The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW Yoiu OCT. 30.—We have no improvement
to notice in the general aspect of the markets, which,
considering the time of the year, are more than usu-
ally inactive.
There is much anxiety for later advices from
abroad, and the delay for a few days past of those
expected by the French steamer tends to increase it,
Many operations being in abeyance on this account.
zf The Money Market has become somewhat strin-
gent, owing, it is believed, to the movements of the
-banks consequent upon the making up of their quar-
terly returns.

Gold continues to be shipped to England and
Yrance,_about half a million of dollars going forward
, from New York and Boston in the packets and
steamer of the Ist proximo, being by many preferred
,o bills in the present unsettled and uncertain state of
'commercial credit in Europe.
Cotton—ln our last summary of the Cotton Mar-
ket we noticed the prevalence of much dullness, with
a decline of lie. after the arrival of the Cambria,
which, with that previously established, made a re-
duction since the beginning of October of three cents
per lb. ; subsequent to that notice, say to Tuesday,
the 26th of October, a further reduction of three-

quarter a of cent was submitted to ; but for the past
three days the business has been to a fair extent, and
chiefly for export, so that no further decline is ob-
servabe ; but, on the contrary, the market has the
appearance of firmness, and on some descriptions a
shade advance has been realised. Our quotations are
varied in conformity. The receipts at all the shipping
ports are 112,180 bales, against 95,401, to the same
dates last year—an increase this season of 7,079 bales.
The total foreign export this year is 55,192 bales
more than last, say 38,065 increase to Great Britain,
14,712 increase to France, 6,579 increase to North of
Europe, but 4,164 less to other foreign ports. The
shipments from southern to northern ports are 1,559
bales less this season than last; but there is an excess
in stock of 42,399 bales. The sales since our last are
4,600 bales.

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool, we notice engagements
of cheese at 255. Cotton id. for square bales; and
apples 3s. per barrel. There is no flour offering. To
London, there are large quantities of cheese going
forward at 355. per ton, and other goods at our quo-
tations. To Havre, 4c. is demanded for square
cotton, with some engagements ; there is little else
offering. To Antwerp, cotton continues to be taken
at ic., and ashes at 30s. To Rotterdam, lc. for
cotton, and 355. for ashes is obtained. A barque has
been taken up to load salt at Turk's Island, for New
Orleans, at 121 c. per bushel.
EXCHANGE.—The transactions in Foreign Ex-
change for the next steamer have been very small,
buyers and sellers mostly waiting the receipt of later
news from abroad. Sales of bills on London have
been made at 84 to 91 per cent. premium, and on
Paris 5 dolls. 23hc. to 5 dolls. 224 c. ; on the other
places there was but little done. We quote bills on
Amsterdam 40ic. to 401 c., Hamburgh 351 c. to 354 c.,
Bremen 784 c. to 7Eqc., and Antwerp 40c. to 40Ic.

FUNERAL OF
OF YORK.
The interment of the late Archbishop of York took
place on Saturday, in a large vault beneath a portion
of Stanton Harcourt Church, in Oxfordshire, called
the Harcourt Aisle. The body of the late Archbishop
was conveyed on Saturday morning from Aylesbury,
to which place it had been brought from Bishops-
thorpe, where the late Primate died. It reached
Ensham soon after eleven o'clock. The funeral pro-
cession then proceeded to Stanton Harcourt, which is
about three miles distant. Soon after two o'clock the
chief mourners reached Ensham, immediately upon
which the funeral procession, which had been pre-
viously arranged in the market square, moved on, and
consisted of mutes, about eighty of the tenantry on
horseback, with hatbands and scarfs, the clergyman
in his carriage, the hearse drawn by six horses, fol-
lowed by five mourning coaches and the late
Archbishop's carriage.l !In this order it proceeded,
being joined on its way by numbers of per-
sons who were waiting by the road side. On
reaching the village of Stanton Harcourt the whole
population appeared to be anxiously waiting to
pay their last tribute of respect to one who had so
endeared himself by his kindly intercourse with
them. The Rev. W. Walsh met the corpse at the
church-yard gate, the tenantry forming themselves
on each side till the mourners had passed into the
church. The service was then read, and everything
was conducted with the greatest solemnity and pro-
priety. The coffin, which was covered with black
velvet, trimmed with gilt furniture, with a silver
shield, bore on it the following inscription, " Ed-
ward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, born October
10, 1757 ; died November 5, 1847, in the fortieth
year of his primacy." The body was deposited in
the family vault, where no less than eleven of his
ancestors repose. In the same vault were deposited,
after the funeral, the remains of the Archhishop's
lady and his eldest daughter, which had been disin-
terred, and brought, agreeably to his desire, the former
from York and the latter from London. The rela-
tives who attended the funeral were five of the sons
of the Archbishop, namely—Rev. Leveson Vernon
Harcourt, Captain Frederick Vernon Harcourt, Cap-
tain Octavius Vernon Harcourt, Rev. Charles Vernon
Harcourt, Egerton Vernon Harcourt, Esq. ; three
nephews of the late Archbishop, namely—Granville
Egerton Harcourt, Esq., Rev. Evelyn Harcourt
Vernon, Rev. F. B. Booth ; and two sons-in-law of
the late Primate, Sir J. F. B. Johnstone and Lieute-
nant-Colonel Malcolm. Rev. Mr. Baker, of Nune-
ham, also attended.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—The following extract, which I believe has
not been pointed out since the discovery of the electric
telegraph, may not ;prove uninteresting to many of
your readers ; the number is attributed to Addison.
" Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account
of a chimerical correspondence between two friends
by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such
virtue in it that, if it touched two several needles,
when one of the needles so touched began to move,
the other, though at never so great a distance, moved
at the same time and in the same manner. He tells
us that the two friends, being each of them possessed
of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate,
inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in
the same manner as the hours of the day are marked
upon the ordinary dial plate. They then fixed
one of the needles on each of those plates in such a
manner that it could move round without im-
pediment, so as to touch any of the four and
twenty letters. Upon their separating from one an-
other into distant countries they agreed to withdraw
themselves punctually into their closets at a certain
hour of the day and to converse with one another by
means of this their invention. Accordingly, when
they were some hundred miles asunder each of them
shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed
and immediately cast his eye upon his dial plate. If
he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he
directed the needle to every letter that formed the
words which he had occasion for, making a little
pause at the end of every word or sentence to avoid
confusion. The friend in the meanwhile saw his
own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every
letter which that of his correspondent pointed at.
By this means they talked together across a whole
continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one an-
other, in an instant, over cities or mountains, seas
or deserts."—(Spectator, No. 241, Thursday, Dec.
6, 1711.)
I beg to subscribe myself your obedient servant,
Nov. li. L. L.

ETON COLLEGE.—The examination of the compe-
titors for the prize of 501. given by Prince Albert for the
promotion of the study of modern languages, was termi-
nated on Saturday last. The examiners were M. Manl-
ier, of Sandhurst College; the Rev. Dr. Danke, and
Signor,Mariotti ; and the names of the successful candi-
dates were announced as follow:—In French (23 compe-
titors), Ist prize, Wilson; 2d, Tarver, K.S., and Boileau;
the next four in point of merit were Chapman, Evans,
K.S., Manlier, K.S , and Wayte, K.S. In German (12
competitors), Ist prize, the Hon. Mr. Byng; 2d, Stratton;
the next four were Lambton, Mitford major, Mitford
minor, and Wheatly. In Italian (11 competitors), Ist
prize, Herbert Coleridge ; 2d, Marquis of Lothian; the
four next were Hare minor, James, K.S., Vernon and
Snow. The original compositions in French and
German were highly extolled; they have been copied
out in order to be presented to Prince Albert by the
Rev. Dr. Hawtry.
COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.-- The officers
comprising the court of a general court-martial, of
which Colonel Charles Menzies, LH., of the Royal
Marines, was president, assembled at eleven o'clock,
A.M., on Saturday, the 13th inst., at this garrison, for
the trial of Private Robert Carter, No. 2,344, Ist Bat-
talion Rifle Brigade, for desertion. The president said,
Prisoner, you have heard the charge read against you,
are you guilty or not? The prisoner hung down his
head and refused to answer, when the president told
him that if he refused answering he should take it as a
plea of guilty. The prisoner commenced sobbing, and
pleaded guilty, saying that he had committed a henious
offence, and that they might hang him if they liked.
The prisoner has been in the corps fifteen months, out
of which time he has been in prison seven months ; he
is a native of Canterbury, and previous to his enlistment
was a shipwright in Woolwich Dockyard. This is the
second desertion of the prisoner, and when he found that
he was to be tried by a general court martial he made a
confession that he was an accessory to the murder of
George Clark, one of the metropolitan polices at Dagen-
ham, in Essex, in May, 1846, and that it was he that in-
flicted the wound in the policeman's skull. The pri-
soner's confession was laid before Sir George Grey, and,
after an examination by the proper authorities, the con-
clusion is that the prisoner has merely stated that he
—honeYhetahs
was the murderer to get out of the service.
DEPLORABLE SUICIDE
.—Yesterday
Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, received information of
a suicide having been committed in the Red Lion
Camberwell-gate,Ready, and
It appears that the unfortunate deceased was named
e
years lived as barman there. On Sunday evening, after
taking his tea, he went up stairs, as Was supposed to
clean himself for the evening, but shortly afterwards
3 a
strange noise was heard to proceed fromhis bedroom.
-room.
which excited suspicion, and on Mr. Potter goi •
room he found the door locked on the insidellge toc haltlecel
once or twice without receiving any answer, and on
forcing the door a most distressing sight presented itself.
The young man was found lying in a pool of blood,
with his head dreadfully shattered. A pistol was close
by his body, which evidently had been recently dis-
charged. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who,
upon his arrival, pronounced life quite extinct. From
the examination made by the surgeon, it is quite clear
that the deceased must have placed the mouth of the
pistol to his left temple, and have fired the contents into

his skull.
The Jenny Lind, of and from Prince Edward's
Island, Drody, master, arrived at Southampton on Satur-
day. She reports that she met, on October 28, the
barque Amity, of and from Liverpool, from Richebucto,
water-logged. Succeeded in saving Captain Allan and
eleven of the crew, who had been three days and four
nights on the wreck, lashed in the mizen rigging. Six
persons were unfortunately drowned :previous to the re-
mainder of the crew being taken on board the Jenny
Lind. Six of the seamen cared were afterwards put on
board the brig Rebecca, bound for Glasgow.