The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

EVEN N G OCTOBER 25, 1847.

gether. The female prisoner acknowledged to him
that she had taken the money. The man said he
knew nothing whatever of the matter.
Mr. YARDLEY said the Evidence against Murphy
was not sufficiently strong, and he must be dis-
charged. The woman, Shee, he should commit to
take her trial for the felony.

THE MONETARY PRESSURE.
PETITION TO HER MAJESTY.
A public meeting of the bankers, merchants, and
traders of Liverpool is about to be held, for the pur-
pose of adopting the following petition to the Queen,
in the event of Ministers persisting in their refusal to
do something for the relief of the country. The Mayor
is to preside at the meeting :
" TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
" The humble petition of the undersigned bankers,
merchants, traders, and others, inhabitants of Li
verpool.
" Showeth—That your petitioners humbly beg to
represent to your Majesty the ruin with which the
commerce, manufactures, and industry of the country
are threatened—trade is paralysed, manufactures to
r. great extent stopped, and the labouring classes
thrown out of employment.
" Your petitioners have in vain wished the assist-
ance of your Majesty's Ministers to restore confidence
and allay the universal alarm which prevails, and they
now venture to approach the throne with full confi-
dence in your Majesty's solicitude for the welfare of
your people, and praying that your Majesty will be
graciously pleased to summon the Legislature to meet
for the purpose of deliberating on the alarming con-
, dition of the country, and devising measures for re-
storing confidence.
" Your petitioners feel assured that unless remedial
measures be speedily adopted, the social condition of
your Majesty's subjects will be impaired to such
an extent as to jeopardise the national credit, and
lead to scenes of unheard-of calamity and disorganiza-
tion.
" The revenue of the country for customs, excise,
and income-tax is threatened with serious diminu-
tion.
" The ruin of those classes on which the labour of
the country depends must inevitably lead to lawless
means of obtaining that food which can no longer be
procured by honest industry, necessitating the ser-
vice of the military force to repress the excesses of a
mass of people driven to desperation by impending
want. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."
The intended meeting, which will be held in a day
or two is looked forward to with the deepest interest
in Liverpool.

THE CURRENCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If you consider the cause of the currency
question would be served by the publication of the
following letter by the father of the late Premier, it
would gratify some of your readers in this locality
by seeing it inserted in your valuable paper.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Grantham, Oct. 23, 1847. C. M.

TO THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—Will you permit an
old man to address you on the subject of our cur-
rency ? I sat in Parliament thirty years, during
which time I frequently heard this important question
discussed by Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and other distinguished
characters. On the passing of the Bank Restriction
Act, I was entrusted by the merchants and citizens
of London to present their petition against the mea-
sure. Though my opinions were embodied in their
case, my best endeavours to serve them were not suc-
successful. Having been long and extensively en-
gaged in commercial dealings, I often witnessed a
national embarrassment arising from a defective and
impure currency, which resembled the pre-
sent stagnation in trade, and I lament to
observe that suffering and experience have failed, in
this instance, of producing their usual good effects.
In the enlarged scale of business carried on
by this
country, embracing a great variety of pursuits, a
rEliance on a metallic circulation ever did, and ever
will, fail us. Gold, though in itself massy, often
disappears in consequence of war or speculation—
nay, the breath of rumour itself is sufficient to
disperse it. Our domestic concerns are interrupted,
and confidence lost, for want of an ample and ap-
proved medium of traffic.
I am no friend to an unrestrained issue of paper
money, and saw with concern, in the absence of a
due quantity of specie, notes admitted into circulation
issued by persons of respectability possessing pro-
perty, but evidently unable to meet a sudden and
large demand upon them. More than two years ago
I mentioned to a friend high in his Majesty's Coun-
cils my fears of the mischief likely to ensue if this
practice were not discontinued, accompanied with a
suggestion to confine future issues of paper money,
or tokens, to the the Bank of England, and other com-
petent bodies of men, who would give security in land,
the public funds, canals, buildings, or other tangible
property, amounting at least to half the value of their
bills or notes in circulation. My proposition was
not favoured with any notice, yet had it been
adopted I am of opinion that most of the panic and
distress now so severely felt in the nation would
have been avoided. If such an improvement in the
banking system could be made available gold would
become less requisite, and the country would be sup-
plied with a stationary medium of exchange originating
with ourselves.

Whilst directing the energies of the State in war,
Mr. Pitt evinced equal ability in discovering, im-
proving, and applying our internal resources. The
war drained the country of its specie, and our ene-
mies entertained sanguine hopes that our ruin would
sooner be effected by want of pecuniary means, than
the want of courage, discipline, and conduct in our
armies. Mr. Pitt was more than a match for our
contingencies. With the aid of the Bank of Eng-
land and other opulent houses, the energies of Great
Britain were maintained in full activity, and the im-
portance and utility of paper money were clearly estab-
lished. Ingenious machines were introduced into our
manufactures, and the encouragement and protection
afforded them, greatly increased the demand for our
goods both at home and abroad. Our superiority at
sea gain our merchants easy access to foreign
markets, and the wealth derived from trade and com-
merce (though to some persons it may appear para-
doxical) more than covered the whole expenses of the
war; when the Minister had recourse to loans they
were speedily raised by British capitalists, and the
increases of the public debt was due from ourselves to
ourselves, and resolved itself into a family account
without impairing the national property. Mr. Pitt,
having succeeded in securing peace and independence
to the empire, whilst devoting his sole attention to
the affairs of the public, suffered his own to be very '
much embarrassed. Many of his friends wished to
extricate him from his difficulties, and requested me
to learn from Mr. Rose in v‘ hat way we could best
relieve him. His reply was—" Mr. Pitt is the most
unaccountable of men, and would prefer living in a
garret to being indebted to the bounty of his friends."
Though disappointed, the opinion I had long enter-
tained of this able Minister's high character was not
diminished.

The present panic and distress in the country have
been declared by high authority to proceed from
" overtrading" and wild speculation." Infant
nations and establishments are liable to miscarry from
want of experience and solidity. Trading and spe-
culation being natives of this island, and parents of
our wealth and independence, are surely exempt from
such an imputation. The same authority has de-
clared that " gold and paper money are incompatible
with each other, and cannot exist together." The
population and trade of the empire having much in-
creased, a proportionate increase in the medium
i of
circulation is called for, and when gold is foundin-
sufficient recourse must be had to paper, which, if im-
proved on the principle already suggested, the twtwo
substances would be found in the same market with-
out disunion.

Anxious to see our situation ameliorated, I trust
the currency may be mended without changing or
impairing the national character, which measure, if
If
resorted to, would resemble the policy of diverting
from its course a powerful river that has long given
felicity and happiness to a large district, merely be-
cause from excessive rains it had sometimes exceeded
its natural limits, and produced partial injury.
I am, my Lords and Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
ROBERT PEEL.
Drayton Manor, March 8, 1826.

Sta,—ln your " Bow-street Report" my
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN'
name is
associated with that of Humphreys, who was on
Thursday last remanded on a charge
of stealing some
paintings from my employers, the Messrs. Acker-
mann, 96, Strand.
As such report may leave an unfavourable impres-
sion on the minds of the public, I beg you will do me
the favour to give publicity to the circumstance
that the only evidence against me (if such it be
called)! was the unfounded improbable, and villanous
assertion of Humphreys, that I had employed him to
dispose of the paintings.
My employers and the magistrate had sufficient
discrimination to entirely exonerate me from the
charge, and placed it on Humphreys, at whose lodg-
ings some prints were found, and who is remanded ;
whilst I have been re-admitted to my former position
in the respected house of Messrs. Ackermann and Co.
Soliciting your early notice, I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Oct. 23, 1847.
JAES ROCHE.

t:hechionsider he has done his
TO THE EDITOR
OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I have been much pleased at reading in your
been making among the overrrsiesetihe:
ers and vestry-clerks
r the
g es fvestry-clerks
the barrister,
regis-
trationhas
jdooftiutdryinffamel roaetfnnh fvteuoillhaeyrar isv:ollbeeusStMoasrf.unlesstaolir
the same laudable, praise-
worthy exertions are rigidly enforced by the public
auditors of unions and parishes, all Air. M`Christie's
exertions will amount to nothing, for what he has the
power to do is merely lopping 13.-% iv a few of the
branches of corruption, which will sprout out again
vigour, under
diniffedrieffnetrehnetaddsireefcetxiopnesndwitiuthre, which
greater
parish func-
tionaries before alluded to know especial well how to
cultivate, unless the public auditors arouse themselves
from the excessive lethargy they have been labouring
under from their first appointments, and lay the axe
manfully to the root of parish corruption, which they
have the authority to do if they have the will arid
npeerwyeer.,
elvehraavnd
have informed
again,
datihnose who are high in official
,
guar-
dians of which I have the that the board of honour to be a member is
considerably tainted with the feasting fever, which
leads to other irregularities. lam convinced from
many years experience that the absence of the clerks
of boards from their duties, together with parish
feasting, are the forerunners of the greater part of
parochial irregularities and unnecessary charges,
which form a very considerable item in their annual
reeflxpeeentdeitnurtehe
d.luftitehsetphey were appointed to perform,u
public auditors were to seriously
and act strictly up to them, they would be a useful
body, and entitled to the thanks of the public, but as
they have hitherto acted they are worse than useless.
andß ypiansesirnegesaincg the
countsvaesry evils which they were ap-.they
.do, is giving sanction to,
pointed to correct.
A GUARDIAN OP THE POOR.
Oct. 25, 1847.

DETENTION OF THE OVERLAND MAIL.—On Satur-
day notice was issued and affixed at the General Post-
offi. ce, St. Martin's-le-Grand, that the Overland Mail,
Marlow, in
viii Marseilles, for India, China, Egypt, and the Medi-
terranean, was detained. Letters, &c., will be in time
this evening.
DEATH OF SIR HENRY* BROMLEY HINRIOIL—
We have to record the demise of this gentleman,_ who
expired on the 19th instant, at his residence near Great
formerlyy-
known as holding the post of Lieutenant in
the
the fift sixth year of his age. He was
corps of Gentlemen pensioners, and was knighted
in 1881.

COURT CIRCULAR. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.-
WINDSOR, SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM IN PRSTII.
Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday, Letters from Pesth state that elections for the genes al
and the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Diet have already commenced, and give a singular
Royal, and the Princess Alice walked and rode on I account of the representative system of Hungary in
ponies. The Princess Helena was taken an airing. its present improved state. All the burghers (the
The unfavourable state of the weather in the after-- majority of the inhabitants of Pesth, among whom
noon prevented her Majesty and the Royal Children I are bankers, merchants, clergy, artists, &c., are not
from leaving the Castle. I burgers) meet together in their districts, and choose'
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl and from among themselves fifty one electors, being haft
Countess of Westmoreland, and the Right Hon. Sir of the number of the now living elective
burghers, as
Robert and Lady Peel arrived yesterday afternoon on they are called. These fifty-one electors unite with
a visit to her Majesty. the 102 elective burghers,; the members of which are
The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday chosen for life from out of their own body, and are
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of thus perpetuated, and these together choose two
Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Bedfcrd, the Earl I deputies. These two deputies have in the Diet, to-
and Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Anna Maria gether with all the deputies from all the States of
Dawson, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. Sir Ro- Hungary, only ONE vote, i. e., they are altogether
bert and Lady Peel, and Miss L. Dawson Darner. considered equal to one committee deputy. In the
The band of the royal regiment of Horse Guards election of the committees there will probably be a
was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's pri- very severe contest. There can be no question about
vate band afterwards attended. the choice of the first deputy, since the First Vice-
Mr. B. Cole submitted to Prince Albert, on Satur- Count of the Committee, lir. Von Tzent-Kiraly, has
day, various designs and models, by Messrs. Bell, no opponent, and is as god as elected. But our
Horsley, Redgrave, and Townsend, executing for Liberals want to choose Kossuth for the second
Trannerly's art manufactures, deputy; they have set every engine in motion, and
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert the country nobles, like the Cortes, who are, for the
walked in the pleasure-grounds. most part, mere pieces of machinery, have not the
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise slightest notion of conservatism and liberalism. As
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. Kossuth has no opponent of political or other import-
The Queen and Prince Albert, her Majesty's visi- ance, his election is probably sectsre, unless the
tors, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the I Government should object on the ground of his
domestic household, attended Divine service in the having been formerly implicated in a criminal accu-
private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. cation.
Leslie Courtenay officiated. The College of Antwerp has addressed a letter to
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left the Commercial Council appointed to examine the
town on Saturday, on a visit to her Royal Highness project for founding a University for commerce and
the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence in Rich- manufactures.
mond Park. TURKEY.—Letters from Constantinople of the 6th
A deputation of the principal bankers of the city of October bring the intelligence that the general
of London, headed by Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an state of health continues, on the whole, satisfactory.
interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his In Trebizonde the cholera was beginning to abate;
official residence in Downing- street. Baron Roths- the report that it had manifested itself at Odessa and
child, M.P., had also an interview with his Lordship Sannesund was again doubted.
on Saturday. It could not yet be seen how a reconciliation could
The Earl of Cawdor and Mr. Bodkin had inter- be effected with Greece. By the regulations against
views with Sir George Grey on Friday at the Home- the Greek navigation, Turkish commerce also suffered.
office. The feasts in honour of the circumcision of the
Mr. Brooke had an interview with Earl Grey, on Princes had terminated. At a grand diplomatic en-
Saturday, at the Colonial-office. tertainment the Sultan Tallmerayer was introduced.
Mr. Ellis had an interview, on Saturday, with Sir He is to leave Constantinople towards the middle of
George Grey, at the Horne-office. October.
A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held at VIENNA, OCT. 16.—The improvement in the health
the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea- of his Imperial Highness Prince Albeit, yesterday
sury, in Downing-street. There were present Lord and to-day, is so considerable, that there is no further
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, cause for uneasiness. The Prince will probably be
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of able to leave his bed in the course of a few days.
the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Camp- BELGIAN FUNDS.—BisurssEr,s, OCT. 23.
bell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaula Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
__y. Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
The Council sat two hours. Ditto Three per Cent.
Viscount Palmerston let town after the meetin Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
g. Ditto, •.. • •••••••• • • • • • • • • 98 %
Ditto,ditto,lB42 •. •
Ditto, 1844,—. •• • ••••••• • • • • • • 90%
Ditto, 1836...........................
Ditto, 1838 .............. •••• • • • •• .. 66%
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 .... ........ .••••• .• • • .• 95%
Bank ofßelgium...... . .• •.•• • • •• 82%
—Brussels Papers. Oct. 23.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Om 18.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •• • • •••••• • • • • • • 104%
4 per Cent. ditto ..... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 93
3 per Cent. ditto •••• • • • • ••••••• • • • • • • • 66
Loan, 1834 158
Ditto, 1839 .. • . •••••••• • • • • • • • 1213(
Bank Shares . • ••••••••••. • • • • • • • • • 1615
Esterhazv's Loan •• •• • • • •••• •• ••

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THREE O'CLOCK.
The following is a list of the arrivals in the course of
the week:—Rosin the Beau, Senga, Tragical, Adminis-
trator, Lady Mary, George Hudson, Montpensier, Flat-
catcher, Secundus, Brocardo, The Switcher, Passion-
flower, Sincerity, Wanota, Patriot, Miss Margrave,
Blind Hookey, Pimento, Old Port, Master Stepney, filly
by Hetman Platoff, c by Don John, dam by Jerry;
Discontent, Sagacity, Rough and Ready, Pyrrhus the
First, Wee-bit, Carthage, Foreclosure, Clermont, filly by
Venison or Seahorse, out of Papilio, 2 yrs; Newcourt,
Pillage, Mathematician, Widred, Grimston, Blackie,
Egremont, Blackbird, Fergus, Glauca, Pavilion, Co-
lumbus, Milliner, Pottinger, Fannus, Terrier, and Shel-
forth.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—The following have been
scratched:—Pic Nic, Finvaragh, Camera Obscure, and
Lord Chesterfield's filly.
The following have also been scratched for the Cri-
terion Stakes:—Comet, The Sheriff, Mr. Towneley's
filly, and Mr. Watts's tw•o are also scratched.
NEW MATCH.—Duke of Bedford's Dos licity, Bst 71b,
and Colonel Anson's Contessa, Bst 21b. T.Y.C., 100, h tt.
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
LATEST BETTING ON THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

1 to 1 agst Patriot
2 to 1 agst Vanish
4 to 1 agst Hydrangea

15 to 1 agst Blackbird—t
15 to 1 agst Queen Mary
No others mentioned.

ENTRIES FOR MONDAY.

Sweepstakes; Criterion Course; winner to be sold for
3501., &c.
Garry Owen, aged—African, aged—Dromedary, 3
yrs—Circassian Maid, 3 yrs—Jolly Dick, 3 yrs.
The Handicap is no race.
The following matches for Monday are off:—
Duke of Bedford's Bridle receives forfeit from Lord
Exeter's Cosachia

Mr. Greville's Panic receives from Duke of Bedford's
Tufthunter.

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • . 155
Gloggnitz • • • • -• • • • • • • • • • - • - • • • • • . 114
Vienna-3111an • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 100
Leghorn
.. g4aa
Oldenburg .. • . ......
Apenninen • • • • • . • . • • • • • . 94
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 22.
Actual Debt, 2 Money. Bills
per Cent.-- • • • • • 53% 84
Ditto, 3 per Cent .• • • • • • - • • 6414 65
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • • • • • • • • • • • • 83 k 84
Amort Syndic, 4 34 per Cent • • • • 83 83
Commercial Company, 4 34 per Cent • • 163 164 N(
East India Loan, 4 per Cent
Exchange on London, at sight • • • • • • 12 30
Two months. ...... • • • • • • 12 75
On Hamburgh, at sight .. • • 35 62
Two months... .. • • • • • . 35
On Paris . • • • • • • .. 56 75
Two months... .• .• .. • . • • .. 56 25
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bitaux, OCT. 4
St•Schuld Sch., 3 per Cent • • • • • • • • • • 92.3 i
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • •
Foreign Exchanges
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months 6 27% 6 27 }i

Lord Exeter's Bishop of Romford's Cob receives from
Mr. Nlostyn's Wilderness.

Lord Sirathmore's Sincerity receives from Mr. May's
Senza.

NEW MATCH FOR FRIDAY.—BInck Doe, Bst Gib, rig
Passion-flower, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.; 50, h ft.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Money.

FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 22.—Froin the 15th to the 20th
of October, twenty vessels r utei-cd the port of Antwerp
laden either wholly or in part with grain. Kil.
The importations made were in tota' 4,387,450
In entrepot, Oct. 15
Placed in entrcpot from Oct. 15 to 21
Taken out from Oct. 15 to 20 for con-

Sin,—Deferring until next week niy retrospective
view of the Newmarket meetings, and of the present
racing season, I shall at once proceed to do m 3 best on
the last meeting of cons, quence in the year. The rally
of bipeds and qnadrupeds will be vtry great; the vv,a.
ther being fine, the course in excellent order, and the
stables remarkably healthy, considering the advanc,i
state of the year. All these desiderata summed up,
leads one naturally to expect a brilliant wind-up to the
season of the memorable panic year of '47.
The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, notwith-
standing it has 45 Subs., will not have more than three
or four starters at the utmost, viz.—Flatcatcher, Load-
stone, The Sheriff, and Lady Mary. The race, I think,
cannot for a moment be in doubt. Mr. Clarke's award
will be thus:—

Flatcatcher (Edwards) 1
Loadstone (Nat) 2
The Sheriff ... ... (Boyce or Butler) 3
Lady Mary ... (Ternp!eman) 4
On Tuesday, the Cambridgeshire Stakes, out of 101
Subs., may start 29 or 30, to be selected from the fol-
lowing:—

sumption
Ditto, fin- transport
The period is now approaching for the annual pay-
ufent of those arrears 6n- provisions which are stand-
ing in the markets of the capital. To- day (Friday)
the supply was very consid,rahle, and the price con-
siderably less. About 1,200 sacks of wheat were
sold at 6fl. 15s. to .511. ss. less the half hectolitre;
85 sacks of rye at 4fl. and 311. 14s. The s3les went
off slowly. The price of potatoes also continues to
fall. Those of the first quality sold at Bfl. the 100
kill. The inferior qualities sold at 6i. 50c. and 7f.
to 7f. 15c.

STRASB URG OCT. 18.---The fall in the ptices has
prevailed during the week. All the markets in
Alsace are well supplied, ai;d this not only with the
ordinary kinds of grain, but with immense quan-
tities of potatoes and pulse. 11'heat was sold at
18f. ; rye, 121. to 1-11. ; peas, 26f. ; white beans,
281. to 31f. ; Turkish corn, 12f. ; potatoes, 3f. 25c. per
hectolitre. In Colmar, Muldhausen, Schettstadt,
there was a skisible decline, and the bread-tax has
everywhere fallen in consequence. The wholesale
trade is quite in abeyance, as the losses in June and
July have completely cooled the ardour for specula-
tion. Business in general is much affected by the
reactions of the London and Paris money markets, and
there is unusual caution in exchanges. A great deal
of ready money goes to Germany. The operations of
our Bank are gaining the ascendancy more and more;
discount in trade is almost invariably 6 per cent.
Railway shares are Strasburgh-Basle, 147 f.;
Paris-Strasburgh, 385 f. to 3861.
FRANKFORT. ON- E-MAINE, OCT. 17.—Business
at our Bank was exceedingly depressed throughout
the week, as the low state of the London and Paris
exchanges paralysed all speculations. It was not till
yesterday, when we received some cheering informa-
tion from these leading markets, that the tone of busi-
ness revived, and all the State papers and railway.
shares sold. The news of the reversion on the Lon-
don bank of the 13th, which reached us last night,
immediately damped this favourable movement,
and to-day everything was in a state of de-
pression. The state of the money markets
is on the whole not unfavourable, but that confidence,
without which it is impossible for business to be car-
ried on with spirit, will not return till the crisis in
the money market in England, which certainly ex-
ceeds all former ones both in duration and pertina-
city, shall have been mastered. The prices of corn
have fallen considerably here as well as in Mayence,
Wetterau, &c. Potatoes, on the other hand, main-
tain the price. The vintage will not commence here
till about the 27th.
VIENNA, OCT. 16.—The weight of bread has in-
creased to-day in consequence of a fall in the prices.
13RESLAU, OCT. 19.—Business on the Corn Ex-
change is very slack, especially in regard to rye,
because large a?rivals are expected from Berlin,
Stet-
tin, and Posen, while those of Upper Silesia have
been taken from the market. The continued fine
weather has damaged all the love of speculation, as
it was formerly excited by the wet weather.
MAGDEBURG, OCT. 18.—No essential change has
taken place in our corn market. The regular impor-
tation is commensurate with our wants, and very few
purchases are made on speculation or for shipment.
HOLSTEIN, OCT. 16.—Some bargains have been
made at reduced prices, but, in general, there is no
great desire to purchase. We do not expect a great
rise in English goods, viz., butter, &c., at the pre-
sent moment, as the money crisis does fail to assume
a detrimental influence on this branch of trade as well
on every other.

Yrs st lb' Yrs st lb
Pyrrhus the First 4 8 10,Valiant ... 5 6 12
Dulcet ... ... 5 8 5 Montpensier ... 3 610
Lady Wildair ... 5 8 3 Hydrangea ... ... 4 6 10
War Eagle ... ... 3 8 3 Rough and Ready 5 6 10
Newcourt a 8 2 Christopher... ... 3 6 10
The Cur ... 5 8 2 Wanota ... 3 6 10
Patriot... ... ... 6 8 1 Cosachia . ... 3 6 8
Prior of St. Mar- ICamera Obscure... 4 6 8
garet's ... 4 8 O'Colleen Bawn ... 5 6 7
Grinlston 4 7 liQueen Mary ... 3 6 6
Collingwood ... 4 712 Sagacity ... ... 3 6 6
Vanish... ... 4 7 7J.Tlysses ... 36 6
Blackie ... 4 7 7ißob Roy ..- 36 6
Foreclosure... ... 3 7 3 Geraldine 4 6 0
Tragical ... ... 4 7 2iGeorge Hudson ... 3 6 0
Reminiscence ... 3 7 21Ma.rtext .. 4 5 12
Miami ... ..• ... 3 7 21Marpessus ... 35 10
Giselle... ... 4 7 OlDeriades ... 3 5 10
Rufus ... ..• ... 4 7 o:Pillage... ... 35 4
Clermont ... ... 3 6 12t
This race is of that particular kind when the field
seems to be the best horse. I shall not attempt any
disquisition on the merits of the nags, but select five on
which I stake my prophetic veracity: to wit, Lady
Wildair, Hydrangea, Geraldine, The Cur, and Sir J.
Gerard's starter. If I must perforce place them the fol-
lowing is the order I expect they will run in:—
Geraldine ..• ••• (Prince) I
Hydrangea (Abdale or Sharp) 2
Lady Wildair... ... (Nat) 3
I append the probable result of Monday and Tues-
day's matches:—
Woodcraft, Bst 71b will beat Acteon filly, Bst 21b.
Queen Mary, Bst 101 b, will beat Laura, Est 121 b,
Passionflower, Bst, will beat Lovelace, Bst 71b.
Rough and Ready, Bst7lb, will beat Vice Consul, 7st7lb.
Tamarind, 6st 71b, will beat Villiers, Bst 71b.
The Flitch, Bst 71b, will beat E3then, 7st 71b.
Discontent, 7st 111 b, will beat Spider, Bst 71b.
Marpessus, Bst llb, will beat Dr. Goodall, Bst 101 b.
Sable, 7st 21b, will beat Vice Consul, Bst 71b.
My opinion on the remaining stakes and matches I
shall give to-morrow. H--111 asmp,lSnilrT, yocourrs
'TBilc*E TURF.
Oct. 23.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Brighton harrs., Wed., Race Course; Fri., the Dyke
—loi.
Brookside harrs., Thurs., Telscombe Tye-10f.
Glyndbourne harrs., Friday, Berwick-common. Lord Parker's hds., to- morrow, Thame Park; Fri.,
Mapledurham.

Mr. Fane's parrs., Wed., Badnage Way; Sat., Overy
House.

Simington hds., to-morrow, Cawton; Friday, Tylas-
bridge-10.
Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Wed., Thornton in the Clay;
Fri., Fluckham-10f.
Lord Yarborough 's hds., Wed., Little Limber Lodge;
Friday, Croxby
Cleveland hds., Thurs., Court-green-10i.
Tiverton hds., Fri., Spring Grove Park.
Tindale hds., Thurs , the Heugh (Countess Park)-101-.
Tivyside hds., Thurs., rantre-10.
AMESBURY COURSING MEETING—FRIDAY.
TEE GREAT WESTERN CUP.—Third Ties.
King Canute beat Jubilee I Merry beat Espartero.
THE DRUID CUP.—Second Ties.
Gretna beat Blacking I Wildfire beat Joint-Stock
Alice beat Why Not I Lord George beat Sooty.

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APPREHENSION OF THE STRANRAER POSTMASTER.
—On Saturday last the postmaster of this town was ap-
prehended, charged with abstracting 20/..frona a letter,
and, we understand, confesses his guilt.— Wigtown Free
Press.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.--Sir Robert and
Lady Peel, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and the
Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, arrived at the
Castle on Saturday evening, and remained on a visit to
her Majesty
and his Royal Highness the Prince Corsort.
Of course there was no music on the parterre this
afternoon ; but notwithstanding the unpleasantness of
the weather, there were many persons on the Pentagon-
terrraee, anxious to pay their respects to her Majesty
and the Royal family, nor were they disappointed, for
Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, in their pony
phaeton, passed and re-passed across the lawn reps at-
edly ; and as the Queen and the Court returned from
their walk across the Home Park, her Majesty and the
Prince acknowledged the greeting of the crowd on the
terrace above.

WIIAT A FALLING Orr.--At the commencement
of the West Riding sessions at Knaresborough, in
October, 1845, the doors of the court-house. were be-
sieged by parties desirous of putting up notices of in-
tended applications to Parliament for railway and other
Bills, and the doors were foiti,d too small to contain the
101 notices which were posted on that occasion. Not a
single notice was put up at the sessions on Tuesday last.
—Leeds Intelliyeneer.
The appointment of Inspecting Field Officer of the
Glaq4ow recruiting district will shortly become vacant,
but h is not yet decided who is to succeed Lieutenant-
Colonel Harvey, K. 11.— United Service Gazette.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 22.—The sales of
the week are again very limited, and prices have further
declined Is. per cwt. In ruin there is nothing doing.—
Bristol Mercury.
The Rock Insurance Company, whose capital is
invested in Government securities,. to the amount o
nearly 3,000,0001., are about to seek for. powers to invest
the same in the securities of "estabhshed railway or
other companies incorporated by Act of Parliament."
Lady Duff Gordon. and attendants arrived at
Blackwell on Saturday afternoon, by the General Steam
Navigation Company's steam-ship Sir Edward Basks,
from Ostend.