The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, I,ONDOiNT, -MONDAY MORNING, SEPT'EMBER 26', 1842

warehouses of which containa mass of property whoie
value is inCalculable.
The early boats, it will readily be believed, were
crowded with parties anxious for the safety of mer-
chandize and buildings belonging to themselves and
their connections ; and the vague rumours brought at
a very early hour of the destruction of life which had
unfortunately occurred, rendered many, we have no
doubt, anxious for the personal safety of parties far
removed from danger.
The scene in the neighbourhood of the fire, and
particularly in that of the hospital, to which many of
the unfortunate sufferers were carried, was distress-
ing in the extreme. The police and firemen on duty
were distracted by the application of parties anxious
for intelligence of fathers, brothers, or sons, missing
and supposed to be buried in the burning ruins. Of
course, as yet no satisfactory answer can in many
cases be 'returned. Many parties missing are no
doubt actively engaged at the fire, and well. Many,
no doubt, will never be heard of; unless the calcined
bones which may be found on clearing away the ruins
may be imagined to belong to them. At the Northern
Hospital, crowds of distracted persons were gathered
round the gate anxiously inquiring after the condition
of friends known to have been admitted, or seeking
intelligence of persons for whose safety they -were
under apprehension. The scene as a whole, may be
imagined, but cannot possibly be described. Of the
men admitted here, as described in former editions
we find, up to this hour, two o'clock, that two, Join;
Martin and Lul* Smith, are dead, besides one man,
name unknown.. Robert Black is dangerously ill
(skull fractured). The remainder, more or less se-
verely injured, are doing well. Tvvomore have been
admitted within the last two hours, and discharged,
after having had their wounds dressed.
We have just heard, as the latest estimate on
'Change, that the quantity of cotton consumed is.
37,000 bags. This will make the total loss half a
million sterling.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY NIGHT, SEVEN O'CLOCK.
Throughout the day the fire continued to rage
with awful violence, defying every effort to check its
progress, the heat being so intense as to prevent ap-
proach within working distance. Towards four
o'clock every building contiguous being destroyed it
abated, though at the present ;moment it presents a
dreadful scene of destruction—one burning mass of
ruins, consisting of about forty warehouses, dwelling-
houses, and bonded sheds: Several fatal accidents
have occurred, principally to the firemen, from the
falling of the walls. The scene of this terrible con-
flagration has been visited by thousands .during the
day, and the town is in a state of great excitement.
(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
STOCK IN THE BUILDINGS.
The stocks in the warehouses, sheds, &c., appear
to have been very large, and to consist chiefly of
cotton (which is variously estimated from 40,000 to
75,000 bales), turpentine (stated at from 10,000 to
15,000 barrels), besides a quantity of East India and
American flour, rice, and other .colonial and foreign
produce, including a large quantity of the " guano,"
or new manure from South America, much of which,
however, is saved. It was reported at the close of
'Change, that 50,000 bales of cotton had been
destroyed ; and, in some instances, an advance of
one-eighth per lb. was obtained on the prices of the
previous day. The master of the Exchange-room
told us, at a later hour, that the most generally re-
ceived estimate was from 40,000 to 50,000 bales. We
subsequently learned, that a number of cotton
brokers estimated the amount of cotton destroyed
at between 50,000 and 60,000 bales. And we
have also seen another estimate, which we were as-
sured was carefully made by it number of brokers
possessing accurate information, that the bales of cot-
ton destroyed would reach 75,000. The same parties
stated, that the exact number of barrels of turpentine,
chiefly stored in the cellaring of warehouses, was
15,000 barrels. From inquiry in other quarters we learn,
that one house (Messrs. Fielden, Brothers, American
merchants) had 10,000 barrels, Mr. Eccles 3,000,
Messrs. Baring 1,500 ; and that there was a quantity
beneath the warehouse of Messrs. Rayner, Brothers.
In a shed belonging to Messrs. Howard, Horsley, and
Co., on the south side of Formby-street, Messrs.
Hardman and Co. had 800 sacks of East India flour, only
a portion of which is destroyed. In the same shed
was a large quantity of American flour in barrels, be-
longing to other parties ; also a number of barrels of
tallow, &c. There were 70 tuns of oil under the
warehouse of Messrs. Glynn and Co.
ESTIMATED TOTAL DAMAGE.
The total loss, from the destruction of building
property and stock of all kinds is variously estimated
at from 400,0001. to a million. sterling. We have
reason to hope and believe, that the latter will be
found considerably above the ' truth. Indeed the
highest estimate that we have beard, that seems based
on anything like calculation, is the following, which,
it should be remembered, is the highest estimate as to
the quantity of cotton of which we have any know-
ledge :—The same brokers who estimated the quan-
tity of cotton destroyed at 75,000 bales, stated it to be
worth on an average 81. per bale, or 600,0001. They
also take the value of the turpentine, flour, rice, tallow,
oil, and other produce consumed or destroyed, at
150,000/. ; and if to these amounts we add Mr.
Holmes's valuation of the buildings, 35,000/. (which,
by the way, is the lowest estimate of their value), we
arrive at a total loss of 785,000/. However, at the
present moment, such estimate must, to some extent,
be mere speculations little. better than guesses; and
we only give them in the unavoidable absence of any
information in which implicit reliance can be placed.
THE INSURANCE OFFICES.
We have found no part of our inquiry more em-
barrassing than that by which we sought to ascertain
the amounts insured, and in what offices. Here again
we can only state what we have heard, with the pass-
ing remark, that though we have taken such pains as
our limited time permitted, to guard against exagger-
tion, we can only hope to approximate in some small
degree to the fact. Some part of the difficulty arises
from insurances being effected, not only in the Liver-
pool ageneles of the respective Insurance Companies,
but in other agencies of the same Companies
in other towns.—We could not any where obtain
the slightest information as to the amount of de-
stroyed property, not insured at all. The prin-
cipal fire offices will sustain very heavy losses,
but the exact amounts we could not learn. We
were told on the Liverpool 'Change that the Liver-
pool Company had insurances on property destroyed
to the amount of 30,0001. or 35,000/. ; that the
Phcenix policies were to the amount of 25,0001., and
that the Sun was to a much larger amount than
either. At the Phoenix-office, we learned that the
amount insured in two of their agencies was under
20,000/. ; but the amount in another agency they
could not tell. At the Sun Fire-office, all we could
learn was, that the amount of the loss sustained by
all the fire-offices having policies on the destroyed
property, was supposed to be about 400,0001. We
heard the Globe mentioned as having granted policies
to a considerable amount—we were told 35,000/. in
floating policies ; and the Royal Exchange 50,0001.
Of course, we cannot vouch for any of these amounts,
though we endeavoured 'to obtain them from the
fire-offices ; but we found some of them closed for
the evening.
Last night, the only buildings remaining whole, in
the square area denoted above, were three fire-proof
warehouses at the back of the premises of Messrs.
Grayson and Bannister, shipwrights, &c., Neptune-
street ; part of the premises of Mr. J. M'Dougal, an-
chor and shipsmith, in the same street ; and a por-
tion of Mr. Lythgoe's cooperage, at the corner of
Neptune-street and Great Howard-street. These
were all on the north side of Neptune-street, which
was the southern boundary of the fire, no material
injury being done to the warehouses or new buildings
on the south side of the street, In Formby-street,
on the south side, a small portion of a shed of Messrs.
Howard, Hornsley, and Co., had escaped utter
destruction, and from this part Messrs. Hardman
and Co. were busy removing their flour. The
corner house on that side, to. Great Howard-street,
was also wholly saved; and the shells of the small
houses opposite, a row of six or seven houses, with an
outer gallery, the property of Mr. Nathaniel Rayner.
Between these and the Waterloo-road, there remained
two detached warehouses, besides the three fire-proof
ones before-mentioned, hich latter were contiguous
buildings, with party walls between, and present a
remarkable appearance in the midst of the blazing
ruins on all sides. The flames are by no means ex-
tinguished; indeed, their reflection in the sky, as
seen from Edgehill (Wavertree), was exceedingly
vivid at half-past seven o'clock last evening, and they
will doubtless continue to burn for weeks, till the im-
mense masses of cotton and other combustible mate-
rials, which lie ' piled in huge mountains, as if for
bonfires, shall either be consumed or deluged with
vv ater by the continual use of the fire-engines.
(From the Liverpool Journal.)
We have just seen the report of Inspector Abra-
ham with regard to the origin of the fire. After
stating that he visited the drysaltery works of Mr.
Peniston, in Crompton-street, directly after it had
broken out, and finding it in a state already.described
by Inspector Massey, he gives it as his opinion that
the fire was either the act of an incendiary, .or else it
had been caused by some large flakes of burning soot
carried from a chimney, which had been on fire the
previous night in Stuart-street, and which had been
seen to drop into Mr. PeniSton's, yard, and that he was
of opinion the fire did not originate from the one
used in heating the engine.
The Liverpool Insurance Company will not, we un-
derstand, be a great sufferer by the calamity, but that
20,0001. will cover their losses.

CASUALTIES.—UpTo eight o'clock last night, the
following is a list of the sufferers who had been
brought during the day to the Northern Hospital
DEAD.—James Bell, labourer, dead when ad-
mitted ; Luke Smith, labourer, Westmoreland-street,
and John Martin, labourer, Chisenholl-street, both of
whom died two hours after being admitted.

DANGEROUSLY INURED.—Robert Black, New-
hall-street, fractured skull. Eight others severely in-
jured, of which number Superintendent Riding is one,
he having his heel bone broken), and a severe injury
of the ankle.
Besides the above, there were thirteen others
@lightly.' injured, but who were enabled to leave the
hospital on being dressed, four of whom had lost their
ight, from the smoke, flame, and dust received about
the fire.
. •
In the whole, twenty-five were brought to the hos-
pital, of whom nine belonged to the police force.
- The above, besides the two deaths previously no-
ticed, are the only casualties which have come to our
.knowledge. It is feared, however, that many other
deaths have been caused by the fire, but the parties at
present are unknown.

LORD AS
REVRTON'S TREATY.
(From the Weekly Chronicle.)
It is perfectly natural, and perfectly- right, that a
treaty of such importance as that with the United
States should give rise to a pretty smart controversy.
England would not be England, if upon such a sub-
ject, and at such a time, unanimity were possible;
but the singular
part of the present differences is that
they have no party colouring. The Tory Morning
Herald is quite as bitter against the treaty and its
negotiator, as the Whig Morning Chronicle; its
oracle upon foreign affairs, Mr. Urquhart, having ap-
parently discovered a greater traitor than Lord Pal-
merston, since the Herald designates the cession of
the Madawasca settlement " as an exhibition calculated
to shock, and to arouse with indignation, any man
who has hitherto felt himself distinguished and ho-
noured by the name of Briton !"
We know few things more sickening than this mix-
ture of rhodomontade and sentimentalism upon plain,
practical questions. The Morning Chronicle takes a
much safer line. It appeals to the national honour,
which we hope that we prize as highly as it can do.
It is, perhaps, because we thus value it, that we think
few things more to be regretted than a mistaken appeal
to it ; and it is a mistake, in our • humble judgment, to
instil into the minds of people generally the idea that
there is anything derogatory to national honour in
seeking the settlenaentofa longstanding difference by
mutual concessions, where the points at issue are not
of vital importance. We are aware that on this point
we differ from our Liberal Contemporary ; but as we
said, when the news of Lord Ashburton's treaty first
reached us, what is there in the may of territorial ac-
quisition, in this case, of sufficient consequence to be
placed in comparison with the maintenance of peace
with the United States?
We shall be called "Peace-at-any-price men" for
this, by Lord Ashburton's critics. We are not so.
We could repudiate, as warmly as the most violent of
them, a peace bought upon dishonourable terms; but
we ace no wisdom, or statesmanship, in attempting to
extract terms irritating to it, and not clearly beneficial
to ourselves, by a perpetual threat of hostility, from a
country which is so closely connected with us as the
United States by an almost endless blending of inte-
rests. We see no wisdom in periling those interests
by a war which is to give us nothing ; and if the treaty
concluded by Lord Ashburton secure to us, as we be-
lieve it does, a boundary line effectual for all necessary
purposes, and differing but in some immaterial points
from that which the English Government professed its
willingness to accept when recommended by the King
of Holland, we cannot for the life of us see what good
it would have done to have hung the question up for
another ten years, at the risk of collisions, which might
have made any peaceful settlement impracticable.
As to the assumption of the Chronicle that, for the
first time since 1783, we approached this question
with a perfect knowledge of our own rights, and with
the means of establishing them, at the very moment
when it was put into Lord Ashburton's hands—we
have not equal confidence in the infallibility of Colonel
Mudge and Mr. Featherstonhaugh, or rather in the
impossibility of getting up an equally plausible case
by an American survey, in favour of their view of
the treaty of 1'783. The question is, not what we
believe ourselves, but what we can force our adversa-
ries to admit, and assent to ; and it is perfectly ob-
vious that there can be no more prolific source of
differences than a treaty professing to define a
boundary line, which none of the parties describing
it were personally acquainted with, or had the means
of ascertaining correctly, since, after the lapse of
half a century, the country through which it runs is
still uninhabited.
The question was, therefore, how to bring the matter
to an issue ? The Chronicle says, and truly, that the
United States were never in a worse situation for
going to war than at the present moment. But, are
we in a better ? And if we were-so, is war to be the
solution of every disputed question, however fatal its
influence upon our permanent interests ? But we
should have had no war—at least, not with America
single-handed. She would have bided her time. We
should- have had fresh surveys, and correspondences,
and protocols, and arbitrations, for the next twenty
years, during the whole of which time we must have
kept up a military force in the American colonies
fully adequate to their protection, and that force alone
would have cost us more than the
fee simple of the
disputed territories is worth, let alone the small addi-
tional fraction of it, of which we
might by possibility
have become possessed. Unless, therefore, it can be
shown that-there is something monstrous in Lord
Ashburton's concessions—something that sows the
seed of future difficulties, and gives an advantage to
certain enemies—we shall not be
cheated by high
sounding appeals to our pride and our susceptibilities,
out of our belief that it was right to put an end to a
dispute involving our commercial relations with our
most important customers in perpetual uncertainty,
and crippling our free agency in Europe by the con.
viction that whoever quarrelled with us might feel
sure of a valuable ally, ready to act upon our most
vulnerable quarter.
Now as we understand the present treaty, it se-
cures to us a somewhat better line of frontier than
that given to us by the award of the King of the Ne-
therlands in 1831, Which Lord Grey's Government
declared its readiness to abide by. It interposes a
wider space between the American line, and the line-
of communication between New Brunswick and Ca-
nada. What reason have we, then, for supposing that
Lord Grey's Cabinet would have rejected this ar-
rangement ? And why is Sir Robert Peel to be run
down for not having hazarded a war rather than give
his assent to terms which Lord Grey would have ac-
cepted in 1831, without once dreaming of this fearful
alternative ?

As to the alleged abandonment of the right of
search, it is a matter altogether of minor moment.
Nobody ever expected that America would have con-
ceded it practically : and the correspondence proves
that
it is not given up by us. Each party
retains
The French papers may put
what construction they please upon the fact that there
is no recognition of the right in the treaty itself,
inith theoo wrii-,
positic
n.
which is of some value to them because of its bearing
upon their own domestic squabbles, the concession of
the right of search upon the African coast being one
of the principal items in the chargeagainst.Monsieur
solemn
promise of the slave trade—and we
of co-operation, backed
Guizot. To us, the only question of the slightest
interest is, whether the right of search being unat-
tainable, we have •got the best possible . substitute as
legards
thanthe prevention a
confess that we can conceive no more desirable sub-
stitute
by a squadron carrying, at the least, 80 guns.
With regard to the right of search, it. is perfectly
clear that we can only claim it by permission over the
..
subjects of a neutral and independent Power, or
assume it at the risk of war. It is a most fit subject
for negotiation ;—a most unfit subject for taking the
law with our own hands. We may have a beneficent
and praiseworthy object in view ; but if we go to
war for this object with every country that demurs
to, our proposals, we shall in reality revive the Cru-
sades. Are we prepared to risk a rupture not merely
with.the United States, but with Prance ? And if so
prepared, why not go further ? Why confine our-
selves to the trade with Africa? Why not throw.
down the gauntlet, at once, . for the abolition of
slavery in the West Indies, and the Southern States
of the American Union ? There would be magnani-
mity in this, for it would go to the root of the evil ;
but we shrink from such Quixotism. Is it less Quix-
otic to insist upon a right, which independent Powers
are most unwilling to concede, and to say, because we
accept their co-operation upon less obnoxious terms,
that this concession is a national disgrace ?
(From the Examiner.)
Our first impression on hearing that the long ex-
isting dispute was settled respecting the boundary
line between the British Provinces in North America
and the State of Maine, was one of unqualified sa-
tisfaction. The restoration of a good understanding
between England and America cannot be over-valued.
Every great national interest of the country is deeply
concerned in the peaceful and unbroken intercourse,
and intimate political union, of Great Britain and the
United States. The ties that bind us ought to be
the strongest that ever bound two countries together.
Difference between us will, and perhaps must, arise.
Two such nations must encounter the good and the
evil effects of a vigorous and unceasing
, rivalry be-
tween the subjects of each ;---;h_ , but -tne Governments
of England and America will, if directed wisely, long
avert the rivalry of arms.
We must confess, therefore, that on perusing the
treaty, we were less struck 'with its form than its
- substance. It removed an irritating, menacing cause
of difference, and that in a most anxious crisis of our
commercial history. NeverthelesS, had that difference
involved the honour of the 'country, had any right
been forcibly withheld to which we had an irresistible
claim, -had an appeal to arms been necessary in self-
defence, we should have been ready to face the . evils ,
and hazards-of war, rather, than submit to 'violence '
and injustice. But the "boundary question furnished
no such grounds for hostile measures when Lord
Ashburton undertook his mission to the United States.
But a short time before, indeed, the ill-advised pro-
ceedings of the state of Maine. presented &threaten- i

ing aspect; and so late as the 25th of March, 1840,
the President, in reference to the apparent approach
of a rupture and its consequences, depicted by the
British Minister at Washington, wished that he could
dispel the fear that such dark forebodings might be
realised. Such was the condition of our relations
with the United States a little more than two years ago.
- Lord Palmerston had previously determined upon
and ordered a survey of the disputed territory; and
which has since been made. But before any negotia-
tions could be grounded upon the information thence
obtained, the Whig Ministry was dissolved, and Sir
Robert Peel, upon his accession to office, appointed
Lord Ashburton to go to Washington, with full powers
to regulate the final settlement of this vexed•question.
Of the instructions to Lord Ashburton we know no-
thing, nor are they of any importance, except for the
purpose of justly awarding praise or censure to the
individuals responsible for the treaty in question, a
matter of comparatively little importance to the public,
which is alone interested in a fair and honourable
settlement of the question. We have, therefore, only
to inquire whether Lord Ashburton has accomplished
this. If he have, though now a political opponent,
let him have the credit due to his success and ability.
A conventional line was essential to any adjustment
of the conflicting claims of the two countries ; and the
question therefore is, is the line agreed to by Lord
Ashburton a fair one, presenting a good hatural boun-
dary and an equitable division of the disputed terri-
tory ? We think on the whole it is ; and taking into
accaunt the impertar.ce to both countries of a settle-
ment of the question, we think that it is very impro-
bable that any much fairer line could have been laid
down. Objections have been taken to it, and amongst
others is, that it involves the free navigation of the
River St. John from its source to its mouth ; and
another is, that a British settlement, as the Madawaska
settlement is called, is given up to the United States.
As to the line itself, an offer was made in 1838, by
our Ministers, to divide the territory—" That in ac-
cordance with the principles of equity, and in pursu-
ance of the general practice of mankind in similar
cases, the object of difference should be equally divided
between the two differing parties, each of whom is
alike convinced of the justice of his claim." Now if
this offer had been accepted, it is most probable that
the. River St. John would have been made the national,
as it is, where it flows through the disputed territory,
an obvious natural boundary of the two countries.
Had the St. John's been the boundary through the
district in question, then there can be no doubt that a
claim to its free navigation would have been made,
and could not have been refused, according to esta-
blished international law. Nor, with our views, can
we object to this concession, because we think a vast
quantity of the produce of the States will ultimately
find its way down this river, through New Bruns-
wick, to the ports of England. This concession, if
concession it is to be called, therefore, is in favour of
our trade with the United States,—of a trade mainly
in the great necessaries of life.
It. is nobusiness of ours to defend Lord Ashburton;
but if he or any other opponent accomplishes objects
of national importance, as he has done in this case, by
restoring a healthier state of feeling, and by expedit-
ing the renewal of active and friendly commercial in-
tercourse between this country and America, we shall
not refuse him our meed of praise ; especially, too,
when he utters liberal sentiments, with which we have
ever been identified.

His Lordship appears to have encountered the
joint, and, we are sorry to say, the angry, animad-
versions of the Times and the Morning Chronicle,
because, speaking in the principal Northern State of
the Union, he called it a "hallowed spot," and the
"cradle of liberty." IVe fear the Chronicle is
growing fastidious, and somewhat late in the day
too. These sentiments, whatever disapprobation
they might have elicited in Tory journals, should
have met with none from the Morning Chronicle.
Lord Ashburton spoke feelingly and eloquently, and,
above all, truly. New England and New York
might be justly called the cradle of liberty ; for when
despotic power and religious bigotry raged, in the
mother country, these States became the asylum of
men who sacrified their all to their unconquerable
love of liberty and freedom of conscience; and the
laws which they enacted recognised principles of popu-
lar and personal liberty, to secure which for ourselves
in after times, some of the best blood "of our own
country was shed upon the scaffold and in the field.
We think the- time is come when even the most
loyal subject of the Crown might rejoice in the inde-
pendence of the American colonies. Sure we are
that, as far as we are concerned, they have proved far
more beneficial to us and to the world as free States,
than they were ever likely to become under the sway
of the Colonial-office.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.

• The Clerk of the Needle-makers' oOmpany applied
for permission to insert in the list the name of a
claimant which he had accidentally omitted. The
application was made under the .50th sect. of the Act.
The REVISING BARRISTER did not think that the
section in question empowered him to insert the name.
The section did not apply to cases of total omission.
Mr. Marr objected to the name of Samuel Lips-
combe, who was described as of " Blackfriar's-
bridge." That could not be considered an address.
The Beadle of the Company said that the man had
been a waterman, but he had not been heard of for

the last thirty-five years.
The REVISING BARRISTER thought that in this
case no address was in reality given. The man might
he under the bridge as well as over it. He should
strike out the name.

Some other cases arose, but they offered no poin
of general interest.

WESTMINSTER.

Mr. ARNOLD, the Revising Barrister, gave judgment
ou Saturday in the following cases:—
James Vine had been objected to on the ground
that his name was not upon the register in 1832 and
1833. It appeared that in 1832 no name of Vine was
upon the register, but, in 1833, John Vine and Joseph
Vine were on, and evidence was produced to show that
James Vine was in reality the person meant. He
(the Revising Barrister) thought that that was suffi-
cient, and, in conformity with the case of Lovett, he
should retain the name upon the register.
James Sandfrith Taylor had claimed to be regis-
tered in respect of a workshop which, in fact, con-
sisted of one attic in the house of the claimant's
brother, for which he paid 101. a year rent, and for the
use of fixtures, including a bench, &c. (The argu-
ments in this case have already been published at con-
siderable length in our reports.) The claimant said
he considered he was bound to keep the place in repair,
hut he had no agreement to that effect, though he had
once whitewashed it; in that attic he slept, took his
meals, and worked. His brother resided in the house.
It appeared to him (the Revising Barrister) that this
was simply the case of a party lodging in a house
where the landlord resided, and the case was not
altered by the mere fact of the lodger using the room
for the purpose of working at his trade ; he should,
therefore, disallow this claim.
Thomas Hodgson, the beadle of the parish of St.
Anne, had been objected to on the ground of his
being a constable, and therefore disqualified by the
10th Geo. IV., c. 44, sec. 18, " No person belonging
to the police force shall be capable of voting."rhe
appointment of Mr. Hodgson was ostensibly to keep
the peace—in reality it was to serve certain duties in
the parish of St. Anne, and as he received no salary
from the Police Commissioners it appeared to him
(the Revising Barrister) that he was not appointed by
the Police Commissioners under the 10th Geo. IV.,
but by the 2d and 3d Victoria. Ills name would,
therefore, be retained.

John Wm. Allen was objected to on the ground
that he was concerned in the management of the as-
sessed taxes, but the Revising Barrister did not con-
sider the objection valid, and his name would, there-
fore, be, retained.

The parish of St. James's; was then proceeded with.
There are only 23 claims and 23 objections made in
this parish by both parties.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Haniphire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—The Pearl, 20, Comman-
der R. Stopford, and Partridge, 10, Lieutenant Knox,
were at Monte Video on the 17th July, with the
American line-of-battle ship Delawarre, 93 guns ;
the French frigates Gloire, 50, and Arethuse, 28 ;
Sardinian frigate, of 44 guns, and four Brazilian cor-
vettes.

The Kestrel yacht, with the Earl of Yarborough
on board, returned this morning from the Mediterra-
nean. She experienced a severe gale of wind off Cape
St. Vincent.

The Rhadamanthus, steam vessel, left Woolwich on
Tuesday, with Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothsay and
family, for St. Petersburgh.
In Harbour.—St. Vinceht, Victory, Excellent, Bel-
lone (Austrian), Orestes, Nautilus, Rocket, Alban,
and Echo, steamers, and Sylvia, tender.
At Spithead—Warspite, Imaum, Abo (Russian).
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Comet steamer,
Commander G. A. Frazer, from Woolwich, on her
way to survey the coast of Ireland ; her crew have
been paid wages in advance, and will sail in a few
days. On Friday arrived the Dec_ steamer, Mr.
Driver, Master, from Woolwich, got a supply of coals,
and sailed the next day for the Mediterranean, with
supernumerary seamen, and two companio of artil-
lery, for Malta. The Bellone, 52 (Austrian), sailed
for 'Portsmouth. On Monday the. Albion, 90, was
taken out of dock, but will not be commissioned so
soon as reported.
In Hamoaze—Caledonia, San Josef, Confiance and
Kite steamers.
. In the Sound—Comet:, •
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PEOMOTION6.--Lieutenant—ll ii.• Budd (1807),
senior Lieutenant of the Ordinary 'at Plymouth, to
the rank of Commander.

Mates—W. H. Stewart (1841), and W. L. Lam.
bert (1837), to the rank of Lieutenant. •
Assistant-Surgeon—A. Woodcock, of the Magpifi-
cent, to the rank of Surgeon.
APPOINTMENTS.—Commander—Edward Burt, to
the Out-Pension of Greenwich Hospital.
Lieutenants-IV, H. Stewart and W. L. Lambert,
to
vice the Volage ; John H. Maxwell to the San Josef,
Budd, promoted ; Henry Jenkins, to the San
Josef, vice Thurtell, time expired ; L. G. Heath, to
the Salamander, vice Southey; G. B. Jeffreys, to the
Alfred, to take passage in the Salamander.
Second Master—K. L. Buish, to the Rhadamanthus,
vice Slaughter.
Purser—W. Thompson, to the Illustrious, vice
Mason, invalided.
Surgeons—A. Woodcock, to the Volage, vice R. L.
Birtwhistle, to the Romney.
Mates—G. Hancock, and 11. B. King, to the Ex-
cellent; C. A. Lodder, to the Orestes.

Clerk—W. 11. Boone, from the Admiral's Office of
-illustrious, to be acting Purser of that ship, in place
of J. Mason, invalided.
ROYAL MARlNES—Lieutenant Pengelly is ordered
to be ready for embarkation to join the Thalia.

MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEW 6.
' FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATVRDAY.
TIMES.—The Stock Market was in ,rather an
excited state to-day, owing to some reported failures
said to have taken place at Manchester; but; though
every possible inquiry has been made among laarties
who were most" ikely to be acquainted with such
news had it reached town, nothing of a satisfactory
tenoar could be learned. The mystery observed re-
specfrog the names of these firms, or any mention :of
the trade in which they were engaged, rendered -
almost nugatory the effect which these reports ivere
otherwise calculated to have upon prices, since, not-
withstanding some little fluctuation NvaiNctßFß:sioned
by them and the heavy appearance of business, tie
great depression ever presented itself, while at the
close of the day's transactions quotations .had ishnost
recovered their former position. The few sales
.of
stock made durirw the day were in Consols awl New
Three-and-a-Halt per- Cents., and cash ..during the
temporary excitement created commanded; a rate.
varying from 3 to 34 per cent. . .
• There are many circumstances at present 'which
ljnri oee
monetary
ci
calculationstof i thet a
p pEastappears
a r s
which
transactions Indiat that
a t have
Ca with o m
most p .b ll.nen3nder,
xi
afttrt andari
ol i r
generally.the
tn.s tateß ofy
imperatively call for some notice of the financial 00-
ssosuoiutii
onporiffvatheasacctoakuennt pinlacbeillisn
ofthe
(al.
royn
fall-
ingth e
Directorsa on the Indianperiwi
intrelasBu4rii,esbLinii.thindfeoen.rd
amount
exchange.
rall remitted
by
months that have elapsed since last April, asecom
pa4lered ly tl*
no less than 1,131,3161. Ils. 6d. This reduction of.
the amount of remittances is attributedthe high
rate of exchange (125.) fixed by the Court of -Direc-
tors for their bills; and the correspondent woo
vernment, the calculations observes, that ' the Go- .
vernment, having advanced the rate of -exchange
to a prohibitory degree, without notice. will pro-
bably pursue the same course in
.Indi, the' effect •
of which would be to depreciate the value of all
Merchandise, by the producer and merchant being
forced to rely for the sale of bills against good upon
s,
the funds of private individuals, the supply of vrhich
would be by no means adequate to the dethand. The
object, it is said, which the Directors had in view in
raising the rate of exchange was to force private per-
sons to send out bullion to India; but this, our eorres-
piident says, has proved a failure, as the Wholeamount -
remitted in bullion during the four months referred
to has not exceeded 150,000/., while the value of trek-
sure drawn from India within the last three tars is •
estimated at 13,000,000/. This drain, our-oorrespon-
dent remarks, has quite deranged the currency.of the-
country; and the only way to reform it wouldbe for
the Government itself to make shipments of bullion,'
the Treasury again being thrown open for theale of .
bills, at a rate not worse than bullion shipmentwould
yield. Thus the Government might remit bullion 'to
the amount of 2,000,0001., and replace that value in
the home-treasury by passing draughts at such rates
as the bullion when coined would realize,•-or the bul-
lion
might be replaced by the purchase of billOollate-
rally secured by the shipments of inercliace from
India.
POST.--The American correspondence received'
from New York by the Cambridge, the' arrival of
which at Liverpool has been already annonnced-, being
but one day later than that last receivemely,
to the 2d instant—possesses no novelty of importance
to commercial readers. States' stocks were still heaVy .
in the Wall-street market, as well they miglh be, so
poor as was the prospect of any immediate attention,.
on the part of the States' Governments in default,
being paid to the liquidation of the dividends. The -
stocks of the suspended banks, of which a large pro-
portion is, unfortunately, held in Europe, more par-
ticularly in• England, were in scarcely better odour
than the State securities, although, in tlie-cse of the
latter, the observation is made, that " the neglect of
several of the States to discharge their, dividends
has assumed the character of a settled- disease."
Such an admission, coming, as it does,' from
the pen of an American, will not fail to be regarded
by, the European stockholders with 'feelings of
mingled disappointment and indignatiOn; for the
only rational interpretation that can be put upon so
discouraging a statement is, that not only do the de,
linquentGovernments omit to provide the moneys re-'. quisite for, The payment of the interest due on their
external debt, but the omission itself, and the effect it
may be supposed to have upon American credit 'abroad,
are alikcviewed with a calm-impenetrable indifference
betokening no disposition whatever to reit* to 'a more
honest course of proceeding. It is acknOwledged, it
is true, that " the conduct of the non-paying State
Governments may be expected to have a very •serious.
bearing on the American character in Europe, and
give rise to bitter and unrelenting denunciations of-
American probity, honour, and integrity;" but this,
is, perhaps, an acknowledgment that inclOeS but little-
of the actual feeling of the creditors of 'America in
this country, who are so shamelessly deprived of their-
due. Of the great principles named,:." probity,-
hoirour, and integrity," nothing 'has been :uttered
for some time •in connection • with American
finances. The repudiation system has effectually ix-
tingiiisbed the notion of the existence of either one or
the O:lier; nor is. an expression of opinion'on4e sub-
ject of the defalcations of the American Staies the
policy adopted by British capitalists in treating of the
past. The market for their stocks and bank shares is
totally impracticable here, and the contemptevineed
for such commodities far more intelligibly explains
the feeling of the sufferers towards their callous
debtors, and the course of proceeding that may, at
their hands, be expected for the future. A paper,
claiming to stand high as a mercantile authority, says,
" What the result of European public opinion on
American sensitiveness may _ be, it is impossible'. to
predict ; but, as a nation, it must be felt,as a. humi-
liation, that so many rich and prosperous States
should give examples of such faithlessness, dishonour,
and disgrace. This state of things cannot last for
ever." The only thing that need be said; in reply to
such an observation as the concluding one, is 7 that it.
has lasted much too long already.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept.. 25.
IN RE THOMAS WEBSTER.
The bankrupt had carried on business as an Ame-
rican merchant. lle had also traded extensively as
gengral outfitter, in Upper Thames-street, but sold
his ntterest in the stock-in-trade and premises to his
brother-in-law, al it was alleged, for a sum of 3,000/:
The amount of debts and liabilities in connection with
his American transactions were stated in lii. balance
.iheet to be 4,9001., and the assets that were likely to
be realised from the same source was about 1,5001.,
of which about one-half was debts, several of which
were descrcbed as doubtful. The debts and liabilities
incurred in his trade as an outfitter were:about 7,000/.
The case was eventually adjourned for tbe.puipose
of affording the trade assignees an opportunity for
further inquiries respecting the alleged sale, acid 0'
his American dealings.

Thar: does INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,' Spt. 14.
A.Nesting order was made on Saturday, in the case
of a French woman named lienriette d'Ambre, con.;
fined in the Queen's Prison, on a petition. presented
the day previously, praying to be. discharged under
the Act. Her schedule contains debts with 'milliners and
others, contracted from April last to Septeinber; amount-
ing in that short period to 3701. the creditors are
tradespeople at tkeWest-end. On the general balance_
yt
aZeimnsbenitv.eren stpe,deebitionig..
sheet7appears the cause of insolvency inththe.e:arllciouwisin
words,:—" The cause of my present insolvency IS
hayipg.been disappointed in my expectations; of
ilertford not having
re-
ceiving money from the executors of
been realised."
appear on the proceedings
the expectations alluded to in the foregoin—
ft is said that the insolvent attended a
the appearance before the Cot:
the trial of Nicholas Suisse,the valet of the
a witnes3 on
• who it will be recollected
guts, 1 the late Mar-
was tried t
session of the Central Criminal ,-, .a the late
uCourt.
It does not appear, front the *
examined.' iler hettrin(p report, that she was
December next. t, ~.tnnot take ' One before
~

CENTRAL'ANAL COURT.
OLD COURT. • -
MURDER •ON THE lIIGII SEAS.
(Continued from our Morning Edition of Saturday.)
Mr. CLARKSON then proceeded to address the Jury
On behalf of the prisoner, and called a witness,. when
The Foreman of the Jury said that the Jury had
made up their minds at the conclusion of the case for
the prosecution that the evidence was not sufficient to
warrant them in convicting the prisoner.
Mr. ADOLPHUS said that at present the Jury ap-
peared almost to reprove the Government for having
taken up the case, and he was therefore anxious to
satisfy them that the Government had only done what
its duty to the public required. With,regard to the
complaint of a witness having been kept- back, he
could only say that that individual was'never under-
stood to be a witness for the Crown, and he was not
examined at any time in that capacity:.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said there was not the
least ground for complaining of the conduct of the
Government,, which had acted only with a due regard
to the interest of the public, and its duty to.a foreign
State, one of whose subjects was alleged to have
lost his life at the hands of the prisoner, it was a most
serious charge, and one which demanded
The Jury said they did not wish to
.throw any
blame upon the conductors of the prosecution, but in
their opinion the evidence was quite insufficient to
support the charge, and they would have.stated their
opinion to the Court, but for the expectation, when
Mr. Clarkson rose, that he was about to submit to
their Lordships that there was no cases against the
prisoner. . .
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said that after this. impres-
Sion -of the opinion of the Jury, whose .peculiar pro-
vince it WAS to consider the effect of the evidence, it
would be useless to proceed any further.
The ptisonei was then acquitted.-