The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-08 00:00:00

Aaair's

Bensham lB 3
Holywell 2O 9
Leaze's Main
Ord's Redhugh l9 6
South Hartley 2O 0
'Fantleld 2O 6
Townley l9 0
West Hartley 22 0
Willington 2O 9
Wylam 2O 6
Blythe IS 3

Cowpen 2l 0
Elsicar
Howard's Netherton Main
Walls End Bewicke and Co 2l 0

Walls End Heaton 21 0

Ships arrived since I

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. - s. to s. s. to 11. a. to a. a. to s. a. to a.
Abingdon ,44 50 30 34 22
.. 30 38
47 29 31 25 43 ...
36 48 30 49 16 , 22 33
Bridport 39 50 32 36 26 30 39
Cirencester 44 51 27 52 20 25 32 40
Faringdon—,... 35 46 26 30 '26 30 46
Guildford 38 54 28 35 2,1 20 46
42 58 26 32 23 26 43
Hereford 30 49 21 32 22 29 46 40
Highworlh ---- 42 60 32 42 28 34 50
Maidenhead 32 58 24 36 20 26 34 44 34 38
Monmouth,. —.. 16 48 32 34 22 !..9 34 40
Reading 34 57 25 33 20 27 33 42 35
44 54 30 34 20 28 41 46
Southampton ...—. 45 50 33 40 28 33 42
Stroud 36 44 2S 36 20 .24 46
Tewkesbury ...... 5) 35 32 40
Uxbridge 40 48 28 32 17 28 40 42
Wantage.„--....... 32 52 '24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48
Warminster ......« 30 4() 27 34 22 . i 6 36- 48
%5 59 21 22 35
Worcester--- 53 50 32 an 30 :32 46 46 48
CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
Per Bushel. a. d. to s.d Pet lb. d. tc d
Wheat ................... 6 3 6f) Beef
................................. 3
4 03
44
35
vlll,tattiton
.5 61 71
6 71
Beans . .............. 606 5 9
Lamb 6 6 Pork
4
Pease .....................
Hay 5l. st. to 51. 15s. tic'. per ton.
Oats ..
LEWES MA 12 KE —Sept. 6.
_ _

Per Quar er
Wheat, White ,
Barley

a. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. to s d.
~.53 0 57 0 Oats 2O 0 23 0
~.4S 0 53 0 Pease 32 0 35 0

31 0 33 0 011 Cake...ll/. s.'ner Thousand.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. 6.
At this morning's Market fine English Wheats were in re-
quest at an advance of full 2d. per 701bs. ; there was also a
better sale for Irish, though at scarcely so great an improve-
ment, Flour was ls. per sack dearer. New Oatmeal, being
scarce, also brought ls. per load above the rates of last Tues-
day. Old Oats were generally held for ld. advance, at which
some sales were effected. The few new at Market found
buyers at 3s. ld. to 3s. 3d. per 451bs.
WHAT, English, White, per 701 n.
......._..........---- Red
.---- Scotch, Welch, and Manx
--- Irish, White 7 0 7 6
.........---- Red
-- Foreign 7 6 8 0
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b.......
Irish

- Foreign 0 0 0 0
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter '34 0 ns 0
--- Scotch and Irish, per 60lbs.
-- Feeding 4 2 4 4
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0
- Irish, &c.
- Foreign 'l6 0 42 0
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 43 0
- Foreign
FLoua, English, per 2301 b. 4O 0 43 0
- Irish
_ _ _

OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2-101bs. 25 6 29 0
ItiblAN Color, pi r 4401 b. — 3 B 3B 0 40 0
HEE, per linper.al quarter '32 0 :16 0
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending Sept. 5.
Wheat. I Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal
Qrs. 'Qr I. Qrs. !Foreign, [iris.! Irish, ke. Scks Load
5,751 . 4271 176 5,212 1,442

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
J. Savill, baker, Holborn-bridge 1 at 1

A ladies' bazaar was lately opened at Oswestry, to
raise funds towards building a new church, and the account of
net proceeds was 6901. 17s. 6d.

Yesterday morning, between eleven and twe►ve o'clock,
the following occurrence, attended with loss of life, took place
at the back of Adams's Tile-kilns, Maiden-lane, Battle-
bridge. At the spot are several exhausted clay pits of great
depth, belonging to Mr. Adams, who, being desirous of having
them filled up, entered into an agreement with a man named
Martin, for the completion of the work, and all went on well
until yesterday, when James Martin, the son, unhappily lost
his life. The unfortunate young man had just returned with
a load of rubbish, and in order that he might shoot it its pro-
per place, backed the horse, when the animal went too far,
and to avoid an accident Martin pulled with all his might by
the head, but all to no purpose ; the horse still continuing to
back, was, with the cart, precipitated down the pit, together
with the unfortunate man, who still kept hold of the reins.
The depth of the pit is upwards of fifty feet, and it contains
twenty feet of water. Search was immediately made for
Martin, who was seen for some time struggling, and it was
not until the arrival of some drags from Maiden-lane that he
was drawn out, but life was quite extinct. The horse was
also drowned. The deceased has left a widow and two young
children.

STRANGE MISTAKE.—Mr. John M'Cutcheon,
commander of the brig Louisa, 'has just returned from a voy-
age to the Miuritius. When he came ashore he was asto-
nulled at the warm congratulations, and the more than usually
kind greetings of his friends ; but found, on inquiry, that he
had been given up for lost, it having been believed that the
Louisa had been captured by pirates, and all hands murdered,
owing to a report in Lloyd's List last month. The report
was---" The Larkins, Ingram, arrived off Margate from Cal-
cutta; fell in with on the 27th of June, in lat. 8, 46 5.., long.
13, 42 W., a very suspicious-looking brig, with a white woman
figure-head, gilt stern, and Louisa of London' painted on it,
well manned with black men, and the captain seemed a mu-
latto; appeared to be from the Isle of France to London ;
she hoisted English colours at the main royal mast-head,
made sail, and steered north." It appears that there was not
a single black on board the Louisa, nor is Captain M'Cut-
cheon a mulatto, so.that the captain of the Larkins was ra-
ther out in his reckoning. In consequence of thist report, it
is stated that insurances were effected at the enormous pre-
mium of 25 per cent. instead of 1 or 11.

Several of the shareholders expressed a wish that the
person who caused the advertisement to be inserted should
declare himself, and several objected to the wish, and the
business proceeded without any acknowledgment from the
particular shareholder.
After some conversation, in which many of the share-
holders joined, it was determined that Mr. Lucas, who had
been accountant and clerk in the Company, should be re-
quested to make such statement to the meeting as he should
think necessary. 04
Mr. Ltmas,-after mtit obgrrati ons froin-Ahareholders
upon the propriety of postponing "his statement until the
meeting of the company appointed for the 14th instant, pro-
ceeded, by the general consent, in his statement. He had,
he said, endeavoured to prevail upon the directors to rec-
tify the conduct of which he had to complain, but in vain,
and at last he had been discharged from his situation. He
had detected an extraordinary proceeding on the part of
the directors, who had appointed one of themselves (Mr.
Thorpe) to take down to Manchester 2,595 shares- to dis-
pose of at 7s. Gd. discount. Those shares Mr. Thorpe had
sold at par, and, not satisfied with the advantages he had
derived from the same at a premium of many shares al-
lotted to him as a director, pocketted the difference between
the full price and the discount. In examining the accounts he
found that the deficiency was to be set down as brokerage
and commission, but he ascertained that there were no
charges of the kind, and he expostulated with the chair-
man and other directors, but in vain. He had previously
himself purchased forty shares, and he asked the chair-
man (Sir Samuel Whalley) for them, but was refused.
He then wrote to the solicitor to the company, stating
that deception was going forward, and upon seeing that
gentleman, and being asked the nature of the charge he bad
to make, he said that he would state the particulars if the
forty shares were given to him. After repeated applica-
tions for the shares he at last received them, but was re-
quired not to sell them. Mr. Lucas then entered into a
long statement of the insults to which he said he was ex-
posed for having thus complained of the wrongs done to the
shareholders ; declared that the directors had, with (we be-
lieve) only one exception, Col. Skerrett, de-ived pecuniary
advantages from the sale of shares at a premium which they
secured at par ; admitted that he had sold his shares, and
stated that his dismissal, after a series of indignities, took
place soon after he made the exposure to the directors.
Amongst other things which the directors did, two of them
bought up in the market 169 shares at 21. 45.9 d. premium,
by way of raising the market, and these shares were (as we
understood Mr. Lucas) sold by other directors, and, what
was odd, the company was made to pay the profits.
The CHAIRMAN said that a provisional Committee, such
as at that time directed the affairs of the company, were
obliged, he believed, to deal in shares in order to carry a
company through.
Mr. AsuToN, who stated himself to be a considerable
shareholder, said that the shareholder who had called the
meeting was certainly justified in doing so by the statement
just made. He should confine himself to Mr. Thorpe's
transactions at Manchester ; the rest he should leave to
the meeting of the 14th inst., when a full answer would
be given by the Directors themselves. Pending the forma-
tion of the company the shares lagged in the London
market, and in short one of the Provisional Committee
volunteered his services to get rid of 3,000_ shares at Man-
chester. The shares were then at a discount, and it was
arranged that the offer should be accepted. Mr. Thorpe
took the shares to Manchester, and sold them at par.
During this time the provisional Committee had deputed
Sir Samuel Whalley, in whose honour they had the most
perfect reliance, to receive all the money paid on shares,
and Mr. Thorpe having sold all the shares paid from time
to time sums of money into their exchequer, nobody for a
moment doubting his inter,rity. The question what he got
for the shares was not asked, and lay in abeyance until
Mr. Lucas called on Sir Samuel Whalley, and offered to
give important information if forty shares were given
to him. Sir Samuel refused to give the bribe, but
was afterwards induced to let Mr. Lucas have the
forty shares upon condition of being informed of the
particulars of the wrong committed against the Pro-
prietary. Upon being informed, what was the conduct of
Sir S. Whalley ?—it would be stated by that gentleman,
on the 14th, that he said, " Either Mr. Thorpe shall re-
sign or I'll resign."—(Hear.) Such, in fact, was the con-
duct of the directors, that Mr. O'Gore, who had the charge
of the Bill in Parliament, declared, after having heard the
calumnies of the discarded servant, Mr. Lucas, that he
was determined to use his utmost efforts to get it through.
He (Mr. Ashton) had observed the conduct of the di-
rectors in the Parliamentary Committee, and never had he
seen so much interest as they had exhibited for the ser-
vice of the proprietary, and would on the 14th expose the
infamous falsehoods by which they had been assailed.
Several other of the proprietors spoke some words
upon one side, and some upon the other.
A proposition was made to the effect of requesting the
Directors to postpone the registration and the meeting
until a deputation should have examined the books, to
which an amendment was moved expressive of the confi-
dence of the shareholders in the Directors till the 14th
instant, when the latter would give a full explanation of
their conduct.

The amendment was carried by 30 to 18, but the advo-
cates for the original proposition stated that there were
seven proprietors on their side, who, having refused to give
their names, could not vote.

VIOLET ; OR, THE DANSEUSE.—This work, un-
der the mask of an affecting fiction, is a just and severe satire
on the existing state of manners. Life should be seen and
studied from all points, and Violet takes completely unbroken
ground. We have often wondered that the theatrical world
has never before been explored by fiction; and what a strange
picture does it now present The great merit of this narra-
tive is in its progressive interest, and its well-sustained and
developed characters. Violet, indeed, is the most striking and
the most original work that has for some time embodied satire
n a deeply interesting narrative.--Literary Gazette.

MADRAS.—A very heavy snow storm had been
experienced at Landour and at Mussoree, the average depth of
the snow being four feet. The King of Bokhara had passed
a Royal ordinance prohibiting his Hindoo subjects from burn-
ing their dead, on the ground that such cremation is offensive,
unhealthy, and abhorrent to the feelings of Mussulmen. A
violent hail storm has occurred in the district of Rajahmundry.
It rained incessantly for 16 hours, and at intervals the hail,
which was of enormous size, committed great devastation
among the grain in the fields; in some cases destroying crops
of cooltie. The thuhder and lightning were awful, and
several persons were killed.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE. —On
Wednesday, about three o'clock, a culprit well known to the
criminal officers here, was brought from Stirling on a charge
of house-breaking, to undergo examination befolce
the Cshoeurniffty.
He was detainedfor some time in
a lower room
Hall, with two men attending him,but without being pinioned.
dashed_ his feet through
caught the upper part of the window,risoner suddenly sprang up
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tendants were aware of his movements. He then ran down
Libberton's Wynd, where his further progress was stopped by
a wall, which gave time for his pursuers to gain upon him ;
he, however, ran quickly up the Wynd, across the High-
street, and down Seller's-close, on the opposite side of the
street. Fortunately there was no outlet to this close either,
and the officers being close upon hint, be was seized and
brought back to his former confinement, where effectual means
were used to prevent any further: attempt at escape.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.
FATAL MISTAKE.--A, few days since, as Mr.
George Roscoe, a highly respectable attorney, was visiting
some friends near Ilminster, Somersetslaire, he was mortally
wounded in the following singular manner : —The house in
which be slept being alarmed in the nieht by a report of
thieves, the servant of the family came down with a large
horse-pistol, intending to shoot the depredators,. Lut unfortu-
nately observing Mr. Roscoe, who had descended by another
staircase, and mistaking him for a robber, instantly shot him
through the heart. gr. R. immediately fell ; and though
the family were unremitting in their endeavours to allay his
anguish, yet before he was conveyed to his bed-room the vital
spark was extinct. Few persons can more lament his un-
timely end than the unfortunate man who was the cause of
his death.

" At ten minutes past seven o'clock the balloon d(3•
scended safely, in a field about thirteen miles distant front
theplace of ascent, and Mr.-Graharn arrived at Hinekle3►
with the balloon shortly after nine. Mr. Graham describer
his trip as very grand, from the extraordinary appearances
of the clouds and the flashes of vivid lightning, which war
visible considerably beneath him. Whilst up Mr. Grahams
was necessitated to bail the water out of the car, 'owing toe
the torrents of rain that fell. He describes the cold aFs
very intense when up at the utmost altitude, which %vat.*
more than three miles."

THE NEW BALLOON.—This beautiful and stupendous
balloon has been constructed under the immediate superin..
tendence of Mr. Charles Green, to whom, on account o r
his great experience and successful aerostation, the spiritedi
proprietors of the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, have, with the,
utmost confidence, entrusted the sole direction ; and we area
happy to state that it is entirely complete, and Mr. C. Green.
and eight persons will ascend from the above gardens oni
Friday (to-morrow), and it is expected that their Majes-.
ties will honour the gardens with their presence on that day:-
The balloon itself cost the proprietors .upwards of 2,150/.„,
and they deny a statement which has appeared, that it was:
in contemplation to construct a balloon which was intendect
to be guided through the air. It is proper to state such a,
plan was never thought of—the opinion of Mr. Green, and'.
indeed of all other experienced aeronauts, being that such a.
grand desideratum is totally impracticable to any extent..
Among the many advantages to be gained from the enormous
increase in the dimensions of this aerostatic machine are thes
following :—A much greater elevation will be attained than.
hitherto has been, and the long-agitated question decided as to.'
whether there are, at a great altitude, currents of air pro-.
ceeding in one direction several months together. This Mr_
Green, from many observations he has made, believes to.
be the case at an altitude where the atmosphere is not acted.
on by the reflection of the sun's rays from the earth, or
dense masses of clouds. Should this theory be found cor-
rect, a grand step in the progress of aerostation will be made..
The great power of the machine, even when inflated with.
coal gas, will enable scientific gentlemen to ascend with
philosophical apparatus, for the purpose of making experi-
ments in electricity, pneumatics, magnetism, &c., or astro-
nomical observations, which, from the small dimensions or
all other balloons, has been impossible ; and this circum-
stance has caused them to be regarded by scientific men as
mere objects of public exhibition. The ascents of the new
balloon will not be confined to this country, but arrange-
ments are in progress to visit with it the principal capitals
of Europe. When Mr. C. Green makes his ascent in the
new balloon, he will have travelled through the regions or
the clouds two hundred and twenty-three times. It is,
however, calculated that the new balloon will ascend, when
inflated with pure hydrogen gas, with twenty-eight persons,.
besides ballast and apparatus, the power varying according
to the quantity of gas, the state of the atmosphere, and a
variety of causes.