The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. lintrS.—Sir Robert Peel has pledged the Conserva tives who follow his guidance in Parliament to act as inen " determined to maintain. upon their ancient founda tions the institutions of the country in Church and State." We claim the full benefit of that pledge, for the main tenance, and fol. the restoration, so far as they have been impaired, of thee: fundamental institutions which we have now been engaged in describing, and which we verily believe to lie deep at the root of the liberty, the strength, the prosperity, greatness, and glory of the Plitish nation. These foundations have been of late years systematically undermined by the Whigs, and se rious breaches have been made in some of them. It is here, then, that the essential difference between Whigs and Conservative: ought to be exhibited. If Sir Robert Peel did not mean so much as this, he has used idle words, and trifled with the earnest expectations of his supporters and the people on a vital point. There has been no vice of Lord Melbourne's Government more strongly marked, none certainly which has contributed more towards its fall, than the tendency of their mea sures, of late scarcely disavoiVed, to introduce upon the ruins of our ancient constitution the principles and prac tice of an executive despotism. Under the pretence .of removing abuses, promoting economy, and increasing the efficiency of institutions, they have been engaged in a constant endeavour to absorb and concentrate into their own hands the various and widely-distributed elements of administrative power. For every board of Commissioners which they have created, so much power has been taken out of the hands of the people, and so much actual liberty, and still more, security for liberty, has been lose. By the new Poor-law they have drained off the streams and fountains of a vast system of self-government which circulated throughout the nation, into a small number of main dikes and ditches, terminating in the one everlasting and insatiable reser voir—themselves. The Rural Police Act is another offspring of this un-English and anti-popular spirit ; and we cannot help referring to the same principle Lord John Russell's arbitrary attempt to make the self assertion of privilege by the House of Commons para mount to law, and also the language which the Whigs have lately begun to hold concerning the prerogative of - the Crown. But this is a point of too much importa.pce to. be treated of incidentally at the end of an article, and we shall reserve the development of it till a future op portunity. • HERALD.—The Whigs seem determined that their candle shall not be hid under a bushel. Lord John Rus sell, in his epistle to the citizens of London, took as much credit to himself as might satisfy any reasonable appetite for self-praise ; but the . Chancellor of the Ex chequer has proved himself a real glutton in adulating himself. We did not expect this from him. We had always attributed to him greater tact and ty better taste than he evinced in his speech the other day at Winches ter. We even went further in our good opinion of him. We acquitted him of the mean propensity to steal the laurel from another man's brow. r,ut we must take the Right Hon. Gentleman's claims on public credulity seriatim. " Whatever might be their fate," he says, speaking of the Whig Ministry, " whatever might be the result of the first few days of the meeting of the next Parliament, whatever the majority which the people may have returned against those who at present hold the reins of power, from the annals of history they could never erase those great trophies which her _Majesty's Government had won for the people." What an ungrate ful set the people must be to turn out a Ministry who have won such " great trophies" for them ! If the people had thought that the Whigs sticking to place was a " great trophy," the people would have kept them in place. The people—by which term weldesignate the pro: perty, intelligence, and industry of the country—are not to be deceived twice. In every walk of life this charac teristic of the Englishman is remarkable. The Irishman is more zealous, the Scotchman is more calculating—the Englishman reflects. The sensible Englishman is never cheated a second time; and in that feature of our national Character Mr. Baring may read as he runs—the down fall of the Whig Ministry. But the " trophies," and we will take the first that Mr. Baring appropriates. "1)o what they (the people) might," he says, " the chains of 800,000 fellow-creatures have been struck off." Who struck ' them off ? Not Mr. Baring, for he was then not even in the Cabinet. Not Lord John Russell, for the question was too large for his limited intellect. He had not the moral courage to strike the chains from the slave at a blow. Not Lord Howick, with his petty fancy of a loan of 15,000,000/. No : none of these fine holiday gentlemen knew how to effect the emancipation of the poor negro. It was left to the more masculine mind of Lord Stanley to elbow Lord Howick out of his way, and purchase the negro's liberty out and out. And Mr. Baring claims this, the best achievement of Lord Stanley, for a Ministry which Lord Stanley abandoned in disgust ! The second trophy is comprised in the following words, —" Whatever language they (the people) • might use, history will write that, since Ireland has been a con quered country, during the whole of that period this is the first Administration to which the Irish people have looked with confidence." A few years ago Lord Mel bourne persuaded the Sovereign to stigmatise O'Connell as a disturber of the public peace. Not only was the public peace then thought to be compromised, but the personal peace and constitutional dignity of the Sove reign. 'Chia was no dream of the Conservative party ; it was then, we believe, the honest conviction of the Whig Government. Lord Melbourne himself dictated the Speech ; and now, what will history really tell of a Government who were mean enough to proscribe a mis chievous agitator from the throne, and, in order to keep in place, hold the self-same man up as the man they look to with "confidence !" What must be thought of a party which can encourage disaffection to the Queen by ripping up all the bad legislation of by-gone centuries, inflaming the passions of misguided nicii, by taunting them with the reprtiach that they are a conquered race? Are they statesmen who, for the mere sake of blaze, can do this ? No ; they are merely placeinen. ADVERTISER.—The Tories begin already to dis cover the inconvenience attendant upon the necessity of maintaining a good character—namely, that it requires a constant outlay for the purpose of keeping it up—an un intermitting expenditure of cash as well as conscience seems indispensable for preserving their reputation in even tolerable condition ; but it is with the latter alone that we have for the present to do ; and, leaving the consideration of pounds, shillings, and pence, for a future occasion, we must briefly notice a small traffic in the article of conscience by a veteran huckster, whom few of our readers will suspect of dealing in that commodity. Sir James Graham has, we perceive, been following the example set by Sir Robert reel, and entertaining the pure electors of Dorchester at a public dinner, instead of being himself the object of their invitation. Toryism must beat a tow ebb in the country when, in lieu of those political banquets which used to be held in its honour in all parts of the kingdom at a time when its votaries were in a minority, a gratuitous feast is now necessary to congregate its helots when their banner is for the mo ment triumphant. But this is a consideration which more concerns its disciples than ourselves, though the country may derive consolation from the reflection that, even with its own supporters, Toryism is at such a dis count that even its adherents can only be assembled by the prospect of a gratuitous guzzle. The speech which has prompted these rem arks und ou b te dl y requ i re d some sl i ght lubrication a la Kitchiner to make it go down even with the dull denizens of Dorchester ; fhr a more inane piece of egotistical insipidity it has not been our lot for many a day to encounter. It far outvies in emptiness the Tamworth oration, which even the Standard was obliged to confess "would possibly disappoint thwe who looked to it for novelty ;" and is the nearest approach in recent times to the realization of Talleyrand's celebrated apothegm, that lanpage was given to man for the pur pose of enabling him' to •conceal his thoughts. In the whole of its dreary dulness it would be more difficult to distinguish a particle of meaning than to fi n d a nee dl e i n a bundle of hay, or a pickle of corn in a cart-load of chaff. Even the Tory Journals would seem to have-been ashamed of it, as they have not only allowed it to pass unnoticed by the slightest mark of editorial comment, but consigned it in obscurity to the most obscure quarter of their columns ; and, but for our casual observation, it would at once have been doomed " Soon to the mass of dulness to return, Where things forgot are swept to things unborn." In the whole mass of senseless verbosity which encum bers a column of the Times,it is impossible to distinguish the slightest extenuation of Tory policy for the past, or the slightest indication of Tory policy for the future. The bulky Baronet who accuse the Lincolnshire- farmers .of heaviness, though he might vie with the densest of them in more than Bastian stupidity, has contrived to outvie Sir Robert Peel himself in point of incommunica tiveness. POST.—The morning organ of the beaten Adminis tration employs itself in spinning leading articles out of a pamphlet by Mr. Baptist Noel, Minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, on the subject of the Corn-laws. The Whig -Radical journalist says that the reputation of the benevolent author, one of the brightest ornaments of the 'Cliiirch of England, who is looked up to as a high autho rity by the religious world, will no doubt obtain for the pamphlet a very extended circulation, and therefore lattich importance should be attached to its appearance. We take leave to enter our protest against this puff direct of Mr. Noel's pamphlet. When such paragraphs are found in the " back page" of a London journal, they kre generally well enough understood to be the compost fieet, of some p erson who has an interest in selling the book ' pamphlet thus bepuffed, and who therefore pays for 'the insertion of the eulogy. But it is really unfair toput such paragraphs into the leading columns of any re spectablc newspaper. Without being very presumptuous we may venture to assume that we know rather better than any Whig-Radical Journal, whether any particular gentleman is looked up to as an ornament of the Church of England, :u:d we do assure the public that Mr. Bap tist Noel is not considered by the soundest mem rs of tint Church to be at all ornamental to it, and still less is ho considered to be useful. In short, he is not looked upon us a Church of England man at all, hut a dins' n ter ; and if the gentleman had a mind capable of appre ciating, or even of distinguishing, what is necessary to strict propriety, strict integrity, and strict decorum, it is probable that long ere this he would have formally se ceded from the Church of England. We do not at all mean to charge Mr. Noel with an intentional and con scious violation of the integrity of his duty to the Church. The fault or misfortune, or whatever it should be called, lies in a deficiency of understanding and judgment. He is a lamentable instance of presumption and incapacity combined. To allude to him as a person of authority is perfectly ridiculous. CIIRONICLE.—We have to acknowledge the ser vice rendered to the public by the Morniny Post, in bringing_iartobroad and clear light a characteristic pas `„l ,ge e anal ßobert Peel's late oration at Tamworth. eiLs ardleteisnrelo!atrlncio:llnyr,7)nin,,e,very one's memory. Physni ho, in cases of distress, gene- rously ; the quack never does. By that unconscio us s yonaluer fee the truth influences a speaker's mind, and bring s in spite of himself, Sir Robert identified hitnself with ru tthile quack while labouring to claim an affinity with the physician. " I see around me," said he, " some of my attached friends of the medi cal profession, and I appeal to them whether they do not cordially concur with me, that it is not fit that one man should offer the prescription and another take the fee." — (Continued laughter and cheering.) The dishonest State Doctor suppressed the fact that every Member of Parliament has taken his fee to prescribe for the nation's health. His former election was Sir Robert's fee, and so far as he gave any prescription in return it amounted to spare diet, dear bread, and starvation. But he says he has another recipe in store that will stop the disease. Why does he not produce it ? Because he wants to extort the additional fee of office, influence, patronage, and emolument. Do the medical men of Tamworth call this honourable practice ? Professional people, and unprofessional, elsewhere, cry shame upon it. There is a general disgust at the antipatriotic, sordid, and factious character of the avowal. The Morning Post feels the thing to be so bad that, in despair of vindicating the principle, it has recourse to the desperate expedient of denying the fact ; which it does in the following not very courteous manner : " The lie we are about to mention is hardly worth contra dicting ; but as the Ministerial faction seem to nurse it as if it were rather a pet lie of theirs, we may as well do so. The Globe and the Observer, and all the other Ministerial Journals lie, when they quote a pretended passage from Sir R. Peel's speech at Tamworth, in which he is made to talk of not giving his advice until he has received 'the fee.' The lie is neces sarily a wilful one ; for our honest Contemporaries have the speech before them, and there is no such passage in it. But when the Ministerial Journals daily calumniate the Quern, how can Sir R. Peel hope to escape their false and slanderous attacks?" Now, however much the Morning Post may be ashamed of Sir Robert Peel, this is not the way to help him out of the scrape into which he has plunged by his inherent deficiency of moral taste, and his affinity with the selfish and the sordid. The passage is not a "pretended passage." Besides our own report of it, the correctness of which cannot be impeached, we have direct evidence that the words above quoted were spoken ; and the report of the Times bears distinct and complete testi mony to the fact. The," Globe and:the Observer, and all the other Ministerial journals," had these two concurrent reports before them. Our Contemporary is much too hasty, therefore, in giving them the " lie," saying it must be " wilful," and asserting that they had " the speech before them, and there is no such passage in it." The speech was before them ; the Times report was be fore them ; and there is that passage in it. Our Con temporary may have falsified his own report, and altered the unfortunate passage ; but making a lie is not proving a lie. It is rather too much that the Post should first belie Sir Robert Peel, and then belie the " Ministerial journals" for quoting him truly. GLOBE.—The Conservative journals are filling up the the time, until the meeting of Parliament, in placing daily bandages over the public eye, to keep it still in the dark as to the intended movements of the Tory Govern ment. Their present art is literally their mystery, and he whe can say the least in the longest space shows himself the most useful partisan of the ex pectant Minisary. The allegation that the pro per use of words is to conceal ideas, seems to be no longer a bon mot, but a truth, which is being daily realised in the columns of the Tory newspapers. The Times and the Herald of this morning have run almost a dead heat in the race of unmeaning ver bosity—though the latter wins by a length, 11 aV;:: ig turned the column in advance of its antag On;_:: L . Th e article in the Herald is a drowsy ampli 6 :oation of two words—Experientia docet—a trangl - hition of which it ingeniously fills nearly half a. :Lie in furnishing. The Times opens well with _a elution of two or three of the most elementary sentences of Blackstone in a stream of pompous worthiness, and takes up considerable space in drawing out the intelligence that this country was for merly kivided into counties, hamlets, and parishes. Our Contemporary has, however, got somewhat into a mess towards the close of his article, for he claims from Sir Robert Peel the undoing of those things which he himself helped to do ; while in another part of the paper he is called upon to carry into execu tion the very measures to which he has been the chief impediment. Thus Sir Robert Peel is to oppose the Poor-law Bill, which he helped to carry, and has pro mised to maintain ; he is to attack the establishment of rural police, founded entirely on a model of his own; and he is to repudiate the principles of Parliamentary pri vilege, which a short time since he, in conjunction with Lord John Russell, so stoutly contended for. In an other part of the Times the Hon. Baronet is invoked to promote free trade, his opposition to which caused the overthrow of the Liberal Government ; and, indeed, it is clear, from the inconsistencies demanded of him, that his party rely much more on his flexibility than his principle. He may have succeeded in rendering him self the point of union between the contending interests of which the Tory body is composed ; he may have given an arm to one on each side, and he may have offered to bind himself hand and foot to opposite sec tions, for the sake of inducing them to lean temporarily towards him; but what will be his fate when these con flicting interests all strive to lure him in their own di rection, and the trunks of long Tory growth, which he has bent, not broken, rebound into the stubborn attitude from which he has allured them into momentary flexibi lity? . STANDARD.—The newspaper supporters of the " deficit Ministry" appear to be agonised by conflicting doubts of what Sir Robert Peel's policy will be when called upon to succeed Lord Melbourne in the administration of the affairs of the country. They are . indignant beyond measure that he has not afforded them the opportunity of objecting to it on any more tangible ground than a general reference to his :tl - recorded opinions. They are naturally anxious to be made acquainted with the particular measures which the majority of the House of Commons may be invited to support, in order that they and their patrons may shape their course accordingly. Lord Melbourne has already shown, on numerous occasions, that he is not aboVe being taught by his opponents ; and could Sir RObert Peel but have been provoked to deviate from the delicate and dignified course of re fusing to prescribe remedies for the patient until he is " regularly called in," his Lordship would no doubt adopt just so much of his " treatment" as would afford plausible materials for a Speech from the 'Throne calculated to meet the emergency of the moment. His Lordship's newspaper advocates are evidently di vided in opinion as to what they are to expect from the Right Hon. Baronet, and are accordingly prepared for any alternative. If he should continue to advocate the measures of temperate Reform, which have hitherto characterised his policy, he is to be liable to the charge of plagiarising the views of her Majesty's present Ministers ; and should he refuse altogether " to grapple with the great question of fiscal reform," he will render himself even more obnoxious to their censure. Whatever be Sir R. Peel's intentions, therefore, it is perfectly clear that they will be equally obnoxious to the criticism of a large class of the supporters of Ministers. The country has no need to apprehend, that Sir Robert will plagiarise the policy of his predecessors, but there can be no substantial reason why he should refuse to persevere in his own course of moderate and temperate reform, because he has refused his assent to those extravagant measures of fiscal reform which were proposed by a Cabinet in ex tremis, to save it from the consequences of long years of previous misgovernment. The anticipatory charge of plagiarism against Sir R. Peel comes with an ill grace from the supporters of a Ministry which is indebted to him for its ability to carry the only beneficial measures it has hitherto attempted. It was not only the gross assault projected by the Government on the great interests of the country that deprived it of its confidence, but the fact, proved by the repeated majorities of Parliament against it, that it had long lost the power of legislating on any im portant measure without the assistance of its Conserva tive opponents. The Whig Budget was certainly the last drop to the already brimming cup of the country's endurance, but it is equally notorious that it was a far larger one than was necessary to occasion its overflow. The alternative of a second dissolution of Parliament is one to which even the O'Connell Administration, selfish and profligate as they have proved themselves to be, dare not advise her Majesty to resort: but if they should, she has, we are satisfied, too intimate an acquaintance with the constitutional rights of Englishmen to dream for one moment of adopting it. The struggles of the faction are fierce in proportion to the hopelessness of their con dition, and it would therefore be as unwise as ungene rous in their opponents to visit too harshly the grotesque contortions by which they seek to brazen out their defeat. COLTRIER.—We have, on former occasions, adverted to the p r i mary causes of manufactyring depression ; they may, indeed, summarily be condensed under the two heads o f overtrading. an overbanking at home and manyaoady. years s he pr os p erous snd un i nterrupte d career for e manufacturing ierttory ing industry,accumulation Lancashireol ' e p in for example, 01r an led to ' tals and a boundless expansion of credit. Had these . real capitals only been • wisely restricted to invest ment in cotton mills and power looms, the gra dual extension of manufacturing power could not ~ not have shot far ah,:iof v the capacity for cton sumption. su mption. Unfortunately, however, a far other and 'less legitimate direction speculation th e Man chester people must needs embark i n the coinage of money as well as in the manufacture of calicoes ; banks of issue, discount, and deposit numberless started into existence on all sides, the concoctions of brainless projectors, or something worse, and the crea tions of a year. The promise of open credit accounts attracted shareholders with funds, and more without, and the unlimited as facile fabricatim of .! flimsy" sti mulated the fury for the construction of more factories and the over-production of more fustians. Nor was the rage for bank -making limited to the locality where it was first originated. In the laboratory of the cotton and woollen districts of Lancashire and Yorl=- shire, in fact, banks wete compounled for all England and Ireland, literally from Manchester to the Land's -end, and for all Ireland. It was not difficult for a sober looker-on to foretell the issue. Railways, with a thou sand other speculations and schemes less laudable in th e i r object, came to crown the banking mania, from which arising-, and by the money credit facilities of which sup plied to repletion. Shall we wonder that the explo sion came at length ; ought we not rather to admire that the combustible materials smouldered so long ? without bursting forth into consuming flame The enumeration of joint-stock banking follies authenticated beyond dispute were an endless task. The failure of two manufacturing concerns some two or three years ago, developed the extraordinary fact of one bank being the chief creditor for cash advances for some two or three hundred thousand pounds in each case, with no security but bare walls and machinery worth not much more than a tithe of the amount ; and of such enormous instances of overbanking mismanagement the history of almost every Manchester joint-stock bank affords preg nant evidence. Trading convulsions in the United States and elsewhere came to consummate the ravages of over producing and overbanking at home, and with markets which they had overstocked everywhere on the face of the globe, and banking credits woefully curtailed at home, Lancashire spinners and manufacturers find them selves inevitably compelled at the eleventh hour to relax the steam pressure, to work short time and lessen pro duction, until in the regular action of trade a healthy balance shall once more be struck with consumption. This is a true and faithful, though brief, narration of the causes of trading depression in Lancashire at this mo ment. That many large and once wealthy estqblish ments, innocent themselves, perhaps, of pat ticipation in the popular frenzy, with a minor host of traders, should be felled by the consequence of such a wild hurricane of speculation, however much to be deplored, ought scarcely to excite surprise. THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 IS4I MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 6i per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 178. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.31, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 37i, it follows that gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of ,n•old is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.175. 'Old. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 61, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 6 1 1, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in London thin in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 10 6 31 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 1.08 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. It has been expressed as a matter of surprise in many quarters, that the late sales of stock, including as they did an amount very little under 200,0001., and followed as they were in the one case, and preceded in the other, by news which, taking it from either source, America or China, could not be viewed as favourable to this country, did not more severely affect the market than they have done, and the negative impression, for such it is considered to be, is accepted as very good evidence of the state of things produced by the concentration of business in the English funds. Taking a review of the fluctuations that have occurred, it does not appear that their range is more than one-half per cent., even up t o to-day, and some allowance must be made for the change able state of the weather, which generally causes capi tal at this season of the year to be diverted to another channel of speculation. Such an inconsiderable depres sion as this, caused by a succession of circumstances which would in former periods have produced, in all probability, a fall of 1 or 2 per cent., naturally calls at tention to the main spring of so steady, progressive, and increasing a support to our own funds, and it is pretty generally admitted to be the absence of all speculation in the foreign securities and the decrease of it in the other departments, which of course leads to the trans acting of bona fide business only. This has been a long while predicted by those who have watched the current course of events in the Stock-markets. , L , I ,A i t seems they have not been mistaken. late advices respecting the M'Leod affair 'iv? not produced any uneasiness in the country, if v;'_. may judge from the very few orders the brokers have received to sell upon the news. Although the present, and more especially to day, there is partial flatness exhibited in our Funds, it is tixr:.gtit it will be but temporary, and if the transitions of the last few weeks are to be taken as any criterion, the opinion cannot be ill-founded. Money for all purposes is abundant in the Stock Exchange at low rates, but out of doors it is not over easy, although it cannot be said that there is any great difficulty in obtaining accommo dation. Accounts from Manchester state that Messrs. Stocks and Son, the large manufacturers, have suspended for between 70,000/. and 80,000/. It has had no effect here, and would be regarded as of little consequence were not sympathy awakened for the further distress which it will occasion among the operatives, a great number of whom will be thrown out of employment in consequence. The Crane packet, from the West • Indies, brings papers from Jamaica to the 2d of July, from Trini dad to the 22d of June, from Barbadoes to the 27th of June, and from Demerara to the 24th of June. It will be perceived that the accounts from the latter island are but one or two days later than those published yesterday ; they, however, convey the name of the firm which had failed, namely, Messrs. Troughton, whose connections here in London stopped some short time since. The athices from Jamaica are of the same desponding character as pre viously noticed ; the lists of insolvents are beyond pre cedent, and the whole populatian seems to be overpowered with commercial embarrassments. The crops at Barba does were suffering from excessive drought., and there also the planters and merchants are said to be in jeopardy. The news of the proposed revision of the ' sugar duties had gone the round of the islands, and the, papers are filled with comments on the subject. The particulars of the case tried at Bombay, in which one of Captain Elliot's Treasury Bills was involved, are of considerable commercial interest. The defendants were the agents of Messrs. Dent and Co., .to whom the plaintiff, a native merchant, had consigned 200 chests of opium, the defendants having made him an advance of 72,115 dollars, for which he drew a bill on Dent and Co., payable to themselves. He instructed them to invest the surplus arising from the sale of the opium, after payment of the bill, in Sycce sil ver, Mexican dollars, or in specified securities. The opium, which arrived safely in China, was among that sold to Elliot to complete the number of chests ha had engaged to deliver to Commissioner Lin. Dent and Co. took bills on the Treasury from Captain Elliot, and wrote Ito the plaintiff, giving an account of the sales of the chests, and informing him that for the balance (after de ducting the amount of his bill) they had sent a bill of Elliot's, amounting to 5,385/. 95., endorsed to the de fendants, on his (plaintiff's) account. They also wrote to the defendants, enclosing the bills on the Treasury, at the same time suggesting that it might not be desirable to negotiate the bills with their names upon them, lest they might be involved in some risk, and instructing them to send the bills to England, that the amount might be received and remitted to the interested parties in Bombay. The plaintiff, quoting Dent and Co.'s letter to him, requested the defendants to deliver the bill, which they refused to do, and the plaintiff ultimately consented that it should be sent to London for recovery. The bill was sent accordingly and returned protested, when the plaintiff again applied for it, but was refused, unless he consented to guarantee the defendants from all liability to Dent and Co. He, therefore, brought an action of trover to recover the value of the bill, when the Court decided that he was entitled to recover, as the bill represented his opium, that the defendants could not negotiate the bill, except for the benefit of the plain tiff, and that Dent and Co. could not obtrude the agency of the defendants upon him against his will. The assent given by the plaintiff to the transmission of the bill to London was not considered as a waver of his right, and a verdict was given in his favour. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS. LONDON, AUG. 4.—Wind this day at noon N. to N.E. DEAL, Ave. 3.=-Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrived the Inverina, M`Donald, from the River Gambia ; Lord G o derich, from Quebec. Arrived from the river, Warrior, for Calcutta, with loss of maintopsail yard ; Palmorus, fur ditto ; Duke of Roxburgh, Sydney, New South Wales ; G. Robinson, Newfoundland ; Anouyma, Bombay ; Cata lina, Barcelona. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 3.—Wind variable and light.— Arrived the Apparition, from Monte Video and Ha vannah. Sailed the James Cunard, for Sydney ; Kings ton and Gardner, Calcutta ; Minstrel Boy, Lima ; Lively, Brazils ; Workington, Belize ; Scalby, Tampico ; Antonio, Leopolda, Havannah ; Scotland, New York ; Eliza Warwick, Boston ; Seven, Alchymist, Don, City of Waterford. Delia, and Agenora, Quebec ; Ann Johnson, Newfoundland ; Beiram, Beyrout ; Swiftsure, Smyrna ; Marwood, Odessa ; Reindeer, Constantinople ; Queen, Naples ; Fairy Queen, Corfu ;- Dalares, Malaga ; Will o-the-Wisp, Almara. Arrived off, the Clyde, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, AuG. 3.—Wind N.W. to S.W.—Sailed the Agincourt and Plantagenet, for Calcutta. Put back, the Wellington, for New York. COWES, Ace. 3.—Arrived the Edward, Molter, from Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, AUG. 2.—Wind 5.W.,. strong breezes.— Arrived Actif, Raaborg, from Rio Janeiro, sailed June 5; Buoyant, Weatherstone, Odessa ' • Great Liverpool (steamer), Southton, and sailed for Alexandria. Sailed -the Royal Tar (steamer), for Vigo. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 3.—Wind N. W.—The Plym, Davies, in working out on the Ist, got in contact wall the Wil liam, bound to Prince Edward's Isle, and carried away her bowsprit ; the latter remains to repair damage. BRISTOL, AUG. 3.—Sailed the Dachtour, for Quebec. PORT TALBOT, Auc. 2.—Sailed the Briiliant,Alicatit. MILFORD, AUG. 2.—The Belfast, from Clyde to Val paraiso, which put in here yesterday leaky, "has been surveyed, and must discharge to find the leak. CARLISLE, JULY 30.—Arrived the Hibernia, Wedg wood, from Miramichi. DUBLIN, JULY 31 AND AUG. I.—Arrived the Barlow, M`liellar, from Bermuda ; Andover, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Orestes, Quebec. Sailed the Commercial, for Quebec. KINGSTOWN, AUG. 2.—Arrived the Tom, Coulthard, from Quebec. DUBLIN BAY.—Arrived a timber laden barque. WATERFORD, JULY 31.—Arrived the John, Power, from Miramichi. Sailed the Despatch, for Quebec. DROGHEDA ' JULY 31.—Arrived the Sister Anne, Gib son, from St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, AUG. I.—Arrived off, the Nelson, Trait, and Prince, Lumsdcn, from Quebec. SHIELDS, AuG. I.—Sailed the Julia, Danneman, from Rio Janeiro ; Majestic, Margorin, Calcutta. VESSELS SP3KEN WITH.—John Tomkinson, Liver pool to Batavia, lat. 34 S. lon. 74 E. ; Gerera, Dutch Indiaman, June sth, lat. 49, lon. 10 ; picked up on the 28th May off Scilly a boat marked "Fanny, of Greenock, T. S. Stoyle," by the George, arrived at St. Vincent. Neuler, Sicily to Newfoundland, June 22d, off Cape de Gatt, by the Buoyant, arrived at Falmouth. Voyage r, Cadiz to Havana, let. 46, lon. 53, by the Athelstan, arrived at Leith. NEWCASTLE AND NORTH SHIELDS RAIL wAY.—The passengers on the 18th instant amounted to 7,400 ; and en the 25th the number was nearly as large. On Friday a spirited rowing-match took place on the Clyde, near Erskine Perry, between the Hon. Lord Blantyre and the Bev. Mr. Stewart, pastor of Ers kine parish. The principals formed part of the rowing company in both boats, and the match, which was ably contested, attracted a great deal of interest in the neigh bourhood. Partly, however, from the want of experience as to the turns of the current in the river, the young nobleman was as unfortunate in the boat-race as he was in the choice of a candidate at the late election for the county. The minister and his boat's crew stepped on shore the victor s over that of Lord Blantyre ; but the kindest feelings were manifested on all sides, after the health-inspiring exertions were terminated, both by the on-lookers and those engaged in the match.- —Glasgow LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. THE CORPORATION OF BRIDGE WATER.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon an amended informa tion. The only point in the case was whether the profits of the tolls and dues imposed by the Act of the 23d of George 111., upon all vessels, were properly ap plicable to the general purposes of the borough fund, or whether they were given absolutely to the Corporation of Bridgewater after the purposes of the Act were answered. His Lordship was clearly of opinion that the Corpora tion were merely trustees for the tolls and dues under the provisions of the Act, and that, therefore, after com plying. with its enactments, the Corporation were not 'ln titled to the surplus. BLEWIT ROBERTS.-JUDG3IENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this appeal, reversing the order of the Vice-Chancellor. CORE V. LOWNDES. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, giving liberty to the defendant to improve his case by a supplemental answer. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE COOPER'S COMPANY. IFS LORDSHIP also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon appeal from the judgment of the Master of the Rolls. His Lordship ordered the ap peal to be dismissed with costs. MUSLING V. KIRBY. The arg,uments in this case, which were commenced yesterday, were resumed this morning, and occupied the whole day. The case came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor refusing to grant an injunction to restrain the defendant from in fringing a patent, obtained by the plaintiff for a machine for the purpose of making pins with solid heads. ROLLS' COURT, Aug. 4. IN RE SMITH. At the sitting of the Court this morning, the MASTER of the ROLLS gave judgment upon the petition in the above case. He said the petition was presented by Mr. Husband, a solicitor, in practice in Devonport, and it prayed.that the respondent be ordered to deliver all deeds and papers belonging to the petitioner, or connect ed with causes in which the respondent had acted as agent for the petitioner, to Messrs. Bourdillion and Son ; that he might be ordered to deliver his further bill of costs ; that an account might be taken of the cash ac count between the parties in the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834; that it be referred to the Master tolax the respondent's bill of costs from 1835 to the present time ; and to take an account for the purpose of making up the cash account during that period. It further prayed that the Master should be directed to tax the bill, not according to the usual mode, but that he should take noiice ofa special agreement . between the parties, by which it was alleged by the petitioner, the respondent had agreed that in all causes in which the petitioner was personally interested, and in causes wherein he <the petitioner) failed, and did not obtain the costs, he should only pay the costs actually out of pocket ; and he further prayed that the taxation might be had without the payment of the money into Court. With respect to the agreement, it was distinctly sworn to by the petitioner, - and as dis tinctly denied by the respondent ; but he was of opinion that the evidence did not show that it was so fully un derstood by both parties as set out by the petitioner— even had it been fully proved, he did not think the Court had jurisdiction upon a petition to compel its specific performance ; all that he could do was to order the taxation to proceed under the general rules of the Ccurt. A special agreement could only be established under a formal proceeding, instituted for the purpose. He could not order an account to be taken in order to ascertain the general cash account ; he could do no more than di rect the Master to ascertain what was due and unpaid. Certain frauds were alleged against the re spondent by the petitioner, in having charged sums as having been paid to Counsel which had not been dis bursed, and in some cases charging more than had ac tually been paid. He did not think it necessary to go into details on that part of the case. However, he thought the conduct -of the respondent had been such, as shewn by admission and evidence, as to destroy that confidence which ought to exist between a principal and an agent ; he would therefore order, to prevent his being an obstacle to the petitioner's carrying on the suits and causes in which he was engaged, that he deliver over to Messrs. Bourdillion and Son, if the petitioner wished it, all papers belonging to Mr. Husband, they giving an undertaking to re-deliver them to the respondent should the Court so order. With respect to the payment of money into Court previous to taxation, he was of opi nion that the petitioner must pay into Court the sum of 1,000/., and give an undertaking to pay such . further sum as might be found due. Had the petition been confined to the mere taxation and delivery up of the papers, he would have given costs against the respondent ; but as so much irrevelant matter had been introduced, and as there would consequently be so much difficulty in apportioning the costs, he would give none. He could not allow such a case to go out of Court without remarking upon a very loose practice which seemed to have grown up in the dealings between coun sel and solicit Ors.. It appeared that now counsel were in the habit of receiving a sum upon a general account. He thought that a very bad practice, and as it gave faci lities for much fraud, he hoped in future the old one would prevail, and that counsel would receive only spe cific sums for specific business ; there would then at all times be the signature of the counsel for such specific sums, which must tend to prevent any fraud. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 4. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN F. HARRISON. This day being appointed for the audit under the fiat, Mr. WATSON, Solicitor, informed the Learned Com missioner that there were certain law costs incurred on behalf of the petitioning creditor, amounting to 20/., and a further amount of 401., due for the Assignees, on account of which he felt bound to apply to the Court for its assistance. Sir C. WILLIAMS said he should take care that this claim should be first attended to, the more so as there were now proceedings pending in Chancery concerning certain documents of the bankrupt. Mr. "Watson then applied to have a weekly allowance of 3/. 10s. made to the bankrupt, as he considered that the available assets of the estate would be c^n3iderable, and he had a family of four children. Sir C. WILLIAMS said the value of those assets had not yet been proved, and until they were, the amount allowed to the bankrupt would be rather a difficult point to decide. Upon the whole he should take farther time for consideration. SHERIFF'S COURT, Aug. 3. WELLER V. HURRAY. Mr. Wakeling conducted the case for the plaintiff ; Mr. Thomas appeared for the defence. Mr. Wakeling said, this was the most extraordinary case which had come under his knowledge during a prac tice of twenty years. The plaintiff (Mrs. Weller) was formerly the proprietor of a highly respectable coffee shop in Soho, which she had been obliged to give up, and had subsequently attended on the defendant, who was an ironmonger in Holborn—he being separated from his wife—for which she charged him at the rate of 2s. ft-day. The action was brought to recover the sum of 61. 25., deducting 10s. paid, and leaving the balance 5/. 12s. The case was to have been tried last Thursday, but it did not come on, and here was the extraordinary part of it. The defendant pleaded that he was only in debted in the sum of 1/. 19s. I Id. which he paid into Court, and that he had a set offof 2s. which was not denied. How ever,since Thursday he understood a sum of 2/.155. had been paid to the plaintiff; and this was followed by an appli cation to one of the Learned Judges to stay all further proceedings. That learned person, however, would not interfere, and said it was an attempt to deprive the at torney of his costs. He might here mention that the plaintiff, being unable to obtain her wages, had applied to the Magistrate at Hatton-garden, who, of course, could not interfere, and the consequexce was this suit was brought. Charlotte M'Adam said she lived in the same house with the plaintiff, and well remembered her going to the defendant's. Has seen her cooking. Mr. Wakeling—Anything else ? Witness—Mending his clothes.—(Loud laughter.) She went for about two months ; 2s. would be a fair charge a day. Mri•Thomas—llid an old gentleman, one Samuel Wel ler, live in yourlouse ? Witness—An old gentleman of that name did. Mr. Thomas—Was his name " Sam ?"—(Roars of laughter.) Witness—l cannot say. Mr. Thomas—Did Mrs. Weller wait upon him ? Wit ness—She used to came home to " clean herself," and then she cooked his dinner. Mr. Thomas--Did she make his bed ? Witness—No, he made it himself.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Thomas—How do you know that ? Witness—l have seen him do it.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. Thomas—Was she not to " do for hira ?"—(Con tinned merriment.) Witness—l don't know what you mean ; she cooked for him. The witness added, that the defendant's son drove the plaintiff, who was going to Brighton, as far as the Bricklayers' Arms and gave her 10s. but she heard nothing said about wages. Thomas Murray, the son of the defendant, said, that Mrs. Weller used to have her breakfasts and dinners with his father. Cross-examined—She went out to keep an old gentle man.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Thomas—What do you mean ? Witness -L-She used to cook his dinner, and said he paid her 6s. a week. Mr. Thomas—Now, when she came from Brighton, what did she do ? Your father had then another char woman. Witness—Mrs. Weller said to her, " Why, here I am back."—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Thomas—And turned her out ? Witness—Yes. —(Loud laughter.) Other evidence having been given, The Learned Counsel was about referring to the re ceipt for the 2L 135., When Mr. Wakeling objected, as it wasgiven after the action had been brought. The UNDER-SHERIFF having learned that the action was brought on the 25th of June, and the document was dated on the 27th of July, ruled that it could not be used. Mr. Thomas went on to say, that inasmuch as the de fendant had paid for her washing, she could not be con sidered as a charwoman, and after commenting at length on the evidence, John Goodland was called, and deposed that he had heard the plaintiff say Mr. Murray was a kind friend to her, and that she had acted as a companion. He often dined with them, and said to her, " How is it that you never say, Yes, Sir,' No, Sir,' but Murray I shall get this, I shall get that?' "---(Laughter, which continued for some time.) _ _ Other evidence having been given, The UNDER SHER IFF , a ft er an able reply from Mr. Wakeling, summed up the case, and The jury found for the full amount claimed, 3/. 10s. ld. TUE SLIDING SCALE.---Would it be a good cognomen for the Right lion. Sir Robert rep], part., to call him " The Sliding Scale?" ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER AND NORTH WALES CIRCUIT. Chester, - July 31. MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—The following case ex cited considerable interest, in consequence of its being looked on as a double murder, and the atrocious cruelty with which the crime had been perpetrated. The widow of the murdered man has, within the last few weeks, died of a broken heart, leaving seven young children totally unprorided for, The prisoner's name is Thomas Brooks, and he was in dicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Henshall, at Moxley, in this county, on the night of Sept. 10 last. The Attorney-General, Ml'. Trafford, and Mr. Towns end, were Counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. Jervis and Mr. Welsby defended the prisoner. 'The facts of the case were briefly these :—The de ceased, Thomas Henshall, was in the employ of Mr. Gar stang, of Chester, as watcher of game in the township of Huxley. On the 10th September, 1840, he attended that gentleman and a friend of his in Stapleford on a shouting excursion. In the evening the deceased was paid by his master 21. Ss., at Tarvin. after which he took his de parture towards home. He was seen by a person with whom he was acquainted on the road leading towards his own residence, and within about a mile and a half from it, perfectly sober. Next morning his body was found in a field near his house, quite dead and cold, and the money taken from his pocket. He had been shot at by some one, and the charge had perforated his heart, and lodged in the pericardium. About nine o'clock the same evening the report of a gun was heard in the neigh bourhood of place, which was supposed to be the fatal shot. The evidence affecting the prisoner was purely circumstantial. It appeared the prisoner left his home on the evening of the murder with a gun in his poSsession, and shortly before nine o'clock a person was seen by a female who was milking, crossing a field near the place. This person was in appearance like the prisoner, but she would not swear that it was him. 'The next evening prisoner was taken into custody, when he said that he had not heard of the deceased's death. It was: proved that he had been told. of Henshall being shot. In the prisoner's house two tuns were found, one of which he said belonged .to a neigh bour. These guns were loaded with mixed shot of six different numbers, and the shot extracted from the body were also of the same numbers ; but in a gun said to belong to prisoner's neighbour, the quantities more nearly corresponded. It was also proved that the prisoner had said, previous to the murder, that Henshall was a spite ful man ; he should not be surprised if he was shot. There were a variety of other circumstances, but they did not bear directly against the prisoner. Mr. Rims delivered a most able address to the Jury in his behalf, which occupied about two hours in the de .. livery; The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the Jury, uric retiring for a quarter of an hour, found a verdict of not guilty. The trial lasted eleven hours. HOME CIRCUIT—Lewes, August 3. The Commission was opened yesterday by Mr. Ser geant Taddy, and this morning both Courts proceeded to business. Lord Chief Justice Tindal presided in the Crown Court, and Mr. Sergeant Taddy at Nisi Prins. The Grand Jury having been sworn, and the Earl of March appointed foreman, his Lordship proceeded to address some . observations to them in reference to the cases that would be brought before their notice. his Lordship observed that although the number of prisoners for trial at the present assizes was not so very great, being thirty-six, yet the offences charged were some of them of a most serious character, and would re quire their most attntive consideration. There were some charges of violence upon females to which he would not advert more particularly, but it might perhaps be as well for him to remind the Grand Jury that the Legislature, in its wisdom, had thought fit to abolish the capital puniehment for offences of this description, and to substitute transportation for life. Although, how ever, this was the case, offences of that description and some others were taken from 'the cognizance of the Quarter Sessions, and the Grand Jury would have, there fore, to look at all those points which experience had suggested as necessary to be proved in support of cases of this description, and to decide whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant them in sending the cases be fore the Petty Jury. There was also a charge against three persons of attempting to suffocate another. with intent to murder him ; and although it did not appear that there was any previous or grudge between the parties, yet if the Grand Jury believed, from the expressions made use of by the prisoners and their con duct at the time, that they really intended to murder the prosecutor, it would be their duty to find the bill. His Lordship observed that there was also a charge against two individuals of having maliciously killed a sheep, with intent to injure the owner, and the circum stances of the case were of a somewhat novel kind, for it appeared that the moment the act was committed the prisoners gave information to a policeman, and said that their object in committing the act was that they might get transported. It would be difficult in such a case to suppose that they were actuated by any malice towards the owner of the sheep, but it was his duty to tell the Grand Jury that the law did not require any evidence of the malicious intention, but the mere act was sufficient to constitute the offence. His Lordship then alluded to one or two other cases, and dismissed the Grand Jury to their labours. Henry Thompson, 19, a well-dressed young man, was indicted for stealing a ring, value 41., the property of Vincent Silrani. Mr. CREESY conducted the prosecution. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who, there is no doubt, is a member of that fraternity termed the swell mob, went down to Brighton, accompanied by a friend on a " professional" expedition. On the 20,h July he went to the shop of the prosecutor, who is a ,jeweller, and asked to see some mourning rings, and a number were shown him, but he did not like the " style" of any of them, and left the shop without purcl►asing anything, and very soon afterwards a black enamel dia mond ring was missed, and on the same day the ring was pawned by his companion at a pawnbroker's at Brighton. When the prisoner was taken into custody, he was very indignant, and said that he was the son of a gentleman on Brixton-hill, and that he was incapable of doing such a paltry act. A letter addressed to the prisoner was, however, found by Solomons, the chief officer of Brighton, from a confederate in London, on which he referred to a watch he had received from the prisoner, which he described as having "very thin cases," and a " very inferior 'yrench movement," and assuring his " dear friend," the prisoner, that he could only send him 1/. 155., and praying him to send some better things as soon as he could ; and it appeared very evident that extensive arrangements had been made for plundering the tradesmen of Brighton, but which were frustrated by the timely apprehension of the prisoner. The prisoner in his defence declared that he did not steal the ring. The Jury found him Guilty. He was again indicted for stealing a ring, the property of Robert Nineham Brinton. _ In this case it appeared that the moment the prisoner left the shop of the last prosecutor lie proceeded to that of Mr. Brinton, and he there also wished to purchase a mourning ring, but having looked over all the cases that were shown to him, he said tha; none would suit him, and left the shop, and about two hours afterwards one of the rings that had been shewn to the prisoner was missed from the fray in which it had been placed. No one else had been in the shop, and the prisoner must have taken it, and as no trace of it could be found, there is no doubt that it was duly despatched to the " dear friend" in London. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, in his address to the Jury, said that whatever their suspicions might. be in this case, he did not think that the evidence was quite cogent enough to warrant them in convicting the prisoner, and he therefore directed an acquittal. There was another indictment against the prisoner for stealing a ring, but it was not procee . ded with. The pri soner was then ordered to be transported for seven years. Henry Parker, 29, and Richard' Johnson, 22, were in dicted for unlawfully and maliciously killing a lamb, the property of Thomas White. Mr. Johnson appeared for the prosecution. The priSonersileaded Guilty. Mr. JOHNSON, addressing the Court, said that the Learned Judge would see by the depositions that the present case was one of a rather singular character, and he was instructed to leave the matter entirely in the hands of.his Lordship. Chief Justice TINDAL 'said that he did not see any thing in the circumstances of the case to warrant him in preventing the law from taking its course. The prisoners had previously been policemen, and having forfeited their character, they had committed this offence for the purpose, as they said, of getting transported. The offence was clearly made out, and the Court could not enter into the motives of the parties, but must visit an offence of so serious a character with the punishment it deserved. The prisoners were subsequentlp called up for judg ment, and his Lordship, addressing them, said that they had pleaded guilty to a very serious offence. The Court had nothing to do with any alleged motive, er objeot for its commission, but was bound to pass such a sentence as would be likely to deter others from com mitting the same act, The prisoners were then ordered to be transported for ten years. CIVIL SIDE. Mr. Sergeant Taddy sat at Nisi Prius, but none of the cases disposed of were not of the least public interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. The Rev. Mr. Hall, a Roman Catholic clergyman, ap plied to Mr. Alderman Kelly for his advice under the following circumsiances :—He was sent for by a Roman Catholic prisoner confined in the Giltspur-street prison to visit him, and he did so last week. He afterwards sent him a prayer-book, and also some prayer-books for some other Catholics who were confined in the 'gaol. Upon making a subsequent visit, he foucd that none of the bOoks had reached the prisoners, but had been inter cepted by the Rev. Mr. Boddington, the Protestant chap lain of the gaol. . The same prayer-book which he was pleased to prohibit was admitted for the use of the Catholic prisoners in Newgate, with the sanc tion or the Rev. Mr. Carver, the Ordinary. Com plainant had an interview with the Rev. Mr. Boddington, and was not treated with the courtesy which one clergyman ought to show to another. The complaint he made was twofold ; that the Catholic prisoner was compelled to attend with the Protestants at the chapel, against the man's conscience ; and next that he was prevented from receiving a Roman Catholic prayer-book. The Chaplain said, with respect to the latter, that it contained matters contrary to what he taught, and he had a mind to burn the several copies complainant had sent ; and that he should persist in requiring Catholic as well as Protestant prisoners to attend divine service in his chapel. Mr. Alderman KELLY said he bad no power to inter fere as a single Magistrate, but if the complainant would take the trouble to make his representation to the Com mittee of Aldermen, who met at . noon on Saturdays, he was sure it would receive due consideration. Mary Ann and Sarah Davis were charged with steal- • it g a pair of mutt! c(4luhs from a blind mmi, Who stands in rarringJQn-street with a little buk full of SOy. articles. James Tidy, oF' Bleeding Hart-yard; Hatton-wall, th, blind man, said, that two persons, whom he knew to t) females by their voices, inouired the price of a pair o side-combs. He asked 3d. for them, and they gave him a sixpence,'which he changed. After they were gum: he felt the number of side-combs left in the tray, and missed a pair, which by suspected they had stolen. Im mediately afterwards a lad asked him what the two young women had purchased, and he replied one pair of . combs. The lad said they had taken two pairs, went after them, and gave them into custody. Frederick Chowne, a lad, proved that they took two pairs of combs. His suspicion was excited by seeing one of them put a pair of combs at once into her hair. • The prisoners said it was a mistake. They thought the blind man said the two pairs would cost 3d. The policeman said the prisoners occasionally appeared as street-walkers. Mr. Alderman KELLY thought none were so heartless as to rob a poor blind man. Being their first offence, he would punish them summarily with imprisonment and hard labour for one month. The blind man thanked the Alderman for treating them so mercifully. BOW-STREET. Thomas Lake Wills, a clerk in the Inlaid office of the General Post-office, was brought before Mr. Twyford for final examination, having been remanded, charged with stealing a letter, containing a 101. note, the pro perty of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Peacock conducted the prosecution. At the last examination, the note was traced to tho prisoner's possession. Mr. Alrm Chettle, a draper, residing at Fromc in So mcrsetshire, stated that he sent a letter to his father on the 16th of July last, enclosing a 101. note of the Frome Bank, with half a sovereign, and 3s. in silver, and after Sealing and directing it to the " Rev. John Chettle, Sheerness," he gave it to his wife to put into the Post- office ; but not receiving an answer on the Wednesday followin g , he made inquiries and discovered it had not come to hand. Witness identified the note produced with his initials upon it. Mrs. Chettle, wife of the last witness, proved having put the letter into the post-office, on the day in question, and Mr. Chettle, to whom it was directed, proved that he had never received it. Mrs. Sarah Webber, at whose house, in Allen-street, Lambeth, the prisoner had lodged for the last four months, stated that on Use 23d of July she saw a 101. note in his possession, which she believed was the same as that produced. He took it from a bookcase, saying, " Look here, how careless I am with money ; here's a 101. note I have left on the shelf.". He was then look ing for a sovereign he had lost. Witness did not think any person had come to visit him during his stay at the lodgings. She went out at half-past three o'clock on the 23d of ,July, and the prisoner did not return home until a late hour on that night. The evidence of Mr. Bitt, a clerk in the General Post-office, which had been taken on the former exami nation, was read over. It proved that the prisoner was on duty on the day in question, and tae letter must have passed through his hands. The prisoner declined making any defence, and he was fully committed for trial. He was again charged with stealing a letter containing a silver meaal, the property of Mr. Drinkwater, a member of the Society of Odd Fellows. It appears that the prosecutor sent a letter, in which the medal was enclosed, to Mrs. Wood, a charwoman, in Buckingham Palace, and in the usual course of busines it should have arrived at the General Post-office on the 16th of June from Brighton, but it never came to hand. The prisoner had been on duty on the day in question, and on searching his lodgings the medal, which he said he had found in the Westminster-road, five weeks back, was discovered by the officer. Mr. Blott and the officer gave the same evidence as in the last case, a.nd the witnesses being bound over to pro secute, the prisoner .. was ordered to stand committed on this charge also, but to be brought up again on Satur day next. CORONER'S INQUEST. Tuesday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Robin son Crusoe, Earl-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of William Morton, aged 51, formerly an omnibus pro prietor, latterly a conductor, but more recently without any employment. Edward Wright, an omnibus driver, residing at No. 31, Little Cathie-street, Edgware-road, said, deceased was a lodger of his, and. that about four o'clock on Saturday last, witness sent his daughter, aged nine years, to deceased's room to call him down to tea. She re turned quite alarmed, saying, "Mr. Morton looked very white in the face,- and had a string round his neck." Witness was then in the act of cutting bread and butter, and he ran up stairs with the knife in his hand, and seeing deceased hanging, he cut him down. He was quite dead, and a doctor who was called in tried ineffec tually to bleed him. He had cut one of the bed cords in half, and with it hanged himself by the neck from a hook in the ceiling. By the CORONER—I saw him reading a book about eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon, and I then told him, his tent being in arrear, that I had let his room to another. He . replied very carelessly, "Oh, have you ?" He was formerly in partnership with Mr. Shillibeer. Since then he became a conductor, but eight months ago lost his situation through drunkenness ; he was extremely low and dull, except when he drank, and latterly he was never a day sober. lam confident he hanged himself. The CORONER, addressing Wright—Do you think that drunkenness brought on insanity, or that insanity led to drunkenness? Wright—l think the man must be insane to drink as he did. I have known him drink a bottle of brandy a day for twelve months together. He formerly attempted to cut his throat with a razor, and on Friday night last he asked another conductor to lend him a penny, saying he wanted it to buy a cord wherewith to hang himself. Verdict--" Temporary insanity." DEER-STEALING IN WINDSOTI GREAT PARK. Notwithstanding the sharp look out kept day and night by her Majesty's keepers in the Great Park at Windsor, deer-stealing has been successfully carried on, and to a great extent, during the whole of the - summer. On Monday afternoon a notorious character, residing at Old Windsor, named Joseph Atkins, alias Lovely Joe, who has long been suspected, from his well-known poaching tricks, to have been connected with these de predations, was brought before Mr. Ward, one of the Magistrates for the county of Berks, at Englefield °Teen, charred by David Fisher, constable of Old Windsor, with having shot at and killed a female deer, the property of her Majesty, early on the morning of Sunday last. It appeared from the evidence of Sampson Strickland, one of her Majesty's keepers (who was corroborated by another witness), that between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning (the moon shining at the time) he and three of his assistants were on watch in the park, at Peter's-hill, near the paddocks formerly used for the Hanoverian horses, and almost close to the new union workhouse, when they heard the report of a gun about 300 yards from where they were standing. After wait ing quietly behind the trees for nearly half an hour, they saw the prisoner descend from the wall into the park, by means of a short ladder, which it was proved had been taken by the prisoner from the rick-yard of a farmer at Old Windsor, named Friend. It was from the top of this wall the deer was shot. The fellow, in attempting to carry off the deer, several times tried to get it upon his shoulders, but failed, from the state of drunkenness he was in, falling each time with the deer in his arms. At this time Strick land and his assistants went .up to the prisoner, who made no resistance, and took him into custody. The accused, who had hidden his gun on Peter's -hill, in a gutter or water-course, within a short distance of where he was taken, pointed out the spot to the keepers, where it was found. The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed to Reading gaol to take his trial for the capital offence of killing and slaying a deer within en closed grounds, the property of the Queen, at the next assizes for the county of Berks. He has been several times convicted at Aylesbury and Reading of poaching, for which he has undergone various terms of imprisonment. As a "wirer of hares" he is considered to be the greatest proficient in the neigh bourhood of Windsor and Egham. MOST MELANCHOLY COACH ACCIDENT AT KENDAL. ATTENDED WITH Loss OF LIFE..—On Sunday afternoon last the Engineer coach, which runs betwixt the Lancaster Railway terminus and Carlisle, when on its return from the north, was overturned on the road at a place called Coldharbour, on the Shap-road, about four miles distant from Kend a l. It appears that strong op position now exists between the stage and mail-coaches as to which can arrive first in the various towns off the r i toad, in order to secure the greatest number of passengers. 1 o effect this object the horses are driven at a most rapid and unnatural speed. This being the case on the day in question, and the Engineer having the lead of the mails, was proceeding at a tremendous rate, and, on reaching the above place, the traces of the leading horse were forced from their fastenings, which caused a temporary check, when the coach, which was heavily laden with luggage on the roof, and car rying at the time four inside and nine outside passengers, began to swerve from one side to the other upon its springs. This dangerous motion was perceived by a Mr. Heyward, farmer, of Hintlesham, Suffolk, who was re turning from Scotland, where he had been to inspect some new and improved agricultural implements, and who was sitting behind the driver. He immediately leaped from the coach in a direction from the horses, when, most appalling to relate, his head came in contact with the ground, by which he was killed on the spot. After this sad occurrence the coach proceeded on the two right side wheels about 50 yards, when it went over with a tremendous crash, precipitating with great violence to the ground the whole of the passengers, amongst whom were two lake tourists, whose names have not yet transpired, who had the misfortune to be thrown under the coach, and the horses still furious l y continued to drag the coach. These two gentlemen were most grievously in jured, one had the fleshy part of his leg, extending from the ancle to the knee, torn in the most dreadful m anner , whilst Isis foot was completely twisted round. Th e ot h er gentleman escaped somewhat more favourably, b u t, not withstanding this, one of his legs was broken, and the other much contused. They were both afterwards re moved in a carriage to the Crown Inn, Kendal, where all surgical assistance was rendered them, and where they still linger in an almost hopeless state. The body of M r , Heyward was removed to the Plough Inn, Selside, about five miles north of Kendal. A coroner's inquest was held upon the body on . Monday, but up to eight O'clock i n the evening no verdict had been returned. With respect to the other passengers, nothing material occurred to them, with the exception of the shock from the accident. - MOR iNf4 SUN. STATE 0 TitAi PE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) ROCHDALE F LANNE L MAnxr;•;:, Auu. e maid. ket to-day has been quite «putl to tiett of last, Monday. There has been a brisk demand for flannels, and mart' have been Sold at rather better price 3. Bes ide the mer chants, there have been several of the large manufactu rers to-day in the market, who have bought rather freely. The stocks on hand have been considerably di' minished the last month ; but July, August, aw l Sep tember, are generally the best months in the year for the Blackwater market. Wool still maintains its price, but the manufacturers have bought very sparingly. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3. The demand for middle and low - priced woollens, both plain and fancy, was tolerably brisk to - day: prices, both plain have not improved. In superfines there was little done. In light fancies there was less cause of complaint. Wools are firm. Business in the warehouses has not un dergone any material change. THE MARKETS-YESTERDA Y. CORN EXCHANGE. • Our arrivals of Wheat and Irish Oats have been good, but of Foreign Wheat moderate. English Wheat w as firm. en gi bonded Wheat realised 2s. per quarter above the quotation of last Monday. It is the general opinion that the Wheat crop will be decidedly deficient • it 'ving very thin in plant snd the ear defective, and has altogether an unhealthy appearance. In the Seed trade very little done, English New Trefoil very dear. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat of all kinds was in good supply. Beef declined fully 2d. per stone; other kinds the same as last qu oted. Beef, 3 '• to 35. 6d. for inferior ; 3s. 10d. to 4s. for prime: 11Iuttoot 3s. 6d. to 3s. 103. for inferior, and 4s. to 4s. 441. for prime; Lamb, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 8(1. for inferior, and 4s. 10d. to Bs. for prime; Pork and Veal, 4s. to ss. per stone of 81b. All kin& of Poultry were in large supply; the demand heavy, and prices nominally the same as on Saturday last. Eggs without altera tion. E.nglish ss. 6d. to is. 6d. ; French. 4s. 6d. to bs• Irish, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. ' • Scotch, 4s. 9d. to ss. per 120. COLONIAL MARKET. The markets generally were quiet, both shippers an d the borne trade operated with caution ; but holders were firm. and prices were supported. Raw Sugar met with a fair demand from the home trade at full rates. Coffee brought more money' TEA MARKET. There was a fair demand for Free Trade, and prices We!! firm. Company's Congou produced 2s. 7id. cash, and Iv^ Free Trade 2s. 60. per lb. The public sales declared Go prised 7,000 packages. The ddiver:es keep large. TALLOW MARKET. -A A Prices were firm, and a fa:r bu-iness was transac t. ' • 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 48s. 6d. for delivery " last three months. The shipmen's from St. Petersburgh b$ been 10,000 casks less than last season. OIL MARKET. The market was firm for Fish Oils, and a fair demand r e ; vailed.' Pale Seal fetched 321., and Cod 271. 10s. per tun. seed Oil firm at 295. 9d. per cwt. Rape in better request. COAL MARKEL _ Ships arrived since last market day, 41. 4 • r. 3 di . 8 g Buddl.'s West Hartley I. 0 *Valls End Killingworth ... i $ H Carr's artley 17 4 W. E. Itraddyll's H atton ... 0.4 S Wilburn Main 1 , 1 0 W;.II: End Haswell. ...... ... f p , 3 f.lolywed Ma n lB t Walls End Hetton ........••.. , 1 6 Leaz 2'S Alain Nelson's West Hartley Old tantield M00r..... ll 0 Walls End H a rtlepool. ...... f,, 6 Pontop Windsor ,:‘,.; 8 Ravensworth's NV. Hartley 16 ( Walls End Barrett ..... . : ... : ' 5 6 Wet Pelaw... Wyla , n ........ ............. „ l6 I Wad:. End Seymour Tues..' n i 0 'AI ails E. d ! ewic e at,d C Walls End Brown's l7 t: Cowpcn ....... . ...... .. .......... ii 6 Walls End Clennell - 0 Walls End Clarkand Co. ..."16 0 Walls End Devonshire ...... Walls End Hedley IRISH MARKETS. • OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the Wcel ending Jtll.-a. 39 0 11 0 16 0 13 6 St 1 0 IS From 250 Wheat, per barrel 'A, swim 2u U 0 Bere ...„. l6 r tone 0 0 415 Barley 467 4NI e 1 4 stcne ll 6 ii Four, per cwt... ri stoic ... 0 —0 i -",.. 0 394 0atmea1....,,......,,. 8 stone l2 0 13 0 i.' Sold to Bakers only. ni 6 2,519 Cwt. f tour .......... ..... ........ - Average price of AN heat mid 'lour 51, Sci per sack.... nr i - Finis ...... from 225. Oti to 1 0 ' ;,," 4 Receipts of Flour, 9 1 9 I - ' iSecon is . from 18s. fkl. to 2 1, •"'" d Sales of Do. 14,630 Tnirds ""::: from it)s. Ocl. to 120 0 MICE OF sum , . Quartern Loa! 9).0. i Half Quartern ...... 4N d• CORK MARKETS.—JuIy 31. 03 Wheat (per 205t.)23R 0 1.A.3 , 1i. o.l.lvitu per 1.151. ...1 1...5d. to 1- 4 Barley (per 165t.)1•2 6 13 0 11 , 10 ,, r (per cwt :...11 11 :2 Oatmeal per cwt.).............z.. ud to IGs 01 Reef, 4d. to 7d.—Mutton, sd. to 6.l.—Veal, 4d to ed Pork, 41d. to 5d.--Fresh Butte?, 10d. to lid per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Coun t " ; First Quality••• ........... St , S• .».«.......»•.......«»•• 52.4 Second ....... 70 Third ........ •••••••• ...... ••• 8 i 011 r, ..... ...... Oa. •• Fourth Fifth ........ •••••••••••••••• 1.•••••• 70 ...•......»..«......•»•• 6 48 1 Sixth ........ •••••• 00000 ••••••••••••• 58 .......... " 4 n CLON 51ELL MA It KETS.....JuIy 31, Per Cwt _ . .. s. d, s. d. _. 5. d. , 2 4 0 clew Butter OB 0 tolo2 0 Hides traw)......0" ve° 46 ° Oatmeal . ~. l3 0 i 3 6 Bacon Pa t ts ....44 . 0 ..... 0 Rendered Lard —. 0 52 '.) Heads ..................29 Pei* Ea;,. If 0 Flour, Second ....- 0 P 6 i.! 1 F t0ur,•thada.........- - 9 -- --Household:..— 0 34 0I —.- F0urtni......1 0 rer B‘rici.. ~ 0 13 0 " rtsposced ......... ..... 20 0 0I Barley ...........-».. 11 0 ...- Bore.. ............ ..... -- 10 0I C •als ................-- KILKENNY MAKKEIS. ~,, .0 Os. 01. Wl.e.tt.per barrel)2B,. ed.to 355. Ott. Beef (,per Ir. ... .. „ 4 ”• 4 "`" ' 0 • 0 _ By ley 12 0 15 0 1f1ut:5an.......... ,', - 4 o' l 'vats. !4 0 45 !, Pork .••••••••••••«* 7, 6 0 7 Flour (per bag) 2.) 0 'eS 0 Vest .......... ft... , ", 1 0 Butter (per cwt.) 90 0 10 1 . 0 e resr Butts-..... u , 010 Bacon Pigs IS 0 42 Coals 1 0 1 2 Uotatoestpersl4 0 le 0u - 46 6 BiAUFOItT IltON WOltKS.—On Wednesday night, the 21st ult., about eleven o'clock , Beaufort W2S visited by a gang of nocturnal desperadoes, amounting in number to about 100, who proceeded, aoaid yells, bel lowings, rattling of chains, and the most discordo noises, to the house of Emanuel Hughes, late of the Vie' toria Inn, but now of the Picton beer-house, burst in the door, and commenced beating out, unmercifully, with sticks, two bailiffs, who were in possession of the Aolr e . under a distress for debt, and carried off several artie' e i of furniture and destroyed others, while what beer could be found was set flowing about the floor. The. Is na l i Z r zu of the premises, who was there at the time making c „ la d for his rent, also got very roughly handled, and "' I ? a ll of the first opportunity to decamp. After se et ' r ta il r 7l the the valuable portable articles, and having sula s T," re crockery and other goods of little value , t he treated to the mountain. It is thought that the of this lawless proceeding will not be discovered, "-Lem". had blackened their faces and otherwise disguisedf tue.„,. selves ; but, independently of this, the dread b e i t H he " scotched" is so great on the hills, that were a ny ai d party known no persons would risk their property lives by discovering thein.—Silurian. Lord Derby has just added to his eaten one ornithological collection at Knowsley, upward s °f ° a li o hundred new specimens, the greater portion of which from Timor and New Guinea. Many of these variely' possess the most plenrlid plumage, and their natet_d_ characteristics have been preserved by Mr. John beater, of Brewer-street; the ornithologist to her 1 . 1- ,. " c jesty, from whom these delightful objects of nature were obtained. Among other attractions, Knowsley po ssess the finest aviary in Europe, his Lordship having (icy° much time and expense in its formation. S. , From T. J. Pettigrew Esq., Surgeon, F• R a 1111 , to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Atbernarie.street, cea opposite the York Hotel; and 76, King William-street, 4s u " to England.—" Gentlemen,—l have do hesitation M rePlY ing of your inquiry as to the results obtained by th e use of . improved spectacles; being in the -constant habit of readingeo, writing for many hours together by lamp-light, it is but )lo 00 say, that your newly-invented spectacle lenses ha ve acford the greatest comfort. When I employed the ordi nar y pebbledibi never failed to experience in the ;corning a great irritation i ii 0 eyes. Since I have used your admirable glasses I sufferfronlia inconvenience of the kind. I shall Tver feel grateful to my b 0 " friend, Dr. Blundell, for having drawn my attention to the it —Believe me to be your's, very respectfully, T. J. PrrtinSs of Saville.row, Jan. 4, 1839."—From the late Henry Cowper , °Al e gi. Tewen-waters, Herta, to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons having been deaf for many years, I was imLuced from reconnue tion to try your Invisible Voice Conductors, and I have grea t P a od sure to tell you that they eitable me to hear persons in compa ny yet at a place of worship most distinctly; and in cm isequen ce of the n gt-to advantage nave derived, I have recommen, led many P eriW ils e you, and their report is similar to mine, most favourable' Spectacles and Hand-glass which you have seat me ire 0 ", t o ,1 ; cellent, and suit my sight precisely, and surpass any thing pia p t ' I have ever tried ; the transparency of which is 50 LW" - : e t that although I have passed my 56th year, the 22d of May 15 t t e " se they enable me to read, &c ,by candle-light with the g reates` and comfort to myself.—Gentlemen, I return you my be st ',. 1 1 c, and remain your obedientservant, HENRY COW:ER.--- . .2 ,2 ‘ i f the 1839.—Messrs. Solomons have no connections with persons ° same name. GOLD WATCHES, £B. Bs. each. p ith finished Horizontal Gold Watches, jewelled in fou r holes. 0 ~of enamel dial, hand to mark the ;'seconds, &c., .Eight G each. These elegant little Watches will be found eneridat e nsto time-keepers, and a printed warranty is given with fixe"_A 3n which they will always receive nny attention require"' T. COX SAVORY, Ser eil Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill Doors from Gracechurch-street), London. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange' A PERFECT SUI3STI I'UTE FOR Si b „,, A GS —CATALOGUE WITH ENGRAVINGS, FOS t:toid FREE.—The material is so like silver that it can 0 81 T T i n ted from it on reference to the stamp by persons well acqutleog with it. MANY SPURIOUS IMITATIONS at e " a ble sold. The ~ : enuine metal, which we warrant more tl t- t be than silver, is only to be had at our Warehouse. I t t, 0 same Colour throughout, and can be engraved the Ilan' s. silver. As a criterion, spoons and forks, full sized table, tains d es serts, IW.; tea, ss. per dozen. The Catalogue %Rl' the prices, with engravings, of every IRON3ION`-'„ ARTICLE necessary to th e f urn i s hi n g a house of a" '1 2.5 per cent. under any other old established house. UIPPON and BUgTON, 12, Wells- street, O x ford-otr- Established 1820, On the 27th of June last, at the BIliS. Town, Jamaica, the lady of Captain Studholrne nr,(1011. Military Secretary to his Excellency the Governor, 01 On the 31st ult., at Colney House, fleas, the lady 0. Nichol', Esq., of a daughter, who died shortly after. ow On the Ist inst., at Hoade, Northamptonshir e, MrE. der Armand, of a so n . Queen's House, Speroigi: the 1 2 s 8 b t o h r n o e f On I r- Thomas G . shire,Esq.,eflßEßoDrtilt:ileslyi Em b assy, tres.„iincrierto; to Augusta Theresa, daughter of the late vr e to Franeis Ger a rd Vecqueray, formerly one of the Secretaries the Prussian Government in the Grand Duchy of the Rhine:v. On the 9 —tsth ult., at Hanky Church, John, third son of ' eth Nmall, Esq., of Oxford House, near Manchester, to Eliz ab ic o Mellard, elder daughter of William Parker, Esq., o f Alb ._ House. Shelton, and late of Rownall Ball, both in the count, of Stafford. BJaubnier3,gftiloantß:Rho D lED r• 1 41 • On the 30th ult., at Wimbledon, . Elizabeth, the wife o f W. Cook, aged 37. Jeers , of On the 31st ult., Esther, the wife of Mr. R. Jt• Friday-street. Ps. s e- On the 31st ult., Hannah , t he wife of the Rev. JoseP cliffe, A.M., of Bayswater, Wesleyan Minister, aged A FA On the 31st ult., in Sloan e-street, Hutcheson Lyn " late of the Treasury. dsughte f Of On the 31st ult., at Colch ester, Clara Elizabeth, the late Th. mas Francis Balderston, - - TT 1.,aged:2........... --..--•-.--.__._ .-...._---t-'!" -- ""P"' -- ' 4 4G e f London : Printed and l'obllstied by MILIRDO YO-' Strom , is Nu. 112, Strand , at The Sun 0&,,41, N. 10, the county of Middlceox, Thursday, August b,1841. O. 'l'