The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-22 00:00:00

HULL, AUGUST 20.

Brom/ ExcsiAwor.—The sales are—. Eastern Counties, York Ex-'
tension, Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 391. 6s. 3d.—North Bri-
tish, Carlisle Branch, 765. 6d.—Blackturn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7%
—East Lincolnshire, %—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 9s.
—lpswich and Bury (Cambrid.-e and Ely), 34s.—Leicester and
Tamworth, 35s.—Liverpool, ;Ormskirk, and Preston, % p.—North
Western, 2s. p. - Northern Counties Union, I lg.—Shropshire Union,
dis.—West Riding Union, 41. 19s. —Grand Union, 15s.—Leicester
and Bedford, 125.—Leicester and Birmingham, 3s. 6d.—London and
Manchester kßem.), Bs. 6d.—South Midland, 15s. p.
SHEFFIELD, ACOVsT 20,
STOCK Exciircrox.—The safes are—Grimsby and Sheffield Exten-
sion, 15s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9s. dis.—East Lincoln-
shire, 12s. dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and idland Junction, 21. 19s.
dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 18s. dis.—North
Western, 3s. p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 6s. 6d.
NEWCASTLE-UP,)N-TYNE, AUGUST 20.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 1% p.--Midland, New, 401. Shares, 13 p.—North British,
14—Ditto, Halves, Hawick, 6 p.—Ditto, Halves, Carlisle, 36 p.—
North Wostern, 9s. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Newcastle and
Carlisle, 105% —South-Eastern and Dover, New (iss. at 151.), No. 4,
p.— South Midland, % p.—West Riding Union, 31,6 p.—York and
Glasgow Union, 2% dis.

YORK, AUGUST 20.
STOCK EXCRANGE.--The sales are -Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 2/. 3s. -Leicester and Bedford, 1 Is. 6d.- •London and York,
21. 3s. 6d.-Newcastle and Darlington, New, 11M -North British,
Half Sh fires, 14%-Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 4 North Stafford-
shire, 5 scrip-North Western, 11* -- Welsh Midland, % -West
Riding Union, 41. 165.-York and Carlisle, 14-York and North Mid-
land (East and West Riding Extension), 13.

EDINBURGH, AU.GUST 19.
STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 814—Caledonian,
New, 295. 6d.---Caledonian Extension, 33s.—Direct Northern, 245.
Duni)lane, Donne, and Caßander, 13s.—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 435. &I.—East Indian Railway, 14s.—Edinburgh and North-
ern. 1014 —Ditto, Newport, 20s. 6d.—Edinburgh and Perth, 60s.—
Glasgow and Belfast Union,47s. 6d.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 35a.—Great North of Scotland, I Is. 3d.—London and York,
435. od.—North British, 38X —Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 84s. 6d.
—Ditto, Fifths, 73a—Stirling and Dunfermline, 28s.
GLASGOW, AUGUST 19.

STOCK EXCIIANOK. —The sales are —Ayr and Galloway, 275. 6d.—
British and Irish Union, 425. 9d.—Direct Northern, 34s.—East In-
dian Railway, 14s. 6d.—E llnburgh and Glasgow,. New Quarters,
174—Edinburgh and Northern, Newport, 208.—Glasgow General
Terminus, 6%—Glasgow and Belfast Union, 475. 9d.—Glasgow, Kil-
marnock, and Ardrossan, 30s.—London and Hounslow, 14s.—Man-
chester and Southampton. 31s. 6d.—Scottish Central, l9%—Scottish
Central and Caledonian Junction, 345. South-Eastern and Dover,
New (issued at 15/.), No. 4,68 s. 6d.—South Midland, 555.

lATAL ACCIDENT.-(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)-
On Wednesday a melancholy and fatal accident occurred at Wands-
worth to Mr. William Rumsey, the landlord of the Fox and Hounds
Inn, Putney. The deceased was driving into town, when the horse
stumbled going down the hill at Wandsworth, and he was thrown out
on the road. He was immediately removed into the King's Arms,
Wandsworth, but although every attention was afforded, he never
spoke more. An inquest was held yesterday on the body. Within
one hour before the accident, the unfortunate man had exerted him-
self on behalf of a gentleman who was taken into his establishment
In a !It, and had taken charge of the money and papers In his pos-
session.

DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about 1 en
minutes to twelve o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred to two per-
sons while passing along the Strand, which, it is feared, will termi-
nate fatally. It appears that, at the time above named, a number of
workmen were engaged on the roof of Mr. Partington's house, ad-
joining the Crown and Anchor Tavern, facing St. Clement's Church,
and, while in the act of removing a quantity of bricks, several of
them slipped and fell into the street on the heads of the foot pas-
sengers, whereby a young lady, named Eliza Thomkins, aged 20, and
a youth, named Francis Harvey, an assistant in the office of Mr.
Tovey, stationer, of No. 192, Piccadilly, were most dreadfully in-
jured. Several of the passers by and the police raised the wounded
persons from the ground, and carried them, in an insensible state,
into the shop of Mr. Smith, the news agent, who very humanely
rendered every aid. In the meantime Mr. Skeet, surgeon, of Nor-
folk-street, was called in, and afforded every assistance to the un-
fortunate persons. The female was the niece of Mr. Palser, the
printseller, of 183, Strand, and had just left home, on the way to a
friend's house. She is most seriously injured, and remains in an un-
conscious state. The youth was subsequently removed to Mr.
Skeel's surgery, where he remained for some time, under the care of
the police and the medical gentleman.
DEATH OF EYBLER. THE ComeosEa.---This vene-
rable hapelmeister of the imperial chapel in Vienna, died on the 24th
ult. Joseph Eybler was born in Schwochut, a little village some
leagues from Vienna, on the Bth of February, 1764. His father was a
chorus singer. As a boy Eybler was distinguished as a pianist ; and
an amateur having remarked his talents, placed him in Vienna to
study, and he became a pupil of Albrechtsberger. The friendship o
Haydn and Mozart assisted Eybler in the study of composition. H•
directed the rehearsals of C.si fan tutti, and was at the last moments
of Mozart. Eybler's fame was first made by a Requiem. His oratorio
of Die vie Cetzen binge was performed in 1810. He succeeded Saliera
as chapel-master. He was struck with apoplexy in 1833, whilst direct-
ing Mozart's Requiem, and since that period his duties were nominal.
He was a member of almost every distinguished musical society in
Europe. Eybler composed twenty-eight masses, two oratorios, and
other sacred compositions ; an opera, called The Enchanted Sword,
cantatas, songs, two symphonies, six quartette, two trios, two violin
concertos, seven pianoforte sonatas, &c.

PROCLAMATIONS OF OUTLAWRY.—On Thtirs!lay at the
County Court of Middlesex, held at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-
square, Mr. Hemp, the omcer, made proclamation of ouilawry in the
following cases :—William Mullingar Higgins, at the suit of Thomas
Gray ; George Rutherford, at the suit of Samuel Reynolds; Arthur
Henry Kenney, at the suit of the Queen ; William Conyngharn Burton,
at the suit of Henry Charles Curlewis ; .T. E. Udney, at the suit of 0.
Roberts; the Rev. James Staughton Money K vrll, at the :Alit of
William Thompson ; Thomas harries Wilson, at the suit of
Henry John Garrod ; J. L. Wellesley, at the suit of Benjamin Spils-
bury ; James W. "Newcombe, at the snit of William Watibrook ;
Richard Augustus Seymour, at the suit of IV. H. Vernon; Francis
Twysden, at the suit of Robert Bryant ; H. Gardiner,
at the suit of Augustus Brown ; Douglas Kinnaird Wig-
gins, otherw:se Charles Douglas, known as the Honourable
Captain Douglas Pulteney, at the s..it of Elizabeth Wiggins. his
wife; Charles Stewart, at the suit of John Ballard Byron ; William
Frederick Byng, at the suit of John Jones ; J. L. Wellesley, at the
suit of Oliver Richards ; William Bailey, at the suit of Constantine
William De Bernerdy; John Twysden, at the suit of William Dimes ;
Lady Frances Twysden, at the sait of William Dimes ; Thomas
Gotobed, at the suit of Robert Lewis and another ; Henry Lacy, at
the suit of William Lillywhite ; _Mary, Ann Perryman, at the suit of
James Edward Pyc , J. W. Gudge, at the suit of .John. Townshend ';
Thoma§ _Flower, at the uit of William Green ; 'George Hicks, at the
suit of Willi= ll.'Svaie; Aithur Wellosley William.% at• Ups- suit
of John =tier Duilltitli Wind Dertie Jaguar itt tko suit 01
pears() Esuausl Ford.

FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION
AT STAFFORD.
STAFFORD, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday was a gala day
in Stafford. The triumphs of free trade were celebrated
with every demonstration of enthusiasm and delight, and
the utmost harmony and concord prevailed throughout.
The committee under whose management this demon-
stration came off, applied to the county magistrates for
the use of the Town-hall, but were refused it. They
then covered in what is called the Butter-market, and
made arrangements for holding a soiree, at which old and
young, rich and poor, might attend. The committee
also offered to give the poor in the workhouse roast beef
and plum pudding, but the guardians peremptorily re-
fused to allow this to be done, and used their influence
also to prevent the out-door poor from receiving it. The
rector of the parish also thwarted, as far as he could, the
efforts of the committee, refusing to allow the children
attending the Sunday parish school to join in a pro-
cession of all the other children in the Stafford Sunday
schools, which took place in the morning in honour cf
the occasion.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, the whole affair
was spirited, and did great credit to the free-traders.
About five hundred partook of tea, after which Sir
Joshua Walmsley, of Liverpool, on the motion of the
Rev. Mr. Hill, was called to the chair.
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY, after some observations of a
complimentary nature, spoke at some length on the un-
expected success that attended the efforts of the Anti-
Corn-law League. He said, to appreciate their labours
it was necessary to bear in mind the forlorn condition
in which this question stood only a few years since ;
not that the great body of the people were indifferent to
its importance, or that they had not endeavoured to
throw off its burdens ; they had felt and suffered long
and deeply, but they had been cunningly misled. The
constituencies were tampered with—fallacies were de-
vised ; misrepresentations widely disseminated, until
the corn-law by many was considered a blessing—the
" ultima thule ' of legislation, an act by which the
people were benefited, their wages kept up, their moral
conduct improved, and through which their best
and dearest privileges were sustained.—(Hear, hear.)
Public opinion was so widely misled on this subject,
that, in 1841, Lord john Russell's Administration was
scatt"red to the winds fur daring to propose even a fixed
duty of Bs. per quarter ; and that Minister, to whose
able advocacy we have since been so much indebted for
the passing of the Bill, then doubted, or assumcd to
doubt, the wisdom of our demand.—(Hear, hear.) We
can scarcely be surprised that others were less enlight-
ened. The agricultural interest had long been induced
to believe that its prosperity seas dependent on protec-
tion ; that without its aid our fields would cease to be
cultivated—our people to be fed. The wealthy and the
powerful had propagated these opinions. Fathers had
transmitted them to their children, landlords had im-
pressed them on their tenants, tenants on their
labourers, until the frequently-asserted fallacies, like
the oft-repeated lie, was at length believed by
its propagators themselves. The wonder, there-
fore, is not that contagion should have been
so widely spread, but that the poison should have
been so sow' eradicated ; that the little band should
have overthrown the citadel of monopoly. Truth, how-
ever, is great, and will prevail. It is scarcely eight years
since, after a long series of endeavours to enlighten the
public mind in their various localities, a few men met in
Palace-yard as delegates from Manchester, Liverpool,
Leeds, and other towns, desirous of laying the griev-
ances of the people before the House of Commons.
Their demand was refused, and when we spoke of total
repeal, we were treated as demagogues and disturbers of
the public peace; by some considered insane, by others
visionaries; and even many of the warmest friends of
the people, those who were desirous of their ameliora-
tion, were offended at the boldness of their demand.
At hat period I happened to be one of three deputed to
receive a distinguished nobleman who was one
of the foremost in his anxiety to advance the
condition of the people. Mr. Cobden was also
present. After a long discussion of the question,
and expressing himself much satisfied with our argu-
ments, and recommending their dissemination, he re-
quested to be informed what were our ultimate objects ;
and when informed that they were a total repeal of the
corn•laws, be answered, more in sorrow than in anger—
" As well might you attempt to overturn the monarchy."
It is no little gratification to know that this nobleman voted
for the repeal of the corn-laws, and I dare say he feels now
that the monarchy is no less firmly based on the affec-
tions of the people than it was before.—(Cheers.) In
the annals of our history as a nation, I am not aware of
any act calculated to produce so much good as the
repeal of the corn-laws. The effects of this measure
are already felt in the fall in price of the first, neces-
sary of life—bread. Its ramifications will extend to
every portion Ofihe known world, and carry peace, civi-
lisation, and comparative comfort to the whole human
race- After a9ltattfiVniifill•tafkioits6,-ible
Walmsley paid a high compliment to the various leaders
of the free-trade movement, referred to the present op-
position of the country party, expressing his confident
hope that it would soon die away, and then said—The
requiem of the corn-laws is the advent of the fall of' every
other monopoly; already are they tottering to their
base. A little -further struggle, and it will be all over.
I trust many of us will live to see the day when we
may congratulate each other upon the fact that the
words "customs " and " excise ' are erased from the

statute-book—when all taxes that press upon tjie
proitictive classes shall be removed, and that little
measure (the sliding-scale), so long redolent with
evil, be applied to its legitimate purpose, the re-
gulation of taxation to the power to bear it, and
property be made to pay its due cost to protection.—
(Cht ers.) To achieve these things will require time,
and the force of public opinion must be brought to bear
on our representatives. The power is in our own hands.
Lot us exercise our electoral privileges with vigilance
and honesty, not battering our birthrights for a mess of
pottage, but remembering that we hold our electoral
privileges as a delegated trust for the non-electors also,
and shall not have done our duty until we have extended
their rights and privileges to them.—(Cheers.)
A. METYARD, Esq., delivered an eloquent address on
the general question of free trade, reviewing its whole
history--its present position and future prospects.
R. Sidney, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Bill, and the Rev. Mr.
Graham severally addressed the meeting.
The meeting soon after separated.

CORNISH PILCHARD FISHERY.
(From the Penzance Gazette.)
MOUSEHOLE.—During the last forti.ight the drift
boats belonging to this place have had very good
catches of pilchards—the last week, several of them
having taken from seven to eight hogsheads each. The
selling price has been from Is. 2d. to ls. 4d. per hundred.
A few boats have had good catches of hake—many to
the extent of three hundred and four hundred, which
sold at from 3s. to 3s. 6d. a burn (twenty-one.) Some
boats had their nets injured, in consequence of their
fouling the hooks of fishermen who had anchored their
boats and were fishing with lines in the wake of the
drift-boats. The greater part of the luggers are re-
turned from Ireland, a few. having remained to see the
result of the herring fishery, as the prices are encou-
raging. Three or four of the Mousehole boats, on their
passage home, put into Milford Haven, owing to con-
trary winds, when they were overhauled by the revenue
officers. Some half-dozen bottles of Whiskey were
found, and the boats were detained. The magistrates,
however, considered the affair too trifling to make a
seizure upon, and ordered the boats to be released—no
forgetting to reprove the too nice interference of the
revenue officials.
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ender the superintendence of Mr. Henry Pomery, took
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to the 'force of the tide nearly all escaped.
ST. IVES.—The boats have taken no pilchards since
my last report. A few hundreds of mackerel have been
brought ashore. On Monday and Tuesday the weather
was very rough. The seiners were put in pay this week.
There are 92 Hills, employing some 420 men, which is
about half the number of seins and men engaged in the
fishery at this place last year.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday se'enight a young
man called Peter Downing, son of the late Mr. Peter
Downing, of the Ship Inn, Mousehole, fell over the quay
at Castletown, Isle of Man, and was killed. A young
man called Charles Choak died on board the boat Union,
of Mousehole, at Kingstown, on the homeward passage,
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labours this season on the Irish herring fishery.
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absence of a large supply.

DUNBAR HERRING FISHING, AUG. 18.—Yesterday
the fishing was pretty fair, but this morning it is very par-
tial, and but for two boats which had separated from the
fleet bringing in about thirty crans from new ground, the
fishermen would have been very desponding, as they fully
expected a good take this week. The herrings taken by the
two boats are of a very fine quality, and are evidently a new
shoal. None sold to curers to-day.—Caledonian Mercury.
FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP IN THE WESTERN
HIGHLANDS AND IsLANDs.—We learn from an intelligent
Highland farmer that the potato failure is spreading with
disastrous rapidity in the Western Highlands and Islands,
and that the poor people whose chief, and in many instances
sole, dependence was on their crop of potatoes, are already
beginning to suffer privations, which, when winter sets in,
must be of the severest description. There is no prospect,
we believe, of there being a potato crop either for food or
seed. It would be true charity to these people were it made
widely known amongst them that there is abundant em-
ployment to be had, at remunerative rates, in the low country
harvest. Already, we are glad to hear, there have been
large reinforcements from the Highlands of reapere of our
inadequately supplied harvest fields. Hundreds more will
still be welcome. We trust that in this way many a decent
and industrious family will, by their own exertions, place
themselves beyond the reach of want pr 4penclAnce, duripg
a winter which is looked forward to in the Highlands with
deep despoadeacy...scotti3/s Guardkos.

LOSS OF THE BRILLIANT.
The subjoined is a copy of the official document re-
ceived at the Colonial-office on the 13th of this month :
" Government House, St. John's, July 22, 1846.
" Sir,—l have the honour to commuicate to you the
circumstances of the wreck of a vessel named the Bril-
liant, bound from Cork to Quebec, with about 100 pas-
sengers on board, on a part of our coast near Lamaline,
on the 12th of May last. The whole of her passengers,
with the exception of one young female and an infant,
were safely conveyed on shore by the judicious means
adopted by the master, and on the following day they
reached Lamaline, where their immediate wants were
provided for by the magistrates, and the whole sent on
hither as soon as vessels could be provided for their
conveyance.
"In St. John's, where they reached on the 3d ult.'
private subscriptions were received to the amount o
1271. 6s. 2d. currency, for their benefit, and the Govern-
ment provided such additional means as were necessary
to procure them food, and to hire suitable vessels to
convey them to their places of destination. The late
calamitous fire was mainly the cause of their em-
barkation being delayed till the 15th of June, when
they sailed for Quebec."
The rest of the document related to some pecuniary
expenses of no interest to the public.
(S igned ) " JOHN HARVEY.
" To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
Colonial-office."