The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

in rendering the natives less In sale than they hare for some
time been.
This was the ti:st day for the payment of the October divi-
dends to the public. The attendance of parties claiming in-
terest was very great indeed, but principally composed of the
smaller holders of Stock.
The Consol Market nes advanced to-day. The settlement
of the Accounts has as yet gone off very favourably. Consols
for the Account have been quoted at 93% for the 25th
November, and at 93% for the immediate transfer. The
prices of the latter is now a shade lower. Bank Stock has
advanced to 207, but the New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have receded from 10014 to 9934. India Stuck, atter
touching 267, has gone back to 266. Exchequer-tills remain
at about 51s. premium, and India Bonds are at 635. premium.
In the Foreign Funds the operations have not been of
consequence. Spanish Three per Cents. ihave gone back
since the early part of the morning from 38 to 37%.
Peruvian Bonds are steady at 384. Mexican are 31%,
Austrian at 112, Brazilian at 80% to 86, and the Dutch
Two-and-a--Half per Cents. have just been sold at a rise of
from 601% to 65%.
This is the settlement day in the Share Market, and little
else has been done but the adjustment of the accounts. The
demand for railway . shares keeps very good for approved
lines. The official list will furnish the latest values of the day.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock .............. ........ 206% 207 207 y
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9814 %1.4 98
‘lew 314 per Cents 1001/a 9934 9934
Long Annuities toexrdreJan.lB6o 1034 13-16 11 15-16
India Stock ...... .. ........ -
India Bonds, 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,000/. .. .- 63 63
Bank Stock or Account... ...... - 20714
Consols for Account . .......
Exchequer Bills, LOON., I%d 5l pm. 51
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small ..... . ... 51 53 pm. 53
ONE CLOSING'
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Austrian, 5 per Ceo' ... ...-- 112 112
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1819 and 1839 — 831/2
Ditto, New, 1813 ••• 80
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 18
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 31% 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 334 38t.
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Convsi Led....
Russian Bonds —
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Belgian 41,4 per Cent. ......
Dutch, 2% par Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certific —
Equador .. 43%

COURT-

days before the expiration of the term of imprisonment
aseig-ned to him. Another rate has since been made. Again
the cruel experiment Las been repeated of attempting to ex-e
tract froth this chattel-less man, a contribution for the sup-
port of others in the same comlition as himself, but inmates
of the union-house. What is his own character ? A par-
ticularly good one ; that of a hard-working, well-conducted,
and respectable man. His excellent deportment is attested
under the hands of his employers and neighbours. But his
wages for the last eleven weeks have averaged but
9s. Bd. per week. The rent of his cottage absorbs of this
ls. Bd., and there remain Bs. for the support of himself, his
wife, and a family of four young children. His attendance be-
fore the Ashby-de-la-Zouch bench on a new summons a fort-
night ago entailed upon bins the loss of 45., and the fees then
charged and ordered by the magistrates were, ss. "for their
clerk, and ls. 6d. for the constable." Now, this is, we do not
scruple to say, a mockery of all law, all justice, all humanity,
all common sense. It is an oppression—sanctioned by Act of
Parliament or not—sufficient to " drive wise men mad," and
to create a spirit of dangerous exasperationamong the indus-
trial poor from one end of the kingdom to another. LAIUN
has been again committed to gaol, under the warrant of a Mr.
CRESWELL and a Reverend Sir NIGEL GRESLEY, Baronet,
fur non-payment of the rate, ss. 4d., and of course the
costs again, 6s. 6d. additional. We are told by grave commenta-
tors and Christian lawyers that " the law is the perfection of
common sense." See how it proclaims its common sense. A
meritorious but poor man (of the little furniture in whose
cottage not a stick belongs to himself, but is his landlord's)
is unable to pay poor-rates on a cottage, of which the rent is
31. 18s. per annum. There is nothing to levy ou. There-
fore the Ashby-de-la-Zouch magistrates imprison
him for this offence, that not being able by hard work,
when he can get it, to keep himself and his family a chair
or a stool, or a supply of food adequate to the necessities of
human subsistence, he is unable to pay lls. 10d., or one-
sixth of the whole amount of his rent, towards the support
of the clothed, fed, and lodged paupers of his district, who
da not work at all. Perhaps it is a further aggravation of
his offences that he has the spirit to work, though he starve,
rather than sacrifice his pauper independence by going into
the union-house. Well, this is punishment enough. But
why, in the name of common humanity, is he to
be punished for anything beyond the infamy of being
too poor to support the poor ?—for being, also, too pour to con-
tribute to the overpaid allowances of some sleek magistrates'
clerk, or some burly sessions constable, by paying to those
functionaries for battening on his wretchedness just 120 per
cent. on the amount of his rate? This case is monstrous.
It would have well become the "Rev." Baronet and the
other committing magistrate—(this latter having previously
signed, as it is stated by our correspondent, the other commit-
ment to hard labour, which received the just censure of Lord
LYNDHURST and Sir JAMES GRAHAM)—to pay the whole
exaction— the rate and the costs—rather than have been in-
etrumental to the exciting afresh that degree of public disgust
and indignatioia which such an affair as thie-will assuredly
challenge.

601.4
113'4.
2634
373/4
99k,
GO%
. 941,4
474

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
tt AMWAY SHARES PA/D. AT ONE. o'cLOcK. mu:Es
Aberdeen - 61A
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2l/
Birmin. and Gloucester. 1(X)
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Boston, Stam'd, & Birm. 22s
til Wel and Exei,er
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 114 574
Jo. Nev
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and LeiceAer ll4
_

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We find, on further examination of the Revenue re-
turns, grounds for confirming the favourable conclusions
at which we arrived as to the generally prosperous
condition of the fivaaces of the empire. Considering, in-
dee,i, the enormous actual amount of the reductions
effected: by the present Premier in :the rates of duty on
various articles of very extensive and general consumption,
(some of them in the nature of raw material), within the last
two years, and a large proportion of the aggregate decrease of
Customs upon which only developed itself within the last
twelvemonths, we are entitled to a,sume that against
the positive decrease of income in this most
important branch of revenue, of 1,590,9501., on
the comparison of the year 1845 with 1844, there
is to be taken into account a rapidly expanding pro-
ductiveness of realised duty on the bulk of the articles which
still remain chargeable. In a few weeks we shall probably
have before us the means of ascertaining the specific comrno-

3%

Derby, littoxeter, and
Stafford . . 2......3%',4.-- ..... 314
Direct Manchester
( Remington's)
Dia') (Racksirick's)... 51%...... 7.14% 7%
Direct Northern.
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Eastern Counties 141. 165.„.... 233/4 23% ....•. 231
Ditto New 41. 165....834 9% 8% 914 p 9/ p
East Lincolnshire
Kdinburgh and Glasgow 50
Edinburgh and Perth... 11% 4%
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2 —•• 33%
Glouc., Aberyst w WI, and
Central of Wales O4 . ... .. 3%14 3
Great North o' Scoidand VA.__ 4% 4%
.i; eat Westan BO 162
Ditto % Shares
Guildford. Fare'm, Potts. 21/2 ...
(lull and Selby
L :master and Carlisle... 25
Leicester & Birmingham 225. 134 Jo 2 p
Leicester and Bedr3rd... 225.
Leicester and Tamwnrth 495.
Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 614% 6%
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New
castle Junction
...... -- ...... ........ 6%
London and Isirningtamloo 217 21.81 A 218%
Ditto Extension ...... 1% • 3141 s
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 10 9%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 243 q 22%
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford .. 1%...... 2% 2'
London, Hounslow, and
Western - ...... ••• •••
Long. & S.Western 411 6s 10d — ... ........ ..
Do. New
London and York 2% 6l/2%
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster
London Salisbury, and -
Yeovil _ 2%...... .......... .....
Manchester and Leeds 76
Do. Sixteentha ..... ... 411 —
Manche:ter and 13irmin. 40
.
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction ... 1% 27.s 3
Manchester, Buxton,and
Matlock 225....... 814 81/2 p....... 81,4 p
Midland 100 174 172 172
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo l3O 132 132
N ewcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ..... 66
Do. New Brandling... 15 ...... 55%
New,astb- and Berwick 5 ...... 181/2
Newport& Abergavenny 2%......
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston
North British
North Devon... •-..... ..... 2 .„... 3
Northern and Eastern... 45 ......
Do. New .............. 1 ...... 17
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%.. .. 4%
North Stallordshire ...... 425. ...... 5%3/4 p
.... .
..
Norwich and Brandon—. 14
Do., New ... .....
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham ...... 2
Oxford and Worcestm.... 2% 151% 161/2
Ferth and Inverness ... 2%
Portsmouth Direct -- 21/. 54% 4:'l
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
Scottish :llidland ......... 11/% 5l/214 514
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union - 11/2% l%
Somersetshire Midland 2% 6% 5%... ..... 5y
• s
South Devon... ............ LK/
South Midland 24s. •••••• 7 61,6 p........ 6tA p
youth Eastern & Dover 33/ 284 d... 4114... .........*** 1
41 '
A 2
south Wales ...........
Tean and Dove Valley lie 32% ........ .. 27
Trcnt Valley ............... 2
Vale of Neath 2
Warwick & Cheltenham 1% 34 . 31/
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin ............ 11/2•••• .1% ....... ..... 136
of • atercord, Wexford, and
Valentin ........ ...... 1% 3 3
Welch Midland ......... 2t%...... 414 3% 3
• Wilts, Somerset, and
2
Southampton . ....... . 1% % _
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- .
mouth ........ ... ...... 21-A•
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
York and Car1i51e......... 2%...... 414
.......
VoDrko.anEdxNteoni•stiolinM.i.d..l.a.n..d. 50114 —28%
FOREIGN RAI LWAY:s.
Boulogne and A 111iC115... 8
Dutch Rhenish ......... 5
East Indian ... ..... •••• ss.
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's) ........... 4 •'•"Da. do. (Rosarners) 2 •
....•
Great Western Bengal... 55.....
Jamaica North Midlar_cl 1 ....
Jersey ........ ... 1 ....,
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg....
North Jamaica
Orleans and Bordeaux— 6 ....
Over Yssel 413 s 4d....
Paris & Ly,pris, Laflitte's 2 ....,
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
Heron's)
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ....
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Gann,aon's)
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2
MI1:

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dities on which this increasing energy has developed itsalt

2%
77
153 A
6%

4%
514 p
201/2

6i
31
11,4
2%
2
24 214
• 2% 9
• 11/2 ll/.;
131
4 13
1• /I dis... ..... dis
aq. ...
... ...
• 2% 2%
41%14 4ly,
2%
. 32
7 %

6 7
31/
1 I/2 ...

32zys 32

..... 23/4
ES.
__,

Real del Monte Unregd.
Ga:vanised iron

..- -. . 43/ ... . . ...... .. .

1(d ji BAls KS.

JOINT STOi
Colonial 25
Commercial of London 20 .
Union of London lO .
COURSE OF EXCIIM
rasterdam CF. 12 911
Ditto, at sight l2 7ii
Rotterdam 2U. 12 101
.Intwerp 26 15
ilamburgh M.B. 13 14i
Aitona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles 26 10
t3ourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 1221
Petersburgh, 3 Us..

gGE.—(YESTEADAI )
Gownltal
urgqorn 30 70
Geuoa
141.ilatt
Ven;co ••..... .....
Naples .... 391
t'alenru pe: 0z...... 119•4
Lisbon • .. . 53*
Oporto •• . s3*
Rio Jareiro .......... 23.1
Bahia•• .........
Buenos Ay••is
NewYo,k,2l,lyssight
„Bier.: ;V 'SUWON, PER OZ
Voreige • ••.:J, bars. £3 17 9
Portt4l3'l.4•)l,lCoin 3 17 5
sew i,0ub100n5..... 0 0 0
N-qw Dollars
Silve in Bars.— 4 11

Berlin
Vienna, effect o lO 6
Neste, ditto
Madrid 3€!
Cadiz
411bao ••••
Barcelona

Seville

TIIE BLACKLEAD FROM GREENLAND.—It has been
frequently stated of late that the blackleul discovered in
Greenland resembled in all essential particulars the blacklead
found in Borrowdale, near Keswick. We entertained strong
doubts as to the truth of this averment from the first, and
we are at present in possession of information on the subject
which enables us to give a dech'ed contradiction to the
rumour that the Davis's Straits lead possesses any of the prc-
perties which render the 13,,rrowdale lead so valuable. A
friend of ours was hi Leith the other day v.
lendhe Comet
arrived from Davis's Straits with a cargo of the aon board,
samples of which he examined with great care, and so fur
train its possessing the va!uable properties of the Bwrow-
lead. it does not even resemble it in appearance. In fact.
it could not be distinguished from what is known in the trade
as Spanish lead ; its ever coming into use, therefore, as a sub-
stitute for the valuable mineral found in norrowdale, is en-
tirely out of the question.— Cumberland Paeguet.

TITI4I',STJN, LONDON: WILDNESD V MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1845.

CIRCkiLAR.

Wignson, TUESDAY.—His Excellency the Chevalier
Bunsen arrived at the Castle, last evening, on a visit to leer
Majesty.
The .ludge-Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen yesterday.
The Queen walked out for some time this morning, and
joined the Royal Family in their early airing=. In the after-
noon leer Maleity rode out in a pony carriage and four,
attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe. The Maids
of Honour followed in another pony landau. Prince Albert
and Prince George were on horseback, attended by the Hon.
Col. Grey and Colonel Bouverie.
Prince Albert left the Castle, accompanied by Prince Georse,
the Earl of Morton, and Colonel Bouverie, on a shooting
excursion this morning; Their Royal Highnness returned
' about two o'clock.
The Princess Czernechiff, and the Princess, her daughter,
the Earl of Liverpool (Lord Steward), and the Right Hon.
Sir Robert Peel, took their departure from the Castle this
morning.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed pony
exercise this morning. In the afternoon all the Royal Family
were taken a carriage airing.
The royal dinner party will include leer Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, L'ulv Anna Muir. Dawson, the Baro-
ness de Speth, Colonel -Sir George Cooper, Mr. George
Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. and Rev. C.

Leslie Courtenay.
The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guardswas in attend-
ance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards
attended, and performed the remainder of the evening.
Colonel Bowles is expected to return this evening to the
Castle.

Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gar-
dens yesterday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Lori Jocelyn had an interview with the Rii.P;ht Hon. Baronet.
Sir R. Peel left town In the afternoon for his seat. Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Lord Jocelyn transacted business at the Foreign-office on
Monday.

ELLIGENCE.

JARK ET, MONDAY NIGHT.
THE CESAREWITCH.

CHARII•K'x-CROSts BRIDGE._

A meeting of the Propr;etors of the Cinfring cros bridke;
who disapprove ofthe late proceedings at the general mie2ting
of the Proprietors of the undertaking, some time 6ince, took
place last night at the Londou Cofae-house, for the purpose
of considering and determining what measures they would
take to fo7ward the views of Lie Committee of the London
Central Railway Terminus Company.
Mr. Chadwick took the chair, and the following resolutions
were unanimously agreed to :
"That the meeting cannot too forcibly express their disap-
probation of the conduct of the Directors of the Hungerford-
mrket Company, who, for an apparently trifling gain, have
samiticed the welfare of the Charing-cross-bridge proprietary,
have embarrassed the arrangements entered into by their
Directors, and prevented the sale of their property to a Com-
pany which, as it represented the interests of all existing
southern railways, must eventually meet with success. The
meetiag was also of opinion that no other course was left for
the Central Terminus Company than that which they bad
adopted.
"That as the Lond9n Central Terminus Company had in-
timated their readiness to give the same preference in On
allotmmt of shares to the Chafing-cross-bridge proprietors
who had supported the agreement mad.; with the Company
as they would have hail if the same had not been repudiated,
such sharehohlers are therefofe strongly recommended still to
endeavour to obtain an interest in that Company."

TUESDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant; 01. Fifeshire.
Fife Wemyss, Esq., to be Major, vice W.
Wemyss, deceased, Oct. 6.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury hav-
ing ceratied to the Comissioners for the Redaction of the
National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th Geo.
IV., c. 27, • sec. 1, that. the • actual surplus revenue
of the -United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year
ended the sth day of July, 1845, amounted to the sum of
three millions four hundred and seventy-one thousand one
hundred and twenty pounds, fourteen shillings, and seven
pence ; the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
Nati,nal Debt hereby give notice, that the sum
of eight hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven
hundred and eighty pounds, three shillings, and sevenpenc,
(being one-fourth part of the said surplus of three million,
four hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and
twenty pounds, fourteen shillings, and sevenpence) will be
applied, under the provisions of the said Act, between the
12Pm day of October 1845, and the. sth day of January 1846,
to the following purposes, viz.:—
To be appEed to the purchase of Stock £267,780 3 7
To be applied ,o the purchase of Exchequer-
bids, made out in pursuance of the Act of
57th Geo. 111., cap, 48

600,000 0 0

867,780 3 7

Add interest receivable on account of Do-
nations and Bequests, to be applied to
the purchase of stock 1,123 14 4

£&;8,903 17 ?

S. lIIGIIAM, Comptroller• General.
National Debt Office, October W. 1845.
BANKRupis.

Robert James Chapman, market-gardener, Clapham, to
surrender Oct. 22, at half-past one, and Nov. 19, at twelv,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnsen, official asslguet,
Basinghall- streq ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. •
James Smith \Villiams, master mariher, Clement',-lane,
City, Oct. 23 and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;
Keighley, Basinghall-street.
Thomas Ashworth and Michael Septimus Keyworth, com-
mon brewers, Blanchester, Oct. '27, and Nov. 24, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court. Fra,,er,- official assignee,
Manchester; Harding, Manchester; Messrs. Maples, Pear,(•,
Stevens,- and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Henry Ge.irge Gikon, chemist and druggist, Sewcaatlt-
upon-Tyne, Oct. 21, at half- past one, and Nov. 28, at two, at
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Ty tie ; PI um pt re, Temple, London ;
Cr,an, Newcas le-up: at-Tyne.
Thomas Fielder Shillam, wool-broker, Dudbridge, Glouces-
ter. hire, Oct. 28, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 28, at eleven,
at tae Bristol Dist] ict Court. utton, official assignee,
Bristol ; 13risley, Pancr.s-lane, aeapside ; Paris, Stroud.