The Sun. — London, England, 1837-02-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Surely the climax of impudence was Sir Robert Peel's argument that, though Catholics were entitled to participate with Protestants in municipal privileges, both parties would be put on the same footing by the extinction of the Corporations. This upright judge decides upon the question to this effect :—" You com plain that the Protestants have monopolised all the ad vantages of these institutions, and you claim a share in them ; I acknowledge the truth of your statement ; you have long been excluded, and you have a right to a share in the management of these institutions ; but lest you should take more than your share, having hi therto been deprived of your share, you shall have nothing at all, for I will destroy them, and then you will be all on an equality." The charge against the harpies is equitably disposed of by abolishing refec tion. Want and repletion are to be put on an equal footing by cutting off the supply of necessary food. " We have had no place at the table," cry the Catholics. " Never mind," answers Sir Robert Peel, "to bring the balance even there shall be no more eating. Lest you who have been shutout should commit the same excesses as those who have had possession, we will put an end to the entertainment altogether, and, when there is no thing to be had, inanition and repletion will be on the most equal terms." The desire of Sir Robert Peel is precisely that of the harlot in the question before Solomon between the two mothers as to the right to the living child—" Let it be neither mime nor thine, but divide it." It needs not the wit of Solomon to decide upon the destructive proposal. We have been watch ing with much curiosity the effect of the division upon the Tory organs. The grief of the Tines was for many days too deep for words': it was silent under its humiliation; it turned from the subject, not trusting its voice upon it; but on Saturday it recovered itself enough for a little bluster, the character of which betrays the extremity of its shifts. The Tory organ tas suddenly become an ultra-Radical, and declares th it ti e House of Commons does not represent the fcelines of the people, and that" the real pressure upon the Ministry must come from the out-of-doors re action." Observe the force of old habit. The Times, in its dotage and its adversity, forgets that the physical force is no longer on its side, and it dreams of the ". popular interference pro hac rice," and hankers for " the bludgeon and the brick bat," not remembering that there are no hands obe dient to its influences to wield its favourite instruments of persuasion, unless, indeed, peers and parsons take up sticks and stones against the tyrant majority which Sir Robert Peel pledged himself to resist in his Glasgow speech. A Grosvenor-square mob, a pressure from without of aristocrats and dandies, a concurrent oligarchical interference pro hoc vice from May-fair, would be a pleasant novelty in these times. imagine secret 'drilling in the Carlton Club, a dis iurhed district about livde-patk-corner, and the repeal of ti:e Riot Act moved by Bishop Phiiipotts, seconded I,v the Duke of Newcastle, and carried, by a majority of .200 in the House of Lords. But what a change h as been wrought in three years. It was but a few days ago that the Times republished Lord Gicy's letter to Lord Ebrington, with an edifying comment on the dangers of " the pressure from without ;" and now the perilous pressure is within forsooth, and the very salvation of the Tories depends on "'the pressure from withent." What a miracle is this 1 Within three weeks the democratic pressure front without has been tie:tiered into a conservative pressure from without. All this is as easy as fiction. The triumphant division of Thursday has made it necessary that the untried powers out of doors should be fur the Tories, as the iegiti mate powers in doors are so decidedly against them. "We quote the passelge from the Times as a gratifying, evidence of its case of extrentv :—" It is nut a month since we gave it as our conviction, that it was vain to look for any change of sentiment or vote within the weds of the House of Commons, but that the real p:,eisure upon the Ministry must co:ne from that out, of-doors re-action, which was manifesting itself from nerd: to south of Britain, and which si,oke"the feel in e; of the constituent body, whatever might be those of the representatives. Whether the majority for the Remish Corporation Bill should be 50, 00, 80, or 90, never gave us five minutes' anxiety." Now mark teepecially the felicity of this course of observation which follows :—" It was plain that the course of every man in the }Luse of Commons had .lone been decided upon that party question—had hiderll been settled eighteen months ago ; and that no change was to be looked fur—none, at least, of any conse quence—in the relative strength of parties within doors, until after a dissolution of the present Parliament. '1 he recent majority, therefore—we know not how others may regard it—seems to us a_ mere inch cation of the number of votes irrevocably pledged float the outset of the present Parliament, but discloses riothing as to the improved opinions of Me country, nor even as to those conscious errors of Hon. Gentle- men in the House, which may have been corrected on more mature consideration, but which feelings of party honour would prevent from showing themselves on a division." How distress makes the writer blunder. Where is now his tact ? How unfortunate is his state ment, that the division discloses nothing as to im proved opinions precisely at the moment when Sir George Crewe so honourably avows that he refused to vote, as he did last year, with his friends the Tories, upon Lord Francis Egerton's motion, because an at tentive consideration of the arguments on both sides has convinced him of the injustice of depriving Ire- Hid of municipal privileges. In this instance we Lave a most brilliant and honourable example of the ielproved opinion upon mature consideration which the Times denies to have been manifested. It is ob ious that nothing could be so stupid in the Times as ally allusion bearing upon this example of honesty se parating a Tory from his party ; but the irrestrainable instinct of falsehood has committed the Times to so egregious a blunder. Because it was true that there IVasan instance of improved opinion, it could not re silt the mendacious impulse to assert the contrary to the notorious and undeniable fact.—Morn. Chronicle. Could we believe that those most active in endea vouring to raise an outcry in and out of Parliament against the Poor Law Amendment Act, were really influenced by a sincere desire to improve the condition of the pauper population, however erroneous and im politic we might consider their proceedings, we should feel bound to respect and sympathize in their motives, and give to their statements and arguments the fullest and most attentive consideration. But when we look to the conduct of these parties on all other questions of national policy, and find them on one side fighting with malignant and envenomed zeal against the re moval of those abuses which are the main source of pauperism, and on the other insidiously raising or trying; to raise dissensions amongst Reformers, in the hope of gratifying their own paltry ambition, to the detriment of the public cause, it is impossible to at tribute their affected enthusiasm in behalf of the poor to any but the most factious and sinister mo tives. The" Poor Law Amendment Act offers a most plausible pretext of coalition between the ulra- Tories and the all-or-nothing Radicals. They know that to English ears the appeal of distress is never made in vain, and instead of contrasting the state of society under the new and the old system, and judging fairly of the relative effects of leach, they glean together every isolated case of suffer inj under the new Act, and even call in fiction to in vent or embellish the tale of woe, and thus endeavour to make out their case, not so much against the Act itself, as the Ministry who introduced it. In the re sinned debate of to-night we may expect a repetition of the m isrepresentations, and of the vehement protesta tions of sympathy for the poor, with which the assail at. ts of the Act have so liberally favoured the public. "No clamour in the House shall prevent me making known the cries of the poor out of it," said Mr. Walter. This is ,a generous resolve for one of those accustomed to designate the poor as the " canaille," the " swinish ,multitude," the " tag-rag and bob-tail," and all the 0;11er elegant,e-apletiyes which bedizen the columns of Cut jourual with which he is associated, and which is n ,t note remarkable for its truth and consistency than the chaste and elegant diction in which it , clothes opinions, being, in fact, equally notorious for the I s , of its statements and the obscenity of its I ,,,,aage. If the Hon. Member for Berkshire be so to'rnake the voice—we beg his pardon, " the eric the poor heard in the House of Commons, why does he not move for an extension of the elective franchise, and give the labouring classes a vote in the election of Members of Parliament ? This would evince his sincerity in their cause, though we appre hend there are but few of them would then entrust the protection of their interests to the advocacy of an apostate. No change was ever yet effected in the relations of a complicated society without being at tended with a greater or less amount of partial or tem porary inconvenience ; and few changes have ever been effected in our institutions in which the partial ill was more completely overbalanced by the general good than in that effected by the Poor-law Amendment Act. We know that instances of severity and abuse have oc curred, we know that in the application of the law in some cases, the Commissioners were more strict, we will say inexorable, than was - desirable, consi dering the habits which the old system had en gendered ; but we also know that in almost all cases where the law has been introduced, that the con dition of the labouring classes has been improved, that wages have risen, that pauperism has decreased, as also the rates, that crime is less frequent, and that the whole structure of society is in a far more safe and healthy condition than it was previons to its enact ment. At the same time, we are far from - assert ing the law to be perfect, and, therefore, we rejoice that either on - the motion or the amendment a Committee of Inquiry is certain to be appointed. This will enable the Legislature and the public to form a more correct judgment on the subject. It must, however, be al ways borne in mind, that with pauperism as well as with all other maladies, social or natural, prevention is better than cure ; and that, therefore, legislative at tention should be directed, at least as much to the removal of those abuses in out political system which have superinduced pauperism, as to the best mode of re lieving it when it exists.- We must observe, in con clusion, that where all parties concurred in the neces sity of inquiry of one kind or other, it is to be regret ted that the time of the House, under such a pressure public business, should have been frittered away by adjourning a debate in which nothing of new can be adduced nor any definitive conclusion intended to be arrived, at, until the proposed Committee furnish their Report. It is fair, however, to state the mo tioir of Mr. Walter aimed at the repeal of the law, and the amendment of Lord John Russell an inquiry into its administration, which, of course involves such improvements in the Act itself as may be found de sirable. It was necessary to draw the distinction ; but having done so, the House should at once have come to a division, and not have left another opportunity open for an inundation of senseless verbiage.— Morning Advertiser. The debate on the Poor Law Act, as far as it has yet gone, has left ministers in a " miserable minority" as to argument ; but they will be quite satisfied with themselves, and their poor law policy, if they shall be enabled to register a victory over reason and humanity in the book of numbers. That the existing House of C-mmons, Constituted as it is, will assist them in stifling a full and free inquiry into the operation of the Malthusian law we have little doubt ; yet surely it 1 is passing strange that a system so replete with ex cellence as that which the central triumvirate admi ( !lister should not be allowed by its own admirers to i have its beauties fully developed, and its merits placed so prominently in the light of public observation by a comprehensive inquiry in Parliament, that the result must for ever dispel ignorance, silence calumny, and shame detraction. We say it is passing strange that the admirers of the Malt husian law, instead of being Ithe foremost to press fur a full inquiry—lnstead of be i ing, passionately anxious to unfold to the eye of the legislature, and through that to the eve of the country, the many excellencies of the Whig invention fo! " grind:lig the faces of the poor," to save the pockets of the rich, should take alarm at the men tion of a full inquiry into the operation of the much boasted measure, and exert - themselves to prevent it as zealously as if they were conscious of deception and fearful of exposure II How is this ? Are the states men who introduced the law—are the Commissioners who execute it, afflicted with that degree of modesty which makes retiring merit dread the public gaze ? Are they victims to that exquisite sensibility which is pained and distressed by the well-earned plaudits of the public approbation? Are they of that class of self-denying philanthropists who " do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame ?" Whatever may be the cause of this shrinking timidity on the part of the ad mirers and supporters of the Whig Poor- law, in re gard -to the demand for a full and complete investiga tion, we are prevented from believing that it is to be attributed to excessive modesty ; because it was but lately that the Poor--law Commissioners, and the 'or gans of Ministerial opinion in the Press, were en gaged in trumpetting forth the wondrous effects of the pauper pinching measure in a style of inflated panegyric that betrayed neither a scruple of con science nor a grain of modesty. No quack medicine that ever slew its thousands, while filling the pockets of empirical professors of the " healing art," was recommended with more bombastic attestation of its virtues to a credulous public, than the great Mal thusian nostrum for curing pauperism by . starva tion-diet and Bastile - discipline. Reports of cer tain country unions were ostentatiously put for ward, with the intention of not only reconciling us to this system of central absolutism, which ought not for a moment to have been allowed to gain footing among the institutions of a free country, but even of rendering us enamoured of its delightful effects in making the poor independent and happy, while sav ing the money of the rich. The impartial historians of the Poor-law policy of the Whigs did not, however, think proper to inform us of how many unions they tried by their emissaries and tools to get similar reports from, and failed ; nor did they venture to strike a ba lance between the testimonies in favour of, and the tes timonies against the Malthusian Act. That remains to be done , and that they are resolved, if they can prevent it, shall not be done. Hence the opposition given by the Government to Mr. Walter's motion for a full in quiry into the operation of the law. If the Ministers and the Poor-law Commissioners thought that, by a full inquiry into the working of the measure, they could remove the hostile impression which we _believe the great majority of the people of England entertain to wards it, they would not only not oppose it, but they would be glad to support a motion for such inquiry, come from whatever quarter it might. As it is, indeed, they do not venture to oppose such a mo tion in a direct, honest, and straight-forward man ner. The policy of the 'Whigs must, of necessity, in this case, as well as in others, be tortuous, shuffling, and serpentine. Mr. Walter moves for a "Select Com mittee to inquire into the operation of the Poor-law Amendment Act, and to report their opinion to the House." Is not this the fair way of proceeding—fair to all parties, but those who oppose the law and those who support it ? How does the Whig leader of the House of Commons meet this proposition ? He does not dare to say " we will grant no inquiry," but he does what amounts to the same thing. He refuses a full inquiry, the only one that can be satisfactory, but he puts " a blind" upon his refusal. He substitutes for a real inquiry a mere delusion. He moves an amendment that " a select committee be appointed to inquire into the administration of - the relief of the poor under the orders and regulations issued by the . Commissioners appointed under the provisions -of the Poor-law Amendment Act." He proposes this fet tered and crippled inquiry, which must of necessity lead to a lame and impotent conclusion ; or, in other words, to a " conclusion in which nothing is con cluded." We cannot better describe the cha racter and object of Lord John Russell's amend ment than in the words of Mr. - Whittle Har vey, whose eloquent and powerful speech in aid of " the cry of humanity against one of the most cruel, heartless, relentless, and selfish Bills that was ever devised and passed into a law," however it may have been received in the " reformed House," will not fail of its proper effect upon the mind and heart of the country. That Hon. Member observed, that " as he read the words of the amendment, they seemed only to point to an inquiry into the administra tion of the funds by the Commissioners ; that was to say, the rules, the orders, the laws were to be taken as incontrovertible, and the inquiry was only to extend into the mode and manner of the distribution of the funds—there was no need for such an inquiry. They all knew how that part of the system had been admi nistered—with the most barbarous and heartless seve rity." These observations, it appears, elicited the silly cry of " Oh, oh," and the more significant one of " Question" from the obsequious supportessof Minis ters, who clearly showed that they wanted neither discussion nor inquiry. But Mr. Harvey, with ready and caustic severity, shamed them into silence. He said he only " wished that some of those Hon. Gentlemen, whom some accident had thrown into that House, and who supported' such a resolution as this, might be thrown for a season into one of those buildings, which would, perhaps, moderate them into decency, and render them fit representatives for that, if not for any other place." He added, and we are sure every right-minded Englishman will agree with him, that " if this discussion occupied seven days and seven nights, they would not bestow upon it a con sideration at all out of proportion to its merits and its importance. Upwards of • 2,000,000 of their fellow subjects were deeply and personally interested in it. It affected their feelings—it involved their interests — it was due to them—it was due to their petitions — it was due to their prejudices—it was due to their ig norance, if they pleased so to call it, that the amplest and most searching inquiry should take place." But that ample and searching inquiry Ministers refuse to the voice of humanity and the petitions of the people. What said the once thorough Radical, but now tem porising supporter of Whiggery and all its jobs—Mr. Hume ? He said he was for the fullest and most com plete inquiry; but when asked by Major Beauclerk, why that being so, he voted for the amendment, what was his answer ? He should support the amendment of the Noble Lord, because the original motion was moved and seconded by gentlemen who declared themselves hostile to the Bill. There was a senatorial reason for preferring the crippled and fettered inquiry of which he did not approve, to the full and complete inquiry of which he did approve. But, in reality, is not this another in stance of putting in practice that disgraceful maxim of his political morality which Mr. Hume has avowed since he became a whiggling politician—that of voting black is white to keep the Whigs in power ? Mr. Hume went out of his way to attack that portion of the Press which has interested itself in behalf of those oppressed classes who have no Representatives in Par liament. Why should the supporters of the " mo narchy of the middle classes" think the poor born for any other purpose than to increase the capital of the rich, and when their strength is worn out to be cast into the portion of slavery and degradation—offered a famine-allowance within a bastile—or an unpitied death in a ditch, or a dunghill out of it —separated from wife and children—the domestic affections turned into a punishment and a curse, should the cruel and contemptuous " charity" be accepted—denied the Sabbath consolation of a visit to the altars of religion—and, finally, deprived of Christian burial, when laid in the bosom of his mother earth ? Well may that portion of the Press which Mr. Hume calumniates and reviles, be proud of holding up to the reprobation of a civilised and Christian people a system which, when carried out in all its heartless bar barity to the deserving poor, the unlettered children of the desert would indignantly spurn—a system which nothing but the hardness of heart, begotten of a Marn monite philosophy could reconcile to any portion of mankind. Who do we blame for this tyrannical and unchristian system, which those appointed to execute it have nut yet ventured to carry into effect generally throughout the kingdom in all its tremendous severity? Not . the Commissioners, who are the mere tools - to execute this nefarious law. Had they, indeed, pro ceeded with more judgment and discretion than they have done—had they been less precipitate in exer cising their arbitrary powers to develope the odious capabilities of this law—they would have excited less opposition to it than they have done, at least for some time to come ; but we think it is better that society has not had long to wait for the purpose of ascertaining what was the real object of granting, such unconstitutional powers to the Commissioners as those with which they were entrusted. Had the bastile system, the emanation of that " philosophy" which visits poverty with the punishment of crime, been brought into operation more cautiously, it might have been more difficult to get rid of it in the end. All that Mr. Walter states of the grinding oppression of the Malthusian law—all that Mr. Fielden describes of its atrocious severity, when it dooms the hand-loom weaver, who could earn but 22d. a day in health, to the treatment of a criminal when lie applies to it for succour in infirmity—all that numerous petitions to parliament have alleged of its cruel pressure upon the helpless but deserving poor—all that respectable mem bers of the medical profession assert of its sacrifice of the health of the poor to the most wretched sparsi mony—all this, and more, the legislature itself is an swerable for, by vesting in three men those arbitrary and unconstitutional powers which ought never to be entrusted to any men, in a free state, for any purposes whatever.—Morning Herald. The manner in which the present Ministers of the Crown have dealt with the two subjects of Irish Cor porations and Irish tithes affords abundant proof that they care nothing for either question, except in so far as they can contrive, from time to time, to render it subservient to their own personal and selfish ends. Why have they made the Irish Corporations Bill the primary subject of discussion in the present session of Parliament, after having given to it a secondary place in two preceding sessions ? Is it that they hope to carry the measure ? They do not pretend to enter tain such a hope. Or do they postpone to 'this mea , sure all the other various reforms which they have promised, and in respect to some of which they need not despair of legislating with success, in the sin cere belief that it is of an importance paramount to every other subject of legislation, and the ex pectation that, by protracted debates in the House of Commons, the mind of the country will be so deeply convinced, and so strongly excited, in its favour as speedily to surmount every obstacle to its enactment ? This cannot be pretended, for in the first place the supreme urgency and importance of this particular measure would be a new discovery on the part of the present Ministers, and statesmen of the age of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell do not make new discoveries in political science ; and, in the second place, the Irish friends and guides of the Administration do not even affect, anywhere but in the House of Commons, to hold the grant of popular corporations as of any value for sake of the legitimate purposes of such institutions ; but openly profess that they are chiefly anxious for their establishment, because by their means political projects wholly distinct from local government may be promoted, or because Lord Lyndhurst gave a reason for withholding them which, sound, statesmanlike, and logical as it was, they, have chosen to misconstrue and pervert into a cause of offence, or for some other reason equally alien to the merits of the question. Why then, we again ask, is the Irish Corporation question brought so early and so prominently forward in the present session ? Why are the powers and energies of the House of Com mons exhausted upon a discussion from which no man on either side of the House pretends to anticipate any legislative effect? Why is that assembly, for whose time and talent much useful employment may so easily be found, converted by Ministers into a mere debating club for the utterance of ineffectual harangues and the corn parisorr.of nugatory numbers ? The answer to these questions is easy. The subject of Irish Corporations is this year the subject upon which Ministers can best collect together the ,various discordant parties that en dure and detest, that support and despise, them. On this subject alone Ministers knew they might calcu late upon the votes or the absence of a few stray Members of the Conservative phalanx, whom even the explicit declarations of Mr. O'Connell have not sufficed to convince that the Irish Corporation Bill i s merely part of a settled scheme of warfare agai ns t t h e Protestant Church, th e Protestant institutions, and the Protestant people of Ireland. Here, more easily than upon any other qu es ti on i n which the Ministerial and Constitutional parties are arrayed against each other, sinister tendencies are concealed, here plausibility more successfully usurps the dominion of truth, here Popish rancour, intolerance, and ambition; with less certainty of d ral it y e te a c n nd p t l a ) t a r n i tis elsewhere, puts on The whole t rn h a e of is l i be so transparent, that it may be penetrated by the dullest eye. The precedence and ascendancy in Parliamentary discussion which were formerly yielded to the Irish tithe question are now assigned to that of Irish corporations, not because it is found out that the latter is more impor tant than the former—not because it is imagined that Parliament is better prepared to legislate upon one.sub ject than the other—not because Any advantage whatever with a view to the legitimate objects of government or legislation is anticipated by this reversal of the former order of Parliamentary proceeding—but merely because Ministers knew they can muster in a division of the House of Commons a less insignificant array of num bers on. the Corporation question than upon that by means of which they originally forced themselves into office, and that it is the better calculated, therefore, of the two, to spin out the duration of their tottering and precarious existence. The Whig-Radical management of Parliamentary business is calculated, not for the be nefit of Ireland, but for the advantage of Downing street. It regards neither the ecclesiastical property nor the Municipal government of the sister kingdom, but is ingeniously contrived with reference to the paramount, or rather the exclusive, object of securing for Lord J. Russell and his colleagues the enjoyment of a few more happy quarter days. What is now become of the ap propriation principle ? What of the Irish tithe ques tion itself, upon which that principle was engrafted, not for its own sake, but as the most ready and con venient means of helping the present Ministers into place ? They are thrown aside and forgotten, in the lumber rooms of office, among the other fractured and blunted weapons, the tarnished and worthless debrir of party warfare. Such, it is clear, would also be the fate of the Corporation Bill after another rejection by the Legislature, if Ministers could discover any new project by which to engage the attention of Parliament and the people, while they continued to receive their salaries, leaving, by turns, every enterprise unaccom plished, every pledge unredeemed, every principle un satisfied. The country begins to be heartily tired of witnessing the Whig game of showing a front, first in one direction. and then in another, without making, or having the power to make, the least advance towards any of the various points to which they suc cessively affect to bend their way. When a body of troops encounter an impediment in their march, they continue the mechanical action of their legs until the momentary obstruction is removed. This is called marking time, and is a convenient device enough to avoid confusion in the case of a few minutes delay in the progress of an advancing body. But the Minis terial system of tactics excludes the idea of expectation of advance ; it seems to select a particular line of march for no other reason than that there are insur mountable impediments in the way ; it makes the Legislature mark time, and do nothing else. We see the legs perpetually move, and are wearied with the in cessant stamp of the feet, but no progress is visible; or even possible. The House of Commons, under the able leadership of Lord John Russell has been marking time for two years with its front di rected towards one object. This eminent commander has changed his front a little, and would willingly keep on marking time for two years longer. He has said. indeed, that if he can make no ad vance this year he will throw up his commission. But he and his followers go on, nevertheless, marking time just as before ; and, what is a bad omen for the faithful performance of his promise, the hangers-on of the Ministerial camp, who are supposed to be on the best footing with the leader, insist upon it that the array is really and truly advancing, although nobody can perceive it but themselves ; and allege as their ground for this assertion the facts, of which they only are aware, that the feet of the host arc lifted with greater alacrity, and replaced on the ground with greater firmness than heretofore. This it is obvious is merely intended as an apology for the leaders in the very pro bable case of their refusing to fulfil their promise of resignation. The spectators, however, cannot , very easily be deceived i n .this matter ; and the end we sup pose, will be, that the unwearied and, indefatigable markers of time will at last be hooted and pelted off the ground they have so long and so idly encum bered.—Morning Post. In England and Wales there are 1,108 turnpike trusts, to which are attached 912 surveyors, 622 treasurers, and 766 clerks. The effect of this formidable stuff in the county of Berks alone is that the expenditure exceeds the re ceipts by 1,3001. a-year; and the different trusts in that county alone are in debt 60,0001. On Wednesday morning, at six o'clock, &mare, the property of Mr. Darke, of Hereford, started from Piccadilly, to perform the unprecedented feat of reaching Hereford, a distance of 138 miles, against the Mazeppa light coach, whose rate of travelling is ten miles an hour. The mare is backed to arrive before the coach for the sum of 200 guineas. She is to be led the distance, for which purpose riders and relays of horses are placed along the line of road. It may be in the recollection of our readers that some weeks ago two lads were bitten by a greyhound belong ing to Mr. Mowbray, of Friskney, and that, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, they were conveyed to Brock lesby for the purpose of obtaining some of the celebrated me dicine in the possession of the huntsman there, and which has generally been considered an antidote for the bite of a mad dog. The medicine was administered, and kept well on the stomachs of the boys, who returned home to Wainfleet ; but we regret to add that on Tuesday last George Piercy, aged 12 years, betrayed evident symptoms of hydrophobia, and died after enduring horrible sufferings. The wounds he received were chiefly in the lips.— Boston Herald. The chamois is an elegant little creature, and will climb rocks so abrupt that it would be supposed hardly pos sible for them to gain a footing. When hemmed in, they will sometimes rush violently on their pursuer, perhaps on the very verge of a precipice, when the only safety for the hunter consists in immediately lying down. They bound from 20 to 25 feet at a leap ; and it is said that, rather than be taken, whole herds of them have been known to precipitate them selves down perpendicular rocks, where they have been dashed to pieces. On Monday week, Mr. Small, of the Museum, [re:wed a little arsenic to poison rats, when a monkey, by chance, got his hands on it, and thinking it probably ground rice or tapioca, began to make pretty free with it, and when discovered had a quantity in each of his cheek pouches. Pro fessional aid was summoned, the poison was expelled from his pouches, and a stomachic pump was put down his throat to wash him out. After the operation was performed, the mon key caught the tube of the pump in his hand, and with the most imperturbable gravity drew it up. The arsenic having been expelled so expeditiously, produced no ill effects, and Jacko is as well as ever. He does not like, however, to see the sto mach pump.—Paiskv Advertiser. It will be remembered that a Frenchman, named Napoleon Datnoux, was remanded some time ago by the In • solvent Debtors' Court for a concealment of property to a con siderable amount, under extraordinary circumstances. He had been a merchant at Rheims, and absconded from his creditors, and came to England under an assumed name. He was dis covered in this country by Gardiner, the police-officer, and ar rested by his creditors. They traced to his possession a large sum in notes, which he said belonged to a Spanish lady. His statement was treated as a fiction, and the judgment was for a period of fifteen months within the King's Bench prison. He was subsequently indicted at the Central Criminal Court for perjury, arising out of his evidence given in the Insolvent Debtors' Court : he removed the indictment into the Court of King's Bench by writ of certiorari, and the matter stood over. On Tuesday it was discovered that he had escaped from the prison, and that his furniture had been removed. It is supposed that he dressed himself in female apparel, and it had been remarked that he had allowed his hair to grow very long, no doubt in order to arrange it into curls, the more easily to prevent detection. It is conjectured that he is secreting him self in order to take his passage to America. He cannot return to France, as he is amenable to a criminal proceeding as a fraudulent bankrupt, and liable to a serious punishment. The detainers at the prison at the suit of the creditors resident in France, amount to 1,500/. On Wednesday afternoon last, shortly after three O'clock, much alarm was occasioned among the occupiers of various wharfs in the vicinity of Queenhithe by a destructive fire having been discovered in the fore part of a sailing barge called the Jane, from Bristol, laden with hemp, flax, &c., lying mas t e r Mr. Bartell, off the wharf of Mess rs . Drew and Smith, wharfingers, Upper Thames-street. Shortly after the discovery the flames burst forth with great violence, and not only threatened the entire destruction of that vessel, but the other craft and wharfs where it was lying off. Intelligence was immediately forwarded to the various engine -stations in the metropolis, several _engines from which immediately has tened with a party of the brigade to the spot, and the flames, after destroying property to a considerable amount, were extinguished. The salvation of the property above named is attributed to the praiseworthy exertions of the workmen employed in the wharfs in that quarter. The cause of the fire is at present unknown, and the pro perty consumed is not insured in any of the fire-offices. Early on Wednesday morning one of the Aldgate watchmen, of the name of Cartelite, discovered that the extensive warehouses belonging to the Cabinet-makers' Society, in Leadenhall street, were on fire. The engines from Jeffrey-square station soon arrived, but, notwithstanding all the exertions of the firemen and watchmen, the premises were seriously damaged before tho fire was got under. The cause of the fire was owing to the overheating of the flues in the house adjoining, and the bond timbers in the above premises took fire.—Noti n sured. About the same time another fire broke out in a house occupied by Mr. Chevalier, No. 30, Windsor-terrace, Lower-road, Islington, occasioned by the negligence of a bservant, -Beforeinplacing fl flames candlei e g s h l t , e .e d resubd 4etdoo, the e ar l o th w e era curtains o f premises were nearly destroyed. The par.ies are insured in the Phoenix Firc-91110e. otrhea PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASIJRANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 24. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Shire 1,760 7 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. 18s. sh. 135 1,482 41. Ashby-de-le-Zonal Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke • 100/. sh. 51 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 x sh. 100 8,000 I-16sh. 91. Os. Birmingham, 1-16th share SI/. & 711. 217 4,000 ...... ... Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/ sh. 100 pd 31 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001 sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102 500 48!. Coventry 100/. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 31/. 2s. 10d. sh. S 2,0601 41. Os. Dudley lOOl. sh. 78 600 71. Derby 100/. sh, 122 20,000 3,5751 3!. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 80 231 40! Erewash • 1001 sh 64;0 . _ _.... . 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4001.165. sh. 600 11,500 121. Grand Juncti - 100/. sh. 203 2,8431 11. Grand Union 1001. sh. 2tl 1,5011 Grand Surrey ..... 1001. sh. 120,000/. 4/, per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. '7O 3,090 Grand Western 600 131.1°..5. 6d. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10‘. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 1/. 151. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 35 190 Kensingtm 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,329 11. 2s. Kennet tad Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh. 22 2,9971 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 535 5151 12/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 195 1,997 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 33/. 11 - /S. 77 2,400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 200 50 la/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield lOW. sh. all pd. - 54 247 171. Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,786 301. Oxford 100/. sh. 530 2,400 5/. • Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104 21,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh. 16 5,669 64 per cent. ilochdale Average 85/. sh. 119 500 81. Shropshire I'ls/. sh. 138 800 91. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 153 3,6001. 41 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh. 111 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 730 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 243 300 sr. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. 01. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. kl. sh. 50 533 l2/. Swansea 100/. sh. 220 3,762 1/. 4s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 351. sh. 191 2,6011 eh. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100 /. sh. 355 8,149 ~ , 1,0005h.7 _ Warwick and Birmingham 100/. sh• 250 1,00015h.5 '"' 960 12i. Warwick and Napton lOOl. eh. 110 6,000 41.0 e. Worcest , r and Birmingham... Av. 78/.8 v. sh. 82 5,000 225. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. 80. sh. 21 SOO 3/. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 . . Wisbeach 905 - 17. Wey ant Arun llOl. sh. 221 DOCKS. 2,81001¢ 1,06515 h. 3p. c. Commercial 100/. sh. 56 138,66/1/. 6 per ct. East India Stock 114 3,233,3101/. 60s. p.ct. London Stock 561 Ditto Bonds 1,380,0001. 51. per ct. West India Stock 105 2,209 2/. IVs. Bristol 68,324/. 6/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll5 1,352,752 4 per cent. St. Katharine • Stock 92 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO Shoreham (Labour 2.500 .... .... Deptford Piet BRIDGES. 1,600 Ifs. Hammersm.ti! 1 501. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. 8:1. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14, 5, 0 00 . ... Waterloo lOO/. sh. 5 5,000 l ' is. id . . Ditto, Old Annuities of di. 6O/. pd 161 5,000 16s. 44.1,. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 151 60,000/. 31. per cent. Ditto Bonus ll9 6,000 171 Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 161 AS•4IU RAN C E COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 500 /. sh. 50 / pd 79 60,000 15r, 15.1 Alliance,B rajah & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 121 50,000 3 per cent. Ditto, Marine 103/. sh. 5/ pd 31 24,000 i/ per sh. Atlas 1,200 Ist). W. Birmingham fire 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 51. pd 61 5,000 .5/. per cent. Clerical, Med i...a1, &c. Life, 160/. sh. 12/10s pd 31 4,000 2/ les County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 __ ss. _ Eagle .200 [ 5 P er °lent ' Economic Lite lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 275 and 301 bs. 2,271 Vs. per cent. European Lit_ 9O/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto New . . °W. sh. 2/. pd 2 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2711 0 33, 40,000 ns. 60. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pod 51 2,400 5/. 70.60. Imperial Fire 5001. sit. 50/. pd 125 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 101. pd 93 13,459 19s. per sh. Indemnity Msi ine 110/. sh. 8/. pd iri 2,020 31 lOs Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditts Life. 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 5,000 10s. London, Firs 25/ sh 121: 100. pd 16 3,900 10s. Londmi, Ship 25/. sh. 1:2. 10s. pd 16 311,0,10 5/, per cent. Palladium late 50/. sly. 2/. pd 2/8s 0.1 50,000 Protector Fire °ft/. sh. 2/. pd 18, ed 2,500 1/. Provident Live lOO7 sh. 110. pd 2, 100,001 51. percent. Rock Life 0 01. sh. 2/. pd 61 499,2201 1/..percent. Royal Excli.inge Sto L._ 220 0,000 5 per cent. University L :1, lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,00)) 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 Agric atidComm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5 ; 000 A ust rata , ia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 5.1 10,001 10 per cent. Bank of Bit in 1 ngliam 5ll. sh. 101. pd 10 10,000 10 per cent. Bit mingliam Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 3 °,000 4 per cent. Lon.lon and Westminster-100/ sh. 201. pd 211 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster.... 100/. sh. 2°!. pd 30 ‘1.5,1100 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. ud 22 50,000 fiper eent. Manchester and Liverpool] 1000 . 0. 10/ pd. 211 Discount 20 ,000 71 percent. Manchester 100/..sh. 25/ pd 28; 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland-10W. sh. '251. pd 381 OCO 000 'b per cent. National Provincial Eng. ... 100 /. sh. :251. psi 231 !9,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10/. pd 120 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd it GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 5 s 6d Bath 5,000 ......... British 4O/, sh. 16/. pd '2l 5,000 [ 5 / an 'l t riT s. e t . l Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 19 pd 23 928 51 lOs Birmingham 4,250 21 O s B r i sto l 2O . sh. 40 1,500 31/ lOs Brighton 2O/. di. 13 750 31 10s ' - Ditto, New .2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General- 201. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated 100!. 6211. pd . 95 1,000 10/. City of Loudon ' - 1001. sh. all pd 180 1,4100 61. Ditto, New 4,000 41. 105. Equitable 10, 0 00 21 per cent. ImperiA 5Ol. sh. 421 850 St per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh 20/. pd 20 . 2,350 61. per cont. I ildependent 3O/. sh. a!l pd 50 0,000 V. per cant. Phsenix • . 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 21 1,000 4/. per cent. ItatclifF..... - 100/. sh. SOI. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5"/. sh. 1)1. pd 17 9,200 Si. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. pd 29 240 5!. per cent. Warwick ... 50/. sh. 50 400 91. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 12,000 Si. Westminster Chartered 6,1100 12s. Ditto New 5l/. sh. 10/. pd 10 RAI Yarmouth 20/. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 9s, Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 241 4,143 6/. East London lOO/. oh.' 139 5,500 2/ lOs Grand Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 4d. oh. 50 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 43 sir .. ,10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201, sh. 3•06 1,500 '2l lOs New diver London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6 , 086 1/ 151 Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 53 :,00 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 81 8,204 51. West MidOlosex ....Average (131. 12s. 90. eh. 79 1,360 11 144 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby ' 10/. pd 10 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester, NI pd 9 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 01 15,1,00 Bristol and Exeter IOW. sh. 5 pd 1 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. sh. 71/. 5 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pd 46 12,000 B,ooe Dublin and Kilkenny low. sh. 21 pd 21 60,000 Eastern Counties 251 sh. 21. p.l 11 Grand Junction 1001. ch. 501. p.l 107 Great North of England 7l. pd 53 9.5,690 Great Western 1001..b. 401, pd 461 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/ "pd 100 8,000 Hull and Selby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 2 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1004 sh. 5/. pd 14 7,1110 Leeds and Selby lOO :h. 43 • 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 481 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loa.sh. 100/. psi 285 Ditto Quarter Shares 0 5/. pet 61 10,000 London and Brighton ... ...... 100/, oh. 41 pd 61 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -.201 sh. 1/. pd 01 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 3/. pd If 8,009 Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. sh. 3/. pd 11 12,000 London and Blackwall 5Ol sh. 31 pd I 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich °W. sic 20/. pd 221 25,000 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 75/, pd 11l 20,1 1 00 London and Southampton ....501. sh. 30/. pd 18 7,000 .... ..... London and Croydon 0121. sh. 13/. pd 19 12,000 10,000 Manchester South Union 1010. sh. 51. pd 5 ...... ... North Midland 1001. sh. I.'l pd 12 Northe , n and Eastern lOOl. sh. 51. pd 21 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. ii!. pd 20,000 ......... South Eastern and Dover 71. lid' 51 1,000 8/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 8,000 MINES. .11,009 ...... ... Albion Copper 5/. sh. 3/. pd 0 .1. 4,000 Alten 151. s h. 121. 10s pd 13 10,0011 ... Anglo Mexican, um 5/. pm.... 1001. sh, all pit 31 Ditto Subscription 0 5/. pd 31 2,000 Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd IVO 10,000 11. 104 Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 35/. sh. 204 pd 20 6,01 , 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 25/. sh. 233/. pd 7 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 0 0/. sh. 81/. pd 21 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. 20/. pd 81 10,00)) •••..•..• Ditto Scrip 101. sh. W. pd 9 20,00') British Iron 501. sh. 501 pd 406 6,000 ...... ... British Copper Cata Branca fill. pd 7 Candonga ....... 7l/. Pd 10,000 11. Copiapo 2Ol. sh 121/ pd 15. 0,500 Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 31. ' English 20,060 * General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 15/. pd 9 6,1.55 Mexican Company 100/. it 543/. pd 11 3,006 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 81. pd 7 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered ln Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 150 30 , 0 00 ...... ... United Wale - an, iss. 2pm ....40/. sh, all pd 2 Ditty. Scrip 2l Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 3 West Cork 50/. sh. 50!. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,500 700 King' College 1001. pd 32 MISCELLANEOUg. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2(1/. pd 35 6,000 62:per cent. British American Land Company 231. pd 17 m 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Copany 1001. sh. 241. pd 38 200,000 51, per cent. Upper Canada Loan 95 City Bonds, 4 per cent lOl 15,000 11. 6s. G eneral Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 24 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 9 5/ sh. 211. pd 2.1 New Brunswick Land Company 287 pd 251 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary InterestSoc...loo/. sh. 100/. pd 130 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd 301 4,000 10,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, FEB. 15, 1837. BANKS. 1,500,00 N. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 2,000.0x1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 164/. 500.0)e/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/.sh. :.11 pd 236/, 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1741. 5,000,000/. 5 p. ct. National ....1001. sh. 101. lid 15,p. 2,000,0001. 5/ p. ct. Glasgow Union '250/. sh. 50/. pi 681. 4,000001. 4p. et Western of Scotland 2001. sh 301. pd 3cir. , INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25',.000.111 61 p. et. Scottish Union 20/. sh. IL pd 253 - ,50t1 sp. ct. Hercules ......... . ... .... . ..... 100/. sh. 104 pd 131 Si. 10(.000 sp. ct. Insurance C o . o f Scotland ...10/. sh. all pd 50,000 6p. et. North dritieh ..- • . ._ _ . - 61 . _ 2OOl. sh. 10/. ix, - 151. Low sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 1610$ 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 14158 100,000 • West of Scotland lOl. pd 91 15 s MISCi!",LANEOUS 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. sh. all pd 221. UittO Allivated sli, all Pd 651. 5,100 5 per cent. Edinb.:Joint Stock Water....'2s/. sh. all pd 30/. Carrori Iron Company 2501. sh. all pd 4(1. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 3 ,2 /. pd 471 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh Sc Leith G1a55....20/. sh. 16/. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas .... . 251. sh. all pd 60/, 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 351. sh. all Pd 61 1. 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal as 901. sh. all 41 45/. 1,206 ......... Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...sol.sk 554 3,000 5 per cent . Equitable Loan Company 251, alt.-8l pd MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Cheltenham, Alexander Bain Chisholm, Esq., surgeon of Devonshire -street, Portland-place, London, to Ma tilda, second daughter of James Webster, Esq., of Lansdown-place, Cheltenham, and formerly Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahama Islands. On the 6th inst., at St. James's, Westminster, Thomas Robert, eldest son of Mr. Ravenscroft, of Warwick-street, Cockspur-street, to Mary Ann, only child of Mr. John Field, of Hampstead. On the 16th inst., at Kingston, Surrey, Henry L ox l ey , E sq ., of Horsham Sussex, to Mary Ann, daughter of Richard C ar tt er , E s q., late of Kingston, solicitor, and sister to the present Coroner for Surrey. On the 18th inst., at All Souls, Marylebone, Mr. Geo. Hoyle , of Great Portland-street, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Thos. Bee, Esq., of Peckham. DIED. On the 22d inst., at her residence, Bodryddan, Flintshire, Bar bara Yonge. On the 21st inst., at Bath, John Mangles, Esq., aged 77. On the 18th inst., at Park Cottage, Maida-hill, Henry Lees, Esq., aged 53. On the 23d inst., in Gower-street, Harold, youngest son of 1. • Martin, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. On the 18th inst., at Guernsey, Mary, the wife of John Le gar' chant, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. Sarah Jordaine. years an inhabitant of that village. On the 13th inst., at Shirley, near Croydon. Surrey, age 76 2 f Rachel, wife of Mr. Th omas B lake, of that place, and mother u • George Blake, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. „A On the 17th inst., F enton T homas Lambert, Esq., of Env's" Hall, Yorkshire. On the 22d inst., i n N e l son square, John Hick Young, Esq., of the firm of Young and Ware, Southwark. On the 22d inst., Mary, wife of Mr. Philip Palmer, of Highg ate , On the 21st inst., at Blackheath, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, dow of the late Major Anderson, of the East India Company's n e° gal Civil Service. On the 22d inst., in Park-square, Regent's-park, J. Slater. E s On the 23d inst., a t B rymphydd, Radnorshire, aged 75, ri Beavan,'Esq. On the 21st inst., at the Rectory, Sedgefield, Durham, Barbara, inant daugh of the Rev. T. L. Strong. brot her At St. Ci f ere,- Kent ter ged 79, Alexander E ve l yn , a Esq., - r of Sir A. Hume, Bart. On the sth i nst., at Cl i fton, the wife of the-Rev. J o hn~ f Rector of St. Nicholas, Bristo). Ou the 20th i ns t., a t Abb o t s Ri pton, aged 19, Jessy, Si-- •%tb remaining twin daughter of J. B. Rooper, Esq., London ; Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG , "tt 112, Strand, at The Sun Offlee, Na. 1 1 2, S tran d, i n the ‘" of Middlesex.—Monday, February 27, 1837. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury) TRADE OF LEEDS.—For the last two market-days the sales in our Cloth-halls have been unusually limited and heavy ; indeed we believe this to have been much more the case than for several weeks past. We arc also unable to report any im provement of business in the warehouses. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—TiIe market continues flat both for cloth and wool. BRADFORD MARKET.—It appears to be a prevalent opinion that there has not been less business done to-day (Thursday) in the piece-market than last week. Some parties, indeed, think that more has been transacted. It seems certain that the manufacturers generally are desirous to sell, as they are indisposed to hold larger stocks than they can avoid at the present price of raw material. Prices continue firm. In the market for yarn there are many conflicting opinions; some sorts of yarn are sought with avidity, while others are dull of sale. On the whole it is considered a very good market, and previous average prices are fully maintained. We cannot notice any improvement in the wool market this week. There has been about the same inquiry, and much the same amount of business transacted. Good warp hogs and shafty wether sorts are most in request. Down matchings and down teggs are especially dull of sale. ROCHDALE FLANNEL-MARKET.—There have been rather more flannels sold to-day than on the previous Monday ; but the prices have been extremely low. In wool scarcely any business has been done, and it has undergone no change in price this week. HALIFAX PIECE-MARKET.—WC noticed a short time ago that the opinions of the manufacturers frequenting the Halifax Piece- hall had been collected on the policy of reverting to the original market-day, viz. Saturday, and that a large majority were in favour of it. These opinions have since been sub mitted to the trustees of the Hall, who, at a meeting held on Wednesday last, determined that the Saturday's market should be resumed on the 25th of next month. WAKEFIELD WOOL-MARKET.—.Though we have had a little more inquiry, and a few more sales in wool this week, yet the general trade remains flat at the reduction in price noted in our last report. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Fay.. 25. The week opened with a material improvement in our Cotton market, the demand for American being good, and holders generally have withdrawn their stocks, and on Monday and Tuesday an ad vance of 1 ,4 d. per pound was in many instances obtained. The Manchester demand on Tuesday not exhibiting a corresponding im provement, the demand since Wednesday has been less animated, and the week closes heavily at an advance of y s d. to (d. per pound in most descriptions of American. Sea Island remains without al teration. Egyptian continues very irregular, and nominal in price. Brazil is neglected, and has declined / I d. per pound during the week. Surat is in limited demand, and heavy of sale at former rates ; in the lower qualities a reduction of %d. to Y i d. has been submitted to. The sales of the week amount to 21,520 bales, in cluding 500 American on speculation, and 300 American, 70 Surat, and 30 Bengal, for export, viz.— d. d. 80 Sea Islands 23 to 32 10 Stained ditto 13 0 6,130 Uplands 6< 9 A 1,400 Mobile, &c 6 9i 10,260 New Orleans 6 —lO4 610 Egyptians ll —l5 740 Pernams, &c 94 710 Bahias 340 31aranhams 10 to 12 Boweds 9 94 d. d. 20 Demeraras l4 0 50 Peru,vians 9 9* 220 Laguayras 9 9* 920 Surats 30 Bengals Carthagenas 0 0 Madras 0 —.— West India 0 0 Barbadoes Bahamas There has been a good inquiry for Cotton to-day from the trade generally. The sales are stated to be 4,000 bales at yesterday's prices, with a steady . market—namely, 400 Bahias, 7 1 / 2 d. to 8 1 / 2 d. ; 50 Maranhams, 9 3 / 4 d. ; 500. Egyptians, 10 1 Ad. to 13d. ; 500 Per nams, 9 1 / 2 d. to 10/ 4 d. ; 50 Surats, 5 1 / 2 d. ; and upwards of 2,000 Amesican, 7d. to 91/4d. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the Same date last year Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 42,400 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 18th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the came period last year : Into the Kingdom this year: Bags. 156,455 29,747 438 16,143 1,910 American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies .._ Egypt, &c. Total of all descriptions ... ... 2.04,696 Same period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 1,471 ; brazil, 295; East India, 5,785; West India, ; Other kinds, Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. 66,045 7,551 6,791 Feb. 24, 1837 Same time, 1836 117,300 --- FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE COUNTRY are supplied with TEAS and COFFEES at the WHOLESALE PRICE for CASH : Black ...2e. Od. 2s. 4d. 2s. Sd. 3s. 35. 6d. 4s. 4s. 6d. ss. Green..3s. &I. 4s. Od. 4s. &I. ss. ss. 6d. 6s. is. Od. Bs. Coffee, Is. 6d. ls. Bd. Is. 10d. 2s.' ..Finest Mocha, is. When the order exceed s £lO, ths Carriage is Paid. G. T. MANSELL, and CO., Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. AT. T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Cornhill, London. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. A large assortment of Watches, both new and second-hand, on the improved modern constructions. Some dozens of second-hand Silver Watches maybe chosen from, price Two and Two and a Half Guineas each. A quantity of second.hand Gold Watches from Six to Eight Guineas each. THE SILVER MANUFACTURES comprise a most extensive variety of Silver Tea Services, price from► 151. to 301. tho set. Coffee Pots to match. Waiters of all sizes. Cake and Bread Baskets, either of plain or elaborate workmanship. The Plain Cruet Frames are charged 71. the set—the more richly ornamented in proportion. The show-rooms contain a most exten sive stock of every article of silver manufacture. SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. The various ornamental, as well as the plainer, patterns are kept ready.—The one shell pattern is much sought after and admired. THE PLATED GOODS are arranged in show-rooms, and consist of an excellent stock of Corner dishes, price from Seven to Ten Guineas the set.—Dish Covers of various patterns 201. the set of five.—Soup and Sauce Tureens, Branch Candlesticks, and every requisite for the Dinner Table—as also a large assortment of every article usually manufac tured in Silver Edged Plated Goods. THE JEWELLERY is in the newest taste. -The Ladies' Gold Neck Chains are charged by a regular scale according to the weight. The Gentlemen's Guard Chains are charged on the same plan. The second floor show-room contains a variety of suites of Necklaces, Earrings, and Brooches both in Pearls and other precious stones. DIAMONDS are offered at a price according to their weight and quality. THE CLOCKS may be selected from a separate department appropriated to that purpose. An Eight-Day Clock, to strike the hours and half-hours, is offered for Five Guineas, or, without striking, price Four Guineas. A PAMPHLET is published, and may be had gratis, with Drawings and prices of the various articles, or will be forwarded in answer to a post paid application. T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill. London. B11?T11. On the 23d inst., the lady of G. W. Dunsford, Esq., of Alfred place, Bedford-square, of a son. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1837.