The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, , Ditto ditto ... ......
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Ditto Sheffield and
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very Lincolnshire
gloomy. Sales 4,000 bales Do., Grimsby Dock l7l' -
.-Railway Shares were very Do., Manch-ester and
heavy.
Very interesting accounts have Lincoln Union..... 4/. 2s -
just been received by iiidiand
..
the Hambargh mail. At Vienna, on the 15th instant, Do. Consolidated Pref.loo -
the idea of a pacific arrangement seems to have been Do., do., 50/.;Shares... 20 ... .. 534%%1A,
abandoned. There were immense preparations making Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
for a siege, and the Hungarians had advanced to within De•Consol. Bristol and
short distance of the town. The Five per Cent. Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 ll3 ... ... ......
rt&Glocstr. 38
re-opened no one would deal.
Metallics had fallen to 68, and although the Bourse was Ditto,Bis
Ditto, ditto .. .. 14/. 18s
In Berlin also a restless spirit prevailed among the Ditto
ningt'Leieest.& Swan-
on, 8 per ct.guar.loo -
workpeople. Barricades had been erected and some Midland Great Western
lives were lost, but on the 17th order was restored. Irish -
Everything must be unsettled even by these attempts at Middlesbro' and Redcar.
rioting. 6 per cent. guar. -
The Belgian Minister of Finance has made a very lieweastieand Carlisle...loo
satisfactory report upon the foreign trade of Belgium Do. Quarters 25 -
during the past year, and it is worthy of remark that Newmarket ........ . .. 20 -
while England had to complain of a falling off, Belgium Do. Extension ........21. 125.... - .........
enjoyed a larger share of foreign trade than in any former Newport, Abergavenny,
year. The official valuation of merchandise was revised and Hereford
...
last year. The general imports and exports exceeded Newry and Enniskillen 7
-
Newry, Warrenpomt,
those of 1846 by 15 and 27 per cent., the total amount and Rostrevor 2O - .. ....... ...•••
being 708,600,000 f. The consumption of foreign products Norfolk .......... 100
ncre axed 7 per cent. Do. New 201. - lO ..
-
There is now little attention paid to anything but Do. Guaranteed,s p ct. 20 -
the foreign news, and in the City business is dull. Do. Guaranteed 51a pc. 5 -
The Funds are affected by the news above given. Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... -
Consols opened at 841 to 85, but have receded since to Northern Counties Union 4 .».., -
North British ........... 25 .. ... 13 123/4
84i I; they are now about 841 i.. The New Three- Ditto, Nalvea .. -
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 84* to 4. India Ditto, Quarters - -
Stock is at 237. Exchequer-bills of June are 325. to Ditto, Extension 0% ... - •
365. premium. Ditto,lThirds .... .. .. 81/4 _.„ 8540/4
The Foreign Securities have been dull again, but are North & South-Western 2 -
firmer in some instances. Spanish Three per Cents., North Staffordshire l5 ..... 7 67,
rl_Glirsauotmeirlrcdpneftsoot.rne.dr.,:....a;.
and
however, :003 V 4
..... -
224, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 22. g. Mexican
_oorrtth-Wales .
Oxford,' hlnvg,
have rallied to tai ; Brazilian Small are 724. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 444.
Re_Wadoi
Shares are rather better on the whole. A few money
purchases have given a little tone to the market, which,
C,
PRICES.oRB3O Scottish
coopi}tiesttit oi
Ditto,
ohna:
New
ineeindwdtl
rHaanil tchi n . .
however, is neither very active nor firm. -
ONE ••••• ...... •••••••
PK ICFN OP' BEITIBEI FUNDS. O'CLOCK.d...
221:5 ..... 23 22%
Bank Stock -
'B-4 She,ffield, Rotherham, & - ••• ••••-••.•
8 per Cent. Reduced Arms.. ...... 833 A %1-4
83
:I
iii
13
Shrewsburys
IDGr eoowo.
Dittol do
(Sou.(Nor. Di
mi NT...
)) ...... 76%
.. .
.. . -.....
I per Cent. Consols Annuities 84% 85 84%3/4
8
New 314 perCent.Anns....- B4IA %%% 114,
,b u
ditto,
y a
nn dd RB Class ienr ne
fß.d.
...
2: ... . . -
Long Aims. to expire Jan.lB6o ... 8 7-16 %
India Stock 237 237
India Bonds, 1,0004 -
Cmsols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. Snrewsbury & Chester
1,000/. March ... 36 p 36 p (Nor. W. Min.) l6 -
1,0001. June 35 32 3$ p 86
~. Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... -
....• ......... '
500/. June - %,.1' Ditto Oswestry ...... 16 -
Small, June
36 p •
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10
nicEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS. aNE CLOSING: ""'•. -
O'CLOCK. PRICES. Shropshire Union
South Devon 5O ...... - .... ..... ... .
Do. Preference - ..•• •
South Staffordshire .5% .-•••• ••••
-,ouch Eastern .. 33% 2l
Do., No. 1 24 -
Do., N 0.2. -
Do., No. 3 ............. 25 ...... -
Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 ... -
...
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 's - ..... ...
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stat. C0a1.... 6 - ••• .. ...... ••• -
raw Vale Extension ... 8 - ••• •e ......... ...
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway -
Vale of Neath ... .. 4 - -
Waterford and Kilkenny 17% - ..• ............ -
Waterford and Limerick 45 -
Waterld,Wx.frd,Wicklw,
sad Dublin - ..............
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... 4234 - ...............
Do. do. do. ... 25
- ............... -.
Do. do. do. ... 0 - ... ..... ... _
West Cornwall ...... ..... 6 ... -. , ..............
.....
West London ......» ... 20 - ............... -
Do. Do. Ist Class ... 20 - ........... .••• .....
Do. Do. 2d Class ... 20 - ...............
W - ..... hitehaven & Furness 13...............
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 9% - , »............
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick....... 25 - - ... ............
Do. Original New and
Berwick - ...... ... .. 25
Do. Extension No. 1. 15
Do. do. No. 2. ... 15
Do. G-.N.E.Preference 8.. 4% 4/........
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference :-... 10
........
6 .. .....
Do. East and West Rid- ...
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Ita-
ban and Austrian).
Central of France (Or- - ..............
............... -
leans and Vierzon) ... 17 .. -
Ceylon
......
....
.... ............... -
Demerara 15%..... _ ............... -
Dendre Valley 4 . ........... .•• '-.-
Direct Bombay and -
Madras ss. . „.„ --
Dutch Rhenish ..... -.. 7'

urazilian:Bonds

Ditto; Small 72%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent--
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, Account 19%
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent 223/4
Russian Bonds .... ..
' Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent 2214
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 2% per Cent 3B
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild— 44% 441
/2
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 68% 68 68%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONR CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. D. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen

721/2
83:A
19A

223%
98

234
2214

Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 41A —
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 5
Belfast & County Down 17% -
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 „.... 22%
Do, withoutguaractee 20 ...
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 .....
Do. without guarantee 10
Binning., Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145... ••• •
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June._ 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. i ...
Bristol and Exeter B5 ... ..
Ditto, Thirds ..- ..... 25
Buckinghanazhire... 14/. 4s.
Caledonian -
Ditto, Half Shares .. 8%......
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 2i%...,.. %3/4 3/4
Ditto,Clydesdals June 50 -
Chester and Holyhead... 47%
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ......
Do. Government Loan,

22%

134

_
4 per Cent.
Direct London fe Ports-
.... ""

month
14...... _
Dublin and Belfast June. 35 .....
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20
-- •• """""••East Anglia, 254 L &
E. and L. and D...... 25 — „. _
........
Do., 181., E. & 1.1.... 18 —.Do., 31.105.
Eastern Counties...
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .... ...... 7%...... 7% 8
Ditto,Extension,s per
Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 135. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters ... ...... 12% — ......
Do. New
...... .... ..... _
~
Eastern Union, Class A ......
...le
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1
Ditto, Class B (L &
and B.)
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 .
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 ..- —
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent-- ...... 234 .
FAS Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 6154.....
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. •••
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, Newport l3
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ..... ..... ..8/. 6s. 8d
elasgow,Kilniar., & Ayr 50 ......
Do•Preferenee Consul.
Great Northern
Do., -1/2 A Deferred ... 12%. 3%
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed ...
Do. Extension 252 — ..... ...••
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 40/ 40
Ditto, ditto 25
Ditto, New, 301 3O
Ditto, New, 151
Great Western 9O ... .. 71

2%
121,4

/1A... •• •• •..
Great Indian Peninsular 1
East Indian .... ........... 34 - •
...... .....
,4
Louvain Ila Sambre .., 71,4 — Luxembourg
7 ...... _ ..................... Madrid and Valentia 2
..... .............., ..........
...
.........
Namur and Liege 2O ..... .., .
Northern of France l 2 ...... 6IA ...............
Orleans and Bordeaux
..... ..
..
"'De. Do. . lO
Paris and Orleans
...... 20
Paris and Rouen ......... 20 ...... ...-
Paris and Strasbourg ... 9 -- ...... •••—••
Rouen and Havre ...... 20 . 7,4..
Sambre and Meuse 2O ....... 2% Strasbourg and Basle

MINES.
% -- "' ******** '..
United Mexican 2B

21%

221,1
10

203/4

211,t

61%

-
314
a
A
_

1.....
....
....
a...m
••..

Ditto, tA, Shares
Ditto, IA Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... 15 .....

14%
15%
B!.gi

Ditto, New 171...... 13 ...
Huddersfield and Manch. 30
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... 40
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, 1/2 Shares
Do. Quarter Shares... 171/2
Do. Fifths. ... 9
Do. Sixteenths 614
UM. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 —
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 5
k Do. Liverp. and Bury 43
Ditto 1/2 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 43
De.(Wakefield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) 50 ......
Do.( W. Riding Union) 7
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. 1/2 Shares (A).-
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 ......
Do., Half Shares
Do., (blue) Scrip —
Leeds and Thirsk .....
Ditto, New ............. 35
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL .......
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport 3L!
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction...
London &Blackwall...l3/.65..i1d
Do. Extension
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O 25% ......
Do.Guarant. 5 per ct..,
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ...
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50
Ditto, New Si., guar.

40
6!i

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, OCT. 20.—Wind N.N.W., moderate breeze
and dull weather.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 19.—Arrd. Flora, Maitland, Prince
Edward's Island. 18. Sld. Industry, Senegal; Henry
Alexander, New Orleans; Caledonia, ditto; Liscard,
ditto; Laidman's St. Thomas. 19, Douce( Dario,
Mauritius; Charles Chaloner, New Orleans; Eu Whit-
ney, Boston. Off port, Blarney steamer.
DEAL, Ocr. 19. Arrd. from the river and ald., Ar-
cadian, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

25%

- V 6 per cent. 4 —
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
Ditto, Preference... 18117 s 2d...
London and N. Western 100 ......103 102% 103%
Do Quarters (L.& B.) 22 .....•
Ditto, New
Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 4
Do. 40/.Shares (L. M.) 25 —
Do. 101. M. & B.) A. 9 —
Do. 10/. (M. k B.) B. 9
Do. 101.( M.& B.) C. 1
Loud. &S. Western 5O .... 37 ....
Do. New 501. ...
Do. New 401. ... 34
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto
Ditto. Thirds.. ......131. 6s. 3d... 6 din..
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls ...I/. 13s. 4d... % dis. .......
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ....... ........ VA...-.
Londonderry&Coleraine 2714.-- -....*
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 27
Lowestoft ( %...... ... ..... .....
4 per et.)
Ditto (6 per ct.)
Manzhester,Bnaton,and
Matlock 4 ......
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18
•• Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... le
Ditto, Gt.Grimsloy «. 35
Ditto ditto • ...r••... 11 -.••• •••..•••• .40

103%

1%
361 A
25i

6 dis,

IA dis.

CROOK/EATEN, OtT 16.—Arrd. Visits, Richibucto, for
Cork, carried away deck load Sta.
Conic, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Collingwood, Havannab.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 19.—Wind N.N,E.—Arrd. Bra-
zilian, Power, Pernambuco, for Antwerp; Elizabeth,
Midwinter, Grenada.

SWANSEA, OCT. 18.—S1d, Sunbeam, Cuba; Sir L.
Goldsmith, Cuba.

WEYMOUTH, OCT. 19.—The Hebe, Atwool, from
Neath to Portland, and the Caroline, Atwool, of Ply-
mouth, from Sheerness to Portland, have both been
driven on shore in these roads during a gale from
N.N.E. ; both are damaged, but are expected off in a
tide or two.

ILFRACOMBE, OCT. 19.—The Aurora, Lewis, from
Cardiff, put in here yesterday, having sprung a leak off
Hangman Hill, and filled soon after, and today she
became a total wreck ; crew and part of her materials
saved. It has blown a gale here all night from N.
to N. E.
RILYLE, Orr. 19.—The Downshire, Willigan, of
Bebast, fore Liverpool, has been abandoned under
Abergile ; crew saved. She had previously sprung a
leak at pa, and is in a very bad state.
ULL, OCT. 19.-It blew excessively heavy durin
the H
whole of last night from N.E. to N.N.E., but is now more moderate.

CROMER. OCT. 19.—The stern-board of a vessel,
marked " Leipzig," has been washed on shore near
Steringham. It is feared that some eessel has been
lost off this coast during the late N.E. gales.

PEACE COI GILEBB.—We understand that arrange-
ments are in progress for holding a great meeting of the
friends of peace, at Exeter-hall, on Tuesday evening,
the 31st of October, to receive the president and rice
presidents of the Peace Congress recently held at Brus-
sels, who are expected to meet in London for the pur-
pose of presenting the address voted at that Congress to
the Governments of Europe and America. The address
will be presented by these gentlemen to Lord John Rus-
sell as the head of the British Government Similar
meetings in Birmingham and Manchester will follow the
one in London, and it is expected that the deputation
will afterwards proceed to Paris and Frankfort for the
same purpose. The names of the gentlemen forming the
deputation are M. Visschers, Councillor to the Belgian
Government; M. F. Bouvet, member of the French Na-
tional Assembly; Le Baron Swingar, of Holland; Mr.
Elihu Burritt, of the United States; and Mr. W. Evart,
M.P., for England.

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION, ST.
GEORGE'S-IN-THE-FlRLDS.—Yeaterday a meeting of the
managing committee of this society, for the reformation
of criminal and vagrant children, was held at the institu-
tion, to consider the proposition for the purchase of a
portion of the society's ground on building leases—the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the treasurer, in
the chair. It appears that a street from the London-
road to the St. George's-road, which would open a
direct communication between the former and Kenning-
ton, has long been contemplated by different parties in
the neighbourhood, so that there were several offers for
the ground in question ; and the most advantageous
having been decided on, thanks were voted to Mr. R. L.
Jones for his advice as to the most judicious disposal of
the property. A plan of the model farm school, the ground
for which has been recently purchased at Barnet, and
to which the institution will shortly be removed, were
circulated at :the meeting, and from an accompany.
ing statement, it appeared that the system adopted at
Mettrai, and other parts of the continent where kindred
institutions existed, could be introduced there, the in-
mates being divided into families of about forty or fifty
each, and instructed by a master and his wife, who
would be in constant association with them. One of
these families is to form a sort of probationary class, in
which the boy will be placed on his admission into the
institution, and where he will be under the constant su-
perintendence of the chaplain, who will from time to
time report those boys whom he may consider fitted
for removal to another family. Emigration to the Bri-
tish colonies being the chief means proposed by the
society for the ultimate provision of the boys, the in-
struction will be confined to reading, writing, arithmetic,
and those arts which will best qualify them for their in-
tended destination. A committee, consisting of the
Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Harrow by, and
other gentlemen distinguished for their philanthropy,
has been specially Appointed to superintend the eeeu-
&ion of this plan.

LITERATURE.
COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENG-
LAND. By Henry John Stephen, Esq., Sergeant-at-
Law. Second Edition. ' Prepared for the Press
by James Stephen, Esq., Barrister •at- Law.
Diffidence is not in general the characteristic of
those who assume the functions of literary criticism,
but we will confess that we approached the gigantic
work before us with some misgivings—we felt that a
new treatise, as we may fairly call this, on the all-
important subject of the laws of England—a subject
affecting the property, liberty, and life, of all over
whom the British sceptre holds sway, was not to be
slurred over currente calamo. We felt that although,
in some partimilars, we might venture to review a
legal work, even of this magnitude, that the diurnal
occupations of the editorial chair might not afford
sufficient leisure to do justice either to the subject,
the author, or to ourselves. These feelings were not
diminished when we looked into the work itself, and
made ourselves conversant with the bold design of the
daring and adventurous author--when we beheld
alterations unscrupulously introduced into the text of
that graceful and learned commentator, whose
unrivalled labours form the groundwork of this as of
all other recent commentaries on the laws of Eng-
land, and which will be read with delight and in-
struction as a model of pure English composition, so
long as that language remains the medium of com-
municating ideas. When we beheld the numerous
and wide deviations from the bright and profound
original, we did feel some solicitude lest the con-
cise and elegant author of one of our ablest text
books, " Stephen on Pleading," might have attempted
a task beyond even his faculties to accomplish, though
bringing with him the well-merited stamp of public
approbation as a most successful legal writer.
In most natures it is more agreeable to bestow praise
where merit points it due, than to point out defects
and inflict censure when stern justice demands it in the
exercise of the public censor's duty. The more
agreeable part devolves on us in the present in-
stance. After an attentive perusal of the volumes,
we find much to commend and but little to find
fault with. The present work differs from all former
commentaries in many important points; not only
in the general plan and design, but in the analytic ar-
rangements adopted by his predecessors. The Learned
Sergeant points out with much learning and clearness
the defects in the analysis of Hale as adopted by Black-
stone. He retains the main division of municipal law
into rights and wrongs, and the division of" wrongs"
into civil and criminal. But he entirely deviates
from the usual diiision of " rights," which hitherto
have been distributed into "the rights of persons"
and " the rights of things"—a form of expression
which the Learned Sergeant remarks " does not
clearly convey the intended meaning, and would be
more fitly expressed if divided into the rights re-
lating to persons and the rights relating to things,"
in accordance with the language of the institutes of
Justinian, " Omne jus quo utimur, vel ad personas
pertinet, vel ad res, vel ad actiones." We merely
notice this verbal criticism of the Learned Sergeant as
leading to a more grave and important deviation from
the usual order of his predecessors. In all former
commentaries not only the rights immediately affect-
ing the persons, which are but two—namely, per-
sonal security and personal liberty—but the laws by
which the person is affected in the social relations of
parent, and child, husband and wife, Ex., are fully
discussed before the question of property is examined;
but, in- the present work, the learned commentator
follows what appears to us the more natural order,
and immediately after the absolute rights of the per-
son—life, liberty, and security--he enters into the
consideration of the rights of property, and cor-
rectly, in our opinion, seeing that in considering the
relative rights arising from social relations, we must
presuppose property as well as the absolute ones of
life, liberty, and security. Thus, then, he has re-
solved the rights relating to the person into the fol-
lowing divisions :
First. Of personal rights, such as regard a man's
own person.
, Second. Of rights of property, or such as regard
his dominion over the external things by which he is
surrounded.
Thirdly. Of rights in private relations as a member
of a family.
Fourthly. Of public rights, such as regard his
social condition as a member of the community.
Wrongs are divided in accordance with, the views
of Blackstone, into—
First. Civil injuries, when the violation of a right
merely affects an individual; and,
Secondly, Into causes, when it affects the commu-
nity at large.
The laws relating to highways and turnpikes, and
those relating to the important subject of the Poor-
laws, are fully considered under their several heads
in natural order, and not incidentally referred to
as in Blackstone. We cannot close our first
and hurried notice of this great work without expres-
sing our unqualified approval of the many and great
improvements introduced, as well as the original
matter so beautifully interwoven with the text,
whence the first elements of legal lore are usually
imbibed by almost every legal student. We hope
speedily to return te the subject, and indicate some
of those important alterations which modern legisla-
tion rendered necessary, and which have been so
judiciously handled by the learned commentator.
The obvious improvement of presenting the text in a
continuous form, without the distraction of a continual
reference to supplemental notes, must be manifest to
teivoenr.y sEt uvdeernyt
laawn d d y e
r e
mseruvsets
btela e
familiarb es twciot mh mt
heen ds
ua- -
perstructure. The concise and graceful style of the
Learned Sergeant is in every way worthy of the
solid and beautiful basis on which it is erected, and
we shall indeed be gratified to behold the result of
this vast undertaking crowned with the success which
the close research and unwearied exertions of this
distinguished author so richly merit.

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lights at times exhibited that it was the reflection of
some distant fire; they covered the whole face of the
heavens, and from their singular and rapid movements
may well be designated the " merry dancers." Such
was the effect produced by them on the wires of the
electric telegraph as to render the working of the needles
on the machines altogether impossible for the time.
ACCIDENT TO THE CITY OF CANTERBURY
STEAXER.—CHATHAM, OCT. 19.—Yesterday, at half-
past four o'clock, P.M., the City of Canterbury steamer,
Captain Large, with about fifty passengers, came along-
side the Sun Pier, at Chatham, with the loss of one of
her paddle-boxes; she had left London at ten o'clock,
A.M., with passengers for Margate. The wind during
the whole of the day blew very strong from the north;
and on her arrival off the Isle of Sheppy, owing to the
severe gales, and the heavy sea dashing over her, her
starboard paddle-box was washed away. Captain Large
was very desirous that his passengers should not be de-
layed, and he ran his vessel into the mouth of the Med-
way, whence it was towed up to Chathaui, and the pas-
sengers were landed and provided with conveyances to
Maidstone, so that they were enabled to proceed to Mar-
gate the same night by the South-Eastern Railway. The
City of Canterbury left this morning at six o'clock,
shipwrights having been employed the whole night in
erecting a new paddle-box.

EARL? CLOSING MOVEMENT.—A public meeting,
convened by a committee of employers in all trades re
sident in Sboreditch and its neighbourhood, was held at
the White Hart, Bishopsgate-street, last night, for the
purpose of promoting the early closing of establishments
engaged in all descriptions of retail business. A con-
siderable number of respectable shopkeepers of the dis-
trict attended on the occasion; Mr. Hopkins, master
draper, occupying the chair. Mr. Edward Deane,
grocer, moved the first resolution, as follows:—" That
this meeting is of opinion that while the late-
hour system is seriously injurious to assistants,
morally, intellectually, and physically, it is also op-
posed to the welfare of employers, increasing, as it
does, their expenses, without adding to their business,
and affording them little or no opportunity for family
intercourse, or other social recreations." The motion
having been seconded by Mr. George Kerry,
draper, was carried unanimously. After several able
speeches bad been delivered, indicating the rapid pro-
gress which the movement is now making in the estima-
tion of the public generally, and the great advantages
that have resulted to all parties from the adoption of the
short-hour system among the drapers, the subjoined re-
solution was next moved, and also carried unanimously :
—"That this meeting is of opinion that the following
regulations for closing shops generally in this district
are perfectly practicable, and would be attended with
advantage to all parties, viz., from the Ist day of Sep-
tember to the last day of March at eight, and the re-
maining months at nine o'clock ; excepting, however, in
the case of chemists, bakers, and butchers (ill which
trades closing should take place one hour later) ; ex-
cepting also on Saturday evenings, when closing ought
to take place not less than one hour nor more than two
hours later than on other evenings." The proceedings
concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman.
THE MORNING MAlM—Notice was issued yester-
day at the General Post-office that the following places
have been added to the list of post-towns to which let-
ters and newspapers are forwarded by the morning mail
trains, and those towns to which they have been discon-
tinued:—Blandford, Bodmin, Broadway, Camelford,
Chipping Norton, Edenbridge, Enstone, Evesham, Fal-
mouth, Fazeley, Harwich, Hilstone, Henley-on-Thames,
High Wycombe, Horsham, Kettering, Leatherhead,
Liskard, Losthuil, Mannington, Marlow, Magazion,
Moreton-in-Marsh, Oldham, Penryn, Penzance, Per-
shore, Redruth, St. Neot's, St. Austel, St. Columb,
Tenterdon, Tetbury, Truro, Winchfield, and Woodstock.
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