The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1846.

- The English are naturally a very humane people.
Some of them, however, are so fond of fun that they
will not allow their philanthropy to run to the ex-
treme of excluding them from participating in an
occasional amusement, even where the performances
should produce feelings more akin to pity than
wonder. The surgeon, not content with gloating over
the various physical contortions of the toad, whose
gradual death he has compassed by some well-devised
potion, oftentimes renews his delight by subjecting the
body of his victim to a galvanising process, and becomes
enamoured with his professional skill, and the mock
resuscitation of the unfortunate animal. Much in
the same way is the huge and bloated carcase of
protectionism being cruelly trifled with after its vio-
lent death. For our own part, we think there is
something shocking to the senses in these painful
spectacles. It would have been infinitely better
quietly to have interred the defunct monster.
We have not been favoured with a sight of his last
will and testament; we must, therefore, suppose it is
in strict accordance with a dying request that his mam-
moth remains should be exhibitedpro bono publico in
various towns and cities of this fair land. The executors
took their embalmed treasure down to Coleshill this
week, and held a grand anatomical inquest. The
usual experiments were gone through with wonder-
ful precision, and the spectators were amazed at the
explanations given of the prodigious strength of which
this tremendous relic of a past age must have been
possessed.

The dinner to Mr. NEWDEGATE, on Wednesday,
at Coleshill, by his constituents of North Warwick-
shire, was attended, as might have been expected, by
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. After the Parliamentary
guests had bespattered each other with every
description of fulsome praise, Lord GEORGE delivered
one of his usual harangues, which for purity of reason,
comprehensiveness of mind, and elegance of diction,
was strictly on a par with all his former orations.
His sentiments were listened to with undivided atten-
tion. The statistics into which he entered seemed to
be based upon most authentic data, and when he told
his hearers "to look at the saddlery and harness-
makers, and the leather manufacturers, and-find that
thirty-nine-fortieths are consumed at home,"
his authority reached its highest pitch, and
rapturous applause greeted that important an-
nouncement. His Lordship's intellect was never more
sportively inclined. Everything like a perversion of
fact was honourably avoided, and the conclusions,
drawn from mo-t faithful premises, were about as cor-
rect as his LordAip's most ardent aclniirers could
easonably have expected.
We are told that last year " a sham cry of famine

was got up to serve the purposes of the Adminis-
tration." Our recollection serves us that the Ministry
declared that Ireland was threatened with famine, and
also that when Sir R. PEEL advocated the repeal of
the corn-laws, he distinctly urged his apprehension
that, whatever might be the amount of failure
in the potato crop of the past year, it would be
considerably worse in the present. Whose was the
foresight—Sir R. PEEL or Lord G. BENTINCK'S ?
At the dinner in question, the latter thus expressed
himself :—" Now, I regret to say, we find that the
feint has become a reality—that the potato failure has
spread from one end of the kingdom to the other—
from the Land's-end to John-o'-Groat's—throughout
the whole of Ireland, and the whole of the countries
bordering on the Atlantic." A pretty broad admis-
sion this of the precautionary policy and foreseeing
wisdom of his late political chief. But this was not
conceded without an object. The fact that grain
maintains a fair price, notwithstanding Sir R.
PEEL'S measure, stuck in the protectionist's
throat. This belied his own predictions in
St. Stephen's. In order, therefore, to prevent the
farmers becoming contented, Lord GEORGE is forced
to confess that his spirit of vaticination would have
been fully sustained if Sir R. PEEL had not turned
out a greater prophet than himself, and that hence
corn obtains a good price only because the potatoes
have failed. It is quite beneath his notice that the
price of wheat may be, and is, in a great _measure,
maintained by the vast increase in our population
causing a corresponding consumption, and it is also
beneath his consideration that the merchants, with
foreign ports to resort to, can regulate supply with
demand far better than such intermeddling politi-
cians as his Lordship. But, if the Noble Member for
Lynn considers he has satisfactorily accounted
for the present remunerating price of grain con-
sistently with its future uncompensatory one, perhaps
he will, on some future occasion, account for the
great prices which land has fetched whenever it has
been very recently put up for sale. We can, perhaps,
furnish his Lordship with a key to the solution of
this mystery. The purchasers have, in every in-
stance, formed a very correct estimate of his Lord-
ship's judgment, and have not felt deterred in placing
their own in competition.
It is amusing to notice how these reckless mono-
polists change their tactics with circumstances. For-
merly it was viewed by them as nothing short of
high treason for tenants and farmers to vote diffe-
rently from their landlords—the latter being pre-
sumed to be so much more enlightened, and capable of
judging in matters of legislation, than the former.
But, now that the House of Lords and the great
landowners of the country have altered their opinions) $
the farmers and tenants are exhorted to the exercise of
an independent opinion of their own, and to discard all
the precepts of rebellion which were taught them down
to the year 1846. Mr. NEWDEGATE tells his consti-
tuents—" You are true-born freemen, you have a
right to exercise your own discretion and
judgment : your country and the constitution expects
that you will exercise the franchise according to your
opinions and judgment. Gentlemen, I say this here
fearlessly." Lord GEORGE hallooes on in the same
strain :—" Go at the, first opportunity to the poll, and
if your landlords won't go with you, look after your
own interests." We are forcibly reminded of the
poet's line—

"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."

Of the general efficiency and organization of the
metropolitan police we are thoroughly satisfied. The
duties of that extensive body are so peculiarly
on erous, and, notwithstanding this, their fulfilment is
usually so characterised by propriety, that our opinion
respecting the force collectively, if prejudiced in any
particular, is certainly prejudiced in its favour. To
preserve order and decency in a metropolis of such
vast dimensions as London, even when its inhabitants
are previously awed into something like social sobriety
by our constitutional enactments, by the stringent
bye-laws of our capital itself, and by our aggregate
municipal regulations, is an office of no little diffi-
culty, and entailing no insignificant responsibility
upon its agents. The cleansing of the Augean
stables, though delineated by the mythologists as an
almost impracticable undertaking, required, never-
theless, scarcely equal courage, and scarcely com-
parable energy with that necessary for the purging of
depravity, rioting, drunkenness, and obscenity,
with all the minor specimens of immorality and in-
subordination, from the avenues of this enormous city.
The preservation of decorum throughout London
necessitates the utmost vigilance, the most untiring
activity, the most imperturbable self-possession, and
the most continuous zeal in each individual of every
separate corps. Now, considering the extraordinary
surface covered by the metropolis, and taking into
account the astonishing multitude of its inhabitants,
it is impossible to deny that a very remarkable
amount of decorum is preserved in its thoroughfares,
and that very circumstance demonstrates, ipso facto,
that the various members of the metropolitan police
are vigilant, active, self-possessed, and zealous in the
habitual performance of their duties. We, there-
fore, repeat our previous observation :—We are
fully persuaded that the metropolitan police, as
a . body, is most intelligent, efficient, and well-
organised. In acknowledging the merits of the class
we are, nevertheless, by no means disposed to allow
the delinquencies of the individual to pass unre-
proved. Cases have occasionally arisen in our police-
courts in which the existence of an insolent and do-
mineering spirit has been manifested among the very
agents of peacefulness and justice. Policemen have
sometimes availed themselves of the respectable
authority with which they are invested for the in-
dulgence of the most disreputable violence. They
have not unfrequently come before the public as,
those most contemptible and intolerable of characters,
Jacks-in-office. Armed and paid and clothed for the
maintenance of the local and general laws by which
the social condition of the empire is regu-
lated, they have become at times merely the
agents of their own grovelling passions. They
have merged themselves into the terror of blind
courts and the despots of bye-lanes. Whenever " the
insolence of office" is thus miserably developed in our
metropolitan police, common sense tells us that the
offender should not merely be visited by condign
punishment, but that, especially where the circum-
stances are of an aggravated character, he should be
immediately discharged from the body, and rendered,
with certain restrictions, incapable of being further
employed in that capacity. Otherwise the members
of the police force would be liable to become contami-
nated by association with such individuals.

We have been induced to consider the advisability
of such a proceeding as the one just mentioned from
the facts which have been disclosed on the recent
trial of a constable in the G division of the metropo-
litan police, and the particular circumstances of which
case are referred to in the report of the Middlesex
Sessions, printed in another part of The Sun. A
more flagrant case we do not remember. We have
frequently had the misfortune to read accounts of
ruffianism perpetrated in various quarters of England,
and in various territories of the globe; but within
the scope of our memory we cannot call to recollec-
tion any one incident combining so much of the in-
decorous and the brutal, so remarkable for gratuitous
cruelty, for brazen-faced lying, and for audacious
insolence. We have no intention to garble facts
merely to suit a purpose, for we have no purpose
whatever to suit, unless it be the purpose of express-
ing our abhorrence of anything like tyrannical con-
duct, be it tyranny under a sceptre or a broomstick,
from an emperor down to a policeman.
Here is a respectable female, the wife of an honest
tradesman, walking along Whitecross-street, accom-
panied by an equally respectable woman, her neigh-
bour. They are the cause of no impedi7oent in the
thoroughfare, they are partakers in no disturbance.
This very reputable police-constable of the G division
thereupon accosts the former, calling her " a common
woman," commanding her in the most insolent man-
ner to be off, offering " to bet a quartern of gin that
she was a common woman," and at last, on her
remonstrating with him for his behaviour, assaulting
her with the most unnecessary brutality, and under
nie most scandalous circumstances. The woman
is committing no offence when she is called by the most
opprobrious epithet ; her arms are pinched and
twisted ; she is dragged off by main force to the
station-house ; she is almost fainting, from ill-treat-
ment and distress of mind, on her way thither; a
false charge is entered against her, before the super-
intendent; and when she is At last discharged front

custody, as in no degree culpable, her shawl
is thrown in her face, and she is treated
in all respects with the most contemptuous
impertinence. Nor are these the only parti-
culars which tend to render this case so pe-
culiarly flagrant; the victim of this petty tyranny
from a police-constable of the G division is not
merely a defenceless, harmless, and respectable
woman, but she is a woman eight months advanced
in pregnancy. In consequence of the brutality
of this man (or rather of this person
dressed in the garments of a man), the consequence
of this violence towards a woman in an advanced
stage of pregnancy is, that she vomited blood imme-
diately on returning home. She was exceedingly
bruised and ill for a considerable time afterwards.

We are not surprised when we view these parti-
culars—particulars so calculated to excite our indig-
nation—we are not surprised that the Learned
Counsel, Mr. CLARKSON, should have felt convinced
that the Counsel for the defendant " could not even
suggest anything to the prejudice of this highly
respectable woman ;" but we were marvellously
astonished that Mr. PATNE should have so far ex-
ceeded what was thus anticipated from him, as to
have accused the plaintiff and her witnesses of false-
hood,to have asserted, without any reasonable evidence,
that this wife of a tradesman—this woman big with
child—had joined in an uproarious mob,and above all to
have actually maintained—and that without disprov-
ing the bruises and the blood-vomiting—that more
violence was not used than was necessary I We
shall not comment upon the indelicacy, extravagance,
and almost cruelty, which are of themselves
so manifest in this style of defence. We care not so
much for the manner in which the defendant or his
legal advisers endeavour to palliate his brutality, as
for the example which the punishment of this man
should afford against any similar exhibition
of petty despotism in the metropolitan or
provincial police forces. With the sentence passed
upon the defendant—namely, an imprisonment for
merely a single calendar month !—we must ac-
knowledge ourselves anything but satisfied. The
jury find him guilty, and he is sentenced to this
imprisonment for one calendar month ! Not
a syllable is reported to have been said
respecting his discharge from the metropolitan
police. Surely it is not intended that a man
who has thus grossly insulted and maltreated a preg-
nant woman, should, after having been found guilty of
that charge by a jury of his countrymen, and after
having undergone a certain punishment (however
disproportioned to his offence) in consequence, should
be allowed to continue in his former position, with
fresh opportunities for insulting and maltreating the
wives of respectable citizens ? We cannot suppose
this to be possible.

The Swiss Diet, assembled at Zurich, was occupied
during the sitting of the 4th instant in discussing the
question of the League of the Catholic States. 10f
cantons voted that it should be dissolved without in-
vitation or summons. Geneva has reserved her
opinion—Neufchatel, St. Gall, and Bale Town will
refer the matter to their cantons. In the event of re-
sistance, ulterior measures will be taken.

In the Hamburgh Boersenhalle of the 4th inst. we
find a letter announcing the failure of the commer-
cial policy of the Zollverein, both as regards the
United States and the Brazilian empire. The Con-
gress at Washington has rejected the terms of the
commercial treaty which the Zollverein had proposed
to conclude with them as disadvantageous and insuf-
ficient, and the Duke of ABRANTES, the Envoy Ex-
traordinary from the Brazils to Prussia, whose
mission related to the question of a com-
mercial treaty between the Zollverein and the
Brazils, has arrived at Paris en route
for the Brazils, having been unable to come to any
understanding with the Zollverein on the subject of
his mission.

We find it stated in the Nuremberg Correspondent
of the sth instant that the project for marrying the
Queen of SPAIN to Count TRAPANI was defeated by
the Austrian Government. The Northern Powers,
although they would have preferred the Count DE
MONTEMOLIN for the husband of the Queen of SPAIN,
have determined to abstain altogether from active
interference.

A meeting of the principal inhabitants of Kiel
(Holstein) took place on the Ist, to consider as to the
best mode of proceeding relative to the arrest of M.
OLSHAUSEN, one of the leaders of the anti-Danish
movement. An address was voted and presented to
the burgomaster, calling on him to use his utmost
energy in procuring the release of M. OLSHAUSEN,
whose arrest the document declared to be arbitrary
and illegal.

Madrid papers to the 4th inst. have been received.

The news of the marriage of the QUEEN with a
Spanish Prince has been received with universal sa-
tisfaction throughout the provinces. "El esposo de
neustra adorada Reina al fin es un Espanol," is the
gem ral observation. The marriage of the INFANTA.
with the Duc DE MONTPENSIER, however, is looked
upon with feelings of abhorrence by all except " the
miserable monopolising minority" composing the
Afrancesado faction. The Eco del Comercio goes
so far as to declare that Spain will not suffer so
" exotic a Prince to take up his abode even for a
moment in the palace of her kings."
The Iferaldo says—

" The English Minister, who Ms recovered from his
indisposition, returned to Madrid, from Carabanahul, on
the Ist instant. He had intended to repair to St. Se-
bastian for the benefit of his health, but it would appear
that, owing to the important questions under discussion,
he has given up the journey, and determined to return
to this capital.

The brig of war. Ebro, sailed from Carthagena for
Civita Vecchia on the 31st ult., having on board dis•
patches for the Spanish Minister at Rome, and the
Esperanza states that positive orders have been given
to have the QUEEN'S trousseau ready by the 18th of
this month.

MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 4.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 351 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at
21i ; the Five per Cents. at 22-k ; the Debt, without
interest, at 6i ; and the Coupons, 20i.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
With two very significant exceptions, the Danis,
the organ of the Government, and the Presse,
the organ of the Court, they all comment
on the proposed marriage of the Infanta of
SPAIN and the Duo DE MONTPENSIER, but
the only additional information on the subject
in any of them is to be found in a short paragraph in
the Constitutionnel, in which the writer expresses a
belief that on the 33 Mr. BuLWER sent a note to M.
ISTURITZ, expressing his surprise at not having been
duly apprised of the proposed marriage between the
INFANTA and the French Prince.

The Journal des Debats has, we are rejoiced to see,
declared itself in favour of the principle of free trade.
The following is its declaration :

We do not hesitate to say that our choice is made.
We are advocates for free trade, in the sense that we
consider it an object which ought to be attained
gradually, and by constantly approaching towards
it as far as circumstances will permit. The pro-
tective system, interpreted by prohibition, for it is
always in that sense that the term is useol, may be
very favourable to a particular branch of industry
specially protected, while in its infancy, but once that a
country has taken great strides ins manufacturing career,
the system, it will be seen, becomes injurious ; it arrests
the progress of the arts which it pretends to protect,
and which often believe themselves efficaciously pro-
tected ; it opposes the natural order or things, in
causing prohibition by way of reprisals against foreign
countries, and in impeding, by restrictions and aug-
mentations in the price of the raw material at home, those
branches of manufactures in which the country succeeds
the best. It gives a bad direction to national capital, and
maintains an artificial and burdensome state of things,
by creating factitious industries, which live as in a
hot-house, and do not produce results equivalent to the
labour they absorb. It institutes and tends to perpetuate
inequalities when the law has wished to give to every
citizen equal facilities. The great majority of those who
support it are led astray by prejudices and by false cal
culations. They have not correctly estimated and placed
in parrallel what it costs and what it produces, not only
to the State and to the country, but to themselves. They
only see the apparent profits, and deceive themselves as
to the charges. The present moment offers, fur the
organization of international exchanges on a more
libEral footing, conditions extremely favourable, and
which may perhaps never be again found, if not now
taken advantage of."

The Debat; then proceeds to examine a number of
cases in which branches of French manufactures and
produce, now under the protective system, are mani-
festly faVoured, not for the useful purpose of aiding
their development, but in order to put money, at
the expense of the consumer, into the pockets of
tihe capitalist. After dwelling ou the injustice of

such a system, our Contemporary concludes as fol-
lows :

eie " For him, who is not I away by the mere jingle
of words, who does not e the shadow for the sub-
stance, behold the last ry of the pretended protective
system; a duty, or rather a multitude of duties, which
cross and clash with one another, are levied on the
public, and when every account is drawn out and
balanced, these innumerable taxes resolve them-
selves into a premium for the benefit of three or four
branches of manufacture, which hold their privilege either
from blind chance, or from political combinations, of
which even the remembrance is lost, but the influence of
which survive the idea that dictated them. These duties
have not only the effect of taking money from the
pockets of those who have been persuaded that they
were to gain by them; but they cramp_labour by
taking up its time, and by imposing advances which
are often above its strength; they cramp it because
the restrictions with which they are attended exclude
the use of better materials; they are, in fact, injurious
to it in a thousand other ways. The protective system
is only supported by the effect of a misunderstand-
ing. The opinion of the public, of statesmen, of
legislatures, and of the majority of those interested,
has gone on a false scent. The result of public discus.
sion ought to be to demonstrate this fact to the most
incredulous, and after the explicit and striking avowal
made by Sir Robert Peel in full Parliament of the error
which he had up to that time entertained on the point in
question, we cannot see what it could cost any one to
admit on which side the truth lies, and to follow in that
path, taking at the same time every precaution recom-
mended by prudence to avoid sudden shocks and mis- 1
fortunes.'

The Precse takes up the cudgels for the protec-
tionists, but our monopolists will not thank it for its
aid, for it argues that a free trade in corn is all right
enough, because the corn trade is governed-by laws
particular and exceptional, but that a free trade in
manufactures is a thing to be abominated.

The fallacy of the doctrine of protection is
proved by comparing the arguments of the upholders
of that doctrine in England and France. They are
inconsistent. If the one is right, the other must be
wrong. Not so with the doctrines of free trade.
The arguments of the free-traders of France and
England, or any other country, are, if not identical,
perfectly consistent with each other. Truth is ne-
cessarily always consistent with itself, and free trade
is truth.

A royal ordonnance appears in the Moniteur, or-
dering an augmentation in the number of officers of
the royal navy. Captains of ships of the line are to
be increased from 100 to 110 ; captains of corvettes,
from 200 to 230 ; lieutenants, from 600 to 650 ; and
enseignes from 500 to 550. The funds necessary for
this increase of naval officers have been already pro-
vided for in the supplementary credits of the Budget.
The names of the officers promoted in consequence
of the above decision are given in the Moniteur.
" A report is in circulation," says the Courrier
Francais, " that a rather warm altercation has taken
place between the commander of the French brig of
war Zebre, sent by Rear-Admiral BAZOCUE, Governor
of Bourbon, to cruize on the coast of Madagascar,
and the commander of an English corvette. It is
stated that this incident, which appears to have a cer-
tain degree of importance, is connected with the oc-
cupation by the English of an important point in the
Bay of Diego-Suarez."
The Marshal Duke D'lsix was to leave Paris for
Excideuil on Wednesday, and, after a short stay on
his estate, will return to Algeria.

The Constitationnel contains the following state.

went :

" If we were to credit a letter written to one of his
relatives by a soldier of the Ist Regiment of Engineers,
now in Africa, on the frontiers of Morocco, the company
to which he belongs was surprised and massacred by the
Arabs. Only ten men escaped—an officer, two corpo-
rals, six soldiers, and himself. The affair is said to have
taken place in the first days of August."
COURS AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, SEPT. 9.—Five per
Cents., 119 f. 25c. 20c. 10c. ex. div ; Four per Cents.,
107 ; Three per Cents., 84E 30c. ; Bank Actions, 3.507 f.
50c. ; Spanish Passives, 6+ ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
39. Exchange on London, one month, money, 25E
; three months, money, 25f. 524 c.
BOUR6E, SEPT. 9.—LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents.,
119 E 10c. ; Three per Cents., 841. 30c. ; Bank Actions,
3,510 f. •
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13;4—Direct Bombay and Madras, %
Dutch Rhenish, 514—Great Western Bengal, %—Madras, Nellore,
and Arcot, lA—Namur and Liege, VA—Northern of France Con-
stituted, 13;4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, 6—Rouen and Havre, 28)4—Sambre and Meuse, 3% —west
Flanders, 4.

READING, GUILDFORD, AND
REIG ATE RAILWAY COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
The first general meeting of the proprietors at the
above Company was held this day, at one o'clock, in the
London Tavern, for the transaction of business.
David Salomons, Esq., took the chair.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read,
The report was then read. It stated that the capital
of the: company was 800,000/., in 40,000 shares of
201. each. The directors were happy to refer to the
arrangement entered into with the South-Eastern Rail-
way, by which they leased the line when completed to
the company at a rent of 4i per cent. per annum, and the
clear half of the profits. The amount of receipts
was on the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line
55,1601. 13s. Bd., and on the Reading and Reigate
38,2061. 9s. 9d.; total 93,3671. 3s. sd.
PAYMENTS UP TO THIS TIME.
Reading, Guildford, and:Reigate £23,222 18 6
Reading and Reigate 14,074 7 11

37,297 6 5
Showing a balance in hand of X 56,069 17 0
The. CHAIRMAN said that after the statement
so fully put forth in the report he would de-
tain them but a few moments while he briefly
referred to the conflict they had passed, and
the victory they had achieved, in the last session of
Parliament. It had cost them some anxiety and some
money, before they were enabled to defeat the opposi-
tion of the Brighton Company. He was happy, how-
ever, to be enabled to say that they had done so. They
had united now with the South-Eastern Company
a company which was worthy of every confidence,
although he was yesterday painfully obliged to
differ from the course pursued by the directors. The
Chairman then read the opinion expressed by the South-
Eastern Company of this line, but their good opinion
had been even underrated ; for the immense passenger
traffic which would flow to the ports of debarkation
had not been sufficiently taken into account. The
Chairman then explained, that as their direction was
rather unwieldy, it bad been deemed advisable to reduce
the number from 14 to 10, those gentlemen being bal.
lotted for. In conclusion, he moved the adoption of the
report.
Mr. GOWER seconded the motion.

Resolutions were then passed, fixing the directors at
ten, with a salary of 1,0001. a year among them, three
auditors at 201. each ; and Mr. John Bailey was elected
secretary, with a salary of 3001. per annum. ,
Thanks were then given to the chairman and directors,
and the meeting separated.

Surroszp MURDER.—Yesterday afternoon an
.in-
lion Tavern New-road,
quest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Royal Paw-
death of amale infant, unknown, whose body was found
Whitechapel, respecting the
in a water-closet, on Tuesday last. Mrs. Ann Burgis
stated that she resided at No. 35, Lambeth-street,
Whitechapel. On Monday last, while in the water-
closet at the back of the premises, she discovered the
body of the deceased, and with the assistance of a neigh-
bour named Rose, she succeeded in recovering it shortly
afterwards. Witness further stated that there was
another water-closet adjoining theirs, which was an
open one, and any person could gain access to it by
passing through White Bear-yard, adjoining their pre-
mises. Mr. Carrington, a surgeon, in Leman-street,
deposed that the body was a full grown male infant, it
might have been dead four or five days. There was a
large quantity of paper found in the mouth of the de-
ceased. The jury, at the suggestion of the coroner,
returned a verdict of " Fouad dead."

VOLUNTARY SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.—After the
Royal Sailor, on her passage from Norfolk to Antigua,
had been four days at sea, her cook was suddenly missed,
and it was supposed that he had fallen overboard. On
the arrival of the vessel at Antigua, to the astonishment
of the crew, on unloading her cargo, they found the cook
comfortably stowed away amongst bags of corn and peas,
where he had formed himself a berth about the size of a
puncheon, which he plentifully supplied with bread,
having also constructed a tube, through which he drew
water from an adjoining puncheon. Thus he lived 30
days. The following is the cause assigned for this sin-
gular conduct:—A short time previous to his disappear-
ance the bread made by the cook for the use of the cabin
was condemned as bad and uneatable by the captain,
who, in instructing the mate to discontinue the use of
flour, remarked, in allusion to the waste occasioned, that
"it might as well be thrown overboard." This observa-
tion was understood by the cook, as he himself states, to
allude to himself, which, in consideration of his imperfect
knowledge of the language, might not unreasonably be
inferred; and his secretion, he alleged, was a measure of
self-preservation. He descended the scuttle leading from
the cabin to the room beneath, thence through a small
opening in the bulk, and had gradually wormed a pas-
sage to his retired quarters.
A French soldier, named Delpech, serving in the
army of Africa, who was made prisoner by the Arabs,
on September 23, 1845, lately escaped from the tribe
with whom he had been loft, and reached Lalla- Ma-
ghrina on Aug. 2. He gives an account of the Massacre
of the French prisoners at the deira of Abd-el-Kader,
which perfectly agrees with the statement formerly pub-
lished by Rolland, the trumpeter, who escaped some
months back.—Galignani.
FOREIGN ICE.—It seems that we have not yet an-
nounced the last arrivals of ice for the season, from the
north of Europe, a vessel having arrived from Greenland
with a cargo of ice on board,
which, according. to the
size of the ship, may be computed as containing from
150 to 200 tons weight of this singular article of mer-
chsucliae,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
'The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady, at previous rates, but less animated. Sales,
5,000 bales, including 500 American, and 600 Surat, for
exportation. Shares were dull.
The result of the meeting held yesterday of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, however satisfactory to the
shareholders, is not by any means so to those who are
compelled to traverse the line. The subject has
been much talked of this morning, and it cer-
tainly was expected that some better reasons
would have been given than those adduced for
such an increase in the amount now demanded
by this Company. Upon most other lines the prin-
ciple has been of late to reduce, not to increase,
fares. It remains, however to be seen whether the
South-Eastern Company will not be compelled to pro-
vide a cheaper mode of conveyance than they now fur-
nish to those who arc compelled to use their line.
There are accounts from the Brazils to-day but not
much intelligence of interest has come to hand. We
learn that increasing dissatisfaction prevailed upon the
interference of Government with the property of de-
ceased foreizners. The Chambers had taken the subject
up, and probably the result would be a more liberal
course of policy on the part of the Minister of Finance,
under whose auspices interference in such matters is
generally carried on. The exchange remained much
about the same.

Stocks are flatter this morning, and there is less doing,
on account of the closing of the transfer books this even-
ing for the New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. and
other Stocks. This security has becn marked 93i, and
has just been sold as low as 98k. Consols are 96 to 95i
for money; and 968 for time. Exchequer-bills have
been firm at ins. to 14s. premium. Bank Stock is
quoted 210 to 211, being very firm. East India Stock
is at 259.

The Foreign Market bas been very quiet. Spanish
Five per Cents. al e dull at 27, and the Three per
Cents. at 381 Nothing has been done in Portuguese;
Mexican Bonds have realised 25i -. Equador Stock is
at 31. Russian Bonds are worth 1101 ; and Belgian
Four-and•a-Half per Cents. are 97.
There is very little doing in Shares, and they keep
steady in price.

- - ORE► cLosrNG
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .211 210 210
3 per Cent. Reduced Arms...—. 96% 96 96
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 25% 95%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 98%14 981
Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 10 5-16 10 5-16
India Stock 959 259
India Bonds, 1,0001 - —
Ditto under 1,0001...
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account... 961 96%
Kxchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11! d lO 14 pm. 14
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small

oXE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Dutch, 2% per Cent ..
Ecuador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — 25%
Ditto. Account ... ..... ...... 25%% 25%
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto, Account 42%
Russian Bonds ........ 110% 110%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 27 27
Ditto, Deferred — 17
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account . ... 38% 38%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/ per Cent 97 97
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 59% 5914
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 94% 941,
PRICES OP PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..,... 17g1 l%
Armagh, Coleraine, and

Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 21/..i

Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17% 32 .... . ........ 32

Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 23/4
Boston, Stamfd;& Birm. 225.
Bristol and Exeter 75

Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. Junc . 21/2.--
Buckinghamshire ...... 425.
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 214 — ... ..... .....
Ditto Extension
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% ll%
Central Kent 2%
Chester and Holyhead... 27% — . • --

Churnet and Blithe 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltezham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction ..... 15
Cork, Blackrock, and _ _

Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —

Cornwall

Cornwall & Cent'iDevon
1 )erby and Crewe 2 %
Direct Lincoln, East Ret- _ _

ford, and Sheffd. June. 2%
Direct Manchester .
( Remington's) - ...... .........
Ditto (Rasstrick's) 54.— - .. ... -
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 71,4
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 221 IA 221/2
Ditto New lOl. 163. 7% p 7% p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... . .. . —:

Ditio ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... :.4 p % p
Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 214 IA 24
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1

Eastern Union 35

Ditto, Quarter Shares 834
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1, — ......... .....
Do., Canal). and Ely.. 212..,
East Lancashire
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 711/ 7ll/2
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Ditto, New ... 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 71/2 ......
Enniskillen and Slim:. ... 21%
Exeter,Toovil,& Dorset 514 3
lila,gubv, iiiiruar.,6.Ayr 50
Ditto, New ... ...... .. 15
Do., YI Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Abei ystwith, and
Central of Wales 1%...... .. --

Goole, Doncaster, &c...
42s
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn l% — .............
Great Eastern &Western 21/2.••.•• ••...

GreatGrimsby and Shef- -
field
Great South. and West. . .

(Ireland)
Great Munster 214
Great North of Scotland 21h...... _ -
Great North of England..loo .229% 230 230
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Great Western B5
145,

Ditto lh Shares 5O Bl% Bll
Ditto I% Shares
Ditto Fifths 2O —
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 ... ..
Ilarwich and Eastern

Counties Junction ... 2 ......
Hull and Selby 5O 105% lO5l/2
Ditto M Shares
Do. Half Shares 25
50%
Inverness and Elgin
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 —
Do., do , and Norwich 21/2 .4.
Irish North Midland ... 1%
Killarney. Junctions
Kendal and Windermere 11/2
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New -
Lame, Belfast, and 13al-
lymena
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ......."
Leicester and Bedford... 225....... 1/2% 5/8 di5..... % dis.
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 171/2 _
.
Leicester and Tamw., &c. 425.
Lpool., Dincbstr, & New-
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ...
London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d.
Do. New

Ditto Extension ...... 5 ..-.. ... _
London and Brighton... 50
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Yd. 22% ...„. 22%

. . '
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s4d
Do. Preference —lB/ 17s 2d
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 2Ol 200 199
Do. Quarters
Do., no., New Shares..
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, Eighths (p. J.) 121,x ......
Do., New 1/4 Shares

(G. J.) — —
Do. 40/. Shares (L. M.) 6
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 71.
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 2
Do. 1/2 Shares
London and Windsor . 1% —
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ~...............21,4......
Londonderry & Coleraine 121/2 — ..,... .........
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen l2l/2
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Doreham l5
• ... —.
Manchester and Leeds— 82 112
Ditto Ipf, Shares
Do. Quarters 2 -
Do. Fifths
Do. Sixteenths ... 61% —
..
Do. Extension 42s. . ~... 21-/,% p 2% p
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... --
Do. Quarters (B) ... 5
Do. Quarters (C) 1
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42a, ...... 1%% p l% i)