The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-03 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. Whitehall, May 14, 1929. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Lush Alfor,l, of the city of New Sarum, in the county of Wilts, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chascery. Whitehall, May 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Mercer, jun. of the town and borough of Deal, in the county of Kent, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Oswald Leicester, Liverpool, wine-merchant. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Joseph Everist and Richard Smith, Kent-road, coil merchants. Philip Henry Roper, Manchester-street, Manchester square, dealer. BANKRUPTS. Richard Kay and Thomas Shelley Vallet, Bolton-le- Moors, Lancaster. commission-agents, to surrender June 19, at five, 20, and July 14, at nine, at the Rope and An chor, Bolton-le-Moors. Barker, Gray's-inn-square, Lon don ; Woodhouse, Bolton-le-Moors. William Tickner, Mill- hill-mews, Wimpole -street, livery stable- keeper, June 5, 19, and July 14, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Camp, New-Inn, Strand. Christopher Renshaw and Thomas Renshaw, Notting ham, hosiers, June 11, 12, and July 14, at eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Knowles, New Inn, London; Hurst, Nottingham. William Davey, Bude, Cornwall, merchant, Jose 25, 26, and July 14, at ten, at the Falcon Inn, Bude. Cootie, Guilford-street, London ; Shearm, Stratton, Cornwall. William Nunney, Uxbridge -street, Notting-hill, Ken sington, plasterer, June 9, 23, and July 14, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Ewington and Chilcote, Bond-court, Walbrook. John Slater and Benedict Slater, Liverpool, timber dealers, June 22, 23, and July 14, at one, at the Claren don-rooms, Liverpool. Blackstock and Bunce, Temple ; Bardswell and Son, Liverpool. James Frederick Perrin, Old Broad-street, merchant, June 2, at twelve, 16, and July 14, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Thompson, Walbrook. George Augustus Elias Wilmot, Becklord-row, Wal worth, coal-merchant, June 9, 19, and July 14, at twelve, nt the Court of Commissioners. Scargill, Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street. Thomas Griffin Rawlins, Upper St. Martin's-lane, Mid dles....x, woolen-draper, June 9, at three, 19, at one, and July 14, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Chip pendatl, Coventry-street. William Thomas Rose, Dean-street, Park-lane, stock-agent, June 9, 19, and July 14, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Casterton, Tokenhowe-yard. John Jones Price, Wentworth-street, Wliitechapel, pawnbroker, June 9, at nine, 19, at ten, and July 14, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Lewis, Ely-place, Holborn. Patrick Charles Fleischmann and John Baptist Fleisch mann, Birtniugharn, merchants, June 12, 13, at two, and July 14, at twelve, at the Globe Tavern, Birmingham. Ogg, Southampton-buildings,; Haywood, Birmingham. Charles Everett, New Broad• street, merchant, June 16. 23, at nine, and July 14, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners. Freemans, Osborn, and Both=lir, Coleman • -street. _ Francis Sneade, Chester, broker, June 17, IS, and July 14, at three, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Hes hip, Manchester ; Hurd and Johnson, Temple, London. John Do Groot, Wood-street, Cheapside, merchant, June 9, at eleven, 16, at twelve, and July 14, at twelve, at the Court of Commikeioners. Hurd awl Johnson, King's Bench-walk, Temple. Thomas Claike, Limehouse, corn-chandler, June 9, 16, nd July 14, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Burford, Muscovy-court, Tower-hill. Edward Merrell, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, tailor, June 9, at eleven, 16, at twelve, and July 14, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Ogden, St. lUildreirs court, Poultry. Richard Ormrod and Jonathan Lees, Manchester, iron foul:eters, June 17, at nine, IS, and July 14, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Ellis, Walnaley, and Gorton, Chancery-lane, London ; Hampson, Manchester. John Rideing and William Henry Rideing, Liverpool, mer6ants, June 22, 23, and July 14, at one, at the Cla rendon Rooms, Liverpool. Mawdsley, Liverpool ; Ad lington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London. Charles Brooks, Tonbridge, Kent, linen-draper, June 9, at twelve, 19, at ten, and July 14, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Fisher, Walbrook-buildings, Wal brook. DIV I DENDS. John Hutcheson, Lynn, Norfolk, draper, June 26, at ten, .at the Court of Commissioners. George Boddington, Giltapur-street, victualler, June 23, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Joseph Adcock, St. Mary-Axe, druggist, June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. John Revans, jun. and Henry Samuel Chapman, Lon don, merchants, June 26, st ten, at the Court of Com missioners. Thomas Jenkins, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, cheese factor, June 23, at ten, at the Ram Inn, Cirencester. Benjamin Newmarch, Cheltenham, coal-merchant, July 1, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Robert Mason, Norwich, earthenwareman, June 25, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Norwich. William Ellis, Seymour-street, St. Pancras, grocer, June 9, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Samuel Chandler and Thomas William Younghushand Collinson, Princes-street, Leicester-equ ire, Middlesex, grocers, June 26, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Jane Docker, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden, vic tualler, June 30, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Charles King, jun., Halesworth, Suffolk, carpenter, June 21, at eleven, at the King's Head, Bungay. Richard Milnes Nickson, Chesterfield, mercer, June 26, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Cliesterfiel.d, Charles Henry Marshall, Cheltenham, traaer, July I, at ten, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. J. Rider, Winchester-house, Broad-street, merchant, June 30, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.. J. Williams, Bristol, woollen draper, July 3, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. J. Muir, Liverpool, June 25, at two, at the office of Mr. Lowe, Liverpool. G. and J. Thackrey, Leeds, merchant., June 29, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. John Hartley, Liverpool, victualler, June 24, at eleven, at Messrs. Brown's office, Liverpool. William Henry Haviland, Gloucester, spirit-merchant, June 24, at ten, at the office of Abell and Clutterbuck, Gloucester. CERTIFICATES-JUNE 23. Edward Cooper, Leamington Priors, Warwick, grocer. George Simpson, East India-chambers, Leadenhall street, insurance-broker. Archibald Morton, Archibald Rodick, and Charles Morton, Wellingborough, Northampton, bankers. W. Adams, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, surgeon. E. Beaman, Winnington, Cheshire, saft-manufacturer. J. Surtees, Wortley, Yorkshire, grocer. John Eames, Angel Inn, St. Clements, Strand, coach muter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Robert and Thos. Megge, Cambridge-Heath, Hackney road, ship-timber dealers. William and Charles Townend, Manchester, merchants. Richard Lovesy and William Bryan Hartland, Newent, Gloucestershire, surgeons. Thomas Barnes, sen. Joseph Barnes, and Thomas Barnes, jun., Wiza-Bridge Brewery, Cumberland, brewers. Ralph Frost and Isaac Peet, Derby, ribbon-manufac- tnrers. William Sclater, sen. and Wm. &later, jun., Gla,gow. David Souter and George Reid, Aberdeen, druggists. Robert Hodgson and David Simpkin Bird, Manchester, commission-agents. Thomas Scholes Withington, William Jes. Myers, Thomas Crooke, and Jobe Maclean, Liverpool. Thomas &holes Withington and William Jos. Myers, Liverpool, merchants. Charles Frederick Lebas and Joseph Horton, Birming ham, engravers. James Corner and George Ive Corner, Newington, carpenters. Richard Bullock and William Tarlington, Birmingham, plumbers. William Roper and David Lewis, Bunhill-row, surgeons. Thomas Allen and Joseph Holder, North-green Saw- M illy. Samuel Sewell and Drake Sewell, North Walsham, Nor folk, grocers. William Davies and John Davies, Giltspur-street, auc tioneers. N. Whitlock and J. T. Hinton, lithographic-printers, Paternoster-row. Joseph Benjamin Webb and Joseph Lewis, St. James's -street, Clerkenwell, brass- founders. Thomas Maunder, sen. and Thomas Maunder, jun., Crediton, Devonshire, tanners. Mary Newell, Henry Newall, and John Eaton, Ciro bury Mortimer, Shropshire, linen-drapers. James Chapman and Co., Liverpool, and James Breck auridge and Co., Montreal, Lower Canada, cnarnission agents. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) _ _ _ &IC:AIt.-The demand for the good and fine new Mus covades continued general and extensive during the last week, and the sales reported from 665. a 70s. were con•i derable ; we make a general advance of Is. per cwt. in the prices. The estimated sales last week were 3,800 hhds. and tees. The stock of Muscovades is now 3,620 laid& and tees. more than last year. The weekly delivery is not so great as anticipated ; it is 2,810 hhds. and tees., being 158 above the corresponding week of 1628. The Market this morning was again indifferently sup shied with good new Sugars ; the purchases of the day, including the public sale of Barbadoes, were estimated at 1,000 hhds. and tcs. There was a full attendance of buyers at market, but they did not appear inclined to purchase to any extent, and the market might be stated to have rather a heavy ap pearance, and in some instances the - prices were a shade lower. The Barbadoes Sugars sold heavily at a reduction of Is. per cwt. In the Refined Market the supplies of goods were quite inadequate to the demand ; both the fine and low goods were sc rce, and the prices were about Is. higher. FOREIGN SUGAR.-By public sde last week 357 chests 120 brls. Pernams, fine white sold 375. a 3Ss., middling and low went off Is. a 2s. higher, middling 325. a 355. By private contract 100 chests brown mill yellow sold 20s. a 225. There were no se.ies of Havannali Sugar. This day 200 chests, six half chests, and 39 1)6.. Brazil went at high rates; fine white 385., brown to low yellow IBs. a 238..6d. EAST INDIA SUGAR.-The public sales of Mauritius Sugars last week were about 12,000 bags ; the first part of the publics sales fully supported the late advance, but at the close of the week a reduction of 6d. to Is. on the brown, and IF. a ls. 6d. on the yellow descriptions took place. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.-There were several sales of Demerara Molasses at 221. 6d. for middling quality. COFFEE. —There were renewed inquiries after Foreign Coffee last week, and the purchases would have been con siderable, but the holders would not accept the offers made, as they were generally rather under the present currency of the Market. Above 500 bags good ordinary St. Domingo of old import sold at 345. 6d. The Coffee suitable fer home consumption sold 2s. higher, and the only descrip tions which sold on low terms were the middling qualities of Jamaica, which are plentiful, and appear to be forced on the Market at low rates. This day by public sale 423 casks 132 bags British Plantation Coffee, 103 bags Brazil, and 100 bags East India, the former consisted of Ja maica, Demerara, and Berbice, and some good new Do minica; the latter, low middling sold 51s. a sle. fine fine ordinary 465. ; the Demerara and Berbice, lately so much in demand, was all taken in ; Jamaica sold at previous prices ; the good ordinary Brazil, slightly da maged, and fair Ceylon, were taken alter the sale at 325. The Coffee Market is steady. Rum, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.-The Rum market continues dull, and the Jamaica descriptions are still forced on the market for sale at low prices; we believe there are no purchases of coy extent; some Leewarde, four over, have been sold at 2s. I d....—Brandies are hi Id with firmness, but the sale') are limited to small parcels for export.—ln Geneva no purchases are reported. Hors.—The accounts last week that the fly had ap- P' • eared in both counties of Kent and Sussex had no effect on the Ilop market, but the confirmation of the report yesterday had the effect of raising the prices 6s. a I Os. per cwt. INDIGO.- . [here appear to be considerable orders for Indigo, but they remain unexecuted, as the buyers hesitate to purchase on account of a public sale advertised ; the quantity is inconsiderable, but, as it is state' that it be longs to Liverpool speculators, there are some fears that they are shoot selling ; and, as the stock they hold is ex tensive, the effect on the market wctild i eserious. COTTON.—Eve public sales took pisce on Friday, of 190 bales Demerara Cotton, 2,464 bales Surat, and 275 bales damaged, of which 2,100 bales sold, with the whole of the damaged ; the Demeraras were of fine quality, and were bought in at ; the Surats ranged in quality from ordinary to good fair, and sold at 3hd. to sp., and the damaged 2, 1 •,a1. a St d., established an advance on the souna parceis of 0. on the lower qualities on the sales of the 6th ult. The purchases of the week will (with the pubiic sales) be 5,000 Surats, at 13 d, a 5d., 400 Bengal at 4d. a 411., 400 Pernams at 7d. a 71d., 150 Bowed at 59,1. a 6d., 100 Egyptian at 61d., 150 Bahia 6p. TEA.—The Tea sale commenced yesterday at the India House ; the I' llowing are the particulars :—Boheas, quarter chests Is. 6id. a Is. 6fd., half ditto Is. 7d. a Is. 7 d. ; large ditto Is. 54d. a Is. 54 I. ; Congous have began at, common 2s. Old. a 2s. Id., middling 2s. I id. a 2s, sd. Large Boheas are id. dearer than last the others Jowl' the same. Low Congons are :id. under last sale. HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusises.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 8 to .£2 15 New Meadow Hay Useful Meadow Hay 2 15 3 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay ...... Clover Hay 3 10 5 0 Oat straw £I 16 to £1 IS I Wheat Straw... 118 2 2 Fine Old Meadow Hay 4s. per load higher, Straw from 24. to 4s. per load lower than last quoted ; in prices of middl ng and inferior Meadow and Clover Hay no alteration. A great supply, and a dull trade. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadowl4;l £2 0 to £2 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 2 10 Useful Meadow Hay 2 17 3 4 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 4 4 0 Clover Hay (extra fine).....£5 0 ... Generally 3 0 4 10 Oat Straw £l 12 to £1 16—Wheat Straw 1 10 2 0 ~ moderate supply, and a sluggish trade, at Saturday's prices. COUNTRY CORN NIARKE:TS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Boston . Gainsborough —.— Grantham Grimsby Lincoln s. to s. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to 3. 6ii 36 17 39 -- - '73 23 40 64 75 32 34 21 25 36 40 68 72 28 30 18 24 36 40 64 73 22 30 20 24 30 40 70 76 34 36 20 26 33 40 64 '75 57:4 30 18 24 39 40 GO 19 32 34 18 23 36 40 70 8) 30 38 20 28 38 49 NOLZ IV I CH. ?lay 30. The suppli of Wheat is much the same as for several weeks past, and wa can quote no alteration in prices ; fine fresh samples sell readily, inferior descriptions dull in sale. Barley, Oats, Beans, and Pease, remain steady in price, and regularly find buyers as fast as they come into market. No alteration in Flour. ♦Vheat (per qr.) PALL 10s. 755. I Beans (per qr.) ...... 3f1,. 4 1 s. Barley Oats 2os. 265. —s. Flour, fine (per sack) 535. 555. CANTERBUR\. May 30. The supply of Wheat was not large, consequently the p r i c es of thin day week were fully supported. We had a goo d d e mand fur New Beans, which readily obtained pur chasers at an advance of es. per quarter. Barley and Pease unaltered. Good fresh Oats sell well at 2s. to 3s. per quarter advance above our last quotations, Wheat, white 683. to 75s . ..... Old —s. to —s. red •,,,, ...... 5Ss. to it's. Barley, Malting.,.,,. 325. to 365....... Grinding 26s. to 30s. Oats Beans 26s. to $43 ..... . Old 32s. to 265. Pease 32s. to .i5..,,3 CIIESTER.—WiIeat, per 7.51 b. 115.6 d. to I is. Dd., Bat 1ey,39 qrts 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d. Oats, 4.911). 2s, 3d. to 4s. Od. NANTWICIL—Wheat, per 751 b, Cd. to 12s. 3d.; Barley, 38 qrts. 3s. 9d.. to 6s. Od. ; Oats, 501 b. 4c. Cd. to 4s. 4d. EXETER MA Bev( Wore) N. 6d. 10, od, Mutton (its.'j,„ 05—0 6 Veal and i.arnt ..,,0 4 —0 61 Pork 0 a -r-0 Turkeys (each) 0 0 —6 Ducks (coup'e) 3 6—5 0 Fow;s 9 6—4 0 :WAY, May 29. To 31. P. 43 0 ai S% 17 0 15 0 19 0 15 ~"44 17 0 13 V 8 0 19 0 14 3% 1( E I S —May 29. INII, at (busnel) 95.9 d. 10s 0:1 Barley 4 6 5 0 Vats 3 3 —3 8 Beans ti o—6 5 13,tter (lb) 0 8 —0 10 L4g, (20) 0 0 —1 0 Putatix. (pg 1) 1 4—l 6 DUBLIN MARKET N TE.—Fs 1 From 781 'Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 26 0 35 8ete......,.. ...» 16 stone 14 0 70 Bailey------ 16 stone 13 0 2,576 Oats ------- 11 stone 10 0 9,497 Cwt. Flour--,....... 9 stone 6 0 1121 Oatmeal -----.. 11 stone 11 0 S.Gld to 'raker.; only. 7,654 Cwt. llour -------............ IS F 1 I 28 0 I 21 8 Average prize of. Wheat and Flour 555. Od. per sack. , .. r from 225. Oil. to 2St. Od. Receipts of Flour, 9,9.'1, !, sates Di . 1)0. 1), „ zeconps, .......... from 14s. 0:1. to 21s. Od. •.,, Thipp,......,,.... from ss. 06. to 13s 0.1. riticE OF 11tZaD• Quartern Loaf, Ch. soz. ..,- 104. I Half-rinnitern, 21)3.20z...... sd. QUEEN-SQUARE.—JAMES BUTLER, the young man charged with setting fire to Messrs. DOWN.. tu!cs' floor-cloth manufactory, in the King's-road, Chelsea, was yesterday fully committed for trial. ROWLAND STEPIIENSON.—Yesterday the freehold and copyhold estate of How Hatch, near South Weald, Essex, which was furnished by STEPHENSON, a few months prior to his defalcation and flight, wan sold 'at the Mart, by order of the assignees. The estate com prises a villa residence, with an ornamental sheet of water, fish-ponds, lawn, shrubbery walks, gardens, farm-house, i I and agricultural buildings, and 115 acres of meadow and • pasture land. The outgoings are but trifling. For this property Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH stated Mr. STRPHENSON had given %NO/. in June last, and his total outlay upon it, including improvements and embellishments, was 9,5001. Notwithstanding the exertions of the auctioneer, the whole estate was knocked down at the comparatively law sum-of 5,:350/. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.) Lord HILL presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Kingston-upon-Hull, praying for a free trade to the East Indies. Several Bills passed through different stages. Sir A. GRANT and others brought up three private Mr. GREEN and others brought up a private Bill. Mr. Newman, Assistant Clerk at the Bridge house, presented accounts of the income and ex penditure of the Bridge-house estates of the city of London. On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the accounts were ordered to be printed. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE presented a petition from Rathmullin, in Ireland, praying that the Fishery Counties might be continued. The Excise Acts Amendment Bill of Scotland and Ireland passed through a Committee. The Friendly Society Bill passed through a Com mittee. Lord ROSEBERRY moved the second reading of the Small Debts' Bill in Scotland, and gave notice that he should more the committal of it on Friday, in case his Noble Friend should not be pre• sent, who had intended to make the present motion. Lord CALTHORPE, on the Order of the Day being called on, postponed the second reading of the Anatomy Bill to Friday next. He was perfectly satisfied that every reason that called for any legis lative preceeding, made it most desirable this pro ceeding should take place without delay. The - Earl of MAMESBURY wire desirous of ascertaining whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to press this measure - forward. If it was, he should feel it his duty to oppose it on prin ciple, understanding it to be his intention to press it forward with all its faults, as it now existed. The Earl of HAREWOOD did not wish to oc cupy the valuable time of the House; his objections were very strong to this measure. His perfect con viction was, that neither this nor the other House had any right to legislate as they had done upon this subject. Lord SIDMOUTH presented a petition from the inhabitants of Devon, against the Duty on Coals. It appeared to the Noble Lord that the ob ject of this petition, and the grounds on which it was presented, were correct; he should, therefore, give it his full support, and requested that it might he read at length. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that on a former night he had intimated, that if his Majesty's Ministers did not of their own accord lay before the House such papers respecting the renewal of the Elst India Company's Charter before the breaking up of Parliament, as would enable their Lordship.; by the time the House met again to have every pos sible information on the subject, he should feel it his duty within a short time to move for the pro duction of certain documents. He therefore wanted now to know whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to bring forward such papers. Lord ELLENBOROUGH had hoped before this time to have been able, by the command of hi; :Majesty, to have laid before the House the papers now referred to, ,bot he had found them in so im perfect a state as to require considerable delay in getting them properly arranged. He trusted that by next Thursday he should be able to lay them on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then gave notice that on Thursday next he should present a varie'y of petitions on the subject. The House adjourned at Six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(LAST NIGHT.) On the motion of Mr. PLANTA a new writ was ordered to be made out for the Borough of Cam bridge, in the room of Colonel Trench, who has ac cepted the office of Principal Store-keeper. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented .a pe tition from an individual of the name of Henry Burgess, praying that the question of the expediency of returning from paper to a gold currency may be further consi•lered early in the next Session of Par liament. He perfectly agreed in the prayer of the petition, which strongly pointed out the evils of the present system of currency. Mr. HUME presented a petition from George Butler, master-mariner, who stated that he had re gularly, for seven years, laid his prayer before this House, for the abolition of impressment, and of the tax of sixpence out of every month's pay for Greenwich Chest, from merchant seamen, who derived no benefit from it. Mr. SYKES supported the petition, nhich after a few words from Mr. W. SMITH, was ordered to be printed. Mr. CROMPTON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Derby, complaining of the distress of that part of the country, and praying for a Re form in the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. VILLIERS STEWART moved for various Returns connected with the Colonies. Sir GEORGE MURRAY presented certain Reports from the Cape of Good Hope, Mid also moved that a humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order the Report of the Commissioners for the Manumission of Slaves in the Island of Ber bice, dated 13th May, 1829, should be laid before the House. Mr. OTWAY CAVE, on presenting two peti tions from Leicester for a repeal of the Corn Laws, stated that they were the petitions of which he had given notice some days ago, not for the purpose of creating an irritating discussion on a subject which had been exhausted on a former night,—when he must say that the speech of the Member for Mon trose had not been answered in any one of its details or arguments—or for the purpose of long trespassing himself on the patience or time of the House, but he thought it his duty, having strong opinions on this point, to endeavour as far as he could to attract all possible attention and notice to the petition, at a time when such deplorable scenes had been taking place hr many of the manufacturing districts lately, and when the present scarcity and dearness of bread, was augmented by the present Corn Laws, which had caused other nations to cease to produce for our market. He (Mr. 0. C.) entirely agreed in the wish of the petitioners for a total repeal of the corn laws, without any duty whatever. He objected to the system of averages, as being open to fraud, and being expensive, and he did not think that it would be just, or possible, to levy any fixed duties during a time of scarcity, and this was the only part of his Honourable Friend's motion of which he disap proved. The only arguments used by the land owners in favour of what they called a protecting duty were, that they bore exclusive burdens in the shape of tidies and poor -rate; but he thought that the amount of this exclusive taxation, if any, was not so great as supposed, inasmuch as the wages of labourers were in many in stances paid partly out of the poor-rates, and, iii consequence of a part of the empire being tithe free, the tithe became a tax upon produce, and fell upon the consumer. He was of opini on t h a t the many advantages of politicalinfluence an d p o wer, both local and . gen eral, peculiarly annexed to the possession of landed property, were such as to con terbalance those supposed exclusive burdens. As, at all events, landlords themselves were not bene fitted by the corn laws to anything like the degree in which all other classes were injured by it, he would put it to the good feeling and generosity of the landlords in that House, whether it would not be better eventually for them that a tax should be abrogated, the advantage of which was but pro blematical and certainly could only be temporary, and above all, which caused them t o b e regar d e d with suspicion and jealousy by those who would otherwise look up to them as their natural friends and protectors. Alter a few words from Mi. Monek, Mr. Hume, Mr, C. Fenian), Sir Charles Hastings, Mr.. Port man, and Mr. Bennett, the petition was ordered to lie upon the table. Sir M. W. RIDLEY also concurred in the prayer of the petition. Mr. KENNEDY postponed the third readinff of the Tailzies Regulations and the Tailzies Relief Bills (Scotland), till the twit Session. Lord OXIVIAN TOWN presented a petition from Clare, against the application of the Poor Laws to Ireland. Mr. 11. TWISS moved for au extract from the commission, appointing Sir R. Farquhar to the Governorship of the Mauritius, and certain returns relative to the said Island. Mr. HUME begged to ask the Right lion. Gent. whether it was the intention of Government to in troduce shortly a Council into the Island. Sir G. MURRAY not having received notice of the Hon. Member's intention to make that en quiry was not prepared to give him a definitive answer. Mr. HUME said that his intention was to pre vent, if possible, any one man having the power of taxing that island as much as he thought proper. Mr. D. GILBERT presented a petition from Waddington, Cornw►►ll, against the importation of Foreign Wool. Mr. WHITMORE presented a petition against the House and Window Tax, from the parish of St. Luke's, Middlesex. Mr. SYKES presented a petition from the Mer chants and Ship-owners of Kingston-upon-Hull, praying for a free trade to India. Mr. HUME also presented a petition from Clon tarf, in the County of Dublin, praying for the Emancipation of the Jews. WEAVERS IN SPITALFIELDS Mr. WARD said, the petition which he held in his hand came from an eminent silk-manufacturer in the city of London, and in order to render it intelli gible he would mention to the House a certain pe culiarity which existed in the silk trade of this me tropolis. The master manufacturer delivered out to the journeyman weaver the materials which it was his business to work up, and for that purpose the journeyman weaver was permitted to take it to his own residence. At Manchester, and other places in the country where the silk trade was carried on, this was not the case. The master-manufacturer in those towns had the raw material worked up on his own premises; he could therefore shut his door upon his own property, and thus, if it were injured, he had a claim to compensation from those who injured ir. Here, in London, there was nothing like it; for the journeyman weaver took the master's pro perty to his own place of residence, and this led to an accumulation of en immense quantity of manu factured and unmanufactured goods in the particular district in which the weavers resided. This cir cumstance hail given the weavers a power over the master-manufacturers which had led to the most notorious abuses. He must inform the House that the journeymen silk-weavers had held a meeting at a place called Temple Mills, in Essex, in which they had come to the following resolutions :—the first was, that " there should be a general strike against those manufac:strers who refused to pay within 10 per cent. of the book prices of 1824, and who would not continue to give oat canes at that price." The consequence of this reso lution was, that supposing a master mannfac titter was inclined to agree to pay such prices for the work already given out, it would avail him nothing, unless he would also agree to pay such prices for the work which he continued to give out for the future. The Hon. Member then entered into some further observations, which were nearly inaudible in the gallery ; but from which we col ected that he was complaining of the state of in security in which the property of the silk manufac turers was at present placed; and that he was call ing upon the Government to take some measures to maintain and vindicate the law, thus openly vio lated. He also stated that the petitioner had in his petition called the attention of the House to the prices which his weavers were accustomed to receive for their labour. He (Mr. Ward) had no right to declare to the weavers what prices they ought to receive and be content with ; but this he felt bound as a man to declare to then), that if they were really distressed, they were only making bad worse, by refusing to take the little offered to them ; and that the sooner they relinquished their present illegal and unjustifiable practices, the better it would be for themselves, their families, and their trade at large. The Hon. Member then moved for leave to bring up the petition. Mr. PEEL—The petitioner says, that " the jourseymen weavers are not satisfied with being paid the increased wages demanded by themselves upon the works they have in hand, and which they had engaged to work up at a lower rate; but they insist upon having other work delivered out to them at the same increased wages, whether the - master has occasion for further work or not, and also that the master shall give work to such hands us have been recently discharged by them; and they refuse to unseal the looms or to desist from the present system of destruction unless their terms are complied with." If this be the case, and un fortunately there is too much reason to believe that it is,—why does not the petitioner appeal at once to the magistrates for protection against the indi viduals who thus openly threaten the destruction of his property ? Is the law incapable of affording him adequate protection ? When I refer to the law which applies to such cases, I find it couched in the following clear and explicit terms :—" If any person shall, by violence to the person or property of another, or by threats or intimidation, or by mo lesting, or in any way obstructing another, force or endeavour to force any manufacturer or person car rying on any trade or business, to make any altera tion in his mode of regulating, managing, or con ducting, or carrying on such manufacture, trade, or business; or to limit the-number of his appren tices, or the number or description of his jour neymen, workmen, or servants, every person so offending, or aiding, abetting, or assisting therein, being convicted before two Justices of the Peace, shall be imprisoned only ; or imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months." If, then, a person makes use of such threats as are stated to have been made against the property of the petitioner, it is the bounden duty of ',the masters so threatened, according to my view of the subject, to appeal to the law, not only for their own protection, but alSo for the punishment of their offending workmen ; and it is vain fOr them to apply for a more-poWerful law, if they have not allowed the terrors of the existing law to be called into ope ration. Another complaint which the petitioner makes is, that there is not in the district of Spite's fields a police force sufficient to protect the property of the inhabitants. I admit this to be the case; but I have done all that I could this Session to add to the general police force for the protection of the metropolis.—( Hear, hear.)—On this very day, out of the limited number of police-officers, which we have for the protection of the metropolis, 79 have been stationed in Spitalficids, to enforce the sentence of whipping passed upon one of the weavers who wits convicted of the disorderly conduct of which the petitioner complains. All the civil force which could be spared has been placed at the command of the Magistrates of the district; and in case that civil force had been found insufficient for the purpose which it was ordered to accomplish, a letter which I addressed to the commanding officer of the troops in the Tower would have enabled the Magistrates to have called in the military arm of the State to their assistance. The law of the country must and shall be enforced—(loud cries of " hear" from all sides of the House)—and here I am compelled to state that it does appear to me that the weavers of Spitalfields are acting in the most shameful and disgraceful manner.—(Repeated cries of " hear" from all quarters of the House.) —They have shown themselves utterly unworthy of the munificent contributions which the gene rosity of the country devoted to their support. —( The same unanimous cheering was here re peated.)—And if they persevere in their present impo litic, illegal, and unjustifiable course, they will in volve themselves, their families, and their trade in one general and unsparing ruin. —(Hear, hear.) — At a time of the most profound tranquillity, it is as much as the trade of Spitalfields can do to com pete with that of Manchester, where a larger capi tal is engaged, and Where greater improvement m the maouracture is daily displayed.—( Hear, bear.) —lf the weavers of Spitaifields think that they can promote their interests by the interruption which they are now giving to the operations of their mas , ters, they are indeed most wofully and lamentably mistaken.—(Hear, hear.)—Their masters will resort to other places ; there is no obstruction to the re moval of their capital; and it is quite monstrous to suppose that they will remain in London to submit to the degrading dictation of workmen, who would compel them, by a most detestable conspiracy of 8,000 or 9,000 persons, to turn off men who earned 355. a-week in their employment, and who were content to work at that rate of wages. Sir, I do most earnestly wish that the weavers of the country would attend a little to their own interests. Here are subscriptions going on among them in various parts of Englund to support the men who are guilty of this riotous and disorderly conduct in Spital fields. There are parts of the country in which very severe distress is at present experienced by the working classes. In various districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire the weavers cannot earn sufficient to provide themselves with the necessaries of life, much less with those comforts which we should all wish the labourer to enjoy; but there is an inflitua tion—l can call it nothing else—among them, which leads them to put aside part of their scanty earnings to support the weavers of Spitalfields in idleness, who at this time can earn four times as much as any of the weavers at Stockport and Manchester. This gentleman says, in his petition, " that he has been obliged to discharge many hands who were earning upwards of 20s. per week, because he dares not trust his property in Spitalfields, but whom otherwise he should very willingly have continued to employ; that some of the weavers now in his em ployment, and whose works are sealed, can earn in a single loom 355. per week, and many others from 18s. to 25s.,and that he has none in his service, who, if in dustrious, need earn less than 15s. per week in a single loom; and that as the wives of weavers are generally weaveresses or winders, and their children, from an early age, are usually employed in some branch of the manufacture, they who have families earn proportionally more." I say that if men will be foolish—l had almost said mad—enough to enter into combinations to refuse such wages, they are providing for the ruin of themselves and their fa milies as inevitably as men can do. I hope, that when this absurd behaviour of the Spitalfields wea vers is known throughout the country, no one of the poor operatives in Yorkshire and in Lancashire,who earn their 7s. or Ss. a week by the sweat of their brow will devote the smallest portion of their scanty earnings to a fund, which enables the weavers of Spitalfields to eat the bread of idleness at their expence.—(Hear.)—One word now with respect to the master manufacturers. I lament exceedingly tat they have given way, as they have done, to the demands of the journeymen.—(Cries of " hear" from all parts of the Clouse.)—lt would have been better—in my opinion incalculably better—for tke master manufacturers to have resisted to the utter most the unjust demands of their journeymen, than to have gained a temporary repose by compromising them.—(Hear, hear.)—lf convinced that they can not pay the prices demanded without ruin to their trale, they should refuse to give such prices rather than make a temporary concession of them.— (Hear, hear.)—Let them depend upon it they will gain nothing by such temporary concession.— (Hear.)—lt is wrong, I admit, for the masters to combine to reduce the wages of their workmen; but if conscientiously convinced that they cannot pay the wages demanded by thasir workmen without ruin to themselves, they ought to consult their own interests, and to resist the intimations which they have received from their workmen that their pro perty shall be destroyed if they refuse to give the wages demanded.—(Hear.)—This very gentleman admits, in a memorial which he sent to me on the 26th of May last, that the magistrates of the dis trict were most ready to attend to all the cases of complaint which he and others had brought against their various workmen. (Here the Right Hon. Gentleman read a letter, in which the petitioner said " We are ready to acknowledge the attention which the magistrates have in all cases paid to the complaints which we have brought before them"—and in which be complained, if we heard the letter correctly, of the small force of police which was stationed in the district). My answer to this complaint is, that I sent in all the small force of police which the law at present places at my dis posal. if the civil force is insufficient, I say that in that case, but in that case only, you shall have the military. 1 have done all that I can to remedy any inconvenience which may arise from the smallness of the police force of that district, by placing at the command of the Magistrates for the present, a force of ten times its amount, taken from other parts of the metropolis.—(Hear, hear.)-1 call, therefore, upon the master-manufacturers to co-operate with the Magistrates in enforcing the law against their refractory workmen.-s(Great cheering) Mr. P. THOMSON, in exculpation of the peti tioner, begged to inform the House that he had nearly fallen a victim to his attempts to carry the law of the land into execution. He was the first person who had brought any complaint against the weavers, and who had determined to prosecute his complaint before the Magistrates. He had suffered from a state of things to which the Right Hon. Gen tleman had not alluded at all in his speech, and which was owing to the general mode of carrying on the silk manufacture in Spitalfields. When the Right Hon. Secretary said, that the masters were not willing to exert themselves in defence of their property, and that they had never appealed to the law for its protection, lie bad completely-overlooked one objection which stood in the way of his doing so. To appeal to the law, you must be able to bear out your case by evidence. Now the whole population of the district was ranged against such evidence, and- used every exertion to inti midate sufferers from coming forward. He cited the case of the petitioner as one exactly in point. The Right Hon. Secretary had also overlooked the great loss of property which the petitioner had sus tained in his attempts to vindicate the law. Pro perty of his had been destroyed since last week to the value of 150/. or 2001.; and that, too, not in the hands of those who wanted work, but in the hands of those who were earning 355. or 40s. a a week, and in a way which could not have been prevented without the presence of an overwhelming force of police upon the spot. On Sunday night last a weaver in the employ of Mr. Moore, whilst in bed, heard a knock at his door. He opened his window, and called out " Who's there ?" He was answered, " A friend—lot me in." To this he re plied, " Friend or no friend, you can't come in." The consequence was that his door was immediately wrenched open by mein force; fifteen men entered his house; they went up-stairs—they threatened him with death if he gave any alarm—they destroyed all the work in his possession ; and not content with - destroying his work, they also destroyed a loom, the property of his master. There was another point also which prevented the master manufacturer from prosecuting. There were some men who had nerve enough to despise the threats of the weavers, and who were willing to risk their property rather than degrade themselves by any disgraceful submission to unjust demands: but there were others who were more timid, and who were desirous to get as much of their property as they could out of the hands of the weavers. Was the Right Hon. Secretary aware of the means to which the weavers resorted to work upon the feelings of such master-manufacturers ? In the course of the lust few days, many threatening le , by the masters, bad beers placed in jthem w as d rawn u p i n terms so d that he could say nothing odious itoe, hands—one and received of disgusting, more of its contents than it threatened not only the life and property of the parties to whom it was ad dressed, but also the lives of some of their dearest connexions. He entirely con curred ie the PPt li t le that to none were these outrages so fatal as e—their operatives themselves, who were rushing uP°ll„ ; to own ruin, when they combined in this m ane perpetrate outrage upon their masters. Sir G. PHILLIPS concurred with the Member who preceded him, ie the the language of the Right Hon. Gent. w°" hi productive of the most advantageous effects througo out the trade. Nothing could, indeed, be Is pernicious to the interests of the poor thetn 9e. „ - s than that practice of combination which now °L e , happily prevailed. It had come to his kpowleue,l during reie of these combinations, t h a t bodie ti ver men were actually paid to spread themselves' ° to , the country, and to encourage others by preCeP t rie , well as example in adopting the same These things were taking place now, and the ' 4- her e men were turning out at a time and in a place~ wages were very far from being at a low rate. tei ,, able workman could earn thirty shillings 8 ‘ i V to while young persons were receiving from twe, r i v h - e o opinion that seventeen shillings, and boys eight shillings. ' t hey were the wages at Stockport, and he believed tiro, were as high as the ordinary wages of t he „ t , i •sle He knew so much of combinations as to be se'-'lOO that wages were not always at the low est t bst, where tire " turns-out" chiefly took place; bn u t ;v ;her on the contrary, the wages were generally h igher there than in other places where the workm en ', o st DO complaint. The proportion of turning:loe seemed indeed to be, not in proportion to th e tress, but to the high price of wages. o ilier Mr. HUME deprecated, as much as anY i ; rn e Hon. Member, the cours e p u rsued by the wor7ifer: arid predicted, as the result of it, continue d ' l t u p ing. In the Committee, however, which stairs to inquire into the Combination Laws, twill workmen and masters who were examined u" to disclaiming any wish to appeal to force, a n k ith Glared they viewed any proceeding of that ki n d "00 the Utmost horror, and expressed their willinfgee to use their utmost efforts in repressing it. I; be were the recorded sentiments of the trades; ",,"• 01 0 was satisfied these persons expressed the 0 P7,:c1 of a great majority. After observing he c onslut o the clause in the Combination Laws against t:the practices to be as well framed as any clause 01 kind which ever received the sanction o f the Leg t i he lature, the Hon. Member proceeded to say , that t h ey workmen were now in the best condition which \lot ever enjoyed. They might work or not w° 1.44 00 as they pleased, at any hours and for o i l P r u clt they pleased, so that they enjoyed quite ,1140 independence as the masters. It had been sawe'tse the present proceedings arose from the state o f w ag Combination Laws; but in his opinion there Is ere not one combination now for twenty w hich It entered into before the amendment of the law 6 ' re si' appeared, at the present moment, that these t e !.. e lef' nations were confined to Spitulfields and Al n— ,.ere field, and, as they had heard, many of them supported by persons kept in pay for the P ur r i sst He agreed with the Right Hon. GentleM an ',isle means should be adopted to bring them t° P e itio° merit. It was for this assistance that the prayed, and he trusted the House would not re' e rs' Mr. E. DAVENPORT trusted that tire (l er tives of Macclesfield would be able to free selves from any participation in these corni"" (1-1° t I ri Mr. FYLER knew the weavers of Coven is were in the greatest distress. A meeting wa o ll' take place on Wednesday, in order to rai se a la seription for supplying soup to many who wer e f the state of starvation. He thought the practice ore masters in lowering the wages by trifles, svhie e h ir eti of little importance to them, but which i°r something considerable in the earnings of the Y o ,k' men, could riot be too much condemned. Mr. V. FITZGERALD defended hi s "i, ig ht } r' Hon. Friend (Mr. Peel) from the imputation of 'l i p ing expressed himself Man unfeeling mariner to ll e ft the operatives. His Right Hon. Friend read t 2 o Bs p . r a ov y, e ,e t e l k ia_t some i j o e f s s t t h h e a i workmen ts. that fact, not for the purpose of ahewingthatt!:l distress existed, but for the purpose of proving 0 0 ' 0 the consequences of combination fell heavies t h those who were in distress, and who did not, Per il ,a, r s participate in the mal-practices of the combins'es As to the fact of the existence of great tlistresfl,o,, man attempted to deny it ; but now that the '"joill bers of the House were on the eve of a separ at h t o Ire thought it important that it should g o fort re the public, that whatever difference of oplai°" bn vailed on the subject of the distress, there vi i t e je one sentiment on this question—that the dto was bound to concur in any measure intelme.oo and he allude enforce the laws and to put down combioetivie were, real', 7, fatal to the industry and manufactures of the w et of country. With respect to the particular dieri. t he which the petitioner complained, it was rietibef workmen of that district should know that r '5,14 listened to the inflammatory language of their Pre, advisers, distress and misery to the w orkme" follow the ruin of the property of the wester n ' gr' After a few words in explanation, from FYLER arid Mr. V. FITZGERALD, O d e Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN concurred t - 0 0' opinion that these combinations were ruinoa o y t° parties connected with them, and bore testidsett' the great respectability of the petitioner. 4 : Soli' ling, however, to the observations of t he s, he Baronet (Phillips) on the subject of Prl e— i th e thought it right to point out to the attention tot, House, that hour that statement it was evidel it tp 01 children of ten years of age could, for the t li , f er eight shillings a.week, do the work, with r a f 4.° loom, of three men; and there were urvar da t co4l l l; thousand of these hand-looms in the m antlfe e- , of districts. It was said that the combinat ig" ,tro' Spitulfields was driving the trade from the w a de polis, but he believed there was ver y . little i tr any where, and that the distress was univernord, Mr. Secretary PEEL should feel extrent4;ooo if any of the observation's which fell from him " n tle' be supposed to cast any reflection on the V el d man who presented the petition. He ree°"eislija that at a very early period of these disturbane oeu had an interview with the petitioner, wino OP; a disposition to submit to any personal se e r ' order to enforce the laws, and therefore anYA,'O4 t ° Mimi against the masters of suffering 600'1,4 t ° be intimidated by the workmen did "not.aYrisit# him. With respect to the workmen, he:had A a ore ted they were objects of commiseration nil:, 1,10 pathy, and he declared his regret that th°,7e in were disposed to work ut fair prices eliou lu volved in the odium attendant on these prcic ee iliefe, and be stripped of their earnings to suppo rt fee lit i o combinations. He could trot avoid, indeed , D er a good deal of indignation against the coors'eallt sued by these persons, and he had received a,„.1111; municatien in the course of the last two thl a 'whi c : marked them as adopting a line of c onduc t ho iel l r e would subject them to well deserved pu ni 7o o o - A manufacturer of the North of England 11 ' 1 " - a communication to him stating that a pe rat) illi .r was willing to work at a price somewhat loot e .i et lt t } that which had been given before was stllli e ns e a scandalous outrage, and one new to tha t ,: the country. Vitriol was thrown upon hi ° : e t e°:'; clothes, and the two persons charged with t" - re ee t 'i; mission of the offence were persons , the otl e ji'l n ' - ing:3os., the other ‘l.os. Weel:.--(f le " r ''reri; thought these practices deserved the utmost t,(e bation, and he agreed with the Hon. nnr," (l lle to ! li d ! G. Phillips), that th e combinations prevtti' e ;; e ss greatest extent in those places whose di 9 ' . the least claim on our sympathy. dis tf"s. Mr. WARD denied lie said there was no for Ca; As to the charge made by the Hon. Mellth er e it6 pe ventry (Mr. Fyler), of using ex-parte staterrl:ooi could disprove it at once, by saying that he pi, I' case as made out by the workmen, and no masters. et iti en f HERRING FISHERIES. Mr. FERGUSSON rose to present ° , l from Wigtowlishire, praying for the contio"%oo",' the bounties on the Herrin Fishe ries of S t' abg e. m w a n d ic e h t t o , x t p h i e re ß it o t ad pr o il f t l ie i x ra t t .:A s‘ n ,h a k p h plir e ti °; h oOlh t ' i li say, had not met with the ' 'desired su e t h e was a question essentially connected wit h t-