The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

perfectly inadequate for the offence. In either
case, therefore, the magistrate was wrong. In
fact, it appeared a sort of compromise which never
should be tolerated on the bench of justice. If SCOTT
was discharged, it would be a serious rebuke to the
police, whose testimony the magistrates, we regret to
say, are generally disposed to place greater depen-
dance on than that of any private individuals, how-
ever respectable ; and a weighty punishment could
not be pronounced in the face of such evidence as
came forward on the occasion, and which should have
insured the dismissal of the charge. We, however,
abstained from comment, inasmuch as a further in-
vestigation was to take place respecting the conduct
of Inspector JULIAN on the occasion. This has since
taken place—Mr. THOMAS BLAKE, a watchmaker, one
of SCOTT'S witnesses, having preferred a charge
against the inspector of having attempted to ride
over him (BLAKE), and having put him in bodily fear,
The affair received the fullest investigation. A num-
ber of respectable persons corroborated the statement
of the complainant, that the inspector, without the
slightest cause, made his horse plunge; that he ad-
dressed BLAKE, who was standing quietly, and
galloped after him, nearly riding over him. They
dscribed BLAKE as having been under the neck of the
hone, which was rearing and plunging furiously ;
that his escape was a most fortunate one, and that
he was nearly paralysed by fright. They also stated
that the attack was decidedly premeditated ; that the
horse was wantonly urged on by his rider ; that
there was no noise or any interruption given to the
police. Mr. BROUGHTON, in giving judgment, de-
clared that he firmly believed everything that was
stated by the witnesses, and that he could not view
the affair in any other light than as most
extraordinary and unwarrantable behaviour, and
that he would fine the inspector in the
full penalty of 51. and costs. After this decision, i❑
which every disinterested person must have concurred,
we are convinced that Mr. BROUGHTON must be
satisfied that he inflicted a serious injury on poor
SCOTT, and that he owes him the only reparation in
his power, Tiz., a public acknowledgment of his error.
And we trust that the lesson may not be lost to him
during his continuance in the magisterial office, and
that he may not again sentence any person to punish-
ment unless fully satisfied of his guilt. The conduct of
Inspector JULIAN and of the police who so stoutly sup-
ported him by their evidence is, we think, deserving of
the most serious consideration of the police authori-
ties. It is painful to see, as in the Dagenham case,
a body of men prepared to make any statement at the
desire of their superior. If they can explain or jus-
tify their conduct they should have an opportunity of
doing so ; if not, we cannot conceive that they are fit
persons to be entrusted with powers that may be so
greatly abused.

Letters from Berne of the 21st state that the Sar-
dinian Government has ordered two regiments to
march to the Swiss frontier.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
They are filled with accounts of the dreadrul dis-
asters occasioned throughout France by the floods.
" The Loire and other rivers," says the Journal des
Debats, "are continuing to subside; and the mails
and diligences can come up from Tours, Nantes, and
Angers. It is, however, apprehended that, if the
present rain be protracted, the retiring of the waters
will be delayed. The accounts that reach us from the
inundated country are still most melancholy." " Our
most recent advices from the Upper Loire," says the
Constilutionnel, "state that the waters are retiring
but slowly, and successively exhibiting the enormous
losses inflicted by the inundation. A notion may be
formed of its extent by the fact that at the Pertuiset-
bridge, which has resisted, the water rose, between
noon and six in the afternoon, from six
metres to fourteen metres forty centimetres /
Before it had risen to this inconceivable
height, the Loire had done unheard-of damage.
Never had its levies given way ; they had
always stood the most violent rises ; they have
now been broken through at two or three places."
The ravages committed by the Loire in the districts
of Aurec, Andrezieux, and Roanne were fearful. At
Andrezieux it had partially destroyed the St. Etienne
Railway. Boats laden with merchandise of the value
of upwards of 1,000,000 francs had been sunk in the
Canal of Digoin. Among this merchandise there
wee 1,000 hogsheads of brandy and 1,500 casks of
wine. At Pouilly 1,700 hogsheads of cin ordinaire
had been carried away by the flood. The Indian
mail, in consequence of the floods, was de-
layed twenty-four hours, and did not ar-
rive in Paris until Sunday. The Bordeaux mail
was delayed from the same cause, so that we are
without any further intelligence from Spain. It
is said that the Due DtAUM ALE has arrived at Ba-
yonne.

It would appear that M. GUIZOT has reckoned
without his host, in imagining that he could obtain
the support of the Northern Courts to his Spanish
marriage policy. It is said, that the answers which
he has received to his notes from the Courts,
both northern and southern to which he ap-
pealed against the pretest of England, have
been anything but satisfactory. So far from acknow-
ledging Queen ISABELLA, these Courts emphatically
repeat that they know no Sovereign of Spain but
the Count DE MOztTEMOLIN, and they accompany
this declaration by an unqualified expression of their
hostility to the arrival of any French Prince at
sovereign power in Spain. The Austrian Cabinet
has, according to the Universal German Gazette,
gone still further. It has openly expressed its great
displeasure at the readiness with which the POPE
granted the marriage dispensations. His HOLINESS,
not having recognised the Government of Queen
ISABELLA, might, they say, have withheld his assent,
and thus defeated the intrigue of the French and
Spanish Courts ; instead of which, he sent off the
dispensations by return of post.
The seven ships of war which had sailed with
troops and stores for Otaheite, were driven back to
Brest on the 23d, by stress of weather.
It is said that the Carlists have, for the present,
abandoned their intended project of an insurrection
in the north of Spain. The officers of that party,
prisoners in the citadel of Blaye, have published a
declaration disclaiming all idea of the kind, but they
add that, as faithful subjects of CHARLES VI., they
are now and ever ready to obey his Majesty's orders.
Subscriptions to aid the sufferers from the inun-
dations have been opened in Paris.
The administration of the Customs had published
the returns of the import duties collected during the
month of September last, and which amounted to
13,839,732 f. They had produced, in 1844, 12,463,402 f.,
and in 1845, 12,088,980 f. The receipts of the nine
months of 1846, ending on the Ist of October, were
114,395,806 f., showing an increase of 1,101,826 f. as
compared with those of the corresponding period of
1845, and 1,622,707 over 1844.
The firmness of our Money market on Friday pru-
duced a rise in French stock in Paris on Sunday.
The Three per Cents. were done at 82f. 70c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. OCTOBER 25.
Belgian Eastern Junction, 1416—Direct Bombay and Madras, 14
—Dutch Rhenish, s%—East Indian, 76—Great Western Bengal,
—Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, 3 —Northern of France
Constituted, 1116—Orleans and Tierzon, 13—Orleans and Bordeaux,
75,6—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s —Paris and Strasbourg Con.
stituted,446—Rouen and Havre, 2616—Sambre and Meuse, s—West
Flanders, 3.

NELSON COLUMN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I am sure I need not apologise for requesting
you to insert a direct contradiction to the paragraph
in your paper, headed " Nelson Column," stating
that I am dead; thank God, I never was in better
health.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,

JOHN TERNOUTH.
9, Lower Belgrave•place, Pimlico.
[The paragraph was copied from a morning paper.—
ED. Sun.]

WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Colonel Kingscote,
Liberal, and brother-in-law of the Duke of Beaufort, is
spoken of as not unlikely tobe a candidate for West Glou-
cesterehire, in the room of Mr. Grantley Berkeley.—
Cheltenham paper.
THE GREAT BRITAIN EXPECTED.—The New York
Tribune of the Bth inst. says:—" The Great Britain is
now in her sixteenth day. Her non-arrival in season to
send replies to the correspondence brought by her, in the
Great Western, is provoking, and no doubt will be a
serious annoyance to our merchants."
A FAMILY or MUTES.—There is a singular family
of mutes in Jeantown, Lochcurron. They are orphans,
seven lads and two girle, all deaf and dumb, and yet the
most industrious people in the village. Strange to say,
three of them have adopted a sea-faring life, and have a
boat and nets, in which they sail by themselves in pur-
suit of herrings round the whole coast. During the day
the helmsman directs the others by signs, and at night
he carries stones in his pocket which he throws at them;
one intimates a desire to stand by the halyards, and two
to reef.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.,
The Cotton market at Liverpool was buoyant yester-
day, and there was a slight advance in prices. In many
instances id. per lb. more was obtained. The sales were
10,000 bales, of which 4,000 were on speculation, chiefly
American sorts. Shares improved a little.
At Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s, to-day, the market was
firm, and rather better prices were obtained. A good
many shares were in demand, and a good proportion of
them sold. The following are a few of the principal
sales:— _ _

Great Southern of Madras £0 4 6
Cornwall
Great Indian Peninsular
East Indian
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union 0 13 0
Shropshire Union and Canal
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 15 6
South Wales
Louvain ala Sambre .. 1 14 6
Manchester and Southampton
London and Blackwall, New • •••• „••••..• 6 3 0
London and Croydon, Thirds 9 14 0
Paris and Lyons 5 7 0
Madrid and Valencia. .......................
Goole and Doncaster .................. ..
South-Eastern and Dover, N 0.4
Namur and Leige ........................
Eastern Counties, York Extension
....
Sambre and Meuse ..........
Great Eastern and Western
Upon the subject of the dried fruit trade, we have some
interestinginformation in a report drawn up by the firm of
Witherby and Hanson. Alludingto thearticle of currants,
it is stated :-" There has been no alteration in prices
during the month. Patras, of good and fair quality,
has been eagerly taken off at 555. to 565., and Zantes at
545. We are at this moment without any stock of cur-
rants, and several cargoes of fruit have been purchased
this week for arrival at 545. to 545. 6d. The clearances
of raisins of all kinds at the port of London, from Ist
September to the 20th inst., were 1,560 tons, against
1,050 tons during the like period of 1845 ; but of the
former quantity, Muscatels constitute a larger portion
than usual. The 18. ,000 drums of figs received by the
Achilles steamer, via Southampton, have all been cleared
off, the first to hand realising the high price of 705.,
and the remainder 60s. to 655. The market is now com-
pletely bare, and is ready for the cargoes by the Rebel
and Torch, a portion of both of which appeared at Bo-
tolph•wharf yesterday morning."
The importance of a quick delivery for fruit will be
recognised by all, and it appears that the extraordinary
dispatch with which the figs, per Achilles, were passed
through the Custom House at Southampton, and for-
warded to London, has been much commended. It
would benefit the fruit trade, which, from its nature,
requires great expedition, if similar advantages existed
at the Custom House of the port of London. A want
of hands, it would seem, in the department immediately
connected with the clearance of goods on which the duty
has been paid for home consumption, checks the facility
of dispatch so indispensably necessary in the present
day, and which, in all other branches of her Majesty's
service, has been so liberally afforded to the public.
The letters from Calcutta do not give so favourable
a statement upon the subject of the market for British,
Cotton piece goods, as for some of our other manufac-
tures, and fur exports. The Money Market, however,
was decidedly easier, and in China there was more
facility in effecting sales of goods. Ships were wanted
in the ports of the latter country.
The detention of the Overland Mail, until this even-
ing, has just given the favourable opportunity expected
for aziswerirg
correspondence received by the present
opportunity.
The English Stock Market is still rather under a
cloud, and there has been some little speculation for a
fall in prices. Consols are 94:4-3- if for present transfer,
and 9-4 to 95 for Account. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been 138. to 11s. only, being a decline on the
previous values. Bank Stock has been marked 20i to
205 f, and East India Stock 257. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents, have been 95f to 95k.
The Foreign Market continues heavy, but the transac-
tions are at the same time rather more numerous than
they were yesterday. Spanish Five per Cents. have
been 264, and Portuguese Four per Cents., 41f, being
very dull. Mexican have recede dto 224 f. Grenada
Deferred Bonds are 3f to 34. Brazil Stock is at 85 to
85k. French Three per Cents. have been marked 83
francs, with the exchange at 25 70. Dutch Two. and-
a-Half per Cents. have been 58-,1 to 591.
For Shares there is a moderate inquiry, and prices
appear to be steady. In some instances they are better.
O. CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICE s.
Bank Stock 905% 205 205
3 per Cent. Reduced Anus....-.. 933)% 93y's
3 per Cent.ConsolsAenuities 947s :1.1 94./1
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1706
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 951/2% 953/4
Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 9;78 9 15-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 9 11-16 9 11-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860.... 10 3-16 1/8
India Stocli. ...... .. .................. 257
India Bonds, 1,0004. ..,,. .. ...... .. -
Ditto under 1,0001. ,"; ..... ....... 26 p
Consols for Nov 26 ....... 95 94:7,8
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., lihd.„. 12 13 11 - pm.
Ditto 5001. - - pm. 1..
Ditto Small - - pm. 10
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account . 85% 854 A
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.- LByB 58,74
Ecuador Bonds - 3%
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. - -
Ditto, Deferred 33/41.4 3%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1844 - -
Ditto. Account
1 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 412 411 A
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account - 26%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent - -
Ditto, Account
...... 37% 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent....... 83f. -c. 83f. -c.
Exchange ........................... 25f. 70c. 25f. 70c.
Belgian 4% per Cent....... 9B 98
Ditch, 21% per Cent . ............ 58%594 594
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 92
PRICES or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
it AMWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen -
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%,.... 31/8 3%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% ....
.. - _
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%,,,,.. _ -
Belfast & County Down 4% ..... .
Birmin. and Gloucester..loo ......
.....
Ditto New 17% ......
- ..... ........ -
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 24,....,
......
-
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225.......
Bristol and Exeter ..... 75 ...... 80%,.. BOl/2
-
Ditto, New
51
Bristol and Liver. Junc 2%......
......
Buckinghamshire
~ die. .. 34 dis.
Caledonian
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... . . 51
.. 22%
Ditto Half Shares...-. 2% ...... 1 . ..... 1 y
Ditto Extension ...•.. 2%......
_/'......
...
...
.... •••• 4
Cambrian & Grand Junc 42s . -
....
Chester and Holyhead... 27%,....:
......
-
Churnet and 81ythe...... 2 ......
.....
-
Chester and Manchester 425. ...... _
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 -
...... _
.
ClytlesdaleJunction.. ... 20 .....
_
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 ...... _
Gonwall - ............... -
Cork and Killarney -
Ditto, Half Shares
.....
............
Cornwall& Cent'lDevon 2%
......
... ...
......
Direct Lincoln, East net-
ford, and Shetld. June. 2%
.........
Direct Northern ......... 2%., 1%% ...... --•
1 erby and Crewe...... ... 2% - ............... _
1 - ..... Direct Norwich - .............. --
Dublin and BelfastJunc lO ...... -
...
...........
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine - ........ ....... -
Dublip and Galway... - 4 ...... - ............. •
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 -
.. ...... .
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 21%%............ '
Ditto New l2/. 16s ...... . ,
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... -
Ditto ditto; No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d.. . -
Do., York Extension.. 12s. ...... 3% .....
• """•EastDereh'inandNoech 1
Eastern Union 35 - ...............
•• ••• -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83y.:.... .
Do. Exten.(Harivich) 1',t...... --
Do., Cam b. and Ely.. 2% ....., - .........
*****
EdDinitbtuor,g(4htiaanrtderGlsash
EasblittLoinucaollfnsslbliarrees
...
10
East Lancashire -
Ditto, New
1%...... 1
East & West of England 1%.,„..
ow,Kinnar.
Exeter,Yeovil,&ltois.e. Dorset Edinburgh &Northegarronew.s. 15020%••••
5214% **-
__lBl4-
•••
Edinburgh and Perth., 3
Ely and Huntingdon * h....••
Enniskillen and Sli ***
71
- -
_163/4 17 ...
Glasg
Ditto, New • . .Yl. 50
......
-
Do., VI Shares****( ..
. **
15
' -

101,3
257

213 A

3%

18 1/4

. per
cent. guar.) .. ....... 12%—,•••
_
Glouc.,Abeiystwith, and
1/9 dis,
Central of Wales ...... 1 %•••••• —a/ tz_ dis
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425• ...... /s lb
...
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn ..•.. ........... 1% ......
....... ...• ••
Great Eastern &western 2%.»•••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
Gr(fiea1er1ted15in:uZii.....an.....d....W......e.5...t.....
2170%
............ 2-9 IX, ...
_
_
Great Munster ........ .... 2% ......
237%
Great North of Scotland 2%••••" —7l i
61
Great North of En la d WO ..... 23 72
gn - . 69
55
Ditto New ............. 5 ...... 5g
Ditto, New
........ 15 •••••• -21
137
Ditto, New ........... . 1% .....
80
Great 'Western ............ 85 ......137
1934
Ditto lA Shares ...... ... 50 ......
WA —
Ditto Shares ......... 10 ......
7%
Ditto'ifths 20 ......
...........
73/4 los%
Ditto, New ........ .... 2 ...... 1,
Hull and Selby ..... 50 ..... 108 /2
.......
Ditto 4 Shares ...... 12% ......
Do. Half Shares ...... 25 ......
_
Ipswich c,t Bury St. Edm. 11% ......
Do., do , and Norwich 2% ......
Killarney ,and
...... I'4 "'
63
Kendal and Windermere 1% ...... 6-3
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New ............... 5
_
Larne, Belfast, and Bat_
74
lymena .................. 425. —7
73/s
_....
Leeds and Bradford...... 30
Leeds and Carlisle ...... 25••• "' .. ....... .... --.
Leicester & Birmingham 225. —, ~di2 l4 d's•
_
Leicester and Bedbrd... 225. ...... 74
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22% —
....
LpooL, Binotistr &New-
caatle JtuictiOu

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