The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

MR. INGHAM, M.P., AND THE NORTH " _COUNT.RY SHIPO WNERS. A large meeting of South Shields shipowners was held in the town-hall of that town on Thurs day night, the Mayor (Mr. John Williamson) pre siding,' which was addressed by Mr. T. Wawn, the chairman of the Shipowners' Society, Mr. Alder man Robinson, Mr. James Mather, and other gen tlemen. Resolutions were agreed to, expressive of the depressed state of the shipping, and with a view to co-operate with other ports, and for the removal of grievances complained of; Mr. Ingham, M.P., after the resolutions were adopted, addressed the meeting. M. INGHAM said he understood it was the wish that he should express some opinion as to what he had heard that evening. It might Seem rather paradoxical, considering what really had been the melancholy . cause of their meeting together—viz., the sense universally and justly entertained through out the town of the sufferings' of its most important interest—to say he had pl easure i n b e i ng there ; but really such was the case, because he must say he had heard the statements of the difficulties and sufferings under which they were now labouring expressed with somuch judgment and so much tem per that Se could not but-anticipate some beneficial effect from it. It would be a great departure from his duty if he were to pretend from his own know ledge—which could only be come at by hearsay — of what the condition of the shipowner at present was, to utter anything that might appear to express any opinion contrary to that which had been de tailed bythe gentlemen who were not only witnesses but who were themselves Sufferers ; and although his own disposition was certainly on all occasions to take perhaps rather a sanguine and hopeful view, yet in the present instance he would not allude to what he considered to be encouraging circumstances, which he thought he could see dawning upon them, because if he were to do so it might seem that he was really insensible• to the actual pressure under which he knew they were all labouring. He could not but say that although many matters of a prac tical character had been brought before the meeting, yet still that which had taken the most prominent part of the attention of the meeting was the question as to whether or not some measure should not be presqed upon Government, or rather, he thought, as some of his friends had said, demanded of them, for the purpose of enforcing on other countries the ships of which we admit freely to share in our commerce, the practice of absolute reciprocity. Now, so far as by any force of example or diplomacy this could be effected, it was the duty, of Government to do it ; but very great strength would be given to any go verninent by the united testimony they would get from-the shipowners of England that such a mea sure was due - in justice to them as well as to their interests. The only matter in which a difference of opinion might arise—and he stated it at the outset as the fairest way, that they might not be led into mistake as to what his sentiments were, was this, that so far as he could be urged by anything short of a promise on our part to recur to the system of exclu sion, he should go as heartily as any man. in enforcing that policy on the Government in the way in which they would be justified in carrying it out. His own conviction had always been that no persons suf fered so much by those restrictive systems as those who put them in practice, and he did believe that with our prosperous example, whatever we might be suffering now, this country was one which had benefited largely by being the champion of free trade, as all the civilised world must admit ; and he considered that the example of this country, and the great authority - given by this country to the voice of the people at large, would compel those- Governments that had hitherto held aloof to follow, before any great lapse of years, our most noble and judicious example. (Applause.) There was before him an excellent pamphlet, drawn up by Mr. Greenhow, and he referred to it not for the purpose of captiously commenting on what he had said, for he thought - it was done most ably, but only to - point out evidence incontrovertible as to what the benefits of free trade had been. From the beginning of 1846 to the present time Mr. Greenhow said there had been a prodigious in crease of foreign shipping; but what had been the increase of British tonnage, taking the entries and clearances, which together represent all the mer cantile transactions of the year ? Mr. Greenhow gave, from 1856 to the close of 1857, the increase of British tonnage as 57 per cent. The increase of the total entries and clearances in that period was 86 per cent., or, to give the figures, it was 129 mil lions of tons to 239 millions, so that the 'general commerce of the country had very nearly doubled during that period. Concurrently—he did not say whether it was cause or effect—with the great in crease in foreign - tonnage they found there had been a general increase of the commerce of the country, which had nearly doubled. Who could say this was not a g reat Messing to the public ? Who could - say they had not all of them reaped the benefit. In fact, they knew it was the ease. He knew. the local and severe pressure so gloriously borne, but that was not the case some months ago, and he 7trasted it would not be the case some months hence ; but any one who could go back to the state of the country 12 years ago must see, in the better houses they lived in and the better clothes they wore, the wonderful increase in every thing that constitutes the material happiness of a people from the alteration of this system. It was not enough to say that because the same number of ship 3 had multiplied the voyages, and because ships had been run shortly to get small profits, shipping as a branch of honourable and industrial employ ment had diminished ; because they found from evi dence-which could not be contradicted, that in that period there had been a gradual increase of regis tered tonnage. They had not merely done more work, but they possessed more ships ; and so far from the argument causing any panic that by our mode of carrying on the • trade we were lessening the number of sailors and defrauding people en gaged, in shipping of employment, and should want men to man our navy in time of need, the contrary was proved by the figures. Mr. AIATHER—It is contrary to the tonnage, but not contrary to the number of men. Mr. INGHAM—He knew how correct his excel lent friend was -in everything, but look to the re port. - British tonnage, registered up to the close of 1855, was 5,250,553 ; in 1856 it was 5,312,000 ; at the close of the last year it was 5,519,000: Now, his friend said that might be correct as to the ton nage but not as to the men ; but see what was given in the financial report. In 1858 the men and boys were 261,194 ; in 1856, 267,573 ; and, at the end of last year, 284,164. Of course they were at the mercy of these returns. They might be correct or incorrect, and if his friend, Mr. Mather, had run them through he would withdraw his remarks ; but from that return there could not be a diminu tion ; there was an absolute increase. He did not quote this to show it would be unnecessary to do something to make a stand against our enemies. If ever the time for struggle should arise, he had no doubt what the result of the struggle would be. He. was quite aware that whatever little differences we might have now, we would have a united heart and hand to protect everything essential for the liber ties of the country. He stated freely that he thought those persons were acting unjustly to their pledged word to us, but still most injuriously to their own country in refusing to practise that reciprocity of which we have given an 'illustrious example. He would do everything he could to strengthen our Government' when they were endeavouring to procure those terms of reciprocity from foreign countries. When in consultation with his friends, he might see reason to qualify his present opinion, but he-should not do anything to produce difference in the "tamp if he could help it, but he honestly said the benefits of free trade had been so great to this country that he could not see how the present Go. vernment would be justified in saying to foreign countries that we should go into a system of pro tection; u n l ess th ose f ore i gn coun t r i es wou ld agree in a system of reciprocity. Having plainly stated this, let him go back to a:far more cheerful thing ; he pledgedimself to co-operate most heartily in the great mass of the observations he had heard that day , and f s or which he felt so grateful. There never was a more vigilant representative of the shipping interest than his friend Mr. Wawn ; but when the bill was brought in he said he did not ob ject to it, because he found the principles of free trade were not to be contravened but he wished, as he said, to get in the sharp e nd of the . wedge, to many of those produce freedom from very monopo lies and local arrangements under which . suffering greatly. His friend also alluded to from Londone cre t t o o the case of a foreigner coming , not 13 • pilot e a i g ng the north. after having delivered. and then considered entitled to the privilege of being obliged to take a pilot. If the person in ec g , wand of the ship was personally habit ua t e d to the coast, then al e doubt it would be quite monstrous to have cons cued him to take a pilot, when most likely , the [pilot himself had received instruction from him. Then, as to the matter of lights : his friend Mr. Lindsay had bestowed great attention on this question, and mainly ,- at his instance it was brought forward by Lord Clarence Paget, the result being a commission, the issue of which he could not anticipate, but no doubt the object was to throw the wholv duty of maintaining the lights of the coast upon the country at large, which seemed to be a mat reasonable act. The Government ought to light its own coasts; what a monstrous thing it would be ifany person put a light infront of his gin -palace, to make a person walk up the street pay for it. Any person who wished to attract customers and make them come with safety to where they had to deal, should be at the expense of lighting. The Government were attracting customers all round the coast, and ought o put it into such a position that foreigners .could ; come with safety. This was the practice with Bel gium and_the United States, and it would be_a, shame if we did not follow the example. Then, as to passing tolls. The objection to their abolition was taken that it would interfere with some private rights, and could only be done by giving notice, as in the case of a private Act of Parliament. As they were told this last year and the year before, he hoped that Parliament had found it their duty to give the necessary notice. Then the Trinity House of Newcastle had no right to accumulate funds at all ; all they had to do was to get that which was requisite to maintain the lights ; the pilots—a body of men he could never speak of without admiration —ought to have charge of them. There was some value in an old name, and he believed the people intended to act in the Corporation of the Trinity House were practically interested in the navigation of the river. The usurpation of the Trinity House otNeweastle was perfectly indefensible ; and he did not know why Sunderland should be called a creek of Newcastle. Sunderland was a great thriving town, and really an example of maritime en t e rprise to all towns, and ought not to be obliged to be governed iinder the license of some people in Newcastle, who did not possess one-fifth part of their shipping. This was as abuse which was un endurable, and though it did not concern the m it must no doubt be rectified. With respect to stamps and insurances, every tax on insurance was a tax on industry and providence, and the tax on the in surance of property was generally this, a tax which might be reduced. Then, as to the shipowners' lia bility in respect to passengers, he would be glad again to take the same course he took with his friend Mr. Alderman Robinson. He trusted that the long time he had had the pleasure of having experience of them, and the frankness of the communications with which tho shipowners had at all times favoured him; would not leave - him under any doubt as to what he should gladly do to the best of his power whenever they gave him instructions, or whenever, by his residence in Lon don, he could see anything which it might be for their interest to prosecute. The only qualification which it was necessary to give to that declaration was in the statement of what in his opinion was the grand result of those measures of free trade to which he had alluded ; but he trusted that, without being called upon to do anything which might trench upon that, they would be able next time they met not only to say there had been a natural revival of commerce, and that they were receiving something like remuneration for the enterprise and capital engaged in the trade, but that some of those grievances which really affected them, more from a sense of injustice than the actual pressure of the payment, had been entirely abolished. (Applause.) REFORM MEETING IN FINSBURY. Last night a large public meeting was held in Cowper-street, City-road, convened at the instance of the Political Reform League, whose charter, as sketched by themselves, contains four points— namely, registered manhood suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial Parliaments,.and a more equal ar rangement of electoral districts. There might be between 400 and 500 people, chiefly working men, present, and that at least three-fourths of them were non-electors was proved by a show of hands called for in the course of the evening with the view to test the relative members present of the franchised and the unenfranchised. Several women were among the audience. The meeting was sup posed to be of the inhabitants of the Tower Ham lets, but we believe the place in which it was held is locally situated within the borough of Finsbury. Mr. lows, a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, acted as chairman ; Mr. Digby Seymour, the Recorder of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and - Mr. E. Jones, were among the principal speakers, and the proceedings lasted from 8 o'clock until after 11. Mr. NEWCROFT, a working man, moved the first resolution, in which it was contended that the time had come when the franchise should be extended so as to include every man of the age of 21 years, of sound mind and not undergoing punishment for crime, and that it would be highly unjust to the great body of the unenfranchised to introduce into Parliament a Reform Bill in which the constitu- tional right of a man to the suffrage should not be fully recognised, while no increase of the suffrage would be satisfactory unless accompanied by the ballot. He complained that, in this age of steam, railways, and electric telegraphs the working classes madd no corresponding progress ; and the reason he assigned was that the whole of the political power of the country was in the hands of one class, who had used it for their own special advantage and to the detriment of those beneath them in the social scale. Everything, he added, im proved in this country except the people, and. they were constantly deteriorating. There was a deal of maudlin feeling aboutjuvenile crime nowadays, but he contended that it was poverty which made juve nile criminals, and that poverty was the result of oppressive taxation, brought about by class legisla tion. If all men had equal political rights the laws would be made for thebonefit of the whole commu nity instead of for the few. The result would be not to pull down the rich, but to lift up the poor. The iv volution was seconded by Mr. BRADLAUGH, a very young man, in a speech which was frequently cheered, and in which he inveighed against class legislation and contended for manhood suffrage and the ballot. Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUIt then addressed the meet ing. He had always felt, he said, that there was something noble in the longsuffering endurance of the unrepresented and unenfranchised people of this country ; and he hoped the same nobility of soul which had enabled that part of his countrymen to bear their wrongs with calm submission, andocca- sionally with indignant remonstrance, would cha racterise them still. The leading journal the other day asked, " What did they want with a Reform Bill ? Would it lessen, for instance, the expenditure on foreign wars, or cause the country to build fewer harbours of refuge ?" The Times would have the country believe it would not ; but he would ask the writer in the Times who paid the great bulk of the taxes in the country—did not the incidence of taxation fall mostly on the great body of the la bouring classes, and did not he think that if the toiling millions were allowed a little more voice in the legislation of the country their power would be felt in reforming so anomalous a state of things ? Whose blood was it that was shed at the Alma and Inkerman, and beneath the walls of Sebastopol ? Who manned our ships of war but the brothers and sons of those who had as yet been denied the right of voting ? (Cheers.) He believed that when the limes, or any - other paper, pointed to the apathy alleged to exist in the country in reference to reform, it mistook for apathy what was really a feeling of universal consent, and that it would be difficult to find a :man throughout the whole of England who was not desirous of seeing some re form or other brought about in our existing repre sentative system. He held that it was to patrician and aristocratic influence and to the growth of Whig families that the country was indebted for the present state of the electoral laws. Mr. Sey mour then proceeded to unfold a scheme of Parlia mentary Reform of his own, in which—leaving the county representation to be dealt with. by Mr. L. King---he laid down as a cardinal point, that no borough ought to send a member to Parliament that had less than 7,000 inhabitants. The result of that, he said, would be to disfranchise 42 boroughs, beginning with Abingdon and ending with Wells.. ' , (A laugh,) As a previous speaker had cracked a joke at the expanse of Sir W. Hayter, the present member for Wells, he (Mr. Seymour) must treat them to a parody he had made on the song of " Kate Kearney" Oh, have you not heard of Will Hayter, Of new members the clever creator ? Of the stroke of his pen Have a care, honest men, There's a charm in the quill of Will Hayter. (A laugh.) From his smile so bewitchingly beaming You'd ne'er think of mischief he's dreaming; But oh, who can tell How potent the spell Of a telegraphic message from Hayter ? We may call ourselves Radical freemen, But what cares he for you or for me, men ; If you can send back, A good Treasury hack, That is all that concerns Will Hayter. _ - (Laughter.) He described his plan of Reform morein detail, the general result of which was to allot 333 members in the whole to the boroughs, as against 158, the present number of county representatives, and nine new county members, making the total num ber of representatives to the House of Commons 500; and he contended that if they could get 333 members in the way he had proposed they might defy the whole power of the aristocracy. He would have a residential qualification of not less than 12 ability months' duration, and associated with registration ; but excluding persons subject to any legal dis csogireot convicted oar disapprobation.) could not read or write. (" Oh, oh!" an p al e s rs o o e n x:l v u h d o e all persons ) felo H nv e , w an ui d d within 12 months e preceding tle claim to vote had been convicted of aggravated assaults upon women or children, or o f concluded by c a lli ng on tnke th e es 3 or" ( ' Oh ; f i l l !") Vie classes to rally ro un d the standardw king and m iddl e Reform League ; telling them , that it was not for them to prove tiehier same ti me , for those who had dared to at of the Politi ca l l depri ve t h em rl g o h f tsbut those rights to defend the denial of them. (Cheers.) The motion, which was supported by Mr. Pass_ more Edwards and Mr. T Healy, was then p u t and carried without a dissentient. Mr. ERNEST JONES said it was with regret tha he differed from many o f the sentiments which Mr. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; NOVEMBER 10, - 1858. Seymour had propounded to the meeting. He (Mr.. ' Jones) was desirous of aiding in bringing about a cordial union between the middle and working classes, whom some politicians had characterised, erroneously as he thought, as natural enemies. Manhood suffrage was a measure which he (Mr. Jones) and those with whom he acted were resolved Ito carry. Mr. Seymour had said he would give a vote to every male adult who was the occupier of a house or part of a house in cities and boroughs having a certain population and upwards. But Mr. Seymour appeared to overlook the fact that his plan would go to withhold the right of voting from millions of the population in certain boroughs which he would disfranchise on the ground that their population in each case ;was less than 7,000. (" Hear, hear," and a voice " They would vote for the counties.") Again, Mr. Seymour held that no man should have a vote who could not read and write. He (Mr. Jones) would wish to see every man capable at the least of reading and writing ; but he was also in favour of every man having a vote, whether or not he could read and write. What was education ? It was not reading and writing, or a knowledge of Greek and Latin ; the true educa tion was to feel the right, and then to have the will to do it. He had seen many a man who could neither read nor write, and who, nevertheless, had more sense in his little finger, and more honesty in his great heart, than many a peer of the realm. It was curious to see men, after toying with rose water Reform Bills, falling back more or less on the principles of the people's charter. He exhorted the meeting, with all the solemnity and all the earnest ness in his power, never to permit themselves to swerve or vacillate in their demand for manhood suffrage—never to tolerate any extension of the franchise that did not give a vote to every man of 21 years of age, of sound mind, and not undergoing punishment for any crime. He contended, besides —and this was a new argument—that every man ought to have full power and control over his own vote. So long as that vote was based on an occu pation or a rating qualification, it was not the voter's own property, but that o f man to whom the house belonged. Excepting the two cases of freeholders and leaseholders, every man's vote un der such a system would be in the power of his landlord. With working men short tenancies were the order of the day ; they held houses at weekly or monthly rents, and many of them from their own employers ; and if the occupation of a house or the ' payment of rent was to qualify in such cases, the working man would be in the power of his land lord or his employer, and his vote would not be free. Therefore, he contended that nothing short of man hood suffrage, coupled with the ballot, would be satisfactory to the great body of the people. He submitted that the tendency . of Mr. Locke King's Bill would be still more to strengthen the hands of the aristocracy. A £lO house in a rural district was equal to a £6O house in London or a £3O house in a large manufacturing town ; and did any of them think that working men lived in £lO houses in the rural villages ? (" No," and a laugh.) No; it was the small shop keepers, who were more dependent on the squire or the parson than the .E5O tenants-at-will, and who would be coerced beyond control by the landed aristocracy. He would say, in conclusion, that he desired to see this Reform Bill, whenever it was propounded to Parliament, carried out without riot, bloodshed, or violence of any kind. He be lieved. that any popular movement which was sullied by riot or violence hardly ever came to a successful termination; and that any right of the people gained by physical force rarely gave satis faction. He trusted, at the same time, that the spirit of the people would be far different from what it had been. He believed that their submis sive disposition had been a contumely and a dis grace. Abject, mean, and slavish, they had en dured too far, and deferred too long the vindication of their rights. It had been their flunkeyism— (cheers)—their toadyism of the higher and middle classes—of broadcloth instead of corduroy and fus tian, which made those who trampled on them de spise them while they did so. He honoured the working men because they were the foundation of our national greatness ; and he would counsel them to be no longer patient and submissive, but in calm majestic energy to gather their concentrated force together, and make one grand effort for the achieve ment of their political emancipation. (Cheers.) Several other speakers addressed tire meeting, and the proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a special court, which was numerously attended, was held for the purpose of considering a report from the Corporation Inquiry Committee upon the subject of the projected measure of the Government for the better regulation of the cor poration. Mr. J. WooD, chairman of the committoe,brought up a report to the following effect The com mittee had had an interview with Mr. Walpole, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and had been informed by him that it was his intention, as a member of her Majesty's Government, to in troduce a bill into Parliament in the ensuing ses sion for the better regulation of the Corporation of London, foundtcl upon the bill as amended by the select committee of the House of Commons in the last session. The committee had duly considered the circumstances connected with this important question, arid recommended the Court to give them authority to confer from time to time with her Ma jesty's Government upon the subject, and to make such arrangements as might be considered desirable, with the view of passing a bill during the ensuing session of Parliament. They are also of opinion that it is not advisable for your honourable Court to introduce a bill for the better regulation of the cor poration in the ensuing session, but to permit the committee to use their best endeavours for the pur pose of obtaining such modifications and alterations in the bill which is proposed to be introduced by her Majesty's Government as ma y appear most advisable." Mr. WOOD, in moving that the report be agreed to, said—lf they gave the committee power to confer freely, and as man would with man, upon a mea sure to be produced and aeted upon, good results might arise to the corporation. That the result might not be entirely satisfactory he could believe, but that a measure of change and regulation must pass was admitted on all hands. Mr. Secretary Walpole had told them that it was his duty to bring in the bill, which would be founded upon the resolutions of the select committee of the House of Commons last year, unless he should see reason before he finally settled it to alter his opinion upon any one point. Under these circumstances he trusted they would agree with the committee in their re port. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BARKLEY—When did you have this inter view with Mr. Walpole ? _ _ Mr. WooD—On the 21st October. Mr. BARKLEY-WhO authorised the committee to have any interview with Mr. Walpole Mr. WOOD—The court. Mr. BARKLEY—Certainly not. Mr. WOOD—We applied as soon as possible after the court met, and Mr. Walpole gave an interview as soon as he could der he came to town. Mr. ANDERTON hoped the report would be carried unanimously. Mr. FARRAR—WouId the worthy chairman re peat in as concise terms as he could the object in tended to be obtained by this report. What was the object the committee had in view ? Mr. WOOD—I cannot do that. The court must go over all these resolutions to get at that. Mr FARRAR—This court is to be bound hand and foot to such agreement or arrangements as the committee may think proper to make. If that is so, it is most unconstitutional and most unfair to the other members of the court. (Hear, hear.) We sit as the representatives of the citizens of London, and we have no right to delegate the power con fided to a small section of the court. r protest most strongly against the report, and if in a minority of one only I will hold up my hand against it. (Hear.) Mr. Cox said he attended at great inconvenience for the purpose of asking the court to refuse their assent to the powers which the committee asked for. When the former bill was in the House of Commons every member of the court had an oppor tunity of reading it, and they gave powers to the committee to get that bill as far as possible worked into the shape of the resolutions they had agreed to. It was a totally different state of circumstances to the present. A deputation was appointed by the com mittee to wait on Mr. Secretary Walpole, and he ' should like every gentleman of that deputation to get up and give his version, and the result of what the Home Secretary said upon that occasion. He believed that if the report was sent back the result would be such a reform as would not be satisfactory to the public : and in a short time afterwards the radical reformers would have their way. He would move as an amendment the insertion of the follow ing words at the end of the report, " But that before agreeing to any proposition or arrangement the committee shall report the same to this court." Mr. BARKLEY, in seconding the amendment, said that if the court placed in the hands of the com mittee the powers asked for, no reform of the cor poration would take place. He trusted that the matter would be left entirely in the hands of the Government who were of Tory principles, and so anxious to court favour that they would grant any reform that was asked of them. Deputy DAKIN—I am not one of the deputation who waited upon Mr. Secretary Walpole, but I am one of the members who heard the very intelligent and the very consistent statement which every member of that deputation brought to the com mittee by whom they were a2pointcd. Their whole statements agreed, and the statement of the learned Recorder agreed with the rest. (Hear.) By the masterly statement of Mr. Rolt in the House of Commons, when the last bill was before that assembly, an impression was produced upon those members who heard it, and I believe upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that that part of the proposed bill which went to the spoliation of the corporation, to take from its revenues without any compensation would not for a moment hold water, and the bill was dropped, and I believe that the present Secretary of State is anxious, whilst he gives all attention to a due measure of reform, to avoid on the other hand any thing like spoliation or unduly attacking corpora tions which shall sap the foundations upon which property is held. As stated in the report, he in tends to bring in the bill as it came from the select committee of the House of Commons in the last ses sion. The language is, " a bill founded upon that," and the Secretary of State, desirous as he is to hear the reasons and consult the wishes of the citizens of London, invites you to send him an ac credited deputation in order that, he may learn your wishes, and, if possible, mould a bill to suit what is just to you and what the public exi gencies require. We believe that he will not attempt that which we designate spoliation and injustice ; that he will not take from our property without giving us an equivalent; and that he w ill not so reduce the number of this court as was pro posed by the bill. (Hear, hear.) There are a number of other ameliorations which are worth listening to if you would give the committee power to approach him in that spirit. Does the report ask to give us any undefined powers? These very powers were given to us in June last. If the court are desirous of having such a measure as shall meet Jae public objects in view, and at the same time not unduly damage or depress this ancient corpora tion, they will agree with the committee in their report. (hear, hear.) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR—I think the committee are acting prematurely in bringing up this report. Their principal object in meeting to-day is to take the sense of the court as to the propriety of the corporation introducing a bill of their own. If it had not been for that feeling on the part of the committee they would not have brought up a report asking for the powers which it contains. It appears to me that it will be time enough for this court to g i ve powers to the committee when they have the bill before them ; but at the present moment the committee are asking that this court shall place in their hands the entire power of determining what course they shall pursue, and what they shall accept on the part of the corporation in reference to any reform. There can be no doubt whatever that if once the committee have the power to deal with the Government upon the question of reform, the court will never recall that power, and the com mittee will act as if they were the whole court. (Hear, hear.) I repeat, wait until the bill is pro duced, because no power that you can place in the hands of a committee, who will delegate their power to a deputation, will have the least effect upon the minister in respect to the prepara tion of the bill. I think it of the utmost im portance that a conference should take place with the Government, and I believe that a mutual understanding will result therefrom. I think it would be unwise to stand and let the Government deal with us as it thinks proper. I think that we should do all in our power to get such a reform bill as the majority think is best ; but upon such a vital question as that of the protection of our property,; I think it of the utmost consequence that we should endeavour to obtain interviews with the minister, and urge him to protect the interests of the citizens of 'London. (Hear, hear.) I be lieve that the court have great confidence in the committee, but it is unwise to delegate to any sec tion the - whole power of the court. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BLAKE said it ought to be remembered that a bill that emanated from the minister could not be laid before the court till it was first introduced in the House of Commons, and it would then be too late to discuss its provisions. He trusted that the gentlemen who had for years advocated reform in that court would not from any petty jealousy take from the instruments which they themselves had created the means of effecting good. (Hear.) Mr. BESLEY hoped that the report would be unanimously agreo to. Mr. YOUNG was in favour of the amendment. Mr. GRESHAM did not like the idea or giving absolute power to the committee to deal with the Government. Mr. DE JERSEY said he did not think that the corporation ought to defer the consideration of the matter till the Government bill was brought before them, but that they themselves ought to meet the Government, and endeavour to convince them that the court was anxious for all necessary reforms. Alderman CUBITT—I take it for granted that this court does desire that this great question should be settled. I will just remind the court that when the bill was in committee, and just before it left, it had got all those parts which apply properly to the reform of the corporation into a condition which was very nearly such as we could have assented to, but after having got through all those parts we then came to , the great fiscal question, by which the City was to have been deprived of a large amount of property, and there we felt it our duty to make a stand. It was in consequence of that that the bill was thrown out. We are now bold by the Secretary of State for the Home Department that the bill which he feels it his duty to bring in will be founded upon what I understand to be similar to the bill brought before the House of Commons last year. After we had been battling in the committee-room for a con siderable time—having reported to the Court of Common Council from time to time—the Court of Common Council at length, in order to carry it through with the least possible delay, did invest the committee with power to make the best ar rangement it possibly could, and it only did not make that arrangement because it could not do so without sacrificing the interests of the city of Lon don, and therefore, although it had the pcwer, the Court of Common Council having given it the power, it felt that it must not increase that power. It refrained, therefore, and it recommended that the bill be opposed, and it was opposed ; it was opposed successfully, and was withdrawn. Well, now, as I said, we are really , desirous—l am sure that the whole corporation is really , desirous—that this great question should be settled, and that the greater number of the corporation are satisfied that some thing in the way of reform should be done. Surely, then, the sooner it is done the better, and the way to get this carried through and soon will be to have an understanding with the Minister while he is yet drawing a bill. (Hear, hear.) It seems to me that upon that question will depend whether we are to have another conflict in the House of Commons. If the bill is drawn and laid en the table of the House of Commons without our having had an op portunity of reading it in any way, I am satisfied that it must be a bill which you must oppose, and then we shall have to enter upon another session of Parliament with another conflict before us, with no sort of notion of how long that may be carried on. I think that the Court of Common Council might very safely delegate these powers to portions of its own body such as havebeen appointed for this pur pose. Ido most earnestly hope that the court will agree with the committee intheir report. (Cheers.) Deputy HARRISON said the committee proposed that the court should transfer to them the entire power of the corporation with reference to sugges tions for their reform—that the committee should have an uncontrollable power to pledge him and every member of the court. The suggestion of the amendment was, that the committee should be required to report to the court any arrangement that they might be able to suggest. Committees had hitherto never been allowed to pledge the court to anything, but had come with details and sug gestions which were submitted to the court. It was the bounden duty of the court to see any provisions before they were agreed to. Under these circum stances he felt it his duty to support the amend ment. Deputy LOTT trusted that the court would con tinue to repose confidence in the committee. Mr. T. H. FRY said, he considered that the cor poration had arrived at the most critical period of its history. The gover nmen t as k e d th e c o r p ora ti on to confer with them, for the purpose of seeing whe ther the government and the City could agree to the provisions of a bill which would satisfy both parties. The very necessity of the conference was, that both parties should be accredited. If the committee had no credentials, the minister would introduce a bill of his own. The Home Secretary was anxious to bring in a bill that should satisfy the corporation, and if the present opportunity were not embraced of conferring with the govern ment previous to the introduction of the bill, one of the best opportunities of framing a measure suitable to the requirements of the time, honourable to the City of London, and satisfactory to the country, would be lost. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that the report would be carried unanimously. After some furth--r discussion, the amendment was put and carried by a large majority. Mr. Cox called for a division, when there ap peared— For the affirmative For the negative The amendment was then put as the original motion and carried. PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAINS. Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of the following mo tion :—" That it be referred to the City Lands Committee to examine and report upon the desira bility of erecting for the benefit of the working and labouring classes public drinking fountains within the City of London, with power to confer with the Commissioners of Sewers thereon, and if necessary the Metropolitan 'Board of Works. And should the same be found desirable, then to ascertain the sites where they would be most convenient and useful. Also the probable cost of the erection of each of such fountains, and the probable annual ex pense of maintaining the same when erected, and to suggest the means for defraying the costs and charges of erecting and supporting the same, whe ther by voluntary contributions or otherwise, and if by voluntary contributions that this Court do subscribe towards the same such sum as the Court may hereafter in its wisdom think fit." The Court adjourned. 3IIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 15. The sittings of the court for the November General Sessions, were resumed this morning at the Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C. Assistant- Judge, Mr. S. Payne, Deputy, Mr. Healey, Mr. Goodhart, Mr. Dunsdale, Mr. Stilwell, and Mr. T. E. Baker. There were 58 prisoners for trial;; 52 for felony, and 6 for misdemeanour. On the names of the gentlemen summoned to serve on the grand jury being called over, several complaints were made that the method of summon ing was not so impartial as it ought to be, many persons .being frequently called upon to serve, while others seldom, if ever, were. George Mumby, i 9, school-assistant, was in dicted for stealing the sum of 25., the money of George White, his master. He pleaded guilty. Mr. Tayler was for the prosecution, Mr. F. H. Lewis appeared for the prisoner. The Assistant-Judge, after reading the deposi tions and asking the prosecutor a few questions, said this was a very serious case of larceny by a servant—far more so than such cases ordinarily were. The prisoner, it appeared, was a school teacher, and had held a situation in that capacity at Hull. In February last he obtained a situation under the prosecutor, the master of a large school in Abbey-street, Bethrial-green, where there were something like 700 scholars, at a salary of £4O a year. Soon after he was engaged money belong ing to the school, and also to a penny savings-bank with which Mr. White was connected, was missed on several occasions, and circumstances having eventually directed suspicion to the prisoner, some of the money was marked, and this led to his detection. Although he was charged with stealing but 2s. in this indictment, upwards of £lOO had been missed, and the prisoner ad mitted to Mr. White he had taken larger sums, and that on learning where the money was kept he procured a false key of the closet, and thus committed the theft. This was not a case of sudden temptation ; it was a deliberate and systematic plunder, carried on during several months by a servant whose position and education aggravated this offence. When he was taken into custody no less than 39 pipes of various descriptions and several sorts of tobacco were found among his things, from which it might be inferred that an ex travagance in that respect had had something to do with his being led to rob his master. The Court could pass upon him a sentence of penal servitude for a long term of years, but, under all the circum stances, the sentence would be one of hard labour for 15 calendar months. William Sampson, 25, a shoemaker, was indicted for stealing a deal box, containing half a cwt. of starch, the property of Joseph Davison. He pleaded " Guilty," and being an old offender, he was sen tenced to three years' penal servitude. Mr. Ribton was for the prosecution. George Phillips, 16, was convicted of wrenching off two brass plates from a shop window, No. 180, Tottenham-court-road. The Assistant-Judge said the prisoner was a re gular knocker-wrencher, and sentenced him to 12 months' hard labour. Francis John Higgs, 37, was indicted for stealing a bank note for £5, six silver spoons, and a sove reign, the property and money of Harris John Holland, his master. He pleaded " Guilty." The prosecutor is a gunmaker, 98, New Bond street, and the prisoner was in his service as porter, In May last he was sent to the prosecutor's bankers with some checks, and he absconded with a £5 note, a sovereign, and a draught for X2O. He was not taken until the 29th of October, when he told the constable that he got drunk, and having been robbed of the money he was afraid to return to his master. He admitted that he had stolen half-a dozen spoons, his master's property, which he had pledged in Oxford-street. This was found to be correct, and the spoons were ordered to be given up to the prosecutor. The Court sentenced him to nine months' hard labour, William Smith, 20, carman, pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud, obtaining by false pretences from James Dupree two whips and other articles, the property of Robert Osborn ; and from James Reeves Burgess, 571 b. of cheese, with intent to cheat, &e. The particulars appeared yesterday in the police reports. The Court sentenced him to five months' hard labour. James Lloyd, 32, and Joseph West, 27, chimney sweepers, were indicted for stealing a sweeping machine, the property of Joseph Watts ; and also for stealing a sweeping machine, the property of Daniel Bosworth. Mr. Cooper prosecuted. The evidence made out the charges, and both prisoners were found guilty. Sergeant Potter, D division, proved a former conviction for burglary against Lloyd, who was recognised in court as having been in the West minster prison, for felony, in the name of Pettifor, 14 years ago. Three convictions were known against him, and there was reason to believe, Potter said, that he was a returned convict. He was one of a well-known gang of burglars, and since he had been out of prison there had been three burglaries at gentlemen's houses where he had been employed to sweep chimneys. The police had traced the prisoner as being close to the neighbourhood at the time the burglaries were committed, but were unable to procure evidence directly implicating him in them. Lloyd said it was all got up against him out of spite. _ _ _ The Court sentenced Lloyd to three years' penal servitude ; West to six months' hard labour. William Fletcher, 47, was indicted for having stolen a barrow, value 10s., the property of Henry Pearce ; a ladder, a hod, and two forks, the pro perty of Isaac Noy ; and a barrow ; the property of John Forster. He was convicted, and sentenced to six months' hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Nov. 15.) GUILDHALL.,--Mary Blake was charged with beinc , . concerned with three others not in custody with the following highway robbery. Mr. Beard, of ffasin - ghalllstreet, appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Chamberlain, a musician, stated that late on Saturday evening ke was returning through Bridge water-square, when the prisoner and another wo man accosted him and asked for something to drink. He took them into Spurgeon's public louse and treated them to some gin, after which they escorted him across the square and held him firmly by both arms while a couple of ruffians pouneed upon him. He struggled to get away, but the women held him until the men had unbuttoned his coat and ab stracted his watch from his waistcoat pocket,when the two men and the other woman decamped. He tried to secure the prisoner, but she knocked him down and made good her escape. He, however, gave a description of her to the police, and she was apprehended the same night. Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—He was very drunk, but he knew what he was about. Police-constable Elves, 113, said he apprehended the prisoner at the Maidenhead publichouse in Gos well-street. She at first denied all knowledge of the prosecutor, or that she had been in Bridge water-gardens that night ; but at the station she said she left the prosecutor with a woman in Bar bican. He understood the prisoner kept a bad house. Mr. Beard submitted that the identification was very doubtful, and certainly not to be depended on, as:the prosecutor admitted he was very drunk at the time, and consequently not capable of knowing exactly what he was about. Alderman Lawrence said he should remand the prisoner till Saturday, as there were other wit nesses, he understood, to be examined. WESTMINSTER.---Ann Barnet and Ann Hor- ner, women well known to the police, were charged with stealing stealing several large bales of gam broon and alpaca from the shop of Mr. Adams, 28, Marsham-street, Westminster. The goods were exposed to view at the door of the shop on Saturday evening, and were sud denly missed. The prisoners, who had been seen to hasten but a minute before from the direction of the shop, were followed, when they placod the bales upon the pavement and endea voured to conceal them with a shawl. The accused were remanded. THAMES.—Thomas Brown, an American sea man, aged 23, and Maigaret Harrington, 21, a woman of the tows, and one of the most disorderly and desperate persons of her class, were brought up, the sailor 'Charged with breaking and destroying a quantity of furniture, crockery, and other property belonging to an old woman named Elizabeth Hor sey, and also with feloniously cutting and wound ing William Roebuck, a police-constable, No. 446 K ; and the woman with aiding and abetting the other prisoner, and also assaulting the policeman. It appeared from - the evidence that on Saturday night the prisoners engaged a room in a house, No. 25, Angel-gardens, Shadwell, in the occupation of the prosecutrix, Horsey, and they had not been there long before a quarrel took place, and Brown commenced destroying everything within his reach. The old woman Horsey, who had previously left the house, was sent for, and asked Brown why he was breaking her things. He gave utterance to the most horrible oaths and imprecations, and said he came there to'have a clearance of the place. Roe buck, a policeman, was called, and entered the room in which the prisoners were for the purpose of quel ling the disturbance and taking the prisoners into custody. He was immediately assailed by both pri soners, and a fierce conflict ensued, which was soon followed by cries of " Murder ! he has stabbed me," from Roebuck, who sprang his rattle. The noise brought another police-constable named Pearce, 382 K, to the spot, and he entered the room, where he found Roebuck lying on the floor weltering in his blood, which proceeded from two wounds inflicted upon him by Brown with a sheath-knife. Roebuck said, " I have been stabbed; the man who has done it is on the top of the house." Brown, who had removed the window of the attic and got upon the top of the house, was pursued by Pearce over the roofs of several houses and eventually secured. In spector Allison, of the K division, on hearing of the affray, ordered the woman Harrington to be taken into custody; and she was found in the room where the occurrence took place. The apartment was in a state of great confusion, covered with blood, and all the furniture broken to pieces. The knife be longing to the prisoner Brown was . found on the top of a house. The blade was stained with blood. Mr. John Brown Ross, surgeon, of High-street, Shadwell, stated that he was called upon to attend the wounded constable Roebuck on. Saturday night in the station-house, and discovered that he had received two severe incised wounds. The first was a triangular wound on the left leg, an inch and a half in depth, and about an inch in width each way. The second wound was on the inside o f th e right thigh, about 21 inches - in depth and half an inch in length. The wounded man lost a good deal of blood, and cannot be removed at present. Mr. Selfe—Where is he ? • Mr. Ross—He is confined to his bed in his own room. Mr. Selfe—l am sorry to hear this. I know Roebuck is a very good officer. - Inspector Allison—One of the best constables in our division. Brown, who treated the matter with great in difference, said,—l was drunk when this happened. I know nothing about it. Mr. Selfe remanded both prisoners until Tuesday *eat. SOUTHWARK.—Henry James Dell, a cab pro prietor of Hoxton, was charged with stealing a large quantity of boots, valued at £l5O, the property of Joseph Stanton, under very singular circum stances. Mr. Neale appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Solomon defended the prisoner. The prosecutor said that he was a wholesale boot maker, but he kept the Crystal P a l ac e b eers h o p, No. 88, Lower-marsh, Lambeth. About the latter end of September the prisoner kept a shop at No. 57, New-cut, and witness was then about to remove to the beershop. Having no room to stow away his stock of boots, he made arrangements with the prisoner to warehouse them at 2s. 6d. a-week. They were placed in seven hampers, and worth £l5O. Soon after the goods were in the prisoner's custody he lent him at three different times £l5, which was to be taken off the rent. Requiring the stock a short time ago he went to the prisoner at 57, New-cut, for them, but, after giving him the trouble to call several times, he told witness that the goods had been removed to his sister's (Mrs. Scott's), in High-street, Hoxton. He consented to allow them to remain there for a short time ; but, hearing that the prisoner had suddenly left his shop in the New-cut, he went after him and told him he must have his goods. He said he must give Mrs. Scott notice first. He left the prisoner then, but several times asked him for the goods, when at last he acknowledged that he had made away with a portion of the goods, and said if the witness would hand him £2O he would -redeem them. Witness went to Hoxton on the Monday following and saw the prisoner's sister, who told him that the goods had been removed from her house three weeks after they were brought there. He then found Dell again and told him about it, when he said that it would require £5O to get pos session. Witness agreed to give £3O, when they with two witnesses proceeded to Wandsworth to get the goods. That was after he handed the pri soner the £3O. Instead of giving up to him seven hampers of boots he only restored to him three hampers and a half, which were placed in a cart and takgn to his beershop. The prisoner on being asked for the remainder, said there was some differ ence between them about a horse, but he denied that, and, finding that he could not get his pro perty restored, he communicated with the police, and on Saturday night gave him into custody. He identified six pairs of ladies' boots found in the pri soner's house at Hoxton. In cross-examination by Mr. Solomon the pro secutor said he never was in partnership with a man named Roberts. He had been his foreman at Prior-place, Walworth, and at 10, Essex-street, Strand. Part of the missing goods were of his own manufacture, and part came from Northampton. Mr. Burcham—When you were foreman to Roberts were you selling goods for yourself ? Witness—Yes ; I carried on my own manufactory at Walworth, but I never was in partnership with Roberts. Mr. Bureham—Whom did you deal with in Northampton ? Witnes - s—Messrs. Hallam and Co. ; no one else. Mr. Burcham--Where did you carry on your business ? Witness—At No. 10, Hampton-street, Walworth. road—a private house. Mr. Burcham—You say you were carrying on business on your own account when foreman to Roberts. Did he know that Witness—Oh, yes; we had an understanding together about that. Mr. Burcham—How many men did you have in your employ ? Witnets—Four, sir. Mr. Solomon—What was the value of the goods you had from Northampton ? Witness—l had £1.50 worth from Messrs. Hal lam, wholesale dealers, Bull-head-lane, Northamp ton, and I have paid for them in cash. I did not give them a bill, and I never gave a bill in my life. Mr. Burcham—How did you pay for them ? Witness—l paid a portion when I received the goods, and the remainder in a month. Mr. Solomon—When did you have those goods ? Witness—About four or five months ago. I then lived in Hampton-street, but I gave up that house at Michaelmas. When I removed to the beershop I had no room to stow them away, consequently, I asked the prisoner to warehouse them. Mr. Burcham—How much did Roberts pay you for your services as fo reman ? Witness—Two guineas a-week. Mr. Burcham—What is the value of the goods you miss ? Witness—About .£7O, sir. Mr. Burcham—When .did you leave Roberts's service ? Witness—About three weeks ago. I don' now know where t o fi n d hi m . I l e ft him at 10, Essex stre et. Mr. Solomon here said that he believed that he should be able to show that the prosecutor was not only concerned in an extensive swindling transac tion, but in a gigantic conspiracy. He was in structed to say that Stanton and the man Roberts were connected, and that the latter obtained £3OO worth of goods from Messrs. Payne, wholesale bootmakers, of Northampton and London, and that soon after he got them into his possession he decamped with them. Most likely the missing goods were a portion of them. Mr. Burcham said he had a strong suspicion about their connection. . Mr. Payne, one of the firm of Payne and Co., of Northampton and London, here stepped forward and said that Roberts was introduced to them as a customer by Mr. Hallam, and he h a d £3 OO o f goods of them, which he never paid for. When the goods were ordered he saw the prosecutor at 10, Essex-street, and he represented himself as buyer to Roberts. Witness thought it was a conspiracy , between Stanton, Roberts, and Hallam, to get pos session of their goods. The prosecutor here appealed to his worship to contradict such a vile assertion. He stood there as a respectable man, and would defy any person to prove otherwise. Mr. Burcham observed that, in whatever way the goods might have been obtained, he must say that he cduld not see what business the prisoner had to make away with them. Mr. Solomon said that his worship would see on another examination, as he intended to have the whole of this fraudulent transaction thoroughly investigated. Sergeant Coppin, 15 P, was then called. He said he took the prisoner into custody on Saturday night at Hoxton, and in his bed-room he found the six pairs of ladies' boots which Mr. Stanton identi fied as a portion of his property. When he told the prisoner what he was charged with, he - ex claimed, " I shall make a burst of this." Witness produced pawnbrokers' duplicates relative to £4O worth of the property pledged by the prisoner at Kingsland in one day. When witness asked him ' about the £3O Stanton had given him he refused to tell, but said it was all right. Mr. Burchain asked him if he knew anything of Stanton ? Coppin replied that he recollected his living in Hampton-street, Walworth, and that his name was there on a wire blind as a -" wholesale boot manufacturer." Witness had never been in his house to see if such a trade was being carried on there. Mr. Burcham said, that under all the circum stances connected with the case he should remand the prisoner for a week. Mr. Solomon—You'll allow my client to be libe rated on his own recognisances. Mr. Neale—l hope not, sir, He has robbed my client to a considerable extent. Mr. Burcham—He will be liberated until Mon day next, by entering into his own recognisances in the sum of £25, and finding one surety in the same amount. LAMBETH.--Edward Attwood and John Regan, well-dressed young men, were charged with break ing into the house, 1, Prince's-terrace, King Ed ward's-roan, Lambeth, with intent to commit a robbery. Mr. - W. F. Cook, a gentleman residing at 2, Prince's-terrace, said that on Saturday last he let the house next door, which belonged to him, to a gentleman, who moved a quantity of property, in there ; and there was also a quantity of goods be longing to-him. On the evening before, about 7 o'clock, he heard a noise in the house No. 1, and on going there by the back way he found there were thieves upstairs. He called to them to comedown, and in a short time Regan . made his appeafance, flung something at his head, and after a desPerate struggle succeeded in locking him in one 'of the rooms and made his escape. He called out Murder ! and " Thieves !" as loud as he could; and the pri soners were apprehended. On examining the house he found that all the locks had been picked, the drawers forced open, all the property in the place either strewn about or tied up ready to be carried away. The cigar -case and other property pro duced belonged to him, and had been safe in the house NO - . - 1 at six o - cioex, wnen - ne was mere. Police-constable 172 deposed to having seen the prisoner Attwood coming away from the house where the robbery had been committed, and on his approaching him he called out " There he goes ! there he goes !" and still kept running as fast as he could. Witness then called out '; Stop thief!" and the prisoner was secured, while the prisoner himself kept calling out " Stop thief!" though no person was before him. A scarf found on the prisoner Attwood, and various articles of plate and other property found on Regan, were identified as part of the property stolen from the house, and the prisoners, ,at the re quest of the police, were remanded. COUNTRY MARIBTS. COLCHESTER—Nov. 13. At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, and a firm trade, at fully last week's prices. Fine malting barley in good demand, and not much of the middling qua lity on offer ; farmers are grazing with them instead of other feeding stuff. Beans and peas not plentiful, but demand limited principally for seed purposes for the latter article. Wheat, white ....46s to 50s I Beans, Mazagan..3ss to 38s red 38s to 44s Middle & small 40s to 448 Barley 3os to 46s White peas 44s to 46s Oats 24s to 30s Grey.. 42s to 45s STOCKTON-ON-TEES—Nov. 11. Arrivals of grain continue moderate, and all good quali ties meet with ready placement at is per qr over the rates of last market Barley firm. Oats were rather better to sell. Wheat .. 39s to 43s Oats.. 22s to 28s White do ' 44s to 49s Beans, new 46s to 48s Barley 31s to 32s Ditto, old • .48s to 50g YORK—Nov. 13. At to-day's corn market there was a moderate show of ♦wheat, which sold at an advance of is per qr. Fine barley sold rather over last week's currencies ; inferior sorts not in request. Very few oats offering. White wheat, new, 42s to 44s Barley, grinding.. 28s to 30s Red do. 39s to 42s Oats, old, .. —s to —s Old white 42s to 44s New do 24s to 26s Red do. 38s to 42s Beans. 44s to 46s Barley, malting.— 33s to 34s Malt 64. to 68. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—Nov. 13. We continue to receive fair supplies of grain. Wheat meets a slow sale to-day, and except for a few parcels of white of extra quality must be noted is per qr. eheaper. Barley, unless fine, is difficult to quit, and prices are again is lower. Beans, oats, and shelling also a dull sale, and rather cheaper. KIRK There has been a limit was sold at fully last wo Wheat (0). First.... 38s Od Second.. 46s Od Third .. 50s Od Wheat (N). First.... 34s Od Second .. 42s Od Third .. 48s Od .LDY—Nov. 13. sd show of wheat to-day, which !ek's prices. Barley (0). Od —s Od —8 Od Barley (N). 26s Od 31s 7d 338 Od Oats (0). --s Od —8 Od —s Od Oats (N). 22s Od 24s Od 26s 6d CORK—Nov. 13. The following were the quotations this morning- :—Red wheat, 15s Od to 21s; white, 17s 6d to 23s Od; barley las Od to 16s 3d; oats, lOs Od to 13s Od. In the butter market upwards of 1,000 firkins were on sale. Prices—First quality, 104 s; second, 101 s; third, 918; fourth, 82s ; fifth, 705.; sixth, 50s. COAL MARK (Priemof Coal per Ton at ET—Noy. 15. the close of the market.) • Walla End. 8. d. North Percy Hartley ..14 6 Wylam l6 0 Tanfield Moor 14 3 Tanfield Moor Butes l4 3 Nixon's Merthyr 21 0 Powell' s DufEryn Steam 21 0 Nixon's Duffryn 21 0 Lambert's W. Hartley 17 3 Walbottlo Hartley 15 0 'o. d. Coundon 17 3 Cassop Hetton ' 19 9 Framwellgate 17 9 Kelloe t lB 9 Acorn Close 18 0 Gosforth l7 0 Eden 18 0 Heugh Hall 18 0 Lambton l9 3 Hunwick 15 0 Russell's Hetton 18 S Hilda 16 6 Thorpe 18 3 Byron. Ha5we11........ .. . l6 9 Benson 17 3 Shincliffe l7 9 60—sold, 39. Walls End. Tees -- 19 9 South Hetton 19 3 Bradyll's Hetton 18 6 Belmont l7 0 West Kelloe l7 , 6 South Kenos ::...._ 18 9 Hartlepool... ...... 18 6 South Hartlepool 18 0 Ships at market THE LATE MR. ASSHETON will of Mr. Thomas Assheton Smith, of Tedwortb.-house, South ampton, and of Vaenol, near Bangor, Carnarvon, formerly M.P. for Carnarvonshire, and who died at Vaenol in Sept., was proved in the London Court o f Probate, on the 2d inst., by his widow, Mrs. Matilda Assheton Smith, the sole executrix; the personalty was sworn under £20,000. The will is extremely short, is not professionally drawn, and bears date the 22d of July, 1857. The bequests consist of annuities, to be charged upon his Tedworth estates, and are as follow—namely, to his wife's mother an annuity of £4OO ; to his valet, Atwell, and gardener, Saunders, £5O a year to each; to his huntsman, Carter his groom, Lees, his undergrooms, Rutt and Pricker, £3O a• year to each ; to his housekeeper Mrs. Hunter also £3O a-year. The re sidue of his estates, both real and personal, he leaves to his relict absolutely. _ _ [AuvzirusimENT.i—Rarey's Horse and Cattle Improv ing Food is equally adapted to improve the stamina of ill ' conditioned Horses, Cows, Bullocks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. It causes no extra expense, as it contains far more &Rd better nourishment than its cost of lid. per feed sup plies in corn and hay; hence ensures an actual saving in the keep. But its principal adVantages are a great improve ment in the dig estive functions, the stamina and genera l condition of rses enabling them to perform far more labour without getting distressed. It imparts new vigour to sick, debilitated, or old apparently worn-out horses, and it puts rapidly the finest flesh on cattle generally, and im proves the milk in cows, as it enables them to extract the entire nourishment out of everything they . feed on. Rarer and Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, Piccadilly, London. Packed in tins of about 90 feeds, 1 ls. ; in casks of about 450 • feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feed s , iS, beiitg about l i d. per. feed. BIRTHS. . . BECTIER.—On the 10th inst., at Convamore, Mallow, Ise. • land, the Lady Emily Becher, of a daughter. GREY.—On the 13th inst., at Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. < 1 f. Grey, of a daughter. HART.—On the 15th inst., at 40, Upper Bedford-plsc e, Russell -square, Mrs. A. H. Hart, of a son. HALL.—On the 13th inst., Mrs. Hall, Bosmere Lo. ;e, Upper Tulse-hill, of a ion. • MARRIAGES. BRANKSTON—TuEspuLL.—On the 13th inst., at St. Paul's, Ball's-pond, Archibald Brankston, Esq.,. of Forest-hill, to Ma: .7 Jane, youngest daughter of Tho it &Eta Turnbull, Esq., of Islington. EVERINGHAM—DANSEY.—On the 11th Inst., at Abb 0 ta ham, North Devon, Henry Everingham, Esq., of B a tr low, Essex, to Georgian, fourth daughter of the El .te Rev. William Dansey, rector of Donhead St. Andy e w, Wilts, and prebendary of Salisbury. DEATHS. BOXER.—On the 11th inst., at Chatham, Frederick Spe,.v er Boxer, Lieut. H. T.Z. Light Infantry, youngest son oi! late Admiral Boxer, C. 8., aged 22. CHETWYND.—On the 13th inst., at Park-street, Grog ve nor-square, the Hon. Charlotte Cketwynd, the old est daughter of the late Viscount ChetWyßd. HAVES.—On the 14th inst., the Rev. James Hayes, vi car o f Wybunbury, Cheshire, aged PB. HATCHARD.—On the 13th inst., at his residence, 2, ( ehester-terrace, Brighton, Thomas Hatchard, Esg. , of Piccadilly, aged 63. HARRIS.—On the 13th inst., at 26, Glocester-street, Bel grave-road, Pimlico, Rice Harris, Esq., aged 74. MYRES.—On the 13th inst. at at Porters, Hertfordshit ,W. J. Myres, Esq., aged 66. VALLAYCE.—On the 13th inst., at Bristol, Henry Val !lance, Esq., aged 63. 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