The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, M--11- M_ORNINB, OCTOBER 21, 1844.

two great countries can never be at the mercy of such'
isolated misunderstandings, arising at distances be-
yond all control or restraint, and these passing dis-
sensions can never be made causes of rupture when no
others of a more profound or serious nature exist. No
one can doubt that the officers of the two nations who
have fraternised at the Portsmouth banquet will, on
both sides, be ready to do their duty whenever they
are called upon, but they will not the less preserve a
just recollection of this memorable day ; and the ad-
mirable example which they have given will, we are
convinced, powerfully contribute to keep up in the
hearts of the two people those sentiments of friendship
which can alone surmount those diffieulties which are
inherent in the policy of all free governments, and en-
sure the maintenance of peace, that first great neces-
sity of civilised nations."
The war journals, and indeed those of the Oppo-
sition in general, take scarcely any notice of this
friendly meeting between the officers of the two
nations. The following just remarks on such an
unfair omission of an important fact appear in Galig-

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Sales 4,000 bales at previous rates. Shares were rather
dull, except Dover, which were in good demand. Churnet
Valley, 41. I Is. 3d. ; Dundee and Perth, 71s. ; Ditto
and Holyhead, 7f ; Grand Junction, Half, 104 ; Ditto,
itl
New Quarter, 381 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 201 ;
Ditto, Quarter, 14 ; London and Birmingham, 213 f ;
Ditto
Manchester and and. York, oarnd k 3 i , B 4
n; i
nDg ihraem, c t
51;
4
Northern, 2
Newcastlet 6d.Car-
lisle, 104 ; Scottish Central, 21. lls. 6d. ; Runcorn Gap,
28f ; Sheffield and Manchester, 99 ; South-Eastern, 401;
Ditto, New, 144 ; Ditto, Half, 54f ; Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, 3 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21. 6s. ; Bou-
logne and Amiens, 41 ; Central of France, 3/. 16s. 3d.
Should it prove true, as rumoured in many quarters,
that the Brazilian Government, having failed to obtain
such concessions as required on the admission of the
sugar and other produce of the empire in Great Britain,
is about to open negotiation with the Zollverein, a " heavy
blow and great discouragement" will be inflicted upon
the manufacturing and mercantile interests of the United
Kingdom. The on dit is that the Count d'Abrantes,
who has reached the metropolis from Rio Janeiro,
is en route to Germany. for the purposes we have
referred to. No question the heads of the Zoll-
verein will be too happy to close with the Ministry of
the young Emperor, and to admit the produce of the
Brazils to places within the range of the Confederation
upon the most liberal terms ; and, what is of more im-
portance to us, is, that the people of the empire
can have nearly all the manufactures they require
from those with whom it is said to be the inten-
tion of the Government at Rio to form a treaty
of commerce. The stickling for the continuance
of the West India monopoly, has already cost this
country much, to say nothing of the twenty millions
sterling to get rid of slavery ; but British interests will
be immensely damaged should it turn out that the Zoll-
verein includes within its arrrmigements the commercial
intercourse with the Brazilian Empire. The Foreign
Minister must be entirely ignorant of the benefits this
country has derived by our intercourse hitherto with the
Brazils.
There is a decrease of 244,8201. in the notes and bul-
lion of the issue department of the Bank of England
during the week, to the I 1 th jest., and of 493,0591. in
the rest, and 12,4531. in the gold and silver coin, to the
banking department. The public deposits are much
larger—viz., 8,147,2901. against 6,202,322/.; and in the
other deposits and seven-day bills there is a slight in-
crease • also in the securities on the side of assets. The
close of the finance quarter and the dividend payments
have occasioned these alterations.
The Sleek Exchange is to be closed on Monday, the
28th inst., as well as at the Bank of England, as far as
the payment of dividends and transfers of stock are con-
cerned. The resolution of the private bankers, to pay
bills on Saturday, the 26th, instead of the 28th inst.,
cannot, however, bind private individuals who may have
bills that will arrive at maturity on that day. As far,
however, as is practicable, the " opening day" of the new
Royal Exchange will be a holiday.
The Funds are flat this morning. Consols for Money
have been sold at 100 f, and for the Account at 1001.
The demand for money is on the increase. The premium
on Exchequer Bills has fallen to 725. Bank Stock is at
205, and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
at 102*.
The Spanish Bond market has scarcely been sn firm
to-day. The Five per Cents. have receded to 23i, and
the Three per Cents. to 34:1. Portuguese Bonds are
firm. The Three per Cents. for Account have realised
501 today, and the old Stock 83k. There is not any
alteration of consequence in the other Foreign Stocks.
Buenos Ayres.Bonds have fallen to 361.
A considerable amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Railway Shares to-day, but at prices some-
what lower than those of yesterday.
PRICSE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List),
Bank Stock. .., _, .............. ...... „ 205
; 11 AO Cent. Reduced Annuities ................. risl
„ ~
,Michntpe. Cr ocneint.AAnnnumisti.e.; l/I%li
DitfieiAnnuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860..» 2
'- . CoMB' for Account ...........-”m.****•-•"-" 100
I = : . ..
•Excnequer Bills. I%d. 114 d.
1,0001. ••••••••••• «m.o.* •••• ........•• 75 74 prn.
5001............... - ........... 75 74 pm.
Ditto 5ma11........"7.7.7. - ...... .....75 74 pm.
Ditto Advertised........ -- ............
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ... . ..................... lO4
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per ..... ......... .....” 36%
" Columbian Bonds... .„. .... ..... . ....... 1414
Portuguese Bonds, iirerCent. ..... 8334
Ditto Converted -
Ditto for the Account.. ..... ... . ... .... ..... ..
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent -
Ditto for the Account 23%
Ditto Passive Bonds ..........«.... ..... •••••"••6
Ditto Deferred . 14
Ditto Three per Cent. ........................ 34%
Ditto for the Account .................. ...... .. 34%34
Dutch 234 per Cent 5................. ....... ......... -
Ditto for the Account 62%%
Dutch 5 per Cents 981434
Ditto for the Account. 9834
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 ......... 105%...... to -
Bristol and Gloucester so -
Caledonian
5 .....«.. 4.. .."... to -
Chester and Holyhead 5 ••..•_.. 734 -
Churnet Valley ... ........«... ..... 2 ....... 434% -
Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... 234 ...... 4% -
Eistern Counties .................. 25 ......... 134%% to -
Great Western .................... 75 .... ..... - -
Ditto )4 Shares ..................... 50 ......... 87 ..... -
Ditto Fifths ..... ...,............... 12 ....... 26- to 25%
London and Birmingham. lOO . ... ... 213 to 212
London and Brighton ............... 50 . ....... 47 -
London and South Western ...... 41%. ...... 7314 ...• to - ,
..
London and Croydon ............. 13% ...... 1634 -
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent... 2.. 2% -
Lynn and Ely PA......... 2% ...... to
Midland Counties . . ... ........ ....
Newcastle and Darlingtonjunct. 21 ......... 4754
Norwich and Brandon -
Ditto New ........ ............. .. -
South Eastern and D0ver.....„..
Ditto New ... ... ........... 4 -
York and North Midland ..- ... 50 .........10%
Ditto 34 Shares 25 -
Ditto Scarbore' Branch ........ 10
Central of France..... ....... ........ 2 ....... 354 li -
Boulogne and Amiens• 2 ....... 4%%%... to -
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ........ 33634..... to -
Paris and Lyons ......... -
Paris and Orleans ..... .............. 20 ..... ... 40 ..., to 3954 'll3
Parisand R0uen.............» ........ 20 ..„,„„ 40%
Patis and Stra bout g -
' PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Ocr, 17.
8 per Cent. Consols 9934
Three and a Quarter Stock....
Ditto New, 1630
3% per Cent. Debentures -
Bank Stock -
Grand Canal ............. per Cent.
Royal Canal Stock
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures
4 per Cent. City Debentures , „_
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. _ PAID. PER SHARE.
Dublin and K. Railway_ lOO ..... ... 195
Drogheda Ditt 0..-
2
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Dublin and Belfast Junction ....... .
Hibernian Bank 2534
Royal Bank .....
National Insurance 25 34
4 ..., 5
Patriotic ditto ............
Mining Company of Ireland 7
Wicklow Copper Mines
5
City of Dublin Steam Company 100
Ditto Ditto 50
...."
52
British and Irish Steam Company „,. 50 -f,
Steam Ship Building Company
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent Red ..... ...... .. 99% Ditto Bonds ... ..... . 94 pm.
et div.
mtto 5t0ck.,.,,„,,,,,,,,
5raai........
....
74
pm.
3 r Cent. Cons. ........ ... 100% Ditto Old Annuities„...
-
336 per Cent. Red .......... .. - !Ditto New Annuities ... -
New 334 per Cent....... ••••• 102% Ear. Mlls, 1.0001.1%d ... 74 pm.
New 5 per Cent.. ............. - Ditto 50W,
„..... 74
pm.
Long Annuities to expire
lan. 1860 1254 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct.. -
Oct. 1859.- ...... -!Consols for Act......„.. 100%
Jan. 1860 - India Stock for Acct... -
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent .....»•• - Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent. .... ....... 104 Ditto, New Ditto -
Brazilian Bonds ... ....... .... - Prussian, 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 36% Russian, 5 per Cent.......
Chilian, 6 per Cent ....... ..... - 'Ditto, Metallic -
Colombian, 6 per Cent ..... 14% 'panish, 5 per Cent.,.....,„ 23
Ditto, 1824 ....- ...... ........ - Ditto, 3 per Cent 34 %
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... - Ditto, Deferred ....t............
-t - c.
. -
Danish, 3 per Cent ~... ..... • - French, 5 per Cen
Greek, 1825, g per Cent.... - Exchange ~ ..........., -f. -c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ......... 34% French, 3:Cont. -f. -c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 -;ii Dutch, 234 pr Cent.... 62%
Peruvian, 1825,6 per Cent
STIARm
Ditto,E 5 per Cent .....N.. 9834
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO5
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Caledonian (5 paid)
Chester and Holyhead ( S paid) .... ~ ,„,„,„ „ 734
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid
4
Eastern Counties (25 paid) ..„..,•,., l3
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid 62
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 8634
Ditto Filths, 12 paid .............„,
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) •.. 6%
Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) ........... .... 47
London and South Western (41/.•65. 10d. paid) ... 73)4
London and Croydon (Trunk) ........................... 163.
London and York, 234 paid .................... .... ...... 4
Lynn and Ely, 134 paid ........ .. .......................... 2%
Midland Counties 000 paid)... ...... . .......... .......... 107%
Newcastle and Darlmgron Junction, 21 paid ..... 47
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ............... •0%
Ditto, New Shares .. -. 1.• ..... ...o..:: ........... 2
South Eastern and D05;i:33..2s 4d pal.) **** 41
Ditto New Shares, 4 pal ... ... •,. ... 14
York and North Midland (.50 paid)." ....• --
I°B
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ... ............... "'......
54%
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid..„ ........... , ... 35
Central of France, 2 paid..... ...... .......... .... oo• 3%
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ...•••.••••a... ''' 41
Orleans, Tours, and ourdeaux, I pai ...........6 ,
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid
..»...................•.........••.... 27
ihris and Orleans (20 paid) . ...................... .. 29%
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ............. ......... .........." 39
-...--

nani's Messenger :
" The Opposition journals of this morninuresent a
striking instance of the injurious, we had allhost said
demoralising, influence of party spirit. As long as the
demonstrations of welcome given in England to the King
of the French were merely personal, we were not sur-
prised at the view taken of the visit by these journals,
for it was part of their tactics to represent them as a
tribute to the Sovereign of France at the expense of the
feelings of his nation. They said that the English wel-
comed him because they considered him to be as English
in feeling and interests as themselves, and that in pro-
portion to their enthusiasm was their dislike for the na
tion over which he reigns. At length, however, the
banquet to the officers of the French navy takes place at
Portsmouth; on that occasion the warmest tribute is
paid to the courage and noble-mindedness of the mem-
bers of the army and navy. of France. Their deeds of
arms are celebrated by British officers with a generosity
as honourable to England as it must be gratifying to
France. In language, at once enlightened and kind, a
sincere friendship is avowed for the French nation by
men who, of all others, are the least to be suspected of
hypocrisy, and the noble feelings evinced by the enter-
tainers were as nobly responded to by their guests.
Here, then, was an occasion for admitting that the de-
monstration in England towards the King of the French
applied to his people also ; but, so far from this, some of
the Opposition journals not only abstain from making
such admission, but suppress all account of the meeting.
The Constitutionnel gives a dry summary of about half
a column ; the Siecle states that the speeches at the
dinner were parasitical, and gives only a portion of the
speech of Sir Hercules Pakenham ; the Commerce dis-
misses the affair in a paragraph of ten lines ,• the Na-
tional suppresses the report altogether, with the excep-
tion of a few lines of the speech of the Mayor of Ports-
mouth, which it lays hold of for the purpose of misre-
presentation ; and the Quotidienne takes no more notice
of the dinner than announcing that the Mayor proposed
the health of M. Guizot. If the journals had been so
pressed by other matters of importance that they had no
room for the report of the dinner at Portsmouth, there
would have been an excuse—a poor one, indeed, but still
an excuse—for this suppression. We see, however,
whole columns taken up with the affairs of Spain, which
are at this moment of very little importance indeed, com-
pared with the extraordinary and unprecedented event at
Portsmouth, an event which must have a sovereign in-
fluence over the question of peace and civilisation
throughout the whole world."
The Paris Globe thus refers to the dinner :
"We recommend to the serious attention of our rea
ders the account of the banquet given to the French
officers at Portsmouth. The French and English naval
officers have afforded a worthy answer to those whei
would have their permanent and systematic hostility be-
lieved in. They have given a noble spectacle—that of
men whose profession is war, proclaiming with enthu-
siasm the necessity and grandeur of peace. This inter-
national fete will make great noise in the army, and we
have no doubt but that it will exercise the most salutary
influence on the future intercourse of the two navies."
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents •• • • 118 40 .. 118 45 .. 118 40 .. 118 45
Fours • 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25
Three per Cents.. ••. 82 25 .. 82 40 .. 82 25 .. 82 35
Bank of France • • 3052 50 —3052 50 .•3052 50 ..3052 50
Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllls ..1115 ..1115 ..1115
5,000 f. Sharesso4s .•5045 —5042 50 ..$Ol2 50
Belgian Bank ..• ••• • • •• • . 665 665 .. 665 .. 665
Belgian Fives,lß3l.•
1840 .••••••• 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031 1031
1842 .••••••• 1051 .. 1051 •• 105 .. 105
Threes • • ...... 76 75 .. 76 75 •• 76 75 • • 76 75
Spanish Passive .• •.•• • • 51 .. 51 • . 51 .. 51
Active •••••• • • • • •• 321 32g .. 321 .. 321
Threes •••• • • • • 35 .. 35 35 .. 35
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 501 501 501 .. 501
Neapolitan .••• •• • •• 98 65 .• 98 65 .. 98 65 .. 98 65
Roman .. 166 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, n.E•••••• ...... 896 25 .. 396 25 .. 395 .. 396 25
R.ouen •• •
Rouen to Havre
Orleans . . . lOl7 50 ..1017 50 ..1015 ..1017 50
Strasburg to Bale .• • • 280 .• 282 50 . 278 75 .. 280
Avignon to Marseilles— • • 780 • 781 25 .. 780 .. 780
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
St. Germain - 917 50
Versailles, L. 8.• ••• • • 290 .. 290 .. 285 .. 285
Rouen •••• •• •••• ..........1015 ..1015 —lOl2 50 ..1012 50
Rouen to Havre.• ••.• • 772 50 .. 772 50 .. 768 75 .. 768 75
Orleans ••• • • •
Strasburg to Bale.. .•
Avignon to Marseilles— •• • . 782 50 .. 782 50 . 781 25 .. 782 50

THE GREAT CHESS MATCH AT PARIS.—PARIS,
THURSDAY EVENING.—The match between Mr. Staunton
and M. St. Amend is postponed sine die, in consequence
of the severe and sudden illness of the English champion.
Mr. Staunton caught a slight cold in his late journey to
Paris, which, unfortunately being neglected, fell on the
chest. A violent inflammation took place, leeches were
applied in abundance, and on Thursday last Mr. Staunton
was quite out of danger, but still so weak that a fort-
night or three weeks must elapse before he can venture
to encounter his antagonist. The match excites much
attention in all chess-playing societies in Paris, and the
recovery of Mr. Staunton is anxiously looked for, not
only out of personal feeling for that gentleman, but from
the great desire amateurs experience to see such cele-
brated players as he and M. St. Amand again engaged.
We understand Mr. Harry Wilson, of the Isle of Wight,
started for Paris on Tuesday night, to attend a second
time, as umpire and secretary to Mr. Staunton.
PRESENT TO O'CoNNELL. The Rhenish Observer
states that the inhabitants of Coblentz and the neigh-
bouring towns had opened a subscription to collect the
funds necessary for the purchase of a cargo of Rhenish
wine of the first quality, which they propose to send as
a present to Daniel O'Connell.
THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—We understand that
the O'Connell Tribute for the past year is about to be
announced, and that the sum received is no less than
28,8501., and two parishes still remain to be " made up."
—Dublin Monitor.
MONUMENTS OP SHAKESPEARE'S iS
well known to all who have been to Stratford-upon-Avon,
that several of the old inscriptions upon the monuments
or stones to the memory of Shakespere's family have
been so obliterated by time, or the feet of careless visi-
tors of the church, as to be scarcely legible. One of the
members of the Council of the Shakespere Society, the
Rev. W. Harness, having recently spent some time in
the native town of our great dramatist, with piety
worthy his profession and admiration of genius, at his
own expense has caused all the inscriptions to be re-
touched and restored, so that they now appear exactly
in the state in which they originally stood, and can be
easily read by anybody at all acquainted with the forms
' of our old letters. This is a course widely different from
that pursued by Malone, whose taste for classic purity
, was so shocked at the painted bust of Shakespere in
Stratford Church (showing the colour of his eyes, com-
' plexion, and dress), that he caused it to be covered with
' a thick coat of hite-lead, which, unfortunately, can
never be removed. At the last meeting of the Council

of the Shakespere Society (formed for—the publication
of productions illustrative of our early dramatic poetry),
a resolution of heatry thanks to the Rev. W. Harness,
for his instrumentality in this congenial work, was un-
animously adopted, and entered on the minutes.
CHARLTON, COMMONLY CALLED HORN FAlR.—This
long-established and well-known fair commenced on Fri-
day, in a field adjacent to the park of Sir 'Thomas Ma-
ryon Wilson, Bart., of New Charlton. The weather
proved very favourable throughout the day. During the
morning a vast number of the well-dressed and respect-
able inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich, and the sur-
rounding neighbourhood, both male and female, as well
as numerous juveniles, promenaded the fair. There
was the usual display of theatrical representations, wild
beasts, the sapient pig, conjuration, fortune-telling, and,
lastly, a grand display of pugilistic prowess by profes-
sors from the London and other rings. The latter drew
the attention of the military officers and men of the
garrison ; but the cadets of the Royal Military Academy
did not appear, as it is understood orders have been issued
by the authorities to prevent a repetition of such acts of
insubordination and violence as were exhibited on two
occasions during the fair within the last four years, as
well as at the Woolwich Races. All was peaceable to-
wards evening, and the amusements promised to pass off
with unusual eclat and profit to many.
LEICESTER STATE OF TRADE.—There has been
less demand this week, and compared with this time last
year there is not so much doing. Goods, and wools and
yarns, have experienced no alteration in prices. The
orders for the American spring trade, from present ap-
pearances, will be but small for this market.—Leicester-
shire Mercury.
THE LATE FIRE AT HANDFORD HALL.—The lad,
named George Dyer, who stated that he came from
Norwich, having declared himself to have been the
person who set tire to a stack of straw near the Lamb
Fair Field, at Ipswich, on the 22d of August last, and
also to a stack at Larlingford about the same period, has
been conveyed to Larlingford, and is remanded for
further examination next week.—Suffolk Chronicle.
THE TREAD-MILL.—At an inquest lately held
in
Coldbath-fields House of Correction, Mr. Wakley in-
quired whether females were put upon the tread-mill ?
And having received a reply in the affirmative, he ex-
pressed his surprise, as it had been reported that the
custom of doing so had been abolished for some months
past. The female warden, of whom the Coroner made
the inquiry, stated that the report was groundless, as
all females under forty years of age sentenced to hard
labour, were placed upon the mill for certain hours each
day, but that all above that ago were exempt from it.
Mr. Wakley said that he was glad that he had been
rightly informed upon the subject, as ho should turn his
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CHEAP RAILWAY TRIPS.—One of the northern
papers calculates that no less a sum than 10,0rom
the
001. was
spent by a recent pleasure trip py f
North to London, including the money expended in
the metropolis during the few days' stay.—Ruilway
Record.
ALARMING INTELLIGENCE.—MURDER.--011 Fri-
day evening considerable alarm was created in this town
by a report that a man had been horribly.ruurdered in
the nelghbourhood of Whorlton. rhe discovery was
made by a party of boys who had wandered that far for
the purpose of gathering blackberries. There could be
no mistake about the matter—they actually
saw the body,
and the gaberlunzie-like dress in which it was clothed.—
" here lay Duncan,
His silver skin laced with his golden blood,
And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature
For ruins wasteful entrance."
It was a trying moment, and fully bore out the words of
Macbeth, that no person, a: the same,, time, could be
" wise, amazed, temperate, and furious. They quickly
left the scene of horror, and did not vesture to breathe
anything of their dreadful secret, until safely lodged
within their respective domiciles. Rumour then com-
menced to do its work, and in a short time a hackney
coach, with a county officer and a town's policeman, and
accompanied by a guide, were on the road, to perform
the offices of humanity and justice. The fatal spot was
reached, and one of the policemen, on touching the body,
declared that it had been dead for a considerable time.
The discovery was soon made that the objectwas not a real
man, and the result of the night's adventure had been a
source of considerable merriment. One report affirms
that it was " a man of staw," whose original duty was
to frighten birds, but was never intended to frighten
man ; while another alleges it to have been part of the
remains of a dead animal. It is impossible for us to
determine, as the officers of justice are not very eom.
raunicative On the subject.--. Newcastle Advertiser,

IsitIiSCELLANEI9I7 X.
The Dublin Monitor states that the O'Connell tribute
for this year amounts to 28,8501., and two parishes still
remain to be " made up."
M. Guizot was born on the 4th of October, 1787, and
consequently entered into his 58th year on the 4th inst.
On the 29th of the present month the Ministry, of which
M. Guizot is the soul, will enter into the fifth year of
its existence, a phenomenon which has not been seen
since the Revolution of July.
A medical witness, in giving evidence a few days ago,
at an inquest held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., on the
body of a murdered child, said that he found fracture of
the frontal and pirital bones, and what was singular,
there were no external marks indicative of the internal
injury. The Coroner said that was nothing extraordi-
nary; the books upon medical jurisprudence were all
wrong. Numerous instances had come under his imme-
ate notice, in which cabs, carts, and even waggons heavily
laden had passed over men's bodies without leaving the
least external mark of injury.
Charlton Horn Fair commenced on Friday, in a field
adjacent to the park of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson,
Bart., of New Charlton. The weather proved very
favourable throughout the day. During the morning a
vast number of well-dressed and respectable inhabitants
of Greenwich, Woolwich, and the surrounding neigh-
bourhood, both male and female, as well as numerous
juveniles, promenaded the fair.
The Lord Mayor has issued his precept for the elec-
tion of an Alderman for Portsoken. The nomination is
to take place at the Three Nuns this day. The
general opinion seems to be, that there, in reality, will
be no second candidate, but that the ex-Sheriff will be
left to walk over the course, find battle it out with Mr.
Salomons in a court of law in the best manner he is able.
On Thursday evening a vestri, was held in the school-
room, and adjourned for want of accomnodation to the
parish church of St. Paul, Deptford (the Rev. L,
S. Ffinch
in the chair), for the purpose of making a church rate,
there having been no rate made for the church in that
parish for the last six years. Extreme sensation was
manifested ; added to which the late churchwarden,
Hills, had declared publicly that he considered the funds
of the church were adequate to meet all the demands for
the support of the fabric, without calling upon the
parishioners for a rate. Upon a show of hands, 35 were
held up for the rate, and against it were held 400 or 500.
A poll was demanded.
Considerable sensation was created at the Board of
Direeters and Guardians of the Poor of St. Msrylebone,
who held their usual weekly meeting. at the workhouse,
New-road, on account of the receipt of a eommuniction
from the Poor• law Commissioners, calling upon them, in
accordance with the 64th section of the New Poor-law
1.1,-t, to elect a Chairman and Vic-Chairman of their
Board, in the same manner as those , officers are elected
in poor-law unions. The communication having been
read, an animated citscuswm followed, in the coung, of
which a fixed determination was expressed to resist the
encroachment of the Poor-law Commissioners, and a re-
solution deferring the eer:Aderation of the document was
carried unanimously.

HA.MBLIRGH and FLANDERS MAILS
FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, OCT. 6.—At the beginning of
this month a new attempt was made to effect a revolution
in Servia, which, however, like the preceding, has been
suppressed by the energy of the Government. The ob-
ject was, as before, to overturn the Government of the
Prince, and to replace the family of Obrenovitsch on the
throne. For this purpose, it is said, preparations had
been making for some time past on two points of the
Austrian frontier, with funds said to be furnished by
Milosch, and uniforms and standards made, and arms and
ammunition purchased. Disguised in these uniforms,
which were precisely similar to those of the Servian
army, a baud of emigrants, with one Joannovitsch at their
head, crossed the Sere a few days ago. He began there
in the circle of Schabaez, where they calculated on finding
the people,took them for a body of Government troops, and
got possession of the Town house, where they cut down
with their sabres two of the magistrates. New officers
were immediately appointed, and measures taken with
all speed to forward the enterprise which had so far suc-
ceeded. But the Government bad meantime been in-
formed of these events, and immediately ordered troops
to Schabaez, which surrendered at the first summons,
and gave up the new chief magistrate, on which troops
were sent in pursuit of the band, which had proceeded
in the detection of Leschnitze, and had found little sup-
port from the people. Fresh complaints are said to
have been already sent to St. Petersburgh, Constanti-
nople, and Vienna, against Prince Milosch, who is very
heavily accused by the Servian Government. A letter
from Salonica says that piracy is increasing in the
Greek Sca. Dead bodies it is said, are often found, the
heads having been cut off by the pirates, that they may
not be recognised.
BERLIN, OCT. 15.—The bulletins of the health of the
Prince of Prussia, published in the official part of the
Universal Prussian Gazette of the 13th, 14th, and 15th, say
that there is no trace of fever, and that the injury sus-
tained by his Royal Highness is in a fair way of being
speedily cured.
STETTIN, OCT. 10.—The Swedish mail steam-boat (the
Swedish Lion), which left this port on the 3d instant for
Ystadt, put to sea from 'Schweinemunde in a violent
storm, and had not arrived at Ystadt on Monday the 7th,
though the voyage is generally performedin twelve or six-
teen hours, so that it ought to have arrived on the fol-
lowing morning, the 4th. The Danish mail steamer
which was ready to put to sea on the same evening, but
waited till the following morning, when the storm had
abated, arrived safe at Copenhagen. It is therefore to
be feared that the Swedish Lion is totally lost : the only
hope seems to be, that it may have put into some port of
Bornholm, which, however, is not probable. On board the
Swedish steamer was ;the Countess of Sieves of Revel,
with her servants who wanted to return to St. Petersbmg,
but arriving too late for the steamer to that city, resolved
o go by way of Sweden.
BELGI AN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, OCT. 16.
Aetna Debt, 514 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent PS%
--- Three per Cent. ..... --
Thirty-sever, Milli( ns, ditto ... ...... 'l7
(1g40) ...... ......... 110405%

)84.4
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent 102%;
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ..............
Issue of 1841
...Brussels Papers. Oct. 17.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, OCT. 15.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1640
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate . 105% 105
Inscription, lat serif.. — 1054
Russian , per Cent. Hope and Co, 3d and 4th
Series -.....— 93%
Ditto in Certificates ...••• 1.3%
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 91% 9, %
Dutch Actual Debt, .2% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
17%
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vismis, OCT 11.
Five par Cents. Metalhques • . 110 1-16
Four par Cent 5................ ......... ... .................. 100
Three per Cents. 76
Bank Shares .... ............... .............
4liganeine Zeitung. Oct. 14.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :

Week
ending

Last
week. to,

Oct. 12
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