The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAIL-

AY C
Notice is hereby given,
thathetPANY. SHARE CERTIFICATES will
be in course of DELIVERY on and after the 31st day of October inst.,
at the Offices of the Company, 1, Poet's-corner, Westminster.
Proprietors who have not received the return of it. 2s. Gd. on the
original Leeds and Carlisle shares are requested to send in the same
without delay. This scrip will require to be left for seven clear days
with the Secretary for examination.
By order, CHARLES LOCOCK WEBB, Sec.
Company's Offices, I, roet's-corner, Westminster.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
OPENING OF THE BRANCH LINE TO BEDFORD.
NOTICE. —The public are informed that on TCESDAY NEXT, the
20th instant, this RAILWAY will be OPENED THROUGHOUT to
BEDFORD, and that Trains will be dispatched
FROM EUSTON STATION
At 3!, past 7 Aar., arriving at Bedford at about 14 past 10.
M before 11 A.m.,
M past 1.
past 5 P.M., 8 r.m.
AND FROM BEDFORD
At M before 8 A.m., arriving at the Euston Station at about
20m. past 10 A.M.

THE PROBABLE SUPPLY OF
FOREIGN GRAIN THIS YEAR.
The total number of corn-laden ships now on their
way from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to this
country, is between sixty and seventy, and allowing that
each of them brings 1,000 quarters of grain (which is
above the truth),' this gives 60,000 or 70,000 quarters
of grain, of all descriptions, on its way from all
ports within the straits of Gibraltar. About as much
more is supposed to remain in those ports, making a
total of 150,000 quarters of Indian corn, which may pos •
sibly be obtained from the Mediterranean and the Black
Sea together before winter. The American ports may,
perhaps, supply us with as much from the remains of
last year's crops. In the spring a good deal more may
be expected from the crop of the present year, but it will
be nearer six months than six weeks before it arrives.
The accounts from Odessa, which are to Sept. 7, state that
the scarcity of vessels which had existed in that port
during the whole of the summer continued, and that the
freight of grain to England was lls. sd. per quarter for
wheat or Indian corn. They further state that the whole
stock of Indian corn in that port was 7,000 quarters, of
which the greater part was of inferior quality; and that
it was not likely to be much increased for some time, as
this year's crop of the grain in Bessarabia was so poor
as to make it doubtful whether any more could be spared
for exportation. The quotations of second qualities of
Indian corn were 17s. to 17s. 9d., and of the best 19s. to
20s. per quarter ; and those of wheat 30s. 6d. to 31s. per
quarter for Polish Odessa.
Accounts from Trieste, of the sth instant, state that
the quantity of Indian corn shipped to England during
the preceding fortnight, amounted to 20,000 quarters,
and that the total stock of grain in the port consisted of
32,857 quarters of Indian corn, and of 12,857 quarters
of wheat. The price of Indian corn was from 225. id. to
245. 9d. per quarter, according to quality.
Letters from Ancona of the 2d instant state, that the
crop of Indian corn in that neighbourhood had been
nearly destroyed, first by the long drought, and after-
wards by heavy floods. The price was 21s. to 245. per
quarter, and the freight 7s. to Bs. to England.
Letters from Genoa, Leghorn, and Marseilles, of
about the same date, say that good Indian corn could
not be bought in these ports so as to be laid down in
England for less than 365. a quarter, for cost and freight
alone.
At Venice the price of the best Indian corn was 245.
6d., at the last advices.
Combining all these facts, it is evident that onr sup.
plies of Indian corn from the Mediterranean and the
Black Sea will this year be small, unless English im-
porters are willing to give prices which will make it a
dearer grain than wheat. The great hope, under these
circumstances, is in the arrivals from the United States;
but even from that country we shall receive no large
quantity of Indian corn until after Christmas. The
largest importation of Indian corn ever known from the
United States took place in 1811, when the quantity
reached 348,850 quarters, under the stimulus of a foreign
demand for grain and flour, which raised the price of
wheat to 645. per quarter in the United States, during
the whole of that year. Since that time it has fallen
off to 50,000 or 100,000 quarters, at which amount it
has continued for twenty years. Even last year, when
the demand for England was great, it did not exceed
200,000 quarters. It is possible that the importations
this year may be five times as great as those of last, or
a million quarters, but we can scarcely believe that they
will reach more than that point. The fact is, that there
are few things more difficult than to increase the quantity
of grain grown in a country, in a short time. Little can
be done with machinery, and in some stages of the
operation just as little with horse labour. In the
report of the judges of the Liverpool Agricultural Society,
published only last week, it was stated that much grain
was lost in this thickly-peopled county from shedding,
owing to the want of labourers ; and if this be the case
in Lancashire how much more must it be so in the back
States of America ? The quantity of grain raised de-
pends much more on the quantity of hands than the
number of acres in a country, and therefore it is that we
do not expect that great increase of grain from the
United States which some persons hope for, until the
recent rise in prices has diverted more labour from the
comparatively unprofitable cultivation of cotton and
tobacco to that of Indian corn and wheat. This change
tphreogruenssit,ebut dsittatweiall
able some time
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deficiencies
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oaisfbliEenurope.—Liverpool Times.
IN

OPENING OF THE PORTS.
A meeting of the Directors of the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce and Manufactures was held on Wednes-
da
y, when the following memorial for the opening of the
ports was unanimously agreed to, and dispatched to Lord
John Russell:—
"TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF
HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. •
"The Memorial of the Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce and Manufactures at Manchester
" Showeth,—That your memorialists feel deep appre-
hensions at the prospects which threaten this district.
Whilst the prices of raw materials have been advancing,
the profits of trade have been diminishing., and important
branches of our manufactures are now prosecuted under
heavy losses. The depressing policy of our own country
up to the last session of Parliament had long tended to
fritter away our intercourse with several of our best cus-
tomers, and the short interval which bas elapsed since
the change has not yet permitted us to resume the con-
nexions which we once enjoyed; the price of food at
home almost precludes hope that our people will have
the means of purchasing clothing; stocks of manufac-
tures are accumulating, and there are strong grounds for
fearing that before winter shall have passed the demand
for labour will be greatly lessened. Your memorialists
feel that any reference by them to your Lordships re-
specting the present and expected stock of food on which
the labourer has to rely until fresh crops be available, is
not necessary; they content themselves with stating,
shortly, that at the present moment, besides a great en-
hancement in the prices of meat and bacon in this town,
bread has been advanced fully one-third, whilst oatmeal
is selling at twofold, and potatoes at threefold their usual
price, and that they look forward with dread to the con-
dition in which the people will inevitably be found in the
spring of next year.
""That deeply grateful for., the measures of relief
passed in the last session of Parliament, your memo-
rialists hoped to pass through the
.period of transition,
and oh the terms which the Legislature decreed, not
only without despondency, but with a sustaining confi-
dence. The dispensations of Divine Providence have,
however, interposed, and, in the opinion of your memo-
rialists, have thrown upon the Government further awful
responsibilities. Extreme scarcity of food is inevitable ;
if labour fail, that scarcity will become famine. Prayers
are directed to be offered up in our churches to have
those evils averted, and yet one of our laws enacts, that
whatever may be the price of wheat, the smallest duty
to be paid upon the import of it shall be 4s. per quarter;
another law decrees that food brought into the country
by certain vessels shall not be eaten at all by our people;
whilst a third declares that nothing shall be used in our
distilleries but that which would serve as food. Your
memorialists implore your Lordships to take instant
steps to remove these conflicting and cruel anomalies in
such manner as the wisdom of your Lordships may sug-
gest. They believe that, to mitigate impending cala-
mities, nothing less will be sufficient than to admit into
our ports every species of food necessary for daily sub-
sistence free of duty ; to permit it to be brought indis-
criminately from every country by the vessels of any
nation or flag ; and to allow in our distilleries and
breweries the use of sugar and molasses, without refer-
ence to the vessels which have alreadybrought or may
hereafter bring them to us. To this extent they humbly
pray the immediate interference of your Lordships,
believing that such a course will b© approved by Par-
liament, and applauded by the nation.--And, as in duty
bound," &c.

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SALES BY AUCTION.

N DORSETSHIRE, CLOSE TO THE BOROUGH TOWN OF

WAREHAM.
A MOST' ELIGIBLE PROPERTY, EITHER FOR OCCUPATION
OR INVESTMENT, COMPRI,ING A PLEASANT MODERN
RESIDENCE, EXCELLENT FARM BUILDINGS, AND 295
ACRES OF SUPERIOR ARABLE AND DAIRY LAND, FREE
FROM LAND-TAX AND GREAT TITHE.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the
Devisees in Trust of the late Harry Hammond, Esq., to
submit to PUBLIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, London,
on THURSDAY, December 3d, at Twelve, in One Lot,
A truly desirable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, presenting to the
capitalist an investment free from the slightest doubt or risk. It is
in the parish of East Stoke, yet within the limits of.

Liberals.
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THE BOROUGH TOWN OF WAREHAM,
a matter of no small importance to a proprietor, and for a tenant at
all times ensuring the readiest sale for the produce, while the markets
of Poole and Dorchester are easily commanded, and shortly
the railway from Southampton to Dorchester will lend its powerful
aid to give fresh impetus to this district, by rendering the London
market accessible. It is known as
THE BESTWALL AND SWINEHAM FARMS,
OF 295 ACRES OF RICH DAIRY AND ARABLE LAND,
and it will be in the recollection of those acquainted with the county
that they were for many years the pet farms, or better known as
THE MODEL FARMS OF THE LATE SIR CLAUDE SCOTT,
BART.,
by whose untiring energy, skill, and outlay, they were not only
brought to a high state of cultivation, but by the formation of an
embankment of vast extent, with a most perfect system of draining
and irrigation, some of the richest dairy and corn land in the county
was secured, as well as a constant supply of manure from the deposit
from the river. The late proprietor, at very considerable cost, erected
A GENTLEMANLY ABODE,
offering excellent accommodation for a family, approached by a
lodge entrance, through a most luxuriant shrubbery walk, adorned
with an infinity of choice flowering plants, to the lawn and pleasure-
garden, from whence a view of singular magnificence is obtained, in-
cluding the long range of
THE DORSETSHIRE HILLS,
TIIE MAJESTIC RUINS OF CORFE CASTLE
being a prominent object ; whilst the home view commands Lord
Rivers' estate of Redcliff and the Wareham River, which yields a
never-failing supply of fish, and in the season wild fowl is abundance
—irresistible attractions to a sporting man—to whom it should be
known that there are frequent meetings of Mr. Farquharson and
Mr. Drax's hounds. There are two farm-houses, with most com-
plete agricultural buildings ; and an excellent "gravelled road runs
through the estate, communicating with each field. Several cottages
and every essential for conducting an extensive dairy farm with ad-
vantage ; and if at any time desired, the estate can be divided into
two farms. Early possession may be had.
The estate may be viewed by applying to Mr. House, at the resi-
dence, and particulars, with a plan, obtained ; also of R. D. Marsh-
field, Esq., solicitor, and the Red Lion, Wareham ; New Inn, Wim-
borne ; Crown, Blandford ; Antelope, Poole; Sherborne ;
King's Arms, Dorchester; Matcham's Hotel, Southampton; of
Henry Compigne, Esq., solicitor, 24, Bucklersbury ; at the Mart ;
and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden.

A meeting of the corporation of Manchester is about
also to be held, for the purpose of memorialising the
Lords of the Treasury for the immediate opening of
the ports.

. THE SPANISH DEBT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
beg to express my sincere thanks for your
ready insertion of my communication on the above sub-
ject, in the columns of your valuable journal. If any
confirmation were needed of the fact therein stated,
that the greater portion of the Active Bonds were now
in the hands of foreigners, I might refer to the City ar-
ticle of the Morning Post of yesterday, in which we are
exultingly informed of the exertions which are being
made on the Continent by the (self-constituted) com-
mittee of Spanish bondholders, and of the coalition it
has formed with the Spanish (Active) bondholders in
every capital in Europe. The majority of the British
creditors would be better pleased if it were to attend a
little more to their interests and somewhat less to those
of their continental coadjutors ; but when they recollect
that that committee principally represents the interests
of a few wealthy Active bondholders, some of whom
realised large sums by their successful efforts to produce
the great and sudden fall in the value of Spanish stocks
ten years ago, which was so ruinous to the British cre-
ditors, they will not be surprised that the parties in
question should now restrict their efforts to the obtaining
a further funding of the overdue Coupons of the Active
Stock, in which only themselves and their continental
connexions are, at the present time, much interested,
keeping the just claims of the numerous holders of
Passive Stock in the back-ground, and merely holding
out to them the prospect of a possible trifling addition
to the value of their bonds, which a further payment of
interest to themselves may occasion.
I trust, however, that the exertions of the Passive
bondholders, aided by the independent press of the me-
tropolis, may frustrate the scheme, and secure to the
general body of the British creditors of Spain—the real
sufferers by the Spanish loans—the benefit of any future
arrangement of the debt.

CENDIARY EXPLOSION AT
THE CASTLE MILLS, SHEFFIELD.
Another of those diabolical attempts at the destruc-
,ion of property by explosive substances, for which the
town of Sheffield has obtained a somewhat unenviable
notoriety, was made on Saturday evening last. The facts
are these :

The Castle Mills, situate on the banks of the Don,
were erected, about seven or eight years ago, by Messrs.
Marshall, Brothers, for a grinding wheel, at an expense
of from 15,0001. to 20,0001. ; and had become a prin-
cipal resort for parties who choose to carry on their
business unconnected with the " unions," into which the
vast majority of the workmen of Sheffield have enrolled
themselves.

On Saturday evening last the works were stopped
about twenty minutes before seven o'clock, soon after
which time the premises were entirely cleared, and a
watchman took charge of the building for the night. No
circumstances of a suspicious nature were observed, but
about half past eleven o'clock a most terrific explosion
shook the building to its very centre. Mr. Marshall,
jun., being near the spot, went to the premises, and on
examination discovered that the cylinder belonging to
one of the steam engines had been blown to atoms by
gunpowder, and the shattered fragments were strewed in
all directions, in addition to which the massive beam was
broken into three pieces. The top of the steam
chest was blown off, the piston considerably bent,
and nearly every portion of the engine more or less in-
jured. Upon further examination it was found that the
watchman, William Ibbotson, who ought to have been
in the most central part of the building, was in a remote
quarter, where no danger from an explosion of the en-
gine could harm him. His conduct in other respects ex-
citing suspicion he was given into custody.
On Monday morning he was taken before the ma-
nager, and after a short examination was remanded
until Thursday next.
The injury done to the engine and premises is estimated
at not less than from 1,0004 to 1,2001.

I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
AN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE

WESTMINSTER LITERARY INSTITUTION.—Mr. Hen-
derson concluded a course of lectures on " London" last
evening at the above institution, in which the subject
was treated with great talent. The statistical and his-
torical matter, together with the necessary chronological
detail, required much ingenuity to introduce without
dryness ; the lecturer, however, continued to amuse the
mere pleasure-seeker, while he afforded ample informa-
tion t• the seeker after knowledge. There is a singular
originality of style about Mr. Henderson, which sur-
prise: by its peculiarity, while it gratifies by its vivacity,
andinstructs by its soundness. His anecdotes are ex-
tremely apposite, most effectively given, and serve to re-
lieve the heavier portions of the subject. The audience
was highly delighted, and expressed its gratification by
loud and repeated plaudits. The pictorial illustrations
by Mr. Shalders, were the theme of universal admiration,
FATAL FILIAL AFFECTION.—Late on Monday
evening Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Six Bells,
Queen-street, Hammersmith, on the body of Eliza Rogers,
aged 47. It appeared that deceased, a person of very
feeble health, had lost her father some time since, and
was in the habit of visiting his grave, in Hammersmith
churchyard, at all hours and seasons. On Friday morn-
ing last she was found lying near her father's grave, in
a state of semi-nudity, and almost lifeless. Though she
received prompt medical assistance, she expired in the
course of the day. It was proved that on Thursday
night, which was a very tempestuous one, she stole from
her bed, and, scarcely clad, visited the churchyard.
Mr. Roy, a surgeon, was of opinion that she died from
exhaustion, the result of exposure to the night air.
Verdict accordingly.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—DERBY, OCT. 13.
The following instance of speedy justice, through the
medium of the electric telegraph, speaks more for the
efficiency of that invention, as applied to the purposes of
detecting crime, than volumes :—William Eltinton,
whose case appeared in The Sun of Tuesday last, com-
mitted a robbery at Derby on the night of Friday last ;
information of the circumstance, together with a full and
eorrect description of the person of the prisoner, and
also of the property stolen, was forwarded by the electric
telegraph from Derby to Rugby, at eight o'clock on
Saturday morning. Inspector Faulkner, of the London
and North-Western Railway Company, watched the
arrival of the next train (11 A.M.) from Derby, when he
saw the prisoner in one of the carriages, whereupon he
took him into custody ; he was then taken before the
magistrates at Rugby on Saturday morning, when
sufficient evidence was adduced to cause them to re-
mand the prisoner till the arrival of one of the inspec-
tors of police at Derby, to which place he was conveyed
the same evening. On Monday evening he was taken
before the magistrates at Derby, when the prosecutor
identified the property found upon the person of the
prisoner as being the same that was stolen from him ;
whereupon the prisoner was committed to take his trial
for the robbery. The quarter sessions being held the
same day, before Mr. J. Balguy, the Recorder, a bill
was preferred before the grand jury, who returned
a " true bill." The prisoner was then put upon his trial
and convicted, when he was sentenced to six months'
bard labour. The Learned Recorder, in passing sen-
tence, made sonic excellent remarks upon the efficiency
of the electric telegraphs in detecting offenders, and
trusted that they would be universally adopted on rail-
ways. He hoped that the present instance would be
made as public as possible, as it was highly desirable
that it should be generally known what a formidable in-
strument offenders had to contend against.
INTREPIDITY OF THE LION QUEEN.—On ;Wed-
nesday evening, during the exhibition of Hylton s per-
forming animals in Nottingham fair, a ferocious male
hyena, exhibited in a den with another of the same '
spe-
cies broke his chain, and attacking the other animal
seized him by the foot, and a terrific fight commenced.
Mrs. Hylton, " The Lion Queen," who is in the habit of
visiting the den of these untameable brutes, immediately
rushed between them, separated the furious animals by
a blow to each, and eventually succeeded in again se-
curing the beast. Both the animals received injuries in
the fight—Nottinghamshire Guardian.

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No. 16,872. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING SIT N 7 OCTOBER 16, 1846.

PRICE SD.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
The revision of the householders' lists was proceeded
with at ten o'clock yesterday morning by the Revising
Barrister.
George Henry Wright appeared in the list with the
following description attached to his name :—Place of
abode: 31, Shepperton-cottages, New North-road, Isling-
ton. Nature of qualification : tenant to Mr. Bond, at a
yearly rent of 501. Place where the property is situate:
45, Cornhill, being a successive occupation from No. 12,
Moorgate• street, in the parish of —, Coleman-street,
and previously 3, Spread Eagle-court, in the parish of
St. Benet Fink.
Mr. Browne applied to have the name expunged, and
his application was founded on the manner in which the
qualification was described, and which, he submitted, was
not sufficient.
The BARRISTER observed that the qualification as de-
scribed was insufficient ; it looked to him like a county
qualification, and he must expunge the name.
RESULT OF THE REVISION YESTERDAY.
OBJECTIONS.—ALLOWED.
Conservatives.
157
FAILED OR WITHDRAWN.
79 106
Liberal claims allowed... 1 I Disallowed .........
The lists of the following parishes were revised .
St. Botolph, Aldgate, and St. Mary, Whitechapel, in the
ward of Portsoken, St. Michael, Cornhill, and St. Peter,
Cornhill, in the ward of Cornhill ; and St. Olave, Hart-
street, Tower ward.
The following parishes are yet to be revised :—St.
Gabriel, Fenchurch-street ; St. Mary Wolnotb, and St.
Nicholas Aeons, Langbourne. and Lime-street ward ;
and Allhallows, Barking, and St. Dunstan's in the East.
The Barrister proceeded with the revision of those
parishes at ten o'clock this morning, and the revision wi
be brought to a close this evening, or early to-morrow.

Double.
22

MIDDLESEX.
The court was held yesterday, at the Green Man,
Bethnal-green, before Mr. Shadwell, for the revision of
the lists in the Bethnal-green district.
Mr. W. H. James appeared for the Liberal party, and
Mr. J. Payne fur the Conservatives.
In the Norton-folgate list, Matthew Coffee, described
as residing at Liverpool, was objected to by the Con-
servatives, on the ground of insufficient description.
Mr. Coffee having proved his justification, stated that
last year he was objected to by the Conservatives, and
his name was retained. He had now come up from
Liverpool on purpose to support his claim, and therefore
asked for his expenses.
Mr. Payne contended that Liverpool was not such a
description of place of abode as required.
Mr. Coffee stated that he resided in a ward called
Everton, but that he could not give any better address
than Liverpool, as the place in which he lived was being
newly formed, and had not yet been named.
Mr. Payne submitted that Everton ought to be in-
serted.

Mr. SHADWELL said that "Everton, Liverpool," migh
be a better description of place of abode, at all events ii
would prevent the voter being objected to again; bui
having made the alteration, he could not allow costs.
Name retained.

Mr. Robert Harrison, claiming in the Hackney list for
a freehold house, situate in the High-street, was ob-
jected to by the Conservatives.
From the evidence of the claimant it appeared that he
lodged in the same house for which he claimed. At
Lady-day last the claimant let to one Goodrich the
house as yearly tenant, at the rent of 181 a year, and
afterwards became his lodger, paying a rent of three
shillings a week. The claimant had paid all the rates
up to Lady-day, when he let the house to Goodrich, and
he still continued to pay the rates.
Mr. Payne submitted, that if the claimant was allowed
to stand upon the register it would be a great infringe-
ment of the Reform Act, as he would be entitled to vote
for the borough, and thereby have two votes for the same
house.

Mr. SuADwELL was of opinion that the claimant was
entitled to vote; he would insert the number of the
house in High-street.—Kanie retained.
The Court rose at two o'clock.