The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-25 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23.—The Iris, 26, Capt. Nurse, arrived on Wednesday, from Chatham, prior to ber departure for Ascension and the Coast of Africa, where she will remain, it is understood, under Admiralty or ders. She takes out stores, &c. for Ascension. The Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, also arrived on Wednesday, from Chatham, preparatory to sailing for the Mediterranean, to relieve the 'Wasp. The Espoir, 1 , 0, and Trinculo, 16, were at Lisbon on the 12th inst. Th i e Albert, new iron steamer, for the Niger Expe dition, arrived yesterday from Liverpool, and proceeded to Deptford, where the vessels intended to be employed on this service are to be finally equipped. The Apollo troop ship, Mr. W. White, Commander, sailed on Tuesday, for Cork, Corfu, Jamaica, and Quebec, bringing home from the latter place the 24th Regiment. The Phoenix, steam vessel, Commander Richardson, sailed on Wednesday, for Malta, calling a:: Plymouth. Tho Lizard, steam vessel, Lieutenant G. B. Est court, was paid wages at Woolwich, on Thursday, and is hourly expected here on her way to Plymouth and the Mediterranean. The Driver, new steam vessel, towed from this port by the Fearless, reached Woolwich on Tuesday, and proceeded to Limehouse to be fitted with her engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co. The Rindove, 16, and Satellite, 18, are daily ex pected from Halifax, to be put out of commission. the Lords of the Treasury came to the decision on Monday last, that the future West India mail steam packets, shall embark and land the ir mails at Dart mouth instead of Falmouth. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Paomonoss.—Commander—Richard S.hepheard Triscott, to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—Thomas Holloway Holman, to the rank of ii'ominander. Mate—John Allen (a), to the rank of Lieutenant. The above arc the annual Coast Guard promotions.) Mate—John Erskine Field Risk, to the rank of Lieutenant ; commission dated Nov. 5, to stand next in seniority to It. D. White. Acting-Master--W. Jeffery (late of the Serpent), to the rank of Master. APPOlNTMENTS.—Lieutenant—William Hap (from the Coast Guard, Isle of Wight), to the Pelican, vice Tollsmache ; Vashion Baker, to the Endymion. Mates—H. B. Hankey, to the Britannia ; E. R. J. Balfour, to the Vesuvius ; T. C. Hodgson, to the Indus; S. H. Derriman, to the Inconstant. Clerks—Charles Richards, to the Endymion ; T. G. Mitchell, to the Seaflower, vice Dealy, promoted. Midshipman—W. K. G. Palliser, to the Indus. Acting,Master's Assistant—James Brown, to the Iris. Volunteer, Ist Class—Lord John Hay, son of the Marquis of Tweedale, to the Endymion. Gunners.—. James Marshall, to the Pigeon ; John Roberts, to the Inconstant ; Henry White, to the Trinculo. ROYAL MARlNES.—Captain Ballin.all and Lieu tenant Symonds were yesterday ordered ' to proceed to Liverpool, to take passage in the packet to Boston, whtnce they will go to the Lakes, and place themselves under Captain Sandom's command. Lieutenant Edgar Walter, to the Iris, vice Bremer, sick. Lieutenant H. D. Erskine, to the Endymion, vice Yule, sick. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, JAN. 21 .—The Endymion, 38, Capt. Hon. F. W. Grey, was towed from the Har bour into the Sound by the Carron steamer, on Friday last.—The Avon steamer, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived on Friday, from Portsmouth, and sailed for Liverpool, on Monday.—The Adventure navy transport sailed for Deptford on Monday, with victualling stores.—The Pluto steamer, Lieut. S. Blount, arrived on Monday from the E tstward, and is getting some defects made goad ; she is expected to sail in a day or two for the coast of Africa.—The Albert steamer, Captain H. Trotter (destined to explore the river Niger), arrived on Wednesday, from Liverpool, and sailed again the same evening, for Woolwich, to complete her equipment. —The Phoenix steamer, Capt. Richardson, from Ports mouth yesterday, for the Mediterrancan.—ln Harbour Caledonia, San Josef, Raven, Phoenix, Plu!o, and Car ron.—ln the Sound : Impregnable, Belleisle, Incon stant, Endymion. WALSALL ELECTION. (From Tait's Magazine for February.) Limited as is our space, we cannot allow the occa sion to elapse, without one word expressive of hearty satisfaction at the decided movement of the Anti-Corn law League. From the attitude the League has as sumed, whatever may be the immediate result of the election—and we anticipate triumph—the most bene ficial consequences must arise. The Chartists and working classes will now be convinced that the mem bers of the League arc in earnest in the pursuit of that great object which has been misrepresented as a trick of the middle classes to divert the peop!e from those fundamental reforms more necessary to their well being ; and those of the Ministry, v;ho are capable of serious reflection, must now believe that something more is required to satisfy the abolitionists than the hocus-pocus of Open Questions. A proof like this was wanted to carry conviction both to that insensible Government, who dispatched the unlucky young gentle man, at such a crisis, to such a constituency, and to those misled persons (on this point grossly misled), who imagine that they have an interest opposed to that of the Corn-law abolitionists. In the present critically balanced state of factions and votes in Parliament, the Ministerial points are, of course, furious at any step which may endanger the places o f th e i r patrons ; securi:y in office, keeping" in the Whigs," being the Alpha and Omega o f their desire for the general weal. The real Reformers, also, would, in this parti cular instance, be doubly grieved and disappointed if the Tory candidate was returned ; yet even that cala mity was tolerable, under the conviction of the advantages that must result from the step advisedly taken at W alsall, and which will be repeated as often as a similar crisis arises. Did the Whigs, when they sent down that raw young gentleman, believe that the Anti-Corn-law Association was not sincere in the declarations put forth, that,'with them, the repeal of the bread-tax was to be the testing question of every candidate ? In these circumstances, the appearance of Mr. Lyttelton at Walsall looked like premeditated defiance and in stilt. It was Lord Melbourne's speeches against repeal put into action ; and upon every ground of principle, expediency, and consistency, challenged opposition the most decided, let the consequences be what they might. The lesson which this energetic line of con duct has taught, will make the Whigs more cautious how they put forth a candidate—forwarded per order— whose only claim is aristocratic connection and Trea sury influence. It is of those who sent him that Mr. Lyttelton has to complain, and not of the deputa tion of the League, who only performed a duty to whl.ch the League was deliberately pledged, as the Go vernment well knew. But both the Ministry and their tools have been so long accustomed to see every na tional object give way to " keeping in the Whigs," that they have come to believe that the same game was to be played for ever, in despite of every assurance put forth to the contrary. The Liberal party, and even many Members of the League, have, like the Dissen ters, given them but too much cause for this false security. This is at an end, so far, at least, as regards Cheap Bread and Free Trade ; and this is no mean gain to the popular cause : while the utmost that is hazarded is one vote, which may b e su b tracted from the small Ministerial majority. FISHERROW, JAN. 18.—A melancholy acci dent occurred here on Saturday last. A yawl, 0 ,,,,,, d , by John Cunningham, an infirm old man, belonging t o this place, had left the harbour at half-past nine o'clock this morning, with a crew consisting of himself, a man named Ritchie, and two boys, aged fourteen and fifteen years, for the purpose of dredging oysters. They had gone about two miles north-west from the pier -head, when a sudden squall from the east struck the sail, and, the sheet being fast, the boat capsized. Cunningh a m, who is an excellent swimmer, assisted by an oar, k e pt him self afloat, and was picked up about 15 mine.tes after the accident; but, we regret to say, the other man and the two buys were drowned. Yesterday (Sunday,) the greater nurnbar of the boats and crews belonging to the place, in a most pra i sewort h y manner , t ur ned out, and w _ a were all day engaged u n d er t h e a bl e s up er intendence of M . John Gibson, fish-curer (and who supplied refresh ments), in dragging for the bodies, alid were successful in Ending the m all, toge t h er with tte boat, near the place where the accident happened, To-day the whole fisher men bare remained have just followed ti.„, home to attend the obsequies, and bodies . in procession to their last resting-place in blve r ' es e k to the suurrsc'h-yard. The kindness and sympathy display ed b a y n . d th r e elativcso ceased, in the present inststi a C i r e v i o h r seafaring f t p h a e r t d c e i cur population, is deserving e lee b st l praise, aat al,d and honest is altogether worthy of their proverbiallyell vbwcier.—Edinburgh Paper. HE MANCHESTER C HARTER OF IN F ' CwOllllPO- MATioN.—At a meeting cf the J u d ges i n the y: Exchequer ' 'Chamber on Tuesday last, the day f or ta ki ng error in the Court of Exchequer was fixed for M r on s d a o y f the 22 , 1 of February ; when, of course, something will be. said about ihe cause of Rutter v. Chapman, and most probably judgment will be given. As many parties have supposed that this arrangement amounts to a postpone ment of the judgment, we think it right to state, that we believe such is not the fact. It is customary to allot the first Monday after term to writs of error in the Queen's Bench, the second Monday to writs of error in the Common Pleas, and the third Monday to writs in the Exchequer; and this allotteent has been adhered to on thepresent oecasion. DEATH OF THE DICTATOR FRANCIA.—We eve been favoured with the following extract of a letter received by a commercial house in Glasgow, dated Monte it:ws ,, so, Novemb er l ast, announcing the death o f t h e r .arkable man :-.-.“ We think we can advise with ,-...• :„,., t • a _:leath, on the 20th September last, of the ~ , 0, , ~ ...4 araguay. That extraordinary man bas been t_ ~ ._ tyi , .. tcd to have died, that we took t newspapers the other day reporting , ~,:,,.:- le of the no notice of c e..., • ee..ee...- . re ~--- " - AA - isiiitieteat ff i-bUt were yesterday informed, theo u gi, r a . afectne liere thick worthy of • r e_ --iti, . .. credit, eve6roan- chat! g his death - as before tnentioned.'—Glaegoto Chronicle. —NI :i LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAY. 25. IN RE SIR THOMAS SWYMMER MOSTYN CHAMPNEYS, BART. This case was before Mr. Commissioner Law the whole day (Saturday), and some extraordinary dis closures have been made in the proof debts, for some days past, of the manner in which money bad been raised on " bill transactions." There is a large sum upwards of 20,0001.—available for the creditors under the insolvency of the year 1835, when the deceased Baronet was discharged at Winchester ; and the pre sent proceeding has been adopted preparatory to the declaration of a dividend, which, in some measure, will depend on the debts proved or allowed. The question of " usury" has been raised in a number of instances, and strict proof is required of the alleged debts, many of which were entered by the deceased Baronet as " disputed," and the consideration has been questioned, on the part of the assignees, by their solicitors, Messrs. Lawrence and Blenkarne, of Bucklersbury. A curious instance occurred to-day before Mr. Commissioner Law. A wine-merchant sought to prove Is a creditor for 5001 on a bill of exchange accepted by Sir Thomas Champneys for that amount, for which, it was alleged, wine had in pipes been sup plied to his agent, a gentleman who drew the bill. It appeared that the wino was sold by the wine. merchant to the [Agent at 451. 103. a pipe, and the agent, requiring money for Sir Thomas, sold the wine immediately afterwards to a highly-respectable house in the trade for 301. a pipe, thereby sustaining a loss on each pipe of 151. 10: , .! !! The amount obtained for the 5001. bill was only about 330/. ; and it was stated that, in innumerable instances, the system had been pursued for the purpose of raising money. The wine-merchant declared that he was selling wine at the same price. A warrant of attorney bad been taken for the money, and thereon judgment was entered up before the bill, at three months, became due. It was contended for the assignee that the Court could not allow such a claim, as it was clearly an usurious transaction. Mr. Commissioner Law said usury had been shown, and on the present evidence he should disallow the claim. Here was an instance of wine being sold at 151. a pipe under what it was charged. It was an usurious transaction, and he should disallow the claim. The wine merchant might produce any other evidence if he thought proper, but, as the case now appeared, he should disallow the claim.—The claim was rejected. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. THE SHIP DRYAD.—On Satnrday Michael Shaw Stewart IVallace, and Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wal lace, brothers, were brought up agaia for examination before Sir Peter Laurie. The interest was greatly in creased, and the evidence, most of which was entirely new, put it beyond all doubt that the ship was lust for the purpose of plundering the insurance companies. The statements of Mr. Stott, who, it will be recollected, was charged with being an accomplice at the commencement of the proceedings, and before the solicitors for the pro secution had had time to make the necessary inquiries, will be read with deep interest. Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Laurie attended as counsel for the prosecutors, to which Mr. Phillips and Mr. Farquhar acted as solicitors ; and Mr. C. Phillips attended as counsel for the prisoners, to whom Mr. Humphries was solicitor. Mr. Hobler, jun., attended to make an application on the part of Mr. Stott. The examination lasted for five hours. Captain Tait, of the Banco°len, stated that as he was making for Cape Haytien, in St. Domingo, he ob served the Dryad steering on for the reef. He fired a signal gun which was not returned, and he sent a pilot on board who brought the vessel into port. Tho wit ness then gave the account alreaiy published of the con• duct of Captain Looze, of the Dryad, on shore, which clearly proved that Captain Looze was sorry that the ship got off'. Witness shipped the mate, in consequence of that person's statement that it was the intention of the Captain to sink the ship ; indeed, the observations of Captain Looze were such, that no doubt was enter tained of his intention. The Captain of the port said to witness, the day after the Dryad left port, that he was sure she would not go far. Some days afterwards, a steam-vessel came in an reported the loss of the Dryad on a reef of rocks off Cuba. William Norman Frost said—l am a ship-chandler at 320, Wapping. I was acquainted with Captain Edmund Looze, and knew him as master of the . brig Dryad. I had known him about eight or ten years. In the last voyage of the Dryad I supplied the captain with sails, by direction of Michael Wallace, given to me in Lon don. I did not see Captain Looze on the subject along with Michael Wallace. I did not see the captain at all in London immediately before his voyage. It is now from 18 months to two years since I saw Captain Looze. I have been paid for the sails which I supplied by Michael Wallace. They were supplied for the last voyage to Cuba, and I was paid about two or three months afterwards at the furthest. In July Captain Cuddy, of the Premier, barque, called upon me. He delivered to me some papers and property, as from Captain Looze. The property consisted of clothes, money to the amount of about 971., and a bill of ex change for 400/. The clothes I still have, and the cash I handed to Captain Looze's mother. The papers I delivered to Patrick Wallace, to give to his brother Michael. I was present when the bill for 4001. was deposited in the hands of Howden and Anisley. Mi chael Wallace was likewise present. Not a word was said while he was present about what the bill had been drawn for, or whether it referred to the Dryad, or anything of the sort. It was only stated that it was to be kept till the parties entitled to it were found. The bill remained with me till it was deposited with Howden and Anisley. I kept it in my possession till I received a notice from Michael Wallace to deliver it to himself and Mr. Howden. I accordingly delivered it to Mr. Howden in his presence, and with bis concur rence. The notice to deliver it was not in writing, but Michael Wallace called upon me and gave it to me verbally. He did not tell me what the bill referred to. There was no conversation between us upon the subject. From papers which were amongst those I received from Captain Cuddy, and which I afterwards handed over to Patrick Wallace to give to Michael, I was in duced to believe that the bill referred to was drawn for the salvage of the cargo of the Dryad. After Pa trick Wallace was taken, his sisters made a communica tion to me, in consequence of which I went to the Compter to see him. I think this was about a week after he was taken. I saw Patrick Wallace on that occasion, and he talked over the subject of this charge. It was a friendly conversation, and I did not expect that I should be obliged to disclose it here. I said I was sorry to see him in the situation he was in, and he declared to me that he was an innocent man, and that his brother was the man they ought to have taken ; that his brother was a big scoundrel, and had led him into the error ; and that he knew not but what the goods were shipped on board of the Dryad that were supposed to be shipped. I believe that that was about all that took place on that subject. I also said to him that there were papers, which I delivered here, that would I thought help him out of the difficulty, ea th ey referred to some of the crew and the mat e , the were discharged at Falmouth in Jamaica. I asked him if he e"...c . eange for 4001., a n d h e knew anything of the bill '..AI the bill had been divided, ans wered that he believ 'eve exactly. He mentioned the pri sbountehrediiied not k b. "eel 'Wallace as one. Jarnes Stott was next called : He said, I was clerk taa Mr. Nicol, ship-broker, at George-yard, Lombard. street. Before that time I had been clerk in the office of Seldon and Johnson. I was clerk to Mr. Nicol when I was taken into custody. I first became acquainted with Patrick Wallace about seven years ago. in 1839, when I commenced business upon my own account, he called upon me and promised me a share of his business. He gave me several orders in his way of business, as a bottled ale merchant and importer of bristles. One morning he said that he would give me something to do in eiiecting insurances for his ship, the Dryad, which I Was very anxious to be engaged in. (Here the witness mentioned the commissions given to him by Patrick Wallace to execute insurances for the Dryad at the companies' offices.) From that time until the news arrived that the veesel was lost nothing transpired, and I continued to do business for him in his general way. Some days after the loss appeared, he said that his bill of lading was not stamped, and asked whether the Company would make any objection to settling a loss. To which I replied that I thought not, as I never heard of such a thing. He said, " Oh, 1 know better, and I shall get it stamped." He then begged that I would accompany him to Somerset House to get the bill of lading stamped. I did so, and it cost him .5/. Two or three days afterwards he brought me the pro testpolicy, and requested me to go to the General Company and obtain a settlement of the loss. Maritime and ytre not sotisfied rse p ei a n t g ric iN k lr iv G all r a a c y e at tha tl t ie th N s la c ri o ti m m p e an O t likein formed to see • Captain Looze's letter. He said he should do no such thing. There was the protest and policy , and what more did they want , and that he should make them pay. After a great deal of trouble he br o u g ht me the Captain's letter, at the same time saying, " That be: ter has cost me two sot creigns, for I did not like to let my brother know that I am settling my iiiturance ; therefore, I have been obliged to get it from the clerk of Howden and Anisley, for if I had asked that house for it my brother would have heard of it. I then produced the letter at the Maritime-office, and they consented to settle 80/.per cent., which I paid, as soon as I got it, to Patrick Wallace. (The witness then stated the fact of his having received from the Alli ance Company the sum of 715/. for Mr. Patrick Wal lace.) A month or six weeks afterwards I asked him if he had heard again from the Captain. He said that his brother had b a d a letter fromthe Captain, but he did not intend to show the Maritime Company that or anything else. When I inquired the reason he smiled, and said, " Oh, it is all right ; if they expect any of the goods will be saved, they are much mistaken." I said, ,‘ Well, if you Willa your insurance settled, why don't you give them proof. Will not the Captain's letter do so ?" He said, " Oh, yes, there are a good many pans 1 saved, but no beef and pork," and again laughed. I asked him what he laughed at, and he said, " Oh, it's a clear thing ; Looze has done it well." I then left him. Witness, after detailing several other conversations be tween him and Patrick Wallace, relative to the balance at the Maritime-office, proceeded—" I said I heard of s hips being lost intentional'y, and I hoped that was not the case of the Dryad." He then changed his temper, and threatened to kick me out of the place, and that if I used such languagelto others. I might be troubled with an action for defamation of character. Next morn ing he called upon me, and said, " I was n o t t o thi n k anything of what he had: said the day before ; it was all a joke, and he was sorry to see that be could make me believe anything." I did not apply again to Mr. Gray, till after I addressed a letter to the Consul at Santa Cruz. This is the portfolio of Patrick Wallace. This letter was not written by me, but is, as nearly as I can tell, a copy of what I wrote. It is not my writing. Mr. Gray requested that I would write a letter to the Consul to ascertain what goods were saved, and state when the thing could be settled. I told Mr. Wallace so, and he said it was a great nuisance, and would take three or four months to get an answer. Ile then said, " Take a sheet of paper and write," and I wrote at his dictation to the Consul. He took it away. I wish to explain why I put the postscript. He said, " Thu communication is anonymous between ourselves." He directed me to add the postscript. I asked why, as it looked queer. [The postscript stated, "Of course this communication is in confidence between us.") I was reluctant to write it, and asked him the meaning of it. He said that there was a part of the cargo not filled up, and he and his brother had determined to fill the vessel on their own account, and he did not wish the charterers to know it. Sir PETER LAURIE—If you had given me this an swer when you were in custody, I would have discharged you without any imputation on your character. Witness—Because my solicitor directed me. Mr. Clarkson said it was impossible that any other advice could have been given under the circumstances with judgment. Mr. Hobjer, jun., said that he had advised Mr. Stott to be silent under the circumstances, and he referred to the bar whether he could have acted otherwise. All the barristers and solicitors on both sides said the answer was perfectly judicious, and was in every respect creditable to the gentleman who advised it. Witness proceeded—l wished to write a letter in my own style, and Patrick Wallace said "do as I direct you, or let it alone." I showed the letter I received to Patrick Wallace, and I also, at his desire, showed it to Mr. Gray, who said that I must wait till the Captain should arrive with the papers. Patrick Wallace said if he expected Captain Looze, or the papers, be was much mistaken, for neither would arrive. 1 said you must have some good grounds for saying so. He said Captain Looze was a big :rogue ; no doubt he picked all he could out of the wreck, and then he had gone to the States. This was said in a laughing way. Patrick is a very jocular, lively tempered man. Patrick said afterwards to me he was going to St. Petersburgh to make some large purchases in isinglass, and to recover a sum of money belonging to his brother, who died of the cholera. He stated that by making the purchases he should save the commission. He said he expected upon his return that I should have got the insurance of the Dryad. I said " How is is possible I can do so as you have got the papers." He then promised to give me the papers on the Monday morning, as he was going away on the Wednesday. Patrick Wallace told me at one time that Capt. Looze was dead, at another that he was not dead. It was always in a jocular way. He also said the Captain was in London for three weeks. I asked him why Captain Looze did not go to the Maritime Insurance. Patrick Wallace said that Looze was a clever fellow, and had done the Dryad's job well, and he would give him a vessel again. I said " Indeed, then lie must have been well paid," and joked him how much. He said 1,0001. or 2,000/. When I was taken into custody I saw Patrick Wallace in the room below. I asked him what this business was about. I did not understand it. I expressed my surprise. He said "It is a dreadful job. You are all right. You are only agent in the affair, and need not mind anything about it." I said, " No more hate you ; you are not master of the ship." He said the papers found on board the Palmyra, belong ing to the master, were in his (Patrick's purse, and they would prove his guilt, and he was quite sure he should be transported. I said he must hope better for himself. He also said, going in the coach, that his brother was the biggest rogue. All he had done was for his brother, who, no doubt, would fly. At the Compter our rooms were separated, he being above and I below. I could see the window of his room, and had several conversa tions with him. He asked me if I remembered going to the Bank with him in the summer to get gold to pur chase sugars at the Mauritius, to the amount of 1,7001., and he said, when I replied yes, " Oh, well that money never went to the Mauritius. I have got that safe enough. They have traced the money to the changing for gold at the Bank, and that beat them." He said if he was transported he had that safe enc ugh. The ex amination of Mr. Stott ended here. Mr. Hobler, jun., applied for the release of Mr. Stott's securities. Mr. Phillips—Most certainly. Mr. Stott is certainly entitled to have his securities released. Sir P. LAURlE—Certainly—l regret very much that he has been inconvenienced, or that any imputation has been cast upon him. The further examination was adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1841. BOW-STREET. THE CRUSADE AGAINST LICENSED VICTUALLERS. Sallcr, the landlord of the Hampshire Hog, next door to the Adelphi Theatre, was summoned by Inspector Medlicott, of the F division of police, for keeping his house open after twelve o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 16th inst. The offence was clearly proved. Tho defendant, in answer to the charge, stated that his house being next door to the Adelphi Theatre he kept it open later than usual for the accommodation of persons leaving the theatre, the performances at which seldom terminated before twelve o'clock. His house had always been conducted in a respectable, quiet, and orderly manner ; and during the fourteen years that he had kept it only one complaint bad been made against it.—[This the police admitted.]—He thought it a vary bard case that persons on leaving a theatre could not obtain that refreshment which they required before going to their homes ; and it would be the ruin of him if he were not allowed to furnish it, for he did more business in the quarter of an hour after the theatre closed than all the rest of the day put together. Mr. JARDINE said he was quite aware that the Act of Parliament in question was one of very great hard ship on the licensed victuallers generally, but particularly on those whose houses were in the neighbourhood of the theatres. He was sure that the great body of licensed victuallers had no idea when the Act in question was under the consideration of Parliament that it was in tended to compel them to close their houses at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, and that, on the contrary, they believed its object was to prevent their opening them before one o'clock on the Sunday afternoon, and on that view of the case they supported it. Defendant-1 did so for one, being anxious not to have my house open on the Sunday morning. Mr. JARDINE said he knew that many respectable li censed 'victuallers were anxious not to open their houses on Sunday morning, and believing the object of the Act to he to prevent public-houses from being cpened on Sunday mornings, they gave it their cordial support ; but, notwithstanding the opinion he (Mr. Jardine) had just expressed, it was his duty as a Magistrate to admi nister the law as he found it. If he was wrong in his in terpretation of the law he should be very glad to be set right, but fortified as he was by the opinion of eminent counsel on the subject, he should feel it his duty to con vict the defendant, but he would do so in a very low penalty—viz. lOs. He had no doubt that the licensed victuallers would have opposed the Act had they known the object of it, but that they were deceived by the am biguity of the phrases adopted by the framers of it. The defendant immediately paid the penalty. Mrs. Giddons, of the Bedford Head, Maiden-lane, was summoned for refusing to admit the police to her house after twelve o'clock on the same night. The waiter swore that he did not know it was the police, or he would have admitted them, and the case was dismissed. Mr..Abbs, of the Lamb, in Houghton-street, was summoned for keeping his house open after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, but he proving by several witnesses that the p ar ti es were a ll p r i va t e f r i en d s o f his, the case was dismissed. After the above cases had been disposed of, Mr. JAR.. DINE said he wished the police would keep a sharp look out after those kind of public houses which were meant to come under the operation of the Act, instead of sum moning respectable landlords, against whom there was no real ground of complaint. EXTENSIVE lir T iio l BB T E 1 0 1 y /V- RD I3 G y A A E A . • SERVANT. —Francis Bugler, an elderly man, was put to the bar, charged with stealing an immense quantity of property belonging to Mr. Alfred Davidson, a merchant, residing in Grace church-street, City. Inspector Penny, of the G division, stated that at seven o'clock in the evening the prisoner was seen to enter a marine store dealer's shop by Police -constable 11Iaddox, who, suspecting him, took him into custody. In his possession were 581bs. weight of copper wire, which he said was his own, and he gave his address in Whitechapel. On being taken to the station-house, witness recognized him as the brother of a man who was sentenced to transportation two sessions ago for robbing his master of a 3001. Bank of England note, and who was apprehended in Birmingham by witness. The prisoner, on seeing him, said it was no use making any further concealment, and he admitted that the property did not belong to him, at the same time ex pressing his regret that he had been led into the commis sion of an act which he knew had for ever ruined him, and he assigned as a reason for committing himself the illness of his wife, and heavy expenses attendant thereon. Wit ness knowing that the prisoner had been twelve years in the service of Alc, Davidson, immediately called on that gentlemen, and they went together to search the prisoner's house, where they found copper wire, pins, needles, buttons, cards, cases for matches, books, and a variety of other articles, which were sufficient to stock a large house to be opened for the sale of such goods. This property witness removed in several carriages to the station-house, and a portion of it he now produced. Police-constable Maddox, 40 G, gave corroborating evidence, and the property having been identified by Mr. Davidson, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9o* Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 90 Ditto Old Annuities 31 per Cent Red ...... .. 98Z Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 98* Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 6pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 spm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... - Jan. 18ti0 .. l2& Consols for Opg 9o* FOREIGN FUNDS. • A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto..... 32 Brazilian Boni!s .. .... Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 Russian, 5 per cent. . . Ghilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 251 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... 13. Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f —e, Greek.lB2s, spercent. .. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —e. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2} per cent 5O, Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99, SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lO% London anti Brighton (50 paid) 431 London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) 18i London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 175 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) . 29 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ...... Ditto New Shares (25 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ...... .... 26 North Midland Railway (WO paid) 77 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . 3B South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)........ 13A York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 72 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Standard.) Notwithstanding the apprehensions that seem to have been entertained by our Whig Gontemporaries, the " grand" Whig-Chartist demonstration at Leeds passed off as harmlessly as Mr. O'Connell's attempt to disturb the good humour of the Protestant population of Ulster —the " black North." We shall not pretend to analyse the dozen columns which the Morning Chronicle has devoted to the subject. No description, says our Contemporary, can afford an adequate idea of the violence of the language employed in speaking of Mr. O'Connell. Notwithstandir.g the bitter animosity ma nifested at the purely Chartist meeting of the morn ing, however, and the vehemence with which its flaming patriots denounced Lord Melbourne as the " most incompetent" reckless, immoral, and bloodthirsty profligate that has ever held office within the memory of man," the usual coalition (" a sort of compromise," says the Morning Chronicle), took place between the supporters of Ministers and the Chartists, by means of which the latter were allowed a shelter from the cold in Mr. Marshall's mill, on the condition of pay ing half-a-crown for the superior, and eigtcenpence for the inferior scats ; which, if the numbers amounted to half the 8,000 for whom seats had been pro vided, must have yielded a very pretty profit to the enterprising owner of the establishment. This sen sible provision for the exclusion of the peorer order of Chartists was, no doubt, cleverly contrived, but does not, nevertheless, appear to have produced the desired effect. According to Mr. Bsines's testimony—and he may fairly be pronounced a pretty tolerable authority for an account of the discomfiture of his friends—tli e Chartists obtained the completest of all victories. " They took captive, he tells us, the entire army of the enemy" (i. e. the temporisers of the juste nidieu and household suffrage classes). Poor Mr. Hume was constrained to bawl himself hoarse ; but such was the distaste exhibited by his ungrateful audience for his oratory, that it became necessary to call its attention to his admonitions by the blast of a trumpet. Notwith standing the compact entered into by the Whig-Ra dicals present on that occasion with the Chartists, that the resolutions should be confined to a sinsple declaration of the utter failure of the Reform Bill and the necessity of conceding a due share of the representation to all classes of the people ; and the astute precaution of demanding money at the doors ; the Ministerial party cut a most miserable figure throughout, and were compelled to swallow their own opinions almost as soon as they had uttered them, and listen with patience to a torrent of indignant denunciation of the great pa tron of her Majesty's Ministers (Mr. O'Connell) the guest whom they had invited to a snug breakfast on the ensuing morning, at which, under the protection of the police constables and the ladies, he practised his accus tomed vocation unmolested. He had evidently been hiding in some hole or corner whilst the grand demon stration was going on, and was at length only induced to make his appearance in the more limited arena, which bad questionless been carefully packed for his reception. (From the Globe.) We never wish to speak . with mer e i n diff erence o f any attempted demonstrat ion which, however unsup ported, unsuccessful, and incongruous with itself, we nevertheless believe to have partly originated in popular wants and feelings. Such is our opinion of the double demonstration last week at Leeds, which, though a thorough and total failure in all the os tensible objects of its two sets of movers, is notwith standing, by no means witoout its political lessons. Not lessons in politics. Not a particle of direct in struction in political science was to be gleaned from the (intended) Household Suffrage more than from the Chartist meeting. Mr. Roebuck deprecated any man setting up for political wisdom there, and we must say that there was no attempt at showing such offensive superiority. The gentlemen of more moderate views seemed to have come simply to sacrifice those views on the altar of submissive coalition with pure democracy. The Leeds Coryphasus of Household Suffrage, Mr. Hamer Stansfeld, kept hi s peace a ltogether. Sir William Molrsvrorth, Mr. Grote, Mr. Duncombe, and almost all the other gen tlemen who arc called Radicals in the House of Com mons, chose to be absent. The one or two other sup posed advocates of something short of Chartism-proper regularly threw down their briefs, and at most adven tured a petition for mercy. The Chronicle says—" The meeting at Leeds, were it to have had no other effect than the bringing together the middle and working classes, who have for some time been neutralising the efforts of each other, will have been productive of great good." We cannot agree with the Chronicle. The middle classes (in any influential representation of their body) may be said to have been as absent as the higher ones. This was acknowledged by the Chairman, Mr. J. G. Marshall (the spirit of whose speech, we must say, abstsaeted from the opinions, we like better than anScatber)—who observed— " If the middle classes in this town have not yet come forward so largely as might have been wished and ex pected to join us, we may, I believe, attribute that to a cause not, I firmly hope, like to influence them perma nently. They have been misled and deterred by the hos tility to the principles of our Association of some leading Reformers amongst mean the editors of the Leeds Mercury." To this the Leeds Mercury answers very conclu• sively : " Mr. Marshall pays us the compliment to suppose that the middle classes of Leeds, have held aloof from the Association merely owing to our influence. But this is a very great mistake. The middle classes undoubtedly think with us as to the Household and Universal Suffrage, but they held aloof from the Association for months before we said a word on the subject," This double demonstration, as we have called it, was a double failure. The Chartist part of it was, in the first place, a total failure, as a display of numbers. The non-Chartist equally was a failure, as a display of poli tical knowledge or principle. (From the Courier.) On Friday we gave the resolutions which were passed at the Railway Conference held at Birmingham on Tuesday last. The wording of the resolution evinces a strong impression on the part of the various Companies as to the responsibility of their duties to the public, a due discharge of which are essential to the interests of the railways themselves. If steam-vessels had not been made as safe as they are expeditious and commo dious, they would not have become the general means of marine transit, a n d if the Itiilway Companies do not net up to their professions of anxiety for the pub lic safety and convenience, they will fail in making them a profitable investment for capital ; and it is not attained,alone butjudi ciousdisciplinarians in h te e appointmentsuperintendents of able u on nd each independent of engineers and contractors, and of every interest save that of duty to the public under the control of the Boards of Directors. It would perhaps be as well that the Directors themselves should never meddle out of the boardroom with the detail or working of t he line, and after such a code of signals shall have been established as experience and a know• ledge of the subject shall select, we sincerely trust to mseiesethhieemi o f n all m b a a n c y k li i n n e t s o s tl u ie p i o r n o n r o ig n i o nal places, as mem bersto himself eve ry e of a board or committee, and pot act in their in dividual capacities. This has been the cause of much the So u th W e stern, arrogat ed d n Brighton will not follow so bgd an example. The two , greatest evils that can attach to a railway 4.re' being a c should much prefer eeeing the st e o r fq n e w i h n e w h ere e t t h e Company.l tecphear ihrampwas%wp:rorrsoege the Stock'Exchange line, or isiift the exclq.tie Manage-, went of the engineer, 04 ,the fifth resoldtion we var ious Companies manage well their own servants, by a proper se wctioi, in the first instance, and by judicious rules and regula tions, positively, and without favour adhered to, with, at the same time, every encouragement, to hay . ng re course to Lord Seymour's Act for protection and as sistance. We understand t hat arrangements have been made by the Board of Wel:kg 'or the preparation of the mansi' n b - uilt by King William the Fourth, while Duke of Clarence (known as Clarence-house) for her Royal Highness tl e Duchess of Kent. It is expected that her Royal High ness will take pwses,ion oon after sth April. It will le remember:d that this is the mansion occupied by her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta up to the time of her decease. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKE I', JAN. 22.—We have experienced a considerable revival in the dtmand during the past week, both in West India and Bengal su gars, and prices may be quoted about Is. higher on low qualities, and 2s. on the finer, from the lowest point before Christmas.—Br istol Mercury. TA M WOR TII—POLITICA L SUICIDE.—Sir R. Peel delivered a lecture " on the Advantages of Know. ledge to the Working Classes," to the subscribers to the newly-established library find:reading room, on Wednesday last, in the Town•hall. If Sir Robert's lectures become the instrument of converting the humble burgesses of Tam worth to that great " knowledge" of their paramount in terests which alone can give them solid " advantages," be will be the instrument of their moral and political emanci pation, and of a death-blow to the faction by which he himself is sustained. —Sea ffordshire Examiner. SIR COLIN CA M PIA ELL.—It is understood that Sir Colin Campbell departs for his Government of Ceylon on the 30th inst. Holding himself high rank in the army, he will assume the command of the troops in the island, and Sir R. Arbuthnot, the present commander of the forces, will proceed to liindostan. Mr. Mackenzie, the former Governor, being a civilian, a military com mander was required ; but by the new arrangement, a saving will be effected of 2,5001. per annum—the amount of Sir R Arbuthnot'a salary—the two departments now centering in the same person. THE ARCH IM EDES SCREW,—The Liverpool Standard bas devoted considerable space to a clear and circumstantial account of this important invention. "We have much satisfaction," says the Standard, "in stating that the Government have at length decided on adopting it into the navy." We are not aware what grounds there may be for such a rumour, but we believe that measures have already been taken on the Continent for the con struction of several steamers on the principle of the Archi medes. In Bremen a Company has been formed for the construction of several large s.teamets propelled by the screw, and as soon as the vessels ai e ready, they are in tended to run regularly between that city and New York. HAMBUItGH, DUTCII, AND FLAN DERS MAILS. A letter from the frontiers of Poland, dated 2d Janu ary, says, " The garrison of Warsaw and New Georgiewek, is now again complete, and we learn from the eastern frontier, that regiments hitherto forming part of the southern army, continue to return to the kingdom. In this manner the kingdom of Poland, which was lately almost bare of troops, will again have an army of a hundred thousand men. BERLIN, JAN. 10.—,With the new year 'confidence in the preservation of peace seems to increase, and our stocks are rising considerably. The continuation of our railway is now seriously contemplated. The great railroad from Halle through Cassel to the Rhine, will be commenced in the spring, at the expense of the State. As we understand the Goverment intends to issue for this purpose a paper currency to the amount of several millions of dollars, to be paid off in fifteen years out of the clear profits of the railway. In this man ner the State will obtain a capital without interest, for the completion of the road, and afterwards have the road itself for nothing. THE HAGUE, JAN. 18,—The Slaais Courant of to day gives an account of the state of the river. The ice had begun to break up, and the water was in general rising. The Rhine at Cologne had risen, on the I6tb, in the morning, 15 feet in 48 hours. HANOVER, JAN. 12.—We can positively state that all necessary measures are taken to have our contingent to the army of the Confederation in readiness to march by the Ist of March. BRUSSELS, JAN. 22.—A letter from Couvin says : —Since time immemorial the waters were never so high as within these few days. Our suburb was for some time entire) , under water, and the inhabitants were beginning to remove, but happily the water subsided. GHENT, JAN. 2l.—The waters have risen several centimetres since yesterday. The manufactories of Messrs. Voortman and Coppens, and the establishment of the Linen Society at Ghent, have been obliged to sus pend their works in consequence of the inundation. All the distresses of a manufacturing population are in creased by the temporary privation of their wages. In the environs of the city the inundation extends fur. titer than the eye can reach, and in some places, where the communications are interrupted to a great distance, the inhabitants are in danger of experiencing as the horrors of a famine. The barns and stables, which contain the most valuable property of the country people aro under water, and the loss will be incalculable. Happily the weather has been constantly calm, but if a high wind should arise to add to the ffccts of the inun dation, their ruin a null be complete. The environs of Bruges are inundated to a large ex tent, and the damage is immense. DUTCH lUNDS.—AsisTEanam, JAN. 19 Money. Bit's. tetual Debt, 2!.', per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amor t Syndie,4% per ............ 87% Ditto, ditto, 3! , 4 per cent 7o3i 71 1 4 Commercial Company, 4 per cent 10152 ICI% Ditto (1035 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 per cent. 904 95 Exchange on London, One month l2 0 Two months ..... 11 9J Dutch Papers, Jan. 20. iSELAiIAN PUNDS—lrsatpiestm, JAN. 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent si7 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 6y - 1;6 3 4 3 per Cent. Thirty•seven------ Loan of City, 0 , 32, 4 per Cent l6 Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent lO2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 22. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vierins, JAN, 11 Five per Cents. bletalliques boar per Cents lO3 Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1062 Allgemtint Zritung, Jan. 17 EXCHANGES CONILONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 15.-13 4.—Two months, 13 2 STOCKHOLM, JAN. !S.—Seventy-five days, 11 37. PETERSBURGII, JAN. s.—Two months, 3l) pence Lamm, JAN. 1 I.—Two iuo .ths, 6. 11 %. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 16. HAMBURG BORSENHALLL, JAN. '5. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan lO7 100 i, Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 103% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 4 —. Ditto 5 per Cent Polish ponds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent Notwegi an Loan, 1834, 4 per CenZ. ... lOl Spanish. New 3 per Colts. lB Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 41,, per cent. 103% 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% 1(0!4 ii:xchange on London, three months.,, .—..... 6 17 —Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 17. NEW FACTS IN SCIENCE. The meeting of the Geological Society, on Thursday, was marked by feaures of peculiar interest. The proced ings commenced with a most elaborate paper from the pen of Professor Oweo,on the remains of reptiles found in the sandstone of Warwick, and the relation of that deposit to the keuper formation of Germany. The Professor detailed the result of some microscopic examina tions, conducted with his usual accurary and persever ance, and exhibited some microscopic drawings of sin gular fidelity and beauty. As the summary Of his ob servations, we may state that he proved that the ani mals considered by Dr. Jaeger, of Stutgard, to form three genera of Mastodon Saurus, Phylosaurus, and Dracosaurus, are, in fact, the same creation, which Professor Owen, from the intricate form of the teeth, denominates the Labyrinthodon. The Professor sug gested the probability of the Warwick sandstone being identical with the keuper sandstone of Ger many, a proposition which met with some objections, though but one opinion prevailed as to the value and importance of the Professor's investigations in a zoological point of view ; the accuracy and patience of his research ; the truth and importance of his conclusions. The next paper was on the elevation of a part of the coast of Ireland, in the vicinity of Waterford, by Mr. Austen ; white a communica tion from Mr. Lyell, on the fish and other organic remains of the Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk, terminated the written communications of the evening. These various topics gave rise to animated discussions, and a fine display of intellectual gladiatorship was exhibited, the combatants being Professors Buckland and Sedg wick, Messrs. Lyell, I)elaboche, Murchison, and others. PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.—It is a well known fact that, during certain past ages of• the history of our earth, volcanic agency was developed on a scale of infinite grandeur and importance, ar.d that in particular a considerable portion of the centre of France, including the whole of the ancient province of Auvergne, as well as the country bordering on the Rhine, was once the site of volcanic agency of exceeding power and extent. We owe ,to - the zeal and energy of two English geologists, Messrs. Hamilton and Strickland, the discovery of a series of dormant volcanos, situated in Asia Minor, commensurate in importance with those of central France and the Rhine. In a district in the vicinity of Smyrna called the Katake kaumene (name indicative of its burnt and parched cha racter), our spirited countrymen have discovered a series of volcanic vents, which though now in a state of repose, were once awakened to the most fearful activity, and must have presented a scene of devastation far excelling that of Fitna and yeauvius at the present day. It is an instructive an.d an awful lesson, to reflect that these once active fires are hushed, but not extinguished ; and that the same Almighty hand which called them first into being may again rouse them to all their pristine energy and power of devastation, CORONER'S INQUEST. FRIGHTFUL CASE OF BURNING--A WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. On Saturday evening at five o'clock, an inquiry of a most painful description was gone int.) by Mr. Higgs, the coro ner for Westminster, at the Flask Tavern, Ebury-square, Pimlico, before a jury of thirteen highly respectable gen tlemen, for the purpose of investigating the cause of the death of Mrs. Hannah Burrows, aged 57. It appeared that the unfortunate deceased was the wife of a schoolmas ter occupying apartments at No. 6, Flask-row, Ebury square. Robert Burrows, the husband of the deceased, was called and examined. He stated that on Friday morning about half-past seven o'clock she arose from the bed, and after lighting the fire and making breakfast ready, she called him shortly after eight. He got up, but after breakfast was compelled to go to bed, owing to his feet being cold. He had not been there long before he was alarmed by hearing deceased scream out, " Oh, Robert, Robert, I am on fire." The bed was in the same room, and on turning he perceived the deceased's apron in flames. He jumped out of bed, and succeeded, he thought, in effectually ex tinguishing the fire, and she sat down on a chair near the window. Shortly after she , appeared in one blaze and set the room on fire. CORONER—Were you sober at the time? Witness— ! was: Juror—When did you discover that she was again on fire? When she sat down on the chair I think she fainted away, and it was some minutes before I perceived that the whole of her underclothing was on fire. I got hold of her and put her on the floor, when I threw a cloak over her, and endeavoured to extinguish it, but could not. The fire and smoko became so great that I was almost suff9.. cated. Juror—Was there no one in the house to assist you ? Witness—Yes; and they came immediately. I gave the alarm. A Juror said it appeared to him that the witness had not exerted himself as he should have done. The poor wo man trust have suffered dreadfully—in fact he never saw a more shocking sight. She was completely baked. Ad dressing the witness—How long was it before you called assistance? Witness—l can't say exactly, for I was so frightened. Juror--Did you attempt to do anything else to extin guish the fire after throwing the cloak over her ? Wit ness—l threw over her a piece of oil-cloth, and burnt my hands in so doing. A Juror here requested of witness to show his hands, which he did, but there were no burns to be seen. CORONF.R—HOVr long was it before the fire was put out? Witness—Upwards of twenty minutes. A Juror (to the Coroner)—lt's most extraordinary that she could hare been burning that time. There must be great neglect somewhere. _ - The CORONER observed that the witness was thrown into such a state of excitement at the time, that he know not what actually occurred. A Juror—flow long did deceased live after the flames were got under? Witness—She was dead, Sir, long be fore that was done. CORONEa— When you gave the alarm, what was done ? Witness—The landlord came up, and subsequently other parties, and they extinguished the flames. Mr. 13assan, the occupier of the house, said that about nine o'clock on Friday morning he was alarmed by cries of fire. Thinking it came from the street he opened the window to see where it was, but seeing all was quiet, a thought struck him that the cries were in the house, and he immediately ran up stairs. On reaching the landing_ place of the first floor he was met by the first witness, who was in a dreadfully excited state, and was crying out, " Fire, fire." He rushed into the front room, which was full of smoke, and on fire in several parts. Under a table in the centre of the room lay the deceased appa reedy in the agonies of death. Her clothes were on fire, and it was burning fiercely about her. Witness managed to get hold of her arm, dragged her out of the room to the topof the stairs, a here he left her, and ran down stairs to givo the alarm. He returned as soon as possible with a blanket, and wrapped it round the deceased, but he was unable to put the fire out; subsequently two pails of water were brought to him, which he threw over her and it was then extinguished. On examining the room he found the chair upon which the deceased had been sitting burnt through. It seemed as if her clothes had been on fire when she sat down, as stated by her husband. The flooring of the room in several parts was much burnt. In answer to several questions, witness added, that he had never seen the hus band or deceased intoxicated during the period that they had lived in his house. A Juror (to the husbani.)—Can you in any way account fur deceased's clothes taking fire?—Husband. No, air, I cannot. Several of the jury considered that there was a mystery about the ease, and that the unfortunate deceased could not have been burned more had there been no one in the room. There being no other evidence, the Coroner made some few observations, and the jury returned a verdict, That the &ceased, Hannah Burrows, was accidentally burned to death." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER- RmAy. There was certainly a good muster this morning, and as certainly no business; all were offers. THE CHESTER Cur.-100 to 10 on the field, 15 to 1 bar Bloomsbury ; the field v. 1 2. THE DERRY.-13 to I were offered on the field. DLBTS OF NATIONS. STATISTICAL. RETURN OF THE REVENUES AND NATIONAL DEBTS OF THE DIFFERENT FOREIGN POWERS IN 1841. The following interesting return of the Revenue and National Debt of the different Nations of the globe, has been presented by the Chevalier Caesar Moreau (formerly French Consul-General in London, and so well known for his elaborate statistical tables on the revenue, manufac tories, national productions, mortality, suicides, &c., of this country ), to the Royal Statistical Society : Revenue. Public Debt. Austria 440,000,000frs 1,700,000,000 frs. Bavaria 70,731,000 Denmark Belgium Holland Norway.. ...... 8,300,00 0 Sweden Switzerland... 10,450,00 0 Saxony 3O 000.000 Wurtemburg.. 20,000,000 Prussia 220,000,000 Russia France 1,184,525,365 Great Britain 1,218,060,000 Spain, Revenue uncertain, no correct official return. Portugal, average 53,000,000 Roman States 45,000,000 Sardinia ..., . 70,000,000 Sicily .. 110,000,000 GI eece .. ...... 6.000,000 *Turkey Revenue not known Persia Morocco United States 135,000,000 Brazils Mexico Paraguay , 5,000,000 Peru 30,000,000 Haiti : 15,000,000 . . 145,500,000 IndiaCumpany 528,000,000 China Japan Siam 45,000,000 AVERAGE VALUE OF GOLD ANP SILVER IN CIRCULATION IN RUROPE, 1841. France England Spain and Portugal 500,000,000f. Austria and Italy. Russia Holland and Denmark, &c. Total 4,500,000,000f, * TURKEY, PERSIA, AND MOROCCO.—Despotic Govern ments, the Sultan, Shah, alifi Emperor, can claim all pro perty of their subjects and life. PUBLIC DINNER TO JOHN O'CONNELL, ESQ., M P.—A public dinner was given at Liverpool, on Saturday, to John O'Connell, Esq., Member of Parlia ment for Athlone, to afford an opportunity of ascertaining the public feeling in Liverpool, on the repeal of the legis lative union between England and Ireland. The result does not tend to inspire much hope in favour of the agitation. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURItENCE.--In the af ternoon of Weducaday week, the inhabitants of Old Bas. ford were in a state of excitement and consternation un paralleled within the memory of Its oldest inhabitants, with the exception of the day when the murder of Greensmith's children by their parent gave such a shock to the minds of many that months could not eradicate. Upon inquiry we learnt that about half-past four of the day already men tioned, Mr. Herbert Twclls, a shoemaker, observing that the curtains in the house and chamber occupied by Ri chard Rose, framework-knitter, and his wife, from whose residence he lives several hundred yards, were not drawn, he informed his wife, who instantly sent ono of her chil- dren to inquire of one of Rose's neighbours whether they had been seen during the day ; the child bringing word that no ono had seen either Mr. or Mrs. Rose, Twclls and his wife proceeded to the house, and perceiving the key to be in the house door, they were sure that some dire disaster bad befallen them, and immediately forced open the door. On entering the house there was not any smoke but a strong smell of sulphur pervaded it. On opening the door which led to the chamber the smell of sulphur was stronger, and on entering the room it was in tense. They were now horrified at discovering Mrs. Rose lying in bed with her head over the bed-stock; from her mouth a large quantity of froth had issued and was still issuing. Her husband was still insensible. The eyes of Rose were closed, but one of his wife's was partly open. Their countenances presented a ghastly and death-like appearance. On Monday Rose and his wife were removed to'the Union Poorhouse in a likla tilted or covered cart, btit so much was the poor fellow reduced, that he was obliged to be carried from his residence to the conveyance in a blanket. Mrs. Rose, however, was so much re covered as to be able to walk from the house to the cart. She was about 38 years of age, and her husband 29. They had no family. The accident arose in the following man ner :—On Tuesday night Mrs. Rose complained of being unwell and of an acute pain in the stomach ; her husband Made a large fire in the house-place, and borrowed a chaf ing-dish into which he emptied the live coals, which it is believed weighed about twelve or fourteen pounds. The chimney in the chamber being blocked up there was no ventilation, and of course the largo quantity of carbonic acid, inhaled for so many hours by Rose and his wife, pro duced the effects already described, and to which, but for the prompt and unremitting attendance and skill of Mr. Morley, the surgeon, they mast have fallen victims.— Nottingham Review, EVENING "EDITION EETING OF MIDDLESEX 101 GISTRATES. A very numerous meeting of the Magistrate. o f the county of Middlesex was held on Thursday at the genie' house, Clerkenwell, for the despatch of county btaliseel. u . A very lengthened report of the Visiting Juatices or "1„ County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell was read, from will v " the following is an extract " Among the many suggestions for diverting the 111 , lancholy and exciting better feelings among the viel e ee patients the appropriating of ono evening in the week 1 . innocent amusements has been found signally beeefic is , On Thursday evenings those who can attend are ea" tained with music on the organ, and also those who er able join in the hymns which are sung on the occasioa " These are among the various means which theVisill 4 Justices hope to see more generally adopted in the Wi g ::: by which the go o d f ee li ng o f th e p a ti ents ma y b e streng` ened and their vi o l ence i u th e mos t e ff ectua l we)? " h a ; trolled. Many instances could be given of patients on I t female side in whom, by th e cons id erate care end 1 : t tuition of the matron to these little matters of amuseo% t and recreation, and by the absence of all harsh treato r " and bodily coercion, the mos t grat if y i ng c h an ges ht , . , , been brought about. Cheerful and decent behaviour 01 taken the place of violence and obscenity, and comP arl d ' tine aptitude for instruction an d i n d us t r y arc now in instances to be seen instead of sullen stupidity or idlefl ; Where cure may be hopeless s u re ly muc h ma y be dole 4, these means to call forth what remains of mental W u ; and in ie:mo degree to humanise their manners and c °- versation. 00 " The Visiting Justices on this, a s on f orme r °coil . 1 are gratified in being able to repeat that the ni anageip e " i l of the insane in the Asylum is carr i e d on w i t h ou t pert ° , ° ,, coercion, and that nothing lips occured since their iss rr t h ' i i i port to shake th e ir c o nfid ence i n it s fi na l succe ss. 4 !; ii , think it due to this humane system to say thus much, out committing themselves so far as to deny the possibut)( of a case arising which may require a return to on e other of the old instrument s of coerc i on . Thi s , howeo; they can declare, that there has be en no suc h instance t 3 ,, Hanwell, and they sincerely hope, for the s a k e o f bung s .t that there never may. If they have been led to sr s , it with confidence, it is because they believe much to be. t , stake, for though their attention has been limite d o its effects upon the patients within the walls of the AsP D O they cannot shut their e y e s t o th e f act , t h at if t hi s hurna o system be proved by experience to be the right en c t o Hanwell, the medical profession, and those who hav e ,i regulation of similar instituti ons , w ill not b e long inLitil cove.ing and admittin g th a t suc h a system, if carrinu" with judgment, cannot we wrong elsewhere." The Rev. Mr. TRIM MKII then rose to call the sit° tt o f of the Court to the l as t R e p or t o f t h e Vi s i t i ng Justiceljos the County Lunatic Asylum and of Dr. Conolly. te , worthy Magistrate entered into a very lengthened st i s o , ment relative to the treatment of p a ti en t s i n the MY'' l o , and said he altogether disapproved of the system of t,r e si f ment adopted in the Asylum since the retirement 01 William Ellis. $ l . d • The Chairman and Leveral other Magistrates reph e very considerable length. de' • After a discussion, which lasted several hours, th e bate was adjourned to a future day. rror The Report of the Committee on the Count,' ",ok surer's Accounts was read, and a county rate of I in the pound agreed to. THE MARKETS. urgV; COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST 7 . 31 Wheat. I Barley. Oats. BCMI6. 1 Fe'', -- --- - t'cr Quarter. a. to s. a. to a. a. to s. s. to s. t'" / Carlisle Hexham 5O 62 32 38 21 23 ~,-; ' Monied) 52 62 25 28 19 24 40 4' "' . 2 Benrith 65 32 23 3 3 ••• 7 , Sheffield — 63 3t 22 41 ' ol Winchest.r 59 64 28 32 26 29 42 45 ,5 , 4 il Per Bushel. a. d. s.d. s.d. s.d. a. d. s.d. F. d. s.d F, ; a °I Carmarthen 0 5 7 7 00 50 00 22 56 00 I , Of CowbriAge.,. 10 0 —0 50 56 30 40 50 5 31 1 , 1 1 i. 0 Swansea S 0 84 40 44 20 26 5 6 60J s, 1 Per 8011. I , Barnardcastl 16 0 1 8 9 8 0 9 3 7 4 86.11 e 12 6 1 , 1 ! 6 0 1 1 : Durham l3 6156 1 8 0 90 7 9 89101113 0 1 " 0 0 Richmond 146 180 j 70 95 56 80 90 it 6 9 0 0 Stockton l3 01901 90 90 70 86 76 86 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Lin. and Cain --- Yorkshire - white !" 'fi " „ :1- 1 e0 (4 4 . °;41 ..--- Foreign, Red —s —a. to 535. l"'" e 00 , White —a. —a. to 604. "„ n e , Barley, Norfolk and Stillitlk s. to 358. u n s4J. - Lincolnshire 1 il l 160 18 91 80 9 3 u e 12 6 1 " 0 111 13 6 15 6i 8 0 9 0 10 I 13 0 10 0 0 14 6 1801 7 0 01a 9 0 11 6 0 ,, 0 0 13 0 16 01 9 0 9 0 7 6 8 6 " WAKEFIELD RKET, A deg' 1, Norfolk and Sullidi Ills, to 625. —.O/ -- Lin. and Cain. Yorkshire —s. to 545. fine white Foreign, Bed —s. to 5.3'. fi ne oii , White —s. to 60 4 . 2 ° oE ( ' Barley, Norfolk and Suflitlk —s. to 35).... ~: o Lincolnshire -- Yorkshire Wold . 26s. to --",. fi n e ,,,'* „, Foreign Beans, New n e q=l' - Old Outs, Potato --..,- Poland -- le'riezland and Sin ?Il - tt c ° 3 3 ?; .51 1" : ::' , n1 1,4 1°5'311 1; I , ,:aling Shelling Malt Rapeseed e r NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE Wbit e ' 50i Red • -s• 61 ' 1 N'hettt, Northurnherlanil - Norfolk and Suffolk ... Os. frit 6 6 2 1 o s .. fibs ::: s--- Berwick and Scotch - Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suttolk - Foreign 29s. 335....... --lc. ....,i, Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk -s. -5....... --s• L I - Grinding and Feeding Pos. 335. -s. .... ,„ Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk slils Ws s.••'''; Beaus, Small 4os. 488 --I. --- 1 . - - Tick ... .w Os. 48s. --s• ---- Pease, White 4 45. 4t,5..... --a• ...b. 5 ''' - Gray -••' Oats, Northumberland, Potat oe ...... ... 305. 325...... . mss. -- •1 _,,,-.4. ---. Feed - -.-- Foreign s. -a ....... Flour (par sack) 4ss. Ni 5. .. ... -•' r` SCOTCH MARKETS. ---;.--‹ Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. °221:0 i .--.. : 33:te ...---- Aberdeen 50 to 60 25 to 20 18 to 22 —to --* is d Berwick 35 45 19 25 16 f... 11 32 -- ; Coldstream Cupar (Fife) 48 65 126 31 18 22 2.1 4O .', Dunbar 4B 68 26 49 23 27 40 4 2 , / Elgin 53 54 26 27 CO 28 48 5 8 , / Inverness Kelso ..,..., 36 45 19 23 17 19 31 34 1 . ; , Kirkaldy _. Perth 6O '4 39 40 25 35 41 4 4 : 1.. The size of the measure varies throughout the CO un tsr. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. gel W neat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 409 First 7os. od. 355 lid. 58s. 48. 41 1 1. ad. $1 4 Second 6O 0 31 0 24 0 37 6 59 . Third Average price of Wheat 2/.los, 2d. ,1 4 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &. Beef, per W. row... Os. Si. to Os.Bd. Freshßutter, C lk. 5.10... .10... t O ' ,, I 0 Mutt0n........,,,.,,,,.. 0 4 0 7 Salt Ditt0....,..... 0 10 0, 0 Veal wow 0 7 1 0 Ditto, per cat. • •92 r' , Pere.-----.... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos... 6 0 ! 0 Lam, per qr. ...... 1 6 4 0 OatStraw(kpl).. 7 0 "o 0 fallow, cwt.......... 39 0 42 0 Wheat Ditto...-. 6 0 1 4 Quartern Loaf— 0 8 081 Barley Ditto ....... 5 6 I Potatoes, 141 b...... 0 4 0 0 Hay, tier 5t.......... 0 0 EDINLURGH MEAL MARKET. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Sterie ot 141b. 110 : First Oatmeal 0 . 1 1 Second ditto. Barleymeat. .... 1 8 0 Barleyraeal ................••• 0 Peasemeal 1 8 0 Peasemeal . ...... ........* Pot Barley from 30s. to 50s. per sack. ~011 HADDINGfON CORN MARKET. :, P' P Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 010, 0 i First .. . ... ... 67s Od 3* fat 27s Od Ills Od $3/ a l Second 59; MI 39; Od I 21s Od 33s Od ...Sr Third s3s Od 28s Od 225 Cd —s Od Average it , DALKEITH CORN MARKET. . 0 4 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. p o i First 606 Cu 31s 01 : 26s Od 37s Od $P.,4 Second tos Od 311 6d I .2a 4d 36s Od $O ,- Third 44s 6d 24s 6d 181 8:1 30a 02 ' ' A GLASGOW CORN MI RKET. 9. ill Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. 5.11. Oat', per 2641 b. fi 6t? 0 I British, old 32 6t035 6 Irish lO 0- ,41 new 24 0 SI 0 British Canada, free 0 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b 24 0 23 0 En Scottish ;46 JO English 26 0 :'..; 6 Pease, Scottish .....• i i 0 # gli ß th eaT, ...... ............. o s , .. i d s rl o Scottish 23 0 25 0 Oatmeal,perl4olb.... •,,. 0 4 Irish ..-/ DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND FO eo Plated on Steel. 01If . I 12 Knives and Forks, pl a i n 48 1. I ivory handles : 12 do., carved ivory h an dl es ... 316 0 ... !it 12 do. ,finest plain p ear l h an dl es 4 17 0 12 do., carved pearl handles ... 5 8 0 ... 12 do., King's pattern, silver handles , They may be had at the above price, in sets of 12, - , pairs, with or without a neatly fitted mahogany case. , Co r A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 11 " -if hill, London, opposite the Bank of England. 1 11 LADIES' GOLD WATCHES, Eight an d I) . t i i rt Guineas Each. These Watches are London-made, ,/ vertical movements, jewelled; they have engine-turn 4.1 o of eases, and ornamental gold dials. The perfornutnc . ranted. Price Eight Guineas and a-Half each. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, tee s Goldsmiths and Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, London site the Beni of England) /■ 11 ( pui TIN a,,,: TIN, t. to n ih cf Februct• r y rIN bets, in in ckfanlt' &t o f the, Si t b Ro Li„". Ra C t ?hi ir' 13 33 s • t ut•Col. Ir. nt . MAI 4t r °L . 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