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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1844.

policy of our Conservative Ministers, but the I
League itself—the extinguished League—the League
which, according to the Herald, all men despised and
had abandoned—is once more openly in the field of
agitation. The leaders of the Conspirac# have made
their influence felt in more than half the Borough
Registration Courts in the kingdom ; and they are
now preparing to wrest from landowners that pre-
ponderating power which they have hitherto exercised
in counties. Does the Herald deny that the
League possesses the power of multiplying, almost
without limit, forty-shilling freeholders in a ma-
jority of English counties ? No, our worthy
Contemporary may not venture to deny that the
dead' League is more full of vitality than ever, nor
that the power of the landed aristocracy of England
totters on all sides." This unequivocal testimony to
the fast increasing political influence of the Anti-
Corn-law League is the more valuable, as proceeding
from a journal which has always been conspicuous by
its uncompromising hostility to the principles of Free
Trade. From the first establishment of the League
down to its last great meeting at Manchester, who so
decided as the Post in its opposition to it? Who treated
it with such supercilious contempt? Who threw
such unmitigated ridicule on its proceedings? Who
so warmly repudiated the notion that it would ever
be able to gain a settled influence over men's minds,
or become a really dangerous antagonist to Mono-
poly ? Not two years—nay, not six months-since,
nothing could be more loftily contemptuous than our
Contemporary's language, when speaking of the Anti-
Corn-Law League and its members. Mr. COBDEN
was a mere vulgar, uninstructed cotton-spinner—a
man of one idea, and that one a humbug ;
and, as for Mr. BRIGIIT, he was a political
quack of the first water, who supplied by impudence
what he wanted in ability—a long-eared Ignoramus
worthy only to bray in Brobdignag, or play the part
of a Professor in Swim's flying island of Laputa.
Talk of such men—the Post used to observe in its
most tranchant style—ever gaining an influence over
the mind of the community, or giving a shake to the
proud fabric of Monopoly ! The idea is perfectly
preposterous, and can be seriously entertained by
none but fools and madmen ! Such was our
Contemporary's language but one short year ago,
or even less. But now, how changed his
manner—how crest-fallen his spirit—how meekly sub-
dued his tone ! The Confederacy that he once des-
pised, he has at length learned to treat with deference.
He now dreads what he formerly ridiculed. Messrs.
COBDEN and BRIGHT have ceased to be mere brawl-
ing, uniufluential quacks in his estimation. He now
discovers that they are men of tact—of energy—of
perseverance—" the undoubted authors"—we quote
his own words—" of the clamour for agricul-
tural improvement, and of the conversion of
England into a corn-exporting country ;" and if they
be' inconsistent and self-contradictory, "it may not be
impossible"—urges our Contemporary in their de-
fence—" to point out self-contradictions on the part of
other public men not less startling than those which
Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT have found so profit-
able." Here is a change of sentiment with a ven-
geance l Not a mere partial reform, but a regular
revolution, in opinion ! But we are far from de-
siring to blame the Post for this alteration in its tone,
as regards the League and its members. On the
contrary, we respect our Contemporary for his can-
dour—for his manly, though, doubtless, reluc-
tant, surrender of a prejudice in obedience
to the promptings of common sense and jus-
tice—for his acknowledgment of the increasing,
power of the Anti-Corn-law Confederacy and the
decreasing power of the Monopolist landholders.
We fear, however, that it must have been with an
exceedingly wry face that he bore the above testi-
mony to the influence of the Leaguers in the Regis-
tration Courts ; and sure we are that he must have
twisted and twirled and wriggled, like a half-
skinned eel in the hands of a fish-wife, before he
could have brought himself to speak— we
here again quote his own words —of the
" mighty progress which the League is making !"
" Mighty progress !" The expression is a striking
one, but not in the slightest degree.exaggerated. The
League is making " mighty progress;" and the day
is not far distant when Sir ROBERT PEEL—true to
his favourite system of expediency—will cry Peccavi
at its dictation, and yield submissively to its autho-
ritative demand for a Repeal of the Corn-laws.

the Irish bogs on a great scale, like that projected by
Mr. NIMMO, the engineer. With regard to the effect
of the first of these measures, he holds that "it.
Would at dnce make the currency balance the rents
and obligations which it has to discharge, and the
labour which it has to employ, which state of em-
ployment and its wages would be about the same an
they were on the average of the ten years closing the
last war." As to the second, he shows that the opera-
tion of the law of Jersey (which will not permit the
ejectment of a tenant, save by his own consent, so
long as he "pays a fixed stipulated corn-rent, con-
verted into money at the market prices of the day"),
is this, that it " makes all improvements the property
of the tenant, as they ought to be, and protects the
tenant in the enjoyment of the legitimate fruits of his
own industry." Upon the third remedy he contends,
that upon Mr. NIMMO'S report that the drainage of
the waste lands of Ireland, about 3,000,000 out of
5,000,000 of acres being worth that process, at the
expense of 1/. per acre, would reclaim, at 20/. the
acre, which would then be their value, land to the ag-
gregate amount of 60,000,0001. sterling, and provide
an incalculable mass of employment and amount of
wages for the Irish people. The letter (which we
reprint) will well repay the reader's perusal.

The Madrid journals of 22d instant contain a
great many rumours, and stories of plots and con-
spiracies, for which there may be some good founda-
tion, for it would be singular if the Spaniards, who
look upon a pronunciamiento followed by a rebellion
as matters of amusement, should allow the old Con-
stitution to be smothered without :raising even one
cry in its behalf. The Heraldo publishes a letter
from Valladolid, which asserts that a conspiracy has
been discovered in that town, the object of which
Was to proclaim the Constitution of 1812,
and to prolong the minority of the QUEEN
for four years, and that the conspirators, most
of whom were military men, had been arrested.
The northern provinces were also said to be in a
most unsatisfactory state. Carlist refugees were
constantly entering the Spanish territory in spite of
the authorities. It was added that 25,000 muskets
were ready to be introduced into Navarre, upon the
breaking out of the first disorder. A letter from
Perpignan of the 19th states, that orders were given
on that day for the formation of a cordon upon the
frontiers. It was said that Senor SALAMANCA had
bought the palace of Buen Vista from the the Prince
of PEACE, for four millions of reals. It is intended
for the future residence of MARIA CHRISTINA and
Murioz, when their marriage is acknowledged. A
dotation of four millions of reals per annum and the title
of Majesty are to be confirmed to the Queen-Mother.
On the 22d an indictment was brought against the
Espectador journal, for a libel on the Government,
when a verdict of acquittal was returned by eight votes
against four. This will give an additional impulse to
the determination of NARVAEZ and Co. to put down
trial by jury. The decision was loudly applauded.
The Three per Cents. closed at 26 3-16 at sixty
days ; Five per Cents., 20 at sixty days ; Passive
Debt, 6 cash.

If it be true that no difficulty, not involving
moral or physical impossibilities, is invincible, Mr.
THOMAS ATTWOOD may live yet to witness the legis-
lative adoption of his 'long and fiercely denounced
currency doctrines. Sir R. PEEL, we apprehend,
will discover it to be rather a more laborious matter,
next session, to provoke a "derisive cheer" against
the worthy ex-Member for Birmingham, than he
found it to be on bringing forward his Bank Charter
Bill a few months ago. The best clap-traps--the
most cleverly seasoned or adroitly disguised—are de-
tected, at last, in the House of Commons, as well as
at other theatres ; and they who have used them the
most freely and successfully are the most certain
objects of commensurate resentment and disgust with
the audience which detects them. The elaboration
of the disguise is not permitted to excuse the decep-
tion. The " pilula" nauseates, despite the careful
observance of the instruction, " volvetur aurato folio"
—(incredible as such perverseness may appear to a
bullionist)! At the reassembling of the House of
Commons next spring, the Premier will attempt, in
vain, to play off, on the "men of Birmingham," those
carefully studied bursts of ingenious wonderment at
other folks' wrong-headedness, which they who read
Sir ROBERT best, term his " Joseph Surfaceism."
The alarm, indignation, and energy of the Scottish
banking and commercial public—powerfully repre
sented in Parliament, and arrayed against the pro-
posal (to the attainment of which the Premier has
distinctly pledged himself) for subjecting Scotland to
the disaster and ruin consequent on the infliction ,of
his gold-equivalent scheme ;—these feelings are too
intense to be whistled down by his sorry jokes, or
his uncandid allusions. Mr. ATTWOOD, on the other
hand, may enjoy the honest consciousness of having
been amongst the earliest detectors of the fraud of the
Currency Bill of 1819, whereof this last is avowed
to be the complement, and of having given to the
whole scheme upon which these enormous sacrifices
to the Usury power of the kingdom have been
hazarded, his unqualified and uncompromising oppo-
' sition through all good and evil report. He may
claim, too, the honour of having rallied round him a
large school of proselytes, although these may not
concur with him in all his views, or carry them to
the same extent. In the present movement of the
Scottish bankers, and the invaluable exertions and
tracts of the " Society for the Emancipation of In-
dustry," he must find indications of responsive
opinion on one of the most vital questions which
can occupy the public mind, that are calculated
to compensate him for much of that ungenerous
criticism and rancorous disparagement which he has
experienced at the hands of influential public men, of
far less practical acquaintance with that question, and
far less honesty of purpose in dealing with it.
Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD has just republished in the
Morning Post a letter, in which he proposes " some
real remedies," as he emphatically characterises
them, " for Irish distress and disturbance." He
suggests the introduction into that country of the
Jersey tenure of land, of which, he says, that it is
undoubtedly the wisest and the happiest in the
world. If you could prevail upon a single Irish
landlord to divide a few thousand acres of land into
small allotments of five, ten, and fifty acres each,
building upon them decent cottages, and letting them
upon perpetual transferable rents, estimated in bushels
of wheat, of oats, or of potatoes, convertible into
money according to the varying average prices at the
county town, you would be instrumental in setting
in motiona vast Conservative principle, which would
promote the riches of the landowner and the comfort
and welfare of the tenant and labourer equally. The
landowner would secure for ever a fair and just rent,
and when the tenant found that all his improvements
would thus become his own, he would quickly ac-
complish wonders in the state of cultivation. The
landowner might at all times convert his transferable
rents into money by sale in the markets, which
would ensure him more than the present value of his
l
tahe coursend. of proceeds,remediines he wouldhisprint pedlertetsecrribeo
;to indicatefrthe
evils of Ireland. 1. The Legislature must rectify
the currency in that country as wellasiu England.
2. It must pass a law to limit and restrain the Power
of ejectment exercised by Irish landlords on their
tenantry. 3. It must facilitate the means of dr•-!

M. GuIZOT'S paper, the Globe, has at last spoken
out without reserve on the new Spanish Constitution.
It adopts it altogether, and sees in it one great beauty,
a twin-likeness not to the French Constitution of
1830, but that of the present. The French Foreign
Minister evidently had a large share in the labour of
reconstructing the edifice, and we hope it will do him
credit. The Spanish people are so lost to all sense of
real freedom, patriotism, and honour, that other States
begin to look upon them with an apathy bordering on
contempt, and regret no experiment that can be tried
to put down insurrections without an object, and re-
volutions which, as they follow each other, only
become more fatal to free institutions. The Globe
thus winds up an article in defence, evidently infer-
ring, and possibly with truth, that the Spaniards
prefer slavery to freedom :—" It must not be supposed
that we are of opinion that no Constitution is neces-
sary in Spain, merely because that country is Monar-
chical and Catholic. She must have a Con-
stitution, but it must be Monarchical and
Catholic ; Catholicism must be declared the
religion of the State, and the sovereignty
of the people must be expunged from the Consti:
tution. Has the Spanish Government gone too far
in this course—has it really proposed an unreasonable
Monarchical reaction ? Persons who entertain such
an opinion cannot have read the Bill. The sove-
reignty of the people is effaced, and, as the basis of
the Constitution is given, the unanimous will of the
Monarch and the representatives of the nation. Such
are the expressions of the preamble. Can anything
be more moderate ? Is it not rather French than
Spanish ? The Government consents to a life peerage
in a country in which the institution of hereditary
nobility is still in its force. This also is more
French than Spanish. We comprehend, besides, the
reserve of the Spanish Cabinet in .its reform of the
Constitution. It has been anxious to give effect to
French ideas, whilst it was acting for old Spain. It
has had an eye to the future. The reformed Consti-
tution is still in advance of the nation, but it indi-
cates the object to be attained by the nation, and to
which, without doubt, it will attain. If there should
be any tumult in Spain in consequence of this reform,
we may be sure that the people will have nothing to
do with it. Agitators will have laid hold of the
reform as a pretext to satisfy their ambition. The
people will not fire a musket for their own sove-
reignty ; they would sooner do so for the sovereignty
of Don CARLOS."

The Carlist Quotidienne takes a very different
view of the affair, and in the same spirit which ani-
mated the Jacobite ballads of Scotland, proclaims
that there will be no peace in Spain till CARLOS is
installed in the Escurial :

" The men, who at this moment think they can re-
establish a monarchical Government in Spain by en-
deavouring;to efface from its Constitution the principles
of revolution, are undeceived in the most striking manner
even by the very factions who are contending for power.
To men who have shouted Long live Narvaez other
men reply with acclamations of Long live Espartero
and should Espartero set his foot on any one point of
the Spanish territory, he would find partisans and draw
to himself troops, and a new Pronunciamiento would at
once put in jeopardy both reform and reformers. In
what position then is the monarchy in a country where
its Constitution and its Government are thus at the
mercy of two rival influences—where the sword of two
warriors, superior to the sceptre itself, must decide the
destiny of the State? We have seen amongst ourselves
formerly in the times of minority and regency conten-
tions of ambition between our great men ; but the Con-
stitution of the State was never shaken, and every one
knew that on the day when the King should take the
reigns of Government into his own hands, the moral
authority of his royal rights would at once restore peace
to the country. In Spain the monarchy, although at
its majority, is without its due power, because in that
martial country the disastrous attempt of combining
usurpation with the distaff is being tried. In Spain, at
this moment, the real Sovereign is Narvaez, to-morrow
it may be Espartero, and nothing but civil war can be
the consequence of this perpetual rivalry. One is not
less revolutionary than the other, and for both the
sword is the ultimo ratio of Government. In a country
where the passions are so easily inflamed, where adven-
turous and warlike men are always so prompt in having
recourse to the terrible arbitrament of trial by battle,
law and justice must interpose between the champions
who are contending for power. Now justice protests
against the will of Ferdinand, and the royal right, as
regards both Narvaez and Espartero, is not at Madrid,
but at Bourges."
The Senate, as will be seen from the following
telegraphic dispatch received at Paris, has made quick
work of the address :

" MADRID, OCT. 25,

" Tho discussion on the address was terminated this
morning in the Senate. The paragraphs of the project
of the Committee were adopted almost unanimously."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers. The Presse says :

" It is known that when M. Guizot received from the
hands of M. Martinez de la Rosa, the Spanish Ambassa-
dor in Paris, the Order of the Golden Fleece, several de-
corations of the Legion of Honour were given to the
Ministers and other important personages of Spain ; but
in this number M. Martinez do la Rosa was not included,
although he was certainly not less entitled to it than
them. This omission can only be explained, by sup-
posing that the Government imagined that the Grand
Cordon Rouge of the Order of Christ of Portugal, which
M. Martinez de la Rosa wore at the time of the inves-
titure of M. Guizot, was that of the Legion of Honour.
" The Governor of the Island of Bourbon opened the
session of the Colonial Council on the 20th of May last.
In the speech which he delivered on the occasion, he
announces the intention of making an experiment of the
system of free labour in the colony. Ile says ;—.4 The
relations which are about to be established at the ex-
tremity of the East, by a representative of the King,
will enable you, I hope, to call in the
la-
bourers in ai of your ' agricultur• and augment its
wealth and activity. With yo,-
enhghtened co-opera-
tion, I feel a conviction 0-
the diffi-
use of free
cult but valuable wr- ...Ist I shall accomplish
of hired labs- of the establishment of the system
reported • ....fers on firm bases.' It had already been
;-
_-in France that it was intended to hire labourers
ki'hina and the East Indies for the French colonies.
I " The Belgian Minister of Finances has just presented

The late public meeting of the Anti-Corn-law
League at Manchester, while it hasroused the bile
of all the Monopolist journals, has had the
wringing the following reluctant acknowledgment gemn of
effect
tt
of
its great moral influence from the Morning Post, in
answer to a flippant remark in the Herald, that it
was fast declining in public estimation :—" Our honest
Contemporary has, within these six months repeat-
edly proclaimed, that the League had died a natural
death. Not only, however, has its spirit been
without intermission active in the economical

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Ilk SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1844.

to the Chamber of Representatives the Budget of Re- MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S
celpts ant-PtpenditurtifeT 1845. The receipts are esti- CITY, QUART 4ZR TO THREE.
mated at;111,198,170:/franM, and the expenditure at The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday ftere
109,961,7g0- francs; skiwing a surplus revenue of 3,000 bales, including 1,000 bales Surat at 21d. to 66'.
1,06,3gd friiiidi; -; per lb. The market was firm.—Midland Railway
"We read in a lettei'from lierliu of the 21st t7-=,' The Shares were more inquired fur, and Dovers were some-
King has just grantedpermission to M. Gneist; one of What worse. Chester and Birkenhead, New,23,2; Edin-
the professors of the Royal University of Berlin, to open burgh and Glasgow, 591; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11;
a Course of lectures eil,the nature and operation of trial Grand Junction,. 206 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 37i;
by jury. This measure )111.3 given great satisfaction to Lancaster and Preston, Three-Quarter Shares, 271; Li-
the public, as it looks like the announcement of an in- verpool and Manchester, New, 321 ; London and Bir-
tention to introduce, at no distant period, into western min ham, 32/. Shares, 361 ; Manchester and Leeds,
Prussia the institution of the jury, which exists in our Halt Shares, 471 ; Midland Counties, 106 ; South-
Rhenish provinces.' Eastern, New, 16 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2 6-20 ; Paris
"A Frankfort journal announces that M. Pezyluski, and Rouen, 39i ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
Administrator-General_ of the Diocese of Gnesen, has 31. us. 6d. ; Central of France, 4L I Is. 6d.
been elected Arclibishof Posen." The places of public resort for business have to-day
THE BOURSE—Mom:OAT, OCT. 28. resumed their wonted activity, and the question is now
First Highest Lowest Last asked in many quarters when the New Royal Exchange
Price. Price. Price. Price. •
Woill be opened for the assembling of the merchants and
FrenchFiFovurep_aenrtei-H••
111181 n ..
111191
70 ::
illiBi n .. IN n
thers. It is feared that some time will yet elapse
Three per Cents••••• 82 20 - 82 25 .. 82 20 •• 82 20 before this can take place, as there is still a great deal of
Bank of FranCO 3070 -3070 ..3070 ..3070 WWI( to be done before the building is fully completed.
Laflittc Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo97 50 ..1097 50 -1095 ..1095
5,000 f. Sharesso42 50 -5042 50 -50t0 ..5040 The Act of Parliament passed last session for the re-
Belgian Bank.. •••••••• • • • • 655 • • 655 - 655 .• 655 gistratien of Joint-stock Companies, will come into
1841- •• llOO .•1100 ..1100 ..1100 operation the day after to-morrow. The following are
Belgian Five,r, 1831 ••
1840 •••• •• •• 1031 •• 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031 the principal features of the law :
1842 - •••••• 105 .. 105/ .. 10s/ .. 1051 "Companies existing on the Ist of November must
Datck Two and-a-Half••••• 63 .. 63 .. 63 .63 register their names, purposes, and places of business,
Spanish Threes•• •• •• •• •• •• 35 '' 351 ..341 ••341 within three months of that day, under a penalty not
Portuguese Five per Cents•• 511 .. 65 .. 52/ .. 52/
Neapolitan• ••••••• •• .. • •• 98 GO .. 98 60 .. 98 50 .. 98 50 exceeding 501.
Row,
....„,............ 1051 .. 1051 .. 103 .. 105/ " Companies to be formed subsequently to the Ist of
RAILWAY SHARES. November, must obtain a certificate of provisional regis-
St. Germain. •••• •••••••••• 915 •• 915 .. 915 .. 915 tration previously to declaring themselves to the public,
Versailles,R.B.•• •••••• •••• 398 75 •• 430 .. 398 75 .. 398 75
L. 8............. 276837 7505
... 287760 5075
.... 278637 7505 .. 267 60 in taking any public step towards formation, under a
Rouen ••••
1022 50 - l(12 50 ..1029_ .:1706281 2575
Rouen to Havre• • ..
Orleans .• • .....••• ••" Companies formed subsequently to the passing of
Strasburg to Bale 278 75 .. 280 .. 2A 75 . 280 this Act, are subject to its provisions, with respect to all
Avignon to Marseilles.• •••• 790 • 790 .I .. 781 21 - 790 proceedings after the Ist November, under the penalties
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31. assigned by this Act."
St. Germain •••••• •••••••• 915 •• 915
.. 915 .. 915 No doubt is entertained that the new law will prove a
Versailles, R. 11••.. ...... 4OO .. 400 .. 398 75 .. 398 75 .' ,
L. 8.. ..... - - 283 75 .. 287 50 .. 283 75 .. 287 50 wholesome check upon the formation of mere specu-
R„„..„„„„ 1035 -1035 -1030 ..1033 75 lative Companies.
Rouen to Havre.• ••.••... 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 767 50 The parties concerned in the forgery of Bank of
Orleans •• - - ..... lO2l 25 ..1023 75 ..1021 25 -1023 75
Strasburg to Bale.. •..•.. •• 278 75 •• 278 75 •• 278 75 .• 278 75 England notes on the Continent, the discovery of which
Avigion to Marecilles•• •• •• 790 •• 792 50 . 790 .. 791 25 recently took place, still have eluded the vigilance of
the officers sent in quest of them. It is stated, however,
that a clue has been obtained to the place of their retreat,
and, no doubt, before they know that the forgery has
been found out, they will be in custody.
The Stock Market is firm. Consols for immediate
transfer have been 991 to par, and for time par to 1001.
Exchequer Bills have realised 70s. to 725. premium.
Bank Stock has been at 202 to 203. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. were rather better, being 1011
to 102. Long Annuities realise 12 1-16 to 11 15-16.
The Foreign Market is extremely dull. Spanish Bonds
have not been quoted at all this morning. Portuguese
Converted have been sold at 53 to 53k. Dutch Stock has
been scarcely so high as yesterday. The only other quota-
tions are for Brazilian, 851 ; Colombian ex Venezuelan
from 134 to 14; and lexican from 34 to 34k.
The Railway Share market has been rather firm to-
day for the principal lines. The settlement in shares
has progressed cagily to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .. .....................,-•-•-••••••••
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .............
$ per Cent.-Comols. Anne.: ........ ......;
New 314 per Cent. Annuitiet. ..... ........ 102 101% 102 101%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860...... li )-16 11 Li.. 16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner Everts.)
IN RE JOSHUA SMITH.
The insolvent, a schoolmaster, late of Norwood, now
of 15, Blissett-street, Greenwich, applied to-day for his
interim order, but was opposed by Mr. Duffield, a cre-
ditor for 2251, on the ground of his having furnished an
incorrect schedule.
The creditor having made his statement relative to his
own debt,
Mr. Commissioner EVANS said he should defer the
matter to a future day. Had Mr. Duffield any further
objection at that time ? Mr. Duffield said there was one
circumstance which he felt bound to mention to his
Honour. The insolvent to his (Mr. Duffield's) certain
knowledge had borrowed a sum of 701. from a poor
woman, without her husband's sanction, and that sum
was not placed in the schedule.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS (to the petitioner)—ls the
fact so? Did you borrow 701. from this woman? I did,
your Honour.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—How comes it that you
have not mentioned it among your other debts? Because
she forgave it me.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—Was her husband aware
of it? No; it was her own private property.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—A married woman has no
private property. The sum must be added.
The insolvents solicitor was going to speak; but
Mr. Commissioner EVANS said he would hear no more.
Hero was an insolvent in an amount of 3,4391 without
an available shilling to pay his creditors, and the very
least he could do under the circumstances was to let them
have a correct statement. He should deer the petition
until such was given to the Court.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
James Newman, a private in the 2d battalion of the
Coldstream Guards, was placed at the bar on the fol-
lowing charge s
Mr. Williatn White, of No. 13, New Wharf, Black-
friars, a barrister's clerk, aged about 18 years, stated
that about half-past eight o'clock last evening he was
passing through Hyde Park, when the prisoner overtook
him, and forced a conversation on him, continuing to
walk by his side. As witness was proceeding in the di-
rection he was going, towards Albert-gate, from Bays-
water, the prisoner still continued to walk beside him, ,
and at length made propositions to him of an abominable
nature, and committed a very gross assault upon his
person. Be indignantly repelled it ; and the prisoner
then snatched his walking-stick out of his band, and
said, "If you don't give me what you have about
you, I'll charge you." Witness said he had
nothing to give him, and would call the police, and did
call loudly out for them. The prisoner, however, per-
sisted in searching him, feeling in his pockets, and took
from one of his waistcoat pockets some small amount of
copper coin, and a gold-mounted enamelled seal ; also a
red silk pocket-haldktrollief from oneof his coat pockets.
The prisoner then said, " You've a watch." Witness
said he had not, when the prisoner said, "I must search
you again," and felt his fob ; but, on finding that he had
no watch, he said, " You must give me your coat ; take
Wolf* your back." Witness then called again for the police,
and on hearing the footsteps of some persons approaching,
the prisoner set off running.
Sergeant Hardwicke, A, and constable No. 106 of the
same division, asssisted in capturing the prisoner as he
was running away, after he had been seen to throw down
the property he had robbed the prosecutor of. On the
way to the police-station, the prisoner offered to give to
Sergeant Hard wicke a valuable silver watch, with gold
chains, seals, &c., which he had suspended round his
neck by a black ribbon, adding, " take and share it
amongst yourselves, and let me off, for I know how these
cases go. ' He afterwards said that he would rather
have been shot than such a thing should have happened.
The sergeant of the company to which the prisoner
belonged stated, that he bore a bad character in
the regiment. He had long been suspected of being one
of those soldiers who infest the parks at night, and rob
persons, under the threat of making abominable accu-
sations against them.
The prisoner said he was innocent.
Sergeant Hardwicko said he had been charged with
a similar offence twelve months ago, at Queen-square
Police-court, but escaped through some legal inaccuracy.
Fully committed to take his trial at the Central
Criminal Court.

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South Sea Stock
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Exchequer BIOS. I%d. I;4d
72 70

MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
BRUTAL ASSAULT.—penis Gorham, who has been
frequently charged at this office with the commission of
very aggravated assaults, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Lung, charged with having assaulted John Luther-
man, a potman, at the Coachmakers' Arms, Marylebone-
lane.
The complainant stated that yesterday afternoon be
was sent by his mistress to post two letters. He had
only proceeded a short distance when the defendant
came up to him, raised his fist, knocked the complainant
down, snatched the letters from him, and ran away.
Complainant followed him, and on coming up to him, he
swore ho would murder him if he followed him, and
again threw him down. He also assaulted him several
times with a strap with a heavy buckle at the end of it.
A policeman came up, and he was given into custody,
and was not conveyed to the station-house without
difficulty.
In answer to the charge, he said he was drunk at the
time, and did not know what he was about.
The prisoner was further charged with having bru-
tally ill-treated a person who was confined in the same
cell with him, because he would not sing.
Mr. LONG said be had heard quite enough, without
going into the last case, to think it his duty to punish the
defendant to the utmost extent he had the power of doing.
lle should fine him 51, or two months' imprisonment,
for the assault on the complainant, without taking into
account the very serious assault on the constables.
A man named Flannagan was fined 20s. far endea-
vouring to get the last prisoner from the police, and for
using considerable violence towards them.

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Ditto Bmart..... "eve •••••••••••• 69 72 pm.
Ditto Advertised..."........
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 85%
Columbian Bonds. ..... •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 13% 14
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... .„ 3t%%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ................ —
Ditto Converted 53% 53
Dutch 2% per Cent 5.............................” 62%
Dutch 5 per Cent 5........•...............„ .......
I'ItICES OF SHARES 1 HI3 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILW AYR. PAID. PER SHARE.
Chester and H01yhead............... 5 ..... .... 6
Eistern Counties ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ...wee 13
Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent... 21. 13s. 4d....
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ........ 60 ......... to
Great Western
Ditto 4, Shares ....
Kendal and Windermere ........ 1%........ 5%
Lancaster and Carlisle lO ......... 1:3%% ... to
London and Birmingham.
London and Brighton . ... ........• 50 ......... 47% • to
London and Greenwich' ............ 12%
London and South Western ...... 41% ..... 73m to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 .... ..... 48
DIV o 4 Shares 2 ......... 4% ...... to
Midland
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 .._._.. 48
Northern and Eastern 45 ..... .... 56% ..... to
Norwich and Brandon .....» 6 ......... 8% ..„.. to 9%
Ditto New - •„•• 1%% ..,
South Eastern and Dover .....« 32%.... 4,%
Ditto New ...«.«....«.».«.
Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ..... .... 24 %
York and North Midland ........ 50 .........110
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip
Central of France (Masterman's) 2 ... ..... ... to
Ditto Constituted 2
Boulogne and Amiens 2 44%..... to
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... .... 3% to
Paris and 0r1ean5............ ..... ... 20
Parisand R0uen.•................•.... 20
Rouen and Havre. .......... ........... 12 ..... .... 22

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MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 29.—There
has been considerable business doing to .day, with some
fluctuations in prices.—Barnsley Junction, 5 5-16 ;
Churnet Valley, 3i ; Huddersfled and Manchester, 51;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 8 71 ; Liverpool and Ormskirk,
2 9-16 ; Lancaster and Preston, New, 31 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 974 ; South-Eastern, 434 ; Ditto, New,
161 ; Ditto, New Creation, 84 premium ; York and
North Midland (Scarborough), 36 ; York and Selby,
474 premium ; 'West Yorkshire, 9/ ; Huddersfield and
Sheffield, s 1k premium.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(1-11.i.t` DAY.)

LONDON, OCT. 30.—Wind this day at noon, easterly,
moderate breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, OCT. 29.—A.M.Wind E.N.E. to E., P.M. E.S.E.—
Arrd. Paramanbo, Topper, Surinam, fur Amsterdam ;
Ord, Pugwash.
PORTSMOUTII,OcT.29.--WindE. toE.S.E., fresh breezes.
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 29.—Arrd. Lady Mary Wood
steamer, Gibraltar, left 21st inst.
OFF DARTMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Harry, Bombay.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Jane Lockhart, Colford,
Dominica ; Trade, Pleives, Quebec for Scarborough.
Sld. Mania, Ichaboe ; Sea Witch, Gambia.
RAMSGATE. OCT. 29.—The Emma, from Christiana
to Isigny, which put in here Aug. 18th, leaky, has
been condemned and sold. The Ete, of and from St.
Malo, for Sunderland, has been assisted in here leaky,
&c., having been on the Goodwin Sands. The Minerva,
Baker, from Cardiff to Lynn, was in contact with the
Stag, from Oporto to London, this morning, near the
Kentish Knock, damaged bulwarks, &c., and is leaky.
COWES, OCT. 29.—Sid. George Delmes, Havannah.
The Moscow, Carter, from Charleston to Hull, which
put in here yesterday with damage, is leaky, and will
discharge.
MARGATE, OCT. 29.—The Jasper, Evans, from Liver-
pool to London, got on the Long Sand this morning, but
has been assisted off, very leaky, and is expected to come
into the harbour next tide.
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, OCT. 26.—The Mary and
Frances, of Maryport, which was stranded behind Peel
Quay, 17th inst., is considerably damaged, and is dis-
charging.
CORK, OCT. 26.—The George Ramsey, from Liverpool
to Montreal, which put in here yesterday with damage,
is leaky, and must discharge.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Joy, a servant girl, in the employ of Mr.
Burnell, was charged with stealing a large Indian ivory
box, value 301., and containing 301 in Bank of England
notes and sovereigns, the property of her master,
It appeared that on the preceding night, about eight
o'clock, the complainant missed the prisoner from the
house, and discovered that the box above-mentioned,
and its contents, had been stolen from the sideboard in
the drawing room. The prisoner came in soon after-
wards, and,' on being questioned, she exhibited
so much confusion, that she was given into cus-
tody. At an early hour this morning the complainant,
on examining at the lower end of the garden at the
rear of his house, found the box and money concealed
under a quantity of fire-wood, ready to be carried off.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday.%,

MILFORD, OCT. 28.—S1ci. Thomas Hunter, Africa.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 29.—Wind S.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Gambia, Smith, Ichaboe ; Liffey, Burrell, Barbadoes ;
Patrick Henry, Delano, New York; Chieftain, Williams,
Quebec. Sld. Heroine, Port Phillip ; Oressa, Bombay ;
Bounty Hall, Ichaboe ; Undaunted, Valparaiso ; Mary
Elizabeth, Demerara ; Mary Lee, Santa Martha ; In-
constant, Halifax ; Archimedes, Newfoundland. Off,
England, Endeavour, Hannah, Georgians, Frankland,
and Duke of Wellington.
HULL, OCT. 28.—Sld. Gleaner, New York.
EEDCAR, OCT. 29.—A schooner (supposed Esther, of
London), in going down the river yesterday struck the
ground, and has put back.
SHIELDS, OCT. 29.—The Java, Horsberg, of An-
struther, in proceeding to sea this morning, got ashore
on the Head Sand and was abandoned ; crew saved.

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CLERKENWELL.—(THIS _
Mary Ann Brown, an elderly person, dressed in wi-
dow's garments, was charged with breaking the windows
of Mr. Prentice, of No. 1, River-street, Islington.
The prisoner, who has repeatedly attempted to com-
mit suicide, was discharged from her lodgings at River-
street, for misconduct, on Monday last. She went to
the house yesterday, and smashed every window within
her reach. A policeman came, and she was with much
difficulty secured. She swore she would murder Mr.
Prentice.
Mr. COMBE, in default of fine, committed her to pri-
son for ten days, cautioning the gaoler to place a guard
upon her, lest she might again make an attempt upon
her life.