The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-10 00:00:00

THE CORN-TRADE. BRITISH. The present position of affairs is certainly not calcu lated to inspire confidence. The uncertainty as to how long the existing laws regulating the duties on corn may remain in force, or, if altered, the nature of the change likely to be proposed, has naturally interfered greatly with business. So completely are all parties in the dark relative to the future, that few are disposed to enter into investments. Not only, therefore, has spe culation wholly ceased, but buyers for actual con sumption have deemed it the more prudent plan to con fine their purchases to as narrow limits as have been consistent with their immediate wants. Notwithstand ing these manifest disadvantages, there has been a buoyancy about the trade in grain, indicative of a rise in prices ; and, from present appearances, we cer tainly incline to the opinion that, in whichever way the corn-law question may be settled, the settlement will be immediately followed by an active demand for bread-stuffs. The late fall in the prices of wheat was (as we have on former occasions remarked) caused wholly by political events, and not by any alteration in public opinion respecting the result of the harvest. The crop, though certainly not so bad as represented by those connected with the League for party purposes, must nevertheless be considered as decidedly below that of average years. That there really is a deficiency in the yield, is admitted on all hands; but so variously is it estimated, as to render it almost impossible to determine with any degree of accuracy to what ex tent. Coupled, however, with the falling off in the quantity of food, in consequence of the disease by which the produce of potatoes has so greatly de creased, quite sufficient grounds are afforded to conclude that wheat cannot long remain at present rates. We do not mean to affirm that there is any cause to fear scarcity and very high prices ; but we think it highly propable that the value of the article may again advance to about the same point from which it has fallen since the commencement of the Ministerial changes early in December. Nothing can more strongly indicate the healthy state of the trade than the fact that prices have recently rallied in all parts of the country, hi spite of the many causes in operation of a character likely to produce the opposite effect, viz., the dread of the corn-laws being meddled with on the meeting of Parliament, the absence of all speculation, and the un illingness of millers and others to increase their stocks. At most of the provincial markets held since our last sellers have displayed much firmness ; and though, as before remarked, the demand has been the reverse of lively, enhanced terms have been pretty generally asked and obtained. At Liverpool, on Tuesday, the transac tions were on a limited scale, none but needy buyers being willing to pay the rates demanded ; the few sales effected were, however, at fully the prices of the pre ceeding Friday, being an advance of Id. to 2d. per 701bs. on the currency of that day se'nnight. Later in the week affairs remained in much the same state; indeed, so little business was dune on Friday that the operations did not warrant any alteration in quotations. The tone of the advices from the leading towns in Yorkshire is, generally, firm. The Hull market was, on Tuesday, pretty well supplied with farmers wheat - the best qualities sold at prices Is. per quarter above ;hose previously obtainable ; and secondary descriptions were fully as dear as the week before. At Leeds slightly enhanced rates were also insisted on, which checked the inquiry, and no quotable advance was established. The reports from Wakefield, of Friday, inform us that only a trifling amount of business was done there in wheat at about former rates. At several of the western and north-western markets the upward movement has been more decided than at the places above referred to. At Bristol and Birming ham the rise, on Thursday, was Is. to 2s. per quarter ; and at several other towns of minor importance in that quarter a similar rally has occurred. From the shipping ports on the east coast we have also advices of rising prices ; so that the country mar kets may be said to have taken the lead, which must, we conceive, produce some effect on quotations in Mark-lane. By our Scotch letters, it appears that the more ani mated accounts from the south had failed to hare much influence on the trade, business in wheat being far from lively at Edinburgh and Glasgow on Wednesday. Oats were, however, more saleable at both these places ; and at the former a rise of 6d. per quarter took place in the price of this grain. From Ireland, the reports relative to potatoes are less favourable this than the preceding week. It is stated that, in many cases, on opening the pits, the disease had been found to have made great havoc ; and so general was the impression that this article of food would ulti mately become very scarce and dear, that a firm tone had been given to the wheat and oat trade in anticipation of an increased consumption of flour and meal. The very boisterous weather experienced during the greater part of the week has caused the arrivals of all kinds of grain into London to be very small. Of wheat only 1,083 quarters have been received coastwise up to this (Saturday) evening, the constant gales from the west having prevented arrivals from the eastward. The quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by land car riage samples from the neighbouring counties has also been trifling since Monday. On Wednesday the show consisted of a few parcels, of inferior quality, left over from previous supplies. Anything fine would pro bably have sold without difficulty at the recent advance ; but the want of suitable qualities caused the millers to refrain from buying, and so little business was done as to render quotations nearly nominal. On Friday, the Essex, Kent, and Suffolk stands were nearly bare ' • and needy purchasers had to pay full terms, factors displaying more disposition to raise than to lower their pretensions. The full effect of the great fall which took place in the value of wheat in the early part of December is only now be ginning to tell on the aggregate average for the king dom—the last weekly return is 565. 4d., and the duty, after remaining stationary for several weeks, 14s. per quarter, rose a step on Thursday. Nor is the advance likely to cease here—the present position of the averages rendering a further rise of ls. to 2s. per quarter almost certain. So confident are im porters, however, that a material modification of the duties will be proposed by the Government on the meeting of Parliament, that little or no wheat has recently been entered for home consumption, the bulk of what has been received from abroad having been landed under lock. The transactions in foreign wheat have, since our last, been on a very restricted scale owing partly to holders having asked enhanced terms, and partly to the fact that several of the large millers have still old wheat on hand, which they seem deter mined to work, up before making purchases at the en hanced rates demanded. The inquiry for wheat under lock has certainly fallen off since last week. There are, we believe, orders in town from Belgium, but at limits much too low to admit of their execution, importers having shown no inclination to facilitate business by sub tnittiug to lower terms. The - recent rise in the price of wheat has not been followed by a corresponding advance in quotations of flour ; indeed the sale of the latter article has, through out the week, been slow, former rates having been paid with some reluctance by the bakers and dealers. In bonded flour we have heard of no operations of importance ; good brands of United States have been held at 30s. per barrel. The trifling nature of the supply of English barley has caused this grain to be held with increased firmness ; really choice malting qualities have been extremely scarce, and have commanded quite as much money as at an y period of last week. Secondary descriptions, though i n comparatively slow request, have also supported their previous value with considerable firmness. The duty on this grain is at present ss. per quarter ; but may be ex pected to rise a step in the course cf a week or two. Quotations of Malt have undergone very little varia tion; it has, however, been difficult to buy the finer sorts at last Monday's currency. The arrivals of oats have been scanty from all quarters ; of English, only 971 quarters, of Scotch 272 quarters, of Irish 1,242 quarters, and of foreign 5,836 quarters, having come to hand during the week. There is no doubt that the large London dealers still hold quite average stocks ; but as, from the prevalence of westerly winds, it is generally believed that comparatively few oats are now on passage from Ireland, factors have exhibited very little anxiety to press sales of those still on shipboard ; the trade has conse quently, assumed a decidedly firm tone, an d neither on Wednesday nor Friday could good fresh corn be bought on as easy terms as on Monday. The total quantity of oats entered during the past year at this port has not exceeded 50,000 qrs.; what remains in bond is trifling. English beans hare come forward rather sparingly, and fine samples of old have beco me scarce . No actual advance has hitherto taken place in prices; but the turn has been against the buyer. The continued mild weather has interfered with the sale of boiling peas ; and though the consumption is tpually great at this season, the demand has not been by any means brisk since our last, and quotations have re tnained as before. ~, B , a tlats the alteration in the duty of wheat above no (I, a rise of Is. per quarter took place in the rates chargeable on rye and beans on Thursday. FOREIGN. The storm y weather lately experienced has caused a good deal o f i rregularity in the arrival of the foreign snails, which, with the Christmas holidays—generally ob•erved with strictness on the Continent— ren d ers our foreign intelligen ce rather scanty this week. The tenor of the reports n,r from the Baltic bears so close a resemblance to the received by the previous mail from thence as to afford little scopetaken for remark. The il ac t a tions which have recen tl yplace in the price ; 13 s a:re had less of heat in the British markets see influence on quotations abroad than m usu t a o l of' the article has fallen material's p.,int, at several of the principal shipping highest from t t i i l l l e the value ports. The latest advices front Rostock state that merchants_ were then w illi n g to enter into contract s to ship wheat, eipital quality-, in spring, at 445. to 463. per qr., free l eas t 61. per qr. belo w th e h i ghest ;T l ,rli,e )ea , r 4 f . l, being;th a seas t on. Thi s giving way on the part of impart activity t o busi seVers ha failed, however , ileAs, and very few bargains had been closed. At Stettin a sale or two appears to have been made I Jest ?revious to the holidays, at rather below furmer terms ; on the 27th of December, the best 621bs. red ' wheat was held at 515., and secondary descriptions at from 4 91. to 50s. per quarter. Comparatively small supplies had been brou.,ht forward by the farmers, who had m anifested a decided unwillingness to submit to lower terms. Bremen letters, of the 27th ult., state that little or no export demand b a d been and that quotations hadraetgerrienced during the week, of downwards. At Dantsic, on the 27th scarcely anything doing ; and the holiday s ee mber, there was inter rupted the regular course of business, having fewtransa - time had occurred since that day s' e , n a of wheat had, nevertheless, remained tolerablynl. Holders no material variation had occurred in prices. firm, and At llamburgh, on Tuesday, wheat was in rather im proved request, in consequence of the more encouraging accounts from this side. Besides the sale of about 1,500 quarters on the spot, at prices varying from 495. ad, to TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10 1846. 525. 2d. per quarter, several contracts to ship from out ports in spring had been closed at 50s. to 51s. per guar ter free on board. From the Mediterranean we have little or nothing fresh to communicate. A letter from Marseilles, of the 27th ult., states that a good deal of anxiety was felt there to learn what was likely to be done in the corn-laws here; and it was expected that but little business would be transacted in wheat whilst the matter remained in un certainty. The operations in the article had, we are in formed, been on a very trifling scale since that day week, the Christmas holidays having put a temporary stop to business; in this state of things prices had remained nominally unaltered. The accounts from Odessa are also rather dull, the foreign demand for wheat having slackened materially. The price of moderately good qualities was there still 345. to 365. per quarter ; but it was deemed probable that if no further orders from Great Britain and Holland came to hand, quotations might recede to a moderate extent.—Mark-lane Express. THE STYLE AND TITLE OF ESQUIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The numerous railway companies, to which speculation has given birth, has made great public characters of hundreds, who were before but little known; they have been styled, or have styled themselves, " Esquires." Now, Sir, as many of these companies have ceased to exist, and, of course, the direotorsbips with them, can you inform me what becomes of the titles ? The occupation is gone. Does the honours re. main ? or do they, like those of my Lord Mayor and my Lady Mayoress, die with the office ? I would not trouble you, but want to write to afriend, and I do not know how to address him. —Yours truly, STAG. LORD MORPETH. (From the Chronick.) It is formally announced, by a leading organ of the Monopolist party, that the return of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding will meet with no opposition. The Standard of last night commences a remonstrance against the pusillanimity of surrendering, without a struggle, the representation of the leading constituency to the free traders, with the following statement : " It seems to be generally understood that no opposi tion is to be offered by the Conservatives to the return of Lord Morpeth to the position from which he was driven by the gallant and successful effort made to break the Whig-Radical chain, at the general election in 1841. " To us, the policy of giving up this important seat without a struggle is very questionable, but of course we can only be imperfectly acquainted with the reasons which have ruled the decision of the Conservative leaders, It has been said, in their behalf, in a tone of authority, that a conjunction of circumstances renders a contest at tho present moment inexpedient, though not doubtful at to the result. The un settled state of the Government—the uncertainty which prevails as to Sir Robert Peel's plans for a settlement of the corn-law question—the precarious state of the health of the Earl of Carlisle—and the probability of a general election in the course of the present year, are all urged as arguments why Lord Morpeth should be permitted to take possession of a seat which he cannot, in the common course of things, occupy for more than a few months. By that time, it is said, the Conservatives will be enabled to arrange their plans, and repair the inroads made upon the register last autumn by the unscrupulous agents of the League. Then, we are told, the Conser vatives will re-appear upon the scene in all their strength, and repeat the victory so nobly achieved by the election of Mr. Wortley and Mr. Denison. " This may be satisfactory to some of the parties con cerned, but it is obviously only an excuse." It is unnecessary to remind the free-traders of the West Riding, that to rely on such representations as the foregoing, so far as to neglect any precautions by which, in the event of a contest, victory might be ren dered secure, would be to give the enemy the only chance they are likely to have of retrieving their despe rate affairs. The men of Yorkshire know full well that they may safely rest from their labours when the contest is over, but not sooner, and that the responsibility of having irreparably injured a great cause would lie heavily upon them, if, through over-confidence, they left themselves open to a surprise. Upon this point, there fore, we have no apprehensions, and we are not fearful of doing mischief, by expressing our belief that the mono polist party in the West Riding will not venture to show themselves at the hustings. Should this expectation prove well-founded, the fact will be one of memorable significance. The arguments assigned in the para graph we have quoted for allowing Lord Morpeth to walk over the course are manifestly what the Standard calls them, " only an excuse." The representation of the West Riding is not to be merely lent to Lord Mor peth for a few months, that it may be resumed at a general election. Such transfers are neither easy nor common. The declaration of the West Riding against the Whig Ministry in 1841 was felt to be a heavy blow. There was no attempt to impair its force by represent ing it to be less important than in truth it was. Least of all, did Lord Morpeth endeavour to depreciate the worth, or to tarnish the splendour of the prize which was then torn from his grasp. With manly and charac teristic frankness, he admitted the greatness of the defeat which he had sustained, and had no consolation for his supporters but to bid them bide their time, and to keep alive their faith in the indestructible truth and power of their own principles. Weighty and full of re sults as was the decision of the West Riding in 1841, it will not be less so in 1846. The return of Lord Morpeth now will be a solemn reversal of the judgment by which he was unseated, a reversal pronounced upon better knowledge of the bearings of the question at issue, and one therefore carrying with it all the sanction that the act of a popular body can give to a course of policy sub mitted to its decision. It is useless, then, for the mo nopolists of the West Riding to try to persuade either themselves or any one else that the return of Lord Morpeth to this Parliament may be suffered as a matter of indifference. This Parliament, near as it is to the end of its existence, may yet be found sufficient to demolish that monstrous system of restrictions by which the industry of the country is fettered, and no single fact is so likely to bring about the result speedily as the return of Lord Morpeth for Yorkshire upon free trade principles. Changes in the representation of petty boroughs, and other constituencies chiefly under private influence, may easily arise from causes unconnected with the general movement of opinion, and may have but slight effects upon legislation ; but a great section of the king dom like the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its manu facturing, its commercial, and agricultural interests all on a grand scale, changes only as the nation changes, and all its political acts have proportionate meaning and authority. To let the voice of that powerful constituency be given at the present moment in favour of free trade, without even an effort to obtain a different decision, will be an irrefragable proof that the cause of monopoly is felt to be desperate. If the battle could be fought with the slightest chance of success, this great post would not be surrendered without a struggle. But the cause of mono poly is really hopeless, and all clear-headed men feel that it is so. Those whose false position seems to im pose upon them the office of defending it, speak with stammering lips and faint ambiguous tones in its behalf. In 1841 there was some faith in the corn-law, and the possibility of keeping up what is called protection ; now there is none. The enthusiasm which won power for the Conservative party, but which was so soon and so rudely disenchanted by Conservative legislation, has disap peared. The means of fighting a great battle for the corn-laws with success in a popular constituency no longer exist, and for this reason, and this only, Lord Morpeth is likely to resume the representation of the West Riding without a contest. IRMINGIEI ANL, THURSDAY NIGHT.—IRONM AST ERS' MEETINO.—The usual quarterly meeting of the iroumasters was held here to day: the attendance was more scanty than usual, a circumstance which is mainly attributable to the fact of there having been some misunderstanding as to the day on which the meeting would be held. The general wish seemed to be that it should be postponed until next Thurs day, and the factors were disposed to agree to this arrange ment; the masters, however, stood their ground, and carried the point. It was reported at the meeting that all the masters were full of orders, and that the prices of last quarter would be adhered to. The price of bar iron is 10/. per ton, and Shropshire pigs have been advanced 10s. There seemed a decided tendency to advance on all other descrip tions of iron, but no declaration was made, and the general opinion seemed to be that present prices will stand for a time. It is many years since business iu the mining districts was in so healthy a condition. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OP BREAD.—Thursday several of the bakers of the metropolis reduced the price of he best bread from 9id. to 9d.; seconds ditto, from 80. to 80.; and some from Bd. to 7,d. The average price of bread is at present Bd. per 41b. loaf. No reduction whatever took place in the West-end. TESTIMONIAL 10 A MEDICAL GENTLEMAN.—OH Wednesday evening, a nume r ous party of gentlemen dined at the house of Mr. J. P. Nagle, the Tower, Tower-street, St. Hartin's-lane, the occasion being the presentation of a silver tea-service to Mr. Fitzgerald, M.R.C.S., of High street, Bloomsbury. The object of this valuable presenta tion is stated in the inscription on the plate, which is as follows :—" This service of plate vas presented by a few friends to Mr. Dillon Fitzgerald, M.R.C.S., in token of the high estimation in which they hold him for his very excel lent qualities, his great skill, and general usefulness as a medical man ; his charity and kindness to the poor, and his sincerity as a friend." Mr. Nagle was the originator of the testimonial. WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.—In consequence of the new arrangement for the issuing of tickets (signed by the Lord Chamberlain), which are now only to be procured in London, for the viewing of the state apartments at the Castle, being found to be exceedingly inconvenient to the public residing away from the metropolis, it is expected that an alteration will speedily take place, so that tickets may be procured in Windsor as well as in London. Several parties have arrived in the town since the new arrangement came into operation on the Ist instant, for the express purpose of visiting the state apartments, but they were necessarily dis app•>intcd, in-consequence of being unprovided with tickets, and there being no place in Windsor where they could be ob tained. The abolition of the fees for viewing the state room. ,by command of her Majesty, appears to have given universal satisfaction. A man who wears mustachios may be considered as deformed, since he has decidedly a hair -lip.—fffephys topheles. The Antwerp steamer Princess Victoria, Captain Jackson, arrived here very early on Thursday morning. She bad both wind and tide to contend against • but the passage from the Quay of Antwe r p t o S t. Katharine''s-wharf, Tower, was notwithstanding made in nineteen h ours. THE LATE EARL OF PORT ARLINGTON.--The fune ral of the above noble and gallant Earl tookop:liuctioectcehnreelmtNolemndyb nesday, when his at m ic or e t n al sa r i e - m gr a e in eo s . we i re he co mnso i at the moosft a pri h v e a a t r e se ma a n n n st er on p e os in sib o l u e rn , the ing a thes conducted cemetery nduc tedin n f w u o i a i c e b ral cortEge consisting o C n E s . o — rt, Wr_ on e c U om nd in e g rst t a n nd ow t n ha o t n h th er e MaßjetTstcyKainNdG the m r. r i P n A c e r C A 2 p o a t r ii ii a i r % s e t n a t n to on them t o h m e 10V2idndinsosrtanCta,swtlien,toonoptieine f t o h l e l Is H i n o g u s e d s ay o! leave town for Osborne House, Isle of Wight, where the Queen and Royal Family contemplate a sojourn of a week or ten days. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COTP7-L OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WIGUTMAN and Mr. Justice ERLE.) ASSAULT.—The whole of the forenoon was occupied with the case of Dennis Shine, who was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding John Monaghan, a policeman, with intent to prevent him from apprehend ing the said prisoner. This charge arose out of a public-house brawl on Box ing night, on which occasion the prisoner was intoxi cated and very violent. The landlord called in the police to clear the house, when the prisoner seized the fire shovel and struck Monaghan a severe blow over the head, by which he was severely injured. After a long and uninteresting inquiry the prisoner was found Guilty of a common assault only, and he was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour. The business of the session beixtg concluded, the Court adjourned until Monday, Feb. 2. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and a Bench of Magistrates.) Thursday Wm. Fairbrother, Gee. Rawlins, Alex. Munro, and James Hodges, all under thirteen years of age, were indicted fur stealing a toy watch, a Jew's harp, pen-knives, and other articles, the property of Charles Porter. From the evidence of William Cooke, a little boy about eight years old, it appears that one of the pri soners entered the prosecutor's shop, in Marchmont street, and took the articles in question. He afterwards joined the other prisoners, and he (witness) afterwards gave information. Mr. Porter identified the property in question as that belonging to his shop stock. The jury found them Guilty. The Court sentenced each to one month's imprison ment, with hard labour, and at the termination of the first fortnight to be severely whipped. Several cases were disposed of during the day, but they were not of any interest. SURREY SESSIONS. (Before Mr. PUCHLE and a full Bench of Magistrates.) Mr. James Thompson, a middle aged man, of respect able appearance, surrendered to his bail to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having embezzled three sums of 101. each, the property of James Hender son and others. Mr. Payne was retained for the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock for the defence. Mr. CHARNOCK observed that the case was one of ra• ther a peculiar character, and he had therefore devoted much attention to it, in order to give the defendant the benefit of his advice and assistance. An offer having been made by his Learned Friend Mr. Payee, who was engaged for the prosecution, that if the prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment, he should have from him the strongest possible recommendation to the merciful con sideration of the Court, he (Mr. Charnock) was about to recommend a compliance with his offer, feeling, as he did, that though the defendant and his friends felt that, morally, he was not guilty of the charge, and therefore should not plead guilty, yet that legally the offence would be made out against him. lle (Mr. Charnock) should briefly state the facts of the case, and after doing so should leave the case to the merciful considera tion of the Court. It appeared that Mr. Thompson had been for many years Secretary to the Silk, Cotton, and Woollen Cloth Printers' Society, held at Merton, in the county, and in that situation enjoyed the most perfect confidence and respect of its numerous members. The Society extended itself over Essex, Kent, and Surrey, and a correspondence respecting its state was regularly kept or, so that the duties of the defendant were consi derable. There was, besides, an additional county added, which gave the defendant additional labours, and at each collections were made from the earnings of each man, and these should, agreeably to the rules of the Society, have been forwarded to the defendant. This, how ever, was not done regularly, and the defendant gave those collectors credit to certain amounts. lie (Mr. Charnock) would admit that the defendant had neglected to enter on his books three sums of 10/. each ; and though this omission might, in strict law, amount to embezzlement, yet a larger sum was due to him from some of the members of the Society, and therefore he was not so particular as he otherwise should have been. There was another cir cumstance which he wished to mention, and that was that he held in his hand a petition, signed by a ♦ast majority of the members of the society, praying that the prisoner might be discharged from the offence, as it was their impression and conviction that he had not the slightest intention of acting dishonestly. There were also in attendance a number of gentlemen of the highest respectability, who had known the prisoner for a number of years, and who would testify to his high character, and express their belief that the act was an error in judgment, and no intention upon his part to defraud the society. The defendant was also willing to give every facility to the society to obtain possession of the funds lodged in the bank in his name, and put the affairs of the society in proper order ; and, under all the circum stances, he (Mr. Charnock) hoped the Court would treat the case as favourably as it could consistently with its duty. Mr. PAYNE said it was not his wish or intention to offer any opposition to the case being favourably dealt with; on the contrary, he should be perfectly satisfied with the Court dealing with it in the mildest possible way. The prisoner having pleaded Guilty, The Court merely held him to bail to appear to re ceive judgment when called on. The defendant having put in the required bail, joined a vast number of friends who were in attendance in front of the Court, and who warmly congratulated him. Wm. Anderson was indicted upon the following charge of highway robbery:— It appeared that the prosecutrix on Monday evening last was proceeding along White-street, near St. George's Church, Borough, with a parcel of articles, which she had just purchased, in her arms, when the prisoner came up to her, snatched the bundle from her, and forced her with considerable violence against the wall. He started off with his booty, but fortunately took a turning through which there was no thoroughfare, and was secured. The jury found him Guilty; and The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, declared that, had ho been known before, he should have transported him, but as it was, the sentence of the Court was, that he stands committed to Brixton House of Correction for nine months, with hard labour POLICE INTELLIGENCE. _ CLERKEN WELL. Mn. Bennett was charged at the instance of the Ex cise with having been concerned in working a private still. The Excise officers, it appeared, received information that a private still was worked in a house, No. 47, Char lotte-street, Islington, to which they repaired on Wed nesday evening, at six o'clock. They forced an entrance at the back of the premises, and on entering the kitchen, they found the prisoner at work at a still, which con tained upwards of 40 gallons of wash, nine tubs full of wash, and all the necessary implements used in illicit distillation. The prisoner said he was proprietor of the place, and quietly surrendered himself. The prisoner in his defence said he had been out of work a long time, and a party engaged him to work the still. The officers said he had been several times convicted for a similar offence. He was convicted in the penalty of 301, and in default of payment committed to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for three months. The driver of a cab, badge 4,703, was charged with cruelty to a horse. Thy prisoner was seen in the Pen tonviile-road beating his horse in a most cruel manner. until it was cut shockingly, and at length it fell down through pain and exhaustion. The prisoner was drunk at the time. He was fined 145., or seven days' imprisonment. A porter, in the employ of NIT.. Haslam, auctioneer, of Bagnigge-wells•road, was summoned for obstructing the highway, by placing some articles of furniture thereon. A witness named Curtain proved the case, and the defendant was fined 7s. and costs. MA RL BORO UGH-S TREE T. Mr. Henry Robert Wingrove, was charged with ring ing bells and knocking at doors without lawful excuse. On the previous night, or rather on that morning at one o'clock, police-constable Ramsay, 61 N, saw the pri soner knocking at the doors of several gentlemen in Camden-town. Witness ascertained that the prisoner had called at Mr. Pant's, inquirieg for his brother, and would not have noticed the matter if he had not seen him go to No. 8, Cambridge -terrace, and 5, Bay ham-terrace, and knock at the doors and ring the bells without any lawful excuse or pretence whatever. The prisoner denied that he had knocked at the two latter houses, and the case was remanded for further evidence. The address and occupation of the accused was not stated. Francis JP Leod was:brought before Mr. Hardwick on a charge of having obtained money by false pretences from Mr. Van Millingen, jeweller, of Albany-street, Regent's-park. Mr. Clarkson attended for the defendant ; Mr. Thomas for the prosecution. The examination of Mr. Van Millingen on a previous day was read over. Mr. Van Millingen's statement was, that the defendant had been introduced to him by Mr. Goldshead, a money lender, as a young man of very re spectable connexions iu Scotland, and entitled, when of age, to a sum of money amounting to about 5,0001. Prose cutor understanding that the defendant was about to go to India, and wished to take out some presents to his friends, agreed to sell him a gold box and a pin for 1508., and, further, to lend him 50/. to pay his travelling expenses to Scotland. The defendant give prosecutor a draft on the National Bank of Scotland, where he said he had money, for 200/. Prosecutor had sent the draft to Scot • land, and the answer returned to him was, that the drawer had no account, nor ever had an account at the bank. The prosecutor had also ascertained that the defendant had stated falsehoods as to his are. Cross-examined' by Mr.l Clarkson—Had no know ledge of gaming hou'es. Had lent the defendant the money in the belief that his representations were true. The gold box would fetch in India about 2001. Was not a money lender, and had never discounted bills in his life. Iltd ascertained that the defendant did not go at all to Scotland. Was not aware of any transactions be tween the defendant and Goldshead. Had known Gold head about twenty years. Re-examined by Mr. Thomas—lf he had known that the defendant never possessed money in the National Bank, he would not have lent him the 501. Mr. Bernardo Goldshead examined—l have chambers at No. 8, Duke-street, and I live at Hammersmith. I am a money-lender, and I know Francis M'Leod. I have been acquainted with him since 1844. The defendant gave me a bill, dated the 25th December last, for 6501., t for money lent. I went to Riinburgh on Thur.sdey alma on ms arrival I presented the bill at the National Bank of Scotland, and was toll that the defendant was not known there. Had introduced the defeeclant to Millingen, in the belief that the defendant's statement was true, and that he was entitled, when of age, to 5,0001 under his father's will. heard the defendant tell Millingen that he had money in the National Bank of Scotland, and that any draft he might draw would be honoured. Saw the defendant give Millingen a cheque on the National Bank in payment of the jewellery and the loan. Since his return from Scotland had seen the defendant, and had told him be had ascertained there was neither will nor property. The reply made by M'Leod was that he was sorry for it. lied heard the defendant say he was of age in 1844, and subsequently contradict his statement. Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson —Had been indis posed a short time in Scotland, anal that prevented him reaching London before. Knew Hunt's gaming-house. but hod no interest, direct or indirect, in it. llad been there, and had met M'Leod there once or twice. Had never taken M'Leod to this or any other gaming-house. Had never become M'Leod's security to the gaming bank. Millingen was never a money-lender. Had lent M'Leod about 6001., and had taken only reasonable interest, not more than 20 or 25 per cent. This was not large, considering the risk. Had received a letter from M'Leod, dated Edinburgh, Dec. 26, 1844. It was to this effect:— "My dear Sirs—l consider myself bound in the honour of a gentleman to repay to you the various sums of money advanced by you during my minority, amounting to nearly 3001. I herewith have the pleasure to inform you that I became of age on Tuesday last, and conse quently, in accordance with my promise, I inclose a promissory note for 300/, at three days' sight, payable at the National Bank of Scotland, which will be paid on presentation. Allovv me to thank you ler your kindness to me during my minority —Yours truly. " FRANCIS M'LEOD. " Direct to me at Sir J. Campbell's, Musselburgh." Mr. Clarkson said he was not in a condition to say that the prosecutor's representations were not true, or that the present proceedings were a kind of moral screw, made use of for the purpose of getting something out of the friends of a young gentleman, who was on the eve of going out to India. But as far as the evidence went he contended there was no case, the pried facie proof was wanting, and no false pretences had been proved. The prosecutor might, if he pleased, go before a Middle sex grand jury, and prefer a charge ; but as the evi dence now stood, the magistrate was not warranted in holding the defendant in custody any longer. The pro secutor had had plenty of time to bring his witnesses from Scotland, but having failed to take the proper steps, the charge was for the present at an end. Mr. Thomas, in reply said, there was quite enough evidence to lustily a further remand. The defendant by the aid of avalueless cheque had succeeded in getting 501. from the pr( secutor. Mr. HARDWICK said the case had not advanced a single step beyond the position which it assumed on the first examination. The prosecutor ought to have been pre pared with evidence from Scotland of the defendant's false representations. Sufficient time had already been given, and as no steps had been taken to procure proper witnesses, the charge against the prisoner could not be entertained. Mr. Thomas then said, as that was the Magistrate's determination, he should at once proceed with Mr. Golds head's case. Mr. Clarkson—l object to that course. Mr. Thomas—The defendant stated that he would be of age on a particular day, and therefore the bill in ques tion was dated forward. Mr. Hannwrcx said he had disposed of the previous charge, and he was prepared to hear any other cases that could be brought forward. Mr. Thomas said the Court would hear the character of the fah-e pretences from Mr. Goldshead himself, and then would have to decide whether the evidence amounted to a committal or a remand. Mr. Goldshead examined—The defendant gave me a bill fur 600/. for moneys lent. The defendant, when he gave the bill, said he was entitled, under his father's will, to property amounting, principal and interest, to about 5,0001. The defendant engaged me to go with him to Scotland to receive the money, which he said was lying for him at the National Bank of Scotland. The de fendant told me that he wanted money to pay some small debts in London. I lent him 1001. in money, and a diamond ring worth 201. The defendant invited me to dine with him. I went ; and the defendant, in the course of the evening, said to me, " You have been very kind to me; here is the diamond ring, which I wish you to accept." I was too ill to go to Edinburgh with Mr. M'Leod, and I was then informed that Mr. M'Leod had gone to Edinburgh, and expected me there. I went to Edinburgh, but could hear no tidings of Mr. M'Leod. I went to the National Bank and presented my two bills, but was told by the clerk that the party had no cash there, nor ever had any money in that lank. I was taken ill, and this detained me a day or two. I came to town on Friday last, having previously examined the defendant's father's will. About two days after my arrival in town I saw the defendant at a friend's house, and I asked him how he could send a friend to me to tell me had gone to Scotland, and how he could send me 400 miles to pre sent a cheque at a banking-house where he never had a single farthing of money. The defendant said he was sorry for the trouble he had given. I asked him what he had done with the money which I gave him to go to Scotland with. The defendant only laughed, and an swered that he had spent it. Mr. Clarkson, for the defendant, contended that the present proceedings were only adopted with a view to obtain money from the defendant's respectable friends. Mr. Goldshead said he had proofs of the defendant's false representations. He had letters and documents from Sir J. Gibson Craig. These letters were, however, not allowed to be pro duced in evidence. Mr. Goldshead, in reply to a question from Mr. Clark son, said he had issued a writ against the defendant that day. Mr. Clarkson asked whether the magistrate would treat the case criminally when the prosecutor himself had dealt with it as a debt by taking out a writ against the defendant? Mr. HARDWICK decided on holding the defendant to bail for a week in order to afford time to obtain the proper witnesses from Scotland. Robert Connolly, and John Smith, able-bodied men, were charged with disorderly conduct at St. George's Workhouse, in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. Francis Baldwin, one of the beadles, stated that last evening the prisoners applied at the workhouse for lodg ing for the night ; as the accommodation for nightly shelter was fu'l they were told they must apply else where, but they refused to go away without receiving relief, and remained in front of the workhouse behaving in a most violent arid disorderly manner, knocking and ringing at the workhouse door and causing a mob r f persons to assemble. They were given into the charge of the police, and on being searched Connolly was found to have in his possession Is. 3}d. and a ticket for his ad mission to the nightly refuge in Market street, Port man-square, where supper and breakfast would be sup plied him. Smith had also a ticket by which he would obtain admission to the same institution. Mr. HARDWICK asked if the prisoners were known. Wilks, the gaoler, said Smith had been charged at this Court with begging. Lacy, the officer of St. George's, said the prisoners were part of a gang, who made it a nightly practice of assembling in front of the workhouse, not so much to obtain relief as to excite the passers by to give them money. Mr. HARDWICK said, that such conduct would not be permitted—in this instance he should discharge the pri soners, but if they or others were brought before him again on a similar charge, he should most certainly send them to the House of Correction. MARY LEBONE. Mary Ann Judd was brought up for re-examination. Many children who had had property stolen from them were now in attendance, and no fewer than five of them identified the prisoner as the person by whom they had been plundered. George Henry Chamberlain, a little boy, nine years old, deposed that a few weeks ago, as he was passing along Salisbury-street, Portman-market, with a bundle of linen which he was carrying home to his mother, he was accosted by the prisoner, who, after walking with him for some minutes, asked him to go into a house in the Edgware-road, and inquire if her husband was there, at the same time saying that she would hold the bundle for him, and that on his return she would give him two pence and an India-rubber ball ; he gave up the said bundle to her, not thinking there was anything wrong, and on his leaving the house and looking for the prisoner, he found that she was gone. The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the rob beries, was remanded. Ckat les Wood was placed at the bar before Mr. Long for final examination, charged with having obtained goods from Mr. Benham, 19, Wigmore-street, Caven• dish• squa re , by f a l se l y re p re senting that they were for Sir William Baynes, 25, Portland-place, in whose service he had lived as butler, and was discharged from his si tuation a year and a half ago. The ease was proved, and the prisoner was sent for trial, William John Robinson, describing himself as a "com mercial agent," was charged with a violent assault upon Richard Wilson, a master-baker, carrying on business in Star-street, Paddington. It appears from the evidence that on the previous night, between ten and eleven o'clock, complainant saw the prisoner assault two females in the New-road ; he (complainant) remonstrated with him upon the miscon duct of which h e h a d b een g uilty, when the prisoner immediately struck him several times on the head with a stick, which he had with him. Complainant added, that he bled profusely in consequence of the blows in question, and that as soon as he could meet with it con stable he gave the p r i soner i n t o custody. The prisoner, who, in answer to the charge said that the complainant gave him the first blow, was fined 495. The penalty was directly paid. 'WORSHIP-STREET. charged with eutting‘antr young se mpstress who stood wounding Georgiana Demp sey , 1, with a table knife a man named Georg© Pitt, by whom sh e had been dis carded, after living with him for a consi d era ble time as his wife, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, - for final examination. It will be recollected that the prisoner, who is in an advanced state of pregnancy, had been remanded for the production of evidence i n s upport of her statement, that she had inflicted upo n th e prosecutor the injuries he complained of, whi c h wero o f a very trivial character, under strong feeli ngs o f provocation, occasioned by his having used to her a scandalous epithet. The prosecutor s till presse d the magistrate to send the prisoner for trial, on the ground that he should have no protection from her future violence if she were allowed to go at large ; but Mr. BROUGHTON said that, so far from the prisoner having exhibited any premeditated intention to injure him, mo,t him, not with,tanding the unfeeling conduct he had al along pursued towarils her ; and he could only attribute I the prosecutor's inveterate animosity to a desire to es cape from the responsibility of supporting the child, it which she would eo shortly be the mother. Her whole conduct evinced an entire absence of malice, anti as the injuries the coniplainant had sustained were of a very slight nature, he considered she had alrealy undergone sufficient punishment for hastily giving way to the ex treme provocation she had received, and he should, therefore, order her to be discharged. The prisoner, who was much affected, was then liberated, to the evident satisfaction of every one in Court. The Magistrate announced his receipt of a letter, enclosing the sum of 21. from H. and J. W., for the poor box. LAMBETH. Susannah Taylor, Mary M'Cal Mu, Jane Smith, and Ann White were charged before the lion. G. C. Norton with wilfully breaking two panes of glass, of the value of 65., at Lambeth Workhouse. George Newland, the gate-porter at Lambeth Work house, deposed that, about half-past twelve o'clock on that day, he found the prisoners, who were perfect strangers to him, and who did not belong to the parish, in the small office, and discovered at the same time that two squares of glass, of the value of 3s. each, were broken. Ile asked who had done it, and all the pri soners replied that they had. William Peplows, an inmate of the workhouse, who acts as occasional porter at the workhouse gate, stated that about twelve o'clock the prisoners came to the gate, and upon his asking what they wanted, they replied they came for relief. He then told them civilly to go to the assistant-overseer, in another part of the building. They went out as he thought, for that purpose, but im mediately afterwards he heard the smashing of glass, and on opening the door he saw the prisoner Taylor throw a stone through a pane of glass. Ile asked her why she did it, and all the prisoners replied, " We all here did it." The prisoners acknowledged they had broken the windw%s, but said they had not done so until they had been refused relief, or even admittance into the work- house. In reply to the questions of the Magistrate, they said they were not inhabitants of the parish of Lambeth, nor had they any legal claim for relict; but all they wanted was temporary assistance, and had this been given to them they should not have proceeded to the slightest violence. Mr. NORTON told them, that if they were really dis tressed and in a destitute state, as they represented, and relief had been refused to them at the workhouse, their proper course would have been to apply to this Court, and not take the law into their own hands. He then con victed them in the penalty of Gs., the value of the glass, or in default of payment, to three days' imprisonment each. Richard Holden, a shopman to an oil and eolourman in Piccadilly, was brought before the magistrate by one of the relieving-officers of the parish of Lambeth, for neglecting to s.ipport his wife, in consequence of which she became chargealq, to the parish. The wife, a well-dressed woman, said that she and lit:r husband hid lived on the most affectionate terms, until they unfortunately took in a fealale lodger, and soon after she discovered the most positive proof that her husband had formed an improper in imaq with her. Sne, of course, insisted that the female should at once leave the house, aril her husband, instead of breaking off the intimacy, took a lodging for her, and lived with her as her husband. The defendant said. that so violent was the temper of his wife, that he could not continue to live with her, but should allow 20s. a week to the support of herself and three children. Mr. NORTON endeavoured to get them to make up matters, and live together again, but the husband re fused to do so, and the wife accepted his offer of 20s. a week. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Emmell, a broker's man, was charged with stealing part of a bankrupt's stock, while employed in making out the goods in lots ready for sale. It appeared that a tradesman, named Davis, a harness maker, in High-street, Southwark, had recently failed in business, the consequence of which was that he became a bankrupt, and his stock in trade was put up for auction. The prisoner was employed on the premises in placing the different lots ready for sale, and a few days ago he was observed to leave the bankrupt's house, and to pro ceed to a marine-store shop in Union-street. Here he produced a capacious blue bag on the counter, containing a great number of brass articles used in the harness tra-le, and wanted to dispose of them for a sum infinitely below their raltte. A policeman, who had narrowly watched the prisoner from the bankrupt's house to the marine store shop, entered the latter place at the moment he was about to conclude a bargain. The prisoner, when ques tioned, equivecated a good deal, but at length acknow. ledged that he had brought the articles from No. 100, High-street, and that they had been given to him by Mr. Mithell, an officer of the Bankruptcy Court, who had charge of the stock on the premises. The answer, how ever, not satisfying the policeman, upon subsequent inquiries being made on the subject, it was discovered that the articles had been taken from the bankrupt's stock by the prisoner, without the sanction or permission of the individual in charge of the goods, and that he availed himself of the circumstance of his being em ployed there to plunder the different articles from the stock. The MAGISTRATE said that persons in the prisoner's situation had great facilities of plundering from a bank rupt's stock, and that the charge being one of an aggra vated nature, he should send it before a jury. The prisoner was, therefore, committed. William Minchiner, a master butcher, was charged with furiously driving, and breaking the leg of a youth named Smith, who had been confined in the hospital since the accident. It appeared that the complainant was driving a waggon along High-street, and when near the corner of Thomas street, the prisoner drove his cart from the opposite side of the road, and one of the shafts striking the boy on the shoulder knocked him down, and one of the wheels passing over his leg broke it about the centre. The lad was taken up in an insensiblestate, it'4d conveyed to Si Thomas's Hospital, where he has been confined ever since the accident. Evidence having been adduced that the accident was attributable to the reekless manner in which he was driving at the time, • The MAGISTRATE inflicted a fine of 40s. on the defend ant, besides adjudging him to pay 101. as damages, which sum when paid was directed to be handed over to the lad who sustained the injury. William Spink and Thomas Gore, carmen, in the em ploy of Messrs. Hooper, merchants, in Seething-lane, City, were charged before Mr. Traill with stealing a quantity of cow hair, u,ed in the making of wigs. It appeared that on the preceding night the prisoners were observed is Bermondsey-street carrying a bag between them. They were stopped by a policeman, who, finding the bag contained a quantity of cow hair, inter rogated them, but their answers are so unsatisfactory, that he took them into custody. It was afterwards dis covered that the prisoners bad taken the hair from their employers' premises, and were on their way to a marine store shop, when they were apprehended as above described. In the course of the examination a curious fact was elicited, namely, that the hair, which was that of cows' tails, was dyed, and afterwards made into wigs, and false fronts, for the use of ladies who required such ornaments. The complainant, in reply to the Magistrate, said, that of late he had lost a great quantity of hair of the above description, and had no doubt he was plundered to a considerable extent by the prisoners, who had ample opportunity of doing so from the situations they filled in the warehouse. _ . The MAGISTRATE committed the prisoners, but they will be brought up again for the purpose of having the depositions taken. HAMMERSMITH. Two lads named Wm. Hawkins and Jacob Silk, were charged with stealing iron from the works of the West London Railway. _ _ Policeman Ayres, T 215, deposed that about half past five o'clock on the previous afternoon, whilst on duty in the Uxbridge-road, he stopped the two prisoners, who were in company together, near the West London Rail way-bridge, at Shepherd's Bush. The prisoner Hawkins, was at the time carrying a sack. Witness looked into it and found two pieces of iron now produced. He then asked the prisoners where they had got the iron from ; when they both said, pointing towards the railway," We got them from near to the road leading to Kensal-green." Witness then took them to the station-house. William Wilson, of No. 2, Pickering-place, Queen's row, Bayswater, deposed that he was foreman over the labourers on the West London Railway. The two pieces of iron, called connecting-chains, or switches, now, pro duced by the police, were the property of the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. THAMES. Robert Clark, a seaman, was charged with damaging a cab. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was paid off on Wednesday. He engaged a cab, and sallied out on a cruise. He was unable to steer, and having neither box nor compass, soon capsized the vehicle. Ile got off the box, lifted up the cab, and, having taken in an extra passenger, made all the sail he was able for the Commercial-roal. On arriving at the Cannon-street gate toll was demanded, but Jack said he paid no further dues, and drove on. He had not gone far before he ran foul of a coffee stall, and made a wreck of it. Having satisfied the owner, he again made all the sail he was able, stud was followed by a motley group, who cheered him on. After some further proceedings, Mr. BALLANTINE said, the loss sustained by the cab man is of some consequence to him, and you must pay for the damage. The cabman estimated the expense of repairing the injury at 50s. Mr. BkLLtNTINE said, unless the prisoner paid a fine of 505., he must go to gaol for 21 days. Tug TOWER.—Great activity is daily manifested in the p' oving and fitting up of muskets for the use of the militia; they are to be on the percussion principle, and several extra armourers and labourers are employed. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A WATERLOO VETERAN.-- On Thursday afternoon Mr. Bedford held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of William Dagnall, aged seventy-six, an out- pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. It ap peared by the evidence that the deceased, who resided at No 4, Ebury-street, Pimlico, was present at the principal actions in the last Peninsular war, and also at the battle of Water loo, where he highly distinguished himself. On the 4th ult. he received his quarter's pension, and afterwards drank freely of spirits. Between eight and nine o'clock in the evening he was entering the Coach and Horses public- house in Royal Hospital-row, wid whilst in the doorway he suddenly fell to the ground and fractured his left leg. He was removed to the above hospital, when he received every attention, but he gradually sunk under the injury, and expired on Monday last. Verdict, "Accidental death." T T. fl 7 • 1-* LONDON, JAN. 9.—Wiod V. by 3., light airs and hazy. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Rhoon en Pendrecht, Fokkens, Batavia. 8. Gan; es, Walker, Calcutta; De resen t , St ee l e , Mauritius ; Wm. Gales, Bahia ; Medora, Lefevre, Berbice ; Warrior, Huggins, Jamaica ; Minerva, Ogden, Nassau. Arrd. from the River for, China, Livesay, Norfolk Tslanfl ; Thomas, Ceylon. Arra. from he Rivt,r saiwi for, .0- hope, Richards, St. Michael ; Jessy, Tydeman, San taodar. Sld. Henrietta, Largrart. Sydney,New South Wales; Watson, Thompson, Port Adelaide; Anne Jane, 11iW . :y, China; Simlat, Taylor, Calcutta; Sandwich, Mann, Trini dad ; Flora, Leveque, Jamaica. Put back, Bth, Wm. Henry Angus, Honduras. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. B.—Sld. Oriental Queen, Jeffery, Mau ritius; Helen M'Gregor, Haxannah ; Morgiana, Charleston ; Wellington, Chadwick, New York. CowEs, JAN. B.—Arrd. West Lothian, Bell, Santa Martha and Jamaica. OFF ST. ALBAN'S HEAD, JAN. s.—Hannah and Fanny, Duken, Porto Plata. NEWPORT, JAN. B,—Sld. EllenM•Culloch, St. Thomas. LIVERPOOL. JAN. B:—Arrd. John Bibby. Carokett, Cal cutta; Swordfish, Green, Pernambuco; Ariel, North Africa; Derby, Cain, Bonny; Cosmopolitan, New Calabar; Hero, Rio )raneiro ; Ondiake, Glidren, New Orleans: Arkansas, Larshee, Savannah; New York, Cropper, New 'York, sailed 17th ult.. Sld. 7, Seymour, Rogers, Sydney, New South `Vales; Rival, Bair, Grer.ada ; Birkenhead, lie- wick, Mo bile; Sarah, Campbell, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Lavinia, Denet, Newfoundland ; 8, Berenia, 13owden, Sydney, New South Wales; Vivelia, Dutray, Rio Janeiro; Hesperus, Campbell, Africa; Zanone, Simon, New Orleans; Genepee, Watts, New Orleans; Emigrant, Tuber, Mobile; Isabella Stewart, Crowell, Mobile. Off port, William Prowee, Cal cutta; Asia, Pernambuco; Sir C. Campbell —. AYR, JAN. 7.—The Elizabeth, Adair, of Ki!laugh, from Stranraer to this port, came on shore last niglon the beach at the South Pier,:.but is expected off; cargo discharging without damage. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY COED*-Excitaivo E. Although the fresh arrivals of English Wheat since Mon day have been but moderate, the demand for that article to day was heavy, at barely stationary prices, and a clearance was not effected. Free Foreign Wheat moved off slowly, vet holders were firm, and would not submit to lower rates. The receipts of Barley being large, the demand was very heavy at, in some instances, a slight depression in the quotations. The supply of ➢ialt was pretty well cleared off, on much the same terms. There was a fair retail demand for Oats, the best parcels of which sold at an advance of 6d per quart Er. Beans, Peas, and Flour, without alteration. ARRIVALS. Barley. Oats Flmir 11,710 qrs. 5,090 qrs. 8,180 sk 1,010 2,460 Wheat. 6,170 4rs English Irish Foreign ...... 3,020 I Malt. 8,920 Qrs. SIVIITIEMELD 6,630 Although the supply of Beasts on sale was limited, the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath, Monday's prices. Scarcely a single head of foreign &est or Sheep was brought forward. The num bers of Sheep being again very small, the inquiry for that description of stock was firm, at extreme currencies. Calves were in short supply and fair request, at late prices, The Pork trade was active, and the quotations were well sup ported. Mulch Cows sold heavily, ar from 16/ to 19/ each, including their small calf. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. •. d. Inferior Beasts .... 2 1 3 Aecond vuality ditto. 3 4 3 • Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 310 Prime Scots ...• •• 4 0 4 4 Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 10 P:ime small ditto .. 1 0 5 4 Suckling Calves •10 • 3 , 1 0 lmerior Sheep .. . 3 6 4 • SUPPLY AT Beasts. sheep. 625 2,760 s. d. to s. d. Seeend quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Coarse-woolled ditt• 4 8 4 10 Southdown Wethers 5 0 i 2 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs ...... 310 4 6 Small Porkers .. 4 S i 2 Quarter fold Pigs ..16 I 20 0 Lambs .. .. •••• • • • 0 0 0 MARKET. I Calves. I Pigs. 121 310 _ _ NENVGAT33 AND LEADEN/MALL. Each kind of prime meat sold steadily, at full prices, Otherwise the trade ruled dull. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to 8. Beef, inferior•..... 2 8 3 - middling .... 3 2 3 - prime large .. 3 4 3 - prime small .. 3 6 3 Veal.. .. •••• • ..... 4 '2 5 d. s. d. to s. d. 0 Mutton, interior .. 3 6 4 0 4 middling.. 4 2 4 4 6 prima —• • 4 6 4 8 11 Pork, large• •••• • • . 310 4 6 2 small ••••• • • • 4 8 b 4 _ . Lamb, as Od to Os •d. BOR.OUGIi HOP MARKET. There was a fair demand for the best new Hops, at very full prices. In other description.% the supply of which on offer was comparatively small, only a moderate business was doing, at late rates. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—Upon the re-opening of the market this week British Plantation has experienced a very good demand, and importers being disposed to meet the buyers, a fair business has been done On Tuesday 900 hhds were sold, being more than on any single day for the last six week s , th e ad vance being 6d per cwt. Barbadoes realised 49s 6d to 56s Gd per cwt for low yellow to fine mid. EAST INDlA..—Upwards of 10,000 bags of Bengal have been put up for public sale, and being a larger quantity than the trade can at present take, prices have given way fid to is per cwt, the Brown being nearly all bought in. Good and strong Yellow has been sold at 50s 6d to 51s 6d; good and fine White at 55s to 56s 6d, and extra fine at 58s to 595. Damp and washed has realised 45s to 495, and damp and washed brown 4ls to 435. Some of the good and fine yellow has been taken in at 49s to 525. In Madras 2,983 bags sold at 48s to 50s for sound good and fine yellow, at 46s to 46s 6d for mid, at 44s for damp and washed, at 54s 6d to 55s 6d for god white, and at 39s to 41a Gd for damp brown. There has been an auction also of 6,000 bags and 250 casks Mauritius, which went off steadily at 6d to Is advance upon the previous rates. Fine yellow 52s 6d to 53s 6d, mid 49s to 50s 6d. FOREIGN.-1,517 boxes yellow Havannah were taken in at 23s to 18e per cwt. REFINE 6.— The market is steady, though not vary active. Standard Lumps have been at 65s per cwt. COFFEE.—British Plantation has been steady, but there has not been much doing. Mocha has been rather higher, but the holders have not been enabled to realise their de mands, and parcels have been taken in at 80s for good yel low long berry, being above the market rates. Ceylon has been sold privately at 49s to 50s. for good ord ; pale Native and Plantatation kind at 59s for good ord dull yellowish, and 63s for Pea Berry. At auction 2,177 bags were partly sold at 48s to 635. Madras samples have realised 58s to 61s, and Bengal 48s. Some Rio was taken in at 71s. SALTPETRE.—BengaI has been taken in at 27s for 6%lbs per cent fraction. RlCE.—Madras has been sold at 14s to 14s f 4 per cwt. REM.—Jamaica has been steady, and proof Leeward. has realised 2s per gallon. Calcutta proof has been is lld to 2s per gallon, the market being steady. SFR:Es.-5,300 bags Malabar sold at 2%d to 3lA i d per lb., being rather cheaper. TALLOW.—The improvement in prices is maintained, and 43s is the value still of P.Y.C. 'fEa.—This article is in rather more request, but there has been no speculation. The consumption is good. (From the Lendoa New Price Current, of Jan. 9.) SUGAR. —To-day impoi tern of %Vest India Sugar were more inclined to realise, but submitting to a reductio❑ on former rates of 6d to is per cwt, tempted buyers to operate with more freedom, and in grocery and refining descriptions a fair business was transacted ; the better qaalities were, however, the most in request. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal Sugar offered at public sale amounted to 3,838 bags; the trade were desirous to operate, and nearly the whole sold at full rates. Privately 3,000 bags of Dobah have been disposed of at 50s to 583, but principally at 52s to 53s per cwt for coloury soft yellow. FORElGN.—Although importers of yellow Havannah are sellers at a further decline in prices, still buyers have been cautious in their proceedings, and by private con tract little business has been transacted ; at auction 1,517 boxes have been offered—the damaged amounting to 380 boxes were sold, but at rates exhibiting a decline on those of the highest point of the market, of 4s to 5s per cwt. White is neglected, and it is difficult to quote prices with accuracy. There are sellers of white Brazil upon further re duced terms, still the business transacted has been ex tremely limited, and only 50 chests of middling Bahia have been disposed of at 25s per cwt. Brown has been purchased with caution, by exporters and our refiners working under bond, although there are sellers at a fur ther reduction of prices. The market for other descrip tions of foreign has a dull appearance, and prices are on the decline. REPINED.—To day Refined Goods were not much in demand for home consumption, still Standard Lumps could not be ob:ained under 655, and brown grocery 64s per cwt. MAURITIDS.—A considerable improvement has taken place in the demand this week for yellow, grey, and the better descriptions of brown ; prices have risen 6d to Is per cwt, although the market has been more liberally supplied; common brown has however met with little attention, but at present cannot be quoted cheaper. CoFIEE.—This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was wanted, but the stiff rates asked by the merchants operated against business, and at auction 1,680 bags were chiefly takes in rather above the value, that is to say, good or dinary pale at 50s. The part sold went at full prices— real good ordinary pale selling at 50s to 51s, good ordinary 49s 6d, low ord ragged 455, sea da aged 32s 6d to 525, country damaged 43s 6d to 46s 6d, triage 40s, low 265, black 12s to 13s. Of British Plan tation 76 casks and 34 barrels were offered, but taken in att stiffer rates, viz., Demerara fine ordinary grey at 48s to 50s, low middling colory 565, Berbice middling 665, fine fine ordinary 545, fine ordinary 47s to 50s, good ordinary 455, low ordinary 425,, triage 30s. 28 barrels of Rio fetched 60s 6d for middlingheavyblt!e. _ TEA—Although there are further arrivals, still mer- I chants manifest firmness, and refrain from offering any at public sale ; the trade have come forward with in creased freedom, and an advance in the value of nearly every kind has taken place. In Congou extensive pur chases have been made, especially in the common and middling descriptions, a further advance in prices has taken place. Pouchong has been in excellent request, and prices are on the advance. Twankay has been in good demand, and prices are looking up, the supply at market being small, There has been a large business transacted in Hyson; the low rates that prevail tempted the trade to get in stock ; the prices paid ex hibit an advance on those previously quoted at 2d per lb. In Gunpowder the business transacted has been upon a more extended scale, but in the value little variation at present has taken place. Imperial has been sold to a fair 'xtent. Young Hyson is wanted. In Hyson Skin the operation s have been on a more extended scale. Flowery Pekoe is more wanted. MOLASSES.—To-day West India met with attention, and brought rather higher rates : 70 puns of good An tigua were sold at 24s yer cwt. been little desire shown t o pur chaes°ecanAy. Cocoa.—There h tio a n s of %Vest India, and altho ug h t h e valuemarket o f h l a s s been to 2s per t has taken plac e . F oreign is dull of sale, and there are sellers by private treaty upon lower terms. S parters of Malabar Pepp er h ave b een de sirousnformer r iC m to e realise this week, but submitti ng to a reduction o ates of l id per pound h as occas i oned the el s - P o ES . rr —lin mand to be good. In Sumatra and Penang a fair busi ness has been transacted by private treaty, in conse quence of rather lower rates having been accepted. The limited business transacted privately in Nutmegs has been at prices showing a decline on those previously quoted of 2d per lb. Mace has been purchased with cau tion privately, and prices are on the decline. In Cassia Lignea the operations have been more extensive. foot .ia , r.d , ,,... pa•it , ;a.e lite:, re.vier ..,b0 , e1 , - . I. ously ciu , :t , (1. '1 he market is s till tc.2.ntily i Gin ' er at prf:sent is not much wanted by eXI I the home trade, but holders are not incline. loAer rates, and supply the mark. t 5,..-ant4. ( , .. 6c1, , -d. ito1.1c,•:: tit t_hnortu , o,-, ttr not ileht. I.w, r ~ :!- e s for any de -et Toon. SAGO. —There has ken a brisker dealand. r v4tely several p:it-c- is have been disposed of a' mer currency: the supply is I,ss than it wos. - 60 chests were sold at 32s to 33s tor good / small white Pearl. In Sago Flour the opera ! 0 been upon a more extended scale privately at per cwt. it SPIRITS.—Thr arrival of Rum since the toms of ihe year has been 333 puns 553 hbds. Lee.v: I'd Island are not inclined further to prices; but the purchases made have been lizoittd at 2s to 2s Id per gallon proof For Calcutta the demand has been sm.ll parcels at is lld to 2s proof with Jamaica is not t o b e o h, n i ro ?cl up , terms ; but the demand has be e n limited. has a very firm appearance for all descriptions nod there has been a good business transaetk.d. has been purchased with more freedom for e 7 and prices ura firm. The value of English C , is I O 6d psr gallon nett cash ; but there hat' much busin. as done. Rice.— Phis afternoon 1,400 bsg of Sp were offeitA at public 0..1e, the sound was rather hb.‘ve the value; floe bold clean white at ditto 1946 d t 20s, but the sea damaged stAd, at 17s to 17s 6d, second dittu 16s, and third d per cwt. FRUIT.—The market. has a dull appearanc rants and Raisins, the grocers only tAing noel their immediate wants, and it is difficult to sales. COCHINEAL.—HoIders of Silvers submitting decline on last week's rates, tempted buyers with more fieed &n, and the phiCk,lS were nearly all disposed of at and since the p LAC DYE.-The business transacted pr' been upon a more extended scale, at former not above, low sorts selling at 5d to 7d, mid. to Is, and superior is 2:1 to is SALTPETRE.—The market has a firth 1 1 1 1 1-/' rough, and the quant.ty I.lroughl forward has I purchases to a lair extent have been made pri' fully former terms. The rates taken ftr 13rii have bten 30s to 30s 63 per cwt. For Nitrate demand has been only for small parcels at 14 per c , vt. OlLS.—This afternoon Cocoa Nut Oil met attention, and at public alit 144 packages were only in part sold at 331 10s. for fine whit( 331 p;.r TURPENTINE.—Spirit 4 have been in excellt and prices rule firm at 63s to 64s per cwt, being small. Rough is wanted, and 12s 6d cwt are the rates paid. TALLOW.— 'Dlos afternoon at auction 221 hhds cf . South American Tallow were sold at for eommon to fine quality ; 341 casks of I' Wales, fine hard 43s to 43s 31, good 42s to 4!, tiling 40s to 41s 9d. low 39s 6d ; 27 casks 42s to 42s Gd per ewt. BANK OF EN(„LAND• (From last Night's Gazette.) Am Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth cap. 32, for the n eek ending on Saturday, the January, 1846. ISSUE DEPARTMENT Notes issued Other securities. — Gold coin and bul lion • • Silver bullion... •• £26,675,925 M. 8] Dated the Bth day of Janus LARSHALL, Chiel cry, 1846. eARTMENT. BANKING DI X. roprietois' capita 1,14,553,000 Rest Public deposits (in cluding Exche- tiovernment secu rities (including Dead weight Annuity) Other securities Notes Gold and silver coin quer, Savings banks, Commis sioners ofNational Debt, and divi. dend accounts) 9,369,630 Other deposits 8,3b0,465 Seven day and other bills .£86,487,722 M. MA Dated the Bth day of Januar RSIIALL, Chief C •y, 1846. The Earl of Besborough and the Ladies have left Besborough House, county of Kilkenny. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Deafness and Defec Rellieved.—The undermentioned sent into the con! post.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, and 2b. tle.street, Edinburgh.—Acoustic Instrument Conductors, when fixed in the cavity of the ears, comfortable, nor more perceptible than having a s A v wool in its place. They enable individuals at an and of extreme deafness of 40 and 50 years' stand o to join in general conversation, and to catch the distant low speaker at church, theatre, &c. The conversation into the ears to such An extent that severe cases deafness cannot be observed. Al , Ear Cornets, French, German, and Spanish Art and Improved Hearing Trumpets of every descripti of those instruments have received the approbs . Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great .Bri newly-invented Spectacl es , i mme di a t e l y th ey are 1.• extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its youthl and original state. Also, Achromatic Telesco Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Caution—Messrs. S. as mons, Opticians, are net in any way connected 16 1 of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be Ca Observe—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, opposite the York Hotel, and 25, South Castle-sit burgh. Nothing could be better devised than Ni gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature of forming, as it now does, not only the sine qua railway traveller, but is equally so adapted for any taking out-door exercise. It may be said distinct the costume of the nineteenth century, if that called marked which is only conspicuous for an UP and graceful bearer, the wearer feeling so muc Certainly as an over-coat it is patronised highly, a general public favourite, being so peculiarly Er avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It It knowledged as a vast improvement over the old associated in our remembrance with an uncoil - die tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very ' defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as' . with the pr o p er c i rculat i on of the blood. The pro are black, blue, brown, and olive ; also the cleric , called Oxford, and can be had of the patentees, the most respectable clothiers out of London. paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the 1 the words, " Registe re d 6 an d 7 Vic., cap. 65. 1 1 . Nicoll, 114, R9gent-street. London. ACCEPTABLH PRESENTS.—The present is by one of the most delightful offices of friendship and the interchange of gilts as remembrances of the d tokens of their esteem for the receivers. The . 1 1 priate pre sen t b ecomes t h e fi rst subject of consu l merely useful one can afford no evidence of taste, of sent possessing no claims to utility, shows a want of; To combine these requisites, a more fitting souve nir suggested than Rowland's Toilet Articles, the Mac Kalydor, and °dont°, each of infallible attributes. 1 and sustaining luxuriant silken tresses, Rowl an d's ills is highly and universally appreciated ; R owlan d' s IC preparation of unparalleled ef fi cacy in i m p rov i n g s Eying the Skin and Comple x i on ; and Rowland ' s I Pearl Dentifrice, is i nvaluable f its beautifying a vative effects on the Teeth and Gums. Th e aug ust conceded by our gracious Queen, and the several of Europe, together with the beauties which adorn of princely and rega l magnif i cence, and the coal', experience of the infallible efficacy of these creative specifics, have characterised them with perfections them a celebrity unparalleled. [ADVERTISEMENT]. —A WONDERFUL Pa Mott OF LIVE BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT A??D Hugh itl•Donald, Lot 55, in King's County, Print Island, made a public declaration before Joseph Co Justice of Peace at Bay Fortune, September 3d, 1 84 , effect that the greater part of his no'e and roof of were eaten away, besides ulcerous sores in his face which, from their nature, mus t s h ort l y have deprivf life, and that he has been restored from the pitiable A: able state he was in by the use of Holloway's Pills 1 meet, and this after all othee medical treatment had Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's ment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Ampthill Howie, Beds, the fl Petre, of a dau,thter. On the 6th inst., at Thames Ditton, the wife 01 Edwards, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Nelson House, Stoke Newir lady of George Gabain, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square , of Raymond Yates, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Tavistock-square, the WI Bromley, Esq., of twin sons. MARRIED On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, Chelte; W. W. Tyndale, of Lincoln's I nn , barristenat-law, only daughter of the late Sir Edward Synge, Bart. . On the sth inst., at Heriot-hill House, Edinburg Carter, Esq, to Jane Lietitia, eldest daughter of the S. Moron, Esq., M.D. On the 6th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, M r * J. Jav, of St. Petersburgh-p!ace, Bayswater, to Luc , ' daughter of the late G. Boggett, Esq. On the 6th inst., at St Michael's, Coventry, Cs; Shirrerf, of the Bengal Army, to Ann, only (taught' late Captain Pattullo, of the Madras Army. On the 6th inst., at Christ Church, M ar yl, James Lindy Brown, M A., to Miss Harriet Fl u— Blandford-place, Regent's-park. DIED. On the ith inst., at Bruton-street, Earl Granvilk' On the Ist inst., at Bacton, Norfolk, the Rev. tl ei kinson, Rector of Wacton and Crostwight. On the 3d inst., Dr. Joseph Adolphus, late of Jamaica On the 4th inst., at Ex mou th, M ar i a, w if e o f a 0 donald, Esq., Commander, R.N. On the 3th inst , at the Vicarage, Braughing , Rev. Francis Edward Say, aged 83. On the 6th inst., C. E. Johnson, Esq., of Lond° 9 Fitzroy-square. On the 6th inst, Mr. William Craig, aged 82. T . ro i On the 7th inst., a t Clif ton, liristol, `lll,annah of the Rev. Riehard Tawney, 'Vicar (4* Willoughb.c f -9 On the 7th inst., at Lower Tootin,g, Surrey, Chapman, aged 72. 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