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THE REGISTERED PALETOT OF LLAMA CLOTH, the most fashionable coat for both the present and approaching seasons, still retains the same moderate price which, with its usefulness and gentlemanly appearance, has secured such general popularity. It has been made, by ..pecial command for their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, aid the Several royal visitors to the British Court. In London it can only be Purchased of the Patentees, H. J. and D. NICOLL, Court Tailors, II 4, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill. Agents for Liverpool, Daw barn and Son, Bold-street • for Dublin, George Macdona, Moles- Worth -street ; for Edinburgh, Christie and Son, George-street ; for 13innin gliam, Wareing and Son, New-street ; and the principal Tailors in other large towns. DR. _• 1 2 22,1 ERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH Just " MATURITY.—WITH 25 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d„ or post-free, from the author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF - PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive -Unions, and the Secret Inflimitieg and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, Whether arising from these waxes, close study, or the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis , Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With twen:y•live coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, u..es, and functions, and the various Nuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MT, M.D., 9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEREDFORD-SQUA.RE, LOIIDON, Rector of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap- Ixfihtments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when Used 111 moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused,, the prolific source of mischief. and of greater or less injury to the cek‘stitutienal and vital powers. The particular excesses, on the natu re out consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productivef of greater severity of misery to the human frame, than any other td which it is subject. This work c,ontelno an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physlolob - 7 of the Reproductive Organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest atUrntion and study, for what subject can be of more importance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired in early life or from the , follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the medical maa who can show by his posse- sion of the requisite legal qualifications that he is entitled to esteem Mid respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence shortie be extended. Dr. LA. , 3I ERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. e tse ; n t xi and Geo Gordon, Richards, ioenh,bonl 4i Published by the Author, and may be ha e d t- o t f re X 42, Paternos ter-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Fles street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, 6, Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for torty-two stamps, from the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight, at his 'residence, 9, Bedford-street, Iledford-square, London. •NLI- A R R I A G E. i, One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, er a sense of rig,:it fietermine the former, and miscalculated hopes ern !sitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea „„". caution , and wo.rlc,NY prudence, and the indissolu ble, re g ret an wistprosing hurry ; bAlt the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, Mid broken health, are tll'e great hindrances to dom estic happ iness - e nd social content. Th e ;to wry should not be the on l y marriage set F e Ment. Honour and Justice Oereand that health should form an item . 1 the compact ; it alone die neglect wound more sorely th.nai.j2es the alliance. Blighted hopes or , n poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises. concern you , p:ocure Dr. CITLVERWELL'S little MEMOIRS 4 On Single and mk s ni " I 2ls ed Life, pub. n vole., . each (by post, In stamps, Is. 6d. sefinla). Let no imaginatively tellued, ir prudi s h f ee li ng d eter you, bY their titles, nor be hindered ~' mieinterpretation of their supposed Contexts, from obtaining rein. They are not intended certainly for ~...acye idle cariosity, but for the closet perusal of those mere deeply tvterested, to whom they are offer e d as antagonistic to the empyrical thesis put forth on above subjects, by unqualified authors, w h Joh alone or te,g ‘ ether are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other ".e publications claim your attention (same price is. each, A 3 :_ Pest ls. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and void,. aid " How to be Happy." They are not iiierely Earephlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are ilie4' the :I.l...tiere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the shrflior's ._ , who owes his present existence, health, and position to this eb -I.7e.ance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he c 7Tcl e be done unto — to live after nature's laws—and to keep always R I! "A " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of 10 Ewood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Main, ::,..tornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other ) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, spp g and evenings), 10, Argyll-plate Regent-street; and all Just published, 2 vols., handsomely bound, Twelve Engravings, 215., HIGHLAND SPORTS AND HIGHLAND QUARTERS. By HERBERT BYNG HALL, Esq • - " As a guide to shooting and fishing it is a safe one."—Bells's Life. " The illustrations are valuable as serving the double purpose o 1 embellishment and picturesque explanation."—Ediabargh Advertiser. H. Hurst, King William-street, Charing -cross. ,NDER THE ESPECIAL SANCTION OF THE LORDS COM MISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. T HE NAUTICAL GAZETTEER; or, DIC TIONARY OF MARITIME GEOGRAPHY. The object of this Publication is to furnish the Naval Service with a Book of Reference, applicable to the localities of the seas; embrac ing general and particular accounts of the coasts of the continents and islands of the world, with the roadsteads, harbours, navigable rivers, shoals, bars, rocks, channels, currents, &c., together with the towns and cities approachable by shipping ; also the latitudes longi tudes, soundings, anchorages, and compass variations, with the general sailing directions to and from the principal roads; the whole arranged alphabetically, in six grand divisions of the oceanic surface, namely, the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the North Pacific, the south Pacific, and the Arctic and Antarctic Seas. H. Hurst, King William-street, Charing-cross. Sold also by R. B. Bate, Poultry ; and Norie and Co., Leadenhall-street ; and all Book sellers in Town and Country. Price 2s. 6d., with Coloured Plates, MARRIAGE and COURTSHIP, in Four Parts, from the French. Also may be had, Hints to Young Married People, 2s. 6d., plates—Lignac's Physiology of Marriage, 10s. 6d., 17 plates—La Lanterne Magique, 15 coloured French prints, 30s.—Life of Betty Ireland, 75., coloured plates—L'Enfant du Boy del, 305., coloured plates—Caroline St. Ilillare on the Beauties of the Palais Royale, 2/. 25., coloured plates—Coal Hole Songster, 55., co loured plates—Gentleman's Love Songster, 55., coloured plates—ln trigues of a Footman, 305., coloured plates—Life, &c., of Madame Vestris, les., coloured plates—Beauties of Venus, coloured plates, lls.—Niaer Songster, 2s. 6d., plates—Venus's Album, 55., coloured plates. —Sold. by John Wilson, 25, King-street, Covent-garden. Lit ters with remittances attended to. Catalogues gratis. THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 8, LUDGATE-HILL, SIDNEY and COMPANY, Proprietors. The rapidly progressive increase in the consumption of Tea and Coffee is one of the pleasing features of the age. The people abstain ing to a considerable extent from the indulgence of intoxicating li quors, more especially from ardent spirits, have become thoughthil, the nation energetic and powerful. The very interesting statistical accounts published by order of the House of Commons at once show that both Tea and Coffee are com paratively of modern use in these kingdoms, and that Only within the last few years have they become the ordinary beverage of the people. They are no longer received as luxuries attainable by the wealthy, but aided by the wisdom of the Legislature in throwing open the markets of the East, prices have been brought within the range of all classes of the community. The Customs' duties on Coffee were very considerably lowered in the celebrated Tariff Bill of Sir Robert Peel in 1842 ; and it is grati fying to know that the revenue has been benefited by such reduction, and the consumption, from 26 million pounds in 1842, increased to upwards of 36 million pounds in 1846. The duties levied upon Tea are enormous. In the past year this article alone yielded the sum of 5,110,8971. 15s. 9d. to the revenue. It is the prevailing opinion, that if Parliament on its assembling should reduce the tea duties to one-half their present rate (and the select committee appointed by the House of Commons recommend the adoption of such a measure), the consumption would be so vastly augmented, as to fully yield an equivalent revenue to that hitherto derived from this source, and by thus cheapening an article so ge nerally esteemed, extend the comfort and social habits of the com munity. The - system of our business has been uniform. We have ever been actuated by the principles of fair dealing, in meeting the altered cir cumstances of the markets as they arise. This course has been ap preciated by a discerning public, and we gratefldly acknowledge a large share of confidence and patronage. The present year's importation of Tea Is likely to be very large ; and this circumstance has had a marked effect upon the value of all descriptions, which, added to the derangement of the Money Market, has tended to depreciate prices below all former precedent. COFFEE—The importation is an average one, the quality good, prices low. We invite attention to the following quotations : Previously Present sold at price, per lb. per lb. BLACK TEAS. s. d. a. d. The Choicest Imperial 50uch0ng.................. 5 8 5 4 The Finest Pekoe Souchong .... ••••..• • • • • • ...• .. 5 4 5 0 The very fine Lapsang Couchong.... •... ••••• • • • .. 4 10 4 8 The Finest Congou wiry Blackish Leaf, Full Rich Pekoe Souchong flavour.-•• .. • • .... ••..• • .. 4 6 The Fine Congou, Pekoe Souchong kind.. •• • • ...• .. 4 2 The Strong Congou, wiry Blackish Leaf .......... 3 10 The Good Strong Congou .......• 3 6 4 4 4 0 3 8 3 4 GREEN TEAS. The Finest Gunpowder full Powtizan flavour 7 6 7 0 The Superfine Gunpowder, bright pearly leaf The Fine Gunpowder, small close twisted leaf • The Fine Gunpowder, rich burnt flavour The Good True Gunpowder ............ • 5 6 5 0 The Superfine Imperial (very choice) •• 5 6 5 0 The Fine Imperial delicate Dyson flavour...—. •• .• 5 0 4 6 The Finest Young Hyson, or true Ouchain The Fine Ouchain, close wiry leaf.... • ... ••.. • • The very fine Young Hyson, Cowslip flavour ...• The Superfine flavoured Young Hyson.... The Young Hyson ...................... • ....... 4 4 4 0 The Choice Cowslip Hyson ... ..... . ............ 6 6 6 0 The Superfine Hyson ............................ 6 0 5 6 The very fine Hyson .............. • .......... 5 4 5 0 The Fine Hyson, fresh and full flavoured .......... 4 8 4 6 The Good Hyson . ... • The Fine Hyson Kind.. .................... ..... 4 0 3 8 COFFEES. For the very Finest Mountain Flavoured Jamaica . 2 0 1 10 For Choice Old Mocha The Fine Cuba....................... ••••..••• • • • •• • •• • • The Finest La Gnayra .............• ••••••• • • • • • 1 8 1 6 The Superior Costa Rica ••.. • • .................. 1 6 1 4 The Fine Plantation Ceylon , .... 1 4 1 2 The Good Cey10n................................ 1 2 1 0 SIDNEY and Company, Tea Importers. 8, Ludgate-hill, London. October 1, 1847. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCARA.- CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition T , enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on cessive theinflrmities and decay of the generative system, frets ex with r ind ulgence , infection, and the inordinate use of atercary L. PERRY and CO , "' ar ks en Marriage, and the means of obviating certain die.: Published by the Auth ors; . qualifications. Illustrated ' b Hannay, L 63, and Sanger , 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and 19, Berners- street, Oxford-street, London. —*Market ; a g n er PART I. treats of the an 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehberne- Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; organs, and is illustrated b at ri street, Haymarket PART 11. treats of the cons equences y and physiology of the re-productive Coloured su E lti n ng gra f T r th om gg excessive Indul gence,and bodily weakness, nervous excit em e nt , the system, producing and their lamentable ement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. a nd . f containsearly neglect PART 111. Treats of the diseases r esulting from infection, el m th e e n r t i al a explicit directions for and of the abuse theirt h e treprimarytreatment. e o n r t secondaryThec o nseque nces rs , of mercury, are also clearly pointed eat. by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. This section is illustrated PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion ' which the dangers of infe ction a r e Obviated. It combinesby the use of with the virus chemically, and destroys its power on the system. PART V. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and Its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL BALM 01' SXRIAcum is exclusively employed in treat ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., lls. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I is. and 33e. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., s. 4 6d., and lie. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, sleet, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 33e. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. 61. Packets with advice to be had at the Establishment only, by whick the fee, 11., is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber ners-streat, from Woven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Bandar If OA P.M to One. r • . . '2‘—l----. \ -7--) ' - ' IIIIIIIIII6I H-: . .:. - - T s .,, '•',T) -':411111°1--ei ./1:72—: 4W •..f , .. . , y . ~i-:,0 l '''' ' 4—•,•-•-- , ~ - ° ' I - 31 / 4 t ... - '4-- --- -* , met o .. ;;.- .. ,,iT- H...„.414 -: :. , - . . N x• C" ' i.' '• 4 :t a • . • „ . .agA tr. 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On Saturday next will be published, in One Volume, square crown Bvo., with Twenty-nine Ornamental Borders, composed of Flowers and Insects, engraved en Wood, priCe 30s. boards, or 455. bound in morocco, by Hayday, THE POET'S PLEASAUNCE ; or, Garden of all sorts of Pleasant Flowers, which our Pleasant Poets have, in Past Time, for Pastime, planted. By EDEN WARWICK. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. THOMSON'S SEASONS, BY DR. A. T. THOMSON. On Saturday next will be published, in fcap. Bvo., pri ce 7 s . 6d. c l o th, THE SEASONS. By JAMES THOMSON. Edited, with Notes, Philosophical, Classical, Historical, and Biographical, by ANTHONY TODD THOMSON, M.D., F.L.S. ; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London ; Professor of Ma-. teria Medics, and Therapeutics, and of Forensic Medicine, in Univer sity College, London, &c. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman'. Published This Day, In post Bvo., price 12s. cloth, CHRISTIANITY ; its perfect Ad a pt a ti on t o th e C Mental, Moral, and Spiritual Nature of Man. By ATHANASE COQUEREL, one of the Pastors of the French Protestant Church of France, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Translated by the Rev. D. DAVISON, M.A. With a Preface, written expressly for the English Edition, by the Author. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. NEW EDITION OF SIDNEY HALL'S COLOMBIEIit ATLAS, CORRECTED TO 1847 On MondaT, November 1, will be published, Part 1., to be completed in 14 Monthly Parts, rolombier 4t0., price 6s. each, SIDNEY HALL'S GENERAL LARGE LI BRARY ATLAS of the WORLD ; comprising 53 coloured Maps (size 20 in. by 16 in.), and an Alphabetical Index of all the Places contained in the Maps, with their Latitude and Longitude. An entirely New Edition, corrected throughout from the best Authori ties ; with all the Railways laid down, and many of the Maps re drawn and re-engraved. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. TEMPERANCE AND TEETOTALISM. Just published, price Sixpence, AN INQUIRY into the EFFECTS of ALCO HOLIC DRINKS on the HUMAN SYSTEM in HEALTH and DISEASE. Reprinted from No. 4S of the " British and Foreign Medical Re view," edited by JOHN FORBES, ALD., F.R.S., Physician to her Majesty's Household, &c. London : John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho. Ready next week, the Second Edition, with considerable additions, of D GULLY on the WATER CURE in CHRONIC DISEASE. London : John Churchill. MalveiriT Henry Lamb. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. WANTED TO BORROW, on the security of the County Rates for Middlesex, for the purposes of the Act 8 and 9 Viet., c. 126, relating to Pauper Lunatic Asylums, the sum of TWENTY THOU SAND POUNDS, to be advanced on the 22d inst. The interest will be paid half-yearly ; and one thirtieth part of the principal will be repaid at the end of each year, until the whole shall be discharged. All persons desirous of lending the money are requested to send in sealed tenders, endorsed " Tenders for Lending Money for the purposes of the Additional Pauper Lunatic Asylum," addressed " To the Chairman of the Committee of Visitors of the Additional Pauper Lunatic Asylum," under cover to ate, at the " Sessions House, Clor kenwell-green," before WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, stating the lowest rate of interest at which they will advance the sane. JOHN S. IIiKAIFE, Clerk to the Visitors, Sessions House, Clerkenwell, Oct. 6, 1847. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors of this Comeau,' are ready to receive TENDERS 'or LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, in sums of not loss than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable half rearly, and for terms of Three, Five, or Seven years. Applications to be made to the undersigned. CHARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary. London Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1247. E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. NEWMARKET RACES. Coaches from Newmarket meet the following Trains from London on MONDAY and TUESDAY, October 11 and 12, VIZ. : Via Chesterford-7 if, 9 30, and 11 30 a.m.-2 40, 5, and 6 P.M. Via Cambridge-7 15 and 11 30 ix-5 and 6 P.M. A SPECIAL TRAIN will leave London on Tuesday, at $ A.M., re turning from Cambridge at 6 45, and from Chesterford at 7 25 P.M. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary, Office, Bishopsgate Station, October i, 1847. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A LECTURE on the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET of bTEAM, in reference to VENTILATION, &c., with Novel and Interesting Experiments, by Dr. BACHHOFFNER, daily at Half past Three. LECTURES on CHARACTER, with Musieal Il lustrations, by Mr. J. RUSSELL, accompanied by Dr. Wallis, on the Pianoforte, every Evening, at Eight o'clock, except Saturday. CHEMICAL LECTURES. The ELECTRIC TELE GRAPHS worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained daily. The beautiful OPTICAL EFFECTS include an entirely New Series ot 'DISSOLVING VIEWS. DIVING BELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING with PERSONS under WATER, Sce. ice. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. NEW SYSTEM OF PAPER CUR RENCY.-INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The currency question is of the utmost im portance to our industrial development, and our position in advance of the nations. Britain under a paper currency became most prosperous, capable of financial and warlike efforts unprecedentedly great. Scotland, also, under a one:pound paper currency, has improved in a greater degree than any other country, considering her inferior natural advantages and position, a distant provincial corner of the empire; and it is unquestionably to the paper currency and banking conveniences that this improvement is owing, combined with the industrious and provident cha racter of the people. In the present condition of the country, labouring under stupendous efforts in improving our communi cation, and at the same time opening our ports to foreign food supply, a currency reform, and the adoption of a one pound paper issue in Fngland, comes to be a most urgent necessity, and is indeed only an affair of time. But the earlier its adoption the less will be the industrial difficulties, disaster, and misery, the more rapid will be the development of our industrial resourses, and the flow of an unebbing tide of prosperity to an unconceived height. How shall we liberate British industry from Peel's crushing currency laws f is the question. Had the arch-enemy the ordering of our monetary legislation (our Bills of 1819, 1844, and 1845) he could scarcely have devised a system better calculated to repress industry and promote misery. By the system now in operation a periodic deceptive pro sperity is induced, and no sooner are we thus fairly launched into industrial enterprise than an export of British gold takes place. The banks, to save themselves, contract their paper issues and discounts. The currency being thus doubly curtailed (both in gold and paper), the pound sterling becomes considerably augmented in value, and all liabilities unjustly increased. Money panics, bankruptcy, vast destruction of property, extended misery, is the result—the victims consisting of the most enterprising and industrious portion of the community. Free trade in money—that is, free issue and circu lation of promises to pay on demand, or at a certain time, by those who can give undoubted security of ability to pay ought surely to accompany free trade in goods. It behoves the Legislature to attend immediately to this, and to consider how best to re gulate a steady value to the pound sterling. It has been proposed to pay in bullion, at the market price of gold or silver at the time. This, of course, dis penses with the precious metals as a measure of value to the pound sterling. Could the value of the pound sterling be regulated and maintained more steadily by other means or measures than it recently has been under the gold convertible plan ? This leads to the inquiry —How was the value of the pound sterling maintained so high even as 145., and with no very great fluctuation in time of the war, without cash payments ? From what cause did the paper value of gold, per ounce, fall after the battle of Waterloo, and come so near the original standard value ? It seems impossible in the nature of things to re gulate a paper and precious metal currency to work together aright. A gold currency, mingled as it now is with paper currency, is a very unstable measure of value, rising and falling not only in proportion to the produce and demand of gold itself, but also subject to great fluctuations at every money panic, from the curtailment of paper issues. In the event of a one pound paper issue in England, it is not improbable that some other measure of value than the precious metals will be proposed, or some complex plan of pay ment by a bullion standard measure, perhaps extend ing the payment of issues over a certain space of time, thus to give opportunity to the issuers of paper to collect bullion from other countries to meet any de mand, the demanders of bullion lodging the notes with the issuers at interest for this limited time (say three or six months) till the bullion is obtained. In whatever way a one pound paper currency may be arranged, it will have a tendency to reduce or check the gradual rise which has taken place since the war in the value of the precious metals and of the pound sterling, caused by the decreased production of the metals in America and • the increased demand to supply a metallic currency for the vastly-increased traffic of the world, together with the increased consumption in the arts. This rise in the value of the pound sterling, in consequence of the greater demand and lessened supply, has had the worst possible effects upon the industrial pros perity. The actual producers work greatly with borrowed capital, and this increasing value of the pound sterling operates slowly but surely to Wing them under greater liabilities to money-lenders, un justly increasing their debts, while at the same time the material they are working up is, from the same cause, lessening in value in passing through their hands, as is also their unsold manufactured stock. For two centuries previous to the end of the last French_ war, the value of the precious metals and of money generally had been gradually decreasing, giving a healthy tone t o th e i n d us t r i ous wor ld, an d to which indeed much of the advancement of modern improvement and civililisation may be ascribed. As things are now arranged, an opposite influence is being exerted, and the only gainers are the money-lenders, fundholders, and all those in receipt of a fixed income, a considerable portion of whom are unproductive, supported by the industry of others. Better it were that the indus trious producer should get into superior circumstances by a depreciation of the measure of his debts than that the measure of his debts should increase, though either way is attended with injustice. In the case of the fundholder it is aggravating to feel his bond against the public swelling greater from year to year from this increase of the value of the pound sterling; more especially as the debt was con tracted on highly usurious terms, at a time when usury was unlawful, much of it being contracted-- about 501. paid to receive the promise of 1001., while at the same time this 501. was paid in a depreciated paper worth only 14s. cash per pound sterling, and a o k f in gold and silver (th a t i s, the 145.) also of a less value than gi borrowi ng n t account , c the en depreciated the ve r y currency disadvan tageous now. terms T notes in which the money was borrowed, and the gradual rise of the value of the precious metals since the debt was incurred, I am warranted in affirming that the present national debt is nearly four times greater than the actual value lent, and that the in dustrious community, in this and other liabilities, have been cheated by law of at least 1,000,000,0001. sterling. This is not to be borne. Landholder, farmer, manufacturer —the whole industrious com munity —every lover of his country—every hater of injustice—will unite against it. Hitherto the money lenders have succeeded in blinding the Legislature, and have effected their ends unchecked. IMPROVED PAPER CURRENCY. RAILWAY ISSUE OF NOTES AND RAILWAY BANKS. In a rude state of society traffic is conducted by simple barter. As civilisation advances, simple barter gives place to complex barter, through the medium of the pre cious metals. The insecurity of property and doubtful credit and ,syste m necessary. Th e us ages of the past, have r distrust d o f the th com e 0 s m e m p l i e - x b abrabrat barter costliness, loss by friction, and i nconven i ences o f attending the corn sial ord er , con fid ence , p w l e e i x gh sy in s g tem ar o e f Such is now t tb h hi leer timproved t a s g o e c and security of property in Britain, th a t th e c l umsy eyciobuasnished from our metal currency) wholesale traffic, and is only still i f s ash u i n o c n al o le f d co f m or p . lex lt ba is rte a r lr ( e p a r d in practice in our retail traffic on account of our monetary laws and usages being in arrear of the advancement of the age. A paper currency on the great scale —bills of ex change, transferable promises to pay has been almost universally adopted throughout the more civilised nations as a medium of exchange in whole sale traffic. Yet in retail traffic a paper currency has only been partially resorted to, and not very wisely conducted. More lately, indeed, England has fallen back upon the semi-barbarous usage, and again adopted to a considerable extent the costly and troublesome practice of complex barter or gold cur rency. Partly led to this by the ill -arranged, or rather vitiated-by-law system of her former paper currency and. banking, partly on account of linger ing prejudices in favour of gold, and the exertion of selfish influences to raise the value of money. Our capital is the soul of our industry, the mea sure of our fabricating power. It consists of the unconsumed, hoarded produce of our labour, and productive lands—partly fixed, partly floating (that is, in the act of manufacture or exchange). Much of our floating capital has lately become fixed, absorbed by our railways ; much has been expended for foreign food in gold currency or bullion—a balance of our manufactures' export not having taken place, from the greatness and suddenness of the food demand ope rating before new channels of demand for our manu factures had time to open. This, with the curtail ment of our paper issues and discounts, has diminished both our floating capital and currency. Unexampled vacillations in the price of food have also taken plac e , which has unsettled credit—thence our present money panics and distress. The question comes to be—How shall we best remedy this injurious absorption of [PRICE D. BANQUET TO MR. COBDEN AT HAMBURGH. HAMBURGH, OCT. s.—The great free-trade banquet given in honour of Mr. Cobden took place yesterday evening, and it was, in all respects, a demonstration of a most gratifying character. The building know n as Krantler's Riding-school, in the Drehbahn, was used upon the occasion. It was tastefully decorated with wreaths and festoons of leaves and flowers, and a vast number of flags of all nations; and the saloon was lighted up by the aid of upwards of 2,000 tapers, placed in candelabra of different heights and sizes, so as to pro duce a very imposing general effect. The upper portion of the building was illuminated by the aid of chandeliers suspended from the roof, or attached to the sides of the building. At the extremity of the saloon a small platform was raised as a tribune for the speakers, surmounted by a drapery, likewise com posed of flags ; and the two galleries at the opposite extremity were devoted, the one to the splendid band of music engaged for the occasion, and the other for I ladies, who were admitted by ticket. This latter gallery was completely filled before Mr. Cobden's arrival, and the arrangements included the supply of a profusion of ices, confectionary, and champagnes, throughout the evening, in the ladies' gallery. At half-past five o'clock precisely Mr. Cobden was ushered into the saloon by the chairman of the day, M. Ruperti, president for this year of the Chamber of Commerce. He was met at his entry by all the members of the committee (twenty-four in number) and followed by the whole company, the band striking up an appropriate air of welcome. The saloon contained twelve tables, each with covers laid for sixty-two persons • at the head and f oo t o f each two member s o f the committee presided. A very few minutes sufficed to enable the company to take their seats, and as there appeared eventually to be scarcely half-a-dozen vacant chairs, it follows that the total number of persons who assisted at this fete must have exceeded seven hundred. After the discussion of the first course (the practice in Germany being to speak between courses), M. Ruperti ascended the tribune to welcome the assem bled guests, and to say a few words upon the subject of free-trade —of the great principle which had brought them all together. He was succeeded by M. Ross, to whom the honour of proposing the health of the great guest of the evening had been assigned. During the short speech of this gentleman, every allusion he made to Mr. Cobden, and to the services he had ren dered to the great cause of free trade throughout the world, was responded to by immense applause, which was redoubled at its close, when he proposed " The health of Richard Cobden." The band immediately struck up a most appropriate air out of the opera of Richard Lowenhertz (Richard Cceur de Leon), the words being : " Du stolzes England freue dich, Deing Konig, Richard, liebt dich noch, &c. (" Thou proud England rejoice, Thy Sovereign, Ri c h ar d, s till loves thee.") The company caught up the allusion amid raptur ous expressions of delight, a vast number of them singing the words as an accompaniment to the splen did music of the orchestral band. Mr. Cobden then ascended the tribune amid the vociferous exclama tions of the assembled company, every one rising. After making slight allusion to some of the compli ments introduced by M. Ross in his favour, and disclaiming the slightest right to the distinction which had been awarded to him of being the sole author of the great free-trade movement in England—after having done full justice to the share which had been taken therein by Messrs. Villiers, Bright, Gibson, Fox, and others—and after having passed a short but warm panegyric upon the part taken by Sir R. Peel at the expense of early impressions and party associa tions—Mr. Cobden entered into a general history of his recent travels, and of the observations he had made in the different countries which he had recently visited. He drew a comparison between Leghorn and Barcelona—between a city raised to magnificence on an arid plain in Italy, under the fostering prin ciples of freedom of trade, and another city enjoying every possible advantage naturally, but cramped in its energies by the withering principles of protection and prohibition, and thereby stayed in its progress. Mr. Cobden said he should like to pay a visit to those two cities with Protectionists, and let them see, in quire, and judge for themselves on the spot ; and he felt satisfied that the Protectionists could not escape conviction, and would at once forego their errors. He then referred to the free-trade principles which had caused Hamburgh to flourish, and under the fostering , aid of which the citizens had been enabled to over come the immense calamity of 1842, and to raise up so magnificent a city from the ashes under which it had been then overwhelmed. He ridiculed the efforts of Augsburg, and Munich, and Carlsruhe to instruct Hamburgh as to the commercial prin ciples they ought to adopt—their desire to see a city bearing the great fruits of free-trade principles within her walls, and being enabled thereby to spread her commerce through all parts of the world, closing her ports to the flag of any par ticular nation. Why (said the Hon. Gentleman), the inhabitants of Augsburg and Munich never saw a ship in their lives; and are they to instruct you, whose prosperity depends upon the activity of your ports, which flag you shall admit, and which you are to reject ? Mr. Cobden then made some allusions to the admirable pamphlet on the statistics of Hamburgh (Denkschrift), recently published here under the au thority of the Senate, which he characterised as one of the most remarkable and most useful publications of the kind it had ever been his fortune to read ; and he augured from it that it would tend more to open the eyes of the inhabitants of the Zollverein than any thing else he could conceive. Mr. Cobden admitted that the Governments generally were favourable to the principles of free trade, and he felt assured that if they had now a clean sheet of paper whereon to write their respective tariffs, those tariffs would be established upon the simplest possible principle ; that their object would be to invite cheap foreign im portations under moderate duties, levied for fiscal purposes only, instead of endeavouring to compel their fellow-countrymen to pay high duties with the object of producing commodities at an exorbitant price at home ; but (said he) unfortunately Govern ments have not a clean sheet of paper whereon to write their tariffs, but sheets of foolscap, crowded with duties of so complicated a nature, that it has become almost necessary to found a college for the purpose of instructing the rising generation in the mysteries of all custom-houses before they dare ven ture to enter upon foreign commerce at all. After some humorous allusions to the practice of speaking in Germany between the courses, and to his indispo sition to detain the assembled company any longer from their good cheer, Mr. Cobden concluded a speech of about half an hour's duration, and which had been listened to with breathless attention, and had been throughout received with rapturous applause, by thanking the company for the distinction shown to him, and proposing as a toast, " Continued prosperity a to the Town and Trade of this City." The other toasts which were then given in sace•a„ sion were, "Free navigation to every port of 'the world ;" which, as having reference to the absurd na vigation laws of England, France, tend otlier coun tries, was warmly welcomed. "DIU VatC ; ita n d," was then drunk, preceded by the sw ag of '' Was ist des Deutchen Vaterland ?" whicla. vas sung by the whole of the company present, and with a feeling of enthu siasm which this great Vaterliindische song never fails to elicit in any part of Germatoy. He who knows anything about the musical tfi) ent which is more or less possessed by every Gerrron, will not be at a loss to guess the effect of at listrist 600 voices singing a beautiful national melody., accompanied by a band of forty musicians. This `sing was da• capoed by uni versal desire. Other tolists succeeded, and at about ten o'clock Mr. CoVien again ascended the tribune to repeat once more hls thanks for the cordial recep ti.n he had met with at Hamburgh, and the meeting broke up. the heels of the this kind at Hamburgh, treading upon e It is impossible to conceive that a demonstration of o d in his speeches, publication alluded to by vnot have the effect of the boundaries c o a f n th fa e il ina " 'that radius to lower their ' the Governments within inducing Ztoollcvreeraetine.a s l e t nsat i l l o r n . Cwibthinn probably their duties, but it will show them the u tt er. improbability that Hamburgh will ever be induced to whatever whichcould . accede to any measures l ..., t r i ct the freedom of her commercial intercourse W ; i . `t:h the other nations of the world, whilst the eeftiusiasni e which the toast of " Das Vaterland" ll ...cited, must prove to the inhabitants of the south of (,) ermany, that in no part of the confederation d oes r • . more Valerian dische feeling exist than at Hamb eirg h. It is to be hoped that the absurd insinuativas which have re cently issued from the press o; 'South Germany, viz., that Hamburgh's predilectio,o.s are more British than German, will have now _ _ ow re.,e,dived their practical refu tation. Mr. Cobden is expected to remain here until Friday evening next, and the- n take his departure direct to London by the Princess Royal steamer. ENORMOUS RETURN.—There is at present to be seen in the shop of Mr. James Clement, ironmonger, Crieff, the prodrAce of a single seed of oats, lately reaped, which counts the enormous number of 2,062 grains, all fully ripe. It may be mentioned, that from the one seed there are 20 full , grown stalks, besides two that had not L ripened. it Ass grown on the estate of Colonel Grzeme, of Inchbraie....-.Forth Courim r s ) - SOUT/AMERICA. 'ERPOOL, OCT. .—We have this day receiv advices from Pernambuco to the 3d September, R Aug. 11th, and Bahia August 20th inclusive, by tb 1 Columbus, Captain Greene, which arrived in the Mersey this morning. She does not bring any political news. The following is a report of the cm.. mercial intelligence received : PERNAMBUCO, Sur. 3. IMPORTS. Ale and Porter—The stock in the place is not very large, but the consumption continues very limited, as is generally the case during the rainy season ; some late shipments still unsold are retailing at 44 to $4 500 per barrel. In October onwards there will be a better demand, and prices will most probably improve. Beef, Jerked—Several arrivals have taken place from Rio Grande do Sul since our last, and there is now a stock in the market of about 25,000 arrabas, retailing at $2 400 to 52 300, according to quality ; consump tion has been very large lately. Butter—Our market is well supplied with French, the stock of which is very large. Last sales were at 380 rs to 420 rs per lb, according to quality. 175 firkins of good Irish readily obtained 820 rs to 840r5 per lb ; and as there is no stock of this description in the market, next arrivals, if of good quality, will fetch about the same prices. Cheese (llutch)--Last arrivals, of good quality, only fetched about 1 doll, to 100 dolls, each. The stock of inferior quality, both in first and second hands, is heavy. Candles—American Sperm are worth 700 rs. per lb. Composition have been sold at 600 rs. to 620 rs. per lb. Coals—During the last month 700 tons have been imported, 460 of which on account of the steam-boat company. Some sales have been effected at 12 dolls. per ton. Flour—The receipts of this article since our last circular only amount to 2,100 barrels of American, which have been retailed by consignees at 23 dolls. to 26 dolls, per barrel. At the present moment there does not exist a barrel in first hands, and the entire stock held by bakers is not estimated at above 1,200 barrels. A cargo of Trieste SSSF, and one of Richmond, are daily expected ; they will no doubt obtain high prices. Wines—We have not received any supplies of Spanish or Mediterranean. The arrivals from Portugal have been regular, and our market is well stocked with that description, retailing at 110 dolls, to 120 dolls. per pipe, according to quality. EXPORTS. Cotton—ln consequence of the encouraging ac counts from home for this article, the price has been sent up to our present quotations. The receipts from the country, however, during the last few days have been larger, and as the weather appears now to be taking up, the arrivals will no doubt continue to in crease, and we may shortly have prices lower. Sugar—Little doing at the present moment. Of the old crop there still exists in the stores, in first and second hands, about 2,500 cases and 8,000 bags, two thirds of which will be muscovados. The coming new crop, owing to the severity of the rainy season this year, will commence to arrive later at market than usual; the shipments before Christmas will, without doubt, be less than they were during the same period last year. Hides—Dry salted have been in more request at our quotations for the United States, Havre, and the Mediterranean. Exchange—There is little doing in exchange at this season, and the present rate is only maintainable in consequence of the firmer rates at the southern ports. Freights are declining, late rates for Liverpool id., and 5 per cent. per lb. for cotton ; sugar, ballast for the same port, scarce, at 21., and 5 per cent. for cases. There are four small sugar vessels just arrived and disengaged, which might, we think, be engaged at 31. 15s. to 31., and 5 per cent. for cases, to the Chan nel, and a market. For Trieste nothing has been d_.ne of late. Our sugar crop being at its close, we cannot, there fore, for the next two months look for any improve ment on our present rates of freights, any further decline will, of course, depend upon the arrivals that may take place. THE LEVANT MAIL. SOCTIIAAIPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—The Tiger, Oriental and Peninsular Steam Company's ship, Captain Hamilton, arrived this morning, with mails from Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, Malta, and Gibraltar. Her dates of sailing are Constantinople, Sept. 17 ; Smyrna, Sept. 20; Malta, 26; and Gibraltar, Oct. 2. She brings on freight 9 groups and 5 boxes of specie, 9 tubs of leeches, 17,629 drums of figs, 1,715 boxes of ditto, 300 drums of Sultanas, 144 cases of silks, 44 bales of ditto, and 12 ditto of wool. Ships of war at Smyrna—Her Britannic Majesty's ships Volage, Harlequin, and Fantome. At Malta—Hibernia, Trafalgar, Superb, Ceylon, Gladiator, Hecla, Bulldog, and Locust ; French steam ers, Panama and Leonidas. At Gibraltar—Virago. At the Pirmus of. Athens—Albion 90, Vanguard 80, and Rodney 16. At Beyrout—Spartan, 9a. At Smyrna—Harlequin. At Constantinople—Meteor. At Corfu—Spitfire and Mutine, 12. The Malta Mail of September 17, says —" The three line-of-battle ships continue in our harbour. Nothing respecting their ultimate destination appears to be positively known. Some reports are in circu lation that at the end of the month they will be or dered to Corfu, and after a short cruise will return to the harbour, accompanied by the three vessels now at the Piraeus. " We have been given to understand that in point of sailing the Superb has borne away the palm. She can with ease afford the two heavier vessels topgallant sails and royals, and walk away from them like a thing of life.' Between the Hibernia and Trafalgar, the latter is the better sailer. " Since the Hibernia has been on this station she appears to have lost a great deal in her sailing• powers. "Lieutenant C. G. Crawley, first of her Majesty's steam frigate Gladiator, has applied to be superseded from that ship." ESTABLISHMENT OF A ROMAN HIERARCHY IN Rrseeoteum ENGLAND. rfenorbtrr:imn — tghoi l dins t is said that egnciionnugstnrttuhrc:t,eiocanef Dr. Wiseman is now on hi s ecclesiastical as r inad a s taiclueatnlhgaotrrhricatynnegfrdeomraseonjo the sue of fi Holy communion in England. Rome has hitherto possessed in England nothing more than a missionary establishment, placed under the superintendence of " Vicars Apostolics," who are nominally the bishop of sees now in partibus infidelium ; and do not assume the titles of the dioceses in which they exercise their authority. The present order of things is now to cease; Catholicism having, in the opinion of its rulers, attained a sufficient extension in England to warrant the re-establishment of the hierarchy, with all it'. ramifications of ecclesiastical government—dean; chapters, archdeacons, ecclesiasti cal courts, &c., a's 'A existed prior to the Reformation, and at present P;xists in Roman Catholic Ireland. There will be, it is said, two archbishops for the two pro vinces of 0 - anterbury and York, with eight bishops sub ordinates These new Roman bishops will not, however, assume, the titles of the sees at present ocoupied by the bisll'Jps of the Established Church, but will take their o.ec,ignations from other places not heretofore episco r,ally dignified —as Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby Liverpool, and other populous centres of Roman Catho lic influence. Dr. Wiseman himself, it is said, will suc ceed under a new title—that of Bishop of Westminst er —to the administration of the affairs of the London tsohhf the officers tohffie missed c e rs dis trict, in the room of Dr. Griffiths, Bishop of Glens, lately deceased. named Josephine Andrieux, eifeinofthaebuteheri possession AN ARTFUL THlEF.—Foremployed young n u g asp g E ! ee r tri l t ,. vent at a magazin de noureautes, fiber of honesty till a f ew Pont, without any suspicion silk, requesting d th a e ys ß ag u o e , The butcher's wife was ber to take care of them d e u nt e er he f ini o n ld vert, and sur prised at seeing articles s tained no S w hen masrhtien,casrerov.ifeerdsautl to hp o t i li evc e ael l s : suspicion of her until , and was convinced that they had been taken by Josephine, whom she at once denounced to the commissary o f ' t ß l b u uu r et nittire, police. Inquiry being made it was discovered that the girl had an apart ffoouurn: i t e h ce e s s o erv g ant young lady, dressed i g irl conveorntedgoinintog athfienree )74 Silk and laces, and surrounded , ra vi e t e h t e i l n e g g t a h ir n e l On seeing the officers enter her room she was z Pttli , t-struck, and immediately acknow ledged th a t she tiad committed repeated robberies, and delivered ill, a large quantity of goods she had stolen rorn her nYaster , adding that more would be found with t c , la t e, Q Q . deierge of a house in the Rue du Pont-aux \j".(lX. Josephine was consequently taken, and con in the guard-house at the Hotel-de-Ville. Here, during the night, she attempted to strangle herself with a riband, but it broke, and her intention was defeated. The next day, while being taken before the commissary of police, she made so violent an effort to throw her selt out of a window that the officers in charge of her had great difficulty in preventing her. She was com mitted to the prison of St. Lazare ; but so determined is her resolution to put an end to her life that for three days she has refused to take a particle of food, in tae hope of dying from hunger.—Galignanis Messenger , BIRTIF•CHAMBER OF SHAKSPERE.-1. have never seen a drawing of this room which conveys an acc urate to notion of its real aspect. Artists invariably make : a t o m large, and, if I may so, too fine. They fail in the at o t loure P d to realise its rusticity. The little pinched up, dsc and lattice is generally brevetted into a comely. wi nd ow, i the sturdy beam that runs across the cei ling acquires, somehow, under their hands, a sort. formally dis posed o f ornamental character. Then the high-backed c hairs . about the room, and t he framed pictures, and the flower-stands, make up altogether such an 9 . rt ifi c i a whole, that, were it not for the chimney and the door and the unavoidable relation of one special feet ture with another, it would be rather difficult to deteQt in the print this humble, but, in its day, not uncomfortikbbe chamber —Atlas. PUBLICATIONS. On Saturday next will be published, in leap..., T HE AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ROSE ALLEN, a Maid Servant. Edited by a LADY. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. ST. ALBAN'S ABBEY. On Saturday, October 16, will be published, with numerous illustra tions, 14s. cloth, AHISTORY of the ARCHITECTURE of the ABBEY CHURCH of ST. ALBAN, with especial Reference to the Norman Structure. lay I. C. BUCKLER and C. A. BUCKLER. London: Longman, grown, Green, and Longman. COMPLETION OF "THE DOCTOR." On Saturday next will be published, post Bvo., price 14s. cloth, rriHE DOCTOR, &c. Vol. VII. From the Pa. pers of the late ROBERT SOUTHEY. Edited by his Son-in. Law, the Rev. J. W. WARTER. A..* " The present volume contains all that Is thought advisable to publish of the Papers and Fragments for ' The Doctor,' &c."— Preface. London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Second Edition, with Additions, royal Bvo., price reduced to One Shilling, CURRENCY RECORDS, being Extracts from Speeches, Documents, &c., illustrating the Character and Con sequences of the Acts of 1819 and 1844. " A most useful compendium."—Banker's Magazine. " Should be in the hands of every elector."—Morning Advertiser. " An opportune and much-needed production."—Morning Post. London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Stationers' Hall-court. THE SWINTON MURDER. SHEFFIELD, THIIRSDAY.—The third adjourned in quest respecting the murder of Caleb Barker, late a warehouseman in the employ of Mr. Samuel Barker, of the Swinton Pottery, was held last night before Mr. Badger, one of the coroners for Yorkshire, at the Canal Tavern, Swinton-bridge. The last adjournment took place in order to give time to the coroner to apply to Sir G. Grey, Secre tary for the Home Department, for an order to have Sellars, the man to whom suspicion attaches as the person who committed the murder, brought before the Swinton jury for examination, and also to see whether he could be identified as the person who was seen in the neighbourhood on the night of the 4th of September, where the assassination was perpetrated. Sellars was last week committed to York Castle to take his trial on two separate charges unconnected with the murder, but the magistrates of Sheffield, on being applied to, refused to allow him to be brought before the coroner and the jury. Upon the assem bling of the jury, some formal evidence was gone into, but no new facts connected with the affair transpired. The CORONER, in addressing the jury, said—ln pursuance of a request which the jury had made to him at the last inquiry, he had written to the Secre tary of State, Sir G. Grey, giving a statement of the whole of the details connected with the present pro ceedings, and enclosing copies of the depositions which had been taken at the previous investigations, and requesting that he (Sir G. Grey) would order the prisoner Sellars to be brought before him. The following was the reply which he had received. " Whitehall, Sept. 25. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th instant, and its inclosure, and to inform you that the Secretary of State has no authority to order the person referred to in your letter to be brought before the jury, at the inquest which you are holding on the body of Caleb Barker.—l am, &c. " DENIS LE MARCHANT. " T. Badger, Esq., Coroner for Yorkshire." He (the Coroner) very much regretted that the ma gistrates should have acted as they had done on the present occasion, in not allowing the prisoner to be brought before them, because it was a course w hi c h he considered was calculated to impede the ends of justice. The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and after about half an hour's absence the foreman handed in the following written verdict : " The jury find, that on the evening of the 4th of September last, Caleb Barker was brutally beaten with some heavy weapon, and his skull severely fractured by some person or persons to the jurors unknown, in consequence of which the said Caleb Barker died on the following morning. The jury have to express their strong conviction, that if the Sheffield magistrates had not, as they conceive, improperly interfered and prevented a party strongly suspected of the murder being brought before them, they would have now been in a position to return a different verdict. They are of opinion that the ends of justice are defeated by col lisions between the Coroner and the magistrates as to the question of jurisdiction, the county put to addi tional expenses, and also that inquiries of this nature should not be conducted in the compulsory absence of the implicated or suspected parties. " JOHN WOOD, Foreman. " Swinton, Oct. 6." The CORONER asked if the jury were unanimous, and they replied in the affirmative. Mr. Wood said, before the parties left the room he was desired by the jury , to make the following state ment, which they had intended to have appended to their verdict : "The jury cannot but express their surprise at finding an impediment thrown in the way o f e li c iti ng information respecting a.crime of no less magnitude than midnight assassination, should have come from that quarter to which they conceive they have a right to look for the maintenance of every facility for the protection of both life and property." The inquiry then terminated. THE IRON TRADE. --- The preliminary meeting of the ironmasters of this district took place on Tuesday, at Wolverhamp twoans, s a a t n is d a c w t e e ry are to es state ef m a a t a h f a a t e t t u h r e e d result The hap p p ) ; c home demand' is very good, and this, considering . (bars, hoops, and sheets) remain the same. The the time of the year, and the fact that the ship ping season will soon be drawing to a close, fully warrants the conclusion arrived at by the trade. Pig-iron maintains its price : the principal makers are already full of orders for the next quar ter's delivery ; indeed, the quantity made in South Staffordshire is not equal to the demand. So much is being used for casting, for railway, and other pur poses, and so large a quantity is converted into manu factured iron, that were it not for the pig-iron im ported from other districts, the scarcity would, we have no doubt, be material. There cannot be any considerable reduction, either in the price of pig or manufactured iron, so long as the value of labour is so high, the raw material so dear, and the demand so great. The large failures in the city and elsewhere have not as yet affected the iron trade. It is true that several iron merchants have failed, but the business done by them in this district was very limited. Notwith standing the pressure upon the money market, we have every reason to believe that the engagements will be promptly met, and the payments punctually made at the ensuing quarter-day. The manufacture of railway bars is a distinct branch of the iron trade, and the price is not settled at the general meetings. The re quirements of bona fide railway companies—of those who can afford to pay for the rails contracted for, and who cannot do without them—will be suffi cient to keep this department of the trade in full operation for some tim e to c o me ; i n d ee d, we speak advisedly when we declare that we have not heard of one single order for rails being post poned through "railway embarrassment?' That the iron trade should' pass through a great commercial panic, meet the heavy pressure in the money market, and not be ultimately affected by it in some degree, is almost too much to be expected ; but, we b e li eve , when the panic is over, and the pressure is removed, it will be found that the iron has been comparatively unaffeolid, or, at all events, that it has enjoyed an extraordinary exemption.—Birmingham Advertiser. PANAMA, AUGUST.—The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Ecuador, from Callao, arrived here, bringing, in addition to her usual passengers and cargo, the mails in continuation with the Company's steamer New Grenada, which left Valparaiso July 28, from the undermentioned ports in Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and New Granada, of the respective dates as under- noted :—Chile—Valparaiso, July 28; Coquimbo, 29; Huasco, 30; Copaipo, 30. Bolivia—Cobija, Aug. 1. Peru—lquique, 2; Arica, 3; Islay, 4; Pisco, 6; Callao, 11; Payta,l4. Ecuador—Guayaquil,l6. New Granada —Buenaventura, 19. FATAL ACCIDENT.—As a seaman, named Attrill, of Viscount Milton's yacht Merlin, was engaged scrap ing the bowsprit, the chain bowsprit shroud broke, and he fell into the ship-yard, Ratsey's, at Cowes, and was so seriously injured that he died the same evening. On the Coroner's inque s t, it a pp eare d th a t th e acci d ent was occasioned by the defective clinching of the eyebolt into the iron hoop at the bowsprit end, the trifling weight of the man drawing the eyebolt. The work, it appears, was done at Gosport, and the jury expressed themselves strongly ou its defective nature, floating capital and deficiency of currency? The plan I propose is from the cause of the evil to extract a cure. Our remedy is r i g h t b efore us, effectual, and o easy attainment. What is needed is a perfect systen of paper currency, an issue of a sufficiency of pro nines to pay by those of undoubted capability of pay ing —available both for wholesale and retail traffic. What I propose is a new and wholesome system of currency and bunking, founded upon the real pro perty of railways. That all railways whose stock is not greatly under par shall receive legislative sanc tion to issue their promises to pay (notes of all sizes down to 55., perhaps down to the smallest coin) to the amount, say one-third of their value of stock, these promises bearing a preferable claim upon the property of the railway ; these notes to be all of one particular fashion and manufacture, difficult to be imitated, with only the particular railway and signa ture in writing. All Bank issues ought to be based on real property, and free from the great expense of bullion hoards. No government or state bank security could compare with the security afforded by railway property. Go vernment or state bank issues run considerable risk of being tampered with to serve state purposes. The freer, indeed, that governments are kept from mone tary interference, or bank connexion, the better, state banks not unfrequently being made subservient to state swindling. Railway security would at least be as secure as mundane things admit of being—safer than that of any government, or private company, or even individual landowner. A railway company, holder of real property, is in a different position from an individual holder of real property. A company does not lose energy or capacity by age as an indi vidual does. Nor is there any confusion or breach by death or division amongst heirs. Times does not wither it. This renders it more fitted for a currency basis and banking than any individual proprietor of land; besides the pawning of shares might be made conveniently available. There is, therefore, good and sufficient reason why railway companies should ob tain legislative sanction for the issue of notes in pre ference to individual holders of real property. Again, in case of revolutionary convulsion or state danger, the property of railway companies, supported by a nu merous and powerful proprietary, would be compara tively safe, and confidence in them would be main tained when state confidence, and even private indi vidual confidence, was gone. The railway issues would be especially beneficial at the present crisis in correcting the absorption of float ing capital, or rather in converting absorbed capital into floating capital, in relieving the money panie by an increased currency, and in enabling the system of railways to be more extensively completed—placing them in a condition to serve the community at a cheaper rate, and more effectually to bring out the industrial capacities of the country. In Scotland all that is necessary is an amalgamation betwixt in dividual railways and individual banks. Railway companies afford a foundation for a paper currency superior to anything which the world has hitherto presented, and the system might be extended over all civilised nations. This scheme of a secure pape o r f c t u h rr e e b n e c s y t miseaisnunre of o way fo r the connectedw poundith thest sterling, ques tionrl g way or of payment in bullion, whether at the market price or at a fixed rate per ounce of gold. It only affords a cheap and safe currency, free from the unthrift and inconveniencies of our present system. Every one who has had occasion to pay or receive large sums in gold is sufficiently sensible of the inconveniency and loss. A paper currency in England would set loose a large quantity of gold, which distributed over the na tions and assisted by Russian produce, would reduce the value of gold generally, thus checking the advance of the value of the pound sterling which has been going on since the peace, and bring the value back to nearly what it was when our debt was contracted. The only matter for consideration by the railway banks of issue, in case they were to pay at a fixed price per ounce and not at the market price, would be to see that their issues were not in excess, so as to de preciate paper so much as to cause a serious loss from payment being demanded in bullion by the holders of notes. From the number and divided state of rail- ' way banks, payment in bullion at a fixed value per ounce would be attended with serious difficulties. A means to keep the pound sterling at a steady value without payment on demand in gold or silver at a fixed price per ounce is a problem which I leave for the assembled Parliament to solve. I am, Sir, yours, &c., ALPHA. AUSTRIAN LOTTERIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Having seen in your Saturday's paper an announcement by the Lord Mayor of an Austrian Estate Lottery, forwarded to him from a Mr. Smith, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, I beg leave to say that, however illegal these lotteries may be in England, they are the usual means used in the Aus trian dominions by the nobility to pay off their en cumbrances. For this purpose the permission of the Austrian police, without whose leave nothing may be done in Austria, is obtained; and an agreement then entered into with some private banking-house, which firm also advances the money for the prizes, in case the lottery should not find sufficient ticket purchasers. This money is, I believe, deposited in the Austrian National Bank, either in its notes or in Austrian funded stock. The estate holder may, of course, take tickets in the;; lottery, and it sometimes happens that he wins back his own estate. l At all events, both he, and the bank which undertakes the speculation, make large profits out of the public credulity, and the Government has of course its heavy duty also. Such lotteries are very frequent ; besides which there is the common Government fund, or so-called iLittle Lottery, an !office for which is kept in all towns, in which .the lower classes gamble away all their little savings, and is one of the means used by the Austrian Government to occupy the attention of the people, and, besides, get rid of its bad paper money, the rem nants of the fictitious notes from the bankruptcy of the last war; and hardly any person of the middle or lower classes can be found .who does not gamble in these lotteries, to the detriment of their income and destruction of public morality. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. B. WALKER. 30, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, Oct. 5, 1847. AFFRAY WITH THE MILITARY. SHEFFIELD, THURSDAY.—At the adjourned inquiry respecting the death of Thomas Morton, the following evidence was adduced : Mr. 11. Mellor, surgeon, said that he was called up at two o'clock on the Sunday morning to see the de ceased, who had a compound fracture on the posterior part of the skull, two fractured ribs, several contusions on his arms, and an incised wound on the top lip. His right thumb was sprained. He attended him till Friday, the 24th ult., when another surgeon having be en called in, occupied his place. The compound fracture of the skull, witness believed, was caused by the lock of a gun or musket. , Mr. Samuel Gregory, surgeon, said that externally he found a wound on the head, over the back part of the, parietal bone, and various bruises on both arms. Th e brain was fractured immediately below the sur fac e. The substance of the brain and its membranes w€ 're highly infused with blood. Witness had no he citation in saying that the injuries deceased had re ceived were the cause of death. The fracture must ha ve been produced by some sharp instrument. Thomas Simmonite, of George-street, said that on the Sunday morning in question be was returning to his home when he met two soldiers who were singing. Jo hn Morton said to them, " You ought not to sing nc iw, it is Sunday morning." The soldiers then re pl. that they would sing when and where tb.ey 131 eased, and that they could sing as well as he 11 ( e went up the lane some distance and stopped about si: xty yards from the end, when he saw a fer)uple of fc ,ot soldiers in pepper and salt clothes and. 'one horse 5 0 ldier in a red cloak running down the Barrack-lane. 13 e did not hear anything they said, bat he saw a it ta n lying down under the gas-lamp, - lie heard the itness, Mrs. Roberts, screaming " Murder," and A. Watch." One of the soldiers ran to her husband (George Roberts), and said somet:ning to him. nother of the soldiers said, " This is the d— b— ho struck me." Ile did not observe whether the and who came dov;rn lead arms or not. The Learao . Coroner having summed up, the ju ry, after tnnsulting for nearly an hour, returned the verdict :—" We find that Dominic Mul -51 kir,oll, Joseph Rennyson, John Johnson, and Joseph ;-/ Tene, are Guilty of Manslaughter." The Coroner then made out his warrant for their (4) mmittal to York. TILE CHOLERA. — We read in a letter from Warsaw, i 'o f the 27th ult.:—" The cholara has made greater ra v ages in Southern Russia than has been stated. The p opulations of whole villages hare nearly been swept a ,way. Six physicians have left Warsaw for the scene ( )f the disasters to study the character of the dis ease. The cholera has not yet reached Kieff, but it Is advancing slowly towards the north and north-west. - It is stated in a letter from Lemberg, in Gallicia, dated the 28th ult., and published in the Augsburgh Gazette, that the cholera had reached Jassy, and that a sanitary cordon was about to be established on the Austrian 04 `frontier. 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