The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-06 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, OCT. 3.—Our market has exhibited
a drooping tendency to day, in a large proportion of
yarns, and in many kinds of goods. The acceptance
of rather lower prices, as the preferable alternative
to that of any accumulation of stock, has, however,
led to some increase of operations in twist, and still
more in cloth. This may be taken as a pretty
accurate statement of the general course of bu-
siness ; taking into account the discrepancies
that are found between the reports of different
parties, according to the channels in which
they happen to more, and the greater or less facility
with which they yield to circumstances. The Ger-
man houses are giving out limited orders for yarns ;
and the Greek merchants are doing rather more than
they were. There is some purchasing in prints and
printing cloths, RS well as certain other articles, for
the United States ; and operations are still going on
for Gibraltar, particularly for printed calicoes. For
Bombay there has been a little inquiry ; the letters by
the present mail, however, did not come to hand until
this evening, after the close of business. The di-
rection which prices are manifestly taking produces
a more widely spread disposition to diminish the sup-
ply by a resort to short time. The continued de-
cline in the value of cotton tends, however, to pre-
vent the adoption of that measure.
ROCHDALE, OCT. 2.—There has been another good
market today, and a fair quantity of business trans-
acted, at last week's prices, The wool market has
been heavy, and the sales effected very limited.
There is no change in price to-report.
HALIFAX, SEPT. 30.—A. few job lots of fancy
goods have been purchased today for the American
market, at several shillings per piece below the cost at

which they-could be manufactured, even at the pre-
sent low pripe of wool ; but, with this exception, there
was scarceAajay business transacted in the hall to
day. In, Al4,a.nlwools we can notice no alteration
since our last lAport.
LEEDS, OCT. 3.—Our cloth halls to-day have been
well attended, but owing to the trifling show of
suitable winter goods, the actual transactions proved
insignificant. This scanty supply of goods speaks
in favour of the general well-doing of our clothiers,
who have to work to orders, which at all times is
more remunerative than speculative productions.—
Manchester Guardian.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH
COAST RAILWAY.
An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company took place yesterday, at the Bridge-house
Hotel, London-bridge, for the purpose of authorising
the directors to affix the seal of the company to an
agreement with the London and South-Western
Railway Company for the sale of a joint property in
a portion of the Portsmouth extension of the Brighton
and Chichester Railway; and fur the purpose of con-
sidering the expediency of exercising the powers of
the Company's Act, 10 and 11 Vict., c. 276, for re-
ducing the number of directors, and determining the
order of rotation in which such reduced number shall
go out of office, and what number shall be a quorum
at their meetings.
Samuel Laing, Esq., the Chairman of the Com-
pany, took the chair at one o'clock.
The routine business having been disposed of,
The SOLICITOR of the company read the heads of
the agreement with the London and South-Western
Company.
General CORRIE wished to know what benefit
would be derived from the arrangement to the Brighton
shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN said that he was able to state what
the benefits would be. He was happy, on the first
occasion of appearing before the proprietors as their
chairman, to be the announcer of a message of
peace with the South-Western Company.—(Hear.)
When he became a director of the Brighton Com-
pany, his first attempt was to remove, if possible,
the unsatisfactory state of things that existed between
the company and the South-Western, and he was
happy to say that, with the assistance of his friends
in the direction, they had made an arrangement
which had been met in an amicable spirit by the
South-Western Company, the result of which would
be that instead of the South-Western making an in-
dependent line to Portsmouth, the line would be
made by both companies jointly, the South-Western
paying to the Brighton Company 60,0001. for
the line as it at present stood.—(Hear, hear.)
The Brighton Company would be benefited by the
arrangement to the extent of between 60,0001. and
70,0001., and the South-Western Company would be
equally benefited. He believed sincerely that the
practical result of the agreement would be to benefit
both companies to the extent of 70,0001.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Another benefit would be that
there would be only one station at Portsmouth
instead of two, and they, he considered, would effect
a saving to the company of no less a sum than
2,0001. Added to this, the agreement would bring
about a proper spirit between the two companies, and
give far better accommodation to the public than it
had before.—(Hear, hear.) For his own part, he
felt bound to confess that he had never seen
an arrangement more honest or beneficial
for all the contracting parties. He thought it would
be a subject of congratulation to both companies that
such an arrangement had been effected. It was the
intention of the directors also to bring the capital
account to a close as speedily as possible, and that at
the smallest figure—(Hear, hear)—and in do-
ing so he could assure the proprietors that
the sum of 7,280,0001. would not be exceeded.—
(Hear.) He was happy to say, that whilst other
companies were showing a decreased return in their
accounts, the Brighton Company was showing an
increase, though a small one. By the arrangement
with the South-Western Company, the Brighton
Company would effect a great saving, not only in
the working of trains, but in the capital accounts.
The worthy Chairman concluded by moving a resolu-
tion adopting the agreement.
Mr. ScuuLsYßE seconded the motion.
The resolution, after a short discussion, was carried
unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution, the
object of which was to reduce the number of directors
from sixteen to nine. In doing so he stated
that the directors had balloted among themselves for
the purpose of ascertaining the nine directors who
should remain in office, and the result of that ballot
was the retaining in the direction the following
gentlemen :—Mr. Laing, the present chairman, Mr.
Cash, Mr. Charles Crowley, Mr. Edward Crowley,
the Hon. Captain Hotham, Mr. Laurie, Mr. Schuls-
ter, Mr. James Wishaw, and Mr. John Nix.
A PROIPRIBTOR regretted that the directors had
adopted that course, considering that it would have
been far better that the proprietors should have
balloted for the nine directors that were to remain.
Mr. WILsoN addressed the meeting at some length,
complaining of the management and the course that
had been adopted by the directors, and moved, as an
amendment, that Captain Kelly and Mr. Whisker
should be restored to the direction as two of the nine
directors.
The amendment having no seconder, fell to the
ground.
Captain KELLY said that nothing under heaven
should induce him to go back to the board again, as
there bad been an influence pervading the board that
he had an utter want of confidence in. The lion.
Gentleman went at considerable length into the
occurrences that took place while he was in
the direction of which he complained, and
detailed circumstances to show how greatly the af-
fairs of the company had been mismanaged, and how
the repairs of the line and the engines had been
neglected, in order that the expense might be spared
to bolster up a dividend.
Mr. Love was of opinion that the proposition for
reducing the number of directors to nine was a most
excellent one, and would give it his support,
but he thought the proprietors ought to
elect those nine directors, and not the di-
rectors themselves. (Hear, hear.) The Hon.
Proprietor moved an amendment to that effect.
Mr. WiLsoe seconded the amendment.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, when
Mr. LOVE said he would withdraw it.
Mr. WiLsoe would not consent to the withdrawal
of the amendment.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, and only
two hands being held up in its favour, declared it to
be lost.
Mr. WILSON then moved another amendment to
the effect, that the names of the nine directors should
be put seriatim.
The CHAIRMAN also declared this amendment to
be lost.
The original motion was then put, and declared to
be carried.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and direc-
tors, and the meeting separated.

THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.--LRSt night a
public meeting of the principal tradesmen, shopkeepers,
and friends of the Early Closing Movement was held at
the White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate, for the purpose of
supporting the movement and adopting the principle of
early closing in all branches of trade of every descrip-
tion within the district of Bishopsgate and the surrouad-
ing neighbourhood. Mr. John Hopkins, one of the
principal tradesmen of the district, occupied the chair,
and addressed the meeting at considerable length, ex-
planatory of the advantages that would be derived by
the public, but more particularly the tradesmen them-
selves, by fixing the closing of shops for business at an
earlier hour, and stated that he had himself practised it
for the last seven years with the most satisfactory and
beneficial results, and pointed out the positive necessity
that existed for carrying out the principles of the Early
Closing Association, with respect both to the mental and
physical position of the young men employed in various
trades in this vast metropolis. The hours wore now
proposed in all trades to be eight in winter and nine in
summer, but he (the chairman) felt satisfied that the
hours might be safely reduced to seven in winter and
nine in summer. Several other gentlemen addressed the
meeting in support of the objects of the association. A
memorial was unanimously adopted to the shopkeepers
and tradesmen from Shoreditch to Cornhill and adjacent
neighbourhoods, calling ttpon them to adopt the early
closing of their shops throughout the district, from Nov.
1 at eight o'clock, and on Saturdays at 10 o'clock, and in
the summer at nine.
POISONING BY ARSENIC.--The inquest on the two
young girls Fanny and Sarah Ann Kent, were resumed
on Wednesday evening at Gloucester. Tho witnesses
were Mary Moody, Frederick Kent, aged twelve years,
and David Kent, aged ten years, brothers of the de.
ceased; Mrs. Kent, their mother; and Messrs. Hicks
and Boughton, surgeons. in addition to what has
already appeared, it was stated that a post mortem exa-
mination took place, and that traces of arsenic were dis-
covered. The medical gentlemen came to the conclu-
sion that the deaths of both the children had been occa-
sioned by that poison. On the second examination the
father of the children requested the coroner to send a
constable with him to Cheltenham to visit the druggists'
shops, a rumour having been circulated that he, the
father, had recently purchased arsenic in that town.
The coroner accordingly communicated with the in-
spector of police in Cheltenham, and the result of the
inquiry was, that no arsenic had been sold to Kent or
any other stranger. A trace of arsenic was very dis-
tinct in the remainder of the farinaceous food left after
making the pudding. The jury, after a long investiga-
tion, returned a verdict, " That the children died from
the effets of arsenic taken in farinaceous food, but how
or in what manner it became mixed with the food, there
was no evidence to show."
A Cer
• KILLED BY A MOUSE.—A curious cir-
cumstance occurred on Kingsdown, Bristol, on Monday.
A cat having caught a mouse, was playing with it on the
lawn, when the mouse leaped into the cat's mouth, and
actually forced itself so far into the throat as to suffocate
poor puss.

LAW INTELLIGIi:NCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5

Two Commissioners (Evrms and Shepherd) sat, 'but
the cases on the list were of no public interest.
Mr.W.J.Townshend, a cork manufacturer
in i~'ell-
- came up on his last examination on a
balance-sh(et prepared by Mr. Glover. The debts
were about 1,6001, and the assets comparatively
trifling.
Mr. Cooke opposed, and Mr. Lawrence supported.
The bankrupt passed.
In the matter of Brailsford Bright, who was a mer-
chant, carrying on business in Bishopgate-street in
co-partnership with others, the bankrupt carne up on
the question of passing his last examination.
Mr. Bishop appeared for the assignees, Mr. Law-
rence for the bankrupt.
The debts unsecured are 3,756/., and the assets
about 3501. The bankrupt passed, and the certificate
meeting was fixed for the 2,1 of November.

Thebalance-sheet was prepared by Mr. Hudson,
of Bucklersbury.
In the bankruptcy of Gervas Parnell, of the Plough
Brewery, IValworth, there was a certificate meeting.
Mr. Duncan opposed, and Mr. Lawrence sup-
ported.
The bankrupt obtained his certificate.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES.

The following is a correct list of the sentences passed
during the sittings of this Court:—

TRANSPORTATION.

Life—William Coffey, William Dowling, William
Lacey, Thomas Fay, Joseph Ritchie, five of the Chartist
conspirators.
Twenty Years—Theodore Piedfort.
Fifteen Years—Rickman Moore, John Rickman.
Ten Years—William Joseph Bailey, William Sten-
nett, George Davis, John Vickers, William Edwards,
John CoHilly, John Collings, William alias John Jones.
Seven Years—Adolph Von Zwehl, William Brown,
Mary Smith, James Maggs, William Wilson, Thomas
Bennett Goddard, William Fraser, Isaac Norcott, Alfred
Hay, Elizabeth Wesley, Sarah Errington, James
M'Cabe, Saunders Rosenberg, Thomas Norman, James
Piddick, Maria Murray, Julia • Leonard, George Brink-
worth, Daniel Brown, Thomas Shawe, Richard Bailey,
James Crabb, Thomas Neal, Andrew Sharp, Anna Smith,
Robert Whalley, Frederick William Southcombe, Alfred
Taylor, John Dixon.