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

IMPORTS.

The market, excepting for cotton piece goods and
yarn, is generally less active than at the date of our last
issues ; there is an absence of speculative demand, espe-
cially from the upper provinces, and the aversion which
native dealers have to enter upon heavy engagements
preceding the approaching native holidays imparts dul-
ness to the market.

METALS.—This market has been especially dull since
our last issue; transactions have been very contracted,
and chiefly on local demand.
COTTON PIECE GOODS.—Basiness in this trade conti-
nues extensive ; our present exhibits considerable sales
of heavy white goods, as jaconets, mulls, cambrics, ma-
dapolams, and shirtings, but prices have been rather
lower ; the lighter fabrics for native wear have been
more inquired after, as usual, preparatory to the ap-
proaching native holidays ; chintzes and coloured goods
are still neglected.

COTTON 'TWIST.—SaIes to considerable extent conti-
nue ; latterly medium numbers have been let off at
slightly reduced prices ; imports are heavy.

EXPORTS.

Market rather dull, contributed both by unfavourable
accounts by the last mail, and by a slight change in the
position of the money market.
INniGo.—The exports since our issue of the 7th inst.
are of 8 chests or 22 fy. mds. to England, which make
the shipments of the season to 7th instant inclusive as
below:—
To England

... ... chests 19,702 fy. mils. 74,266
„ 8,354 ~ 22,954
239 9, 837
542 9, 1,904

France ••• ... ...
Hamburglt ...
United States
Persian Gulf and
lied Sea
Mauritius ...

1,953 99 6,542
1 n 2
,1 • t

Chests 30,791 fy. mds. 113,305
Accounts from the planters continue very unfavourable,
and estimates are considerably lower than those reported
in our last issue ; Tirhoot is next to a complete failure,
and throughout the lower provinces, produce is consider-
ably below the results of list year ; according to all ac-
counts the crop of the season will not exceed fy. mds.
90,000, but may fall below it.
From a statement showing the altitude of the river at
Mirzapore from Ist to sth August of 10 years, it will be
seen that the present is higher than any precedent.
RAW SILK is in better demand, and at slightly im-
pros ed prices ; the accounts by the last mail being more
t avourable.
SILK PIECE GOODS.—Accounts from home by the last
mail ure very discouraging and have checked the course
of transactions ; no purchase of Combs has occurred.
SALTPETRE.—Demand less active; the market, how-
ever, is almost bare of Godna and other better sorts.
SuoAn.—ln steady demand; last accounts from home
are likely to advance prices; supplies are taken up as
mported.

AFFAIRS OF EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 25.—The Hon. East India Com-
pany's steamer Semiramis arrived at Suez on the morn-
ing of the 22d instant, with the Bombay mail of the 27th
of August, and thirteen passengers ; she met with very
bad weather on her way up.
Lieutenant Waghorn's dispatch was conveyed from
Suez to Alexandria in the very short space of sixteen
hours and a half. The courier rode across the desert
from Suez to Cairo, a distance of eighty-four miles, in
five hours and a half, having relays of horses every five
miles ; a steamer started at once from Cairo on the
arrival of the dispatch, and came down the river to
Atfeh, at the head of the canal, in nine hours ; and a
horse express rode from Atfeh to Alexandria, along the
banks of the canal, in four hours and a half. Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Ardent, which was waiting here for the
purpose, got out of the harbour at 20 minutes to 8 o'cloek
on the morning of the 23d, and as the English steamer
Iberia, with the bulk of the Indian mails, sails only
this morning, the Ardent will have had the start of her
from Alexandria by fifty hours. In order, however, to
make a fair trial, by which to test effectively the two
routes, two steamers of similar power should start from
Alexandria at the same time, one for Marseilles and the
other for "Trieste, and the first dispatch received in Lon-
don would prove which was the quickest route.
In confirmation of intelligence received here from
Messrs. J. C. and H. Freshfichl, the London solicitors, a
package has been found at Cairo containing a large
quantity of paper, somewhat similar in shape to the
Bank of England notes. This paper was sent out to
Egypt by the late Mr. C. W. Thornton, who committed
suicide on the 29th of August in the Marylebone
station-house, where he had been taken into custody
been made,
for having passed some forged Bank of England notes.
The package was addressed to the care of an English
resident at Cairo, to whom Mr. Thornton hpaadywinrgittfeonr
ed Thornton,
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sign in Cairo, whet e the note might have
been forged
in perfect security, to be afterwards circulated in India
ofepdreersautmese,di nttleantd
or elsewhere. The only mark at present on the paper
is the name of Dupont and Co., engraved on the margin,
and by cutting off this part the form of the remainder
becomes exactly similar to that of the Bank of England
notes.
In Egypt Mr. Thornton was always considered a very
honourable man, and the post he occupied at Cairo was
one of great trust. ge bnd great talent in the art of
engraving.
Mehemet Ali is still at Alexandria; his highness in-
tends to proceed to Cairo shortly, and one night last
Week he suddenly issued orders for his steamers to be got
in readiness to take him up to the capital, but towards
morning he as suddenly changed his mind again.
His Highness has convened a meeting in Alexandria
of all the Governors and Sheiks of the provinces and
villages in the Delta, for the purpose of adopting new
measures for the improvement and extension of the cul-
tivation of the laud.
There has been another skirmish at Aden. A body
of 5,000 Arabs attacked the town in broad daylight, but
being repulsed they were soon compelled to retire with
a severe loss in killed and wounded.

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lington 0
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statuea
ar e busily
b y
which employedtboof the scaf-
foldinglington was raised to the top of the triumphal arch at
liyde•park-corner, but in consequence of the firmness
with which the timbers were braced together, the pro-
gress is very slow. No correct. idea can bo formed of
the general appearance which the statue will present
icno removingo il
)yhm it is full, exposed to the view of the public.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal
TEghness Prince Albert .took their usual early morning
walk.

The 'Royal Family took their nstml exe7cisc, this
morning on ponie6 the precincts of the Their
Royal Highnesses again Went not in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Aibert, attended by Baron
Stockmar and Colonel Seymour, enjoyed the sport of
shooting this morning.
Their Royal llighnesse3 the Dul.e and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Ilesse, and attended by a Lady and Gen-
tleman in Waiting, are expected to arrive at the Castle
this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, frcm
xtenee at Kew.
Viscount Palmerston and Sir Stratford rind Lady
Canning, are expected to arrive at the Castle this even-
ing on a visit to the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle Ws evening is
expected to
Ti nt, their include her Royals
jeL anal
lloynl e ll
of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
llesse, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent,
the Lady in Waiting on the I )tichess of Cambridge, the
Baroness de Spoilt, Viscount Pahnerston, Sir Stratforo
and Lady Canning, General and L'aly Isabella Wemyss,
Sir George Couper, and
,the Gentleman in Waiting en
the Duke of Cambridge.
The band of the Scot's Fusilier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band aftemards attend
in the Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness I'rince
Frederick of Hesse, and attended by a Lady in Waiting
and Baron Knesebeck, left their residence at Kcw, at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle.
Lord Oraneaore had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street. Mr. Charles Buller had also an interview with
his Lordship yesterday.
Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon
for Windsor Castle.

LITERAT URE.
THE ECLECTIC I?EVIE

• German literature is amongst the most recondite
and exhaustless subjects for the pen of a reviewer,
and one section of that subject is treated upon in the
October number of the Eclectic. We cannot help
feeling, however, that the article upon German novels
and German novelists, though forming a very useful
catalogue of names and dates, is infinitely too super-
ficial to be designated criticism. The writer does not
in any one particular analyse the characters of these
remarkable literateurs—he does not discriminate
those subtle peculiarities which impart so much of in-
dividuality to their writings; he slurs over the mas-
terpieces of German imaginative composition with a
few flippant and trite expressions, and furnishes the
reader with a bare inventory of a bookstall. New-
mark and Buckholz, llischberg, and Lohenstein,
Hoffmannswahlen and Ziegler, Talander and Heppe!,
Schuabel and Gellert, Hermes and Dusch, Klinger
and Wieland, are successively mentioned as tributary
to the copious stream of German fiction, but not one
individual of the number, with the exception possibly
of John Hermes, is allowed more than a mere casual
observation. This poverty of criticism, in such a rich
field for its display, is, however, scarcely surprising,
when the very profusion of the materials is calculated
to baffle the critic in his attempt at selection. Kot-
zebue's romances, inferior as they may appear to the
fastidious to to of the reviewer, are suggestive of
illucidations levenfold the extent of his entire con-
tribution—especially the " Die Geschichte." Of
Goethe, again, what sheets might not be written ! and
sheets not only illustrative of the mingled deeps and
shallows of Wilhelm Meister, but of the astonishing
profundities of the intellect from which it emanated!
In speaking of the productions of a more recent cha-
racter, the reviewer has evinced greater capacity, and
this probably from his greater familiarity with them
than with their predecessors. He has treated Vulpius'
"Rinaldo Rinaldini," with the derision it merited ;
and, in reprobating the immoral tendencies of such
works, he has administered an adroit side-
blow at some of our own novelists, who
have endeavoured to invest ruffians with the charms
of heroism. Schiller's " Ghost Seer," Vv eber's
" Vehmgerichte," Heinse's "Ardinghello," Shilling's
novels, the renowned "Franz Sternbald's Wander-
ungen," the writings of Nicolai, those of Sebum-
tnel, Knigge, Hahn-Hahn, and a multitude of
others, are characterised very felicitously. The
article, altogether, deserves a perusal, if only
as a clever index to a most enthralling and
volumnious library. The extravagant discourses
lately delivered by the incumbent of St. Jude's,
Liverpool, drawing a comparison between Prince
Albert and the divine author of Christianity, is, to our
thinking, treated with miserable leniency by the
Eclectic. 'What is the meaning of that allusion to
" the hatred of ungodly men ?" Is it a villainous
shaft levelled at an intelligent and benevolent contem-
porary? If so, it is an unworthy attempt to divert
popular indignation in a wrong channel. " Life in
California" will be referred to with interest just at
this moment when the annexation of those extensive
and fruitful regions to the United States is a matter
of :exceeding probability. " Peschel's Elements of
Physics," the "Third Kafir Invasion," and a notice
of "Kitto's Biblical Cyclopmaia," are careful and
interesting compilations.

TRELEIGH CONSOLIDATED
MINING COMPANY.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held yesterday at the Company's Offices,
57, Old Broad-street, City, when the report of the
directors, representing the prospects of the company as
most encouraging, was agreed to unanimously. No
dividend was announced, although there was a balance
on the credit side of the account of 15,0001., but the
Chairman said that as soon as the balance should amount
to 20,0001. a dividend would be declared.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Respecting the new
opera speculation at Covent-garden Theatre, we gather
the following curious facts from our Parisian contem-
poraries:—"A small cloud has just obscured the horizon
of this affair. All appeared terminated, but an unfore-
seen incident seems to have thrown difficulties in the
way. When M. Salamanca, the banker, the entrepreneur,
hired Covent-garden Theatre, he took upon himself all
the rights and obligations of the proprietors; but he
was not, it is said, aware of the fact, that every share in
that concern, of which there are not less than 400, gave
the holder the right of free admission to every perform-
ance. These rights of admission wend lately to be had
at very low prices; but no sooner were the public aware
of the new prospects for unfortunate Covent-garden,
than they were bought up by speculators, and from 255.
each these rights of admission rose in the market to 101.
a piece. The shareholders have, doubtless, found their
advantage in this arrangement, but not so the rich
banker, who is, of course, very little gratified to find out
that at each representation he will be compelled to admit
400 persons gratis to his theatre."

MEETING or IRONMASTERS.—WOLVERHAMPTON,
WEDNESDAY.—To-day the usual quarterly meeting of
ironmasters in the district of South Statibrdshire took
place, at the Swan Hotel, for the transaction of business.
There was a very large attendance of ironmasters, and
many dealers, who evinced great spirit in their pur-
chases. There was a fair amount of business done, but
no orders to any great extent were given. The iron
trade still continues in a very healthy condition, and is
likely to continue so. The prices fixed at the prelimi-
nary meeting of the masters were fully maintained, and
no attempt was made to reduce the prices of any descrip-
tion of iron. Last week an order for 10,000 tons of rail-
way iron, and 3,600 tons of chairs, was received by a
firm in the neighbourhood, for the Shrewsbury and Wol-
verhampton Railway. Many who wanted to make pur-
chases have delayed until the meeting at Birmingham
to morrow, when the decision of the masters will be
more fully known. It is, however, all but certain they
will be quite happy to maintain present prices during
the ensuing quarter.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TUE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Nor-
folk Arms, Shoreditch, before Mr. W. Baker, respecting
the death of Joseph Lang,lon, aged 28 years late a
guard on the Eastern Counties Railway, residing in
New Norfolk-street. From the evidence of several
witnesses employed on the above railway, it appeared
that about a fortnight since the deceased was assisting
in turning one of the carriages, when the " buffer"
struck him a violent blow on the right side. He fre-
quently complained of pains, but still continued to per-
form his duties. On Sunday night last he appeared very
unwell, and repeatedly put his hand to his head. The
following morning his wife was alarmed at his altered
appearance, and before a surgeon arrived he expired.
Mr. Wildbore said he had examined the body of the de-
ceased, but could not discover any marks of violence.
lie attributed death to apoplexy. It was probable that
the blow he received might have accelerated his death.
The deceased never complained of any one, and often
said it was purely,accidental. The jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict in accordance with the
medical evidence.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT KENNINGTON.—•
Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a frightful acci-
dent'occurred at Kennington, by the fall of a new build•
ing. For some time past a large number of workmen
have been engaged in the erection of several new dwel-
-1 ling-houses, and at the time stated four men named
Thomas Saker, aged 28, the foreman of the bricklayers,
Edward Dorval!, a bricklayer, Daniel Williams, a la-
bourer, and Richard Green, a labourer, were all at work
on the upper part of the end house, which is imme-
diately facing the Greyhound Tavern, when a strong
gust of wind carried the outer wall and the scaffolding
into the street, whereby the four unfortunate men were
hurled with frightful violence to the basement of the
building, where they were buried with the brickwork and
the falling timber. They were extricated, and taken to
Guy's Hospital, where Salter lies in a very precarious
state, having received extensive lacerations of the scalp
and injury to the skull, with fractured ribs and contused
body. The man Green is also seriously injured, and is
in an exhausted state. The others, who are less injured,
are going on favourably.
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. CROTTY BISHOP OF
CLOYNE AND Ross.—lt is our melancholy duty to an-
nounce to our readers the death of one of the venerated
prelates of Ireland—the Right Rev, Dr. Crotty, Catholic
Bishop of Myna and Ross. The Right Rev. Dr. Crotty
filled the episcopal office for thirteen years, having been
consecrated on the 11th of June, 1533. Lublin paper.