The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD..— Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 7s ;
clover,
do., £3 10s. to £5 55.; and straw, £1 4s. to £1 7s. per load.
Supply moderato, and trade steady, at our potations.

CUMBEELJ ND.—Meadow hay, /3 Os to £4 ss; clover
do., £3 10s. to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 7s per
lead. Both hay and straw were in fair request, at full
prices.

WRITECIIATEL.---Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 6s; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 98 per load.
Trade Bather dull, yet the quotations were well supported.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 17 11 171
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 30 25 35
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 321 25 35
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —3 la 3lk
Madrid
Cadiz 491
49.1.
Leghorn — 29 85 29 95
Genoa — 25 47k 25 521
Naples
Palermo — 1221 123
Messina — 123 123

Lisbon -
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York —

.. • . •
E.I. CO'S bls. House bls. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 231
Bombay ditto -26i 2131
Madras ditto — 26 231
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ultito
the Bth inst.

Ben ,•a1 £1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard). per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) )9 0 6

I !ACCIDENT TO LORD LEIGH.—As Lord Leigh was
driving over his estate on Thursday last, in a dog-cart, the
horse took fright, and his lordship was thrown from the
vehicle with such force that his collar-bone was dislocated.
Medical aid was promptly obtained, and the bone was set.
His lordship, we are glad to learn, has received no perma-
nent injury.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
DEATH OF MRS. WHITEHEAD.—We have been
requested to call attention to the death of this lady, which
is an event that has excited considerable attention
throughout the manufacturing districts. She died at the
advanced age of 81 years. She was widow of the late Mr.
John Whitehead, a member of the firm of Horrocks,
Whitehead, and Miller, as it then was; and the last sur-
vivor of 18 children of John Horroeks, of Bradshaw and
Edgeworth, in this county, and sister of the late John and
Samuel Horrocks, successive representatives of this borough
in Parliament, the formervirtually the founder of the cotton
trade of Preston, and the latter so long the head of the ex-
tensive concern which Mr. John Hai-rocks established in
Preston. She was a lady of most amiable disposition,
and was highly respected by all who knew her.—Preston
Chronicle.
THE TOWER.—The re-paving of that part of the
thoroughfare in the Tower which is parallel to the river, ex-
tending from the tramway of the Salt Tower, has just been
completed. The old paving has been dug up, and the earth
dug out to a depth required for laying down six inches of
concrete, on which is placed a paving of new Aberdeen
granite, five inches by three. The work, comprising 1,200
superficial yards, was completed in 12 days by the contrac-
tors, Messrs. Pratt and Sewell, and the officers of the War
cuted in the most satisfactory Department, under whose superintendence the work has
manner.--City Press.
been carried out, have reported that the work has been exe-

THE LAKES IN AUSTRALIA.--Mr. Herschel Bab-
bage, the Australian explorer, asserts that the lakes in Aus-
tralia are naturally salt, and that they are only fresh after
sufficient rain has fallen to give them depth of water. The
lakes in some parts are surrounded by bluffs of elevated
stony table-land, with occasionally a small valley of sand-
hills and scrub running down to them. At one lake there
was a peculiarity which he had noticed elsewhere. The
soil of the western side was quite '1177 and it contained a
number of fresh-water shells. The eastern bed was lows r
than the western, and was soft and boggy, and quite salt,
the surface M mend places being white with bait

Bologna, Oct. 18.
We have not been surprised at the article in the
Osserre tore, which, after long hesitation, has at
last come forward to break a lance in favour of the
Holy Inquisition. The low and trivial language of
this article is in keeping with the cause it upholds,
and in this respect leaves nothing to be desired,
• • • • it is entirely false, as correspondents
assure me, that the father was able to see his child
freely. He could see him, but only in the presence
of the rector of the Catechumens, and the child
continually declared that he wished to go back
to his father and mother. When Mortara left
Rome, they promised him that in his absence the
secretary of the Jewish committee at Rome should
be allowed to visit his son. But the moment this
individual presented himself at the mansion of the
Catechumens, not only did they refuse to admit
him, but the rector answered him from a window
of that monument of religions intolerance that
upon the return of the cardinal inspector of the
Catechumens to Rome, a formal order had been
given no longer to admit any Jew, the interdiction
being extended to the parents themselves.

The rector of the Catechumens did worse still.
About the end of last month, little Edgar was by
his order taken out for a walk in the streets of the
Ghetto, either for the purpose of bantering the
young girls you see mending their rags there, or
to make an impression on the mind of the little
fellow, by putting his comfort in contrast with the
poverty of those unfortunate people, who recall to
mind the wretched state of the Irish catholics in
the days of Elizabeth and Cromwell.
These wretched instances of low trickery lead
me to mention another. To revenge themselves
for the horror produced so justly throughout
Europe by this abominable act, our impresario of
the Piazza Maggiore (where a sort of puppet-show
is exhibited) has received orders to put into the
mouth of his :marionettes, once a week, words of
hatred against the Jews, so as to kindle religious
fanaticism. But this has been of no use ; our city
has remained impassive to such incitements.
Such are the contrivances they have recourse to.
Sensible persons here say that this affair has been
an error on the part of Cardinal Viale Prela. But
it is to be observed that the Inquisition does what
it likes and listens to no advice, being quite sure
that no one will venture to contradict it.

THE ALLEGED FRAUD IN THE PUR-
CHASE OF TIIREE PER CENTS.

Adolphus Freeman, a young man described as a
stockbroker, was brought up on remand before
Alderman Salomon s, at Guildhall, yesterday, charged
with unlawfully appropriating to his own use the
sum of £B5O, entrusted to him in April last by Mr.
Daniel Austin, a printer, of 5, lon-square, Hack-
ney, to invest in the Three per Cent. Reduced An-
nuities.

Mr. Wontner said—ln this ease, sir, I appear
on behalf of the prosecutor to state that we arc not
prepared to go on with the. case at present. At a
future day we may have further evidence.
Alderman Salomons—lt has been intimated to
me that the prisoner is not a member of the Stock
Exchange, and as he has been represented as a
stockbroker I should like to know if he is, or is not,
a member of the Stock Exchange.
Mr. Wontner—l believe it is a fact that he is not
a member of the Stock Exchange, and therefore
not entitled to act as a stockbroker.
Sergeant Webb (of the detective force)—The
prisoner has admitted to me that he is not.
Alderman Salomons—We must not act upon the
prisoner's admission alone, when the fact can be
otherwise proved.
Mr. Morgan —I appear for the prisoner;and I
may state that he is not a broker at all.
Mr. Wontner—l cannot say what we may
be able to do hereafter, but I am not now prepared
with further evidence.

Mr. Morgan—l understand it is not the inten-
tion of the prosecutor to press the case any further.
Alderman Salomons—l do not intend to dis-
charge the case. If there is no further evidence I
shall remand the prisoner.
Mr. Morgan—You cannot do so without evidence.
Mr. Martin (the chief clerk)—But we have the
evidence of the prosecutor as far as it goes.
Mr. Morgan—l think this case should be treated
as all other cases are. I was present this morning
when the prosecution was withdrawn in another
case and the prisoner discharged, and the same
practice prevails in all the metropolitan courts. It
is not customary to compel a prosecutor to go on
with a case when he wishes to withdraw from it.
Alderman Salomons—All must depend upon the
nature of the case in which such a course is per-
mitted. In some instances it would be an act of
humanity to extend such mercy to the party
charged ; but in the case before me the prisoner has
committed a double offence. He is accused of com-
mitting a wrong against a private individual, as
well as a public wrong, and I am not disposed to
deal lightly with a breach of trust of such a serious
character. This is one of those cases in which the
want of a public prosecutor is most felt, as so much
depends upon the good faith reposed in the mere
signature of a person, and it is of the utmost im-
portance that transactions comic ct ed with the public
funds should be conducted with the strictest in-
tegrity. I shall remand the prisoner for a week,
and should the evidence be sufficient I shall com-
mit him for trial ;'but, if no further evidence be then
offered, of course I cannot compel a person to pro-
secute against his inclination.
The prisoner was then remanded.

A letter from Stettin states that operations had
been commenced for pumping out, by means of a large
steam-engine, the water of the Lake Gothen, near Herings.
dorf. The complete draining of this piece of water, which
covers an extent of 3,000 acres, will, it is expected, be
effected in the Apace of a months,

The bane of this crazy paralytic century is talk,
gibberish, audible vocabulisation. Thought is
silent, inexpressible. Can ye gather dew-drops,
and plant them like oysters' tears on my lady's
boddice ? Can ye photograph, calotype, or stereo-
copise the rainbow? Will any of your infernal
machines of art lay hold of or detain for a single
unit of time a poor struggling tiny sunbeam ?
Hamlet to the players of Denmark all over. Men
who cannot play the fiddle—[that game is about
up, since the translation of Nathaniel Gow and
the Italian Paginini—let M'Culloch note the fall
of rosin !]—such men will play on—and will
insist on it too. Ye can with the bodily eye
mark the dew distilled from the womb of morning;
even the daily writers in the daily papers can
lift up their dim optics and see the tri-coloured
arch that bridges over Zodiacs and Continents; yea
a red-tape worm, crawling among Downing-street's
darkest slime, might lift its microscopic head and
behold some of those golden -solar emanations that
shade the cerulean of Heaven. Pismires may see
these things—see them, I say. But can you ace
thought, eternal, immortal, invisible ? I trove not.
Holy men of old did not gabber. Old Isaac went
forth at eventide. Did he gather his reapers
into his barn and lecture them on political
economy or any other blasphemy ? Did lie not
rather put his hands into his pockets—or whatever
other substitutes oracular post-diluvians had for
garment receptacles—Hebrew Moses and Son settle
thatpoint if you can; and so disposing of his digits
Abraham's son (by the free woman) communed with
his heart, and was still ? But great thoughts have
been written, say you. Granted, but not the
greatest. Could any collocation of words, from a
to z of English alphabetisation, give forth the soul
imaginings of Oliver, my Oliver, my peculiar
Oliver ? King David sang sweetly ; compare
" Babel's Streams" with Chevy Chase, or that busi-
ness about King Henry of Navarre by that Thomas
the Rhymer, whom Palmerston has made a baron
of—and note the difference, I pray you ; it may
do good to your soul, if you any have. Well,
then, the Shepherd Monarch saw visions, and
lie struck his harp—but could catgut, titillated
by human thumb, give forth any response
adequate to the heavinea of a prophetic eye,
that saw the chariots of Israel and the horsemen
thereof ? And when the plaintive chords of that
harp of sweetest melody soothed the soul into holi-
ness and peace, and called forth longings for the
dove-wings that flee away and be at rest, far off
from a foetid universe, could Hebrew vowels and con-
sonants embody these angelic harmonies ? They
couldn't, and here endeth the first lesson.
I divine your answer. You will say this man
dealeth in generalities. He is subjective ; we arc
objective. He is of the universal, dreamy—we of
the specific, practical. S. T. C. tried that passage
of arms with the present writer, but it was a cock
flat woald not fight—with him, at least, and cer-
tainly not with you. Have at you. I have atl a:n cl
to the general through large, varied, and kalci-
discopic acquaintanceship with the particular—l
have had terrible conflicts with human fallacies—
have smoked through and through them—and if
any man doubts this verity he is worse than an
infidel—an Act of Parliament regenerator, to wit.

I will toss you off articulately, even as an attor-
ney's or tailor's bill, all good logical reasons for
denying every creed that is not in me. I will do it.
Let your articles of indictment be writ. Be they as
long as Brougham's speech in defence of that Queen
of unhappy memory., whom Lambeth wedded to that
royal notability with swallow tails and bad odour;
or be they as dull as any protocol from the hands of
Treasury Wilson, from whom whilom, while an un-
pretendmg vender of hats in Hawick, I purchased for
twelve and a-half pieces of silver, that " go-to-mcet-
in g roof" with which I attended the philosophy class,
—falsely, so called—of Thomas Brown, said Thomas
knowing nothing of Goethe or other divine cele-
brities ; verily, these were " Tom Brown's School-
Days," and no mistake. The thought oppresseth
me that youths, having Heaven's image, receive for
their golden fees nought but sunless grass from
Dalgetty's and other Scotch cloisters, and eke hay
and stubble, rubbish, and untempered mortar at
Oxford and Cambridge, to say nothing of the peat-
bog, syllabub shovelled forth from Peel's godless
seminaries in Erin's Isle.

Now then. It is not theory. Ye gave utterances
from Brummagen last year. Voices came from
amongst the smoke, and sounds, not those of the
hammer or of James Watt's cylinders, were belched
forth from this same factory of mental conglomera-
tion. I may not go over names, they. are legion,
or topics, they exhaust the last edition of Noah
Webster, whose memory rot for its brutish word- '
hunting instinct. May every new word that he
coined sink him deep in his own Illawathan
swamps !
Look at your volumed list of subjects, as you
vain-gloriously call your index. Here arc some
specimeri bricks, culled as they catch the careless
eye of the beholder.—" Chickoried coffee, Scotch
bankriVs, penny banks, baths, washing-houses,
coffins, crime, drainage, river smells, early shop-
locking, woman occupation, short imprisonment,
alcohol, longevity, paupers, prostitution, prison
sauces, the gallows, army cloacinas, railway
murders, sermons, strikes, smallpox, &c., &c.,
&e." Could Babel itself rival such an incongru-
ous mixture. Soap and stink—fever and main-
mon—magdalens and the whipping-post, all re-
joicinr, together in one horrid pestiferous seething
cauldron ? Is society ever to make head way
through an alembic of such abominations? Any man
of indifferent honesty would sooner follow the pen-
sioners through the drains of the. Great Metropolis
(I quote James the Grant), rather than march
through Brummagem with such a crew and such
colours as you hoist. Good Jack Falstaff's leneibles
were nothing to it by a chalk of broadest page.
Who speaks? Henry Lord Brougham, member
of something in France. He hath spoken all
his life-long days, but to what purpose ? The
thing at the bar is understandable—there,
like women of the baser sort, men, or those
calling themselves so, hold out their pars
ready, when duly greased, to speak a ie.
John Doe or Richard Hoc, it mattereth not,
first come, first served. And that the way that the
chariot of justice is wheeled through the mud. But
henry hath his pension—his betters not at all well
off in that self-same matter. In Heaven's name
then let him be quiet. Or if he will do aught. let
him get him some other cow-loving Althorp with
whom he may hold sweet counsel, and let them
note the mathematics of bees, the growth of cab-
bages, or the marchings and counter-marchings of
rats—it is at least no sin to observe nature's doings;
the interpretation thereof belongeth to the pro-
phets, and he is too old for that school.
Then there's yourself. You speak of law. Why?
The horse-hair bombazeen business is not your line.
The intrigues of Cabinets were a better vocation
for you to delectate upon. Lord John, you have
seen somewhere about threescore years and ten,
and for good half a century have you dwelt in
those tents of sin called place and opposition.
Aged. Whigling, what have you been doing,
what have you done for the suffering human
kind? Home Clerk, Foreign Clerk, Helmsman,
Fogleman, everything by turns, but what reeks
it ? I pay taxes as before, and tithe of every
kind. Ducal Bedford flourishes, but the yeoman
lacketh his crust, and more than ever is baled off ly
ship-loads to Tasmania and other distant e7imes for
the bread that perisheth. Millions live among bad
smells, old bones and corruption, and are variously
whipped, transported, hanged, as after their fashion
they try to help themselves to what is going. Why

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF POLICE-
INSPECTOR BUDD.

Edwark Mark Council, a pensioner from the
Royal Engineers, and formerly employed at Wool-
wich, was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, at
Woolwich Police courtAyesterday, on a remanded
charge of attempting to murder William James
Budd, senior inspector of police at. Woolwich l )oek-
yard, by firing a loaded pistol at his head.
The prosecutor was not in attendaxce, and the
following medical certificate was handed in :

M‘' I hereby certify that Inspector Budd, of the R dii ision
police, is unable to attend the court, in consequence of
the state of prostration and debility which has resulted from
the injury inflicted on him. The wound on his face is
healing favourably. " ILLIAM STUART,
Divisional Surgeon of Police."
Mr. J. P. Cook, surgeon, attached to the Fisgard;
flag-ship, cm roborated the above certificate, and
added that the shock to the system rendered it
unsafe for Mr. Budd to attend the court at present.
Mr. Traill said, under the circumstances, he
should again remand the prisoner for a week, and
when again brought up he would be sent for trial,
as, if it was necessary, Mr. Budd might be bound
over to prosecute at the Old Bailey after the pri-
soner's committal.
Amongst the numerous documents which were
addresied by the prisoner to the coroner's jury.
whom he stated would have to sit upon his body,
is one which contains the following singular state-
ment, signed by the prisoner:—
" 3fy father, John Council, was the illegitimate son of
Councillor John Scott—afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of King's Bench at Dublin, and Earl of Clonmel. My
father's Mother was a young woman of good family, and
gave my father a good education. lie was apprenticed to a
guninaker at Dublin, in King-street, and afterwards be-
cone connected with the leaders of the Irish Rebellion in
1798. The Rirl of Clonmel was before that a good friend to

My father, but finding that he had joined as party,;ent
him a message that he (the earl) never wished to aee his face
again. However, after this, my father and several of his
friends were captured, and but for the intervention of the
Earl of Clonmel they would have been hanged."
The prisoner • then details his early history,
having enlisted into the Royal Military Artificers,
subsequently termed the Sa2pers and Miners, &e.

Roberti, the composer, has just left Paris for
Turin with a new opera. Tho subject of the opera, of
which report speaks highly, is Petrarch and Laura."
The libritte, by Dall'Ongaro, is said to be of the highest
interest, the poet having chosen the moment of Petrarch's
triumph at Avigno 1, and, with great taste and judgment,
has ininxluced the famous stanzas of Petrarch on the hopes
of Italy, for which Roberti has composed a chorus of im-
menie power and effect. The role of Laura was written,
bath by poet and composer, expressly for Mdlle. Vaneri, of
the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, to whose talent and per-
aortal appearance it is said to be admirably adapted.
Calzado has engaged with the composer to bring out this
epara, during the season, in Paris.—Court Jot rd al.
A GIRL ROLLED TO DEATII.—A few days ago
a young girl, not more than 14 years of age, named
tearful
Thomas, met with a
tearful but instantaneous death at the
Cyfarthfa Ironworks where she was employed. In the
course of her work her clothes caught fire, and with her
burning dress she ran to the rolls where there is always
fbe ther
legs revolving
running water, to put out the flames. In doing so, how-
ever, her dress was caught by the spindles, and in aninstant
the poor creature was dragged between
se
rollers,tos ednapn
tod literally t cgrael
lb; crashedheight. to
of pieces,eon rthe d ath
one
was beingin-
stantaneous,tb eh
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the dreadful affairrt
fragments of her body were
quest held over them, the customary
geverderietanbid,naing in
turned.

THE OFFICE OF CLERK TO THE JUSTICES IN THE
CITY.—In consequence of the.reference made to the officers'
and clerks' committee of the corporation to inquire into the
nature of the duties and the emoluments of the office of clerk
of the peace, the delay
of a few weeks has taken place since
the death of the late holder of the office, Mr. John Clark,
deceased. That, report, however, being brought up and sanc-
tioned, has been ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to
every member of the court. It details the duty of the office,
which are numerous, and in which it does not propose or sug-
gest any alteration. Nor does it disturb in the least degree
the principle of remuneration, which heretofore has been by
foes, the sums paid by licensed victuallers, billiard and baga-
telle keepers, and the vendors of game, hemg the chief items
of receipt, the victuallers alonefurnishing the principal sums
on the renewal of their licenses and annual transfer of their
property in cases of change cf occupancy. Besides these there
arc amounts received for fees in the shape of copies of legal
documents, the sums realised by which are comparatively of
a trifling amount. The holder of the appointment has to
pay an assistant officer about £lOO per annum out of the
proceeds of the office. The election will take place at the
ensuing Court of Common Council (Friday next, at two
o'clock). We do not hear that any other candidate hes
appeared as an applicant for the situation besides Mr. G ood-
man, the chief clerk to the magistrates at the Mansion-
house ; nor indeed, so far as can be gleaned, is any opposi-
tion expected to the return of that gentleman as the
successor of Mr. Clark.
The Royal mail steamer Trent, Capt. Woolcott,
left Soulha epton yesterday for the West Indies, via Ma-
deira. She was built in 1841, and is one of the original
ships possessed by the Royal Mail Company. She has un-
dergone a dim nigh overhaul, has been fitted up with new
boilers, and her speed has been got up to 101. She is gone
out to carry the mtereolonial mails, taking out about (.0
passengers, chiefly for Madeira, and a considerable amount
of of rgo. AmoilgA h'X passengers were Mr.v,Sthtodo
isdaartt,
life consul of Madeira ; Admiral Lempriere, and the two
Mr,
:uxrecceuedineed,
iiitisswFx.iftwaesccirauesc,:inasittushicrs opf
bLoyrdwEnbriun.ingto.:a,
pre-
sent in Madeira in ill-health. Mr. Staid rt is tile