The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1844.

The Herald of this morning affects to be facetious
—but is dull by mistake—on the subject of the late
great meeting at the Manchester Athenzeum. Mr,
D'IsILELI's speech, in particular, diverts our Con-
temporary exceedingly, and ho asks with amusing
naiveté—" Of what importance on earth is it to the
rest of the empire to know that this gentleman went
down to Manchester, to tell the people there the his-
tory of what they themselves had done—a history
with which they were, of course, much better ac-
quainted than he could possibly be ?" This, it must
be confessed, is smart ; or rather it would be smart,
were it either just, pertinent, or pointed. But the
inherent defects of nature are not to be counteracted
by even the most strenuous labour, and therefore,
despite our Contemporary's evident determination to
put a witty question, be has put—what he could not
help—simply a dull and a nonsensical one. From the
manner in which he shapes his interrogatory, the
reader would infer, as a matter of course, that Mr.
DISRAELI went down to Manchester for no other
purpose than to enlighten the inhabitants of that great
manufacturing capital on the subject of their own
particular branch of commerce ; to give them a his-
tory of the rise and progress of the cotton trade ; and
of the wonderful improvements they had effected in
the power-loom and the spinning-jenny. But, un-
luckily for the Herald, the Hon. Member for Shrews-
bury went down to Manchester for no such idle pur-
pose. He is not the man to carry coals to New-
castle. He went down—not unsolicited, by the bye,
but at the express invitation of some of the leading
men of the Athenaeum—to give expression to senti-
ments of the utmost consequence to a commercial com-
munity—sentiments lofty, generous, and bracing in
their tone, and such as it does an English audience good
to listen to—sentiments breathing a fervid emotion,
extensive in their application, catholic in their ten-
dency, and calculated to foster a sense of self-respect
and noble emulation among men, whose minds are
but too apt to become warped and dwarfed, and covered
over with a hard, dry crust of selfishness from the
engrossing nature of the worldly and business-like
pursuits in which they are engaged. The beautiful,
heartfelt truths enunciated by the Member for Shrews-
bury and his accomplished young friend, Mr. Szerrisa,

at Manchester, will not—however it may suit our
Contemporary's views to sneer at them—be soon for-
gotten by the admiring thousands who listened to them,
but will sink deep into their hearts, and bring forth
fruit in due season. " Mr. D'lsß,►ELa," continues the
Herald, " enunciated some rare maxims, and one of
these was, that it is the duty of every citizen in a free
community to be acquainted with the opinions he has
formed. We hope this is a duty which Young
England has not failed to perform, for if their
opinions —as we presume their phantasies are
designated—can be reduced to a comprehensible
system, the sooner some one of the fraternity
remembering the fate of the theories of the late
Reverend and ingenious EDWARD lavEso, pro-
mulgates their politics in a known tongue, the more
advantageous will it be to their prosperity." So far
as we can perceive, there is nothing cloudy nor
incomprehensible in the opinions advocated by that
band of ardent, generous, and thoroughly English
spirits who call themselves—say, rather, who are
called by others—" Young England." They are not
visionaries—they are not fanatics—on the contrary,
they are to all intents and purposes men of
the world, but in whom worldly knowledge
has not yet' chilled nor destroyed the better
impulses of nature. Their party is a far more
numerous one than is generally supposed, and em-
braces many individuals who—good easy souls !—have
not the remotest notion that they hold anything
in common with them. Whoever advocates the legi-
timate rights of the poor, and desires to see fair play
between them and their superiors, he is Young Eng-
land. -Whoever wishes to see an end put to that de-
basing party strife which has so long warped the
minds of some of the ablest statesmen of the day, and
by preventing them from co-operating with each
other, has retarded the great cause of public improve.
ment, he is Young England. Whoever wishes to
bring the different grades of the social community
more in harmony with each other than they
have ever yet been, he is Young England.
Whoever loathes—as we do—from his inmost soul
the hollow, sickening cant of political expediency,
and prefers to hold fast by political principle, with-
out which there can be no true greatness either
among men or among nations, he is Young England.
Finally, whoever desires to see popular education
based on a tolerant and enlightened foundation, so
that the false shall never more be mistaken for the
true—the shadow for the substance—the word for the
thing—he is Young England. In a word, Young
England is nothing more than an appeal to what may
be yet left of justice, honour, generosity, self-reliance
and healthy, catholic feeling in the English character:

There are no such living impersonifications of
the Dogberries and the Vergeses, whose immortal
prototypes were designed by the hand of SILAS.-
SPEARE nearly two centuries ago, as the judicial func-
tionaries of our provincial jurisdictions. Among
these provincial jurisdictions, it has always been a
question with us whether any could exceed, in the
extravagance of their pretensions and the absurdity
of their deportment, the courts of our Channel
Islands ; the mighty Manx Parliament (this latter
wielding, like ST. PETER, the powers of certain obso-
lete " Keys), and our multifarious manorial and other
local courts. But the Royal Court of the little ditch-
and-orchard-divided island of Jersey has removed all
doubt and difficulty on the subject from our minds,
by clearly establishing a pre-eminent title, in a case
recently pending before it, to occupy the very first
rank on the records of this unenviable notoriety. It
has now approved its own superior ignorance of
the local law itself administers, and of the
common-law of the mother country. It has shown
an utter want of self-respect in the petulance of its
bench and its officers; and an utter want of respect
for the undoubted rights and privileges of English-
men, throughout every portion of the widely-ex-
tended dominion of Great Britain, by the bare-
faced and tyrannical violation of these privi-
leges and rights in the person of an Eng-
lish gentleman, a sojourner (to his misfortune)
among the men of Jersey. Mr. CARL'S WIL-
SON, whom most men who have resided long in
London may remember as " the long gentleman in
spectacles," has been unlucky enough, it seems, to get
involved in some squabble with the petty authorities
of this " islet." With the particulars of the squabble,
or the printed reflections that led to it, it is not
necessary for our purpose to meddle at all. Mr.
WILSON may afford to have them all taken as against
himself, and as establishing a good and equitable
ground for the prosecution instituted against him by
LE SUEUR. We are far from intimating that the
fact is so; but were the hypothesis even admitted, it
could make no difference in the very serious
delin-
quency of which Mr. WILSON has to complain.
On the former hearings, Mr. WiLsox, who evi-
dently has his, professional wits about him, took
various objections to the pleadings before the court,
its competency to try them, and other matters which
he mooted with so much address and effect, as mate-
rially to disorganise the equanimity of his judges.
The overweening nationality of the islanders is not
the least remarkable feature in their moral compo-
sition. These judges were, we apprehend, Jersey-
men, and Mr. WILSON, after taking many objections,
more or less formidable to the prosecution, had
completed the measure of his offence by imputing
to them a bias or prejudice against him. They
found Wresoss too strong in his constitutional
and technical objections, to settle the matter in their
off-hand Jersey fashion. The further hearing was
adjourned until two or three days since, when Mr.
WILSON took a preliminary objection to the con-
tinued proceeding, on the very substantial grounds,
founded on the express terms of a local Act regulating
and defining the law of these matters, that himself
and co-defendant had not been legally summoned, and
that the cause itself had not been regularly entered
and brought on. This objection was sustained and illus-
tratedby the island Solicitor- General, but it was affirmed
on the plea in rejoinder on behalf of the plaintiff that
the practice of the court of late years had authorised
such deviations from the law (a law, as the Times well
observes, " as yet scarcely ten years old"). That the
objection came too late, was no answer to the original
vice of the proceeding as being contrary to law ; and
an unrepealed express law of so recent a date could
not be overruled by vicious or lax practice. But further.
more, the court itself was composed of the Bailli and
two jurats, all of whom had been previously " re-
cused," or challenged, by WiLsoze, on the ground of
personal animosity to him. Now, we entreat the reader
to observe-1. That the challenge was good at law ;
2. That another jurat has formally declared, that
after it had been recorded, these parties ought not to
have assisted at all at the hearing of the cause. On
their return into court, and when they were about to
read their decision on this plea, reduced into writing,
Mr. WILSON made a protest against " that act being
read." Those terms, we affirm without hesitation,
embodied as sound principles of law, expressed; in
language as concise, temperate, and proper
as it was possible for any man to em-
ploy under such circumstances. But then, it
seems, that Mr. WILSON'S manner, in uttering
them, was too energetic ! Mr. WILSON, who had
over and again, from time to time, sent them back to
re-consider the mistakes of practice and construction
they were committing in dealing with his case—who
had been subjected to very gross and personal re-
flections from Lu SUEUR, without the Court's once
interposing to check them—whose very protest was
grounded on the plea of personal animosity to him,
in these men, his " judges"—he was too animated
and energetic for the nervous susceptibilities of these
Channel Island Rhadamanthuses. M. Lu BAILLI
desired him to sit down, and the same high officer
then appealed to the Attorney-General for his opinion
of the language which WILSON had employed. The
latter again interposes to request that he will speak in
English. But what says this officer of an English
Sovereign, in an English possession, responding to an
English subject, and suitor in her MAJESTY'S courts
of law ? As if the example of Dogberry tumulence
were irresistible,. he, too, takes a long inflation, and
with equal pomposity and forgetfulness, or ignorance
of his duty, to his fellow-subject, " declines to do
that, under the circumstances, which he might do, as
an act of courtesy; but is not bound to 'do." Of
" courtesy," truly I We should like to know what
an insular Attorney-General's notions of courtesy
may be ; his notions of law are clearly not worth the
collecting ; but we hope some other party, if Mr.
WILSON should omit to do so, will have the
"courtesy" to bring this strange declaration undor
the notice of her MAJESTY'S Government, or of the
Imperial Parliament. Mr. Attorney was at that

moment about to move, and did proceed to move, in
language the defendant could not understand, that
defendant should be committed and criminally
punished. Next, the Registrar was about to take
down only part of Mr. WiLsoiee protest, till that
gentleman enforced the addition of the omitted (and
concluding) words. On the motion of the same illus-
trious Attorney, he was then condemned "to pay a
fine of 101. to her MAJESTY, and demand pardon of
the court." Mr. WILSON, much to his honour, flatly
refused to do either the one thing or the other, having
already protested against the whole proceeding,
under the authority of a statute. He was then,
amidst the insolent and indecent uproar of the native
audience, whose gestures and applauses were not even
rebuked by either Verges or Dogberry—M. Ls
BAILLI or his Lieutenant-Jurat—conducted to the
public gaol under the escort of some strange island
functionary called a "Deputy Viscount" (Heaven
defend us from such a Lilliput aristocracy !), and
after being exposed on his way to the yelling exul-
tation of sundry un whipped boys and men, subjected
to the most rigorous and scandalous severity of treat-
ment, the most unmanly and oppressive vexations
which personal resentment seems to have been
capable of infusing into the most insolent exer-
cise of the most ill-administered authority.
Exhibitions like these—could we forget the personal
sufferings and annoyances of Mr. WILSON in the
meantime—might amuse all of us who are alive to
the exquisite absurdity of "grave fooling." It is very
certain that nothing is more supremely absurd than
the strutting dignity of official power, in some little-
out-of-the-way corners, where it fancies itself playing
GENGEIIS-KHAN in an empire comprised within a few
square miles of territory parcelled out into freehold
estates of a few square yards. But the rights and
liberties of Englishmen must not be exposed to the
pranks of these pantomimic eccentricities. It is high
time that the British Legislature should sweep away
the inconvenient and unsightly barbarisms of a former
age, and a rude people, in its more minute possessions.
They are like old disused habiliments of former cen-
turies, whose strangeness may amuse the curious, but
whose fettering and iron bondage it would be an act
of insufferable tyranny to impose on the free:limbs of
living men, accustomed to the unimpeded use of the
faculties they derive from nature, and exercise under
the guarantees of an enlightened civilisation.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer,
the Lady Mary Wood, we have received intelligence
from Gibraltar to September 28 ; Cadiz, 29 ; Lisbon,
October 1 ; and Oporto, 2. The Cortes assembled at
Lisbon on the 30th of September. In the Chamber of
Deputies the Minister of the Interior read a report of
the use the Government had made of its discretionary
powers. The Chamber appointed two Committees,
one of which to give its opinion upon the use made
thereof by the Government, and the other to take
into consideration the subject of a bill of indemnity.
The Duke of PALMELLA presided in the Chamber of
Peers, when nearly similar proceedings took place,
with some slight opposition on the part of Count
LAVRODIO. The session, it is believed, will be very
short. The tobacco, soap, and gunpowder contracts,
had been let for 1.521 contos, on the condition of a loan
to Government of one million sterling at 5 per cent.

Madrid papers of the 29th have been received, but
they bring no news. It is understood that the
speech of the QUEEN, at the opening of the Cortes,
will contain an outline of the changes in the Consti-
tution, which the Government have in view. The
preparatory meeting was fixed for the 2d inst.
MADRID BOURSE, SEPT. 28.—Five per Cents., 201
for cash ; Three per Cents., 28i for cash.

The Paris papers announce that the KING and
QUEEN, Madame ADELAIDE and the Duke of MONT..
PENSIER arrived at Eu on Thursday night, at eleven
,'cluck. The visit of his MAJESTY to England is
strongly opposed by the Opposition journals, for no
other reason that can be imagined but pure hatred
Of this country. Louis Pnieurs wishes to live
at peace with all the European States, because he
believes it for the good of his people, as well as con-
ducive to the stability of his dynasty. The Repub-
licans and Legitimatists wish for war, because they
vainly suppose that the darling object of each would
be the result. The Siecle, a journal hostile to Eng-
land, thus blames the KING for returning the com-
pliment of a visit, like a gallant Frenchman, to Queen
VICTORIA It is on Monday next, that his Majesty
Louts Puturris is to quit the French soil and sail
for England. It appears that this unpopular as well
as ill-timed journey has experienced even in the
bosom of the Royal Family a resistance before which
any Minister but M. GuizoT would have hesitated.
It is even said that the Ku's physicians, whose
opinions had been asked, would not advise that
it should be undertaken. In fine, and as if the
Ministers wished to concur in demonstrating the gra-
vity of this determination, it is proposed to delegate
during the absence of the KING the exercise of the
Sovereign authority to the Duke DE NEMOURS, who is
to be appointed Lieutenant-General of the kingdom.
A journey which requires such precaution ceases to
be a party of pleasure, and becomes an affair of State.
The excursions of Queen VICTORIA are of no conse-
pence. She is a young woman who seeks amuse-
ment with a species of passion, and whose caprice
leads her wherever a new sight is promised her, either
at the Isle of Wight, the Chateau d'Eu, or even in
the fogs of the Highlands. But a KING of 70 years
of age should not run after adventures ; and when it
is seen that the Ministers who are conducting LOUIS
PHILIPPE to Windsor require of him a species of-
political testament before he embarks on board the
steam-boat, it is naturally asked whether the trifling
satisfaction of receiving some bravoes in England can
compensate and justify the embarrassments to
which the Government has the appearance of expos-
ing him. The KING'S journey is giving serious
uneasiness to a number of the Conservative party. We
require no better 'proof than the silence observed by
the Journal des Debate. As to the Opposition, with-
out being insensible to the pre-occupation which ap-
pears to pervade the majority, it reserves its soli-
citude principally for the political side of the question.
If it do not approve of the journey, it is because it
considers the state of the relations between the
Governments of France and England, and the just
susceptibility which is produced in France by every
appearance of anxiety on the part of the French with
respect to the English Government."
The affair of Otaheite has been again revived in all
its bitterness by the letters of the Times corre-
spondent, describing the battle between the French
and the natives. Even the Constitutionnel, a journal
generally conducted with temper and discretion,
looses all self-command on the sutlject. "We are
reduced," it says, "to have recourse to the journals
of London for the details of the last events at Ota-
heite, and certainly it is not the truth which we find
in the correspondence of the Times, but lies and
abuse. We copy these odious letters, which make
their appearance most apropos, in the midst of
the visit of the KING of the FRENCH to Windsor.
But let it be well understood. the people who
have written to the Times have seen nothing,
and know nothing of what has taken place ;
they are guided by such furious passions ; their
reason and judgment are so mastered by hatred to
France, that their view is necessarily troubled. They
do not narrate facts ; they outrage. These English,
these Christians, who, in a conflict between France
and a people of savages, feel sympathy only for the
Otaheiteans, and transform our soldiers into canni-
bals, give us, by their language, the measure:of their
sentiments of humanity and religion. It is true that
they owe this last testimony to these poor islanders,
who have been in all this affair but the docile instru-
ments of their fury. If we pause on the letters of
the Times, it is particulary to remind the Ministry of
the sad consequences of the inconceivable conduct
which it has adopted. The Minister of Marine must
have in his possession all the reports of Commandant
BRUAT on the late events at Otaheite. He has pub-
lished nothing except a garbled note, which is con-
tradicted even in its short details by the few private
letters which have reached France. Why has this
incomplete information been given to the public ?
Why has not the report concerning the affair of
April 18 been inserted in the official journals ? Where
is the State reason which did not allow to be done for
Otaheite what is done every day for Algeria ? No-
thing excuses the silence that has been observed. If
the Ministry had not done itself this inexplicable in-
jury, the English journals would blush to publish the
insolent versions of the missioneriee

The National is equally violent :
" In default of news which the Minister does not give,

we read in the English journal (the Times) letters ,
written by Churchmen, for Churchmen perform a prin-
cipal part in the affairs of England. We hale already
the Consul Pritchard apothecary and accoucheur to her
Otaheitean Majesty. We have had the chaplain of the
Warspite, who endeavoured to conceal under his clerical
mantle the base letters of some English officers. At
present we have other reverend gentlemen, who take
the trouble of announcing to the world that Divine Pro-
vidence has vouchsafed to bless the arms of the Ota-
heiteans, and to deliver up to them a considerable
number of French to be sacrificed. We had rather be-
lieve that the recitals of those pious divines are at least
much exaggerated, and that, notwithstanding the evident
assistance afforded by the English, the Otaheiteaus have
not done our countrymen as much injury as has been
asserted. But it is certain that the English missionaries
' act against us in Otaheite the same part which Abd-el-
Kader does in Africa, and it will not be their fault if
there be not a St. Bartholomew perpetrated against the
French at Otaheite.

The Journal des Debats and the Globe, Ministerial
papers, deny the statements contained in the letters.
The former says :—" In the absence of fuller infor-
mation, we give the correspondence, making every
reserve, and deploring at the same time the spirit of
animosity and bitterness with which it is charged."
We regret to find by the last accounts from Otaheite,
which will be found in another part of the paper, that
a still more serious occurrence than the " PRirciaAßD
affair" had taken place at Otaheite; but till we have
more details we consider it better to make no com-
ment on the unfortunate event. Our firm conviction
is, that while the French possess these islands in the
Pacific, the peace between England and France will
be constantly in danger.
THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, OCT. 5.

First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five peresnts•• •• •• 118 25 •• 118 40 .• 118 25 •• 118 35
Fours ..•• •• •• •• 106 •• 106 .. 106 .. 106
Three per Cents••••• 81 65 •• 81 80 .. 81 65 •• 81 10
Bank-of France•••••••••••• 3070 ••3070 .•3070 ..3070
Laißtte Bank, I,ooof. shares] e9O . • 1090 ..1090 1090
5,000 f. Sharessoss ..5055 ..5050 ••5050
Belgian 8ank.....• ........ 662 50 .. 662 50 .. 662 50 6G2 50
Belgian Fives,lB3l.. ••.• • • • 102} .. 102/ .. 102/ .. 102/
1840 •.•.•. 103/ •• 103/ .. 103/ .• 103/
1842 •••••••• 105 f .• 105 f .. 105 f .. 105 f
Spanish Passive . • ..• ••.•• •• 6 .. 6 .. 5/ • . 5f
Threes.. •.• . • ..... 35} .. 35/ •• 35 35
Active .•
Portuguese Five per Cen.ts•• 48/ •• 48* .• 48i .• 48i
Neapolitan....
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain... •• •• 320 .. 920 .. 920 .. 920
Versailles, It.B •••••• •• .• .• 385 .. 385 .. 3x5 .. 385
L.B. ..... •• 258 75 .. 258 75 .. 258 75 .. 258 75
Rouen ...• ••• • • • •••• •• •• •• 982 50 . 085 .. 982 50 .. 985
Rouen to Iravre•• ..... 750 .. 750 750 .. 750
Orleans ••••

Strasburg to Bale..
vignon to Marseilles • •• 757 50 757 50 • 757 50 .. 757 50

RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 15.
Verbailles, R. 11.. • •• • • 385 .. 385 • • 385 .. 385
L. 8...•• •• 260 .. 260 .. 260 .. 290
Rouen••••••••••••••
Rouen to Havre• • • • • •
+lrleann 9Bl 25 .. 981 25 .. 981 25 •• 911
:,tr.,„targ to Bale_ •258 75 .. 260 .. 258 75 .. 260 25
Avignon to Marseilles— •• 760 .. 760 .. 760 .. 760

THIS DAY'S N 14: S.

MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.-

(THIS DAY )
(Before L. SHADWELL, Esq.)
Mr. Shadwell sat this morning at the Sessions-
house, Westminstt r, for the purpose of revising the lists
of voters for St. Paul's, Covent-garden, St. James's, St.
Clement Danes, St. George's, Hanover-square, St.
Martin's, St. Anne's, Lincoln's Inn, the Savoy, St.
Margaret's, and St. John the Evangelist.
The REVISING BARRISTER complained of the irregular
manner in which the St. Anne's list had been made out.
Mr. Corder, clerk of the St. Clement Danes Union,
att-nded in the place of the overseers of that. parish, and
delivered in lists of the claims and objections. lie said
there were only two objections—one against the name of
a person who died a short time ago, the other against the
retention on the list or the name of a person who had
disposed of his property, and who, consequently, was not
qualified.
SHADWELL said the names of the two persons ob-
jected to did not appear in the list which had been delivered
to him. Where was the list which had been affixed on the
church doors ?
Wore, however, Mr. Corder could comply with his
request, r.
Mr. SHARWELL said—Hand it to me. I cannot have the
whole day-vfasted in this way.
The list was accordingly handed to Mr. Shadwell by
Mr. Corder.
Mr. SHADWELL, after having glanced at the list, threw it
with a gesture of impatience to Mr. Corder, who was in
the witness-box. He said the names to which he alluded
were not in that list.

Mr. Corder, opening the book, said there are the
names (at the same time pointing to them).
Mr. SHADWELL (with considerable impatience)—H and
it up—let me see it. Why did you not furnish me with
that list when you came into court. The conversation
then dropped.
John Thorogood, who appeared on the list of voters
for St. James's, in respect of a fee-farm rent from cham-
bers in the Albany, was objected to by the Conservatives,
as the name of the owner of the property was not on
the register. The omission was accordingly rectified.
Mr. Thorogood said—Mr. Barrister, this is the third
time I have been compelled to attend here. I wish to
know why I am brought here, year after year, in this way.
Mr. SHADWELL said ho must put that question to those
who had objected to his name.
Mr. Thorogood said he had come seventy-two miles in
order to meet what he considered a frivolous objection.
Mr. SHADWELL wished he would not take up the time
of the court after the business had been disposed of.
The lists of voters for St. John the Evangelist and St.
Margaret's were then revised.
It is expected that the revision of the lists of voters
for Westminster will terminate to-day.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)
IN RE JOHN HUNTER.
In this case the insolvent had applied, upon Thursday
last, fur an appointment from Sir Charles Williams, in
order to show cause wby an order should be made to
rescind a prior order, remanding the petitioner to prison.
Sir Charles had appointed this day, in consequence of
the only creditor having obtained a vesting order in the
Insolvent Debtors' Court.
Mr. Lucas, who attended for the creditor, said that a
letter bad been received trom Mr. Staffird, solicitor to
the insolvent, stating that Mr. Hunter would not attend
that day, but that he himself would appear, to watch
proceedings.
Sir C. WILLIAMS said that, before proceeding further
in this case, he should, as it involved a very important
principle, wish to consult his learned brother, Mr. Com-
missioner EVans, as to whether that Court could proceed
with the petition of the insolvent after the creditor had
obtained a vesting order from the other court. He
would, as the Learned Commissioner was not in town,
communicate to the solicitors on either side when the
matter would be beard again.

Mr. STAFronD,In reference to some irritability he had
exhibited in court upon a previous hearing of this case,
said, that no man was more ready than himself to tic-
knowledge his error, when in the heat of the moment
he had used language in tout court which no provoca-
tion, perhaps* could justify, and he therefore begged that
such language might be overlooked by the Hon. Com-
missioner. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
animadvert upon some words used by the Registrar as
regarded him (Mr. Stafford), and he then continued.—
" While I therefore apologise to the court. I beg humbly,
but firmly, to state that I owe no apology to the man
who has ao
Sir C. WILLIAMS could not allow such language to
pass unnoticed, and, if repeated, he should assuredly
commit Mr. Stafford:
Afttr tone farther convetzatiott of a similar character,
the matter dropped.

BOW-SM.Ehir.—(TillS DAY.)
A man named Thomas Shandbrooh, who was dressed
in the garb of a ship-carpenter's labourer, watt charged
before Mr. nail with creating a great disturbance in the
strand, and with assaulting the inspector of police, and
one of the officers.
Mr. Inspegtor Logan stated that he was passing the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, last evening,
when he saw the prisoner attempting to force his way
into the house, and one of the waiters was preventing
him from going in. Witness came up and interposed,
when the prisoner struck him on the side of the head and
knocked him down. An officer was called, and, with the
utmost difficulty, the prisoner
was got to the station-
house, kicking all the way.
The prisoner, in his defence,
said he had lost 2/ in the
course of the day, and, to drown his sorrow at this loss,
he had got drunk, and, therefore, he did not know what
he was about. He promised never to do so again.
Mr. HALL said these assaults on the police must be
punished, and sentenced the prisoner to ten days' im-
prisonment.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Richard Mains, a powerful-looking man, was charged
with assaulting a woman named Davis, in such a dan-
gerous manner, that she now lies in the hospital, with
little hope of recovery.
Mr. Lawson stated that, about nine o'clock on the pre-
ceding night, as he was passing the Catherine Wheel,
Union-street, he saw a female sitting at the door. In a
moment afterwards he saw the prisoner come out of the
public-house, and, going up to the woman, he gave her
a violent kick in the lower part of the abdomen, and
followed it up by striking her with all his force.
He then tried to escape, when witness attempted
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survive.

Mr. CorTiNonAm said that, if the unfortunate woman
recovered her speech, he would proceed to the hospital
and take her examination, and that if she died he would
certainly commit the prisoner for murder.
The prisoner, who appeared perfectly careless as to
the result, was remanded.

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The Board of Ordnance have in hand the erection
of various yew spacious barracks in the north of Eng-
'Lund, which will involve an enormous outlay. They also
contemplate, if the contract for them has not been airaady
taken, building barracks at Worcester and Bristol, in
neither of which cities has there hitherto been any an-
n. "A .44 A-- - TT ll_ -1

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
TRIESTE, SEPT. 23.—We hear that the German Zoll-
verein is engaged in negotiations with the principal Ita-
lian States.
STETTIN, SEPT. 27.—1 t is reported that the negotia-
tions for paying a certain capital to put an end to the
Sound duty, as far as the Prussian provinces in the
Baltic are concerned, have been resumed ; and this time
on the proposal of Denmark. It is believed that the
projected canal from Helsinborg to Landserona, which
would be but a few leagues in length, has had some in-
fluence on this occasion, for according to the terms of
the treaty concluded in 1645, with the Netherlands at
Chrishanopel, only those ships and their cargoes are to
pay the Sound duty which pass the Sound between El-
sinore and the opposite, for Helsinborg, which condition
would be avoided by the ships putting into the latter
port. At all events, this news, if it should be confirmed,
will excite new hopes in the Russian Baltic provinces,
which would derive greater advantages from the aboli-
tion of the Sound duty.
ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPT. 10.—In the account of the
victories of Schatnil Bey, in consequence of which even
the inhabitants of Tiflis were said to be alarmed, there
is not a word of truth. As usual, they were fabricated
by those haters of the Russians, who lost no opportunity
of displaying their talent at invention, by stating some-
thing against the character of those in the interest of the
Russians. According to the official accounts, the moun-
taineers hare not only not gained any victories, but have
not even obtained the slightest advantage, unless we
reckon as such that the Russians have attempted nothing
worth mentioning. In fact, General Neidhardt has not
fulfilled the expectations that are entertained of his
activity.
COLOGNE, SEPT. 20.—Travellers who have arrived
here from Verviers, say that the popular excesses which
occurred there some days ago, in consequence of the
aversion to a projected establisnment of the Jesuits,
were much more serious than they were represented in
the Russian journals. At all events the Jesuits and
their partisans will most probably be obliged to give up
their plans respecting Verviers, for the prudent civil
authorities of that town will scarcely now give their
assent, now that the population have so decidedly ex-
pressed their disapprobation. We learn that the Jesuits
are not likely to be more successful in their plans for
forming establishments in other towns.
THE HAGUE, OCT. I.—ln order to prevent the frauds
which have already occurred in the sale of Ducth her-
rings in bonds, the Minister of Commerce at Sr. Pe-
tersburgh has thought fit to direct that the barrels shall
henceforth be sealed with his seals, one at the top
and one at the bottom, which stamps shall he united by
an iron wire, passing under the hoops, so that any at-
tempt at fraud must be immediately discovered by the
breaking or injuring of the seals.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 3.—The 1 iutch iron Railway Com-
pany has published the statement of the traffic in the
month of September, by which we Riad that the number
of passengers was 74,252, awl the receipts for passengers
and goods was 67,990 florins. The total up to the end
of September was 515,956 passengers, and the receipts
468,178 florins.
AMSTERDAM, OCT 4.—According to the latest notice
of his Excellency the Minister of Fina7lce, the state of
the conversion on the Ist Oct. was as follows :
The sums of the debt at 5 and 4i per cent. interest to
be converted was, according to the Handelsblcid,
400,251,200.
A paid off 30,998,500
Sum paid off }
5,062,400
Donn Losrent in

36,060,900

B exchanged ....139,997,700
Sumsexchanged}
10,930,900
Donn Losrentin

Total paid off:— 150,928,900
Total converted

213,261,700
Thus in six months, thirty- six millions have been paid
off in money, and nearly 187 millions exchanged.
DUTCH FUN 1/S.—AMSTERDAM, OcT. 4.
AJ:intituitl
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t :1.1 one, till%
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Pittp., fittio 3% per ceilt &OA 901 A
Coariil 6 any,f 4 . per cent 47% 148%
...)
E • ' nernonth......
A." • • 4 wo months ..« l2 62%
flamburglb One n.nth 35 62'
Two months ...
Diads Papers, Ost. 5.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, OCT. 3.—lt is nearly certain that the Go-
vernment will not ratify the sale of the British Queen.
M. Radernakes, Consul-General of Brazil in Belgium
and Holland, has received from his Government creden-
tials appointing him Minister at the residence of Queen
Pumare. He will soon set out for his destination.

A letter from Ghent of the 3d of October, says :
"Father Walle will shortly set out for Guatemala ; he
Hill be accompanied by Father Affenaer, and some other
members of the Society of Jesuits. The principal ob-
ject of their mission is to found a college there, and
afterwards to preach among the savage tribes."
It results from official accounts that the manufactures
of cambrics and lawns, formerly so flourishing in the
rural districts between Valenciennes and Cambray, and
which for a long series of years enriched the merchants
of those two cities, is declining from day to day. The
linen manufactories are almost superseded everywhere by
those of cotton. At the commencement of the Restora-
I don 350,000 pieces of cambric wore manufactured every
year ; at present not more than 90,000 pieces are ma-
nufactured, and the value of which is about 3,960,000
francs.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 4.—The Princess Mary left Ostend
this morning with 125 passengers. Notwithstanding the
tempestuous weather which has lately prevailed in the
Channel, this fine vessel arrived yesterday from Dover at
half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, having performed
the voyage in less than six hours. The passengers were
able to proceed to Brussels by the three o'clock train.
SIP lAN t• U NDS.—Vram., SEPT. 28.
Five per Cents. Metalliques • 1 IV%
Four par Cents
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares . •. vvvv 1598
Ailgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 2.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BevaseLs, Om 4.
Actua Debt, '2l per Cent., ........
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent... ...........
Loan of Thirty Millions. Four per Cent
Three per Cent•.......•
Thirty-seven Milli. ns, ditto
—.--- (1640)
104
1844.. . ... .....
103
Society of Commerce, Four a ifCent.
Bank aHa per
Cent —
Loan of City,
Bank of Belgium, Five per
Issue of 1841
--Yrsisseis Papers. Oct.
1843, 'Four per Cent.

PRIVY CouNciL.—Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aber-
deen, the Right Hou. Henry Goulburn, and also some
of the Uov.rnment Officers of State, left town by a
railway train from the Paddington station of the
Great Western Railway at half-past one o'clock this
afternoon, on their way to Windsor Castle, to
attend the Privy Council appointed to be held by her
ISiajesty at half-past, two o'clock. At the Council,
Parliament will be further prorogued from Thursday
nett, the 10th instant, to a future day.

DiCTIONAIRR NATIoNA.L FRANCAIS.— The num-
bers which have already issued of this critical dictionary
of the French language are sufficient to found upon
them the judgment that, when completed, it will form
not only a most valuable work, as comprising all the new
and acklowledged words lately introduced into the French
tongue, but a repertory of the critical and analytical
notes of all the other most esteemed dictionaries. M.
Beseherelle, Aine, the author, has evidently bestowed on
it great labour and attention, as well as talent ; and his
Majesty the King of the French never showed greater
judgment than when he took this great national literary
work under his immediate patronage. The publishers,
M. flimon, Rue des Fosses du Temple a Paris, and
Messrs. L. vid A, I3er and Co., of Blenheim-street, in
this city, have every re:f!on to be satified with the sue-
Ms of this undertaking.
Puts AT WRSTMINSTER.—Last evening, shortly
after seven o'clock; a fire, which at one time threatened
very serious eonsetpientes, broke out in the premise; :in
the occupancy of Mr. Leight, grocer and cheesemonger,
carrying on business at No. 14, Abingdoti.streett West-
minster, next door to Messrs. Nobles pianoforte show-
rooms. The fire was first discovered by an aged female,
in the upper part of the building, in consequence of
hearing a loud crackling noise, evidently arising from
wood undergoing the process of eombustion. She in-
stantly made for the shop, but on getting down the stairs
she was nearly suffocated with the smoke. By dint of
great exertion she succeeded in reaching the street,
when she gate the neeessary alarm. The parish-engine
was quickly on the spot, and Was got to work, and was
followed by six or eight brigade engines with strong
bodies of firemen, who succeeded, after much trouble, in
confining the fire to the lower part of the premises. The
damage, notwithstanding, is very considerable, nearly the
whole of the stock in trade in the shop being destroyed.
The origin of the fire, or whether or not Mr. Leight is
insured; could not be ascertained.
EiPLOSION or Gl4B.—Yesterday the neighbour •
hood of Bow-lane, Cheapsidei *as thrown into a state
of great excitement in consequent!e a an eiplosion of
gas taking place in the excavation made in that thetough-
fare for filming a new sewer. It seems that shortly be-
fore two o'clock the inhabitants were aroused by hearing
loud cries of fire raised, 'Upon throwing open their
Windows they perceived that a space of ground was send-
ing forth large sheets of fire. At first sight it appeared
as if the basement of their houses were in flames. The
alarm thus created may be more easily imagined than
described, Mr, Braithrood, the superintendent of the
brigade, with a powerful hotly of his men, promptly
attended with three engines. From the nature of the fire
it was found useless in putting the engines to work ;
the firemen, therefore, threw large quantities of mould
upon the gas-pipes, but they ware unable to get the fire
out until the servants of the Gas Company came and shut
off the further supply of as.
IMPRoVExENTs IN WESTMINSTER.—The ground
behind Emanuel Hospital is now being cleared for the
intended improvements, which will extend from the
Widge-road to Westminster
Standard in tne lia1141§1)"
pleasure-gro*Ade, that large
Abbey, through Mr. Elliot's
plot of ground belonging to the above I,o2kr.Pital, down
Chapel-street, to the principal entrance into the Abbey.
The Lord Mayor and Alderman are determined to spare
no expense to improve this charity property.
The Archbishop of York has presented the Rev.
Francis Orpen Morris, 8.A., of Worcester College, Ox-
ford, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Cleveland,
to the vicarage of Nafferton, Yorkshire.
Tux QuEEN's PONY.- -We may state that, among
other memorials of her residence in Blair Athol, her
Majesty takes with her to England the strong and sure-
footed shelty that has borne hey sfevAy in hear piountaia
excursions.---Perth AthYari;ior

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHAN GE.-MONDAY.

The returns for the past week show a larger arrival of
English Wheat, chiefly from Lincolnshire and Cam-
bridgeshire, but, as the largest portion went direct into
the hands of the millers, that portion for sale in our
market was only moderate. Of foreign Wheat the re-
ceipts were small, but those of Barley were tolerabl)
good, while a fair average quantity of Irish Oats came
to hand. Fresh up coastwise and by land carriage, a
moderate quantity of English came to hand, yet the
show of samples of that grain offering was fair for the
time of year. Notwithstanding the millers appear to I.a-
-well in stock, we had a steady demand for selected
qualities, at prices fully equal to those obtained on
Monday last. In the middling and inferior kinds only
a limited business was doing, yet a good clearamce of
most descriptions was effected previous to the close of busi-
ness. Of free foreign Wheat the supply was by no means
larg;, yet it was quite equal to the wants of the dealers. Se-
lected parcels were in steady, but not to say brisk, in.
quiry, at full currencies. All other kinds moved off
slowly, at late rates. So little was doing in Corn wide!
lock that the rates may be considered nominally unal-
tered. The additions lately made to the bonded stocks
have been very trifling, as nearly the whole of the im-
ports of Barley, from the duty being only 38. per quarter,
have beau released for home consumption. The show of
both English and Foreign Barley was good. Mitifinp
parcels moved off steadily, at full prices. Although, ver)
little was doing in other kinds, the quotations were -sup-
ported. Of Malt only a limited supply was brought forward;
nearly the whole of it was cleared off at last week',
currencies. The arrivals of Oats having been on the
increase, the show of samples was good, yet the inquiry
was steady, at full prices. Beans, Peas, and Flour ruled
about stationary. Linseed Cakes were in demand, at
full prices. In other kinds of seeds very little was doing.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
WHEAT—EWE & Kent, MALT—Chevalier B3s to
red.... ..... 40a to SIN OATS--Yorkshire and
Ditto, white
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ........ ....... 256 to
coin, red 39s to 466, Youghall and Cork,
Ditto white.... .......
Irish, red. 471 to 50s Cork, white
Ditto, white
RTo—Old
New 36s to 38s Pigeons
Utmost—Grinding 26s to 29s Foos—Grey ..«........... 31s to 336
Malting
Chevalier 32s to 35s White 35s to 396
MALT—Suilblk and Nor- 80i1er5........... 326 to 386
folk 56. to 62s FLOUR—Town made ... 446 to 46s
Brown 506 to 51. Soft° k 3ls to 38.-
Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s Stockton & Norfolk 33s to 3, s
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
WfigAT—Dantzic 44 to 56s BEANS 2os to 26.
Hamburgh 36s to 40s ................. 2.3 s to 27,
BARLEY 3os to 336 FLOUR—American 233 to 25:
OoTs—New
Feed l4s to 16s
We have again to report the arrival of a very exten
sive supply of Beasts from the whole of our grazing
districts fresh up to our market ; but, generally speak
ing, the quality of the stock was by far inferior to that
noticed at the corresponding periods of many preceding
years. These larger receipts may be chiefly attributed
to the want of adequate quantities of fodder, hence
many of the large graziers are compelled to resort to ar-
tificial—consequently more expensive—food much earlier
than usual. Although there was a fair number of both
town and country buyers in attendance, the Beef trade
was as dull ac we ever remember it. The few prim,
Scots offering were, however, mostly disposed of at last
week's prices, or from 3s 8d to 3s 10d per 81bs ; but thoze
of all other kinds suffered an abatement of quite 2d per
81bs, and nearly 400 head left the market unsold.
One of the most important features connected with the
new tariff, is the altuo,t daily increasing imports of
foreign Sheep, which have consisted, during the past
week, of 60 head for London, and 100 at the out-ports.
from Rotterdam and Hamburgh. These imports,
together with those previously advised, make a total, for
the present year, of about 500 head. The receipts of
Beasts since this day fortnight have amounted to about
90 head from the abovementioned ports ; but in their
quality, as well as that of the Sheep, no improvement
worthy of notice can be reported. The arrivals o.
Beasts fur the year have been as under :

Oxen and Cows.
London 1,439
Liverpool B2
Hull 740
Southampton 2OO
Devonport. l2O

Total
The foreign stock on sale to-day comprised 15 Beasts and
20 Sheep. The former sold at from 161 to 181, the latter
24s to 29s per head. Fromour northern grazing district*,
we received, fresh up to-day, about 2,000 Short-horns ;
from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, 300
Scots and Home-breds; from the Western and Midland
counties, 700 Herefords, Devons, Runts, &c.; from other
parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; from Scotland
200 horned and polled Scots; and from Ireland 30 Beasts
The numbers of Sheep were again very large, owing to
which the Mutton trade was excessively heavy. A le%
of the primest Downs produced 4s per Blbs., but the
value of all other kinds of Sheep was decidedly lower.
There was a very dull sale for Calves, the supply o!
which was rather scanty, at barely last week's curren-
cies. In Pigs next to nothing was doing at late rates.

Per Blbs. to sink the offal.

s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts ..... 2 4 2 6
Second quality ditto 2 .. 8 3 0
Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 10
Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 33 0
Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 10

s. d. to s. d.
Second qualityditte 3 0 3 4
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 b
Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Ditto out of the wool -
Large Hogs 3 0 3 6
Small Porkers 3 8 4 0
Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 20 0
Lambs 0_ 0 0 0

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts, Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
I
4,170 38,240 100 1 MS
NRIPITGAT3II AND ZEILDENNALL.

Although the weather during the past week has nct
been to say very favourable for shipments a large ar-
rival of slaughtered meat has taken place up to our
markets from various quarters, in but
.middling condi-
tion. This, together with the heavy supplies of London-
killed meat on offer, has caused the general demand to
rule extremely dull, and prices have, in most instances,
had a downward tendency, without effecting clearances.
There have been on sale about 20 carcases of Dutch
beasts, and 25 ditto of sheep. The former, from their
inferior quality, have with difficulty produced from 2s 8d
to 2s 10d, the latter 2s 10d to 3s per Blbs.; prices far from
remunerative.

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to 1. d. s. d. to s. 0
meet', interi0r............ 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior ..,... 2 4 210
middling .. 2 6 28 middling 3 0 3 4
-- prime large ...... 210 3 0 prime 3 5 3 S
prime small ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, large 2 4 3 6
Veal ........ —...... ....... 3 4 4 2 —small 3 8 310

ARRIVALS DURI/sti THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs.
30 300 0
25 280 300
17 60 60
20 90 80
lire
18 1 0 130 NO
39 M 240 360
5 30 40
14 60 60 10)
N 100 90 200

Scotland
Yorkshire
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire
Essex 00000 00000 00000000000
Surrey
Devonshire
Wiltshire
Other parts 0000000000

Total ...
Previous week's arrival

179 1,410
10 910

no 1,630
269. :1,010

Difference since our last lO 470 951 629
BOROUGH AND SPITA.X.PIELDS.

During the week about 200 tons of Pocatoes have come
to hand from the Channel Islands, and 700 ditto from
Kent, Essex. &c., in good condition. The demand for
most qualities is steady, at prices varying from 2115 s to
51 per ton. Some large bupplies maybe shortly expected.

803110i7G11 HOP TIZASLICZT.
The supply of New Hops, from picking having been
brought to a general conclusion, on sale here is extensive;
yet we have to report an improvement in the demand,
and prices may be considered somewhat higher for the
finest coloury parcels of Kent and Sussex. For yearling
and the best old Hops, we have a steady inquiry, at very
full prices. Very little is doing in the duty, which is
called 130,0001. The following are present rates:-
1844's—Kent pockets, 71 8s to 81 8s; Choice Mid Kent
ditto, 919 s to 11/ 11s; Sussex ditto, 7/ to 7l 12s. 1843's
—Weald of Kent pockets, 618 s to 6/ 18s; East Kent
ditto, 717 s to 10/ 10s; Mid Kent bags, 717 s to 815 s.