The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-08 00:00:00

YORK, DEC. 6.

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STOCK EXCITAKCE.—The sales are—Midland, New, 18%
—Newcastle and Darlington, Brandling, 44%—York and
North Midland Extension, :25—Newcastle and Berwick, 93/4
—Ditto, New, 6—London and York, 3/. 18s. 9d.—Grand
Union, PA—Leicester and Bedford, I%—North Stafford-
shire, s—Welsh Midland, 21. ls.

THE CORN-LAWS.
(From the Times.)
If any doubt existed as to the emergency of the case
which has forced upon the Cabinet the inevitable, but
I not ungracious, capitulation which we announced on
I Thursday last, its solution would be found in the number
of public meetings which it has collected together
throughout the country. Edinburgh, Leeds, Stroud,
South% ark, Bath, and Bristol swell the cry which other
great towns first raised. And this unanimity of feeling
is rendered more remarkable by the exceptional differ-
ences of opinion. Although the speakers did not all
precisely agree in their estimation of the existing law,
or of the benefits to be derived from its repeal, yet the
harmony of their resolutions, and the general tone of
their expression, leave no room for doubting that the
condemnation of the corn-laws is as strongly urged
by the country as by the Government. In this case,
then, the Government has acted as the exponent, or
rather enforcer of the public will. It has anticipated
the fulfilment, in echoing the sentiments, of a popular
demand. It takes those whom it is intended to gratify
by surprise; those whom it disappoints or displeases still
more so. It is a great coup d'etat, subject, like other
bold or unexpected manceuvres, to much criticism and
dissection. It it succeed, the wisdom and statesmanship
evinced in its adoption will draw heavily on the pane-
gyrical powers of the most Ministerial parasites. It will
be pronounced the greatest, wisest, noblest, boldest mea-
sure ever submitted to the deliberation of a Legislature
or the approbation of a people. If it fail, what terms
will be strong enough to express the dissatisfaction of
one, or the disgust of another portion of the community?
Like a deviation from some established rule of military
tactics, it will be praised or censured, not according to
the vigour of conception or energy of decision exhibited
in its design, but simply according to its success. And
that success must be immediate, apparent. and general.
The violence of party spirit and the eagerness of po-
pular expectation will be satisfied with no partial,
distant, or impalpable benefits. This will be the se-
verest trial to which the Ministerial project may be sub-
mitted. The opposition of some country gentlemen, the
sullen neutrality of others; the sulky support of pro-
fessed friends, the open taunts of triumphant enemies;
all these the Ministry will meet without surprise and
without dismay. But, perhaps, neither they nor the
nation itself are prepared to meet what—we do not, and
would not, predict will be—but what may be the disap-
apointment of the latter. No great political act as yet
consummated ever satisfied the wishes or the expecta-
tions of the people. We need not go far back to test
this historical common-place. Instances will occur to
the minds of all our readers. Who has forgotten the
vaticinations and auguries which ushered in the Catholic
Relief and the Reform Bills? Who will say that either
of them has answered the wishes, or justified the pro-
mises of its friends? Yet the Catholic Relief Act was a
necessary one. The Reform Bill finally became so. The
repeal of the corn-law bears nearly the same relation
to times and events that each of these did. We say
" nearly," becouse whatever may be the feeling of
the country as to the present law, there has been no
universal expression of opinion on the various modifi-
cations which lie between it and the annihilation of all
corn-laws. Nor do wo think that this exception is of
much importance. There seems no likelihood of any
public man coming forward to interpose any intermediate
state previous to their abolition. The letter of Lord
John Russell and the speech of Mr. Macaulay forbid us
to expect that such a proposition will be made by the
Whigs. The repeated declarations of leading Conser-
vatives preclude the supposition that they will abandon
their devotion to the sliding-scale. From the League
the utmost that can be expected is the patient submis-
sion to a delay of a few weeks. We are therefore con-
strained to suppose that no effort—at least no effort con-
taining any element of success—will be made to retain a
corn-law, even of a different character from the present.
And thus, then, absolute repeal may be ranked in the
same category as the Reform Bill—viz., as a measure
which is made necessary by the long-continued rejection
of qualified concessions. And it will be the duty of the
people to remember this feature in its character. This
is necessary in order to prevent their own disappoint-
ment, no less than to do justice to the Ministers who in-
troduce it. The exaggerations which all popular questions
naturally provoke have been so multiplied by the de-
claimers of the League, and men's minds have
been so mystified by the haze which vulgar ignorance
and vulgar credulity have thrown around the subject, as
to lose sight entirely of its real proportions. There is
nothing of which men entertain such vague and flatter-
ing notions as the power of the Legislature to confer
great and extensive benefits. They forget that it is
oftener the province of Senates and Governments to
correct the influences than to direct the course of events
—to mitigate actual evil than to affect a capacity of open-
ing new sources of prosperity, or of introducing new
means of happiness. In the present instance men's
minds have been distracted with extravagant hopes and
extravagant fears, according to their position and in-
terests. We have already alluded to the groundless ap-
prehensions of the agriculturists, who shrink back with
horror from the vision of redundant importations and un-
remunerative prices. Another party looks forward, with
hopes equally unreasonable, to a golden age of constant
employment and costless wheat. We believe that both
will be equally disappointed. A slight derangement
may trouble the markets at first ; but there is no-
thing in the measure itself—nothing in the aspect of
events—to justify us in supposing that the price of
bread will be long or sensibly affected on the one hand,
or that on the other the advantages to trade will be so
general and so vast as they have been represented. There
are certain known laws which govern both the produc-
tion of corn and the relations of trade, which are not
only independent of, but superior to, all legislative
enactments. The real and permanent good derivable
from the repeal of the corn-law will be twofold—first, it
will remove a potential cause of embarrassment from the
operations of commerce: secondly, it will liberate the
landholders from the painful and often unjust reproach
of selfish and bard-hearted monopoly. We agree with
Dr. Chalmers in believing that this moral effect will be
the chief benefit attainable by so sweeping a measure ;
and we should conceive it is one to which the landholders
cannot be indifferent. But every great political achieve-
ment involves a loss or a sacrifice. Here there will be a
loss and a sacrifice. We speak not of classes or cliques,
but of the country. And the country, whatever it may
hereafter gain in other respects, will lose altogether
and for ever in point of revenue. Nor are we justi-
fied in expecting that this loss will be solely in
the article of corn. Mr. Cobden very recently informed
a French journal that the League confined its attacks to
the monopoly of corn because its members knew that
this being abolished the aristocracy would unite to sup-
press all others. This means, that if the duties on
corn are once removed, all other customs' duties will
follow. Is the country prepared for this? Are the
national revenues such as to enable us to dispense with
customs' duties altogether ? Can we afford to lose
twelve or fourteen millions a-year at once? If we do,
how are we to replace it? By direct taxation? 1)o the
people of England then seriously prefer direct to indi-
rect taxation? If so, we should like to ascertain from
whet time this penchant may be dated. All these con-
siderations must force themselves on the minds both of
the public and their rulers. That which we prophesied
may soon take place ; a concentrated attack will be
made on all customs' duties. We trust the resources of
the nation may prove sufficient to excuse their abroga-
tion ; but for our own parts, we confess that we look
back with something of regret to the time when a more
qualified concession" than a total repeal of the corn-
law would have at least delayed the assault, and have en-
riched the national treasury.

THE TRUE MEANING OF
" PROTECTION."
(From the Derby Reporter.)
The word " protection" has its two-fold meaning—
its literal, and its historical sense. It may bear a
kindly and a magnanimous import in the dictionary, but
it has a very different meaning when read in the past or
present doings of mankind. To-defend or succour, may
be its lexicographical—to oppress and injure, is its veri-
table definition. Our predecessors, the ancient Britons,
were "protected" by the Saxons; and the consequence
was, that they were despoiled of their patrimony, and
the badge of their protection was seen in the brass collars
that were fastened round their necks by those who pro-
tected them. Ireland has for centuries been "protected''
by this country; and the benefit of that protection is
displayed in our relieving them of their cattle, eggs,
poultry, and pork, leaving them just one remove from
actual starvation, to feast the whole year round on roots.
India—that land of gems and spices, the very name of
which is associated with all that is fertile and magnifi-
cent—has been " protected" by Great Britain; and the
fruit of that relation has been exhibited in those mon-
strous extortions and monopolies which have produced
famines and pestilences that have swept millions
from the face of that luxuriant land. Otaheite and
Algeria are now " protected" by France ; hence
the confiscations and cruelties endured by the na-
tives in the former place, and the e.-4tiqatioe of whole
tribes by fire and sword in the latter. Infortunately,
the true nature of t, protection" is exhibited nearer
home. We have the same principle, but under another
form. The military form of protection would be un-
suited to the condition of things in this country in the
present age ; therefore, in order to meet the genius of
the times, " protection" assumes the legislative shape.
To brand the bodies of the cultivators of the soil with a
mark to indicate their villeinage, would be unsuited to
the present state of things. The badge of their servi-
tude now is stamped in the statute-book ; and if not
bound as of yore by galling rings of brass, they are al-
most equally fettered by Acts of Parliament. British
farmers and farm labourers are professedly "pro-
tected" class, and the evidences of protection are manifest
in their condition. The worst paid, and the most
miserable race of men in this country, are the be-
friended cultivators of the soil and the only set

of capitalists that are not prosperous, are the tenants
who recline under the shade of lordly patronage
and protection. Mr. Cobden, in his celebrated speech
in Parliament during the last session, declared " protec-
tion" to be a system of mutual plunder, under which
the growers of the different descriptions of agricultural
produce rob one another. This system has undergone
a very rigid examination at the hands of Mr. John
Morton and Mr. John Trimmer, and the result of their
elaborate and conclusive calculations is given to the
world in the form of a pamphlet. They estimate on
one hand the extent to which the farmers' receipts are
increased by protection; and on the other, to what ex-
tent his disbursements are augmented from the same
cause. As an instance, they take the case of a farmer
holding 400 acres of light land in Norfolk. They esti-
mate that the price of wheat in the Channel Islands,
where importation is free, is a criterion of what the
price would be in this country if the corn-laws were re-
pealed. "By a. Parliamentary return, it appears that
the price of wheat in Jersey during the ten years from
1832 to 1841 averaged 48s. 4d. the quarter; the average
price in England for the same period was 565. Bd.;
being a difference of Bs. 4d. the quarter. But it will at
once be conceded by all who are acquainted with the
subject, that a constant demand from England under a
free trade would have raised the level of foreign grain
at the very least 2s. to 3s. the quarter, and thus bring the
price up to within ss. 0465. of our average, which corro-
borates our estimate of the protection at ss. 6d the quar
ter." The amount of protection on barley is estimated
at 4s. Bd. the quarter, and the gross amount received in
consequence of protection duties by a Norfolk farmer
holding to the extent already assumed, would be on his
entire produce, 2261. 13s. 4d. Against this is to be set—
first, the increased value of all agricultural produce con-
sumed upon the farm, for the farmer being a consumer
as well as,a producer, he only receives the benefit of the
increased price on the produce which he actually brings
into the market, after feeding his horses, reserving for
seed, &c. Another item to be deducted is the enhanced
wages to be paid to his labourers, as an equivalent for
the provisions they purchase for the consumption of them.
selves and their families. To this item there possibly
way at first sight be some objection. It is certain, how-
ever, that either the labourer has returned to him, in
the shape of enhanced wages, the amount of protecting
duty he pays on what he consumes, or to that extent
the system robs him. Another item to the debit of the
farmer's account is the increased charge on tradesman's
bills. The blacksmith, wheelwright, and others, have
to pay a protected price for the agricultural produce
they buy, and they must charge the amount of protective
duty they pay back upon the farmer, or they too are
robbed of that sum. Again, the amount of protective
duties on the bread, butter, cheese, &c. &c., consumed
by the tenant, his wife, children, household servants and
guests, must be taken into the calculation. Further, in
consequence of protection, the farmer has to pay an in-
creased rent. Rents are calculated on the supposition
that an average price of 565. can be obtained for wheat,
whereas the average does not range above 50s. ;
the difference must be included in the outgoings
on the score of protection. Now, when these
various items are carefully estimated and summed
up, they are found to exceed the amount received by the
farmer as the proceeds of protective laws to the extent of
76L 18s. 11d. And this is not the whole loss. On such
a farm as the proposed one now under consideration,
Messrs. Morton and Trimmer calculate that 2001. has
to be expended in artificial manures—such as rape cake,
bones, and guano. " If, by the removal of restrictions on
the importation of corn, he (the Norfolk farmer) were
enabled to purchase oats weighing forty pounds the
bushel for fifteen shillings the quarter, the 200/. now
expended on artificial manures would buy 266 quarters
of oats, which would enable the green crops to fatten 70
sheep and 17 beasts more than the farm carries at pre-
sent. The manure produced by them would be more
beneficial than the bones, rape cake, or guano, which could
be bought for 2001. If we suppose only the moderate
profit of three shillings each on 170 sheep, and thirty
khillings each:on the 17 beasts to be made above their
prime cost and the cost of their corn, it would
amount to 511., which, added to the 236/. 18s.
I Id. of the last paragraph, will give 2871. 18s
I Id., or fourteen shillings and fourpence per acre
Such would be the gain which the cultivator of 400
acres of light land in East Norfolk would derive from
the repeal of protecting duties on agricultural produce ;
and such would be the gain under similar circumstances
upon a farm of the same size, upon similar soils in
Sussex, Surrey, Berks, Wilts, Hants, and Dorset, and
every county in the country where turnips are con-
sumed upon the ground, if the better system were
adopted of drawing a portion of them to be consumed
by beasts in the yard, fed largely with cakes or corn."
We may probably return to Messrs. Morton and Trim-
mer's pamphlet again. Meantime we recommend it to
the perusal of those who have any misgivings as to the
fleet of a repeal of the corn-laws upon the," agricul-
tural interest" of this country. For our own part, we
feel assured that " protection " is the " bane" of every-
thing towards which its influence is extended. A pro-
tected country is always weAk, a protected class is al-
ways oppressed, and a protected trade never flourishes.
Agriculture forms no exception to other occupations,
and we trust that when the landlords themselves see the
full effect of their protective legislation, on the classes
whom they profess to befriend, that they will no longer
oppose the abolition of a system which, whilst it is im-
mediately and severely injurious to others, can produce
no lasting benefit to themselves.

MONEY. MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The Manchester and Leeds and Leeds and
Bradford Companies have amalgamated, and the conse-
quence is that Leeds and Bradford, and Leeds and Brad-
ford Extension shares are to become Manchester and
Leeds stock to the extent of their share of the capital
—viz., 900,0001. The Leeds and Bradford Proprietors
are also to have 75 per cent. additional on the 900,0001.,
which per tentage is to be issued as follows, viz. :-
300,000/. in 201. shares, which will realise, when paid up,
the amount authorised to be borrowed by the Leeds and
Bradford. The remainder of the 75 per cent., viz.,
375,0001., will subsequently be issued to tho Share-
holders, subject to a call at the time of 21. per share, in
addition to the calls of Si. on the original shares, and
101. on the Extension shares now due, which will make
201. paid up on each; it is intended to call for a further
sum of 211. per share in the course of next year, which
then make the paid-up capital 411. per share. But
the old and the new shares are to remain unproductive
till the opening of the railway, when they will begin to
receive dividends in proportion to the extent and cost of
the lines that shall be in operation.

The Brighton and Croydon Railway Companies, it
appears, have quarrelled with respect to their prelimi-
naries of amalgamation. The Croydon proprietors have
held a meeting on the subject, at which the shareholders
deprecated the course of conduct pursued by the Direc-
tprs. The Brighton shareholders are about to hold a
meeting on the same subject, when there will be an op-
portunity of hearing both sides of the question. A
breach also seems to have occurred between the South-
Western and Great Western Companies respecting the
Exeter projects of these lines, which is not likely to be
settled before the matter is brought before the Board of
Trade. An arrangement is stated to have just been
effected between the Directors of the Dublin and Kings-
town Railway and the provisional committee of the Dub-
lin, Wicklow, Wexford, and Waterford Company, the
latter having agreed to take a lease of the former at a
fixed rent of 34,0001. per annum, and one-half of the
gross receipts of the company over 55,0001. per annum,
which has been the assumed gross rental for the next
year, and on which all the calculations have been
founded.

Having stated the case of the bankers against the
lawyers in the matter of subpoena, we give that of the
lawyers against the bankers, from a letter written by a
member of the profession. At the same time we can
hardly consider it as an answer to the complaint from
the other side:—

" May I be permitted to question the justice of some re-
marks which appear in your City article of this morning re-
lative to the attendance of bankers and their establishments
in courts of law as'witnesses ?

" I cannot think an attorney would desire to subpcena
every individual connected with a bank if it were net abso-
lutely necessary for him to do so, and I know from my own
practice, that bankers, like most other persons, are very
anxious not to attend themselves, or to allow their clerks
to attend u witnesses; if it can possibly be avoided. Hence
impediments are thrown in the attorney's way, aad being un-
able to learn with certainty who the party is that he n_
quires, he is driven to the unpleasant resource of surly toning
the whole establishment. lam not aware that this has ever
occurred in practice, but it is no doubt often held out as a
threat in order to obtain information.

" Plaintiffs are frequently nonsuited in actions which re-
late to cheques and bills of exchange, in consequence of
bankers sending wrong persons to prove facts connected with
these documents.

" Lord Abinger, Baron Gurney, and other Judges, have
recommended from the bench, that parties should summon
every person connected with a bank when the bankers refuse
to give such information as would insure the selection of
the right individual."

RUN ON THE WESTERN BANK_
Yesterday morning the public of this city were startled
by hearing that a ran for gold was making on the
Western Bank. Nobody possessed of the slightest
knowledge and judgment hesitated instantly to ascribe
the occurrence to some monstrous folly or still more
monstrous wickedness, yet throughout the entire day the
bank was besieged by persons hurrying to it with notes
for which they demanded payment in specie. These de-
mands were promptly complied with, and in the course
of the day somewhere about 9,0001. was paid in sove -
reigns. So far as we have heard, however, not a single
individual of the least mercantile standing in the
partook in, or gave the slightest countenance
We heard of one gentleman, indeed, wt beingi),fr., the run.
com-
parative stranger in Glasgow. a
';ems
with the vulgar alarrr and , g: to have been affected
was extremely anxious to
withdraw a ,?::posit of several hundred pounds he had in
the hands of the bank. But the expostulations and expla-
nations of his friends re-assured him, and he allowed his
money to remain where it was. All other demands, we be-
lieve, were for sums of trifling amount, showing that the
panic existed only among persons who were incapable of
judging of the propriety or impropriety of what they
were doing. The smallness of the amount of gold with-
drawn, too, compared with the circulation of the bank,
which exceeds 300,0001., is an additional evidence that
tho alarm was confined to ignorant and insignificant
parties. The original cause of the panic, however, is a
different question. Amidst the universal feeling of con-
fidence in our banks which so justly prevails in Scotland,
and looking also at the known strength and prosperity
of the Western Bank, it is difficult to conceive of any
accidental circumstance which could avail to produce it.
We are, therefore, naturally led to suspect malicious in-
tent ; and some circumstances have been mentioned to
us which present indications of plan and design. We
have also heard rumours of a person who had been dis-
appointed of certain discounting accommodation he had
expected from the bank, having been very busy selling
its pound notes at 17s. We cannot say what truth there

may be in this. There is no doubt, however, that notes
were selling here and there throughent the suburban
parts of the town at a considerable discount—the pieties
receiving them probably knowing very well that they
were making a capital bargain. We heard of nu
ingenious grocer, who took some pains to let hi!,
neighbours know that he would take Western Bs"
notes in payment of goods, and who, in tense'
quence, bad, for a night and day, the best stroke et
business he ever did in his life. From whatever
cause the alarm may have originated, the run, if r°
there was to be, could not .have happened at a better
time. To-morrow the regulations relating to Scotch
banks, enacted by Sir Robert Peel's Bill, come into ope-
ration, and as a matter of course, every bank whose steel
of gold was previously under the amount required by
the Bill must have been making up its deficiency. Sur
posing, therefore, that the run hail been one of a serious,
instead of being, as it has been, of a trifling character!
circumstances could not have b, en more favourable for
successfully meeting it. Had the demand outrun the
specie of the Western Bank, the other banks would We
been abundantly able as they would li ,ve been WY
willing to give it aid. In the actual circumstances'
however, aid was neither needed nor given. If the Tull
has arisen from the concerted effort of any evil inter
tioned persons, we sincerely trust they will be discoveret
and visited with the reproach and punishment
their wickedness deserves. In the mean time we Wu,'
suggest to our intelligent readers the propriety of di."
countenancing among their less informed neighbour:
and dependents all such needless alarms as that *hi%
we have above described. Various circumstances Rave
recently occurred to weaken the general feeling deer
fidence in connexion with monetary affairs, but lberes
are undoubtedly no causes fitted to produce such an efrec
connected with the circumstances of any of bur Scotch
banks.—Glasyow Chronicle.

THE RIVER PLATE.

—LIVERPOOL , SATUltralr'
Accounts to the 27th of September inclusive bill
been received from Buenos Ayres per the Sara Jobs"est
arrived in the Channel.
The contemplated blockade of the port had been lir
stituted on the 24th.
The term allowed for the departure of neutral ye
had been extended to 30 days.
The British and French Ministers had addressed,
the Argentine Government a strong note, detailing
grievances of which they complain.
'Es
It was rumoured that the forces under .., TT rqlll bsd
gone over to the Monte Videan Government.
All the British vessels on the spot had been chardreafor
at 90s. per ton for salted hides and tallow, 71. to Sl'
dry hides, and 70s. for bale goods. ad.
Tho Calliope, from this port, had been refused
mission by the blockading squadron.
Monte Videan advices to the 20th had been receift
A loan of 300,000 dollars to the Monte Videan
cutive was contemplated. a
Commercial intercourse with Corrientes and farsgil
would, it was anticipated, be shortly resumed.
We annex extracts from private mercantile accounts'
" Buenos Ayres, Sept. 210,
" With reference to what we communicated in °lgo
last, in regard to a threatened blockade of this p?r1,...4
have now to inform you, that an official notification,
copy of which we inclose—was made yesterday by Z,
British and French Charge d'Affaires to the forignf;•
suls establishing a blockade of the ports of the proTo
of Buenos Ayres, to commence from to-morrow, 13
only being alllowed for vessels to leave the port. .00
" The Ministers have not been moved to the adoptl,,,
of this measure solely by the late decree of this Gol'ors
ment prohibiting intercourse with British and Redo
vessels of war, but from a general consideration 0f,.04
various grievances of which they have to complain,
which have been embodied in a declaration sent W
Government. The charges brought against the Goti,
merit in this document are of so serious a character, 70
we understand, are so minutely stated, that it Wil pise
hereafter almost impossible for the Ministers to re,,9 col
any amicable relations with the Government of Ge'oei
Roses. There is every prospect that a trade will,'"or
be opened from Monte Video to Uorrientes and k_.,nai
guay ; and, as individuals in Monte Video are des old
of chartering foreign vessels for this trade, it no
appear probable that all flags will be protected 1°

navigation.
" September 0;e
" Captain hope, of the Firebrand, landed here Yel3top
day morning, and, we understand, communicated til_taell
extension of 15 days' time would be granted for mid
to leave the port, which term will expire on the 24' op
October ; but no official notification has yet been 113
of this extension." tbo
We have received accounts from Monte Video tod
20th inst. A meeting of the merchants has been folio%
the house of Mr. Ouseley to hear propositions for to o°
a loan to the Monte Videan Government of 3°°'ibe
dollars, Monte Videan currency, repayable froth 01
duties of the year 1848, with 30 to 40 per cent. prerel•-no
repayment being guaranteed by the British and ilia
Ministers. The terms were not, however, defleit'vos
settled. A question was asked at the meeting es °hob
opening of the navigation of the river Parana, to
Mr. Ouseley replied, that possibly in a fortnight's 1,`",,i
convoy of British, French, and Oriental vessels of ''ol,l
might be given to merchant vessels, but that be W°ol
make an official communication as soon as anythieg,,ol
decided upon. There is consequently a sure Pr°sril
that the navigation will shortly be opened and efficiee,
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protected, and an extensive trade established
Monte Video to Corrientes and Paraguay.
Se.
" There is a very general report today
:aPtthenlbr
attbe2f'6-44.01
under General tirquiza has gone over to the 34°1:01
Videan party. If true, it will not be long befereayp
hrve a satisfactory settlement of affairs. There is lig
dently something wrong with llosas's troops
‘
Banda Oriental. There is no popular exciten3eelto
this city, and no molestation has yet been ogee"
foreigners."

BLOCKADE OF BUENOS AYRES.
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. 1445.
" Buenos Ayres, Sept. 22, •-
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you, that in
i;01
sequence of a decision which the Ministers of Efig•*
and France in Monte Video have found necessary?
blockade of the ports and coasts of the pruvieeede
Buenos Ayres has been declared, and that such blotor
to!
will be enforced by the combined squadrons of keg
and France forty-eight hours after the date of We t
sent notification.
" * Fifteen days, however, will be allowed for the to
parture of vessels from Buenos Ayres.—l hove t„
honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble serial)
" FRANCIS LEESON BALL,
" Her Majesty's Charg6 d'Aflire
" To —, Consul, &c."
' Since extended to thirty days.

or,
(From the " New York Spirit of the Tinletiosio
"English Sporting Intelligence.—The steam-ship Ca',lote
arrived in Boston on Monday last, bringing our usual
Peed
the 19th ult. On opening that paragon of sporting Ind it
cals, Bell's Life in London, we were delighted to. 0'
clothed in an entire new dress, and nearly doubled oterof
It now contains 40 closely printed columns, filled With, 00,
variety of information, interesting alike to the sports fleet
the general reader; but notwithstanding the eolargesia 0
and consequent increased outlay, the price will ret2,, pi)
formerly, 6d. only."—No weekly journal equal to .fleii •
for Englishmen abroad.
SAtilr;
DEATH BY FIRE OF AN AGED LADy.—n—R
day morning an inquest was held before William,
Esq., at the residence of Mr. Rogers, of Woodside,,ANsti
on the body of Mrs. Sarah Bashford, aged 96. littt tb
Carpenter, of Woodside, was swore, and deposed ..„3.tdoer
deceased lady was her mother. On the afternoon of 11'00
day week, between the hours of two and three, they 00!
sitting together by the side of the fire in the parlour, _OOOl
witness, happening to turn her head towards the deec—sie
discovered that the whole of her dress was in fiante9.;o the
screamed for assistance, and Mrs. Richards, who was „
,re"
house, came, and as quickly as they could ttif_l
clothes off, but this occupied some time, as, the u—s belt
1-d
burning very fiercely. The deceased was such burn- ti*
the head and face, neck, arms, and ck-est. As well t'd pr,
were able they dressed the wound', with linseed oil al° °`
tatoes, until the arrival of M':. Bottomley, the I"'wchsrir,
Croydon, who then took tti deceased under his owo dear,'
and was in attendano 'upon her up to the period of her.,;tee'
which took place '",,n Tuesday. Mr. Carter asked the
if she could Form any opinion of the manner in whiec e
unfortuter
S"
7:ate lady's clothes had caught fire. Mrs. her
Car
sed
sai'!, that a short time before the deceased missed(OA
kerchief, which was lying inside the fender, and 5116
.07t
ness) supposed that while there a spark bad fallen
that by putting it in her pocket it had smouldered_nbeh.
burst into flames. The Coroner and jury expreen fel"
sod
surprise and regret at the melancholy occurrence,
dict of "Accidental death" was returned.
HONOURS TO GEOLOGY.—The Emperor of of the
has appointed Mr. Murchison, an effective tnember.lo
Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, with the In lce'.
rank, &c., in the imperial service, pertaining to
and has conferred on him the Grand Cross of Stanislasp the
recompense for his geological labours in the empire-1001r
publication of his new work, "Russia in Europe, and
Mountains."