The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE \VS' ( WEDNESDAY ZVENING.) TIMES.—The sales of stock made yesterday by the Government broker are now understood to have been a portion of that invested for account of the savings-b nks, but the proceeds it is believed are not to be for the use '1 those institutions, but of the Governmeet itself. The sales were in reality much beyond the amount al first -,tated, and wore partly in Consols and partly in Three per Cents. Reduced, making together about 100 , 0001 -toek, which will be delivered, it is said, in this week. That the money is not for the savings-banks themselves is apparent from the fact that no run exists upon any of them, and that the deposits are on the increase; and hence the transaction referred to assumes greater impor tance than would otherwise belong to it, since it now becomes a financial measure of the Goverment, the extent of which is almost without limit and without control, and of which advantage may be taken to cover the deficit of the year, and to obviate the necessity of coming into the market for a loan or with a new issee of Exchequer Bills. The impression among the leading brokers is, that it is intended to continue a series of these operations, as the market may be found in a condition to bear them, and that this will be the chief reliance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in recruiting his " ways and means" for the present year. His friends in the city even go the length of assigning some substantial reasons why this the proper course for him to pursue. They reckon, upon the fortunate events which have occurred in Egypt, and India, and China, not only to bring abort an early diminution of expenditure, hut to supply him , if the Chinese fulfil their engagement, with a large sum of money; and next, they calculate that there 7111 be a great increase of revenue in the course of the year, as our trade is manifesting great activity, and a de matid for our manufactures is springing up in all parts of the world, so that he may not only be enabled to dispense with a loan, but to repay at the end of the year by a surplus of revenue the sum which he has raised in the manner described in the beginning of it. We give these as the sanguine speculations of a party determined to take the beat view of things possible. They are not likely to stave much iniuence upon prices, as the rise of stock to be produeed by the golden prospects of the Ministry must be counteracted for a time by the continual throwing of stock upon the market for sale, which is implied by the operation alluded to. There is required evidently, in this state of things, the most careful and judicious conduct on the part of the Bank )f England to give free scope to the new enterprise which batiltrisen among the trading interest, without encouraging overtrading and speculation. After the lessons which the Directors have lately had on the subject, and the respon sibility they are under at the present moment to perform their exact duty to the commerce of the country, it is really to be hoped that they will give to it all the encou ragement that it ought to receive, and in the manner best caleulated to make that enoouragement effective. They base already lost more than one similar opportunity in tak ing the alarm when they ought to have felt and to Lave inspired confidence, and have been punished for it by the lowest stock of bullion, taking the length of the time it has continued low, th at t h e B an k has ever experienced. A l egetimatc trade, ascertained to be so, and made prosperous by well-timed advances, would soon replenish the coffers of the Bank, and prove that an alliance upon sound prin.. e 1 ;:les between the trading interests and the " managers of .no circulation" is the only real security for the prosperity tif both. It appears probable, from some of the accounts from the manufacturing districts, that the great scarcity of mcney has placed the middle class of manufacturers, among whom i , ,dustry and character usually constitute credit, under di3ad lantages to which they ought not to be exposed, and which tend to throw the whole business into the hands of a few liege capitalists. Such men are frequently less liable to • - vertrading and speculation than their more wealthy corn vttitors, and the trade promoted through their means less subject consequently to any dangerous reaction ; yet they, n tho event of any pressure, are sure to be the tic,t to suffer. The great fault of late years in the mansge;nent banks is, that they seldom discriminate in the degrees of redit, but give all their confidence to a few persons, who thus led on gradually to their own ruin and that of iossa Rho confide in them. We really believe, from %%hat '`g I,o ',.t . fleard, that a careful inquisition into the meal-s of '':.sit among the middle class of manufacturers in Lan 4tWitre and Yorkshire, and a proportionate assistance• to i•nmble them to follow out their legitimate and safe ol•era ►,ions, would be at this moment one of the most useful ap ti;ications of capital that can possibly be imagined.! Without any very great deal of business having Leen transacted, the English funds assumed more firmness, and a slight advance took place. POST.—We have bit little change to notice in the value of the public securities. The Foreign Funds were nearly stagnant the whole of the day, and, upon the c.ose of busness, both markets exhibited some deprcssico of prices as compared"with the carlirr quotations. Amounts from Lima to the Pith of September have come to hand. They state that the present Government would very well sustain itself. Gomorra, the President, • had been adopting some y,ry liberal measures, and ..vas daily becoming more popular. The commercial regiila tina of the country were on a good footing. Callao and Lima are to he connected by the construction of a rats, "ray. Everything is, in fact, dcaerib,d as looking well, and it was considered that this encouraging •sate of effairs would t'e materially assisted and upheld tho introduction of st C4lll, the prompt intercomse wound beestablished between o::e point and ;mother being calculated to eradicate smuggling, and put an efT•c- Nal stop to all revolutionary proceedings. The existing tf,Fietiltieo between Peru and Bolivia were to be r,tt,ed sty NVW Gra,:ada. Cerli was going on prosperously, and it was expected that her resources would be immensei) provcd by the aid of steam. liar political institution; would, moreover, there was no doubt, be greatly strenvh t teed through the same medium. She had exported two hundred thousand bushels ef wheat to Australia in the past year, and her mineral treasures would, it was (—rain, ran , 1. her before lung one of the richest countries in the bcotld. The Frencit Minister," says a private, letter tom which KC write, " is giving this country ( Pero we bdieve is m , .-art) a good de,d of trouble. lie has di d ,rnged the Minister of Finance, and rendered pr ytte riu.rrel a matter of public importance. It would ha a •ppy ircumAaree if we had never seen a Frencicuao of Cape Ilorn.". :ither of the steamers (Peru end Chili) had yet mule • appearance. at Lime. The whole of the population lately was, in the interval, in anxious expectaticn of arrival, the most evraordinary interest respecting 'witting been excited. It is known in London ilia+, •i vessels were seen in the Straits of Magellan some .•• sine,,, so that long before this they must doubtlys ; be • • - operation between Valparaiso and Lima. SUN.—The ralvices received from Canada state the iorubdr of emigrants arrived out la.q year was 1'2,C00, in :oy of them b ing persons of some pecuniary means, mall body. emi;zrated in one party, had, for in.tance, no less than 60,000/. among them. The navigation io C .n1(13 was entirely eloced on otie i ult., and a ;4 . qn:intity of ni;releandide, cu co,!'. hae. been shut liy the frost. T t y. rc w 1 ,3 a f ur of beta fide business tr,dis iwted to day, and . ~,, ,,ovetnent in Cons,,lF. rf a per yen!. took pin,e. the honk-broker, sold ilgLin, and MiFsrs. M;nli.tter and On. pm-chased, so that the s;:ppTy of :!n.i demand for Stcck were pretty ce t -t C•Josols clos,•d Ally at 894 to 'a for money and c•mot. Ex.:ll goer Bits were I Is. to 9s. premiorn, „rd the B.:duced Three-and-a-lialf per Cents. 98 to 4• Th,re was nothing done in India or B ,nk Stock alt d Toe Foreign sccur;ties were much the same as yes -day. Spanish Active Bonds brought 24 to 1 ; rtugue,:e, N 32 to ; Mexican 281 ; Bel ton and Da ii "1: ner Cents. 50. 1 ; to The Sh;;re M aket was not very active, but prces were wcl! supported. CILARING CROSS HOSPITAL. (ABSTRACT FROM TIIE LAST REPORT.) The Committee have the satisfaction of stating to the Governors and supporters of this hospital, that during the list ye.ir as many as 6,943 poor afflicted person; were admitted on the books for relief; of these, 1,1.51 were in-patients, and 5,78.5 were out-patients, (many of whom were visited at their own homes.) These, with the cases recorded in former Reports, make a total of 74,248 sick and needy individuals, who have partici pated in the benefits of the Institution, from its com mencement, to the 31st December, 1840. (The hos pital was founded in 1818, and erected 1831.) In their last statement, the Committee furnished a &tail of the cases of accident and sudden injuries, which had been brought to the hospital in the preceding year. These cases have, during the last year, amounted to up wards of twelve hundred ; of which 291 were so dan gerous as to require to be immediately admitted as m patients. The following is a brief enumeration of patients admitted for relief during the last seven years : In 1834, the total number of cases was 3,681, cost 1,2091. 10s. 9d. ; 1835, 4,472, 1,481/. 1,55. 4id. ; 18:36, 3,872, 1,9331, 14s. ; 1837, 5,757, 2,231/. 6s. 9id. lema. 6,439, 2,3741. Is. 1 lid. ; 1839, 6,655, 2,506/.45. Oid. ; 1840, 6,943, 2,528/. 18s. 2id. The total number of cases of accident for the last seven years were as follows :—ln 1834, 424 cases ; 1835, 865 ; 1836, 975 ; 1837, 1,093 ; 1838, 1,414 ; 1839, 1,236 ; 1840, 1,238 ; total, 7 245. The total number of out-patients since its , commencement, was titi,l37, and in-patients 6,091. THE CHAMBER or DEPUTIES. The gi cat orators: never speak according to their turn on the President's list. M. Berryer has never spoken on the (lay for which his name has been inscribed. If you would make 84219 of a Minister or Deputy whom yo u w i s h to hear ascending the tribune to-day, inquire whether the Minis ter's wife, or the lady whose dinners, balls, or soirees the said Deputy most frequently attends, has received tickets. It is never the order of the day that brings on those lively and animated incidents which the public so eagerly seek ; it is such and such a Member. Ascertain from him whe ther he will speak before you apply for tickets.—Pari s paper. EVASION.—It happened in the south-west of the county (Cork), with which the part before us is occu pied. One of its squires, somewhat inordinately addicted to the _Lolly god, swore that he would not taste, to the day of his death, whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, or any other liquor whatever, distilled on the face of the earth. Soon finding wine drinking rather inconvenient to his purse, and sorely tei 4 • • -turn to the tumblers, he discovered an effectua ' . j - • •is oath, by fitting up a neat ih, ...,\. 1 , of his vessels (a smuggling littkefi;etiits .7.14 . s • Ville t a V - "le :. _rrx ..„ ' ilk ,of cours e , f e l t no scru ple of ''isai ' 11 ; 11. ' :-Ootee.s distilled upon the face of tz . - 7 VI t.t: 1 •;:2 7::,..--, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) There is often a long leap from a general pri ciple, of undeniable soundness, to the partisan purpose of a das for which that principle is cited. Thus the limes vt ry justly affirms that " the character of this country is essentially Conservative." But a marvellous distance has to be tra velled over, and, as we apprehend, insurmountable ob stacles to be encountered, between that proposition and the inference of the Times, that Toryism will find itself in a majority at the next general election. That " the character of this country is essentially C onserv ative" , is a truth, and it is also a truth that the people " are Co nservative, not because they prefer one set of partisans to another, but because their tendencies are to fixedness rather than to change." Neither of these facts will help the Tories. Their fraudulent assumption of the epithet `cConservative " does not snake them in heritors of the good that i belongs to the prin ciple of conservation. The impudent adoption of a family name makes no legal co nve y ance of the famil y estate. One reason why the domination of Toryism be came intolerable, and why it never can be permanently resum ed is, that its character , on this very point, is at morta l v ariance with the character of the English people. Toryism is anti - Conservati v e; its whole history is that of change ; and the necessity of progressive Reform (the real Conservatism), has arisen out of the long progression of its corruptions and abuses. Of not one national insti tution has Toryism ever proved itself a faithful and suc cessful conservator. It perilled the monarchy by pro mising absolutism. It abused popular representation into mere nomination. It swamped the ancient Peerage by an inundation of political and legal adventurers. The spiri tual character of the Church was sunk by it into an offensive compound of worldliness and fanaticism. With law it tampered until there was ne terror for the rich and no remedy for the poor. It has not been conservative even of its own concessions ; but having apostatised into the enactment of Catholic Eman cipation, treated its own measure as a dead letter. And when the people, as one man, demanded the reform, which it opposed, there and there only, was the real Con servative principle. The Times represents the popular feeling which obtained the Reform Act as " a single de termination," an isolated outbreak. This is very shallow philosophy, and a most suicidal argument. Were it so, the British would be demonstrably a most theoretical people. They_ would be capable ,of intense: excite ment for a sheer abstraction. Everybody knows the re verse. The Reform agitation was anything but unprac tical. In its most formidable demonstrations it neither sprung from, nor tended to any defined and coherent theory of representation. !The old system was found not to work well in the popular estimation. It accumulated grievances. Seats were bought and sold, like the cattle in Smithfield Market, and with them the rights and interests of the community. The House of Commons degenerated into a taxing machine, with whatever worse purposes the Minister of the day might desire to accomplish. Among the mil lions whose mighty voice enforced the passing of the Re form Act, there were none who confined their views to a mere change of forms. All contemplated results. Re presentation was desired for the sake of the consequences of representation. Law that should protect, a Church that should instruct, and taxation pressing lightly and falling fairly; these were the ends, of Conservative cha racter as to the spirit of our institutions, to which Reformers looked, through the medium of a more equalized representa tion. They were not the idiots which the Times represents them, regarding the means only, and resting there with out any ulterior purpose. They were true to the national character. They hoped, as they desired, that anti- Conserva tive Toryism would be crushed by the reform. That agi tation was not, what the argument of the Times requires it to have been, an irrational and singular effort, a por tentous aberration, an effect without a cause. In the order of moral causation, it necessarily arose frem the col lision between the Conservative character of the nation and the corruptions of Toryism. A wide-spread disap pointment has followed. Tho party resources of Toryism had been miscalculated. Its sneaking perversion of the spirit by means of the letter of the Reform Act—its relent less hostility to the rights, instruction, and improvement of the people—its disgraceful pandering to every class prejudice and sinister interest—and its sordid sacri fice of the very semblance of principle to the regain ing of place and profit, had been underrated. Hence discontent with the authors of the Reform Act, and with their disinclination to confirm their work by such further organic changes as were needful to its practical efficiency. Hence the unnatural apathy of some; the schism of others ; and the co-operation (only for the purposes of retaliatory annoyance) of others with the anti-Conservative Tories themselves. And hence the very phenomena to e hich the Times refers, for a very di& f:. rent purpose. We mean the Tory successes in Parlia mentary and Municipal election!. They are very easily accounted far by the foregoing statement. It could not happen otherwise. But to take them as predictive f a general and permanent support of Toryism by the nation, is building their house upon the sand with a vengeance. Let us see how the fact that " the character of this country is essentially Conservative," acts upon the Cern-law ques tion. Is it Conservation to repress the regular growth of that manufacturing sstcm by which the nation has been enriched and aggrandiz-d ? Is it Conservation to deny work and food to the mulidudittous population that is al ready brought into existence under this system? li it • Conservation to annihilate our foreign markets, turn • away our • foreign customers, and play the game of our foreign competitors ? Is it Conservation to block up the groa► and en.y outlet far the increasing surplus pcpu iation of our starving agricultural labourers? 16 it Con servation to rely, for the nation's food, on an agriculture which in no one year grows a sufficient supply, even with all the stimulus and advantages of an inhuman mono poly ? Is it Conservation to tax the non-agricultural consumers of corn nine millions of pounds sterling per an trum for no earthly purpose but to keep run's up to double a list till were a generation since, aid thus enable bankrupt proprietors of lansi to cheat their mortgagees and plunder the public? Such policy is Tory, but i: is set Conservative. And this, as we have lately shown, has now became, and will continue, the hustings' question. It will have much more to do with the next election than all the ward polling bAween Mr. Higgins and Mr. Wiggins for a town councillorship. If the Tories could take oflii.e, we would dare them to take it, and to appeal to the country, as a Bread-Tax Administration. Even the Times does not venture to put the question en that ground. It smuggles a pretended proof of the popularity of Toryism under the false colours of a perverted word. It shuffl -s between national Conservatism, ishich is one this- g, and a great reality, and 'fory Conservatism, which is quite a different thing„ and a great humbug. Will our Contemporary put the argument plainly, end then stick to it ? Will he say, " the character of this country is essentially taxed-bread eating ?" Will he prove that - the English Constitution can only be nourished by taxed bread ? Then there will be some basis for his prognos tications. Short of that he only plays a plausible game with verbal counters. The first thing of which the people arc conservative is of themselves. Whigs and Tories will both find this as they come to the poll-booth. The par tisan catechism will be cut short. With the man in the , farce, to the question " What are you ?" they will awe er, •I am hungry." Will all the word-jugglery of the Times persuade them to be conservative of hunger? and of bread-tax ? (From the Morning Herald.) Me. Powell, surveyor to the Waterloo Bridge Company, denied, on the inquest held on the body of the unfortunate Scott, that the deceased had been hired by the Company to exhibit his dangerous tricks to a morbid, sight-hunting gencration. Be it so ;we will concede that no bargain was absolutely struck between the Company and Scott— that uo terms were stipulated for the show ; we will allow that the Company " did not meet until the 16th instant," and that, therefore, no express engagement could be en tered into between the parties. Scott, however, " had had money made him a present by the Southwark Bridge Company, and thought it likely the Waterloo Bridge people would do the same." Such is the testimony of Godfrey, Scott's landlord. Mr. Powell, however, would give no express consent to the exhibition : " the Company did not meet until the 16th instant," was his peremptory reply. Now, what follows ? Scott, with a remembrance of the liberality of the men of Southwark, has every con fidence in the gratitude of the men of Waterloo. He says to G idfrey, " I have a scaffold; erect it." Upon this, Godfrey takes the scaffold on the bridge, and, in his own words, was " never interfered with." The scaffold is put up, and stands the whole of Sunday, as most sig. nthcant advertisement of the doings of Scott on the suc ceeding day. Thousands saw the scaffold—thousands read the bills placarded at either end of the bridge, announcing the tricks of the dive r ; b u t some h ow , t h e people connected with the bridge—the people employed by the Company, were so . busy at the toll-pla ces t h at t h ey never beheld the preparations " over the second arch of the east side" of the structure—never read the advertisements narrating the wonders of the show. We really were not aware that the money-takers at toll places were such Arcadiants—such guileless, unwordly people. Henceforth, we shall have the loftiest notions of the innocence of all turnpikemen. Let us, however, suppose that certa i n part i es had erected a scaffold, and with effective instruments for the mischief, had wished for a whole day to employ themselves defacing and injuring the bridge. Wo u ld t h e sca ff o ld have been suffered to remain, if loss, and not profit to the Company had been the result of its erection? Let the truth be said. Were not the servants of the Company t oo muc h rapt by the prospect of an increase of pennies at the toll to eon s sider, as they ought to have considered, the scaffold at the second arch? FROU THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) We have been glad to see our weekly Contemporaries lately showing some tendency to assign a foremost place to questions of practical and fiscal economy. We no ticed last week the Spectator's useful abridgment of the Report on Import Duties ; and the Examiner has had one er two able articles on a branch of the same subject —the Reports of the Select Committees of both Houses on the Petition of the East India Company. W e do not mind the slight infusion of bitters in either Con temporary. The best friends of the Government must be most desirous that subjects of this kind should be forced on them by the utmost possible " pressure from with out." The Penny Postage was in this manner pressed lioon official adoption. No measure has added more Justly to the popularity of the present Govern ment. Yet no Government could well have been expecte d to effect such a thange, without the previous sanction of a strongly why announced public opinion. There is another reasonincessant assaults on them on these offici a l s t rong h o ld s mus t be stormed with big blue books , and the c on t en t s of th os e books, s e ussuebdjeaestins—a tend fo r and this is, that the thoughts and attention of men in office are too much divided betwixt mere official routine and mere petty warfare. They have little time or energy left for any thing else.sin this t, s land e The solo remedy for i of faction, i ifon what is otherwise rernediles is, that the public should i, j on its own material and substantial interests ; and they will soon make parties and Ministers wage their offen sive and defensive warfare on that field. A popu lar Chamber of Legislature (whatever the elective franchise) can never lag far behind an informed and awakened public. If Parliament waste time in the mere contests of faction, the fault must partly be in the public, amongst whom factions can find auditors. The moment the demand for other topics is manifest, the supply will follow. Symptoms of this are already visible, and oddly enough—some of them in the Lords. The Lords' Committee on the India Petition have made a Report, ascribed to Lord Ellenborough, which puts forth just and enlightened views on Colonial policy— " That no partialfavour should grant to one colony any advantage over another, either in colonial ports or in those of the United Kingdom ; still less that Parlia ment should partially secure for the produce and manu factures of the United Kingdom any advantage in any colonial port over the competing produce and manufac tures of its own dependencies." This is a new and notable start of hereditary wisdom ; though of course it will find no favour in the eyes of the Standard. (From the Standard.) The excellent speech of the Hon. Mr. Smythe, at Canterbury, has plainly told—the _Morning Chronicle makes it the subject of an angry article this morning. Our Contemporary commences its criticism by a❑ attack upon the city of Canterbury, which we suppose will be appreciated by the voters of that ancient city at the ensu ing election, and proceeds to fall foul of the Conservative party and the Conservative press, deviating rather widely from the truth in reference to the latter. The misreported speech of Mr. Bradshaw supplies the pretext for both in vectives. Now, with reference to that speech, Mr. Brad shaw has distinctly disavowed it, and this is generally considered enough among gentlemen when even the most delicate point of honour is concerned ; but Mr. Bradshaw has not merely disavowed the speech, and deniesi that he ever entertained the sentiments which it has been interpreted as ascribing to him—he has ex pressed regret that any language of his could bear such misinterpretation ; and it is to be remembered that this disavowal, this denial, and this expression of regret, were ❑ot in any way extorted, or even solicited from the Honourable Member for Canterbury, but came from him as his own spontaneous act. This would be something more than enough among gentle men ; however, the Morning, Chronicle writes for those who are not gentlemen. Be it so ; our Contem porary at least writes in England, and therefore writes for just and honourable men. Now, will any just and honourable man so far trust to the hearsay of a reporter—who may have been mistaken, and who has acknowledged, we believe, that he was mistaken— against the testimony of a gentleman of unimpeached honour and veracity, who certainly must know better what he said than the reporter of his speech, and against the testimony of all the other hearers ? There might he more difficulty in following the general rule of evi dence, if the words imputed to the speaker were so clear and unequivocal, and so criminal in substance, as to leave no choice between the conviction on the one side that they were spoken as reported, or the other, that the reporter was guilty of wilful misrepresentation. Such, however, is not the case of the speech erroneously ascribed to Mr. Bradshaw : take away some impropriety of style and manner, and there was nothing in it which any Englishman ought to be ashamed or afraid to say, under the like circumstances. (From the Courier.) What are the public to think of the disgusting hy• pocrisy with which ignorance was feigned of the actual position of Frost and his companions, and of the mode in which they had been dealt with by the Governor ? It is clearly a shabby attempt to fix the responsibility of this promotion and premium for crime upon that officer in case of need, and accordingly we shall be amused in Parliament, when the case is brought forward, with a long yarn about the doctor's certificate of good con duct on the voyage out, which led Sir John Franklin, in the innocence of his heart, to conceive the convicts worthy of a better fate, and to patronize them accord ingly, when all the while Sir John was acting only upon a foregone conclusion, and in pursuance of abso lute, however private, orders from his superiors at home. It is unhappily the besetting sin of Lord John Rus sell's character, as of the acts of his Administration, that between the straightforward and the tortuous course he is too often seen to elect the latter, and to prefer rather to accomplish ends by the little arts of cunning and stratagem than by the fearless frankness of a statesman who has weighed causes and conse quences, and is prepared manful) , to justify and accept the responsibility for what he has conscientiously re solved upon, whatever the risk of censure or the odium contingent. We are not disposed to enact the part so common and congenial with the office and habits of the Whig Attorney-General, that is, to argue in aggrava vation of the punishment of Frost and his unhappy as sociates ; but neither are we insensible of the perilous affront to loyalty, justice, and public morals, when crime, and that of the deepest die in every shade known to the Constitution, is not alone permitted to es cape its condign penalty, in one part of the empire out raged, but in another part exalted with honorary if not lucrative marks of distinction above classes of crime and criminals around of much more pardonable and lover degrees of enormity. For it cannot be forgotten that the crimes of which Frost and his co-mates stand attainted were, not high treason alone, but treason and murder. On their heads lie all the blood shed at Newport, besides the sin of levying war against the Sovereign and comp issing the overthrow of the institu tions of their country. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 13. TIIF. SHEFFIELD, ASIITON UNDER.I.YNE, AND MANCIIESTF.P. RAILWAY COMPANY V. WOODCOCK. This was an action for calls which was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe at the last Liverpool assizes, when a ver . was found for the plaintiff. A rule was obtained, on the part of the defendant, for setting the verdict aside, on the ground that no evidence was given of any resolutions of the Directors fixing the time and place where the calls were to be paid, and that they were made in ficturo ; that no evidence was nffcred that the person signing the notices of the calls was chairman of the Court. Mr. WIGEITMAN now ! , 110:red cause against the rule, anti contended that, according to the Act constituting the Court, the Directors were not bound to prove any resolu tion for a call ; they had given the proper notice in the newspapers, and in that they had fixed both time and place where the calls were to be paid, and that he contended was enough. As to the other objection, there was a resolution entered into on the 13th March, that a call should be made on the 30th March, to be payable in the following May ; he contended that the call was good enough, it having been really made on the 13th, all the words respecting the 30,11 was mere surplusage. The notice of the call was in effect the call, and that did not appear till April. By the Act that public notice was all that the Directors were obliged to do, and the public and the shareholders were not entitled to know anything of the resolutions of the Directors. . . Mr. V CRESS WELL, for the defendant, contended that the call was perfected by the resolution of the Direc tors, and if so, then they were invalid, because the resolutions making these two calls made no mention of either time or place for the payment of the money. The !mond objection applied to only one call, but he appre hended it was fatal so far as that call was concerned. It was resolved on the 13th March that a call should be made on the 30th. Now if the Directors could make any call in, future, what was to preven► those who went out by rotation making a call which would bind their successors ? He obtained his rule upon another ground, to which his Learned Friend had not adverted. He con tended that the Directors had not been legally elected. Mr. WIGUTMAN hoped the Court would hear him upon that new point, for he had clearly understood that it had been overruled when the motion was made. Accurding to the 146th section, the Directors named in the Act of Par liament were to remain in office till others were duly elected, and the calls in question were signed by a full quorum of the Directors so named in the Act. Their powers were legal. Mr. CRES3WELL argued that the Act required the Com pany should duly elect Directors at the first general meet ing of registered proprietors. At the time these gentle men were elected there was no scaled registry, and it had been held that the registry was no registry until it was scaled. Mr. Dundas, Mr. Crumpton, and Mr. Cowling followed on the same side. The COURT took time to consider their judgment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILIIHALL. John Croft, and Louisa, his daughter, were charged before Mr. Alderman White, the latter with robbing her employer, Mahommet Palouker, and the former with fraudulently misrepresenting her character and re ceiving a portion of the stolen property. The prosecutor (who was dressed in the Eastern cos tume and spoke English very fluently) said that he re sided in Sun-street, Bishopegate-street. About twelve. months ago the female prisoner applied to him for a situation, stating that as she was just come from the country she could only refer to her father as to charac ter. Upon application to the male prisoner, he spoke of her in such high terms that she was engaged, but before she had been three days in the place various suns of money were missed, and the woman having ac knowledged that she took them she was discharged. Immediately after her departure he found that she had taken two satin veils and a diamond pin, and he never saw her afterwards until he met her in Holborn, when he gave her into custody. Police Constable 276 said that when the female was searched at the station-house she acknowledged having given the pin to her father. Both the prisoners, who strongly protested their inno cence, were ordered to be brought up again to-morrow. RUIVIOURF : 4D DREADFUL ACCIDENT. UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Rumours have been prevalent in this neighbourhood that on Monday last a most serious calamity happened on Whittlesey Mere—the ice breaking, and, it is said, upwards of a h'indred lives being lost. From inquiries we have made, we have reason to fear this rumour is not without foundation, though various reports still continue.—Cambridge Advertiser of yesterday. CHARTISM. We recommend those persons who have taken up at second-hand and on credit opinions about Chartism and the doctrines inculcated by Chartist speakers, to read with attention the following brief outline of an address delivered by Mr. Collins at Loughborough, in Leicee tershire, on Monday, to a meeting held there in favour of the convicted political offenders : Mr. COLLINS said he was glad to see that notwith standing the taunt of ignorance which their enemies had thrown out against them, they began to manifest a pro per knowledge of the manner to manage the business for which they were assembled. They would recollect that in the Market-place he endeavoured to reply to some of the objections that were urged against the emancipation of the people from slavery. The extreme inclemency of the weather did not permit him to enter fully into the matter ; he should, therefore, avail him self of the present opportunity to resume the subject. One of the principal objections made was the ignorance of the working classes. While he maintained that those classes were no more ignorant than any other, he maintained that he was entitled to a full measure of justice, whether he were learned or whether he were ignorant ; that the right to freedom was not de pendent on the degree of intelligence he might pos sess, nor on what religion he professed, nor on what part of the land he might be born in, but he maintained his right to freedom and justice because he was a man. It was ridiculous for those men to tell them that if they possessed the suffrage they would not know how to use it. He wanted to know who had enabled them to see into futurity ? How could they tell whether he should use it right or wrong? Who was to be the judge of his own interest but himself? Who was to tell whether he voted right or wrong but. himself ? He could not imagine how their opponents could tell how they would use the franchise until they bad used it. He wanted to ask if the poor did not m anage th e i r s i c k societies in a proper manner ? If a rogue was dis covered in the committee, or a knave in the society, did they not turn him out? Look at the manage ment of the Odd Fellows Society throughout its various ramifications through the kingdom, and tell him if the manner of conducting their affairs did not prove them capable of managing the franchise ? If a man wished to raise his fellow man in the scale of society, did he begin to tell him that he was dishonest, and ignorant, and brutish ? That was not the way to raise him. They must take him by the hand, and treat him as a brother ; they must show that they have respect for him, and he will then begin to have respect for himself. When a man loses the respect of his neighbour, he soon loses all re spect for himself ; he thinks he may as well be as bad as he is thought to be, and becomes a degraded and use less member of society. He could illustrate the subject by a thousand circumstances, but one would suffice. Suppose a man goes out in the morning with his shoes nicely blacked, he will take particular care to keep out of the dirt. But see him after walking about all day. He finds it impossible to keep them clean, and, becoming less careful, he dashes through thick and thin. But they were not only charged with ignorance ; but were also charged with immorality. That was a charge which required the serious attention of the working man. To a certain extent immorality did prevail among the working classes, but he denied that it prevailed more amongst them than amongst the aristocratic and middle classes. He had no hesitation in saying, that when he was in Warwick Gaol there were as many committed to that place of middle class men as of work ing men. There are men in every commercial country who neither belong to the middle nor working classes, who are able to get their living without work or any honest means, but who go about from fair to fair and from races to races, seeking whom they may devour. He considered that they did not belong to the working classes any more than to the middle classes. Deducting, therefore, the thimble-rigger and his fellows, there were as many of the middle class as of the working class com mitted to gaol. Having had for a father a man who was a most ingenious mechanic, and being afterwards ap prenticed to a trade which gave him a knowledge of all the mechanical power of the kingdom, he was enabled to obtain a good living for himself and family, but when he saw those around him who were as industrious as himself, as good neighbours, as good husbands and fathers, enduring wretchedness and misery, he could not bear it. He had seen in the house of the working-man a pittance so small as not to be enough to satisfy the wants of his family. He had seen the wife, prompted by her affection for her husband, end by the desire that he should hive sufficient to keep up his strength to work for his family, eat far less than was needful to support nature. He bad seen the husband act the same part that the wile might have rather more to support her while giving suck to her child, and through this struggle of affection, a portion of the meal which either could have eaten, has been put away. Was that a proof of the want of social feelings ? Was that a proof of the want of humanity ? Yet that was a common occurrence. When the poor man has striven hard to get a larger pica, to make his friends comfortable at a holiday time, is not a portion of it always sent to his poor or sick neighbour, who may be in distress ? Was that a proof of want of benevolence, or watt of humanity ? (Cheers.) If the rich man gave a guinea to erect a church or support an hospital, his name was emblazoned :n gold letters on a black ground, and his fame was spread as a pattern of generosity, although he only gave out of his superfluity. But who inserted it in the news papers when the poor woman, who had been labouring hard all day, went to watch all night by the bed side of a ( t C h i e lee c r o s C ) ntry, and yet Yes ! In e v er y poor neighbour? Who published that? Y e t suc h t hi ngs i t l v a e m re le o t t , ' et v ie il r l y ag d e a , y aon cc d urr o e vy nc n e. l7 - n they have the unblushing man effrontery t o say t h e work ing is inhuman and immoral.--(Shaine.) They slander the people because they cannot persuade them to love slavery. He w as bold to say, t h ey m i g h t fo rt if y every city with soldiery ; they might fill every town with blue-coated gendarmerie; they might turn the peaceful vales of England into one great military ar senal ; and yet they would not be able to put down the rising spirit of liberty:—(Cheers.) Th e y m i g ht fill their dungeons with victims, and the abode of the poor man with groans, and tears, and sighs, but they would never make him friendly with slavery.--(" No, no," and cheers.) Annual Parliaments are objected to because if a fresh Parliament were elected avers' year, they would not be able to mature their plans,' nor bring a change of servants every year , f or if io rin n g o a t ny il t n h p i i n y z to perfection. But Annual Parli a ments chang e every year ? H e they had been good servants they wou ld b e emp l oye d ttaleletuyree if they c h ange d th e i r again. Did they enrage their steward s or d omest i c ser they w ere on l y engaged s 3., , c, a or n uv t il s idn f o tas r s kl everyi ? e wa o lt l eek ß r ~u n at did although riu for short periods ? No ! When th a t per i o d exp i re d t h ey *aid nothing about change if they were good servants, but just went on as usual. If a man h a d a b a d servant would he be plagued with him any longer than he could help? He would say, that if their representatives were good servants, they would be glad to shake hands with their constituents every year. But there was another objection that the having of elections every year would keep the country in a continual ferment ; the turmoil of one election would not cease before another came. Now that was not a fact. They bad plenty of turmoil and party disturbances at elections at present, but that was caused by their taking place so seldom. It was worth the while of those gentleman to bribe and purchase voters, be cause when once elected they had them for a long period. But would they be so anxious to carry on corruption if nothing was to be gained by it ? He had heard an anecdote of a little boy who had been much neglected by his friends, and allowed to run about the streets covered with filth, This boy was taken pity of by some kind person and thoroughly cleansed, and his hair combed. On the next day he was seen with his hair as rough as usual, and on being asked why he did riot comb it, replied, " He was not going to have it combed at present, because it lugged him so the day befo•e."---(Laughter.) He did not know that frequent combing would prevent the lugging. It was a simple truth that " short reckonings make long friends." From the time of Alfred the Great to the betrayal of this country by the clergy to William the Norman, falsely called the Conqueror, they had annual parliaments. Now, the taxes are indirect, yet every man pays them, and ought to be entitled to vote. When the taxes were direct they were put on according to the abilities of the people to pay them, and every man kn ew h ow much he paid. But enough could not be got by this direct tax, so they tried the power of fraud, an d i ntro d uc ed indirect taxtaxation. He would next say a li tt l e con cerning the abolition of the Property Qualification for Member s of Parliament. When the Act was passed in the reign of Queen Anne an immediate change took place in the Parliament. In stead of being a n assem bl y o f wise men it became one of rich men. He co u ld perce i ve a great difference in its con stitution, and he denounced it as an encroachment on the liberties of the nation, which ought no t to have been sub mitted to. Th en if they did not send rich men, they”say the must pay poorer pers ons to represe nt them. " Oh objectors, " can you imagine that men of high intel lect,submit to r ece i ve wages '? They would think they unblemi s h e d h onour , and keen sensibility, will should not be looked on with so much respect." H . e would ask w h et h er the J u d ges would be looked on with more respect if they " there is so much knowled g e required i n a Judge, wer e not paid fo r their services ? " Oh !" s a y theye, both of the laws and human na ture, that it qu i te a l ters the case." Then they meant to say it required less knowledge, philosophy, and attention, to make the laws than to administer them. — (Laughter.) Those gentlemen who have such fine the Highlander who applie d feelings and keen sensibilities as to refuse to be paid servants, have no objection to paying themselves,. and that pretty smartly too. It was something . like gentleman in the Lowlands for employment, and being , asked what • t replied, " I winne truble ye wages he should expec , . for musket wages as I can aye be pick . np eneuch . for mysel."—(L aughter.) Now that is . tne way with these gentlemen, they would like to be picking up for themselves.--(Laughter.) These then were the dread fulto a doctrines of the Chartists ! lie recommended them to talk of them when in their shops at work, or taking their walk on Sunday with their friends, or at home with their families. He never advocated violence, but he sympathised with those who were goaded on by the miseries they endured, to acts of violence, and he felt the more when he took into consideration the state of education in the country. In their childhood they had little guns and pistols put into their hands to play at French and English ; books were put into their hands, inculcating the same sentiments, and when they walked out they had the same feelings put into their heads by Nelson monuments and streets, and Wellington-squares ; they had thanksgiving mingled with their public services, because thousands of wives were made K idows, and children fatherless, and prayers were offered up for the success of armies; if they went to social meetings songs of war were sung ; so that, whether in their childish plays or in their devotions, or in their walks in the streets, or in their hours of recreation, mili tary glory was the continual theme ; while the names of such men as the philanthrophic Howard, or Pestalozzi, were scarcely ever heard. Then if a man thus educated, who saw his wife and children starving with cold and hun ger, had recourse to those military means to rescue them from their condition, he was the greatest brute in exis tence. Though he was sorry that such means should ever have been resorted to, he could not help pitying those who had thus been led on. Had those present had the means of providing comfortably for their fami lies, he might have come there for nothing, and until that took place, they might attempt to put down Chartism in vain. No one who went to prison for Chartism, ever came out less a Chartist, than when he went in ; for the mind of man could not be acted upon but by the force of reason and argument. Poor and despised as the people were, neither the Whigs nor Tories could call a public meeting in any part of the empire, and carry their resolutions. THE LATE CAPTAIN HEWETT, OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FAIRY. " TO THE EDITOR OP THE ' HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH.' " Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1841. _ _ _ " Sir,—l have been requested to solicit the advantage of your colamns, to circulate a knowledge of the dis tressing case of the widow of the late Captain Hewett, who was lost in the Fairy, surveying vessel, in the great gale of the 13th of November last ; and I feel confident that the friendly feeling that you bear to the service, will prompt you to render your powerful aid in so good a cause. " Were the case an ordinary one, I might have hesi tated to intrude it upon the public attention, however deeply I might have been interested in the parties ; for I hold that appeals of this nature should never be made on light grounds. Unhappily there is nothing uncom mon in the widow of a gallant and highly meritorious naval officer being left with eight children almost entirely unprovided for ; but it is seldom that an instance occurs, which has such strong claims on e public favour as the present. " That an officer who has devoted his whole life to the execution of his professional duties, and has at last perished in their actual performance, is well entitled to our respect, no one will deny, nor that his destitute widow and orphans are objects of our compassion. Still, unless he shall have performed either some bril liant or some useful public service, his family can claim little more than our sympathy, and must be left to the care of those who are nearest and dearest, aided by the casual assistance of others whose generous na tures judge of such matters by their own intrinsic dis tress. " The case of Mrs. Hewett, however, and her eight delicate children (three of whom are at this trying mo ment very ill), stands on such very different grounds, that I cannot doubt, when the services of her late hus band become generally known, she will be promptly and effectually relieved by the public. " When an officer distinguishes himself in battle, the country is never slow to acknowledge their sense of ob ligation to him and to reward him for augmenting the national renown ; or if he should fall in action, sound policy inclines them to provide for his family. But there are other services fully as beneficial to the coun try, and as essential to the advancement of its true glory, as those which figure in the Gazette, and which, therefore, are no ►ess justly entitled to public favour. Of these the silent, unseen, protracted, often perilous, and always ardous labours, of the maritime surveyor, are entitled, on many grounds, to a high place in our esteem. There arc perhaps no exertions of any of her Majesty's servants, which produce more decided prac tical bent fits to the community—none of which the good is more substantial at the moment, or more permanently useful in its character—none of which the results are more readily available in practice—nor any labours which require, at every stage of their pro gress, more skill, knowledge, patience, perseverance, and above all, good faith and genuine public spirit, than the works of the hydrographer. This will be un derstood when it is recollected that in the course of almost every other branch of the public service occa sional inaccuracies or neglects may occur without essen tially vitiating the result. " Success," said Lord Nel son, speaking of war, " hides a multitude of blunders." But this will not apply to surveying ; for no eventual gloss or pretension, no elegance of execution of the maps, will make up for the smallest antecedent blunder in the details. Accordingly, a conscientious surveyor, like Hewett, makes it a sacred duty to superintend every cast of the lead, to verify every compass bearing by his own eye, to regulate and employ his chronometers with his own bands, and to observe the celestial bodies with instruments the merits of which he has himself proved. Finally, out of an immense mass of carefully accumu lated materials scientifically reduced, he has to lay down his charts, that is, to adapt his work tcrthe common use, not only of his own trading countrymen, but of the ma ritime world at large. " It will scarcely be asked, what is the use of all this minute care? or in what way are the public concerned in it ? or why should they owe so large a measure of gratitude to this particular officer, as to be called upon to assist his widow and orphans ? I shall, however, now show what has been the extent and the nature of his public services, of which their very great utility de pends upon the zeal and fidelity with which they were carried on, The character of the surveyor, indeed, is the only guarantee we can have for the correctness of such a work, and it is upon this well-established reputa tion that any claims of his family can rest. " I pass over Captain Hewett's surveys of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, and other distant places, because, though admirable in their way, and very useful to those who trade with those nations, they are less calcu lated to make an impression on your readers, and, in point of fact, are less extensively useful than his labours nearer home. In all the wide circuit of waters navigated by British ships, there is, I believe, no region more sailed over than what is called the North Sea, lying between the east coast of Great Britain and the Continent, nor any with which it is more important to the mariner to be well acquainted. It is thickly strewed over with dangerous shoals, many of them out of sight of land ; some lying directly in the fair way of navigation, and others far to the right and left of it, but not the less dangerous on that account to vessels driven out of their course by stress of weather. " In 1818, Captain Hewett commenced the gigantic task of surveying this immense network of shoals, and he followed it up with a minuteness and an exact. ness heretofore unequalled in this or any other country In the process of this most useful undertaking numerous dangerous banks were for the first time examined, and their places correctly ascertained ; others, which had no existence but in the fears of fishermen and traders, were swept off our charts. All the passages among the shoals were carefully sounded and rendered avail able by means of intelligible sailing directions—innu merable buoys were laid down, and lighthouses erected along the coast, to guide the mariner by day and by night ; and I have just learned that the Trinity-house have borne honourable and substantial testimony to the value of Captain Hewett's suggestions on these points, and to the singular clearness and seamanlike precision of all his operations, by awarding 2004 to his widow. " In the midst of this career of public usefulness Cap tain Hewett was suddenly cut off, and the great work which he had almost completed most unfortunately in terrupted. And here it may be interesting to pause a moment to consider how different the positions are in which an officer in command of a ship may be placed. There is not in the world a more glorious situation, or one upon which the country at large looks with greater admiration, than that of a captain leading his ship into action, it may be to death, it must be to honour. On the other hand, what stretch of imagination can reach or sympathy embrace the anguish and horror of a com manding officer in the situation of Captain Hewett in the gale when the poor Fairy foundered ? All the skill and fortitude which had availed him so often in rescuing his crew from perils he now sees to be utterly useless ; wave after wave beats over the devoted ship, tearing the masts away,and washing all his gallant companions overboard ; finally, the swamped vessel completely over whelmed, sinks under his feet. " May we not well suppose that along with his last mortal agonies, and the deep sorrow at being thus wrenched away from the world in the prime of life, he might yet feel supported by the reflection, that, as he had always done his duty by his country, and contri buted materially, by his ind►vidual exertion, to its inte rests, his country would not now desert those whom he could no longer assist ; and that, though no human hand could dry his widow's tears, it might still make her heart to sing for joy,' by rendering the office of ' a father to the fatherless.' " As, however, it forms, comparatively, an inconsider able part of my present object to work on the feelings of your readers, I shall not pursue this subject further, nor intrude unnecessarily on the sacred privacy of the desolate widow's grief, except to state, that her eldest son, a midshipman, and her brother, the master of the ship, perished along with her husband in the Fairy. " It is enough I hope, for mo to state in conclusion, which I do upon the best authority, that her means, even with the highest, pension that the rules of the State allow, must prove totally inadequate to maintain her in the po sition which, as an officer's wife, she has hitherto been AC. custorned to enjoy. Neither can Mrs. Hewitt, unless as sisted by the pull, e, hope to bring up her children as they would have been brought up had their father's life been preserved to them and to his country. Let it be re collected also, that although this appeal is made in part to the generous sympathies of the public, it is not less directed to their sense of justice. For, if it be true, as I pledge myself it is, that Captain Hewett has ren dered very important and permanently useful profes sional services to the nation, without his ever having had either time or the means of laying up any provision for his family, they are certainly well entitled to protec tion, and to the heartiest assistance we can render them. It is gratifying to be able to communicate, that two gentlemen have already come forward to assist Mrs. Hewitt, one with the offer of a cadets'aip, the other with a presentation to Christ's Hospital, for her sons. " Subscriptions for Mrs. Hewett will be received by Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer-office, Admiralty ; by Captain Drew, of the Trinity-house ; Mr. Thomas Lawrence, Post-office ; and by the London and West minster Bank, Waterloo-place, and Lothbury, London ; also, by Lieutenant Cook, R.N., Addiscombe ; and I shall be happy to receive and transmit to the Commit tee of gentlemen acting on behalf of the widow, any subscriptions which may be forwarded to me at Pot►s mouth. I have the honour to be your obedient servant, BASIL HALL, Captain, R.N." " P.S. Jan 9.—1 copy the fallowing paragraph from a circular which has not been published Subscrip tions will be thankfully received at the bank of Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross ; of Messrs. Wil liams, Deacon, and Labouchere, Birchin•lane ; of Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Stone, No. 68, Lombard street ; also by Mr. Robert Miller, Blackheath-park ; Mr. Thomas Lawrence, General Pos'-office ; Captain Drew, Trinity-house ; Mr. John Walker, hydrogra pher, India-house ; Major Robe, R. E., Tower ; Mr. Thomas Chapman, Lloyd's ; Mr. George Babb, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire ; Captain Basil Hall, R.N., Portsmouth ; and Lieutenant Cook, R.N., of Addis combe College, or at No. 32. Sackvillc-street ; from whom any further information may be obtained. " The Earl of Galloway, Colonel Conolly, Comman der R. M., Woolwich, and Mr. Charles Brodrick, have very kindly consented to their names being given as trustees, for payment into the Bank of England, on account of Mrs. Hewett, of such sums as shall be re ported to them by the above bankers, on or before the Ist of May next, to be payable on her account. Re mittances before the Ist of May to the said bankers should be made ' to the Trustees in behalf of the Widow of the late Captain Hewett, R.N.'" ESCAPE OF GAS AT STRASBURG. A melancholy accident occurred at Strasburg a few days since, in consequence of a great quantity of gas escaping from a faulty pipe into the rooms where a tradesman and his wife, with their servant and three children were sleeping. All except the father and mother were suffocated. The Courrier of Strasburg gives the following particulars of this occurrence, which it states has thrown the whole town into alarm : " About ten o'clock on Saturday morning M. Horst, a teacher of the piano, uneasy at finding that the house in which he lived was infected with a strong smell of gas, sent for the chief agent of the Company to ascer tain the cause. They began by, examining the ground floor, and on coming to the kitchen of an apartment occupied by the family of M. Beringer, a dealer in glass and other articles from the Black Forest, stifled groans and other sounds of a dying person were heard from the adjoining room. It then occurred to M. Horst that, although the day was so far advanced, not one of this family had been seen stirring ; he called, therefore, for assistance, and had the room whence the ominous sounds issued forced open. It was in darkness, the shutters being still closed. - When light was ad mitted the following horrible spectacle presented itself : Six persons were lying in different positions, either dead or in the last agonies. M. Beringer was lying in the middle of the chamber with his face to the ground, entirely dressed except his coat and waistcoat. Near him, and in front of a stove, lay the servant, a young woman, completely clothed. The wife, who was also dressed, was lying on her bed, with the youngest child, a little gill seven years old. On a mattress, near the window, was one of the two sons, fifteen years of age, with his drawers and waistcoat on, and near him, on the floor his brother in his shirt. All were foaming at the mouth, had their features contracted, and of a violet colour, and their limbs distorted and stiff, as if they had been suffering from violent convulsions. Not one of them showed any signs of life except the father, the rattling in whose throat had given the alarm. Medical assistance was given, but all were dead except the father and mother. It was afterwards found that a considerable issue of gas had taken place from the pipes into the house, and had no doubt caused the accident. In the evening M. Beringer was still alive, but was not expected to survive ; his wife re mained in a state of delirium." FURTHER PARTICULARS. The Courrier du Bas Rhin gives the following fur ther details of the recent melancholy accident at Stras burg :—M. Beringer died on Sunday morning. The post inortein examinations of the five dead bodies—the servant, the three children, and their father,—made by several of the faculty, have established beyond all doubt that they died from suffocation. Mine. Berin ger has recovered her senses, and appears out of danger, but has one of her sides paralysed. She has bean able to give the following account :—ln the course of Friday (New Year's-day) the whole family became indisposed, without being able to attribute it to any cause. They were attacked with giddiness in the head, and the little girl with voinitings. She and her children always slept in a chamber above, and M. Beringer in the room en the ground floor, adjoining the warehouse ; but, as they were unwell, and there was a fire in the room, they resolved to pass the night together down stairs. At eight o'clock the children were put to bed, and Mme. Beringer was preparing to do the same, when she was seized with a violent vertigo, and was laid by her husband and the servant on the bed, from which moment she lost all sensibility. It appears that the lives . of herself and M. Beringer were preserved till the next morning only by their having afterwards fallen on the ground near the kitchen-door, under which a small stream of air was able to enter." STATE OF TRADE. (From the Alancliester Guardian.) In consequence of the excitement which prevailed in the Liverpool Cotton Market on Monday, and the ad vance of price consequent upon it, there was a very uneasy and irregular market here yesterday. The spinners and manufacturers, scarcely knowing at what price they might be able to replace their cotton, were not disposed to sell except at an advance, which the buyers were by no means disposed to give ; and the coriz:equence was that a very limited business was done, especially in reeled yarn. For goods the demand was sornea hat better ; and though the manufacturers were not able to realize the advance which they had at first demanded, some sales were made in 27-inch printing cloth, at an improvement of I,ld. per piece on the rate of the preceding Tuesday. Both spinners and manufacturers, however, are now in a worse condition than before the late advance in cotton, as the prices of their produce have not increased in proportion ; and the buyers generally deem the recent excitement in Liverpool entirely unfounded, and do not permit it to influence their operations. In deed, the accounts of a short crop of cotton, upon which the speculation in Liverpool appears to be founded, arc generally disbelieved here. No doubt, the severe weather, experienced in the United States. in the beginning of the last month, has in some degree ex tended to Georgia and Carolina ; and the produce of those States may be expected to fall considerably below that of last year, when the season was more favourable, perhaps, than was ever before known ; but, so far as we arc aware, there is no reason to suppose that the frost has extended into the valley of the Mississippi. Indeed, the most recent accounts from the ports of the Gulf of Mexico speak of the weather as being decidedly favourable, and the receipts of cotton large ; and, unless there should be some considerable falling-off in that quar ter, of which, at present, we know nothing, the injury to the crop in Georgia and Carolina will not account for the prodigious falling off which appears to be calcu lated upon at Liverpool. The whole produce of those States, in the year 1839, was only 600,000 bales ; and if the coming crop should amount only to two-thirds of that quantity, or 400,000 bales, there must be a dimi nution of nearly 400,000 bales in the Gulf States also, before the crop can be reduced, as alleged, from 2,177,000 bales in 1832, to 1,600,000 in 1840 ; and we can gather nothing from the recent letters from New Orleans and Mobile, to induce us to suppose that any such falling off is likely to be experienced, or that the entire crop will fall short of the previous estimate of 1,800,000 to 1,850,000 bales. It is generally stated that the speculation in Liverpool, after the arrival of the packet, on Monday, was commenced by purchases on American : account, which may possibly be true ; but we believe there is no doubt, that, up to the very latest dates from all parts of the United States, cotton was seliing there at prices, which, when compared with the current rates here, would leave a fair profit to the importer ; and it seems strange, that, under such circumstances, the speculations of American merchants should be made in Liverpool rather than in New York or New Orleans. This, at least, is the view very gene rally taken of the matter in this town ; and if the pre sent excitement in Liverpool should lead to any material advance in prices, the effect will be a cessation of buy ing, except for immediate use, until either the importers and speculators at Liverpool give way, or the buyers of goods and yarn consent to give the advance which is necessary to remunerate the spinner and manufacturer. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 11. —Though today has been whet is called the " First Market," we have had but very little change in the de mand for goods. Upon the whole, there has been a little improvement, but no alteration in the prices. The wool market rearanis steady, and prices looking up. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. P.—This was a tolerably brisk market, especially in low, plain, anti fancy woollens, for which the demand contia nu &ated, arising principally from foreign orders. in ()Oleg descriptions there is not much animation ; but, on the average, a fair general business is doing. Prices still continuo firm, but low, which makes it difficult to rea- lise a profit on wool In the warehouses, these is little or no change. Stocks are not large, and all the mills are working full time. THE BATTLE OF THE BEGGARS A scene, at once singular and ludicrous, occurred last week in New-road. A couple of those blind mendicants who are in the habit of perambulating the streets accompanied by dogs holding little caps in their mouths for the purpose of receiving the donations of the charitable, happened to be pursuing their " but with this difference, that while the one endea soured to procure a livelihood by vending those necessary ap pendages to the female toilet termed " stay-laces„ . " the other contented himself with exhibiting his sight tless orbs, and simply uttering the pathetic cry of " poor blind!" The two chanced to be going in oppt .site directions, and on the same side of the way, " tappi,ng" the pavement with their iron-shod sticks, and varying the monotony of their " taps" with the alternate cries of " poor blind" and " stay-lace." It appears that a sort of rivalship exists between them, and on nearing each other it was observed that the " tapping" be came much more energetic, and the tone of their voices much louder and less supplicatory. The very curs seemed to partake in the excitement of their masters, for they simultaneously dropped their 'caps, pricked up their cars, and commenced tugging away at their strings " like mad." The eagerness of the " quadru peds" quickly brought the " bipeds" in contact, and the " scrimmage" commenced by the animals worrying each other in a style that would have thrown the veriest costermonger in all Christendom into ecstacies. At first the united efforts of the beggars were directed to separating their four-legged companions, and which, after considerable difficulty, was effected, And, each dog being secured under the arm of its respective master, the following colloquy commenced, to .the infi nite amusement of the crowd who began to collect .round the belligerents. " An' its you that ought to be ashamed of yersclf, ye dirty Scotch tbafe, to be after taking! the bread out of the mouth of myself and the children, by' coming with your mongrel baste across the bate of a honest man. An' its bamboozling the ladies ye are,. with yer dirty laces as rotten as a dry rush from the. bog of Ballyshannon. Och ! and it's the treadmill that's too good for the likes of you, ye dirty spalpeen of a Scotch beggar." " Whist, whist," retorted the other, " ye're downright daft, man, or ye wudna' be just ax,- posing yerself in sic fashion. Canna' ye just quietly gang ye'se way and let me gang mine, without fashem yersel aboot me an' my wee bits o' laces ? Beggar, too ! na, nit, I'm nae beggar. I dinna gang aboot wi' a tang face and a loud whine like you Irish lunzies (beggars), with Dan O'Connell at the head o' ye." This was enough. The word" Dan" had an electric effect upon the nerves of the Irishman, who, guided by the speaker's voice, dealt him a blow with a stick that sent his hat whirling to the distance of several yards a nd left a mark on the Scotchman's brow, that looked any shing but " cannie." The blow was immediately re turned, and a curious sight it was to see these two blind men striking at each other, and to witness the sagacity with which they sometimes warded off the blows, by an' ticipatin,,, ,, where they might fall. However, some friends of the men, arriving at the spot, separated the combatants, who a short time afterwards were seer' " tapping" their respective ways, as orderly as thougil no interruption had taken place, to the well-known cries of " poor blind" and " stay-lace." CORN AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN for the Week ended Jan. 1840, made up from ibe Returns the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Sngland su Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat ...... 61s. 9d. Oats Barley 33s. 6I d. Rye 326 6d. I Pea5e.........a 1 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Week ending WHEAT. • BARLEY.I OATS. I RYE. BEANS. I ez.so o _ r Dec. 4 59 7 32 7 22 .:1 34 11 43 0 41 11 18 ...... 25 6O 1 32 4 21 5 33 5 40 9 40 a . Jan. 1 8 .9 lt 61 9 33 6 21 6 32 6 39 10 , IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEE%!,4 Wheat OO4. 2d. Oats ......... 21s. 7d. Beans 40— 1 7 3. Barley 325 . I td. Rye DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. n di Wheat......... gds. Bd. 1 I Oats Barley l3s. 10d. I Aye THE MARKETS. COAL Ships arrived since 4. 3. d. 11. 9 Adair's Leaze's Main l7 6 Walls End Hatton ........... . rt e (r Tanfield Moor • '22 0 Walls End Pemberton ...... 14 .i l 9 West Hartley .........., 2O 6 Walls End Russell's Hetton 4 I Wylam 2O 0 Walls End Stewart's ..... ••• .. ; 4 Walls End Clennell Walls End Killingwerth Walls End Riddell's a"3 0 Mails End Seymour Toes :,7,' 0 Walls End Walker 22 9 Walls End West tlettOn ... - t t i',' 0 W. E. Braddyll'sliettott.. , 24 9 Ga • nan; Stone ........... ... ..... Ti 0 Walls End Haswell. 24 9 Mithley Walls End Hedley 23 0 MARKET. last market-day, 3. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. ---" Wheat. '— Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Beans. Fea°l" ----..-- ..' I Per Quarter. s. to s. s. top. s. to s. a. to s. 5,.. to 40 Boston Braintree B. ighton 59 '73 '2B 36 22 23 f,'9 47 Jo oy Chichester ! 1 3 2 38 61 — — 43 --- 4 4 Dunmew l6l 63 28 36 '24 30 35 41 40 • Grantham Grimsby 53 60 35 39 22 26 43 44 -' le' Hailsham - / Hitchin 5B 60 30 38 i 22 30 28 3! - " 4 4 _, Ipswich 53 60 30 34 24 28 38 40 _, 35 I s Lewes lB 66 34 36 21 23 34 38 4. Lynn 54 64 36 39 21 '2B 42 44 '-" % Maidstone '59 66 36 39 215 32 40 50 -'" 41 Norwich Petworth „„ 4„' Rom ford 53 79 22 33 20 28 34 46 j' . i; Sandwich 56 (37 34 4.3 27 34 33 45 s °. ° Tnetford 56 59 28 32 24 3(1 36 40 4 v Wisbech „ es) 66 28 34 24 30 44 45 -" ar Witham `.7 67 2E 34 25 25 36 47 3 6 3 4 Yarmouth 6O 63 27 31 24 30 40 42 39 Li V F.RPOOL CORN M 4 RKET.—Jan. 12 04 0 1 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b..... -- Red 6 0 6A . 1 Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 0 0 a ---- Red '7 3 10 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 9 9 s i Irish Foreign . __ . . _ 0 U fi g 4 . ran. 12 on 5 ' Us. 6d, t° g .... 6 0 6 • .... 610 g 8 0 0 fi 7 3 10 ~..• 7 9 6 , t ,•••• 9 9 s ••• 3 0 0 A 0 0 6 g ifi 3 10 g .... 3 6 0 0 48 0 44 v a 42 0 48 " 0 42 0 44 0 42 0 / 40 0 60 0 45 0 48 0 38 0 gl • 26 3 f4B 34 0 40 36 0 0 45 BARLEY, Engl►sh, Malting, per Imp. quarter , - Scotch and Irish, pci Nibs. Fcedmg BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter - Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter -- Foreign FLOUR, English, per '2Bolb. - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2.101bs •• INDIAN CORM, per 480Ib. Ilse, per imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET Wheat, White (per Quarter) s6s. 563. B 9„ lied 46i 58s. f 9 '.' ats 5 4 5 • 66 " Foreign __ 4. • a ig. ' Barley, Malting 3os. 3'29. •'- 30 , ' Grinding 263. 28s. Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White 3 .4 4 4 14 2 6 01 i s s. ;: . : 7ae. "4: Linseed Flour (per sack) Rapeseed per 10 quarters) CHELTENHAM MARKETS. . 1 ,Oft f f Per Bushel. a . d . to 8 . d . P er lb . 6 Wheat 7 0 9 0 Beef 6 F Barley 4 0 4 6 Mutton • I 8 Oats 4 6 5 0 Veal Beans Pease 6 0 8 0 Lamb .0.. Hay 41.10s to 51. Os. Od. per 1011. CAN'rERBU RI MARKET. tn ..* Wheat, white„........... 60s. to 68s. —..... 01d............. --g• r o ..A red„.................. 575. to 645. Old.. .... s , lo .. .,s. Barley, Malting..,,,,. 81s. to 3tis. ........ Grinding.. --.• to Oats Beans ••••••••••••• -- ...., ..-• 355, to 495. woy••• Old.•••••••• 0.. ..... ,L 5. is 0 ..... Pease owwww....e.ne.w. 425. to . ...11. ...0. Grey ...,...,. W .. 0 CHELMSFORD MARKET. 0 t°4 , 67 to it Oats ... , ............ ... ..... 6 9 57 54 Pease, Gray ...... ....... 0 33 56 Whit e......... .... 0 36 37 Beans, Tick ............ ...e se_ 28 82 Mangan . Wheat, White __ _ Red Barley Chevalier Grinding v cie for a ,,; SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to Silve r , 17 tS rability, equal in appearance. T a bl e Sp oons o r rf:delt,'", Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, 4s. per dozen; Table LiS,'„f ey 1 inches high, is. per pai r ; th e particular mote' i f V/ these articles are made i s so lik e silver, that it owe °l ', 2l 'se from it by the sta m p ; every art i c l e ma d. i n silver i` - tured in this material by A tre et 're RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Ox.fer . Loo .l Who, to prevent imposition, confine the sale of it to ° Catalogues of prises gratis. Tvesairme " BIRTHS oe . i I 6 On the 11th inst., at Kennin g t on , th e l a dy el ". V if' Esq., of a son. 1%4 0' On the 11th i ns t., at Ken s i ng to n - grave l -pits, e Callcott, of a daughter. .. o f' On the 12th inst., at Whetstone, the lady of O. ' il (te nig 0 ., of a so. n the 12th inst., at Dulwich-wood House, S urre J Robertson, of a son. I e-I At Broxmore-park, Wiltshire, Mrs. Bristow, le"" 0 1 il Bristow, Esq., of a daughter. Ir ' MARRIED. tb° fte o l l o i On Monday last, at All Saints' Church, by %), . d i Symons, Vicar, Mr. Henry Flucke, only son of r te_., , r of High-town, Hereford, pastry-cook and bakenev. r 1 Charlotte Winifred, second daughter of the 11 ~,,,,e, Trumper, Curate of Clifford, Herefordshire. 06 ' 0 014 On tke 19th ult., at Malta, H. Unwin. Esq. , °f f Civil Service, to Margaret Louisa, second daughter 0 0, r , t Forbes, Esq., of Ham, Surrey. ' la° lilr . On the 11th i ns t., a t S t . M ary ' s , I s lington , late the is Banner. of Li ver p oo l, t o M argaret, d aug ht e r of -- o f Sutherland, of the same place. 9 444 f . On the 12th inst. Moses Quixano Henriques, toe , maica, to Elizab e th 'Maly, daughter of W. Lu ddilig 1 DIED. ..., r ib,' . 4 On the 13th ult., at Norwich, Joseph F . Il e aged 4S. On the 18th of August last, on board her AbkiV ti ert g ° 9 -0 1 lesley, in the China seas, Charles Wheatley ~J,,, Ist° i t mate of the above named ship, (youngest son oI t" r. 11. Newbolt, Chief Judge at Madras. par , On the 3d inst., in Albany-street, Reg ent's- cree H , asnmans On , professor of music. Esq., la th te e o l f th ve i r n e s e t s . t , er E sh lialh, widow Dl` „ .1 , i Worcestershire, aged 70 , of the I.(fi 00 yOVT;Ai London: Printed and Publi<hed by AVOW() SI4I, No. )12, Strand, at The Sun Officer IC°. y l .14, the county of Aliddleiex.—Thursday Jariu" „,, " EVENING TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1811. 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