The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER e, 1846.

munity is prepared for the achievement of this moral
and intellectual reformation. Let u 3, men of Eng-
gland ! avail ourselves of this glorious tnd 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.
Wnirwoara 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. WHITWORTH 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 have 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
_ oaLsouv er rs wat.o.tea with a
jealous eye. The unaccountable attack on Lord
STUART DE Decres, a .resident nobleman, affneling
extensive employment to the people on his extensive
estates, am e ired of a worse character and description
than any of the other acts of violence it has been
eur painful duty to record. We are happy, however,
-o 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
40 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 conventd 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. JOHN
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 violence 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.

A. 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 WORON-
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 im-
posed upon it reappeared, 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 Tienzpo, 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, Sava CABRAL left
Cadiz on the 23d for Paris, yid '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 Herald°,
" of the machinations carried on abroad against the
institutions and the throne itself." This is a dan-
gerous phrase, and must have been inserted without
the imprimatur of M. BREsSON. In reading it, the
memory is naturally carried back to the intrigues of
the Hotel de Courceltes.

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. •

I.liteci jie C,LiCS., 04-4- cash;
Pour per Cents., 211 ; Fire per Cents., 22 cash;
Debt, without interest, 61; Coupon, 201 ; Exchange
on London, 361 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Government papers publish a telegraphic dis-
patch, an noueeing the arrival of the Dukes DE
MONTPENSIER and D'.\ um.ten at Victoria on the 3,1.
They left tiie next morning for Burgos, and had ar-
rived at Miranda when the last accounts left.
The Journal deg Debats 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 rt which the KING himself presided.
By far the most important article in any of these
papers is the following from the Cwistitutionnel, which
may be considered not only as the manifesto of the
great party whi'7.4l acknowledges M. TIIIERS 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. TIMERS and Lord
PALMERSTON. We give the article in extenso :
" Sines the It-volution of 1830 the whole of our
foreign policy has had cor its basis and pivot the Eng-
lish alliance. At the moment when the emotion pro-
duced in Europe by our revolution separated us fiom
the absolute Powers of the continent, reForm drove Eng-
land into the liberal path. The two nations associated
in common ideas 3 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 tulle 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 1436 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 tenyears 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 question of the
East put the alliance to a new 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 Paella of Egypt. Instead of entering into this
project, which might have had such great and happy
consequences, France 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 effort. Through pusillanimity they
became rash. Bet this did not endure. Everybody
knows the result of this second rupture with England;
that M. Guizot brought us humiliation from England—
that the Debats 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 pewee 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 Eubort 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. l)'Aubigny, and that of
Captain Bruat; art indemnity demanded and paid; the
partial evacuation of tha Society Islands, which is being
at this moment erected. 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
money, and a very little honour gained. To day,
if the Ministry talks to the country, it says that
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 An presented to M. GuzzoT
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.
Bulwer, and that this rltimatum 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, 1113 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 iIIAsANAs 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 Mon(7ay, that there had been some

thing like an ff.:rule at St. Omer, in conse-
quence of the National Guard being forbid len 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.
Lsrd BROUGHAM left Paris for Cannes on Sunday.
By a recent ordonnance M. Pichon, Consul-Gene••

rat Chnrui; .1' A 41:-.1reta at 111.-Intp V. 1,1

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 Ulyssee de Ratti-Menton, formerly Con-
sul at Canton, is appointed French Consul at Cal-
cutta, a post lately created.
Count RATTI AIENT3N, the newly-appointed French
Consul at Calcutta, is the person V ho, as French
Consul in Syria, made himself so notorious by ex-
citing against the Jetvi that furious persecution, the
news of which, some four years since, filled all
Europe with horror; rrmd which was only put an end
to by the personal interposition of Sir MosEs MoN-
TEFIORE with the Turkish authorities, and by hi
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.

PAILIS BOURSO, INIOND.,?.Y.—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
cash,o 8,,
fraft.lBlesre; lowerfor:—Threesaccount,
8a t2lB. 28151,8. ;
5 c
FiavnedpeFivesr
Cents., at 1171.c0r
85c. The market closed a-, follows:--Three per Cents., for
cash, 117 f. 85c.; for accotinr, 117 f. 85c.; Neapolitan, 1021.;
Spanish and New Loan, net quoted.
RaawAys.—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, 7271. 50c.; Avignon, 9251.;
Vierzon, 622 f. 50c.; Strasburg and
yoanLdßnasl, 528 f. 75c.; Parise, 232 f. 50c.; Nor-
thern, 7261. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 5661. 25c.; Montereau, 370 f.;
Fampoux 397 f. 50c. ; i
and Strasburg, 5021. 50c.; .Nantes, 5081. 75c.; Dieppe, 375 f.;
Rouen and Boulogne, not quoted.

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14%—Direct Bombay and Madras, %
BUSINESS DOVE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
J%—Nortbetii of Franco Constituted, 13%—
Paris and Lyons Constituted, 534—Paris and Strasbourg Consti-
tuted, 4%.

The Hon. Dudley Ward, brother and heir pre.
sumptive to Lord Ward, has been elected master of the
Worcestershire fox-hounds.
VOLUNTARY STARVATION IN THE WESTMINSTER
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.— An inquest was held yester-
day, before Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster House of
Correction, on the body of Thomas Miller, aged 40. It
appeared that on the 10th of September, the deceased
was committed from Mary lebone Police-court, on a charge
of creating a riot, for want of sureties. About nine
ye as ago he had a very severe blow inflicted on his head
with a quart pot, and ever since he had been affected in
his head. On being admitted into the prison he perti-
naciously refused all kinds of food, and all the liquids
he took had to be forced down his throat. He complained
of everything, and said if he had his own clothes he
could eat, when, in fact, they had not been taken from
him. Nothing could be got from him but oaths, and he
would not even walk about without being led. Means
had been taken to have him removed to the Han well
Asylum, but on Sunday he got much worse, and died at
three o'clock the next morning. The surgeon was of
opinion that the deceased died from disease of the brain,
probably accelerated by a self-denial of food. Verdict—
" Died from disease of the brain."
NONE 80 BLIND AS THOSE WHO WON'T SEE.—
A very curious cause has just come before the Juge de
widow lady
Paix of Neuilly. Some time ago Madame Pluyette, a
of fifty, but who still attaches much im-
portance to personal appearance, had the misfortune, in
playing with a lapdog, to receive from it so severe a
wound in one of her eyes, that it came out of the socket.
Having heard much of artificial eyes, and being recom-
mended to apply to an expert manufacturer in the way,
named Tamisier, she gave an order for a glass eye, for
which M. Tamisier charged 100 f. Refusing to pay
this charge, the maaufacturer summoned her before the
Juge de Paix. Madame Pluyette having appeared, hold-
ing the glass eye in her hand, the Juge de Paix asked
her why she refused to pay the bill which M. Tamisier
had sent in ? For
a very good reason," replied the
defendant ; " I can see no more with it than I could be-
fore." " What !" said the Juge de Paix, "did you
really imagine that you would be able to see with a
glass eye ?" " Did I think so 2" retorted the angry
dame • " certainly I did. Will you be so good as to tell
me what are eyes for but to see with ? I ordered the
eye for use, and until M. Tamisier makes me one with
which I can see I will not pay him a sous. I wear a wig,
which is quite as useful as natural hair ; I have three
false teeth, which answer as w€llas those which I have lost,
and why should I pay for an eye which is of no use ?"
The Juge do Paix endeavoured to convince Madame
Pluyette that glass eyes were for others to look at, not
for the wearer to look from them ; but finding all ap-
peals to her reason of no avail, he cordemned her to pay
the plaintiff the amount of his demand. When the de-
fendant heard the decision, she became furious with
anger, and after dashing her glass eye on the floor she
rushed out of court amid the laughter of the crowd.—
Gaignani's Messenger.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)

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
morrent

" 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. In 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 thef
growing crop will, under any circumstances, and even
frost should not appear till November, be under an
average one."
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 951.
The premium upon Exchequer-bills is fully 18s. Bank
Stock was taken at 2108 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 42k, Russian at 110 f,
Spanish at 261, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., at 95-k.
The Railway Share Market continues heavy.

oxm
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 Al %
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account ..... • 2101/
Consols for Account... ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,4 d l5 18 pm. 18
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small

CLOSING
PRICES.

OXE CLOSING
rRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... Cent
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 421/
Russian Bonds now
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account ... 26%
Ditto, Passive
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 21/ per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92%

PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
. !tAILWAY SHARES FAX ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%...... 2% 214
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 43/4
Birmin. and Gleucester. 100
Ditto New 17% — .... ......
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4. •
Boston, Stamfd, & Biros. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liver. June . 2V2 —
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares 2l/2 — ... .... .
Ditto Extension ...... 21/2 —
Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% —
Central Kent 21%2 --
Chester and Holyhead... 27% — ...... ......
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltexham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction 2O
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
C,hrk Aml 11":11ornny old
Cork and Waterford ... Ph..
Cornwall

.. 20%

Ditto, Half Shares ... 214
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% l%
1 )erby and Crewe
Direct Lincoln, East Itet-
ford, and Shefrd. Jn.nc. 2% —
Direct Manchester

(Remington's)
Ditto (Ragrick's)...... 5,/4...... •• ... ..... ,
Direct *northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublip. andGalway... .. 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 71
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 21%%
Ditto New l2l. 16s. 6%1/2 p..
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6!.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto, Nu. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 105....... 13/4
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83/4 —
Do. Exten.(llarwich) 10,E —
Do., Cam b. and Ely.. 2%...,.,
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 — ~, , ......
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 7% ......
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5,4 —
Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New
Do., Yi Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Abeiystwith, and
Central of Wales 1%......
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. —
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ••• •
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West. -
(Ireland)
Great Munster ... 2% ......
Great North of Scotland 2%......
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 5 —
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares SO '
Ditto 14 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
Guildford, Fareim, Ports. 5 .....
Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ......
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto 1/4 Shares
Do. Half Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% —
Do., do., and Norwich 2 4 —
Killarney Junctions l4
Kendal and Windermere 11/2 —
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New
Lame, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ...
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22% —
Lpool., Mnchstr & New:
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury
London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9
Do. New
Ditto Extension - 7 %......
London and Brighton 5O .. ... 58141/,
Ditto, Fifths
40
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 211/4
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d
••
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westeraloo 196% 194 194
Do. Quarters ..
164 21%
N Do., do.,New Shares.. 2
...
Ditto Fifths .... 2
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 121/2 .
—.
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.)
Do 40/. Shares (L. M.) 8 —
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 69 ...... .... ...
De. New ConsoL Bths 40
Do. New - 22%
...... • •••
...
Do. New
......
London and York 2% 134........
......
Do. % Shares
.........
........
...
London and Windsor . 1N3... . ~.. . ......
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil .....»........... 2% — ...
Londonderry& Coleraine 1212 — ............
..,. ............
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 1212 .............. Lynn and Ely
...... 151/2 ..... 151/2
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds... 82
......
Ditto % Shares
Do. Quarters 2
...... 6 .............. . 6
Do. Fiala

58 ys
21%

24
13%