The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-07 00:00:00

CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY.
The Subscribers to this Railway are informed that the Plans,
!ecti^ns, and Books of Reference, were deposited at the Board of
Trade and with the Clerks of the Peace in the Counties of Devon
'td Cornwall, on the 30th ult., and that the Allotment of Shares
*III be announced in a few days.
THOMAS HARVEY, Secretary.
Ot Old Broad-street, London, Dec. 3, 1844.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
Our trade hears the appearance we have s°, _fr:
quently described during the last few months;
large and rapidly extending business i 3 going 0.1
unfortunately profits are too frequently in :*he 'nyor
os; i
Iratio of the amount of money turned ovor--i, i t
speaking generally, and our remark will al'1)-/ to
most of the great articles of import, we may 81.1
greater the business the larger the loss. „lid
Such a state of things, it is argued by manbeS" el
last long, but it would be difficult to assign reas_t. 4
for the remark ; we have always seen that when Icout 0
is readily obtainable at a small cost, merchants 8 p
anxious to extend their business, and they have sill es I
ditional inducement when manufactured goo° its I
be purchased at the low rates that have long proa
in England.
Thus we may trace to the low price of cottono(ii
v,?ry losing business of itself) much of the Pr‘
eidi
losso on commercial operations. Our large fel: ' i°4
export has been induced by gradually declicor
prices in Manchester; a shipper of goods is
dered in Nardi has found the quotation so l 14
July, that lv has ventured to ship without ordert 4
believing that, if the first operation answesni
the second would yield a handsome reolt;wes!l
again, when in September lower prices still _Ol 1
taken, the sanguine merchant has thought' to psi
his average by a further export. This, in P° 'a the
instances, has been the system acted upon, 8.130 it
result is, that low and rapidly-declining Pri;kets,
our colonial possessions, and other foreign 11'70 of
have naturally followed a sudden accutnula 1°
stocks. WO
The present Indian Mail confirms our last etl `glut
too fully in this respect, and especially is the isJI
felt in the Chinese ports. Liverpool has its of
share in this system of over-trading, and toll'Tle
course, reap its full portion of the reward• csir
import trade is not in a much more flourishing J.
dition ; the supplies we receive are mare tbac;itir
quate to the consumption that is going ml, nfiLior
such a tariff as ours, which precludes the. irnrcor
many valuable productions from abroad, we are,,
pelled to receive in payment for exports a•
°' ,F of
quantity of some descriptions of produce i 11145
require, whilst much that would be acc,rbsts
at reasonable duties is refused admissionso
from America, we have cotton to such an e
that we are compelled to maintain a stock of cei ,cp?
million of bales in the very face of the largest 'soe
that has ever been obtained ; but, if grain, t°,l/,‘,0
and other American productions, were admit °
equally favourable terms with cotton, would nos
portion of this superfluous stock of one artieleod
place to reasonable supply of other equally nee
„,somodities ? illt#
Th‘e West India interest have been taken bl4l
prise, 13,- an order admitting the slav,..nthour 70';
of the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, iintigs 911
lad other cou:stries, at the same rate of duty' ;4 vr
produce of Java, Manilla. &c., where slaver, Isis
to be unknown. We shall now very shortii,s,
supplies from the United States, and the close ssit
nexion of Cuba will enable the Americans 00
sitme at low rates the produce of that island,", 4'
England will receive much of the United States.loo
duction (of slavery, too), and this whilst politl•
sol
are sacrificing the best markets in the world for ,rt 0
lish manufactures, because they cannot OP/ it
trade with a country where slavery is toleranbo
is thought by many that this opening, throuss'
indirect channel, for slave-grown sugar, of 013100
tion, was fully intended by the framers of tiie se"
Bill, and it may probably be urged as a stronLlV
for a total remodelling of the sugar duties u 1
the next session of Parliament. f,
The trade in Cotton has become more and,'
~.1,11
and some disposition to speculate has appearslisf
this step is yet injudicious. America can well IA
to supply us at low rates, and with a crop that 00
do not dare to estimate, and of which this 03 off
will receive its full share, we can only expect tiossit
low range of quotations, and although the Let
prices may be raised for a time with the assis.,
heavy speculation, yet the consequences will„lf s,
as we have before experienced; America will) of yf,
riched at the cost of the manufacturer and witior
population of this country without any II •
benefit to the speculators generally.
ss, see.
In consequence of the increase of sickness, tP;:tsli
tinued .ravages of fever, and the increased 111 ..„,
0001
which has of late beets prevalent in the badli 147
and ill-conditioned districts chiefly inhabited nestlabouring classes in the metropolis, in Vile K
York, Bristol, Nottingham, and other erovvod
wretched town districts, Lord Ashley, the 1 isreij
of Normanby, and some of the leading cleriV
and gentlemen of all political parties, have dete re
upon calling an early public meeting at Exetefort,
with a view of forming a general association de
taining better protection for those classes, ansisst
moting such measures of improvement as clr pery
better and cheaper supplies of pure water, and Ollll
of cleansing those neglected districts—meusure/ci sa,
appear obtainable only by legislative interfereo,;o4
to be beyond the scope of the voluntary exertiu:e
being made for the promotion of public walo.loeis
and laundries, in large towns. ff/tif
THE AUTHOR OF " HILLINGDON HALL' tyirdrf
curiosity has been manifested relative to the Abe P.he es
of the clever novel, "Hillingdon Hall." ..1': ooviter
Messenger, in noticing it, observes, " This nueu'
work by the author of the humorous novel of
Cross,' which was published aboat two yeg:sbrd
There was so much true humour, and so 02"orj
writing in that novel, as to render it a matter opt 1
surprise to us that the name of the author iS re 9;
be
to the work now before us. Perhaps the, o,:a
be some want of courtesy in making public:o%g
which the writer himself desires to conceal; witibstri
can be no objection that we should mention 000(
work before us is the production of a very sec ell
and able gentleman, in whose family the posse,. 5
talents seems to follow a kind of lineal desee„,l3. 1,141
near relative, the late Lady Eldon, with s°'" ovie
peculiar qualities, was one of the cleverest woo n. 004
age, and had a clear common sense, and a str°,lkol WI
ness which, in the early days of their tner';s, ,a,
afforded Lord Eldon equal pride and hapPinet„ralLO
have merely to add that the good-humour, tifi.„l-terj,
and striking common sense of the family, srd,:-.0 "Ad
fallen in great share upon the able author of fr-lettroe
No one exceeds this writer in drawing humoroo, Age!
ters and picturesque incidents. The chief merlfo,
wofk consists in its scenes of country life, and i° ililill
and comic pictures of rural manners and habit's.l
word, the author of • Hillingdon Hall' writes re 0
l
that we wish he would oblige as with a novel evii
year. litifrotd
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BIRTHS. the ' wife
On the 3d inst., at Albury, near Guildfori,
the lote,
H. Place, Esq., of a daughter. . A Ayr of OOP'
On the 4th inst., at Rottingdeane, the wt.-burst,
Joseph John Wakehurst Peyton, Esq., of Virake
terto 4.
of a posthumous n. at
nclo°
On the 4th inst., at Lavender-terrace, T, a-
.04sar-
Mrs. William Esdaile Winter, of a son. eV°. ifff'
On the sth inst., in Manchester-street, Man „.
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the lady of Charles Jones, Esq., surgeon, of a sc'',..olo"
ter
On the 6th inst., at Charlotte-street, Forties' '
F. E. Walther, of a son. , bed .
part, PcP t)
On the 6th inst., the wifeofJ. Henry ore,
at-law, of a daughter. disivs4 Of
On the 3d inst., in Welbeck-street, Cavell o°/3
lady of the Rev. S. Paynter, of a daughter.
cP of ~,
On the 4th inst., at Snaresbrook, the lady ,ijea
Dobree, jun., Esq., of a son. dyefiticho'
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On the 4th inst., at Hampstead, the lady J
croft, Esq., of a daughter LAO
On the 4th inst., at Melehbourne Park,
of a son. i tlie
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On the 3d inst., at Liverpool, Captain hi.
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dabs 42d Royal Highlanders, to Caroline, sin ji is
Esq., of Abercromby• square, Liverpool.
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linos to to Mary Ann, widow of the 1et..e..„,0re.
Stewart, Esq., of River-street, Myddelton .ri
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On the 2d inst., Edward Solly, Esq., ,„‘,len, I.l'
On the 2d inst., the Rev. Charles x^.7
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On t!.eo
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