The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-02 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS

JOHN ANDERSON,, jeweller, Edinburgh, Oct. 6 and
Nov. 3, at one, at the Ship Tavern, Edinburgh.
JOHN FLEMING and ALEXANDEkt FLEMING,
cattle dealers, Drumacharan, Perth, Oct. 6 and 29, at one, at
the Chambers of Mr. M'Farlane, Crescent, Perth.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending Sept. 28, 1841, is
333. 94-d. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain.

ACCIDENT TO. LORD SYDENHAM.—It iS
with pain that we lay before our readers the following
information received froth our Kingston Correspond-
ent. We sincerely hope the injury sustained by his
Lordship may prove to be of a much-less. serious
character than here represented : " I have bad news
to send.• His Excellency has mat with a severe accident
when riding on.horseback. According to what I learn
from various members and from the reports at the
North American,' he has broken his leg in two places,
and is otherwise injured, the horse having, it is reported,
dragged him on the ground some distance. I have every
reason to think this unfortunate occurrence is too true.
As I have received it I send it to you."—Montreal Courier.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

There was some abatement of the pressure for Money
in the Stock Exchange, but the expectation of ac-
counts from America checked business operations, :yid
when they came to hand the Market closed flatly. Con-
suls realised Hi to 89/, and, for the Account 89i /.
Money was still tight, and Exchequer Bills were not
higher than 1 ls. to 13s. premium. India Bonds, how-
ever, improved to is. premium, but East India Stock
fell to 2451 and 245. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. were at 98} to
The accounts from Madrid to-day were again loAed
upon as very favourable, and this gave a further lift to
prices. The Active Spanish Bonds were 22# to 1 for
Money, and 22/ tol for Account. Portuguese New Five
per Cents., owing to the advertisement respecting the
dividend, were at 302 for Money, mid 30# to 31 for
Account. Mexican Stock was flat at 25. Danish Bonds
were firm at 782 ex dividend ; and Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. at 51# to :41.
The share market was rather flat for Brighton, but
the others were much the. same. Great Western -way realised 111 ; the New, 41 ; the York and North •
Midland, 27 ; the Birmingham, 67 ; and the South
W estern, 12# premium ; Brighton were 5i ito ;
Greenwich, 12:1 ; 'North Midland, New, 71 ; Smith
Eastern, 231 ; Croydon, 2 ; and Eastern Counties, 15
discount. London and Westminster Bank shares were
to l premium.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm again this
afternoon. Bills on Paris were taken at 25f. 65c.
to 671jc. ; Hamburgh, 13 102 to 11 ; Amsterdam,
12 41 to ; Frankfort, 149 ; Antwerp, 12
.31 ; to 4 ;
and Trieste, 9 52 to 53.
(From The Sun of Last Nirlit.)
LiyEnpooi SEPT. 30.—Off Point *Lynas et three
P.m., the Britannia- steamer, from Boston and Halifax.
Iler arrival in port is expected about six or seven p.m. ;
therefore the letters and papers by her may arrive in
London about two o'clock.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 30.—The sales
to-day are 4,000 hales, of which 500 have been taken for
export, and the remainder entirely to the trade.
oDtilAcen
'in heSlgvrha.r3eolNTalrVkeethtadv-edanyo.
PThe transactions are:—Grand. Junction, Half Shares,
airjEuElßaPrOfeOlSirieiAtolun
98; Liverpool and Manchester, 198 ; Half Shares, 92 ;
Quarter, 46i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 30.—We
have no change to note in our Market: Manchester
and Leeds, 551 and 56 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 15s.
prem. ; London and Birmingham, 157 ; Manchester
Assurance, 91 ex. div. ; Manchester. and Liverpool
District Bank, 9/. 18s. .

Her Majesty's packet Swift has arriy,ed at Falmouth
with a mail from the West Indies; the dates are, from
Trinidad, 19; Demerara, 20 ; Barbadoes, 21 ; and Ja-
maica, 28th August. '
We take the following from the Jamaica papers:—
PROROGATION OF THE ASSEMBLY.—His Excellency
the Governor has been pleased to issue his proclamation,
bearing date 25th August, further proroguing thellouse
of Assembly, till Tuesday, 6th October next.
The barque Annandale has brought the sum of
56,0001. in specie, for the use of the Colonial Bank. The
Directors of that institution have published a Report,
showing a statement of the affairs of the Bank for the
half-year ending the 31st December, and a profit of 8
per cent. on the paid-up capital of the Corporation fur
that period.
CA RTHAGENA.—The schooner Susan arrived at Ja-
maica on the 27th of August. We understand that she
was not allowed to land the [cargo of provisions, &c.,
which she took away with her to that place.
Affairs are said to be still unsettled. Her Majesty's
steamer Hydra has left Port Royal for• Carthagena, at
the urgent request of the merchants of this city, for the
purpose of affording protection to British merchants and
property at that port, which has been declared in a state
of blockade by the adherents of the Spanish General
Carmona.

The trust deed of Troughton, Brothers, and Co., is
published at full length in the Demerara paper of the 20th
August, but it contains nothing of interest to the credi-
tors, except that the latter will claim to have credit for
the bills accepted and returned upon them unpaid, to
the amount of 103,4901. 7s. 11d.
The English Stock :Market continues depressed.
Consols opened at 88i 89 for Money, and 89t- 4 for the
Account ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem.
There has been a great deal of business doing in
Spanish Securities this morning. The Active Stock has
advanced.to 224 23 ; Deferred is 111, and Passive 58
The merchants connected with the American and Ca-
nadian trade are anxiously waiting for their letters by
the Britannia steamer, which are expected to be de-
livered about three o'clock. The advices that she will
bringwill be thirteen days later than the former accounts.
The business doing in the English Securities has been
to tt limited extent. Consols are now 88i- 89 for Money,
and 89k buyers for the Account ; Exchequer Bills,
11 13 premium ; India Bonds, 1 premium ; and the
Stock, 245.
There has been a fair business doing in the Foreign
Market, but it has been principally in Spanish. The
Active Stock remains firm at 22-k. The Passive is
quoted at ; Danish Bonds 784, ex div. ; Portuguese
Five per Cents. 30a ; • Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
514 ; Ditto Fives 991, ex div.
In the. Share Market price are lower. Great Western,
761 ; Ditto, New, 64 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 57;
London and Brighton, 45 ; Loudon and Birmingham,
157 ; Ditto, Thirds, 53 ; South Western, 51 • Midland
Counties, 74 ; South Eastern and Dover, 14 ; York
and North Midland, 76.
As we stated yesterday the delay in the announce-
ment of the Brazilian Dividends was not attributable to
the new EnVoy from the Brazils, Senor Lisboa, but
to his predecessor, Senor Montezuma. In fact,
Senor Lisboa was not duly accredited to this
Court until 'Wednesday, and he could not there-
fore act ; but when once acknowledged his first public
act of his Ministry was to announce the pay-
ment of the Dividends. Thi4 is the best, because
it is the true answer to the vapourings of the Times,
Post, and Herald, against the new Brazilian Envoy.
We perceive that some of these are voluntary praises
and excuses for S. Montezuna, and perhaps he requires
them all.
All are anxiously expecting the delivery of the letters
by the Halifax steamer. The details, if any, respecting
M`Leod's trial, are fully looked for in The Sun of this
Evening by most parties in the City.
Consuls, Money. 881 89 ; do. Account, 89i,-'-; Spanish,
22:41i. Nothing doing in anything else.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
lhnk Stock !lndia Stock ...245
3 per Cent Red — Ditto Bonds ,
3 per Cent Cons B9A Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent Red — ''Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 9Bi !Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21c1 13 pi)
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. .
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859 !lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 30,1
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per Ditto, !Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... !Spanish, 5 per cent 22i
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent. 784 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18'45, 5 per cent. !Exchange —f. —c,
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 25 French, 3 per cent —f. c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625, ' Dutch, 2} per cent. ... 51g
Peruvian, 1525, 6 per et. IDitto, 5 per cent ...99
SHARES

Birmingham and Gloucester Railwav(loo p)
Ditto New Shares (7* paid) ... 4i
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 8
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 76i
Ditto .New Shares (50 paid s4*
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)... 44i
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 7*
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l 3
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 14i
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) • 77

WESTMINSTER HARMONIC
SOCIETY.

The Westminster Harmonic Society gave a grand con-
cert of Sacred Music, last evening, at the Temperance
Hall, Broadway, Westminster. This is one of those
Societies which hare been formed of late years for the
cultivation of choral music, and which are destined to
form a prominent feature in the future history of
music in England. If a taste for fine and clas •
sical music is ever to: be regenerated amongst us—
if we are hereafter destined to attain, and to maintain
the same high rank in music we have already attained
in ether liberal arts—it must be mainly through the in-
strumentality of such Societies as these. Sincerely,
therefore, do we rejoice to record their triumphs—cor-
dially do we bid them " God speed," and fain would we
see a Choral Society established in every town and vil-
lage of the empire. The concert of last evening con-
sisted of a grand selection from the oratorios
of the Messiah and Judas Maccabeus, the solo pas-
sage* being given by professional vocalists, one of whom,
Miss Cubitt, was in excellent voice, and sang with
exqUisite taste and expression, while the choruses were
sustained by the members of the Society. The manner in
•,%hich the choruses were given reflects the highest credit
upon the Westminster Harmonic-Society. There was a
firmness and precision exhibited which is not often met with
even in the regularly trained chorus of our public esta-
blishments. It was , evidently a labour of love—every
one who took
.part in it had become imbued with the
spirit of the sublime Master. Each thoroughly appre-
ciated the composition as a whole, and the consequence
was that all the choral effects were completely under-
stood, and as completely developed. We have never
heard the grand Hallelujah chorus better given.
The orchestra, which was full and efficient, was
ably led by Mr. Pringle, and the concert was conducted
by Mr. Webb. This gentleman would be an excellent
conductor if he would break himself of the evil habit
which he has contracted of slapping his baton audibly
upon his book at the conclusion of every bar. This mars
the effect of the finest passages, and the Westminster
Harmonic "Society is composed f those who are far too
good musicians to stand in need of such auctioneer-like
practices to keep them to their time. We sincerely con-
gratulate the members of the *Westminster Harmonic So-
ciety on their triumph of last evening, and hope to have
the pleasing duty of recording many a similar one. The
audience was numerous, and, we are glad to say, most
. attentive.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—One of the
messengers of the Foriegn-office is always in attendance
at the House of Lords during the time that the Duke of
Wellington is in the House, as it is the usual custom of
his Grace to send a despatch to her Majesty stating the
nature of the business which has been transacted as early
as possible after the 1101150 xises,—Ninisterial Paper

COURT CIRCULAR., ~
A Albert passed
std la'na ronu . r
n Hit
the
forenoon
ntisi
itittzsg.Princen
o e
Little Park ; but the weather ltas.Lwen so unfavourable,
that her Majesty and the Princess Royal have not left
the Castle to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt.
Francis Seymour, arrived at the Castle at three o'clock
this afternoon from Woolwich, where her Royal High-
ness arrived about noon from Ostend, in the Firebrand,
Capt. S. B. Cooke, which left Ostend at eleven o'clock
last night, and had a fine passage.
The Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse, arrive .1 :At
the Castle on a visit to the Queen.
Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.
Lord Charles Wellesley, the Clerk Marshal, has suc-
ceeded Colonel Wemyss as the Equerry in Waiting on
her Majesty.
• Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, will- have the
honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party at the Castle
this evening. • .
One of the coaches 'belonging to the Stlarn Coach
Company was, by permission, exhibited to--ti ay. /teller ma-
jesty and her illustrious Consort in the -Quadrangle of
the Castle. The carriage. Was under the superinten-
dence of Mr. John Squire, the Company's Engineer.
Her Majesty and his Royal. Highness. wore -•graei!eisly
pleased to express themselves. gratified :by.this novel and
interesting piece of mechanism. .•
.'Her Royal Highness the Duchess ;,of ,-K,ent„,zittexided
by Lady Anne Maria Dawson,H Sir~ George; Cooper;
Bart., and Capt. Frencis Seymour,- landed at Woolwich
Dock-yard yesterday morning from a Government.steam-
packet from Ostend. Her Royal Highness-spas received
on landing by Col. Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and immediately entered onatif the Queen'i
carriages and four, and left the Royal Dock-yard for the
metropolis. Her Royal Highness arrived at the Royal
Mews, at Pimlico, at one o'clock, and after a very short
stay proceeded to Windsor Castle; attended by Lady
Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt.- Francis
Seymour, on a visit to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Kuesbeck, left Cambridge House on
Thursday evening on their return to Kew. •
His Excellency Chekib Effendi, Turkish Ambassador
at this Court, has left London f,;17 Paris, andmFoad-rEf-
fendi, First Secretary of the Embassy, it*poitited
here Charge d'Affairs pre tem., by the Sublinie:Porte:•
Despatches from Lord Sydenham, Governiii -oe, Ca-
nada, and also from the Governors of .Netv,Bimsitiek
and Nova Scotia, were received yesterday aftermiany fat
the Colonial-office. !1;v- f

Despatches were sent off last . evening Bonn the Cotof‘
nial-office, for the Governors of•th•West.rwlia Colonies
Baron Brunow, the• Russian Minister; the • Austrian
Charge d'Affaires, and the Prussian Charge d'Affaires
visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. Foad Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires,
also transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
PRESENTATION OF THE NEW

SHERIFFS.
On Thursday, agreeably to ancient custom, the newlj
elected Sheriff's for the City of London and county of
Middleex, were presented in the Court of Exchequer fur
her Majesty's approval.
The Civic procession, composed of the Lord Mayor,
Alderman Gibbs, Alderman John Johnson, Alderman
Lainson, Sir Chapman Marshall, the Recorder, the past
and present Sheriff's, accompanied by the officers of the
Corporation, arrived at Westminster Hall shortly before
three o'clock, and immediately proceedetbto' the Court of
Exchequer.
The CURSITOR BARON (Geo. Ban!cesiEsq.), having
taking his seat on the Bench, f
The RECORDER said—Mr. Baron Bankes,l have the
honour to present in this Court for her Majesty's appro-
bation, Mr. Alderman Magnay and Alexander Rogers,
Esq., who have been elected by the unanimous voice of
their fellow-citizens to fill the high and important offices
of Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex for the
year ensuing. The Livery, my Lord, actuated by a sin-
cere desire to promote the public welfare and advance
the common weal of the City of London, have selected
the two gentlemen present to fill the office of Sheriff's ;
the individuals so selected are in every respect eminently
qualified to carry out the views of their fella w• citizens,
and promote their true interests. As regarded the late
Sheriffs, their year of office was ended. They had abund-
antly fulfilled all the expectations that were formed of
them, and they now retired with the thanks and best
wishes of their fellow-citizens. After some further ob-
servations, the Recorder said it now remains my duty to
ask fur her Majesty's approval of the gentlemen who have
been appointed Sheriffs of London for the year ensuing.
Mr. Baron BANKES said—Mr. Recorder, on behalf of
her Majesty I am authorised to acknowledge and ap-
prove in the fullest manner of the gentlemen whom the
livery have elected to be Sheriffs of London and Sheriff
of Middlesex for the ensuing year. I am commanded
further to recognise and confirm in the most ample. Ma-
nner the rights and privileges of the citizens ofLondon.
I am fully aware of the antiquity of those rights gel
privileges—they are nearly cotemporary with the char-
ter of English.rights, and they have uniformly 7been ex-
ercised in a manner not only beneficial to the city of
London but to the interests of' the 'country at large.
After a few complimentary remarks, on the satisfactory
and praiseworthy mannerin-which the late Sheriffs went
through their year of office, the Learned Baron said, " I
will not detain you longer; but conclude with congratu-
lating the Livery on the choice they have made, and ex-
press a hope, a sincere prayer, for the health, happiness,
and success of the citizens of London."
Mr. Alderman GIBBS, the senior • Alderman present
who has not passed the chair, then came forward and
chopped two bundles of sticks, counted six horseshoes,
and sixty-one hob-nails, by virtue of which service the
.Corporation hold certain estates in Shropshire.
The RECORDER, in the name of the Sheriffs, then in-
vited the Learned Baron to the inauguration banquet, at
the Albion Tavern, which his Lordship accepted, and

,he officers of the Corporation retired. -
THE INAUGURATION BANQUET OF THE

SHERIFFS ELECT.

Mr. Alderman Magnay and Mr. Rqgqrs gave a ban-
quet last evening, at the Albion Tavern, in celebration
of their inauguration as Sheriffs for the ensuing year.
About 170 Gentlemen sat down at dinner.

Mr. Alderman MAGNAY presided in the absence of
the Lord Mayor, who was prevented from taking the
chair by indisposition.
The Chairman was supported by Mr. Sheriff Rogers
Lord Dudley Stuart, the Recorder, Sir John Key, Sir
George Carroll, Mr. Masterman, M.P., Aldermen Lucas,
Gibbs, and the late Sheriffs Evans and Wheelton.
. The band of the Artillery Company was stationed in
the music gallery, and during dinner performed airs from
Le Nozze di Figaro, Sonnambub, and many other ad-
mired operas.
The cloth having been removed, the professional gen-
tlemen, Messrs. Hawes, Hobbs, Fitzwilliam, Hawkins,
Atkins, and Calvert, sung the Benedictus.
The usual loyal toasts, and those fitting to the occa-
sion, followed in quick succession, and were drunk with
all the honours.
The banquet was altogether -of a very recherche
character, and evidenced that no expense had been
spared by the worthy hosts, in providing for the comfort
of their guests, and supporting the dignity of the office
to which they had been elected. We cannot praise too
highly the wines and viands. The character of the
Albion Tavern was !fully sustained ; they were in all-re
spects excellent. To particularise the goodness of any
one thing would be invidious where all were so good.
The company separated shortly before midnight.

THE WEA'II-LER.--NooN, OCTOBER 1.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELA I BE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 59 Highest 59 J Lowest .. 46
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 322 Deg.

The Quarterly. Repiciu is remarkable for igno- *,
rance and impudence. Of the latter quality we gaye a ,
choice specimen on Tuesday. That journal boldly recom-
mends more palaces, to, promote the -public .happiness. Of
the, former quality the first page,of the journal supplies:as
striking a proof, as this is of its. impudence. When a
lecturer reads or delivers a lecture, he requires but one
book, and his single voice reads for all the auditory. In
a great majority of cases the lecturer reads better and more
impressively than any one of his auditors, and certainly
far better than the greater number of them. The dis-
course is more impressive than individual reading ; it
serves for all who hear, and no, copies more than one is
required. Lecturing, then, is a great means of saving
time and mom* and of obtaining an improved instruc-
tion. The Quarterly Review is, however, ignorant of
these effects, and therefore concludes that lecturing, to
be beneficial, should be confined to lectures on subjects
requiring the exhibition of plans, diagrams, models,
specimens, or experiments. We are at a loss which most
to admire—the impudence, or the self-conceited ignorance
of the Quarterly.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG FE-
MALE—On Wednesday at twelve o'clock an inquest
was held before Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and a
Jury, at the sign of the Old Greyhound, Fulham-fields,
on view of the body of Mary Welch, a fine-looking
young woman, 23 years of age. It appeared that the
deceased was the wife of a labouring man named Richard
Welch, residing at the above house, and was near her
confinement with her first child. For some months she
had been suffering from a bad leg, and, on the afternoon
of Saturday last, between' five and six o'clock, she was
dressing .her leg in the presence of some of her friends,
and pulled off the bandage for the purpose of applying
some ointment, when ,the contents of the wound came
away with it, and the wound began to bleed profusely.
The persons in the house tried every means in their
power to stop the haemorrhage, but without effect; when,
finding the deceased had fallen into a fainting fit, they
sent for a surgeon, but before his arrival the deceased
had bled to death, having ruptured one of the smeller
vessels of the leg. The Coroner said it was a great pity
it was not more generally known, that in all cases of
bursting blood-vessels in the extremities, instead of per-
sons being seated in chairs they ought to be laid on the
floor ; and had that course been adopted in the instance
of the, deceased, herrlife might probably have been
saved. Verdict--" Bled to death from the rupture of a
blood-vessel in the leg." -
Most of our readers are not, perhaps, aware that
it is contrary to law in France to take even a pitcher of
water from the sea, lest it should be evaporated for
the sake of gaining an ounce or so of salt, and avoiding
the payment of.the salt-ditty. The Sentinellc des Pyre-
nees informs us, that a servant who was taking a pail
of water from the sea, at Briarrits, a few days ago, for-
a bath for a child who was ill, was perceived by a
Custom-house officer, who instantly compelled her to
*row it back, and return with the empty pail.
Admiral:Sir Edward Owen. has got the naval
command in the 'Mediterranean, in place of Sir Robert
Stopford.
•