The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

EVENING SUN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS RAT. POST.—The pressure upon the Money Market noticed yesterday has not diminished. At the Stock Exchange, indeed, it was felt with increased severity, loans, in very special cases, having been made for short periods at an inordinate interest on the security of Consols. The rates generally given were from 6to 8 per cent. It was again reported that the 'ank of England had come to the determination of fatsiag its discounts to 6 per cent., and that a notice to that effect might ba expected to make its appearance after the breaking up of the meeting of the Directors, this being the weekly board day. As we ventured to anticipate yesterday, however, the rate payable for some time past was left unaltered. Goods are just now ex traordinarily cheap, and there is so ample a supply of treasure in the country, that the Bank, in its pre sent position, would unnecessarily excite distrust by running counter to the general wish of the mer cfetile interest, which seems to bo rather in favour of an extension of the note circulation, if any change be made at all. Business is in a dull state, more so in tact, than is usual even for the season of the year. Private credit has been notoriously damaged by the prifligate Exchequer bill transactions which the last two or three necks have served to expose to the pubic view. The signatu:es of all documents I epresenting a money value ate, for the moment, scrutinised with great suspicion, the ordinate; bill of exchange, dock warrants, od other like transferable instruments seeming to re. qn :re verification before any pecuniary dealings can be sa f e ,: founded upon them, quite as much as Exchequer bilis. Confidence is expected to be in a great measure fostered when the extent of the late frauds shall come to be ascertained and the patties concerned in them placed beyond the reach of doing further mischief, but act before. It is thought that the Committee of the Stock Ex change were bound, when, a few days since, they for bade two leading dealers in spurious Exchequer bills to do business in the house, to pro tribe the whole of the parties together. More forgeries are said to have been discovered , but we do not hear of what. It it be true, as was rumoured euring the day, that Snlth will be admitted by the law officers of the Crdwn as Queen's evidence upon the ensuing trial, it is to be presumed that an extraordinary mass of delinquency will be at once brought to light. 1, appears to us highly desirable that, now that the pu blic mind is so much agitated upon the question of forget.;es, every possib!..l effort should be made to pre vent r;currence of the evil arising from the operations of gawblers and swindlers. This clef be done only by breaking up the whole connect' on of them, and no in crease of the general derangement of the Money r,far ket is to be feared from the attempt, whereas every thine may be apprehended from a slurring over of the affair . HERALD—The Stock Market was taken aback to-day by some chnsid,rable money sales of Reduced Three per Cents. and C3nsol , . The sales were net understood to be for speculative account, but some con ...iderable portion of them at keit in consequence of a (Louise, and the realisation of eff_iets to order of lega tees. These sales ia'eht amount in the whole to some 150,0001. In view of so large a mass of valqes so sud denly thrown on the market, it is surprising perhaps that the effect on prices should be so inconsiderable as not to exceed in fact a decline of per cent. from the closing prices of lust el cning. It may be mentione I now with some degree of cer tainty that Beaumont Smith. the clerk of the Exche quer Bit-office now in prison, is to be admitted as ap prover in the Exchequer fraud, and it is confidently at tted that his evidence will implicate various parties, o f _high respectability even, not yet nansed and still at large, but who, it is a3.erted, are to be tikea into cus tody for examination if not committal forthwith. This extraordinary fraud, ar was believed from the first, will prove therefore to have had much more extensive rami fications than superfie:aily there were indications of. It is net necessary to go into more particulars for the pre scnt,or to allude to names which are freely spoken of in connection with the nefarious transactions now before the public. Ano:her day or two must make considerable progress is bringing more of the business to light. In the meantime it would be improper to allude to reports current in certain quarters of the City touching the discovery of forged bills of exchange to some extent being in circulation, of which, however, no particular details were given, or would perhaps transpire. Ai* -it is necessary to state, and it is indeed a scatter of public notoriety, that commercial forgeries have become of very frequent occurrence, and of almost daily detection of late years, although the records of Police Courts or of the O'd Bailey might be searched in vain for evidence of the fact to the extent known to exist, or of more than here and there an isolated and occasional case. The reason of course is, that the crime is compounded for between the parties, either by payment or security in full of the forged bill, or such proportion as by himself and friends the guilty party may only be able is raise. These facts are stated, leav ing to others the investigation of the causes which lead to such consequences. SUN.—In the Stock Market this afternoon there was a slight improvement, prices closing firmer than they were in the morning. Consols for Money left off at 88i 4, and for the Account at 88t to S. Exchequer Bills continued heavy, and left off at 7s. premium. The other Stocks were much the same as in the morning. No notice appeared at the Bank of England, as was expacted in some quarters. The Foreign Securities were heavy up to the close of business, and in Railway Shares there was little doing. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The only Derby bets laid yesterday were 12 to 1 agst M. G. Clark's lot ; 100 to 1 agst colt out of Hatfield's darn ; and 500 even between Nessus and Ballinkeel. ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. FIRES OF LONDON. Last evening we were one of a group of nearly one thousand persons who heard with infinite pleasure a lecture delivered by Mr. Abraham Booth, F.S.S., Pro fessor of Chemistry, upon combustion, spontaneous and artificial. By artificial combustion wo mean, fire pro ducal by mechanical means, controllable, if cautious measures were adopted. This seemed to us to be the chief object of the lecture, and Mr. Booth was very suc cessful in his demonstrations illustrative of it. There was some difficulty in obtaining for the lecture a proper attention. His diagrams, hung round the gallery and intended to illustrate his lecture, served to divert the at tention of the au:hence from the important subject which he was endeavouring to explain to them. We can do the public and the Lecturer no greater service than to repeat as nearly as we can the words that fell from him. Mr. Booth said that of all the calamities which afflicted man in social life there were none so destructive, or severely felt as those, of fire. Pestilence may ravage our districts, and cur houses may be assailed by the midnight depredator, but the awful calamity of fire ,, despoils human life, and ravages our property with all its insidious uncertainty and sud‘lenness. By improved modes of living, and availing ourselves of all the aids of professional skill, we may secure ourselves with some immunity from disease; and increased vigilance in protection may defeat the plans of the nocturnal marauder; but fire, regardless of all cau tious attempts at security, seems to set at defiance all our endeavours. No class, neither sex nor age, are exe mpt, for it ravages alike the mansions of the rich, o and despoils of his all the humbler a b o d e of the tt ge The last few years have been particularly rifeL cottager. The these . calamities. We have witnessed the destruction of - a . sena te house, in which the el oquence of our land stood conspicuous ; the destruction of a Royal Exchange, the centre of the commercial transactions of the globe ; of en Armoury, containing munitions of war which have led to conquest, and trophies rrsulting . from their triumphs ; of warehouses abounding with property ; o f of fntl commerce reciterc/i e and in centrehingrich luxury ; and of To wn-halls, intercourse in tluir different localities , as well as theatres of great and national interest. Booth next analysed, in a very interesting man ner, the causes of all the tires in-Lendon for a period of five years. These he resolved into controllable and un controllabb causes, the first .class embracing a very large majority of the cases. The dia . grams , co_ntained a large mass of statistical details, I;vhich ien o th will not allow us to specify. Mr. Booths remarkson spon taneous combustion as the cause of fires,were par ticularly deserving of notic e, as the y elucidated the origin of many fires, the causes of which were previously unknown. We understand that this ingenious and scientific gentleman has been examined before the Com mittee of the Board of Ordnance, sitting at the Tower, on the question of the origin of the late fire. After the Board retired, an unanimous opinion was expressed that Mr. Booth had_clearly shown that the fire might have originated from circumstances over which none of the persons in attendance could have any control ; and that, however strung might be the suspicion that there was incendiarism, natural causes were sufficient to account for the catastrophe. The Infant Harpist afterwards delighted the crowded assemblage with her surprising performances on the harp. The powers of this inspired pupil of the Muses have already been described in this paper. The performances of Mr. Emanuel upon the piano, and of Mr. Sedgwick upon the concertina, were very warmly applauded. These gentlemen deserve more especial notice than the subordinate part which they take in the orc h estra ena bl es us to g i ve th em . DAGUERREOTYPE.—The few days of clear wea ther with which we have been lately blessed, notwith standing the interposition of occasional fog, have_ enabled N. Claudit t o produce life like p9rtrults by the operation of the rays of the sun alOne We have seen a likene ss stamped up on the plate with . all the force and truth of se real life in o ne , by means of M. Cl a udit' s im proved proce ss , eesennd the sun had hid himself behind a thick veil of' nitrous and carbonic cloud, and seemed ashamed to look uponhis own work. ---- - A correspondent of the Dover Chronicle states tlilltrifteßtier‘Aiell has been very high in Romney nbtv rastsd•siding, and th a t man y farmers are - itiria-fa\ rep arat i on for seed time. 441111 r &lack) r Ross, Herefordshira, i\Tary „, tot' ; MTh 1%-11 bedridden the last three or ,/ ft .. er Possession of her faculties to ; ~.!i - - NI r'7 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times yesterday devoted a long article to enforce upon the country gentlemen of its party the duty of feasting. Eating and drinking to repletion have been found. it seem!, most excellent auxiliaries to Toryism. It. is now feared by certain gourmands, that having effected the main purpose for which they we , e employed, Conservative festivals arc in danger of fulling into disuse. " These admirable fes tivals must on no account be relinquished," is not only the friendly admonition of the Times, but the fond hope of many a rampant Tory, who was wont to be favoured with a ticket at the Tory candidate's or Member's cost— es the price of his sweet voice: at the poll, and his voci ferous cheers when the party toasts were announced from the chair, after the removal of the cloth from the din ner table, taking special care not to be betrayei into any un-Toryfied expression of lnyalty to the Sovereign on the proposal of " her Majesty's health," should it t deemed rather " too bad" to shirk that time-honoured compliment to the Sovereigrk,by " Church and Queen," the new-fanged form which is now extensively used en such occasions. The Times .evinces considerable tact in thus drawing attention to the influence of the stomach on the principles, or, Tattier, the voles, of its party. The Tories are univursally good feeders. The disposition evinced by the " respectables" of the party to barter their suffrages for soup, and their consciences for claret, has a due and a pyropriate influence upon these who occupy a lower plum: in the scale of society. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle perseveres with commendable assiduity, if ;its case were a good one, in the Anti-Corn-law controversy. The state of deser tion in which our respected Ccs temporary sands seems rather to animate than to subdue. its zeal, and day after day it pours out its closely-peeked columns, under the disheartening testimonies from .all sides that its labours are but moderately approved o 1 or, worse, that they fu s e net read. It is an impression of the latter kind w'ssich 'wields our reply to the Moral:4g Chronicle as often as we could wish. This disheeefteniog fear, that one writes for a thankless public, ;that will not even con descend to the perusal of what. Ins been written, hai bean, at least since the days of Persius—" Quis leget lima? Nemo, Hercule, nemo"---ethe most powcrfnl and melancholy restraint upon the exercise of the pen ; and the person who can expect readers for any long article with the awful stigma, ‘' Corn-law Question," in its front, must have a higher opinion of his powers than we are conscious of. Nevertheless we adhere to the hope that toleration, and event a minute's attention, is possible for a few words upun a very striking and important fallacy. Under this :impression we venture, though still with diffidence of .aucccss in catching a to submit, and to notic a in a few words, the following extract from the Morning Chronicle of th's day : " In another column will be found an account of an import mt fea trade meeting at Sheffield on Monday last, at which were present :Earl Fi.zwilliam, Johe Parker, Bei., Sir Arnold James,..and nearly all the mot influential merchants, manufactures, &c., of the pl ice. Resolutions disapproving of legislative interference to protect the manufacture or the growth of anything in any national locality,' advoca.l6 ng free intercourse between the nations of the earth !for the various articles of manufacture and natural production,' and expressiel a readiness to abolish all prot , tetive import duties on foreign manufactures,' were prop )sed and seconded by masters and oreratitei, and carried unanimously. " We had supposed that the manufactures of Bir mingham and Sheffield would be %the last to suffer from the corn monopoly. But we regret to perceive in the statements of some of the leseatng manufacturers ir refragible evidence that the trade-. of Sheffield has suf fere I from it to an extent which ve could hardly have credited. Mr. Ibbotson observed that five-eighths of the manufacturers of Sheffield go to the American market, the severe prostrations of vihich has been of five years' standing. " What (said Mr. Ibbotson) is the reason of all this? Because the Americans have bad nothing-to give us in exchange for our goods.—(Hear.) America has an abundance of what our people are dying for—not lite rally dying, but wasting away for want of adequate sup port." The reason, then, of the stagnation of the American trade during the last five years is to be found in the Core-laws ! Prima facie, this seems strange when we remark that the trade, the temporary stagnation of which is complained of, had grown up under the system of protection, end had prospered beyond example and beyond hope under the Corn-laws for at least 21 years. COURlER.—Westated some rime ago, that the con dition of the sister country was gradually and steadily im proving, as will with regard to the feelings and habits, as to the material comforts of the great body of the people ; and notwithstanding the atrocious crimes that have recently been perpetrated there, disgracing the na tional character, and rolling back for a time the tide of im provement,we sea no reason to alter or qualify our opinion in the slightest particular ; on the contrary, various subsequent events have but served to strengthen and confirm it. The land-hunger that obtains amongst the Irish peasantry is almost incomprehensible, it the main source of instigation to the many savage and brutal murders of which that unhappy country has been the scene, embittered and aggravated by fierce and furious agitation; and by the lessons of contempt for law and disregard for human life which it inculcates with such industrious malignity. Truthfully, and gra phically does a late revolter against the desolating des potism of that system trace the close, the inseparable connection subsisting between its preachings and the murderous practices which pass in the sister country under the designation of agrarian outrages. EDUCATION IN FRANCE. The Moniteur contains a report from the Minister of Public Icstructioo, occupying no less than fourteen columns, on the state of primary instruction in France up to the end of 1840. We make the following ex tracts : The total number of the communes of France is 37,295. According to the last statistical report, in 1837, there were then 29,613 single or united com munes provided with schools. In 1840 there had been additions of 3,486, making an nmcunt of 33,099 schools, leaving the number of communes unprovided with schools 4,196. In the departments of the Ar dennes, Doubs, Nord, Haut Rhin, Seine, Somme, and Vosges, there is at least one public school in every commune. Other departments arc very near being in possession of this advantage. Thus, in 1840, in the H lutes Alpes there was only one commune out of 180 without a school ; in the Bas Rhin three out of .543 ; in the o;se five out of 698 ; in the Meuse five out of 570 ; in the Pas de Calais eight of 903 ; in the Haute Saone seven out of 651 ; is the Meurthe eight out of 714 ; in the Aveyron three out of 256 ; in the Aube six out of 447. The departments, which last year were most in want of schools were the Allier, where there were 141 com munes out of 323 without any ; the Corveze 137 out of 202 ; the Indre 124 out of 249 ; Morbihan 111 out of 228 ; Finisterre 121 out of 281 ; Cotes du Nord 140 out of 374 ; Dordogne 184 out of 585 ; Saone et-Loire 170 out of 593 ; Charente 107 out of 453 ; Puy-de-Dome 11.5 out of 445 ; Haute Garonne 138 out of .596 ; Eure 125 out of 791.—The progression in the number of scholars has been equally remarkable. In 1837 there were in the communal and private schools under a master 1,547,194 boys and 412,636 girls, and in those under a mistress 23,350 boys and 707,511 girls. In 1840 there were in the communal and private schools under masters 1,607,013 boys and 444,356 girls, and in those under mistresses 34,394 boys and 795,916 girls. In 1837 the superior communal and private primary schools received 9,414 scholars, and at present 15,285, being an increase of 5,871. These scholars are not admitted until they have shown on examination that they have acquired the instruction given in the primary elementary school , . They gain in the superior schools more extended lessons in the French language, history, geography, and arithmetic ; are taught book keeping, linear-drawing, perspective, and receive considerable instruction in geometry, natu ral history, physics, and experimental chemistry. This general education is in moat of these schools divided into three annual courses, and is conepleted with studies in ?Imo of the living languages. Moral and religious instructi on i s g i ven in these and i n a l l the schoo l s. n A in m e o t n y g .fou th r e i s n e plete, that i s to sa which ois the th sy er a c em ar o o f i o n n st e ru h et u i n on dr i e s d o a m n d .. branches, so me of yv;hiacffhordres ethspeeseciahlolylacraslaclullattheedviaorriothues this respect att a i ne d a remicatr peculiar want s of th e . k b S I e e Several of degree then importance tome others, are cit e d as ex. Cae l o, Lille, Rennes, and amp es. In 1837 there were 26,370 schools exclusiv e l y p lies, 563 to Protestants, 28 to ejpewr.opriatanae 2,059 were d to Catho• mixcd. In 1840 there were 28,018-oatholi 0 6 13 77 Pro ; • testant, 31 Jewish, and 2,059 mixed schools, number of schools under communal masters, which in 1837 amounted to 29,313, is now increased to 30,785 Among these, those confined to boys am ount to 12,486, and those common to both sexes 18,299. Besides the regular schools, the administration has alio turned its attention to adult classes for the evenings and Sundays, for the instruction of men whose early edu cation has been neglected. In 1837,thero were 1,856 adult schools in 1,547 communes, giving primary in struction and some practical notions of the sciences to 36,966 workmen of all trades and employments. In 1840 the number of adult classes spread over 3,090 communes amounted to 3,403, being nearly double, and had 68,508 attendants. This instruction, however, is too much neglected in many of the departments. There is not a single adult class in the Aisne, Basses Alpes, Ardennes, Ariege, Aude, Aveyron, Centel, Charente, Charente-Inferieure, Cher, Creuse, Doubs, Gz.rs, Let, Lezere, Haute-Marne, Nicvre, Puy de Dome, Pyrenees 0. ientalcs, Haut-Rhin, Somme, Var, and La Vendee. In other departments, on the contrary, they are numerous. There are 190 adult classes in the Gironde, 120 in the Indre et Loire,l94 in the Isere, 194 Loir et Cher, 188 in the Loiret, 183 in the Maine et Loire, 188 in the Meuthe, 303 in the Meuse, 219 in the Orne, 240 in the Seine et Oise, 149 in the Deux Sevres, and 155 in the Viene. The city of Paris expends annually in the ms intenance of adult classes a sum of 57,744 francs - -an example which is imitated by communes in severed department. Thus the Municipal Councils have vot ed for this purpose in the Pas-de-Calais, 7,100 f. ; Gi..onde and Marne, 3,400 f. ; Indre-et-Loire, 2,830 f. , Le : ire-Inferieure, 2,600 f. ; Mense, 2,2421.; Nord and Oise, 2,100 f ; Seine-et-Oise, 2,800 f. Several Coun cils-General have made sacrifices for the instruction of adults, and the aggregate of their votes in 1840 for this object was 31,796 f. In 1837, there were in 172 corn anunes 261 asylums receiving 29,214 children. There is now to be found in 352 communes, 553 infant schools (sal les d'asile), receiving in all 5,986 children. There are, therefore, at this time, 294 infant schools receiving 21,474 children, more than there were in 1837. The communes have devoted to these humble establishments the sum of 245,631 f. The Chamber of Deputies added a credit of 200,000 f. for the same object to the budgets for 1841 and 1842. This sum is distributed as an en couragementamong such communes who have been at the expense of purchasing grotand and erecting buildings for these schools, and has been a means of increasing their number. It has'already produced, a good effect. Independent of several recent esta.'elishments, there are at this time seventy-nine proposals for new ones laid before the Royal Council of Public In struction for its examination, The number of commu nal teachers who receive fixed salaries not amounting to 300 f, a-year each, is 25,051. Of these, 23,048 re ceive only 200 f. each, and 2,003 have salaries between 200 f. and 299 f. The total number of persons employed in primary schools is 62,859—namely, lay teachers (male), 38,368 ; religious ditto, ditto, 2,136. Lay teachers (female), 11,984 ; religious ditto, ditt0,10,371. The number of persons employed as Inspectors of Senools is 168. Besides the 76 Normal schools, 4of 'which are directed by Ecclesiastics, and 2 entrusted to brethren of the doctrine Chretienne, there have been es tablished 3 schools of the same order, specialty appropri ated to non-Catholic communions, and directed by Pro testant pastors. The maintenance of these Normal schools causes it'l annual expenditure of 1,538,203 f., borne by families, by the Departments, and by the State in the fol lowing proportions—namely, by families, 268,520 f. ; by communes, 23,8901. ; by the departments, 1,081,348 f. ; and by the State, 164,445 c. In 1837 the Normal schools gave instruction to 2,406 persons intended for teachers ; a number increased at the present day to 2,684, which are thus divided :—Free boarders, 311 ; free out-hoarders, 37 ; bursars of the State, '2OB ; com munes 81 ; departments, 2,054. In 1837 the Normal schools sent out 860 masters. In 1840 the number was not greater on account of the length of time employed by some of the schools in more extended studies, a great many of them having been detained for a third year. Nevertheless, the supply of new teachers has increased, since, out of the 860 students who were qualified in 1837, only 671 have been placed ; while out of the 860 qualified in 1840 there are 713 at the heads of schools. This proves that Normal instruction is pro ducing more and more immediate results. Of the 860 sent out. in 1840, diplomas of capacity for giving supe rior primary instruction have been granted to 130, and for riving elementary primary instruction to 730. The 713 normal students who have been placed are thus d'eided, 660 in communal schools and 53 in private eehools. The average number of places vacant for ' communal teachers was, three years ago, 2,356, but at present they are no more than 2,308. The Normal schools provide for about one third, the other two thirds are filled from other candidates. Endeavours have been made for forming on a regular system female teachers, independent of the religious corporation.; of women, and several schools have been in consequence established." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER l9, 1841. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 18. MITFORD V. REYNOLDS. The arguments, which had not concluded when his Lordship rose, will be proceeded with to-morrow (this day), and appear likely to occupy the Court the whole of the day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 18, LODGE V. NICHOLSON AND OTHERS. This suit was instituted by the plaintiff, as adminiS tratrix of Mrs. Batham, against the executors of Mr. Baker, who, during his life, had acted as her agent for receiving certain rents and dividends of stock. The object of the suit was to obtain the re-investment of a sum in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., equivalent to a sum of 2501. Navy Five per Cents., which it witF, alleged Baker had transferred in his own name, without the consent of Mrs. Batham, to have the arrears of the dividends paid. His HONOUR, in delivering judgment, said, in this cause Baker, a tradesman resident an London, acted as the agent of certain friends of his, named Batham, of the same class of life as himself, and residing in the county of Hereford. Among.' Other things, in 1810 a power of attorney appeared to have been executed by Batham for the purpose of Baker receiving the divi dends of certain stock, which was acknowledged to.be long to Batham, and standing in the name of the -person whom he represented. There was added to that power of attorney an authority, which certainly mast. have been with the perfect knowledge of Batham, to• Baker, not simply to transfer the general moiety of the .stock, hut - what appeared somewhat singular, to transfer it it his own name. Why that was done did not appear. There was no evidence whatever tharthere was any con sideration for such transfer ; no evidence of a contract for it, nor that it was intended by way of gift. Now, when he found Baker agreeing, to pay . to Mrs. Batham the dividends on the whole stint, as he had pre vious to the transfer, and not referring to the authority given in the power of attorney, but to an authority in his own strong-box for that purpose, which he never pro duced, the inference was unavoidable, that the moiety of the stock which Baker transferred in his owrr'natne, was so transferred as not to be in equity a change oir the pro=. perty; and his Honour's opinion was, that Baker;, at his death, remained indebted in that moiety to the estate of Batham. The decree then to be made in the cause would declare that Baker at his death, was indebted to Batham's estate in the sum of 2621. 10s. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ; and that the executors of Baker shall be bound to transfer in the plaintiff's name that sum, with the divi dends which had accrued on it since the death of Bakker, an account to be taken if the parties differed. With respect to the question of costs, his Honour saw no rea son for departing from the general rule, which directed that a creditor, successfully suing an estate, however properly the executors might resist the demand, slnuld be paid his costs. Some other cases wholly devoid of interest were dis posed of, and the Court rose at four o'clock. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) RAINE V. CAIMES. The hearing of this cause was brought to a conclu zion. His Honour deferred his judgment. BOW3ER V. COLBY. The Court was occupied with this cause until its rising. We shall give a summary of it at a more ad vanced stage of the hearing. The Court rose at half-past three o'clock. COURT OF QUET:'N'S BENCH, Nov. 17. THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF WRAY V. THI GOVERNORS OF THE DARLINGTON GRADDIAR SCHOOL. Mr. CRESSWELL showed cause against a rule for a mandamus . 0 be directed to the defendants to readmit. Mr. Wray to the office of master of the grammar school, of which office it was alleged that he had been unduly, and without proper authority, deprived by the defendants. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in support of the rule, began by remarking that he had seldom known a case in which such complicated questions of law and fact were raised on the discussion of a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue. The COURT thought that the mandamus must go, ant those questions be raised on the return.—Rule absolute. THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF JOHN BIOURI LYAN V. THE MAYOR, &C. ' OF SANDWICH. • Mr. KELLY and Mr. WATSON showed cause against a rule for a mandamus to be directed to the defendants to pay over to the prosecutor the sum of 7,6201., as com• pensation to him for the loss of his office as town-clerk of the late Corporation. The prosecutor had held that office for some years before the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act, but was dismissed from his office in January, 1836. He then claimed compensation for the loss of the office. The town-council rejected the claim, on which the prosecutor appealed to the Lords of the Treasury, who awarded that he should have an annuity of 601. granted to him as compensation. The mem bers of the Corporation at once submitted to this award, and prepared the bond for the annuity, and ten dered it to him. But he claimed the absolute sum of 7,6201., and had applied to this Court for a rule to that effect, and the present rule required the payment of that sum, and took no notice of any b on d f or an annu ity. Under these circumstances it was clear that he had no legal' right to the interference of the Court. Here the Council had adjudicated on the claim, and the prosecutor himself had acknowledged that there had been an adjudication by the Town Council, for he appealed against it to the Lords of the Treasury. The whole of the proceedings had been regularly conducted under the statute, and according to the cases which had been decided there was no right in a claimant to appeal to this Court against a regular decision of the Town Council and of the Lords of the Treasury. If these bodies had decided on the claim, this Court would not sit as a tribunal of appeal to examine those decisions. It would only interfere when either one of these bodies refused to make any adjudication. That was not the case here. There had been an adjudication, and the Town-council had tendered the bond, to secure the an nuity which the Lords of the Treasury had awarded. All that the statute required had been done here, and the rule must be discharged. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. WHITER URST were heard on the other side. The COURT took time to consider the judgment. THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE REV. J. TEB BUTT V. THE JUSTICES OF MIDDLESEX. Mr. Sergeant HALCOMBE said that he was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why a writ of manda mus should not issue to the Visiting Justices of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Hanwelt commanding them to restore to the applicant, Mr. Tebbutt, the use of the chapel of that asylum, to which he was lawfully entitled as chaplain, and to pay him the arrears of his salary. The affidavits on which he moved contained statements as to the facts which might shortly be stated to be these:—The Reverend Gentleman held the license of the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the duties of chaplain to this establishment. His appointment had taken place under the 9th George IV., c. 40, s. 32, by which it was enacted that, in every case where a coucity lunatic asylum existed, there should be provided a Chaplain for the same, who should be a person in full orders, and should be licensed by the Bishop of the Diocese ; and the said license to such person should be revocable by the said Bishop whenever he should think fit to withdraw the same and the said Chaplain should P".liorm service on each Sunday and on the great fes tival days, according to the forms of the Church as established by law. This appointment was only for the purpose of preaching and prayer, for, by the ecclesiastical constitution, the cure of souls within the parish belonged to the lawfully-appointed In cumbent thereof. The applicant in this case was elected to his office in 1839 ; ho was presented to the Archbishop, and duly licenced by his Grace. In July last the visiting Justices thought fit to dismiss Mr. Tebbutt, and to nominate Mr. Burke in his room, and they applied to the Archbishop to licence the gentlemen so nominated by them, and to revoke the licence which his Grace had already granted to Mr. Tebbutt; Lut this his Grace refused to du. In fact, there was no good ground for such a course, for Mr. Tebbutt had not been accused of any misconduct, and the visiting Justices themselves accompanied their application to the Arch bishop with a request that his Grace would provide other preferment for him. Lord DENMAN said, that it was quite out of the usa al course to grant a rule absolute, in the first instance, in any but cases of a very peculiar kind. - The present was one which required to be discussed, and the Learned Sergeant might, therefore, take a rule to show cause. Rule granted accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18. WALTON V. POTTER. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL having replied in support of the rule for a new trial, The LoVd CHIEF JUSTICE went elaborately over the evidence and arguments, and the rule was discharged. -CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 18. TIIE PARISH OF ST. JOHN'S, HACKNEY-CHURCH RATES. This was a libel brought by the Churchwardens of St. Juhn's parish, Hackney, stating that a rate for re pairing the Church was due from one William Nunn. The question fur discussion was whether the rate was acluaissable. Dr. Adams, on behalf of the Churchwardens, con , tended that it was, and the Queen's Advocate (with whom was Dr. Bayford) for the respondent, that it was not. Both the Learned Gentlemen having addressed the Court on the more technical points, stated the facts of the case, which appeared to be as follow :—A rate was imposed on the parish of St. John's, for repairing the Church, and the proportion in which the respondent was called on to pay was 4s. 3d. The rate being deemed oppressive by a large body of the parishioners, they de determined to oppose it, as they considered the Church wardens were not empowered by law to levy any rate on that part ofthe parish of Hackney. The grounds on which they came to this conclusion were—that in the year 1763 an Act was passed, entitled the 30th of' George the Third, for the purpose of enabling certain parties to bu:ll,', a new church u p on the site of the old church John, Hackney, and en l arge the chur ch-p.7: d - attached to it, For this purp ose the parish wa to assessed in the sum of 28,0001, b y trustees, 10 _0 were to be the Church •:vardens, and w h o were 1 7Kewise to be entitled to the fees charged upon the 's ourial of every person not an inha bitant of the to serve . c.erfain parochial offices on the part of thos e PP.:;ish, an d a ll fi nes to b e l ev i e d f ut r e fu s i ng who ere duly elected ; which sums of money were ap piled to th e purpose of keeping the church in repair. These powers were to remain in the hands of the trustees (in their capacity as t rus t ees ) without r ever ti ng to the Churchwardens or Rector of the parish, until all the provision s of the Act were perfectly fulfilled, which had not been yet effected. It was contended also that the churchwardens had not been duly elected. The parish of Hackney had, since the passing of the Act above-named, been divided into three separate parishes, called West Hackney, South Hackney, and St. John's ; and, although th e persons elected as churchwardens of the entire parish migh t be qualified in all matters relat ing to the poor, yet they were not considered entitled , . to levy a rate upon one portion of the parish, as trustees I for the church, without the general consent of the pa rishioners. It was further stated that the churchwar - *tens had more than sufficient funds- on hand, arising from burial and other fees, to cover the estimate sub mitted to the tradesmen for required repairs. Dr. LUSIIINGTON said, as there were many points in tho case which he would wish to consider before pro nouncing judgment, he should defer it until the next Court-day. POLICE INTELL IGENCE. BOW-STREET. A youth of about nineteen years of age, who gave the name of Charles Tyrrel, but whose real name was stated to be Alfred Garlick, was placed at the bar charged with several burglaries. There were already several charges against him of breaking into and robbinr , houses in town, and Police-con stable 14 N, who apprehended him, said that he had walked miles and miles in tracing the prisoner's -where abouts, and recovering property which lie had stolen and disposed of. Miss Ashton, landlady of the King William the Fourth, stated that he had lodged at that house a short time ago ; and that soon after he had quitted, the bar was broken open and robbed of a quantity of liquor in two stone bottles, several table-cloths, a hammer, and .nher property. 'Witness supposed that he had secreted himself in the coal cellar. He had forced the lock off the bar-door, and on quitting the premises left the street door:wide open, and the waterman of the coach-stand dis covered it in this state. Police-constable 14 N deposed to finding the stone bottles and hammer, the property of Miss Ashton. at the prisoner's lodgings at a coffee-shop in Chandos-street. Mr. Risdale, a stock and brace maker, of -the City road, next appeared to prefer a charge against the pri soner. His shop had been broken open on the night of the 2d September, and a quantity of stocks stolen there from. It had since been discovered that the prisoner ;lad been selling stocks, which, the constable present had traced, and which witness had identified as his property. some of them were also found at his lodgings. Police-constable 14 N, said he had another charge against the prisoner, for breaking open a second public house, but had not yet .had time to get the evidence to gether. He also " wanted him" for a burglary com mitted in the - country. Mr. TWYFORD said it was evident that the prisoner was a practised burglar and most dangerous character. The extent of his depredations, considering his youth too, was certainly extraordinary. The prisoner was remanded. SPAIN-MORE EXECUTIONS. MADasn,'Nov. 9.—To-day two more victims of " the family conspiracy" have suffered the 1-gal penalty of their crime. Tenicnte Don Manuel Boria, and Sub teniente Don Jose Gobernado. both of the Princess Infantry, were shot in the Campo de Geardias at two o'clock to-day, in the midst of an immense multitude of spectators. The Fiscal had demanded a sentence of ten years imprisonment for each, as well as for Brigadier Quiroga, but the Council of War thought proper to impose the pain of death, and the Government to sanc tion its execution. The first-mentioned, Don M. Boria, a young man only 22 years of age, was deeply implicated, having been identified as the officer who ordered the insurgents on the palace stairs to fire on the halberdiers ; and when their sergeant hesitated, drew his sword, and threatened to pass it through his body if he did not make his - men obey. Had the privates been as determined as their lieutenant, the result might have been very different. As it was, there was nothi3g left for them to-d.ay but to die like brave men ; and truly so they did! They were brought, lace their predeces sors, in an open carriage to the field where Quiroga re cently Aufßered, dressed in their full uniform and deco rat'oos, ray d even with their swords on, guarded by an escort 'aa Slight that it was evident there was not - the slightest fear of a movement to save or rescue them. Their, two confessors and two military friends attended them, as in former cases. The elder, Gobernado, was g'..ave, but perfectly composed and fearless. Young forma still less resembled a man on the brink of eternity. He seemed completely unconcerned, and nodded confidently to his friends amongst the crowds that lined the way to exchange a parting adieu, with the air of one who would say—" I shall not dis grace you ; I think nothing of alt this! My nerves are firm !" A stranger might hate thought that it was nothing but their sad companions who were about to suffer. They alighted freely, heard the sentence read unmoved, and marched with military pride before the pickets selected to shoot them. (These were of the provincials of San Juan de Alcazsr, as before ; in fact, the only regular troops in Madrid.) Don Manuel Boria, then advancing boldly to a rising ground in the centre of the immense field, addressed the troops who lined it in a few energetic sentences, and with a voice which made itself heard at a considerable distance, declared his unalterable love of his country, and concluded al most in the words of Leon, " Viva Isabella Segunda !" Here the Nacionales re-echoed the cry, " Viva la liber tad!" and then, turning on his heel, waved his hand with the air of a man about to take his . place in the ranks of battle, exclaiming " Adios, Senores!" and pre sented himself to the aim of the executioners. His com rade was already in his place, having only spoken to his confessor. Boris gave the word, facing the picket boldly, with his hands resting on his hips, as uncon cernedly as if he was reviewing them upon parade. Both fell on the . first discharge, and were dead almost in stantly. The expression of feeling in the spectators was striking and characteristic. No one spoke of their crime, and all seemed lost in pity and admiration, espe cially for the youth Boris. The immense crowd seemed to say with one voice, " It was impossible for a man to die more bravely." FLOUR. Many of our eader; mill doubtless recollect the trials caused by the adulteration of flour with gypsum, bones, and oiler deleterious articles, and the heavy fines imposed. on the culprits, even before the rise in corn. It is now but too well ascertained that much of the present -crop is utterly unfit for human fond. Sti 1 it is to ba reared that, by mixing this worthless trash with old wheat or foreign corn, an article will be brought, into the market even more detrimental to health. than gypsum or bones. This may be avoided by purhasing American flour in barrels, in which form adulteration need not be feared ; and, by the last quo tations, it appears that 196 lbs. of it may be had for 385., instead of 655. per sack (of 280 lbs.) for British corn meal, which is nearly one-fifth dearer, irrespective of its probable inferiority in quality. We have beard many anathemas against slave-grown sugar and coffee. If the argument is sound, the principle applies equally to bread grown under the iniquitous sla very of our Corn-laws—a system to raise the price of the poor man's loaf, under the fallacious hope of ke.Aping up the rents of the aristocracy. Instead of paying 655. per sack for flour thus enhanced in price by the selfish legislation of the monopolists—and perhaps adulterated too—we may obtain, at a much lower price, the staff of life, made of the finest wheat, grown in the free States of America. It is our interest—hay, our duty —to encourage Fits couvamption ; for our American brethren, instead. of, exacting gold for grain, offer us ample supplies of their flour in exchange for the product of our looms and workshops, forges and factories. Let our people once understand that they may always supply their necessities in a manner so mutually beneficial to the people of Britain and America, and a new argument will be afforded for more zealous efforts to effect the abolition or modification of the Corn-laws ; and a new hood of union formed between two nations who aro bound by every principle of duty and interest to mi bister to each other's wants, and by their co-operation in all that is benevolent, become the benefactors of mankind.—Correspondeut of a Provincial Paper. The Corporation of Limerick, the third town in Ireland in extent, population, and commercial ac tivity, was proved by the result of Parliamentary in quiries to have been one of the most notorious amongst even the Irish institutions of the class to which it belonged. The appointment to all the civic offices, from the Chief Magistrate to the lowest among the bailiffs and servants of the body, had been usurped by the late and present Viscounts Gort, who exercised, in fact, the same control in the nomination, as in the selection of their own domestic servants. The election under the Act of Victoria came en last week, and the result was that the Liberal candidates succeeded in the proportion• of four to e_ le ; and it only remained for the newly chosen body to as sume the civic functions given them by the Act of Par liament. Accordingly, a deputation waited upon the I Mayor —a Mr. Vereker, a relation of Lord Gort, be it remembered—" respectfully to call upon him to give up to them, on behalf of the Council, the possession of the Exchange, and all hooks, records, and corporate property under his controul, or that of any corporate officers under him." The Mayor refuses to accede to this request, on the (alleged) ground of the illegality of the proclamation and other proceedings at the election; the consequence of which will be an application for enforcing the law against this recusant functionary. , Several of the Cabinet ministers bad interviscwP with Sir Robert Peel yblierdiry morning. STATE OF THE WEATHER. The frost which commenced on Tuesday in the metro polis has been most severe, and the extreme variation of the thermometer has been remarkable. Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the Humane Society House in Hyde Park, states that at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night the mercury had fallen to 16 degrees, that is, 16 degrees below the freezing point, and it continued in this position until eight o'clock yesterday morning. In the course of the day it rose considerably, but towards evening fell rapidly, and there was every appearance of another hard frost. In a pond at the back of the So ciety's house the ice is an inch thick. At the north-west end of the Serpentine the ice extends a considerable dis tance from the shore, and above the bridge in Kensington Gardens the water is kimmed over with it. After some continuance of fine weather, we were on on Sunday visited with a snow shower on the hills, but which in the valley descended in gentle drops of rain. The accompanying indication was frost,. which was con firmed during the night, and on Monday all the moisture of the road was dried up by a hard frost.— York Courant. DRIFFIELD.---After two or three frosty nights and a very cold day on Monday, Tuesday nu rung brought a slight downfal of snow, with a very wintry aspect. Winter has this year stolen a march upon us. During the whole of the past -week the weather has been cold ; and on Sunday morning, at daybreak, we had several showers of snow falling in unusually large flakes. On Monday night there was another thick fall of snow, which completely covered the ground between Brighton and Lewes, in some places to the depth of four inches ! This was followed by an intense frost, which continued in the shade during the whole of Tuesday and Tuesday night. The sun shone brilliantly during the whole of that day, and, of course, the thaw was considerable ; but, not withstanding, some of the hills .near Lewes were yes terday covered to the depth of two inches.—Brighton Gazette. On Monday morning last our city and neighbourhood ‘were visited by a heavy fall of snow, which 'soon covered the ground. There was another fa'l early yesterday morning. The frosts at night are very severe ; and everything around us wears the aspect of deep winter. —Bath Chronicle. TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—On Sunday morning we were unexpectedly apprised of an early approach of winter, by a heavy fall of snow, as well as on the next morning, Monday, but in neither case did it lie long on the ground. The weather has continued very cold ever since ; and we feel it the more, having had several fine warm sunny days previously. Amid this variable weather there has been to be seen for nearly the last fortnight, an apple tree in full blossom, in the garden of Mr. Bell, at the Mount Pleasant Brewery, in this place. RIPON.—If any jndgment can be formed from the present week, we have every indication of an early winter, having experienced keen northerly winds and severe frosts. On Sunday we had a slight fall of snow, and within a mile of this city the ground was covered. On Monday morning, the east and west hills appeared in their winter garb, and the cold has since continued in tense for the season.— York Courant. HULL.—GALE OF SUNDAY MORNING. —SOO n after ono o'clock on Sunday morning, the wind, which had blown here with some violence during the night from the north- east, arose to a perfect hurricane ; and we regret to add, that accounts are already received of con siderable damage among the shipping, which it is feared will prove but the harbinger of more serious disasters as the natural consequences of so violent, though providen tially so short a storm. The vessels arriving in the Hum ber after the wind had in some degree abated, report having previously encountered the heaviest sea that has been experienced on this coast for twenty years. Amongst them were the steamers William Darley, from Hamburgh, and the Monarch, from London, the crews of which state that the swell of the billows and the trough of the sea, as the most tremendous ever witnessed on those passages, the waves repeatedly breaking over the mast-heads and funnels of the vessels, and at times ren dering the engines perfectly powerless. Three or four light colliers were driven on shore between Clea and Humberston, but as the wind moderated and changed to N.W., it was supposed they might he got off.—York Courant. GRIMSBY.—The gale was tremendous here on Satur day night and Sunday morning, with the wind at E.N.E. Seven brigs were driven on shore at Cleethorpes, besides other smaller vessels. The Emma, Turner, from South ampton to Whitby, went to pieces —crew saved.— York Courant. BRIDLINGTON QIJAY.—About 60 sail of vessels found shelter in the bay during the storm of Sunday, among which was the mail steamer for Gottenburg, which sailed from Hull on the preceding day. At about two P.M., a large laden brig with a white streak was seen to founder, about three miles from the lighthouse. Not above half an hour previous, two men only could be seen on deck, and they, poor fellows, with whoever else might be on board, went down with the vessel, there being no possibility of rende:ing them any assistance.—York Courant. Within the last few days the weather has assumed the appearance of the most rigorous winter. Friday the cold was intense, with showers of rain ard sleet ; this clay (Saturday) snow is falling heavily with all appear ance of a continuance. We are happy to be able to state that, in this locality, the potato digging is almost completed.—Tuam Herald. We regret that the weather, since Th urs d a y n i g ht, h as undergone a most unfavourable change. Bleak showers of sleet, with high winds, have succeeded a fortnight's almost cloudless sky, and have, consequently arrested the operation of sowing that had progressed considerably throughout these districts. Potato digging is also impeded.—Belfast Vindicator. CELEBRATED OAK TREES. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The oldest oak in England is supposed to by the Parliament Oak (from the trad . tion of ward I. hold ing a Parliament under its branches) in Chepstow Park, belonging to the Duke of Portland ; this park being also the most ancient in the island. It was a park be fore the ConepeEt, and was sezpd as such by the Con qucrer. The tree is supposed to be 1,500 years old. The tallest oak in England was supposed to be the property of the same Nobleman ; it was called " the Duke's Walking-stick," was higher than Westminster Abbey, and stood till of late years. The largest oak in England is called Cilthorp Oak, Yorkshire. It measured 78 feet in circumference where the trunk meets the ground. The " Three Shire Oak" at Worksop, was so called from its covering part of the counties of York, Not tingham, and Derby. It had the greatest expanse of any recorded in this island, dropping over 777 square yards. The most productive oak was that of Gclonos, 14 o n . mouthshire, felled in 1810. Its bark brought 2001., and its timber ‘,3701. in the mansion of Tredegat Park, Motitotitlishite, there is said to be a room 42 feet long and 27 feet broad, the floor and wainscot of which were the producO of a single oak tree grr 06 , ti t3ti the estates. While on this subject the following anecdote respect= ing an old cirri tree that formerly stood in a park neat ,iognao, may n o t b e N ettled I napp ropriate. The Pueli.ess d'Angoulerne, mother of Francis 1., during a morning ramble in the party, being at the petiod far advanced in the last stage of her pregnancy, was side den!) , seized with the pains of immediate labour, and being unable to reavh tho Oastla or obtain assistance, was obliged; Under the shady ail wide-spreading foliage of an ancient elm, to give birth to the Prince. Ttie singularity of the circumstance inspired at the time a general interest in favour of this venerable j9abitant of the park, and to secure it from the sacrilegious axe a wall of hexagonal form was erected around its blise. Time, how( vee, the common destroyer of all things, led to the total decay of the old elm,which was speedily rcpl iced by another, planted in its stead, and called "L'Onnee POVERTY. —Who shall say there is no want and poverty even in Cheltenham, when they are told that at a Court of Appertl on Friday last, upwards of 450 persons were excused their poors' rates, on 016 ground of poverty alone l--Cheltenham Examiner. THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE 1N A UNION WORKHOUSE. At the meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Croydon Union, on Tuesday, Mr. Currie, who is en titled ar officio to take his seat at the Board, brought before the notice of the Guardians the circumstances connected with the complaint against the master of the workhouse, of having brutally assaulted one of the in mates, which came before him in his magisterial capacity a few days previous. It will be remembered that upon the inquiry before Mr. Currie, at .the Town-hall, it appeared that a poor labouring man, on his way borne, applied for a shelter at the workhouse ; and in the morning, when he was about to leave, he was told that he must have his hair cut off. He would not allow this to be done, fearing that the persons who he expected would employ him on his arriving at home would refuse to do so if his hair bore the appearance of having been cut in a gaol ; and he requested the master of the workhouse to allow him to leave without cutting his hair, but he would not do so, and with the assistance of the porter and some other persons, the poor fellow was forced into a chair, and after a violent struggle, during which he received the most brutal treatment, his hair was cut off, and he was then turned out of the workhouse. He immediately went to the police station and Inspector Collier, who was on duty, after hearing his sta'ement, directed him to accompany him before Mr. Currie, who was then sitting at the Town-hall, and to that gentleman he repeated the story, and upon the master of the workhouse being sent for, and a full inquiry heina gone into, the Magistrate expressed his opinion that. the conduct which had been pursued towards the man was most improper and illegal, and at the same time said he should take care that the matter was brought before the notice of the Board of Guardians. Accordingly, on Tuesday, Mr. Currie attended at the meeting of the Board, and an application was made on behalf of a correspondent to be allowed to be pre sent at the proceedings, but after considerable discussion, the following answer was sent to the appplication : " Resolved—That this being a private Board-room, no reporter to the public press can be admitted." Nothwithstanding, however, the desire 'of the majo rity of the Board to keep their proceedings secret, our correspondent has been enabled to obtain, from an authentic source, a detail of what took place. Mr. CURRIE briefly alluded to the circumstances of the case, as above de'ai!el. He alluded to the appear. ance of the man when he came before him, and said tbre, in his opinion, the subject was a matter well worthy the consideration of the Board, for he considered the master of the workhouse bad acted most illegally and improperly in the conduct he pursued towards the man. The CHAIRMAN intimated his opinion that the case should be fully gone into, and all the witnesses re-exa mined, in order that the Board might be made ac quainted with the real facts of the case. Mr. CURRIE said he agreed w;th the Chairman that this would be the proper course. Mr. S. PENFOLD, the clerk to the Magistrates at Croydon, was then called upon to produce the minutes taken upon the former occasion. Inspector Collier was examined. He said, that on the morning of Monday, the 6th inst., the complainant came to the police station. He appeared tehave been very much ill wed. His clothes hung in rags about him, his face was bleeding, and his hair new cut, and torn in a strange manner. He wished to see a Magistrate, and the appearance of the poor fellow causing a good deal of ex citement among the by.standers, he called him on one side, and he then told him that he had been violet,tly assaulted by the master of the workhouse, because he refused to have his hair cut before he left the work house, and he wished to apply to a Magistrate for re drew. In consequence of what the man told him, he advised him to go at once to the Town-hall and make his complaint to Mr. Currie, who was then sitting. Mr. CURRIE confirmed the it Itement of the Inspector as to the appearance of the man when he came before him, and also detailed what took place on that occasion. The CHAIRMAN then directed the master of the workhouse to be sent for, and he was called up to an swer the charge. His defence was of the same character as that he made on the former occasion. He considered that as one of the regulations of the workhouse directed that all persons admitted into it should have their hair cut, that he was justified in acting as he did. A Guardian observed that this regulation only re ferred to the pariod of the admission of a pauper. For the purpose of cleanliness this might be very well, but it was ridiculous to perform the act is the morning when the man was about to go away, and when all the mischief would have been effected. Mr. CURRIE expressed his opinion that the master had acted most improperly, and his conduct - when before the Magistrates on the former occasion did him no credit. Several witnesses were then examined, but their tes timony did not at all place the matter in any other light. It appeared that the man drew a knife and de clared he would lose his life rather than submit to the threatened outrage upon him, and that the master of the workhouse sent for a strait-waistcoat, but there was not the slightest evidence to show that he attempted to open the knife, or to make use of it in any manner to injure his assailants. It also appeared that when before the Magistrates, the master of the workhouse said that while he vas master et* the workhouse be would carry out all the rules and regulations, however arbitary they might be, to the letter, and that he did not care what the consequences might be. In compliance with a suggestion made by Mr. Currie, the whole of the evidence was taken down in writing, and just as the examination of the witnesses was concluded, Sir Edmund Head, one of the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners arrived, for the purpose of attending the inquiry, and the whole of the evidence that had been taken was read over to him. A long discussion then took place, the result of which was, that the Board unanimously condemned the proceeding that bad been adopted, and it was under stood that a resolution was passed in order to prevent its recurrence. It is hardly necessary to say, that the extraordinary proceeding which occasioned this inquiry has caused very great excitement, and has been a general topic of conversation throughout the parish and neighbourhood of Croydon. EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. read the article in your Paper of the 16th in stant, on the subject of emigration, and highly do I ap prove of the determination expressed therein, to oppose the system about to be adopted as a panacea against all the evils complained of in this country, such as Corn-laws, Vote by Ballot, extent of the suffrage, and free trade, &c., which require first to be attended to—the other will follow, of course, as people's inclinations may lead them ; but in no other way should they be interfered with. To illustrate this, I take leave to give you a case in point, of the danger of Government interfering in a scheme of this sort. It has been asserted, and is believed, by the many con versant in the matter of Governor Gawler's expenditure of money in Adelaide, that it was indispensably neces sary that a large outlay should be made in this colony, in order to keep people, who were dependent on their labour, together, by making employment for them, since the capitalists that were there had not the means in themselves of paying for such labour ; and if Govern ment had not stepped in as they did, these poor people must have starved, or have strolled elsewhere to seek employment, leaving the small capitalists behind them, who had over-speculated in land, to have let,'..:ed after it. Now, - Sir, the point is, if such misery as is her ex plained, which must inevitably have taken place if. Go vernment had not come forward at a time when it did to have relieved the immediate wants of the poor settlers, what is to be the fate of those poor creatures should Go vernment here take it into their heads to follow out the scheme as propounded for an excess of emigration to re lieve the wants of the poor of this country, by increasing the wants of those poor creatures in the wilds of Aus tralia or elsewhere, by pouring in an excess of poor to those parts, without providing capital for their support? for this is deserving of the first consideration of Govern ment before entering into an emigration scheme. Can they insure at all times an amount of capital to give full employment to the labour sent ? If not, the thing will fall to the ground, and Government must - not interfere. This is my idea on the subject, which I have thrown to gether hurriedly, and which you will make what use you please of.---Iretnaie a sincere well-wisher to the .poor of this country, and Nov. 18, 1841. NO JOBBER. ritEE TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sin,—l read With great pleasure the articles whick you put forward in your paper daily in the cause of free trade, and I would not presume to offer any suggestions, Where;the subject is handled with so much abi lit y , did I i not and*, ling the attisenessi or apathy', or indolence, or whatever quality or abseiled of qualities it is can the part of the public, that dooms them to oppression' was of that impeittlflidble hind, that reiteration of the sub jett and exposure of the oppression in every possible variety and shape was the only means by which their intellects could be enlightened and their slothfulness shaken off. If the English people are made clearly to understand the nature of the oppression they are sub jected to by landlord rule and colonial monopoly, theft , will be no -e'ditliculty in overthrowingthe oppressors, let their nurnbors in Parliament be what they will. The suggestion I would offer to the merchant, to the artisan, to the labourer, to the professional man, to the man of fortune, to speculators, to the whole community em ployed in industrious pursuits, is, that they should con sider not what is the present cause of their want of profits, their want of work, their loss of fortune, or their abortive speculations, but why these unprosperous times have marred 0:31 OfCcil Anci Pic §l4ch shortly intervening Why have intervals within the last twenty ytitil, . Why did the South capital Aeric i a n n l s r.s 2 t s a states .__.nnw n ‘ n the so m m lit u , c lt h :f t. , 72 g r countypr ls e s 5 2 , fr MA.... '... ' ' • . of America embarked in enterprises the growth and wealth cf the disproportionate to of property go to Spain i•? 'Why did massea was the more name o f an Why did knaves in Cornw'alloand Portugal? Why a signal for every man a railroad in England Let men ask themselves theseciPus become a. gambler ? knaves ijs London. , joint --stock enterprise And dupes fur every atro ' Restrictions upon trade have G i one it t n o d b.UtToitite capital of England was, I hope is itii) pke' - ' . • ''' . , . vet E EVENING STINI_ Lai digious; prevented from being reproductive in its t ' it channel by the different monopolists, that rode u po t a, e as vampires, it was lent to mast remote, the most chimerical, hope of advs e t b c . The end was it was thrown away, and now the 0-11 t. ,• i suffers from the loss of it. The indomitable energ i r i p ,a- r the English people, aided by abundant harvests au , s i, , p markets found out in the most, distant parts of the ii", o6 have prevented for some time the full effects of 1,", ~, great periodical wants being felt, but now thricelble obvious to everybody. Restricted trade has w % ~ f nation's capital by forcing it into unprofitable chantleLes employment, and, by a wonderful retribution, has ..,.`',. j. a detrimental to the authors of the restriction`. 1..., notorious that the • extravagance of the aristocraci,Y,_':ll . kept pace with their increast...l rents, and that the el ;lil'yhelrieuvdalrtiues extravagance. an :l. rist o law alone saves - the greater part of them fror.aebits:. r n i e lP oe te s Y sa . men of business as necessarily lead to habits of ccocaome3c), If the aristocracy merely spent their natural in 00 4 but they 0. the country would be none the worse for it; only spend their own, they make a site TO which they appropriate that of other peoPle . ' „oil operation of their restrictive policy . is thus 0 0 - 11 7 b oa ciacy, a class ot I . i ut-,,,t; ruin—ruin to themselves; ruin to the Industrious, " 0 .. income they tax; and ruin to the capitalist, Islo se B 'l4 mulations they drive into unprofitable enterprize• bee' ; of occupattoonst_:, cry of distress is more general now than it has eve r f i .. traders, martufacturt,.‘rs, arazans, labourers, hare ,„(,, months, aye, for years past, flattere d themselves rd. things would get better ; ti.eir hopes have b ees das i lial; to the ground, and yet many of them still b e lieve t ' be , ' the causes of their distress are only temporarPreo• think that bad harvests, joint stock ban ks, over-f Lion, too much machinery, too great rt• valry of foreigans. want of trade with China, t h° turbed state of credit in America, had all combined t%ii, jure them, but in time will disappear. I s hould ‘ 1 %1 , / you too long, were Ito attempt to show, which es,_ .s ', could, the fallacy of dossupoing that ally, or all of tt: L e . causes combined, could any serious burnt to Y,ng tit t ;‘ , population, die, while she is in a healthy and natural condition. J e 1r pot; however, she is like a, balloon, full - of elest icit t Y fivil ( unable to ascend from the earth, because she is too . 1 . - ir ballasted. She has the aristocracy and the eoloato"tbi; terest to weih her down, and till she throws sivi l l sir, ballast, . her b elasticity will b 3 of no avail. —I r'l3, your obedient servant, Athenaeum, Nov. 16. TO THE EDITOR(7F THE S Ull. nr i SIR—In the solemn name of Heaven, wb:11-ar that relaxation of the Provition-laws, which y.° an —is to be done for the starving t h ousa nds of Leiyhe-- Paisley, and similar districts ? That event maid ,ttr" distant. But, in the meantime, it is to be 11 0 1 3 , e- 0 4 4 are many who, like myself, may not be vcr''''" 0 1. in political economy to be decided in vievviog tha t yel sure as the surest or wisest plan of relief ; ' cli° „ a ryo ej ,' startled at the appalling idea of their fellow-cetiiitell going down, victims of famine, to the grave. h ' not implore the humane to summon their best t ' . . s irie °` and devote them, with combined zeal, to the 01 t oo ; efficient pre:ent funds, and the still mote I s le object of arranging some permanent plan Of n 1 Its' and subsistence ? Will you not call on the to 0 1, (and how numerous are these, and such as 1 13ve ,;067 4 the least,- a full competency !) to prove the g e ", - 0 of their humanity by ne stinted sums ; "eso0; to themselves, to avert the curse of thin " .11° .4 - es 6i° unrequited see them enjoyinm luxuries and I )° ,;;.isliia abundance, yet regardless of 'their fellow-nicn from want ! Surely, if a hearty effort ref d ies et's: remedy could be found. That abundance u°;-eieot; somewhere, it would be equally absurd an d ,,,,d15 , ,' 1c i : to deny, till we could shut our eyes to the '", - , ll i lati ° ,•, -4 in every kind around us, and forget the acc u : -I t lesP7 r of capital owned by thousands. And are we that the patient, earnest deliberations of oi)ie.'ipe art centrated on this point, may devise s ome se fha t relief—when, employed on almost any t o p ic chooses to take up, we see them effectual ,hose Strange it seems that there can be found o f nlau will contentedly feel themselves in the t ee —commanding, and perhaps in the use, often in fer o I d every gratification of the palate, splendour of d re t - o 'et" t there, and equipage, and whatever may winis tel hell 9il4 and sense; yet conscious and unheeding thee . 0 ,0 misery of their fellow-creatures ! Methinks lt ° die leo' a natural impulse. For myself, I cannot resist '4O; ing—to dispense, each, with every article of suPice), each unnecessary enjoyment, till we knew tha t i t io thit,; sessed at least a sufficiency of common food anu cn c oal 0, diffuse, good Mr. Editor, this feeling ! ' s ad piteous appeal in the ears of those (and , " t le3s tilll3l' have realized wealth by the toil of the ara l ' 3 rt , e` bar (l-0 selves)—who count their means, not by lees pd shillings, but unemployed thousands, reaP ing ,i)lo , interest—who roll in carriages, and repose I )n i ' g re 0- I ,e sleep on down—who drink in sweet music, an ( ' - t ill ters of their own time, and share, unlivrrassedre' fe 55 : . ? o f delights h um a n o i f ty s . o l, c i o e r ty t - h ; andif they ask them,sffe suffer If they do not respond ; if the energies, tt ie d,lo o lo the contrivance, the compassion of Britons, al; 0 0 t er all, Christians, be not roused to place the rnitss'f o poli o footing they—as fellow men, and fellow -heirs „ c) i ti 0 11 00 world—are entitled to, fearful will be the r es.- 10 ; if part of some, but convulsion pervading all and innocent and the guilty alike victims ; disgrace t 0 14 condemnation the lot of all. , do; But, of all monstrous things, the height at his should pass among a Christian population, thfit'-fol°11; hisortriliebilrepiteefoiltroaeoi it should go on unstayed by a laEge section of t hew ,pedtedeeoet nay claiming to be more especially enlig' Heaven, and in communion with God and their Sorrowfully yours, yet very trulYt. o rsbY" t rj e ' ser cl i V ng e can o le n t l t 3 e ' r s . eco A n t d t o h t e ir Correspond e ntstie,.e'vavoles! 0111:5tebrey that the people do not want th a e me c ha rity 'of the i r : e l 5 15 „, r want justice. An Order of Council to su s P el , " vation laws would spread prosperity , r' s S through every town in the empire.- I %D' - en. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKET S .0: ... , 4..05. 1, 1 .>4. Wheat. Barley. Oats. i .......::„..-1.....• 5, t°' Per Quarter.l s. to s. 1., tot s - / ... 7. inr. .... 2 .--- • t 0........ .„ g 3a la t i h idford ...... 52 72 31 32 % 2 3 26 1 f 2 72 35 38 25 :0 ! ',„- ...- 5, 5. A: ~4 .,, t 7, S h ri a d r p d or .........w. t 5 - 3 6 7 9 2 2-2 32 ; . t . : 2 -- 6 , „": : : ri .... 4 2 4 , 4 , 4;1 sßa E he it uta e ir,bdi e lorn r orgrnd:;, ,: l 6 1 :80 4 4 7280 7 79 0 r 3 2 25 27 5 3 299 4 21 1: 33 : l i!, sj., :ii: 54 4 0 ; , 3) 6 _43 4 ? Uloucester 150 61 213 30 21 f. :3 4. 4 4 ‘3. , ~ Newbury Salisbury 52 62 27 34 20 . ‘ ,.1 !4v 4 4 4, i 38 : 6 24 1 7 ° 4 4 'i j 5 . 2 j .... 8 ...... Shepton Mallet !51 71 0 8 Uxbridge ..„ 2 Warminster., 56 73 29 3 7 2 5 29 44 ...- - Winchester 145 66 ! ...- , 4 ••• —.— -•- 1 4 0 .- 4 1e0vi1....... 152 60 32 31 21 30 .,,' ,„71S. A LEEDS CORN MARKF,I. 60. '; Ils. 0 , i Wheat, Norfolk and Sughlk, 601 b................ . ...... "' 55 ,1 10 403. York. and Lincoln. 601 b........... .....• • '''' : 36 ''' , 0 :93. ;•', qarley, Norfolk and Sullblk .. . ..................... 33 3 ' 10 30s. ; ----- Yorkshire and Lincolah . :r . .. ................. .. --;• 463 , ;' Grinding .. ...... , ...... •' 45 '' to 2S‘ Beans Oats, l'otatoe .... ........................ b...................7.".":;;;:i ........... .0. 044. to —ltlealing, For. ltd. tol2d ......... '' .20, to 5.-. • j , Shelling ... ... ......................... ~., . S. t/ ...................... ...., , 1 . , 2 . DEVIZES COltN Illiklir',,r. •., oto r Per Sack. s. d. a. d . Per Quai. - • 9.t 9:: First Wheat....... .9 0 II 0 95 oto : 6 0 Oats... ... : . ..;c10.•• ' U , Second 91 0 13 6 Beans (P e r ' ~,g)....• ') • -- 4 third C 22 HE 6 1 ; r g 2 N B H A ° Barley 110 ). AtFlo;A(Piter;;Jg,is: i 2 ° 0 58 0 Bread ( pe r g al tl• '` 4' 7 6 1 Per Bushel , s. d. to (.d. Pet • •• ....... .. I' 1 Wheat ......... . 0 darley 3 0 3 9 Altatt.oo. ............. • „...... _ 0 Bets y 3O 0 39 Vaal ............... ......... Beaus . .... 7 Pease 5 0 8 0 L amb. ................. .00. Hay 4/.51. to 4/. 10s. Od. P r ' Wheat, white-- CA —... " 6 14 7T% 71131 . -- red.--...... 665. to 70s. ........ Old•••••••••'"" „...s. .tom;, 3.r.„...1A1(t)1kid,.....ET.„..„ :::: tc! ...., i9 A 1 . Barley, Malting --. 303. to 38s .—...... Gr.ndilig•• ...„ 9 , t o o A , Oath ..N0r0*.....rw 21s. to 26 s. .......... Olti. ....5.,t ‘ ,..„...* Beans ................ 36s to 40s. .......• 01d..,--'''.56;.• r- CHE ,6 L ,O4 M t S o F 667 O O RD MARKET . •.. .4 5 : Pease ....V.M.V.......*./...0.1. 36e. to . ...S. ~,,,..: Grey • +"'' ' ..."'''''' es to 0, Wheat bl , White Red Carley Cheralier " 0 as Beans, Tick ........... ...0 P Oats s e . ,... 1‘ ar: h a " y: : ................................................ ;ill Grinding W' 0. 11 : be ANIMAL MAGNETISM: —Mr' '„ i iishiv- ' i n t° a Drent, has, we are informed, been a s— er son s o l eo' inhabitants of Devonport, by throwing L I Ong • A Jo" d what he tempo a magnetic sleep, and to walk, speak, sing, anti dance, and even es ,_ eer , in n ;of whilst in this sleep. We understand he has ". n TA Li t he •ec 1 for 0 to deliver a course of lectures on the subj ~,,, . 0 t he by intends starL" b,,,liii ' 0 „ by a party of gentlemen, and to or j) 4, , metropolis in a few days. He professes toot, tide, be s° • 1 , principles of this science (if it may __ eds 0 , iii , strictly philosophical grounds ;if he s;,- , c" a fled s Na pe this, he will accomplish what all other $, Somerset County Gazette. thereat Ai-aan, vite .., 1 0 _hill, --- -__ „ii ,, bpo SILVER TEA SEIL ATCOOO trLi — h:hoei l nec ' ted . sesolaCinoaalpOnetaXdheoevcf seven noffiAitel either :o r p O roi orni : sags Y nwfser , iowlt rni, W h avanoGEd:Roei:nlyeegeeglreaEhonSr nutA i I r. v ea e har o r n. : sdotl cee midoout c vi !i ss 0 . 0 06: : :, VICES. The Cottage Pattern is plain, staading..lidtollf. King's Pattern is richly embossed with flower s sgi COTTAGE I'A'ZTERN. icxxa's r.-‘ 1 .ct Strong Silver Tea-pot -.1 4 2 a o Strong Silver Tes - d...1; 1; 1° Ditto Sugar Basin 616 Ditte Sugar Jr C,,, r ! 0 Ditto Milk Ewer, 410 Ditto Cr e r n ot.• l / Ditto Coffee-pot-15 0 Ditto Coo° - In 0 .P l O5l ComPle te '' Ser' ' ''" o rti' Tea and Coffee ev ery „. 0 1 , ;ketches of the va,"?., 1600 , 0 free, I f any part of tn e....„ du.- ', COrnh..lllLonblit ° ‘.. _____---------- 1 00. r e ) 1 :3 or the Plealtl-tce.b_ucii" e: • o r ke .- 11: s BIRTHS. r of 1* of . On the 17th inst. , in York- street, Mrs. Port e i fe ieriff On the 17th inst ., Mrs. 11. Goss, Great Se• be son, ~:jll-born. torifl bit° On the ;7th inst., at Gayton House, Northern') .4.• fa fl- 1 On the 18th inst., c her, - T o , lady of the Rev. 9. Kennard, of a daughterilet~er , o On the 17th inst., a: of Grest ~ irsi.ley park, Lady ter. street, of a daughillin Itu li I °ARM"' 1 e VPPer oeogs On the 26th of May, at Thernthwaite, on tl_ ,t_ ,J. Native Infantry, to Sophia, eldest daughter 0 1 t New South Wales, Captain Darvall, the 7tb .110730 Pe' gwortli, Docker, Vicar of East Meon, Hampshire. 'Oe fit ‘cio DIED. - 4th 1141) PI P ' - , .t. ,at Malta, Colonel Mein, i ~,c Or. On the s ' n '-- "ococke, the infant son .••• On the 7th inst., J. . iOSWIFIV i f IC. ll° l *I IBulley, surgeon, Reading.. .ate o _. O n . ate 14th inst., At Petersham , Op the 10th inst„ B. fairbank, o f -- 1 4 ° .0 Thorley, g Fq . v A $ v- I --27.----!'-----'---"i'L'"vtiPsoi---","Yr7 ~,i,io ~, A mic hm; ;Printed and Published by D1u,..102 1741' 'the Cgtv.gfrMicktle§pc,frid4slr'u‘ Nu. 112, Strand, at The Sun #l7te;wie AV, EsEcilVs.abstnt t" ' Complete ...£3B 61 A variety of upwards of fifty be seen in the Show-rooms, wh de of silver requisite for the sii phlets of prices, illustrated by s 1 gratis, and forwa-ded, i wstage f —T. COX SAVORY, No. 47 from Gracechurch-street. ,r