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THE AUSTRIAN LOAN . GREAT PUBLIC MEETING . On Mondsy last a public meetin « , -svhiah had been announced for some days past , " was held at the Itfndon Tarern , " to consider the ad « rtiscment reccntly issued b y 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 loam 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 cf the proceedings A few ladies were present , and amongst the company on the platform were : —Lord D . Stuart , Mr . G . "W . Alexander , Mr . II . CoWen , M . P ., Mr . J . "Williams , M . P ., the Rev . J . Burnet , Mr . G . Gilpin , Mr . J . Morland , Mr . "W . Lsa £ of Old Change , &c . — - ^ _____^ __ LM
Mr . Cobden was loudly tsheered on entering , as was also Lord Dudley Steart , who made his appearance shcrtly after the commencement of the proceedings . Mr , Axexaxdeb , havirebcen voted into the chair , raid that lie should have been glad if Mr . S . Gurney Lad presided on the present occasion , and given tjttcrar . ee to those principles which were so much inject rJanee with the object of that meeting , in reference to the impolicy and the folly of the nations borrowing money fcr the maintenance of standing armies and the conduct of war . ( Hear , hear . ) Everything was calculated to encourage them in the conviction that the time was nearly , if not entirely past , when natkas wonld be able to obtain loans
for these purposes . ( Hear , hear . ) Nearly 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 present moment * very small part of the Austrian loan advertised had been taken . { Cheers . ) It was stated , by some person of the name of Henrv , latelv , in the columnsof The limes , that the whole oi the ' loan lad been taken at "Vienna , and that it was at that timeat 22 ^ reraium ; but , by latter intelligence from The Times = own correspondent , it appeared that only £ 1 , 500 , 03 * had been taken , and that Hopeand Co . had stood forth to subscribe £ 2 , 000 , 000 for Russia . That made only one-half of the loan , and at a small Jjremiura : ; 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 con . tractea for the purpose of paying those who had been engaged ia carrying on war in the various countries to which Austria stood in the relation of head ; and in pursuance of that cruel system which enabled governments to carry on war against their own subjects and other nations . ( Cheers . ) Air , Cobdes 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 coantrics , capitalistsand men of business are thereby invited to investigate the financial position of the
said government , aad the 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 oftercd , in the present state of the Austrian government , which would justify prudent mea in taking any part of the said kan . "—Gentlemen , it has been my privilege to address my fellow countrymen probably as often , and in O 3 a variety of places , as any man now living ; but I will say , with unfeigned confidence , that there never was an occasion when I stood before my countrymen on such soiid and firm grounds of justice , ofhutuanity , aiidof sound political economy , as I do at thU moment . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , gentlemen , objections have been taken to the course I have
pursued in this matter , on the ground that I am not adhering to sound principles ofpolitical economy I suppose it was thought that that was the most vulnerable point on whichone 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 m my hand 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 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 th : s day met to consider . ( Loud cheering . ) But , gentlemen , whilst I come here to denounce as unjust , to exposa as wasteful , and to demonstrate to be impolitic , tho 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 thi 3 country and of the continent those principles which Adam Smith , David Hume , Montesquieu , Ereardo , JFCulfoan , 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 try tosUowtoourfellow countrymcn , 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 iudustrious lahour to the Austrian Government , to be expended in that bottomless gulf of waste—armies and standin g Jirmaments . I come here to show the impolicv , on general principles , of taking SUeli a course . " But ia this particular instance I am not going to confine invsclf to the general pr inciple . I appeal to every individual who tliinks of lending money to the Austrian Government , to pause before he does so ; because he is going to iutrust his money to a Power
tnat lias tnriee 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 "Turn him out , " and for a few moments some confusion ensued . ] Mr . Coudca proceeded . Turu nobod y out . If he be a man who has subscribed to this loan , he can only have pail ten per cent , as a deposit , and if you wiil only keep him here , before I have done I will satisfy hiui that it will be for his interest to forfeit the deposit . ( laughter aad cheers . ) I will satisfv him that it will be for his interest to forfeit his tea prr cent , and pay no more . ( Renewed laughter ) But to resunu . I say that the Austrian Government has three times committed acts of bankruptcy
under circumstances of great aad 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 . ) Sow , what has been the progress of Austrian finance sinca the great war ? 1 will take : i work of stan dard reputation , which was published in 1 S 40 , under the title of Austria and its Future , a work well known to be from the pen of Buron Andrian , who last year ably filled the office of ambassador from ' the Central Gorman Power to the British Court , and a work of standard authority on such matters . After a most detailed statcinaut ' of all the various shuffling manicuv . es—boiTOwinsr , loaning , lotteries
and every possible device—witlf which the Austrian Government has been mistifyiug its finance for twenty-Sve years—from 1815 to 1810—the author sums up by saying that , from 1 S 15 down to 18 if ) , a period of profound peace , the Austrian Government has doubled its debt in nominal value , but quadrupled its debt in real amount , and has increased the interest for which it is liable tenfold . The same work was republished in 184 G , by the same author , with an additional volume ; and the author tells us that at that time not one word bad been said to disprove hi 3 statements respecting Austrian finance . He adds , that since the period ¦ when his book was first published , £ 3 , 000 , 000 more have been added to the national debt of Austria
and it therefore comes to this—that from 1815 to 1817 the Austrian Government ^ during a period of profonn 1 peace , without a forei gn war on its hands during the whole of that time , has gone on every year spending more than its income , and constantly addinjrtothe amount ; of its national debt . Then , in 1348 , whilst Austria had trom 300 , 000 to 400 , 000 men under arms—the produce of all this wasteful expenditure—came thai revolutionary epidemic ¦ which prssed over the continent , and the Government of Austria fell like a house of cards , notwithstanding the bayonet * by which it was supported—( cheers)—andfromth . it time to this the Austrian empire ha 3 been in a state of complete anarchy and disorder . Tienna , Pesta , Venice , Milan ,
Pragueevery capital of the empire but Inspruck—has been bombarded by the forces of the Austrian Government ; we have seen the bank suspending specie payments , the government suspending thcesportationof the preciou 3 metals , to prevent the foreign creditor from being honestly paid his due ; and during all t ' us 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 auy otherjname —( cheer 3 )~ iocomebefore the people of Western Europe , and ask the honest
Dutchman , the industrious Englishman , the pains-taking , saving Swis 3 or Frenchman—they do not care who Jt is —( alaugh)—out of their hard earnings to lend them money—that is , to throw it into a bottomless pit of waste and " extravagance . ( " Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) Sow , I ask you , if an individual has committed act 3 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 in any other way they can get their finances straight , ; ( Hear . ) They never can pay their debt . They may now borrow £ 7 , 003 , 000 sterling as a means of paying off a fraction of the debt they liare already insarred , and that £ 7 , 000 , 000 the ' y 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 i * 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 hare 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 Tienna . I perfectly understand , tboueh 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 b y 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 , bear . ) 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 fiersons , whether here , in Holland , or in Germanyfor 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 Trance)—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 , will receive a commission of a quarter per cent on the amount of the payments made . " ( Hear , and laughter ) Now , I
ass you , it any shopkeeper or huckster ltt 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 —( a laugh)—and take especial care to have no dealings at his shop ? ( Laughterand 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 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 get them to subscribe their 25 , 000 norms . ( Hear , hear . ) 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 somo confusion occurred at the bottom of the room , and a person stationed
m 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 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 , the agents for the loan , have offered it on such terms as , if carried out , would pay £ 514 s . per cent .
interest . Xow , 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 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 Ms ., if you will indorse my bond as a guarantee for the payment . " So , no ; the firm arc 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 oJ the most
experienced , sagacious , and able men in that quarter , which is not renowned for gullible fools —( laughter)—and Iaskcd him forhisopinion 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 Teinple-bnr . 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 . ) Xo , the capitalists will not take it to 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 moncv , 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 tho great bouses that contracted the loan were ruined by it . ( Hear , hear . ) Xo , 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 guard such poor men that I now utter the voice of warning . ( Cheers . Now , I ask , when it is known that every word I sav 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 not something hateful , humiliating , and disgusting , that we have leading organs of the press which lend their influence , not to throw a shield over the 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 them —in their leading articles , and tell the people , with the authority of their own pen , that Austria is trustworthy—that this loan h ) i good investment . Jfo ; they do not do anything of this kind ; but they do their work in the best way they can—bv
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 publie question of this sort , and find , instead of my arguments being refuted , that lam personally attacked , I consider that the triumph of my cause . ( Cheers . ) But the fact is that these parties are not the only parties that 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 par excellence of the sound principles of political economy denounced by Adam Smith , arc forward in condemning this meeting . ( Hear . ) I consider , gentlemen , this meeting as the germ of a great movement which will lay bare the pretensions of every government that comes before the world fov a loan—and will show the 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 . ) Iconsidcrthis loanas 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 the
Eubject 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 the 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 arc men in AVestcrn 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 the 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 , hat year , spent more than its income ; and this year its deficit is enormous . ( Hear , hear . ) Russia hap not paid tho 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 nioment the Russian government lias 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 tho very system on which they arc 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 hand to honest Dutchmen and Englishmen , and asks them to furnish the price of the devastation which has been committed . For there is little difference whether the money subscribed to this loan is furnished a littlo 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 . ( Applause . ) Happily , by the ordinance of divine Providence , war is in its nature self-destroying ; 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 whioh 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 , selt-delence , 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 Bounder . morality on
this question of war loans ; and they will teach the capitalists of tho world that they who forget- those duties are running the risk of endangering those rights . ( Loud cheers . ) Lord D . Stoart rose to second the resolution : He said , that it was particularly gratifying to him , 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 tho 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 . ( " Ko , he has not . " ) Well , he ( 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 Bigned by tho 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 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 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 , hoar . ) They had heard a great deal of late about the lawless violence of tho 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 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 tho 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 ! 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 his soldiers , and who hanged up the ministers of religion , —and what ought they to sav . 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 of- Temesvar for that crime ; and another lady , immediately after the harrowing event of her husband ' s suicide , was brought forth and publicly flogged . ( "Shame ! " ) Would they then in the metropolis give up the fruits of their industry to enable governments of this character to carry put their nefarious designs —( "No , no" )—supplying them with the moans of carrying on the butcheries of ILiynau , and the oppression of the people of Hungary and Poland ? ( Cheers . ) As
his hon . friend had 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 . Not only had he , against tho law of nations , driven his barbarous hordes into the free country of Hungary to put down liberty there , but , liaving vanquished the Hungarians there , ho followed with his vengeance a number of those brave patriots aud their no less brave allies , Poles mid
Italians , who had taken refuge in ^ thc territory of Turkey , and demanded that they should bo delivered up to him in order to be put to death . Tho 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 it were not complied with he would declare war with Turkey . His ambassador said , " My master wants these refugees that he may hang them ; and if you let a single one escape , that will be a cause of war . The Turks not being able to compare , in 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 given up , but that offenders taking refuge in either country should be removed to a distance from the frontier , with the exception , in the case of Turkish offenders , of their becoming Christian , and of Christian offenders , of their professing Mahomcdanism ; the Turks , in order to escape the evils of immediate war , proposed to these bravo Hungarians and Poles in confinement at Widdcn , 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 covernments , Russia and Austria , had brought matters —( hear , hear )—and they now saw the spectacle of 5 , 000 men having
tho dreadful alternative offered them of apostacy or death ! ( Hear hear . ) Was this not enough . to harrow up the feeliugs of all religiously ' minded men ? and to excite tho just indignation of the people from one end of this country to the 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 it was made . He had received letters yesterday from some of the refugee officers at Widden , on whose statements he could place the most complete reliance , givin'V him detailed accounts of the circumstances , lie { moved that he was unable to say that no man out of the whole army had been induced to yield to tho temp fc i LTi 1 , ! 011 , b >' . ? ¥ » . Some , but very few whoso lives had
men , been devoted to fighting against Russia , and whose religion seemed to con-Bttfc in that alone lured , no doubt , by the hope of entewng the Turkish army and again waging war against their implacable enemies , Russia and Austria , had been induced to accept the offers of the Porte , and to embrace Islamism ; but the great body of the refugees had indignantly refused the terms which wero . offered them . ( Hear , hear ) It was in order to slake the vengeance of those inhuman Sovereigns who sat on tho thrones of St Petcrsburgh and Yicnna , that those brave men wcro reduced to such straights , and that the independence of Turkey was threatened and outraged AVas it to be supposed for an instant that any so vevnmcnt of Great Britain , would tolerate such
proceedings— ( "J \ o , and cheers ) , and that they would not give to Turkey all the sup port in their p ower in resisting the demands which had been made upon her ? ( Cheers . ) He , for one , could not believe that the government of this country would shrink from giving most energetic and efficient support to the Sultan in ibis matter . Ho ( Lord J > . % uaH ) \ Q . lievcd tuerc was but one feeling existing tlivouehont the country as to tho cruelties nndinfiumanitics of the Austrian butchers , the outrageous demands of Russia , nnd . hcr attempt , under pretence of So demand ? , to TioJate , aud probably if possible , tn destroy the integrity of the TuSis IS ' If they looked at the public press tl . ou ,.. i e that those prints which U bee ^ toV wl In Hungary , even the Tory iourn-ils Wit , , ° , and Joined with the liberalZss in l ! ni' ^ T conduct of tho despotic SovSns W ^?« *' i
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single refugee escaped from Widden ; but when he found that the government of this country , supported by the people , were determined , if need bo , to resist his force by force —( cheers)—they might depend upon it , he would think twice ; he 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 be saved ; the independence of Turkey would be maintained ; and the honour of England would be preserved . ( Loud cheers . ) The res -lution was then unanimously agreed to .
Mr . C . Gilpin moved the second resolution : — " That , in the opinion of this meeting , loans for war purposes and for the maintenance of standing armaments are unsound in principle and injurious to the interests of nations . " He said that he could not altogether agree in execrating the conduct of those refugees at Widdin who hadlieen inclined to forsake Christianity for the turban , if they hadtaken their standard of Christianity from the crowned Autocrat of Russia , and their opinions of tho religion of Mahomet from tho 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 principle and injurious to the true interests of nations . He knew that he was treading on delicate " round . He T > as aware of the shout of scorn with
which the proposition would be received by the writers 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 what < ever , —that , in short , the difference of one-eight per cent , would , in the minds of the capitalists of Europe , outweigh all considerations of personal or national honour . He hoped the capitalists of
Europo were duly sensible of the compliment paid them by Tltt Times . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Irtho 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 lont 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 . Burnei 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 . Scoblb seconded the resolution , and expressed his strong objection to war loans in general , and his detestation or the objects to which the loan now solicited by Austria would be applied . Mr . Cobden again rose , and was received witli great applause . He said , that one of the 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 it at some time or other . It was not only natural to human beings , but to tho lower animals , and he would undertake to find a game-cock or a bull-doer superior in nhvsical
courage 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 pi-Gsiding , because they could say that they had present a Lombard-street man , and one holding a xuiinah
wigu . nijuu tiuo uaucu uie iuuiiey-iUtUtt . ( 2 t , in speaking generally , therefore , of Lombard-street , they must always allow that there were exceptions . They had been told of the 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 ever dare to send an autograph letter to our Queen , commanding Bern to be delivered up in order to be 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 had boon common to all despots who had claimed the power of ruling over 50 , 000 , 000 or 60 , 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 Kino-Nebuchadnezzar , when ho addressed all peop le ^ nations , and languages , than there was in the proclamations put forth by the eccentric Czar , since his army returned from Hungary . ( Cheers and
laughter . ) He ( Mr . Cobden ) regretted that 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 the Emperor of Russia had a divine mission to regulate the affairs of the world . ( A laugh . ) Now , who was responsible for alL this ? The man was incapable of appreciating anything but a physical force argument , and bo ( Mr . Cobileu ) did not think ho was departing from his peace principles in resorting to a mode of admonition which tho 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 cave , he
might run his head against something harder even than his own skull . ( Cheers and laughter . ) He ( Mr . Cobden ) therefore said , that , if the Fmpcror of Russia attacked us , \ v < 5 might hermetically seal the ports of Russia , and there would bo an end of the matter . ( Cheers . ) There could be no fiMithi" - between England and Russia . If the question were put to a jury of twelve competent men , beloncinn-to any maritime power , who were perfectly indifferent to tho quarrel , they would at once say that as England and Russia could not come into collision by lund , the only question was , what naval force would be required by England to blockade Petersburg Archangel , Odessa , and Riga for six months of thn
year , and that the frost would keep up the blockade for the other six months . ( Cheers and a laugh . ) Tho people who were responsible for what ° va ' s politely , called tlio eccentricity of the Czar vreve those who flattered his vanity by talkinw . of his colossal powev . ( Hoar , hear " ) Now , Ins ( Mr Cobdeu ' s ) peace friends must not quarrel with him on this subject , for ho had explained that he was applying his arguments to those who could understand no otlicr . Though the Emperor of Russia might not understand them , his ministers could , and no one would appreciate them better than Count Nessolrodo . . lie ( Mr . Cobden ) would tell them what would be the result of a six weeks' blockade of the Russian ports by England . If those ports were hevmotieaily sealed , they would find that , before tbn mirl
ot live or six weeks , tho 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 he sought these sorts of arguments . He had gone to P ; ms 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 Uie pugnacity of John Bull that they could tell the Lmperor that , if he attacked England , tho consequences he had mentioned would not ensue Now looking at the matter in this light , and beViovinit that the Emperor ' s ministers were not so eccentric
as the Czar himself , he ( Mr , Cobden ) laughed at the idea of Russia going to war with England , but he laughed still more at the idea of Russia roin « r to war . with . England and Prance . ( Cheers . ) If he ( Mr . Cobden ) were told that ho ran the risk of pvovoking these brutal tyrants to come hove 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 there was no reason tor alarm oi ' dismay . They would have no war with Russia for the reason he had mentioned ;—the Emperor could not show himself at the bend of his Cossacks in this country . The worst that could'come would in his opinion , be a blockade , which could be maintained country in time of
peace . ( Hear , heavA ue sin corcly hoped that before another fortnVh t had passed * icy-mightsee Kossuth and hi 3 brave compamons in England . ( Loud cheers . ) IfeiawSt Haynau had been decorated with stars and Ends til las very humane bv-oast was completely covere be n 'SErf ' iW ^ SSe 3 a " " tod been plentifull y showered from St . Petersburoh upon other butchers . ( Cuesrs . ) - ¦ Well , Xn S su h and his fellow-patriots arrived in hS couZr would be soon whether Englishmen who symnat used wth human progress a ° nd freedom , coi Hot decorate , hem , in the lTour of their misfc rtuno wlfh that which must bo most honourable andSifviS to tl . cm-the . tribute of the admiration .. ™ , \ 70 E of an in dependent people . ( Loud cheerin " ) P lira resolution - was then carried by acoKuntion sijss ^^ ^^«« sfa
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT ^ PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF 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 , accompamedI by Mr . William Ley , the Second Clerk at fcne table of the House of Commonswith one mem-,
ber ( Mr . A . Raphael ) , and several officials of the lower house , appeared at the bar , when the royal commission having been read , The Lord Chancellor , in the namo of her Ms . esty , and on her behalf , declared the present parWntfurtber prorogued irom that day until Thursday , tho 20 th proximo . The Commons-represented as before stated —then retired , and tho 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 the reading of the commission by Mr . J . S . Lefevre , the deputy clerk of the parliament , in the absence of the second clerk at the table , as also tho third or reading clerk .
No other peer was present , except the Lords Commissioners . Sinco tho session closed the remaining stained glass windows have been completed ; and Mr . Dyce at one end of the house , and Mr . Maclaise * t the other , are fast proceeding with their frescoes .
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A Method of Wall-painiino has been invented at Berlin , by a M . Fuchs , which promises to supersede the difficult al fresco process . It is also stated to be much more durable , and more a dapted to the changesofaNorthernclimate than the Italian mothod . An experiment was made a year ago to test tho power of the colours to resist a very destructive agent , the result of which has been just ascertained . Last September , a portrait on atone was painted according to the new process by Kaulbach , and given for trial to the Director of the Royal 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 painting beneath is uninjured , and the colours clear and bright .
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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 Mall , 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 the premises , and the bell was rung by the cabman . It was answered bv 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 ca \ ne to the front door . On seeing him , the 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 nock . 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 Aeton . 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 ear , and was found in the nape of the neck . The prisoner was captured the same night , at the Bell public house , Ealing , from which bo was removed to the head 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 night the wounded gentleman was still living The following particulars , may be relied upon as correct . The grandfather of Mr . Monkhouse , sen ., realised a very largo 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 , Mlmg , elder brother of the accused . The family for some time past appear to have lived very unhappily Iheaceused , who is the second sou , was sent to sea as midshipman at an early age , but through misconduct , as it is alleged , forfeited his father ' s Mod
opinion , and tor the last six or seven years has been engaged as a common seaman in the merchant service . He had only landed at Li verpool from his last voyage on the 20 th ult ., and on Tuesday last he Z \ u omi to C 1 . liswick * o see his friends . Mr Monkhouse , son ., 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 homo to Chiswick an abandoned woman , and introducing febK ^ rT ly ; 1 y ° m ™> Stated by his lathers conduct , left ma passion , and was not again heard of until Thursday morning , when he breakfasted witb his grandmother , a respectable lady named Piper , residing at Shopherd ' s-bush . nti ¦
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mm * m THE BERMONDSEY MURDER . The proceedings in the case of the Mannings were resumed on Friday , at the Southw . uk Polico-court Nothing new . was elicited , and both tho prisoners were finally committed .
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The Hybrid Maize Crop in 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 tormed , full , and ripe ; the cobbs , we can fairly say , having seen specimens of both , are 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 , m the first instance , were entertained m some quarters , that the soil and climate of this country were not capable of the product , ine particular situation was in no wav Asnonfoiw
favourable to the growth on tha contrary , almost as it were , in the heart of tho metropolis , and immediately surrounded by trees and shrubs , the ground was not at all enriched b y manure at the time of tillmg . Tlie amount of crop appears to bo at tho rate of 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 quality of manure . Some Indian corn and Barbadoes corn had been sown alongside Mr . Keene ' s maize , at the same time , and under exactly the same eirouS stances and conditions , but neither has rinent ., 1 ™ inacea
, seem ikely to come to maturity . They still remain standing . The result of this harvest fsn our opinion , of very general and very * v&A interest ± l 5 fr ? fact that thc l « i ? 5 iSf ffi Sw ?^ W $ r ? not me ^ ytho chief but STS t p °° ? f the fino I ) easantl T on cifcher Bide of the Pyrenees is producible even in England , at a halfpenny the pound . . Scalded to death . —A terrible accident occurred in the neighbouring village ' of Marrow on Tuesday night week . A man mmed Joseph Ingram , a bucther , was employed by his mother-in-law , Mrs . Wv JT ' aby ' t'w ^ Iady of the six Bells , to brew for her , ami whtlo in tin . ,. nf n f . * ..: „_
the contents of the copper into the cooler , he overbalanced himself and foil into the boiling Honor iip to his waut . Mrs . Barnaby , who was in the browhouse at the time , caught hold of him , and bavin * screamed for assistance , which was promptly renoralbyher daughter , the unfortunate man was dragged out . He immediatly said hehad only " few hours to live , and commenced utterin- "JnS pious ejaculations . Strange to say , hewSnabled nth assistance to walk home , a distance of about two hundred yards . Mr . Jackson , surgeon was sent for , but thc case was altogetherTiopelosstho poor man survived only till one o clock in he morning , the accident haying occurred at eight on On ^ f J - T Illg - . IIe was sensi ^ e to the hst On tlefollouingda y an inquest was held . Verdict -. « Accidental death . " Deceased was thirty five SSn > and haS left a Widw « S fiveyig \
# » SSSSss of this gentleman , the following lucrat ye annoTn ments become vacant about the ° eourt " -Ker o " her Majesty ' s privy purse ( salary £ 2 000 ner n ? num ); treasurer of the household , atd seeretarv to iilpasl sjgVsssttssBa town medl . CaUld t 0 be Mediately summoned from
Mobal Effects of the Pise Art ' s —There is no Ef ? n ° f fi 1111 ? 018 t 0 1 ( n ? ^ " ^ W tl ) an tlle < Sn , ° the , ultit ' uI- All tho higher arts of S « essentiall y . chaste , without respect to the object , iliey purity the thoughts as tragedy nuriics the passions . Their accidental effects are not rSai ^ Sffi !! ii 5 r souIs to whom cTen llArm-Ess -That state of lifo is most happy
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CORN . Mabimane , October 8 . —The showofwheat samples from Kent was large this morning , but small from Essex , wit ) , foreign wheat we have been well supplied during the past week , chiefly from the Black Sea and Mediterranean ports The English wheat was taken off by the millers at full y last Monday ' s prices , and fine foreign met with a better sale at the same rates . Flour quite as dear . Fine new inultiiibarley more inquired after ; grinding mid distillin qualities sold pretty readily , at fully last Monday's quotations 8 eansandpens without alteration . We had a good smmW of foreign oats , and about 4 , 000 quarters from Irehnd good fresh qualities went off pretty freely , unaltered in value . Rye quite as dear . Linseed cakes dull . Canwjv seed sold at previous rates . '
Britisii . —Wheat .-Essex , Suffolk , and Kent , red , new Us t . i 42 s , ditto white , 37 s to 48 s , Lincoln , Norfolk , and York , shire , red , 33 s to 37 s , Northumberland and Scotch , white aOs to 3 Gs , ditto red , 32 s to 35 s , Devonshire aud Somerset ! lure , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to —s , rye , ils to 26 s barley , 24 s to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 25 s , Angus-s to -s-Maltonfcnajy , -s to -s , pah , Sis to SSs , peas , grey , new , 2 fis to 28 s , maple 28 s to 30 s , white , 24 s to a « s , biffcrs ( uewfr i « J ° % T l ' n la ^ ' ' to 25 s » ticks 24 s to 27 s . harrow , 27 s to-SOs , pigeon , 30 S to 32 s , oats , Lincoln ana Yorkshire , feed , 15 s to 20 s , ditto Poland and potato , lis to 22 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 24 s , Scotch feed , 17 a 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 , 26 s to 30 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 4 10 s per ton , linseed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 2801 bs , ship , 28 s to 80 s , town , 38 s to 40 s .
Foreign . —Wheat , — Dantzig , 40 s to 48 s , Anlialt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditt « white , 38 s to 44 s , Pomeranian red 36 s to 41 s , Rostock 38 s to 44 s , Danish , Uolstein , and Friesland , 30 sto 35 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and Hi » a 32 s to 34 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s to 30 s , Marianopoli , and Berl dianski , 30 s to 84 s , Taganrog , 30 s to 33 s , Brabant and French , 34 s to 38 s , ditto white , 30 s to 42 s , Salonica , 30 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 26 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , liarlev , Wismar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 20 s U > 24 s , East Friesland , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , Ms to 15 s , Danube , Ms to 15 s , peas , white , 25 s to 27 s , new boilers , 2 Ss to 30 s , beans , horse , 2 is to 30 s , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , Egyptian , 22 s to 24 s , oats , Groniiigen , Danish , Bremen , and Friesland , feed and black , 11 s to 16 s , ditto , thick and brew 15 s to 22 s , ltiga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , 14 s to 16 s , flour , United States , per l !) 61 bs ., 21 s to 23 s , H&m . burg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 2801 bs ., 32 » to 35 s . P
Wednesday , October 10 . —With the 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 quarter * foreign , 3 , 260 quarters . Barley—English , S 40 quarters - foreign , 800 quarters . Oats — English , 3 , 920 quarters ' Irish , 3 , 170 quarters ; foreign , 17 , 670 quarter . Flour—l . Qlo sacks .
BREAD . Tho prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Cid . to 7 d . , of household ditto . 5 d . to 6 d . per libs . loaf .
CATTLE . . SsiiTHFiEtD , Oct . 8 . —With foreign beasts and sheep we were well supplied but the number of calves iroui abroad was moderate . The arrivals of home-fed beasts fresh to this morning ' s market were again seasonably large , but at least three-fourths of them were of very middling nualitv , The weather being very favourable for slaughtering , and the » ttendance of both towu and country bujevs good , the primest Scots , home breds , &c , moved off steadily at fully Friday's advance in the quotations , the top figure ' for bce ' f being 3 s lOd per 8 ft > s . In all other breeds a moderate business was transacted at last week ' s prices . There was
a further slight falling off in the suppl y of sheep-vet it proved extensive , the time of year considered . Formost breeds—especially thc primest Downs , which were very scarce—the demand was steady , though not to sav brisk , at 2 d per 811 > s . above the currencies paid on this day se ' nnight . The highest price for mutton wat from 4 s to 4 s 2 d pcr 8 tt > s . 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 4 d per 8 ! bt . higher than on Monday last , and at which a good clearance was effected , We were but moderately supplied with pigs , which were mostly held at v « ry full prices .
Head op Cattie at Smithfieid . —Friday . —Beasts , S 00 sheep , 7 , 200 ; calves , 2 iO ; piss , 310 . Mondav .-BcaBts , ' 4 , 621 ; sheep , 27 , 740 ; calves , 234 ; pigs , ISO . ' Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the offal ) . —Beef , 2 s lOd te 33 lOd ; mutton , 3 s 2 d to 4 s 2 d ; veal , Ss 2 J to 3 s lOd pork , 3 s 2 dto 4 s 2 d . Ivewgatb and lbadenham ,, Monday , Oct . 8 Inferior beef , 2 s 4 d to 2 s 6 d ; middling ditto , 2 s * 8 d to 2 s lOd ; prime large , Ss . Od to 3 s 2 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s fid lor » e pnrk , 3 s 4 d to 3 s 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s lOd te 3 s - > 3 middling ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Cd ; prime ditto , 3 s 8 d to 3 s 1 Od ' veal , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 8 d ; small pork , 3 s lOd to 4 s 4 d uer Slbs . by the carcase . ;
PROVISIONS . Lootos , 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 5 G 0 bales and boxes bacon , We experienced a ready sale for Irish liutter dur ing the past week ami a fair amount of business was done at about the rates of this day se'niiiiinht : the finost sorts being most in demand , foreign , in the early part o ( the week , declined to S 2 s , aud towards the close advanced to 88 s , for the best . In thc bacon market there has been quite a panic , and last wuek ' s prices were vaiWly forced down 8 s to 10 s per cwt ., and the market closed nii ' ict at 50 s to 54 s . English Butter Market , October 8 . —We have rather more inquiry fov new made butter , and fine weekl y Dorset mny be qustcd at 2 s per cwt . better in price , but upon thc general articic we ara without tho least improvement . Dorset , fine weekly , DOs to U 2 s , per cwt , ; ditto stale and middling , OGs to 7 Cs ; Devon ; new made , SOa to Sis ; fresh , 9 s to 11 s nor dozen .
POTATOES . Southwabk Waterside , October 8 . —We are still with very few arrivals from Yorkshire or the Continent ; bin they are at present quite equal to the demand . The following are this day's prices : —Yoaksliire Regents , 70 s to SO ?; Scotch , do ; , 65 s to 70 s ; foreign , 55 s to Cas .
C 0 L 05 IAL PRODUCE . Lon-dos , October 0 . —Sugau , —Thh article has to-uA . v scarcely supported the prices paid last week , vet a fa ' : r amount of business has been done , and there is some indication of the trade and the refiners being desirous to cmr . e into stock at the present low prices . -500 hngfliewl ? of West India have been sold in tho private contract market ; 2 , 500 bags Mauritius , !) , 090 bags Bun « al nml i . iiOi ) bass Madras , found buyers iu the public sales , but a ileeline of Cd upon low qualities was submitted tu ; ' -VW 0 boxes of strongyellow Ilavanuah ( foreign ) was sold bv private contract to a refiner at 39 s 6 il to 40 s duty paid . ' The refined market tolerably steady at last week ' s prices ; grocerslumps , 47 s 6 d to 49 s Gd . Molasses . —St . Vincent ' s , Trinidad , and Demerava , have been sold at 13 s Gd . Coffee . —The public sales of 700 batjs Plantation , Uylon , anil 390 fou ; 3 Costa Itica , went o : V ' without spirit , the iovmev at about previous rates , thc latter at a decline of lully Is . Tea . —The market has become dull .
HOPS . Bonovon , Monday , October S . —A fiiir amount of business has been done in the finest descriptions of Mid : t : ic ! East Kent hops , and prices for such are rcither improved . In other sorts few transactions have occurred , and derates of this day week are barely supported -Ai w Pockets 120 s to Mlis ; Weald of Kent 130 s lo 150 s MW&V .-J JKast Kent 145 s to 230 s .
hay . Pmithfield , October 0 . — , Vt per load of thivtv-six truss : ? . —Meadow , old , 43 s to 72 s ; clover , old , COs to " 'jr > s ; . « U « w , 2 Gs to 02 s . . TALLOW , HIDES , AXD OILS . London-, October S . —Tallow . —At lenjrth someihin" 1 : !« an improvement has taken place in our market . Notwithstanding the delivery last week was only 2 . 1 K casks , yvkes to-ilny are from ? . d to Oil per owt higlier than on Monday last . I' . Y . C . on thc spot is selling atSiisi'ii to 37 s , and for delivery up to Christmas ;!( is fid . From January to March , tho quotation is 37 . s od pw cwt . Tom : per 81 b- Odto 37 s l ) er mt - net cash ; rough fat , 'Js 14 Leadesiuu .. —Market hides , SGlb . to Gifij ., I'd to » d jct i f !» *} ' ^ - t 0 7 - " t 0 W > ditto , ' ¦ & tos 4 r . ? ih ° ft i * £ & - t 0 8 s 5 i& » sidtoJM ; ditto , S * U > . to in ? * f Ho l A ditt 0 > mh - t 0 " M ) t > " Mt 0 Si * : lUlI ° ' 10 Mb . to 112 lb ., 3 J to 4 d ; Calf-skins , each , 2 s to U ; Lamb skms , Is bd to 2 s Ud ;; Horse hides , 7 s lid ; Shearlhisjs , Is Sd
« Th «\ ' Cwt >> 2 , Otl t 0 2 Us : rapesec . 1 , Enslish i ° » \ uf = d t ? rV , ° - 38 s WjGMUpolI , per ton . ° h \ , Sl ) iU 1 £ \ ' Ul ' ' » . -: l'a-KvJ » l ''! South feca 821 . io « to 331 . ; Seal , pale , 3 < H . ; do . " culouwJ , SSI ; Cod , 291 ; cocoa nut . per ton , 3 SJ . to 401 . ; palm , 3 Ut .
WOOL . Cm- , Monday , October 8 . — The qwvntity of wool imported into London last week was about ; i , 700 bales , which l , ( fc » y were from Algoa Bay , Cape of Good Hone , SM from Odessa , 633 from Tort Philip , 437 from Germany , 107 from Lisbon , and the rest from Petersburg . The market for wool has not been animated , and at the public sales the quotations rule somewhat heavy . Liverpool , October G . —Scotch . — Then ; is ratlior more doing In Laid Highland at our late rates . White is less sought after . For good Crossed aud Chevoit there is a fandemand ; the heavy , smeared , and inferior kinds are iu less request . 1 ' oueusx . — The public sales pvogvess in London with evidently a little better feeling towards the close . There arc to be ottered by auction here , on the 17 th inst ., about 1 , 'JOU bales flue middle quality Huonos Ayrcs , and about ] , !??« East India , Oporto , Turkey , &c , Arc .
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m thc parish ; of St . Anne . Westminster , at the rniu . ' ;; - . office , 1 G , Great Windmill-street , Upmarket , in the Uty of Westminster , forthePropiietur , FEAUGH 3 O'COi i . Oi .. Esq . M . P ., and psUislied by the tnjd IViiliam Kibek ^ r . t the Office , in the sum ; street und parish . —Satur » sj October 13 th , 18 « , »—
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DEATH . On the Gth instant , of consumption , Eliza Clark , asfti > 43 , the wife of Charles John Clark , secretary of the Bristol branch of the National Land Company , after a lingering illness of two jours , which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation , leaving three children to deplore her loss . She was an affectionate mother and friend ; ana was beloved and respected by nil who knew her .
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^— i ^ - ,, -.. __ THE NORTHffRN ' STAS 7 . '•' . " , "¦ " . ¦ October 13 , 1849 .
Printed By William Tflldeu. Of No. 5, Maeeksfield-Strstt,
Printed by WILLIAM TfllDEU . of No . 5 , Maeeksfield-strstt ,
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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/vm2-ncseproduct1543/page/8/
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