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Mr. Justi MAULE summed up. He thought the charge of In eking into the dwelling-house could not be substant , fated, and, therefore, the jury ought to dismiss that; from their minds. The only question fclr their curisiderat ion was whether the prisoners had committed - the robl )ery. The jury found ;he prisoners guilty of larceny, and former convictions were proved against both of them.— Sem tence deferred. NEW COURT. (Befl )re the RECORDER.) R0881N , 61- TAPER Ns.—Henry Evans, a respectably dressed mar l , aged. thirty-two, described as an agent, pleaded Guilty on four several charges of stealing spoons frorn public-houses. The ROCORDE said the offence was a most serious one. IVo property was so exposed to depredation as that of t ai:ern-k eepers, and he was but discharging his duty• t o th e public by making an example of the prisoner. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transport ed beyond the seas for seven years. The p: risoner. entered into a rambling statement, to the effect; that lie had been requested by a person to pawn a coat, which he did, and that he found the ns fo u nd in. his possession in one of the pockets. e declari ld that he was innocent of the charge im puted to h im, and stated that he had pleaded Guilty by advice. _ The R 3 .:CO.R . DER consented to abate his judgment, and to alltow the trial of the prisoner to proceed on the first chezge. The p risoner was then arraigned on the charga bf stealing four silver table and four salt spoous on. the 21st of I )ecember, the property of Mr. Josep',l Bull, the prop: t'Letor of the Queen's Arms, in iewgate street. Mr. Bi, orry no•w appeared to defend 'the prisoner. From the evidence of a police-cony table it appeared that the i prisoner was given into his custody by the landlord of the Horse Shoe, at Stones'-end, Borough, Who chw ged him with stealing a silver spoon. The prisoner was slightly in liquor. On searching him he foun d the four spoons mentioned and a smaller one, wl- lira had beers broken. He also i . bund some papers, one of which was smeared with mustard. Wm. NI Jailers, the waiter at the tavern, deposed to the spoo ni being safe up to about four on the day in question. He did not see the prisoner in the house, but he vitness) was frequently absent from the room. A young • man, named Andrews,` deposed that he WKS in the .company of the prisoner at a sale at Gar raway's up to haP2-past four on the 21st. Mr. Ho. WAY addressed the jury, and dwelt upon the extreme im.probability of a. person committing a robbery in a public-house, and immediately after going into another and !getting intoxicated. Was it not: more I BEely that he had been made the dupe of some desig Ding person, anxious for his own security? The jur: r found the 'prisoner Guilty, who besought the mercy of the Gonrt. The Rs,e(mDER said he could behold no mitigating cireumsts.nc es in 'the whole matter, for the prisoner, let it be home in mind, was charged with five offences of the same kind, and he 'was a person followinfx :a prxsuit which removed him from the class of persons who so frequently came before that Court, - many of whom were driven to commit crime by the pressure of poverty. If he did not pass a severe senten,:e upon him there: would be an end to the utility of public and shameful examples. He saw no grounds to after the sentence he had formerly passed. " I consider," said the Recorder, " it right to tell you, that if' any application be made to a higher tribunal, and it is referred to me, I shall feel it my duty to say that no mitigation of this sentence ought, on public grounds, to take pliace." Santence—Seve n years' transportation. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Fanny South, Harriet Dowpey, and Charles Winter were. indicted for stealing seven sovereigns and one half sovereign, the property of William Edwards, from his person. The prosecutor, who was a sailor, and bad just been "paid off from his ship, met the prisoner Winter, who persuad ed him to go to his house, where the two females wer e. After having had something to drink, they began to hustle the prosecutor about, and, ac cor ding to his assertion, while down upon a bed, they too& his handkerchief out of a pocket under the bra east of a flannel shirt he wore, and in which life had secreted his money which he missed, when he got away from them. He told a policeman who took them into custody, 'when a few shillings were found upon the females, and a sovereign and some silver on the male. From information he received, the con stable went to the Bell public house, St. George's street, Ratcliffe, where Mr. Whately, the landlord, at once said that Winter had deposited three sove reigns the morning after the robbery. Winter : , in his defence, said he had found a 51. Plymou'ch bank-note, and this would account for his posses: 4 ton of the money. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, to the surprise of the prisoners themselves. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) (13(:fore Mr. PucKLE and a Bench of Magistrates.) George Snelling, aged 31, was indicted for feloni ously stealing, at Pyrford, two pieces of fir timber, called sleepers, the property of Mr. George Marshall. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner wail observed; early on the morning of the 12th of December last, to proceed to the place where the property in question was situated. Upon his leaving to return to his home he was taken in custody by one of the detective' force, with the two pieces of timber in his possession. An objection was taken by Mr. ROBINSON on the ground that the timber was the property of Mr. Marshall, jun., as well as of Mr. George Marshall, in whose name alone the indictment was framed. That in fact the two Marshalls were partners. The Learned CHAISMAN said that the proof of the partnership would rest upon the prisoner; if proved of course it would be fatal to the indictment. No evidence was however offered on the subject, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner, against whom a previous conviction was proved, was sentenced to twelve months im prisonment, with hard labour, at the House of Cor rection, Guildford. George Sweatman was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 18th of December last, four fatted geese, of the value of 11., the property of Thomas Chalcraft. The prosecutor stated that he missed four geese on the morning of the 18th of December. Upon missing them he applied for a warrant to search the house of the prisoner, when he found two of the geese, par tially picked, between the bed and the mattrass. The prisoner, upon being charged with the robbery, denied it and ran away. There was no mark upon the geese by which he could identify them as his pro perty. The prisoner, who was undefended, said he found the geese upon the road. The jury acquitted the prisoner. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Joseph Rolland, a young man, having the appear ance of a journeyman mechanic was charged with stealing a truck, the property of William Oldman, of No. 10, Leonard-square, Shoreditch. The prosecutor said he was in the habit of letting out trucks by the hour. On Friday afternoon last, the prisoner, in his absence, came and hired one in . the usual way of one of his children. Witness, however, subsequently found that the truck had been .sold by the prisoner tor 255., to a Mr. Mahoney, No. 12, Boot-street, Pitfield-street. The prisoner assured the Magistrate he had been deputed by another person to effect a sale of the truck, and for his trouble he was to have 6s. The name of that individual was King, but where he resided he did not know. Sergeant Brannan, of the detective force, said the number of individuals who had recently been plun dered in the way described was almost incredible. The stolen trucks were more frequently taken to Smithfield, where a ready market was found, and a little paint, and other slight alterations being had re course to, they were so completely metamorphosed as to defy recognition. The description given, how ever, of the general plunderer bore so great a resem blance to that of the prisoner, that if the magistrate -would grant a remand, and, with the aid of the press, he had no doubt but a whole host of individuals would come forward and recognise the prisoner. Mr. HAMMILL remanded the prisoner for a week for that purpose. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) I Henry Day was finally examined, charged with numerous robberies in the neighbourhood of Isling ton, Holloway, Hackney, &c. It appeared that for a length of time past the doors of the houses in this district had been robbed of brass ornaments, the knockers and bell pulls. Every effort was made to trace the delinquents without effect, until Tuesday evening, when 147 N stopped the pri soner in Islington carrying a bag containing a great quantity of bell-pulls, wires, &c., which were traced to have been stolen from numerous houses. The owners attended and identified the property. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and he was fully committed for trial. THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY. (TIIIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held to-day, at the South-sea House, Threadneedle-street. After the usual preliminaries, The Govvr. , (CILIRLEs FP. INKS ) Esq.), paid that the present meeting was called merely to declare a dividend on the company's stook for the half-year ending this day. THE S TT IT, The SECRETARY then read a statement of the affairs of the company, from which it appeared that the income for the last half-year amounted to 156,538/. 12s. 9d., while the expenditure was 91,815/. lOs. 7d. The GOVERNOR said they would perceive that there was a balance of 64,7231. 2s. 2d. in the hands of the treasurer, and he recommended that a dividend of 13s. 4d. per cent. be declared, A resolution to that effett was then pat and car ried unanimously, after which the meeting separated. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TIJESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the tattern Terrace and slopes. The Royal gamily took walking and pony exercise. Prince /Albert itAhted this forenoon. His Royal Highness was Attended by General Wemyss, Mr. G. VA, Atis In, and Colonel Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Mary, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince rrederick of Hesse, and attended by the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess, and the Gentlemen in Waiting on the Duke, arrived at the Cwstle this afternoon, on a visit to the Queen. The - 11701,et and Countess Delawarr, and the Right Hon. William S. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a v it to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George and the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Fre derick of Hesse, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Delawarr, the Right Hon. William S. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, the Gentleman in Waiting on the Duke of Cambridge, and Dr. Meyer. The bind of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Mr. Edmund Mildmay, left Cambridge House yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. Disptches were received yesterday at the Colo• nial-office, from the Governor of Sierra Leone. Baron de Linden arrived in town on Saturday. LONDON, IRELAND. INCREASE OF DESTITUTION. DUNLIN, JAN. 3.—The distress in the south and west is daily becoming more general and severe. The Poor-law Commissioners, determined to force to the utmost the local resources of the country, are dis missing boards of guardians who neglect to apply the provisions of the law, and some 14 or 15 unions are now administered by paid officers. But those func tionaries, although appointed for the special object, find much difficulty in meeting the demands upon the worhouse. An official communication has been made to the Sligo board of guardians, intimating that the Commissioners would be under the necessity of dissolving the board unless the guardians attended more regularly and numerously. " The applications for out. door relief (says the Sligo Champion), are beyond all calculation. The people do not seem to think it the least disgrace to receive relief. That de cent pride, for which the Irish peasantry were distin guished, has disappeared—it has been conquered by adversity." Although nothing like the terrible desti tution of last year exists at present, there is extreme suffering in many districts, and deaths from starvation are becoming frequent. STATE OF CRIME—EVICTION OF TENANTRY. The Roscommon Journal contains the following A shot was fired into the house of a keeper placed over the property of tenants on the lands of Kinnetty, within three miles of this town, and part of the contents entered the leg of a woman who was inside, but fortunately without doing any material injury. Now, as to the cause of this outrage. A very few days before Christmas-day, a person in this town, who is acting for the agent, on the property of the Goffs, minors (who have extensive estates in this and other counties), proceeded to the lands of Kin netty, accompanied by a company of infantry, and a large police force, and dispossessed a great number of families, set fire to their houses, and consumed them to ashes in the presence of the unfortunate wretches ! Their cries and wailings were most piteous. Nor was the village of Kinnetty the only one visited i another shared a similar fate. There never were more indulgent landlords than the late Messrs. Goff, but the children of the Rev. Thomas Goff are wards of Chancery. About four years since a populous village, Derrycunny, on the same property, was evicted and burned ; the inmates, some hundreds, were driven on the wide world, and rom that day to this the lands are waste, no tenants having been found to occupy them. Immediately after this part of the country became disturbed, and has since continued so. Where will the contentions between landlord and tenant terminate ? God only knoays." The Dundalk Patriot says—" At the present Quar ter Sessions of Dundalk no less than seventy-two ejectments were taken out. At the suit of the Mar quis of Anglesey alone no less than thirty-two eject ments were obtained. These ejectment' were not defended, and we are not, therefore, in a position to say whether they were attended with any circum stances of undue severity. We trust, however, that these poor people will not be put out of their homes during this very cold weather, and that, if they are put out, nothing will be left undone by the Noble Marquis, at whose suit the ejectments were brought, to enable them to begin the world again." COUNTY OF GALWAY.—DANINd ROBBERY.-011 last Monday evening, between six and seven o'clock, three fellows entered the dwelling of a poor man named Coen, a tenant of Lord Clonbrock's, living at a place called Coolagunane. Coen was from home at the time, and a man named Coghlan and his wife in the house ; immediately on the fellows entering it they struck and knocked down Coghlan with a blow of a loaded whip, and then demanded of the wife all the money she had in the house; she said there was none, upon which one of them struck her with a whip, and cut her dreadfully over the eye, from the effects of which she is still confined to bed. The ruffians then took a little girl, partly stripped her, held her over the fire in order, as they said, to compel her to inform them where the money was kept; find ing the threat of burning the child useless, they searched the house and took 7s. 6d. in money, toge thor with several papers of importance to the poor man. Several robberies have lately taken place in this neighbourhood. We have received information that a farmer named Brown was brutally murdered at Ballymore, county Tipperary, on Wednesday morning. The causes as signed are, that some few months ago Brown got married, to the discomfiture of some rivals, and with his wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of land. Suspicion has fallen on some of the rejected lovers, but we have not learned that any person has been arrested for this diabolical crime. TENANT-RIGHT.—MR. SHARMAN CRAW- FORD. The movement in favour of tenant-right is prose cuted with great activity in all parts of the country Mr. Sharman Crawford has sent a letter, accepting an invitation to attend a meeting in Balliboy, county Monaghan. In it he says— " The unjust state of the relationship of landlord and tenant I hold the main, if not the sole, foundation of the disorganization of the social condition which manifests itself in the murderous acts committed in some of the southern counties, and which is leading to a wide-spread hostility on the part of the tenant towards the landlord, even in the more orderly portions of Ireland, where attempts are now being made by the landlord to curtail the tenant-right. . • • • • . . I would give any power to the Government which I deem would be useful or effective for the purpose; but I will not be a party to encourage the delusion that the old, tried, and always failing re medy of coercion can effect the object, till the hearts of the people are softened by acts for the amelioration of their condition leading them to feel and know that the laws are their protection from injustice instead of being the instruments of inflicting that injustice. There can be no peace in Ireland until that altered system of Government legislation shall take place. Then, the natural benevolence and natural kindness of the Irish heart will again display itself. Murder, which is a practice wholly foreign to the qualities of their character, will cease to sully the records of our country, and the people will bless the source, whether they be landlords or governments, from which these benefits flow. I conceive that to effect this object, • alth4ugh many other remedial measures may be con jointly necessary, a just revisiot of the law of land lord and tenant is the essential basis." THE LORD CIIANCELLOR.---WE rejoice to be able to state that the health of the Lord Chancellor is daily improving, and that his convalescence may soon be expected. There was no foundation whatever for the statement that the Great Seal has been put in commission. The Chancellor is now able to sign any official papers requiring his signature. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting Of the Association was held this day in Conciliation-hall. Mr. Sheridan, J.C., presided. Mr. J. O'Corinu. opened. the proceedings by an nouncing that the new year had opened most brightly upon them, and he, in the first place, read a letter from Dr. M`Hale, enclosing a subscription of 391. from the deanery of Tuam. Mr. O'Connell ob served that the sum transmitted in that letter, hand some as it was, was but an instalment of what his Grace assured him they would receive from his dio cese. It was only the subscription of one deanery in his diocese. He (Mr. O'Connell) next begged to read a letter from the Rev. Dr. O'Rafferty, P.P. of Tullamore, in which a sum of 10/. repeal rent was enclosod.—(Cheers.) He also handed in 51., the sub scription of the Right Rev. Dr. Maginn, of Derry. — (Cheers.) In sending that sum, Dr. Maginn assured him (Mr. O'Connell) it was the last 51 . he had at his command.—(Cheers.) A sum of 11. was handed in from the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt, D.D.----(Cheers) — and 21. from the Rev. Mr. Murtagh, Castlepollard. Several other subscriptions were handed in. The Rev. Mr. Mumans next addressed the meet ing, and in the course of his observations begged to tell the meeting what he thought of the Irish land lords as a class. When he spoke of them as a class he did not include the entire body, for there were many and many honourable exceptions. There were ex ceptions to those who were ignorant, immoral, unjust, oppressors of the poor, without bowels of justice or humanity. He now addressed himself to his fellow countrymen, and would make them the judges be tween the priests and the Irish landlords, and be had no doubt of their verdict.—(Cheers.) Those land lords—those cruel harpies were denounced in Holy Writ, by the Almighty God himself. In St. Matthew, he believed the 25th chapter, it was said, " Be ac cursed : I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat ; I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink ; I was houseless, and you took me not in."—(Hear.) Were not the clergy, he asked, bound to denounce the crimes of the rich as well as the poor ? They did not denounce them by name, but they denounced their crimes; and if they had not denounced the crimes that landlords had committed, they would be un worthy of the priesthood and unworthy of the sanc tuary.—(Cheers.) Because they had exposed their injustice the clergy were maligned and vilified ; but still the people should not despond, though they might have degenerate traitors amongst them. — (Hear.) Like the sons of Gideon, though they were few, they would succeed, because they had jus tice at their side, and would have the arm of God to defend them.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that it would be in the re collection of the Association that Mr. R. D. .Browne had written a letter of exceeding insult to Mr. Dunne, and that Mr. Dunne had put himself in the hands of the committee, who recommended Mr. Dunne to withdraw what might be considered per sonally , offensive in his speech respecting Mr. Browne 's conduct, expecting that then Mr. Browne would make a similar concession. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Browne would not accept of that con cession, but persevered in his insulting letter. The committee, therefore, felt bound to adopt the follow ing report :-- THE CASE OF THE LATE MR. JOHN KAY. It has long been, and still is, the pride of English men to point with pride and satisfaction to our colossal manufacturing system, and justly to esteem it as the result of our national skill and energy. But while the commerce of our country, relieved from every restriction, still continues to stimulate freedom of intercourse between distant nations, and binds them together in the bonds of peace and unity—while navies freighted with our manufactures still ride in triumph upon the waves, and bear the blessings of civilization to other lands—while the products of British industry continue to be sought for and valued in every country—it would be well for a moment to recollect that in the majority of cases the men who may justly claim to be the founders of this great system, have, for the most part, spent their days amid continual struggles for ex istence, and died neglected and unrewarded. A memorable instance of this is to be found in the history of John Kay, of Bury. In the year 1738, Mr. John Kay invented the present mode of casting the shuttle, by what is called the "picking peg." The value of this invention consisted in the weaver being enabled to perform twice the quantity of work, without any additional labour, and to weave cloth of any width. The invention, as was the case with others of a similar kind, was opposed by the workmen, on the ground that it would diminish the demand for their labour ; and the inventor, after en during a series of troubles, was ultimately compelled to take refuge in France, where he ended his days in want and penury—the victim of persecution and natural ingratitude. Some of the descendants of John Kay are now living in very humble circum stances, and efforts have for some time been made to bring the merits of the invention of their ancestor under the attention of the Legislature, with a view of obtaining for them an extension of the national bounty, similar to that which has been recently awarded to the children of Mr. Compton, the inventor of the " mule." The efforts, we regret to say, have been hitherto unsuccessful. We trust, however, that a testimonial to the merits of the invention, signed by upwards of 600 of the great manufacturers of this country (a copy of which has been transmitted to us), will not fail to have some weight in inducing the guardians of the public purse, to dole out a small pittance towards the descendants of one who, by his exertions, has mainly contributed in raising this country to its present proud pre-eminence. Rear. Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., and Lady Emily Dundas returned yesterday to the Gallant Officer's official residence, at the Admiralty, W hitehall, from a visit to Vice-Admiral Warren, East Court, Cos ham, Hants. Viscount Sydney has arrived in town, from the Mote, the seat of the Earl of Romney, near Maidstone. The Viscountess is shortly expected from Beaudesert. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—His Grace is perfectly recovered from the slight attack of influenza under which he suffered about ten days since; but owing to the advanced age (82) oft - the venerable prelate, and . the variable state of the weather, his Grace's medical attendants consider it advisable that he should not ven ture out of doors. This precaution, it would seem, occa- sinned the rumour of his - indisposition. DEATH OF THE HON. FRANCES GRIMSTON.—This venerable lady died at an early hour yesterday morning, at her town residence, in Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, aged 90, from an attack of the prevailing epidemic. Her Ladyship was grandaunt to the present Earl of Verulam, and issue of the second Viscount Verulam. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LICENSED VICTUAL LER.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the White Hart, Westminster, on the body of Mrs. Ellen Cannon, the wife of a licensed victualler, carrying on business at the Brown Bear, Millbank-street. The Co roner stated that the inquiry had its origin from a report in eirculatioli Untt the deceased had ,been ill e used by, her, husband, and that her deatlytid ip consequence*gi' accelerated.' The witnesses etainined "stated that the _ husband bad been in the habit of ill-using her, but the surgeon proved that she had not died from ill treatment but natural causes. Verdict, " Died from a disease of _ _ the liver brought on by excessive drinking." DEATH OF MR. ELMES, THE ARCHITECT.—A letter was received yesterday at Liverpool, from Mrs. Elmes, announcing the death of her husband, on the 26th of November last, at Jamaica. Mr. Elmes erected the Collegiate Institution in Liverpool, and was the archi tect of St. George's.hall and the new Law Courts in that town. These buildings bear testimony to his taste. MORE HIGHWAY ROBBERIES NEAR LIVERPOOL.-- On Monday evening two gentlemen were robbed by seven highwaymen on the West Derby road, very near the scene of the former robbery. All the money they had was taken from them. On the same evening a gen tleman was robbed of 71. by three footpath on the old Swan road, on his way home from town. CARDIFF AND NEWPORT. Last night's Gazette appoints Newport and Cardiff to be ports. The limits of the said port of Newport are declared to commence at Itedwick Pill, in the county of Monmouth, being the western extremity of the port of Chepstow, and continue along the coast of the said county to the river Rumney, which divides the counties of Glamorgan and Mon mouth. The limits of the said port of Cardiff are de clared to commence at the river Rumney aforesaid, and continue along the coast of the county of Glamorgan, to a place called Nash Point, in the said county. The limits of the port of Newport are to extend to the middle of the river Severn. The limits seaward of the port of Cardiff to extend to a distance, from low water mark, of three miles into the sea, including all islands, bays, har bours, rivers, and creeks within the said limits. All former limits of the said ports are annulled. CHATHAM, JAN. 4.—A detachment from the pro visional battalion at this garrison, consisting of two ser geants and 28 rank and file of the 11th Foot, and 22 rank and file of the 96th, under command of Lieutenant J. W. D'Oyley, with Ensign 11. Clayton Hague, of the 11 th Regiment, march on the sth instant en route for Woolwich, there to embark as a convict guard on board the Bangalore convict-ship, fitted for the conveyance of free convicts to Van Diemen's Land. The following detachments from the Isle of Wight have arrived at the invalid depot, St. Mary's Barracks, to be discharged on pensions for length of servitude :—Three sergeants, two corporals, and 106 privates of the sth Fusiliers (of this corps there are about a dozen men with bad eyes); three privates of the 20th; two sergeants and four privates of the 36th; two privates of the 45th; 13 privates of the 56th; three privates of the 97th; and two privates of the 2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, with 60 women and 91 children, in charge of Lieutenant the Hon. W. Draper Mortimer Best, of the Rifle Brigade. CALLS TO THE BAR.—From a recent investigation it appears that during the year 1847 there were no less than 191 persons called to the bar by the societies of the Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. Of that number 84 w're called by the society of t the Middle Temple , 53 by the society of the Inner Temple, 40 by the society of Lincoln's Inn, and 14 by the society of Gray's Inn. In the year 1846 there were 174 persons called to the bar, by the same societies. Of that number, 75 were called by the society of the Middle Temple, 48 by the society of the Inner Temple, 43 by the society of Lincoln's Inn, and 5 by the society of Gray's Inn. From the above statement it appears that the number of persons called to the bar during the past year exceeded by 17 the number called in 1846. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.--The packet-ship, West Point, Captain Allen, arrived in the Mersey to-day. She left New York on the 15th ult., and has brought 10,0001 in specie on freight. LIBERAL DONATIONS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA. — The secretaries of the British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland and Scotland have received from Adelaide, South Australia, au order from his Excel lency Governor Robe, on the Lords of her Mojesty's Treaury, for 1,000!., mh.st.ribc(l by the colonists for the relief of the distressed by famine in Ireland and Great Britain. A donation in wheat of similar value is shortly to follow. VirgIONESD AV EVENING, SANITAItit 5, 184• " Resolved—That the conduct of Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., county Mayo, in first addressing a letter of gross and extreme insult to S. H. Dunne, Esq., on account of the exercise by the latter of the undoubted right of every free citizen to comment on the public acts of public men ; and, secondly, in re fusing to N 8 ithdraw the said insulting letter when offered a fair and honourable retractation by Mr. Dunne of the only expression used by him which could at all be construed to exceed the limits of fair and justifiable comment—is most unwarrantable and most highly culpable, and that to allow such conduct to pass without marking it with our strongest and severest censure, would be tacitly to sanction an in vasion of the right of free discussion, and an attempt at intimidation of a gentleman honourably discharg • ing what he felt to be a painful but imperative public duty. " That we most highly approve of the manly, ho nourable, and generous conduct of Mr. Dunne throughout this affair, and that we consider his cha racter as a patriot and a gentleman to stand higher ' than ever in consequence of the course which he has pursued. " That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to Mr. Browne, and that it be also communicated to the Very Rev. Chairman and the respected secretary of the late meeting, of that gentleman s constituents in Castlebar, and also to the leaders of ,that constituency in other parts of the county." Mr. E. W. COSTELLOE moved the following amend ment : " That inasmuch as the difference between Mr. Browne and Mr. Dunne appears to be of a purely personal nature, the committee would not be justified in identifying themselves with that dispute." The amendment was put and negatived. The original resolutions were then put from the chair, and passed. Mr. COSTELLOE again protested against the juris diction of the committee in the above matter, inas much as Mr. Dunne, on the day in question, pro posed the resolution on his own authority, and did not appear as the organ of the committee ; and fur ther, that it appeared to him as a matter of a purely personal nature, and that, as such, the com mittee should not identify themselves with it. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the report should be inserted on their minutes. The resolution was agreed to.—Rent for the week, 1601. DR. HAMPDEN'S APPOINTMENT. A meeting of the clergy of the archdeaconry of Ely was held yesterday, pursuant to requision, to consider the propriety of adopting an address of thanks to the Bishop of the diocese for his Lordship's re monstrance against the appointment of Dr. Hampden. The Archdeacon was absent " from feelings of deli cacy," and the chair was taken by Professor Schole field, 33 reverend gentlemen being present. The address was moved by the Rev. John Graham, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. Fendall and an amend ment, which was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Pullen, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. Tillard, having been negatived, the original motion was carried. A petition against the emaficipation of the Jews was also adopted. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Mr. Maurice T. West, surgeon of the Carysfort, 26, - on the Pacific station, is appointed surgeon of the Grampus, SO, on the same station. The Modeste, 18, Lieutenant R. J. J. Cr. Mac donald, Acting Commander, sailed to-day for Sheer ness, to be paid off. A strange instance of imperfect information occurred on this vessel's arrival yester day. The Admiralty, it is supposed, imagined she had been commissioned at this port, and ordered her to disembark her Marines prior to sailing for Sheer ness. On being, however, informed that she was commissioned at Chatham, and that her Marines be longed to that division, the order was countermanded. The whole affair is rather singular, there not being an instance before of any vessel's disembarking her Marines before being paid off, their presence being supposed to be necessary to assist the officers in pre- serving order. Rear-Admiral H. Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of this dockyard, having gone on leave, his flag was struck on board the Excellent this morning. Wind S.S.E., moderate breezes and fine weather. The services of the late Lieutenant Prosper Am brose are deserving of a more lengthened notice than we were enabled to give on Monday. He en tered the service as a volunteer of the first class, on board the Meleager, and served under those gallant and distinguished captains (now Admirals of the Red), George Cockburn and Charles Ogle, employed chiefly in the Mediterranean, from the 16th of June, 1796, to April, 1797 ; in the same rank in the Cap tain, under Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, in the Mediterranean, from the last-named date to April, 1798 ; midshipman of the Hyena, under the Hon. Courtenay Boyle, in the Channel and Mediterranean, from 1798 to 1799 ; was midshipman and master's mate of the Sheerness, under Captain Carden, in the North Sea, Channel, and Mediterranean, and served with the army in Holland and in the expedition to Quiberon ; was afterward master's mate of the Guillaume Tell, Captain Elphin stone, employed at Minorca; subsequently in the same capacity in the St. Joseph, under Admiral Earl St. Vincent, Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, First Captain Sir T. Troubridge, Captains T. M. Hardy, W. Woulsey, George ,Eyre and James Carpenter, employed in the Channel from January, 1800, to May 1802 ; was Admiralty midshipman of the Phosbe, under Captain James Keith Sheppard and the Hon. S. B. Capel, in the Mediterranean, from the 28th of May, 1802, to the end of February, 1806, in which he was present at the battle or Trafalgar, and burnt two Spanish ships—the Rayo,iof 100 guns, and the Monarcha, 80, and saved the Bahama, 74 ; he was repeatedly engaged in the Phosbe's boats against batteries and in cutting out; was midship man and master's mate of the Endymion, under Captains E. D. King and the Hon. S. B. Capel, in the Mediterranean, from the Ist of March, 1806, to the 4th of October, 1808, and commanded the Ann gun boat at Gibraltar, and was repeatedly engaged with the Spanish gun boats in protecting our mer chant shipping; forcing the passage of the Dar danelles ; and was repeatedly engaged in the boats of the ship and on shore at the capture of Prince's Island, off Constantinople. Rear-Admiral Capel recommended Mr. Ambrose to Lord Melville, Lord High Admiral, and Lord Minto, for his good conduct during a servitude of six years under his command. This, however, did not promote him, and he became a supernumerary of the Neptune under Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane and Captain Charles Dilke, employed at the Leeward Islands, from the 13th of October, 1808, to the 18th of February, 1809, and was in command of the gun-boats at the capture of Martinique, in 1809 ; was Acting-Lieutenant of the Port d'Espagne, under Sir George Pechell and Colin Campbell, also at the Leeward Islands from the 19th of February, 1809, to the 9th of February, 1811, and was Acting -Commander of her for some time, with the rank of confirmed Lieutenant from February to October, 1810 ; Lieutenant of the Tweed, Captain Symonds, employed in the North Sea from Dec.,lBlo, to the 11th of Dec. 1811 ; of the Egmont, under Rear-Admiral Sir G. Hope and Captain Bingham, employed in the North Sea and Western islands from February, 1812, to the 29th of May, 1813; lieutenant of the Guildford, employed at Portsmouth from August, 1813, to February, 1814 ; agent for the transports, three years on the north coasts of Spain and Africa removing slaves from Senegal and Goree, and recommended for promotion by Rear- Admiral Penrose ; agent for transports in the years 1824-5-6, and employed in various parts of the world; on the 9th of June, 1826, whilst serving as agent for transports on board the Maria, he received a severe hurt in the right leg whilst returning stores at Dept ford, from which he had been a great sufferer, and lame ever since ; Admiralty agent from the 2d of November, 1840, to the 31st of December, 1845 ; being a total service of 49 years in the navy, for 37 of which he held the rank of lieutenant, and held cer tificates of the most gratifying character from every officer under whom he had served. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Her Majesty's frigate En dymion, 44, Captain the Hon. George F. Hastings, came in from the eastward this afternoon ; she left Antigua on the 9th of December. After anchoring inside the breakwater she saluted with 17 guns the fl a g of Port Admiral Sir John West, which honour wa s duly acknowledged at Devonport. CHATHAM, JAN. 3.—The Columbia, steam sur veying-vessel, vey Captain William F. Owen, of 100 horse power, arrived this afternoon, and is moored alongside the Tartar bulk. This vessel has been em ployed for the last five years on the North American station. She is to be paid off without disturbing her bulk-heads or internal fittings. THE C . ONTICTS SALE AND M'COY.—Yesterday, Mr. Sheriff Hill, Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, and D. W. Wire, Esq., Under-Sheriff, proceeded to the Home-office, to intercede with Sir George Grey, on behalf of the con vict M`Coy, who, with Thomas Sale, now lies in New gate, under sentence of death, for the murder of Mr. Belleharnber. The grounds upon which the Sheriffs hope to obtain j a commutation of M‘Coy's sentence are, t h a t he was 19strunicnt a l i n bringing his brother cri minals to justice—that the case, as regarded him, was more favourable than as it regarded Sale, and that Sale had, on Monday morning, made a statement which tended materially to exculpate l‘Coy from being . a prineipal in the first degree. In the absence of Sir George Grey, the Sheriffs were received by Mr. S. N. Phillips, the Under-Secretary of State, with whom they remained in consultation three- q uarters of an hour. Sir George Grey being from town, Mr. Phillips promised that the representations of the Sheriffs should be for vvardNl to him immediately, and the answer forwarded to tile Sheriffs without delay. The inauguration of the railway from Marseilles to Avignon is fixed for the 9th. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES• 1 N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANPZS' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend per Name of Company. Annum. Amount of Share. astralasia .......... .Iritsh9lorth American Ceylon ;orumerclal of London Iloloni al .. .........- Gloucestershire • •• • • lonian ........ • • . • Londn and Westminstr X s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 151 per cent. GI. per cent. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 100 0 0 London Joint-Stock ... Provincial of Ireland • . 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 5/. per cent. SO 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 Ditto, New..... . National of Ireland .. Nat. Provincial of Eng. _ Ditto, New......... South Australia ...... Union of Australia.... 61. per cent, 25 0 0 U ion of London. Union of Madrid ..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 40 0 0 Prica CANALS. , E , Names of 1 Dividend) Names of t D iv id end Price. 'Companies. 1 per I Companies. per Price. R Annum. kg Annum. --- - £ -- 1 1 £ -, A.shtn& Oldh 97151.55. pct 70 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Barnsley .• • • 160; 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 340 3rknk&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1 00 201. 200 Birmingham 351 41. SO Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Coventry .... 100 251. - Regent's ••• • 33 I/. 4s. 18% lierbv ..... 100 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • 85, 41. 54 Ells r re&Chs 133 41. 51 Somrset Coal 1501 71.10 e. 130 E:e A ash ... 100 321. - Do.L kFdSt 12 61. p. c. - iirandJunctn 100 5/. 80 Stffrd &Wore 140 1 281. 275 GrandSurrey l lool - 30 ShrewsburY•• 1251 151. - urrand Union 100 , 11. 10e. 21) 2 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 305 7rantham • . 150 121. - Severs andl 26 IL Ss. 30 Kenai & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5M Wye Rail.,3 Lee.bs& Livrp 100 341. 505 Warwick& /,0 51. 66 1). Leicester ... • 1401 101. 7 5 Binning. j ' : Leicstr &Nt 83' 4/. 3 6 Warwick& i - 4E Loughborogh 142 ; 701. 530 Napton.. Monmouthsh 100' 81. - IVorestr &1 78 21. 39 Mntgemrysk 100 51. - Birming. 3 1 MeltnMwbry 100 101. - Wilts & Brks 67 1L 11 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Name of Company. Albion ..•••••••• •••• Alliance Brit. and For. DUO Marine. • • • • • • British Commercial . Cleriel,Med.&Gen.Life C3unty • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eagle • • •• • Eng. & Scot. Law •••• European Life ••• • • • Family Endow= t Soc. Freemasons' . • • • • • • • Gi°Le Guartilan • • • • • • • • • • • • Imperial Fire • • • • • • • • imperial Life • • • • • • • • Indemnity Marine • • • • Law Fire • • • • • • L.w ife•• •• • . ••• • Legal and General Life wndcn Fire •••• • • • • London Ship •.•• • • •• Marine.. • •• • • • • •• • • Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 'National Lea.o Fund • • National Life.. • • Palladium Lite ...... • • Yells:An . • • • • • • • • • •• • • l'ocenix • • • otector Life....... Provident Life • • • • • • • • Rock Life • • • • • • • • • • • • Royal Exchange Sun Fire • • Ditto Life .•• • • • • .• • Universal Life.... • - • • Victoria Life . I.IST Or SCOT! Name of Company. Dividend per Annum. 31. 10s. 6 per cent. 61. per cent, 13s. 6d. pr sh. 7s. per share 51. per cent. 31. 13s. 6s. 51. per cent. 5% per cent. 41. & bs. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per ccnt. 11.8 h. & bs. U. ss. 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 8!. per cent. 51. per cent. Amount of Share. £ 5. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 4 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 at.p.et.&bs. 54. per cent. 11. ss. 4s. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. 10%1. pr cat. 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 'ISM CODIPAN: Dividend per ommarcial East and West India ... Fast Country I.3ndon • ..... Annum. 11. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per sent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 121. per cent. [Ol. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 5341. pr cent, 51. per cent. 6 pr cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. Amount of Share. Paid. Doc: X s. 4. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 Dividend _ per 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 Annum. Amount of Share. 41. per cent. 6/. pr cent. 11. per ch. 5/. pr cent. 4/. per cent. 5 per cent. 4%1. pr cent. 2/. per cent. I Mt° Bonds • • • • • • • • st. K atharine .. .. •• •• Ditto Bonds. • • • .. • . outhampton • • • • • • • • Paid. X s. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 Price 120 44% 214 14% WATER= 'ORICSi X !. d. 4% Price. 164% 13s. 6d N. 3s 9 % 1 'As. Price. 70 118% 50 0 0 Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. ( 25 Amount of Share. Paid. Birmingham. •• •• •• •• East London..•• •• •• •• Grand Junction •• •• •• New Rivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall • • • • • • •• •• West Middlesex . • X 5. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 X s. d. 25 0 0 Price, 21. 10s. 31. 21. 10s. 151.15e.prent.1 100 0 0 63 12 9 170 82 84 55 104 118 GAS-LIGET AND CONE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. X. a. d. X. a. d. I I/. 40 0 0 IS 0 0 17% Ditto Provincial•. • • I/. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 24 Bristol .. . ...... ..... 101. per cent. 20 0 0 - - Brighton •••• • . • ..... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 - 19 City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 290 Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share' #2 0 0 39 5 0 54 Ditto, New Equitable. •.•••• . • • . . 455. pr share' 50 0 0 50 0 0 ' 38 Imperial ••..••• • • . . • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 80% Independent ......... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 1 64 London.• .... •• - .... 2341. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 Ditto ••••••• • • • • • • . 61. per cent. SO 0 0 50 0 0 48 Phoenix . •... • • ...... Si. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 0 35 % Ratcliff ••• • • .... •• - 51. and bns. 100 0 0 90 0 0 SO United General •• • ... 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 17 Westminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - 58 Ditto, New -••- • .. 12a. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 ii BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. X. s. d. :X. a. d. Hungerford • • • • .. - • • - - - - Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 $ -2% Ditto Nw of 7% p. c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16 Waterloo •••••• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 -5% Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. ss. 4d. - 60 0 0 30 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 0 28 Vauxhall •• .. ... Av. 11. 16s. 70 10 0 - 27% MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- - - X. s. d. X. s. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 00130 0 0 20 Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 4s. 10 00i10 0 0 17 Ditto, Hal fShares.. - - 210 0 - Canada ... ••.• • ..... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 30 Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - I - - City Bonds.. • • ...... 3%1. pr cent. - - - Comp . Cppr Mars Eng. 51. percent. 100 0 01 70 0 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c• SP bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 Equitable Reveralenry 4361. pr cent. 100 0 0 195 0 0 90 Gem. Steam Navigation 11.8.. 15 0 0 14 0 0 233. London Institution . • • - - - 9 Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 583, Reversionary Int. Soc. 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 97 ' Royal Mail Steam • • •• 3%1. pr cent. - 80 0 0 - South Australian ..... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - • Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 4 ! Universal Salvage •. • • - 25 0 0 b 0 0 ''''' = -- MARKET INTELLIGEN CE. (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 4.) SUGAR.—Business in the raw Sugar market was re sumed to-day. There was firmness on the part of West India merchants, and the home trade were desirous to operate. For both grocery and refining descriptions a brisk demand was experienced, whilst the rates obtained were fully equal atodvance those was current obtained. to the holidays, but n o The quantity sold amounted to 860 hhds, & c ., including 123 hhds of Barbados at public sale which went off with fair spirit, and at full rates— very fine yellow fetched 465, fine 42s 6d to 43s 6d, good middling and good 32s 6d to 41s 6d, middling 386 to 395, low 38s 6d per cwt. The market for all kinds of raw Sugar has a firm appearance. For public sale this week 300 cases brown Bahia, 600 baskets of Java, 256 boxes yellow Havannab, 258 baskets 50 cases Penang, and 400 bags of Mauritius are declared. REFINED.—To -day all kinds of Refined goods were much sought after by the home ,trade, and stiffer rates w were offered; the supply was scanty—brown grocery lumps fetched 52s 6d to 53s 6d, standard lumps 54s to 54s 6d ; Tittlers 543 to 60s; Hamburgh Loaves 55s to 645, and Wet Lumps 51s to 535. For Bastards the demand is more active at 27s to 345, and Pieces are in good demand at 35s to 475. In the Treacle market there is yet little passing, and a desire is shown to sell at 17s to 23g. Bonded crushed Sugar is wanted, and as the supply is small prices are firm, and rule at 30a to 31. lot. lira, ui,d at 29. 6,i rur secuud soil- For Loaves made here under bond the export demand is active, and prices are on the advance. • MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was an active de- maid fret r refiners as well as grocers. Two parcels, amountiacc •te 7,663 bags, 239 cask s , an d 48 b arre l s, were submitted' to public competition ; the chief portion consisted of brown and inf er i or sor t s o f ye ll ow , and grey. The whole sold at a n d a ft er t h e sa l e , an d , d were equ a l t o th ose t h at ex i ste d the , rates obtains holiday 's; fine yellow selling at 39s 6d to 435, before the . mid o 36s to 375, low 34s to 355, fine good 37s sa 1 , ,, 5 01 1 30s to 31s, middling 29s to brown 32s to 3,:5' th)sOtwo 39sand middling grey 33s to 29s Gd, low 27s to , nage damaged 6d, syrupy 25s to 40s, 36s Gd, good and fiat... a h ged 28s to 425. net wTt sol a d ttention to-day, and washed 32s to 465, drnt. EAST INDlA.—Bengal , re at prices equal to of all sorts several parcels w, , Action 114 chests went vish strong yellow. those previously current. At , • at 33s to 33s fid fur middling gr.,. extent , were made Madras is wanted, and sales to a fair whilst the rates obtained , are large to ilt-Ose that pre viously existed. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sae of Fore.:" Sugar, and privately there was little passing,. althou:.ll holders were willing to take previous low rates. For' the purpose of refining under bond, 200 chests of low brown Bahia were sold at 16s 6d per cwt. COFFER.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced to operate in Native Ceylon, and the sound of 700 bags at public sale was chiefly taken in at 33s for good ordinary; a few lots were sold at 31s 6d, which is is lower, the damaged found buyers at 23s 6d to 30s, and round pea berry 36s to 38s 6d. Plantation of mid dling and good quality met with a brisker demand, and realized very full prices, but the sorts under the denomination of middling were dealt in with caution, and declined is in value. The parcels offered at public sale ware all sold, and amounted to 647 bags and 97 casks. For auction 18 casks, 2,600 bags Ceylon Coffee are declared. TEA.—This day 1,000 pkgs of Assam Tea were brought forward, about half the quantity being the low and useful descriptions. 200 chests fine middle class superior leaf, but little injured in transit, and 70 chests highest class, very superior wiry flowery leaf, all realised full prices—Congous 74d to is 4d, Souchong and Campoi 9d to is 91d, Pekoes is 4d to 3s 2d, among these were some of the growth of the season 1847, and about 1,000 chests more are on the way; the manufacture and mani pulation continue to improve. SPICES.—This afternoon Pimento met with little at tention, and 92 bags at auction sold +d cheaper, good middling went at 3d, middling aid to aid, and damaged 2d to 3d. 1,000 bags are declared for sale. SPIRITEI.—TO - day importers of Leeward Island Rum were sellers upon lower terms, still the purchases made were trifling, at is 6i4 to is 7d proof strength. East India is dull of sale, and can be obtained at is 5d to is 6d, proof according to quality. Jamaica is not much re quired by exporters or the home trade, and there is a desire to sell fair and middling quality 30 to 36 per cent over proof at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, and good to fine 3s 2d to 4s 4d per gallon. With all sorts the market is plentifully supplied. Brandy is held with firmness, and the deliveries exceed the arrivals:—Cognac, old landed of the vintage of 1844, hhds 5s 6d, puns ss, new landed, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d; 1845, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; 1846, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d, inferior sorts 3s 5d to 4s 6d; the vintages of 1840 and 1841, 4s 4d to 4s 8d for 10 to 12 per cent under proof. The price of British Corn Spirits has been re duced to lOs 3d per gallon. RICE.—To-day holders of East India refused to sub mit to any further reduction in the value; on the part of exporters and the home trade, however, little desire was shown to make purchases by private treaty. We quote Bengal, low white at 106 6d to 1 ls, middling lis 6d to 12s, good middling and good 12s 6d to 133 6d, fine 14s to 14s 6d; Madras pinky white 9s to 9s 6d, and cargo 8s to 8s 6d per cwt. For public sale 5,000 bags of East India are declared. TALLOW.—The inactivity in the market for Russian has increased, whilst on the part of holders an in creased desire has been shown to sell, and prices have declined to 44s 9d to 45s per cwt on the spot. From soap makers and chandlers the demand has been limited, an impression prevailing that prices will further recede. For forward delivery few buyers are to be met with, and there are sellers for the last three months of the year at 445. Home made is little re quired ; there are sellers at 46s 6d to 47s 6d nett cash, whilst the supply is large. With other sorts of Tallow the market is plentifully supplied, and there is a falling off in the amount of business concluded. At public sale a part only of the parcels offered found buyers. Ou..s.—Holders of Fish Oils have confidence, and the market has an improving appearance. The arrivals have been of little moment since this day week, and none has been submitted to public sale. Cod met with attention, and several parcels have been sold at 251 5s to 251 lOs per tun. In Seal a good business has been concluded, whilst prices are on the advance. For Southern of all kinds much inquiry has existed. In Sperm only a moderate amount of business has been concluded, still holders manifest more firm ness. For Linseed Oil prices are depressed by large parcels from the country having been forced upon the market ; the home demand, however, has been good, and exporters were induced to make purchases to a fair extent. Rape Seed Oil is held with firmness, the supply being small, and a fair business has been concluded. Olive is in good request, still on the part of holders there is a desire shown to sell, although the stock is by no means large. For Cocoa Nut the market is in a quiet state, and 60s to 63s is the value of fine quality. Palm is not offered at any further re duction. THE CORN TRADE. The weather has been changeable during the week ; up to Wednesday night the air was dry and frosty ; Thursday, a great deal of rain fell in the neighbour hood of London, and showers appear also to have been experienced in other parts of the kingdom. Since then the thermometer has sunk to near freezing point, but the atmosphere has been very moist. These changes in the temperature are decidedly unfavour able for grain in stack, and until the weather becomes more settled no improvement can be expected to take place in the condition of new corn. In the early part of the week much firmness was shown by holders of wheat; but within the last few days rather more anxiety has been manifested by sellers to realise. From our Scotch advices it appears that quite suffi cient wheat had come to hand to satisfy the demand. At Edinburgh, on Wednesday, there was, in addition to a good show from the growers, rather a large foreign supply, and purchasers were consequently enabled to buy on quite as easy terms as in the week before. Our Irish letters state that the markets bad con tinued to be indifferently supplied, the farmers having brought forward but little grain of any description. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have again been small. In quotations of flour no change has occurred ; the bakers seem to have sufficient for immediate use, and being generally unwilling to hold much stuck, the article has met a very slow sale. American has been held firmly at the full prices of Monday; which have, however, been paid with some degree of reluc tance. We have again to report a good arrival of barley coast-wise, and having in addition several parcels on the market, the surplus of previous supplies, the quantity offered has been plentiful. Notwithstand ing the reduction which has lately taken place in the value of this grain, the maltsters and distillers have manifested no disposition to purchase freely. Even the , 4 I finest samples, though comparatively scarce, have been very difficult of disposal, and secondary sorts nearly unsaleable. On Wednesday previous prices were pretty firmly insisted on, but afterwards the anxiety to realise increased, and on Friday rather less money was in some cases taken. The operations in grinding " barley have been of very little importance, and prices have undergone no change since Monday requiring notice. 1,4 The value of malt has, as usual, been influenced by that of barley ; and though we do not alter our !lon ' tations, the turn has been decidedly in favour of the purchaser. '% The receipts of oats coastwise and from Ireland rather fall off than increase. Beans of home growth have come forward rather Lee. sparingly, and though there has not been much doing in the article, previous r ates have been well su pported. Egyptian beans have also been held at quite last Monday's currency. Indian corn has been held with great firmness, hut we have heard of no bargains in parcels on the spot. Rye flour and Indian corn meal have met with some attention at previous terms. By the Britannia steam-ship we have advices from the United States of very recent dates. The weather a ppears to have continued unusually mild, and in the middle of December the inland navigation was still open. This had allowed of supplies coming down from the interior to the leading shipping ports to a much later date than in ordinary years, and at New York the stock of flour (which at one period had been reduced into a very narrow compass) had again increased to about 400,000 barrels. The demand had, meanwhile, been comparatively trifling, and prices had consequently receded. The advices from the principal Baltic ports state that the shipping season had closed, most of the rivers and watercourses having become blocked up with ice. The supplies from the farmers having, however, been small, prices had not suffered any material depression. From the Mediterranean the accounts are of very little interest. A ,letter from Marseilles of the 27th of December informs us that the tendency of prices had, since the close of the preceding week, been down wards ; still fine Polish Odessa had not been offered below 425. per quarter free on boar d. Very littlei had been done for export, but some purchases had been made by buyers from the interior.-11Thrh-lane Express. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE CIIURNET VALLEY TUN NEL, NEAR LEEK.—About four o clock yesterday (Friday) morning, a fata l acc i dent occurred in the works of the Churnet Valley branch of the North Stafford shire Railway. A number of the workmen were blast ing in the tunnel, .when an unexpected quantity of rock and soil fell, killing a man named David Smith, and severely injuring two others. These three were got out, but the fallen rock had so closed up the entrance to the arks, that the other men coulrl not be retwhed. When our informant left Leek, the greatest anxiety was felt about the fate of the poor fellows still immured in the tunnel.—Sta f fordshire Mercury. Paid. A 5. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 Name of Company. Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . Clydesdale Bank • • • • • • Commercial Bank • • • • Eastern Bank • • • • • • • • Edi nb.k Glasgow Bank Exchange Bak of Soot Isle of Man. Company National Bank North of Scotland Bank North British Bank • • Royal Bank of Scotland Union Bank of Scotland Western Bank - - • • • • • • Aberieen Fire and Life B. Accord. Life and Fire British Guarantee Ins. Caledonian Fire Insur. Church of England Ins. City of Glasgow Life Edinburgh Life Insur. East of Scotland Life Eng. & Scot, Law Life Hercules Insurance Co. Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • Life Assoc. of Scotland Mercantile Life .. •• .. National Fire and Life North British Insur • North & West of Soot. Scottish Life and Guar. Scot. Dias. and Gen. Life Scottish Union Insrnce. Stan lard Life .. •• .. • United Dep. Assurance 8 10 0 4 0 0 IS' PRICES. Paid. X . d 100 0 1 100 0 21 0 10 0 10 0 100 0 1G C 5 0 50 0 7 0 10 0 5 0 10 0 100 0 50 0 50 0 2 0 8 0 11 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 0 15 0 2 17 6 10 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 0 11 0 0 15 0 1 0 0 4 5 0 1 0 0 , AO, MORTALITY in the METROP 9 L X., L NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTEIh 7 . I) ' 7 IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. I, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... D.'.seases of Uncertain Seat 15 .0 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 20 /3 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of ;Respiration 49 7 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 41 3 Diss vises of the Stomach, Liver, a n d o th er Organs of Digestion ... ••• • Diseaces of the Kidneys, &c. . Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. . Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 87 ... 15 ... 23 ... 9 Old Age, al . Natural Decay ... ... 64 Deaths by li,'olence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 79 Causes not specified 0 DEATHS Fat. '3l ALL CAUSES roo►,'lation Enurna rated, 1841. West Districts... 300,71i' North Districts.. 375,97 r Central Districts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts .. 501,190 Totals... ..... 1,948,425 Males ... ... Females ... 1,599 Males Females Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1842-6. in the Five Autumns. Week. 146 ... 256 184 271 196 ... 278 232 ... 38g :288 ... 405 1,046 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Total . ... 1,59•! 84& ..... 754 ... 732 ... 720 ... 1,452 The improvement in the public health during tht week which closed the year 1847, after a season un usually fatal, is not equal to the expectation which the previous report of the Registrar-General tended to create. There were registered in last week 1,599 deaths, showing an increase above the preceding week of 352, and an excess on the average of 553. It must he observed, however, that in the mortality from epidemic influenza, properly so called, there is a decrease of 15, the deaths from thiii cause being 127, whilst in the previous week they were, 142. In the last week typhus caused 74 deaths; in the former week 83. The diseases to whsose in creased activity the mortality of last week i.; prin cipally ascribed, are measles, phthisis, imflammaation of the lungs and air passages. Deaths froi n all diseases of the respiratory organs were 497, abou t 100 more than in the former week. This increase is partly accounted for by the great fall of tempera ture, which occurred on Wednesday the 29th ult. The+ lowest reading of the thermometer on that day wa°, 26 deg. 5 min. ; on the previous day it had bee n 33 deg. The mean temperature of the last to 10 weeks was about 35 deg.; that of the previous m 4 )n ,th was upwards of 46 deg. It is reasonable to sum), use that some time would elapse before the effect of in creased cold became visible in an increase of m , Dr- :ality. The following observations on the weather :are added to the return : On Sunday, December 26, the temperature of the air early in the morning was 37 deg. 5 min., whir ch decreased to 36 deg. 2 min. by Bh. A.M., and increal ;ed to 37 deg. 2 min. by lh. r.m., at which value it i .e,- mained for some hours, and decreased to 34 deg. I.) , y' midnight. On Monday it was 33 deg. till 8h A.M., i;:.t then slowly increased to 38 deg. by noon; at lh. P.M. ' it was 36 deg. 5 min., at which value it continued. without change till midnight. On Tuesday, Dec. 28, the temperature of the air was 36 deg. 5 min. early in the morning, which decreased to 35 deg. 6 min. by 7h. A.m.; at Bh. A.M. some snow fell, being the first which has fallen this season at this part of the country; after this some rain fell, and at lh. P.M. some hail fell ; the temperature of the air at the time was 36 deg. 5 min., which decreased to 35 deg. 2 min., by 3h. P.M., and to 33 deg. by sh. r.m., at which value it continuo(' till mid night. During a part of the morning' of Wed day the sky was partially free from cloud, ,and the temperature of the air descended to 26 deg. 5 - -min.,. a point lower than any since the 18th day o f' . April, 1847, and at the time a thermometer placed on i ll'a!s read 19 deg. ; at 11h. A.M. the temperature of the air was 33 deg. ; at lh. P.M. it was 35 deg., and it co n tinned to increased slowly till sh. P.M., at which ti rue it was 36 deg., and it continued at this value till after7h. r.m. ; at Bh. P.M. it was 35 deg., and after 9h. P.M. it. began to increase, and was 37 deg. 5 rain. at mid-. night. On Thursday, December 30, the temperature , of the air was 38 deg. till 7h. A.m., after which it , increased to 40 deg. by 11h. A.M.; it then began to , decrease, and was 39 deg. at noon; and was 37 deg.. at lb. r.m.; at 2h. P.M., the direction of the wind was south, and it then veered by the east to the north. by 2h. 30m. rad., and the temperature decreased to 35 deg., and still further decreased till 6h. P.M., at which time it was 34 deg.; it then began to in crease, and was 38 deg. at midnight. Rain was fall ing on this day from Bh. A.M. till 2h, P.M., at times rather heavily. On Friday, December 3, 1 , there was only a change of 21 deg. in the temperature of the air throughout the day, and its average vi. lue was 35 deg. 3 min. The day was gloomy and dull. 00 Saturday, January 1, 1848, the temperature .of the„ air was 31 deg. 5 min. early in the morning, Ne,lnch. increased to 38 deg. by 2h P.M., and decreased .tok 32 deg. by 6h. r.st. (at this time the sky was par tially free from cloud) ; at 7h. P.M. it was 34 deg., and it continued at this value till midnight, the sky being overcast during this interval; and at times a thin misty rain was falling. The general character of this week has been in almost all particulars similar to that of the preceding week ; its tempera tures have, however, been somewhat lower. The average temperature of the air for each day was as follows : Sunday, 35 deg. 7 min; Monday, 35 deg. 3 min. Tuesday, 34 deg. 7 min. ; Wednesday, 31 deg. 3 min. ; Thursday, 37 deg. 5 min.; Friday, 35 deg. 3 min. ; and Saturday, 34 deg. 3 min. The difference of temperature during each day has been small; it was as follows :—Sunday, 3 deg. 3 min.; Monday, 5 deg. 5 min. ; Tuesday, 3 deg. 5' min.; Wednesday, 9 deg. 5 min. ; Thursday, 5 deg.. 0 min.; Friday, 2 deg. 5 min.; Saturday, 5 deg. T min. The difference of temperature during the week was 13 deg. 5 min., the extremes being 26 deg. 5 min. and 40 deg. During the week the sky was, with very slight exceptions, wholly covered by cirrostratus, and therefore the period between De cember 19, 1847, at 7h. P.M., and Jan. 1, 1848, at midnight, was remarkable for the clouded state of the sky, and it is the longest period of cloudy weather in' the year 1847. The air during the week was coin-• pletely saturated with moisture, and at all times, ex cept on Wednesday, it was nearly in that state, so that the temperature of the dew point has been little below that of the air. The following is its average value each day : Sunday, 33 deg. 1 min.; Monday, 31 deg. 1 min. ; Tuesday, 32 deg. 1 min.; Wednesday , 26 de g . 5 m i n.;. Thursday, 35 deg. 5 min.; Friday , 33 de g . 4 mm.; and Saturday, 32 deg. 5 min. ; consequently, the average amount of water contained within a cubic foot of air was as follows : Sunday, 2 . 5 gr.; Monday, 3 . ; gr.; Tuesday, 2 . 5 gr. ; Wednesday, 2.0 gr.; Thursday, 2.6 gr. ; Friday, 2.5 gr. ; Saturday, 2.4 gr. The air has been in gentle motion, and it has passed from the north and east, except in parts of Wednesday and Thursday, when IV passed from the south. PROCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—The followini ; persons were yesterday called upon to surrender, unda r process of outlawry, by Mr. Kemp, the bailiff to th, 3 sheriff of Middlesex, at Hicks's-hall ; the list wil I be appended at the doors of the parish churches on Sun day next:—Charles Henry Burgess, late of Hampstead, at the suit of Richard Hart ; Crewe Read, of No. 1, St, Alban's-place, Regent-street, at the suit of Henry C. Curlewis ; the Hon. Henry Stanley, late of 36, York.- terrace, Regent's-park, at the suit of George Merrett and others ; the Rev. William Cuthbert (clerk), late of No. 16, Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, at the suit of John Carlow ; Erie ißaker, late of 29, Upper Brook street, Grosvenor-square, at the suit of James Watts Peppercorne and others ; and Henry Arundel], late of Dover-street, Piccadilly, at the suit of Walter Beckett. R E PEAL OF THE WINDoW•TAX.—Last night a numerous and influential meeting of the members of the St. James's Parochial Association, rate-payers and other inhabitants of the parish, took place at the Crown Ta vern, Broad-street, Golden-square, to take into con sideration and adopt the best meas ures for obtaining the total abolition of the tax upon windows. Mr. Church-. warden Geesin, having been unanimously v in oted to . the chair, stated that for fourteen years he had, conjunc tion with the other metropolitan delegat . es . assembling at the Marylebone Court-house., bes:n agitating the re peal of this unhealthful and unjust impost. During the last two sessions , in consequence of the alteration taking in thheeing"rn-iawstand the calamity that fell upon considered subjects of greater and more Ireland, place paramount importance, the subject had not been pressed upon Ministers; a report had, how ever , b een p re p are d, showing the unjust and odious operation of the tax, which would be placed in the hands of every Member of the House of Commons, in which Lord Duncan would give notice of motion for the immediate and total repeal of the window tax, ou its reassembling. A resolution made by Mr. Newington and seconded by Dr. Butt, calling on the churchwardens to convene a public meet ing of the Vestry, to petition both Houses of Parliament for a total repeal of the window tax, without which any sanitary measures would be incomplete, having :been carried by acelamation, and thanks voted to the Chair , man, the meeting separated. Pm IRON.--GLASGOW, SATURDAY, JAN. I.—The holidays have made this a week almost blank of busi ness. Little, indeed, has been offering, but for such transactions as have taken place prices may be consi dered firm as follows :-465. per ton for No. 3, 475. 6d. for mixed numbers, and 48s. for No. 1, cash. The com puted make of pig'iron in Scotland during the last year just closed has been 480,000 tons, and the present amount of stock in store and makers' bands is 80,000. The prices given above are from 225. to 245. per ton above the average for the last three years. t I • I