The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-04 00:00:00

EDITION suase lf) and drunk with vehement applause. This wag not a n i nsult over a captive—it was submission toa victor, and an acknowledgment of injustice. Iv At the same meeting Sir WILLIAM MOLES landed"TR spoke as if no Englishman had ever e i n Nevir Zealand before the New Zealand t:triPany was. in existence—when the fact is, that Com p Co 2,0.00 and 3,000 were located before the e " V an Y 'was ever heard of, and it was part of the ,I: ll . 4 P an Y ' s plan to decry the enterprise of these in bi-,:"ItalF1 and to substitute another system of occu ;ll—,7°ll for that which they had so successfully itaPted. Even at the Plymouth gathering Lord to p l spoke of these men, whom the Company is vi etn isPlacc, as men of no character—runaway con fell: Th e Noble Lord will not allow an erring 1,4-w-creature to recover his character and self in Pe , , t by escaping from punishment and establish- Thgtt Traself as an honest man. We prize, quite as lion as Sir WILLIAM MOLESIVORTH, the viten 4tid ci f British c i v i lization and British knowledge, we the British empire over the whole globe ; but Itr: r t : b Y no means convinced that Mr. WAKE the scheme colonization, putting au kh an end to cie t euPation of other subjects of the Crown, 1° he acted on. th at the 'air Jeting at Plymouth a new feature of author eherat was exposed, of which we presume its sill ae oler drea me d . AIL GIBBON WAKEFIELD Aupeat Wit h surprise that he is to be the St. 1:10 .44n of the Britain of th.zi South Sea. Lord jett a Sai d " that one o f t h e most i m p or t an t ob that v ‘ ii . "l7 h ad in view was the spreading through I stie tt 7t a nd fertik region the blessings of civili too, 1,14114 Ch ristianity." Sir W. MOLESWORTH teiri g ess the mark, spoke of the naked savage rZ i tefu' ay instructed in the mysteries of our i ftt eskil!! ")ll . " It is true that Missionaries have %di,. e s , " th em, but those Missionaries have taken mud b and therefore do not teach the a postle t ruly. Mr. WAKEFIELD is to be the A ve r uL the truth. 1:4 Lee t i, eei s omewhat ashamed of the Radical Member A ;,„ BPeaking is this manner. We thought ery IT 'e n o mysteries about our religion. By it te nait;,,, is explained. Mystery of all kinds was taere4`4 When Revelation was given. The :444chil nr , w knows the whole history of man ' s re iris his full, his redemption, and how eternal deteritY4 obtained. Sir W. MOLESWORTH th e " holy religion" which Mr. WAKE itI444I st O ' be: the means of transplanting to the t eril kd of t he south ern ocean. He not only misde abtilled . it ' h ot, in common with Lord ELIOT, he oh o Its mime. The New Zealand Company, as a pr o „ r . b Y their excess:Ave jealousy about the preventr latiett of land, and by their great desire laud from being granted at less largoittin 3' per acre, have in view the rea atewtd Prnfits on their capital. In fac:, it is 1 44 4 t he .t Mr. 'W AKEFIELD ' S sc h eme i s i n_ iliett. 04to „ g i ve wealth t o th e cap i ta li s t , b y ena bli ng 4 4 trer o n ' s Port our lab ourers t o t h e S ou th S eas. I t i s, N yro t : ' rid:4eulous affectation and delusive hypo 4ed literr.cend that the object is to diffuse Christianity tt to, tn)steries of our holy religion. The object L ion money, and the scheme is based on op to the Missionaries, who have already ab'iFi` th e peopl e Ch r i st i an i ty, an d acquired posses hgt.r!much of th e i r l an d . 1 01 the sources of quarrel betwixt Mr.W; . AK E ib. an d Lord J OHN R USSEL L was the t ng i t ti at K f l b y dr.; Government at less than his 2°B . per acre. Mr. W W AKIELD knows 71411,1 colon; could not prosper if any colony were al 41 its neighbourhood, of which the laud could ; 1 0et , 1 1, ed at pleasure by industrious English l'Adeed, it is plain that nobody would give . 411 , 1 14 1 . bis Company 20s. p er acre f or l an d , i f , I d . get, as he has got, a thousand or two t o th e ) muskets. It is essential, therefore, le here, et i t :_ n g of his land, and t o th e success o f hi s ort, ean ti that the land should b e a ll se i ze d b y t h e a l 3' ° r by the Government, and all squatting .oantfit„.noocet for upa the oc cu pation by individuals for their' own 441 41 benefit of the Company—be lt 4ll Y ?tit ;i n end t o . It is in principle a ru o r w pa af th0 14(14 an infringement of the liberty an d .per 44 00 - 0 134 , : e Wh 0 might choose to emigrate on dim own e 4i v C i on sequenee of this scheme is plain. It will ill:L -41n immediately to a landed interest, which Pr: ver y soon opposed to other interests. Such of a t r nOntopOly of land is the palpable parent Corn-law for New Zealand. The re it lay e mbryo in the 20 s. per acre rent. Those who Port, 7 - per acre must be protected aga i ns t im tio"ll%. from those districts w h ere t h e peop l e pay Per -eat. Supposing the land to yield four quarters 14kre, there must be a Corn-law, imposing a the a f SF,. per quarter on all corn imported from *411444.0 where land is occupied and cultivated the payment o f rent. M r. W AKEFIELD ' S ' monopolize the land leads directly to a at 'a oti t vi % and will t en d, th ere f ore , to inflict on We an ? 14 the South S ea th e c u rses , a s well as the \ 4 2 ') of our civilization. the evi l4 ' 1 8 11n e scheme of monopoly, pregnant with all E UPp o en tailed on us by our landed interest, is ‘b ne , d 1 1 Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, „ and th e 1 11 ° ' .other so-called patriots, who yearn after cred it Prciv ement of society. If we give them 1 )413 for good intentions, it must be at the ex bot': of their un d erstan di ng. Wh y s h ou ld t h ey , , , irot i„, `"Pro're society at home, and then send out `"Y political offspring ? Rising young men, I tt)„ Er.:lOT and Si r WILLIAM MOLES- My 11.1 are 'called, might re ac h f ame, if th ey h ave tale nts, without soar i ng a l o f t i n M r. W A K FtBl.4' S glittering balloon. South Australia 4„N4 therm that a tim e w ill come w h en it must 'i t,' and they will be cast to the earth. ip th fe Aninotateur, a Boulogne paper, contained oi l lam number a sensible and friendly article tetit p, Q. rel ations of amity that ought to exist be , re great countries like England and France. prr),., try .ate s the desecration of the national hymn k ik -14 4 1 14 g it a means t o exc i te t h e one nat i on ii : t e t he other, and with muc h fi rmness d e f en d s I titt e h clf policy it h as pursue d, in checking, as ; t h. 4 . 1 possibl e , t h e war-cry against England. 11 14 b. It is sup porte d b y a l arge proport i on of the Nei, l4 'lts of B ou l ogne. At t h e t h eatre last d liiti tzt : i \l here th e crowd was immense, " a few in 1- ey th Ball e d' for t h e " M arseilla i se H ymn ," but htik e eat once put down by the ind i gnant re -1441, °f the gr eat ma j or i ty of the audience. The }t our e ceate to o k p l ace at Valenciennes. Let the will 11 : t 4 ange r come, " i t properly adds, " and it 4 48 e see of wheth er men , who show the i r goo d to4r ar e les s patr i ot i c than their noisy neigh -14) 4 * T he En g li s h nat i on, more calm, t h oug h ess pt energetic, exhibits to us the spectacle of a bhp wi In are s i ncere l y desirous of peace, and yl 3 will not suffer themselves to be carried away tvh i N it va does f rom t h e grave and sad reflte,ions to Pt e43 th e present crisis giv es r i se . T he whole I S t °I England protests against war, and not one aAf eltt ble journal points out, as a f uture enemy, kit tae ign nation. L et our opponents accuse us Dr cni ,Y P l ease of A ng l oman i a, we must still be A t 4 l ed to say that this conduct is dignified, that ,l4rQterable to our turbulence, and that we would wel l to. imitat e it." Th e ,report of the e Anti-Corn-law m ee ti ng at to Dti ,7ster, which we have not hefnre found space is worthy of the l ea d e r s o f t h e aboli j . 7 7 71 The mant‘y) straightforward language of M. BROTHERTON will reach the heart of every bread-eater in the country. According to his state ment, the bread-tax paid by the inhabitants of Sal ford is double the amount of what they have to pay for all local taxes. It is estimated at upwards of 30,0001. a-year, while the local taxes, enhanced as they arc, particularly the Poor•rates, amount to 14,0001. Well may Mr. BROTHERTON describe this as an odious, unjust robbery committed by the oeii ) 0 04 , i 00 .9 10'‘ Y 7 V t ti I;, , 0; Legislature. Another point which Mr. BROTHERTON has well put, which ought to be impressed on the working men, particularly those who prefer any other agitation to an agitation for a repeal of the Corn-laws, is the relative effect of the bread tax cn the poor and on the rich. The poor weaver it deprives of one-third of his earnings—the man who has 5001. a year it only taxes to the amount of one-tenth fif his income. Just in proportion as the people are poor, and are compelled to live on bread or potatoes, does this tax press partially and heavily on them. We arc grateful to Mr. BROTHER TON for having brought the important bearing of the Corn-laws distinctly before the labouring classes. He has long been one of their best and most prudent friends, and he still maintains that estimable chz.- racter. The whole of the proceedings deserve to be commented on, and the opinions enforced ; but we can only refer to one point more. Mr. J. B. SMITH proved very completely that an increase cf crime is the consequence of the high price of corn. In 1835 and 1836, when wheat was 40s. the quar ter, the number of prisoners tried at the Old Bailey at Manchester was 873 and 972. In 1839, when corn was 80s. the quarter, the number was 1,117, and in 1840, 1,532. A similar-fact is true of Salford. We are convinced, too, that similar facts will be established by the commercial returns from the agricultural districts whenever the question is examined. How can it be otherwise ? The rise on the price of corn puts a stop to employment, lessening the whole amount of wages if the rate be not lowered, de prives many persons of a portion of their food, and reduces them to hunger and starvation. Famine will make men, worse than (logs, eat one another ; and is it, therefore, to be supposed that they will stop at the lesser crime of violating property to get food, particularly when they are taught to do that by the Corn-law makers ? We have before said, and fortified by these facts we now re peat, that the Legislature, by decreeing plun der, makes plunder and robbery the general rules of society, and the crimes for which men at the Manchester Old Bailey and Salford Sessions are imprisoned for committing, are only faint imitations, which have starvation for their excuse, of the crimes ordained by the Corn-law making legislators. Such of the Paris Journals as were published on Monday have been received, but Monday being the solemn festival of All Souls, and according to the Roman Catholic ritual a holiday of the first class, several of the daily papers did not appear. Besides these we have received Madrid Journals of the 26th ult., with ailvices from Greece, extracts from all of which will be found i❑ another part of The Sun. From the correspondence of the Morn ing Post we have likewise copied an amusing ac count of a fracas between M. BERGERON and M. EMILE GIRARDIN, the former editor of the Siecle, the latter editor of the Presse, at one of the Parisian theatres on Sunday night, to which we invite attention. It is altogether a droll affair, and yet its consequences individually and politically may be serious. The impression produced in Pads by the late news from Syria is, upon the whole, pacific. The submission of the ENIIR BECHIR the Journal des Debats stigmatizes as treacherous, while grief and rage nearly deprive the National of the power of hurling maledictions on French supineness. But abating the insane fury of the journals, a compara tive calm was observable in the political circles. Indeed, the conviction that the peace of Europe would not at present be disturbed was general among the monied classes in Paris on Monday. Nothing can be more agreeable to lovers of peace and good will among men of all nations, like ourselves, than to turn from the madden ing war-shouts of the Republican National of Monday to the dulcet embrace-wooing notes of our fashionable Contemporary, the Tory Post of this morning. We are at last let into the secret of the side which the Tories have taken on the Eastern question. One of the most respectable of their organs has solved the riddle which so puzzled the country for the last two months. During that time everybody was asking everybody what side would the Tory leaders take ? 'Were they for peace or war ? How many of them were likely to remain neutral ? Would STANLEY join with PEEL in supporting Lord PALMERSTON and a variety of other questions to the same effect, which nobody could answer. At last the Spectator began to treat the question as no longer doubtful, and assumed the Tories to be all for war. To this assumption the Post of this morning replies as follows : The Spectator says that " the war section" of our Cabinet is confident in the support of a large majority of the Opposition. The Spectator is too woll-informed not to know, whatever it may say, that the Opposition is for peace, and that the journals of the Opposition have strenuously advocated the policy of peace, notwithstand ing the continued provocation of the French revolution ary party to war. The Conservative Opposition would not be slow to animate the country into exertions for war if there were a na ti ona l occas i on f or war , b ut that occasion the Opp os iti on d oes not perce i ve to have arisen in the difference between the Allies and France upon the Turco-Egyptian question. The Spectator, which, we suppose, considers itself a friend of peace, says that the question at issue is, after all, but of a few leagues of territory more or less, and that this is a miserable pretext for involving two great nations in the countless miseries of war. Now, this is just what has been said several weeks ago by the Opposition journals, which are now accused as supporting the war section of the Cabinet. We cannot be constantly re peating the same thing ; but it ii rather too bad to be charged with belonging to the war party because we happen to have long ago " used up " those observations against war which they who make the charge are now re-furnishing to the public. We now know, and we are grateful for the in formation, though late, in what category to place the Tories. They are our dear allies—struggling for peace under the broad banner of Radicalism. All we now want is some proof of their sincerity —some intimation of the sacrifices they are pre pared to make, in order to preserve peace. Con cessions must be made somewhere--will the Tories agree to any? In our extracts from the Paris Journals will be found a foul and infamous insinuation of the Com merce, which indirectly imputes to the British Go vernment an intention of getting rid of MEHEMET ALI by assassination. We leave to the high minded people of France the duty of resenting as becomes them, this atrocious and cowardly calumny upon the most generous nation on the face of the earth, and the one to whose feelings the crime of assassination is the most abhorrent. We find the following paragraph in the Courier Francais " Private letters from London announce that it was expected there that news would shortly be received of the death of Mehemet Ali. We do not know on what foundation this information rests." We have heard at Paris what the correspondent of the Courricr wishes from London. England, it was said, must absolutely get rid of Mehemet Ali at all events. Now, it is well-known how the men who were in the way of the projects of British Power have disap peared.. It seems, however, that Mehemet Ali is warned, and is on his guard.--Le Commerce. PO URSE.--P . AR IS, MONDAY , No v. 2. HALF-PA S t THkEE.— This is settling day in th e Fre nch Stoc4 for ti ll 9ctober Account, in which there his boon TM E NUN., LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 1840. a good deal of business. For the settling the Three per Cents. opened at 76f. 40c., declined to 76f. 35c., ad vanced to 76r. 90c., and closed at 76f. 65c., a rise since Saturday of 90e. The Five per Cents. from 109 f. 20c., rose to 109 f. 65c., and closed at 109 f. 40c., a rise of 55c. For Yon - y the Three per Cents. are 85e., and the Five per Cent , . 45c. higher. For the end of November '.he Three per Cents, are quoted 76f. 50c., 76f. 45c., 76f. 95e.. and 76f. 60c , being se. lower than for the set tling. The Five per Cents. 109 f. 40c., 109 f. 35c., 109 f. 80c., and 109 f. 45e. The Bank of France Shares .15f. higher, and the Belgian Bank Shares sf. The Belgian Five per Cents. h lower. The Three per Cents. 25c. better. For the settling the latter 68f., 68f. 35c., and 67f. 90c. For November, 68f. 10c , 68f. 35e., and 6Sf. 10c. The Spanish Active is as on Saturday,, from 22 it advanced to 22A-, and dotes at 22, but very little business done. Neapolitan Bonds 20e. higher. The Roman un altered. The alteration in Railway Shares have been but small. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents lO9 23 ... 109 50 ... 109 25 ... 109 95 4 per Cents 94 50 ... 94 50 ... 94 50 ... 94 50 3 per Cents 76 451 76 t , 5 ... 76 4U ... 70 70 lank 0, trance &elgtan Bank 5 per Cent., ler Cents 65 111 ... ~ Ss 10 ... 68 ... 69 iparibb Ac.ive New Dcfcrred 4 eaPoh;.n .5, in in lOl% ... 1111 y, ... 10. 1 A ... 1111., RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, U. B 397 50 ... 397 50 ... 395 ... 395 L.B. Orleans . 4% ... 480 ... 477 50 ... 477 50 6.a.,ourt, i 0 liitic The Madrid Journals received are of the 26th ult., and from the Gaulle of that date we have copied some interesting official papers, which will be found elsewhere. Among these is a manifesto from the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, claiming the guardianship of the young Queen ISABELLA and the Infanta, her sister. What answer the Regency will make to this assumption of right we know not, but we do not think that Don FRAN CISCO DE PAULA, is exactly the person to entrust with the education of his illustrious niece. As Princely understandings go among the BoUIIBOI S, the Infant DE PAULO may pass muster, but his . Royal Highness is by no means a Solon. The Spanish people cannot afford to trifle with the education of their youthful Sovereign, if they will only remember that her MAJESTY had a knave for her father, a fool for her grandfather, and that her mother's " swan-like" nea7l6-'her courtiers called it, was accompanied with a swan-like understand standing. A Constitutional QUEEN has duties to perform which cannot be performed without com mon sense. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh supplies were small of neat ly all sorts of Corn. Wheat and Bar:ey as last stated ; Beans and Pease also unchanged ; Oats firmer than of late, and some business has been done at Monday's prices. Flour met a slack de mand. _ _ CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLO R tcok appeals to-day. SHUTTLEWORTH V HAWORTH. _ --- This case came before the Ginn upon appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor. The only question in this case was whether certain individuals who had not been made parties to the suit were entitled to the costs of making out their claims in the same manner as they would have been if they had been made parties. The testator in the cause left a certain sum to be distributed among the descendants of his uncle and aunts to the fifth generation. No less than 487 persons made out their claims as coming under that denomination before the Master, but only a few of that number were made parties to the suit for the administration of the testator's estate. Upon the case coming before the Vice- Chancellor, his Honour decided that those parties only were entitled to their costs who had been made parties, and, from this decision, the present appeal was brought. Mr. Wigram and Mr. Geldart appeared for the appel lants, and Mr. Spence, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Cockerel', for the respondents. The Lunn CHANCELLOR was of opinion that the par ties were entitled to those costs which would have been given to them if they had been made defendants to the suit. As to the costs the parties had been put to hefrwe the Master in making out their pedigree, his Lordship gave no opinion. on the 15th March, and the receipt was sent down to Mr. Greenwood; the money was not paid until the 12 , h of April, but in the mean time Mr. Greenwood had been debited with the amount, and allowed it, Mr. Simpson being well known to him, and he having dealings with hire. On the 12th April the money was paid, and Mr. Simpson died ; the office then refused payment of the policy, and upon the trial they pleaded that the new contract set up by the receipt of the money on the 12th April had been obtained by flatlet and covin, Mr. Simpson having in the meantime contracted a disease which would tend to slorten his life, was liable to fits, and of drunken and intemperate habits. They of fered no evidence upon that plea, and the Jury were dis charged upon it. The Learned Gentleman contended that the Court having debited Mr. Greenwood with the amount of the premium, which he consented to, and it being afterwards adopted by Mr. Simpson, must be con sidered as a payment of the premium upon the day. The Court were of opinion that Greenwood was not in any way the agent of Simpson for the payment of the premium, and that therefore there was no evidence of any new con -1 tract ' and therefore the verdict ought not to be disturbed. Rule refused. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was but a moderate supply of Game and Poultry ; trade was dull, and prices the same as last quoted. Eggs at 61. to Bs. per 120, and dull of sale at the above prices. Meat dull of sale; the inferior sorts of Beef and Mutton 2d. per stone lower. In Veal no alteration. In small and fine Pork there was a good demand, but for large and coarse sorts there was no sale.—Beef 2s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. Mutton 3s. to 4s. Veal 3s. 8d to 4s. Bd. Pork 33. 4d. to ss. per stone of 81b. COLONIAL MARKET. The produce markets presented a dull appearance, the public sales were few in number, and privately the trans actions were on a small scale, both for home use and ex port. Prices for most articles have assumed a downward tendency. The arrivals were to a fair extent from most parts. TEA MARKET. Prices were firm for all kinds of Free Trade, and there was a fair amount of business transacted. Company's Congou in request at 2i. qd. cash. TALLOW MARKET. _ _ Prices again lower for Russian Tallow, and the demand was very dull both on :he spot and to arrive. The stock is 11,000 casks larger than last yevr. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum is in good request, and prices firmer for all kinds; Brandy sold more freely at late rates DRIED-FRUIT MARKET. The market was dull for all descriptions of Fruit, and prices arc on the decline. The supplies keep large. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon, light Southerly airs, with rain and hazy weather. in . mon, Nov. 3.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Ces. trian, Armstrong, from Bombay. Sailed the Lancashire, Bartal, for Savannah ; Stephen Whitney, Thompson, New York. Put back, the Henry, Africa. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind E. to N. N. E.—Sailed her Majesty's ship Britannia, for Mediterranean. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind S E. strong gales.—Ar rived the Edward, M'Kenzic, from Quebec; Rambler, Bailey, Catania. Sailed the Emeline, Johnson, for Ber muda; Kcrswell, Gower, Demerara. The Matilda, ar rived here to-day, from Newport,_bound to Londcu, with coals, is leaky, and must discharge. FALMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind S. to E. S E., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Robert and James, Field, from Newfoundland. Sailed the Oriental (steamer), for Malta and Alexandria; Montrose (steamer), Vigo, &c. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Arrived Trade, Pluves, Quebec. Cowas, Nov. s.—Sailed the James M•Queen, for St. Kitts ; Black River Packet, Wright, Jamaica ; Redbridge, Slaughter, ditto; Victoria, Voight, Hanover ; Alwina, New Orleans. JERSEY, OCT. 31.—Sailed the Iris, Bertrane, for New fuundland ; Josephine, Walborg, Cape de Verds. YARMOUTH, Nov. 3.—The Union, Hedgeeock, bound to London, Rose, Bontel, for Dunkirk ; and Neptune, for the same port, put back yesterday, with loss of anchors. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY".—The Cotton Market has been dull to-day. The sales are 1,500 bags, at late prices. LIVERPOOL SIIA RE LIST, Nov. 3.—Eastern Counties, 9i, debs. 3/. 10s. ; Grand Junction, 213; Great West ern half-shares,4si ; London and Birmingham, 160 159 160 ; Quarter-shares, 26. The Market slightly improved. More buyers and less stock offering. Accounts from Berlin, of the 23d of October, state that the 3d corps of the Prussian army had received orders to march towards the Rhine. THE FUNDS. Little is doing at present in the British Market. Still the funds are buoyant, owing to the French funds coming higher, as well as to the prospect that bostilitics wili soon terminate in the East. Consols, which left off yesterday at 881 for the Ac count, have been done at 88k, since which they have rc• ceded to 881 ; at present may be quoted about 88.1-i; Exchequer Bills 2 discount, par, 3 to 1 discount; batik Stock, 159 161 ; ludia Stock, 242 244. In the Foreign Market the prices at present arc nomi nal, and may be quoted as they left off yesterday, Spa nish Active, 21i1 ; Deferred, NI 4 ; Passive, 5+ s ; Portuguese, 331 4 ; Three per Cents. 21 . 1 ; Bravtien, 73 75; Colombian, 231 i; Mexican , 271 i ; Dutch 'Fwo and-a- Half per Cents., 50a s ; Five per Cents. 96i 97N. SHARES.-Great Western Railway, 16 17 prem. ; Lon. don and Brighton, 13 12i dis.; Blackwell, 5 4i dis.; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, 51 52 per share; Croydon, 101 per share; Greenwich, 6 7 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 17 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. 65 4 40 . 13i 10i...... to 100 Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Croydon (Trunk) Midland Counties Ditto Shares North Midland JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England COURSE OF EXCHAN Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 51 Antwerp ....... ....... 12 .11 Hamburg... M.B l3 10 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 ?,0 Ditto, 3 months 25 60 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine —149 Petersburg, 3 U s 37 - Berlin Vier; na, effec. fl. 3111 lO 3 Trieste, ditto lO 4 Madrid Cadiz Bilboa. Barcelona ... 36 Seville 5 8 ...... to 4 9 100 35 [GE—(YESTERDAY). I Gibraltar Leghorn .... Genoa 25 70 Milan Venice 47 Naples 4O Palermo, per oz 1221 Lisbon s2i Oporto Rio Janeiro 27i Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 46 Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ_ Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 10, New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 11 Silver in Bars 0 5 0 HALF-PAST ONE. Consols may be quoted at present 881 for the Account ; Money, 88k ; Exchequer Bills, 2 dis. par ; India Bonds, 12 15 dis. ; Bank Stock nothing done; India Stock, 243 In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active 2l Portuguese, 324 ; Three per Cents., 211-1; Colom bian, 231 ; Mexican 271 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. improved to 51 ; Five per Cents. nothing done. In the Share Market rather more doing than for some days past. Great Western, 81i 82 ; Fifths, 87k ; Lor. don and Brighton, 29; Croydon, 10i; Midland Counties, Quarter Shares, 8 9; North Midland, 74; National Pro.. vincial of England, 34. EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS.—It is said that the Gland Junction Canal Shares, which a few years since were selling at 3401. per share, have fallen to 1301. per share, and the dividend, which was then 131. is now 81. per share. As there arc 11,500 shares, the proprietors have lost 2,415,0001. upon their capita!, and their annual in come is reduced 57,000/. in this undertaking alone. Is not this for the advantage of the public? canals, and rail -19 Ads, and COMM roads, Loop each other in check. VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS DAY.) y t al 8 LANE V. B ENNETT. Mr. Jsc)n moved for an i n j unct i on to res t ra i n th e de fendanourt.tßli•nr.neSttenfrnocmtt,riencethiveing e h r e 3 sum 1 t of t ' ia l d ,o a O t t i d. an ou nu t it o y f granted to him, by a person of the name of Bagot, of 83/. for a term of ninety-Mne years. That annuity was charged on some estates of which the granter was tenant for life, and which estates af.erwards came under the management of the Court of Chanctry in another cause. The estates were sold and converted into money. In the mean time Mr. Bennett became indebted to the plaintiff upon bills, and deposited the annuity deed by way of s7eurity with the plaintiff. The proceedings went on. and ultimately an arrangement was made with Mr. Bagot, the granter, by which the annuity was to be paid out of the proceeds of the estates, or out of Mr Begot's share of the proceeds. Accordingly an order, founded on that arrangement, was make in the cause, in the month of July last, directing the mode in which the proceeds of those estates should be distributed; and among other things it was directed that out of one portion of thoie proceeds, a sum of 1,200/. should be paid to Mr. Bennett, in full redemption of his annuity. The plaintiff conceiving that he had an equitable lien upon the annuity, therefore applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant Ben nett from receiving that sum. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Take the injunction. Mr. JACOB observed that the bill also prayed for an in junction to restrain the Accountant-General from paying, but that was unnecessary, The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that if notice were given to the Accountant. General of the order then made, tl,at would be sufficient. MA DDEFORD V. AUSTVVICK. The arguments of Counsel upon this motion, which was opened yesterday, were then resumed. The motion was, that the Master might be directed to admit certain evi, dente upon the rderenee before him. The only feature of public interest in the case is, that the proceedings origi nated out of the partnership transactions of Russell and Co , the late eminent carriers, in which business the plain tiff and defendant in this cause were partners. QUEEN'S BENcH.—(THIS DAY. ( Sittings in Banco). THE CORPORATION OF MALDON V. WOOLIT. Mr. THESIGER moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the dcfendar.t should rot be set aside, and a new trial had on the ground of misdirection. It was an action of trespass, for breaking and entering a certain close, carrying away soil, and for fishing in certain waters, the property of the plaintiffs, tried before Mr. Baron Gurney at the last Essex Assizes. In summing up, the Learned Judge had stated that a charter, granted to the Corporation in 1810, must be put entirely out of then consideration, as it was merely a charter of restoration, and net of grant, anti the Jury were to consider whether the Corporation had, previously to that time, exercised these exclusive rights. The Jury, expressly on that ground, found for the defendant. The COURT would confer with Baron Gurney on the subject before pronouncing its decision. TIIE QUEEN V. HART. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved in this case for a rule to show cause why a writ of certiorari should not issue to remove the depositions into that Court, and to show cause why the defendant might not be bailed in Liverpool. The defendant had been committed to the gaol of Liverpool on a charge of ripe, alleged to have been committed on the person of Elizabeth Gordon, on the night of the 21st Au gust last, at her lodgings in London-road, Liverpool. He (the Attorney-Gencral) held in his hand a number of affi davits as to the respectability and general good conduct of the defendant, who had for ten years carried on the busi ness of a silversmith in Crescent• place, paying 1201. a-year rent, and his stock in trade was valued at 5.0001. The defendant became acquainted with Mrs. Gordon in the month of July, when she invited him to take lodgings at 114, London-road, where she lodged. An intimacy took place bats%een the parties with the full consent of Mrs. Gordon, and was carried on at their lodgings in the Lon don-road, the White Bear Hotel, and other places, as could be proved by the affidavits of the servants of the lodging-house, and other parties. He would now come to what bad occurred on the night of the 21st of August, which would clearly show that the present charge was the result of a conspiracy. Lord DE/V MAN did not think it was necessary to go into details—it would be sufficient to hand up the affidavits. After stating the substance of one or two of the affi davits,- the - Court - granted the rule. BAIL COUKT.-(TIIIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) CERTIORARI. Mr. PLATT moved for a rule for a certiorari to remove into the Court of Queen's Bench an indictment which had been found in the Central Criminal Court against cert ain persons, one of whom was a gentleman at the Bar, for con spiring to defraud certain other persons of a sum of money. The affidavits set forth that the charge was totally ground less, and that the prosecution had been instituted solely through malice ; that as the case was one of misdemea nour it could not be tried by the Judges at the Old Bailey, as they only tried cases of feleny ; an d that as it was pro bable that several important questions of law would arise in the course of the cause, it was desirable that it should be tried by the Judges of the Superior Courts, and that the parties desired to be tried by th e i r p ee rs, namely, by a Special Jury.—Application granted. The names of the parties did not transpire. THE QUEEN V. TIIF. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY COM PANY.-CERTIORARI. Mr. WaLLINGER applied for a rule for a certiorari, to remove into the Court of Queen's Bench an indictment against the London and Greenwich Railway Company, which had been found at the last October Scscions for Southwark, for a nuisance in building an arch over a public footpatch. Questions would arise in the course of the trial as to the right of the Company to build at all over the footpath in question. and also as to the extinction of the Company's Act of Parliament, which would render it advisable that the cause should be tried before a Judge of one of the Superior Courts.—Application granted. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. trial, WRIGHT U. ROBINSON. was tried before The defendant in this case had been a servant in the a verdict em ployment of the plaintiff, and his duty was to tick off goods before they were admitted into stock, and to pay certain demands for such goods. Having received notice to quit—on making up his accounts it was fuund that he was short to the amount of 3/. us. 9d., for which he could give no account. The action was brought to recover that sum, and on the trial before the Under-Sheriff of Staffordshire, a verdict was found for the defendant. o n l t . h h e i sm ground o nin oguf DOE misdirection d C E period he had This was an action oiNorfieuicr't t ion gr o a n nt t e h d e a pa r r u t le of fo th r e a J n u e d w ge, Mr. Baron Parke during the late Assizes, when was found for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD now moved for a ejectmentilNN E RENNET V. TURNER. This rule nisi for a nonsuit , and from his statement it appeared that the defendant had been in possession of the estate from 1 817 up till MO—that during all that Paid 0 rent. He denied that he had occupied it as tenant eitherl yearly or at will, and therefore under the late Act of Per liament, having been in undisturbed possession of the - pro perty upwards of twenty On behalf of the plaintiff had been dug for the purpose o . b il of Bennet during the years , he became the freeholder.it %vast. proved ud that some stone f ing a wall by order pos session _ o u. the defendant-- that the parish wanted to dig a drain in through part of the property, to which Turner n objected, but on plication to Bennett had been planted upon " tvit h s e do esate a" la d the that the that some trees a P 37 Benn ett. The Learned Counsel contended these acts did not con stitute such ownership as to take the case out of the opc- ana grantedththruele:ury ge for 3001. nvaerbvildlesnifrdaebxl exchange ration of the Statute. The COURT said it was and granted e that the case LESLIE U. DELL AND RO Bsow. id in ec ra i rtnership With Rob found This was an action gm( n` to go by de fault. Bell defended should be fully considered. the eulentiv used his ground that the other defaindent had fraudulently , his name, and that , it. At the the plaintiff was aware -- last Term,trial before Lord The defendant Robson Abinger, at the sittings after upon a a l c lo ti vr un ed u ju for the defendant. moved for a rule• : Mr. THESIGER now .. a . nisi fora new trial. It aftl a trcd that 711 son, as coach colliers. . Bell in ll w res s n Cambridge, while Robson carried on the busni.easrsm r London. The bill was drawn by a person named 11 a , and he was the only witness at the trial. He proved that Robson had been in the habit of accommodating withhim bills, t.: which were ac cepted in the name o f the firm, but he could not prove that Bell ever had any kno wledge of the matter. The COURT thought that, according t o t h e p l eas, the verdict ought not to be disturbed.—Rule refused. ACEY V. FURNEY. This was an action upon a policy of insurance of 400/ upon the life of Charles Harman Simpson, whi c h was tried before Lord Abingcr at the London Sittings after last Term, when a verdict was found for the defendant. Sir F. Pc umcx moved for a new trial, and from his statement it appeared that the policy was effected in Hull, between Mr. Simpson and Mr. Greenwood, the agent in that town for the British Commercial Assurance Com pany, on the 15th March, 1831. The course of dealing was, that when the receipts for the premiums are sent down to the agent, unless in fifteen days he returned them, the Company tank it for granted tbkt the premium was paid, and debited him with the amount. In 1833 the pre mitun upon Mr. Simpson's life became due PLLAS.-(THIS DAY.) BUNTER V. LORD GRANTLEY. The SOLICITOB- GENERAL moved for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence. The plain tiff brought his action against the defendant for illegal ejectment from a cottage, in which the plaintiff claimed to have the freehold by immemorial pos session. For the defence, it WdS proved that the right of possession, if any, was in the parents of the plaintiff, whom the latter had forcibly driven out of their dwelling; whereupon Lord Grantley claimed a rent from the plaintiff, and upon his refusing to pay ejected him by force. It was also stiown that the plaintiff had no con fidence in his own claim, for he bad consulted several per sons as to whether he might cut down a tree in the garden or not ; and upon the advice of those persons he refrained from cutting it down.—Rule nisi granted. RAILWAY SIIARES.-BAIED V. ROBERTSON. This was an action to compel the defendant, the Secre tary to the Eastern Counties Riilway, to pay back to the plaintiff the turn of 4001 , deposited by the latter in his hands to complete the purchase of 200 shares in the Com pany ; but to be returned to plaintiff if he failed to esta blish his claim to the shares. The verdict was for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TAISOURD now moved for a rule for a nonsuit, on the ground that the defendant, as the ser vant of the Company held thernoney in trust for them, and had no power to surrender it, and that the plaintiff having deposited the money to be applied according to a specified contingency, could not demand it back, without having on his part done something to bring about the event, upon which the return of the money was made contingent. The Court ruled that the•plaintiff had a right to forego his claim to shares whenever he pleased, and in doing so to demand back his money.—Rule refused. BOW-STREET 7 -(THIS DAY.) Robert Duntcorth, aged 17, described as a pill box maker, was brought before Mr. HALL charged with being found concealed on the premises of Mr. Burger, pawnbroker, Long-acre, supposed for the purpose of committing a IL limy. Frederick Higliam, assistant to Mr. Burger, stated that being asleep in bed this morning, about half-paßt one o'clock, he was awoke by a noise as if one of the bars of the window had fallen down, and on procuring a light, he found the prisoner concealed in a corner of the shop. He then called up the shopnian to assist him, and when he re turned down stairs the prisoner had contrived to shift himself to another part of the premises. The shopman kept watching white witness rant for a policeman, and atter hunting about in every direction, they discovered him con cealed in a shutter box. Mr. HALL—flow do you think he managed to get into the house. Witness—He must have got in at the time of closing the shop, and had the noise not been heard, he could have easily contrived to have made away with about 2CO/. worth of property. After he was pulled out of the shunter-box, we found the chisel, nail, and knife produced in the place he has hiding ; and the chisel corresponded with the marks which appeared on the side door. Mr. HALL—Do you know aho he is? Witness—l know nothing about him ; but he had been seen loitering about the door during the evening. The prisoner said he had not tasted food for the last three days, and he had applied to get into the Refuge foi the Destitute, but without success. His only object was to get a lodging for the night, and none of the instruments to.nd belonged to him. The witness said that he must have climbed upwards of eight feet from the ground, to have concealed himself where he was discovered. Mr. Ham. said there could be no doubt that his intent tions were to plunder the premises, and ha should be sen , for three months to hard labour in the House of Correction. TRIAL BY JURY.—The anniversary of the acquittal of Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall, from the charge which Tory trickery had concocted, and which, but for the aid of a British Jury, would have proved fatal to them, takes place to-morrow, the sth November, at Ander ton's hotel, Eiect-street. Mr. Fox takes the chair ; and a meeting of some of the staunchest friends of salutary reform in London, will celebrate the forty-sixth anni versary of a day made equally memorable by the ac quittal of honest men, as by the delivery of our legisla tors from the Gunpowder Plot. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDEOR, TUESDAY Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton this afternoon, at tended by the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Misses Anson and Paget, Earl of I.;stowel, Lord Mired Paget, and Sir. Frederick Stovin. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George E. Anson, spent tho forenoon shooting in the Slopes and Little Park. The Countess of Erroll end Lady Ida Hay are ex pected to arrive to-night, on a visit to her Majesty. Colonel Chaloner and Mr. George E. Anson will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. The Duchess of Gloucester took an airing in a car riage yesterday. A deputation consisting of Mr. George Grote, M.P., Mr. Raikcs Currie, M.P., Mr. E. R. Rice, M.P., Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., Mr. Wolryche Whitmore, M.P., Captain Meynell, R.N., M.P., Mr. G. F. Angus, and Mr. Henry Weymouth, had an interview with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday in Downing-street. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere arrived in town yesterday from Stowey. The Right Hon. Gentleman had an interview with Viscount Melbourne in the after noon, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Marquis of Normanby is better, and is recover ing from his recent indisposition. Lord Lismore, and the Hon. Miss O'Callaghan have returned to Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street from St. Leonard's on Sea. It is the intention of her Royal Highness t Duchess of Gloucester to pass the winter at Gloucester House. The Earl and Countess of Kingston are enter taining a select party at Michelstone Castle, county Cork. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster intend to receive company next week at Eaton Flail. The Noble Marquis is making great additions to that already magnificent building. The Hon. E. J. Stanley, M.P., Secretary of the Treasury, has arrived in town from Alderney. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere and family have arrived in Park-lane, from Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Dunally arrived at Cheltenham on Thursday last, where they have taken a mansion for se veral months. Lord Bloomfield, Commandant of Woolwich, ar rived at his official residence on Saturday last, his Lord ship's leave of absence having expired. Lord and Lady James Stuart, and the Hon. Miss Stuart, have arrived at the Marquis of Bute's seat in Wales, Cardiff Castle, and purpose residing there until the meeting of Parliament. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, accompa nied by a numerous suite, in four carriages and four, left Mivart's Hotel for Dover, en route to visit the Prince and Princess 80-ghese, at Rome. His Excellency Baron Munchausen takes his departure in a few days for Hanover. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane will give a series of fetes at Taymouth Castle immediately after the marriage of her Ladyship's sister, Miss Bailley, and Lord Haddo. The whole of the family tenantry, in addition to a numerous circle of the nobility and gentry, will participate in the festivities attendant on that happy event. The west wing of the castle is now erected, and externally is completed, but the interior, comprising the chapel, and family sitting and dining rooms, is in an un finished state. The members of both families were to be present at the ceremony. The Earl of Mayo, who has been indisposed at Palmerston-house, near Naas, is, we learn by recent letters from Ireland, convalescent. The Earl of Eglinton intends hunting this sea son with the Earl of Ducic's hounds. His Lordship's stud of twenty hunters have already arrived, and the Noble Earl bas a residence near Hatherop Castle, where he ar rived last week. The Earl of Minto and Lord Melgund continue at the Admiralty, and the day is not yet determined upon when they are to join the Countess of Minto and Ladies Elliot at Minto House, Roxburghshire. The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot has left Apsley House for his seat in Northamptonshire. The present is the Duke of Devonshire's third visit to his vast estates in this country. The firsts as in 112, immediately after his Grace became of age, d the second in 1822. —Cork Reporter. We understand Baron Brunow has been suffer ing since Sunday from a severe cold and sore throat. and w as obliged to ke e p his cham ber on Monday. Yesteray, however, his Excellency was much better. THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.--The ac counts received at the Home-office yesterday, from Mul grave Castle, state that the Marquis of Normanby is going u n v.ery favourably. CORN IN FRANCE.—The official tables of the prices of wheat for the markets of France, during the last month, show the highest to be 22f. 16c. per hectolitre (about 565. the imperial quarter), in the markets of Gray, St. Laurent, and Le Grand. Temps ; and the lowest 17f. 30e. (525. the quarter), in those o f Metz, Verdun, Ch ar leville, and §oissous. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) SUDBURY, Nov. 3. In this borough no opposition was expected, the Tories immediately after the last election taking possession of the field, and using every energy and means in their power to gain possession o f th e i r o bj ect . Whil e t h e R e f ormerg , dis comfited and neglected by those of their own party who profess and desi re t o ho thought Liberal, but act as Tories from a sordid love of self-interest, looked on with apathy. The decay of the silk trade in this borough has left us without an influential manufacturer, and much distress pre vails. But as Mr. Acland, the Corn-law lecturer, was lately here making eloquent appeals to the freemen in favour of breadism, it was hoped and expected he had re formed them, and as two of the Tory candidates were agri culturists, the Reformers considered it would be a favour able opportunity to test the virtue of the Independent Elec tors in favour of cheap bread, by putting into nomination at the eleventh hour, two silk manufacturers ; the result is as follows : TORTES. Green, broker Aleeking, agriculturist Genn, builder . Harding, agriculturist REFORMERS 386 383 373 324 Peacock, manufacturer Edmunds, ditto Littleton, victualler B9 Dowman, solicitor The four Tories returned. DERBY. The election here has been decidedly in favour of the Liberal party. Eight Tories and forty Liberals now com pose the Town Council. WARWICK. The returns have been in favour of the Tories. BRIDW&WATER. The result of the election has been the return of six Tories. CAMBRIDGE, In consequence of the con upt interference of the Uni versity, the contest on Monday went against the Liberal party. Out of the ten vacancies which occurred, eight were filled up by Tories, and but two by Whigs. Although from the terror which the Tory masters, deans, and tutors of the colleges exercised over the tradesmen and depen dents it was expected that a majority of Conservatives of five or six to four, would be returned, yet no one calcu lated, not even the Tories, upon such a result as four to one against the Liberal party. The Whigs owe a good deal of this defeat to their own want of tact. COLCHESTER. The following gentlemen (all Tories) worn re-elected yesterday as Town Councillors without opposition : —lst Ward: Messrs. J. T. fledge and Richard Jenkin. 2d ditto : Messrs. Thomas Baker, and Joseph Banister. 31 ditto : Messrs. Samuel Burrows and George Joslin. DOVER, Nov. 2. The municipal election here has terminated in favour of the Reformers. At four o'clock it was gathered from the poll clerks that four Roformers, out of the six. candidates, were returned—two for the Pier Ward, and two for the Town Ward. But we hear since that the assessors at the latter Ward make it out that only one Liberal has been elected for that Ward. They have gained one, at all events; and this even is a gruat triumph, considering the corruption they have to contend with. It is a decided proof that, in spite of the powerful influence of the Go vernor of the Bank of England, and that of Walmer Castle to boot, Lil,•cral principles are making head in Dover. HASTINGS. The Reformers of Hastings have this year returned 5 out of 6 to the Council. HARWICH, Nov. 2. The Tories have had such a blow dealt them this day, that it is a query if they ever recover power in the Bo :ough. The result of the Municipal Election gives the Reformers 12 out of 16 on the Council—aud the opportu nity of .electing two Aldo-7.10n next year in lieu of two Tories. IPSWICH. According to the Ipswich Express, there h3s been a very close contest in this place, in which the Tories have been generally successful, owing, it is stated by the same paper, to very gross bribery on the part of the Tories, who have in some cases given 101. and 151. for a vote. NORTHAMPTON. In spite of their numerous recent defeats in this emi nently Liberal borough, the Tory party made another at tempt to carry the e►ection of Town Councillors, and have again been signally foiled, not one of the three wards having returned a Conservative candidate, although " the faction," in the vain hope of lulling the Reformers to sleep, deferred starting their nominees until the Saturday preceding the day of poll. South Ward— Hagger (R), 180 ; Simpson ( R), 166 ; Shaw (T), 163 ; Marshall (T), 161. East Ward—Groom (R), 190; Stevenson ( R), 187 ; Markham (T), 163 ; Armficld (T), 150. West \Yard—Turner (R), 188; Shoosmith (R), 186 ; Campion (T), 107. BRIGHTON, Nov. 2.—Tim 11Th HUSgARS. —Lord Cardigan has, no doubt with a view to making the most of Lord Hill's amnesty, invited all the officers here to Deenc- park, to give them the opportunity of evincing the sincerity with which they forget and forgive; to forgive all the indignities heaped upon them and their brother officers, and forget the base advantage taken of their be loved and respected companion, Captain R. A. Reynolds. We are curious to see what effect this invitation will have, and to know who (if any) are mean enough to accept it. Perhaps they will "forget" also the delicate manner in which, in his rejoinder, Lord Cardigan spoke of " friendly offices rendered" in the Deene-park preserves. I believe, however, all will indignantly spurn his i-ordshtp - s - vnjoli. s . invitation, excepting, perhaps, his two remaining toadies. SERIOUS ACCI D ENT.-Yesterday tnorning, about nine o'clock, Mr. Strachan was in a gig going down Haverstock-hill, when the horse stumbled, and fell. Mr. S trachan, falling against the side of a lamp-post, fractured his head in a shocking manner ; he was removed home in a coach. The groom escaped without receiving any injury. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-SUDDEN DEATH. On Tuesday, between one and two o'clock, as Mr. Cope land, the accountant, of Walbrook, was professionally at tending in the matter of the bankruptcy of C. WI ight, before Mr. Commissioner Fane, he suddenly fell upon the floor of the Court, and was instantly raised by Mr. Roden, one of the principal messengers, and the other persons who were near him. Ills countenance was ghastly pale, and he made no struggle. Mr. Wade, a surgeon, who lives in the immediate neighbourhood, was instantly in attendance, as was also Mr. Elderby ; but their assis tance was cf no avail. The surgeons agreed in attributing his death to the bursting of a blood-vessel in the head. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--,llie ordinary meeting was held yesterday afternoon. Dr. Henderson, vice-president, in the chair. The attendance was greater than usual for the season, and the exhibition was very good. The professorship has just been given to Dr. Daubeny, who is now on the Continent, with the view of adapting the foreign to the European processes of agriculture, and of obtaining more information on the subject. The prin cipal part of the collection consisted of fruit, of which nearly forty varieties of apples were from Mr. Kenny, gardener to Viscount Maynard. Mr. Wilson, gardener to the Duke of Norfolk, exhibited five varieties of pears; and Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth, a new seedling variety which had some good qualifies. The fruit from the gardens of the Society consisted of !six of the newest varieties of apples, and thirteen sorts of pears, with some Esperione grapes, a new and choice variety, grown with great success upon an open wall. The most prominent exhibition of flowers was from Mrs. Lawrence; and Mr. Dean, gar dener to Mr. Bateman, of Congleton, exhibited four new orcbidaceous plants, chid) , from Guatamela. Nine new varieties of plants were exhibited from the gardens of the Society, amongst which was salvia regla. a rare plant of this species, recently sent over by Mr. Hartweg, from Mexico. The prizes awarded were silver Knightian me dals to Mrs. Lawrence, for a beautiful specimen of catt leya labiate and calanthe deusiflora ; and to Mr. Dean for odontoglossum grande, a plant with a large flower and beautiful striped petals. On Monday, the Ist inst., the Britannia, 120 guns, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir John A. Om manney, in company with the Howe, commanded by Cap tain Sir W. 0. Pell, attempted to work out of the roadstead at Spithead, the wind being then many points against them. Before noon they had again anchored. the wind having come right a-bead, when the Howe was found to hire sprung a leak forward, about seven or eight feet be low water, as it is supposed in the gunner's store-room. She goes into dock on Friday or Saturday next, after having got her lower-deck guns and heavier stores. Should much repair be wanted, it is thought that her crew will be turned over to the Queen, 110 guns, now nearly ready to go out of harbour, otherwise a delay in the sailing of the Howe of about a fortnight will be the o nl y result. The Britannia, in rc-anchoring at Spithead, carried away the shaft of her anchor. She sails again f o r her destination, the Mediter ranean, as soon as the wind pe r m its, without waiting for the Howe. SINGULAR ESCAPE.—OR Monday last a ma n working on the line of the Manchester and Leeds rail ay i a s y i i n f c e a . r t l i this t w o a w s n w e o x r p k e i h r i g e n in ee d t h a e as Sower e w r e y r h n y a . r h r r o i w d g e e s ea p e tunnel,o f when one of the trains came through, and though the signal whistle had sounded, he either did not hear or did not heed it. The trains do not eome through the tunnel at a very rapid rate ; and the engine coming in contact with him fortunately hurled him completely off the line, where he fell in safety. This preservation from an awful death is, we believe, without a parallel in the history of railway ac cidents.—HalVax Guardian. NOVEL AND E X TRAORDINARY PHENOME NON. —Accident has led to the discovery that the steam which escapes from the boilers of steam-engines i n many cases developes or gives out great quantities of e l ec tric:ty. About a fortnight since, the engineerman at a station ary steam-engine on a railway in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, happening to have one hand in a copious jet o f steam , which escaped from an accidental aperture in the boiler, whilst he appliedhis an electric other shock. hand to the leve r This l o e f d a to stahreetyd-icvsalovvee experiencedry that olect a r l ie m it ineyacwbas given out ssteamfrom a powerfulwithgre electrical great rapidity, etrie and might. It h be co'.- s bibeyeeetntle a e4lascertained, moreover, that the phenomenon does not circumstances poculiar to the boiler in which , the steam has arise from any I it was first observnd. for in many since been tried ta ieity very copiously. The here by experiments, and h ticelif some of the most eminent It is not unlikely that h may lead to important r t es of the nature of the subtle mysteriousand ni other boilers, which have been b. found to develop elec su pet is being followed up as been brought under the no tice scientific men of the phenomenon e ult n s e . wlydiscoverc o d o advancing an era in the history of electrical science. —Correspondent and form respondent of the Gateshead Observer. fi.irdk,nw ledge - _ --r; EVENING ED ITIO -c - _No - AUDI ALTLRLAM PART - C. .e,,A • • TO THE EDITOR OF THE S • SIR,—I rely on your admirable impartiality to "patirg 4 tl'.l4 me to ask the Public to between us, pn the question— ', Whether the late letter of Mr. Reyno'lds is or is not under tile circumstances, the ignoblest production that ever was penrmd?" Your's in haste, A BARRISTERIAT.LAW„ CORN-LAWS v. POOK-RATE. - - TO THE EDITOR 01 THE SUN. Sta,—The Poor-rate for the present quarter, in Great Yarmouth, has been increased twenty-five per cent. From what cause does this arise? The Corn.laws, or the bad administration of the parish funds by the Board of Guardians? My own opinion, Mr. Editor, is—the Corn -laws are the sole cause, and are steeping the little trademacop and all the labourers al England, in want and misery. I am, Sir, T. B. The LATE MIL Ito w L ES.—The Merthyr. Guardian gives the following particulars respecting Mr. Rowles, the timber-merchant, who recently committed suicide under circumstances detailed in The Sun :—Ru mours having been in circulation that serious differences bad existed between the deceased and the other Directors of the Rhymaey Iron Company, we are happy to give, on unquestionable authority, the most positive contradiction to those rumours, which are utterly without foundation, the. truth being that the best understanding prevailed be tween them, which will be shown satisfactorily from: the following short statement of facts :—Mr. Rowles having been seriously indisposed for some time in his health, wrote to the Directors, explaining his eon dition to them, and tendering his resignation of the responsible office of Managing Director; upon receipt of which the Directors had a meeting, when they were so satisfied of the condition of Mr. Rowles's health, that they resolved to accept his resignation ; but they did this with great regret, and, being desirous of expressing their feelings on the subject, as well as their opinion of the manner in which, in their judgment, he had discharged the onerous duties of his office, they wrote to him a latter, stating their sorrow for the necessity he felt himself under of resigning, and their approbation of the manner in which he had de voted his eminent talents to the service of the Com pany, adding a hope that, although he had thought proper to resign the situation he held, he would still continue to retain a seat in the direction. In reply to another rumour, that the reason of the deceased com mitting suicide was the disordered state of his pecu niary affairs, we have to say, that so far from this being the case, he was actually at the time of his decease in the pos session of a fortune of from six to seven thousand pounds a year, having acquired large property as a Government contractor, by building military barracks, &c., fur them ; great public edifies, he also built several in which he showed much taste and judgment. The deceased con structed. large works at Rhymney, which, besides their being remarkable for their perfect adaptati on 1: 0 the P I " - poses for which they were designed, were distingte'sh. cd for the taste and talent displayed in their erection. Ta'e teal cause that lcd to the melancholy catastrophe appear,' to have been mental derangement, produced by great irrita.. bility of the system, arising from general bad health and greatly disordered state of the stomach. On Thursday last the subcutaneous section of the muscles of the back, for the cure of lateral curvature of the spine, was, for the first time in this country, per formed by Dr. Hunter, Professor of Anatomy, Ander sonian University, Glasgow. The operation consists ire cutting across the muscles of the back that produce the curvature, and although it has the appearance, at first sight, of being a formidable operation, vet it is so cun ningly and simply performed under the skin, that the pa tient, although in this instance a delicate joung lady, com plained of no pain, lost noL more than three drops of blood, and was only thirty seconds under the hands of the operator. A good deal of interest has been excited in the town of Halstead, within the last few days, on account of the discovery of the dead body of an infant in a wood near that town, under such circumstances as to induce a strong belief that it had been murdered. It appears that a far mer being on his way home, heard a peculiar noise in the wood in question, which he at first thought was the shriek of a hare in a snare, bat in consequence of something that afterwards came to his knowledge, he was induced to make a search at tee spot from whence the noise appeared to proceed, 'and he there found in a ditch the body of a fe male child, tied up in a piece of sacking. Two medical gentlemen were called in, and they both expressed their belief that the infant had been born alive. but they would not pledge themselves positively to the fact. Further in quiries were then made, and a suspicion arose that a )(yang woman named Hannah Wickers was the [weber of the child, and she was taken into custody, and underwent an examination before the Halstead Bench cf Ma. gistrates, upon the charge of murdering the infant. Evidence tv,s then adduced, to show that about two months before the child was discovered in the way above stated, a medical gentleman who had been in the habit of attending upon the prisoner, sus pected that she was in the family way, and accused her of it, but she denied that it was the case. Several neigh bours of the prisoner also spoke to their belief of her hav ing been in the family way a short time before the dis covery of the dead infant. A witness was likewise exa mined, who stated that a day or two before the body was found, he saw two women, one of whom was leading the other, who seemed to be in very great pain, go towards the spot, and he believed the prisoner to be the one who seemed to be suffering as he described. The Magistrates, after a minute inquiry, said that although thore were cer tainly some suspicious circumstances against the prisoner, there was not sufficient legal evidence to warrant them in committing her to take her trial. The prisoner was ac cordingly set at liberty. CARLOW ELECTION.—CoIoneI Bruen has came forward as a candidate for the representation of Car- I, .acant by the death of Mr. Vigors. His address to the electors was published on Monday. RAILWAY ACCIDENT TO Two RACERS.— On Monday week a horse-box, containing two yearlings, the property of Lord Westminster, was standing on the line near the Rugby station of the London and I3irming_ ham Railway, when a train which does not stop at that station came up, and ran against the horse-box with grea t violence. The engine entered completely into th e b ox , and from the force of the shock the contents o f the b o il er were poured upon the unfortunate animals, scalding them • so severely as to render it necessary to destroy one, and to give little hopes cf the other ever being fit for use. It is reported that their noble owner claims 3 0001. for each of them. _ _ _ TIIE GOTTINGEN PROFESSORS.—Professor Albrecht, one of the seven Professors exiled from Gottin gen, has been named by the King of Prussia to a chair of law in the University of Berlin. Messrs. Grimm, two store of the seven Professors, have been named members of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and hate been in vited by the King to the capital, where they arc to have handsome pensions allowed them. The Duke of Devonshire was to leave Killarney on Saturday last, to visit the Earl of Clare at Mount shannon, county Limerick, whi re the Dowager Countess of Clare, and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon and a select party are staying. Prince Alexander Lieven has left for St. Pe tcrisburgh. His Excellency Viscount Ebrington left Castle Hill on \Vednesday last, after visiting the Earl and Countess of Fortescue, for \Vcar Gifford, to visit the Hon. Newton and Lady Catherine Fellowes. His Grace the Archbishop of York returned to Bishopsthorpe on \Vednesday last, from a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire. It is very remarkable that eight Peers, who were married to divorced women, died suddenly within the last three years.—Limerick Chronicle. Considerable excitement prevailed on Sunday last in the quiet village of Gillingham, owing to a corporal belonging to the 96th Regiment being found in a field (called the Hilly-field)in the afternoon, about two o'clock, with his throat cut. It is supposed some persons saw him as they were proceeding to Gillingham church, as some men were despatched to the place with a stretcher, and he was conveyed to Gillingham poorhouse. Upo n examining him it was found tha t not onl y was h is throat cut but the sinews of ono of his wrists were di vided. When first perceived he was lying on the grass with his face downwards and his .arms stretched out, his cap being a little distance off. The soldier was ques tioned as to uhether he had done the injuries to himself. As the unfortunate man could not speak he shook his head. Several civilians and soldiers repaired to the spot and com menced a strict search for the instrumentcorporal ohblir character, reoa w nr ca h tfl en i mern,hnuadst and d e l ahaa Thevea ets done oe a drnxebr the e n i ma ep trehsismi committed,osne ,Ihimself. however,biuitenobtehaii rsnstghaahtga w a n a d s w a e o h n v e a e r y w ed to is o still military been ten hospital years n t n h e sund regiment. a Sunday evenin li g e , alive.—l s l a re ia st t te a n t t G i\ir n . a w riti m an . . It is Adaam Williams, M.P. fo • Monmouthshire, will, on the niee iqg of Parliament ' accept the Chiltern flundr!ds on account of hi s i n diff eren t health. THE RECORDER OF DUBLIN.—The Dublin Evening Muil last Monday made some severe remarks on the malignant attacks made by the ultra Tory press on Mr. Shaw, and published conies of letters between Mr. Shaw and the editor of the Morning Herald on the sub ject. The Herald, in a leading article, arerted in effect that the Duke of Wellington had declared that lie had been deceived and betrayed by Mr; Shaw, who demanded the authority for unjust imputation. The Dublin Mail now publishes these a letter from the editor of the Herald, in wbicb are autho words.--" I am now enabled to state, on the sein equoted, rity as that on which the passage alluded toer7or that the Irish Peer referred to did not that the Duke of Wellington had b.!en deceived or betrayed by you. o n r: His observation was a genehraul, convey, declaredaBs that he had ords to that effect. The answer to such i lish a es inquiry ed further with the subject." of your own requect, to y g o a u ti r ve, lir m st ake in s q preee 's not on record an instance of in the the ter n m e; The Mail then adds, a fouler conspiracy—beg un on with malignity more e the falsehood which pervaded the sure more complete "there i n 1 view s ' accordingodmc i d or e e d l yt sordid, o y u n b n e e i c n e g ss a r t y , whole —than tha!bagof to be gaining Waterford seems ainctinmvert.ersahtea,wn.o: ending in an expo- Th e Marqu n r his estates in the county of Waterford, golden laurels On his arrival at Thurles his Lordship aeridarncEaPdedcrte.ss from , ve of their where his arrivale has been the h i a n il i e la d b w it i a t n h ts e e v x e i r , y res m si ark of es_ arrival amongst them. Rockwell and and 't j o y at his d future to be called New ' 1 neighbour h ood is in Melton, and the extensive stabling recently erected eclipses that of our hunting metropolis in Leicestershire. The " eccentric Marquis," as he was once called by his aristociatio friends of the west, is spending his princely fortune with trim r te e e ce n i c e Irish freedom amongst his fellow countrouß. C ~ led 1 ,0- f o re #p ' Or 11 1° 1 3t NBA i) 0 ;1 0 iSt )01 it? 11 ail d ri "` T r . `. 8 ,;,sf