The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOV, T_HURSDAY_ MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1844.

to try and earn their bread by different meatis:' it
is very easy to tal' it Ibis strain, but how are the
defendants to find other and more respectable means
of earning a livelihood? Selling fruit in the open
air, in a rainy, foggy, inclement climate like this,
we conceive to be about the last resource of abject
penury, which has not been attempted till every
other expedient has been tried. Rnd failed ; and yet
the poor creatures who make this last desperate
shift for existence, are coolly told that they are guilty
of idleness and laziness, and are fit subjects for the
House of Correction 1 Yes, because they prefer
attempting to gain an honest maintenance, under cir-
cumstances of the most precarious, humiliating, and
injurious character to their health and comfort, to
subsisting by dishonest means, it is frankly intimated
to them that they are rogues and vagabonds, and that
if they persevere in such ungenteel courses they
shall be fined twenty shillings each ! And what,
pray, is the cause of this Magisterial anathema against
those who are found guilty of selling fruit in the
streets, exposed for hours together to the fog, the
rain, and the bleak winds of November? They
obstruct the thoroughfares, forsooth! So the poor,
helpless owners of fruit-stalls—who have existed as a
class from time immemorial in the metropolis—are to
starve, rot on a dunghill, or walk off contentedly to
the House of Correction or a union workhouse, in
order that genteel and respectable pedestrians may
not be impeded in their movements on the Walworth-
road ! Verily, respectability obtains absolute freedom
of locomotion at a heavy—a cruelly heavy—cost to
poverty and destitution ! But no matter—perish all
the poor vendors of fruit in the streets, rather than
the thoroughfares should be obstructed ! So exclaims
the Law, as interpreted by the wisdom and humanity
of a Metropolitan Police Magistrate!

It has in all times been the fate of our " Reformed
Anglican Church as by law Established" (for it is
necessary to be very precise in her designation, in
these days of petty polemics and small Tractarian
criticism), to be vexed with some troublesome and
ill-conditioned ministers, whose follies and imperti-
nences have wrought grievous scandals on her fair
reputation as a holy peace-maker, inculcating the
noble doctrine of " good-will among men." Faith-
`'ally, and piously, and efficiently as she has been re-
presented by some of her mitred servants, by others
her Christian humility has been outraged, in their as-
sumption of a tone and deportment of arrogant world-
liness,— covetous of wealth, grasping at power, greedy
of distinction, prone to indulge in pomp and display,
insolent in the exercise of their own authority, obse-
quious and servile to that of higher places ; deferen-
tial to all above, overbearing to any below them. If
she has had her Primates and Bishops, whose learn-
ing, and piety, and teaching have deservedly been
ranked among the brightest ornaments of one age,
.he has also had her Bishops and Primates whose
ambition and avarice ; whose turbulence and vanity ;
whose efforts to raise her clergy, or that section of it
at least which comprises her hierarchy, above the laity
in civil as well as spiritual station, have proved the
disgrace and affliction of another. Our Church has
boasted its TILLOTSONS, but it has produced its
LAUDS. If among its priests we can still honour the
apostolic simplicity and almost Divine charity of
BERNARD GILPIN,—a name which might shed lustre
on the less peaceful glories associated with the reign
of ELIZABETII,—we must be prepared to find many
High Church and State SACIIEVERELLS, whose ob-
trusive and unconstitutional career may suffice
almost to dim the renown that still attends the
recollections of ANNE. The present principal vexa-
tion of this Church is, beyond all question, the pre-
sent Bishop of LONDON. He really is not a much
less monster grievance to ourselves. The Right
Reverend Prelate will put himsalf kin ugly dilemmas,
in spite of all the frequent remonstatices which former
indiscretions have brought down upon him ; and we
must, therefore, continue to discharge our duties of
animadversion on his pertinacious wrong-headedness.
Our readers cannot have forgotten the cases of
Ware and Hoddesdon, to which we have from time to
time called their attention; the complaints of whole
congregations against the Pusey 4 pantomime intro-
duced by their ministers into the celebration
)f certain portions of the Church service, under
the assumed sanction of obsolete and ex-
ploded directions comprised in long-forgotten
nooks and corners of the Rubric. Theyiwill remem-
ber the respectful memorials addressed to the Dioce-
san ; the petulant replies of that Right Reverend
Father ; the rude communications of the Episcopal
secretary to the churchwardens; the defection, or
rather desertion, of the flock which used to assemble
m the parish church ; their subsequent meetings for
prayer and worship in Dissenters' chapels and other
places—from their just and natural resolution not to
be present at ceremonials, their objections to
which had been so haughtily overruled by
the Bishop, and challenged by the contuma-
cious perseverance of the incumbents. It will

be seen, from a perusal of the proceedings that have
ately taken place in the parish of Tottenham, and
which we record in another part of our paper, that
the Bishop of LONDON is again encouraging his clergy
in their resolution to annoy their fellow-parishioners,
by the revival of another of the obselete and offen

sive forms enjoined by the letter of the Rubric;
'lamely, the offertory, or Sunday collection of alms
in the church, from pew to pew, parishioner to pa-
rishioner. The treasurer of a handsome building fund
which had been collected for the purpose of erecting
one of the three churches of the Establishment in
Tottenham, and seteral other of the most wealthy and
influential inhabitants of the parish, members of the
Establishment, addressed a very temperate but im-
pressive note to the minister of Trinity Church,
against "certain material alterations in the course

and order of the service as heretofore conducted,"
which the subscribing parties, instructed by the fearful
results that had followed similar changes in other and
neighbouring parishes, were of opinion " would be
calculated materially to prevent that success in the
preaching of the Gospel, as well as that good under-
standing between the minister and his people, so much
to be desired ;"--they, therefore, " earnestly hoped that
in consideration of such opinion the order of the
service might be allowed to remain unaltered."
Now really if the diocesan of the Reverend
Mr. TWINING had been a Pope, and of as boundless
notions of pontifical infallibility and supremacy as an
ADRIAN, or a Jumus, or an ALEXANDER, instead of a
sleek every-day Prelate, such as we are wont to
imagine a CHARLES JAMES, Bishop of London, to be
such a note as this could have given no offence, and
would not have been misunderstood. But, in the first
place, the incumbent, borrowing a little of the de
haiit en Ms tone (not, we willingly believe, the pre-
sumption) of his diocesan, is pleased to call this paper
a " petition !" A " petition" from the gentry and
landed proprietors of Tottenham to the minister of

the parish church ! The Rev. Gentleman replied
in effect, that he would not recede from the
objectionable forms which he had introduced,
after very grave deliberation, and not with-
out previous self-communing " and prayer." This
reply was addressed to Mr. MUSHET, the gen-
tleman whose name had appeared first among those
subscribed to the representation forwarded to the
Rev. Mr. TWINING. Mr. MINUET'S rejoinder to the
minister deserves our especial notice and thanks. It
is as manly, rational, and dispassionate, and even pious
an exposition of the whole merits of these Tractarian
innovations on the customary celebration of Divine
service in our Church, under colour of enforcing the
strict letter of the rubrical directions which are now so
convulsing the peace of her flock, as could have been
expected from the most orthodox controversialist in
holy orders. It is truly something much better.
Going far beyond the object of any meely polemical
struggle—it is a sound lay sermon on the infinite
superiority of the great essentials of Christian doc-
trine to all purely ecclesiastical forms or rites, and
the paramount and absorbing duty of teaching and
upholding peace and unity, and reciprocal good-will
between all the members of a flock, in preference to
that of vindicating or enforcing particular ceremonials,
however high the human authority which may hare
prescribed them. Mr. MUSHET'S fellow-parishioners
would do well to reprint and circulate his letter as
an antidote " in all cases of incipient Puseyism.”
Well : our Right Rev. Father was next appealed to
by a deputatian of the parishioners, and by the per-
tinacious minister; and his Lordship held, after
throwing out a cunning, but vague and empty rebuke
at Puseyism in the abstract, that the minister was
justified in the (Tractarian) innovations complained
of. Finally, a compromise wa
absurdity of which even the disciplined proposed, at the
isciplined self-poe-

session of the imperious Bishop must have chuckled.
A previous proposition was agreed to—namely, that
the offensive forms should be suspended for a year.
The Bishop having consented, this arrangement, after
a stormy meeting between the two lie*. Gentlemen,
(apostles of " the Rubric 4 the Ivhole liubrici and
hotliing but the Rubric," at Tottenham), and the sub-
scribing remonstrants, was formally announced to the
parish. Now this is a pleasant dilemma—but a pitiful
exhibition, and a disastrous one too—for the Church
and its Tottenham fold. The retnonstrants are
wrong, or the incumbent is wrong ; he cannot be in
the right if they are ; they cannot be in the right if
he is.' For a twelvemonth, therefore, if the forms
ought to be observed, the incumbent has consented to,
and the Bishop has sanctioned, their suspension. If
they ought not, then the complaining parishioners
have voluntarily made themselves parties to the estab-
lishment of what they conscientiously believe to be
wrongful, a year hence. Is this the sort of logic
which the Bishop of LONDON commits himself to? Is
this the simple truthfulness which the Churchmen
profess themselves bound to vindicate ? Does CHARLES
JAMES claim a dispensing power to release for a season
his clergy from the binding force of what they de-
clare to be obligations on their conscience, as if he
dated from the Vatican, instead of the " Palace,
Fulham," and signed " GREGORY XVI.", instead of
" C. J. London ?"

This is ridiculous, painful, curious enough. But
the history of the squabble .displays the BLosirIELD
idiosyncracy (one little compatible with even the
conventional, much less the personal dignity of the
prelacy), in a still more remarkable manner. In
order to overawe or intimidate the contumacious
parishioners, he told the deputation, among other
things, " that he would not preach in any
church in his diocese where the ceremonial
regarding the offertory was not adopted."
In vain this Bishop is told that with a
compulsory poor-law, which was not in existence
when the offertory form was devised, or was pre-
scribed in the Rubric, an offertory enforced, as it
were, publicly in churches on Sunday, is incom-
patible;—that it is an absurdity to compel the
payment of poor-rates by law and " exact" vo-
luntary contributions (the
,contradiction is his
Lordship's, not ours) by the argementum ad verecun-
&am administered, at pew-doors, in the shape of beg-
ging-boxes. The Right Reverend Lord will have
the offertory observed. If not, hear it and
mourn, churches of all his diocese, old or new, with
free sittings or without them, CHARLES JAMES will
not preach in you. He will not confirm in you. He
will not administer baptism in you. You shall never
hear his mellifluous voice, nor gaze with reve-
rential awe on his patriarchal demeanour That
the Bishop was a rash, headstrong, mischievous,
and meddling servant of the Church whose interests he
is driving to destruction (in our view), instead of up-
holding, we have long been clearly of opinion. That
he was really susceptible of personal vanity in so in-
tense and dandyfied a degree we did not surmise.
What possible detriment can he suppose it will prove
to any of his churches never to hear him preach, who
has done so much to disturb the doctrine of peace.

On the 12th the Spanish Chamber of Deputies re-
newed the discussion on the Reform Bill, when
MARTINEZ DE LA RosA who had been interrupted
on the previous day, replied to Senor TEJADA'S de-
fence of an absolute monarchy. After defending him-
self and his colleagues against the imputation of
wishing to make the throne independent of the
people, he said Constitutional government was the
only form to which the country would submit, main-
tained that Spain was ripe for a representative system,
and that it had hitherto failed solely from the ignor-
ance and weakness of the Executive. He added "that a
vast abyss separated the Liberals who defended the
constitutional throne and the partisans of the system
supported by M. TEJADA ; that behind absolutism
lurked revolution, and behind revolution absolutism ;
and that the banner of the present Government exhi-
bited but the words " ISABELLA 11. and the consti-
tution of the State." There is in Spain but one legi-

timate representative of absolute government—he
who disputed the throne with our QUEEN. M. TE-
JADA, unwillingly no doubt, has placed himself on a
slippery declivity, on which is to be found despotism,
and at the bottom Don CARLOS."

Senor TEJADA replied, and several other Members
were anxious to make speeches, but the Chamber thought
they had heard quite enough, and declared the debate
on the general question closed. The Bill, to use an
English phrase, has thus been read a second time.

Intelligence to the 13th has been received, announcing
that the preamble of the Bill, as prepared by the Go-
vernment and sanctioned by the Committee, had been
adopted by the Chamber.
Accounts from Cadiz state that the disturbance
which had taken place there had been caused by the
journeymen tailors, who had struck for an advance
of wages, and were marching in procession through
the city when the authorities interfered. This simple
aTair was magnified into a great conspiracy, the re-
sult of which has been the following savage order by
the Commandant of the place :
" Art. 1. Every military man who, having been ex-
cited to treason, shall denounce the person who endea-
voured to seduce him, shall at once receive the sum of
640 reals as the price of his fidelity.
" Art. 2. The officer who, in a similar case, will act
in the same manner, shall have well merited of their
country, and will obtain an honourable mention is their
favour to the Government, which will be taken into con-
sideration for their advancement.

" Art 3. The Council of War, the only tribunal com-
petent to take cognizance of sedition, conspiracy, and
revolt, will judge and condemn the criminals, whatever
may be their rank or condition ; and the punishment of
death, indicated in the most positive manner by article
26, part 8, title X., of the ordinances of tha army, shall
be applied without remission and promptly, not only
with regard to the individuals who shall have tried to
gain over partisans to the revolt, but also to those who,
having had it in their power to denounce them, have
failed to do so."

On the 12th, the Three per Cents. were done at 27i
for cash, and 27i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
204 at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 65i at 60
days.

The Journal des', Debuts of Monday contains the
following announcement respecting the loan :—" The
companies that are to present themselves at the ad-
judication' of the 9th December appear to be finally
formed. The firms of Paris have gathered, some
round M. M. ROTHSCHILD, with all the receivers-
general, and the others round MM. HOTTINGUER and
DuaAND. These two companies are thus composed
of Frenchmen. We know not what trust there is in
the report that a third company has been formed,
which is mostly composed of Englishmen. But the
two we have just mentioned suffice to give the Go-
vernment every desirable guarantee as to a serious
competition taking place."

Some of the papers have articles on the marriage
of the Queen of SPAIN with Count TRAPANI. The
Memorial Bordelais positively asserts that the mar-
riage between the QUEEN and the Count will take
place next month at Valencia, and that the recog-
nition of ISABELLA by the Courts of Vienna and
Rome will immediately follow.
" It is affirmed, also," says that journal, " that the
QUEEN'S sister is to marry the; Duke DE MONTPEN-
SLEW In the event of the Count DE TRAPANI assum-
ing impre4iately the title of King, in pursuance of the
conventions entered into between the Spanish Court
and that of Naples, it is affirmed that he will take the
name of Lxwis the Second, and not that of
FRANCISCO DR PAULA."

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QUEEN'S marriage excites universal attenti • on, and the
Count DE TRAPANI is much talked of. All the
efforts of the opposition will bear upon the article
relative to the marriage. A sort of coalition has been
formed between the Moderados of the Pacheco-
Concha party, which has been joined by a rather large
number of reforming members, and by the Absolutists
of various shades, who acknowledge VILUMA, BRAVO,
MURILLO, and TEXADA, as their leaders. All concur
in demanding the revival of the article of the Con-
stitution which gives the Cortes the power of deciding
the question of the marriage of the QUEEN, and of her
immediate successor. Some, who are partisans of the
Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, hope to secure in
the Cortes more votes in his favour than the COunt
DE TRAPANI would obtain; the others have similar
hopes for the son of Don CARLOS, so great is the
strength the reaction has acquired, thanks to the
blunders of M. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA and of his
French advisers. The French Cabinet acts, through
the medium of its ambassador, in favour of the Count
DE TaArAzu, and against Don CARLOS'S son. The

amendment for eitiesioti of that pretender and
his family has been suggested for that pin:Via:ie. The
Neapolitan Envoy, Prince DE CARINI, scarcely quits
the French Embassy or M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA'S
residence, and he is doing his utmost to procure the
adoption of the amendment."
The same jotithttl attains a long article on the
exertions of Russia to keep up her internal trade with
China, from which we make the following extract :
" Since the English forced the gate of the celestial
empire, Russia has displayed a singular activity to fortify
and increase its relations with China. There is besides
at Kiachta, an entrepot at Zuruchaitu. Three great
roads are actually employed in communicating between
both countries. Two of these roads pass from Siberia
by the plateau of Mongolia towards the Chinese fron-
tier; another strikes from Kiachta, and takes a south-
east direction towards Pekin; and the other goes round
by Nertschinck, Zuruchaitu, Tsitchar, and crossing the
Black River befure arriving at Pekin. A new commu-
nication which has been lately established between
Siberia and China, begins at Irtsich and moves by Baikal.
This road answers directly the relations which Russia
seeks to establish with China.
" To give an idea of the development of Russian com-
merce in these eastern countries, we need only say that
in 1829, the merchandise brought to the fair of Nijni
Novogorod amounted only to 100,000,000 of francs, and
in 1842 they exceeded 160,000,000 of francs. Russian
cotton manufactures figure for 30,000,000 f., and the other
goods consist of cloth made for the north of China; of
velvet, silks, iron, steel, and copper works, glass, porce-
lain, soap, &c.
" The increase of the fair of Nijni Novogorod is a re-
markable indication that Russia seeks to create a com-
merce which she can maintain in defiance of European
competition. It is in Asia she seeks for markets where
she may command, until English competition meet her
on that ground. That day, however, has not yet arrived,
and Great Britain cannot now complain of the move-
ments of Russia in those countries where there is no
true industry, and where her productions are but little
known. The transit across Russia has become impossi-
ble, so much so that Prussia, .hat sent its cloths to China,
has been obliged to give up the trade. In the far east
are markets which Russia alone commands—whore she
finds neither competition from England, France, nor
Belgium, and where everything is prepared for her own
particular interest."
THE BOURSE--MoNDAY, Nov. 18.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cants...... 119 40 .• 119 45 •• 119 35 .. 119 49
Fours....
Throe per Cents.— 83 15 83 25 .. 83 10 .. 83 25
Bank of France ..... 3139 .•3130 .•3130 —3130
Lattlite Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBs ..1085 —lOB5 —lOB5
5,000 f. Sharesso2o ..b025 —0025 ..4025
Belgian Bank.
Be:gian Fives, 1831— 1021 .. 102 i • • 102 i .. 1021
1840 •••••• 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104
1842..•..... 107 •• 107 1061 1061
Spanish Active . ....... 321 .• 321 • • 33 •• 33
Thr0e5............ 36 • • 36 •• 36 .• 36
Passive 6 •• 6 •• 5 .. 6
Neapolitan •• • . .. 97 15 • • 97 60 .• 97 .. 97 GO
Roman • .
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .............. 925 .. 925 • • 925 .• 925
Versailles, MIL. • • 410 .. 430 • • 410 . • 425
L. 8............. 300 .. 315 •• 298 75 •• 315
Rouen• cy,s . 995 992 50 .. 992 50
Rouen to Havre.. ...... . 780 .. 780 -• 760 •• 780
Orleans —lOlO —lOl5 ••1012 50 —lOl5
Strasburg to Bale.. •• 275 .• 281 •• 275 • 280
Avignon to Marseilles•• .... 862 50 . 862 50 .. 856 25 .. 862 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, 0 ov. 30.
St. Germain... 930 .. 940 •• 930 .. 940
Versailles, R. 8.•• •••• •• •• •• 412 00 .. 435 • • 412 50 .. 435
L. 8....... •• •• 293 75 .. 315 .• 293 75 .• 310
Rouen. .. •
Rouen to Havre.• •• •• 777 50 782 50 . 777 50 •• 782 50
Orleans ••• •• • ..... •-•• ••••1016 25 ..1017 50 ..1012 50 —lOlB 25
Strasburg to Bale • .• •• •• 277 50 .. 280 .. '277 50 .. 280
Avignon to Marseilles• •• •

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The deaths
during the week ending Saturday, Is. ov. 16, are un-
usually numerous, amounting to 1,072, greatly above
the average. The excess is chiefly caused by deaths
from small-pox and scarlatina. The deaths from the
former are 51—average 17 ; and from the latter 84—
average 45. The 51 deaths from small-pox occurred
at the following ages :—Thirteen under 1 year ; twelve,
1 to 3 ; thirteen, 3 to 5 ; fire, 5 to 10 ; three, 10 to 20;
four, 20 to 30 ; and one 30 years. The list of violent
deaths is also very large, being increased by 25 cases,
which occurred in the districts of Greenwich and St.
Olave's, and which were registered only during last
week, though on many of these inquests had been held
at former periods. The bursting of a steam engine is
another cause of the increase. The following is an
analysis of the list of violent deaths :—Fracture or
Contusion, 21 cases, of which four were by horses and
carriages, 8 by falls, 1 by the fall of a hard body, and
the remainder by means not stated. Drowning, 9
cases, of which 1 was accidental, 1 a suicide; in the
remainder, juries have neglected to state, or could not
ascertain, whether death was accidental or otherwise.
Hanging, 1 case (suicide). Suffocation, 3 eases, of
which 1 was murder, 1 accident, and 1 probably from
accident. Poi3on, 3 cases, of which 2 were from ac-
cident or mistake, and 1 a suicide. And Burns and
Scalds, 13 cases. Total, 40 males and 10 females (in-
cluding 1 case put to tetanus).—Fall of rain in inches.
I'sB.

A Cabinet Council will be held to-morrow,
the 22d instant, at the Foreign-office. Summonses
for the meeting were issued on TuPsday evening.
THE BANKING ALMANACK AND DIRECTORY, 1845.
—This work, which is the first of the kind, will be
found most useful for bankers and shareholders in
general. In addition to the calendar, which by the
way is printed in a beautiful form, it contains a list
of the meetings of banks and many other public com-
panies ranged under the month in which they are
held, bank-note circulation returns, foreign ex-
changes, a digest of banking and commercial law,
and a list of the joint-stock banks of England
and Wales, with their fixed issues as settled
by the new Act. We have also lists of the
Scotch and Irish joint-stock banks, with the
number of partners when that can be ascertained,
the paid-up capital, the price of shares now, and the
amount paid originally for each share. The rise which
has taken place in the shares of some of the well-con-
ducted banks is enormous. The shares in the British
Linen Company, for instance, which originally cost
1001., are now worth 2261., those of the Royal Bank
have risen from 1001. to 1861., and in the Belfast
North Banking Company the shares have risen 100
per cent. The Bank of Ireland exhibits the same
prosperity. Besides ample banking and commercial
intelligence, there is a great variety of miscellaneous
information suited to every class.

YARMOUTH.—We are glad to find that an improve-
ment is evident in the shipping trade of this port. The
prices obtained for freights are steadily improved; many
of our colliers are now receiving 7s. per ton.
CONFORMITY TO THE RUBRIC.--Yesterday (Thurs-
day), a meeting of the whole chapter of Exeter
Cathedral, consisting of the Dean. Chancellors,
Canons, and Prebendaries, with thu Archdeacons of
the Diocese, was held of the Chapter House, having
been convened by the special request of the Lord
Bishop, for the purpose of aiding his Lordship with
their deliberations on the propriety of a regular
conformity to the Rubric by the clergy throughout
the diocese of Exeter. The meeting was private, and at
its close the Lord Bishop returned to Bishopstowe, near
Torquay. We have since been told that the meeting
consisted of the Lord Bishop, the Dean, six Canons, and
eleven Prebendaries. On the question of approving a
more strict obedience to the Rubric the Chapterldivided,
and the approval was carried by twelve votes to six. We
understand that the results of the meeting will shortly
be published.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.
nu ROYAL ExctrANGE.—The raising and placing
of the statue of Sir Richard Whittington, the far-famed
Lord Mayor of London, on Tuesday afternoon, in the
niche on the west side of the southern entrance to the
new Royal Exchange, attracted considerable interest.
The drapery of the figure is the costume of an Alder-
man, the left hand resting on a mace. It has been exe-
cuted by Mr. Carew, the sculptor. and cost 4501. The
statue of Sir Thomas Gresham will be placed in the niche
on the eastern side of the entrance, facing Bartholomew-
lane. The tesselated pavement is a complete failure ;it
has been removed, and ornamental asphalte will be laid
down in its place.
OPENING OF ST. OLAvE's CHURCH.—This edifice
was opened for Divine service last Sunday morning—
the Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce, Chaplain to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, preaching an impressive ser-
mon. The cost of the repairs is about 8,0001.
Times, &c.—A simple and effective mode of
killing the bed spider, green fly, thrip, and scale, with-
out injury to plants.—A paper, read at a meeting of
the Horticultural Society of London, August, 1837 :
" Put the pots or plants into a frame well osed, and
then laurel-leaves bruised between them, when in the
course of an hour the whole of the spiders and flies will
he destroyed by the odour, which is that of Prussic acid ;
the thrip and scale will be destroyed in about eight hours
the night time being the most favourable for the experi-
ment. For a house of 20 feet by 12, two bushels of
leaves would be amply sufficient."
BRITISH IRON COMPANY.--Yesterday, the half-
yearly meeting of this Company was held at the offices
in New Broad-street, S. H. Palmer, Esq., in the chair.
It appeared, from the report, that there remained still a
debt of 189,712/. due by the Company to the 4th of
July, and that since that period the debt had been re-
duced to 110,0001. Arrears of calls, to the extent of
24,8031. had been recovered, and legal steps were being
taken to compel defaulters to pay their calls, with a view
to liquidate the above balance of debt, when the Com-
pany would be extinct. After the reading of the report
some observations were made by Mr. Hitchens, Mr. H.
Taylor, and other proprietors, when a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned.
DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident of
a fatal nature occurred at Dalziel Colliery, near Ha-
milton, belonging to the Messrs. Wilson, on Saturday
last. Three brothers of the name of Laird were ascend-
ing from their work, when, owing to some mismanage-
ment on the part of the engine-man, the cage was
drawn up to the hurls, and one of the brothers, named
George, was dreadfully mangled, and died in a few mi-
nutes, another had his hand split up, and the third his
leg broken ; another man, named Philip, was also in the
cage, but when he came on a level with the surface,
seeing the danger he was in, ran the risk of jumping off,
and was caught by some one on the pit-head, which pre-
vented his falling down the shaft. The situation of the
sufferers' parents, on finding themselves in an instant
almost deprived of their children, was 19.mentable. The
engine-man has since been apprehended, but bailed out.
Caledonian Mercury.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW

CITY, WEDNESDA Y EVENING.
The runds have not supported the improved quota-
tions of the morning. Consols have been 100+ this af-
ternoon. New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. were 102 -
East India Bonds brought 78s. to 83s. premium.
There was a fall also in Spanish Stock, and sales were
pressed. The Five per Cents. receded to 24-4 and 24,
and the Three per Cents. to 35i- and 35. Portuguese
Converted were 554 to 55. Brazilian were 89; Austrian,
113; Colombian, 13i; Mexican, 361; French Three per
Cents., 83f. 75c.; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
62-',l- to 63.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 5; Chester
and Holyhead, 1; Cambridge and Lincoln, 111; Great
Western, 64 to 64-; Ditto, Half, 37; Brighton Loan Notes,
11; Birmingham, Quarter, 2-11; Croydon, 31 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 44 ; Midland, 8; Newcastle and Dar-
lington, 281 ; South-Eastern, 54- i; York and North
Midland, Half, 26- to 26+; Orleans and Bordeaux, 34;
Paris and Lyons, 14; Parts and Orleans, 19i; and Paris
and Rouen,lBl premium. Birmingham and Gloucester
have been 1 to 1+; Black wall, 101; and Midland and
Birmingham and Derby, 20 discount. Colonial Bank
Shares were 11 discount; and Union of London 2i- to 2+
premium.

(Froir The Sun of Last Night.)
There wn 4 a very inactive market for Cotton at Liver-
pool yesterday, hut without any variation in prices.
Sales only 1,500 bales.—Shares were firm, and in rather
extensive request !—Birmingham and Gloucester, Quar-
ters, 244 ; Chester and Birkenhead, ; Chester and
Holyhead, 5} ; Churnet.Valley, 80s. 78s. 9.1. ; Eastern
Counties, Perpetual. No. 1,71 s. 10d. ; Grand Junction,
215 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 29i ; Lancaster and Pres-
ton, Three-Quarters, 304 ; Liverpool and Manchester,
2034 ; Ditto, Quarters, 34 ; London and Birmingham,
32/. Shares, 371 ; Ditto, Quarters, 26 ; London and
York, 61s. ; Lioclon and South-Western, 75 744 ;
Midland Counties, 108 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1054 ;
North Union, 140 ; South-Eastern, 38 ; Ditto, New,
11i ; Trent Valley, 7ig ; Lyons and Avignon, 2i 535.;
Paris and Lyons, 61s. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen, 38# 4 ;
Paris and Strasbourg, 50s. 495. ; Tours and Nantes,
295. 295. 6d.

The private letters received from the West Indies this
morning are generally of a satisfactory character. The
prospects of the planters were improving. A report had
been spread at St. Lucia and other islands, that there
was an intention on the part of the Home Government
to re-establish slavery. It need hardly be stated that the
rumour had beenmost emphatically contradicted. It is not
an unimportant feature to notice, that in those plantations
where guano had been used, the vegetation is most cheer •
ing. We take the following from the St. Christvher
Gazette of Oct. 23:—" The fine rains that have fallen
since our last report have already given a deeper green to
the cane-fields, but general as is the verdure, patches
here and there that have been guanoed are distinguished
by their intensity of hue from all canoe around them.
The whole island looks extremely beautiful, the
exquisite loveliness of the scenery being exhausted by
the richness of the cultivation."

This favourable sketch of the Island of St. Christopher
applies with almost equal truth to other parts in the
same direction. It may be said with truth that the
West Indies are in a state of rapid improvement. "We
have (says a West India Contemporary) internal
prosperity both in the planting and the mer-
cantile world, and the prices of our produce still
continues remanerative, in spite of the admission of
foreign free-grown sugars into England, and of the vast
increase of maple sugar in America, of which the State
of New York alone produced last year 25,000 hhds.
Nothing more clearly proves, than the unperceived
growth of that gigantic antagonist, how rapidly
the demand for sugar is spreading over the
world ; and we have good reason to believe
that our markets will soon be in a state of activity,
and yet at the same time that protection will be awarded
to us, as we have right to expect as British colonists,
and as will secure us against the competition of more
cheaply grown sugar." Again, " upon the whole, we
have not at present any serious grounds fur complaint,
but many for inspiring confidence and hope."
If the information received to-day from the Brazils
are correct, there was no desire on the part of the Go-
vernment of the empire to bring on a rupture with Rosas.
The Exchange at Rio was firm at 251 d. to id. There
was a demand for freights, shipping being rather k curce
than otherwise. The dates from Rio Janeiro arc to the
3d of October, and from Buenos Ayres to the 7th of the
same month.

There was a good demand for Consols. For the Ac-
count the quotation has this morning been 1004, and
1001. All the other stocks have been firm. The Com-
missioners took Reduced at 99i, and New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. at 1021. Bank Stock has advanced
to 206. India Stock has been done at 2864, and Ex-
chequer Bills at 60s. to 645. premium.
There has not been any material variation in the
prices of the Foreign Stocks to-day. Spanish has been
done at 24k, Portuguese at 55k, Mexican at 36k, the
Brazilian Five per Cents. at 884, and the Venezuelan at
42i.
The Railway Share Market is somewhat firmer to-day.
At Liverpool there is also more business doing. The
general feeling is in favour of a decline in prices.

PRICES OF BRITISH ,I•UNDS AT ONE o'CLO( tt.
(From the Official List.)
sank ..... 20534 21:6
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99N%
3 per Cent. Coinols. Anns
New per Cent. Annuities 1024
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1t460 l2 1-16 12
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. IR6O. 12 5-16
India Stock
India 80nd5,1,000.., .....
Ditto under 1 000 7B

Bank Stock for Account 205% 205
Como', for Account .......
Exchequer Bills. INd_ %cl
I,trtgq- ..... 60 64 pm,
Dirty Advert' si
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ seA
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ........ 36%
Columbian Bonds. l4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..« ........

Ditto for the Account .............. 3634
Ditto Deferred 5t0ck................ 1644
Portuguese Bonds' 5 per Cent. .•
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account ... ................ 55%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.... ..... —
Ditto for the Account 2434
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Deterred 15% %
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42%
Dutch 234 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 96% li
Dutch 5 per Cents .............. ........... .......
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... i 9" ..... to 9934
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......... 35%
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead... 5 ..... ... S}4% ... to
• Churnet Valley
Direct Northern 2% 2% to
Eastern Counties ............ ........ 25 ..„..... 13A ... to 14
Eastern Union 5 -
Ely and Bedford
Great North of England IOO
Ditto New
London and Birmingham ... ...... 100 .........219 ... to 218
Ditto New Thirds.... ...... ..... 2 . ..... ... 38 u
London and Brighton ..... ........ 50 .....,,,, 47 i-Z
London and South Western ..... 41%
London and Croydon
London and York. ....... —.......... 234
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ........ 51
to 50%
Midland
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct 21 ........ 49% ...... to
Norwich and Brandon .......
Sheffield and Manchester
South Eastern and Dover ........ 3334
Ditto New
Trent Valley
7%......... to
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarbore Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto Extension — :l: 12% to 13
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons 2 9% .. .... to —•
Paris and 0r1ean5................... 20 ..... ... 3914% ... to
Parisand R0uen.................... 20 ••••••••• 38S/4 ••• to
Paris and Stra bourg ........ ...... 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.—Our
market continues good, and a fair business doing without
much alteration in prices. Birkenhead and Cheshire
Junction, 7i; Accrington, 2i; Wigan and Liverpool, 4i;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i ; Churnets, 4i 4 ; Eastern
Counties, 13i ; Ormskirk and Preston, 2 ; London and
York, 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shared, 104 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 494 ; Wolverhampton
and Dudley, li i; Sheffield and Manchester, 964; South-
Eastern, 381, ex New ; Ditto, New, 151, cum New ;
Ditto, New Creation, 7'l premium ; Sheffield and Lin-
coln, 11 i ; Southport and Euxton, 2k- ; Boulogne and
Amiens, 4.