The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

MORNING EDI I:10N SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Morning Post.) The Morning Chronicle, justly apprehensive that the British Parliament will not tolerate for another year the continuance of an unconstitutional fraud, destructive of the rights of the legitimate constituenciee of Ireland, and at once derogatory to the character and adverse to the wholesenne action of the entire Legislature, has begun to prepare for the dangerous conflict in which it foresees its -party, which maintains and abets these flegrant ~buses and incalculable evils, will speedily be involved, by opening against Lord Stanley, the determined and irresistible antagonist of perjury and fraud, the flood gates of tout and senseless invective. Lord Stanley and the strong and virtuous party in the House of Commons will see it, this conduct of the Ministerial organ a new proof tJeat his Lordship isa vigorous and forwidable assail ant, P is sure to be a triumphant one, of the abominable corn options and vices which pollute tie registration sys tv'm of Ireland, and pervert it, from its legitimate and con eeitutianel purpose of preserving and purifying, to the wicked and pernicious purpose of vitiating and dsstrov iee the national representation. We cannot resist the temptation to cull a few of the choice flowers of Minis terial eloquence with which it is thought decent to pr ima,. n nieeaure the principle of which has the sanction of a sure majority in both Houses of Parliament, and !tie enactment of which Ministers were on'y able to post pone in the last Session of Pardement by the fraudulent iutroduction of a measure of their own, avowedly for the same object, but never meaet to be carried. " Infamous attempt," " Impudent pretext," "Outrageous aggres sion," " High crime and misdemeanour," " Pestilent heatility to Ireland," " Tory harpies," " Unclean birds," " Velgar assassins," " Viper." Th es e are a few of' the amenities by which the organ of the Administration shows its respect, and that of its patrons, for the Inliority of both Houses of Parliament, and seeks to me pare the Irish people for peaceable and dutiful sub mission to a future enactment of the Legislature. But the duty of obedience to the Legislature is inculcated, and the feelings c alculated to produce it are instilled, by this organ of the Administration in terms yet more direct and i m pressive. The Registration Bill is, me cerding to our Ministerial monitor, " an attack upon the vital 'principle of Irish liberty, and will, of course, be en contacted with the tierce determination of men fieliting for their being. The vital spark will survive his (Lord Ststiley's) envious thrust, and serve to excite a fl true that will scorch and blast him ! The people of Ire lend ohallenge him ; strong in their cause and in their muioti, they call for their destroyer, hold forth the tem pered steel, and bid the viper try his teeth again." From ail this, for it is not mere raving, rational people eviti draw only one inference, viz., that the present Ministers of the Crown have arrired at the conviction that they must go out, and have begun already to ope rate upon the established system of' Whig tactics, in the persuasion that when once more upon the Opposi tion benches en insurrection in Ireland might he a useful and convenient incident enough. The Whigs isrel the Morning Chronicle are doomed in this instance to be disappointed. Lord Stanley's Bill will be car ried, and there will not be an insurrection in Ireland to compensate and console them. (From the Morning Herald.) Amongst the many important questions bearing upon tear tereign and colonial interests, little has been said, for some time past, about one scarcely less too mentoin than any which has recently occupied so much of public attention—we mean, the question of :iie north-eastern boundary line. The adjustment in a l etisfeetory manner of that point is indispensable to the maintenance of our North American possessions. - We have jestice on our side,—and, we may be said to lute e necessity. It is impossible to yield to the de mestela on this subject of the Republicans of the United te t e e, without virtually ceding to them possession of else CanaOss. The Canadas are of infitlite consequence to Great Britain. In itself; the country is of prodigious value ; and its race of British colonists is unsurpassed in al; the beet social qualities by any people on the face 'if the earth. Of the political importance of the Cenactee, it is difficult to form too high an estimate ; their commercial importance is absolutely incalculable. This United States were lost to Great Britain by gross mismanagement on the part of our rulers. The conversion of these States from dependencies of the British Empire into noisy democracies has not (as we venture to think) added much to the sum of human Lappiness. England lost, at the time of the change, a !Large portion of her dignity and moral influence ; while she has since gained an extensive, precarious, and at times unprofitable foreign trade, she has, to at least the same extent, lost a secure and most valuable colonial commerce. The United States have become scenes of hustle, noise, and money-getting. In that country -" the new country" as the inhabitants delight to itt s rn it—reany of the least amiable feelings of' our wits:ire have full scope, and amongst these unamiable feelings, we may be permitted to class the sentiment of deep hatred with which Great Britain is regarded by all in America who incline to the democratic .faction. Let the deep devotion with which the inter ests of England were defended by the loyal Canadians clueing the late troubles, be contrasted with the bitter enmity which the democrats of the United States en tertain towards the mother-country, and then let the most profound adept in the casuistry of " liberalism " venture to say, whether the stock of kindly feeling hes .not been lessened by that, the first of our modern " enema revolutions," and whether any cause that shall seatiice to weaken the bonds of affection between men of the some race, be likely to stregthen the solid interests of the human family. Whatever be the value of these suggestions, about one fact, at all events, there can be no dispute ; and that fact is, the longing desire of the whole democratic party in the United States to wrest the Ca nettles from England. The northern republicans have '.learned to regard every portion of the soil of America its theirs by a sort of indefeasible right. They do teeterminate the red Indians without scruple ; and they would, if they possessed the power, exterminate this Canadian asserters of the supremacy of England with quite as little hesitation. The English power in Canada is a source o? w eakness to the federal re- ' public. That federation is, in all probability, destined to endure for but a brief period. Often already has ,it been on the verge of disruption. Let, however, the 'period of ite existence draw to a close, while the sower of England slisll remain unshaken in Canada— atm{ it is ler from being impossible, that the next ge neration of Englishmen may witness the re-union of a large portion of the United States with the British Empire. The possession of the Canadas, at any rate, places the United States, in the event of a war, to a „great extent, at the mercy of England. The posses :;ion of the Canadas places at our disposal the ener gies of a hardy, intelligent, and most loyal race—fur niches harbours of the best description for our vessels of war—and enriches U 3 with the materials of a colonial trade, which, if wisely prosecuted, might render the experises even of a formidable war of little moment. in point of real value, a colonial trade is second only to a home trade. Compered with the colonial trade which England might easily create, her foreign trade is absolutely contemptible. The advantages of a colo nial trade are, in fact, the advantages of a home trade on a smaller scale. A colonial trade is free from flia insecurity that attends all foreign trade. A colo- Alial trade is [ICY 2r afflicted with " panics." A colonial grade is, in short, susceptible of regulation by the resters, with whom it rests to regulate our home trade. The colonial empire of Great Britain might afford curl's scope to industrial enterprise, and might be undo to minister, in a degree scarcely calcu lable, to the wealth and power of the mother coup w r y. True it is, undoubtedly, that the tendency of modern e philosophy" is to represent colonies as worse than useless—as " burdens" on the parent State. Let it not be forgotten, however, that the tendency of the sank " philosophy" is to represent a large portion of .our labourers —the real strength of every country—as •'' a surplus population," and, consequently, as " a bur e'ieti" on the country which their energies enrich and 6e"Ceed. The beautiful "philosophy" in question de eilitues, in ' man ner, the monarchy as a " burden"— tee order of nobility 113 a " burden"—the Church as a '• burden." Private charity', too, is, (if the tenets of he accepted) a pernicious A p hil oso phy" may line ; w hil e a pubic provision for the e is lassed amongs t the unforgivable sins..ffs - irons of our nature . a s well as our m ost honoured insti tutions, rank, in short, according to the Malthusian and philosophy," y free-tr a d e e I h • "in the category of " burdens"— , riot in that of " nuisances." Our noble colonies can afford to be classed with our labourers, our monarch, and our nobles, (From the Morn i ng Chronicle.) If is a lucky thi ng for the Tories that Sir Robert ° T ee l ;$ th e son o f a cott n. !turned *lie fact to account in : s inner . Having him self one of his speeches. his ;nalinirers follow their leader ; and the glory of institu tinos that allow the lowest elhl'i in origin to become the 11;i0c.st in station, is now an st IV co m mon-place tii iof Tory rhetoric in addressing m ultitude. In the ,!earth of popular topics under which the party labours, such d theme is quite a godsend. C Orrative Associations it is invalu ible.Conservati ve tings it may be used as a set - off against che a p thep "'- c - M e t a l l :0 - 1 und ex tension of the su ff rage. The Walsall T 'a nr v br"ii . didate has grasped it g reedil y , and we beg to a passage from his Wolverhampton sp eec h ' following' tftLet beauties of Gladsto ne alread y enumer ated : to "'The object of the Conservative Associations was to build icaf .not ,`o destroy. The well-disposed operatives of the ,coslary felt they had a common welfare and a common in -terest in the .noble institutions of the land ; they felt that •the;r benefits were not confined exclusively to the rich, the noble, and the great; but that, under the happy and 'ell-halanced Constitution of England, the poorest subject oniyht rise to attain the highest position in the land, and that hi; int Niest, his comforts, and his welfare, were equally rootected at, d studied with that of his more fortunate nei g h. urs._.(Loa Id cheering.) They saw numerous instances of persons w h, ) once walked in a humble station of life, enjoying th , en vied and highest honours which it was in the power al . this couutry to bestow ; and he hoped and the y would be enabled to witness . 'believed that many SlMl lar instances." On the face . 0 1 it, this promise goes rather too far. Those who bold -Oitt 80 4agnificent a lure ought not, , were they in earnest, to be so niggard of comparative trifles. In substance, Mr. Gladstone says to the unen ; franchised operatives, you may become Prime Ministers and Lords, but you shall not have votes for a Member of Parliament ; and, to the half famishing operatives, Sou may realise immense wealth, and possess miles of property, but you shall not eat untaxed bread, or receive more than two-thirds of the loaf you hardly earn. The " well-disposed operatives" of Wolverhampton and Wal sall, in their " humble station of life," will quite repay this Tory proffer of " the envied and highest honours which it is in the power of this country to be stow," if they answer " thank you for nothing." It is like the priest's blessing, which he offers the beggar in the fable, after refusing him a far thing. Mr. Gladstone knows well enough that the chance of elevation and independence which it af fords to the lower classes is the mortal objection of the Tories against Democracy. The people of Walsall will not be so imposed upon. 'hey want free votes iin and not lordly titles ; cheap breaslr,andnot manors the clouds, or dividends of m oonshine. It what street or lane of Walsall stands the foot of this Jacob's lad der whose too reaches to Tamworth and points to Downing-street ? Where are the originals of Mr. Gladstone's picture of the successfully aspiring poor ? Is a poor man a mechanical inventor ? He is robbed of his credit by a rogue, of 11;s profits by the capitalist, and what he has of success is embittered arid crossed by the unprincipled piracy which law and lawyers seem framed to encourage. What a life was James Watt made to lead by the ceaseless attacks on his patent ! And Arkwright was harassed by the same harpies. True, lie died Sir Richard Ark wright ; but none of his services to the commu nity raised him so high as knighthood. George 111. dubbed him one of the much ridiculed " Peg Nichol son's knights," for bringing up a complimentary address from the wapentake of Wirksworth. There's merit re warded for the encouragement of the weavers of Wal sall ! How many of them will it persuade to vote for Gladstone and a little loaf? And if mechanical inven tion does not raise and enrich the poor, will poetical genius ? Yes ; ask of Robert Burns—Burns the ex ciseman—brow-beaten by Tory Commissioners for his free thought ; or of Robert Nichol and others, on whom the spirit of Burns descended, without redeeming them from the dreariness of' his destiny. Let the Walsall operatives question Mr. Gladstone strictly about this way up stairs, which Toryism is said to keep open, and at the door of which stands the ingenuous candidate, inviting the weaver boys to enter and mount. The most familiar instances of tt.at, not ordinary but extraordinary, rising in society of which the Tory makes an argument against Reform, have been achieved in the legal profession ; and while in part owing to great acquirement and skill, they have also been owing in great part to the fact that a most con venient tool for faction is presented to its grasp in the person of a shrewd, supple, and fluent lawyer. Politi cal pliancy is also a main thing. Let a plausible youth win his way to a University seat by sophisms on behalf of bigotry ; let him recommond himself to aristocratical patronage by intriguing against a plebeian Premier, though gifted with the commanding genius of a Can ning ; when expediency requires, or the command is issued, let him introduce a large measure of reli gious Lberty, in the teeth of every principle and pro fession of his political life ; let him then propitiate the bigotry from which he was apostatized by keeping his own Bill practically inoperative—a dead letter— s legal lie—till others call it into action and expose themselves thereby to the clamours of' his followers ; let him, by cautious and cowardly silence, unworthy of any statesman or party chieftain in a free country, hold together a motley crew, with every variety of prin ciple and purpose, whom he seems to lead by adroitly following, and who allow him that unhonoured sem blance from the sordid hope of place and profit : such is the ideal of a proximate Premier, to whom Mr. Glad stone would point the gaze of Walsall weavers as one enjoying the envied and highest honours," and from whom the poorest weaver, with the spirit of a man, would turn away in pity or in loathing. The country profits little by upward paths like these being kept open. Thank heaven there are better ways ; those of honest industry, gradual accumulation, and judicious, yet bold enterprize. In trade, manufactures, and commerce, fortunes have been amassed, public ability called forth into its proper sphere, and benefits largely bestowed on our country and mankind. This is the tree under whose shade honest ambition and energy have thriven. The Corn-laws lay the axe to its root. They have already wounded its bark, and made its foliage shrivel. And Mr. Gladstone promises the trades people and operatives of' Walsall that he will assist in the destructive process. The Peel philosophy, which he parrots after dinner, is left unapplied to the only, or almost the only, department of English life in which it is neither a fallacy nor a nuisance. What are the honours and emoluments of factious lawyers or sycophantic politicians to the operatives? They cannot start in that path if they would. The vantage ground is wanting for the commencement, even if the corrupt heart and sordid cunning be already there. if any career be open to them, it is precisely in that which Mr. Gladstone's monopoly policy threatens to close and fasten. He will have no more men of Manchester and Salford to make the cry of the labouring poor for cheap bread heard in the Legislature. " Cheap bread," says his friend Lord Dartmouth, the sound is " particularly agreeable," so pray be " cautious." A precious recipe, to be sure, that of the Tory doctors for the privations which abound in such places as Walsall ; cut up the weaver's work ; slice a third from the labourer's loaf ; cajole, bribe, or intimidate both out of their votes, and promise the conservation of a " plum" for the one, and a peerage for the other. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The news of the brilliant success which has attended our arms in China arrives at the present moment to add additional lustre to the events of the last few months. Since the days of the immortal Chatham the foreign policy of the nation has not been signalised by so prosperous a career as it has run of late in Syria, Affghanistan, and China, whether we take into consi deration the ability with which " the drift of hollow states" has been detected and exposed, or the energy with which their hostility has been vanquished. To all but the opponents of the present Government, this unprecedented success must serve as a proof of the capacity that organised it. To them we should not wonder, after their conduct in Sir James Graham's de bate last Session, if it were attempted to be made to appear to be wholly the result of good fortune. Be that, however, as it may, we beg to tell those itnaginators of " luck" and depreciators of merit, that such " luck" is not the result of accident, but of a combination of movements and an exertion of talent based upon a thorough knowledge of circumstances, and adapting accordingly the proper means to a proper end. The Chinese question was one upon which the opponents of Government attacked the existence of the present Mi nistry. Aware that it was capable of being misrepre sented as a war of aggression for an unjust purpose, which we always repudiated, and conscious that the moral sense of this country was all powerful, they did not scruple to characterize it as as a dispute got up for the purpose of forcing on China a poisonous drug for the sake of mere gain. They even went the length of justifying the seizure of innocent merchants, and the demand of the Chinese authorities for the life of a British seaman, in retaliation for the death of one of their countrymen killed in a Chinese medley riot, and the poisoning of wells for the destruction of their unof fending fellow-subjects. But when the plain facts of the case were exposed in full debate, no amount of sophistry from Dan to Beersheba, from Sir J. Graham, or from Mr. Gladstone, or of plausibility from the most plausible person of the day—we need not name hint—could varnish the Chinese as models of morality, or per. suede the merchants and people of England that a vote of censure was justly merited by the Cabinet for not foreseeing what the Emperor of China intended to do with opium, and for not sending out instruc tions to th e i r su p er i n t en d ent f or hi s gu id ancce i n conjectural cases which instructions could not, by any possibility, have reached him until after the events had happened. They could not, in fact, concur in thinking that Ministers were worthy of dismissal for resenting the imprisonment of men threat ened with death,until they had obtained delivery of other people's property, to the tune of two millions, situated beyond the boundary of the Chinese empire, and the stoppage of the trade, until a British seaman was im molated in obedience to its barbarous laws. Well might the Duke of Wellington exclaim, with his ex perience of the wildness, cunning, and treachery, of Asiatic barbarians, rebuke his Tory partisans, and tell them that the very thought of the insults and outrages of their clients " was enough to make the blood boil in their veins !" We repeat this sentiment with pride and pleasure—first, because it is truth—secondly, because it does honour to the heart and national spirit of the Duke of Wellington—thirdly, because it is eminently condemnatory of the policy of the Tories—and, fourthly, because it cuts away from them any opportunity of converting the ensuing session to factious purposes, instead of devoting it to the practical benefit of the domestic and foreign of f o of tnhye moment count ry . to come there is no party question be fore the Legislature, so far as we are aware, there arc questions of immense importance to m eet with its un dividedand we hope and trus t that no attention ; sanctimonious opium opinion — no fur ther le g islation re specting the observance of the Sabbath—no cavilling respecting equality of municipal or other privileges— or question s re specting that greatest of all bugbears, the repeal of the Union—will prevent them from being taken into due consideration. The people are tired, and justly tired,y aorferi everything in the shape of legisl ation, but that which s h a ll practically contribute to their benefit—and the g rli bt a — tn a e n n c t i itfhienir interests the coursests b ofe theot ensuingons ute Se d s , sion of P a the conseq horizon at th e present moment , will grow in to a course "aces, though only a speck upon t he dark cloud, an d overshadow the land with a convulsion, which it has never, hitherto, witnessed. It may be supposed that we have wandered from our subject, but it is not so. We began with a justification of the foreign policy of the existing Government, and be lieving that there is no point upon which it can be fairly SUN. LONDON, SATultnitY, JANUARY 9. 1841. assailed, we conclude by repeating our hope that the I improvement of the laws of the country—the interests of trade—the promotion of talent, and a due regard for the interests of the poor, will engage their attention in preference to party scrambles for places, and party disputes for the occupancy of office, which breaths of anything but patriotism. (From the Globe.) It is a settled thing that we never shall hear the last of Lord Cardigan. If his Lordship should ever be raised a step in the Peerage by some Ministry more ca pable than a Whig one of discerning his merits in her Majesty's service, he should certainly assume the title of Marquis of Carabas ; as that is the only title that ever was more in men's mouths than his own Chapeau bas ! chapeau bas I Gloire au Marquis de Carabas ! The addition of Baron Blackbottle would complete the euphony of his new honours ; and eternise the lame of exploits which have already pushed Guy Fawkes from his stool, and superseded every staler incident in the stock of pantomime. Attila was chronicled as the Scourge of God ; and assuredly Lord Cardigan, though by somewhat another construction, may be designed the Scourge of the Horse Guards, no less than the 1 lth Hussars. There is no existing in the service, either above or below him. Earth cannot bear two suns ; nor can the army well bear one Cardigan. He has the fame of cashiering Commanders-in-Chief as surely as subal terns. Whatever comes in contact with him is a mere black bottle to brass ! Illi robur et (vs triplex circa pectus. _ _ " He doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs ; and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves." There is however, a tide in the affairs of men ; and there era some indications of the tide turning against the unchallengeable and unpunishable Earl who commands the 11th Hussars. The public are aware that some delay has occurred in noticing the resignation sent in by Captain J. W. (black-bottle) Reynolds. We should like, merely for curiosity, to know whether it is the fact that Captain Reynolds has been sent for to the Horse Guards, earnestly requested, and offered his own terms, to withdraw his resignation ? It is the fact that, after all his applications to Lord Cardigan for the shortest leave of absence, to pursue professional studies, had been refused, he now obtains, as the condition of withdraw ing his resignation, the longest leave of absence he thinks proper to stipulate tor, with the understanding that he is never again to be required to serve under Lord Cardigan ? Perhaps the Post, who plays Puss in Boots to the fame of the future Marquis of Carabas, can en lighten us as to these points, after due advice from head quarters. (From the Standard ) The Globe on Wednesday promised some severe animadversions upon our " credulity," " extrava gasce," " disreputably conduct," " folly, and falsehood," in stating, upon the authority of our Liverpool correspondent, that " Frost had been par doned, and appointed to a respectable clerkship in the colony" of New South Wales—our Contemporary, at the same time " gave the most absolute and comprehensive contradiction to all and each of the statements" of our Correspondent's communication, which it was pleased to call " this fabricated letter." The chastisement of the Standard, and the proofs supporting " the most absolute and comprehensive contradiction" were threatened for Thursday (yesterday), but on looking very carefully through last night's Globe we cannot find one word in redemption of the promise. The plea of " pres sure of matter" too cannot be offered as to the omis sion—for the number was in this respect what is called technically a " thin number," made up of four or five leaded articles, the most of them relating to matters of secondary interest, letters upon speculative subjects, literary reviews, &c. It is possible, though not pro bable, that the Globe conceives its pledge to have been redeemed by the commentaries upon its threat given in yesterday's Morning Post ; but though we who are compelled to a constant observation of the conduct of newspapers, cannot doubt that the most intimate understanding subsists between the Whig- R dical Globe and the mock Conservative Morning Post, still the friendship or rather identity of the two con cerns is not so well known to the public that the service of the Morning Post can be taken in satisfaction of the promise of the Globe. We, therefore, conclude that the Globe last night said nothing, because it had nothing to say, in fulfilment of its rather violent and very rash promise of the night before. The now ascertained fact, that Frost has been appointed immediately upon his land ing to a respectable clerkship in the colony of New South \Vales, settles the question of " an absolute and comprehensive contradiction of all and each of our correspondent's statements :" such a contradic tion must be clearly unfounded ; but we think that the fact referred to settles the whole question, proves that Frost has been both pardoned and rewarded, and, i; Sir John Franklyn be not a downright idiot, pardoned and rewarded in consequence of an arrangement made at hone. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS (THURSDAY EVENING.) CHRONIC L E.—Tho advance which was experienced yesterday in the English Funds has not bee:: fully maia - taiiied to-day. Consols at the opening of the market were quoted 89k, at which price they were buyers for a short period, but subsequently gave way to 891 to ; at the close of business prices were a shade higher, the last quotation being 89i. Bank Stock continues to improve, the price having advanced since the Ist instant from 1571 to 1621, being a rise of 5 per cent. India Stcck has been still more favourably influenced by the news brought by the overland mail. We have received in a separate form a copy of the arti cle on the" Currency," from the pen of Mr. James William Gilbart, which originally appeared in the last number of the Westminster Review. It is an able exposition of the par ticular views espoused by that class of writers who deny that the currency ought to be governed by the foreign ex changes, and may be looked upon, we believe, as contain ing the substance of the case of the Joint Stock Banks in favour of free issues. The experience of the author, as a practical banker, at the head of a leading joint-stock estddissiment, and the undoubted talent with which he maintains his views regarding the management of the cir. culation, entitle his statement to considerable weight, and its appearance at present, near to the re-assembling o f Parliament, and when the Committee on banks of issue are about, in consequence, to resume their labours, give it additional importance. Mr. Gilbart is strongly opposed to one bank of issue, and is a stanch advocate for the Scotch system, checked by the periodical exchange of notes, and paying the differences in gold. Mr. Gilbart, as usual with all writers of his school, assumes that a free trade in banking entitles any number of persons to asso ciate themselves in trade as bankers, and then to make as much paper money as they may think fit to issue, on, what appears to them, profitable terms. We differ with him o❑ the threshold. A free trade in banking is quite distinct from the right to coin money, and the one may exist totally independent of the other. The money of the realm, whether composed entirely of gold and silver, or partly of bullion and partly of paper con vertible into gold, should be exclusively made and issued by delegation from the Crown to a board of responsible officers. The right of dealing in that money, which is the legitimate purpose of banking, should be placed under a well devised system of legislation, on a free basis, burdened only with such provisions as should be required to maintain uniformity and safety to the public interests Mr. Gilbert depends a great deal too much on the effi cacy of the Scotch system of weekly exchanges. Mr. Norman, in the course of his examination, on being asked if he thought it afforded any security against over issues, answered in the negative, and observed, " It will prevent one bank unduly extending its issues as far as its notes may happen to get into the possession of other banks ; but there have, I believe, been instances in Scotland of a bank establishing a large circulation when all the other banks have refused to receive its notes at all, and at any rate it is no check whatever on a general disposition to over issue." This is quite true. Mr. Gilbert says that the contraction of the currency is always an evil. We demur to that. It is no evil to reduce an over issue of paper to proper limits, nor to take measures for preventing such over issue. He objects to the principle of contracting the circulation when the bullion begins to suffer from the effects of a drain, because, he says, " Upon this plan there must be a perpetual increase and diminu tion in the stock of gold, consequently, a perpetual increase and diminution in the amount of the currency. The in crease in the amount of the currency would raise prices and stimulate speculation. The diminution in the amount of the currency would reduce prices and produce distress. And thus there must be a constant alternation from high prices to low prices, and again from low prices to high prices, from speculation to distress, and from distress to speculation." This is well put, but it is highly overcharged, and is in opposition to the opinion of Mr. Jones Loyd, who stated to the Committee that the " greatest steadiness would be produced by a system of contracting issues, and expanding them, precisely in ac cordance with the gold ; because by that means, whenever an efflux or influx of gold takes place, the contracting ac tion commences simultaneously, consequently the efflux and influx will, upon that system, be restrained within its nar rowest bounds; and in proportion as you restrain the efflux and influx of gold within narrow bounds, you secure greater steadiness." Mr. Gilbart disputes the application of the effects of the system of banking in the United States as a case in point, and observes that Mr. Webster is not in favour of one bank of issue, although a supporter of a national bank. Mr. Webster stated his opinions on the subject of the currency in his famous speech on the 28th of Sep_ tember last, as follows :--" I hold that the regula tion of the currency, whether metallic or paper— that a just and safe supervision over that which virtually performs the office of money, and constitutes the medium of Exchange whatever it may be—necessarily pertains to Government; that it is one of the necessary and indispensable prerogatives of Government." Ile very forcibly adds, " In the absence of all Government control and supervision, the wisdom and discretion regulating the amount of money afloat at any time in the commu nity, is but the aggregate of the wisdom and discretion of all the banks collectively considered; each individual bank acting from the prompting of its own interest, with out concert with others, and not from any sense of pub lic duty. In my judgment, such a regulation, or such a mode of regulating the curre.ney, and of deciding what shall be the amount of money at any time existing in the community, is unsafe and untrustworthy, and is one .to which we never can look to guard us again.s:t those excessive expansions and contractions which have been the source of such injurious consequences," We en tirely agree with Mr. Webster in this conclusion, which we have taken from the authentic report of his speech by Mr. Stansbury. Mr. Gilbert says he has not been able to discover a single advantage that has been gained by the evidence taken before the Committee. We cannot agree with that opinion. The publication of the evidence has drawn public attention to the cause of the frequent fluctuations in the currency. It has elicited the opinions of the leading men, practical and theoretical, on that important subject, and brought out their views as to the best means for placing the circulation upon a sound and steady basis. It has also produesd Mr. Gil hart's case in favour of the Joint-stock banks and com peting issues ; but the Committee have not completed their task, and when they • e-assemble, Mr. Gilbart and others will likely be heard. In the mean time, we would not advise him to be too confident in supposing that no Government would be so " d.structive to the prosper ity of the nation," as he expresses it, as to suppo t a measure to establish one balk of issue, or rather to ap. pcifit a Board of Comrnissioners,ehar ge d with the manage ment and issue of the money of the realm. Public opi nion runs stronger every day in favour of such a Board. TIMES —Some large suits of Cow°ls for the ret,ru ary account, made in the course of the day by two infloen tial brokers, caused a depression in p: ices, tut nut to any material extent. Alicant, according to letters received thence, dated De cember 18, has been thriving lately on account of the Carlist bands being in possession of the high roads leading from Valercia, Benicarlo, Tarragona, and Barcelona, to Madrid and the interior, so that every article intended for those places was bought to Alicant. The return of affairs to a quieter state, far from affording any satisfaction to the inhabitants of this place, has awakened in them feelinr , s of re gret. About 50,000 quintals of Newfoundland and Ater salt are imported at Alicant in the course of the year, while its principal exports are wines, at the following, prices (on board), viz. :—red, two years old, 5/ ss. per pipe ; one year old, 41. 153. ; and white, about 41. 103. The whole annual export of wine is not above 41,600 pipes. Barilla of the first quality is valued at about 61. 15s. per ton, and of the second quality at about 51 Bs. The whole quantity shipped during the last year is sup posed to be not more than 4,500 tons, while a substitute found for it in Ireland seems to render it probable that this quantity will diminish every year. The value of raisins shipped, at an average price of 3i dollars, is about 24,0001., the quantity not being ahoy. 3,000 quintals. Soap is set down at about 58,0001., being in quantity 30,300 quintals. The shipments of this article are said to be monthly on the increase. The trade in almonds is also described as considerable, the yearly shipment liking valued at 23 5001. The proti:a of the Government tobacco manufactory, which is in full work, are said to I,e im amiss?, the contractor receiving about $lB per quintal for the leaf, while at the Government depots the public have to pay $l5O or $2OO, both in the manta factured and unmanutactured state. The expense of the manufacture is nevertheless but trifling, since nearly the whole of the work is done by women, at the rate of about 41. per day. As even the contractor has a goo d profit out of his $ 18, since the prime cost is only $lO or $l2, the high price which is charged to the public is found to offer a great encouragement to smuggling. In approach ing the bay of Allicant from Carthagena, the steamers pass between two small islands called " Tabarca," which are nbabited by fishermen and a small garrison, and the new port of Santa P o le, w hi c h h as obtained a chatter, which merchants may land their goods there, instead of going on to Alicant. This, next to Carthagena, is con sidered the safest anchorage on the coast, i but the people are not industri ous enoug h f or i t to r i se into mpoitanca. At Ahcant the exchange on London is 37,k, while good bills on Madrid cannot be got for less than 1 per cent. premium. Tins shows the want of security in internal communication. HER AL D.—That connoisseur in stocks, the Globe, is at it again, the City people remark, and all agog and sapiently nodding like a Chinese mandarin in a grocery. " Look," it says, " how the news of yesterday has sent up tho funds and sent down tea." Thero is something specially piquant and gracious in this up and down con trast— Now we go up, up, up, And now we go down, down, down— but unluckily for the stock and tea man of the Globe, just at the moment of his writing the funds which were "sent up" yesterday, happened to be " sent down" to day, when Consols declined to 89i to I for the opening. After such repeated failures in speculations in the hles, surely the leading article stock sage of the evening jour nal would best consult his own reputation by leaving stock matters to his City collaborateur. Bank Stock was 162 to 3. Exchequer Bills were Bs. to 10s. premium. Some considerable sales were effected during the day by loading parties on the Stock Exchange of Consuls for the Fe bruary account at 90 to 904 variously. A considerable improvement took place to-day in money matters, and the rates of discount on bills were reduced to 41 per cent., and some of the bill-brokers gave notice to the banks that they could no longer take in money at more than 4 per cent. POST.—The following letter on the evils of the bank ing system has been addressed to us from a remote part of the kingdom. It represents with much acuteness the disadvantages under which the small capitalist labours in comparison with him who is in circumstances to embark his thousands in a joint-stock or other banking concern, thereby making, as is well explained, a twofold interest on his subscription, and, if engaged in trade, driving his humbler competitor out of the market. The time of our leading men is taken up with the squabbles of vain and interested persons who are permitted to obtrude them selves upon the public attention. Thes-c pretenders to monetary science have notions to advance on minor points connected with the currency ; and it would seem that they must and will be heard, and that no really great and striking defect in the system can be entertained until those inconsiderable matters are disposed of. The question of what is and what is not circulation is as far from being determined as it was before the appointment of the Bank Committee last session of Parliament, and we doubt not it will continue to be argued and re-argued throughout the present year. Yet the question is involved in others of infinitely greater magnis tude, such as that which is here placed before our readers, the practical removal of the grounds of which would an swer all purposes and silence all discussion : " Notes for gold and gold for notes will not make the present paper currency a just medium or measure of value, and as little will the one or the other secure its steadiness. The notes of all banks hitherto have been the current rate of interest in every country, more valuable to the issu ing parties than to the recipients. Ido not allude to the charge for the loan of them to borrowers, but to a difference subsisting besides that altogether from the return yielded by the banks' capit a l, as prev i ously invested.the ir t Toi, notes against wr e in payment,maone may be b eninety.pt rsn nine persons w h o accept of andwho thus give circulation who actually borrows them. The difference of value is reluctantly admitted by hankers, but their plea is that there is nothing to hinder the public from becoming all of them bankers. There are, however, insurmountable objection s to the permission, and obstructions also to the possibility ; and if I can per.. suade you that a currency of more potency to one party than to another exists, you will agree with me that it is equally improper, as an unjust Wright, or unfair balance, rquiring to be replaced by an imperial standard, that the poorest in the land may have the benefit of it. " It is certainly a startling announcement to make at this time of the world's age that no paper money that ever yet was issued has been of a just value to the public or conic up to its nominal value. " The primitive interest, and the free use of the dupli cate of the capital invested, form a double rate of inter( at, and are equivalent to double the bona ,fide capital to the issuers, so that it is imp( ssible for two competing parties to contend for anything with any chance of success to the party not being an issuer of bank-eotes. Granted that both have 1,0001. each. The capital of one is in bank shares, which lies probably invested in Government stock by the manager, arid the institutes of all banks afford the partners the benefit of a cash account to two-thirds of the paid-up capital ; but it does not matter, although the whole were pledged by any of the shareholders, as the bank as a body is safe, nor does it affect my argument whether the duplicate be lent to themselves or to second parties. The profit is theirs, and thus it is equal to twice the amount of the other's capital. The one has the primitive interest, and, if he have any sagacity, he will know that all other things, as regards their respective trades, being the same, he has, besides, an income of 351. per annum from the Three-and-a-Half par Cents., with the use of the capital to boot, which no other means can enable the second party to obtain ; thence the power of underselling, or of outbid ding, which the currency produces. " Under such a system the bank shareholder can have no competition against him in his private trade. Ile can sell five per cent. cheaper than his competitor, although both bought at the same price, and yet he will, notwith standing. have as much profit as he who could not afford to sell equally low. Wnen the issuer goes into market, and passes his own notes fur what he buys, he gives a pro mise which is utterly false. It purports to be of the same amount as the price of thu article, but it is not so, inas much as it cannat convey the same value to the recipient as it can best ow upon i ts creator an d issu e r ; theref ore it is a false a n d d ece i t f ul payment, fi ve per cent. below the proper amount of the debt it affects to discharge. Much honour will redound to that Cabinet which shall first establish the true principle of a paper currency. The fact that certain State cr editors still have the Government interest, after they have otherwise put the duplicate of their capital to use, and that no attempt has been made to bring up the humbler State creditors to a participation of similar benefits, says little for the dis cernment of those quondam friends of mankind who cry out for the multiplicatio n of soup-kitchens and Poor-law bastiles, in place of going to the root of the evil. We here see, ho wever , i ts cause, and, the resu lt o f the disc,- very once pr omu l gate d , the remedy w ill no t be far off. These issuers of b an k -notes, who h av e ordained that, when the saving s ' b an k depositor sha ll see k to apply his little capital to b us i ness, he shall that momen t be deprived of the drawba c k f ur t h e taxes in tho shape of interest which they the mse l ves still obtain, have t h us s tudied to be relieved undes erve dl y from contribut i ng one farthing to the interest of th e debt, for they get it back, although they have relatively n o funds to th e GOVerrlllleflt securities to stand for it." por tions comple t elyo t only i vided s bodies. A soldier's arm was struck off at the battle of Arlon, with the exception of a piece of skin and the sub jacent vessels and nerves, and yet the muscles, bones, &c., eprate r: l s ld re-idu,niat:ed, but even por -3a v a nose completely unite after in be i anbgobu bitten eight ten oer. months . tramp i e d 4 G p a o r n e , n a g n ol allowed to lie in the dirt till it was cold. Dr. Balfour saw a similar occurrence in the instance of a finger• One will be found by Dr. John, others might be quoted. Trans plantation, for instance, of the cock's testes to the hen's ibdonien, as well as of the spur to the head, is very corn. mon, and the latter was mentioned nearly two centuries ago in Bartholin, and by Duhamel, as very common in poultryyards.—Elliotson' s human Physiology PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LOND:)N, FRIDAY, JAN. 8. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. net Share.. Annum. I Paid. Share. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Avcrage97/.lBs.sh. 112 1,472 4!. Ashbyale.le-Zouch Avzrage 1151.5 h . 72 I ;MO Basingstoke 1001.8 h. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Aber gavenny' l5Ol. sh. 93 ,411 , 11-Ifitit. 101. Birmingham, 1-16th share ....SU. & 711. 201 4,1 , 00 Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l 9 9l. sh. 100 pd 26 600 3i. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pd - 100 51. Chelmer and 'Backwater lOOl. sh . 101 500 321. Caventry 1001. sh. 660 Croydon. ...... .... Average3ll.2B 10d. sh. - 660 Si. Os, Dudley .., 1001. sh. 97 600 134. Derby lool.sh . 120 20,04)) 4 per cent. Danune and Mayne 411.135. 4 cl.pd 34 2,575 a 4 , Ellesnwreand Chester Average 133:.5h. 81 231 621 Erewasn lool.Bn. 750 lAr7 301 Forth end Clyde....Avcrage 4001.165. sh. rif 9 11, , ,1.0 91. Grano Junction 1001. s n 142 1, , •491 255. Grand Onion lool.sh, 26 1,500 ..... ..... Grand Surrey 1.000/31. per cent. Ditto (option a l) an 1001. 3 .. , il6 Grand Western 600 131.125. 9d. (11,innrgan third, Aver. cost 1721.139.4 d. '220 749 I•2t. ( iraiithy,n l5O/. sh. Re? t;,•13:1 '2l. Os. If whiel ~,S?ld Average itll. 6s. 6d. on 27 [CO Kensingtoa , i , ....N II 1 u:. Kennet and Avon, Av. 29/. his. 10d. sh 'l5 i 5 ,030 i I/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. 8,4 2;1,', a, ,4 37: 3W. Leedsand Liverpool lOO/.sh 760 545: 151. Leicester 140/.81 14'1 1,997 51.05. Leicester & Nor t'Aampton Aver 1'31.10_ 733,', 2.400 In! Monmouthshire lOO/.81 200 150 101. Melton Mowbray • 1001. sh. 2eG 500 25/. Mersey and [men lOOl. sh. 565 3,01 , 0 2/. los. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd Ali 247 171. Neath 1001.81., 325 2,460 51. Peak Forest Ava.ge about 731, sh, 75 21,118 el. Regent's (or London) Av. 3:31.165.8d. sh. 104 0,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average a. 51.8 h. Si 500 81. Shropshire ..1251.8h. 137 809 10/. Os. Somerset Coal 1501.3h, 180 3,600!. 4i per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 108. sh. 114 700 35)1. Stafford and Worcester. 140/.sh. 650 500 151. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 9/. Stourbridgel......--.. 145/.lh. 396 3,647 2/. Ob. Stratford-on-Avon rt ver....791. 9s. ltd. sh. 41 533 1211 Swansea I OC/1. sh. 265 3,762 21. Os. Severn and Wyc and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,6o4t*sh. .42!. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share lOOl. sh. 580 8,149 Thames and Medway Av.l9/. ss. fid. sh. 2 i,ooosh.l 16/. Warwick aid 13 1 rmingham lool.sh 245 0000 h .3 91,0 13s Warwick and liaptttri" 1004 sh. 175 7,000 41 1 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.84. sh. 5634 a.eoo 3'2e. Wilts aittl Berko Average 671. 106 Bd. sh. 261, 100 6.. Wy 1 lev and Essington 1251. sh '74 .26 Wltmeacn '`';'.;/. oh. Ml 905 it. Wey and Arun. llOl. an. 22 DOCKS. . _ t,rloo & } 3 o C. Commerc al .OOl. sh. 65 1,06515 h. , • East and West India Stock S l B 3,2118,310;/. 60s. p.ct. London • Stock 67 Ditto Bonds • 2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh. 75 68,324/. M. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352.752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 99% 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .., lOl 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. "01. oh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. ,600 10s. Ham mersin iti 5O/. oh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Pd. sh. 23,, 1,700 I/. I ss. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 50/. sh. 13 4000 5,000 225. 03, Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 5501. p 3 203(, 5,000 - I9s. 3d, Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 1838 ;0,000/ 5!. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 26s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26W ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31 lOs Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 73 10,000 16 li n e:i cicsns.t.} Allianceßrithh &Foreignlool.sh. 111. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 4,000 11 per oh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14% 1,200131). • 51. Birmingham I' ire .50/. sh. 551. pd 107% 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50!. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 5% 5,00 e W. per cent. Clerical Sr Medi,r 1 Life, 100/.sh. 2/10s pd 414 4,000 3/ Os County lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10 20,000 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. 51. pd 5% 200 1 5 per ce L n 1 Economic Life 10001. sh. 2501. pd 406 and 30/ bs. 2,271 225. percent. European Li. • .0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 2/. pd 174 1.0;0081. 61. per ct (;lobe Stock 122 20,000 51* Guardian 3 - 1,000 a. ;id. Hope 2,400 5!. 7s. Od. Imperial l• ire 5OOl. sh. SO!. pd 135 7,500 Os. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 10!. pd 10 13,45il 51. percent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. 81. pd 30 2,020 31 100 Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 30% 5,000 Ills. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 18% 3,000 10s. London, Ship .5/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18% 1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 50,0004 - ......... 2/. ss. pd 3 30,000 5!. per cent. Palladium Life 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Os 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fre 20/. sh. 2!. pd 18s 03 10,1010 4 per cent. Protestant /dissenters ....11.0/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 2,500 1/. Provident Luc IOW. sh. 101. pd 20 2;0,00: 7s. Rock Life 0,220/ fit. per coot. Royal Exch.ingp Stock 200 6,000 5 per cent University Lite 100/. sh. 5/. pd 5t 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 7W JOINT STUCK BANKS. 25,000 A gric and Cum. of I reland2sl. oh. 10/. pd 5,000 +-, per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 401. pd 52 10,,m10 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13% ,0,000 to per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 23 31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001 sh. 25!. pd 24 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/, pd 13 .4000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. oh. Ini. pd 30 15,000 Liverpool lOO/ sh. 10/. pd 2114 50,000 71 percent. Manchester and Liver -1 501.5 h. 151 pd 101. } , pool Distri:t 20,000 7 per ce.t. Manchester looi. sh. 25/. pd 4 { II 20,000 Provincial Bank of I relandlooi. sh. 251. pd 43N 50, , 110 5 er cent. National Bank of Ireland s°!. sh 1731. pd 161 4 10,000 5 per cent. National Prov ~cial Eng.loo/. oh. 55/. pd 3; k; 10,110 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 30 0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5!. pd 11 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES, 2,500 los Od Bath 20/. sh. 101. pd 22 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 181. 1,060 El l iV' / - 3 e i cr ki Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 10!. pd 25 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 50!. sh. 90 1,250 2/ Os • Bristol 2O!. sh. 30 2,250 3/ Ills Brighton 2O/. sh. 14 750 3/ lOs Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 15/. pd 9 2.471 4* per, cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. a ll pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated .. .. 75!. 0244 pd 105 1,000 10/. City of London.. ....... .-.100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 M. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 75/. pd 150 4,000 3/.o s . Equitable SO/. pd 20 0,1100 2.1 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 58 800 5/. per cent. Isle ot Tnanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd In% 2,350 tit. per cent. Independent 30/. .sh. alit,. 49 11,000 4/. per cent. Phcenix 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 34 1,000 4!. per cent. Itatcliff lOOl. sh. PM pd (B 4,000 South M;.tropolitan 5))!. sh. 19/. pd 17 9,000 V. per cent. Unite..) General 50/. sh. 471. pd 33% 210 W. per cent. Warwick WI. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 9,000 1. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 780 :3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 18/. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 104 Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 22 1,174 71. East London 100/. sh. 170 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 111 s. 4d. sh. 65 1,000 2/, Kent 1001. sh. 45% :372 Int. Liverpool !tootle 2201. sh. 326 1,500 2 /10s 'Ncw River Loudon Bridge Water Ann... 60 11,486 2/ 108 Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. 55 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOO/. sh. 104% 8,294 441. West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. -101 1,360 1/ 144 York Building f,o. Lessee Prop. 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 0,300 Birmingham anti Derby ...... lOOl pd 76 0,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 901 pd 70 is , ,f) 0 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 60 pd 38% 7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 1001. sh. 62,1. 32% :1,004 Clarence 100/. eh. 100/ pd 25 8.000 ! , .0.0001 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 23/. pd 914 10,000 Great North of England him sh. 70/. pd 51% 10,9:8 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOO/. sh. all pd 215 2,,900 ... ...... Great Western l6Ol. sh. 05/. lid 9,1,E 25,1410 Ditto New 501. sh. Mt. pd (14% 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 501. sh. 3.5/. pd 421 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. sh. 100/. IA 145% 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 50; pd 43% 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 05% 5,109 10 percent. Liverpool & Manchester 10(/.sh. 100/. pel 185 7 , 468 lo per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5ll/. pd 87 5 4 11,495 1 0 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 36, , 00 London and Brighton 50/. sh. 501 pd 44% A,OOO 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...201. sh. 201. pd 8U .25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90/. pd 173 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -.254 sh. 5/. pd 27 31,250 Dit o New Shares .32/. sh. 24/. pd 50% 341,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 39/, 17s. 9d. 58 , 4, 33,000 London and Croon} Av. 131. 15s. ild. 2 % Ditto New Scrip. yd.., 1 12% Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. 701. pd 741 9 Ditto Ilalf Shares 5O/. 25/. pd 31% . . Blanchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 27 1 . Ditto Extension 7l. pd 3 1 % 10,000 Midland Counties ...... ...lOW. sh. 1004 pd 84 15,000 ...... ... North Midland - 1.01. sh. 100/ pd 82 Ditto New 40!. pd 41 5,128 Northern and Eastern.... 601. sh 301. pd '';' .:‘,OOO ...... ... Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. nor. pd 36 28,000 South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 213/. pd 14 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ....10W. sh. 275 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . eh. 501. pd 71 MINES. 8,5100 Albion Copper 5/. s'.. 241. pd 12 4,000 11. Sc. A lten l5/. sh. 12/. li spd 10 10,00 0 ......., Anglo Nlexican,iss. 5! pm.loo/. sh. al 1 d 1% Ditto Subscription `l.s/. pd 1 2.000 pg. Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd 35 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian I mp. iss. 51. pm 35/. sh. 201. pd 12 6 , 000 ... ...... Macaubas & C.ocaes United 25/.5h.25/. pd 15 31A100 Ditto St. John Del Hey -20/. sh. 14/ pd 2.4 101,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd 1 10,000 Ditto Scrip lO4 sh. 10/. pd 2 20,000 British Iron 50/. sh. 55/ pd 1 ,01.10 British Copper 5/. sh. 441. pd 1% Ci' i Br.mca 6l/. pd 834 Candonga 111,000 11 Copiapo ............ ............ '2Ol. sh l3/. psi 10 8,500 ... Columbian, iS3. Si. pm.... 55/. sh 55 /. p d ON 2,850 31. English 14/. Gs. pd 2 20,000 ......... General AliningAssociation2o/ 5h.184 pd 3 0,155 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 571/ pd 6 7,000 Polberou Consols .. 10!. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2% Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 100 United Mexican, iss. 2 pra. 40/.511. all pd 2' DIM. Scrip 3 '4 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pit 5% West Cork 5O/. o h 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 16 1,500 London University .... lOOl. sh. all pd 8 700 King' College lOOl. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. 11,000 0,000 10,000 10,0011 in, ;I:q 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/.lsh. 281, pd 371¢ 014'; 1. per cent. British American Land Company'23/. pd 10 10,0 CC. 1 per cei4t. Canada Company lOO/. sh. 30/. pd 21N '.301X.A. 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 par cent 10034 I/. tis. tieneral Steam Navigation 15/. ,h. 14/. pd /25 101. per cc nt. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 IL London Coin. Sale 1t00mi.....Av, 751. sh l9 S,OOO Caoutchouc Company NIL pd 12 New Brunswick Land C0mpa:4y...50/. pd 12 2,751. 5/. per c,nt. Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. oh. 100/. pd 110 0 ,t:3:3 51. per cent. Ditto New 1 00/. sh. 100/. pd 117 4,000 ...... .. Thames Tunnel 5O/. sh. all pd 103,i', .0,00(1 ti. Van the.ner.'s Land.... 100/. sh. 17 1 ,/. pd 9 20,000 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES [JAN. 1, 1841. BANKS. I 000.008/. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland...SU. 6s. Bd. sh. all pd 163 es'ouo,oool. 6 p. et. Rcyal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 152 500.000/. 8 p. et. British Liuen Company lOU sh. :til pd 230 500,006/. W. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 175 50140001. sn. ct. National lOO/.Bh. 101. pd 1414 50,,,n0e1. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. lid 841 I 1,000,000/. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland ?001. sh 401. pd 73 INSURANCE COMPANIES.e 25c,0005h 6} p. ct. Scottish Union 2oi. sh." P. pd 25s 60. 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd ; 13t H 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .10/.sh. all pd IN 50,000 Bp. ct. North British 200/. sh. 10/. pet ISy .2 1,000 Bp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001, sh. 10/. pd '2O 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Lie 100/, sh. 104 lid 15% 100,000 3} p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd MISCEI.LANEO Gs, 4,818 ... ..... Fdin. And Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10 Ditto Allocated( OS/. sh. all pd 47 5,40'. 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock ', z - Aer.:2s/. sh..all pd 35 2,0005 h :5 per cent. Shotts Iron 10untierv......501 sh 48/ rid 53 10,000 3 per ce,t. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/,sli. 10/. pd & 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas °s ' sh. all pd 5:.% 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 52!.i 750 7i per cunt. '...eirh Coal Gas ?0/. di All pd 51 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Ilaoavay 50/, sh .50 :AO 5 uer coat. 1 , ..,..L0,1, (~,,,, Cn vv., v , 5 „sh. 4 u.s 9 lii In Kensington Gardens, on Thursday, about noon, a proof of the extreme severity of the weather was given in the following incident ; For some time a magpie was hovering about a spot on which a starling was picking up a few crumbs that bad been thrown it by a spectator, when suddenly the magpie flew down, u-la litievh, and seizing the starling in its feet, rose up with it into the air. Before, however, it had flown above thirty yards, the msg. pie let its prisoner go and the starling fell to the ground. It was alive, but considerably injured by the magpie, which is a bird that does not become carnivorous while other food isto be obtained. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jex. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD. ) THE BANKRUPTCY OF WRIGHT AND CO., BANKERS. —IN • RE ANTHONY GEORGE WRIGHT BIDDULPII, HENRY 10. HINSON, JOHN WRIGHT, AND EDWARD WILLIAM JEft- N/NOHAM. This being the day appointed for the choice "of assig nees under the new fiat obtained in this case by Messrs. Dyneley and Coverdale, the Court was crowded to ex cess long before the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings; and as the choice was expected to ' be contested, the interest which was excited as to the parties upon whom it should fall appeared to be intense. The debts and liabilities were said to approach a million sterling. Mr. Anderdon (the barrister) attended for the proofs in the lists of Messrs Dyneley ; and Mr. Hamilton, of the firm of Few and Hamilton, for his list. Proofs continued to pour in for a considerable time, when Mr. Hamilton said he understood that all proof of debts by affidavit from persons resident in London would be ob jected to by Mr. Anderdon, and he wished to know if the fact was so, as it would be attended with great incon venience. Mr. Anderdon apprehended that the rule was this, that no person was entitled to prove by affidavit who was a re sident in London, but that it merely applied to persons residing at a distance. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD did not think the rule was exactly as stated by the Learned Counsel. It was by no means unusual to take proofs upon the production of powers of attorney. Mr. Anderdon believed the rule to be as he had stated, and therefore he would feel it his duty to object to the reception of any proof of debts unless it was first sworn before the Learned Commissioner. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD thought'otherwise, for, by the 6th of George IV., as well as by the Ist of William I V.,; sec. 34, it was made lawful for any creditor to make affidavit of debt, and thereby prove without his personal attendance. Mr. Hamilton begged to ask the Learned Counsel in whose behalf it was that he appeared ? Mr. Anderdon—For a large body of creditors, and also for the petitioning creditor. Mr. Hamilton—Oh, for the petitioning creditor ? Mr. Anderdon—Yes, as he has the greatest interest in preventing the concealment of any examination as to the proof of debts. Mr. Hamilton begged to ask the Learned Commissioner if it would be necessary, in proving debts by power of at • torney, to affix the solicitor's signature to each power, or to circumflex them, &a he and others held several hundred, and it would be a great facility in making the proofs if the latter course were permitted- Mr. Anderton said it would be his duty to object to the proof of debts by power of attorney, and particularly to such holders of powers claiming any right to vote in the choice of assignees, although he was not at present in structed to oppose the list intended to be offered by Mr. Hamilton. The Learned COMMISSIONER said the question put by Mr. Hamilton did not apply to the, validity of the powers of attorney, but to the mode of signing the list by the solicitors who might hold them. s Mr. Hamilton—l wish to avoid affixing 350 signatures, if I could legally do so by one signature. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said the signature must be affixed to each individual debt by any holder of a power of attorney. Mr. Anderdon submitted that, although parties might e'tillowed to prove their debts by power of attorney, yet that they were not permitted to do so under the provisions of die 6th Gco. IV., or, if they were, that such provisions could not be legally iagrafted upon the 61st section of the 7th Wm. IV. ; and the more so as the voting for choice of assignees was a species of duty the discharge of which s man could not delegate to another. The two A c t s o f Parliament to w hi c h be had referred might be construed in pail maturia ; but the 34th section of the Ist Wm. IV. could not be interpolated upon the 6th Geo. IV. But it' the 61st section of that Act gave parties a power to prove their debts by power of attorney, it did not, he submitted, give them a right to vote in the choice of assignees, and they must be bound by the Act of Parliament. Mr. Commissioner HOLRO I'D concurred with the Learned Counsel that the right of parties to vote in the choice of assignees must be governed by the Act of Parliament. By I the 61st section of the 6th Geo. IV creditors were not re stricted from proving their debts by affi lavit, and, having once proved their debt, they were clearly entitled to vote in the choice of assignees. It was no uncommon practice in this Court for a creditor to prove his debt himself, and give a power of attorney to some other person to vote in the choice of assignees, although the Commissioner might, if he thought it necessary, require the attendance of the creditor himself. It, therefore, appeared to him that, utakr the dist section of the 6th Geo. IV., any creditor might by power of attorney vote in the choice of assignees. Mr. Hamilton, at this stage of the proceedings, said he wished to ask a question which, although not strictly re gular, might tend to the convenience of the immense num ber of creditors who now crowded the Court. He wished, therefore, to ask, if any one present intended to repose a list of assignees ? He held powers of attorney for debts to the amount of nearly 300,0001. On the part of Mr. Dyneley it was stated that he did not intend zo propose any list. The Learned COMMISSIONER suggested that Mr. Hamil ton should now state to the creditors the names of the per. sons whom he meant to propose as assignees. Mr. Hamilton said he meant to propose Thomas Berne well, of Copthall-eourt, Esq. ; William Blount, of Cum berland -street, Esq. ; Charles Welde, Esq., barrister-at law: Michael Ellison, Itsq., agent to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk; and Mr. Charlwood, of Covent-garden. Those creditors, therefore, who had already proved, and approved of these gentlemen, might leave this crowded Court, un less their curiosity should induce them to bear the pressure any longer. Several creditors expressed their satisfaction at the names of the proposed assignees, and considered the pro position a very fair one for expediting the day's business ; bat with others the intimation had not the desired effect, and they still bore the squeezing of the crowd who pressed forward to offer their proofs. Mr. Anderdon wished to knew what course the Court would adopt in its case of persons who might seek to prove upon overdue checks, of which he understood there were a great many ? Mr. Commissioner Holroyd—They cannot be proved unless endorsed as accepted by the bankers, and with their privity. Mr. Hamilton—Then who is to prove ? Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD—Certainly not the holder, who, by his own !aches, did not present the check in due time. But if the question is to be now raised upon that point, let a case be put before me, and then, if you please, yon can argue it. A creditor said that he had received a check from a customer, but be did not present it, and the bank failed in the interim. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD —Your own !aches will prevent your proving, but perhaps the person from whom you took it will assist you. You certainly cannot prole upot! it. Mr. Anderdon would admit that the mere possession of a check did not always prove that the holder had come rightfully by it ; but yet it was quite clear that the banker should be reached in some way, and not put the money into his own pocket. Would the Court, therefore, allow a joint affidavit of the holder of the check and the party from whom he received it, the latter adding that he had only proved for the balance of his account, and deducting the amount of the check in question ? The mere absence of a legal right in a party to prove should not bar his equitable right, for the bankrupts certainly owed the money to some one. The joint proof, he contended, would gu ird the estate in every possible way, and the admission of the proof could not damage it in any possible degree. A lengthened conversation took place upon this point ; but we understood the Learned Commissioner to reject the proof, as it was clear that the holder of the check had no right of action against the bankers, who bad never accepted the check, while it released the person who gave it him for such an amount of debt. But the laebe s of the party was the reason why he was not entitled to prove. The bankers, he supposed, might not take advantage of the clairr ant. Mr. France said he attended on behalf of clients to the amount of between 75,000/. and 100,0001., whose stock had been sold out cf the Three-and-a-Half per Cents, and other funds by the bankrupts, without their knowledge, and he, therefore, wished the Learnet; Commiesioner would give him some advice as to the form in which the proof should be offered to the Court. He felt the more anxious about the case as there was only the trifling sum of 3.000/. unappropriated, and to be drawn amongst so large a class of creditors. Mr. Commissioner Houtovo—The bankrupts, I sup pose, were trustees for various persons. Are there sepa rate accounts fur each ? Mr. France answered in the affirmative, and the official assignee ( Mr. Edwards) said the difficulty consisted in their not being able to distinguish the different sorts of stocks. The Learned ComutsstoNEn said it would be for Mr. France to draw such a form of proof as he might he advised to do, and when it was properly before the Court he would then state his opinion respecting it. Mr. Anderdon, having pressed for his Honout'sjudgment respecting the admissibility of the overdue check, The Learned COMMISEIONER said his present impression was that the holder of such a check had no right to prove, which he made his own by not presenting it in due time. Mr. Anderdon again urged that the bankrupts were not discharged from its payment, and the question then dropped. Mr. Grady, solicitor, said that he attended on. he part of Mr. Thomas Wright, who had formerly been a partner in the bank, for the sum of 37,000/., but which he gave up for an anuuity of 1,200/. a year, Mr. John Wright being his quasi trustee. His client being now a prisoner within the rules of the Queen's Bench could not attend here to-day, but he (Mr. Grady) felt it his duty to attend upon the earliest occasion, lest he might hereafter be told he had not made his claim in due time. The Learned COMMISSIONER informed him that it would be quite time enough for him to make his claim at the next meeting. Another solicitor next addressed the Court at some length on behalf of the clerks of the bankrupts, who had discharged their onerous duties with great diligence and ability, but who, unfortunately, by the failure of the bank about this period of the year. had been deprived of the re muneration which they usually obtained from the numerous customers to the bank, as well as an annual increase of salary which they ware usually paid at this period of the year, They were also entitled to a quarter of the broker.. age, which was never passed to the bankers' account, but hitherto kept and paid on their account. The object of his application, then, was that the official assignee might be empowered by the Court to make them ,some allowance, a course to which he did not think there would be one dis senting voice amongst the creditors. The Learned CommissioNeerequested t h e applicant to communicate with the trade assignees, and then apply to the official assignee, who would inform the Court, and then the application should be attended to. The bankrupts had no less than 2,500 banking accounts, and the amount of debts proved in the course of the day MORNING E by affidavit or otherwise, was at least 500,0001. The number of creditors proving was about 700. The following gentlemen were then appointed ASAP noes, viz. :-Thomas Barnewell, of 15, York -terrace, Re' gent's Park, Esq. ; William Blount, of Cumberland• street, Esq. ; Charles Welde, of the Middle Temple. ill the city of London, Esq., barrister-at-law ; Michael Elli son, of Sheffield, in the county of York, Esq.; and George Charlewood, of Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlesex, seedsman. The proceedings occupied the whole of the day. Amongst the debts proved in the course of the day were the following :-Mr. C. Colclough, of Tintern Abbey. Wexford, 2,7391 lls 10d ; Mrs. M. Baron, of Sollestey Hall, Suffolk, 1,1501; Mr. G. F. Heneage, of Hainton. Lincoln, 753/ Iss ; Mr. J. Tristram, of New Halls Chelmsford, as executor to the late Mr. Charles Wright. 1,96018 s 2d ; Messrs. Cotterel, Kensington, 1,0281 9 5 5d ; Mr. C. Blore, of Manchester-square, architect, 2,634/ 19s ; Mr. W. Gore Langton, M.P. 3,756/16s 6d Mr. C. Rob er t s , Ch an d os - street , 1.1431 6s 2d ; Mr. W. Gore Langton, for his wife, 7931 its 4d; the Right Hon. Baron Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, 5,6511 105 6i ; Stanley Carey, Esq., of Fullerton House, Totnef, for Lord Petre, Lord Clifford, anti Thomas Norris. Esq., 14,4501 lls (as cestui que trusts) ; Mr. E. Heneage, of Hainton Hall, Lincoln, 5871 6s ; Sir W. H. Pringle, of Stratford-place, 1,5541 11s 4d; William F. Eyre. Esq., Rue do la Paix, Paris, 1,1761 bs; Mrs. Elizabeth Musgrave, Leamington. 692/ I3s 4d ' • Mr. Witham,. Gray's Inn-square, 593/ 19 s 2d ; M r . E. Foster, Greek-street, 2,1791 Is 2d ; Mr. G. F. Turrill, Leicester, 5071 17a 6d Mr. C. S. Standish, Montague-square,662/; Mrs. Cathe rine Stonor, Oxford, 1,120/ss; Mr. R. Benyou, for the British Paper Company, 2501; Mr. R. F. Benyon, for the Norwich Union Reversionary Company, 3,133/ Us 4d; Mr. J. Pnilpot, of Bath, as executor of Charles Cenolly. of Midford Castle, Somerset, 4,2891 7d • Mr. J. A. C. Maxwell, of Th or p oc k, Y or k, 2,289 1 16s Id ; the Dowager Countess of Newburgh, 1,1091 145 ; G. Egerton, of Gray's Inn, 2,264/ Igs ; Mr. C. B. Mostr. Montague-square, 1,474/ 14s 5d ' • Mr. R. litaidleston. Lofton Halt; Camb r id ge , 1,296/ fis 2d ; the Dowager. Countess of Shrewsbury, 530145; Mr. J. Pav e, Chapels street, Westminster, 1,638/ 18 s scl; Mr. E. J. Beck;, ~1 forth, Portman-square, 1,629/5s 5d ; Mr. Otho Thwaites 23, James street, Buckingham -gate, 54,7461; by Mr. .0 and Mr. F. H. Thwaites, as copartners in the E ng lish Chronicle, 361 14s 4d ; Mr. H. Stanley, Leamington. 3,5541 11s 4d ; Mr. Alderman Furebrotber, Lancaster place, Strand, 4,751/ 16s 8d ; Mr. J. Weld, of Lulworth . Castle, 2,537 l 19a 10d ; Viscount Southwell, 3651 182 , 10 d the Hon. Edward Preston, 1,9771 Is 7d; Stonyburft Catholic College, per the Rev. Randal Lythgoe. 1,802/ 19s 5d ; the Earl of Surrey, with other trustee's for a marriage settlement, 16,709/ 16s 6d ; Mr. J. Sdnaer ville, of Somerville House, Wilts, 746/ lls ad ;: Mr. Robert William Wynn, of Garthrina, near Alegalet, 7,5391. Ils 4d ; th e D u k e o f N or f o lk (Earl Marshal 01 England), 54,2991 is 3d ; Mr. H. W. Espinasse, Twick enham, 2,836/ 3s 3d ; Mr W. Scales, High Holborn , 1,3531 13s 8d ; Sir A. Blount, Salop, 212/ 169 sd; Mr. A. Blount, ' Manchester-square, 1,4851 6s sd; Mr. F. Bernoid of Bordeaux, 379/ lls2d ; the Ne°, Brunswick and Nova Scoti a L an d C ompany, 1,3 401 lls 8d; Captain Gardner, of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, on a bond, 2,037/ I9s 9cl• the South Western Railway Company, 3,583/ I9s 4d ; the Rev. Charles Gore., Wilton -crescent, 1,0011 15 3 ; the Rev. G. G ore, 1,0481 2s 2d ; Mr. C A. Belgrave, 2,396/163 10A ; Mr. C. W' Osborn Gresham, Worcester, 2,146/ 153 6d ; Sir J. Sid', ney, Kent, 1,287/ 3s; Sir J. Sh e ll ey , S ussex , 5,40 1 7s sd; the Rev. Mr. Norris, Sutton-street, Soho, on trust. 1,968/ is Id; Mr. J. A, Leon, of Lyons, 1,33210 s 84 2 Mr. Pitt Cobbett, Covent-garden, 1,796/ 18s lld ; th e Baroness de Fa rge , C a l a i s , 1 , 7 03 / 4s s d ; Mr. S . C. Hew ing, Trelawney, Cornwall, 1,57012 s 10d; Mr. H. Howall. Corby Castle, 1,950/ 17s lld ; the Baron Lile, 331/ 103; Sir G. Musgrave, 3 330/; the Hon. Ann Musgrave , 1,1611 3s 7d ; Sir J. Poidiphart, 446163 7d ; th e Hoe. Charles Petro, 9461 14.; 4d; Sir Cuthbert Thorpe, 22 41 6s 10d ; Mr. John Taito, Lower Grosvenor place, 130 1 ' [;rave-square, 526/ 05 3d; Baron Trimlestown, Meath , 2171; Sir G Webb, 3101; and Mr. D. O'Connell, MS' , a balance (not proved), 6135. THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY .. CORN EXCHANGE. This week's supplies of Wheat and Barley have beet' fah, and considerable of Oats from Ireland. The frost continues very severe, with the probability of the naviga - .. t ion of the river being speedily closed. The buyers werP indisposed to purchase, and prices of all articles may 14 considered nominally the same as on Monday last. Rather more done this week in the Flour trade. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply was very short, with a brisk trade, and ou r quotations were easily obtained. Beasts 284, Sheep 3 520 f Pigs 317, Calves 99. Beef 4s to 4s 10d, Mutton 3i 8 ' to 4s Bd, Veal 4s 8d to ss, Pork 5s 4d to ss. _ _ _ COLONIAL MARKET. The public sales were limited, and privately the trail' actions were limited; p r i ces , h owever, underwent li t tle variation. The arrivals h ave i ncrease d during the list two days. TEA MARKET. There was scarcely any business done in Tea, and price had still a downward tendency ; indeed the present state of the markht it is difficult to give quotations. TALLOW MARKET. The operations in Russian were on a small scale, 10' holders were not disposed to accept lower rates, either M . parcels on the spot, or for delivery. PRICE OF BREAD. • The Wghes - ri. et f , e.o: i he Nl.t.op!A is 9kj. for tig , op ' Loaf. Good Bread may be had at Th;cl. P11.1..E 3 OF SEEDS. Per Cwt, 1 Per Quarter .„. '7O gift E-gl'sh It, Clover...sos 80s St. Fein — s a"o ,01 Old LA . Div° —s —s —s Nye G. ass — s Ns , , New Foreign D i ,t o s 50s iss Paccy Grass —s -- 4 "0 Olt Di to Li-to — s — s —s L4isee6l, for lealii.g ~.—s stis 51 700 hew White Clover 45s 50 s CO s Dit o, f or sowing ..........3 CO • Old Dia( Ditto —s --s —s Ditto, for crushing ....—s 42s 41 ; i : , ew Tre oil —s tSt 42s 1 - I(.m ..—s :3 1 i , .• Old iltto —s 20s 3. s Canary —s 603 9 ‘ 'Jr folium s 48s 70s' Per B..sliel. aE,,glish Carraw a y —s 50 s s•ls White 11 , 1ustard .... i 46 0(1 to 14S ' Foreign Ditto Coriander,,. —s Lis 16s Tares PitICE JF OIL . . Rape Oil, brown, per ton £l4 0 Ditto, relined Linseed Oil c 10 Liras •ed Oil Cake at to .: Mill (per IOW) IA 0 Rale i ake, per to., PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 112th. 6 Town Tallow X'' , 13 • Melting Stuff XI 0' a Yellow iillS3la White ... ~ 0 C Graves Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 5 PRICE OF RAW F. Price of Tallow (as stated by the COAL: Ships artivtd since AT, per stone of Sibs. 'allow Me'tars) .... 2s. 114t 1 I,IARKET. 3. A (lair's Claytion Main huddle's West Hartley l9 6. Garestield Hebburn Main •.!•, I Lean's Main l7 6 Smith's Pontop ... ...... ... 19 0 Tantield Moor. 23 t, Wylain . 2O 3 Walls E d Bewicke and Co l3 0 Walls End Brown's . )O 6 Walls End Hilda. ........ Walls End Killtngworth Walls End Belmota W. E. Braddyll'sHettott... 25 6 last market-day, s• 2 3 6 Walls End Hedl e y... Walls End Hetton Walls End Lambton Walls End Stewart's Walls End Car at i oc 9 .a 8 1 . Tennan 'a Hart!epo o l Walls End Harrington Tees ' 2 , 3 2 Walls End South Durham l:g Walla End Seymour Tees 25 n Wal s End Tees et %Valls End Tees Hetton Walls End West d e tt on Anthracite 2l 6 9i Llangennech Coal ...... e 6 ith ley I pp, se 4n 4 : 3fi ' 40 50 ....• ...-• al - , - COUNTRY MARKETS, Wheat. ; Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Io.tos. j s. s. Rath '6o 72 30 38 Blandlord 56 t 3 30 33 Bridport 68 Chan! 58 64 : E8 32 Gloucester 56 14 28 37 Exe , er Guildford 68 71 32 37 Newbury ... 50 •67 27 28 Reading 4. 72 28 9 Salisbury Shtrborne sneptonMallet 56 61 32 40 Uxbridge —.l 37 43 Warminster (16 31 41 Winchester 60 64 '56 60 30 34 !22 30 I. to a. 24 28 21 26 22 24 20 28 21 28 32 38 19 30 E 0 22 22 28 22 30 23 2S 25 32 Beans. R. to a. 40 60 44 44 4$ 50 46 50 44 54 42 52 4'. 47 42 50 40 t 2 48 56 42 LO LEED; CORN 51A RKET.— Dec. '29 594. to 70,3 - g Wheat, N'irfolk anti Stifiidk, (111I1 ) . •—•--- York. and 1:111C , ,111. Nib. Barley, NortOlk anti Sutliilk --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Beans 63lb. ...... .... 275. to 31 , .: 6 , 4 , 04ts, l'otatoe itis. to AL 4.0 , Mealing, k or, __-(1. t0..... t i Eng. MI. to : 3 ~ pct st shelling "284. to i.'9s. per l o ss ... - - . DEVIZES CORN MARKET. Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quatter. s. .1- g• r, • . First Wheat 32 0 t o :33 11 Oats - Second 0 a 9 0 31 0 Be ans (p er sac k) ... 21 4O 1. 9 Third darley 2B 0 40 6 Bread (pergallon). 1 2 --, REGISTER STOVES, 3 ft. wide, 248.; 13r as4. Poles for Window Curtains, Is. 3d. per foot. Register stove * Sd. Ner inch ; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; register stovr h ' with bright fronts, bright and black bars, bronzed oroaines t " loos. ; brass poles for window curtains, 1i inch diamet er ; Is. 3d. per foot ; incites, Is. ;a 2 inch pole, 3 feet inches long, with ends, rinv, and brackets, complete, for Its: Catalogues gra ti s, containing the price of every article 111 ironmonge r y. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. BIRTHS. On the 26th ult., at Home, the lady of Sir A. Y. Spearitle' Bart., of a son. On the 3d inst., in John-street, Bedford-row, the lady of W ' T. S. Daniel, Esq., of a son. On the 4th inst., at Plas-Madoc, Tlan r Denbighshi re ' the lady of J. F. Preston, Esq., of a dau g hter. On the sth l ust., at Priestlands, ne ar L ym i ng t on, t h e lady of Lieutenant -Colonel D'Arcy, K.L.S., of a son. On the sth inst., at Lamborne, the lady of the High Sher if of Barks, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Great Queen-street, Westminster, t he lady of the Lord Bishop of Jamaica, of a son. On the 7th i nst., in Wilton- crescent, Lady Reymett, of daughter. RIR.D. On the 30th o f July, M at AR St. James' Nes" ( s Church, Sydney. South Wales, R. J. Barton, Esq., son of the late Lientenagi o r General Ch ar l es B arton, to Emily Maria, eldest dangitte r M m Major Darvall, formerly of th e 9 t h Li ght Dragoons; and fl• g s„, hater, E sq ., e ld est son of the late Captain IL Kater, I L to Eliza Clmrlotte, second daughter of Major Darvall. On the 31st ult., at St. George's Church, Botolph-lan e ' A. Wallace, Esq., of Harley-place, Bow-road, surgeon. d, Mary, th e youngest daughter of W. Gandy, Esq., of Old I.°l 110 w, Middlesex. DIED. nit On the 7th i nst., at B r i ghton, Fanny Blanch Catherine, ° daughter of the late Francis Bacon, Esq. a eie On the 30th ult., R. Ed war d s , E sq., o f Gloucester-te rr . Old Brompton, aged 81. On the 2d inst., Jane, third daughter of Mr. J. Fag" Duke. Street, Manchester-square, aged 22. On the 4th inst., Mr. .1. C. E. Bell, late of Wilten-r .jacf' Knightsbridge, and Tower Royal, London, aged 72. .0/ London t PrintNi and PuLlidled by 111JRDO YOUN . V ' j I,lli 0 Yo. 11'2, Strand, at TAe Sun Office, No. 112, Str i... ° 4 o ' ' the county of iidteielt.—Saturday, January 94,1144.---', /-'/ / i of St W. Sal D. 4atn es Jahn p arid w. .0 Nan 13 Tet t t Tre The I land . Alan V P ~ And At 1111" HOT day 0 1-1 Ist thnnt itere A Cern xnd that a lit su r for de Chair 4th Trea., rig H sth 6th, eondu J4I, T , N e , IV 0, A. I