The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AN D CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,500 American were taken for export and on.tspeculation. The market closed firmly without alte ration in prices, except American, at Md. to 6±d.,, which were Id. per lb. higher. The sales comprised 6,500 American, 300 Pernam an Maranham a t bid. to 7-id., 30 Bahia at 6 d., 200 Egyptian at 6-id. to 81d., 700 Surat at 20. to 4-id., and 40 t Sea Island at ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per lb. Railway S Jlares were dull at lower prices. A vessel, the Undine, hr is arrived from Van Die man's Land. She brings dates to June 16, but whether there is any gold on board is not yet as certained. In the accounts from M mico there is some inte resting information respec sing the grant of land to the American Company, and Mr. Gadsden's in structions thereon. The Eco del Comercio of Vera Cruz, observes : " "We already intimated, in our editorial of the day before yesterday, that if the good result of the mission which the American Minister proposes to affect at this government is to influence th e harmony and concord of the relations which exist between Mexico and the re public of the North, we see that it is very possible those relations-may alter, because the projected propositions can by no means be made agreeable to Mexico. "In the first place the concession of a strip of our territory at the thirty-second degree of latitude, for the purpose of constructing for the United States a railroad to put them in communication with their possessions in California, presents inconveniences of such a nature that the imaginary advantages of which the use and profit of the road -would be in common to both countries neither offer nor can offer an adequate compensation to the prejudicial effects which Mexico would sustain, even without referring to the question of many accessory complications, but supposing the proposition limited to the concession of the land. "The Echo then proceeds to grant, that under the faithful administration of the affairs of the road the government of Mexico, in common with that of the United States, would enjoy the advantages of conduct ing troops, correspondence, baggage, provisions, and anything else required for the public service, at half the usual rates, as well as other advantages. But on the other hand it contends : "With the cession of the land for the railroad the government would not secure advantages for Mexicans. Our relations with the northern republic by land are reduced to nothing, and it cannot be otherwise when Mexico wants interior roads by which to convey, at little cost and with speed, the products of the United States consumed in our country. . . "And it proceeds to argue that as at present, neither by way of Matamoros nor through El Paso, foreign imports are introduced into Mexico, for the reason just assigned, so they would not be introduced by the rail way, but still by Vera Cruz and Tampico. " Surely here is a cause for deep reflection on the narrowness of the scope with which such a vast under taking as the Pacific Railroad is regarded in the very Country of all others whose salvation depends on the Power of its inhabitants to appreciate and prosecute corresponding and subsidiary undertakings. "The Eco goes on to say that for the Mexican Go ♦ernment to consent that such a people as the Americans should traverse its most thinly populated and undefended frontier, would be tantamount to consenting to the loss of the nationality of the people. That is a fear that may as readily be excused as it may be removed by ap propriate provisions. "After this the Eco overthrows its own objections as to the possibility of introducing imports into Mexico by the railway, by admitting that with all the difficulties and expense smugglers would do it to such an extent as to keep the treasury empty." The transactions in the English stock market have been principally for money, and advantage is again taken of the decline that has occurred since last week to make investments. It begins to be admitted, therefore, that an energetic course of action would not be a subject for fear, and that war has no terrors to powerful nations united as are England and France. Consols have been NI for Transfer, and 91i for Account. The present rates are about 914 -3, after having been rather sellers at 914. Bank Stock is quiet at 216 to 218. The South Sea New Annuities realise 1004. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 92s to I, and the Three per Cents. 901 to 905. Exchequer Bills have been quoted 4s. to Bs. premium, and India Bonds ss. discount. In the Foreign Bonds there is very little doing. Mexican are steady at 24, and Equador have risen to 51 Chilian Six per Cents. have been quoted 1001, Buenos Ayres 58, and Brazilian New Four and-a-Half per Cents. 961. Spanish New Deferred Stock is worth 211. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 631. In English Railway Shares there has been much less doing, and the quotations, consequently, pre sent no change of importance. Great Western are rather better, and also Caledonian ; South-West ern are somewhat feeble. Norfolk are well sus tained. The French lines have been steady, al though not active. Namur and Liege are well supported. The Australian Gold Mine Shares have been quiet. The Imperial Brazilian have advanced. The shares of the Australian Agricultural Land Company are still in request. The Peel River also are good. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List. ) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. ..... 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9IH 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 3i per Cent. Annuities 92 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 5-16 3-16 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto under £lOOO 5 d 4 p South Sea New Annuities per Cent. Annuities, 1751 looa, Console for Account Exchequer Bills, 2d. £l000 £5OO 4 8 p Small 4 8 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per t'eut Ditto New, 1852, 4 4 per Cent 96.E Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5B Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. Equador Bonds Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St Ditto 44 per Cent 97 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2li Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil 634 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 9li i Ditto October A ceount 9l I MARKET NEWS-(THIS' DAY.) COLONIAL. - - - SUGAR. —There are no public sales to-day, but the market looks rather heavy. Refined low brown lumps are 44s &I to 455, and scarce. A car g o of yellow Havana, No. 114, has been sold at 22s 9d. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was, 1,569 hhds, 135 tierces, 779,barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,405 hhds, 151 tierces, 736 barrels. The stock in the same places is, 13,327 hhds, 2,169 tierces, 4,552 barrels. COFFEE.—There is no change. Native Ceylon is at 46s to 46s 6d per cwt. COTTON.—This article is in more demand, and firmer. Rini.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was, 436 puns, 15 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 210 puns, and exported, 65 Pon% 8 hhds. Tho stock in the same places is, 9,306 puns, 461 hhds. RICE.—Of 1,740 bags Bengal offered by auction, only 410 bags sold at 15s to 15s 6d, the rest being taken in at 16s to 16s 6d for fine. 1,730 bags Madras were all taken in at 13s 6d to 14s, and a few lots at 14s 6d for pinky and C°rrioga grain. SALTPETRE.---At auction 1,750 bags Bengal partly sold at 303 to 30s 6d for fine, 11 to 3A per cent. refraction. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 58s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 62s Gd. TE-L—The market is firm. HAY MARKETS. ---------- SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ lOs to 5/ 15s ; clover d itto, 4/ lOs to 61 68 ; and straw, 11 102 to 2/ Os per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. ~,C UM BERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to 5/ 15s; cloves r. "op 4/ 8s to Cl O s ; an d s t r aw, 1/ 12s to 2/ 2s per lead. ' ll Pply but mo d era t e , an d t ra de firm. ditto, hay, 3/ 103 to Si 15s ; clover (4 ,r t a t d o e , 4l 0s at 08to 1 6 a / t 6 e s rt ; a a e n s. d straw, 1/ 12s to 2/ 2s per load. ASSESSED TAXES.—It has been erroneously stated that the reduced duties on servants take effect from the 10th inst., the fact being that they come into operation and not u at the begntilinning of th e nex t fiscal year (April 6, 1854), then. ODESSA.—The advices from Odessa report continued firmness in grain. Freights were enormously high, as much as 255. per quarter being paid for wheat. THE CHOLERA IN /VIILLBANIC PRlSON.—Yesterday Atr. Bedford held two inq ues t s on t h e b o di es o f H annah lt ,eady aged 63, an d J o h n Albi n, aged 24, both convicts, wh o had died of cholera in the gaol—the former after an illness of only two hours and a half's duration. From the evidence it appeared that every assistance that medi cal skill could devise was rendered to the deceased ; and a verdict of " Died from Asiatic Cholera" was returned ill both cases. CLOSING OF THE PRESTON MILLS. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. (From the Northern Daily Times.) On Saturday afternoon the various mills in Preston and its vicinity, in which the notices to the hands had expired, were closed, and upwards of 15,000 additional persons are thus left without employment. On Friday and Saturday, no less than 36 mills were closed, and if we add the number closed for a few weeks previously (10), we have a grand total of 46 mills now absolutely closed, and in which there is an entire suspension of manufacturing operations. There are yet running four mills, which are under notice to close, so that in a few days the number of mills closed will be upwards of 50, only eight mills in the whole district continuing opera tions. The number of mill hands at Preston is estimated at about 30,000, and the number who are now walking about the streets of Preston without employment is set down at from 20,000 to 25,000 persons. The amount of wages paid weekly at the various mills now closed is stated to have been from 12,0001. to 13,0001. The immediate withdrawal of so large an amount must operate very injuriously on the trade and general business of the town. To enable the large number of human beings who are now without employment to exist, the committee of the operative union proposes to pay them weekly a sum of 4,0001., and they allege their funds are sufficiently strong to enable them to continue this payment for some weeks. In the meantime dele gates are to be deputed to visit all the principal towns in the kingdom, to solicit assistance from the operative classes of those towns, to enable those of Preston to prolong their struggle with their employers and to compel them, if possible, to yield the 10 per cent. on present prices. Thus far we have indications of an obstinate and ruinous struggle, rendered less likely to be brought to an amicable or speedy conclusion by a strong belief on the part of the hands that the mas ters cannot long afford to keep their mills closed, and a feeling on the part of the masters, amounting almost to a certainty, that the necessities of the hands, when without employment for a few weeks, will bring them to their senses, and induce them to submit not only to the terms which they now propose, but to any which they may then think fit to insist upon. This is the present position of the unfortunate mis understanding, which has arisen between the employers and the employed at Preston, and until either party succumb, or some arrangement is come to, even supposing the union is enabled to continue the payment of 4,0001. per week, the business operations of the town must suffer to the extent of 8,0001. per week, or in the ratio of the very large sum of 400,0001. per annum. The pro spective loss of this sum and the difficulties in which it must involve shopkeepers and others have necessarily caused a great deal of excitement amongst persons in business, and they are not slow to attach blame to all parties who have taken any part in producing the present crisis. The general feeling, however, seems to be that, if some slight concessions on immaterial points on the part of the masters and men were made, the strike, or rather " lock out," as it is now called, might be speedily terminated, and busiuess allowed to resume its usual course. On the other hand, the operative classes, not alone of Preston, but of several towns in Lancashire, Cheshire, &c., are favourable to the course taken by the " lock-outs," and have determined to support them to the last. So far as the trade of Preston is concerned, this was clearly exemplified on Friday evening, when a meeting was held at the Far mers' Arms, at which 15 trades were represented, com prising steam-engine-makers, boiler-makers, mechanics, tin-plate workers, stonemasons, bricklayers, joiners, flaggers, slaters, &c. An unanimous resolution come to was, to support the lock-outs to the best of the ability of the various trades, and a form of placard was drawn up, announcing to the publio the determination of va rious trades to do so. After the closing of the mills on Saturday, owing to the extreme wetness of the day, no demonstration on the part of the " lock-out " hands took place, but in the afternoon the bell-man was sent round, who an nounced that a meeting of the weavers would be held at the Temperance Hall at four o'clock. Should this morn• ing, however, prove fine, a monster meeting is to be held on the Marsh, Preston. The amount of steam power now idle exceeds 2,000 horses, and the dispute is stated to have resulted from a difference relative to the payment of 1/. per week in a small mill. STATE OF TRADE. SBA BE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Business this day. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. 100 8. 'Aberdeen ... Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junct Binning. Wolverh. di Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. dr Cheshire Juuct 20 - 21 4 - 44 8t - 94 all 100 all 100 184 100 100 all all 45 all Do. Chesh. dr Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20. . . ... Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Chester I.D Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass. Dubliu&BelfastJunc. Dundee Perth &Aber - deco Junction Do. New 13 —ll dial 16 18 5i 4t 93 —9 5 cl I 49 50 15 16 13 15 1649 i i 9 i 131 i all all all all all 100 , East Anglian.... Do., (XIS E & H) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A 43 - ii 7i - 83 4.t 4i 3 at lli —12 f, 36 40 27 29 1 4t 12 11i 100 8i 100 Stock Do., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June— . Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (I re ) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash.andYorksh. Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern si - 6 58 7- e;ti 594 9 22 ii. - ii 74 - 75 SO 52 124 - 126 99 - 101 71 -80 i 74i 51 2 125 100} 1 1001 80 i i 100 100 181 9i all i London & N. West. Gt.Wcstn Do L.&N.W. Caleclon.. 98 - 102 48 - 50 Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y.&NBid Do 138 -142x411 30 - 32 I 107 109' 531; —5 4 i 27 - 28 13i —14 i 214 —2N.,xcl IS. Easterni l Do !Norfolk.. L.& N. W. & Midld. Stekton Darlingt. Midland.. E. Count Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk D 0... IGtNorthn Do Lancash&' Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do 50 16i St. 20 2i - 3 98 : 100 59 - 61 140 - 145 138 - 142 83 881 10 12p 1 61 - 62 5 —7idi 12 124; dis 2 lid pm 62 1 2 iGtWesi 50 20 1 lli 10 Liv. Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. &Sthend. Loud. Bright &S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B 0 London and S. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.& Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland 76 7i par Ipm 93 95 d 102 t —102 t r 74 76 13 —12 d 12 —11 d 50 40 25 25 LOO 423 , 34 i all all .0 1021 3 2i 8128 184 -- 194 -a, 584 ... 33 -- 35 29 - 30 95 -- 100 Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilian Imp.(issued 10s.1 10 20 30 20 1 40 Do. Birmng. & Derby Midld. G. West . (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do., Bury Extension Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk Northn.Counties North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Bi i mg Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Steele Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; Do. Halves,q e. Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Du 58j i i 6i 25 50 20 4il 17? 7i all at £5 pica Do. Comes 6i Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Cobre Copper Colonial 20 20 10 St. 171 all 10 100 St. St. St. St. 1100 100 1 100 1100 50 -- 53 i d -- par 51— 4dl 47 50 4 3d 25i ... 26i 8 101 15 all all all Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. Vs p. cent English and Austrin Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein Do. Registered Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty 'Linares Lond.&Californ.Goldl 2 7 6A 7# par 2 pi Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Americn New Granada Nouveau Monde ES. I— d— p a r t i Ipm lid * d "4i 21 I * Od —Od 4 d f ar * d 7 9 4 5 2 2i 33i —34 i id par 42 44 lo} 1 P 55 65 5 7pxd 2, 1 , - 3 14 - 16 * - i P 2dl I ( 1 1 d 94 61 71 i d—__ is; 36 - 38 87 - 89 55 - 57 62 - 64 60 -- 65 2i -- lid 15 -- 17 11 -- 13 21 -- 2id 14 -- 16 57} -- 583 34 -- 35 all all 6,1 all 100 all 1 15 1 4 2. 4 I 58 i Nova Scotia Mining and Copper Smeltg Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South Australian , Tin Croft United Mexican aller West Granada est Mariposa Yuba 30 1 10 23k .•• • d • k d-- Do Stockton & Hartlepl.l Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. St Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall. Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 21s. 100 20 111 100 i - -1 n - 3i 14 15 i* = i* 61 62 44 4 ott il 44i -45 A 61 2 71 45 i all all 15 10i all 33 - 41 —id 5 - 7 3i 1 - d JOINT-S BANKS. 2i 50 50 100 20 1E SHARES. St. 20 St. 15 7 i'oo 99 8 Australasia British N. American Chrtd. Bnk. of India, 70 - 72 Australia, & China Colonial i d— par Commercial of Loud ' English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 2id -- lid par -- i p London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. k Westminster London Bank of Aus tralia and India ... National of Ireland.. Oriental Bank of Corporation. 22 - 24 33 - 34 43 —45 xd! 445 ad Do. New Provincial of Ireland' iDo. New The accounts of the state of business in the manufac turing towns during the past week show great general steadiness, the ill-advised strikes of the operatives having caused a limitation of production at the precise period when the markets most required a lessening of supplies. At Manchester transactions have taken place to a fair extent, and prices are without alteration. The stoppage o the mills at Preston has excluded nearly 30,000 people from employment, and the masters at Burnley and Bacup have given notice of a similar step at those places on the 28th inst., by which a still larger number will be thrown out. At Birmingham, although the quarterly meetings of the iron trade have ended without any actual advance in prices, the various firms are indis posed to take fresh orders at existing rates, the demand from all quarters being uninterrupted. The position of the coal trade still remains uncertain, owing to the pre valence of strikes, but the masters hold to their deter mination not to yield. In the general business of the town there is undiminished prosperity, and the orders for machinery and agricultural implements are particu larly large. Considerable shipments of furnishing iron mongery have been made to Australia during the week, but the indiscriminate exports thither have been entirely checked. From Nottingham the report states the market to have been well supported by American buyers, but dull in other respects. Still there is no want of confidence, and in many departments more hands would be employed if they could be found, The ten4ncy to strike seems, however, to have subsided. In the woollen districts there has been no variation. The check given to exports to the continent from the fear of war, and to Australia from the tenour of the last accounts, creates continued flatness, although here, as elsewhere, employ ment is abundant, and the feeling regarding the future perfectly satisfactory. In the Irish markets there has been a reaction in the price of flax, while linen manu factures have remained dull at former quotations. •e • ...XI Royal Australn. Bkg. & Gold Imp Co , South Australia Uni(,n of Australia Do. Now i dis— par 39i 9 68 94 8i 6 - 64 31 - 4 41 - 5 4- IP',1 P ', - 1 4 p - lip' 13 - 131 68 - 70 18 - 19 Union of London.. Union of Madrid.. 3 - 3i di --119 108 -- 110 par i P 71 -- 8t 6i -- 7 99 -- 101 95 -- 100 95 -- 100 10 i 12A 123 25 10 6 12?-, 12 124 ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Yesterday the ordinary quarterly court of the gover nors of this institution was held at !the Thatched-house Tavern, St. James's-street, Vice-Admiral Lord Radstock in the chair. The court was also attended by Rear-Ad miral Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, Captains Richardson and Dickenson, Commander Marshall, Lieutenants Gardiner and Bedford, and by several other distinguished officers. Mr. Skead, the secretary, read the minutes of the last court, which were duly confirmed. 101 994 15} Captain Richardson then stated that, having been ap pointed chairman of the occasional committee, he was now, from official experience, able to say that nothing could be more satisfactory than the manner in which the institution was conducted, and that no officer could be more painstaking than Mr. Skead, the secretary. These facts could not fail, he thought, to be highly grati fying to all the members of the institution. The report stated that the income of the institution for the last quarter had been 1,2131. 4s. id., including 4611. 12s. 5d., the balance from the last audit ; 5421. 18s. Bd., interest on investments ; and 2081. 135., the amount of subscriptions and donations. The expendi ture for the same period had been 6461. 75., including the sum of 5471. expended in grants, leaving in hand a balance of 5661. 17s. id. The invested capital amounted to 36,195/. 12s. 2d. 10 25 10 1.06 St. 20 5 St. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastu. June. Bezicrs to Graissessac Charleroi & Erquelin. Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish,,,, East Indian 3 2 d 3 id —12 i 1p 2 2 4 2 d 2 - 3 p li P p 2 2p The report was unanimously agreed to, and a resolu tion was passed authorising the payment of a bill of costs due to the honorary solicitor. The Chairman then said that since their last meeting it had pleased Providence to deprive the country of two distinguished officers, who were also vice presidents of the institution. The loss of such men as the late Sir G. Cockburn and the late Sir Charles Adam was a sub ject of general regret. Their duty, however, now was to elect two vice presidents in their place ; and he thought that it would be advisable to name no gentle man for that office without a personal assurance that he would be willing to serve. Some discussion here took place with respect to the necessity of electing a trustee in room of the late Sir G. Cockburn ; after which, 54 234 24 5/1 Do. Extension ..... Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt .Western of Canada Shares 3 Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref 5 Luxembourg,.......,, .0 Do. (Railway) 2 Do 2 id 6 74 4 5 1 1 1 4 1 ld 10 20 20 20 'Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. ct. pref Lyons Mediterran, Madras P Namur & Liege (with interest) (ex interest) 63 - 7 6 i i 33} 1 Northern of Frnee Do. 201. 3 p. c (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPrel Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen._ Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Sth-Eastrn. of France Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland On the motion of Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, seconded by Lieutenant Bedford, Rear Admiral I)undas was elected vice president, in lieu of the late Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B. A quantity of routine business was then gone through, after which the memorials of applicants for the relief of the institution were taken into consideration. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. THE NEW COMMISSION ON BANKRUPTCY.—The first meeting under the new commission appointed to inquire into the law of bankruptcy, will be held on the Ist of November. 10 20 10 20 iZtaloacl im __,„ 33 - iii -12 i 13A 7 -- 8 15. -- 16 p 39 :ii 35 1 -- 34- 2 - 4P la 20 . 8# d i p 2 4 p dis = 9 31 = MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian Agricult. 34 36 356 546 20 12 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ••• 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail ••• 50 386 Brit. American Land 55 —6O xd 55 a d 100 32! Canada .... ........ 5 5 Crystal Pa1ace,.,,,,,, P 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France •• • 20 3 Eastern 5team..,,,,,, ••• 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. ••• . 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. " ••• 20 16 General Screw Steam 20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 3 Netherlands Land._ 1 id 20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 696. 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam ••• ••• 25 25 South Austral. Land 33 35 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... 100 28 6 Van Diemen's Land 14i 151 15 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Oct. 18.— Wind this day at Noon, N. ; fresh breeze, and fine. RAMSGATE, Oct. 17.—The Iris, from Sarpsborg to liar flour, in coming into harbour to-day, got ashore at the West Pier, but is expected off next tide. OFF HASTINGS.—Sam, Ri o J ane i r o. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 17.—Wi n d, S.W., blowing hard. Arrived—Elizabeth, Ch e p s t ow, f or W o olwich, with loss of bowsprit and docks started, having been in contact with the smack Queen Adelaide, which had her broadsides stove in. CowEs, Oct. 17.—Wind, W.S.W. to S.S.W. Arrived —Albrua, Surinam. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 17.—Sailed—Orinoco (e), West Indies. GRIMSBY, Oct. 17.—The Ann, from Cronstadt or Wy berg to Hull, which was stranded on the Sperm, has been got off, after discharging part of cargo, and brought in hero full of water. TORBAY, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Minerva, with loss of sails and bulwarks, and boats stove, during a gale on the 9th October. GLOUCESTER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Worth of Devon, New York. Sailed—Mary Hannah, New Orleans; John Walker, Savannah. . _ _ YARMOUTH, Oct. 17.—A brig, laden with patent fuel, got ashore this morning on the North Scroby Sand ; as sistance was taken, but having failed to get her off, she was abandoned ; the crew and some beachmen have since gone off to make another attempt. CARDIFF, Oct. 17.—The Reindeer, from Stockton to Bristonferry, arrived in Penarth Roads, was dismasted off Padstow, on the 14th inst. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 17.—The Wm. Money, arrived here from Bombay, experienced heavy weather, with shifting winds, Aug. 30 and 31, in lat. 13 N., long. 29 W., with apparently worse weather in the vicinity. APPLEDORE, Oct. 16.—Arrived -Rosetta, Dalhousie. PENZANCE, Oct. 16.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Odin, St. Croix, for Copenhagen. BRID GEW AT ER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Deutchsland, Memel, with loss of sails and bulwarks. WEST HARTEEPOOL, Oct. 14.--Sailed—Ada (a), Mel bourne. LONGHOPE, Oct. 14. —Arrived Seaflower, Davies' Straits. NEWHAVEN, Oct. 17.—1 t has blown a gale from W.S.W. The top of a small case, marked " Keep this side up— Capt. Booth, barque Planta," and several cocoa nuts, have been picked up. SHIELDS, Oct. 16.—The Elswick, of Newcastle, has been towed in here, with loss of foremast, having been in contact off Yarmouth. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 16.—Arrived—Ann Wise, St. Do mingo. GALATZ, Oct. 3.—The water on the bar at Sulina, on the let inst., was 8 feet, English. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 10,30 a.m. Wind, N.N.W., moderate, and fine. I Arrived—Orient, from New York; Montreal, Montreal; Conqueror, Quebec; Mary, Christiania; Mexico, Windsor, Nova Scotia. _ _ Off Port—Reward, from Hampton Roads. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. The steam-ship Hansa, one of the Gerivan line of steam. ships between Bremen and the United States, has put into this port for coals on her way from New York to Bremen. She left the former port on the 4th inst., and her advices have been anticipated via Liverpool. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPEI.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. CUSTOM-HOUSE RETURN. Oct. 17.—Arrived—Ino, from Guernsey; Cobden, G e fl e . Sailed—Vesta (s), for iremen. Oct. 18.—Arrived —Armida, from Oran. Sailed—Minau, for Hamburgh. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.27 a.m. Wind, W., moderate and cloudy. Passed—Calcutta, from Port Philip for London, in tow; Nova Tantalira, London for Terceira ; Emily, London for Bahia • Cambrian, London for Jamaica ; Agincourt, Mar gato Roads for Sydney. Sailed—Coldstream, Dalhousie, Lady Clarke, Spartan, James Alexander, Mirzapore, Bank of England, Queen of the East, Sir J. R. Reid, Daring, Anna and Fanny, Emily, Geelong, Marion, l'aragusy, Africa, Sylph, Onon,jancl laY Banatyno, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1853. LANDLORD SEATS IN PARLIAMENT. (From the Daily News. ) Those who arc striving to get additional " land lord seats" in the House of Commons excuse their impudent claim by pointing out an alleged disparity between population and representation in towns as compared with rural districts. They grumble over the common-sense arrangements of our forefathers, who, wanting a body of intelligent and indepen dent men to make laws, summoned a certain num ber from towns, and another certain number from the counties. The towns being the centres of in telligence, activity, and wealth, have ever shown by results the wisdom of the ancient arrangement. Whenever a useful law has been passed, the town members will be found in the majority ; whenever any faction has striven to pass laws dangerous to the liberty of the people, to the progress of the nation, the town-members have ever been in the van of those who have preserved our freedom and prosperity. The re-actionaries who now seek to diminish the number of these town-members in the House of Commons would do so by diminish ing, after their own fashion, the disparity they de clare exists. But this talk about disparity itself is based on a false and fraudulent foundation. In calculating the county populations the Tory statists quietly "bag" all the inhabitants of unrepresented towns, and then coolly reckon them in as so many agriculturists ! The hundred thousand residents in Chelsea and Kensington, for instance, are shaken up with the strawberry-gardeners of Isle worth and the graziers of Enfield-highway as so many ill-used, half-represented tenant farmers. So with the townsmen of such places as Burnley, of Birkenhead, of Newchurch, of St. Helen's, of Chorley, of Over Darwen—all are duly entered as " rural populations." Just the same trick is played again in Yorkshire, where the honest townsmen of Barnsley, and Keighley, and Don caster—nearly forty thousand strong—are clapped into the totals and classed as so many quiet vil lagers. Everybody else always supposed the places we have mentioned, with many others we are about to name, were towns—and towns, moreover, de serving Parliamentary recognition as such. "No such thing," say the men who, with eyes behind their heads, would always persuade us to go backward instead of forwards. "No such thing— the people living in these places are unrepresented farmers, for whom we want county seats. We will not let them have members of their own. Cer tainly not—that would not suit our purpose, how ever well it might suit theirs. But as we, the dominant landlord class, want a plea for more seats, we will declare the inhabitants of these centres of industry to be rural agricultural people, and make them a stalking-horse, for getting more re-actionary men into the people's House of Parliament." But this scheme once understood by the country will never be permitted to succeed. The Times may twist, and the Morning Herald exhort, the Globe be oratorical, and the Edinburgh Review be wordy and dull, but the people will refuse to be cajoled. Under any new Reform Bill worthy of the name all the towns we enumerated on Saturday as un represented will be provided with members, and this change, together with another we would name, would soon remove any such alleged " disparity" as the Tories have discovered. We have often urged that no borough with less than a thousand voters should enjoy a distinct and separate seat, but by linking four or five, or even six, places to gether, upon the Scottish plan, large and indepen dent constituencies may be secured. Every one of the following towns, for instance, is at least en titled to a share in the return of borough members to parliament —many of them, under an extended suffrage, might probably claim special members of their own : Town. Inhabited Population. homes. Colne, Lancashire 8,987 1,729 , Leek, Staffordshire Brentford, Middlesex Sheerness, Kent Tredegar, Monmothshire 8,305 1,495 Runcorn, Cheshire 8,049 1,591 Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire 7,934 1,604 Torquay, Devonshire Stourbridge, Worcestershire 7,847 1,523 Spalding, Lincolnshire 7,627 1,503 Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 7,506 1,561 Accrington, Lancashire Newton, Cheshire 7,481 1,316 Middlesborough, Yorkshire, N. R 7,431 1,262 Gosport, Hants 7,414 1,465 Prescot, Lancashire Ryde, Isle of Wight 7,147 1,265 Chesterfield (municipal borough), Derbyshire 7,101 Redruth, Cornwall Penrith, Cumberland 6,668 Lowestoft, Suffolk... 6,580 Newbury (municipal borough), Berks 6,574 Camborne, Cornwall 6,547 Tranmere, Cheshire Ulverstone, Lancashire 6,433 Rotherham, Yorkshire, W.R 6,317 Rugby, Warwickshire Kingston-upon-Thames (municipal borough), Surrey 6,279 Alnvrick, Northumberland Ely (city), Cambridgeshire Hinckley, Leicestershire Worksop, Notts 6,058 Sudbury, Suffolk Chelmsford, Essex 6,033 Saffron Walden, Essex 5,911 Workington, Cumberland 5,837 Bideford (municipal borough), De vonshire Dartford, Kent 5,763 Middleton, Lancashire 5,740 Maryport, Cumberland 5,698 Halstead, Essex 5,658 Brixham, Devonshire Ormskirk, Lancashire Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire 5,472 Nantwich, Cheshire Worthing, Sussex Hindley, Lancashire 5,285 Bishop Stortford, Herts 5,280 Hitchen, Herts 5,258 Leigh, Lancashire 5,206 Woodbridge, Suffolk 5,161 Kettering, Northamptonshire 5,125 Exmouth. Devonshire Oldbury, Worcestershire Selby, Yorkshire, W. R. Wellingborough,Northamptonshire 5,061 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,033 Bingley, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,019 Teignmouth, Devonshire Radcliffe, Lancashire 5,002 Skipton, Yorkshire, W. R. 4,962 Barking, Essex Horncastle, Lincolnshire Ware, Hertfordshire 4,882 Nuneaton, Warwickshire 4,859 Oswestry (municipal borough), Salop 4,817 Abergavenny, Monmouthshire 4,797 Cowes, Isle of Wight 4,786 Southport, Lancashire 4,765 Goole, Yorkshire, W.R. Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 4,683 Atherton, Lancashire Hexham, Northumberland Wellington, Salop 4,601 Faversham (municipal borough), Kent Tunbridge, Kent 4,539 Todmorden, Yorkshire, W.R 4,532 Otley, Yorkshire, W.R 4,522 Padiham, Lancashire 4,509 Crewe, Cheshire 4,491 Altrincham, Cheshire . South Molton (municipal borough), Devonshire 4,482 Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire 4,465 Daventry (municipal borough), Northamptonshire 4,430 Bromsgrove, 'Worcestershire 4,426 Bishop Auckland, Durham Beccles, Suffolk 4,398 Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire 4,391 Barnard Castle, Durham 4,357 Chepstow, Monmouthshire Basingstoke (municipal borough), 1,455 1,232 1,307 1,265 1,362 1,174 1,187 1,249 1,269 1,103 1,119 907 1,079 1,055 992 961 990 927 9W 963 1,015 Hants .................................. 4,263 892 Bradford,Wigton, 4,244 957 4,240 973 Warminster, "Wilts, ................... 4,220 ............ 872 March, Cambridgeshire ....... . 4,171 731 C u Wi1t5...._....... mber laa d Eccles, Lancashire ..................... 4,108 746 Ashford, Kent .......................... 4,092 737 Hero is surely enough for the present to show— not only that the Tories have swelled the ranks of their " half -represented agricultural class," by a wholesale metamorphosis of town into county—but sufficient also to show that there are quite enough unrepresented towns in England alone to meet all difficulty about --What must be done with any town seats that may be at the disposal of the House of Commons ? ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures was steady, prices having throughout the week been well supported. UNITED STATES.—The accounts from the United _ States are again satisfactory as regards th e tendency of the rate of exchange on this country, notwiths an Th the large shipments of flour that were in progress. o present steamer has brought 120,000/.l.auno.d sta tion appeared to prevail that the existing se interest ntout in for s En al g e l , a w n do,ulbdy rendercausoingatinplevrsiecna co nsent time s t stocks to t e o e b x e . remittances necessary. ontinuancehaingohef xr s pa p t e c oief c p e o d r i t n s g of ye g a o r l s d . frTohmeyN. ev7.-11.4?ortk this year have been far againstbe lo w t those of the . c , ohraraeisepBaso m2ndoivanhgn tde p d e 6 r o, i 2 0 n d 51 y2 0 ,t f 000 t 30 7 .0 7 t i on w , 0 01 08 p 05 r 11 e . :. i the receipts from California have ainndformer years, but their influence has than in counteractedbythe withdrawal been in, theillarger : ag o e t gr h r e e r a t from circulation of the heavy simst,ilneot‘rveruries of th e Union. amounting al_ together h er to nearly 6 / m ) o ~ ini '-:.4 btrb ?211ttion. WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES of 5 Sovs., One Mile. Priam the Third Five ran. WELTER CUP. Janey Sally Six ran. GREAT WARWICK HANDICAP Little Fawn Annie Sutherland Ange 10....................... ........... .................. Eight ran. COINIMITTEE STAKES. g by Sir Isaac Seven ran. Course very heavy. KELSO RACES. ENTRY FOR CALEDONIAN CUP.—Goorkah, Black Doc tor, Dick Turpin, Itch, Mary Aislabie, Friar's Hall, Haricot, Balrownie, Forest Queen, Tower. All here. ENTRY FOR QUEEN'S PLATE ; 4 Miles.—Goorkah, Black Doctor, Dick Turpin, Itch, Haricot, Balrownie, Braxey, Maley, Pride, Defiance, Audubon, Baron Oswy, and Mary Aislabie. LETTER FROM KOSSUTH ON THE FO REIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND. DEAR have just received your letter of Sept. 22, wherein you do me the honour of inviting me to at tend the town meeting of Stafford, called for Monday next, with the view to memorialise her Britannic Ma jesty on the matter of Russian invasion of the provinces of the Turkish empire. condition to the hatred rule of Austria, she is well aware that a word from the power which saved her in 1849, may destroy her fictitious existence. Yet, it is this Austria with which the Government of mighty England is so anxious to combine her policy in the East ; it is this Austria which led England passively in all the negotiations hitherto carried on ; which have resulted in Russia's taking possession of the two Turkish provinces, important in themselves, but more important yet as a strategical basis for further encroachments, and affording the sinews of war to Russia against the legiti mate suzerain of those same provinces. Why, Sir, the most untrained novice in diplomacy might have understood, that if Austria agrees to do something conjointly with England in regard to Russia, it is quite as much as if England acted conjointly with Russia herself, because Austria only can dare to do what Russia wills. If, therefore, in the resolutions to be submitted to your meeting, something might have slipped in by not taking into sufficient consideration the above-mentioned views, from which your Government, though professing to agree with your ultimate aim, might have derived a new pretext for persisting in its injurious and impracticable " coquetterie with Austria, I, being present, should have found myself under the disagreeable necessity of raising my humble voice against it. Hence it is that, being unacquainted with the con tents of the resolutions, I could not accept your invi tation. _ . _ Interests the most sacred and the dearest to me—as a man, as a patriot, as a friend of freedom, and a member of the great family of mankind—are intimately connected with the pending complication in the East ; and I owe, morever, everlasting gratitude to Turkey, for the noble and manly resolution of the Sultan, by which my life and the lives of my companions were saved from the bloodthirsty persecution of Christian despots, after my fatherland had been overthrown—not by Russian arms, but by the same policy of which the continuation—in deed, the second act of the same tragedy—now rouses your indignation. I can, therefore, assure you, sir, that I neither do nor shall neglect to exert all my activity to serve the legitimate interests of the Turkish empire ac cording to my best abilities. Therefore, glad as lam to see the citizens of Stafford intending to act in the same direction, I certainly would have thankfully accepted your invitation, were it not for the following two consi• derations Nevertheless, I cannot forbear from expressing the high gratification I feel in seeing the citizens of Stafford resolved to claim the constitutional privilege of express ing the publi c opinion of the people of England upon the policy of the Government ; whereby .if past mis chief cannot be cured, at least its future increase may be prevented. Popular manifestations are, in my humble opinion, the more appropriate now, as Parliament is not sitting to express the will of the nation, and therefore the silence of the people mi g ht b e use d as an excuse for acting in a manner adverse to the people's wishes. I certainly never could understand how it is possible that the people of England --proud as they are of their constitutional rights, that is to say, of direct share in the management of public interests—could so readily submit to have almost no share at all in the direction of the foreign policy of the country. In home affairs mis takes of legislation may be cured by modifying or re versing them, and still the people w ou ld no t en d ure th e slightest measure to be introduced without its consent. But in foreign politics, where a single mistake may en gender irreparable mischief, the people are sa ti s fi e d t o hear that it is incompatible with public interest to let the people know how its dearestinterests are disposed of. If your age, sir, claims the credit of civilisation and progress, it should not submit to imposition of worn out prejudices, the toleration of which can be only ex cused by the undeveloped condition of the popular in tellect. Amongst these prejudices there is none fraught with more mischievous results to all humanity than secrecy of diplomacy. Conspirators, Sir, may want secrecy, and weak nations may be excused for creeping by stealth into positions which openly they could not claim. But, b e sure o f i t, S i r, that, w i t h a power f u l nation, which should never claim but what is just and right, and which h as th e power to enforce its cla i ms, t h e keeping secret the mana gemen t o f I ts nat i ona l i nteres t s is the surest indication of there being " something rotten in the state of Denmark;" and that there must be ele ments in operation which are lik e l y , if not to b etray, at least to compromise, public weal. Had I been called upon to address the citizens of Stafford on the subject, it would have been, from my position, impossible not to dwell upon the intimate con nection of the Turkish question with the prospects of my own dear fatherland, and upon the advantage which the cause of freedom might derive from Turkey effec tively supported in her resistance to the Czar of Russia and his confederates. Now, Sir, I know, on one side, that any particular explanation of that nature would certainly have been but an additional claim to the sympathies of the men of Stafford ; but, unfortunately, I have also reason to apprehend, on the other hand, that the more successful I might have been in forwarding that cause, and in carrying that point, the stronger stimulus I should have given to the present English Government for pressing affairs to an issue such as the friends of justice, freedom, and humanity must deplore. Sir, by analysing the conduct of the English Govern , ment during the present crisis, it is impossible not to come to the conclusion that it is not so much either by fear from, or by a particular predilection for, Russia, that the English Government has until now rather served than checked Russia's ambitious designs ; but that it is rather for fear lest, by encouraging Turkey to legitimate resistance, an opportunity might be offered to some successful popular rising in other quarters. I have, indeed, no hesitation to say that the policy of England has long since been Russian in its results ; though not Russian in its motives—it has been worse, it has been anti-liberal in principle. In 1848, Russia interfered against the popular move ment in Moldo-Wallachia by armed invasion, and thus prepared the way for the subsequent intervention in Hungary, as well as for the present occupation of the Principalities. England did not oppose it. Soon after, Russia interfered by arms in Hungary, and gained by it an awful preponderance throughout the Continent of Europe. The Government of England ' had nothing to object to it. This Russian intervention being carried on from Turkish territory, was in itself the grossest violation of its independence. Turkey was made an iustrurnent for Russian ambition and for Austrian oppression. It was permitted that the resources of Turkish provinces, provisions, money, means of transport, should be made use of by Russia in her attack on Hungary. The Aus trians, beaten, twice found refuge and means of attack in the same Turkish provinces : which was neither more nor less than a virtual resignation of the independence of Turkey. And the Government of England allowed all this to he done—nay, it checked Turkey in opposing it, by advising her "not to come into hostile collision with her STRONGER neighbours"—as the Foreign Secretary of England had the ridiculous politeness to style that Austria which we had defeated so often that she was no longer able to resist us without the aid of Russia, who, in her turn, had to strain every nerve to effect it. Now, Sir, has the English Government done all this, because it liked Russia's striding preponderance ? No ; it did it because it hated the popular triumph of what they call " the revolutionary principle." And now, once more, the Danubian Principalities are occupied, and their resources made subservient to Russia in her hostility against the legitimate suzerain of those provinces; and, again, the English Government is guilty, before God and the world, of having permitted such piracy to be perpetrated without resistance. Was this done because England approved the seizure of Moldo- Wallachia by the Czar ? No ; but it was not opposed, because the English Government feared lest any resist ance to Russian aggression might lead some of the oppressed nations to renew their efforts for freedom. That is the real clue to that policy, against which the citizens of Stafford are about to record their protest. The fatal incubus which weighs heavily on the foreign policy of your Government, is not so much love for the Czar as fear and hatred of democracy. It would be vain to dissimulate, Sir, that aristocracy and plutocracy, as leading elements, will always less fear the despot than popular liberty. This is the reason, Sir, that I must decline the honour of attending your meeting. I should not like, by my participation in that demonstration, to add a new stimu lus to your Government for persisting in its harmful direction. The practice of 'secret management engenders care lessness towards the most important political problems, in the solution of which a mighty nation has to claim a share, and that carelessness is always followed by popular ignorance of all the matters connected with foreign policy. It is upon such foundation that statesmen of high stand ing can dare to impose upon public credulity , by asser tions which history contradicts. Thus, it is possible that the English people have to hear Francis Joseph of Austria praised as the hope of the nations whom he op presses ; thus, it is possible that another statesman flatters the English people with the high sounding state ment that this country has stood forward many times " to maintain the independence of weaker nations, and to preserve to the general family of nations that freedom, that power of governing themselves, of which others sought to deprive them, ;" whereas, so far as history is the re cord of facts, scarcely a single instance is known of England's Government having used its interference for the triumph of popular rights. Certainly not in our age, and, least of all, in the case of Hungary, though that neglect was fraught with all the mischief which, if God and the people of Turkey will not prevent it, is just about to overwhelm the world. Thus it is pos sible that while, one day, one Minister of the Crown pledges his word that the immediate and complete eva cuation of the Danubian Principalities is a condition sine qua non of any settlement ; another day another Minister of the Crown reduces this condition, sine qua non, to the expectation that the " magnani mous Czar" will feel inclined to do so spontaneously. Thus it is possible, that while England's moral dignity is engaged in the support of Turkey, because it is England which advised Turkey not to yield to the arrogant dic tates of Prince Menschikoff—it is England which presses upon Turkey to sign conditions which, though more mildly styled in form, are the same in essence. And thus we come to the point that we may be doomed to see the boasted friendship of England for the Porte coming to the issue, that England may interfere in Turkey just as Russia did interfere in Hungary, and fight the Turkish people for daring to resent the encroachments of Russia upon the honour of the Sultan, and the independenoe of his empire. Sir, nobody can charge me with having ever attempted, whilst I enjoy the protection of English laws, to meddle with any internal matter of your country. But the ques tion now pending in the East, is not a question belonging to England alone ; it is a question of mankind, of liberty, of civilisation, and particularly of the future of my coun try, and in such matters, I may well claim the right of having an opinion, and of expressing it. I, therefore, con clude by saying, that it is with deep sorrow and in tense anxiety that I see the British Government taking a principal share in a line of policy which the course of events has already condemned, and which impartial his tory will undoubtedly pronounce to have been unbe coming the position of England, adverse to the interests of Great Britain and of humanity ; inefficacious to achieve its declared design, inconsistent in its bearing, compromising those it intended to help, and helping those it professed to oppose. I am, Sir, with particular regards, Yours respectfully, L. KOSSUTH. William Peplow, Esq., Stafford. WAGES IN NEW SOUTH TVALES. My second reason, Sir, for not responding to your kind invitation, is, that I have no knowledge of the practical purport of the resolutions intended to he sub mitted to the meeting. And this I take to be an essen tial point, Sir, because it is not enough to agree in the ultimate aim, it is equally important to come to a clear understanding about the most efficient means to attain that aim, and I should not like to be placed in a false position in that respect, out of delicacy due to the oc casion. I am led to this remark by the fact, of which I am well assured, that your Government was led into that inconsistency—which I and you equally deplore—by an endeavour to save Austria from her well-merited fate, and to help her to a position which, even were it con sistent with justice and right, as it is certainly not, would be impracticable. I know it, Sir, and can prove it if needed, that all the exertions of English diplomacy in the East have been not so much prompted by the wish to do what is advan tageous to Turkey, as by the consideration what might be least embarrassing to Austria. There are some who suppose that this ungrateful task might have been in spired by considerations which, however dear to some private relations, are certainly of no interest to the peo ple of England. But it is likewise founded upon a pre judice, blindly, without investigation accepted by exist ingto diplomacy ; and that is, that Austria is necessa Europe, precisely as a barrier for Turkey aga in st Rus sian encroachments. Now, sir, I proclannths_otnr the b ea false supposition in the past, and impossible t future. Austria never has been a barrier of that Turkey ia against Russia, or else, how could it was et shaken spite of that barrier, in a time w h e n by the universal discontent of the adelldiit as n ations `v he r n extending Austria rules, Russia has succe to th° Kuban '• on conquest upon Turkey on one sid e which h mt i o s the other to the Danube ; nay, ..th a a t t her iron gran:, the estuary o f th at Austria herself ? Austria De anno b o e lt , precisely the life artery o_f u _,_. sh e was her ally was never a barrier to R ussia. war s so much so against Turkey in almost all , o f a mediation between that even when she made a show of a mediation with even when she made a sUoVi w ar which ended with the s i h n e th d a id t it only to disguise her pre parations Turkey and Russia d treaty of Belgrade, she Russia, as she is doing n ow film. in 1828 Austria feigned a feeble oppo again. against Russia, it was only because the bribe Minister,which he had regularly re- Czar t of the leading ceived from the briberyEmpro Alexander, was withheld by Nicholas ; the eturned, and the opposition ;shed. No ! Austria was never a barrier. of Turkey a gainst Russia. It is in complete defiance at history to repress on her as a barrier ; and, even could she have been so in the past, she cannot be one in future ; for, after she had accepted the intervention of Russia—after the Hungarians had arrived at the consciousness of their strength, which enables them to destroy her when she is unsupported by Russia- - after Austria has aroused all her nations by oppression and treachery—after she has foolishly unrooted all her vitality —when she has no other support than an army of doubtful faith, one-half employed to watch and keep down the other half—after all this has happened, it is more than ignorance to believe in an independent Austria ; it is a political blunder. Every sensible man in the world must feel convinced that Aus tria can in no case act but as Russia orders her ; because by the hold which Russian influence has over the Scla , vonic element s of th e A us t r i an empi re , and by th e readi i Ilea of the liungarian nation to accept any imaginable TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--I send you an abstract of the different rates of wages given at the Sydney branch of this establishment up to the 30th of June last Agricultural labourers, 251. to 301. per annum, and rations. Bullock-drivers 301. to 401. per annum, and rations. Shepherds (single) 251. to 301. per annum, and rations. Shepherds (married) where wife acts as domestic ser vant, or hut-keeper, 251. to 401. per annum, and double rations. Shepherds, with families of an age to shepherd and watch two flocks, 451. to 601. per annum, and three rations. Gardeners, 301. to 401. per annum, and single ration. Married couples, as house servants, 401 . to 501 . per annum, and board and lodging. Married couples, as farm servants , da ir y servants, &c., 35 1 . to 401. per annum, and double rations. Coachmen and grooms, 26/. to 40/. per annum, and board and lodging. COUNTRY MECHANICS. Blacksmiths, 50/. to 781• p e r annum, and rations or board and lodging. Bricklayers, 551. to 80/. per annum, and rations e r board and lodging. Carpenters 501. to 651 . p er annum, and rations or board and ldng. Wheelwrights, o 50 gi /. to 651. per annum, and rations or board and lodging. r annum, and rations or boar d Masons, 52/. to 651. per and lodging. Millers, 501. to 801. per annum, and rations or board and lodging. TOWN MECHANICS. Black and white smiths, bricklayers, carpenters, masons, and the other trades connected with the buildingßrasiiand tinplate branches, iroafo 9 un s 9s. 6d. tol2s . per day. workers, 100. to 12s. 6d. per day. French polishers, cabinet-makers, and upholsterers, Piece-work, a sober greatly to his pay 90. to 120. per day. (As much of the work in f o nd er s , bakers, additional O s . t h o o hours.) Butchers andthese industrioustr a des is performed man can as add per day ; or by the year, 521. to 80/., and boardand Bu b t y che w rs or a k n in d g lodging. WOMEN. Cooks, 201. to 40/. per annumand Farm and dairy servants, 15 , board and lodging. 1. to 181. per a n num, a nd board and lodging, General house servants, 15/. 12s. to 31 l. 4s. per an nual, and board and l Housemaids, 141, to lodging 1, per annum, and board and lodging. 2O - Kite henmaids, 16/. to 20/. 16s. per annum, and board and lodging. Ladies' maids -not wanted as such. Laundresses,__ 20/. to 31/. 4s. per annum. Nurses and plain needlewomen, 15/. to 20/. per annum, and board and lod • ging. Good needlewomen, 1/. to 1/. ss. per week, and board and lodging. A few ladies capable of teaching the accomplishments, particularly music, of which the "currency lasses" are devotedly fond, would meet with ready engagements, at salaries varying from 35/. to 52/. ; but they should ettlier go out under the protection of their friends or ob tain introductions to some of the numerous families of respectability in the colony. Much has been said and written against the desira bility of New South Wales as a field for the emigration of women, whether of humble or patrician birth, but a lengthened residence there has enabled me to affirm, that in no portion of the world is a well-conducted woman treated with greater respect, a virtuous woman more secure, more highly thought of, or her advancement more certain, than in New South Wales. I am, sir, yours most obediently, J. FREDERICK JOHNSON. New South Wales Labour Office, 28, Bridge-house -place, Southwark, Oct. 17. - - THE LONG Ir A cAriorr.—On Monday next the lon g vacation will t e rminate, when pleadings in acti ons i n the superior courts will be resumed. The C ommon Law Procedur e Act has diminished the force of the vacation. PREFEREN , Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent Cork &Bandonsip.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (X 3108) 6 per cent Do. (£5) 7 per cent Do. (£7 17s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. e. No. 1 Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lanca.sh. 6 p. etc EdinbPrth.&Dundee 5.1 per cent. Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. .. Do. 41 p. c. Scrip Gt, Southn. dtWestm. (Ireland) Eighths) Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. cov. red. 44 p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4 p. c Lan. &York. 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