The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

EXPORTS.

Cotton Wool—The pLrchases amount to 5,950 bales
and 2,675 candies, chiefly for the English market, at a
considerable reduction on the former extravagantly high
rates, dealers having been induced to accept of much
lower prices owing to the large supplies daily coming to
market, and the last advices from England giving a com-
paratively unfavourable account of the home markets for
the staple. The exports during the present year to Eng-
land and China have been respectively about one-eighth
larger, and one-fourth smaller than during 1849.
Opium—About 800 chests of the drug will be taken
on to China by the steamer starting for Hong-Kong on
the 19th. At the date of our last the price of opium
was 1,250 r. per chest. Last advices being unfavourable
the price has fallen to 1,175 r.
Freights—The rates of the day are 21. 12s. 6d. to
21. 15s. to Liverpool; to London, 21. 12s. 6d. per ton;
end to China, Sr. to 9r. per candy. These rates have
been ruling during the past two days, being a consider-
able improvement on those obtainable a week back,
veral thousands of bales of cotton having then been
shipped for both London and Liverpool at 21. 10. There
are now six vessels on the berth fur London and 10 for
Liverpool.
Exchange—The rates of the day are—six months'
sight, 2s. 1-14.; and 60 days' sight, 2s. Oid., with a ten-
dency to rise still higher, as the market is abundantly
supplied with first class paper. The transactions for the
present Mail have been to a limited extent.

• CANTON MARKET, SEPT. 26.
IMPORTS.

Cottons,—The account of high prices ruling in Eng-
land brought by last mail has induced importers to hold
for higher rates, while the disturbed state of the pro-
vince preveats the Chinese from increasing their stocks.
Raw Cotton—The sales of Bombay amount only to
14,000 bales, at 7.0 to 7.3 for No. 1, 7.7 to 8.0 for No.
2, 8.0 to 8.5 fur No. 3. Bengal we quote 8.1 to 8.4;
sales, 1,200 bales. Of Madras some 4,400 bales have
been sold, 7.0 to 7.6 and 8.1 to 8.5.
Cotton Yarn has declined. We quote Nos. 16 to 26,
dolls. 25 to dolls. 26 50; 28 to 32, dolls. 26 50 to dolls.
28; 38 to 42, dolls. 27 50 to dolls 29. Stock, 3,900 bales,
against 6,560 at the same period last year.
Long Cloths—During the month 40,000 pieces grey,
and 15,000 pieces white have been disposed of, at, for
the former, 565. weighing 5} to 51 catties, dolls. 2 5 to
dole 2 20; 645. to 665. weighing 61 to 64 catties, dolls.
2 35 to dolls. 2 40; 68s. to 725. weighing 71 to 7i catties,
dolls. 2 55 to dolls. 2 60; and whites dulls. 2 to dolls. 2
10 for 545. to 585., dolls. 2 40 to dolls. 2 60 for 645. to
663, and dolls. 2 70 to dolls. 2 95 for 68s. to 725.
American Goods—ln drills no transactions are re-
ported; prices nominal at dolls. 2 20 for 30 yards, and
dolls. 290 foi 40 yards. We quote sheeting dolls. 2 30.
4,000 pee. jeans sold at dolls. 2 70 to dulls. 2 20.
Woollens-:—First quality goods remain as last reported,
but inferior have declined.

Spanish §tripes.—Our quotations are, scarlet dolls.
1 20, purple, dolls. 1 10, dark blu-, 98c., black 82c.,
brown, dulls. 1 11, light blue, dolls. 1 02, yellow, dolls.
1 02, green.93c., ash, dulls. 1 03, geutionella, dolls. 1 45
fur best marks; and other qualities 20 to 25 cents lower;
sales 6,000 pus.
Long E4ls-6,000 peg. of these have been also disposed
of et the following quotations:—Scarlet, dolls. 7 60;
purple,
dolls. 70; 6dark blue, dolls. 7 45; black, dolls.
5 95; brown, dulls. 7 80; light blue, dulls. 7 60; yellow,
dolls. 7 25; green, dabs. 6 70; ash, dolls. 6 05; gentian,
dolls. 7 10 for first quality, and other goods at 25 to 30
cents lover.
Genitors-400 pcs. English and 200 pcs. Dutch have
been sold at dolls. 20 to dolls. 2'3 50 and dulls. 16 to
dolls. 21 respectivaly.
Habit Cloths,-Dolls. 1 10 to dolls. 1 20.
Medium Cloths—Dolls. 1 30 to dolls. 1 40, and dolls.
2 10 to doll!. 2 50.

La,tings—Dolls. 6 75 to dolls. 7 for 25 inch, and dolls.
13 to dolls. 16 for 31 inch goods.
Metals—lron—Nailrod. dolls. 2 40 to dolls. 2 60;
hoop, dolls. 2 60 to dolls. 2 80; bar, dolls. 2 50 to dolls.
2 60; small round, dolls. 3 80 to dolls. 4; wire, dolls.
725 to' dolls. 8 25. Lead—American, dolls. 660 to
dolls. 6 70 nominal; English, sales, 1,000 piculs, at
dolls. 640 to dolls. 6 50. Spelter, dolls. 5 10 to dolls.
5 20; tin plates, dolls. 9 50 to dolls. 10, sales 300 boxes;
steel, dolls. 4 to dolls. 4 80; tin, no stock.
Ginseng—Dolls. 70 to dolls. 90 for crude; dolls. 120ito
doll,. 140 for clatified.
Cochineal--IJays, dolls. 80 to dolls. 90; Mexican, dolls.
130 to dolls. 140; stock moderate.
Straits and Indian Produce—Rice—Arracan, dolls.
1 30.. - -- -

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Rattans;-4,000 piculs sold at dolls. 2 80 to dells. 3 50
for Straits, and dolls. 3 70 to dolls. 3 80 for Banjer-
massing.
Pepper—Sales, 300 piculs, at dolls. 640 to dolls. 650.
Bretlennt —in the beginning of the month, 3.500
piculs sold at dolls. 3. Present quotations, dolls. 2 75.
Sandalwood—Sales of all descriptions, 3,200 piculs.
We quote South Sea dolls. 470 to dolls. 5 10. Sinde,
doll. 2 70 to dolls. 2 90; Malabar, dolls. 9 to dolls.
10 50; and Timor, dolls. 3 80 to dolls. 5 80.
Opium—A considerable demand for Patna has ex-
isted throughout the month ; previous to the 31st ult.,
prices were as high as 465 dolls., but on the arrival of
the Clippers with the 9th sale drug, they immediately
fell to dolls. 447 50 to dolls. 451 50. In Malwa, there Is
no change to note. Turkey has declined. To-day's
quotations are—Malwa 590 dolls., Patna dolls. 451 50,
Benares dolls. 457 50, Turkey 440 dolls.

EXPORTS.
Teas—Black—Throughout the month the tea mar-
ket hai been in a state of considerable activity, a brisk
demand prevailing for-all kinds of tea. and generally
at full rates, the exceptions being Ning Yong and Kokue
Wloonas, which have been settled at easier rates.
Congou—The total quantity bought since the opening

, . .
iof tho market is about 330 chops at 15,-i teals for fair;`
18 to 20 taels for good second class Mining, ai:d 241tW.
26 taels for finest first class. Stock in Canton about 160
to 170 chops, and fresh arrivals are stopped by the dia.
turbances in the interior of the country.
Souchong-35 chops in all sold st 154 tacis for cora-
mon, 22 taels fbr'air, and 26 to 32 -teals' for good to
flue—leaving &6 chops in stock.
Flowery Pekoe— About 1 000 chests sold during the
month at 32 to 45 for flowery to • good flower;, 2,500
chests left.

Plain Orange Pokor-800 to 1:000 'half•ch6sts taken
fbr America, ut 18 to 21 (anis, Ica‘inz I,OCO.
Plain Caper--3,000 b,xes and 400 half-chests fog' the
Cape, t 18 to 19 tael2; about 100 boxes in stock.
Ankoi Souchonr, und Pouchong-2,500 half.ebestg
taken for the United States, at 18 to 19 tads, leaving in
stock about 5,000.

sing Yong and Kokue—Fully 20,000 packages have
been taken, principally for the United States, at
22 taels for Sing Yong Oolong, and 23 to 26 taels
for superior to fine Kokue Oolon'. The stock in Can-
ton is about 35,000 hall•cheste, and the quantity arriv-
ing small.

Scented Orange Pekoe and Caper—The demand for
these kiads still continues, a quantity equivalent to 5,000
half-chests for the former being settled during the month
at 16 to 20 taels for fair to good in half-cheats, and 24 to
32 taels for fine to finest in boxes. Of the latter,
caper, 6000 boxes have been taken at 16 to 23 taels for
fair to fine.

Green—Cauton Young Hyson; nearly 5,000 half-chests
ere reported st 12 to 15 taels fur fair to good, and 22 to
30 taels for the best. Of gunpowder, 5,000 boa-cheats,
at 13 to 15 taels for common to fair, and 20 to 25 taels
for good.
Raw Silk—No. 1. 298 dolls.; No. 2, 272 dells.; pl.
low, 262 dolls. to 288 dolls.

Silk Piece goods—No change.
Cassia—Sales continue for America at dolls. 16 25.
Camphor.—Dolls. 14 50.

Rhubarb—No. 1, 55 dolls.
Cassia Oil-203 dolls.

Annie Oil-108 dolls.
Vermillion-47 dolls.
Star Annie—Dells. 10 75.
Cassia Buds-18 dolls.

POPULARITY OF BISHOP
PHI L LPOTT S.
At Stokeinteignhead, on the 7th inst., the Rev.
Nutcombe Gould, rector of that parish, held his
tithe dinner, and about twenty-seven tithe-payers
and their representatives sat down to a substantial
repast at the Rectory. The Rev. Mr. Gould
presided ; Mr. Langley, the attorney, was vice-presi-
dent. The company was respectable, those paying
under 21. having been cut off from the privilege of the
dinner. After the cloth was removed, grog was sup-
plied, and the chairman gave as the first toast " The
Church." The Vice-Chairman, Mr. Langley, then
gave "The Queen." As the company had not drunk
the Chair's toast, that gentleman added " Church and
Queen," and the toast was given in that form. The
next toast was " Prince Albert and the Royal
Family." After these preliminaries had been ar-
ranged and completed, the Vice-Chairman gave the
health of Mrs. Gould. Mr. Gould, in reply, thanked
the company for drinking his wife's health, and with
that domestic blessing in his house, appeared to be re-
minded of the hard lot of the Roman Catholic clergy-
man, who is not allowed the solace of the domestic tie,
and naturally came at once upon the subject of the
Popish aggressions; whereupon Mr. Tuckett, a farmer,
said, " I:'s all the fault of the clergymen—look at
Mr. Maskell, he not only went astray, but led his
flack astray." Mr. Gould replied—" Although a few
had gone astray, he trusted that the remaining p
tier' would stand true to the Church, and that a friend
of his at Torquay was drawing up a petition, which
was well calculated to have a beneficial effect in the
present crisis ; that he should have a copy of that pe-
tition, and would wait upon each of them personally
for their signature, when he trusted he should meet
with that reception which he expected from all lovers
of the Church.

Mr. TUCKETT—HOW about the Bishop, Mr. Gould
Mr. GOULD—In reply to that observation, said
whatever their private opinions about the Bishop
might be, he could not allow any person to sit at his
table, and express anything derogatory to the Bishop's
character.

As soon as the Rev. Gentleman had sat down, the
whole of the company arose and immediately left the
table, in the most marked and emphatic manner.
Some of them had just mixed their second glass of
.grog; others had got half way through that moderate
manifestation of the tithe dinner, and every one seemed
to be animated with the same feeling. They were
determined not to be tongue-tied by the parson,
and at the same time not to make any rude return
for his hospitality. They retired to the " Church
Inn" and discussed the general question as to the po-
which the clergy held with regard to those
Romish aggrisssions, and
.the conclusion of the ma-
jority appeared to be, that too many of the clergy
would turn over to the Pope at the present moment,
if they could take the loaves and fishes with them.
We have received this statement from a highly re-
spectable party, who was one of the guests at the
dinner, who witnessed the spirit which prevailed, and
who thinks it right, that the Bishop should know,
through the medium of the papers, what his neigh-
boors think about him and the Church generally, and
that he would be more likely to be edified by the in-
formation, on receiving it through the present chan-
nel.— Western Times.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
(From the Derbyshire courier.)
We beg leave to call the attention of our readers to
the address delivered by the Rev. Mr. T wells at the
currency meeting at Derby, of which a full report
appears in another part of the Courier. Many
of the facts referred to in that address, de-
serve, we think, the serious consideration of
thinking men. Not to go far back into
the historical sketch of the monetary system
which Mr. Twelts laid before the meating, take
the financial position of this country en the ac-
cession of William the Third in 1.689. " The
revenue of the United Kingdom, as stated by
Mr. Macaulay, was about 2 000,0001. per annum,
or 165,000/. less than the amount collected,
principally by pennies, by our post-office in the
year 1849.'' The Bank of England was chartered in
1693, and from that period a gradual increase took
place, by means of the bank paper and that of private
banks, in the circulating medium of the country.
Now under this system the progress made by the
country was considerable ; and this was quite in ac-
cordance with the opinion expressed by Mr. Hume,
in his Essay on Money. " The good policy of the
Magistrate," said he, " consists only in keeping it
(money), if possible, still increasing; because by that
means he keeps alive a spirit of industry in the nation,
and increases the stock of labour, in which consists aU
tower and riches." The medium of exchange, then,
tadergoing a gradual increase, during the period be-
t mean 1693 and 1775, the wealth of the country in-
creased also. "In 1775 the revenue had increased
to 10,038,000/."—i. e., to five times the amount of
the revenue in 1689, when William the Third began
his reign. But in 1793 the revenue nearly equalled
eighteen millions, or almost nine times its amount in
1689. Ex the year 1796 the total expenditure of
the nation, including the interest on the debt, had
risen to 37,000,0001.; and of this expenditure Mr.
Pitt said in Parliament that it was so large that " it
never had been equalled, aud probably never would be
surpassed." And yet within twenty years the actual
expenditure of the country was three times the
amount of what it was ha 1796. For 1816 the
actual expenditure amounted to the enormous sum of
111,045,249/.! Now it is quite evident that to enable
a country to raise such a sum as thie some most power-
ful agent must have been called into operation. This
agent we have no hesitation in saying was a Repre-
sentative Paper Money. But observe, we do not mean
to say that Paper Money, and nothing but Paper
Money, will make a nation rich and powerful.
We have many and great advantages for which
to thank Providence in this country. Our insular
position has great advantages—the natural produc-
tions of our soil are varied and valuable, the religious
light and liberty (may they never be less) with which
this nation was early favoured, the freedom of our
institutions—all these have doubtlessly contributed
largely to our national greatness. And let us not
omit the indomitable energy, perseverance, and in-
dustry of our people. For if, as Adam Smith says,
labour is the source of all wealth, a people able and
willing to work are the primary source of a nation's
greatness. We take, therefore, all the advantages
which we possess, and we allow them all full value, and
then we say that {what the paper-money system did was
this—it called forth all the nation's energies, developed
all its capabilities, and expanded all its resources.
Just as good roads—or railways, the perfection
of. .roads—improve a district by affording greater
facilities of communication, so does a representative
money, whether made of paper or of anything else,
improve the condition of a country by increasing its
facilities of making exchanges. We say a represen-
tative money, because if Hume is right, as we believe
he is, in saying that it is important that money should
be kept increasing, it is evident that the material
of which money is made must be something not
dependent, as are gold and silver, on the quantity
which may be discovered in mines, or washed out of
rocks by rivers. But we return to the existing state
of the currency, and we say that a great mistake
bas evidently been made in its regulation. The de-
pressions, panics, and ruinous monetary convulsions
of recent years are matters of fact. Science, skill,
and wealth increase—we have more men, and men
more capable of working, and with better tools to
work with, than ever, and yet what is, at frequently
returning periods, the condition of the great body ofthe
people ? Are the masses of the people educated, clothed,
fed, and lodged as they ought to be ? as the wisest and
the best men in the nation wish them to be ? Then
is there not, we respectfully submit to the con-
sideration of our readers, a flaw in our system ? We
say with the distinguished historian of the French Re-
volution, Mr. Alison, that the bad monetary system
established by Sir R. Peel is this flaw. And that the
nation will never: for any lengthened period prosper,
nor will the industrious producer obtain the just
reward of his labour, till that system is revised.
We think, therefore, that the efforts making by the
members of the Retford Currency Society to inform
the country on this vital subject deserve encourage-
ment. And we hope that the meeting of that society
at Retford to-day, November 16th, will encourage
those who are labouring in this matter to persist in
their exertions, and uphold the cause of " Truth and
Justice."

SUPPLY OF FRESH WATER ON

LONG VOYAGES.
(From the Nautical Standard.)
We have many times been surprised at the very
slowness with which improvements are adopted in our
Royal and mercantile navies. As a n
a t. ion,we are ad-
verse to innovation, and it requires as long
tht time to
g
introduce in our system even thinare de-
cidedly and tangibly superior and bteoat.ter
Itthan
those we have been accustomed
notorious that the most useful inventions, and evens
the greatest discoveries, have found detractors or
enemies among those they were intended to benefit.
There are yet men with prejudices so strong that
they cannot be convinced by the evidence of their
own senses. They are so wedded to their o!d ideas
and ways that they cannot see with their own eyes
open that they are wrong, or that some newer
means are better than those they have used all
their lifetime. Some others, whose interest draws
them another way, have, of course, reasons of
their own for not adopting, or even for speaking
against and running down all improvements. The
old cant of new-fangled systems, delusive hopes, dan-
gerous experiment, poisonous stuff, were the expres-
sions of all those interested in the several trades con-
nected with lighting when gas was first spoken of. The
inventor of the apparatus that first manufactured the
gas that lighted the frit experimental lamp, and the
discoverer of the application of gas for lighting pur- ,

poses, after having spent their last shilling to bring
out their discovery, were reduced to pins away the
last years of their existence in the most abject
penury ; like many other benefactors of their race,
they worked hard to pave the way to those splendid
establishments we see springing up every day. They
sowed the seed, and starved whilst it was growing up ;
but others after them reaped a rich harvest. In spite
of the efforts of thousands interested in the dark
status quo, gas at last triumphed, and is now become
as necessary to the inhabitants of our cities as the
very air they breathe; with it, too, it has brought
immense improvements in our manner of building ;
and although met with the greatest abuse and out-
cries at first, it has now become an indispensable
article.
Another discovery, as important to the navies of
England, has been made, and the outcry raised is
that it cannot answer ; without any trial, without
the least possible chance of appreciation of its merit,
there were, and there are now, found men so
bigoted to their old notions that they have pro-
claimed, and continue to proclaim, the utter im-
possibility of the success of the discovery. When
those men are told that vessels have been for
months, nay years, at sea without being provided
with a ton of water ; that their crews, composed
of several hundred men, have found a constant and
abundant supply with the simplest apparatus, and
only by distilling the sea-water on which their ship
floated—those men, with the obstinacy belonging to
ignorance, persevere in their old and foolish way, and
will not, or cannot, believe what everybody else is
convinced of.
There are many ships in the French Republican and
mercantile navies provided with what our neighbours
call " Appareil-Cuisine-Distillatoire," which, whilst it
cooks the crew's meals, distils the water necessary for
all purposes. This apparatus is of the simplest con-
struction, easy of access to all on board, and not
liable to get out of order. The price in France is
extremely moderate, and probably at the time we
write nearly half of the merchant navy, going
on long voyages, are provided with this eco-
nomical and most useful galley. Many large
men-of-war, with numerous crews, have re-
ceived the improved machine, and find it answer
admirably. We have before us reports of numerous
captains who speak in the highest terms of its efficiency,
and advise its introduction in every vessel, even for
short voyages, as more economical and safer than the old
plan of water-casks or tanks. They report that the water
is. better than that provided at the common watering
places, free from all the earthy, mineral, or vegetable
matters which are found in larger or lesser proportion
in every drop of water shipped from springs, rivers, or
reservoirs—by far more useful for drinking, cooking,
or washing purposes than the water generally pro-
, cured in casks.

We have told what the distilling apparatus of
Messrs. Peyre and Roger does for the French navy,
but we have to speak now of what Mr. Grant's &s-
-tilling and cooking galley does for the British navy.
In June last the Arrogant, 46, Captain Fitzroy,
with a complement of 450 men ; the Plumper, 12,
Commander M. S. Nolloth, with a complement of 100
men ; and the Reynard, Commander P. Cracrof t,
with a complement of 110 men, sailed from Plymouth,
provided each with one of Mr. Grant's distilling and
cooking galleys. The reports of the captains of these
ships prove that the distillation of salt water during
the time only that the fire was lighted for cooking
the crews' meals, produced one gallon of pure water
fit for drinking and culinary purposes for every man
on board. This water was found greatly preferred to
the tank water embarked ashore. The distilled water
becomes very shortly fit for use, as it passes from the
coudensor to tanks, where it cools to the same tempe-
rature as that of the see, the motion of the vessel
aerating it in a few hours, and restoring it to the
oxygen which it had lost by distillation, and conse-
quently rendering it as brisk as spring water, with-
out even employing any chemical or mechanical
means. Experiments have proved, that if the water
is required for immediate use, it may be aerated by
means of a simple and self-acting electric apparatus,
which will supply the required oxygen iu a few
minutes.

Now, with these facts before us, we demand the
solution of this simple question—Why do vessels
going on long voyages persevere in embarking large
quantities of water, in many cases as much as one ton
per man on board Why do emigrant ships take out
a supply which they can command at all times and at
all hours ? Why do they carry from 100 to 200 tons
of water ? Since it is calculated that an adult during
a South Australian voyage consumes a ton, why do
they not provide themselves with distilling and cook-
ing galleys, which would give them a fresh and
wholesome daily supply ? Having seen what has been
done abroad, and what is done or doing at home every
day, we are at a loss to find a reason why a ship-
owner should prefer embarking water to goods.
It will be seen what an economy the adaptation 'of
such galley on board an emigrant ship will present,
even on the first voyage. Let us take a vessel of 500
or 600 tons, with a crew of 30 men and 200 pas-
sengers. For the voyage to Australia, these people
will consume 250 tons of water. If it be intended
to go straight, without watering at any intermediate
port, that water must be on board at the departure ;
if she waters half way, then some 120 tons are em-
barked. Taking the last hypothesis, she will have to
procure casks, which will cost at the minimum price
21. per ton, or 2401. Then she will lose the freight of
120 tons of goods at 21., or 3001., making altogether
500/., besides the delays incident on going out of
her way to water. Now, the cost of an appa-
ratus, tank and all complete, does not exceed
150/. (we speak of the French galley, not being
acquainted with Mr. Grant's scale of prices) ; out of
thattum we must deduct about 301., the price of the
common cooking apparatus for such a vessel: then the
cost will be 1201. Then we have a profit on the very
first voyage of 3801. If the observation is made that
the casks may be sold in Australia at the cost
price, still there must remain on board some 20
tons or more for the provision of the crew on the re-
turn voyage ; giving the shipowner the benefit of
that observation, and assuming he sells 100 tons of
water-casks at 21., which we take out of the 3801.,
there will remain after all 1801. balance in favour of
the galley—taking no account whatever of the loss
incurred on the 20 tons, or about 1001. on the return
voyage.
The results proving the efficiency of these galleys
have been numerous and satisfactory; why then
persevere in the old water-casks course ? It is said
that the Emigration Board would not permit a vessel
to leave port without a sufficiency of water. We
may predict, with certainty, that such foolish notions
will soon be exploded, and that these machines will
he required by the same Board to be placed on board
of every passenger ship.
Looking now at the royal navy, the large quanti-
ties of water embarked on board a ship take a great
portion of the stowage away ; that part of the ship
may be usefully employed in carrying stores for a
long voyage, and instead of being stored, as now, for
six months, by the introduction of the new galley she
may be provisioned for twelve months without any
difficulty.

The time is past when the Admiralty used to have
a certain scale of certain stores for a certain class of
ships. We remember a friend of ours telling us the
f)llowing anecdote, which he (Captain Hickey) called
the acme of official wisdom. He was on the Lake
Ontario, under Sir Jame Yeo, at the close of
the American war; a 100-gun ship, called
the Prince Regent, was then building at Kings-
town, and as 100-gun ships had water-
casks, brooms, &c., at home, so the Prince
Regent must have, and they were sent from here to
the American lake at no small expense. It never came
into the wise heads of the Lords of the Admiralty that
the Prince Regent was to float on soft water, and
that brooms may be cut on the banks of the lake, and
consequently they could have saved the trouble of
sending and the expense of buying and carrying such
articles. It was literally beating, in absurdity, the
old proverb of sending coal to Newcastle.

THE ENGLISH WIFE OF THE OJIBBE-
WAY INDIAN.
On Garden Island, by Lake Superior, Toronto,
there are three Indian settlements of considerable ex-
tent, the entire island being an Indian reserve, at two
of which extensive clearances have been made, and
where the natives cultivate the soil ; but those of the
other still indulge in their unsettled propensities.
The Indians had collected from all quarters to the
number of 3,000, whose lodges and wigwams thickly
studded the shore, and were scattered around on
the surrounding heights. Among the concourse
thus brought together was a broken-hearted English
young lady, who, carried away by a romantic and
sanguine disposition, about five years before, at the
early age of seventeen, had become the wife of an
Indian chief who visited England, and had be-
come the victim of a mistaken and confiding
attachment. Her parents seem to
unhappy
enhappapry-
taken of the strange credulity of their
child, as the father had sent to the Canadian
wilds Brussels carpeting, a piano, and other ar-
ticles of luxury, with which to decorate the rude
dwelling or Indian wigwam, where anything would
be out of keeping that was unsuited to the verdant
carpeting of nature. The tribe to which her husband
belongs are located in the interior of the island, and
she had accompanied them to the place of rendez-
vous, probably to beguile the tedium of a wilderness
life, little expecting to meet with a party, composed,
for the most part, of natives of her own " distant isle
of the ocean," to remind her of the endearments and
associations of her own early home, and of
the sacrifice she had made in exchanging the allure-
ments and refinements of civilized life for the society of
those who, however kindly they may treat her, are still
the unsophisticated, untutored, savage, and uncultivated
denizens of the forest. The sight of this evidently dis-
appointed young creature was the only circumstance
that cast a gloom the enjoyment of the party dur•

THE SUN, LONDON,

ASSETS.

ing the tour. Here was an interesting female of the
early age of 22, removed by an act of excusable impru-
dence from the abode of civilization—her home in the
wilderness, surrounded by beings of uncongenial na-
tures, and whose very enjoyments, derived from a
cultivated mind, were tinctured with bitterness by
their contrast with the mere animated propensities of
those among whom she dwells. She employs her time,
however, in keeping a school, and in "teaching the
young idea how to shoot," among the children of the
Indian village.—New York Herald.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Nov. 14:—

Cash in hand ... . . f. 340,948.916 91
Ditto in branch banks 101,959,222 0
Bills past due .. ••• 186.202 14
Bills discounted, but not yet due
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coins and ingots...
Ditto by the branch banks ... 937,424 0
Ditto on French public securities
Ditto by branch banks... ...
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the load of 150 millions
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
tientes, disposable funds 42,227,238 13
Investments of the new branch banksin

the public funds ... ... ... 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks ... 3,522,574 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks ... ... ... 230,000 0
Bills protested at Paris ... .. 579,659 38
Expenses of administration of the Bank 384,914 70
Ditto of the branches ... ... ... 409,238 0
Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 1,896,447 48

f. 772,770,482 25