The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-07 00:00:00

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Cotton goods
Woollen goods 18,096 ... 4,400 ... 7,502
Worsted stuffs 6,687 ... 2,990 ... 4,376
Blankets

Within this past day or two there has been no extra demand
for money, either in the open market or on the Stock Ex-
change. The transactions in the Continental Exchanges
have boen very limited, and though there has not been any
marked declension in the quotations, they indicate much heavi-
ness. On Paris the rates are quoted at 25f. 25c. a 25f. 80c. ;
on Amsterdam at 12 41 ; on Rotterdam at 12 4! ; and on
Hamburg at 13 10,}.
We have not had any very important transactions in the
British Stocks to-day; though in consequence of a scarcity of
money stock, there bas been what is termed by the jobbers a
backwardation in Consols, that description of security having
been quoted at one period of the day at 94 for Money, and
93.,1 for the Account. The proceeds of the Bank Stock sold
out yesterday by the executors of the late Lord Carrington,
have been, as we intimated, invested in Consols, the closing
quotations of which are 93i a 94 for Money and the Account.
The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities are 1011
andai,and the New Three-and a-Half per Cents. 101 k a for
Money. Bank Stock has recovered from yesterday's depres-
sion,is
Iquoted
Stockat a
is l
2a60 a 260.
202 f
for Money,ione
Money.
d The2o 2i f o
Account.r
pre-
mium upon Exchequer Bills is 67 a 68, and on India Bonds
60 a 63.

There has been no great activity in the Foreign Market to-
day, whilst the Peninsular and Continental Bonds have shown
a further continuance of a tendency downwards. Portuguese
Old Bonds are 75 ; the New Five per Cents. ditto are 31e a
I; and the Three per Cents. ditto 201.
Shams are not in demand, and the quotations consequently
heavy. Great Western Railway Shares are 134 al4 prem. ;
Brighton 2 dis., and Blackwall 2 dis. ; Birmingham are 83
prem. ; Greenwich 34 dis. ; and Manchester and Leeds 1t)
prem. ; Canada Company's Shares are 1 dis. ; London and
Westminster Bank Shares are 3+ preen. ; National Bank of
Ireland are 11 dis. ; but the Asphalte concerns arc at a dis-
count in every respect.

SUMMARY JUSTICE.—As this subject has been
most ably enforced by the Noble Chairman of thhiechCounty
Sessions, we beg to mention
of having
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show,
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recoursea furtherfew
to
proof were necessary, t e g.
days since occurred in ourh noeopaebiroecucirtrschuomoo
it. • A gentleman of Heavitree having purchased a waggon-
load of hard wood, employed a pauper residing in the parish
h possessed in
1 ed his coat, the only one hea very limited
to assist in unloading it, and while so engaged the pauper
p ac
f the foot-path on the
his back was turned, a worthless fellow,
turnpike-road ;whilst
wardrobe, on the railing by the side o
with a wheelbarrow, a porter to the carriers who visit this city,
was passing, espied the garment, and very coolly walked off
with it on the top of his wheelbarrow. The theft was wit-
nessed by an honest carpenter, who very properly informed
the coatless pauper where the thief was to be found. He ap-
plied to the thief to give it up, he declared he knew nothing
about it ; but evidence of the fact being obtained, the gentle-
man by whom the pauper bad been engaged took the matter
up, and as the Grand Jury had been discharged—although
the Sessions were still on.—he thought it would be better for
the poor fellow to get his coat and such other solid satisfac-
tion as could be wrung from the thief than to send him to gaol
for three months to be maintained in idleness by the county.
He, therefore, induced the thief to make restitution, and pay
both owner and witness for their time, which he very gladly
did. Had there been a power of punishing the thief summarily,
the parties concerned would never have thought of compound-
ing the felony. The garment was sold in Westgate at one
of the ready receptacles for small plunder, where no questions
arc asked.— Western Times.
At the Croydon Petty Sessions yesterday a man
named Noon was charged at the instance of the board of guar-
dians of the Croydon Union with deserting his wife and chil-
dren, and leaving them chargeable. The case involved a point
of considerable importance as to the admissibility of the evi-
dence of the wife to prove the case against 'the husband.
The custom has for a long time prevailed at the metropolitan
police-offices in cases of this description, to allow the wife to
give evidence on behalf of the parish. The majority of the
Magistrates on the bench appeared to be of opinion that the
evidence of the wife ought not to be taken against the hus-
band. Mr. Serle, one of the parish officers, said•that it would
be very difficult, and, indeed, almost impossible, in some cases,
to prove the fact of the desertion without the evidence of the
wife. The Magistrates said they were aware of this difficulty,
as of course a parish officer could know very little upon the
subject of his own knowledge, and, therefore, could not give
satisfactory evidence. After some further discussion, the
bench decided against admitting the wife as a witness.

FRANCE.
(From the French Papers of Monday.)
The Duchess of Wurtemberg (late Princess Mary of Or.
leans) was to leave Fontainebleau with her husband the same
day (Tuesday) for Genoa. King Louis Philippe and the
remainder of the Royal family would leave for Paris on the
same night.
According to a return drawn up by the Recorder of the
Commercial Tribunal of Paris, the number of bankruptcies
in the department of the Seine during the first nine months
of 1838 was 323. 37 more were declared in October ; so
that the whole number, in ten months, was 260. The amount
of the 37 failures of October was 1,800,000 f., and that of the
ten months exceeded 22,000,000 f.
Letters from Constantine of the 18th ult. stated that a
deputation of the principal inhabitants had left for Algiers, to
lay before Marshal Valee an expose of the grievances of the
population against the Hachem, and to pray him to supersede
that obnoxious personage in his administrative functions. The
choice of the kalifas and caids made by the Marshal had
given universal displeasure. Most of them bad been the ser..
vile creatures and instruments of Achmet Bey, and one of
them had already been killed on his way to receive the inves-
titure of his dignity.
We have the following letter from Toulon, Nov. 1 :
" The Fulton steam-boat, which left Algiers on the With
Oct., arrived here yesterday. She has brought the following
news :—The report of the death of Abd-el- Kader is spread,
and gains some credit, because it comes this time from some
Arabs, his partisans, who have arrived from the interior.
These natives, after giving some particulars of the negocia-
tions which took place in the environs of Ain-Madi between
the Emir and the Envoys of Tedjini, and the rash act of the
Arab officer, who, having attempted to enter the Palace, was
killed, affirm that hostilities were immediately resumed, and
that the Chief of Ain- Medi made a sally, which was com-
pletely successful. This affair cost Abd-el-Kader many men
and alt his booty, and he was alroady in a critical situation.
" Emboldened by this success, Tedjini hastened to inform
the Arabs of the neighbouring countries, who believed that
peace was already signed. They :arrived in great numbers,
and attacked the Emir's camp. While this was passing,
Tedjini made another rally, and the Arab camp being thus
attacked on all sides, the troops comprising it disbanded them-
selves, after having sustained considerable loss.
" The beseiged made a great number of prisoners. Many
of the Emir's partisans fled to the desert. Since that time
nothing has been beard of Abd-el-Kader, whence it is pre-
sumed he is either killed or taken prisoner.
There is nothing in this statement but what is very pro-
bable. I send it you as I have received it, without answering
for its authenticity. The next arrival from Oran will inform
us what truth there may be in it."—Constitutiunnel.