The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

THE EitTN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINCa) OCTOBER, 4, 1844.

for their acceptance, will reject so great a benefit.
What the Channel Islands are may be easily told.
What they would be with augmented wealth and
improved harbours no man can imagine who
does not fully appreciate—as who does ?—all the
wonders that are about to be developed by steam na-
vigation. We are firmly convinced, from all we see,
the value of these islands would be multiplied tenfold
to the islanders themselves within a very few years
of their perfect incorporation with England; while
the gain to the empire, even under the head of abolish-
ing the contraband trade, would be enormous.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
28th day of September,lB44.
ISSUE DEPARTILIINT.

Notes issued ... 28,362,830

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and

1 bullion
Silver bullion

£28,362,830
M. MA
Dated the 3d day of OctoE

1 £28,362,830
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
)er, 1844.

BANKING Dl

- -
Proprietors'capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest 3,568,518
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,savings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-

counts)
Other deposits 8,286,772
Seven day and
other bills 1,052,280

X 33,470,8081

M. MA.
Dated the 3d day of Octot

£33,470,405
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
er, 1844.

TIIE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, OcT. 4, 1844.

4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain E. 0.
Wrench, from half-pay 9th Light Dragoons to be Cap-
tain, vice Eliot, deceased; Lieut. G. Rochfort to be Cap•
Lain, by purchase, vice Wrench, who retires ; Cornet
R. Souter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rochfort;
Ensign M. M'Creagh, from the 49th Foot, to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Souter, Oct. 4.
17th Regiment of Foot—Ensign li. P. Onslow, from
the 38th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Belton, whose appointment has been cancelled, Oct. 4.
31st Foot—Lieutenant F. Spence to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Brevet Major Urinston, deceased ;
Ensign J. S. Gould, to be Lieutenant, vice Spence,
June 28 ; Ensign C. T. Cormick to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Gould, whose promotion, on 23d
July, has been cancelled, July 28 ; E. W. Kingsley,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Cormick, Oct. 4.
38th Foot—C. Clerke, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Onslow•, appointed to the 17th Foot,
Oct. 4.

43d Foot—Major-General the Hon. Sir 11. R. Paken-
ham, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Lord
Keane, G.C.8., deceased, Sept. 9.
49th Foot—C. G. Richardson, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice M'Creagh, appointed to the 4th Dragoon
Guards, Oct. 4.

57th Foot—Ensign J. H. Chads to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Morphett, appointed to 53d Foot,
Oct. 3 ; Ensign R. T. S. Boughton to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Pitt, appointed to 80th Foot,
Oct. 4; J. Hassard, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Chads, Oct. 3; E. J. B. Brown, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Boughton, Oct. 4.
65th Foot—Captain C. E. Gold to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Smyth. who retires ; Lieut. R. Newenham to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Gold ; Ensign H. Scott to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Newenham ,• S. Blake,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Scott, Oct. 4.
70th Foot--Lieut. T. F. H. Alms to be Adjutant, vice
Evatt, who resigns the adjutantcy only, Oct. 4.
77th Foot—Ensign G. L. Rathborne to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Morritt, who retires; G. R. Becher,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rathborne,
Oct. 4.

85th Foot—Lieut. W. Todd to be Captain, without
purchase, vice O'Reilly, deceased; Ensign W. Ogilvy to
be Lieutenant, vice Todd, Aug. 13; R. P. Floyd, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Ogilvy, Oct. 4.
BREVET.—Captain E. 0. Wrench, of 4th Dragoon
Guards, to be Major in the Army, May 27, 1825 ;
Brevet Major E. 0. Wrench, of 4th Dragoon Guards, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, June 28, 1838.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex.
C. Shirley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Sept. 21
1844.

175 for good mid, 18s to 20a for good, and 215 to 24s
for fine. For Sago Flour prices keep high, but buyers
are cautious in thir proceedings, and 240 bags auction
only partly sold at 20s per cwt. Arrowroot is abundant,
and prices consequently are kept low ; the supply ex-
ceeds the demand.

COFFEE.-Importers of West India have been anxious
to realise this week, and the market has been largely
supplied, indeed the quantity brought forward has been
more than sufficient for the demand, the home trade
have purchased with reluctance, and a decline on
former rates of is have been accepted for middling,
and 2s to 4s per cwt for the lower sorts, of
which the supply has nearly all consisted. This
afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with little attention, and
1,120 bags at public sale were only partly sold, at a
decline of 2s per cwt; making the fall fur the week
4s to ss. Ord mixed sold at 51s, good ordinary 52s 6d
to 53s 6d, real good ord 54s to 54s 6d, fine ord
57s 6d, fine fine ordinary Plantation 69s 6d, triage 35s to
47s low 17s 6d. Of Rio 116 bags 13 casks were offered,
and
a small part only sold at 52s for low middling, and
423 to 46s per cwt for fine fine ordinary. The market
closed very flat for all sorts of Coffee.
TEA.-There has been more activity in the market
this week, merchants have shown firmness, and none has
been brought to public sale. For Congou a good demand
has prevailed, but no improvement has taken place in
prices, still there is nothing offering upon lower terms,
sales at 10d to 10id common, lld to 1 lid good common,
Is to Is Id but mid rather strong, is lid to is 7d
blackish leaf, and Is 8d to 2s 7d tor Pekoe flavour.
Tvrankay common selling at Is lid to is 2d, brightish
leaf is 3d to is Bd, and Hyson kind is 9d to 2s 6d per
lb. Scented Orange Pekoe 3s 24d to 3s 3d per lb. You-
chong at 6d to 10d per lb. In Souchong there has been
rather more doing. Imperial and Gunpowder have met
with free purchasers at high rates. Hyson has been
much inquired fur, and full prices are offered. For some
parcels of Young Hyson stiff rates have been obtained.
In Caper the operations are upon a more extended scale.
COCOA.-An increased inquiry has prevailed for West
India, and fully former rates are offered, but the supply
at market being scanty, business has been restricted.
The demand is increasing for foreign Cocoa.
SPICES.-This afternoon black Pepper met with little
attention, and 1,000 bags at public sale were all taken
in at 2isl to 2-d per lb for common light Sumatra, being
the former value; 150 bags Pimento sold at stiff rates-
good fetched 4;id to 4id, mid 4d to 44d, low 3id to aid;
2 casks Mace taken in at Is 3d per lb for low quality,
and 48 bags of Amboyna Cloves at is 4d per lb fur bold
but dingy, being above the value.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-There has been an
increased demand for Jamaica Rum this week ; 23 to 28
per cent over proof fetched 3s 9d to 3s lid, 30 to 34
over 4s to 4s 2d, 36 to 39 over 4s 4d to 45 6d, and small
parcels of superior 53 to 5s 6d per gallon. Leewards
2s 4id to 2s 5d per gallon, proof strength, but the
demand has been only for small parcels. Demerara
at 3s 2d to 3s 6d per gallon, for strong quality.
Calcutta at 2s 3d, proof strength. In Brandy the trans-
actions are upon a more extended scale, but not at
higher rates:-Cognac, best brands of the vintage, 1838
selling, hhda 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1839, hhds 4s
I Id, pans 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ;
ditto 1841, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s
6d, puns 4s 4d, low 2s lld to 3s 3d, and mid 3s 4d to 3s
10d por gallon. Geneva at is 9d to Is 10d, and fine for
duty 2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits at 10s 4d per
gallon, cash.
RICE.-The demand has been good for Bengal Rice
by private contract sales of middling white made lls
to 11s 6d, good mid to good 12s to 12s 6d per cwt.
The supply at market is not sufficient fur the wants
of the trade, none has been offered at auction. Madras
yellow fetching 8s 6d to 9s per cwt. Java is mach
wanted, sales privately made at 83 6d to 9s for yellow,
and 9s 6d to 11s for white, at which holders are firm.
Cleaned Rice is in fair request, Patras 13s to 17s, and
Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt.
Isanco.-Prices are supported for East India, but
there has been little business transacted in any descrip-
tion this week. The quarterly sale will commence on
Tuesday ; the quantity declared is 12,951 chests ;
Spanish is not much wanted but in the value no varia-
tion has taken place.
Oms.-In Olive Oil there has been rather more busi-
ness transacted at firm rates ; sales of Gallipoli made at
441 to 454 Spanish 411 to 431, and Barbary 39/ to
401 per tun. Palm Oil is dull of sale. Cocoa
Nut has been in increased request; 53 buts 4 hhds
at auction fetched 27s 3d to to 29s 6d for Cey-
lon, and 27s 6d to 28s per cwt for Cochin China.
Southern has been in brisk demand, and the rates paid
are 10s to 20s above those previously quoted ; 108 tuns
at auction went briskly-fine at 32/10s to 33155, good
321 to 32155, mid 31/ to 31/15s, low 23/ 15s to 30/, very
ordinary 261 to 27/, a few lots Voreign in bond
321 to 33/ 15s. In Seal the transactions are upon
a large scale at prices 20s to 30s higher-pale
selling by private contract at 351 10s to 361 ; 25 tuns
brown Seal at public sale fetched 261 to 29/. Newfound-
land Whale Oil at 30/ to 31/ ss, anti inferior
271 to 29/ ss. Cod at 33/ 15s to 34/ per tun. Sperm
has been in increased request ; at auction ,S 5 tuns
fine American sold at 88/ 15s to 891 ; 4 tans of
British of rather inferior quality at 871 15s to B'B/ 15s
per tun. Linseed Oil at 24s to 24s 3d per cwt. ,y,ape,
pale at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 358 to 353 6d per ewt.
This afternoon 28 buts 114 pipes 290 hhds Ceylon C oena
Nut at public sales were nearly all taken in at 27s to LI9A,
but 344 casks of Palm were partly sold at 23s to 27s per
cwt for low to fine.

TALLOW. —lmporters of Russian hare Leen more in-
clined to realise this week, but submitting to a reduction
on former rates of 3d per cwt ; on the spot, buyers have
been tempted to come forward more freely, and a fair
business has been transacted at 40s 91 to 41s for old,
and at 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt for new P.Y. Candle.
This afternoon at public 461 packages of South Ameri-
can were sold at 43s to 39s Gd, 130 packages of New
South Wales at 396 to 42s 3d, and 62 casks East India
at 42s Gd to 44s per cwt.

FACILITIES FOR RAILWAYS IN
IRELAND.

From the geological and topographical details re-
garding the surface of the country, it will be easily
understood that Ireland is most favourably circum-
stanced for the construction of railways. The great
limestone plane which occupies an area in the inte-
rior of the country of not less than 10,000 square
miles, presents facilities for railway engineering
scarcely to be equalled. In the north and south the
mountain ranges afford some obstacles, which, how-
ever, are not beyond the usual run of engineering
difficulties, that are every day overcome in such un-
dertakings, and there is hence no physical reason why
this country should not rapidly acquire an efficient
system of railway intercourse. In nothing is the dif-
ference between Ireland and England more marked
than in the extent of navigable rivers, of canals, of
railroads possessed by two countries.
Independent of common roads, of which I do not
know any estimate, there are in
England. Ireland
Canals (statute miles) 2,478 . . . .372 •
Navigable Rivers ... 1,820 380
Railroads 1,842.... 65

What renders this contrast the more remarkable is,
that the great majority of these facilities of internal
intercourse are spread over a surface not greater than
that of Ireland. In fact, the inhabitants of almost
every district of the sister kingdom have pla,:ed at
their very doors the means of the most perfect access
to markets for their produce and the material% of
their manufactures. They are thus enabled to pro-
secute their various departments of industry under
the most economical conditions. Time is money—
labour is money—the canal, the river, or the rail-
road, which places its facilities at the disposal of the
manufacturer or farmer in England, is an increase of
money price for what he brings to market, which
enables him to undersell and ruin the Irish artisan.—
Dr. Kane's Work.

POLICE. INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A young man, named John Hitchcock, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having stolen a
great number of pairs of boots in the house of Mr.
Smith, of Barge-yard.
The prisoner, who was in the employment of a
tradesman in the same building, was in the habit of
going into the prosecutor's warehouse, and having in-
curred the suspicion of one of the shopmen, was
_seized and searched, and a pair of boots, which were
identified as the prosecutors, was found in a basket
which he was carrying. The policeman into whose
custody he was given found upon him several dupli-
cates for boots pledged at a great variety of places,
and those boots were ascertained to be the property of
Mr. Smith.—The prisoner was committed for trial.
TwAirls, named Ellen Hart and Emma West,
who had very much the appearance of country-bred
girls, were charged with having plundered a shop in
Greenwich of about thirty yards of. doe-skin cloth,
value 4/.

Mr. Lowe, jun., who is connected with the shop
which was plundered, stated that the piece of cloth
was exposed at the door, and had been suddenly missed
from the place. The firm had been very often robbed
by shoplifters.
One of the servants of the concern stated, that in
consequence of information which he received, he
went to the railroad, and saw the two prisoners go
into one of the carriages. The train was just about
to start at the time, and witness got into another of
the carriages, determined to follow and cause the pri-
soners to be apprehended. Upon the arrival of the
train at the London terminus he saw the two pri-
soners get out and take a cab, into which they both
went, and as soon as the cab reached Gracechurch-
street he directed a policeman to take them into cus-
tody. At the bottom of the cab the piece of cloth was
found. It was identified.

The prisoners both declared that a woman had
given the piece of cloth to them at Greenwich to take
for her to Aldgate-pump, where she promised to meet
them.

The policemen present, upon being asked whether
they knew the prisoners, replied that they had never
seen either of them before.

The prisoners declared that they had never before
been in such a place, and that they did not know
what it was to be before a magistrate. They were
committed for trial, and upon being introduced to the
lodge at Newgate, were immediately recognised as
persons who had been tried at the Central Criminal
Court for shoplifting, at which act it was stated they
were particularly clever.

DUTCH PAPERS.
THE CONVERSION.

The ITAGUB, SF.PT. 30.—The official journal pub-
lishes to-day a Royal Resolution, dated the 28th of
September, regulating the drawing by lottery of the
second series of bonds of the national debt bearing
interest at 5 per cent., which are to be repaired or
converted into inscriptions in the great book of the
national debt at 4 per cent. The amount of the in-
scriptions of two series to be designated by lot for re-
payment or conversion, is fixed at a capital of 25 mil-
lions of florins, but it may be increased to 27 millions,
if it appears at the time of drawing that this increase
will prevent the division of the same inscription, or
inscriptions, under the same letter.

. -
The drawing will take place on Saturday, the 2d of
November, at seven in the evenjng.
The holders of the bonds drawn, who do not desire
to convert their stock into 4 per cent., are to declare
their intention at the latest on the 28th of December.
The holders of bond 3 at 5 per cent. may exchange
their capital fur inscriptions in the great book at 4
per cent., without previous declaration, after Monday,
the 7th October, 1844, till this commission is re-
voked; but, at all events, not after Saturday, 26th
October, at two in the afternoon, in the form pre-
scribed by the 9th article of the Royal Resolution of
Bth August, 1844.
The price of the stock bearing interest at 4 per
cent., which will be issued on the let of October,
1844, in exchange for the capital converted by virtue
of the preceding article; and the interest on which
wil commence from that date, is fixed at 96} per
cent., consequently the holders of every 100 florins
converted will receive three florins in fifty in money,
without any other indemnity for the difference of in-
terest.

ROTTJRDAM, SIFT. 26.—A private letter from
Batavia says, " 300 hogshead of wine, brought by the
Fran& ship the Grand Duquesne, from Bordeaux
direct, were by the order of the Governor-General
seised by the police, and emptied into the sea. These
were not only adulterated, but mixed with deleterious
ingredients." 'We hope that this will be favourable in
future to the sale of wine from Holland direct, and
will contribute, when the unfortunate commercial
treaty with France expires, to prevent its being re-
newed, as it makes the importation of all French
articles in French ships from the mother country
direct absolutely impossible, and in particular has
caused the demand for wines from Holland wholly to
cease.

B➢RLIX, S➢PT. 25.—1 t is said that the King will
make but a short stay here, intending to go to Stock-
holm, to be present at the coronation of King Oscar,
and that he will be attended by Baron Alexander
Von Humboldt.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 1.

BURSTING OF A STEAM-BOILER

SALFOUD, WIIDNESDAY. -An explosion of an
alarming nature took place this morning at Islington-
mill, in this township, which resulted in blowing up
a portion of the building, killing one man, andscalding
two or three others. The mill in question in the pro-
perty of Mr. Bateman, Kuypersley-hall, Staffordshire,
but is occupied by Mr. W. Norris, cotton-spinner and
manufacturer. The engine had just been set in
motion, and had not made above a score of revolutions,
before a tremendous explosion took place, which
shook the mill and all the buildings round about.
The rooms over the boiler-house were rent open,
the bricks and mortar flying about in all directions,
and one of the steam-boilers was seen to rise quickly
from its bed and make a complete summerset
into the field adjoining the premises, carrying
down the wall of the boiler-house in its progress.
The people in the mill were completely astounded.
Bricks, mortar, and broken pieces of beams were
flying about in all directions. One large piece of
timber was blown upon the top of the factory, which is
seven stories high; the distance being upwards of 40
yards from the seat of the explosion, whilst slates and
bricks were blown into streets a distance of 200 yards.
Of course there was an immediate cessation from
work, and a search made far the parties who were sup-
posed to have suffered from the explosion. The watch-
man, Atkins, was found amidst some rubbish, with
his left leg broken, and his face frightfully disfigured.
He was alive, but insensible, and was being taken to
the Manchester Infirmary, but died on his way there.
Michael Tyman, the fireman, and a man named
Tipping, who were also near the spot at the time,
were found slightly injured.
Upon examining the boiler it was found to be per-
fectly sound; but at the upper end there was a rent
in the flue, the result, doubtless, of insufficiency of
water in the boiler at the time of the explosion.