The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1844.

The proceedings of Parliament for the session were
brought to a close yesterday, and the result on the
whole is satisfactory. The House of Lords—we
mean the House of law Lords—have vindicated the
character of that aristocraticassembly by a rare in-
stance of justice. The Irish Court of Queen's Bench,
the fighting
Attorney-General, the wavering Re-
corder, and the Orange jury, hare had
justicein a
t
been admi-
nistered to them. They have weighed just
balance, and found wanting. Ireland has reason
o
thank Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord WrnluN cLIFbryE
for the wise policy which they pursued
interdicting a general vote of the House on the
Irish trials. Had the rabid Tories been
allowed to vote, Mr. O'CONNELL and his colleagues
must have served out their period of imprisonment,
paid their fines, and entered into heavy securities for
many years to commit no " breach of the peace"—a
phrase that would have been left to the interpretation
of judges, juries, and other Irish public functionaries,
who, as this trial has evinced, are the very last men in
the world to whom a man's liberty or property ought
to be entrusted. That affair, thanks to three English
upright noblemen, has been amicably arranged, and
nearly the whole of Ireland is celebrating their
praises. Fires, we may say, are now blazing on
every hill, to announce that the best friend of his
country bad been unjustly condemned by his fellow-
citizens, -nd justice done to him by three men be-
longing to a party which he recklessly maligned. In '
this affair, he has no reason to blame the Whigs.
him
'They hare supported from the beginning to the
end. Mr. Duiscosaues speech and Lord Jour; Roe •

SELL'S speech yesterday, are sufficient proofs of the '
interest which independent Englishmen take in the
affairs of the sister country ; and, though Tories,
Conservatives, and renegade Whigs unite to oppress
them, Irishmen may rest satisfied that, without
the repeal of the union, justice will, in the
end, prevail. Another important question ad-
verted to was the dispute between England
and France about " one PRITCHARD." The public
know the strong words used by Sir ROBERT PEEL
relative to the arrest and expulsion of this English
missionary, and they now learn, from his own mouth,
that the dispute has been brought to an " amicable
and satisfactory termination." We shall suspend our
judgment till the Parliamentary documents are pub-
lished, while at the same time we entertain the
belief that the Prime Minister of England would
not have risked his own character, and the
character of his country, by accepting a smaller
reparation than was consistent with his strong
sense of the wrong which had been inflicted
by French officers on his countryman. Another
feature of the proceedings yesterday was the retire-
ment of Lord STANLEY from the House of Com-
mons. We will not impute this to any misunder-
standing between him and Sir R. PEEL, though they
seem two of the least cordial men in the Cabinet.
We believe it is a necessary arrangement. The gallant
old Duke, we regret to say, is sinking into the vale
of years ; for his age the duty at the Horse Guards
is sufficient. Lord WHARNCLIFFE is a discreet and
honest statesman, but neither he nor any one of the
party is fitted to be a leader in the Lords, and to
Lord STANLEY, therefore, must be entrusted the task.
We only hope that he and Sir R. PEEL will chime
together, and that when measures of relief for Ire-
land are carried on in the Commons, they will not be
rejected in the Lords by the unitvl voices of LYND-
HURST, STANLEY, BROUGHAM, and the Orange party.
We find little else to notice, if we except a notice of
motion made by Mr. T. DUNCOI'dBE. Ile is deter-
mined to stick to the thieves who steal intelligence
from the Post-office, and announced that next session
he would submit a specific measure on the subject.
If the country support Mr. DUNCOMBE, this abomina-
ble intrusion upon the affairs of private individuals
will soon be utterly abolished.

':vnterests at the expense of the common weal, and
while with a bray of mendacious impudence that
might well form a model for every bold vagabond
that seeks, by false pretences to swindle the public,
they assert that the public good is the main object
they have in view. They cannot imagine that other par-
ties can be anxious to do good to their fellow-men with-
out being actuated by the samo base and disgrace-
ful motives." The grammar of this precious philippic
is somewhat in eclipse, like the consistency of the
Conservatives ; but let that pass, our business at pre-
sent is rather with its sentiment than its syntax. No
one can doubt that the writer is of the monopolist per-
suasion, and as little, that his abuse—however dis-
guised under a lofty show of contempt—originates in
apprehension of the threat of the League to look
sharply after the register, and in jealousy of the
" untoward" consequences that will accrue to his party
from such laudable vigilance on the part of the free-
traders. The language of the philippic is contemptuous
and swaggering enough, but the spirit is mean and
cowardly to a degree. The " hand is the hand of
ESAU, but the voice is the voice of Ja cop." Did the
writer really entertain the scorn which he professes
for the League—did he really believe that it consisted
merely of " notoriously selfish impostors" and " bold
vagabonds," most assuredly he would never have
taken the trouble to pelt them with such desperate
Billingsgate as he has done in the above passage; but
would have contented himself with maintaining a
haughty silence, and laughing at the exertions of
those from whom he felt that monopoly had nothing
to fear. But, despite his affected contempt for the
Anti-Corn-law League, he knows and feels in his
inmost heart that it is an engine of infinite moral
power—that it is a confederacy whose influence is
daily on the increase—that every move it makes gives
a rude shake to the crazy fabric of monopoly—that,
even when apparently inactive, it is in reality as alert
as a vigilant sentinel on his post—and that its recently
announced determination to take a leaf out of the
Tory book, and look sharply after the register, is an
omen of the most disastrous import to the protection-
ists. The writer of the vulgar and intemperate letter
on which we have been commenting, knows and feels
all this, hence his exquisite alarm, which he would
fain, but cannot, disguise, under a show of lofty indig-
nation and contempt. To do him justice, his appre-
hensions are by no means ill-founded, and long ere
the present year shall have reached its close, he will
find that the interference of the League with the
register will have been productive of the most dis-
astrous results to the cause which he espouses. Sir
ROBERT PEEL, that consistent advocate of expediency,
will be foremost to acknowledge the moral influence
of this great confederacy's exertions during the re-
cess, and will shape his course accordingly, no longer
declaring himself—as at the commencement of the
last session—in terms of open hostility to the League,
but discreetly moderating his opposition, and perhaps
even making a decided move in the direction of free•
trade.

Lord DENMAN, in the course of the elaborate
opinion which he delivered on Tuesday in the House
of Peers on the subject of the Irish State Trials—an
opinion which, as Mr. DUNCOMUE justly observed
yesterday in the House of Commons, ought to be laid
on the table and printed in letters of gold—his Lord-
ship, we say, in the course of this luminous and
straightforward opinion, made the following sensible
observations in reference to the studied ambiguity
of certain legal processes :—" In his opinion there
could not be a greater grievance and oppres-
sion than these endless, unintelligible, un-
wieldy, voluminous indictments. An indict-
ment extending over fifty-seven pages was
in itself a grievance ; many prisoners could Rot af-
ford to pay the clerk of the peace for a copy ; and
when they got it, the most learned persons could
scarcely find out what the prisoners were charged
with. The words were so ambiguous that it might
be that the pleader who drew it up might mean one
thing, the jury another, the Judge a third, and the
Court of Error a fourth, if they did not overthrow
the whole judgment." The verboseness, the circum-
locution, the obscurity, and the perplexing technical
jargon in v‘hich the law too often wraps up its
meaning, like a silkworm thickly enveloped within
the folds of its own web, has long been a subject of
regret with the public, and productive of a world of
embarrassment to judges, jurymen, counsel, and in-
deed to all connected with the administration of jus-
tice, with the sole exception, perhaps, of pleaders and
solicitors, who have an interest in indulging in a
surplusage of counts and phrases, and making every
indictment as full and circumstantial as possible, no
matter how absurd and tautologous one-half the
circumstances set forth in such indictments may
be. Now surely of all professions in the world the
Law is that which should be most remarkable for the
clearness, the straightforwardness, the simplicity, and
the direct, obvious, common-sense of its proceedings !
Its phraseology should be carefully pruned of all
verbal excrescences ; its technicalities—at present so
happily adapted to mislead and bewilder rather than
to convince—should be reduced within the narrowest
possible limits compatible with propriety; and its
meaning be rendered so transparent as to be intelli-
gible to the obtusest capacity. Is this the case
with the Law, as it is now practised in some of
its most material departments ? Far otherwise.
In an infinite number of instances that we could
enumerate, were it worth while, its language is the
very reverse of simple and concise ; it is, in fact, stu-
diously ambiguous, and elaborately tautological ; the
meaning that might be efficiently expressed in a single
sentence, is spread over a dozen, and necessarily en-
feebled by the diffusion ; where one or two counts
would suffice to answer every rational purpose, six or
eight, and frequently as many more,".are had recourse
to ; in short, epithet is piled upon epithet, and repeti-
tion upon repetition, till the mind fairly reels and
staggers beneath the cumbrous load of verbiage
remorselessly pressed upon its attention, as if—one
would almost be tempted to suppose—for the perverse
purpose of confounding and paralysing its powers of
judgment The Law's delay has long been a fruitful
subject of complaint among the people ; but the Law's
enigmatical tautology is quite as legitimate a griev-
ance. We see its results in the Irish State Trials,
where all parties concerned seem to have been involved
in a labyrinth of perplexities, simply in consequence
of the lax, ambiguous, and unsatisfactory manner
in which the: pleadings were drawn up. Of late
years—thanks to Sir ROBERT PEEL—many excellent,
substantial reforms have been effected in the Law,
which has been rendered infinitely more simple and
intelligible than it was in the glorious days of the
pedantic, adust, black-letter old lawyers ; but much
yet remains to be done, ere it can be said to be per-
fectly and harmoniously in accordance with common
sense. And here, while glancing at the question of Law
Reform, we cannot refrain from just briefly alluding to
the exceedingly confused, verbose, and perplexing
manner in which—in far too many cases—our Acts
of Parliament are drawn up. We have seen some
that were more puzzling.than the riddle of the Sphynx ;
and 10, when in the extremity of our bewilderment,
we have turned for enlightenment to the explanatory
notes in the margin, we have found that, so far from
diminishing, they only tended to increase our per-
plexity, and we have at length been compelled to
cry out with Puff in the Critic, " Egad,
the interpreter is the hardest to be under-
stood of the two !" Now, if it be worth while
to draw up a Parliamentary Act, surely it is worth
while to draw it up in such a manner as shall render
it generally intelligible ; and not in the wordy, con-
fused style adopted throughout the Inclosure of
Commons Act, whose meaning was so studiously
concealed beneath a cloud of vague phraseology, that
it was worthy only of being transmitted to the Bri-
tish Museum, as a legislative curiosity of the first
water !

We learn from Madrid papers of the 29th ult. that
the Opposition party began to show some symptoms
of life. The forthcoming elections have excited gene-
ral interest, and both Carlists and Progresistas were
in the field. The former, it was believed, would be
successful in Old Castile, and at Palencia Senors
OLOZAGA, MADoz, LOPEZ, and SEOANE had come for-
ward as candidates. The Government, it is said, are
busily engaged in framing measures for the delibera-
tion of the Cortes, which, we believe, will assemble
next month. The following notice appears in the
Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th of August :

" The Governor has received an official communica-
tion, in which it is stated that all the Moorish subjects
who had fled from Tangiers have been permitted to re-
turn, and that the gates will always be open to them.
It is added, in the same dispatch, that the British sub-
jects, who, in returning to Tangiers, may have no other
object than that of gratifying their curiosity, are im-
plored neither to enter nor remain in the town, so long
as the Morocco question shall continue in its present
state. This does not, of course, apply to the servants of
her Majesty, nor to those whom commercial affairs may
oblige to reside in the town."

The Three per Cents. were done at 27i at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 20, and the Coupons at 25i
at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 60k at 50 days.

Certain of the Paris journals, which must have pe-
culiar sources of information, gravely describe what
has taken place at several Cabinet Councils in Lon-
don in reference to the settlement of the Otaheite
question. One of them states that the "Cabinet Coun-
cil held on Monday last was adjourned to Tuesday,
merely because it was deemed advisable, considering
the gravity of the affair under deliberation, that the
council should be as numerous as possible, and the
Duke of BucCLEucil, the Earl of RIPON, and Mr.
GLADSTONE, were absent. There existed no differ-
ence of opinion between Lord AISERDEEN, the Duke
of WELLINGTON, and Sir R. PEEL. All three were
agreed that the satisfaction offered by France was not
sufficient. M. D'AUEIGNT ought to be recalled, because
he commanded the arrest of Mr. PRITCHARD, and M.
Bauxr for having ordered his expulsion. The Eng-
lish Cabinet declared against France, not only on the
question of fact, but on the question of right, How-
ever criminal the conduct of a British agent, it escapes
every interference, and the flag covers the Consul,
even should he fire,!or cause others to fire, against us."
M. TRIERS' journal gives rather a different report
of the deliberations of the English Ministers. "It
was reported," says the Constitutionnel, "on Tuesday
afternoon that the Government had received by ex-
traordinary express the substance of what passed at
the Cabinet Council on Monday last. After the
question pending between France and England was
introduced by Lord ABERDEEN, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Sir It. PEEL proposed that the reparation
offered by the French Cabinet should be rejected as
insufficient ; the Duke of WELLINGTON was of the
same opinion ; but Lord ADERDEEX observed, that to
refuse the reparation offered by M. GUIZOT would be
to compel that Minister and his colleagues to resign,
and thus expose the good understanding existing be-
tween the two Governments. The Council adjourned
to the following day without coming to a determina-
tion. It is believed that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs will succeed in convincing Sir R. PEEL and
th• Duke of WELLINGTON that what the French Go-
vernment proposes is sufficient humiliation."

The Opposition journals will, however, soon know
the result of these deliberations, from the speech of
one of the Ministers, and then the National, the Con-
stitutionnel, the Siecle, and journals of a similar spirit
will raise an outcry against M. GUIZOT sufficient to
shake him out of his place. They will assert France
has been sacrificed, the " stranger" has yielded to the
menace! of England, and nothing is left for the country
but humiliation and disgrace.

There is no fresh intelligence in these papers from
the Prince DE JOINYILLE, but we find in the Co/I.oi-
tutionne/ an extract of a letter from an aide-de-camp
of the Prince to the French Consul at Cadiz, dated on
board the Pluton, August 17, which is in these
words :

" The Admiral'has received orders to keep possession
of the island of Mogadore, in which we have placed a
garriSon. The possession of the island is equivalent to
that of the city, and fulfils all our desires, insuring us a
guarantee for the complete satisfaction of all our wrongs.
The city will remain in a state of blockade, and conse-
quentl' the Emperor will be deprived of the large revenue
he derived from its customs, which is wounding him in
his most sensitive part. The campaign is thus brought
to a close."

The mere rumour—to which we alluded in The
Sun of yesterday—that the Anti-Corn-law League
have determined, during the Parliamentary recess, to
bestow the most vigilant attention on the register,
with a view to give fair play to the constituencies, by
securing the privilege of voting to those who are qua-
lified to vote, and ensuring the rejection of those
who are disqualified ;—the mere rumour, we say, of
such an intention on the part of this great popular
confederacy has had the effect of throwing the mono-
polists into fits of alarm and indignation, which they
take the opportunity of venting from time to time
through the convenient medium of the Tory portion
of the Pres.. On 'Wednesday, for instance, a letter
vacehtieomnse, &c.,
vehemently vituperative of the League, its motives,
of the appeared in the sympathising columns
with equal
colu
Herald, and yesterday another letter, filled
it
,mifns of the p
not worse, abuse,
buslen, figures conspicuously
in the
this
communica-
tion the writer—whose epistolary
excellencies
byno means remind us of those of JuNius or HORACE
WALPOLE—thus showers down the vials of his wrath
on the head of the injured and unoffending League :
The Anti- Corn-law Leaguers have no notion of
any party being anxious to do good without the im-
petus of interested and selfish motives. Disinterested
philanthropy is a feeling the nature of which they
are altogether unable to comprehend. Being them-
selves a gang of the most notoriously selfish imposters
that the world has ever produced, confederated toge-
ther for the purpose of promoting their own selfish I

Other journals, however, take a different view of
the results, and infer that before the EMPEROR. yields
to the conditions of France, more battles and more
bombardments must take place. The National which
hates peace in every shape and in any quarter, thus
attacks: the Ministry for leaving the work half done to
please England :

"After the victory you retreat as you would have done
after a;defeat. In place of leading your army against the
enemy, you withdrew it. In place of occupying his fron-
tier, you return to your own. What do you expect that
he should fear, unless he should become afraid of a
shadow ? By declaring that under no circum-
stances would France make a war of conquest
against Morocco, that she regarded as absurd and
insane, not only all extension of the Algerine terri-
tory, but all durable occupation of any portion of the
Moorish coast—that after the war, as well In; previ-
ously, the French Government would never require from
Morocco, any cession of town or territory—that the
same motives which dictated this declaration still existed,
and that her word of honour was publicly pledged to
that effect in the face of Europe,—iu making that; decla-
ration, the Government had acted directly against its
object. There are but two modes of conquezing an
enemy—to do him injury, or to cause him to fear you.
It was precisely because you were determined not to in-
jure the Emperor of Morocco that you ought to have
frightened him. This extension of our territory, this
permanent occupation of the towns, should have been
suspended over his head as the inevApble consequence of
encouraging our enemies on his frontier. It was neces- '
sary to make him comprehend that the consequence of

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1844.

hostilities might be not the easily repaired loss of some
millions, but the inevitable loss of his empire. But no !
whilst our soldiers and seamen were courageously fulfill-
ing their duty on the double frontier of Morocco, your eyes
were fixed in another direction. A single idea
absorbed you, which was to secure England
against a contingency which did not regard
her, to give to her implacable jealousy a pledge
of a word of honour which she had neither the right to
inquire nor to solicit. And it is thus that, in order to
avoid some immediate difficulties, you have spontaneously
' excited others more considerable. The war is not con-
cluded, and the Emperor, who is aware that in any case
you will not attack him before next spring, will probably
not hasten to grant you what you demand. In this
position, what will you do ? Will you evacuate the
island of Mogadore, according to the word of honour you
have given ? And then the bombardment will have been
a mere useless cruelty, which will give the Moors a right
to curse and mock you, or you will have violated your
sacred engagement---you will have violated your word of
honour—you will indefinitely have prolonged an occupa-
tion which ought to be but temporary ; and in that case
you will have admitted that England had a right to
oecupy herself with a war so important for her, and you
will find in your road that systematic malevolence, those
exigencies, and those threats, before which you at pre-
sent fly."
Several of the journals express great indignation at
what they regard the ungrateful return made by
Belgium for all the blessings conferred on her
by France. In reference to the late commercial
treaty which the former country has entered into
with Germany-, the Quotidienne says :
" The commercial tie which is about to bind Belgium
to Germany will, if it takes place, become a political
bond, and the powers who condemned Belgium to neu-
trality will willingly revoke their sentence as soon as
they think that they can make Belgium what they did
in 1815—the advanced guard of Germany against France.
Certainly it was not with this view that the Revolution
of July bestowed upon her daughter, Belgium, men and
money with so much prodigality ; it was not to this end
that the Chamber of Deputies endowed the Princess,
who was to be a bond of peace between the two people;
but Belgium looks rather to the future than to the past,
and seeks for guarantees in Germany, because the alli-
ance with and protection of the Government inflicted
upon us inspires her with no more confidence than it
acquires from the other States. This is daily revealed
by facts the weakness of the policy which presides over
our destinies ; every day our isolation is drawn closer
and closer, and the circle becomes more and more nar-
row. Can we then be astonished that our rulers should
be attached to England ; for if England should abandon
them what would remain to them?"

The National is equally indignant :
" We cannot blame Belgium for having thus attached
herself to Germany. The little kingdom of Leopold
cannot exist without the support of others. Severed
from Holland, she had to choose between Germany and
France ; and since France, from fear of offending foreign
Powers, and giving dissatisfaction to the magnates of her
own commerce and industry, seemed to be afraid of form-
ing a closer connexion with her, she was forced to throw
herself into the arms of Germany. We have long fore-
seen this result ; but it is nevertheless to be deplored. It
has been, indeed, a great fault thus to have allowed the
port of Antwerp to become de facto the port of the Con-
federation, of which Prussia is the chief. If we could
have granted to Belgium the same advantages as the Zoll-
verein has afforded her, she would, no doubt, have pre-
ferred holding fast to our alliance ; but we are governed
by a party which occupies itself very little with the poli-
tical interests of France, provided her cloths, her coals,
and her iron be not exposed to any serious competition.
It is the same party which appropriates all the railroads,
and monopolises the power of domination in all things.
Let Antwerp become a Prussian port—it will cause no
concern to this party. It would as willingly give up Dun-
kirk and Bordeaux to the English, if, by doing so, it
might hope to see the coal mine and railroad shares
quoted on 'Change at higher prices."
The French Funds fell considerably on Wednesday,
the Three per Cents. 70 centimes, and the Fives GO
centimes.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The show of English Wheat was tolerably good, both
as to supply and quality. As but few buyers were in
attendance, the demand for that article was excessively
heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. Foreign Wheat,
the supply of which was good, met a dull sale, and prices
had a downward tendency. For all kinds of Barley the
inquiry was inactive, and the rates were barely sup-
ported. The supply of Malt was good, while the de-
mand was in a very depressed state, at late currencies.
Oats, Beans, and Peas, were quite as dear.

Wheat.
..... I 4,590 qrs.
1ri5h......" ..... -

ARRIVALS.
I Earley.
60qrs•

Foreign. ..... .... I 2,170 I 9,550
Malt. 3.120 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.

Oats. Flour
750 qrs. 3,170 sacks.
2,039

In our market the supply of Beasts, in was em-
braced sixty oxen and cows from Rotterdam, and 160
Scots from Scotland, was but very moderate for the time
of year, yet the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at
barely Monday's prices. For sheep, the numbers of
which were small, the demand was steady, at fully pre-
vious rates. Although the supply of lambs was small,
the lamb trade was dull, at our quotations. Prime
small calves were held at full prices, but other qualities
were a dull sale. In pigs, next to nothing was doing.
Mulch cows sold at from 161 to 191 lOs each, including
their small calf.

Per Bibs, to sink the •ttaL
s, d. to s. d. s. d, to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 C Second qualityditte,.. 3 2 S 4
Second quality ditto 9 8 210 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 6
Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 6 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0 3 4
Prime small ditto 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers 3 6 310
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 33 0 Quarter oldngs,eachl6 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep

-
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. f Calves. 1 Pigs.
6k2 LB,llO I 29'3 1 240
NEVIGATZ AND MEADENNAZIL.

We had rather a large supply of each kind of meat,
while the demand was heavy, on the following terms :

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s. 4. to s. d.
Beef, inferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 8
- middling 2 8 210 middling 210 3 2
- prime large 210 3 0 - prime ...... 3 4 3
- prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, ....... 2 6 3 6
Veal ........
Lamb. 3s 4d to 4s Bd.
BOROUGH HOP M.& ET.

From nearly the who of plantations, our accounts
are, on the whole, more favourable than of late. Pick-
ing is going on in parts of Kent and Sussex, and the
prospects of a crop are more cheering. The demand
here for all kinds of hops is heavy, but we can notice no
material variation in prices. The duty is called 130,0001.
to 135,0001. Weald of Kent pockets, 61 2s to 6/ 12s ;
Mid Kent, ditto, 7/ 4s to 91 16s ; East Kent, ditto, 715 s
to 91; Choice ditto, 101 to 11/ lis ; Sussex, ditto, 61 to
6/ lOs ; Mid Kent bags, 71 to 813 s.

COLONIAL
SUGAR.—British Plantation has been in good demand
this week, and at fuller rates. The sales are about 2,000
hhds ; at auction 152 hhds. Barbadoes sold at 63s to
64s for fine yellow, at 59s to 59s 6d for good mid., and at
56s to 57s for low, and 72 hhds 18 trcs 91 barrels
St. Lucia sold at 57s Gd to 58s Gd for mid
yellow, and at 53s to 54s for good brown.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been in good demand. 3,153
bags at auction sold at 6d advance, mid to good white
61s Gd to 665, and yellow 53s 6d. Mauritius is held for full
rates privately, but Manilla has been less wanted, and
2,964 bags were nearly all taken in at 18s to 18s Gd for
sound, and I4s to 17s Gd for damaged. Fine Mauritius
is quoted 63s to 68s.
FOREIGN.—A fair business has been done. Bahia for
exportation has been sold privately at 17s 9d for brown,
and 22s for white.
MOLASSES.—St. Lucia have been sold at 21s Gd
for mid.

REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 74s per cwt,
and in moderate request.
COFFEE.—There has not been a general demand for
this article. British Plantation offered by auction has
been mostly taken in at 40s for ord Demerara, 62s to 65s
for fine Jamaica, and 75s to 87s for low mid and mid.
Ceylon has been in rather good request privately, good
ord at 55s 6d to 565, and Plantation sort 74s to 765.
At auction 262 bags realised 67s 6d to 735, for fine
fine grey, and 75s for pea berry. In East India
sorts 1,032 bags only partly sold, line ord Singapore
Java at 44s to 465. There were 164 brls St. Domingo
offered, but nearly all was taken in at 29s 6d to 30s for
ord ; arid 64 brls Rio sold at 72s to 87s for very superior
samples.
COCOA.—The quotations are steady ; Bahia at nue.
tion was taken in above the value, viz. 33s for good red.

RlCE.—Bengal, 1,366 bags sold at lOs Gd to lls for
mid white.

SALTPETRE.-441 bags Calcutta Saltpetre sold at 26s
to 27s for 4 to 7i per cent. refraction, the demand being
brisker.

SPICES.—A good business has been done in Pimento
at 4d to 4id for mid and good, and popper has been in
more request at fuller rates.

TEA.--The market continues firm.

TALLow.—The quotations of Y. C., first sort of the
new Brack, is about 42s per cwt. on the spot. The
total shipments from St. Petersburgh to the Bth ult.
were 36,211 casks. The demand lately has been Ma
proving, and a large consumption is expected, the sup-
ply of English Tallow being shorter than it was.
1 Emi..---7Clean is 28s per cwt.
DaT SALTURY.—Indigo has been in good request re-
cently, and last month about 1,200 chests were
taken at fully previous rates. Cochineal has been in
good request. Lac Dye in less demand. Gums active
at full prices, and also Brimstone. A moderate business
has been done in Dye Woods.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CUTE QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton market at Liverpool continued flat yester-
day!: sales 2,500 bales only at rather easier rates. In
the Share market South-Eastern was a ready sale, but
other shares were not so good :—Chester and Holyhead,
8i; Grand Junction, Half, 108; Great Western, Half,
85i; London and Birmingham, 220; London and York,
4; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, s+; Manches-
ter, Bolton, and Bury, 115; Manchester and Leeds, 1251;
Ditto, Half, 54; Sheffield and Manchester, 88k; South-
Eastern, 39; Ditto; New, 121; Paris and Rouen, 38k;
Rouen and Havre, 19i.
The following notice was issued late yesterday :
" Bank of England, Sept. 5, 1844.
" At a Court of Directors, held this day, resolved—
That the rate of interest on loans, for bills discounted
at the Bank of England, be as follows :—Bills, 2} per
cent. ; notes, 3 per cent. Such bills and notes not hay-
ing more than ninety-fire days to run."
This alteration has not given satisfaction in the City.
It will hurt, it is thought, most of the minor banking
firms and discount brokers.

There are accounts from the Mauritius this morning.
There had been a considerable number of deaths from
typhus fever. Improvements in the sanitory regulations
were in progress.

—An advance of one per cent. on the lowest value of Con-
sols paid yesterday has taken place, some large amounts
having been taken early in the day at 99 for Account,
and at 98i for Money. At present the value is 4 per
cent. lower for each. The premium on Exchequer
Bills have been sold at an advance to 765. premium. India
Stock is higher by two per cent. than it was yesterday,
being now for the Account at 283. South Sea Stock has
advanced to 1141.
Spanish Three per Cents. have advanced from 334 to
34, and the Actives to 23 for the Account. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. are now at 621 ; Mexican at 3.51
36 ; Colombian are at 13 ; and Russian rather heavy
at 118.

The market for the Railway Shares are firm for
Bristol and Exeter, for Bristol and Gloucester, for Great
Western, and for Brighton. York and North Midland,
and South Westerns, are lower than yesterday.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .... 000000000000 ••••••••••• •••••
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99%%%%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 99
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860
Ditto 30 Yeara, Expire sth Jan. 1860.
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account
India Stock

12 3-16 5-16
114
911$
200 200
2113

Exchequer Bole, I%d. 134 d.
40_0_04 ••••••••••11.0.01111.4.11 .... ............. 76 74 pion.
outu. 1 •••::•••••••••••••••••• ..... •••••••••••• 76 75 pm.
DittoVmaum.• •••••• •• 00000 •••••••••• IS -- pm.
Ditto Advertised..„.„.. -- •...... 00000
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Columbian Bonds. 00000000000 ••••••••••••• 00000000 ...« 14 1374
Dutch Exchange 236 per Cent 61%
Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. ..« 00000000
...
Ditto for the Account. 3.5% 36 35%
Ditto Deferred Stock 1536
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 11834 118
Spanish Bonds,. Five per Cent 1840....«.• 22%
Ditto for the Account ...,..,«.,,,.,......««« 22% 23
Ditto Three per Cent. •••• 0000000 ••••••••••••••••••• 33X
Ditto for the Account 33% $
6
Dutch 234 per Cents 61% 1121(
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 5 per Cents... 00000 .. 0000000000 .«........• ION%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAY S.
PAID. PER MUER.
Bristol and Exeter
70 ........ 81 to
Bristol and G10uce5ter............... ao :57 56%." to 57%
Dublin and Ca5he1..„,„....,,.. 2% 7,4% ... to
Eastern Counties ••••••••••••• 00000000 23 ••- o . 000 1134 •••••• to
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d... 1
Edinburgh and Glasgow •......•..•• 50 •.........66 ,•• oo . 000 to
Great Western .......... 0000000 75 144 14336 to 145
000 ...•
Ditto 34 Shares to —SO •••• 00000 $7
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 ..«.,... 64...... to
London
and Birmingham. lOO 220 London and Brighton
London and Greenwich
London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% ,... 21.... to
London and South Western ...... 41%
London
Lnn and and Croydon 13% ...... 173(3{ ... to
El
Manchester and and Leeds 7O 127 to
Ditto 34 Shares 3O . 54 to
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 ......... 4146 to
North British
Norwich and Brandon ....... ..... 4
South Devon b
South Eastern and Dover 33% 38% M." to --
Ditto New
York and North Midland .... . ..... 50 ... IOB
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip — 37 to
Paris and Orleans 2O 2231'4 ... to
Paris and Rouen 2O .... ..... 38%36% to

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster 2O
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT, s.—The mar-
ket continues steady, and a fair amount of business has
been done. Manchester and Leeds have irnproNed since
the meeting, which has gone off satisfactorily to-day.—
Huddersfield and Manchester, 21; London and Birming-
ham, 321. Shares, 37:1 ; Manchester and Leeds, 125, ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 55 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1 1 ;
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6 3-16 ; Manches-
ter and Birmingham, 51 511 ex div. ; North British,
5 9-16; North Union, 126 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 2i.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE..--Mr. COX, of Aghada,
has grown fifteen barrels eight stone of wheat upon an
acre and a half of land. The species is that denomi-
nated the silken drop ; and though the grain is plump
and large, it is not, it appears, productive to the miller.
—Cork Reporter.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
THURSDAY.
The Maiden Plate of 501. Heats, once round.
Mr. Dockeray's Black-stockings, 3 yrs 2 1 1
Mr. Shelley's Gretna, 4 yrs 1 2 4
Mr. Wingfield's bf by Scroggins, 4 yrs 0 3 2
Mr. Coleman's ch cby Plenipo, 4 yrs
Captain Cockburn's Linda, 5 yrs
Mr. Wickham's bg by Pincher, 4 yrs 3 4 dr
Mr. Dixon's Capsicum, 4 yrs
The Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 50
added; the second to save his stake, and the winner to
be sold for 3001., &c. Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. King's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs,
Mr. Dockeray's Auld Lang Syne, 4 yrs
Mr. Rott's Hampton, 5 yrs, 2 3
Mr. Coleman's The Devil-among-the-Tailors,s yrs, 4 4
Mr. Coleman's Lufra, 5 yrs,
Mr. Death's Misdeal, 5 yrs, 3 dr
The Rochester and Chatham Members' Plate of 501.
three-years-old, 7st 41b; four years, Bst 71b; five years,
9st; six years and aged, 9st 41b; mares, &c. allowed
31b; winners extra. Heats, one mile and a half. The
winner to be sold for 2001.
Mr. Cooke's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs,
Mr. Langridge nd Discretion, 3 yrs,
Mr. Prescroft's Paradise, aged,
Mr. King's fby Pincher, dam by Rowton, 4 yrs, 2 4 dr
Mr. Verral's Rondo, 3 yrs,
The Steward's Plate of 501., added to a sweepstakes of
5 sovs. eaeh, the second to save his stake. Heats,
five miles.
Sir C. Monck's Flagsman, 5 yrs
Mr. Osborne's Boniface, 3 yrs
Mr. 0. Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs
MORPETH RACES.—••WEDNESDAY.
The Borough Members' Plate of 501. Heats, one mile
and a half.
Mr. Cuthbert's Beaufront, 3 yrs
Mr. Cookson's Criky Billy, 4 yrs
Mr. Robinson's fby Sheet Anchor, 3 yrs 0 3 2
Mr. Crawford's The Netherton Maid, 3 yrs
Mr. Moore's Bagatelle, 4 yrs 0 0 4
Mr. Ramshay's Sister to Broadwate, 4 yrs
Mr. Carnagle's Hyggia, aged

1 1
3 2
2 3

FLANDERS and lIAMBURGH MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 3.—The average price of Wheat last
week was 18f. 46c.; and that of Rye 10f. 45c. The
import and export duties remain as before.
We continue to receive the most afflicting aceounts of
the damage done by the overflowing of the Demer, and
the rupture of the dike of the Laek.
An-account from Cologne, of the 31st August, informs
us that in July, 1844, there were 47,576 passengers con-
veyed by the Rhenish railway (16,970 more than in July,
1843). The quantity of goods in the same month was
422,579 cwt. (304,236 cwt. more than in July, 1843).
The receipts amounted to 65,697 dollars (28,149 dollars
more than in 1843). The total receipts in the first seven
months of 1844, was 279,819 dollars, which is an excess
of 128,508 dollars above the receipt in the first seven
months of last year.
The conclusion of the treaty with the Zollverein has
caused general surprise and satisfaction, being wholly un-
expected. At Antwerp the sensation caused by the
news which the Minister of the Interior sent as soon as
possible to the Governor of the city was very great, and
completely changed the idea of the merchants who dis-
approved the conduct of the Government with respect to
Prussia, but now acknowledge that if their system had
been followed in preference to that of the Government,
they would not have obtained the advantages which this
city promises.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 29.—The question of the repre-
sentation is decided in the Diet. In the Chamber of the
Nobles the debate in this most important question lasted
from nine in the morning till seven in the evening.
Baron Nordenfalk first delivered a speech, in which
he stated the reasons for which the King's advisers re-
mained neuter in this matter. The result was the rejec-
tion of the proposed system of representation by a ma-
jority of 458 to 82.
In the Chamber of the Clergy the debate was con-
tinued do-day, the result as we hear was that the pro-
posal was rejected almost unanimously.
In the Chamber of the Citizens it was agreed to by
47 to 9, and in that of the Peasants by 89 to 14. The
proposal is, consequently rejected, because it cannot be-
come a law of the kingdom without the concurrence of
each of the four Chambers.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Sin* 3.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1625
Anglo-Russian Loan 11:34 113).
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 10514 155
Inscription, Ist series lO5
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th

Series , 98% 98
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) I/0% 90)
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent. —
Anglo-Danish Lean, 3 per Cent. —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets ....
BELGIAN FUND3.—BRUSBELS, Sum 3.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent., —
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent —
..., _ Three per Cent —
Thirty-seven Milliens, ditto .......
(1840) 10.2%
_
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent lO2
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 6l
Issue of 1841 ....
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 4
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AuG.26.
Five per Cents. Metalliques- . 110
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. '76
Bank Shares ... ............. .. . .....,. ......... 1593
dllgemeine isitung, Sept. l.