The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

THE: SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 83 1846.

to the youngest son of the reigning Sovereign, but
the entire credit of the French Government is thereby
virtually abandoned. One successful movement may
be made for the aggrandisement of an Orleans Prince,
but what may not be the compensation required for
that solitary advantage ?
It is impossible not to perceive that there is some-
thing contrary to international law in this marriage
of the Due DE MONTPENSIER. If the proceedings were
consonant with all the regulations of that invisible
but almost omnipotent code, why should the whole
scheme have been germinated in such profound
secresy ? Why should it never have been divulged
until the very moment of its realisation had
arrived ? And why, when so emphatically
protested against by a friendly Power, should
the ceremony be hastened forward with such
discourteous and blundering precipitation ? The
hypocrisy of the whole affair is miserably shallow, it
is manifest upon the very surfaee. But the upholders
of the arrangement fall back, in their dilemmas, upon
what they are facetiously pleased to call the satisfac-
tion of the Spanish population at the husband selected
for the INFANTA. The popularity of the Duc DE
MONTPENSIER in the Peninsula is the theme of
lengthened observation in the newspapers sub-
servient to the French Government. His tri-
umphal reception by the multitudes in the
different Spanish towns is elaborately pour-
trayed by L'Epoque. With all submission,
however, to these authoritative informants, we pre-
sume to question the existence of this popularity and
the enthusiasm of these receptions. We cannot
conceive to ourselves the possibility of any
individual being the idol of the populace in
a country where the journals are seized
whenever the advisability of his selection as a partner
for the Princess is doubted in their columns, or when
an officer like General BRETON proclaims that all
similar sceptics will be shot in case they presumed
to divulge their scepticism. Nor do we
conceive it to be customary for a royal bride-
groom to enter the country of his betrothed
escorted by ten squadrons of cavalry, or for
such a kingly suitor to be conducted thither in a car-
riage followed by two pieces of artillery ! The
golden apples blooming in the garden of the Hespe-
rides were not guarded with more ugly and formid-
able sentinels.

Much, however, as we may deprecate the lust of
dignity and power which has conducted matters to
their present unfortunate position, it is obvious
that neither regrets nor recriminations can now pre-
vent this selfish and ominous marriage. The conse-
quences, therefore, are the only matters for our consi-
deration, and we tremble lest those consequences may
be more calamitous to humanity than even an imme-
diate and bloody warfare. It is an alliance like the
present that entails such a countless succession of
miseries upon an empire; it is through such an inju-
dicious compact that generations of woe are entailed
upon a people, that years have witnessed only fresh
renewals of a struggle for nationality, that provinces
have been depopulated because of a mistaken pageaist
within the precincts of a palace. It was for the pre-
vention of such calamities that the treaty of
Utrecht was signed; and it is by disregarding
the express stipulations of that treaty that so
much injury has been already effected and so
much more rendered possible. Mistrust has already
been thereby introduced between friendly Cabinets ;
the entente cordiale, which it had required so much
ingenuity to patch together, has been thereby cast
into a state of premature dilapidation ; the compli-
cated affairs of the Peninsula have been thereby
again entangled just as their internal arrangement
had become tolerably organized ; and the amicable
interviews at the Chateau d'Eu have been thereby most
effectually counteracted. Time will evince the fallacy
of those reasonings which have conducted affairs to
their present lamentable confusion ; but with the
flight of that Time the Peninsula may be again
wrung with moral convulsions, and saturated with
Spanish blood.

We on Tuesday published a document of considerable
importance, -which has recently been issued from the
Commissariat Relief Office, Dublin Castle. It
furnishes instructions for the formation and guidance
of committees for the relief of distress in Ireland con-
sequent upon the failure of the potato crop in this
present year, and contains many valuable and some
objectionable regulations, which should, we conceive,
be modified, or altered, to make the bodies thereby
constituted in the highest degree efficient fur the
purposes for which they are called into existence.
To the lieutenant of the county is delegated the
duty of dividing every barony for which extraordinary
sessions have been convened into convenient districts
for the action of relief committees. Every such dis-
trict must consist of at least two parishes, and its
exact limits be accurately defined ; for these districts
the lieutenant is to constitute relief committees,
or to re-assemble committees that have hitherto
administered relief funds, and to appoint a chairman
and secretary. The committees are to consist exclu-
sively of certain functionaries and public officers
thereby indicated. We think the constitution of the
bodies of a most injurious character. Experience
has ever shown that the affairs of any locality can be
managed in the most beneficial manner by persons
resident in, and intimately acquainted with all its
wants, and who possess the confidence and esteem of
the people in general. In a vast number of the dis-
tricts to be formed there may be found many gentle-
men possessing all the qualifications necessary for the
meritorious discharge of the duties. Such persons
are excluded frorn being members of, or from taking
any part whatsoever in the proceedings of the several
committees. The only persons who are to be selected
for the situation are magistrates, who are to be
deputed from each branch of petty sessions in the
barony, half barony, or lesser division, for which the
presentment sessions have been held, not exceeding
two from each bench. Every other member is ap-,
pointed by reason of his holding some peculiar
situation ; they consist of the following, viz. :—the
lieutenant or vice-lieutenant of the county, the
resident magistrate in the barony division for which
the session has been held, the principal clergyman of
each church (Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Pres-
byterian) officiating in each parish of the district, the
chairman of the poor-law union, the principal con-
stabulary officer in the barony, the principal coast-
guard officer (where available), the officers acting
under the Commissary-General, and the principal
officer in the barony acting under the Board of
Works. Now we do not object to any of the persons
thus indicated; on the contrary, we think that each
and every of them, more particularly the clergymen
of the different religions, should, ex officio, be entitled
to seats at the boards ; but our objection is to the
limitation to such persons, and the declaration that
they only shall be placed on the committee. The
most active and useful members of the former com-
mittees (who shall be re-assembled) will be excluded
from the future meetings thereof. Again, under the
new rule, such committees can only be constituted in
baronies where extraordinary sessions are to be as-
sembled : this appears erroneous. In many baronies,
where there are wealthy landowners, such an amount
of work may be provided as to render it unnecessary
to present for public works, and yet a relief committee
may be very useful in seeing that all the destitute
labourers are provided with work, and that food at a
moderate price is placed within their reach ; great
suffering may be endured in such neighbourhoods,
which would totally be avoided if relief committees
were in existence therein. 'We, therefore, submit
that the lieutenant of the county should, in every
case where he thought it advisable, be empowered to
constitute such a committee, and to appoint a field for
their labours, whether an extraordinary session for the
barony in which it is situated had been held, or con-
vened, or otherwise ; and that he should also be em-
powered to nominate such fit and proper persons resi-
dent in the several districts to co-operate with those
mentioned in the instructions, or such persons might,
perhaps, with still better effect be elected by the rate-
payers of the district for which they are to be ap-
pointed. Such an addition would have the effect of
gaining the confidence of the people to be employed,
and would secure the presence of persons who would
be intimately acquainted with the claims of those
seeking work at the hands of the com-
mittee, and enabled to adjudicate properly thereon.
The remaining regulations apply chiefly to the manner
in which the proceedings of the committee are to be
carried on. Some do not require much comment.
One of the rules is, that the suggestions of individual

members are -to be offered only at meetings of the
committees, so that all communications shall be made
only by the chairman or secretary.
The most important of the duties of the com-
mittee appears to be the selection of fit and proper
objects, to whom work is to be given. They are di-
rected, where public works of relief are to be exe-
cuted, to supply to the officers of the Board of
Works appointed to conduct them lists of per-
sons requiring relief by employment, made
up from registries of applicants for relief, in
the following order, and not containing a greater
number of persons than the officers of works shall
propose to employ from each relief division of the
barony, having regard to the extent of the labouring
population requiring relief in such division :-
Ist. Persons destitute of support, who have the
largest families depending on them.
2d. Persons with smaller families wholly de-
pendent on them.
3d. All other persons requiring employment on
public works, for whose support it is absolutely
necessary.

Such a list we consider to be quite essential to
enable the officers to select the persons wham it is
most desirable to employ ; but why should it be
limited in its numbers ? The qualification necessary
for a place therein is that of destitution, of a total
inability to provide sufficient support for themselves,
or those dependent on them, without the assistance to
be afforded by the public works, and it will be hard
to tell the starving labourer that the list is already
full, and that therefore there is no place or hope for
him, and thus to drive him to desperation, perhaps to
crime. Every man in absolute want should be entitled
to work, and that work should be provided in some
way or other. These lists are from time to time to
be revised by the committees, at their discretion.

The committees are not to interfere in the execu-
tion of the works, but they may draw the attention
of the Board of Works to any occurrences in relation
thereto, which, in their opinion, are deserving of con-
sideration. They are not to carry on works of relief
of the description indicated in the 9th and 10th Vic.
c. 107 ; these are to be submitted to the baronial ses-
sions, and if sanctioned, must be carried on by the
Board of Works only. Where the committees are
compelled to provide employment from funds at their
own disposal, it is to be limited to. small works of
local utility ; they are not to give higher wages or
exact less labour than is given on the works carried
on under the superintendence of the Board of Works ;
the works are to be only to the extent to which pri-
vate employment is proved not to be available.
The funds at the disposal of the committees are to
consist of the balance remaining from the former
period, which closed on the 15th August last, sub-
scriptions for the present period and any other con-
tributions obtained, and the Lord-Lieutenant's dona-
tion, which may amount to one-half the amount sub-
scribed, but which will vary according to the circum-
stances and the degree of distress to be relieved.

This fund is only to be applied to the following

purposes :

Ist. Providing supplies of Indian corn or Indian
corn-meal, or other food for sale.

2d. Affording relief by employment if necessary.
3d. Defraying the contingent expenses of the com-
mittee, including remuneration for the services of the
secretary or clerk.

The above are the chief points contained in the in
structions. We shall probably point out some addi
tional regulations, which we think might with advan
tage be adopted, and which would render such corn
rnitteeri really valuable.

Accounts from Russia state that one of the sons of
SCHAMYL, who has been for some years a prisoner at
St. Pt tersburg, has effected his escape. It appears that
when only eight years of age he was taken prisoner
by the Russians. The Emperor had him brilliantly
educated at the Military School, where he was consi-
dered one of the best pupils. He never spoke of his
father, and appeared to have forgotten his birthplace.
His comrades and professors were ignorant of his
origin, and he was known by a name different from
his own. lie left the Military School last July, and
was sent as lieutenant to the regiment of Finland.
A month back he suddenly disappeared, leaving a
letter for his colonel, in which he informed him of hi
birth, and declared that, though young, he had never
forgotten his native country, and that he was going
to join his father and brothers. This news caused a
great sensation. The young SCUAMYL, who is eighteen
years of age, was much beloved by his fellow pupils,
who at present cannot help admiring the patience and
courage with which he endured his lot for so long a
time. It is supposed that he had succeeded in reach-
ing Sweden. A family of rich Finland peasants have
been arrested on suspicion of having favoured his
escape.

The Jews in the Canton of Berne have been re-
lieved by the Grand Council from the restrictions
imposed upon them by the decree of 1920, which
compelled them to take out an annual license to trade
—to submit all advances made on pledges to the
police—and which forbade them keeping their ac-
counts in the Hebrew language, or in any language
written in the Hebrew character.

Oral proceedings commenced in the criminal
courts of Berlin on the sth October. The trial of
the persons implicdted in the late Polish insurrection,
is fixed for the 15th. The greater number of them
have already arrived at Berlin.
A letter from Warsaw, ofeSept. 25, says—

" The Government displays an extraordinary severity
towards the inhabitants of our capital. All the clubs
and circles are closed. Passports for foreign countries
are delivered only to persons well known to the autho-
rities, and not unless they furnish a considerable amount
of caution-money. All letters are examined on their
arrival and departure, and then resealed with the police
seal. As soon as three persons are seen speaking toge•
ther in the street, the police agents disperse them. All
men wearing an imperial on the chin are noted by the
police, and considered as revolutionary. Every anniver-
sary of the birthday of a member of the Imperial Family
has been declared a Bite-day, and the Government re-
quires that on these occasions all the houses in Warsaw
shall be illuminated from dusk to midnight. Such per-
sons as do not light up their houses, or do so incom-
pletely, are to be fined and imprisoned, and looked on
as suspected. Lately, on one of those days, some bits of
wood were cut in front of a house situated at the ex-
tremity of the town. A police agent entered and asked
for the owner of the house, and, as he was absent, ar-
rested the man's wife, and had her detained in prison
for a month for having profaned the fete of a member of
the Emperor's family."

According to the Frankfort Journal, the Duke of
SAXE COBURG, in the five months from January 1 to
May 31, distributed to seven hundred of his peasantry
in Hungary, who were suffering from the deficiency
of the last year's harvest, a pound of meat and two
pounds of bread each per day, and gave employment
for all who were able to work—thus expending,
(luring this period, 28,000 florins in food, and 144,000
florins in labour.

Lisbon papers of the 26th ult. have been received.
The Diario announces from Braga, under the date of
September 21, that Father CASIMIR°, the Miguelite
Chief, had made his submission to the Government;
and that the insurrection having been completely
suppressed, the troops had returned to their canton-
ments,

Madrid papers of the Ist have arrived.
The Heraldo gives a long account of the cere-
monial to be observed on the occasion of the royal
marriages, which are to be solemnized on the 10th of
October, at the Atocha Church.
The editors of the Espectador, who have been pro-
secuted- by the Government for their remarks on the
Mon tpensier marriage, have been tried and acquitted.
Senor ZEA BERMUDEZ, the late Minister of FELL..
DINAND VII., and the patron of the cause of " en-
lightened despotism," is at present in Madrid, and is
one of Queen CHRISTINA'S confidential advisers.

It was reported on the Bolsa that the Count of
MONTEMOLIN had landed near Almeira.
The Cadiz ectnercio has the subjoined information

from Madrid :—" LOUIS PHILIPPE gives his son and
daughter-in-law board and lodging, servants, and all
they may want in the way of daily living, and more-
over, 2,000 piastres a month. The INFANTA'S marriage
portion will be 56,000,000 reals de Veillon; 38,000,000
in cash, and the remainder in diamonds and jewels.
At his death, Louis PHILIPPE will leave his son an
annual income of 3,000,000."
MADRID BOLSA, Our. I—Three per Cents. 3,11/4 money;
Four per Cents., 211/2 ;_ Five per Cents., 22 money; Debt 1
without Interest, 634 ; Coupons, 2014.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
Monday was the birthday of KingLouis.PnuirrE,

who on that day completed his 73d year. The KING,
accompanied by the Duke DE NEMOURS and the
Prince DE JOINVU.LE, and attended by a brilliant
staff, reviewed the garrison of Paris in the Place du
Carrousel. His MAJESTY, who made a profuse dis-
tribution of decorations among the officers and non-
commissioned officers, was loudly cheered.

A telegraphic dispatch received on Tuesday an-
nounces the arrival of the Dues DE MONTPENSIER and
D'AIIMALE at Burgos on the evening of the sth.
They were to set off for Buitrago the following
morning. They were received everywhere, says the
dispatch, with acclamations.

The Epoque, the Ministerial journal, gives a mag-
niloquent account of the progress of these princes
through Spain, but it omits to account for the very
slow rate at which the progress is made, contrasting
as it does so strangely with " the hot haste" with
which the bridegroom elect spurred along the route
from Paris to Bayonne. A correspondent of the
National, however, accounts for it by stating
that the Princes are accompanied by an army
(cavalry, infantry, and artillery), to keep off
the people, and protect them against any attempts
that may be made by guerilla parties to carry them
off to the mountains. This writer, in describing the
triumphal entry of the Princes into Irun, says :
" The cortege advances according to a programme
previously arranged. Ten squadrons of cavalry,
serve as an escort. There were three hun-
dred infantry at the bridge of Irun, and the carriages
are followed by two
pieces of artillery. In spite of all
this military show, which is well calculated to excite
curiosity, the crowd is inconsiderable, and the enthu-
siasm null. When the escort arrived opposite the
church, one of the commanding officers raised hip sword,
and cried Viva!' The cavalry, in obedience to the
word, cried also 'Viva!' The people asked which was
the nobio (the bridegroom), and as people were not
always well informed, the answers were sometimes
absurd, and some people, who took General Athelin for
the happy man, thought him a little too old. Here is a
conversation which I overheard between two Spaniards,
countrymen from the neighbourhood. On seeing the
troops and the cannon, one of them said, These French
princes, then, come as prisoners?' No,' said the other,
but they are afraid of contrabandistas.' Every pre-
caution has been taken against a coup de main, and,
under pretext of honours, an army has been echelon be-
tween Irun and Madrid. From here to Vittoria there
are 2,000 infantry and 600 cavalry; from Vittoria to
Burgos, from Burgos to Valladolid, from Valladolid to
Segovia, and from that last point to Madrid, there are
the same number of troops."
The answer of the French Cabinet to the note pre-
sented by the Marquis of NORMANDY was forwarded
on Monday to the Count DE JARNAC, to be presented
by him to Lord PALMERSTON.

The article which had appeared on the preceding
day in the Constitutionnel, and which we gave in
The Sun of yesterday, appears to have excited a great
sensation in the political circles of Paris.

The Legitimatist Quotidienne, in observing on it,

says—

" Tne language of the Centre Gauche is very signifi-
cative. It is well to regard it as an expression from the
heart in a moment of anger, and as an evidence in favour
of true and serious opposition. Even those who have
come the nearest to the pensee dirigeante, now make com-
mon cause with us, and justify our opposition. We will
not ask the Constitutionnel to be consistent with itself, and
not to retrograde when it has taken the first step. In the
times in which we live acts are daily giving the lie to the
words and promises of M. Thiers. M. Thiers gives way
to anger, but at thu same time he is endeavouring to see
whether he may be able to return to power by a back door.
We are tempted to believe that the article of the Consti-
tutionnel is not unconnected with such a wish. Whilst
it makes some avowals not very agreeable to the system,
the Constitutionnel takes good care not to attack the prin-
ciple of the English alliance. On the contrary, it lauds
it in an indirect manner, and pretends to prove that M.
Guizot has greatly compromised it. Does M. Thiers,
profiting by the diplomatic embarrassments with Eng-
land on the subject of Spain, wish to offer himself as a
saviour? This is quite possible. We declare before-
hand, however, that this fourth rupture with the British
Government will end, like the three others, in some dis-
graceful concession."
The Si?cle, which has always hitherto been un-
sparing in its attacks on Lord PALMERSTON and on the
English alliance, says, in allusion to the revelations
made by the Constitutionnel in the article alluded
to—

" If these facts be true, and we have too much reason
to believe that they are, are we to be astonished at the
bitter fruits produced by a policy at once perfidious and
pusillanimous ? Will it now be said that the revolu-
tion is to be blamed if France has no more allies in
Europe ?"
The French Government, without waiting for the
ratification of the treaty of commerce with Russia by
the 'Chambers ; without waiting to see whether,
before that ratification, any advantages will be con-
ceded to French vessels entering Russian ports, has
taken upon itself; not by ordonnance, but simply
by a letter directed to the officers of the Customs, to
at once admit Russian vessels and cargoes on the most
favourable terms.
The Presse, in speaking of the treaty having ex-
pressed a hope that the advantages conceded to Rus-
sian vessels in French ports will be granted to French
vessels in the ports of Russia, the Univers says—
" The Presse whose sympaties in favour of Russia are
well known, does not inform us whether the borderies of
the Cabinet of London have contributed to hasten this
arrangement, but the terms in which it ex.
presses itself give reason to fear that this is
the case. The Grand politique has perhaps found
in this treaty a new vexation for Lord Pal-
merston. It is not yet rectified, and we are never-
theless told that already the Director-General of the
Customs has given orders for Russian vessels being from
this moment treated in our ports as the vessels of our
own nation. Has not France in order to obtain
the conclusion of this treaty, too hastily dispensed with
certain obstacles, in abandoning pretensions which she
had hitherto maintained ? We can conceive that the
Autocrat, notwithstanding the eager condescension of
our Government, would wait for the ratification of the
treaty before he permitted our vessels to enjoy the favours
which from this moment we grant to the vessels of Russia;
' We hope, says the Presse,
that the same
but the Presse does not say whether these privileges
are to be reciprocal even after ratification ; it merely
hopes so.
favour will be granted to our vessels.' The expression,
it must be admitted, is rather strange in a journal which
defends with so much energy the rights of our commerce
in the relations with England. If the question was a
commercial treaty concluded with the Cabinet of London,
the hope of reciprocity would not satisfy the Presse,
which would not fail to demand explanations from the
Journal des Debuts. In our turn WQ entreat the Presse
to explain the modest language that it uses as regards
Russia. Its hopes are not of a nature to tranquillise
our commercial interests."
The Constitationnel, while stating its approval of
the treaty, condemns the Ministry for acting con-
trary to law. It says—
we are even dis •
posed'We
' to approve not
attack the treaty in itself;
of the general spirit which has dictated
it, whilst regretting that it is applicable only to the navi-
gation between our ports of the Atlantic and the Chan-
nel, and the Russian ports of the Baltic ; but we demand
in virtue of what law the Government executes the stipu-
lations of this treaty ? There is a law of ISI4, which,
concedes to the Government the faculty of modifying cer-
tain customs' tariffs within certain limits when the Cham-
bers are not sitting, on condition, however, of submitting
these modifications to the legislative sanction in the
beginning of the following session ; but this law,
which accords to the Government an exceptional power,
which it has used too frequently, does not relate in any
manner to tonnage or navigation dues. It is inappli-
cable to the present circumstance, and we are not aware
that there has been any intention to appeal to it. Where,
then, does the Ministry find out the right which it now
arrogates to itself? Apparently in this pretension—that
treaties when signed have no need to wait for the legislative
sanction. We thought that this question had been de-
finitively resolved in 1826. The matter related to a
similar treaty passed between France and England; the
discussion was a long one, and Messrs. Cassimir I Geier,
Sobastiani, Royer-Collard, and Humann spoke against
Messrs. de Vil'6le and S)rieys de Mayrinhac. The
question was eventually decided by a law in favour of
the power of Parliament"
According to the Courrier Francais, it was re-
ported at Malaga that ADE-EL-KADER had dethroned
the Emperor of Moßocco.
A copy of the second protest presented by Mr.
BULWER to the Spanish Cabinet was delivered to M.
GUIZOT on Monday, by the Marquis of NORMANDY.
A letter from Toulon, of the 2d, says—
" The Turkish fleet, under the orders of the Grand
Capitan, was on the 10th of September in the port of
Saloniki, which it was to leave
on an early day. No
news had been received of its ulterior movements, but,
according to news received at Malta, an expedition
notwithstanding
against Tunis was more than ever considered probable.
The English Ambassador at Constantinople being per-
suaded,t ions severalwtehree
officers,arsesaul really
yfaonbrforPorte, an
aasr;
that a serious enterprise was really intended, and for
ii,nogf
ifß parrbeparayra,
which Austria and Russia had promised their aid,
directed the Governor of Malta to send, without delay, to
expedition by land also against Tunis. In consequence, the
ceteihileg4 ap
madefurtphoes purpose
ilecla steamer, scarcely arrived two days from Tripoli,
with dispatches from the British Consul, again left on the
18th of September for that port, having on board Captain
'I fly, of the staff of the garrison, and Captain Rollo, of
the 42d. This steamer returned to Malta on the 21st,
but did not bring back the two officers. That circum-
s'ance leads to the supposition that their stay at Tripoli
was deemed necessary. But did they remain really to
watch the preparations of the Porte against Tunis, as
the Malta journals declare? Time must resolve that
question."
Coves AUTFIENTIQUE9 PArtis, Ocr. French Five per
Cents., 117 f. 75c. 70c. 75e. 80e. 750. 70c. 75c. 117 f. 70c. 65c.
Three per Cents., 82f. 75e. 70e, 75c. 70c. 65c. Bank of

France, 3,485 f. Neapolitan (Rothschild's), 102 f. Romans,
102%f. Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 100 f. Ditto, 1842,
102 4f. Spanish Three per Cents., 38i. Exchange on Lon-
don—one month—paper, 25f. 72%c. ; money, 25f. 70c. ; three
months, paper, 25f. 57%c. ; money, 251. 55c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 7.
_ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 14% —Dutch Rhenish, 4% —East Indian, %
—ltalian and Austrian, I%—Luxembourg, 1 k —Namur and Liege,
1% —Northern of France Constituted, 13%—Orleans and Vlerzon,
14% —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5% —Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted, 4%—}Vest Flanders, 314.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR
(THIS DAY.)
COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Aldermen was held this day, at eleven
o'clock; the Lord Mayor presided. There were present
the Recorder of London, Aldermen Sir George Carroll,
Wood, Hughes Hughes, Sir James Duke, Copeland, Sir
_ .

Chapman Marshall, Farncombe, Gibbs, Sir Peter Laurie,

Sir Claudius Hunter, Farebrother, Moon, Hooper,
Sidney, and Wilson. Sheriffs Challis and Kennard were
also present.

The minutes of the last Court having been read, and
otter routine business gone through,

The LORD MAYOR stated that certain papers had been
placed his hands, for the purpose of being put before the
Court, relative to acts on which considerable discussion
had taken place last Court day. He would, therefore.
take leave to place those papers on the table.
Alderman COPELAND said, that on the 28th of Sep-
tember he requested Alderman Wood to relinquish, for
the present year, his pretensions to the highest civic
honour in the City, so that an opportunity might be
g ed Aldermen
against
examinehim. e intoha
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hn had
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papers d requested e theto
the causes tried there in the hands of the Lord Mayor.
As these papers were now put in, he would move that
himselfthey be
krneeawd
that by
thhee Town
ddecision isi
nC lienr k
the
case
Aldermanef Wood
Howard
and Shaw was not final, although he had stated to the
Court that it was so. That cause had, by a writ of
error, been carried to the highest tribunal.
Alderman WOOD denied that he had kept back any
information of which he was in possession, and he as-
serted fearlessly that the statement of Mr. Alderman.
Copeland was most incorrect, and that the action had
not been carried to a higher court. He was pre-
pared even to prove, from the documents on
the table, that the charges against him were without
foundation, and that the statements made in some
of the public prints were as devoid of truth as of
charity. In a letter, signed " Truth," which appeared
in the Times, various charges had been made against him.
He bad since that period applied to the editor of that
paper for the name of the writer, but it would not be
given up. He had also written to a gentleman in Dublin,
asking for information as to the actual position of the
causes in the case of Howard and Shaw, and Levison and
Hodges. The answer stated that there had been a
bill of exceptions taken in one of the actions. The letter
which the Alderman received, further stated that permis-
sion had been given to Shaw to go into the action de novo,
but he had not availed himself of that permission, and
he was at that moment liable to be taken in execution.
It was asserted that there was a writ of error sued for
to carry the cause to the House of Lords ; but before
they could do so they were bound to give security, but
none such had been given. After this statement, was
there a want of candour or a suppression of facts on
his part ?—(Hear, hear.) He would now proceed to the
other cause of Levison and Hodges, and in that action
a bill of exceptions had been taken, and it was
ordered to be argued in the coming term. It was very
well to found charges on the statements of counsel at
nisi prius. These gentlemen looked to the impression
to be made on the jury. He found it reported in the
p
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inhae
er,p)a.ndet
Anderton,
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Irish
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artn
Societylsttcythoe.
na assiestdaarhagt.
eyeecidriaot
ishutneogatdhthdehatroacst
tdei ain proceedings had taken
place before the Lord Mayor yesterday; now
t
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under the same roof, and as Mr. Wood's clerk was not
both fees was paid to Mr. Kindo hnbhecy aaeernvees dnelveefMyer paid'yesrs. been,u
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injury,
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ndcooboaued itle(sni
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to
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vca:es)
attending the electioneering proceedings instead of his
where he could at once see the receipts.
committeeoawt
arrivedtn heb ut
srai utn,t ehars
nosh.dce
He was sorry that the Lord Mayor had yesterday pro-
nounced a verdict of not guilty in the case of all parties,
for he thought the moral guilt of Mr. Anderton was most
palpable. He had published that which was, in fact,
untrue, and he had appended his name to that untruth.
These statements had no doubt seriously affected the
poll, and although in that respect Mr. Anderton had
gained no triumph, an intelligent public would try him
at their bar, and find him guilty. He (Ald. Woad) had
not, however, followed bias in this evil course, and what-
ever might be the course pursued by the Court that day,
he trusted at least that no part of his conduct
would reflect dishonour on himself in the eyes of his
brother Aldermen. Among other imputations against
him, it had been whispered that he (Ald. Wood) wished
the last court to be held with closed doors. He denied
the imputation in tote. The very contrary was the fact.
He did not complain of the conduct of the Irish So
ciety further than that he considered it a most unjustifi-
able course for the deputy.-governor of the society to
come forward with aspersions calculated to crush an
honest man. He begged leave to thank the Court for
the kindness with which they had heard him.
Sir G. CARROLL disavowed the letter of Mr. Ander-
ton. It had not come from his committeevroom, on the
contrary, the first time his friends had seen it was after
it had been printed. His committee had nothing to do
with the matter.
Mr. Alderman FARERROTHER said, that although the
statement made that day by Mr. Alderman Wood was
no doubt correct, yet no man knew better than he that
the judgment in the case of Howard v. Shaw was not
final. The bill, it was true, had been in favour of the
plaintiff, but a bill of exceptions had been taken, and the
defendant could proceed if he felt so inclined. However
much he might wish to support Mr. Alderman Wood,
he regretted that he could not at present support him,
until he had unequivocally proved the statements made
to be false.

Sir PETER LAURIE wished that the papers given in to
the Lord Mayor should be read.
Mr. Alderman Woo") objected to this course, unless
the whole of the papers connected with the causes were
read together.
Ald. COPELAND read the papers, and contended that
they proved that a verdict had been taken, in the case of
Howard and Shaw, for the plaintiff, for 9,3321. 4d., with
costs—that a bill of exceptions had been taken, and a writ
of error sued for, and issued on the 23d June, and there-
fore the statement of Mr. Alderman Wood was not cor-
recmt,r. because the
crrALt
casewaissnsout
gfigneasltleydtetrhat miniat would terminated.
much better if the Court of Aldermen should appoint a
be
committee, and refer the documents to that committee
to report to the Court.

Alderman HUGHES HUGHES was of opinion that the
papers produced by Alderman Wood did not in any way
wipe away the stain on the Alderman's character, and
as he laboured under that impression, he could nut sup-
port him in the present contest.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY rose to support Mr. Alderman
Wood, when
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER objected—there was no
question before the Court, and Mr. Alderman Sidney
was, therefore, out of order.
Mr. Alderman MooN thought that the conduct of the
Court savoured much of persecution. If Alderman
Wood was not qualified for Lord Mayor, he was not a
fit person to be a member of that Court. He, however,
would recommend Mr. Alderman Wood to retire for the
present year, until his character be cleared of all impu-
tation.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said it was a most painful
thing to him to be called upon to investigate the cha-
racter and integrity of a brother magistrate. He had
heard nothing from Mr. Alderman Wood of a contradic-
tory character, and 411 that appeared against him was
the simple fact, that he had incautiously lent himself to
a joint-stock company. From pecuniary reasons he
thought it would be injudicious in Mr. Alderman Wood
to accept the office at present.
Sir JAMES DUKE, although opposed to the course
pursued towards Mr. Alderman Wood, felt bound, how-
ever, to give his vote in favour of Sir George Carroll ;
but he must express his disapprobation of the conduct of
the Irish Society.
Alderman HUMPHERY denied having anything to do
with the statements emanating from the Irish Society.
He had only been present at a part of their proceedings,
and he had no wish to enter into collision with Mr.
Alderman Wood on the subject matter of them. lie
considered the objection of " poverty " to the office
of Lord Mayor a most weak one, for the sum
given by the City would be amply sufficient to support
it with dignity, nay, it enabled some of the past Lord
Mayors to put money in both pockets.—(Laughter and
cries of " Name.")
Sir P. LAURIE—I wish for God's sake you had not got
up.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY—Yes, my dear fellow, but
for my own sake, I'm glad of it.
After some confusion, Mr. Alderman WOOD replied.
(The Court was sitting when our report left.)

We understand that Mr. Justice Ede will go to
the Queen's Bench, and Mr. Vaughan Williams to the
Cemm on Pleas.
We hear that Earl Cowper is likely to be appointed
Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, in the room of Lord Thanet,
who has resigned.
The Hon. Robert Boyle has, we believe, been ap-
pointed a Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
There is a rumour afloat that the Queen Dowager
is likely to become the occupant of the Royal Palace in
this town.—Brighton Guardian.
SHERIFF'S COURT.—This Court did not sit to-day.
The regular sitting will recommence on Thursday next
for the sittings before Michaelmas term, and continue
sitting till the next long vacation. Notices of iwen-
tions to try inquiries, &c., must be given at the Sheriff's-
office, Red Lion-square, three days previously.
THE LATE BARON DE BODE.—The remains of the
late Baron will not be interred for some weeks, owing to
a desire on the part of his relatives in England to have
his eldest son (now Baron de Bode) in attendance at the
funeral solemnities. his Lordship is now on his «ay
from Russia, where he holds an appointment of high
rank under the Czar. No will was made by the deceased
in reference to claims on the Government, and he pos-
sesses no personal or other property of any value what-
ever, indeed, for some years back, he has lived almost
entirely by means of advances from his friends and others,
made in anticipation of a successful termination of his
dispute with the Government,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were from
7,000 to 8,000 bales, of which 1,500 bales were taken in
on speculation, principally of middling qualities of
American. For Egyptian and Surats, decidedly full
prices have been paid. The tenor of the accounts from
the United States favour the movements of the specu-
lators.

By the last accounts received from Canada, we are
happy to observe that the directors of the St. Lawrence
and Atlantic Railroad have resolved upon commencing
that important work, and proceeding with it through the
eastern township, without present reference either to
the general body of scripholders in London, or
to Americans. We have no doubt that, by pursuing this
course, they will ultimately procure ready subscriptions
in England, to complete it to the Province line, or as far
towards it as would be necessary for a purely Canadian
enterprise. There is no ¶uestion that will be of great
advantage to Montreal, and as the first sections which
are proposed to be completed and at once opened to the
public will command a large traffic, the attention of ca-
pitalists will be effectually attracted.
With respect to the cotton crop of the United States
we are thus advised by the latest arrival:—
" NEW ORLEANS COTTON TRADE, 1845 AND 1846.
The season commencing on the Ist of September last
may be said to have opened under highly flattering
prospects for ready sales, at fair prices—a position of the
market in favourable contrast with the gloomy features
which characterized the advent of the previous year. This
cheering promise was derived from a view of the un-
paralleled degree of activity which prevailed in the ma-
nufactures both of Europe and this country, and bi ight
anticipations were very generally entertained, notwith-
standing the early impression which prevailed that the
crop would prove a large one. As the season advanced,
however, its progress demonstrated a very material
falling off in the amount of production, as compared
with the previous year—a circumstance which would
unquestionably have led to an important enhancement
of prices under a continuance of the favourable fea-
tures which marked the opening of the commercial
year."

- The Consol Market is very steady to-day. The price
for the Account is 95k, and 95i for Money; Exchequer-
bills command 19s. premium; and East India Bonds are
at 28s. premium.

The Foreign Funds are in but limited request; indeed
not more than five quotations are officially given to-day.
They are these—Spanish for the Account 26i ; the
Three per Cents. 37-1 Belgian Four-and-a-Half 971 ;
and the Four per Cent. Certificates 92i.
The demand for Railway Shares continues very dull.
CLOSING
PRICES.

051-R
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 % 1/214 IA
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ~ 95
India Bonds, 1,0001 ..... • ••
Ditto under 1,0001... .... 28 p 28 p
Consols for Account... 95% 95%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1;id.... 18 15 19 pm. 19
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account . —
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto, Deferred —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account —
Ditto Small
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 26%
Ditto, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account ...... ........
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 942 921/2
PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
Is AILWAY SHARES PAID— AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
.. 20
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush IX
Aylesbir and Thr - ''.- ... . _

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES

ry , aame.. 1X
Belfast & County Down 4:% ...
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 l2B 127 127
Ditto New 172 - .... ... ...... -
Birmingham and O.
ford Junction
Birkenhead Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 234 -
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. -
Bristol and Exeter 75 -
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O .- - .......
Bristol and Liver, June -
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 21/2 - ••••
Ditto Extension ... .. 21/2 - "'-
6 •• •
Cambrian & Grand JIM 42s -
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% -
Central Kent 2%....•. -
Chester and Holyhead... 27% -
Chumet and Blythe 2 - ••• .......... •
Chester and Manchester 425. -
•••
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 . ...
..... - •
Clydesdale Junction 2O -
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 21/s
Cork and Waterford ... 11,4
Cornwall
....
Ditto, Half Shares
-
Cornwall & Cent'lDeyon 2% ••
1 )erby and Crewe ...... ... 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Sherd. Jtmc. 25/8 -
Direct Manchester
(Remington's) ....... 23/1...... - ...... -
Ditto (Rastrick's).....• 514...... - .. .... -
DDirect Northern ......... 21/2 ll/214 . ........ 1
irectNorwich ........... 1 - ............... -
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
- ••• -
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine 212 -
-
..........
Dublin and Galway... -
..... .
4 -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 71/2 - - EasteruCounties 141. Ws. .. . 21%1/ 2IU
Ditto New ......... 121. 165.....
.. 61' n 2
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per .4 . ..
Cant, No. 1.......61.135. 4d.... - -
Ditto ditto. No. 2.., 61. 13s. 4d... - -
Do., York Extension.. 105....... 13A l4
EastDereh'm andNoech 1 - ......
Eastern Union ............ 35 .. "'- -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83/4 -
Do. xten.(Harwich) 17(8 - -
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21/2.. .. •••
East Lancashire
......... 14
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire -
East & West of England 1 A ...... -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... - - • ...... '' 7,
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 A -
. -
... ....... ...
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 - ...... .. ...... ..
Ely and Huntingdon ... 71/2 -
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2 -
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 514 -
...............
Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50 -
Ditto, New -
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 121/2 ...... -
Glouc.,Aberystwith,an.d
Central of Wa1e5...... 1%...... - ••
Goole, Doncaster, Scc. .. 425. -
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Western 2 1/2...... ........ ... ..
-
GreatGrimsby and Shef
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) -
Great Munster ......,•„ ... 21/2 -
Great North of Scotland 21/2
Great Northof England-100 -
Ditto, New
Ditto New .............. 5
......
Ditto -
. - ........ 15 ...... 5158
, New ............ 11/2 l9l/2 19
Great Western ............ 85 -
Ditto 14 Shares 5O
Ditto 4 Shares lO -
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ...... -
Hull and Selby 5O -
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111/2 • - ••• •
Do., do., and Norwich 21/2 - -
Killarney Junctions ll4
-
Kendal and Windermere 11/2 - - -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New - -
Lame, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena - -
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle -
Leicester & Birmingham 225. - ... ... -
.. .....
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 221/2 ._............... -- Lpool., Mnchstr & New
castle Junction -
.........
Liverpool and Bury 14 ....
_..

.. 20%

......
c/

. _ . . .
213%
51

.•• - •• ••• .. .....
London and Blackwell. 161.135. 4d. 9 ..
...............
Do. New
Ditto Extension ~ 7% ...... ... ..
"'•••. •••• •••
•.
London and Brighton... 50
Ditto, Fifths
..............
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 21%
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 ...... ... -
_
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d......
London, Hounslow, and
Western ............... 2 ...... .. ...
194
Loudon and N. Westernloo 194 -... ...
%
Do. Quarters
......... 2
Do., no., New Shares.. 2 15:1
15N •••
Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2
Ditto, Eighths (G. J. 12%
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.) .............. 8
Do 40/. Shares (L. M)
Lond. & S.Westein 411 6s 10d 67 •• ••• 67
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. Nece
22% — ...... • •, _ Do. New
London and York 2% -
_ Do. % Shares -
• -
London and Windsor . 1%.- •
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ...........
.-- 2i/ ••-• '
•
Londonderry &Coleraine 12% •••• •• • .........
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen
Lynn and Ely .....»..... 15
Cvnn and Dereham l5 -
41.0% .... ... •••
ganchester and Leeds... 82
Ditto 1/, Shares
Do. Quarters 2
Do. Fifths
Do. Sixteenths ••• 614,
Do. Extension 42s. 1 p .... .... i
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters (A)
-
Do. Quarters (B) -
Do. Quarters (C) 1
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42s. IAA p A P

21%

734
7%
34P
72