The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-29 00:00:00

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On Saturday the half-yearly general meeting of the
Directors and Proprietors of the London and South West-
ern Railway was held at Nine Elms, to receive the Re-
port, &c. Mr. Garnet, the
.Chairman, requested the Se-
cretary to read the Report, from which it appeared that
the total traffic, ending 30th June last, was 141,0801.75. 3d.
The amount realized in the corresponding period of 1841
was 122,766/. 9s. 7d., showing an increase of 18,3131.
17s. Bd. Of this 14,418/. 15s. Bd. had been received for
the additional transit of passengers (the aggregate num-
bers in excess being about 38,100 ; the total number of
passengers having been 319,583), and the remainder
was derived from other sources of revenue. The result,
after deducting all items of expenditure, together with
the balance of the last account, left an available amount
of 69,3711. 65.7 d., out of which the Directors recommended
a dividend, at the rate of 30s. per share, and they further
recommended that the Income-tax, from the sth of April,
be paid out of the current half-year's traffic. The Report
proceeded to congratulate the Proprietors on being able
to maintain the previous rate of dividend, and inferred
that, subsequent to the opening of the Southampton Tidal
Dock, which was expected to take place in a few days,
by which steam and other vessels trading to that port
will be enabled to embark passengers and ship their mer-
chandite direct from the railway, and when, by means of
a well-organized and effective system of steam-navigation
from the port of Southampton to Havre, and from the es-
tablishment of a continuous line of railway from Havre
through Rouen to Paris, they looked forward with great
interest to the hopes so long entertained on the important
subject of a direct communication from the French
&vat metropolis to Southampton by means of the South
at Western Railway.
teditch.
---- FIRE IN KENNINGTON-LANE.—On Saturday after-
- SIA M 640 51 noon, soon after half-past five o'clock, considerable alarm
*8 0 t, 45
851 940 was occasioned throughout the neighbourhood of Lower
62091 t; 2 , 950 10 4n Kennington-lane, by the discovery of a fire at the oxten-
-1 I'?3 r /2 lr sive floor-cloth manufactory of Messrs. Rolls and Son,
230 E 3 o
430 5l) 548 situated on the south side of that neighbourhood. The
830 7'5 8 0 'fire commenced in one of the drying-houses. Every
On Sunc aye Trains leave Stort.
ford for Shoreciitch at 530 and exertion was immediately made by all the workmen to
19 30M, and at 130, 4 SO, and 8 E. overpower the flames, but finding they had obtained too
half an hour earlier on Mondays. great an ascendancy, messengers were despatched for
engines. By the time, however, that they arrived, no
hope of saving any portion of that house was entertained,
and the exertions of the firemen were mainly directed to
the preservation of the other buildings. The fire was
by seven o'clock completely extinguishd. The damage
(which it is computed will not much exceed 300/.) was
confined to the destruction of one drying-house, and
some injury to another.

THE FUNDS-(CI
BRITISH
Bank Stock_ 164

,OSING PRICES).
FUNDS.
India Stock

3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 934 Ditto Bonds .... 34 pm
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 92 Ditto Old Annuities ...
ail per Cent. Red,........102 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... ...... 101 b Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 51 pm
New 5 per Cen'.. Ditto 50.01. .... .49 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... l2i Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 7-16,Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... IPortuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent jDitto,-New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... 64i Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. (Russian, 5 pet cent —
tAilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... - ...•
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...... 21
Ditto, 1824 2Ol Ditto, Deferred.... • .
Danish, 3 per cent B4a French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent 35 French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2a per cent. s2i
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 peret. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 102/
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 42
Bristol -nd Exeter (70 paid) ..
Eastern Counties Railway (23 laid) .... —
Ditto Debentures .. .... .... ..... . ..... ...10/ 6s 8d
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• ... 49a
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid . .
Great. Western Railway (65 paid) B5
Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid) 6l
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) .
London and Blackwell ( paid) .... 1
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) •.. 312
London and South Western (4116s 10d pd) b2l
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Queen has set out to-day on a
visit to Scotland, and there can be no doubt that
the Sovereign and her consort will be welcomed
with all the warmth of loyalty. The Scotch
Papers have, however, been of late somewhat in-
judicious in expressing their hopes and opinions
as to the way in which her Majesty will pass the
short time she is able to devote to her visit;
and some of the Edinburgh Journals have gone
so far as to suggest to the Sovereign the place
of worship and the form of divine service which
it would be most desirable for her Majesty to
sanction with her presence. It is highly unbe-
colniog in a journalist to make the first visit of
the Sovereign to her northern subjects an occa-
sion for pointing out a course which it may be dis,
agreeable to herself to adopt, while, in refraining
from it, the Queen may be accused of having ne-
glected the wishes of a portion of her people.
It is a very severe penalty ()a the tenure of the
highest office in the State, to be denied the com-
mon liberty of personal action which the hum-
blest individual can always enjoy in matters un-
connected with his employment; for when the
task of the meanest artisan is finished, lie is ge-
nerally free to act as lie likes, and to go where
lie pleases. Her Majesty has had her full share
of the cares of Governmens during the Parlia-
mentary Session; and it is rather hard to refuse
to her that recreation which cannot be en-
joyed if any attempt is made to force upon
her attention certain subjects which have
caused much agitation in Scotland. We are
induced to make these observations by a
report which prevails that the General As-
sembly will devise measures to make her Majesty
acquainted with the state of Ecclesiastical mat-
ters in the country to which she goes as a visitor.
We cannot believe that the body alluded to will
have the bad taste to introduce into a congratu-
latory address to the Queen any reference to the
present position of the Presbyterian Establish-
ment—a course which could only be embarrass-
ing to the Sovereign, who could not, with pro-
priety, or with pleasure, pronounce any opinion
on the points involved in the difference between
the Scotch Church and the legal tribunals of the
country. It is truly gratifying to remark that
the miserable attempts of the vagabonds Francis
and Bean, to obtain notoriety by their con-
temptible pranks, have not deprived the Queen
and the people of the pleasure both must derive
from meeting together on such occasions as that
which has rendered to-day a holiday for thou-
sands of the inhabitants of this metropolis.
STANDARD--The leading journals, Whig
and Tory, of Manchester. the Courier, Chronicle
and Guardian, expressed the fullest conviotion
that the gentleman (Mr. Gregory, of the firm of
Adlington, Gregory, and Follett) who has been
commissioned by the Government to inquire into
the origin of the present state of affairs in that
town and neighbourhood, will have no difficulty
in referring it to a distant conspiracy on the
pail of the Anti-Corn-law League to lower the
wages of their workmen; with the express view
of provoking a general turn-out; and this with-
out regard to the actual state of trade, which
had been improving for some time past, or their
Ireal moans of remunerative labour. No reason-
-able man who has been an attentive reader of
the accounts contained in the public newspapers
of the last four or five weeks of the conduct
of these gentry can entertain the slightest
doubt of the fact. Perhaps the news-
paper organs of the faction are entitled
to whatever credit may attach to their
pioneers in this praiseworthy performance ;
but, however this may be, the merit of hav-
ing acted on their suggestion must be allowed to
belong to the Anti-Corn-law millowners of the
district in which the disturbances first broke
out. The journals of the League have de-
voted themselves for many months past to
the production of precisely the state of things
which they now find it convenient to deplore. Ac-
land—for we will believe an approver in prefer-
ence to an accomplice, if the testimony of the
former be properly corroborated—declared in the
early part of last month, " that the object of the
fleeting of the League in London was to consider
the propriety of stopping all their mills on the
same day, and that they had determined
so to do." This declaration was published
in one of the Chartist organs a month
before the strike, and was only
.attempted,
to be contradicted a few days ago. Ac-
land is. one of the , paid itinerant agents
of the League, . and is, therefore, very
good authority for the intentions ot his
employers. Even in the Conference itself;
one of the representatives of the body, a Mr.
! Finch, suggested to the meeting that they
(his constituents) had the power, with the
aid of the colliers, of compelling the aris-
tocracy, in less than a month, to abolish
the Corn-laws and concede the Charter. A
strike of the colliers was the mode proposed to
effecting this object; but although too wary for
suggest in that place a turn-out of the workmen
in the manufacturing districts, there can be no
doubt that the hint was designed for their adop-
tion as well. Even so late as the second of the
present month one of the borough Aldermen of
Manchester did not scruple to suggest that " the
only plan which the manufacturers had to resort
to at present was to stop their factories." A Lon-
don organ of the League, indeed, assumes to
itself the credit of having been the first to sug-
gest the project of " shutting up all the mills
in a single day," " which was," it is further added,
" considered again and again,—with what result
we all of us know. Some of the Journals in the
confidence of the conspirators suggested the
employment of Swing; but as the former opera-
tion was judged to be the likeliest means of
arriving at a prompt result, it appears to have
been selected in preference. Now the Aclands,
Cobdens, and gentlemen of that ilk, complain
that no dependence is to be placed on the autho-
rity of those Chartist newspapers or emissaries
who have brought this charge against them; but
before such evidence is corroborated it may be
well to inquire into the extent to which it has
been rejected.

DEATH OF MR. LONGMAN, OF

PATERNOSTER ROW.
It is with much grief we have to announce the de-
cease, at an early hour this morning, at his residence
at Hampstead, of Thomas Norton Longman, Esq.,
the eminent bibliopolist, of Paternoster-row. This
melancholy event arose from his horse having fallen
with him on Wednesday last, by which accident the
unfortunate gentleman was precipitated to the ground
with such severity, as to occasion considerable injury
to the spine, from which he never recovered. Mr.
Longman was as much distinguished by his amiable
and unassuming qualities in private life as by the
extent and integrity of his commercial dealings. He
was in his 72d year.

ALARMING SCENE.
This morning, about eleven o'clock, an infu-
riated ox broke away from its drovers in Smithfield,
and ran at full speed down Holborn, tossing several
persons in its way, until if came to the top of Drury-
lane, down which it turned and ran into Little Rus-
sell-street, where all efforts to get it to move one way
or the other failed. It cleared the streets in a twink-
ling, and all the shopkeepers tried to put up their shut-
ters as speedily as possible, in doing which they in-
curred some danger, the animal having run at them se-
veral times. A drayman, with a team of three horses,
being more foolhardy than others, mounted the lead-
horse, and proceeded down the street, when the ox
ran at him, dismounted him, and severely gored the
horse. The next who suffered was a drover, who
thought to throw a, rope over the animal' head; when

QUEEN SQUARE.—(THIS DAY.)
John Dyer, eating-house. keeper, Broadway, West-
minster; was charged by James Martin, with com-
mitting a brutal assault upon a person at present in
the hospital on account of the injuries he received.
He stated that when sitting at his parlour window
he 'saw defendant pushing a poor squalid-looking
wretch out of his house ; that on the pavement he
struck him twice or thrice. That he pushed him
down. and his head came in contact with the curb-
stone, and the blood burst in torrents from his mouth
and nose. He Alas conveyed to the hospital. Did
not know the injured man himself, but thought it his
duty to bring the case before the Magistrate.
The prisoner, in his defence, stated that the party
injured came into his place, ordered a penn'orth of
cabbages, and, using very abominable language, he
was obliged to order him out. He immediately threw
a quantity of the cabbage in his (defendant's) face,
when he certainly pushed him, and struck him, but
had no intention of causing the injuries, for which
he expressed his deep sorrow.
The MAGISTRATE remanded the case for a week, to
ascertain how the wounded man gets on, and ordered,
defendant to find bail, himself in 1001., and two
sureties in 50/. each.
Sureties were found for his further Appearance.

EIGHT POUNDS AND A HALY OF
BREAD FOR A SHILLING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If your correspondent, who complains of the
very high rate of flour and bread in proportion to the
price of wheat, were to adopt a spirited opposition as
several individuals in this town have done, the price
of each would soon be reduced. The parties to whom
I refer last week -sent the public cryer round the
town of Ilfracombe to announce that if the price of
flour was not reduced to a fair remunerating market
price, that a party was ready to open a store for the
sale of it on such terms ; this notice was looked at
rather as a threat than earnest, and no notice was
taken either by the millers or flour dealers, but they
were soon undeceived on the arrival of the steam
packet Torridge, from Bideford, on Wednesday last
by a large quantity being landed from it on the
quay on Thursday morning. The cryer was imme-
diately sent round the town to announce that 7lbs of
fine flour would be sold for one shilling and 81b3 of
seconds ; the store was crowded the whole of the day,
and the poor people who generally here make there
own bread were lavish in their thanks for the boon
given them. There are parties in this town who keep
an oven for baking bread, and are willing to make and
bake loaveS for twopence each, for each shilling's
worth of flour ; yesterday loaves were exhibited which
had been made from the flour sold, the loaves from
the 71bs of flour weighed from Bilbs. to Bilbs., and
those from the Sibs. for a shilling from 101bs. to
these loaves costing when baked fourteen-
pence each—without any potatoes. for it ought to be
known that bakers cannot make the fine light white
bread without potatoes ; a sack of flour weighing
2801bs. will make 90 loaves of 41bs. each, or 3601b5.
weight of bread ; so that in each 41bs. loaf there is
only a fraction above three pounds of flour.
Previous to the opening of the new flour store, no
flour was sold in the town at more than 61bs. for the
shilling. The parties who have commenced the oppo-
sition have declared that when the public is supplied
with flour at Ohs. for the shilling of the quality they
are retailing at 71bs. for the shilling they will close
the store. I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Ilfracombe, Aug. 27, 1842. I. I.

The metropolis was this afternoon, at half-past four,
visited by a tremendous shower of heavy rain, thunder

and lightning.
THE TRIAL OFNICHOLAS SUISSE.—(FTOIII a Corm*
spondent.)—After the trial of this individal, which has
created. so much attention, the female witnesses as-
sembled at the New Inn Tavern, opposite the Central
Criminal Court, in the Old 'Bailey, amounting to
upwards of 20 in .number, and agreed upon an address
to 111dlle. Borell, .who took so conspicuous a part, as
a witness, upon the trial.. The witnesses subpoenaed
on behalf of Suisse were, with few exceptions, foreigners,
and the address alluded to, of which the following
is a copy, was written in French :—" New Inn, Old
Bailey, August 27, 1842. Madame,—lt is a pleasing
duty for us, the witnesses and friends of M. Suisse, to
assure you that we shall ever remember the generous,
frank, and admirable manner in which you gave testi-
mony to his innocence. More than that, your position
before the Court was delicate and embarrassing ; and,
further, you have had the satisfaction of surmounting
the difficulties ; and we are gratified to say that the
answers which you gave to the questions 'sometimes
most indiscreetly put to you, has but increased the
flattering opinion that we entertained of the goodness
of your heart and the elegance of your manners. Deign,
Madame, to accept this renewed expression of our ex-
treme regard, and," &c. Here follow the signatures.
The expense of the defence, it is said, will exceed 6,0001.,
and a large proportion of this sum has been paid in fees
to counsel. Upon the first trial of Suisse, the fee to Mr.
Thcsiger is stated to have been 300 guineas. The other
fees to counsel were proportionably large, to which must
be added, consultation fees, refreshers, and additional
fees to attend the second and third trials of the accused.
The necessary expenses in " keeping together " the wit-
nesses for the defence have been considerable, and lastly
may be taken in account the style of the prisoner's living
while in durance.
,SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN NEWGATE-STKEET,—.
On Friday, about noon, as Mr. Thomas Self, livery-stable
keeper, of China-mews, Belgrave -square, was proceeding
in is horse and chaise along Newgate-street, the animal,
a highly spirited one, suddenly took fright, and dashing
off at full speed, the off-wheel of the vehicle became
firmly fixed' in that of a cart. The concussion was so
great as to break the shafts of the chaise short off, leaving
the horse at liberty, when he again started off, with the
ends of the shafts dangling by his side, and in his pro-
gress knocked down four persons, two of whom, named
Frederick Disne'y and Thomas Stubb, were so severely
injured that they were immediately conveyed to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was discovered that
the one had sustained a dreadful injury of the spine, and
that both the legs of the other were broken, and it is
much feared they will not recover. The horse ran Tito
the General Post-office yard, where it was secured, with
out having received any injury.
(FROM A CORRESFONDENT.)—M. Thiers arrived in
Boulogne on Thursday at noon ; he was, shortly idiot
his arrival, visited by the Sous Prefet and the Make,
who, accompanied by the Captain and l'lngineur en
Chef du Port, pointed out the different positions Napo-
leon's army occupied in 1805. In the night he left for
S'. Omer, with the intention of following the route of lit
Grand Armee to Austerlitz, with the view of making
his forthcoming work, Sur (Empire, as perfect as pos-
sible. Ile is accompanied by his wife and two secretaries.
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, AUG. 26.—The uneasy
state of the country is producing its natural effect upon
the sugar trade, as on must others. Our market is ex-
ceedingly flat. A few lots hare been sold, and on mo-
derate terms ; but the deficiency in stock, and the
hope of a revival in commerce, lead the merchants to re-
sist, any material reduction in price.—Bristol Mercury.
RETURN OF LORD ASIMURTON.—The Warspite,
50, Captain Lord John Hay, was to leave New Tork for
England, with Lord Ashburton on board, on the 20th of
this month.
The Patriote Beige gia-es the following account of
an accident which happened in the carriage of King
Leopold, at the moment he was starting for Ardenne
" One of the pistols, which were placed loaded in the
holsters, went off ; the ball in its way downwards struck
against a spring of the carriage, and, having rebounded
to _the top, r 'Red ovougn without injuring any