The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION' stance since the world began of a great colonial posses sion established without either external war or internal bloodshed. We have frequently taken occasion to re monstrate on the frequent inadequacy of our forces both by sea and land to the performance of the boundless du ties to which they are called ; for it becomes the nation to demand ample protection for its wide-spreading inte rests, as it becomes the Government to be prepered to repel by arms the attacks which other nations may make by arms. But greatly do they err if they suppose that arms can give to them, nr take from us, the influence which they view with affected mistrust and with ill-dissembled jealousy. That influence is due to th e p erseverance , t h e modera tion, and the jud gmen t b y w hi c h i t h as b een acqu i red, and is upon the whole exercised ; if these qualities were wanting, the glory of the greatest nation would be tarnished, the strength of the strongest dissolved. This is evidently 4 not the standard of excellence to which the French aspire ; and we can only lament for them and for the world that their ambition should ad diet itself to such different and suicidal purposes. It might be inferred from the national passion for arms that France owes every thing to military success, and that her history contains no record of successful en terprises but those which have been begun by the :sword. But, in fact, the very reverse is the case. It 'would not be difficult to show that the history of French wars, from the beginning of the 18115 century to the last p eace , h as b een accompan i e d w ith th e decl i ne of that co l on i a l greatness to w hi c h she still aspires. At the earlier period to which we refer, the . French hell msny of the finest colonial possessions in the New W or ld. Th ey divided with Spain the island al St, Domingo, inferior in size to Cuba alone, infe 'ror in fertility to none. They occ upied in the mo s t northern part of the American continent, the St. Law reree and its shores, up to the great lakes, and down to the harbours on the coast—a position which placed sit their disposal the fur-trade of the north, the mili tary command of the country, and a boundless field for enterprise and improvement, encircling the whole of North America. Far, in the more southern latitudes inf that continent, the French plantations on the Mis eissippi, and the French port of New Orleans, gave them the command of the other great American river, and consequently of all those mighty resources which time and the British race have since called into activity. from the swamp and the prairie, the once solitary river And the primeval forest. In the south of Asia the same great beginnings, supported for a time with energy and ability, enabled the French East India Com peny to dispute the commercial and growing political power of the British merchants trading to the East In dies. It is common in France to hear a vast deal of jealous and ignorant declamation on the history and the nature of British dominion in India ;# but, strangely enough, amongst a people so covetous of national honour, the names of their own great Indian servants Lebourdonne;s, Dupleix, Bussv, and Lally, have been ill treated by posterity, as the men themselves were by their contemporaries. We do not enter into a discussion of the si stern of colonization pursued by the French, nor do we here pretend to account for the fact that they have planted mere shrubs, dwarfed in their growth and limited in their duration, whereas the colonies of Eng land have thriven like forest trees. But this much is certain—that the undertakings which were vigorously planned by some of the greatest statesmen who ever go verned France, were first thwarted by their military cha r icter, and finally lost by the fortune of war. Yet it is by military means and by war that the French, in spite of our contrary example and their own expe rience, persist in straining to aggrandize themselves. • The very same thing which has occurred in other feats of the world is now repeated in Africa. France availed herself of the general peace and the general dread of war to get a footing (no matter by what means) on the opposite shore of the Mediterranean. She occupies pter:inee after province, port after port, and converts the loose towns of the Arabian Emirs into strongholds for her army. This occupation ex tends over nearly ten degrees of longitude ; but it is a militaiy occupation, and nothing more; it has been acquired by the sword, and will perish by the sword ; and it weakens France, as France must be weak ened by the fortifications of Paris, or by any other liege dispiay of material power intended to supply the place of that moral power which she has not got. Unfortunate y, such attempts not only do not supply it, but they demonstrate the absence of it. Since we touched Lyon this subject, we have received a very curious paper by M. Blanqui, who was sent to Africa in Ite39 to inspect the state of the colony. The accounts this document contains far exceed the statements of hardship and loss we had ventured to mike. In the month of October last the army lust 1,500 men ; and the number remaining in " what are called hospitals in Algeria" was 12,000. The garrison of Miliaria lost two-thirds of its force in a few weeks, and the same ravages took place at Medea, Blitleh. and Douera. Men have been used up faster than ammunition. After ten years' occupation, 300 men are required to carry a letter, and 3,000 to escort c'mvoy even at the gates of Algiers. The army is not provided with beds or barracks ; and some time ago a battalion of 800 men was reduced to subsist for three days on snails! What, then, is the suggestion which necoropinics these horrible official disclosures ? Si m ply. that the war should be carried on upon a larger scale ; and that Gen. Bugeaud should be placed at the head of an effective force of at least 80.000 men for the purpose of extirpating by one vast effort all the hos tile vibes. The scheme is as foolish as it is extrava gant and atrocious ; for the Arabian horsemen will be driven into the desert, where no European troops can follow them, only to return with renewed fury to their se c ular warfare. The reflection whi c h t h ese f acts produce in us is, that Algerine piracy itself, and all the miseries of Christians pining in barbarian fetters, were less grie vous to our race and our religion, certainly far less costly to human life and happiness, than these fierce inroads of French civilisation. " We have praised with uncommon diversion an analy sis, in the Moniteur, of an Essay on the British Adminis trivion of India, read to the French Institute, by M. Blanqui, mine. That learned individual, in describing tho various kinds of land revenue in India, assured his audi bora that the Ityot•war tenure derived its name from its extreme severity, and signified literally la guerre aux pay sans, evidently mistaking the Indian adjective termination rear, for the English word war. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) The question of the fortification of Paris is one with which we have scarcely meddled, except in a very sum mary way ; and for two reasans, each of which bad its proper weight with us. The first, that we have no right to interfere with the follies of our neighbours, whatever guise they may assume ; and the second, that we were in hopes that reason would in the course of time resume her empire over their minds, and put to flight the absurd and false fears upon which the project was based. Now, however, that the Coremittee, of which M. 'fliers was appointed the Chairman, has made its report, and that report is in favour of the establishment of the fortifila lions, we may be excused if we express our decided opi nion, that nothing was ever conceived in the wildest days of the French revolution so calculated to degrade the people of France in the eyes of Europe as that of erecting a series of a forts, or wall of circumvallation, round Paris. The idea that eithe r England or any European Power en tertains tiie slightest idea of invading France, or march ing upon Paris, without gross and unnecessary provoca tion, is an absurdity, as M. Thiers and his master, Louis Philippe, perfectly know ; while, as a means of averting such an attack, supposing it to be intended, the pro posed fortifications arc utterly valueless. A Napier or a Wellington would blow them to atoms in fewer mi nutes than it took days to erect them. With a pow erful army and a numerous cavalry, both the garrisons and the capital could be easily starved into submission or revolt—and France would have to witness the de plorable spectacle of seeing the guns of her own forts converted into the instruments for the destruction, in stead of the preservation of her capital. A line of forts, as proposed by the Committee of th e F renc h Chambers, extending over a circuit of 50 miles, is worthy of the wisdom of those who conceived the erection o. the great wall of China, and is an equally prudent and po litic undertaking. It is useless for external defence ; bqt it is an admirable scheme for dominating insurrections iii the capital of France, and conferring upon Louis Philippe the power o f suppressing any unpleasant t,islnn ex plosion o f p u bli c op i n i on. I t was t o please cherished phantasy of his Sovereign, and by pleasing it, to maintain his position as Premier, and carry out his undefined schemes of glory and grandeur, that M. 'fliers threw out the captivating bait ; but although Loui s Phili ppe was delighted with the one, he did not by any means relish the other, and hence, having gained his ends, he turned out. M. Thiers to wonder at his own folly and deplor e the stupidity which had induced him to throw the game into his enemy's hands. Thiers, in fact, has been caught in his own net. He would stow give anything, eithe r not to have proposed or ap proved of the fortification of Paris. What a handle for opposition to the Guizot Cabinet would it not have proved in the hands of such a skilful orator With whit appearance of patriotic honesty might he not have r*osed the misses—paralysed the Government of his successor, and made even Louis Philippe tremble on h i s t h rone ! But that chance M. Thiers WAS too in rautious to reserve, and he has now been obliged to repot in favour of a scheme which he knows to be un national in spirit and intent, and which he curses in his heart as an insurmountable b irrier to his retur n to power a w l p o li t i ca l i n fl u ence. So perish a ll en d eavours to gain power at the expense of the liberties of the people—and their abettors with them (From the Globe.) We agree with the Examiuer that it would be what Fouche called " worse than a crime—a blunder" in the present Ministry to leave fiscal and commercial reforms to their successors. It so happens, however, that the most important reform s of this kind —those reforms without which all others are a trifle—some would be an injustice—are certain of obstinate opposition from banded and strongly organised interests. To meet those interests, we have called for a strong pressure of opinion from without. The Examincr seems to think this in Joule manner or degree inconsistent with our dislike and distrust of Radical organic changes. We cannot see this. If it were proved that any specific dose of change would give us all the pure rea son of the country, purged of the impure interests, we should be zealous promoters of this change. But this is not proved. We think there is more evidence for believing the contrary. We do not therefore feel our selves inconsistent in opposing one species of change, while we call upon the aid of public opinion to carry another. It is possible certainly that radical changes might save us the trouble of calling in that aid aga inst the present strong and organised interests. That is possible, though by no means certain, as has been ably shown by the Leeds Mercury. But the question is, whether such changes, if they succeeded in the only sense in which success is possible in such a career (in breaking down existing powers, namely), might not probably substitute other interests and influences not more pure, not less selfish , and more ignorant. All these questions will, of course, be answered accord ing to preconceived opinions ; and we have no more pretension to dictate ours, than disposition to ac cept others. But we contend that, unless it be stated as the duty of Government to start projects of organic change, it cannot justly be imputed to Government as a fault that they cannot, in the present state of parties, propose, with prospect of success , p ract i ca l measures which thwart powerful interests, unless they are strongly backed by opinion. We do not profess to announce the intentions of Government as to this or that mea sure—as to this or that change in our anti-commer cial tariff. But we will predict, without claiming any extraordinary gift of prescience, that they would not succeed, in the present state o f p ar ti es , i n any compre lienswe measure (and really w e regar d any ot h er as trifling with our present situation), unless the voice of opinion is heard loudly and decidedly in its favour. (From the Standard ) All the Ministerial journals, except the Globe, have given up the attempt to defend the infamous Frost job ; but that journal having been thrust into the front to carry the Ministerial falsehood, perseseres in supporting it, notwithstanding every rebuff, notwithstanding even its own repeated promises to relinquish the subject. On Saturday our Contemporary returned to its task in an article which demands a few remarks from us : " No Journal knows better than the Standard when to affect calmness and courtesy. It shall bring charges the most enormous in language the moss uumeasured—it shall denounce infamy on a whole Ministry for acts unproved, untrue, and impossible—and then, when such conduct is animadverted on in the terms it deserves, the Standard talks of ' gross deviation from truth,' and ' indecent and violent injury.' Certainly there have been both in this case; and we think we have shown upon which side. But the Standard's concluding challenge must not escape a word of condign notice. " The Standard requires us to produce our authority for our contradiction of its first statement. We thought that, when a statement affecting any department of ad mi nistration was answered from authority,' it was sufficiently understood, that authority' was the authority of the de partment responsible. We have already, therefore, answered the Standard's challenge by anticipation. We have challenged those (if any) who believe its statements to find a mouthpiece for their belief in Parliament, and we have ventured to assure them that Government would not shrink from any questions that might bo asked." Now we really do not know to which department of the Government application is to be made for an expla nation of Frost's pardon and promotion. As a convict we believe he is under the care of Lord Normanby—as the inhabitant of a colony he belongs to Lord John Russell. Between the two Lords, however, there is little choice—the one " said the thing that was not," in the matter of Alderman Montgomery's evidence : the other made a speech at Totnes, certain important state ments of which the Bishop of Exeter compelled him to retract after the speech had whitened the town of Tot nes with placards for several days, not to say weeks. However, we should like, from mere curiosity, if from no other motive, to know which of the Noble Lords it was who authorised the Globe to contradict us by a downright untruth ? _ (From the Courier.) At the meeting which Mr. Booth, on the part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, has con vened, of the managers of the greater part of the other railway companies, it is to be hoped the most enlightened and liberal policy, as regards the public safety and convenience, will be the prevailing feeling. We have already made some comments on Mr. Booth's first cir cular, and to which we would refer the gentlemen of the conference. Signals are absolutely essential to the safety of the trains travelling at such velocity where there can be no deviation in the track ; and whatever code shall be considered best ought to be adopted by every railway company. The difficulty of settling what are the best signals will in all probability be great, as each person will naturally fancy such as he has him self proposed the most efficient ; and as there is an aris tocracy in railways, as in all other concerns (which is shown in the circular not being general), we arc almost afraid that instead of the companies legislating among themselves, for themselves, they will force on the Go vernment a task they have shown such an unwillingness for. If every gentleman present at the conference would take as his text the preamble of the several Acts of incorporation, and bear strongly in his mind that the powers of such Acts were given in anticipation of great public benefits to he returned, and not for exclusive pri- ' -rate advantages, such singleness of purpose would make the meeting a most useful one, and the private interests of the Companies would profit in the increased confidence of all classes and descriptions of persons. There can be no sort of objection to a convention for such ends in so large and intermixed an interest as railways are ; and indeed all the rules and regulations of the different Companies, in which the passengers are concerned, should be common to each, even to the mode of start ing the trains ; and every facility should be given to such lines as unite or branch from each other, without favour or affection. Indeed the passengers should never be allowed to know there is such a thing on the great highways of the kingdom as partiality or rivalry. We repeat our opinion, that three men on an engine are not too many, and our dissent to looking to a stoker as a substitute in case of accidents, or as an assistant to the driver in charge ; at the same time we also repeat our full agreement with Mr. Booth, that no person should be placed on the engine or tender, superior to the driver, or who is not connected with the engine itself. With the passenger trains there should certainly always be some head, in charge of the whole train, to whom the passengers could always look with assurance of atten tion, and who should make his regular reports at the different stations, where a journal should be kept of the progress or delay of every train, its time of arrival, departure, &c. &c. &c. W e sincerely hope that every Company will agree not to take each other's servants when discharged for gross negligence or incapacity, and this would tend more to force attention and good order than any other means ; and that this should be most effective, we would have been pleased that every Com pany for which an Act has been obtained had been in vited to send a representative to the conference. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS, (SATURDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The merchantsconnected with the Levant and East Indies express great surprise that they have not yet received any satisfactory explanation as to the delay which occurred in the delivery of their letters on the arrival of the overland mail last month, and which was occasioned by the unaccountable preference of the Gibraltar route, notwithstanding the words " via Mar seilles" appeared on the letters. The letter from the Post-office, in answer to the application of the East India and China Association, stated, as it may be recollected, that the authorities in that department were unable to account for what had taken place, but that the matter was under their serious consis deration. As far as Malta is concerned, whether the error lay there or not, might have been easily ascer tained by this time, as a letter might have been sent by the French boat which left Marseilles on the 21st ult., and arrived at Malta on the 25th. The Great Liverpool, which left Malta on the 29th, might there fore have brought an answer, which, if it would not have satisfied the merchants, would at any rate have afforded some clue to where the fault lay. Among objects of comp l a i nt i n the working of the Post-office system, is that of allowing an early delivery of letters by the general postman in the morning to those who pay him a fee of ss. per quarter, while others do not have theirs till two hours afterwards. The time of the clerks of the Post-office, which might be employed in accelerating the general delivery, is there fore in a great measure occupied in sorting letters for the privileged few who subscribe their ss. Persons who have not understood that this is part of a regular system, have sometimes concei ve d t h at t h e difference shown to themselves and their neighbours has arisen from some error on the part of the postmen, but on 1 application to these, the answer accompanying the ex planation has frequently been, that the fee is part of their salary, which would indeed be too small were it not for these perquisites of office. Now, as the receipt of letters at a certain time is of the greatest importance to the public, and it seems a delay is occasioned in the delivery by this additional sort of taxation, it is found very hard by the larger clas s of merely sof the community their that their letters should he retar ded, erc l y because neighbours pay part of the postman' s salary. to Aproj Valenciaect for doe s making not, a l arg e a fromthe letter Gra thence o dated the 3d instant, meet with great encouragement according o ' a 1 from the Regency. The advantages purposed by this canal were, that merchant vessels coining to load or unload goods might be in safety from the frequent gales during the three winter months, since they often cannot stay 24 hours off the Grao. Without such a canal, it is said that it will be impossible for South American or Havannah traders to resort to Valencia for want of a safe anchorage. Manyinquiries are m ade as to the destination of the teasunk in the Westminster, off Margate, to which allusion was made some days ago, when the notion that an articl e so damaged was to be brought into the market was hardly reckoned tenable. Now , however, the r e p ort is becomi ng more definite, a n d some designate the places where it is being kiln died and washed preparatory to sale. This is con experience i n th e trade I trasted by persons of long ' with the practice of the East India Company, who al ways made a point of destroying damaged tea, by throw ing it overboard at the Nore. So strict were they in this respect, that even when a part of the tea was damaged they destroyed the whole, some persons think ing that in such instances the Company occasionally carried their severity to an extreme length. Connected with the subject of tea of doubtful quality, a communication has been received from Mr. Heale respecting the recent seizure of 2,0001 b. of hawthorn leaves, about to be forwarded to him, and the conviction of Mr. Palmer, under whose direction they were picked, for manufacturing an article " in imitation of tea." Although much of his statement refers to matters of rather a remote date, and many of which are already familiar to the public, it will be necessary briefly to recapitulate them to render the whole intelligible. Mr. Heale, as it may be remembered, manufactured the hawthorn leaf under a patent granted in 1831, having, according to his own statement, obtained the opinion of Sir J. &er ica and Mr. Rotch, who settled the patent, that it did not interfere with the Statute passed to prevent imita tions of tea. On receiving notice from the Excise that the manufacture was nevertheless a violation of the Statute, the parties concerned in it memorialised the Lords of the Treasury, but these only referred the me morial again to the Board of Excise, who of course repeated the same opinion they had previously given. Counsel's opinion was then obtained, that the patent contained a clear right to manufacture, and that a Magistrate would not be authorised in convicting the manufacturer, while at the same time the propriety of bringing the case before a Magistrate was sug ges t e d. Th e manu f acture being recommenced, the Excise officers, in 1832, [ 'laced a broad arrow upon it, which they after wards removed, saying that they had heard from the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals that the manufac ture was legal, and adding, that it might now be pro ceeded with. It was under this favourable aspect Mr. Heale purchased the shares of other parties interested in the patent, and became its sole proprietor. The seizure of the manufacture, which took place in 1833, and the condemnation by the Lord Mayor, was on the ground that some of it had been traced to the posses sion of a tea-dealer. The Lords of the Treasury awarded 3001. to the seizing officers, upon the repre sentation of the Commissioners of Excise that they had brought to light a secret manufacture of "imitation tea," and Mr. Heale particularly observes that in the let ter of the Commissioners no allusion was made to the previous proceedings, so as to show to the Treasury that the case was the same on which the opinion of the At torney and Solicitor-Generals had already been obtained, and that they admitted that according to the opinion of their own solicitor they could not proceed effectually against the manufacturer without proof of a connexion with the tea-dealer. This being the state of affairs, and Mr. Ileale still believing that the Excise had no case against him, entered into the agreement with Mr. Palmer to carry on the manufacture, sending all he made to Mr. Ileale himself. It was accordingly pre pared and packed in cases for exportation, the whole manufacture having been carried on, as is alleged, in the most open manner. 'rho Excise allowed the manufac ture to proceed for many months, and then entered Mr. Palmer's premises on the night of the 27th of July, when they seized part of his manufacture, and on the following day seized the remainder. The proceedings by the Excise before the Magistrates at Devizes terminated in a conviction with full penalties, on the ground that the article was " imitation tea," in violation of the statute. This is the last act that has taken place in the affair; and here Mr. Ileale objocts that the conviction was most inconsistent, as the Excise had, on removing the broad arrow in 1832, already said that the article was not an " imitation of tea," and that the condemna tion in 1833 did not prove such a case as warranted the Excise in endeavouring to obtain penalties. It will also be remembered, that that condemnation was on the ground that the article had found its way to the tea dealer, while, in the Devizes case, none of it had been disposed of in any manner. Mr. Heale's case there fore is, that having purchased a patent, the conviction by the Magistrates is unjust, or that, if that is just, the Crown should remunerate him for the expenses of his patent. All these circumstances must be of great in terest to the tea trade and to the public generally, who seem to want protection in the purchase of genuine tea, so long as this state of things exists. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-TEN LIVES LOST. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From our Evening Elition of Yesterday.) . . During yesterday (Sunday) considerable excitement prevailed throughout the western portion of the suburbs, in consequence of the circulation of a report that during the previous night a most fearful inundation had oc curred in the town of Brentford, occasioned by the bursting cf the banks and locks of the Grand Junction Ginal, which bad been attended by the destruction of property to the value of near!y 100,0001., and the car rying away of several houses by the stream, as well as the loss of many lives. The water, it appears, was first observed to be slowly rising about half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday night, but no fears of an inundation beitig entertained by the per sons residing near, they retired to rest, little dreaming that they would he so soon aroused from their slumbers. Towards two o'clock, however, Police-Constable Smith, T 60, whu was on duty near the bridge, ob serving the vi ater still increasing, and rushing with great force to the Thames, awakened some of the boatmen belonging to what arc called " monkey boats," large numbers of which were moored off the different wharfs abutting on the canal, and cautioned them to be on the alert for their own security. At that time, and even up to half-past three o'clock yesterday morning, imme diate danger was not apprehended, but a few minutes before four o'clock a loud noise was heard to the north of the town, which momentarily approached nearer and nearer, and it was soon ascertained that the narrow stream of the Brent had swelled into a mighty river, and overflowing its banks, was pouring itself into the already increased waters of the canal. Numbers of boats, barges, and lighters were instantly torn from their moorings, and driven with great force through the bridge, towards the Thames. At the same instant, also, the accumulated waters having overflowed all the premises north of the high road, burst with frightful force through two avenues by the houses of Mr. Brasher, near the bridge, and Mr. Farrell, directly opposite the church, filling the lower rooms of the houses. The police immediately sprang their rattles, and lost no time in awakening the inhabitants to a sense of their danger, and where some were too deeply buried in sleep to be aroused by the knocking, they forced the doors open. The scene at that moment it is impossible to describe. Men, women, and children, many of them in their night clothes, were running in all directions for places of shelter, while the roaring of the water, added to the screams of the wretched inhabit. ants of the boats, and of the individuals inhabiting the numerous cottages running south of the town down to the water side, were most appalling. In a very short time, all the houses at that portion of the town were flooded, and the water rising rapidly, the occupiers of the houses near the market-place commenced damming up their doors, and there is no doubt that the whole cot only of New Brentford, but also of Old Brentford, would shortly have become under water, had the stream not found itself an outlet at the bottom of Church-alley, by razing the wall of the extensive nursery grounds of Messrs. Ronalds, and another wall at the southern ex tremity of the grounds, by width it joined the canal near its outlet to the Thames. Every possible assistance was immediately rendered by those of the inhabitants who had not been reached by the inundation. About five o'clock the water was at the highest, and the only means of communication between the houses near the bridge was by a boat. Towards six o'clock it was ascertained that the water was gradually decreasing, and daylight was anxiously looked for, that the extent of the effects of the inunda tion might be ascertained. Above the bridge, as far as has been ascertained, the damage has not been so extensive as below it. During the early part of the day fears were enter tained that the whole of the crews of the boats, &c., which have been wrecked were drowned ; much interest was excited to ascertain the fate of a family of seven children, who, with their father and mother, named Tolley, it was known were on Saturday evening on board one of the boats belonging to Messrs. Price and Sons, of Brierly-hill, which boat is one of those sunk. It was, however, in the afternoon ascertained that they had been most miraculously saved, as the boat was being thriven a l ong b y the current, by the exertions of a family named Ayres, living in a cottage at the bottom of Boar's Head-yard, who, as the boat passed the win dow, succeeded in dragging in the seven children, where our reporter saw them, and where he learned that the fathe and mother had also been saved. At the next cottage were also t wo s i sters of the name of Forster each with one child, who were rescued from another boat. It has also been ascertained that no less than t h; climbingYe men,ov e the women, of the Dukeevniandchildren, of N saved or th o e lu ir mb liv e e r_ s land's grounds, and takin g refuge in a cowhouse, where they hare been since found. NEW PENNY PIECES. -- Specimens of new coins have just been issued from the Mint, consisting of penny-pieces. They are materially different from those nosy in use, as there is no lettering upon them with the exception of the date. On one side is a medallion like ness of her present Majesty, and occupies nearly the whole of one of the sides of the pieces. On the obverse is a figure of Britannia, similar to those on the fourpenny pieces, under which is placed the date. The outside of the rim is perfectly smooth, but it is raised in such a man. ner as to afford ample protection to the figures on the body when in use. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 15.—The state of the weather has very much interfered with busi ness, otherwise it is evident, from the limited stocks gene rally held, a fair demand would have ex i ste d at steady prices. The depression in the refined trade, a n d th e ex tensive falling off in the consumption, will effectually coun teract any tendency to an advance, which a temporary revival of demand might else produce.—Bristol Mercury, /; THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, lB4l. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 18. THE ATTORNEY.OENERAL V, TILE EARL OF DEVON. JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice Chancellor, dismissing two petitions with costs. The petitions were presented by the feoffees of the Free Grammar School of Liverpool, for the purpose of having the declaration of the Court as to the principle upon which the school should be carried on in future (there having been objections made with re ference to the masters having boarders, and the admission of scholars, &c.), and also for a reference to the Master to approve of a scheme for the future ma magernent et the charity. Upon the case coming on beore the Vice Chancellor it was urged that the Court had no authority to give the relief prayed upon petition under the Act of the 13th of George 111., but that an in formation ought to have been filed and the Attorney Gene ral made a party. The Vice Chancellor agreeing with the proposition, in February last made an order dismissing both petitions, and ordering the petitioners to pay the costs, and from that order the present appeal was brought. His Lordship, after going at some length into the facts of the case, stated his clear opinion to be that the Court could not grant the relief asked upon petition, and so far he agreed with the opinion of the Vice Chancellor; but he thought under the circumstances the costs ought to have been reserved. An _information had now been filed, and such being the case, the opinion of his Lordship was, that all proceedings before the Master should be stayed; that the order of the 14th February, pronounced by the Vice Chancellor, so far as it directed the petitioners to pay the costs, should be discharged; and that the question of costs should be reserved until the fate of the information should be known. His Lordship, however, wished the parties, before they proceeded further, to consider whether the object both had in view—the due administration of the charity—might not be effected without further litigation. GWYNN V. PIIILPOTT.-JUDGMENT. Tho Lotto CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon motion for a new trial, upon the ground that an interested witness had been exa mined. His Lordship, after looking carefully into the case, was clearly of opinion that the party applying had shown no merits, for the evidence of the other witnesses so fell in with the statements given by the witness objected to, as to render that testimony unnecessary. His Lordship did not feel himself justified in disturbing the verdict, and the motion therefore for the new trial must be refused with costs. WILLIAMS V. THE EARL OF JERSEY.-JUDGMENT. HIS LORDSHIP also gave judgment in . this case, which was argued before the Court upon appeal from the decision of the Vice Chancellor, overruling a demurrer. The noble defendant brought an action against the plaintiff, who carries on copper works in Wales, for a nuisance, upon which he filed his bill, and obtained an injunction re straining proceedings in that action. To that bill the de fendant demurred, on the ground of want of equity, and upon that demurrer coming on for argument, the Vice- Chancellor ordered it to be overruled, and from that de cision the parties appealed. His Lordship was clearly of opinion the judgment of the Court Mom was correct, and ordered it to be affirmed, with costs. ROWLEY V. AVA NIS. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal occu pied the Court the remainder of the morning. ROLLS' COURT, JAN. 18. WHITAKER V. HOWE. This case was argued last. Wednesday, t ere then stated that we sh o uld a b s t a i n f rom pu bli s hi ng circumstances of the case until after his Lordship should have given his opinion. The case was mentioned this morning with re gard to certain papers which the plaintiff contended the defendant had no right to the possession of, and the Mas ter of the Rolls, after stating that to make an order appli cable to that part of the case it would be necessary for him to examine minutely the affidavit which had beets filed, proceeded to state his opinion upon the main question be tween the parties. The motion, his Lordship observed, was for an injunction to restrain the defendant, Mr. Howe, from retaining and keeping possession of, or destroying, certain documents, and also to restrain him from practising or carrying on business as an attorney or solicitor. In the year 1831 the plaintiff, Mr. Whitaker, intending to procure ad mission as an attorney an d so li c i tor , an d t o form a partner ship with the other plaintiff, Mr. Tatham, desired to pur chase the business which was then carried on by the de fendant, Mr. Howe, who was then in partnership with Mr. Heptenstall ; and for this purpose an agreement, dated the 4th August, 1831, was made between the parties, by which it was agreed that Whitaker should become a part ner with Howe and Heptenstall for the term of two years, and should pay five thousand pounds for the partnership, as a consideration for the absolute pur chase of all the interest of Howe and Heptenstall in the business, during and after the expiration of the term of two years. Howe and Heptenstall agreed to put Whita ker into possession of all the profits of the business from the time that the 5,000/, should be secured, but they were, nevertheless, to continue in the business as copartners of Whitaker for two .years, during which period they were to attend at the chambers where the business was carried on, and were in all things to aid and assist in carrying on aka business as they had been accustomed to do, Whitaker, or Whitaker & Tatham, finding the capi tal. Howe and Heptenstall further agreed to use respec tively their utmost endeavours to retain the clients, and secure the possession of the business to Whitaker during the term of two years, and after the expiration thereof, and that neither Howe nor Heptenstall should afterwards prac tice as solicitors or attorneys in any part of Great Britain for twenty years without the consent of Whitaker. Mr. Whitaker secured the payment of the 5,0004 as required, on the 7th November 1831, became admitted as an atter_ ney and solicitor; the agreement was acted upon, and the business carried on under the firm of " Howe, Heptenstall, and Whitaker." In June 1832 the money was actually paid, and Mr. Howe received 3,0001. as his share of it. During the progress of the two years, at the end of which Howe and Heptenstall were to retire, Mr. Whitaker began to apprehend that even after the expiration of the two years it would be important to him to secure the assistance and established character of Mr. Howe, and in May, 1833, he wrote a lever to Mr. Howe, earnestly requesting him to continue his assistance in the business at the end of the two years. After sonic treaty, Mr. Howe agreed to do so, in consideration of his receiving 500/. a-year as a remuneration, which was after wards increased to 700/. a-year. Mr. Heptenstall retired from, the business altoge:her at the end of the two years, or soon afterwards, but Mr. Howe continued under the new arrangement; and a question arose, whether, under that arrangement, he was a partner with Whitaker and Tatham or not. Ia August, 1840, Mr. Howe insisted upon its being dissolved, Mr. Whitaker thought there was no part nership to dissolve, butat length they agreed to sign, and did sign, a notice of dissolution of the partnership, Mr. Howe signing an acknowledgment that Mr. Whitaker's signature to the notice of dissolution should not prejudice any question between them as to a partnership having previously existed. About the same time, the same of the firm, painted on the door, was altered, and the name of Mr. Howe" painted separately from that of " Whitaker and Tatham." In the conduct of Mr. Howe in all the proceedings up to that time his Lordship saw nothing of which the plaintiff had a right to complain. He might put an end to the agreement when he pleased, for it was optional with him whether he would permit his name to continue in the firm, ur afford his personal assistance in carrying on the business. On a careful perusal of the affidavits, his Lordship saw nothing from which he could safely conclude that Mr. Whittaker had in any way re leased Mr. Howe from the obligation into which he entered on the 4th August, 1831. For additional consideration Mr. Howe was to render additional aid in carrying on the business, but the duty for which the former consideration was actually paid did not appear to have been altered. Even if Mr. Howe thought he was at liberty to practice for himself he had not given sufficient grounds for his opinion, and whatever his own view might have been it was not warranted by the facts stated. Neither did it appear by the evidence that after the month of August, IMO, he had acted for himself as a solicitor to, or acquired a right to do so by the acquiescence or consent of, NVllit akar. Nevertheless, on Christmas day, in the absence and without the knowledge of Whitaker and Tatham, he removed a great many documents from the chambers where the partnership business was carried on, to chambers where he now insisted he had a right to carry on business as a solicitor and attorney for himself. The defence set up was that the agreement entered into was void, or, if not void, that it was such an agreement as the Court could not order the specific performance of', and therefore it had been alleged, on behalf of the defendant, that he, with the consideration money which he had received for the agreement in his pocket, had a right to act in direct violation of the contract for which that consideration had been given. With respect to the validity of the agree ment, it bad not been made a question, on the present oc casion, whether attorneys or solicitors could lawfully agree to secure their clients to the attorneys and solicitors who succeed them in business. In Candler v. Candler, Lord Eldon, observing on the case of ---. v. Guy, said— " I had doubted whether professional men could be recommended, not for skill and knowledge in the profession, b ut f or a sum o f mone y paid and adv ance d. I know that thi s wou ld r i p up man y transactions, an d I was happy that th e C ourt o f Queen's Bench was of a dif_ ferent opinion, th oug h I never cou ld entirely re conc il e myself to their doctrine." In this case it had been alleged on behalf of the defendant that the agreement was void, as being a restraint on the exercise of a trade or profession, Ia the cases which had occurred on this subject no dis tinction that his Lordship could observe had been taken between trades and professions, but the distinction between and consideration having material. been In g d'fferent sorts of t ra d es an d p ro fessions bad been taken, the present i v e n , the real questionresent case, a valu able was whether the restraint intended to be imposed on Mr. Howe was reasonable ? The words of Chief JustiecTindal in Harmer v. Gray might be safely adopted ; they were these: " We do not see how a better test can be applied to the question whether an agreement of this sort can stand, than by considering whether the restraint is merely sufficient to afford a fair protection to the party in whose favour it is given, and Hot so large as to interfere with the convenience of the public. Whatever restraint is larger than the pro tection of the party requires can be no benefit to either— whatever is inj ur i otes t o th e p u blic is void on g rounds ofpublic policy." He (the Is Taster of the Rolls) could not say that in his opinion the public interest would be in any way interfered with or aff ec t e d b y 11Ix'. Howe not being allowed to prac. tise as an at t orney or so li c itor in Great Britain for 20 years witho u t th e conse.nt o f Mr. Whitaker. The ques tion was, whether the re etraint ought to be considered as reasonable? The bueiness of an attorney and solicitor might be, and was, t o a large extent, carried on by means of correspondents and agen.. a 4_ s a nd, as to which, it had al ready been decided that a mere int of practice, within a distance of 150 miles, was not an t unreaso nable restraint. In th e case of a surgeoulentistthe operation of drawing teeth, req u i r i ng the personal attendant. eof the practitioner, and the re tent at the. same lace, the s e straint to practise within 100 m il es of York - P held to tat an unreasonable the a Court of restraint, agree i ng with v'sinimon Pleas, in the case of H 'seise boundary Horner v. Gray, that ne pr, conld be Mid d own within v • nt would be t " the re' sl at reasonable, and beyond which it would be excessive. Having regard to the nature of the profession, to the limitation of time, and to their decision, that a distance of 150 miles was not an unreasonable boundary, his Lordship would say, as Lord Kenyon said in Davis v. Mason, that he did not see how the limits in this case could be considered as necessarily unreasonable, nor did he know how to draw the line. At present therefore, he could not come to the conclusion that the agreement was void, and he was not of opinion that the Court could not grant an injunction to restrain the violation of a contract or covenant because there might be sonic part of the agreement which the Court could not compel the defendant specifically to perform. No doubt every body recollected the case of a dramatic writer who thought fit to contract that he would write for one theatre, aad would not write for another. Lord Eldon could not carry into effect that part of the agreement by which the party contracted to write for one theatre, but to accomplish the same end, he did grant an injunction to restrain him from writing for any other. In the progress of this cause, it might become necessary to consider further the points that had been raised, but at present his Lord ship was of opinion that the right claimed by Mr. Howe to net in direct violation of the contract for which he had received the consideration, was, to say the least, so far doubtful, that he ought not to be permitted to take the law into his own hands, and carry on business at his own pleasure, without regard to the severe injury he might do the plaintiffs. An injunction must therefore be granted to restrain him from practising as an attorney or solicitor in any part of Great Britain for twenty years, without the consent of Whitaker, either in his own name, or the name of any other person, and to prevent him inducing any per s:at who was the client of Howe and Ileppenstall, and of Howe, Whitaker, and Tatham, to cease to employ the plaintiffs. With regard to the papers, his Lordship would look at the affidavits. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 18. BANNATYNE V. LEADER. The arguments in this case, the particulars of which we refrain from entering into at present, occupied his Honour the Vice-Chancellor the whole day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, .74. v. 18. (Sittings in Banco.) LYNCH V. NURDF.N. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, which bad been tried before Mr. Justice Williams, and in: which a verdict was had for the plaintiff. It was an action of tort for n ,, gligence committed by the defendant's servant in leaving his cart and horse in the street for half an hour, while he remained in the house. It appeared that while the servant was absent, the plaintiff, a child of six or seven years old, was playing with several others by climbing in and out of the cart. One of the children struck the horse which moved on, and the plaintiff fell under the wheel, and his thigh was fractured. For the defendant, it was con tended that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, inasmuch as the injury was not occasioned solely by the defen- dant's negligence, but that another party was the moving cause, and that the plaintiffhimself was at the time committing a trespass which disenti►led him to recover. The Learned Judge, however, thought the ease!ought to go tolthe .lury, who found for the plaintiff : and a rule was then moved fur a new trial. The Court, however, was of opinion that the case had been properly left to the Jury. If a man was guilty of negligence in leaving anything ddngereus in a place where he knew that some other per son might unjustifiably set it in motion to the injury of an other, that party would have a right of redress against both or either, but at all events against the first person. It' a gamekeeper left a loaded gun in a play ground where boys were amusing themselves, and that one of them taking it up maimed another by the discharge, damages could be recovered against the gamekeeper. It had certainly been held that a trespasser in a wood, where it was well-known that spring.guns were placed, could not sue for injury occasioned by their explosion, but that was founded on the plaintiff's previous knowledge of the dan ger. Oa these grounds it appeared to the Court that the plaintiff was entitled to recover, and that the rule for a new trial must be discharged. WATERS V. THE EARL OF TIIANET. In this case, which had been argued a few days since, the Court granted a rule for a new trial. THE QUEEN V. THE PROPRIETOR OF TILE " UNITED SERVICE GAZETTE." In this case a rule to show cause why a criminal infor mation should not be filed against the defendant, Alaric A. Watts had been obtained in the course of last term for a libel on Lieutenant Hart, of the 49th Foot. Sir FREDERICK Pou.ocx (with whom was Mr. James) now appeared to show cause against the rule, and he trusted that when the Court learned upon what grounds the rule had been obtained, and the answer he was about to put in on behalf of the defendant, they would discharge the rule and with costs. If the whole of the facts had been disclosed to the Court he was satisfied they never would have granted the application. There were in the affi davit of*Mr. Hart certain denials which were essential to the obtaining of the rale, but which denials, it would appear, were entirely untrue. It appeared that on the 6th June there was a meeting of persons interested in the formation of a United Service Benevolent Institution. The meet ing was adjourned till the 221, and the publication com plained of appeared in the United Service Gazette of the 27th June. The libel referred to what had occurred "at a late meeting" of that body, and the natural inference their Lordships and every other person would draw was, that it referred to the meeting of the 22d, which was the latest in point of date. Now Mr. Hart had chcsen to point affidavit to what had taken place at the meeting of the tith, and entirely suppressed all that occurred on the 22 1. The affidavit of Mr. Hart set out that he had been an otliccr of the British army since the Ist April, 1829, when he joined the 49th Foot in India; that he was the editor and proprietor of a new Army List, which bad very considerable circulation in military circles; that he had at. tended the meetings of the United Service Benevolent Insti tution, which he was a strenuous supporter of, and attended that of the 6th of June. That, on the 27th of June, the de fendant had published certain libellous statements of his conduct at said meeting, which statements were not true. Now, Mr. Hart had suppressed from', the knowledge of the Court that the meeting was adjourned to the 22d June, and he must have been swam e that the defendant's remarks applied to the latter meeting. The alleged libel charged Mr. Hart with, " at a late meeting," renewing his at tempts to disturb the harmony of the meetings, and in dulging in low abuse i d the supporters of the institution, more especially defendant's paper, but that he was obliged to repress his venom. That at a former meeting he had acted in a cowardly and despicable manner in referring to an absent individual (the defendant), without having given him notice of his intention to do so. The article then charged him with falsehood, and with cowardly and ran corous malignity towards defendant. That he had ob. tamed an extemion of his leave of absence on frivolous pretexts, and in utter defiance of the rules of the service, and had been placed upon the recruiting staff, leaving his hard-working and more honour ably disposed brother officers to do his duty under the burning sun of a tropical climate. Now, Mr. Hart, in taking the usual course of exculpating himself, denied the truth of the allegations, omitted all mention of what had occur'ed at the meeting of the 22d, but he had the-affida vits of several persons who were present, who would prove that on that occasion the offensive language which formed the ground of Mr. Watt's observations, had been used. Lord DENMAN said that looked as if the affidavits bad taken a false point fur the purpose of misleading the Court. Sir F. POLLOCK said he would convict Mr. Hart of falsehood before ho had done. The articles of war ex pressly laid down that any officer convicted of behaving in a sc.•,ndalous and infamous manner, should be cashiered, and Mr. Hart came to purge himself of these charges, having the fear of a court-martial before his eyes, but he feared 'ne would take little by his motion. From that day forth, Mr. Hart's name must go before the world coupled with that species of infamy which be longed to swearing an affidavit which, if it had been sworn by any attorney of that Court, would cause him to be struck from the rolls, He (Sir F. Pollock) would undertake to say that no person connected with the ad ministration of justice would so far disgrace himself as to put his name to such an affidavit. He would now read a few passages fr •m the affidavits, the first of which was from Ed. Nichols, of Shooter's. hill, in the county of Kent, Colonel of the Royal Marines; and he would remind the Court that he could have produced several others, but from the well known difficulty of procuring parties hold ing military or naval appointments to come forward in such cases. The affidavit of Colonel Nichols set forth that he had been 47 years in active service; he then re ferred to the formation of the Institution, the meetings of which he had attended, and deposed, that judging from the conduct of Lieut. Hart, and his repeated attempts to interrupt the proceedings and move the dissolution of the Society, he believed him to be animated with the most de termined hostility to it. He then referred to the meetings of the 6th and 22d June, when Lieut. Hart adopted the Fame line of conduct, and referred to a letter he had re ceived from his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Nichols, who stated that after deponent left on the 22d, Lieut. Hart had used very abusive language towards defendant. The Learned Counsel then read the affidavit of John Jos. Dempsey who attended the meetings of the Institution for the purpose of reporting the proceedings, and who depsed that Mr. Hart had repeatedly attempted to disturb the harmony and interrupt the proceedings of the meetings,— that he was present at the meeting of the 6th of June, whet, the Secretary was directed to write to the defendant Nlr. Watts, to thank him for his advocacy of the ;interests of the Institution. Mr. Hart then again attempted to move the dissolutiok of the Institution. At the adjourned meeting on the 22d June, Mr. Hart again attempted to interrupt the proceedings ; but having bean disappointed, Mr. Hart, who was sitting near deponent, began in a loud tone of voice a tissue of the most seurri!ous abuse of Mr. _. .„....... Watts, calling him the d-dst blackguard and scoun drel in existence. That at the termination of the meeting he (Hart) repeated the sanaa:expressions, adding that he (defendant) was a characterless vagabond without the pale of society, whom no gentleman would meet, and that if he knew where to meet him he would break every bone in his skin.—( Laughter.) He would now read the affidavit of Henry Carr, formerly of the East 'Ala Company's service, and Honorary &ere. tary of the Institution, denying several of the allegations of Mr. Hart, and in reference to the meetings of the 6th and 221 of June deposing that he attempted in move the dissolution of the Institution. That at the meeting of the 22d of June he used the abusive and insulting epithets to wards Mr. Watts as set forth in the preceding affidavit. Lord DENMAN—Does not this discharge the rule? Sir F. POLLOCK had also affidavits with respect to the discipline of the army, which showed that Lieut. Hart had been peculiarly favoured. One was from Captain Hawkins, late of the 49th Foot. Lord DENMAN-That is not the question. You must show his absence was procured by frivolous pretexts. Sir F. POLLOCK—There would be this inference, that while Mr. Hart was conducting a publication requiring great mental and bodily labour and exertion, he could only have obtained an extension of his leave of absence on the plea of continued illness. Lord DENMAN—Your short ground is that the rule would not have been granted if these facts were disclosed. The ATTORNEY.GENERAL was sure that any impression which had been made by his Learned Friend would be removed if it ought so to be. The Court would in the first place bear in mind who the parties were. Lieutenant Hart was a gentleman bearing her Majesty's Commission, and maintaining the unsullied honour of a gentleman. Mr. Watts was the proprietor of the United Service Gazette, which had a very extensive circulation in the army, and he complained that Mr. Watts had made use of his paper fur private and personal purposes; for although Mr. Hart was the proprietor of a new Army List, the contest could not be said to be one between two journalists. Mr. Hart had never written a word in any paper against the defendant, who had endeavoured to inflict a mortal stab on the reputation of Lieutenant Hart. The defendant did not confine himself to the personal quarrel between the parties, but he attempted to charge M r . H art w i th skulk ing from his duty, and acting in the most dishonourable manner, namely, having used unqualified falsehood as regarded the United Service Institution, and with cowardly and rancorous malignity towards the defendant. It was not alleged in the libel that Mr. Hart had said anything disrespectrul of Mr. Watts at the meeting of the 22d ; and the reference merely being " at a late meeting," Mr. Hart was, in his opinion, fully justi fied in supposing it to refer to the meeting of the 6th of June. The Learned Counsel then referred to a passsge in the libel reflecting upon the conduct of Lieutenant Hart at the meeting of the 13th of May, and which, it appeared, was altogether unfounded, although his Learned Friend had prudently passed it over as being wholly immaterial. It appeared that Lieutenant Hart had been sent home from India in consequence of ill health, and had been for two years actively employed in England in the recruiting ser vice. The question was, whether any answer had been given to the libellous matter as regarded Lieutenant Hart's conduct on the lath of May, or whether there was any justification of the introduction of totally irrelevant and grossly libellous matter, having no reference whatever to the personal controversy between the parties. After going through the various charges in the publication, and com menting upon them at some length, the Learned Counsel concluded by submitting that the rule ought to be made absolute. Lord DENM%N said that the Court would be sorry to give the least approbation to the tone and manner of a publication such as that complained of, and ho regretted that a paper connected with an honourable profession should have so expressed itself, no matter what the provo cation was, But the question was, whether they ought to make the rule absolute, and his reason for thinking they ought not was, that he was very confidant if the facts which must have been known to the prosecutor as the mo tives influencing Mr. Wetts in that publication had been disclosed, the Court would never have granted the rule. It appeared that Mr. Hart was about to make some re marks on the defendant's conduct, which was not permitted, and then it appeared that he addressed several officers, using the grossest and most in sulting language towards Mr. Watts as an individual. The prosecutor should have clearly made it appear what his own conduct had been, and it seemed to him that the Court ought to show that they would not submit to have such applications made, or any garbled and suppressed statements, and if it was done it must be at the hazard of the party making the application. When a motion was made for a criminal information, the Court expected that all the facts which had come to the prosecutor's knowledge as to the probable motives of the defendant should appear. On these grounds the rule must be discharged with costs. Mr. Justice Parreitoe expressed himself of the same opinion, adding that if the facts had been properly stated he never would have granted the rule. BAIL COURT, JAN. 18. THE QUEEN, v. P. N. S. WALLACE, AND N. S. S. WALLACE. The arguments in this case were heard on Saturday, and on that occasion Mr. Justice Williams deferred giving judgment, and said he should in all probability have made up his mind on the subject by this morning. On coming into Court his Lordship suggested that the parties should come to some arrangement, and it was ultimately agreed that the prisoners should be remanded on the understand that within four days they should be taken before a Magistrate, who should t a k e d own t h e depositions, and either commit them for trial immediately, or admit them to bail, as he might think fit. IN liE THE BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON RAILROAD COM PANY. APPLICATION TO REMOVE TILE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE CORONER'S INQUEST, INTO THIS COURT, BY CERTIORARI Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT applied to have the proceedings held before the Coroner, on an Inquest on the bodies of two persons named Simpson and Dawson, removed into this Court by certiorari, on the ground of informality. The persons in question had been killed in consequence of an accident on the Birmingham and London Railway, and the Coroner's Jury had returned a verdict of wilful murder in the case of one of these persons, and of fclo de se in the other ; they had also given a deodand to an immense amount, on the locomotive engine, and this would give_ rise to a very grave question respecting the law of deodands, which would give rise to considerable discussion. Anciently a deodand could only be levied on some living thing having the power of moving towards the death of the individual, and grave doubts might be en tertained whether a deodand could be levied upon a loco motive engine at all. The law of deodands had once un dergone discussion before the Court, but the case had gone off, and the Court bad given no decision. There were various other informalities, and he trusted he had stated sufficient to entitle him to a rule nisi to remove the depositions into this Court by certiorari. Rule nisi granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 18. NORRIS v. e TAMP. This is a special case, arising out of a commission of bankruptcy. The Court was occupied the whole day in the reading of document ry evidence, consisting of letters and extracts from books of accounts, from which nothing interesting to the public, or explanatory of the case, could be gleaned. It is expected to occupy more than another day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, J.div. 18. The Court was occupied the whole of the day with demurrers to pleas in cases in the special paper. The ar guments related purely to matters of pleading, and were too technical for the general reader. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS. A person named John Harefield, who is respectably connected, and who for some time has been carrying on the business of a smith and ironmonger in the town of Croydon, was brought before the presiding Magistrates, Messrs. Elyard and Sutherland, upon a charge of stealing a large quantity of steel, a number of files and other tools, and a pair of pistols. the property of Mr. James Leman, ironmonger, of Croydon, High-street. The inquiry, from the circumstances connected with it, and from the fact of the accused having all his life resided at Croydon, and hitherto with an unblemished character, created a good deal of interest. James Linton, a sergeant of the P Division of Police, deposed that, from information he received, he obtained a search warrant on Saturday morning, and, accompanied by the son of the prosecutor, he went to the house of a man named Savage, in the Middle-row, Croydon ; and, upon making a search, he discovered a great number of bars of steel, a screw-plate, and other articles, which Mr. Leman identified as his property. He afterwards went to the priso ner's premises, which adjoin those of Mr. Leman, and he there found a quantity of files, thirteen new stove cheeks, and some other things, which Mr. Leman also identified. Upon a further examination he discovered that the back of the prosecutor's warehouse was only separated from the prisoner's by a wooden partition, and hn discovered a trap door which offered an easy communication to the ware house, and through which the property might easily have been taken. Joseph Savage proved that the prisoner brought the steel that was found by the police at his house, to him some time ago, and asked him to take care of it, as he expected a dis treas would be put into his house by the landlord, and he consented to do so. There was originally, a great deal more property of the same description, but the prisoner had removed it, and that produced by the officers was all that remained. John Colepepper, another sergeant of police, proved that he took the prisoner into custody, and upon icarching him he found among other articles a duplicate for a pair of pis tols pledged in the prisoner's name, at the shop of Mr. Messenger, a pawnbroker, at Croydon, and which pistols he produced. Mr. W. B. Leman deposed that he assisted his father in carrying on the business of an ironmonger. The pri soner had formerly been in their employ, but he left in the month of March last. Both before and since that time, they had repeatedly missed property, and, in consequence of some information he received, he was induced to apply far a search wnrrant, and he accompanied the officers to Savage's house, where the property was discovered, lie had no doubt that the whole of the steel, and other things found there, had formed part of his father's stock ; but from the large quantity they had, he could only swear po sitively to two of the pieces of steel which bore their pri vate mark, and which had never been sold. The pistols produced he remembered giving to the prisoner to repair a short time before he left their service; and when ho subse quently asked him what had become of them, he said he knew nothing about there. In answer to questions from the Bench it was stated that after the prisoner left Mr. Leman's employ, he set up in business as an ironmonger on his own account. The prisoner was then asked what ho had to say in an swer to the charge ?-110 replied that he bought all the things of a man for 11. 12s. The CHAIRMAN asked if he had brought forward the man he bought them of, and he replied that he had not. The BENCH said that the charge appeared to be clearly made out and it was their duty to commit him to take his trial, and if there was any truth in his statement as to his buying the articles, it would be very important for him to produce that person at his trial. The prisoner was then fully committed. Mits. GORE'S NEW NOVEL ABOUT PARIS. —As everybody goes to Paris, everybody should read Mrs. Gore's new novel, " Greville," or a " Season" in that de lightful metropolis—by the production of which the au thoress has conferred a real benefit on the public in several respects. First, she has given them something new—and secondly, her lively pages contain a view of Paris, socially considered, such as no writer but herself is qualified to af ford. The manner in which Mrs. Gore has introduced her readers at once into the heart of society in the French ca. pital is admiratili../ She has supplied the public with that intimate knowledge of the domestic life of France only to be obtained by long and familiar residence. In short, it 'could scarcely be thought possible that a single work could so completely familiarise the reader with the society of a foreign capital as this novel of " Greville," and no English person intending to visit Paris should fail to study its sparkling details. Newport coal of the best quality is selling at Bridgwater for 12s. per ton. In consequence of the pre valence of north-east winds the vessels for coals from Ire land, Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, have not been able to reach the Welsh coast. The trade at Newport is therefore very bad,and there are many colliers unemployed. MORNING EDITION• 3HE MARKET S-YESTERDA CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of English grain were mock• rate, and good of Irish Oats. The fresh supplies vier° middling. The thaw having affected the Wheat samples , the trade was very dull at a decline of 2s. per quarter since last Monday. Barley Is. per quarter cheaper. Beans dull but not lower. Pease maintained their late v dlut'• Oats met a slack trade, at Is. per quarter reduction in value. The Flour trade heavy. rltlcia ON BOARD Or WI? Wheat,Red (old) —s. —s. 'Beans, &nal/ (new) 43a.4sl''White (old) I. s. ---- .Red (1E340) s2s. 545. Tick (new) ...... ... 37 Xi' Fine 551.575. (old) 42..445. ---- Superfine • 58s. 63s ----- Harrow (pew) 40.. 41s. --White (180)....5t5. 545. ---.. Fine 6os. 33s Bran k —s -- 6, . ... . Superfine 655. 70s Oats, Feed .....,—s. —Foreign free 5Is. 706. Rye- 'ISs. 40s Poland ...,.,....s• Barley 26s. 37 6 New "5-. 11 . ---- Grinding As 28s. Potato° —6. ---A. Malting 325. 375. Malt s6s. Ws, Scotch 0 7,-3 01 • Fine New 621. 635. Irish Fis. ... 215.2 16, Pease, Grey, New airs. 38s. Flour Town (per sack)._ 50s. 551. Maple New . 40s. 411. Seconds 46,486. -- White 14s. 3fis, -- North Country.... 45 , 4 6 • Boilers 375. 38s. Bran ll6 1 2 • ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST NVEE I ‘ 1 Wheat. 1 Barley. UR.. Flour English Irish - 95 25,359 1 --- .. Foreign SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of Cattle was pretty good, and the trade tolerably brisk. Mutton was in demand ; and good Downs sold well, while other sorts went off readily. Veal in demand, and the prices quoted were easily obtained. The few small porkers at market sold freely. Beasts, 2,453 ; Sheep, 19,640 ; Pigs, 501 ; Calves, 43. 1 3 •1 4 3s 8d to ss; Mutton, 3s 8d to ss; Veal, 4s to 6s; Pork' 3s 8d to ss. TEA MARKET. There was a fair demand for Free Trade, and prices wef t firm. Company's Congou in request, and produced 61(1. cash. Some public sales have been declared. TALLOW MARKET. • The demand was on a small scale for the time of year , and 465. 6d. was the (rotation for first quality on the spot. HOP MARKET. There has been little business done in this market sine ) our last, and prices have undergone little or no alteration. Fine seas are occasionally taken by the trade, and at full' prices, while the low sorts, especially the defective samples , . are completely neglected. PROVISION MARKET. Butter in good request, and fine Irish was worth 10 9. per cwt. Bacon dull of sale, and prices on the decline. Lard in fair request, and brought fulli prices. Hams' ill good demand, and full prices were paid for fine sorts. OF BREAD. The highest ri. e of ore as i . she Nkt7opolis is 9V, for the t lb IA at Go. d Bread may be had at 7%.1. PRICE 3 OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 New E - Tfsli Red Clorer...sos 84s St. Foin Old I:itui Dive, -s s-s Rye G ass -s 18s S 0 New Foreign Di,to -s 55s 7s Pacey Grass .-5 -.5 01.1 Di' to Ditto -s -s -s Linseed, for fettling ~,-s bp, 51s New White Clover 45s 50s 60s Ditto, for sowing ......-s 01 , ft! Old DM, Ditto -s -s -s'Dltto, for crustit, g ....-s 41i5 4 8 ' New Tre'bil .... -s :Ss 40s Hem,• -s 36s 4 1 i Old Ditto -s 20s 30s Canary -s its; 961 Tr folium s 48s 70sj Per Bushel. iti-glisli Carraway -s 50s 5i s White Mustard ....t Is Oct to 14 , 1 5 Foreign Ditto -s 46s 50 3 Brown Ditto 143 Oil to 17s Od Coriander -s lii 18s,Tares .7s 6dtc 108.- Per Quarter PRICE JF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton ...X44 0 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 2 0 Lins .ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) l4 0 Rape sake, per to.' PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. 0 Town Tallow X. 13 6 Melting Stuff £1 1 9 0 Yellow Russia White ... it 0 C Graves Soap Ditto 0 • I Good D regs 0 b v PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs, 3,, ed. Price of Tallow (as stat e d b y th e T a ll ow Melters) COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market-day, 18, s 41 ' s. d Adair's Gares field , 2 14 : 1 9 .4 ' Molywell Main 9O 8 Walls End Lambton ......... . 0 Ord's Redhugh Tanfield Moor ... Tanfied Moor Butes l9 0 Hartley Walls End Hilda ...... ........ '22 C Howard's Netherton Main", 1 5 0 Walls End Killingworth ... 42 G Worsbro Park IS Walls End Riddell's.... ...... 23 0 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WE 5. Wheat. 1 I Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 2ff..... -----__ l- .^ Per Quarter. 5. to s. s. to s . s. to s. S. to 5 . Is. Tic'' • Carlisle Hexham 5O 62 32 38 21 23 —' ; . 15 ltlorpeth 5O 62 25 28 19 L 2 40 44 ISt Benrith 63 30 25 Sheffield — 63 31 22 40 4.0 ~), WineheSt.r 59 f 4 28 32 26 29 42 45 35 - d. Per Bushel. s, d. s. if, s.d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 5. d. 3. d S. d t o g Carmarthen o 0 '7 7 00 50 00 22 56 00 00 „' 0 Cowbridge Swansea 74 8 0 4 0 4 4 2 6 2F 56 60 I'.o 1 ' Per 8011. 11 0 Barnardcastl 16 0 18 9 8 0 9 3 7 4 8611 0 12 6in 6 r, Durham 'l3 6 15 68 0 90 7 9 8950013 0 10 0 :T5 0 Richmond 'l4 6 18 th 7 0 9t, 5 6 811 9 0 II 6 9 0 '„ 0 Stockton l3O 16 01 90 9 70 Bl' 76 86 00 v WAKEFIELD ORN MARKET- Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ii. 61s. to 625. ttne64 4 ........--..---- Lin. and Cam. —s. 625. to 615. tine d ' ----- Yorkshire --s. --s. to 545. fine iSs• — 7 — White —s. 625.,50 —s. fine 091." .---- Foreign, Red . --s. to 53'. fine f 45 —.--- White .. 160 189 80 93 110 1.26 13 6 156 80 90 :0 0 130 116 18 th 70 9i, 90 11 6 130 16 01 9 0 90 76 86 WAKEFIELD C RKEE 1, Norfolk and Suing! 61s. to 625. Once* Lin. and Cam.... 61s. to rile. tine d Yorkshire —s. to 545. fine i Bl - White 625..,50 —s. to 535. fine 640. --- White Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk —s to 3.55. tine 381- Lincolnshire 26a. fine Sts. --- Yorkshire Wold—s. tine 691. Foreign, lied to—r. tine 30- Foreign Beans, New Old —a. to 465. fine 4iFs- Oats, Potato —•- Poland —s. —I. to 265. tine uw Vriezland and Small —a. -.4. to 20s. fine Vs, ---- thzaling Shelling Malt Rapeseed ..... NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red — . White. Wheat, Northumberland ... We s --a. GU' Norfolk and Suffolk 63s. 645........ 66.5. 70.. ---- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 65...... —s. 671. Foreign 6:2s. 665....... 628. 65% Rye, Norfolk And Suffolk 365. ag0...." .".8. .....g• Foreign 29,. 331 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... --s. —s —B. --a. Grinding and Feeding ;Ms 335...... —s. —S. Malt, Norfolk and Suffblk sBs Ms —B. —B. Beans, Small 4os. 4g0....... —s. —B. --- Tick .... 425. 48.4 --s. —a. Pease, White tts. 468..... —e. --4. ---- Gray Oats, Northumberland, rotatoe ......... Ws. 32s Feed Foreign -8 ...5. P Flour (per sack) Us. 53s — SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. °Atm 1, —-- --- --- -- --.. 05 Aberdeen 5O to 60 25 to 26 19 to 22 —to :13 to ae s Berwick 3ll 45 18 25 16 )7 32 33 Coldstream • 4; 50 24 26 17 18 30 .... Cupar (Fife) 48 65 1 26 31 IN 22 2'2 26 Dunbar 4B 118 '26 49 23 27 40 42- 40 Elgin Inverness Kelso .„ 36 45 18 23 17 19 3) 34 ,-- "*'. Kirkaldy Perth ri. The size of the measure varies throughout the country. EDINBUROH COItN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Bean n ,l' First '7ls. (Id. 346. 6d. 23 6 . Cd . 40s. Od. 4 05 '''' Second 6B 0 3'l 0 24 0 38 0 38 0 Third Average price of Wheat .1 Ds, 00. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. B 10; eef, per io. ...... M Os. 50. to 0103 d. Freshßutter, lb. s.lod. to Is. i Mutt0n......,....,„„ 0 4 0 7 S a lt Ditt0...—....... 010 I 0 Vea1......—.—..........0 '7 1 0 Ditto, per v0t...92 0 111 l' g 0rK.............4—.... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos... 8 0 1 0 Lamb, per qr. ... 1 6 4 6 OatStraw t kpl.).., 7 0 9 , fallow, cwt......... 39 0 42 0 Wheat Ditto... 6 0 6 Quartern L0af,„..,. U 8 0 Eii Barley Ditte —.. 5 6 •7 a • Potatoes, 141 b....., 0 4 0 0 Hay, per5t........ 0 0 1 ''' EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. Per Sack of2Elolb. Imp. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. g First Oatmeal Second ditto Barleymeal. ... 1 8 0 Barleymeal 0 I Peastne vat 1 8 0 Peasemeal al - Pot Barley from 30s. to 50s. per sack. HADDINGFON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Bean , : First I e7s Oil 336 ed 276 04 I 36s Oil I 37. Oc t . Second 586 Od 30t 00 21s 01 336 Od 3ts Oa Third s3s Od 28s Od 22s Od 323 Od 321 Od Average 2l. IBs 51 "1.12 th. , DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. 1 Barley. I Oats. Pease. Bea!!! First 64s (at 33s 0.1 26. tist 39s Od Ms Od Second sss Ott 30s 6d 225 Od Ws Od - -la ' 0 4 1 Third 49; tid 23s 6d 17s Od 361 Od 046 GLASGOW CORN Mt RKE'i".. Wheat, per 24011,. s. d. s. d. 3.3 0t034 6 11e i •b!. a .ft. 1 .T.. 2 .. ,74 2. b .. ; 1' ; 'll3.Mi-i f6' British, old -- new 23 0 31 0 British l9 0 21 Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 26010. o 4 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. ' Scottish 22 4 3 91 6 91 English 27 0 246 Pease, Scottish ...... 20, 0 0 Scottish 2l 0 25 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... 16 0 ,:',' 0 Irish STEEL FIRE-IRONS, with Bronzed Heid i 15s. per Set, Bronzed Fenders, 9s. - A variety of pat' terns and prices, from the above to 305., at which price th e fenders are particularly handso m e, w ith splendid scroll centrei, richly intermixed with steel, the ends are steel, and the or porters for the fire-irons bronzed. Polished steel re-irons' from 4s. per set. Catalogues gratis; o f containing the prices of ev e ry a rticle - Furnishing Ironmongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-sheet, Oxford-str,eet• Established 1820. B IR THS. Ott the 10th inst., Mrs. Cary, of Torre Abbey, oft claugh of ,i On the 12th in s t., at Fawkham, K en t, Si rs . W. redrafted"' of a son. On the 15th inst., at Hampstead, the lady of E. T. Cerdei 6 Esq., of Bedford-row, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at Kilmarnock, A. H. Young, FAT ,. Quebec, to Janet, second daughter of T. Greenshields, Esq. On the 12th inst., at Woolwich, G. H. Wallace, Lieutens" 16th Regiment, youngest son of Lieutenaat-Colonel Wallol Royal Artillery, to Ch ar l o tt e B ea t r i ce , y ounges t d aug hter °' the late G. N. Adams, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Portman ware. On the 12th inst., at Dundee, C. Schnobel, Esq., of Libt i :i Russia, to Eliza Ann, third daughter o f th e l a t e T. Nicoll , Jamaica. On the 14th inst. at Holywell, Church, Oxford, the Rev. J. Dixon, B. A., Gen. Com. of St. Mary Hall, and eldest a°': of H. Dixon, E s q., of O x f or d an d Whittington Hall, Der,b l , shire, to Lucy Maria, e ld es t d aug ht er o f th e R ev . J. Hughes, M.A., of Trinity College, and Rector of St. Clemen t Oxford. On the 14th inst., at Eccles Church, and afterwards at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Thetford, Eugene, Barton de Ve!l uc t i; of Chateau de Ve auce , A u b ergne , gran d son o f th e Alarqtl , ' . Salperwick, Sieur de Marcoussis, to Isabella Clarissa. lb:d daughter of the late AL 11. Perceval, Esq., of Spencer-W° Quebec, Lower Canada, and niece to Sir J. Flower, Bait., of Eccles Hall, Norfolk. DIED. On the 7th of November last, at Simla Hills, l e iontens lt' Colonel R. Chalmers, of the Bengal Army. On the 13th inst., at Seymour-place North, Euston-sql 111 " W. W. Haux well, Esq., On the 14th inst., at Howard Lodge Tunbridge- 1 " g ' Ernest George, infant son of W. S. Taylor, Fn. On the 15th inst., at Chelsea College, Major-General ge n/ Roome, of the Bombay Establishment, aged 63. --sr.---...A..------ .-- -------S, ._ E,----...;„ 0 . Landon: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNI7 ip No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, saw* 9 the county of Middlesex.—Tuesda January 19, Ig4l* - - • _...A F F Of 01 no un Inert CLc thro L ado pt kst.: „ t ir ‘i()v 4 ten th e h Of Bair, —__ lisz — Tft ch t An er. sa n , rra , to 44 "nacr e 4, b0, adjoin so,