The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

0 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS or THIS DAY. TIMES.— Mr. Cobden is beginning to render scene account of his travels. He is not the man to give us his journal right on end, but wait, and we shall have it all in due time. It is evident, from his speech to his old allies at Manchester, that he had his eyes open and his wits about him abroad as much as at home. Some people regretted that, when her Majesty's present Ministers slipped unaccountably into the seats of the last, there was no place found for the hero of free trade. Mr. Cobden, however, being a modest man, declined that advancement, and has since been content with doing the duty of all her Majesty's Ministers, the Commander-in-Chief, and the whole diplomatic body at once. It was in sinuated, when he crossed the Channel, that he was glad to be out of the way for a while. Nobody, however, seems to have been more in the way where ever he went. Had Paul Pry himself visited every harbour and metropolis of Europe with his quiet and unobtrusive inquiries, he could not have picked up more valuable information. France is the first country on which "our Commissioner" presents his report. The state of the French navy, the pacific disposition of the peo ple, the great subdivision of property, and the pains taking, scraping, higgling, and huckstering qualities of the five or six million proprietors and taxpayers come under review. Putting the nervous old Duke and all his military compeers quite out of the ques tion, Mr. Cobden claims for civilians the exclusive right of deciding how many soldiers they shall main tain. Just as a manufacturer determines for himself how many watchmen or bulldogs he shall keep on his premises, and how many bars on his windows, or just as a traveller carries a pistol, or a good thick stick, or nothing, at his pleasure, so he vindicates for us cot ton spinners, hardwaremen, colliers, or what not, the liberty of keeping as many red coats and blue jackets as we please, and no more. The gist of his remarks is, that of the two he would rather be eaten up by a French army than an English one ; that is, he would rather take his chance for the former, than aggravate the certain nuisance of the latter. From France to Portugal. Upon Spain, if we remem ber right, we had a return on a former occasion, when the maufacturers, that is, the smugglers, of Catalonia, got their deserts. The Commander-in- Chief having been disposed of, and Lord Normanby supplanted, it is now the Foreign Secretary's turn for "an airing." At Lisbon Mr. Cobden appears to have fallen into the hands of the party which we have no doubt has a good deal to say for itself, but which is best known to the British public as having lately held Oporto for some time against Donna Maria, and having ultimately fallen chiefly through the quiet capture of its `fleet by a British squadron. These gentlemen seem to have indoctrinated Mr. Cobden with a very strong view of Lord Palmerston's interference. He takes, however, an economical view of the subject. Our ancient ally is not worth the continual presence of we know not how many British men-of-war ;—we shall soon hear how many, for Mr. Cobden has moved for a return. He has no great re spect for their Port wine—a natural consequence of his not being a university man ; and as for their Hes perian climate, and their geraniums in the open air in January, these are very pleasant for the naval officers living at our expense on the shores of the Tagus, but unfortunately are not articles of commerce. If, therefore, the earthquake that demolished Lisbon in 1753 should come again and swallow up the whole of Portugal, it would be an immense gain 1 to the British people. So says the deponent, but between the depreciation of their wine, the ca tastrophe suggested for their country, their slight mercantile value on the great British ledger, on the one hand, and the admiration of their political spirit, on the other, Mr. Cobden's Lusitanian allies will be somewhat puzzled how to take his reflections on their country. From the Tagus the Plenipotentiary of the British people pro ceeded to Malta. The Lords of the Admiralty are now overhauled. No salutes were fired, or yards manned, when Mr. Cobden made his inspection ; nor are we told that the authorities accompanied him in his perambulation. If they did, we must say he has treated them very ungratefully. While he was there one of our ships arrived from Portsmouth with 999 men on board. As Mr. Cobden saw it lie in the harbour of Valetta, he naturally contrested its tiers of portholes with the successive stories of a factory, its hundred guns with so many power-looms, and its crew with the same number of human beings en gaged in any productive employment. Pos sibly, also, the same reflection occurred as that which ha mentions on the subject of Portugal. However, Mr. Cobden left Malta, and went a round by Naples, Egypt, and Greece. When he came back to Malta there was the big ship still, " eating its head off." Her chief officers had been all the time lounging at the clubs, while the subs and the rest of the crew had been trying to kill time and keep up a decent exterior of employment by hoisting up the sails and taking them down again, and scrubbing the decks. This did not accord with Mr. Cobden's ideas of the public ser% ice, and he reports accordingly. He gives also some hints from the American Consul, who considered our navy very " slack," and who mentioned that the two or three ships kept by his own Govern ment in the Meditteranean were always busy and in motion, scouring the sea for pirates, though we should think even so small a vessel as a United States' frigate would not be very effective against those light gentry. Mr. Cobden, of course, appreciated advice which smacked of simplicity and shrewdness, and which di;posici to ifibte"alrfinZitn.Xs;.,kmt sorne people will be not to keep so many ships, and those not so large as at pre sent. Mr. Cobden's conclusions may be reduced to two heads, which he states with his usual clearness and emphasis. We will take the lesser point first. He considers that our navy is ill employed and ill stationed, converted into a job for this amusement of such officers as possess interest at the Admiralty—a sort of yacht club, maintained out of the operative pocket, and leading to no end of demoralization. The proof of this is that our ships are not sent to Hamburgh or the Baltic, where we have so much trade, where, however, sea and land are equally destitute of.attractions ; they are not sent to the United States, which yield one-fifth or one-sixth of our foreign trade, but to Malta, to the Tagus, and the Douro. Now, here we think our Commissioner a little too prompt in his conclusions. We send our ships to those parts of the world where they are likely to be wanted, or to certain central " stations" within reach of a summons, and convenient to their probable destinations. The prospect of a war in the Baltic is very remote indeed. The United States, too, du not require very close watching, and there are serious reasons against allowing a Queen's ship to remain any considerable time in a North American port. In fact, she would not bring half her crew home. Then Mr. Cobden himself would hardly recommend us to send our ships about the world in quest of bad cli mates, rough seas, dangerous coasts, and, to crown all, disagreeable company on shore. We opine, however, that the Mediterranean fleet is stationed where it is for direct and positive reasons. For instance, if the presence of a British ship should be wanted on the coast of Syria, or of Greece, or at Palermo, or Naples, or Tunis, or at any Mediterranean port, what station is so handy for all as Malta, which al,o, besides being a port, is a British fortress and arsenal ? The distri bution of the navy, we must say, in all deference to that distinguished civilian the Member for the West Riding, is mixed up with some considerations of a purely nautical, and others of a purely military charac ter. The general question of our naval and military , armaments Mr. Cobden does not settle so expedi jously as he does the unfortunate man-of-war at Valetta and the ships in the Tagus. Like most other late and tax-payers in the kingdom, he feels a de cided objection to increasing the present outlay of 17,000,0001. on this very unproductive investment. His anticipations are hopeful, and we will make an effort to go along with them. In a few years civil speeches are to do the work of broadsides, and tracts of grapeshot : chambers of commerce and free-trade halls are to prove stronger than fortifications, ship loads of piece-goods to win their way where war frigates are successfully denied, and the talismanic name of Richard Cobden is to compose animosities, whether domestic, international, or inter-cantonal, which Lord. Palmerston with all hi s f ore i gn Ministers, can only handle to make worse. M r . C o bd en ever y. -where found friends, for he everywhere f oun d mer chants, and commerce is the conciliator of nations. A safe trade, and good returns, he found more desired than glory, and a handsome per centage sw ee t er t h an political revenge. We credit and accept his testimony ; we will not, however, go further than he does at We are not for reducing our armaments P rese nt. Just now. Why ? Because the question of peace and war is not in the hands of merchants or of wise and good men, or of public opinion, or of the people, in the widest sense, or in any sense at all. It is not even in the hands of Ministers or Kings. It is in the hands of fools and madmen, of dotards and striplings, of tyrants and ruffians. An idiot throws the torch that lights up a conflagration. A fanatic strikes the blow that sends a dynasty to its account, and nurses another in the cradle of war. A sot may sway the destinies of an empire, and so of the world, till the nuisanoe is suppressed by an adultress and an assassin. A headstrong admiral, or a raw lieutenant; a word of rash encouragement from royalty or power; a mis token signal or an unintelligible dispatch, may begin those bloody retaliations which an age cannot close. In a word, no mortal man can answer for'peace and war. We can do something, and certainly the posi tion of this country for thirty-three y ears shows what can be done. But that length of peace itself is mil element of danger. When we have retained our pre- sent armament some years without augmentation, it as ill be time to think of a reduction. CllltaNkclaE.—With every desire to find our selrir tait'same side with our old friends of Mger;si Trade Hall--"a desire which is t 4* - ;Mt-4,4,4,7X -.‘; 4 O, -,... 11. ) s Z r' 7 THE SUN, LONDON, certainly not weakened by the consideration that, I according to external appearances, it is just now the winning side—we are far more solicitous not to part company with truth and good sense. As it seems to us that a large portion of the proceedings of ti e free-trade demonstration of Thursday last, reported in our paper of Saturday, shows much more of en thusiarn than of sober judgment, we have no alter native but to say so. We do not believe that the free-trade cause has anything to gain by hasty and passionate exaggerations of the benefits which com mercial liberty undoubtedly has in store for Europe and the world. Nor can we think that the merited reputation and influence of its promoters will be per manently enhanced by a refusal to deal practically with a practical question of grave public import. For this is positively all that we can make out of the speeches of Mr. Cobden and his friends, so far as regards the subject of national security. They do not look on the matter as worth a serious thought. It having recently become a subject of much anxious doubt whether our existing means of national self-defence are sufficient or insufficient for the pur pose for which alone any national defences can be reasonably maintained in time of peace—namely, to avert the first disastrous consequences of an unex pected quarrel with an armed neighbour, and to ensure the country against being taken quite by sur prise in such a contingency--our Manchester free traders get up, and say they do not care whether the defences are sufficient or not. They sneer very heartily—more heartily, perhaps, than consists with good taste and correct feeling—at the highly profes sional authorities by whom the doubt has been started, but they contribute nothing whatever towards re moving it. Their principle is to let the whole thing take its chance. Sufficient or insufficient as these same national defences may be for the purpose for which they are kept up, the doctrine of our Manchester friends is, that in no case shall any attempt be made to improve them. One gentleman was just tolerated in the remark, that this country must, for the present, keep up " a certain armament," because " the world, as a whole, has not arrived at such a state as to enable us to do without it ;" but it was more than Mr. Milner Gibson could venture on, to add, that if this " certain armament" were palpably inadequate to its end, it ought to be put on a footing more in accord ance with the necessities imposed by the " state of the world as a whole." By other and more influential speakers all consideration of the sufficiency or insuffi ciency of our national armament is flatly ignored. Mr. Cobden, in particular, unconditionally pledges himself to divide the House against any proposal—no matter by what arguments it may be supported—. for adding one shilling to the naval and military esti mates. He even allows himself to be hurried into saying, that " this is the real question— will you have an increase to your army, navy, and ordnance ?" Mr. Cobden, like other men of first-rate intellectual power, is so much in the habit of stating the views of his opponents correctly, that we are greatly surprised at this piece of carelessness. The " real question" is, whether army, navy, and ord nance, severally and collectively, are, in their present state, adequate or inadequate for the contingencies which they are intended to meet. Mr. Cobden of course has his grounds for thinking this question so utterly unimportant as not to deserve a serious thought, one way or the other. Prudent people will jw.ige of their validity. The Honourable Gentleman refuses to listen to argument on the subject of the sufficiency of our existing national defences, because he considers that since the repeal of the corn-laws war is as good as impossible. lie and his friends had always put the case for commercial freedom strongly on the ground of the inevitable pacific tendencies of that line of policy, and it is a " shock to his feelings" to see people going about and proclaiming that those ten dencies are no absolute guarantee for the world's peace. He Iselieves that the common interests created and cemented by free commercial intercourse are naturally potent enough to overbear diplomatic and national jealousies ; and he cannot endure that anybody should betray the smallest misgiving as to the completeness and sufficiency of a European reconciliation which has been in pro gress exactly one year and a half. Mr. Cobden is of opinion, Ithat because Great Britain has just taken the first decisive step towards a revolution in the commercial ideas and policy of Europe, which re volution, when consummated, will have a powerful tendency towards the establishment and perpetuity of universal peace, therefore Great Britain may forthwith regard war as a contingency which there is no earthly occasion to be prepared for. He is further of opinion that the French people, in parti cular, are essentially unmilitary in their ideas and dispositions. They "have gone through a process which almost disqualifies them from going to war "-- the process, namely, of a social revolution that has greatly equalised the distribution of property and the pressure of taxation—and have consequently "a most sensitive feeling with regard to the expense of going to war." Tnis last position the Honourable Gentleman omits to illustrate by pointing to the excessive unpopularity of Algerian "glory," and the difficulty cf bringing the Chambers to keep the standing army of 350,000 men on a decent foot ing. Even though it is Mr. Cobden who says it, we may safely venture to hold ourselves excused from the necessity of gravely controverting such a state ment as that the French people—meaning, of course, the politically active and influential classes of the French people —are, on fiscal or any other grounds, " di , qualified" for war. But we must put in a word against the extraordinarily bold assumption which forms the gist of the Honourable Gentleman's plea for ii - rheliy - p - a esi - s ihat certain beneficent "tendencies," which undoubtedly attach to a policy of commercial freedom, may be already relied on as confidently as if they were realised results—in other words, that a vast revolution in European opinion and feeling does not re quire time for its accomplishment—does strike us as one of the most marvellous hallucinations that ever got the mastery of a man's sober judgment. What an astounding disproportion between premises and con clusion ! When Mr. Cobden has just been obliged, like the rest of us, to confess plainly that unfore seen circumstances have thus far prevented the other and simpler " tendencies " of free-trade le gislation from taking the shape of practical results, he has not the smallest hesitation in treating indi rect and comparatively remote tendencies as if they had realised themselves already. Before the nations and Governments of Europe have given any satisfac tory evidence, speaking generally, that they even un derstand our new commercial policy, or look on it as much more than a splendid bet dubious experiment, the Honourable Gentleman talks as if it had already revolutionized the whole European mind. We must again say, that when we consider how many centuries Europe has been in possession of a common rule of faith and practice, common moral ideas, and common religious beliefs and expectations, and how far the " tendencies" inherent in these still are from producing their natural results, it does seem a prodigious rash ness to build national security on the moral tenden cies of a commercial policy which has not yet had time even to work out its primary economic tendencies. Perhaps this self-deception is no more than natural in a gentleman who has recently been seeing nearly ' all Europe on its best and most amiable side. But a man like Mr. Cobden should be able to appreciate more accurately the practical political value, for present purposes, of demonstrations half of cour tesy and half of sympathy ;proceeding everywhere from minorities of enlightened men, in advance of their age. One portion of the lion. Gentleman's speech we cannot allude to without pain. The terms in which he spoke of the Duke of Wellington could, we should think, only be agreeable to that portion of his auditors whose admiration he would least value. How is it that one great man cannot be just and generous to another great man, of a different order of greatness ? Why must Mr. Cobden speak of the Duke of Wellington with that sort of unappreciating and narrow-minded contempt with which the Duke of Wellington would, we fear, speak of Mr. Cobden ? Perhaps this contracted and exclusive way of think ing is natural to the practical order of genius ; still one would have liked, had it been possible, to see our free-trade leader capable of putting a handsome con struction on the motives and acts of the brave old man whose most conspicuous public service was to terminate a twenty years' war, and lay ' the foundations of a thirty years' peace. POST.—The great free-trade meeting at Man chester seems to have been little better than an ex plosion of ignorant folly on the subject of the policy of national defences. In this herd of donkeys, the bray of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade appears to have been the longest, and that of Mr. Cobden was probably the loudest. The whole affair was utterly disgraceful to persons walking on two legs and pretending to the exercise of rational facul ties. According to Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Richard Cobden, we ought to believe that the French nation does not and cannot foster hostile feelings against the English nation, and that, even if the power existed to make a successful attack upon us, the will does not! Now, we humbly submit that the utterance of such folly as this is excusable only in the lowest imaginable stages of ignorance. We may pardon the dull, doltish dreamer when he dreams of his own little interests or prejudices, but here is a matter which concerns the national security and honour; and the utterance of such stuff as we have adverted to, on such a subject, is merely dis gusting.. In such a matter our business is to learn the practical truth, and to act from knowledge, not from the cosmopolitan sentiment of the mere dealer and chapman. It is natural that the mere nterchaet should wish for universal and continual peace, that he may sell his wares with the more security; but it is exceedingly stupid that because he wishes for this he should assume that there is no probability of war. It is hardly necessary for us to say that every rational person who has travelled abroad, or has examined the ordinary sources of intelligence on the subject, must be-aware that the hostile feeling of the French nation to the English nation is as strong as ever it was. ' Even the French who are most intimate with the English abroad, and who respect them most, do not therefore abandon their hostility to the British nation. They think it would be unpatriotic to do so, and France has not become, nor is not likely to become, so ex tremely mercantile as to abandon her patriotic senti ment. It is, moreover, though a trite saying, extremely true, that the best way to preserve peace is to be prepared for war. Of course it would be ab surd to make our preparations for a possible war on as large a scale as our proceedings in the ease of actual warfare. No one seeks to rush into the ex tremes which the silly free-trade brawlers talk about, now that their free trade policy has been dis covered to be a " shadow and a sham," upon which it is inconvenient to dwell. But he is no better than an idiot who does not perceive that even upon th mere pounds, shillings, and pence view of the ques tion, we shall do much wiser to be prepared for re sistance, and thus to deter those who might be dis posed to attack us, than to suffer the terrific loss which even the smallest amount of success by an invading force would be sure to occasion. REVIEW OF THE MONEY MAR KET FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 1848. There has been a most striking contrast between the condition of the money market during the present month, and its condition at almost any period during the preceding year and a half, but especially during the last six months. There has been a return in no slight degree of the phenomena which distinguished the experience of 1843 and 1844, and the difficulty has not been with borrowers on good security to find lenders ; but I,s ith lenders confining themselves to such conditions to find borrowers. In other words, there has been a partial return of that superabun dance of ready capital, which, a few weeks ago, in the opinion of many acute people, was a most unlikely event. The Bank returns hereafter quoted will show that at five per cent. the directors experience an exceedingly small demand fbr advances, and there is a general complaint among the dis count houses that employment for their funds in the negotiation of good paper is a matter of very great difficulty. There is no doubt, that in the somewnat fastidious classification which distinguishes this " good paper," rests no small share of the impediment. The events of October are still too recent to permit the free circulation of any bills which are not of a very superior description, and while it is quite true that there would be no difficulty in placing funds in the discount of ordinary trade acceptances, we can easily understand that there may be a very limited demand for accommodation among houses of first class emi nence. The phrase, therefore, of cheap money must be read subject to an important reservation. Money is very cheap only to a very select class. It is gra- dually becoming cheaper to the general body of those who habitually find employment for by far the largest portion of it. Encouraged, and, we think, justly encouraged, by the returning ease of the money market, the railway companies have resumed a vigorous prosecution of their works, and the periodical " calls" are again be coming of large amount. The calls advertised for the last and present month have been— December, 1847 .. £2,358 670 January, 184$ £7,035,745 We never concurred in the vehement clamour raised against the railway companies as the parents — almost the exclusive parents —of all the mischief which signalised the early part of the autumn. We have from the first regarded the railway expenditure as purely a question of degree, and we can only re peat now, what we have already stated more than once, that an outlay of about 25 millions per annum, so long as the country is kept free from artificial panics and pernicious Legislative interference with its banking economy, will be a source not of danger but of prosperity and safety. We entertain a strong opinion that the severe shock sustained in October can be traced by the clearest evidence to the mischievous operation of the present Bank Charter Act. The decline of the rate of interest has of course forced up the price of the Public Funds, and the im provement in their value has also been aided by other circumstances. A suspicion has got abroad, either on good or bad foundation, that the accounts of several of the leading railway companies have been very loosely managed, and statements are made that in some cases a fictitious appearance of prosperity has been kept up by the payment of dividends, not out of actual profits, but out of subscribed capital. We have no means of judging how far these suspicions have any just foundation, but at all events they have not failed to influence the price of railway property most prejudicially; we observe, for example, that from the middle of December to the present time, while the price of Consols and Exchequer-bills has increased some three or four per cent., the value of the shares of the London and North-Western, the Lancashire and Yorkahire, and several other prineirmi railway, has either been stationary or has receeded. If this unfavourable symptom should lead to its pro per and legitimate consequence of a full and patient investigation of the concerns of each company, the benefit will greatly outweigh the inconvenience. The next month will witness most of the half-yearly meet ings, and our advice to all persons interested in rail way property shall at least he brief and practical:— Attend the meetings yourselves, and if you are not satisfied with what you hear do not hesitate to say so. The near approach of the session of Parliament has naturally directed the attention of the Stock Ex ther,,h,hil;ts, ~c rt ft•-• ,- I;rlff r.f -Exchequer bills. It is alleged that the quantity in circulation has been shown by the weakness of the market on so many occasions to be excessive, that for the sake of its own credit the Government will scarcely venture to run the hazard of this portion of their obligations falling to a discount, or being retained above par only by a rate of interest considerably higher than is paid on the funded debt. There is considerable force in this argument ; but the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has a peculiarity of vision which does not always see things in the same light as the rest of the world, and it will not surprise us to see him try the experiment of leaving the quantity untouched and reducing the rate of interest.—Bankers' Magazine. ANTI-GOLD LAW LEAGUE.—We find in Douglas Jerrolds Weekly IVewspoper of Saturday tho following answer to the question asked by Mr. Dickinson, in his letter of the 25th of January, which appeared in The Sun of Thursday evening last. Mr. Dickinson asked— " Why did Mr. Benuoch disguise from Mr. Cobden, that one of the objects of the Anti Gold law League is to sebstitute a silver standard at the fixed price of ss. 6d. per ox. for the present gold standard at :3/. 17s. lOid. per oz ?" To which the Editor of Douglas Jerrold replies—" Mr. Dickinson is completely in error. The League utterly repudiate a silver standard as well as a gold standard. They insist on a piper pound, based on the ss hole wealth of the nation, and convertible into taxes as the standard of value. It is to be I , .oped that Mr. Dickinson will make himself master of facts before he again appears before the public as a censor." MYSTERIOUS ALLUSION TO A HIGH CITY Mall- CANTILE HOUSE.—Some reports have been in general circulation in the City, within the last three days, re flecting upon an eminent mercantile house, and stating that a private investigation was going forward at the Mansion House on the subject. It has also been stated in a newspaper that a warrant had been issued against the parties to whom the calumnious allusion has been made. We have made inquiry as to the alleged mys terious investigation, and find that there is no inquiry on foot, that no private examination has taken place, and that no warrant has been issued. We have been given to understand, from the best authority upon the subject, that some application was made, about a week ago, to the Lord Mayor, which was founded upon an entire misapprehension, and his Lordship at once, after hearing the explanation of the parties who applied, refused all interference whatever.—Observer. ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—OR Saturday night sh(,rtly after eight o'clock an accident occurred at Lon don-bridge, by which two persons lost their lives. It appears that a lighter laden ith sand, called the Charles, belonging to Mr. Reading, of Bankside, was cornieg up the river with the tide, having five men on board, and upon reaching London-bridge the men were unable to lower the mast in time to pass under the bridge, the lighter ran with violence against the centre arch and canted over. The men were all thrown into the water, three were picked up, but the other two were unfortunately drowned. [ADvnwrisEmENT.]—A Gentleman, Sixty years of age, cured of a dreadful bad leg by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Nicholas Page, residing at Newsham, had been suffering for three years with wounds on his leg of a most awful nature, to cure which he tried a great variety of specifics, and consulted nearly every surgeon within twenty miles of his house, yet all failed to give relief ; as a last resource he used Holloway's famous Ointment and Pills, which healed his leg in a few weeks. In gratitude for the wonderful cure effected at his ad vanced age, he thus gives every publicity to the circum stance, that others may derive similar benefit.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. THE MURDER OF ELIZA DAVIS ELEVEN YEARS Aoo.—On the 9th of May, 1537, a young woman named Eliza Davis, barmaid to Mr. Wadley, the King's Areas, Laxton-place, Frederick-street, Regent's-park, was murdered in her master's house. The party upon whom suspicion rested was said to be a modeller, who was in the habit of frequenting the place; and for a long while Inspector Aggs and Sergeant Pegler of the S division were in quest of the said person without ever being able to gain tidings respecting him. We have now good reason for believing that there is at length a chance of the hitherto mysterious affair being cleared up, Inspector Tedman, of the D division, being in possession of some very important particulars relative to the case, and cir cumstances of a strongly su-picious nature have recently transpired tending to the conclusion that the sanguinary act was not the work of the modeller above referred to, but of another man, who at the time of the occurrence lived in the immediate neighbourhood. Two brothers, Francis and Jervis Roebuck, have been committed at Huddersfield for robbing the mill of Messrs. Starkey, in which one of them was a confidential servant, of a quantity a wool. EVENING MONDAY LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 29. MASON V. WAKEMAN.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England, as to the construction that ought to be put on the 38th of the orders of the Court, made in 1841, with respect to the right of a defendant to answer to an immaterial part of the bill, so as in point of fact to avoidanswering at all. The case involved a rather important point with respect to the practice of the Court, being one upon which the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce and the Vice-Chancellor Wigram had come to conflicting opinions. The bill in this case was filed in May, 1845, and related to the right to certain freehold and copyhold property, possession of which, together with the title-deeds, was asked to be given up to the plaintiff. The defendant answered the bill, but in it stated that be might have declined answering at all, and protected himself by demurrer. Exceptions were taken to this answer for insufficiency, which the Master allowed, as he did not think the Master was by the orders intended to decide upon a general demurrer. The Vice-Chancellor of England, however, reversed the finding of the Master, and from that decision the parties appealed, and upon 'that appeal the Lord Chancellor now gave judgment. His Lordship thought that the exception that had been taken to the Master's report ought to have been overruled in the Court below`, and he must, therefore, reverse that decree, but without costs, as conflicting opinions had been given by different judges of the court upon the point. He differed from the con struction put upon the order by the Vice-Chancellor Wigram, and agreed with the conclusion come to by the Vice -Chancellor Knight Bruce. _ WHITE V. BRIGGS.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CnaricaLLoa. also gave judgment in this case, varying, in some respects, the decision of the Court below. WARE V. ROWLAND -JUDGMENT. The L oan CliaricELLoa also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England. The question in this case turned upon the construc tion of the will of a gentleman named Slater, of Hampstead. That gentleman by his will, dated in 1806, two years before his death, gave to trustees so much of his personalty, to be invested in the Five per Cent. Annuities, as would bring a yearly income of 6001., which he directed should be paid to his wife for life, and after her death, to his dear daughter, Anna Maria Slater, and after her death to be divided among her children. But if she left no children, or if they died under 24 years of age, then he bequeathed two sums of 5001. each to his two giandchildren, if they should be then alive ; " and all the rest and residue of the trust moneys, with interest, increase, and dividends, he gave and bequeathed among his heirs-at-law, share and share alike." The testator died in 1808, leaving at his death his wife and one child, the daughter, surviving, who also sur vived the widow, and died in October, 1844. She left two sons living, who were co-heirs of herself and also of the testator. On the death of the testator a sum of 20,0001. was invested, arid the interest regu larly paid during the life of the widow and daughter. On the case coming on for bearing before the Vice-Chancellor of England, the great question was as to the construction to be put on the word " heirs." For the heir-at-law it was con tended that the word must be understood strictly, and that consequently the bequest was to the heirs at law of the testator at the time of his death as desig nata3 personae. It was contended also, contra, that the word heirs was understood to mean no more than next of kin of the testator, the gift being of personalty. Some, on the other hand, sought to interpret the gift as to the next of kin of the testator, excluding the daughter, while other claimants understood it to mean the next of kin of the daughter. • There was also difference of opinion as to the time referred to, whether the proper period of construction was at the death of the daughter or of the testator. The Vice-Chancellor thought that the testator meant his heirs at law at the time of his death as designatm porsome, otherwise the will would be void for uncertainty, and decreed accordingly, and from that decision the parties appealed. His Lordship was of opinion the decision of the Court below was correct, and dismissed the appeal with costs. CROCKETT V. CROCKETT.--JUDGMENT. The LORD CRANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Wigram. The question in the case - arose upon the construction of the will of a gentleman named Crockett, executed at Macao, in March, 1831. By that will he di - - rected that all and every part of his proporty should be at the disposal of his most true and lawful wife, Cardline Crockett, for herself and her children, in the event of any-unforeseen accident hap pening to himself. The testator died at Macao in June, 1837, leaving Caroline Crockett, his widow, and five children surviving ; and soon afterwards atitototsi.raLlon or ine tez,tatoe6 estate, with the will annexed, was granted - to the widow by the proper authorities at Macao. In September, 1837, the widow, who had been advised that, under the will, she was absolutely entitled to the whole of the testa tor's property to her own use, executed a voluntary deed, whereby, after directing -the sum of 15,0001. to be remitted to -.this - country ; she settled that BM upon trust for herself :for life, if she should so long remain unmarried, and after her death or marriage upon trust for fire children of the testator. One of the children afterwards died, and the bill was filed by the four surviving children against the widuw for an account of the testator's estate, and praying a declaration that the children were entitled under the will to the testator's property jointly with the widow, and that the deed of September, 1837, was not binding upon them. At the hearing of the cause in 1841, the Court' made a declaration that the children took an interest in possession in the testator's property at his decease, under the testator's will, and that the deed of Sep tember, 1837, was not binding upon them ; and directed that the whole income of the testator's residuary estate should be - paid to the mother during the infancy of the children, or until further order, she maintaining and educating them in a proper manner. Upon the eldest of the children attaining his majority he presented the present petition to the Court, for a transfer of his portion of the fund, and upon the hearing of the petition the question was, whether the word "disposal" in the will conferred upon the widow the power of distributing the capital of the fund amongst the children, .or whether she was en titled thereby only to the care and custody of the income belonging to the children during their minorities. The Vice-Chancellor Wigram held that the widow and her children took a joint in terest in the residuary estate of the testator, and, after directing the portion of the petitioner to be paid to him, ordered that the direction which he had pre viously made should be continued as to the mother and the infant children, .and from that judgment the party appealed. His,Lordship, after going at con siderable length into the case, ordered the decision of the Court below to be reverst;di and the costs to come out of the fund in Court, the question being one between a parent and her children ; and the object of the suit being the proper distribution of their pro perty. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jun. 29. (Sittings in Bane()) GRINILEY V. ACKROYD. The defendant in this case was a railway contractor, in the habit of employing a large number of hands, whom it was his custom to pay in part by order for goods upon various tradesmen, signed by the sub contractors in his service. The plaintiff sued out 228 summonses for the defendants to appear in the County Court, each of which stated that the action was upon a contract for goods sold. The amounts of the several summonses ranged from ss. to 51., the ag4re gate amount being 3031. 19s. At the time of the hearing before the Judge, the defendant made an ap plication for the adjournment of the hearing, in order to afford time for obtaining a prohibition, which was granted upon payment of th e cos t s o f the day, amount ing to 111. 10s. 6d. The clerk of the court de manded 171. as his fees for making the judge's order of adjournment, which, however, he refused to pay, on the ground that it was only one order and one act of the Judge. The tickets given to the men were simi lar in character to the following : " Middleton llill, July 14, 1847. " Mr. Grirnley, let the bearer have goods to the amount of three shillings. " "CHADWICK AND EDW ARDS. The various summonses were issued in the County Court at Worcester, in the Chepstow district. Mr. MARTIN obtained a rule nisi for a prohibition in this case. Mr. WHITISHURST (with whom ) wa s Mr. Pigott) now appeared to show cause a gainst the rule. He contended that a separate cause of action arose upon each of the orders sent to the plaintiff, and in support of his case, proceeded to cite several cases reported iu the time of Charles IL The LORD CHIEP BARON said, that without wish ing in the least to disparage the ability of the re porters of that time, - it had been said with respect to the cases reported by them, that any proposition could be proved by them. Ilis Lordship said, that looking over the affidavits it appeared to him that this was a gross abuse of an Act of Parliament, passed, as it was supposed, for the purpose of affording relief and re moving causes of oppression. Mr. MARTIN—Th e question was not only with respect to the 228 summonses immediately concerned, but there were 2,000 yet behind. Mr. Baron PARKE—It was evident that the whole of the goods supplied were supplied upon one order, and was therefore only one contract. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Suppose the amount of the summonses in each of these cases had not ex ceeded Is., could not the one plaint have been en- Orecl for the whole of the 228 cases? Mr. WHITEHERST apprehended it could. Suppose a person should obtain a suit of clothes at a price of, say 101., and give a promissory note for the same, and subsequently obtain other goods, giving other pro missory notes for them, would not the plaintiff have a distinct cause cf ac - ion upon each of the bills ? Mr. Baron PARKE—If he had more than one of the bills by him at the time the plaintiff could not bring an action upon one of them only. He would be com pelled to unite them in one plaint, provided the amount did not exceed 201. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—In that case it would be clear that the plaintiff has that which he could include in one action. The LORD CHIEF BARON—The County Court Act must be construed with reference to statutes passed before that time of a similar nature; and in one of the cases it was stated, "if there be several contracts between A and B at several times for several sums, each sum under 405., and they altogether amount to a sum to entitle it to be heard in the superior court, they shall there be put into suit and not into the County Court." Mr. Baron ALDERSON—If that were not so, see what enormous consequences would .follow • every t ra desman would have a right to divide his Christmas bills into a number of separate actions. It was really bringing the law into contempt. Mr. MARTIN (with whom was Mr. Hill) ap peared in support of the- rule. He contended that the rule ought to be made absolute; it was absurd to suppose that a number of goods of the same kind, supplied day by day, could be sued for sepa rately. The sum of 3001. sued for in this action might have been sued for in fifteen different sum monses of 201. each, even if the party had chosen to carry his case into the County Court, whereas the costs of the 228 summonses and service had actually exceeded the. whole cost of a trial in the superior courts; or the whole case might have been included in one action in the superior court. Mr. HILL felt convinced, upon the authority of the cases quoted by the other side, that the prohibition ought to lie, for the purpose of putting down a public nuisance, such as this Bill would be if proceedings like the present were allowed to be taken under it. There was a provision in the Act against the splitting of any amount, in order to bring it within the jurisdic tion of the court, unless the party should abandon the balance over and above the amount for which the summons should be issued._ The Court took time to consider in what mode they would give their decision ARCHES' COURT, Jan. 29. (Before Sir 11. J. FusT.) GEILS V. GEILS. This case was called on again, and Dr. CURTEIS was briefly heard in reply. The Learned Judge (Sir H. J. Fuse.) said he must take time to consider this case. Into its general merits he would not at the present moment go, and the judgment must be reserved. There were some circumstances upon which the Court now felt itself imperatively bound to make some observations. He alluded to allegations of corruption and partiality being made against himself, and that in his decision of the case such motives would guide him. He re pelled with indignation such assertions. The conduct of the Court was before the public, and by its decision he was ready to abide. It was in this, as it had been in other instances, that one of the advocates appeared to make each important case he took up his own. The Learned Judge said he trusted upon the test, as to his want of impartiality, to the judgments he had pronounced while he had sat in that chair. How many had been reversed ? By that test he had no objection to he tried. The public would then have to judge for itself, but if parties were to make up their minds by hearing only cne side, that was not the way in which he would be judged. In every case both sides should be beard before conclusions were drawn against the partiality of the Court. After thirty-six hours of argument in this case by one counsel, he did not stop to hear the other side, but talked of partiality on the part of the Court. So much for the charges brought against him self. As yet the whole case had to be taken into consideration. The Court must now express its opinion as to the mode in which the case had been argued. When the Court heard such terms made use of by the learned civilian (Dr. Addams) as slan derer, thief, liars, blackguards, envenomed fiends, addressed to parties in the cause, it was time to interfere. The Learned Counsel had only regretted that the English language did not give more epi thets to convey his sense of the conduct of those opposed to him. These words could not raise the character of the bar or the houour and reputation of the practitioners. Quite a contrary effect must be produced when such conduct went out before the world. The Court, therefore, held it to be its duty to reprehend such a course. There was an allusion made, that if the Court should decide adversely to the lady, the bar of public opinion would be appealed to. This the Court considered an attempt to deter it in the exercise of a frpn jnriernpnt Th• oases was ,till antler the consideration of the Court. The calumny, as applied to the Court, it repelled. The Learned Judge then referred to the conduct pursued by the Learned Counsel in himself drawing the interrogato ries and seeing witnesses. This the Court held to be entirely unprofessional. The proctor was the dominus litis—he was the responsible party before the Court in the conduct of a cause—he was entitled to have a voice in the drawing up or correction of a plan, or of interrogations. The Proctor was not to be made a mere puppet, or to be treated as mere moonshine. This course held up an opinion that he was un worthy of the confidence of his client. The Court could not lay down any general rule upon such a course of proceeding. If the proctor permitted him self to be made a mere puppet, he must submit to the consequences. The Court would now say a word or two about the patronage it held, and its improper use of it wai made a reason why the practice should be reformed or the court entirely abolished. It was now forty five years since he (Sir H. J. Fust) was admmitted to the bar, and including the thirteen years he had sat as judge, the only patronage he had had was the appointment to the Apparitorship of the Court of Peculiars, and the Seal-keeper of the Prero gative. To his clerk, who had been with him years before he was elevated to the bench, he gave the former for his zeal and attention. The other office was held by the same respectable person who held then as he did still. The emoluments of the former were about 501. a year; those of the Prerogative Court were considerable. The Court had not inter fered, either directly or indirectly, in the appointment of the Queen's Proctor, though asked to do so by the late Government. There were five candidates, and - his reply to the question for recommendation was, that all were fit parties. The Court had thought it right to state this much, so that the public mind should be disabused of the statement put forth that his patronage had been distributed among his own relations. Leaving out of mind all that had occurred uf an objectionable nature, the Court would consider the whole case, and give, it hoped, an unbiassed judgment.—Sentence deferred. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday two men named John Strong and William Anderson were brought before Sir W. Rlagnay, charged by John Jordan, a butcher in Ca therine-street, Lambeth, with having by a fraudulent device in gaming won of him 61. Jordan stated that he went into a public-house, kept by a Mr. M'llonald, in Farringdon• street, and tossed with a stranger as to who should pay for some liquor. The other man won several throws of the penny, and they left off. -Witness wished to play with him again, but he declined, and Strong chal lenged him. He accepted the challenge, and some times won and sometimeslost.lle observed Strong threw with a particular penny, and he wanted to look at it, but he refused, and Anderson gave him some coppers to put it amongst them. Witness went on playing till he had lost all his money, about 61. 10s., and, believing that he had been cheated by means of a false coin, he gave the prisoners into custody. The penny was found on strong, and there was a mark round the rim, where a cap bearing the head of George 111. fitted on to the side exhibiting Britannia. When the cap was on the penny had two heads, and when it was placed ' under the hand on the table, with the cap uppermost, and an' opponent called out "head," the cap was raised in the palm of _the hand by some adhesive sub stance, and Britannia appeared uppermost. If an opponent called "tail," the cap was allowed to remain on, and exhibited a head, so that the possessor of the fortunate penny was sure to win whenever he pleased. Sir W. MAGNAY asked if the cap was found ? The officer said it was not. Strong had 3/. and some coppers about him. There was a third man in company, who it was supposed carried off the cap. Strong said he played fair, and that the complianant lost a part of his money in tossing with others. He lost 21. to the first man he played with, and he owed prisoner ss. He hail not seen the cap. Sir W. MaGNay said the evidence would net satisfy a jury, and he should therefore dismiss the case; but the house in which this affair occurred should be re ported to the Police Commissioners and the Alderman of the ward. MAIRLBOROOOH-STRET:T. The Magistrates of this court are taking vigorous measures to put a stop to the infamous system of im porting into this country droves of children to beg about the streets of London and the.provincial towns for the benefit of the persons who bring them over. In all cases where a foreign beggar boy is brought before Mr. Ilardwick, directions are given for coin polling the appearance of the " padrone" before. the Court to answer the charge of having procured and e ncouraged the accused to beg and gather alms. It is expected that this course will not only thin the number of Italian beggar children at present in this country, but will tend to stop the preparations for a wholesale importation this spring, which are being made. JANUARY 31, 1848. Two boys were brought to the court charged with being found begging about the streets at the West end. Mr. 11AnDwicis directed that the padrones should be summoned before him. Only one of the padrones could be found. His name was Pietro Majocchi, and the little boy who gave evidence against him was Luigi Dlajocchi, his brother. The evidence of the boy was to the effect that he had been brought over to this country by his brother, his brother hav ing in like manner been previously brought over by his father, who hail gone back to Italy. The busi ness was to go about begging, and to give what money he got to his brother. lie had got as much as 25. 6d. in one day, but his usual average was 101. or ls. Mr. HARDWICK said that it was evident the defers dant had committed an infraction of the law, that he was an incorrigible offender, and that it was neces sary to inflict a sevt-re punishment. There was, however, one difficulty about these cases, and that was, when the padrones were sent to prison what was to become of the children, and at whose expense were they to be sent back to Italy ? Aquiler Lucioni, hootinaker, of Ray-street, who has taken much pains to put a stop to the system, said he intended to petition the Pope on the sul;ject. Mr. Ilwanwicx doubted whether the Pope would interfere in the matter. The defendant was then sea to prison and hard labour for a month. THAMES. Michael Haggarty, an Irish coal-whipper, about 30 years of age, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Ellen Cahill, with intent to murder her. The woman Cahill occupied the lower room - of a small house, No. 7, St. George's-court, Blue-gate fields, Ratcliff-highway. On Saturday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a woman named Ca therine Hall, who is the landlady of the house, and slept in the room above, was alarmed by the screams of the woman Cahill, and heard her call out " Mur der ; don't kill me, Mike;" and soon a ft erwar d s s h e was heard to exclaim that her throat was cut. Mrs. Hall was about to go down stairs to the assistance of the woman Cahill, when a woman who was in the same bed prevented her doing so, and said it was only some of Ellen's larks. A few minutes after wards, however, the cries of murder were repeated, and the noise of a fearful struggle was heard in the room below. Mrs. Hall got up, and upon reaching the foot of the stairs saw Ellen Cahill, lying on her bed, with her face downwards, and the prisoner jobbing at her with a clasp knife, the blade of which he thrust into the back and shoulders of the wretched woman, and also drew it across her neck. The blood was then gushing from the wounds. Mrs. Hall ran Up stairs again and told her bedfellow Ellen's throat was cut. The window was thrown up, and the two women in the upper room called out "Mur der," and at their request a sailor, who was passing, armed himself with a poker, and threatened to knock down the prisoner if he did not desist, and prevented his escape. The injured woman was taken from the room and conveyed to the house No. 9, in the same court. Soon afterwards Taplin, a police-constable, No. 234 K, was called into the house where the pri soner was, and he found him in the room where he had attempted to murder the woman with only his shirt and trousers on. his shirt sleeves, his hands, and the front of his shirt were covered with blood, which was quite wet. There were also large patches of blood on the bed-clothes and the floor of the room. Taplin asked the prisoner why he had committed such a dreadful act ; to which he fiercely replied, "I have killed her, and have had my revenge over her for scratching my face and biting my eye last Monday ; you may do as you like with me now." Taplin left him in charge of two men, and proceeded to the house where the woman was, and found her in a most exhausted state and bleeding from numerous wounds. Mr. Daniel Ross, a surgeon, in High-street, Shadwell, was im mediately called in, and he had some difficulty in stopping the hemorrage and preventing the wretched creature from bleeding to death. After binding up her wounds, twenty •two in number, he applied re storatives, and left his patient doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Mr. Ross de scribed the wounds as follows : Two superficial wounds on the right side of the head, a cut on the right side of the throat, and a rather deep one on the back of the neck, a long and deep gash on the outer side of the right arm, penetrating to the bone ; a wound on the right wrist, two fingers of the right hand severely cut, two wounds in the back near the spine, one on the left side over the ribs, three deep wounds on the hack over the left shoulder, and another on the upper part of the left shoulder, one on the hack of the left hand, one on the small finger of the same hand dividing the nail, one between the thumb and fore finger of the same hand, arid four deep wounds over the haunch on the right side. Singularly enough no vital part had been touched, and Mr. Ross was of opinion, if' the woman had physical strength enough to bear up against the immense loss of blood she had sus tained, she might recover. Police-sergeant Townson, No. is K, went to the room where the affray took place after the prisoner was locked up, and he found it in a state of great confusion, denoting that the woman, who was possessed of remarkable strength, lad been engaged in a terrible conflict with the ruffian who attempted to deprive her of life, and as a last resource, when she was overpowered by the loss of blood, she threw herself on the bed upon her face, and the prisoner still continued jobbing at her. On searching the room, Townson found a clasp knife, with two small blades at one end of it, on a box under the bed sacking. The other end appeared to have had a larger blade, which was broken out. A portion of the iron handle and the bone of the knife were also gone. Townson found the large blade of the knife, stained with blood, at the foot of the bed. It fittel the handle exactly. He also discovered, in another part of the room, a portion cf the iron frame of the knife and the piece of bone which had been detached from it. There is no doubt the large blade of the knife was broken while the prisoner was stabbing the woman, and that he concealed the knife with the two blades under the bed previous to the officer's arrival. Townson produced the woman's chemise. It was saturated with gore and pierced with holes correspond ing with the wounds described by Mr. Ross. Inspector Bilson, of the K division, who had charge of the case, said he should be able to prove, tan a future day, that the knife found by Townson be longed to the prisoner, who had been heard to de clare he intended to do for Ellen Cahill. The prisoner, who is an Irishman, on being called upon for his defence, in a sullen manner declared that the woman was always after him and would not let him alone. As he was on his way borne on Friday night she would not leave him, but forced him to her dwelling. Mr. BALLANTINE—W hat do you say to this charge of cutting and maiming the woman in such an atro cious manner? The prisoner — S h e scratched me and bit me on the eye last Monday night; I have " stucks" and scratches too. Last night at 11 o'clock I wanted to go home; I told her so, and she forced her company to me, and I had the revenge. Mr. BALLANTINH — Last Monday night, what has that to do with last night? I shall commit you for trial for the felony, but you will be brought up again to hear the woman's evidence when she is sufficiently recovered. I remand you now till Saturday. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. DIVIDEN DS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Armstrong, Norwich, draper, Feb. 18, at one— 11. Mares, Kensal-green, sculptor, Feb. 11, at eleven— T. Tait and J. Tait, Dover-road, Southwark, brewers, Feb. 22, at halt-past twelve. - In the Country. J. Parsons, Wolverhampton, edge tool manufacturer, Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—R. Wit hams, Chirit, Denbighshire, miller, Feb. 18. et twelve, at the Court, Liverpool--W. 11. Nilson and R. Vause, Kingston-upon -Hull, merchants, -larch 15, at ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-;dull—W. H. Wilson, King ston-upon-Hull, merchant, March 1, at ten, at the Town hall, Kingstoneupon-Hull—T. Dalton. Darlington, Dur ham, rope manufacturer, Feb. IS, at one, at the Court, Newcastle•upon-Tyne. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. D. Stuart, Sty ckbridge terrace, Pimlico, baker, is. 8,1., on Saturday, Jan. 29, and three following Saturdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchureh-lane. F. Benton, Ilornchurch, Essex, farmer, ss. 6d., any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. G. Holditch, J. F. Holditch, and E. D. Holditch, Bankside, Southwark , cyder merchants, 3S-. any Satur day, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. B. Wade, Strand, tailor, Is. 3d., any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. C. W. Graham, King's Arms-yard, Coleman:street, City, merchant, 10d., any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder maubury. W. Kry, W. Mortimer, and E. Fletcher, Bury, Lan cashire, brass and iron founders, its. 5d., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. R. Stockdale, Crosby-square, City, merchant, ld. and 13-16ths, on Thursday, Feb. 3, and three following Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms yard, Moorgate street. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. %V. Walker, London-wall, and Regent-street, City. road, paper stainer, Feb. 19, at eleven—J. P. Carpenter, Drummond-street, Euston square, baker, Feb. 18, at half past twelve J. Hiscock, New Church-street, Edgi.ware-road, grocer, Feb. 18, at two—J. C. Watton, Crown-row, Mile end-road, flour factor, Feb. 1 8, at one —J. Edwards, Upper Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, corn merchant, Feb. 21, at one—J. Smith, South-Once, Finsbury-square, surgeon, Feb. 18, at eleven—L. Bass, jun., Ipswich, Suffolk, painter, Feb. is, at eleven —R. Baker, Cheapside, tailor, Feb. 18, at half-past eleven— .L. Franklin, Well-street, Wellelose-square, rag mer chant, Feb. 18, at eleven—G. Miners, Winohelsea, Sus sex, wine merchant, Feb. 18, at twelve. In the Country. R. Charles, Leeds, Yorkshire, commission agent, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—J. Aspinall, Halifax, Yorkshire, woolstapler, Feb. 26, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Pink, Purston Jacklin, Yorkshire, butcher, Feb. 26, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Madman, Bristol, brass founder. Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—U. Day, Devizes, Wiltshire, baker, Feb. 25, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—J. Mackay, Liverpool, tailor, Feb. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Williams, Chirk, Denbighshire, miller, Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—E. Alanson, Liverpool, vine merchant, Feb. 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —R. D. Evans, Wrexham, Denbighshire, draper, Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool— W. Walker, Birmingham, hosier, Feb. 26, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—G. Davies, Maesbury, Shrop shire, miller, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Bir tning;hatu—D. B. Smith, jnn., Birmingham, grocer, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Court. Birmingham—J. Russell, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, grocer, Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W. Evans, Derby, lamp manufacturer, Feb. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham. At the Court of Review, Feb. IL. P. Maybury, Worcester, hosier—F. Arnold, Budge.'" row, and Sydenham, Kent, stationer—W. Chappelow,' jun., Jermyn-street, St. James's, wholesale saddler— ' T. Sherlock, Lower Rosamond-street, Clerkenwell, brush maker—G. Clement, Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington, , tea dealer—H. Turner, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, scrivener—S Hastings, Lime-street, wine merchant— J. Gee, Dukinfield, Cheshire, cotton spinner—J. S. Welch, St. James'S-street, Westminster, printseller—J. Knee, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, grocer—H. Tattersall, New Wharf-road, Battle-bri dge, common brewer—T. Dawber, Mtnohester, calico printer—S. Stocks, Man chester, bleacher. PARTNEI SHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Grunwell and J. Crosby, cattle dealers—S. Walker, G. Caldwell. and C. Walker, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, millers—J. P. Whitaker and E. Whitaker. Liverpool, sharebrokers —T. Jones and J. Parry, Rhyddlan, Flintshire, drapers—T. Bell and J. Burton, jun., Leeds, oil merchants—T. Waddington and J. Labrey,!Manchester, tea dealers—E. Copeman and T. R. Evans, Coltishall, Norfolk. surgeons—H. Booth and G. Booth, Denton, Lancashire, hat manufacturers —G. Jones and 1). Bruce, wine merchants—R. Pass and N. Pass, Duke-street, Aldgate, butchers—T. Tucker, jun., and H. Jordan, Liverpool, ship builders—W. Moore and L. E. Moore, Rathbone-place, St. Marylebone, furnishing undertakers—G. Boyle and J. H. Alderson, Sutton, Lancashire, flint glass manufacturers—P. Ken worthy, T. Yates, and J. Heywood, Bury and Oldham, Lancashire, general deah'rs—S. Bat ber, S. Naylor, and M. Naylor, Morthen, Yorkshire, coal :masters—H. Jackaman and W. M. Higgins, Birmingham, engineers —J. Smith and R. Smith, Chesterfield, lace manufao turers—H. Swinscoe and J. Gibson, Hulrue, Manches ter, undertakers—W. Sorby and R. Sorby, Orgreave, Yorkshire, coal masters—S. Berey and J. M. Robertson, Rio de Janeiro, commission merchants —W. Enaberton, H. Hancock, T. Johnson, and T. Emberton (so far as regards R. Hancock), Burslern and Brownhills, earthen ware manufacturers—A. Battley and W. Ayton, Kings land, lamp black manufacturers—B. S. Sawden and W. S. Kingston, Bridlington, Yorkshire, common brewers—W. U. Lester and H. Mills, Stoke-upon-Trent, china manufacturers—W. Sharpe, jun., E. Sharpe, A. Sharpe, T. Wayte, M. Bourne, and G. F. Banton, Svradlincote, I),rbyshire, earthenware manufacturers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Phillips, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Joseph II an t, Frog-marsh, Gloucestershire, pork butcher. John Clarkson, Redditch, Worcestershire, plumber. William Young , Broad water Sussex. Thomas Davies, Mold, Flintshire, druggist. Richard Hale, Sanghall Massey, Cheshire, farmer. John Allen, Bridgnorth. John Robinson, Birkenhead, Cheshire. James Thompson, Tranmere, Cheshire, joiner. Joh❑ Shakeshaft, sen , Lower Tranmere, Cheshire, beer* shop keeper. John Parr, Birkenhead, Cheshire, twine spinner. Robert Joslin, Broxted, Essex, farmer, William Porter, Bucking, Essex, journeyman carpenter. Thomas Challis, jun., Kelvedon, Essex, veterinary sur geon. Joseph Berry, Cowelifie, Yorkshire, shopkeeper. Thomas Davies, Mold, Flintshire, chemist and druggist.. James Dover, Milborne Port, Sormersetshire, tail Or. Benjamin Marshall, Bristol. William Thomas, Grange Farm, Cheshire, car proprietor. John Griffiths, Birkenhead, waiter. Henry Jones, Cradley, Ilerefordshire, labourer. John Stinton, Breedon, Warwickshire, needle manu facturer. John Twist, St. Asaph, Flintshire, licensed tictnaller. Thomas Withenb=y, St. Geurge, Gloucestershire, R.N. Ed ward II ughes, Pen y mynydd, Flintshire, publican. John Richardson, Boston. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Kay, Glasgow, to meet within Laming's Tempe rance Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 8 and March 7, at one. R. Grant, Lytster, merchant, to meet within Leith's Caledonian Hotel, Wick, Feb. 2 and 23, at one. J. Smith, Edinburgh, tailor, to meet within Ferguson's Ship Hotel, Edinburgh, Feb. 2 and 21, at twelve. A. Mitchell, Paisley, singer and scourer, to meet within. the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, Jan. 31 and Feb. 21, at twelve. J. Wilkie, Uddingston, plough manufacturer, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Feb 4 and 24, at one. N. Pollock, Paisley, groan., to meet within the Sara cen's Head Inn, Paisley, Fcb. 3 and March 2, at two. 11. Monteith, Galashiels, manufacturer, to meet within tho Black Bull Inn, Gulashiels, Feb. 3 and 22, at one. F. Cald si ell, jun., Ardrossan, merchant, to meet within the Saracen's Head Hotel, Saltcoats, Feb. 1 and 21, at twelve. J. Bell, Huddington, engineer, to meet within Mtn , . ray's Star Hotel, Lladdington, Jan. 31 and Feb. 2], at ten. T. Kirk, Glasgow, engineer, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 5 and 26, at twelve. RAILWAY SHARE -MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 29. STOCK Excnation.—Th e sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire (late C. sad B.), 17 c.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, dis.—East Lancashire, New, 3 / 4 dis.—Great Western, Q uarters, 2 % p.—Ditto, Fifths, 24% Ditto, 171. Shares, 114 p. — Lancashire and Yorkshire (late . M. and L.), Quarters, 2t,(2 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, par c. Leeds and Thirilt, le t dis.—Liverpoel, Crosby, and South p.rt, dis.— London and,North-Western,lsl*ic.—Ditto,New Quarters, 53i p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, o. 1, is p.—Ditte, Preference, IA p.—Midland, 116 c.— Ditto, 401. Shares, 447 i c.—Ditto, Halves, 1 1 ,4 dis.—North Staff,rdshire, 5 / 2 p.—North Union, 209—Preston and Wyre, 35—Ditto, Halves (A), VA p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, Preference, 2 3 4 c. p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 31 , 4 c.—Ditto, New, No. 1, 3 1 ,,i dis.—Ditto, N o . 2, 5 1 dis. Ditto, No. 4,1% dis.—Cork and Bandon, 24! 4 dia.— Dutch Rhenish, 4 3 c. dis. MINCR, . 29. STocSTOCKEXCLIANGS.-TH Seah are JA N -Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 2 1 4 dia.-East Anglian, Preference, 1 ,4 dis. -Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 2 13-16 dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 5 1 4 dis.-North Staffordshire, % p.-North British, Thirds, 1.16 p.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, dis. LEEDS, JAN. 29. STOCK EXCIIANGIL-A considerable amount of speculative purchases having been effected in anticipation of an advance ' of prices, the markets have been a little overburthened by resales, but a steady demand consequent on the cheapness of money and the generally improving prospects of the trade, has supported a continuance of increasing quotations. The sales are-East Anglian (181. E. and H.), BA-East Lan cashire, New, 31. Gs. 3d. die.- Great Northern. Leeds and Bradford, 95-Leeds and Thirak, 1434 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock,:4ls. dia.-North British, Thirds, t n. p.-Ditto, Quarters, 2s. dis.- Sheffield, Rother ham, and Goole, 41,f, die.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, 2 1 ,i p-Ditto, No. 2 (New Berwieks),3 p. N E WCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 29. STOCK EXCHANGI.-The sales are-Newcastle and Car lisle, 100-North British, Thirds, Is. p.-York, Newcastle and Berwick, New Shares, No. 2, 3 p.-Ditto (late Nerti: Shields Purchase), 31%. YORK, JAN. 28. STOCK EXCHANON.-The sales are-North British. Thirds, 435.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (late New 13erwicks), 13-Ditto (G. N. E. Purch.), 10/. la. • York and North Midland, Preference, 17. EI)IN BURGH, Jaw, 28. STOCK EXCNANGE.-The , sales are-Caledonian, 38-Dun and Perth, 304 105.-Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), 8/. 55.-Ditto, New, 28s. Gd.-Great Northern, 98a.-Nortk Britisk, Quarters, M. 103.-Ditto, New. Quarters 11s. 9c1.- Ditto, Thirds,44s.-Shrewsbury and Cheater (8 per cent.), 81. GLASGOW, Jiar. a. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (5 per cent. guar.) 116/.-Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 81. 65.-North uritish, New Quar ters (scrip) lle. 9d.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. - N. E. Purchase), 91. 19s. SIRTILS. On the 25th inst., the wife of Mr. Dirl4 Samuels, .f Mount-place, Whitechapel-road, of a sin. On the 26th inst., at Alford, Lincolashire, the lady of H. T. Bourne, EN., solicitor, of a daughter, still-born. Oa the 26th inst., at Torrington-square, the wife of Johi Lindsell, of Lincoln's Inn, of a son. On the 25th inst., at Whitkirk, near Leeds, the wife of W. &rope Anton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at St. Alban's-terrace, Hammersmith, the wife of James Dutton, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. On the 27th inst., in Bloomsbury-square, the wife of William Kinsey, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED, lai rf On the Vlth inst., at Brighton,Brighton, n, W. Wilson, E ,of Clap_ ham, Surrey, to Augusta, youngest daughter of B ourn , Isq., of Gainaboreugh, Lincolnshire. On the 27th inst.. at St. Pancras, John P. Fisher, Req., of Somerset •street, Portman square, to Jane, daughter of the late William Diawiddie, E , q., of Burton -crescent. OlEb. Oa the 22d inst., at Brisbane House, Ayrshire, Captain John William Douglas Brisbane, RN. On Use 23d jest., at Weymouth, Captain Daniel Luce. On the 24th fast., George, eldest son of Mr& Lyall, of Middle-row, Holborn, aged 21. On the 26th inst., at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, Robert William Eames, Esq., aged 42. On the 27th inst., at Hamme smith, the Rev. John Bird. Oa the 27th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, Robert, only son of the late Major-General Robert Home, C. 13. On the 28th inst., at Hampstead, Edward Toiler, Esq., of Doctor's-commons, aged 81. On the 28th inst., John, youngest eon of the late Mr. Col lier, of Hatton-garden, aged 19. On the 27th inst., in Grove-place, St. John's-wood, Assistant Commissary -General John Jennings, aged 62. On the 27th inst., at Tonhridge-wells, General Frederick Maitland, Colonel of her Majesty's 58th Regiment, aged 85. On the 30th inst., iu Harley street, John Morrice, Esq. _ - London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The an Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Bliddlesex, Monday, ;tunny 31,1242. 'r r t o 1