The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

._-----• ------- 108 109 106 . 1 4... 109 midla nd lOO _ Do. Consolidated Pref.lCo Do. 401. Shares Do. 50/. Shares .- 10 Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Consol. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent.loo ll7 119 Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ... - Ditto, ditto 71.8s .. . .... . - Midlnd,Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 . - M idland Great West ern ...... Irish ...30 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Do. ( quarters .. .......... 50 - • Newn irket&Chesterford 13% _ Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Heref or d 4 _ ..... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newi - y, Warrenpoint, _ ....... .•• and Rostrevor ...... .. 10 - .. .. Do. New Norfolk .....20/. . ... ••••.. " ..100 - - ... ...... 5 Do. Extension ........ 13 Do. Scrip, 1847, North - of N0rf01k....,, ...... 2 - Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 - Northern Counties Union 4 North British ........ 25 D o. Half Shares ...... 12 1 , ...... 10: % De. Quarters ......... .. 4% 3% 4 o. Extension ......... %•••••' - _Ditto Thirds ...... . ..... 1 ... - 3 4 5, 5 North Stalordshire z 71 . 7%...... ► 7% 61,, • A•• North Wales ... 3 l /2 - • .. North Western... 6 -••-• Oxford, Worceste, ad Wolverhampton r .... 35 ... - 19 >,.;., Rea ding, Guildford, and _Reigate ............... 7 IX ! 6 3 /4 Syston and Hitchin ... 1% - - ........ - cottish Central ......... 20 - ....,••• ....,••• •• Scottish Midland l 7 l, - • •••• Ditto, New lO - . ....... ••• •• Shetlield, Rotherham, 5 and Goole - •• Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 - (Nor. W. Min.) l6 - Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ••••••• - •• --- Ditto Oswestry ... .. 12 - Ditto New - Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ...... - 811r0 P 8 hire Union South D evon 4O •""' - .• ""• ..se opeo ... • ...: Do. Pr eference - . Sou th Staffordshire 2l. 125.... -.•••• oe South Eastern & Dover 33% Do., No. 1 2O .. 26% 27 .. ...... Do., N 0.2. ..... . DDo , No. 3 ....... .......5 •••••• 83 4 9 .- ..... •••• Soo., No. 4 uth Wales ..... l5 ...... 5% ............... South Yorkshire, Don- Swans caster, and Goole ...... 2 ...... Loughor &C a- - ....... ........ . & Tmeron's Stm. C0a1.... 4 ...... - ... ...... •• • aw Vale E xtension ... 4 ...... -•-• ••• ..... ••• Thames Haven D oc k and Railway ........... 17% ...... - ••• Vale of Ne a th .. ........ 4 - Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 .,.... -•-- Wateriord and Limerick 3i Waterfd,W x f rd,Wicklw, and Dublin - West Co rnwall 4 • ...... ..• .. • ............ Wh itehaven & Furnes s 8 - Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 42s - Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- Ymouth ........ ..- ..... 25 ork, Newcastle, and - •• ...... ..••• Berwick..... ........ 25 Do. Original New and Berwick .. ............ 25 - • Do. Ex tens i on No. 1. 10 12 1 4 .... ..... Do. do. No. 2......... 10 10 1 / 2 % 1)0. G.N.E.Preference 8 ...... 8% 8.. Yon reference and North % Midland 50 Ditto, Preference Do. E a st and West RlO- .. ing Extension Anglo. Belgian 4 FOREIGN RAIL WA Y a B arbadoes 1 •• -- - Bo ulogne and Amiens-. 20 ...... - Bordeaux 'Toulouse and - Cette (Constituted )... 4 •• - - Central of France (Or lens and Vierzon) ... 14 ... ‘.• - Centra of Spain ........ 2 - Ceylon l ........ .• •• ••- s s. - _ merara 2 - De % - Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and u _ Madras Rhenish ss. - ..... ..• .• . . - utch 7 - - - East Indi an . ... -- 6 a• - Great Indian Peninsular ss. - Great Southern of Madras ss. - Great Western B enga l ... ss. ...... - - Great West ern Canada... 3 1 4 •••••• - _ Italian and Austri an .... 4 - - - •• - Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 - Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . - ••• -- Luxembourg...... .... •. 6 - Lyons and Avignon 5 - - Al adras ••• ...... 1 - Madras. N e ll ore, an d .. 1 , - Arcot is - Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... - - Namur and Liege - Northern o f France...-. 10 ..••• - - Orleans and Bordeaux 6 4/ 3s 4d - 4 . 3/ 7 8 333 O ver Yssel Paris and Lyons .. 10 ...... 5 434 4 3,4 Paris arid Orleans 213 . 34% Pans and Rouen 2O — - Rouel'ariB and Strasbourg 8 _ - n and Havre .. ••••• ambre and Meuse --- 16 "'' - _ Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 • - • _ ..... es Tours and Nantes ...... 6 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- Truen, and Hasselt. l 2nidad 2% - ••6 West Fla n d ers ...... .... 8 11% 7% 68% 14;4 tit - 44 4, 4 0 4/01 -to Ira NE WMARKET (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. • MATCHES. Discontent received forfeit from Spider. Wooderoft beat Hetman Platoff filly. Tamarind beat Villiers. Eothen beat Flitch. Lovelace and Passion-flower ran a dead heat. THE CRITERION STAKES. Loadstone ••• • Tisiphone ~, ••• ••• Flatcatcher Six ran. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 25.--Wind W., fresh breeze, and fine. BELFAST, OCT. 23.—Arrd. Sarah Richards, Quebec; Rebecca, Campbell, bliratnichi. RAmscATE, OcT. 24 —Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Fanny, Winnecott, Prince Ed mard's Island. DEAL, OCT. 23.—Wind W. to S.W.; 24th, W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Heinrick Sorenson, St. Croix, and sailed for Copenhagen; Juno, Havannah, and sailed for Gottenburg ; Candidate, Fowler, Demerara; Dublin, Penn, Trinidad; Ellerslie, Harvey, Quebec; Mariner, Duke, Quebec for Shields; Maria Clark, Calcutta; Eliza beth, Mauritius ; Codrington, H ux t a bl e , A nt i gua; Os bert, Dalrymple, Dominica ; George, Nicholas, St. Vincent's; Allport, Hill, Matanzas; Fenella, Hay, Que bec; St. John's, Dougal, Quebec; Abigail (barque), Quebec ; Aquila, Quebec; Trinity, Bawler, Quebec; Blanche, Jamaica; Stephen Lurman, Clark, Baltimore. Arrd. from the River, Vigilant, South Seas; Rambler, Algoa Bay; Claudis, Demerara; Earl Durham, Sierra Leone ; Westminster, New York; George Porter, Bos ton; Carshalton Park, Newport and Sierra Leone. Put back, Colony for Algoa Bay ; Vallyfield, for Sierra Leone. MARGATE, OCT. 24.—The Bonheur, of St. Valery, from Midillpchorough to Nantes, has sunk near the Gal loper; crew saved. FALMOUTH, OCT. 23. —Wind W. to W.S.W. fresh. W., strong and squally.—Off port, lon, St. John's, New Brunswick. DAVIS'S STRAITS F ISHING.—LERWICK, OCT 21.—The Prince of Wales, arrived at Seallo way, from Davis's Straits, reports—Abram, 3 fish, 23 tuna; Regalia, 3 fish, 25 tuns; St. Andrew's, 3 fish; Pacific, 4 fish, 30 tuns; Resolution, 2 fish, 28 tuns; Joseph Green, 7 fish, 65 tuna; William Ward, 2 fish, 35 tuns ; Advice, 3 fish, 30 tuns; Charlotte, 5 fish, 55 tuns; Horn, 5 fish, 60 tuns; Alexander, 3 fish, 16 tuna. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During te pt eek, the arrivals of al articles f h ome produc h as e up to w this market, coastwise, l were on o a very limited scale. By lan3 carriage, however, they were somewhat on the increase. From Ireland and Scotland, very little grain of any description came to h and ; but, lifrom abroad, the imports were tolerably good, viz. 16,481 quarters of Wheat, 2,649 ditto of Oats, 1 ,099 ditto of Peas, and 12,402 barrels of Flour—the hitter wholly from Canada. Fresh up, to•day, the re ceipts of English Wheat, from Essex, Suffolk, and Ci mabricgeshire, were small—those from Kent some what extensive, and of full average quality. By land carriag e , on l y a l i mited quantity reached us. As a Clearance of the sam pl es was not effected on Friday, tea actual supply on offer was tolerably good ; "'leg to which, the limited attendance of buyers, fand the continued pressure of inferior foreign Flour or sale, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of ho me pro,luee was heavy, at a decline in the quotation s paid on Monday last of 2s per quarter. At th e cl ose o f t h e market, a clearance was not effected. s ha s been the case for some time past, the show of 4Weereig Wheat was large; and, as most of the importers trairtie anxious sellers, both landed and on board, the 7'osivaa in a very inactive state, and the currencies , 1 n 2. jpetr quarter from those realised on this day 1 ,7 h For.export, scarcely any sales took place, tlbut aereral entries have been made for that purpose to noglllaisnhd. Notwithstanding the supply of Barley—b3th small, that at in _article was very dull, at barely, g quotable beneath, last week's prices. 11. We were ♦ery modt.ratel, 40 ....7% 117tA 25 1 4 10:j/,i 19% 6% Calves. - ... 139 8 ... 15 16 ... _ ••• 140 ... - ••• Total 661 ... 2,571 •• • * Pigs, 11. 10. 125 At Hull, Newcastle, &c., about 1,600 head of each kind of stock have been landed, chiefly from Hamburgh and Rotterdam. In addition to the above-noticed out-port arrivals, 160 head of Beasts were landed at South ampton on Saturday from Spain, in good condition. The whole were on offer here, this morning, and were disposed of at prices varying from 91. to 191. each. The supply of Dutch and German stock was, comparatively speaking, small, viz., about 200 Oxen and Cows, 900 Sheep, 30 Calves, and 20 Pigs. The quality was again very inferior, yet a fair clearance was effected at fully last week's quotations. The disease in the Spanish Merino Sheep, to which we alluded a short time since, was scarcely perceptible today ; but we regret to learn that it has extended itself in some of our large flock districts. The Bullock droves from our various grazing districts were again on the decrease, and of very in ferior quality. The attendance of buyers being good, the Beef trade was somewhat brisk, at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last of from 2d to .0 per 8 lbs. The very primest Scots sold as high as 5s per Blbs ; but the more general top currencies of Beef were from 4s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs, and at which nearly the whole of the supply was cleared off. From the northern grazing districts we received about 1,500 short horns ; from the eastern, western, and midland counties, 700 Herefords, runts, Devons, Irish Beasts, &c. ; from other parts of England, 700 of various breeds ; and from Scot land, 190 horned and polled Scots The numbers of Sheep were somewhat larger than those exhibited on this day se'nnight ; nevertheless the Mutton trade was active, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last week's figures. There was a very steady sale for Calves, the supply of which was small, and late rates were well supported. Prime small Porkers moved off freely ; other Pigs slowly, at but little alteration in prices. The supply was seasonably good. 8 ... 185 s. d, to s. Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 2 4 4 Southdown Nether 4 6 4 8 Ditto eut of the wool Large Hogs ...• • 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers .... 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 o Lambs .. .•• • 0 0 • 0 Per Blbs. to sink the offal. P. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts.— 3 4 310 Aecond quality •• • 4 0 4 2 Prime large Oxen.. 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots •••• • • 4 8 410 Large coarse Calves 3 a 4 4 l'rhne small ditto .. 4 6 4 8 *uckling Calves •• 18 0 28 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 8 4 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Roasts. I Sheep, I Calves. Pigs. 3,629 25,080 106 355 ATEUTG.A.MI AND LEAD E1172/.5156. Fair average supplies of country-killed Meat have been received up to these markets during the past week, but the quality has turned out very interior. With meat slaughtered in London, we have been tolerably well, but not to say heavily supplied. Prime Beef, Mutton, Veal, and Pork, have commanded a steady sale, at very full prices. Otherwise the demand must be considered heavy, at late rates. About 1,500 'head of foreign. slaughtered in the metropolis, have been disposed of. The quality has been wretchedly bad. At per 'none by the carcase. s. d, to s. d. s. d. to s. d. ,inferior.. middling .. •• 210 3 2 middling.. 310 4 2 prime large • • a 2 3 4 prime .... 4 4 4 8 prime small .• 3 6 3 8, Pork, large.... ••• . 4 0 4 8 cal ——•••• •• 3 6 46 ' small Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. Beef BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. Fair average supplies of Potatoes, including about 100 tons from abroad, have arrived at the water side during the past week. By railway the receipts have been tolerably extensile. On the whole the demand is somewhat inactive, on the following terms : York It.e,ents, loos to 110 s; ditto Shams, 903 to 1003 ; Kent Kidneys, 1003 to 105 s ; ditto Regents, 95s to 1005 ; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Regents, 905 to 100 s ; ditto Shaws, 90s to 100 s ; Essex Whites, 1005 to 105 s; ditto Reds, 95s to 1005; Dutch, 85s to 90s per ton.) BOROUGH 1101. I VI.II.ILICEIV. The Duty upon some of the minor districts has been already declared at 7,7501 13s 10d—the old being 4,244/ 14s 4d, the new 3,137/ 7s 10d, and the additional five cent 368/ lls 6cl ; but, of course, this forms no crite rion of the total amount, and we regard this partial issue as calculated to do very lit►le service to the trade generally. New Hops are still very dull, although, from the present low prices, there appears rather more dispo sition to purchase, and the quotations are with difficulty supported. Old Hops are amending ; duty 190,0001. New Hops—Sussex Pockets, 31 to 3165; Weald of Kent do, 3l lOs to 4l; Mid and East Kent do, 4l to Si lOs per cwt. lied with malt ; never theless, as the brewers purchased with extreme caution, the trade was again heavy. Chevalier parcels were mostly disposed of; at late rates ; but the middling and inferior qualities were quite is. per quarter cheaper. Notwithstanding the quantity of Oats brought forward was trifling, compared with that on show during many preceding weeks, the Oat trade was in a sluggish 'state, but we can report no alteration in value. Beans, though the supply was small, moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Super fine white Peas, which were scarce, commanded full prices, but all ether kinds were the turn lower. In Indian Corn, Meal, and Rye Flour very few sales took place. The Flour trade was heavy, c,lid the quotations had a downward tendency. The *.,op price of the best town made was 463 per 2801bs ; and of foreign 27s per 1961b5. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 9iTheat—Essex & Kent, :%lalt—Chevalier • • 64s to 65s Red. .... •• • • 45s to 51s Oats— Yorkshire and Ditto,lVhite, New 53s 681 Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 24e Norfolk and Lin- Potato .. • • 27s 2ss coin, Red. •• • • 44s 48s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White.... • . 605 52s - Black . .... • • 19s 22s Irish, Red ...... • • —s —s Cork, 'White . ... • 22s 278 Ditto, White —— • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. .. • • 22s 24 Rye—Old .. .. .. .•••• • —s s B eans —Ti c k ..-• • • • 37s 46 8 New.-- —•• • . —34 s Pigeons • • 46s 48 3 Barley—Grinding. .• • • 25s 30s Peas—Grey .... .•• • • • 41s 47s Malting .—.• • • • • 32s 34s Maple .•••• • • • • 44s 47 8 Chevalier .. .. -• • 36s 37s White ... .. Malt—Suffolk. and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 49s 53 8 f01k.... —•• • - • 6os 63s Flour —Town-nride ..• 41s 46 8 Brown ... ...... 59s 62s Suffolk .... ...... 365 41 8 Kingston and Ware 63s 64s Stocktn & Norfolk 36s 40 8 S DTITZITIELD. The following is a statement of the imports of foreign stock into London, during the past week : From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Nieu Diep * Rotterdam l6l ... 524 Harlingen .. lB7 ... 1,285 fAntwerp _ Hamburgh : Hjerting ... Tonningen WOOL. The public sales of wool, at which about 33,000 bales will be brought forward, commenced on Thursday. Up to the present time the biddings have been extremely inactive, owing to the seal city of money, and prices have receded Id per lb, The imports, last week, con sisted of 168 bales from Taganrog, 300 ditto from Ham burgh, and 700 ditto from Launceston. Privately the de mand is in a very dull state, and to effect sales, lower rates must be submitted to. The continued pressure AL up LOW. on the money-market, and the accumulation of the stock of Tallow in first hands— a proof of the increased activity amongst the large shipping houses at St. Petersburgh—have had a very depressing influence upon the demand for all kinds of Tallow since Monday last, and prices, both on the spot and for forward delivery, have declined fully Is 6 , 1 per cwt. Credit is now almost wholly out of the question, and until confidence is restored, Tallow is likely to prove a heavy article. P. Y. C. on the spot is 44s 6d to 455, and for delivery, 44s to 444 6d per cwt. Town is 45s 6d to 46s net cash. Rough Fat, 2s lid per 81bs. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The twelfth session of the present mayoralty was opened this morning by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alderman Hooper (the Lord Mayor elect), Sir Chapman Marshall, and the new Sheriffs, Messrs. Cubitt and Hill. The calendar contains a list of 247 cases, some of them of a very serious nature. The grand jury having been sworn, The Learned RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge. The number of prisoners appearing on the calendar amounted to 247. There was no doubt that a considerable addition would be made to that number during the progress of their labours. Among the cases which would be brought before their notice were cases of murder, rape, and robbery, several cases of manslaughter, of cutting, wounding, and other serious offences. The great point for the con sideration of the grand jury would be to decide whether there were sufficient evidence adduced to ju,tify any further inquiry being proceeded with. With respect to the two charges of murder, the great point for them to decide was, whether the fact of the killing, and of course whether the party who stood charged with that crime, was the party against whom sufficient evidence could be adduced. There were other circumstances to be considered such as the mental condition of the party who stood charged, and also whether the crime was committed under the influence of passion or serious provocation, because the law always presumed that the act of killing had been committed in malice, in the absence of proof to the contrary. If the jury considered that the party deceased had come to his death by violence, it would then be their duty to return a true bill, in order that the case might be further inquired into. Whether the case should eventually turn out upon inquiry to be of a lower class, such as manslaughter or homicide, would be a point for the petit jury to decide. One of the cases of rape, which would come under their notice, was of a peculiar character as there were two persons charged with committing the act. In such a case the juries were less likely to be influenced in their decision by the opinion that the female might h ave resisted wherethere was only one person who committed the offence, be cause when assaulted by two persons combined together for the acomplishment of the crime resistance would be 4 ineffectual. The crime of rape was for merly punishable by death, but an alteration had of late been made in the law. It would be the duty of the grand jury, as in the case of murder, to satisfy themselves that there was sufficient evidence to war rant a further inquiry, and in such cases to return a true hill. There were cases of cutting and wounding with intent to do bodily harm, and there was one case of shooting with the same intent. There were sixty eight cases of ordinary larceny, sixteen of larceny from the dwelling-house, nineteen of larceny from the person, and sixty-one of larcen n y ishnen servants.by it the cases He s deeply lamented that lenient punishment of larceny by servants did not accomplish the object which the Legislature had in view ; for the crime had of late years been considerably on the in crease. It often happened that patties who 1 % 26% 9 41,2 31% 140VDON, MON DA Y 8 V N, were brought up several times, and received a lenient punishment instead of transportation, were no sooner escaped from their confinement than they re peated the offence. With every disposition to act leniently the parties charged with the administration of justice found it necessary to inflict severe punish ment, and by so doing they in many cases subjected themselves to public animadversion most unjustly, because when they saw the same parties coming up session after session charged with the same offence, it became the duty of the Court to inflict more serious punishment. The practice of picking pockets was one carried on as a trade or profession by gangs who went from place to place for the purpose of robbing parties whom they suspected of being possessed of money or other valuables. It was necessary to punish severely so serious a crime. There was one case of sending threatening letters. By an Act passed in the last session that crime was made punishable by the application of public flogging. The act was a most dastardly one, and the alteration in the Act with respect to it was a most salutary one. There was one other charge against a person for keeping in his house gunpowder and fireworks. The keeping of that article beyond a certain quantity was punishable, both by statute and common law, and if the jury were satisfied that danger would result from keeping such articles in such quantities as the pri• soner was charged with it, would b e their duty in that case to return a true bill against the prisoner. He would not detain them any longer, but dismiss them at once to the discharge of their most im portant duties. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) The adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey were held this day, at the Sessions House, Newing ton-causeway. The calendar contained the names of forty-one prisoners, of whom thirty-three were charged with felony and eight with misdemeanour. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Puckle), after the grand jury had been sworn, briefly addressed them on the nature of the duties they would have to perform. ASSAULT. William Taylor, proprietor of the Greyhound beer-shop, Waterloo-road, was charged with an assault on Mr. John Ponter. From the statement of the prosecutor, it appeared that on the Ist of June last he went into the defendant's shop, and called for a pint of ale, with which the defendant's wife served him. He then inquired if he could get a bed there that night, and on being answered in the negative by the defendant, he said that he did not want the beer. Defendant then said, " if you don't want my beer I want my money, and if you don't pay me pay you."— (Laughter.) au g h the t er) He . (the t he prosecutor ) prisen prisoner then n e turned h to in leave house,when down. On his cross-examination, the prosecutor ad mitted that he took a woman in with him on the night in question. For the defence some witnesses stated that the defendant only gave Ponter a push outside the door, and that not till after the prosecutor had refused to pay for the ale and used very insulting language. Police-constable 15 L, bore testimony to the re spectability of the house and the uniformly peaceable conduct of the defendant. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on the ground of the provoca tion he had received. The CHAIRMAN concurred in the propriety of the recommendation, and sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 403. lARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Timothy Donovan was placed at the bar, charged with being drunk and assaulting Mrs. Eliza Middle ton, landlady of the Poland Arms Poland-street, and also with assaulting the .police in the execution of their duty. It appeared that on Saturday night the defendant went into complainant's house in a state of " obfusca tion," and called for a pint of half-and-half, in pay ment for which he put down twopence-halfpenny. Complainant told him that she always charged three pence for her half-and-half, but as he had no more money she would let him off the other half penny. The defendant, instead of being obliged to complainant, assailed her with the grossest abuse, and struck her in the face. She called out, and her daughter came to her assistance and tried to - push him out. He turned round and laid hold of her, and, having got her head under his arm, began " pummelling" her in a dreadful manner. Complainant called out for the police, who speedily came to her aid and took the defendant into custody. Police-constable C 81, said he was on duty in Poland-street on Saturday night, when he heard the cry of " Murder " and " Police." He proceeded to the spot, and saw the prisoner in the act of striking Mrs. Middleton's daughter. He laid hold of him for the purpose of taking him into custody, when he turned round and struck him, and tore his coat up the front. He eventually became so violent that he was obliged to send for assistance to take him to the station. Police-constable C 180, said he was called to the assistance of last witness, and on requesting prisoner to go along quietly, he rushed at him and kicked him under the j aw . H e b ecame so violent that witness was obliged to procure the stretcher in order to convey him to the station. The prisoner said he had no defence to make. He was very drunk at the time, and did not know what he was about. However, there did not seem to be any one hurt, so there was no harm done. Mr. LONG fined the prisoner 20s. for each assault on the complainant and her daughter, 20s. for the assault on the first constable, and 40s. for the assault on the last, or in default to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for three months. Phillip Riley, a r epulsive-looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Long, who sat in the absence of Mr. Hardwick, charged with wounding James Morris, of No. 11, Dudley-street, under the follow ing circumstances:— The complainant stated that on the previous after noon he was standing against his door when the pri soner came up to him and said " Jem, old fellow, we had some words together a week ago, now let us settle it." Complainant did not answer him, nor notice what he was talking about. Defendant then called him by a most filthy expression, and taking his pipe from his mouth made a "job" at complainant's eye. He turned his head on one side to avoid the blow, but the stem of the pipe struck him on the side of the cheek bone, and entered the flesh, inflicting a wound more than an inch and a half in length. The blow was struck with such force that complainant had the greatest difficulty in pulling it out. He detained the prisoner till a police•constable arrived, when he gave him in charge. James Turner corroborated the evidence of com plainant. The defendant denied inflicting the injury pur posely. The complainant tried to strike him, and he put up his hand to ward off the blow, and the stem of the pipe struck complainant in the face. Mr. LONG said it was a brutal assault, and he should fine him 51., or two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Joll7l Chapman, a medical gentleman, was charged with riding a horse down a paved thorough fare, called Tyler's -court. Police -constable D 93, saw the defendant riding his horse down the court, to the danger of some children who were playing there. As it was against the law he took him into custody. The defendant said he was a medical man from the country, and did not know that he was acting con trary to law, as in the course of professional avoca• tions in the country he frequently rode up courts. Mr. LONG cautioned defendant and discharged him. CLERKEN-V—(THIS DAY.) James Frostick, a pot-boy, in the employment of Mr. Joseph Holland, of the Duke of Sussex Tavern Peirpoint-row, Islington, was placed at the bar on the charge of stealing a quantity of cigars and tobacco, and 13d. in copper, the property of his master. Mr. Holland stated that the prisoner had been in his service for about five weeks, and during that time several sums of money were missed, as well as a quan tity of cigars and toba6co. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, and last night he (Mr. Holland) marked a quantity of copper money, which he placed in the till, and this morning, soon after 'he heard the prisoner come down stairs, he followe . d him, and upon going to the bar found the door open. Having missed 13d. out of the marked money, he sent for a consta ble, who found them in the prisoner's pockets, and upon searching his box found a large quantity of tobacco and a box of cigars. He wag fully committed for trial. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Murphy and Catherine Slice were charged with stealing a half sovereign, the property of Julia Ilurly. It appeared that the prisoners and the prosecutrix both lodged in one room, in Rosemary-lane, White chapel. The poor woman had been out hopping all the week, and returned home on Saturday night with the half sovereign. She fell asleep, and from the evidence of Mary Brazier, who was in the room at the time, it seemed the female prisoner put her hand in prosecutrix's pocket, and abstracted the purse con taining the half sovereign, and she handed it to the male prisoner, who, however, returned it to her again. When the prosecutrix awoke Brazier told her what had happened, and she was almost frantic at her loss, imploring the female prisoner to give her back her m oney, b ut she only laughed at her en treaties, and th e consequence was, they were both given into custody. Police -constable II 101, who apprehended the pri soners, said both they and the prosecutrix were in a most destitute condition. In one room, where there was not the slightest vestige of furniture, not even a chair, or any covering, the prosecutrix, the two pri soners, and three other females were all huddled to- EVEN N G OCTOBER 25, 1847. gether. The female prisoner acknowledged to him that she had taken the money. The man said he knew nothing whatever of the matter. Mr. YARDLEY said the Evidence against Murphy was not sufficiently strong, and he must be dis charged. The woman, Shee, he should commit to take her trial for the felony. THE MONETARY PRESSURE. PETITION TO HER MAJESTY. A public meeting of the bankers, merchants, and traders of Liverpool is about to be held, for the pur pose of adopting the following petition to the Queen, in the event of Ministers persisting in their refusal to do something for the relief of the country. The Mayor is to preside at the meeting : " TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. " The humble petition of the undersigned bankers, merchants, traders, and others, inhabitants of Li verpool. " Showeth—That your petitioners humbly beg to represent to your Majesty the ruin with which the commerce, manufactures, and industry of the country are threatened —trade is paralysed, manufactures to r. great extent stopped, and the labouring classes thrown out of employment. " Your petitioners have in vain wished the assist ance of your Majesty's Ministers to restore confidence and allay the universal alarm which prevails, and they now venture to approach the throne with full confi dence in your Majesty's solicitude for the welfare of your people, and praying that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to summon the Legislature to meet for the purpose of deliberating on the alarming con , dition of the country, and devising measures for re storing confidence. " Your petitioners feel assured that unless remedial measures be speedily adopted, the social condition of your Majesty's subjects will be impaired to such an extent as to jeopardise the national credit, and lead to scenes of unheard-of calamity and disorganiza tion. " The revenue of the country for customs, excise, and income-tax is threatened with serious diminu tion. " The ruin of those classes on which the labour of the country depends must inevitably lead to lawless means of obtaining that food which can no longer be procured by honest industry, necessitating the ser vice of the military force to repress the excesses of a mass of people driven to desperation by impending want. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." The intended meeting, which will be held in a day or two is looked forward to with the deepest interest in Liverpool. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—If you consider the cause of the currency question would be served by the publication of the following letter by the father of the late Premier, it would gratify some of your readers in this locality by seeing it inserted in your valuable paper. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Grantham, Oct. 23, 1847. C. M. TO THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. My Lords and Gentlemen,—Will you permit an old man to address you on the subject of our cur rency ? I sat in Parliament thirty years, during which time I frequently heard this important question discussed by Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and other distinguished characters. On the passing of the Bank Restriction Act, I was entrusted by the merchants and citizens of London to present their petition against the mea sure. Though my opinions were embodied in their case, my best endeavours to serve them were not suc successful. Having been long and extensively en gaged in commercial dealings, I often witnessed a national embarrassment arising from a defective and impure currency, which resembled the pre sent stagnation in trade, and I lament to observe that suffering and experience have failed, in this instance, of pr o d uc i ng their usual goo d e ff ec t s. In the enlarged sca l e o f b usiness carried on by this country, embraci ng a great variety of pursuits, a rEliance on a me t a lli c circulation ever did, and ever will, fail us. Gold, though in itself massy, often disappears in consequence of war or speculation— nay, the breath of rumour itself is sufficient to disperse it. Our domestic concerns are interrupted, and confidence lost, for want of an ample and ap proved medium of traffic. I am no friend to an unrestrained issue of paper money, and saw with concern, in the absence of a due quantity of specie, notes admitted into circulation issued by persons of respectability possessing pro perty, but evidently unable to meet a sudden and large demand upon them. More than two years ago I mentioned to a friend high in his Majesty's Coun cils my fears of the mischief likely to ensue if this practice were not discontinued, accompanied with a suggestion to confine future issues of paper money, or tokens , to the the Bank of England, an d ot h er com petent bodies of men, who would give security in land, the public funds, canals, buildings, or other tangible property, amounting at least to half the value of their bills or notes in circulation. My proposition was not favoured with any notice, yet had it been adopted I am of opinion that most of the panic and distress now so severely felt in the nation would have been avoided. If such an improvement in the banking system could be made available gold would become less requisite, and the country would be sup plied with a stationary medium of exchange originating with ourselves. Whilst directing the energies of the State in war, Mr. Pitt evinced equal ability in discovering, im proving, and applying our internal resources. The war drained the country of its specie, and our ene mies entertained sanguine hopes that our ruin would sooner be effected by want of pecuniary means, than the want of courage, discipline, and conduct in our armies. Mr. Pitt was more than a match for our contingencies. With the aid of the Bank of Eng land and other opulent houses, the energies of Great Britain were maintained in full activity, and the im portance and utility of paper money were clearly estab lished. Ingenious machines were introduced into our manufactures, and the encouragement and protection afforded them, greatly increased the demand for our goods both at home and abroad. Our superiority at sea gain our merchants easy access to foreign markets, and the wealth derived from trade and com merce (though to some persons it may appear para doxical) more than covered the whole expenses of the war; when the Minister had recourse to loans they were speedily raised by British capitalists, and the increases of the public debt was due from ourselves to ourselves, and resolved itself into a family account without impairing the national property. Mr. Pitt, having succeeded in securing peace and independence to the empire, whilst devoting his sole attention to the affairs of the public, suffered his own to be very ' much embarrassed. Many of his friends wished to extricate him from his difficulties, and requested me to learn from Mr. Rose in v‘ hat way we could best relieve him. His reply was—" Mr. Pitt is the most unaccountable of men, and would prefer living in a garret to being indebted to the bounty of his friends." Though disappointed, the opinion I had long enter tained of this able Minister's high character was not diminished. The present panic and distress in the country have been declared by high authority to proceed from " overtrading" and wild speculation." Infant nations and establishments are liable to miscarry from want of experience and solidity. Trading and spe culation being natives of this island, and parents of our wealth and independence, are surely exempt from such an imputation. The same authority has de clared that " gold and pap er money are i nc ompatible with each other, and cannot exist together." The population and trade of th e emp i re h av i n g much in creased, a proportionate i ncrease i n the medium i of circulation is called for, a n d w h en go ld is foundin sufficient recourse must b e h a d to paper , which, if im proved on the principle already suggested, the twtwo substances would be found in the same market with out disunion. Anxious to see our situation ameliorated, I trust the currency may be m en d e d w i t h ou t changing or impairing the national char ac t er , w hi c h measure, if If resorted to, would resembl e th e po li c y of diverting from its course a powerf u l r i ver t h at h a s long given felicity and h a ppi ness t o a l arge di str i c t, merely be cause from excessive rains it h a d some times exceeded its natural limits, and prod uce d part i a l injury. I am, my Lords and Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. Drayton Manor, March 8, 1826. Sta,—l n your " Bow-street Report" my TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN' name is associated with th a t o f Humphreys, who was on Thursday last r eman d ed on a charge of stealing some painting s f rom my employers, the Messrs. Acker mann, 96, Str an d. As such r e p or t may leave an unfavourable impres sion on th e m i n d s of the public, I beg you will do me the favour t o g i ve publicity to the circumstance that the only evidence against me (if such it be called)! was the unfounded improbable, and villanous assertion of Humphreys, that I had employed him to dispose of the paintings. My employers and the magistrate had sufficient discrimination to entirely exonerate me from the charge, and placed it on Humphreys, at whose lodg ings some prints were found, and who is remanded ; whilst I have been re-admitted to my former position in the respected house o f Messrs. Ackermann and Co. Soliciting your early notice, I am, Sir, yours, &c., Oct. 23, 1847. JAES ROCHE. t:hechionsider he has done his TO THE EDITO R OF THE SUN. SIR, —I have been much pleased at reading in your been making among the overrrsiesetihe: ers and vestry-clerks r the g es fv estry-clerks the b arrister, regis trationhas j d oof ti u t dr y inffa m el ro a etf n nh f vte u oi ll hae y rar isv : oll b ee u sS t Moasrf. unless taolir the sam e laudable, praise worthy exertions are rigidly enforced by the public auditors of unions and parish es , all Air. M`Christie's exertions will amount to noth in g , fo r w h at he has the power to do is merely lopp ing 13.-% iv a few of the branches of corruption, which will spr ou t out aga i n vigour, under diniffedrieffnetrehnetaddsireefcetxiopnesndwitiuthre, which greater parish func tionaries before alluded to know espe c i a l well how to cultivate, unless the public auditors arouse themselves from the excessive lethargy they have been labouring under from their first appointments, and lay th e axe manfully to the root of pari sh corruption, which th e y have the authority to do if they hav e t h e will arid n pe er w y e e r . , e l ve h r a a v nd have informed again, d a t i h n ose who are high in offi c i a l , guar dians of whi c h I h a ve the that the b oar d of honour to be a memb er i s considerably tainted with the feasting f ever , wh i ch leads t o o th er i rregu l a rities. lam convinced from many years experience that the absenc e o f t h e clerks of boa r d s f rom t h e i r duties, together with parish feasting, are the forerunners of the greater part of parochial irr egu l a rities and unnecessary charges, which for m a very con siderable item in th e i r annua l r e efl xp e e e n t d e it n ur t e he d.luftitehsetphey were appointed to p er f orm , u public auditors were to seri o u s ly and act strictly up to them, they would be a useful body, and entitled to the thanks of the public, but as they h ave hi t h erto ac t e d they are worse than useless. andß ypiansesirnegesaincg the countsvaesry e vils which th ey were ap-.they .do, i s giving sancti on t o , pointed to correct. A GUARDIAN OP THE POOR. Oct. 25, 1847. DETENTION OF T HE OVERLAND MAIL. — On Satur day notice w as i ssue d and affixed at the General Post offi. ce, St. Martin' s -le-Grand, th at th e Overland Mail, Marlow, i n viii Marseille s , f or I n dia, China , Egypt, and the Medi terranean, was detained. Lette rs, &c., will be in t im e this ev en i ng. DEATH OF SIR HENRY* BROMLEY HINRIOIL— We ha ve to record the d em ise of this gentleman,_ who expired on t h e 19th i nstan t, at his residence near Great formerlyy known as holding the post of Lieutenant in the the fift sixth year of his ag e . He was corps of Gentlemen pensioners, and was knighted in 1881. COURT CIRCULAR. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.- WINDSOR, SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM IN PRSTII. Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday, Letters from Pesth state that elections for the genes al and the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Diet have already commenced, and give a singular Royal, and the Princess Alice walked and rode on I account of the representative system of Hungary in ponies. The Princess Helena was taken an airing. its present improved state. All the burghers (the The unfavourable state of the weather in the after-- majority of the inhabitants of Pesth, among whom noon prevented h e r Maj e sty and the Royal Children I are bankers, merchants, clergy, artists, &c., are not from leaving the Castle. I burgers) meet together in their districts, and choose' The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl and from among themselves fifty one electors, being haft Countess of W es t more l an d, an d th e Ri g ht H on . Si r o f th e num b er o f the now living elective burghers, as Robert and Lady Peel arrived yesterday afternoon on they are called. These fifty-one electors unite with a visit to her Majesty. the 102 elective burghers,; the members of which are The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday chosen for life from out of their own body, and are evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of thus perpetuated, and these together choose two Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Bedfcrd, the Earl I deputies. These two deputies have in the Diet, to and Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Anna M a ria g e th e r with all the deputies from all the States of Dawson, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. Sir Ro- Hungary, only ONE vote, i. e., they are altogether bert and Lady Peel, and Miss L. Dawson Darner. considered equal to one committee deputy. In the The band of the royal regiment of Horse Guards election of the committees there will probably be a was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's pri- very severe contest. There can be no question about vate band afterwards attended. the choice of the first deputy, since the First Vice- Mr. B. Cole submitt e d t o P r i nce Albert, on Satur- Count of the Committee, lir. Von Tzent-Kiraly, has day, various designs and models, by Messrs. Bell, no opponent, and is as god as elected. But our Horsley, Redgrave, a n d T ownsen d , execut i ng for Liberals want to choose Kossuth for the second Trannerly's art manufactures, deputy; they have set every engine in motion, and This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert the country nobles, like the Cortes, who are, for the walked in the pleasure -grounds. most part, mere pieces of machinery, have not the The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise slightest notion of conservatism and liberalism. As in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. Kossuth has no opponent of political or other import- The Queen and Prince Albert, her Majesty's visi- ance, his election is probably sectsre, unless the tors, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the I Government should object on the ground of his domestic household, attended Divine service in the having been formerly implicated in a criminal accu private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. cation. Leslie Courtenay officiated. The College of Antwerp has addressed a letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left the Commercial Council appointed to examine the town on Saturday, on a visit to her Royal Highness project for founding a University for commerce and the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence in Rich- manufactures. mond Park. TURKEY.—Letters from Constantinople of the 6th A deputation of the principal bankers of the city of October bring the intelligence that the general of London, headed by Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an state of health continues, on the whole, satisfactory. interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his In Trebizonde the cholera was beginning to abate; official residence in Downing- street. Baro n R o th s - t h e report t h at i t h a d man i fested itself at Odessa and child, M.P., had also an interview with his Lordship Sannesund was again doubted. on Saturday. It could not yet be seen how a reconciliation could The Earl of Cawdor and Mr. Bodkin had inter- be effected with Greece. By the regulations against views with Sir George Grey on Friday at the Home- the Greek navigation, Turkish commerce also suffered. office. The feasts in honour of the circumcision of the Mr. Brooke had an interview with Earl Grey, on Princes had terminated. At a grand diplomatic en- Saturday, at the Colonial-office. tertainment the Sultan Tallmerayer was introduced. Mr. Ellis had an interview, on Saturday, with Sir He is to leave Constantinople towards the middle of George Grey, at the Horne-office. October. A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held at VIENNA, OCT. 16.—The improvement in the health the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea- of his Imperial Highness Prince Albeit, yesterday sury, in Downing-street. There were present Lord and to-day, is so considerable, that there is no further John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, cause for uneasiness. The Prince will probably be Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of able to leave his bed in the course of a few days. the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, L o rd C am p- BELGIAN FUNDS.—BisurssEr,s, OCT. 23. bell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanric ar d e , Actual Debt, 2% per Cent and the Right Hon. T. B. Mac au l a Rothschild's Loan, Five p er Cent ........ __y. Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent The Council sat two hours. Ditto Three per Cent. Viscount Palmerston let town aft er th e mee ti n Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditt o ...... g. Ditto, •.. • •••••••• • • • • • • • • 98 % Ditto,ditto,lB42 •. • Ditto, 1844,—. •• • ••••••• • • • • • • 90% Ditto, 1836........................... Ditto, 1838 .............. •••• • • • •• .. 66% Ditto of the City, 1832 Ditto, 1843 .... ........ .••••• .• • • .• 95% Bank ofßelgium...... . .• •.•• • • •• 82% —Brussels Papers. Oct. 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Om 18. 5 per Cent. Metalliques •• • • •••••• • • • • • • 104% 4 per Cent. ditto ..... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 93 3 per Cent. ditto •••• • • • • ••••••• • • • • • • • 66 Loan, 1834 158 Ditto, 1839 .. • . •••••••• • • • • • • • 1213( Bank Shares . • ••••••••••. • • • • • • • • • 1615 Esterhazv's Loan •• •• • • • •••• •• •• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THREE O'CLOCK. The following is a list of the arrivals in the course of the week:—Rosin the Beau, Senga, Tragical, Adminis trator, Lady Mary, George Hudson, Montpensier, Flat catcher, Secundus, Brocardo, The Switcher, Passion flower, Sincerity, Wanota, Patriot, Miss Margrave, Blind Hookey, Pimento, Old Port, Master Stepney, filly by Hetman Platoff, c by Don John, dam by Jerry; Discontent, Sagacity, Rough and Ready, Pyrrhus the First, Wee-bit, Carthage, Foreclosure, Clermont, filly by Venison or Seahorse, out of Papilio, 2 yrs; Newcourt, Pillage, Mathematician, Widred, Grimston, Blackie, Egremont, Blackbird, Fergus, Glauca, Pavilion, Co lumbus, Milliner, Pottinger, Fannus, Terrier, and Shel forth. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—The following have been scratched:—Pic Nic, Finvaragh, Camera Obscure, and Lord Chesterfield's filly. The following have also been scratched for the Cri terion Stakes:—Comet, The Sheriff, Mr. Towneley's filly, and Mr. Watts's tw•o are also scratched. NEW MATCH.—Duke of Bedford's Dos licity, Bst 71b, and Colonel Anson's Contessa, Bst 21b. T.Y.C., 100, h tt. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT. LATEST BETTING ON THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 1 to 1 agst Patriot 2 to 1 agst Vanish 4 to 1 agst Hydrangea 15 to 1 agst Blackbird—t 15 to 1 agst Queen Mary No others mentioned. ENTRIES FOR MONDAY. Sweepstakes; Criterion Course; winner to be sold for 3501., &c. Garry Owen, aged—African, aged—Dromedary, 3 yrs—Circassian Maid, 3 yrs—Jolly Dick, 3 yrs. The Handicap is no race. The following matches for Monday are off:— Duke of Bedford's Bridle receives forfeit from Lord Exeter's Cosachia Mr. Greville's Panic receives from Duke of Bedford's Tufthunter. RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • . 155 Gloggnitz • • • • -• • • • • • • • • • - • - • • • • • . 114 Vienna-3111an • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 100 Leghorn .. g4aa Oldenburg .. • . ...... Apenninen • • • • • . • . • • • • • . 94 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 22. Actual Debt, 2 Money. Bills per Cent.-- • • • • • 53% 84 Ditto, 3 per Cent .• • • • • • - • • 64 1 4 65 Ditto, 4 per Cent. • • • • • • • • • • • • 83 k 84 Amort Syndic, 4 34 per Cent • • • • 83 83 Commercial Company, 4 34 per Cent • • 163 164 N( East India Loan, 4 per Cent Exchange on London, at sight • • • • • • 12 30 Two months. ...... • • • • • • 12 75 On Hamburgh, at sight .. • • 35 62 Two months... .. • • • • • . 35 On Paris . • • • • • • .. 56 75 Two months... .• .• .. • . • • .. 56 25 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bitaux, OCT. 4 St•Schuld Sch., 3 per Cent • • • • • • • • • • 92.3 i Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • • Foreign Exchanges Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months 6 27% 6 27 }i Lord Exeter's Bishop of Romford's Cob receives from Mr. Nlostyn's Wilderness. Lord Sirathmore's Sincerity receives from Mr. May's Senza. NEW MATCH FOR FRIDAY.—BInck Doe, Bst Gib, rig Passion-flower, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.; 50, h ft. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Money. FOREIGN CORN TRADE. BRUSSELS, OCT. 22.—Froin the 15th to the 20th of October, twenty vessels r utei-cd the port of Antwerp laden either wholly or in part with grain. Kil. The importations made were in tota' 4,387,450 In entrepot, Oct. 15 Placed in entrcpot from Oct. 15 to 21 Taken out from Oct. 15 to 20 for con- Sin,—Deferring until next week niy retrospective view of the Newmarket meetings, and of the present racing season, I shall at once proceed to do m 3 best on the last meeting of cons, quence in the year. The rally of bipeds and qnadrupeds will be vtry great; the vv,a. ther being fine, the course in excellent order, and the stables remarkably healthy, considering the advanc,i state of the year. All these desiderata summed up, leads one naturally to expect a brilliant wind-up to the season of the memorable panic year of '47. The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, notwith standing it has 45 Subs., will not have more than three or four starters at the utmost, viz.—Flatcatcher, Load stone, The Sheriff, and Lady Mary. The race, I think, cannot for a moment be in doubt. Mr. Clarke's award will be thus:— Flatcatcher (Edwards) 1 Loadstone (Nat) 2 The Sheriff ... ... (Boyce or Butler) 3 Lady Mary ... (Ternp!eman) 4 On Tuesday, the Cambridgeshire Stakes, out of 101 Subs., may start 29 or 30, to be selected from the fol lowing:— sumption Ditto, fin- transport The period is now approaching for the annual pay ufent of those arrears 6n- provisions which are stand ing in the markets of the capital. To- day (Friday) the supply was very consid,rahle, and the price con siderably less. About 1,200 sacks of wheat were sold at 6fl. 15s. to .511. ss. less the half hectolitre; 85 sacks of rye at 4fl. and 311. 14s. The s3les went off slowly. The price of potatoes also continues to fall. Those of the first quality sold at Bfl. the 100 kill. The inferior qualities sold at 6i. 50c. and 7f. to 7f. 15c. STRASB URG OCT. 18.---The fall in the ptices has prevailed during the week. All the markets in Alsace are well supplied, ai;d this not only with the ordinary kinds of grain, but with immense quan tities of potatoes and pulse. 11'heat was sold at 18f. ; rye, 121. to 1-11. ; peas, 26f. ; white beans, 281. to 31f. ; Turkish corn, 12f. ; potatoes, 3f. 25c. per hectolitre. In Colmar, Muldhausen, Schettstadt, there was a skisible decline, and the bread-tax has everywhere fallen in consequence. The wholesale trade is quite in abeyance, as the losses in June and July have completely cooled the ardour for specula tion. Business in general is much affected by the reactions of the London and Paris money markets, and there is unusual caution in exchanges. A great deal of ready money goes to Germany. The operations of our Bank are gaining the ascendancy more and more; discount in trade is almost invariably 6 per cent. Railway shares are Strasburgh-Basle, 147 f.; Paris-Strasburgh, 385 f. to 3861. FRANKFORT. ON- E-MAINE, OCT. 17.—Business at our Bank was exceedingly depressed throughout the week, as the low state of the London and Paris exchanges paralysed all speculations. It was not till yesterday, when we received some cheering informa tion from these leading markets, that the tone of busi ness revived, and all the State papers and railway. shares sold. The news of the reversion on the Lon don bank of the 13th, which reached us last night, immediately damped this favourable movement, and to-day everything was in a state of de pression. The state of the money markets is on the whole not unfavourable, but that confidence, without which it is impossible for business to be car ried on with spirit, will not return till the crisis in the money market in England, which certainly ex ceeds all former ones both in duration and pertina city, shall have been mastered. The prices of corn have fallen considerably here as well as in Mayence, Wetterau, &c. Potatoes, on the other hand, main tain the price. The vintage will not commence here till about the 27th. VIENNA, OCT. 16.—The weight of bread has in creased to-day in consequence of a fall in the prices. 13RESLAU, OCT. 19.—Business on the Corn Ex change is very slack, especially in regard t o r y e , because large a?rivals are expected from Berli n , Stet tin, and Posen, while those of Upper Silesia have been taken from the market. The continued fine weather has damaged all the love of speculation, as it was formerly excited by the wet weather. MAGDEBURG, OCT. 18.—No essential change has taken place in our corn market. The regular impor tation is commensurate with our wants, and very few purchases are made on speculation or for shipment. HOLSTEIN, OCT. 16.—Some bargains have been made at reduced prices, but, in general, there is no great desire to purchase. We do not expect a great rise in English goods, viz., butter, &c., at the pre sent moment, as the money crisis does fail to assume a detrimental influence on this branch of trade as well on every other. Yrs st lb' Yrs st lb Pyrrhus the First 4 8 10,Valiant ... 5 6 12 Dulcet ... ... 5 8 5 Montpensier ... 3 610 Lady Wildair ... 5 8 3 Hydrangea ... ... 4 6 10 War Eagle ... ... 3 8 3 Rough and Ready 5 6 10 Newcourt a 8 2 Christopher... ... 3 6 10 The Cur ... 5 8 2 Wanota ... 3 6 10 Patriot... ... ... 6 8 1 Cosa c hi a . ... 3 6 8 Prior of St. Mar- ICamera Obscure... 4 6 8 garet's ... 4 8 O'Colleen Bawn ... 5 6 7 Grinlston 4 7 liQueen Mary ... 3 6 6 Collingwood ... 4 712 Sagacity ... ... 3 6 6 Vanish... ... 4 7 7J.Tlysses ... 36 6 Blackie ... 4 7 7ißob Roy ..- 36 6 Foreclosure... ... 3 7 3 Geraldine 4 6 0 Tragical ... ... 4 7 2iGeorge Hudson ... 3 6 0 Reminiscence ... 3 7 21Ma.rtext .. 4 5 12 Miami ... ..• ... 3 7 21Marpessus ... 35 10 Giselle... ... 4 7 OlDeriades ... 3 5 10 Rufus ... ..• ... 4 7 o:Pillage... ... 35 4 Clermont ... ... 3 6 12t This race is of that particular kind when the field seems to be the best horse. I shall not attempt any disquisition on the merits of the nags, but select five on which I stake my prophetic veracity: to wit, Lady Wildair, Hydrangea, Geraldine, The Cur, and Sir J. Gerard's starter. If I must perforce place them the fol lowing is the order I expect they will run in:— Geraldine ..• ••• (Prince) I Hydrangea (Abdale or Sharp) 2 Lady Wildair... ... (Nat) 3 I append the probable result of Monday and Tues day's matches:— Woodcraft, Bst 71b will beat Acteon filly, Bst 21b. Queen Mary, Bst 101 b, will beat Laura, Est 121 b, Passionflower, Bst, will beat Lovelace, Bst 71b. Rough and Ready, Bst7lb, will beat Vice Consul, 7st7lb. Tamarind, 6st 71b, will beat Villiers, Bst 71b. The Flitch, Bst 71b, will beat E3then, 7st 71b. Discontent, 7st 111 b, will beat Spider, Bst 71b. Marpessus, Bst llb, will beat Dr. Goodall, Bst 101 b. Sable, 7st 21b, will beat Vice Consul, Bst 71b. My opinion on the remaining stakes and matches I shall give to-morrow. H- -1 11 a s m p , l S n i l r T , yo co u r rs ' T B il c* E TURF. Oct. 23. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Brighton harrs., Wed., Race Course; Fri., the Dyke —loi. Brookside harrs., Thurs., Telscombe Tye-10f. Glyndbourne harrs., Friday, Berwick-common. Lord Parker' s hd s., to- morrow, Thame Park; Fri., Mapledurham. Mr. Fane's parrs., Wed., Badnage Way; Sat., Overy House. Simington hds., to-morrow, Cawton; Friday, Tylas bridge-10. Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Wed., Thornton in the Clay; Fri., Fluckham-10f. Lord Yarborough 's hds., Wed., Little Limber Lodge; Friday, Croxby Cleveland hds., Thurs., Court-green-10i. Tiverton hds., Fri., Spring Grove Park. Tindale hds., Thurs , the Heugh (Countess Park)-101-. Tivyside hds., Thurs., rantre-10. AMESBURY COURSING MEETING —FRIDAY. TEE GREAT WESTERN CUP.—Third Ties. King Canute beat Jubilee I Merry beat Espartero. THE DRUID CUP.—Second Ties. Gretna beat Blacking I Wildfire beat Joint-Stock Alice beat Why Not I Lord George beat Sooty. ------- - APPREHENSION OF THE STRANRAER POSTMASTER. —On Saturday last the postmaster of this town was ap prehended, charged with abstracting 20/..frona a letter, and, we understand, confesses his guilt.— Wigtown Free Press. WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.--Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, arrived at the Castle on S aturday evening, and remained on a visit to her M a j esty and his Royal Highness the Prince Corsort. Of course there was no music on the parterre this afternoon ; but notwithstanding the unpleasantness of the weather, there were many persons on the Pentagon terrraee, anxious to pay their respects to her Majesty and the Royal family, nor were they disappointed, for Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, in their pony phaeton, passed and re-passed across the lawn reps at edly ; and as the Queen and the Court returned from their walk across the Home Park, her Majesty and the Prince acknowledged the greeting of the crowd on the terrace above. WIIAT A FALLING Orr.--At the commencement of the West Riding sessions at Knaresborough, in October, 1845, the doors of the court-house. were be sieged by parties desirous of putting up notices of in tended applications to Parliament for railway and other Bills, and the doors were foiti,d too small to contain the 101 notices which were posted on that occasion. Not a single notice was put up at the sessions on Tuesday last. —Leeds Intelliyeneer. The appointment of Inspecting Field Officer of the Glaq4ow recruiting district will shortly become vacant, but h is not yet decided who is to succeed Lieutenant- Colonel Harvey, K. 11.— United Service Gazette. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 22.—The sales of the week are again very limited, and prices have further declined Is. per cwt. In ruin there is nothing doing.— Bristol Mercury. The Rock Insurance Company, whose capital is invested in Government securities ,. to the amou n t o nearly 3,000,0001., are about to seek for . powers to in vest the same in the securities of "estabhshed railway o r other companies incorporated by Act of Parliament." Lady Duff Gordon . and attendants arrived at Blackwell on Saturday afternoon, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Sir Edward Basks, from Ostend. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. On Friday evening last a public meeting, convened by the Currency Reform Association, took place in the Town-hall, Birmingham, for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of sending a deputation to the Prime Minister, with a memorial setting forth the state of the country, and requesting the adoption of such measures as might be calculated to afford relief in the present alarming state of affairs. There were present R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., G. F. Muntz, Esq., Mr. Alderman W es t on , ir. T. C. Salt, Mr. Coun cillor Baldwin, Mr. Joseph Corbett, Mr. J. Harlow, Mr. J. Mason, and a great number of merchants and manufacturers of the town. Mr. WESTON was called to the chair, and opened the business by observing, that since they had i net a few days ago, at Dee's Royal Hotel, the commercial affairs of the country had gone on from bad to worse, and it was now clearly the duty of every man, how ever humble, to come forward and lend a hand towards mitigating the evils of the country. The merchants were falling in great numbers, and it was impossible they could go down without affecting the manufacturers, and the manufacturers could not be ruined without the working men being thrown out of employment, and reduced to very great distress. All classes were deeply interested in the present position of affairs. Mr. HARLOW, of the Midland Counties Herald, pro posed the memorial, which was of some length. Mr. SALT seconded the adoption of it, and urged, in strong terms, the immediate union of all classes, for the purpose of obtaining from Government the adop tion of such measures as might tend to the relief of the country, and recommending that, if the Ministry lacked the courage to assist them, an immediate appeal should be made to the Crown, requesting her Majesty to dismiss her Ministers, and call in men who would serve the nation. Mr. BALDWIN proposed an amendment, deprecating any change in the established monetary system, and recommending reduction of taxation. Mr. J. CORBETT seconded the amendment, which was also supported by Mr. MANTEL. Mr. MuNTz and Mr. SPOONER each addressed the meeting, and urged an alteration in the currency. The memorial was eventually carried by a large ma jority; and a deputation, consisting of the Mayor, the two Members for the borough, and Messrs. Spooner, Harlow, Salt, and Mason, was nominated. LILLIPUTIAN EXPRESS ENGINE - - -- On Saturday an experimental trial took place upon the Eastern Counties Railway, to test the powers of a small locomotive engine of a novel description, de signed and constructed by Mr. Samuel, resident en gineer of the Eastern Counties line. It is of two horse power, runs upon four wheels, requires no tender, and not only carries sufficient fuel and water for its own consumption within the smallest possible dimensions, but is also capabl e o f conve yi ng seven persons (besides the engineer and stoker), in the afterpart, which resembles an open Irish car. '1 he total weight of this little locomotive bijou is 22 cwt., its extreme length, including boiler, Irish car, and all, is only 12 feet 6 inches, and the height, from the rails to the floor of the engine, is not more than one foot. The little novelty left the Shoreditch station at half-past twelve o'clock, with a party of seven gentlemen, including Mr. Samuel, Mr. Martin, superintendent of the Eastern Union Railway, and the representatives of the daily journals. Mr. Samuel himself drove the engine, and a speed of 40 miles an hour was soon attained. The perfect ease and steadiness of motion at this high rate of speed were remarkable in so light a vehicle, while its diminutive size and proportions, and the singu larity of its appearance, excited no little aston ishment among the passengers of the trains which it met en route between London and Cam bridge. Three stoppages were made to take in water, and the party arrived at Cambridge at a quarter to three o'clock, having travelled the distance, 57 miles (exclusive of stoppages) in about an hour and three quarters. At one time the rate of travelling was 43 miles an hour, and Mr. Samuel stated that he had tested the powers of the engine to go at the rate of 47 miles an hour. Mr. Samuel's invention appears to be admirably adapted for newspaper and other expresses, since the consumption of coke is so exceed ingly small that the company can afford to run this engine at one-fourth the present rate of charge for expresses. The engine is also found to be a useful and economical substitute for the larger locomotives, in those incessant visits of supervision along the line which form part of the duty of the resident engineer of a railway. We subjoin a few details of the pro portions, &c••--The boiler is tubular, h av i ng 34 t u b es of 1 f inch ; aiameter of boiler, 2 feet ; height of boiler, 3 feet 6 inches; height to the t o p o f th e fun nel, 7 feet 6 inches; stroke, 6 inches. The supply of water is contained in a box under the feet of the passengers, and the economy of space is carried out to the fullest extent. The engine behaved admirably on crossing the points and rounding the curves of the line, and there appeared to be less rocking and jolt ing than is usuallyexperienced in a first. class carriage of the usual size when travelling at the same rate of speed. ROYAL SURREY TllEATRE. — Notwithstanding the houses continue to be as crowded as ever, Mr. Bunn is bent on giving his patrons every variety of entertain ment, and accordingly produces Balfe's opera of The Enchantres; this evening, on a scale of splendour to which the playgoers of Surrey are altogether strangers, and which will equal anything Mr. Bunn ever did at Drury-lane. _ _ _ Mr. Albany Fonblanque is to succeed Mr. Porter in the Statistical department of the Board of Trade. The whole Liberal party will feel grateful to Ministers for this recognition of services to which that party is so deeply indebted. It would not be easy to name any single agency through which liberal principles have been so successfully recommended to the educated classes as they have been through the writings of Mr. Fonblanque. Nor is this so much the effect of that exquisite style which will place his collected writings amongst the classics of our language, as it is owing to the unswerving consis tency, the integrity, and manliness which have charac terised the career of the conductor of the Examiner. We heartily join in thanking Lord John Russell for this acknowledgment, inadequate though we may think it, to one to whom we all owe 30 much.—Chronicle. Burrs AND JENNY LIND.—In this celebrated action it will be remembered that Mr. Justice Williams granted a commission to examine witnesses at Berlin as to the alleged breach of engagement of Jenny Liud with Mr. Bunn, and it was stated that Meyerbeer, the composer, would be examined. The commissioners—Mr. Lewis for Mr. Bunn. and Mr. Hoggins, barrister, on the part of Jenny Lind—proceeded to Berlin a short time since, and to the surprise of the parties the instructions on the part of the defendant were not forwarded, and after waiting a week the commissioners returned without any examinations of the witnesses. The commissioners' re port was made returnable on the first day of Michael mas term, and in the event of any further application for a commission it is expected that the costs must be paid by the defendant. THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—A paragraph appeared in the evening papers of Saturday, stating that the Bishop of London was seriously indisposed. Such is not the case. Some weeks since the Right Revel', / Id Prelate sustained a fall while on board her Majesty's steamer the Fairy, and cut his forehead, but the wound is now almost healed. He had also been affected with a slight cold. No later than Friday last his Lordship drove from the Palace at Fulham to his mansion in Si. James's-square. The death of Major-General Philip R ay i s an ' and an nounced. He entered the army in June, 179 6 served in the Scots Fusilier Guards up to Marc h , lBl2, when he retired on half-pay.—United Service G azette. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town on Friday night, and was, on Saturday, in communication with some of her Majesty's Ministers, previous to his departure for esty.—Obser ver . Windsor Castle on a visit to her Mei