The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Moniteur de I' Armee, announces that 188 of
1 new brigades of gendarmerie, authorized by
?,w passed by the National Assembly some time
Ira the recess, are now completely organized.
Fovincial paper states that 24 per condemned
r political offences, who have been sent from Paris
and-Lyons to Belle-Isle, arrived at Nantes on the 29th
ult., and were immediately put into a steamer to be
conveyed to their destination. As the boat was pas-
sing down the river one of the prisoners, seeing a con-
siderable number of persons assembled on the banks,
shoc.ted, " Vive la Republique D&nocratique et So-
ciale!" but without obtaining a single response.
The market women (les dames de la Halle) hav-
ing expressed a desire to have some souvenir of their
visit to the ElysitA and their kind reception by the
President of the Republic the day after that on which
the foundation stone of the Central Markets was laid,
400 medals in bronze have been struck and presented
to them, with one in silver for the Doyenne—the
senior. These medals have on one side the effigy of
the President, and on the other the words—" Louis
Napoleon, President de la Republique Francaise, 6lu
le 10 Decembre, 1848, par 5,534,520 6lecteurs."

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25/. shares ; but the amended Act of last session, which
contains novel powers in railway legislation, decreases
the capital to 225,0001., in shares of 151. each. The
Act gives the company power to enter simultaneously
into the possession of all lands and premises necessary
for the making of the line.
CORK AND YOUGHAL.—Proceedings have been
adopted under the provisions of the Cork and Water-
ford Railway Amendment Act of last session, which
it is expected will ensure the entering on the works
early in the ensuing spring.
WORCESTER AND HEREFORD.—At an influential
meeting of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire
Canal Company, held last week at Gloucester, an
agreement, made by a committee, for the sale of the
canal for (30,0001. to the Worcester and Hereford
Railway Company, was ratified and confirmed. The
price, we understand, is to be taken out in shares.
As will be seen by a lengthened report in another
page, the inhabitants of Malvern held a meeting there
on Wednesday last, when the project was submitted
to their consideration and warmly approved
—not by expression merely, but by action, a con-
siderable number of shares having been subscribed
for. The Mayor and his co-directors of this
city
have been earnestly engaged in promoting the sub-
scription for shares here, and, considering
the unpo-
pularity which has fallen upon railway investments
from various adverse causes, a tolerable measure of
success has attended their efforts.—"Worcester Chro-
nicle.

SIR CHARLES WOOD.
A and curiousthe winilsltinangcneess to of the submission of man to
fate,
dis-
guised dishonesty, rather than e n endure e
active trickeryih theiran
r re-
moval, is evidenced by the fact that Sir Charles "Wood
continues to hold the office of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. He has profited little by the sunshine and
the dews of political life, and ministerial honours. His
ripe manhood scarcely possesses more sapience than
his budding youth ; and, like an unwholesome fruit,
he must be plucked and cast away.
The admission of this gentleman to the Cabinet,
which on more than one occasion he has exhibited
to the country in such a supremely ridiculous light,
was a blunder of the Premier's, only to be accounted
for on the ground of the overwhelming influence of
the Greys. But better would it be for the nation that
the Colonial and Home Secretaries should also be su•
perseded, than that Sir C. Wood should again seat
himself on the Treasury benches of the House of Com-
mons. So utterly incompetent has he shown himself to
deal with the commercial and trading interests of a
great nation ; so exacting and harassing have been his
application of the fiscal laws of the empire, such
blunders has he perpetrated in straining law so as to
divert legitimate profits of trade to the revenue of the
country,. that among the mercantile and trading
classes ha name is a terror, his continuance in office a
dread.

Particularly unfortunate is it that the Exchequer
should be presided over by a man of such limited
capacity, at a period when our whole commercial
system is in a state of transition. Free trade is
happily no longer an experiment; the Navigation
Laws are gone. There are questions of external
trade, however, arising out of these recent changes,
which require exceedingly careful management by a
mind grasping the whole bearings of the questions at
issue. But here we feel somewhat assured, because
international commerce does not fall peculiarly within
the province of the Exchequer, but is likely to have
the masterly supervision of the First Lord of the
Treasury himself.
It is in the department of the inland revenue more
especially that the evil influence of Sir Charles is ex-
perienced. The income-tax we will now only men-
tion. Sir Charles Wood has admitted his inability to
grapple with its unjust assessment of incomes arising
from land and from intellect by the same standard.
He has also done his best to prevent the judgment of
others being informed on the questions he cannot
grasp, by withholding the evidence taken before a
Committee of the House of Commons.
With regard to stamps used in the operations of
business, the exigencies of the trade had fur a long
time required that they should be simplified and
reduced. But instead thereof, a measure was passed
which harassed and crippled trade more than before.
And the sapient Sir Charles expected that tradesmen
would expend their money in Government stock of
this kind, and sell again to the public, with a profit
not even sufficient to pay for the paper in which it
was enclosed. It is true that, in the following
session, he repealed a great part of the crude mea-
sure he had passed, and somewhat modified the im-
post itself; but such is the evil genius of Sir Charles,
that at this time there are firms in the-City whose pro-
fits are yearly mulcted some hundreds of pounds more
than under the system formerly prevailing. Instead
of slackening the gripe of Government on the com-
merce of the country, the Whigs have fastened upon
it with even greater tenacity than the Tories them-
selves.

The spirit and circumstances of the times require
that knowledge should be free ; that intercommuni-
cation of thought should be unfettered as thought
itself; that the wants and wishes of man should be
uttered to his fellow man ; that the riches of know-
ledge should be announced ; that the misery of
want should be muttered. Has Sir Charles evinced
a desire to interpret liberally the statutes bearing on
the press ? Under his presidency their operation,
for purposes of revenue, has been strained to an
extent utterly without precedent. The monthly
chronicle of facts must be stamped, so also must be
the extracted report of a trial. The pump-room
gossips must not be informed of the arrival of a Peer,
unless the official of the Stamp-office receives his fee;
nor must the Bible Society any longer announce in its
Monthly Reporter, notwithstanding its nine years'
immunity, that " subscriptions will be thankfully
received at;' Scc., without payment of 19. 6d. fur the
privilege.
Is Sir Charles bent on making the taxes on know-
ledge so odious that they shall be intolerable ? Or
is it not that the Chancellor's limited intellect pre-
vents him from apprehending great principles, and
confines him to the consideration of the petty details
of a desk or a store ? He exacts the utmost farthing
—he abandons credit for cash; he demands that all
knowledge of passing events shall pay its toll and
receive his brand. And this at a period when igno-
rance is felt to be a curse ; when education is strug-
gling for a place in a national polity ; when great
social questions are being experimented ; when
Church government, based on priestly supremacy, is
rocking to and fro ; when kingcraft and republicanism,
tyranny and liberty, are armed for each others de-
struction.
Is it at such a time that a man, unripe for his age,
is to stand at the toll-bar of commerce, and to hold
the keys of knowledge ? Rather perish the Cabinet,
and give us back the man-bracing struggles with pro-
tection and test acts, than that, being free, we submit
to the burdens and restrictions of adolescence or of
senility. Free trade and free thought, who shall
refuse them ?—Morning Advertiser.

MARKET IN TEL LIGEN
(From the London New Price Current, Oct. 3.)
Suuen.—To-day West India Sugar was operated in
with reluctance for home consumption, although rather
lower rates were acceded to, making a decline since
Friday last of 6d for good to fine yellow, and 6d to
Is fur inferior brown and grey. Only 521 hhds were
sold, including at auction 213 hhds 26 trcs 270 brls,
which went off flatly; Blrbadoes, low to mid yellow at
333 to 355, good mid to good 355 61 to 383, fine 38s 6d
to 393, low brown 30s to 31s, mid to fine grainy yellow
35s to 41s 6d; St. Kitts, low yellow 323 6d; Grenada
3.'3; Berbice, good to fine yellow 365 to 38s, and low 32s
per cwt. For the week in all 1,898 hhds and tres
have been disposed of.

REFINED.—To-day rather lower terms being taken for
Refined Goods caused a better demand to prevail for
home consumption, and brown Lumps were sold at 43s
to 443 per cwt.
Matrarnus.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was
operated in with reluctance, and rather lower rates were
taken;3s6 at auction 755 bags sold, mid yellow at 33s to
3
d, ord 32s to 32s 6d,and good to fine brown at 303
to 31s 6d per cwt.
EAST IN .—ThiDIA s afternoon the public sales of Ben-
gal Sugar comprised 1,932
41s to 42s for fine, mid to
god '
bags• white Benares sold at
aore .7a to 40s, good grainy
yellow 39s to 403 6d; these
255, ord to mid yellow 2Cs to 29rrn selling
full rates, but other sorts
went is per cwt lower, soft b
andpaetrations in Foreign
auction 310 cases
yn and withdrawn.
FOREIGN.—To-day the private poer cwt,
at 22s 6d to
Sugar were upon a small scale,
224 brls 200 bags Rio were all taken i
Prices have still a downward tendency.
Cocoa.—Although there are sellers of West India
upon rather lower terms few transactions have taken
place privately; Trinidad low to fine grey can be ob-
tained at 35s to 40s, common and mid red 403 to 43s
better sorts 44s to 50s, and Grenada from 32s to 333'.
Parcels will be offered at auction shortly, and stock is
4,400 bags more than last year. There is not the least
improvement in the demand for foreign; Guyaquil is
offered at 303; Bahia and Para at 263 to 275.
COFFEE.—This afternon the private operations in
Native Ceylon Coffee were upon a more extended scale,
at 39s to 40s for good to fine ord.; other sorts of Coffee
were also more in request. At auction 2,223 bags Costa
Rice sold at firm rates ; good went at 63s to 655, low
mid 51s to 545, fine to fine ord 44s 6d to 50i,
good ord 43s 6d to 455, damaged 36s to
4" G 1; 200 casks 33 bags Plantation Ceylon—good to
fine 55s to 60s, low mid to mid sls to 541, other sorts
403t5 I.° 503, triage 40s to 425, pea berry 56s to Gls 61
mid sound sold a
washed;
too
I,%barls were taken in at 48s for fine fine ord
bales Mocha taken • r' .
703 per cwt.
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merchants are disposed to sell t ---°3O
rates,
There are, however,
sorts from 10d to Is id. 1 ,9,i to Sid ; other
few buyers of superior, or Pekoe kinds however,
, which are in
plentiful supply, and offered at hula i
.3 Oid to IS 6d,

Oolong is rather more in demand at lld to Is 6d, but
a reluctance is manifested to operate in Souchong,
and there is a desire to sell ord and mid at
9d to Is, good to fine is ld to 2s. Green Tea,
of low and mid quality met with a dull demand, and
rates continue to decline; there, however, appears to be
rather mere doing in better sorts; still no advance in
prices has been established. In Scented and Pekoe
Teas sales continue upon the same small scale as for
some time past, and merchants are desirous to realise.
Some parcels have arrived.

RICE.—To-day there was a lively demand for East
India Rice, and the auctions went at fully former rates.
Of Madras 7,333 bags were sold, mid to good pinky at
8s to 8s 6d, ord 7s 6d to 8s; 2,065 bags Bengal, good
white 9s 6d to 10s, and damaged 4s to 8s 6d.
SPICES.—For Pepper, rather higher rates are ob-
tained. Privately sales of Penang have been made
at 3isl to 3,1 d; clean Sumatra at 30. At suc-
tion 970 bgs Malabar were sold at 3&d to 3id for heavy,
and half heavy, but chiefly at 3id to 30. In white
transactions are to a fair extent, ac from 6d to 8d for
ord to fine. Cayenne in small parcels realized from 9d
to is 91 per lb. Pod Pepper is dull of sale at 35s to 503
per cwt, and supply is rather larger. On the part of
holders of Pimento there is firmness; and several trans-
actions have taken place privately at 5d to s,id per lb for
mid to good, the supply is yet limited. Cassia Lignea
met with little attention. At auction 18 chests were
taken in at 115 s for mid: 600 mats at 110 s fur
rather broken, but 73 chests were sold ; ord
at 103 s to 104 s ; mid, 107 s to 111 s ; and damaged
99.9 to 102 s. Cassia Buds continue to be held for I fss
to 120 s, and are scarce. Prices further declined for East
India Ginger, supply being plentiful. At auction 700
cases, and 200 bags Cochin were, however, all sold—low
and ord went at 21s Gd to 295, mid to good 30s to 455:
one lot fine 57a, damaged realized from 19s to 365; 65
cases Bombay at 25s to 30s 61 for ord and mid sound.
Of African 300 bags realized 245. There has been no
public sale of Jamaica; and privately transactions are
trifling, fine at 1003 to 170 s; other kinds from 401 to
983. Mace is wanted, and supply remains small ;
common to mid realized is 9d to 2s 2d, good to fine 2s
3d to 2s 6d. Nutmegs have been operated in with caution,
and rates rather incline downwards—low and mid brown
can be obtained at 2s to 2s Bd, good to fine 2s 9d to 3s
6d; low to fine limed is 8d to 2s Bd. Cloves are in better
request, and few parcels are on offer; sales of Bourbon
and African have been made at 61d to 6id; Penang is
to is 3d. Cinnamon continues to attract little atten-
tion. The present value of Ceylon is from 9d to 3s 3d
per lb.

COCHINEAL.—To-day Cochineal met with less atten-
tion, and rates were not supported. At auction 170
bags Honduras went at 2s 9d to 3s 3d for low to good
silvers.

SPIRITS.—In East India Rum there is yet little busi-
ness doing, although the low rates of Is 3d to is aid
per gallon proof are accepted. There are few buyers of
Leeward Island with sellers at is 4id to Is sid proof.
Demerara has been in good demand, and realised for 32
to 40 per cent over proof 2s to 2s 4d, 28 to 30 ditto
Is 10d to is 11d. Purchases to a fair extent have been
made in better qualities of Jamaica, still
holders are unable to obtain any advance; the lower
kinds remain dull of sale with free sellers at late rates
We quote low to mid 28 to 33 over proof at 2s 3d to 2s
6d, good mid to good 30 to 34 over 2s 7d to 2s 10d, fine
and choice marks 33 to 38 over 3s to 4s 2d. Havannah
is still to be had at Is 2d to is 2id, and there are few
buyers. On the part of holders of Brandy there is confi-
dence, and a good business is doing. Prices for Cognac best
brands of the vintage of 1850 rule at 4s 5d to 4s 7d,
1849 ditto 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto 5s to 5s 2d, older
53 4d to 6s 4d, low and mid sorts 2s 9d to 3s 9d, and
Bordeaux 2s 2d to 2s 4d. For British made Spirits
rates are firm at 9s 5d to 9s 6d net cash, and Gin at
73 10d for 22 under proof. Geneva met with a slow
sale, ord at is 7d to is Bd, and fine is 9d to 2s per gal.
FRUIT.—Sipco our last we have had two more cargoes
of new Patras Currants, similar in quality to the first
arrivals. The butts and caroteels aro selling at 425, and
the barrels at 435. A parcel of old damaged Currants,
consisting of 69 butts 50 caroteels and 23 barrel
Patras, 30 butts 18 caroteels and 18 barrels
Cephalonia, was offered at public sale; a greater portion
of the Cephalonia sold at 31s to 335, but the Patras were
all taken in, there being no bids. Several cargoes of
new Valencia Raisins have arrived since our last, de-
mand languid at 37s to 38s. New Turkey Figs go off
slowly at 42s to 703; Sultanas and Muscatel Raisins
dull at 60s to 70s per cwt.
INDlGO.—Several parcels of East India that wore de-
clared for auction on Tuesday next have been with-
drawn, and it is not likely that more than 14,000 chests
will now be offered. There are sellers of Sobres at 2s 4d
to 33 Bd, and Cortes 3s 8d to 4s 9d.

SALTPETRE.—To-day at public sale 491 bags Madras
were taken in at 27i 6d CO 28s for 3i to 24 per cent re-
fraction for fine quality.
TAI.Low.—To-day the sales of Tallow went off flatly
at easier rates; 350 pkgs South American at 36s to
37s 6d; 290 cks Australian mutton 38s to 39a, beef
36s 6d to 37s 9d; 33 cks of Italian 37s 6d to 37s 9d;
150 cks Petersburgh Soap taken in at 365.
Ons.—To-day at auction 260 cks Ceylon Cocoa Nut
Oil partly sold at 32s to 345; 60 tuns Polar Whale at
321 to 32/15s; 100 tuns Seal, pale 32/15s to 334 tinged
and straw 311 to 321.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, OCT. 3.—Wind S.S.E., light breeze, fine.

Arrived—Lord John Russell, from Harlingen; Bur-
germeister Hyndekoper, from Rotterdam; City of Bou-
logne, from Boulogne; Priacess Royal, from Hamburgh.
Sailed—La Belle Alliance, for Bombay; Water Lily,
for Lisbon; J. and A. Brown, for Elsinore; City of
Paris, for Boulogne; Wideliarsburg, and Raskhaden, for
the Baltic.