The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1845,

serenity of his mind, or make him forget for one mo-
ment that he had only one paramount duty to perform
—to march straight forward, regardless of all interrup-
tions, to the goal so ardently desired by nine-tenths of
the population. Neither the taunts and unfounded
statements of Jourtwort C RORER, nor the bois-
terous and frensied declamations of Sir CHARLES
WETHERELL, nor the cautious, deep, calm, insidious, and
plausible policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL, turned him from his
purpose. Perhaps in no period of Parliamentary
history have we such instances of excited orators,
reckless declaimers, and treasonable plotters, as
during the lengthened discussions on the Reform
Bill. If ALTHORP was not personally attacked,
all bis colleagues were—charges were brought against
the Ministry, as if they had taken advantage of the
KING'S peculiarity of mind, and purposely, for their own
selfish interests, roused to madness a nation, that but for
their wicked instigations would have been satisfied with
the smallest possible measure of reform. When these
and more grievous charges were made night after night,
and aggravated at every repetition, hopes were enter-
tained that even this prudent leader would become dis-
concerted and thrown off his guard. Never were hopes
so completely falsified, for when the opposing body ex-
pected some outbreak from STANLEY or GRAHAM, or
the more irritable of the party, ALTHORP anticipated
them, rose with his usual calm demeanour, and after a
brief and civil reply to any objections urged, proceeded
in the quiet tenour of his way, and moved the adoption
of the next clause. When he was at last found impreg-
nable, they resigned themselves to their fate, and con-
soled themselves with the reflection embodied in a phrase
of their own coining, that " ALTHORP'S d—d good
nature did it all." There were some clauses in the Bill,
however, of an objectionable character, which he either
opposed too meekly or gave up without opposition,
among others the Chandos clause, or, more properly
speaking, the Sibthorp clause, for Colonel Sin-
THORP first brought it forward. The Marquis of
CHANDOS had as much claim to it as AMERICUS VES-
PUCCIUS had to the discovery of the New World. If
ALTHORP consented to that mischievous amendment, it
cannot be denied that he was in good company. Mr.
HUME, and many others of the Liberals, approved of
it; it was not resisted with any courage by the press, and
many well-meaning people believed that it was desir-
able that the suffrage should be extended as widely as
possible, without suspecting for a moment that
.the Tory
landlords would make such a tyrannical use of their
power. When the Reform Parliament assembled Earl
GREY, timidly afraid of the work of his own hands, did
everything in his power to check the popular impulse,
and during the rest of his Premiership thought more
of controlling and curbing the Commons than using the
vast power which they possessed for reforming the
Church, reforming the law, cutting down useless expen-
diture, and rendering justice to the long-oppressed
Irish. In all these great faults, we are to presume that
Lord ALTHORP concurred, for he retained his seat in the
Cabinet till the death of his father removed him to the
House of Peers. But ALTHORP was not fitted for a
great leader ; he neither bad the daring nor the ori-
ginal views suited to such a character—he could fight
well under a chief—he made an excellent general of a
division—and as a proof of his great merit in this re-
spect, the country at large owe more gratitude to
him than to the whole cabinet together. We have dwelt
at this length on the part he took in reforming the
Commons House of Parliament, because it forms the
main feature of his political life, and will be remem-
bered when all bis other labours, either as a statesman
or an agriculturist, are forgotten. In his last character
he some years ago gave great offence to the_ agricultural
body, by advocating the principles of free trade, and
consequently the reduction or abolition of the corn-laws.
But that was only another proof of his honourable and
independent conduct, and such respect was attached to
his name that the offence was speedily forgotten. In
modern times it would be difficult to find a public man
so free from reproach, or so universally beloved—
" Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter."

Among the many items of intelligence which give tb
the last extraordinary express intelligence from India
and China an unusual degree of interest, and of poli-
tical importance, we have only time, to-day, to notice
the very strong rumours which they advert to of Russian
intrigue being once more at work, in. Persia, against
British supremacy in India. It can hardly be necessary
to direct the vigilant attention of our readers to any in-
timations of this kind applying to such quarters.
The very remarkable and hitherto wholly unexplained pro
ceedings of the Russian agent at Herat, in exciting the
Arab and Seikh soldiery to the several attacks and
demonstrations against that fortress, which were so
gallantly, defeated by the late Major, then Lieutenant
Porrixozn, sufficiently detected a sinister community
of purposes in the secret councils of Russia and of
Persia. Nor is the significance of the presumption
weakened either by the manifest conclusion, that in any
case Russia is acting by Persia as her unresisting and
convenient tool, nor yet by the ostensible disavowal by
the Cabinet of St. Petersbnrgh of the acts of their
agent in Herat. The fact of that unhappy rnarfa
having laid violent heads -upon himself on the night
preceding the day, or On the very morning in which
he had been summoned to appear before an Imperial
Council, will in no way weaken the inferences which
establish the fact of this compacted intrigue. They
who have been at the trouble of informing themselves
upon the morals and the measures of Russian diplomacy,
will easily understand how the Imperial Agent may have
been justified in anticipating the treacherous disclaimer
of his employers. Neither the mutual confidence, nor
the feeling of honour, which in the business of other
Cabinets renders confidential instructions binding on
both parties, the issuer and the recipient, is a plant that
grows on the banks of the Neva. The agent, doubtless,
too clearly foresaw the cruel doom that the failure of
his mission would entail upon him, and which, therefore,
his own band anticipated. Certain it is, that the
British Legislature and people have never been favoured
with the sight of any official disavowal, on the part of the
Russian Government, of at least a guilty knowledge of
this man's attempts and cabals against our flag at Herat.
But we now learn that at that same Herat, between the
agents of the Schah of PERSIA, and YAR MOHAMMED,
the usurper, intrigues have been long carried on, founded
upon representations of the overwhelming influence of
Russia in the Persian Councils, and allegations of a
peace for thirty years having been concluded between
the two Powers, of which a main condition is said to be—
that Russia shall assist the Government of the latter
"in overcoming all its enemies in Central Asia."
With her usual disinterestedness, Russia, it is reported,
stipulates, as the price of her active alliance, for one-half
of the conquests which may be made by the arms of
Persia; and the reigning SCRAM, with his usual infatua-
tion, is said to have acceded to,these terms. In all this
there is quite enough to justify—nay, to demiind—the
most prompt and energetic measures on the part of our
Government, both at home and in India. THIS time the

cabal must be rigorously watched. Explanations must
be demanded in a tone to admit of no paltering or eva-
sion; and it is high time that Russian duplicity should
succumb, despite itself, to the plain speaking of British
honour. If the charges be unfounded, Russia will have
no right to complain of being called on for a categorical
and distinct disavowal of them, after the unremoved
presumptions against her good faith, left by the former
transactions at Herat. If the charges have any founda-
tion at all, the sooner the acknowledgment is exacted
from the Russian Government the better. The sooner,
in that case, will the necessary attitude be assumed by

ourselves for vindicating our own rights, and preven.ing
future tampering with them by enforcing satisfaction
for, or, in the alternative, by punishing present
attempts upon them. It should not be endured
for a single moment, that this ambitious Government
should, with impunity, renew those treacherous and un-
principled designs against the dynasty and authority of
Great Britain in the noblest empire of Asia, which, in
the judgment of all Europe, we believe, only escaped de-
tection two years ago by the suicidc—or the violent re-
moval—of the Russian agent who then set them in
motion.

r In the continued absence of all official dispatches concern-
ing the affair at Tamatave, the capital of Madagascar, in
which a conjoint force of English sailors and French soldiers
and sailors were fairly beaten back, though not until after they
had accomplished the main object of their enterprise (to
rescue the persons and property of the Europeans resident in
the place), we forbear to offer any commentary on the facts
which attended the operation. We must, for the present, ab-
stain, for similar reasons, from animadverting on the bar-
barous tyranny of the native QUEEN—the widow of the noble
RADAMA, our ancient ally, and, in his life-time, a generous
convert to the policy of discontinuing domestic slavery and
the trade in slaves with foreign Powers. As we should
rather say, perhaps, that we will treat these matters, for the
present, hypothetically only—as establishing the inferences
necessary for our purpose ; namely, that the QtrEEx had
been guilty of intolerable oppressions and cruelty to the
French and English subjects settled, under the faith of
treaties, in her dominions—that the English and French au-
thorities of the Mauritius and Isle of Bourbon were fully jus-
tified in demanding, on the behalf of those Europeans, that
these cruelties and vexations should be discontinued ;
and, in the event of that satisfaction being refused, in
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carrying off the objects of their infliction by force, and
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has been amply and memorably
repaired. Sir Wm.
GOMM, we all know, is not a man to put up with failure •
Or to furl the flag he has once planted until it,has fluttered
the breeze of victory. But we are atitious, on the - in

tiori that the tyranny and contumacy of this Malagash,
QUEEN have been such as they are reported in the last ad-
vices, to extract a lesson of political experience for those
maritime powers which, oflate years, in various regions of tine
globe, have been over forward and under scrupulous in enforc-
ing from feeble states or unarmed-savages excessive reparation
for trifling injuries. The last voyage of discovery by an ex-
ploring expedition fitted oat by the United States, com-
manded by Captain WILKES of their navy, supplies us with
the last instance of one of these wholesale and indiscriminate
slaughters which civilized man, armed with the terrible en-
gines of destruction and death that modern science has
helped him to, can at any time inflict on naked islanders for
offences, or even for crimes, the natural consequences of their
untutored impulses, their benighted ignorance, their head-
strong wilfulness. We could not help contrasting, on lately
perusing Captain 'WILKES'S " Narrative," the conduct
of the United States' officers in command of this
expedition with the generous forbearance and thought-
ful humanity of our own FRANKLYNS and LYONS,
under similar or more exciting circumstances of provocation-
The French, in their excessive exactions in the Rio Plate, on

the pretence of compensation to a compatriot pastry-cook,
whose pattypans had been pillaged, in a popular tumult; in
their seizure of one of the Marquesas, is their chivalric enter-
prise against Otaheite, and other such operations, have lately
been busied in enlisting the indignant sympathy of the Eu-
ropean public in the cause of those who have been the vic-
tims of their superior and overmatching force. They have
gained nothing by their successes. Loss of life, damage of
character, and large outlay of money, have been the only
realised results at which they have arrived after wading
through a dreary series of acts of injustice and aggression for
their attainment. Is it nothing to have weakened
the moral influence of their name in Madagascar, where it
has stood so bigb, for upwards of a century, by a species of
piratical " occupations " really not more justifiable by the
law of nations than Captain Mozaca's seizure of Panama
whilst ransom was being collected, or the earlier peccadilloes
in this sort of Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, or the later operations
of Sir JOHN NARBOROUGH, or Old DAMPIER ? The facts of
the Marquesas and Otaheite affairs had been as well known,
for months prior to this conjoint expedition of a French
and English force at Tamatave, as they were in London or
in Paris.

We were assured, long ago, by parties connected with the
trade of Madagascar, and who have occasionally resided in
that magnificent island, that there was a feeling of jealous
animosity towards the Fren.:ll, half fear and half hatred,
growing up among the Malagashes, which had its immediate
origin in apprehensions of their ultimate designs on the inde-
pendence of the country. This feeling, we have no doubt,

was that which emboldened the ferocious and licentious
" RANAVOLA MANJAKA" and her black OnLOFFS and Po-
TESIKINS to refuse, with insolent contempt, all previous con-
cessions, or even negotiations, when applied to by an officer
of her Britannic MAJESTY'S navy. Now, the lesson we
read in these facts is—that that retribution which all of

us recognise in the system of the moral, equally pervades
the scheme of the political world. If this be so, in-
deed, we would fain hope that the Government of France,
taught by the experience of the past, will in future find no
reason for acknowledging in catastrophes of this kind that
its own conduct has challenged them.

The Madrid Gazette, of the 25th of September, publishes
a royal decree of some importance, relative to the Univer-
sities of Spain. A royal college is to be- established at
Madrid ; the Universities of Barcelona, Grenada, Madrid,
Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid'
and Saragossa are to be maintained; and those of the Ca-
nary Islands, Huesca, and Toledo are to be converted into
secondary institutions. The Universities of Madrid, Oviedo,
Seville, Valladolid, and Saragossa are to have faculties of
theology, and those of Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago, and Va-
lencia, faculties of medicine. The decree appears to give
general satisfaction.
Colonel D'OrcrEcu, a member of the Cortes, had been
arrested at Saragossa, and sent under escort to Madrid, but
the charge against him is not published.
According to accounts from Gibraltar, of the 18th or Sep-
tember, the treaty conducted by Sweden and Denmark with
Morocco on the sth, respecting the suppression of the tri-
bute hitherto paid by those two Christian Powers, were ex-
changed at Tangiers on the 14th.
Nothing was done on the Madrid Bourse on the 25th.

The Paris Opposition journals can at last boast of one of
their candidates being returned during the recent elections,
though the victory has not been obtained in a very legitimate
way, The High Royalists and the Republicans and Radicals
clubbed their votes together, and defeated the Ministerial
candidate at Douai. M. CIIOQUE, the Opposition candidate,
had 264 votes; M. DANEL obtained 255, only 9 short of his
opponent, and these were given by the Legitimatists. The
Opposition papers of all parties rejoice in the result. The
Quotidienne, a Royalist journal, thus proclaims the triumph, and
holds out the promise of still greater victories The elections
which have just taken place prove that the Royalist party draws
fresh force and courage from the wretchedness of the present
state of things. They show that the electoral body is un-
dergoing an important transformation. In all the colleges,
which met on the 20th and 27th, the number of the Opposi-
tion votes has increased. We must, in conclusion, repeat
the assertion, that it is to the Royalists that in a great mea-
sure is due this cleverly managed struggle. Let us hope that
their example will be followed. France seemed to be shut-
ting her eyes to the perils which surround her; now, that
she beholds where she is being led, she comprehends
the necessity of action. Our friends in all the pro-
vinces will consider it their duty to initiate the IteYeiCtB of
Blois, Coutances, Douai, and 174,,,deine. CAM letters an•aounce
to us a firm resolution to exhibit on the occasion of the
general election the same activity, the same union, and the
same fidelity to engagements."
" Thus, then," says the National, "it is seen that the
Opposition has gained the victory, and the Ministry is de-
feated—beaten precisely in the college upon which it most
confidently relied. Poor M. MARTIN (du Nord) is also cast
down ! Poor man! His good town of Douai has failed him!
He had answered for it with his head, and it has refused to
redeem the pledge which was so precious. to him ! Good
Gon! whither can he fly? Thus the Opposition may dis-
pense with blowing the trumpet of victory in honour of his
success. The election of M. CsloquE will not certainly put
down the ' Ministere de l'Etranger,' nor the Penske du
Regne.' Still it is not without importance."
M. TRIERS' journal thus joins in the song of triumph:—
" Here is a complete check for the Ministry. The election
took place in the seat of a Cour Royale, and in an arrondisse-
ment of which the other half sends M. MARTIN (du Nord),
Minister of Justice, to the Chamber. It was against M. DA'SEL,
a member of the parquet of the Cour Royale of Douai, that
the Opposition candidate had to struggle, and M. CliocluE
gained tht victory. Let us add up : M. MARMIER is elected
at Jussev, against M. AMEDEE TIIIERRY, 111. GIIIZOT'S can-
didate; M. DELZERS is elected at Espalion, against M. Pons,
the Ministerial candidate, who had just been promoted to a
function of the magistrature. Out of the nine re-elections
which the promotions to the peerage rendered necessary,
eight are known; the Ministry has received two checks. M.
DERELLETME, jun., was only elected after havingsigned a de-
claration drawn up by the Opposition. 111. CLIOQUE has ob-
tained a triumph so much the more remarkable, that his po-
litical opinions were clearly marked, and that he struggled
against the most active and most direct Ministerial influence.
We shall again refer to the result of these partial elections,
which may beforehand allow an opinion to be formed of the
definite result of the general elections."
The Ministerial journals merely state the result of the
election. On Monday the KING, accompanied by the Mi-
nister of Commerce and Generals GOURGAUD and D'HOUDE-
TOT, took his usual carriage exercise at Eu. "It appears,"
says the Memorial de Rouen, " that the works for extending
to Eu the port of Treport, which will assume the name of
Philippe Port,' are about to commence. It is also said that
the railroad from Rouen to Dieppe will be immediately pro-
longed to the same royal residence."

The Prince and Princess of SALErmo had arrived in Paris,
and were lodged at the Elyge-Bourbon, in the apartments
which the EMPEROR occupied during the Hundred Days.
They are to remain about ten days in Paris, and will then
proceed to Fontainableau, where the KING will also repair,
and thence they return to Italy.

The France, a Royalist journal, thus points out the critical
state of the savings' bank of Paris
The last weekly return of the savings' bank of Paris is
really frightful. The total amount of the investments was
only 501,135 f, whilst the reimbursements made, and the
demands for reimbursements during the same period, amount
to the enormous sum of 2,367,728 f. This comparative result,
which is certainly without precedent in the annals of the
savings' banks, will appear more frightful, when it is known
that the innumerable mass of all the small capitals abstracted
from economy are about to be lost in the new disorders of
jobbing in shares. The gambling in the railroads enters for at
least nine-tenths in these deplorable speculations. Was this
the object of the law of 1842 ? Could the legislator forsee that
the railroads would be the fruit of the investments of the
small capital of the precious savings of the laborious classes,
which we would call the fortune of the indigent? Could the
legislator desire that the denier of the poor, earned by the
sweat of their brow, and reserved as the means of bread for
the days of non-occupation, should be scandalously adven-
tured in all the risks of the agio, and be carried off by spe-
culators more clever, more practised, and frequently less
honest? At the approach of a winter which appears to pro-
mise much rigour and misery, this mad displacement of small
capitals, these continual and constantly increasing subtrac-
tions from the savings of the poor, ought to fix the special
attention and solicitude of the Government. It is to the
Minister of Public Works in particular that we address our-
selves, for it belongs to him to put an end to these scandalous
disorders. By advancing at least the moment of the last
adjudications which remain to be made for this' year, and
putting an end to the delays contrived for the advancement
of isolated interests, he will the more speedily quench the
fever of speculation which has for some time menaced the
fortunes of the public, and which transforms society into a
coupe-gorge industrhl."
In reference to the gamblings in railroad shares the Revue
des Deux Mondes says :
" A single question at present engrosses attention—that of
the railroads. We may even say that that question bas, for
the last month, seriously; pre-occupied the public mind.
The enthusiasm felt for railroads continues unabated, and the
confidence of capitalists in the advantages offered by_those im-
mense enterprises, so far from diminishing has perhaps increased.
But it is nevertheless true that the present situation calla for the
consideration of the most enlightened men, and the greatest
vigilance on the part of the Government. Two extensive lines,
Strasburg and Lyons, are to be adjudged in the months of No-
cember and December. It is to be apprehended that several
of the Companies which have constituted themselves to bid
for their concession are not serious, and that it would be
out of their power to complete so gigantic a work. 'What
occurred relative to the northern road, the prospect
of joining a powerful Company, perhaps also the hope of
carrying the adjudication by a rash offer, give birth awry

morning to new companies, whose competition becomes a
danger for public credit, and compromises the very existence
of railway communications. The Government is warned. The
law furnishes it with sufficient means to disarm an irregular
and immoral competition, and it must use them. We trust
that the superior Committee, guided and supported by public
opinion, will display the utmost severity in the examination
of the titles of each company. • Serious competition must be
expected; such is the object of the law; but jobbing is not
competition. It was not the desire of the Chambers that
railroads should fall into the hands of hawkers of premiums
and insatiable gamblers. A crisis in the railroads might
cause serious financial embarrassments, and probably bring
about a political crisis of which it would be difficult to cal-
culate the consequences. The anarchical factions openly
speculate on such a crisis, and the Government would assume
a very great responsibility if it did not adopt the measures
necessary to moderate er prevent it."
We subjoin miscellaneous extracts from the continental

papers :-
The Presse says that it appears to be certain that a
new creation of Peers will be made very shortly.
A Marseilles journal announces that Don Carlos and the
Princess de Beira were to leave that city on the 2d, for Nice.
The Dusseldorf and Aix-la-Chapelle Gazettes publish a
Berlin letter, stating that the Prussian Cabinet has decided
upon not recognising the present order of things in Spain
until a marriage of conciliation with the Prince of the As-
turias has given a certain guarantee to Europe.
The official organ of the deparment of foreign affairs of
Russia has just published an article explanatory of the Im-
perial ukase-of June 19, which has been considered by the
French merchants as an act of reprisals against the modifica-
tions made in our customs' duties, in what concerns some of
the articles which come to us from Russia.
We read in the Leipsic Gazette :-" Letters from Odessa
confirm the accounts of the reverses experienced by the Rus-
sians in the Daghestan. The army of Prince Woronzow had
arrived at Gersel, a fortress on the extreme frontier of the
Caucasus."
The Cologne Gazette states from Berlin, that a project of
convoking a general council ofthe clergy of all sects in Prussia,
with a view to hearing their opinions on the religious ques-
tions which agitate the public in that country, is under con-
sideration.
The Three per Cents. closedon the Paris Bourse onWednes-
day at 83f. 50e. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 50c •, the Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 1,227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,052 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 790 f. ; Fampoux, 525 f. • Havre, 877 f. 50c.; Avig-
non, 1,015 f. ; Vierzon, 760 f.; flordeaux, 690 f.; Boulogne,
630 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 517 f. 50c.; Basle, 282 f. 50c. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 38%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 31f. 25c. premium ;
ditto (Caton), Bf. 50c.; ditto (Ganneron), 12f. ; ditto
(Lapinsonniere), 6f. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 75f. ;
ditto (Rosamel), 37f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 3 if.; ditto
(Decan Lebeuf), 30f. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 16f. ;
ditto (Hinguerlot), 14f. ; ditto (Bechet), sf. 50c.; ditto
(Aymard), 10f. 50c. 7 • Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (O'Neill), Bf.; ; ditto
(Lefevre), 7f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 33f. 75c.; ditto
(Lecointe), 22f. 50c. • ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
10f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c. ; ditto
(Espeleta), 13f. 75c. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), lf. 50e. ;
ditto (Carette), 81'. 50c.; ditto (Colbert), If. 50c.; Charleroi
(Kysaens), 33f. 50c. ; Maubeuge (Kysaens), lf, ; Dijon and
Mulhausen (O'Neill), If. 25c. ; ditto (Allegry), 2f. 50c. ;
Dieppe (Sellieres), 42f. 50c. ; Caen (Delamarre), sf. 50c.
LYONS, SEPT. 27.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,004 f., end
of September; Paris and Orleans. 1,212 f. ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,0441'. ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 743 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 2.
Anglo-Belgian - Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 123/4 Namur and Liege 6l
Bordeaux &Mediterran - Orleans and Vierzon -
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Bordeaux ---
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) - Over Yssel ....... -
Do. (Mackenzie's) - Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3
Central of Spain ..... Ditto (Ganneron's).
Demerara - Ditto (Calon's).... 214
Dendre Valley ...... - Paris and 0r1ean5...... -
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Jima - Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse - (Ganneron's) ...... -
East Indian ... . -
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin. -
(Laffitte's) -
Ditto (Rosamel's) 3% Royal North of Spain. -
Do. (Le Boeuf ) - Sambre and Meuse .... 81j
Do. Pepin le Halleur - Strasbourg and Basle . -
Great Paris and Lyons - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Bengal 13/4 dent, and Hasselt... -
Jamaica Junction 4% Tours and Nantes
Do. North - (Mackenzie's) 23/4
Do. Extension - Do. (Lefebvre's)
Jersey - Verona and Ancona.... -
Louvain and Jemeppe 4% West Flanders
Lyons and Avignon.... -

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was exceed-
ingly dull. Sales 2,504 bales, all to the trade. There was
no alteration in prices.—Shares were quiet, but steady, and
prices were fairly supported.
So numerous are the issues of new railway projects, that it
is with Very considerable difficulty that we can, in the
ordinary space allotted to this department, to keep pace, so
as to notice those projects, which rarely have the appearance
of bona fides about them. In such cases as these we must
consider it a duty to refer to them, and alsolto point out the
liabilities of failure when upon the face of the scheme doubts of
success exist. The prospectus of a Direct West End and Croydon
line has just been placed before us, and it is well supported.
As the whole details will appear in the advertising columns
of to-morrow (the arrangements being scarcely yet com-
plete), we would rather defer comment upon the matter for
a day or two, so as to afford time for full consideration.
The Wheat trade has been scarcely so brisk to-day as it
has been, though there is an apparent firmness in prices The
duty is on the advance, and considerable samples have been
taken for home consumption, but moreespecially for exporta;
tion. The wholesale departments of trade continue in a
satisfactory state. The anticipations of the yield of the re-
venue for the present quarter in the City are of the most
satisfactory character.
The Consol Market has been rather flat this morning, with
an inconsiderable amount of business going on. At present,
however, there is more firmness, and money is pretty plen-
tiful. Consols for the Account are at 98 to 98%, and for
Transfer 98 %. There is no alteration in the value of Ex-
chequer-bills.
The Foreign Funds are more in request. The Portuguese
Converted Stock is firm. Spanish and the other Bonds have
varied but a little.
The Railway Shares are very firm, but the official list of
prices has been issued so late that an extended reference to
quotations is impossible now.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9Bl 97% 981 98
Bank Stock for Account ...211 211
Consols for Account .. ... . . ....... 98% 98
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 114 d..... 45 47 pm. 47
Ditto 500!.
Ditto Small
CLOSING
PRICES
59

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Dutch Exchange 2% per Cent 59
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Account ...... ............ 321,1 E % ' 321,-4
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted 6II- 62 6134
Ditto, 4 per Cent 6O GO
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 26%34
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 37%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred 13% 131%
Belgian 4% per Cent. 99 98 98
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certific 94% 94%
Equador — 434
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
PAID.
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2%% 2%
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 128% l2B
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%... 5% 5 5
Canterbury and Dover.. 1% 2 .•........•• .. 2
Chelmsford and Bury ... 1%....„ 2%
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ......
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2%
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester ll4 43/4% 4%
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford ..... ........... . 2%....„ 3% % 3%
Direct Norwich
Eastern Counties...... 14/. 165...... 22 % 213/4 22
Ditto New 4/. 16s. 712%4 r.--- 7t4 P
EastDereh'm andNoech 1 25% ... 25A
East Lincolnshire ...... 114 ....- 61 6 6%
East & West of England 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Edinburgh and Perth... 1% 4%% 4%
Giotto., Aberystw ith, and
Central of Wales l% 2% 2%
Goole and Doncaster .. 1%..... 6% 6%
Grand Union 1%•••••• --4%
GreatN
Neworth sof England-100 .25125%51%216 216
Ditto
513/4
Great Western BO ...... 161 163 160 -. 160
Ditto % Shams
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% ••• -44 Y 334 ......
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O lO5 104 105% .. 104
Lancaster and Carlisle... 25
Leicester & Birmingham 225. 2% p ll/., p
Leicester and Bedford... 225. %‘ p
Leicester and Tamworth 495. 3 4 4 p 3% p
Liverpool &Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 63/4 7% 6%.„ 6%
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
castle Junction
London and Birmingttmloo 218
Do. Quarters
Ditto Extension ...... 1% 27
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9% 9l/2
London and Brighton 50 71 70% 71,4 70% 71% 71%
Ditto, Sixths ...... ... 0%...... 3
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 2414% 21 ....
Lon.; Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford
London and Greenwich 12/ 1554 d... 10% lO%
London, Hounslow, and
Western
Load. & S.Western 411 6s 10d BO 79
Do. New
London and York 2% 6%3/4
London and -Windsor ... 1
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster ......... 2% 4%,
Londonderry. &Coleraine 21,‘...... —,
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Ilereham 1,(1 4%
• Do. % Shares
Mancheiter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 ...... 16%
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225....... 91.4 p
Midland 100 l7O 171
Do. Now
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 69
Do. New Brandling... 15
Newcastle and Berwick 5
Newpt & Abergavenny 2% --
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston - ... 5%%%......•••
North British.
riDo.' New ... .....
North Devon 2 - .. . ... .....
N. -Kent & Direct Dover 21%.. .. 414%
North Staffordshire 425....... 6%%% p
Norwich and Brandon
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1% 45/8%
Oxford, Gosport, Ports -
mouth, & Southamptn 425. 23/4% p
Oxford and Worcester... 2% 20% 193/4 20%
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Perth and Inverness ... 2-1/.; - 3
Preston and Wyre
Richmond
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
cottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. ... 51A 5
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 874%
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
Somersetshire Midland 2% 5%1/4
South Devon 2O
South Midland 22s 774% p -•
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 254 d... •••
Do., No. 1
South Wales ..... -.... ... 2% 544 714._
..„
Teen and Dove Valley 1%
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2
Warwick & Cheltenham 1% 3%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth •••••• 2% 9% 13% 12...
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union ..... 1% OO4.
Worcester and S. Wales 425. l% p
York and North Midland 50
Ditto % Shares 25
Do Selby 2O
Do. Extension .. 111 30%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 8 ........ 13%
Central of Spain ... .... 2
Dendre Valley
Dutch. Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.

2634
6%
37
3734

Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 3%A
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... 55....... Iyr %
Louvain and Jameppe,.. 4 ... . 45
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourg...
Namur and Liege
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's)...
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)......
Sambre and Meuse ...... 6
West Flatiders .. .. ...... 2
MINES.
Real del Monte U xl. 43/ ..... ..... ....

)nrego.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland l4l/2... .........

2%
79

41,4
70xn
89

83/4 P
171
27

69
57
24

26 ,At

s% f)
2134
614

2%p
19%
2%
3%
423/4
111,E
3Fh
19,1 h.

3p
5%
30

7% P

4'
134 p
118
57%

30%
13%
2%
214
12%

3%
2%
8142
7%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
Lorrnox, Ocr. 3.—Wind S.S.W., light breeze, and cloudy,
with rain.
DEAL, OCT. W.S.W.—Arrd. Caledonia, Case,
New Zealand; St. Vincent, Young, China; Semiramis,
Cairnie, Manilla; Philadelphia, Dunn, New York. Arrd.
from the River, Kate, Glendinning, Algoa Bay.
OFF BRIGHTON.—Sarah Jane, Twilit, New Zealand.'
OFF THE START, Oar. l.—Meta, New York for Bremen.
OFF FALMOUTH.—Zephyr, Martinique; Vincenz Priesnitz,
Scroder, New Bedford for Stettin.
SWANSEA, SEPT'. 30.—Arrd. Exile, Fordyce, Quebec.
NEATir, Oar. I.—Arrd. Cadmus, Campbell, Quebec.
re WEirmotrni, Ocr. 2.—The Maria, Brouwer, from Amster-
dam to Leghorn, was in contact with a barque, name un-
known, six miles S.W. of Portland; crew saved.

DENDRE VALLEY RAILWAY-AND CANAL COMPANY.
—The Directors of this Company, which, connects both by
rail and canal some of the most important towns in Belgium,
will shortly publish their report. The estimation in which
this line has stood, is fully shown by the fact that the shares
have always been at a premiuth. /lie operations have been
commenced, and are in active progress, and junctions with
the State lines may be expected to be announced. The ad-
vantage of rail and canal carriage is very important for the
peculiar tray of this district:

MARKET' NEWS --(THIS DAY.)

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CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The arrivals of English Wheat for our market since Mon-
day have been on a very moderate scale ; hence the show of
samples of that description of grain here was by no means
extensive. However, as the attendance of buyers was com-
paratively small, the demand for it was in a sluggish state.
The finest parcels of both red and white mostly sold at full
rates of currency ; but all other kinds could not be sold ex-
cept at a slight depression in value. Very little fine
Foreign Wheat was on offer, yet it was fully
adequate to; meet the wants of the buyers. In all
descriptions very little was doing, at barely late rates.
The demand for bonded Grain for export to Holland hay-
ing ceased, scarcely a transaction took place, and prices were
almost nominal. No new English Barley at market. Grind-
ing and distilling sorts were without alteration. We had
only a retail trade for Malt ; but, as very little was on oiler,
late prices were maintained for the best parcels. A full
average quantity of Oats has reached us this week from Ire-
land, yet the trade was steady, and the quotations were well
supported. In Beans, next to nothing was doing, and the
currencies had a downward. tendency. Maple and Grey Peas
were dull and cheaper to sell. In Flour no sales reported.

English • • • • • •

- ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
3,540 qrs. 260 qrs.
- 120
12,760
Malt, 1,780 qrs.

Irish .....
Foreign •• • • • •

smxTErrnia).

Clats.• I Flour.
250qrs 4,4305k5,
18,540 1 ----

In to-day's market the supply of Beasts was remarkably
good as to numbers, but very deficient in quality. Owing to
the unfavourable state of the weather for slaughtering, the
Beef trade was extremely dull, at barely stationary prices.
The supply of Foreign Stock consisted of only 50 Beasts and
20 Sheep. The numbers of Sheep were small, yet the sale
for them was heavy, at late rates. For Veal, the inquiry was
very inactive, at a decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs.
In Pigs a fair business was transacted. Milch Cows moved
off slowly, at from 151 to 191 each.
Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d. s. d. to s.
Inferior Beasts •••• 2 4 2 8 Second quality ditto 3 6 4 0
Second quality ditto. 210 3 2 Coarse-woolledditto 4 2 4 6
Prime large Oxen• • 3 4 3 6 SouthdownWethers 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 3:8 4 6 Large Hogs •••• • • 3 6 4 4
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves lB 0 .30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 22 0
Inferior Sheep • •
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep I . Calves. Pigs.
852 5,800 243 3lO
NEWGATE AND LEADENHAI.X..
We had a very inactive demand here to day, and prices
were with difficulty supported.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior• •• • 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior • •
middling •• .• 2 8 210 middling..
prime large 3 0 3 2 prime •• • •
prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.• •• . •
Veal ••••••.• • • • • • • 3 8 4 6 small .... •• • •
Lamb, Os Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.

s. d. to s. d.
3 4 3 10
40 4 2
44 4 6
34 4 6
48 5 6

During the present week several parcels of new Hops have
arrived hither from Kent and Sussex, yet the demand has
ruled firm, and prices are well supported. Picking is now
very general; but the accounts relative to the produce are
by no means favourable. The duty is called 160,000/. to
165,0001. In yearling and old Hops comparatively little is
doing • New Sussex pockets, 61 6s to 71; new Kent ditto,
6110 s to 7175.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—There has been an active market for British
Plantation, and prices are 6d to is per cwt dearer. We have
had from 1,200 to 1,600 blids a-day sold. Fine yellow '
Barbadoes at auction has realised 545 Gd, and mid Ms to
52s 6d. There is a large demand for the outports and
country markets. Refined Standard Lumps have been at
66s 6d to 67s per cwt, and steady.
EAST INDlA.—There has been a fair demand for Mauritius,
privately. Yellow has been sold at 45s Gd to 46s 6d, and
low brown at 39s Gd per cwt. Bengal low to mid white has
been sold at 54s to 565, and good to fine at 57s to 608; 1,511.
bags Madras, at auction, realised very full prices ; good strong
graining yellow Dobah, 53s 6d to 54s Gd, and low 47s Gd to
49s per ewt.
FOREIGN.-91 chests Bahia sold Is to 2s lower ; fine brown
255, and low 22s 6d. Cuba Muscovado has been taken in at
26s for fine yellow, and 457 boxes Havannah at 31s to 32s for
fine yellow, and 37s for mid and white.
MOLASSES.—There has been a fair demand.
COFFEE.—There has been very little doing in British Plan-
tation, but there is more disposition to purchase Ceylon,
and holders ask higher rates. Good ord pale has been at 47s
to 48s, and real good ord bold pale were at 51s to 51s 6d
per cwt. Holders have taken in some at 47s to 645. Mocha
_has been also taken in at 60s to 635. Padang, 500 bags, sold
at 275. 133 brls Rio were nearly all taken in at 45s to 100 s,
and 106 bags Laguayra at 65s to 98s.
SPICES.—There has been a fair general business done in
Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Pepper, &c. White Pepper is held
for higher rates.
Rum.—The demand has been moderate for Calcutta proof,
at is 10d to is 10id p r gallon, with certificate ; and for proof
Leewards, at is lid to is llbd per gallon.
SALTPETRE.—There has been only a limited demand, and
Bengal (1,514 bags) was taken in mostly at 265, for 31b re-
fraction. .

CorroN.-This article has bees dull.
TEA.—There has been a firm market, and the business
doing is steady.
Immo.—Large public sales are coming on next Tuesday,
and this checks private business.
TOBACCO.—There has been a steady market during the
last two or three weeks, but the sales have not exceeded 700
hhds and taw.

HEmr.—Clean is 28s 10d per cwt.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 41s 6d per cwt, and Town 43s 6d. The
stock on the Ist was 10,960 casks, and the delivery last
month was 8,989 casks.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvaNs.)
J RE MILLS.

This insolvent, who had kept the Blue Posts public-house,
Southampton-buildings, came up for his adjourned final order.
Mr. DUNCAN appeared on behalf of a Mr. Shar-
pies to oppose, on the grounds that there had been a
vexatious defence to an action and an improper dis-
posal of property. It appeared that an action had been
brought for a balance of account for 251., but the verdict was
only for 51., but on the execution being put iu it was dis-
covered that the whole of the property had been swept away
by a previous writ, at the suit of the insolvent's mother.
Mr. Duncan pressed for an adjournment.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that, as this was an ad-
journed meeting, he did not think it ought to be adjourned
.again, as it would be forming a very bed precedent; the
opposing creditor should have been prepared with his case.
As, however, it was a case fraught with suspicion, he would
adjourn it at the cost of the creditor, and the insolvent's
mother should be called.

Mr. DUNCAN said that Mr. Sharpies would consent to pay.
the costs-Adjourned.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAT.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
WILLIAMS AND ANOTHER V. GALLIARD.

The plaintiffs in this action are managers of a loan society
in Red-cross-street, City. The demand was for fit 13s. on
a bill of exchange, of which the defendant was alleged to be
the acceptor. The defendant, who conducted his own case,
pleaded non-acceptance.
On the part of the plaintiff, a witness was called who de-
posed that he was present in May, 1844, when he saw the
defendant sign the bill. The witness was rigidly cross-exa-
mined on that point, but persisted in his identity of the de-
fendant. He was further questioned as to whether the loan
for which the bill was given had not been paid.
The Learned SECONDARY said that the defendant must
confine himself to the plea of non-acceptance; he could not
now be admitted to prove payment.
The defendant said it was very hard on him ; he was too
poor to employ a professional adviser. He then addressed
the jury, denying most positively that he ever signed the
bill. He said the acceptance'was not even in his name, as
there was an error in the spelling.
The Learned SECONDARY said that the defendant had un-
fortunately not taken the steps to try the issues now raised ;
it was a simple question whether or not he accepted the bill.
The defendant said, the truth was, a lodger of his had re-
presented him without his knowledge, but that the amount
of the loan had been paid. It was strange twelve months were
allowed to elapse before he was called on.
The SECONDARY said that the jury bad but one issue to
try, and he did not see how they could set aside sworn evi-
dence on mere assertion.
Verdict for the amount claimed.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Mary Evans, a female of homely look and meanly clad.
was charged with intending to drown herself in the Serpen-
tine River.

She was observed by Charles Griffiths, one of the boatmen
belonging to the Royal Humane Society, who gave informa-
tion to John Hawkins, police-constable, No. 157 of the A
division, who took the prisoner into custody. On her way
to the station-house she admitted that she intendedto drown
herself. _ _

--------
The prisoner, in answer to inquiries put to her by Mr.
Hardwick, stated that she was 24 years of age, and had been
living in service in the family of Mr. Scrivener, butcher of
Reading. A farmer's son, who visited the family, seduced
her, and induced her to follow him to London, a short time
since. She lived with him about three weeks, in some place
in the City. About a week ago he deserted her, leaving her
pennyless. She was forced to quit the lodgings they had oc-
cupied, and wandered about until she got a lodging at Pad-
dington,which she was obliged to leave the night before last ;
her only change of apparel being detained for the rent.
Mr. HAnDwicx—ls the account you have given of your-
self true? Prisoner—lt is, I assure you. My father is a col-
lector of rates, and parish lerk of Wellingford.
Mr. HAnDwicK—Why not, rather than purposing this
most wicked act, sinning against the laws of God and reason,
make an effort to get back again to your family? Prisoner
(crying)—l wish to do so, Sir, but my shame—
Mr. HAnnwicK—lf you will promise not to repeat the
wicked attempt you have made on your life, the means shall
be furnished you of returning to your family. Prisoner—
I am verry sorry, I assure you ; I'll never do it again.
Au inspector of the C division said she was literally
famishing when brought to the station-house. She had no
tuoney about her.
Scott, the principal officer for serving the processes of the
Court, was ordered to attend to the unfortunate young
woman's return to her parents.

THE WEATHER.—During the last few days we
have had a foretaste of winter. From Saturday night till
Monday morning we experienced a succession of stormy
blasts from the south-west, accompanied by hail showers of
unwonted severity, which rendered it unsafe for any one to
be out of doors during their prevalence. Such was the vio-
lence of the storm that it sent the hail against the windows
in exposed situations with a force that threatened to demo-
lish every pane of glass. In the upper districts of the county,
where unfortunately the greater part of the grain is still
out, the stooks were laid totally prostrate, and the uncut
crop has suffered considerably from the deluge of rain that
fell. This backward turn of the weather, it is to be feared,
may endanger the safety of many parcels of crop in late lying
places. The storm, we perceive, has been extensive in its
range. Last night the gale returned with unabated fury, and
to-day is cold and wet.—Ayr Observer.
DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE NAVAL KNIGHTS
OF WlNDSOR.—Lieutenant C. Carter, who succeeded Lieu-
tenant Jones about four years since as Governor of the ;gavel
Knights of Windsor, expired on Wednesday evening, at his
residence, in TrAyers' College, after an illness of several
weeks. The late Lieutenant Carter, who had been for some
time past afflicted with dropsy and diseased liver, was be-
tween 60 and 70 years of age. The funeral of the late Go-
vernor will take at St. George's Chapel on Monday next.
A week or two must elapse before the high sales
of wheat can come into the returns, and it is probable
that the duty may advance a step before it begins to
recede ; ultimately a much lower duty may, however, be
expected.--I)evizes Gazette.