The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-26 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,

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LONDON, OCT. 25.—Wind this day at noon,
southerly, light breeze, with rain at intervals.
DEAL, OCT. 24. —Wind N.N.W., fresh.--Acrd.
Queen, Cousens, Ceylon; Apprentice, Caden-
head, Mauritius; Duke o' Roxburgh, Collard, South
America ; Bonne Mer , Peele, Berbice ; James
1 M'Queen, M'Coll, St. I itts ; D'Auvergne, Forbes,
0:
Honduras ; Coronet, Bute, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Lady Nepeau, and Mariner, Quebec; Isabella,
Geale, Demerara ; Trio, Hall, New Ross ; Pilgrim,
Lindstrom, Havannah ; Cairo, Sydney ; Numa, Van
Diemen's Land • Fairfield and W. G. Anderson,
Quebec ; Duke of Wellington and Cleveland barques.
OFF DOVER, OCT. 03,—Lord Stanley, Quebec.
24. Progress, Schmidt, Rio, for Antwerp JAurelia,
Ames, Miramichi.
OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 21.—Sarah Barry, Quebec.
OFF MARGATE, OCT. 24.—Orion, Quebec.
SHEERNESS, OCT. 24.—Arid. Sarah Burrows,
Quebec.
RAMSGATE, OCT. 24.—The Ann and Elizabeth,
from Hamburgh to Liverpool, has put in here with
1053 of foretopmast, &c.
COWES, OCT. 24.—Arrd. Thomas Naylor, Fast-
ing, Havannah; Union, London, for New Zealand;
Spartan, ditto, for Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.W. to N., strong
gales with violent squalls.—Arrd. Liverpool packet,
with Mediterranean mails, Palmyra, Cousens, Gam-
bia, short of provisions, and crew sick.
Museum', OCT. 23.—The Astrea, arrived here
from Quebec, is very leaky; has lost sails, sprung
bowsprit, and received other damage.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 24.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrd.
Magnolia, Johnson, St. Lucia, sailed Aug. 8 ; Swa-
tara, New Orleans; St. Andrew, Quebec.
SHIELDS, OCT. 22.--Sid. Columbia, Aden.
SWANSEA, OCT. 22.--Acrd. Castor, Jack, Cuba.
CLYDE, OCT. 22.—Sid. Lavinia and Scotch Lass,
Newfoundland; Constellation, Calcutta; Active, De-
merara.

GALWAY, OCT. 19.—And. M. Jane, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

CoRK, OCT. 22.—S1d. Celia, Large, Trinidad.
JERSEY, OCT.I7.—SId. Andes, Brazils.
LLAISELLT, OCT. 22.—Irrd. Tagus and George,
Quebec,

MUMBLES, OCT. 21.—S1d. Cubenia, Cuba.
WATERFORD, OCT. 21.—Arrd. John Bell, Quebec.
OFF PORTLAND, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Arminia, Otto,
Havannah, for Hamburgh ; Gustav Wasa, Nordwall,
Rio for Gottenburg.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. off,
Johan George, Geerken, New York for Bremen ; Jane
Lockhart, Demerara.

STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 24.--Arai. John Brown,
Rugless, Calcutta.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—
Sid. Margaret Hardy, Alg oa Bay.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—(From a Correspon-
dent.)—There seems to be a very general opinion at
the West End of the town, that Parliament will as-
semble for the dispatch of business early in January.
Of course nothing definite can be known until after
the next Privy Council, which will be held at Wind-
sor Castle on Wednesday, the 2d of Nov.
His Belgian Majesty's brig of war Comte de Flan-
dres, from Ostend, is at Ramsgate, repairing the
damages she sustained in the gale of Saturday, while
lying at Deal. She is to proceed on a voyage round
the world.

We are happy to state that the Right Hon. the
Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Glad-
stone, has quite recovered from the effects of his re-
cent severe accident at Hawarden Castle, but he is
still obliged to carry his left arm in a sling, having,
as already stated, had the misfortune to suffer ampu-
tation of the fore-finger of that hand.—Liverpool
Mercury.
Sir Harvey Bruce has addressed the electors of
Coleraine.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about
four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at
Nicholson's Wharf, Lower Thame3-street, to a lad
named James Williams, 13 years of age, employed at
the wharf. It appears that he was at work in the
third floor of the lofty range of warehouses, and
whilst in the act of giving some directions from the
loophole to the men below, he overbalanced himself,
and fell upon the pavement from a height of between
50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by
the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson in a
coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired in
a few minutes after his admission. He had been
about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly
cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful
Low he apps the doorway of the lat.

SUMMARY OF NEC

AND
Pubitc ~:ptuton.

" Who runs may read.'

PONLEIGN.
The obsequies of M. le Comte Laborde took place
at Paris, on Sunday. The deceased, in addition to
other writings, was author of the " Picturesque and
Historical Voyal in Spain." He was one of the first
to send in his resignation on the formation of the
Polignac Ministry. Addresses were pronounced on
the occasion by M. le Comte Bougnot and General
Rumigny.
Joseph Bonaparte is said to have removed the
difficulties which lay in the way of the testamentary
gifts of his uncle, the Cardinal Fesch, regarding his
legacies to Corsica, by presenting a donation equiva-
lent to them, to his native town. Among them is a
statue of the First Consul, and of the numerous pic-
tures of the rich gallery, bequeathed to him by the
Cardinal, he has given 100 to Bastia, 50 to the village
of Corte, where he was born, and 150 to different
communes of the department.
The Council-General of Corsica have forwarded an
address to the French Government, praying for a
grant of public money to complete a monument in
that country to the Emperor Napoleon.
The National, in adverting to the affairs of Canada,
says—" There never was a better opportunity than
the present for the French Canadians to assert their
independence, and separate themselves for ever from
the English."
The vines at Beaujolais answer their culture in so
prolific a manner, that they are likely to attract more
labour than the manufactures of the place.
Several Belgian engineers are said to have been
named Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour, on the
occasion of the approaching inauguration of the rail-
road of Quievrain to Valenciennes.

Accounts from Switzerland state that the Judge
Advocate. General, Sir John Nicholl, i 3 seriously in-
disposed in that country.

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
A meeting of the creditors of the Tweed Bank took
place on Wednesday last at Berwick, when composi-
tions for the larger debts were entered into, and finally
for the smaller.

The Tweed fisheries closed on Saturday last ; the
season has been, on the whole, productive.

PUBLIC IMPRO'fiEDIENTS.
The buildings in Farringdon-street will be com-
menced in the ensuing spring. There will be 27 on
the west, and 22 on the east side ; the leases are granted
by the City for 61 years.
ELk:CTIONEERING.
Sir William Rae, it is reported, will be succeeded
in the representation of Buteshfre by the Hon. Archi-
bald Wortley, third son of Lord Wharncliffe, and not
by Mr. Duncan ➢='Neill as stated.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A number of officers of the Royal Artillery as•
sembled in the Woolwich marshes on Monday to wit-
ness experiments with a new description of brass gun,
invented by Captain Grant of that corps. It saves in
metal and powder greatly, and the result of six rounds
fired showed it to be admirably adapted for field service.
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LAW AND POLICE.
Police constable, Joseph Pitman, K 391, was on
Monday charged at Lambeth-street, with assaulting
Miss Julia Briggs, the daughter of a dyer, residing in
the East India-road, Poplar. The Magistrate remarked
that he bad disgraced himself as a man, and gave him
the severest penalty he could record, of a month's im-
prisonment in the House of Correction, with hard
labour.

John Smith was charged at Thames-street with a
marine burglary, in breaking into the cabin of the
schooner Ellen, with the intention of stealing watches
and wearing-apparel. He was committed for trial
Alfred Stringle and Francis Hawes were charged
at Guildhall with stealing 281bs. of dyed silk from Mr.
Gourdain, in Milton-street. The prisoners were re-
manded till Thursday.

FINE ARTS.
Bailey's statue to Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Mal-
colm has been placed in St. Paul's Cathedral. Its
cost was 1,0001.

Mr. Campbell, the sculptor, has had the execution
of the statue to the late Duke of Gordon confided to
him, and has paid a visit to Aberdeen to select the
granite.

C OURT-PASIZIONABLE
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Dun-
robin Castle on Wednesday last, for Trentham Hall,
Staffordshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are
entertaining a select party of friends at Ala wick Castle.
The Earl of March and Lord William Lennox
are expected in town this week from Gordon Castle,
Scotland.

The Earl and Countess of Binnoul arrived at
Hampden House, Green-street, last week, from Dupp-
lin Castle.
-The Countess Dowager of Pembroke arrived at
Wilton House, Salisbury, on Wednesday last, from
Savanaeh Lodge.
Sir R. Peel arrived in town on Monday from Drayton
Manor, and in the afternoon left for Windsor Castle.

Mr. Whitfield, the botanist, leftKnowsley Park last
week, on a fresh mission to the coast of Africa.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
on Monday from the Isle of Wight.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Privy Council, originally intended to be held
to-day, has been postponed to the 2d of November.
The annual festival of the " Blues," or gentlemen
educated at Christ's Hospital, took place on Monday,
at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on the oc-
casion of the birth-day of King Edward VI., their
founder.

A storm at Rome has thrown down Tasso's oak
and the Colonna pine.

At the City Registration Court on Monday the
name of the Lord Mayor was expunged from the list.
Tnic LONG VACATION.—On Monday the long va-
cation ceased. The offices of the several Courts re•
sumed business. Declarations are now filed and de-
livered, as well as rules given to plead. These mattera
are the precursors to bringing men to the payment of
their debts, to failure, or a prison. There is a cessa-
tion in all pleadings rem the 10th of August to the
24th of October, which is denominated in the profes-
sion the "long vacation," though term does not com-
mence until the 2d of November.
PENSIONERS.—We are le-I to understand that it is
the intention of the Government to place all able-
bodied pensioners, who are willing to assist the civil
authorities, under drill at stated intervals; and that
arms and accoutrements for 200 of these aged veterans
are shortly expected at the barracks in Birmingham.
This is as it ought to be : a force like this upon the
spot is worth ten times a greater one at the distance
of 40 miles. Birmingham Advertiser.
COLCHESTER FAIR.—For the last twenty years
there has not been so little business transacted as at
this fair on Thursday. Out of 8,500 sheep and
lambs penned, no more than about 1,500 changed
hands, and the sales effected were at such prices that
the dealers sustained a considerable loss. Several
dealers left the field without even an offer for their
sheep. There were about 5,000 beasts exhibited, and
a great portion of them of very good quality, but
scarcely any buyers could be found, although the
prices asked were full 30 per cent. lower than last
year for fresh beasts, but a greater reduction took
place in lean stock. In the horse fair the same de-
pression existed.—Essex Herald.
HEREFORD OCTOBER FAIR.—We do not remember
to have ever witnessed so large a number of Hereford
cattle in this city, with so few inferior animals among
them, as we witnessed on Thursday last—nearly every
street was crowded with the most splendid description
of stock. Nevertheless, we hear on all hands that it
was one of the worst fairs that has been held in Here-
ford for the last twenty years. In the morning the
breeders endeavoured to stop the ebbing of the tide of
reduction by holding out for price, but it was soon
found that this object could not be gained; therefore,
the farmers necessarily gave way, and a large number
of cattle exchanged hands, but at a reduction of full
25 per cent. upon the prices of last year.—Hereford
Times.

THE IRON TRADE.—The October series of iron-
masters' quarterly meetings are just ended. The
business done has been comparatively trifling, and
the future prospects of the trade are disheartening
in the extreme. The demand created by the stop-
page of the works is supplied, and the orders now
issued will only be for such quantities as are re-
quired for immediate use; what this will be may
be inferred from the fact that the chain and trace
trade is nearly at a stand still, while the demand
for nails is daily decreasing.—Staffordshire Examiner
A VEGETABLE COMPASS.—A correspondent has
sent to the editors of the National Intellizeneer a dry •
pressed specimen of the Polar Plant of the western
prairies. It is a species of fern, which generally
attains the height of from ten to sixteen inches, with
one large flat leaf, whose plane always points to the
north and south. The specimen was plucked from
the prairies near Fort Gibson, west of Arkansas. It
is spread profusely in large beds over all the western
prairies, from the far north-west to the far south-
west. It has been seen in the prairies of Wisconsin
and other regions east of the Mississippi. It is never
found in the forests, or, in other words, out of the
prairies. It has been well known to the hunters and
trappers of the west, and to the officers of dragoons ;
but it is believed that its existence has never (at least
extensively) been made known to the world. Its
plane is always in the plane of the meridian, when
not disturbed by high winds or other external causes
The indications are always most accurate in the
valleys, where the beds are sheltered from the winds,
and where the traveller finds them arranged in parallel
positions, faithfully pointing out the direction of the
meridian. The leaf is symmetrical, and thus there is
nothing in its indications to distinguish the north from
the loutb...4\roto York Observer.

V and iat 'Ai )1 t..-IA,I AI. S.
CITY, lUESDAY EVENING.
The Stock Market closed this afternoon about the
same as it had opened in the morning, not being
quite so buoyant as towards mid-day. Consols for
Money were d 34 sellers, and for Account 93i. buyers;
Exchequer Bills touched 59 prem. ; India Stock was
firm at 253. The Bank broker took 10,0001. stock
for the Savings' Banks.
Spanish Bonds advanced to 171, but yet no clue
to the cause beyond a rumour about the Almaden
mines. Portuguese 01(1 Fives were done at 58 ; and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved to 52:1.
Shares were quiet, but firm.
The Exchanges were a shade better on Antwerp,
viz. 12 .5+ to 52 ; barely so high on Amsterdam,
12 6i; without alteration on Hamburgh, 13 118 to
12; and also on Paris, which was 25 872 to 922.
The Indigo sales closed this afternoon. They have
gone off well.
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A failure in the fruit trade was hinted at on 'Change,
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
Mauritius Papers, to the 25th June, still dwell
upon the all-absorbing question of immigration, and
state that the Government had a very large surplus
revenue at its disposal, which it was bound to appro-
priate to the benefit of the colonists rather than keep-
ing it locked up. The duties on spirits had ,wielded a
large sum, and it was calculated that 50,000 labourers
might be introduced into the island in the space of
five years, for an expenditure of 1,500,000 dollars.
In reference to the unfortunate destruction of the
caisson, which had been so successfully placed upon
the Goodwin Sands, we have much pleasure in stating
that accounts received in town this morning announce
the saving of the crew belonging to the vessel which
struck upon the iron foundation of Mr. Bush's caisson.
In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday there
was again a more cheerful appearance, and the sales
were 4,000 bales at firmer prices.
There was also rather a better inquiry for Railway
Shares, and except the Eastern Counties, prices were
generally well maintained. This line was at 94.
Edinburgh and Glasgow New were 4i ; Great
Western New, 60i ; Brighton, 36f ; and South-
Nastarn,
The exposure of the frauds at the meeting of the
coffee trade yesterday has excited much attention in
the City, and the pilfering carried on some-
how or other is considered to demand an
early remedy. It must not, however, for a
moment be supposed that the deficiency in weight
after leaving the Dock warehouses is confined to the
article of coffee, since we have it from the best au
thority that goods of various descriptions shipped to
the Continent or received here, are constantly arriving
short of the quantity specified in the invoices. In the
simple article of silk handkerchiefs a party assures us,
that although every possible precaution is taken by
marking the weight, &c., looses have constantly
occurred, one case having arrived at Hamburgh recently
short of seven pieces. It is to be remarked, too,
that such losses have frequently occurred where the
goods never went into the duck warehouses at 'all,
and that although repeated search has been made
throughout the vessels, no clue has yet been been ob-
tained to the discovery of the mode in which they
were abstracted.

At Uamburgh discoveries have been made, how-
ever, of regular depots for stolen colonial produce,
and it is, perhaps, not going too far to assert, that
something of the kind exists here also. One
merchant in the fur trade recently found a
bale short of its proper contents, though stowed away
in his own warehouse., arid the deficiency must there-
fore have arisen, one would imagine, by some collu-
sion with the revenue officers. There is a strong
feeling upon the subject, and it is hoped
that the Augean stable of corruption will be
cleansed, and that some influential parties will be-
stir themselves, for the purpose of convening a gene-
ral meeting, to take similar steps to those adopted by
the coffee trade.

The exchange comes over steady from Ham-
burgh at 13 Bi, and the price of gold at 434. In
addition to the failures at Marseilles, we are advised
of tw o small ones, not in the Corn trade, we believe,
at Altona; but we only refer to these to show that
the smaller and steadier dealers of the Continent, like
those in England, are affected by the pressure of the
times.

Business in the stock Markets has been rather
brisk to-day, and prices have fully recovered the par-
tial depression of Saturday, owing in part, no doubt,
to the purchases said to be on account of the Savings'
banks, but still more to the superabundance of
unemployed capital in the general discount market,
and which to-day commands only 2 per cent. By
an error yesterday's Consols were made to .bear the
quotations which should have stood opposite -the
Reduced Three per Cents. To-day - the Consols
for present transfer are 931 to 93i, and for the Ac-
count, 931 to 93i ; Exchequer Bills are firm at 665:
to 58s. premium Liast India Bonds are at 485.-to 60s.
premium the New Three-and-a-Half per -Cents.
again realise. 1011 to 10E ; the Three per Cent. An-
nuities are 921 to 931; Bank Stock is 1651 to 1661;
and India Stook, 253.

The Foreign Market has again a tendency to be-
come more lively, but the speculation in Spanish
Bonds is less active, though the Five per
Cents. main ain the advance to 16-;-, and the
Three per Cents. to 21k. The accounts from
Lisbon are not of a very decided character,
one way or the other ; the Portuguese Bonds are dull,
the New Five per Cents. at 38k, and the Converted at
32 to 32k. Mexican Stock is at 324, and Brazilian at
641. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 524 to
52i. Peruvian Stock has been in speculative request
at 1t to 16i.
Not much business has been done in the Railway
Shares, which are, however, at steady quotations.
Eastern Counties bring 14f to 14f discount; Great
Western, 181 premium ; and London and Birmilig.
ham, 93 premium ; Brighton are 134, and Greenwich
Preference 1i discount. London and Westminster
Bank Shares are 24 to 24 prem.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 24.—There
is very little doing, and the market looks heavy.
The only sales quoted are—Manchester and Leeds,
Old Shares, at 654, and Half Shares at 274 ; Man-
chester, Bolton, and Bury, 494 per share.
CLOSING PRICES.