The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

provisions, are also not within the protection of the law in
circumstances about to be mentioned,—not recognised as vain- !
able, until repetition of aggression can create that claim. It
is t) the devastation of dogs upon them that reference is here
made, for which the owners, even if ascertained, are not re-
-ponsible, un:ess criminal knowledge of such disposition to
destroy can be proved against them.
This is no circumscribed evil, but one of a most extensive
and costly, as well as distressing kind. A case of twenty-six
killed, and thirty-six wounded sheep, in this way, has occurred
to myself; and an instance of one hundred, thus devastated
upon one occasion by two dogs, cou'd be produced; and yet
the laws of our country do not provide, and our legislators re-
fir..e to grant, the needful remedy.

We comprehend the reason for this neglect.
Sporting dogs may worry the farmer's flocks, and
it would be inconvenient for the sporting gen-
tlemen to pay the damage. Most of our legisla-
Ors are sporting gentlemen, or they have a close
connection with that tribe, though amongst them
are blacklegs and swindlers, and hence it is im-
possible to procure a law to make the owners of
a sporting dog pay for the damage which he may
cause to a farmer's flock. At the same time, we
are told that it is all for the sake of the farmers,
whose interest is so grossly neglected, and whom
the landowners oppress and plunder, and for the
sake of the labourers, whom they degrade and
impoverish, that the Corn-laws must be main-
tained. To wicked avarice the. landowners add
the most mean and revolting hypocrisy. The
whole history of their connection with the te-
nantry and the agricultural labourers proves that
they do not study in any respect the interest or
well-being of those classes, and yet they make
their well-being the pretext for taxing the bread
of the people. Mr. WEBB,HALL, though we can
hardly suppose that he meant it, has done the
Anti-Corn-law party a great service by his publi-
cation, and we trust that his example will be fol-
lowed by other practical agriculturists, who must,
like him, feel the degradation he describes.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY. —The sales of
Cotton this day amount to 6,000 bales. There has been no
material alteration in the rates, and the speculations have been
less active than yesterday. After the report furnished yester-
day 2,000 bales were taken on speculation, particulars of which
did not transpire before post hour. Bahias sell at Bd. to Bid.;
Pernambucos, 9d. to 9id. ; Egyptians, 10d. to 11d. ; Surats,
4d. to sid. ; American, 6d. to &I. ; nothing to report on spe-
culation.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 9.—A limited bu-
siness has been done in the Share Market to-day, the particu-
lars rep irted are—Grand Junction, 204; Halt Shares, 102 ;
Great Western, New Shares, 60% ;land Counties, 78k.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 9.—The sales
are—London and Birmingham, 169; Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury, 54 ; Manchester and Leeds, 681% ; Ditto Halves,29l/;
South Ea.tern and Dover, 16i; London and South Western,
Tenths, 17s. prem. ; Manchester and Liverpool District Banks,
10% ; Bank of Stockport, 4i.

The England New York packet-ship is off the port, and her
despatches are expected every hour.
The Hamburgh mail has arrived, of March 5, with the papers
of the same date, bringing the Exchange upon London the same
as per last post 13 3* ; Gold 425 ; Metal 104 ; Bank Ac-
tions 1,615.

The American papers, of Feb. 19, may be expected in the
course of the afternoon.

THE FUNDS.
The intelligence from China to the present hour has not had
any effect on the British Market.
Consols, which left off at 88i a for the Account, opened at
the same price ; for Money, 881 *. Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ;
Bank Stock shut ; India Stock shut.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 241; Deferred,
121 1; Passive, 5i7,- 6 ; Portuguese left off 311, at present
31* 1; Three per Cents., 19*; Colombian, 221 231 ; Mexican,
271 28 ; Brazilian, 71 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
501 g ; Five per Cents., 991 100.
The Foreign Exchanges were better yesterday afternoon.
Shares Great Western 231 to 241 prem. ; New 11* to
prem. ; London and Brighton 7 6 4 dis. ; Blackwall 5* to 41
dis. ; Birmingham 76 78 prem. ; Southampton i5l 561 per
share ; Croydon 111 12 per share ; Greenwich 81 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 16 16 dis.
Since the above has been written the British Funds are not
quite so good, Consols are, sellers, at 881 for the Account;
Money 88g.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT CF.F.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter........ 6O 38 ... to
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto New •
-IA and Selby 5O ... .. 43
London and Brighten
London and Blackwell
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
North Midland ... lOO
Ditto New 4O
South Eastern and Dover 33 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England... 35
HALF-PAST ONE.
The intelligence from China has had the effect to advance
Company's Congon I%d. per lb. this morning, which may be
quoted at Is. B%d. per lb.
The British Funds continue to the present hour without
being affected by the intelligence from China.
Consols have been during the course of the morning at
881 g for tig Account, with scarce anything doing for a
short perio They were done at 64, at present 881 ;
Exchequer Bills, 9 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, shut; Consols fur
Money, Bi*.

„.
The Foreign Market is quite inactive. Spanish Active 23&,
rather lower ; Dutch nothing done, and nothing done in any of
the other Fort ign Stocks to the present time.
SllARES.—Eastern Counties, 8A ; Great Western New
Shares, 604 6IA ; Hull and Selby. 43 ex. div. ; London and
Brighton, 424 43 ; London and Blackwall 19i ; Manchester
and Leeds New Shares, 29; North Midland New Shares, 35;
South Eastern and Dover, 60A.
The American papers not received as yet.

REPRESENTATION OF LONDON._.. Mr.
Horne, the eminent bookseller, of Cfeapside, intends to
offer himself as a candidate on the Liberal interest, in op.
position to Sir Peter Laurie.

- For nearly three weeks past, up till yesterday,
the Irish Mail to Glasgow has been constantly from 12 to
15 Hours behind the time at which it is due—coming in at
various hours in the afternoon instead of 1 b. 15 W. A. 74.
In a great commercial community like our own, we need
not say that this in egulai ity has been productive of much
annoyance wad inconvenience. As all the other mails
have arrived during the peliod we have instanced with
general regularity, we presume the delay has arisen from
the rieketty or pee erless steam-vessels which ply between
Donaglaadte and Pcrtpattiek, or at all events some cause
has produced this effect between the ports named, which
should not exit. We have beard it stated that the Post-
office has applied for estimates for the conveyance of the
Irish Mail from the Clyde to Belfast, or some ethic port
in the north of Ireland ; and considering the natural defects
of the harbour of Portpatrick, the vast sums which have
been already expended upon it by Government, andi the
still larger sup which would be requisite to make it even
a tolerable harbour, it cannot be doubted that were the
Irish mail transmitted direct from either Glasgow or
Grceneck, the system would morn readily square wsth t e
con% enience of the great mass of the Scottish population,
than it has done, or ever will do, by means of the. pre.,eat
route, through Galloway to Portpattiek. When the Edin-
b rah and Glasgow Railway shall have been opened,
these reasons will be much more forcible ; for then three
hours will suffice to carry the North Mail from Edin-
burgh to Greenock, from which it may be transmitted di-
ect t► Dahlia or Belfast, and by this means the long
route of 72 miles to Dumfries, and of 80 from Dumfries to
Portpatrick—Vience to Donagba'lee,and from Donagliadee
to Belfast or Dublin, will be avci led. This matter is cf
so much importance that we have no doubt it wil press
itself upon the attention of the Post-office authorities.
While on this subject we would hint that the railway van
or some other conveyance should be used. to esnvey the
Greenock mails from the station in Tradeston to the Post-
offi:e in Glassf:rd-street. At present the heavy bags are
carried on the backs of the old porters, and the poor fd-
lows reel so much under the weight that it seems as though
a good breeze would ova rturn both the mail and its bearer.

%Ire Lave not yet heard wl eller the Pastmaste•-General
will be generous enough to supply the two gas lamps to
light up the outside of the Post-office: but in the mean-
time the authoritiei have, allowed the Local Postmaster to
retail fenny :tamps, which perhaps k all the rm astir° of
convenience that these officials conceive the citizensof
Glasgow tobe entitled to.--Glasgow Herald.
" I'm lost in grief," as the fly said when he was
drowned in a lady's tea•.

DEPOT CHANGES.—The General Command

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big in Chief has ordered the undermentioned changes cf
stations of Regimental Depots to take place early in the
ensuing Burnam.. The Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
mit a'ty will arrange fur the conveyance of the Depot Ist
Battalion Rifle Brigade, and of the Ist Battalion Ist Foot
in the first creek in May,
and De p of 97th Foot as soon after
as practicable. The remaining interchanges will take
place as soon as tonnage shall be provided :—Depot Ist
Battalion Rifle Brigade from Liverpool to Cork ; 38th
Regiment from Cork to Liverpool; Ist Battalion Ist Re-
giment from Glasgow to Dublin; 42d Regiment from
Dublin to Glasgow; 97th from Cork to Chatham; 33d
from Chatham to Cork ; 7th from Cork to Chatham ; 35th
from Portsmouth to Dublin ; 32d from Dublin to Ports-
mouth; 820, from Portsmouth to Dublin ; 24tb from Dub.
lin to Plymouth ; 85th from Plymouth to Cork ; 59th
from Cork to Jersey ; 46th from Jersey to Cork ; 48th
from Cork to Guernsey ; Bth from Guernsey to Cork.
ROBBERY AND MURDER.--On Tuesday even-
ing last, Kirg, a carrier between Barnstaple arid Oke- '
hampton, put a female passerger down at a place called
Five Oaks, between Okehumpten and HatberleighJand-
ing ber a bundle and bandbox from the cart, which she
Lad brought with her. She then get over a stile to pro.
cted across some fields to her home,gone fa-, before he
and King went on
his journey; he had, however, not
heard et ies of murder, and returning to the spot where he
left his passenger, he met a man coming 0% er a stile with
a box and bundle, of the description of those he delivered
to the woman. He asked him where he had gut the arti-
cle', and received for a reply " What odds is that to you ?"
upon which he seized the man by the collar, charging him
with the robbery, when he received a cot across the fingers
from a large knife. A scuffle ensued, when King threw
the other man, and broke his leg. He subsequently found
the unfortunate woman two fields off, with her head nearly
the as
tsevered from her body. The murderer was handed over
to the proper authorities.— Western Luminary.
bad Vatsacse SPOKEN WlTH.—Claudine, of Greenock, for Bar-
Surina 14th ult., lat. 22, lon 37, by the Surpi ise, arrived in
to Bristol
river; Lord Oakley, Sunderland to Algiers, off Cape St.
Vincent,Bristol, lot.
thet.i3Wsait,erlownit.ch9,
Warr. iv. epdraetsidGeinbtr,altcaair
c;
uHtteamt•oietta
Surinam to Amsterdam, lat. 46, lon. 26; sybilla, Mauritius 1
Li-
verpool, lat. 9. 8., by 15. '