The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-11 00:00:00

Wooilvrard, timber-mercl.ants, Bristol, Feb. 3, at one, at the Com mercial Rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES—JAN. 31. T. Coney, miller, Sculthorpe—J. Cooke, tailor, Regent-street — C. P. Chapman, metal broker, Gimbal—J. Rowley and J. M. Constable. corn merchants, Manchester—F. Shaw, master mariner, rltham, Kent—T. and 11. D. Beak, saddlers, Birmingham—E. Wilson, cheesemonger, Lower Thames-street—W. Wright, banker, Harrow-on -the-Hill. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Bulling and Co., coal merchants, Bolton (as far as regards J. Begis)—E. Bolling and Co., cotton spinners, Bolton (as far as regards J. Bolling)—G. Limas and Co., attorneys-at-law, Newport Pagnell (as far as regards G. Lucas)—J Walton and J. D. Jack son, iron-founders, Toll End, Staffordshire—W. Brassington and J. Paton, soda-water manufacturers, Salford—J. G. and G. H. Crump, attorneys-at-law, Liverpool—W. B. Beynolds and W. James.vvoollen d ra pers,Birmingham•—W.Watkins and Co., bankers, Northampton — S. Cooke and - H. Vine, painters, Great Russell street, f a as Hague and Co., bankers, Dewsbury, York shire (as far as regards M. Hale)— T. Gash and J. Todd, yeast and spirt-mechants, Globe-street, Wapping—J. Massey and Co., Manchester (as far as regards G. Smith)—C. Ro cotton-spinners, binson and T. Holmes, surgeons, Halifax—H. C. Cock and J. 'Wagstaff, braid manufacturers, Manehester—T. and R. P. Clark, ship brokers, Bristol—T. B. Young and J. H. Embleton, ship and insurance broLers. Sunderland—E. Wilkins and 'l'. White, whole sale oil and colourrnen—D. Edwards and W. Brown, fustian shear ers, Manchester—W. Gladwin and J. Norton, silk dyers, Maccics field—A. Pitt and M. A. Mather, milliner, St. James's-place, St. James's-street—F. Emery and Co., china manufacturers, Stoke upon-Trent (as far as regards F. Emery)—C. Humberston and Co., shipwrights, Liverpool (as far as regards J. Taggart)—J. R. Marriott and J. Brook, grocers,,Holmfirth, Yorkshire—J. Malachy and Co., lime-burners, Callington, Cornwall—J. Winkfield and C. Sweeney, surgeons, Market, Bedfordshire—W. Tayler and R. Cor aer, Epsom-salt manufacturers, Battersea—J. Lee and C. Harratt, dealers in metals, Birmingham—W. Littler and Co., silk printers, Waltham Holy-cross (as tar as regards W. Littler)—R. Forshaw and J. Kirwan, shipwrights, Liverpool—G. and J. Wright, tailors, Bradford—T. Robinson and B. Evans, cork manufacturers, Don easter—T. Stephenson and T. Whiting, grocers, Beverley—J. aid W. Glover, coach proprietors, Enfield—W. Duerdin and W. Up ton, shoe mercers, Gerrard-street, Soho—J. Kirkman and G. Ru • therford, attorneys, Cannon-street —G. C. and W. Parker, victual lers, Walworth Road—L. Jones and Co., brewers, Shrewsbury. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of Jan. 10.) SUGAR.-In the West India Market there has been less business done, the grocers and refiners both having purchased sparingly ; the prices of our last are, however, fully main tained, 575. having been paid for ord. gray St. Kitt's and St. Vincent's, and 575. 6d. a 58s. 6d. for mid. Jamaica and Grenada for the pan ; mid. descriptions for the scale have been disposed of at 595. a 615., good celoury 625. a 635., but the purchases since this day week have not exceeded 1,600 'Aids. and trs. There have been no arrivals this year. The stock of West India Sugars is now 28,441 hhds. and trs., being 5,981 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius is now 23,146 bags, which is 12,965 less than last year (including the East India Dock). The delivery of West India last week was 2,505 hhds. and trs., which is 50 more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius was 2,369 bags, being 2,519 less than the corresponding week of last year (including the East India Dock). This afternoon, on account of the public sale of Mauritius of the new crop, there was very little business done, either by the grocers or refiners, but excepting at fully former rates there are not sellers ; the purchases, including a public sale of 127 hhds., which went at 645. to 68s. 6d., being last sale's prices, do not exceed 500 hhds. and trs. The quantity of Refined goods ready for immediate delivery being scanty has much checked the demand from the grocers ; they have really paid 80s. for Lumps equal, and 78s. to 795. for those rather under the standard, but the shippers have pur chased with much reluctance, paying 375. 6d. to 38s. for small parcels of double Crushed. For the ord. descriptions of Treacle there has been a good demand at improved rates. Bastards low quality have met with a better demand, and prices have advanced. Dutch Crushed Sugar is held firmly for 355., but at present nothing has been done. This after noon the market was extremely dull; there was but little re quest from the grocers and none from the shippers ; double Crushed may be purchased at 375. MAURITIUS.-The prices have been steady, and there has been a good request from the grocers ; the parcels offered at auction, in all 5,880 bags, all found buyers, ord. to good yellow at 60s. to 655. 6d. low to fine brown 525. to 59g., ord. and fine strong gray 565. to 635. 6d. There have been no arrivals. This afternoon a public sale of 5,114 bags, reported 9th De cember, went off without spirit, but was all disposed of at rather lower rates, mid. strong yellow went at 605., good rather gray 61s. a 61s. 6d., good bright 625. a 645. EAST INDIA.-Bengal has met with a good sale for home consumption at 6d. to Is. advance, and 1,180 bags at auction were all disposed of, low to fine white at 323. to 375. 6d. In Siam or Java nothing has been done, but in Manilla purchases privately to the extent of 1,000 bags have been made at 225. to 235., being prices which the importers have been asking for some time past. This afternoon at public sale 1,234 bags and 54 chests Bengal, the principal part of which were bought in at extreme rates, low brown at 21s , mid. white 325. 6d. to 335. 6d. ; the remainder went at good Market prices, damp white at 30s. to 325. Gd.. washed 255. to 31s. 6d., low sound white 28s. to 325. 6d., greyish yellow 245. 6d. to 375. FOREIGN.-There has been nothing done, on account of the large parcels advertised for public sale on the 17th instant, mostly of white Havannah. A public sale of 1,200 boxes of Havannali, which was to have taken place this day, has been postponed until next Thursday. Average price of Sugar-No returns made last week. _ NloLassEs.-The prices of West India have improved fully Is. per cwt., and there has been a good request; sales of good Demerara and Antigua made at 285., and Barbadoes of fine quality at 31s. The supplies in 1836 exceeded those of the previous year by 4,600 puns. The total deliveries of West India Molassess from the warehouses for home use, for the week ending January 7, amount to 2,038 cwt. Rem, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The buyers of Rum have purchased very moderately, and the importers have accepted prices Id. under those of former rates; small parcels of De merara 4 per cent. over have been disposed of at 3s. 7d , and 36 over at 4s. 4d. ; there have been no arrivals this year. The Market for Brandy has become dull, but the prices remain much the same as quoted for some time past. Geneva has been taken off steadily, at Is. 10d. to 2s. for pale. Tatamw.-There has been a good demand for parcels on the spot, and the prices have advanced to 445. 3d. to 445. 6d. for 1' YC. For delivery the business done has been to a very limited extent at 445. to 445. 3d. COTTON.-The demand for East India has been mostly con fined to Surat, for which there has been a good request from the home buyers at late rates. The private purchases have been 1,200 bales Surats at 44d., 100 Bengal at 4id. a 4:}d., and 150 St.._ Domingo at 9d. For the 17th of February, 2,000 bales of Surats are declared, and it is probable that on that day the sales will be very extensive. OILS.--The common qualities of Fish Oils have sold slowly, but in prices there has been no change. Linseed Oil has met with a good sale. In Rape more business has been done at ful former rates. COFFEE. -The good clean qualities of British Plantation have fully maintained former prices, and there has been a good request for the same, but the ord. and unclean descriptions have sold heavily at barely previous rates ; the public sales have contained 259 casks and 42 bags, Berbice mid. and good mid. went at 90s. to 255., fine ord. 38s. to 84s. ; Jamaica mid. 945. to 965., fine to fine fine ord. 78s. to 905., good ord. 735. to 78s. ; Demerara mid. 87s. to 87s. 6d. The Market continuing extremely bare of the East India descriptions suit able for shipping, business is still prevented; Ceylon admis sible for home consumption at the 6d. duty remains firm in price, and there has been a good request by the grocers at 70s. 6 , 1. to 723. for good ord. ; in Mocha a fair business has been dune at fully late rates, a small parcel of 70 bales at auction went at 635. 6d. to 70s. for yellowish and good mid. quality. In the Foreign Market nothing was done, Brazil being still withheld from the Market, and for St. Domingo higher prices are required. This afternoon there was a brisk request for the clean descriptions, but unclean qualities con tinue neglected ; the public sales contained 251 casks and 665 brls. and bags, when the good sorts were all disposed of at fully late rates. Berbice mid. and good mid. 89s. 6d. to 955., tine ord. unclean 85e. 6d. a 86s. ; Jamaica ord. rank 655. to 801. ; 800 bags Ceylon taken in at 70s. for good ord., 695. 6,1. offered ; 21s bales Mocha false packed went at 665. for mid. The total deliveries of Coffee from the warehouses for home consumption for the week ending January 7th, are 136,315 lbs. of West India, and 106,685 lbs. of East India. Cocoa.-For West India there has been a better demand, and 219 brls. and bags at auction sold at prices rather above those which have been paid of late by private contract. Gre nada of mid. and good bright red quality selling at 48s. a 5 ! s., and Trinidad low and mid. red at 40s. a 545. 6d. The total deliveries of West India Cocoa from the warehouses for home use for the week, ending Jan. 7th, are 14,7821b5. TEA.—The announcement of 80,000 packages of Free Trade Tea for sale on the 30th inst. has prevented business from being done by private contract. The total deliveries of all descriptions of Tea, on which duty has been paid, for home consumption, for the week ending January ith, arc 366,8301b5. INDIGO.—The Indigo Market remains quiet. The total deliveries of Indigo from the warehouses for home consump tion, for the week ending Jan. ith, arc 18,915ib5. of East India. SPICES. —The importers of Pimento have refused to submit to any decline, there has been none offered at auction, and the request by private contract has been extremely moderate ; the stock at the close of 1836 was 5,000 bags less than at the end of the previous year, the deliveries have been 200 bags under those of the year 1833, the importations during the last twelve months exceeded those of the former year by 5,000 bags. For Pepper there has been a brisk demand by the shippers and the home trade at id. advance, and 1,330 bags Malabar at public sale went at 31d. to 4-id. for half heavy and heavy quality ;by private contract 3:1 , 1. a 3nd. paid for parcels of light Sumatra, and 81d. for unsifted Malabar, and 3/,-d. a 4d. - for sifted -28,000 bags more have been received during the past year than in the former one; the deliveries in 1836 exceeded those of the year 1835 by 26,000 bags, leaving the stock at the end of De cember, 1836, 4,000 bags greater than at the close of the for mer year. There is still little business doing in the Ginger Market, and 1,000 bags Malabar at public sale sold at low prices, middling and good at 255. a 375. 6d., very ordinary 20s. 6d. Mace is neglected, and a parcel of 17 chests were all taken in at 4s. Bd. for third quality. Cloves are not in de mand. Nutmegs arc dull and offered on easier terms. For Cassia Lignea there has been little request, but at easier prices it is impossible to purchase ; the supplies have been nearly 20,000 chests less in 1836 than they were in 1835, and the stock is now 1,600 chests less than it was twelve months back. This afternoon Pepper was in less request, and 4,155 bags at auction was only partly disposed of at -id. decline, mid. and good shot Malabar went at 3id. to 4d., and fair Eastern at 31d. to 3id. 197 bags Cassia Lignea went at steady rates, mid. 58s. 6d., and very ord. 525. 6d. 60 bags Pimento taken in at 31d. for mid. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c.&c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 10. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, Paid. Share. er Shares. Annum. 1,760 2 per cent. Ashton and Oldham...Average 971. 18s. sh. 142 1,182 41. Ashby-de-le-'touch ... ...... Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 54 1,01)5 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 t. sh. 100 8,000 1-16814. 91.95. Birmingham, 1-16th share ..........V. & 711. 217 4.000 ...... ..„ Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251. sh. 100 pd 321 600 ......„ Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Backwater 100/. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 100/ sh. 725 4,545 Croydon Averagt , 31/. 2s. 10d. sh. 3 2,060; 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 78 600 71. Derby 'OOl. sh. 120 20,000 3,575; 3/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331.2 h. 80 231 401. Eyewash 1001. sh. 500 1,297 261. Forth and Clyde Average 41201.165. sh. 600 11,500 121. Grand Junctio - lOOl. sh. 215 2,5494 1/, Grand Union 1001. sh. 24; 1.500 ... ..... Grand Surrey 120,600/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan IOU. '7O 3 , 396 ...... ... Grand Western lOOl. sh. all pd 600 13/. 12s. ild. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 135.-4 cl. 230 749 104. Grantham l5O/ sh 202 6,238 1/. 15s. Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 344 100 Kensingtnn 10) sh. all pd. 10 25,329 11.25. Kennet and Avon, Average 391. 188.10 d. sh. 22 2,1971 20/. Leeds and Liverpool lOW. sh. 530 345-1 121. Leicester l4O/. sh. 190 1,897 41. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 83/.los. 77 2,400 101. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 20) 50 12/. Melton Mowbray 100/ sh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 581 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield......... .............. 1001. sh. all pd. 54 247 17/. Neat h 100/. sh. 325 1,786 30/. Oxford 1004 sh. 580 2,400 5/, Peak Forest Average about 72/. sh. 104 21,419 Its. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. &t. sh. :6 5,6(19 61. per cent. hochdale Average 861. sh. 121 500 Si. Shropshire I'ls/. sh. 140 800 9/. 40. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 153 3,64/0/. 41 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock ...... ...... 12/ sh. 114 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 730 500 gl, Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 243 300 gi. Stourbridge ...... 3.647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. bd. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/. sh. 220 3,762 1/. 4s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 351. sh. 19; 2,6090 n. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, i share 1001. sh. 555 8,149 ..... Thames and Medway-Aver. 191. ss. Sid. sh. 2 1,0005 h./ 154 Warwick and Birmingham lOOl. sh 260 I,ooor 121. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 1384 6,000 4/.os. Worcest sr and Birmingham-Av. 78/.Ss. sh. 22 5,000 225. Wilts ana Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 21 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 905 11. Wey and Aruis 1101. sh. 221 DOCKS. 21, . Cr 51 ks h. 33 p. c. C ommerc i a l ,.100/. sh. 56 128,667 L 6 per et. East India Stock 116 3, 9 -18,3 041. 50s. p.ct. London • Stock 55J Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 51. per Ct. West India 9.209 21. 19s. Bristol ..... ........ ....... Average 1471.95. sh. 864 69,33.1/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll5 ,352,752 4 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 88 500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOl4 Shoreham Harbour 2 . 500 ' ..... Deptford l'icr BRIDGES. 1,600 les. Ilammerintii 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 155. Ditto, New, ()fl i t per cent........... 501. sh. 14 5,000 ... . 5,000 I . Bs. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/ pd Is 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40!. pd 15 50,0004 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 6,000 17s Vauxhall... ... .. Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh l6l E ASSURAN-."CCOSIPANIES. 2,000 31 10s Albion .5001. sh. 501._pd 79 50,000 [ s ,l7, c r i r 5 1 .1 . t 1 Alliance,British& Foreign 100/. sh. 10f/. pd 12 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 51 24,000 ill. per sh. Atlas 501 . s h. 5!. p d 13 1 1,20015 h. 5!. Birmingham hire 250/. sh. 551. pd 105 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire .......... ...... .. 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501. sb. 51. pd 61 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medii:al,&c. Life, ICol.sh. 12/10s pd 31 4,000 21 les County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 C 5 P er cent i Economic life lOOOl. sh. 250/. pd 375 and 301 bs. 2,271 225. percent. European LIU 2O/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd 2 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 155 20,000 51. Guardian... ..... ........ ........ 1001. sh. 2711 pd 32 40,000 fis. 6d. Hope .501. sh. 51. pd 54 2 ,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial k ire 5001. sh. 501. pd 125 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 91 13,453 12s. per eh. Indemnity Marine lOO/ sh. 81. pd 161 2,020 31 10s Rest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100!. sh. 101. pd 28 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 103. pd F 3,900 10s. London, Ship ... ........ 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 15f 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium fate .501. sh. 2/. pd 218 s Od 50,000 Protector Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 18s 6d 2,500 11. Provident Liie lOOl. sh. 101. pd 20 100,000 5/. per cent. Rock Life.... ..... ....... -204 sh. 21. pd 6 689,2201 bl. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 220 6,000 3 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sh. Si. Pd 5 ; 50,000 4 per cent. United Ring‘lom Life 2/. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 ..... ... Agric. andCnrnm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 . .... ... Australasia .... ... . ...... AO/. sh. 401. pd 10,006 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham .501. sh. 101. pc( 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/ sh. 51. pd 20,000 4 per cent. I,ondon and Westminster...lool. sh. 201. pd 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 20/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 50,000 I per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 1001. sh. 151 pd Discount 20,000 71 percent Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of lrcland 1001. sh. 25/. pd 20,t10 ... .... National Bank of Ireland 5Ol. sh. 1211. pd 10,000 s . per cent. National Provincial Eng. - 1004 sh. 251. pd 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hanipsh ire 50/. sh. 5/. pd GA3 LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 5s 6d Bath .20/. sh. 161. pd 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 5,000 r/ai..43113c,751.1 Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 928 51 lOs Birmingham 4,250 21 es Bristol ..... ........... ... .......... ..........20 - . sh. 1,500 St 10s Brighton .201. sh. 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 41. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 62,f1. pd 1,000 101. City of I.ondon lOOl. sh. all pd 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 601. pd 4,000 4/. les. Equitable 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thadet 25/. sh 201. pd 2,550 61. per cent. Independent '3O/. sh all pd 0,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 501. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Ratc1ift........... ................ 100/. sh. SO/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 2-10 51. per cent. Warwick ... 501. sh. 400 V. per cent WaKefield ..... ......... ...25/. sh. 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New ... 511. sh. 10/. pd KO Yarmouth 201. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 Is. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 4,443 61. East London lOOl. sh. 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411. 13s. 43. oh. 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 272 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 11 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. AO 4 per cent. South Lon.lon 100/, sh. 3,204 31. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. RI. sh. 1.260 11 He York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 Birmingham and I)crhy 5/. pd 9,500 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester pi p d 7,500 ......... Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15, , 470 Bristol and Exeter lOOl. sh. 5 pd 664) ..... „„.. Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. sh. 71/. 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. '2l pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 251 ~ h. 2/. p.l brand Junction 1001. sh. 501. p 1 Great North of England 2l. pd 2.5,010 ......... Great Western lOOl. ah. 30/.;pd 2,000 llartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. p 4 8,000 Hull and Selby .501. sh. 51. pd 10,000 ..... .... Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 7,100 Leeds and Selby 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. ah. all pd 5,100 10 per cent Liverpool and Manchester...lo(4.3h. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 'ls/. pd 10,000 .... ..... London and Brighton 3OOl. sh. 51 pd 45, 0 00 .... ..... Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -.201 sh. 11. pd 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...sol. sh. 2/. pd 8,0 111 Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. sh. U. pd 12,000 20,000 3 per cent. London snd Greenwich l2Ol. ek. 201. pd 25,000 20,000 London and Southampton .....,0/. sh. 21)1. pd 7,000 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. '2l. pd 10,0)0 Manchester South Union li NI. sh. 21. pd North Midland 100/. sh. 101. pd Northe - n and Eastern lOOl. sh. 31. pd 2,600 ...... ... Preston and Wyre .501. sh. SI. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 21. pd 1,000 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh. 9,000 6,000 York and North M i dland 5O . sh. W. pd MIN ES NAG 4,000 A Iten 15/. sh. 12/. 10s pd 10,004 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 'LW. pd 2,000 Bolanos , 15u1. sh all pd 10,000 U. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. Si. pin 'l5/. sh. 20/. pd 6,0 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United...2s/. sh. 23i/. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 5,;/. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 9 01. 2h. 201. pd 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. Is/. pd 20,001 British Iron 5 Ol. sh. 501 pd 6,000 British Copper Cata Branca... , fi l l.l pd Candonga rll. pm 10,000 I/. Copiapo 2Ol. sh 12i1 pd A,500 Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 3/. English 121 Ks. pd 20,000 General Milting Association...2ol. sh. 15/. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh 541/. pd 3,000 Polberoii Consols lOl. sh. 8/. pd 11,54)0 Real del Monte, Unregistered l)itto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 30,000 ...... ... United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd Mtn. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5l pd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pi LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pal 700 Russell °sgs. sh. King' College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2f yl. pd 6,010 61: per cent.',British American Land Company lB/. pd 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 23/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 11/. General Steam Navigation ...151. ch. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. '751. sh. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company "5/ sh. 251. pd New Brunswick Land Company 9 8/ pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary I nterest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 4.11. pd 4,000 10,000 Van Dte.ner.'s Land 100/. sh. 171. pd LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, DEC. 28, 1436. BANKS. tx,o,mont. fiz. p. ct. Batik of Scotland 934 6a. Bd. sh. all pd 11114 2,000,0)(1. 5; p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 11101. soo,oner. Bp. et. British Linen Company 100/. eh. all pd "40/. 3,000,0004 6/. p. et. Commercial .5001. eh. 1001. pd 1804 5,000,0001. sp. ct. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 15 1' 51 p. et. Glasgow Union 250/. eh. 501. pd 704" 4,000,te,04 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOL eh 904 pd 361. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0(05h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union .201. eh. 1/. pd 27s 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 101. pd V 1 15s. 100 ,000 sp. Cl. Insurance Co. of S c otland ....10/. sh. all pd '7l 15s. 50 ,000 6p. et. North British 2004 eh. 101. pd 151. 1 .000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 104 pd 16/0s s,° °° 6p. et. Edinburgh life 100/. sh. 104 pd 14110 s 100 000 ' MISCELLANEOUS 4,1110 ......... Fslin. and Glas. Un. Canal 501. sh. all pd 221. Ditto Allocated 96/ sh. all pd 65/. 5,400 5 per cent. FAinb."Joint Stack Water 251. sh. all pd 404 Carron . Iron Company sh. all pd 461. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh. 3 ,1 /. pd 451 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 161. pd 711. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinb urg h C oal Gas • 251. sh. all pd 601. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 25/, sh. all pd 611. 750 6 per cent, Leith Coal Ga, 20/.01. all pd 451. 1, 2 00 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith ltatlway...sol.sh. 551. 3,000 5} per cart. Equitable Loan Company 2W. sh, W. p(.l 10 ME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY . 11, 1837. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 42 13 231 20 9 241 156 i 54 45 305 11 10gi 0: 3i We have heard historical novels objected to on ac count of their so blending fancy with fact, that many readers are never afterwards able to separate the one from the other. We sometimes wish that our Con temporary, the Standard, would confine himself to fiction, in which he has few competitors, and leave his tory to those who at least intend to confine themselves to facts; for though it cannot be said that he excludes the truth altogether from what he is pleased to call his tory, yet the facts bear so small a proportion to the in ventions, that his readers are only perplexed by the admixture. There is a long article in that paper of yesterday, of which the object is to prove by a new reading of history that the Scotch had little to do with the Revolution, and that "to Scotland British liberty owes nothing.' We have seldom seen effrontery pushed so far. To borrow the language of the Standard applied to an Evening Contemporary, " it were not easy to condense more gross misrepresenta tions into an equal number of lines than our respected Contemporary has here presented." Alluding to a comment of the Globe on the reported speech of Mr. Oswald at the Glasgow Reform dinner, the Standard says:— " Let us, however, before coming to particulars with the Globe, dispel a vulgar error that seems to have pervaded all the late Radical proceedings in Scotland, and to have extended to Ireland and this country. That error lies in the notion that the Scottish people had a principal share in achieving the liberty of the empire at the Rexolution ; and that they, by their unaided gallantry, effected the ex pulsion of episcopacy from the ancient kingdom of the Stuarts. It is, notoriously, a characteristic of our northern fellow-subjects, that they are too modest ever to decline any unappropriated merit which chance, or the present pur pose of others, may seem to assign to them ; and there fore it becomes a duty to spare the blushes of the Scotch Radicals, by mentioning that to Scotland British liberty owes nothing ; and that the boasted exclusion of episcopacy if it be a just übj ec t of boast, is a matter upon which Scotchmen have no reason to pride themselves, inasmuch as it was not their work." 125 - 8 3 1 40 37 13 34 95 lilt 25 The compliment to Scotch modesty will be appre ciated by our northern fellow-subjects, who, being " men of the world," are duly impressed with the good ' sense conveyed in the adage, " Never cry stinking fish," and not only never attempt to undeceive the world in their good opinion of them, but generally take care to place what excellencies they may possess in as advantageous a light as they can. Our business is not to bepraise the Scotch, who are quite equal to the task of doing justice to themselves ; but - to show that that ancient people really had something to do with the Revolution of 1688, and that British liberty really does owe something to them. In the first place, it is now, we believe, admitted that to the promptitude and spirit with which the Scotch took the field, and repelled . the attempt of Charles the First, misled by Laud and the other High-Church Divines, to cram the Common Prayer-book down their throats, the English are chiefly indebted for the successful stand they afterwards made against that tyrannical church ridden Monarch. English liberty would have been crushed hut for the presence in the beginning of the civil wars of the Scotch army, which gave courage to the patriots, and enabled them to make the necessary preparations for 'the arduous struggle, in which the Crown, the Church, and the nobility were often nearly successful against a portion of the aristocracy, and almost the whole of the smaller gentry and middle classes. If, as the Tory Hume remarks,. v England owes her liberty to the Presbyterians, British liberty owes much both to the swords and the pens of Scotch men. Of the books condemned in the famous Oxford Decree, a decree worthy of the Spanish Inquisition, the greater number were written by Scotch Presby terians. The Lex Rex of Samuel Rutherford, a book of great merit, printed at the expense of the Parliament of England ; the works of Knox and Buchanan ; and Naphtali, by Sir James Stewart, were the prin cipal books proscribed. During the period which intervened between the Restoration and 1688, the Scotch Presbyterians frequently took the field, and though unsuccessful, they never submitted to Episco pacy. In this persecution, including those transported to the English plantations, above eighteen thousand persons suffered. The combined attempts at invasions of Argyle in Scotland, and Monmouth in the west of England, in 1685, failed from various causes, but not from any want of zeal on the part of the Scotch. When King William invaded England with a Dutch army, he was accompanied by many Scotchrnen of dis tinction as well as Englishmen, and the Scotch took their full share in the exertions made on that occasion. Holland had been filled with Scotch exles, some 'of whom were King William's chief advisers, and the Presbyterians, apprised of all that was going on, were prepared to second the enterprise. When the Epis copalians addressed King James as the darling of heaven, and prayed that God might give him the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies, the Presbyterians refused, in the most explicit terms, to support the Government. " Their clergy," says Laing, " who had returned from Holland, and the exiles who accompanied the Prince of Orange, had already prepared them to expect his arrival ; and although it is uncertain bow far the confederacy ex tended through Scotland, some of the chief nobility parti cipated in his designs. Argyle was invited and escaped to Holland ; Cardrosc returned from America to join the Prince ; Drumlanrig, the Duke of Queensberry's son, in troduced his countrymen into the confederacy in England ; and the Earls of Annandale, Glencairn, Crawford, Dun- donald, Tarras, Lords Ross and Bargenny, and many gen tlemen of the first rank, were engaged in Scotland. No sooner had the army passed the borders than they resorted from all parts of the country to Edinburgh ; and the Privy Council, whose authority sunk in proportion to its former violence, was forced to connive at their secret cabals. The Cameronians were dispersed in small parties along the bor ders ; and as few dispatches escaped their vigilance, the Privy Council was deprived of all intelligence or instruc tions from Court. When the arrival of the Prince of Orange was discovered, their perplexity was increased by the most contradictory reports. This declaration for Scot land was received with avidity, and proclaimed at Irvine, Ayr, and Glasgow, while the authority of the Privy Coun cil was almost dissolved. As their confidential messenger had carried their dispatches to the Prince's camp, a com mittee was appointed to repair to Court ; but before its ar t val there the Revolution was effected in both kingdoms." It is impossible to say whether skilful combination or bravery most contributed to the success of the Revo lution in Scotland. The Chancellor Perth was out manceuvred in the Privy Council, and the militia were disbanded. The populace of Edinburgh rose, and though numbers were killed and wounded by the sol diery, with the assistance of the train-bands they broke in and overpowered the military. On a sudden rumour that the Irish had landed, six thousand Presbyterians appeared in arms, and, disappointed of a foreign enemy, dragged on Christmas-day the Episcopal clergy from their pulpits or altars. The Duke of Gordon, with a mutinous garrison, retained Edinburgh Castle for James ; but the declaration of the Prince of Orange was universally received, and a confluence of all ranks re sorted to London. When Dundee departed for Stir ling to hold a separate Convention for King James, the militia was ordained to be levied, and placed in secure hands ; a regiment of eight hundred Came ronians was raised within two hours ; three hundred Highlanders were armed by Argyle, who had assumed his seat before the attainder of his family was repealed ; and, though the Castle of Edinburgh was in the hands of the Jacobites, the Scotch Canvention was at length secured by the arrival of three regiments of Scotch in the Dutch service, who had attended William to Eng land under the command of Mackay. Had the Pres byterians not acted with consummate ability at the Re volution, Dundee, who offered " to drive the Dutch forces with their Prince before him," might, at all events, have succeeded in preventing the Revolution from being accomplished without immense bloodshed. We arc at a loss to understand what the object of the Standard can possibly be in thus palming upon its readers a parcel of stupid inventions. The part which the Scotch acted duriug the whole of the seventeenth cen tury is too well known to admit of any successful at tempt at mystification. How stupid, for instance, to utter such twaddle as the following : " The Revolution found the Church of Scotland Epis copal ; so that it is clear the Scotch had not abolished episcopacy by their' broad-swords,' as Mr. O'Connell is ac customed to say. Subsequently to 1688 the broad-sword was thrice drawn in Scotland ; first, by Dundee, who, in stead of seekinc , to abolish episcopacy, declared himself its champion, and fell fighting in its cause against Englishmen, Dutchmen, and Irish Protestants. The rebellions of 1715 and 174: - ., undertaken in behalf of a Popish succession, will scarcely be treated as movements against episcopacy." The Revolution found the Church of Scotland episcopal it is true, but the Scotch contributed much to the success of the Revolution. The effort of Dundee was in behalf of the Episcopalian party who opposed the Revolution, which was not completed in Scotland till the death of Dundee at Killycranky. The rebellions of 1715 and 1745 were insurrections of Episcopalians (for Jacobite and Episcopalian were synonymous) all Highlanders ; and the clergy of the Church of Scot land, to a man, were on the side of the Government. Though the Revolution in Scotland was effected by Presbyterians, King William, at the instigation of the English clergy, would have established Prelacy, but the Presbyterians were armed, and, like a sensible Monarch, he yielded to necessity. So much for the history of the Standard. It is remarked by Sir William Molesworth that when any statement is made _ . in the House of Commons by one Irishman, it is al ways contradicted by another Irishman, and•upon in quiry it is generally found that both are in the wrong. The Standard has been evidently too much beholden to the school in which the argument alluded to by Sir William is obtained, to be able to touch upon English or Scotch history with any hope of success. —Morning Chronicle. We are sure that those few well-meaning, hut inju dicious Radicals of the ultra school, who for some time past have been labouring with the zeal of apostles to bring about a split among the Reformers, must now be aware that their objects and efforts meet with no sympathy in the public mind. To their calls for a separation from the Whigs and an independent course of action for themselves, these misguided men have not yet met with a single response on the part of the people, and we can confidently assure them they never will. Possibly we may be referred to the meeting at Bath. That is not a case in point. Who were the principal performers on that occasion ? Why, the very persons who have been elsewhere straining every nerve to sow dissension among the Reform party, and by consequence, though doubtless unintentionally, to consign over the destinies of this country once more to the hands of the Tories. The meeting at Bath, there fore, furnishes us with no index to the state of popular feeling on the subject of that severance of the ultra-Ra dicals from the Liberals generally, and that indepen dent course of legislative action so urgently recom mended by the parties referred to. Our conviction is consequently strong that if the impolicy of the sug gested secession from the Whig-Radical party does not make itself apparent to the minds of the hot-headed gentlemen in question, the manifest impracticability of carrying out their views will induce them to abandon the foolish game they have of late been playing. Have they ever bestowed a thought on their own ineffi ciency—we will not say insignificance—in point of numbers ? Must we tell them that they are but a mere handful? That they are considerably: under a score ? What a sorry exhibition would such a party make, acting in the House of Commons without any organized or recognized body of friends out of doors ! Of the political weight or senatorial talents of the ex treme Radicals in the House of Commons, we are un willing to say anything—we trust they have not the va nity to think of themselves more highly in this respect than others do. The estimate which the country forms on these points is, we can assure them, by no means flat tering. We feel it due to the interests of the great cause in which we are embarked, and which their injudicious conduct has done so much to peril, to say thus much. We do it also in the spirit of true friendship to them selves. And of this Sir William Molesworth, and the fifteen or sixteeen who are leagued with him in the separation crotchet, will be convinced before many months elapse. Those journals which cheer them on in their present course are, they may depend on it, their worst enemies. This truth, also, they will find out sooner or later. We only wish they may do so in time to prevent the irretrievable ruin of their Gwn cha racters as public men. But act as the ultra-Radical party may, it is consolatory to know, that the mass of the people are sufficiently enlightened, and possessed of too much honesty, to sanction, or in any way abet, any project which is fraught with manifest injury to the Reform cause. They may occasionally' i be misled by designing men ; but their delusion is never more than temporary, they soon right themselves again, and are at all times ready to act with a decision and energy in the right course, which amply make up for any ac cidental deviation from the path of duty and their own interest, into, which they may have fallen.—lllorning Advertiser. A dinner, it seems, has been given at Belfast to Mr. Sharman Crawford. We have neither the time nor the inclination—and we are sure our readers would not have the patience, to go in detail through all the non sense that was spoken, or the mischief to which that nonsense was intended to excite. But there is one point to which it is absolutely necessary that we should allude. A person named Tennent, who was in the chair, and who must in no way be confounded with the gentleman of the same name by whom Belfast is re presented gave, among the toasts of course, the health of the Princess Victoria. It is strange that the respect due to the station and the virtues of Royal Highness should have been converted, by the madness of faction, into an atrocious libel upon the conduct of the distinguished Lady who is her nearest relative. " The Chairman," we are told, " congratulated himself that the Princess was taught by her illustrious mother to entertain proper feelings towards Toryism, of which her accession to the throne would be as the knell." Now, for any man to venture upon the assertion that the Duchess of Kent has used the influence of her re lationship to make the heiress-presumptive to the Throne a political partisan—that she has, by antici pation, pledged the future Sovereign to annihilate, as public men, any portion of those who may become her subjects—is to say that which calls for imme diate contradiction. We treat the question on broad grounds, without availing ourselves of the admission of the Whig-Radical Prime Minister, that the party thus to be extinguished includes the great majority of the nobility, the clergy, and the gentry of Great Bri tain. We say nothing of this. In our view of the case, all parties are alike. That the Personage destined, in all human probability, to reign over these realms, should have been, by her own mother, sworn at the altar of faction, to maintain an inviolable enmity against a large proportion of her future lieges, is so monstrous an assertion—so gross a libel—that it behoves the con fidential friends of the exalted individuals concerned to meet it with the immediate expression of a prompt and decided reprobation. It is perfectly true that the as sertion which we denounce was uttered by an obscure individual, at an unimportant meeting, and in a provin cial town. But the slander is not confined to the place where it was uttered. It has been promulgated by means of the press, and thousands, who know person ally no more of Belfast than they do of Bagdad, have become acquainted with the fact that such a false hood has been put forth. We grant that the well informed will not for a moment be seduced into the belief that the Duchess of Kent has permitted her daughter's affections to be alienated from the " best blood" in Britain ; but that is not sufficient. The ill irilbrmed must also be convinced that her Royal Highness has not given occasion for the slander that faction has endeavoured to fix upon her name. The sooner this is done the better. Justice to the Illus trious Personage herself requires a refutation of the calumny ; and the majority of the nobles, the clergy, the gentry, and, we may now add, the people, of these kingdoms, have a right to know that they are not, as has been alleged, included among the victims of a prospective decree of political prescription.—Morning Post. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.—TheJanun.ry ❑umber of this highly original periodical is rich in articles of much importance to naval and military men, and of great general interest. In an " Address to the Commons of Great Britain," a strong case is made out in favour of additional pay and retiring allowances to officers of the army. The articles on " The Slave Trade," " Captain James Ross's Voyage," " The Retreat from Burgos and Madrid," and " Steam Communication with India," are unexceptionably good. " Retribution, an Incident at Sea," affords a really frightful idea of the infernal atrocities of piracy. The General Correspondence will be read with much interest. The very important article " Traits of the Transport Services," may be taken as a fair specimen of the great utility of this work in the exposure and con sequent reform of gross abuses in the, naval and military services. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 10. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. ASPINAL. Mr. PEMBERTON, in support of the decision of the Mas ter of the Rolls on this demurrer, argued that the new Cor poration of Liverpool had no remedy except under the 97th section of the Municipal Corporation Act, and having no remedy except under that, they were bound to male out that the sale or mortgage of the Corporation property had been fraudulent or collusive before they could hope to set it aside. It was not intended to be asserted that the Mu nicipal Act did not qualify the right possessed by the old Corporation after the period when the Act passed, but that qualification extended merely to the protection of the pro perty for the use of the new Town Councils, in such a manner as that it could not be diverted to any but pure municipal purposes. Now in the present instance the de claration of Lord Langdale in allowing the demurrer, had in point of fact disposed of the case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied, and re-stated his ar gument on the different clauses of the Act. The LORD CHANCELLOR directed a copy of Lord Lang dale's judgment to be handed up, and rose at four o'clock. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 10. DAVIS V. CLOUGH. This case, which related to a breach of professional confidence by a solicitor, stood for judgment this morning. The principal facts of the case, with the arguments of Counsel, have already appeared at considerable length. His Honour commenced his judgment by briefly detailing the facts. After further stating the nature of the affi davits filed in the Court of Common Law, where the costs were taxed in explanation of the transactions in which Humphrey Jones had been concerned for Mrs. Clough and her late husband, his Honour proceeded to remark that the question was, whether Mr. Humphrey Jones ought to be permitted to act as the solicitor of the plaintiffs to set aside the very transaction which had been brought to maturity by himself, acting as the solicitor of Mrs. Clough. He (the Vice-Chancellor) had not been able to find any authority exactly in point, and he must, there fore, proceed upon some general principle ; and the cases all . appeared to afford this general principle—that all Courts might exercise an authority over their own offi4 cers as to the propriety of their behaviour. Applications had been repeatedly made to restrain solicitors who acted on one side from acting on the other. Those applications had failed or succeeded on their own particular grounds, but never because the Court had no jurisdiction. The question, there fore, was, whether the circumstances of this case furnished a ground for interference. For his own part, he (the Vice , Chancellor) could not consider anything to be a greater breach of truth, and honesty, and common fidelity, than for a solicitor, first of all the solicitor of one party, to carry on a negotiation for the benefit of that party, and have it com pleted, and afterwards—not because lie was discharged, but because he made an exorbitant demand, in which, after per severance, he was subsequently defeated, where he therefore virtually discharged himself—that he should be permitted to act as the solicitor for other parties, in order, by his own personal interference, to defeat the very thing he had been doing, for his client. It appeared to the Court such a mon strous and flagrant breach of propriety and common honesty, and of that duty which a solicitor owed to his client, that the Court was bound to interfere. There was another cir cumstance about the case to be observed. The bill was filed by two persons of the name of Davis, who had osten tatiously put forth a statement that they had a right to re tain Humphrey Jones, and to use his assistance in the suit ; and upon an insinuation in the defendants' affidavits, that the plaintiffs had not retained Humphrey Jones, an affidavit was made containing a pompous statement of the most enormous retainer in writing by a client of a solicitor, his Honour had ever seen. It seemed to his Honour that he had quite enough of these disclosures before him, to make it his duty to direct that the plaintiffs should be restrained from employing Mr. Humphrey Jones and Mr. Fay as their solicitors in the present suit, and that Jones should be restrained from com municating to the plaintiffs any information relating to the agreements of 1832, which came to his knowledge confiden tially as the solicitor of Mrs. Clough ; and also that the affidavit complained of should be taken off the file ; and it must be part of the order that the plaintiffs should pay the costs of the motions, because they must be taken to know the circumstances of their own cause ; and as the Court had great reason to believe that they were the puppets of Mr. Humphrey Jones, and would be indemnified by him, though in matter of form the plaintiffs would be resposible, yet, if Jones had really undertaken to indemnify them, the costs would in substance light upon the party who ought to pay them ; and that is the order the Court makes in this case. In the course of a discussion upon the minutes, Mr. Jacob alluded to the bearing of the order in case of an appeal. His HONOUR should be glad this judgment was reviewed. He had thought about it very anxiously, and if he was wrong, it was high time he should be set right. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Deputy Hicks, the chairman of the Market Committee, attended yesterday to make a complaint against a practi ce which he believed was very prevalent in the neighbourhood of the Scotch wharfs, and which was in direct violation of the privileges of the City of London. The facts were as follow :—On Saturday last he had received advice by post from a Mr. D. M'Donald, of Inverness, that twenty six li ve pigs, shipped on board the vessel Earl Grey, were consigned to him for sale. Upon receiving the in formation he sent a person to the vessel to receive the pigs, but the messenger was told by the parties on board that they did not know for whom the pigs were intended by the party that shipped them, and th a t th e y h a d been deli vere d t o a dealer who resided in Wapping. The Wapping dealer stated, upon being applied to, that he had certainly received the pigs and sold them. This mode of proceeding, of which the ap pearances were very unfavourable, led necessarily to further inquiries, and the explanations given, or rather attempted to be given, were so unsatisf a ct o ry th a t M r . Hi c k s co nsidered it his duty, in justice to th e neg l ec t e d i n t eres t s o f his prin cipal, to institute a public inquiry before the LORD MAYOR. It was, he said, absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the character of the city of London that parties who re sided 700 miles distant from the metropolis, who consigned cattle to their several agents in the public markets of the city for sale, which cattle, from variations of quality and quantity had no fixed value, should feel assured that from the competition amongst the buyers in those markets the fair and full value of their property was guaranteed ; while, if this system of selling their stock in private yards, in re mote and secluded neighbourhoods, over which there could be no check nor controul, were not immediately put a stop to, the public markets under the jurisdiction of his Lord ship, instead of being a great benefit, would prove to be of no utility whatever. The Loan MAYOR—It appears to me to be not only a violation of the market regulations, but a fraud u pon the party to whom the property was consigned, by depriving him of his commission upon the sale. Directions were then given by his Lordship for a private inquiry into the circumstances. A big-boned, well-fed Irishman, named Stephen was charged with having broken a lamp upon being refused alms. The policeman who apprehended the defendant went into a baker's shop, where the man was blowing up the owner for not giving him some assistance either in cash or in bread. The Irishman was intoxicated, and turned from blarney to abuse upon finding that the baker was inexo rable ; and when he perceived that he must walk off, he smashed the lamp, and insisted upon riding to prison in a cab. In his pocket was found the sum of !I. 7s. The LORD MAYOR—And was he begging, with It. 7 3 , in his pocket ? Defendant-13egging ! no such thing, ray Lord ; I wanted nothing but a drop of drink. The LORD MAYOR— What in a baker's shop ? D e _ fendant—Upon my sowl I tuck it for a gin-shop ; but they light up every place now as if they all sold nothing but gin. It's a shame that it's allowed, for it leads peopl e astray. There ought be an Act of Parliament against it. The LORD 'MAYOR —What ! against gin-shops, you mean, I suppose ? Defendant—No, your honour, but against these gra nd lights in the other shops. It was on l y the other day I w alked into a blacking warehouse when the life was almost out of me for a drop of spirits. The LORD MAYOR—But I am told you were begging? Defendant —What should I beg for I was just after getting my pension, and I'd rather give to a beggar than ask a farthing. I had a drop, and it was such a trifle, that instead of going into my stomach, it stopped in my head, or 1 would not be such a fool as t o mistake a mealman for a respectable landlord.—(A laugh.) The Loan M A YOR—l , suppose you are w illi ng to pay for the lamp and the cab ? Defendant—Certai n ly, pleas e your Honour ; but I hope your Lordship w ill give order s to them, to prevent mistakes in future. The LORD MAYOR—WiII you promi s e me , t oo , no t t o go into a public-house again for some time ? Defendant— Please your honour, I did no harm in any public-house in my life ; but I'll promise you that I'll never go into a baker's shop again as long as I live, if you choose.—(L aug ht er .) The LORD Mavou—l am afraid I shall have you here again, and then we shall find whether you won't see clearer by the light of the House of Correction.—(Laughter.) GUILDHALL. Yesterday Mr. Bailey, a clerk in the Bank of England, attended before Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY to claim a silk handkerchief which had been stolen from his pocket near Smithfield-bars, on the 9.d inst., and which had been seized on the 4th, with about 70 other silk handkerchiefs, on sus picion of having been stolen, at the shop of Mrs. Alexander, a dealer in clothes and handkerchiefs, in Field-land, Hol born-hill. Sergeant Wailer produced the handkerchief, which Mr, Bailey identified. Waher stated that a gentleman named Underwood having lost his handkerchief, and discovered it two days afterwards hanging at Mrs. Alexander's door, came to him for assistance. He went and seized that and all the other handkerchiefs in the shop, and brought them next day before Mr. Alderman PIRIE, who, having heard Mr. Wooler on behalf of Mrs. Alexander, thought there vms not sufficient evidence of a guilty receiving, and libe rated her, but ordered nine handkerchiefs, which were marked, to be detained, and advertised. It was one of these nine Mr. Bailey now claimed. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY directed Wailer to appre hend Mrs. Alexander again directly, and in a few minutes she was placed at the bar. She begged to be remanded, that she might have the advice of her solicitor. The Alderman asked her how she came by Mr. Bailey's handkerchief. She said she never bought anything. She received it from her husband. The Alderman asked her when she saw her husband last? —She said, "On Tuesday, the 3d." Her husband was of a surly temper, and had not spoken to her for a week past ; but on Wednesday morning he gave several hand kerchiefs to her daughter, and desired that she would wash them. Waller said that when he seized the handkerchief she said they had been left there by a friend, and did not be long to her. The prisoner denied this. She only said she did not. buy them. Most of them were redeemed from the pawn brokers. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said that but for such women as she was, the streets would not swarm with juvenile pick pockets. " Don't cast reflections upon my character," said Mrs. Alexander, indignantly, " I do not buy handkerchiefs of pickpockets. When gentlemen pawn their handkerchiefs and bring us the tickets we take them out, look at them, and then give sixpence or a shilling more, if they are worth it." Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said this account did not satisfy him. If he could possibly send her out of the country he would. He asked where her husband was ? She said she really did not know. He had sent her word that he would never come home again, as he was so unfor tunate. Her father was one of the bail who undertook that he should appear at the Old Bailey the Sessions be fore last, and was unable to produce him thero. The Alderman remanded her for further examination. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Wm. Ham, aged 19, was pla ce d a t th e b ar , charged by Mr. Willi am Thompson, brush manufacturer, of No. 15, Gray's Inn-road, with having stabbed David Poole, aged 12, with a pair of scissors, with intent to murder him, whereby his life is placed in danger. Mr. ROGERS remanded the prisoner until the fate of Poole is known, and he directed Mr. Whitmore to send his certificate on the next examination as to his condition, should he be alive. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday a poor woman, with a basket of onions; which was suspended from her shoulder by a piece of twine, the value of her stock not exceeding threepence, was brought before Mr. SI-MPSON, a county Magistrate, who sat for Mr. Twyford in consequence of that gentleman's illness, charged by Thomas Powell, streetkeeper of Shoreditch, with obstructing the thoroughfare. Powell brought the defendant up by direction of Mr. Da vies, a resident in Shoreditch. Mr. SIMPSON-Mr. Davies is a banker, is he not? Powell—Yes, your Worship. This woman, with some more, stand before his door, very much to his annoyance. Mr. SimrsoN—l think the pavement is very wide there. Powell—lt is the widest part, yet people cannot pass or repass without being very much incommoded. Mr. Sl➢irsoN—l know the place very well, and I must say that I never have been incommoded by these people. Powell—But they stand close at his door. • Mr. SIMPSON—I cannot conceive that Mr. Davies's re spectability will be any the loser by such persons trying to earn a hard living. Since I have had the honour to pre side at this offic e I could never find it in my heart to inflict a fine on poor but industrious creatures, who have a severe struggle to get a livelihood for themselves and their families. Mr. SIMPSON then directed the poor woman, who was dripping with wet, not to remain in one spot, but to walk about while she was exposing her goods, and to tell the companions of her calling of what he had instructed her. LAUGHING GAS.—The merits of " Bentley's Miscellany" entitle it to a rank the first among the foremost of the periodical works of the day. Its distinguishin g cha racteristics are its total exclusion of politics, and its being devoted almost exclusively to mirth. " Boz" is the editor,:and his coadjutors are Lover, Father Prout, Hook, and a whole phalanx of wits. Lover and Cruikshank contend in pro voking merriment by the grotesque creations of their pen cils. That phlegm must indeed be irremovable which can withstand the song called " Who are you," " Recollections of Colman," " Metropolitan Men of Science," " Terence O'Shaughnessy," '' Life of Tulrumble," and numerous other papers o f near l y equa l mer i t. T here i s a very supe rior engraving, and very fine likeness of Colman, which, itself, is worth the half-crown, the price of " The Miscel lany." We have all the leading periodicals of the month before us, and have no hesitation in saying that " Bent ley's Miscellany" has no competitor amongst them, nor can have if it continue to be but half as good !as the present Number.—News. The Limerick Star gives a striking illustration of the growing disposition of the people to respect the laws. Faction-fights at fairs are almost unknown, and in other respects a proportionate diminution of crime has taken place. Our contemporary points to the criminal business at the quarter sessions of Rathkeale. "In January, 1833, the assistant-barrister and jurors were occupied for five and a-half days in trying cases. At the January sessions of 1837 , just clo se d, th e cour t was occu pi e d f or t h e s h ort period offive hours, and the cases were all for petty larceny." TIIE DUCHESS OF LA VALLIERE AND MA DAME DE MAINTENON. In 2 vols.—" These two volumes are written by the celebrated Countess de Geniis. The first volume is devoted to the Duchess de la •Valliere, and appears at a very opportune moment, Mr. Bulwer's drama of the same name having brought the subject before the Engli s h pu bli c w i t h pecu li ar prominency. •, The most popu; lar o f t h e two volumes, h owever , w ill be the second, which exclusively relates to Madame de Maintenon. She was an extraordinary woman in many respects, and, though serious blemishes attached to her moral character, th ere can b e no question she was the means of doing great good during the period of her ascendancy over the mind of Louis the Four teenth. In this volume there are a great many highly in teresting details. "—Observer. 'l " —Observer. • CRUET FRAMES, Plated with Silver Edges, and Seven Cut Glass Cruets are offered, price Two Guineas each, of a variety of Patterns. Epergnes with one rich Cut Glass Dish, Price Five Guineas each, or, with four arms supporting Four Dishes besid e the Centre, Seven Guineas each. The three Show Rooms are fitted up expressly for the display of a large assortment of SIL VER PLATE, and Plated Goods. I'. COX SAVORY , Work ing Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. BIR7'IIS. On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of Captain Frobisher, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., the wife of Edward Mash Browell, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., the lady of Hasler Hollist, Esq., of Lodsworth, Sussex, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Rousham, the lady of Charles Cottrell Dor trier Esq., of a (laughter. On the Nth inst., the lady of G. Milward, jun., Esq., of the Grove, Clapham -common, of a daughter, still -born. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at Liverpool, James Ewart, Esq., of Fortis. green, Finchley, to Anna, eldest daughter of the Captain J. Peck, late of the 9th Foot. In ; On the 4th inst., at Portland- place, Adelaide Matilda, the second Esq., barrister-at-law. daughter of J. M'llowell, Esq. Y. Alley, On the Bth inst., at Clifford's Inn, Mr. John Wade, for nearly alston, Jane, wife of G. Fitzgerald, Esq., g l a g r e d d e n 66 T Theatre. r( • and on the following day, aged 67, Mr. Fitzgerald, sur vivinghis wife only a few hours. 3 ag l eo y i • t e n. a 3t r .li s l,o cl s e t r i k i to inst., a l t at p e Sarah, widow of D. Eger- On the Sth inst , at Hatton-garden, Mr. Samuel Newberry, • s i ci t h. formerlyinst , at l o 3 f r o c m o p v t o o n n t ,_ newsvender, aged 56. On the 2d inst., at Vauxhall, John Humble, Esq., aged 86. Eger ton, On the 4th inst., aged 71, Mr. John Jordan, of Peter-hill, Stam ford, Lincoln shire, and fo rmerly of Leadenhall-street, London. On the Bth inst., aged 73, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. J. Chaplin, of Rodney-buildings, Ness Kent-road. On the Bth inst., Edward Forster, Esq., of Great Tower-street, and Southend, Kent, aged 40. On the Bth inst., Mrs. Jane Addison, of Mecklenburgh.square, widow of the late Henry Addison, Esq., of Penrith, Cumberland, aged 83. On the 7th inst., at Brighton, aged 84, Mary, relict of Cornelius Paine, Esq. On the Ist inst., at Chelsea, Roger Wright Hawkes, Esq., in his 55th year. On the 9th inst., Eliza, the eldest daughter of Mr. Wilson, of Old Bond-street. On the 6th inst., aged 73, William Geary Salte, Esq., of Artil lery-place, Finsbury -square. On the 6th inst., Miss Lillwall, of Lime-street, City. On the 7th inst., at Wells-house, East Acton, Miss Anne Handy. On the 3d of August, at Colurnbo, Ceylon, John Hynde Cotton, Lieutenant and Adjutant 90th Light Infantry, aged 24, son of the Rev. A. Cotton, of Girton, Cambridgeshire. On the 3d inst., ac Leamington, Mrs. Lefanu, only surviving sister of the late Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan. On the 21st ult., at Paris, aged 45, Lieutenant Ludoviek Grant, R.N., eldest surviving son of the late A. Grant, Esq., W. S., of Edinburgh. At Crooms-hill, Greenwich, Mrs. J. Goodwin, aged 64. On the 09th ult., at Angel-terrace, Pentonsille, Mary, relict of the late J. Cox, Esq., of Ramsgate. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlonx.—Weduesday, January 11, 1b37.