The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-13 00:00:00

PHOBIA

Yesterday evening an inqu:st was held at the Castle Inn,
Notting-hill, Kensington, before Mr. Stirling and a respect
able jury, on view of the holy of Eliza Crook, aged eight
at iutereiting child, whose death was caused by that
appalling mat-,d', hydrophobia.
The mother of the deceased, who was deeply affected,
stated that about three months back, during the heat of sum-
mer, a dog ran into their house and wont towards the mantle-
shelf, when it turned round, and in running .out again, flew at
and bit her unit): ttmate child in the lip. Witness imme-
diately took her to Mr. Bevan's, who, after examining the in-
jury, observed that it was an awkward place to cut the piece
-out. Witness bogged he would not cut it out. Mr. Bevan
then dresed the wound, which had bled. a good deal, and de-
sired witness ii the child was sick to bring her back to him
directly. The deceased was not ill in consequence of the
bite, which healed up very shortly, and nothing more was
thought of the matter until Saturday last, when the poor child
was taken with a sick headache.

Verdict.—" That the deceased died of hydrophobia from
the bi e of a dog."

Another inquest was held at the sign of the Blue Anchor.
at St. Mary's Stratford, Bow, before Mr. BAKER, the coroner,
on the body of Mr. John Gentry, a fine young man, twenty-
five years of age, the son of a respectable master baker re-
siding at that place, who died from hydrophobia.
Mr. Joieph Gentry, the brother of the deceased, stated
that on Sunday, the sth of August last, the deceased had
mnde up his mind to administer a dose of salt and water to a
dog belonging to him, and which he used in drawing a barrow
round to the houses of his different customers. The ani-
mal had been ill fur some days before, as the deceased be-
lieved, from want of dirrestion, and believing that a dose
of salt and water would relieve him, he resolved on
administering it. For this purpose he forced the dog's
mouth open with a piece of wood, which he placed across in
it while he poured the salt and water down it? throat ; but
while in the act of doing this the piece of wood slipped out,
and the animal's mouth having instantly closed, one of its teeth
penetrated the first finger, and it bled a little. The deceased
washed the wound, which consisted of a very slight puncture,
and did not think anything further of it, nor did it cause him
the slightest pain until it healM in a day or two afterwards.
On the following day the dog died, but without exhibiting the
slightest'symptom of madness, and nothing further was thought
of the matter until Sunday last, exactly ten weeks after the
occurrence, when the deceased complained of slight pain in
the finger that had Leen bitten. This pain gradually in..
creased, and extended to his arm, and on the following day
the inflammatory action extended all over his body.
Juror—Was he aware at this time that his illness was occa-
sioned by the effect of the injury he received from the dog?
Witness—Oh, ycs, perfectly a.vare of it, though he endea-
voured, as touch as possible to conceal it, and seemed anxious,
poor fellow, to disipate the thought as much as possible.
On Monday he went to bed, and his pains continuing to in-
crease, Mr. Wallace, a medical gentleman, was sent for on
the Tuesday morning, who attended him to the time of h's
death, which took place at five o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing. His sufferings, for some time previous to Lis death,
were dreadful ; so much so, that it required the united
strength of five men to restrain and keep him down during the
fits or paroxysms of the disease, and he frequently barked like
a dog.

Juror_How did he appear after these fits were over?
Witness Perfectly sensir.le, and seemed quite aware that
dissolution was approaching, and spoke of his never reco-
vering.

Jui:nr—When did you last see him alive ? Witness—On
the Wednesday evening, when he was very calm, and spoke of
his•approachin; death.
Mr. John Andrew Wa:lacc, a surgeon residing at No. 8,
Harley-place, Mile End-road, who attended the deceased,
described the case of the unfortunate Young man as one of
decided hydrophobia, and the jury returned a verdict that the
death of the deceased had been occasioned by that frightful
malady.
It appears that since the circumstance of his being bitten
has occurred, the deceased got married to a respectable young
woman, whom he has left a widow to deplore his loss.

Yesterday another of the frequent scaffold accidents
tcok place in the New-road. A scaffolding in front of a house
near St. Pancras Church, gave way suddenly, and fell while
several men were on it. All were more or less hurt,
but one
had his scull and another both his legs fractured.

Captain J. BARBER said, that befcre he explained his plan
to the meetieg it might be peeper to state that those oho
supported it hod confident expectations that the negotiations
between the Government and the atst India Company would
have led to its adop•ioa, but they had Leer di-appointed, and
letters from lodia bad air:ved at Alexandria in twenty-six days,
while the transmis-sion from that pia •e, which was a central
point to England, !.ad occupied. tot lea- than forty-six days.
This had happened month after month, aed now the let. -
ties did not coot' at all. Were rot sucti delays and inter-
ruptions to intercourse nith Lelia fatal to come mei transac-
tions? Pea haPs-it might be a,ked by Sr J. Ross, whom he
saw " Whe not proceed to India by the way of the
Cape of Gtmd Hope?" To which his arFwer was, because he
was anxious to ;...o the shortest way possible, and the way by
E2yi,t presented these additional advantages, that, lassing
through a half civilized country, it would open a new read for
civilization—it would open new markets to the merchant for
his wares—a wide-field for the Christian and the philos:rpher,
wherein to exercise their benevolence and research. It might
be, perhaps, objected that the steartr-boats, tech of which it
was Litended should contain 1,500 toes, and be of 600-horse -
power, would be too large. , Bat he looked to the increased •
demand for accommodation, which would be 'created in less
than twelve ria, netts after the opening of -the, communication ;
and he thought that the boats ought to be of such a capacity
as would enable them to overcome every obstacle, and to pug_
sue their course with re gularity.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
He caleulated thit the amount of the outlay, in-
cluding five boats of 1,500 tens burden and 600 horse
power each, with two smaller boats for the Bombay •
branch, the omnibuses and vans -across the Desert, and the
expenditure at the different stations, would amount to
335,0001., or in round lumbers 400.0001. His hearers might
smile at the idea of omnibuses running across the desert, but
all he could say was, that he was determined to take a plaice in ;
the fist that should start. He now came to the amount of
annual charge, which consisted of coals, wages, victualling,
conveyance in Egypt, ch arges at the different stations, for
ea nagement, insur. nce at 5 per cent., wear and tear, and
'slid:lag fund, at 15 per cent., contingencies 10,0001., making
a total for the annual charge of 227 460/. He calculated the
Annual expense of the coal at 90,0001., and to those who
might think that sum insufficient, he would state, that he knew
a party
who was ready to contract to supply the coals for
five years for that sum. The next question was, what amount
of •
income had he grounds to expect, in order to be able to
meet there charges ? Was it probable that passengers would •
chase to go to India in the way proposed ? There now
rx!Etcd no longer any doubt on that head, and it might be an-
ticipated that if the road were made perfect, and such accom-
modation given to Indians as they required, tine-tenths
of the Passengers would prefer it. The income to be derived
from passengers, calculated after the expense of 10s. per diem
for victuallieg, would be—to and from Calcutta, 130,000!. ;
to and from Madras, 61,800/. ; to and from Bombay, 42,720/. ;
steerage and intermediate passengers, 30,0001. y; baggage,
parcel?, 30,000/. ; making in the stlide a t-tal of
2i7,720/., and leaving a surplus ever the annual expenditure.
or 70,2601., to be shared as dividends.- Besides this,..fihere •
was at probable excess which had not been calculated; lint
which must full into the hands of the Company. For instance,
he might take the Post-office mails, including those of the

eontinerit 60,000/., and the E,sz. Company's despatches
at 12,0001., making a total of 72,000/. Thess calculations
were, of course, made upon the idea the' the communications
between England, the three Indian presidencies, Ceylon, and
Lia!avia, wtr,.! to be maintained with all the regularity of a
stage-coach. He had assunled that 2 000 passengers were
going and coming from Indk iu the course of a year ; and he
c'lculAed that nne-half that nurnler would proceed by the con.
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vey anus of the proposed Company.
Sir J. Ross said that, as his nacre had been mentioned, he
wished to declare that the Company with ohich he was con-
nected iitd in no way object to, or desire to interfere with, the
proceedings 'of the Company which it wai now propos,d to
form, except in so far •sa they might be of service. It was
his intention in the fl-st ship built by his Company to try and
overcome the difficulties stated to be in the way of the under_
taking (a steam passage round the Cain' of Good Hope was,
ire nn:lerstoed, silucicd to), and if the Ckunp,ny obtaiiked but
one tithe of the passengers which C: pain Baibet's statement
left for them, they would be perfectly sati'fied.
Sir J. R. REID felt great pleasure in propOsing the first
resolution :—" This meeting is unanimously of opinion that
the present means afforded for overlorid intercourse with
Lelia is totally inadequate for commercial purposes, and that
for social purposs it has hitherto entirely failed to fulfil the
just expectations of the people both of England and of India."
Mr. AlAcKiLtor seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimou,ly.
Mr. I'. el'itTlS. Governor of the Bank, moved the second
resolution :—" That the plan submitted to this meeting by
Captain Barber ought to be taken into consideration, and if
the details therein, on - examination by competent persons,
should be declared to be founded on a solid basis, calculated
to give stability and permanency to the undertaking, that it
will be worthy of support and_ encouragement from the mer..

csntile community of Great Britain, and other parties inte-
rested in approximating India to the mother country."
The resolution was seconded by Mr. GOUGER.
A Gentleman in the body of the meeting was rather dis-
appointed that he heard nothing falling from the Chairman
in praise of the individual whose energy had ;lone succeeded
in proving the practicability of steam intercourse with India
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by way of the Red S..a. Mr. Waghorn, to whom he alluded,
had not been properly rewarded for the zeal and activity he
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bad displayed:ona be feared that his exertions were now about

to be made available for the profit of others. Mr. Waghora
was the practical founder of steam communication with India
—(Hcar)—and there existed at present regular conveyances
across the isthmus of 'Suez. It might be desirable to have a
Company in India to keep up these communications, and the
Bombay Steam- Fund Company might have such an object in
view ; but the conveyance from England to the Red Sea was,
he maintained, regularly established.
Lord W. BENTINCK said, with respect to the plan pro-
posed by Capt. Barber, he certainly thought it most desirable
if it could be carried into effect. It would be very comfortable
for travellers to be conveyed in his steamer of 1,500 tons, but
from recent inquiries he made at Glasgow and Liverpool, he
was prepared to say that steamers of that size would not pay:
but it' Capt. Barber's plan should fail, some other plan might
succeed, ant therefore he thought that a Committee ~hould
be appointed to take all propositions into consideration, with
ihe view of selecting, one that would meet with generil assent,
for the object was not to put forth a bubble speculation, but
such a plan as would be beneficial to the public. The Noble
Lord then proposed the following resolution, which was se-
conded by Sir J. R. Reid, and carried unanimously :
" That a Committee be appointed to investigate the plan
submitted to this meeting by Captain Barter, as also any other
suggcstiuns that may be submitted to them for establishing a
steam commnnication with India, via the Red Sea, en a corn-
prehensive plan, and that the following gentlemen form a
Commitee, with power to add to their numbn.:—
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The following gentlemen, all of whornwere present (we bee
lieye) were appointed to form the Committee :---
Jahn Bagshaw, Mr. Criiwford, Mr. T. A.
Curti;, Mr. Henry Gouger, Mr. T.-P. Larkins, Mr. James
Mackiiloo, Captain A. Nairne, lion. Compam's Service,
Mr. J. H. Polly, Mr. John Pirie, Alderman Mr. Christo-
pher Read, Mr. John Small, Mr. Robot Thurburn, and Ma.-
jur Turner." _

Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
broke up.

THE HARVEST IN IRELAND.-111 this country
the harvest is ;,t an end, with the excep,ion of isolated moun-
tain districts. The result may be thus shortly stated 1--Wheat
is, generally sp;nking, fully one-third shokeof en average crop,
ai.d the grain is deficient in yield. As far as the farmer .1s
concerned, the urice will, to some extent, nuke up for wheaet
ofw /
wanting in quality and quantity. But the stye r.bunrdr
p.m
the oat crop is admitted in all quarters ; and barle_veratif
e crop:
toes are, with very few exc?ptions, also beyond
an
atEns year will
In fact, allowing for the partial failure of
either in England or
be one of the best the Irish farmers have had for a long time.
We are much bv tier off than our ne g
Scotland. We spoke at one time of thbel)irrosbability of the Chan-
cellor of the Esch: quer obtailiing
That amount, and much
half a million of revenue
from the duty on Foreign g
- '1:1:: e(5.-3rl of the Treasury but
more, would have gonent inpt°-ices, owing to the extreme iticle-
ofo
or three months ant). Instead of a
for the sudden ascent
duty of the
wfeatherits‘Thillinga, the nominaCduty of one shil-
..uty ten or fourteen
ls.orti.ieForeign wheat thrown on the
ofu 8d was certair.ly paid on a consi-
derable quantity,• alid some few parcels were introduced at
Bd. ,NVe may fairly assume the entire duty p till at about
1%.
,000/., less than a fourth of-what might realonsbly have
been calculated upon but foi• the absurd system el duty which
neither protects the farmer nor the consumer.—Dublin
Evening Yost.
13nEAD.—The price of bread iir,s fal'ten to 9(1. per
Lur-pound loaf, ready money, and 91,4. credit..—Scotsman.

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At the last meeting of the Glasgow Central Anti-Corn-law
Association, in September, an address of thanks to Lord
Brougham was carried by acclamation, for his ma.terly expo-
sition of the true source of our commercial retrogression, in
his speech in the House of Lords, on the petition from certain
Glasgow merchants, presented by Lord Lyndhurst. The
following was, in consequence of this ♦ote, transmitted to his
Lordship, by the Chairman of tie Association t
LORDs.---It was w;th feelings of no ordinary pleasure
that the members of the Glasgow Central Anti-Corn-law As-
sociation perused the remarks on the commercial policy of this
country—remarks at once full of wisdom, and expressed with
that condensed energy which goes direct to the mtrk—with
which your Lordship wound up your speech on the petition of
the Glasgow merchants, presented in the House of Peers by
Lord Lyndhurst, at the close of lest session.
It was resolved, in the first meeting of the Central Com-
mittee held after the report of your Lordship's speech had
reached Glasgow, to address to your Lordship an expression
of their thanks for such good and opportune service done to
the cause of rational government. This expression of their
gratitude would hare been forwarded to your Lordship long
ere this, but for the prospect that an opportunity would present
itself this autumn of uttering our thanks to your Lordship in
person—a prospect which has now been removed.
The members of the Association flatter themselves that their
views of what is necessary for advancing public affairs to a
sound and healthy condition, iarmoeise in the main with those
entertained by your Lordship. Although associated with a
view to obtain the repeal of the Corn-laws, they do not imagine
that the abolition of these laws is all that is required for the
establishment of national prosperity. They see deep and en-
grained abuses in our diplomatic, colonial, judicial, and finan-
cial systems ; and they trace much of these abuses to de-
fects in our legislative and representative systems. So far
from wishing to divert public attention from these other
urgently required ameliorations in our institutions, they will
be found individually prompt to lend their aid to any movement
for that end, which affords a reasonable prospect of success.
The restriction of their combined efforts to the question of the
Corn-laws originated in the belief that this restriction would
admit of the co-operation of many who might differ on other
points—that it would bring to bear upon the organised de-
fenders of the Corn-laws a mote numerous and concentrated
organisation.
Entertaining these views, they learn with pleasure that your
Lordship is resolved to take a prominent part in the dis-
cussions on the important question whether we are to have a
free-trade in corn, which are impending. They solicit your
powerful aid towards the clearine the question of all irrele-
vant matter with which endeavours will be made to perplex it.
What we want is a free trade in corn ; the question whether
we are to have it or not must be discussed alone, and on its
own merits. It is not a financial question. Should any, who
oppose the repeal of the Corn-lass on the mistaken notion
that it is, and demand an inquiry into our financial system. with
a view to revise our present mode of taxation, which presses
so disproportionately on the poor, to the uedue exemption of
the rich, most gladly will we support them. But this ques-
tion has no necessary connection with that concerning free
trade in corn, and to mix up the consideration of the one with
that of the other, will only give rise to fallacies and misun-
der3tandings.
Trusting, ere long, to see added to your Lordship's well
won title, of the most energetic and indefatigable champion
of the education of the people—one scarcely secondary in im-
portance—that of the mast energetic and indefatigable eleess-
pion of cheap and sufficient food for the people—l have the
honour to subscribe myself,
(By order of the Glasgow Central Anti-Corn-law Associa-
tion)

Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
WILLIAM WEIR, Chairman.
To this address, Lord Brougham has returned the following
response :

Brougham Hall, Oct. 2, 183iil.
Sts,— I have had the honour of receiving the lett r aritten
by you, as chairman of the Glasgow Central Anti-Corn-law
Association, and I beg you to return that respectable, and most
useful body, my meat respectful acknowledgement of their great
kindness in thus addressing me.
It would be difficult to overrate the importance of the sub-
ject to which their labours are directed ; and it gives me much
satisfaction to fin 1, that my conduct, in regard to it, has met
with the approbation of my worthy fellow-labourers in the
cause of the people at large, whose interests are more deeply
involved in this question, than in any one particular measure
of improvement, with the single exception, perhaps, of Na-
tional Education.
I rejoice to see that, while the Association confine their
efforts to this one great subject, they admit the necessity of
many other particular Reforms- My own opinion certainly is,
that the first place is due to this and the other question which
I have mentioned. But I also hold that the people of this
country can have no security for the progress which they have
made in improvement, and still less pro-pect of obtaining the
many things which are yet withheld from them, unless their
representation in Parliament is placed upon such a footing as
shall admit to a right of voting all who are sufficiently
gent to exercise this important franchise.
I cannot conclude without guarding myself from the charge
so often made against the adversaries of the Corn-laws—that
we are hostile to the landed interest. lam firmly convinced
that a change, which should improve incalculably the condi-
tion of the people at large, and extend greatly every branch
of our manufactures and of our commerce, would give to the
landowners their full share of its benefits ; and that they
would derive from it a certainty to which they have long been
strangers, and a termination of those doubts which at present
keep capitalists from laying out their money upon land, I held
to be none of the least clear results of what. ver attention I
have been able to give the subject. But, if we are not the
enemies of the landed interest, so neither are we bound to re-
gard them alone. We aro to legislate for the community, not
for any particular class. It wts for the community that we
framed the Reform Bill. Most of the landowners were
alarmed at it, as hostile to them ; and yet they have been so
well considered in it that I saw, last Session, a statement
ascribing the whole Reform to a desire of promoting their in-
terest—a statement which I own was quite new to me, although
I was one of the authors, and a chief supporter of the mean tire.
That Bill was designed to amend the representation of the
whole community in Parliament; but if there ens any portion
of the people more than another in our contemplation when
we propounded it, I always have understood it to be rather the
unrepresented inhabitants of the great towns than the compa-
ratively small body of country gentlemen.
So in befriending a change of the present Corn-laws,
though I have no feeling of hostility towards the landowners,
and believe that they will gain rather than lose by the im-
provement, Ido not affect to have their interest niaitilv in
view, and I hope and trust that, in carrying through tly• mea
sure, no such alteration or curtailment of it may be practised
as shall give any one a right afterwards to call it a Land
lord's Bill.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedi, nt and humble
Servant, BROUGHAM.
To W. Weir, Esq., Advocate, Gl,sgow.
The Association met, on the evening of the iith instant, to
receive this answer ; and !raving directed the Chairman to se*
that it bo published, adjourned, there being no other business
before them.
The Glasgow Argus has the following observations on the
above declaration af opinion by Lord Brougham on the sub-
ject of the Corn-laws, and the necessity of urging their re-
peal In the sentiments expressed in Lord Brougham's
reply to the address of the Glasgow Central Anti-corn Law
Association, we need not say to the readers of the Argus we
entirely concur. We, too, regard Free Trade in Food, and
National Education, as the most important questions of admi-
nistrative improvement that can he agita ed. We regard them
as more intimately associated than most people seem to he
aware of. Bettering the economical condition of the people
is an indispensable preliminary to general education.
You never can educate a hungry people, living scantily,
and from hand to mouth. The belly must be filled be-
fore a man can set himself about acquiring knowledge.
The sufferer, front the pangs of starvation, is not capable
of moral training. The first step in the education of the
people is to feed and clothe them. On the question, too, of
the absolute necessity of a reform of the Reform Bill, as a
preliminary to general and persevering good Government, our
opinion has been reiteratedly expressed. Lord Broughatn's
opinion on this point, as we find it in his letter, is what lawyers
call an obiter dictum—an incidental allusion to a point not in-
separably connected with his immediate subject. This satis-
factorily accounts for the vagueness of expression. The phrase
—"admit to a right of voting, all who are sufficiently intelli-
gent to exercise this important function"—seems to point at
what has been termed " the knowledge qualification." Our
objection to this qualification is, that we can conceive no adequate
test— no test adeqaate to the establishment of the fact sought
for. The ground we take in regard to the limitation of the
franchise is this:—We see no reason fo limiting l't at
all, except that the attainment of the unlimited franchise is
impossible. The benefit to be derived from an extended suf-
frage is not greater legislative knowledge, but grater ear-
nestness and sincerity in the conduct of public men—the sun-
etitution of useful action for fine talk. We are willing, on this
account, to co-operate with those wh 3 advocate a limited fran-
chise, but we devolve upon them the task of reposing and ad-
vocating their peculiar limitation. Household suffrage, know-
ledge, qualification, annual income, annual rental—that limi-
tatiou shall have our support which, to the po,sibilitv of carry-
ing' it adds the recommendation of excluding the smallest
number of citizens, and affording least room for vexatious
Ihicane and expense in the process of registration. We go for
th -e extension of the suffrage—for the largest extension we
a., I oet."

CORONER'S INQUEST.---,SUDDEN DEMISE ov
MR. PITT, THE WELL-KNOWS WESTMINSTER ORATOR.-0,
Monday evening an inquiry took place at Windsor before the
Coroner for the county, relative to the death of Mr. Pitt,
the surveyor of the Acl,3lphi, a very active parishioner of Sr.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, and well known in the City o Wes
minster as a political orator. It app,'arcd that theased
en the day above-mentioned was at Windior on business.
He dined it the town. After dinner, as h- was hastening t,-)
the terminus of the Great Weicern Railway at Slough to take
a place in one of the trains for the metropolii, he suddenly
fell down in the road, and instantly expired in a fit of apo-
plexy. The Jury, after hearing the professional evidence of
the medical practitioner and the testimony of other witnesses,
returned a verdict of—Died by the visitation of the Almighty.
The deceased gentleman was about sixty years of age, and
well known to the scientific world for his nuan.r..w; inventions.

Tyrrel, in his valuable " fli.tor.- of Britain," says
" The first discourse or sermon that ever was notde at any
King's coronation, was A. D. 1402, by Eachidge, the Arch-
bishop, when Edward the Confessor was crowned."

LONDON:
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, Is3s.

Yesterday was a proud day for Southampton.
Under circumstances the most auspicious was laid the
foundation-stone of the magnificent Docks, of which
the plans have been for two years before the public,
and which are destined, when completed, to place
Southampton in a distinguished position among the
commercial ports of England. Of th• proceedings
which preceded and followed that important ceremony,
a full report will be found in another part of The Sun.
In the history of nations there are few circumstances
more impressive than those which may be said to
mark the rise of great commercial emporiums ; and
therefore we are not surprised to learn that the good
folks of Southampton exhibited on an occasion of
such moment an extraordinary degree of joyful ex-
citement. Already may they begin to regard them-
selrt s as " citizens of no mean city," as from the re-
cent improvements in steam navigation ; the pecu-
liarly favourable situation of their port ; the capacious-
ness and safety of their harbour ; and their facility of
railway communication with London, they can safely
calculate upon their town becoming one among the first
in commercial importance in the kingdom. When the
London and Southampton Railway and Docks are
finished, most of the merchant vessels that now
lose nearly a week in endeavouring to make the
port of London, will then put into a port which they
may enter without delay or danger—where they will
he effectually sheltered by the Isle of Wight from every
wind, and from whence their cargoes can he easily
conveyed to the metropolis. The rise of Southamp-
ton into commercial importance necessarily involves no
diminution of the trade of London ; but, on the con-
trary, may be made to prove of the utmost benefit to
it. The navigation of the Thames is not only ex-
tremely difficult from the great number of vessels in
the river, but much time is lost to vessels entering and
clearing out, from the crowded state of the Pool adja-
cent to the principal docks. As the commerce of the
country increases, consequent upon the opening of the
great lines of railway, a greater outlet for the foreign
traffic of London, than can be afforded by the Thamee,
will become absolutely necessary ; and for such outlet
we know no port so admirably situated as Southamp-
ton—the natural advantages of which are very cor-
rectly summed up in the introduction to the Report of
the proceedings of yesterday, to which we have already
referred.

We are glad to see by a letter addressed to a Morn-
ing Contemporary, that Mr. PATERNOSTER, -,hose
case we lately took occasion to comment on in Th,
Sun, and who, it may be remembered, was incarce-
rated on the plea that he was not of sound mind.
intends to bring all the circumstances of his extraordi-
nary case before a Court of Law. We repeat, we are
glad of this, for the investigation will he of infinite use
to the public, who have but a faint conception of the
despotic authority with which mad-home keepers and
mad-doctors are armed, in cases of suspected lunacy.

The Rerrt of the proceedings at the Meeting
which was held in the City yesterday for the pur-
pose of organizing a more regular and expeditious
communication with India, by means of steam, than
exists at present, will be found elsewhere in our
columns, and will, we are sure, be read with lively
interest. It may perhaps be in the recollection
of our readers that a Company was last year on the
eve of being formed for carrying this most important
object into effect. Such was the spirit evinced by a
few intelligent gentlemen who took the lead in the
matter, and such the feeling among the mercantile
class, that on a notice of merely a few days
a capital of 80,0001. was ready to be paid down, in-
dependently of the support which the wealthy inhabi-
tants of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta had pledged
themselves to give to the undertaking. The judi-
cious and active measures taken by the Committee of
that Association, had the effect of compelling the
Government and the East India Company to step in
and take upon themselves the carrying out of a plan so
national and so obviously beneficial in every aspect in
which it can be viewed. But what has been the re-
sult ? Instead of setting about the execution of this
nolale plan with the zeal and energy which its importance
demanded, delays, which have never been satisfactorily
explained, occurred ; and, after all, steamers of a class
totally unfit for the navigation of the Indian seas were
employed. The consequences are just what might have
been expected ; great irregularity in the arrival of
these vessels at their places of destination, imperfect
communication between Great Britain and India, and
great and just dissatisfaction among those whose
interests, commercial or other, require that that commu-
nication should be rapid and punctual.
The meeting of yesterday, it will be seen, is only
preliminary, a Committee having, on the suggestion
—a highly proper one, we think—of Lord W. BEN-
TINCK, been formed to investigate certain points
which it is most material to know, before further pro-
ceedings are adopted.

By the packet ship Sheffield, which arrived at Li-
verpool last night, we have received New York papers
to the 14th ult. inclusive, from which extracts will be
found in another part of The Sun. They bring no
political news of any moment. The rate of exchange
on England advanced on the 13th to 110. There
was not much buuiness done in the stock market. The
following extract from the city article of the Journal
of Commerce shows the state of things in Wall-street
at the sailing of the packet :

MONEY-MARKET, &c., SEPT. 14.—The Stock-market
continues heavy, with a downward tendency in fdlicy de-
seTiptions. Sale• were made yesterday of United States
Baniz. at 1234 ; Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
at 80 to 79k, showing a falling off about per cent. ;

A very extraordinary occurrence, unexampled indeed
in the annals of jurisprudence, has given rise to much com-
ment. It is as follows :—Messrs. Parquin and Ducroc,
advocates, were chosen arbiters in a certain trial. Against
these arbiters or their decision Messrs. Salmon and others
published a pamphlet accusing them of unfairness. Messrs.
Parquin and Ducroc brought an action ag,-aintt the authors
of the pamphlet for defamat:on. This trial came before
the Assize Ccurt of Paris, and on Tuesday the jury returned
a verdict of acquittal. After the acquittal the Colitis,'
for the prosecution rose, and considering the verdict of the
jury to extend merely to setring aside the crinzinal prose-
cution, detn•mded for his ci.euts, as parlie clone, first, the
suppre,sion rind int,rtliction of the pamphlet ; and, se-
condly, 3,000 francs' damages. Atter a long deliberation,
the Court, that is, the three Judges, gave the following
judgment :
" Seeing that, in principle, Courts of Assizes have the
faculty, notwithstanding a verdict of acquittal, to give
damages asked on account of the fact by the civil pro-
secutor ;
" Seeing that this faculty, awarded by the law, is not
limited to common niistl, meariours, t,u to those of the
press ;
" Consider.ng that the Rimphlet written and printed
by Richomme and his associates contains imputations tcrainst
the honour of Messrs. Parquin and Ducroc, as injurious
as unmerited ;
" And that its publication has caused an injury to
Messrs. Parquin and Ducroc, for which civil reparation
is due,
" The Court condemns Richomme and associates to pay
solidaiement et par corps 3,000 frartcs' damages. It
orders the suppression of the pamphlet, fixed the con,
strainte par corps at two years, and condemns them to
pay the costs."
All the press is in arms and in a panic, especially at a
moment when there are several action. pending against
ureals for libel, th it of M. Gi-quet a.;•airast the ,Message; ,
fi r example, and of the Messrs. Perrier against the Nil-

" See to what such a system would lead (exclaims the
Gazette de T, ibuitatt,r), to nothing less than destroying the
competence of the jury in affairs of libels upon public func-
tionati It woul I place perioleal prints under the double
x. ticn of repression nn I ruin. For a journal, it is not
m• rely CO.,fi,ieMont that is threatened, but besides the
geraut to be impr'soied, there are 4,0001. caution-money.
w hout which the journal catolot be puhlished. A jour-
nal, acquitted by the jury in the person of the giirant, may
under the name of damages, he sentenced by the judges to
a fine of 4.0001. In vain will it have been proved before
the jury that the journiiliFt performed a public deity in re-
vealing acts of ecob, zzli meat, of arbitrary orders of vio-
lence The jury may acquit iu consequence. But after
the judgment of the jury comes that of the court ; after
the considerati,.n of the crime conies that of the injury.
After acquittal comes an unlimited pecuniary condemna-
tion ; for though fines are limited by law, damages are not.
The jury may set the girant liberty, and pronounce him
-nnocent, whist the judge, with the next breath, confiscates
the journal." -
A letter from Amsterdam of the Bth inst., received in
Paris, stated that the preliminary arrangements for the
marriage a the eldest son of the Prince of Orange with the
Princess Sophia, second datulitur of the King of ‘Virtern-
. berg, were cornp!etely terinivated, and that the King of
Ho land would officially announce it in his speech at the
opening of the Session of the Si ates General on the 15th
inst. Baron Van der Duyn, of Niaar•den, Governor of
Southern Holland, was shortly to leave for Stuttgard to
make a formal remand of the hand of the Princess.
FROM PRUSSIA, Ocr. 4.—lu the eigher circles at Berlin
great interebt has been lately caused be a very imp rtant Note,
which M. Von I,iebermann, Prtbsian Ainhassador Extraordi-
nary, and Minister Pknipotentiary at the Russian Court, has
preserit,.,d, of course by his Nlaj,sty's command, advocating
the interests of our Eastern Provinces, whicli are d'rectly or
indirectly connected with the Russian frontiers; unhappily. it
is added, that this note has not tit any means had the good
effect that might have been hoped, from the intimate union
that exists in all other matters between the Sovereigns of the
of the two States. The Note was, however, admirably drawn up,
logical, yet energetical, clearly stating the reasons by which °LI7
Government is induced to make the mo.t urgent remonstrariees
Kith respect to the system acted upon en the frontiers, which,
in spiie of all care on our part. becomes from mouth to month
Inure tii.pressive and ruinous to the inhabitants of these Pro-
vinces. At a I events, every tru: ussian recogni:es in this
step a new proof ._f the paterrpil vigilance of our Kier, who,
listening to the reiterated complaints addressed to the throne,
on the unhappy state of things, which is ruinous to all trades,
leaves no weans untri, d to make representations, when relief
is beyond the frontiers of th, kingdoai.
OCT. 6.—The Emperor of Russia, on the day
before he set out to return to St Petershurgn, conferred
many enders, and gave many snuff-boxes and rings, and left
large pr-cents fur the a•tendants.
HAMBURG. OCT. 9.—Accor 'ing to statements prDeeeding
from good authority, the Russian fleet in the Baltic now con-
sists of thirteen ships of the line—viz., two of 120 guns, ten
of 84, and one of 74; eight frigates—viz.,
five of 60 Buns,
and three of 44; six corvettes—one of 28 guns, three of 24,
one of 22, and one of 18; ten brigs, five schooners, three
loggers, six carters, one bombard, five armed steam-boats,
e yachts, each carrying 10 guns, and twenty-four trans-
ports—ia all eighty-four vessels.
FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, OSTOIIIII H.
7ive t e, • 10S1. 55c. 51c. 45c.
Four p,r I ells., 10,f.
ihte, her 811. sc. Pc. fe.
dente .:e Naples, IOW: SCC.
Roman Five per Cebu., 10 104
Sp4insh :wises,
Belgian Five per Cents., 102.
Belgian Three pert eats., i.3f. 50e.
Belgian Bank.
Pot tugoese Loan Three pr.:r Cents. 6.
Motu. loan. 3701..
olg 1.651 AM.
paper, 25f. 424 c. mon •y, 15f Fe.
'nave months, paper ,25 323 :25.. S4c.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per cents. le9l. 60c.
Three per Cents., /lit. 15e.
Romans, 104.
Belgian Lmin, I 0
Belgtati Bank. 1,445,f.
Spanish Actives, I S.
...•,!ar, Low.. 370 f
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE. Ocr. 9.

Austrian Metpques, 5 per cent.
h
Olt' 0 slum 3 per cNit
40
Ditto sotto Ij per cent
Lotto !tank Shares h
i?. I
Aoglo-Russian Loan 4;O
IR.s% 1' ti
Russian 5 per l
cents Metal
"-% 113.8
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent I"V ',4 102'
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
047,4 07
/ .14 11,UP
_
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent lnt
Ditto, 3 per cent _
Dutch IN per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents loot, ...,'•
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets V)-tii Lit 1
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7ss 71,i
Norwegian Loan of ISM, 4 pi-r cents
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Lean, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 per cents. 1R33, guaranteed by France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamittiao, Our. 9.-1 N 8% ; two months. 13 14,
ST. PETE!. stimwit, CCE. 2—Duce months, 11.
BERLI4. Ocr. 7..-- t t, r . 1,1•0111,4. 6. •221,4•
sTO,IO-101,m, 0Cr....)..—Tw0 months, 12 5
....111ambure Pap, s, 0ct..5
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDASI, Octone 9.
Nly. tilts,
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, unto i oei ~cso L. ..........
,01i :,, ;1‘ lir, 4191 per eolt.. .. ......... ...
Ditto, ditto, 3ti per cent 7:O, tto
Commercial Ci mpany, , 4 . per cant
,17 it 1:214
Ditto (1A32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1436, 4 iier cent.
Ditto 14:17, 5 per cent... •.. - " II "II 100
Exchange on London, One month l2 15
Two mon :ha
BELGIAN .I,IJ WDS—Baussat, Ocr. 10.
Actual Debt, tya per Cent. , -tt 5'4N
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ll2
Loan of Thirty Million., 4 per Cent. ......
,
3 per Cent. —
Loan of ( itv, 1432. 4 per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 4' per Cent
1: 0%
Bank of Belgium, ri par cent I in
National Society
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 10.

The public sales continue it)-g;,oi; with great spirit, and
consist chiefly of Colonial descriptions of all qualities. Prices
are now, from those of last sale to 2d. per lb. advance.
British Wool has not varied in price, bu,.secures considerable
business. The Public sales of Colonial Wool resume on
Monday.
TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. to-day is 535. 6d., but not much doing. Town
Tallow, 565.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL
MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.
There has been 'bet little business done during this week,
and prices where altered are lower. The Sugar market has
been depressed, and prices hay declined Is. Ct.ff has been
flat, and has declined 2s. Tea has supported last week's
prices. Spices have been firm, but not brisk. Rum has
risen Id. to 2d. per gallon. Cotton, Rice, and Cocoa are
without variation, and so is Indigo. Colonial Wool has sold
briskly at last sale's prices, and 2d. p' r lb. advance. We
have no great business advertised for next week. The Indii„iv
quarterly sale resumes on Monday. The Imports on the
whole during the week have been light.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DA Y). TWELVE O'CLOCK
Arrivals this morning—Ha rnNil. by the Delight, sailed
on the 17th of September; ship letters from at. Helena and
St- Vincent.

The packet-ship Sheffield has arrived at Liverpool from
New York ; she does not bring- any news of importance.
The rate of Exchange or. England hal advanced on the 12th
to 109} and 1091, at which price very considerable basin; as
had been transacted ; the quotation on the 13th was 109 i to
110, with a brisk demand.