The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-13 00:00:00

TALLoM MARKET.

Prices were ouivorted, but the market was dull, and
P.. Y. Candle on the spot was freely offered at 475. per
cx .t.. The deliveries keep large, and the arrivals small.
WOOL MARKET.

The market was dull for both English and Foreign,
an 1 price-s
were barely supported. An increase in
bu iiness is expected to take place shortly.

THE WEATHER.—NOOI4, OCTOBER 13.
%OIL AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
rhernlemeter... 53 f Highest 5B 1 Lowest ..... 41
Wind N.--Freeiing Point 32 Deg.

DEATii OP AIR. WOMBWELL'S GIRAFFE.—
e Carlisle papers announce with regret the serious
boa ; sustained by Mr. Wombwell in the death of one of
his beautiful giraffes. It will be recollected that the
ani nal had accidentally dislocated its long and graceful
net about six weeks ago, and, although the injury had
bee a reduced with the utmost care, and the supervening
effa 3ts most judiciously counteracted, on Monday morn-
ing the animal died suddenly, shortly after having taken
its food with apparent relish. For some time hopes
w( e entertained of a favourable result ; but there was
so ri:ething in the manner of the sagacious creature
at betrayed a consciousness of its approaching
di ;golvtion, and, indeed, when the ' extent of the
ch sracter of its injuries were ascertained it was only
we ~tb derftil how it survived so long. After death the
bo • was examined by Mr. J. Carlisle, veterinary sur-
ge( ,of Wigton, who attended her throughout, and
whoa ,e attention and skill were fully appreciated by Mr.
Won ibwell. The examination showed the articulation
form ed by the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae was
mud ' injured, the ligaments which connect the two bones
being ; completely torn asunder, and the body of the fifth
veite bra was literally shattered to pieces, and by some
s7ldd 2n jerk of the neck it appeared a portion of the
fi act ured bone was displaced, and injured the spinal
in 'ow, which accounts for her sudden and unexpected
d sat ..h.

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ai r. Carpue, the eminent surgeon, has been
ci mfine dto his bed in consequence of the severe shock and
of her in.;uries which he sustained at the late lamentable
ai id fatal accident upon the London and Brighton Rail-
w: ty. He had, unfortunately, taken his seat in one of
th. s open carriages, and, by so doing, suffered more than
an:, , other member of his family, the whole of whom he
had placed in one of the first-class carriages ; they hap-
pily • escaped uninjured, save only from the effects of the
frigh t. Mr. Carpue, being advanced in years, is likely
to ez perienee serious consequences from so untoward an
event .
SI JICIDE AT STROUD.---A painful sensation
hr hs b een created in Stroud, by the suicide of Mr. John
Pi cki .rd, assistant overseer, who was found dead, sus-
pe tacit :d from a hook in his own house, on the afternoon
of las, ' Wednesday. The deceased lost his wife in the
m, mat of March last, since which period he had been
su' 3jeet . to great depression of spirits, and within a week
pr avion.4• to his death his melancholy had considerably
in, meas-Jo% The Jury returned a verdict of "Tem-
po nary in sanity."
L, titGIC ADDER.--A few days ago, as a hus-
ba. 3cir y ser yam in the employ of Mr. Dixon, of Rheda,
wr ,g iv work in a field, ho captured and destroyed an
'Li- Jima, fly large snake of the adder species, which mea-
' Aired : not less than two feet in length. This deadly-
venom us reptile seldom exceeds the length of eight or
I ten inch, ,s, so that the one alluded to has been an un-
common) v large one of its kind. It was a female, and
opened was found to contain no less than
on being.
eleven yogitg ones,--Carlisle--CarlislePatriot.

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Visbitr Optiaion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French Journals of Monday have not yet arrived.
The cause of detention we take to be the inclement state
of the weather.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 7th instant con-
tains the official announcement that the King has
allowed Baron von Werther to resign his portfolio as
Minister for Foreign Affairs, 'and has entrusted the said
portfolio to Count von Maltzan, Prussian Ambassador at
the Court of Vienna.
Baron von Werther is to retain the direction of the
affairs of the principality of Neufchatel and Vulang,in,
and is at the same time raised to the dignity of High
Marshal.

I PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Post recommends that for the protec-
tion of the industry of our own. artizans, there should be
restrictive rules established against spurious imitations,
so as to hinder the importation of imitative articles
which come into competition with the honest workman-
ship of British tradesmen. Our Contemporary adds:—
" Great care should be taken to prevent smuggling, and
when these foreign imitative articles are fairly entered
at the Custom-house, they should he charged at the
highest ad valorem duty which a genuine well-manufac-
tured article of the kind would pay. Of course the
Custom-house should not, in this instance, be bound to
keep the article at the value put upon it ;for if it were,
the transaction would be a very losing one. But our
readers, we think, will see that some public protection is
due to British industry against the sort of competition
with which some branches of it have to contend. There is
nominally, a protecting duty, but it is evaded by a system
of imitation of genuine articles, and a consequent cheap-
ness with which the British manufacturer cannot con-
tend, unless he also abandons honest workmanship for
the sake of attending merely to cheapness and outside
show. This no honest Government can wish that he
should do."
The iferaldprofeses great regret that the " rancour of
party feeling" should so long have prevented the talents
of Lord-Ellenborough from being available to the em-
pire, observing—" Everybody who has watched his career
in the House of Lords, or listened to the speeches de-
livered by him there, on questions connected with
Indian affairs, will have satisfied himself of his Lord-
ship's mastery of their multifarious details ; his exten-
sive knowledge of the principles of the Mahemedan and
of the Hindoo laws, and his consummate acquaintance
with the Acts of the British Parliament that have been
passed, in connection with those subjects. There are
few men in either House of Parliament who are better
read in the modern history of the great European States,
or more conversant with the treaties and diplomatic con-
ventions which comprise the bases of their existing re-
lations. Combining this knowledge with that which
his official experience on Indian affairs has already
acquired for him in so remarkable a degree, we
must protest that we do not know into what hands
the government of British India could be confided
with prospects more encouraging to the welfare, the
ecurity, and the improvement of that country or of this."—
We do not see how Lord Ellenborough's acquaintance
with European States qualifies him for being Governor-
General of India, where the system of policy is wholly
different from any pursued in Europe ; but let that pass ;
there is one Radical objection to his administering In-
dian affairs ; and that is, his obstinate, impracticable
character, which has often embarrassed his own party.
He is one of these who would make circumstances bend
to him, rather than himself bend to circumstances. Of
the extent of his sagacity we have some doubts. It is
clear that he knows a " ,tame elephant" from a wild one;
but we have never heard of anything in his political
career that should lead us to infer that he was in the
slightest degree remarkable for superior statesmanship.
The Chronich says :—" The three inseparable inci-
dents' which constitute a monopoly,' according to the
old English legal acceptation, are embodied in the Corn-
law; and the evidence of the presence of these incidents
of monopoly would have rendered void any Royal grant
or letters patent by which the exclusive privileges of the
Corn-law might have been conferred. The Corn-law
raises the price, deteriorates the commodity, and im-
poverishes the artificer. It might so happen that the
legal definition by which a monopoly was tested, and
its operation rendered void, would be at war with com-
mon sense and with science. We say it might so happen.
But in the three inseparable incidents' of monopoly, the
presence of which rendered the monopoly legally void,
we have the very objections of common sense and of
science, expressed at a time when the rudiments of poli-
tical economy were in a chaotic state, even in the mind
of Bacon. To think that any benefit is derived by a
community from the enhanced price of an article is one
of those absurdities which we hope will be regarded ere
long in the same light as would now be the burning of
an old woman for a witch."

The Times. thus comments on an article that appeared
in its columns yesterday, on the subject of the policy to
be pursued in the event of a war with America :—" In
a question of how effectually to make war, must not the
prevalent military opinion be, in most cases, the correct
one? All military men will see, at a glance, that the
south is the weak side of the United States. The first
duty of every Government which becomes unhappily
engaged in war is to bring that war to the speediest
termination that can possibly be devised. It owes this
both to itself and to mankind. But the speediest path
to a successful issue must be by striking at once an effec-
tual blew. To begin by annoying, scheming, temporiz-
ing, like Captain Elliot at Canton, is most unsafe policy.
The wonderful successes of Bonaparte were all owing to
his constant practice to be prepared to strike a sudden
blow the very instant he had declared peace to be at an
end. Such a blow might be struck in the south ; and
nowere else. There 5,000 free negroes transported from
Jamaica, with 10,000 stand of arms, would dissolve the
Union within a month ; and, be it remembered, there
are tens of thousands in the Northern States who would
wish success to the invaders, and would lend no hand to
fight for the maintenance of slavery."
In reference to her Majesty's speech on the proro-
gation, the Brighton Guardian remarks :—" It has been
remarked that Sir Robert Peel is one of the greatest
egotists alive. He can see or hear nothing but Peel, his
talents, and his power. His speeches always turn on
what he has done, said, or thought. There is for him
nothing in the world substantial or real ; but all is
hollow, worthless Peel. A fourth part of the speech
is therefore appropriately employed in telling the Par-
liament the important truth that he—always speaking,
however, in the name of the innocent lady whose power
the aristocracy have usurped—has formed a new Ad-
ministration."

The Dublin Pilot observes of the Queen's Speech :
" The first Session of the Tory Parliament was brought
to a most lame and impotent conclusion' on Thursday,
in what, according to Parliamentery parlance, is called
a most gracious Speech from the Throne.' !loyal
Speeches at the best are but unsatisfactory documents.
The Speech delivered on Thursday, however, by the
Lords Commissioners, was meagre and unsatisfactory
beyond the common. It seemed as if the concoctors had
clubbed their ingenuity to produce words utterly devoid
of meaning; and it must certainly be admitted that they
have admirably succeeded.`'
The Tyne MercUrY makes the folrowing observations
on the Queen's Speech :—" Of all the Kings' or Queens'
Speeches we ever had the trouble of examining, this is
one of the most extraordinary, and to the public mus:
be considered one of the least satisfactory. In the first
place, the distress would seem to be only in some of the
manufacturing districts ; whereas, if any impartial per-
son will take the trouble of looking through the news,
papers of the country at large, he will not find a great
town, nay hardly a village or a hamlet, to which this dis-
tress has not penetrated. This is one of the many proofs
that the present Ministry know not what they arc doing,
where they stand, what they have to deal with, or what
is to become of the country. It would seem to show that
they care nothing whatever about the country at all!!"