The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-23 00:00:00

speakers in Parliament, which is saying quite enough ; but why the necessity for restraint ? g What was the complaint generally m a d e i n P a - liament ? Was it not that the Press had been gained over unfairly to countenance Ministers ? Was it not alleged again and again that the Press, from some inexplicable cause, had be come truant to the people ? It was true that if the country had been polled on the Catholic Question, a numerical majority would have beet) against Ministers ; but it was not true that of the class who read newspapers, a majority was against them. Five-sixths of the Press of the Metropolis were on the side of Ministers ; it proof, at OAI events, that men in office had little ground to complain of the Press generally.. But would it have been just, would it have been expedient, with this preponderance of services from the Press, if the remaining portion could have been - silenced, that Ministers should have silenced it ? Did they lose any thing by the extravagance of which the Attorney-General complains? Not any man In his senses, on coolly examining the matter, will say they did. They gained by the very extrava gance of the articles of which Sir James Scar lett complains. The Press represents the middle classes of society ; and it was in these classes precisely that the Ministry was strongest. The higher classes who are so meek in Parliament are, comparatively, unimportant with the Press, and hence the contrast between the House of Peers and the Newspapers. With the Press Ministers had little trouble. With the House of Peers they had much ; and we all know that a very different sort of reasoning was brought to bear on a number of needy Peers from that which is to be acquired from Dr. Whatelv. Sir James returns to this subject —" I will ask you whether it did not mean to throw dishonour and disgrace on his Majesty's Government, to insi nuate that a Member of that Government had attained his situation by granting a loan of thirty thousand pounds to another? If by possibility such a thing could be true, would it not be matter of reproach and condemnation to the Government which could permit so base a traffic? If so, what is this but a libel ? That the insinuation is false, no man can doubt who has reason and experience. But there are many persons who take their creed from the Newspa pers, and as long as one part of the Press was *sonducted with ability and honour, that part was injured by publications such as the Morning Journal, which brought all into equal discredit with the thinking part of the community, though • relied upon by the credulous and uninquiring." What sort of logic is this ? The thinking part of the community, who can see that five-sixths of thei Press promulgate opinions of which they approve, and disseminate statements which they know to be true, overlook all this, and because A portion of the Press circulates opinions and statements of a different description, which form the creed of the readers, all the papers, good and bad, are brought into equal discredit with them ! Truly this is thinking to very little par pose. We trust there are few thinkers in this most thinking nation who think so per versely. What should we say of the think. era who, because: a :portion of the inhabitants of the metropolis are addicted to stealing and picking of pockets, should hold all the inha bitants to be discredited on that account ? What should we think of the thinkers who, be cause two or three Barristers are restrained neither by decency nor principle from saying what they are heard to say, however disgraceful to them, should deem all Barristers to be discredited _by the circumstance ? Why do the thinking people alluded to by Sir James take our paper in preference to another, if all arc in equal dis credit with them ? If they perceive the false hood of the one, they perceive the truth of the other ; and the one and the other cannot, with out supposing them monsters, be both in dis credit. If they perceive neither the truth of the one, nor the falsehood of the other, they are not in a state of mind to hold anything in discredit. This is one of the swaggering statements which we hear occasionally from Barristers, which pass in the hurry of debate, but which, when analysed, appear sheer nonsense. If Ministers adopt the recommendation of Sir James, to improve the press by curtailing it of its freedom, by restrain ing it, as he says, they may prevent some things being said for them. The advocacy of the Press will lose its value when it is known that oppo sition is put down. We protest against the doctrine ; and we lament that we should have lived to hear the moderation of a Tory Adminis tration decried by a Whig Attorney-General.— Morning Chronicle. Another long letter has appeared on the state of the Irish Church establishment from the Earl of Mountcashel to the Bishop of Ferns. This correspondence has now extended to such a length as to wear out the interest which origi nally attached to it. We have heretofore given the letters on both sides, but we cannot find space bar any others without excluding matter of more immediate consideration, or, at least, of more novelty. We do not desire that our readers should be under the necessity of recalling to our recollection that maxim of Terence, of which the Press ought never to lose sight, and which controversialists, whether on matters sacred or profane, ought always to ke2p in view, and which is expressed in the emphatic words 71C quid nimis. The tediousness of this correspondence might have been avoided if the Earl of Mountcashel had not involved himself in matter of detail, not at ad essential to his argument, as showing the necessity of Church reform. He should have confined himself; in the present stage of the in quiry, to what may be called the moral evidence of the question:. He should have demand ed of the opponents of reform, what good the Church of Ireland had hitherto effected, proporionate. with its means of doing good. He should have asked for proofs of the progress which this richly endowed establishment had made during the course of centuries, in diffus ing the light of Christian truth and the love and knowledge of an enlightened religion. He should have appealed to the records of history, and then he would have taken his stand on a position from which lie could not be dislodged by the small artillery of those who, incapable of grappling with the great principle, take advan tage of little inaccuracies of detail. But the controversy has been of some value notwith standing. It has disturbed the stagnant waters, and the ripple of a wholesome and purifying. agitation is now upon their surface. We can not enter into the subject at present. \Ve were the first to call the attention of the Engl..)h pub lic to the meeting at Cork, and shall take an early opportunity of putting, upon ►what we con sider its real merits, a question which so mate rially involves the interests of Ireland and the empire.--Morning Herald. On the trial for libel in the Court of King's Bench, or rather on the alleged libel, we shall only make on© remark ; and that is, that even if the true construction of the libellous paragraph were that which has been put upon it by his Majesty's Attorney-General, and the witnesses whom he called in support of his opinion, the icknowledged integrity of the Lord Chancellor ought to have proved a sufficient shield against its malice, and the total absence of any mis chievous effects having resulted from it to have rendered the prosecution useless. One fact respecting it we will mention as having come to us from competent authority, and that is, that the principal defendant on the trial—we mean Mr. Alexander—never wrote the article which gave rise yesterday to such a mustering of Counsel and evidence. It was, we are in formed, sent to him by an occasional contributor, and inserted with very slight examination, and without any knowledge of its being intended to apply to the Lord Chancellor. Had this fact been stated in evidence, we think the Jury would have found it necessary to accompany their ver dict of Guilty with a special recommendation to be moderate in the infliction of punishment.— But, however this may be, there is assuredly no Act on the Statute Book which stands in greater need of revision than the law of libel— none that is so oppressive, so far as the' Press is concerned—nor any of which it would be more difficult to give a satisfactory ex planation. Even to mention it, is, in the language of the Roman poet, to mention the ii!fizndum dolorem of the Press—the heavy chain which binds every writer, printer, and pub lisher of a newspaper to give part only instead of the whole of the truth—to be silent when to speak out would be beneficial to the community, and to suppress many facts as important as they are true, simply because it is dangerous to state them, and because the veriest truth is as great a libel as the veriest falsehood. In the United States of America, things are ordered dif ferently—nothing is considered libellous which does not contain a falsehood respecting indivi duals ; and we can see no reason why a similar enactment might not be made by the Parliament of England. The law in question has been productive of no evil consequence in America; and what reason is there to suppose that it would do harm here ?—Morning Advertiser. We have given at full length a report of the trial of the Morning Journal yesterday. For ob vious reasons we shall make no remarks on the subject here. To-morrow it is possible that it may be in our power to offer some more complete observations on the unprecedented proceedings against us than we can do under existing circumstances. In the mean time we request the fair attention of our readers to the nature of the libel, the rank and station of the plaintiff, the mode of conducting the prose cution, the selection of the defendants, and the choice of witnesses. If the people of England think that all was as it ought to be they may be contented to have no independent newspaper in less than twelve months—at all events none that will dare whisper, even in parables, any thing that may be construed, by a whig At torney-General non-obstante the disclaimer of its author, into an affront upon any great functionary of the law. We perceive that the patrons and advocates of the freedom of the Press and the liberty of discussion are, as usual, either acquiescent in their attacks upon us or mute. We must, however, except the Globe, which ventures yesterday evening on a few com mon-places on the abstract impropriety of libel prosecutions, such as that which yesterday occu pied the attention of the King's Bench. Our shrew&contemporary concludes by saying-- " The theory of nuncupative law-giving is only, we fear, dictated by a desire of keeping that practice of prose cution for libel in a state of suspended animation till the King Sebastian of toryism shallcosere.from Barbary to re establish the ancient sway, and of reserving for those best of all possible occasional legislatures, special juries, selected by some new. Gibbs or Perceval, the power of calling in ' manifold circumstanoes' to justify them in trampling down all opposition to the opinions which shall then be dominant. This will not do." No, indeed, it will not do. Nor will it do for the Globe to talk about Gibbs and Perceval, as if (to say nothing of the difference of the times) they ever brought ex-officios for libels against Lord Eldon, or to invoke any King Sebastian of toryinn, when the Attorney-Gene ral is that greatest of all Whig lawyers, Sir James Scarlett. But we shall, or will, or what. ever else is the proper Creole phrase, pursue the matter no further for the Present.— Morning Journal. It has always been our desire to abstain from prejudging any matters about to be submitted to a legal and competent tribunal ; and in obedience to this feeling we have refrained as much as pos sible, and in circumstances of extraordinary ex citement and provocation, from offering any opi nion upon the libel cases, the first of which was yesterday submitted to a Jury of the country. The decision of that Jury has in a considerable degree released us from that duty of painful and difficult reserve which we have hitherto struggled to fulfil, and has left us free to pro nounce an opinion upon the conduct of the parties accused, without incurring the imputa tion of a design to poison the sources of jus tice, or to erect our private judgment into a standard by which the guilt or innocence of others ought co be determined. But now that we are at liberty to speak, we cannot re frain from offering our cordial congratu lations to the Press and the Country upon a verdict which was evidently necessary to vindi cate and protect the character of the Press, and to rescue it from a degradation which must have greatly impaired its value. We have no wish to' press hardly upon the individuals now under conviction ; yet nothing can be more evident than that the Press must lose its whole value and respectability—all that entitles and enables it to influence the opinions and feelings of man kind, from the moment when its conductors are permitted to asperse, gratuitously and with impunity, the characters of eminent men. We do not wish to see the time when the general character of the Press shall be so low that Ministers of State may afford to disregard the iniptuation of corruption levelled against them by its means. And we certainly do not know how this degradation can so effectually he prevented as by the punishment of those who cab in the aid of calumny, to give that zest to their lucubrations which they know not how otherwise to impart. It is not necessary, in speak ing of this particular case, to discuss any nice questions as to the proper limits of political dis cussion ; for if a Lord Chancellor might safely be accused of selling the office of Attorney- General, it is obvious that there would no longer be any limits either to discussion or assertion. Neither does the occasion offer any peculiar temptation to animadvert, as some of our Cotemporaries have done, upon the distinctness of the law of libel ; for that law would not be distinct, but non existent, if so flagrant a violation of decency and truth could escape legal reprehension. So long as the law is administered by Juries selected impartially from among the people, there can be no danger of that vagueness of the law, which is a very old subject of complaint, becom ing a snare to men whose intentions have been innocent ; but there would, on the other hand, be great danger that dexterous guilt might find the means of evading the provisions of a law that vainly attempted the accurate and precise defini tion of an offence, the possible forms and dis guises of which are infinitely various. Those who complain of the indistinctness of tl►e law of libel ought certainly of all men to be the last to reprehend the prosecution of which we have just witnessed the result ; for had it not been in stituted, it is clear that by this very omissio►► the law would have become more indeterminate than it now is. There may be a question whether any proceedings were necessary to protect the cha racter of the Lord :Chancellor :or that of his Majesty's Government, against such imputations, proceeding from such assailants ; but little doubt can be entertained, that had the law been per mitted to sleep upon this occasion, an argument calculated to perplex future Juries would have been educed from this instance of its inactivity. —Morning Post. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) The 6ed Regiment, now in garrison, leave this country in March next for England, and will embark the May fol lowing at Chatham for India. Major-General Sir G. Bingham leaves Cork to hold a military inquiry at Fermoy, on Monday. We regret to announce the death of Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, G.C.B. and G.C.H. He was son of General Sir Henry Clinton, who was conspicuous in the American war, and brother to Lieutenant-General Sir W. Clinton, late Commander-in-Chief in Portugal. Sir I-lenry Clinton was a distinguished officer, awl had seen much service. He wore the honorary cross, clasp, and medal for the battles of Salamanca, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo. The Colonelcy of the 3d Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, G.C.B. and G.C.H. The honourable selection by the Horse Guards of that distingui.lied veteran Officer, Major-General Sir John Elley, K.C.B. to the Chief Coloneley of the 17th Lancers, is no less creditable to the known discernment and impar tiality of General Lord Hill, than it is to the high charsc-- ter of Sir John Elley during many years of arduous and active service devoted to the interests of his Sovereign and his country. This gallant Officer commanded in the South West District, head-quarters in this city a few years ago, when his gentlemanly deportment and courteous manners gained, without exception, the esteem and regard of all classes. To the British Army it would be unnecessary to recite the merits of Sir John Elley; the harassing cam paigns of the Peninsula, and the sanguinary field of Wa terloo, are unfading monuments of his services. The deduction of threepence in the pound from the full and half-pay of the officers of the navy, for the Widows' Fund, has been discontinued by order of the Admiralty, the fund being sufficiently rich. Wheat. Barley. Oats. i Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Boston , 53 27 19 31 Gainsborough .... 57 29 —.. lil 32 Grantham 52 (10 30 35 22 26 43 45 Grimsby 4l 58 20 28 16 22 20 38 Horncastle ~.... 45 52 25 32 15 20 30 48 Lincoln Spilsby 46 51 21 32 18 22 32 34 Stamford-- —= 49 60 25 33 20 23 43 York— 48 56 26 32 20 28 38 41 NORWICH. Dec. 19. Our market continues to be well supplied. The Wheat trade to-day was dull, and prices gave way Is. to 2s. per quarter. Barley remains at last week's quotations, and we observe no alteration in the value of other Grain. Flour is dull sale. Wheat (per qr.) 4os. 58s. 635. I Beans (per qr.)......... 2fis. 325. Barley Oats 2os. '24s. 295. Flour, fine (per sack) 435. 45.. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (Prom the New Londox Price Current of yesterday), SUGAR.—The demand for Muscovades considerably re vived last week ; the estimated sales are above 3,000 hhds. and trs. ; the low brown Sugars went off at some reduction, but •nly in proportion to the former sales of coloury Sugar; dry brown 445. At the public sale of 300 casks St. Lucia Sugars brown sold at 435., and the best in sale 521. The stock of Sugar has rather accu mulated on account of th• late landings; it is now 4,400 hhds. and trs. more than last year. The deliveries this week exceeded the corresponding one of last year by 321 hhds. and trs. and 2,257 bags. The estimated sales this day, including the public sale, are 700 hhds. and trs. ; the latter consisted of 177 hhds., 41 trs. and 2 brls. St. Lucia Sugar, a middling parcel, the whole sold 6d. to ls. lower, 41s. a 50s. 6d., and generally the Market prices are under the currency of last week. In the Refined Market there was little alteration as to prices, but there was rather more firmness among the holders; Mollasses brisk and higher. There is rather more business doing in Refined this afternoon ; some purchases made fur Hamburg. Average prices of Sugar 255. Bd. EAST INDIA SUGAIL-The demand for Bengal Sugars continues, and considerable transactions have been reported at I s. 6d. advance on the late India sale. FOREIGN SUGAR.—The demand for yellow Havannah Sugar for export has been general, and the purchases most extensive ; the estimated 5a1e5..2,600 chests, 265. a 30s. chiefly about 265. and 27a.; loVe.wisite Pernams 253. MOLASSES.—There are some sales of West India Mo lasses 19s. a 21s. COFFEE. —The public sales last week were quite incon siderable, they were confined to the finer qualities. I3er lice and the clean Jamaica Coffee, suited fur home con sumption ; all the lower descriptions offered were taken in, and on which there were scarcely any biddings. Foreign Coffee continues neglected. The public sales this forenoon, 50 casks Berbice middling, and of a favourite mark, sold at 71s. and IS bags of Malabar. Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLIANDS.—The purchases of Rum last week were rather limited, consisting of proof Leewarde at Is. 80. and a shade over ; of under proofs at Is 7d. Brandy was firm; Geneva neglected. HENIP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—In Tallow there is little variation ; Hemp is a shade higlas.r. Flax unvaried.— Letters from St. Petershurgh are dated sth inst,— Exchange, 10.1. 9-16. Tallow, 90. Sraers.—There is a considerable increase in the Inqui ries after Spices generally, but no actual sal7s to any ex tent are yet reported ; a few purchases of Ginger and Nut megs are reported ; gool . quality Cassia Lignea sold at 625., good black Pepper 3d. INDIGO•—There are no purchases of Indigo worth re porting. TOBACCO.—Tobacco continues neglected, the few sales reported are small parcels to the trade. Rtes.—Bengal Rice sold 6d. lower last week, fair white 9s. 6d. a 10s. The 2,772 bags East India Rice this day were of a very ordinary description. COTTON.—The favourable accounts of the Liverpool Cotton market towards the close of last week occasion more business here, but the sales are inconsiderable ; they eensist of 320 Surats at 3hd. a 3id.—The Cotton public sale to-day affords no criterion of the Market price, it con sisted of 537 bales Surats, all damaged. Oils.—The prices of common Oils are little varied ; Linseed rather lower. TURPENTINE.-The last price was 1 Is. 6d., but we believe that price is refused for the late arrivals. IRISH PROVISIONS.-The following are the latest quo tations of Irish provisions : prices which have been rea lised. Tierce India Beef, 42 pieces Sib. each, 61. 2s. Gd. Tierce Mess Beef, 38 pieces, 81bs. each, 41. 15s. ; tierce India Pork, 53 pieces, 6lbs. each, Si. 17s. Gd. ; tierce Navy Pork, 30 pieces, 4lbs. each, 51. 6s. ; Barrel Navy Pork, 52 pieces, 41bs. each, 31. 6s. ; barrel Mess Pork, 50 pieces, 41. each, 3/. 55.; barrel Bacon Pork, 2/. 10s. a 21. 15s. The arrivals cf Butter are very large, about 35,000 firkins from Ireland last week, and about 800 casks Foreign fine; Carlow is in good demand. Bacon dull ; arrivals last week about 5,200 packages. Hors.-In Hops there is no alteration. SALTPETRE -By public sale this day 400 bags common quality Saltpetre, refractio❑ 6 3-4tha, all sold at 255. EAST INDIA HOUSE PIECE Goons SALE.-Company's White Longcloths V factory 14s. 611. a lts. 101., ditto Sallampore 7s. Id. a 7s. 6d. J factory 15s. 2d. a 15s. 6(1., ditto Sallampore 7s. Sd. a 7s. 11 d. The fabric generally very good, and prices Id. a 2d. advance on previous sale. Blue Longclothe 265. 6d. a 30e., Sallampore 14s. Bd. a 15s. The finer goods too high taxed and refused. Ban danas sold at similar prices as last sale, part refused. Private Trade-Blue Sallampores scarce, the fine sold or taken in 11 s. 6d. a 13a. Sd. Madras Handkerchiefs chiefly taken in at very low prices. Crapes and Silks in small proportion, and very few actually sold. Yellow Nankeens, above 500,000 pieces offered ; very bad 12,000 pieces, 6i a Gi yards, 10d. a Is. Gd. per piece ; 3d qua lity, 300,000 pieces, 6i a 64 yards, 2s. a 3s. ; 2d qua lity ditto, yards 3s. a 3s. 6d. ditto; Ist quality 7 yards 3s. Gd. a 4s. 4d. ditto; the whole of the above chiefly bought in. White Nankeens, about 800 pieces, very good, 7 yards, 4s. 2d. Blue, first quality, Nankeens, 10,000 pieces, chiefly taken in, 9i a 94 yards, 3s. Ild. a Is. 3d. The white Longeloths sold readily, and rather advanced towards the last ; almost all the other articles went with out animation, and by far the greater proportion of the private trade brought in by the proprietors ; upon the whole (as usual at this season) the sale was very dull. FRUIT.-The reduction in the prices of Valentia Raisins which was stated on Tuesday last has had no effect in fa cilitating sales to any extent; the grocers purchase sparingly, as they hare considerable stocks at the old price 01E8 - mt.—Wheat, per 7511). Ps. Od. to 9a. &I.; Bailey, 38 qrts. ss. Od. to ss. &1. ; Oats, 4911). 2s. Pd. to 4s. 3d. NANTWICII.—Wheat, per 751 b. Bs. 10d. to 9s. 9d.; Barley, 39 qrts. ss. Gd. to Os. Od. ; Oats, 501 b. 3s. 3d. to 4s. 3d. GLASGOW MARKETS. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) For Raw SUGARS there has been a good demand this week ; the sales amount to 854 hhds. and trs., and prices are without any alteration ; moist brown Demeraras sold at 455. a 465. 6(1., dry browns, 47.. a 50s. 6d., middling, 525. a 545. 6d. ; and a lot of good brawn Grenadas at 511. 120 puns. of Demerara MoLAssEs hare been sold at 20s. 6d. in the warehouse. Refined SUCARS are still in limited demand, prices, however, are without alteration. Nothing worthy of remark done in CorrEs, GINGER, Or PIMENTO. Four chests CAssIA sold at 741. in bond, and 40 bags East India Ries at 14s. 6d. The sake of Jamaica Rum are five puns. at 2s. 9J. for 16 0.P., and 22 hhds. at Si. ; no sales made in Lee wards, which are held at 20d. for proofs. In Drzwoons there has been nothing done. For Asnits there has been several inquiries ; the sales have not been extensive ; 50 barrels Pots and 50 barrels Pearls were sold, deliverable in Greenock, at 395., and the same price tendered and refused for 100 barrels of each; 50 barrels Pearls were sold at 405., and small parcels of Pot and Pearl at same rate. Nothing worthy of remark klone in TOBACCO, prices are without variation. Y. C. TALLOW is selling in small parcels Old at 38s. a 391. ; and New, 40,4 nor Otcs in steady demand; Whale 251., and Cod 231. 109. a 241. per tun old measure. The arrivals of GRAIN have been moderate. There has been a fair business done in new and old Wheat at full prices. Prime Oats have been selling steadily at former rates ; the middling and inferior qualities have been in limited demand, without any alteration in value. Barley has been rather dull of sale ; prices however are main tained. Beans and Pease more in request. rot them. Figs go off rather freely 40s. a 50s. Red Sinyrn t Raisins have again given way 40s. and 38s. ; new Sultana Raisins 65c. This day 167 butts 56 crtls. Cephalonia, and 179 butts 72 cals. Zante ; all the good taken in at 68s. MINING INTELLIGENCE.—SaIes at Redruth last week. Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 1,865 tons; average pro duce, seven. Quantity of fine Copper, 131 tons, 3 cwt Amount of sale, 9,0081. Average Standard, 1071. 15s. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUPING THE WEEK. CANTERBURY, Dec. 19. We had a great supply of all kinds of Grain, but every article was BO extremely heavy of sale, that scarcely any busines s was transacted without the seller would submit to a reduction of 2s. to 3s. per quarter on last week's prices. . _ Wheat, white --- red Barley, Malting Oats Beans ~ 56e. to 665. 4415. to 608. 253. to 925. 20s. to 28s. ~ 225. to 325. Pease 323. to 395. EXETER MAR Beef (score) Bs, 041. O. Od. Mutton (lb.) 0 4j-0 5 Vent and t emb 0 0 —0 6 1 3, rk n 4 —0 6 Gee , e (each) 3 0 —5 0 Ducks (couple) 6—5 0 Fuw!s " o—4 0 KE I'S.—Dec. IS. Wheat (bushel) 85.6(1. 9s 6(1. Barley 4 0 —S 6 Oats 2 6—3 0 Beans 5 6 --6 6 13 Ater (lb) 0 11 —1 0 E4es (10) 0 o—l 0 Potatoes (pe k) 0 8 —0 10 DUBLIN CORN EXCHANGE.—Dec. 18. The supplies of Grain having been larger to-day than usual, Wheat sold very heavily at a further reduction of 6d. to ls. per barrel. Oats too were 3d. to 6d. lower ; but there was no decline in the prices of Bere and Barley, which, ou the contrary, were rather dearer towards the close of the market. Flour and Oatmeal both dull, but not lower. Wheat, red, 255. to 31s. ; white, 30s. to 328. ; Oats' 9s:6d. CO 12s. ; Bere 12s. to 13s. ; Barley 13s. to 16s. ; Vetches 12s. to 16s. ; Rape 308. to 318. ; Rye 14s. to 15s. ; Oatmeal Ss. 6d. to 11 s , ditto prime 15s. to 16s. ; first Flour 19s. to 225., best Seconds . l6s. to 175., infe rior ditto 12s. to 15s. DUBLIN MARKET N, 3,699 Wh eat, per barrel 20 stone 818 Bei e _ 17 stone 614 Barley l6 stone 4,591 Oats l2 stone 11,421 Cwt. Flour.--. 9 stone 909 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 8,283 Cwt. Flour - Average price of Wheat am Firsts, Receipts of flour, 12,291 Second Sal" of Do. " ' I2 Thirds PRICE OF Quartern Loaf, 41b. Bfid. TF,.—Fn From 20 0 12 0 9 0 8 4 5 0 9 9 Joky, Dee. I To 34 0 13 6 14 6 I 16 6 24 0 16 0 M. P. 29 'I ti 13 2 13 2 10 6 1 A - 6 12 2 16 0 I 24 o I is 5 Hour 16s. Rd. per sack. from 20s. Od. to 245. Od. from 15s. Od. to 104. Od. from 54. Od. to 14s. Od. illtltAD. Half-quartern, 21b. ?0z....4%d BRITISH EXPORTS. STATEMENT OP THE QUANTITIES CI t ES OF DRITISM MANUFACTUI PROM DEC. it TO DEC. IS INCIA OF IHE UNDERMENTIONED ARTI AR EXPORTED FROM LIVERPOOL, Pieces. Yards. Cotton 1 69,290 1,949,131 Linen 7lO 292,535 Blanketir.g 1,916 Carpeting 4,905 Baize 1 l•3 Kerseyineres Flannel _I Ends. Woollen Stuffs 1,218 319 Worsted Stuffs 3,291 — 1 Calicoes Inf. Woollens 3,952 1,708 Cotton Threatl24,9Solb. Cotton Yarn —.52,220 Ells. Sail Cloth noz. Cotton Hose 2,922 Worsted Hose Cotton Handkerchiefs 1,481 Cotton Braces - Hats Hardware £10,610 Earthenware £3,755 S.dt White Bushels. 20;109 Salt Rock 19,480 Tons. Cwt. Chal. Coal. 667 15 0 Iron WINTER ASSIZES. LEWES, DEC. 22. William Brazier, aged 18, was capitally indicted for stealing 1001. and upwards, in the dwelling house of John King, at Chillington. The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty." Edward James was put to the bar, charged with the manslaughter of Mary Anne Allcorn, at Brighton. The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty," and the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' trans portation. In the case of John O'Dare, charged with mali ciously shooting at Lieutenant Rosenberg, the Jury, after being absent more than an hour, returned into Court, and, through their foreman said, " We find the prisoner guilty, but acquit him of the capital part of the charge." Mr. Baron GARROW addressed the Jury. He told them that all the counts in the indictment against the prisoner were for the capital charge ; therefore their verdict must be not guilty, generally, or guilty of the capital offence. The Jury again retired, and they were locked up for about three hours more, at the end of which time they returned with a verdict of " Ptot Guilty." The progress of the inquiry into the sanity of DAVIge, the tea-dealer, is a good caricature on legal proceedings. We have heard the expenses estimated already at 10,000/. This may be above the mark; but if the examination go much farth er , b e f ore it i s ascertained i whether the poor man s fit to manage his property, there will be assuredly no property left for him to manage. BAR ORATORY.—A quondam leader on the Western Circuit, a most ungrammatical and tautologous speaker, was remarkable for his success with common juries. This was entirely owing to his admirable tact, one secret of which was thus expl tined by himself. The writer of this chanced to he in a room with him the day after he had been engaged in a cause of considerable inte rest in the ne ighbourhood. He had been more than ordi narily tautologous, and a hint to that effect was given him. He instantly pleaded guilty to the charge. " I certainly was confounded long," said he ; " but did you observe the a heavy looking fellow, in a yellow waistcoat ? l'io more than one idea could eve r stay in his thick head a li t ''r a el nr ti ao m e e, and I resolved that mine should be that one; so I hammered on till I saw by his eye that he bud got it. Do you think I care a rush for what you young critics Magazine. ?"—Law might eay POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL George Jones, a young man, not unknown to the police, was brought before Mr. Alderman KEY yes terday, charged with burglariously entering the pre of Mr. Heath, tin and japanned ware manu facturer, on Snowhill, about seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and stealing therein twenty silver spoons and some other articles of plate, valued at 51. and upwards. The prisoner was fully committed. BOW-STREET. Yesterday at twelve o'clock having been appointed by Sir RICHARD BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, to give their opinion upon the documents submitted to their inspection, as connected with the death of Mrs. Phillips, the parties interested were all in attendance by twelve o'clock. After some preliminary observations, Mr. HALLS read the following from a paper drawn up by Sir R. Birnie himself :—" After an attentive perusal of the various statements laid before us with respect to the death of Mrs. Charlotte Phillips, it does not appear to us that the evidence is sufficient to en able us to disturb the verdict taken before the Co roner, and pronounced by a competent jury."— " This," added the Magistrate," being the decision we have come to after having gone through the mass of papers which are now before us, we cannot entertain any other application upon the subject. I have now only to add, that we are ready to deliver up those documents to the parties by whom they were forwarded to u.." Mr. Cox suggested that the papers ought to re main in the possession of the magistrates. Sir R. BIRNIE would rather not retain the papers. __..... Mr. Phillips was quite aware that the magistrates could have come to no other decision than that just announced. He could not help feeling, however, that it would be nsuch more satisfactory to hiin if some investigation had been gone into, in order to satisfy the public mind. Mr. Churchill observed, that Mr. Phillips had the means in his own hands of obtaining a public inves tigation by bringing actions against those news papers by which he alleged he had been slandered. Mr. Phillips—Oh, Mr. Churchill, I have higher game in my eye than newspapers. I believe, Mr. Halls, that at least one-third of the documents which are now before you were furnished by myself. Mr. HALLS--4 believe that such is the fact; and I feel, I assure you, very warmly as to the manner you have acted. Sir U. BIRNIE—I can only say, that I came to the 41.;termation I have formed without having read a single document sent by Mr. Phillips. Mr. HALLS, after requesting the parties to depart with a good feeling towards each other, said that there was one observation which he wished to throw out for the consideration of medical men, and he hoped, in suggesting it, that be should not be deemed arrogant, or that he meant to set up an opinion of his own. He wished, however, that it should be considered by competent medical men, whether what had been called the" mystery" in this case, might not have arisen from the quality of the poison by which this unfortunate lady had met with her death. Every body was aware of this fact, that opium had different effects upon different constitutions; nay, more, that at different seasons of the year its effects upon the same party were dis similar, and that even the difference of day and night produced an obvious change in the operation of this medicine. The difference of its effects was still more striking where opium was mixed with verjuice, in which case the nature of the latter so altered the quality of the former, that its effects could hardly be ascertained. It was admitted that senna formed one of the ingredients in the medicine which was prescribed for the unfortunate lady.— Now manna and opium were never prescribed at the same timevand it might be a question whether, if mixed together, senna and opium might not have the same effect upon the human frame as a mixture of opium and verjuice. Mr. Snow—But there was no opium in the mixture made up for Mrs. Phillips. Mr. HALLS, without appearing to notice this ob servation, had merely thrown out the suggestion for the consideration of medical men. The effect, as he conceived, of opium and senna upon the human frame, might be illustrated by a term known to lawyers, namely, " the keeping an operation in abeyance." Mr. Phillips, in reply to an observation of Mr. Cox, said, I beg to observe that I have no wish whatever upon this occasion to provoke a discussion, nor will I say any thing in reply to this gentleman, who seems prepared to prove this, that, and the other. I shall not in return repeat what lam pre pared to show, but all I would ask is, whether it has yet appeared that the bottle which contained the draught was a four or only a one ounce bottle. Mr. Haus observed that the analysis had proved that fact. Mr. Cox said, that if blame were to be attributed to Mr. Swan Hill, who had compounded the medi cine, it was open to Mr. Phillips to bring an action against him. Mr. Phillips had already consulted Counsel upon the subject, but found that he could not sustain an action against Mr. Swan Hill. Mr. HALLs— Here is the brief of Mr. Adolphus for you, Mr. Snow. Mr. Phillips—l will give you 10 guineas for that brief, Mr. Snow. Mr. Snow (taking the brief from the hand of the Magistrate.)—l have nothing to do with you, Sir. Mr. Phillips—No; and I'll take care you sha'nt. Mr. HALLS then handed to the clerk of Mr. Ashurst the papers he had furnished; and the rest of the documents having been given to their respec tive owners, Mr. Cox observed, that a very important docu ment furnished by Mr. Scott, who was present, had not been returned to that gentleman. Mr. HALLS did not remember to have received the paper in question, and Sir R. Birnie made the same observation. Mr. Cox—Then I am afraid you have omitted One of the most important papers in the case. Mr. Phillips—l remember to have seen it stated, as coming from this office, that a statement supplied by Dr. Tweed!e was also a most important paper; yet, with all that, it appears that the inquiry is not to go on. After a great deal of discussion, it was finally agreed that the Magistrates should receive copes of the papers of Mr. Scott, and give their opinion upon them to-morrow (this day). MARL LEBON E. James Lynch, a young man, was charged yester day before Mr. URIFFITII, with embezzling IS/. 7s. 6d. He admitted that be had squandered the money away, and Mr. GRIFFITH committed him for trial. LAMBETH-STREET. Patrick Namara, who arrived on Monday night from Dublin, in custody of Lea, the officer, was placed at the bar on a charge of having robbed Mrs. Silva of 1001.'s worth of property, arid Peter Warburton of 351. in notes. The prisoner was remanded. A man named William Jones was brought before Mr. HARDWICK, at this office, charged with having stolen a cloak from the shop of Mr. Sharp, a clothier, residing in High-street, Whitechapel. The Magistrate committed the prisoner for three months to the house of Correction. An old man, accompanied by two of his daugh ters, applied to the Magistrate for advice under the following circumstances :—His (laughter, he said, resided in John-street, Limehouse—her husband was a sailor, and in the East Indies at present. She was taken ill of the small-pox about a fortnight ago, and died last Thursday. He had made appli cation to the landlord of the house for permission to see his daughter, and to bury her, and he refused not only to let him see her, but to let him have any of the property, or even to come into the house. The Magistrate said it was ourious case, and BIRTHS. On the 20th inst. at Brixton, the wife of Mr. Edmund Hodgson, of a (laughter, still-horn. On the 19th inst. at the Grove, Sussex, the lady of Capt. Dixie, R.N, of a daughter. On the 214 inst. at Blackheath, Mrs. J. M. Whites of a son. On the 22d inst. the lady of R. 131agcles, Esq. of Albe marle-street, of a son. MARRIED. On the 22d ins'. at St. George's, Bloomsbary, W. 13 ' Swift, Esq., of Queonborough, Kent, to Eliza, eldest daughter of E. H. Deevignes, Esq., of Hunter-street , Brunswick-square. At Marylebone, Lieut.-Col. Craigie, of Ferry Bank, Fifes t i Harriet, wid. w of Vie late Lient.-General Alseintyrel O f the Bengal Artillery. On the 1 4th inst. at Ardardan Hotta., Dumbartonshire , G. S. Bruce, Esq. of London, to Margaret Alexander, third daughter of the late C. Neilson, Esq. DIED. On the 20th inst. in Berkeley-square, General Lord Charles Fitzroy, of NVicken, in Northamptonshire, second sou of Augustus Henry Duke of Grafton, and Colonel of the 4Sth Foot. On the 29th ult. at Naplts, the Hon. Gerard Vanneckt second sort of the late, and brother of the yresent Lord Hu n ting field. On the 20th inst. at Clapham, in her 30th year, CA' roline, the wife of the Rev. Francis Goode, Chaplain in the service of the Hon. East India Company in Bengal. On the 21st inst. at Clapham, suddenly, Mr. Thoml l9 Newberry, late of Fleet-street. On the 18th inst. at Kensington, John Moberly, Eel' in the 92d year of his age. On the 18th inst. Charles, youngest sc,n of Wm. Barr, Esq. Blackheath, Kent. On the 15th inst. at Forest-place, near Nottingham , aged 64, Mr. Charles Sutton, formerly proprietor of the Not ;nqlioml?eview, which he was the founder of in 1818. He was, through life, the undeviating supporter great principles of civil and religious liberty, for the ad vocacy of which he suffered a year's imprisonment At Northampton, in 1816 and 1817. of the EAST INDIA.—DEATHS. At Calcutta, June 11, Mrs. S. Dowling, wife of J• Dowling, Esq., aged 16. At Bangalore, April 9, W. H. Yarde, E q. 11th Regt• Native Infantry, aged 23. At Salem, May 7, Eliza, wife of the Rev. Henry Crisp. At Hyderabad, May 5, Eliza Jane, wife of Capt. I. Campbell, and second daughter of Col P. Littlejohn, of the Bengal army. At Trinidad, Oct. 17, Philip Reinagle, Esq. aged 44. PAINTED AND PIIBLIJiHF.D AT MURDO YOUNG, 71TE SUIT 019rTety 112, STS-AN , LIPM11•14. he would send Miller, the chief °nicer, to make ind quiry into it. A man applied for relief from the parish of St' George. He stated that he had injured his hands and was not able to do any work, and far the lot four days he had subsisted upon w h a t "'Th e Refuge for the Destitute" had given him, lie f' 36 very willing to work, but was not able from the state of his hand. Mr. HAROWICK humanely gave the applica nt tome money, and advis e d th e p ar i s h t o re lieve him till such time as his hand was well. UNION.MALL. Richard Waters, of No. 50, Stamford-stree t, and a woman who described herself as his wife, were brought up for re-examination, on the alleged charge of having fraudulently obtained possession of various articles, the property of a great number of tradesmen. The prisoners were remanded from the preceding day, for the purpose of obtaining evidence to show that they gave fictitious names, in order to procure the different articles of furniture, &c., with which they furnished out their house in Stamford-street. A gentleman named Cook is the proprietor of houses in Albany-terrace, Regent's-park. At Mid summer last, I was applied to by a man named Parkes, who was anxious to become a tenant of one of my houses in the above street. He described himself a man of property, and referred me to Mr. Waters, who he said was a man of fortune, residing 'at No. 6, Park-road, Dalston, and had made it in the wine trade. Subsequently I had an interview with Waters, at Dalston ; and having inquired into • the respectability of Parkes, the former said that that person would, in every sense of the word, be a most desirable tenant ; that he was possessed of , great wealth, and had large landed estates; that he was now about to reside in the metropolis, and for that purpose had shipped his furniture on board a vessel, and it was now at the wharf ready to be taken to the abode he s e lect e d f or his future resi dence. 'Waters then beg a n t o s p ea k about himsel f , describing that he was in the win e trade, that he had considerable property ne a r C as tl e Ri s ing, in York shire, and concluded by exp ress i ng a desire that I would give him a call at the L on d on Docks, where I would have an opportunity of t a sting his very su perior stock of wine then in the vaults. Conceiving the tenant and the reference he gave to be unex ceptionable, I let my house to Parkes, soon after which I heard some awkward reports in the neigh bourhood about that person, and those who reside d in the house with him ; and one morning I took a walk up there, and on arriving next the door I saw s porter come out with a stove upon his shoulde r. The fellow on getting into the street looked abou t with an eye of caution, and then began to trot off as fast he could with his load. I followed with the beention of discovering where he carried the stove to, believing that my tenant was about quits ting the house, arid removing my fixtures as well as the goods on the premises. The porter, however, • was too quick for me, and he got away out of sight without my being enabled to ascertain where he was going to deposit his load. After this circumstance, said Mr. Cook, I called at the house to see the tenant, and having inquired for Mr. Parkes, the female prisoner, who opened the door, said that he was not at home, arid, in reply to my question, said that she was his wife. She then invited m e up stairs to the drawing-room, and I there told her alas I had been informed that Mr. Parkes was sbc'ut leaving the neighbourhood. She denied the report's saying that it was far from his intention; she then alluded to an idle rumour, as she called it, that had spread about the place, that Mr. Parkes was going to " bolt," and declared there was no truth in it. Mr. Cook added, that he then west away, and the next time he called there was nobody at home, Mr. Parkes having got away in the night time with. his • goods, and from that day to the present he (Mr. Cook) never received a halfpenny of the rent due. Mr. Harmer, for the prosecution, called Mr. Errs who stated that he was a tailor, and that about a . fortnight ago the prisoner called at his house and got measured for a pair of trousers, which he or. dered to be taken to No. 50, Stamford-street, saYing that they should be paid for on delivery. The article was sent, but an excuse was made for non - P a r ment, arid a few days afterwards the prisoner called, and having apologised for riot settling the little ac" count,said that he then came to be measured for suit of black, as he was going in mourning for his mother, and that when it was finished he should pal the whole bill together. The clothes were made up at the appointed time, and sent by a workman who had strict injunctions from his master not to leave them without the money. The female pri soner, however, cajoled the messenger out of the suit, desiring him to call in two hours and the money would be there for him. Repeated applications were afterwards made either for the return of the clothes or the money, but neither was to be had. Mr. Meredith stated that the prisoner wanted to be furnished with home articles at his shop, and re ferred to Mr. Commissioner Reynolds, No. 4, Foun' tain-place, City-road, for his character. Applies- " tion was made at that address, but so such person was known there. The witness said, that luckily for him, he did not part with his goods. The Magistrate intimated his determination Of committing the male prisoner for trial, on the case of Mr. Erp, brat as there was a probability of other charges of a similar nature being preferred, he should remand him until next Tuesday, and by that time the publicity given would have the effect of bringing others forward against him.