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influence to statesmen, they were happy enough to leave a party of five hundred gentlemen in the House of Commons, followed by a- select body of five or six individuals, distinguished on all occasions for their reluctant support of liberal principles. Sir James had possibly been the most active agitator in his party for Reform ; was an advocate for the Ballot, and had a peculiar nostrum for defrauding the public and private creditor, in which few of his friends agreed with him, and certainly Lord Stanley has taken great care to eschew this heresy. His Lord ship, we think, once made use of a phrase last Ses sion, when alluding to the majority supporting the Government, that they were, a heterogenuous mass, 'agreeing together scarcely in any other point than their support of Lord Melbourne. Certainly, .when he takes his place in the next Government, he will have to render some satisfactory explanation of the miraculous agreement that must previously take place between the Members of the Administration, and his supporters in Parliament, if a majority be necessary in .the opinion of that Cabinet, to enable them to con duct the Government. We refer him to the speeches of the Duke of Wellington, and other Noble Lords, who distinguished themselves in opposing the Bill for removing restrictions on admission to the Universities. And these Cabinet-makers will have the goodness to recollect, that a much stricter account will be required on these heads from a Government having Tory propen sities, than from one acting on Whig principles. If the more eager and zealous classes of Reformers are not sa tisfied on all points with Lord Melbourne's Administra tion, they know the difficulties in his path, act on the principle rather of overlooking errors than of cap tious criticism, and know they may repose an entire confidence in his straightforward and manly conduct, and undeviating frankness, sincerity, and honesty. Where will these qualities be found in the Coalition Ministry now bewildering the brains of the Lowthers, the Ross's, the Twiss s, and the Rosslyns and Jerseys of Carlton Terrace ? We have said it was unnecessary —in the calculations of these worthies, to refer to the trifling element of a new House of Commons. But the people may take a different view of the case. What hopes do these most absurd dabblers in election statis tics hold out to their leaders of any change in public opinion in their favour ? We have not the slightest doubt that the last registration was greatly to the ad vantage of the popular party. It is only necessary to know, that numbers have been added to the consti tuency to decide this point. Supposing it, however, for the sake of argument, to be otherwise. What does Mr. Holmes—he is the only head in the party with an ounce of brains in it—give as his result of another election—putting out of view the effect to be produced on the public feeling by an unnecessary dissolution ? How many County Members in England now give their support to the Government ? Do the Tories wish to make it a contest between land and manufactures, counties and towns, notwithstanding some ancient recollections on this subject, which may assist their judgment ? Give them all the Members for the English counties. Are they besotted enough, then, to think that they can maintain an Administra tion against Scotland, Ireland, and the great towns, where public opinion and the press will act with a con centrated power against them, and where they do not even pretend that the slightest alteration in feeling has taken place ? The question for the King to decide is—not whether he shall turn out his Ministers, but how he is to replace them, and maintain the state of peace, prosperity, and contentment, which now characterises his dominions, beyond any other country on the earth ? And where, when replaced, he is to find a House of Commons to support their successors ? Oh ye of little faith ! How shall we convince you that Tory domination over the English people ceased with the Reform Bill ? And then it is said that Lord Melbourne's Government is dependent upon Mr. O'Connell and the Catholics for their support. Admitted. Must not the new Carlton House Cabinet equally. depend upon the Orangemen ? We might prefer a state of thin,:s less dependent upon either ; but if the circumstances of the times leave us no choice, can any man of reason, feeling, or discretion, look at the state of Ireland while under the present Administration, and aided by Mr. O'Connell, without giving the Government and that Gentleman credit at least for a suspension of the horrors which have for a long series of years marked the oppressive rule of an Orange Government ? And is there any states man or philanthropist who will incur the respon sibility of a change ? Lord Melbourne's principle has hitherto been, strict justice and equal protection to all the King's Irish subjects. So far it has succeeded ; and his mind is not so confined within the narrow com pass of Conservative liberality, as to refuse the assist ance of Mr. O'Connell in so good ,a work ;. and Mr. O'Connell has entitled himself, from the faith with which he has,, performed his engagements in this respect, to confidence for the future. If Ireland can be maintained in its present state, we may regret for his own sake ; but we shall not be disposed to join with the enemies of that gentleman in the attacks which, we must at the same time admit, his own pas sions and indiscretions, and his ignorance of the taste and feelings of the English public, bring upon him. But although we think we have clearly proved the utter hopelessness and reckless desperation of another coup (Petal, we entreat Reformers to be still prepared for it. We cannot expose the sources of our informa tion ; but there is an evident stir amongst Tory can didates and election agents, and their leaders are busy everywhere in spreading confidential reports, that op portunity and time are the only questions with respect to the overthrow of the Administration. Sir Robert Peel may be of another opinion ; but even in his speech at Tamworth, he told his audience their time was vet not distant ; and his confidential friends are the most confident prophets of an approaching change. In the meantime, the Government have to act their part as well as the public, and, we have every confidence, are preparing for it. The Irish Tithe Bill, without abatement—the Irish Municipal Reform, and the other Bills sent up late in the ses sion, an rejected by the House of Lords, and, above all, real and substantial Bills of relief to the Dissen ters, placing every man in the King's dominions, with respect to the enjoyment of civil rights and privileges, upon an equal footing, without reference to his reli gious opinions. The Lords and the Bishops may defeat these measures if they please. The present Government, at least, will not think it necessary to consult their pleasure or prejudices in preparing them for the House of Commons. No clipping or paring, in the vain hope of reconciling irreconcilable oppo nents. Whole measures will not be more unpalata table to the Solomons in lawn sleeves than half ones, which ought not to satisfy, and will not satisfy, the Dissenters. The Lords will grow wiser, or must sub mit to the consequences of a continual resistance to the wants and wishes of a powerful and intelligent people. Lord Melbourne's position is one of the proudest and most gratifying that ever fell to the lot of a British statesman. He undertook the Administration a t a moment of the greatest difficulty, and much more on the pressure of his party than from any dispositi on to resume a post which had been so - unceremoniously and heedlessly wrested from him. He had only a majority of be tween 30 and 40 Members of the House of Com mons ; but still he has hitherto conducted his Go vernment so much to the satisfaction of the country and of his friends, that we doubt whethe r any preceding Cabinet, .with a much larger numerical list of follow ers, ever had a more effectual support, or experienced greater facility in the administration of public affairs. His success, as we have said before, has been in a great degree owing to his personal character, and the reidurees he has continually brought forward to meet any emergency ; and the people have willingly sup plied any deficienCy in his numerical power in Parlia ment, by a steady and zealous manifestation of their Administration. He has only to act on the same principles, and pursue the same course of well-con sidered and judicious reforms, and the Tories may in dulge in dreams of their restoration to power, and of the approach of the Millenium, with a fair chance of these eventsASHiti&Othe same period.—Morn ing Chri . .1 - 6 ; TI TU ) , : ,<• ~,4, The :fiit,,_ :. ti::,re, here in motion, but if we may :IT i.•• 0.4: I . * . ft,e. •; - .. • s of opinion amongst itthem u' P 4. ' - 0. - : 0 in: of . ill/ ,! ~.., bed depression of the great lane Le ~141 • ' . r 7 Ore for it, we fear their movement- —1 %, ;. , -- - o any satisfactory end. - - f 2titio fq The Bucks Association have rejected the shrewd advice of the Marquis of Chandos, who deprecated any part nership with the currency doctors as one which would never be countenanced by the House of Commons, but would by its inevitable defeat expose the cause of the agricultural body to an unjust imputation of that un popularity in Parliament, and of that folly and extrava gance in its views, which could fairly be entailed upon it no otherwise than through such an " evil communica tion." The farmers are to be pitied for many reasons, and amongst others, for their real ignorance of what it is that constitutes their grievance. The landlords are in our minds less fit objects of compassion, because a sound knowledge both of facts and principles is un questionably more within their reach ; and when they pursue an ignisfiztuus, such as any intermeddling by Act of Parliament between producer and consumer must infallibly prove, if looked to as a remedy for inadequate prices, they must, if not perverse, be pre judiced to a point, at which it is equally fruitless and irksome to carry on discussion with them. We are deluged with correspondence from a variety of quarters on this subject of agricultural distress, and the doc trines are as numerous as the writers, agreeing only in a single point—namely, that prices are ruinously de pressed. It is impossible for us to deny, therefore, at least, it would be presumptuous, that both landlords and tenants throughout England have fallen upon times far less prosperous than they have before expe rienced, and that the benefits derived to them from an increased consumption of farm produce do not indemnify the lauded 'interest, as a whole, for the loss which it has sustained through the lowered prices of corn. Yet are there some difficulties to be cleared away upon this question, before we can satisfy ourselves thoroughly as to the truth even of this postulatum of the agricultural writers. If farm produce has of late years not fetched remunerating prices, how comes it that, according to Lord Fitzwilliam, a greater breadth of soil has during that period of constantly accumulating complaint been brought under the plough than formerly ? They surely will not tell us that the prospect of loss was what induced the farmer to extend his operations .:.over a larger, and therefore ,(had his complaints and those of his landlord been strictly true) a more losing, surface. If increased cultivation has not been stimulated by a remunerating price, what, we ask, is there which can have caused it ? Again, when the Parliament is called upon to interfere, will the ad vocates for such interference inform us how it is possi ble to carry the intrusions of the legislator beyond the point of a protecting duty, which screens the home grower from all com p e titi on by th e f ore i gner , until Bri tish wheat shall have mounted to what may be fairly termed a famine price ? If the price of grain be dis tressingly low to the British agriculturist for a series of seasons, during which there, has been no importation, the solution is the same as if the price of cotton goods were too low. There has been in the one case too much cotton cloth, in the other too much wheat, thanufizctured. The case of the agriculturist, how ever, is in such cases less severe than that of the dealer in calicoes or muslins. If the market generally be glutted with manufactured goods, what can the cotton manufacturer do, or to what use turn his raw material of which he has laid in large quantities ? Raw cotton cannot be made into silk handkerchiefs •or woollen cloths. It is convertible to no commodity but that which already will not pay for the making. His car goes of raw cotton may lie for years unproductive. But it is not so with land, the raw material of the farmer. If one decription of articles fabricated out of it will not pay, lie may try another. If corn be too cheap, let him turn his acres into beef and mutton ; and we are not solitary in expressing our wonder that many districts of this country have not been converted from tillage into pasture-land, seeing that, as compared with war prices, the quartern loaf has fallen consider ably more than butcher's meat—that is to say, if it be just to draw conclusions respecting the account between feeder and butcher from the particulars of those bills which the latter tradesman sends in weekly to his customers. It has always been said - that one natural and important consequence of an abolition of the corn laws would be an increased growth and con sumption of cattle, corresponding to the diminished corn cultivation. What objection could there be to such a change ? A fall in the price of butchers' meat, and a consequent extension of its use among the labouring classes of Great Britain, would be among the greatest and most salutary comforts we could in voke on behalf of our poorer countrymen. Tire same circumstance would tend directly to maintain the price of wheat, and to keep the best corn lands steadily under tillage. But we are told that landlords can not dictate rents—that the land will only fetch its value, and no more. This is, practically speaking, a fallacy of the grossest nature. Much the larger proportion of estates throughout this country are occu pied by the same families for a long course of years, whether under lease or by tenantcy at will, it matters very little. The evacuation of a farm is always at tended with such heavy loss of capital, and other in convenience to the tenant, that the landlord can make nearly his own terms ; and except in case of land wholly unoccupied and open to a new comer, it con tinues to be held, should the landlord be covetous, on terms slightly, if at all, affected by the reduction of prices, until the tenant's capital is utterly wasted, and he becomes insolvent. It is quite true that rents have been reduced throu g h out t h e country ; b ut t h e on l y question is, have they been so reduced that the te nant is as well off now as he was thirty years ago If the landlord have not borne his full share of the loss accruing from the fall o f p r i ces , t h e ' tenant i s aggrieved, and justice still remains to be rendered. It is altogether a question of degree. We are far from being of those who look on without sympathy at the sufferings of a class the most important and essential of all others to our national greatness— the feeders of the community. One of our correspon dents " A Friend to all Classes," for whose letter we regret we have not room, appears terrified at the pos sible repeal of the corn laws, because of the tendency of such a measure to raise the price of corn. We do not think that taking home grown and imported wheat together, the price would permanently fall ; but if our correspondent's opinion be correct, what ground of oppzsion can the agriculturists rest upon against a change to them so advantageous ? For our parts, we have thought from the beginning that the most cala mitous event which ever befel the landed interest of Great Britain was that act for affixing artificial prices to the produce of the soil, and distorting by a forcible intrusion of the Legislature, the natural relations of landlord, occupier, and consumer. The agriculturists must now see, if they have any sense of vision left, that the corn-laws have afforded them anything but protection.—Times. agricultural distress, he felt convinced that the conse quences would be a total defeat in the House of Com mons." The union of these two questions will, indeed, be the disunion of the friends of the farming interests. We before adverted to the example of this which was afforded by Mr. Cavley's motion of last session—a motion which, by blending currency and corn, divided the Conservatives, and gave to the unpatriotic enemies of the British plough a decided triumph. Let, then, the friends of the farming interests profit by experience. Let them rally with a common watch-word round a common banner, and let them not, like the theologians of Antioch, be employed in discussing abstract ques tions, and refining upon theoretic subtleties, while the battering-ram of the enemy is thundering at the gates. The Noble Lord, to whose opinions upon this subject we have already alluded, proposes what we think all reasonable persons must consider the prudent and proper mode of proceeding. lie proposes to move for a Select Committee to inquire into the causes of agri cultural distress with a view to a remedy. If that motion be carried, as we have no doubt it will, unless the question of the currency be mixed up with it, then it follows that an opportunity will be given to examine evidence as to the effects which the Bill of 1819 may have had in lowering prices, and thereby contributing to bring about the present state of unexampled agri cultural di§tress. If there are other causes they will also be inquired into, and if, upon full and fair investi gation it should, unhappily appear that the distress is of such a nature as that Parliament cannot give it any effectual relief, at all events, the real state of the case will have been demonstrated, and the Legislature will have relieved itself from the serious charge of being indifferent to the sufferings and evincing a callous con tempt for the prayers of a large and most valuable por tion of his Majesty's subjects. Morning Herald. There is one part of the proceedings of the Bucks Agricultural Association, at its recent meeting at Ayles bury, recorded in our paper of yesterday, to which we can look back with unqualified satisfaction. We al lude to its unanimous resolution in favour of the imme diate introduction into Ireland of a system of legal provi sion for the poor. The interest of the landowners and farmers of England in this question is not the most im portant or elevated consideration connected with it. This we readily admit. But the landowners and far mers of England have a real and substantial interest I in the question, which entitles them to press it upon the attention of the Legislature as a matter of justice to themselves ; and their right so to urge the ques tion is not impaired, but, on the contrary, greatly strengthened, by the reflection that the practical demands of justice, so far as their interests are con cerned, coincide exactly with what justice to others still more imperiously requires. We request our readers for one moment to regard this question, as it respects the interests of British agriculturists, in its most elemen tary form. The production of human food, like every other production to which the application of capital and labour is necessary, is, in Great Britain and Ire land, as in everywhere else, the result of efforts of which profit is the object and the stimulus. The mar kets of Great Britain and Ireland are equally and in discriminately open to the British and the Irish pro ducer. The surplus produce Of an Irish farm may be sold in London, and .the surplus .produce of an English farm might be sold in Dublin. Thus far the agricul turists of the two countries are on an equal footing. But if there, be a law which absolutely determines that the surplus produce of an English farm shall be less than that of an Irish farm of equal extent and fertility, and cultivated in the same manner, it cannot be denied that an undue and unjust advantage is given to th e farmers or landlords of Ireland; or to both, at the ex pense of the same classes of our English fellow-sub jects. And the poor law of England, so long as it is confined to England, decrees absolutely that this inequality shall exist. Every portion of the land of England is legally charged with the n:aintenance of its aggregate population. The rent of the landlord, the profit of capital embarked in the cultivation- of the soil, are, in England, subordinate to the mainte nance of the labourer, in such a manner as the habits of society, emanating from the law, have determined to be the fit and proper manner in which agricultural labourers ought to be maintained. In Ireland, on the contrary, the rent of land, and the profit of the capital embarked in its cultivation, are not subject to any such restriction. There the landowner and farmer are free from all responsibility for the subsis tence of the labouring class. The lowest scale of sub sistence by which human life can be preserved is all that the labourers expect in ordinary times. In the event of a failure in the crop of potatoes, The only ar ticle of food to the enjoyment of which the labourers have been taught to aspire, they perish by thousands from hunger, while the wheat, and the barley, and the oats, and the cattle, to the production of which their labour has contributed, are exported to Eng land, to keep clown our markets against the Englisli producer, and to feed the happier labourers of Great Britain. Of this state of things all classes of society in Great Britain and Ireland have a right to com plain, but the English agriculturists have the first and greatest right to complain of it, because, while it injures them in common with all others, it mili tates against their welfare in a special and peculiar manner. In respect to the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, there can be no doubt that the interests of the British agriculturists coincide with the clearest dictates of general policy—with the universal prin ciples of justice--with the instinctive feelings of un perverted humanity. Our agricultural associations cannot do a better thing for the country or for them selves than to urge this subject with the whole weight of their influence upon the immediate attention of the Legislature. Here, at least, they have nothing to apprehend from factious enmity or invidious mis construction. There is no class of politicians we be lieve so inimical to the prosperity of English agricul ture as to contend that the labourers of Ireland should continue to starve, in order that the produce of the British soil should continue to be undersold.— Morning Post. FLOOD IN THE RIVER CLYDE.—The inhabi tants of the lower parts of the city have been for a long time exempted from the terrors usually caused by inunda tions of the Clyde, until Sunday morning last when all was bustle and alarm. In the course of the preceding day, it rained incessantly from half-past 10, a.m. till a very late hour ; previous to which there had been a cessation of only a few hours, after a continual down-pouring on Friday night. Before midnight on Saturday, it became generally known that the tide would be full at halt-past two next morning, and as the river was coming down with great ra pidity, overflowing its banks in many places, far and wide, with the common sewers that empty themselves into the current, all dammed back ; the trepidation of the inhabi tants in Bridgegate and Clyde-street, may be more easily conceived than described. Relays of women, from eleven o'clock, continued to visit the water-course every quarter of an hour, who reported to the terrified inmates of the low dwellings, the progress made by the stream. This was fearfully rapid. By mid-night preparations were made for removing everything that might be injured by the water ; and soon after 1 o'clock, great part of the Bridgegate began to be flooded, and the street be came impassable. The low shops began to be filled ; and tubs, pitchers, and stoups, were in great request. But the incursion of the unfriendly visitant soon baffled every attempt to dislodge it, and the unfortunate do mestics were compelled so submit to their fate. Much about the same time, a house at the corner of Dickson's street, began to fill. A room in which the children slept was more'than a foot under water, and the unsuspecting young ones were driven from their places of rest. Some hours before this, a small steam-,boat which is employed above the bridges, in tugging the coal-punts up the river to Dalmarnock, was driven from its moorings, and carried along at the mercy of the current through the arches of two bridges, until it was arrested in its farther descent by being suddenly thrown broadside against the two central abuttments of the wooden bridge. Great fears were for a time entertained for the stability of the erection, but fortu nately it withstood the heavy pressure. Many houses in New Bridge -street and in Commerce-street had their fires extinguished ; and in some of these, the inhabitants actually sailed along the floor in tubs, securingthe family provisions, lest the whole should have been deluged. During the greater part of Sunday, the road to Govan, along the river, was impassable. One man fell into the water on Saturday night, but after struggling for a considerable time for ex istence, he was miraculously taken out alive, and is happily recovering. The writer of this notice, left at a quarter to thfee ; at which time it was thought the danger was over as the tide was then beginning to recede. --Scots Times. We cannot think that those persons are the real friends to the suffering farmers of England who insist upon the currency question being so mixed up with that of agricultural distress, that the latter ought not to be presented to the consideration of Parliament unless in connection with the former. Our own opinions upon the consequences of the alteration in the currency ef fected by the Bill of 1819 have been too often repeated not to be well known. We have seen no reason to change that opinion ; but we are equally well convinced that to obtain a favourable hearing in Parliament to the claims of the agriculturists, it is necessary that the question of agricultural distress should be placed be fore the Legislature on its own merits, and not identified with another question, which can only tend to divide the farmers' friends and give a triumph to their common enemy. Judging from some of the recent proceedings in agricultural societies at Aylesbury and elsewhere, we are disposed to think that some emissaries of the Government have got into those societies, for the pur pose of breaking up the strength of the agricultural interests by sowing dissension among them. Th e Marquis o f Chandos has, on more than one occasion, lately advised the advocates of agricultural relief to avoid the fatal error of blending the two questions ; for nothing can be more certain than that any such attempt must lead to the failure of the intended application for legis lative inquiry and relief. At a recent meeting, his Lord ship expressed his great anxiety that the meeting then assembled, and all others coming in contact with any deputations from associations of other counties, should strictly confine themselves to the question of agricultural distress, and not mix up that question with that of the alteration of the currency. "If the currency question," he emphatically added, 46 were mixed up with that of THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1835, PRICES OF.CANALS,DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27. Number Dividend Price of rcr CANALS. per hares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1 ,710 61 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham ...Average 1171. 18s. stf. 1,482 64 Ashhy.de.le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 • 1,260 Basingstoke .. 1004 sh. 5,-; 1,035 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. sh. P 5 4,00 0 15 b. 1.:1. 10s. Birmingham, 1 share 171. 105. 2591 4.00.) Ditto and Liverpool Junct....1004 sh. all pd 314 6 1 0 ...... ... Bridgewater and Taunton ....WO/. sh. all pd 64 400 :.4 Chelmer and Blackwater . lOOl. sh. 102 5 00 421, Coventry lOO/. sh. 4,516 f:roydon Average 314 2s. 10d. sh. 2,0601 34 10s. Dudley lOOl. sh. 7 6 1 600 . 6/. Derby 'OO/ sh. 120 20,000 3,5756 Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 85 Mt 43'. Erewash 1004 sh. 400 1,247 2E4 Forth and Clyde Average 400/. 16s. sh. 600 11,54)0 121. Grand June - 1004 sh. 22ni t', 5 494 Grand Union 100/. sh. 25 1,5!1 Grand Surrey lOO/. sh. 20 ,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 3, 0 96 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 2' . :0 1,960 Gloucester and Berkley 10/. sh. 15 749 10t. Grantham '5Ol. sh. 202 6 ,23 n 1/. 10s. Huddersfield Average 571. his. 60. sh. 341 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,228 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.85. 10d. sh. 19; 2,8971 201. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 530 515 121. Leicester l4Ol. sh. • 907 44 Leicester and Nortligmpton...Aver 834 lie. 79 55)0 51. per cent. Liskeard and t.ooe Union 25/. sh. all pd. 70 144/. Loughborough Average 142/. 17s. sh. 2,409 p/. 'Monmouthshire 100/. sh. ISO 250 94 Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 19)) 500 254 Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 58 1 3,e00 Macclesfield 100/. sh all pd. 56 247 15/. Neath 1001. sh 300 100 1,756 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 100 5'21 21. Oakham 1301. sh. 38 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 7E4 sh. 106 21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. 6d. sh. 15t 5,')99 Si. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 141 500 El. Shropshire 1254 sh. 140 POO 10/. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 160 4 5,0 0 04 61 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 12 700 364 Stafford and Worcester 14.01. sh. 690 500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 245 300 81. Stourbridge 3,647 11.10 s. Stratford-on- A voii...Average 791. Os Sd. sh. 39 533 134 Swansea 100/. sh. 215 3,762 11. Severn and \'‘'ye and Railway ...Ar 35/. sh. 17i 2 , 60 45 n. 821. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh. 620 8,149 ......... Thames and Medway...Aver. 19 /, s s. 80 . sh. 2 1.0005h.1 is/ Warwick and Birmingham lOOl. sh. 28 0 1,00015h.3 9 , 40 1'.5.. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 220 6,000 21. lOs Worcester and Birmingham...A 22,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67!. 10s. Ed. sh, 20 800 64 Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 Wisbeach •..105/. sh. 45 OW 11. Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 221 DOCKS. 4,600& 1,116545 h - ' 3 D c' Commercial 100/. sh. 5.51 1a1,66711. 4 per cent. East India Stock 941 3,238,31014 506. p. ct. I,ondon Stock 53 Ditto Bonds 1,380,0001. 5/. per ct. West India Stock 83.1 9.`..'0,1 34 Gs. 4d. Bristol Average 1471. 10s. sh. 85 0.3,3244 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1,352,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 831 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 18 years loti Shoreham Harbour 23 2 500 .... .... Deptford Pier BRIDGES. 1,6^0 I/. Hammersmith - 50/. sh. 23 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. C3l. 2s. 80. sh. 2 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 1/. 2s. • Ditto, Old Annuities of 84 CO!. pd 24 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 211 0,6004 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll6 5,818 I7s. Vauxhall Av rage 491. Os. Od. oh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES . 3,000 3/ 108 Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 761 51,000 f s P a e n r A nt 'l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 11/ 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd 51 24.000 11 per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 5/. p 4 131 1,201115 h. 4/. Birmingham Fire 2504 sh. 55! pd 105 20,000 4/ percent. British Fire 230/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,1'00 61 per cent. British Commercial 5(1. sh. 5/. pd 51 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, ICOLsh. 12110 s p 4 01 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. sh. 101. pd 42 10,000 ss. Eagle ls 5O/. sh. Si. pd 6 5 cen 200 [andper 301 bs t . 1 Economic Life lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 315 2,271 54/. percent. European Life ` 5 O/. sh. all pd 22 50.000 20 Ditto, New 'O4 sh 2/. pd 11. 12s. 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe , ttock 0,000 I!. Guardian 1001. sh. 201. pd 35 ( dr? 10,000 Fire 3 p i Life Rpet 3 Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 6 2,400 51. 7s. (id. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 504 pd 120 7,500 90. Imperial Life 1004 sh. 10/. pd 91 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1.0/. oh. Sl. pd 151 2,020 3/ 108 Kept Fire 504 sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Lif^ .294 10100 16s. Law Life 1004 sh. 94/. pd 26 • 3,900 IL London, 'ire '2sl. di. l'il. 103 p 1 151 31 001 11. Londen, Ship "51. sh. 1./. 10s. pd 18 3 ~0 al 11. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. '2l. pd 217 s (Id .250,001 Is. 6d. Protc. for Fite 0 04 sh. '2/. pd 1/6• Od 2,500 I/. Provident I.ife llO/. sh. 10/. pd 194 100,000 55. Rock Life "01. oh. W. pd 614 689,2204 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange ,Sto. k... 192 Sun ...:10 6,e00 5 per cent. University Life 'oo/. sh. 5/. pd 5 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life "1. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Auctrala , ia 4O/. sh. 2 1 4 pd 52 10,0 1 '0 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 104 pd 10 19,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 14 18,0110 2 per cent. London and Westminster ...100/ sh. 13/. pd 161 :1,1)00 Lancaster 1001. sh. 2"!. pd 30 23,11;0 6 per cent. IS vet pool 1001 sh. 101. i d 17 30,010 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool / 100!. sh. 10! IA 2 ., Discount 20,1100 A percent. Manchester 11 . 04 sh. Fyi pd 054 - 20,090 7 per cent. Provincial Bank of lielancl 100/. sh. '251 pd 461 til, 1.0 National Bank of Ireland 51.shIt /. pd 13 10,0011 National Provincial Eng. ...1001. sh. 25/. pd 10,0(13) 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 11 0,000 tlampshire 50!. sh. 5/. Bxl 0 GAS LIGHT ANI) COKE COMPANIES 501, 1112 s Bath 204 s h . 111. lid 23 5,000 (31. per cent. British , 40/. sh. IV/. pd 211 s ' M° [ n '.'. d pe ll rc s. en ss L .} Ditto Provincial . 2O/. sh. 19 pd 22 814 5/ 10s Birmingham 4,2 \ 0 2/ 03 Bristol 2o'. sh. 40 1,500 Brighton 2O/. sh. 151 754) ...... ... Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. IS/. pd 12 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General '2Ol sh. all pd 19 4,000 3/. Continental Cansolidated lOO4 511/. pd' 94 1,000 10/, City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 1,100 64 Ditto, New 4,000 4/. les. Equitable,- . 4O/. pd al European 5/. pd 44 Io,'oo 5/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 4:14 800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thanet 2 , 3 50 61. per cent. independent W. sit. a 1 pd 50 1.5'0 Leeds 2O/ oh. I , =/. pd 191 9 , 0 '0 34 per cent. Phoenix 512. sh. 39/. p 4 24 1, 0 00 4/. per cent. Ratelifl . 100/. sh. 604 pd 69 4,0 0 South Metropolitan 5 1. sh. 13/ pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General ... 504 sh. 451. pd 361 21 1 ) 5/. per cent. Warwick 4'f) I/ 5s Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 12,0 , 0 3/. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 47 6,i4:11 12s. Ditto, Nov 5ll/. sh. 1114 pd Fl. KO WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham 23/. sh. 25!. pd 20 4,433 5/. East I.ondon lOO/. sh. 131 4,50) 2/ 10s tirlid Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 511 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 46 348 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 310 1 , 5 00 21 100 New Rivet London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/. Manchester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh 83 8, 00 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 634 12s. 9d. sh 77 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh 351 IRON RAILWAYS. V 11, Bristol and Exeter 2 1 1;4 10 ' Bolton and Leigh 10,1100 Copiapo 20/. sh. 71/. pd 8 330 Cheltenham 1001. sh. 78 2,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 55 2,5 0 0 19s. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd 251 90,000 Grand Junction 1001. sli. 40/. p t 80 30,001 Grand Western lOO/ sh. 5/. pd 141 2,030 Ilartlep.ol 1001. sh. 100/ pit 75 2.100 Leeds and Selby 100 all. 11.1 1,500 lAicester and Swannington ....50/. sh all pd 18 5,100 9 per cent. 1 Averp6,ol and Manchester-100/. sh. 100/. pd 20'. Ditto Quarter Shares .5/. pd :,0 30,000 London and Brighto , 2 , 1. sh. Si pd 81 45;00 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') 2Ol. sh. 11. pd 1 12,000 London and Blackwall 50/ sh Pl. pd 41 Londo , i and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pd 30,000 London and Gravesend .201 sh 1/ pd 1 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sh. '2O/. pd 27 25,000 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 45/. pd 92 20,400 London and Southampton `',o/. sh. 10/. pd 111 London and Croydon 21. pd 2 3 , 0 00 Northern and Eastern ... lO9/. sb. 12,590 North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/ pd 7 2,500 Presto:a and Wigan '3o4 pd 2,601 Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 1/. pd 3 1, 1 00 c/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington " 100/. O. 240 800 Durltvn Junction 1001. sh. 10/.'pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper .-- 5/. sh. 2/. pd 11 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 10/. lOs pd 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 0 5/. pd 2,000 Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd 10,000 3/. ts. Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm Mt. sh. '2Ol. pd 31/ 6,0 0 Macaubas & Cocacs United 251. sh. 221. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 714 pd rk 11,000 Cata Branca 44/. pd Candonga 5/. pd S 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd Ditto Scrip 1/. pd 6 20,001 1/. 10s. British Iron 5O/. sh. 501 pd 29 6,000 British Copper i/. sh. 31/. pd 8,500 Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 55/. sh. 5411. pd 2,950 11. English 12/ Its. pd 20,000 General Mining Association...2o/ sh. IN. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh 511/. pd 51 2,000 Polberou Consols 101. sh. Si. pd 121 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 23 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....40/. sh. all pd Dit o Scrip 4l Ditto Subscription 2l. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 5; 5,( 00 Union Gold, iss. 21. 55. pm.... 221/. sh. 441. pd West Cork 50/. sh. 35/. pd 28 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. 81), 20 1,000 1,500 London University 1001. s h . a ll p d 25 70 0 King's College MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 .. - ---- 100/. pd 40 10,000AOC/. sh. 2CI/. pd 1,0?0 1/. Auction Mart 50/. sh. 19 British American Land Company ql. pd 6,000 1 os. Australian I 10,000 01 per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 201. pd 32f 200,000 5/. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,0 00 N. percent. General Steam Navigation —l5/. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 9 2/ pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 1301 o 633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 4il. pd 70 4 -, Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd 000 ********* 10,000 Van Diemer.'s L an d 100/. sh. 16!. pd ......... LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, NOVEMBER 21, 1835. 2,5020000001/.. .65 i 1:: et BrtroiytaislhofLSicnoetnlacnodinp......n...7:l: 50062:11 BANKS. 1001. sh. all pd 1711. 11041.. 5i5.h.h5.5.hh1.5.(3,0:1111.11. pd 1731. t12 2 6; 04 01g1 / 1.: . 100/. sh. 104 pd 14 , ./. Western of Scotland "001. sh 30/. pd 32/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 45 3 2 1 , L 00 000 5 ; 0000 ; 10: 1 ... " t 6;:/: pr p p ).. ... ccc c c i t t .. ; GN C n i o a a at in i si l go 7 ml n O w e a f r i c Sc u ia n ° l: o . l .7 . ............ 25 0 . 000 th. sp. et. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 14 26526 s 7,500 spd p. ct. Hercules 100/ . sh. 101. pd 11/ Os 100,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lo/. sh. all pd 7/ Os ,ow 6p. ct. North British 200 1. s h . 10/. pd 15/. 50 5,000 j ........ P.. . et. E E: i i n n . b a u n r a gl o i I ;a i s f . e 1,000 5r . et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 14/ Os Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 201 100/. sh. 101. pd 15/ Os 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland ..................... 10/. pd 9/. MISCELLANEOUS. ... Ditto Allocated 4,810 .95/, sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 33/. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 450/. 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery WO. 3• , /. pc! 20/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 164 pd 71/. 4,. 500 lOper cent. Ed inbur g h Coal Gas 254 sh. all pd 65/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas , 251. sh. all pd 631. 73 Q 6 per cent. Le ith Coal G as 201. sh. all pd 351. 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and ailkeith Railway...so4 s h . 7 31. 3,000 51 per cent, Equitable Loan Company 25/. sh. 94 pd 101. CHANCERY COURT.-FRIDAY. DWARRIS V. DWARRIS. This was an appeal from, an order of the late Master of the Rolls, made on further directions. The main question turned on the construction to be placed on the will of the late Mr. Dwarris, of Jamaica, in which he gave to his son Fortunatus Dwarris and his widow an annuity of 5001. each out of his estate, and constituted Ahem trustees to re ceive the surplus income, and invest it in the Three per Cents., until it formed a find of sufficient magnitude to pay his other six children 2,000/. each, they receiving in the meantime a sum of 100/. each for their maintenance. For tunatus Dwarris, the eldest son, was also made residuary legatee, and invested with the power to sell the plantation of Golden Grove, if he thought fit, and preferred that me thod of paying the legacies and securing his mother's an nuity, to the more tedious and responsible process of laying up every year the surplus of the rents and profits. Mr. Dwarris died in 1813, and for some time the estate proved so profitable that Mr. Fortunatus Dwarris was enabled to invest a considerable sum in the names of his bro thers and sisters, and to pay two of them their por tions. Subsequently, however, Golden Grove shared the fate of all West India property ; the income fell short of the expenditure, and Mr. F. Dwarris was compelled to draw on the reserved fund to meet the current expenses. No money in the shape of principal or interest could be paid to the legatees, and they therefore filed a bill to compel Mr. Dwarris to account. The matter finally came before the late Master of the Rolls on the last day of his sitting in that Court, this being the last cause he ever heard. His Honour, upon a consideration of the injunc tions of the testator, was then of opinion that Mr. Dwarris had the power to make use of the reserved fund in the event of the proceeds of any year of the estate proving ina dequate to the payment of annuities and expenses, and in serted a declaration to that effect in the decree. Against the decision the plaintiffs appealed. Mr. TINNEY was heard in support of the appeal, and Mr. SPENCE against it. Sir L. SHADWELL was of opinion that the declaration inserted by the Master of the Rolls must be struck out, and the matter be referred back to the Master to take an account of the sums which ought to have been invested by Mr. Dwarris, as the real surplus income of the estate. Sir J. BOSANQUET, after going over the facts of the case at some length, expressed his concurrence in this decision. MOUSELEY V. CARR. This was a re-hearing of a case already heard by Sir John Leach ; and Lord Brougham, as Chancellor. Mr. JACOB was proceeding to state the facts, when Mr. WIGRAM objected to the matter being reheard at all, unless the other side presented some special case which would justify the Court in departing from that rule which was laid down some time since, that no case having been once heard before the Great Seal should be reheard, but must be at once carried to the House of Lords. In sup port of this objection the Learned Counsel cited two cases in which the Court had refused a rehearing. Mr. JACOB contended that both these cases differed from the present one. With respect to the 'rule regarding re hearings, the Lords Commissioners (Pepys and Bosanquet) had themselves, in the case of " Townsend v. Reed," re heard a case already heard and decided by Lord Brougham. Sir L. SHADWELL should take an opportunity of speak ing to the Master of the Rolls upon the subject, and the matter might then be fully argued before the whole of the Commissioners. The case stands over accordingly. _ Mr. KNIGHT, at the rising of the Court, moved for an injunction to restrain a lady of fortune, the wife of a Field Officer, from taking their son out of the care of the person with whom he had been placed for education, and removing him to the Continent. The parties, living unhappily, agreed to separate, but it was arranged that their child should be placed with a Gentleman in a town in Devonshire', and that both parents were to have access to him. The lady had, however, removed the boy by force from his tutor, and as she keeps herself concealed it is feared she intends to take him to the Continent. Under these circumstances the Learned Counsel prayed an injunction. Their Lordships granted the injunction. The name of the parties was not mentioned. - - KING'S BENCH-FRIDAY. DANE V. VISCOUNTESS KIRKWALL. Mr. MILLER applied to the Court on the subject of this case, and stated that the summons to stay the preceedings till the defendant's attorneys could receive instructions from their client had been by mistake taken out for Satur day, as it had been subosed that the Court,. according to the usual practice, would this day have sat at Guildhall. He complained that after what had passed yesterday on the subject of this case the plaintiff should have thought of ta king it as an undefended cause. Lord DENMAN could not hear the application at this moment, but would consent to do so if the Learned Coun sel would make it at the rising of the Court. DOE DEM. LEWIS AND OTHERS V. BAGSTER. This was an action of ejectment brought to recover pos session of some premises situated at the north-western corner of Featherstone-buildings, and used b.y the defen dant for the preparation of farinaceous food for infants, and for grown up persons suffering' from indigestion. The ma terial of this food was ground at a mill, the constant noise of which was said to be a great nuisance to the neighbour hood. Many witnesses were called to show that the mill as at present conducted was a nuisance to the people in habiting the adjoining houses, and it was attempted to be proved that the power of the mill had been much increased of late. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, ls. EXCHEQUER COURT-FRIDAY. RIR B. C. GLYN, BART., AND OTHERS, V. SOARP.ES AND ANOTHER. This was a bill filed for discovery, and for a commission to oxamine witnesses abroad. On the 19th instant an or der was obtained by the plaintiffs, directing that service of a subpoena on the defendant Soarres or his attorney, should be deemed g ood service on her Majesty Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, the other defendant in the suit, whose residence is out of the jurisdiction of this Court. Mr. RICHARDS now moved that the miler so obtained should be discharged. circumstances are briefly these : In March, 1833, Don Miguel, being then, de facto, King of Portugal, contracted a loan with Messrs. Outrequin and Jauge, of Paris, parts of which were taken by individuals and other parts by the contractors themselves. Certain bills, on account of this loan, were drawn by B aron D'E s t e at aris, on Glyn and Co., of London, payable to Outrequin and Jauge. The first set of bills were sent to London, and accepted by Glyn and Co., and the second set were sent 0 Lisbon, and endorsed by Outrequin and Jauge, " To the order of M. J. F. Conto, the Treasurer General of the Royal Treasury of Portugal on account of the Royal loan," and paid to him on behalf of Don Miguel. On the 24th of- July following Donna Maria was proclaimed Queen of Por tugal, and on the 7th of the next month (August) the bills in question were endorsed by M. Conto, to the order of the defendant Soarres.• Soarres has brought an action in the Court of King's Bench against Glyn and Co. for the recovery of the amount of these bills (about 4,0001.) Glyn and Co. have since filed this bill against Soarres and the Queen Donna Maria, for discovery and for a com mission, and have obtained the order respecting the service of the subpoena, which was now sought to be discharged. It was contended by Counsel, on behalf of M. Soarres, that this order could not be sustained, inasmuch as there was nothing on the face of the proceedings in the Court of King's Bench to show that her Majesty Donna Maria had any interest whatever in the proceedings, or that Mr. Soarres was acting (as alleged by Glyn and Co.). in the character of agent to her Majesty in this matter. Mr. SIMPKINSON argued in support of the order. This was not in terms the motion of the Queen of Portugal, but it was substantially so ; for if M. Soarres was not the agent of the Queen, what interest could he have in setting aside this order ? He would be a perfect stranger to these pro ceedings, unless he appeared as an agent. If, however, he denied his agency, there was an end of the present motion , for the order cannot affect him. But, in point of fact, Soarres had admitted that he was the agent of the Queen ; but then he endeavoured to draw a distinction between the individual character of the Queen and her public character. The motion for discharging the order was then dismissed with costs. SAME V. SAME. Mr. SIMPKINSON then moved that a commission should issue to examine witnesses abroad. Mr. RICHARDS said that in that chse the money in the hands of Glyn and Co. should be paid into Court. Mr. SIMPKINSON objected to this. Lord ABINGER—Where are the bills of exchange ? Mr. SimpraNsorr—ln the hands of Mr. Gore, agent for Ourtequin and Jauge. Lord ABINGER—I thought they were in M. Soarres's hands. As no fear of insolvency has been expressed, the money had better remain where it is for the present. It is competent for Mr. Richards to make a distinct motion on the subject hereafter, if it should be considered necessary. ADMIRALTY COURT.-FRIDAY. Edward Francis Jenner having -yesterday been admitted into the number of Proctors of the Arches' Court, was this day enrolled a Proctor of this Court. THE ST. KATHARINE. This was a suit brought to enforce the payment of a bot tomry bond, by Messrs. Willis and Swainson, of Liverpool, as the agents of Messrs. John and Pimero Willeston, of Mira - michi, in New Brunswick, against the St. Katharine and her freight. W. Austin Groocock, the owner of the v essel , being a bankrupt, the parties opposing the bond were his assignees. On the Ist of September, 1834, the St. A. Marine, a bri g of 197 tons burthen, and the property Mr. William William Austen Groocock, of London, was charter ed at Liverpool, to Messrs. Willis and Swainson, and a pers° of the name of Sinclair was put in command of the vesse l ; Upon the 7th of September the St. Katharine set sail, find during her voyage the weather was so tempestuous, th at upon her arrival at Miramichi, whither she was bound, she was completely dismasted, and otherwise very seriously da; maged. The master, in accordance with directions he 1: 5( ' received from Messrs. Willis and Swainsor., applied to tt;' Messrs. Willeston, who recommended a survey of the brig. She was accordingly surveyed, and various repairs were pronounced necessary. These were effected upon advanc e ' from the firm of Willeston, and as security for which file, bottomry bond now before the Court was executed by th e ' master. As to the precise time when this paper was signet+" and in reference to the circumstances connected with 5 0 ' execution of it, the main controversy arose. The bond 0 ' to the amount of about 8991., and bore date Nov. 26, 18 34 ' Dr. ADDAMS appeared on behalf of the official assigns" of Mr. Groocock, the owner of the vessel, who became' bankrupt on the 3d of October, 1834. The KING'S ADVOCATE was heard on behalf of Mr' Willis, the legal holder of the bond. Sir J. NicHoLL considered that under the existing, circumstances of the case, this bottomry b on d was a valid ; bond ; he must therefore pronounce in favou r o f the legs` holder, and should direct all the expenses to be paid by th e party opposing the bond. COMMON PLEAS.-FRIDAY. COOKE V. ROUND. This was an action brought to recover a sum of 761. , The plaintiff issued a m ar ked wr it aga i nst a p er son o `. the name of Smyth, and directed to the Sheriff of Essel'' who gave it to an officer of the name of M'Kenzie, who ar rested Smyth who immediately went to prison, and took the benefit of the Insolvent Act. The return marked 0 1 the writ was the 18th of March. Smyth on that day and the subsequent one, was seen at large in Fleet-stree t, though by the return of the writ he ought to have been in the custody of the Sheriff of Essex. The present a ction was brought to recover from the defendant, the High-She' riff of Essex, the amount for which the writ had beet' marked. Evidence was given of Smyth beim; seen at the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet-street, on the day in question. , After hearing some obser va ti o n s f rom th e Learned Judge, the Jury found a verdict for the plain tiff for 761. SHERIFF'S COURT.-FRIDAY. BEUREGARD V. WARD. Mk', was an action brought to recover CEbe sum of 2 01 ' for the board and lodging of the defendant's wife. The cif' cumstances were rather extraordinary. Miss Beauregard described the miserable Fie her mother', the defendant's wife, lived with the defendant, who used to wield the poker, threaten to break her head, :refuse to send victuals into the house, and gave notice to the tradesmen in the neighbourhood not to trust her for anything. Such 0 15 her inability, in consequence of Palmer's 'bankruptcy, to procure the necessaries of life from her own resources, the witness and her brother were obliged to pawn. parts of the ir dress to supply her with means. Witness d etailed a long series of persecutions and annoyances. The brother of the last witness stated that he pledge d parts of his dress for the supply of his parent.. His moth er summoned the defendant before the Magistrates, b e fore whom an arrangement was made that the del'endant s hould pay 401. per annum to her. A parish officer gave evidence of the wif e's applicatio n for parochial relief. Witness gave her 2s. 6d., and the e caused a summons to be issued. Defendant: attended be" fore the Magistrates, and agreed to a proposal m ade hi them to pay his wife 401. a year, and witness was to receive the same quarterly for her. Mr. ESPINASSE (for the defendant) cross-examined th e witnesses, but there was no change in their evidence. Sergeant A RABIN said that nobody knew better than Mr' Espinasse that the case against him was a very strong one. Mr. ESPINASSE said that the doors of the house wer e at all times open to the defendant's wife. Sergeant ARABIN—Aye, but the cupboard was closed' or if it was open there was nothing in it.—(Laughter.) Mr. ESPIN ASSE admitted that he had no idea that his cause was so weak ; and after some conversation with de fendant's attorney said that his client was willing to su pport his wife, but was apprehensive if he bad not taken the pre sent course of resisting the payment of her debts he should have been inundated with demands. Mr. GURNEY said that the defendant need not be in the least alarmed. All the poor woman required was :30/. a year. Mr. ESPINASSE said that his client willingly consented. The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 20/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A lad named Thomas Palmer was committed for trial by Sir JOHN KEY for picking a gentleman's pocket, while standing in front of the gallows yesterday morning in th e Old Bailey. Stanton, the officer, who had charge of the prisonot stated that another gentleman had his pocketbook, fortu nately containing nothing of value, stolen from him on the same spot. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday filmy Spiller and Susan Robinson, two pat!' pers, inmates of Marylebone Workhouse, were brought be fore Mr. SHUTT, charged as follows : Mr. Pe villy, master of the house, stated that the prisoner s had, for the last three days, been idling their time, and re fused to do any work. That morning he heard them tell the matron they would act as they pleased, and defy her t° hinder them. Witness in consequence took them before the Board, which was then sitting, who desired that they should be brought to this Office. The prisoners, who said they were willing to work an d would cot offend again, were discharged, Mr. SHUTT re marking/that should they brought before him at a futur e time on a similar charge they would be severely punished• CURRENCY.—The influence of the Legislatur e over the currency is confined to three points ; the compe l ' ling us to use gold for out standard, the monopoly it, give,' to the Bank of England, and , the prohibition it has issue against the circulation of Bank notes for small sums. rr . f . ° of these are pieces of arrogant meddling on the part of w e lassmaker, which inflict gross injustice almost exclusively 1 91} the cultivators of the soil.—Brighton Guardiun. PUBLdC DINNER IN Ross TO J. H. TALBOT , Ese., M.P.—The, honest and intrepid constituency of Vl' entertained, on Tuesday evening last, at Shanahan's bate" in that town, their uncompromising and faithful reproof"' tive to a public dinner.—Wexford Independent. (ADVERTISEMENT). The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHJ VS' The price in gold cases, with accurztely finished vertical 1 0 movements Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movements, in double- bottomed engine-turned cases, jewelled in four holes, with silver dial T. COX SAVORY'S Working Silversmith and Jeweller, ' l7 ' Cornhill, London. ted N. B. A variety of second-hand Silver Watches, may be selec from, all at Two Guineas each, Warranted. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst., the lady of Mr. Joseph Hodgson, Surgeon' ° I Spitalfields, of a daughter, still-born. tiOn the 23d inst., in Now Broad-street, the lady of Francis Ramsbotham, M.D. , of a daughter. nri On the 24th inst., in Lower Brook-street, the lady of Ile Pearse, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at the Parish Church, Leeds, Leopold Schwaby r e : Esq., of Manchester, to Emma Frances, second daughter o f C. Priestley, Esq., of Chapel Allerton, near Leeds. ontl On the 26th inst., a t St. G eorge ' s , Bl ooms b u ry, Henri. see - , son of the late Matthew Towgood, Esq., of St. Neot's, Huntioti donshire, to Jane, youngest daughter of Thomas Davy, Esl'' Gould-square. On the 19th inst., at Dublin, Charles Edward Pitcher, E s q;,' third son of John Earle Pitcher, Esq., of Queen-square, 810000, bury, to Ma r y A nne , e ld es t d aug ht er o f th e l a t e L es lie Lawt ° Esq., of Cork. On the 26th i ns t., a t A s h, K en t, th e R ev . Ri c h a rd Sah, ce ":' Rector of Fawkham, fourth son of Thomas Richard SalweY, of the Lodge, Salop, to Mary, youngest daughter of Molten La bard, Esq., of Sevenoaks. On the 26th i ns t., a t St. G eorge ' s , H anover - squ are, Ja i° l Pittet, Esq., of H am p s t ea d, t o Mi ss S a r a h E n ti c k na p, niece ° William Maxwell, Esq., of Wilton-crescent, Belgrave-squat DIED. On the 25th inst., at Brighton, Thos. Croft, Esq., of Montsee street, Ru29th ssell-square. • t On the inst., at Lincoln, aged 73, Mrs. Empson, rel ic o f the late Rev. A. Empson, of that city. On the 13th inst., at Cleish Manse, Kinross-shire, the es. William Daling, minister of the parish of Cleish, aged 79. t be On the 20th inst., at Rosehill, near Winchester, aged 7„ 8, of Right Hon. the Countess of Northcsk, relict of Admiral, Ea Northesk. .10 On the 26th inst., at Early Court, near Reading, in his year, the Hon. William Scott, only son of Lord Stowell. er of At Elmwood, St. Peter' s , Th ane t, E m ily, youngest (laugh! James Armstrong, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, aged I'2 mont 11 :40, On the 22d inst., at Lambeth, Mr. William Clarke, age" for several years connected with the public press. ed S t ‘ On the 20th inst., at Chesterfield, Mrs. Ann Stevenson, ag e A lp On the 17th inst., aged 83, Mrs. King, relict of the lat e Benjamin King. merchant, of Nova Scotia House. On the 17th inst., at St. Hilary, Mr. Jerkin, aged 89. ,i r b, On the 22d inst., at her son's house, St. Margaret's, Ico n M.S. Arnold, aged 81. —.Of% _ . London : Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, °f a n ti 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the CO of Middlesex. '1 EXE At a Al bourhood, Resolve and Exete entertains pleted, an viously of nested wii _ . taining th Resolve invited to khould go operation. At am tants of F held at tl pursnaat t tint the e. Tort, in Exeter lit The fot That it Railways comtnerci of Useful 2d.—On That Uristol to When con Agricultu of the tom surroundil therefore the City object, That a! and Exete for carryir every ass i s 4th—Mov That h constructi Plymouth arclar vertisea a deposit expressly on the pre a .General soon as th other info deposit wi 501—.Mov That tl Exeter C( to the for( proeeedbil Committe be al The Ch liesolved— shii That th of Lord it is allot} himself fe mid that t his able ei At a NI t UTE] th e PR( DE ON solved : should coi of ten shi Among for facilii there are cuts, and Alanufaet that now The G ,Inerteed, AU been The share and an A next Sem Dimond these Lii existing t !runes mi ' , enin g di Th'e T tint, will Mouth, a the Port of the Cl Water, an bility, so Bristol, its POreic Line. Atiothi peace is o viz. —the monicati, arid I.:Tic' for other by water Mr. G. before t} 10 ,000 sl Lours ;" %s the in I "lrmout • It is material As soc will be ks will e] Th e ( 20,00 0 s A dep Which sh matters I PI Sam U. llia Dr. A Jno. ' W. s