The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1844.

The late deplorable calamity at the Haswell Col-
liery has attracted, as was naturally to be expected,
an extraordinary degree of sympathy for the melan-
choly fate of its victims, and the scarcely less de-
plorable bereavment of their surviving connexions.
Upwards of one hundred human beings, engaged in
the honest pursuit of their laborious sad dreary call-
ing, were swept out of existence by a sudden escape
and explosion of that noxious gas which is always
generated in greater or lesser volume in coal work-
ings. Nearly as many more, in the various relations
of wives and children and dependent kindred, have
been in a moment deprived of their natural protectors
and supporters. The dead have perished without
warning; the living are left without provision for
their future subsistence. No one survives to tell the
tale of this frightful disaster ; so that its cause, and
the manner of its operation, are left to conjecture, or
to be collected from the opinions and experience of
witnesses who had either quitted the pit before the
explosion took place, or who have examined it since.
But these witnesses, so far as the laborious examina-
tions of the coroner's inquest have yot gone, seem to
concur, all of them, in the declaration that up to a
period of within half an hour of this dreadful blast,
they had found the pit "exceedingly well ventilated"
—some aver that it has been always considered by
them " particularly safe ;" and others deposed that
they had never been employed in workings where so
powerful a stream of fresh air was kept up. One of
the men examined before the inquest has already
proved that, at times, this stream was so powerful,
that he and his fellow-workmen have been obliged to
solicit the master worker to moderate it, by shutting
to "the brattice." But whether the mischief origi-
nated from the displacement of a "fidid" (one of the
supporting pillars of the mine which is taken away
when the adjacent chamber or space is worked only)

or by the incautious exposure of a lighted DAYT
lamp to the air of the mine—this fact, which it might
have been so essential to the interests of humanity
and science to have ascertained, can, now, never be
duly ascertained. Upon all reasonable assumption
we may, probably, infer that, notwithstanding the
vague, though general impressions, of the witnesses
whom we have referred to, there must have been a
large previous accumulation of the fatal " coal damp,"
as it is called ; and we must own to a strong pre-
possession that, had any adequate scheme of mining
supervision been in operation, under due authority
and efficient management, the great probability is
that this desolating sacrifice of human life might have
been avoided. So much we feel ourselves justified in
assuming; and in doing so, we feel that we neither
anticipate nor prejudice the finding of the coroner's
jury.
Now, this brings us again to notice a matter which
we have often, and very recently, urged upon the at-
tention of our readers—namely, the slovenly and dis-
graceful manner in which pending Bills, and all the
unconcluded measures of the session, are hurried on
with railroad velocity and reckless carelessness, as
the Parliamentary recess or prorogation approaches,
to the limbo of legislation defunct before maturity.
They are pitchforked, by wholesale, into the great
cemetery of "a second time this day six months."
When the next ensuing session is commenced, the
same initiatory proceedings, the same tedious pre-
liminaries of debate, and announced amendments,
have to be gone through again, to the great hindrance
of public business, the grievous waste of public time,
and the exclusive profit and pleasure of the Parlia-
ment printer and her MAJESTY'S Stationary-office.
These, however, are simply inconveniences. That
the same practice may occasionally lead to graver and
more lamentable results we are not sure that this
very call of the Haswell Colliery does not demon-
strate. On our table we have had for the last fort-
night, among other Parliamentary prints then issued,
a copy of "A Bill for establishing District Registers
of all Mining operations in England and Wales,
prepared and brought in by Mr. HODGSON HIND and
W. ORD, and ordered by the House of Commons to
be printed, Ist of August, 1844." This Bill, there-
fore, had it been introduced earlier—or had it, after
its introduction at this later period of last session,
been carried through both Houses, received the royal
assent, and passed into a law—this very Bill might
have established such a precautionary and salutary
mining supervision as we advocate. For what is its
object, as we collect it from the preamble ? That "it
is expedient to establish a systematic registration of
all mining operations carried on throughout Eng-
land
and Wales and in the Isle of Man, for better
preventing ate loss of human life, the occurrence of
many grievous and unexpected injuries to mining pro-
prietors, and the large and fruitless expenditure of
capital and labour which result from an entire igno-
rance, or an imperfect record of mining operations."
There was, some months ago, a memorable strike
among the pitmen. Some new hands—a few, at
least, there were for the first time working in this
pit, are sacrificed in this terrible explosion. How
possible is it that, from their want of a minute or
practical acquaintance with the nature of the various
workings—which were considered by the more ex-
perienced miners to, be dangerous—these poor fel-
lows may have, by some momentary imprudence
or other, originated the explosion ? How pos-
sible is it that, had there existed " a systematic re-
gistration " of the " mining operations " of the Has-
well district, this " loss of human life " might have
been " better prevented." In such a case it might
not have fallen to our painful lot to publish that an-
nouncement which has created so vivid a sensation
throughout the metropolis, of one of the most hideous
casualties that has occurred in our mining districts
for these thirty years past. The Bill would have
fully embraced all the regulations, the want of which
has, perhaps, been the proximate cause of this memo-
rable calamity. The classification of its clauses goes
under the following heads:— General Provisions ;
Officers and Offices for Registration ; Expenses of
the Act ; Notice of Registration ; Mode of Ditto ;
Inspectors of Registers and Copies ; Evidence ; Po-
licies; Accounts of Registrars; Injuries to Mines
after, Registration ; Power of Board of Trade, &c.

When we first heard of the appointment of Lord
HEYTESBURY to the Viceroyalty of Ireland, we
thought it far from unlikely—and we stated our im-
pressions at the time in The Sun—that the policy pur-
sued by his Lordship would be of a conciliatory cha-
racter ; and that, Tory though he is known to be—
having graduated in the school of LIVERPOOL and
CASTLEREAOR—he would undo much that had been
done by his predecessor; and legislate for the Irish in
a spirit more suited to their best interests than has
ever yet been attempted by any Lord-Lieutenant
who has been installed in Dublin Castle under the
direct auspices of Toryism. We came to this con-
clusion, first, from the necessity of the case ; and,
secondly, from the character of the Noble Lord, who
is known to be a man of vast experience and great
political sagacity—qualities which are not often
found in company with obstinacy and intolerance.
That we have not been mistaken in our im-
pressions, is, we think, pretty evident from the
answer which Lord HEYTESBURY delivered on
Friday last to an address from the Remon-
strant Synod of Ulster, congratulating him on his
appointment to the Irish Viceroyalty, and expressing
a fervent hope that be would administer the laws
with strict impartiality, and with a firm resolution to
recommend such conciliatory changes and rainedia
measures as might be most beneficial to the sister
country. " You may be assured, Gentlemen," was
the emphatic reply of his Lordship, " that it is my
earnest desire to administer existing laws with scru-
pulous impartiality, and with a full intention to re-
commeni such conciliatory changes and improve-
ments as may tend at once to secure the peace and
prosperity of Ireland, and to confirm the power and
integrity of the United Kingdom. Happy, indeed,
shall I be at the close of my administration,
to find confidence superseding distrust, affection dis-
placing alienation, and the confusion of religious and
political strife settling into social harmony and na-
tional prosperity." Vague as this answer must be
confessed to be, yet when we consider the period at
which it is delivered, it cannot fail to be regarded
otherwise than as a sign of good omen ; and, coupled
with the significant declaration respecting Ireland,
made unsolicited by Sir ROBERT PEEL towards the
close of the last session, it affords, we are willing to
believe—though Heaven knows we are far from being
eager to place implicit faith in Tory promises !—a
satisfactory proof that Government have at length
come to the determination of amending the en-
tire defective system of their Irish policy, and
putting down the Repeal agitation by the best and
most effectual of all means—conciliation and impar
tiality. Indeed, it would not at all surprise us were Sir
ROBERT PEEL to play the Catholic Emancipation
game over again—that is to say, astonish Ireland and
the whole empire by the enlarged and comprehensive
character of his remedial measures, and give his
sudden and strenuous support to plans of which he
has been all his life the determined opponent. It i,
no argument in favour of his continuing to uphold
the monstrous abuses of the Irish Protestant Esta-
blishment, that he upheld them last session, for all
the world knows that his last decided speech in the
year 1828 was made against Emancipation, and
that his first decided one in the year 1829
was made in favour of that measure. Be-
sides, we retain a vivid recollection of Lord
WIIARNCLIEFE'S late Education speech at Leeds
which was avowedly official in its character, and
must have impressed its readers with the belief that
the Premier, though he would be as ready as ever
to uphold the rightful authority of the Church, was
by no means disposed to submit to its arbitrary pre-
tensions, but would henceforth take care to see that
fair play was awarded to that vast and influential
mass of the community who dissent from its doc-
trines. All things considered, therefore, we abide by
the opinion which we expressed some weeks since in
The Sun—namely, that Sir R. PEEL is resolved to
turn over a new leaf as respects Ireland, and pursue
such a remedial and conciliatory course of policy as
may lay the foundation of permanent tranquillity
in the sister country. And indeed it is high time
that he should do so, for the present aspect of Irish
affairs is of the most portentous character ; and the
recent appearance in the field of agitation of Orange-
men and Conservatives, with schemes for Federal and
Triennial Parliaments, clearly shows how excited is
the national mini, and how acute the consciousness,
among all classes of Irishmen, of the wrongs which

they have for years sustained at the hands of Eng-
land. When an avowed Conservative, and one too of
high station in Ireland, and whose acquirements are
generally allowed to be of a superior character, and
who, moreover, can have no ulterior purpose of his
own to serve—when such a man comes earnestly for-
ward with a proposal for a Federal Parliament in
Dublin, and receives the thanks, and is admitted to
the confidence of the Repealers, in consequence of such
proposal, be sure that the time is arrived when reme-
dial measures for Ireland can no longer be postponed
with safety I

The Madrid Gazette of the 26th ult. publishes a
list of the senators chosen by the Crown from among
those returned to the Upper Chamber. Among the
number are the Marquis DE PENA FLORIDA and M.
RUEZ DE LA VEGA, for Madrid ; D. MANUEL DE
SORIA, for Badajos ; the Archbishop of TOLEDO, for
Oviedo ; the Duke DE CASTRO TERRENO, for Zamora;
and D. RAMOS ORTEGA and Count SABRADIEL, for
Saragossa. They all belong to the Moderado party.
According to the Heraldo the Progresistas are not
idle. " The revolutionary party," it says, " are
incorrigible. We had thought that the tremendous
lesson given to them at Saragossa and Ali-
cante would suffice ; but our own letters from
Barcelona, Albacete, Valencia, and other parts,
as well as those of our foreign correspondents, prove
that they are still plotting, and continually labouring
to kindle fresh disturbances, with the view of prevent-
ing the meeting of the approaching Cortes. To alarm
the credulous people by spreading absurd rumours as
to a marriage between her MAJESTY and a son of
Don CARLOS—Absolutist schemes—the return to
Spain of CARRERA and PALILLOS and the restitution
of national property, and to endeavour to shake the
army's allegiance by promising a distribution of land
to the soldiers and promotion to the officers—such are
the principal means resorted to by the revolutionists."
The Three per Cents. were done at 281 at 60 days;
the Five per Cents. at 201 for cash, and 21 7-16, at
60 days ; the floating debt at 661, for the 10th of No-
vember ; and the debt without interest at 6 1-16 for
cash, and 61 at 60 days.

The sudden and apparently unexpected return of
the Prince DE JOINYILLE to Paris on Tuesday delayed
for a day the departure of the KING and Royal Family
for the Chateau d'Eu. His MAJESTY, however, ac-
cording to the official journals, was to leave the capital
on Thursday, accompanied by the QUEEN, Madame
ADELAIDE, and the Duke DE MONTPENSIER ; he will
leave Eu for Portsmouth on the night of the 6th inst.,
accompanied by the Duke DE MONTPENSIER. The
Lieutenants-General Baron ATUALIN and Count DE
RUMIGNY, the Colonels Count DUMAS and the Count
DE CHABAUNES, the KING'S Aides-de-Camps, are to
attend his MAJESTY, together with Colonel THIEERY,
Aide-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Duke DE
MONTPENSIEK ; the Baron FAIN, First Secretary of
the Cabinet ; M. FoucturEa, first physician ; and M.
PASQUIER, junior, the KING'S surgeon. M. GUIZOT
and Admiral MACKAU will proceed on Sunday next
to join his MAJESTY at the Chateau d'Eu, previous to
his departure for England, where they will accom-
pany his MAJESTY. During the KING'S absence the
Ministers will assemble under the presidency of Mar-
shal SOULT. His Royal Highness the Duke DE NE..
MOUES will assist at the Cabinet Councils. The
QUEEN and Madame ADELAIDE will remain at Eu
during the KING'S absence, which, it is said, will ex-
tend to a period of fifteen days. M. GUIZOT and
Baron MACKAU were to leave for Eu on Friday. The
Journal des Debats states that the official letter, in-
forming the Prince DE JOINVILLE that a grand re-
ception was being prepared for him at Toulon, having
been forwarded from Paris on the 14th, only reached
Cadiz on the 24th, two days after the departure of
the Prince.
The refusal of the Prince to honour Toulon with
his presence has caused great disappointment and
even dissatisfaction, as will be seen by the following
extract from the Toulonnais

" On Thursday last our town was the victim of a great
mystification. At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the
watchman on Cape Sepat signalled the ship of war, the
Suffren towed by the Montezuma steamer, and bearing
the flag of the Royal Admiral. Immediately after so
positive a signal, the maritime Prefect, with praiseworthy
anxiety, hastened to give the official announcement
of the much-longed-for arrival of his Royal Highness
the Prince de Joinville. Crowds of people made their
way immediately to the heights of the great town, and
to Fort Lamalque, both of which were soon crowded
with spectators, whilst the weak, the lazy, and those
who do not choose to purchase pleasure, however great,
with great fatigue, took boats, and took up their posi-
tion in the roads. The telegraph carried the news to a
distance, and General d'llautpoul arrived post from '
Marseilles. The military, civil, and judiciary authorities
prepared to pay their respects to the Prince Admiral.
The troops were drawn up as a guard in the streets where
the royal traveller was to pass, the quays were crowded,
the windows looking on the harbour were filled with
ladies dressed in their best, and whose appearance.
added gaity and beauty to the scene. It was a veritable
parterre de fkurs. The roads were crowded with boats
without number. The municipal council, the mayor and
his adjuncts, the officers of the National Guard, were at the
Hotel de Ville, ready to receive the conqueror of Tan-
giers and Mogadore. Every one was happy ; our city
was all joy and life. At half-past two the Terrare
steamer, having Admiral Baudin, the Prefect of the
Marine, on board, left the Arsenal to meet the Prince.
At the same instant the ships of war exchanged signals, and
prepared for the reception. The cannoniers were ready
at their guns, with lighted matches, and only waited
the signal to fire—when, oh, fatality of fatalities !
bitter deception ! the Suffren, as signalled, indeed ar-
rives, but there is no Prince ! The Abbe Coquereau,
the chaplain of the Morocco squadron, who came by the
Suffren, announced, as we are assured, that the Prince
of Joinville was- indisposed, and was to leave Cadiz for
Havre by the Pluton, and that his Royal Highness did
not leave his ship until the moment when she was about
to sail. We respect the motives of this determination,
but, we are the echoes of the whole inhabitants in re-
gretting sincerely that our town should have been de-
prived at this memorable period of the visit of the
Prii ice of Joinville. On the assurance that he would
have disembarked at our port, fetes, public rejoicings,
a ball, and a triumphal arch worthy of the hero, all
were ready ; every one was at his post anxious to join in
a reception equally brilliant and cordial. The hour of
pleasure had sounded for us, but there being no Prince
all pleasure had vanished. The town will be put to the
expense—a heavy one—of the preparations. Admiral
Baudin, who had previously sent out the invitations for
the dinner which he proposed to give in the evening to
the Prince, got together al his table the captains of the
ships at anchor in the roads, the different court and mili-
tary authorities, while the deceived and disappointed
people cry out, ' The deuce take the watchman of Cape
S epat.' "
The Moniteur Algerian, of the 25th ult., thus con-
tradicts the reports of the return of ABD••EL•KADEIt
to the Algerine territory :
" A journal, on the authority of its Algiers corre-
' spoudent, announced that Abd-el-Kader had re-appeared
in the Desert, and was at Ain Madhi. No fact justified
such a statement. It will soon be a year since Abd-el-
Kader, expelled from Algeria, had sought refuge in the
territory of Morocco, which he left only once, to effect
a razzia on the side of Saida. He remained ever since
close to the frontier, and when the war with Morocco
broke out, our troops operating in the west compelled
him to retire into the interior. His small force con-
sisted of 150 efficient horsemen, thirty horses without
riders, and 400 badly armed and equipped foot soldiers.
His family and suite constituted an assemblage of about
two thousand persons of all ages and sexes. After the
battle of Isly, our troops having advanced to the
Oued Zekerra, and sent out reconnoitring parties
as far as Aionn-Sidi-Mellouk, Abd-el-Kader crossed
the Mallonia, and proceeded down that river to
the mountains of Garet, thirty leagues from our
frontier. Most of the individuals who accompanied
him were attacked with fever. Their sanatory condi-
tion was such that they could neither fight nor fly. The
Emperor of Morocco might have accordingly arrested
Abdesl-Kader and his followers without the least diffi-
culty. At any period he could have done so, if he
pleased'. for Abd-el-Kader was often encamped within
a mile of the Moorish head-quarters. It is not true that
Abd-el-Kader was the leader of the revolters of Mo-
rocco ; the latter are in the west of the empire, and
Abd-el-Kader has taken up his quarters on the territory
of an eastern tribe which has given him hospitality. He
possesses no serious party in the adjoining country.
The Beni Senassens, the most powerful tribe in that
quarter, refused to afford him any armed assistance.
They hays, received him as a Marabout returning from
the sacred war, which they are determined not to renew
on his ace ount. We pledge ourselves for the accuracy of
the above details, which are dated the 20th of Septem-
ber. We soon expect other facts from the same authen-
tic source-. We shall confine ourselves to observe at pre-
sent tinat Ain Madhi, where Abd-el-Kader was reported
to have appeared, is 150 leagues distant from the point
where be has resided during the last six weeks."
A lette.r from Tangiers, dated the 19th ult , which
appears in the Journal des Debats says :—" At pre-
sent a fugitive and without partisans, ABD-EI•KADER
expiates his ridiculous pretensions and the intrigues
which he has excited against us in the country. It is
not known here where he is at present. After the
battle oi' Isly he proceeded in the direction Of
Melilla .on the northern coast, to a powerful and fa-
natical 'tribe. Since then it is said that he has gone
towards the south of the empire. The Pacha of
LARA caE declares that, being pursued by the nu-
PEW:M.'S black guards, he has taken refuge in the
desert;." The following is the latest grievance dis-
cover ed by the National
" Ficnne yvas since enormetis auras were Toted by the

Chambers for the construction of Transatlantic steam-
boats. These boats are built, and are suffered to remain
unarmed in the ports of Rochefort, L'Orient, Brest,
Cherbourg, Toulon, and Judret. There were fourteen
of 450-horse power ; but the Groenland having been lost,
there remains but thirteen—viz., the Albatros, the
Cacique, the Canada, the Caraibe, the Christophe Co-
lomb, the Darien, the Eldorado, the Labrador, the Ma-
gellan, the Montezuma, the Oronoque, the Panama, and
the Utica. Four others are of 220-horse power—the
Caiman, the El2u, the Espadon, and the Phoque. The
steam-boats of 450-horse power are pierced for four guns
and two swivels, the others carry two guns and two
swivels. It may be said, that since 1830 a malevolent
genius has laboured to exhaust our resources and pre-
vent us from possessing an army or a navy."

THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Pl:ice. Price. Price.
FrenchFiveperC3nts•••••• 118 40 118 75 .. 118 40 .. 118 75
Fours ..•• •••• 104 75 .. 104 75 .. 104 75 .. 104 75

Three per Cents.— •• 81 $5 .. 82 .. 81 80 .. 82
Bank of France 3065 ..3065 . 3065 ..3065
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBs ..1085 ..1085 ..1085

5,000 f. Shareasoso ..5055 —5050 —5055
Belgian Fives,lB3l • •....• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041
1840 •• • • • • 1051 •• 106 .. 1051 .. 106
Spanish Passive .••.• ••••• •• 51 .. 51, .. 51 51
Threes •
Active •••••• • • •• • • 321 .. 32} .. 32/ .. 321
New Deferred.• •. 131 .. 131 • . 131 • • 131
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 46 .• 481 .. 48 .. 461
..
2,081 a,, •• .. 104/ •• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain •• •••• •• •• .. .. 992 50 .. 522 50 •• 922 50 .• 922 50

Versailles, R.B•• • • .• •• •• •• 385 .. 385 .. 345 .. 345
L.B. ...... 258 75 .. 258 75 .. 258 75 .. 288 78
Rouen •••••••••••••••••••• 982 50 .. 985 .. 982 50 •• 985

---
Rouen to Havre •

0-71;;;87.-..-;::...... -..... 980

.. 980

.. 7bl 25

Stras burg to 8a1e.... • • •• •• 260

.. 980 .. 980

•• 262 50 .. 260 •• 262 50

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

Consols leave off at 1004 for Money, and 1.004 for
Account, being very firm. There was no alteration in
the other English investments. _ _

Spanish Bonds were at 241 for the Five per Cents.,
and 35i for the Three per Cents.; Mexican were 351;
Portuguese Converted, 49 to 1; Colombian, 141; and
Belgian, lOn to 1041.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 6 ;
Dublin and Belfast, 21; Great Western, Fifths, 14k;
Kendal and Windermere, 2+; Lancaster and Carlisle, 4;
Birmingham, Thirds, 34k; Croydon, 24 to i; London
and York, 11; Midland, 10; North British, 1; Northern
and Eastern Quarter, 48 to i; South Devon, 4i; South-
Eastern, 7 to k; York and North Midland, 55; Ditto
Selby Scrip, 38i ; Central of France, 1+ ; and
Boulogne and Amiens, to 1 premium. Caledonian
have been i; Chichester and Brighton, 1; Blackwall, 9k
to 9; and Midland and Birmingham and Derby, 24 to
20 discount.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was in
the same position, but sales were not pressed; 5,000
bags were purchased.—There was rather more demand
for Railway Shares, and the market was firmer. Ches-
ter and Birkenhead, New, 234; Chester and Holyhead,
7k ; Churnet Valley, 4i ; Dublin and Cashel, 13k;
Dublin and Belfast, 44; Eastern Counties, Registered,
134 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 654; Glasgow and
Greenock, 12; Grand Junction, Half, 1044; Lancaster
and Carlisle, 8; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 34i;
London and York, 3 11-20; London and Brighton, 47-i;
Midland Counties and Derby, 79; South-Eastern, 40;
South-Eastern, New, 13* ; Central of France, 3 ; Bou-
logne and Amiens, 21. 16s.
Late advices, both by direct arrivals and per Over-
land Mail, have been received from Australia, and like
those recently come to hand, they indicated rather a
better state of things. From South Australia they
write :—" It gives us much pleasure to hear that a part
of the Rivoli Bay country is at last about to be occupied
from the South Australian side. The first party, con-
sisting of Messrs. Leake and Scott, with about 10,000
sheep, and upwards of twenty men, have started for
that country, and, we presume, many others will
soon follow. Messrs. Hallett have also secured
extensive runs at Mount Bryan, and intend im-
mediately to send their sheep, consisting of seve-
ral thousand?, to that district. Mount Bryan is about
100 miles from Messrs. Hallet's present station, and 140
miles from town. At one time these gentlemen thought
that no one would go beyond their present runs at the
Wiltshire survey for many years ; at this moment, how-
ever, probably the greater part of the sheep in the co-
lony are beyond that limit. • It is evident that the sheep
are increasing beyond all calculation, and it is to be
hoped that the anticipations of an extensive country on
the eastern boundary may be fully realised. Messrs. C.
Campbell and Ellis recently explored a part of the coun-
try to the west of Port Lincoln, but we have heard no
authentic report of the result of their visit—we trust it is
favourable."

From the Cape of Good Hope, under date of July 28,
we learn that the Caffres continued their thefts and out-
rages ; and that the inhabitants were kept in constant
alarm, although 'no general irruption was anticipated,
The value of property, owing to the increase of the popu-
lation, was gradually rising.
The circular of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury,
now before us, states that merchandise is unaffected by
the low rate of interest on money, though the capital
embarked in new railways must benefit the manufac-
turers. There is a good home trade doing.
The Funds are higher again, and some good purchases
have been made in New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
for-the opening, so that the market value of that security
is about 1021 to 1031. The Commissioners have given
1001 for their parcel of Consols, and for time the rates
have again advanced to ipoi Exchequer Bills are
steady, at 745. to 765. premium. Nothing has been
done in Bank or India Stocks, and the market looks
very quiet.
The Foreign Investments are also very inactive.
Dutch Bonds have been very firm ; the Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 62/ to 62k, and the Five per Cents. at
981 to 98. The conversion plans seem to be favourably
construed. Spanish Active Bonds are 241, and the
Three per Cents. 351 to 1. Portuguese Converted obtain
49. Mexican are 351, and Columbian 141. Brazil
Stock is 871.
For Railway Shares, there is a fair market generally,
and where holders yield a little, sales are not difficult to
effect. The French lines are looking up. Joint-stock
Banks and Mines continue dull.

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
_ (From the Official List.)

3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities ........................ lON%
India
_ Ditto under 1,000.....«.......».». ................. 94

Consols for Account ........ 100%%
ExcheNt_t!r Bills. I%d. 134 d.
•••••••••••••••••••••••• sowers.. 74 76 pm.
5001.••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••• 74 76 pm.
Ditto 5ma11.................. 71 78 prn.
Ditto Advertised.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ...............

Columbian Bonds. :........." - ......." 144,
ent. ... ..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per C"... ..... "
Ditto for the Account ..»....„.„....„ 2534
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 2534
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...,.„.».„.» —
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account . " .....
_,._.,.... ..
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1.840,....... ...
Ditto for the Account 24%
Ditto Three per Cent. ..................." —
Ditto for the Account ............." 35%94
Dutch 234 per Cent 5.........„......... ...... ......" 6236%
Dutch 5 per Cent5"..............-........ ........ " 98%%
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
BiAli.w4Ts. PAW. PBR SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ........ 104......... to 10534
Bristol and Exeter ..... .... ......
Bristol and Gloucester SO
Caledonian
Chester and H01yhead................ 5 . ......
Dublin and Cashel.
Festern Counties, .............. ..... 25 ..... .. 1334% to
Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent." U. 13s. 4d."..
Ditto Ditto (No. 2) —
Aastern Union
Great Western ..»...•»....»........ 75
Ditto 34 Shares ..... ........ ".... 50 ......... 8734
Harwich
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle. 5 9%)4 „. to
London and Birmingham.
%
100 ••• to
Ditto New Thirds 2 37 ......... to --
London and Brighton so_,. "..... 4•N •• ••• to
London and South Western
London and Croydon
London and York 234 ......... "••••••••• to 3%
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland Counties ..... ....
77 ...... ... to
North British sr. ..... to
...... "*.
12%
Norwich and Brandon ••••••• ..... 6 .... *** 154,34 .., to
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct..* 21 ..... ... 47%
Portsmouth Direct
Dover. ...... . ...... .... 1
to
York and North Midland .....»» 50 ••••••••• 72%
25 to
Ditto % Shares.. ................ __ ...... 403434.. to 39%
34 33 to 34
South Eastern and ......... 33%
Ditto Bearboro' Branch ......... 10
.....
miens ...... ... ...... 2
Rouen ..... ••••••«••••••••••• 20 ••••••••• 38% 7, ... to ....
Paris and
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 3.—The
market continues firm, and a considerable business has
Boulogne
onSee
albnyd ScA rip .............. ....
been done at the following prices :—Birkenhead and Man-
chester, 21 4 prem.; . Accrington, 4 31; Churnets, 4A-;
Holyhead, 7; Eastern Counties, No. 2, 195.; Ely and
Bedford, 1,-; prem.; Huddersfield, 3i; Dewsbury, 6i ;
London and York, 3i; Manchester and Leeds, Half
Shares, 501; Manchester and Birmingham, 511; Ditto,
Quarters, 5 1-16 ; Sheffield, 91 ; Euston, 211; South-
Eastern, 40; Lancaster Canal, 39-,-.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock — 1 Indian Stock
3 per Cent Red
" , Ditto Bonds ....... —94
3 per Cent. Cons
100% Ditto Old Annuities „..
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3;6 per Cent. Red — [Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3NI, per Cent .......
New 5 per Cent.... .......
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Jan 1860 1234 Bank Stock for Acct.-. 7o pm
Oct. 1859
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Consols for Act.......... 100 ti
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