The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

with caution, but merchants insist upon the prices paid at the
; last Quarterly sales, although the quantity held by them is
. large.
RICE.— There has been a much better demand for Bengal
this week, for home consumption as well as for exportation,
and the rates paid have been fully equal to those pre-
viously current. Privately several parcels were dis-
posed of, and 1,331 bags at auction found pur-
• chasers, good clean pearly white at 18s to 19s, but 1,376 bags
I of low dusty and broken quality were mostly taken in at
16s 6d to 17s. In Madras the operations privately were upon
a larger scale at firm rates, 15s to 16s having been paid.
Java is wanted, but there is none in the market.
FRUIT.—The transactions in Currants lately sold to ar-
rive have been considerable, about 1,000 tons is re-
ported to have taken ; Zante and Cephalonia 54s to
54s 6d, Patras 555; two cargoes Zante arrived on Monday,
and were eagerly taken by the Grocers at 555; the de-
mand continues good. A cargo of Valentias arrived, which
was divided among the trade at 465, New Turkey Pulled
Figs sell freely 45s to 70s, New Sultanas 60s, New Musca-
tels, boxes bunch 48s, boxes layers 52s ; half ditto, 565.
Rust, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—There has been a falling
off in the demand for all !descriptions of Jamaica Rum this
week—exporters and the home trade purchasing with cau-
tion, but holders for the most part insist upon full rates :
only small parcels have been sold. Demerara is not cheaper,
but there has been little passing, and only 80 puns have been
sold. Leeward Island is not offered at any further decline,
but the demand has been limited, and the sales are
only 160 puncheons at 3s 41/2d to 3s sd. For Cal-
cutta, the market, however, has a firm appearance.
and a good business has been transacted. There has been a
brisk demand for Brandy, 'chiefly for home consumption,
and prices have advanced for the vintages of 1842, 1843,
1844, and 1845, of Id per gallon, whilst all other kinds fully
sustained the former worth. Geneva is wanted for exporta-
tion, and the parcels sold were at 2s 8d to 2s 9d for common,
and at which holders are firm. Fine for home con-
sumption has been in fair demand, and prices re on
the ascendancy, the supply being small, 3s ,2d toa 3s 4d
having been paid.; In British made Spirits prices are
rising— stocks are light, and the consumption large.
an advance on last Friday's rates of 30s to 40s per tun.
Seal has been largely dealt in, and prices have risen 40s to
60s. For Cod the demand has been good, and further ad-
vanced rates are obtained. Sperm has bEen much in re-
quest, and prices are still advancing. The home trade are
yet the chfef purchasers of Fish Oils. Prices vary little from
those of last year, but stocks are less, consumption greater.
Cocoa Nut Oil has been purchased with avidity, and owing
to the supply being small a further rise in prices has taken
place. The demand has been active for Palm Oil, and owing
to the limited quantity brought to market buyers have been
compelled to pay further advanced rates. Amesican Lard
Oil has been sparingly dealt in at 38s to 44s per
cwt., and there is a large quantity on offer. Rape Seed Oil
has been in much better request, and prices are firmer.
In Olive extensive purchases have been made, and prices
must now be quoted 50s to 60s per tun higher. There has
been much activity for Linseed Oil, and prices have risen
Is 6d to 2s per cwt.
TALLOW.—For delivery in Spring months prices have
fallen to 49s to 49s 3d per cwt, but upon these terms
many contracts have been entered into, and prices are not
expected to be much lower, as the arrrivals will continue
deficient those of former season, the trade everywhere scant-
ily supplied, the stock being less than it was last year, and the consumption going on largely.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NE TV COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman MusonovE.)
George Horsjord, 19, a dyer, pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging him with stealing fifteen skeins of
silk, value 305., the property of Henry Le Livier, his
master.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. RourNsom addressed the Jury for the defence, and
contended that the prisoner had no felonious intention
in taking away the goods.
After the LEARNED RECORDER had summed up the
evidence at great length, the Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported
for the term of seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Alderman Hooper was engaged for some hours
in the investigation of a charge of assault preferred by
John M`Nally against George Brown, City policeman
No. 222, who has recently joined the force, but was
formerly in the Metropolitan police. M'Nally was
charged with rescuing from the officer a man who had
assaulted him.
A certificate from the house-surgeon of St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital was put in, stating that M'Nally's wife
remained a patient from the injuries she had received,
and was in a state of danger. It was understood to be
an almost hopeless case, and therefore the magistrate
took the evidence at great length.
Ellen Connelly, of St. Dunstan's-court, Old Bailey,
stated that two friends came to visit her husband on
Sunday. Their names were Grady and William Kelly.
In the evening they all went to the Red Cow, King-
street, Smithfield, where they had some beer. On leav-
ing the house, about twelve o'clock, a quarrel took place
between Kelly and some men who were passing. Brown,
the policeman, came up, and insisted on all the persons
going away immediately. Kelly crossed the road to
bid his friends good night, and was followed by
Brown, who pushed Grady and Kelly towards Smith-
field, and eventually took Grady into custody. A scuffle
took place, and Grady got away. Brown then seized
M'Nally, a friend of Grady's, who had accidentally come up. M'Nally's wife interfered to get her husband
away, when the policeman knocked her down with his
truncheon, and on M'Nally's endeavouring to lift up his
wife he was also knocked down by the policeman, who
struck him twice on the head while he was lying on the
ground.
The policeman said he ordered them to move on half
a dozen times before he took Grady into custody. They
moved a little way, and then stopped to wrangle ; such
conduct soon gathered a crowd, and caused confusion in
the street, which it was his duty to prevent. Grady
pushed him several times before he took him into custody.
On the part of the policeman, Maria Alder, of Little
New-street, Gough-square, and Mrs. Isted, of 29, King-
street, who saw the affray from the windows of their dif-
ferent houses were examined. They stated that there
was a rush by the mob, and the policeman was knocked
down three or four times. She heard the voice of a
woman, who was very active in the rescue. She said,
" Don't let him be taken ; the policeman is drunk."
They thought the policeman's life was in danger. He
drew his staff and knocked a woman down, and flourished
his staff round to keep the people off him.
An extra policeman, named Murrell, who went to
Brown's assistance, stated that he saw the policeman
knocked down under the feet of some cattle. Witness
took Mrs. M'Nally into custody. She would not walk,
but stopped. Brown struck her on the shoulder with his
staff. She walked in a stooping position to the station-
house, and thence to the hospital. He did not know she
was hurt till he saw the blood running down her neck at
the station-house.
Sergeant Patterson proved that Brown was quite sober.
Mr. Alderman Hooma said he would release John
M'Nally on his promise to appear on Saturday week, and
in the meantime he hoped the commissioner would in-
vestigate the conduct of the officer.
An inspector said the commissioner had already
ordered a strict inquiry.
Mr. Alderman IIOOPER adjourned the further hearing
of the case to the 7th of November.
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Willis, a carman in the service of a railway
truck conveyance contrsc'or at Whitechapel, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having by
negligent driving seriously injured a married woman
named Elizabeth Mills, and her father, Mr. Edward
Bash field, a retired Custom-house officer, who is confined
to his bed without hopes of recovery.
Mrs. Mills, who was supported into Court upon
crutches, and appeared to be in a very debilitated con-
dition, stated that while proceeding through Devonshire-
street, Mile-end-road, on the 14th ult., leading her father,
who is 85 years of age, and totally blind, a massive
railway-truck carriage, drawn by three horses, suddenly
came up, and turned the corner so recklessly, that one
of its hind wheels was thrown upon the pavement upon
which she and her father were walking, and before they
had time to escape they were both violently struck and
flung to the ground by it. The prisoner, who was seated
in front of the vehicle, apparently asleep, and without
any reins, or the slightest control over the horses, was
instantly secured by a policeman. Witness was carried
to the London Hospital, and her father was coveyed to
his own residence, when it was ascertained that one of
her legs had been broken, and that her father's hip had
been so crushed that although he had been confined to
his bed under surgical care ever since the occurrence, it
was impossible, from his advanced age, that ke could
ever recover from the injuries he had sustained.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said he was ex-
cessively tired, in consequence of having walked a long
distance that day, and that although he was certainly
seated in front of the truck, as the proseeutrix had stated,
the occurrence, which he sincerely regretted, was purely
accidental, and resulted from the circumstance of there
being no post or kerb at the spot in question to keep
vehicles off the footway.
Mr. Biszcsram said that the case was far too serious
for his limited powers to deal with, and he should there-
fore direct the depositions of the witnesses to be taken,
and committed the prisoner for trial at the sessions.

GuN COTTON.—We have to record the occurrence
of an accident to the son of the eminent gun-maker of
Bond-street, which might have been attended with seri-
ous consequences. Mr. Lancaster was engaged with
Mr. Taylor in making some experiments on the projec-
tile power of gun-cotton, and several charges of 50 grains
each, with if ounce of shot, had been fired from a strong
14-guage gun with perfect safety, when on increasing
the charge to 83 grains and 1 ounce of shot, the gun
burst with great violence. The sleeve of Mr. Labeaster's
coat was torn through, and he received several slight
wounds on the fleshy part of his arm, none of which,
we are happy to add, are cf a serious character. In some
previous experiments which Mr. Lancaster had made
with the cotton of Dr. Schonbein, in the presence of that
gentleman and Professor Faraday, the same quantity of
cotton had been fired with perfect safety. We, there-
fore, caution those who may be trying experiments with
this powerfully explosive compound to be exceedingly
cautious, as an accident has cccurred even in such 'ex-
perienced hands. The gun used by Mr. Lancaster had
been previously proved with an ounce of powder and a
ball fitting the bore.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY or MATEs.—Wednesday even-
ing the half-yearlygeneral meeting of the members of this
society, which is composed of gentlemen who received
their education at Christ's Hospital, was held at the
London Tavern ; J. Perkins, Esq., in the chair. The
report stated that the receipts for the half-year amounted
to 4281. 18s. 6d., including a previous balance of 1071.
subscriptions, 1641. 17s. interest on stock (amounting to
6,1000, &c., and deducting the disbursements, a balance
of 1151. remained. There are at present 14 pensioners
on the funds. The report stated that his Royal High-
bees the Duke of Cambridge had consented to preside at
he neat annual festival,

IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDI-
TION OF THE LABOURERS OF DORSET.
DORCHESTER, TUESDAY.—A highly influential meeting,
was held in the Assize Hall here yesterday afternoon,
under the auspices of the High Sheriff of the county
the Lord Bishop of the diocese, and a host of county
magistrates and clergymen, for the purpose of " esta-
blishing a Labourers' Friend Society for the district,
with the view of bettering the condition, morally and
physically, of the rural labourers and working mechanics
and artisans, by carrying out the field-garden allotment
system, under judicious regulations." At the time the
High Sheriff took the chair, we noticed around him—
The Right Rev. Dr. Denison, Lord Bishop of Salisbury;
John Floyer, Esq., M.P.; Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
Esq., M.P.; the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott ; A. H. D.
Acland, John Cree, F. B. Martin, Robert Williams,
John Mansell, Esqs. ; Captain Foster, the Rev. J. A.
Templar and John Venables, county magistrates ; the
Venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset, the Revs. C. IV.
Bingham, J. Lane, E. Ludlow, G. Wood, R. Smith, G.
Fisher, N. Handley, Sanderson Robins, J. Philips, T.
Thompson, J. Frenow, 0. Fisher, &c. Among the
ladies—Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. John Floyer, Mrs. C. W.
Bingham, Mrs. Martin, &c. &c.
The HIGH SHERIFF, after briefly touching upon the
general objects of such societies as they had met to
form, said that it had been generally understood from
what took place at a large preliminary meeting of the
committee, that the society would not confine itself to
the objects specified in the printed advertisements, and
be confessed that he hoped to see a considerable exten-
sion of those objects. He hoped to see such an amount
of funds as would enable them to give premiums for such
things as domestic economy—for length of service—for
those who had kept their children at school the longest
time, and with the best results—for the best cultivated
garden—for the best garden produce, &c. He felt a
peculiar pleasure in presiding on that occasion, because
he had occasionally to attend in that Court on much less
pleasant business ; and if, as the organ of the quarter
sessions, he had had to administer punishment for
offences against the laws, it was now a very pleasing
duty to preside at a meeting for the formation of a
society which was to reward the honest and industri-
ous.—(Cheers.) The High Sheriff concluded by read-
ing letters from H. Ker Seymour, Esq., M.P., and the
Rev. 11. F. Yeatman, apologising for absence, and then
called on
The Lord Bishop of SALISBURY, who proposed the
first resolution. His Lordship said he had listened with
great pleasure to the observations With which the High
Sheriff had introduced the business of the meeting, and
in which he had in some measure anticipated some re-
marks which he might otherwise have been disposed to
make. He would proceed at once to read a resolution
which was entrusted to him, and which was to this
effect:—" That it is obvious that the present state and
condition of the labouring classes are such as to give oc-
casion for the immediate efforts of an energetic and well-
directed benevolence to produce a permanent and effectual
improvement in their condition." Ile felt that this reso-
lution might more properly, in some respects, have been
committed to the charge of those around him, who, from
their own personal acquaintance with the condition of
the labourers, and more especially with the condition of
the labourers of this county, would be enabled to sup-
port the resolution by statements of facts which it would
not be in his power to bring before them, and by argu-
ments which he had not the means to adduce. The calls
of duty which laid upon him brought him little into
immediate connexion with the labouring poor—with
those whose interests it was the more especial object of
the association which it was row proposed to establish
to advance. But if on that account it might have been
more fitting that such a resolution should have been en-
trusted to some other hands, he might be permitted to
say that there was surely no man who was bound under
deeper or more sacred responsibilities than himself, to
have a deep and earnest sympathy with the condition of
the poor—not only in this or that locality throughout
the county, but in every individual parish and every lo-
cality, with each and all of which he was connected by
a tic the most sacred and the most important. And,
perhaps, in one respect it might be as well that he who
had to move the resolution should not be connected with
any particular parish or locality in that county, more es-
pecially than with the neighbouring county; inasmuch
as it could not by possibility be supposed that in advert-
ing to the condition of the labouring class in general, it
was intended to imply that that condition differed from
the state of the labouring class in any part of the United
Kingdom, placed under similar circumstances; or that
he had any intention to allude to those discussions that
had been raised, and which had excited an angry feeling
in the community. Ile was sure that it was not the in-
tention of this association to mix itself up with questions
of that kind, and he believed such to be far from the wish
of the committee who framed those resolutions. It was far
from his own wish to assert that there was any difference
in the condition of the labouring classes in that county,
and in the condition of those in the other part of his
diocese in Wilts, or in any part of the United Kingdom
tinder similar circumstances. But by this resolution was
implied, that the condition of the labouring classes was
worthy to be a subject of more satisfactory contemplation
than they allowed it to be; and he would put it to any
man who understood the responsibilities under which
they laid, whether it was not for their interest to better
that condition by any means which experience could
suggest or reason advise ? As with the social condition
of the individual man, so was it with the condition of
the social community. In both conditions it was found
imprudent to stand still, for the nation and individuals
were either advancing to improvement or tending to de-
gradation and decay. It might be that in the body po-
litic different actions might at the same time be going
on in different portions, and that one member of the body
might dwindle and waste away whilst other parts were
subjected to an unnatural and unhealthy growth. No
one that looked around him would fail to see that there
was going on in this country a progress, and growth, and
increase entirely unexampled. Science was every day
bringing to light new discoveries, which in their applica-
tion to the mechanical arts were giving occasion for the
increase of capital and the grog th of the na-
tional wealth. Knowledge was more widely distri-
buted. Agriculture, trade, commerce, each had in
an astonishing degree increased. But it might be
a subject of inquiry, whilst there was this growth
of wealth, this accumulation (if capital, whether the
shgreat mass of the community had their due and proper
are in the improvement of the general state. If it
were the case that there was in this country at the pre-
sent time a tendency of wealth, whiht it had increased,
to accumulate itself in fewer hands—if there were such
a tendency, that whilst the rich grew richer the poor
grew poorer—that whilst the few bed a large share of
the luxuries of life, the labourers and the men who sup-
plied those luxuries, had a smaller portion of even that
which their necessities required—this was a state which,
while it could not but make the philanthropist grieve,
must give uneasiness to the statesman and the politician,
and it gave them the more readiness to avail themselves
of any occasion on which such a tendency might be cor-
rected, honest industry be improved, and the labouring
man be encouraged with hope in the exercise of his
honest calling. And this he conceived to be the inten-
lities of the individual
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raise as far as possible their social state. And, indeed,
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round was but a practical means of carrying out, the
higher law. He conceived that they were in the path of
duty when endeavouring by all means in their power to
lighten the burden of poverty, and to stimulate indus-
try, to encourage honest exertion, to cheer depression,
and by raising the physical state of the labouring classes,
to give a better opportunity for the cultivation of their
spiritual being.— (Much applause.)
Mr. FLOYER, one of the members for the county,
seconded this resolution, and said he did so the more
rettaily because he believed it required very few obser-
vations. It would be highly improper in him to make
any particular mention of his interest in the labouring
classes, Which if he exhibited in that sphere in which
Providence had placed him, might well be spared, and if
he showed a neglect of that interest in his private
sphere, such observations would be idle and fruitless.
How the labouring classes might be brought to a parti-
cipation of those luxuries and comforts enjoyed by all
other classes, was a subject which had received much
consideration but he thought if they wished to do real,
permanent, and vital good, it must be through the means
of the labouring classes and the mechanics themselves.
It was known that the system generally adopted in the
neighbourhood was for the cottage to have a garden at-
tached to it, and where that garden was accompanied by
an allotment of potato ground in the field, he believed
this was one of the best means of meeting the wants of
the labouring classes. He thought there were many
reasons for coming to this conclusion, one of which was
that (before this visitation) a lug of potato ground gene-
rally produced two bushels ; 20 lug would therefore
produce 40 bushels, or a larger amount of food than
he thought could be furnished by any system for the
improvement of the labouring classes. He was not
prepared to say that where this was carried out the
allotment system was an improvement, but there was
abundant room for the Operations of this society
if they left out of account all the places where
this system was followed. It was well known that
adjoining that town there was a large parish in which
there were dwellings without any gardens at all, and the
incumbent of which had endeavoured in vain for a length
of time to obtain land. He believed there were many
places to a certain extent in the same condition, and he
thought that for the first few years they would have
quite as much as they would be enabled todo.
Mr. A. H. DYKE ACLAND proposed the next reso-
lution to this effect :—" That it is evident from the re-
on the utility of allotments of land to the poor,
port of the Select Committee of the House of Commons
and from
various other authentic documents, that land allotments
or the field-garden system, under judicious regulations,
tend to add to the resources to increase the comforts,:
and improve the moral habits of the labouring classes."
The speaker enforced by argument drawn from the re-
porti alluded to the various principles enunciated in the
re
resolution ; and he did believe, he said, that if the
anytWo principle§ contained iu these two tests of