The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

SAW AND POLICE,

Edward Knight, landlord of the Eagle and Child,
at Warrington, who absconded from that town on the
2d of September last, having been arrested in Cum-
berland, was charged at the former place on Monday
with embezzling various sums of money to the amount
of nearly 1,0001., the property of Messrs. Smith and
Dutton, malsters, who had employed him confiden-
tially. He was committed to take his trial on the
charge at the next assizes, and the witnesses bound
over to prosecute.
William Edwards was on Tuesday brought up again
for 'final examination at Clerkenwell, on the charge of
having committed numerous robberies at the houses
of medical men, and fully committed for trial.
Louisa Haycock was finally examined at Mary le-
bone on the charge of having robbed the Marquis of
Northampton, anal-other individuals, of various books,
amides, &c. She was fully committed for trial.

LITERARY ND SCIENTIFIC.
Prom the report on the manufacture of sugar in the
r.rench 'West India islands, it appears that the sugar-
pl ant itself, which originally came from Otaheite, has
di generated, chiefly through inattentive culture, and
want of care in the evaporation of the juice.

• SPORTING.
Prince Albert has purchased three valuable hunters
fxr this season's use. Eight new ones have also been
dded to-her Majesty's stud. The Earl of Rosslyn,
a s usual, will direct the Royal hunt.

COURT-PABIONABLE
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of
Austria is expected at Mivart's Hotel to-day, from

The Duke of Wellington continues in the posses-
)n. of excellent health, at Walmer Castle.
. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn will re-
'man at Loggan Lodge, Scotland, until the ensuing

Lord Claude Hamilton left Argyll House; on,Tuek-
daY, for Vienna.
Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby are expected
in Piccadilly, from Dalkeith Palm.

The bard Chanallor ‘,VAI give his L,Dita..
to tht JUages, &e., on Wednesday next, in George-
street, Hanover-square.
Lord and Lady Vernon intend wintering in the
south of Europe.
Sir Robert Peel refill oed to tow from
Windsor Castle.

. The Earl.of Suffolk is about to bring his Brixworth
estate to the hammer.
The Earl of Charlemont has taken a villa at Pe-
terhain.

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Two barques idlarge:;i7.(Th;%ejU;t I)een wrecl,l
on the Goodwin Sfulds. The kir6t wrccic, called th

Hope, belonging to London, has
and her estimated loss is between J.,0001. and

The second was the barque ..Ycncy, valued at 8)001.
The gas-meters at present in use are found to be
to far defective that they generally indicate the con-.
sumption of 1,000 feet of gas, when only 900 have
been consumed, or, sometimes when 700 or even only
600 feet have been consumed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENiNG.
The high rates obtained for English Stock now
check the disposition to speculate for future delivery,
notwithstanding the great abundance of unemployed
capital. The consequence is that time bargains in
Consols are now effected upon precisely the same
terms as those for immediate transfer, the closing
quotations this afternoon being 332 to 931. Exche-
quer Bills were firm at 57 to 59 prem.; and India.
Bonds were at 48 to 50 premium. Bank Stock was
worth 166 i-to 165:1, and India Stock 254, the latter
being an advance of 1 per cent. The New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. were 101 i to. 102, and the
Three per Cents 921 to 93/.
Generally there is not much doing in, the Foreign
Market, if we except Spanish Bonds, which appear
at present to have taken the place, as a jobbing in-
vestment, occupied very recently by Portuguese Stock.
The latest quotations to-day, however, were not quite
equal to those paid in the morning, being for the
Active In to 171, and for the Three per Cents. 211
to 21k. Portuguese New Bonds were dull at 371,
and the Three per Cents. at 224. The Converted rea-
lised 32 to 32/. Mexican Stock looked better; as the
quotation was 32i to 324 ; ard Colombian was at 20k
to 21 ; Chilian brought 831, and Brazilian 644.
Dutch Five per Cents. were 100/ to 1001.
The. Railway Shares supported the improvement
of the morning, though with no increase of activity.
The bargains this afternoon comprised Birmingham
and Derby at 581 dis.; Eastern Counties Debentures
at lf to 1 prem.; Edinburgh and Glasgow at 3 dis.;
the New at dis.; the Brighton Loan Notes at
prem. ; the Greenwich at 71 dis.; .the Northern and
Eastern at Si dis. ; and the York and North Midland
at 40 prem.

The: stoppage of Messrs. Hunter and Coventry in
the corn-trade was sp'ken of on 'Change this after-
noon, and their liabilities are said to be very large.
This is a Quaker house, and it is inferred that unless
the produce held by the firm can be realised at fair
rates, an eminent discount firm intimately connected
with the Friends will upon this, as upon former occa-
sions recently, sustain their share of the loss. The
derangement in the corn trade generally is sufficient
to account for the untoward event.

(From(' The Sun of Last Night.)
It is stated in the accounts from Belgium that con-
siderable indignation has been excited at the conduct
of the American authorities in imposing such heavy
dues upon the British Queen steamer, after herarrival
at New York, and, as a method of retaliation, it is
said to be in contemplation to raise the Scheid dues
and the pilotage charges to vessels bearing the flag of
the 6. tilted States, though, as is finally remarked, this
would be only injuring the port of Antwerp without
touching the Americans, who would afterwards direct
their course to (Mend. If retaliation _s sought, sonic
general measure must be resorted to.
The idea of a Customs league between Belgium
and France does not appear to be much relished by
some branches Of native industry in either country,
and the paper manufacturers of the former were al-
ready entering their protest against such an alliance,
as being prejudicial to their interests.
For all really useful purposes, as far as the public
are concerned, the inveAigation into the " frauds in
the Custom-house department" may be held as closed.
The desire has become general in the City, among
all clasSes, whether merchants or traders, that the
Special Inquiry abtait to be commenced,
.by order of
her Majesty's GOveittuent, should be caiduet-
ed openly, as 'by this course alone 'can those
most interested, have an early knowledge of the houses
which have connived with the Custom-house officers
(Who have been dismissed and suspended), in defraud-
ing the revenue, and underselling the fair trader.'
The conversion of tla. Three-and-a7Half per ,Cen4;,,
into a Three per Cent. Annuity, is now thought more
prooable than ever. With the high prices now real-1
ised for all the public securities, the scheme
would he easily carried out, especially as.. capital:
is. so abundant. Some of our Contemporaries
have fallen into a mistake, in supposing that the
Minister has not the power, with the assent of the
Parliament, to effect a reduction in the interest of the
New Three and-a-Half per Cents. The limitation
applies only to blew Five per Cent. Annuities, which
arose trom the reduction of the interest on the New
Four per Cents. in 1830, but the amount of the
stock thus created was only 474,3744., and the
holders were guaranteed from any reduction in the
interest for 45 years, i. e. until 1875. The holders of
.the New Three-and-a-Half per cents. cannot, there-
fore, claim an exemption from reduction of the annual
interest, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer should,
as expected, resort to a scheme for the diminution of
the interest of the debt, as already-alluded to.
At Liverpool yesterday, in the Cotton Market the
sales were moderate, being 2,500 bales. Prices were
firmly supported, however, and the increased steadi-
ness of Saturday was kept up. A fair amount of
business was done in the Railway Shares, but the
quotations had a declining tendency, except Brighton
which were in good request. Eastern Counties were
Bi, the New 9i to 5-16, the Debentures 9k ; the Grand
Junction Half 86k, the New Quarter 244; the London
and Birmingham Thirds 60, the New 30, the Quar-
ter 47 to and the Brighton 364 to 36-g-.
In the Colonial Markets to-day there is not much
pas Sing. The price of Teas remains unaltered. We
learn that there is some rise in the market for Tim-
ber, in which much business is now doing after a
long period of extraordinary depression, occasioned
by the alteration n thc duty being postponed to so
advanced a period of the year as the 10th inst.
The. principal transfers to-day have been in the
Reduced Throe-and-al-fah* per Cents., which have
fluctuated biween the !licit prices of 1004 and iol
The sew have keen at loi g to 102. Consols are
93/ to 933 for Money -:and Time. Exchequer 'Bills,
575. to 595. preminm; and India Bonds, 48s. to 495.
in•einiunt. Bank Stock is 1661; and India Stock lwe
touched 254.

The Foreign Bonds have hen vacillating. Spanish
have again advanced, being 174 to 14, as the rumour
goea that the contractors for the Almaden mines are
to deliver bonds in part payment to the Spanish Go-
vernment. Portuguese New Five per Cents. have
'been at a decline to 374, there being no present de-
mand for them. The Converted Stock is at 32 ;
Mexican Bonds are 32/ ; Colombian, 20i to 21 ; and
Brazilian, 641. The Spanish Three per Cents. are
218 ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 4.
Railway Shares are rather brisker. Brigton have
touched 131 to 13:1 ; Blackwall, 101 ; and North
Midland, 39 disconnt. London and Birmingham are
914; Great Western, 19; and South Western about
17 to 171 premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 25.—We
have had a dull market to-day, and business has been
confined to the following Stocks :—Dublin and Drog-
heda, 161; North Midland, Half Shares, 29 11-16;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 3 15.16;
Manchester and Salford Banks, 11/.
!CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ...... 93/ Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 93/ Ditto Old Annuities
3/ per Cent. Red... 100/ Ditto New Annuities —
New 3/ per Cent... ...... 101/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 59 pm
New 5 per Cen. Ditto 500/..... pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 59 pm
Jan. 1860 ...... 12)] Bank Stock for. Acct.
Oct. 1859
Jan. Is6o l2 11-16Consols for Acct....... 93/
_ _

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 371
Brazilian Bonds... 641 Prussian, 5 per cent. .
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, pei cent....
Chilian 6 per cent. B3l Ditto, Metallic.. ....
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... .
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79,1 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Danish, 3 per :ent Exchange —f —c
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 percent —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 321 Dutch, 21 per cent. 521
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per ::•ent. .. ... 1001
Peruvian, 1825,6 per et.
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... ...... 411
Eastern Coorities (23 paid)
Ditto Debentures ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 47
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid •
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) . .. B.}
London and Brighton (50 paid) 364
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ...... ... 101
London and Black wall ( paid)
London and Birmingham (90)
London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s4dpd) 5
London and South Western (41/6s 10d pd) 59
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) —
Dit
North
toBurip
11id 1511'alaid)
nd (50 paid) ... ..... 97
York and
. Ditto New Shares (20 paid) ... 371

The Archduke of Austria, andPriuCe Esterhazy
visited ou Friday last the Earl of 11.addiu&t:)u at
Tynniugbanie.—Scotch Paper.

11061-.1 "FAL
SOCIETY OP 'I3F.ISTEVOLENT BUTES:LA
The half-yearly meeting of the 'subscribers to this i
Institution was held at the London Tavern, I-i01191)5" •
gate-F.tr,et, for the purpose of receivingthe half-yearly
the Directors, and also a statement CC the
accounts from the Secretary.
The Rev. Dr. RICE took the chair, and briefly ~
stated th
minubte oect of the mting.
The minutes of the last ,half-yearly meeting were ,irroul
relid aryl confirmed.
The SECRETARY then read the Report, which stated
the last meeting there had.been about 16()
applicants for relief, 11 of whom were for the first
In almost all the cases the relief sought had , ,i;
bf-vn afforded. The statement of the accounts was
then n-ad, from which it appeared that the receipts for
the year were 3301. 7s. 11d., and the expenditure
20.51. 10s. lid., leaving a balance in the hands of the
'Preasurer of 1241. I 7s.
The Report was adopted, several officers were re-
eloctei, and thanks having been voted to the Chair-
man, the meeting separated.

THE GREAT LEAGUE FUND.

ft, luli

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The Council of the Anti-Corn-law League 113'1'3'10
issued the following address to the
.
Britain and Ireland : n„, 444
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,—We have - again to invirb:d xli11
your assistance in the prosecution of our great wora'atia 31°
Our cause requires your pecuniary support, as weirtgif....,
your active co-operation. But we should be asharneil:-)fl
to solicit your contributions, were it not that in belP% i of t
people' of Greati:,,ia eliii
ing us you help yourselves, and hasten the time:th4 ,'aid
shall stay the plunder of your property, arrest the -
.i,
downfal of commerce, free the springs of industry!'; 1,11
untax your children's food, and mitigate the sugaring*.
~'
.rt.,.
Y , .111' i ,
and privations of the poor. 1 at 6 '
The League originated in the conviction that le: as
striction on the importation of foreign grain is, 1;:.9101
policy not less unwise and - suicidal than unjust a.'ita.ir
oppressive. To this policy. they ref,,r the clUsOlkooi
against us, in rapid succession,. of 'the world'sAti 4 11.31.!
kets, and the consequent depression of that andntit ?id I')'
taring system which has farnished.the means °f °the ','?!,
sistence to labouring millions, more than trebled.
value of their land 'to the proprietors of . the- soil, autt; '''
•:
niented the national resources notwithstanding
pressure of unprecedented taxation, ;allied.
past with the most extraordinary progress Of 3 Pe°Phe
that history records, and held out for the future t
tes
surest, or the only prospect, of providing for thaw a.p.
of a rapidly multiplying populathin, and snin'n&
supremacy
the position of our country in -a peaceful
among the nations of the earth. root of
The restrictive policy lays the , al. the
-e to, , t.Ol- •
itself in
our national prosperity. It. increases not rnerelYi;t a
porary, embarrassment in commercial relatiovst Hence" '.
continuous depression tending to utter ruin. has
thetwartke, for life or death, which the League the
waged against it. We have had to contend with
ter
thei
ignorance and prejudices of the many, and the sini!ed
interest of the few.. Suecess was only to be attnitil,a. .'
through the formation of a public opinion so c,i'ete: .
decided, and general, as to he irresiStible. All" ~. ..,;,
wards that point we have hdvanced ; more slowly, 1
~ 4
deed, than the impoverishment of the industrious and ~
the sufferings of the multitude rendered desirab a er;
but still with a progress which testifies that we , 1 -f,'l"
in the right path, anti stimulates us to redouble'
,i,i,)
exertion.'le!, g
Our aim has been to have no one individual-dle-- :=.4
titute of the means of perceiving how injurious:" i flsi,i'
taxation on food is to himself and the enramunl. ''',l.°
To the.influence by which it is supported, we .il 4,..-1:4.•
opposed the power of reason and the claims of PI;
~' i Ili
and we have met by facts the sophisms by Which, Atilt
palliated. For this end not fewer than two th.041,41i.,14
lectures have been delivered on the subject °J.,.,' ;„ Ili
Corn .laws ;. more than five millions ,of MO ' -11- - '
Leen printed and circulated; petitions have been ?
resented to the Legislature with million's of i'5,.,;
natures, praying for the redress of the
under which. the country groans ; our Conference+ ' :fit!
formed by deputations from various parts of the lii°g:: .-
.i.
dom, has five times met in the metropolis to renri`lo. ; 4
strafe with the executive Government and the Leg', n. ~ :r'.
ture; the ministers of religiOn have met in large 'l'l,lo, ' .
hers, in Manchester, Edinburgh, and Carnarvn°,, tieb '
testing against the demoralizing influences kw es i 4
they had witnessed) of that policy which interferin
betwixt man and the 'bounties of Providence',oll
combination with an-extent of personal exerti°n;iled .-f ,
great wre., ~,,
as .no Merely political 'agitation could have
ciThie. (14'
forth, an expenditure bas been incurred, an ond .:7,1,
ltlir3!-aii--e, ;1°
frayed, of no leis than one hundred thnie; , 'id
pouniii. And still, though much has hql-prealle ;41
complished ; though the_ principles of free
ces 0
are rapidly
.extending themselves ,from our di,— Anal
and iarge towns into remote agri"
tricts;.though we have seen the neceasitY (-)f f '4'
,ge. ~,si
from being sturdily and conterntuouslY der" i -bas. - A
,come generally admitted ; though the etnef!„ii.a.cYcliiii. _ I
made it so obvious, that the defeat of the data been '''''
nistration for its proposition. of a fixed duty ‘f
thet)tla.
followed by the Tariff and' inadified Corn-law ° ;114t
present Administration ; yet still how much renlad'er ,3
to be done before the monst,r Monopoly sinks Un r - 1
its death-blow, and before the words of the Ministe •
selected for its champion, that " the nation's P°li.9: . 14,
undanbtedly is to sell in the dearest, and buy in ta.:
cheapest market," become a legal reality and a Pr3c ..,
tical blessing. hen,
Further and increasingly strenuous exertions, thet•-,
are necessary to set the seal of final success upon d
past. The very ground we have gained demands Bth
hu
inspirits to redoubled effort. The' pressure but
which industry sinks is not yet heaved off; t will
force. applied has made it move, and perseverance ore
accomplish all. There must be more lectures, t° ty
tracts, more conferences, snore agitation. Every
,illy
and borough electorin the kingdom mustbe persnm",,,
visited, and a condensed library of evidence and re'ds.
soning against the Corn-law be placed in his hand it
Monopoly will not yield without such efforts ; a° par
shall have them. We are entering on the fifth Y`..e.
of this struggle for truth, for johtice, for exist e loe
'We ask of you to replenish our pecuniary mean' for
sustaining it. Our appeal is made confidently,
ro,
the character of the agitation is sanctioned bylfs be
gress; and what is any outlay to the object t°,..„
gained ? We have reported the amount already 1,
pended ; and we now appeal to you to create eau.„ ,J
dente in our cause, and dismay in its selfish °Pr; 1!
nents, by enabling us to commence the ensuing' of .• •
of Anti-Corn law agitat on with a disposable fun
Pity Thousand Pounds.
;r1 vain :„ It
-,..

We are confident we shall not ask i~
octant;
tow' ►ild be
tahe
laergoren-sluai:vi
itw eirseasthneottliblijne;t uniu►p not
a town in the kingdom which would not cheaply Pio(
the repeal of that blasting and iniquitous ,at
by a contribution equal to the whole sum. It and
one million shillings—it is, but four hundred thell-os
half-crowns—it is but two hundred thousand
roer° the
—it is less than a halfpenny per head fm
fie,
whole population ! The two millions that • lice
titioned Parliament for repeal rase
titionedcan e
this sum ••, and since they last signed a Pe ,deri•
hundreds of thousands have become rePeeci;
The fifty thousand pounds, then, will be obtakwing,
but it is desirable that all parts of the,owins
dom should contribute.. We- propose the "soma
mode of rendering the collecti'm general and 'not be
degree equal. In every town a committee having
formed, consisting of ladies and gentlemen' are W
a secretary and treasurer, whose names
ncii in
be forwarded to the Chairman of the Con ription,
Manchester. A beautifully engraved subs° every
card and a duplicate card will be furnished rv,,,blch
collector, each card to represent a certain 0,1.0 ob.
the collector undertakes or will endeavour to,a,
tain ; the duplicate to be forwarded t°
°ant of
chester When the card is filled up. An accio the
the sums collected is to be sent weekly' '-,,
'Council. In the villages and more retir%ahle
tricts, where it
,may not be oonvenient or Prac_,'o
to form committees, the friends of the great calln„,
be provided with cards, and they can corresgro‘ is in'
reedy with the Chairman of the Council. 1/
.11 Jl4no-
tended that the League Fund shall be closed' of the
ary, 1843, when a great aggregate meeting__
National Anti-Corn-law League will he held in 'fora
chester, at which the amount of subscriptions_d. fro
each district, town, or village, will be annourise of
this great meeting all the- members of the 11%31 Of
commons and Peers, who have voted for a riliduals,
the Corn-laws, with many other eminent /nai,' ion of
.will be invited, together with ministers of cal,'
all denominations, deputies, and Members ofthe
from all parts of the kingdom.
`'fib
The above is a brief sketch of the plan ‘'engar*
League intends to pursue ; and we are now.°
bons.
in arranging the details of our future operati °tile 00
Circumstances have placed the League 'Dial pro
of this great battle; and from the post wi;
ley
vidence seems to have assigned them t
0, lowly.
neither retire in weariness nOr.be driven 11.),r0i7y. that
'But it is with a feeling of deep responsinonditioa
they apply themselves to their task.
The
u'ltitudes,
of honest industry, the food of famishing t°_, a great
je
the well-being of.millions, and the future, of re-
,ot
nation are at stake. In the prolonged °,,e:`,,,,,97„,,,ding
dress we can only perceive the syinptoms that
calamity and of sure destruction. Our cause
rebgiou
of humanity itself; and it is sanctioned by bread
which teaches mankind to pray for the Gaily_thboldii•
which Heaven has provided, but monopolY:.,lo„te it
In a spirit worthy of such a cause would N.% ritually
to the end, seeking the success which nuct
oural°
be achieved, from pea:•eful, legal, and bon
comp__
tion • r°9l eta'
deavour; from enlightened conviction, o •
sion for human suffering and the recogni:.,
class
nal justice ; from the submission of a so 'idot of leg:
terest to the common good ; from the wi.'9 otibner
lation, though slow and late in.its reflectionv +-roc
opinion ; and from the blessing of Ile3deearour• •
withheld from righteous and beneficent en..
By order of .the c.ba.irratin•
GEORGE WLLSOiNt -
Manchester, Oct. 20, 1842.

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