The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

N,_LONTON, PUISDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 221 1846

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT
PRESTON.

' About half-past eight o'clock on Friday night an
alarm was given by various fire-bells that the siz...honse
of Mr. Hibbert, in Stanley-street, was in flames. Im-
mediately on the fact being announced, the fire brigade,
with the hose-reel, was on the spot. Owing to the
combustible nature of the materials used in the works,
the flames soon got to an alarming height, illuminating
the neighbourhood to a very considerable extent, and
being visible in almost every part of the town.
The Victoria engine, and the engine or Messrs. Mr-
rocks, Miller, and Co., were on the spot a short time
afterwards,but a considerable time elapsed before either
engine was got into play, and a still further time before
they were effective.
In the meantime the fire gained a rapid ascendancy,
every portion of the building being soon under the un -
eontrolled dominion of the flames, and it then became
evident that no portion whatever of the stock or pro-
perty beyond the bare outer walls could be saved.
Attention was of course directed to saving Mr. Pickles'
(the Sovereign) mill, the west wall of which is close up
to the siae-house. The very thick substantially- built
walls of the mill proved impervious to the fire, and that
property was saved, as were also the cottages adjoining.
The close vicinity, not only of the Sovereign mill, but of
Mr. Paley's, and the extensive premiss of MPSSI'A.
Horrocks, Miller, and Co., gave to the tire, at one time.
a very threatening aspect. Towards half-past ten o'clock,
however, owing to everything combustible in the pre-
mises having been burned, the flames abated.
The size-house, in which the fire originated, is en-
tirely gutted. The whole of the apparatus, stock, &0.,
is destroyed, and nothing but the bare walls remain
standing. It would be difficult as yet. to estimate the
loss, but we understand that there was a considerable
quantity of warps on the premises. The stock and
building are insured to pretty nearly their full value.
The cause of the fire is not ascertained; but it com-
menced in the top, or fourth story—a room used fur
drying warps, which is done by means of steam pipes.
The firemen appeared to work uncommonly- hard, and
nothing could be more praiseworthy than their arduous
exertions; but they appeared as if wanting system, and
dependent upon desultory suggestions for guidance.
There was indeed much confusion and an evident want
of that promptitude and efficiency which is essentially
necessary on such occasions, and which is indispen-
sable in a town like Preston, where so much valuable
property is constantly at stake.
The most melancholy part of this unfortunate occur-
rence is the untimely death of Mr. Pickles. He was
pretty early on the spot after the alarm was given,
and feeling naturally anxious for the safety of his
property, was in his mill when the fire raged most
violently.

From the fourth story of the factory is a passage over
a portion of the size-house to the " Devil," or blowing-
room, a detached building. This passage was fire-proof;
excepting the floor, which was flagged. Mr. Pickles was
standing at this passage with an overlooker at his mill,
of the name of Robert Wilson, when, stepping forward,
the flag upon which he had planed his foot immediately
snapped, having been cracked by the intense heat, and
Mr. Pickles was at once precipitated into the midst of
the flames, and falling through the third and fourth
stories alighted on the second floor, uttering as he went
down only a faint "oh!" A spiral flame for a moment
hid the unfortunate man from the sight of Wilson, but,
on its subsiding, the latter saw the body of his master
stretched on the iron floor below, then glowing with a
white heat. This agonising sight was, however, soon
concealed from him, by the falling of portions of the
roof, flooring, &e., and the rising of a dense column of
smoke.

After the names had subsided, the ruins were searched,
sod the body of the unfortunate man was found, sadly
burned ; the arms, legs, and face being dreadfully
scorched, the latter, indeed, almost wholly obliterated.
The dreadful fate of Mr. Pickles seemed to be most
keenly felt by all present. and cast a feeling of deep
gloom over most of the people congregated on the un-
fortunate occasion. lie was much respected by his
workmen, as a kind-hearted master, and he has left a
widow and four children to lament his untimely end._
Preston Chronicle.

ST. LAWRENCE'S CHURCH.—We understand that
;he Lord Biehep of the. diocese has made an appointment
o meet the Restoration Committee, at Reading, on this
day fortnight, when the arrangements for proceeding in
this important work will be settled. The Right Rev.
Prelate takes considerable interest in the due restoration
of the venerable fabric, and we believe has suggested a
plan by which all professional differences of opinion as
to the plans sent in for competition will be removed.—
Berks Chronicle.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BRISTOL-0G Sunday
morning, at about one o'clock, a most destructive
fire was discovered to have broken out in Broadmead,
tee of the most densely-populated portions of the city.
The fire commenced in the workshops of a Mr. Rich, a
cabinet-maker, which were situated in a lane in Broad-
mead, abutting upon, and joined by the stables and
coach-bouses of Mr. Bland, one of the principal omni-
bus proprietors and carriers from the goods departments
of the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, South Devon,
and Bristol and Birmingham Railways. The buildings
being very old, and filled with combustible materials, the
flames shot forth with awful rapidity, and at half- past
one o'clock the scene was one of the most imposing ever
witnessed. The flames rose to full 100 feet above the
houses, and having speedily caught the premises of Mr.
Staddon, and of Mr. Nosh, cabinet-maker, burnt with a
rapidity that threatened the whole neighbourhood with
destruction. The valuable horses, Sec , of Mr. Bland j
were, however, removed from their stables into a place of
safety ; and by the untiring exertions of the police force,
under the command of Captain Fisher, their superin-
tendent.and the fire brigade (the West of England In-
surance Company's engine having been first on the spot),
at about six o'clock this morning the flames were got
under, and the adjoining properties, which had frequently
caught fire during the night, were considered safe. AA
to the amount of damage, of course at present it would
be idle to speculate, but it must be very considerable.
TIIE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE.—It will be seen
by the advertisement elsewhere, that the subscriptions in
the Manchester district, up to last evening, amounted to
47,5631. This includesithe recent Huddersfield subscrip-
tions.—Manchester Guardian.
SPECIAL TRAINS TO HULL.—On Monday last
2,400 to 2,500 persons went by special trains from Leeds
to Hull, taking up passengers also at Woodlesford and
Castl, ford. The Leeds Old Temperance band accom-
panied them, and with some of the party proceeded, per
steamer, to Barton. Others crossed the Humbar to New
Holland, where Mr. Featherstone was holding, on the
bowling-green, the last of his series of dancing parties
this season. The streets and the docks, cathedral, and
suburbs of Hull were thickly lined with strangers during
the day, and in the evening they departed in one enor-
mous train of 6.5 carriages, drawn by three powerful en-
gines, the Liverpool, the Star, and the Express, dashing
along at the rate of 20 to 30 miles an hour. It was a
noble and cheerful sight. The weather was glorious,
cud right merry were the party on their departure from
a town in which they appeared to have much enjoyed
themselves. Another special train, with 1,000 to 1,100
persons from Old and New Mahon reached Hull the fol-
lowing day. The farmers' lads and lasses from both
sides the Derwent required full 30 carriages, and we],
tilled they were, when they agreed to come together ti
s( e the port of Hull. This was the most rusticated com-
pany that we remember visiting Hull by any train
They were extremely orderly. With what pleasure.
must Mr. Hudson, a native of near Mahon, and who was
in Hull that day, have beheld the cheerful faces of hi,
own country friends.—Leeds Mercury.
THE L...TE CASE OF MILITARY FLOGGING AT
HOUNSLOW.—On the evening of Thursday last, an °islet
from the Horse Guards was received by Lieut.-Culonet
Whyte, the commanding officer of the 7th (Queen's
Own) Hussars, directing that regiment to prepare them-
selves to leave Hounslow Barracks en route for Ire-
land on Monday. Ever since the conclusion of the late
inquest held on the body of White, the lower orders
of the town and neighbourhood of Hounslow, when they
have seen any of the officers, and particularly Lieut.-
Co'onel Whyte, out of the barracks, have assailed then.
with upbraidings, couched in no very pleasant terms.
The farriers have also, when they have ventured into the
licensed he uses in the neighbourhood, been publicly in-
sulted for t le part they took in the infliction of the
punishment on White, and it is believed that the know-
ledge of these facts have induced the Horse Guards'
authorities to issue the order for their removal. Their
departure from Hounslow Barracks is looked forward to
with much gratification by the majority of the inhabi-
tants, as it will allay mach of that excited and irritated
feeling which still exists in that neighbourhood on tl.e
subject of military flogging.
A NEW RECIPE FOR MAKING LOVE.---Yesterday
as one of the dock gatemen was going along Vauxhall-
road, he observed a man running in hot haste after a
woman. When the fellow had nearly overtaken her, he
pulled out a pistol, and deliberately fired it at her. The:
woman fell, and the dock gateman seized the would be
murderer. Fortunately the woman had only swoon, d
at the sound of the pistol's discharge, and it is very pro-
bable that it contained nothing more than a charge of
powder. The man proved to be a ship-keeper, residing
in Benn's•gardens, named Frederick Douglas ; the.
woman was his second wife, but it having been just
discovered that the first wife was not dead, she refusee
to live with him. He was very much attached to her,
and had adopted a system of annoyance and terror to
compel her to return to her allegiance. She continued
to refuse, and he, having met his ci decant spouse.,
threatened to shoot her if she did not come back. She
became alarmed at so novel a mode of love-making, and
ran away, when he pursued and shot at her as before-
mentioned. The dock gateman handed his prisoner
over to the first policeman he met, and the husband of
two wives was brought before Mr. Rushton, who, on
hearing the chief of the above particulars, remanded
him until this day (Saturday) for further inquiry.—.
Liverpool Mail of Saturday.
THE GAP IN PICCADILLY.—Month after month
having passed since the houses on the south side of
Piccadilly were pulled down to make room for a post-
office, as was at first said, but in reality, as it afterwards
appeared, for the Museum of Economic Geology, and
no movement being visible, we have been led to inquire
into the state of things there. So far as we can learn, it
appears that the idea is not so near being a reality as it
was some time ago. Plans were prepared, but not meet-
ing entire approval, were sent back, as we are told, for
alteration. A new administration has since come into
power, and up to this moment, we believe, nothing pre
cise is determined on, in respect of the proposed building;
so that it seems probable that the dwellers around the
spot in question (some of whom have written to us on
the subject anxiously) will have the benefit of doubt
and a dirty hoarding for some time to come yet.—The
Builder.

SECOND CROPS or PEARS.—We have received a
number ofaccounts of pear trees bearing a second crop
this year.-- Westmoreland Gaucte.

LAW ELLI(iENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, September 21.
iN RE 'MATTI": AND CO.

In this ease the bitiltrupts had ez:lri4 on b!fsiness to
a v,ry great ext, nt, as Levm:t fuerehanTs and g..neral
shippf-rs, 'ti Nich,flas-lane, Lomb :rd-street. Ti,cir d bts
and liabilifies were very large, atuouuting to ab,ut
350,0001, the greater Rirtion or which was tuTxed up
ith foreign houses.
To-day Was appointed 'or a dividend, but was occu-
pied in recf.iving proof atAl
It is expc,eted that ultimately a very good dividend
will tie rt aiscd.

It is impossible at present to say what the amount or
problble amount of dividend will be.
The partners in the firm p,o,sed th! it examination,
and obeiined their ePrtifieates without .pposiriun.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 21.
Mr. Commissioner Phillip, recently appointed to this
Court vice Sir David Pollock, the new Chief Justice of
Bombay, took hi, seat for the tirit time in company with
the Chief Commissioner this morning.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

The eleventh and last session but one, of the present
mayoralty, was opened this morning die Record. r,
Aldermen Gibbs and Farabroiher, .Ir. Sheriff Chaplin,
and Mr. Hider Sla riff Wire.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge.
He said, Gt ntlemen of the grant jury, the pre-
sent calendar contains a list of two hundred
prisoners, who are to stand their trial for the (gene, s
that are severally charged against them. There is rea-
son. however, to apprehend ts.at this number will be
considerstly Augmented in the coutsit of the present
week. Among the offences enumerated in the calendar
there is a charge of murder; there is also a charge of
manslaughter, committed under peculiar circumstance, ;
there are two charges of rape, four charg,s of robbery,
and no less than twenty eight charges of cutting
and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily
harm, in the county of Middlesex alone. I can-
not revert to this circumstance without expressing
the opinion which the Court has time after time ex
pressed in reprobating this crime, namely that it is on
the increase. Until a recent period the use of the knife
was comparatively unknown, but I lament to see that
every succeeding calendar proves that cases of this de-
scription are more common, and there is every reason to
believe that the offence is equally on the increase
throughout the country. By the provisions of a recent
statute, where, as in casts like these the evidence it the
judgment of the petit jury falls short of the full charge
of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, the
mitigated charge of assault can be sustained ; but that,
as I have stated, is a question altogether in the province
of the petit jury to determine. But if' there i- evidence
of the use of the dangerous weapon, if a wound is proved
to have been wantonly and wickedly inflicted with
the intention of doing the 'Jerson assault, d an
injury, then it will be your duty to bring in a le:7 -
the aggravated assault, and so put the case in course o,
further investigati-n. Gentlemen, with regard to the
charge of murder, it is a charge founded upon very
peculiar circumstances, the deaths which the person
charged is represented to have occasioned arising from
the taking of a drug, or rather a vegetable substance,
which is called the "deadly nightshade," and, I believe,
6,11 a donna, which the prisoner is said to have hawked
about the streets, and sold with a rtcomtnendatiou as to
its excellence for tarts and other purposes. The pri-
soner represented it as a safe fruit ; but he appears to
have known its character tram asother circumstance—
he appears to have known that it was a deteily poison.
Now, gentlemen, the evidence of his selling that which
he was mare was a deadly poison will greatly depend
upon the testimony of a chemist, who was in the habit
of dealing with him as a man of judgment in
the matter of herbs, and one who was able
to discriminate between the deadly nightshade and other
noxious herbs, and those which were harmless. lam
unwilling to go into the details of the case, lest I should
prejudice the cause of the prisaner; but I must refer
generally to pair duties in the particular case in ques-
tion. Gentlemen, your inquiry will be directed, first, to
see whether this act et the prisotier was an net of wil-
fully selling and recomtnending as a holesome what
knew to be deadly poison. You are to -see that this
knowledge of the character of the vegetable substance
referred to is made out to your satisfaction, and that lie
therefore wilfully, maliciously, and wickedly sold this to
the individuals who have sufThred by it. If this is proved
to your satisfaction, then, gentlemen, you have evidence
on which to found a bill of wilful murder against him.
If, on the other hand, you fled that he made a false re-
presentation of a knowledge he did not possess of the
wholesomeness of the articles for the mere pur-
poses of lucre, and without really possessieg
a knowledge of the narcotic properties of the
herb; if you find that he sold it without any intention of
putting human life in danger, but with a reckless disre-
gard of future consequences, then at least you can bring
in a bill charging him with the crime of manslaughter if
death were the consequence of his culpable negligence.
It is lamentable to find, that not only the lives of a man
and boy were sacrificed in consequence of having eaten
of this deadly nightshade, but that, in addition, five or
six other persons were obliged to be taken to-the hos-
pital, suffering from the effects of this poisonous vege-
table. In conclusion, if you found that this was a fatal
mistake arising from no criminal negligence of the pri-
soner's, then it would be your duty to bring in no bill at
all. There is also a charge of manslaughter against a
person who had charge at a railway engine. The- pri-
soner was alleged to have mi-conducted himself whit, in
the management of that engine, by runniag into the last
carriage of a train which had arrived shortly be.
fore at the station, thereby causing the death of
an individual in it. It is the bounden duty
of every one who undertakes the management
of an engine to be fully competent to do so. There ate
certain signals established on every line; there is a
whistle attached to the engine to give notice to other
carriages upon the line; there is a certain rate of speed
to which they are limited when approaching a station,
and it will be your duty therefore to ascertain whether
these signals were displayed en this occasion, and whe-
ther the other means fur the prevention of accidents
were duly attended to. In the present day it is almost a
matter of necessity for persons travelling to go by rail-
ways, and where, therefore, the lives of many individuals
may depend upon the prudence and experience of one
person, it is highly necessary that that person should be
held strictly bound to exercise all due caution. You
will therefore inquire whither this unhappy accident is
really occasioned by a misfortune over which the pri-
soner had no control, or whether it was to be attributed
to his culpable negligence. The Learned Recorder then
adverted to the charges of rape, and after brit fly stating
the provisions of the Act 7 and 8 George IV., in refer-
ence to the administering a noxious material to the fish
in the Hampton Court waters, concluded by remitting
the grand jury to their duties.
The Grand Jury then retired.
Edward Morgan, George Bethel! and Thomas Ballard,
surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment
charging them with feloaiorussolan:ersste.aling Clarence car-
riaMr. I)oaue ge, the propertyf,piirdoesdeocftuhltetedc:ii di
Kean.r:
Clarkson, with Mr

The circumstances under which this charge was pre-
ferred against the defendants were of rather a peculiar
character. It appeared that Morgan was engaged in
business as a coach-builder, and he had had some trans-
actions with a cab-master, named Worthington, and on
the beginning of the present year there was some nego-
tiation a clarence carriage, the
result
according to the statement of Morgan, that
) being, according
them la specting
he vehicle was hired by Worthington for 5/. a month,
but the latter declared that a purchase out and out had
been effected, and that it was to be paid for by instal-
ments. Very soon after the carriage came into Worth-
ington's possession, it appeared that he took it to a re-
pository and got an advance 4204 upon it, and he then
ordered a person, namcd Kean, to whom he was at that
time indebted, and who had brought an action against
him, to repay the 201. so advai.ced, and take the carriage
in liquidation of his debt and costs. It then appeared
that Morgan, having become acquainted with those cir
cuinstances, went to the place where the carriage was
kept by Kean, accompanied by the other two defendants,
and under pretence of purchasing it, they obtained pos-
, session of it, for the purpose, as they said, " of trying it
upon the main road," and took it away altogetoer. It
appeared that the matter had been investigated by the
magistrate at the Hammersmith Police-court, aid he
dismissed the charge of felony, but the parties subse-
quently went before the Grand Jury, who found a true
bill.
The jury returned a verdict of Not guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

A man, who gave his name as John Smith, was
brought before Mr. Alderman liumphery and Mr.
Alderman Challis, charged with having wantonly
~hroken a
pane of glass, of the value of 30i., m the shop window
,pf Mr. Walter Chetworth, No. 15, London-street.
The prisoner admitted that be had wilfully done the
mischief of which he was accused ; and he gave the
' excuse which has lately been very common for such
wantonness in the City. that "he was in distress, and
wanted to be sent to prison."
Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY ordered him to pay a
penalty of 5/., or go to prison for two months.
Prisoner—Thank you, Sir.
Mr. Alderman II UMPLIERY—I regret that I have not
the power of sending you to six months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
The prisoner withdrew from the bar, apparently quite
satisfied with the result, and exhibiting not the slightest
compunction for the serious injury he had inflicted on
Mr. Chetworth.

BOW-STREET.
Jan Cousins was charged before Mr. Henry with
attempting to commit suicide by throwing himself into
the river at Hungerford-pier, yesterday.
A ragged and most wretched-looking young man, who
said that he had been a draper's assistant, stated' that
at about half past twelve o'clock that morning he was
lying in one of the barges near the bridge, and saw the
prisoner deliberately walk along the pier, and tumble
headlong into the water. He at first sank, but on rising
to the surface swam towards the place where witness
was. As sooa as he got Bear enough witness gave him
his hand, and helped him to swim towards a post,
which he laid hold of, and so supported himself until
witness went to a barge near that in which he was, and
got a rope, by means of which the prisoner climbed into
the barge.

The prisoner said that he did not intend to drown
himself. He was rather intoxicat( d, and did not per-
ceive the water until he found himself in it. It was
evident that he had no thought of drowning himself, or
he would not have exerted himself to swim, as the wit •
ness had proved he did.
Mr. H7ENiti said he did not suppose the prisoner in-

t4t1‘..,1 to kill himself, but this ought to be a warn-
ing to him to keep himself sobo r fiv the
f.tt:!re. His worship then put several (pie -tions
to the 'witness', in answer to whit.ii he sd:', that he :-a;
now in very rednerd eircumstar ces, but, had betn an
assistant in a draper's shop in Vauxhall, but left the
place about six months ago of his own accord. He had
not I,c,en able to get another situatical since.
Mr. HENRY B,id he would discharge :he prisoner, but
he thought he ought to g the witness sum thing by
way of recompense for his trouble. As, however, he did
not surpose he could give much, he (Mr. Henry) would
give the witness 10s. tait of the poor box.
'The v. itoess took the money, and looked as if he could
hardy persuade himself of its reality.
The witnoss said he would give th,. witness '° what he
could," as he thought he owed his life to him—He was
then discharged."

LATENT PaUCES OF SHARES,
Di BANKS, 4-4,S,',URANCE, AND OTHER COM
PANIES' STOCK.

.F; arm t Zllici.2l List,
PUBLISHED EVERY Ttit:NDAY ANT) Ft:rimy EvENisa
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
,rolz,rr-STOCX ZANXS.

d, r, 1 Dividend Arnotint
Name of Company, per of Paid..Pric,,
)lin,
Annum. Share.
I£ 3. d. , X s. d.
eustralasia .....• •• • • 161. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
rge• eritsh North American , 5/. per cent. 50 0 0' 00 0 0 -
!re- 2oniniereial it London ' 5/. per cent. 100 0 0i 20 0 0 -
red 7olrnial..
1 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
e• BLoud!' and Westminstr 16/. pi..r cent. 100 0 0 I '2O 0 0 2814
t
' ,-,ndou Joint-Stock ..• 61. p:r cent. 50 00,10 0 0
7, a- getropolitan - - 25 0 0 710 0
be Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
ent
Ditto, New.- -•• • • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
'National or Ireland -5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - der Nat. Provncial of ling. Si. per cent, 'lOO 0 0 35 0 8 1 -
of Ditto, New.• ••.• • • • 51, per cent, 20 0 0 10 0 0
e, ; Union of Australia- •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 '25 0 0 --
ry, Union el' London.- • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 1
?.
nig INSITItiIIiTCE COVI.P.MATZMS.
lily
Dividend Amount
111- Name of Company. per of Paid. i Pries
log Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
un AThion --..-. • • • • • 3/. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
life Alliance nrit. and For. 6 per cent. 1100 0 0i II 0 0 18';,',
hat Ditto Ihlitrine - -6/. per cant, 100 0 0 I 5 0 0 -
de- ~. tlas . .
British Connnercial .. 7s. per share 50 00 1 50 0 7
ito , Uric:l,sl,l. & Gen. Life 0/ per cent. ;100 00!'2 10 0 6.,
ase 31. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0
les. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
ent 41.,a14.,0
..
6s. 50 0 0 A 0 0 514
- - ...... ••••
the Eng.& Scot. Law
rge European hue •• .• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 I All paid. 2(1
Freemasons' ......... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 3 0 0
~.obe - i
.15
tahtt: Guardian ---•• • • • • 5/. per cent. 1100 0 0;36 10 0 46
ice Imperial Fire •••. . • • • 6/. and bontis:soo 0 0 00 0 0 i 210
Ice Imperial Litz: •••• • • • • 1-2 s. ;100 00;10 0 0 I -
.rd liiileinnity Alarine.. -1/. sh & Ps. 1100 0 0 ; A 13 1 1 31
Law Life- •..•• •• -1/. ss. 100 0 o'lo 0 0
in Legal and General Lite - 50 0 0 ! 2 0 0 i 614
an i•Jiitlaii Fire ........ 108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14
Tor :,olidon ship ........ 10s. 25 0 oi'l2 10 0 14',
,•
Marine .. ..... -•• .. N. per cent. 100 0 0! 15 0 0 li'o,y
01. Need. Invlid& Gen. Life 1%/. per ct. 50 00 ' 20 0 :3
he s'ational Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
ry National Life • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
1 alladium Lit.... •.... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os. Oil
!lurid x ........ .... • . 31. p. et. & he. - .- 205
irn Protector Lire- -• • • 5/. par cent. 20 0 0 I 0 0 --
.e. 1 tovident Lite ••.... .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
e Bock Lire - .......... 4s. 50 0 010 (1 43
1 floral Exchange 5l. per cent Stock. - -
!,',l Sun Fire ........ • . - - 210
to Ditto Life .• • - - 40
.i. Universal Life .. . • -

Name of Company.

Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company
Commercial Bank
National Bank
Union Bank of Scotland
Western Bank
North of Scotland Bank
Clydesdale Bank
Eastern Bank
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank
City of Glasgow Bank .
Scottish Union Ins. Co.
Hercules Insurance Co.
Insur. Co. of Scetind..
North Britsh Incur...
Caledonian Fire Insur.
Edin;urgh Life Insur.
Edin. & Glasg. Railway

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Edith, Leith, & Grant!'
Dlasvw Ayrshir Rail.
Ulaspv & :reenck Rall.
Gispv Garnkirk Rail.
I •aintlee & rbroth Rail.
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61. per cent.
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6/. per cent.
6/. per cent.
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Cl. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
7141. pr cent.
61. per cert.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
71. per cent.
5/. I,,er cent.
514 1. pr cent.
10/. per cent.
61. per cent.
1/.los. pert.
7s. 6d. p. s.

71. per cent.
21. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
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THE IRISH SOCIETY'S P_STATES.
A deputation from the Irish Society has been for some
days inspecting their estates in Derry, with the view to
making improvements cud giving employment to the
poor. In a report of the proceedings of the (b
given in the Derry Sentinel of Saturday, there are the
reellowing passag, s
" The building leases of the society, generally spe,k-
ing, wid be extended, and most of the tenants who either
have expended, or who intend to expend money on
building, are satisfied with the terms granted them ; but
with a few who hold under the society in this way the
deputation have not come to a complete understandi.g.,
they being desirous that the occupiers and not the mid.
dleman or intermediate tenant should derive the chief
benefit.

A deputation of their tenantry attended at Milton
Lodge, and they were a ell pleased with the result. A
long conversation arose respecting the state of the poor.
The society are determined to aid, in every possible way
in their poner, in providing work during the approach-
ing winter.
•"The deputation had small parties to dine with them
every day, as it was their object to procur ) from the
clergymen. magistrates, and gentry of this district, who
were best informed, their several opinions respecting the
condition of the people, their wants and wishes. When
time permitted, they also drove round different parts of
the neighbourhood, in order to ascertain the exact state
of the crops, and the weather being remarkably fine,
they had an excellent opportunity of gratifying their
desire on this subject.
" Another miter which engaged their attention de-
mands our notice at greater length than any of the pre-
ceding. It ha! frequently been remarked that the north
coast of Ireland abounds with fish, and that Culdaff
Bay and the Back Strand of Magillan, which are both
open to the a( a, are abundantly supplied with turbot,
sole, plaice, &c. That they are abundantly furnished
with cod is beyond dispute, but, notwithstanding, from
the apathy that exists, and want of skill, there is no
person of sufficient means willing to fit out a craft pro •
perly equipped for fishing this boisterous and exposed
coast; nor has it yet been ascertained if a vessel adapted
in every way for the purpose would repay herself, al-
though the prevalent opinion among those best qualified
to judge is, that if knowledge and industry were com-
bined, she would make a handsome return for the' ex-
penditure. It was lately represented to the society by
their officers, that a subscription to a pier to be built on
their slob;at Moville, would benefit the lough and trade
in various ways, especially in affording shelter to craft
employed in the deep-sea fishing, and they imme-
diately granted 300/. and the ground on which it
was to be built. The late deputation, on their ar-
rival here, inquired what progress bad been made with
the pier, observing that there was the harbour at Port-
rush on one band, and that the pier of Moville would
shortly be completed on the other, and that these ought
to afford abundant protection to the small fishing craft
of Ennishowen and the county of Derry; but, on being
informed that the latter work was not even commenced,
and that their Admiralty yacht was well found in sails
and ground tackle, they immediately proposed to lend
her to two of their practical officers, and to grant a sum
towards the purchase of a first-rate trawl, provided
proper persons were brought from Liverpool to instruct
them in all the branches of deep-sea fishing, and that
they would supply the vessel with all kinds of fishing
lines, make such alterations in her at their own expense
as were necessary, keeping a trua account, to be fur-
nishcd when called on, of the income and expenditure,
and submitting to other regulations, as required by the
general agent and the vice•admiral.
" Their subscriptions to schools and places of religious
worship were on the most liberal scale, and we greatly
fear that if the pn party of the society was placed in the
hands of persons resid( nt here, local prejudices and
various other causes, which it is needless to specify,
would operate very seriously to the detriment of those
valuable and important public institutions to which the
present lords of the soil are such munificent benefactors."

Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affaires had an
interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, al his
official residence in Downin¢•atreet.

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE.
(From the Newcastle Guardian.)
A glaring and shameful act of clerical intolerance has
just occurred in this neighbourhood—a case, unheprily,
not uncommon, but, for that reason, all the more de-
serving of the most unqualified condemnaeion. It
appears that the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the incumbent of
the parish of Wallsend, deems the rite of baptism to be
vapid only when administered by a clergyman of his
own denomination. Accordingly, when recently aslo d
to grant Christian burial to the child of one of his
parishioner=, he stoutly refused, on the ground that t'e
child had been invalidly baptised by a Wesleyan
minister, put the keys of the church-yard into his pocket,
and, unceremoniously walking off, kit the poor heathen,
as we euppo,e his Reverence would call him, to bury his
child the best way he coull The corpse of the child was
taken to the•ehurch-yard, conducted through the sexton's
house, instead of by the usual entrance, and interred
without the customary service. Can any one imagine
the feelings of the parent so harshly and so rudely
treated ! He immediately communicated the circum-
stance to the Lord Bishop of the diocese, who as
promptly returned the following reply:—
The Bishop of Durham is very sorry to hear that any
of his clergy has acted in the manner stated by Mr.
Giles. It Mr. Armstrong has refused Christian burial
to a child, because it had been baptised by a Dissenting
minister, lie has acted unwor; hy of his calling, and ren-
dered himself liable to punishment in the ecclesiastical
courts if Mr. Giles or any other wish to prosecute him.
The Bishop will net fail to write to Mr. Armstrong.
This is the answer we should have expected from the
worthy liishop, and it is highly creditable to his lordship.
The parishioners followed it up by sending a deputation
to Mr. Armstrong to remonstrate with him on his un-
feeling conduct, and to assure him that unless he'rledged
himself never to repeat it the bishop's recommendation
' would be carried out, and proceedings instituted forth-
with. This is said to have had the desired effect on Mr.
Armstrong, and we are promised that such an outrage
t will not again occur at Wallsend. We purposely delayed
noticing this until its publication became absolutely ne-
cessary. Such cases, we know, are not more disagreeable
ca to dissenters than to many pious and liberal members of
the establishment. Yet the system that allows a
minister of any religion, Episcopalian, Congregational, or
Wesleyan, to practise such acts of intolerance must be
i% bad—radically bad—and in need of serious reformation.
Armstrong is blameable; but bow much more so
61.6 are the laws that allow him or any other clergyman—we
care not of what religion—to ch-grade themselves and
their profession so miserably? Verily the c. unry has
„ need of many reforms, but church reform is the crying
necessity of the times.

MARKET NE W 8.-(YES TERDAY)
COrtZT-EXCILEING.E.
During last week the arrivals of all kinds of grain of home
produce were on a very moderate scale. From Ireland and
• Scotland scarcely any Corn worthy of notice came to hand •,
14 while the receipts of foreign Grain were trifling—those of
Flour good. Fresh up this mcrnirg a full average quantity
of English Wheat came to hand from Kent, but the arrivals
of that article from Essex and Cambridgeshire were small.
On the whole the stands were fairly supplied with samples
of both red and white, the finest parcels of which
commanded a steady sale, at an advance in the
quotations obtained on Tvronday last of fully is
per quarter, and at wl:ich a good clearance was
effected. The middling and inferior kinds were firm, and
prices were well supported. The quantity of free foreign
Wheat on offer, owing to many of the large importers hav-
ing withdrawn their samples for the present, was by no
means large. Although the transactions in this article were
not to say extensive, the demand may be considered firm, at
very full prices. With Barley, both of home and foreign
growth, we were rather scantily supplied; yet the trade
was inactive, at, in some instances, a decline in value of ls
per quarter, and no progress could be made in sales. Super.
tine Malt, ready for delivery, commanded a steady sale, at .
very full prices. In all other kinds.comparatively httle was
doing. Notwithstanding the show of Oats was small, we
have to report a slow inquiry for that description of pro-
duce, it barely, but at nothing quotable beneath, last week's
prices. Very few Beans were on offer, yet the sale for them •
was slow, at late rates. The best parcels of Yeas supported
previous quotations: In other kinds next to nothing was
doing. In Flour a moderate business was doing, at our
quutationF.

CURRENCY PER IMF
Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red, Ne•v.... 49s to Hs
Ditto,White, New 62s 67s
Norfolk and Lin-
coin, Red... • • 503 57s
Ditto, White.... • • 568 64s
Irish, Red ...... • • —0 —s

'ERIAL MEASURE .
Malt—Chevalier— • 66s to 67s
Oats—Yorkshire and
Lincolnsh., Feed. 276 29s
I'otatoe • .. 29s 32.1
Youghhl and Cork,
Black 25s 284
Cork, White . 24s 3ls
Scotch, Feed. 26s 30s
Beans—Tick • • 36s 39s
Pigeons ..... 468 50s
Pease—Grey. • •
Maple ... ••• • • • 41s 42s
White ... ••.• .. • • 508 54s
Boilers -• .
Flour—Town-made • • 48s 46s
Suffolk • • ••• • • 44s 5•
Stocktn & Norfolk 40s 42s
7IELD.

Ditto,Whlte.. • • —s —s
Ityo—Old •• • . 34s 36s
New ••• • •. 369 37s
•• 30s 32s
Malting •• 373 42s
Chevalier .... •• • . 43s 448
\ialt--Suffolk and Nor-
folk-- •• • • 59s 643
Brown
Kingston and Ware 64s 65s

SIVLIMEI.

The imports of live stock from abroad into London in the
past week have been considerable—those at the outports de-
cidedly on the increase. With this increase we have to re-
port a very great improvement in quality, in that of the
Sheep in particular; and it is an instructive fact to notice
the great difference in the general condition of the arrivals,
compared with that at previous corresponding periods of the
year. Many of the Sheep which have lately come to hand
exhibit signs of crossing with cur Downs and other black-
faced Sheep; and, altogether, they exhibit more aptitude to
fatten than we have ever before noticed.

The following table shows the arrivals since Monday last :
LoNDON.

From whence. Oxen. cows.
lamburgl: 2O
totterdam ...
larlingen
,eer ~. . 10 100 7 --- --

6.11ep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs

Itthing

Total into London 160

Hamburgb 282

Spain 49

641 2,219 16 85
NEWCA STLE.

PLYAIOUTII.

4 HULL.
%
Rotterdam ......... 100 136

714 Grand totals
7s. The above exhibits a total number of not less than 3,926
1 head of various kinds of stock. In addition to these arrivals
48. several packages of fresh meat have been received in good
7, condition, while, from Ireland, about 260 Pigs have come to
.6kl hand by sea. As several vessels have been again dispatched
4% to Holland for the purpose of loading cattle for London and
91i the outports, large imports may be expected this week.
3%2 In addition to the above arrivals 100 Beasts and 300 Sheep
54 were landed from the Rotterdam steamers this morning,
_ which, together with 600 of those which arrived last week,
1,300 Sheep and Lambs, and 27 Calves, were on sale to-day.
Nearly the whole found buyers at full prices. From our own
grazing districts the number of Beasts were large, but of
middling quality. Prime Scots, I3ereforclA, Sec., moved off
steadily, at full prices; but most other kinds hung on band,
:hough we cannot consider them cheaper. The number of
Beasts from the northern counties comprised about 2,000
Short horns; from the eastern districts, 300 Scots and Short-
horns; from the western and mioland counties, 700 Here-
fords, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 200 of various
kinds ; from Ifeland 14 Beasts, and from Scotland, 30 Scots.
The numbers of Sheep were seasonably good, but not so large
as those extibited for some time past. The Mutton trade
was bri-k, at an advance in the quotations of from 3d to 4d
per 8, be, the best old Downs readily producing 5s per 81bs.
Lambs were in good request, at a rise of 2d to 4d per 81bs, at
which a good clearance was effected. In Calves and Pigs, the
,upply of which was, moderate, a good business was doing at
extreme currencies.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
$. d. s. d it. d- to s.
Inferior Beasts .. ••2 10 3 0 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
.sconcl quality ditto. 3 2 3 6 Coarse-woolledditte 4 6 4 8
Prime large Oxen 3 8 310 Southdown Wethers 410 5
.0
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs ...... 3 8 4 6
Prime sniall ditto
Suckling Calves lB 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep • .
STIFFLY AT MARKET.
I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
:9,320 170 589

Beasts.
4,125

NEWGATE AND smanzurviara..
Very limited supplies of country.killed Meat have been
received hither since Monday last, but those offering_ slaugh-
tered in the metropolis have been seasonably good. Each
kind of prime Meat— Mutton in particular—has commanded
a very steady sale, at fully previous quotations; but the
middlieg and inferior kinds have hung on hand. With
foreign Meat we have been well supplied, and the whole on
offer has been disposed of at good prices. The country
arrivals during the week have amounted to about 40 carcases
of Beef, 100 ditto of Mutton, 50 ditto of Veal, and 140 ditto
of Pork.

At per stone, by the Carcase.

s. d. to s. ci. s. d. to s. d.
deer, inferior...... 2 8 210 Mutton. Inferior 3 6 310
- middling .. 3 0 3 2 f middling.. 4 0 4 2
- prime large .. 3 4 3 6 prime .... 4 4 4 6
- prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, large.... ••• • 3 6 4 2'
Veal •• • • 310 4 8 - 5ma11....
Lamb. 4s 8d to 5s Bd.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
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Notwithstanding the supplies of New Hops are unusually
large for the time of year, and of very superior quality, the
demand has become steady, and a large business is doing,
at lull (though comparatively low) prices. The duty is
called 20u,000/., while many are disposed to back it higher.
The following are the quotations of New Hops :—Sussex
Pockets, 75s to 85s per cwt. ; Weald of Kent, 82s to 92s
ditto; Mid and East. Kent, 94s to 126 s ditto.