The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1841•

lected in the midst of a commercial population.l
We see no use in it. It is not convenient to
supply the troops about the Palace at the West-
end, for it must pass through a crowded city*to
be conveyed to them. They could be as readily
supplied from Woolwich. The same place is in-
finitely more convenient for embarking and
landing all kinds of arms, as well as ammunition,
to be sent away by sea. As a depot, the Tower
is no longer adapted; it is not safe from fire; and
to continue to use it as a magazine is extremely
dangerous to the inhabitants of the eastern part
of the metropolis, and to the vessels in the
Thames.
As a place of defence against invading
foreigners, the Tower is completely useless. In
the present condition of London, and we pre-
sume the landlords do not contemplate reducing
it to its narrow boundaries in the twelfth century,
the Tower, as a means of defence for the City, is
wholly useless. Tilbury Fort, which has more
pretensions, is no longer relied on. If it be re-
quired to have a military fort in the eastern part
of the metropolis to overawe the populace, a bet-
ter site could be chosen than the Tower of Lon-
don. We are inclined to recommend the citizens,
therefore, to take up the subject, and procure
some alteration in the future destination of that
ancient fortress.

If it is to be preserved on account of its anti-
quity and traditionary associations, let all that is
really ancient, and which has not been touched
by the fire, be retained ; and let it be exclusively
appropriated to the preservation of the jewels
of the Crown and the public records, under the
charge of a few troops capable of holding it
against a mob ; but let it not be henceforward
considered depot of arms and ammunition, and,
above all, let us no longer have a powder maga-
zine in the heart of a populous city. The two
characters of a place for the preservation of
the regalia and the public records, and of a place
tbr storing up guns, muskets, and powder, are
wholly incompatible, at all times and places, and
particularly so in the spot where they have
hitherto been united.

We apprehend that all which is valuable in the
Tower, on account of its antiquity and associa-
tions, occppies a small space, and the huddled
buildings about the walls, instead of being pre-
served as either ornamental or u3eful, ought to
be pulled down as a disgrace. They remind us
of the stalls and sheds we have sometimes seen
built up on the outer walls of a Cathedral. The
present destruction of the ordnance part of the
establishment seems to us a favourable time for
pressing such considerations on the citizens and
on the Government. To both we venture to sug-
gest, that the Tower ought no longer to be used
as a fortress, or an ordnance depot, and that
both should, in their respective stations, take

measures to alter its destination. The Govern-
ment should provide accommodation for the arms
at Woolwich— the citizens should memoralise
the Government to remove from the midst of the
City a powder magazine which is there only dan-
gerous and no longer useful.

By the packet ship Rochester, Captain WOOD-
nousr, arrived on Wednesday night at Liver-
pool, we have received New York Papers to the
17th ult., being one day later than the Journals
brought by the steamer Acadia. They con-
tain no news of any interest. The following is
the latest intelligence of the state of the New
York Money Market :
NEW YORE MONEY MARKET, OCT. 15.

The sales at the Stock Board, to-day, have been to a
fair extent, and prices, with the exception of the United
States Bank, which declined per cent., generally ini-
proved; Delaware and Hudson i; Harlem 1 ; Long
Island ; Stouington i; Mohawk -1-.
United States Bank bills are selling at a discount of
45 per cent. The liabilities of the Southern Life and
Trust are bought at N. Sistares, 13, Wall-street, at 45
cents. on the dollar.
This has been bill-day for the Boston steam packet,
which takes her departure to-morrow for Liverpool. The
supply of bills has not been large, and the events to
which we have alluded on former occasions still conspire
to render buyers extremely cautious as to the character
of the bills they take. Those drawn by known houses
against actual shipments of coin are most in favour, and
command the full rate of 10 per cent., at which price
shipping specie to draw against is a profitable operation.
The amount going forward fur this purpose will be about
$500,000.
The rates on the Continent are less firm than at the
last packet. If the Southern Banks resume with the
opening of the crop, the bills drawn against produce
would command more confidence, and the shipping of
specie would soon cease to be profitable, and it would
find its way south for circulation, instead of remaining a
burden to the New York Banks.
In State Stocks no material change has taken place.
The Government loan, for which proposals were issued,
being $2,000,000 of the $12,000,000 authorised at the
late Session, has been.partly taken at par for a six per
cent. Stock, in small lots here and at Boston. It is very
heavy upon the market, in consequence of the want of a
vent for stock abroad. The State of New York issued .
proposals for 1150,000 Six per cent. Stock, to supply a
deficiency in the Safety Fund, but can obtain no offers.
This is partly the result of a combination among tho
agents of the foreign houses to compel the Federal Go-
vernment to authorise 7 per cent. at the next session.
The following is a table of prices of stocks as compared
with former packet days :
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
32,000 Indiana D. Bonds
4,000 New York State; 5}
2,000 Illinois, 6's, 1870
25 Shares Delaware and Hudson
25 Ditto Stonington.... b 28
10 Ditto Auburn and Rochdale lO5
Z'O Ditto Long Island R sJO 524
600 Ditto Harlem Railroad b 3 &c. 16i
100 i.;,tto do s 15 lq
25 Ditto do
100 Ditto do
25 Ditto Seventh W. Bank..
5o Ditto Mechanics' Banking Association . 59
50 Ditto United States' Bank ......... s. JO 4i
56 Ditto Jackson Ins 4O
95 Ditto Formers T.
25 Ditto Mohawk Railroasl ... b. 60 64
SECOND BOARD.
25 Shares Dela
wa:e and Hudson nw 107
50 Ditto Harlem ......

Tuesday being the festival
f All Souls, and a
close holiday in all Roman Cat:_ 1 olic countries,
only two of the daily journals appea:
the Presse and the Courrier ii.a,2ed in Paris,
„-,/s. The
former, which is a Ministerial paper, „pi -,..sses
great satisfaction at the acquittal of M'LEon,
deprecates the thought of a war between two
great nations, whose mutual interests are inter-
woven with the preservation between them of
the most friendly relations. The Courrier Fran-
cais, which is the organ of a faction hostile to
England and to peace, is indignant at the report
of the King of the FRENCH having offered
to act as a mediator between the two countries.
We believe that the CITIZEN-KING has made no
such offer; but were he to do so he would be only
repaying a debt of good neighbourhood, which
France owes to England. Nor can we regard
Royalty in a more glorious light, or one better
calculated, to elicit the approbation of all good-
men, than in that of interposing its mediation to
maintain the peace of the world. As warriort,
Kings are the curses of their species ; it is only
as conservators of the peace of nations that mera
owe to them fealty, allegiance, and reverence.
General O'Doxri-ELL narrowly escaped being-
delivered up to ESPAETERO by the soldiers whom_
he seduced and betrayed. The house in which he,
took refuge was surrounded by the troops, and.
he only escaped disguised as a common soldier.
For two hours was he compelled to walk
down the bed of a stream N,-hich marks the
limits of the Spanish frontier. _Tiad he been.
taken, his death was inevitable. MONTES DE;
OCA died with great firmness. In
was found the draft of a letter, coi. pocket.
viaining
with great bitterness of having been aba udo.ed
without instructions, money, or ammuoition.
Madame MuNoz was more solicitous about her
dollars, than about the brave men whom she
corrupted, and abandoned to a dishonourable
death.

The Avignon diligence was about to start a few even-
ings since from Sorgues, for Orange, when the passen-
gers, 15 in number, who had found the water from the
floods previously up to the axletrecs, expressed their un-
willingness to proceed, but were overpersuadoi by the
bondueter. They had not gone more than the distance
of two gunshots from the town when the water entered
the eeach, and those inside called upon the postilion to
stop. The conductor, however ersisted is going on
until the horses had lost all footing, and were actually
float. The postilion wished to turn
round, and go back
into Sorgues. The danger of this was too apparent to
the travellers, who fortunately were all men, and they
obliged him to take the horses off, while some of them
mounted to the tohp,orsfetsh,e
acnodach,s
othersom some
attempt rein
wading through the water. After a time
tshomernesgelorteosnbythe
their cries were heard by an innkeeper on the road, who
iende dt
oi n
save
,

came with his two sons in a boat, and by their exertions
at length rescued the whole party.
A quarrel took place, a few days ago, at a public-
house at Clervoix, near Compiegne, between some sol-
diers of the 7th Regiment of Hussars and some civilians.
One of the soldiers, having called for a glass of eau
sucree, complained that sufficient sugar was not given to
him, and the altercation between him and the waiter
becoming violent, the civilians interfered, on which the
Hussars attacked them with draw swords, and they de-
fended themselves with sticks. The guard was called
in and separated the combatants, but not before some
severe wounds had been inflicted. One of the civilians,
a boatman, was so much injured by a sword wound in
his side, that he was dead before surgical assistance
could be procured. Five of the soldiers were arrested
and conveyed to the military prison, the Abbaye, in
Paris, to await their trial by a Court-martial. 4
The Courrier de Grenoble mentions the following as
amongst the results of the recent inundations :—" Ten
houses have fallen at Vienne, the bridge of la Gabetieres
which was destroyed by the last inundation and provi-
sionally replaced, has been again carried away, and a foot
bridge has had the same fate. The route of Beaurepaire
and the route Royale, with the Rampe des Croza-de-Re-
ventin, have been rendered impassable, and the bridge of
Chanas which formed part of it has been carried away.
An inn at a short distance from the bridge fell down, and
an ostler was buried in the ruins."
A letter from Tarascon, 2Gth ult.,represents the Rhone
to have made wide breaches in its banks, and so inun-
dated the country that all communication is cut off, the
new-sown seeds washed out of the ground, and all hopes
of the next year's crops destroyed. The waters have in-
vaded several parts of the town, and a regiment of chas-
seurs has been forced to remove from its barracks to
Nismes. It was expected that the whole town would be
inundated, and the inhabitants, as well as the country-
people, were in a state of despair.
A letter from Tours says that the Loire has become
so swoln, that, on the 30th ult., it had risen 11 feet 5
inches above the usual water-mark. The wind was from
the north, and if it remained in that quarter no serious
consequences were to be feared.
BOURSE--Pmus, TUESDAY, Nov. 2.
P !rat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents ll5 60 il5 80 ... 115 80 ... 115 75
3 per Cents... ......» 79 90 80 20 ... 79 90 ... 80 20
New Loan . Bl 10 ... 81 30 ... 81 10 81 30
Sank of France
Lattitte Bank 5,000 f. Shares 50.55 ...5055 ...5055
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cont.., 1840 lO4 102 ... 102 162
:pan ish Active 22 ... i 2 ... 22
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 4% ... 4y.
Dutch 2% per Cents.
Ncapoltian
Homan

RAILWAY 81-lAREs.
2,3 75 203 75 ... 203 75 .. 203 75
450 ... 450 ... 450 450
478 75 ... 478 75 478 75 478 75
2%5 . 235 ... 232 50 215

Versailles. LB
4.ousn
Orleans
itrisbure to Bait .shares red.

THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAlR.—Rapallo,

the stock-broker, who was arrested yesterday and
examined at the Mansion-house, charged with
being a confederate with Smith, in issuing fa-
bricated Exchequer bills, underwent another
long examination this day. The Lord Mayor
elect, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Sir George Car-
rol, and a numer of other civic functionaries,
were present. The examination, which will be
found at length in another part of the paper, led
to some important disclosures. At the conclu-
sion, the prisoner was remanded till Wednesday
week.

TO MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE.
UPON WITNESSING HER IMPERSONATION OF THE
DRUIDESS IN NORMA.
If such song
Enwrap our fancy long, -
Tinto will run buck and bring the age of gold.
MILTON,

Hail to theliembles ! to the gifted line
Whose purple, buskins gleam with grace divine !
The race illustrious, who in this last age
With records. proud have filled the Drama's page :
The Dane—the Roman—the Siddonian Queen—
Whose mighty firms sublimed the acted scene !
Hail ! princely "Charles r —thrice-hail to "glorious

.7-olio !".
To peerleSS " FanY7 bow adoring down •
But loftier far our heinagery must be
Transcendant ADELAIDE, to thee—to thee !
Who felt not awed—who thrilled not to the heart,—
Throbbed with thy ecstasy, and shared thy smart,'
Rose with thy majesties, and swept along
With thy superb—thy splendid gush of song :
When by the altar, in thy 'flowing dress,
Rang thy clear voice, enchanting Druidess ;
When from thy lips the sweet soprano pealing,
Spoke thy melodious ssul;—thy deep, deep feeling ;
When the huge House with harmony was ringing,
Drank thy sweet tones, thy unexampled singing,
A thousand souls thy n agic spell had won—
They felt by thousands, but theY felt as one I

Throw flowers !—Wo threw thorn upon Pasta's brow,
Anfl Pasta's glory is o'ershadowcd now !
Weave roses !—roses glorious as we wove
When Catalani with the angels strove !
Bring gems—bring diamonds—bring, bracelets fair
Fit or Siddons in her royal air I
Bring awe—bring worship—adoratioq7—love—
Fit for a goddess, silver-throned above
Bring one—bring all—and be they all arrayed
Around thy sunny brows, seraphic maid I

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.).:
NEWMARKET NEW COURSING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.—The Allington Hill Stakes, for bitch
puppies.—Mr. Gillett's Grecian Queen beat Mr. Inskip's
Iliona ; Mr. Edward's Antoinette beat Mr. King's Red
Rose ; Mr. 'Tyson's Finesse beat Mr. Moody's Red
Wine- ; Mr. Finch's Gossip beat Mr. Dobede's Diana ;
Mr. bSaberton's Swift beat Captain Daintree's Kitty
Clover ; Mr. Inskip's La beat Mr. Bryant's Edith ; Mr.
Nash's Cinderella beat Mr. Saberton's Smart.

The Cup. —Mr. Vipan's Verbena beat Captain
,Dain-
tree's Kingn- Log ; Mr. Gillett's Ganymede beat Mr. Ed-
wards's Antar ; Mr. Dobede's Dunallen beat Mr. Nash's
Cadland ; Mr. Tyson's Fantail beat Mr. Moody's Ra-
rity ; Mr. Fyson's Fairy beat Mr. Sharp's Nulli Secun-
dus ; Mr. Finch's Gibraltar beat Mr. Inskip's Esus ; Mr.
Nash's Cadiz beat Mr. King's Reserve ; Mr. Saberton's
Sonobius beat Mr. Bath's Crucifix.
Chippenham Stakes for Dog Puppies—Mr. Finch's
Genius beat Mr. King's Redivivus ; Mr. Moody's Rail-
road beat Captain Daintrie's King Clovis ; Mr. Gillett's
Genuine beat Mr. Dobede's Douglas ; Mr. Vipan's Vul-
can beat Mr. Batt's Coronation ; Mr. Dobede's Defiance.
beat Mr. Edwards's A B C ; Mr. Inskip's Irishman beat
Mr. Nash's Caleb ; Mr. Fyson's Fakeaway beat Mr.
Vipan's Violence ; Mr. Edwards's Arctic beat Mr. Sa-
berton's Satirist.

Port Stakes—Mr. Vipau's Violante beat Mr. Sabel,-
ton's Sesqui ; Mr. Dobede's Delia beat Mr. Vipan's
Vortigern ; Mr. Finch's Ghita beat Mr. Edwards's
Aria ; Captain Daintrie's Knab beat Mr. Fyson's
Fairy ; Mr. Fyson's Frederica beat Mr. Gillett's Go-to ;
Mr. Dobede's Dante beat Mr. Finch's Garcia ; Mr. Gil-
lett's Gambler beat Mr. Inskip's lanthe.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Oct. 29, 1641, made up from the Returns of
the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and
Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat f4s. sd. I Oats
Barley 3ls. 7d. Rye

AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS.

Wee( ending WUEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. l RYE. i SIIANS. I MUSS.

Sept. 24
Oct. 1
15
2')
29

&3 4
61 9
61 6
to 3
63 6
64 5

39 5
33 '0
31 10
31 6
31 5
31 7

22 3
22 0
21 7
21 8
21 9
22 0

38
31 7
35 10
39 S
35 0
39 0

45 :2
42 11
40 5
3i 6
37 11
40 4

IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS
Wheat Us. Ad. I Oats ......... 21s. 11d.1 Beans 403 lid
pa-Tley ~ 3:33. 2d, Rye
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

Wheat 24s 6d I Oats
8ax1ey......... 12s. 4d. I Bye

THE MARKETS-THIS DAY.
COLONIAL MARKET.

The private transactions were unimportant, the public sales
light, and no material
TEA M variation took pIARKET.ace in prices.
There was little business done, but Company's Congou could
stet be purchased u
TALLOW MARKET.
Demand steady and priAPEL HAYMAces firm at 475. perRKET. cwt. on the spot.
The supply was middling, with a fair trade, and prices were
without alteration.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon, E. to S.E.
MARGATE, Nov. 3.—The following goods have been
picked up and landed here, viz., seven cases of anniseed,
marked B and G in a square, and S A under the square;
22 bales of cotton, F. and Co , two casks of cochineal,
No. 7 and 8, marked lIW in a square ; 1 do. C & C ; 1
box, Stors, C. S. and G, 2 cases of apparently 12 soap,
W. I. (C) ; 1 do. XX 042 ; 15 bags allspice, 5 sumack.
Ragsua.TE, Nov. 2.—Off port, Leoetine, Gothenburg,
Now Orleans ; Johanna, Hamburg, Valparaiso ; Juno,
Matanzas, Hamburg.
DEAL, NOV. 3.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. from the river
and eld., Globe, Demerara.
LivgaPooL, Nov. 3.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Warwick,
E;t. Domingo; United States, New York ; Scotland,
from New York ; and Rochester, from ditto—sailed
on the 16th ult. ; Lancashire Witch, Belmont, and
Ocean, Quebec ; Cornubia, Bell, Maranham, sld. 27th
Sept. Sid. APLeod, Rio Janeiro ; Margaret Elizabeth,
Rio Grande ; Isabella, Baltimore ; Stephen Whitney,
New York. Arrd. off—Washington, Quebec.
OPV DOVER, NOV. 3.—Calibri, Copenhagen, for Cape
Verde.
pRTSMOUTH, Nov. E•—Arrd. her Majesty's
al up Oastes, Valparaiso, sailed 27th July, Rio 12th Sept.,
wi th 2,335,900 dollars. her Majesty's ship Lynx, Chat-
ha m. Sailed 2Jontreal, New York. Her Majesty's ship
Spi Wer, Chatham.
ieonift lc(ystgerai
;TOCKTON, Nov. 29.--Arrd. Parkins, Quebec.
I l'ALmonzu, Nov. 2.—Wind S.E. to S.S.E. fresh.—
.A..T,1,1. Seagull packet, West ladies, sailed from St.
clanas's 7th ult. ; Geo. Anson, Taganrog ; Lang,
Port Adelaide ; Co-
l; uubia, Quebec, Active, St. Domingo, for Bremen.
-eint,eri)),alasntodo, proceeded for A,lexan.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind S.E.---Arrd. London,
fr 3:11 Loudon, for Sydney ; Scipio, Shields, with loss of
Yries.ssa; Arrd.Or
nim
tinmast. ild, Regulus and Andromache, for Port
Ph ilip ; Pathfinder ditto ; Trinandra, New Zealand.
T.h, 9 Mangles, bound to X•ydney, must be docked before
sloe can proceed, The Gannet, Malta to Liverpool, with
card p heated, was spoken 11th ult. off Cape Trafalgar.

Sir ' Richard Keane had an interview with Lord Si
yeste, /Jay at the Colonies• offices

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