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8 THE. NORTHERN STAR . October 13, 1 ^4^
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8 The. Northern Star . October 13, 1 ^4^
8 THE . NORTHERN STAR . October 13 , 1 ^ 4 ^
The Austrian Loan. Great Public Meeting....
THE AUSTRIAN LOAN . GREAT PUBLIC MEETING . On Monday last a public meeting , which had been announced for some days past , was held at the London Tavern " to consider the advertisement recently issued by the Austrian Government for a loan of £ 7 , 000 , 000 sterling , and to agree to an address to the friends of peace and disarmament throughout the world , on the general question of loans for war purposes . " The meeting was fixed for one o ' clock , and the great room of the London Tavern was filled with company before the hour appointed for the commencement of thc proceedings . A few ladies * ere present , and amongst the company on the platform were : —Lord D . Stuart , Mr . < 3 . W . Alexander , Mr . K . Cobden , M . P ., Mr . J . Williams , M . P ., the Rev . J . Burnet , Mr . G . Gilpin , Mr . J . Morland , Mr . W . Le . if , of Old Change , & e .
3 fr . Cobden was loudly cheered on entering , as was also Lord Dudley Stuart * who made bis appear ance shortly after the commencement of the proceedings . Mr . Alesaxdeb , having been voted into the chair , said that he should have been glad if Mr . S . Gurney bad presided oh the present occasion , and given utterance to those principles which were so much in accordance with the object of that meeting , in reference to the impolicy and the folly of the nations hojrowing money for the maintenance of standing amies and the conduct of war . ( Hear , hear . ) Everything was calculated to encourage them in ihe conviction that the time was nearly , if not entirely past , when nations would be able to obtain loans for these purposes . ( Hear , hear . ) Ifeariy every government in Europe was largely indebted , and capitalists and prudent-persons would not continue to risk their means iu these loans . Up to the
present moment a very small part of the Austrian loan advertised had been taken . ( Cheers . ) It was stated , by some person of the name of Henry , lately , in the columns of The Times , that the whole oi the loan had been taken at Vienna , and that it was at that time at 2 i premium ; but , by latter intelligence from Tlie- Times own correspondent , it appeared that only £ 1 , 500 , 000 had been taken , and that Hope and Co . had stood forth to subscribe £ 2 , 000 , 000 for Russia . That made only one-half of tbe loan , and at a small premium ; and they would probably find that a portion or the whole statement was incorrect . The object of that meeting was to object to all war loans , but especially to the Austrian loan , as it was contracted for the purpose of paying those who had been engaged iu carrying on war in the various countries to which Austria stood in the relation of bead ; and in pursuance of that cruel system which enabled governments to carry on war against their own subjects and other nations . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Cobden then came forward and was received with loud and reiterated cheering . He said—Mr . Chairman and gentlemen , the resolution I have to propose is as follows : — " That the government of Austria having proposed to raise a loan in foreign countries , capitalists and men of business are thereby invited to investigate the financial position of the said government , and tbe probability of its repaying the loan thus proposed to be contracted ; and that It is the opinion of this meeting that no valid security is tendered , or can be offered , in the present state of the Austrian government , which would lustify prudent men in taking any part of the said loan . "—Gentlemen , it has been my privilege to address my fellow countrymen probably as often ,
and hi as a variety of places , as any man now bring but I will say , with unfeigned confidence , that there never was an occasion when I stood before my countrymen on such solid and firm grounds of justice , of humanity , and of sound political economy , as I do at this moment . ( Hear , hear . ) Sow , gentlemen , objections have been taken to the course I have pursued in this matter , on ihe ground that I am not adhering to sound principles ofpolitical economy I suppose if was thought that that was the most vulnerable point on which one who had said so much on the subject of free trade could be assailed . I will begin , then , with that which the enemy considers his strong ground of attack ; and I say that , as I have gone through the length and breadth of
this country with Adam Smith in my hand to advocate the princi p les of free trade , I can stand here , "with . Adam Smith also in my hand , to denouncenot merely for its inherent waste of national wealth , not only because it anticipates income and consumes capital , hut also on the ground of injustice to posterity , in saddling upon our heirs a debt we have no right to call upon them to pay—the loans we have this day met to consider . ( Loud cheering . ) But , gentlemen , whilst I come here to denounce as unjust , to expose as wasteful , and to demonstrate to be impolitic , the system of lending money for the purposes for which Austria comes to borrow , I confine myself there . I do not purpose here to recommend that we should go to parliament for a law to
prohibit men from lending money , if it be their wish to do so . ( Hear , hear . ) All I say is , that I come here to try in a humble way to do that which I have done for free trade—to popularise to the people of this country and of thc continent those principles which Adam Smith , David Hume , Montesquieu , Hicardo , M ^ Culloch , and every man who has written on this subject , hare demonstrated to be injurious to mankind and unjustin principle . I come here , gentlemen , to try tosbowtoourfellowcountrymcn , in the first place , that they will act upon a wrong principle , and do injury to society , by lending the proceed ? of their hard and industrious la ' aour to the Austrian Government , to be expended in that bottomless gulf of waste—armies and standing armaments . I come here to show the impolicy , on general principles , of taking such a course . " But in this particular instance I am not going to confine
myself to the general principle . I appeal to every individual who thinks of lending money to the Austrian Government , to pause before he docs so ; becmise he is going to intrust his money to a Power that has thrice committed an act of bankruptcy . ( "Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) [ An observation was here made by an individual at the lower end of the room , which led to cries of " Tarn him out , " and fer a few moments some confusion ensued . ] Mr . Cobden proceeded . Turn nobody out . If he be a man who has subscribed to this loan , he can only have paid ten per cent , as a deposit , and if you will only keep him here , before I have done I will satisfy him that it will be for his interest to forfeit the deposit . ( Laughter and cheers . ) I will satisf y him that it will be for his interest to forfeit his ten per cent , and pay no more . ( Renewed laughter . ) But to rcsunie . I say that the Austrian
Government has ihree times committed acts of bankruptcy under circumstances of great and scandalous injustice , for while private interests—Imperial interests —have been well taken care of , the general public —the subscribers to the loans—have been basely sacrificed . ( Cries of " J " rue , true ! " aud cheers . ) How , what has been theprogress of Austrian finance since the great war ? I will take a work of standard reputation , which was published in 1 S 40 , under thc title of Austria and its Future , a work well known to be from the pen of Baron Andrian , who last year ably filled the office of ambassador from the Central German Power to the British Court , and a work of standard authority on such matters . After a most detailed statement of all the various
shuffling manoeuvres—borrowing , loaning , lotteries and every possible device—with'Vhich the Austrian Government has been roistifying its finance for twenty-five years—from 1815 to 1340—the author sums up by saying that , from 1 S 13 down to lSiO , a period of profouad peace , the Austrian Government has doubled its debt in nominal value , but quadrupled its debt in real amount , and has increased the interest foi which it is liable tenfold . The same work was republished in 1 SI 6 , by the same author , with an additional volume ; and the author tells us that at that time not one word had been said to disprove his statements respecting Austrian finance . He adds , that since the period when his book was first published , £ 8 , 000 , 009 more
have been added to the national debt of Austria ; and it therefore comes to this—that from 1815 to ISiy thc Austrian Government , during a period of profound peace , without a foreign war on its hands during t ' mj whole of that time , has gone on every year spending more than its income , and constantly addinfftothe amount of its national debt . Then , in 1 S 4 < 3 , whilst Austria had from 300 , 000 to 400 , 000 men under arms—the produce of all this wasteful expenditure—came that revolutionary epidemic which passed over the continent , and thc Government of Austria fell like a house of cards , notwithstanding ihe bayonets by Which it was supported—( cheers)—and from that time to this the Austrian empire has been in a state of complete anarchy and
disorder . Vienna , Pesth , Tenicc , Milan , Pragueevery capital of the empire but Inspruck—has been bombarded by the forces of the Austrian Government ; we nave seen the bank suspending specie payments the government suspending the exportation of the precious metals , to prevent the foreign creditor from being honestly paid his due ; and during all this anarchy and confusion , both political and financial , the Austrian Government has expended at least double the amount of its previous income . I should be afraid to state what I have heard persons of good authority say is the amount of the floating debt that they have the audacity—for I cannot call it by any other { name —( cheeraj ^ locomebeforethopeo ple of Western Europe , and ask the honest
Dutchman , the industrious Englishman , the pains-taking , saving Swiss or Frenchman—they do not care who it is —( a laugh )—out of their hard earnings to lend them money—that is , to throw it into a bottomless pit of waste and extravagance . ( " Hear , bear , " and cheers . ) Now , I ask you , if an individual has committed acts of bankruptcy three times , is he not very likely to commit it again if it answers his purpose ? ( Cheers and laughter . ) Well , the Austrian Government has every motive to commit an act of bankruptcy again , because it is utterly impossible that iu any other way they can get their finances straight . ( Hear . ) They never can pay their debt . -They m . vy now borrow £ f , 009 , 000 sterling as a raeans of paying off a fraction of the debt they have already incurred , and that £ 7 , 030 , 000 they are
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asking for on rather humiliating terms ; but I warn all men , whether in this country or abroad , that this is only the beginning of borrowing on the part of the Austrian Government . ( Hear , hear . ) If theirfinances are to be retrieved by borrowing , this is but a drop in the ocean to what they must borrow afterwards ; and you must bear in mind that those who lend their money first will be swamped and sacrificed to those who lend afterwards , and with whom the government will have to drive harder bargains . ( Hear , hear . ) When I state these facts , I do not mention them for the information of Messrs . Hope and Co , or any other large banking company in London , Amsterdam , Antwerp , or Vienna . I perfectly understand , thoueh not a
farthing of the Austrian loan should be repaidthough the government should never redeem a farthing of it—that it may still be a very profitable thing to those agents and bankers * who find the money through their connexions and customers . I hold in my hand the advertisement put forth by the Austrian Government in our papers , and this is my justification for coming here to-day . We have not met to talk over Austrian finances and affairs , to uncover these sore places , and to tell all these hard truths , without having been invited to it Here is an advertisement put
into our papers , at the expense , I suppose , of the Austrian government —( a laugh)—inviting everybody to subscribe to the loan . The advertisers are so accommodating that , in order that nobody may be excluded , they say people may subscribe as low as 100 florins , or £ 10 . ( Hear , hear . ) It is said that the pith of a lady ' s letter is to be found in the postcript —( a laugh)—and I entreat the attention of all persons , whether here , in Holland , or in Germany—( for I am not merely speaking to a few of my countrymen in this room , but what I say will be read in Holland , in Germany , and in Prance)—to the last line of this advertisement . It runs thus : —
"Any subscriber to a higher amount than 25 , 000 florins , or any person who collects subscriptions to an amount surpassing that sum , willreceivc a commission of a quarter per cent on the amount of the payments made . " ( Hear , and laughter ) Now , I ask you , if any shopkeeper or huckster in London put an advertisement outside his window , " Anybody who brings a customer to my shop , who may purchase 5 s . worth of potatoes or vegetables , shall have a commission of 2 d . on that amount , " would you not pass by on the other side—fa laugh)—and take especial care to have no dealings at his shop ? ( Laughter and cheers . ) Would you not naturally say to yourselves , "If that man sold a good article , if he was true to his word in his dealings , if he
never cheated anybody , if he had not committed foul acts of bankruptcy , or probably of robbery , he would not be under the necessity of offering bribes to obtain customers . " ( Hear , hear . ) I want you , and these small capitalists who are invited to put then ? £ 10 into this raffle , where there are no prizes , to bear in mind that we do not think tbat our meeting will convert any of those bankers , or agents , or brokers , whether hi Amsterdam or Vienna , who have been called on to find out unwary people , and get them to subscribe their 25 , 000 florins . ( Hear , near . ) We never expected to convert them , or to find one on this platform . ( Laughter . ) We expect that all those organs of the press which are under the influence of these parties—and they are not a
few—we expect that they will not meet what I now say by argument , but they will do what they are bid to do and to say , and will abuse me * well . ( Cheers and laughter . ) [ Here some confusion occurred at tbe bottom of the room , and a person stationed in that part exclaimed—with the view , we suppose , of explaining the cause of it—that " there were 10 , 000 people outside who wanted to get in . " ] Mr . Cobden continued ; I am glad ( he said ) to hear there are so many assembled outside , but they must be content with reading in the newspapers to-morrow what we are now saying . It is to those small capitalists of whom I was speaking—the unwary tbe incautious , and the uninformed class—that I wish to speak the voice of warning ; and if they will
listen to me I will give them the opportunity of testing the opinion of the great capitalists with respect to this loan . Messrs . Hope and Co ., of Amsterdam , thc agents for the loan , have offered it on such terms as , if carried out , would pay £ 514 s . percent , interest . Now , I would advise some canny Dutchman to go to the counting-house of Messrs . Hope and Co ., and say this to them— ' * You have offered to me to take part in a loan by which I could get £ 3 lis . interest per cent . ; that is nearly twice as much interest as we get at Amsterdam in an ordinary way ; we should be content with four percent , interest , if it were secure ; I propose to take £ 1 , 000 of your loan , and I will be content to receive four per cent , interest , and give you the remaining
£ 1 14 s ., if you will indorse my bond as a guarantee for the payment . " 5 b , no ; the firm are not likely to be done in that way , you may depend upon it ( Cheers and laughter . ) I was talking the other day to a gentleman in Lombard-street—one oi the most experienced , sagacious , and able men in that quarter , which is not renowned for gullible fools—( laughter)—and Iasked him for his opinion upon this loan . Bear in mind , gentlemen , he is a man more consulted by the government and committees of the House of Commons on such matters than any one else on the east of Temple-bar . He replied , " I do not believe that £ 200 , 000 will be raised in all England , and certainly not one shilling ' s worth will be taken to hold . " ( Hear . ) 2 fo , the capitalists will
not take it to hold . If they take it , they will take thc scrip at ten per cent , deposit in the hope of transferring it to some one , who will lose his money , not being so well informed of the valueless character of the security . ( Cheers . ) It is on that class that the loss will ' fall . I knew , myself , many years ago , when resident in the city , a man who worked as porter on weekly wages—his family and himself being reduced to that state that they * had no other earthly dependence—and yet the man had Spanish Bonds to the nominal amount of more than £ 2 , 000 in his pocket , They were not worth more than waste paper ; but I never heard that the great houses that contracted the loan were ruined by it . ( Hear , hear . ) No , it passed through their hands , and came into the hands of poor men like this porter , who had no experience and knowledge in such matters ; and it is to jruard such poor men that I
now utter the voice of warning . ( Cheers . Xow , I ask , when it is known that every word I say is strictly within moderation and the bounds of truth —when there is not a man hi Lombard-street , but would endorse every word I utter as to the valueless character of tins loan—is it not something hateful , humiliating , and disgusting , that we have leading organs of thc press which lend their influence , not to throw a shield over the unwary and innocent , but to servo the purpose of those who have cunning and ability to protect themselves ? ( Cheers . ) They do not come out—that is where I blame them —in their leading articles , and tell the people , with theautbority of theirown pen , that Austria is trustworthy—that this loan is a good investment . No ; they do not do anything of this kind ; but they do their work in the best way they can—by inuendoby secret influence—and by trying all they can to traduce the men who come forward and tell the
truth on this matter . ( Cheers . ) When I take up a public question of this sort , and find , instead of my arguments being refuted , that I am personally attacked , I consider that the triumph of my cause . ( Cheers . ) But thc fact is that these parties are not the only parties tbat look with disfavour on this meeting to-day . I have no hesitation in saying that there is not a government in Europe that is not frowning upon this meeting . ( Hear , hear . ) It is not merely Austria that disapproves of the meeting . I do not believe that our government likes it . ( Cheers . ) I say so much because I believe those organs of the press , especially under the influence of the government , and one ' in particular established as the advocate r > ar excellence of
the sound principles ofpolitical economy denounced by Adam Smith , are forward in condemning this meeting . ( Hear . ) I consider , gentlemen , this meeting as the germ of a great mo ^ . 'nent which will lay bare the pretensions of every government that comes before the world for a "loan—and will show thc bankrupt state—if it be bankrupt—of the Exchequer of their country , and will hold up to execration the objects for which men attempt to obtain such loans . ( Cheers . ) I consider this loan as much a Russian as an Austrian loan . I do not separate the two countries . ( Hear , hear . ) You remember when I spoke before in this place strongly on thc subject of the Russian finances . ( Hear , hear . ) I come now to repeat every word I then uttered .
( Hear , hear . ) I claim no great merit for myself in presuming to understand more properly the state of Russian finances than others . It is from accident that I have had opportunities , and few men —probably not six men in England—have had my opportunities of investigating and ascertaining upon tho best and safest authority on the Spot , Where alone you can properly understand the matter , what actually is the state of the resources of Russia ; and I say again , that the Russian government , in the matter of finance , is nothing more nor less than a gigantic imposture . ( Cheers . ) There are men in Western Europe who know what I say to be true , and yet lend themselves to spread an opposite delusion . You have seen , in the newspapers , that the government of Russia have taken £ 2 , 000 , 000 of this Austrian loan , and that the Russian
government was going to subscribe to tbe Pope s loan , and going to Tend the Archduke of Tuscany a round sum . This is systematically done . These paragraphs are put into the papers by men employed by that cunning government to throw dust in the eyes of people . The government , last year , spent more than its income ; and this year its deficit is enormous . ( Hear , hear . ) Russia has not paid the Hungarian campaign ; it has made forced contributions , taken the taxes of the territories through which the troops moved , and has given treasury receipts ; and at this moment the Russian government has no alternative but to increase its paper money and begin an act of bankruptcy again , or to come to Western Europe for a loan . ( Hear . ) When she comes here , let her well understand that we will be here also . It is not on mere economical grounds
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or on grounds of self-interest , alone that I oppose these loans ; I come here to oppose the very system on which they are founded . What is this money wanted for ? Austria , with her barbarous consort , has been engaged in a cruel and remorseless war—( hear , hear )—and the Austrian government comes now and stretches forth her blood-stained band to honest Dutchmen and Englishmen , and asks them to furnish the price of the devastation which has been committed . Por there is little difference whether the money subscribed to this loan is furnished a little before or after . ( Hear , hear . ) The money has been raised for the war by forced contributions and compulsory loans for which treasury receipts have been given , in the confident
expectation that this loan would be raised to pay them off . ( Hear . ) I consider that this is on principle most unjust and indefensible . ( A pplause . ) Happily , by the ordinance of divine Providence , war is in its nature self-destroying ; and , if a country which carries on war were loft to itself , war must have a speedy termination . But tins system of foreign loans for warlike purposes , by which England , Holland , Germany , and France , are invited to pay for the arms , clothing , and food of the belligerents , is a system calculated almost to perpetuate the horrors of war —( cheers)—and they who lend money for these purposes are destitute of any one excuse by which men try to justify to their own consciences the resort to the sword . They cannot plead
patriotism , self-defence , or even anger , or the lust ot military glory . No ! but they sit down coolly to calculate the chances to themselves of profit or loss in a game in which the lives of human beings are at stake . ( Cheers . ) They have not even the pleasure—the savage and brutal gratificationwhich ancient and pagan people had , when they paid for a seat in the amphitheatre to witness the bloody fights of gladiators in the arena . ( Cheers . ) I wish , in conclusion , that it should be borne in mind by capitalists everywhere that there are times when it behoves them to remember that property has its duties as well as its rights . ( Loud cheers . ) I exhort , then , the friends of peace and tho friends of disarmament throughout the civilised world to
exert themselves to spread a sounder morality on this question of war loans ; and they will teacn tho capitalists of the world that they who forget those duties are running the risk of endangering those rights . ( Loud cheers . ) Lord D . Stuart rose to second the resolution : He said , that it was particularly gratifying to hira , on the present occasion , to support his friend Mr . Cobden , because in former times they had not been so well agreed as , he was happy to think , they now were on questions of foreign policy . He was rejoiced to find their opinions now coincide * , and such was sure to be tho case ultimately with men whose principles rested on the same basis . ( Applause . ) He had not had the advantage of hearing all that
had fallen from Mr . Cobden , but he had no doubt that Mr . Cobden had told them that in point of fact this Austrian loan was illegal . ( " No , he has not . " ) Well , ho ( Lord D . Stuart ) would tell them . This Austrian loan was an imposture , for , by the laws of Austria , no loan could be contracted without the previous sanction of the Diet . ( Hear , hear . ) That sanction was wanting , for the loan was only signed hy the Minister , without any legal authority ; and consequently , nothing would be easier than for the Austrian government , whenever they found it inconvenient to pay the interest of the loan , to turn round and call those who had advanced the money very simple people , and tell them that they ought to have made due inquiry before parting with it .
( Cheers . ) It might be said that tins would be a most extraordinary and outrageous course for any government to adopt - , but they lived in times when monarchs performed acts of the most unusual and most outrageous description—( cheers ) —and it seemed almost as if the dark ages had returned , such scenes of barbarity and cruelty were being enacted throughout Europe by order and in the name of established governments . ( Hear , hear . ) They had heard a great deal of late about the lawless violence of the people in their attempts to procure liberty . Certain writers and speakers wero never tired of uttering warnings against tho danger of an infuriated mob . But had any of these popular outbreaks , as they were called , ever been attended
with an amount of cruelty , rapine , of spoliation , to be named in comparison with the deeds of the despots of Europe ? ( Cheers . ) At Paris , Vienna , and Rome , for a time , power was in the hands of the people—the wild democracy , as it was called . Where were their deeds of blood or spoliation ? ( Hear , hear . ) They had not committed any robberies or appropriated any public or private property . Talk of Red Republics 1 were there , he would ask , no Red Monarchies ? ( Loud cheers . ) What ought they to say of a government that employed such agents as Haynau— that bloody minister who shot prisoners in cold blood , proclaimed death to every man , woman , or child , who dared even to insult one of bis soldiers , and who hanged up tho ministers of
religion , —and what ought they to say , too , of a government that saw women publicly flogged for no other reason than their supposed attachment to the rights of their country ? ( " Shame , shame ! " ) The latest intelligence spoke of a noble lady condemned to sweep the streets ofj Temesvar for that crime ; and another lady , immediately after tbe harrowing event of her husband ' s suicide , was brought forth and publicly flogged . ( "Shame ! " ) Would thoy then in the metropolis give up the fruits of their industry to enable governments of this character to carry out their nefarious designs—( "No , no" )—supplying them with the means of carrying on the butcheries of Haynau , and the oppression of thc people of Hungary and Poland ? ( Cheers . ) As
his hon . friend bad told them , this Austrian loan was nothing but a loan to Russia ; for Austria had sunk so low she was no more than a tool in the hands of the Czar . ( Hear , hear . ) Judging , then , by the course pursued by Austria—judging by the actions of the savage , they might arrive at a conclusion with respect to the sentiments of his master , ( Hear , hear . ) But they stood in need of no such indirect means to judge of the feelings and disposition of the Czar . Kot only had he , against the law . of nations , driven his barbarous hordes into the free country of Hungary to put down liberty there , but , having vanquished the Hungarians there , he followed with bis vengeance a number of those brave patriots and their no less brave allies , Poles and
Italians , who had taken refuge in the territory of Turkey , and demanded that they should bo delivered up to him in order to be put to death , The Sultan nobly refused this demand . ( Cheers . ) The Czar then sent a special messenger to Constantinople with an autograph letter ( so there was no doubt as to his feelings ) , repeating his demand , and declaring tbat if it wero not complied with ho would declare war with Turkey . His ambassador said , " My master wants these refugees that ho may hang tlieni ; and if you let a single one escape , that will be a cause of war . " Tho Turks not being able to compare , in respect to their country , with tho colossal empire of Russia , with an army of ? 00 , 000 sought the means of
escaping from this difficulty ; and , as a treaty existed , not that refugees should be mutually given up , but that offenders taking refngo in either country should be removed to a distance from tlie frontier , with the exception , in the case of Turkish offenders , of their becoming Christian , and of Christian offenders , of their professing Maliomcdanism ; the Turks , in order to escape the evils of immediate war , proposed to these brave Hungarians and Polos in confinement at AYidden , the dreadful alternative , either that they should renounce Christianity or else be given up to their enemies . It was to that point that those Christian governments , Russia and Austria , had brought matters —( hear , hear)—and they now saw the spectacle of 5 , 000 men having
the dreadful alternative offered them of npostacy or death ! ( Hear hear . ) . Was this not enough to harrow up tbe feelings of all reli giously minded men ? and to excite the just indignation of the people from one end of this country to the otber . Tm-key said , " Throw off Christianity ; become Mussulmans , and then you shall enter our army ;" but he was glad to say that this otter had been spurned by the noble men to whom it was made . He had received letters yesterday from some of thc refugee officers at Widden , on whose statements he could place the most ' complete reliance , giving him detailed accounts of the circumstances . He grieved that he was unable to say that no man out of the whole army had been induced to yield to the
temptation held out by the Turks . Some , but very few men , whose lives had been devoted to fighting against Russia , and whose religion seemed to consist in that alone , hired , no doubt , by the hope of entering the Turkish army and again waging war against their implacable enemies , Russia and Austria , had been induced to accept the offers of the Porto , and to embrace Islamism ; but the great body of the refugees had indignantly refused thc terms which were offered them . ( Hear , hear . ) It was in order to slake the vengeance ' of those inhuman Sovereigns who sat on the thrones of St . Pctersburgh and Vienna , that these bravo men were reduced to such straights , and that the independence of Turkey was threatened and outraged . Was it to be supposed for an instant that any government of Great Britain , would tolerate such proceedings —( "No , " and cheers ) , and that they would
not give to Turkey all tlie support in their power in resisting the demands which had been made upon her 1 ( Cheers . ) He , for one , could not believe that the government of this country would shrink from giving most energetic and efficient support to tho Sultan in this matter . He ( Lord D .. Stuart ) believed there was but one feeling existing throughout the country as to ' the cruelties and inhumanities of the Austrian butchers , the outrageous demands of Russia ; and her attempt , under pretence of those demands , to violate , and probably , if possible , to destroy thc integrity of the Turkish empire . If they looked at the public press , they would find that those prints which had been most hostile to Hungary even the Tory journals , had turned round and mined with the liberal press in reprobating the conduct of the despotic Soverei gns of Austria and Russia . The Czar had threatened the Porto if a
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single refugee escaped from Widden ; but when he found that tbe government of this country , supnortcd by the people , were determined , if need bo , to resist his force by force- ( cheors ) -they might depend upon it , he would think twice ; ho would not be in a hurry to encounter even a single squadron of the ships of Great Britain ; he would retire from his demands ; the unfortunate refugees would bo saved the independence of Turkey would be maintained ; and the honour of England would be preserved . ( Loud cheers . ) Tbe res lution was then unanimously agreed to . Mr . C . Gilpix moved the second resolution : — " That in the op inion of this meeting , loans for w-u- purposes and for the maintenance of standing armaments are unsound in principle and injurious
to the interests of nations . " He said that he coma not altogether agree in execrating the conduct of those refugees at Widdin who had been inclined to forsake Christianity for the turban , if they had taken their standard of Christianity from the crowned Autocrat of Russia , and their opinions of the religion of Mahomet from the conduct of the Sultan of Turkey . ( Cheers . ) The resolution he had proposed was of a sweeping character , and declared that all loans for war purposes were unsound in princip le and injurious to the true interests of nations . Ho knew tbat he was treading on delicate « roimd . He was aware of the shout of scorn with which the proposition would be received by tho writer s in Printing-house-square , who , he presumed —judging by their own morality of the morality of the men of the Stock-exchange —( cheers)—did not
hesitate to assert in no ambiguous terms that money speculations and morality had no connexion whatever , —that , in short , the difference of one-eight per cent , would , in the minds of the capitalists of Europe , outweig h all considerations of personal or national honour . He hoped the capitalists of Europe were duly sensible of the compliment paid them by The Times . ( Laughter and cheers . ) If the statement were true , however , p ity that it was so ; it was time that a better morality should bo enforced . The day , lie trusted , was approaching when capitalists would learn that their capital was lent them for holier , hi gher , and better purposes than the propping up of despotic thrones and the payment of men who had committed butcheries which eclipsed those of Tamerlane of old . ( Cheers . )
The Rev . J . Burnet seconded the resolution which was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . W . Leaf then proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman for having presided on the present
occasion . Mr . J . Scoble seconded the resolution , and expressed his strong objection to war loans in general , and his detestation of the objects to which the loan now solicited by Austria would be applied . Mr . Cobde . v again rose , and was received with great applause . He said , that one of the commonest things in all creation was that which they heard the most lauded-Jie meant physical courage . ( Hear , hear . ) They all had it;—not a race in thc world but had been distinguished by it at some time or other . It was not only natural to human beings , but to the lower animals , and be would undertake tofind a game-cock or a bull-dog superior in physical coura ge to any two-legged human being that ever
lived . ( Cheers and laughter . ) But there was another species of courage , the rarest to be found , especially in Lombard-street , and that was moral courage . ( Cheers . ) It was astonishing that men rich in this world ' s goods , —rich , yet not independentshould be the most subservient people . The greatest slaves as to what other people might say or think of them were precisely those very persons who , in common language , were called independent . They were indebted to their distinguished chairman for presiding , because they could say that they had present a Lombard-street man , and one holding a high rank in what was called the money-market . In speaking generally , therefore , of Lombard-street , they must always allow that there were exceptions .
They had been told of tho state of things between Turkey and Russia , with respect to the Hungarian refugees . That was the brutal principle carried out , for who but a bruto would think of bullying a neighbour , whom he thought weak , and setting at defiance all those principles of international law , wjuch he would be obliged to observe in the case of other powers ? ( Hear , hear . ) Did they think that the Emperor of Russia would ever dare to send an autograph letter to our Queen , commanding Bem to be delivered up in order to bo hanged ? No ; he would as soon think of hanging himself . ( A cry of " Bravo ! " and laughter . ) Some people , however , accounted for the Autocrat ' s conduct in another way than cowardice—they said , he was " eccentric . "
( Laughter . ) Well , that eccentricity had run in the family —( a laugh)—and , besides , such eccentricity bad been common to all despots who had claimed tho power of ruling over 50 , 000 , 000 or 00 , 000 , 000 of people . Nebuchadnezzar was eccentric when he issued his proclamations —( laughter )—but he ( Mr . Cobden ) did not think there was anything more absurd and ridiculous in the proclamation of King Nebuchadnezzar , when he addressed all people , nations , and languages , than there was in the proclamations put forth by the eccentric Czar , since his army returned from Hungary . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Ho ( Mr . Cobden ) regretted tbat he had not brought with him a copy of one of those proclamations which he had taken from a newspaper , and which commenced by assuming that thc Emperor of Russia had a divine mission to regulate the affairs 1 U 1 W W * I *« V . UIWUVM I . V jjWlH WHU UUtlUO
VI . L ^ U ^ M . W . IVW of tbe world . ( A laugh . ) Now , who was responsible for all this ? The man was incapable of appreciating anything but a physical force argument , and he ( Mr . Cobden ) did not think he was departing from his peace principles in resorting to a mode of admonition which the nature of the animal was capable of understanding . ( Laughter . ) He surely might be excused for admonishing—if it were possible—a wild bull , that , if he did not take caro , he mig ht run his head against something harder even than his own skull . ( Cheers and laughter . ) lie ( Mr . Cobden ) therefore said , that , if the Fmperor of Russia attacked us , we might hermetically seal the ports of Russia , and there would bo an end of the matter . ( Cheers . ) There could be no fighting
between England and Russia , If the question were put to a jury of twelve competent men , belonging to any maritime power , who were perfectly indifferent to the quarrel , they would at once say that as England and Russia could not come into collision by land , the only question was , what naval force would bo required by England to blockade Petevsburgli , Archangel , Odessa , and Riga for six months of the year , and that thc frost would keep up the blockade for the other six months . ( Cheers and a laugh . ) Tho people who were responsible for what was politely called the eccentricity of the Czar were those who flattered bis vanity by talking ofbis colossal power . ( Hear , hoar . ) ' Now , his ( Mr . Cobdcn ' s ) peace friends must not quarrel with him
on this subject , for bo had explained that he was applying his arguments to those who could understand no other . Though tho Emperor of Russia mi ght not understand them , his ministers could , and no one would appreciate them better than Count Nessclrode . He ( Mr . Cobden ) ivould tell them what would be the result of a six weeks' blockade of the Russian ports by England . If those ports were hermetically sealed , thoy would find tbat , before tbe end Of five 01 ' six weeks , the Russian nobles , who could not sell their hemp , tallow , and flax , which was all mortgaged before it was sent out of the country , would do in the case of the present Czar what they had done in tho case of others—they would very soon dispose of his eccentricities . ( Laughter . )
Nobody could impute to him ( Mr . Cobden ) that ho sought these sorts of arguments . He had gone to Paris recently , in order to do all he could to make people understand other arguments ; but he and his peace friends had not such an absolute control over the pugnacity of John Bull that they could toll the Emperor that , if he attacked England , the consequences he had mentioned would not ensue . Now looking at the matter in this light , and believing that the Emperor ' s ministers were hot so eccentric as tho Czar himself , ho ( Mr , Cobden ) laughed at the idea of Russia going to war with England , but ho laughed still more at tho idea of Russia wing to war with England and France . ( Cheers . ) If he ( Mr . Cobden ) were told tbat he ran the risk of
provoking these brutal tyrants to come here and attack this country , lie would reply that ho was prepared to take the risk upon himself of all they could do . But on this subject there was no reason for alarm or dismay . They would have no war with Russia , for the reason he had mentioned ;—the Emperor could not show himself at the head of his Cossacks in this country . The worst that could come would , in his opinion , be a blockade , which could be maintained with one half the naval force kept up by this country in time of peace . ( Hoar , hear . ) He sincerely hoped that before another fortnight had passed they might see Kossuth and his brave companions in England . ( Loud cheers . ) He saw that
Haynau had been decorated with stars and ribands till his very humane breast was completely covered with them —( a laugh)—and crosses and ribands had been-plentifully showered from St . Petersburgh upon other butchers . ( Cheers . ) Well ,-when Kossuth and his fellow-patriots arrived in this country it would be seen whether Englishmen , who sympathised with human progress and freedom , could not decorate them , in tho hour of their misfortune , with that which must be most honourable and gratifying to them—the tribute of the admiration and respect of an independent people . ( Loud cheering . ) The resolution was then carried b y acclamation , andthechairman having briefl y acknowledged the compliment , the meeting broke up .
Railway Seizure.—We Hear That On Monday ...
Railway Seizure . —We hear that on Monday some of the officials of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company , with attendants , appeared on the ground occupied by the Crediton Railway station , and took possession of the station and field . "Wo have not yet obtained particulars of the ground of the seizure , but it is said that tho Bristol and Exeter have a claim on the land occupied , and now held , bv tho Taw Yfttora ,- ! rM » m Lxmimru ,
Imperial Parliament. Prorogation Of Parl...
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OP LORDS .-Their Lordships met on Tuesday , pursuant to the prorogation at the close of the session , with a view of further proroguing parliament until the 20 th of November next . Soon after two o ' clock the Lord Chancellor , the Earl of Carlisle , and Lord Campbell took their seats , in front of the throne , in their robes , as her Majesty ' s commissioners , when the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod ( Mr . Pulman ) was directed to summons the Commons to the bar , to hear the royal commission read . Shortly afterwards the officer aforesaid , accompanied by Mr . William Ley , the Second Clerk at the table of the House of Commons , with one member ( Mr . A . Raphael ) , and several officials of the
lower llOUSC , appeared at the bar , when the royal commission having been read , The Lord Chancellor , in tho name of her Majesty , and on her behalf , declared the present parliament further prorogued from that day until Thursday , the 20 th proximo . Tho Commons—represented as before stated —then retired , and the commissioners left the house . The only particular circumstances attendant upon this ceremonial were the first appearance of the Lord Chancellor in tbe house since his severe indisposition , and tho reading of the commission by Mr . J . S . Lefevro , the deputy clerk of the parliament , in the absence of the second clerk at the table , as also the third or reading clerk .
No other peer was present , except thc Lords Commissioners . Since the session closed the remaining stained glass windows have been completed ; and Mr , Dyce at one end of the house , and Mr . Maclaise at tho other , are fast proceeding with their frescoes .
A Father Shot By His Son. (From Our Thir...
A FATHER SHOT BY HIS SON . ( From our Third Edition of last Week . ) Late on Thursday night the neighbourhood of Chiswick and Hammersmith was thrown into a state of excitement by its becoming known that a dreadful attempt at assassination had been made at the residence of Captain John Farmer Monkhouse , situated on the Mali , fronting the River Thames at Chiswick . Captain Monkhouse himself was the unfortunate victim of this horrible crime , and the perpetrator was His second son , Henry Monkhouse , a sailor , twenty-seven years of age , who is now in custody . The occurrence took place about halfpast ten o clock , when a cab drove up to the outer
gate of tho premises , and the bell was rung by the cabman . It was answered by one of the female servants , whom the cabman told that a gentleman in the cab wished to see Mr . Monkhouse . The servant went in with the message , and in a minute or two afterwards Captain Monkhouse came to the front door . On seeing him , tho son , who was inside the cab , exclaimed— " I see him ; there he is ;" sprang out of the cab , and instantly discharged a pistol at his parent , which took effect in his neck . Mr . Monkhouse , sen ., immediately fell , and at that moment a second pistol was discharged , which , however , lodged in the ceiling of the hall . The son then jumped into the cab , which was driven off in the direction of Acton . Mr . Perfect , surgeon , of
Hammersmith-terrace , was sent for , and , on examination , is was found that a ball had entered the front of the neck , and passing the windpipe andtht cartiod artery , had passed out under the right car , and was found in the nape of the neck . The prisoner was captured the same night , at the Bell public house , Ealing , from which he was removed to the bead station , where he arrived before twelve o ' clock . On him were found a pistol , several bullets , percussion caps , and some gunpowder . The prisoner was brought up for examination at Hammersmith police court on Friday , and remanded until Wednesday next . Up to a late hour last nig ht the wounded gentleman was still living . The following particulars , may be relied upon as
correct . The grandfather of Mr . Monkhouse , sen ., realised a very large fortune—upwards of £ 100 , 000 —as an army clothier in Coventry-street . He bequeathed the whole of his property to his two sons , one of whom died before his father . The second son was the father of the unfortunate gentleman whose death there is too much reason to believe will soon be recorded , and the great bulk of the property was entailed upon the eldest son of this latter gentleman , Mr . John Monkhouse , of Castlebar-hall , Ealing , elder brother of the accused . Tlie family for some time past appear to have lived very unhappily . The accused , who is the second son , was sent to sea as midshipman at an early age , but through misconduct , as it is alleged , forfeited his father ' s good
opinion , and for the last six or seven years has been engaged as a common seaman in the merchant service . He had only landed at Liverpool from his last voyage on the 20 th ult ., and on Tuesday last he went down to Chiswick to see his friends . Mr . Monkhouse , sen ., it appears , received him unkindly , and upbraided him for daring to show his face after the insult he had offered to his mother and sisters some twelve months previously , in bringing home to Chiswick an abandoned woman , and introducing her to his family . The young man , irritated by his father ' s conduct , left in a passion , and was not again heard of until Thursday morning , when he breakfasted with his grandmother , a respectable lady named Piper , residing at Shepherd ' s-bush .
The Hybrid Maize Crop Is The Park. — The...
The Hybrid Maize Crop is the Park . — The maize introduced into this country fram the Pyrenees , and sown as an experiment in St . James ' s Park by Mr . Keene , was harvested on Wednesday . It has fully succeeded . The grain is perfectly formed , full , and ripe ; the . cobbs , wc can fairly say , having seen specimens of both , aro much finer than those grown on the continent , a result peculiarly gratifying , in a public point of view of the very highest importance , because it sets at rest the doubts which , in the first instance , were entertained in some quarters , that the soil and climate of this country were not capable of the product . The particular situation was in no way especially favourable to thc growth ; on thc contrary , almost , as it were , in the heart of the metropolis ' , and immediately surrounded by trees and shrubs , the ground was not at all enriched by manure at the
time of tilling . —Tho amount of crop appears to bo at the rate ot about fifty bushels per acre , and in the opinion of several experienced agriculturists present at tho harvest , this quantity is producible on the average , from ordinary soil , in ordinary situations , and with the ordinary quantity and quality of manure . Some Indian corn and Barbadoes corn had been sown alongside Mr . Scene ' s maize , at tho same time , and under exactly the same circumstances and conditions , but neither has ripened , or , indeed , seem likely to come to maturit y . Thoy still remain standing . The result of this harvest ' is , in our opinion , of very general and very great interest , when it is a matter of fact that the bread from this corn abroad which forms not merely the chief but almost the only food of tlie fine peasantry on either side of the Pyrenees is producible even in England , at a halfpenny the pound . °
Thb Late Mr . Ansox . —The intelligence of the sudden death of Mr . George Edward Anson reached Osborne on Tuesday . about oneo ' clock . By tlie demise of this gentleman , the following lucrative appointments become vacant about the court : —Keeper of her Majesty ' s privy purse ( salary £ 2 , 000 per annum ) ; treasurer of tbe household , and secretary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert , treasurer and cofferer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , and member of the Prince ' s Council for the Duchy of Cornwall . Mr . Anson was private secretary to the late Viscount Melbourne , during part of thc tenure of office as-premier of that nobleman . He was of delicate constitution , and some time since he was attacked by dangerous illness at Osborne , which caused medical aid to be immediately summoned from town .
Capture or a Whale r . \ the Thames . — In thc course of Tuesday , some labourers in the employ of Messrs . Meeson , the lime merchants , who were at work in the village of Grays , Essex , succeeded in capturing a full grown whale , which thoy discovered fast ashore on the Black Shelf , a , shoal running abreast of the village . Upon examination it was found to be a fine specimen of the species of whale termed the "Pinner , " measuring no less than fifty-ei ght feet in length , and thirty in girth ; and the men value their prize at about £ 200 . A vast number of persons from Gravesend and other places have arrived to view it , and a screen being placed round tho carcase , the captors aro in a way of making a handsome sum by the exhibition of the monster .
Attempt at Suicide hy a Lady nr Hyde Park . — On Thursday morning , shortly after eight o ' clock , as the superintendent of the Royal Humane Society was proceeding along the north bank of the Serpentine river he saw , at some distance from him , a well dressed female who appeared to be divesting herself ofher outside garments , and before he coulu get up to her she rushed towards the water , and utterin * a loud shriek , threw herself into the deepest part ol the werand directl y sank . An alarm was immediately given , and Hill , one of the watermen , pushed oft ma boat , and on arriving at the spot caught holdotttietemaleb
ytho hair of tho head , just as sho was going down the second time . She was speedily conveyed to the veceiving-house , where the usual remedies were resorted to , and after some time she was so far recovered as to inform the superintendent that her name was Newell , that her ti-iends wero highl y respectable and kept their carnage , and that tho cause of her attempting thc rash act was that her lover had proved unfaithful to her . Had not the superintendent , been noar the spot , she no doubt . would have carried her object into effect , as at the spot where sho sank tho water is moro than fourteenfeet deep ,
The Hybrid Maize Crop Is The Park. — The...
A Method of Wall-pawtiso has been invented at Berlin , by a M , Fuehs , which promises to supersede the difficult al fresco process . It is also stated to be much more durable , and more adapted to the changes ofa Northern climate than the Italian method An experiment was made a year ago to teat the * power of the colours to resist a very destructive agonfc , the result of which has been just ascertained Last September , a portrait on ston e was painted according to the new process b y lvaulbach and g iven for trial to tho Director of the Roval Museum It has ever since been deposited in a chimney exposed to a twelvemonth ' s smoke , and when removed it was covered by a thick coating of soot that was only removed with difficulty but the naintinsr beneath is uninjured , and the colours clear and brisht .
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Corn. Mask-Lane, Octobers.—The Show Of W...
CORN . Mask-lane , Octobers . —The show of wheat samples from Kent was large this morning , but small from Essex . With foreign wheat we have been well supplied during the past week , chiefly from tlie Black Sea and Mediterranea n ports The English wheat was taken off by the millers at fully W Monday ' s prices , and fine foreign met with a better sale at the same rates . Flour quite as dear . Fine new maltint barley more inquired after ; grinding and distilling uualifi < . « sold pretty readily at fully last Monday ' s flotations Beans and peas without alteration . We had a coot ! smmw offoreign oats , and about 4 , 000 quarters from Ireland good fresh qualities went off . pretty freel y , unaltered in value . Uye quite as dear . Linseed cakes dull . Carraway seed sold at previous rates .
Bhitisii . —Wheat . —Essex , Suffolk , and Kent , red , new , 34 s to 42 s , ditto white , 37 s to iSs , Lincoln , Norfolk , and York , shire , red , 33 s to 37 s , Northumberland and Scotch , white 30 s to 36 s , ditto red , 32 s to 35 s , Devonshire aud Somerset " , shire , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to — s , rye , 21 s to -Jfis barley , His to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 25 s , Angus—s to — $ ' , Malt ordinary , —s to —s , pale , 5 ' 2 s to 55 s , peas , grey , new , 2 Gs to 28 s , maple 28 s to SQs , white , 24 s to 2 lis , boilers ( new ) , 23 s to 31 s , beans , large , new , 23 s to 25 s , ticks 24 s to 27 s , harrow , 27 s to 80 s , pigeon . 30 s to 32 s , oats , Lincoln aud Yorkshire , feed , 13 s to 20 s . ditto Poland and potato , 17 s to 22 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 24 s , Scotch feed , 17 s to 22 s , Irish feed , and black , 15 s to 20 s , ditto potato , 17 s to 23 s , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , rapeseed , Essex , new , £ 27 to £ 30 per last , carraway seed , Essex , new , 20 s to 30 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 410 s per ton , I ' m seed , £ 9 10 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 280103 , ship , 28 s to 30 s , town , 33 s to 40 s .
Foreiok . —Wheat , — Dantzig , 40 s to 48 s , Anhalt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditto white , SSsto 44 s , Pomeranian red , 3 Gs to 41 s , Rostock 38 s to 44 s , Danish , Holstein , and Friesland , 30 s to 35 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and Itiga , 32 s to 34 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s to 30 s , Marianopoli , and Berdianski , 30 s to 34 s , Taganrog , 80 s to 33 s , Brabant and French , 31 s to 38 s , ditto white , 80 s to 42 s , Salonica , 30 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 2 Cs , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , Wismar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 20 s to 24 s , East Friesland , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , 14 s to 15 s , Danube , 14 s to 15 s , peas , white , 25 s to 27 s , new boilers , 23 s to 30 s , beans , horse , 24 s to 80 s , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , Egvotinn , 22 s to 24 s , oats , Groningen , Danish , Bremen , and Friesland , feed and black , lis to ltis , ditto , thick and brew , las to 22 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , Us to 16 s , flour , United States , per l » 61 bs ., 21 s to 23 s , Hamburg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 2 SMbs „ 32 s to 35 s .
Wednesday , October 10 . —w ith thc exception of oats , of which there has been a large supply , the arrivals of grain fresh in this week , are very moderate . Every article held firmly at Monday ' s rates . Arrivals this week : —Wheat — English , 870 quarters ; foreign , 3 . 2 G 0 quarters . Barley—English , S 40 quarters ; foreign , 800 quarters . Oats — English , 1 , 920 quarters ; Irish , 3 , 170 quarters ; foreign , 17 , 070 quarter . Flour—1 , 010 sacks .
BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Old . to 7 oV , of household ditto , ad . to fid . per 4 ttis . loaf .
CATTLE . Sjiithfield , Oct . 8 . —With foreign beasts and sheep we were well supplied but the number of calves from abroad was moderate . Tho arrivals of home-fed beasts fresh to this morning ' s market were again seasonebly large , but at least three-fourths of them were of very middling quality , Thc weather being very favourable for slaughtering , and the attendance of both town and country buyers good , tho primest Scots , home breds , ic , moved off steadily at My Friday ' s advance in the quotations , the top figure for beef being 3 s 10 d per 81 bs . In all other breeds a moderate business was transacted at last week ' s prices . There was a further slight falling oft' i" the supply of slicep ; yet it proved extensive , the time of year considered For most breeds—especially the primest Downs , which were very
scarce—the demand was steady , though not to say brisk , at 2 d per Slbs . above the currencies paid on tins day se ' nnight . The highest price for mutton was from 4 s to 4 s 2 d per Slbs . The quality of the sheep was by no means firstrate . There was a slight improvement in the veal trade , and prices ruled from 2 d to id per Slbs . higher than on Monday last , and at which a good clearance was elYeeied , We were but moderately supplied with pigs , which were mostly held at very full prices . Head of Cattle at Smitiifield . —Friday . —Beasts , S 05 ; sheep , 7 , 200 ; calves , 240 ; pigs , 310 . Mondav . —Beasts , 4 , 621 ; sheep , 27 , 740 ; calves , 234 ; pigs , 180 . Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the offal ) Beef , 2 s 10 d to 3 s lOd ; mutton , 3 s 2 d to 4 s 2 d ; veal , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 1 W ; pork , 3 s 2 d to 4 s 2 d .
Rewoatk AND Leadesiiaix , Monday , Oct . S Inferior beef , 2 s 4 d to 2 s Gd ; middling ditto , 2 s 3 d to 2 s lOd ; prime large , Ss ' JId to 3 s 2 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd ; Jiu-je pork , 3 s 4 d to 8 s 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s lOd to 3 s 2 d ; middling ditto , 3 s 4 d toDs Gd ; prime ditto , 3 s 8 d to 3 s 10 d ; veal , 3 s 2 d to 3 s Sd ; small pork , 3 s lOd to 4 s 4 d ; per Slbs . by the carcase .
PROVISIONS . London , Oct . 8 . —The arrivals last week , from Ireland , were 11 , 623 firkins butter , and 970 bales bacon , and from foreign ports 7 , 370 casks butter , and 500 bales aud boxes bacon , We experienced a ready sale for Irish Butter during the past week and a fair amount of business was done at about the rates of this day se ' nnnight ; the finest sorts being most iu demand . Foreign , in the early part of tUe week , declined to 82 s , and towards the close advanced to SSs , for the best . In the bacon market there has been quite a panic , and last week ' s prices were rapidly forced down 8 s to 10 s per cwt , and the market closed ' quiet at 50 s to 54 s . E . vgusji Butter Market , October S . —We have rather more inquiry for now made butter , and fine weekly Dorset may be quoted at 2 s per cwt . better in price , but upon the general article we aro without tlie least improvement . Dorset , fine weekly , 90 s to 92 s , per cwt . ; ditto stale and middling , GGs to 76 s ; Devon ; new made , S'Js to a ' is ; fresh , 9 s to lis per dozen .
POTATOES . Soutiiwabk Waterside , October S . —Wo arc still with very few arrivals , from Yorkshire or the Continent ; hat they are at present quite equal to the demand . The following are this day's prices : —Yoakshire Regents , 70 s to < sJs ; Scotch , do ., G 5 s to 70 s ; foreign , 55 s to Gas .
COLONIAL PRODUCE . Losoox , October 9 . —Sec ah . —This article lias to-day scarcely supported the prices paid last week , yet a fair amount of business has been dune , and there is some indication of the trade and the refiners being desirous to eonie into stock at the present low prices . 300 hogsheads of West India have been sold in tho private contract . market ; 2 , 500 bags Mauritius , 5 , 000 bags Bengal , and 2 . UU 0 bags . Madras , found buyers in the public sales , but a decline oi Cd upon low qualities was submitted to -, 2 , 400 boxes of strongycllow Ilavannah ( foreign ) was sold by private contract to a refiner at 39 s ( idto 40 s duty-paid . " The refined market tolerably steady at last week ' s prices ; grocery lumps , 47 s Gd to 49 s Gd . ' Molasses . —St . Vincent ' s , Trinidad , and Demerara , have been sold at 15 s Gd . Coffee . — The public sales of 709 bags Plantation , Ceylon , and 300 bags Costa Rica , went oil' without spirit , the former at about previous rates , the latter at a decline of fully Is . Tea . —The market has become dull .
HOPS . Borough , Monday , October 8 . —A fair amount of liusiness has been done ' in the finest descriptions of Mid and East Kent hops , and prices for such are rather improved . In other sorts few transactions have occurred , and titrates of this day week are barely supported . — Susses Pockets 120 s to 130 s ; Weald of Kent 130 s to 150 s ; Hid ami East Kent 143 s to 230 s , HAY . Smitufjeld , October G . —At per load of tliivty-sk trusses . —Meadow , old , 45 s to 72 s : clover , old , GOs to 95 s ; straw , 26 ' sto 32 s .
TALLOW , HIDES , AND OILS . Losoos , Octobers . —Tauow , —At length something like an improvement has taken place in our market . Not- ¦ withstanding the delivery last week was only 2 . 1 ! ' - ' . ' casks , prices to-day are from 3 d to Od per cwt higher than i on Monday last . 1 \ Y . C . on the spot is selling at 3 ''> s 'Al I to 37 s , and for delivery up to Christmas 3 « s 0 d . From i J anuary . to March , the quotation is 37 s 3 d per cwt . Town : i Tallow , 36 s Gd to 37 s per cwt . net cash ; rough fat , 2 s Id il per Slbs . Leadenuali ,. —Market hides , 5 Glb . to G 4 tt >„ 1 U 1 to Od pfr alb . ; ditto , G 41 b . to 721 b .. lid to 1 Jd ; ditto , 721 b . to SOU ' ., . 2 d to 2-Jd ; ditto , 801 b . to 881 b „ 2 W to 3 d ; ditto , 831 b . to io 9 Glb ., 3 d to 31 d ; ditto , 961 b . to " 1041 b .. 3 d to Sid : ditto , o , 1011 b . to 112 lb ., 3 f to 4 d ; Calf-skins , each , 2 s to os ; Lam '' il » skms , Is 8 d to 2 s Od ; Horse hides , 7 s Gd : Shearlings , lsdd id to 2 s 4 u . Linseed , per cwt ., 28 s Gd to 29 s ; rapeseed , Engli- '' 'i refined , 39 s Od to —s : brown . 33 s Gd ; Gallipoli , per to" , m . 42 J . toMl . ; Spanish , iU . ; Sperm , SOi . ; batrgedSK . j South th Sea , 32 t . Ws . to 831 . ; Seal , pale , 361 . ; do . I coloured , 331 . ; ' .. ; Cod , 291 ; cocoa nut . per ton , 381 . to 401 . ; palm , So ! .
"WOOL . Citt , Monday , October 8 . — The quantity of wool im- . inported into London last week was about 3 , 700 bales , ot , ot which 1 , G 29 were from AlgoaBay , Cape of Good Hope , &}¦ *» from Odessa , G 33 from Fort Philip , 437 from Germany , 107 10 i from Lisbon , and the rest from Petersburg . The market -Uei for wool lias not been animated , and at the public sales the tin quotations rule somewhat heavy . Liverpool , October G . —Scotch . —There is rather move , iov doing In Laid Highland at our late rates . White is less les sought after . For good Crossed and Chevoit there is a fair la ; demand ; the heavy , smeared , and inferior kinds are uie i less request . Foreicx The public sales progress in London with evi-i ev dently a little better feeling towards the close . There ante a to be offered bv auction here , on the 17 th inst ., about 1 , 201 . 1 , 2 bales fine middle quality Buenos Ayres , aud about 1 , 20 * 1 , 2 East India , Oporto , Turkey , & "c , Ac .
Death. On The 5th Instant, Of Consumptio...
DEATH . On the 5 th instant , of consumption , Eliza Clark , age ; aj i 3 , the wife of Charles John Clark , secretary of the Uristqjris branch of the National Land Company , after a lingeviugeii illness of two years , which she bore with Christian forti fo tude and resignation , leaving three children to deplore here I loss . She was an affectionate mother and friend ; aid ; a was beloved and respected by all who knew her .
Printed By William Kider, Of No. 5, Macclesfield-Strej-Str
Printed by WILLIAM KIDER , of No . 5 , Macclesfield-streJ-str
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intbapariavofSt . Anne . Westminster , at the o & ce , IG , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket , in the Cthe ofWcstminfter , forthoProprictor , riiARGUSO'CON > . CON > Esq . M . P ., andpablishedbythesaiil WiuiAiillinii *» iioi « the OtKce , in tho same stwUnd parish . —Muw » ntu » I October 13 th . 1849 . "~
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 13, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13101849/page/8/
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