The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-12 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons 93i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Coat. Red IC3a Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... lOl Ex. Bing, 1,000/....2d. 56 pm
New 5 per Cote — Ditto 500/...... 53 pm
Long Anoties to expire Ditto Small ...... 53 pm
Jan. ',..,
Oct.. 1e 59
Jan. 1860 l2i I Consols for Acct....... 93
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent.
Belgiaa, 5 per cent
Brazilian Botichl/4..
Buenos Ay res 6 per cent. 22
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1424 2oi
Cuba Bends, 6 per cent 79
Danish, 3 per .ent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 324
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Perucian,lB2s,6 peret.

Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russian, 5 pea cent.
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent. l6
Ditto, Deferred.... .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —o.
Dutch, 21 per cent....... 5'4
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 i

SHARES.

Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) „,.: ..... Si
Ditto New Shares ( paid) . .. ... , 10*
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (s'2,pala .
London and Briel•o4-(50 paid)._
......... ... 36
London and.72ormingham (90) ...... .. ... 185
Ditt. Quarter Shares (2.5 paid) •4B
ditto 'thirds (32 raid)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 57}
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ..
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... -. 201
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
Paris and Rotten (l 8 paid) .. • 20i
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...
Ditto New shares (20 paid)... 36j

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this_ day.)
The demand for goods continues extremely limited,
and prices of some descriptions, paaticularly 27-inch
printing cloth, are now quite as low as before the
commencement of the recent disturbances ; whilst
some other descriptions still command an advance
of not more than from 2i to 5 per cent. over the
rates then-current. In the yarn market the ces-
sation of the demand for Russia has caused a
decline in the prices of mule yarn, which had pre-
viously been tolerably well supported; and at this
decline the German buyers have begun their opera-
tions ; but they do not willingly give the prices now
demanded, and the market is very flat.

•
ROCHDALE FLAI.INEL bIARKET, AfOTiDAY7 OCT. 10.—
The flannel market still continues brisk, and there has
been a gcrod demand for pieces, but no improvement
in prices. The hands, at present, are fully employed,
buat very low wages. In the wool market, there
harbeen little or no change for some weeks past.

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—We fully expected the attempt
which the Times and the Standard are making,
to throw on the New Pour-law the blame of the
straitened means of the great consuming classes.
This attempt imposes upon us the duty of setting
the subject in a just light. " The Excise reve-
rine," says the Standard, " and every other
branch of revenue which depends upon general
consumption, has been steadily diminishing since
the New Poor-law Bill came into operation.
This surely cannot be the effect of accident." It
is very well known that, tar several years after
the passing of the new -Poor-law, the Commis-
sioners were enabled, in their reports, to exhibit
a very considerable reduction in the expense
of the pauperism of the country. The mere
fact that so stringent a measure of amendment
;tad passed the Legislature, even before its pecu-
liar machinery had come generally into ope-
r.ttion, produced the effect of restricting expendi-
ture, which that machinery was meant to pro-
duce. It had always been in the power of the
parochial authorities to take for themselves those
restrictive measures which the law now estab-
lished generally ; and, consequently, they did
take them, to such an extent as greatly to re-
duce the expenditure. Now, in those first years
of reduced Poor-law expenditure, were the great
branches of revenue impaired ? Did that effect
result from the restriction of pauperism which
the Times and the Standard would have us
assign principally to that cause? So much the
contrary, that it is notorious, trade internal and
external, consumptkin, and, consequently, the
eventie, were never in a more flourishing situa-
tion. And when was this situation altered?
When Poor-law expenditure was still farther
screived ? When Poor-law machinery came in
fuller operation.? It is mere treacherous
trifling to pretend this. It is notorious
Poor w expenditure has increased again.
It is notorious that, in the manufacturing
districts especially, whose falling-off in the power
of cons,..mption is acknowledged as so large a
part or the whole deficiency,—it is notorious,
'e 5.:•..y; that in those districts, no general lavish-
ness of relief had existed, and that, in this last
Year, the relief given has been doubled, or pro-
bably more than doubled. We regard the asser-
tion that the past and present scales of relief are
at the root of the difference in the past and pre-
sent conditions of the consuming classes, as a
flagrant attempt to effect a diversion from the
research of the true causes of our difficulties.
It is well observed by Colonel Thompson, in
his piquant and original, if sometimes ec-
centric " Exercises," that "when a great op-
pression is to be maintained, the most effectual
way of doing it, whether by design or not,
is to get up an outcry of another oppression
somewhere else. If the rats in a cage were stock-
ing-makers, the best thing that could be done for
keeping them from resisting the master oppres-
SIMI which sets them all starving upon a limited
quantity of food, would be to persuade the work-
men rats it was all the fault of the master rats,
and so put them on trying their teeth on one
mother, instead of the cage which is the foun-
elation of the mischief." But tactics even more
impudent then setting factory Operatives against
employers, are those of diverting the working-
classes generally- from the corn-laws by de-
notincit,g the Poor-lazes. The whole question
being a food question (confessedly so, when
Poor-laws are made the cardinal point of it—
since Poor:laws simply mean food gratis), what
the 1 +homing people are asked to believe is—
that a law tar giving them tbod gratis would
compens.tte them fur the mischiefs of another
law stiti:ing the supplies of food.
STANDARD.—The history of the world
proves that manufacturing industry never begins
to any extent in a country until agricultural in-
dustry has nearly reached its seeming limits;
but though, doubtless, the preference which
every man will have for agriculture operates to
some extent. the more efficient cause far the re-
gular transition from agriculture to manufactures
is the accumulation of wealth, and the necessity
of finding employMent for it. A country once
cultivated up to a certain point must become
rich, fur agriculture is the ultimate source of all
wealth, as it is only art that is ultimately pro-
ductive, and when men become rich, they of
course desire to become richer, and to make
their wealth the means of farther accumulation.
ew and more profitable modes of agriculture
fiar,eidter,ie(alt-T-d tbese, to their extent, depopulate the
the manufactory, where
labourer is driven into
cto
where wealth is ready for
a time at least to give him employ-
nsee t. This is
certain. as any other governed
as uniform and as
nature,. Now a governed by the laws of
attention to the considera-
tion htid down sill
,juts made so little Germany
manufactures. Ger-
pros-reexsi!lain why
DIRD V had been the seat o'ne war for centuries;
but &Is:country exposed to thisvv neither
ieretilnan4 of agri-
wealth, nor population, nor
culture, mild advance at theevennattuli aoratbe ; nay
peaBnB2 ility of
more, in a country exposed to the
becoming the seat of war, neither wealth,
pot:illation, nor art, make the natural progress'!
Surpobit.g, then, that a considerable amount of
catiial has been realised in Germany by the
late practical freedom of our corn-trade—as
doubtless that trade has had its usual effect of
traus!Crring some of our wealth to those who sup-
pli:,(l us with fwd—it is still unlikely that the
German c.ipitdlis:s will, to any considerable
ann,unt, invest their money in manufactures.
A e trade with this country for half a
do::en, or ten years, might, indeed, produce in
that plethora of wealth and population
ire in which an inland nation can find relief only
untrittliteturcs ; but the time does not seem to
h Ye et arrived for German manufactures, and
until Li gland-shall transfer a little more of her
width to Germany, and the peace of Europe
shall have better guarantees than any yet con-
tyi ed, probably never will. It may be that the
ivurein resolves very vigorously, and that the
yetL:()!utious of the Zollverein are enshusiastically
~,..(eived by the population ; but neither the
c.cur of the Zollverein, nor the enthusiasm of
the pef;ple, w ill create capital, skill, and mar-
kets; and witliont.
,thse manufactures cannot
be „tiled iL to existence, or, if called into ex-
is ti. nee,. must soon perish. - Indeed, the ex-
Ci''/ive enthusiasm upon which so much re-
IL:nce is placed to change the habits of the
German people, is, if we may say it without
offence—and we are sure that we intend none—

one of those defects in the national character
which has, more than any other, tended to keep
the nation (speaking of the whole German po-
pulation as one) comparatively poor. They em-
bark inconsiderately in speculations beyond their
force, and of course fail. We have copied from
the Frankfort Journal an article in which the
extreme enthusiasm of which we speak will be
seen pourtrayed in picturesque, if not in carica-
ture. Music meetings and the like are cited, as
testimonies to the growing manufacturing pros-
perity of Germany. Alas ! for the efficacy of
such agents. Music meetings will not invite
men to the eternal gasp and groan of the steam-
engine, or the ceaseless thunders of the tilt-
hammer. To conclude, we repeat our profession
of indifference as tq "die resolutions of the Zoll-
verein, because we know that in the end these
resolution 4 must be waste paper.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN.—The monotonous routine of the Revision
Court was on Thursday relieved by sundry efforts of
gaiety, which were received with immense satisfac-
tion, and all seemed to be of opinion that it is good to
be " merry and wise." The first provocation to this
sprightly mood, was the occurrence, in Merrion Ward,
of the name of the Right Hon. F. Blackburne, her
Majesty's (qu. late) Attorney-General.
The LORD MAYoR inquired whether there was any
objection to the claimant ? Mr. Crean—Yes, my
Lord. I have an objection to his being placed upon
the roll.

LORD MAYOR—Have you any objection to his being
placed in the Rolls ? Mr. Crean—lndeed I have, my
Lord, a very strong objection, if I could help it.
The claimant was admitted.
The name of Stanley Ireland was next objected to
by Mr. Crean, on the Liberal side, upon the ground
of his being a defaulter in the pipe-water rent.
LORD MAYOR (to Mr. Crean)—ls it from your
side, Mr. Crean, that the objection to Ireland comes ?
Mr. Crean—You see, my Lord, we do not like the
name of Stanley.— (Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR-13ut, strange to say, in the
present instance, by admitting Stanley, you extend
the franchise to Ireland.—(Laughter.)
It was proved that the tax in question had been
paid, and the objection to his name was consequently
overruled.

The LORD MAYOR—This is a great day for Ire-
land, notwithstanding your objections.—(Laughter.)
The next claimant was Henry Chinnery Justice.
On the name " Justice " being called out—
Mr. Wauchob—l am glad to be able to congra-
tulate your Lordship on the proximity which now
appears to exist between Justice and Ireland.

The LORD Maroft—l am happy to receive your
congratulation, and rejoice to find it comes from you.
The claim of the Right Hon. Justice Devonsher
Jackson was objected to on the Liberal side for non-
payment of minister's money.
The LORD MAYOR said he would have been very
sorry if the Learned Judge had been found in arrear
of any other tax but minister's money.—(Laughter.)
At this stage of the proceedings his Lordship left
the Court for a short period. The assessors were
proceeding with the revision.
Mr. Wauchob—ls it possible, gentlemen, you are
going on in the absence of the Lord Mayor ?—The
assessors replied that it was their intention to do so.
Mr. Watsop (a gentleman on the Conservative side)
—Why, gentlemen, the Lord Mayor said the other
day that you could do nothing without him, and that
you were both of you only ornamental.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Baker—l am sure the Lord Mayor could not
have seen either of us before he said that.

Mr. Nelson—Oh, we may be very crnamental—
that is a matter of taste—but I trust we may be re-
garded as useful also.—(Laughter.)
The assessors proceeded with the revision until the
return of the Lord Mayor, when the business which
had been gone through in his absence was submitted
for his approval.
DES

CRIPTION OF CHAPOO.
Chapoo is situated on the northern shore of the
gulf which receives the river Tsiang-tang-Kiang, op-
posite to the Chusan Islands, in about lat. 30 degrees
35 minutes North. It is a flourishing place, and the
emporium of a great foreign trade. In order, how-
ever, to give a nearer and more lively view of Chapoo
and the neighbouring coasts, as well as the manner
of our introduction to the orderly and ceremonious
inhabitants, we extract the following description from
the notes of a journal written by an officer of one of
the opium traders, which visited the coasts of China
a few years ago.
" On going into Shang Hai (in latitude 31 de-
grees 12 minutes North), the forts saluted us with
three guns each. We were astonished at the great
number of junks; 200 came in to-day (21st of De-
cember), all of the same size, four-masted vessels, and
belonging to this port. The number of wild fowl
also, ducks, teals, geese, &c., along the shore, is asto-
nishing. Towards the town, as we ascended the river,
the junks were so thickly crowded, that I never saw
any thing like it. There could not have been
less than two thousand in the port. 'fie
Mandarins agreed to trade privately with us, at
two per cent. commission. The people were very
friendly ; the women fair, with small feet. They seemed
to admire European clothing, particularly linen shirts.
The country is fertile, and beautifully cultivated.
December 28.—Finding the gates of the city closed,
we climbed over the walls, much to the amusement of
the populace, who must think us an odd sort of
people; but we could not persuade the respectable
merchants to show us the best kind of silk goods.
The next day, the gates being still closed, we
again scaled the walls, after which the gates
were politely opened to let us out. The shipping ,
in the harbour daily increased; of one class of
junks (from 100 to 300 tons), I am confident
that there were at least 3,000 lying there, and there
were also some immense junks of 600 tons, and having
400 people on board. •
" We sailed from the Shang Hai river on the sth of
January, and I came in sight of Chapoo on the Bth.
Here there are six Imperial junks in the Japan trade,
which make each of them five voyages in three years.
At Shang Hai, at full and change of the moon, the
tide rises only eight or nine feet ; here, at so short a
distance, it rises 24 feet. The town walls are too
high to be scaled. From the hills near the town
the views are most enchanting. There is an im-
mense extent of low land, intersected by canals and
dotted over with innumerable villages. The country
around is all in the highest state of cultivation. Chapoo
is not a small town, though yet not equal to Shang
Hai, but its celebrity is owing to its being the em-
porium of the Japan trade. The suburbs are as large
and as well built as the city itself, which is surrounded
by a wall and a deep moat. Altogether it is a very
pretty place, and nothing can equal the beauty and
regularity of the surrounding cultivation. Opthalmia
was here a very prevalent complaint."
Let it be remembered, that the preceding descrip-
tion of Chapoo and its environs was written in the
depth
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valleys
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POPULATION or M.ALT,----C7.6,
in Council for a Governor-General
' of Malta having issued an Order
census to be taken of the inhabitants
of Malta, the
result
following has been given -as the
stationrrison and
lation amounts to 114,499 ; but, as the:—The popu-
the crews of the ships of war on theare not.
included, the number may be considered to b
less than 120,000. It has been ascertained theatof
not
the 114,499 persons there are not less than 44,192
individuals of the lower classes of society without any
ostensible means of subsistence, whilst there are 566
professional beggars, making about one• third of
the whole population dependent on the other
two-thirds for maintenance. The clergy amount to
1,280, including nuns; the nobility and gentry,
holders of land, to 613 ; persons acting as brokers,
172 ; police, 208. Notwithstanding the immense
number of persons in the lower classes without em-
ployment, the criminals during the year amounted
only to 437 males and 37 females, 153 of whom were
liberated, not being convicted on their trials. In the
total number of criminals are included 85 English,
and four foreigners. The population of 114,499 con-
sists of Maltese—males, 54,156 ; females, 58,344.
English—males, 530 ; females, 630. Foreigners—
males, 481 ; females, 357. The number of English is
of course much greater, the garrison and crews of
vessels being, as before stated, to be added.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN PROVISIONS. —A small
quantity of foreign pickled beef and park has this
week been received here (Berwick) by Mr. J. Sander-
son, for the purpose of ascertaining its quality, and
the probability of its commanding 'a sale in this
town, whose district is so Justly celebrated
tor producing the most excellent of both. The sample
hbeminbze_ni. highly approved of; the pork in particular
in being of quality. The beef is from Holstein,
has been rk:and the pork from America. A supply
herem orderedbLtnhdeop return , 1 which will probably be remitted
of the steam. packet Manchester,
41Vd. per lb • •the sample has been sold at—beef,
pork, 4d hernick Paper.
At- . ' -
'.
,C lITERNI ncn
about one hundrer.—°ll Thursday, the 29th ult.,
and twenty persons belonging to
this
neighbourhood, who had been summoned to be
sworn in as special
ncTstables, assembled for that
purpose in the Tow
, all
lall here. With a single
exception, however,
"instructions" declined taking the oath,
on account of the
with which it was
it
coupled, and to which
w?tild have bound them
to act up. They declaproewdeilhei: were ready to do
everything in their
peace, but could not undertake preserving the
rehend all
vagrants, profane swearers, t°
.Sabbath-breakers, and so
forth. The Justices, while they hinted at a moderate
interpretation of the words
.used in the instructions,
stated that they could do nothing else than administer
the law as it stood, and, commending those present for
their peaceable and decorous behaviour on the occa-
sion, they agreed to report the case to the Quarter
Sessions.—Scotch Paper.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1842

PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 10, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
the Rev. Tkomas Turton, Doctor in Divinity, to be
Dean of the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster,
void by the death of Dr. John7lreland, late Dean thereof.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, OCT. 7.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant
B. Lawson to be First Lieutenant, vice Newcomen, re-
tired on half-pay, Oct. 4.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
C. R. B. Legh, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant, Sept, 30.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOSHUA ALLEN, cattle dealer, Much Wymondley,
Herts.

H. Maw, Morton, Lincolnshire, mustard manufacturer,
at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull-
Nov. 2, W. Ashwin, Belniont-row, Birmingham, gilt toy
manufacturer, at twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Bir-
mingham-Nor. 3, W. Blurton, Fieldhall, Stafford•
shire, dealer, at one, at the Swan Inn, Stafford-Nov.2,W.
Morgan, Cheltenham, builder, at one, at the Royal
Hotel, Cheltenham-Nov. 2. W. P. Mann, Great Yar-
mouth, Norfolk, merchant, at twelve, at the Duke's
Head Inn, Great Yarmouth-Nov. 1, G. Short, jun.,
Salisbury, Wiltshire, grocer, at two, at the Three Swans
Inn, Salisbury-Nov. 11, J. Bakewell, Manchester, size
manufacturer, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester-Nov. 5, J. Neeld, Duckenfield, Cheshire,
cotton spinner, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester-Nov. 3, J. Sanderson, Crawshaw Booth,
Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, at one, at the Commis-
sioners'-rooms, Manchester-Nov. 2, J. Wilkinson,
Brymbo, Denbighshire, ironmaster, at twelve, at the
Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham-Nov. 2, W. Smith,
Thurmaston, Leicestershire, sock manufacturer, at ele-
ven, at the Castle of Leicester-Nov. 3, J. Stuttard and
Co., Manchester, cotton manufacturers, at ten, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-Nov. 2, E. Smith,
Southampton, grocer, at two, at theG corge Inn, Southamp-
ton-Nov. 2, H. Heap, Leeds, silk dyer, at two, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds-Nov. 8, J. Mann, Nor-
wich, woolstapler, at eleven. at the Royal Hotel, Nor-
wich-Nov. 1, J. and G. Lockwood, Wakefield, linen-
drapers, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds
-Nov. 2, J. Zanetti, Manchester, carver and gilder, at
three, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-Nov.
3, J. B. Abbott and D. M`Cheane, Liverpool, wine-mer-
chants, at ten, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool--Nov.
2t,
two, J.
at
Hall, Staffordshire, iron-merchant,
a
oms, Liverpool-Nov. 3, E.
Marshall,
the
Clarendon-rooms,
aersecnodt
o no
Till, Worcester, butchsr, at one, at the New Greyhound
Inn, Worcester-Nov. 9, J. Livsy, Bury, Lancashire,
cotton-spinner, at two, at the Commissioners' -room,
Bolton-Nov. 3, G. A. Thompson, Wylam, Northumber-
land, iron-master, at three-R. and F. Palmer, Reading,
Berkshire, coal- merchants, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Reading-Nov. 3, J. Bennett, Melksham, Wiltshire,
corn-factor, at three, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol-
Nov. 3, J. Ford, Bristol, cooper, at two, at the Commer-
cial-rooms, Bristol-Nov. 2, W. Roskell, Liverpool, tailor,
at twelve, at tho Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-Nov.
3, W. Huxtable and R. George, Ilfracombe, Devon-
shirs, shipbuilders, at one, at the Commercial-rooms,
Bristol-Nov. 7, G. Gibson, Liverpool, stockbroker, at
one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-Nov. 2, J.
Drake, Birmingham, book-seller, at twelve, at the
Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham-Nov. 7, H. Mainwaring,
Manchester, draper, at five, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester-Nov. 1, R. Tovey, Bristol, pawnbroker, at
two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol-Nov. 3, H. W.
Hobhouse, J. Phillott, and C. Lowder, Bath, bankers,
at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, ath-Nov. 1, W.
Kington, Clifton, Bath, builder, at three, at the Com-
mercial-rooms, Bristol-Nov. 7, E. Jones, Manchester,
drysalter, at twelve, at the Commissieners'-rooms, Man-
chester-Nov. 7, J. Scott, Manchester, paper-dealer, at
two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-Nov. 4,
W. Williams, Bristol, builder, at two, at the Commercial-
rooms, Bristol-Nov. 4, L. Beck, Bristol, broker, at one,
at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol-Nov. 8, J. Protheroe,
jun., Bristol, iron-merchant, at one, at the Commercial.
rooms, Bristol-Nov. 4, J. H. Hayward and W. C.
Fletcher, Manchester, wholesale booksellers, at three, ;at
the Commissioners'-rooms' Manchester-Nov. 5, W. Ar-
mour, Manchester, fancy drill manufacturer, at eleven,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-Nov. 10, G.
Tennant, Wigan, Lancashire, maltater, at four, at the
Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors-Nov. 1, T. Collingwood,
Abingdon, Berkshire, corn-dealer, at twelve, at the
Lamb Inn, Abingdon-Nov. 8, T. Waller, S. Waller, T.
Waller, jun., W. Waller, and R. K. Waller, Manchester,
cotton-spinners, at two, at the Commissioners'. rooms,
Manchester-Nov. 3, J. A. Lee, E. Holt, T. Bell, and
W. Bookless, Liverpool, iron-founders, at one, at the
Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-Nov. 7, J. Coates, Man -
' chester merchant, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES-Nov. 1.

J. S. Daintry and J. Ryle, Manchester, bankers—W.
Cooper, Belfast, Manchester warehouseman—J. Scott,
Birmingham, gun-maker—W. Keep, Northumberland-
street, Strand, tailor—M. Johnson and W. Johnson,
Cheadle, Staffordshire, grocers—S. Vincent, Saint Mary
Axe, wholesale tea and coffee-dealer—G. Sherlock, Li-
verpool, ship-broker—J. Dickins, Northampton, uphol-
sterer--D. Cook, Liverpool, rope-maker—M. May, De-
vonport, earthen Ware-dealer.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Underwood and J. Picton, brewers, Manchester—
C. Murgatroyd and R. Whitehead, dyers, Burley-mill,
Yorkshire--G. Dennis and J. B. Simpson, patent medi-
cine dealers, York—D. Low and A. Burt, linen drapers,
Weymouth, Dorsetshire—J. Burch and R. Neilson, hair
cutters, Old Broad-street—J. Emson and J. Bridgman,
drapers, Sudbury—W. J. and J. S. Cubitt, wine mer-
chants, Norwich—W. A. Quinn and H. Barnes, copper-
plate printers, Birmingham—T. Boulton, W. Greenbank,
S. Boulton, J. Duncalf, and J. Baddeley, earthenware
manufacturers, Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries (so far
as regards J. Baddeley)—A. W. Hurley-, J. Shackle, and
T. Shackle, brickmakers, Hayes—T. Wilson and G. A,
V. Dommer, ct,mmission agents, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
—G. Parlett and G. 011iver, farmers, Durrington, Sussex
-T. Wills and T. Dobnor, grocers, Exeter—J. Clark
and H. Fisher, colonial brokers, Mincing-lane—O.
Taylor, W. Todd, J. Todd, and M. Todd, woollen
printers, Rochdale, Lancashire—J. W. Pitsch and T.
Neill, tailors, Sackville-street, Piccadilly—W. Thompson
and H. Spencer, ribbon warehousemen, Wood-street,
Cheapside—J. Hobbs and H. -Withers, house painters,
-Kingsdown, Bristol—T. Wisdom and J. Curling, whole-
sale hosiers, Wood-street, Cheapside—J. L. Elliot, G.
Lambert, J. Watney, and J. Spurrell, brewers, Pimlico
(so far as regards J. Spurrell)—Egerton, Smith, and
Co , proprietors of the " Liverpool Mercury," Liverpool
—R. Kendall, J. Appleton, J. Love, Jli. Straker,
Straker, T. Love, R. Thwaites, and J. Pearson, Brance-
peth Colliery, Durham (so far as regards R. Kendall and
J. Appleton)—G. J. de Witte, W. H. Stuckey, G. Hahn.
and G. Elwell, merchants, Crescent, Minories—.T. Green-
shields, W. Ackers, and It. Syers, merchants, Liverpool—
J. M. Thorrington and S. Box, victuallers, Friars-street.

INDIAN MISCELLANEOUS
INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Times.)
PIRACY.—THE WATERWITCH, ofL OND ON.
Some time ago the whaling barque Waterwitch,•of
London, left Sydney for a whaling voyage, under the
command of Captain Christie. As will appear from
the following statement, Captain Christie and his
boat's crew have been left on Howe's' Island, and the
vessel taken away. The following statement has been
made by the pai-ties, who have come up, together with
Captain Poole of Howe's Island, who has accompanied
Captain Christie to Sydney to state what he knows of
the affair, and who had behaved with the greatest
kindness to Captain Christie and his men.
The Waterwitch has been a most unfortunate
vessel ; her captain and surgeon died on the passage
from England, and her chief mate cut his throat while
she was lying in Sydney.
The affidavits sworn before Capt. Browne, at the
yesterday, are substantially as
follow :
Water
• William Christie, master-mariner, being duly
sworn, states—About the end of February I left the
harbour of Port Jackson in command of the whaling
barque Waterwitch, of London ; my crew consisted
of first and second mates, third mate, and surgeon,
and 23 men. On the 23d of March I touched
at Howe's Island, and landed to procure re-
freshments, leaving written instructions with Mr.
•King, the chief officer, as to how he should act in my
absence, and with orders to keep the ship near to the
island during the night. On the morning of the 24th
of March I waited anxiously for the boat, but she did
not come, nor could r anywhere discern my ship. At
sunset, not having seen my ship or her boats, I went
off in my own boat to the Benezett, an American
ship on the station, hoping to be able to see my
own vessel ; she was, however, nowhere in sight.
A constant 100k-out was kept from the island until
the 13th May, when I went on board the Lady
Rowena, of Launceston, Captain Mills, together with
my boat's crew, and Captain Poole, of Howe's Island.
On Sunday last, 30th May, my boat was lowered
about five miles from Port Stephens, and Captain
Poole, myself,
and men, proceeded on shore, and saw
Captain King,
who advised me to come on to Sydney,
and report the circumstances detailed in the fore-
going statement to the superintendent of the water
police.
The weather
exceedingly
fine, with a moderate breeze from the
nn the night of the 23d March was
southward and eastward, and I have no hesitation in
declaring my belief that the vessel was intentionally
carried off by the officers and men on board of her,
appropriate
th;e
with a view to sell or otherwise dispose of her, and to
"'"gned) WILLIAM CHRISTIE.
Sworn at the Water Police-office, Sydney,
this 2d June, 1842, before
(Signed) H. IL BROWNE,
Proceeds to their own use.
m
Superintendent Water Police.
dul sworn
Owen Poole, Es 4"
I have read the statement on oath
resident at Howe's Island, being
y , states
made by Captain Christie, and hereby declare that I
believe the same to be true in every particular. I wit-
nessed the written instructions left by Captain
Christie, with his
his first officer,
de-
clare that the reports h;ch I' Mr King. I also
lave heard have been
circulated that Captain . C Christie •t" was drunk on the
island, and otherwise misconducting himself, are
wholly false and
unfounded. I consider the vessel
vi,w
as taken away piratically.
(Signed) , 0. POOLE.
Sworn at the Water Police-office,
Sydney, this 2d June,
1842.
Before
(Signed) 11. H. BROWNE, J.P.
/ Six seamen of the Water witch subscribe their affir-
mation to the above statements.

asparagus
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ASPARAGUS.—Take a quart wine bottle, such as
French wine is sold in, invert it over the head of an
by three sticks, so that it cannot be knocked over. If
left in this state, the asparagus will grow up into the
interior of the bottle, and being ll
just rising above the ground, and secure it
stimulated by the un-
there exposed to, will
usual heat and moisture it j 5
speedily fill it. As. soon . to, :this has taken plate, the
1,
bottle must he 1,
..,romen, and the asparagus removed,
when it will be found to have
formed a thick head of
lender delicate shoots, all eatable, and as compact as a
cauliflower.—Gardener's Chronicle.

EXTRACTS PROM THE "INQUIRY
INTO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT
BRITAIN."—(CONTINUED.)
A practical example of the money value which
lies in the refuse of a town, when removed in
the . cheapest manner, and applied in the form
best adapted to production, viz., by a system of
cleansing by water, is afforded in connexion
with the city of Edinburgh. In the course of
the sanitary inquiry in that city the particular at-
tention of Dr. Arnott and myself' was directed to
the effects of some offensive irrigation-of the land
which had taken place in the immediate vicinity
of that city. It appears that the contents of a
large proportion of the sinks, drains, and privies
of that city, are conveyed in covered sewers to
the eastern suburb of the town, where they are
emptied into a stream called the Foul Burn,
which passes ultimately into the sea. The stream
is thus made into a large uncovered sewer or
drain. Several years ago some of the occupiers
of the land in the immediate vicinity (if this
stream diverted parts of it, and collected the soil
which- it contained in tanks for rise as manure.
After this practice had been adopted f'or a long
period, the farmers in the vicinity gradually
found that the most beneficial mode of applying
the manure was in the liquid form, and they con-
ducted the stream over their meadows by irrga-
tion. Others, perceiving the extraordinary fer-
tility thus obtained, followed the example, and
by d. grees about three hundred acres of meadow,
chiefly in the eastern parts of that city, but all iu
its immediate vicinity, and the greater part of it
in the neighbourhood of the Palace of' Holyrood,
have been systematically irrigated with the con-
tents of this common sewer. From some of this
land so irrigated, tour or five crops a year have
been obtained; land once worth from 40s. or 50s
per acre now lets for very high sums
Liebig, the greatest living authority on agricul-
tural chemistry, states that night-soil loses in
drying half its valuable products, that is, half its
" nitrogen," for the " ammonia" escapes into the
atmosphere. By irrigation, by the diffusion and
conveyance of the manure to the plant in the
Medium of water, the escape of the valuable sub-,
stance, as a •noxious and injurious gas is
. . . . The irrigation whici has sur-
rounded the Palace of Holyrood having, as it is
considered, rendered it prejudicial to health, her
Majesty's Government, for the protection of this
Palace as a Royal residence, have directed legal
process for the trial of' the right claimed to the
irrigation. The defendants vindicate tire mea-
sure on the ground of its utility as an agricultu-
ral operation, and treat the proposal to divert the
contents of the sewers, as being, in fact, a pro-
posal to deprive the city of the milk and butter
yielded by more than 3,000 milch cows, and the
markets of the meat from their carcases; that, in
fact, " the grass, which in virtue of irrigation
these meadows produce, supports in Edinburgh
3,300 cows, and in Leith 600 cows, during the
season. We were informed that. the parties in-
terested in the lands estimate the compensation
that would induce them to discontinue the prac-
tice at 150,0001.; and a pamphlet written at their
instance, in 1840, states this as the SUM which
the proprietors of the meadows to the west of the
city would be legally entitled to (independently
of the claims of those in the east) were the prac-
tice abolished by legislative authority. The pro-
prietors have had, on several occasions, sufficient
influence to frustrate the efforts of the city autho•
rities to obtain legislative sanction for the re-
moval of the nuisance, and for a more salubrious
disposal of it for the advantage of the inhabitants
themselves.—Pages 48-51. •
The comparative economy of conveyance of
fluid in pipes has been but little observed, and
has only recently, perhaps, been applied for the
purpose of cleansing. The following is an in-
stance of the application of the principle :—A
contract was about to be entered into by the
West Middlesex Water Company for hauling
out from their reservoir at Kensington the de-
posit of eight or ten years' silt, which had accu-
mulated to the depth of three or four feet. The
contractor offered to remove this quantity, which
covered nearly an acre of surface, for the sum of
4001, in three or four weeks. The reservoir was
emptied in order to be inspected by the engineer
and directors before the contract was accepted.
It occurred to one of the officers that tire cleans-
• ing might be accomplished more readily by
merely stirring up the silt, to mix it with the
water; arid then if a cut or outlet were made in
the main7pipe used tbr conveying the water to
London, that it might be washed out. He accord.
iugly got, thirty or forty men to work in stirring up
the deposit, and accomplished the work at the
cost of 401. or 50/. and three or four days' labour,
instead of so many weeks; when.the directors went
to see the basin, to decide upon the contract, the
reservoir was as free from any deposit as a house-
floor: Since the discovery thus made, the silt
has been reguhrly cleansed out into the common
sewer. It is to be observed, in respect to the
relative cheapness of the two modes, that the
contractor would only have removed the silt to
the nearest convenient place of deposit in the
immediate vicinity of the reservoir, whereas, in
the fluid state, it might be carried at the actual
cost of conveying water as fitr as it is at present
conveyed, and sold witha profit, twelve or four-
teen miles, and raised to heights of 150 feet, at
lid. per ton.—Pages 42, 53.
The expense of cleansing the streets of the
township of Manchester is 5,0001. per annum.
For this sum the first claSs of streets, namely,
the most opulent and the large thoroughfares,
are cleansed once a week, the second class once
a fortnight, and the third class once a month.
But this provision leaves untouched, or leaves in
the condition described in Dr. Baron Howard's
Report, the courts, alleys, and
-places where the
poorest
,classes live, and where the cleansing
should be daily. There are abundance of recom-
mendations to the effect, "Let it be ordered that
the streets be properly cleansed ;" but in this in-
stance the cost of cleansinw the whole-of what is
properly the same town; Salford, and the out-
townships, would be 8,0001. or 10,000/. per annum;
and such a recommendation, under the existing
modes of management, is equivalent to saying,
let 20,0001. or 30,0001. of additional rates be ex-
pended, and 40,0001. or 60,0001. additional loads
of refuse be removed. In other large towns, the
service and the expense is on a similar scale. At
the rate of expense of one large parish, the pre-
sent cost of cleansing in the metropolis may be
estimated at about 40,0001. per annum. This ex-
pense, however, is generally repaid by the sale
of the coal-ashes, which are used in the manu-
facture of bricks.—Page 53.-
Two-thirds of the usual expense of street
cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, .with
a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly un-
necessary. The exclusive use of hand-lab:air in
street-sweeping is pronounced by competent
judges-to be a mere barbarism, "and several ma-
chines have been invented which demonstrate
that by mechanical pswer, moved by horses, the
cleansing may be effected in a far shorter time.
Some of these scrape the mud in ridges to the
sides, where it remains until it can be lifted and
carted away. But this is objected to as itkonve-
nient by the shopkeepers, and the scavengers ob-
ject that it is no convenience to them, inasmuch
as raking it in heaps prevents the evaporation of
the liquid, and increases the cartage; and, more.
over, that the process of sweeping by hand is as
quick as the carts can return for its removal. A.
machine has been used at Manchester which ra-
• pidly and cleanly sweeps the level surfaces of the
streets into a cart; but there is still the encum-
brance of the labour, and cost and delay of cart-
ing the refuse to a place of deposit, which may
be several miles distant, and returning to re-load.
The-value of a process of street-cleansing is pro
portioned to the rapidity with
.which it is per-
formed, but at present it is usually delayed until
the sun or the air has done a large portion of the I
work by the evaporation of the moisture, com-
monly, however, to the deterioration of the air of
the town and the health, and also the deteriora-
tion of the value of the refuse.—Page 54.

We are happy to mention that two of the officers
who have been long reckoned amongst those who had
fallen, are now known to be alive; these are Doctors
Campbell and Bryce. The former is safe at Caubul
with the hostages. It appears that when it was de-
cided to leave some medical officer in charge of the
sick and wounded remaining at Caubul, lots were drawn
for the purpose, and the chance fell to a married man,
when Dr. Campbell came forward and volunteered to
relieve him ; as he shook hands with his brother offi-
cers of his corps at the gates of the cantonment, they
gave him to understand that they looked upon him as
devoted to destruction, little thinking how much
nearer was their own fate. As regards Dr. Bryce, a
sepoy of the 54th regiment came into Brigadier Mon-
teith's camp on the 18th July; he had been confined
in a fort in the neighbourhood, and states that Dr.
Bryce had been a prisoner in the same fort, but that
lie had been taken away further into the hills about a
fortnight before.—Overland Calcutta Star.
LANARKSHIRE.—COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The colliers
about Airdrie, Coatbridge, and Holytown, with few ex-
ceptions still continue on strike, but no disposition to out-
rage has been manifested amongst them since the riot
at Airdrie, about three weeks ago, when a number of
prisoners, on their way to Hamilton gaol, were
rescued by a mob. A small party of military, called
out on that occasion, is still stationed in the district,
as well as a considerable body of police,-and to this
cause, we have no doubt, may in a great measure he
attributed the continued tranquillity of that part qf
the country.—Gkagowk gus,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 11.
IN RR LOUIS COQUEREL.
The bankrupt in this case was the proprietor of a
French establishment called the Leicester Hotel, in
Leicester-square. About four months ago a French
gentleman named Saclier,: while on his way from
Boulogne to London, was robbed of 4,000 f. by a
female in the steam-packet, and when he arrived
here, he and the bankrupt proceeded to give informa-
tion of the circumstance to the police, after which the
latter told him it would be much the safest plan if he
lodged all the money he had about him in his (the
bankrupt's hands. Mr. Saclier, upon this represen-
tation, then handed him over 15,000 f., with which he
instantly decamped, and although Mr. Sealer offered
reward of 1001. for his apprehension, he had never
ince been heard of. Soon after he absconded several
persons to whom he was indebted in large sums
issued a fiat of bankruptcy against him, and, after
several previous hearings, this day was appointed for
his final examination.

Upon the bankrupt's name being called in Court,
and it being stated that he had not as yet surrendered,
the further examination was adjourned sine die, and
the usual formula; observed in announcing a pro-
clamation of outlawry.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
M AN VON-HOUSE.

A young woman, of very respectable appearance,
who was accompanied by her brother, applied to the
Lord Mayor for advice in what manner to proceed
under the following disagreeable 'circumstances :
The young woman said that she and is young man,
who_n she believed for a long time to he a person of
unexceptionable character, had been on terms of inti-
macy, and she at length consented to marry him.
As the time for performing the ceremony approached,
the necessary arrangements were made, but informa-
tion, which she subsequently found to be correct,
was brought to her that the gentleman to whom she
was engaged had been imprisoned for robbery. The
first thing she did after the shock was softened
down, was to send •word to the person who was so
much interested in the matrimonial arrangements,
that they must be postponed sine die, as she had as-
certained that he had been in gaol for thieving. The
only answer h' made was a volley of abuse, m which
his mother joined against her, and they both showed
a determination to compel her to perform her en-
gagement, which she considered herself quite at
liberty to annul under such painful circumstances.
The Loan MAYOR said the applicant had acted
very prudently in not timidly yielding to the threats
or expostulations of a person whom she knew to be a
man of bad character, and in applying to authority
for protection, which should certainly be afforded to her.
The young woman's brother said that the conse-
quence of his sister's refusal to connect herself with
such a person was, that the disappointed man and his
mother had done all they could to traduce the girl's
character, by accusing her publicly of beir.g unchaste,
and in the grossest terms imaginable.
The LORD MAYOR desired that warrants should be
issued against the man and his mother, and an officer
was sent to apprehend them.
The mother was brought before the Lord Mayor,
but the son, who no doubt apprehended something
disagreeable, did not appear. His father, however, re-
presented himself to be the individual most particu-
larly charged, and appeared in the young man's place.
The young woman then stated that after she had
intimated to all who were concerned that the mar-
riage was broken off, the female defendant called at
her house, insisted upon being informed who was the
author of the report that her son had been in prison,
and not only insulted the witness by the most offen-
sive epithets, but attempted to scratch her face, and
missing her face scratched the landlord's.
The female defendant said her son had got himself
into difficulties by his liberality in making presents to
the woman, who had all along promised to be his wife.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean to say that he
has not been in prison for robbery ? The female
defendant—l do not mean to say so. He has been
in prison, but she was the cause of it.
The complainant's brother said his sister had never
caused the least extravagance to any human being,
and would not accept of any presents whatever. All
she wanted now was to be protected from the animo-
sity which she had so much reason to dread. _ _

'The LORD MAYOR directed that the female de-
fendant should find bail, and that the young man
should be immediately apprehended. The father,
against whom no charge was brought, was discharged.