The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Devon lighter, Bond master, sailed from Devon-
port on Wednesday, with stores for Pembroke.
Desperate screw steamer put to sea, from Plymouth
Sound, on Wednesday morning, having been idle the
past week in consequence of the weather. Mr. Din-
nen is on board, and this is expected to be the last
cruise.

MALTA, OCT. 2.—The Frolic brig was close in to
Gibraltar on Friday last, and beating up with a light
breeze.

The Resistance troop-ship was lying at the Mole at
Gibraltar on Friday last.
A slaver, under Genoese colours, taken by the Ri-
fleman steamer on the coast of Africa with six slaves
on board, was sent to Gibraltar as a prize, manned by
a crew of her capturers, and arrived there safely on
the 26th ult.

The Indus, with the heavy portion of the India
mails, arrived yesterday from Southampton and
Gibraltar. The Indus is on her last voyage until after
her contemplated repairs shall have been completed;
she will be cut down and lengthened, and made
equal in speed to the fast boats of the company.
The Tagus, from Constantinople and Malta, was
entering the Straits of Gibraltar as the Indus left:

'The Sultan, on her homeward passage from Alex-
andria and Malta, passed the Indus off Galita on
Monday last.
The Jupiter, from Constantinople and Malta, passed
the Indus during the night of the 27th ult.
His Royal Highness the Archduke of Austria, who
has been for some time past in the Mediterranean,
left Gibraltar, where he had received every possible
attention from his Excellency Sir W. Gardiner and
his amiable consort, on the 25th ult. His Highness
was bound to Malaga.

THE BANK FAILURES.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, THURSDAY EVEN-
ING.—The apprehension of a complete paralyzation of
trade in this town, or especially among some of the
iron works ; in consequence of the stoppage of the
Monmouth and Glamorgan Bank, is already felt, and
will be felt for a long period. There is no doubt,
indeed, of two or three large works stopping at once,
they having been carried on alone by the heavy drains
which their proprietors have been making on the
bank, owing to the great depression in the iron trade.
The Corm Brane iron works are stated to have
drawn 240,0001. or 250,0001. The Blaenaforn and
other works, belonging to the same proprietary, are
put down as having drawn 150,000/. Rumour as-
signs these figures to be even below the mark. The
liabilities are said to be somewhere about three-
quarters of a million ; the cash in hand not two
thousand, and the other property of the bank trifling.
The unfortunate shareholders are greatly alarmed at
their position ; many of the smaller ones must be
ruined. It is understood that the trustees will be
first sued, and that many have already received no-
tices to that effect.

The same proprietary had branches at Abergavenny,
Tredegar, Pontypool, Monmouth, and Chepstow.
The two former were the principal banks of the
mining district surrounding them. Trade, therefore,
becomes ruined for the time, and a prospective conti-
nuance for many years is seen of the same results.
The system adopted by this bank was latterly in-
dicative of its present condition. Tradesmen in the
towns named, and Newport, find their bills returned
them from the Bank of England, into which this bank
had paid them. The unfortunate tradesmen, having
met them in due course, have now been called upon to
pay anew on the same bills. This is felt to be ruinous
to many parties. Failures will therefore ensue in
many quarters. The town will suffer a fearful con-
vulsion this winter in consequence.
The West of England District Bank is nowt he
only one here, besides the Savings' Bank. A gat
accession of business is the consequence—a great
run upon its gold was also a consequence. They
were well prepared.
The notes of other country banks are now regarded
with apprehension. Only gold is current. This is a
monetary crisis which will shake the credit and the
stability of trade to an alarming extent.

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METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—A new
commission for a Metropolitan Commission of Sewers has
just issued, in which the following gentlemen are named as
commissioners :—Mr. kiward Lawes, chairman ; Mr. S. M.
Peto, M.P., deputy-chairman; Major-General Sir John Bur-
goyne, K.C.B. ; Mr. Thomas Allason; Mr. William Cubitt,
C.E. ; Captain Dawson, R.E. ; Captain Harness, R.E. ; Mr.
Thomas Hawes ; Mr. J. DI. Rendell, C.E. ; Mr. Robert Ste-
phenson, M.P. ; and Captain Vetch, R.E. It will be ob-
served that Lord Ebrington, Sir Henry de la Bache, and
Mr. Philip Hardwick have retired from the commission, and
that the new commissioners are Mr. William Cubitt, the en-
gineer, and Mr. Thomas Allason, the architect. This com-
mission is appointed under the Act passed at the end of last
session, continuing the powers given to the commissioners in
the various Sewers Acts, but making provisions for the re-
formation of the constitution of the commission itself. Under
this Act two of the commissioners form a quorum, and can
exercise all the powers conferred on the body, except in
financial matters. The signature of the chairman, or, in his
absence, that of the deputy-chairman, is required to sanction
all contracts and all orders for imposing rates on different
districts within the area. It is to be hoped that the gentle-
men composing this commission will at once and earnestly
turn their attention to the subject of the general drainage,
with the view of devising some speedy means of raising
money for their operations.
A BLIND VISITOR TO THE EXHIBITION.—A blind
youth was observed yesterday at the Exhibition, accom-
panied by his mother, and on her being asked the reason of
her son's visit, when he could not see, she said that he was
totally blind, but had been anxious to come to ascertain if
the sound was as he had imagined it to be, and that he had
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but a moderate amount of bu • siness was transacted. The
iron trade was deemed by competent judges as somewhat
brisker than at the quarterly meetings in July, and the old
prices, re-adopted at the preliminary
meeting held a fort-
night ago, were firmly maint • at.ned. Of the state of the iron,
and other trades connected with it, it is •
impossible
to speak
more particularly until the close of the meetings at Dudley,
on Saturday ; but so far, if anything,
favourable, if not absolutely
encouraging, than for some
months past.

MR. RAMSITAY.—Lord Carlisle having arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, Mr. Samuel Holme (the chairman),
and Mr. JetTery (secretary) of the Whitty Indemnity Com-
mittee, sought and obtained an interview, and laid the
matter of lar. Ramshay before him. In reply, his Lordship
expressed his readiness to inquire into the case at the ear-
liest opportunity, and begged that the memorial should be
sent on to him at Sir Benjamin Heywood's,
Manell-dter,
although he would consider that it had been presenAed.
His Excellency M. Van de Weyer and the
Marquis of Ormonde, both with their tamale:,
Lord Erskine,
Lady M‘Naughten, Colonel Scott, and l
J arrived in London
yesterday by the Antwerp steam
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Jackson.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY NIGHT.
Her Majesty's visit to this important maritime bo-
rough has taken place under circumstances of a sin-
gularly inauspicious character. The weather, which
yesterday was all that could be desired, underwent a
great change during the night, and since five o'clock
this morning rain has fallen incessantly.
Most disheartening to the people of Liverpool was
the change which came over the weather during the
night preceding this morning, which bad long been
looked to with the utmost anxiety, as forming an era
in the history of Liverpool which the inhabitants
might treasure up in their remembrances for many
years to come, and afford ample scope for pleasurable
conversation and description to those who had no op-
portunity of taking part in a Lancashire welcome to
their beloved Queen, esteemed Consort, and illustrious
family. Many had been the parties arranged, and the
Lancashire witches had long been engaged iu pre-
paring the most attractive toilettes, not only to pro-
perly set off their charms, celebrated as they are
throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom,
but to do proper homage to their Sovereign, and add
to the gaiety of the scene. But all pleasurable expec-
tations were doomed to disappointment. Last night
the weather was most brilliant, and, excepting to the
professional weatherwise, presaged that a fine day
would dawn upon the hopes that had been formed, and
enable her Majesty to enjoy the beauty of the Mersey,
and the inhabitants on either side of the river to
testify their loyalty and gratify their curiosity with
a sight of her Majesty inspecting their docks, of
which they may indeed well be proud. These hopes,
however, were doomed to disappointment, the morning
breaking under the influence of a confirmed rain,
which continued without intermission nearly the whole
of the day.
A !ate walk over the route marked out for her
Majesty's progress last night, under the influence of a
bright moon, showed us that, during the previous two
or three days, the people of Liverpool had indeed been
busy in preparing for her Majesty's reception. In
every place from whence it was possible to
obtain a view of the royal cortege stands had been
erected, balconies shored up and elegantly decorated,
illumination devices in every variety prepared, and
flags were flying across every street at almost every
third house, whilst the intervening edifices also dis-
played a variety of colours of every possible form and
hue, no inconsiderable number of them bearing loyal
inscriptions, such as " Welcome Victoria, our
Duchess," " Welcome Victoria, the Queen of Order,"
" Welcome Prince Albert, the Patron of Art and In-
dustry," &c. We retired from the inspection of this
scene to our hotel, with anticipations that the doings
of the day would be grand indeed; anticipations
which were at once dissipated upon cur being
awakened at early morning by the firing of the artil-
lery, which boomed upon our ears almost incessantly.
It was dismally wet, and another walk through the
town—for cabs were not to be obtained for love or
money— presented a different scene to our view, the flags
were still streaming in the air, but overladen with wet,
producing anything but a pleasing effect—many of
the devices and descriptions being almost entirely
obliterated. The stands looked cold and cheerless.
—hardly a person having occupied a seat even as late
es ten o'cicck—and the few persons to be seen in the
streets being encased in great coats or Macintoshes,
and covered with umbrellas. Between nine and ten
o'clock, a few of the fair sex ventured forth enveloped
in their winter clothing—their dresses tucked up—
their underclothing draggled—and displaying, while
they attempted to reach the places which they had
previously engaged to see the royal pageant, even
more of their understandings than would be consis-
tent with the Bloomer costume.