The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1846.

Manchester is fortunate is the principles by which
its leading citizens are actuated. By a combination
of industry, and probity, and enterprize it has been
rendered the manufacturing capitol of the greatest
manufacturing empire civilisation has ever produced.
Since the peaceful labour of humanity first assumed
to itself its true importance, since its eminent advan-
tages were incarnated in Tunal. CAIN, and idealised in
VULCAN, it has never created for itself an abiding
place of so much intrinsic grandeur and magnificence
as this. Compared with the vastness, the complica-
tion, the extension, and the solidity of British com-
merce, the mercantile glory of Carthage is as
nothing ; the Tyrean opulence as poverty • the Vene•
tian domination as slavery; the golden book of
Genoa, and the galleons of the Iberian peninsula, are
as the prophetic mimicry of what has 'been
realized in these islands. With the accumula-
tion of this extraordinary wealth, however,
we have been taught, by the lights of
reason and Christianity, that the posses ion of mere
specie and the fabrication of mere luxuries, are not
to be rtgarded as the predominant objects of our
existence. The experience of hist ry has shown us

how such ignoble creeds have sapped the vigour of
the most gigantic empires—how in one instance they
have degenerated a warlike into en effeminate people
—how in another they have plunged a wise, valour-
ous, and virtuous race into all the licentious influences
of Epicureanism. As civilisation has advanced the
true end of industry, the real utility of opulence, and
the veritable recompense of enterprise has been re-

vealed and acknowledged. It has been revealed, and
it has been acknowledged, that fleets are nothing, that
mechanical contrivances are nothing, that splendid,

and capacious factories are. nothing, that ware-
houses filled to the roof-beams with riches,

and harbours crowded with the peaceful navies

of commerce, are of no avail in assuring the

happiness of a population, unless the operatives
are proportionably elevated by the principals, unless
the truths of knowledge, and the impulses of morality

are inculcated among those who were hitherto
ignorant and debased.
In these respects Manchester is setting a brilliant
example to the other seats of the manufacturing
industry and mercantile prosperity of Great Britain.
She is already an object of emulation to all other
towns which are aspiring to any degree of commercial
importance, and she is now endeavouring to excite a
still nobler emulation by her labours for the moral
and intellectual advancement of her citizens. The
Manchester Athenmum is an institution such as would
confer new honour upon any associate, however pre-
viously illustrious. We are satisfied that since the esta-
blishment of the Manchester Athenmum a very con-
siderable progress has been made towards assuring
physical comfort and mental improvement to the
people in the northern districts of this kingdom, and
that a vast proportion of that progress is attributable
to the influence of that association. Its Noble Chair-
man avouched a similar opinion only yesterday even-
ing ; he declared his conviction that while the
Athenmum had walked its own ground, it had been
like wise suggestive of many kindred processes, and
that, borrowing an illustration from one of the dis-
puted problems of the upper sky, in its career of
light and progress, it had thrown off from itself separate
bodies " which hardened into distinct masses and glowed
with independent lustre." He expressed his confidence
that to the reflections produced by its periodical as-
semblages, and to the ideas originated in "the earnest
friction of its discussions" many salutary improve-
ments of a local character might b 3 traced; that to
the emulation excited by that body were owing
in a very considerable degree the public
parks by which Manchester was now rendered
more beautiful and more salubrious, the municipal
efforts recently made to ameliorate the condition of
its inhabitants, and the establishment of those baths
and wash-houses, which he justly characterised as
" calculated to have deeper effects than on the mere
skin and linen." Accurate and forcible as
these expressions are, we are inclined to go
even further than the Noble Lord in
attributing collateral advantages to the E •
istence of such an association. We are inclined to
behold in the operati ms of that body the movement
of a rower which shall be felt— v, Lich must in thee be
felt throughout the length and breadth of England.
We regard the foundation of such an institution as a
boon nut merely to Lancaster, but ulteriorly to every
shire in the land. There is no exclusiveness
in the creed of learning ; there is no sectarianism in
the brotherhood of knowledge; a thought expressed,
a fact divulged, a truth promulgated, is not the pro-
perty of any one individual—it appertains to no
single province; it belongs not, by prerogative, to
any separate locality—it is the world's ! And it is
from recognising these essential principles of human
intelligence that we are persuaded so many national
benefits must accrue from this Manchester Athenaeum.
Even supposing that the only consequence of its
foundation was its annual meeting in that city, an
inestimable ads antage would thereby result to the
community—the advantage of an interchange of
thorghts among some of the brightest contemporary
intellects. That periodical collision of high7y-gifted
and variously-endowed minds is of itself the har-
binger of great blessings, and a fresh impetus to the
progress of civilisation. We have frequently in-
sisted upon this in our observations upon the British
Asssociation. What the British Association is
to the philosophers of England, the Manchester
Athenaeum is to the people of England. The former
gives a now incitement to the student in his labora-
tory; the latter is a:solace to the artizan in his toil; it
is an encouragement to him in his days of hardship,
it is a MENTOR in his moments of recreation.
The establishment of such institutions as the
Athenmum is virtually the realisation of a free
trade in mind. Through that body the humblest
may mentally associate with the most exalted, the
most ignorant may commune with the most learned,
the obscure labourer may drink in draughts of wisdom
and benevolence from the lips of the greatest geniuses
and the most eminent philanthropists of the age.
On a former occasion the Athenmum had as chair-
man " that master of our sunniest smiles and our
most unselfish tears," CHARLES DICKERS. On
another its members " thrilled under the spell of
that potent magician," Mr. DISRAELI. On a third
" the deep, gentle, and earnest spirit" of Mr. Ser-
geant TALFOURD presided over that assembled
multitude. On this meeting for 1846, the chairman
was one illustrious by his position as a statesman, by
the gentleness but elevation of his intellect, and by
the persuasive beauty of his oratory ; we need not
say that that chairman was Lord MORPETH. To quote
his own expression, when speaking of that RABELAIS
of the age, " Boz"—the chair of the Athenmum
" never was and never can be filled more worthily."
The minds of the Noble Lord's hearers must have
felt exalted and purified by the benignant character
of his oration. When he said to them, " You have
not thought it sufficient to raise factories tier upon
tier, or magazines that will accommodate the traffic
of the weal, but you have thought it your business
too to build and set apart a home and a haunt fur in-
nocent enjoyment, fur useful instruction, for
graceful accomplishments, f,r lofty thought,
a strain and phalanx of feeling in a Christian
land ; " when he told them that he
would not diminish the aspirations of their youth,
that he would not extinguish their ambition, that he
would not eradicate from their hearts their yearnings
after immortality, but that he would remind them "that
there was something more admirable than genius, and
that was virtue—something more valuable than success,
and that was duty;" when he expressed his confi-
dence that reason as well as Christianity " makes
humility almost its most prominent grace;" and
when he exclaimed, "who would not be humble who
felt as he ought the loveliness of virtue and the mag-
nificence of knowledge ?" he assumed to himself the
noblest office of a legislator ; be became the public
panegyrist of reason and the public worshipper of
morality. It was a noble and consolatory assurance
to the artizan which Lord MORPETH uttered when
he observed—
" Depend upon it, however humble may be any of
your positions in life, however obscure the labour which
engrosses the precious hours as they pass, however insig-
nificant your whole life's drudgery, in this mean and un-
envied position, in this drudgery you may hold for
3 ourself the qualities, you may build up for yourselves
the character which princes, if they knew them, would
trust, which multitudes, if they could discern them, would
adore."
It is the promulgation of such sentiments as these
that imparts a true dignity to the aristocracy, and
that tends so much to the fusion of classes and to the
moral and intellectual advancement of the people.

A letter from Mr. PAYNE, the Coroner of the city
of London, was on Thursday mai at the meeting of
the Court ()f Common Council, in which that gentle-
man explained the steps he had taken for the purpose
of reviving the ancient practice of holding inquests,
or courts of inquiry, in cases of fire. Prevention is
ever better than punishment, and we have no doubt
that if every case of fire, the origin of which was not
clearly ascertained, was fully investigated before a
competent tribunal, the results would be most
beneficial, and that it would tend to give a heavy
blow and great discouragement to parties desirous
of defrauding insurance companies, by wilfully setting
fire to their own houses, occurrences that take place
much more frequently than the public have any
idea of.

There is no description of offence that may lead to
such a fearful loss of life and property as that of arson.
A fire, at first trilling and insivifica7.t, may, fcom
various causes, spread to the most alarming extent.
A. simple perusal of the various casualties that have
occurred in the metropolis and the larger provincial

towns from fire during one single year would occasion
the most painful emotions. Fellow-creatures cut off
by a most painful death, without a moment's warn-
ing or preparation for the awful change ; property to
an immense extent sacrificed; human beings left

houseless and penniless, deprived of their nearest and
dearest friends, and suddenly reduced from comfort
and comparative affluence to poverty and destitution.
How gladly, would the philanthropist do anything
within his power to mitigate their sufferings or to
soothe their afflictions, hew zealously would he co-
operate in any manner with those exerting themselves
to remove the causes of such calamities. 'There is no
reasonable expense that would not gladly be under-
taken by the public to reduce their amount.
Nothing can be better calculated to effect this
object than the certainty that a searching and rigid
investigation would in every instance take place.
The reckless criminal, who would be little deterred by
a consideration of the harrowing consequences of his
crime, would shudder at, and be afraid to encounter,
the vastly increased chance of detection thereby
afforded. In other cases, where no criminal intention
existed, the descriptionrof negligence by which these
accidents are in the majority of instances occasioned,
would be exposed, and the public, warned by the
damages that had been sustained, would evince a
greater degree of caution, and abstain from practices
likely to lead thereto.
The coroner was originally an officer who had
many and important duties committed to his charge,
but by degrees many of his functions were suffered to
fall into disuse, and, with the exception of the inquests
held on the bodies of persons who had met with sudden
or violent deaths, little remained to be done by that
officer. There are feiv, however, who can be ignorant
of the great services that have been rendered to
humanity by reason of inquiries that have taken
place before coroners. It was the exposé that took
place at the inquest at Hounslow, on the body of
poor WHITE, the victim of the atrocious and abomi-
nable practice of corporal punishment, and the
medical testimony there elicited, that led to the great
amelioration which has already taken place—(the re-
duction in the number of lashes that can by any pos-
sibility be inflicted)—and, it is to be hoped, gave the
death-blow to the system. Instances of neglect and
cruelty ,in the management of public institutions
have been thereby frequently brought to light, which
might have remained buried in obscurity, and im
provements have been effected, which would otherwise
never have been thought of.
Mr. PAYNE deserves great credit for the disinte-
rested manner in which he has acted, in taking upon
himself the additional labour imposed on him by the
ancient practice without making any charge what-
soever for hia own fees ; he has proved that he was
influenced solely by objects of public utility rather
than personal emolument, and that he desired to
make his office useful to the greatest possible extent.
As he stated in his letter, the power of holding such
courts, which, undoubtedly, existed in the olden
time, had never been taken away, and he was led to
resume its exercise from a conviction of its great im-
portance and utility. The example thus set has been
followed in several parts of the kingdom, and we
sincerely hope it may be universally adopted. Eleven
cases within the last twelve months have alone been
of sufficient importance to require an investigation in
the city of London and Southwark, and the entire
expenses thereof (exclusive of the fees which Mr.
PAYNE so handsomely waived his right to) amounted
only to 20/. ls. 2d., a sum quite insignificant in com-
parison with the great good thereby obtained. The
letter of the Coroner was referred to a committee, to
inquire and report on. An attempt was made to pass
it by sub silentio, and to let it lie on the table un-
noticed ; but we are happy to say it was negatived by
a large majority, and a general feeling existed that
the course pursued by the Coroner gave additional
security to life and property, and was very service-
able to the community.
We trust that Mr. PAYNE will be fairly remune-
rated for the trouble he has already taken, that the
Corporation will not suffer him to be a loser by the
liberality he has exhibited, and that the result of the
report of the committee will be to perpetuate and
render universal the practice. Whatever may be the
case, Mr. PAYNE will have the proud consciousness
that-he has well and efficiently discharged his duty,
that he has deserved the confidence reposed in him,
and that he has merited the approbation of those by
whom he was elected to office, and of his fellow-citi-
zens and the public generally.

The intelligence from Switzerland is on the whole
satisfactory. At Geneva all is quiet, and the Provi•
sional Government seems to give universal satisfac-
tion. At Berne the authorities are adopting active
measures to prevent a recurrence of the disturbances.
A letter from that city, dated October 18th, says—
" Last evening the Government posted up a procla-
mation announcing that it was taking measures for re-
ducing the price of provisions, and, at the same time, for
acting with rigour agaitut the rioters. During the night
it remained in permanent sitting at the Arsenal, and
collected information of serious political plots under the
direction of the patriciate, as well as under that of the
Government which was overturned several months ago.
It consequently ordered about fifteen arrests, among of
which are the late Councillor of State, M. Felscherin,
ex-Professor Muller, and M. Stauffer Gunther, merchant.
As early as four in the morning detachments of the
militia began to come in to the support of the Govern-
ment. Nearly all the arrests were made without re-
sistance, and appeared to have paralysed the rioters, but
about ten in the morning about a hundred collected in
the Place des Greniars, and were preparing to attack the
corps-de garde, when they were charged by a detachment
of cavalry without its making use of its arms. As,
however, it was met with a shower of stones, two pieces
of cannon loaded with grape-shot were brought out of
the Arsenal with matches lighted, the appearance of
which was sufficient to clear the streets, All persons
were prevented from passing through those streets and
squares were they were likely to create disturbance, by
two companies of infantry and detachments of the chic
guard."

At Bale, on the lath, it was stated that the Grand
Council was on the eve of holding an extraordinary
sitting, to discuss the petitions laid before it for
giving its sanction to the decision which tends to
break the ultra-montane league. The sympathy
these petitions have met with in the people at large
has modified the sentiments of several members of the
Lesser Council, who have declared that they would
rather resign than act in opposition to the wishes of
the people.
Madrid papers of the 17th have arrived.

The Clamor Fublico contains the following notice :
—" Phenomenon I no journal was seized yesterday,
not even the Gazette, which well deserved seizure,
not so much for what it said, as for what it did not
say. The silence of the official organ upon the
ardently-desired amnesty is more subversive of order
than the reflections of all the Opposition journals put
together."
On the subject of this said amnesty, the Madrid
correspondent of Galignanes Messenger says, under
the date of October 17 :

" I am assured that a Ministerial crisis at present
causes great anxiety to the Quten ; nothing, how-
ever, transpires beyond the precincts of the Palace ;
the amnesty is said to be its cause. It is
said that when the project was laid before the Queen,
she replied that she would consult her mother ; on
which Don Francisco observed that he considered himself
qualified and entitled to advise her ; and in definitive he
explained that an amnesty to be of any value should be
ample. There is a very prevalent idea that Queen
Christina will go to France. She wished to send away
Don Francisco de Paula, but his son's influence pre-
vented it. That little check is very significant, and she
already knew that the public voice blames her as the
promoter of French influence here. The WI distinc-
tion bestowed upon M. Bresson, in the person of his
child, having been granted contrary to the laws and con-
stitutions of the kingdom, the old nobility feel it a great
insult to their order. The nobles who appeared yester-
day as padrinos for the knights iu the hull-fights, had at
first declined the honour ; but when the Queen inti-
mated her will, their renowned Castilian loyalty over-
came every other feeling."
Wherever the QUEEN makes her appearance she is
received vvith shouts of applause ; but the instant the
Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER appear the
applause ceases, and they are received in solemn
silence. So painfully apparent has this difference
become, that by the advice of the Spanish Govern-
ment the period fixed for the departure of the Duke
and Duchess has been hastened, and instead of re-
maining at Madrid until the 28th, they were to leave
on the 22d. It was supposed that Portugal was the
theatre of serious events, as no courier from either
Lisbon or Oporto had arrived for four days.
MADRID BoLSA, OCT. 17.—Three per Cents. 35
cash ; Four per Cents., 21i ; Five per Cents., 22
cash ; ditto, without interest, Gi. Exchange on
London, 361.

We have received the Paris palters of Thursday.
They almost all of them contain articles on the

subject of the marriage; but the only portion of any
of them worth quoting is the following announcement
made by the National—" The Conservative party is
beginning to consider the conduct of M. GuizoT ex-
ceedingly imprudent; already has the sacrifice of his
person been considered indispensable, and already
conferences have been opened with M. MOLE on the

subject."
There were rumours in Paris of an approaching
change in the Ministry. M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, the
Finance Minister, is, it is said, about to retire, on ac-
count of the state of his health, and is to be succeeded
by M. PASSY. It was also reported that the
Minister of Justice, M. MARTIN (du Nord)
was to be appointed President of one of
the courts of justice, and to be succeeded
as Minister by M. HEBERT. This latter gentleman
is the personal friend of M. Guzzar, but M. PASSY
has always been considered as one of the leaders of
that section of the Conservative party which looks up
to Count MOLE as its head. Now Count MOLE has
openly expressed his disapproval of M. GUIZOT'S
conduct towards England in the marriage affair, and
this offer of a seat in the Cabinet to M. TIASSY is
looked upon as an attempt to neutralise the opposi-
tion of Count MOLE in the Chambers. Should the
offer be really made, it will be a confession on the
part of M. GuizoT that he does not consider his posi-
tion as too secure.

The Journal des Dam's contains an article on the
affairs of Geneva, in which the writer is at no pains
to conceal his great disappointment at there being no
attempt made at outbreak since the installation of the
Provisional Government. In this remarkable article
the cause of Jesuitism is openly upheld as the cause
of justice and true liberty, while those opposed to
the Catholic League, as it is called, are denounced as
being engaged in illegal proceedings. The article
concludes with the following significant passage :-
" We recommend the Revue des Geneve and M.
JAMES FAZY to congratulate themselves on their re-
volution ; but let them make haste, for events are
approaching, and their joy may soon be turned into
grief.'
It is something strange to see the peace-loving M.
GUIZOT thus playing the part of firebrand, but it is
more strange to see the Minister who in France has
been compelled, by force of public opinion, to put the
laws against the Jesuits in force, openly interfering
by force to compel the Swiss to receive and foster
those very Jesuits whom he has himself expelled.
The .ilionitcur Alb Brie of the loth contains the
following :-
" Djelluul den Taieh, cheick of Djebel Amour, has
just arrived with a numerous suite to pay his respects to
General de Bar, who acts as governor-general ad interim.
The obligation imposed on this influential personage by
the Duke of Isly, on receiving his submission, to come
to Algiers, appeared to him an exceedingiST severe con-
Djelloul had not previously hed any pf rsonal
intercourse with the French authoriti?.s. The agitation
of his politica! existence gave to his charucter a distrust
which it was difficult to overcome. Well aware of the
hatred and fear which he had in'pired by his politi-
cal conduct, he was apprehensive of some act of
treason, or one of those perfidious decisions so com-
mon under the old Government of the Regency. His
suspicious ideas became insensibly modified by the re
clition which
,he met with at Tiaret, and the other
places is hien he passed through on his journey. Tne
submission of Djelloul, whoshas come from so distant a
country to the seat of our Goverment, is a striking
fact, which fixes in a high degree the attention of the
tribes of the desert of the Tell. The arrival of this chief
is not the result of a struggle engaged in against him ;
it is the conviction of the inutility of all resistance, and
the feeling that he will derive advantage from French
rule, which have brought him amongst us. Djelloul arid
the other chiefs whD accompanied him were yesterday
presented to the General. Ile is to-day to be invested
with the marks of authority, conferred on him by the
orders of the Duke of Islay, over the tribes of the Djebel
Amour and the Gated Yacoub."
PARIS BOUM; Ocr. 22.-The stock market has been
in a state of quietude to-day, and closed within a shade of
yesterday's quotations, the Threes at 82f. 65c., and Fives at
117 f. 75c. 'I he market closed as follows :-Tree per„Cents.
for Cash, 821. 70c. ; for Account, 821. 65c.; Five per Cents.
for Cash, 117 f. 75c. ; for Account, 117 f. 75c. ; Bank 01
France Shares, 3,480 f. ; Neapolitan, 1021. Spanish, not
quoted.
RArmrAYs.-The Share Market has been depressed to-
day, and most of the lines have closed lower. Vierzon,
which yesterday underwent a heavy fall in consequence of
a tunnel having fallen in, which will delay the opening of
the line for a considerable time, are nominally quoted at
5901., for nothing has been done in them of any consequence.
For Cash-Paris and Orleans left off at 1,243 f. ; Paris
and Rouen, 920 f.; Strasburg and Bale, 2221. 50c.; Bou-
logne, 470 f. ; Northern, 6821. 50c.; Fampoux, 410 f.; Paris
and Lyons, 517 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4931. 75c.;
Nantes, 5021. 50c.; Dieppe, 3351.; Bordeaux, 5521. 50c.;
Montereau, 355 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocrozza 23.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14!4—Dutch Rhenish, I%—East Indian,
—Great Western Bengal, lA—Jamaica South 31idland Junction, %
—Luxembourg, 11,6—Namur and Liege, a —Northern of France
Constituted, 1214—Orleans and Vierzon, 13 - Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 5 lA—Sambre and Meuse. s—West Flanders, 3.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
MALTON RACES.

The Fitzwilliam Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added.
Heats, one mile and a half. (6 t.tibs.)
Mr. Robinson's Morpeth, 5 yrs ..... (Bumby) 0 0 1 1
Captain William's Jinglepot, 4 yrs
Mr. Peart's Voltga, 3 yrs
Mr. Harland's Cossack Maid, 3 yrs 2 0 2 dr.
Mr. C. Boynton's Poussin, 6 yrs .... ... 0 0 0 dr.
Mr. Bank's Charcoal, 3 yrs . 0 0 odr

Won easy.
The Hack Stakes ; one mile and a half, were won in two
hssovs.Subs.)
(4
Chesterfield.,andls added. One mile.
ehaet sSelling
r Stakes. Greenwood's
Lord Eglinton's Bretwalda, 4 yrs ...... (Prince) 0 1 1
Mr. Lancaster's Monsieur Perrot
Mr. Peart's Voltga, 3 yrs
Mr. Greenwood's Chesterfield, aged
of
The Handicap of 2 soya. each, and 10 added; once round
and a dis. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Harland's Cossack Maid, 3 yrs
Mr. Peart's Voltga, 3 yrs 1 2 0
Mr. aged
Mr. Jones's
cry'soanesg Lbyiliolaucus, out of Zulika, 3 yrs 3 dr.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
7to 2 Pgst Alarm—t. freely 30 to 1 agst Lady Wildair
9to 1 agst Sister to Joanna 30 to 1 agst Refraction
colt—taken freely 40 to 1 agst Terrier
11 to 1 agst lago 40 to 1 agst Buttress—t f
16 to 1 agst Red Robin—t 40 to 1 agst Lightning
20 to 1 agst Sting . 40 to 1 agat Laundrymaid
20 to 1 apt Conspiracy 40 to 1 agat Garry Owen
23 to 1 agst Best Bower 40 to 1 agst Evenus.
SHREWSBURY AUTUMN RACES.—FmnAv.
The Astley House Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added,
were won by Mr. Hain 's br g by Young Cadland, beating six.
others.
The Abbey Stakes cf 3 sous. each, and 20 added, were
won by Mr. W. Price's Sailor, beating Hector and six others.
The Salop Hack Stakes of 2 80VS. each, and 10 added,
were won by Mr. Palmer's The Bird, beating Tottenham and
several others.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Brighton bans., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Race Course;
Fri., Dyke.
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Tels-
combe Tye.
Eastbourne harrs., Mon., Paradise, Eastbourne; Thurs.,
Frts,itriodnobnlltildl
s;.,SaTtu.,e Nsir.,ilplinadrkohnaComldpllalrikll—;
Thurs., Thakeham
Poorhouse; Sat., Poynings Cross Ways.
Sir Tatton Sykes's lids., Mon., Birdsal House ; Wed.,
Castle Howard Inn; Fri., Pluckham-10%.
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Wormelow Tump.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Tiekwood ; Fri., Caughley.
Tiverton lids., Mon., Exebridge; Wed., Cruwys Morchard
Mill ; Sat., Killerton Park.

Essex Union hds., Wed., Moor Gardens; Sat., Sonthnnin•
ster-street.

8.V.1L, Tues., Toomer Farm ; Fri., Lower Chesilbourae
—ll%.
Suffolk hds., Tues., Beyton Green ; Fri., Harding Green.
Mr. Lockett's lids., Tues., Fifth Milestone on the Warmin-
ster and Sharston-road ; Fri., Knook Knoll.
Mr. A. Smith's lids., Thurs., Tedworth House; Fri., South
Grove; Sat., Roche Court-11.
Badworth lids., Tues., Barnsdale Bar; Thurs., Hampole
Inn ; Sat., Ackworth Moor Top-10%.
Mon.,
Mr. Lumley's hds., Mon., Headon Clump ; Tues., Sandbeck
Park ; Thurs., Blyth Law-hill ; Fri., Gringley.
Earl of Harewood's
Bar; Fri., Tadcaster Bar-10%.
Holderness lids., Thurs., Burton Constable; Sat., North
Dalton. Riffa ,• Wed., Paper Mill

WESTMINSTER.—It is rumoured that a juuior
member of the Chancery bar, of influential connexions,
will solicit the suffrages of the independent voters of
this borough at the next general election.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD ItArLwAY.—A rumour
appeared in some of the morning papers yesterday, to
the effect that an offer of a guarantee by the Great
'W cstern Company to the Birmingham and Oxford Com-
pany had been made. We have ascertained that there
is no truth whatever in this statement. The Great
Western Board met yesterday, and the subject was not
even mentioned. The Great Western Company do not
intend to make any offer whatever.
SUPPOSED ROBBERY ON TIIE LONDON AND Bin-
MINGHAM RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, shortly after eight
o'clock, a gentleman, whilst travelling from Coventry to
London, by the Birmingham and London line of railway,
was either robbed of, or lost, a pocket-book, containing
a number
of Bank of Enuland notes, to the extent in
value of nearly 5W., a bill of exchange, several receipts,
and other miscellaneous articles of the greatest import-
ance to the owner. The unfortunate loser, it appears.,
did not discover his loss until he had nearly completed
half his journey.
ELECTION or A TEMPORAL PEER.
—Writs bearing
teste Tuesday have been issued from the Hanaper-office,
for electing a Temporal Peer of Ireland to succeed to
the vacancy made in the Houle of Lords by the demise
of the Marquis of Tb mond.
THE NEEDLE TRADE.—The
ne:dle-pointers and
the manufacturers of Redslitch are still at variance, and
the latter have resolved upon the deel!ev,., [Le isure of
employing machinery to supersede en truly' the practice
of hand-pointing, so rujuriouti to lifv.
THE WIGAN CHIMNEY.—A chimney has lately
been erected ty a chemist at \Vigan which is 420 feet
high, and contains 3,000,000 bricks.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool this week has been
active, speculators having been the chief buyers. The
sales of the week, including yesterday, were 59,900
bales. The stock is 591,400 bales, against 916,160 bales
at this time last year. -

At the sale of railway shares yesterday, at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s, prices were firm. The following are
a few of the principal sales:—
Great Indian Peninsular £o 6 0
East Indian
Madrid and Valencia 0 19 6
Paris and Lyons
Eastern Counties, York Extension ... 3 5 6
Paris and Rouen
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union 0 14 0
Cornwall and Devon Central
Manchester and Southampton
Shropshire Union and Canal
Caledonian, New
We:A Riding Union
Leicester and Bedford
Cornwall Ol6 6
East and West India Dock and London
and Birmingham Junction
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. ....
London and Brighton, Eighths
Churnet and Blythe
South Wales

The Great Iffestern steamer is not yet announced.
The effect of the failure of Messrs. Harman and Co.
will, it is expected, not fall so heavily upon the
mercantile interest as most other stoppages of
similar magnitude, because the chief creditors of
the firm are the Russian Government, the
amount due to whom is stated to be not
far short of half a million sterling. Probably the
sum may prove not to be so large., although the house
acts d for years as the agents of the Peterbburgh Govern-
ment. Messrs. Masterman are said to be sufferers to the
extent of 10,000/., and one or two other parties lose
smaller sums. These periodical suspensions among houses
once standing pre-eminent in the mercantile world, excite
very serious reflections, and we could point at once to a
principal cause. A firm is successfully carried on for
many years to the great enrichment, probably, of all its
partners, who retire, one by one, taking with
them the bulk, and occasionally the whole of
their fortunes. New parties assume the responsibi-
lities of an immense concern with, in nine cases
out cf ten, a much inferior capital, for the ob-
vious reason that they come in to make, not
invest fortunes, and if, as frequently occurs, there are
successive heavy losses in the way of trade, the magni-
tude of the business done, absorbing as it does the
diminiAed means of the new house, prevents their re-
covery, end in the end brings them to a stand. The
safe course, to our mind, would be to reconstruct any
firm from which the wealthier members retire,

and contract the business as a safer plan,
both for the house and those doing business
with it. Mr. Jeremiah Harman, the " great man" in
the hone tow in difficulties, is said to have died worth
600,0001, and the tosses of the present firm in the article
of cochineal, incurred many years since, are mentioned
as one cause of their stoppage. Of course we are unable
to affirm or negative this statement.
The Funds have been very, steady, but scarcely any
business has been done. Consols have been 94- to 95
for Money, and 95 to 95* for Account. Exchequer-
bills have been 13s. to 16s. premium. The New Three-
and-a-Quartcr per Cents. have been 95i to 951.
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Spanish
Five pfa Cents are 26t, and the'Three per Cents. 37i 4.
Portuguese, Four per Cents are at 414. Equador Bonds
are 31. Dutch Two-and-a 'Half per Cents. are 59.
Shakes are scarcely so buoyant as yesterday, but a
fair besincss is doing.