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London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1846,

Immediately after the triumphant acceptation of
free-trade principles by the Legislature the advocates
for the adoption of some comprehensive and bene-
ficent system of national education appeared to ac-
quire additional vigour, both by numerical reinforce-
ments and by an accession of individual earnestness.
In the moral changes which were thus manifest in
the multitude, the grand characteristic 'of this age
became more than ever apparent—that characteristic
being none other than the combined struggle of the
more intelligent members of the community for the
moral, intellectual, and social advancement of the
entire population. Having subjugated that monster-
evil Monopoly, by the existence of which the energies
of the agricultural and commercial labourers had been
so long and so grievously hampered, the popular in-
telligence turned with renewed hope and renovated
strength to the destruction of, if possible, still
greater difficulties. From endeavouring to promote
the corporeal nourishment of the people, we have
reverted to the still loftier endeavour to pro-
mote their spiritual and intellectual nourish-
ment. From striving to eradicate what may
be called the commissariat abuses of the empire,
we are now striving for the eradication of those still
more gigantic and pernicious abuses which have mili-
tated against the morality of nations. We have
struggled to render provisions accessible to all, accord-
ing to the beautiful ordinations of Nature; we are
now struggling to render knowledge equally ac-
cessible, and to relieve the mind of the populace
from a domination infinitely more irksome
and productive of immeasurably greater mise-
ries than all the prerogatives of despotism or the
repressive influences of feudality. Our recent triumph
in the former struggle has only imparted a more
hopeful energy to the latter. Where tens coalesced
for the emancipation of commerce thousands are now
happily combining for the enfranchisement of the
popular intellect. All the invidious distinctions of class,
all the diversities of political opinion, all the antagonism
of religious factions, have failed in preventing the
mass from uniting together for the instruction of the
ignorant, and the reclamation of the criminal. If
ever there was an opportune moment for the realisa-
tion of any national reform, the present is unques-
tionably the one for eliciting a system of education
from the British Legislature. The whole mind of the
community is filled with a conviction of what is requi-
site ; the whole heart of the community is beating
with a generous anxiety for the alleviation of so
much wretchedness; the whole vigour of the com-
munity is prepared for the achievement of this moral
and intellectual reformation. Let us, men of Eng-
gland ! avail ourselves of this glorious and precious
vantage-ground. Unanimity, earnestness, honesty,
—with these our straggle must prove victorious !
The million will be elevated from its present
abyss of moral debasement and mental degradation ;
the hulks, and the prisons, and the penal settlements,
and the madhouses, will be rendered to a consider-
able extent only the memorials of our former blind-
ness ; the rookeries of our great cities will be purged
away, their degenerate inmates changed into a
thriving and industrious body, and the treadmill and
the gallows preserved as the symbols of a past and
mistaken generation.

Every fresh inspection of criminal statistics only
demonstrates yet more vividly the necessity for some
immediate and wholesale purgation. Often as the
official reports of the Inspectors of Prisons have been
issued, repeatedly as we ourselves have in-
vestigated the moral and intellectual wants of the
poor, through the assistance of numerical calculations,
and deeply as this great wound of centuries has been
probed in preceding documents, we must acknow-
ledge ourselves to have been appalled by the picture
unfolded to us by a letter addressed two months
since to Sir GEORGE GREY, and written by Mr.
WHITWORTH RUSSELL, an ecclesiastic, and one
of the home Inspectors of Prisons. The
amount of crime which has been detected in the
quinquennial period, 1839 to 1843, is there calcu-
lated, and presents such a world of agony, wretched-
ness, and degradation as one would not have dared
to have imagined. Some faint conception of the
horrible nature of these revelations may be formed
from the single fact that, in 1843 alone,
the number of commitments under summary
convictions is estimated at no less than 73,196;
and this awful amount is, moreover, exclusive
of " all those who pay their fines or produce
their required securities." Seventy-three thousand
one hundred and ninety-six criminal offences in a
single year ! and beyond this, of course, a vast
amount of undetected crimes, besides the num-
berless vices and sins which are only recog-
nisable by religion and philosophy. An esti-
mate so horrible is enough to cause the
most obdurate mind to shrink within itself with
amazement. But when we perceive the depths
of ignorance by which this criminality is invariably
accompanied we have reason not merely for astonish-
ment, but for self-reproach and anguish.

The cause and the effect are both reckoned in
the tables of Mr. WinTwount RUSSELL'S remark-
able epistle to the Right honourable the Home
Secretary. Of the effects we have already given
some calculation. Of the causes, namely, the ignor-
ance of the criminals, we can afford a corresponding
specimen. Out of the prisoners at assizes
and sessions 901 per cent. are discovered
to have received no instruction whatever, or
something absolutely worse than total ignorance,
while merely 9 per cent. were able to read and write
tolerably. Out of the prisoners confined under sum-
mary convictions, 91.9 per cent. were found to have
received little or no education, while only 4 per
cent. could read and write well. With perfect justice
may this intelligent and industrious Inspector of
Prisons observe that "no statement can be stronger
as to the state of ignorance amongst criminals, even
as regards the most elementary instruction." Such then
is the demon we have to vanquish before those crimes
which cry to heaven for
.vengeance in this country
can be rendered less frequent, and the reprobate
dregs of the population changed into upright and in-
dustrious citizens. With courage and perseverance
and unanimity this great work may, however, be
accomplished. Let us, therefore, emulate each other
in this struggle for national love and philanthropic
glory.

Each day's accounts from Ireland fearfully corro-
borate the tale of misery and destitution existing in
that unhappy land. We regret to say that the dis-
turbances are also spreading, and that the greatest
excitement prevails in many districts, threatening in
the most serious manner the peace and tranquillity of
the entire nation. As yet the outbreaks and the acts
of violence hare chiefly related to the food of the
people. Bakers' shops, provision stores, and other
places where edibles of any kind could be obtained,
have been pillaged, and the transit of provisions
through the country, for the purpose of exportation,
has been forcibly stopped—indeed any removal of
corn for any object whatsoever is watched with a
jealous eye. The unaccountable attack on Lord
STUART BE DECIES, a resident nobleman, affording
extensive employment to the people on his extensive
estates, appeared of a worse character and description
than any of the other acts of violence it has been
cur painful duty to record. We are happy, however,
to find it stated, in a letter written by his Lordship,
that none of his tenantry were guilty of taking a
part in the disturbances which occurred upon the Oc-
casion in question, indeed he appears to acquit the
people generally of any premeditated intention to in-
sult or attack him, and states his opinion that the real
cause of the feeling excited against him arose from
the outrageous conduct of a man, who had attempted
;o address the Court, and who had been removed '

therefrom by order of his Lordship. How unsettled
must the state of the people be when any mischievous
or badly disposed person can exasperate them to such
a pitch as to induce them to attack and injure one of
their best friends.

In the meantime no exertions have been spared by
the Government or the people throughout the greater
part of the kingdom. Each Gazette contains a
number of additional proclamations by the Lord-
Lieutenant for the holding of extraordinary present-
ment sessions, the total number of which that have
already been convened amount to no less than 236.
A spirit of unanimity appears to have prevailed at
almost all of those that have already been held.
Religious and political differences have, in the great
majority of instances, been laid aside, and the magis-
trates and ratepayers have contended in a generous
rivalry as to who shall do most for their suffering
and impoverished neighbours. The Roman Catholic
clergymen have devoted themselves in the most
praiseworthy manner to the preservation of the peace in
their respective parishes; they have publicly harangued
their flocks from the altars, have addressed them
whenever a larger number than usual were assembled
together, and have in every way used the vast influence
they possess for the maintenance of order, and in de-
precation of any riot or turbulence. The committee
of the Repeal Association have issued a most admir-
able address to the people, signed by Mr. Joint
O'CoNNeLL, their chairman, imploring them in the
most earnest and impressive manner to be patient—
to break no law, to commit no violence, to plunge
into no crime ; and they bear their testimony to the
exertions made by the Government, the landowners,
and all classes throughout the country for their relief.
Wherever the public works have been commenced,
and food provided in sufficient quantity, and
so reasonable in price as to be within the
reach of the people, there the tranquillity
has been restored. In Youghal, which was lately in
so fearful a state, the greatest order and decorum
prevails ; handbills have been posted in all the public
situations, and extensively circulated among the
people, telling them what has and what will be done
for them, pointing out the consequences of a conti-
nuance of the bread riots. They say " that if the
mills are stopped and prevented working, if the mer-
chants are prevented from pursuing their trade and
business, the people themselves must be the greatest
sufferers," and " that no man will lay out his money
in buying or bringing into store that which he is
afraid will be pillaged from him. The miller won't
grind, the baker won't make bread, the merchant
won't bring Indian meal and Indian corn home, and
then there will be no food at all for them; they will
be out of bread and out of work ;" and they exhort
them by every motive to keep the peace and discoun-
tenance disturbers. This is indeed a plain unvar-
nished statement, and cannot be without its effect
upon so intelligent a people as the Irish.

His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has also put
forth a proclamation, announcing his firm determina-
tion to protect that lawful trade in the article of
food, the complete security of which is essential to
the subsistence of the people ; and also to prevent
the labourers employed on public works from resist-
ing the arrangements which the officers of the Board
of Works have made for task or piece-work, or from
attempting to obtain by ♦iolence any higher rate of
wages. Should such efforts be made, his Excellency
threatens forthwith to stop the works in the district.
This is perfectly right. It is essential to teach the
people that they will gain nothing by intimidation
and violence.

strong feeling exists throughout the whole of
Ireland in favour of an immediate meeting of Parlia-
ment, in order that the provisions of the Labour-rate
Act may be modified, so as to permit the money
about to be raised by the presentments under it to be
applied to the development of the resources of the land,
rather than in public works of an unproductive nature.
A requisition, most influentially and respectably
signed, calling a meeting of the landowners of Ire-
land, to be held in Dublin, for that purpose, is at this
moment in course of signature. How fully and cordi-
ally we agree with the object of the requisitionists,
will be well understood by our readers. We have
repeatedly urged the adoption of such a course, and
pointed out the extensive field for the valuable em-
ployment of the people, in the reclamation of the
waste lands and the improved culture of those
already in tillage. We are rejoiced to find that
feeling so universally participated in by men of
all varieties of political feeling. Such a de-
monstration as will most probably take place,
where every Irishman may join, cannot fail
in obtaining the desired object. We have already,
expressed our conviction that, in a Parliament as-
' sembled for such a purpose, no embarrassing motions
would be brought forward; nor would the time of
the Legislature be wasted by any unnecessary
speeches. Of course, it would be quite impossible to
restrict their deliberations to any specific, purpose, the
good feeling of every individual Member must be re-
lied on, that he will not abuse the power he has, or
seek to divert the attention of the Senate from the
great object for their consideration, viz., the means
by which the existing distress in Ireland can be
most beneficially dealt with, and the labour of the
people applied in such a direction as may be of per-
manent and lasting advantage to the entire empire.

A rescript was issued by the Emperor of RUSSIA,
on the 23d of August, conferring on Prince Woßox-
zow, the Governor• General of Southern Russia and
the Caucasus, almost sovereign power within the
limits of his government. The Governor-General,
in addition to the rights and powers granted to him
previously, is authorised to confer, for signal ser-
vices, the rank of officer up to that of captain exclu-
sively ; he can also distribute the order of St. George
and St. Vladimir of the fourth class ; of St. Anne of
the second, third, and fourth class ; the order of St.
Stanislaus of the second and third classes, as well as
swords of honour with the words "For bravery" in-
scribed on them. He is also authorised to promote
and grant crosses on the representations of his
officers.

Madrid papers of the 30th have arrived.
The Eco del Comercio having paid the fine ion-
posed upon it reappearel;on that day.
The Heraldo announces officially that the two royal
marriages are to be solemnized on the 10th of Octo-
ber. The Due DE MONTPENSIER is expected in Ma-
drid on the 6th. The same paper denies emphatically
the statement made by the Tiempo, that the Spanish
Cabinet had received from the British Government
dispatches of the highest importance.

The Bill authorising the Ministry to levy taxes
had passed the Senate, General SERRANO alone
dissenting.

The officers of the garrison of Madrid, with
General PEZUELA at their head, had waited on the
QUEEN and the INFANTA to congratulate them on
their approaching nuptials,

According to the Espanol, SILVA CABRAL left
Cadiz on the 23d for Paris, via Marseilles. Is he
going to head-quarters for instructions ?

The much-talked-of amnesty is to be upon a very
limited scale, "in consequence," says the Heraldo,
"of the machinations carried on abroad against the
institutions and the throne itself." This is a dan-
gerous phrase, and must I?ave been inserted without
the imprimatur of M. BRESSON. In reading it, the
memory is naturally carried back to the intrigues of
the Hotel de Courgelles.
The English squadron passed by Ceuta on the 23d
ult. on its way to Tetuan, when it came to anchor
at the mouth of the river. On the morning of the
24th the squadron, after leaving two steamers off
Tetuan, got under weigh, and shortly afterwards
came between Mouseri and Bermeja, two leagues
from Tetuan.

MADRID BOLSA.— Three per Cents., 3411 cash;
Four per Cents., 211 ; Five per Cents., 22 cash;
Debt, without interest, 6:1 ; Coupon, 201 ; Exchange
on London, 361 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

The Government papers publish a telegraphic dis-
patch, announcing the arrival of the Dukes DE
MONTPENSIER and D'AUMALE at Vittoria on the 3d.
They left the next morning for Burgos, and had ar-
rived at Miranda when the last accounts left.
The Journal des Davis states that M. GUIZOT
would, in the course of the Monday, deliver to the
Marquis of NORMANDY the answer of the French
Cabinet to the protest of the British Government
against the Montpensier marriage. The answer was

agreed to at a meeting of the French Cabinet held on
Sunday, and et which the KING himself presided.
By far the most important article in any of these
papers is the following from the Constitationnel, which
may be considered not only as the manifesto of the
great party which acknowledges M. TRIERS for
leader, but an exposé on the part of that statesman
of the intrigues and manoeuvres by which a pre-
carious entente cordiale, for promoting the personal
interests of courts and of factions, has been substi-
tuted for the grand alliance of constitutional mo-
narchies, projected in 1830 by M. TRIERS and Lord
PALMERSTON. We give the article in extensor—
" Since the Revolution of 1830 the whole of our
foreign policy has had for its basis and pivot the Eng-
lish alliance. At the moment when the emotion pro-
duced in Europe by our revolution separated us fi om
the absolute Powers of the continent, reform drove Eng-
land into the liberal path. The two nations associated
in common ideas ; they united from sympathy, and
seemed to be drawing the world towards improvement
and freedom. The Quadruple Alliance, favourable to the
establishment of a constitutional Governmeat in Spain,
was one of the first fruits of this happy accordance.
But since then, by an effect contrary to all the hopes
which had been entertained, the relations between France
and England have scarcely been anything else than vio-
lent ruptures, followed by dubious reconciliations, and
the Liberal cause has gained nothing from this lutte intime
between the two Governments. It is not without interest
to examine the conduct of our Government, and, above
all, of the men who are now conducting our affairs with
Great Britain. Four times since 1830 the uncertain
union between the two countries has been broken. In
1836, by our refusal to intervene in Spain ; in 1840, by
the Egyptian policy adopted by the present Cabinet, and
which M. Guizot undertook to represent ; in 1844, by the
conquest in Otaheite over Mr. Pritchard; in 1846, by the
precipitate marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to the
Infanta of Spain. In 1836 the Whigs were, as now, Mi-
nisters of England. Liberal politicians, enterprising
statesmen, they proposed to France to execute by a frank
and bold intervention on the other side of the Pyrenees
the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance. It was an admir-
able occasion for consolidating at one stroke the revolu-
tion in Spain, and the liberal alliance between France and
England. The throne of Isabella would have been firmly
fixed ; the Spaniards would have been saved from eight
or ten years of agitation by civil wars, riots, sanguinary
executions, and exhaustion. Our Cabinet, however, re-
fused to interpose. Quite opposite to the English Cabi-
net, it was afraid of acting, and revealed how slight was
its inclination towards liberal ideas. Spain was aban-
doned, and Lord Palmerston denounced as a blunderer, a
dangerous supporter ofrevolutions, an enemy to the repose
of nations, one whom Europe ought to mistrust. We can-
not discover the advantages of this conduct on the part of
our Cabinet, nor any right we derived from it to the grati-
tude of Europe. At all events, we have been obliged to
evacuate Ancona and leave Luxemburgh to her fate. Ne-
vertheless our relations with England were' renewed with
greater strength, but soon afterwards the qiiestion of the
East put the alliance to a now trial. The Whig Ministers
were again under an illusion ; they proposed to our Govern.
ment to combine the fleets of France and England that
they might together force the Dardanelles, and reconcile
conjointly the interests of the Sultan of Constantinople
and the Pacha of Egypt. Instead of entering into this
project, which might have had such great and happy
consequences, Francs and the Chamber of Deputies were
precipitated into a policy exclusively Egyptian, which
separated us not only from England, but from all Europe.
They were afraid to act; they found that they would be
engaged in a struggle which required the greatest
energy and every ettart. Through pusillanimity they
became rash. But this did not endure. Everybody
knows the result of this second rupture with England;
that M. Guizot brought us humiliation from England—
that the !Mats altered its tone and craved pardon from
those whom it had insulted. Soon after this, in order to
rebind the alliance it had severed, our Ministry signed
the treaty of the right of visit. The English Ministry
was no longer the same. The Tories had come into power.
Did our Cabinet make any fundamental change in its
conduct? It had previously failed on two great occa-
sions to render the alliance fruitful and glorious. Did
it even succeed in rendering the entente cordiale a means
of peace and benefit to the two countries? Very far
from it. Scarcely two years had passed away when it
found means to break with England a third time. With
the miserable intent of dazzling the French nation and
the Chambers, it went out to conquer the Marquesas
and Otaheite. It had to contend with the religious
passions of the English; we have no need to recal the
consequences. Sir Robert Peel demanding in full Par-
liament a reparation; the peace of the world placed in
danger; three disavowals, namely that of Admiral
Dupetit Thouars, that of M. D'Aubigny, and that of
Captain Bruat; an indemnity demanded and paid; the
partial evacuation of the Society Islands, which is being
at this moment effected. Since this our Cabinet, in
in order to revive the nearly extinct entente cordiale,
signed a disgraceful treaty at Tangiers, and covered
itself with ridicule in the Texas. At last comes 1846,
and with it the hasty marriage of the Duke de Mont-
pensier, causing a fourth rupture. In this we find all
the characteristics of the Ministerial policy, viz., a dread
of undertaking bold enterprises. Spain applied for the
hand of the Duke de Montpensier for Queen Isabella;
for three years our Government obstinately persisted
in a refusal. Pusillanimous temerity! It now braves
all the inconveniences which would have attended the
marriage with the Queen, without obtaining any of its
advantages. It sacrifices once more, and perhaps for
ever, the English alliance, in order to give to the Duke
de Montpensier the heiress to the throne of Spain, with
the probable chance of seeing Queen Isabella, by becom-
ing a mother, deprive the Infanta of all hopes of suc-
ceeding to her inheritance. Like those prudent calcu-
lators who violate the laws of their country just so far
as not to place themselves in the hands of justice, our
Cabinet excites a lively animosity between two powerful
nations. But it is perfectly content, if war be not the
immediate consequence of its conduct. There is a re-
mark which is truly applicable to all the important acts
of our Government, viz., that their appearances are
always widely different from their reality. Appearance
is for noise and glorification—reality is paltry and
miserable. In 1840, the language of M. Guizot, of his
friends, of his journals, was bravado, and often insult
towards England—but at the bottom there was nothing
but fear. The object of the enterprise at Otaheite was to
make the country believe that the French Ministers were
resolved to brave England, and divide with -her the
empire of
the seas; the positive result was the onerous
conquests of sterile rocks, the disputed protectorate of
a few savages,
a considerable expenditure of lives and
a very little honour gained. To-day,
talks to the country, it says that
if money,the Ministrynd
the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is
glorious and a happiness for France ; that the policy
of Louis XIV. is re-established ; that Spain be-
comes almost a province of France, and that the Pyre-
nees no longer exist. But if it turns towards England it
becomes obsequious, it speaks of the Spanish marriage
as merely a family union, and says that the Prince and
his young wife will come into France, and there wait
the pregnancy —that, in fact, there is no change in Spain.
Whence comes this double language? that the first be-
longs to appearances, and the second to reality—only in
the inverse to the inventions of the Ministry—the ap-
pearances irritate England, and the reality leaves France
cool and indifferent. In fact, the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier is nothing more than a family matter,
which will in no degree augment the influence of France,
which may possibly compromise her, and which, in the
mean time, thanks to the ability of our negotiators, de-
stroys our alliance with England. Such have been the
inconsistencies of the policy of our Government and its
fruits. This simple emposure of facts will serve us for a
unique answer to those who pretend that they have done
a great deal and compromised nothing."
The Austrian Ambassador presented to M. GulzoT
a protest against the Montpensier marriage, couched
in the same terms as the protest presented by the
Marquis of NORMANDY. This would seem to con-
firm the truth of the following statement which ap-
pears in the National.
"It is affirmed that another protest, more energetic
than the first, has been presented at Madrid by Mr.
Bulvver, and that this idtinzatum is a threatening one. It
is added that England has succeeded in drawing the
Northern Cabinets into the same path. We repeat
these reports, because they come from persons who pre-
tend to be well informed, but we cannot vouch for any-
thing on the subject."

La Presse declares that General CABRERA was still
in London, on the 4th of October, which city he had
never quitted since his first arrival. General PoLo,
brother-in-law to CABRERA, his aide-de-camp CHIN-
CILLA, and another superior officer of the old Carlist
army of Arragon, have been arrested within the
last few days at Carpentras. Two other Spanish
refugees, Abbe MASANAS and Senor CoLEI, have also
been arrested at Avignon.
No attempt had been made on Saturday and Sun-
day to renew the bread riots in the Faubourg St.
Antoine.

We stated on Monday, that there had been some-
, thing like an emeute at St. Omer, in conse-
quence of the National Guard being forbidden to
carry their arms at the inauguration of the
statue of the Duke of ORLEANS. The troops were
called out, and, partly by their exertions, and partly by
a present from the Duchess of ORLEANS of 6,000 f.,
tranquillity was completely restored.
lacird BROUGHAM left Paris for Cannes on Sunday.
By a recer.t ordonnance M. Pichon, Consul-Gene-
ral Charge d'Affaires of France at Monte Video, is
named Consul-General at Smyrna, in place of Vis-
count de Segur. Montaigne, retired. M. Devoize,
French Consul at Damascus, is named Consul-Gene-
ral at Monte Video in place of M. Pichon ; M. Vat-
tier de Bonneville, Consul of France at Cairo, suc-
ceeds M. Devoize; and M. Benedetti takes the place
of M. Vattier de Bonneville. By the same ordon-
nance Count T_Tlyssee de Ratti-Menton, formerly Con-
sul at Canton,
is appointed French Consul at Cal-
cutta, a post lately created.
Count RATTI MENTON, the newly-appointed French
Consul at Calcutta, is the person who, as French
Consul in Syria, made himself so notorious by ex- ,
citing against the Jews that furious persecution, the
news of which, some four years since, filled all
Europe with horror, ead which was only put an end

to by the personal interposition of Sir MOSES MON.
TEFIORE with the Turkish authorities, and by his
proving to demonstration the -utter falsehood of all
the charges which the Catholic population of Syria,
excited by Count RATTI-MENTON, had brought
against them,
PAkIS touasx, MONDAY.-The market opened with some
firmness at the closing prices of Saturday ; but towards the
end of the day it grew rather weaker, and at bell-ringing
left off rather lower :-Threes at 82f. 85c., and Fives at 117 f.
85c. The market closed as follows :-Three per Cents., for
cash, 82f. 85c.; for account, 82f. 85c. ; Five per Cents., for
cash, 117 f. 85c.; for account, 117 f. 85c.; Neapolitan, 102 f.;
Spanish and New Loan, not quoted.
RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has been without anima-
tion to-day, and prices have for the most part remained at
Saturday's quotations. For cash-Paris and Orleans closed
at 1,270 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 727 f. 50c.; Avignon, 925 f.;
Vierzon, 622 f. 50c. ; Strasburg and Bale, 232 E 50c.; Nor-
thern, 7261. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 566 f. 25c.; Montereau, 370 f.;
Fampoux 3971. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5281. 75c. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 502 f. 50c.; Nantes, 508 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 375 f.;
Rouen and Boulogne, not quoted.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 6.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Direct Bombay and Madras, 3,4—
East Indian, % —Luxembourg, 1 %—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 14
—Namur and Liege, I%—Northern of France Constituted, 13%
Paris and Lyons Constituted, 534—Paris and Strasbourg Consti-
tuted, 414.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Blake, who describe d himself as an "artist

but who had more of the appearance of a costermonger,
was charged before Mr. Henry with stealing a trunk
and its contents, consisting of various articles of wearing
apparel, the property of Mrs. Allister, a lady residing in
Alfred-place, Bedford-square.
It appeared that about a month ago Mrs. Allister em-
ployed the prisoner, who was in the habit of doing
porter's work, to carry a box containing some clothes,
&c., from Alfred-place to Titchfield-street, for doing
which she was to give him Is. Two charwomen, who
were working for Mrs. Allister, were to go with him,
they also having parcels to carry. The women went on
first, the prisoner following, but when they got to Titch..
field-street they found that he was not with them.
Neither the prisoner nor the box were seen or
heard of until yesterday, when he was found in a
public-house.

The prisoner said that at the very moment when, as
Mrs. Allister had stated, he was in Alfred-place, Bed-
ford-square, he was, in fact, at the model prison, Pen -
tonville, where he expected to get " a job." He had
been at the King's Arms, Tottenham-court-road, every
night, and had acted as pot-boy there in the absence of
the regular pot-boy, who was ill.
Mr. Henry remanded the prisoner for a week.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Peter Hogan, a carpenter, living at 8, Angel-court,
Great Windmill-street, was placed at the bar, charged
with stealing 300 sovereigns.
Bridget Walsh said she was a widow, living at 1,
Angel-court, Great Windmill-street, and had 300 sove-
reigns folded up in separate packets of paper, and placed
inside a box. She first missed her money on Monday
night, immediately after the defendant had been in her
room. He is her first cousin, living at his sister's, next
door, and well knew she had the money. He had been
in the habit of entering her room when she was out, and
on Monday she had left her keys behind her.
One of the police force in plain clothes said he had
taken the man into custody, and produced in Court 2181.
of the money, 1701. of which had been found in his hat,
and the rest about his pockets. A green silk purse found
on him was identified by the complainant as her property,
and as having been in the box with the money.
Mr. Hennwicx—What have you done with the rest
of the money ? Defendant--It is all my own property.
The policeman said the defendant had purchased a
large quantity of wearing apparel. They had not been
able to discover any more of the money as yet, but
might if time were given them.
Mr. HARD-WICK remanded the prisoner till Tuesday
next.
Hogan, before leaving the court, demanded some of
his own money, that he might employ an attorney ; but
this, of course, was refused him by the Magistrate.

CLERKEN WELL.THIS DAY.)
A young girl about 20 years of age in the service of
Robert Latimer, an itinerant fish vender, was charged
with robbing him of 21/.

The prosecutor's wife stated that the prisoner had
been in her service nearly four years, and latterly was
about being married. She (witness) had 21/., which
consisted of the whole amount of her savings for a length
of time, and this she always hid in a particular spot in
her bed, and yesterday on going, according to her daily
custom, to look after her treasure, she found she had
been robbed of it. Her suspicions immediately fell upon
the prisoner, as she had seen her in company that day
with the person to whom she was about being married,
and other circumstances having transpired, which in-
duced her to believe she had given the money to this
person, she was taken into custody.
Constable 106 G, stated that when he took the pri-
soner into custody she at first denied having seen the
man alluded to, or that she had taken the purse, but
subsequently that she had given it to him.
The prisoner, when called upon for her defence,
denied having made any such statement to the constable
and protested her innocence.
Mr. COOMBE remanded her for a week, in order that
the man to whom the money was given might be traced
by the police.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Inspector Grarestock, of the G division of police, ap-
plied to Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate, under
the following circumstances:—
The Inspector stated that an elderly man, named
Tatham, had lately taken up his abode at No. 2, Dodd's-
place, Old-street, St. Luke's, and, whom it was stated,
had previously come into possession of 2,000/.-2501. of
which he had either about him, or in the house. There
were only three houses in the above place, and, within
the last few days, one of them had been taken ; the old
man was to be seen at the window during the whole of
the day watching the manoeuvres of his new neighbours.
This appeared to give great umbrage to the latter, who,
it would appear, in consequence, sought every means to
annoy the old gentleman, and he applied to him (the in-
spector) at the station house, and what was thought
necessary was done. Last evening, between eight and
nine o'clock, the old gentleman again waited upon him
at the station, when, after addressing himself thus, " So
then you have not thought proper to attend to my com-
plaint," he pulled out a pistol, and pointing it at him
(the inspector), ho added, "I know what murder, and
manslaughter, &c., means, but remember that you are
amenable for the consequences." Hejhen hastily re-
placed the pistol in his pocket, and hurriedly withdrew.
Thinking it was not safe, however, that such a weapon
should be in the possession of an individual whose mind
was evidently nor exactly pellucid, he sent to his house
Sergeant Hammond, 5 G, who, on his arrival, perceived
lying upon the table two pistols. The sergeant imme-
diately took possession of the weapons, and notwith-
standing there was a great objection to this course of
procedure on the part of the old gentleman, the sergeant
conveyed them to the station-house. From subsequent
inquiries, he (the inspector) found that Mr. Tatham
had purchased the pistols during the day for 125., as also
some percussion caps, but that with all his eneavours
he could not procure any powder, although he had been
to every shop in the neighbourhood which professes to
sell that article.

Mr. BROUGHTON (to the inspector)—Do you think,
when he pointed the pistol at y ou, that he intended you
any personal injury? Inspector Gravestock—No, your
Worship, but merely to show what he intended to oto
those whom he perhaps imagined was about to rob him.
He is in waiting.
The old gentleman was now ushered into the Court
by order of the Magistrate, when, in answer to ques-
tions put to him by the latter, he said that he had re-
cently come up from the country, where he had received
1,3001., some of which he certainly kept in the house.
He had formerly been in the colliery line, but of late
years had lived upon his income. He had no doubt that
the parties he complained of intended to have robbed him.
The Inspector here said that the house in which the
old gentleman resided was a most wretched hovel.
Mr. BRc UGHTON advised the old man, if he were de-
termined to live in such an abode, not to keep his mo-
ney at home, but to put it in some bank, and then no
person would feel desirous of robbing him.
The old gentleman, who appeared to acquiesce in this,
then retired.

DEATH OF SIR HENRY RYCROFT, BART: Sir
Henry Rycroft, Bart., Knight Harbinger to the Queen,
expired on the 3d instant at Brighton, in his 81st year.
He was the second son of the Rev. Sir R. Rycroft, first
baronet, by the (laughter of the Rev. R. Stonehewer,
LL.D., rector of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. In 1816
the deceased was appointed Knight Harbinger to the
Queen, receiving at the time the honour of Knighthood.
The residence of the deceased was at Bolney, Sussex, in
which county the family have resided many years.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT WITH A GUN.—Yesterday,
an accident, of a very distressing character, occurred to
Mr. George Evans, a linendraper in Tottenham Court-
road, whilst returning from a shooting excursion near
Rochester. He had been to a place called Ho, near
Rochester with a friend, where the had been spending
the day shooting, and whilst stepping into a boat for the
purpose of returning home, the gun, which was-impru-
dently left loaded and cocked, exploded, discharging the
contents into his right arm, which was entirely shattered.
He was immediately carried ashore to the nearest sur-
geon's, where the wounds were temporarily dressed, but
such was the nature of the injury, that it was deemed
necessary to remove him to Guy's Hospital. The limb
is in such a shattered state, that it is feared the arm must
be amputated.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A FEMALE AT LONDON-
BRIDGE.—Yesterday afternoon, an elderly, respectably-
dressed individual, who afterwards gave her name and
address as Elizabeth Brett, 10, Crown-court, 'Westmin-
ster, jumped into the river off the London-bridge Steam-
boat Pier, whilst apparently waiting the arrival of a
steamer. The assistance of boat and Waterman was very
speedily obtained, but before she could be reached the
steersman of a below-bridge steam-tug, called the Rover,
threw out a hook attached to a rope, by means of which
he caught hold of her dress, and hauled her on board, ap-
parently dead, but by the means of the usually applied
restoratives she ultimately recovered.
ESSEX LABOURERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.--Yesterday
afternoon a numerous meeting of the friends of the agri-
cultural labourer met at the White Hart Inn, Brent-
w, o I, to advocate the claims of the Labourers' Friend
Society, established two years since in that place. John
Gurney Fry, Esq., presided. Prior to these proceed
.
ings a show took place au adjacent field, where many
of the farmers of the neighbourhood were present, not-
withstanding the inauspicious state of the weather. The
animals and esculents shown were of the best quality,
and much praiso was awarded to the parties who attended ,
the exhibition.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, including 500 American for export, and 500 on
speculation. The market is firm, and there is a tendency
to advance.

The following may prove of interest at the present
moment :

" The cotton year closing on the first of this month—
it now appears that the crop of 1845.46, as indicated by
the receipts at the shipping ports, amounts to 2,073,529
bales, in comparison with 2,394,503 bales of the crop
1844-45, being a difference of 323,974 bales; the amount
of the crop of the State of Texas, 27,008 bales, being
added this year, makes the crop of the United States
now 2,100,537 bales. This crop was generally esti-
mated at 2,400,000 bales up to the Ist January last,
in consequence of the healthy state of the plant
during the whole growing season —a, late frost
—and the picking season being the longest and
most favourable on record, and, in fact, it was only in
February last that the estimates at New Orleans
and Mobile, of the best informed persons, were re-
duced to 2,100,000 bales, the receipts at those ports fall-
ing tar short of the nominal growth. The quantity
taken for home use this last season stands at 422,597
bales against 389,006 last year, and 346,744 the year
before. Of the present crop, the quantity received at
the shipping ports is about 300 bales, against 8,700 bales
last year. Iu all remarks during the growing season,
we have referred to the backward state of the plant, and
to the excessive wet and unpropitious weather, and lat-
terly to the estimated injury by the army worm and the
boll worm ; of the latter the complaints have ceased to
any large extent, but in consequence of the first, the
picking proceeds very slowly, and it is evident that the
growing crop will, under any circumstances, and even if
frost should not appear till November, be under an
average one."

At the sale of railway shares yesterday, at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s, a moderate amount of business was
done. The market seemed collapsed, and every price
was lower, with a tendency downwards, and an indis
position to deal at any price. The following are a few
of the principal sales:—
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield £0 15 0
East Indian ... .......
Leicester and Bedford
Direct Northern 1 10 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension .....
Cornwall and Devon Central
Staines and Richmond ... 1 1 0
London and York
Goole and Doncaster
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
Paris and Lyons 5 14 0
Sambre and Meuse
Buckinghamshire ... 1 7 6
Reading and Reigate ... 0 15 6
Vale of Neath 0 19 6
Windsor, Slough, & Staines Atmospheric 1 15 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 12 6
Manchester and Leeds Extension

The letters by the West India Mail were delivered to-
day. There is no news of interest in them beyond that
which has already appeared.
The new Stock and Share Exchange has, since it was
opened for business, on Monday last, been the resort of
a large number of the members of the Hall of Com-
merce. Not being strictly limited to those engaged in
monetary dealings, the list of members has, within
these few days, considerably increased. There is a re-
gulation that each member deposit 501., or find two se-
curities of 501., available in case of default, and the annual
subscription is fixed at 10 guineas. The style of the
building, which is in Old Broad-street, as well as the
arrangements made by Mr. Moxhay for the convenience
of the members, seem to have given entire satisfaction to
the committee of management.
The Consol Market is rather more firm this morning.
The current prices for Money and the Account are 95*.
The premium upon Exchequer-bills is fully 188. Bank
Stock was taken at 2loi for the Account.
The only transactions in the Foreign Market to• day
have been in Brazilian at 85, in Mexican at 25, the
Portuguese Four per Cents. at 42*, Russian at 110 f,
Spanish at 2q, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., at 95*.
The Railway Share Market continues heavy.

CLOSING
PRICES.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9SN 1/2
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account .. —.2101/2 2101/2
Consols for Account.— ...... ....... 95N, 1/2 95%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d. ... 15 18 pm. 18
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 4214
Russian Bonds ...... 11014
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 26%
Ditto, Passive
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 921/2

PRICES OF pAiD. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
ti AMWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%...... 2% 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% -
Belfast & County Down 4:y4 ......
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17% — .... ... .. .... •
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 23% —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and GL

....loucexter 30 ...... —..- .....
Bristol and Liver. June 2l/2......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian ............... 25 . .... 211/s 2031. -.
Ditto Half Shares...... 21,4 ... .••• Ditto Extension ...... 2% ""
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1%
Central Kent 214 ......
Cheater and Holyhead 271
Chumet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ...... • •••
Clydesdale Junction 2O —
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 11/Q —
5 - -

Ditto, Half Shares ... —
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon

I )erby and Crewe......... 2
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% —
Direct Manchester

( Remington's)
Ditto_(Rastrick's) 5 A _ ..
..
........ _
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich .... 1
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Coleraine -
Dublip. and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 7% — ............ --
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 215/8 N ...... ..... 215/8
Ditto New l2l. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d — .... ... _
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d —
Do., York Extension.. 105....... 1%
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
....
Eastern Union 35
•• ..• ........................
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83/4 ......
Do. xten.(Harwich) 1% ...... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21'i ...... .........
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 15...... —/8 ..............
............
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .„...
...
....
Ditto Half Shares ... 10 .
..
...... ••• ........
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12V

Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 71/2...... ...
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 51,4 —
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New .. 15
Do., V 4 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 121/2
Glouc.,Abeiystwith,and
Central of Wales
Goole, Doncaster,•• 425.
Grand Union (Notting-
.. ........
and Lynn ... l% • •• ...........
Great Eastern &Western 21/2...... ........
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
..•• Great South. and West. • .....
(Ireland)
.........
Great Munster ... 21/2 — ...............
Great North of Scotland 21/2 —
..
Great Northof England..loo
Ditto New 5 ...... ....
Ditto, New .
15
••• Ditto, New -
I 1/2 ......
Great Western ............ 85 ...... 135
Ditto 1/2 Shares
..50
Ditto 14 5hare5......... 10
Ditto Fifths ............ 20
Ditto, New .........
Guildford, h'are'm Ports. 5 —"' ......... Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ••••••
Hull and 5e1by.,,,,,,..... 50
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25 5Ol/234
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111/2 ......
Do., do., and Norwich 21/2
Killarney Junctions 04...•••
Kendal and Windermere 11/2 ......
Lancaster and Carlisle 45
Do. New
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
-425. lvmena
Le&ls and Bradlord
Leeds and Carlisle
••• ..... •—••—
% dia.
Leeiicceessl,eerr
and Bedford...
222255..
......
••
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22%
Lpool., Mnchstr & New '2IA
castle Junction
LLl,vnedropnooalnadaßdialiycukrwall...i 16143135......4.d...: —59
........
Do. New
Extension ..»
5071/27:: --58A1
14.
40 .....
L°Loppnntidiittof°'!Fnixddift:oydon, 131. 153 . 9d . 21
Do. G,.laran. 5 per cent. 9
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — ••
London, Hounslow, and
Westerli

503/4
lON
1%

58 Vs
21%