Colonies increased from 2,874,913/. to 3,070,861/. A bad account, indeed, is shown of exports to New South Wales and the Australian Colonies. In 1840 they reached 2,004,3831. In 1844 they went down to 744,0604 Our export trade to the United States, after declining from its amount in 1840 (viz. 5,283,0207.) by nearly the sum of 2,300,000/. in 1842, had risen at the close of the last commercial year to 7,038,079/. Our trade to Cuba stood as 514,782/. in 1840 ; at the end of 1844 it was 654,214/. To Brazil, it was in the first year of the same term 2,625,863/. ; in the last, 2,413,538/. ; to Mexico and the States of Central and South America we exported, in 1840, to the amount of 3,576,357/. ; in 1844, to 3,013,267/. HOP INTELLIGENCE. BURWASIL—Hop-picking commenced here on Tuesday last, and will be general in this neighbourhood to-morrow. It is now beyond doubt that the crop has been, by many of our planters, much over-estimated. Almost every planter who has begun is inquiring for more pickers, his usual number of hands being insufficient to supply his oast daily with the re quisite quantity of hops. " We can't get on at all," say the pickers, "the hops don't rise, they are so small—so very small." The sweeping winds of the last week have done an amount of injury in the gardens, to which the farmers and labourers here say they do not remember a parallel. Great numbers of labourers, male and female, are employed daily, propping up poles and gathering up the large quantities of scattered hops. A common expression with us is, " Depend upon it, these winds have blown away twenty thousand duty." FARNIIAM.—It is said the crop of hops is never safe until .aey are picked and dried ; and so it would appear this year, for where there is a tolerable crop they have been sadly knocked about by the tempestuous weather which prevailed from the 15th to the 18th inst.; this must much detract from the quantity to be picked in the Farnham district ; the wind was so violent that many branches have been blown off, and thousands of poles blown down. The picking would have begun on the 15th generally, but many have waited until the violence had abated on the 19th. There has been no mould throughout the year; bu: of the Aphilice, they have now laid prostrate the foliage of many trees, assisted by the ed with the decayed and winds. The gardens are carP,'.l in fected leaves, and the poles are as If plain wires were twisted up them; and this appearance occurs more particularly in the deep rich learns of the vale of Farmi,.lm, always called the best grounds in the district. HEATICFIELD.—The all-absorbing topic of convezlaation at our market on Thursday last was the wet and boisi:Vrous state of the weather during that day and the few previoQs ones, and the consequent havoc and dismantlement of the hop plantations, whereby each garden, without exception, is truly emblematical of a field of battle, with the slain, maimed, and wounded, lying cross and pile in all directions. The decrease of duty on this account was variously esti mated at from 20,0001. to 30,0001., and there were those who, in consideration of the immediate and premature pick ing that must ensue, even ventured an opinion of 40,000/. de crease. Mr. James Relf's choice garden of pockets are of. good condition, and weigh well. One of them weighed 1 cwt. 2 qrs. 27 lbs., and required 66 or 67 bushels to the cwt. Far different will it be with the backward sorts. ITORSMONDEN.—The beautiful appearance whic h our hop gardens presented last week has vanished, and a scene of de vastation now presents itself, the wind having committed ter rible ravages. Thousands o f p oles are torn down in this parish, and the crop must be lessened to a great extent. Picking has become general, but they do not answer the ex pectations of the planters, being smaller and difficult to pi c k, consequ ently great difficulty is experienced in supplying the oasts. Duty here is now estimated at 155,0001. RYE.—The hop-picking has partially commenced in this neighbourhood, and in a few days will become general. Th e violent gales dttring Tuesday, Wednesday, and 'Thursday last, did considerable damage. in some of the pl an t at i ons, and it i; conjectured will materially affect the d u t y. W4DITURST.—The heavy gales of last week phave in our com pletely changed the appearan ce o f th e ho gardens neighbourhood : those ground s th at a week ago looked like growing from 10 to 15 cwt. per acre, will now in many in stances come down from 7 to 10 cwt. per acre. So great is the havoc in .our parish, that we think if other plantations are injured in *portion . , the duty must come short of last week's quotation from 20,0001. to 30,0001. Picking will become general to - morrow. —Sussex AdOrtiser. RAILWAY SPECULATION IN BIJI PR"RE" " o ur last number several new railway pro miNfitlAM.—Sflltlheeem directly, and others not very remotely Y w c ith . liirmi_nglitun, have made their appearance, of names of well known wealth and under t influence, affordin; a fair guarantee for the bona ite•oents'nencthine gnat ices fide character of the undertakings with which the gen tlemen referred to are associated. The prospectuses of most of these new comp: mks, and others of national and local importance, appear its four columns to-day, and in the present state of public feeling, acd the general disposition to make investments in railways, we know of no matter which will engross a larger share of attention,- or be perused with deeper interest by the - commercial and monied classes in our town and district. The " Railway Fever," as it may be termed, has fairly laid hold of Birmingham. All classes of tradesmen, and all grades and professions, are embarking their disposable capital in these adventures; many with a view to permanent investment in local lines, but the greater number,lwe need scarcely say, with the object of reaping immediate benefit by successful speculation. To all we would repeat the caution which we offered last week, look well to the character, station, and respectability of the parties whose names appear in the undertakings in which you propose to embark your money. We give in another column a short notice of the new lines which have made their appearance since our last, and we shall continue our notices next week.—Birrninghaat Journal. A TOBACCO TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—A Tobacco Temperance Society has, it Is announced by the Spanish journals, been formed at Soria, the object of which Is to put an end to smoking. Persons of all classes, who prove that they have been constant smokers up to the time of their applications tcr become members, are admitted, and receive a ticket, on which is written, " Thou shalt smoke no more ;" and every infraction of this injunction is subject to a penalty of 13 maravedis (about 15 centimes). To insure the object of the society, each member is bound to accuse another, if he break the rule. Every meeting commences with a mutual inspection of hands, pockets, and clothes, and an olfactory test of the breath, to be practised by each member upon his neighbour. The produce of the fines is to be laid out in subscriptions for journals ; but as there are yet only fourteen members, and the taste of the Spaniards for cigars and cigarets is so deeply rooted, it can never be expected that thiS ;lumber will De greAtV ...24XPEDITIOUS TILE -MAKING.—At Fergusshill Tile work, parish of Kilwinning, twenty-four thousand tiles per day can be made by a single acting machine, attended by five men. The machine was made by Mr. James M'Nab Old Toll, Ayr. The clay receives no more preparation than it did previous to the adoption of the machine at said tile wo#c.—ilyr Observer, STATISTICS OF THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS. There has appeared at Leip zic (says the Constitution nel) a very interesting work on " the actual organisa tion of the Company of Jesus." The information which it discloses (founded upon documents, says the writer, which have been obtained for the majorpart at the prico of considerable sacrifices, which he was obliged to make in order to secure their authenticity), upon the position of the Jesuits in various parts of the world, has never before been published in so complete a form. The diffe rent establishments of the order are variously called. There are the Houses of Profession, which possess no property, and in which the father Jesuits —the professed of the order, live in common. The Residences are esta blishments of less importance, and have the right of possessing property. The Houses, properly so called, are embryo establishments in countries where the Com pany has tried to penetrate. The missions are formed by isolated Jesuits, who feel their way. A mission be comes by degrees, by the adjunction of new members, a college, or a nursery, for the Company, or a home of probation, or a residence. The seminaries are the spe cial establishments in which the Society gives its theo logical instruction. The members may be divided into three great classes :-Ist, the Priests, amongst whom are all the professed ; 2d, the Scholars and the Novices ; and 3d, the Brothers occupied in domestic services and with the material cares of the establishments. In 1626, eighty-six years after the foundation, and under its sixth General, Mutius Vitelleschi, the Company reckoned 29 provinces in Europe, viz., 4 in Italy, 2 in Sicily, 1 in Sardinia, 5 in Spain, 5 in France, 3 in Belgium, 1 in Scotland, 1 in Ireland, 5 in Germany, and 2 in Poland. Out of Europe it had established 5 residences in the Turkish dominions, 2 provinces in the East Indies, lin the Philippines, 1 in China, 1 in Japan, and sin America. These provinces contained 803 esta blishments, thus classed :-26 houses of profession, 222 residences, 51 places of probation, 48 seminaries, 542 colleges, and 71 missions. The monopoly of teaching was then almost everywhere in their hands by means of the colleges. They nacl ion coll,ge. in Spain, 79 in France, 91 in Germany, 36 in Belgium, and 29 in Po land. The number of members of the Company was 15.493, of whom 13,369 were in the provinces of Europe. The order continued from year to year to progress. In 1749, they had 89 houses of profession, 669 colleges, 61 places of probation, 176 seminaries, 335 residences, 273 missions. The personnel amounted to 22,589 members, of whom 11,239 were priests. The documents relative to the following years are not so complete. On the sup pression of the order by Pope Clement XIV., in 1773, most of those papers were destroyed. Notwithstanding the Papal bull, the Society continued to exist openly in Russia. The chiefs, in the interval. and until 1805, when the order was re-established by a bull of Pope Pius VII., assumed (instead of the name " General ") the title of " Vicars-General in White Russia." It is now forty years since the Company has been re-consti tuted in an official manner. Its progress was at first slow and concealed. Towards the end of the Restora tion (of the elder Bourbons) the order was beginning to raise its head and to assume the boldest attitudes ; but the revolution of 1830 arrested it in its progress. It dis appeared again, waiting till the storm should pass away. It soon resumed its confidence, and it now openly pro claims its intention to reassume all the influence which it possessed in the days of its splendour. The check which the popular will, energetically expressed, has just made it undergo in France, will not discourage it, or cause it to relinquish its projects. The struggle will continue under another form. In and out of Europe the Society of Jesus actually possesses fourteen provinces —those of Rome, Sicily, Naples, Spain, Paris, Lyons, Belgium, England, Austria, Ger many, Ireland, Maryland, and Missouri. The order reckoned in these provinces, on the first of January, 1838, 173 establishments, and 3,067 members ; on the Ist of January, 1841, 211 establishments, and 3,565 members ; on the Ist ofJanuary, 1844, 233 establish ments, and 4,133 members. Thus in the space of six years there has been an increase of sixty establishments and 1,066 members. In 1844 the increase was still more rapid. In the seven provinces of Rome, Sicily, Turin, Paris, Lyons, and Belgium, the only ones con cerning which the official accounts has reached Rome, the order had an accession from the Ist of January, 1844, to the Ist of January, 1845, of 394 new members. Indeed the reception of new members had become so numerous, that Father Rothaan, the General of the Order, has deemed it necessary, in a circular to the provincials, dated March, 1844, to point out the dangers of so rapid an increase. The province of Rome reckoned, on the Ist January, 1845, 702 Jesuits. It is at Rome that the General of the Order resides, and in that city are con centrated the principal establishments. The Company has there its more important house of profession, and a college specially destined to form priests fur Germany. It has besides, at Rome, a college and a residence; a place of probation, properly so called; a place of proba tion of the third degree; a school for noble boarders; and a seminary where missionaries are brought up for the Society of the Propagation of the Faith. The other establishments of the province of Rome are generally colleges, by means of which the Jesuits have the complete control of the education of the youths. In the province of Sicily the order is most flourishing, as also in those of Naples and Turin. In the province of Spain its estab lishments have been disorganised by the political events of which that country has been made the theatre. On the Ist of January, 1845, there were 113 Jesuits located in some of the large towns of Spain. There were besides, 90 Jesuits belo ng i ng t o th e same province, but they had retired into other countries. This province pos sesses a college and residence at Nivelles, in Bel gium, and a residence at Aire, in France. This province has, in South America, residences in Paraguay, Uruguay, La Plata, the Brazils, New Granada, and Chili. The province of Paris consists of Paris and of the North of France. On the Ist of Janu ary, 1841, this province contained 291 Jesuits, and on the Ist of January, 1845, 420 Jesuits. It had residences and seminaries at Paris, St. Acheul, Strasburg, Nantes, and many other cities and towns. As the colleges are not open to them in France, they found one at the very entrance of the kingdom, viz., at Brugelette, in Belgium, and it depends on the province of France. This province has besides missionaries in Canada and China, and two establishments in North America. The province of Lyons comprises the South of France. It contained 290 Jesuits in 1841, and 446 on the Ist of January, 1845. There were residences, &c., at Lyons, Aix Bordeaux, and the principal towns of the South. This province had also Jesuits in Algeria, and missionaries in the East Indies, in the Island of Madura, on the north-east of Java, in Syria, and in Ma dagascar. The province of Belgium is one of the most flourishing at this moment. There were 319 Jesuits in 1841, and 472 in 1845. They have colleges at Alert, Antwerp, G and, Brussels, &c. &c., besides residences. This province has missions in Holland, and also in Gua timala (recently suppressed). The province of England comprised 140 Jesuits in 1841, and 164 in 1844. They have here 33 establishments, viz., houses, colleges, resi dences, or else simple missions. They venture to show them selves less openly in England than in other countries. The colleges take here the names, not of the towns, but of saints, such as St. Ignatius, St. Thomas of Canterbury, &c. &c. Their principal establishment in the college and seminary of Stonyhurst, in Yorkshire, where there are 20 priests, 26 novices, and 14 brothers. The province of England has twenty missionaries at Calcutta. The English Government protects them as well as the Pro testant missionaries, when they are able to serve its mer cantile views in that part of the world, and at this mo ment it is helping them to found a new college, specially destined for China. The province of Austria had 268 Jesuits in 1841, and 310 in 1844. It has col leges in various cities. The province of Germany chiefly consists of Switzerland. There were several Jesuits in 1841 in Bavaria. At Dresden, the con fessor of the late king was a Jesuit. The Company of Jesuits is waiting for the time alien it may under take the re-conquest of Germany, and it exercises mean while its influence in that country by means of the German college established at Rome, for forming secular priests to be spread throughout Germany, Hungary, and Switzerland. Between 1822 and 1842, 125 of these priests have been sent into Germany, and 64 into Swit zerland. The vice-province of Ireland reckoned 63 Jesuits in 1841, and 73 in 1844. They have in Ireland three colleges. The province of Maryland comprises establishments in Colombia, Maryland, Massachussets, and Pennsylvania. The numbers were 109 in 1841, and 121 in 1844. The vice-province of Missouri comprises the establishments of Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, the Rocky Mountains, and the neighbouring Tninf,rs possesses the colleges of St. Louis, St. Charles, The mission in the Rocky Mountains consists of . five number in this province priests and six brothers. 24 in 1841, and 139 in 1844. Tota l Such is the position of this Society throughout the world. ,~-; FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, SErr. 23.—The average price of wheat in the week ending on Saturday, the 20th of September, was 23f. 15c., and that of rye 15f. 78c. The general discussion ofthe project of law relative to corn, &c., was opened in the Senate to-day, and closed in the same sitting. The Senate will proceed to •morrow with the dis cussion of the articles. The report presented by the Duke d'Ursel, in the name of the Committee charged with the examination of the law, shows that the members of the Com mittee unanimously approve it. The discussion cammenced immediately after the reading of the report. _ As in the Chamber of Representatives several members dwelt on the necessity of executing the public works already decreed, the discussion was well supported, but did not go into any details which have not already been the subject of observation in the other Chamber. The Senate will likewise proceed to the project of law for a vote of credit to finish the works of the Canal of Campine. This morning, at eight o'clock, a salute of twenty-one guns, fired by the artillery of the civic guard, and the ringing of the bells of all the churches of the capital, announced the solemnity of the first day of the anniversary of September. The gazette of Aix-la-Chapelle announces that the King of Prussia has consented to the construction of the railway from Aix-la-Chapelle to Dusseldorf by way of Herzogenrath and Gludbach. The King has also consented to a line from Cre velt to Ruhrart, and to that from Maestricht to Aix-la- Chapelle. Besides the importance of these new lines to the manufactories and trade of that part of the Rhenish pro vinces, the works will provide employment during the winter to many families, who will thus be secured against want. For these two reasons we owe much gratitude to the King for having granted these measures 'at this moment. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussns, SEPT. 24. Actual Debt, 2►% per Cent ... • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto, 1840...... Ditto, ditto, 1842 .. • • ••• • • . • • 104% Ditto of the City, 1844 ........ • • • • .... 101% Ditto, 1843 Bank ofßelgium...... • .. ••.•••• • • • • • 735 —Brussels Papers. Sept. 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 17. 5 per Cent. Metalliques. • • ..... ........ • • 112 1-16 4 per Cent. ditto- • . 3 per Cent. ditto 77 Loan, 1834 .............. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 158% Ditto, 1839 .... Bank Shares •••• •. • ... • • 1640 Esterhazy's Loan RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • ••• • • • •• • • 223% Vienna—Milan Gloggnitz .... • .. Leghorn • • • •• • ...... • • • -.Allgemelne Zeitung, Sept. 21 ... 115% . ...... ..• •• , COACH ACCIDENT.—NARROW ESCAPE. —A few evenings ago an accident took place between the towns of Watford and Harpenden, by the upsetting of a coach which had nearly proved of serious consequences to a number of passengers. It appears that about eight o'clock the Beehive pair-horse coach, belonging to Messrs. Bryant and Seymour, had taken up a number of passengers at the Watford sta- tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, to proceed to St. Alban's and Luton, and had arrived between Harpen den and the latter, when the coachman, in carelessly and negligently taking too wide a turn to pass a cart, ran the coach upon a bank, which caused it instantly to upset, and nine outside passengers were thrown on the road with great violence. Fortunately there were no fractures or broken limbs, but two of the passengers, a lady and a gentleman, Mr. Baldwin (of the respectable firm of Baldwin and Aders, of Bishopsgate-churchyard), were seriously bruised by the fall ; however, not so much so as to prevent their proceeding on their journey. Mr. Baldwin was, however, so much bruised and shaken, that he was obliged to keep his bed for three days, but is now nearly recovered. It is his impression, from the night being moonlight and fine, that much blame is attributable to the coachman, whose name it appears is Reeves. POISONING BY COPPER.—At the present season, when preserving operations are usually in active practice, it may not be amiss to notice a subject adverted to at Guy's Hospital by Mr. Alfred Taylor, who in the course of his discourse observed upon the reprehensible practice of using poisonous substances in the manufacture of preserves. The lecturer observed that "itis a common practice for people to colour their preserved green fruits by adding to them a quantity of the sulphate or the acetate of copper, and • the presence Of either mad easily be tested by introducing into it a needle, which m a very short time will be coated • with metallic copper. Copper may also be detected in such substances by galvanism by aid of a platina capsule and a piece of zinc." In respect of using copper vessels for culinary purposes, he observes that " these vessels are liable to become Impregnated with the poison, and if common salt be pre sent, the chloride of copper is readily formed. But there is this important fact to be considered—any liquid boiled in copper vessels is only liable to be poisoned if it is allowed to cool in them, otherwise no injury is created. Copper utensils are sometimes lined with tin, but it is far better to keep them ' untinned for this season, unless they be well tinned and kept in a proper condition ; if a portion of the surface of the copper becomes exposed, the tin and the copper together will excite a galvanic action, and any acid liquid will displace the salts of the copper formed. If soups be boiled in copper vessels, it is necessary, in order to prevent any accident, to pour the soup out while hot, and allow it to cool in another vessel." THE GRAND LONDON AND DUBLIN APPROXIMA TION RAILWAY.—The project of forming a direct railway communication from London to Holyhead is not altogether new, but it has hitherto been considered to be so surrounded by difficulties, that it has been deemed all but impracticable. At no period, however, were men's minds so determinately set upon overcoming difficulties (physical as well as moral) as the pres.nt. The undertaking for uniting the two capitals, which is now contemplated, could not have been submitted to the public at a more favourable moment. The map that has been published to accompany the pros pectus, indicates very clearly the proposed line of route, and shows the great saving that will be effected in the distance from one metropolis to the other. It not less evidently demonstrates the numerous other advantages which will result from the adoption of this grand and noble scheme. From the intercourse which has already taken place between the two countries in consequence of the great works commenced in Ireland, and that which is certain to take place from those in projection, we feel fully justified in the belief that the shareholders in this railway will derive a far larger profit from their investments than from any other line in the kingdom. The Government alone will avail themselves of this railway as a vehicle for the transmission to Ireland of troops and military stores. Merchants and travellers of every description will select it as a route by far the most con venient in every.point of view, whether regarded as to cheapness, distance, or expedition. The rich and pop u l ous counties through which it will pass will have a direct inte rest in promoting it to the utmost of their power, as they will derive a corresponding advantage from its immediate con nexion with the metropolis. We cannot conclude these ob servations without expressing a sincere hope that the Directors will listen to no remonstrance or persuasion that would induce them to abandon that independency of character which they have thought it right to assume from any apprehension of the powerful opposition they may meet with from different com panies, and be thereby prevailed upon to unite themselves with interests which would at once mar the integrity of the scheme. They may be assured that so long as they hold out such certain prospects of advantage as this line offers to the public, they will receive, as they are well entitled to do, public support and confidence, and we do not hesitate to say that the sanction of the Legislature will be obtained, not withstanding the most factious opposition to a scheme fraught with such manifest advantages to the nation at large. The shareholders will then have no reason to repent their having lent their aid in furtherance of a great national un dertaking, and we fearlessly anticipate the period, perhaps not far distant, when this Company will become one of the most powerful and lucrative associations in the kingdom. OLDHAM.—Titz FACTORY HANDS AND THEIR EM PLOYERS.—We are glad to hear that the factory hands of this town have invited their employers to a tea-party and ball, the object of which they state in their address to be, "to return to them their most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the liberal manner in which they have acceded to their re quest for an advance of wages." The festival is fixed for Monday next, and the operatives request the favour of a half holiday on that day. We trust that the effect of this meet ing may be to cement the good feeling which now exists be tween masters and men.—.3fanchester Guardian. PULMONARY CONSUMPTION —From the fourth an nual report of the Hospital for ConsureptionsaatnhderDedise,_.ase.sooff the Chest, the following s t at i st i ca l facts may be 60,000 deaths Which annually occur in England and Wales from slow and lingering disease, upwards of 35,000 are due to pulmonary consumption ; and as the duration of the disease, taking one with another, is about two years, It follows that more than 70,000 per sons are constantly suffering from consumption.'. It may be well to add that many, very many, of these poor sufferers are the acknow ledged victims of unventilated workshops, ill-constructed dwellings, long hours of work, and the want of open places for exercise and recreation. The new hospital for consumption, &c., now in the course of erection at Brompton, by those extensive builders the Messrs. Bird, of Hammersmith, will be opened for the reception of patients early in the forthcoming spring. GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE.—These few days past this market continues very animated, with an upward ttmlency in prices. Sales have been made at 85s. nett cash. At this price holders are very firm, and few disposed to accept of it. Contracts have been offered to the makers for large quantities at 80s. nett cash—say immediate payment for future delivery —which has been refused, their demands being 90s, per ton. We quote the prices of to-day as 87a. Ed. nett cash, although a few small parcels may be picked up at 853. nett—Glasgow National of Wednesday INSI7IIA.NCE COMPANIES. Name of Company. Albion • . • . Alliance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine.— .... Atlas •• • • • British Commercial .. Clericl,Mcd.&Gen.Life County .... •.•....... Crown .. Eagle .. Economic Life ... Eng. & Scot. Law Life European Life .. • . Freemasons' .. • • . • • • • . Globe Guardian • . • • • • • • • • • • mperial Fire • • • • • • • • Imperial Life. • • • • • . • • Indemnity Marine Law Life .. Legal and General Life London Fire .. London Ship Marine .... Med. Invlid & Gen. Life National Loan Fund National Life.... Palladium Life Plicenix • • • • Protector Life .... .... Provident Life .. .. .. Rock Life .. Royal Exchange Sun Fire .. ..... .. Ditto Life Universal Life ..... Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. 31. 10s 6 per cent. 6/. per cent, 13s. 6d. pr 7s. per share 5/. per cent. 31. r 9s. and 61.55. bs. 6s. 5'5 per ct., t & 30s.bs. j 51. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. per cent. 5/. per cent. 121. per cent.l 11. sh. & bs. IL ss. 10s. 10s. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 8!. per cent. 5/. per cent. 3/. p. ct. & bs. Si. per cent. 11. ss. 51. per cent. 6/. 10s. 11. 6s. 10N/. pr £ w. 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 1000 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 20 0 0 ,00 0 0' 5 0 0 Stock. I - 100 0 raid. £ 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 9 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 6 15 0 BANK OP ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) Al\ 4 Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week eading on Saturday, the 20th day of September, 1845. ISSUE DEPABTAIENT. £. Notes issued ...... 28,798,230 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul lion ............ 12,863,507 Silverbullion... 1,934,723 £28,798,230 111.Dl Dated the 25th day of Sept 4 £28,798,230 [ARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. ember, 1845. :PARTMENT. BANKING DI X. Proprietors capita 1,14,553,000 Rest .... 3,616,685 Public deposits (in cluding _Elcche- Government secu rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) 1 3,348,643 Other securities 13,297,048 Notes 8 , 327,895 Gold and silver coin 549,319 quer, Savings banks, Commis- sioner's ofNational Debt, and divi- dend accounts) 8,222,109 Other deposits 8,110,787 Seven day and other bills 1,020,324 £35,522,905 M. MA Dated the 25th day of Septei £35,522,905 LRSHALL, Chief Cashier :mber, 1845. PROMISSORY NOTES. (From Last Night's Gazette.) An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four weeks ending the 13th day of September, 1845, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 : SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 23,341,397 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland 3,712,725 Private and Joint-Stock Banks Total JOHN THORNTON. Stamps and Taxes, Sept. 26, 1845. THE CURRENCY AT MALTA. (From a Malta Paper.) It was with the greatest satisfaction that we learnt of the renewal for the rest of the present and the whole of the en suing year, of the convention between the banks and mer chants to receive the Sicilian dollar at 4s. 2d., and also the Maria Theresa dollar at the same rate, and the Spanish dollar at 4s. 4d. We hail this measure as an example of uniformity of action between the British and native merchants, which we trust will be followed in future on all similar occasions, whence no little good must result to this community. We hail it as a proof that the bank committees know far better what is bene ficial to these inhabitants, even in regard to so extended, complicated, and widely-ramified a subject as that of the currency of the island, than my Lord Stanley with all his under-secretaries. We had it as a legal act of self-defence against a Ministerial act of spoliation, adopted in a manner to convince the Minister that there are men in this colony, as well as at home, who have the courage constitutionally to resist acts of robbery which at home would not be suffered for a moment. But above all do we hail it as a conclusive proof that this island can never be well governed until it enjoys a real Council of Government, effectively representing the in habitants, and actuated by a sense of what the public good requires. Neither would such a council be wanting here for l l i e l ts a g ? so l l o hn u o o r f u i earthtime,nldgpt sh w :oe e nbs r s e t at hf t ie h nawt e eti E rth English gfßlfitorshrihtsiast rightsho jsou greaterihni e w hci i ts t Malteseh oabnni t : l i i mih e isaly does him to than he does even in a province of Turkey. eanVitylesal But, returning to our subject, some of our contemporaries are advocating, as a standard of currency, the coinage of a colonial dollar. The idea is singularly absurd! If the pro posed dollar were to be of standard silver passing at its intrinsic value, it would immediately disappear from circu lation. Every dormant capital would be replaced by it; out 1 of Malta it would be everywhere saleable; it would get dis persed in other countries where it was not current, and where, there being no incitement to send it back again to Malta, it would infallibly get melted down, and converted into the ordinary uses of bullion. If, on the contrary, such dollar were to be of an intrinsic value sufficiently less than its nominal one to keep it in the island, we should then find ourselves where we are at present with the British silver, obliged to go to the money-changer for every dollar we want for abroad, paying the difference of value between the dollars we purchase and those in which we pay for them, for surely no one would sell us dollars for less than what it would cost him to replace them. This in sub stance would be taxing Malta in favour of the mother country, as is attempted to be done at present. For the alloy of the coin would be gained by England, and lost by us in purchasing dollars for, or in paying for, articles from abroad—in which operations we could only pass them at their real value, against the foreign coin or the goods repre senting foreign coin at a nominal one. To the extent of this loss everything would rise in price, and this would be equi valent to having a currency at a discount, or in all operations aniantno y ti Ten ] axde except between the people and the Government; or, in other words, it would be having a local standard of currency mea sured by a foreign standard, so that the real standard after all would be the foreign coin, or articles imported represent ing it, and with the additional disadvantage, that the foreign coin not being current in the island, there would not be, as my Lord Stanley calls it, free access to it at all times, and therefore we should have to pay something more for it, for no one would keep it on hand for us without at least getting interest on his money. We pity the want of intellect of any one who cannot understand the absolute necessity in a place which is all the year round purchasing articles for cash f rom neighbouring States, of having a coin that is current in these States. but, above all, what a precious currency would be that (1. e., the colonial dollar) which could neither be expanded nor contracted—to which no addition could be made when a want of circulating medium was experienced, and which had no outlet when too abundant? We should wish our contem poraries to tell us what amount of colonial coinage they would recommend to be put into circulation, stating to us the data on which that amount is calculated. To do this, however, we apprehend that they would have to go into a sea of ave rages and statistics. with which they have never troubled their heads, and which would only end in showing the ab surdity of the idea of a colonial coinage. A currency without elasticity is hardly any currency at all. It cannot meet the varying wants of the community. The elasticity of a currency as produced, generally, by the representatives of value being common to all countries, so that 'supplies can be had from abroad and locally by banks and capitalists. This elasticity can never be wanting where the standard is gold at the generally established rates in bul lion markets. In Malta, it is insured by the currency in the island of certain foreign silver coins. To tie Malta down to a certain amount of a local currency, would be like setting a man to run a race in a suit of armour. We do not think it necessary to follow the subject though its other ramifications, in order to show that a local coin cannot possibly meet the wants of the island. The following is the new convention between the banks and the mercantile classes: " THE NEW MONETARY CONVENTION OF THE BANKS AND " MERCHANTS, &C., OF MALTA. We, the undersigned, presidents, . directors, and share holders, of the Anglo-Maltese and Malta Banks, and others, merchants and traders, in this island, feeling the inconve nience which arises to commerce from the legal valuation of the Spanish and Sicilian dollar established by the proclama tions of the 18th of July, 1844, and 16th ofJuly, 1845, whilst British silver money continues an unlimited legal tender (although, as compared with the legal valuation of the said coins, it is of 10 per cent. inferior worth), have resolved to continue the agreement of the 4th of March last, 'reciprocally . to receive the sa id Si c ili an d o ll ar a t 4 s . 2d. eac h , or 30 tan of Malta currency, and to extend the same, to receive reci procally the Spanish pillar dollar at 4s. 4d., or 31 taxi and 4 grains each, and the Maria Theresa dollar at 4s. 2d., or 30 taxi each. This agreement to hold good until the 31st December, 1846, unless the British or local Government should, by an authentic and legal act, ordain that no one shall be compelled to receive, in any one payment, more than 40s. of British silver, in which case the present agreement shall be considered cancelled and of no effect at the expira tion of thirty days from the date of such authentic act of Government. " And it is further understood, that unless this agreement be signed by the majority of the shareholders of the two banks, and by the majority of those who signed the agree ment of the 4th March last, it shall not be binding on the undersigned. " (Signed by the President and Directors of the Anglo- Maltese Bank.)--Samuel Christian, President; John Grant, director; S. Rose, director; Giov. Bette Vella„ director; Agostino Portelli, director; Giov. Batta Dia cono, director; Francesco S. Bugeja, director • Alex ander Davidson, director; Raphael Ferro, director; Thomas Corlett, director: " (Signed by the President, Vice-President, and Directors of the Malta Bank.)—Biagio Tagliaferro, Presidente ; John Robinson, Vice-Presidente ; W. S. Eynaud, diret tore ; Per Proc. G. Buttigieg,_ direttore; Ignazio Figlis ; Thomas Corlett, direttore ; Nicola Ataliotty, direttore ; Emmanuele Zammit, direttore; Davidson and Scerrj, direttore; W. Leonard, direttore; Raphael Ferro, diret tore; Rosario Messina, direttore; Thomas Southwood, direttore." [Here follow the signatures of a considerable number of merchants, auctioneers, dealers, shopkeepers, brokers, in surance agents, shipchandlers, innkeepers, and other British, native, and foreign traders.] A TABLE SPOON FOUND IN THE BODY OF A LwntG Cow.—A cow, the property of R. H. Blundell, Esq., of Deysbrook, has for some past been in a sickly , condition. Mr. George Kirkham, veterinary surgeon, West Derby, having been called in to give his advice, found that an abscess was forming on the left side, between the sixth and seventh ribs. Having lanced the part, he discovered the handle of a spoon protruding, and, with the aid of forceps, succeeded in extricating the instrument, which is nine inches long. The cow was first observed to be unwell about twelve months ago, and there is no doubt she swallowed the spoon about that time. It must since then have been making its way from the stomach to the position in which it was found, near to the surface of the skin. It was origi nally an iron-plated spoon, but the gastric juice has com pletely dislodged the plating, and a portion of the iron mouth of the spoon has also been dissolved by the same powerful agent. What remains is almost as thin as a wafer. The cow is now in a fair way of recovery. The operation was skilfully , pezformed in about ten minutes.— Gkisgow Courier. 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