The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-18 00:00:00

CITY REGISTRATION.-THIS DAY.

(Before Mr. MYLNE.)
The following arrangement was this morning made by
Mr. Mylne, which was approved of by all parties—that in
such cases where notices of objections are proved to have
been served, and the individuals are not in attendance, time
shall be given to the parties objected to, until the rising of
the Court on the following day, to suvuort their claims, and
a list containing the names of such porso:is whose cases
stand adjourned for that purpose, will be fizeci on the door
of the Court. Several lists were received, but they con-
tained no feature of any public interest.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

Our imports from the North of Europe and the Baltic are
more weighty than they have been, though not very various.
P. Y. C. Tallow 3,247 casks, and 5,627 bars of Swedish
Iron, are the chief. From the West Indies 635 hhds. and 28
tierces of Sugar-71 tierces of Coffee, and 45 tons of
Logwood are the chief. From the East 7,165 bigs of Mau-
ritius Sugar are the principal.
We have no less than thirteen mails in town this morning,
the principal of which are Lisbon, Holland, Malta, Flanders
and French. Their mercantile advices shew that the markets
are every where improving. It would be difficult to no me any
one department of mcrchandize which was decidedly more
lively than the rest : even Silk now is lively.
There is in project a commercial treaty between Holland
and this country. The basis is to be the same as that recently
made between Holland and Prussia—viz., perfect reciprocity.
This will do away with the disputes which existed between
this country and Holland, relative to a non-fulfilment, on the
part of Holland, of the last mercantile treaty. It is expected
that the pending treaty will shortly be completed, and acted
upon.
We have no public business doing in Colonial produce to-
day, as is usual on a Monday ; the private transactions are
small. A good business is advertised for the week. Specu-
lators are operating to-day in pepper chiefly ; and the trans-
actions in this article of late have been immense.

SILK.—The prices of all descriptions of this valuable com-
modity are too high for the buyers. The consequence is, that
the market is very languid.
METAL!.—There are a great number of German purchasers
of British iron; in the London market, prices are looking up.
Foreign Iron is 20s. higher. Peruvian Tin has sold at 555.,
which is 2s. lower than the nominal price previous to the
sale. Spelter is about ss. better, the present price being
131. 15s.

OlLS.—Fish Oils are generally low in stock ; and most de-
scriptions, lower by 30s. per ton than they were this day
week. Seed Oils are firm, and higher by 6d. to ls. per cwt.
than on Monday last.
COTTON.—But little doing in the London market, but
prices are firm; little is offering.
HOPS.—More business doing in this commodity; the supply
short, and prices stable. The duty is 200,0001.
WooL.—The public sales are about finished. Nearly all
that has been put up has been sold, amounting to 12,000 bales.
The advance in prices on those of last sale has averaged from
7 to 10 per cent.
ThAd.—There is a very increased inquiry for Rum for con-
sumption ; there is but little to be had, and prices are rising.
The Merchants sale of Tea goes on much in the same way
and at the same prices as previously reported. The attend-
ance is good ; it is expected to finish to-morrow.
FOREIGN COMMERCIAL.

Our arrivals this morning have been very numerous, and
the commercial letters they bring continue to report the state
of the markets on the Continent to be good. All the articles
we noticed last week to be in demand enjoy the same request,
and are taken at firm and slowly improving prices. Most of
the business doing is for consumption, and proportionally very
little on speculation. All accounts agree in stating the late
stagnation in trade to be generally removed, and not likely
soon to return, if the mercantile credit should be free from re-
vulsions such as the past.
Letters from Lyons state the Silk trade to be rather bet-
ter, and some considerable saps of raw silk had bees► ef-
fected ; the manufactured articles being still, however, ne-
glected. The movements in Silk under lock at Lyons dur-
ing the last month were—
Stock the Slst July of all sorts
Imported during August 409
Taken for consumption 340
Exported during August 99
Stock in bond 31st August
At Paris the premium on gold has risen from 7f. 50c. to
Bf., which it was last 'Change day, to Of. to df. 50c., and im-
portant transactions had taken place, and even at these im-
proved ratos gold was in demand. Dollars are quoted sf.
35e. per piece, but nothing done; the premium on silver was
stationary, and the quotations continue to be the same,
bf. 25e. to 3f. 50c.

The scarcity of Potash at Havre has caused the article to
be in demand, and for 200 barrels from New York, 401. per
50 killogs., duty paid, has been refused, the price being equal
to 255. per cwt. in bond, and the parcel is held for high
prices.
Letters from Leipzic of the 6th inst. state the arrivals to
the now going fair at that place to be very numerous, and a
great many buyers from the interior of Russia, with some from
Persia and Armenia, had during the latter days appeared. It
being too premature to give any opinion on the business of
the fair, the writer says, that the merchants in silk, cotton, and
woollen stuffs flattered themselves with a lively demand and
good prices.
At Antwerp 1,600 chests yellow Havannah had been sold
at 17fr. a 17fr. 75 cents. per 50 kilogrammes in bond, being
equal to 295. to 30s. 3d. per cwt., and a shade better than
our last report ; 1,500 slabs of Banca Tin were sold, but the
price had not transpired.
The Colonial Sugar Market in France is very brisk, and
the refiners are anxious buyers, paying willingly the late ad-
vance ; heavy sales are reported from Nantes for Paris ac-
count, for which place, on the 13th, 850 hhds. were taken at
prices varying from 581 r. 50c. to 61f. 50c. per 50 kilo-
grammes, duty paid, equal to 265. Bd. to 275. 2d. per cwt in
bond. At Nantes 432 barrels Russian Potash were sold at
47fr., duty paid, or 295. 6d. per cwt. in bond.

REPRESENTATION OF RENFREW-

SHIRE.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

SEPT. 14.—1 am sorry to say that Renfrewshire, once
and so long a liberal county, is now fairly in the hands of
the Tories, and is, I fear, likely to continue so for an age.
Than Sir Robert Peel no man comes out with more appo-
site truths, in the course of his electioneering and after-
dinner addresses. Accordingly, while Mr. O'Connell says
—" Agitate ! agitate ! agitate !" Sir Robert tells his friends
that the battle is to he fought in the Register Courts, and
hence calls upon them to—" Register ! register! register!"
We are fairly swamped by fictitious or nominal votes.
The Whigs and Radicals have not had recourse to a pro-
ceeding so unjustifiable. I doubt if the Ballot would cure
it. I rather think that it would not. Indeed, lam satis-
fied that the Tories, with their unscrupulous means, would
greatly gain by the secret ballot, unless the measure was
accompanied with a considerable extension of the suffrage.
A limitation of the suffrage to resident householders, would,
I think, &work well here, inasmuch as the nominal and ficti-
tious votes which have destroyed the independence of Ren-
frewshire, are chiefly those of non-lcsident electors.
Her Majesty's Ministers ought to pay more regard to
this, and that right speedily, otherwise it is easy to foretel
that they must soon be as much embarrassed in the coun-
ties, as they were before the passing of the Reform Bill.
Another grievous defect in that great measure is the
inequality of the Representation under it. What can be
more absurd than that such places as Aberdeen and Paisley,
with sixty and seventy thousand inhabitants, should only
have one-half the amount of representation in Parliament
to such comparatively insignificant a borough as Tdmworth.
Dare Sir Robert Peel advocate not the justice, for that
would be absurd, but the expediency of continuing to legis-
late upon such a principle of representation ? And is it to
be believed that Ministers will not see the necessity of
doing away with an absurdity which no honest Tory would
venture to defend ? My confidence in them will not allow
me to think so for a moment."

Yesterday morning, during the hours of Divine
Service in the Fleet, two burglars, who had remained in the
prison after the closing of the doors at eleven o'clock, forced
open the room of a prisoner named Jeremiah Board, and
broke open several drawers and chests, which they ran-
sacked, and took numerous articles, such as could be most
readily carried away on their persons, making up bundles of
other property, and which it was doubtless their intention
to remove into the custody of some one, an inmate of the
place, and supposed to have been in league with the bur-
glars. Jeremiah Board has been a prisoner in the Fleet for
upwards of twenty-three years, and occupies a room on the
basement floor ; he was formerly a farmer in Somersetshire,
and for some breach of family trust was consigned to the
Fleet Prison, in execution at the suit of his wife's sister,
for about 6,0001. Old Board is a strange and eccentric
character, and his incarceration may be attributed more to
his penurious habits than to his lack of means. As he is
known to be at all times in the possession of a little ready
money, the needy occasionally seek his assistance, and
watches, clocks, trinkets, and services of china, delft, and
other properties, are continually deposited with him, by the
spendthrift debtor or gambling debauchee, whose reckless-
ness or crimes compel them to seek his temporary aid.
These facts being known, Jerry Board was once before the
victim of the plunderer. Some time ago, under precisely
similar circumstances, while the old miser was in attendance
at the Chapel, his room was broken into.
On the Ist of September the Act for regulating the
conveyance of Newspapers by post came into operation—
from which time the penny, hitherto demanded by the car-
riers of any cross or penny post, for the delivery of a News-
paper, cannot be claimed.
On Saturday, Andrew Lomax, a boy twelve years
old, who was feeding the cylinders at Over Darwin Mills
with paper, was caught by his hand in the machinery,
which tore his arm off by the shoulder. Soon after the
above accident an Irishman, who was talking to another
man, had his foot caught and torn off above the ancle:
Both are in a very precarious state.—Blackburn Standard.