The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) I CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY )

CORN EXCHANGE.
This week's arrivals of nearly all descriptions of Corn
have been moderate. The buyers in general appear in-
disposed to purchase, and in consequence, very little bu-
siness was transacted, and prices of every article remained
as on Monday. The Flour trade as last reported.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
This market was chiefly supplied with the cattle which
remained unsold at Monday's market. Good meat was
scarce, and sold readily at an advance of 2d. per stone.
The middling quality of Beef and Mutton was very
dull of sale ; but coarse Mutton was 6d. dearer. Veal
realised 4d. higher. Pork declined 2d. Beef, 33. 2d. to
4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to
5s 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. Beasts, 518; Steep,
3,800; Calves, 176; Pigs, 573. Hay, 41. ss. to Si. ss. ;
Clover, 41. 15s. to 61. 6s. ; Straw, 365. to 425.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The public sales were unimportant, and by private treaty
there was little done. Prices, however, were firm for
nearly all articles. The imports keep small.
TEA MARKET. _

The operations were on a small scale in Free Trade, but
prices were firm for both Twankay and Congou. Com-
pany's Congou dull of sae at 2s. Ad. cash.
TALLOW MARIET.
A fair business was done in P.Y. C. on the spot at
525. 3d., but for arrival there was little done. Sellers
for the spring at 525. 9d. per cwt.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, OCT. 22.—There has
been a fair business done in Cotton, at prices a shade
higher than yesterday. The sales amount to about
3,500 bags.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST.--Eastern Counties, OA- ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 28 ; Grand Junction, 207 ;
Quarter Shares, 522 ; London and Birmingham, 153 ;
South Western, 49} a ; Midland half-shares, 732. The
Market continues steadily to decline, at the same time
comparatively little business is doing.

The following is from the Journal of Antwerp of yes-
terday's date
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, OCT. 20.—The Nitioaal
Funds in general have been sought after for the inte-
rior, and the prices have improved. The Integrales
have been 48-h- to 48 11-16, and closed at 48 7-16 to 1.
The Actions of the Society of Commerce have im-
proved 21 per cent., owing to the speech from the
Throne being considered favourable, as well as the pacific
note of Th;ers. Ardoin's Spanish lowered per cent.

Louis Philippe's speech at the opening of the
Chambers, which will take place in a few days, will be
anxiously looked for by the speculators, and until it is
received we do not expect that any important operations
will take place.
We may expect to hear of the arrival of the Great
Western steamer at Bristol by to-morrow or next day ;
she,will bring ten day's later intelligence from the United
States.

THE FUNDS.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 871, for the Ac-
count opened this morning at 87,11 sellers, Money 8711
since which they may be quoted at 87i 1, with very
little doing to the present time.
We have no arrivals this morning of any importance.
Exchequer Bills, par, 2 prem. ; Bank Stock, 160 162 ;
India Stock, 242 244. _ .

In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, rather im-
proved, left off 211, at present may be quoted 211 1 ;
Deferred, 10i ; Passive, 5* ; Portuguese left off
321, improved to 321 ; Three per Cents., 21* ;
Colombian, 211 221 ; Mexican Five per Cents., New,
261 1 ; Brazilian, 73 74 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., left off 481 491, improved to 4911- ; Five per
Cents., 9414.
SHARES.—Great Western Railway, 10* 11* prem. ;
London and Brighton, 131 121 dis.; Blackwell, 5 4*
dis. ; Birmingham, 64 66 prem. ; Southampton, 49*-
50* per share ; Croydon, 101 1 per share ; Greenwich,
6 7 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 17 15
discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western

London and Brighton
London and Blackwall
London and Birmingham 9O 156
South Eastern and Dover 2B - to 9i 8

HALF-PAST ONE.
We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the
sth of August, from which we extract the following :
" PORT NATAL.-By the Mazeppa, which arrived on
Saturday from Port Natal, up to the 22d June, we
feel the most unbounded satisfaction in having it in our
power to say that the affairs of the emigrants are in
every respect proceeding most prosperously. The
report of Dingaan's having fallen by the sword
of the people of Sapoesa is confirmed.
and Nonkloes, the chief Captain of the present Zoolus
Hieg, had attended the last Volks meeting in order to
renew a treaty of alliance. Thus have the emigrants
overcome their most formidable enemy, and succeeded
in establishing peace upon what is likely to prove a
lasting basis. All the other Caffre tribes have also
evinced the greatest respect for the farmers."_

Graham Town papers to the 21st July have also
been received.

It is with much pleasure we copy the following from
the Cape Government Gazette of the 10th July :
" Colonial-office, Cape Town, July 7.

" Sir,—An opinion being understood to prevail,
pretty generally, in the country that small pox still pre-
vails to such an extent in and about Cape Town, as to
render unsafe for the farmers to bring their produce to
market, I am directed by his Excellency the Governor
to request the opinion of the Medical Committee whe-
ther there is any ground for such apprehensions. By
the return this morning it appears that there are only
ten cases in the lines hospital, and none remaining in the
ehavennes."

The above was answered by the Medical Committee
as follows :—" The small-pox has entirely ceased in
Cape Town, and the farmers may now safely again
bring their produce to market."
We have just received the papers by the Hamburgh
Mail of the 20th inst. Exchange upon London 13 li,

same as last post ; Gold 427, also no difference ;
Metalliques 102 ; Bank Actions 1,595. -
Consols, which were in the early part of the morning
at 871 for the Account, with a buoyant market, are
not so good at present, and may be quoted at 87i, for
Money 874, have been 874 ; Exchequer Bills, par, 2
prem.; Indian Bon's, 10 13 discount ; Bank Stock
1601 161 - ; India Stock, 244 243.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 214 ; Pas-
sive, 5i ; Portuguese, 3211 ; Columbian, 22 ; Mexican,
26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 491 ; Five
per Cents., 941.
In Shares some business has been done :—Great
Western, 78 ; London and Brighton, ; Black-
well, 5S London and Birmingham, 156 ; South Eastern
and Dover, 8,-11 94 81.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red B6i Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 84 Ditto Old Annuities —
31 per Cent Red........ 94 Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent ... 96i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 2pm
New 5 per Cent ... , Ditto 500/ 2pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 2pm
Jan. 1860. l2 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...162
Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct ...
Jan . 1860......... Consols for Acct 671
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 323
Brazilian Bowls ... .. .. 734 Prussian, 5 per cent....

Russian, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish. 5 per cent 2l,
Ditto, Deferred ...
French, 5 per cent...lo3f. --c.
Exchange ..
French, 3 per cent 73f. 50c,
Dutch, 24 per cent 49
Ditto, 5 per cent..... 94
SNARES.
Great Western Railway
Ditto New Shares
London and Brighton Railway 27
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway ... 156
London and South Western Railway ... soi
Manchester and Leeds Railway " 77
South Eastern and Dover.. ...... •• •• 8/1

BuenosAyres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent cent
Greek, 1825, 5 percent —
Mexican, 5 per cent
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct

_
The abortive termination of the municipal revi-
nion will, it is to be hoped, prove a salutary lesson to both
parties. The consequence of the wholesale system of vexa-
tious and unmeaning objections resorted to by Radicals
and Conservatives is, that the whole of the labour of the
past year, and the large sums of money expended, have
been thrown away. The election must be taken upon the
old registry. If this should lead to the abandonment of a
practice fraught with unmitigated annoyance, and which
can only tend to keep up excitement and rancorous animo-
sity, it will be a great public benefit. Looking at the
matter simply with reference to party interests, we have
no reason to he dissatisfied with the turn which events
have taken. We believe the old list is quite as favourable
to the Conservatives as the new one would have been. At
the same time we exhort our friends to spare no exertions,
and to abate none of their vigilance, while any advantage
is to be secured. The Radicals have everythieg at stake,
and their efforts will be proportionately desperate and un-
scrupulous.—Liverpool Courier.
The return of Sir 13. Lethbridge, Bart., and
his family to Sandhill Park, from the Continent, last week,
was greeted by the worthy Baronet's neighbours at
Bishop's Lydeard, and by his surrounding tenantry, with
the utmost demonstrations of joyfulness. Spontaneous
exhibitions of gratitude and respect like these must be
peculiarly gratifying to the heart of a kind landlord and
generous neighbour, in both of which capacities Sir Tho-
mas has long and admirably excelled.—Taunton Courier.
SHEERNESS, OCT. 22.—1 t now appears that Ad-
miral Bouverie is daily expected here from Portsmouth, and
will hoist his flag on board the Camperdown, for the pur-
pose of presiding at the Court-martial on Henty. The
Admiralty have been a week in possession of all the evi-
dence which had been collected by Sir John Hill on the
su'.:ject. It has been supposed that some delay must have
occurred from the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient num-
ber of offices to form a Court; but there are five or six
who may speedily be brought together, and are now daily
expected,

(Before Mr. Justice BOSANQUET and Mr. Justice 1
EasKINE.)
EXTENSIVE POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES. -- IVilligni
Rodgcrson, who had tormei ly been a letter-earner in
the General Post-office, was char4ed upon several in-
dictments with stealing various letters, containing
money and other articles.
On being placed at the bar and arraigned, the pri-
soner pleaded Guilty.
The prisoner received a good character from several
witnesses„

In passing sentence on him, Mr. Justice BOSANQUET
Said that of late Post-office robberies had become of
such frequent occurrence, and infteted such a serious
injury upon the public, that he felt he should not be
dischmging his duty if he did not sentence the prisoner
to the extreme pennity of the law. The sentence of
the Court upon him was, that he be transported beyond
the seas for the term of his natural life.
The prisoner, on hearing his sentence, clasped his
hands together in agony, and couvukivel) exclaimed—
" Oh, my wife ! my children ! my children!"
The Solicitor-General appeared for the Crown. and
Mr. C arkson for the prisoner.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—WiIIiam Dudley, a respect-
able looking young man, was charted with feloniously
forging and uttering an order for 4/. 10s., with intent
to del, and William Masterman and others. There
was another count in the indictment charging him with
forging and uttering %sith intent to ddraud Thomas

Patten.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
at the time the transaction took place in the employ of
Mr. Thomas Patten, an iroofounder, carrying on busi-
IIC,S in the Dover.road, to whom Sir Howard Elphin-
stone was indebted in the sum of 4/. 10s. This sum
Sir Howard Elphinstone's agent had paid into the Hast-
ings Bank, with directions that the same should be re-
mitted to Masterman's Bank, to be paid by Masterman
to Mr. Patten or his order. Two clerks from Mas•er-
terman's Bank proved that the money was received
from the Hastings Bank, and that one of them
drew up a check for the payment of the same
to Thomas Patten, that a person called aad took the
check for 4/. 10s., which was produced, and afterwards
brought it back, signed Thomas Patten, and received
the money. Neither of them could swear that the
prisoner was the man. Mr. Patten proved that he had
never received the money, nor had he ever authorised
the prisoner to receive it. The signature, Thomas
Patten was not in his handwriting but was in the hand-
writing of the prisoner—in his ordinary hand-writing.
Mr. BALLANTINE, for the prisoner, said that the
whole case rested on the unsupported testimony of Mr.
Patten, as to the prisoner's hand-writing, and he would
pu; it to the Jury whether it was probable that a man
committing a forgery, by signing another person's name,
would do so in his own ordinary hand-writing?
Two witnesses were called, in whose employ the
prisoner had formerly been, both of whom gave him an
excellent character ; and one of whom, who had been
in the habit of frequently seeing the prisoner write,
said that he did not believe the signature to the check
to be in the hand-writing of the prisoner.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE summed up, and the Jury,
without leaving the box, found the prisoner Not Guilty,
CHARGE OF PIRACY.—David Smith, Mathew Con-
nor, John White, James M'Van, John M'Carty, William
Kelley, and James Percy, all of them sailors, were
placed at the bar, charged with feloniously depriving
David Urquhart of the charge and command of the
ship Andromeda, he being the master of the said ship,
and feloniously taking charge and command of the said
ship against the consent of the said David Urquhart.
Mr. PHILLIPS conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
PRENDERGAST appeared for the defence.
Mr. PHILLIPS, after a short conversation with Mr.
Prendergast, said that he felt convinced that the
prisoners had no intention of stealing the ship in what
they had done, and that perhaps they might have been
influenced by an idea that their lives were in danger.
It appeared that their intention had been to force
the captain to put into some nearer port,
either Cork or Waterford, instead of proceeding
to the port of his destination. The ship, however, had
arrived there perfectly safe, so that their fears were
groundless. This prosecution had not been instituted
from any vindictive motives, but merely with a view of
showing persons in the prisoners situation of life that a
proper subordination must be kept up in the merchant
service, and that they were not authorised under any
circumstances in disobeying the commands of theircaptain,
in attempting to deprive him of the command of the ship.
Under all the circumstances, if the prisoners would
consent to plead guilty, the prosecutors would recom-
mend them to the merciful consideration of the Court,
as they did not wish to press for punishment upon them.
After a short conversation between Mr. Phillips,
Mr. Prendergast, and the prosecutor; Captain Urquhart,
Mr. rHILLIPS said that it bad been represented
to him that the fact of a conviction for felony
being recorded against these prisoners, might be
attended with serious consequences:to their after life, the
Captain had very kindly consented to withdraw the
prosecution, with the consent of the Court, if the pri-
soners apologised for their conduct, and expressed their
contrition.
Mr. PRENDERGAST was about to address the Court,
when

Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said he thought that each
of the prisoners ought personally to make the acknow-
ledgment required.
It was, however, ultimately arranged that Mr. Pren-
dergast should make the required acknowledgment, and
that each of• the prisoners should then personally ex-
press his assent to what had been said on his behalf
by the Learned Counsel.
Mr. PRENDERGAST then said—The prisoners are
fully sensible of the great kindness which has been
shown them, and they are also sensible that in doing
what they did they have acted illegally, and in justice
to them I may be permitted to say that they have all
of them expressed such sentiments before. On their
behalf I have to express their sense of the Captain's
kindness, and I trust the captain will do them the justice
to say that they did not use any personal violence to
him, nor did they make use of any threats of violence
towards him at any time.
Mr. PHILLIPS—Oh ! certainly they did not.
Mr. PRENDERGAST—I have, on their behalf, to apo-
logize to the Captain for their conduct, to express their
deep regret for the detention to which he was subjected,
and their humble thanks to him and to the Court for
the leniency with which they have been treated.
The prisoners having been asked seriatim if they as-
sented to what had been said by the Learned Counsel
in their behalf, and each having answered in the
affirmative,
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said that it had been very
justly observed by the Learned Counsel for the prose-
cution, that it was indispensable for the safety of ship-
owners that subordination should be properly preserved
on, board ships in the merchant service, and that the
commands of the master should be implicitly obeyed.
It was the only way to ensure the safety of the ship,
and the lives of those on board, that one man, and one
man only, should have the command, and that his
orders should be implicitly obeyed. The prosecutors
had been perfectly right in preferring this complaint,
and he was glad the prisoners had expressed contrition
for their conduct. The captain had behaved with the
greatest kindness and moderation to them, in not press.
ing the case; and he hoped that what had occurred
would operate as a lesson to them and to others in
their situation.
The indictment was then read, and no evidence
having been offered in support of it, a verdict of Not
Guilty was returned, and the prisoners having bowed
to the Court, were discharged.
We understand that the Andromeda was a ship trad-
ing from Halifax to Dundee, and that the prisoners,
who formed the crew, not thinking the ship seaworthy,
wished to force the captain to put into Cork or Water-
ford, instead of prosecuting his voyage to Dundee.

.NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Joseph Wilde was charged with stealing one basket
four shirts, and other linen, value 17s. the property of
Richard Wridge.

The case was clearly proved against him, and the
Jury found him Guilty. There were five other charges
against him, upon one of which he was again tried and
convicted, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

(THIS DAY.)

A middle-aged respectably-dressed female, who gave
her name Elizabeth Wood, was placed at the bar,
charged with pawning certain articles the property of
William Wood, King-street.
Mr. LONG—What do you know about the prisoner ?
How could she get at your clothes? Prosecutor (re-
luctantU—She has been at my house, and I must ad-
mit she has been living with ine as my wife ; but I
never authorised her to pawn my clothes. I charge
her with robbery, and will prosecute her with the ut-
most rigour the laws allows.
Mr. LONG—Oh, nonsense about robbery. A wife
cannot he prosecuted for robbery by her husband, and
as you have chosen to place this woman in the situation
of your wife, you must abide the circumstances. I shall
discharge the prisoner.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.--Experience shows
that the principal danger of passengers by railway trains
II" in the carriages at the extremities. The front car-
riage, however, has this degree of security, that before it
Can come in contact with any obstacle the engine and tbc
tender must be demolished or knocked out of the way.
But no such protection is a given to the end carriage, in
case of an attack in the rear, from snifter train coming
UP. It is suggested, therefore, that a bulwark of some
sort, or at least an empty carriage should always bring up
the rear of the train.
Paganini, the Quotidienne states, has be-
queathed his eight violins to eight of the most eminent
performers on that instrument—namely, Messrs, de Be-
riot, Ernst, Lipinski, Mayseder, Molique, Ole Bull,
Spar, and Vieux-Tempe.