The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-08 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. MONEY MA:itKET and CITY NEW S. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) POST.—The money market has to day relapsed into difficulties, and the funds have been depressed con siderably below the advanced quotations of yesterday. Severalcauses have contributed to this return of gloomy appearances, particularly the unsettled and threatening language of the .French Ministerial Journals received this morning, which lead some persons to suppose that the King will not be able to dismiss from officeethe troublesome Minister, Mons. Thiers, and that the war party may not be restrained from desperate courses, however averse may be the Court of the Tuileries from the hazard of a general war. The misgivings about the power of the King to rid himself of Mons. Thiers have been the principal cause of the ,monetary re-action of the present day but there have been also the usual number of re ports about the Bar.k of England, arising out of the continued unfavourable state of the continental exchanges, and the supposition that difficulties were to be expected respecting the sufficiency of the sup plies of gold. Money has been certainly very much more difficult to be obtained than during yesterday. respectable bills having been discounted in Lombard street at the high rate of 6 per cent., from which it has been inferred that the Directors of the Bank of Eng land are endeavourinr, through the bill-brokers, to in fluence a general diminution of the discounts of bills of exchange. Respecting the reasonings brought forward by some of the capitalists, that the Bank of England would be brought into d fficultiea by the effects of a general war, it cannot be doubted that a suspension of cash payments would be legalized, as in the year 1799 ; and this, it is thought, might prove to be rather a bene ficial measure, as increasing the general amount of money, which is believed by enlightened persons to be too small under the present system of payments in gold ; her could even a direct declaration of war be so iniu-ious to the Bank of England as the present drains for bullion, which are caused entirely by the apprehensions of such an event. But reasoning is not the distinguishing feature of the Stock Exchange when panic has taken possession of the minds of the dealers ; and though nine-tenths of the members conclude their conversation by assuring one another that there is not to ba. a war, yet no person will operate upon that opi nion, and the funds have to-day been depressed by so unreasonable a cause as that the vain and presumptuous M. Thiers should have it in his power to coerce the experienced and sagacious King of the French, and to drag him into a war which is allowed to be almost cer tain to terminate with the loss of his crown and the total ruin of his house. It is further to be noticed that there are great num bers of persons who appear to be very desirous that a war should in reality take place between England and France. These are p ar ties connected with various departments of foreign commerce, par ticularly the South American trade, who have long considered themselves injured by the obstruction of their business through the blockades which the French have established along the South Americas coast. These parties are observed to be very vehement in favour of a war between England and France, re marking that the French have long enough been tramp ling upon poor and defenceless nations, and showing their valour in creating the most groundless and unjus• tifiable blockades against such countries as Buenos Ayres and Mexico, and that it is very good that a war should at last take place with nations by whom they are certain to be crushed. There are also merchants in connection with the United States who describe the feeling of the transatlantic republic to have become very bitter and contemptuous against the French nation, through the refusal of the payment of the indemnity mo ney on the same ground of its having been demanded against that which the same people are now calling the " honour of France," although the debt was never denied to have been just ; and the blockades of Mexico and Buenos Ayres are also viewed as an unwarrantable stoppage of the trade of the. American merchants with nations with whom the French are con sidered to have quarrelled without pretexts better than those which the strong can always find against the weak. Opinions and wishes of this tendency arc heard in all quarters of the City, and in justice to the French W vernment it ought to be made known that, if the opi nions of the world can be considered to be represented by the mercantile part of the community of London, the war into which France is preparing to engage with tho rest of the European nations will be attended with the sympathy of not a single nation of which anythir•.g is known in connection with English trading. It ought to be a valuable lesson to the Government of France that that the prospect of its humiliation has called forth the exultations of as many enemies, and it is to be hoped that France will now perceive that the present age is one of commerce and not of brute force, and that French blockades for the last ten years have been a mere insult, injury, and nuisance to the world. TIMES.—The unusual circumstance. of a fall of 1 per cent. in Consols on the same morning has caused much excitement in the Stock Exchange, and led to va rious rumours. Some of them are of a warlike tendency, even going to the length that M. 'Tiers had delivered to the British Minister his passport ; while others fix upon some forthcoming measure of the Bank of England as the cause, and the best opinions may be said to lean to this view of the matter. Nothing positive, however, transpired during the hours of business. The share-market is heavy. Great Western are 14 to 15 premium ; Birmingham 74 to 76 prem. ; Black well 31 to 3-1 dis. ; Brighton, 114 to 11-i dis. Some commercial letters from Alexandria arc in town which advert in terms of reprobation to the con iluct of Colonel Hodges, the Consul-General, and the circumstances stated imperatively demand a public notice, were it only to afford that gentleman the oppor tunity of refuting them, if they should turn out, as it is to be hoped they will, to be quite unfounded. The Consul, then, is charged generally with creating false impressions respecting the disposition of the Pasha of Egypt towards the merchants of this country, and in particular it is alleged that reports were circulated in Malta through his agency, which ceased many passengers to suspend the completion of their voyage to Alexandria ; while the Oriental steamer, after three days lost in Malta on this accaunt, and one day lost at Alexandria before she would deliver her mails, was deterred from entering that port at all, lying at a distance of six miles from the landing-place. The same letters express a conviction that there is no danger of molestation, and they state, on the contrary, a belief that vessels coming to load or discharge cargoes at the port of Alexandria will receive every protection. It is even said, that while Colonel Hodges was, through the agency of Captain Fisher, informing the Captain of the Oriental that he could not enter the port, and that there were doubts whether the mail and passengers could traverse Egypt, be was in possession of advices by the Pacha's tele graph that the steamer had arrived in Suez, and that the passene•ers and Indian mail were on the way to Alexandria. It seems also, that at the date of the letters (21st of September) there were half a (I.3zen English vessels in the port. Colonel Hodges, it was believed, had expressed his intention to write by the islet post that this would be the last mail allowed to travel through Egypt, and the chief object in these letters is to counteract the effect of such a communica tion by an assurance that the Pacha, on the 20th ult., told Captain Lyons that he did not intend to offer any interruption to the Indian mails. Upon a mercantile house epplying for permission for the Oriental to enter the harbour, Mehemet Ali not only granted it, but told them that next time she came be would go on board and visit her. Captain Fisher is, in these account 4, represented as endeavouring to intimidate the masters of English vessels from entering the port, while the conduct of the Austrian Consul is praised as being totally different, and he i 3 stated to have read to the Austrian residents a letter from the Austrian Admiral, in which tine masters of vessels are advised to enter the harbours fearlessly, and transact their business with full reliance on the protection of the Egyptian Government, while the mer c h an t s are recommen d e d t o con ti nue their business, and entert a in no fears for public tranquillity. Oi course, any counter statement by the friends lef Colonel Hodges, which may tend to relieve him from these imputations, would have an undoubted claim to the same publicity which has been given to them. The India papers last e received state the loci' ngn" topics which had c hi e fl y attention f in Bombay during the month to be—first, the d e l a y e Government . in replying to the Memorials o f the Chambers of Com• merce on improving the arrangement of the port of Born l•av with a view to the prevention of shipwreck • sec ondly, the inquiries of the Post -office Committeendi.; and thirdly , the several acts of the Government of in setting asid e statute law, end in terfering with the a privileges of loc al magistrates and the trhigehtfisrsotfitpwron-s pro perty in individual!. With respect said that the parties complained of, as well as those who complain , see m not yet to lave familiarised th e i r minds to the chang e in their position which within the space of three years had been brought about by t h e overland communication with England. Within this - period return of post from London , had been reduced from twelve months to 100 days. Therefore, when the Government of India refused to entertain questions whi c h affected British subjects not only in India but at home, the Imperial Parliament or the people of Eng land were t h e proper tribunals of appeal. 0 the leeli of June 200 human beings perished within sight o f Bombay on rocks from which five or six vessels have within these s i x mon ths been in the utmo st p eril, beside s the three which were totally wrecked. It had long been the opinion of those most competent • to judge on the of the coast ree - s portion question, that this pereou %Ist be disarmed of its danger by the mast ordina ry precautionso and moderate outlay on the part of G made tvern:•lent. The strongest repre sentationso s by the Government, le effect rem a i ne d unanswered arrangements for mained in the same state is of the shipping re• Bombay as they had been far a century. eert:i resp ect to the P o st-offic e " que stion, though the inquiriess of the Committee had terminated, the report had AOt b e va given in. The grievances of detention at Alexandria, Suez, and Aden, and of the delay in landing the mail after the packet reaches Bombay, were fully known to the public ; and the m ethod proposed as simplest and shortest to secure redress was to memorialize Parlia ment to the effect, that " before more money was voted from the pockets of the people of England for Ihe con veyance of the India mail, it should be asked of the India Company whether they meant to persist in having the exertions made and cost incurred betwixt England and Alexandria to forward the mails with due celerity neutralized by the inefficiency of the arrangements exist ing betwixt Alexandria and the final destination of the I despatches?" The third subject was a complaint, that the Supreme Legislative Council of India had stripped the Magis trates, whether English or native, of the functions which Parliament bad conferred on them by the Act which permitted native gentlemen equally with British born subjects to sit upon the Magisterial Bench. This, with other acts of aggression upon the statute law of England and rights of British subjects, not yet suffi ciently rife for public discussion, were agitating tl. so ciety of Bombay against the increase of power •vith which the charter of 1834 invested the Council of 1 .dia. The following information respecting the cotton ide has been addresszd to the Manchester Chambc. of Commerce : • " Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Committe , of the Chamber of Commerce of this city to state, for your information, that the system hitherto adopted here of levying the duty on cotton goods according to the market value having been found productive of much trouble and annoyance to all parties, while, from the great variety of manufactures imported, and the wide difference in value of many which have the saiae desig nation, it has been found impracticable to declare a fixed value for each whereupon to compute duty, the Government of Bombay, on the recommendation of a Committee appointed to revise the tariff, has recently -decided that the duty shall henceforth be levied on in voice value, with the addition of 10 per cent., in order to bring this mode within the spirit of the Act as to market value. " In drawing the attention of shippers to Bombay to this change, which is to come into operation about the lit of October next, the Committee of he Chamber of Commerce would strongly recommend that invoices of bona fide cost should always accompany shipments, and that shippers should endeavour to make the values per invoice correspond with those stated in the ship's dockets, as the latter are always delivered up to the Custom-house at Bombay on the arrival of the vessel. " The Committee would also bring to the notice of the shippers that all varieties of shop goods are to pay duty in the same manner, and consequently similar atten tion will be requisite in regard to them. " It has been deemed advisable to give timely intima tion of this change, that shippers may be prepared to take the necessary care in the preparation of invoices, in order to avoid the unpleasant consequences (such as the seizure of the goods) which will undoubtedly follow neglect in this particular, as well as to prevent unfavour able suspicion being ever excited against the agents here by carelessness or discrepancies in these documents, which may be construed by the authorities here into an intentional design of defrauding the revenue. " I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, " R. X. MURPHY, Secretary. " Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Aug. 27." HERALD.—Two causes are assigned as having operated on the English funds to-day—namely, the be lief the Bank. Directors intend raising the rate of dis count to six per cent„ and the report that a declara tion of war has been made against England by the French Government. At the commencement of busi ness, prices, after remaining passive for a time, began to advance, and from 8711 reached 871, buyers for the account. This improvement was, however, speedily re-acted upon, by the prevalence of a rumour that M. Thiers had delivered in person a passport to the Bri tish Minister, the consequence of the determination of the French Cabinet on the Eastern question. This was followed by the supposed intention of the Bank three tors to raise their rate of discount to-morrow, and prices then gave way to the extent of per cent. Money has been very scarce and in great demand, and the discount demanded for first-rate bankers' ac- ceptances has been six per cent. per annum. In addition to the evidence by the Overland Mail no ticed yesterday, some interesting letters from Ceylon complain greatly of the little protection affurded to that colony by the Government, both local and home. The second unreserved sale of the Marotto Preserved Cinnamon Gardens took place on the 11th August, when 297 acres were disposed of at the average price of 4/. 19s. 4d. per acre, being an advance of 13s. upon the sale in July. Had the local government declared their intentions more fully with regard to the reduc tion of the export duty, and guaranteed that it should be gradually aasimiluted to the duty paid on coffee, oil, and other produce, as speedily as the revenue would allow, a higher price would have been obtained. That they will ultimately be compelled to do so no doubt exists. The competition of other countries renders this a matter of absolute necessity ; but, in the meantime, the whole of the pre served gardens will have been disposed of at prices, which, in comparison with the expense of forming plan tations, appear quite ruinous, although, under existing 1 circumstances, they may exceed the actual value of the land as an investment. A calculation made by an ex perienced gentleman, shows that if forest land be bought at ss. per acre, it will, with interest, cost 301. before it can be brought into full cultivation, and yet the Go vernment gardens are sold at about one-sixth of the above rate. This state of things is a sufficient com ment on the existing condition of the cinnamon trade, and no amendment can be hoped for until the duty be abolished, and this article be placed on the same footing as other kinds of produce. The existing system of transforming South American and other foreign coffees into British, by landing them at the Cape of Good Hope, is loudly complained of, as injurious to this and the West India colonies. The conduct of the Ministers, in sanctioning this smuggling, and not openly and fairly avowing the principle they aro tacitly sanctioning, that henceforward foreign coffee should be mixed with British, and frecly admitted with it, is severely commented on. Were this once acknow ledged, the planters and merchants of the colonies would know with what they had to contend, and regulate their operations accordingly ; but at present they are deluded by the semblance of a protection, when there is none in reality, and loss and disappointment are the natural results. By the last intelligence received at Ceylon from Cape Town no fewer than 17 merchant ships were simultaneously engaged in landing coffee on the wharf for the Cape, and carrying it on board the same ships, after which purifying process it became eligible for entry for home consumption in the mother country at the duty of 9d. per lb., instead of ls. 3d., which must have been paid had the vessel proceeded direct to England. From the opinion generally expressed it may be ga thered that many of the merchants connected with the cast would be much gratified if some alteration were made in the time of despatching the overland mail to India. To such a nicety has the regularity of the packet been brought, that the arrival can be calculated upon almost to a day, and the three last mails have ar rived on the 4th, sth and 6th of the respective months. The mail from hence is made up on the 4th, so that if the outward despatch were fixed for, say seven days later, very many of the letters could be answered by the trail of the 11th, instead of waiting very nearly a month. If it has been possible to overcome the immense obsta cles which have been surmounted, surely it would not be very difficult to make such arrangements as to carry out the above observation. CHRONICLE. —Owing to the continued unfavour able state of the Foreign Exchanges and the unsettled state of our political relations, it has been currently re ported to-day that the Directors of the Bank of Eng land will feel themselves compelled to raise the rate of discount, at their meeting to-morrow, to 6 per cent. The rise in the price of gold and silver on the Con tinent renders such a course of action probable in self defence. We hear that the whole of the silver lately received from South America by the Sparrow-hawk was bought up by a leading capitalist, and exer t e d again, chiefly to St. Petershurgh, where it re:.: i , ed a profit of two per cent. The Bank Directors :Nast, therefore, make money scarce, in order to produc a fa vourable turn in the exchanges, and to _stop the e ,iort of bullion as a matter of trade. The commercial accounts received by the Ir. ii in overland mail respecting the indigo crops are not encouraging. From Terhoot the estimates, however, show a return of 20,000 or 21,000 maunds, or from 6,000 to 7,000 maunds in excess of last year ; bet in the district of Benares, with few exceptions, the returns are unfavourable, and exhibit a deficiency of '5 per cent. compared with last year. From Malda, Moorshedabad, and all along the Bhaugauretty, the advices are of an unsatisfactory character, and in Jes soro t h e est i mate o f t h e cro p is calculated fully 10,000 maunds under that of last year. The prices of r aw s ilk an d cotton had a tendency to de cline. M oney continued plentiful, and the rates of accommodati on easy. S had been sent to ChinalO3rne shipments r storing in the of cotton ships or adjacent ports, to be in readiness the or Can ton market as soon a 3 la " litiez should cease. 2 Bank of Beng a l h a d declared Tll a divide n d o f 8 per cent. The shares of the Assam 'ilea pre mium of 6 per cent., but afurthel. Company were at a contribution of 50 r upees per share had be en called for. a The following is an ext ract of private letter from— " Barnhay' August W e have no intelligence yet of ftle 28, 1840. part of the expedition in China, but alli arrival of any passed is Singapore. Insurrectionthe ship s h a d brewing in the southern provinces of China, The tea exports of the current year will be larger by a good deal than was ex pected at first ; but it is next years crop that will fail." SUN. --Things wear rather a gloomy, though ex cited, appearance in the City.. The Funds opened steadily this morning, but with. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1810. out the least appearance of buoyancy. The intelligence from Paris of M. Thiers and his colleagues having suddenly assumed a marked appearance of unanimity, and the inference drawn from this circumstance being unfavourable to the maintenance of peace, was the main instrument in imparting this gloom to the market, and the heavy condition of the Foreign Ex changes yesterday afternoon also contributed to it. Consols, at the commencement of business, were marked 87i to Q for immediate transfer, and 871 to for the account. These prices were maintained with some difficulty to within an hour of the close of the market, when a sensible re-action began, chi( fly in time bargains, sales being effected at a de cline of 1 per cent., and in some few cases even a fraction more. The cause of this retrograde move ment is said to be a determination come to by the Directors of the Bank of England to advance their rate of discount on loans, or to adopt other stringent measures for meeting the ominous appearances of the times, in which case, unquestionably, speculators of every class would be the first to find the shoe pinch them. This we believe to be undoubtedly the real origin of the sud den fall, but it was reported in addition that a pigeon express had brought over prices 2 per cent. lower from the Paris Bourse. Money Stock dropped from 871 to 861, closing at 861 ; and Stock for the account from 87-- to 861, closing at 86,1. Exchequer Bills were at Is. to 3s. premium in the early part of the day, and India Bonds at 153. discount, but no sales were made after the serious fall in Consols. The New Three.and a-Half per Cents. declined from 961 to 96 and 95i ; and India Stock was heavy at 245. The Foreign and Share Markets were affected by the state of our own funds. Spanish Active Bonds for Account fell from 221 to 21i and 22 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. from 49 to 48 and .18a- ; the Five per Cents. from 951 to 94 ; and French Three per Cents. from 71f. to 67f., the lowest price, however, being 69f. 50c. Great Western Shares were done this afternoon at 15 to 16 ; New, at to 5 ; South Western at 13i- to ; and York and North Midland at 15i premium ; Brighton were 11i dis. to know that they were vital ; that a difference respect ing them in any Cabinet must have led to the retire ment of the dissidents, or, what was more probable, to the break-up of the Administration, among the members of which such dissensions were dis- covered to exist concerning measures inseph• rably bound up with its foreign and colonial po licy. This laboured attempt to conceal the unseemly schisms in the long m uch-vaunted united Conservative party, will not only fail of its design, but will, by its having been attempted, show how fatal those schisms are, in the estimation of the party, to the hopes of office so long ardently cherished, the attainment of which has been so perseveringly sought by all the means which party ingenuity could devise ; and how anxious they are to sew fig-leaves together, in the hope of concealing " the sha meful p arts of their consti tution" (to borrow a phrase from Bishop Philpotts) from tl-e public eye. Were Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington in office, they must either propitiate the ultra Churchmen, whose impracticable demands for ex clusion and extension are urged upon the House of Commons by Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Sergeant Jackson, and others of the party, by consenting to their demands ; or they must oppose their measures. In the former case they would destroy themselves by disgusting and alarm ing every moderate politician in the c)untry ; in the let ter they would be deprived of the support without which their Administration could not hold together six weeks. The " cross benches" would be occupied by Sir Robert Inglis, and the party w hich follo ws him in his efforts to extend the power of the Church by large forced con tributions from the State ; and " We are fifty," would be a pretty significant hint as to what S r Robert Peel ; and his colleagues must expect if they declined the r terms on which " the Holy Alliance" would lend its support to the general measures of his Government. - - (From the Courier.) For a long time the English nation has been re proached with exclusive attachment to the aristocra tic branches of its society, whenever it is requisite to bring into operation any portion of its penal laws. If a nobleman, having seen or felt too many black bottles upon the table, sally out of his mansion and knock down some half-dozen policemen, besides destroying the knockers and bell-pulls of ie neighbourhood in which he delights to exhibit his prowess, what does the magistrate ? He inflicts the usual penalty for drunk enness, and if there be a charge for wilful damage. orders it to be paid. Perhaps, too, the assault on con stables, unfortunate women wandering about the streets at the time of his peregrinations, or poor tradesmen re turning to their homes, may be alleged against the noble offender. One result invariably follows a charge involving any of these disgraceful outrages—the gen tleman of whatever rank he may be is ordered to pay the legal fine, and to defray the damage which he has occasioned in a voluntarily incurred ungovernable mo ment. This is justice as prescribed by law, but it is not such justice as is calculated for the good of the peaceable part of society. The noble or gentle offender does not care a rotten straw for the pecuniary loss which his inglorious exploits have occasioned him. He pays the police clerk, retires, and in a few days afterwards is produced to answer much the same sort of charges. Well, the law has it so ; but, why in the name of all that we hold valuable should we deem the transgressions of a man moving in the higher circles of life of a more pardonable nature than those of the less affluent ? It a gentleman, forgetful of the respect due to society, publicly exhibit himself in that state which the law has stamped as worthy of a pecuniary penalty, why should inferior persons not be allowed to possess the same indulgence, if it can be so called ? But when we see a person erring in a less degree than the very genteel and highly noble persons ribose adventures have become items in police reports, allowed to escape in the manner stated, we are forced to inquire what no tions of justice are possessed by the magistracy who re fuse to admit the pecuniary penalty as a compensation of a moral injury. _ (From the Standard.) The ferment into which the French Ministers and their press have been thrown by the easy success of the operations against Beyrout curiously illustrates the hypocrisy of their late clamour. A few days ago they reclaimed against the quintuple treaty as impossible to be carried into effect, without bringing the Russians to Constantinople ; and as, therefore, nothing more than a preliminary to investing the Czar with the Euro pean dominions of the Porte. Now, however, that they have before them proof that the treaty is likely to be enforced without bringing the Russians to Constantinople—according to all present appear ances, without the advance of a single Russian solder, even into Asia Minor—their fury is still more inflamed. It is surely plain from this, that the alleged fear of Russia was altogether a fallacy from the first, and that the professed desire to protect the integrity of the Ottoman empire was no less a fallacy. There is now every rational ground for supposing that the people of Syria and the troops of the Sultan, only aided by such naval co-operation as the Allies afford, and such as in principle France has sanc tioned by the Spanish quadruple treaty, will be quite sufficient to drive the rebel usurper beyond the Desert, or, if the Porte choose to punish Isis crimes, to drive him even from Egypt; and supposing this to be effected, what reason will the Government which affects a care for the integrity of the Ottoman empire as necessary to the balance of Europe, have to complain ? The Ottoman empire will not be less entire by the recovery of the richest portion of its territory, or less strong to resist Russia, if necessary, by vindicating justice upon its rebel vassal. Nations are not made more formid able to their neighbours by partition—" a word to the wise." M. Thiers, it is said, threatens to resign if his Sovereign and his colleagues will not treat the re duction of Beyrout, or at the least of Acre, as a cants belli. We hope that by this time the red cross and the crescent are waving in union over the walls of waved over these walls " child and champion" , M. Thiers would be Acre,to of jt ah ceo a b s mi forty n oi sr nit years ifi,coaftiwo nh o s mog of that a t f h t e e r y a i the successor, if his pigmy stature of mind allowed him. But wise a p r i nce a s Louis Philippe still w will e u do tre b a t whether t such a so n event as plunging France in hostilities, and self the Lafayette, the Custine, D umour i er , or Pi coannstiothectiansgionhilmor. chegru, of a state of anarchy, in which the least reverse—and reverses would b e early an d fre quent on the side of Franc e in the threatened war—signs the warrant - of banishment or death for the relit% authority. Louis Phili ppe i s, we i ma gine, too wise a man for such a desperate game. He will much more probably use his opportunity for the fortification of Paris, and th us, b y securing peace a t home, provide the power of preserving peace abroad in stead of kindling a flame elsewhere, which must re turn to his own house. As to the threatened resigna tion According o of M. Th to al i l ers accounts, a good thi ng of it, according t o t h e sufficiently Thiers i hasn tellig made a of Change-alley ; has gained some milli ons on the Bourse, ' i t i s which he may wish to place beyond the hazards of the commotion by which chic fly he has gained them. It is wonderful how patriotically independent of office men become when they hare taken all that they can out of it, how soon, after they have reaped the harvest, political adventurers become disgusted with public life. de- THE BREAD-TAX AND THE ARISTOCRACY. PRANCE AND ENGLAND COMPARED. The experience and example of the French nation , before the Revolution of 1798, seems to be thrown awayt, on the Parliament and on the aristocracy of England, In France, at that period, the noblesse were i the from payment of taxes, by law—and 0 . f le P leb eian, or the labouring classes, paid the ivinile its the taxes for the support of the Government in all I e xtravagance. There then existed great profusion and extravagance at the Court, and in the class of the privileged noblesse ; but, a mongst the millions, want, misery,. and wretchedness. At that time the public prints often described the state and condition of the their daily people of France and of England as it then was in each country. The French were exhibited in pictures as lean, half-starved creatures—almost sketetons, covered (meanwith soundwith ann : sh o f sou p meagre before them ing.. soup without meat, and some bread as hlavingragfare, whilst the 1! , the Francedescriptionuglish John Bulls were exhibited with full and rosy cheeks, round paunches ; fat, sleek, and in ood ndition, with a beef-steok or roast beef and gplent;°of beer before them, and delineated. : and, we believe, .In the workingpretty classes were miserable oh j?cts, and looked upon with disdain by their . titled countrymen. i n England the working classes had enough of lain food for themselves and families, i and they we re decently clothed,. and had the bo.d and independent character then given of them. Was good correctci''tli'' clothing d well . England had really a bold and happy working-class when compared to • the miserable and dependent people of France. History affirms, anti no person will . deny, that the people, driven totxtreintties by . misrule, brought on the revolution in Franee—the privileges of the heartless and tyrannicalisoblesse were abolished—the laws were made equal and applied e qually to the rich After the revolu a.nd to the poor ---to all classes alike. tion the taxes were levied on the property of the . coli try, and the right s of man— eq ual la.vs and equal justice —were established in France. Let us ask wnst . have been the consequences of ual laws and equal justice to all classes of men in' Frane:le? The misrule and extra vagance of the Arist ocracy a nd Court wereput n end to, and l e. the working. asses contr ib u ting their fair .pro portion of servi ce an d of taxe s for the support of the State, received a f a i r reward for their labour, and have become really bold and independ ent ; they are fat and plump, with pl enty of food to satisfy their wants— with a comfo r t a bl e home an d decent clothing—and contentment, as compared with their condition before the revolution, reigns in the land. Although the French have not gained by the revolution all the be nefits they, in the h our o f cange , expected, they have exchanged their squalid misery for plenty and comfort —they have exchanged their rags for good clothing— their wretched hovels for comfortable. houses, and to some millions of their dwellings small pieces of land and gardens are attached, adding greatly to their comfort ; and a state of high feeling and of pride in their country exists. Let any stranger question them on that point, and they will find that the ancient pride of Old John Bull has taken full pos session of the people of the land of frogs. The " land of frogs" was applied to France in derision, and in comparison with the land of roast-beef and plum-pud ding, which England was represented to be. Every Englishmen of feeling—of common humanity, must mo urn over the change that has taken place in this, his own land. The bold and independent John Bull, with his roast-beef and plum-pudding, is changed into a miserable, discontented, half-fed, halt-clothed, and . broken-hearted wretch, lingering out a miserable exist ence, and yielding to want and disease in hundreds and thousands, under circumstances which make the really Christian man shudder to contemplate. In 1789 France was one garrison, - with large military establishments to keep down the working classes ; and the demand for reforms and the correction of abuses made by the people to the Government in those days was answered by leaden bullets and the point of the bayonet. Now, the working classes in France are freemen—they are en rolled as national guards, and they on all occasions pro tect the Government and support order without pay or allowance. England in 1789 had scarcely ten thousand soldiers, and these were considered chiefly necessary to supply her colonies with recruits and with reliefs : the loyalty and attachment of the working classes were the best protectors of the peace and the best guardians of the throne. At this time, Englishmen are literally dis armed—England is now one garrison, with large mili tary establishments to keep down the working classes (and, in some counties, the richer classes of the people are armed to assist the military to keep the people down), and the demand for reform in these our days is answered by leaden bullets and by the point'ot the bayonet ! Is not this a true account of the state of England—if we add, with the prisons filled by hundreds of men whose f wits were, to demand such reforms in the institutions of the country as the Ministers formerly stated were necessary to put an end to misrule, and to afford equal justice to all classes in the country? It is to be regretted that the violence of some of the reformers, smarting perhaps under an acute sense of the injustice heaped upon the people in this land, and of the misery and crime which have resulted from that injustice, should have given, by violent language, a co lour, and afforded some pretence for the use of military, and for the extensive prosecutions and severe punish ments which have been carried out by the present Whig Government. Will any man look at that picture at tentively, and say whether there is not real danger to the peace of the country ? Will any man guarantee that suffering so intense, and misery so extensive—that dis content so loud, and complaints so general, can con tinue long without producing, as all former history tells us, the most lamentable consequences? We ask, then, what has changed the discontented and miserable France of 1789 into happy and contented France of 1840 ? What has changed the happy and contented England of 1789 into the miserable and dis contented England of 1840 ?• We answer that unjust privileges to the few—to a privileged aristocracy, have produced misgovernment, and hence the melancholy change we have pointed out is the result. We add that the barbarous bread-tax, by plundering and impoverishing the millions of honest and industrious classes, to enrich the already wealthy aristocracy, has been mainly instrumental to produce this change ; and we, therefore, appeal to the Crown and to its Ministers to repeal these unjust laws which starve the millions and reduce them to a condition more wretched than the working classes in any kingdom in Europe. We say, repeal the Corn-laws, and do equal justice to all men— or take the consequences.—Manchester 7 inzes. LA PRIMA DONA, OR MADAME MERE. " But how comes it that M. Thiers has committed so many blunders in the Eastern question ?" " Why," replied my informer jocosely, " he would do without his bonne. All his blunders have been com mitted in the absence of his mother-in-law. He had been too much reproached with doing nothing without her advice." " But whence comes the lady ?" said I. "In all quarters I am questioned about her.' "Oh I you don't know. La Prima Dona, for such is the ludicrous nickname she has received, is the daughter of a respectable clothier of Faubourg Mont martre. The lady, who thinks that the Foreign Mi nister's mansion in the Rue des Capucines, which the Countess Mole and Marechal Duchess de Dalnsatie considered a very suitable residence, is not sumptu ously enough furnished for her, sat, in her first youth, behind the counter where her mother kept a draper's books. When she w as of an age to be married, she was married to a lad who had learnt Exchange and Bourse operations in a banking-house. This husband, M. Doane, obtained, by the favour of the Duchess d'An gouleme, an office of stockbroker. He received com pany, his wife did the honours of his house, chatted about the novel of the day, and got invited by some journalists to the political solemnities of the times. This was under the Restoration. She wished to be admit ted to the Faubourg St. Germain, but was repulsed. She became ferocious against the old Nobility, and hoisted at home the standard of Liberalism. Whoever wrote in the Liberal journals the slightest enthusiastic tribute to Foy or Benjamin Constant was sure to be well received at her house. It was towards that period that the author of ' L'Histoire de la Revolution ' was introduced to her. So much affection was entertained for him that he was soon treated a ranti de la ntaison, and at length considered as one of the family. The Revolution of 1833 opened to the friend the career of honours and fortune. He availed himself of his influ ence to have the Recette Generale of Lille bestowed upon l'antie's husband, and that the Lord alone knows by what rouerie ! Monsieur end Madame Dosne had two daughters. As soon as the eldest was fifteen years of age she was married to M. Thiers, then Minister of Com merce. Young Elise, who was as pretty and fresh as a grisette, has -become pale and sickly, which had made a witty woman remark, . On n'epouse pas impunentent M niers.' Madame Dosne's influence went on increasing. M. Tuiers's journalists, the frequenters of the little Au teuil Court, the favourite 3 of that majesty of the Bourse and counter, have more ridiculously still nick-named her Madame Mere. It is she who has forced him to take up his residence at the Auteuil Tuilerie. Alas ! the Queen of the Tuilerie is no longer admitted into the Tuileries ! Oh, if the world knew what tribulations M. Thiers had to undergo, what obstacles he had to overcome, before he could ()Hain an invitation for Ma dame Mere ! W hat negotiations were required to enable her to cross even the threshold of the mansion of the Deputies' President ! M. Dupin long proved in exorable. In vain was he prayed, in vain told that his obstinate refusals and disdainful denials irritated M. Thiers, he would not give way. ' All that he pleases: exclaimed he, ' but for that it is quite impossible.' At length it was represented to him that he could well re ceive a woman who had once entered the Tuileries, when he replied, ' Olt ! nazis vous oubliez gee le Roi a le droit de faire grace !'"—Balzac's Revue Parisienne. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Herald.) From the exulting tone in which the ministeria journals, and those Tory papers which support Lord Palmerston's policy in the East, speak of the destruction of Beyrout, one might be induced to suppose, who knew no better, that some mighty achievement of arms had been performed—some exploit of astounding magnitude, sehose success could only have been accomplished by su perior genius, acting with consummate bravery and skill. What in reality is the feat of arms which British prowess has achieved on the coast of Syria, and which has been made the subject of much boasting and triumph ? —The battering down of the habitations of an open town the slaughter or dispersion of the inhabitants of an unwalled, unfortified city, by the broadsides of five or six British line-of-battle ships ! It has come to a sorry pass indeed with England's naval glory, when the materials for triumph are derived from such an achievement as this. The Standard vies with the Globe and Chronicle in admiration of the event. That the old houses of the open town of Beyrout should have been battered about the ears of their inhabitants by the broadsides of a British fleet of war in the space of two hours, quite overpowers our Whig and Tory Contemporaries with proud amazement. It is quite possible, however, that five French, or even five Egyptian vessels of war could batter down Gravesend, just as speedily as Napier laid Bcyrout in ashes. If the pages of English history did not contain nobler warlike achievements than any which have yet signalized the Whig reign of peace, protocols, bom bardments, and blood, Englishmen would have more reason to blush than boast whenever they perused the records of their country's " military and naval glory." It must be exceedingly satisfactory to the author of all the misery which Europe, as well as Asia, has yet to derive from Lord Palmerston's Anglo-Russian war in the east, that the Standard has discovered tho intimate connection between the religious destinies of the world and the first bloody outrage upon the peace of mankind of the new holy alliance. What goodly fellowship is Palmerston placed in for the first time in his life—a life distinguished by as many changes of political principle as there was variety of tint in Joseph's "coat of many colours. Palmerston is now introduced into the company of the Iraclitish patriarchs, and hailed as the follower of the prophets, the denouncers of Egypt , " the basest of kingdoms." The prophecies themselves appear to have awaited their completion in the protocols, and their actual fulfilment in the execution of the Treaty of London. Profane history is brought to the aid of the sacred records, and the Lichfield House Whigs find the merits of their eastern policy "confirmed beforehand" by Strabo, Lucan, Polybius, Aulus Gelling, /Dian, and Maimonides, who ‘• charge upon Egypt the having per verted the Saracen race from men to beasts." (From the Mornin? Chronicle.) Our accounts from Paris of Tuesday, received by ex press last night, represent the French Cabinet as hay. ing come very nearly to a determination as to the line of conduct to be pursued by them in the present crisis. On the one hand, the Chambers were to be convoked for either the 7th or the Ist of November, the war party being for the nearest day. At the same time there was to be an ultimatum drawn up, and ad dressed by France to each of the Four Powers, full, of course, of remonstrance and protest, and exhortation to peace, but at the same time distinctly lying down the cams belli. The great differences which still existed in the Cabinet on Monday concerned this casus belli, some wishing to declare it a casus belli if Acre or South Syria was attacked, others confining it to Egypt. Such a note is an exceedingly serious step. It is that menace of war which M. Thiess declared some time since in the Consitutionncl to be unadvisable, because it dared the Powers to commit certain acts, and at the same time laid bare the projects of France, so that they might be prepared for and frustrated. An ultimatum, too, declaring that France would make war if Egypt were attacked, might be construed into a tacit concession of Syria. The Duke of Orleans was con sulted on Monday respecting the tenor of this meditated note. The discussion of the subject was adjourned till 'Tuesday, when the Cabinet was to meet under the presi dency of the King at 2 o'clock. The result was expected with some impatience. Well-informed persons, however, declared that the cants belli, as laid down in the note or ultimatum, would be the insisting on the decheance of Mehemet Ali. Now. we know that the Powers will not insist on the dechcancc, nor tro uble Mehemet in the quiet possession of Egypt. If this be the case, the ultimatum is decidedly pacific. There can be no cer tainty, however, till the breaking up of the Council. Our Paris Correspondent wr ites at four o'clock on ' Tuesday as follows :—" I feel so confident of the Con vocation of the Chambers for the first week in Novem ber being decided, that I will not send a courier to-night, even if the fact be officially announced. M. Guizot is to quit London for Paris, not to break off diplomatic relations, but to prepare for the Parliamentary earn p4ign." We arc far from deeming the convocation o" the French Chambers a warlike act. The revolution ary party is beginning to show itself openly, and attempt to take the lead. It made, as we see, a moneration at the Opera on Monday night, calling for the Marseillaise, and taking the advantage of the re- F presentation of William Tell to get up a war-cry even in the Opera audience. Sonic of the criers were ar rested, a poliec-officer coming forward to state that no song should be sung that was not announced in the bills. The National Guards of the Republican party are about to proceed to Marshal Gerard, and demand - war. If anything could render the Chamber of Deputies and the middle class of France averse to war, it tv. uld be such symptoms as this. In add.tion to the convocation of the Chambers, and the note, a warlike resolve has also been taken by the French Government, which may have serious con sequences. It will be seen from our Malta letter (in deed we before stated it) that Reschid Pacha, Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, had expressed to the Rus sian Envoy the desire of his Government that Russian • ships should join in the blockade of Syria. A Russian squadron was therefore k xpected to come through the Dardanelles. The French fleet has received orders to [ proceed from the Piraeus to the Dardanelles, and there attack any Russian fleet that may sail out of the Straits. The French can plead, they say, that they do this by • virtue of old s tipulations with England. This, however, is impossible. On the contrary, we believe our Cabinet has taken the determination of supporting whichever of our allies may be attacked in the fulfilment of the Treaty of July. The French think that the best way of commencing a war would be an attack on the Rui shins, leaving to the English the necessity of coming to the support of the Russians. We should hope that the French Ministry has taken no such extreme determina tion, though we learn from the best quarter that it has done so. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Times has this morning an amusingly weak and disjointed article, the object of which is to prove that the differences existing among the leaders of the Tory party are not such as would incapacitate them for constituting, a strong and united Government. This proposition is made to rest on a fallacy and a fals...thood. The fallacy consists in confining the dif ferences to the Tory leaders, to the exclusion of he c onsiderable_ numbe r of im p racti cab l e ultras, who foll t ow the Tory leaders as opponents of the existing Govern ment, but who would embarrass and oppose those very leaders were they in office, by . urging upon them their own extreme m easures, ecclesiastical and civil, and insisting upon these forming part of the policy of Government, as the condition of their adhesion and support. Tile falsehOod consists in confining the disagreements among the leaders to the China and Canada measures, as though there wPre no oth . e7s ; and in th e obviously in appropriate designation given to the di ssens i o ns among the Tory leaders in these questions, terming them "nominal," when they were obviously rea l an d essen tial, su c h as a ny tyro in politics is sufficiently versed in the immediate and relative bearings of these questions STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—This market continues in a gloomy and depressed state. The demand, both for goods and yarn, yesterday, was very limited, and the business done was generally at rather lower prices than on the preced bog Tuesday. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, OCT. s—We have had something like an average market to-day ; dyed goods have been most in demand, and have met with a ready sale, at former prices. The wool market rcmait,s steady ; while something more has been asked for foreign wool, but not obtained. HUDDERS.FIELD MARKET, OCT. 6.—A'very fair trade was done in this market to-day in heavy woollens, but by no means so much as last week. Prices remain firm. Wools are more difficult to buy at late quota tions, in consequence of the advance of price at the great sales at Liverpool and London. There is little or no change in business in the warehouses, where considerable activity prevails. BREAD IN PARIS AND LONDON.—The pre sent " assize," or fixed p. ice of bread in Paris, as esta blished by the municipal authorities in that city, for the first fortnight of the current month of October, is, 70 cen times for the loaf, of the weight of two kilogrammes, which, at the present course of Exchange in Paris on London as above, of 25f. 21c. per pound sterling for bills at ono month's date, or short paper, " money," corresponds with sixpence and one-fiftieth of a penny, for the English four-pound. The highest current price of the best bread, or that termed " full-price " bread in London, being ten-pence for the four pound loaf (al though in some quarters tenpence-halfpenny is demanded), shows that the four-pound loaf is within a very minute fraction of fourpence dearer in London than in Paris fur the same weight and quality of bread ; or more exactly, threepence and forty-nine fifLieth parts of a penny ; and that the tenpence sterling which can only purchase four pounds of the best bread i n L on d on , i s , i n P ar is, the price of six pounds ten ounces and upwards, of a quarter or nearly six pounds and three-quarters English weight of bread of the best quality. The will of the late Earl of Durham has been proved in the Prerogative Courts of York and Canterbury. In the former the personal prop2rty has been sworn under 250,0001., and in the latter to a much smaller amount. The will, which is entirely in the late Earl's hand writing, occupies merely the first two pages of a common sheet of letter paper, the attestation standing upon the head of the third page ; and it conveys to the Countess of Durham the whole real and personal estate of her la mented husband, without restriction or control. —Durham Chronicle. CAPT. R. A. REYNOLDS.— Nothing can more strongly mark the light in which the Court-martial upon this gentleman is viewed by the public, than the nu merous calls of the gentry—visitors as well as residents —at the Gloucester Hotel, where he has lived since he was put under arrest by Lord Cardigan.—Brighten Guardian. LAW INTL'LLL(JI!;NCE. BAIVKRUP7'CY COURT.—Ocr. 7. IN RE THOMAS WILCOX. The bankrupt was a cabinet-maker and upholsterer. His liabilities amounted to 1,3001., including an alle::ed bill of sale for 6501. executed in favour of his daughter and his assets were about 6001. He was opposed by Mr. RUSH, solicitor to the peti tioning creditor, on the ground that this document was a fraudulent one. The bankrupt, in his balance-sheet, ad mitted that the bill of sale was executed to protect his 1 daughter; from whom he borrowed the money at inter , vals. It more than covered his assets, to the exclusion of the other creditors. Miss Wilcox. was examined, and said she was twenty three years of age. In June, 1835, she was enabled to lend her father 2501., and since that time she ad vances' various sums to the amount of 4001. The money was the produce of her wages, of earnings after shop-hours, and of presents from her friends. There was no person present when she gave the money to her father. He kept no banks, but she entered the sums in a small memorandutn.book of her own. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said that the transac tion might be a very fair one, yet nothing could induce him to agree in it, ai •it might be a bad precedent. He should, therefore, adjourn the case for further con sideration. In reply to a question from the bankrupt's solicitor, the Learned Commissioner intim ited his intention of • not allowing the young lady's claim to be entered at present. EVENING EDITION• CORN VERA Gbr, +It:NEI:AL AVERAGE OF BRITISH CORN Fort:the Week ended Oct. 2, Filo, trade up from in the Eng l Lieturns of the Inspector.; ni the different Cities and ail• , valcs, per imperial Q.larter. Wheat 6is. 7i. Oats ... 25 1:1 St2ll, tL:r1c...... 3 -, 5' AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIR WEEKS. Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. BEANS. P'A". :5 5 C Aug., •::S - - ----'-----, - 72 4 31 11 30 7 38 0 46 9 i 4, - Sept. 4 U 65 4,3532;73+S 47 t, 4 1 '' Is. (-. 25 - Oct. 2 6l 730 0 1351 43 43 5 7 e IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OE THE SIX , Vg' ICS Wheat Cis :4i. 1 Oats . . ...... 27•. 7,1. 1 :Sans ........ .46,. 4 , !. Bari, v :si. 7.4 1 Rye ......... Vs.. St. I rease ........ 43 , ,-"'• otrrixs ON FOREIGN CORN• Otl. Wheat , 20±. Sll.l Oats Harlcv o.i. 4d . i Nyease .. 2s. 64. I'P ~,,t 5 e ....... - v THE MARKETS. e. d. 3 Walls End Lambt on ......... 24 4 Walls End Ste wart's ......... 3 3 W a lls End Har tle p ool ...... 0 . 24 Wails End Kello e ............. ' 2 4 0 Tennant's Hartlepool...••... 4 Walls End Brown's Deanery ! 2 i W a lls End Clarenc e Hello.. ' 6 A f WAN End Cornfo rth... ..... .. 21 21 ',l, Walls En ' d Evenwood .. " ~,, Wall, Enaltiehardso..'s Tees;2l 9 Wall, End l'et, .. ........... 23 Waqs End Tees iletton ... 20 ' Walls EndtWest Tees ......... . 9t , 0 .2; 0 COUNTRY 1 xnthracite ........................ it:0w1.... . ................ . :6 0 CORN MARKEl________—_-- 11Statiley n ritsiin .................... : IS II • ...a. COAL M. :hips arrived since 1 8. ii. 91 17 ' Chester H 9 Carr's Hartley 1.1 lywell Ma n l9 (I Tanfield Townley „.. , Nylam. ....... .............. 19 Walls E d e aotiC . ..2•2 9 W,lls End Clennell Walls End „ tit !i Walls End ~. 9. I , Walls End N rhu • berla d '2l 6 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Westgate W. E. Braddyll'sti , nto.t 21 0 Wails End Haswe11. Walls End Iletton '24 3,1 A RKET. s. market -day, 12, ley. I Pe+• 44 .4'.2 44 39 4 1 44 a. to s. 35 4 0 42 3 , ; 46 5 6 ...... 41 65 72 0, - , 44 56 70 3 8 44 1 70 4, -. 44 44 '- 58 70 42 -••• . 4 6 '7l '7B - 46 --- r 36 78 28 31 4 0 IS •-.. 49 62 '7O 38 311 02 66 34 4° ''" 4/ 4O 64 68 42 44 ... 6.) 76 40 LO 7, ....44 06 76 4 44 -- 49 “3 74 4 4 43 44 46 72 3is 44 4 °, 40 56 77 .33 45 3 ' ,;,: 60 63 40 42 41 .... 64 66 44 ; 5 7 3 46 46 - 44 GI 71 45 .4° 62 70 : , s 10 ' :i • ~VERPOC ~.....Oct. 6. "' in , 4 7 1 lish, White, ~, 9 r - Red siO, s -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx - Irish, White 8 g 6 0 i 6 ----- Red ............ 71 , '''• Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 45th.......... 3 ' 3 - Irish ,. ...... ...... , ... 3 o 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp quarter .:: .......... 3° „ 2 , I i 354 9 Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. .... ' '''' 3 r .............. 3 6 Feeding 52 u 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter .................. 49 4 7 0 - Irish, &c. PEASE, Engn, per Imperial quarter 4 44 r (1 441 lis 4 0 --- Foreign --0 Foreign elone, English, per 28011 s. . 45 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs ...... 22 / 4 ‘?: F 0 e l: --- Irish .. ... .. INDIAN CORN, per .18011). ' - ........... ••••• RYE, per Imperial quarter Maur, per Imperial quarter - HULL CORN MARKE'f. White (per Quarter) .............. 58s. 6 6 5• 7 ? g• Red ..... 465. 60s. b4s. 503. tiOs. 04g. Foreign Barley, Malting Grinding Oats, British .......... . , 8 4 • es Foreign (in bond) - - Beans ............. . 4os 425. 455, Pease, Grey Blue and Whiie........................................ -s. 36 5 . 315 ' Linseed sg, 5 . 2 .,. 5 5, ..... • ~ 483. D , Flour (per sack) i 09/ • 31 1 Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) ....................... --• ' • CHELTENHAM MARKETS. d. tt . a. Per Bushel. s. d. to 5.c1.1 Per lb. / Wheat barley. Oats 4 6 5 0 Veal ................ .. ....... ll , ? ea se Beans ea 7 0 9 0 8eef........................... 6, 6 0 8 0 Lamb .................. ..... 4 Hay 41.105. to 51. ss. Od. Per t °ll '' 40s. 4 2, 445. CANTERBURY 3IARI T. , Ws. to 725. .....-. 01d........-* ,„ „„, . 70s. to 755. ............ 01d.........." 375. to 425.....• Grnding.. --s• :: ~,,,I, 335. to 365...... 014........,..... -- -4 . i'; . .,,,,,, 44s to 475....•. 01d............... 4 3 5• to 4 1, 405. 425. to -5..... Grey* , •••• 6.) to 72 35 CHELMSFORD Mi...RKET. Wheat, White Red Barley Chevalier ...... Grinding 3O 31 Mazagan .........• `'' 49053: t t o o 1E4 0. 3 . • Oats ............................ 2 . 6 s to 4: Per Quarter. Reston Bramti cc 8 ighton Cambridge Chichester I?unmow iiranth,tin OrimsbY Hailsham Hitchin Ipswich ',ewes Lynn Maidstone Norwich Petworth Ito:ntord Sandwich Toctford Wishech • Witham Yarmouth S. to F. 59, 63 64 72 6'2 74 . 8. to . j 8. to 5. 33 38 19 .26 32 3i 6 34 31 37 31 37 40 mi 44 34 ; '•6 ::3 36 40 :26 34 28 35 2o 30 35 39 22 26 26 32 ;22 29 32 42 124 32 36 i 2 ; 24 28 -3ti j 26 29 36 39 21 '4 - 8 36 39 ; 26 32 35 43 28 30 33 36 48 33 34 23 ; - 52 34 43 127 34 34 37 ; 21 30 36 421 24 60 32 39 i 23 32 33 :15 ;26 32 IL CORN M UtKET. per itlib. WHEAT, Eng! Wheat, Wheat, whit Barley, Malting .—.... Oats Beans ----.—............ Pease 10.0.......* French Field Marshal of that name, who recently au_th. Miss Ster' resigned The Duke de Rovigo, son of the celebrated himself to the wealthy Irish heiress, ter of the late Colonel Stamer, of Cenelly, bas !"O rea ch his commission of Captain of Lancers in th e u n ited army, and intends to reside henceforth in the Kingdom. ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF I L o f EAR. —Mr. Curtis commenced his autumnal Ce ur i t he Lectures on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Disease s rap id ° Ear, at this Institution on Monday last. He took a hs t but comprehensive view of the great improvenien ta rio have taken place of late years in aural surgery, not 00 ',/ h t this country, but also on the Continent ; adstated , i having just returned from a continental tour, he bail 11,- opportunities of personally inspecting the principa l bn e : talc at Vienna, Prague, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, 1 4e 1 P, - ,b &c., from the Professors of which he has der i ved valuable information, and has had the satisfaction of Wig, that his (Mr. Curtis') plan of treatment is very ffellers adopted. The Lecturer, however, observed, that idtbottget much might be done for diseases of the car at prese n !'i l o o. that much greater success might be expected if era would attend rather to the causes of disease than effects, and attack the disease itself, in preference tooyho scribing for the symptoms. In proof of the mentions 'that mode of treatment, he had only further to nts at one day last week he Faw no fewer than 135 Psti e , :eo 4l. the dispensary, most of whom were cured or re_l; foe After the lecture Mr. Curtis exhibited and describe ° 4O ral new remedies employed on the Continent; ..11tors1 variety of novel surgical instruments, applicable pr. practice, one of which was an auriscope inv ented wi se d a Gruber, of Vienna, and which, by means of a 10 3 %. t he condensing lens, enables the practitioners to esareitios• ear with great fac'lity and minutely to observe its o s " „t o CONFLICT BETWEEN A STEAM ENGlNbeediVe A DONKEY I-On Monday, an unfortunate donkel,e railwal not the notice to trespassers, bad strayed on t h e , t oll"; near to Hob-moor, at the time of the approach 0! g ots practobeir the engineer of which, seeing his critical posill7iiislei him ample notice of their approach by the but Neddy, being inclined to set at defiance his °Pr ea che d ing foe, maintained his position until the eng" 3° ji b Os him, when he turued round, and fired a YOlleY. he e° heels at his iron-hearted antagonist, in doing syb i F & guar' slain on the spot, the wheels running over hii hi ° tern.— Hull Observer. _ &OR SILVER TEA SERVICES. —A• B. `"rcerrhlll:3 and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, N°. riee s° 'the or th London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the following SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVlt're tea and shrill rosch, Cottage Pattern in plain, standing on shell feet, ring - coffee-pots with a flower ornament on the lids. V ile Ol'° Pattern is richly embossed with flowers and scrolls. of either is new and elegant : iralt• • COTTAGE rATTE RN. I KINGS rA-- £ s. . 1 Strong Silver Tea-p0t..... 12 0 Strong Silver Teapot ........ 7 1 0 Ditto Sugar Basin 616 Ditto Sugar W ier 5 Ditto Milk Ewer. 410 Ditto Creani f'it..lo Ditto Coffee-pot. 15 0 Ditto Coffel' x.lO . Coml . soy be A variet p y ete of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee S ervic :rtio.e of seen in the Show. rooms, where may be selected evcrY silver requisite for the side-board or plate chest. __ s ar ticle; Pamphlets of prices, with sketches of the varioo,,,bil gratis (postage free). A. B. Savory and Sons, 14e opposite the Bank of England. ------r— for a ll° SPOONS, FORKS, Sze., superior to SIMI' op; rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons or Forl o jeks , Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; 'fable Catwewhich '', f te told 8 inches high, 7s. per pair; the particular metal these articles are made is so like silver, that it cal; olvi o fae from it by the stamp; every article made in silver is n' a tured in this material by FiII 3 PON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxfora•streoctjfes. Who, to prevent imposition, confine the sale of it to the° --ith• prices BIRTHS. o f P tliti On the 12Th of August last, at Bang alore, the ladY (4 s4,,Oakes, of the H orse Artillery, of a son. n of O a n do h g e h l to 9 r t . h ult., at Naples, the lady of W. 'l int° ' On the 3d inst., at Mecklenburgh-square, 3 111 ' 'r• Elea- borough, of a son. I thO di On the 4th in- t., E th . c H 4 . th ila in v s e t n . ' h , of the Rev. G. •G. R. Birch, of Paris, of a son• lad y o f a aii t ti ,CLoylti.maaritlnitaosutne-grhp.tanerrek.a,r GAlrouuncdeestj cr t st b i Firer 7 : y the l ady Of On the 4th ins..., at Northclown, Pembrokeshire, ' Colonel emm, Hav elleP On the K sth inst., at Culverthorpe , the Ilon. Mrs' of a daughter. c . , tor" On the 6th inst., Mrs. Baker, wife of E. Baker , .I " ° '; ' geon, i3ulstrode-street, Manchester-square, On the 6th inst , in Mecklenburgh- street, the ladi Rev. Dr. Worthington. of a daughter. .j. Davit, On the 6th inst., in Brunswick-square, the lady of of Esq., of a son• ~ w a llet, - On the 7th inst. at Taristork-square, • , , a son. MARRIED ,-.! pool , On'the 3d inst., at St. Clement 15anes, H. P. G . f lgi'' Esq., of Co!ston Raleigh, Devon to Small, daughter o W. Boyle, of Arundel- street, Strand. , le o f ols On the sth inst. ,at St. Pave a Church, Tho m as. e" htee 4 r S a, , do g,. ~. of Alr. J. Allen, of l i r . Royal AlilitOt y . i g k • s ' y s lu u On the 6th inst., at'PnSe'tlingtou, to Constance, 010 of a daughte o.f the J. W illiams Fs , of a itlfo ia ' to Anna, eldest surviving daughter of G. Dent Esq. , c" . .i c n iNi rc ea ri lrs d ye ,: as n . t L o i f m h b e e r t I,73jeis: ',us . 7:::oraa : 0 : iii ED. , the eldest daughter of N. Dennys, On the 24th of July last, at Simlah, East Indis , I'Llucl,j; and wife of Captain H. Wyllie, B tigade-Alajor at Nee ° On the sth inst., at Stamford-hill, David, son o Walker, aged 7. r l i a les - On the 6th inst., Lee, ' ' R Crabtree, 0' at in Kent, • worth, Suffolk, solicitor, aged 68. Dr. It ' On the 6th inst., at his house, Disughty•streat, 1 , aged 81. d4l. On the 6th inst., Me. H. Gresham, of Hanford, age hobo On the sth inst , at the Vicarage, IVanclswortb,c. Dela' Anne Theresa, the eldest daughter of the Rev. D. fosse, aged 27. r-!•sq•, of Sayoge_garclenfsilr. W. I.. , ) N nd o o . T l.2 l: s r ., i t ti r t a e n d d, a a n t tl Trliz,liedobity MOW° YU" the county of Middlee:z.—Thuraday, October 8, cc, N O . s,.,tfir MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. HAMPTON COURT VlSlTORS.—Yesterday Mr. Thos. Halford, the landlord of the Chequers Inn, Isleworth, appealed against a conviction of Cr. Billie, Eq., and another, for having served during the hours of divine service. Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Bodkin for the respondents. It appeared that a party of pleasure had hired a van to go from the metropol►s to Hampton Court, and that they stayed at the appellant's house, for the purpose of tak►ng refreshment while d►vine worship was going for ward in the parish church. The doors of the Chequers Inn were closed when tile p:►rty arrived, but upon knock ing several persons were admitted into the house and served, upon which an information was laid against the appellant, and the respondents convicted him there upon. The COURT divided, and there appeared an equal number for and against the conviction, upon which the Learned Cha►rman gave a casting vote quashing the same. POLICE DESCRIPTION OF SAFFRON HILL.—Mr. Cor nelius O'Keefe gppealed against a conviction of J. B. Greenwood, Esq., for wilfully and knowingly harbour ing disorderly characters in his house. It appeared that the defendant was the landlord of the Goat, in Tash-street, and that, on the 10th of August, according to the Police Inspector's evi dence, he entered the house, and found between 40 and 50 persons drunk, amongst whom were several boys. Several of them were afterwards turned out into the street. Sergeant Stace said that the number was be tween 50 and 60. On cross-examination by Mr. Phillips, the police stated that the reason they did not take the drunken persons to the station-house was, that if they were to take all those they found drunk on Saffron-hill, the sta tion-houses would not hold them. After hearing evidence on behalf of the appellant, the conviction was quashed. KINGSTON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before W. SHRUBSOLE and G. NIGHTINGALE, Eseis.) Mr. Green, a saddler and harness maker at Kingston, attended before the Bench to answer an information laid against him by Mr. Walter, the inspector of houses for the slaughtering of horses, charging him with having un lawfully caused a horse to be slaughtered, without first giving six hours' notice of his intention to the inspector, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 40s. Mr. Guy, of Hampton-wick, attended on behalf of the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the horse in ques tion was the property of a farmer at Morden, but having unfortunately contracted that dreadful malady the glan ders, its owner, not wishing to have it killed on hh own premises, as the animal was a favourite, sent it to Mr. Green, at Kingston, with instructions that it should be slaughtered. Mr. Green accordingly, without giving any notice to the inspector sent to a horse-slaughterer at Wandsworth, and he came and killed the horse, and the circumstance havinc , com e to the knowledge of the inspector, he instituted the present proceeding. In answer to questions from Mr. Guy, it was stated that the mare was not killed in any slaughter-house, but in the fair field, near to Mr Green's premises. Mr. Guy then addressed the Magistrates in behalf of the defendant, and said that he should confidently con tend that the present case did not at all come within the Act of Parliament under which the information was laid. The clause in question, which required notice to be given to the inspector when a horse was to be slaughtered, was merely intended to apply to regular slaughtering houses, in order to prevent stolen horses from being got rid of in that manner ; and it certainly was not intended to apply to the case of a tradesman, like Mr. Green, who had merely acted as the agent between the owner of the animal and the man who had killed it. He, therefore, considered that the informa tion must fall to the ground. The MAGISTRATES concurred in the view taken of the case by Mr. Guy, and the information was dis missed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE. Three lads, nagned Rush, Gwyn, and Mills, who have been in the habit of working about Billingsgate Market in what is called a " fast and loose way," were brought before the Lord Mayor charged with having broken into the warehouse of a fish salesman, in Love-lane, with in tent to rob the premises. Rush, who has been frequently charged with robbery, was observed about the premises in company with the two others, as well as could be collected from the evi dence of the principal witness, who described the matter very indistinctly. Mills and Rush had pushed in the door, which was not double-locked, and removed some casks of bloaters, which were in a remote part of the warehouse, to a place close to the door, so that they could be promptly carried away upon the first e,nve nient opportunity. They then came out for the purpose of reconnoitering, and were joined by Gwyn, and after some little delay, supposing that all was right, Rush walked again to the warehouse, and pushed open the door. Gwyn, however, perceiving that they were watched, ran away, after giving what is called " the office" (notice) to his companions. Rush said that he merely called at the warehouse to see whether there was any work to be had. The LORD MAYOR—I have told you, Rush, that you would never stop till you were transported. Rush—What can I do, my Lord ? I don't wish to be a thief, but whatever Idol am suspected. 1 had no idea of robbing the place at all, and 1 am willing to go and serve her Majesty at sea ; I'm sure she wants mt.n there. Mr. Goldham, the Clerk of Billingsgate-market said that he knew Rush and Mills to be incorrigible thieves. They we-e the children of hard-working poor women in the market, and he had himself procured good situations for them, but they preferred the trade of thieving, and Gwyn was, by associating with them, be coming as bad as they were. The LORD MAYOR sent the prisoners to Briar...well, Rush and Mills for three mouths, and Gwyn for one month. Mr. Goldhatr took occasion to mention that Billings gate-market very much missed the religious services of Mr. Smith, commonly called Boatswain Smith, who had been in the habit of preaching there very frequently, and who bad ready done a vast deal of good by his zealous endeavours tocheck blasphemy and drunkenness. The LORD MAYOR regretted to find that Mr. Smith was confined in the Queen's Bench prison, in consequence of liabilities for institutions of a rel;gious and charitable kind which he had founded. Mr. fabler said that he had reason to believe 'hat Mr. Smith had done a great deal of good in the prison in which he was confined, in his endeavours to correct the habits of the unfortunate persons whom prison as sociations had contaminated. In particular, the reform of drunkards, whom he had persuaded first by his own ex ample, and afterwards by the argument of their own im proved health, to become wholly abstemious, had dis tinguished the par roan's exertions. He ( Mr. Hobler) had reason to believe that amongst those shom Mr. Smith had completely reformed was a messenger of the prison, who had been a drunkard for thirty years, and who drank within the walls of the Queen's Bench prison, a few months ago, twenty-one glasses of gin for a wager. Mr. Goldham declared that to his positive knowledge the good accomplished by the unfortunate strret preacher, whose labours had been incessant, was such as could be scarcely imagined, by persons who vy re in the habit of hearing none but the ordinary street preachers. He ( Mr. Goldham) had had, as the Cor poration knew, difficulties to encounter in amendinz the old character of Billingsgate market ; and it would be injustice to Mr. Smith, not to acknowledge that the excellent advice given so repeatedly by him to the bad characters about the place, had produced very great advantage, and made the task of improvement much lighter upon those principally interested. THE EMPEROR OF ItessrA.—His Majesty, through his Consul, General M. Benkhausen, has given another extensive order to the manufacturers of Chester field, Derbyshire, and the utmost e=pedition is now being used to complete it. The Imperial annual expen diture in this couLtry for through-bred horses, equipage, harness, &c., is estimated to be little short ot . 100.0001., and sevpral ships arc freighted at Hull for the purpose of conveying his Majesty's purchases to St. Petersburgb.