The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG.

Accounts from the seat of war are of the 2d inst.
The attack on Frederichstadt, that had lasted three
days, still continued, and up to that morning without
result. The place was being cannonaded, and was
burning at several points. The Danes still held out,
and would probably be reinforced from Husutn.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Trent,
Captain Clarke, with the West India mails, arrived
this morning at half past twelve. She brought on
freight 241,365 dollars on merchants' account, and
30,067 dollars for the dividends.
From Jamaica we have news to the 13th ult. The
island continues to be visited by heavy rains, but the
heat was oppressive. Cotton cultivation was favour-
ably progressing; business had been unusually dull
during the last fortnight.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, PEW I.T EVENING.

MURDER IN TIIE COUNTY OF Down.—The
Belfast piper which we received this evening an-
nounces that shortly after dusk on Wednesday
evening a weaver, named M'Cormiek, who resided at
Carmoss-on-the-hills, Borough-road, within a
short distance of Ballynahinch, and about
two miles beyond the CArrayduff meeting-house,
while sitting at his loom, was shot at by a
miscreant who had intruded the muzzle of his gun
through an aperture made in the window-frame; the
bullet entered the heart of the poor victim, and after
passing through his body was lodged in the frame-
work of the loom.

The only cause that can be assigned for the murder
is, that M'Cormick had taken a small farm, and was
care-taker for another from which the previous
tenants had been evicted. He had received several
threatening letters during the last two months
calling upon him to give up possession, or take the
consequences.

DEATH OF COLONEL STEWART OF KILLYMOON.—
Letters from the north announce the death of Colonel
Stewart, proprietor of the splendid seat and magnifi-
cent demesne of Killymoon, county Tyrone, for
which proposals of purchase were lately made by
Lord Gough. Colonel Stewart was a descendant of
the junior branch of the Stuarts Ochiltree, who were
related to the roy*l line, and whe received large
grants from James I. after his accession to the British
throne. The deceased was f,r many years a ,
repre-
sentative for the county Tyrone.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILIVAL—MT. Samuel An-
derson, a director of this company, who retired with the late
nta
with
itheir
board, has been this week elected to a seat with the present
direction.
THE LATE LIEUTENANT GALE'S FAMILY.—An
application having been made to the board of managers of
h
of one of the nine children of the late unfortunate Lieutenant
Gaele wAsylum
Orphans,
destitute by the recent melancholy occurrence, they have
consented to receive the child into the asylum at once, sub-
ject to the decision of the subscribers at the next election.
the new
aetonati fto, r
who, In
th
mother, are left utterly
THE Ho? DUTY.—The hop.growers of Worces-
tershire and Herefordshire, comprising what is called the
Worcester district, have had a meeting at Worcester to so-
licit further indulgence from the Government for the pay-
ment of the remaining moiety of the 1848 duty, which at
present stands fixed for the 15th instant. The chair was
taken by Mr G. Freeman, of Lugwardine, Herefordshire, a
magistrate and large hop-grower, and, after several speeches,
a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was agreed
to. The memorial set forth that at the present period the
agriculturists were called on for the payment of rents ; that
the price of all agricultural produce was exceedingly low,
and, therefore, if the payment of the moiety of the duty were
insisted upon. it would oblige the planters to throw a large
quantity of hops upon the market, and thus produce a ruin-
ous depreciation in price. The memorial therefore prayed for
a postponement of the duty until after Christmas. iillr.
/revers, a large Herefordshire planter, represented that if the
payment of the duty were enforced at once, it would reduce
the price of hops 103. per cwt. immediately.
CASES IN THE COUNTY COURTS.—Cases are now
in the course of trial to 80/• under the County Court Exten-
sion Act, passed in the late sessiop. There is a provision in
this Act which require to be generally known, in order
to save trouble to plaintiffs and defendants. Hitherto judg-
ment could not be taken by default, but now it is enacted by
the eighth section, that any person against whom a plaint is
entered, whether he be summoned or not, in the presence of
the clerk or assistant clerk of the court, or one of their clerks,
or of an attorney, may sign a statement, confessing and ad-
mitting the amount of a debt or part thereof. Notice of such
admission is to be sent to the pllintitl' and on the next court
judgment to be given, in the same manner and subject to the
same conditions as if the cause bad been tried. This provi-
sion will lead to arrangements both as to the period and
amount of instalments to be made, and save a good deal of
time to all parties and prevent unnecessary exposure.
The Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Musgrove) has
appointed the Rev. Dr. Vivian, rector of. St. Peter.le-Doer,
Broad-street, one of the minor canons or St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, tol he his chaplain during the year of the ensuing
mayoralty.
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APOTHECARIIe•IIALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on ThursdaY,
October 3. MO ; —Peter l'emell, Canterbury ; William Gil-
Regis ; Jonathan Hutchinson, jun., Selby, Yorkshire; Edgar
librand. Charley, Lancashire ; ,Robert Settle, Lancashire;
John Darwen, Birmingham ; Frederic Foster Andrews, Lynn
Sheppard, Ent' id le . , -

good on the whole, since our last.
Tam WEATHER.—The weather has been exceed-
inglyand the harvest may
be said to be finished under favourable circumstances.
k and some of the farthest advanced are now lifting
Farmers are now busy securing the corn in well-thatched
stacks,
their potatoes. The good weather seems to have tempted
the shooting gentlemen to remain longer at their quarters
than usual, or very few have gone south during the past
weelL —lnverness Courier.
As shoiling the, improved state of Sunderland
Harbour, we may mention that on Sunday last, the Colony,
dead
neap.
Quebec,tid 912 drawing
Heralding IAI feet water, entered 'the river at
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
ma.el a: 10,000 bales, of which 3,000 American were
taken on speculation. The market was steady, and
closed without change.—ln Railway Shares a good
business was done at advancing prices.
The weekly statement of the Bank of England is of a
character to bear out the assertion that fuller employ-
ment has lately IN ea obtainable for money, for the ad-
vances upon " other" securities stand for a much higher
sum. It seems by no means improbable tint parties
may be obtaining loans upon stock, &c., and placing
some of the proceeds in railway shares and produce,
but, however this may be, the fact stands patent that
the Bank has been called upon for a larger amount of
accommodation, and this must be deemed satisfactory.
The etste of the account of the public treasury is like-
wise cheering, and there may be favourable anticipa-
tions of the revenue termed from the circumstance that
the deposits are 80 large. The circulation both of notes
and specie has increased, and, compared with the previous
week, the following changes are apparent is other
respects :
Notes Issued
Decrease
Rest ... ••• ...

▪ 30,083,295
••• 92,825
... 3,560,587
2,992
... 10,854,230
••• 631.351
, ••• 8 877 696
▪ 90 465
▪ 1,247,484

Increase ... ...
Public Deposits ... ...

Increase ... ...
Other Depsits .. ...

Decrease ...

Seven Day and other Bills

Increase ...
Government securities
Other Securities ... ...
Increase ... ...
Notes ...

.. 7.492
... No alteration.
... 12,985.813
... 827,004
... 11,049,995
... 263,985
... 16,707,224
... 104.474
... 19,033,300
... 171,160

Decrease ...

Bullion ... •• 4
Decrease .
Active Circulation
Increase ...

There were not quite such good rates obtainable yes-
terday afternoon for bills of exchange on the principal
Continental cities, the nearest quotations par pound
sterling for paper dated 90 days being as follow :—Paris,
25 474 to 524; Frankfort, 120 to ; Trieste, 11 57 to
59; Antwerp, 25 474 to 50; Hamburgh, 13 94 to 10;
and Amsterdam, 12 04 to 12 1.
The railway traffic returns for the week will in most
cases bear a favourable comparison with those for the
corresponding period of last year, but there are some
cases more prominent than others. The Great Western
takings are remarkably good, and few lines, apparently,
can more advantageously and safely carry on the excur-
sion system. The South Devon traffic is particularly
gratifying. The Great Northern line is doing well, con-
sidering the short period that it has been opened, and,
whether from this opposition or some other cause, the
Eastern Counties returns are deficient. The Caledonian
have taken less, and the Aberdeen decidedly more.
The French lines are getting a fair share of the general
increase.

If the reports from Leipsic, concerning the great fair
now in progress there, be correct, they suggest matter
for reflection, and it would be interesting to inquire into
the cause of the alleged preference to German textile
fabrics. We are positively assured by a party writing
on the spot, that a highly. satisfactory business has been
doing in all articles, with the single exception perhaps
of English manufactures, which the same authority fur-
ther asserts, have been neglecte I for Zollverein fabrics.
One is tempted to ask whether the price operates as a
bar, and if the high duties imposed abroad occasion as
onerous enhancement of that price, for certainly England,
with its vast facilities for obtaining raw staples direct
from the places of growth, should on anything like equal
terms beat every competitor.
The Royal Mail steamer from the West Indies brings
favourable accounts of the weather in most of the
islands, but in Jamaica very heavy rains had fallen. In
Demerara the weather was hot and-dry, bat good for
the planters ; and the prospects of the next crops in
Trinidad are encouraging. The minor colonies had been
benefited by fine rains.
The steamer Washington furnishes later intelligence
from the United States, but it seems to be of no promi-
nent interest. There was more gold advised as being on
the way from California.
The exports of the precious metals from London this
week comprise 2,065 ounces of gold, and 183,000 ounces
of silver.
The Funds are drooping, and the accounts from Paris
advise a very marked depression in the rehtes, and a
continued uneasy feeling. The gold in the Bank of
France had been diminished 7,000,000 francs during
the week to which the return is completed, and this
argues some want of confidence. Consols have been
96i I for transfer, and 96i for November. Exchequer-
bills have realised 635. to 675. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been rather quiet, but
Mexican have been subject to some fluctuation, in con-
sequence of the report that the advices per West India
mail are to the effect that the Secret Committee of Con-
gress recommends an appropriation of 2,500,000 dollars
from the indemnity money, and a Three per Cent. Stock.
The current rates have been 3l 4. Grenada are 18i,
and Buenos Ayres 58. Spanish Five per Cents. have
realised 184 4. It is said that on the opening of the
Cortes the Queen will .nnoUcce in her speech a Bill for
the arrangement of the debt.
Railway Shares have been rather less buoyant than
yesterday, but there is a good deal doing.
In Mining Shares this week an average business has
been transacted.