The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION, THE CURRENCY. those of Scotland, are the most consonant to the 1 principles on which all equitable paper currency The Scotch successfully resisted the attempt is founded. made in 14323 to put an end to the small note Let it be noted and remarked, too that circulation in Scotland. The letters of INIALA the bankers who have credit in a neighbourhood, CROWTHER, some of the fruits of that attempt, and who substitute the small notes payable on written by Sir WALTER SCOTT, in the Edinburgh demand for the bills which are necessary parts - Weekly Journal, and the replies of Joxx WIL- of commerce, do a great service, both to those sox CROKER, published in the Courier, then a who are engaged in long operations, and to those journal of considerable circulation and character, whose labours are completed in short periods. made the attempt a part of our literary, as flaking payments between these classes is the well as our political history, and will cause it to main ground of their utility, which will always be long remembered. At present a somewhat make bankers auseful class of men wherever and similar contest seems to be approaching, and the as long as division of labour exists. Scotch have again taken to their pens and their But if these principles be correct, what can tongues in defence of their banking system. scheming London money-lenders know of the A report of the proceedings of the Cham- commercial wants of Edinburgh or Glasgow, or ber of Commerce of Edinburgh, held the week what can the Legislature, or any Commissioners before last, to consider the subject, appeared in appointed by it, know of the quantity of paper The Sun. Besides that, the bankers in Scot- promises to pay which will be required land have held a meeting, and have sent by any neighbourhood 43 - r by the empire at a deputation to London to confer with the large ? They can know nothing 'whatever Government, and oppose any plan which shall of this important fact, and the scheme trench on their system. It is our intention to to form one bank of issue is founded on the support their exertions as far as we can, because most contemptible ignorance of the natural pile -we consider the Scotch system to be the nearest nomena of commerce and paper money, or the -approximation to a free trade in banking, which most knavish design to draw more business to the has ever existed, and no other system has been metropolis, and enrich the jobbers here at the ever attended with anything like equal advanta- expense of the rest of the community. We re ges. In the United States, the system is a joice, then, that the Scotch mean to resist the legislative humbug, almost a s bad as it is in Eng- Cockney money dealers and their toadies ; and land, the several States sanctioning, by the grants whatever we can do to aid in supporting the of charters, and by making laws which are never freedom of trade in money in Scotland, and to obeyed, the fraudulent tricks of the different introduce such a system into England, we will. bankers. In Scotland,—hut we will borrow a de- Monopoly of every kind is a hateful monster, the .scription of the system in existence there from curse of the country ; and whenever and where the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle : ever we meet with it, we will try to throttle it. CAPITAL PUNISHINTiNTS IN Ba.arx TINICERING.—The Bank of Scotland was established so far back as the year 1695 and began to develope the dis tinctive features of the Scottish system of banking nearly at the very first. In the year 1704 the first one-pound notes swete issued; and interest en deposits was allowed, •and cash accounts were granted as early at least as 1729. The Royal Bank was started in 1727, and the British Linen Company in 1746, and both of these adopted the same course as the original hank. The gentlemen who first conducted these institutions had many difficulties to overcome, and much to learn, but they took their measures with great circumspection and judgment, and were eminently successful both in enriching the share holders and benefiting the public. The prosperity of the three banks above named, and the growing appreciation of their utility, in course of time led to the establish ment of many rival Companies, but not more than hare proven beneficial to the country. Though a few of these, and only a few, resulted unprofitably, the loss fell chiefly on the shareholders, and not to any extent on the public. 'The insolvency of a Scotch bank has been so rare an occur rvnee that it is as little apprehended as an earthquake. The Scotch banking system has had the singular Inch to escape, hitherto, ail legislative interference, and hence has taken that form which exactly suits the circumstances in which it has gradually expanded itself, and become an important organ in the structure of society. Its nice adaptation to the purposes for which it exists, could not have been contrived beforehand ,by most sagacious minds. Nothing but the lessons of ex perience could have enabled even the wisest of men to con ttruct the complex banking machinery, which is at curie so powerful, so delicate, and so safe in its operations. Yet, strange to say, there is too much meson to believe that this admirable system, which has opetate:l to the signal benefit of the community, and been improved from time to time by the most consumma'e men of >business the nation could produce, is menaced at this moment with destruction, or, what is worse, with the tinkering cf the Ignorant fe:a-hunters and conceited lawyers who sit in-Parlia ment. Oise would have thought that these gentlemen would ,nave been cautious of touching the banking system which has ao long gone on prosperously without interterence, at least till shy had managed to get the English system, which is the creature of their legislati ,n, into something like a perfect con , titiOn. But so far from that being the case, the only motive t: sat can be guessed at for the threatened attempt to metbile with the Scotch Banking system, appears to be the unsatisfic tory operation of every system that has been tried in England. It would puzz:e anybody to see the reasonableness of this. The people of Scotland rather object to being , umbugged in Lankiag or anything else, " for the sake of mifierraity." TWO centuries ago they resisted successfully the imposition of an Episcopal Church, though the rulers of that day did all they could to force it en them, " for the sake of unifor mity." Scotsmen were insensible to the glories of lawn sleeves, mitres. and shoed hats, and had a thorough contempt for The kilt fu' whistles that make sic a clreQ :" They spurne 4 the Episcopal Church, and would have none of it, and they are as little likely to submit to episcopacy is busking. We do not maiatain that the sy4ein of banking R hich exists • in Scoland is perfect, or that the Legislatare has no right in any case to interfere with it. But we do contend that it is the hest which has yet been invented, and that it ought not to be szah .cted to experiments of a doubtful stature; nor, in short, be .egislated on at all, so long as the true principles of monetary science remain as unsettled and obscure as they are at present. Why is the Scotch system to be altered? Be ., muse, as the Edinburgh paper says, our system has failed. Here, in London and is England, we are all at sea about banking, and as the Bank of England is obviously mischievous, all sorts of contradictory opinions are afloat on the subject of the currency, and a Variety of projects are broached to place it on a satisfactory tooting. Li Scotland, few or no such vagaries are known, the people are content with their banks, which is as complete a proof, by the concurrent testimony of many minds, as can be supplied of their utility. The chief project entertained, and which seems feasible to the metropolitans, is to have one bank of issue, arid the contrivers of that •Prenchifled scheme would of course annihilate, for the sake of their pet project of one uniform paper circulation, the paper of the Scotch banks. But the rest of the community have not the same reason to be satisfied with this scheme as the moneyed cockneys. The centralization on which they fatten drains and impoverishes the extremities. At the same time it only bloats the heart and renders the whole unsound. The origin and real use of paper currency :would satisfy the schemers, had they not a pecu liar interest in their projects, that they ought for thepublic good to set the trade of banking in Eng land as free as it is in Scotland, not hamper it with new restrictions. The true natural origin or great natural fact on which paper currency is founded—we do not say its historical origin, for that might be a roguish trick of a conqueror --is the unequal times in which different com modities are produced. It requires nearly eleven months to bring wheat to market after it is sowed, while a suit of clothes for the farmer can be made in a day, and the whole process, from the clipping the sheep till the coat comes home, may be conveniently completed in a month. It requires nearly • a year, too, be fore the merchant who despatches a ven ture to China can get back any re turns, but the operations of the baker and the butcher, by which he is fed, are perfected in a few hours, or at most, days. Those persons engaged in operations which ex tend over long periods, or who enter into foreign trade, rarely or never have wealth enough to continue their operations. with success, and sub sist according to their rank, without borrowina .of t h os e whose labours are completed from day to day, or of those who have credit and make it a trade to lend money. Borrowing, therefore, or conducting the operations of trade on credit, to a certain extent is the natural and necessary conse quence of commodities being produced in unequal times. Men borrow by bills or promissory notes, to pay at a certain time they pay for the goods, which they are to send to China, or for the stock they require for their farm, by bills, which they take u p or pay when their ship comes home, or their corn is sold. Good and proper mercantile bills, then, the genuine offspring of trade, are always the representatiVes of commodities on their way to the market. But it i s not f oun d con venient topay the small sums continually required by those whose labours are completed in very short periods by such bill; and for them there are substituted the bills or promises to pay on demand—(which are much more convenient than those bills which are only to be paid at a distant day)—of some known, and supposed to be, trust-worthy money-dealer of the neighbourhood. The ;hanker exchanges his credit to be imme diately used, for the bill that is not to be paid for several weeks or months, or lie discounts .the bill by his own notes. As far as the issues of bank-notes are genuine commercial transaction: —for such kites as Exchequer bills, and landlords , notes on their income do not enter into our con sideration, and are rather the excrescences or fungi of the system than healthy parts of it —as far as bank-notes are issued to d:scouat mercan tile paper, they, like the bilk fcr which they are substituted, are the representatives of commo dities on their way to the market, and the just and proper demand for them can only be known by those who know the merchants and are well acquainted with the trade of the eeighbourhood. On these principles it is plain Cat not general banks, not one bank of issue, but local banks, la ud private banks or Joiin-aTtock banks, like AMERICA. The New York Herald of the 16th ult. contains the following account of the " sayings and doings" of Peter Robinson, who was executed for murder at New Brunswick on the preceding day. Robinson's brother James came to see him this morning (says the writer), and on leaving him appeared to be very much cut up. After a pause he said, " But it's a poor way to die, after all. Have you seen any of the preparations in front of the gaol ? I wonder whether they are going to run me up like a man to the yard arm of a frigate, or to let me drop with a run. I wonder which is the easiest death ; but I suppose there is very little difference any way. It will be all over in a few minutes." In answer to a question of mine (proceeds the wri ter), he said, " The hooks which I used to read prin cipally were all accounts of pirates. and highwaymen, and shipwrecks, and banditti ; and I often wished that I'd had money to travel ; I should like to have seen foreign parts, and liked to have been a pirate. I'd a shown 'em all how to do their work. I used to read the Scottish Chiefs,' and Arabian Nights,' and Gil Bias,' and ' Rinaldo Rinaldini.' I was very fond of reading Rinaldo ; it was my favourite book ; but I used to read the Bible a good deal too, because my mother wished me. And, Sir, if I'd never been led into that miserable speculation with buying that lot, of Mr. Say dam, he'd a been alive and I should have been a happy man. So touch for giving notes. 1 learned to read well before I went to Barnes's ; and as I was down in New York and an apprentice, I used to get whatever books I wanted out of the Apprentice's Library. tPause.) Oh, Sir. I thought I should make a fortune in buying that lot, but I've made a halter instead." Two men were in the cellar underneath his cell, one crazy and the other drunk ; when the clergy left him, Peter said, " I'm glad he's gone." " Why, Peter ?" said the gaoler. " Because them fellows below there are a carrying on sa ; they put the old devil into me, awl then I'm so alraid I shall burst out a laughing herons the clsreyman's face ; end I do solemnly believe that. I shall burst out a laughing under the gallows. Oh if they would only let me have the big field, and a band of music ; I'd ask no more." Peter had once got his chains off, in the absence of the gaoler. He said to me today, "If my brother Bill had only sold my toots when I wanted him, and brought the fifty dollars, a smn been out of this place like afl ish. I had all my chains off, and every thing ready ; but I had no money to start with. And now they have put a new set of chains on me, and I give it up for a bad job." He this morning expressed a most anxious desire that the Sheriff would take him out on the big field, as he calls it, and, added be, '‘ then everybody can have a fair chance to see me, and I'll make 'eta a speech an hour long, if the Sheriff would let me." Mr. Strong and his assistant have just arrived from New York, and they are at this moment eegaged in taking a cast of Peter's bead. He is highly delighted with the idea of being handed down to posterity in this way, tied cohiplied with my request the first moment that I asked it. He said to me, " Now he sure that you put my head alongside of Gen. Jackson's and Gan. Washington's, and Napoleon Buonaparte's, and Lord Wellington's, heads, and the heads of ail the great men and great murderers. Don't put me alongside of the heads of any speculators in lot s, and above all, be sure and don't let any of 'em get a mortgage on to thy head ; or if you do it 'd be a gone goose and no mis take. A mortgage winds up prat y much everything ; it wound up Suydam, and it will wind up me to-mor row, and I shan't run down again like a clock after I am wound up." Robinson has lately kept his room so excessively hot that scarcely any one but himself could remain in it. He said I make my stove so hot that when I stand up right it makes my hair all crisp, and I want to get the room so hot that it will curl like dogs' hair." Well, in consequence of this there was a great deal of difficulty in taking the cast of his head, because his hair, after at le sat half a pint of oil was put upon it, was as stiff and crisp as so much wire. The first cast was broken, and some of his hair was cut off. " Oh," said Peter, " shave the whole of it off, it wiil make no differ ence to-morrow, and then you can make a good one of me." " Oh," said the jailer, " but, Peter, you promised me the scalp, and I wouldn't lose that for 50 dollars." Very well," replied Peter, " the hair will all grow again ; or," he added, laughing, . you can keep me for a few weeks till it does grow. But after all, I believe the best way is to cut my head off and take it down to New York ; and then you can do it at your leisure, and be sure to make a good one. But, after all, I don't know that the old woman would like that at all." On the phrenologists first going into his cell, he rather objecied to having the cast taken ; says he, " I know what you want to do with it ; you want to hawk it about the streets of New York, and cry out, " Here's the head of Peter Robinson, the murderer, only half a dollar." At last he said, " Well, what other great men's heads have you taken a cast of ?" " Why," re plied the phrenologist, " we've taken Webster and Clay, and Van Buren, and"—Peter stopped him with, " Webster and Clay, I like them—l like Clay ; I d o n't like Van Buren ; he goes for too quick payments ; but wll l l you put my head by the side of Clay's ?" He was told it should be put there. " Very well, then, you may take it ; what way shall I lay ?" And on being told, he la!,1 himself down accordingly. The phrenologist told him he could change his posi tion as It would be mat easier. " Oh, no," said he, never mind, " I can slant; hard knocks better than Suydam could." The phenolaSfeist told him he had some white hairs in his head. "Yes," said Peter, " but I ain't very old—l'm rather young': but it makes a great difference when a man is obliged to work as hard as I've been forced to do all my life." When the phrenologist was feeling his head and making one or two remarks, Peter said, " Well, there was a man feeling of my head soon after I was put in gaol ; and if I I'd a known as snitch as I do now, I would have asked him what it all meant." When the phrenologist ob served that he must be quick as all Peter's time ought to be devoted to religious exercises, he said " Oh, go a head with it ; we've got plenty of time, and you might as well make a good 'un at once. A priest is going to be with me all night to-night, but I don't know much good it's going to do, for what's bred in the bone must come out in the flesh. And I am a fellow that was alive to all kinds of fun and frolic:' When the phrenologist told him he must keep his face very steady, he said, " Oh, yea I'll keep my face as steady as a minister's ; not like that Methodist Mi nister, though, that stood behind the Judge in the Courtroom, for he looked as ridiculous as an owl in an ivy bush, when you see 'em by daylight. But I will look very amiable though ; I'll look as smiling as a basket of chips." A minister who was present said to him, " Peter, you should remember what an awful matter you have to undergo to-morrow." " Very well," said Peter, " suppose I have, it's only me that's got to suffer any of it." Ile vies highly amused when he talked of shaving off his hair, and said to the gaoler, " Conover, you've got a night-cap you'd lend me to wear to morrow, or this would do for a night-cap—this plaster ; it's a pretty tight fit to be sure ; but then I always was fon d o f ti g ht fits." Mr. Graham asked how he thought he would feel at the last moment. " Well," said he, coolly, " I've tried to imagine how I should feel under the gallows ; but I asl' pretty t e y t n h i e u echethe rCourt house. k s a n m o w e a l s l o I I do shallow , andfe feel house. Didn't I look the Jud g e right in the eye then n dm I same shall I've always felt the same ; inY feelings haven't changed, and they won't cS. siege, for I can't realise anything so dreadful about dying, only I should like to have a band of music, the big field, and 20,000 spec tators." After musing a little, he said, with great earnestness, " After I'm dead and gone beyond the reach of all their tyranny, and grinding, and vengeance, I don't be lieve that a good many of 'em will be satise I ; but whatever you do, don't let 'em dig me up and make medicine of me." I put my band to his head and ob THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10, lB4l. served to him that his brain seemed heated ; he smiled, and said, " You've just taken your hand out of a warm pocket, and conceit is as bad as a consumption." RIGHT OF WAY OVER PRIMROSE HILL. On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry (Mr. Churchwarden Daniell in the chair), Mr. KENSETT said he wished to bring before the ves try a report of vast importance, inasmuch as it involved the public right, which, in his opinion, had been in fringed upon. He was anxious to press this matter, more particularly as this was the last day, after nine years' service to the parish, that he should have the honour of a seat in that vestry.—(Hear.) He had been returned by the parochial committee by large majorities; and, although it was a subject of much mental pain to him, the great sacrifice he had made of his business demanded that he should withdraw from public affairs. Taking, as he had done, for nine years, a conspicuous part in the debates of that vestry, it could not be ex pected but that he should come in contact with gentle ' men possessing opposite opinions, and that, at times, some asperity should exist between them, but he sincerely trusted that he should part, whatever might have been their differences, with every member of the board that day with good feeling.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Kensett proceeded at great length to eulogise the conduct of the chairman and the vestry clerk, from whom he had received the most marked atten tion and kind assistance in all he had undertaken for the good of the parish, and he said he would con clude by leaving them as a legacy the following re port relative to an infringement on the public right. Mr. Kensett here read the report of a committee, of which he was chairman, appointed to inquire into a re cent infringement of the public right of way leading to Primrose-hill from the Avenue-road. It set forth that a foot-path and right of way, running from the south west to the north-east, and leading over a stile from the Avenue-road to Primrose-hill, which path had been known to exist for upwards of thirty years, is now about to be closed by a Mr. Fry, a builder, who oc cupies under the Duke of Portland. The stile had already been taken down, and a bank and hedge planted. A granite stone, with the parish mark, designating the boundary, had also been taken up and laid at a distance from the spot where it ori ginally stood, the boundary line forming two-thirds of the path thus stopped, and the public excluded from :tic ' cess to Primrose Hill, which, by the benificence of the Crown, had been recently purchased for the use of the people in perpetuity. The Report proceeded to state that the Committee considered that a violation of the public right of way was about being carried into effect, and it concluded by recommending that a deputation be immediately 'appointed to wait upon the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to call upon them to enforce such right being continued, in order that that place of recrea tion and health, Primrose Hill, may be preserved to the public inviolate, and that the surveyor have the parish boundary mark replaced in its original position, and that the party moving it be charged with the expense. Mr. BIERS seconded the adoption of the report. He deeply regretted, as he was sure the entire vestry must do, the loss of such a man as Mr. Kensett. In a ques tion of the present importance his services would be most essential. Here was evidently a gross infringement about to he attempted upon the rights of the public—a right which, to his recollection, had existed for nearly forty years. Primrose-hill had recently been purchased for the public use and recreation by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and One of the most important paths leading thereto, namely, that which communicated with Paddington, the Edgware-road, and Kilburn, wits in course of being blocked up. He believed that under the circumstances the best course that could be adopted was, that they should call upon the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to assist them in preventing this right of way from belga; invaded. The public were themselves deeply interested in this matter, and he hoped they would sup pi)rt t h e vestr y an d the Government in resisting any such encroachment upon their rights, Mr. Joslivit concurred in what had fallen from the previous speakers. The stoppage of this thoroughfare prevented access to Primrose Hill from all parts of West bourn and Avenue roads, and, in fact, shut out a lar[re portikm of the inhabitants of Marylebone and the whole of Pialdington from that place of public resort and re creation. without going round for a considerable distance to the Hampstead or the S. Pancras side. He cor dially supported the proposition, and hoped that no time would be lost, as the works were proceeding. Mr. FOSTER. concur red in the repo - ft, and hoped that the Government would take the matter up immediately, in order to prevent a recurrence of such proceedings as took place with regard to the Hippodrome—the people in that instance having taken the law into their own hands. Although not a memher of the vestry after that v, he should like to see Mr. Elensett one of the depa tation.—(near.) The motion wa s here put, and carried unanimously ; and a deputatioa having bean appointed to wait upon the Commissioners of Woods and Forests upon the sub set, the vestry separated. COLOURED POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. REPORT OF TNE MAWAGRMENT OF THE STATE COLONIZA TION FUND FoR THE REMOVAL OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOUR. Colonization Room., Baltimore, Jan. 20, 1841. To his Excellency William Grason, Governor of Maryland. The report of the undersigned, Managers of the State Colonization Fund, under the Act of 1831, ek. 281, respectfully stew that during the last year they have drawn from the Treasury the sum of $lO,OOO, being the amount limited by the Act of the Legislature of the bet Session : a part of which hat been appropriated through the agency of the Maryland State Colonization Society in the payment of the expenses incurred in the transportation of emigrants to Africa heretofore, and in maintaining them there, as authorised by the Act abovr-mentioned ; and a part in the dissemination of information through the State, as also authorised by the same Act. The number of ma numissions during during the past year has been 128, making the whole number since the passage of the Act 2,300. During the past year no emigrants have been sent from the State to Africa ; the current of feeling among the free coloured population having turned their attention to the British West India Islands, and diverted it wholly for the present for other quarters. The undersigned be lieve, from the event i of the last twelve months, that the feeling is increasing among the free coloured people that this is not their appropriate home, and that sooner or later emigration to other lands will be to their happiness and well-being. Hitherto they have remained in the United Statna with the belief that by preserving here their num bers undiminished. they would ultimately obtain social and political equality with the whites. This has been the abolition doctrine that has spread among them, and by which they have been influenced heretofore. It is be lieved now, however, to have lost its weight in a great measure, and there is a restlessness among the thinking and prudent of the free coloured people which indicates a thorough change in their feelings with reference to re moval. That emigration to tlie British West Indies will long continue in favour, the undersigned cannot believe, for the persons wanted there are labourers for the sugar crops —a species of toil to which the negroes from Maryland arc unaccustomed, and in which they must be brought into competition with the emancipated slaves of the island, whenever these last choose to return to the habits of labour from which their emancipation has released them. The undersigned mention this in no hostility to emigration of the free coloured people to Trinidad and Guiana, but as indi cating a probable result which, under any circumstances, it would be prudent to provide for, and which has been most fully provided for in the establishment of the colony of Maryland in Liberia, whose prosperity and success thus far is believed to be without a parallel in the whole history of colonization. This colony is now capable of receiving all the persona that may choose to emigrate to it ; and when the restless feeling among the coloured population already alluded tc, becomes disappointed in the results of the West India scheme, will furnish an alternative by which it can be gratified, in a manner promotive, not only of their beat interests, but of the beat interests of the pewle of Maryland from whom they will go forth. In the year 1720 there were 8,043 free negroea in Maryland • the late census shows that there are 17,980 in the city of Baltimore alone, and 61,937 in the State of Maryland. This population, which is among us, but not of us—which has no interest in common with us—which is debarred political and social rights, and which can antiei pnte no change for the better, may be well dissatisfied with their position, and look abroad for a more congenial home, It is the part of a rise policy to provide one. This has been done ; and, however the free coloured people may for a while vacillate in the selection of their permanent abiding place, there is little doubt that tbey will ultimately prefer removing to a place where the coloured man fills all the offices in the government rather than to a place where their removal still leaves them under the predominant in fluences of a white population, in which the coloured man is trusted with power not as his right, but as a favour. The condition of the coloured population is of great in terest, and the undersigned see nothing yet to induce thorn to doubt the policy of the State in relation to it. The undersigned transmit hereaith a copy of the Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Maryland State Colonizaticn Society, being the lest they have issued, which is fully explanatory of their plans and policy ; and C. have the hono ur to be, most respectfully, HOWARD. W. R. STUART. F. ANDERSON. eseu . rce at Guernsey : .Es, —We derive ol- SARK SILVER Vlll`locoing rrh e existence of to . P mine,eet likely a -L l roductive, in doubt. the Island of Sark, appears to be no longer a mat;.or In addition to the high opinion entertained by every end., rienced person who has inspected the Sark Mines, we have f a ro s m ilv a er res V J. Henwood, with much pleasure read the report of N . E , q., F. R. S., and her Majesty's underground mine sur veyor in the Duehy of Cornwal!, in which he gives a most satWactary and encouraging account of the undertaking, and which has since been confirmed by the di;covery of silver ore in the forty fathom level (the greatest depth yet attained), producing 639 oz. of fine silver to the ton of ore. It appeals the ore impro/as both in quality and quantity as the works descend, and although the greatest depth at pre sent attained compared to other mines is but very trifling, upwards of 15,000 oz. of silver have been raised, besides many tons of lead. There is a silver mine now workingin Brit tany which has been producing a profit of 50,000/. per an num for some time past, the characters of which are known to resemble that of Sark ; and from the direction it bears is not unlikely to be a continuation of tile same vein, as mine ral VeMa have been traced to a much gre tter distance than that betwren Sark and Brittany. Mr. Henwood also speaks favourably of the Herrn Copper Mines, an under taking. which we understand is about to be carried on with increased v!gour. As the prosperity of both these under , takings will be cf groat importance to the Channel Is la eels, as well ns.to the pr.( p-ietors. we hopo the open:- till - Is will continue to be crowned with success. —Jersey Times. (Sl ecimcns of the ti ,h ore from the forty fathom Is vol may be seen en ap;z:lication to the Secretary of the Royal Gallery of Pr. ctical Science, Adelaide-street , S.rand,) the f NARRATIVE OF MR. STANTON'S IMPRISON MENT. (To the Editor of the Canton Register.) My dear Sir,—ln reply to your kind inquiries lam happy to send for the pages of your widely circulated journal, a brief narrative of my late captivity and imprisonment. A boat had anchored during the night under the hill which forms the northern enclosure of Cassillia's Bay, and twelve armed Chinese from it had secreted themselves among the neighbouring rocks. On the morning of August 6, generally among the first bathers, was earlier than usual, and was dressing on the beach, as [the dawn was just becoming appa rent, when I found myself surrounded by these men, and their swords, concealed in their sleeves until within a few yards, flashed upon me. I was immediately a prisoner, and carried by hands and feet into their boat ; two or three blows on the head had caused a flow of blood, but were not serious. Watch had been kept above to give notice of the approach of other foreigners, but probably none were outside the walls of the town at the time. After two or three hours' sail my person was transferred to a larger boat, and shortlylafter some officials came on board, by whom I was questioned as to my name and country. At sunset, being handed up on deck, I found myself within the Bogue. There two officers took charge, one dig nified with a crystal, and the other with a golden, button • and with these, still accompanied by my captors as guards, I was taken on board a Government boat. The next morning, about seven, we reached Canton ; I was landed under the beating of gongs, led by a heavy chain round my neck, preceded and followed by my guards, their swords drawn. In a large open court belonging to one of the Go vernment offices, the late Viceroy, Lieut.-Governor, and several of their civil and military subordinates were found already convened. Questioning soon commenced through the linguists, and continued at intervals throughout the forenoon, the questions relating at first exclusively to my personal his tory and employments, every eircumstance particularly which could be evidence of my having or not engaged in the opium traffic. I had been informed at. the Bogue that my seizure was by the particular order of the Viceroy, though nothing transpired to show that I had been marked except as offering, alone and early on the shore, a sure and easy prey ; not even my name was known. By noon they were satisfied of the truth of my statements, and the great body of mandarins dispersed; after this, too, no thing more was seen of other appearances, which had led me to expect, as I have since been informed by considerable au thority had been intended, that my life would have been taken on that day. About live in the afternoon I underwent a more regular examination before the prefect of the city, a deputed officer from the Viceroy, and others, the deputy questioning frora written directions. The questions previously asked were re peated. An account was required of the taking . of Chusan. Respecting this the Canton Government had received accounts from two sources, the Macao papers and their brethren at Ningpo, as we might expect, not agreeing well ; other more unimportant collisions on the coast; the particulars of the Eng lish force at that time arrived ; resources of England and our estimation of the Chinese navy ; number of English residents in Macao, their objects ; the present state of the trade, &c. On some points 1 was not accurately informed, as with regard to the merchant shipping, trade, &c., and said so. On other points free answers were given, but detached al together from feelings of hostility. I took pains to con vince these Chinese Magistrates that I really possessed good will towards their nation. Also care was taken to avoid all appearance to disposition of " barbarian fierceness " an instance of this and its effect—l considered it proper and more clearly prudent to kneel before my examiners. I was only allowed to do so during my first examination, and when first brought before the new Viceroy. On all other occasions when the motion was made, it was politely prevented, and the third time that I was brougl , up, a chair was provided. I would here mention that throughout, further than such confinement as was considered necessary to prevent attempts to escape or desperate violence, I experienced no ill-treatment. On the contrary, the greatest consideration and respect were shown by all, from the highest to the lowest, of those at different time about me. I cannot forbear to mention one instance of feeling. Of the men who took me there was one apparently less moveable than the rest. It was soon, however, perceived to be merely in appearance—the man was of a sombre cast, and may not often have smiled in his life, he soon began to watch his captive with the deepest interest. That mun, when de livering me in charge on the evening of the second day to others who might be less kindly, earnestly pressed me to accept some cash from his slender means, which might, he said, procure some little comforts he had, while permitted, himself seen supplied. After the first regular examination, in the evening of the 9th of August a respite of an hour was given. The next hour was occupied in cross-questioning, myself then standing, and ' soon after this was satisfactorily undergone, it was decide that the youthful foreigner should be committed to the great prison of the Tinghae district. This I entered at nine or ten o'clock the same night, and there remained until the evening of De cember the 10th. Immediately a chain, allowing only a short step, was fastened by iron rings above my ancles, and to this were added manacles to my wrists and a chain round my - neck, whenever about to be brought before a magistrate. All this is customary with Chinese prisoners. In the room assigned me four of the inferior officers of the prison abode, one of whom was exchanged next day for a lin guist, who did the part of comprador. The hong merchants were charged with providing clothes, food, servant, &c. My fellow-prisoners were permitted to lend Chinese books, but nothing from without could find entrante until after the late Vieeray's degradation, when a Bible and Prayer-book were kindly sent me, as also constant supplies of food and clothing, by the American gentlemen resident in Canton. To them I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude. Until liberated, I was kept in almost total ignorance as to what was passing without, being for three months under the belief that my friends at Macao supposed me to have been drowned. On the 16th of August, and on two other occasions, the in quiries from the Viceroy, through his deputy or others, were continued. Among the subjects brought forward, the following seem the most interesting : The geography of Europe, Asia, and Africa was fully can vassed. At one time I could fancy the adventurous Corn mis•ioner giving orders to the hong merchants for a fleet of junks to coast between rocks and round headlands from this to London with an Imperial Embassy to her Britannic Ma jesty on board. Of course the captive speculated on being promoted to the sinecure post of pilot in the imperial service. At another time he was to be the guide of the great Ambas sadors through Central Asia and Europe, a more desirable task in some degree. Either would have provided 331110 little time for "delay." However it was soon apparent that their :minds had been somewhat troubled about their western frontier. The time in which Chinese Tartary can be reached from England, the geographical and political relations of England and Russia, the countries between them, and between Russia and India, my examiners were very partimlar about. Thibet was evidently their main concern, though it was amusing to see the way in which mention of of it was avoided, and questions asked about the countries near it. It is remarkable that nothing was said about the southern frontier and dangers from our Indian pos sessions. We may conelude the more surely that they are wide awake there. On some subjects they hail exaggerated notions; a Chinese examiner does'nt generally trouble himself on such occasions, and a little openness had a good effect. His Excellency had supposed that along with Herat the whole of Persil. had become subject to Britain, and was pleased to be corrected. Translations of parts of " Murray's Cyclopedia of Geo graphy," which it is well known have been made in Canton, were on the table, and with these my deposition was compared. The moving Lin wanted instruction in the principle of the steam-engine. All present seemed to comprehend it, and took much interest. One other mandarin sent afterwards to my quarters for a repetition of the lesson. The action of the piston rod was easy, but a draught of an ordinary engine, about which moreover I should myself have had some trouble, more if I had been set to instruct Chinese blacksmiths in the way of making it, would have puzzled even Lin's piercing eyes. Such an impudent speech of course could not be addressed to such dignity, and the man and piston rods were connected in more simple fashion than might have encountered the smiles of an experienced engineer to be put in practice, or rather attempted, I could fancy, for the first time by the great innovator of Chi nese "custom." You well know that your Paper is read in the Governor's Palace ; none published after my move from Macao were shown me; but in an extra, published a few days before, there was a long extract from the Spectator far beyond the comprehen sion of the learned interpreter : the foreigner's aid was called in. A mandarin " must" ask not only the meaning of sen tences, but to be sure of coming at the truth of every word, and thus I worked on my way. The Chiense have not words in their language or ideas in their minds to represent the situa tion and objects of a speaker in the British Parliament, and you would have been amused at the circumlocutions and laying of groundwork called for at every step. In about half an hoar we had fairly finished the first paragraph of three lines and a half. I was not altogether sorry to find my friends by this time tired, and the informant being very communicative and willing to proceed, they took his word that the whole myste rious piece was of the same nature, and dismissed him. The most interesting of all upon which my assistance was required was the case of the French missionary and his Chi nese companion taken in October, endeavouring to proceed up the river of Canton. There were besides in the same prisen with myself a lascar and a Macao cafire. The former had run away from his ship and was seized on Lintin, or an island near it, in July. In prison lie was well taken care of at the charge of the Consoo House. The caffre had been taken at Heangshan in a Chinese dress. He was treated in all respects as a Chinese prisoner. Oh Thursday, December the 10th, I woe brought before Keshon, from him received every expression of sympathy and favour, and was relieved from my chains and irons. Having spent the night at the palace, in the morning I took leave of Canton, accompanied by two officers, and in a chair as handsome as their own, to the great horror, no doubt, of any "of the old school," who may have wit nessed the descration. The next morning, December the 12th, I ascended the sides of her Britannic Majesty's ship Wellesley, Commodore Sir J. J. G. Bremer, and was received most kindly by him self and Captain Elliot, by whom I was re-assured of what I had been told by Keshen himself, that my liberation had been in consequence of particular application, and I understood unconditionally. I cannot sufficiently express my sentiments of gratitude to these gentlemen and to Captain Smith and others, Macao, Dec. 14, 1840. VINCENT STANTON. OBJECTS OF THE EXPEDITION OR MISSION. Ist. To obtain a recognition of the King of England, as the independent Sovereign of a civilised country. 2d. To require an apology for the treatment of Lord Napier, as the Commissioner of the King of England. 3d. Compensation must be made for the losses caused to. British merchants by the stoppage of the trade while Lord Napier was at Canton, and for some time after his departure. 4th. Until particular rules are framed by the consent of both Governments, British subjects shall not for any wrong done either to another British subject or to a Chinese sub ject, be liable to a more severe punishment than is applicable to the like offence by the laws of England. lith. No hoppo' or other authority whatever, shall be at liberty to impose any tax or duty, direct or indirect, on any foreign ships or vessels, or any articles of export or import, or any boats, coolies, or other conveyance of goods, other than, or different from, the prescribed Imperial Tariff. 6th. Vessels not engaged in trade shall pay the ordinary pilotage, but no other duty or charge whatever. They shall be freely allowed to purchase refreshments and articles re quisite for repair or refit, and to hire workmen for such purpose, 7th. Merchant vessels shall pay shipping charges of all kinds according to their roal size, as ascertained by their eertiticato of registry. None of the persons engaged in supplying them with provisions or stores shall be subject to any fee or exaction whatever in that capacity. Bth. British subjects may take their families to any place where they reside themselves, and may employ any sort of vehicle they may find agreeable or convenient, as freely as natives. 9th. British subjects may visit any part of the country under passports signed by the British Commissioner, and counter signed by the Chinese authority of the place. 10th. A British subject, desirous of residing for a lawful oh ject in any part of the country, shall report himself in person to the chief Magistrate of the place, specifying his lodging, but shall not thereafter be in any way molested or controlled in his pursuits, so long as they are conducted in a lawful and inoffen give manner, lllh t British ships may proceed to any port in China at CAPTAIN ANSTRUTHER'S CAPTIVITY. LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ANSTRUTHER, DECEMBER 31, 1840, NINOPO PRISON. MY DEAR ---, On Wednesday, the 16th of Septem ber, I started about ten o'clock to get the valleys on the left of the great north road from Tinghae, put down ac curately in my survey. I went about 1,000 yards north from the north gate of the town, or perhaps 1,200 yards, to where there are several houses and gardens, and from whence a road branches off to the westward. I went along this road and ascended the pass between the hills, then turned to the left, getting up a knoll, from the top of which I got the bearings of K. (the centre beacon on the east side of Chusan Bay) and C. (the similar beacon on the west side of the bay.) Having fixed this point, I pitched a small flag, aid took bearings to the flag-staff in front of Colonel Lloyd's tent (Bengal Volunteers) and Montgomerie's stone. To the westward lay a long and pretty valley, by which I could get down to the level of ground which bears north-west from our old camp, and by bringing round the right shoulder, keeping the foot of the bill on my left, I should return to our tents. I am thus particular in naming the place and describing it, as I hope. B--- will take a dozen or two of our people, and go and burn the place where the rascals pinned me. I went down the western side to the Pass, and in a very short time was sensible of my imprudence, as the path goes past a ghos house on the right, thick trees overhanging both sides of the narrow pass, and making it quite dark. The ghos house is in a walled garden, full of large trees. I determined as soon as I got clear of this dark and dangerous-looking place to retrace my steps, but, on getting to the other end of the grove, I be came aware that we were followed by a crowd of Chinamen. I took no notice, but turned to the left, meaning to go up the hill again, keeping to the open ground. We had hardly turned when a Chinese soldier rushed out from the crowd with a hoe in his hand, and struck at my old Lascar, the only man with me. He avoided the blow, and ran up to me in great alarm. I took from him the iron spud which he had used to pitch the flag, and met the soldier and drove him back, but a number of others, with what they call spears, but from their double prongs we should call them pitchforks, charged me and my poor old man, and of course we had nothing for it but to run. I told the old man to run up the hill, and they would only follow me, but ,he refused to leave me. The armed people kept on the hill side to cut off my chance of getting up the hill, so I determined to attempt to force my way by the long valley. I am but a bad runner, and my poor old servant was worse, so I went slowly along the valley, turning now and then to keep the Chinese at bay. Meantime the whole population of the valley gathered with loud shouts in our front, and it was evidently a hopeless job. I could not get my old man to leave me and try to escape un noticed, so we held on, and at a turn in the path which had now crossed to the south side of the long valley (which lies east and west) I was opposed by a few scoundrels with sticks and stones. I charged them, and they got all round me, and then my poor old man ran back about eighty yards, where lie was met by the crowd following us, and struck down. I have an inexpressible reluctance to write what follows, but must. I attempted to force my way to wards him, but could not, and I saw the inhuman villains pounding his head with large stones as he lay with his face downwards. I cannot doubt that he died. His two sons are my pensioners now at the Mount school, and of course my brother, or W— MacT—, will see that their pensions con tinue to be paid. I saw that attempt at flight was useless, and, expecting a fate similar to that of my Lascar, I set to work to make the ras-als pay for it, and fought my best. Of course num bers prevailed, and I was sent down. Instead of dashing out my brains they set to work to tie my hands behind me and my ancles together, tied a huge gag on my mouth, and then quietly took a large bamboo and hammered my knees just over the kneecap, to prevent the possibility of escape. I was then put in a palanquin, which was evidently kept ready for some such contingencies, and we hurried off to the north-west, and fetched a circuit round the west angle of the island of Chusan to a village about ten miles west of the Sapper's Point, as I judge from seeing about five miles east of me a beacon which is visible from the bezeon above the Sappers' camp. Here we waited till nightfall, my conductors comforting me by reps ating the word " Ningpo," and drawing their hands across their throats. At about seven. P.M., we got into a boat with a cover, and I lay down and slept. About midnight, as I should guess, I was awakened, and told to get out of the boat; my ancles were set free, a chain put round my neck, and I was obliged to walk, although my legs were hardly able to bear me, and my head a'hed dreadfully from two cuts I had received in the skirmi,h over the skull. I think they were dealt with hoes, but am not sure. We travelled all night in a south-west direction, and all the next day till about one o'clock, when we reached the banks of a river and got into a boat. About two hours' rowing with the stream brought us into Ningpo, where we landed, and I went in a palanquin to the Mandarins of Ningpo outer city, or " Heen." Here I was examined as to the number of ships, men, and other parti culars of our state at Chusan, the interpreter being Poo King Pon, the comprador who was seized at Chusan about a fort night after our landing. 1 was fed, and sent to a prison prepared for me by the removal of the four Chusan Manda rins who had been confined by the Emperor's order for al lowing the English t' land at . Chusan. I may here mentisn that the Wellesley's first broadside mortally wounded the naval Mandarin, and the first shell fired on shore killed the Setpun (Letpun) or chief mandarin of the island, and these two deaths had struck great terror into the mandarins everywhere, as they believed we aimed at them, so M— may enjoy the credit of killing the chief. In the prison I was forced to get into a cage, with wooden bars, one yard high, and two feet wide outside the bar ; a ring was put round my neck (of iron) and my hands put in handcuffs, locked to a stick about one foot long, which was fastened to my neck ring. Very heavy leg irons had been put on me at the Mandarin's, in consequence, I supposed, of the abominably exagge rated account my conductors gave of my resistance, by the way . of showing their own valour 'in taking so fierce a warrior. These irons weighed, I think, 181bs., and I wore them for four weeks. In this horrid little cago a chain was locked on to my leg-irons, and a gaoler slept with a light close to me, so I think it would have puzzled Jack Sheppard to escape. Next day I went again to the manda rin's, and in course of conversation he asked about our steamers. I offered to draw one for him, and did it. He became civil and friendly, and gave the comprador and my self a good dinner ; after which I got some hot water, and washed off some of the blood and dirt of the struggle, found my head handsomely laid open to the bone, my legs and arms covered with bruises, but no wound of any consequence, and the very judicious diet of the prison soon cured all the bangs and bruises. On the 19th and 20th I again went to the Tagins ( Tazin), and the latter day met there seven other prisoners, from whom I heard of the wreck of their ship, the Kite, and their capture. The Mandarins became more and more friendly in their manner towards me, and on this day ordered a bigger cage for me ; my new one was 3 feet by 2 feet 1 inch. This was comparative comfort, and was the fruit of my drawing for the mandarins a map of Chu-an Bay, town and suburb, with ships and tents. Next day I was told to draw a reap of London, and did it ; Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, Windsor Castle, and Buckingham Palace, all pleasantly situated in a park, with Grosvenor-place very well situated for viewing all four ! Next day I had to draw a map of England, showing mail coaches and cattle somewhat larger than cities or towns. This day (22d) I met Lieutenant Douglas, R.N., of the Kite, and a nephew of my friend and neighbour Keith Douglas, of Grangemuir, in Fife. He was in a small cage, and very much worse off than I, being in a worse prison. Next day Mrs. Noble, wife of the captain of the Kite, who, with his child, was lost in the wreck, was brought to Ningpo with Mr. Wilts, chief officer of that ship. The lady was put in a cage in the next cell to mine, chained like me, only the irons were lighter, and so, by-the-by, were those of Douglas, Wilts, the marines, and sailors. We went every day to the mandarin's to answer all sorts of foolish childish questions, ex. gr., "what relation was Mrs. Noble to the Queen of England." our ages, and the state of our fa milies, our pay, and a thousand other things, were the daily subject of cross-questioning. On Monday, the 28th of Sep tember, came a change ; Douglas, Wilts, and I were moved into a new prison, a large rttom with a fine place to walk in in front, the cages taken away, and 'good bedsteads placed for us, and all very much more comfortable ; and, Letter than all, I got a letter from B —r, which showed they knew where I was, and that the news would go to Eng land, not, as I feared an account of my death, but of a mere temporary imprisonment, just like the Sheriffs of Mid dlesex got from the House of Commons. From that date up to this present writing, (January 2, 1841) we have had nothing to complain of, and very little to tell of. On Monday, the 26th of October, we were all assembled at the head mandarin's, our irons struck off, and we were all to be free in six days. He also gave me a letter from 111--, and four chests of beer, cheeroots, clothes, wine, brandy, and other slight refreshments. As we believed the manda rins as to the six days, we set to work and live jollity, and the beer, &c. did not last long. Our life was now plea sant enough. I had writing materials and plenty of leisure, so I set to work to ornament the walls of my prison with draw ings of my eighteen-pound gun and other diagrams connected with the noble science of gunnery. I flatter myself I have set forth the true theory of recoil in a new and striking light, and will astonish the artillery world with a treatise on carronades, which will make W___—. bite the finger of vexation with the tooth of envy. I had to draw portraits of all the mandarins, pictures of Admiral Elliot, Captain Elliot, the Queen, and a thousand other things, and so the weary, weary time passed slowly away. On the above day we received from Admiral Elliot 300 dollars, with part of which we purchased winter clothing for all, and some decent clothes for the lady. A month passed and I got another letter from B--, with beer, wine, brandy, flannel, and warm clothing, and the time passed heavily till the 27th of December, when an ugly vagabond came to the grated door and slipped into my hand a private 'rote from M— ; up to this date, though we had written very often, the mandarins never sent our notes ; but we now wrote by this man (Blondel de Westa), and asked for a Bible, knife, and other things. On the 29th of December I received the Bible and knife, and wrote this account to be ready for Blondel's next visit, so I will put this by and write out the accounts of the Kite's wreck. I need hardly say how gra tified I feel to M—, B B--w, G—t, and all blues and sappers, for their kind and constant recollection of me. We hope soon to be free, and only want freedom to be perfectly happy, as neither I nor Douglas have had a mi nute's sickness, nor have we been, or will we be, down-hear ted for a minute. We are told now that in about ten days we shall be free. P. AN ST RUTHER. INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM CAPTAIN ANSTRUTHER'S MAN IN CONSEQUENCE OF QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM BY DIRECTION OF THE CHIEF MAGISTRAT E. The three British officers are in the barracks, but .the lady is in the prison of the women. The distance between both is very short. There are about nine soldiers that watch them outside, and a bout eight inside, eleven of whom are my intimate friends, and belong to my gang ; they can be bought over ; so also th? guard boats, which aro managed by poor peop le, and are under obligations to me for medical assistance. I am able to take them on board a boat and rescue them; the prison is near the river side. The place where the sailors are imprisoned is more exposed to public view, and I should not venture in the first instance to liberate them, but wait until 1 have accomplished the one ex ploit, and then we may again take measures. Perhaps the district magistrate, who owes more than 10,000 taels to Government, as h e is a now upon the point of going to wreck —he himself will be Appoint a . vessel to anchor at Heapoo , anxious to get some money, leave' his office and run away; poor man, and the empire is not think that would be attended with any difficulty. send letters to your officers, and inform them of the preparations that have been maule for their release, let th e m be all ready towards that time and immediately embark. and 100 to those in - From 40 to 50 dollar to tl l e guards; side would be suf f icient to buy them over , My own reward I l eave t o your gene rosit y , and should s tipulate, as a particula r f av our, to permit my relation, the o wner of the timber ya r d, to remove his things, in reward for my services. Translated by the Rsv. C. Gutzlaff. (Signed) W. CAINE, Captain, Chief Magistrate. Chief Ala2istrate's Office, Tinghae, 4th Jan., 1811, --Eastern Star, Fcb. 21. which an Imperial custom-house has been established, andland and ship goods as freely, and on the same terms, as at Canton. Shimld there he no British Commissioner or Deputy Commis siouer at such pUrts, British subjects that may be charged with any offences must be sent for trial to the nearest port at which a British Commissioner resides. 12th. British traders may have . boats, or other conveyance, to carry goods from any one part of the country to another, paying the same rates of transit duties as natives.— Canton Press, Jan. 19. ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MAN- SION HOUSE TO THE JUDGES. On Friday the Lord Mayor gave a very splendid en tertainment to the Judges at the Mansion House. There were amongst the guests the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Justice of the Common Pleas, Baron Park, Baron Gurney, Mr. Justice Pat%ison, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Sergeant Wrang— ham, Sergeant Gazelee, Sergeant Halcomb, Mr. Hum phrey, Mr. Bullock •; Aldermen Sir C. J. Hunter, Sir Matthew Wood, Brown, Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother, Lucas, Sir John Cowan, Wilson, Thomas Wood, Sir George Carroll, John Johnson, and Mag,nay ; Sheriffs Gibbs and Farncomb ; William Charles Pearson, _ the City Solicitor ; Mr. Potter, the Secondary ; Under-She riff James and Stone, &c., &c. After the usual routine of loyal toasts, The LORD MAYOR proposed the Bishop of Llandaff and the Clnirch,r of which that Right Reverend Prelate was so distinguished an ornament. The Bishop of LLANDAFF returned thanks for the high honour done him by the company, in connecting his name with the ecclesiastical establishments of the coun- try, of which he was an zealous, however unworthy and inadequate supporter. Those who were engaged in the direction of the affairs of the Church had many difficulties to encounter in the prosecution of their labours, but with the assistance of the civil ma gistracy, they entertained no doubt of being able to ac complish the great plan of the large extension of reli gious improvement.—(Cheers.) It might be expected that he would make some allusion to the cathedral of St. Paul, with which he was particularly connected. He hoped that the good feeling of the public would protect that great building from being subjected to desecration, by being thrown open to all ; and that the spirit of the party who were endeavouring to effect that object, would always be successfully opposed. He trusted and believed that the cause of religion would be greatly ad vanced by the vigorous efforts of the clergy who were so strongly united in the endeavour to promote the great interests of the community.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR next proposed the " Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and the Judges of Eng land." It was, said he, the high ancient privilege of the Magistracy of the City of London to entertain her Ma jesty's Judges at the Mansion-house, and he felt deeply the honour of seeing at his board so many characters of marked distinction for learning and virtue. Perhaps one of the most important duties and obligations upon a Chief Magistrate was to show respect for the dignitaries of the law of this great country.—(Applause.) Lord DENMAN thanked the company Tor his brethren and himself. It had been said by the Lord Mayor that the Magistrates of London enjoyed the ancient privilege of entertaining the Judges at his hospitable board. He assured the Lord Mayor that the Judges considered it a very high and delightful privilege to partake of the hos pitality . of the Mansion-house, and to enjoy the intimacy which invariably existed between them and the City Magistracy. The opportunities which were afforded to the Judges, by that sort of intercourse, of knowing the state of public feeling and opinion, gave them advantages which they could not otherwise obtain in consequence of the nature of their labours, and served to lighten those labours in no slight degree.—(Cheers.) The benefits which favourable public opinion was calculated to produce in the performance of the duties of public men were considerable, and there could be no doubt as to the ef fect of the expression of that opinion upon high public functionaries.—(Cheers.) From the manner in which the company responded to the toast he and his brethren did infer that they performed their duties to the satisfaction of the public, without whose good opinion and respect it would indeed be impossible for them to perform their duties at all. The LORD MAYOR next proposed the " Army and Navy," stating that in the midst of their testimonies to the merits of the Church and the Bench, they must not forget the heroes who raised the nation's glory to so ex alted a pitch and good permanent security . to this great empire. The toast was drunk with enthusiasm. The Bishop of LLANDAFF proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, under whose hospitable roof this company were assembled. He (the Bishop of Llandaff) had been long connected with the City of London, and had long experienced the friendship and hospitable kindness of the several Chief Magistrates who had filled the chair since his appointment.—(Hear, hear.) He was very happy to bear testimony at that .moment to the continuance in the present mayoralty . of the good feeling which had so uninterruptedly existed, and to de clare that the present Chief Magistrate was peculiarly entitled to the acknowledgments of the Company for the courtesy, suavity of manner, and liberal hospitality which had been so conspicuous on every occasion in which his Lordship met his guests.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR declared that he felt great pride at the manner in which his health had been proposed and received. He would next propose the health of his bro ther Magistrates, the Aldermen who had passed the Chair, and from whom he had received the most valu able assistance. Indeed, he might well take the oppor tunity of expressing his acknowledgments to them, as without their aid he would have had to ,contend against insurmountable difficulties.—(Cheers.) Sir C. S. HUNTER returned thanks, and adverted in laudatory terms to the firmness and manliness with which the Lord Mayor acted in resisting the encroach ment on the privileges of the Court of Aldermen, in the case of his election to fill the vacant gown in Portsoken Ward. Alderman J. JoirwsoN returned thanks for the Alder men below the chair who were yet to arrive at the ho nour of presiding over the hospitalities of the Mansion house, where he knew they would feel pride in following the excellent example of so amiable a predecessor. Sheriff Gums returned thanks for his coadjutor and himself. The company testified peculiar warmth of feeling i when Sheriff Farncomb's name was mentioned, as it was perfectly well understood amongst them that the friends of that gentleman were most anxious to see him repre sent the ward of Bassishaw in the Court of Aldermen, and considered his election as indisputable. The LORD MAYOR, in proposing " The Par," took occasion to observe, upon the spirit, zeal. laid independ ence with which the gentlemen of that profession per formed their arduous duties which devolved upon them. Sergeant llALcomn, in returning thanks, said it was usual with the profession to amp each other with finding mares' nests. Ho and his Learned Friends who were assembled around him had never amongst all the mares' nests which they had been so fortunate to find in their professional discoveries so comfortable a mare's nest as the Mayor's nest, in which they were at that moment sheltered and enter tained.—(Laughter and cheers.) It would be, added he, the constant aim of the bar to defend the liberties and in terests of those for whom they acted with firmness, in tegrity, zeal, and independenee.—(Cheers.) The entertainment was of the highest order, and on this occasion was one of the few in which the distin guished members of the Bench are known to relax. The Champagne, and Burgundy, and Claret, which were of the first quality, passed round very briskly. The company separated at half-past ten o'clock highly delighted with the business of the evening. ICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. The young woman, calling herself Emily St. Auge, and various other names, remanded on Wednesday on a charge of having stolen a snuff-box from Mr. Herbert, the editor of the Farmer's Journal, was again brought up, and it having been proved that Mrs. Herbert, the wife of the prosecutor, had been in th e h a bit o f as ki ng her to dinner, and otherwise treating her with the great est familiarity, and as there was no likelihood of reco vering the box by detaining her, the Magistrate ordered the young woman to be discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. Richard Turner; a coachman, who stated that he was driving for Lady Mlienzie, was charged with wilfully damaging a gig belonging to Mr. Davis, auctioneer. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. J. Johnson, tra velling comedian, and successor to the late renowned Richardson, that on Friday night hv was standing at the Manor-house, where a gig :belonging to Mr. Davis, and in which his wife was seated, was drawn up, when he saw the defendant, who was proceeding towards town, come in collision with the gig. The vehicle was turned upside down, and the lady thrown with great violence to the ground ; one of the wheels of the gig was dashed to pieces, independent of ether damage done. His evidence was corroborated by several witnesses, and the amount of damage was sworn to be Si. Mr. Davis consented to take 61. 10s., which sum was paid, and the complaint dismissed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET Charles Taylor and John Williams were charged with having committed a violent and unprovoked assault upon a policeman. It appeared that at an early hour in the morning the constable saw thirty or forty women of the town leave the Crown public-house in Cranbourn-passage, Leicester square, and as they were very noisy he told them to go on ; they did so, and several men, among whom were the defendants, then suddenly came u p an d w i t h out not i ce commenced a savage attack upon him. He defended himself with his staff, and assisted by several of the neighbours secured the defendants, but the others es caped. In reply to the charge defendants denied being the persons who struck the constable. The Magistrate inflicted the too-moderate fine of 20s. or one month's imprisonment. Frederick Kalmns was finally examined on the charge of having stabbed Henry liatchett, proprietor of the Golden Lion Coffee-house, Wardour-street. The prisoner a few days back took some coffee and bread and butter at the house, and when asked for pay ment commenced an attack on the complainant with a stick, which broke ; he then put his hand within his waistcoat, and withdrawing it stabbed the complainant in the head. The surgeon said that had the wound been only an inch lower the man must have died ; he considered that it had been inflicted by a sharp instrument, but would not swear that it had not been made by a stick. No knife or dagger has been found. _ _ 'The prisoner, in a :French patois, and afterwards in German, said he was angry at being asked to pay a se cond time for what he had had. lie was fully commit ted for trial. WORSHIP-STREET.. Mati/.1« Mks, a young woman of delicate ttnd into- )VENTING EDITION. resting vppeara.nce, was placed at the bar on a charge of having attempted to destroy herself. T e VOl :1: the act of throwing herself into ale Ne•k The prisoner's mother stated to the Magistrate that in the early part of summer the deluded girl had the misfortune to form an intimacy with a silly romantic youth, to whom she became passionately attached, and in a fit of mawkish and maudlin sentiment of the French cas' to he induced her to believe that they were doomed to misery in this world, and it were better to end their lives and we es together. They accordingly each took a strong dose of poison, the effect of which proved speedily fatal to her monomaniac lover, but by the aid of prompt reme dies the life of the infatuated girl was saved. Ever since that melancholy event she had been miserable and broken hearted, and had made no less than three attempts on her life previous to the one that was frustrated by the po liceman. After admonishing her upon the impropriety of her conduct in feeling and forcible language, which, however, did not appear to make any impression upon her, the Magistrate delivered her up to her friends. UNION-HALL. A FANCY BALL.--:-/iIW Louisa Leonora Fell, the land lady of the Montpelier Tavern, Walworth, was summoned for allowing drunken and disorderly conduct in her house during a fancy ball held there a few evenings ago. It appeared that the room was let for the night to Mr. Albert, a print colourer, who acted as master of the cere monies, and had issued tickets at Is. each for the " Fancy Ball," at which many of the company had become drunk, and their conduct was very disgraceful and indecent. The landlady denied any knowledge of what was going forward, and supposed that the persons occupying the room were perfectly respectable. The master of the ceremonies gave evidence, and acknowledged having seen some of the ladies " disguised in liquor," but that they were very properly turned out of the room directly, Mr. TRAIL said that although the defendant might have had nothing to do with the getting up of the ball, yet she was responsible for the drunken and disorderly conduct which had taken place in the room, and he therefore fined her 40s. and costs. HATTON-GARDEN. Lord KalmaineTnaerded by his solicitor, waited on Mr. Combe to solicit his advice under the following circum stances :—His Lordship stated, that having for some time past noticed an advertisement in a morning paper for the sale of three horses, which were standing in Fitzroy-mews, he, in the beginning of the week, was led to pay a visit there and examine the animals. He took a fancy to one of them, and being assured that it los perfectly sound and without vice, he gave it a trial, and was so pleased with it that he purchased it, at three o'clock on Friday afternoon, for forty guineas, and im mediately rode off with it into the park. Scarcely, how ever, had he been out an hour, when the horse fell lame- This caused him to send for a veterinary surgeon, who immediately pronounced the animal to be almost rotten, and advised that it should be taken back to the person from whom he purchased it. lie did so, but the stable boy refused to allow him to put it into the stable, alleg ing that he dared not open the stable to any one without his master's permission. His Lordship then asked where the master was to, be found, and being told that his name was Stephens, and that he lived next house to the rest' dente of Lord Bristol, at Putney-heath, he dispatched his servant there, but, as he expected, no trace was to be had of him. His Lordship, under all the circumstances , hoped that the worthy Magistrate would be of opinion that he could take cognizance of the matter. Mr. COMBE said this was a very stale trick, and it surprised him greatly that so many experienced noble men and gentlemen were so readily entrapped. For the present he could not see thathe could serve his LordshilN but if there were any chance he would. Mr. COMBE having given some private directions, his Lordship retired. LAMBETH-STREET. ALLEGED ROBBERY ON THE EASTERN CouNTIO RAILWAY.—Mr. Henry Pepper, a blacksnaira and ftu-vier at Bow, was placed at the bar, on a charge , of having un laWfully in his possession a quantity of articles of iron , alleged to belong to the Eastern Cour. ties Railway Co° pa Inconsequence In consequence of information received by Williams, a store-keeper in the Company's e mployment, a commu nication was made to the police, and the prisoner Wo g asked if he had any objection to having his premise: . searched • a quantity of iron was thereupon 1'0 1111 " which Williams pointed out ta belonging to the Compar i P The prisoner and his wife and daughter declared the articles found had been purchased from the ostler at the Bird in Hand Inn, in the town. Further time was asked to investigate the m atter , and the accused waa ultimately bound over in his own recgnizance to appear on a future day. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pet .... ------ - -- s. Per Quarter - . s. to s. a . to s. s. to s. s. to is. a , to .... Carlisle 6B 30 , 24 46 46 ...- klexham 53 f 6 28 32 20 21 —•- 44 Morpeth 59 64 24 27 23 x 4 34 36 3 3 Penrith — 68 32 -.. 24 33 ••••• i 4 Sheffield — 67 , 31 .-. t. 3 .... Winchest r 58 61 28 31 20 20 40 42 35 5 , J. Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s.d 5.( 1 ' 0 0 Carmarthen 4, to 7 8 0 0 3 7 0 0 2 3 5 6 0 U o,' 00 Cowbridge 79 80 00 40 00 3 0 5U 53 °''utt 00 iwansea BO 8 8 4 0 48 S 0 34 5 6 6 0 .t.. Per 8011. I 0 Barnardeastlls 0 18 0 8 0 9 3 6 4 7 6 9 0 10, tt g 0 j 0 10 0 Ourham '136 16 68 0 90 6 3 73 0 0 sO6 90 ;;i Richmond li 0 180 7 0 86 56 fl 09 6 190 00 jo 0 Stoekton ;15 0 ITdi 9 0 9 0 5 0 6 6 81) 100 9 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MAR - KET. e 4s. Wneat, Red, Norte& and Stitiblk ...... ... — a.'6o.. to 6:.!.. Pi c to,, . -- Lin. and Cain Yorkshire .—' —s. to Ida tine 0,, White .... —a. 625. to 645. 610 45 . --- Foreign, tted ....... —a. —s. to 53 , . fi ne`i,e d , White —s. —s. to 64.. tine , 3 y, Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ............ ...-....... —.. to 30.. On e I v, Lincolnshire Yorkshire \Vold ---- Foreign Beans, New -..-.••••••-- Old . Outs, Potato . —s. to 28s. tine --... Poland -- le 231. 'ricaland a . ir., Small . ......... --- buzaling ... ......... 12d. to l3d. pet S Ston e. Mulling ...... ....... ..... ........................... 295. to —s. Od. pc r L O l M alt .sti 395. fi ne 42.. p a Loa , Rapeseed ....... I.os. 321.05. 341.05. per Las a.t A 44 35 3. d' I) 0 6 00 'NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. - . Whit. What, NorthurriNerland '4s Red s CO ;. 64 , e .l Norfolk a.nd Suffolk... ........ ... 655. el's his. 6 . 9. ..-. Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 65- -5 b7s. Foreigr 62s. 67e...... C 33. 65" . . Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3Bl. 40 -s. --s• I . Foreign De. 33e -s -s• 1 , Barley, G ti r a i l n t d iog ing , N al o d rfo l l e k e a d l i d:uffolk... 3 2 54 : F o s s . ; -s. -s ....., , t' 6 s: vj 0 ; 0 L%!alt, Norfolk and Sutfolk.... ....... ...... MI 40 60es - 545-a z ::: Beans, Small --.- Tick 4os. 425. --6. "" 4 ' Pease, White 4os. 425..... -s. -- 4 . .—..— Gray . . 424. 441 --s. --"" Oats, Nortinratherland, rotatoe 2ss. 26s e. ---ii• .....-.--. Feed 225. 24i -s. -- 4 . -. ForeifiA 45 4 . 48 4 . -is .... a. Flour (per sack) H MARKETS, Ibcrieen 50 to 60 24 to 26 18 to 92 —to Berwick 4O 45 18 23 17 22 25 27 li3 Cealstream Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 ..., Cupar (Fife) 48 (15 26 31 18 22 88 "'' SI: 1 Dunbar 59 65 25 28 21 24 37 38 57 Elgin 55 56 26 2'7 20 24 411 5V -- .... Inverness Kelso ..,.. _ 36 50 18 23 15 21, 31 33 -- , Kirkaldy 62 67 36 33 45 48 43 ...0 Perth 6O '4 39 40 25 35 41 44 .... 111;:p. The size of the measure varies throughout the countrY• HADDINGION CORN MARKET. eall 6 Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Beans 1 _...- 0 1 First 7oi Od 33s al 29a Oil 34. Od 0 .2 3 A d 02giristo.s60. Second 63. Od 31$ Oct 25a Od 373 Od 30 at Third s7s Od 30s Od • 23s Od 364 Od ••• 8 " Average 31. 21.01 10.12ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. 1 Pease. 31e41 6 “. .1 First 7ls l'u 341 66 I, 2 6s 8d 41s pd 413 Second 6ss Od 31s Od 1 531 Od 40s Od . ' . ! 1 ? 0 - 1 Third s4s Od 251 6d 184 lid 35. Od 3.1' GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET. . , e Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. v. a.. : 2 1 ( ISritish, old 52 6t035 0 Iri.b ls oto , i new Canada, free 26 ( 0 ) 2 - 6 0 0 Engli ß sh em .7.... l ....... — 26° .... 113. 21 6 :i. r 3 Irish Barley, per 3201 b Scottish ..„„ 190 hi English 27 0 IIS 0 Pease, Scottish...... 23 IO 03 Scottish 23 0 25 0 Oatmeal,per I 31112.... 17 0 L I I Irish t 41iVesfinii 40J SSI s. e' 1,2 1 Y 1" ; O :111 61 6 1 170 1 3 SILVER WATCHES, LONDON-AIADE.- -- . 1 ; B. SAVORY and SONSoWatchmakers, N.. 9,Cornhill, !".,s , don (opposite the Bank of England), submit for seletcl i 7or very large STOCK of SILVER WATCHES, the vitvfi e r which are made and finished under the careful inspection perienced workmen on their own premises, and eaeh wart for correct performance. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed E 4 4 0 engine-turned cases, warranted Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, hard enamelled dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed cases, warranted .. Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in four holes, hard enamelled dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed engine -turned cases, 0 warranted Either of the abtrJe in silver hunting- cases , 100 6d ye A large variety of Second-hand Silver Watches. which 1.- h, been carefully exami ne d, an d can b e warran t e d, a t 21. 2- 9 - es " „ N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in •excher2r .. /*, PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, 60s. the SP of FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. S u p er ior Len ro i d°° Table Knives, with ivory hand l es, 14s. -p e r dozen ; 11 _4; Poles for Window Curtains, inch diameter, Is. 3d. per 2 inches, ls. ekl. per font ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet long, l' re . Catalogues gratis, co ntaining the prices of st oves , fenders , . 0 ,, irons, kitchen utensils, and every article in furnishing Ir mongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-strese. Established 1820, B On the Oth inst., at 111ancester, th_e wife of Severin Rak°W- Lienant a the late Polish army, of a daughter. ic l C Or. the 29th ult., at Norwood, the wife of Mr. Freder Ter aple, of Guildhall, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Eaton-place, Mrs. Henry Shaw Lere vre' .of a son. On the 4th inst., the Hon. Mrs. 'Trotter, Connaught - P lace' of a daughter. o p, On the 6th inst., in Ramat on-place, the Countess of El d -ot a daughter. _ _ _ MARRIED. At Exe:er, Alexander Ruddy, Esq., to Mrs. Mary 3 ' 4 bur, The bride is in Iver 75th year, and the present is her Obi , of band, her first b einiv the celebrated bookseller, Lackingt°°' the Temple of the Muses, Finsburv-square London. DIED. On the Cth inst.. at Cheltenham, Margaret Sarah, r l i ugeS ura &tug' iter of the late Right Rev. Alexander Arbuthno t, List op of Kill 3 l oc , age d 14. ",)n the 2d inst., Charles John, the only son of kr: Th °ll3.o 13 mmby. of St. James's-street, aged 26. 14fr :f On the :1d inst. at St. Peter's-square, Hammersrnt b, :Frances /E me li a 'Wilson, relict of James Wilson, r's c i" ::Montego -bay, Jamaica. • - O. - p Londo n Printed and Published by MURDO Y Ollll l 4 ill No• 11° Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112, ( the cuunty of Dliddlesex.—Mondayi'May 10, 1841. ~ I