The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

EVENING SIJN I - r. SPIRIT of the JOURNAL. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—There has been from time to time con siderable speculation as to the course that the Govern ment will put sue with regard to the forged Exchequer bills ; and much has been said on the hardship of the position in which " innocent holders" will be placed, should the Treasury repudiate any liability to meet such of the documents as are found to he fraudulent. It has been, of course, a matter of much deliberation in official quarters, what plan shall be pursued ; for while it is felt that the parties who have given value for their bills would have great reason to complain if they should be made to suffer by the malpractices carried on by a servant of the Government, it would be no less unfair towards the Treasury to be called on to discharge in full the claims of those who could not but have known, by the terms on which they took their bills, that some irregularity must have attached to them. We have every reason to believe that the Government has at length resolved to meet the question upon equitable grounds, and, taking for granted its non-liability in a legal sense, it has determined to state to the House of Commons the facts of the case, leaving it to that body to deal with it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will pro bably bring the matter forward, and, without deny ing the laxity that has hitherto been allowed to prevail in the Exchequer bill department, will propose that the parties who have really taken the forged documents under circumstances showing no ground for believing that they could have suspected fraud, shall be indem nified to the full amount of their fictitious securities. It will, however, be urged that persons who gave only SOW. for bills which, if they were genuine, were worth 2,0001., and if not were of no value at all, must be considered to have been merely gambling on the chance of the documents turning out good or bad, and that, the latter being the case, the stake so improperly played for should be regarded as sacrificed. It is clear that there are no funds out of which the for genies can be paid, and the House of Commons must therefore be resorted to in the existing difficulty,— though the Government will propose the plan for getting out of it. The liabilities to the public, presuming them to be equitable and not legal, may be adjusted with greater facility than the question which will arise be tween the Bank and the Treasury, which in official quarters is now creating considerable perplexity. STANDARD.—Lord Melbourne is more interested than any other man in proving that the country which he has governed for seven years is not suffering from the ill effect of contemporary Government, or even from the influence of preceding errors, which, during seven years, he surely might have repaired ; hence his unwilling ness to see the actual distress exaggerated. But Lord Melbourne, true to his party practice, has still a reserve of fallacy ;he talks of lessons for the future," as if there were something to condemn in the system which has brought Great Britain to her present state, Now this must not be suffered to pass without a re mark. During 50 years the population of England has doubled ; her territory has multiplied fourfold, and her wealth, probably tenfold ; concurrently with a war, in which she has had to battle for the liberty of the human race, and has battled triumphantly. Does the system, under which so much has been effected, present results that are to be read as lessons as to what we ought to shun ? Do not the effects of such a system, on the other hand, point out in striking characters the danger of every deviation ? It temporary distress is the result of such a system—a fact which we do not dispute —a great progressive prosperity is no less certainly. We have agai❑ and again shown that temporary distress i s the necessary attendant upon rapid progress. This is the lesson to be learned ; and if Lord Melbourne and his colleagues had studied this lesson, they would ❑ot have ensured by their New Poor-law that every temporary distress shad be exasperated into misery and torture, nor attempted by their budget measures that would slay the national progress, and cause it soon rapidly to retrogade. We repeat it once more, that you can not have progress without occasional distress ; but that under the old Poor-law distress was so effectually miti gated as to threaten no danger to the community. Prosperity causes the accumulation of capital—capital becomes the competitor of labour, and for a time it must prove the successful competitor ; but during the interval that passes before labour can right itself, by the opening of new markets, there must be distress. These are plain propositions, a priori, and the evidence of ex• perience warrants their soundness. COLTRIER.—Few are the manifestations, and scanty the measures of popular sympathy evoked by the downfal of the \Vbig cabinet. A kind of sulky silence seemed to have taken possession even of that portion of the public supposed to be most favourable to the views of Whig policy, which, being rightly inter preted, meant to say that in being cashiered from race the Whigs had only met with their deserts. This, we repeat, is the inference which we have drawn from the ind , fference evinced towards the leading members of the Melbourne Ministry by the country at large ; their offi cial extinction appears to have inspired no regret ; the change which has transmitted subtle, glozing courtiers, into jPalous and watchful, we will not add factious, op positionists, seems to have excited no hopes. In vain they preach to the miserable remnant that still adheres to them the virtue and magic potency of union—in vain they labour to enforce the stale truism by references to the achievements of their party in 1834,5. The temper of the times has wonderfully changed since then ; at that period the first indications of the ebb were only given ; ever since the reflux has been rapid and steady, and therefore to appeal to what Whig-Radicalism was then coal led to effect as an illustration of what it might, if similarly directed, be no% able to achieve, is to betray a total inappreciation of intermediate occurrences—is to confound vigour with debility, and the confidence of an ticipated victory with the discouragement of certain defeat. THE CHIRK MURDER. APPREHENSION AND EXAMINATION OF THE MURDERERS AT SHREWSBUY. SHREWSBURY, DEC. 29.—The murderers were taken at Coventry on Christmas-day, and were brought into Shrewsbury yesterday evening, in a post-ehaise, and lodged in the gaol. The greatest praise is slue to the county police-force, under the direction of the Deputy Chief Constable M . Michael, for their exer tions in tracing out the suspected villains. The Viscount Dungannon has been unceasing in urging a rigid investigation into all the circumstances con nected with this inhuman and bloody deed. The Magistrates of the county offered a reward of 20/. for the apprehension of the perpetrators of this atrocious murder, and, through Lord Dungannon's intercession, a further reward of 1001. was immediately offered by the Secretary of State, and strong hoees were entertained of their being soon taken, especially as they were such well known characters. Their names, as has already been stated, are Williams and Slawson. The general opinion, both :rem report and a close and vigilant look out on the part of the police, led the au thorities into a belief that the fellows lay concealed either in the town or immediate neighbourhood of Wrex ham, and the efforts of the constables were directed ae cordiugly, but without avail. Up to Mondey no doubt was entertained as to their being still ha-boured about their native place, on which day a letter was received at the Chief Constable's Office, in Shrewsbury, with in formation that two men answering the description giren of the suspected murderers were taken by the Covent r y police, in which city it appears that they had offered for sale at a silversmith's 11 silver spoon j, mar k ed E . E., and he, having heard of the murder end robbery at 13ronygarth, Bare information to the p o li ce. Mr. NleMiehael left Shrewsbury on Monday in order to convey them here. The prisoners came to 'Wolver hampton by railway, and from thence to Atcham by the Salopian c oac h. A t n i ne o ' c l oc k yesterday ev ening they arrived i n thi s town, a chaise haying heel s pre viously sent to meet them at the village of Ateleam, three miles distant. John Williams is a stout young man, aged 22 years, a native of Cornwall, but has resided at Wrexham from his infancy. He had been in custody three years ago, at Rathio, under the Vagrant Act, and was in the same prison a year ago for an assault, where he under went nine months' confinement. The other prisoner, Slawson, is about 21 years of age, has rather a boyish look, and far from a ferocious appearance. When at Cot entry, Williams assumed the name of Jones, and Slawscn that of Halley. They reached Coventry on Wednesday evening, on their way from the scene of the murder. Slawson, who is a tailor ; worked at his trade in that city, and earned from Wednesday to the Friday Bs. 4d. The examination took place this day in the Guildhall, before the Hon. Thos. Kenyon (Chairman of the Quarter Sessions), the Hon. and Rev. R. H. Hill, T. C. Eyton, Esq., Sir B. Leighton, Bart., H. Jus tice, Esq., E. Jeffreys, Esq., Major Bayle/, and other Magistrates. The witnesses examined were T. S. M`Michael, Superintendent of the Shropshire Rural Po lice ; Thomas Henry Prosser, chief constable of Co ventry ; and Mr. Moss Fridland, watchmaker and sil versmith, of Fleet-street, in the same city, to whom the spoons were offered for sale by the prisoner Wil liams. Mr. Prosser, on searching Williams, discovered in his inner pocket in his waistcoat a half sheet of paper, with the following directions written upon it by some companion in crim e " You must make the best of your way through South Wales to the Bristol Channel, and cross over to Corn wall, and inquire at Tregonna for some of the Beards, if you are lucky enough to get there." The Court was crowded to excess, and the examina tion created the most intense interest ; but the late hour at which it concluded renders it impossible for us to send any part of it by poet. Both prisoners were remanded till Friday next, when they will be committed. "►I C DUDLEY.—The Coroner's inquest on the body of Richard Hunt, who was killed by Mr. Edward Alsop . of Rowley Regis, on the morning of the 12th instant, whilst in the act of committing a robbery in an outhouse on his premises, terminated on Wednesday- evening, when the Jury returned a verdict of " Jnstifiable Homi cide." The deceased was about sixty years of age, and had long been known as a most profligate chatheter and notorious thief.—Worcestersliire Chronicle. THE _MURDER at SEVERN STOKE (From the Worcestershire Chronicle.) The adjourned inquest on view of the body of the ill fated Richard Kenton, was held on Thursday, on suspi cion of murdering whom, W. Tippin (the man who was in custody) has been committed on the Coroner's warrant, to take his trial. The only fresh circumstance of import ance which transpired at the adjourned inqu •st was the fact that two peculiarly situated nails had disappeared from one of the prisoner's boots, but which he positively denied having drawn. Contrary to what has been pub licly stated, Tippin has invariably denied all knowledge of the crime, declaring again and again, that he knew nothing of poor Kenton's death till he arose on the Sunday morning. His conduct in the inquest-room was certainly far from decorous, and his levity continued after the inquiry closed, for on his way to Upton, the police cart passed an Italian carrying a board of images on his head, upon which he burst out into a loud laugh and said—" I was serving the masons once, and as such a fellow as that passed under me, I pitched a brick-end upon his board, and broke half of them !" Being re monstrated with upon his ill-timed merriment, he be came more quiet during the rest of his journey. He remained at Upton till about three o'clock on Friday, shortly before which time Superintendent Craig re ceived a warrant (which he had been anxiously expecting) directing his removal to the county gaol. After receiving this authority, the Superin tendent lost no time in starting with his prisoner, and as several policemen were in attendance, the order of the town was not in the least disturbed on removal from the lock-up. Before Tippin left Upto❑ he conferred with a gentleman of the legal profession, with a view of preparing for his defence. Since he has been in the county gaol his conduct has been very be coming, but so far from admitting his guilt, or any par ticipation in the crime with which he is charged, he strenuously asserts his innocence. Stanton, Powell, and Andrews, the other men in custody, were liberated. EXPLOSION ON THE BRISTOL RAILWAY. John Stephens, who said—l have been employed as a foreman under Mr. Brunel for nearly fifteen years, but am at present a sub-contractor under Mr. Nowell. The injured men worked for me. On Friday evening, after work, I told James Jones, one of the men killed, who had charge of the powder, to put it in the black smith's shop, and take it out again on Monday morn ing before the men came to work ; we have put it there frequently before on Saturday nights, for safety ; on Monday morning I went down to the blacksmith's shop and had gone about thirty-four yards, when I heard the explosion ; it did not appear to me louder than the re port of a fowling-piece. I turned and saw some thing like a bundle of burning rags coming in the air towards me, and in about a second after, a quantity of timber and stones fell around, but nothing struck me ; at that instant I heard the cries of the poor fellows who were hurt, and after wards found it was the body of Jones that had fallen by my side ; there were nearly one hundred men at the spot in five minutes, and we rendered all the assistance in our power ; we found that two were dead, and another died about two hours after. We brought them ali here, and Mr. Raberts, the surgeon, attended them immediately. The only way I can ac count for the accident is, that Jones must have gone to work behind time, and that he was in the act of tak ing out the powder when it caught. Two other witnesses were called, but nothing further was elicited, all who were present in the shop having been either killed or taken to the infirmary. The inquest was then adjourned till Thursday week, when it was hoped some of them would be sufficiently recovered to attend. The names of those (lead are—Matthew Stephens, 27, singlo man ; James Bennett, 29, wife near her confinement ; and James Jones, 27, single. AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. We have bee❑ favoured by a house in this town with the following. extract from a letter, received by a recent packet from the United States, which we recommend to the serious attention of our readers : " The money market is becoming a little closer; but we do not fear any other than a healthy action, which will go to prevent orders to England on a large scale ; and this we term a healthy action, as it gives room for American calicoes for spring trade. You will notice, from the paper annexed, that our exports amount to very nearly as many dollars as tha imports. The im portant subj ect o f fi x i ng a tariff for a numb er o f years I will probably take up most of tau n time of our Congrtza j the coming winter. There has not been much increase of cotton mills during the last tour or five years. Every piece of cloth that is made is printed at present ; and no stocks on hand. Until there is an increase of fac tories for cloth, there cannot be an enlargement of printing, as tha mills cannot leave heavy cloths for the light, as there is no accumulation of any kind of goods. On the whole, the cotton manufacture and the cotton printing are in a flourishing state in the United States, and arelooked upon favourably by both north and south." 'll, following is a copy of the paper referred to in the preceding extract:— Statement of Imports and Exports of Cotton Piece Goods during the year endin g S e pt em b er 30, 1840, in the U n i te d States : IMPORTS. Dyed, printed, and coloured, amounting to $3,893,694 White . • • • • • 917,101 $4,810,795 EXPORTS. Foreign goods, dyed, printed, and coloured, entitled to drawback . . • . $768,195 Do. do. not entitled to drawback 70,358 Foreign white goods, entitled to drawback 152,6.59 Do. - do. not entitled to drawback 30,779 American manufactured, prints and coloured 398,977 Do. do. grey and white . 2,923,257 g 4,346,253 Excess of imports over exports, only . . ,064,540 When we first received this com:nunication, we cou!d not help suspecting some error in the statement as to the value of cotton goods imported into the United St rtes ; but,having since received the American Alma nac*. for 1842, which contains copies of the official ac counts of the revenue and commerce of the United States, we find the figures arc perfectly correct ; and it follows, that the exports of American cotton manu factures last year approached in value very nearly to the foreign cotton manufactures retained for consump tion ; and, as these would no doubt include some Ger man, Swiss, and French goods, it is probable that the value of British cottons imported scarcely exceeded that of the American cottons exported —a fact for which, we dare say, very few of our readers were prepared. It is right, however, to state that, owing to circum stances which we need not pa' ticul trize, the import of cotton goods in 1840 was greatly below the average of former years ; and, in a 1 probability, the accounts for the present and the coming year may give different re sults ; but, however this may be, the fact to which we have just adverted is one that demands serious attention. HORRIBLE BARBARITY.-- ARISTOCRATIC AMUSEMENT.—A correspondent has supplied us with a detailed account of one of the most atrocious outrages, committed on a pour helpless creature by a party of aristocrats, that we h ave ever h ear d o f , and which re utiri',.d in the death o f th e m i sera bl e creature in clues our We can scarcely beli eve th a t t h e c i rcumstances so circumstantially, corr espondent re l ates can b e true ; yet he details t hem gly, t and authe n ti ca t es th em so stron his statem en a t t . we i, fear there mu s t b e some f oun d at i on for To thec-licit information, therefore, on the subject, we suppl y officers—were lnaesigilzoeue appears that a party of following leading statements :—lt L o o n cl gentlemen —most of then English a visit at a gentleman's house in the County, when one evening of Phil t ts i t r o %% I T, King's th opium, and, in sport, p roc eeded ey to g p a r ve t"theirost some ac d ise horrible cruelties upon a poor idiot boy who f the house. They first extracted all his()un an asylum about teeth, and then be daubed him over with oil an d turpentme—set fire to his clothes to make him run, when, horrible to relate the poor creature was burned to death"! Our C orre spondent states that a sort of _ u , i e*,t, was held, but tions were that the greatest exer matter up, and conceal the real facts of the case. We refrain at present from going more into details, but shall b e h appy t o rece ive additional informati on on the subject, properly authenticated, and which We s h all re gard as strictly confidential. If the facts are as th e , have been s t a t e d t o us , no thing shall be wanting on -, ou r part to bri ng th e m i screants t o justice. —Dublin [We hope this will prove to be an exaggeration—if it be not wholly an invention.] HOUSE or LORDS.—(From a Correspondent.) —By direction of the Earl of Lincoln, First Commis stoner of Woods and Forests, workmen are busily en gaged in decorating the interior of the House of Lords. The old dark-coloured block paper has been removed from the walls, and they are now painted a light buff colour, which greatly improves the appearance of the }louse. The seats of Peers are ordered to be re-covered with scarlet cloth, and the other alterations in progress will add materially to the splendour of their Lordships' house. It is generally thought that his Majesty the King of Prussia, the King of the Belgians, and many dis tinguished foreigners, will he pres en t a t th e open i ng o f the ensuing Sessio n of Parliament on the 3d of Febru ary next. DIED.—At Newton-Stewart, on the 20th inst , Mr. A. M'Dowall, well-know in Galloway, as " Will Wander," the poet of Cree, the father of Dr. P. M. M'Dow all, the great advocate of the " People's Charter." --Ayr Observer. THE INQUEST.— Tuesday, the inquest was held be fore the County Coroner, at the New Inn, Wickwar. Oa proceeding to the stable a sickening sight pre sented itself. There lay the remains of the two who were killed instantly. Jones was completely naked except his boots ; one side of his face and the lower part of his body had been blown away, which gave rise to the belief that he had the barrel of pow der in his arm when it exploded. The head of Stephens was a shapeless mass, and he was other wise much injured. Bennett's body lay in a back kitchen, and was dreadfully injured. The first witness called was THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1841. MANUFACTURERS VERSUS LAND- O WNERS. Mr. Cobden has addressed a letter to the manufac turers, mill-owners, and other capitalists, of every shade , of political opinion, engage d i n t h e var i ous b ranc h es o f the cotton trade, in the district of which Manchester is the centre, of which the following is a copious extract : " You have been compelled to adjust the price of la bour to the market price of its products ; in other words, you have reduced the wages of your operatives, in consequence of the diminished value of your manufac tures. However deeply to be regretted, this is not to me an unexpected occurrence ; for when I look around and find that many employers are ruined, and that the remainder have been carrying on their business for some years at a sacrifice, I know that great privations and sufferings must in consequence fall upon the working population. Still, you have had to per form an irksome and distressing task —one, too, that always entails, however undeservedly, a large amount of odium on a master. Through your agency the incomes of your dependants have been curtailed, a diminution of their comforts must follow, even a restriction in the quantity of their food will in some cases be the consequence ; whilst young children, de prived of education, will be forced to labour still more prematurely to eke out the pittance of their parents. Contentment and cheerfulness will thus be banished from your industrious neighbours' homes, and they will be filled with sorrow and disaffection. I know that you arc not the willing or the interested authors of these evils. I know that, as a class, your sufferings are as severe as those of the working population, and that the interests of both are indissoluble. So far from low wages being the concomitant of high profits, your greatest prosperity has always been accompanied with the most liberal and satisfactory remuneration of your workpeople. Since 1835, the scale of earnings has been considerably reduced ; would you not gladly ex change your present trade for the business and wages of the above year? But, still, let me press upon your attention the fact that you are made the involuntary instruments of in flicting great privations and sufferings upon your work people ; and it is on this ground that I venture to en treat you to institute an inquiry, in the same calm, business-like spirit, and the same absence of partisan ship with which you regulate the wages of your opera tives, into the remote causes which force you to a re duction of wages. 1 beg that you will analyze the meaning of this word "protection ;" and the two ques tions which I would in the first place submit for your consideration are—What protection have the cotton spinners and manufacturers by law for the prices of their productions? and what legal protection have the operatives for the value of their labour? Your whole case depends upon the answers to these questions ; and Lord Stanley answered them at Lancaster, by admit ting that you have no protection. He added, more over, that " the cotton trade required no protection." There his Lordship was in error ; for you will find that it requires to be protected against that system of legis lation which cripples it with restrictions and prohibi tions, end taxes the food of its operatives, for the pro tection of the proprietors of farming land. It needs only this protection to ensure its prosperity. During the last four years, bread and provisions have been dearer than for any similar consecutive period for a quarter of a century, and, whilst the value of agri cultural lands and rents have been rising in proportion, your fixed capital has depreciated in value nearly one half, the wages of labour have suffered a diminution, and great numbers of the operatives are now unem ployed. Take an individual instance of the depre ciation in the value of property in Stockport. 1 allude to the case of Mr. -----, with which some of you are familiar. After thirty years of incessant industry, he had accumulated property in mills, machinery, houses, cottages, and building land, eAi mated six years ago at the value of upwards of 100,000/. He is now penniless. The property had been mort gaged for 15,000/., and such is its depreciation, that it is doubtful it the mortgagee could at this moment be fully repaid. Had that capital been invested in farm ing land, its value would have been sustained by Act of Parliament. But I put it to you, gentlemen, in the face of these facts, what protection has the manufacturer or spinner? I do not expect that the advocates of the food mono poly will in future urge the argument, that land is ex clusively and unduly taxed, for it has led to the develop ment of facts which they would have done wisely to have concealed. Let me, however, recommend one item for your consideration. The land-tax* in England, the only direct and exclusive impost paid by our landowners, amounts to about 1,200,000/. per annum, and, including the amount redeemed, it forms only a thirtieth of our whole taxation ; whilst in France, Austria, Prussia, and Italy the land contributes one-half of the entire reve nue, and if the landowners of this kingdom were the proprietors of estates of equal value in either of those I countries, they would be taxed at least twenty millions sterling a year for the service of the State. You will find, on investigation, that, so far from the landed pro prietors of England being more heavily taxed than the manufacturing population, " no other country in Eu rope," to ott.ote th e words of Mr_ I-1 ockisson, "has so large a proportion of its taxation hearing directly upon the incomes of labour and productive capital." Why, then, should not the British agriculturist be equally able now, as seventy years ago, to compete with the foreigner, provided his rent should be fully adjusted ? Why should it not be as much in his power as yours to inset competition abroad, seeing that you are the more heesil taxed of the two ? But he is no longerlealled upon to seek his customers abroad. Recollect that the owners of farming land in this country have the ens iable advantage of possessing a market for their produce at their own doors, whereas their foreign competitors must pay, on an average, IW. a quarter for freight and expenses, before they can land their grain upon our shores. On the other hand, beer in mind that you are obliged to send abroad three-fourths of the cotton spun and manufactured, because you cannot find a market for it at home. You are compelled to meet your foreign rivals at their own doors, after paying freight, expenses, and their import duty. Again, do Lot forget that the goods you sell in the home market are purchased by the landowners at the same price as that paid to you by the foreigner ; they pay you the same amount in money only for a piece of cotton which the German or American pays, whilst you are compelled by law to give them 40 per cent. more money for their corn than you might buy it for in Ger many or America. Above all, Gentlemen, remember that your work people are compelled to compete with the foreign arti san, although their food costs them 40 per cent. mare than the price paid by the latter. There is no protec tion for your operatives. The, law which raises the price of tneir bread does not enhance the value of tl.e:r labour. The manufacturer and spinner abroad buy their cotton at the same price as yourselves ; they sell their goods in the neutral markets alongside your own. It is obvious, then, that your operatives must produce as cheaply as the foreigner. How is this effected ? By greater toil, activity, and skill ; by doubling their spinning frames, increasing their speed, and every other expedient which gives augmented value to their labour. Still we are told that the English workman earns higher money wages than his Continental competitor. True, and we have seen how he does so ; if he did not, he would fail to secure an equal quantity of food. But they who tell us that wages are lower on the Continent than in England, because the weekly earnings there are less, forget alto gether to take into account the difference in the quality of the workmen. If we would make a fair comparison between the wages of the English and the foreign artisan, we must consider not only the time they work, but compare the result of their labour. If measured by this standard, the English operative will be found to be the cheapest workman in Europe. If you will examine the subject dispassionately, and with the same absence of party political feeling with which you adjust the rate of wages, you will arrive at the unanimous conviction that you are the victims of partial legislation ; and you will feel that your duty to yourselves, your dependents, and your country, calls upon you to unite in a struggle to secure the un doubted birthright of Englishmen—Equal laws. You are not required to enter upon a contest for the triumph of tbis or that political party, to seek constitutional changes, or to array yourselves against the authority of the executive Government ; you are merely called upon to endeavour to place yourselves upon an equality, before the laws, with a body of your fellow-subjects who have, by their influence over the legislature, encroached upon your rightful interest. Contests like this, between different bodies of citizens, must often occur in every free country ; and it is only by keeping a vigilant guard over their own interest that the different sections of such a community as ours can long preserve themselves from injustice. An enviable distinction awaits the man, or the body of men, who shall place the question of Free Trade beyond the pale of politieal faction. This achievement may be yours! You have been compelled, without distinction of party, to reduce the rate of wages paid to your workmen. Think ! if it be not your duty to deliberate upon that system of commer cial policy which presses you down upon tha operative, and compels you to diminish his hard earnings? N ever must it be said that you cannot suspend party animosities more readily to improve than to impair th e con di t i on o f your depen dants. Let your regard for their welfare constrain you , to meet without distinction of party to confer together upon a subje ct in which you are all equally interested. Banish from your counsels every party predilection. Let no mares opinions upon Church or State policy be invaded or compromised. Regard him as a traitor to your interests and his own, who, at such a c on f erence , shall breathe a syllable ab out Tory, Whig, or Radi ca l. Ina word, enter upon the con s id erat i on of the question * Properly speaking, there is no tax upon the land of this country. 1. he land-tax, so called, is merely a rent charge payable to the State, in commutation of services previously rendered to the Crown. The land-tak is a condition of the tenure of laud in this country. of protection in the same dispassionate temper in which you deliberate each in his own concern upon the rate of wages, and you will separate in one mind upon the sub ject. Thenceforth we should be united as a trading community upon commercial matters, although sepa rated into parties as before upon other public ques tions. Political contests might still be waged amongst us, but the combatants would range themselves under banners bearing the same motto of—Free Trade and no Monopoly. Mr. Cobden concluded by eloquently call ing on the other manufacturers to unite fur their own protection. MODE OF RECEPTION INTO THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE. Being asked as to the mode of his reception, he states that when William de la More, the Master, held his chapter at the Preceptory of Temple Bruyero in the county of Lincoln, he sought of the assembled brethren the habit and the fellowship of the order ; that they told him that he little knew what it was he asked, in seeking to be admitted to their fellowship ; that it would be a very hard matter for him, who was then his own master, to become the servant of another, and to have no will of his own ; but, notwithstanding their represen tations of the rigour of their rules and observances, he still continued earnestly to seek their habit and fellow ship. He states that they then led him to the chamber of the Master, where they held their chapter, and that there, on his bended knees, and, with his hands clasped, he again prayed for the habit and the fellowship of the Temple ; that the Master and brethren then required him to answer questions to the following effect :—Whe ther he had a dispute with any man, or owed any debts? whether ho was betrothed to any woman ? and whether he had any secret infirmity of body ? or knew of any thing to prevent him from remaining within the bosom of the fraternity ? And having answered all these ques tions satisfactorily, the Master then asked of the sur rounding brethren, " Do ye give your consent to the reception of brother Walter ?" who unanimously an swered that they did ; and the Master and the brethren then standing up, received him, the said Walter, in this manner :—On his bended knees, and with his hands joined, he solemnly promised that he would be the per petual servant of the Master, and of the order, and of the brethren, for the purpose of defending the Holy Land. Having done this, the Master took out of the hands of a brother chaplain of the order the book of the Holy Gospels, upon which was depicted a cross, and laying his hands upon the book and upon the cross, he swore to God and the blessed Virgin Mary to be for ever thereafter chaste, obedient, and to live without pro perty. A❑d then the Master gave to him the white mantle, and placed the coif upon his head, and admitted him to the kiss on the mouth, after which he made him sit down on the ground, and admonished him to the fol lowing effect : that from thenceforth he was to sleep in his shirt, drawers, a❑d stockings, girded with a small cord over his shirt ; that he was never to tarry in a house where there was a woman in the family way ; never to be present at a marriage, nor at the purification of wo men ; and likewise instructed and informed him upon several other particulars. Being asked where he had passed his time since his reception, he replied that he had dwelt three years at the preceptory of Blancradok in Scotland ; three years at Temple Newsom in Eng land ; one year at the Temple at London ; and three years at Aslakeby.—Addison's History of the Knights Templars. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 30. IN THE MATTER OF BR - )01i V. 13E001+1. The bankrupts were extensive drapers, carrying on business in Stourbridge, and appeared in Court on the proof of debts and choice of assignees. Debts having been proved to the amount of about 2,5001., in which was one proof by the bankrupt's brother for 1,0591., and another proof tendered by the trustees of their mother in a certain property, in which they possessed a reversionary interest for 1,0001., Messrs. George Moore, of Cheapside, laceman, and Wolfrey Middleditch, of St. Paul's Church-yard, warehouseman, were appointed assignees. almost exhausted when two men opportunely arrived, and the prisoner was given into custody. A large bundle, containing blankets, sheets, and other property, which the prisoner had tied up ready for removal, was found in the room. Sergeant Palmer stated that the prisoner had been re peatedly in custody on charges of felony, and was com mitted for three months a short time ago for stealing a quantity, of cigars. Mr.BINGHAm commended the young woman for the spirited self-p o ss ess i on s h e h a d displayed in the matter, and said he should commit the prisoner fbr LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Alexander Wilson, alias &miming, a well dressed and smooth-tongued Scotchman, was brought before Mr. NORTON, for final examination, on a charge of stealing four knives and forks, the property of Mr. Robinson, an eating-house-keeper, in Whitechapel-road. From the evidence it appeared that on the 22d inst. the prisoner entered the parlour of the prosecutor, and called for dinner. The waiter, having recognised him as having paid a former visit to the house, on which occasion a valuab!e Bible and several knives and forks were missing shortly after he was gone, not only ap prised his master of his second appearance, but kept a close lookout, and saw him go to a drawer, and put some knives and forks into his pocket. When about to leave the house Mr. Robinson stopped him. The prisoner declared that poverty of the direst description alone had driven him to the commission of the act, and so plausible were his manners, that the prosecutor would have let him go, had he not strong suspicion that he it was who had stolen his family Bible. When brought to this Court, the prisoner said he had kept a " whiskey" store in Edinburgh ; but having unfortunately failed in busi ness he came to London, six months before, in the hope of getting something to do, and though he had made every effort to obtain even the most menial situation, he was driven to the greatest state of distress, and this alone had caused him to take the knives and forks ; but this was his first offence. At this time he gave a fictitious name and address, but ultimately gave his real name, and said he lodged with his sister in Finsbury-street, Finsbury-square, and on the policeman going he found that the prisoner and a young woman, whom he repre sented as his sister, occupied an elegantly-furnished room, in which there were a number of books, and every thing betokening the greatest comfort. Unfortu nately for his representation there was but one bed in the room. The landlady described the prisoner as a per son who appeared to have an excellent competency, and his manners at home were very different indeed to those of a person in distress. The policeman produced a number of books, some of which were bound in the most costly manner, and others were odd volumes, which had evidently been stolen from some public libraries or coffee-rooms, as the names were erased from many of them, and leaves cut out of others. Mr. NORTON told the prisoner that to the character of a petty thief was added that of a most impudent liar, and a plausibility of manner which rendered him most dan gerous to society. The prisoner was committed to the Quarter Sessions for trial. W.el NDSTVORTH POLICE. Thomas Seaward appeared upon a summons charging him with cruelly ill-treating a pony, the property of ➢Tr. Avis, the landlord of the Six Bells Tavern, Putney. The defendant pleaded guilty. The circumstances of the case were these :—Mr. Avis had a pony which was now upwards of thirty years of age. The defendant was servant of all work at Mr. Avis's, and it was part of his duty to feed and groom the pony. On the 17th instant the defendant was in the stable with the pony, and without provocation on the poor animal's part, suddenly commenced belabouring it with the bosom handle, nor did he cease until one of those blows de prived the poor animal of part of its sight by bursting the ball of the left eye. Mr. Avis said he would not take 100 guineas for the pony ; the defendant knew his extreme partiality for the animal, and he thought he must have done it to spite him. Mr. PAINTER fined him 20s. and costs.—The fine was immediately paid. CORONER'S' INQUEST. An inquest was held yesterday at the Globe, New Compton-street, Soho, on the body of Milan's Ezcof foe, aged 14 years. Francois Excoffon, joiner, of 20, St. Martin's-court, Leicester-square, a native of Switzerland, was exa mined through the medium of an interpreter, and stated that the deceased was his daughter. She went with him, about three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, to 73, New Compton•street, for some of his tools which he bad left in the kitchen. Whilst he was collecting his tools the deceased drank something out of a bottle which she had taken out of a drawer, and immediately after complained of a burning pain in her stomach. He gave her some water, and she became sick and fell on the floor. He then tasted what was in the bottle, and shortly afterwards fell down in a state of insensibi lity. He had since been informed that the bottle con tained essential oil of bitter almonds. Francois Gravies, of 12, John-s;;et, Hackney-fields, gardener, stated that he called at 73, New Compton street, about half-past three o'clock on Sunday after noon, and after having tapped twice at the window, he looked into the kitchen, and saw the last witness craw ing on hil hands and knees towards the door, which was opened by a young woman. On going into the kitchen he saw the deceased lying on the floor. She was quite dead. and her father was lying near her in a state of insensibility. He was immediately taken to Charing-cross Hospital, and did not recover his sense; until Monday evening. Verdict—" Died from having incautiously taken essential oil of bitter almonds." PAVING OF OXFORD STREET. A meeting of the most respectable inhabitants of Ox ford-street took place last night at Clark's auction-rooms, Holles-street, for the purpose of taking such steps as might be deemed necessary to defeat the proposition which had been brought forward in the Vestry of St. Marylebone to postpone the further use of Wood Paving in Oxford-street for three years, although the test ori ginally assigned by the Vestry was for a period of one year only, and which had elapsed upwards of six months. Mr. UNDERWOOD, in taking the chair, was sorry that the inhabitants of Oxford-street had again occasion to meet on such a subject ; but they had been so ill treated by the Vestry of Marylebone as to render it absolutely necessary that something definitive should be done, ; and what was intended to be proposed for the adoption of the meeting was resolutions to the effect of urging upon the Vestry the necessity of establishing wholly the wood pavement in Oxford street. All present were doubtless aware that Mr. Cochrane had, at the last meeting of the Vestry, made a proposition to that effect, which had been met by an amendment, on the part of Mr. Byles, to postpone the further consideration of the pavement of Oxford street with wood for three years. He believed that all present were of one opinion as to the benefit of such a measure, and the only question for their considera tion, was as to the best means of obtaining the desired end. lie had only to call upon the gentlemen entrusted with the different resolutions to propose them, and the meeting would have to decide whether they would adopt them or not. Mr. NICIIOLAY then rose to propose the first resolu tion (for which see Advertisement). It had been proved that the wood pavement was the most serviceable that could be adopted, and such being the case he could see no earthly ground why its consideration should be post poned for 3 years. If such a proposition were acceded what would be the result ? Why the whole question might be postponed fur seven years.—(Cheers.) It had been demonstrated to the Vestry that - the wood pavement would not cause so much inconvenience as the present disgraceful one, and yet they seemed determined not to adopt it. An INHABITANT of Oxford -street said that it was most monstrous that the inhabitants of Oxford -street should be called upon to pay such enormous rates, and yet that the street should be kept in its present dis graceful state. It had been clearly shown that the wood pavement had answered, and he could not, for the life of him conceive, such being the case, why the vestry of Marylebone should be allowed to interfere with other parishes.—(Cheers.) He thought the inha bitants of Oxford-street ought to bestir themselves in the matter far more than they had done. Mr. TAVERNER seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr, BELL proposed the second Resolution.—(See Ad vertisement.) Mr. MILLS seconded it. The resolution was carried unanimously. After a few observations from Lord NUGENT, in which he stated that he felt convinced, as a member of the Vestry of Marylebone, that the members of that Vestry, as a body, were not inimical to the interests of the inha bitants of Oxford-street, The Third Resolution (see Advertisement), which was proposed by Mr. INCE, and seconded by Mr. lIARBOT TELL, was carried unanimously, after a short discussion. Mr. GREEN, in moving the fourth Resolution (see Ad vertisement), observed, that he thought the Vestry of Marylebone were the most unaccountable set of beings that he had ever heard of, read of, or had to do with.— (Laughter.) He could only compare them with a feather thrown into the air, no one could tell which way they would go.—(Laughter.) He thought they ought to have a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether—(Cheers)— and then if the Vestry would not do what they wanted, they must take the matter in their own hands.— (Cheers.) The conduct that had been pursued towards them by the Vestry was really too bad—it was unpar donable.—(Cheers.) Mr. EDWARDS seconded the resolution. Lord NUGENT was, as he always had been, for the adoption of the wood pavement, as it would be a saving of 40 per cent. to the parish. Mr. JOSEPH thought that the roads of the parish of Mar.ylebone ought to be placed under a Board of Com ' missioners, and not under a fluctuating Board like the Vestry. He believed that the time was not far distant when wood paving would be triumphant, not only over the whole metropolis but the whole of England. Mr. COCHRANE had thought it his duty to move in the Vestry that the whole of Oxford-street should be paved with wood, and he had done so for two reasons; first, for the interest of the inhabitants of Oxford-street; and, secondly, for the credit of the Vestry to which he belonged. - -(Cheers.) He was astonished that the whole parish did not rise as one man in mutiny against the disgusting Proceedings of the Vestry. He would ad vise them to agitate until they compelled the `Vestry to do them justice. The resolution was then put by the Chairman, and declared by him to be carried unanimously. The other resolutions were then put and curried, and the meeting separated. Yesterday 800 warrants were issued against hackney-coach and cab-proprietors by the Commissioners of Somerset Souse, for arrears of duty. NEWEST LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS FOR JANUARY, 1842. (Extracted from the World of Fashion Monthly Ma gazine of the Courts of London and Paris.) ROBES DE CHAMBRE.—One in toile de caehimere, trimmed down the fronts and round the bottom of the jupe with a broad band of lilac plush ; the sleeves made large, and in the style ala Marion. Another in fou lard, edged with a triple row of fringe of a middling width ; and, lastly, one made in poult de sole, with facings of satin down the front of the jupe ; corsage coulisse ; the collar square-formed by a revers in satin ; sleeves a la religieuse, with facings in satin, finished at the wrist with manchettes of lace falling over the hand. MORNING DRESSES.—The most favourite style is called des redingotes Amazones ; the skirt is ample and long, without ornaments of any kind; the sleeves plain, and corsage buttoned close up to the throat, finished by a small rounded turn-over collar ; a broad velvet ribbon of a well assorted colour, is worn in lieu of a cravat. Dresses in Ottoman velvets are now being trimmed down the front of the skirt, with sable placed a revers united down the centre with roseats of satin ribbon of different sizes ; the corsage tight and high up to the throat a ceinture ; pelerine of the same mate rial, open in the front, and edged with three small folds, an open collar of a moderate size in sable, plaited sleeves with sable cuffs. EVENING DRESSES.—A plain sleeve, double seamed, the corsage ecussonne upon the bust, the shoulders en circled with a berthe in rich embroidery. For evening and the theatre, dresses are now being made entirely plain, without trimming of any kind ; the corsage is made tight to the figure ; the sleeves large at the top, and bouillonee from the wrist to the elbow ; a long ceinture, in ruban de taffetas ; a pelerine in lace, de scending to the waist, and fastened with nceuds of rib bon, being the only ornament worn. BALL DRESSES.—A very pretty echelle pompadour (intended for the front of a robe de tulle) made in roses pompons, has a very light effect. We have also to remark a charming toilette worn by the Princess Clementine, being a dress in white Pekin a raies lined with satinee in ponceau and open on each side of the jupon. The Duchess of Nemours wore a dress all white a double jupon. CArs.—The most fashionable style of caps now worn, are le bonnet coquette, le bonnet religieuse, and la coiffure Marie Stuart. The bonnet Dubarry is also very fashionable, being formed in bouilonees of tulle, besprinkled with small roses without leaves, pro ducing a very light and becoming appearance. We must not omit to mention the cap a la Marie Louise. which is composed of a small foundation ; a single lappet in English lace is placed straight and flat over the front, and falls in two negligent bandelettes upon the shoulders on each side. A small crown of varie gated roses, tout mignonnes intermixed with leaves, are placed over the forehead, forming an arch. BONNETS.— A hat in velvet, of a beautiful French blue, ornamented with two white aigrette composed of velvet flowers, the inside of the brim decorated with one in the same style. Another in black velvet, hay. ing a rich violette in lace, ornamented on the exterior with three leathers, one placed in the centre of the front of the crown, another falling low at the side, and the smallest forming an agraffe between the two ; the flowers underneath the brim being composed of two clusters of scented sweet peas. Lastly, one in velvet scabieusc, ornamented with shaded blue feathers, pos sess in the same manner as the black velvet bonnet be fore described. We must not omit a hat we have seen in green clair de lune, rather deep at the ends, and having very little trimming at the cars ; trimmed with a garland of roses The, with the leaves in velvet ; upon the front are small mancinis, composed of sprigs of ge ranium rose. TURBANS AND HEAD-DRESSES are now being made in white gauze, and intermixed with flowers or wheat ears in dead silver. There is also the coiffures Espag noles, formed by a scarf and resilie d'argent, which is twisted round the back of the head, forming a roll round the back hair, the ends of the scarf being united on one side by a large rose ; this same coiffure, en re sale black and gold, is also very pretty, the rose being made in pink velvet. PELERINES.—The pelerines Cardinales are now much in favour, they are composed entirely of lace inlet divided by a narrow lace froncee ; in form, they are round behind, descending rather lower than the waist, meeting square in the front. These pelerines, when made in black velvet, are the most useful, since they can be worn with any kind of dress. CLOAKS, MANTLES, AND SCARFS.-.-Pelisses in !even tine and in plaided cachemires, trimmed with velvet camule, or fancy lace ornaments in silken cord, are most in favour. Wadded pelisses in marron satin lined with blue satin, have mostly a capuchin attached to them, formed in velvet, beautifully embroidered, with sleeves similarly ornamented. GLOVES are being worn, much ornamented. MoncHotas.—Tae Batiste d'ananas is now all the rage in Paris for mouchoirs ; their whiteness, transpa rency, and solidity having quite ecrase the Baptiste de h Flandre. Cotouas.—The prevailing ei,lours for the season are grenat, violet, different shade; of green, a bois ponceau, bleu Marie, and Tourterelle. DISTRESSED PRINTERS.—We are informed that the Garrick Club have kindly offered their ser • vices to perform two nights for the benefit of the dis tressed printers of the metropolis. and that the evenings of the 18th and 20th of January are fixed for the occa sion. Three additional subscriptions have been received since the publication of the last list ; one signed D. E. F., 10s. ; the Rev. J. Brown, Vice-Master of Trinity College, 11. ; and Messrs. Fisher and Sons, 21. 2s. The amount altogether subscribed is 471. I4s. sd.—Cambridge Independent. ALARMING INDISPOSITION OF NINE PER SONS, FROM TARING MUTTON BROTH.—On Monday last, the inmates in the house of Mr. Carman, Faulkner-street, St. Peter's, were thrown into a state of great alarm, caused by the sudden indisposition of nine individuals, shortly after dinner on that day. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Baker (of the Theatre Royal), and two daughters, and Mr. and Mrs. 11. Hell, have apartments at Mr. Carman's ; and that on Monday, at dinner, they, as well as Mr. Carman and his two daughters, partook of some mutton broth, and, shortly afterwards, during dinner, the Misses Baker complained of a sen sation of great heat in the throat and stomach. This was followed, almost immediately, by violent vomiting. Mr. 101 l was, soon afterwards, seized with similar symp toms. At first, of course, it was difficult to guess which of the viands had thus affected the party; but Mr. Baker's attention was first attracted to the broth by perceiving a peculiar sweetnesss in tasting it. Mr. Walker and Mr. Lowe, surgeons, were promptly called in, and they suc ceeded, by administering strong emetics, in placing all the sufferers out of danger. Mr. Baker proceeded to the theatre, but, after having been there a short time, was obliged to return home, so severe was his indisposi tion. Mr. Hull, who should also have performed that evening, was also unable to do so, and their parts were filled by other performers ; an announcement being made to the audience f the cause of this change. There seems strong reason for supposing that some ex ceedingly deleterious substance, probably arsenic, had, by some means unknown, become mixed with the oat meal which was used for the thickening of the broth. Messrs. Lowe and Walk er t oo k possession of some of the oatmeal, which we believe is to be placed in the hands of Mr. John Davies, chemist, for analysis. There does not appear to be the slightest ground for suspecting any present inmate of the house of so serious a crime as the mixing a deadly poison with an article of food ; the oatmeal has been in the house some time, but at present further observation on this point would be premature. We regret to learn, on making inquiry at Mr. Carman's yesterday afternoon, that, although out of danger, all who partook of the broth are still suffering severely from the injurious effects of the deleterious substance. We believe Mr. Holl resumed his duties at the theatre last evening, though still exceedingly weak from the attack. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are still confined to the house. One of their daughters had by no means recovered from the more severe effects of the poison. On Monday evening, at the close of the performances, Miss Ellen Tree pro ceeded in her carriage to Mr. Carman's to make her per sonal inquiries after the sufferers; and Mr. Charles Kean also sent his inquiries. —Manchester Guardian of yes terday. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—We have heard that her Majesty has already announced to the proper authorities that it is her intention to open the ensuing Session of Parliament in person with a Speech from the Throne ; and it is generally expected, from the altera tions and embellishments now going forward in the House of Lords, that our beloved Sovereign will be ac companied on that important and interesting occasion by all the Royal and distinguished foreigners invited to wit ness the christening of the infant Prince of Wales. ANECDOTE OF ADMIRAL HOPSON.—In the first action in which Admiral Hopson (then a boy) was engaged, after fighting cheerfully for two hours, he in quired of the sailors for what they were contending ; and on being told that the action must last till the white rag at the enemy's mast head was struck, he ex claimed, " Oh, if that's all, I'll see what I can do !" At this moment the ships were engaged yard-arm and yard-arm, and obscured in smoke ; and our young hero, noticing the circumstance, determined to haul down the enemy's flag or die in the attempt. Ac cordingly, he mounted the shrouds, walked across the mainyard, and, unperceived, gained that of the French Admiral's ship, when, ascending with agility to the main top-gallant mast-head, he struck the flag, and by the same route returned with it. The enemy's flag having dis appeared, the British Tars sho u t e d v i c t or y, by which the crew of the French ship were thrown into confusion, and fled from their guns ; the officers, surprised at the event, endeavoured to rally them, but the English sailors seized the opportunity for boarding the vessel, and took her. At this juncture young Hopson descended from the shrouds with the French flag, which he displayed in triumph. He was immediately promoted to the quarter-deck, went rapidly through the several ranks of the service, and proved one of its most distinguished ornatnents.—York Courant. LEICESTER -SQUARE.—The enclo sure o f t hi s square is, and has long been, in a most s h ame f ully ne glected state. There are at the present m oment t h e bodies of several dead dogs and of at l eas t a d ozen d ead cats (skinned by some adept in the art, th e b o di es b e i ng tied neck and heels together), lying within a foot or two of the square railings. The state of the foot pavement next the rails is also left in a most disgusting condition. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 30. IN RE THE REV. WILLIAM BAILEY. Mr. WoopnoFFE made an application to the Court to set aside the assigneeship in the present insolvency. It appeared that the insolvent was the clergyman of a chapel of ease at Tonbridge Wells, and that Mrs. Bailey, who was possessed of large landed property in Kent, endowed it ver y lib era ll y, an d paid 3001. for an organ, stipulating, at the same time, that the insolvent should be appointed to the ministry of the chapel. The church was subsequently sold, and assignees appointed at the time of the passing of the insolvent. A sum of 48u/. appeared over and above the surplus fund of the church, available to the private creditors of the insolvent, and this application was made to remove the present as signees, who were persons intimately and directly con nected with the said chapel of case, and to appoint per sons totally unconnected with it. The consent of cre ditors to the amount of 1,6001. had been obtained to the removal of the present assignees, and he therefore moved for a rule to show cause why the appointment should not be set aside. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS-Take a rule nisi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110USE. A man of respectable appearance and address, named Thomas Barker, was brought up for final examination on several charges of embezzlement. More than usual in terest was excited by the accusations, as the prisoner had been for several years in the employment of the prose cuter, whom, it had been ascertained, he had been plun dering from the first few months of his engagement. Mr. George Kent, wholesale brush manufacturer, in Falcon -street, Falcon-square, stated that the prisoner had been in his service about nine years as a collecting clerk, and in that capacity was employed to receive the amount of hills from the various customers of the house. Of late witness had reason to suspect that the prisoner had not duly accounted fur all the cash received by him, and, on making inquiries, and application to Messrs. Batty and Co., to Mr. Tozer, and to Messrs. Potts and Nicholson, found in their possession receipts in the hand writing of the prisoner for different sums of money paid to him on account of the house, none of which had been paid over to witness, nor in any way at all accounted for. Alderman WusoN—What do you suppose to be the amount of the money embezzled ? Mr. Kent—At pre sent I have reason to believe that his defalcations amount to upwards of 7001. Alderman WlLsox—llow long do you suppose this system of plunder has been going on ? Mr. Kent said he had every reason to believe that this prisoner com menced upon getting into the situation, and that the plunder was carried on by means of a variety of inge nious excuses and contrivances. Mr. Robert Feast, a partner in the firm of Messrs. Batty and Co., of Finsbury Pavement, oilman, stated that he dealt with Mr. Kent for goods in his trade ; that on the 20th of October last the prisoner called at is shop and presented an account, on settlement hf which witness paid him the sum of 81. 15s. fid. The prisoner wrote the receipt to the account in his presence. Alderman Wir,sost—llad you long known the pri soner in the employment of Mr. Kent ? Witness—Yes, for a considerable time, and he seemed to understand his business well. Mr. William Tozer, an oil-merchant, carrying on busi ness in lialfmoon-street, l3ishopsgate, stated that he was in the habit of purchasing goods of Mr. Kent, the prose cutor, and of paying for them when the prisoner called upon him as collecting clerk of that gentleman. On the Ist of May, 1841, witness paid the prisoner, on account of Mr. Kent, the sum of 61. 45., and took the receipt, which the prisoner signed in his presence. On the 4th of September, 1841, he paid the prisoner, on account of Mr. Kent, the sum of 81. 14s. 6d., for which a receipt was also written by the prisoner, in his presence. Mr. George Lovell, clerk to Messrs. Potts and Nichol son, of 63, Queen-street, Cheapside, lead and colour merchants, stated that his employers occasionally pur chased goods from the prosecutor. On the Ist May last, the prisoner received for his employers from one of the firm, in witness's presence, the sum of 18f. 75., in settle ment of an account, awl signed a receipt for th e amount. Mr. John James K en t, wholesale brush-maker, No.ll, Great Marlborough-street, stated that he was brother to the prosecutor, and had been in th e h a bit o f attending, at the prosecutor's request on cer t a i n d ays every week,° to receive, from the prisoner and others, cash received by the prisoner as collecting clerk, whose duty it was to pay over all such moneys to witness or his brother, and to no one else. Witness had examined the cash-book, and found that none of the sums of money specified in the above evidence were entered, and he could positively swear that the prisoner had not paid over any part of them to him, or in any way accounted fur them. Alderman WiLsoN—What salary was the prisoner paid? Witness—My brother paid him 1501.. a year. Alderman WnsoN—Does the prisoner wish to say anything? Prisoner—l admit that the receipts are mine. Alderman WILSON said he had no doubt that the pri soner would plead guilty, in the expectation that be should get off with a slight punishment, as no inquiry was likely to be made under such circumstances. Ile hoped, however, that so finished a criminal would not be allowed to remain any longer in this country, and, in order to rid society of such a deliberate and systematic depredator, it would be necessary- for Mr. Kent to accu mulate charges against him, in order to show that the case was no ordinary one. The prosecutor assured the Alderman that he should take particular care to state all the facts on the trial, and that he should indict the prisoner upon six different de falcations, in order to convince the Judge that an ex ample was necessary. The prisoner was committed for trial. IVORSILIP- STREET. John Atkins, a young fellow of daring aspect, was charged with having feloniously entered the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Barber, a widow, residing in Pearson street, Kingsland-road. It appeared that at eight o'clock on the preceding evening the father of the prosecutrix, an infirm old man, hail occasion to go into one of the bed-rooms, when he observed that the window was open, and apprehending that thieves were in the house, he called out for assist ance. The only other persons in the house were a young woman named Ellen Lee, and a little girl, the daughter of the prosecutrix, who hastened down stairs, and on reaching the chamber the girl Lee found the pri soner concealed:under the bed. With:the assistance of the old man, she endeavoured to secure the prisoner ; but he broke away from them, and was making to wards the door, when the young woman ran after him and seized hint by the collar. The prisoner made desperate efforts to release himself from her grasp, but she retained a firm hold of him, and she had become EVENING SUN DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, DEC. 28.—Ttie Antrinant Courant has the following article : " His Excellency the Governor-General having been authorised t o r enew th e o p era t ions o f th e Wes! India Bank, which have been suspended ever since 1831, in respect to the issuing of bills of exchange, according to directions laid down, the undersigned has been ho noured with the commission to announce this joyful news to the inhabitants of Surinam, through the public jour nals. If the difficulties in which our dear mother country has been involved for a series of years, are the cause of great obstacles, yet the interest. of -the inhabitants, and the great value of this fine colony, have never been lost sight of by the mother country ; and it is certainly a striking proof of this, that, though the financial embarrassments of the mother country still continue, the paternal care of leis Majesty has judged that a petition, founded on justice and equity, should no longer remain unheard. " This intelligence may justly be called important to us; his Excellency feeling the deepest ,nterest in the welfare of Surinam, cordially congratulates the inhabit ants, and hopes that the difficulties which h.sve been so long felt will never return, but that a happier. era now commences for this colony, which may ca cry to the highest degree its prosperity and welfare. " By order of his Excellency, the Commissi oilers of the Bank will meet on Monday, the Bth inst., for the purpose of receiving an I issuing bills of each aege at three months' sight, and regulate the delivery cif them with the Directors, according to the promised forms. " The Secretary to the Gayer( ,meat, " G. S. DE VIER." His Majesty being informed that a great man! workmen were out of employ, bas given orders that those who have numerous families shall be emplo 3 red oa the new cavalry barracks now building ; and, a fter New Year's Day several hundred may have em plot' meat in the Downs, behind his Majesty's country ga t ' Gorgoliet, where a field for the exercise of troops is to be laid down. The King has given 2,500 florins to the corn and turf porters of this town towards the expense of a fete which they intend to have on New Year's eve. SOURABAYA, AuG.6.—That fatal disease the cho lera morbus has appeared for some weeks past in several , small islands in the Indian Ocean, as Lingon, Birtmls &c., and o n board ships comi ng rom those islands to Java. This disorder is not contageous here, but more fatal than it was some years ago in Europe, for any one who is attacked by it in the Indian Archipelago gene rally died on the first or second day, so that ships in the Indian Ocean, which have on board passengers at tacked by cholera, seldom bring them alive to Java.---• Dutch Papers, Dec. 25. HAMBURGH, DEC. 25.—This being Christmas-daYO the Exchange is shut, and no business done ; and no Price Current is published. THE MARKETS, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. 1 Wheat. I I Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Peale. ------- ---- -----% Per Quarter. S. to c . s. to .. e. to s. a . t o s . s '.. 9 '" Boston 13raintree 52 70 27 34 i 93 29 3:1 38 35 40 : 6 6, ighton 63 74 31 40 23 27 37 45 3 6 Cambridge — 65 2t 9 -.. 22 34 —3 6 . L. Chichester 56 63 30 28 24 26 4 4 4 8 3!,' "„‘" Dunmow 5B t , 2 30 36 20 20 30 41 3S .'" Grantham - -- Grimsby 56 74 28 33 lb 21 36 40 --- , 4 " -. Hailsham 66 72 33 35 22 23 33 35 23 Hitchin 5O 73 27 35 20 30 34 45 ~,,,- Ipswich 6O 67 29 22 21 26 33 S i t 31 ;:i Lewes LO 70 32 36 21 22 34 38 33, As - - Lynn 56 66 26 34 al 26 40 46 3 4 Maidstone 59 76 36 39 26 32 38 40 '- •PQ Norwich - 40 A s Pciworth Rom ford 56 70 28 X. 21 :32 26 40 38_ 4 0s Sandwich 6l 71 23 34 '25 30 33 29 3 5 Al Tnetford 57 66 32 36 24 28 40 44 . 991 ' Wishech Witham 6l. 71 29 35 .24 31 31 42 : 35 'a (armouth 6O 74 30 32 24 :30 38 40 39 ' LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET—Dec. 28. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.... ----- R e d 9 6 JO „ 0 —.- Scotch,__ 8 6 Foreign Red Welch, and Manx --.. Irish, Whit. 7 8 c' - --- 7 0 9 0 ) 0 f! ---- OATS, Boglish, Welsh, and a Scotch, per 451 b 2 9 3 '" --...... Irish .. .. ••• 3 0 3 1 9 Foreign o ij .., , HARLEM, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 . 9 : ~. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. - ---- F eeding 3lO 4 . 42 0 48 U BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter .-- Irish, Sze 40 0 42 9 , --- Foreign 41 0 46 0 PEASE. English, per Imperial quarter 48 42 0 0 44 ?, -.--- Foreign 58 - FLoua, English, per 28015. 0 0 -- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs ,, 27 6 .f, 0 INDIAN COam, per 4801 b. ••••• ••• *sot Lasowe 3 s 0 4v 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter 6 ' MALT, per Imperial quarter ..... 48 0 LEEDS CORN ill ARKET. to all Wheat, Norfolk and Suflblk, 601 b. ........... ••,......• 6 59 . 56.. to --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. • ... 30S. to 30 ' Barley. Norfolk arid Sullblk 29.. to 3 4 °' 1 --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. ‘; ~.' 0 tos. Oats, I'otatoe —Mealing, }or. lid. tolid Shelling ...Eng. i 2 d. t . o y i t f e p r er St. l a e n al DEVIZES CORN MARKET. 4 9 . d . Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. • •,„, 0 First Wheat 35 6to 27 0 Oats— ...... ....... 2i. oto •,- Second 9 0 6 33 6 Beans (per sack)... 181 0 24 0 =WY ...---- ... tl 3 gi g Prztztigic;;;F: -7 - - v--- 5 1 _ .." CHELTENHA Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 3 0 3 9 Oats 3 0 3 9 Beaus cease 5 0 8 0 M MARKETS. 1 Per lb. d. to d., Beef 6 7 Mutton Veal Pork Lamb .............. 7 0 Hay 41.5s . to 41. 10s. Od. per ton. CANTERBURY MARKET. Wheat, white--. 610. to 7:5...... 01d—....... --s. to 76s red................ 545. to 675. ..... a a r ........., -8. to S. Barley, Matting ..... 30s. to 35s ~..... Grnd mg.. --s. to ..*. Oats .. 2ls. to 2C 5....... 01(4...—... --s. to ..s. Beans ---... 321 to 408. ..... Old.....••••••• •••••11• to S. Pease /WY WOW /••••••MOMPO 355. to . ......a . ••••••• Grey..... 4... 365. to ....S. CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White 57 to 68 Oats 22 to 59 Red 53 66 Pease, Gray .53 96 Parley Cheralier 34 3ss Beans, Tick .32 47 Grinding THE BLUE BELLES OP ENGLANDO--" What does Mrs. Trollope mean by calling her new novel • The Blue Belles of England,' " said a literary lady to a friend whom she met with at a conversazione the other night. " What say you ? Shall we cite her to appear before a court of Blues, and show cause why she has taken liber ties with our fraternity, and why she has drawn public attention on us as a body, by calling this new novel of hers The Blue Belles of England ?' "—"Nay , for my part," replied her lady friend, " I am delighted at M rs. Trollope 's spirit. Did you not kno w th a t she was form ing a new regiment of which she is to be the Lady - Colonel, and we are to have commissions under her ac cording to our merit ? Its title is The Blue Belles of England,' and it is expected that thus organised we sh all henceforth be a pet corps. You know that Mrs, Trol' lope well deserves to take the comman d, b e ing, as s" undoubtedly is, the greatest 'Bl ue B e ll e ' o f u s all." : w e DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and Invis ible Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an adv anc ed age, and of old standing extreme d ea f ness , t o j o i n in gen,e-pa conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant lose at a public assembly; they are the size of a very small gc"" seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, thoF are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable thaw having a small piece of fine wool in its place ' • they are composed of a metal to collect sound, pectfliar to the Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, themselves ; and although they are so extremely small yet they enable those afflicted with extreme deafness, and those who are only slightly dull of hearing to hear in every respect equal to those of most acute hearing. Me ssrs . S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albeinarle.street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William - street, City. Newly-Invent ed Spectacles, immediately they are placed before i m p er f e ct vision, either by day or candlelight, that mist and dullness which appears before the eyes is at once removed, every object beccrning clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective eye-sight be comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural and original state. Those valuable inventions have gained the patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of above 400 of the principal members of the medical profession, and numerous individuals of high distinction, who have been greatly benefited by their use. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 7fl, King William-street, City.—No connexion with persons of the same name. PATENT LEVER WATCHES.—This cele brated construction (the most accurate on which a watell ca n be made) is now offered at the following prices, with the lau improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in J ou . holes, hand to mark the seconds, and maint a i n i ng powet to co n. tinue going while winding up. SILVER CASES. With double-bottomed cases, capped £6 6 0 With hunting cases, capped 6 16 6 COLD CASES. Size for Ladies, with elegant gold diaL....£l2 12 0 Ditto, in double-backed cases.. 14 14 0 Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial l3 13 0 Ditto, extra full size, capped l7 17 0 A pamphlet, containing observations respecting the various constructions on which Watches are made, with the prices both in gold and silver cases, and a variety of sketches of new de signs, which have just been completed in gold Chains, will be sent, gratis and postage free, on application by letter to T. from Gracechurch-street. Cox Savory, Watchmaker , 4 7, Cornhill, L on d o n, seven doors B IRTHS. t h e la dy of On the 17 th inst. , at St. Tho mas ' s , S ou th war k, the R ev. y, of a d aug ht er . t heNi23Vdlli inst.,am De t e he w -F., wife of William Henry Cary, •— s q'' of Woodford, of a daught er . On the 29th in s t. , at Brighton, the lady of John B. Lou sada, Esq., of Oakfield Lodge, Sussex, of a son. E D. Colville, On the 30th inst ' , at Sydenham, the wife of E. jun., Esq., of a so ,. On the 30th inst Mfrs. W. F. Hodgson, Stoc kwell, of a son. ~ rs._._.______.._—s On MARRIED. n the 27th i nst., at Edinburgh, Edward Fenton, Est, youngest son o f t h e l ate James Fenton, Esq., of Loversall, in the county of York, to Georgiana, the only daughter of Colonel John C amac , o f Brettenham- par k, Suffolk, and of Woodville, Wicklow. DIED. At Islington, on the 27th inst., of consumption, Caroline Mary, eldest daughter of the late James Thicke, Esq. On the 22d inst., at his residence, No. 5, Brunswick-place , City-road, Mr. Andrew Ireland, aged 62, a respectable com mercial traveller, who for many years represented the firm of Messrs. B. Salomons and C o ., 42, Old Change, Cheapside. On the 15th inst., at Malta, Edward Jacob, Esq , Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and one of I:er Majesty's Counsel. On the 23d inst., at the Rectory, Everingham, Yorkshire , the Rev. W. Marsden, M.A., aged 32. On the 27th inst., at Westfield, Captain James Cheape, R.N. On the 27th inst., in Langharn-place, the Right Hon. Frances Baroness Ongley. • • .1. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, .of No. 112, Strand, at The Suit Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Comity of Middlesex, Friday, December 31, 1841. ~ F L