The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

!EVENING EDITION "MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW::'. WEDNESINAT EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—The. English Funds were heavy to day. Bank Stock was tagain 1 per cent. higher, being quoted 170 to 171. Exenequer Bills gave way to 65. to 85. premium, being a. decline of 2s. since yesterdete Money continues quite: easy. We regret to hear. of the failure of the respectable firm of Messrs. Garry and Curtis, Russian merchants. This failure will no d ,übt lead to a vacancy in the direction e the Bank of E egland, Mr. T. A. Curtis, the streihitet partner of the, above firm, having a scat at the NBA, and having fere' .orgy filled the office of Governor and Deputy- Ge:vernor 'Jf 'le Bank. The amount of the liabilities is stated to tee under 40,0001. Th y. e cost of maintaining the paper circulation of the „lank of England is stated at about 2, 1 per tete., and. the profits derived from the mettritty banltt :Von 1 .404 issues is reckoned at more than pet cent. In the event of such a change beia adopted es we Jieve advocated that of s.upertoding the Bank of ifs gland, and all other banks, in their functions of tesuing paper money, by the appointment of a Board 'chosen by the Crown—remuneration fee the loss of pro fitj, which would thus be entailed on the banks of issue be comes a question of importance. Some parties, we believe, hove been blind enough to the force of tritional rights as to argue with seriousness that the banking interest find really a " vested right" in creating paper money. Th's notion is quite crroneeus. Any claim of com pensation on the part of the hanks as a matter of right is altogether untenable. We only allude to the subject to state this ; but we observe that some of the witnessee 'examined by the Committee were of opinion * thet an eitl;w aece of 15s. per cent. should be made to the 'country banks as an equivalent for the toes. Such a sug gereiou was thrown out by Mr. Norman in the event of the suppression of cou n t r y issues, by the substitution of Bank of England paper as the sole bank of issue, nod e.s a means ti reconciling the basks to the proposed change. In that view of the subject, the proposal seems reasonable enough, although open to the objection that private individuals might get possession of Bank of England notes, and, putting them iJe circulation, c l a i m the commission ; but the loss of the !profit on paper money would not break up any of the ex isting banks. Their profits on deposits and discounts, and tee operations of economising money belonging to the trade o f mon ey dealers, are sufficiently attractive, and ample enough to make banking, in its free and legi.imate oense, exclusive of creating paper money, a valuable and permanent channel of investment for capital, and even if some of the present banks were to discontinue, others would quickly take their place. But supposing that the functions. of issue were to be taken away altogether from the Bank of England, and placed in the hands of Crown c:ommiattioners, we are not convinced that it would be requi site to 'allow any commission to the banks for circulating the e etucen's notes. They would find their way fast enough ev.o circulation by the necessity of obtaining them to atpiace the present currency. Much noise has been made, and is ore no doubt will still be made, as to the great demand e'er money which would be produced by the process of call ing in the present paper money preparatory to the change. The measure would require to be set about with judgment, and proper time allowed to carry it into effect ; but this would be duly provided for by Parliament, and we are satisfied that it could be adopted without disturbing the transactions of commerce, or injuring in any degree the rights of parties under subsisting contracts. The public, indeed, would be evident gainers instead of losers by the substitution of Government paper, fenced with the secu rity of unquestionable convertibility, and the only losers uld be the banks of issue, who would be merely de prived of the profit which they enjoy on their notes - payable on demand—a profit to which they have no right—and which tempts them to inflate prices and en courage speculation to the injury of trade and the best interests of the nation. Such powers ought not to be 'entrusted to the hands of any class of individuals ; and the ;notoriety of the fact that the more it is abused the greater tic profit drawn by its possessors, is a cogent reason for its entire suppression. The notoriety of the fact, also, that the country issuers unequivocally repudiate the doc trine that they should regulate their issues by the Foreign j Exchanges is so replete with dangerous error, that it be comes the duty of the Legislature to stop its agency before it does more mischief. The leading advocates of compet ieg issues scout the idea of being regulated in their cir culation by a reference to the influx or efflux of gold. They have been rash enough even to ridicule that principle as old and antiquated, totally unfit to occupy the atten tion of the philosophers who conduct joint.stock banks. They made a bad point in committing themselves by such a statement, because it is showing the cloven foci, rendering it manifest that they are ac tuated by attention, to self.profit instead of public good, and that the security of the country, in respect ef a steady 'convertible paper money, is in opposition to the aggrandizement of their class. They are actuated entirely VII he selling price of the staple commodities in their res pective districts, and they argue that a high price of corn is a sufficient justification for increased issues. This ar gument entirely uproots the possibility of preserving the convertibility of paper money. It is a doctrine radically unsound, and one that, if allowed to go on unchecked, would necessarily be productive of mischievous consequen ces. To use the words of Mr. Jones Loyd, " I conceive it to be unsound for this reason, that when prices rise in any country, of course that very fact creates an additional inducement to foreign countries to send their commodities here, and a diminished inducement to take our commodities from us ; consequently that must have a strong tendency to produce an export of gold, and ought to lead to a con trectien of the circulation. Now, the principle here laid down is to meet that state of things by an opposite course, namely, by an expansion of the circulation." The constant rise which our dail, quotations show in the value of Bank Stock is remarkable, and various causes are assigned for it. Among others, the very natural one that the Directors have come to an understanding with the Government that the Charter is to be renewed on the principle of subjecting the management to the control of Crown officers. We know no good reason for this report Ite';ides its probability ; but, as we have already said in the 'course of our observations on this subject, we are quite con fident that the right of Crown interference must he sup ported by the leading men of all parties. The only difference will be as to the extent to which the prin ciple should be carried. We have entered fully into an explanation of the constitution of the Bank of France, and stated our views as to the expediency of adopting it as a model in this country. That this would be an improvement on the present system there can be doubt ; but we would wish to see it carried to a further extent so as to separate the issuing department effectually from the discount and deposit business, and thus give the public the full benefit of Parliamentary control and fre quent and full publicity of accounts. Unless the Crown officers have an active influence in the issuing department, and means are taken to secure the adoption of the true principle, that of keeping the circulation regulated in ac cordance with the store of bullion, the mere acknowledg ment of the right of Crown interference, and of conse quence, Ministerial responsibility, would not be attended with any efficient reform in our monetary system, nor would the reiteration have any chance of satisfying the country. TIME S.—lt transpired in the City early in the day that the house of Garry and Curtis, a leading firm in the Riga trade, had stopped payment, an event which excited Innen surprise, as the !louse is one of long standing and great respectability, while its credit has not been shaken by the knowledge of any previous disasters. Of the more im mediate cause of the failure, the rumour is, some necessity which has atiscn, through proceedings in Chancery, for withdrawing the capital of the senior partner, Mr. ()aro.. The engagements are vario u sly stated, but none of them at any large amount, the highest being about Cf)000/ , which is probably much beyond the truth, as the transactions have been very limited of !ate years, and the bons . ... presumed to be the more safe on that ac count. Mr. Curtis was Governor of the Bank of Eng land in 1838 and 1839. and has taken the lead in several puhhe Companies, more particularly with one established for the improvement of the communication with India by St ea m-a project, however, which has not yet been brought into active operation. No man could be more generally emed than Mr. Curtin has been for his gentlemanly demeanour, easiness of access, and manly, upright con duct, on all occasions. The regret, therefore, at his mis fortune. for the whole weight of it may be said to fall upon him, is universal. Some small sales of stock produced an unfavourable in fluence on the Consol.market, but they do not rppear to beer pr9rnptcd by any political cause. IiER ALD.— Reports in circulation about an early disiiolution of Parliament, which m ust l ea d to extensive vales of Consols to meet election contests, had the e ff ec t o f depressing the Funds. The stoppage of the respectable firm of Garry and Cur tis was announced to day, and although in certain circles it may not have been unexpected for some time past, yet to ;he City generally it created a considerable sensation. Mr. Curtis, the managing partner in concern, was the Governor of the Bank of England some three or four years ago. It is stated that the leading partner hai been for %Erne time labouring unfortunately u nder a mental nfiltcion. The house has been long established in the hussar. trade. Cheap government in the United States appears to be very much the same sort of gullible affair as cheap bar gains in Europe. The following statement of the progress ut cheap govern:no - it from the ascendancy of moderate or consenative principles to those of democracy in its wildest, that is /two loco, abstraction, is taken substantially from the Fero York Gazette, where the particulars by the presiden tial term, by the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second arc given tabularly. John Quincy Adams was President during four years. The total expenditure of Government for the whole term of + flies amounted to ueral J ickson eight year; Van Buren four years J. Q. Adams per year 12,625,400 G. sacral Jackson Van Burro Demoer;itie expenditure travels, as will be ECM, by rail way, for Martin Van Buren carries the palm over the mire modest John Quincy Adams at the increased speed of somel,7o to 175 per cent. per annum. POST.—Some little sensation was created in the City this morning by the announcement of the failure of the well-known Russian house of Garry and Curtis. The fact of Mr. Curtis hatin but two or three y ears s i nce, g, passed the chair of the Bank of England, caused more to be made of the event than the actual circumstances con meted with it would seem to wartarut. It will probably turn cut that the liabilities of the parties arc very limited, and that the firm is one of those old.fasb:oned establish ments which have b?en superseded in their business by the new and more economical system that has obtained among eoirmrsrcial men during the last fifteen or twenty years. The senior partner, an estimable man, has, wo believe , been for sores time labouring under a state of mental pro• stration thta ha% prevented hia taking any share whatever in the management of the concern. The friends of this gentleman (Mr. Garry) arc, indeed, reported to have hrs wiled the suiTension from prudential motives, the affairs of the house having been for the last 'eighteen months or two years suspected to be in Aft trnbarrassed condition. The English Funds d'il!clined to per cent. to day. To account fear the change the only thing we heard stated was ; that there was an intention to dissolve Parliament. SUN.—The Funds were heavy to-Ilay-, proahly on account of a disposition, m tht dart ZA the public, to realize their prrits..oti t / 4 - recent improvement in prites. Ifft'Vallie of Consols for immediate transfer was re duced from 904 and 89 to 90 and 8911.1. atstl, rot the Account from 904 and poi to f)O4. and 'B9i. The clos ing quotations were , tiC!. l •.t for the t'Ormer, and 90 for the latter, t Nefleiluer Bills brought 6s. to 10s. premium, and East India Bonds Bs. discount, being each rather `O'lyer. Bank Stock. went up 1 per Gent. lapin, viz. to 170 and 171 ; but we are unable to assert with confi dence whether there is any truth ih tho statement that the Charter of the Bank of v, ng , lani is likely to be re tmed, and that Government Commissioners will be appointed to t heck the administration of its affairs, as in France, la lieu of sweeping reforms in the currency. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 981 to 97i. Not much animation prevailed in the Foreign Stocks or in the Railway Shares. Spanish Active Bonds, in consequence of the still rather unsettled state of affairs at Madrid, went down to 24 ; Portuguese Ne.w Five per Cents. were at 32 to 34 ; and the Three per Ceuta, at 205 ; Mexican Botius were 28! 2 - to ; Bra . titian 724 to 73 ; French Five per Cents. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. 50.1 to 1. The Railway Shares were barely supported at pre vious rates. South Western declined to ISt, and Great Western to 2,54 premium ; London and Bir mingham were 83 preminm ; London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 3 premium without the dividend, and Australasia Bank 14 premium. The failure of a member of a wealthy family engaged in banking pursuits in the City, did not cause any great sensation to-day. The liabilities are understood to be rather considerable. The party was connected with the trade to the north of Europe. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) We elsewhere insert a copy of a letter from a gen tleman in the United States to his correspondent in this country, dated 29th December last. The Ame rican gentleman is highly informed on the subjects on which he writes, and his statements are peculiarly en titled to attention at this moment. Of the value of our commerce with the United States few persons in this country have an adequate notion. But, then, the rapid growth of the United States in population and wealth constitutes an important feature in this commerce. The American gentleman observes, that " a free trade with the single state of New York, now con taining 2,4:20,000 persons, is of more value than the whole trade of the peninsula of Spain and Portugal," but then the progress of improvement in the Penin sula is hardly perceptible, while the resources of the United States are every year increasing with un exampled rapidity. " I regret," he says, "in the examination before the Import Duties Committee to find how few facts were brought out as to the ex tent and character of our trade with you, and as to the resources of this country, which, under a restrictive policy on your side and ours, may be brought into competition with yours." The manufacture of cotton goods commenced in the United States during the war of 1812. "To show the rapid progress in manufac tures, I refer," he says, " to 1826-27, and we find we only worked up 103,483 bales of cotton, of about 3401b5. or 3501b5. In 1883-34 it extended to 196,413 bales ; in 1838-9 to 276,018 bales ; and in 1840 to 291,279 bales, of about 400Ibs. each, equal to 116,511,6001b5. of cotton." Our readers may confidently rely on the statements in this let ter. But if the commerce with the United States be of paramount importance to this country, we ought not to neglect the means by which that commerce may be continued. ‘• If," says this American gentleman, " you would take our e rain at a duty of ss. or even 10s. a quarter, we could se; I you to the amount of from 2,000,0001. to 3,000,00 C: • and the grain-growing States, if that were a pert:. start rate, would at once extend the cultivation, and e euld always, or in most seasons, have a surplus to Bart. ,' for your cottons, woollens, glass, iron, &c." But what ie we hazard by the continuance of our present restrictive -sys tem' The tariff question will come on for discussion -text Congress, and General Harrison and his supporters are understood to be more favourable to prohibitory duties than the Van Buren party. "It is, in truth," he says, " the great mass of the nation who favour this bad sys tem, and therefore it cannot be lessened, unless we can induce your Government to repeal the Timber and Corn laws—and it should be done soon—immediately, to have any effect on the new proposed tariff." The period is criti cal—the change in our system must take place soon, immediately to have any effect in the United States. No doubt the people of that country will do a very foolish thing ; but we are not entitled to reprove them. They are merely treading in our steps—with this dif ference, that they are better able to make foolish ex periments than ourselves. The millions of these king doms who are starved to make incomes to bankrupt landowners, would do well to bethink them in time of the danger with which they are threatened by the reta liation in the United States. (From the Morning Herald.) We may congratulate the friends of order, and the loyal supporters of our old-fashioned Constitution, on the recent failure of one of the most pompous, but most abortive, demonstrations which, even in Ireland, have been yet attempted against the established Monarchy. To contend that an attempt to bring about the repeal of the Union by factious organisations of clubs and sedi tious harangues at public meetings, is not equivalent in its theory and management to a purpose of subverting ' the Monarchy, is a manifest solecism. A skilful surgeon ' may have very original notions about the extent to which he can carry the process of amputation without risking the extinction of life ; but a reckless mountebank, who should undertake veritably to effect that species of dis memberment which, in the mere fervour of his eloquence, he assures his auditory at a country fair that he can readily perform " without any sort of inconvenience to the patient," would scarcely reduce his propositions into practice, without arriving at a fatal issue. To divide the trunk, for exomple, from the head, or to dis member the larger extremities from the trunk, would prove an operation fatal to the subject, whoever might be the operator. Now, surely, taking into the ac count the mere physical consideration of territorial ex tent and production, and the relations of geographical position, Ireland is an integral member of the kingdom of Great Britain, sufficiently extensive and essential to the vitality of the united monarchy, to excite in every reflecting mind the most painful conviction that the excision of the one would be followed by the dissolu tion, more or less speeiy, of the other. On the 15th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, an aggregate meeting of the " Reformers " of Ireland took place, at which it was announced, long beforehand, by all the trumpets of the brazen-lunged and brazen-faced section who worship the Dalton of Darrynane, th a t "an enormous array " of the Peers and ancient gentry of Ireland were to assist. In an advertisement carefully sent forth as a " precursor " to this grand field day, these " magnates" were marshalled with a precision, as to precedency, which almost smacked of the official arrangements of the Castle, or the herald hand of Sir William Beethain himself. But In ! when the day came—which saw in the chair, indeed, an Earl of Charlemont (I)—the whole of this patrician array of between fiwty and fifty dwindled down into four or Jive ! Two Lords and two or three Baronets were all who came down to do honour to the show. it was a " show' in the paltriest sense of the word ; but the parties who were to have been the principal " performers" on the occasion, were not " all in to begin." The Noble Chairman apologised for the absence of the Earl of Gasferd, laid up with the gout. He deplored \ the absence of the Duke of Leiestcr ; whether absent with or without leave, did not very clearly appear. The other great men had wit, at least, atter offering their necks to the noose which the Repenters had prepared for them, to withdraw them again. .Thee would not turn out. So, then, Mr. Dillon Browne, a Dr. Moneeemery, and Mr. Henry Grattan, seemed to take up the parts of the absent, and, in theatrical phrase, " kindly to undertake to read them." This they did, and with the usual success. They made a bungling, miserable affrir of it, the absur dities of which would have been brought out in much bolder relief, hut that they were followed by the prime juggler, the great •Daniel himself. Meantime the avowed intention of the meeting to discuss th e R eg i strat i on Bill, and denounce Lord Stanley, expanded, of cour s e, into endless orations for " Repeal." O'Connell was, if' possible, more intensely vulgar and mendacious than ever. His abuse of Lord Stanley—whom he called a" a m i eer ,. at his exageerated and must false ve rs i en of o a d p fondling" assage (I in that hat Noble Lord's speech. on introducin g his Registration Bill, wherein he deplored the prac tices of perjury and fraud to which the existing sys_ tern of registry gave rise in Ireland—were all in the worst taste of the worst political charlatan of our days. And then his efforts at. drollery ! Beyond the self complaeeet exhibition of his own boorish person, while he twaddled about his " unimpaired physical strength" and his " marchiega and countermarchings" (to use the phrase of another vaunting impostor, Major Sturgeon), the desperate effort of the Liberator seems to have been absolutely deplorable. If we could imagine the man guilty of any honest excitement, we should sup pose th a t h e must h ave b een drinking Father Matthew' s good health very fast, and not in _Boyne teeter. The "speech," however, as reported, is too dull to j ustify so pleasant an idea. We shall leave Lords Charlernont and Brabazon to reconcile, as they best can, their , no tions o f respect for the Constitut i on w i th t h e i r pre ' settee and presidency at such a meeting. But how " ti, I could any gentlewen b- found to endure, apart from the objects o f the meeng such ferocious ribaldry— ! such insane chuckling —Rich overacted strainings at ! jocularity (every new effort being a coup inanque)— las were combined in O'Connell's address 1 " Misery," THE STN, LONDON, THURsinAlr, JANUARY 21, 141. they say, 4 ' makes a man acquainted with strange bed fellows." Truly, politics must enure hint to very dis gusting society. t'roitt the The it'ifenitir of A. ThkeiS been exercised in his long 'report on the project for the fortifications of Paris, to put forward the views best calculated to, act upon the assembly he addressed, and to, elude 'rather than to an swer the objectionsticeur very forcibly to the rest of tt'e csorlci. He relied upon various uncontro verted calculations to shOw that the plan is feasible; he quoted great military authorities to show that it was useful to the defence of the French territory t but he did not attempt to demonstrate that the tthetne was compatible with t 6 habits eto inteiett bf a great me tropolitan tothtbutlity ) or endurable to the common sense of a free people. The estimates for these great works, as presented to the Chamber by the Committee, are under five millions and a half sterling. Those for the wall and bastions of Paris, with all their appen dages, are taken at about 2,000,0001. (800,0001.) though the circumference will form a belt of eight leagues in length, and 142 metres in widths whilst the cost of the external line of forts, covering a circuit of 20 leagues, is computed at a still lower sum. To this extent of ground must be added a zone 250 metres in width, blasted for all the purposes of industry or hebi tation, for which, as we telerstand, no indemnity is proposed. We are a of course, unable to overhaul tin data en which these calculations are made ; but miles , sve arc greatly deceived as to the value of land in tie neighbourhood of Paris, which is enhanced to excess by the subdivision of property, and unless the analogy of railroads and other public works undertaken in the vicinity of a great metropolis be totally fallacious, it is evident that these estimates fall enormously short of the real expense which will be incurred, if the French Chambers really set to work to construct these towers of Babel. But if the cost were ten times as great, it would not strengthen the arguments against the pro ject. The primary tax of 5,000,000 or 10,000,00) on the public purse is as nothing compared to the tax which fortifications impose for ever on the freedom, the time, the revenue, the improvement, the exten sion of the city, and the very soil on which it stands. All other preparations for war are reserved till the time of Reed comes ; ships are laid up in ordinary, regi ments are reduced to depots, stores are husbanded in arsenals, but fortifications are always to be kept in re pair, always to be watched and guarded, always ob truding a portcullis and a ditch, a battery or a maga zine, into all the occupations and pleasures of life. A city is no longer built for peace, but for war ; ever; - thing reminds the inhabitants of capture and siege. Men might as well walk about armed to the teeth, as pass their lives in a fever of preparation to resist a storming party or defend a breach. In a rude state of society security for the person and the dwelling is the primary want of mankind ; and, accordingly, war was every man's business ; every house was a fortalice, and defence the first of necessities. But, if civiliza tion has done anything to improve the world, it is by removing, as far as possible, from man's thoughts the cares of physical defence. Those ho nourable duties are much better performed by a class of men trained and set apart for that service ; and the rest of the community cheerfully supports the charge by which it is exempted from a far heavier bur den. Nobody doubts that the port of London is to be protected, not by batteries in the Isle of Dogs, or a permanent militia on the coast of Kent ; but by a stout fleet in the Channel. To fortify a capital like Paris is, on the contrary, to bring home to every man, in some direct form or other, the apprehension of attack, the care of defence, the burden of military service, and the vexatious necessities of military discipline. M. Thiers rests the whole expediency of the mea sure on the authority of Vauban and Napoleon. On a military matter he could not find a better, nor one more questionable in a matter which threatens to sacrifice the pacific internal prosperity of a country to its warlike propensities. But even if Vauban did propose to Louis XIV. to fortify his capital, then about one-fourth of its present size, and exposed to the chances of the wars of the 17th century, does that prove that Vauban would recommend Louis Philippe to circumvallate a city grown to a fourfold bulk, in an age when the arts both of peace and war have under gone the most complete alteration ? The circumstances of the case Ore so entirely changed, both as regards the city and the enemy, that Vauban's opinion cannot fairly be applied to the modern case. Napoleon had thought of fortifying Paris in 1806 ; he was not in the habit of postponing projects which he judged to be of import ance to the greatness and security of France, yet this scheme was thrown aside ; and when he recurred to it in his memoirs, he did so under the direct impression of those extraordinary events which had attended his own fall. Would the fortifications of Paris have saved Na poleon in 1814 ? They might have enabled him to prolong the campaign, which was devastating France ; but a capital like Paris is always too formidable to be attacked until the whole force of the em pire is irretrievably broken. The case of 1792, which is put by M. Thiers himself, is conclu sive on the subject. Dumouricz's army, on the northern frontier, was turned by the Prussians. Dumouriez knew that the Prussians would not dare to march upon Paris until they had beaten him. Paris took the alarm, and orders were sent to Dumouriez to quit his position, for the purpose of cover ing the capital. He disobeyed the order, which would have compromised his army, from a conviction that Paris had nothing to fear, as the sequel proved. To make Paris the citadel of France, is to make it the point to which all the military operations of her own armies would converge, and all those of her enemies be directed : and tho population of the metropolis would be continually agitated by all the chances of the cam paign, aimed directly at their own homes and hearths. The duties of a garrison, requiring a force of 70,000 men, are, we are told, to be perf orme d b y t h e National Guard% but will the National Guard suf fice to defend the whole line of forts, extending over twenty leagues of the adjacent country ? Those out works, and the extensive zone they would include, must require a vast army to keep up the communica tions between them, to protect the supplies and the fugitives collected there, cad to resist a combined at tack on opposite points of this enormous circle. On the suggestion that these outworks may eventually prove destructive not only to Paris, but to the liberties of France, M. Thiers declares that no Government would venture to contend for power over the nation by bom barding the capital. Possibly not ; but the uses of strong walls and towers are not confined to horn barclment. They may command the supplies of the itv ; they may shelter the forces repulsed by the populace ; and, as M. Thiers himself set the example of declaring the capital en etat de siege, another Minister may have the means of • giving its full literal signification to that expression. These projects arc indeed too wild to be made the subject of argument amongst ourselves, and, as it would appear, too peremptorily adopted by the French people to be made the subject of remonstrance amongst them. As in the case of the French occupation of Africa, .it is la mentable to see how few of the best statesmen of France have moral power or courage enough to abjure and confute the visionary and pernicious projects which they reprobate in their hearts. It seems to be admitted by each succeeding Government, that the people must have its plaything and its prey. African campaigns and Parisian bastions are tolerated, not for themselves, but because they stand in lieu of something worse ; and the world is worried, that Paris may be entertained. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe.) In consistency with our invariable rule, to afford all parties who conceive themselves injured by any state ment which has appeared in our columns, an opportunity of explaining or denying the whole, or any part, of such statement, we insert a letter from Lord Strangford's so licitors on the article which appeared in the columns of the Globe on Friday last, with the cony of an opinion of his Lordship's Counsel on the decision of the Court. In support of our remarks on the republication of the Times' article, and our allusion to the criminal orocee(tings instituted unsuccessfully by Lord Strang ford against another journal for sonic scvcie comments on the case, we are bound to state that the letter and opinion of counsel leave the matter just where it was before. The Court requires those who seek 'the pro tection of its extraordinary powers included in a crimi nal information for libel, to deny upon affidavit the imputations upon their reputation of which they complain. This is the " technical rule" with which Lord Strangford failed to comply. There was no shrinking from responsibility on the part of the defendant ; no pretence that the publication did not impute falsehood to Lord Strangford. This was unequivocally and boldly avowed. Lord Strangford could not, as his counsel states, " frame any affidavit which should operate as a denial of every charge con tained in the Times' article and the Court left his Lordship to the ordinary remedies, either by indictment, or action for scan. snag., of both of which the Noble Lord declined to avail himself. If Lord Strangford or his solicitors should be of opinion that the publication of the observations of the Court on dismissing the rule will at all benefit his Lordship's reputation, we will readily give them a place in our columns. We abstain from doing so until such request be made, because we do not think that any such benefit to his Lordship would accrue from their publication. " TO THE EDITOR. OF TILE GLOBE. " Sir.,—The follo,ving observations appear in the lead ing article of the Globe newspaper of Friday last, with re ference to an application made to the Court of Kinws 13cneh by Viscount Strangford in Michaelmas Term, 1825. The affidavits in support of the application did not satisfy the Cuurt, and the Noble Lord took nothing by hi s [potion.' _ " As his Lordship's solicitors on that occasion, we take leave to set you . right as to the gr oun d s on w hi ch that ap. plication was r,fuscd. " The accompanying opinion of his Lordship's Counsel will fully explain the reason why furth er procee di ngs w ere discontinued in this case, and will also afFord the public an opportunity of learning the opinion of two of the most eminent lawyers of the day, that it was only on ac count of the non-observance of a technical rule, which it wlts almost impossible to have observed, that the Court refused to gratit the information applied fur. Thy btAetvAtiong iii the Giobe would lead to the sup. positich that. It lirth oh the merits Of the case that the Court had.refitse,d to comply with the made by Viscount Stripgford. " tiVc ha'm the tionoiir to remain,, Sir, ".Yo'ir AdiCni,t4nihib servants " PICKERING, SMITII, and tEIMPSON. " Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 18, 1841. " Copy of opinion of Sir C. Wetherell and Sir N. C. Tindal—in re Lord Strangford. We are of opinion, that after the decision of the Court as td the insuiLicetiz df the affidavit upon which the rule t 6 lioi7 6aliati *an tamed (and which deci son we are free to confess was greatly to our surprise), it will not be advisable to have recourse to further proceedings, "Aced, the nature and description of the paragraph originally printed in the Times newspaper were such that we scarcely secs how it was possible to frame any affidavit which shoUld operate as a denial of every charge contained in it. All persons *llO tinderstafid the nature of the case will perceive in a moment that it c•as only on account of the non-observance of a technical rule, which in the particular case it would have been almost impossible to observe, that the Court refused to grant the information. " CHARLES WETHERELL. N. C. TINDAL, " Inn, Dec. 1, 1828." ( From the Standard ) When it is d.fficult or impossibla satisfactorily to answer a question which has been proposed, it is no un common stratagem, to seem to reply by answering 11 ques tion which has not been proposed, or to offer a detence against a charge unjustly assumed to be involved in the tormenting interrogatory. We yesterday put a ques tion, which, as we believe, must, long before we or any one else of the public had propounded it, have sadly perplexed the (4i:cell's Ministers, the question—Would her Majesty's advisers dare in the Royal Speech to re fer to the Repeal sedition, or would they dare to pass over that tremendous danger as undeserving the notice of the Legislature ? This plain question, plainly put, has provoked from the Morning Chronicle an angry article, in which it is assumed that the Ministers are ac cused of having created the Repeal sedition, and the at . tempt is made to faster the production of thi mischief upon Lord Stanley's Bill. Now this, tiro submit, is not answering our question. We did not charge Ministers with having created the Repeal sedition ; in deed, we brought no charge of any kind, not even that which we might have justly brought—lie charge of supinely neglecting the advance of the formidable evil ; we merely inquired whether it was likely that Parliament would be expected to close the eye upon it ? As to Lord Stanley's Bill, making even the ridiculously false admission that the treasonable movement is the effect of the Bill, still the Morning Chronicle can make nothing of the admission in reference to our question. If we are to accept the doctrines of the Morning Chronicle, Ministers are only to restrain sedition of their own making, or such as they, according to their own taste and judgment, do not alto gether dislike : but such is not the doctrine of the British Constitution—by that Constitution Ministers arc bound to protect the institutions of the country whenever threatened, or upon whatever provocation threatened. True it is that her Majesty's present advisers have a sufficiently heavy task in guarding against the con sequences of their own misconduct, and it is equally true that they have a direct and a vital interest in encouraging whatever may embarrass any mea sure that shall check the frauds, the corruptions, and the prejudices of Irish elections ; but it ought not to satisfy the nation to hear that Ministers are too busy in staving off the effect of their political crimes to give attention to an imminent peril, or too deeply interested in the collateral purpose of a sedition threatening the dismemberment of the em pire, to offer it to the notice of Parliament. What it -concerns the nation to know is, not the origin, but the existence of the danger—not the bearing which that danger may have upon the interest of parties, but its tendency to the ruin of the empire itself ; and it any danger of great magnitude really threatens, it is surely the duly of the executive—all other considerations laid aside—to communicate the fact to the assembled Par liament. Will Ministers dare to do this, or will they dare to leave it undone? (From the Courier.) The chief thing complained of as a monopoly is that of the coal trade ; and if there be one article more than another which ought to be brought free from all the charges incidental to such a state of things, to the door of the consumer, it certainly is coals. We have been blessed by Providence with extensive beds in different parts of the country of the most beautiful coal ; that which lies under the counties of Durham and Northum berland being the acknowledged best. The insular posi tion of Great Britain brings with it humidity and fogs, followed by catarrhs, rheumatism, and fever ; the best prevention, however, to these complaints is the social habits of an Englishman's fireside, and where a good blazing coal fire can be procured the vice must be natural, and not acquired from necessity, that drives a person to the gin-shop. But in this immense metro polis, where the highest degree of luxury and the lowest depths of misery are equally to bo found, coals, the ar ticle most essential, and indeed the very foundation of all our comforts, is the very dearest we have to pur chase ; and this evil is made doubly severe by the cir cumstance that they are made dear, especially, to the metropolis. Take coals to any distant outport, the freight is no greater than in London, the charges less, and, in fact, they may be carried on to the West ladies and sold at the ordinary London price. DEATHS IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLDBATH-FIELDS.-- 011 Tuesday Mr. Baker, officiating loco Mr. Wakely, invalided, held two inquests on the bodies of prisoners in the House of Correction, Coldbath fields. The first was on the body of Letitia Stringer, aged thirty-five, the wife of a policeman. It appeared that de ceased was received into the prison in November last, hav ing been convicted at the Central Criminal Court Sessions of that month, of stealing in the station-house, in which she lived with her husband, divers articles, such as Sc.', sugar, bread, and butter, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. When she came into pri son she was large in the family way, and consequently was not put to any labour. On the 10th instant she was de livered of a fine male child, now alive and doing well. Hcr confinement was preceded by convulsions, attributable to fretting at her situation. She gradually sank after her necouchement, and died on Sunday last of peritonitis. C second inquest was on the body of Charles Dyer, aged seventeen. Deceased was received into the prison on the 28th of October, having been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of stealing haj and corn, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. On the 20th December deceased complained of severe cold, and was taken into tho infirmary. He got better, and on the 29th of the same month, at his own request, he was placed in the convalescent ward. On the 3d in stant he was re-admitted into the infirmary with sore throat and cough. Though every attention was paid him by Mr. Wakefield, the prison surgeon, he expired on Sa turday last of bronchitis. Verdict in each case—" Natu ral death." SINGULAR COMBAT.-A short time ago a rather curious circumstance, though not unpossessed of serious features, occurred among the mountains in the vi cinity of Keswick. Two shepherds met on Saddleback Fell, about three miles from that town, who had some time previously had a slight dispute relative to the superiority of the flocks they respectively tended on the mountains, aggravated, report says, by each having made choice of the same rosy-checked mountain maid to share their bed and board, and become the partner of their joys and sor rows through life. Be this, however, as it may, here, upon the top of this lonely mountain, with no mutual friend to appease their anger, did those two guardians of their woolly tribes kindle up the dying embers of their former animosity, and resolved to try their prowess in a regular turn up, unaided or abetted by either seconds, bottlehol ders, or bystanders. To work they went in right good earnest ; they fought hand to hand and foot to foes through many a weary round; the lonely mountain bird was the sole witness of the valour they displayed. The contest long continued doubtful, till at length, by the chance of war, one of them was thrown down upon the naked rock, and had his shoulder dislocated, and was otherwise much injured. The victor knew not what to do with his vanquished companion ; no one was at hand to lend his aid, and he cculd not leave him to perish on the mountain. As a feeling of generous sympathy has alwa,s a place in a valiant heart, the brave shepherd, actuated by the best feelings of his nature, sct about bearing his com panion from the mountain, which he found to be a much more laborious task than he had even to perform in van quishing him. Like the knights of old, whose greatest care was to provide for those whom they had vanquished in battle, our heroic shepherd bore his ill-starred opponent from the mountain with no little labour, presenting him to his friends in a condition which showed him to be at once a proof of his valour and an object of his sympathy. If ever this doughty champion should again go to battle, we are apt to think he will calculate the trouble of conveying home a wounded antagonist with more accuracy than he did on this occasion, and fix the scene of his future triumph nearer the abode of man, and on sonic less elevated station ,in t t, Mont gomeryvi,itil than the far-famed Saddleback.—Ca rnberland Pac q uet. A deputation from the Ban k of Asia, consistin g of Mr. Jardine, Martin, had E. an S. interview, M. ) 1)73. appointment, 'tad w, i the Chairman and Deputy- Chairman of the East India Company on Tuesday._Colonial Gazette. THE CORN-LAWS. -- STARVATION. —Two men hare been committed to the Walsall borough gaol for stealing bread, while in a state of starvation. The matter has excited a strong feeling in the borough on the subject of the Corn-laws, and a placard, of which the fol lowing is a copy, has been posted in different parts of the town:---" Corn-law Crime.—Two pour men are now in the gaol of this borough for stealing bread this morning from the shop of Junes Wes:kes, baker, Digbcth. The prisoners were in a state of starvation —without money, and unable to procure employment. Starved by Act of Par liament, they have now to be punished by Act of Parlia ment. Christians, the curse of God is coming upon us, Holy Writ declares the bread of the needy is his life, h e that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.' Dare you then, in the face of Heaven, vote for the bread-taxer ? —l,Valsall, Jan, 18, 1841." ANCIENT CONCERTS.—The seventy-fifth eca son of the Queen's Concerts of Ancient Music trill cont. mence on the 10th of March, and the rest of the perform_ ances vein take plac e as fellow:—March 24th, April 21it and 28th, May sth, loth, 19th, and 2611. The Messiah will be performed on the 2d of June, which will close the season. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 20. TAYLOR V. RUNDELL. This case came before the Court upoa appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor. The bill was filed by the late Sir Herbert Taylor, and tht ather otecUtors of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, -calling upon the defendant to account for the svciking of the mines of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia. which ttcre granted by George the Third to the Duke of York, and whd tad leased them to the defendants, who bad Ton:-.2d a company for the purpose of working them. The defendants their answer to the bill. in whieli they gated their inability to :ye a full account. Com pany the ifaiisat , titht, as the other members or ~.I . who had not been ttiade pattie; refused to Five up the books. To this answer exceptions Ware taken for insufficiency, and a reference was directed to the Master to ascertain that fact. 'rbe Master reported the an swer ..inflicient, but to that report exceptions were taken width *ere allowed by the Viet-Chancellor upon their being argued before him, and from that decision the present appeal was brotOtf: Mr. WAKEFIELD and Mr. Wool) Weft uotm,el for the appellant. The Loan CIIANCELLOR, without callia;:,r upon Mr. Wigram, who was counsel for the respondents, ordered Cie appeal to be d!sruis'wti, thereby upholding the deci sion of the Vice Chanedlur. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, JAN. 20 THE QUEEN V. THE MOST NOBLE Aid.THER DUKE or WELLINGTON, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITV' OF OXFORD. , Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK had yesterday brought under the notice of Mr. Justica IVilliams a motion of rather an unusual nature, and had by him been re ferred to the full Court. It was an application for a writ of prohibition, directed to the authorities of tin University of Oxford to restrain them from proceeding further in a suit instituted in that Clurt against the plaintiff in a eertain case, and Lis attorney. He was sa tisfied that when the facts of the case came to be fully examined by the Court, although the application might be a novel one, their Lordships would be of opinion that the Chancellor's Court of Oxford, in order to relieve themselves of the difficulty of claiming cognizance, had as sumed a jurisdiction to which they had no claim whatever. The affidavits disclosed that Mr. Taylor was employed by a tradesman named Barnes to commence an action against an undergraduate of Worcester College, Ox ford. Ou the 22d of February last he issued the writ, and on the 7th he was served with a process or citation from the Chancellor's Court of the University of Ox• ford, to appear before the Vice-Chancellor of the Court on the 28th instant, to answer certain charges of having infringed the statutes and privileges of the College in having issued the writ. With great deference to the authorities of the College, although the noble and learned personage at its head knew nothing of the matter, or much less than their Lordships at present did, he sub mitted that they had no jurisdiction whatever to take so extraordinary and unheard of a course. He (Sir F. Pollock) had had the honour of being for many years Commissary of the Chancellor's Court of Cambridge and although the Court claimed jurisdiction in certain cases where one or both of the parties were members of the University they had never arrogated to themselves so extraordinary a power as the facts disclosed in the present case exhibited to their Lordships. Mr. Taylor did not appear, and he was ordered to stay all proceedings in the cause, and to pay the costs. A similar citation was served upon the plaintiff, who had actually been arrested under a warrant, and compelled to pay the money. There was at the present moment a warrant against Mr. Taylor to arrest him for the costs in the Chancellor's Court. He trusted the Court would not put Mr. Taylor to the cost and inconvenience of ap plying for a writ of habeas corpus, or of bringing an action for money had and received. He considered that al most as a right he was entitled to apply for prohibition, the Court certainly having no legal jurisdiction to take such a step. How could the Chancellor of the Uni versity of Oxford have any power to punish an attorney for merely discharging his duty in suing Gut the regular process of a superior Court, the Court of Queen's Bench. He trusted, under these circumstances, the Court would grant him the rule. COURT—Take a rule. THE QUEEN V. THE BRISTOL DOCK COMPANY. This was a mandamus directed to the defendants, and commanding thee) to make certain repairs in a navigable cut or canal, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 43 Geo. 111., c. 140. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now submitted to the Court that the return made to the writ by the defend ants was bad. Tile defendants were authorised under the provisions of the Act to make a new cut for the river Avon, and they were to keep the cut, with the hanks thereof in proper repair. The mandatory part of the writ was to mend the banks of the new course, but to that they gave no direct answer—they merely referred to the depth and bottom of the new course and the inclination of the sides, which, they maintained, were in proper repair, and as nearly of the required width and slope as circumstances permitted. The gra vamen of the complaint was that the banks were out of repair, and no answer being given thereto, he sub mitted that the return was bad and insufficient, and that the peremptory mandamus must go. Sir F. POLLOCK, for the defendants, submitted that the Court was not in the habit of granting mandamuses whenever the party had any other specific remedy. I❑ a case like the present, where there were merely re pairs to be done, the proper course was to appeal to a Jury. here the defendant had made a navigable canal or cut in lieu of the old one, and if any parties had suffered by that, tkey could indite the defendants. Ile submitted that they had done every thing required by the Act—that the return was a full and satisfactory answer to the mandamus, and therefore the rule ought to be discharged. The Comer said it did not appear from the argu ments ►that the return went a great way to answer the complaint, but it was a point requiring further consi. deration —Judgment deferred. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAx. 20. (Sittings in Banco.) HUMPHREYS /3. O'CONNELL. This was an action upon a bill of exchange, to the declaration in which the defendant had pleaded that the bill in question had been given in consideration of two other bills of exchange which formed part of three bills given to cover certain monies lost at a certain game of chance called French Hazard ; they were give❑ for an illegal consideration, and therefore the action could not be maintained. The plaintiff's replica tion was de injuria, to which the defendant specially de murred. Mr. Wards appeared in support of the demurrer, and cited a number of cases in order to show that the plaintiff had no right to recover upon bills given for such a consideration. Mr. HENDERSON was about to argue on the other side When he was stopped by, The COURT, who said the rule of law did not apply in the present case. The defendant went too far, he denied his liability to any one. Judgment for the plaintiff. KINGSTON PETTY SESSIONS. Mr. Green, a saddler at Kingston, attended to answer an information charging him with having un lawfully slaughtered a horse without having been licensed, and without giving due notice to the inspector of the houses of horse slaughterers of his intention to kill the animal. Mr. Guy attended in behalf of the defendant, and the case was one of a novel character. Charles Dobbs deposed that he was in the employ of a gentleman named Edwards, at Sarbiton, and master, having a favourite horse that was past labour, he was sent to Mr. Green to ask him to come and kill it. Mr. Green accordingly came to his master's and killed the animal. Mr. Walter, the person appointed to inspect the houses for slaughtering horses in this district, said that tf,is was his case. _ . Mr. Guy submitted to the bench that there was no case at all, and said that he was altogether at a loss to know what offence was charged against his client. It appeared that a gentleman desiring to have his horse killed upon his own premises, which any gentleman had a right to do if he pleased, had sent for Mr. Green to destroy the animal, and he had done so, and he must contend with confidence to the bench, that in so doing he had not committed any offence whatever against the law. Sir It. FREDERICK said he agreed with Mr. Guy. If any gentleman thought proper to have hi s h orse kill e d upon his own premises , he d i d not see that th e inspec tor had any thing to do with it. The Inspector said he contended that notice ought to .he given to him before the horse was killed. Sir It. FREDERICK—DO you mean to say that if I wished one of my horses to be Bled, that I alll bound to give you notice ? The Inspector—No, but the party who is employed to kill the animal ought to give me notice. The BENCH, after a brief consideration of the matter, decided that no case had been made out, and dismissed the information. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO U SE, INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX ASSU RANCE OFFlCE.—Yesterday Sir PETER LAURIE came to the Justice-room while Alderman Pr RIE was officiating, and stated Ilia he had a communication to make which he considered to be one of considerable public import ance, and he was glad to see in the Chair on the occa sion a Magistrate to whom the public were already under great obligations for the exposure of the scheme called the British and Australasian Bank, No. 5.5, Moorgatv-street, the two principal parties concerned with which were at present in the Queen's Bench prison. Alderman PIRIE lamented that he had not succeeded in obtaining for the poor people who had given them money for the letters of credit at the British and Aug. tralasian Bank any part of the property they had EVENING EDITION..., risked. lie regretted to learn that there were many other speculations by which persons with limited m"a"' had suffered considerably; and he should feel much gra- Royal Artillery.—The detachment under tit° e, c ' e ll/ L "l t tle 4 Captain Palmer, after having embarked I. the Aes op tification in contributing, as much as lay in his power, Ben, Ordnance sloop, on Friday last, to relieve t" uan • to the detecticn end exposure of the inquities of the im. meet at Purfleet, were run ashore on occount of q i mu postors who thrived by them. Sir P. LAURIE stated that he had to call the oaten. • • • tity of ice in the river, and marched back to the err sble lion of Alderman Ririe to :1 Company, which, for the On the following day they again embarked, and ' er e to proceed to their destination, the river having be ''' plac e extent of the robberies committed by the few individuals siderably cleared of the ice by the thaw which took: who established it, exceeded any thing within his me- on Saturday. - od mory. He had received the following note front the 7th ilussars.—A considerable quantity of 8110' ..,. Editor of a Scotch pap er , an d h e h a d i nqu i re d i nto t h e fallen at Montreal, where this regiment is at pre sel4 particulars, and round them to be by no means exagge- ; sioned, previous to the 27th November, and, the W.-7,i, rated : having cleared up, the sleighing throughout the tovvu o beautiful. The winter carriages of the inhabitants have _ o n " Scotch Rtpincli Gazdtc Office Gilt 2 . ts '"' most instances been altered agreeably to the ordinance , u . January 16, 1841. " Tile Editor of the Scotch Rem-niers' Gazelle pre- the police were instructed to take up all who failed t° c°11 ; tents his r....,- (!ctftil complements to his distinguished ply with its irjunctiors. On the lbove-menioned days % Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, Lord Sydenhartly b ut . 7 Laurie, a nd begs t o call the at. }Jelled to hit passing :don , the' street, and, observing t " i a ll . countryman Sir l't: in the paper, tra.',- Captain Warren. of the 7th Hussars, was driving A l'! e z g g b tenting of fir Peter to all !Ar t icli: ; pitted by this post ; respecting t ,,!..` Middlesex AF.SIII , not altered, h's Excellency asked a policeman if thereille W 11,3 not liable to be taken up, and being answered 10 00 ance se.'indlers, who have just absconae'd with abou' affirmative, he ordered the manto do his duty, and Col ) 200,000/. of their victims' money ! airl " The Middlesex are part of the same gang who ha :Varren was instantly stopped . d ' Coldstream Guards ( 2:1 battalion).—The anniver . , the unparalleled audacity to advertise the name of his The . dinra - r of the St. Andrew's Society, was held at On A n° G race the Duke fyr Welling/on, as patron of a Lqmst i uk t o, f4ocbee, on the 30th of November, 1810• - 4 Company end General Deposit Bulk, formerly exposee I, band and glee singers of this gallant regiment attendk, at the Mansicirr-he.esce 1 the great delight of the company assembled on this ''' THE ARMY. iman.a " 'Tice Duke wrote to the Edit,ar of tire Gazette, an thorising him to expose the gang, which was done cEe twill) in this quarter ; but the Press, in too many places, continued to publish the specious advertisements of the awindl:,!rs, and even to pull' them ; and hence the swindlers succeeded in pillaging the public to the above enormous extent." The article alluded to, which contained at: account of the flight of the Directors of the Company from their premises, No. 27, Baker -street, Portman-square, which were left without an atom of furniture or property of any kind, stated that the course of proceeding was most ingenious. When the Scotch paper attacked the gang they brought actions against the proprietors for damages to an enormous amount, took care to let the public know that they were appealing to the law for redress, and became more and more confident, in the tone of their addresses by advertisement, so that they made the very fact of the aecusatlon against them instru mental to the attainment of their great object of plun dering all ranks of the people. It was not supposed to be possible that an Association established in so re spectable a part of the metropolis, constantly appearing before the public its expensive advertisements, and taking its own part in the most awful man ner in the Courts of Law when airy one dared to asperse its motives, could base been set on foot by the mere exertions of a couple of gentlemen's servants and a couple of !lankrupts in desperate circumstances, and carried on in the open day,, for the mere purposes of plunder. The fact, Sir Peter said, now stared the uufortunatc annuitants in the face. One of them had put into his hands the foi.- lowing memorandum, which Mr. Knowles, a partner in the Company, had given to her, upon receiving from her the suns of 4951., on which she had been paid at the rate agreed upon, until the bubble burst : " Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Office for Fire, Lives, and Annuities, 27, Baker-street, Portman-square (opposite the Bazaar.) " London, 7th of May, 1839. " Mrs. Wallis has this day deposited in my hands a cheque for the sum of four hundred and ninety-five pounds, being the balance of purchase-money for an annuity of thirty-fire pounds, during the life of Emily Barber, for which a deed will be duly enrolled in the Court of Chancery, by which this memorandum will be cancelled.—THOMAS KNOWLES." The distress occasioned by the flight of the Company was, Sir Peter stated, indescribable. It appeared that the proprietors of the paper he had quoted had sent an agent from Glasgow to London to institute the closest inquiry, and it had been ascertained by that agent that all the Directors had absconded, taking away with them upwards of 98,0001. of annuities, cash paid down to them in sundry sums by victims who, allured by their advertisements, had confided in them, exclu sive altogether of the enormous amounts paid to them for their policies for fire and life assurance, the whole amounting to not less than 150,000/. It was deplor able to see the number of poor and aged people who had embarked all they had in the world in this infamous Company, appealing to those who were unable to render them any assistance. He (Sir Peter) had seen several of the sufferers who, he believed, had now at their com mand scarcely any of the necessaries of life. Alderman PIAUI said that he had been informed of the very extensive ruin which had resulted from the confidence placed by the annuitants in the Company. The Directors, it appeared, had resided in splendid houses and kept magnificent establishments. Sir PETER LAURIE said he deeply regretted that he could not have the opportunity of determining on the disposal of those who were engaged in so nefarious a confederacy. All he could do was to make the state ment, and to caution the public on the subject' of depo siting their money in the bands of companies, or indi viduals, without the most indisputable evidence of their respectability. There were, he knew, several flash establishments in the metropolis at that moment ob taining large sums of money fraudulently. The inge nuity exhibited in the management of the concern re lative to which he appeared at the Mansion House that day, was very remarkable ; but, crimes of inge nuity were on the increase. The Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Company pretended to have been established in the year 1696, with a ca pital of 1,000,0001., and here it ended with all its pro fessed advantages, after having really existed no more than four years, during which period it was engaged in plun dering the public and enriching a few miscreants, who were at that moment enjoying the fruits of their iniquity. . . Mr. Hobler said that he had received a letter from Glasgow on the subject, stating that a disclosure of what had taken place would be likely to be serviceable to the public, and it was his intention to lay it before the Lord Mayor, in order that through the press the cir cumstances might obtain publicity. Sir P. LAURIE said that in all probability some of the particular cases of plunder would be mentioned before him at the Mansion-house next day. He understood that the chief actors in the business had betaken them selves to the Continent. lie again deeply regretted that he had not the power of dealing with them, but lie trusted that what he had said would operate as a general warning. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.---The Richmond, London, to Berbice, 11th ult., let. 20, lon. 66, by the Indus, arrived at Waterford. Isabella, Geary, from Newry, 29th ult., lat. 36, lon. 6 W.; Competitor, from St. Ives, 31st, off Cape St. Vincent, by the Clipper, arrived at Liverpool. Dela, Peyrouse, 19th ult., in lat. 37 N., lon. 27 W., in want of sails; Stirling, Liverpool, to Charleston, 25th, lat. 40, lon. 22, by the Ann Jeffrys, arrived in the Clyde. Earl Den ham, Dundee, to Sydney, out ten days, lat. 49, lon. 12, by the Frederick Leighton, arrived in the Clyde. Em press, Odessa to Liverpool, in the Gut of Gibraltar, by the Brothers, arrived at Cowes. Voyageur, Bourbon to Marseilles, Nov. 13, lat. 16 S., 1)0. 4 E., by tire Amiable, Creole, arrived in the Loire. Tagus (st. ), South ampton to Lisbon, 9) miles N. E. of Cape Finisterre, by the Iberia (st.), arrived at Southampton. Thorney-close, Naples to Falmouth, 16th instant, lat. 51, lon. 8, by the Lousitania, arrived at Falmouth. Rowland, bound to Jamaica, 6th inst., lat. 36, lon. 21. • 36th Foot.—The steamer Canada conveyed one n un- ce nif o of the light company of this regiment from illtro Ri vet s to 31on , real on the 27th November last, an d 70 next they p,s3ed over to Point Levy, on their wold m a d a „„„:t. The following are the names of the offitie:. arenntany i n ,: the detachment :—Colonel Eden, Cep; 4 l Walinsky, L icu, teirAnt Smith, Ensign L. C. Conran , Surgeon . 64th Foot _ Tin , c u. -irybdis, three-gun brig, Licata.° and the Dec, four-gun ° ell ; Commander E. n vessel, Commander J. ghe. regiment from Jamai a -er, K. H., were the 0 employed to convey this gallant 0 0 Halifax, North America, where it is now stationed. , : d e , 73d Foot—Lieutenant Baker has t, 'en appointed r 4 de-Camp to his Excellency the Governnt• - General of .110 pile, America, in the room of Captain Le 11 . Nehant , " 11° returned to Eegland. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. MiFarlane, from Bengal, off Water ford—sailed 12th August, St. Helena 17th November;. Flower's of Ogie, Amand, from Bengal, off Liverpool—. saited Bth September, St. Helena 23d November ; Leonard Dobbin, Carpenter, from Bombay—sailed 28th September, St. Helena 30th November. Arrivals at St. Helena.—Jeune Alathilde, Df4y, Nov. 21, from Bourbon, and sailed same day to Nantes; Eugenie, Souvercan, 22d, from 13ourdeaux, and sailed 29th toMati ritius ; Ceres, Guiiband, 22d, from Bourbon. and sailed 25th to Nantes ; Ann Jane, Rigby. 22d, from Bengal, and sailed 23d to Liverpool ; Tanj,n-e, Hopper, 24th, from Ceylon, bud sailed 28th to London ; Margaret Cormall, Smith, 24th, from Bengal and Cape, and sailed 25th to the Clyde ; William Lee, Shepherd, 26th, from Bengal, and sailed 27th to Hul: ; Neerlands Konig, Sehaap, 26th, and ARA 28th to Rotterdam ; Suerees, Wince, 29th, from Bourbon, and sailed 30th to Marseilles. Thd Blake, Esliclby, Nov. 21, passed the island, from Calcutta to Liverpool. _ _ . `'cs,cis in the Roads, Nov. 30.—Her Majesty's ship Persian, Symonds, for the Coast of Africa. Dec. I. Munster Lass, Carrcw, for the Cape in a few days ; Eliza Scott, laid up. th-partures from St. Helena.—Premier, Keith, Nov. 21, for Mauritius ; Mmstroom, 21st, for Rotterdam ; Ma nilla, Pearson, 22d, for London. Arrival at Tencriffe —Alexandrina, Smith, Dec. 22d, from Dublin, ar.d sailed 26th to Port Adelaide. THE NAVAL SURGEON, BY THE AUTHOR OF " CavF.Noutr."— This new work of Mr. Neale, pre sents us with a very stirring narrative, said to have arisen out of actual circumstances of so singular and, indeed, unprecedented a nature, and giving rise to a public trial of so curious and exciting a character, that the work should have been named from them, and not from the mere position in life occupied by the hero " The Naval Surgeon" 'should. in fact, have been called " A Talc of Circumstantial Evidence." Be this as it may, " The Naval Surgeon" is cleverly conducted in its plot, and the details into which it enters, in regard to naval life in various parts of the world, present many pictures that have not hitherto been introduced into naval fictions. We have al,o several new phases of character, two in particu lar, which are stated by the author in his preface to be drawn from the life—we allude to Caustic, the shrewd, sagacious, and eccentric .‘ Naval Surgeon," who forms the Mentor of the young hero all throuqh his career, and who is modelled on the late Dundas Morrison; and the lion. Captain Howard, a very spirited sketch of one of those brilliant specimens of gallantly and gaiety united, of which our aristocracy has contributed so many examples to both the services.— N aval and Military Gazette. QUICK SAILING.—The Scott ish Maid, Wat son, made her passage from Aberdeen to London, last hours. Left London aga i n on t h e 9 t h curt ., voyage, in 157 and arrived at Aberdeen on the llthl COR N AVERA CO U N FRAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CLns 1 or the Wcek ended Jan. 15, 1240, made up from the IWO', 'V the inspector; io the dllferent Cities and 'Town; in Eng l3 "' wales, per I mperial Quarter. P Oatsd. F 3: rlcy 24. 101. 1 Bye .I B .c e a a s u e s .............. .. AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Wef eliding WHEAT. 11AULEv.1 OATA. I RYE. BRANS: t. ' - _____.........1 0 4 - Dec. 4 5B 11 '32 0 21 11 St 4 4:1 4/ 40 11 16 ... 25 ,9 : 1 Jan. 1 8 6l 7 32 10 21 8 35 5t 40 3 ' I p IMTEKIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX , ve• 1 4 , 0 ,, Wheat loi 6,1. Oats ........ 21s. 60. Beans. ................. Barley, DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. NVllleat lYs. 8:1. O.Rts 1 1 11 5 s 5 . " 90. 3 a. I P l 3 e e as a n e s ................. 99: 11 y,arley l3i. 1111. 1 I Bye THE MARKETS. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market-day, 7. • s. s. d. it Adair's.. Buddle's W,,,t Hartley l9 6 Walls End Medomsley: ...... , 2 1 Dcrwent Main. l7 6 Walls End Perkins ...........• ‘,./ Garcstield Ord's R e dh ug h Pontop Windsor . lB 0 Walls End Hetton ........ ~.. 0 Russell's High Main .. 18 ti Walls End Lambton ......... 0 Smith's Pon top :s 0 Wails End Lyons. .......... ...' 0 Tanlield Moor. 22 6 Walls End Stewart's ......... i) Tanfied lilsor Butes l9 i i i Walls Ei;d Hartlepool .... .... s s Wylam W a ll s mod Kelloe .........,' 0 Walls E d bewic, e and U. : ) .21 ° 1 1 0 '. , IT ern :lrit's Hartlepool .... . .... ii Walls End Brown's °l f Walls End Evenvvood . ...... i s Walls End Clenncll Walls End Clarke and Co l9 t, Cowpen ...... „ ....... if Walls End Hilda ..... 22 :7 , Howard's Nethertwn NAT'. .. ' " -- sv sl°. e 4 ' 38 40 I. 38 ft/ 40 0 , / e 4' OUNTRY CO: N MARKETS. Wheat. ' Barley. ' Oats. ) Beans. ''; -- -- l--- . , Per Quarter. a. to s. s. to it. a. to s. a. to s. ;() Euston Braintree 56 66 2 1 31 26 30 ' 38 46 B. ighton 56 70 28 36 22 26 ~ 59 47 •"' Cambridge — LI 32 21 3 8 . -... Chichester-- 61 32 23 42 7 . 0 Dunmow Grantham ....., Grimsby 5B 60' - 35 39 22 26 42 4 4 7 Hailsham 52 62 26 32 22 On 46 I Hitchin 5B 60 30 313 22 30 28 31 ;3 Ipswich 55 60 50 34 24 28 38 40 Lewes 56 61 34 36 i2l 23 34 5 Lynn 54 61 36 39 21 ' 28 42 44 . • Maidstone 159 66 36 39 26 32 40 bl/ 71:2 4. Norwich Petworth .-',' 8(1 Itoniford 5B 70 28 38 20 '2B 34 4 Sandwich 56 67 31 43 27 34 •33 4 '' . 0 Tnetford ...„ Wishech Witham 57 67 `2B 34 25 28 36 4 j, 38 Yarmouth 6O 65 27 311 24 30 40 4 ' LIVERPOOL CORN 141 kRKET—Jan. 0 , - to I WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. i .. ' *hal" ---- Red 8 6 ° .--- Scotch, Welch, and Manz Irish, White q 0 Red 7 es - Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4511). ....... Irish 42 44 46 28 3! 38 40 34 3B 4'2 44 40 5 0 42 44 46 4 . 9 34, 46 33 45 40 44 45 - 36 'IT I - 3tt 40 42 4 , ,—Jam )9 , -10 16 ' .10 4 0 ' 9 '•••• ' .. 9 8 I / ::..• 8 6 10 0 8 8 l i a 7 0 10 : ----- Forel; '' 7 , $ i ...... OATs, English, 3 0 5 Irish , „.,, .2 51 41 0 r 0 Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ....... ... .- ,.. 1 1 ,1 4 g o -- Scotch and Irish, per 601b5... ................ 3 10 ; 5 a Feeding 3 t 3 , 40 ; BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 44. 0 4 0 Irish, &c. ~ 0 1 ' 49 0 Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quarter 4O % 4 1 0 -.--- Foreign - `✓L il Fs,ous, English, per 28oth. --- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24011 is .. 20 ..• 5 0 INPIAN CORN, ptr 4811111. RAT, per Imperial q u a rt e r MALT, per Imperial quarter 0 si 1 1 . 4l r 4 ' ° 4 0 WheatHULL CON MARKET 64' White (per Quarte ß r) , 565. 58 , c • (../;• Ben.. 463. f , '" F ly. Foreign.. Barley, Malting . 203. 3 - 305.. Grinding - Oats, British Foreign (in bond) . in. 18'. • - . ..„ 4.1. , Beans Pease, Grey .. Blue and White 4.5 413' 04l• • 0 3 . Linseed • Flour (per sack) . /: lb /. 3 1. ::: 0 Rapeseed per 10 quarters) , CHELTENHA M hi Alt KETS. a. 1 Per Bushel. a. d. to s.d.l Per lb. 6 1 Wheat Barley 3 8 4 2 Mutton .................... it Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal 424 Beans .. 5 6 6 . Pork ). .......... ... 0 Pease 6 0 8 0 Lamb ....................... Hay 4l. 10s. to 51. Os. OJ. per ton. CAN'PERBURI MARKET. ~' Wheat, white-.......- 60s. to 645. -- Old.- ....... - 7':' to ',.." -- red red 575. to 645....... Old- ............ --'''' c o-" - , Barley, Malting ._ 3,5. to 365. ..,-. Grnding.• - -s ' to!„ Oats ....,....----- 235. to 275....... 061---... "1" to ~, Beans ..................-,......... 35s to 4 ' '5.., ,, ,. 01,1*••••••••• ......'_. to ~.... Pease ~..............---- .. 425. to -5...,.. Grey.......... 403. 1 CHELMSFORD M...RKET. g 5 I°4 4 . 67 to 1 1 Oats .......................... .5. 57 64 Pease, Gray ......... 4 0 Barley Chevalier .... Grinding Wheat, White Red , i yrlP AC RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On tote " e 5 0 f ' b , Saturday last one of the bridges crossing the ii ee Midland Counties Railway, near Leicester, fell ie tirreo structed the traffic. The mail train from Derbir:e fel l soon after the accident, lavas embedded amongs Lt "ace i !o f materials, hut none of the passengers in the tram I,str i ' f , any injury. After a detention of four hours, th e . - . 0 01 , bs lion was removed, and the train continued its jou' ,iotd riving at Ru g by about eight o'clock, instead of eil n e c car r of evening. In addition to this accident, another "eacebo on Sunday night upon this line. In consel,"ebt br the rapid thaw that took place on Saturday 11 , 14 !tettg li e banks of the river S oa r , nea r Loughro t i e were overflowed, and a body of water collecte d 0 ° , 4 cutting at that plaea to such a height a , F ttP h ' e r the station keeper with his family to take refuge e f r I .o' l j At the arrival of the mail train on Sunday night, e lbc Monday morning, Jones, formerly a guard . 011 ... a ce0 Chester mail coach, and now employed in the 94 " . ati bc :ta city on the railway, found that several of the rails h ii4Or!,o completely carried away by the until.; the result, o f clll-1 was that the train could proceed no further. 'cre'l' e e ' ll and four was immediately procured, and June; P r° o 9 ' with the bags to Leicester, the passengers being_ . tolhe' same place' by omnibus. SPOONS, FORKS, Ste., superior to Sii ve f.,. l.3 e , ;,(1 rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons er For ~ e Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, Ss. per dozen ' • Table CO id' g al 3 inches high, 7s. per pair ; the particular metal ° I ; t s foG , these articles are made is so like silver, that it call p°' aOO from it by the stamp; every article made in silver ' tured in is materi BURaI by et , RI PP th ON and TON, Wells-street, Oxfor d '5 t .„§re eV ,f, Who, to prevent imposition, con fi ne the sale of it to the Catalogues of prices gratis. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Sandwell, Staffordshire, th e 0 0( of Dartmouth, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Bayswater, the lady of i tl r • , c4 O , Esq., of a (laughter. sO r ° On the 15th inst., the lady of T. M. Ward, Ole Basinghall-street, of a daughter. oges On the 16th inst., at Hillingdon Lodge, near °lb' 101 l lady of T. Hamlyn Bent, Esq., of a son. rk the On the 18th inst., in York-terrace, egent's-P a ' • 4 10 of C. D. Archibald, Esq., F. R. S., of a R datughter. 5 The On the 18th inst., at Elm Lodge, Streatham , Air of Cross, of a daughter. h uti On the 19th lint., at Upper Harley-street, the von Gleba, Esq., of a son. of MARRIED. 1Y " De l ' On the 1211 i inst., at Clarendon House, Richard 1 6 1•O ie r , 11. Turin, Esq., of Enaletield-green, Surrey, to E" n . ll ' , . 1 0 youngest daughter of W. F. Tytler, Esq., of 13 31 " al wo ; ness, h e t h Britain. )larY l f 1 1 ' it On the 18th ing., at St. Mary's Church, S t. o George Wintour, Corn. Wor. Coil., Oxon, eldest .e ' t " F o xe' late G. S. Wintour, Esq., Captain, R.N.. to Harr ger Itenou, On th el e de l9th inst st daugh ~ at St. G ter of Lieutenant T. Benoit, eorge's, 13lownsburY;c4troicy »olds, son of the late Charles Bartrum, Esti. , Br otso' s daughter of Captain T. Finlay, of Ilunter-street' square. On th, 17)1h.:1). 1., Matilda B -ietta. o f 0 third , tw dougheteflq. ..,n .oe 14th ins. ltiltla flenr , ..., King, Esq., of Broonnfirid• 'lace near Chelmsford, e, Al , On the 14th inst., in lirluton.'street, Berkeley-squarA• .1 , Margaret Anther, relict of the late Benjamin On the 14th inst., at Battle-bridge, St. Panc ° " , fstl' Hallett, of Wokingham, aged 19. (ortl , On the 16th inst., Louisa, the wife of 11. Ki o g s . of Vi n of Canterbury, aged 46. a 0 • sti On the 16th init. ; et Edinburgh, Sir Ed o " WO) Yorke , Devercux Saville, Bart., of Sargrave Cast' e, t i o cilt Grosvenor-square, aged 22. De e On the lith inst.. Eliza, the wife of Edward ,j c ~.s 01 Elder-street, SPitalth'itil• vJ. r-A e , On the 18th inst., at Br, ml Inldleeex ‘" .....e . 5;,/ ) .er, ~ i -• , , g 0 i Anther,. 6. Esq., late Commander in the lion E. I. CompanY •0 , London Printed and Published by DI °ADO 1 sts ibi l Yo. 112. 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