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

MONEY MARKET AND 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 speculation. The market closed firmly without alteration in prices, except American, at Sid. to 6id., which were id. per lb. higher. The sales comprised 6,500 American, 300 Pernam and Maranham at bid. to 7d., 30 Bahia at 6d., 200 Egyptian at 6.0. to std., 700 Surat at 2fid. to 44d., and 40 Sea Island at is. 6d. to is. 9d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull at lower prices. - A vessel, the Undine, has arrived from Vau 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 Mexico there is some inte resting information respecting 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 the 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 vernment 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 91i 4 for Transfer, and 911 I for Account. The present rates are about 911 a, 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 921 to 4, and the Three'per Cents. 904 to 901. 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 I. Chilian Six per Cents. have been quoted 1001, Buenos Ayres 58, and Brazilian New Four and-a-Half per Cents. 96k. Spanish New Deferred Stock is worth 214. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 63k. 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. L BRITISH MINDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Prom the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9oi A i A 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 14 iiii 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 31 per Cont. Annuities 92 a i 3 i Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 3-16 India Bonds, £lOOO 5 d Ditto, under £lOOO 5 d South Sea New Annuities 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751. look Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 2d. £lOOO £5OO Small 4 8 p 4 8 p 1 8 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Benda, 5 per t 'eut ... ~ Ditto New, 1852, , 4 per Cent 961 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5B Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent lOO/ Eqnador Bonds Mexican 3 per Cent. • 24 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2ll Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 631 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... HALF-PAST TWO. Consols 9li a Ditto October Account 9la a MARKET .NEWS-(THIS DA Y.) COLONIAL. SUGAR. — There are no public sales to-day, but the market looks rather heavy. Refined low brown lumps are 44s 6d to 455, and scarce. A cargo 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, 154 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 puns, 8 hhds. The 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 Corringa grain. SALTPETRE.—At auction 1,7:;0 bags Bengal partly sold at 30s to 30s 6d for fine, 11 to 34 per cent. refraction. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 58s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 62s 6d. TEA.—The market is firm. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ lOs to Si 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ 10s to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 10i to 2/ Os per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to 5/ 15s ; clove' ditto, 4/ 8s to 610 s ; and strsvr, 1/ 12s to 2/ 2s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. WHITRCHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 10s to 51 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 12s to 2/ 2s per load.• Trade dull, at late rates. ASSESSED TAxEs.—lt has been erroneously stated that the reduced duties on servants take effect from the 10th inst., the fact being that they come into operation at the beginning of the next fiscal year (April 6, 1854), and not until 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 MILLBANK PRlSON.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held two inquests on the bodies of Hannah i te-ad, aged 63, and John Albin, aged 24, both convicts, Who 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 iza both cases. jour ?oles , and s for neet- 10 ac' oreku nfir too © corm. I 'ho ) hi 40 un( ler le best f SW' ognitoo thal. aharle excite d pus re• -7 - 4 . n nuig for the rectioa; ee bau, several le Voce umbel D allow =al l " iselvest e Ition ed, but .dy iibe' na and rdiniaa , on it° a roya l id J the re: )01itical rs shal l by til ° vithout ;ovary' Ls, saY ° 7-etzette ; en3ancl ° exorbl of th e ish f 4,0 0 " 3en, ° ll open lent, ill kelY ipe, men 1" ; the 10 fiat W I f°4 n y for s' 1y cola- wfound ;b bei 4 50,0001, 1 111 19 , 9 14 9 , 5 81 ` - uncl er c i rebas e u , ds, with; if it ,ine r oes 3 ",. e y o f tP EACS SO .esiol i f o rasn 3 , l ,' 1 1 00 0 ' 3c is t the Of r te3Ciot' aring o f rcliG frO CLOSING OF THE PRESTON MILLS. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. (From the Ncr:hent 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 w a Teo paid weekly at the various mills now closed is stated to have been from 12,000 1 . to 13,000 1 . 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 a:e now without employment to exist, the committee of the op. ,erative union proposes to pay them weekly a sum of 4,0%.,1°1-7 and they allege their funds are sufficiently strong to M: able them to continue this payment for some weeks. In t::`." 3 meantime dele gates are to be deputed to vis it all the p Tincipal towns in the kingdom, to solicit assistance from the operative classes of those towns, to enable those of Pil'eten to prolong their struggle with their employers anj 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, naggers, slaters, &o. 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 public 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 11. per week in a small mill. STATE OF TRADE. The accounts of the state of business in the manufac- Wring 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 of 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 wouid be employed if they could be found. The tendency 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. 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. 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. ld., 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. ld. The invested capital amounted to 36,1951. 12s. 2d. 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, On the motion of Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, seconded by Lieutenant Bedford, Rear Admiral llundas was elected vice president, in lieu of the late Sir Charier 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 let of November. sIiARN MARKETS-(THIS ➢AY). BRITISH RAILWAYS. Clositig Prices Yesterday. Business done this day. 20 -- 21 4a 8i — 9/ 13— 11 d ] 15 5 4 CI 93 9,5 414 49 15 —l6 43 -45 74 - 8i - 3 - 3 11i - 12 36 - 40 27 - 29 61 - 63 SS - 60 2i* 74 76 50 52 124 - 126 99 —lot 179 i - 804 83 - 88 10 -12 p 614 - 62 7i - 7.0 5 - 12 - 12 k - 7g - 7i par 1 p 93 95 104 1024 id - 1 $4 76 13 12 d 12 11 d 19 - 20 - 58j - 59 33 - 35 , 50 53 id par 5 4 . 4id 47 - iili 4 —3 ct 254 26. 8 10 2 7 73 64 7* par 2 p' 36 - 38 87 - 89 55 - - 57 62 - 64 60 65 lidis 15 - 17 71 - 8 i 11 - 13 3i - 14 - 16 57i - 581, 334 -346 j 3 - 4 28 - 30 2 1 1 31 14 15 , g' - -i 61 - 62 4?-- 4 d 44t, —45 ii Paid' 1 1100 8i RATINATI. Aberdeen ............. Ambg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. June Birmng. Wolverb. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesb. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Dublin&Belfast June 'Dnudes Perth &Aber deen 44ctiou Do. New . East Anglian (£25 L &E. &L. &D.) Do., (£l.B E. 4 11.) Boatel n Counties__ Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., tio ............ Easto. & C 1-4348ibire East & West T4d, Dk eic Binning. Jnec•—• Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles._ Edinb.Prtlh&Dunclee Gilasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do,, A. Stock De,, IL Rock Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) Great Wester 4. • ..• ••• Irish South-Eastern. ilLaneaster & Carlisle cp., Thirds Lanea ,;h. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths .. Do., Wst. Riding Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. Soutbpt London do Blackwall nd. Tilb. & Sthend. Loud. Bright. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do, Fifths D0.,10/..5/L0YT&8...0 London & S. Western Do., £50........ . Do., £4O Lndndrry.&Coleraine LndndiTy. 6r Ennisk. Mausab.Shef. &Lineln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Midland Do. Birming. dr Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle.. Newmark et ... ....... . Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry do Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor N0rf01k..... Do., New ......... Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l Do., No. Dc. , A. Deferred ) Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central ... Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westu Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry ...... Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern , South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun' Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and iZ.l;lway Vale ( .Neath Water d. & Kilkenny Water ford&Limerick West Cornwall Wmbledon &Croydon Woodford ...... York Newctl. & Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland MINgS. 1 all Agua Fria — 10s. all Anglo Californian _ p 10 2 Australasian 1 d 2 1 0 an 6 A A u u s s t t ra l : l Ga a lana n .cDou , rde . hillyeoraf) 1 2$ d 1 all d Australian Freehold. d all par 1 11 AB all Bad i v i e t e is Marn h Austrin. Gold 4 d 20 13.5 British Iron .........' . 7 9 35 241 Brazilianlmp.(issue d at £5 put 4 41 41 30 all Do. Cooaes & Cuiada 21 3 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 331 341 1 1 Carsons's Creek — par $ 40 all Cobra Copper - , 42 44 5 1 Colonial Gold — IP ... 15 Copiapo 101 11 St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 55 65 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent. 5 7 px d 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smoltg. Co. 21 3 d 21 20 all General l4 —l6 2 all Great Nugget Vein 4 d • /p 3 all Great Polgooth, . 2l 2 d 1 all lake Bathurst..,.., — 1 d 1 all Liberty — d 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co — 1. all Mariquita $ 1 d 10 9 Moxican&S.Americn 6l 74 1 all Now Granada ' par 1 all Nouveau Monde IP 14 b 1 Port Philip — id 1 all Quartz Rock d 50 all Rhymney Iron 15 15 Do. New 30 11$ Santiago de Cuba 3l —4l 1 all South Australian.. 1 1 d 10 7 Tin Croft . 281 all United Mexican 3l 31 1 all Waller — d 1 all West Granada — d 1 all West Mariposa — 4 d 1 all Yuba — 4 d JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 169 71 70 40 all British Colonial Bank' and Loau Company 50 all British N. American 20 2 Ciirtd. Buk.of India, Austral., and China id par 25 5 Chrtd. B nk. of Asia. 11 Idis 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 20 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd 24 lid 20 15 London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia par— 1p 15$ 50 20 London and County . 50 10 London Joint Stock 22 24 100 20 Lond.andWestminst 33 34 100 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New — 50 224 National of Ireland 25 all Oriental Bank Cor poration 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co k d • par 25 25 South Australia — 391 25 all Union of Australia 65 67 68 1 . 1 , Do. New 6l 71 50 10 Union of Loudon ..„ 174 310, 40 all Union of Madrid PREFERENCE SHARES , St. 100 Aberdeen.. •'• -- ... MISCELLANEOUS. St. 100 Do., No. 2,7 p. o ~. __ ~. 5 5 A.ubin Coal and Iron 20 5 IDo. 4 p c• Shares • ---' ' •--•... ... St. 100 Bris. di Ex. 4 p.s. St .., . - , „ 100 35 Australian Agrieult. 33 35 351 5 . ••• ... St. 100 Caledonian .£lO 97 --100 99 20 1 2 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ... 15 all Chester Holyhead 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail ... .„ di Guar. 51 per cent ... 50 81 Brit. American Land —x d 55 x a ~, 5 31 Brit. & Coln. Smelt;. 61 64 Cork&Bandon 51 p. c. ... ~ , and Reduction C 0... ... 61 all Dundee PerthdiAber -100 321 Canada Company..... ... ... deen Junction 6 61 31 all EastA nglian (.E3 10s) 5 5 Crystal Palace . _— .... ?1 — ', p I 53 6 per cent.... ...... 3 4 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... —i 5 all Do. (25) 7 per cent 4 5 20 3 Eastern 5team........ ... ... 7i 2 Do. (27170 7p. et 6 1 1 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel. ... .., 6 all Eastern Counties Ex - 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... ... 5 tension, sp. c. No.l i —11 p 20 16 Genera l S cr ew Steam ... ... 63 all Do., No. 2 i— UP pm 20 71 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 10 all Do., New 6p.c. St l3 131 20 6 Magdalena St. Navig. ~, ... * Ld. di &14 01 M i n e di n n. L ..1. l • ..ii.id-- : : 11 . re ' ;9 ' 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Feel ... ~• Guar. 6 per ce. 18 —l9 1500 all Npeenthinesrulaianids. 1 all N. B. Australasian... Id Til , St. 100 EastLancash. 6 nt ... ... 5 all Edinb•Prth.diDundee 20 10 Nrth.o:EuropeSteam ... •• • 4 per cent. . ..... St. 100 Glasgow & S.Wcstcrn 5 all Peel Rr. guar. 5 per cent ,,„ ... 50 25 Do. St. 100 Great Northr 5 p.e. 118 120 2 all Portland Iron Co • , ... -- ••• _ I St. 100 Do. sp. c.,Redeem., 100 60 Royal Mail Stea m . , ... at 10 p. c. prom.... 108 110 ... 1 all Scot. Austral. Inver; li —lb 61 all Gt. Southn. &West% 1 1 Do. New Scrip . ••• ••• (Ireland) Eighths... 7i 81 25 25 South Austral. Lam,' 33 35 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berko & 1 all Submarine Telegraph ... _ ... Hants Ex. sp. c.).. 61 7 100 281 Van Diemen's Land' 14'* —15 A St. 100 G. West. fixed 4 pc. 95 100 , 971 i ~ t _ 16 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, id pal St. 100 Do., 6p. c., Stock... 139 141 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) St. 100 London andlßrighton ._......._._._._ Guaranteed sp. c... ... _ ~ St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. C. St. ... ... LONDON, Oct. 18.—Wind this day at Noon, N.; fresh 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. breeze, and fine. c., 1852 .............. ... -- ... 155 RAMSGATE, Oct. 17.—The Iris, from Sarpsborg to Har- St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. ... ... 140 fleur, in coming into harbour to-day, got ashore at the 50 5 London &S. Western, West Pier, but is expected off next tide. Con. Thirds 2 3 p OFF HASTINGS.—Sam, Rio Janeiro. 121. 121. Londonderry& Color PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 17.—Wind, S.Vir., blowing hard. 1 Shares .. • -- .. Arrived—Elizabeth, Chepstow, for Woolwich, with loss of 12 1 all i Loudy. &Ennis. ASL 121 -- 131 bowsprit and decks started, h av i ng b ee n in contact with 2 25 all Matich.,Sltef.,& Lin., the smack Queen Adelaide, which had her broadsides 4 Shares, No. 1 f 10 all Do. New, £10... 8 6 ;1 -- 4 stove in. A p COWES, Oct. 17.—Wind, W.S.W. to S.S.W. Arrived 6 3 Do., 26............-- i —Albrua, Surinam. 121 all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. ... ... SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 17.—S a il e d—Orinoco (s), West 121 all Do. 41 per cent .. p Indies. 101 Do .. ........ ...„........ ... _ _ ... GRIMSBY, Oct. 17.—Th e A nn, f rom Cronstadt or Wy- St. 100 Mid.Consol. 6 p.c. SL ... berg to Hull, which wa s s t ran d e d on th e Sperm, has been ... St. 100 Do. Cousol. Bristol & got off, after dischargi ng par t o f cargo, and brought in Birm. 6 per cent—. 138 140 hero full of water. 16i 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent i 1d , TORBAY, Oct. 17. A rr i ve d—Mi nerva , w ith l oss o f sa il s St. 100 Norfolk Exte nsion. .. ... ... x' and bulwarks, and boats stove, during a gale on the 9th St. 100 Do. Pref. rq ; per et... ~. „, October. St. 100 Do. Way. Val. 5p c ... ... GLOUCESTER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Worth of Devon, St. 100 North British ..... .... ... ~, New York. Sailed—Mary Hannah, New Orleans; John 20 all North Staffordshire.. 22 24 Walker, Savannah. St. 100 Oxford Worcester & YARMOUTH, Oct. 17.—A b r i g, l a d e n with patent fuel, Wolvcrh. £15,6p. c. 99 101 101 got ashore this morning on the North Scroby Sand ; as -15 15 Do A. i p 151. sistance was taken, but having failed to get her off, she was abandoned ; the cre w an d some b e achmen have since 1 8 0 gone off to make anoth er a tt emp t . kroari ty.. CARDIFF, Oct. 17.—Th e R e i n d eer , from Stockton to 10 10 Do. 5 per cent 9l —101 x all all Sohremi&nC),hBeps.tecr Sluvws& Birm. N. G 9l 101 16 17 p Bristonferry, arrived in Penarth Roads, was dismasted off 25 all South Devon l2 14 Padstow, on the 14th inst. L yE3 , , 0, 40 0 0axc e np t t c . . experienced : 1 3; 7 1. n . 1 — c ei A T hna 16.—Arrived heavy lat. W e tli m 3 -. R oNM. weather, :oetnteay long., Dalhousie. w it 2i i ,t, 1 with vw shiftinge. (l w h e i tr with 10 li Do. Nem. par i p 1.0.6 all S. Ea7tern (Reading from wiA L n( l pl y sp ß , E L o A ß E M P D :b og O a ß. Ann.,) of £1 Os. Gd. 24 211 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.thiar. 19 20 apparently worse weather in the vicinity. 5 3 \\rate) fd.&Kilk.6p.c. ... ...d, St. 100 York Newcastle and I PENZANCE, Oct. 1 6.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Odin, Benvick,4 p.c.Pref. 95 98 St. Croix, for Copenhagen. 17 SDo 4l 4i l BRIDGEWATER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Deutch.sland, Memel, 25 10 York& N.Miclland H 1 with loss of sails an d b u l warks. kS. Purch id i d : 93 WEST HARTEEPOOL, O c t. 14.—S a il e d—Ad a ( s ), Mel - bourne. FOREIGN. 10 5 Antwrp &Rotterdam 2 3 / 4 2 d 5 3 Belgian East. Junet. 20 % all Charleroi & Erquelin 11 3 / 4 12 3 / 4 20 10 Dijon and Besa9on. 1 3 / 4 2 3 / 4 p 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 20 all East Indian 2 3 p 20 2 Do. Extension ... p 5 a ll Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 lip 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 2 2 3 / 4 p 205 20 3 / 4 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 2 ld 19 5 3 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref, 20 15 Luexembourg 6 3 /4 10 13 Do. (Railway). 5 2Do ••• ••• 5 3 Do. (Canal) .. . ..... 10 5 Do. 6p. cent. pref. 1 17, 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran. 20 10 3 / 4 Madras ...... ....... 1 on a ee A swt n t . :6 : 335 29 61 2 1 0 0 211 Namur & Lieg e (with 20 all Do. (ex interest ) 16 all Northern of France 34 33 . 335 x d 20 all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds Umy.B.Sams.Shs ) 12i 13 3 / 4 10 all NorwegianTrn)K..Pref 7 8 20 10 Paris and Lyons 20 all Paris and Orleans 20 all Paris and Rouen .. 39 • 41 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 351 —36 20 4 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. 2 4 p 105 101 Quebec & Richm on d 3 1 d 20 all Rouen and Havre 20 all ( Sambre and M euse — 10 6 Do. 5 3 / 4 per cent. . pref. 20 6 Southern of France 2 • —. 4 p 20 2s. PPP" India Scrip _ 8 all (West Fls.uders -4 3 20 10 Do. 5 3 / 4 per c. Prof_ ...d 10 10 estern of France 7_ sip 20 4 West. of Switzerland 3 1 id 10 12 Now Zealand ..... 354, LONGHOPE, Oct. 14. —Arrived Seaflower, Davies' Straits. NEWHAVEN, Oct.l7.—lt 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. Smut's, 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 Sans, on tho Ist inst., was 8 feet, English. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 1030 a.m. Wind, N.N.W., moderate, and fine. 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 German 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 advises have been anticipated via Liverpool. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. CUSTOM-HOUSE RETURN. Oct. 17.—Arrived—Ino, from Guernsey; Cobden, Gede Sailed—Vesta (s), for Bremen. Oct. 18.—Arrived —Armida, from Oran. Sailed—Minan, for Hambnrgh. DEAL, Tue3day, 9.27 a.m. Wind, W., moderate and cloudy. Passed—Calcutta, from Port Philip for London, in tow; Nova Tantalira, London for Terceira ; Emily, Lond on f or Bahia • Cambrian, London for Jamaica ; Agincourt, Mar gato Roads for Sydney. Sailed—Coldstream Dalhousie, Lady Cl ar k e , S par t an , James Alexander, Mirzapore, Bank of England, Queen of the East, Sir J. R. Reid, Daring, Anna and Fanny, Emily, Geelong, Marion, Paraguay, Africa, Sylph, Orion, and Mary Bannatyne. LANDLORD SLATS -IN PARLIAMENT: ("Prom the Daily Nets. ) Those who arc striving to get additional " land lord seats" in the Rouse of Commons excuse their imptident claim by pointing out an alleged disparity between population and representation in towns as compared with rural district*, they grumble over the common-sense arrap&vwlits of our forefathers, who, wanting a lay of of intelligent and indepen dent Mell #47 , lce laws, summoned a certain num -11,4 4°W, towns, and anoth er c er t a i n num b er from eonnties. The towns being the centres of in activity, and wealth, - have ever shown ,y resUits the wisdom of Whenever a useful law I , : da b een the, ancient arrangement. members. 'will be fou:-,, i i n the majority passed, the town ally ',Action has ; whenever evriven to pass laws dangerous to the liberty cif tbe people, to the progress of the nation s *4e town -members have ever been in e Vii,4 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 fashio n , the disp ar ity th ey de clare exists. B u t thi s 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 r ec k on t h em 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 clapp e d into the totals and classed as so many quid vil lagers. Everybody else always supposed t'ne places we have mentioned, with many others v:ve are about to name, were towns—and towns, Moreover, de serving Parliamentary recognition as such. "No such thing," say the men ' w h o, w i t h eyes b e hi n d their bes, would always persuade us to go backward instead of forwards. "No such thing— the people living in tiese 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 thoir,and voters should enjoy a distinct and separate seat, but by linking four or five, or even six . places to gether, upon the Scotti s h plan, larg , :, and indepen dent constituencies may be senred. Every one of the following towns, for i :stance, is at least en titled to a share in th e re t urn of borough members to parliament—man:v' of them, under an extended suffrage , might I) 7o6ably claim special members of their own Town. Population. Inhabitedhouse 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 Chesterfield' (muni c ip a l b oroug h) , Derbyshire 7,101 1,455 Redruth, Cornwall . Penrith, Cumberland 6,668 1,307 Lowestoft, Suffolk 6,580 1,265 Newbury (municipal borough), Berks 6,574 1,362 Camborne, Cornwall 6,547 1,174 Tranmere, Cheshire Ulverstone, Lancashire 6,433 1,249 Rotherham, Yorkshire, W.R 6,317 1,269 Rugby, Warwickshire Kingston-upon-Thames (municipal borough), Surrey 6,279 1,119 Alnwick, Northumberland Ely (city), Cambridgeshire Hinckley, Leicestershire Worksop, Notts 6,058 1,322 Sudbury, Suffolk 6,043 1,280 Chelmsford, Essex 6,033 1,204 Saffron Walden, Essex 5,911 1,173 Workington, Cumberland 5,837 1,360 Bideford (municipal borough), De vonshire Dartford, Kent 5,763 1,033 Middleton, Lancashire 5,740 1,179 Maryport, Cumberland .. 5,698 1,242 Halstead, Essex 5,658 1,236 Brixham, Devonshire Ormskirk, Lancashire Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire 5,472 1,239 Nantwich, Cheshire Worthing, Sussex 5,370 964 Hindley, Lancashire 5,285 950 Bishop Stortford, Herts 5,280 907 Hitchen, Herts 5,258 982 Leigh, Lancashire 5,206 956 Woodbridge, Suffolk 5,161 1,147 Kettering, Northamptonshire 5,125 1,046 Exmouth. Devonshire Oldbury, Worcestershire Selby, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,109 1,079 Wellingborough,Northamptonshire 5,061 1,055 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,033 992 Bingley, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,019 961 Teignmouth, Devonshire Radcliffe, Lancashire 5,002 927 Skipton, Yorkshire, W. R. Barking, Essex Horncastle ' Lincolnshire Ware, Hertfordshire 4,882 993 Nuneaton, Warwickshire 4 859 1,125 Oswestry (Municipal borough), Salop 4, 817 995 Abcrgavenny, Monmouthshire 4,797 944 Cowes, Isle of Wight 4,786 814 Southport, Lancashire Goole, Yorkshire, W.R. Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 4,683 575 Atherton, Lancashire Hexham, Northumberland Wellington, Salop 4,601 946 Faversham (municipal borough), Kent Tunbridge, Kent 4,539 827 Todmorden, Yorkshire, W.R 4,532 920 Otley, Yorkshire, W.R 4,522 846 Padiham, Lancashire 4,509 881 Crewe, Cheshire 4,491 805 Altrincham, Cheshire South Molton (municipal borough), 4 Devonshire , 482 929 Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire 4,465 851 Daventry (municipal borough), Northamptonshire 4,430 889 4,426 915 4,400 839 Bishop Auckland, i W and o , rc D es u t r e i r i s a h n i i re. Becoles, Suffolk 4,398 939 Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire 4,391 835 ' Barnard Castle, Durham 4,357 644 4,295 723 4,263 892 B C as h ß e rn a s g n t ts s o t w oke M gu ra n ° ic u i t p h a s l hi b re orough), 4,244 957 4,240 973 B W r i a g d t f o o n r , d C , Cumberland Warminster, Wilts, 4,220 872 March, Cambridgeshire Eccles, Lancashire Ashford, Kent 4,092 737 Here 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 bo 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 the tendency of the rate of exchange on this country, notwithstanding the large shipments of flour that were in progress. The present steamer has brought 120,0001., and an expecta tion appeared to prevail that the existing high rata of interest in England, by causing American stocks to he sent out for sale, would render a continuance of ispeecxio. remittances necessary. Up to the present timebeteine far ports of gold from New York this year f h t a i v ie e two pre below those of the corresponding period of 3,070,000/., ceding years. They have amounted o2nsiy, against 4 , 223,0001 . in 1852, and C a lifornia have On the other hand, the receiptsbu t their influence has been larger than in former Yeared by the withdrawal been in a great measure counteract, vsunnow amounting al f6r,cuu 2 000/. in 1851. from circulation of the _he „ , ), 's / in the treasuries of the together to nearly 6, 0( w0 v Union, LETTER FROM KOSSUTH ON THE FO REIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND. DEAR SIR,—I have just received your letter of Sept. 22, wherein you do me the honour of inviting me to at- I 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. 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 despsots, 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 : 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 Hu ngary , 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 instrument 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 ref uge an d means o f attack ill 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 be done —nay, it checked Turkey in opposing it, by advising her "not to conte 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 E ng li s h G o V ernment done all this, because it liked Russia's st r idi ng preponderance ? No ; it did it because it hated the popular triumph of what they call "the revolutionary principle." Arid 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. 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 be 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 ing diplomacy ; and that is, that Austria is necessary to Europe, precisely as a barrier for Turkey against Rus sian encroachments. Now, sir, I proclaim this to be a false supposition in the past, and impossible for the future. Austria never has been a harrier of Turkey against Russia, or else, how could it happen that in spite of that barrier, in a time when it was yet shaken by the universal discontent of all the nations which Austria rules, Russia has succeeded in extending her conquest upon Turkey on one side to the Kuban, on the other to the Danube ; nay, that she took even into her iron grasp the estuary of that Danube, which is precisely the life artery of Austria herself ? Austria was never a barrier to Russia. She was her ally against Turkey in almost all her wars ; so much so that even when she made a show of a mediation with even when she made a show of a mediation between Turkey and Russia in that war which ended with the treaty of Belgrade, she did it only to disguise her pre parations for joining Russia, as she is doing now again. When in 1828 Austria feigned a feeble oppo sition against Russia, it was only because the bribe of the leading Minister, which he had regularly re ceived from the Emperor Alexander, was withheld by Czar Nicholas ; the bribe return e d, an d t h e opposition vanished. No I Austria was never a barrier of Turkey against Russia. It is in complete defiance at history to repress on her as a barrier ; and, even could she have been s• in the past, she cannot be one in future ; for, after she had accepted th e i n t ervention of Russia—alter , 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 Sela vonic elements of the Austrian empire, and by the readi ness of the Hungarian nation to accept any imaginable 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 . itussia's taking possession of the two Turkish t provinces, important in themselves, but more importl, d yet as a strategical basis for further encroachments, affording the sinews of war to Russia against the 1 :it i " mate suzerain of those same provinces. to do Why, Sir, the most untrained novice in diplomacy might haVe understood, that if Austriaag r ees something conjointly with England in it is quite as much as if England acted cal l dare to do conjointly with r_egara to Russia, Russia herself, because Austria only , what Russia wills. If, therefore ; might Lave slipped submitted to your mectinsg,_ mincttlijiiengresolutions to sufficient our o c u o r ns G id o e v r e a rn tio m n e t n h t e , slipped in by not taking int n o l w i t h your ultimate aim, above-mentioned views, from though professing itaocnaablv: pretext for persistin, i n i ts might have derived ~, oquetterie" with Austria injurious and impracticable have found myself under the I, being present, b s it ea s at y , of raisin my humble voice against b being unacquainted with the con tents n it. 'Hence it is tents of the resolutions, f could not accept your invi tation. , expressing time Neverthe l ess, I cannot forbear from high gra tification I feel in seei ng the citizens of Stafford resolved to claim the constituti7ea(i; privilege of express ing the public opinion of the p oli c y of the Government ; the wrjheereobfyEnifglpaansdt upon s chief cannot be cured, at least its future increase may be prevented. the mono appropriate ri to express the Will now, as Parli amen t i s no t s itti ng of of the people might be used 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 th e ir conatitutional rights, that is to say, of direct share in 1 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 inis takes of legislation may be cured by' nieditAiitAll- versing them, and still the people %pm), slightest measure to be introduced' widiti litraW,rov. - t .> 1 But in foreign politics, wh ere a s'ingPl#l64l ! , ( 1 .7r 7 'Y' I. gender irreparable mischief, the:people* .:.....1. 1- „ _ e''.,t. ..,- hear that it is incompatible with_publii/-1 ; 1 ' -' : 4 0 :'. , 74 the people know how its dearest intei ga r • , ~ , , , :r y If your age, sir, claims the creAit , br ' _.* . ~ -7 progress, it should not submit to inipqpi,tio - 0 . - out prejudices, the toleration of which Nan lanly 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, be sure of it, Sir, that, with a powerful nation, which should never claim but what is just and right, and which has the power to enforce its claims, the keeping secret the management of its national interests 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 likely, if not to betray, at least to compromise, public weal. 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 thematters 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 Engl an d may i n t er f ere i n T ur key 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 independence 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 Englandalone ; 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 a n d 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. Will:nail Peplow, Esq., Stafford. WAGES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l 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 (marri e d) w h ere w if e 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 60/. 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, dairy servants, &c., 35/. to 401. per annum, and double rations. Coachmen and grooms, 26/. to 401. per annum, and board and lodging. COUNTRY MECHANICS. Blacksmiths 501. to 781. per annum, and rations or board and lodging. Bricklayers, 551. to 801. per annum, and rations or board and lodging. Carpenters, 501. to 651. per annu m , an d ra ti ons or board and lodging. Wheelwrights, 501. to 651. per annum, and rations or board and lodging. Masons, 521. to 651. per annum, and rations or board 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 building branches, 9s. Gd. to 12s. per day. Brassfounders, ironfounders, and tinplate workers, 10s. to 12s. Gd. per day. French polishers, cabinet-makers, and upholsterers, 9s. to 12s. per day. (As much of the work in these trades is performed as piece-work, a sober and industrious man can add greatly to his pay by working additional hours.) Butchers and bakers, 9s. to 12 s . per d ay ; or by the year, 5 21. to 801., and board and. lodging. Farm Cooks, an 2 ( o l l. d t a o i r4yo/. servant pe r w an:Fu l E m s N l ,l a t n o d 1 . board p er General board and house lodging. annum, lodging. nd servants, 151. 12s. to 311. 4s. per an dbloarldae ca. pern2dlodng. Ho n u u s m et'n a a n ids, 4, to annum, and board and lodging. Kitchenmaids, 161. to 201. 16s. per annum, and board and lodging. Ladies' maids —not wanted as such. Laundresses, 201. to 311. 4s. per annum. Nurses and plain needlewomen, 151. to 201. per annum, and board and lodging. Good needlewomen, 1/. to 11. 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 351. to 521. ; but they should ether 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 \Vales 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. T I O N I THE . Loco .— wa i n i pleadingsonlay next t a c t t h i e on long n vacation will the superior courts will be resumed. The Common erous departures_ a fr° circum stance f l terminate, V AcA ls—ytrnTaulliimaen colonies during Law Procedure Act has diminished the force of the vacation. Are remelt' A ue . past week have the Is Londonl' ° b been s e T t ili t i which is explained to have arisen from g of many vessels that had hitherto rem • thPgrAtEr.7 remained, t complete their cargoes before they left. ' hbping '3 however, displayed since the receipt Marlborough, which have fs4ve _of the advices by the ports, has put an end to ss6'll: a check to further ex ships have, therefore at 1 expectations, and these They have , comprised ,altogether, last taken their departure. of the larger class, Of 24, including several to Port Philip, with the total number there were 14 6to Sydney, with an aggregate burden of 7,643 tons ; to Adelaide, of 73 1 1 1 aggregate burden of 4,870 tons ; 1 tons; Ito New Z tons ; 1 to Hobart Town, of 648 ton, of 412 to Zealand, of 430 tons; and Ito L'aunces -14,737 + .ons. ns .v . Their total capacity was, consequently, the berth for ery few vessels are now being put on Australia, hale but the i. rates h of freight within the last two days BUSINESS OFTHE' PORT, beco o i r ne L le o i N • firme n r. business I the general of the port of London during the past week there has been considerable activity, and in some branches of trade the importations have been very large. The number of ships entered inwards was 450, being an increase of 311 over that of the previous week. So many vessels reported i l n one week is rather unusual, but is accounted for by the very large arrivals of timber, tallow, and corn from the Baltic. The total quantity of grain reported is 117,044 quarters, including 71,629 quarters of wheat, nearly the whole of the remainder being oats. Of tea there have been 9,717 packages re ported ; and of sugar, 30,654 bags and mats, 2,497 boxes, and 893 casks. There are still a great many vessels overdue, particularly among those engaged in the fruit trade. The number of ships cleared outwards was 123, being an increase of two over the previous week. Of these 10 were in ballast, and a large number for Australia and Van Diemen's Land as above stated. The actual exports to Australia have been rather heavy, and, among other things, may be noted 724,228 y ar d s of calicoes—plain and part dyed—and 70,300 yards of , crapes and cambries. 18 100 100 all all' all all 100 all 100 1 'l7 i all all all 100 all 3 100 17, all 10 100 100 100 100 100 13 20 20 50 20 20 50 20 49i 6 41 12 ilk 593 9 22 1001 1 SO4 i 1021 7f 4,5 4 LINES LEA, RAIL*AYS. Buckghamsh Clydesdale Je. E.Lineoln. gr. 6 p. cent..... Hrtlpl. Dic. Railway Liull aelby tillavq• Do. i ghares. Lon.drGreenw Po. Preference, Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent._ Do. 8 per et... Manch.Baton. and Matlock Middlesbro' di Rodcar. Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et.. Do . Fixed sp. e Prest. &Wyre Do. Ares. Roys.u.4flit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef, Roth. 4 Gocaeg.s,p.c S. Staffordsh ArearValloygr 6 per geßt Do., I 4Sciritist; Closing' Prices Yesterday. MD_ AT Y Leasing Compans. IL. di N.W.' !Cal edon Gt.Northn ftGt.:Vopt.n. btvw.l 4 Bcvw Y.4N,Md Do IS. Eastern Po !Norfollt IDo Ln. &N. W. d; Midld. Stekton &, Darlingt. Midland... lE. Count Do L.&N.W fkrakt4Yk Da Gt.Northn Do Lanozkah.dz Yorksh MatCleah Stockt, Darlin po „, Pt.Westa. 98 - 102 48 , ias —14214 30 - 32 107 109 533 - 54} 27 - 28 134 - 10 20-251 I, 2i - 3 iii :: 1-00 59 - 61 140 - 145 138 - 142 ." d 2 1d 29 - 30 95 - 100 Business this day. -111 25 25 St. 50 ?.4 12,4 gt. 5i 50 13i st.l St. 25 Paldi all 100 100