The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-06 00:00:00

REGISTRATION.—cans DAY.) (Before Mr. M'ClinisTie.) CITY OF LONDON. The case of Mr. Marks, which was objected to by Mr. Burn yesterday, on the ground of his being an alien, and w hi c h was ordered to stand over till to-day, came before the Court, and evidence was given to show that the claimant was not an alien. The name was therefore allowed to stand on the register. Mr. Smith thought that the objection made by Mr. Burn was frivolous, and thought that costs ought to be allowed. Mr. - M'Cußisrin said that he thought Mr. Smith ought not to be too hard upon the parties. lie would take that opportunity of stating, that, from what he had seen of the conduct of Messrs. Bentley, Eagles field, and Amey, the persons employed in these inves tigations, the information which they obtained was in general very correct, considering the difficult nature of the duties imposed upon them, and reflected great credit upon their exertious. Thomas Whitehead, of 39, Aldermanbury, claimed to be put on the register with respect to the occupa tion of the above premises. All the rates were paid. The overseer, in his examination by Mr. Brown, admitted that the wife of the claimant was in the habit of receiving relief from the parish, and was at that period an inmate of the workhouse, and that a portion of the expenses had been repaid to the parish by the claimant. Mr. Brown objected to the claim on this ground, contending that the wife of the claimant beng re lieved from the parish disqualified him from being registered, he being legally a pauper. Mr. S. Smith, on the other hand, contended that there was no evide nce o f th e p erson re li eve d b e i ng th e wife of the claimant, and even if there was that Would form no valid objection to his name being placed on the register, a pauper being only disqualified from voting by the terms of the Act, and was not pre vented from having his name placed on the register. The collector said that he thought that there was no doubt about the woman being the wife of the party, in consequence of her being in the habit of " blowing him up" frequently. Mr. S. Smith thought that was no proof of marriage. Mr. Brown contended that relief was given to the Woman only in consequence of her husband being a rate-payer of the parish. She would not have ob tained th e re li ef had she not been his wife, and the perish officers would not have given her relief unless they were satisfied as to that being the case. The payment of a portion of the expenses by the claimant amounted al so t o an adm i ss i on of her b e i ng hi s wife. With respect to the objection of Mr. Smith, that a pauper was not prevented from having his name placed upon the register, the 30th sec. of the Act makes an express exception in the case of a pauper. It states that no pauper shall be entitled to be registered as an elector. That he considered decisive of the question. Mr. MCHRISTIE—The great difficulty appears to be with respect to the evidence of the marriage. Mr. Brown could not see that there was any diffi culty in the case. The person was relieved because she was the wife of the claimant, and the evidence of the overseer that she was relieved as his wife, was, he contended, amply sufficient for all the purposes of the Court. Direct evidence was not required, the fact of the overseers being satisfied upon the subject was of sufficient weight for the Court to decide upon the question. In answer to further questions put by Mr. Brown, the overseer said that, to the best of his knowledge, the woman had not any time occupied any separate residence within the parish ; and further, that the parish authorities would not have relieved her had they not been satisfied that the parties were really man and wife. The COURT held that this'was additional evidence Upon the subject, and refused to allow the claim. Claim disallowed. MIDDLESEX. (Before LANCELOT SHADWELL, Esq.) Mr. Shadwell held his Court to-day for the revision of the list of voters for the county of Middlesex, at White Conduit-house. In consequence of the deci sion of the Learned Gentleman on Monday, at Mile end, with respect to the general objection on the part of the Conservatives, no case of any interest came before Mr. Shadwell. The following are the lists revised to-day :--Islington, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, St. Sepulchre, Stoke Newington, Gray's Inn, Liberty of the Rolls, Marylebone, St. Pancras, Paddington, St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate, Saffron-hill, Hatton garden, and Ely -rents ; St. George, Bloomsbury, St. G iles'-in-the -Fields, St. Andrew's, Holborn, above Bar, and St. George the Martyr. SE CONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) ELLis v. DAVI3. Tbis was an inquiry to assess damages for breach of contract. The defendant had suffered judgment to go by default. The Learned SECONDARY said, that as the defend ant had not pleaded, it would be unnecessary to call evidence, but although the action had been brought on a contract which was admitted by the defendant, it Was necessary that the verdict of a jury should be obtained. The facts were very simple, as stated on the record, viz., that plaintiff had repaired a mill, for Which defendant undertook to pay 801. by instal meats of 51. per annum, and Four yearly instalments Were now due, and which was all that was sought to recover. The jury therefore gave a verdict for 201. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) John Kino•ston, who described himself as a dealer in l e ft- o ff wearing apparel, was charged before Mr. Jardine with stealing 2s. from a cabman. The complainant said that he was drinking in the Exeter Arms last night, when the prisoner came in and offered a pair of trowsers for 2s. Witness ordered a quartern of gin, and put do wn half a crown, and when the barman laid down the change the prisoner snatched up 25., put them in his pocket, and throw ing the trousers down, said, " There, you have bought them, and they are yours." Witness gave him in charge for stealing the money. The prisoner said the complainant had bought the trowsers, and afterwards was anxious to recall the bargain. Complainant asked him to give back the money, and on his refusing invented this charge. Mr. JARDINE said the complainant had acted very wrongly in giving the prisoner in charge, because he had changed his mind as to his bargain. The pri soner must be discharged. lVilliam Whittaker, who was remanded from this day week on a charge of stealing silver sugar tongs and spoons from the chamber of Mr. Bowden, in Lincoln's Inn, was again brought before Mr. Jardine this morning. It had be en ascer t a i ne d i n the meantime, that the prisoner was formerly in the metropolitan police, that he bore a very bad character, and was well-known at the prison. He was committed for trial. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) AN IMPOSTER.-- Thomas Jones, a man possessed of a great many aliases, was placed before Mr. Hard wick charged with endeavouring to obtain charitable contributions from Colonel Meyrick, No. 30, Curzon street, May fair, under fraudulent pretences. Horsford, one of the Mendicity Society's consta bles, stated that, in consequence of a letter sent to the Mendicity Society, he called upon Colonel Meyrick, who gave him such a description of defendant, that he Went in search of him. He went to No. 5, Orchard street, Westminster, and on entering the room saw three notorious begging-letter writers sitting round a table, on which was strewed a quantity of letters and brokers' warrants. He took possession of them, and went to a barber's shop close by, where he found the prisoner hid behind a towel. He took him into cus tody, and told him what he wanted him for. The prisoner said he would go with him, and on the way to the station be admitted going with the note to the Colonel's, and that everything he had stated was false. On arriving at the station witness sent to Curzon- street for the Colonel's butler, who came and identified the prisoner as the person who had left the note. Colonel Meyrick stated that on his return home, about two o'clock the previous afternoon, he found the letter produced lying upon his table. As he never gave charitable contributions to strangers without a reference, he sent the letter to the Mendicity Society, with a request that they would inquire into the truth of what was stated therein. Th e following is a copy of the letter mentioned : " Stamford Grove, Oct. 5, 1847. " Sir,—Permit me to address you in a case of cha rity, at the pressing solicitation of Mrs. Owen, a poor widow, whom I have known for several years to be a person of exemplary piety. She inform s me that she is a native of Raby, Durham, and is the daughter of the late Mary Smith, long a domestic in the Duke of Cleveland's family, and was much respected. She is induced to think that were yott and Lady Laura to be made acquainted with her present distressed situation that probably you might render her some assistance, for which she would feel grateful. The landlord has put the brokers into her house for arrears of rent, and her furniture will be sold to-day if the rent is not paid. lam a total stranger to you, but I may here mention that a near kinsman of my own was Alex. Dunbar, who was formerly attached to the 21st Regiment; and I have many years ago heard him mention your name, in conjunction with Colonels Paterson and Adams. Trusting the motive which actuates me, in complying with the request, will be deemed an apology, I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " JAMES LIONEL DUNBAR. " P.S.—The bearer is the brother-in-law to Mrs. Owen, who will wait for an answer to this hurried note. " J. L. D." After reading the letter, he told the defendant that be would mkt inquiries g the Puke of Clevelikud'o and that he never gave anything without a reference. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. The defendant is the person who brought the letter. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. The defendant, who has been repeatedly con victed TIMES.—The necessity for some means of com for a similar offence, was sent to the House of Cur municating with the engine -driver in case of any rection for three months. accident to a railway trai n h as a t length rection THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) Maria Putnam, a genteel-looking, well-dressed young woman, whose connexions are highly respect able, was charged with attempting to pass a counter f?it five shilling piece, at the shop of Mr. Francis Willett, linen draper, No. 8, Grosvenor-place, Com mercial-road. ' recognised by the authorities of the - Great Western, who have issued a circular that appeared in our paper [ of yesterday. It is something to the credit of this great company that it should be the first to attempt to remedy an evil that has been lately the subject of much complaint, and has been the cause of several most fatal accidents. Our Monday's publication contained a letter adding one more to the already existing proofs of the constant danger arising from the neglect of a precaution which we have frequently demanded the adoption of., The express train from York was on Thursday last placed in the most perilous position, anti. the lives of the passengers were exposed to the utmost risk by one of the car riages having got off the line while going at the rate of more than fifty miles an hour. Fortunately the train was so short that the engine -driver was not too far in advance to detect the jolting, or, as he described it, the " jumping motion;" and by stopping the train, which consisted of only three carriages, he prevented the incident from having a serious or, perhaps, a fatal consequence. If the train had been one of the ordinary length, it is al most certain that the engine -driver would have ex perienced no shock until something frightful had occurred to arrest his attention. The carriage which had gone off the line in the case to which we refer was the last of only three, but it might have been the last of a dozen or more, in which event it would per haps have overturned or been jolted to pieces before any irregularity had become perceptible at so great a distance as the engine. There was, it is true, a guard in charge of the train, but this individual seems to have stowed himself comfortably away in the luggage van, and was therefore of no more use than a trunk, a carpet-bag, or any other of the inanimate objects among which he had placed him self. The guard who retired to the luggage van might just as well hare taken the lamps from the back of the train and placed them inside one of the carriages, or performed any other act of dan gerous absurdity ; for if the use of a guard is to keep a look-out, he i§ a piece of superfluous cargo when he takes up a position in which he can see nothing. The guard could not, surely, have imagined that he was carried as a species of talisman or amulet to preserve the passengers from harm, and that it mattered little whether he took his seat in the place assigned to him or crept in among the luggage, so that he accom panied the train on its journey. It is to be hoped that the guard whose strange conduct we have no ticed is not an average specimen of his class; for if he were, there would be little hope for the success of the plan proposed by the Great Western ;for facilitating communication between the carriages and the engine. A man, to be called " a travelling carriage porter," is to accompany the train, and will occupy a seat on the tender, from which he is to keep a steady and vigilant look-out on both sides and along the top of the carriages, so that he may at once observe if any accident should occur, and communicate with the engine -man. This is a step in the right direction, but it is, we fear, a very small and inefficient one. The public will, after all, be at the mercy of a rail way servant, against whose carelessness there will be no provision ; and we hold, therefore, to the expe diency of some mechanical contrivance by which the passengers may make a signal for themselves in case of accident. It has been too often made evident that there is less dependence to be placed on the human than on the material agents of railway tra velling, for the latter have been seldom known to fail, except through the carelessness or blundering of the former. For our own parts, we should feel much safer if we knew the means of making a signal to be within our reach, than we could do if left dependent on the vigilance and promptitude of a man seated on the tender with instructions that he might, or might not, thoroughly comprehend or faithfully follow. We cannot help observing, also, in reference to the circular put forth by the Great Western, that the precautions just adopted applies only to the express trains, which certainly, from their speed, demand particular care, but which ought not to enjoy exclusively a provision calculated to increase the safety of railway travelling. Though the ex press trains carry only first-class passengers, we are sure the Great Western directors do not wish to draw a distinction between first-class and second or third class lives, which are all equally pre cious, and ought all to participate in any arrange ment that can be made for their security. It must also be objected to the plan proposed, that at night it will be almost useless, for the utmost vigilance would not enable the "travelling carriage porter" to see in the dark, and thus the superiority of some mechanical contrivance for communicating with the engine -driver is manifest. 'We must, however, give credit to the board of the Great Western for having evinced a readiness to meet in some way or other the daily increasing demand made on behalf of the public for some provision against sudden accident when the train is in motion. If other companies imitate the good example that has been set, we shall, doubtless, have the satisfaction of seeing the general adoption of some simple and effectual contrivance by which pas sengers may gain the attention of the guard and of the engine driver in cases of danger. CHRONICLE.—To persons anxiously interested in the industrial progress and social improvement of Ireland nothing can be more discouraging than to see how very little the leaders of opinion in that country appear to have profited by the lessons of recent expe. rience. It is truly mortifying that so much of the schooling of adversity should have produced so small an amount of its appropriate results as we find in the public proceedings of the various bodies which are there allowed to assume the functions of popular leadership. What with her " Loyal National Repeal Association," and her " Irish Confederation," and her " Irish Council," and her " Irish Party" (or so much as is left of it), the sister country certainly enjoys the benefit of a large multitude of counsellors ; but we are bound to deplore the absence of that which a high authority has pronounced to be the natural accompaniment of this description of social wealth. We have studied from time to time, with the best disposition to be edified and pleased, the reported and applauded utterances of those philosophers and patriots whom the Association, Confederation, and Council respectively introduce to the notice of the empire as the exponents of national thought and en deavour. We must Own, however, that we have never yet had the satisfaction of thinking that any class of Irish politicians are materially wiser than they were twelve months ago. There are varieties of course, both individual and collective, in the temper of the demonstrations, by which the organized pa triotism of Ireland is pleased to exhibit its extreme unfitness for the task of popular guidance. Uproar rious invective against generous benefactors, insolent repudiation of just debts, and well meaning but drowsy and ineffectual twaddle of the sentimental sort, constitute generic diversities in the manifesta tions of the Irish patriot mind, which a regard to psychological exactness obliges the critic to recog nise. The future historian, however, who may perhaps content himself with looking at things more in the mass, will be at no loss to assign certain common characteristics of Irish popular leadership during the year of famine and loans. He will, we apprehend, have his attention mainly fixed on that inveterate preference of talking to doing, that insatiable appetite for discussions, reports, depu tations, and addresses, and that unconquerable reluctance to learn the first truths of economical science, which seem to animate one and all of those gentlemen who meet weekly and monthly for their c tb o e un a t e r t y ia 's li g st oo o d f . We theyearl cannot B4 indulge will be a t b h l e e hope te pa t that bi s finger on any one useful practical thing done, or put in the way of being done, either by the combined or the separate exertions of these most laborious and in defatigable idlers. 1 Take, for instance, the demonstra tion with which we have have been favoured, during the course of the last week, by the body calling itself the "Irish Council,"—certainly not the most extra vagantly irrational of the trio of confederacies just new contending for the civic crown. The Council meet, under the presidency of a respectable Irish nobleman, to talk over things in general, and deter mine what things in particular can be advantageously selected for minuter discussion in speech and print. After a few cursory observations by the chairman on what would, should, or might have happened if Ireland had had a Parliament of her own to manage the crisis, and a cheerful hope that the Council would be able to think of something to everybody's mutual advantage, and an ingenious suggestion that things might go on better if landlords would use their tenants " kindly," and a firm protest against the policy of letting Irish farmers sell their corn in the best market, the business of the day begins with a discussion on Irish manufactures. A gentleman brings up " a re port," we are informed, on this really most interesting and important subject, in which the mode of making Ireland a thriving manufacturing country is carefully chalked out, according to the very best of the patriotic author's ability. The grand desideratum, in the judg ment of the framer of this document, for realising manufacturing success and prosperity will strike Lan cashire and English readers as indicating an admirable boldness and originality of conception. Mr. Keogh, M.P., the gentleman whom the Council has deputed to philosophise for them on this topic, has evidently gone deepar than most in his study of the nature and sources of the wealth of nations. It is not improved steam-power, nor a wiser use of water-power, nor steadier habits of industry, nor abstinence from illegal combination and outrage, that Mr. Keogh reccommends to his countrymen as the prime conditions of manufacturing pros perity. The gentleman has hit on a shorter cut to industrial eminence. He makes it altogether an affair of the heart. He would do it all by " senti ment." " Evoke public sentiment in favour of Irish manufactures," and the thing is done. The only Mr. Pelham, jun., defended the prisoner. Mr. Willett stated that yesterday evening Mrs. Putnam came to his shop, arid purchased a few trifling articles, in payment of which she tendered the five shilling piece (produced), which he discovered to be a bad one, and he immediately told her so. She replied, " Oh never mind," tendering another, which also was a counterfeit one. Witness remarked this is very strange, at which the prisoner laughed and said, it is odd, certainly, but my husband his recently come into some property and purchased a shop, and I must have taken them there. Witness said he would accompany her to her husband's residence, but she wandered about, and at last took him into a court and declared she did not know where she lived. Witness immediately gave her into custody. Mr. Willett added that it was a singular coincidence that, about a week since, he had taken of some person un known another bad five shilling piece, and if his worship would examine the three coins he would find that they had all been cast in the same mould. This evidence was corroborated by the prosecutor's shopman. Mr. Pelham, on behalf of the prisoner, said her husband had lately come into a great deal of money, and taken a shop, as she alleged. They had only recently come to the neighbourhood, and she might really have missed her way, or in the flurry and agitation consequent on such a charge, she might scarcely have known what she was about. He could produce several highly respectable witnesses, who would speak to her character. Mr. YARDLEY observed that there were grave sus picions attaching to the case, which imperatively de manded further inquiry, and he should therefore remand her on the charge till Tuesday, but would take two good sureties, in the sum of 401. each, for her appearance on that day. The requisite bail was almost immediately put in, and the prisoner left the court with her friends. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUP. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, OCT. 5. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT. The Royal Family embarked from the beach in front of Osborne House this afternoon, under a salute from Cowes Castle. As the horses and carriages leave to-day and to-morrow for Windsor, it is ex pected that her Majesty will not return till the spring. The long-continued drought has been very destruc tive to the new planted shrubs at Osborne. NEWPORT, RYDE, VENTNOR, AND CONVES MAILS.— On and after the 6th, the Isle of Wight mails will leave Cowes for London at seven o'clock, P.M., instead of at nine o'clock, as heretofore, the Cowes post closing at six o'clock instead of eight. Potatoes are already becoming scarce and dear. The quality being good, the consumption has been so great, that if the French or other foreign ports are not opened to us, a sufficient supply will not be ob tained but at very high prices. THE WASHINGTON.—The Yarborough steamer has been lying off during the day, expecting the arrival of the Washington Ocean steamer from New York, but she is not yet in sight.-8 r.m. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of \Vales, I'rince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice w and the Princess Helena, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady in Waiting, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady Caroline Cocks, Maid. of Honour in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Seymour, Dr. Meyer, and Major- ( eneral Bowles, Master of the Household, arrived. at the Castle from her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight, at twenty-five minutes past six o'clock this afternoon, and were received at the royal entrance by Lord Byron and Sir Edward Bowater. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Lieutenant Sheffield. Lord Byron and Sir Edward Bowater arrived at the Castle this afternoon to take their duties, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on. the Queen. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen took leave of her Majesty the Queen Dowager yes terday, and took his departure from Marlborough Douse, attended by the gentlemen of his suite, for the Continent. His Serene Highness Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar left Marlborough House on Saturday even ing, for the Continent. Mr. Eastlake had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Down ing:street. His Excellency the American Minister had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Freshfield had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—'The Cambria sailed for Halifax and Boston yesterday afternoon. She has a full complement of passengers, and the mails for Halifax and Boston. MAURITIUS.—Extract from a letter, dated Mauri tius, July 22, 1847:—" The new labour regulations have already had some effect in driving deserters to seek for employment on sugar plantations ; but, on the other hand, much derangement has been caused by the old hands being required to appear before the authorities to procure their certificates of exemption from the new stamp duty ; and the duty itself, payable in British coin at 4 per cent. premium, presses heuvily upon employers, the more so as the object for which the tax was imposed, ' via., the augmentation of labour, has been so little attended to by Government." WEST INDIA YAMS.—Amongst the matters of pre sent interest, nothing is more important, or displays more the character of the commercial enterprise of the day, than the steps now being taken for ensuring a future supply of vegetable food to this country; amongst the novelties of late, has been a large importation of yams, caused by an anticipated scarcity of potatoes, which has given a stimulus to the cultivation of this tropical sub stitute for that root, some tons of which have been eon signed to Messrs. Keeling and llunt, and, from the pre sent abundant crop of potatoes in this country, have been sold for the purpose of cattle feeding. A quantity has also been sent gratuitously to Ireland, to test their ap plicability to the feeding of pigs as a substitute for the potato. THE CASE OF HUTCHINGS, THE ALLEGED MUR DERER.—The warrant fur the execution of this unfor tunate man, who still solemnly declares his innocence, was received by Mr. Bone, the governor of the gaol, and was read over to Hutchings in the presence of the Rev. Mr. Winter, the chaplain, on Sunday. The excitement in Maidstone on this subject is very great, it being the general topic of conversation. On Friday night a meet• ing took place, and a memorial to her Majesty having been taken round the town by, Messrs. Busby, Clayton, G. Edmett, and C. Peppercorn, on Saturday, received four hundred signatures in a few hours, and more than four hundred more signatures have been since appended to it. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. 11. H. Dob ney and Mr. T. Clayton, were despatched yesterday (Monday) morning to present this memorial to Sir G. Grey. The Right Hon. Gentleman was in Northumber land, but Sir Denis Le Merchant, who was in attendance, received the deputation most courteously, and promised that a special messenger should be instantly despatched to Sir George Grey with the petition, and a faithful statement of the circumstances that had been brought under his notice. The prisoner's son has, we understand, also memorialized, and certificates of previous good cha racter, extending over several years of the prisoner's life, have also been sent to the Home Secretary. Mr. Bak lantine, the prisoner's counsel, has sent in a statement, which we understand contains some important evidence in the prisoner's favour, which evidence would probably have been adduced at the trial, had the prisoner employed an attorney instead of drawing up his own brief.— Maidstone Gazette. SPORTING IN SKYE.—Mr. Barlow and party, at Sligachan Cottage, have had good sport this season at the grouse shooting, and have also killed some deer. Lord Macdonald has been very successful with the deer, and has been distributing them to the poor people about Sconser, keeping up something like a venison soup kitchen there. This is a new and interesting feature in the annals of sporting.—lnverness Courier. SMALL-PDX IN SußEr..—A very fatal disease, and, it is believed, new to this country, has lately made its appearance among sheep. It is the small-pox of that animal, and in its first stages, more particularly, many fall victims to it. It is desirable that the public should be apprised of it, in order that the necessary precau tionary measures may be adopted to prevent its further propagation. It was introduced by some Spanish sheep imported from namburgh, and has already found its way into many flocks. Several sheep affected with it have evxeptoesrelfroyr C sa o l l e leg in e S ex m p i e th ri fi m e e ld nt m s a h rk av a e t. be A en t the also Royal been instituted, by which its infectious and contagious nature have been completely p rove d , and others are being carried on with a view to check its progress and to l e ssen its fatality.—Essex H era ld . - AMERICAN B iscurrs.-The American li n e o f packet ship Gladiator, arrived in the Docks from New York, has brought the very large quantity of 1.139 boxes and 40 barrels of biscuits of A mer i can manu facture. The soda or fancy biscuits, resembli ng i n s h ape and quality our biscuits called cracknells, are now, in consequence of their abundance, sold at a very moderate price. NEW MILITARY KNIGHT OF WINDSOR.—Lieut. Griftifths, of the itoyal Stall Corps has been appointed . one of the Military Knights of Windsor, in the room of the late Quart•romuter J0)110011, deceased. steam-power which this admirable industrial teacher recognises the necessity or desirableness of getting up, is a steam of enthusiasm. If we could perceive the slightest prospect of operating usefully on the minds of Irish councillors by anything so unsenti mental as English common-sense, we would suggest that there never was a country yet in this world that rose to manufacturing greatness by the way of the sentiments. If Ireland wants to be a great manufac turing country, there is but one method that we know of—namely, to set to work and manufacture. Let the talking and preaching alone ; print no more ad dresses; bring up no more reports ; but make some thing that somebody wants, and if it be good and cheap somebody will buy it. As for the " fair pre ference," only let Ireland take care that her articles he fairly preferable, and we will answer for their being preferred. The very Saxons themselves will give a fair preference to the cheapest and best pro ducts, whether of loom or forge, and never ask a question of the race, creed, or geographical where abouts of the producer. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COll PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUEsDAT AND FRIDAY EVENL.W. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5. '-STOCK BANKS. Dividend per Amount of Share. AJlniun . . 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. CANALS. £ a. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 AO 0 0 25 0 0 1 100 0 0 10 0 0 AO 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 Names of Companies. Dividend per Annum. tame of Company. Australasia .......... firitsh .N orth American :;ommercial of London colonial. • .• . Londn and Westminstr London Joint-Stock ... Ifetropolitan Provincial of Ireland•. Ditto, New.• . • National of Ireland .. Nat. Provneial of Eng. Ditto, New....... Union of Australia.... Union of L0nd0n..... Names of Companies. Ashtn & Oldh Ashby-d-la-Z Barnsley i Basingstoke ' Brknk&Abrg Dudley Derby . Eillsmre&Clas E:ewash Forth & Clyd GrandJunctn, rand Union' iilamorgnsh. 41str& Brkly Grantham fluddersneld. Kennt & Avu Lancaster Leeds& Livrpl Leicester .. • . ' Leicstr &Nthl Loughborogh 51.55. p c 41. 121. 61. 11. 105. 13%1. 7s. 6d. I/. 10s. 341. 10/. Monmouthsh Mntgemrysh Macclesfield. Neath • • • • • • Nottingham. Peak Forest. Regent's .. Roohdals.... Shropshire .. Somraet Coal Do.Lk Fd St Stffrd &Wore Shrewsbury.. Stourbridge.. Strtfrd on Av Severn and Wye Rail. j Trnt 8G sey Thams &Med Worcstr & Binning. Wllts & Brks, 100 100 100 100 150 11. 45. 71. 10s. 61. p . c. 281. 151. 20/. 11. 10s. N. Bs. DOCHS. Dividend Amo un t Name of Company. An pe nu r o 1 f Paid. I Price. m. Share. 1 --- ----___ -- X Commercial .... East and West India 6l. pr cent. Stock. I - ' - East Country I =don - I 101 St. Katharine .. .. - I 1 - Southampton • • - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- -. X s. d. £ s. d. Albion .....• - - - • • 3/. 10e. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance 14rit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17% Ditto Marine.• •- • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Atlas ... . British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 6% i;lericl,Med.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 20% County .. -...•.•- • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 eagle • Eng.& Scot. Law .... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - European Life ••• . -5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. _ rreemasons' .•••• •• .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe ....... • ... •. • . 61. per cent. Stock. - 124 Guardian - ••••• ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 46% imperial Fire •••• • • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210 Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% , Indemnity Marine - 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Life •••• • • • • .... 11. 58. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Landon Fire -••• • • • 101. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - Landon Ship .... •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - Marine.. ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2 , ,•4 National Leaa Fund . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Life •• • ...... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Palladium Life • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Pheenix - 185 Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 If. 3s. Provident. Life • . 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life.. ....... 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% [Loyal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 181 sun Fire...• •• .. • • • 61. 105. - - - Ditto Life .....•••• ii • 6.. - - - Viet:ria Life . - - , 40 0 - LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. .£ a. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 ' 166 Royal Bunk of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200 Commercial Bank •. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162 National Bank. ..... Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr Cent. - 50 0 0 88 Western Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. I - 50 0 0 81 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. I - 50 0 6.% Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 12% Eastern Bank .••• • • •• 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 111 5s Caledonian Bank - 210 0 41. 8s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 61. 123 City of Glasgow rank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 12/. 8s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 20% liereules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 12% Insur. Co. of Scetlnd- 51. per cent. 110 0 0 All paid. 8% ' , forth British Insur. • • 5%1. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 25% Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. ;100 0 0 10 0 0 22 % Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. p er cant. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18 Edin. & Ging. Railway 11.10 s. per s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 51 Ditto, 4 Shares 7g• •••-, c,-, •-. p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 13 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - Glanw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. - '4lasgw&Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18% ..7lsew & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent.l 25 0 0 All paid. 39 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All Paid. 39 4,tandard LifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent.l 50 0 0 1 210 0 1 94 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. , per I of I Paid. Price, Annum. Share. -_____ _ ____..-- East London..• ••••• • • 81. 100 0 0 . - 195 Grand Junction ••• • • • 31. 10s, 41 13 4 - 90 3/. 100 0 0 - - Vauxhall .• • • • • - - - 100 0 0 ^ - West Middlesex . • • 51. 15a.prent. 63 12 9 ; - 118 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Oct. 5.) Sucsn.—To-day on the part of merchants there was an increased disposition shown to sell, and large parcels being pressed upon the market, caused a further fall in the value of every kind of Raw sugar. The low rates that existed, however, induced the home trade to direct their attention to the article, but exporters were cautious in their proceedings. A good business was transacted in West India Muscovado, both for the scale and pan, in consequence of merchants reducing their prices generally 6d to Is per cwt. The public sales of 253 hhds 8 trcs Barbadoes went off with heaviness, and at a fall on former rates of is per cwt, but the whole sold. refined goods lumps are 54a to 54s 533 6d. Bonded crushed .—To-day although there were sellers of MAURITIUS. —Thi s to 29s 6d is the value caution, n lower terms, still the home trade REFINED of fine quality. afternoon and fo.r operated with 6d,and the rates taken for standard there was w g a r s oc n er o y t lumps mnoh sugar is little required, and 283 disposition . evinced at public sale 6,895 operate in Mauritius Sugar, and bags 215 casks went at a decline on former rates of is to 1 EAST INDzA. Tkis s fi r d; but the whole sold. Sugar submitted to lternoon the quantity of Madras bags, of which 4,654 bags public competition amounted to 9,308 the whole sold, but at onsisted of strong white, and moderate rates. FOREIGN.—This after n Croix were sold at the moderateo at public sale 10 hhds St. for good yellow. Privatel y rates of 43s 6d to 443 there any kind of Foreign Sugar for was little passing in h although there were sellers uponome trade or export, MoLessEs th rather lower terms. privately in Molasses, afternoon and at Publire was little passing badoes were taken in at 20s p er m e t sale 47 puns of Bar- COFFEE. - -Thi s afternoon therefor good quality. to operate in Native Cey lon, and at was little desire public sale 1,982 bags were only in part sold at 6d Plantation 17 casks and 154 bags per cwt decline. Of went at the full value. Of 4,184 bags 10 barrels Costa Rica a small part only sold, as holders were not disposed te, take lower rates. RlCE.—There at a reduction E.—There are sell ers of Ea st India on former rates of 6d per cwt, still the purchases ases made by private treaty have been extr eme l y limited in all kinds by exporters and the h ome trade there has been nothing oi,o. uilst theon speculation market con tinues to be liberally supplied. Of the pare public sale, amounting t o 8,000 b ags and 73els offered at pockets, a part only found purchasers. TEA.—To-day the market present e d a heavy appear ance for all kinds of Tea, and on the part of merchants there was an increased desire to se l l. Of offered at auction, amounting. to 8,236 i t i lie parcels ages, only 1,700 were sold at a decline on former Pa e, _ . r at e es of 2d for fine Congou, 2d for flovrery Peko 1:uto 3d for Ilyson, and 2d for Gunpowder. FRUIT.—For New 'Valencia Raisins prices-i the with decline, and the trade contin ue t o operate are sot! tf . caution ; 47s is the value. Muscatels hav e fallenin 7 t o n s. the value, and the demand has been limited at 503 to rants are in very good deniand. Turkey pulled Figs Cur rants moved off steadily at 5 03 t o 75s ; S ultanas 68sto ' per cwt. Of new Fruit la r g e arrival s are near at ha" 03 hand. SPIRITS.—For Jamaica Rum a reduction on former rates of Id to ld per gallon having been acceptedcaused a good demand to prevail fo r all Sorts, but chiefly Or home consumption, and t he tot al sales since our report are 450 puns. Demerara met with little attention, and can be obtained upon rather lower terms ; the sales are only 150 pun:: For Leeward Is !and the market has a dull a pp earan ce , and 2s to 2s 2d is the nearest value of proof strength, whil s t thre is a fair supply. E as t India is little required, and holders are willing to oke le 10d to - le lid for proof Dividend per Annum. Paid. Pricy X i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 44 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 , 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 with certificate; the supply is on the increase, and is likely so to continue. In Havannah there has been very little business transacted. Brandy is little required for home consumption or exportation, and the stock being large there were willing sellers upon low rates, the older kinds continuing to be pressed the most upon the market. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon there was only a limited demand for Cochineal, and 120 bags Honduras at public sale sold at 4s 7d to 53 3d for silvers, which are lower rates by ld. Of Camphor 500 chests were in part sold at 555. 0111.8.-0 f Southern Oil of all descriptions the market has been plentifully supplied since Tuesday last, and merchants having been willing sellers a decline in prices of lOs per tun has taken place, still a good demand prevailed, and 132 tuns at auction all found buyers. Seal is offered upon reduced terms, still the purchases made have been of little moment. Cod sells slowly, and at easier rates. For Sperm lower rates have been taken, still there has been only a limited business concluded. At public sale 36 tuns were sold. The stock of Fish Oils has been increased, and lower rates are expected to prevail. For public sale on Friday 40 tuns of Southern, and 20 tuns of Seal are declared. For Palm lower rates having been taken occasioned a good demand to prevail privately, and at auction 181 casks were sold. The prices for Cocoa Nut are high, but only a limited amount of business has been concluded at 563 to 61s. Fur auction 50 pipes are de clared, and large parcels have been received. Linseed Oil is offered upon further reduced terms, still the pur chases made have been to a small extent only for all purposes, whilst the supply is getting large. Rapeseed Oil sells slowly. Olive is offered upon lower terms, still the amount of business concluded has been to a small extent only. Lard Oil has been operated in with caution. TALLOW.—There has been an increased desire evinced on the part of the home trade to operate in Russian on the spot since Tuesday last, and a further advance in prices has taken place. From both soapmakers and chandlers a good demand has been experienced, and 46s 9d to 47s per cwt are the rates paid for fine I'. Y. Candle, but upon these terms merchants are disposed to sell. For forward delivery many contracts have been concluded at 45s 9d to 465. Rome made has been in excellent request at 48s to 48s 6d nett cash. Of other kinds of Tailow many parcels have been disposed of privately and at firm prices. At auction 126 casks of New South Wales went at 44s 9d to 46s for middling to good, and 50 casks of Taganrog at 46s 3d to 463 6d per cwt. The value of Rough Fat is 2s 9d per stone. For auction 600 pckgs of Tallow are declared. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Dasher steam vessel, Lieutenant J. W. T. French, Acting-Com mander, sailed last evening for Sheerness, taking supernumerary seamen and seamen gunners from the Excellent, to join the Asia, 84, recently commissioned at that port. The Antelope iron steamer, Lieutenant-Command.. ing F. Smyth, sailed last evening for Lisbon and the Mediterranean, taking the mails for those places. The Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant• Commanding W. Rivers, returned from off Brighton last night. The Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Stirling, Knight, hauled off from the dockyard this morning to the St. Vincent's moorings off Gosport, and will go out of the harbour to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. A sand-bag battery is being thrown up on Rat Island in this harbour by the officers and men of the Excellent. APPOINTMENTS. John Gregory, Master's Assistant, to the Albion ; George Wills, Gunner, confirmed to the Scourge ; James Gillespie, Second Class Assistant Engineer, to the Birkenhead ; Benjamin Burns, Second Class En gineer, to the William and Mary; Daniel P. Macna mara, Clerk-in Charge, to the Viper ; Robert Mann, Commander, to the Madagascar; William I. Piddell, Acting Second Master, to the Rhadamanthus ; John Crogie, Carpenter, confirmed to the Poictiers ; Willis Price, Clerk, to the Belerophon ; Edwin Smith, Clerk, to the Cambrian ; Thomes Ellis, Acting Boat swain, to the Ceylon ; Edward P. Cox, Master's As sistant, to the Petrel ; C. D. Robinson, Midshipman, to the Belerophon ; Charles B.MiKenzie, Clerk's As sistant, to the Victory ; David Miller, Lieutenant, to the Amphion ; H. Hamilton, Lieutenant, to the Hecate; Henry J. Barlow, Clerk, to the Hecate; William B. Horn, Clerk's Assistant, to the Albion. WOOLWICH, TUESDAY.—The Alban steam vessel, Master Commander, Bradshaw, has been newly cop pered, and was taken out of dock yesterday to moor ings in the river; she will soon be ready to proceed to Cork, to be placed under the command of Rear- Admiral Sir T. Ussher, K.C.H., at that station. The Sinbad lighter was taken out of the same dock at the same time, having had a false keel added and her mast shortened, alterations which are expected to improve her sailing qualities. She is to proceed to the Tower to-day to take on board the furniture and luggage of Captain Sir W. Symonds, surveyor of the navy, for conveyance to Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight ; the spot selected as the residence of the Gallant Captain on his retirement from official duty. The Blazer steam. vessel, Commander Wingrove was ordered to be paid off, but her services being re quired she will proceed immediately to Plymouth with the Royal Marines of the Fisgard, which vessel is to be paid off on Thursday. The Blazer will re turn to Woolwich and bring back the crew of the Dee steam-vessel. The Blazer was surveyed yester day by Mr. Land, master shipwright, and Mr. Chat field, assistant to the master shipwright, to ascertain he: fitness for service, and if she could carry the original armament for which she was constructed — four 32-pounder guns, two fore and two abaft. She has only recently carried two guns, in consequence of the greater immersion on the fore part when four were carried ; but the Admiralty being desirous that all vessels should be armed to the extent of their capabilities, she will carry four guns in future. The Fisgard, 42 guns, when paid off on Thursday next, is to be immediately re-commissioned as the flag-ship of Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.H., with a crew of 124 men, and will be taken into dock to be examined after the Driver steam-vessel is taken out. The Fisgard was struck by lightning in 1846 on the Oregon coast, and was saved from sustaining any injury by the 'efficiency of Harris's lightning conductors. She also broke two of the common anchors when on duty in the Pacific Ocean, and sent home for one of Porter's patent anchors, which proved of great :service to her when passing through the Straits of Magellan, as it brought her up quickly, and retained its hold so effectually as to insure the safety of this fine frigate in that danger ous passage. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the remaining half of a Bank of England note for 1001., on account of taxes not collected. The Secretary to the Admiralty, H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., with Mrs. Ward and family, has arrived in town for the winter season, from his seat, Much Hadham, Herts. MumKT.—The Cork distillers have reduced the price of whiskey 4d. per gallon. It is now 6s. Bd. Six months since it was as high as Bs. 9d. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.--We find, by an extract of a letter, dated Rio de Jan e i ro , A ugust 31, t h at t h e screw steam-ship Antelope was expected to sail for England on the 25th, with 12,0001. in specie. Exchange on Eng land, 271 to 27i. The Boston and Halifax royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Judkins, sailed to-day, with the usual mails, a large number of passengers, and a small amount of specie. RETURN or MR. BaooK.E.—Mr. Brooke left for England in the Pekin, but it is supposed that his stay at home would be only temporary. It is now eight years since this remarkable man first landed on the coast of Borneo, and there can be few of our readers totally igno rant of the manner in which bis time has been em ployed. His history affords us a remarkable union of romantic adventure and of usefulness such as has been the lot of few private individuals to work. It is impos sible to Tead the personal history while in Borneo, and not be struck with his total absence of selfishness by which all his actions have been distinguished, and yet his is a degree of enterprise and of energy that would have secured to an ambitious man the grati fication of no moderate longings after fame or power. As it is, Mr. Brooke goes home heralded by no trumpet of his own ; his noble character, his upright and useful life, would have been unknown to fame, but for the spontaneous eulogy bestowed on them by Keppel. The East has sent home not a few lions during the past twelve months, but if the appearance of Mr. Brooke on his native soil is not hailed with the plaudits of an admiring public and the honours of a discerning Sovereign, those Indian officers who go home with the expectation of receiving high honours for distinguished services need no longer wonder at their disappointments. Too much, however, is due to Mr. Brooke to allow us to suppose for a moment that he will be treated with neg lect, and the English press, which has for some time past taken every opportunity to urge the importance of ex tending our relations with the Eastern Archipelago, can hardly be so inconsistent as to fail to do justice to one who has gained for us so secure a footing in Borneo. It must be remembered, too, that Mr. Brooke goes home, not as an obscure British subject, but as the independent Sovereign of Sarawak, and as such, should be received with royal distinction.—Singapore Free Press. THE BISHOP OF LONDON.--THE IRISH CLERGY.— In reference to an article which appeared in our paper of the 24th of September, commenting upon the rule of the Bishop of London for the exclusion of Irish clergy men from his diocese, wo have had a communication from Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P. on the subject, and feel bound in justice to state, that die rule upon which we animadverted has since, at the instance of the Lord Primate, been rescinded, and consequently no longer exists.—Dublin Mail. SERIbUS Loss OF LIFE IN ZETLAND. — We have just received intelligence from Lerwick, that, on the Bth ult., while a boat was at the fishing at the North Roe, she was upset by a sudden squall, and two young men, Andrew Irvine and James Ramsey, were drowned. On the 18th, while a six-oared boat was returning home to Lunasting, she was _upset by a squall, near the Scar Island, and five men and three women were drowned. The upsetting of the boat was observed on shore, and another boat was immediately launched and manned; bu► she speedily filled with water, and the crew had to run her ashore to save themselves. These disasters, with the two which had but a little previously occurred, have spread fearful dismay over the islands. From the 18th of August to the 18th of September, more than 20 lives bare been sacrificed in Zetland alone to the fury of the sea, and many a heart bleeds over the sad loss.—Joks o' Groat Journal. SWINDLING AT OXFORD. OXFORD, OCT. 4.—William Wilinshurst, whose first examination, was reported on the 21st of last month, was again brought before the magistrate, when the evidence necessary to complete the case was adduced. The first charge entered into was the forgery of a letter of credit on Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, London, for 300/., which the prisoner re ceived at the bank of Messrs. Williams and Co., of Dorchester. Charles Good, clerk in Messrs. Williams' bank, de posed that on the 11th of January last a person re. presenting himself to be Mr. W. Mason, called at Messrs. Williams', and applied for 3001., in compliance with a letter of credit previously received, and pur porting to be from Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. In consequence, he (Good) filled up a draft for 2671. 10s., which he produced in court. The prisoner gave a draft on Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. for 2671. 10s., and at the prisoner's request he (Good) drew a draft for 321. 10s. on Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., and the prisoner signed it, and received that amount in Bank notes and gold. William Vickers, clerk to Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, London, stated that on the 12th of January last, the draft now produced for 2671. 10s. was presented to him for payment, and he cashed it by giving two 1001. Bank of England notes, one 501. note, and the rest, 171. 10s., in gold and silver. He, the witness, had no recollection of the person who presented it. Richard Sykes, clerk in the issuing department of the Bank of England, deposed to changing the above notes for gold on the 12th of January last ; when, on applying to the person fur his London address, he wrote on the back of one of the notes, " Castle and Falcon." Reginald Cocks, of the firm of Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross, deposed that the letter of credit produced was a forgery, and had not been written or signed by himself or any of the firm, and that no person of the name of W. S. Mason bad any account at their bank. The prisoner made no defence and was committed to take his trial at the next assizes in March. The second charge was for forging a 101. note on Messrs. Robinson, Parsons, and Co., bankers, Oxford. The additional evidence brought forward, was that of the police inspector, James Comeby, of Aylesbury, who produced a cheque book of Messrs. Robinson and Co., which matched with the cheque of 101. paid to Mr. Tomlinson, of Thane, and signed John Elison. Mr. Joseph Phillips, clerk to Messrs Robinson and Co., identified the cheque book as the same which he gave to the prisoner on the 9th of September last. There was no account at their bank in the name of John Elison. The prisoner made no defence, and was fully com mitted on this charge. The remaining charges were for forging a draft in the name of Sir E. Filmer, Bart., on Overend, Gur ney and Co., for 3,7241. 10s.; for forging a cheque in the name of M. C. Plaisted, Esq., of the London and County Bank for 221/. ; for forging another in the name of W. T. Taylor on the London and County Bank for 3101. In the above charges the forgery was distinctly proved, and as no defence of any kind was set up by the prisoner, he was committed to take his trial upon each. The examination occupied nearly three hours. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCT. 2.—At the grand military manoauvres on the 27th ult., which took place in the presence of more than 50,000 spectators, several accidents occurred. At the sham fight two soldiers were killed, and several men, together with some of the spectators, were wounded by the firing. M. Doignon, Commissary General of the Bank, has sent in his resignation. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 29.--Durizs ON THE RHINE. —The committee for the navigation of the Rhine, now assembled at Mayence, have arrived at the fol lowing decision : —Prussia proposes to reduce 30 per cent. the duties of navigation of every kind, but an other proposition has been made by Nassau, that of let ting the duties up the river amount to the level of those down the river, which is equivalent to reducing the first tariff one-third. The Governments ofßatavia and Baden have addressed to the Prussian a proposition, and their commissioners, as well as those of Prussia, have implicitly accepted the proposition of Nassau ; in regard to the French Government this is ex tremely liberal, being disposed to adhere to any proposal of a reduction which may be presented. Holland is naturally of the same opinion as Nassau, and manifests a pre ference to the up tariff. Hesse opposes both the pro positions, or rather in giving its adhesion, it subjoins the condition that Prussia shall snake the present franchise cease on paid goods. This is a concession which Prussia cannot make, for it strikes at the root of its general system, and if it were to adopt it, the Rhenish provinces would complain with good reason that they are not so well treated as the other pro vinces of the Elbe and the Weser. It is hoped that these considerations will have their due weight with Hesse, and that the proposition of Nassau will thus obtain the assent of all the states bordering on the Rhine. On the 23d of September the King of Prussia passed through Cologne, for the purpose of visiting the cathedral, and inspecting the new buildings of the Civil Hospital. His Majesty was met by a depu tation of the commercial council, and was addressed by Al. Stupp, one of the members. The council had hoped to have profited by this opportunity for obtaining the right of open debates in the corporation. His Majesty refused his concession, in a somewhat formal answer, adding, that since the city of Cologne had given a preference to the French commercial legislation, to the rejection of the Prussian legislation, they must be content to confine themselve to that, without overstepping it, and they must endeavour to realise the new system by degrees. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussm.s, Om 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .... •• .• Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent— • • Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • . Ditto,ditto,lB4o Ditt0,ditt0,1842............ • • • 98% Ditto, 1844............... • • •• • • ••• 90% Ditto, 1836 .. •••••• • • • • • • 89% Ditto, 1838 • • ...........• •••• • • • .... 66 Ditto of the City, 1832 •••••••••• •• .• 99% Ditto, 1843 • • ............... Bank of Belgium...—. ..... ••.••• • • • • •. 83% —Brussels rapers. Oct. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Sari. 25. 5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • •• • • ••••• • • • • • 104% 4 per Cent. 94 3 per Cent. 66 Loan, 1834 ....... ........... ••• • • • •• • • 154% Ditto, 1839 • • •• • • • • •• .• 120% Bank Shares • . . Esterhazy's Loan ........ . .......... RAILWAYS. The Northent,or Ferdinand .• ••• • • 15414 Gloggnitz ••••ss-• • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• • • •• • • 120 Vienna—Milan .. •••••••••• • • • • • . • • • • 108 HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, OCT.I. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents ................ 106 Bank Shares ............ • • • • .• • • • • .. 1600 Anglo-Russian Loan •••••• • • • • • .... 104% Russian 5 per Cent., llamb. Certificate. 100% 100% Ditto Jet series Inscription ...... • • • • • • 101 100% Ditto, Rope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96 Ditto, in Certificate.— .... •••• .• • • 96 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...• 88 Ditto Stieglitz •. • . ........ ••••• • • • • 87 Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. 12% 121( Ditto 3 per Cent ............ 22% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent• ••• • • Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••••• • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • National Bank Shares THREE NEW PEERS.-Sir Charles Coote, Bart., is residing at Ballyfin, Mountrath. It is with inexpres sible pleasure we are enabled to announce that the worthy baronet is immediately to be raised to the British peerage, together with the Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Doherty, and the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobbouse, Bart. Mountrath, it is said, is to give name to the first-mentioned of the three new peers.— Dublin Evening Packet. STATUE Or TEE LATE KIERMAN FINLAY, ESQ.— The statue of the late Mr. Finlay, of Castle Toward, subscribed for by the merchants of Glasgow, was on Thursday placed in the Merchants" House. It was exe cuted in Rome: by Mr. John Gibson, the! eminent sculptor, who was present on Thursday to see the statue placed in a proper light. The statue is after a portrait painted by Mr. John Graham Gilbert, about fifteen years before Mr. Fialay's death.—Scotch Re formers' Gazette. v WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. — meeti n g ' Yesterday a G . hofelgd in governors b ors o a a n r d d f r o o m om mi o tte f t e h of veho t s h p e ita tr l a w n as ss. action of general business. The report for the past c institution, th e abo for quarter stated that 4 2,4 9 74 in.p out-patients had been ntshadbee a n dm pl i a tt c e e d d . on the books, and 489 Four wards, capable of receiving sixty more patients, still remain shut up for the want of sufficient annual income. During the past year there has been an exceF , s of expenditure beyond the income of 1,0971. 19s. 8(1 The hospital is situated in the 101 l er snd most densely populated part of Westminster, and has been in existence for 128 years, during which period it has afforded relief to .nearly 340,000 patients. Dr. Bumpas (brother of the late Sergeant Bom pas), who was in practice as a physician at Gloucester, has left his estates, real and personal—the latter amounting to 10,0001—to his widow for her life, and then to his children. The acting executors are his brother-in-law, J. G. Smith, barrister, and E. G. Smith, solicitor, together with his son, Dr. Bompas, physician. The late Sergeant was also appointed an executor. Fires in chimneys in France have been prevented by placing three frames of wirework, one foot above each other, near the baso of the chimney ,• no flame will pass through them ; while the draught of the chimney will not be impaired, consequently no fire can ever hap pen in the chimney. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.— The meeting of "friends to the cause of currency reform," held here last night, excited some interest among commercial men in the town, though the attendance of the general public was not large, and scarcely seemed to be soli cited. About 400 gentlemen were present during the greater part of the evening. On the platform we observed, besides those who took part in the proceed ings, Mr. G. Edmunds, Mr. Gargory, Mr. Harlow, and Mr. T. B. Wright. The CtIAIRMAN said he would proceed in the first place to read the circular convening the meeting. In taking the chair he had to state that there had been some delay in the proceedings, in consequence of the absence of the Members for North IVarw ickshire and for the borough, who had been engaged in important business, and unable to attend punctually. With re gard to the question it was one of great importance— (Messrs. Newdegate, Spooner, and Muntz entered here and were recei‘ed with great applause)—affect affecting all the interests of the kingdom from the highest to the lowest in trade and commerce. The 6 events which had lately taken place were sufficient to draw the attention of the community to the subject. Without giving any particular opinion of his own, he might be justified in saying that the present monetary system was ill suited to meet the growing wealth, trade, and manufactures of this great kingdom. He would not offer any particular observations, but wait for those gentlemen who would bring forward the propositions, to which, no doubt, they would give a fair hearing and consideration. Mr. HARLOW then read the following resolu tions : " 1. That the existing depression of trade and com merce, as evidenced by the numerous failures of houses of undoubted solvency, is attributable to the restrictive and unsound monetary system established by the Acts of 1819 and 1844, which injuriously interferes with all mercantile engagements, rendering the same course of action which is at one time prudent and secure at an other time entirely ruinous. That a single deficient har vest would not have affected materially the great inte rests of the nation had not the evil of scarcity of food been aggravated by an artificial scarcity of money, producing a forced and unnatural depreciation in the values of commodities and other property, and a sudden and extreme increase in the rate of interest, and leading to the withdrawal of the usual banking facilities from parties engaged in certain important branches of trade and commerce, and the consequent limitation in the demand for labour. That a monetary system which necessarily breaks down under the effects of a limited exportation of gold for the needful supply of food, producing from such cause a general derangement of trade and commerce, and an enormous depreciation in the values of property and commo dities, thus greatly increasing a national misfortune like that of a bad harvest, is vicious in principle and destructive in its operation to the well-being of the community. "2. That the arguments now being used to mislead the public as to the effects of the expenditure of money in railway works and other undertakings of a national character, and to withdraw the attention of the mercantile and trading classes from the real evils under which they are suffering, are of no value whatever, and can only be taken as an evidence that, in the present position of the country, the monetary means are not afforded to the profitable employment and maintenance of the population. That in the opinion of this meeting, justified by the history of the present century, this country, so long as its mercantile and trading operations are not limited by unnecessary monetary restric tions, is fully able to bear an expenditure equal to that required for the construction of railway works, inasmuch as that it has borne, without injury or derangement, a much larger expenditure for carry ing on a protracted war, and for other purposes not likely to become reproductive. That the necessary expenditure for making the railways sanctioned, after mature deliberation, by Parliament, has led to the employment of a vast amount of labour in various parts of the United Kingdom, and to a consequent demand for provisions and manufactured articles; and that no complaints of the pressure of railway calls were made until the general business of the nation was suddenly and injuriously affected by the restric tive operations of the Bank of England, rendered necessary by the provisions of the Acts of 1819 and 1844. That the same restrictive monetary policy has been attended with the same disastrous conse quences as in former years, when no expenditure for railway purposes was proceeding ; and that, although in certain cases, the employment of large amounts of money for particular ob;ects may lead to some tempo rary inconvenience, the evils under which the country is at present suffering can be attributed in only a very trifling degree, if at all, to the railway undertakings now in progress, as those undertakings can but slightly aggravate the difficulties arising from other and more permanent causes. "3. That it is the deliberate opinion of this meet ing that the Executive Government will incur a serious responsibility unless they at once propose and carry into effect some temporary measure calculated to restore the monetary means and the credit of the country to an efficient state, and thus to relieve the commercial and trading classes. That relief and as sistance have been afforded in former periods of extreme national danger an•l difficulty; and that there has been no occasion during the last fifty years when the relief was more imFerativ, ly required than it is at this time. T: •at the df wand for labour is rapidly diminishing in the manufacturing districts ; and that it will be extremely dangerous further to neglect those remonstrance;; which have been already addressed to Members of the Government, with the view of inducing them to preserve the nation from the serious evils which would follow the general suspen of employment. " 4. That while measures of a temporary nature are required to remove that most severe distress and suffering which the population are now experiencing, and to avert the more serious consequences with which they are threatened, it is important that the monetary policy of the country should undergo a fair and searching inquiry before a Committee of the House of Commons. That it is recommended by this meeting, that immediately on the assembling of Par liament petitions praying for the appointment of such committee should be forwarded from all the principal towns and public bodies in the United Kingdom. That such an inqdiry is rendered absolutely neces sary, now that the principle of protection to native industry has been abandoned, and now that it has become painfully evident that the interests of all classes, the debtor and creditor alike, can only be permanently secured by the establishment of a sound monetary system, capable in its operation of sustain ing and extending the mercantile and trading trans actions of the nation, and calculated to prevent those extreme and dangerous fluctuations which are the natural and inevitable results of the existing system. " 5. That the Committee of the Birmingham Cur rency Reform Association be requested to communi cate the foregoing resolutions to her Majesty's Mini sters, and to forward copies of the same to the Mem bers of both Houses of Parliament." Mr. T. C. SALT, in seconding them, laid it down as the " Birmingham doctrine" upon this subject of the currency, that metallic money and paper money never did and never would circulate together for any , lengthened period ; wherever it had been attempted panics bad been the result. As the country ad vanced in population and enterprise, an exten sion of the paper system became necessary; it got to bear a disproportionate amount to the gold, and then the base became insufficient. One great error had been in fancying that money, which was in fact payment, must itself be paid. Money was merely that which by law cancelled debt, and all that men sought by trade was to obtain that which should cancel their debts. All life was & debt; if a man ate his dinner, or obtained clothing, he increased his debt, and the whole object of man kind was to obtain that which should cancel their debts. But money cancelling debt would have in itself an intrinsic value, or at least a v a lue of enact ment if it cancelled debt by law , and t hat value would fluctuate according to the quantity, as was the case with regard to any other necessary of lif e _. the necessity of cancelling hunger, for instance—a s regulate ill e on it e s y issues. The fixedly and justly well as the necessity of canc elling debt. The only rea.l permanently t o mak w e athse tov realueg very assignats, the opprobrium of paper money, read why us this lesson ; the only rea son they were depre ciated in value was because they were issued in undue quantities. We wanted a standard a pound of measure. Not the pound of Sir R. Peel. Vas the sovereign that gn he held up as a pound a real nieasure of value ? Why, a little while it took 96 10 of thes e t o command y, ago o/. of the national debt, and 230 of them to buy a North-Western share ; and now 85 in the one case, and 150 in the other, would suf fice ; but it was the sovereign that had changed, not the article that it would buy ; 4,000,0001. of Bank paper had been withdrawn ; money had become scarce and changed.—(Hear, hear.) The panic in the spring was relieved by a loan from the Emperor of Russia, and, therefore, people thought the evil day was over; but see now how the most solvent houses were failing —those that were the very groundwork under the London bankers. We should next see the rot among the London banks, money further constricted, prices depressed, but debts still payable in full. Trade existed partly on the confidence of men, and it required a great exertion to restore confidence when destroyed; in December, 1825, the Bank had to issue 10,000,0001. in fourteen days to restore something of confidence. The terror now was just as great, and would be inw finitely greater before the week was over, and the Bank had no power to increase its issues, 22,000,0001., with confidence, might enable the nati on to carry on its trade, but with terror, 30,000,000/. or 40,000,0001. would not. Look at the effects of the Bill of 1844 ; houses were failing, and we were told not to be alarmed, for there would be twenty siing* Per 'u• ig, Price.