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The Austrian Loan
THE AUSTRIAN LOAN
Great Public Meeting. On Monday Last Apu...
GREAT PUBLIC MEETING . On Monday last apublic meeting , which had been aunounced for some days past , was held at the London Tavern , " to consider the advertisement recentl y 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 ths 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 appointedfortheeommence aientof the proceedings . Afew ladies were present , and amongst the company on thc platform were : —Lord D . Stuart , Mr . G . W . Alexander , Mr . li . Cobden , M . P . - , Mr . J . Williams , M . P ., the Rev . J . Burnet , Mr . G . Gilpin , Mr . J . Morland . Mr . W . Leaf , of Old Change , ix .
Mr . Cobden was loudly cheered on entering , as ¦ was also Lord Dudley Stuart , who made bis appearance shortly after the commencement of the proceedings . Mr . Aiexaxbeb , having been voted into the chair , said that he should have been glad if Mr . S . Gurney had presided on the present occasion , and given utterance to those princi p les which were so much in accordance with the object of tbat meeting , in reference to the impolicy and the folly ofthe nations borrowing money * for the maintenance of standing armies and tiie " conduct of war . ( Hear , hear . ) Everything was calculated to encourage them in the conviction that the time was nearly , if not entirely past , when nations would be able to obtain loans for these purposes . ( Hear , hear . ) Xcarly every government in Europe was largely indebted , and capitalists and prudent persons would not continue to risk their means in these loans . Up to the
nresent moment a very small part ofthe Austrian loan advertised had been taken . ( Cheers . ) Itwas stated , "by some person of the name of Henry , lately , in the columns of The Times , thatthe whole of the loan bad been taken at Vienna , and that it was at that timeat 2 i premium ; but , by Latter intelligence from The Times' own correspondent , it appeared that only - £ 1 , 500 , 090 had been taken , and that Hope and Co . had stood forth to subscribe £ 2 , 000 , 000 for Russia . That made only one-half of the 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 in carrying on war in the various countries to which Austria stood ia the relation of head ; and in pursuance ofthat cruel system which enabled governments to carry on war against their own subjects aud 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 arc thereby invited to investigate the financial position ofthe said government , and the probability of its repaying the loan thus proposed to bc contracted ; and that it is the opinion of this meeting tliat no valid security is tendered , or can be offered , in tbe present state of the Austrian government , which would justify prudent men in taking any part ofthe said loan . "—Gentlemen , it has been my privilege to address my fellow countrymen probably as often ,
and in as ayariety of places , as any man now living ; but I will say , witb unfeigned confidence , that there never was an occasion when I stood before my countrymen on such so . id and firm grounds of justice , of humanity , and of sound political economy , as I do at tins moment . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , gentlemen , objections have been taken to the course I have pursued in tbis matter , on the ground that I am not adhering to sound principles of political economy I suppose it was thought that that was the most -vulnerable point on which one who had said so much on tbe subject of free trade could be assailed . I ivill begin , then , with that which the enemy considers his strong ground of attack ; and I say that , as I have sone tfirougb tbe lenjrtb and breadth of
this country with Adam Smith ia my band to advocate the principles 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 , but also on tbe ground of injustice to posterity , in saddling upon our heirs a debt we have no "ri g ht 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 unjas _^ to expose as wasteful , and to demonstrate to be impolitic , the system of lending money forthe purposes for which Austria comes to borrow , I confine myself there . I do not purpose here to recommend thai we shonld go to parliament for a law to
prohibit men from lending money , if it be their wish to do so . ( near , hear . ) All I say is , that I come here to try in a _humhia-way to do that which I bave done for free trade—to popularise to the people of this country and of the continent those princi ples which Adam Smith , David Hume , Montesquieu , Ricardo , M _* Cul ! och , and every man who has written on this subject , have demonstrated to be injurious to mankind and unjust in principle . I come here , gentlemen , to _tijtoshowtoourfellowcountrymcn _. in the first place , tiiat they will act upon a wrong principle , and do injury to society , by lending the proceeds of their hard and industrious labour lo the Austrian Government , to be expended in that bottomless gulf of waste—armies and standing
armaments , f 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 _Oarernment , to pause before he does so ; because he is going to intrust his money to a Power that has thrice committed au act of bankruptcy . ( "Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) [ An observation was liere made by an individual at the lower end ofthe room , which led to cries of " Turn him out , " and -or a few moments some confusion ensued . ] Mr . Cobden proceeded . Turn nobody out . If hc be a man who has subscribed to this loan , he can only have paid ten percent , as a deposit , and if you will
only keep bim 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 satisfy Mm that it will bc " for his interest to forfeit his ten per cent and pay no more . ( Renewed laughter . ) But to resume . I say that the Austrian Government has three 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 " True , true ¦! " and cheers . ) Now , what has been the progress _of'Austrian finance since the great war ? I will t . ike a work of standard reputation , which was published in 1840 , under
the title of Austria and its Future , a work well known to be from thc 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 _shufiSing _manmuvres—borrowing , loaning , lotteries and every possible device—witlf which thc Austrian Government has heen _mistifyiug its financO for twenty-five years—from 1815 ' to 1840—the author sums up by saying that , from 1815 down to 1840 , a period of profound peace , the Austrian Government bas doubled its debt in nominal value , but quadrupled its debt in real amount , and has increased the interest for whicli it is liable tenfold . The
• same work was republished in 1840 , by the same author , with an additional volume ; and the author tells us that at that tune not one word had been said to disprove his . statements _respecting Austrian finance . He adds , that since the period -when bis book was first published , £ 3 , 000 , 000 more Lave been added to the national debt of Austria ; and it therefore comes to this—that from 1815 to 1847 the Austrian Government , during a period of profound peace , without a foreign war on its hands during the whole of that time , has gone on every year _spending more than its income , and constantly adding to the amount of its national debt . Then , in 1843 , whilst Austria had trom 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 the Government of Austria fell like a house of cards , notwithstanding the bayonets by which _# was supported—( cheers}—and from that time to this thc Austrian empire bas been in a state of complete anarchy and disorder . "Vienna , Pesth , Venice , Milan , Pragueevery capital of the empire bnt _Inspruck—has been "bombarded by the forces of the Austrian Government ; we nave seen the bank suspending specie payments , thegovercment suspending theexportationof the precious metals , to prevent the foreign creditor ¦ from being honestly paid his due ; and during all this anarchy and _tonfusiou , 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 Boating debt that they have the audacity—for Icannot call it
by any othe _^ name —( cheers)—tocomebeforcthepeopie of Western Europe , and ask the honest Dutchman , the _industrious Englishman , the pains-taking , sa _* s _* ing Swiss or Frenchman—they do not care who itis —( alaugh}—ont of their hard earnings to lend them monej—that is , to throw It into a bottomless pit Of waste and extravagance . ( " Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) Now , I ask yon , if an individual has _tJommitted acts of bankruptcy three times , is he not very likely to commit it again if it answers his purpose ? ( Cheersandknghter . ) Well , the Austrian Governmentha 3 every motive to commitanact of bankruptcy again , because it is utterly impossible that in any other way they can get their finances straight . ( Hear ) They never can pay their debt . Shey may now borrow £ 7 , 008 , 000 sterling as a ¦ means of paying off a fraction of the debt they have already incurred , and that £ 7 , 000 , 000 they are a kmg for on rather humiliating terais j bat I warn
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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 thc 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 . ) Wheu 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 , thouqh not a _farthing ofthe 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 teU 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 . ) Itis said that the pith of a lady ' s letter is to be found in thc 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 France)—to the last line of tbis 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 , will receive 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 Eurchase 5 s . worth of potatoes or vegetables , shall ave a commission of 2 d . on that amount , " would you not pass by on the other side—( a 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 bis 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 their £ 10 into this raffle , where there are no prizes ,
to bear in mind that we do not think that our meeting will convert any of those bankers , or agents , or brokers , whether in Amsterdam or Vienna , who have been called on to find out unwary people , and fet them to subscribe their 25 , 000 florins . ( Hear , ear . ) We never expected to convert them , or to find one on this platform . ( Laughter . ) We expect that ali those organs ofthe press which are under the influence of these parties—and tbey are not a few—we expect tbat 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 © _c-« urred at the 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 the incautious , and the uninformed class—that I wish to speak thc 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 , the agents for the loan , have offered it on such terms as , if carried out , would pay £ 5 Hs . per cent _, 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 £ 5 14 s . 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 per cent _, interest , if it were secure ; I propose to take £ 1 , 000 of your loan , aud I will be content to receive four per cent , interest , and give yon the remaining £ 1 lis ., if you will indorse my bond as a guarantee for the payment . " 2 fo , no ; tbe firm are not likely to be done in that way , you may depend upon it ( Cheers aud laughter . ) I was talking thc other day to a gentleman in Lombard-street—one of the most experienced , sagacious , and able mon in that quarter , which is not renowned for gullible fools—( laughter)—and Iasked him forhisopinion upon this loan .
Bear in mind , gentlemen , he is a man more consulted by the government aud committees of thc House of Commons on such matters than any one else on the east of Temple-bar . He replied , ' I do not believe tbat £ 200 , 000 will be raised in all England , and certainly not one shilling ' s worth will be taken to hold . " ( Hear . ) No , the capitalists will not take it fo hold . If they take it , they will take the 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 tliat 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 bad no other earthly dependence—and yet the man had Spanish Bonds to the nominal amount of more than £ 2 . 000
m his pocket Tbey were not worth more than waste paper ; but I never heard that tho great houses that contracted the loan were ruined by it . ( Heai _* , hear . ) No , it passed through their hands , and eame into the bands of poor men like this porter , who had no experience and knowledge in such matters ; and it is to guard such poor men that I now utter the voice of warning . ( Cheers . Now , 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 in Lombard-street , but would endorse every word I utter as to the valueless character of this loan—is it nofc something hateful , humiliating , and disgusting , that we have leading organs of the press which lend their influence ,
not to throw a shield over thc unwary and innocent , but to serve the purpose of those who have cunning and ability to protect themselves ? ( Cheers . ) They do not come out—that is where I blame thcru —in their leading articles , and tell the people , with the authority of tbeir own 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 thc best way they can—b y inuendoby secret influence—and by trying all they can to traduce tbe 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 , j But the fact is that these parties are not
the only parties that look With disfavour On this meeting to-day . 1 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 tha _ t < disapproves of the meeting . I do not believe that our government likes it . ( Cheers . ) I say so much because I believe those organs of tho press , especiall y under the influence of the government , and one in particular established as the advocate par excellence of the sound principles of political economy denounced by Adam Smith , are forward in . condemning this meeting . ( Hear . ) I consider , gentlemen , this meeting as the germ of a great _mo-vement which will lay bare the pretensions of every _government that comes before the world for a loan—and will show the
bankrupt state—if it he bankrupt—ofthe Exchequer of their country , aad will hold up to execration the objects for which men _ittempt to obtain such loans . ( Cheers . ) I consider this loan as much a Russian as an Austrian loan . I do not separate the two countries . . ( _He-ir , hear . ) You remember when I spoke before in this place strongly oa the 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 tbat I have had opportunities , and f ew men —probably not six men in England—have had my opportunities of investigating and ascertaining upon
the best and safest authority on the spot , where alone you can properl y 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 . Tou have seen , in thc newspapers , that the government of Russia have taken £ 2 , _* 30 O , O 00 of this Austrian loan , and that the Russian government was ffoing td subscribe tothe Pope ' s loan , and going to lend the Archduke of Tuscany a round sum . This is systematically done . These
mragrapbs are put into the papers by men employed by that cunning government to tfil'OW dust in the eyes of people . The government , kit 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 thafc wo will be here also . It is nofc ou mere economical grounds or on pounds of self-interest , alone that I oppose these loans ; I como hereto oppose the very By-S
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tem 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 bear)—and the Austrian government comes now and stretches forth her blood-stained' hand to honest Dutchmen and Englishmen , and asks them to furnish the price of tho devastation which has been committed . For there is little difference _wi-f-ther the money subscribed to this loan is fur-Sicd a little before ov after . ( Hear , hear . ) The money has been raised for the war b y forced contributions and compulsory loans for which treasury receipts have been given , in the confident expectation that this loan would be raised t _» pay them off . ( Hear ) I consider that this is on principle most
. uniust and indefensible . ( Applause . ) Happil y , by the ordinance of divine Providence , war ia in its nature self-destroy ing ; and , if a country which carries on war were left to itself , war must have a speedy termination . But this 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 of 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 the friends of disarmament throughout the civilised world to exert themselves to spread a sounder morality on tliis question of war loans ; and they will teach the
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 ifc 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 the 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 donbt 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 tho 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 tho 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 befdre parting with it . ( Cheers . ) Ifc mig ht be said ihat this 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 ifc seemed almost as if the dark ages had returned , such scenes of barbarity and cruelty were being enacted throughout Europe by order aud in the name of established governments . ( Hear , hear . ) They had heard a great deal of late about the lawless violence ofthe people in their attempts to procure liberty . Certain writers and speakers were never tired of uttering warnings against the _danger of an infuriated mob . But had any of theso 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 Pans , Vienna , and Rome , for a time , power was in the hands of the people—the wild democracy , as ifc was called . Where were their deeds of blood or spoliation ? ( Hear , hear . ) They had nofc committed any robberies or appropriated any public or private property . Talk of Red Republics ! were there , he would ask , no Red Monarchies ? ( Loudcheers . ) 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 his soldiers , and who hanged up thc ministers of religion , —and what ought they to say , too , ofa government that saw women publicly flogged for no
other reason than their supposed attachment to the rights of their country ? ( " Shame , shamo . '" ) The latest intelligence spoke of a noble lady condemned to sweep tbe streets ofi Temesvar for that crime ; and another lady , immediately after fche harrowing event of her husband ' s suicide , was brought forth and publicly flogged . ( "Shame 1 " ) Would thoy then in thc 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 thc oppression of the people of Hungary and Poland ? ( Cheers . ) As his hon . friend had told them , this Austrian loan _wasnothins but a loan to Russia ; for Austria had
sunk so low she was no more than a tool in the hands ofthe Czar . ( Hear , hear . ) Judging , then , by the course pursued by Austria—judging by thc actions of thc savage , they niight arrive at a conclusion with respect to thc sentiments of his master . ( Bear , hear . ) But they stood in need of no such indirect means to judge ofthe feelings and * disposition ofthe Czar . Not only had he , against the law of nations , driven his barbarous hordes into fche free country of Hungary to put down liberty there , but , having vanquished the Hungarians there , he followed with his vengeance a number of thoso brave patriots and tlieir no less brave allies , Poles and Italians , who had taken refuge in thc territory of Turkey , and demanded that they should be
delivered up to him in order to be put to death , u he 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 that if ifc were nofc complied with he would declare war with Turkey . His ambassador said , " My master wants these refugees that he may hang them ; and if you lot a single one escape , that will ho a cause of war . ' The Turks not being able to _compave , ift respect to their country , with the colossal empire of Russia , with an army of 700 , 000 sought the means of escaping from this difficulty , and , as a treaty existed , not that refugees should be mutually g iven
up , but that offenders taking refuge m cither country should be removed to a distance from the frontier , with tho exception , in the case of Turkish offenders , of their becoming Christian , and of Christian offenders , of their professing MaUomedanism the Turks , in order to escape the evils of immediate war , proposed to those bravo Hungarians and Poles in confinement afc Widdcn , the dreadful alternative , either that they should renounce Christianity or else bc 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 thein of apostacy or death 1 ( Hear hear . ) Was this not enough to
harrow up the feelings of all reli giously ' minded men ? and to excite the just indignation of the people from one end of this country to thc other . Turkey said , " Throw off Christianity * , become Mussulmans , and then you shall enter our army ;" but he was glad to say that this offer had been spurned by the noble men to whom ifc was made . He had received letters yesterday from some of the refugee officers at Widdcn , on whose statements he could place the most complete reliance , giving him detailed accounts of the circumstances . He grieved that hc was unable to say that no man out of tlie whole army had been induced to yield to the temp tation held out bythe Turks . Some , bufc very few men , whose lives had been devoted to fighting
against Russia , and whose religion seemed to consist in that alone , lured , no doubfc , by the hope of entering the Turkish army and again waging war against their implacable enemies , Russia and Austria , had been induced to accept thc oflers of the Porto , and to embrace Islamism ; but tho great body ofthe refugees had indignantly refused the 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 . Petersburgh and Vienna , that those brave 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 nofc give to Turkey all the support in their power in resisting the demands which had been * made upon her ? for
( Cheers . ) He , one , could not believe that the government of this country would shrink from firing most energetic and efficient support to the ukan in this matter , Ho ( Lord D . Stuart ) believed there was but one feeling existing throughout the country as to the cruelties and inhumanities ofthe Austrian butchers , the outrageous * demands of Russia , and her attempt , under pretence of those demands , to violate , and probably , if possible , to destroy the 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 joined with the liberal press in _reprobatm- _* - the conduct of tho despotic Soverei gns of Austria and Russia . The Czar had threatened the Porte if a single refugee escaped from Widdcn * but when he found that the _gOAffirnment _< Sf this country supported by the people , v ? e _/ e determined , if need _Jie _*
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to resist his-force by force- ( cheers ) -thcy might de pend upon ifc , he would think twice ; he would Sbe in a hurry to encounter even a single _squadron of the ships of Great Britain ; he would retire S his demands ; the unfortunate refugees would _heaved ; the independence of Tni'key would be maintain- _^; and the honour of England would be nveserved . ( Loudcheers . ) . P The res hition was than unanimously agreed to . M * C Gilhn moved the second resolution : — " That , in the op inion of this meeting , loans for war purposes and for the maintenance of standing Saments are unsound in principle and injurious to thTintercsts of nations . " He said that ha could _rJ _^ u _.-JLtViiw _awee in execrating tbe conduct of
those refugees at Widdin who had been inclined to foSc _^ their standard of Christianity fromthe ' _W-WAutocrat of Russia , and their opinions of the religion of Mahomet , from the conduct of the Sultan ot Turkey . ( Cheers . ) The resolution he had proposed was of a sweeping character , and declared that all loans for war purposes were unsound m principle and injurious to the true interests of nations . He knew that he was treading on delicate around . He * fias aware of the shout ot scorn with which the proposition would be received by the writers in Printing-house-square , who , he presumed —iiuMng by their own morality oftho morality of the men of thc Stock-exchange —( cheers)—did not hesitate to assert in no ambiguous terms that money speculations and morality had no connexion what * _Bvi _* .. —that , in short , the difference of one-eight per
cent , would , in tho minds of the capitalists of Lurope , outweigh 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 , pity that it was so , _* it was time that a better morality should be enforced . The day , he 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 . Burne t seconded the resolution which was tben 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 tho loan now solicited by Austria would be applied . Mr . Cobden again rose , and was received with great applause . He said , that one ofthe commonest things in all creation was that which they heard the most lauded—he meant physical courage . ( Hear , hear . ) They all had it;—not a race in the world but had been distinguished by ifc at some time or other . Itwas nofc only natural to human beings , but to the lower animals , and he would undertake to find a same-cock or a bull-dog superior in physical
courage to any two-legged human being that ever lived . ( Cheers and knghter . ) Bufc there was another species of courage , the rarest to he found , especially in . Lombard-street , and that was moral courage . ( Cheers . ) It was astonishing tbat men rich in this world's goods , —rich , yet nofc independentshould be tho 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 nigh 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 ofthe state of things between Turkey and Russia , with respect to the Hungarian refugees . That was the brutal principle Carried OUt , for who but a brute would think of bullying a neighbour , whom he thought weak , and _setting at defiance all those principles of international law , which he would be obliged to observe in the case of other powers ? ( Hear , hear . ) Did they think that the Emperor of Russia would over dare to send an autograph letter to our Queen , commanding Bem to be delivered up in order to be hanged ? No ; he would as soon think of _hansim ? himself , f A cry of
" Bravo ' . " and laughter . ) Some people , however , accounted for the Autocrat ' s couducfc 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 had been common to all despots who had claimed the power of ruling over 50 , 000 , 000 or 00 , 000 , 000 of people . Nebuchadnezzar was eccentric when he issued his proclamations —( laughter)—bufc 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 tne proclamations put forth by the eccentric Czar , sinco _Jiie ni-mii vrtfimn / i / l ft * f \ m _TTfi-nffmiti * / _/***•• lis-ts _«*» n _^ nrl i iu ivwuwiuu _tsui _iJ i _viiUbl
_n-w «« j xa _.-, lllJjl » r _, a ciWU laughter . ) lie ( Mr . Cobden ) regretted that he had not brought with him a copy of ono of thoso proclamations which he had taken from a newspaper , and which commenced by assuming that the Emperor of Russia had a divine mission to regulate the affairs of fche world . ( A laugh . ) Now , who was responsible for all this ? The man was incapable of appreciating anything hut a physical force argument , and he ( Mr . Cobden ) did nofc think he was departing from hi 3 peace principles in resorting to a mode of admonition which the nature of tho 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 care , he miffhfc run his head against something harder even
than his own skull . ( Cheers and laughter . ) He ( Mr . Cobden ) therefore said , that , if the Fmperor of Russia attacked us , wo might hermetically seal the ports of Russia , and there would be an end of the matter . ( Cheers . ) There could bc 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 be required by England to blockade Petersburgh , Archangel , Odessa , and Riga for six months of the year , and thafc the frost would keep up the blockade
for thc other six months . ( Cheers and a _lausrh . ) The people who were responsible for what was politely called tho eccentricity of the Czar were those who flattered his vanity by talking ofhis colossal power . ( Hear , hear . ) ' Now , his ( Mr . Cobden ' s ) peace friends must not quarrel with him on this subject , for he had explained that he was apply ing- his arguments to those who could understand no other . Though the Emperor of Russia might not understand tbem , his ministers could , and no one would appreciate them better than Count Nesselrode . He ( Mr . Cobden ) would tell them what would be tho result of a six weeks' blockade of the Russian ports by England . If those ports were hermetically sealed , tliey would find that , before fche end
of five or six weeks , the Russian nobles , who could nofc sell their hemp , tallow , and flax , which was all _mortgaged before ifc was sent out of the country , would do in the case of the present Czar what they had done in the case of others—they would very soon dispose of his eccentricities . ( Laughter . ) No * - body could impute to him ( Mr . Cobden ) that he sought these sorts of arguments . He had gone to Paris recently , in order to do all he couid to make peoplo understand other arguments ; but he and his peace friends had not such an absolute control over the pugnacity of John Bull thafc they could tell the Emperor that , if he attacked England , tho consequences ho had mentioned would not ensue . Now
looking afc thc matter in this li ght , and believing that the Emperor ' s ministers were not so eccentric as the Czar himself , hc ( Mr . Cobden ) laughed at the idea of Russia going to war with England , but be laughed still more afc the idea of Russia _goi-i- _*** to war with England and France . ( Cheers . ) l ! he ( Mr . Cobden ) were told that he ran the risk of provoking these brutal tyrants to como here and attack this country , ho would reply that he was prepared to take the risk upon himself of all they could do . But on this subject tliere was no reason ibr alarm 01 dismay . They would have no war with Russia , for the reason he had mentioned . —the Emperor could not show himself afc the head of his Cossacks in this country . Tho worst that could come would , in his opinion , be a blockade , whicli could be maintained with one half the naval force kept up by this country in time of peaco . ( Hear , 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 completel y covered with fchem- ( _alaugh ) -and crosses and ribands had boen plentifully showered from St . Petersburgh upon other butchers . ( Cheers . ) Well , when Kossuth and his fellow-patriots arrived in this country ifc would be seen whether Englishmen , who sympathised with human progress and freedom , could not decorate them , in the hour of their misfortune , with that which must be most honourable and gratify _ing to thorn—the tribute of the admiration and respect of an independent people . ( Loud cheering . ) The resolution was then carried by acclamation , and the chairman hiving briefly acknowled ged the compliment , the meeting broke up .
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_N-w _*' . ' - _*^**~*^^ _pm »****** _+ _ss _+ _Railway Seizure . —We hear that on Monday some of the officials of the Bristol and EKetcv _llaUway Company , with attendants , _appoai-ed on the ground occupied by the Crediton Kailway station , and took possession of the station and field . "We have not yet obtained particulars of the ground ofthe seizure , but it is said that tho Bristol and Exeter have a claim on tlie land occupied , and now held , bv the Taw . _Valers . _—Jl-estem Luminary . * A Volume in a Line -At a recent ' temperance celebration m _Kcwmarket , U . S ., a little lad appeared in the procession bearing a _flajj on which _g-gjjige _^ tto _fcUowing _^ . _Su- . _Sight when
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . _PROROGATIONOF PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS .-Thoir Lordships met on Tuesday , pursuant to the prorogation at the close of the session , with a view of further proroguing parliament until tho 20 th of November next . Soon after two o ' clock the Lord Chancellor , the Earl of Carlisle , and Lord Campbell took thenseats , in front ofthe 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 tho bar , to hear the royal commission read . Shortly afterwards tho officer aforesaid , accompanied by Mr . William Ley , the Second Clerk at the table ofthe House of Commons , with one
member ( Mr . A . Raphael ) , and several officials of ihe lower house , appeared at the bar , when the royal commission having been read , The Lord Chancellor , in the name of her Majesty , and on her behalf , declared the present parliament further prorogued from that day until Thursday , the 20 th proximo . The Commons—represented as before stated —then retired , and the commissioners left the house . The only par ticular circumstances attendant upon this ceremonial were the first appearance of the Lord Chancellor in thc house since his severe indisposition , and thc reading ofthe commission by Mv . J . S . Lefevre , the deputy clerk of the parliament , in the absence of the second clevk at the table , as also the third or reading clerk . ..
__ _ , No other peer was present , except the Lords Commissioners . Since the session closed the remaining stained glass windows have been completed ; and Mr . Dyce afc one end of the house , and Mr . JIaclaise at the other , are fast proceeding with their frescoes .
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¦ * - _»! FIVE LIVES LOST IN A SEWER . On Friday a fatal accident of tho most _melsncholy and distressing kind took place in that portion of Pimlico called Willow-walk , and where a number of new streets are at present in progress of completion . Between six and seven o ' clock in the evening Bishop , a police-constable , having been informed that much anxiety had been expressed with respect to three men who had _gone at an early hour that morning into the sewer in Warwick-street , and had not since been seen or heard of , he immediately hastened to the station of the B division . Mr . Beckerson , the inspector on duty , promptly directed some constables to go and see if they could be of any assistanceas it was understood that some men
, were about to open what is termed the " man-hole ' into the _Bewcr , in quest of the missing men , and ' shortly afterwards , from the distressing circumstances that succeeded , he followed with a number of other constables . The " man-hole" was opened in Warwick-street , and one of the labourers connected with * tho sewers having descended , he returned almost immediately with the intelligence that the three men were lying in the sewer apparently dead . Others , as we are informed , confirmed this statement , bufc they were afraid of venturing to them . Owing to this circumstance , it was determined to break into the end of the sewer in Kenilworth-streefc , Warwick-street , which had been bricked up . This was accordingly
done , and a crowd of persons having in the meantime assembled , tho greatest anxiety was evinced to ascertain the fate ofthe missing men , and to rescue them , if life was not yet extinct . Among those whose zeal in this humane cause was most strongly displayed was Mr . Henry Wells , a surgeon , residing in tho nei ghbourhood . No sooner was an entrance through the brickwork effected , than this gentleman , with a want of forethought which is surprising when his profession is recollected , at once entered the sewer , which is from four to five feet in height . Ho was immediately followed hy John Walsh , a constable of the B division , and Richard Serwan , a labourer in the employ of the Commissioners of Sewers . These men had not been absent
move than two or three minutes when Walsh reappeared bearing the lifeless body of Mr . Wells . The gallant fellow immediately returned , and a second time appeared afc the entrance , carrying with him Serwan , who had also been overpowered by the noxious influence of the gases , but whose life was fortunately preserved . A third time poor Walsh entered the sewer , probably overcome by the excitement of the moment , and the stupifying influence of the atmosphere which he was breathing , for his doing so could serve no purpose . The crowd outside waited anxiously his return but he did nofc re-appear , and it soon became apparent that he had fallen a victim to his own rash gallantry . After some time his body was recovered
by one ofthe sewers-men , and was removed at onco to the Clarendon Tavern , at the corner of _Kenilworfch-sfci-eet , but life was quite extinct . Tho extraordinary power of tho gases collected in the sewer may bo judged of from- _^ the f act that no traco of animation could bo detected in the caso of Mr . Wells , who was only two or three minutes exposed to tlieir influence ; and that not only was the skin of poor Walsh turned perfectly blue , but every piece of metal on his person was completely blackened . The body of Mr . "Wells was removed to St . George ' s Hospital , that of Walsh lies at the Clarendon Tavern . After the excitement which this dreadful catastrophe had created began in some degree to subside , efforts were mabe to recover the bodies of
the three men still in the sewer . The street was broken up at two different point * , and the _greafest exertions were used to establish a safe communication with the sewer for that purpose . Till three o ' clock on Saturday morning , however , thedesired object had not been accomplished . Mr . Superintendent Russell and a body of the police were present to facilitate the search , and to prevent the recurrence of so deplorable an accident as that by wbicb two lives had already been sacrificed . Mr . "Wells leaves a widow to lament his loss . Walsh , the policeman , had just entered the service , and , though quite a lad , had already shown great activity and intelligence in the discharge of hii duties . —It appears that the men had entered the sewer in the morning , to make the necessary measurements preparatory to having it flushed .
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DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE . On Friday night , shortly before eleven o ' clock , much alarm was occasioned in the immediate vicinity of Brook-street , Bermondsey , by an explosion upon the premises in the occupancy of Mr . Barlin , firework-maker , carrying on business afc No . 4 , in that . street , by which two , if not more , lives were sacrificed , and several persons severely injured . It appears that afc the time of tho calamity nofc fewer than thirteen persons were in the premises , when suddenly a loud explosion was heard , which blew the tiles off the roof of the house , forced the windows out , both in back and front , lifted the floorings from their bearings , and sent two children sleeping on the first floor out of the window . Tho extraordinary noise occasioned hy the report had scarcely subsided when an immense sheet of blue and purple flame issued from thc various apertures in the building , and at tho same time men , women , and children were to be seen rushing through the fire
, whilst theiv frantic cries for assistance could be heard at a long distance . Information of the misfortune was forwarded to the engine stations , but it was nofc until thc house was gutted that the firemen could get the mastery over the conflagration , when thc firemen learnt fcliafc several persons were supposed to be in the ruins . After some time spent in turning over the ruins , the firemen discovered the bodies of two persons , one apparently that of a fine young man about seventeen or eighteen years of age , and tho other that of a boy a few years younger . One was the body of a person called George , who worked on the premises , but the other could _nofc'be indentified . Mr . and Mrs . Barlin were also so severely injured as to bo obliged to bo removed to the hospital . Upon calling together the persons who worked and lodged in the premises , it was found that two more were missing , one an infant eighteen months old , the other a child of four years .
The Hybrid Maize Crop In The Park. — The...
The Hybrid Maize Crop in the Park . — The maize introduced into this country fram the Pyrenees and sown as an experiment in Sfc . James ' s Park by Mr . Keene , was harvested on Wednesday . Ifc has fully succeeded . The grain is perfectly formed , full , and ripe ; the cobbs , wo can fairly say , having seen specimens of both , are much finer than those grown on tho continent , a result peculiarly gratifying , in a public point of view of tho very highest importance , because ifc sets at rest the doubts which , in the first instance , were entertained in some quarters , thafc fche soil and climate of this country were not capable of the product . The particular situation was in no way especially favourable to the growth ; on the contrary , almost , as it were in the heart of tho metropolis , and immediately surrounded by trees and shvnhs tl . o
ground was not at all enriched by manure at the time of tilling , —The amount of crop appears to bc at the rate ot about fifty bushels per acre , and in the opinion of several experienced agriculturists present at the harvest , this quantity is producible on the average , from ordinary soil , in ordinary situations , and with the ordinary quantity and quatitv of manure . Some Indian com and Barbadoes corn had been sown alongside Ik . Keene ' s maize , at thc sanie time , and under exactly the same circumstances and conditions , but neither has ripened , or , indeed , scemlikely to _comedo * maturity . Thev still remain standing . The result of this harvest- is , in our dpmion , of very general and very great interest , when ifc is a matter of fact that the bread from this corn abroad which forms not merely the * chief but almost the only food of the fine peasantry on either side of the P yrenees is producible even in England , at a halfpenny the pound .
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Attempt at Suicide _nv a _Lapy . in _Uxnt Pa _*> k-On Thursday morning , shortly after ei ght o ' eln _^ r as the superintendent oftho Royal Humane _Soei ? was proceeding along the north bank of the _Seiw tine river he saw , at some distance from hini " aww * dressed female who appeared to be divesting her ' ! jof her outside garments , and before he could cet i to her she rushed towards the water , and uttenn a loud shriek , threw herself into fche deepest parB the river and directly sank . An alarm was i ' In r , 5 diately given , and Hill , one of the watermen , mZ i off in a boat , and on arriving at the spot LS hold of the female by the hair of the head , i u 5 * she was going down the second time . She k speedily conveyed to the _vcceiving-hoin-e wW _«
usual remcaics were resorted to , and after w . time she was so far recovered as to inform 1 ° superintendent that her name was Newel ) tin * i friends were highly respectable and kept their riage , and that the cause of her attemptiV tu _, * act ; was that her lover had proved unfaithful to i Had nofc the superintendent been n ear the _simt _'T ' no doubt would have carried hcr object into -. _*• ¦ as at the spot where she sank the water is t _1 ' than fourteen feet deep . mm ' 6
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CORN . _Mark-lane , _OctobtrS . _—Theslion-ofwliciit _,,, Kent was large this morning , but small from v « . from foreign wheat we have been well _siippiiC (* diirin ' , _Hith week , chiefly from the Black Sea and _WS ! _^ _st The English wheat was taken off by the mUlofwf ,, v-m Monday ' s prices , and Hue foreign met with a beli £ - ' , te , t the same rates . Flour quite ;< s dear . _l- _' ine new , _i- at harley more inquired after ; { -finding and 4 \ = \\\\\ n „ . „ : '•¦ ' _!•?* sold pretty readily at fully lait Mondart mi ' - ' ' Beans and peas without alteration . Wc liad i _S m ' of foreign oats , and about _4 , m qmrters fromOT good fresh quaUties went off pretty f . oelv un _. l a , _^ value . Itye quite as dear . iWeak _* Mi _^ fe '" J seed sold at previous rates . ' - ¦ _n-a , _vay Bbitish . —Wheat—Essex , Suffolk , and Kent red n- .,. * u to 42 s , ditto white , 37 s to _•*& , Lincoln , Norfolk _. ' _. _fv't shire / red , 33 s to 37 s , Northumberland -uSlL ' _T . l _? t
• ids to 86-Vditto rea , _« s to « s , Devonshire and Sen er _^ tl shire , red , -s to -s , ditto - . shite - to -5 , rye , 2 U u , _$ k barley , 24 s to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 2 r ) B . Xnfe . Us-s to -s ' Malt ordinary , —s to —s , pale , 52 s to 55 s , _jitas , grev , new ' 2 fis to 28 s , maple 28 s to SOs , white , 24 s to ii'is . boilers' - •¦ _r- w _*' 28 s to 31 s , beans , large , new , 23 s to 25 s , ticks 24 s to 27 s * harrow , 27 s to 30 s , pigeon , 30 s to 82 s , oats , Lincoln and " Yorkshire , feed , 15 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 ' 2 Cs to 30 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 410 s per ton , _Hn . seed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack _ot' 28 _'Jlbs , ship , 28 s to SOs , town , 38 s to 40 s .
Foreign . — "Wheat , — _Daiitzi-j , 40 s to 48 ? , Anlmlt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditte white , 38 s to 44 s , Pomeranian red , 3 fis to « s , Itostock 3 Ss to Us , Danish , Holstein , aad Friesland , 30 s to 35 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and _I'tai , 32 s to 34 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s to 3 Gs , Marianopoli , and litrdianshi _, 30 s to 34 s , Taganrog , 30 s to 33 s , . Brabant and French , 34 s to 38 s , ditto white , 3 fis to 42 s , Saloniea _, 30 s to 83 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 26 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , Wism-tr and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 20 = 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 , 2 i * s to 30 s , beans , horse , 24 s to 30 s , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , _E-jj-frtian , 22 s to 24 s ,. oats , _Groiiingen , Danish , Bremen , and Friesland , feed and black , lis to 16 s , ditto , thick and brew , 15 s to 22 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , Us to 10 s , flour , United States , _j-er WGlbs ., 21 s to 23 s , Ham . burg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 2801 bs „ 32 s to 35 s .
Wednesday , October 10 . —With the exception of oats , ot wliich 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 tin ' s week : —Wheat — - English , 870 quarters ; foreign , 3 , 260 quarters . Barley— English , S 40 quarters ; foreign , 800 _quarters . Outs — English , 1 , 920 quarters ; Irish , 3 , 170 quarters ; foreign , 17 , 670 quarter . Flour—1 , 010 sacks . Corn ExcnANGE _, Mabmase , Friday , October 12 th No English wheat fresh up since Monday , but the runs then left on hand have heen disposed of during the week nt the currency of that day . In Foroign tin transactions have uot been extcii 6 ive , hut holders arc very firm , Barley mot a retail demand at fully previous prices . Oats were held for the currency of theearly part of the week . Beans and peas without change .
BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis ave from GJd , to 7 d . ; of household ditto . 5 d . to Cd . per ilbs . loaf .
CATTLE . Smithfield , Oct . 8 . —With foreign beasts and sheep wc were well suppUed hut the number of calves from abroad was moderate . The 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 , The weather being very favourable for slaughtering , and die attendance of both town and country buyers good , the primest Scots , home breds , < tc , moved off steadily at fully Friday ' s advance in lhe quotations , the top figure for _l'fccbeing 3 s IOd per Slbs . In aU other breeds a moderate business was transacted at last week ' s prices . There was
a further slight falling off in the supply of sheep ; yet it proved extensive , the time of year considered . For most _breeds—especially the primest Downs , whicli were very scarce—the demand was steady , though not to say brisk , at 2 d per Slbs . above the currencies paid on this dav se ' imiglit . 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 tradt , and prices ruled from 2 d to 4 ( 1 per Slbs . higher than ua Monday last , and at wliich a good clearance was effected , We were hut moderately supplied with pigs , which were mostly held at vwy full prices .
Head of Cattle at Smtufield . _—Fiiday . —Beasts , ?» - _*•; sheep , 7 , 200 * , calves , 240 * , pigs , 310 . Monday . —Beasts . 4 , 621 ; sheep , 27 , 740 ; calves , 234 ; pigs , 180 . Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking thcoffal ) . —Beef , 2 s IOd to 3 s IOd ; mutton , 3 s 2 d to 4 s 2 d j veal , 3 s 2 J to 3 s IOd ; pork , 3 s 2 d to 4 s 2 d . S * _uinFiELD , Friday , October 12 th . —There was a large supply of meat of all kinds at market to-day , and notwithstanding tlie favourable state ofthe weather , the general tone of trade was dull aud heavy . Beef declined as much as 4 d per stone from the rates of last market-day . The veal trade was likewise heavy , hut only at a reduction ei 2 d . For mutton the demand was dull , but the market firm . Tigs sold steadily ; JiEWGATE and liEADESiUM ,, Monday , Oct . 8 . —Inferior beef , 2 s 4 d to 2 s Od ; middling ditto , 2 s 8 d to 2 s IOd ; pvfcr . e large , 3 s _*; 0 d to 3 s 2 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s tid ; lorie pork , 3 s 4 d to Ss Sd ; inferior mutton , 2 s IOd te Ss 2-1 ; middling ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Cd ; prime ditto , 3 s 8 d to 3 s IOd ; veal , 3 s 2 d to 8 s Sd ; small pork , 3 s IOd to H Ml ; per 81 bs . by the carcase .
PROVISIONS . London , Oct . S . —The arrivals last week , from Ireland _, were 11 , 623 firkins buttw , and 970 hales bacon , and from foreign ports 7 , 370 casks butter , and 500 hales and 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 ' iinnight ; the finest sorts being most in demand . Foreign , in the early part oi * the week , declined to 82 s , and towards thc close advanced to S 8 s _, for the best . In the bacon market there has been quite a panic , aud last week's prices were rapidly forced down 8 s to 10 s per cwt ., aud thc market closed quiet at 50 s to 54 s . English _Burr _eit Market , October 8 . —We have rather more inquiry for _nciv made butter , and fine weekly Dorset may be quoted at 2 s per cwt , better in price , but upon the general article we are without the least improvement . Dorset , fine weekly , 00 s to l _> 2 s , per cwt .: ditto stale and middling , Cfis to * 7 Cs ; Devon ; new made , SOs to S _4 s : fresh . 0 s to Us per dozen .
POTATOES . _Sootiiwauk Wateuside , October 8 Wc ave still wilh _i very few arrivals from Yorkshire or the Continent ; but I they are at present quite equal to the demand . The follow- illg are this day ' s priuos : —Yoaksliire _Re-jiJuts , 70 s to * ¦¦ ''' ¦¦ ' : Scotch , do ., C 5 s to 70 s ; foroijjn , 55 s to 65 s . HAY . _Pjiitiifield , October fi . —At per load of thirty-six trusses . ? —Meadow , old , 45 s to 72 s ; clover , uld , 60 s to 95 s ; straw , _s 20 s to 32 s .
WOOL . Cm * , Monday , October S . — The quantity of wool im- aported into London last week was about 3 , 700 bales , ot ot which 1 , 62 'J were from Algoa Bay , Cape of Good Hop ? , _(* _- - > i 54 from Odessa , 633 from Port Philip , 437 from Germany , ItC » 7 from Lisbon , and the rest froir . Petersburg . The marker et for wool has not been animated , and at the public sales thc lit quotations rule sov _^ _Jfihat heavy . _LivEiiroot . October 6 ' . —Scotch . —There is rather moro ire doing hi Laid Highland at our late rates . White is less * ss sought after . For good Crossed and Chevoit there is a fair iii demand * , thc heavy , smeared , and inferior kinds are in it less request . _FoiiEiG . v—The public sales progress in London with _evi- 'vi dently a little butter feeling towards the close . There _are . _in to be offered hy auction here , on the 17 th inst , about 1 , 2 ( 1112 ( 11 bales fine middle quality Buenos Ayres , and about 1 , 20020 * East India , O _* _wvto , Tuvkev , ke ., iic .
nors . Boropgit , Monday , October 8 . —A fair amount of _basi-nsi ness has been done in the finest descriptions of Mid aiwluv East Kent hops , and prices for such are rather _impi-ovcdrci " In other sorts few transactions have occurred , and tlnth rates of this day week arc barely supported . — _Susscssc Pockets 120 s to 130 s ; Weald of Kent 130 s to 150 s ; Midaman East Kent 145 s to 230 s .
OOLOKIAL PRODUCE . London , October 9 . —Sogai * . — This article has _to-da--d _* i scarcely supported the prices paid last week , yet a fat fa amount of business has been done , and there is some imliiml cation of the trade and the refiners being desirous to comson * into stock at thc present low prices . 500 hogsheads wis West India have been sold in the private contract mavketrke 2 , 500 bags Mauritius , 5 , 000 bags Bengal , and 2 , 000 bag ba Madras , found buyers in the public sides , but a decline due Od upon low qualities was submitted to ; 2 , 400 boxes < ses strongyellow Havannah ( foreign ) was sold by private cot * co tract to a refiner at 39 s 6 d to 40 s duty paid . Thc _refino-fin market tolerably steady at last week ' s prices ; _groeeeoee lumps , 47 s 6 d to 49 s Gd , Molasses . —St . Vincent's , Trinidad , aud Demerava , ha \ ha been sold at 15 s Gd .
Coffee . —Tlie public sales of 700 bags _Plantation Ceylon , and 30 , 0 bags Costa Kica , went oil' without spir ' spb the former at about previous rates , the latter at a _dccliiccl Of fully Is , Tea . — The market has become dull .
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DEATH . On the 5 th instant , of consumption , Eliza Clark , as , s 43 , tke wife of _Cliag-les John Clavk _, secretary ofthe _Bris Bri branch of the' National Land Company , after a liugeriiigei illness of two years , _ivhieh she bore with Christian loin li tilde and resignation , leaving three children to deplore lore loss , She was an affectionate mother and friend ; ad ; was beloved aud _vespeeted by all who knew her .
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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/ns3_13101849/page/8/
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