The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

BANKING D:

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .. •••••. .. .. .. 3,435,671
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

vidend accounts).. 4,870,737
Other deposits .•• • • . 8,755,441
Seven day and other

bills ••••••• . .. • • • • 1,026,996

X 32,641,645

Dated the 29th day of October, 1

SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STILL.—On Monday last,
Inspector Falconer, of the Thames Police, and who is
also a revenue officer, received information that a pri-
vate still, on a very large scale, was at work at a house,
No. 1, Grove-street, Deptford, he consequently pro-
ceeded with a party of men to the premises, which pre-
sented the appearance of a very handsome mansion,
with stables, coach-house, lawn, meadow, &c., and pay-
ing, as he learned, the sum of 75/. per annum. After
some difficulty, Mr. Falconer obtained access to the
premises, when, in the kitchen, he found a still which
was capable of containing upwards of sixty gallons of
wash, with worm attached, in a most perfect state,
and presenting the appearance of having been recently
worked. The inspector's impression was, that the place
had been abandoned only on the preceding day, in con-
sequence, as he presumed, of some suspicion having
been excited. He also found a great number of casks,
one of which :contained a large quantity of wash which
they had omitted to destroy, together with measures of
every size, and all the apparatus of a complete establish-
ment. The only person found upon the premises was a
woman named Knatt, who stated that she was servant
to Mr. Jones, slop seller, in high-street, Shadwell, by
whom she said the house was at present rented. She
added that part of the furniture belonged to Mr. Jones,
and another part to a lodger, who was not then at
home. Mr. Falconer removed the still to the Excise-
office, and then waited on Mr. Jones, who admitted that
he rented the house from Mr. Ferguson, of Blackwall,
but added that he had sublet a part of it to a lodger,
who had kept him out of the premises for the last four
weeks, and he supposed that person had set up the
still, but he was not cognisant of the fact of its being on
the premises until that moment. The Board of Excise
will no doubt inquire further into this affair.
FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—The most diversified cargo
perhaps yet brought into the port of London since the
passing of the New Tariff Bill is that of the Emerald
steamer, which arrived from Boulogne yesterday even-
ing, after a most rapid passage, the state of the weather
being taken into consideration. There were placed on
board :at Boulogne 9 heifers, 30 sucking pigs, 4 live
foxes, a case full of live turkeys (consigned to a Jewish
firm for an especial ceremony), 120 cases of turkeys,
ducks, pigeons, snipes, and geese, killed. There were
also on board 200 cases of wines, 112 butts of currants,
weighing 25 cwt. each; 12 sacks of potatoes, 54 sacks
of walnuts, about 200 cases of silks, wines, mermoes,
ribbons, clocks, &c. In all, the Emerald brought about
220 tons of rich and valuable manufactured goods and
produce. The Custom-house authorities rendered most
efficient aid, at the request of Captain Tune, to landthe
live stock, the silks, and the fruits on board. The
last-
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back, about three miles from the pier of Boulogne. Most
of the butts of currants were in a high state of preserva-
tion. When the Emerald left Boulogne, there were com-
paratively speaking, but few English left.
PIGEON FLYING MATCH FOR 15/. Yesterday a
match, which has long excited the attention of the fancy,
was decided. Three pigeons, belonging respectively to
Messrs. Reeves, Johnson, and Chamberlain, of Lambeth,
were to fly a match for a sweepstakes of 51. each. The
pigeons were conveyed to Brighton, and the three birds
were tossed up together. A blue pigeon, of the dragon
species, made its appearance in London in 69 minutes
after it was turned up, the distance being about 55 miles
and, in accordance with the agreement, it was declared'
the winner.

DEATH OF SIR G.
This, the second baronet ,
many respects may be famill
the 28th instant, at the ancik
in Yorkshire, aged 70. F,
Right Hon. Baronet's health,
vanced age, had been declinin,
nounced was not in consequ,
Sir George was born on the
the son of the first baronet,
East India proprietor, and
chairman of the East India Company, -by Susanah, only
daughter of Alderman Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Knight,
of London. He had ;the misfortune to lose his father
when not more than eleven years of age, and in conse-
quence the estates were held in trust for upwards of ten
years. The deceased was twice married, viz.—first,. on
the 19th of July, 1791, to Lady Anne, daughter of the
second Earl of Fauconberg (title now extinct), by Char-
lotte, sister to Deniston Lambe, first Viscount Mel-
bourne, and by that lady he had issue George Womb-
well, so well known in fashionable circles, born in 1.492;
Henry William, born in 1795, died in 1835 ;.and Fre-
derick Richard, born 1797, died in 1807 ;- and secondly,
he was united to Eliza, daughter of T. E. Little, Esq.,
of llamp. teed, by whom, who survives, he had, amongst
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nmand daughter, both dead ; a son,
The titles and estates are succeeded to by George,
eldest son above mentioned, who married, in 1824,
Georgiana, the youngest daughter of 0. Hunter, E'q.,
of CrowLnd Abbey, Lincolnshire ; and an elder sister
of that lady is the wife of Charles Wombwell, D,q., step-
brother to the present baronet.
This family is of ancient and honourable extraction,
and deduce their descent from Robert de Wombwell,
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first baronet.

THE CORN TRADE.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—The duties on all kinds of fo-
reign grain and flour remain at the lowest points. The
imports from Ireland and coastwise continue on an ex-
tremely limited scale ; from Canada only 356 barrels of
flour are reported ; and from foreign ports, 9,052 quar-
ters of wheat, 941 quarters of Indian corn, and 9,328
barrels of flour. The trade since Tuesday has not been
lively, but a fair consumptive demand has been experi-
enced for every article in the trade, at the extreme prices
of that day. In bonded wheat or flour no transactions
of moment have transpired. Our market to-day was
thinly attended by millers and dealers, and the market
being excessively flat, scarcely any transactions took place.
Where any sales of wheat were made, lower prices had
to be submitted to; and flour, both free and bonded, was
offered at a decline of Is. 6d. per barrel. Oats, barley,
beans, peas, Indian corn and meal being scarce, were
held for former rates, but very few transactions occurred.

WAKEFIELD, FRIDAY, OCT. 30:
ARRIVALS.

Qrs.
Wheat ... 8,318
Beans ... ... 1,585
Peas ... 185
Tares ... 30
Barley ... ... 4,283
We have to-day rather
declined in some instances
not much business doing.
higher. In other articles n

Qrs.
Linseed ... ... —. 54
Oats ... —. ... 306
Shelling (loads) ... 175
Malt (loads) ... ... 27 7

a dull market. Wheat has
Is. per quarter, but there is
Barley is 2s. per quarter
D alteration.

EDE'S CITY WEEKLY ALMANAC.
This little periodical almanac, which is now being
published from week to week, is the carrying out of
one of those excellent notions which cause amazement
at their never having been thought of before. For
mercantile men this will prove an admirable assist-
ance, and will materially simplify their prospective
arrangements. Each almanac embraces one week;
and, in separate divisions, we have the day of the
week, the day of the month, blank tablets for en-
gagements, and a most copious list of memoranda.
We cannot afford a better notion of the completeness
of this very useful circular than by transcribing the
memoranda given for a single day. Here is the list
for Monday, November 2 :
Meetings of Creditors at Bankrupts' Court, Basing-
hall-street :—(2d meeting)—R. B. Bradley, at eleven
o'clock ; John Richards, jun., at one o'clock.
Insolvent Petitioners—Hearings in Portugal-street J. Paiba, J. Crew, J. Scouler, H. Pilcher, W. S. Situp.
son, J. Castledine, R. W. Roberts, W. Coates, T. Hogg,
H. Murray. G. Miles, E. R. Buller.
Michaelmas Term begins. Holiday at Transfer Offices
in
.at London-bridge—Morning, 0 h. 36 min ;
irige waterank
Afternoon, 1 h. 1 min.
Thr

le announcement yesterday that the overland
express, by the Ariel, arrived at Alexandria at five P.M. on
the2othinst.,and that the steamer did not start thence till
a quarter-past 12 o'clock at night, led the merchants in
the City to think that the seven hours' delay was to
allow for the arrival of the portion of the mails coming
here rid Marseilles. In this they will feel disappointed,
as neither the Ardent nor Ariel received any portion of
the mails, and the statement as to the dates of the trans-
mission of the express is incorrect. It left Suez at half-
! past 11 A.M. on the 19th, and reached Alexandria at five
minutes past 12 o'clock at noon on the 20th, in the in-
credibly short space of 24 hours and 35 Minutes ; and
the Ardent started thence in 20 minutes after its arrival,
the Ariel in 15 minutes after the Ardent. The Mar-
seilles mail rid Malta cannot, therefore, be expected to
reach London before Monday night.
THE LATE EARL OF IV ALDEGRATE.—The will of
the late Right Hon. George Edward Earl of Waldegrave,
Viscount Chewton, was proved in London on the 21st of
October, by his relict and sole executrix, the Right Hon.
Frances Elizabeth Anne, Countess of Waldegrave, to
whom he has left all his freehold and landed estates,
tithes, and hereditaments in the counties of Somerset
and Cambridge, and his estates in Twickenham and
Isleworth, in Middlesex, his advowson and right of pre-
sentation to the rectories of Radstock, Somerset, and
Peldon, Essex, his right of patronage to the vicarage
of St. Mary, Whittlesey, and all his interest both in St.
Mary, Whittlesey, and St. Andrew, Whittlesey, Cam-
bridge ; likewise bequeaths to her the whole of his
funded and personal estate, that in England has been
valued at 20,000/. ; also leaves to his Countess his man-
sion, land, and estate at Neufchatel, Switzerland, and all
other property. His Lordship executed his will on the
15th of October, 1845.
ATROCIOUS CRIJELTY.—LLANDILO.—This place
was greatly enlivened on Friday last with the perform-
ances of a few of the crack shots of the place in killing
a bull at the Half-moon slaughterhouse. The customer
in hand being rather an ugly one to contend with, the
usual method adopted at Llandilo of slaughtering beasts
was abandoned, and the call was sounded for the cracks
to turn out, when, in a very short time, a pretty fair
sprinkling was in attendance. Preliminaries being ad-
justed, shot one stood forth, and let go—no visible effect
on the beast, except a slight contemptuous toss of the
head; 2to 4, ditto. No. 5 shot through the nostril—
snuff-taking spoilt; 6 to 8, harmless. No 9 advanced,
cautious, and, deliberately taking aim, bang smash goes
the left eye of the bull. The animal, in his agony, made
a lurch forward, snapped the rope which was fastened to his
horns, and passed through the bullring into the hands of
certain gentlemen volunteers outside, who, in the ecstacy
of the moment, and in admiration of the last feat, simul-
taneously threw their heels overhead. The bull, being
now free, went into the yard behind the slaughter-house,
and while there a stone of about 401bs. weight
was thrown at him from the King's Head Inn gar-
den, which is divided from tae yard by a wall of twenty-
four feet high. The stone dropping on his bead, he
bellowed in the most hideous manner, and rushed back
to the slaughter-house. The crowd outside, deeming
prudence the best part of valour, although there was no
danger, cut in two divisions, one down Bridge-street, and
the other up, at that pace generally known by the name
of " the devil take the hindmost." In a short time
order was restored, when No. 10 (who ought to have
been there early) fired and knocked a piece .of the
bull's horn off; of course, the fault was that he never
practised with a flint-gun, or the bull winked at him.
parts
No
of the body bat the right place. 18, John. 9 having spoilt his squinting, Nos. Ivo! 17
hit allßichard, glorious John,
The
owner ran away on th
finished his career. The bloody
maffireauytebsetge lratnwaetne. ineo'clocksatandended aboute fourth
shot to a house about three hundred yards from the
slaughter-house, whence he sent boys to bring him news
of the state of the game; and when he heard the bull
was really dead, he jumped off his chair, and said,
" Thank God, he is dead now; I thought they would
never have killed him; but he always was a stubborn
bull."—Welshman.

DEATH OF MR. J. F. WILLIAMS, R.S.A. We
regret to announce the death of this distinguished land-
scape painter, which took place on the morning of Sa-
turday last, at the residence of a friend in Glasgow,
where he had been on a casual visit. This event will be
very generally regretted, both professionallyandrsh-
vately, especially among the literarycircles of the o
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metropolis, where the deceased arttiasttiownaass
andn
truthfulness of
wella
landscape k now
and respected. Mr. Williams's rep
painter rested chiefly on the beauty
his sea pieces, and his .excellence in this respect was
of
im:ow
le
so individual a character, and so generally
which it will not be easy to supply.
Ever since the establishment
of the Royal Scottish
Scottish,
art
thatart we believe his death will
leave a gap in
s
Academy, his
Live feature in all its exhibitions at, Edin-
burgh; and the fact of more than one of his productions
having been purchasedb • ) the association no later than
last year, showed that advancing age had not impaired trac pictures formed a conspicuous and at-
his powers. Mr. Williams was, we believe, in early life,
connected with the drama, both as an actor and a painter,
and was contemporary with some distinguished orna-
ments of the stage. He was not more esteemed for his
professional ability than for his private worth, and will
long be remembered by an extensive and enlightened
circle of friends, to whom his amiable manners and
anecdotal powers rendered his society peculiarly inter-
esting and agreeable. Mr. Williams was, we believe, in
his 62d year.—Glasgow Herald. .
CAPTAIN SPIKE ; OR, THE ISLETS OF THE •GULF.
—This is the title which Mr. Cooper, the great American
novelist, has given to his new romance of the sea, com-
menced in the new number of Bentley's Miscellany, pub-
lished to-day. The story has been written expressly for
Bentley's Miscellany, we hear. It is just such a story as
Cooper's genius is likely to revel in, and we predict for
it a great success.
THOROUGHFARES.--THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY TERMINUS.—The residents in the vicinity of this
station (Nine Elms) are drawing up a remonstrance
against the great number of waggons, carriages, &C.,
which accumulate to such an extent every night as to
form a complete blockade, and parties are obstructed
from free ingress and egress to their homes. • A greet
' number of signatures hate been attached.

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DUTCH PAPERS.
Trig RAMIE, OCT. 26.—The Second Chamber of the
States-General had a public meeting to-day in which
M. Bruce presided. The President announced that the
committze for drawing up an answer to the speech from
the Throne bad considered the objections made in the
Beaks*, and had in consequence re-examined the draft
of th 9 Veeay. The President added, that the document
was or iftailld be distributed among the members, and
that the f.Litussion of it might be put upon the order of
the day for to-morrow (Tuesday) ita ten o'clock in the
forenoon, which was agreed to.
In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-
General on Saturday, a Royal Message was brought in
accompsnying a project of law for the purpose of in-
demnifying persons who have lost bonds upon the
Treasury.
Ame e from his Excellency the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs transmitted to the Chamber a copy of
the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded on
the 29th of July between the Netherlands and Bel-
gium.
ANSTRIDAX, OCT. 24.—We are happy to announce
that the number of patients that have been brought into
the two hospitals of this city begins to be on the de-
crease. From the 10th to the 16th Oct., 425 patients
were admitted ; and, in the last week, from the 17th to
the 25th inclusive, only 386, being a decrease of 39.
Letters from Rome, of the 12th instant, state that her
Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands had been com-
plimented, in the name of the Pope, by Cardinal Gizzi,
the Secretary of State ; and on that day his Royal High-
ness Prince Alexander, her Majesty's son, had paid a
visit to his Holiness.

800 LB DIIC, Ocr. 23.—Here, too, people begin to
speak of emigrating to America, so that several artisans
of various crafts have already made preparation, but
hitherto none of the better classes have applied to the
magistrates for permission to emigrate, as being obliged
to leave the country for want of means of support.
MuNica, Ocr. 19.—For three days past we have had
in our vicinity a great degree of heat, most extraordinary
for the month of October, which appeared to forebode
the approach of an atmospheric phenomenon. In fact,
we have received from the mountains the news that a
terrible hurricane visited the valley of Schledorf ; the
roofs of the houses were carried off, the church and the
houses razed to their foundation. A panic seized the
inhabitants, who sought refuge in the cellars, when sud-
denly a,.fire broke out in every part of the village, and
in a short time there was not a single house, or even a
cottage, that was not consumed by the fury of the ele-
ments. The village is entirely razed to the ground, the
neighbouring forest is on fire, and the flames can be seen
from the gates of the capital. We have not received the
particulars, but there is every reason to suppose that the
calamity is not confined to the village of Schledorf, but
that others have experienced a similar fate.
PESTH, OCT. 18.—The health of the Archduke Pala-
tine is very fluctuating, and the accounts, even on one
and the same day, are most conflicting and contradic-
tory. At all events, the state of his Imperial Highness
is such as to excite the greatest apprehensions. The
bulletin which has just been issued is as follows:—" The
more calm state of his Imperial Highness on the night of
the I7th, continued throughout the whole of yesterday,
when the usual symptoms abated, and the patient was
comparatively well and cheerful, till late in the evening.
The prostration of strength, however, still continues. In
the night of the 18th his sleep, which otherwise was
quiet, was frequently interrupted by the effects of the
medicine. On the morning of the 18th his Imperial
Highness was nearly in the same state as yesterday
morning.—Signed, OPEN. Oct. 18, nine o'clock, .4..5t."
.Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 23.