The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-28 00:00:00

AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

We have received, by the packet ship Independence,
New York advices of the /th instant inclusive, with ac-
counts from Canada one day later than those by the Great
Western. The former contains no news. The latter
contains the following bulletin relative to the health of
his Excellency the Governor-General Lord Metcalfe :
" Monklands, Nov. 1, 1845.
" The malady of his Excellency the Governor-General
has for several days past assumed a more favourable ap-
pearance.
" His general health and spirits are improving.
" He has been able to take an airing in his carriage for
some hours daily.
" JAMES CRAWFORD, MD.
" ROBERT L. M'DONNELL, M.D."
We take the following commercial intelligence from
the Journal of Commerce of the 7th instant:—
" The sales of cotton are 400 bales at yesterday's prices—
that is c. lb. off for the news.
" Flour is 6 dots. 12ic. free sellers, and a good many buyers
of Michigan and all Western ; wheat no sales ; rye ditto ;
3,400 southern yellow corn, weavily, sold at 70c. 561 b. ; oats,
44c. fur canal; barley, 56 to 58; a good lot brought the lat-
ter price.
" There have been several sales of flour at 6 dols, 121 c. ;
the receipts are very large. Further sales of northern corn
at 75c. buyers. The shipments of bread-stuffs for Europe are
on a very large scale.
" Western hops have brought 25c., to the extent of 75
bales. _ _ _. _

-...-,.
" There is a demand for mess pork from Canada, 14 dols.
cash is the price; 200 barrels lard sold at 8 dols. 50c. to
56 dols. 1001 b.

" No change in ashes. wbisky, or exchange.
" P.S. Evening.-800 bales of cotton have been sold to-
day at to Ldecline from prices before the news, all to
spinners."

TIIE WINE CROPS OF FRANCE.
The following account of the state of the wine crops of
France this year is taken from the Indicateur de Begiers.
PARIS.—Crop moderate in quantity, bad in quality. The
first wines which have arrived needed to be strengthened
with brandy; it is supposed that this will be generally the
case with the white wines of lower Burgundy and the banks
of the Loire,which are detestable. This circumstance, which
we anticipated in one of our preceding numbers, will absorb
an incalculable quantity of 3s. Gd. brandy, which was not
reckoned upon.
CHAIIPAGNE.—Crop very mean in quantity, quality
pitiable.
ALSACE AND LonnAiNE.—Crop nearly nought; the little
made detestable. A total failure of prune brandy, a pro-
duct usually very considerable, and which was important
last year.
BURGUNDY.—Excepting some spots in which the quan-
tity is palpable, the result bad; general quantity very mid-
dling less than last year; quality generally bad, some crus
only passable.
ORLEANS AND THE BANK'S OF THE LOIRE TO NANTES.—
General quantity less by a third than last year; quality
very middling, especially of the white wines, which are, as
in Burgundy, acid, flat, and green. They canuot be used,
nor can the red wines, unless fortified by other wine or
brandy.
SAINTONGE AND DEUX-CHARENTES.—Very bad crop in
every respect ; quantity upwards of two thirds less than the
last, which was very middling ; quality pitiable ; ten
casks of wine necessary to produce one of brandy twenty-
three proof.
GIRONDE.—Bad crop in general ; quantity a quarter or a
third less than last year's modicum ; indifferent qualities in
the good exposures ; detestable in the less good, which will
require as an indispensable necessity the wines of the south
to be potable. The pretensions of proprietors so exorbitant,
that all buyers have been scared away.
LE PAYS and LE MAR3IAUDAIS usually produce 20,000
pipes of brandy. They will only turn out 4,000 to 5,000
this year.
Esr.—Le Beaujolais only has succeeded, and has conse-
quently attracted many buyers. Wines are on the rise, and
proprietors will not sell.
GERS.—Crop next to nothing in quantity, quality not
potable.
TOULOUSE AND VlClNlTY.—Quantity middlipg and tole-
rably successful in some quarters. Some.wiiie has already
been sent to Bordeaux ; price 17 to 18 francs per hectolitre,
which is enormous for wine of such little alcoholic value.
This circumstance will impose on the south (Provence) the
onus of supplying the enormous consumption of this depart-
ment.

PROVENCE.—Crop tolerably satisfactory in quantity and
quality. Great demand-; excessively high pretensions of
proprietors, who are aware of the necessities of the Algerian
market, as well as those of the foreign markets and colonies,
deprived, as they are this year, of Portuguese wines, which
have almost totally failed.
Roussmum.—Crop passible as to quantity ; quality sa-
tisfactory. The country has been crowded both before and
since the vintage by an innumerable number of buyers from
all parts. Extraordinary prices are paid, which still do not
satisfy proprietors.
We have gone through all the wine countries of France.
It will be seen that for the most part the crops are miserable,
averaging far less in quantity than last year. The quality,
which is generally bad, will cause an enormous use of the
southern wines and brandy. These are facts, and very serious
they are.

MEETING of MIDDLESEX MAGIS-

TRATES.
Yesterday a meeting of justices of Middlesex was held at
the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, for the transaction of
county business. Mr. Pownall took the chair.
The minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed.

The monthly reports of the visiting justices of the re-
spective county gaols were read. The ordinary information
was communicated. The number of prisoners in the House
of Correction was 909, of which number 605 were males, 286
females, and 18 children.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE laid before the Court a correspond-
ence between himself and Secretary Sir James Graham, re-
lating to recommendations to Parkhurst prison.
In reference to this subject, and to the existing criminal
jurisprudence as respects juvenile offenders generally, an in-
teresting discussion took place.
Mr. TULK opened the subject, and stated that he had re-
ceived an urgent remonstrance upon the insufficiency of the
means for the reclamation of juvenile convicts, from a lady
well known to them, namely, Miss Neave, who had established
an asylum for the reception of discharged juvenile criminals,
in order to their reformation.

Mr. Sergeant ADAMS expressed regret at the restricted
sphere of operation which was allowed to the Parkhurst es-
tablishment, the instructions being that no cases should be
sent there except such as would be entitled to transportation.
He considered this a departure from the original intention in
forming this establishment, and the consequence was that not
one case in five hundred of common larcenies could now be
sent there. The extent of the evil resulting from this regu-
lation might be judged from the fact that about one-third of
those committed for larceny to that Court were children.
Mr. LAURIE paid a warm tribute to the unostentatious
benevolence of the lady who had devoted herself for so many
years to further the best interests of humanity. In France,
Holland. and generally on the Continent, establishments were
provided expressly for that destitute class of juvenile offenders
to which their attention had been drawn. The importance of
the matter would be apparent when lie stated that, out of
26,000 criminal committals in England and Wales last year,
nearly one-half, or 47 per cent. of the whole, were between
the ages of fifteen and twenty .five, and if they took in the
ages under fifteen it would amount to 75 per cent.—(Hear.)
On a comparison of the two last five years the increase was
very considerable. The feeling which existed against these
unfortunate children on their discharge, after servinf their
term of imprisonment, rendered them more than ordinarily
destitute, and the difficulty of working reformation was a
common observation of society. He insisted that something
should be done to supply the deficiency complained of.
A very full bench of justices concurred generally in the
importance of the subject, but no active measures were
adopted.
The other business was not of general interest.