The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-12 00:00:00

DON,. TRURSDAY, SEPTEI 13ER, 12,18 N.

LONDON:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1839.

When we stated yesterday that Toryism was
gathering strength, and was spreading over the
land, we by no means meant to imply for one
instant that such a lying, base, fraudulent, op-
pressive system was growing into favour with our
Intelligent people. As they increase in knowledge
they grow daily more averse from it. The State
priesthood, the Corn-law making landlords, the men
who borrow the public credit at no interest, and
charge the public six per cent. for the use of it,
the monstrous practices of taxing the community
to enrich sugar planters and timber carriers, have
all of late been more generally and more vigorously
attacked, both in Parliament and by the Press,
than before, and are obviously growing, by their
own false and hateful nature, into disrepute. The
prodigious exertions made to sustain them are proofs
of their decay. When the Church was perfectly se-
cure and at her ease the priesthood slumbered ; they
have been roused into activity by their danger. When
the landlords were perfectly safe, they instituted no
societies, hired no press, and bribed no men of talent,
to defend them and their bread tax. They equally
disregarded the bitter sarcasms of the Corn-law
Rhymer, and the deductions of Colonel TOR-,
RENS. That the several bands of selfish monopo-
lists are now compelled to make great exertions,
and to be at no little cost to achieve a temporary
triumph for Toryism, is a proof that this unnatural
system of fraud and coercion is beginning to be pro-
perly estimated by the public. We foresee its
triumph from the weakness of the present antago-
nist power to Toryism ; from the dissensions amongst
Liberals ; from the want of organization which is
perceptible in every patriot framing and following
his own plans to promote the public welfare; and from
the bulk of the people having come, such has been the
unfortunate result of the conduct of the Whigs, to
hate them worse than they hate the Tories. United
by an instinct of self-preservation, the Tories will
act together till they get possession of the Govern-
ment, and we can only expect that their disputes
and dissensions
will be fatal to themselves when
they come to share the plunder.
At present they are
power of the Court, but chiefly kept in check by the
that will keep them off for
only a short time, unless the Whigs be aided by
the people, and of that at present we see no prospect.
The schism between them seems widening every
day. Every day, as at Manchester, the unrepre-
sentedTli
show their hostility to the Whigs.
them that the Whigs seek to attain
anobjecet te
is sufficient
last year the repeal of the Corn-laws,
w enlist the people against it. To spite the Whig%
h een
they are ready even to spite themselves. Ireland,
because the Whigs have, by comparison,
just to her, will stand by them ; but England,
to which, by comparison, they have been
grievously unjust, will oppose them. Indeed, it
may be doubted, whether the encouragement they
have given to agitation in Ireland, and their per-
secution of political opinions in England, have not
of crated to produce a strong prejudice against
them amongst the %% orking classes of England.
They see the parent of agitation there to procure
political rights, honoured and rewarded, and they
see the chiefs of such an agitation here committed
to prison, and their unjust and unmerited suffer-
ings made a theme of ridicule and mockery in
Whig Journals. They are exposed to the sarcasms
of the Whig press, while the Irish agitators are
rewarded with office. In England that produces
a prejudice unfavourable to Ministers, and makes
the people look with less abhorrence on their op-
ponents than on them Whether the Whigs have
gone. over to Toryism or net though their acces-

sion to that jobbing, corrupt fraternity of politicians
would be a strong evidence of the increase -el
the Tories—they are suspected by the working
unrepresented classes, of being traitors, and that
suspicion alienating the one from the other)
gives a prodigious comparative strength to Toryism.

We are reminded by an Evening Contempo-
rary that the state of the country when the Tories
were in office in 1830, was much worse than at
present. That is perfectly true, both as respects
our domestic and our foreign relations. The nume-
rous complaints then made, however, ended in
driving the Tories from office, placing in it Lord
Grey and the Whigs, to ensure us peace, reform,
and retrenchment. We hope the analogous but
by no means equal condition of the country in 1839,
may not end in another change of Ministry, sub-
stituting the Tories for Lord MELBOURNE, to
~alVe us civil war, coercion, and extravagance. Wehope,
hope, too, that the country is not entering into a
cycle of changes in the Ministry, narrowing with
every successive change, forced on by distress
amongst the people, and alarm for the public
safety. Undoubtedly such a condition of the
country drove the Tories from office, and it would
seem, at least according to the Tory press, a similar
condition now threatens the existing Ministers with
a similar fate.

We should like, however, to be informed by
what art the Tories, who were so unsuccessful
before 1830, are to govern the country suc-
cessfully in 1840 ? In the ten years which
will then have elapsed though they seem to
have learned nothing, the people will have made
prodigious progress. The generation now coming
on the stage, and having the active parts to per.
form, have had the benefits of an education at Me-
chanics' Institutes and schools of art. Political
science has been much studied and much improved,
and the Tory principles which were so alien
to the national progress in 1828 and 1829,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL was obliged to give
them up, and so hostile to the national prosperity
in 1830, that he could govern the country no
longer, will be more alien to the national progress
in 1840, and more hostile to i!s prosperity. Can
the Tories suppose that the Peers, and the
Church, and the corrupt influences we yesterday
alluded to, have been more than ever firmly fixed in
the national affections by the rude shocks they have
received during the last ten years ? They cannot
be quite such drivellers, and they must,
therefore, be sensible, that if the Whigs can-
not govern the country, for them the attempt
to govern it must be hopeless. They may
get into office we grant, but to follow out
the principles of Toryism, persecuting the Catho-
lics, snubbing the Dissenteis, insulting and coercing
the unrepresented, steadily refusing all relief to dis-
tress, and all redress to political grievances, holding
fast by every abuse, and every absurdity in the
Constitution because it is old and worn oat—for
them to follow out the principles of Toryism in
office is as impossible as to arrest the tides or
chain the winds. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S reign—
acknowledging, as he has acknowledged, that Ireland
would be his greatest difficulty—would be shorter
than that of the Whigs, and it would close in
general distress and general discontent. In fact,
the principles of Toryism are wholly un-
suitable to the present condition of society,
when almost every man, whether for good or for
evil, forms his own opinions about Government,
and insists that every institution shall be justified
by reason or is unworthy of obedience. If we can-
not keep the Whigs in office, and cannot have
peace and prosperity under their rule, from a Tory
Administration nothing can be expected—unless in-
deed it wholly abjure Toryism—but disturbances,
contests, and revolution.

The Duke of WELLINGTON IS not the only
Irishman of the present day, who, gifted above the
generality of the human race, with a vigorous mind
and a clear judgment, begins, to the sorrow of his
friends, to exhibit the ravages of time. There is
another Irishman whose failings the enemies of
Mr. O'CONNELL delight to point out, and to
contrast with one or two of the exhibitions which
his Grace made during the last Session. In the
one, they say, there may have been an error of
judgment, he may have formed a hasty conclusion,
and persevered in it, with his usual firmness of
purpose ; but in the other there are the strongest
symptoms of decay—increasing bigotry in his
creed, and the wildest delusion, that ere he steps
into the grave it will become the creed of Christen-
dom, and of the civilized world. Though rejecting
any such imputation, we cannot avoid blaming Mr.
O'CONNELL for incessantly pressing upon the
Protestants of England and Scotland the excellence
of the Catholic faith, and the rapid strides the only
" true religion" is making throughout these domi
nions. The people of this country have, in vat
numbers supported the claims of Catholic Ireland to
be placed on a footing of equality with Protestants
and Presbyterians, in doingsso they have been
assailed by the enemies of religious liberty, by every
possible abuse— charged with endangering their
own religion, and encouraging .another that never
ceases its attempts to make proselytes, and that
never will cease its Jesuitical attacks on Protes-
tantism till it again acquires the ascendancy over
the minds of the British people. What madness,
then, in Mr. O'CONNELL to publish a manifesto
to the whole world, giving but too strong a colour-
ing to these imputations—telling us Protestants,
that our faith leads to infidelity--that Catholic
chapels, and convents, and colleges are rearing
their heads in every quarter of the island—and that
the day is fast approaching when all Christians
will be gathered into " the one fold of the one
Shepherd." Even if there were any truth in the
statement, why should he injure his cause, and the
Protestant friends who have long supported that
cause, by proclaiming the fact, and magnifying it
to an extent that would give credence to the other-
wise improbable, ridiculous, and harmless prognos-
tications of the M‘GHEEs and the O'SuLLivANs ?
We are utterly incredulous of every word he has
uttered about the increase of Popery in this country,
except in one spot, and that spot he has omitted to
mention—the University of Oxford. In England,
but more especially in Scotland, where he says
" the increase is still more striking," the
antipathy to Popery is as strong, though
not so violently expressed as it was in the days of
kNox ; and perhaps it requires only some more
manifestations of this sort from Darrynane Abbey,
to revive that spirit which levelled to the dust all
the Catholic temples in the north—drove a bigotted
Catholic race from the Throne of these realms—
and fixed for a century and a half a stigma on all
the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland. In
the Highlands of Scotland there has long been a
numerous class of Catholics, who flock to Glasgow,
the capital of the district, where they find employ-
ment, and multiply in proportion. There is a vast
increase also from Ireland ; but as to conversion to
any extent, we regard it as a pure dream of a san-
guine imagination ; and, notwithstanding all that
may be said about the increase of nunneries and
convents, we are confident that the proportion be-
tween the two sects, making allowance for these natu-
ral causes, has long remained stationary. It ill be-
comes a Catholic to impute infidelity to Protestan-
tism. Where, in any Protestant country, did infidelity
in its most frightful shape spring up so rapidly and
to such an extent as in Catholic France ? And what
says Latrobe now of Catholic Mexico?--"
ever there may be in other Itoman Catholic coun-
tries, in Mexico there would seem to be no me-
dium between the grossest and most debasing su-
perstition and idolatry, and scepticism and infi-
delity." And if any one can wonder that such
should be the result, we refer him to the true pic-
ture of Catholicism as drawn by Mr. O'Connell
himself :—" Again reflect that any man who be-
comes a Catholic from having been a Protestant
loses the freedom, the ease, and the individual in-
dependence of Protestantism. He enters a religion
in which he is restricted by fasts, by abstinence,
by Lenten penances, by the humiliation of auricu-
lar confession, by the subjugation of the pride of
the understanding (the most insidious and cherished
of any species
place— of pride), and the adoption in its

"0h 1 taming thought to human pride"—
of an entire submission in spiritual matters to the
authority of the Church." Save us we say from
s ich a subju3ation.

1111.2 StTN LO

carry the tyrannical law into effect, often withont
success, and because they cannot pert'otrn an im•
possibility they are threatened with the loss of their
licences, Mr. HOBLER, the Solicitor, has given
a Concise and proper definition of this obnoxious
clause:— " By its defective enactments it de-
nied justice to the public and the publican,
and it did not do justice to the Magis-
trates themselves." The fact is, the law, as
propounded, is an utter absurdity in a free
country, and cannot be carried into effect. The
practice of shutting up houses at a fixed hour has
had a fair trial; both the Legislature and Magis•
trates virtually pronounced it a failure, and, conse-
quently, left the fixing of the hour to the publican
himself, at the same time making him respon-
sible for any disorder or breach of the peace.
There is nothing in this Act that warrants the
belief that the Legislature raw any necessity for
enforcing the old regulation—the Government, we
are convinced, had no such intention, yet by
their silence on the subject, they are incur-
ring the entire blame, and raising up political
enemies in every club, debating society, and public
parlour in London. The Tories cheer on the ac-
cusers, and scoffingly remark—" It, remained for
the Whig Government to put down political dis-
cussion, and make the very commencement of the
Sabbath hateful." But this is only the beginning ;
the outcry is increasing every day ; and by the time
the large theatres open the evil will have increased
tenfold, and hundreds cf thirsty throats will
curse the Government that inflicted on them
such a grievous and unnecessary deprivation.
These may appear trifling considerations to
men engaged in mighty affairs, but no wise States-
man will neglect them. Trifles often influence the
government of mankind. A ballad, by one who
knew them well, was considered of vastly more im-
portance than a law, and the HOME SECRETARY
may find that foolish regulations about the sale of
beer, or about the hour of going to bed, may do
the Ministry an injury which the best Administra-
tion of the land cannot counterbalance.

The news from the Spanish frontier continues to
be very favourable. In the Moniteur of Tuesday
we find the following telegraphic despatch :

" THE SENERAL COMMANDING THE. 20TH MILITARY DIVISION

between the point Of Indio and the Arroyo d'Atalaya,
where he succeeded in burning seven smugglers, after a
sharp engagemtNlt with a patty of Argentine troops, in
which he lost a mid-NO:lan Mid tWo seen= killed, awl lied
Hine wounded. A large cutter was also set on fire by the
French on the same day, two miles west of La Recolleta.
The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, in their excursion
into the district of Oloron, on the Ist inst., were most
cordially received by the Basque population, with many.
demonstrations of national peculiarities. A guard of
honour of the young men of the country, on their small
active horses, accompanied the Prince and Princess. Basque
dances were performed by the young men and women
wherever they stopped, and the whole population turned out
to welcome their Royal Highnesses. The weather wrong
the mountains proved to be bad, but,. notwithstanding the
heavy rain that fell, the Duke several times reviewed on foot
the National Guards assembled in his honour. The
Prince and Princess visited many places of interest, and
expressed themselves highly gratified by the beauty of the
scer.try. A sirnikr reception was given to their Royal
Highnesses next morning on leaving Pau, and passing
through Nay and Coarraxe. At the latter place the Duke
and Duchess visited an ancient tower, with which some
recollections of Henry IV. are closely connected ; and
afterwards, as they passed by the chapel of Beltharram,
where the ecclesiastics of the place received them, they
entered the sacred edifice, and heard the Domine salaam
fac regem sun.'% The Viscountess Duchatel, who had
attended the Duchess in her excursion along the skirts of
the Pyrenees, received, on taking leave, a magnificent
bracelet, studded with diamonds. Their Royal High-
nesses left ample tokens of their munificence at all the
places they visited.
THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE QUEEN OF
SPAIN'S SPEECH.

The Speech of the Queen Regent of Spain on opening
the Session of the Cortes does not find many admirers in
the Parisian press. The Constitutionnel observes that
amidst all the parade of Ministerial labours it was to have
been hoped that something more explicit would have been
said in favour of the unhappy creditors of the Spanish
Government, who are so anxiously waiting for some act
of justice respecting their claims. The Constitutionnel
observes that the Queen did well to appeal to the pru-
dence and patriotism of the Cortes for the future manage-
ment of affairs in Spain, but it has little expectation that the
appeal will take effect, as the majority of the Cortes arc de-
cidedly hostile to the Ministry, and nothing is known of
constitutional government in Spain beyond overturning
Cabinets by intrigue and Parliamentary votes. In five
years, says this Journal, men of all parties have been tried
in the Ministry, and Spain has become worse rather than
better by each change. The fault lies in the want of cen-
tralisation, without which no Government can have the
least power of working out any important Reform. The
Siecle observes that the most important feature in the open-
ing of the Cortes was the splendour displayed in the toilette
of the ladies, as if they had hoped to influence votes by dia-
mond ornaments and lace veils. No effect, however, was
produced by this display, says the Siecle, for of a hundred
Deputies present, very few were seated on the Ministe-
rial side. The Dehats makes no comment on the speech.
It observes merely that the most important fact, the treaty
with Maroto, and the prospect which it opens of the pacifi-
cation of Spain, could not be mentioned in the speech, as
the parties were then only in negociation. The Journal
de Paris is almost solitary in bestowing unqualified appro-
bation upon the speech, which it regards as a frank expose
of the state of affairs, and a sincere indication of the desire
to bring about in every department salutary reform. The
Courrier Francais says the Crown is prodigal of promises,
and profuse in the use of the flowers of rhetoric with which
they are made ; but it sees with pleasure the disposition to
improvement which is manifested in the speech. The
Courrier, like the Constitutionnel, expresses its disappoint-
ment at the slight way in which allusion is made to the
claims of the creditors of the Government, and regards all
efforts to revive national credit in Spain as hopeless, until
something honourable and positive be done as to the Na-
tional Debt. The Temps appears to regard the allusion
of the speech to the creditors of Spain as sufficiently in
dicatiye of the intentions of the Crown, but admires the
vanity of the Government, which, whilst admitting that it
has not a penny in the treasury, talks of the immense re-
sources of the State. The National dismisses the speech
in a very few words as prolix in matters of secondary in-
terest, and reserved on every essential point. The Quoti-
dienne and Univers give the speech without comment; the
other Carlist paper, the France, does not think it worthy
of a place in its columns, even as a document of curiosity
for those who refuse to acknowledge the government of
the reigning Queen.
URS E.—.PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 10.

,i„t Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents llO 50 ... 110 SO ... 110 75 ... 1 0 75
3 per Cents Bl ... SI 10 ... 81 ... S 1 10
Bank o: erance 2770 ' ...2781 "41770 ...2781
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...IWO —lO6O
5,002 f. Sh 5220 ...5220 ...5215 ...5215
Belgian 5 per Cents 103% ... 10344 ... 10314 ... PSI
Bel:;ian 3 per Cents 72 13 ... 72 15 ... 72 15 ... 72 15
Bank 703 ... 790 ... 785 . 755
Spanish Ac ive 3O ... a)% ... 29% ..
... 214
Passive 714 ... 74i ... 7 ... 7%
New Deferre i
Old Deferred il,y ... 13% ... 8% ... 6%
Portuguese 3 per Coots 22% ... 22% ... 22% ... 22%
Nea_olitan
Roman ll2 ... 103 ... 102% ... 102%
KAILWA Y SHARES.
-.— .

St. Germail
Versailles, IL B 550 ... 550 ... 550 ... 550
L.B. 315 ... 315 ... 312 .0 ... 312 50
Havre
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale
BELGIAN NUNDS—BituasEta, SEPT. 10.
Actual Dela, 2Sj per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1013(
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92%
--- 3 per Cent. 71%
Loan of City, 183'2, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 4S4perCent ll5
Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............
National Society .
-
-Brussels Papers, Sept. 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viwia, SEPT 2.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares .. 1533
—A/Igemeine Zeitung. Sept. 7
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, SEPT, 6,
Bills.
St. Schuld. Sch., 45;, per cent. lOl,
Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent 103 k,
.B;xchange on Lendop, three months 6 20%
—Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 7.

Money.
103
102%

Lettsrs from Constantinople, of the 28th ult.,
have been received, but they merely repeat the
stale gossip about the determination of MEHEMET
ALI not to give up the fleet. The rigid Mussul-
mans and the Ulemah are said to be in favour of
a scheme of Russian protection, whereas all the
Reform party are desirous of seeing the French
and English fleets at anchor in the sea of Marmora.
The following is the comparative force of the
English and French fleets at the entrance of the
Dardanelles :

FRENCH. Gunsd ENGLISH. Guns.
Montebello ( Rear-Ad- I Princess Charlotte (Ad-
miral Lalande l2O reiral Sir R. Stopford) 104
Hercule ....• lO9 Rodney 92
Jena( Rear-Admiral Las- !Asia B4
susse) 9O Powerful
Santi Petri 9O Bellerophon BO
.... ..

Diademe 9O Vanguard 9O
Jupiter 9O Talavera 74
Trident
Triton B6 Pembroke 74
Genereux B6

Total 847

Total 756

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Yesterday, at
St. George's Church, Hanover-square, by the Rev. G.
Deanes, James Bonar, Esq., of Kimmerghame, N. 8., to
Mary, eldest daughter of the late Sir Patrick Murray, of
Ochtertyre, Bart. The bride was given away by her
uncle, the Right Lion. Sir George Murray, G. C. B. Miss
L. G. A. A. Murray, the only daughter of Sir George and
Lady Louisa Murray, officiated as bridesmaid. The cere-
mony was performed in presence of the principal members
of both families. The splendid dejeune given by the Lady
L. Murray on the occasion, in Be!grave-square, was at-
tended by the Dowager Countess of Galloway and Lady
C. Stewart, and the Ladies Capel ; Sir Edward, Lady H.
Paget, and the Misses Paget ; Lady Grey, Lady and the
Misses Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bonar, Mr. W. Bonar,
Colonel and Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Campbell of Lochnell,
Mr. aad Mrs. A. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Gartshore, the
Misses Murray of Ochtertyre, Captain Houston, Mr. Geo.
Hope, &c.

VIENNA, SEPT. 2.—The Hungarian Diet,
which has been assembled for some months, but done little
good, now promises at' last to proceed in a more satisfac-
tory manner. The Deputy Ruda, on account of whose
exclusion so much noise has been made, has announced his
intention of voluntarily giving up the dignity of a Deputy,
by which the chief cause of the stagnat►on of the Diet
would be removed.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 6.—The nomination of M.
Falck as Minister from the Netherlands at our Court has
been hitherto in some degree uncertain. We now learn
that this nomination has been officially announced to our
Government.—lndependent.
The Constitutionnel of Flanders gives an account
of 8 dreadful accident on the section of the railway from
Peteghem to Courtray, on which the workmen are now
employed. A train of waggons used for conveying sand,
impelled by a locomotive, was somehow forced off the rails,
and eight of the workmen dreadfully injured.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge left Kew Palace to-day for Mid-
dleton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Conntess of Jersey.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley-
House yesterday from Weimer Castle, expressly to present
a new stand of colours to the 45th Regiment.
The Duke of Norfolk is about to give up
farming. His Grace has given instructions to his agent to
sell off all the lice and d, a 1 stock at Mendel Park Farm,
including his Grace's Southdown flock.
ROTHIEMURCHos.—The Duke and Duchess
of Bedford's party consists of the Marquis and Marchiftess
of Abercorn, Mrs. and the Misses Balfour (of Balburnie),
Lords Cosmo and Alexander Russell, Mr. Edwin Land-
seer (the artist), Mr. and Mrs. Ellice, Lady Georgiana
Russell, Lord Ossulston, &c.
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel have arrived at
Fleet, their seat mar Devonport, from town, for the winter.
IMPROVEMENTS AT CLAREMONT. For
some time past very considerable improvements have been
making at Claremont House, Claremont. Nearly 300
workmen have been engaged.
IMPROVEMENTS IN KING'S-ROAD,CIIELSEA.
--A correspondent states that Government have given in-
structions for the wall belonging to the Royal Asylum in
the King's•road to be taken down, and iron railing erected
in its place. The road in this part being narrow, several
yards are to be thrown into the road to make it in a line
with Sloane-square. The boys' workshops are to be
erected on the south side of the building. This road is
one of the most fashionable rides out of town during the
season. The improvement will considerably benefit the
Marquis of Westminster's estate and Lord Cadegan's.

MARk-ETS..-(THIS DAY)

BUNGERFORD MARKET.
Tie market preseGted much of its usual appearance, both as
to supplies and business ; PriCeS were much as last quoted.
Turbots, ss. to 18s. ; Soles, 10d. to As. per VC-it ; Lobsters,
10d. to 3s. Good Salmon, Is. 3d. to Is. Gd. per lb. ; Cod;
to 8s: ; Beef, 71,4 d. to SO. ; Mutton, lid. to Bid. ; Veal,
Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 71d. to 8(1. Of Vegetables the suiply was
good, and the demand was lively—prices ntcadv.
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
Country killed meat is in small supply, and prices were lewd.
Pork, 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 43. 4d. to ss. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd.
to 4s. 2d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. ; Beef, 3s. 2d. to 3s. Bd.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
The supplies were much of the same character as they have
been of late, the demand tolerable and prices steady. turbot
5s to 18s • Good Salmon is 3d to is Gd per lb. ; Lobsters
10d to 3s 6d ; Soles 10d to 3s per pair ; Cod Is 6d to Ss ;
Oysters 12s to 40s per bushel ; Whitings 4d to 10d; Haddocks
10d to 2s Gd.

HAY MARKETS.
The supplies were moderate, but the demand was good ;
prices rather lower. Hay, 60s. to 100 s. ; Clover, 80s. to 115 s. ;
Straw, 365. to 445. per load. • ;

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS.

CITY TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—We have
had a very good demand for Cotton to-day and yesterday.
Prices have been fully maintained. The sales, 6,000 bags,
chiefly to the trade.
Our arrivals this morning are again few in number.
Some anxiety is experienced for the arrival of the Ham-
burg mail, which was due on Monday, and has not yet
arrived. The Brazil mail is also due.
It is rather cheering to observe the return of our cove.
reigns from the United States : the packet ship from
Philadelphia has brought a freight of 100,0001. to Liver-
pool. Should these welcome arrivals continue, we Lye
no doubt that the coffers of the Bank will be replenished.

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of
yesterday, 91f Money; 91:11 for the Account, with
little doing as yet, owing to the Foreign Market being the
order of the day, where the speculation in Spanish draws
the attention of the speculators. This being rather a dull
morning it effects rather the nerves of the Bulls and Bears
in Spanish. Spanish has receded from the leaving off
price of yesterday, which was 28-411 ; and at present may be
quoted 27i1 ; Portuguese also lower, closed at 321 33, at
present 3241; Brazilian, 781; Colombian, ; Mexican,
28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54111; Five
per Cents.,lo4i.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
sank Stock -
3 per Cent. Red.
S per Cent. Cons. 1 BIA I% IA
354 per Cent
Ditto Red. •.. ..•

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds '0 ti pm
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto

New 1% per Cent 9SX 9
New 5 per Cent. -
Bank Long Annuities toexpi re
Jan. 5, 1860. ......... . -
Oct. 10, 1859.

Jan. 5, 1880 l4 1-18
Jan. 5, ISSO
April 5, 188(1.

3 per Cent. Annuities, I7A SS%
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO f 7 5 7 pm.
Ditto 500...6 fi 5 7 pro.
Ditto Small 9.0 ... 9 5 7 pm.
Ditto Commercial

Ditto Advertised ..... pin
Bank Stock for Accoulit
India Stock for Aocount

Jan. 5.1970 —l Consos for Account 9i% 7,,, ii
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds ...
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
_ Ditto Accot, t

~
Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account —
Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic —
Columbinn Bonds, 1824...32!4 14 3 Spanish Bonds . ......9.7N 34 5,4 534
Ditto Account 32% 3% 3 Ditto Account.... 2 % 8 '7% Si
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — • Del,Trecl ............. ......13 7,, tA •,,i
Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. —t. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ' 4 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. Exchange.
Ditto Account i Dutch, 2% percent. 54%34".4
Ditto, B per Cent —; Ditto Account ... 5 ','i

,
Ditto Account 931,4 % Ditto, 5 per cent .. ..... ...
Neapolitan Ditto Account ,
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per .share
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 25 llt3
E stern Counties Railway l6 =42 `Yi 6
South Eastern and Dover (New) ......... ~.......,, l3 2,4
Co:onial Join: Stock I.Litk 25 29%
HALF-PAST ONE.

The Hamburg and Dutch mails have not yet arrived,
which may be attributed to boisterous weather, as we hear
that three ships are on shore in the Cattegat, two Ameri-
can and one English vessel ; one of them has a very valu-
able cargo on board.
The famous contractor Ardoin has arrived from Paris, it

is :uppesed to put a finish to a Spanish loan, to be con-
tracted for in London, the terms of which have been in ne-
gotiation for some time past, but could not be brought to
a conclusion. .

In the Foreign Market, in the early part of the morning,
every description of Stock had a heavy appearance, since
which a re-action has taken place, and the various Stocks
have improved, in particular Portuguese, which has got up
2+ per cent., owing to a report that the slave trade dispute
has been settled. Poituguese Stock has got up from 321
to 34+; Spanish has improved from 271 to 281; Colom-
bian from 321 to 33; Mexican, 28+ #; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 54k.
Consols have also advanced to 911 Account; Money,
91+ ; Exchequer Bills 6 7 5 7 prem. ; India Bonds nothing
done; Bank Stock shut. Spanish passive, 81; Deferred,
131.

An alarming accident occurred on Sunday, at
Washeaborough, near Lincoln. Mr. Perring and his
niece were standing at the window during a thunder-
storm, when the electric fluid forced in the window, and
drove Mr. P. and the child to the further end of the room.
Both were taken up insensible, and continued so for some
time. Mrs. Perring was sitting by the fire-side and sus-
tained not the least injury.—Boston Herald.
A RCHITECTURE OF NOSES.—" You arc quite
right, mother," said Nicholas, "quite right: he is a fine
fellow." " Good looking, too," sa'd Mrs. Nicideby.
" Decidedly good looking," answered Nicholas. " What
may you call his nose, now, my dear ?" pursued Mrs. Nic-
kleby, wishing to interest Nicholas in the subject to the
utmost. " Call it ?" repeated Nicholas. "Ah I" returned
his mother, " what style of nose—what order of architec-
ture, if one may say so. lam not very learned in noses.
Do you call it a Roman or a Grecian ?" " Upon my word,
mother," said Nicholas, laughing, "as well as I remember,
I should call it a kind of Composite, or mixed nose. But
I have no very strong recollection upon the subject, and if
it will afford you any gratification, I'll observe it more
closely, and let you know." " I wish you would, my dear,"
said Mrs. Nickleby, with an earnest look. " Very well„'
returned Nicholas; "I will."—Nickleby.
Toll bars originated in 1267, says the Mirror,
on the grant of a penny for every waggon that passed
through a certain manor ; the first toll was collected a few
years after, for mending the road in London between St.
Giles's and Temple-bar.
A commercial treaty between the French Go-
vernment and the State of Eastern Uruguay, was signed
at Monte Video on the Bth of April last. By this treaty
the trade of France with the State of Uruguay is placed
on the footing of the most favourable nations.
INCENDIARY FIRE AT BOLTON.—EarIy on
Saturday mordng last a fire was discove ei i a the me-
chanics' shop at the mill belonging to Mr. Adam Kay, in
Mawdesley-street, Bolton. An alarm was given ; the
town's engines were immediately brought out, and the fire
was extinguished before it could communicate to any other
part of the mill. On Sunday night last, about ten o'clock,
a fire again broke out in the upper room of the same mill,
and assistance was as readily given as on the former occa-
sion. The fire was extinguished. On Saturday morning,
after the fire had been got under, cotton was found in ae
mill saturated with oil of turpentine ; and on Monday
morning, after the general bustle usual on such occasions
had subsided, on examining the mill, the cotton and a
number of the cops were again found to have been covered
with the same liquid. It was also noticed, during the
fire, that occasionaal bursts of large flame took place as if
from some exceedingly combustible substances ; and this,
in some measure, accounts for the immediate destruc-
tion of the roof. There is nht the slightest doubt that
the mill was wilfully set on fire.—Manchester Guardian. ~
By our accounts from Norway we learn that the
Storthing had adopted, and that the King had sanctioned,
three resolutions of some moment. The first abolished
the duties imposed since 1802 upon wines and brandies on
entry into Christiansand to the profit of the poor. The
second authorises the town of Drammen to establish a com-
mercial exchange in conformity to the law of 1818, which
grants to Christiania a similar establishment. The third
gives the privilege of the commercial rules as at Christi-
nia to the districts of Vaterland and Fjerdingen and to the
adjacent parts, and determines the conditions and charges
imposed upon parties engaging in that commerce.
Intelligence from Rome states that a Pontifical
notification, dated the 3d ult., had been issued, declaring
that in the free port of Civita Vecchia, as in that of An-
cona, the unloading or embarkation of merchandise re-
quired a declaration of the Customs charged to del'ver
gratis a permit for either of these operations. Special
instructions, issued the 9th ult. determine the time for the
presentation of the manifesto, of the other papers, and of
the necessary declaration, the mode of searching vessels,
the delivery of the permits, and the verification of the mer-
chandise declared.
A trout weighing forty-five pounds, and mea-
suring three feet in length, and sixteen inches broad, is
stated, by the Fed, ral of Geneva, to have been caught on
the 7th inst., in the Lac du Bourget, near Aix-les-Bains,
in Savoy.

At the Assizes, in Liverpool, it came out that
clay had been used, of late years, in the manufacture of
soap ! Some makers, it appeared, introduced as much as
50 per cent. of clay
We can positely state that the Marquis of
Waterford has not determined to have a tournament at
Ford Castle in the ensuing year. However :mother
pageant of the same chivalric character is spoken of.
Although we are now on the eve of autumn, the
thermometer has not been so high any other part of tho
summer as it was on Tuesday and Wednesday last, nor has
the weather been so favourable for ripening the growing
crops as it was on these days.
The Ornithological Society have come to the
determination of hatching the eggs of all their rare birds
by means of the Eccaleobion, instead of intrusting them
to the caprice of the parent, as in tho latter case thy have
generally failed.
LAUNCH OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S
ARMED STEAMER, SESOSTRIS.—The launch of this beau-
tiful vessel took place on Tuesday, from the dock-yard of
Mr. Pitcher, at Northfleet. The Sesostris is a first
class vessel, built by order of the East India Company, for
the express purpose of protecting their trade in the Indian
Seas. She is a magnificent boat, of the best order of
naval architecture, and is altogether worthy of the im-
portant post assigned her. Shortly after the launch was
over, the Directors and their friends returned to Black-
wall, where a sumptuous entertainment was provided at
Lovegrove's, the Brunswick Hotel, over which Sir Richard
Jenkins, G. C. 8., M. P. , presided.
A courier was despatched on Nonday last to
Lord Walsingham at Venice, to inform his Lordship of the
late Rev. Lord's death, and his own accession to the title.