The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (SATLIROA I : TIMES.—A great number of the Kiagston merchants have, it appears by the Jamaica Papers, memorialized the H use of Assembly against an increase of the duty of 1 p r coat. on British manufactured goods, which some have recommended to Ire augmented two, three, and even four fold, as an additional resource to the revenue, and that even at the suggestie:a of some of the merchants who con sider the 1 per cent duty tua stall to allow them to make any proportionate - increase in the sale of their articles, whereas an addition of 2 or 3 per cent. would allow them to traasfer the weight of the tax to the corruturner. The memorializing merchants, who ap pear to rtpresent the general Icehog of the commer cial community mote than those who desire the in crease, ohioct to it im the grounds that such inertias:, would rtq..ire an entire change in the handing system ; that it would create a difficulty in repacking and ship ping from the warehouse for forelgn tralde ; that separate ster.N would be t.teesary to deposit English apart from foreign ; Glint foreign trade would be its ti.e class of persons who support it are keen-touted to have <twire control over their goods, and bale them up in a particular manner; that the alteratons would cause an increased establishment and t xpenditure ; and that the Cus toms has e invariably refused to allow portions of a packet to be taken out of the bonded warehouses. 'I he propriety of ivcrea-ong the import arid expert xos generally has been suggested by scow of the Nl:atrars of Assemble, • who, observing what a truitlui source of r evenue th e y are. the import duties of last year :amounting to 74.6901., and the exports to 37,0411., haVe wislotti they might, if p"' - sible. he doubled; while oa the o:i,er is argued ghat the great prosperity of this brand: of revenue renders at it more hazardous to ivicriere with h i: is not surprising that 9 oust porcons, free trade sea a principle, are tti.Eng to ripply it to its mil extent to the ankle of rmaiev, and while contemaing r,galnst all legit! re s tri c ti on i n the rate ~f tntercB7, r egard test present rrvalificatain of the laws aff".-eting Bills vf laxFliange as a wholesome state of thing:. and do net at: sufficient imparaat t , e t o the evils which are - part.scularly felt by the . smaller v oo k smen , an d which arise dat:t before the eyes o f thus who are acquainted with to wants of that class. These defenc:eis of the present laws advance as an ar gument the great sac, hices that used to be made during a pressure for money, by selling goods at inadequate price, and its some cases the fictitious sales by which an enormous interest was virtually paid, sebile at the same tine u.uary laws were evaded. Many such sacrifice?, especially .that of the late importalion of tallo.v, would, it is said, have 'been made now did no the abolition of te.strictions on usury enable the parties bolding, the goods to obtain money at the rine of about 7 per cent. To a princplo that con fers such great Item figs, it is said that the inconveniences attendiog a few trifimg transatoicns should nut be opposed. To this it may be answered that it is these very trifling tratisretions that grind down the humbler traders, and I which, it all appearances be true, threaten many of them avb.h destruction. It is nut the persons who require exten sive loans. and those from the great discounting houses, .that arc the sufferers under the preterit systeM; on the I contrary, they appear to benefit by it. The quutatiors from time to time of the rate of money, varying accord ing to the state of the mosey. market, will show that wits these it is merely a question whether they pay 1 or 2 per cent., more or less, than they would have paid under the old usury laws. The borrowers of 50/. or 100/ , sums too trifling to be regulated by the general state of the money-market, but not at all trifling if we regard the interests of a most useful pert of the community, such es small tradesmen, and young igen tout to yet up in b isi n.sv—taese are the suffati! fs, being spoud to the rapacity of the worst o,,iur of mootry-lenders, who make no scruplc of asking 30 au h 0 irer cent., regulating. their dem,nd by ;to other stamlgt,l than their ow,. covetou-ness and the pressing wants of tie uorrower, who is more or less dam aged by every attempt to extend applications to other quarters. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM Tin MOliNi NG l'Ael!Kii OF THIS DAY. (From the lollt,it Chro,ride.) We ineert s letter teem Mr. Bo?too, communicating adtlitlo tel information with respect to the Walsall elec tion, en I we insert els - ) a letter from a leading member .of Aoti-Corn-law Losgua, in vindication of the cote se adopted by that body. With all submission to this member of the Anti-Corn-law League, he knows very little of the real state of things io Eagland. The adsocate of the Corn-laws, he says, is as olonexioue boroughs as their opponent is is counties. Were that the case, the goestion would coon be settled. But dough this may be true of the great manufacturing ba rouebs, these constitute but an inconsiderable portion of the whole. The greater number of boroughs are venal, or subject to influences of the very worst dcscrip nier. It Walsall can be carried by an Anti-Corn-law hiandidate, well and good. In our article on Satur day wc sated our opinion on this eu'ejeet with suffi 6eut distinctness. We merely ohlected to the put ting forward a candidate pledged to absolute repeal of the Corn-laws, when such pledee would give the , victory to a Tory. We will not say more on this sub ject at present, because we are extremely anxious that Mr. J. B. Smith, the prosideut of the Chernber of :Com - tier( eof Manchester, who has offered himself as a ,paralidate, should carry the borough. Provided the stytk be obtaieed by a Liberal, the more decided his oppeun:ion to the Core-laws, the mare wdl he he to our taste. Nothing would give set greater plcature than to ficd ourselves in error in the estitantc we were led to form of the coestituescy cf Walsall. There can be no a l oes:ion As to the iltness of Mr. Smith to represent `Woleall. As the president of the Chamber of Com =tree of Manchester, and head of the Anti-Corn-law League, he appears before the Walsad constituency talf!) these proofs of the respect in which he is held by his own fellow-citizens, and having retired irons business in possession of a competent fortune, ho can aff,rd to devote himself to the affairs of the nation. He has pledged himself to go to the poll, and It's fellow-labourers having compelled Mr. Lyttelton to withdraw, Mr. Smith is bound in honour to tight the good fight, and to hold out to the last. We re t . oat, that though we repudiate the principle on theCorn 7 law Lupe has determined to act, with out reg..rd to circumstances, w e are no t t h e l ess anx i ous that ireevecoplace where a decided adeocateof a repeal of the Corn-lawscan be returned, the attempt to obtain from candidatan explicit pledge on this soleject should be mkie. What we insist on is this, that wherever the standing out for such a pledge shall ''nave the effect of gisinganocess to the Tories, and thereby defeating the I very object tor the sake of w hich the pledge s sought, it should not 'e exacted. We intreat alt Liberals, of . r.'hattiver grade, to support Mr. Smith in order to rxelucle M. Gladstone. We will not believe the battle lost ee tolo a chance remains. the Liberal eleetors who 'meta have returned Mr. Lvatnton e ;Is yet return Mr. Satith, if all differences of opinion be merged in the. object which ail ought to 113);e lliart—the exclusion 01 a Tor:. This is nut tltr.o to give expression to eloun'ie. Mr. Smith meet aware that extraordinary atTarts eve requited to balance tlia advemago which a leo tnigl t's canvass has 4ge.rn to Mr. Gladstone, and the defection teem prorelses glen to Me. Lyt!elton, which h:es reiremen': has releas, d. Let him ere, if he can, t o route an Anti-Corn-law eothesiesto. There is every motis,-i for a display of clergy. The Anti-Corn law Ln ,, glie is on trial as SV,II as Mr. Sre . tit. If he succeed to his arduous underteiciej, the AntieCure-law League rise in influence, for the world is much guided by eYcets. But, on the other hand, should a Tory be re turned, no small degree of blame will be attached to the League, which will have to hear the reproach of ih . iuring *a Liberal cause without advencirg the cause fur which the League was entered into. (From the Times.) _ . _ W” adverted a few days batik to the apathy induced on the public mind by the want of moi:ver propounded by , the poi tical leaders for the putting torth any exertion in hehall of either of the two great parties. The ob servation may as justly be applied to the one side as to the other. When we insist, as we frequently find oc casion to do, on the inhumaniti.::s of the New Poor.lAw, the faaotitite retort of tic Ministerial prints is," which o f all your Conservative leaders can you induce to pro • r oprzal of that law The taunt is a natural and nut unfair one : but these gentlemen are open precisely to the seine kind of interrogatory themselves. We can never dil a te 015 any of the misertes or oppresaions of the poor wi t h ou t being i n stantly to:d titat the beginn i ng and "ding of all the suffoririqs of the peer in England are found in the accursed Corn-law." Never can a week pass over vvi•thout two or three d,elarations (' • 1 . 164 kind f ro m the Ministerial rinr nin g and even rig papers. With j us t the saint: and pro- PluetY'the ran we demand of them, " which of all your vaunted Reform Ministers will t'eu ge-t to propose .au abolition of the Corn-l a is wit the (kola ration of your Premiert b u c k record,' that the man who could think must be positively mad ?" 'rue wishes, then, a tLing the respective parties out of doors are not res I t ' ; ,- e t1 . 0 , t f , 1, .(1 , to with frankness and ,warmth by the leaders o f side in Parliament. So much may be admitte(l t . And as keontrovertible on the one it is quite as true tither. That a consciousness of ibis ; Id ? as on the • damping and retarding force amon g the acts as a cert e a. partisans on either side among the people is quite , n; and this is to he lamented, in,srnueli as the part . .most by public apathy must be the partyYinwzill'-'h gains Nevertheless, we a-c not astonished at 11i ° s "essi '' 71. unwis e And undesirable cautio n, however we may b e \: and anrin)ed by it. Some of its causes are sufficta i s ' n x tl "i y o b v i o us ; and at others we can venture on a reset_ a bl e surmise. Yet - w e would ever tr y to lesse n this unpatriotic feeling, although it may be impossible en. tirzly to destroy it. Chiefly we should rejoice to see some of the more free and commanding spirits among the Conservative party begin to thipw off their con fotraint with reference to the New oor-law, confess that the "experiment" has lasted long enough, and that the time has come for some very important modifica tion, if not for a total repeal. The chief of all the evils wrought by the New Poor-law is the massing together Jorge districts and bodies of people, in place of the pa rochial subdivision which had obtained for nearly three centuries before. The imaginary benefits of these new " Boards of Guardians" have proved delusive, but the evils resulting from them arc weighty, serious , and in creasing. The very first principle of a u c rganization is subdivision. Let every one and in safe au thority" have just so many under him "put as he can satioually oversee, and the chief objects of civil society may be answered. But as soon as " masses' I begin to be formed, injustice and mismanagement • immediately ensue, and all that is dangerous to the peace of the community rapidly grows and in creases. An old English parish would contain from 1,000 to 2.000 people. A parson, over these, to su perintend their spiritual wants ; a churchwarden, to see to the external affairs of the church and parish ; and two overseers, to visit, become acquainted with, and properly relieve, the wants of the distressed poor, com pleted the official staff of the parish, and left nothing In this respect to be desired. But what have we now substituted? A dozen or a score of such parishes are heaped together. A " Board of Guardians" is c hosen ; in whose proceedings discrimination becomes almost im possible, and the exercise of the kindly affections quite out of the question. All is now burdensome and un feeling. The poor are relieved in crowds, instead of one by one. The guardians arc wearied and rendered ealious and indifferent by the pressure of their duties. To attempt to argue on the side of the deservin g or the mi sera bl e is useless—" No preference can be "shown." All is hasty, dreary, and unfeeling. Various, ton, are the different kinds of injustice perpetrated by this system. A parish of moderate wealth and liberal dealings towards its poor is thrown "into union" with ethers whose conduct towards their paupers has been close and penurious. The record of the past is kept to decide on the payments, for the future, to the ganeral expenditure. Meanwhile, however, all kindness and liberality to the paupers is at an end ; the parish pays for the future according to its liberality for the past; but its poor fare no better then others. The ratepayers pay for beef and potatoes, but the paupers only get the customary lase of water e gruel and pork broth But thcre is no end to these absurdities and freuds. And shall we any longer be taunted by the " Liberals" with the assumed fact, that no Conservative of any name in Parliament will demand a reconsideration of this odious Act ? We do not think that this backwardness can endure much longer. Greatly shall we be disap pointed if this very neat session do not produce some movement of a hope-inspiring kind, and that from amidst the very elite of the constitutional array. (From the Morning Advertiser.) As usual, previously to the meeting of Parliament, there are rumours and expectations of all kinds respect ing measures to be introduced—the succ,ss of those measures—and whole or partial cL.nges in the Adminis trati, n which may take place• The Reform press has, e believe, done little or nothing in this way, upon the coanneacement of the present year, beyond either stand ing upo❑ the defensive, or pointing out the men and measures whom it is determined to support ; but far other wise is the case with the Tory press, which, for the fifth or sixth time since the overthrow of the first Melbourne Administration, has been annually prophesying that the d tys of its renewed power are numbered, and that a Reform Government must necessarily give way to one purely Conscrestive, cud that, too, in the course of the present Session of Parliament. The Times would fain flatter its Conservative readers with the indulgence of such hopes ; but a twinge of conscience seems to come across it in the very act of perpetrating the soft blan dishment, and after a flourish of trumpets, such as may be supposed to have preceded the King of France-- .‘‘ 'Who went up the hill with 20,000 men, And then came down again," it seems to give up the battle as lost for the present, at least, if not for a great length of time. After having, in its Saturday's and other numbers of its journal, abused the Melbourne Cabinet to the tip-top of its voiee---after having declared that the Ministry cannot reckon with certainty upon even a majority of twelve votes upon any question vital to its existence—after having insinuated its doubts of the adherence of the Liberals to the Reform cause, upon the ground that one section is inclined to vote upon particular questions in one way, and one in another—noticing the repeal of the Union, and the anxiety of a foolish portion of Radicals to let the Tories in, in order that they may drive Ahem out again, with a few other things of the same kind equally threatening to the cause of progressive Reform, an invocatory of the tri umph of Conservatism—what do our readers think is the conclusion of the writer in the Times I' Why, that notwithstanding the alleged mutiny in the crew of the good ship " Re/ore—notwithstanding the desertions which are expected to take place—the shoals and the quicksends which she must encounter in traversing the ocean of political strife—the headlands, the reefs, and the breakers which she has to weather, there will after all be no shipwreck ;---the vessel will get into port; and clear every storm and danger by which she may be assailed. " They are reckless adventurers, these Whigs (says it) and offer lavish bounties to recruit their numbers ; but nobody enlists with them, and their old muster roll has no margin for casualties. If they are saved—and we will not positively pronounce that they will be wrecked—they ought to build a temple to Fortune, or rather Luck, and send public principle to a treadmill or an union workhouse.' Most lame and truculent conclusion ! Reckless " adven turers," and yet cannot be beaten ! Verily, this is a bard case. 'They must have come mettle in them to get over all their alleged difficulties, and not be ship wrecked, as the Tories were a few years ago upon the third onslaught of the Liberals. " Buccaniers" they may be, as some of the Tory journals denominate them ; but their courage is evidently of that in domitable cast which even their opponents must re spect. The Post, in a strain becoming the exalted position of a Lady's Maid, is more flippant, as well as more rancorous and more certain that her supporters are perfectly right, and that any one questioning her supreme gentility, or her certainty of conquest, must be out of their senses ; but, poor girl, she forgets that the rose has faded, and that artificial blushes must paint its leaves and petals. With regud to the Standard, we scarcely know how to characterise its misty ingredients of action. Its con tents look very like the play of " She would and she would nor—enacted since the days of Adam and Eve ; —and, on the other hand, its warfare reminds us strongly of the attack apon Acre by Commodore Napier, who buried his opponents in so dense a smoke by his inces sant fire, that having taken a false aim at first, they never could take a tree one afterwards. It does not like Lord Olenborough and his policy—it hates him us a Prime Minister in posse—it denounces others in the same vein—it does not like Wbiggism—and yet after all it says that the present Government is the best I We might proceed farther thus, but it is needless. No change of Ministry is contemplated. The most can ' seine Tories do not dream of it. The external policy of tie Government is approved by every Conservative in the country ; and, with regard to domestic concerns, there is no fair question which the Opposition could propose, except a revision of the Corn laws, which they will neither propose nor accede to. So mach for a change of Ministry! At the same time we warn the Reformers j that no remissness nor disunion characterises their Con servative adversaries. They hive not the work of pre paration to begin—it is, on the contrary, all but coin- P !etc] as the former will find to their cost whenever the campaign shell 'nave fairly commenced, unless they bestir tliereselves without a moment's longer delay. Are the Liberals aware of the importance of stake which has tc be played for? Are they alive to the fact that the s f r uegle will not now be as it was a few years ago, for a temporary, siy a few months', occupation of office? Te en there was no chance of the Tories retaining power, even had they succeeded in capturing Downing-street.Thecase i s a !tered now. If they succeed, as they did in 1835, in displacing the ;Melbourne Ministry, and only contrive to retain cffice for tiiree or four months, their tenure of it may be prolonged to an indefinite period. Let no Liberal deceive himself by imagining, that because we heir less at present than we were wont to do at this season of-the year of Tory dinners and Tory demonstra tions, the Tories are indifferent or inactive; on the con tsary, the very fact of our hearing of no such dinners, and witnessing no such demonstrations, is one of the most ominous indications of what we may expect froze Tory opposition to Ministers and Liberalism in the coming Session. The more silently they are working, the more formidable will be the character of their pre parations for the conflict. They are working silently and invisibly now, because they have discovered the error of their former policy in making a flourish of trum pets before they were fully equipped for the battle, and by that means stirring up the Liberals to prepare to meet them. We are aware that they can and will be beaten—but as "the quarter of an hour beforehand" was the means, according to his statement of gaining all his battles, so we say to the Liberals be up and ready for the contest. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On occasion of the funeral of General Lamarque, when the streets of Palk were strewed with dead and wounded to the amount of hun dreds, and 1,500 criminals were consigned to its gaols, a singular occurrence took place. Tire detail of the ar rangements made to meet this anticipated movement, and to bei,l its co,sequences, and even the sanguinary and re sr,dtu;g particulars of the terrible march itself, woul have liqic interest for our readers, fresh as its melancholy d inci dent, mu st be in their recollection. But it is a curious eireurn,tancc, not, we think, generally known, that among Ow c,i!d schemes of that t...uilty day, one had been form d to throw the illustrious Lafayette into Cie river, as the pre eiesina p,,s3ed the Pont d'Austerliis a, nd fur in the purpose e of a s t ttibutii;g his murder t 3 the police, flaming pa. .ion s of the multitude up to the point which would have insu , ‘,l the sackingol Paris. Such are the fearful stakes twiginti::::oft.l),;hpeoclitical gamblers of France have pla3cd of .ate years, ' tocarried him c accid j ent of eu eral appears to have owed his escape the meta ti f t i e plot , . having forced im another party of the insurgents I tended executio h• into a 6-acre, and lic, at the of the terrible provocation , very the Hotel de Ville, to proclaim a momentrepub and from the very scene of its in ; occasion receivedi) It is an honourable fact, that, in spite 1 worth recalling whole of the 'l:cation, the blood which flowed on this 0 accession from the scaffold --a fact i duricsr the here, because in the same spirit which, rema.kable degree, temperedpresent the ad m i n i s tration of a new stay justice —Athenceum. VIENNA, DEC. 20.-1 hear that the Emperor has been pleased to grant to the Protestant students of Hungary and Transylvania, permission again to frequent the University of Gottingen, which has been withheld for many years. EVI4INING 1471)1TION. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4. 1811. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — ' India Stock ••• • 3 per Cent. Red 894 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities — % per Cent Red........ 97i Ditto New Annuities... - New 3i per Cent .. ... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 7pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto.— . Brazilian Bonds .. .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ... 113 Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2 .4 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent..... French, 5 per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. Mexkan, 5 per cent.... 29 French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1823. Dutch, 2i per Bent 5O Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. - - Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 75 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. 37 11 Eastern Counties Railway Dabs. (2 paid) 5i Great North of England Railway ...... .. sli Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... ... 624 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ... 111 Gosport Junction Railway (35 pd) Hull and Selby (50 paid) 433 London and Brighton Railway (50 paid)... 441 London and Blackwail Railway (22k pd) 16,, LondOn and. Greenwich Railway ;(20 paid) 8} London and South Western Railway ......... 576 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2i Manchester and Leeds Railway (70 paid) Ditto New Shares (25 paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) Bl Ditto New Shares (40 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 69 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) We have seen a'gentlecnan who has arrived from the scene of election excitement at Walsall, where he has been actively engaged concerning the election through out the past week, and we are happy to have his assurance that there is a most reason stile prospect of defeating Mr. Gladstone under all the disadvan tages of the recent change of candidates, &c. It is represented to us that a section of the more moderate portion of the Liberal electors demur against rallying round Mr. Smith, in consequence of the proceeding of the Anti• Corn-law League towards Mr. Lyttelton. Whatever opinions may be held regarding the pro ceeding referred to, now that Mr. Lyttelton is out of the field, it would be madness in any Reformer to suffer his personal displeasure with the League to promote the election of Mr. Gladstone. We are told that Mr. Smith commands support which had been denied to Mr. Lyttelton. If this be true, the particular friends of the latter gentleman, have only to add their support also to obtain for the present Liberal candidate a greater amount of aid against Gladstone than they could have brought against him under their original candidate. The election is too important to be frittered away by differences concerning the past. Let by-goner be by gones, we would say to our hiends, and unite heart and soul to prevent the return of another vote for Lord Stanley's Disfranchisement Bill. Although we may not fully coincide with Mr. Smith's opinions upon all points, we are well convinced that he is upon the whole a good Reformer, and one who, from his station, talents, and pursuits, is well suited to the representation of a manufacturing borough like Walsall. (From the Standard.) Who are the Members of the Conservative demo cracy ? Orangemen ? Doubtless, for they are men of tried faith, loyalty, and patriotism. Persons who at tend Exeter Hall meetings? Doubtless, again, for they are generally zealous Christians ; but the Conservative democracy comprehends more than these—it compre hends all who value the blessings of the British consti tution in Church and State, and who will defend these blessings and transmit them unimpaired to pos terity. All who will maintain existing institu tions as necessary to the constitution in Church and Sate, who will maintain existing interests as neces sary to justice. These are the Conservative de mocracy, and we will tell the Globe where to find them. It might be too much to ask a Whig-Radical to attend Conservative meetings, still harder to invite him to our crowded churches ; but no objection can be offered to an invitation to the hustings. A majority of the repre sentatives of Great Britain are Conservatives, Conser vatives returned by reformed constituencies. By whom are they returned ? By the Conservative democracy, and by the Conservative democracy alone acting upon its own independent principles. At elections we now hear nothing from Conservative candi dates of this party or the other party, of this statesman or the other statesman. No, we hear professions of attachment to the constitution in Church and State, of promises to maintain all men in their rights ; and in proportion as these professions and promises are strong, unequivocal, and held to be trust worthy, is the success of the candidate. True, profes sions and promises made at the hustings have not been always respected in the House of Commons, but•. the fault here lies with the traitor, not with the be trayed, unless we bestow confidence a second time upon the unworthy. The next general election, how ever, we suspect, will acquit the Conservative democrat; of such trafficking with treason. (From the Courier.) The Walsall election is a cup of bitterness overflow ing for the Chronicle. Its friends of the Anti-Core law League, worked up to desperation by Chronicle Anti- Corn-law articles, and excited by Chronicle applause of the lucky hit, entered into a solemn covenant some time since, to run their own particular cattle for every bo rough in the event of a general election, or where a casual vacancy should occur, unless the windy coursers who should chance to start in the Whig interest would enter into pledges, too stringent for backsliding, to go in Anti-Corn-law harness, and with despera tion so reckless, as, in case of Whig recusancy, to help to upset the Ministerial omnibus. The va cancy for Walsall is, we believe, the first open field presented to the leaguers for the trial of the covenant, and the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton having announced himself a candidate on the Whig, with Mr. J. N. Gladstone on the Conservative side, a trio of Anti-Corn-law trampers was dispatched from Manchester to catechise both, and to save thea good people of the borough the trouble of thinking and deciding for themselves b) taking the nomination into their own bands exclu sively. Tho test was first put to the juvenile represen tative of Whiggery, who, with something of a disposi tion to stretch a point, could strain conscience no fur ther than a promise to " vote for an inquiry into the Corn-laws," a promise, of course, not at al, to the satisfaction of your " go the whole hog" men, who would hang first and try the case after. So Mr Lyttelton got his discharge, and made his exit with much more despatch than his entrance. Upon which the Chronicle waxed as furious and frothy with the League as if itself non cognizant and non-approver of the covenant beforehand; its logic in of being, as seen now when put to the proof, that the Corn-law ques tion—that question of questions—that question of life and death in its eternal verbiage of Anti Corn-law discussions hitherto—is, in fact, a very secondary ques tion in comparison with the existence of Whiggery, and of the Whig patronage resulting of which it is so large a recipient ; a question not to be dreamt of carr)- jeg except through the portals of Downing -street. A report prevails in military circles that Lord Hill is about to retire from the Horse Guards, and that the post of Commander-in• Chid will be put in commis. sion. We have not been able to obtain iniormation which to justify our confirming or contradicting the rumour. Recent circumstances, which have become matters of public notoriety, and for which Lord Hill has been severely cenmred, have been mentioned as grounds of the report.—Glebe. CANTERBURY ELECTION.— We understand 1-1. P. Gipps, E•q., has withdrawn as a candidate for the representation of this city, and that the Hon. Mr. Smythe, son of Lord Strangford, intends to come forward.--Cart. tcrbury Journal _ _ The Hon. E. J. Stanley, Secretary to the Trea sury, is expected to arrive in towel to-mot row, to resume his official duties. REPAIRS OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—For some months past extensive repairs have b; en in progress, both in the circular nave and the choir of this remarkable structure. The admirers of ancient architecture will hear with satisfaction, that not only the substantial reparation, but the decorative portion of the edifice is to be restored with true antiquarian feeling. To give an idea of the proposed restorations, it may be sufficient to observe that the arches of communication between the round church and the choir have been opened, the effect of which is very striking. In the former portion of the building. a circu lar wiwlow over the western door-way has been uncove►ed, Well is found to be occupied by wlienl-formed tracery, in design greatly resembling that at Parfreston, Kent, and helping to fix the date of that curious structure. The marble columns of the church are to be polished, after the removal f the gueeessive washes which have for many years so greatly injured their appearance. The ancient level of the floor is to he restored, and the choir entirely fitted up, to correspond with the architecture and age of the edifice. The organ will be placed in a separate cham ber built outside the main building, and communicating with the interior by one of the windows of the church, from which the glass has been removed.—Gentleman's Magazine. PRUDENCE OF A DEBAUCHEE.---Charles never permitted the revels of the night to be referred to on the following morning. By this means he in some de gree prevented the over -familiarity of his less eligible as sociates, and put a stop to expectations that he might have held out in the hilarity of the moment, and the over-ful ness of his heart. Aruorg his boon companions, also, he seems to have been more on his guard than might have been expected. To one who impot tuned him for a favour in one of his jovial moments, " You had better," he said, " ask Me piny to•morrow," LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT. STANLEY V. ZIEUKIEWICZ. In this case Mr. MILLER appeared as Counsel for the plaintiff, a printer, residiing in Craven-buidings, Strand ; and Mr. Innis, an attorney, attended on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Zieukiewicz, the defendant, who is a Roman Catholic clergyman and a Polish refugee. This action was brought to recover the sum of 191. odd, for printing several numbers of a work called, " The His tory of Poland," and the defendant had paid 2/. is. into Court, and pleaded payment as to the remainder. Mr. MILLER stated that the defendant had employed the plaintiff to print a " History of Poland" in weekly numbers, at threepence each, or in monthly shilling parts. Ile proposed bringing out the work in shares. The printing of the numbers, it was agreed, should be done for 21 15s. per week, an 4 the plaintiff was to take two shares of 11. each in the work. After the publication, however, of the first monthly ptrt, the plaintiff found that be could not go on upon these terms, arid it was then arranged between him and Dc. Zieukiewicz, that ha should be pai,i in full fer the futurt , printing, although Isis name should continue assn,; the list of shareholders. 'lhe plaintiff likewise piin:cd some fancy wrappers for the defendant, and had ma to some considerable corrections in the History at the doctor's re quest, which items amounted in the whole to the sum azimed. A compositor, named 8411, in the plaintiff's employ, proved the work done, and said that he heard the defend:Alit omise, on his " cooscionee," to pay the plaintiff s de mand in as short a time a s possible. Dr. Zieukie %icz complained of not being able to get in the money for the first part of the History of Poland until the second part was in the hands of the booksellers. Other witnesses proved admissions of the defendant of his liability. ►Mr. Innis put in the receipts, identified by Ball, which acknowledged cash payments to the amount of 01 195., shares 131. 125., and 10s. for advertisements, which he contended more than covered the plaintiff's demand. The doctor, however, valued his reputation more than► his life and as ho was excessively tenacious of his character, Le ( Mr. Innis) had paid 21 Is. into Court, in the hope that it would put an end to the litigation, although the plaintiff was not entitled to a farthing. He should prove that the defendant received a stipend of only 261. per year from the Polish Association, and that he had been induced by the solicitations of several friends and the plaintiff to write a History of Poland, the expenses being undertaken to be paid by those nho advised him to commence the work. Mr. Innis also submitted that the plaintiff, as one of thc. partners in the work, could not sue his co-partner, the defendant. The UNDER. SHERIFF said that the defendant had given no evidence of a partnership having existed. Mr. MILLER then made some severe strictures upon the "conscience" of a Roman Catholic priest, as illustrated by the defendant's non-performance of his promise ; and said that the income of Dr. Zicukiewics had been misrepre sented, as, in addition to his allowance as a Polish refugee, he could obtain a considerable sum for discharging the re ligious duties of a Roman Catholic priest. The UNDER SHERIFF havinc , summed up, the Jury, with out hesitation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 151 17s. Mr. Clarkson—We are ready to go fully into the case at this moment, with the exception of which I have alreidy spoken. Is it the wish that we should do so? Sir PETER LAURIE.—There is no occasion at all. I shall remand upon my own responsibility, if I am sa tissed on the points of which you have spoken. Mr. C. Phillips-9 min who is supposed to have witnessed the loss of the Dryad, is supposed to be on board the Rodney, up the Mediteranean. Is that suf ti,ient to justify a remand for such a length of time, and a refusal to take bail. Mr. Bodkin—We have communicated with his fa• to 'v, and we know from his wife that he is on board iii Itldney. We have searched the ship's books and we find her account is correct, and we have the mate of the Dryad here, who will prove that the man was on board that vessel. Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Humphrey, wished to have fly! depositions which had already been taken, in order to apply upon them to the judge for the purpose of bailing the prisoners. Clarksin s rid it was understood when the charge ea; first made that the witnesses should be required to state no more than was considered necessary to justify p,,,tp o ne t nents until the whole of the evidence should ready. Mr. nobler, probably had entered M his boA no more than a mere outline of what bad beer, stated in conformity with that understanding. Mr. nobler said, that what had already taken place had been stated in a rapid and infbrmal manner, but he bad, he }relieved, taken down the leading features. Sir PETER LAURIE—Dees the mate, who has al ready given evidence, know that the seaman was on board the Dryad ? - Mr. Carkson—We were just going to call him to give_eviilen2 e to that effect. Here it3wianti Maxwell, the mate of the Dryad, was and upon being shown the name of the seaman ir. the Admiralty letter stated that that seaman was on board the Dryad with him, and he believed subsequently. Mr. Clarkson said that the prosecutors had used all necessary diligence and activity to obtain witnesses, as the solicitors could prove. Mr. Phillips (the solicitor) stated that in addition to what had already beets stated, placards had been exten sively i ss ued in the seaport towns, offering a reward of 101. to any seaman who would come forward to give evidence that he was on board the Dryad when she was lost. Mr. Kelly, a person employed for the prosecution, stAted that he had traced out the relatives of the boy who was stated to have been on board the Dryad when she was lost, and was at present in communication with the boy's father, who was assisting him in the search. It had been ascertained that fre boy had been seen in Liverpool a fortnight or three weeks ago. Sir P. LAURIE said he knew well how difficult it was to get hold of witnesses so liable to be scattered about the world. Mr. C. Phillips—The prosecutors cannot surely find any difficulty in procuring witnesses when they could fix upon the sisters of th e prisoners themselves. Mr. Kelly (the witness) said that a seaman who had been on board the Dryad when she was last was also expected in about five weeks. Mr. Bodkin said it might be necessary to apply to hive the prisoners remanded still further. They must ri main in prison until the arrival of the necessary wit nesses. In a MC of felony if it were proved that u iiocessary witness were in Russia, it must be remanded until the witnesi should have time to return, after due Mr. Clarkson declared that the case against the prisoners was a great deal stronger than it was supposed to ba from the evidence and statements already pro duced. It we have the evidence required before the time appointed thr the final examination we shall give notice to the solicitor for the prisoners. Mr. C. Phillips—Very well. In the meantime we shall apply to a Judge to take bail, Sir PETER LAURIE.—I hope you will, a Judge may do what I do not consider myself at liberty to do. IX pend upon it that I shall not consent to take bail in such a case. I\lr. Phillips—What is the reason the prosecutors have taken their own principal witness, the mate, into custody ? Will they tell us why:they have done that ? I understand that they actually apprehended him'after hi examination was taken here. Mr. Clarkson—lf it is considered by you necessary to go into the whole of the case, I repeat to you that lam ready. We happen to know who called upon the mate, and for what purpose, and what they said. Sir PETE,R LAURIE—Can you prove that none of the goods which were insured at the offices of the prosecu• tors were on board the Dryad ? Mr. Clinklon—Certainly. Mr. Kelly can prove that. Mr. Kelly stated that he was formerly clerk to I\l esers. Zalieta and Co., who chartered the Dryad from Liverpool to St. Jago de Cuba. He produced the outvoice of all the goods on board the Dryad. That vessel was only two-thirds full, and there were no goods on hoard except those specified in the outvoice. The statements made by the Mate, the Captain of the Bencoolen, and the witnesses who insured for the pri soners upon goods supposed to have been on bo...rd the Dryad, were then read over and signed by the several individuals brought forward for the prosecution, and the prisoners were remanded until the eommeneement of February. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES.—A man of rather dashing appearance, named Richard Moore, was brought up by Daniel and William Forrester, the officers, charged with having uttered several notes purporting to be the issues of country banks.—Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that the case was one of an extraordinary description. The prisoner had gone into a gambling-house in Leicester-square, and with a num ber of notes, purporting to be the notes of the Man chester and other country banks, played and lost a considerable sum, which he paid in those notes. Next day the man of the house, to whom the notes were lost, came with hiS servant into the City, and at the same time that he sent his man to one banking-house, at which sonic of the notes were payable, he went himself to Barclay's, and got cash for a 101. Manchester note, which was soon afterwards found to be a forgery. The Forresters were then employed, and the owner of the gambling-house was taken into custody, and in conse quence of the information and description given by that person, the prisoner Moore was apprehended. Moore, upon being taken, said he had been ruined by gambling-houses, and be determined to do all he could to recover his property by playing with fictitious notes. The prisoner was remanded. • INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. On Saturday John Reid was opposed by Mr. Cooke on the part of a person named %Vinson, and supported by Mr. Woodrooffe. There were some curious features in this case. The insolvent, a Scotehman, had been a journeyman baker, and afterward became a manufacturer of " paper bags," for bakers and others. He issued cards as a general printer, and his description in the schedule was not in accordance with the card he had printed. Tue op posing creditor was a printer, and had been in partner ship with the insolvent, wham he sued for a sum which the insolvent declared he did not owe. A verdict was obtained, and the insolvent had been three months in prison ; he owed besides but a few pounds. A long investigation took place respecting some money received by the insolvent alter the death of his mother, and some money which was placed in a savings bank. The principal witness called was a printer named Seaman, who had worked with the insolvent. He de clared that the insolvent had told him he would never pay the claim, and meant to take the " benefit." H 2 told witness that it was an easy matter to pass throw: i the Insolvent Debtor's Court, and that he came too far north not to be able to throw dust in your eyes. Mr. Cooke—What did he say ? Witness—He said he came too far north not to be able to throw dust in the eyes of the Commissioners, whom he called "old Uc ffers."—( Loud laughter.) Mr. Cooke said it was a vulgar phrase. Mr. Cooke relinquished his complaint as for a vexatious defence, and confined his inquiries respecting property. The insolvent, in his evidence, contradicted the evi dence given by Sea Man, whom he had assisted. The Court eventually held that the description was bad, and remanded the insolvent to amend the seine, and to re-advitise it. He was sent to prison for about another month. POLICE INTELLIGENC E. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wallace, Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace, and James Slat, who have been charged with extensive frauds upon Insu rance Companies, and with having been parties to the destruction of the ship Dryad, for the purpose of effect ing those frauds, were brought up for further examina tion. Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Boykin, and Mr. Laurie, ap peared for the Insurance Companies, to which Mr. Phil lips and Mr. Farquhar attended as solicitors. Mr. Charles Phillips attended for the prisoners, to whom Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Hobler, jun., acted as soli citors. Sir PETER LAURIE presided. The crowds in the Justice-room and the Hall were quite overwhelming. Mr. CLARKSON stated that the presence of the two ladies who are under recognizances to appear h a d b een dispensed with on the present occasion. They had m a de such a statement since their appearance before the Lord Mayor as made it unnecessary for them to appear. What that statement was he would not say, but the prosecutors believed it to be true, and that their brothers had induced them to lend themselves to a certain extent to the transactions in which they were accused of having been engaged. The prosecutors were therefore willing that their recognizances should be enlarged unt il t h e final exami na ti on , w hich under existing circumstances could not take place, in all probability, until the com mencement of the February Session, in consequence of the absence of an indispensable witness. Sir PETER LAURIE—Then let it be understood that the ladies are to come up on the day of final examination. Mr. Clarkson said it was due to one of the gentle men ( Mr. Humphreys) who were engaged on the other side, to state that the moment that gentleman found that the ladies wished to make a steement with refer ence to the charge against the other prisoners, he, with the feeling which always marked his conduct, considered that it would be inconsistent with his situation to ap- pear for them, and immediately declined to act in their behalf, as he was engaged to defend their brothers. With respect to the prisoner Stott, he had to state that. the prosecutors were disposed to permit that prisoner to be discharged, upon procuring sufficient bail. The se curities required would be Stott himself to the amount of 1,0001., and two sureties to the amount of 5001. each, to appear when called upon. Mr. C. Phillips—He is able to find bail to that or any amount ; but is it not excessive, and why demand such heavy bail ? Sir P. LAURIE—I consider two sureties in 300/. each quite sufficient. Mr. Hobler, sen., said that the hail was ready, and the prisoner Stott was immediately ordered from the bar. Mr. Clarkson then said that the statements which had been made to the Counsel for the prosecution, dis closed matters of the greatest importance against the two prisoners, but, from the circumstances, he was not able to prove the facts alleged against them on that day. It was required that they should show the loss of the vessel. Tuey had found that there was a person on board her Majesty's ship Rodney, up the Mediter iancan, who had been in the Dryad at the time she was destroyed. They bad also found that a boy who had been on board the Dryad at the same time, was traced to Manchester. That boy's father was communicated with on the subject, and the boy would probably be forthcoming. The Admiralty upon being applied to with regard to the seaman promptly consented to send for him, and upon his arrival the case would be perfect. Mr. C. Phillips suggested the propriety of showing grounds by evidence for such a long remand as was applied for. • Mr. Clarkson—Certainly. We aro in a condition at this moment to prove every thing but the loss of the Dryad. We can prove the receipt of the whole of the money of which the Insurance dices were plundered, and the appropriation of it. Sir PPTER LAURIE said that he had received a com munication from an Insurance office at Liverpool upon the subject of a loss sustained by the sinking of another vessel. Mr. Clarksoo--Is th a t t h e L ucy ? Sir PETER LAURIE —No. M r . Farquhar, the soli citor to the N e p tune I nsurance CompanY Mr. G. Phillip s su b mitted that any allus i on to cases not immediately b e f ore the Magistrate was ca l cu l ate d to excite a prejudi ce aga i nst his clients. has the letter. Mr. Clark son sa id i t was by no means his i ntent i on to strengthen the imp ress i ons against the pr i s oners by re levenci, to the o th er transaction. Sir PETER Lauate..._.l s h a ll b e satisfied if you prove that the man and boy who are able to g i ve evi dence of the loss o f t h e ship are expected. Mr. Bodkin said that satisfactory evidence to that effect should be given. Mr. Phillips (solicitor to the General Maritime In surance Company) then deposed that be bad commu nicated with the Board of Admiralty on the subject of the seaman on board the Rodney, who was stated to have witnessed the loss of tho Dryad. He had me morialized their L or d ships, praying that t h e seaman referred to sh ou ld b e brought to Englan d from the Mediterranean, t o g i ve evidence as to the l oss o f th e Dryal! ; and th e answer of their Lordsh i ps was their Dahl expen s e was i ncurred the Company consent, with the u n d erstanding that if any extraordi ffi it. Mr, C. Phillip s o b served, that the statement j us t ma d e was but a flourish of t rumpets. should de- GUILDHALL. Charlotte Brown made her appearance for about the se.entieth time, to answer the charge of Mr, Crouch, iand!ord of the Golden Bill, Cow-lane, she having wlHully broken seven penes of glass, value LiOs. The act was proved by the servant of the prosecutor, and Admitted by Charlotte herself, who said she did it berause she was refused a drain of rum. Mr. Alderman FAREUROTHER ordered her to pay 505., or go to Bridewell for two months. Cuarlotte--God bless you, Alderman Farebrother, but why not make it three instead of two?—( Laughter.) Mr. Crouch said that when those smashers of wit, dows came out they have a standing toast, " Success to the merciful _Aldermen for their lenient sentences." Alderman FAREunoTtiER said they ought to change their toast, and drink " Success to the Act of Parlia tunt," to the extent of which he bad gone. Soveral oiler persons were brought up on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and among them oEnc wed-dressed females were implicated. MA RYLEB ONE. 11 / Liss Botenhain was summoned by Andrew Groves, a ei:b-driver. for refusing to pay him his legal fare. Andrew Groves said that he had driven Miss Boten ham and another voting lady from Titchfield-place to Woueester-place, New-road, early in the evening, and had called for them again at a quarter-past eleven, and driven them back to Titeltfield-place. The fire was 81. one way and Bd. the other, and the same sum for hack fare, which made altogether 2s. The young lady had given hi►,, Is. Gd., and though he had called for the remainder once in the morning and once in the evening, ti, e money had not been given. A Mr. Philip Janvers, at whose house the young ladies had been paying a visit, informed Mr. Hardwick that Miss II:Aeolian) was out of town, but that her sister will was the other young lady referred to, was present and would explain the matter. Miss Eden Botenham, who appeared to have a con stitutional horror for cabmen and all "that sort of people," explained to the Magistrate, that in the first instance the cabman was asked, " Will you call for us again at a quarter past eleven ?" and upon his saying " Yes," Is. 6d. was given to him, thocgh this wag twopence more than his fare. When he set them down an the second occasion, he said the eighteen -pence was not enough, he must have more, and was told to call again. " We, of course," said Miss Botenham, " did nut know anything about back fare,"and when he called in the morning he asked four shillings ; but as they were not up, he was told to call again. He called about six the evening, but it being dark, and being otherwiee engaged, and to talk to cabmen after dark being not exactly the thing. he was again put off. The next thing heard of him was the summons. Mr. HannwicKinquiredhow Groves came to ask four shillings? Groves said he charged this for his time of waiting and tor the trouble they had given him ; and in an,wer to a further question of why he had not ex plained about back fare to the ladies on the first occa sion, said that he would have done so to the ladies, but that' ran into the garden and shut the gate, and it was only by dint of ringing that he brought out the ser vant, to whom he explained it, and v..ho told him to call again. air. HARDWICK said that by charging four shillings Ite had put himself out of Court. He wished the cab man diAtittcly to understand that he never would allow foe time intervening between the first and second con y( yance of a tare, unless there was a spacial agreement in that effect. A person who desired a man to call for hint at a certain hour, did so to save the trouble of send ing a servant out for a cab, and the cabman was at per fect liberty to take up another faro, and therefore suited his"own convenience about calling again. Unless, there fore, there was a special contract to the effect that the cabman was to wait and call at a certain hour, he would never allow for this intermediate time. The case was, therefore, discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. On Saturday afternoon a respectably attired middle aged man, presented hin self before Mr. Burrell, the sitting Magistrate, and claimed that gentleman's pro tection from his wife and relations. Mr. BURRELL wished to know the applicant's reason for desiring his protection. Applicant said that his wife and his brother-in-law had conspired together to throw him into Bedlam ; and he at that moment did not dare to go home, lest they should take him off at once. Mr. Bor:RELL•—What's your name, where do you reside? Applicant—My name is Richard Fortescue. I am a broker, and live at No. 25, High-street, Knights bridge ; and my soiicitor, Mr. Kemp, of Trevor-square. Knightsbridge, advised me to come here. Mr. BuattELLlVhy do your relations wish to send you to a lunatic asylum ? Mr. Fortescue—Why, they say I squander all my money in building houses, but I'm sure I don't. I've worked twenty hours a day for nearly twenty years. Mr. BURRELL—WeII, really I don't see what I can do for you. I don't think your relatives wish to con fine you. Leave your address, and I'll see that you are not molested. Mr. Fortescue—But, your Worship, the keepers are waiting at home for me now. Besides, I've something else to tell you. My wife and ho re lations robbed me of 201. worth of goods yesterday, „ and you must send an officer with me to search th em . The applicant, who bad hitherto spoken pretty collectively, now commenced a long rambling story, in which he said he had been repeatedly shut out of his own house, deprived of his meals—that his wife pocketed the proceeds of the shop, and had enlisted a number of apple and orange, women to go about and tell the tradesmen in the neighbourhood that he was insane ; and that he bad also found out that she was unfaithful to him. Mr. BURRELL expressed himself satisfied of the ap plicant's insanity, and, after wasting a considerable further portion of his time, persuaded him to withdraw. Mr. Forteseue had scarcely left the presence of the Magistrate before another person claimed his attention, and said that the man who had just left him was really mad. Mr. BURRELL—Who are you, Sir ?—Applicant—l I'm the brother of the person who has just made a complaint to you. He escaped from our custody about an hour since, and imagining he would apply to some Magistrate, I came here after him. The MAGISTRATE desired the brother to explain the whole affair.—The brother then went into a long statement, the substance of which was that some time back Mr. Fortescue began to act in a very strange manner. He spent his money in the most lavish manner, neglected his business, and drove coaches about the streets, carried whoever liked to ride in them, and treated them. He would come in at all hours of the night, and would sometimes assert that his wife robbed him. Then he would not let her serve in the shop, but locked her up for days together in the draw ing -room, or parlour. She was at present in confine ment, and bad been so for the lest four days. Mr. Fortescue here re-entered the office, accompa nied by his son, a fine little boy. Upon perceiving his brother, he said, "That's one of the conspirators. He wants to rob me of my business." Webster, one of the ushers of the court, informed the Magistrate that the brother-in-law of Mr. Fortescue was a highly respectable man ; he had two large baker's shop 3 in Marylebone. Mr. Fortescue—" Yes, he's very respectable; but be wants to get my business." Mr. BURRELL said he believed that Mr. Fortescue's brother only interfered to save his sister and faniily from ruin ; and desired that gentleman to state what measure had been taken in respect to Mr. Fortescue.' The brother-in-law said that two medical men, Dr. MiGrath, of Cranbourne-alley, and Mr. Jones, of Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, had seen Mr. For tescue, pronounced him insane, and given the necessary document to enable them to put him into Bethlehem. Mr. BURRELL asked why the relatives had not pro cured the attendance of two neighbouring medical men, who might have had an opportunity of seeing Mr. For tescue occasionally instead of fetching them from a dis tance. The brother-in-law said D r . M'Gr a th was a most intimate friend of Mr. Fortescue's. Mr. BURRELL—When do you propose taking your brother to Bethlehem ? Brother-in-law—To-night, Sir, if the bond is signed, it requires the signature of two clergymen. One has signed, and we are waiting for the. other. Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, explained to the Ma gistrates that the Governors of Bethlehem would receive no patients unless their relatives gave a bond, that they would at the expiration of a twelvemonth fetch away the person they were desirous of confining. The son of Mr. Fortescue was put into the witness box ; and in reply to the Magistrate, said it was true his mother was confined, and that be was afraid of his father. Mr. BURRELL desired Mr. Forteseue's brother-in law to take him with him, and put a keeper over him until he was removed to Bethlehem. Mr. Fortescue, who at first positively refused to leave the Court, was at length persuaded to accompany his brother home. William Horton, the proprietor of an omnibus, tra velling from Kentish-town to the Elephant and C a stle, attended before the Magistrate to receive judgment on an offence alleged to have been committed by him, and the particulars of which appeared about a fortnight since. The prosecution was at the suit of Byers, the offence being that of delaying for nine minutes on his tourney facing the Silver Cross. It may be remem bered that it was set up in defence that the omnibus proprietors had threatened to leave Mr. Jarvis's office (the Silver Cross) if he suffered Horton to book there, in consequence of which the latter was denied the privilege of plying for hire facing the office, and summoned for doing so ; but the Magistrate, on hear in caw pro and con., expressed a great disinclina tion to convict, and adjourned it till this day. Mr. BumtEm. inquired whether any arrangement had been come to. Mr. Hamphries, on the part of Horton, said there had not, although his client was very desirous of having the thing adjusted. Ha wanted what he had a right to—the power of earning his living in well as other, proprietors, and he was willing to pay a, others slid ► and he subject to the same regulations ;- but it appeared that he was not to have it, and was by these prosecu tions delLared of the power of running his vehicle upon the road, which was common and open to all. Byers said he had nothing at all to do with his leave ►o be at the Silver Cross. All he knew was, that defendant came in at the same time as another omnibus, and a continual disturbance was the result. He (de fendaot) might go to another booking-office within a few yards, where he would interfere with nobody. Mr. Humphries observed that was a very good rea son why he .slamild not go there. It was defendant's object to ply at the Silver Cross, the great mart for om nibus passengers.. Attcr some further obscrvations of a similar charac ter, Mr. Burrell regretted that this could not be ar ranged, and said as he was hound in law to convict, he must impose the penalty of lOs. M. flumphris then said his client had a complaint against the driver of one of the opposition omnibuses, for having driven across him, and damaged his property. The conductor tc the person charged said he was not in attendance. Mr. Fisher, the person complained of, wished for time. Mr. Humphries objected to this, unless they paid the expenEes of the witnesses' att,ndance. This they, by the advice of Byers, refused to do, and the conductor was about mskins his exit, which would at once have put an cud to the case, when M. Humphries i.).hservcd," Stop that man and swear hi m ?' The conductor came back, and thu oath was administered. " Now, on your oath, where did you get the summons from that you brought here to-day ?" inquired Mr. Humphries.—" From Mr. Fisher," replied the conductor. Mr. Humphries—Then that's n good proof of service, and I submit that I can go on with the case in dolend aut's absence. The Magistrate was of the same opinion, and the charge was gone into, from which it appeared that de fendant (Fisher) on last Saturday drove by J. Horton, and, turning short across him, damaged his vehicle ani laid up one of his horses.—Proof was given of the da mage done by a veterinary surgeon and a coachmaker. The amount was 31. 1 Is. 6d.—Mr. BUItItELL adjudged Fisher to pay this amount, and would have allowed ex penses, but that Horton very good-naturedly refused to receive them. VOTING AGAINST " THE GENTLEMEN !"- Anna Domini 1680, Edgard Bolle, Esq„ son of John Boll", of ThotTe Hall, Knight, by will left 6001 to pur chase land, out of the rents whereof he crdned his Proffees to give to the poorest people of Louth 50s. at Christmas, 20r. at Eister, and 255. at Whitsuntide yearly for ever, and the rest of the profits of the land to be disposed of by the Feoffces, or the major part of them, in other charitable and pious uses for the good of the town, This charity hes during the past Christmas been converted into an election_ neering engine, intended by the Tories, (who study the poll-book, and who this year have had the charity in their hands,) to answer the twofold purpose of bribery and inti. midation. Several of the wives of the poorer class of voters who supported the Liberal interest applied to the dispensers of the charity to become participators in its benefits, and on their application received the following truly charitable and Conservative answer : " How can you expect such a thing ? You know your husband voted against the gentlemen !" Of course, not one person in the county will doubt that the fair dispensers of Bolle's charity meant by the term " gentlemen," the Tory candidates for municipal honours.—Stamfbrd Mercury.; BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET._There has been no business transacted this week, the offices te:ng cloied for the holidays.—Bri: lo(Mercury. EVENING EDITION. FRENCH ARTS AND MANUFAC. TURES. EXTRACT from the Opening Lecture of Baron Charles Dupin, at the Conservatory of Arts and Trades in 1840 : France, the richest country of Continental Europe. by uniting the gain of each, and the produce of all work, presents an annual revenue of 10,000 mil liards. These 10,000 milliards, equally divided be tween thirty.four millions, would give to each 80e. , per day : consequently, if the produce of industry were divided equally between all Frenchmen, the share of each would be 80c., but on the con dition that each furnishes 80c. worth of work in order to obtain in return 80c. worth of produce. But out of these 80 centimes the general administration of the kingdom and the municipal administration take . with severe punctuality 12c. in order to make up the , 15,000 or 16,000 millions of taxes and duties raised yearly. This subtraction being made, there remcins ' to each individual 68c. Does any one think that with 68c. per day those profound studies, those extraor dinary efforts of imagination, of calculation, and of in vention, so necessary to the progress of the useful and the fine arts, would exist? Or, without speaking of the chefs d'oeuvre of which the nation is so proud, does any one think that with 68c. per day such painters as Vernet, Ingres, Delaroche, and Pajol ; sculptors such as Bogie, Cortot, David, and Fradier ; engravers such as Desnoyers, Galle, Tardieu, and Richomme ; and such architects as Fontaine, Percier, Soufflet, and Brogniard could have produced those works which perpetuate and popularize the finest reminiscences of national glory. Finally, not to go farther than the cate gory of our great artists, I have marked the last, that of architects, which forms, as it were, the junction be tween fine arts and industry. Can it be supposed that an architect could conceive the plans, accomplish the calculations, and direct the execution of a triumphal arch such as the Arc de l'Etoile, such a temple as the Pantheon or the Madeleine, or such a museum as the Louvre, all for 68 cents. per day ? The grandeur and beauty of monuments sililell honour an illustrious nation should thus be do+c with out- Mankind should resume their miserable huts and cabins, inhabited by a poor and jealous populace, not , permitting artists of genius to rise above the mass. Nevertheless, if the reflection be made that in Bre tagne, in Auvergne, and many othci provinces, the day's work of a healthy man ;n the country is only worth 70c., that a Lis wire 35e., that of children, of from ten to fifteen, almost nothing, and that of younger children, nothing at all ; it will be easy to understand that is these provinces the salary is far below 68c. But at Bordeaux, at Marseilles, at Nantes, in Rouen, and in Paris, the day's work of a healthy man is worth 2f. ; that of his wife 90c. The average share of a stork• man, his wife, and children, far exceeds 68c. Here is a list of a few professions with what they now gain in Paris :—Journeymen bakers, 3f., porters of the corn market, 4f. ; carpenters of the first class, 4f. ; print ing compositors, 61. ; tailors, who cut out, IM. ; clever watchmakers, 201. What workman at eighty centimes per day will re place an engineer who, by his genius, and by his capital, has beenenabled to build a manufactory, in which arc utade steam-engines of one, two, three, or even five hun dred horse-poteer? A million of francs is necestkaly for the building and the tools of his manufactory ; can this million be tiken out of eighty centimes, were there 100, or even 200 workmen to make it up ? In order to vivify by commerce ten contiguous departments a rail road is necessary ; a very small number of capitalists would suffice to supply these enormous expenses, as soon as a government had granted its protection free from the spirit of monopoly and corporation ; but if capital be in finitely and evenly divided, what will be done, out of 80 centimes a head, to collect eighty millions, without which the magnificent means of communication cannot be per fected ? THE MARKETS. C JUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK Wheat. Barley, Oats. Beans. Pease Per Quarter. Carlisle ..... Hexham Morpeth tlenrith Sheffield Winchest r Per Bushel. Carmarthen Cowbri ige Swansea ' Per Ball. ' Barnardeastl Durham Richmond s. to S. S. to s. 37 3.2 NS 24 30 B. to a. s. to s. 56 S to. . 56 50 lil 52 62 21 23 17 IA 31 20 29 6. d. s. d. 00 22 3 0 4 0 24 2 40 44 - 33 tit/ 42 45 s. d. .s.d b 6 00 50 53 56 60 81 23 52 63 s. d. s. d. 7 1 10 0 —0 78 84 28 32 s.d. s. si. 00 50 50 sti 40 48 - 43 35 p B. ti 14. yo'.vu 56 0 0 160 IR h 80 931 7 4 8 6111 • 12 6 1 140 16 0 5 0 9 0 7 9 8910 • 131; 116 150 70 9t;• 56 8 0 9 0 116 130 160 90 90, 7 0 8 6 7 6 86 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET 101'neat, Red, Norfolk and Sutlblk -s. 61s. to 625. fine64a -- Lin. and Cam. --- Yorkshire -s. -s. to 545. fine tat. - White _----- Foreign, Bed -s. -s. to 53g. fine 645. White -s. -s. to 64)5. line 665. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -a. to 355. fine 25t. - Lincolnshire . -s. to 30s. line 525. ----- Yorkshire Wold 26s. to -s. fine 5:10. - Foreign Beans, New ..... 406. to 435. hue -a. ----•-•-•- Old Oats, Potato . -s. to 30s. fine 325. -,.. Poland -s. -s. to 265. fine `.'6s. - leriezland and Small ... ........ -- Ivszaling ..... ..... 12d. to :3d. pet Stone. Shelling Malt Rapeseed NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE .. , Red. White. Wheat, Northurfilserland sos s -s t',3 1 - Norfolk and Suffolk 62s 61s 66s. 6i, ...--- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 05s -I. 675. - Foreign 62s. 665........ 6`24. 665. Rye, Norfolk ‘ind Suffolk .-- Foreign 26s. Ms -s. -s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... -s. -s ' -s. -s. - Grinding . 4nd Feeding :10s. 335...... -s. --1. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk . 58s 601 -s. -s. Beans, Small 4os. 485....... -s. -s. - - Tick ..,,,... 425. 48s. -s. -s. Pe.ise, White 446. 41'5..... -s. --s. -- Gray . . -s. -s. ...5. .--.S. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 3os. 32s S. --. ...--.......... -....--........... F ee d Foreign -. s. -s Flour (per sack) 4ls. 5136. - a. -A. 11; 6 11 0 • 100 110 00 100 00 og •f SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. Ultra : t 33 to 35 :4 37 to 32 tbcrdeen Berwick 'Coldstream Cupar (File) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso ~ Kirkalcly Perth tar. Tho 50 to 60 36 45 4 .50 I 48 65 1 48 68 55 61) 50 66 ' 36 47 1 62 67 60 '"4 ;me of the HADDIS Wheat. I 70s Od 25 to 1S 21 2-1 2( 26 31 26 49 13 to 21 16 17 17 18 30 18 22 22 26 23 27 40 42 20 28 18 50 19 23 32 33 15 18 31 34 33 45 48 25 35 41 44 ries throughout the c )RN MARKET. Oats. Pease. 26, Od 38s (11 •23, Od 35s Od 21s 3d .s Od 17s 19d, B.l2ths. N MARKET. Oats. Pease. 25s 8d 43s Od 22s 8d 40s Od 101 Od 31s Od LASOOW CORN Mt It '.LT.—Dec. 30. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. S. d. British, old 32 6t035 6 1= 9 ..11 l7 oto new ... ...... t:4l 0 3t 0 British l9 0 Cimada, free — 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, por 3201 b. Scottish 22 0 English 26 0 2; 0 Pease, Scottish ...... 2.2 0 Sottish V2 0 25 0 Oatmeal,perl4olb.... 17 0 Irish 40 -- 43 - -- 27 iO 17 21 au 40 measure v, (3,,C0N Ci Barley. n4s (id 303 9d ds Od luntry. First !lird s 11/4l Beans. 393 03 31, A.: 30i Oil I nos od verage....., DALKI Wheat. f 8• f ft 514 s Od 50a Od lfH Cu ' Nancy. 31s © i 20s 6d ts First Second Third 8e...al • 42 Od 44is OJ 34 0.! s. G. •,i0 g!0 0 .30 50 0 PATENT LEVER WA TCHE s• With silver double-bottom cases .E 6 6 ° With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improve ments i, e. the detached escapement, jewelled is four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and main taining power to continuo going while winding up, at the abova price. A printed warranty is gives, with fixed terms, en which the , Watches will always receive ant attention ireeded. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cernlaill (Seven &or' from Graceehr.rch-strect), London. N. B.—Second-hand Watches purchased is exchange. THE NEW SCROLL PATTERN SALVERS, —A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 14, Corn hill, London, opposite the Bank of England, hare ready the SILVER WAITERS of every size from this elegant new Design, the border is after the style of Louis XIV., and the Centre tastefully engraved by hand with space for an inscrip tion or for armorial bearings. Salvers. Size. Weight. Price. I New Scroll Pattern 8 in. diameter 12os.at 108. Gd. Eli I ditto JO .. 20 .lO 10 1 ditto 12 30 1 ditto 15 ...................42 1 ditto 18 B 6 N.B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper, illustrated by drawings, and containing every information relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may be had on applica tion, or will be sent into the country, free of postage, i❑ ac swer to a paid letter. PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS. 60s. iho SET of FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. Superior London Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per dozen ; Ames Poles for Window Curtains, 11 iaeh diameter, h. ad. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. iid. per foot ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet long, 9s. — Catalogues gratis, containing the prices of stoves, fenders, fit-a ims:is, kitchen utensils, and every article be furnishing iron mongery. RIPPON and BURTON, \Veils-street, Oxford-street. Established 1520. B IR PH S. On the Ist inst., in Devonshire•strect, Portland-plaeo, the laJy of Dr. Rutherfurd, of a son. On the 3.1 inst., at Woburn-place, Russell-square, the ladf of J. Warner, Esq., hart inter-at-lam, of a son. On the 3d inst., the wife of Mr. W. Meek, of John-street, Blackfriars- road, of a daughter. MARRIED. This morning, a t Alarylebone Church, Mr. T. Evans, to th accomplished Miss Stapleford, of CLl:ston-street, Portland-r. a I On the 31st ult., at the parish church of Rickmansworth. T. E. Skidmore, Esq., eldest son of the late J. Skidmore Esq., to Ellen, third daughter of C. Brown, Esq., .f London, At Brighton, Giuseppe Marcellino Negro (ex-officer Bohai), to Anne, youngest daughter of the late S. Bowring, D/Iss.D. On the 3d inst., at Heckliffe Grange, Bedford s hi re , i n th 89th year of his age, Rickard Gilpin, Esq., for many y e ars Lieutenant-Colonel of the Beolf , rdshire On the 24th ult., at St. Quentin, France, Ann, widow of the late S. Waddington, Esq., of Leman -street. On the 30th ult., at Leamington, Captain S. G. Pechel/, R.N., of Bereley, Hants. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun ()Mee, No. 1► Strad,in the county of Middlesex.—Blontlay, January, 4, 1841..