The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

MORNING- SUN' SPAIN-MORE EXECUTIONS. MADRID, Nov. 9.—To-day two more victims of " the family conspiracy" have suffered the legal penalty of their crime. Teniente Don Manuel Boris, and Sub teniente Don Jose Gobernado, both of the Princesa Infantry, were shot in the Campo de Guardias at two o'clock to-day, in the midst of an immense multitude of spectators. The Fiscal had demanded a sentence of ten years imprisonment for each, as well as for Brigadier Quiroga, but the Council of War thought proper to impose the pain of death, and the Government to sanc tion its execution. The first-mentioned, Don M. Boria, a young man only 22 years of age, was deeply implicated, having been identified as the officer who ordered the insurgents on the palace stairs to fire on the halberdiers ; and when their sergeant hesitated, drew his sword. and threatened to pass it through his body if he did not make his men obey. Had the privates been as determined as their lieutenant, the result might have been very different. As it was, there was nothiag left for them to-day but to die like brave men ; and truly so they did! They were brought, like their predeces sors, in an open carriage to the field where Quiroga re cently suffered, dressed in their full uniform andeco rations, and even with their swords on, guarded by an escort so slight that it was evident there was not the slightest fear of a mo‘ement to save or rescue there. Their two confessors and two military friends attended them, as in former cases. The elder, Gobernado, was grave, but perfectly composed and fearless. Young Boria still less resembled a man on the brink of eternity. He seemed completely unconcerned, and nodded confidently to his friends amongst the crowds that lined the way to exchange a parting adieu, with the air of one who would say—" I shall not dis grace you ; I think nothing of all this ! My nerves are firm !" A stranger might have thought that it was nothing but their sad companions who were about to suffer. They alighted freely, heard the sentence read unmoved, and marched with military pride before the pickets selected to shoot them. (These were of the provincials of San Juan de Alcazar, as before ; in fact, the only regular troops in Madrid.) Don Manuel Boria, then advancing boldly to a rising ground in the centre of the immense field, addressed the troops who lined it in a few energetic sentences, and with a voice which made itself heard at a considerable distance, declared his unalterable love of his country, and concluded al most in the words of Leon, " Viva Isabella Segunda!" Here the Nacionales re-echoed the cry, " Viva la fiber tad !" and then, turning on his heel, waved his hand with the air of a man about to take his place in the ranks of battle, exel liming " Adios, Senores!" and pre sented himsc lf to the aim of the executioners. His com rade was already in his place, having only spoken to his confessor. Bonin gave the word, facing the picket boldly, with his hands resting on his hips, as uncon cernedly as if he was reviewing them upon parade. Both fell on the first discharge, and were dead almost in stantly. The expression of feeling in the spectators was striking and characteristic. No one spoke of their crime, and all seemed lost in pity and admiration, espe cially for the youth Boria. The immense crowd seemed to say with one voice, " It was impossible for a man to die more bravely." STATE OF THE WEATHER. - Tho frost which commenced on Tuesday in the metro polis has been most severe, and the extreme variation of the thermometer has been remarkable. Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the Humane Society House in -Hyde Park, states that at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night the mercury had fallen to 16 degrees, that is, 16 d eg rees below the freezing point , and it continued in this position until eight o'clock yesterday morning. In the course of the day it rose considerably, but towards evening tell rapidly, and there was every appearance of another hard frost. In a pond at the back of the So ciety's house the ice an inch thick. At the north-west end of the Serpentine the ice extends a considerable dis tance from the shore, and above the bridge in Kensington Gardens the water is skimmed over with it. After some continuance of fine weather, we were on on Sunday visited with a snow shower on the hills, but which in the valley descended in gentle drops of rain. The accompanying indication was frost, which was con firmed during the night, and on Monday all the moisture of the road was dried up by a hard frost.— York Courant. DRIFFIELD.—After two or three frosty nights and a very cold day on Monday, Tuesday morning brought a slight downfal of snow. with a very wintry aspect. Winter has this year stolen a march upon us. During the whole of the past week the weather has been cold ; and on Sunday morning, at daybreak, we had several showers of snow falling in unusually large flakes. On Monday night there was another thick fall of snow, which completely covered the ground between Brighton and Lewes, in some places to the depth of four inches ! This was followed by an intense frost, which continued in the shade during the whole of Tuesday and Tuesday night. The sun shone brilliantly during the whole of that day, and, of course, the thaw was considerable ; but, not withstanding, some of the hills near Lewes were yes terday covered to the depth of two inches.—Brighton Gazette. On Monday morning last our city and neighbourhood were visited by a heavy fall of snow, which soon covered the ground. There was another fail early yesterday morning. The frosts at night are very severe ; and everything around us wears the aspect of deep winter. —Bath Chronicle. _ TUNBRIDGE WELLs.—On Sunday morning we were unexpectedly apprised of an early approach of winter, by a heavy fall of snow, as well as on the next morning, Monday, but in neither case did it lie long on the ground. The weather has continued very cold ever since ; and we feel it the more, having had several fine warm sunny days previously. Amid this variable weather there has been to be seen for nearly the last fortnight, an apple tree in full blossom, in the garden of Mr. Bell, at the Mount Pleasant Brewery, in this place. RIPON.-If any judgment can be formed from the present week, we have every indication of an early winter, having experienced keen northerly winds and severe frosts. On Sunday we had a slight fall of snow, and within a mile of this city the ground was covered. On Monday morning, the east and west hills appeared in their winter garb, and the cold has since continued in tense for the season.— York Courant. HULL.—GALE OF SUNDAY MORNING.—SOOT after one o'clock on Sunday morning, the wind, which had blown here with some violence during the night from the north. east, arose to a perfect hurricane ; and we regret to add, that accounts are already received of con siderable damage among the shipping, which it is feared will prove but the harbinger of more serious disasters as the natural consequences of so violent, though providen tially so short a storm. The vessels arriving in the Hum ber after the wind had in some degree abated, report having previously - encountered the heaviest sea that has been experienced on this coast for twenty yearS. Amongst them were the steamers William Parley, from Hamburgh, and the Monarch, from London, the crews of which state that the swell of the billows and the trough of the sea, as the most tremendous ever witnessed on those passages, the waves repeatedly breaking over the mast-heads and funnels of the vessels, and at times ren dering the engines perfectly polierless. Three or four light colliers were driven on shore between Clea and Humberston, but as the wind moderated and changed to N.W., it was supposed they might be got off.—York Courant. GRIMSBY.—The gale was tremendous here on Satur day night and S un d ay morning, with the w i n d at E.N.E. Seven brigs w e r e d r i ven on shore at Cleethorpes, besides other smaller vessels. The Emma, Turner, from South ampton to Whitby, went to pieces —crew saved.— Yorh Courant. BRIDLINGTON QUAY.—About 60 sail of vessels found shelter in the bay during the storm of Sunday, among which was the mail steamer for Gottenburg, which sailed from hull on the preceding day. At about two P .m., a large laden brig with a white streak was seen to founder, about three miles from the lighthouse. Not above half an hour previous, two man only could be seen on deck, and ttu;y, poor fellows, with whoever else might be on board, went down with the vessel, there being no poss ibili t y of rendering them any assistance.— York Courant. Within the last few days the weather has assumed the appearance of _the moat rigorous winter. Friday the • and sleet ; this h ol ea r vi al ly n with all appear cold was intense, with showers day (Saturday) snow is . ual locality, i tyS,Vtehearpeotantaoppdiygging to be able to is almost ante of a continuance. state that, in this completed.—Team Herat!. e We regret that the weather, since g . Thursdayßleak showers night has si c n h c a e n undergone a most unf ai of sleet, with high winds, have succeeded a fortni g h t ' s almost cloudless sk3:and have, consequently arrested the operation of sowing .that had progressed consider a bl y throughout these districts. Potato diggingis also DISGRACEFUL /the sth of No vember the village of Slop Pond, in the immediate vici nity of Higheliff and . Beacon Lodge, Hampshire, near Christchurch, bl and the Honoura e hristchurcb, the respective residences of Lord Stuart de Rothesay Grantley Berkeley, was the scene of a most disgraceful riot. It seems that the vigilance of the game-keepers of the latter gentleman since his residence there had made them obnoxious to the lower classes, w ho consist chiefly of deer-stealers, poachers, and smuggle r s, which led to the disturbance. About half-past eight a . t night, from 50 to 60 people assembled, many of them disguised, with their faces blackened, armed with bludgeons ande . nns : and proceeded to burn figures supposed to represent 1 3 0 1r ws Berkeley and his men. They then broke the aim of one of the keepers, who was from home, threaten ing to burn his house and to murder his wife, at the same time throwing fire into his premises, in thedirec tion of his fagot pile, but which fagots his wife had previously removed within doors, to barricade her win dows, having had some suspicion that things were going wrong. Having visited the head-keeper's (George Taroess) house, in the same manner , w h om some one , a short time before, had fired at through the window in an endeavour to take his life, they then went to the house of Mr. Berkeley's butler, and to the residence of a man who had been witness against some poachers, and committed various acts of intimidation and excess, concluding with burning the figures on the highway, svhicS runs immediately in front of these houses. The roa d was thus rendered impassable to a horse for nearly two hours. A single policeman approached when the riot was over. Mr. Grantley Berkeley, who was in Gloucestershire at the time, has since arrived upon the spot, and his servants having taken clown the names of 40 of the chief leaders of the riot, active measures are being adopted for the punishment of the offenders. FALL 07 SNOW IN PARIS.-A fall of snow took ;lace in Paris on Monday afternoon, between four and tiro o'clock, but the weather was not sufficiently cold for it to maga o n __ th 9 grOtuul. EDUCATION IN FRANCE. - - The Monifeur contains a report from the Minister of Public Instruction, occupying no less th n fourteen columns, on the state of primary instruction in France ap to the end of 1840. We make the following ex tracts : The :total number of the communes of France is 37,295. According to the last statistical report, in 1837, there were then 29,613 single or united com munes provided with schools. In 1840 there had been additions of 3,486, making an amount of 33,099 schools, leaving the number of communes unprovided with schools 4,196. In the departments of the Ar dennes, Doubs, Nord, Haut Rhin, Seine, Somme, and Vosges, there is at least one public school in every commune. Other departments are very near being in possession of this advantage. Thus, in 1840, in the Hautes Alpes there was only one commune out of 180 without a school ; in the Bas Rhin three out of 543 ; in the Oise five out of 698 ; in the Meuse five out of 570 ; in the Pas de Calais eight of 903 ; in the Haute Saone seven out of 651 ; in the Meurthe eight out of 714 ; in the Aveyron three out of 256 ; in the Aube six out of 447. The departments, which last year were most in want of schools were the Allier, where there were 141 com munes out of 323 without any ; the Corveze 137 out of 202 ; the In dre 124 out of 249 ; Morbihan 111 out of 228 ; Finisterre 121 out of 281 ; Cotes du Nord 140 out of 374 ; Dordogne 184 out of 585 ; Saone et-Loire 170 out of 593 ; Charente 107 out of 453 ; Puy-de-Dome 115 out of 445 ; Haute Garonne 138 out of 596 ; Eure 125 out of 791.—The progression in the numbr of scholars has been equally remarkable. In 1837 there were in the communal and private schools under a master 1,547,194 boys and 412,636 girls, and in those under a mistress 23,350 boys and 707,511 girls. In 1840 there were in the communal and private schools under masters 1,607,013 boys and 444,356 girls, and in those under mistresses 34,394 boys and 795,916 girls. In 1837 the superior communal and private primary schools received 9,414 scholars, and at present 15,285, being an increase of 5,871. These scholars are not admitted until they have shown on examination that they have acquired the instruction given in the primary elementary schools. They gain in the superior schools more extended lessons in the French lang uage, history, geography, and arithmetic ; are taught book keeping, linear-drawing, perspective, and receive considerable instruction in geometry, natu ral history, physics, and experimental chemistry. This general education is in most of these schools divided i n t o three annual courses, and is completed with studies in some of the living languages. Moral and religious instruction is given in these and in all the schools. Among these schools there are one hundred and nicety.four in which the system of instruction is com plete, that is to say, affords the scholars all the various branches, some of which are especially calculated for the peculiar wants of the district. Several of them have in this respect attained a remarkable degree of importance and utility. Those of Nantes, Caen, Lille, Rennes, and some others, are cited as examples. In 1837 there were 26,370 schools exclusively appropriated to Catho lics, 563 to Protestants, 28 to Jews, and 2,059 were mixed. In 1840 there were 28,018 Catholic, 677 Pro testant, 31 Jewish, and 2,059 mixed schools. The number of schools under communal masters, which in 1837 amounted to 29,313, is now increased to 30,785. Among these, those confined to boys amount to 12,486, and those common to both sexes 18,299. Besides the regular schools, the administration has also turned its attention to adult classes for the evenings and Sundays, for the instruction of men whose early edu cation has been neglected. In 1837 there were 1,856 adult schools in 1,547 communes, giving primary in struction and some practical notions of the sciences to 36,966 workmen of all trades and employments. In 1840 the number of adult classes spread over 3,090 communes amounted to 3,403, being nearly double, and had 68,508 attendants. This instruction, however, is too much neglected in many of the departments. There is not a siogie adult class in the Aisne, Basses Alpes, Ardennes, Ariege, Aude, Aveyron ' Centel, Charente, Charente-Inferieure, Cher, Creuse, Doubs, Gets, Let, Lozero, Haute-Marne, Nievre, Puy de Dome, Pyrenees- Orienteles, Haut-Rhin, Somme, Var, and La Vendee. In other departments, on the contrary, they are numerous. There are 190 adult classes in the Gironde, 120 in the Indre et Loire, 194 in the Isere, 194 Loir et Cher, 188 in the Loiret, 183 in the Msine et Loire, 188 in the Meuthe, 303 in the Meuse, 219 i n th e Orne, 240 in the Seine et Oise, 149 in the Deux Sevres, and 155 in the Viene. The city of Paris expends annually in the maintenance of adult classes a sum of 57,744 francs —an example which is imitated by communes in several department. Thus the Municipal Councils have voted for this purpose in the Pas-de-Calais, 7,100 f. ; Gironde and Marne, 3,4001. ; Indre-et-Loire, 2,830 f. ; Loire-Inferieure, 2,600 f. ; Mense, 2,2421.; Nord and „ - - Oise, 2,100 f ; Seine-et-Oise, 2,800 f. Several Coun- cils-General have made sacrifices for the instruction of adults, and the aggregate of their votes in 1840 for this object was 31,796 f. In 1837, there were in 172 com munes 261 asylums receiving 29,214 children. There is now to be found in 352 communes,ss3 infant schools (sal les d'asile), receiving in all 5,986 children. There are, therefore, at this time, 294 infant schools receiving 21,474 children, more than there were in 1837. The communes have devoted to these humble establishments the sum of 245,631 f. The Chamber of Deputies added a credit of 200,0001. for the same object to the budgets for 1841 and 1842. This sum is distributed as an en couragement among such communes who have been at the expense of purchasing ground and erecting buildings for these schools, and has been a means of increasing their number. It has already produced a good effect. Independent of several recent establishments, there are at this time seventy-nine proposals for new ones laid before the Royal Council of Public In struction for its examination. The number of commu nal teachers who receive fixed salaries not amounting to 300 f. a-year each, is 25,031. Of these, 23,048 re ceive only 200 f. each, and 2,003 have salaries between 200 f. and 299 f. The total number of persons employed in primary schools is 62,859—namely, lay teachers (male), 38,368 ; religious ditto, ditto, 2,136. Lay teachers (female), 11,984 ; religious ditto, ditto, 10,371. The number of persons employed as Inspectors of Schools is 168. Besides the 76 Normal schools, 4of which are directed by Ecclesiastics, and 2 entrusted to brethren of the doctrine Chretienne, there have been es tablished 3 schools of the same order, specially appropri ated to non-Catholic communions, and directed by Pro testant pastors. The maintenance of those Normal schools causes an annual expenditure of 1,538,203 f., borne by families, by the Departments, and by the State in the fol. lowing proportions—namely, by families, 268,5201. ; by communes, 23,890 f. ; by the departments, 1,081,348 f. ; and by the State, 164,445 f. In 1837 the Normal schools gave instruction to 2,406 persons intended for teachers ; a number increased -at the present day to 2,684, which are thus divided :—Free boarders, 311 ; free out-boarders, 37 ; bursars of the State, 208 ; com munes 81 ; departments, 2,054. In 1837 the Normal schools sent out 860 masters. In 1840 the number was not greater on account of the length of time employed by some of the schools in more extended studies, a great many of them having been detained for a third year. Nevertheless, the supply of new teachers has increased, since, out of the 860 students who were qualified in 1837, only 671 have been placed ; while out of the 860 qualified in 1840 there are 713 at the heads of schools. This proves that Normal instruction is pro ducing more and more immediate results. Of the 860 sent out in 1840, diplomas of capacity for giving supe rior primary instruction have been granted to 130, and for giving elementary primary instruction to 730. The 713 normal students who have been placed are thus divided, 660 in communal schools and 53 in private schools. The average number of places vacant for communal teachers was, three years ago, 2,356, but at present they are no more than 2,308. The Normal schools provide for about one third, the other two thirds are filled from other candidates. Endeavours have been made for forming on a regular system female teachers, independent of the religious corporations of women, and several schools have been in consequence established." GREAT NORTII OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending Nov. 15, 1841 : Passengers £684 6 11 Merchandiz e 504 2 10 Darlington, Nov. 17. £l,lBB 9 9 D. O'BRIEN, Secretary. The CorPont'n of Limerick, the third town in Ireland in extent tivity, was proved b, t population, and commercial ac y quiries to hav e been one e o result of Parliamentary in- . even the Irish institutions the most notorious amongst belonged. The app o i ntment the Chief Magistrate t o the l to all th e c i v i c offices, from servants of the body, had been us among the bailiff s an d present Viscounts Gort, w h o exe ue d by the late a n d control in the nomination, as in thecirPsed, in f act , t h e same e domestic servants. The election under the of th e i r own came on last week, and the result was Act of Vi c t or i a candidates succeeded in the proportion thatof four the Liber a l and it only remained for the newly ohosonl 3°y to as sume to on e ; the civic functions given them by the Act d of Par liament. Accordingly, a deputation waited u Mayor—a Mr. Vereker , a r ela t i on of Lord Gor i : on b e it the r emembered—" respectfully to call upon him to i * ' up gwe to them, on behalf of the C ouncil, the possessionofac e Exchange, and all books, records, and corporate property under his controul, or that of any corporate officers under him." The Mayor refuses to accede to this request, on the (alleged) ground of the illegality of the proclamation and other proceedings at the election; the consequence of which will be an application for enforcing the law against this recusant functionary. EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE ON THE VE. GETATION OF WHEAT.--II is a remarkable circumstance that since the great earthquake in 1687, no wheat will grow on the coast of Peru. In some places, indeed, a little is raised, but it is very unproductive. Rice, on the eontrary, yields a great return. Before the earthquake, one grain of wheat yielded 200 grains.— York Courant. GREENWICH, Nov. 16.—Richard Weeks, a pensioner of the Royal Hospital, at present in the White House Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal-geen (quite insane), has been left the enormous sum of 120,0004 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FRoar THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times yesterday devoted a long article to enforce upon the country gentlemen of its party the duty of feasting. Eating and drinking to repletion have been found, it seems, most excellent auxiliaries to Toryism. It is now feared by certain gourmand:, that having effected the main purpose for which they were employed, Conservative festivals are in danger of fulling into disuse. " These admirable fes tivals must on no account be relinquished," is not only the friendly admonition of the Times, but the fond hope of many a rampant Tory, who was wont to be favoured with a ticket at the Tory candidate's or Member's cost— es the price of his sweet voice at the poll, and his voci ferous cheers when the party toasts were announced from the chair, after the removal of the cloth from the din ner table, taking special care not to be betrayed into any un-Toryfied expression of loyalty to the Sovereign on the proposal of " her Majesty's health," should it be deemed rather " too bad" to shirk that time-honoured compliment to the Sovereign,by " Church and Queen," the new-fangled form which is now extensively used on such occasions. The Times evinces considerable tact in thus drawing attention to the influence of the stomach on the principles, or, rather, the voles, of its party. The Tories are universally good feeders. The disposition evinced by the " respectables" of the party to barter their suffrages for soup, and their consciences for claret, has a due and appropriate influence upon these who occupy a lower place in the scale of society. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle perseveres with commendable assiduity, if its case were a good one, in the Anti-Corn-law controversy. The state of deser tion in which our respected Contemporary stands seems rather to animate than to subdue its zeal, and day after day it pours out its closely-packed columns, under the disheartening testimonies from all sides that its labours are but moderately approved of, or, worse, that they are net read. It is an impression of the latter kind which forbids our reply to the Morning Chronicle as often as we could wish. This disheartening fear, that one writes for a thankless public, that will not even con descend to the perusal of what has been written, has been, at least since the days of Persius—" Quis leget hen ? Nomo, Hercule, nemo"—the most powerful and melancholy restraint upon the exercise of the pen ; and the person who can expect readers for any long article with the awful stigma, " Corn-law Question," in its front, must have a higher opinion of his pawers than we are conscious of. Nevertheless we adhere to the hope that toleration, and even a minute's attention, is possible for a few words upon a very striking and important fallacy. Under this impression we venture, though still with diffidence of success in catching a reader, to submit, and to notice in a few words, the following extract from the Morning Chronicle of this day : " In another column will be found an account of an important fi ea trade meeting at Sheffield on Monday last, at which were present Earl Fit zwilliam, John Parker, Esq., Sir Arnold James, and nearly all the most influential merchants, manufactures, &c., of the place. ", Resolutions disapproving of legislative interference to protect the manufacture or the growth of anything in any national locality,' advocating free intercourse between the nations of the earth for the various articles of - manufacture and natural production,' and expressing a readiness to abolish all protective import duties on foreign manufactures,' were proposed and seconded by masters and operatives, and carried unanimously. " We had supposed that the manufactures of Bir mingham and Sheffield would'be the last to suffer from the corn monopoly. But we regret to perceive in the statements of some of the leading manufacturers ir refragible evidence that the trade of Sheffield has suf fered from it to an extent which we could hardly have credited. Mr. Ibbotson observed that five-eighths of the manufacturers of Sheffield go to the American market, the severe prostrations of which has been of five years' standing. " What (said Mr. Ibbotson) is the reason of all this? Because the Americans have bad nothing to give us in exchange for our goods.—( Hear.) America has an abundance of what our people are dying for—not lite rally dying, but wasting away for want of adequate sup port." _ . The reason, then, of the stagnation of the American trade during the last five years is to be found in the Corn-laws ! Prima fade, this seems strange when we remark that the trade, the temporary stagnation of which is complained of, had grown up under the system of protection, and had prospered beyond example and beyond hope under the Corn-laws for at least 21 years. COURlER.—Westated some time ago, that the con dition of the sister country was gradually and steadily im proving, as well with regard to the feelings and habits, as to the material comforts of the great body of the people ; and notwithstanding the atrocious crimes that have recently been perpetrated there, disgracing the na tional character, and rolling back for a time the tide of im provcment,we see no reason to alter or qualify our opinion in the slightest particular ; on the contrary, various subsequent events have but served to strengthen and confirm it. The land-hunger that obtains amongst the Irish peasantry is almost incomprehensible, it is the main source of instigation to the many savage and brutal murders of which that unhappy country has been the scene, embittered and aggravated by fierce and furious agitation ; and by the lessons of contempt for law and disregard for Lumen life which it inculcates with such industrious malignity. Truthfully and gra phically does a late revolter against the desolating des potism of that system trace the close, the inseparable connection subsisting between its preachings and the murderous practices which pass in the sister country under the designation of agrarian outrages. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. POST.—The Money Market was decidedly less easy to-day, the interest demanded on the security of stock ranging between five and six per cent. for temporary purposes. A report has been current in the produce market now for several days past of the Bank of England being about to increase their present rate to six per cent. per annum. This report has at length extended itself to the Stock Exchange and other quarters, though, from all we can learn upon the subject, there does not appear to be any good foundation for it. The importations of specie have been large of late, both from the Conti nent and the American States, and as the exchanges continue favourable to this country, there is no visible cause for any further action on the part of the Bank. The stock of bullion has rather diminished during the last two or three months, but the reason of this is well understood, and there is no ground for believing that any thing worthy of being called a drain is to be apprehended. The probability seems to be, therefore, that the rate now chargeable, will not, for the present, be disturbed. It is not long since a reduction of interest was spoken of with equal confidence, and the rumour at that time originated, if we recollect rightly, as it has now done, with the spe culators in Mincing-lane. CHRONICLE.—Lord Monteagle has given notice to the holders of unstamped Exchequer bills still outstand ing, to bring in their bills against Friday, the 19th instant, at the latest, in order that the examination and stamping may be completed, and the bills returned on or before Saturday, Nov. 20, "when it is expected that the present proceedings may be brought to a close." On Friday last, the 12th inst., his Lordship informed the public, that up to Thursday, the 11th inst., 25,709 bills, amounting in value to 15,865,3001., had been re ceived, examined, stamped, and re-issued, which left 3,605,7501. still outstanding and unstamped. If the whole of these shall have been brought up to the Exchequer, and have passed through the test of examination, stamping, and re-issuing by Friday, then his Lordship's duty will be " completed," and the proceedings alluded to by the Comptroller-General " brought to a close." But we do not believe that the whole of the outstanding kills will be sent up by the time required. We have every reason, indeed, to think otherwise, for there must be a very general repugnance amongst the outstanding holders, who received their bills in security for loans, to trust them to the test of the counterfoils, when, if they should not correspond with them, they are totally un certain whether they can ever get another look of their property. Supposing there are some half a million only of bills not sent up against Friday ; nay, sup posing there be only half-a-dozen of 1,0001. bills not forwarded against the day specified, the holders, it seems, are to be excluded from having them afterwards examined and stamped ! Such is the inference to bo drawn from the notice of the Comptroller-General; and if that be the case, we have no hesitation in saying that the notice is impotent, and cannot be maintained. The Exchequer cannot compel the holders of the outstanding bills to send up their bills against Friday. The notice, indeed, does not attempt to do so. The framers of it knew that they had not the power ; but they have sent out the notice as a feeler, and in the shape of a threat, by inuendo, to induce the outstanding bills to be confided to their grasp, and so enable them to bring their labours to a close. We scarcely think the manoeuvre will suc ceed to the desired extent, and we fear that his Lordship may still be compelled to attend to office-hours for some time longer. It is not every day that City people come into such close contact with a Lord, and they are natur ally averse to part company so abruptly with the one they have caught. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, Nov. 13.—There was a steady demand for all descriptions of new Hops to-day at about last week's prices, which are likely to remain stationary for some time to come. The duty will be declared in a few days, and is likely to fall between 13,0001. and 14,0001. BOROUGH, Nov. 15.—Tlie Hop market is in a dull result of o B f s. state at present, as the official duty must come out in a few days and s e t at rest all further doubts as to the 114 d., of hch theTihe dutyold dutyyearlastatl 12-20 per was only 1 7 13 : , furnished 34,001/. 16s. 11d. 4-20 ; the new duty at R-20 per lb., 25, 198 / . ss. 10d. 16-20 ; and the addi tional ~!, i tv of 5 per cent. 2,963/. 6s. 11 d. The prices rule about f.. 1) same as in our last. Estimated duty, 1 40,0001. to 145,0001. s TATE OF TRADE AT MANCHESTER.—We regret to say that, discouraging as the state of business has been in the town for some weeks past, it was worse yesterday than on any former occasion. Owing to the present severe weather, there was an almost total cessa tion in the purchases of yarn for the Continent; and the market was, consequently, exceedingly flat, with a decline of id. to id. per lb. on many descriptions of yarn. For goods, too, the demand was very trifling, and prices of most descriptions continue gradually to dech,ne.— Manchester Guardian. THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1841. WOOLWICH—WEDNESDAY. ' ROYAL ARTILLERY. Captain Greenwood's company, about to proceed to China, attended cohorne practice this morning on the Upper Common. As this is a description of exercise seldom performed here, it may be necessary to observe that a cohorne is an engine of a similar construction to a mortar, but so small that two men can carry it on a hand-barrow. When used in actual warfare it is carried to within from 100 to 200 yards of the spot against which the missiles discharged from it are to be directed, the chamber for containing the powder being so small that it cannot contain a charge sufficient for a greater range. The shells fired from the cohornes this morning were about four inches and two-fifths in diameter, and the practice showed they are excellently adapted for firing over an elevated wall to dislodge troops stationed on the inside of it. In the afternoon the company attended rocket-practice in the marshes, and have evidently ac quired a thorough knowledge of the various branches of the science, surprising, considering the short period they have been under instruction. Yesterday the Miiskets of the company were called in, and placed amongst the stores of the Royal Arsenal, and to-day they are to be served with handsome carbines, on the new construction, with percussion locks. It is a positive fact, that the certainty of the men being served with the new and approved arms previous to embarking on this expedition has raised their spirits, which were otherwise good, fully 20 per cent., for they cordially hated and detested the present cumbersome musket, and there is but one general feelin g throughout the regiment in favour of the carbine, and a hope that they will soon be issued to every individual. Orders have been issued to the men of the company to hold themselves in readiness to embark in a steam-vessel here on Saturday morning next, for conveyance to Ply mouth, where they will bo transerred to the Belleisle, Captain Kingcombe, formerly a 72-gun ship, but now converted into a troop-ship, with 24 guns, and a crew of 280, for the conveyance of her Majesty's troops. It was originally intended that the company should embark in the Apollo troop-ship, about the Ist of next month, but 400 extra workmen having been put upon the Pelleisle, she will be ready for sea by the time the Royal Artillery arrive at Plymouth, and will sail almost immediately after their embarkation. By converting the old ships of the line, as in the in stance of the Belleisle and several others, contemplated by Government, an immense saving will accrue to the country, compared with employing hired transport-ships, as the former vessels will be commanded by officers of the Royal Navy and be under the entire control of the Admiralty, which the hired vessels were not, having merely an agent on board. The country may now cal culate on having efficient vessels of its own in the transport service, and the troops will be far better ac• commodated, in spacious and airy ships, with ample room betwixt decks, and many valuable officers of the navy be kept in active employment in the service of her Majesty, instead of being idle on shore. Besides, another great saving will be derived, by converting the majority of 72-gun ships into troop-ships, instead of into 50-gun frigates, as recommended by some, as to effect the latter an expense would be incurred amounting on every vessel to a sum nearly equal to what she would cost if built entirely of new materials. The Boyne transport-ship will sail to-morrow from Deptford, having taken in her stores, and will proceed round to Cork, to embark troops for Malta. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PonTsmount, Nov. 17.—The Apollo, troop ship, is making rapid advances towards completion, and report says is to take Major-General Lord Saltoun to China, with the 98th Regiment, which will embark at Cork. The Commander of the Apollo (Festing), is now at Hasler Hospital, suffering from indisposition. The Tyne, 26, Captain Townshend, arrived on Sun day from the Mediterranean, and exchanged salutes with the port flag-ship St. Vincent. She left Malta the 15th October, and has had very boisterous weather in crossing the Bay. Left in port the Powerful, 84, with Sir John Ommaney's flag, Howe, 120, Rodney, 92, Cal cutta, 84, Vanguard, 84, Indus, 80, and Inconstant and Magicienne frigates. The Implacable, 72, had left for Gibraltar, to join the Monarch, 84, on that station. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason was daily looked for in the Impregnable, 110, to succeed Sir John Ommaney, who, it was thought, would proceed home overland. The Tyne will be paid off at this port. 'The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, it is expected, will be moved out to Spithead in about a fortnight. and complete there for the Mediterranean. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., goes out in a steamer to Malta, to assume the command. The Ferret, Lieut. Lapidge, is to return to the coast of Africa, and awaits orders at Plymouth. The Crocodile, 26, Captain Milne, from Halifax, and Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Gayton, from Gibraltar, have left Spithead, to be paid off at Plymouth. The brig Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, returned from Cork on Saturday, with volunteers for general service. The Viper brigantine, for the Brazils, will sail from this harbour about the 15th of December. The steamer Devastation, Commander Henry, is daily expected from Woolwich for the Mediterranean. Com mander Wilson to join the Cambridge, 72, will take a passage in her ; also the new Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rev. M. Alexander, late Hebrew Professor at King's College, Cambridge. The Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, is awaiting the embarkation of Sir Charles Begot, for conveyance to New York, on his way to Quebec. She will sail imme diately afterwards, ank will ultimately receive Sir Chas. Adams's flag in the *est•lndies. . _ _ The Pique, 36, Captain Yates, is under orders to refit with all dispatch, it is supposed to proceed to China. At Spithead—lllustrioui, 72, Tyne, 26, and Pique, 36. In Barbour—St. Vincent, Queen, Victory, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Vindictive, Warspite, Belvi dera, Sapphire, Hazard, North Star, Apollo, Viper, and Rapid. IRELAND. LORD DE GREY'S FIRST LEVEE. DUBLIN, Nov. 16.-The levee of Lord De Grey, to be held to-morrow, will be very numerously attended. The Orange and Tory gentry, who so factiously avoided the Castle during the viceroyalties of Lord Normanby and Lord Fortescue, are crowding into town from the most distant parts of the country ; and even from London, Mr. Emerson Tennent and some other small officials coneeted with Ireland, have come over. The Reformers have determined to pursue a totally different course from that adopted towards Whig Go vernments by the Tories. They will attend to-morrow as a matter of duty towards the representative of the Queen; for their loyalty is still the same, whether Whigs or Tories govern. The leading Liberals, Protestant and Catholic, will appear at the Castle to-morrow—such men as the Duke of Lein ster, Lord Charlemont, Lord Fingal, and Archbishop Murray. No matter how factious may be the conduct and the appointments of the present Executive, it is the duty of the Reformers to pay their respects to the Queen's Viceroy, especially at a levee held so soon after the birth of an heir apparent to the throne, and that duty they will perform, however painful it may be to their feelings to mix in a Court where faction and intolerance reign triumphant. The following notification appears in the papers this morning:—" The Lord Mayor requests that such of the Aldermen and Councillors as intend to do him the ho nour of accompanying him to the levee, will be so good as to be at the Mansion-house in their gowns at twelve o'clock precisely. The Lord Mayor's carriage will leave the Mansion-house at a quarter after twelve. " Mansion-house, Nov. 15, 1841." MURDER OF MR. WALSH. A very numerous meeting of the Magistrates of the county of Waterford was held on Friday in Dungarvon, for the purpose of adopting "measures to discover the murderers of Mr. Walsh. Amongst those present were Sir Richard Musgrave, Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P., Sir W. J. Roman, and Sir J. N. Humble. Subscriptions to the amount of 800/. were entered into in aid of the re ward offered by Government. The meeting was not open to the public. THE NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of this body was held to day in the Corn Exchange. Dr. Murphy in the Chair. The LouD MAYOR stated that he had the honour to announce the receipt of 1001. from the friends of Ireland at Pittsburgh, in America. His Lordship spoke at some length in praise of the esteemed kindness of the Ameri cans towards the people of Ireland. As the subscribers to this sum were not British snbjects, he could not move their admission as members of this Association, but he had extreme pleasure in moving that their names be en rolled in " the book of the friends of Ireland in America" [passed with acclamation]. After a number of communications were read, and new members enrolled, The LORD MAYOR rose to bring before the considera tion of the Association the various topics on which the Committee were preparing petitions. There never was a time, said he, which required more statesmanlike con duct to be pursued than the present. There was war going on at present in Hindostan and China, which would certainly require a large expenditure of money, and this could only be undertaken by ad ditional taxation of the people. The position of France was not at this time in such a situation as to give anything like a security for a continuance of peace between her and England. She was keeping up an immense military and naval force , which would compel Engla n d to act" similarly, and here again would be the cause of requiring additional taxation. His Lordship illustrated the evil working of the Corn laws, and called upon the Association to unite with the English in demanding their repeal. lie then recurred to the state of Ireland, and spoke of the murders of Mr. Walsh and Mr. Bolton which have been lately committed, He did not wish to lessen the feeling of execration which these crimes created ; on the contrary, he hoped the per petrators would be discovered and executed, but he would say to the cruel and relentless exterminating land lords, who made these murderers, " You are more guilty than those who actually shed blood—the sin of it is on your heads —you are accountable for it, and the day of judgment will certainly overtake you." His Lordship expressed his delight at the birth of the Prince of Wales, and expressed a hope that he would yet be found in Ire land acting as viceroy to his mother—the only British Monarch that ever desired to treat the people of Ireland with justice. He might be asked why he did not, as Chief Magistrate of this city, publish a proclamation for illuminating in honour of this happy event, which gave him and every other Repealer such unbounded delight. His reply would be that illuminations would give an ex cuse for riot, and as the feelings of the entire Irish people could be much better expressed in the form of a congra tulatory address to her Majesty, he would move that such an address be adopted by this Association and cir culated for general signature throughout the country.— (Cheers.) On the next day of meeting he would bring this address forward, as well as the draft of a petition on the subject of the administration of the law. The repeal rent for the past week was 229 l 414 Gd. The meeting then adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 18. MITFORD V. REYNOLDS. This case, in which the arguments were commenced yesterday, and resumed to-day, came before the Court upon appeal from the judgment of his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of England. The question in the case was as to the validity of a bequest contained in the will of a gentleman, named Mitford, who had formerly been in the service of the East India Company. The testator, Mr. Mitford, by his will, directed that a piece of ground, near Chipping Ongar, Essex, should be purchased and a handsome mausoleum erected for the reception of his body, together with those of some of his near relations. He desired that he should be buried on the summit of a mount which was to be planted with cypress and cedar, and rendered ornamental to the town and neighbourhood. After providing for this, Mr. Mitford directed that the residue of his property should go to the Government of Bengal, for the erection of such charitable, beneficial, and public works in the city of Dacca, in Bengal, as the Government of that place should think most useful to the native inhabitants. The question in the case was, whether such a gift was not void for uncertainty by the law of England, which, it was contended, governed the bequest, as the testator was domiciled in this country at the time of his death? Upon the case coming on before his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of England, he held that the bequest was a charitable one, and might be carried into effect by the Court. Upon the matter coming on, by way of appeal, be fore the late Lord Chancellor (Lord Cottenham) he over ruled the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of England, and directed a reference to the Master to inquire who were the persons representing tke Government of Bengal, and what was the amount of the residuary property of the testator. The Master found that the Governor- General of India was the Governor of Bengal, and that the amount of the residuary property of the testator was upwards of 500,0001. Such being the circumstances of the case; the matter came as for final hearing virtually in the shape of an appeal from the decision of the Vice- Chancellor of England. Mr. Bethell, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Heathfield, who appeared on behalf of the widow and next-of-kin, con tended that the bequest was void for uncertainty, be cause what might be considered beneficial according to the laws and customs of Indian worship could not be considered so in this country. The population of Dacca consisted of between two and three hundred thousand, partly Gentoos and partly Mahommedan, and a mosque or pagoda might be considered beneficial as a public work, but neither could be called a charitable gift in an English Court of Justice. Added to this, it was impossible for the Government of Bengal to perform the desires of Mr. Mitford, in co-operation with the inhabitants of Dacca, the greater part of whom wore idolators, and would differ as to what was beneficial and what was not. Then as to the direction to purchase land in perpetuity for the place of the testator's interment, and the erection of a mausolem, that was illegal; and, therefore, on the whole, it was submitted on the part of the plaintiff that the gift must be declared void. On the part of the respondent it was contended that the Vice Chancellor of England had taken a right view of the case in declaring that the gift was a charitable one, and might be carried into effect by the Court, and that it could not be set aside for uncertainty. The arguments, which had not concluded when his Lordship rose, will be proceeded with to-morrow (this day), and appear likely to occupy the Court the whole of the day. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 18. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY. The MASTER of the ROLLS gave judgment in this case, which will be found reported at length in another column. His Lordship said that it appeared to him, after a careful examination of the facts of the case, that the trustees had acted bona fide for the bene fit of the charity, and that the arrangement entered into by them with the South Sea Company was a provident and beneficial arrangement for the charity at the time, and suck as they would have made individually in the case of their private property. He should there fore dismiss the information. HOPE V. HOPE. Mr. TINNEY made application to the Court to pass an order that had been made in this suit, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to permit the defendants, and other parties on their behalf, to inspect a cabinet of jewels, mentioned in the pleadings of the cause, and now in their custody, which order had been subsequently stopped by his Lordship. After some discussion among Counsel, and some al teration in the terms, his Lordship passed the order. RICHARDS V. PLATTELL. Mr. KINDERSLEY applied to the Court for an order to carry into effect a decree that had been made in this suit. The plaintiffs, who were the representatives of a gentleman named Broil, had filed a bill against the defendant, who had been employed as a solicitor by the testator, and subsequently by the plaintiffs, for the delivery to them of all books and papers relating to testator's estate. Defendant, pend ing the suit, commenced an action at law against the plaintiffs for the amount of his elaims on tes tator's estate, upon which an injunction was ob tained by the plaintiffs to stay proceedings, upon payment of the sum claimed into Court without prejudice. This had been done, and subsequently an order was obtained from the Court, for the delivery up by the defendant of certain policies of insurance of the value of 6,0001. belonging to the testator's estate which were in his possession, and the sum payable on one of which had become due. The plaintiffs had, accordingly received the policies, and had handed them over in the one case to the insurance -office, and in the other to mortgagees of the estate. An appeal was afterwards made to the Lord Chancellor, who reversed the order of the Court, and decreed that the policies should be re-delivered to the :defendant, and application was now made to the Court that that order might be car ried into effect. A question arose as to the jurisdiction of the Court, after the decree of the Lord Chancellor ; but it was ultimately arranged that the matter should stand over until Monday next, to see if the parties could agree in an arrangement that was suggested, by paying into Court a sum of money to cover the costs claimed by the defendant. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 18 The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND, after disposing of the case of Coombes and Foulkes, which stood on the paper to be spoken to, proceeded to hear motions. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) This being motion-day the paper contained none but short causes, which presented no feature ofpublic interest. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON V. COOMBES. Mr. SPENCE, Q. C., applied to the Court to have a day fixed for the hearing of this cause. It was one of considerable importance, and likely to occupy in its dis cussion, a more than ordinary length of time. The several Counsel engaged in the cause having agreed on Friday the 3d of December as the most con venient day, the hearing of the cause was accordingly, with his Honour's permission, settled for that day. LODGE V. NICHOLSON AND OTHERS. This suit was instituted by the plaintiff, as adminis tratrix Batham, against the executors of Mr. Baker, who, during his life, had acted as her agent for receiving certain rents and dividends of stock. The object of the suit was to obtain the re-investment of a sum in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., equivalent to a sum of 2501. Navy Five per Cents., which it was alleged Baker had transferred in his own name, without the consent of Mrs. Batham, to have the arrears of the dividends paid. His HoNoun, in delivering judgment, said, in this cause Baker, a tradesman resident in London, acted as the agent of certain friends of his, named Batham, of the same class of life as himself, and residing in the county of Hereford. Among other things, in 1810 a power of attorney appeared to have been executed by Batham for the purpose of Baker receiving the divi dends of certain stock, which was acknowledged to be long to Batham, and standing in the name of the person whom he represented. There was added to that power of attorney an authority, which certainly mast have been with the perfect knowledge of Batham, to Baker, not simply to transfer the general moiety of the stock, but what appeared somewhat singular, to transfer it in his own name. Why that was done did not appear. There was no evidence whatever that there was any con sideration for such transfer ; no evidence of a contract for it, nor that it was intended by way of gift. Now, when he found Baker agreeing to pay to Mrs. Batham the dividends on the whole sum, as he had pre vious to the transfer, and not referring to the authority given in the power of attorney, but to an authority in his own strong-box for that purpose, which he never pro duced, the inference was unavoidable, that the moiety of the stock which Baker transferred in his own name, was so transferred as not to be in equity a change on the pro perty; and his Honour's opinion was, that Baker, at his death, remained indebted in that moiety to the estate of Batham. The decree then to be made in the cause would declare that Baker at his death, was indebted to Batham's estate in the sum of 2621. 10s. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ; and that the executors of Baker shall be bound to transfer in the plaintiff's name that sum, with the divi dends which had accrued on it since the death of Baker, an account to be taken if the parties differed. With respect to the question of costs, his Honour saw no rea son for departing from the general rule, which directed that a creditor, successfully suing an estate, however properly the executors might resist the demand, should be paid his costs. Some other cases wholly devoid of interest were dis posed of, and the Court rose at four o'clock. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) SUTHERLAND V. BRIGGS. In this cause his Honour decreed that the plaintiff was entitled to a decree according to the prayer of the bill. If the defendant required it, he would further declare that a deed might be executed, and refer it to the Mas ter to settle the same in case the parties differed. The defendant must pay the costs of the suit up to and in cluding the hearing. He would make no order, then, as to the subsequent costs, for the conduct of the parties might influence the decision of the Court upon that point. Liberty to apply must be reserved by the decree. MOLT/ISEY V. BURNHAM, His HoNoun gave judgment in this cause. The plaintiff, who is vicar of Orothorn, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, prayed an account against the de fendant of the tithes of clover and clover hay since the 6th of December, 1839. The defence was, first, that the tithes of hay and clover hay were rectorial and not vica rial tithes, and that the defendant was entitled by pur chase from the impropriator to the tithes in question ; secondly, that by an indenture of the 24th of March, 1836, the plaintiff had granted a lease of lands including the tithes, to Mr. and Mrs. Coe, and had vested all interest in the same in Mrs. Coe for her separate use. His Honour, after commenting upon all the circumstances of the case, said he thought the tithes in question were vicarial tithes, and that the decree, therefore, must be made for the plaintiff. If the defence had been put upon the deed of the 24th of March, 1836, he would certainly have given him the costs in this case ; but as the whole defence had been put upon the denial of the plaintiff's right, the costs must fall upon the defendant. An application being made to his Honour as to part of the costs by the defendant's counsel, the cause was or dered to stand in the paper to-morrow. His HONOUR disposed of several unopposed motions. RAINE V. CAIMES. The hearing of this cause was brought to a conclu sion. His Honour deferred his judgment. BOWSER V. COLBY. The Court was occupied with this cause until its rising. We shall give a summary of it at a more ad vanced stage of the hearing. The Court rose at half-past three o'clock. BAIL COURT, Nov 18. THE QUEEN V. THOMAS HILL. Mr. ARCHBOLD applied for a rule to show cause why the writ de contumace capiendo, sued out by the Ecclesi astical Court, should not be set aside, and why the de fendant should not be discharged out of custody. By some absurd mistake the writ directed that the defendant should be detained in custody until the Judge of the Ec clesiastical Court should pay a certain sum of money and costs.—(A laugh.) Be therefore submitted, on that ground, that the defendant was entitled to his discharge. But the whole proceedings were bad. Nothing could be more slovenly than they were from beginning to end. The defendaht had been ordered to pay the sum of 361. with costs and fees on or before Thursday the 22d day of April, 1841, so that he had the whole of the Thursday to pay the money in, and yet the monition cited him to appear on ' that very Thursday in the Ecclesiastical Court, at York, to hear himself pronounced in contempt before the time had expired for the payment of the money. Moreover, the amount of costs and fees was not stated in the monition, which it ought to have been. Mr. Justice PATTESON-It is very odd that he should have been cited to hear himself pronounced in contempt, instead of being cited to show cause. Is that the usual form in which monitions run? Mr. ARCHBOLD—I really do not know, my Lord. I hear they are very slovenly. The Learned Counsel then proceeded with his arguments. Of course his client did not appear on the 22d of April, but he was not in con tempt on that day. The proceedings were adjourned for a fortnight, and of that adjournment no notice what ever had been given to the defendant, nor had any new monition been issued. The fortnight having expired no proceedings whatever were taken on the day to which the cause had been adjourned. The case had never been called on, and there was no trace of any proceedings in the books of the Ecclesiastical Court; but on the 22d of May some person gets up in the Ecclesiastical Court, asks that the defendant may be pronounced in contempt, he is pronounced in contempt accordingly, and the Court •rders a significavit to be made, in order to sue out the writ de contumace capiendo. It was not until the defendant was taken into custody, that he had any notice of these proceedings. The significavit itself, he contended, was bad. It ran in the name of the Archbishop, instead of running in the name of the Judge of the Court who issued out the citation, as it ought to do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act 53d Geo. 111., c. 12, s. 1. It set forth that the defendant had been guilty of contempt, in not pa) ing the money and costs, according to the monition thereinafter made, while in the significavit no monition was made at all ; or—and he begged his Lordship's particular at tention to the word or—" or in not appearing be fore Granville Harcourt Vernon, our Surrogate." So that it would appear that the Archbishop had not quite made up his mind as to what consti tuted the non-payment or the non-appearance. The writ de contumace capiendo followed the significavit in all its errors, and therefore was equally bad. On these grounds he moved that the defendant be discharged out of custody, and that the writ de contumace capiendo be set aside. Mr. Justice PArrEsoN—Take a rule to show cause. Application granted. THE QUEEN V. BRISTOW.-CERTIORARI. Mr. BARSTOW moved that an indictment against the defendant for perjury, should be moved by certiorari from the Central Criminal Court into this Court. This was a case connected with an action for ejectment, tried before the Lord Chief Justice in the sittings after last term, and as in the course of the trial many questions of law were likely to arise, on the decision of which the possession of property to the am ount of more than 200,0001., in some degree depended and as it was de desirable that the Judge who had tried the action of ejectment should also try this indictment, and that it should be tried by a Special Jury, he hoped his applica tion would be granted. Mr. Justice PATTESON—Certainly. Application granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18. WALTON V. POTTER. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL having replied in support of the rule for a new trial, The Lord CHIEF JUSTICE went elaborately over the evidence and arguments, and the rule was discharged. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 18. THE PARISH OF ST. JOHN'S, HACKNEY-CHURCH RATES. This was a libel brought by the Churchwardens of St. John's parish, Hackney, stating that a rate for re pairing the Church was due from one William Nunn. The question for discussion was whether the rate was admissable. Dr. Adams, on behalf of the Churchwardens, con tended that it was, and the. Queen's Advocate (with whom was Dr. Bayford) for the respondent, that it was not. Both the Learned Gentlemen having addressed the Court on the more technical points, stated the facts of the case, which appeared to be as follow :—A rate was imposed on the parish of St. John's, for repairing the Church, and the proportion in which the respondent was called on to pay was 4s. 3d. The rate being deemed oppressive by a large body of the parishioners, they de determined to oppose it, as they considered the Church wardens were not empowered by law to levy any rate on that part of the parish of Hackney. The grounds on which they came to this conclusion were—that in the year 1763 an Act was passed, entitled the 30th of George the Third, for the purpose of enabling certain parties to build a new church upon the site of the old church of St. John, Hackney, and enlarge the churchyard attached to it. For this purpose the parish was to be assessed in the sum of 28,0001. by trustees, who were to be the Church wardens, and who were likewise to be entitled to the fees charged upon the burial of every person not an inha bitant of the parish, and all fines to be levied for refusing to serve certain parochial offices on the part of those who were duly elected ; which sums of money were ap piled to the purpose of keeping the church in repair. These powers were to remain in the hands of the trustees (in their capacity as trustees) without reverting to the Churchwardens or Rector of the parish, until all the provisions of the Act were perfectly fulfilled, which had not been yet effected. It was contended also that the churchwardens had not been duly elected. The parish of Hackney had, since the passing of the Act above-named, been divided into three separate parishes, called West Hackney, South Hackney, and St. John's ; and, although the persons elected as churchwardens of the entire parish might be qualified in all matters relat ing to the poor, yet they were not considered entitled to levy a rate upon one portion of the parish, as trustees for the church, without the general consent of the pa rishioners. It was further stated that the churchwar dens had more than sufficient funds on hand, arising from burial and other fees, to cover the estimate sub mitted to the tradesmen for required repairs. Dr. LUSHINGTON said, as there were many points in the case which he would wish to consider before pro nouncing judgment, he should defer it until the next Court-day. SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 18. MANSFIELD AND ANOTHER V. STANFORD. This was an action to recover the sum of 41. 10s. for goods sold and delivered, and damage done to certain bell wires, belonging to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are wine merchants, and the defendant is an architect, living in the same house with the plain tiffs, in Pall-mall. The house is the one in which the celebrated Almack's balls were once held, and is of con siderable extent, containing no less than eleven stair cases, with subterranean passages innumerable. It was stated that these passages had been used frequently by the defendant to evade certain well•known individuals called Sheriffs' officers, and by whom he was termed " Spring-heeled Jack." The defendant had received, at different times, small quantities of port wine, in all amounting to 31. 10s., which had been some time out standing, and for which the present action was brought; the remainder of the amount stated in the declaration being for damage done to s•me bell-wires belonging to the plaintiff. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, said, that upon the declaration the plaintiff could not recover the amount of damage done to the bell-wires. The de livery of the wines had been clearly proved. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 31. I Os. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. James Harris, a staid-looking septegenarian, and Maria, his wife, and some 30 years his junior, were placed at the bar, charged with having beet► found in the streets " drunk and incapable of taking care of them selves." Sir PETER LAURIE—Why, Mr. Harris, you must be getting on to three score and ten ? Mr. Harris—l am, indeed, and, though I say it myself, the soberest man in London !—(Great laughter.) Sir PETER LAURIE—And your wife—she's the sober est woman, I suppose ? Mr. Harris—l'm sure she is. For my own part, I've worked for Mr. Paterson, in Cheap side, for the last 15 years, and he will tell your Worship that he never once saw me too much in liquor, or rather too much liquor in me, all the time I've been in his em ployment. Sir PETER LAURIE—And how Came SUCh a sober couple to get so very drunk ? Mr. Harris—That's the mystery. I went into a house in the Strand, but how the liquor got into my poor head I can't imagine for the life of me. We had nothing to speak of. Sir PETER LAURIE—Why, what had you ? Mr. Harris —We had gin first, and then some rum, and on top of that some ale !—(Much laughter, which Mr. Harris did not seem at all to comprehend.) Sir PETER LAURlE—There's no mystery in the busi ness at all. Mr. Paterson stepped forward to confirm Mr. Harris's account of himself, and Sir PETER LAURIE discharged him and the lady, hoping they in future would mix their liquors with little more caution. BOW-STREET. A youth of about nineteen years of age, who gave the name of Ozarks Tyrrel, but whose real name was stated to be Alfred Garlick, was placed at the bar charged with several burglaries. There were already several charges against him of breaking into and robbing houses in town, and Police-con stable 14 N, who apprehended him, said that ho had MORNING ST walked miles and miles in tracing the prisoner's where abouts, and recovering property which he had stolen and M dsposed of. Miss Ashton, landlady of the King Fourth, stated that he had lodged at that house a sh,o r .t time ago ; and that soon after he had quitted, the his was broken open and robbed of a quantity of liquor td two stone bottles, several table-cloths, a hammer , an , other property. Witness supposed that he had secreted himself in the coal cellar. He had forced the lock William the, the bar-door, and on quitting the premises lett the stre dein' t door;wide open,_ and the waterman of the coach-stand covered it in this state. Police-constable 14 N deposed to finding the stone at bottles and hammer, the property of Miss Ashton ! the prisoner's lodgings at a coffee-shop in Chandos-stree Mr. Risdale, a stock and brace maker, of the Citt road, next appeared to prefer a charge against the 2 1.1 ; soner. His shop had been broken open on the night of the 2d September, and a quantity of stocks stolen ther e ; from. It had since been discovered that the Pris °e d had been selling stocks, which the constable present ha traced, and which witness had identified as his prop Some Some of them were also found at his lodgings. Police-constable 14 N, said he had another charge the prisoner, for breaking open a second public' house, but had not yet had time to get the evidence - to gether. He also " wanted him" for a burglary com mitted in the country. Mr. TWYFORD said it was evident that the prisocer, e, was a practised burglar and most dangerous c baraet t r b The extent of his depredations, considering his Ytni too, was certainly extraordinary. The prisoner was remanded. CORN AVERAGBS. . w N I" el GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRI TISH o woo For the Week ended Nov. 12, 1841.' made up from the 1,,,g Ow the inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eng - Wales, per Imperial Quarter. ...A l ' ja' Wheat (+63. 4d. 1 pats Barley 323. 41 1 Rye ... ..... 40s. 20 I rea5e........4. Weet ending AVERA WHEAT. GES BARLEY. OATS. EYE or THE LAST SII EE 1C . to ss, . BeAg s • .........". --- ---'- .---.-----. 88 i Oct. 8 6l 6 31 10 '2l 7 35 10 40 15 ss II t 2 3 31 6 21 8 38 3 % ‘ 1 22 ..... 35 5 29 fi4 5 31 7 22 0 39 0 4 ; 0 Nov. 5 65 5328220347 401, ,; 41 40 $ 12 66 4 33 4 22 8 40 2 40 .. t os IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE All 1 . 1 5. 4, 9 3 ' Wheat... ..... 635. I ld. Oats ......... 21s. 11d . 8ean5 ....... ai. 6,1 Harley~ DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. de. . ..) 1 ' Wheat ' , 3s. Bd. Oats Barley ...... ... 13s. led, I Rye THE MARKETS.—YESTERD AY COLONIAL MARKET. fbD The operations were fair for home use, an rates, but the shippers operated with caution. T he nd re• ports were fair. Raw Sugar for home use in g' erj , quest, and prices looking up. For Coffee few buy TEA MARKET. • 0 100 There was little business done, ls. 10d. was the ots• of Company's Congou cash, and Is. 91d. short prose TALLOW MARKET. t . The loperations; were fair at 475. on the 6 1:' ° " 465. 9d. for delivery up to the end• of the year. arrivals continue large. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. fo ci/ The supply was large ; fine qualities met with i io d, buyers ; the middling and ordinary sorts heavy Clover, 31. to 5/. 18s. ; Hay, 21. to 41. 10s. ; S t ra 128. to 11. 16s. COUNTRY CORN MARKET.- --- : re! - • Wheat. Harley. 1 Oats. Beans. i 1 ....---- y •••••••••••• ........---••••• ......' Per Quarter. s. to a. s. to a . s. to s. a. to e. ,s 0 4 0 Boston Ilraintiee 52 70 27 34 93 29 33 ''' 99 '59 B,ighton 66 77 31 39 22 25 35 4 5 -- 0 Cambridge — 68 31 -.. lfi -- •Z 3 , ', 40 Chichester 62 74 30 34 24 26 44 n 3 4 ... Dunmow 62 66 33 40 i!2 29 32 '''' n -- ~., Grantham Grimsby Hai sham 66 47 2 33 33 22 23 33 "" - .... 35 Hitchin 5O 73 28 34 22 30 31 L'' „ 3l 40 Ipswich 6O 87 29 :'2 21 26- 33 '"' "I $9 Lewes 64 f 9 33 39 20 -- 23 34 ,pg '''' Si ...: Lynn ...... Maidstone 59 76 36 39 26- -32 32 ''' 38 42 Norwich Petworth 42 ' Rom ford 56 74 30 39 • 91. 2i, SO As 23 . 41, Sandwich 62 71 30 34 . 6 30 3 5 - 7 4 0 - 3 6 _, 1 . ! Tnetford 6O 64 32 36 21 24 .- 11 - 9. P Wisbech Witham 62 79 30 36 23 30 3 1 1 39 Yarmouth 6O 74 30 32 el LIVERPOOL CORN Al A nKET.-- 10/ ' I '4l iv• /I' l o 'WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.... Red 0 0 0 0 -- 9 9 , Scotch, Welch, and Manx -----. Irish, White - —.—Red 8 6 S : Foreign 2lO 9 ' OATS, liliglish. Welsh, and Scotch, per 451b.......u d, S 4 5 0 0 Iris}, .. Nob ... 0 0 'l O 41 Foreign «... A 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ...... ... .1' 6 '! ' 4 -- Scotch and Irish, pet 601bs. Feeding 44 . 4 0 40 0 ---40 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 45 0 0 Irish , Szt. 43 „° 4 1 0 Foreign . 43 " 45 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 43 ! 50 0 ----- Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 47 0 t 9 6 -,-- Irish - JATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs - . 433 a 0 0 INDIAN Coax, pc 4801 b. .14,11.40••• ........ •••••••• 3 , 3 0 • ci RYE, per Imperial quarter ....... A 4b 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter •......... ........ EXTENT OF THE BRITISH DONII NI" t b. The Liverpool Times, in announcing t he birth of p Duke of Cornwall, thus sums up the vast extent 6 ,0 4 , empire, which it is to be hoped lie will, at some to os and distant day, preside over :—" Salutes in hotl e es of his birth will be fired—in America—on the 5 , 1 104 Hudson Bay, along the whole line of the,' 3 „ - also e ,' Lakes, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Net; We i ; in the Bermudas, at a hundred points in t“'d•StA ll i ; Indies, in the forests of Guiana and in th e l i e L e- Falkland Islands, near Cape Horn ; in EllrOPe-,3 th e British Islands, from the Rock of Gibraltar, , 113 1 0 0 13 impregnable fortifications of Malta, and in to fi t , f le ; Islands ;in Africa—on the Guinea Coast, en" Pr . ,th,," lens and Ascension, from the Cape to th e i f atrT il River, and at the Mauritius ; in Asia—from Wen-alt., of Aden in Arabia, at Barrack in the Persiani,,loolst. the British army in Affghanistan, along the I' g . e o, Mountains, the Banks of the Indus and the G A ~10 b r f the southern point of India, in the Island of Ce i ,/,.;00 ° ,. yond the Ganges in Assam and Arracan, at 'ielsit t " Wales Island and Sincapore, and on the s hores ei tis° at Hong Kong and Chusan ; and in Austrsilit!' Co lr settlements formed on every side of the Austrainioitel tinent and Islands, and in the Strait which s i l o et r e the Islands of the New Zealanders. No Prin ce I c ient been born, in this or any other country—in 31),,,ith modern times—whose birth would be joicing at so many different and distant Viz i° 1 fl quarter of the world." hailed . 0 e yed CORONER'S INctuEsT.--Yesterday eve 41 inquest was held in the Fleet Prison, before 31r Ont li the City Coroner, on view of the body nf i M r i dent P r(e f Baker, aged 78, formerly possessing ih ae r . tu r ° l perty, but for the last nine years been an the above prison for contempt of the Court, c „ ropPi ll „ s i The Jury were empanelle at consequence Red l l9 ," n 'anori l he 't court, Fleet-street, but in qof 9 ' and 't),,e the Warden of the prison, from Mr. Ostler , ho ld h . ' inmates, requesting that all such int i r i o e u s rn s e d ,o to It n. held within,: the walls, the Jury prison, where the evidence was e ntered e li c l was o f appeared, from the evidence, that the dec eas Y et, highly respectable connexions, and had, 1339- as 13 C h he 0- , at back, been in good circumstances. -,-- prisoned for contempt of the Court ef Cha "rtv `` 11 ; which period the whole of his household Prq e hair s s o o l l i d eit f o t r tr of t l h n e ri b li e v n a c i fi ,s t .in o l f l, li b i e s in c g reclit ors, Ur. on ec; i c n as p io ri n so f n or e t v h e e r s c i r n e e d e i , t o a r t s times a 'efshes udireeecriel:anPsgleCisYeeiei a r u t plat i c r o i , 1 1_ verty, his only allowance being from his iepn i e f. fie Joshua Erskine, which was ten shillings weekaiijal had latterly declined in health ; and, being h, e tte dfor u ,; he was attended by Mr. Cooper, surgeon, ° I I detai l ' square. He died on Tuesday. Ver dict—" Natal' - a 0 0 SILVER TEA SERII,,C,oOIIbe —T. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith , noits it.. London, seven doors from Gracechureh-street, .A$ Sl o t, prices of the following SILVER TEA and COF os VICES. The Cottage Pattern is plain, standing 2:lids j o, the tea and coffee pots with a flower ornament ou t u d se' King's Pattern is richly embossed with flower. '"" Thes c h:p T e T. Lf z eit r h A e r r T i E s a n s iivr . and elegant. 4: 5. Strong Silver Tea-pot ...12 0 Strop: n ot •• / / 1 1 0 sitv - e`r Tevr ud io , Ditto Sugar Basin 6lb Ditto Sug ar 3 - vier 6 0 Ditto Milk Ewer. 410 Ditto Cream t. .15> Ditto Coffee-pot.. 15 0 Ditto C Ol " -P° -1„ 0 -- . i qv sf Complete ...£3B 6 Complete ........ ices 0. A variety of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee Se e erf be seen in the Show-rooms. where may be selected ~ e r ., ele of silver requisite for the sideboard or plate- c0 es' oiler."' phlets of prices, illustrated by sketches of the ort us kieg, (ll r4 gratis, and forws...ded, postage free, to any part of t u- si es 0 —T. COX SAVORY, No. 47, Cornhill, Londo n, 1 from Gracechurch-street. IN.'S PATT/104. po .. - t bs BIRTHS. - „nafrie4ll "° p On the 14th inst., at Loekerbie House, .-u - ! Ss' Lady Jane Johnstone Dougla s , of a son and heir. ~..a . , ai On the 16th inst., the wife of Lewis Vulliang, """ Pl' ' 4. silk-row, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Marine-p Ja rade, Brigh ton, 04' 004, So On as, of a son. ~ me the 16th inst., at Ch ar les-street, St- ena o ,o4 O Mrs. W. W. K. Hed ges , o f a d aug ht er . Gre ekA On the 16th i ns t., Mrs. Themes wood, of Cherie' Soho, of a ton. On the 16th i ns t., a t Cl aramon t, Herts, the la dl ail . Johnston,daughter. lA' On the I7th q. inst., a at the Priory, Homertou, the j. T. D. Blyth, Esq., of a daughter. Cl Flo O tn n ho th r e , o l f 7 a th so in n st., at Union-dock, Lime e 44 On the 17th in s t. , in Euston-square, the 19 ' 4 - son, of a son. . --------- MARRIED. VliO betli On the 11th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberafell:ti—rotreet' Patch, niece of the la , e W. Patc h, E s q ., o f Flaw , . A A . to E. W. Creight, of Charlotte-tow Walworth. , , .r•tf On the 13th inst at Southampton.;T. Ster er " jilt' - eldestof late G. n. • o son the 3_, H. Stephens, ...5c1.3,.," A dans, l'" the Red, to Mary Harriet, only daughter Of L" "" member of tha Medical Board, Madras. 111 01. DIED. • r ie, oh Hastings, New Ist of s oJuutnhe,Wataltawrud.esperatn, vPerosr,t Etlqa.c, ta il ' h !: oi Surrey. • Celpicslid On the 2d of September, at Calcutta, David . .. o il Smyth, Esq., one of the Judges of the Sudder De'^ • Nizamut Adawlut, aged 44 . On the 10th inst., at Maida - va ls, Mrs. B. ts, On the 12th inst., in the Cathedral Procinc h oll Dorset-W u. ' Mrs. , A. Westwood, aged 89 . ~ Jov it Or ! the 16th inst., at Dorset - place , Moon, E3q., aged 62 . Jobling• gere ford' — 6 -1?(' od , London : Printed and Published by illJitn SW; N 9. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No• the County of Middlesex, Friday, November I