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

rilE SUN, LONDO,N,: TKESDA EVEN INS, NO VEMBt:R. 1845.

REMARKABLE EXPOSURE OF AN

ANTI-MESMERIC DOCTOR.

The following castigation (revised and abridged from the
Leamington Spa Courier), was recently administered by Mr.
Spencer T. Hall. It was at the close of a course of lecture.,

befo7e a numerous and highly respectable audience, that Mr.
Hall came forward and said— He held in his hand a news-
paper—the Warwick Advertiser of Saturday—upon a letter
in which not mesmerism only, but humanity, demanded that
he should now make some remarks. That letter, entitled
" Mesmerism in a Dilemma," and signed " Scrutator," could
not originally have been intended for the paper in which
it appeared, but for the Leamington Courier, for it began as
follows :

" To the Editor of the Warwick Advertiser,

"Sir,—l happened to be in Leamington in the early part
of this year, when a person named Donovan was lecturing on
Mesmerism, and also on Wednesday last, when Mr. Spencer
T. Hail gave his first lecture on this subject. I was amused
and gratified, in common with the visitors and inhabitants of
your beautiful Spa,—(do any of you know of a Spa at War-
wick; asked Mr. Hall, amidst laught-r ?)—" by the straight.
forward, prompt, and effective manner in which Dr. Lietch
exposed the hollow pretensions of the former lecturer, and by
the manner in which he followed it up, as I saw by your pa-
per, proving that the four Leamington boys who ex-
hibited the 'phenomena' on that occasion were rogues all.'
I was glad to see that the aulience on Wednesday last,
warned, I suppose, by their former mistake, did not attempt
to hiss down the gentleman alluded to. In my own
opinion, and it was the opinion of many who sat near me on
Wednesday evening, Mr. Hall's exhibition was the most
lame, ridiculous, and transparently artful, on the part of the
boys, that could well be shown to an audience a-gape for
wonders. The two young rogues should be well whipped,
and taught some honest way of livelihood." • * • " Mr.
Hall, though evidently wishing to shirk the subject of clair-
voyance, was compelled, by the questions of the querist, to
assert that he believed in clairvoyance." * * * " Having
got all this distinctly asseverated by the lecturer—as, indeed,
with his book, and all books on the subject staring him in
the face, he could not well avoid doing—Dr Lietch then very
naively declared that, for Isis part, he believed in the old
fashioned way, that people saw with their eyes, and with
nothing else.'
Then comes (said the speaker) Dr. Lietch's challenge, with
further compliments to Dr. Lietch, and abuse of myself ; and
the letter ends with a date from " Leamington" Now, it
will be found in my book of " Mesmeric Experiences,"
which Dr. Lietch says be has read, that there is a history of
my connection with the cases of Wm. Holbrook and Henry
Wigston, the youths alluded to, one of whom is a native of
Nottingham, and the other of Leicester, in which towns re-
spectively they are known to persons of station and in-
fluence, ' who can speak to their characters—characters in
which I knew no blemish. I have at my command, at
least four hundred cases in different parts of the
country, for any. one of which I could send on
an adequate occasion, but I prefer, at present, to
operate upon these, because I have the most per-
fect faith in their integrity. '6 Scrutator" has ventured to
assert that they are " rogues ;" and, away as they are from
their parents, by whom they are entrusted with me as their
temporary guardian, I have felt myself called upon to repu-
diate, in the most emphatic manner, such a false imputation.
—(Cheers.) It was in this capacity, and from a due regard
to the feelings of Henry Wigston, who is more specifically
alluded to in this gross libel, and to the feelings of his
parents, to whom his character and future prospects are most
dear, that I called this day upon Mr. Sharpe, the publisher
of the Advertiser, to demand the name of the author.
Having myself been connected with the public press, for
nearly sixteen years, and,having in that time been identified
with the management of several leading provincial journals,
I am not unaware of the liability of an editor to be imposed
upon by unconscientious contributors. Although knowing
that the publisher of the paper was liable to an action for libel,
in consideration of what I have now stated, I felt that it
would be sufficient for the present case if the name of the
writer were given up to me, that I might deal with him
alone. Calling upon the publisher (Mr. Sharpe), he told me
that he did not know the author, and argued somewhat irra-
tionally in extenuation of the libel ; but referred me to the
editor (Mr. Hersee), who, without hesitatior, and in the
most prompt and courteous manner informed me that Dr.
Lietch himself was the guarantee for its insertion—(Cheers
and confusion.) As a further confirmation that it was Dr.
Lietch who bad thus been complimenting and endeavouring
to raise himself by abusing me and my patients, I can now
repeat what I have already stated, that the day before that
paper was published, Dr. L. used precisely the same lan-
guage to me which he there applies to the boys, against
whom he cannot prove a single act of dishonesty. In
whom, then, is the deception ? The boys or Dr.
Lietch?—(Cheers, hisses, and signs of interruption from
some individual in the back seats.) Now all that I require is,
a fair hearing and clear justice. When Dr. Lietch wrote
that letter, I was not there to interrupt him, nor will I now
be interrupted by any man in my reply. Dr. Lietch has
complimented himself on the " naive" manner in which he
professes to have drawn me into certain admissions regarding
clairvoyance ; and having told us that he regards clairvoyance
as the key-stone to Mesmerism, and that if it fails the whole
structure falls, he considers that he has completely established
his point. You have most of you heard the anecdote of " the
brow-beating barrister," in Fyas's " Heads of the People,"
who, having done all in his power to shake the testimony of
a conscientious witness without success, boldly asks him if be
has ever been at Birmingham? Being answered in the
negative, he repeats the question with still greater pertinacity,
" have you never been at Birmingham?" " No." " Then
tell me, and remember you are on your oath, have you
never been at Manchester?" " Yes. ' "There's a pre-
varicating fellow," concludes the barrister, and turning
to the jury with a leer, says, " I do not think it
necessary to ask such a witness as this any more
questions." Just such was the course of conduct pur-
sued by Dr. Lietch. When I was lecturing upon a class of
phenomena totally different from clairvoyance, and whilst
confessing that at that time I hard no certain means of illus-
trating it, he "naively" drew me into the simple admission
that I believed it, and then professed to have disproved ali
the rest I had shown, and you, Mr. Chairman, and others
had tested. As well might he have argued that because
clairvoyance could not. in circumstances inimical to its de-
velopment be proved, that would be sufficient evidence that
James Wombell's leg had not been amputated without pain.
Presuming (and fairly too for the reasons I have shown),
that Dr, Lietch, either wrote or dictated "Scrutator's" letter,
he further compliments himself, and endeavours to depre-
ciate me and Mesmerism, by alluding to the "naive" manner
in which he exposed Mr. Donovan and his boys. Not being
acquainted with Mr. Donovan, of him in this case I can say
nothing; but there are gentlemen of veracity and honour in
this room, at the present moment, who have furnished me
with incontrovertible documentary evidence as to the trap
baited by Dr. Lietch to catch one or more of the boys ; gentlemen
who will come forward and support it with their names should
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it be questioned. After these.boys had been mesmerised by
Mr. Donovan, Dr. Lietch took a policeman.—(Cries of "No,
no.") Well there was one present at Dr. Lietch's house, as
if in attendance to apprehend a criminal.—(Mr. H. Young
here exclaimed—" Only part of the time.") This observation
was followed by mingled cheers and jeers.) Mr. Hall con-
tinued—Be it so—" only part of the time." That a police-
man was there, with handcuffs, is established by the fact that
he received a fee for his services, and was subsequently repri-
manded by his superior for taking any part in the transac-
tion.—(Cheers.) By way of invalidating mesmerism, Dr.
Lietch then told one of the boys, in a stern manner, that if
he did not confess that he had been tricking those_who be-

lieved in mesmerism (the handcuffs having- been displayed
before his eyes), he would be taken to gaol.—(Sensation.)
After this confession, thus wrung from him, he received
from Dr. Lietch five shillings as a reward for his
delinquency.—(More sensation.) You have all heard
of Jonathan Wild, the thief-trapper, who, to satisfy
his own selfish ends, bribed Jack Sheppard and
others into one crime, and frightened them into ancther, that
he might afterwards receive the benefit of their conviction.
—(Hear, hear, and hisses.) Is not Dr. Lietch, so far as
science is concerned, in a position strictly analogous to this ?
—(Cheers.) Have we not many instances in the history of
our race, not of merely poor uneducated boys, but of great
men who for years have endured the severest persecution
rather than relinquish a faith upon which they believed the
eternal salvation of their souls to depend, but who at last
have been driven by fear of the screw, and other tortures, to
confess to imaginary crimes rather than incur the pains and
obloquy of further persecutions. And may it not, therefore,
have followed that the boy to whom I have alluded, with the
handcuffs and gaol before his eyes, and with no extraordinary
degree of moral courage to sustain him, was, by the stimula-
tion of his fears, and the other means used on this occasion,
driven into betraying his conscience, unjustly to Mesmerism,
and for the gratification of its opponents ? And let me ask
whether or not, if a professor of Mesmerism, had ever
employed similar means to induce a boy thus to belie himself
in his favour, any man wculd have been more ready to con-
demn, and to hold him up to shame, than Dr. Lietch ?
(Cheers.) There is at the present time in Leamington a do-
cument, signed by the same boy, in the presence of a gentle-
man of the highest respectability, in which he avers that he
really had been put into an abnormal condition by Mes-
merism by that gentleman, subsequently to the scene at Dr.
Lietch's, and further that he had been inducrd to confess what
he had done there, although that confession was false, by the
fear of the punishment, and the hope of a promised brille
from his tempter and convict or—Dr. Lietch !—(Cheers). Ndtv
for myself, it is of comparatively little consequence what Dr.
Lietch says of me. After all that I have done and endured,
in defence of this great truth—to say nothing of the reputa-
tion I enjoyed as a literary man before—l may be considered
as one belonging to his country and his age, and not to
be judged by a single locality or the doings of a single hour.
Misrepresentation has done its worst for me,—persecution has
beeu carried to my fire- side, and invaded the sanctuary of
my dearest affections; but whatever I may have done,—
and we all do something to repent of,—although there may be
errors of judgment which were life to come over again, I
would carerully avoid ; I defy any one to injure my moral
character, either as a private or a public man, if I can only
have an impartial hearing, and both sides be fairly judged;
and that hearing I can obtain, because I have not only
some degree of influence with the public press, but can,
if occasion require it, write my sentiments in a book,
and print, and bind it with my own hands. But it is
different with these boys whom I have brought before
you • and considering the faith they have in me, and
in immanity,—a faith that no one is justified in abusing,
—considering that, from time to time, they have allowed
me to pass them into conditions, for the elucidation of truth
and the promotion of science, conditions in which they have
no command of themselves; 1 should ill be performing my
duty to them, their parents, and my own conscience, if I did
not stand up and defend them with as much energy as I
would defend myself from the libellous attacks of Dr. Lietch,
or any other man.—(Cheers.) Two very strong motives to
good conduct, especially in youth, are self-respect, and the
estimation in which others hold us. Take away these, by
imputing to a boy faults of which he is not guilty—perse-
cute him for those imaginary faults, and you will soon make
his existence so degraded or so intolerable that it becomes of
little consequence to him, so far as this life is concerned,
whether his practices be right or wrong. Therefore, I hold
it to be one of the highest crimes, first to pollute the mind
of a youth by stimulating his fears, or tempting him with
a bribe, and then to damn humanity in his estimation
for ever, by his tempter turning round and becoming his
accuser.—(Cheers), And who after all is Dr. Lietch ?
(Cheers). Caviar, the great naturalist; Liebeg, the great
chemist; Archbishop Whateley, a divine; Shelley, the poet;
Combe, the mental philosopher; Dr. Elliotson, the physio•
logist ; Dr. Dick, the astronomer, and others scarcely less
eminent iu every walk of science and literature; these are
virtually called dupes and impostors, by Dr. Lietch, who im-
putes imposture or delusion to all who believe in, or advocate,
Mesmerism ;—and again I ask, who is Dr. Lietch?—(Cheers
arcs laughter.) One word more for him, and I have done. Had
he known me better, he had let me alone; but since we have
become acquainted, this, I ctifi promise him, that should he
on any occasion think fit to apply fur the sitllatien of a Felipe
spy, a thiefstrapper, or a minister to some inquisition, if he
will refer to me I will give him a recommendation.—(Con-
fusion.) Dr. Lietch has chosen to attack me through the
newspapers ; let him if he will defend himself in the
same way; or if he does not prefer that course, he has still
the same chance that I have, that of hiring a room
awj giving a lecture, in which he may, if he
likes, speitti. cboldly and as honestly of me, as
I have now done Iliffo For the
satisfaction of this large, respectable, and attentive audienge,
I have now to state that, as I have to stay in this town for a
L short period, in the proeecutieu of my private duties, if a

moderate number of candid and intelligent gentlemen will
fOrm themselves into a Committee of Investigation, I shall
be exceedingly happy to associate with them for the purpose
of bringing Mesmerism to such tests as those best acquainted
with its practice consider most legitimate and fair. These
gentlemen shall have the choice of subjects for me to operate
upon : my next lectures (to be given in November) shall be
exclusively illustrated, if required, by experiments on, the
parties, thus chosen, and the surplus proceeds, if the pheno-
mena are not perfectly satisfactory to the Committee, be de-
voted entirely, as those of the first lecture of this course have
been, to some public charity.—(Cheers.)

IRELAND.
THE POTATO DISEASE.-FEVER.

DUBLIN, Nov. 9.—lt has rained, with little intermission
by day or night, since Thursday last, and last night very
heavily. This very unfavourhble state of the weather will,
we:fear, greatly extend the calamity of the potato blight. The
repofts from the country, with few exceptions, are of the
most afflicting kind. Those who had been, a week or two
since, confidently calculating upon the preservation of two-
thirds of the crop, now despair of saving a third part.
Already there are accounts of the appearance of pestilence in
the poor and crowded suburbs of some provincial towns. In
several cases landlords are acting with great cruelty in the
exaction of rents ; but the far greater portion of the landed
proprietors seem disposed to treat their tenantry with kind-
ness and forbearanee.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.
THE DINNER AT GUILDHALL.
The inauguration dinner of the Lord Mayor took place at seven
o'clock, last evening, at Guildhall, which, as usual, was illu-
minated with refulgent splendour, the beautiful star of the Order
of the Garter shining conspicuously forth midst the general blaze
of light. From haltpast three o'clock the arrivals of various dis-
tinguished personages were incessant, and considerable interest
was manifested as each new comer was announced and made his
appearance. A flourish of trumpets ushered in the new Lord
Mayor and his lady, who were greeted wtth a warm reception as
they passed through the ha ) Sir James Graham soon after fol-
lowed, and was welcomed with cheers. The Right Hon. Baronet
repeatedly acknowledged the compliment as it was repeated.
The Lord Mayor took the chair at seven o'clock, and was sup •
ported by the late Lord Mayor (Alderman Gibbs). Prince Hilo! of
Muscat and the Right Hon. Sir James Graham sat near his Lord-
ship on his right, and the Lady Mayoress occupied the seat on his
Lordship's left. Amongst the company present we also observed
their Excellencies the Foreign Ministers, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of
Eldon, Lord W. Lennox, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord
Dudley Stuart, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord
Montford, Lord Harris, Lord Chief-Justice Tindal, Chief Baron
Pollock, Mr. Justice Pattcson, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron
Platt, Mr. Vice-Chancellor Wigram, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Admiral Sir George Cockburn, the Right
Honourable Henry Pierrepont, H. T. L. Corry, Esq., M.P., W. B.
Baring, Esq., M.P., the Deanof Westminster, Col. Wood (Brecon),
ALP., Col. T. Wood, M.P., Hon. H. Fitzroy, M.P., Sir R. H.
Inglis, M.P., Sir W. Heathcote, Bart., Sir F. B. Head, Bart., Sir
Edward Antrobus, Bait, Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., Sir Hesketh
Fleetwood, Bart., Sir Harry Goring, Bart., the Governor and
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England. the Chairman and
Deputy-Chairman of the East India Company, Sir C. S. Hunter,
Mr. Alderman Lucas, Sir J. Key, Bart., Sir Peter Laurie,
Bart., Mr. Alderman Farebrother, Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. Al.
derman Wilson, Mr. Alderman Mariner, Sir J. Pixie, &c. &c.
There was more than the ordinary number of ladies present.
The following is the general bill of the fare which was provided
I for the occasion :-
250 tureens of real turtle, containing 5 pints each ; 200 bottles
of sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 entrées, 4 boiled turkeys and
oysters, 60 roast pullets, 60 dishes of fowls, 46 ditto of capons, 6
ditto of Captain White's Selim's true India curries, 50 French
pies, 60 pigeon pies, 53 hams ornamented, 43 tongues, 2 quarters
of house lamb, 2 barons of beef, 3 rounds of beef, 2 stewed rumps
of beef. 13 sirloins. rumps, and ribs of beef ; 6 dishes of asparagus,
60 ditto of mashed and other potatoes, 44 ditto of shell fish, 4 ditto
of prawns, 140 jellies, 50 blacmanges, 40 dishes of tarts creamed,
40 dishes of almond pastry, 30 dishes of orange and other tondo,
20 Chantilly baskets, 60 dishes of mince pies, and 56 salads.
The Removes-80 roast turkeys, 6 leverets. 80 pheasants, 24
geese, 40 dishes of partridges, 15 dishes of will fowl, 2 peafowls.
Dessert-100 pineapples, from 21b. to 31b. each ; 200 dishes of
hothouse grapes, 250 ice creams, 50 dishes of apples, 100 ditto of
pears, 60 ornamental Savoy cakes, 75 plates of walnuts, 80 ditto
of dried fruit and preserves, 50 ditto of preserved ginger, 60 ditto
of rout cakes and chips, and 46 ditto of brandy cherries.
At the conclusion of the dinner, the customary loving cup which
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs drink to their invited guests was an.
nounced by :the renowned toastmaster Toole in a most• emphatic
style, which excited general applause.
Grace having been said,
The LORD MAYOR rose and proposed as the first toast "the health
of our noble and generous Queen, and long life to her,'' which was
drunk with three times three.
The Loan MAYOR next proposed "the health of the Queen
Dowager," which was duly responded to.
The next toast was "the Duke of Wellington and the Army,"
for which Sir .1. Burgoyne returned thanks.
The LORD M►YOR then proposed a toast, which from some over.
sight had not been given before, " the health of Prince Albert, the
Prince of Wales, and the other branches of the Royal Family."
The toast having been duly honoured,
The LORD MAYOR, next gave—" Sir G. Cockburn and the
Navy."

Sir G. Cocasuaw returned thanks for the honour which had
been done to the profession to which he belonged. He was aware
how much the country was indebted to the exertions of her sea-
men, and he need not say that the British navy, whenever its
services might be required, would ever be found ready to perform
its duty and vindicate the honour of the country.—(Cheers.)
The Loan Memo* then proposed—" Prosperity to the Trade and
Commerce of the City of London." His Lordship, in giving this
toast, accompanied it by several observations which we regret to
say did not reach us, as the voice of the speakers generally was,
to a certain degree, lost in the vastness of the hall in which
they spoke.
The LORD ?defog next gave—" the health of the late Lord
Mayor ;" for which
Mr. Alderman Gums returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " the health of Her Majesty's
Ministers.''
The toast having been drunk with the usual honours,
Sir J. Gaanam, in returning thanks, was with difficulty heard,
but was understood to say—ln the first place, he had to express
regret on the part of his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the
Government for his absence on the present occasion. Nothing but
severe indisposition, from which he had partially recovered, would
have prevented his presence; but for his Right Hon. Friend who
was absent, and for himself, and all his colleagues, he would un.
dertake to state that it was to them a matter of real pleasure and
satisfaction to accept the invitation of the citizens of London, on
an occasion like the present. They felt, as had been truly stated
by the Lord Mayor, in proposing the toast of " Prosperity to the
trade of that great city," that the prosperity of the city of London
was connected with the welfare of the country at large.—(Hear.)
The administration of the government of such a country as this was
at all times an arduous task, and from time to time occasional
difficulties must arise, which no human prudence could antici-
pate, and no human wisdom or power could avert. His Right
Hon. Friend (the Lord Mayor) had said that the present Govern.
ment possessed the general confidence of the present assembly. He
could not but presume that in so large a meeting there must be a
great difference of opinion, but when he looked around those walls,
and saw assembled within them those whom he regarded as the re-
presentatives of the wealth, intelligence. industry, and enterprise of
this great community, he could not but think that whatever diffi-
culties Ministers might have to encounter, they would be sup-
ported as long as they had one honest purpose in view—that was,
without favour or affection to devote their abilities to promote the
welfare of their country.—( Hear. hear.) For himself, in the situ-
ation which he held, he could state that he had at all times and
occasions received, without reference to party, co-operation and
cordial assistance from the city authorities in upholding the peace
and good order of the community, and, in conclusion, he congra.
tulated the Lord Mayor upon attaining the highest point of honour
which his fellow-citizens could bestow upon him, and begged to
propose his health.
The toast having been drunk with three times three.
The Loan MAYOR teturned thanks, stating that it was his
determination to perform the functions of his office in a manner
which he believed would be satisfactory to his fellow-citizens.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " the health of the foreign
Ministers."
The Belgian Chargé d'Affaires returned thanks, and in con.
elusion gave " the health of the Lady Mayoress"
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks for the compliment, and
immediately afterwards the Lady Mayoress and the other ladies
retired.
The next toasts were—the Lord Chief-Justice Tindal and the
judges; the Attorney-General and the bar; the Court of Alder-
men ; and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex ; which were
respectively responded to, and the company separated about a
quarter past 10 o'clock.

REVIEW_OF THE CORN TRADE.
BRITISH CORN.

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A reaction has taken place in public opinion since our last,
hlaereisb3 nor a foundationportion
the press during the past fortnight, respecting the probabi-
lity of an immediate Ministerial interference with the exist-
ing corn-laws. The effect of the reports alluded to on the
trade in grain has undoubtedly been of a mischievous ten-
dency; the regular course of business having been disturbed
thereby. All parties, whether sellers or buyers, have na-
turally, whilst any doubt was supposed to attach to the main-
tenance of the present regulations, refrained from entering
into fresh engagements. tinder these circumstances the
transactions of the week have been on a comparatively re-
stricted scale, and it is probable that, until uncertainty on
this important subject be wholly removed, merchants, mil-
lers, and others, will continue to employ more than ordinary.
caution in their operations. The fall of 2s. per quarter, whiet
has taken place in the price of wheat must be mainly t'ari-
buted to the dept.( ssing influence of the state of don at and
uncertainty above described. The auspicious weather ex-
perienced for the conclusion of the northern harvest may have
had some effect ; but this alone would not, we think, have
been sufficient to occasion a decline in the value of wheat, the
quantity of that grain groan in the north being,in a national
point of view, unimportant. We are, therefore, inclined
to believe that the present languor will prove temporary,
and see no cause to alter the opinion we have previously
expressed, viz., that prices .of bread stuffs will be higher
than they have yet been, either before the termination of
the present or early in the ensuing year. In stating this to
be our conviction, we have not the slightest desire to aid
those who have for some time been labouring to produce
that alarm they profess to dread. That the yield of wheat
is defective, as well in quantity as in quality, admits of no
doubt; but to represent the deficiency to be so great as to
threaten a famine is a gross exaggeration. It is perfectly
true that prices are likely to rule much higher than in any.
previous season since the present corn-laws have been In
force; but, indifferent as has been the harvest on the Ce;nti_
nent, we have no doubt we shall be enabled to draw sPnicient
supplies from foreign countries to make good our o.,ficieney.
To do this, however, the value of the articles nwst rise here
so as to cause the duty to fall to a low, if *not the lowest,
point. Under the existing laws it requires an average of 725.
per qr. to admit wheat at Is. per qr. duty, whilst the last
weekly return for the kingdom is 6th. lcl. per qr. It must be
recollected, however, that a large proportion of the wheat
usually thrashed soon after the completion of the harvest,
consists of the most inferior qualities, and that the condition
of even the worst will be improved after it shall have been
subjected to the action of frost. It is, therefore, very pos-
sible that a rise of 6s. to Bs. per qr. on the present prices
would be sufficient to lower the duty, without any interfer-
ence of the Legislature, to a point to encourage importations.
That such will take place we fully expect; but this does not
necessarily imply that misery and want are to be the portion
of the poorer classes of the community. We need not look
back many years for a period when wheat was much higher
than it would be were the anticipated rise on present rates
realised; at the same time there was a great want of employ-
ment for our artizans and labourers; but even then, though
the pressure was severe, things were not nearly so bad as the
alarmists prognosticate will be the state of affairs during the
coming winter. The flourishing state of trade in the manu-
facturing districts, and the increased employment created by
the formation of the numerous railways, afford a guarantee
against the distress predicted ; and as far as regards England
and Scotland, we see no grounds for gloomy forebodings.
As respects Ireland, we must admit we entertain serious
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doubts. '►'he potato failure appears to be more t. eneral there than
on this side of the channel, and though the grain crops have as
a whole probably turned out better in the sister isle than
with us, the people are, unfortunately, too poor to obtain
even oatmeal as a substitute for their staple article of food ;
and without assistance in one way or the other from England,
much misery must result. Government have for some time
been alive to thiq state of things, and should the potato crop
really prove so bad as represented, the Legislature must in-
terfere.

The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London -have been
fair, the quantity reported up to this (Saturday) evening
amounting to 8,995 quarters. A considerable proportion of
the preceding week's supply having, however, remained un-
sold, as well as the major part of Monday's show by land
carriage, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, the stands have been
well filled. The millers have throughout the week acted with
the utmost caution, being anxious to have all doubts re-
moved regarding the Ministerial intentions relative to the
talked-of Order in Council to admit grain free, before they
replenish their stocks. On Wednesday scarcely a transac-
tion took place; indeed, so unimportant were the sales, that
quotations were perfectly nominal. On Friday affairs under-
went a slight improvement, and at a trifle below Monday's
currency the greater part of what had previously remained
unsold was cleared off.

Holders of free foreign wheat have firmly refused to sta..
mit to lower terms, and where it has been necessary to buy
old for mixing, purchasers have had to pay previous prices.
The advance established on bonded wheat about the close of
the preceding week has been maintained, but the high rates
demanded have checked speculation, and comparatively few
contracts have been closed, either as regards parcels on the
spot, or cargoes to arrive.

The averages rise so tardily, in consequence of the very
inferior quality of much of the new wheat, that it has become
questionable whether the duty will, for the present, fall below
13s. per qr., unless circumstances should occur to give a fresh
impetus to prices. The last weekly return for the kingdom
is 60s. ld. per qr., though moderately good qualities have for
some time been worth at least 70s. per qr. at the principal
consuming markets. It is not at all probable that holders of
wheat in bond here will enter for consumption unless the
duty falls considerably lower than it appears at present likely
to do, the chances being greatly in favour of higher prices
in the spring.
_ _

.
The sale of town-made flour has not been lively since our
last, but the previous value of the article has been steadily
supported. Ship flour has been more pressingly offered, and
in some caseallorfolk household and similar marks have been
sold at prices which would not have been accepted the pre-
ceding week. Canada flour has also moved off somewhat
tardily at late rates ; nor has there been much doing in
United States and other sorts under lock.

Though the arrivals of barley have not been by any
means large, this grain has been rather difficult of disposal ;
it has, therefore. been impossible to recover the decline of
Monday; indeed, for all but choice qualities, the rates then
current have been paid with considerable reluctance, and
present appearances indicate a further abatement.
The inquiry for malt has been of a retail character; but
the quantity of superior quality on the market being small,
the best sorts have brought quite as much money.
With slightly increased supplies of oats (25,256 quarters
having come to hand, including foreign, within the past
eight days) the upward movement in price has been
checked. It being the general opinion that rather a large
supply must be on passage from Ireland, which the pre-
vailing westerly wind may be expected to bring to hand,
the principal dealers have refused to purchase, and thoti4.
prices at least Is. per quarter below those at ',vial;
sales were made on Monday would kar,
been ac-
cepted on Friday, factors were unable to 7.-dae sales of any
'ile hands of the large
havetnuc ; el
wantsbi‘efe will -soon oblige them to purchase more
en ranzhuicleed ntothiestoyks 1"
a very narrow compass, and
aeditmhxeeatpielorenrrts:aicvely ; it may therefore be questioned whether the
value of this grain will give way much more. The duty
fell ss. per qr. on Thursday, and will be down another step
next Week; this being, however, anticipated, it has not had
much influence on prices of bonded oats. Archangels have
been freely offered at 265., and other sorts at corresponding
rates.

There was not much passing in beans either on Wednesday
or Friday, but former terms were well maintained.
Peas of all kinds were scarce, and brought high prices.
The duty on beans has for some time past been at Is. per
qr., and that on peas also declined to the minimum point on
Thursday last.

FOREIGN CORN.
The accounts from the Baltic are of much the same cha-
racter this as the preceding week. Prices of wheat have
risen so rapidly there that few of the orders from hence to
purchase wheat have been executed, higher rates having
been paid by speculators than the limits of the British orders
have admitted.

Letters from Dantzic, of the Ist instant, state that about
16,000 quarters of wheat had changed hands during the week
almost entirely on speculation: There was not much being
shipped to England ; but vesels being very scarce, high
freights had been paid for the few ships engaged to load
wheat; ss. 6d. to 6s. had been paid for London, ss. 3d. to
ss. 9d. for the East Coast, and 6s. to is. per quarter for Liver
pool.

At Hamburg, on Tuesday last, there was not much doing,
the very high prices asked for wheat having checked the dis-
position to buy.
From the south and east the reports also represent the
value of wheat as ris►ng rapidly, and a letter from Mar-
seilles states that it was the belief there that the exporta-
tion of grain would be prohibited in the Ottoman empire;
and a similar step would, it was thought, be adopted by
the Neapolitan Government. In consequence of these ru-
►uours, and the lively advices from Great Britain, a good
deal of speculation had taken place in wheat at high prices,
say 50s. to 525. for tine Polish Odessa and Marianople, and
from 455. to 48s. per quarter for secondary qualities.
From Leghorn we learn, under date of 31st October, that
a brisk inquiry had been experienced there for wheat for
export, and that equal to 495. 6d. had been paid for Polish
Odessa.

At Trieste, on the 30th ult., the greatest excitement pre-
vailed, and rather large sales appear to have been made there
at prices varying from 365. 9d. to 40s. per quarter free on
board, according to quality.
At Odessa, according to the most recent accounts, prices
of wheat were also moving up, as much as 319. per quarter,
having been paid there for the best Polish.—Mark-lane
Express.

MILEAGE or A MAN.— The number of square
inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2,500;
the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000 ; and the number of
inches of perspiratory tubes is 1,750,000; that is, 145,833 feet,
or 46,600 yards, or nearly twenty-eight miles.—lVjlson.
DEATH 01' THE REV. DR. SMART.—This esteemed
minister died on Tuesday last, In the house of his son, Campbell
Smart, Esq., Elm.row, Edinburgh. He was the senior minister of
the first United Secession Church, Stirling, in which he laboured
for the long period of 57 years, and was only the fourth minister
who has presided over this congregation since the famous disrup-
lien in 1732, when the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine left the Established
Church with his congregation. Dr. Smart was, we believe, in the
84th year of his age.—Scotsman.

ROCHESTER.—The staunch: Conservatives of this
ancient city dined together last evening at the Crown Inn, to cele-
brate the election of Robert Clements, Esq., to the civic chair,
which he so ably filled to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens a
few years since. Ills known integrity and kindness of manners,
accompanied by an indefatigable disposition to uphold and secure
the rights of his fellow• citizens, shows the esteem he must be held
in by their again placing him at the head of their corporation.
The dinner and wines were of first-rate character, the whole well
served under the superintendence of Mr. Calder.
ROBBING A UNION WORKHOUSE.—On Monday
man named George Green, was finally examined before the Bench
of Magistrates, at Brentford, on a charge of having stolen a dial
clock from the board-room of the Staines union workhouse. It
appeared from the evidence, that sometime between Monday, the
3d instant, and Wednesday, the sth, the eight-day dial clock was
found to have been stolen from its place in the board-room of the
Staines union workhouse, between I3edfont and Staines, all entry
having been effected by the thief breaking a square of glass in the
window of the ante.room leading to the board-room. Immediate
information of the robbery was forwarded to the police, but no
trace of the thief was obtained until about noon on Friday last,
when the prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Upjohn, clock and
watch-maker, New Brentford. and offered an eight-day dial, with_
out a face, for sale. The prisoner was fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
FAILURE OF TILE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AMALGAmA.
noN.—The long pending treaty for an amalgamation of the
Leeds and Dewsbury, the Leeds and Thirik, and the Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railways, although at one time
promising so favourable a result, and which would have
been beneficial to the West Riding of the county of York,
from the combination of the interests of these important lines
of communication, and their contemplated branches, have
entirely failed, at least for the present,—we wish we could
add, with a reasonable hope of their renewal at some future
tittle,—Leeds Mercury.

SPIRIT of .the
FROM THE..
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,!TL:3Lrc JOURNALS.
G PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

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CHRONICLE.- —lt of no use any longer trying to hope where
there is no hope. it would now be sheer trifling to affect to con.
real from ourselves the trip ;h, that " nothing will be done." The
law of artificial fronine is to take its course. The slidirg.scale has
three months given to do it, worst. Three months--three winter
months—of British scarcity 1 and Irish famine, before the Govern-
ment will lift a little 6,- ger for prevention or relief All the Ca
billet Councils of lb,
past to, n days, with their adjournments and
re-adjournments., P'
Ave come tt' nothing; and Cabinet Ministers are
out of town zo 'enjoy the rustic °Hum cum dignitate
which has so disagreeably disturbed. The exigencies of a
crisis the m' _n
alarming that has occurred for a quarter of a cen-
tury, art gravely ignored, sn'ter protracted deliberation, by the
Is nun makes-believe to govern the empire. The country
'-utraed adrift, and left to the tender mercies of potato-plague
and. averars. The amazei nent with which one contem.
plaftes the reckless and d. wing hardihood of this deci.
sie.rs of Sir Robht Peel's, rejects, as totally inadequate,
'all the ordinary language of n sere political censure. Indignation
iss, for the moment, lost in astonishment. We did not believe that
the man lived, out of Bedlam,, who would dare to assume tie re.
sponsibility of three winter months of famine prices and prohibi-
tory duties. Least of all co Jld we have imagined that Sir Robert
Peel--a statesman so nerve usly irritable at the bare mention of
" responsibility," and so '.horoughly well cognisant of the nature
and power of those terrible. realities with which his legislation has
brought us face to face—'could be the man to charge Isimseif with
this burden, That " Sir Robert Peel has a heart, after all," we
did not take it on ourselves to affirm very positively ; but we ccr.
taint), 'never supposed him to have those nerves of iron which he
wilt need between now and next February. We knew, of
course, that he would have some trouble with certain of
his colleagues; but the well understood relative posi-
tion of Premier and colleagues in the Peel Cabinet
left little to be apprehended on this score. We had
always considered that the egotism se conspicuous in the Pre-
mier's Parliamentary oratory was something more than a mere
piece of rhetorical bad taste —that it accurately indicated a real
domination of his mind and will over the second and third.rate
men with whom he has surrounded himself; and we made no
doubt of its being asserted to good purpose in a crisis so momentous.
Little as we were justified by experience in looking for a simple,
straightforward, and timely act of statesmanship from Sir Robert
Peel, we did not think it necessary, in this instance, to make ex-
perience the rule and measure of expectation. Exigencies so
novel and alarming would, we believed, suggest and enforce
new counsels. Necessity has no law ; and this seemed a
necessity strong enough to overpower even the law of
habit and character, and to extort wise and decided measures
from a Minister who never, in all his life before, did the
right thing at the right time. That Sir Robert Peel would venture
to disappoint a national presentiment so strong and general as that
which has pervaded this country during the past fortnight, and
which reiterated and protracted Cabinet meetings had raised into
a sort of certainty, we freely took for granted to be morally and
politically impossible. This strenuous inaction of the Govern-
ment is the more amazing, when it is remembered that not only
has nothing happened, since the first summons of a Cabinet
Council, tending to abate public and Ministerial anxieties, Ina everything has contributed to their confirmation and incry.se.
The accounts from Ireland, with some few partial discrepancies,
have, in the main, been more and more gloomy and ominous. The
last intelligence is ever the worst. The " enemy whose history
and habits are yet but imperfectly known"—and to 'whose ma'ig.
slant sway Sir Robert Peel has now made over that miserable coun-
try—has continued and extended its devastations. Every day cuts off
many days' food from four millions of the Irish people—accelerates,
by many slays, the arrival of the last horrible reality.
And yet, knowing this—knowing this officially—the Prime Minister
of the empire, instead of instantly sweeping away his silding.scale
and his shillings, and raising the siege of the averages, insults the
world with the promise (if we are to believe the announcement,
"by authority," of the Dublin Evening Mail) of "a commission
of Intelligent and experienced officers to Consider the measures
which it may be proper to take with a view to provide," &e.
" Experienced " in what, we should like to know, are these officers
to be ? In checking potato rot, or in making the rotten potatoes
sound again ? "The selection of persons," we are coolly told,
"has occasioned some delay ;" the writer does not sate that the
potato rot is delayed in the meanwhile. But " the arrangements
are now nearly completed, and it is hoped that in a few days the corn-
missioners will be able to commence the arduous and responsible
duties" of improving the fastenings of the stable-door after the
steed is stolen. Meanwhile the same calamity is making fearfully
rapid strides in certain districts of this country. We shall pre-
sently have a little Ireland of our own in our southern counties,
Our readers will have already appreciated the signifi-
cance of the dismal fact, that the " enemy whose history
and habits are yet but imperfectly known," is committing
the most deplorable ravages in the agricultural districts cif
the south of England. Already the mischief done is enormous.
It is now for the people of Great Britain, from one end of the
country to the other, to protest, in a tone which no Minister can
dare pretend not to hear, against the insane and criminal obduracy
of maintaining the prohibitory duties in the very face of famine.
The protest must be prompt, loud, unceasing, and unsparing. We
warn the country—though the warn!ng is now superfluous--that
it will take a most determined effort to bring to his duty the
Minister who shamelessly abdicates the functions of Government,
after having distinctly acknowledged the urgency of the crisis call-
ing for their exercise, and who manifests a hardened indifference
to the reality of that " responsibility," the merest allusion to which
he affects to resent as an outrage.

TIMES.—We have recently had occasion to remark, that the
annual supply of food in the world is so determined by the laws of
Providence, of nature, and of trade, that we are always dependent
ou the products of the current year, and that a slight defalcation in
the harvests, or the failure of any one species of food, immediately
indicts considerable and inevitable privations on a large portion of
mankind. The scarcity which at the present time threatens Europe
is not, perhaps, of so frightful a character as the famine sometimes
occasioned by the total failure of crops in particular districts, but
the evil is general and almost universal in extent, and no country
can expect to derive much assistance from any of its European
neighbours. To establish this fact, we have endeavoured to ascer-
tain from our own correspondents, and from other sources on which
implicit reliance may be placed, what are the real prospects of the
supply of corn in different countries; and we shall leave our
readers to draw the obvious inferences which are suggested by the
following statements. The principal countries of the 'weric
and south of Europe are at no time expot tete of
wheat. In France the export and import of core Ss about
equally balanced In ordinary years; but wheat is nea the cus.
tomary food of the French people, and the demand for it and for the
lower kinds of grain must be increased beyoEo. the average, if not
beyond the supply, by the failure of the Witte crop this year. The
harvest in France is, probably. not mor"• below the average, but it
Is iniufficient to compensate for tfre destruction of other food. In
Spain and in Italy the harvest tias been indifferent, and very little,
if any, corn can be expnefr..*. from either country. The progress
of population In the *Am peninsula for the last century has been
far more rapid War. the extension of tillage or the improvement of
agriculture, *The consequence is that Spain has comparatively
little agricultural produce to export; and her own colonies of
Cubasaid Porto Rico now draw their supplies of food from the
1/....ited States. Throughout the Austrian dominions, with the
exception of Hungary, great privations will inevitably be felt.
The large stock of corn usually warehoused at Trieste for the pur-
poses of foreign trade has never been known to be so much reduced
as at the present moment. From Fiume we have received no
recent accounts, but that place is the sole port of Hungary to the
west ; much of the corn grown upon the plains of the Danube is
brought thither up the Save; and it is not unlikely that a supply
might be obtained from thence by foreign vessels, if measures have
not already been taken by the Austrian Government to appropriate
it to the uses of the empire. But although the harvest of Hungary
is abundant, the surplus of that country will certainly not suffice
to satisfy the wants of all its neighbours. In the lower provinces
of the Danube and in Moldavia the scarcity is already great, espe-
cially in these districts which are within reach of water commu-
nication ; higher up the country the crops are reported to have
been better, but the means of transport are wanting. The pro-
vinces of Russia and Poland, which are usually the most fertile
wheat lands of Europe, are this year dependent on foreign
importation; and as a necessary consequence, the Prussian ports
of the Baltic, which commonly export the produce of the
interior of Poland, of Western Russia, and in part of Sile-
sia, will be unable to furniish any considerable amount of corn to
the foreign market. Sweden and Norway do not once in five years
grow their whole consumption ; but it is a curious circumstance,
that in the midst of this sweeping calamity, which has impoverished
empires, and threatens to spread famine ever so many parts of Eu-
rope, the little kindgom of Denmark has been blessed with a har-
vest of singular abundance, and may export a quantity of corn,
large in proportion to its territory,though very small as a measure
of relief to the necessities of other countries. We turn then
with the deepest interest from this dreary picture of European
agriculture to the boundless lands of America, and especially to the
corn• growers of the United States. There at least it is admitted
that the has vest has been excellent, and the crop of Indian corn
especially abundant, The potato disease has, we fear, shown itself
in New England and some of the northern States, as well as in
some o f the British North American colonies; but the consequences
of this disaster are less formidable in America than in
Europe. Let us, then, inquire what are, in a good year, the re.
sources of the United State for the supply of food ? The answer to
such an inquiry is a matter of great interest, not only as it affecti
our present necessities, but with reference to the whole questiou of
the corn duties; and we have no hesitation in repljiog, upon the
authority of tables and statements of great minuteness and accu-
racy which are now before us, that the agricultural produce of the
United States available for the purposes of food in foreign markets
has been greatly exaggerated by the hopes and fears of contending
p irties in this country. It is demonstrable that in the United
States, as well as in most other countries, the consumers of agricul.
tural produce increase more rapidly in numbers than the producers;
and that the progress of the production of wheat has not been mere
rapid than that of the population. In 1790 the population
of the. Union was 3,929,328, the estimated produce
of an average crop of the wheat lands was 17 millions of bushels of
01b., and the quantity of wheat exported was 4,730,000 bushels,
or 28 per cent. of the whole wheat crop. In 1640 (a year in
which the export was unusually large) the population of the Union
had risen to 17,068,666 ; the estimated produce of the wheat crop
was 80,000,000 bushels; the export was 11,300,000 bushels, or
14 per cent. of the whole wheat crop. The states of New England,
Maryland, and Virginia no longer produce wheat enough for their
own consumption ; and we are told by an able writer in the Phila-
delphia Commercial List for 1842, that—
" If we make a natural line of the Mississippi to the confluence
of the Ohio, and up this river to Pittsburg, and thence draw an
imaginary line north to Lake Eric, and continue it round the
northern and eastern frontiers of the United States, it will be
found that at this time the wheat raised in all this section of the
United States is about equal to what is consumed in it, and that the
whole surplus shipped from the United States to foreign countries,
including Canada, is, in act, produced in the states and territories
north and west of the Ohio river."
By calculations based upon the official returns made by the Mar.
shals in the United States in 1840, and taking into con
the constant progress of the population, it appears that a thetderation
utmost
amount of wheat and wheaten flour which may by possibility be
exported from the United States from the present time to 1850,
with average harvests, will not exceed twelve millions of bushels
per annum.* The whole wheat produce of the country is con-
siderably below 100 millions of bushels. The greatest quantity
ever exported was in le4o, when it reached 1,720,860 bushels of
wheat, and 1,897,501 barrels of flour; but in 1837, when the
preceding harvest had been below the average, no less than
3,921,259.bu5he1s were imported into the Union from foreign
countries. If this be the whole available produce of the United
States, it is evident that the proportion of it which will reach the
English market is still snore limited. The largest quantity ever
exported to England direct was 615,07'2 bushels of wheat and
620,919 barrels of flour in the year 1840; but the effect of the
Corn-laws has of course been to render this trade excessively
variable ; though for the last five years another branch of
the same trade, by the export to the British North American
colonies, has been regular and considerable. But it :must be
borne in mind, that under any circumstances almost all
the West Indian islands draw a large portion of their
supply of wheat, as well as of Indian corn, from the United States.
Our own islands take about 250,000 barrels of wheaten flour per
annum ; the Danish, 50,000 ; Hayti, 40,000 ; and Brasil more
than 200,000 barrels; and this is independent of a consumption of
about 364,000 barrels of Indian coin meal in the West Indies
alone. It is tipe that we have here confined our observations to
the American wheat crops, and that in computing the supply of
food in the United States, the enormous production of Indian
cern is the most important element, and constitutes the bulk of
the food of the people. But to the people of England in ordinary
years the supply of wheat Is the principal question. Indian corn
is little known In this country; and it never will be known,
except under a very extraordinary degree of pressure, as long as it
is subjected to the same duties which are levied on foreign barley.
and is therefore, for all practical purposes, a prohibited article.

Or 1,500,000 quarters. It may be convenient to remind the
reader that the American barrel of flour contains 196 lb.. and is tztlien
by act of l'arllanavut to be equal to 3t3 gallon of wheat.

RAILWAY SD ARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 10.
STOCK EXCHANOE.—The sales are—Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 20/. Shares, 9—Eastern Ccuuties, In/I—Liverpool
and Manchester, 401. Shares, 52—Liverpool, and Binning-
hair, 2l4—Ditto, Thirds, 42,4—Ditto, ifths, 22%—Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter •Shares, 1334-- Midland,
133—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 20
—Runcorn Gap, 34—Sheffield and
Manchester (Quarter Shares), No. 3, 54—South-Eastern
and Dover, 35—North Wales Mineral, Halves, 434—Aber-
dun, 776—801t0n, Wigan, and Liverpool, 26—Caledonian,
936—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 14—Huddersfield Canal
and Railway, 9—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 15141—Leeds
and Thirsk,-7% —Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
I6l4—Scottish Central, 1614—London awl York, 414—Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 4—Ditto, Extension, 3%—Glasgow and
Dumfries, 21. —Liverpool Ormskirk, and Preston,. 4—Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 7%—British anti
Irish Union, 4—Caledonian Extension, 3—Leicester and
Bedford, 2—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2
North Staffordshire, 516—Nottingham and Grantham, 45,6
Oxfo. d and Birmingham, 3 .*—Shrewsbury, Wolverhatnp-
ton and South Stafford, 33/6—South Midland, 5N —Dutch
Rhenish,

MANCHESTER, Nov. 10.
STOCK EXCILINGE.--l'he sales are—Boston, Newark, and
Sheffield, 31/2—Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield, 234—
Edinburgh and Perth, 4:."4.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding Junction, 211—Grand Union, 1 In-16—Huddersfield.
Halifax, and Bradford, By.,—Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 81/2 C. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 13—
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 34—Liver-
p'iol, Ormskirk, and Preston,:37 —London and Manchester
(Rem.). 3—London and York, 44-3lanchester and Bir-
mingham, New, 121/2 c. n.— Manchester andiLeeds, 130—Man-
chester and Southampton, 314—Manchester, IVigan, and
Southampton, 2—North British, Carlisle Branch, 4—North
Staffordshire, s;,f—Oxford, Whitey, and Cheltenham, 1%—
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 17—Shropshire
Mineral, 214—Trent Valley Midlands, 2%—Worces:er,
Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union 1%.
EXETER, Nov. 10.
&vox Exmarros:..—Tha sales are—Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester, 14 p.—Exeter and Crediton, s—North Devon,
p.— Exeter, Topsham. and Exmouth (Brunch's line), :14
p. —Cornwall, 514—Eastern Counties, 21.

BRISTOL, Nov. 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 80
—Ditto. New, 74—Birmingham and Gloucester, 124—Bris-
tol and South Wales Function, 2%—Great Western, Quar-
ter Shares, 17—Portbury Pier and Railway, 2%—South
Wales, 434. : -

• SHEFFIELD, Nov. 10.
STOCK E-XCHANGh.—The sales are—Birmingham and
Gloucester,l2334—Sheflield and Lincolnshire, 31/2—Wakefield
and Harrogate, V. 3s. 61.

LEEDS, Nov. 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, 121/2—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 1614—Leeds and
Bradford Extension, 381;,—Leeds and Dewsbury, 20 c. n.—
Leeds and Thirek, 12,1—Newcastle and Berwick, 131,4—
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 47—London and York, 4),i
—Clitheroe Junction, 35/B—Grand Union, ss. p.—Lancsshire,
Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 2s. 6d. p.— Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct, 2s. 6d, dis.—Leeds and Yolk, par—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21. Gs. p.—Manchester and
Southampton, 3—North Staffordshire, 4 —North Western,
3N—Nottingliam and Boston, 12s. 6d. p.—Nottingham,
Erewash, and:Ambergate, 3—South Midlands, 31. 6s. p.—
Wakefield and Bradford, ss. p.—Wakefield and llarrogate,
20.5. p..—Welsh Midlands, 2142.

HULL, Nov. 10.
STOCK EXCUANGE.-T he saes are—llull and Selby 00
per cent. guaranteed), Half Shares, 1 8 —Coventry, Nun-
eaton, &c., 13:i—Derby and Gainsborough, 1 4—Grand
Union, IN—London and Manchester (Rem.), 3—Notting-
ham and Boston, 2%—South Midland, 4/. 17s.

YORK, Nov. 10.
&mac EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—York and North
Midland Extension, 26%—London awl York, 4%—New-
castle and Berwick, 1314—North British, New Carlisle
Branch, VA—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Lei-
cester, I,'B—Grand Union, 1/. 193.—Leeds and York, par—
Leicester and Bedford, 1/. 18s. 9d.—Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle Junction, 41,4—Welsh Midland, 3.

IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1845.
The following are the names of gentlemen returned by the
Judges of Assize to serve the office of High Sheriff fur the
ensuing yew' :
ANTRIM.—James Leslie, Esq., Thomas Morris Jones, Esq.,
John Thompson,
AnmAGll.—Arthur Cope, Esq., Maxwell Cross, Esq, Ed •
ward Bond, Esq.
CAmow.—Robert Newton, Esq., Samuel Elliott, Esq.,
Hugh Falkiner, Es 9.
CARRICK FERG us rowx.—John Legg, Esq., Hill Watson,
Esq., Valentine Wm. M'Gill, Esq.'
CAVAN.—The Earl of Bective,lichard Fox, Esq., Henry
Theophilia Clements, Etq.
Cr.-tit:T.—Edward Fitzgerald, Esq., Michael Finucane Esq.,
Colonel Charles Synge.
CORK.—James H. Standish Barry, Esc', Edward Deane
Freeman, Esq., the Hon. W. White fledges.
Corms Coppin ger, Esq., Horatio Town-
send, Esq., David Leahy Arthur, Esq.
DONEGAL.—George Young, Esq., William Fenwick, Esq.,
Thomas Conolly, Esq..
Dows.—Aubre William Beauclerk, Esq., Robert Batt,
Esq., Richard B. Blackiston B ouston, Esq.
DROGHEDA TOWN.---JRIIIC3 Gernon, Esq., St. George
Smyth, Esq., Thomas Carty, Esq.
DUBLIN. —The Hon. Edward Lawless, Thomas Thompson,
Esq., Robert Sho.'or, jun., Esq.
DUBLIN CrlT.—Alexander Boyle, Esq., Henry Sneyd
French, Ev,(l., William Digges La Touche, Esq.
FultruNAGlt.—J. J. N. Blake, Esq., John Madden, Esq.,
lievdry D'Arcy,Esq.

GAIwAY.--hrislopher St. George, Esq., Sir James Fitz •
gerald Ross Mahon, Bart., Michael Joseph Browne, Esq.
GALWAY Tows.—Lachlan M'Lachlan, Esq., Michael, P.
Browne, Esq., Thomas A. Joyce, Esq.
KERRY.—Wilson Gun, Esq., William Talbot Crosbie, Esq.,
Daniel Cronin, jun., Esq.
KILDA RE.—Wiflinm Palmer, Esq., Nathaniel Barton, Esq.,
George Mansfield, Esq.
KILKENNY.—Lord Walter Butler, George Bryan, Esq.,
William Lloyd Flood, Esq.
KILKENNY CITY.--Michael Cahill, Esq., William Grace,
Esq., William Oliver Wheeler, Esq.
KING'S COUNTY.—henry P. L'Latrange, Esq., Guy Atkin-
son, Esq., Charles Barry Baldwin, E. 9.
LEITRIM —Robert La Touche, Esq., Guy Lloyd, Esq.,
Loftus A. Tottenham, Esq.
LimEmcii.—William H. Barrington, Esq., Edward Croker,
Esq., John F. Fitzgerald, Esq.
LIMERICK ClTY.—Michael Gavin, Esq., William Roche,
Esq., William Howley, Esq.
LONDONDERRY CouNYY Asp CITY.—John Barre Beresford,
Esq„ Leslie Alexander, Esq., Richard Hunter, Esq.
LONGFORD.—WiIIiam Ledwith, Esq., George Machoncbv,
Esq., John Cooke, Esq.
LUTH. —Lewis Upton, Esq., George M'Cartney, Esq.,
Thomas Fitzgerald, Es q.
MAYO.— Thomas S. Carter, Esq., Charles Lionel Kirwan,
Esq., Patrick Crean Lynch, Esq.
MEATY.—James Waller, Esq., Henry Coddingten, Eaq.,
Anthony Strong Hussey, Esq.
MONAGHAN. —Thomas Oriel Forster, Esq., William Wood-
right, Esq., John Richardson, Esq.
QUEENS COUNTY.—Chidley Coote, Esq., Charles H.
Bowen, Esq., John H. Lecky, Esq.
Roscommox.—Edward King Tennison, Esq., John Fitz-
gerald Grace, Esq., Sir Gilbert King.
SuGo.—Edward Joshua Cooper, Esq., John Wingfield
King, Esq., Alexander Crichton, Esq.
TIPPERARY.—ThC Viscount Suirdale, Lieutenant-Colonel
Purefoy, John Trant, Esq.
TYRONE.—Frareis Gervais, Esq., Richard Lloyd, Esq.,
Robert William Lowry, Esq.
WATERFORD.—Sir tobert J. Paul, Bart., Richard Mug*
grave, Esq., Simon Bagge, Esq.
WATERFORD ClTY.—Thomas Sheppard, Eaq., William
Christmas, Esq., William Sewell Doyle, Esq.
WESTMEATIL—Sir Francis Hopkins, Bart., Sir George F.
Hudson, Bart., William Henry Megan, Esq.
lirEirottp.—Henry Alcock, Esq., Edward Westby Nunn,
Esq. , John Rowe, Esq.
WICKLOW.—Robert Gun Cunningham, Esq., Charles
Tottenham, Esq., Peter La Touche, Esq.