The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-18 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

AONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 15.—The inquiry
for Cotton this week has been to a fair extent from the
trade,- and has been met pretty freely by importers of
American, at last week's prices. The middling qualities
are perhaps not so easy to buy, owing to the demand
being chiefly for that description. Brazils continue very
heavy, and for sawginned Maranhams lower prices have
been taken; other sorts without change. At the public sale
to-day, every thing was bought in ; 3,000 American and
200 Surat have been taken on speculation, and 150 Ame-
rican and 250 Surat for export.
LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET, OCT. 15.—Very little
doing, the only quotation marked is the Eastern Conn-
ties,7l ex div.
. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 15.—The
Market continues steady at former prices. We have had
some business transacted in Manchester and Leeds at
57/ ex 4 Shares ; the latter are selling at Iss. prem.
Manchester and Birmingham have been sold at 214 ;
North Midlands are 34 to 354 dis. We have some in-
quiry for Midland Counties, and London and Birming-
ham New Thirds. There has been no sale in Bank of
Manchester Shares since the meeting on Wednesday
last ; they may be quoted at 5 to 54 per Share.
The intelligence received by the packet ship Sheridan,
from New York, the details of which are published in
another part of this paper, is considered in the City to
be of an unfavourable nature ; . and Consols, which
closed last night at 88% for Money, opened this morning
at 87% 88 ; and 884 s fin. the Account ; Exchequer Bills
are steady at 11s. 13s. preen.
In the Foreign Market no alteration has taken place.
Spanish Active Stock, is now quoted at 20%; Deferred,
9j- 10% ; Passive, 4% ; Portuguese Five per Cents.,
29 30 ; ditto, Threes, 18k.
The Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and
Assets of the Bank of England, compared with the last
statement, shows an increase in the circulation of
111400C1., a decrease in the deposits of 523,0001., in
securities of 139,0001., and in bullion of 262,0001.
The Continental Exchanges were much firmer again
yesterday, and bills upon Paris and Amsterdam were
much higher.
Consols have since further declined to 88 for the Ac-
count.
The English Stock Market continues flat and heavy.
The following are the fluctuations during the morning :
Consols for Money, 88 87% 4 4 ; and for Account 884
87% 886 88 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 86k % ;
Three-and-a-Half ditto, 96 4 96 ; Bank Stock, is now
quoted at 164 ; India do., 244; do. Bonds, 2s. prem. to
par; Exchequer Bills, 1 Is. 13s. prem.
There has been a fair business doing in the Foreign
Securities, but no material alteration has taken place.
Spanish Active Stock has been down to 194, but are now
20%; Deferred, 9% ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 ;
Ditto Threes, 18 ; Brazilian Bonds, 52 534 ; Mexican,
24t; Colombian, 191; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
; Five per Cents. 98%.
There has been but one transaction done' in the Share
Market, and that has been in London and Brighton, the
Shares of which have receeded to 384 4.
Consols, money, 87-1- ; in November, 88%; Spanish,
20% 4.
Both markets are flat.
No intelligence of the Caledonia steam-ship.
Now the intelligence has been received respecting
the seizure of an American subject, and the high pitch
of exasperation to which public feeling has risen
on both the British and United States side
of the frontier in relation to M'Leod's trial,' many
parties here incline to the opinion, that the Great West-
ern steamer brought over despatches the other day from
Mr.. Fox, in which these matters were represented in a
strong light, and that some intimation of it having trans-
pired in influential quarters, this was the occasion of the
panic in the Funds.
The Produce Markets have been good this week for
Colonial articles, but not very cheering for other staples.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 164 India Stock ...244
3 per Cent Red. 866 Ditto Bonds 2 pr
3 per Cent Cons BB% Ditto Old Annuities ...
36 per Cent Red..
New 36 per Cent 976 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm
New 5 per Cent — , Ditto 5001...
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small. .
Jan. 1860 .. 12% Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 3-16 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.
FO itEIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 47%
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic..
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 206
Ditto, 1824. l9l Ditto, Deferred 96
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18'45, 5 per cent 'Exchange f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent. .. 24% ;French, 3 per cent —l. c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625 j Dutch, 26 per cent. ... 51i
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et !Ditto, 5 per cent 99
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 74
Ditto New Shares (50 paid
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 386
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 86 •

TILE MIRROR. Li,nbird, London.
t•
It is always with pleasure that we refer to. bis:
oldest and, in some respects, best of the cheaP
literary periodicals, by which of late years so
much information and wholesome entertainment•
has been diffused over every part of the ear,tl :to
where the .English language is spoken, an 1. iIi!1
which have happily falsified Napoleon's predie
tion that in times of peace the booksellers would
fill the world with nothing but trash• In the
last N umber of this excellent work, amongst a
variety of articles of great merit,
we find one.especially worthy of the most serious attentiOPflici
It is from the pen of Mr. Fennel, the
known author of " A Natural History of Qua-
drupeds," and it is entitled "An Essay upon the •
Effects of Music upon Men and Animals'
Although in some particulars we differ from the
author's views, we consider the information COn:
veyed in his essay respecting the beneficial
effects of music upon the health of the youcle'
and upon the temper of persons of all ages/ to tie •
valuable in a very high dearee. We could roe
help smiling, however, at the credulity of Oil.
of his historical references. He tells us Oa;
" Tyrteus, the Spartan poet, by certain verse
which he sung to the accompaniment of gatesi
so inflamed the courage of his countrymen,
they achieved a great victory over the ges.,.°s
nians, to whom they had submitted in, se!eit;
previous conflicts. Timotheus with his 1°1;4
could move the passions of Alexander as e.
pleased, inspiring him at one moment with to
greatest fury, and soothing him in the next ill e
the most gentle and placid state. ShaksPear
says music can
" ravish savage ears
And plant in tyrants mild humility.'
Love's Labour Lost, Act IV. Scene 1;1_
The truth of this assertion is abundantly
both in ancient and modern history. pythaoratos
instructed a woman, by the power of music/4(
arrest the fury of a young man who carne to ''s'
her house on fire ; and his disciple, Empedoeleot
used his lyre with such success as to Pres,e
another person from murdering his father vge
the sword was unsheathed for that purPase' on
fierceness of Achilles was allayed by playiagilits
the harp, on which account Homer livesivith
nothing else out of the spoils of A:6601% ld and
the same instrument Damon quieted wr„iiar
drunken youths ; and Asclepiades, a to
manner, brought back seditious multitudes
temper and reason."
iloht
This History is apocryphal. We thcrffss
it was pretty well established that Alexander, •be
insensible to the influence of music---thteis
could not perceive the harmony of 11(w:bey
verses, which he loved only for the exploits 'on
recorded—and that the effects produced tii;ot.
him by Timotheus were purely fabulous, by
withstanding the brilliant use made of thefiloa. •
" glorious John" in the immortal Ode t Sidie
cilia. We believe that much of the " flit
history" quoted by Mr. Fennel rests upon, j'air
better foundation. The following sensibiebere
servations are the only ones which we can
afford room. to extract :
th t 11/
It would, unquestionably, be rash to suppose ~-1:0/get
men who are not pleased with the concord cn ;ggoe
sounds would commit those crimes against the P-cate•
and the State which the poet says they are fit to OCcater
Certainly they must lack a reverence for, or the P,
to appreciate, that which is harmonious ; but thisricle'
cal defect, if I may so term it, may show its Mute.
Mute.stroying things of less consequence than life an' 43111
Lord Chesterfield, if he did not dislike music, cerlfo
rearded the practice of it as no accomlishment;
"Advice to his Son," lie says, "I cannot avail
playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in illiberal
tleman. Music is generally reckoned one of the seen
arts, and not unjustly; but a man of fashion, who
die
piping or fiddling at a concert, degrades his OWI13„ to
nity. If you love music, hear it; pay fiddlers to Piei,3oa
you, but never fiddle yourself. It makes a gentgatil
appear frivolous and contemptible, leads him frtlidit
into bad company, and wastes that time whicp,s,of ii
otherwise be well employed." Such is the opi,ol°'sgat''
exquisite; but I cannot agree with his LordshlP! tore
ing and other fashionable sports seem to me o°lctas 01'4
likely to lead young gentlemen into bad society layivg
of betters, gamblers, jockeys, &c., to wit) than Ilia es°
upon the violin. His advice, that if one loves 10 Turic.
should not learn to play it, reminds one of the lalsercea
who, seeing some English gentlemen dancing, °why do
to them, "If you like that sort of amusement,
you not get your servants to do it for you?"

NEWSPAPER REPORTIN,Afa.
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CHINA. a 1 f
(From the Canton Register of June 1a",,,' ent °
latffisaiirnsierdersatiwnng upasbiyt
shows
'ding
who
LOCAL NEWS.—The following is a brief statB-ker tk.
Chinesethe late
important
public.
a ester._e jos
---
IMPORTANT INVENTION IN LACE MACHl-
prevalent among the bulkof -'
NERY.—Considerable numbers of our mechanics, during
so recently took place, and is on the whole rains „r•
the last few days,f have been gratified and astonished b blf e",
the inspection o a novel arrangement of mechanical the people regsera.
rect. The account of matters sent up to %All- '
u7rt liar''
movement, which •applicable kindsof
is to all
will be ,*
widely different from this .-- „ duri,,f
chine • • ie. The object is to dispense with large
drums, chains, plates, and many other contrivances that the third watch (Friday, 21st of May, 11 to 1 111;,,ar501t
are in use at present, to enable the proprietors of lace- the great Generals, Yihshan, &c., ordered the 0Fm„.74 ant;
machines to alter their fabrics with as little trouble and soldiers from every encampment to take,fire..Prei'fig
as small a cost as possible. It is well known, however, fire-ships, and attack the rebellious foreigriers.,Yhelt;
that numbers of industrious deservieg men are ruined anchor in the Taiwongkaou (Macao passage.) ' abe'l"
in the lace trade, by the constant request for fresh pat- tie lasted till daylight, during which time serera,devil°
terns and meshes, and the incapability of a'l the present belonging to the foreign ships were burned, seve°f taela
plans for producing them, only at the sacrifice of more imps (foreigners) were taken alive, several tens °was el
[tine and money than they can afford, or the articles, were killed, and a part of the Company's bolt strietli
when produced, would pay back again ; and the conse- stroyed. The gates of the city were kept mos
easi ilt
quence is, they are obliged to go on making unsaleable shut, and the people were not allowed to pass out 7,0°0,',
goods, and selling themfor any price they may be offered, "On the 2d day (Saturday, May 22d), at tel,,:ietees7
however lowenot only to their own loss, but with the cer- the devil's imps embarked on board a fire-ship ‘aegpo°s);
tainty of bringing down the prices of the goods of others steamer), and sailed up to Neisheng (near Ts a gree
that are more saleable. The where they made use of fire-arrows
apparatus, which occupies rockets) a". W'
( , aeon
very little room, can be made for a trifling sum compared guns, with which they attacked and smashea a•
to
with any of the modes now in use, and when once a and burned several tens of carrying vessels.
vii e¢ We, a
plied, the pattern can be altered without loss of time, aon the 3d day (Sunday, May 23) the dee car lea
and only the expense of a few pasteboard cards. It con- early off the Fa-tee creek, where they seized talleulayaive,
sists of a number of small tapits and jacks, which play on off several passage-boats (these were for the enteseeo!,
an axle that goes through the whole of the tapits. The of the troops). They then commenced a sin/001.1e
jacksare selected by means of cards, and taken in or attack on the Leipaoutoy, or Sha,meen fort, tbeee,e 1411`,4
out of work by the instrumentality of two bars, that ad- paoutoy, or Dutch Folly, and along the side or 'SI^ berrg
vance and recede by means of a double crank, which is They used their fire-arrows, with which th°l,ooo6lo
connected at each end of the said bars by links ; a lever, several hundreds of houses, shops, and shed.' per, oo isi
with the chisel or nose cut to operate on as many tapits' to the inhabitants on the banks of the rl./de the
c
as there require various heights in the bar with which it eastern, southern, and western quarters outsla ijaysa,e)
is conneeted, viz., if the bar attached to any one lever walls. The lire lasted uninterruptedly for two joy ?„.111
wanted moving ten gates from top to bottom by two "On the sth day of the moon (TuesclaYd strolisd
gates at a time, only four tapits and a dead stop would they landed above Neisheng, and markees, attaciien
be required ; but as the model has been seen, and we towards the great northern gate, where hey ; tt.o,
understand a machine, with the apparatus at work, can and captured the square fort and the rouno ",,lite, tP
be seen in a few days, it will be unnecessary for us to directing their course to the small northern 15
• tbef
give further particulars.—Nottinglioni Mercury. burned an encampment. fear), Mr)?
hof As- fo
"On the 6th day (Wednesday, 26t rench tol's.
On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone attacked and stormed he Tangpaoutoy (Flhe cus.eer.
Vestry, a letter was read from the proprietors of Rankin's and using their fire-artrows, thee burned al, the r:e eg
patent wood paving, offering to lay down the material houses and chop-houses along the banks devil l's '-iir
for three years, or any other period, at an annual charge Thus, whether by - -he de'cis ecf r
land or by water, t
of three shillinge per yard, instead of at once charging took ossession of all our strong places. Towlrhi, if,°„,•'t
sixteen shillings per yard for it. A letter from a Mr. ing the Hon, merchants anc linguists beg:- an aftt`•ee
Perkin offered° to pave all Oxford-street with wood at ship, Yu, the Kwan,gchowfoo to meet 111('',.,•ae
,140
Leh ehillings per square yard, to be paid for as coin- for peace. Elliot wanted them to pay, the P„•;ca 'lib
piked. Thie latter proposition was passed over by opium, 6,000,000 dollars, and lima[et' ,5e- :ceche° aid
being ordered to lie on the table. The adjourned debate within which the full ' • tbe 10'1' ;n145; rSC
amount was 0
ee ea Tie JO
as to the farmer proposition of the proprietors of Ran- war- 1 •
kin's patent was then opened, and of course soon ended he
alsos nps should afterwards leave the 130" fig die
Hong l') c't°
by its rejection, as a far more favourable one had been nowthe
insisted upon the island of
coluse:
sae o_,l
now made ; and, as it was afterwards proved that in paymehhet gnth:lesrti.erail (Yishan) lre,oo,°sJele;
proportion to the annual cost of the lent parts of the the 7th day(Thursday,
pled sum 0. eg_ae he I; et ,s 1
macadamized portion of Oxford-street that the employ- 1,000 000 t -
.01'.7,:tiest,i0 615,
, o account. Regarding the `i due ll'oeoB
ment of this splendid specimen, when used •eitere there t • erritory, we must wait till he has made a . :eao
was most wear and tear, and on a hill, which Would to the Emperor and got his If
on the subject, the cto
effectually try its qualities, would only exceed the cost when he will be able finally t decide•
of the present repair in three years by sixty pounds, the " Thus s ° lof day) 0
,on the Bth day (Friday, 28t 1 ea to 13
proposal was adopted, gates were again opened, and people aIIOW
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—On Monday and in." ill
• ----------I--'-----_7 0 01) of
last, as one of the Derby and Birmingham trains was rilnie tes
I- SP' titli- a
travelling at the usual speed, when on this Side of Tam- A new kind of institution ..as -, las ~ ,ci
worth, the crank axle of the engine broke in the middle Scotland, which is robbing the Mechan ores, 030' 'seio
of the " throw," and the driving wheels consequently their members, and which provides lector the
ceased working I but such was the speed at which the at a very cheap rate, admitting inclividusiss. 10
train was going, that it proceeded more than a quarter sum, of ld: for each evening's entertainment'• 'pore the
rr„ss.---- '5, 10 „tit
of a mile before it stopped. Had it been a four instead EXTRAORDINARY .OAIC 1'• Apt 'd
dil eix-wheeled engine, the under wl 1 k la -
imme
_at
_. _
_, . lee I would have now ()Towing in Brook Wood, near Broo,. ena ~bt ,
di ely slipped off the rails, and a tremendous con- • ' iy ll° . herb
parish of Buckfastleigh, it remarkab the
cession must' have followed, which •in all probability, would three feet • • fand which, t°
in circum erence, w i the
have caused less of life. As it was, the engine kept on 60 feet, has scarcely a protuberant branco.
.1 /torn 5d
the line, and no damage was dune either to carriages or oVert,l 'Pe /109,
Amongst the articles recently rec deo is el t
patseagers. A similar circumstance happened to an en- e lea ...- Pa eseo
gine on the :North Midland Line. As the quarter to four wreck of the Royal George were sons , as. le, _ pre eat
o'clock train from Leeds was approaching the Amber- for marking linen, with the name ore te the!,:enley
gate Station, it was delayed a considerable time in con- 1781, which evidently formerly belonge" of tile Pv" : ‘
Sir P. H. Durham, who was at the time " 'Of
sequence of. the breaking of the axle of the working eels 1,..
a midshipman on board.
wheels, at or near the throw. Fortunately no further et g ...0•1 /13,1%),11,
accident occurred. The coal train being near at hand, THE STRIKE OF MASO - e- :he 1405- yrs;
the engine belonging thereto was attached to the passenger upon the contractors for the erection °"- steal° et
train, and took it forward to Chesterfield, where it was ment, Trafalgar-square, and the New aitesonseeil r,
met by the pilot engine from the Marsbro' Station, Woolwich, receiving information that the fooeery sttlii,
which conveyed it to its destination. A corresponding works had " struck," these
togentlesne%use Cglefre 't
accident occurred the same afternoon to an engine on whole of the circumstances the Aatair
..../eisecle eery'
the Grand Junction ; but in this, as in the two pre- day morning Messrs. Grissell and Pet° recto til ,ee
ceding cases, the passengers and carriages escaped in- swer to their communication, which wrdaeraltio tarp
jury in consequence of the engine having six wheels.— that the Lords Coornissioners of the
mattersadd'
teie (tlte
Derbyshire Reporter. after perusing the communication
in the'
to
14
CASE OF POISONING BY LAUDANUM.—The " perfectly s'atisfied to leave the s thew to ,e
la not pres ehein
nn of
following case of poisoning is reported from the Middle- contractors') hands; they would n
trust to le fl of
vvoul tru fp A 5
~it
sex. Hospital, in the Lancet of this week :—A man was completion of the work, and
the occasion. „orL'e, et`
admitted, a short tinie since, into the hospital, about six every effort in their power on . ~ los up Joe ti
hours after having taken an ounce of laudanum, contain-. of masons at work on Saturday la that ,iis) ale o 0
ing 26. grains of opium. At the time of admission he hundred, and it is stated to be certaineo..eas, (taieoold
was apparently lifeless •; the surface of the body was cold, be at least 130 masons at work on .!1 enee'ael . eeer..o,e
countenance pale and livid. lips purple, pupils contracted ing. A number of masons arrivint.,,,
~I_l-ev,,, iota
.1.0 v.4,iii
to a mere point, respiration scarcely perceptible, pulse Saturday were not put to work un "07h1,;',a ,C°Lto °Wore
hardly to be felt. The laudanum was removed by the their strength. They stated thatf
__ teeedoaeeters teat
stomach-pump ; bat, in spite of every exertion, the Scotland a few hours after them ),,_e" cootir:boar,,,oo
pulse became more unfrequent, and was at times employment at the New Houses. -,leaitie; -i: 05'00
imperceptible, when recourse was had to electro- so confident in their resources for 0vi'...,0. or, e ens
be wantlk'a. to e
magnetism, which was applied by means of they anticipate there will not he end oj e.ieii
a small battery, with coil and contact-breaker, •the New Houses of Parliament b) t •
ape" jita';
01' r 0'
One wire was applied to the neck, and the other to the week. Gar ''' cdeee, 04 c
region of the heart or epigastrium, and by these a suc- ARTESIAN WELL A T with 0- loopSif 0
cession of very powerful shocks was given. Its good 1 lowering of the tube is likely. to meet . , tee „ :tee, ee
effects were very apparent. The muscles of respiration : culties than were at first anticipatede .A2esetitte'ly,i.)l;ce
were set in action, and the diaphragm contracted pow- 1 executing this operation, an obstact I's' eetepicee +w' ¢•
erfully s the chest was more fully expanded, respiration . a depth of about 300 metres, which
sn:bs-tole,rvotPii of
was more perfectly. carried on, and a corresponding ins- . dered the descent of the tube. Tbi e e e•reilt
~ 001'4(0:Ye
provernent was observable in the countenance. The M. Mulot can give no account, offe,,r'_,; 7.tisfo.val)
pulse imereved and became more poweifal, becoming .and they have evorked for eighot na.l
btain anY 510,1 t... 10,
steady when the current was interrupted for a few new power without beinn• able t o,til, ,_„. nits !,,,,,i, Vtic.
minutes. This alication was continued for several result. Almost the whole of the
.00lifjaea a Psteesr,
hours, and was finally successful—thus clearly establish- taken up again, and must be put dc.. %flogs 4
ing tile, influence of eleetreselagnetism under circum- ciple. The water continues to bri.n, up
; of santl.—lnventor's Advocate.
stances hitherto considered hopeless. • - * I