The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-20 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION submit in England to this Irish plan of perpetual irritating disturbance, so opposite to the sense of peace and security which is congenial to England. A good deal may be done, perhaps, to annoy us through the agency of the large amount of Irish population now set tled in our manufacturing towns, but, so far as the es sistance..of English sentiment is necessary to the scheme it will not prosper. The national habit of English Pro testants is to state boldly what they want, to strike boldly for it when the desire arises to a thorough con viction that they ought to have it, and so to settle the question one way or the other. They cannot bear a smouldering conspiracy which lasts for year after year, until it grows into a national habit of half violence, half trtac:tery. This is the Irish Romanist method—an 0d:31 , 3 and detestable method of political action, which may Heaven avert from the public proceedings orEng l:shmen I. It were not well, however, that statesmen should shut their eyes to the fact that among large bo dies of the English working people there exists a feelin v of strong discontent with the present distribution of the elective franchise. Nine years ago the late Mr. Coleridge foresaw this, as the probable etrcet, of the changes contemplated by the Reform lai " I am afraid," he said, " that the Conservative party see but one half of the truth. Tile mere extension of the franchise is not the evil ; I should be glad to see it greatly extended—there is no harm in that per se ; the mischief is that the franchise is nominally extended, ht“, to such classes and in such a manner, that a prac tical disfranchisement of all above, and discontending of ill below, a favoured class are the unavoidable re suits." This prophecy has been fulfilled by the event in a'most every place where the Reform Act has had any practical cff:ct at all. We actually find a far .0; rent.er degree of discontent among the masses, on aecount of the state of the representation, since the grind " reform" was enacted, than was ever known to exist before. They thought that " reform" was to do something them, and they shouted for it aecoldingly. But they now perceive that they were duped, and that they helped to make a revolution, from the real or supposed benefits of which they have I):.en exchaded. We think they hare been wronged — t h a t they have been misled and cheated ; but we w iA l th e y would bear in mind who they are who have -misled and cheated them. Surely it is their part, as rational men, to recollect that the Conservatives had no share in this delusion. If the Conservatives hate not been " liberal " in extending the franchise, they hate at all events been honest. They have practised no trickery upon the working people. They have not flattered crowds into the belief that the common multi tude ought to influence or control the Government of the country, and then taken advantage of the assistance of these crowds to make a revolution which gave every thing to themselves, and nothing to the multitude. This was the conduct of the Whig-Radical managers and tricksters—of those persons who are now Ministers, or supporters of Ministers, and who still maintain their po sition by other jobs, and tnanceuvres, and dexterities, of 'which honest English statesmen would be ashamed. Whatever, then, the working classes may have to com :plain o', they should remember that the Conservatives ore guiltless towards them, in comparison with the pre sent Government party, who, for its own advantage, 041 most certainly cheat them in a very base fashion. Bat the Conservatives oppose the present claims of the working people—the peope without any fixed property —to such an extension of the elective franchise as will reach them. They do, but they are prepared to show , that, having regard to justice and a reasonable diatribe ttion of power among the various classes of the State, they vclomot do otherwise. If the working people would but wdlect upon the circumstances of their condition—upon :Aunt litvited opportunities of political knowledge— upon the occupation of their time on the daily tasks of procuring subsistence—upon the complicated and important interests which exist separate from them, they must surely come to the conclusion that they ought not . .to have a preponderating and overwhelming amount of usoliticsl power in the country. They cannot but per ceive that they acre not equal to such responsibility. And yet, looking to the numerical amount of their class, it is certain that the extension of the elective franchise to them would give them this overwhelming ;power—that it would be, as Mr. Coleridge says, a ..practical disfranchisement of all above them. We • think we are not paying them too great a compliment ~e, supposing that this injustice cannot be their ob ; They carmot deliberately wish to engross every • ', and to make themselves the exclusive managers Over interests which they cannot possibly under s„.nd. It may be urged that, though to give them this pr , •spotaDlerance would be unjust, still they have a rig;tt to moms share in the distribution of the fran chise. N, Its certainly should agree to this if it could be s'sown that the p 6 ssszssicn of the franchise in a due pro poetion to th eir class would do them any good. Eat they have neN'er made h.gY such modified claim to the franchise as would be grarii:sd without upsetting alto gether the balae.ce of power among different orders of society. When they do mos.-lifY their claims the argument with respect to them n.nist assume a dif ferent shape, and lead, perhaps, to a different con clu,ion. But no claim founded upcn abstract assumption that the elective franchis , .. , is a valu able possession can be evidently a just Dne. To seine the franchise would undoubtediy bt,• a mis chief. Tney, therefcre, who would have their claims li2tened to as just and reasonable should try vs show what good to themselves and to the country would be likely to arise from the possession of the pri vilege to vote for Members of Parliament. Let us do the working people the justice to say that in respect of moral and intellectual qualification we certainly regard them as far better entitled to votes for Members of .Parliament than the " ten pound rent" class in our Faroe cities and toNns. These, taking them as a class, are the worst set of Englishmen in existence—the least honest, the least generous, the most sordid, the most self-indulgent, the most irreligious. It is not among the working people that we fled the base and sordid cry Fier foreign bread at foreign prices. 'Fee working - people would rather pay a little more for their pairs than see thousands of their countrymen who week upon the land of England turned adrift because corn could be got cheaper from Poland or Hungary. Nu, it is the grasping, greedy creatures who pick up money here and there by a sort of half-labour, half gAiraing—who care not a doit for anything on earth but their own gain, and the grossness in which it will enable them to indulge—these are the creatures who alter Corn-law repeahagitators, and who long to Isi s end less money upon bread, that, they may spend •ittere money upon gin. Happily the isfluence of this eiass is but of limited extent. To whatever extent it _goes, however, it is mischievous and degrading. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) " Nu.'hing is settled," so saith the Times, and, in most si t •d:,..nws ince of faete, proceeds to supp,rt its as se, lion by the following procss :—" Nothing is settled. e.af! of a htde war's having already produced vrea' repults, the great opium war against Cuina has Orottuced no results at all—not a shilling of indemnity— e,.• an approach to u treaty—not even a promise to ne ..ou.:te worth the least reliance. And what have we really and definitely accomplished in the cast of Europe? What s the actual state of affairs between Mehemet the Saltan ? Whore is still the army of Ibra :;.tin: Patla? How iar has he proceeded on his march t:uvards I:orvt ? tiles thi, Turkish fleet arrived at , C,:,.,:.ntmuple, or i it at Alexandria still ? Has the on oFthrt conOst there—for in Syria the fight !ov ; s yet ot er—not yet' yroduced any change of pos .r c , or return to i;I burnour in the French Govern „t.? Aduiral Dnptrr. has at this moment in Tou ,ho, 1;:: sail of the hoe, well manned, which our ships (as ;iQ , cr:lplained of be scores of British officer 3 in the ,M,f,terrdnean) ,tre not, 'nor in a safe condition Joe ( c avYiet with a skilful European enemy. Is our quar :iet with the United States made up. or the slightest ,ppronitmtion towards it? Ask Mr. Van Burro, who ;Lopes, as every Arnercan President has hoped, and •-.ery Minister, for so many years ; but not a siigie point :s yet decided, nor a single atom of Amori , Ito tenacity relaxed, ncr a single ground of hope esta lietied (though many of apprehension) which did not Leo years ago. Then, in fact, there is nothing 40 y, : i wt ; c : A f, west, north, south, there is cotttio!4:;ettled. Yet out of scch nothiugaess i; Queen's speech waist be vamped op, and everything iiie an a NICEMITIICLt sneered at ! Will the Speech allude to the state of Ireland, end the repeal agitation too? We g u ess not." We are altogether at a loss to decide whe ther sat aciArtinent should be excited more by the shame less audeo.ity of the assertions, or by the shrewd in genuity wtrereLy elicit a number of fallacies are ini• piled and conpresned within so small a compass. " Nogiirtg is settled !" " Rome was not built in a day ;" suit bad the Tinzes existed during the progress ,stablishtn en t o f R ome ' s m i g hty em pire, it might a a iry time have exclaimed, " nothing is settled," w i t h n disregard to facts as shameless as that with it now asserts that in fact, " there is nothing settler{ " any where ; e as t, west , fort h, an d sou th, . " there nothing settled." Perhaps not. The pier io ~v , 0 1, is dubious. Mut a ti on i s t h e l aw o f b e i ng , • • said therefore it may at any time be said that " nothing ;" and ,we rejoice in the fact, for in pro grmcon consists iatprovement, and in tl' enunciation of tlie that nothing Is settl e d," T ory i sin or the (wise rv.tism of settled abuses, may recogn i se t h e .announcernent of its ultimate and inevitable ex tinction. So far we exult in the opinion W hi c h the Times promulgates in apprehension ; but 0 , i ts insidious and base application of the opinion, Ie p.ronounce an unqualified den ial and denunciation. t is curious and amusing to remark the manner in whi c h ate - Times exhibits its own enorm ous inconsistencies, In the extract just quoted, for instance, it refers to the collision with China not as a " little war," but as " the great opium war," though but a few days since it treated it as undeserving any public interest, more than might Le excited by a party of policeman in pursuit of some rtraway thi-ntes. It is not "the great opium war," however, which it now endeavours to depreciate, but its results. " The great opium war against China," saith the Times, "has produced no results at all:' This is great news for Sir James Graham. Everything demanded by Admiral Elliot has been acceded to by the Celestial Emperor, indemnity promised, inquiry granted into the conduct of Commissioner Lin, who was the agent of the outrage on British subjects and property, and Commissioners appointed to prepare a treaty for the regulation of future commercial intercourse. Yet the Times asserts that the " great opium war" of yes terday—the thief-catching; expedition of last week— " has had no results at all." Similar opinions are pro nounced upon the affairs of the Sultan and Mehemet Ali ! the inefficiency of the British fleet in the Medi terranean! ! and the mistake committed by Van Buren in supposing the boundary question in progress of satis factory adjustment !!! To all these statements iyce shall say to all those, if there be any, not familiar with the infamous inconsistences and fallacies of the Times —Read and wonder! (From the Times.) " Like mister," says the proverb. " like man : " As is Mr. O'Connell, such are the Whigs who live by him. He plays for rent, and they for salary. His in terests are most assisted by a cry against the Union ; theirs by a yell against the honest registration of voters. He has had his repeal gatherings among the wild men of the mountain and bog ; they have assembled their Dublin audience in the Hawkins-street Theatre, to damn Lord Stanley and his fair play, and pledge an other benefit to " her Majesty's servants," Through box, pit, and gallery, the general cry was, " Silence that dreadful Bill." It has already defeated the Mieis tars, disunited their friends, and endangered the very te nure of office. Since last July it has lain asleep ; but in a few days more it wakes from its own slumber to (these away theirs. By whatever means, fair or foul, by what ever agency, Irish or English, it must be crushed. So vowed and roared the Reformers who filled the Dublin playhouse on Friday last. The requisition for their meeting is described as bearing the signatures of a great many Noblemen ; but the only one who could be in duced to make his personal appearance was the Earl of Charlemont, the Chairman. The leading resolution, condemnatory of Lord Stanley's measure, is worded in a strain well contrived to raise among ignorant people the notion, that the Noble Lord has been proposing, and still meditates, some horrible enormity, such as flogging for rent in arrear : for these Reformers are not content to signify disapprobation—that would be far too feeble. No ; they say," We do hereby express our deep abhorrence of the measure proposed in the last Session of Parliament by Lord Stanley." They vote the Reform Bill a failure as to the wants of Ire laud, they dire an extension of franchise, and they call upon English and Irish to join for protecting the elector, " in the legitimate exercise of his rights, from the attacks of those who now seek to destroy it." We will shortly remind our readers what is that " exercise of right" which Lord Stanley is seeking to destroy, and what is that measure of his which these sensitive people so " deeply abhor." At present, an Irish voter, once registered, stands upon the register not merely, as in England, for one year, but for eight. In the counties a very large proportion of the voters claim the franchise in respect of a holding for lives. Many of these lives, of course, must drop between one octennial registration and another ; and whenever the freehold has there by expired, common justice would seem to demand that the right of voting should cease with it. In like man ner we should humbly presume that the death of the voter himself ought to discontinue the operation of his franchise, since it is difficult for common understandings to apprehend on what principle the family of a free holder who has died in the first year of his registration should be permitted to leave his certificate of registry in operation for seven other years, available at every election occurring during that period through the agency of some stranger suborned to personate the deceased. To Lord Stanley and the Conservatives it appeared that the exercise of the freeholder's tight of voting after the freehold interests had expired, and the exercise of the living man's right of voting by his perso nator after his death, were proceedings savouring very strongly of fraud. But to the Reformers, who take a liberal view of morals as well as of politics, all these things seemed quite just and reasonable ; and when Lord Stanley proposed to prevent such practices by requiring the Irishman to be registered annually, as the Englishman is, they came to the deliberate conclusion that the culpable party was not the voter who committed the fraud, but Lord Stanley, who attempted to prevent it. But there was, and still is, another fruitful source of Justice. If a voter, seeking to be registered, be improperly rejected he is allowed to appeal ; and the question, where it is one of feet, is settled by a Jery, or where it is one of law, by a Judge of As size. But if a hundred, or a thousand voters, be ins properly admitted, be it by mistake, or be it by the political partialities of the registering barrister, there is no appeal either on the fact or on the law ; so that the genuine constituency may be swamped, and the rightful candidate defrauded of his return without the possibility of redress. To Lord Stanley and the Con servatives it appeared that what was fair on the one side was fair on the other ; and that if the ascer tainment of the parties justly entitled to vote was the real object of the registration, the appeal against the admission of bad votes was as ne cessary as the appeal against the rejection of good ones. But the Reformers, on the contrary, thought that justice should be net only blind but lopsided ; and they adjudged that the Bill of Lord Stanley, which proposed to give " the appeal both ways," was a wicked infraction of the undoubted right of sham voters to be retained as real ones. In these two enactments, of an nual registration and of reciprocal appeal, consisted the whole principle of Lord Stanley's Bill. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 171 India Stock ......... ... ..251 3 per Cent. Red 9OA Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 884 3 per Cent Red ...... .. 983 Ditto New Annuities... New 4 per Cent .. ... 97L Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id Bpm New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 500/ Bpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9pm Jan. 1860. l3 3-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...170i Oct 1859 ... l3 India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 ... l2 15-16 Consols for Opg B9L FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent 108!, Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto._ . Brazilian Bonf!s .. .. RuenosAyres, 6 per cent 20i Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 243 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred — Littlish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent...ll2f. —;.. Greek, 1825,5 percent. Exchange -f. —c. Zdexi,:an, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent sOi Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent....: . 99 . , _ . SHARES. - Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. .. 32 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9O Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .... .. ... 621 London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) 43A London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 173 London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) .Ditto New Shares (20paid) ... ......... ... 17A London and South Western Railway London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) North Midland Railway (iOO paid) 79 South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... .. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) In consistency with our invariable rule, to afford all parties who conceive themselves injured by any state ment which has appeared in our columns, an opportunity of explaining or denying the whole, or any part, of such statement, we insert a letter from Lord Sirangford's so licitors on the article which appeared in the columns of the Globe on Friday last, with the copy of an opinion of his Lordship's Counsel on the decision of the Court. In support of our remarks on the republication of the Tinici article, and our allusion to the criminal proceedings instituted unsuccessfully by Lord Strang ford against another journal for some severe comments on the case, we are bound to state that the letter and opinion of counsel leave the matter just where it was before. The Court requires those who seek the pro tection of its extraordinary powers included in a crimi nal information for libel, to deny upon affidavit the imputations upon their reputation of which they 'l'nis is the " technical rule " with I.ord Strangford failed to comply. There was no shrinking' from responsibility on the part of the defendant ; no pre::.'nce that the publication did not impute falsehood to L.?rd Strangford. This was unequivocally and boldly avowt;:.!• Lord Strangford could not, as his counsel states, " fratT2C any affidavit which should operate as a denial of every con tained in the Times' article ;" and the Court left LL'.l Lordship to the ordinary remedies, either by indictment, or action for scan. ntag., of both of which the Noble Lord declined to avail himself. If Lord Strangford or his solicitors should be of opinion that the publication of the observations of the Court on dismissing the rule will at all benefit his Lordship's reputation, we will readily give them a place in our columns. We abstain from doing so until such request be made, because we do not think that any such benefit to his Lordship could accrue from their publication. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE. " Sig,—The following observations appear in the lead ing article of the Globe newspaper of Friday last, with re fercoce to an application made to the Court of King's I3eneh by Viscount Strangford in Michaelmas Term, IB2S: " The affidavits in support of the application did not satisfy the Court, and the Noble Lord took nothing by his motion.' " As his Lordship's solicitors on that occasion, we take leave to set you right as to the grounds on which that ap• plication was refused. The acc ompany i ng o pi n i on o f hi s Lord s hip's Counsel Rill fully explain the reason why further proceedings were discontinued in this case, and will also afford the public an opport un i ty of learn i ng the op i n i on o f two o f t h e melt eminent lawyers of the day, that it was only on ac count of the non-observance of a technical rule, which it was almost impossible to have observed, that the Court refused to grant the information applied fur. The observations in the Globe would lead to the sup. position that it was on the merits of the case that the Court had refused to comply with the application made by Viscount Strangford. " We have the honour to remain, Sir, Your obedient humble servants, " PICKERING, SMITH, and TOMPSON. Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 18, 1841. " Copy of opinion of Sir C. Wetherell and Sir N. C Tindal—in re Lord Strangford. We are of opinion, that after the decision of the Court as to the insufficiency of the affidavit upon which the rule to show cause was granted (and which deci sion we arc free to codess was greatly to our surprise), it will not be advisable to have recourse to further proceedings. Indeed, the nature and description of the paragraph originally printed in the Times newspaper were such that we scarcely see how it was possible to frame any affidavit which should operate as a denial of every charge contained in it. All persons who understand the nature of the case will perceive in a moment that it was only on account of the non-observance of a technical rule, which in the particular case it would have been almost impossible to observe, that the Court refused to grant the information. " CHARLES WETHERELL " N. C. TINDAL. " Dcc. 1, 1828." (From the Standard.) When it is difficult or impossible satisfactorily to answer a question which has been proposed, it is no un common stratagem, to seem to reply by answering a ques tion which hIS not been proposed, or to offer a defence against a charge unjustly assumed to be involved in the tormenting interrogatory. We yesterday put a ques tion, which, as we believe, must, long before we or any one else of the public had propounded it, have sadly perplexed the Queen's Ministers, the question—Would her Majesty's advisers dare in the Royal Speech to re fer to the Repeal sedition, or would they dare to pass over that tremendous danger as undeserving the notice of the Legislature ? This plain question,?lainly put, has provoked from the Morning chronicle an angry article, in which it is assumed that the Ministers are ac cused of having created the Repeal sedition, and the at tempt is made to fasten the prodaction of the mischief' upon Lord Stanley's Bill. Now this, RC submit, is not answering our question. We did not charge Ministers with having created the Repeal sedition ; in deed, we brought no charge of any kind, not even that which we might have justly brought—the charge of supinely neglecting the advance of the formidable evil;; we merely inquired whether it was likely that Parliament would be expected to close the eye upon it? As to Lord Stanley's Bill, making even the ridiculously false admission that the treasonable movement is the effect of the Bill, still the Morning Chronicle can make nothing of the admission in reference to our question. If we are to accept the doctrines of the Morning Chronicle, Ministers are only to restrain sedition of their own making, or such as they, according to their own taste and judgment, do not alto • gether dislike : but such is not the doctrine of the British Constitution—by that Constitution Ministers are bound to protect the institutions of the country whenever threatened, or upon whatever provocation threatened. True it is that her Majesty's present advisers have a sufficiently heavy task in guarding against the con sequences of their own misconduct, and it is equally true that they have a direct and a vital interest in encouraging whatever may embarrass any mea sure that shall check the frauds, the corruptions, and the prejudices of Irish elections ; but it ought not to satisfy the nation to hear that Ministers are too busy in staving off the effect of their political crimes to give attention to an imminent peril, or too deeply interested in the collateral purpose of a sedition threatening the dismemberment of the em pire, to offer it to the notice of Parliament. What it concerns the nation to know is, not the origin, but the existence of the danger—not the bearing which that danger may have upon the interest of parties, but its tendency to the ruin of the empire itself ; and it any danger of great magnitude really threatens, it is surely the duly of the executive—all other considerations laid aside—to communicate the fact to the assembled Par liament. Will Ministers dare to do this, or will they dare to leave it undone ? ...--.'' KO •. i THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNF.SDAY,JANUARY 20, 1841 (From the courier.) The chief thing complained of as a monopoly is that of the coal trade ; and if there be one article more than another which ought to be brought free from all the charges incidental to such a state of things, to the door of the consumer, it certainly is coals. We have been blessed by Providence with extensive beds in differait parts of the country of the most beautiful coal ; th:a which lies under the counties of Durham and Northum berland being the acknowledged best. The insular posi tion of Great Britain brings with it humidity and togs, followed by catarrhs, rheumatism, and fever ; the best prevention, ho sever, to these complaints is the social habits of an Englishman's fireside, and where a good blazing coal fire can be procured the vice must be natural, and not acquired from ❑ecessity, that drives a person to the gin-shop. But in this immense metro polis, where the highest degree of luxury and the lowest depths of misery are equally to be found, coals, the ar ticle most essential, and indeed the very foundation of alt our comforts, is the very dearest we have to pur chase ; and this evil is made doubly severe by the cir cumstance that they are made dear, especially, to the metropolis. Take coals to any distant outport, the freight is no greater than in London, the charges less, and, in fact, they may be carried on to the West Indies and sold at the ordinary London price. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(TIIIS DAY.) (Continued from our First Edition.) THE QUEEN V. THE MOST NOBLE ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK had yesterday brought under the notice of Mr. Justice Williams a motion of rather an unusual nature, and had by him been re ferred to the full Court. It was an application for a writ of prohibition, directed to the authorities of the University of Oxford to restrain them from proceeding further in a suit instituted in that Court against the plaintiff in a certain case, and his attorney. He was sa tisfied that when the facts of the case came to be fully examined by the Court, although the application might be a novel one, their Lordships would be of opinion that the Chancellor's Court of Oxford, in order to relieve themselves of tile difficulty of claiming cognizance, had as sumed a jurisdiction to which they had no claim whatever. The affidavits disclosed 'that Mr. Taylor was employed by a tradesman named Barnes to commence an action against an undergraduate of Worcester College, Ox ford. On the 22d of February last he issued the writ, and on the 27th he was served with a process or citation from the Chancellor's Court of the University of Ox ford,to appear before the Vice-Chancellor of the Cour t on the 28th instant, to answer certain charges of having infringed the statutes and privileges of the College in having issued the writ. With great deference to the authorities of the College, although the noble and learned personage at its head knew nothing of the - matter, or much less than their Lordships at present did, he sub mitted that they had no jurisdiction whatever to take so extraordinary and unheard of a course. He (Sir F. Pollock) had had the honour of being for many years Commissary of the Chancellor's Court of Cambridge, and although the Court claimed jurisdiction in certain cases where one or both of the parties were members of the University they had never arrogated to themselvr s so extraordinary a power as the facts disclosed in the present case exhibited to their Lordships. Mr. Taylor did not appear, and he was ordered to stay all proceedings in the cause, and to pay the costs. A similar citation was served upon the plaintiff, who had actually been arrested under a warrant, and compelled to pay the money. There was at the present moment a warrant against Mr. Taylor to arrest him for the costs in the Chancellor's Court. He trusted the Court would not put Mr. Taylor to the cost and inconvenience of ap plying fora writ of habeas corpus, or of bringing an action for money had and received. He considered that al most as a right he was entitled to apply for prohibition, the Court certainly having no legal jurisdiction to take such a step. How could the Chancellor of the Uni versity of Oxford have any power to punish an attorney for merely discharging his duty in suing cut the regular process of a superior Court, the Court of Queen's Bench. He trusted, under these circumstances, the Court would grant him the rule. COURT—Take a rule. TDE QUEEN V. THE BRISTOL DOCK COMPANY. This was a mandamus directed to the defendants, and commanding they , ' to make certain repairs in a navigable cut or canal, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 43 G, o. 111., c. 140. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now submitted to the Court that the return made to the writ by the defend :,:nts was bad. The defendants were authorised under the pro:L!ions of the Act to make a new cut for the river Avon, and they were to keep the cut, with the banks thereof in proper repair. The mandatory part of the writ was to mend the banks of the new course, but to that they gave no direct answer—they merely referred to the depth and bottom of the new course and the inclination of the sides, which, they maintained, were in proper repair, and as nearly of the required width and slope as cireurnstances permitted. The gra vamen of the complaint was that the banks were out of repair, and no answer being given thereto, he sub mitted that the return was bad and insufficient, and that the peremptory mandamus must go. SIR F. PoLLocx, for the defendants, submitted that the Court was not in the habit of granting mandamuses whenever the party had any other specific remedy. In a case like the present, where there were merely re pairs to be done,. the proper course was to appeal to a Jury. Here the defendant had made a navigable canal or cut in lieu of the old one, and if any parties had suffered by that, they could indite the defendants. He submitted that they had done every thing required by the Act—that the return was a full and satisfactory answer to the mandamus, and therefore the rule ought to be discharged. The COURT said it did not appear from the argu ments that the return went a great way to answer the complaint, but it was a point requiring further consi. deration —Judgment deferred. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DA V. (Sittings in Banco.) HUMPHREYS V. O'CONNELL. This was an action upon a bill of exchange,' to the declaration in which the defendant had pleaded that th. bill in question had been given in consideration of two other bills of exchange which formed part of three bills given to cover certain monies lost at a certain game of chance called French Hazard ; they were given for an illegal consideration, and therefore the action could not be maintained. The plaintiff's replica tion was de injuria, to which the defendant speciallrdc in urred. Mr. Wir.us appeared in support of the demurrer, and cited a number of cases in order to show that the plaintiff had no right to recover upon bills given ler such a consideration. Mr. HENDERSON WAS about to argue on the other side when he was stopped by, The COURT, who said the rule of law did ndt apply in the present case. The defendant went too ,far, he denied his liability to any one. Judgment for the plaintiff. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT. BRIXHOLII V. 'WAGSTAFF. Mr. CHAD WICK JONES stated the plaintiff's case. It was an action for the recovery of the sum of 8/. for work and labour done. The defendant was an apothecary and druggist it Piccadilly, and engaged the plaintiff on the Ist of June last to serve as a dispenser in his shop, where he remained until the Bth of August, when Mr. Wagstaff dismissed hint with out a preliminary notice of one month, as was customary in such engagements. The plaintiff now sought to recover the sum of 8/. for wages during the time he was actually in the defendant's service, and a - further sum of 2!. on account of the month's notice to which he considered himself enti tled previous to a dismissal. The plaintiff was engaged at the rate of 32!. per annum, and 61. had been paid into Court by the defendant. Wi nesses having been examined to prove the compe tency of the plaintiff, and the rate of wages allowed to per sons in his capacity, Mr. PETERSDORFF, for the defendant, took an objection to the form in which the action was brought—the count being for work and labour done ; whereas, according to the plaintiff's own acknowledgment, and the evidence ad duced in support of his case, the whole amount set down in the writ as for work and labour done did not amount to 81., a portion of that sum being claimed on the grounds of a breach of contract. The Learned Counsel then quoted and commented on several precedents in support of his views. Mr. C. JONES having replied, The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Under- Sheriff, returned a verdict for the defendant. POLICE IN TEL LIGENC E. MANSION-HO USE. A young woman, named Ann Brown, was brought, in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged with having had in her possession a 401. note, which had been stolen in the house of a gentleman named Watkins, in Middleton square. Mr. Watkins' house had been, it appeared, entered by thieves at the roof, there being an empty house next door, by 'means of which, no doubt, facilities were ren dered to those who ventured, and plundered of a 501, a 401. note, and some railway shares. The p-operty had been deposited in a box, which was found on the parapet wall empty, and the thieves, who were disturbed by the appearance of a gentleman who resided in the house, and who arrived as they were carrying off the plunder, escaped. The woman at the bar took some goods out of pledge at the house of a pawnbroker named Perkins, with a bank-note for 401., and received 321. in chafige. The notes were stopped at the Bank and traced to the pri soner, who said that she got 101. from a gentleman she was in the habit of meeting, but whose house she did not know, for getting the note changed. Upon being asked whether she wished to say any thing, she replied that she had nothing to say. The prisoner was remanded for a week. EXPORTATION OF WINE FROM THE DOURO. - ~,,-. ~ ~ During the last year 34,1 901 pipes of,.i . „Whv)invp been exported the river Douro to thf,4z3iiirmiltioila pasts ; viz :-- ~ ,:k79. 4 4:trtt ".{l' Great Britain 1 1.1141 t i l ! 4 ' . Jersey and Guernsey ,<Srli ',;.fitGibraltar ;••sf!•i(1 i-.;,:i Canada 71..i13 s • ~ An: - I' Newfoundland / • ' Australia .... ..,— f ) ,2„42 Kingdom of Portugal ... ..!,....: 2Qil ,- r Azores Cape de Verds e* : -1 3 *' r ll Angola ' 004, ~ N i-iit Brazil Monte Video - •?, .. 9() 4- , i!)1 United States Denmark i , ' 1594 f ~ 7 Iceland , Prussia 'to - re:4 Sweden and Norway l5l-- Russia - H am burg h France Holland Genoa .. Spain 82}_. 3at NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Malta Times of the sth Instant.) The Britannia, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sic J. A. Ommanney, k• C. B.), Captain Drake. and the Howe, 120, Captain Sir NV. 0. Pell, proceeded thia morn ing for Marraorice IJay, where Admiral Ommanney will relieve Sir Robert Stopford. The Castor, 36, First Lieutenant Patey, in temporary , command, proceeded also this morning for Marmorice Way. Lieutenant Bouverie goes passenger by her to. join, the Vanguard. The Acheron steam-packet, Lieutenant Commander. Kennedy, proceeded to Marseilles on the afternoon orthe 28th ult. with that portion of the India mail specially de spatched via France. The Great Liverpool steam-packet ship arrived in.pdrt on the 28th from Alexandria, and proceeded on the follow.: ing morning with mails and passengers for Gibraltar and England. The City of Dublin, Peninsular, and Oriental Coin pany's steam-packet, arrived here on the 29th ult:, from the lonian Hands and Greece. It is not expected that she will return with the next mails, having to undergo some repairs. The Mcgrara steam•packet, it is probable, will take the despatches and letters for. the flet 'coming in the London mail of the 12th, expected. byilut - AteCto, from Gibraltar. The Stromboli steam-frigate is expected every hour from Constantinople and Marmorice, with the result of Captain Fanshawe's mission to the Porte. The Daphne corvette is expected with a freight of specie from the coast of Syria. - The Pique, Wasp, and Medea, are proceeding with their repairs. The Carysfort was lying in the harbour of Alexandria on the 24th ult. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and family, and Captain Gordon, R. N., arrived at Corfu on the 14th ult., from Scio and Syra. Major-General Sir C. F. Smith, R. E., arrived here f.om Alexandria on the 28th ult., and proceeded to Etig land on the followin g day in th e G reat Li verpoo l steam ship. He is succeeded in the command of the allied forces in Syria by Major-General Mitchell. Arrived at Malta, on the 31st of December, 1840, the Cornwall transport, No. 3, Lieut. J. R. Black, R. N.; agent in charge ; J. Young, Master. The Cornwall brought 14 officers and 420 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 88th Regiment of Foot, under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel O'Hara, with a detachment of 16 men belonging to the 47th Regiment. THESPITALFIELDS SILKWEA VERB.—L' STA BLISIIMEN7' OF A SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL DESIGN.—OA Monday a meeting of some of the most eminent of the silk manufacturers, and of the most skilful of the journeymeo silkweavers was held at AR Saints' National Schoolroom, Spicer -street, for the purpose of " appointing a Commit tee to superintend the school of design which is about to be established in Spitalfields." There were present Messrs. Gibson, Soper, Robinson, Ilsrrisson, &c., silk. manuf cturers, and eighteen of the Committee of Journeymen, who have united for the purpose of forming a pictorial and emblematical specimen of the art of silk weaving, which is to be offered for her Majesty's accep tance, and which will cost many hundreds of pounds. It was stated that the funds for the support of the school would be in part granted by the council of the central school at Somerset House. Mr. Robinson then moved the following resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting it is highly expedient to establish a school of design in this neighbourhood, to co-operate with the central school at Somerset House; and that a Commit tce consisting of manufacturers and journeymen, be formed to carry the object into effect." This being se conded was carried unanimously. The Committee was next formed, consisting of ten manufacturers and ten jour neymen. The manufacturers were--Messrs. Gibson, Moore, Soper, Robinson, Harrisson, Brydges, Sanderson, Veneer, Kemp, and Casey. Mr. Robert Hanbury was appointed treasurer, the Rev. Henry Taylor sub-treasurer, and Mr. A. Dear secretary. At the conclusion of the procordings the pictorial and emblematical design, which intended to be formed into a piece of workmanship entirely of silk, was exhibited. In it were represented her Majesty seated, and Prince Albert standing on her right. The profiles of Nelson, Howe, Wellington, Moore, &c , were on each side of the picture. The design was admired by the manufacturers present ; and it was ob,erved by one that when finished it would astonish the silk-manufacture rs of Lyons. 'I hanks were voted to the Chairman, who briefly replied. MENDICITY IN PA RIS.—A society for the suppression of rnendieity has just been founded in Paris, under the Presidency of the Duke de Fezensac, and the Council of Directors held its first meeting on Thursday evening, at the residence of the Minister of Justice, one of the Vice- Presidents. AMERICAN SINGING. " The Old Water Mill," by Russell, is published by Prentiss. When it is properly sung you can hear the water fall and the mill ni ov e. —Boston Post. QUICK SAILING.—The Scottish Maid, Wat son, made her passage from Aberdeen to London, last voyage, in 57 hours. Left London again on the 9th curt., arid arrived at Aberdeen on the 11th PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &a. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 19. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 112 ,482 41. Ashby-de.le-Zeuch Average 1131.5 h. 72 ~0 1 10 Basingstoke... lool.sh. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny' l5Ol. sh. 93 2:,(:601-16th. 110/. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....811. & 711. 2.01 4,900 Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l 9 9l. 0.100 pd 26 60 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/.sh. all pd - 100 5/. Chelmer and Blackwater 100!. sh . 101 500 321. Caventry ' 00/,s h. COO Croydon. 4verage3ll.2s.lod. sh. - 060 51. Os, Dudley ... 1001. sh. 97 600 131. Derby lOOl. sh . 100 20,003 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4a .pd 245 i, 3.575] 4' Ellesmoreand Chester Aeciegel33:.sh. 111 231 621 Erewasn lOOl.BO. 750 1,297 301. Forth rand Clyde.... Average 44101.165. it, 62 0 11,0G0 8/. Grand Junction 1001.8 n 142 2,849} 255. Grand Union lool.sh . 2 , 1 1,500 ......... Grand 5urrey............ 1001. sh. 15 1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001 3 096 600 131. I2s. 83 . Glainorganshire, Aver. cost 1791.133.4 d. `1:-0 749 191. Granthvo lsol.sh, it" 6,238 2/. Oa. IluddettAald Average 511. Os. H. sir 27 100 Kciisingtoa lOO sh. all pd 10 2\128 1/.los. Kennet end Avon, Av. 39/.lBs. 10:1. sh 25 11,699; 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. Sd 2:% • 2,897 . e 30/. Leeds and Liverpool lOOl. n 1) 760 545: 151. Leicester 140/.0 146 1,897 5/.05. Leicester & Nort la ampton Av er 831.10 '73% 2.400 10/ Monmouthshire lOOl.Bl 2 0 0 150 101. Melton Mowbray • 1081 811 20C, COO 95/. Mersey and Irwell IOW. sh. 585 3,093 21. 10s. Macclesfield lou/. sh. all p 1 34% 287 171. Neath :ON sh. 323 2,400 51. Peak Forest Avet.ge about 781. sh. 75 21,418 ',',;. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. sh. 10 1 , 4 ',Mil) 6/. p.'r cent. rloclidale Average 35/.sh. 85 500 81. Shropshire 800 10/.os. Somerset Coal lsol.sh, 18. i 3,6001. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock . ,1 los. sh. 11yi 700 3CI. Staffbrd and Worcester. 140/.sh. 650 500 151 Shrewsbury . 1251. oh. ISO 300 91. Stourbridgel ~, 1451.5 h. 396 3,847 21. Os. Stratford-on. Avoi. A eer....791. W. W. sh. 41 533 1911 Swansea 1,762 2/. 81. Severn and Wyc and Railway Av. 35/. sh. 45 /401; so. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share lOO/. sh. 590 8,149 t oooas h.l .000 sh. 16!. IV Warwick and riniv.gham lool.sn 245 j 980 131 Warwick and ',law.," 100/. sh . 175 7,000 41 . Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 563{ 5.000 325. Wilts and Berk: Average 67/. 108 Bd. sh. 27 no 6.. Wyitev anti tseington 1951. sh '74 .26 IN:eneacn 905 11. Wey and Arun llOl. en. 22 DOCKS. ''''')" 1 3o c. Commerc al lOOl. sh. 65 1,065;5h. e East and West India Stock 99 1,238,310:1. 60s. p.ct. London Stock 69 Ditto Bonds 2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14 - 7.95, sh, 75 69,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lfiS 2.52,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 99% 500,000 4; per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 0 01. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. ,600 10s. Hammersin 31 5O/. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old ...... ...Av. 83/.23 83. sh. 2% 1.700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of if per cent., 50/.sh. 13 J,OOO Waterloo 100/. sh. 3 0,000 2.35. 03. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 60/. p , ..1 9t ”e 5,000 19s. 34, Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4O/. pd 18 1 4 10,0001 51. nor cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 `l6s Vauxhall ......„„Average 701. 10s. 3d. t h 2 6 ,, ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 9,000 3! lOs Albion 5001..8, 501. p 3 73 00,000 1 6 rn e c r i I SZ t 'i Ailianceßritish & Foreignloo/. eh. 111. pd 14 ;0,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51,4 4,0110 41. per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14)4 1,900 ;sh. 5/. Birmingham l. ire .50/. sh. 55/. pd 1073% '20,000 41. per cent. British Eire .50/. sh. 5(11. pd 40 19,000 6/ percent. British Commercial 5O/. O. 51. pd 531 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical & liledierl Lite, 1601. sh. 2110 s pd ; 1 1 4,000 3/ Os County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd If 20,'00 es. Eagle 501. sh. 5/. pd 5% ~,,, r 5 per cent. l Economic Life 1000/. oh. 250/ . p d 406 "''' j and 30/ bs. 2,971 221. percent. European Li, • 201. ,h. all p 3 22 5:1,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd 12e ,000,000/. 61. per ct Globe Stock 122 .... 2 , 1,000 1. Guardian 3,1,000 5. tie. Hope 8,400 5/. 7s. (30. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 135 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,452 5/. par cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 8/. pd 30 2,080 31 lOs Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all od 92 3/. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,900 Ifis. Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 2031 5,000 10s. London, Fire '2s/. sh. NI. 10s. pd 1834 :3,900 lOs. London, Ship .5/. sh. 18/. 10s. pd 18% 1.000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Lite 100/. s h. :o,oooe - ........ 21.55. pd 3 eO,OOO 5/. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. sh. 21. pd '2l 6s 50,000 44 per cent. Protector Fire POl. sh. 21. pd 18s 0.1 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....11,04 sh. 5/. pd 5% e,500 14 Provetent Lite lOOl. sh. 101. pd 20 2 ire, ilOO 7s. Rock Li fe 5l. pd en, e 9,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 200 6,609 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 514 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 71,4 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of I relenols/. sh. 10/. pd 5,0(5) 6 per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 401. pd 54% 10,,e10 10 percent. Bank of Bit sningham 501. sh. 10/. pd 10%, ,0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 504 sh. 10/. lid 23 0 , 34,000' 6 per cent. London & Westminster 100/ sh. 251. pd 241,4 e'to,ooo , N. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 104 pd 13 . .1„1100, 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO/. sh. 20/. pd 30 e . ;, f i n ve . pd 10%, 1001 sh. 101. pd 21% t/ 4.1 le percent, Manchester and Liver '.... !le 1, ' pool Distriet... ......... ...} s°l-sh • 151 , • d 7 per cast. Manchester lool.Bh. 25/. pd 417' t, Provincial Bank of I relandi 00i. sh. 25/. pd 43% 11el40 - e , 5I er cent. National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 174/. pd it, ..144 000,r 5 per cent. National Provi , ,cial Eng.loo4 sh. 351. pd 35 '114160'!. 40,'09t1 * -- 11 o,ol l os'. leper cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 9 .ree.e '; - G AS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2'500, 16s 00 Bath 20/. sh. 101. pd 22 '''''' l ) ' O ' British 4Ol. sh. 161. tel 18 1 ,, i' .. r; :gh ee cr 5/.per cent 1 Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 1.94 pd 25 Aand Rs. (is. qeEl 5! lOs Birmingham 501. sh. 96 , 1 teeso '2l Os Bristol "01. sh. 36 iii Atleli) • 31 103 Brighton 2O/. sh. 14 ...,, „Thee.. SI lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 101. pd 9 2,471: 41 per cent. Brighton General .0/, sh, all pd 9 , e 4;000-- 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. 6211. pd 110 i i },008: 10/. City 01 London.. ....... lOO/. sh. all pd 195 ~ ,1,000 , 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 75/. pd 150 • 4,000 31.05. Equitable 5O/. pd 20 . yoxy 21 per cent. Imperial 504 sh. es SOO 5/. per cent. Isle nt Thanet 25/. sh. 20!. pd 1..% * ' 2,2:50 . 01. per cent. Independent 30/. sh. all r., 49 I;eoeCt''4/. per cant. Phoenix 5O/. sh 39/. pd 34 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff lOO/. sh. 804 pd 63 4,000, South Metropolitan .........501. sh. 191. lid 17 vino 4/.per cent. United General 50/. sh. 47/. pd 3331 • 240 st. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sir. 50 400 54 per cent Wakefield 2,000. 1. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. sh. 59 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 511. sh 10/. pd 1115 750 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 18/. pd WATER worm 1,800 10s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 22 4,434 71. East London 100/. sh. 170 5,500 2/ I ss. Grand Junction Average 41/ Its. 40. sh. 65 1.001) 24 Kent 1004 sh. 4531 . 372 104 Liverpool !tootle c2Ol. sh. 3243 1,500 2 /10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 6(1 6,486 • 21 lOs Manchester and Salford 109/. sh. 55 . 1,000 4 per cont. South London lOO/. sh. 104% 8,294 444 West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 101 1,360 1114 s York Building f,o. Lessee Prop. 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. - c,300 Birmingham and Derby ...- lOO/ pd 70% o,seo I 15, 5 10 0 .... ..... Bristol and Exeter lOOl. sh. Gil pd So 7500 Cheltenham &G. Western 1001. sh. 62 e 1 3!14 2,009 Clarence 1004 sh. 100! IA 25 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda lOW. sh. 5/, pd vielOti Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 23/. pd 8% 10,00 Great North of England 1001. sh. '7oi. pd 5131 10 ; 018 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOO4 sh. all pd 213 25,00 e Great Western IN/. sh. 651. Fri 8331 re 410 ... ...... Ditto New 50/. sh. t.Ol. pd 6334 3,000 per cant Gosport Junction 504 sh. 351. pd 40% 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 14531 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 50/, pd 42% 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 05% 5.102 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 1.0(45h. 1004 pd 195 70)9 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd $7 1 4 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares .5/. pd 45 30,, Bjo . ......... London and Brighton 501. sh. 50/ pd 43% 94e100 London and Blackwell 25/. sh. 2241. pd 1834 0,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -20/. 5' , .. 1 111. pd 834 e 5,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 115411. sh. M. lei 175 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 5/. pd 27 34 :i1;250 DA o New Shares 321. sh. 2-1. pd 41) 30,01,0 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 38/, 17s. ed. 51 31 33,000 London and Croydon/ A. 13/. 15s. ed. 1244 Ditto New Scrip..., A. 12% Manchester and Leeds-1004 sh. 704 pd h 0 3,4 Ditto Half Shares 5O/. e 5/. lei 3131 Manchester and Birmingham 704 sh. 40/. .25 s, 1/itto Extension 7l. lel 3 Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 10,b/. pd 84 - North Midland Ditto New 40/. ed 4034 5 128 Northern and Eastern.... GO/. sh 301. pd 27 1, , 600 Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. 31 1 4 pd 26 ase,ooo ' ......... South Eastern and Dover 10130 10/. per cent. Stockton Ants Darlington ...... ION, sh. 275 9,0011 Thames Haven 50/. sh 51. pd 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 504 pd 71 MINES. ' 8,000 ......... Albion Copper 5/. s' , 211. pd 12 4,000 11. ss. Alton l5l. sh. 121. it spd 10 woo ~..•... Augur alexicaness. 5/. pm.loo/. sh. a , *i d 134 Ditto Subscription ... ......... ......254 lei 131 e 000 in/. Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 3s , 10,(000 14 lOs Brazilratamp. iss. 51. prn...25/. sh. '2Ol. pd 12 Q,OOO Macaubas & Cocaes United 2.51.5h.25/. pd 15 I,tion Ditto St. John Del Rey -.204 sh. 11/ pd 23 4 tCI,OOO Bolivar Copper Company. 204 sh. 20/. pd 1 10,000 Ditto Scrip lO4 sh. 10/. pd 2 20100 ... ...... British hoc . 50/. sli. 55/ pd 1 ,000 * C tti Br arca 63/. pd kiN Candonga .., i(1,I MI) 1 ' Copiapo .... . 2O/. sit. 13/. p. 4 10 B,e , 10 ... Coliorthlan, iss. 5.. pin. -554 sh. 55/. pd (i3,i 2,89) 31. English 113000 General Mining Association2o/. A. 184 pd 3 6,165 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 574/ pd 6 3,000 Polberou Consols lO/. sh. 81. pet 4 11,a00 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2% Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 ever) ...... . e United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40/. sh. all pd 244 DAR, Scrip 3 e, Ditto New Scrip 51 pd 5 1 4 West Cork 5O/. sh 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. If; 1,500 London University 1311!. sh. all pd 8 ;Oa King' College lOO/. 1931 MISCELLANEOUS. if •' r lss. Australian Aericultural.loo/4sh. 28/. pd 3734 ), 6j e, 4 per cent. British American Land Company 234 pd 10 1N 10,00 , i. per cent. Canada Company lOOl. sh. 30/. pd 3 110,0(e: 5/. per cent. Upper Cariaa Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO% 20,000 IL O s. General Steam Navigation 15/. di. 14/. pd 25l Hudson's,. Bay Stock ,0044 101. per cent. 14 London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sli. 19 C a outchouc Company 1241 . pd 12 B ' o4* ......... New Brunswick Land Compaloye„,k pa 12 2,154 5 ,. p, cent. Reversionary Int 50c...1001. sh, 100/. pd 110 .) 633 5/, per cent. Ditto ,New 1004 sit. 100/. p d 117 " Thames Tunnel 4,' 000 ..50/. sh. all es l 10% (4000 ~ Van Die.ner.'s Land.... 100/. s h. 1 7 - - - - in,noo i 3,000 loom ,1 ...... 15,000 ......... Pa LIST of SCO7'7ISH COMPANIES' PRICES JAN. 16, 1841, BANKS. 000 „ mi. 6/, P. ct. Bank 01 Scotland ...831. 6s . Bd. s h . a ll p d 102 , 1000 , 00 e/. 6 p. ct. Itcyal of Sco tland 100/. sh. all pd 155 ' 50 0 . 0001. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company IOUs!), all pd 2:29 50 0,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial .............. .5001. sh. 1001. pd 174% 500,0001. ct. National loe/ sh. 101. pd 14.; 500,000/. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/, sh. 50/. pd 8014 1,000,0n01. 6p. ct. Western 01 Scotland 2001. sh 401. pd 72!,, . ,_. INSURANCE COMPANIES.T ty;,ooosh. lli p. et. Scottish Umon "01. sh. It. pd 25slid. 7,5n0 7p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 121, !KO° sp. et. insurance Co. of SeetlAnd .10/.sh. all pd tN 55,1100 Bp. et. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 183‘, 1,000 Bp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20 5,1;00 fi ). et. Edi n b urg h I,.' e 100/. sh. 10/. pd 1 I ', 7 4 100,000 Sk p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4818 ..... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. an pd 10 Ditto Allocatodp 96/. sh. all pd 47 5,40( S per cent. Edna:. Joint Stack Water 25/. sh..all pd 35 2. 1 11'10) :5 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundct v 50/. sh 4st. pd 53 ), 1 90 3 per mot. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/.sh. 161. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 9.54 sh. all pd 50 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 52 '75” 71 per cent. ' Coal Gas 2O/..h. all pd 51% 1,200 'Edinburgh and Dalkon h rlai!way 50/. sh 56 ESTABLISHMENT of LIBRARIES IN THE METROPOLITAN PoucE.—Some of the officers of the me tropolitan police have established a library in their respec tive divisions for the use and instruction of their men when off duty ; the example was set by Mr. Grimwood, the su perintendent of the E division, and from a catalogue just now published, it appears that the said library consists of 290 volumes, comprising some of the vcty best works ex tant. The praiseworthy exertions of the conductors have attracted the notice of private individuals, wuo, in the ono division referred to, have made gratuities to the amount of upwards of 2QI. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--fhe Victor, of and from Liver pool, 15th itlstant, lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Freedom, Cox, arrived at Falmouth. Ann, Newport to Barcelona, 26th ultimo, off Cape de Gatt, by the British Queen, arrived at Portsmouth. Ant► Lockerby, 25th ultimo, off the Western Islands; Akbar, Mauritius to Greenock, on the Equator, 10n.,20, by the Malabar, Southward, arrived at rookhaven. Coquette, Dublin to Cadiz, lat. 14, lon. 7, by the Earl Grey, Douglas. George Washington and Iris, London to Havannah, by the Demades, Perouett, arrived at Hull. Sicily, Martin, London to Greenock, with loss of stern boat and cook house, and supplied tsith bread and potatoes, 6th instant, lat. 43, lon. 10, by the Lady of the Isle, arrived at Waterford. Gazelle, of and from Dundee; `out fourteen days, lat. 33 N, lon. 20, by the Pomona, Apslett, wrecked off the Smalls. Majestic, Clyde to Barcelona, B.h instant, lat. 45, lon. 9, by the Eilcn, arrived in the Downs. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Vulcan, Patrick, from Mauritius, in the river, sailed 18th October; Rajah, Ferguson, from Lombock, et Cowes, sailed 20th August, Mauritius 27th September, Cape 25th October, St. Helena 14th Nov. ; Eleanor LAr.caster, Cowley, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Bth September, St.' Helena 20th Nov. ; Malabar, Southward, from !Igloo!, at Crooksbaven, sailed 30th August, St. Helena 20th Nov. ; Mary Hartley, Webb, from Manri tins at Liverpool, sailed 17th October, St. Helena 20:h Nov. ; Ann, J,ffray, from Bombay at Greenock, sailed 231 August, St. Helena 7th Nov. ; Akbar, Arkley, from Alburitius at Greenock, sailed 17th October. Arrival at Madeira—Margaret Hardie, Martin, Dec. 26. from the Clyde, and sailed fr:r the Cape of Good Ilope. Arrivals at Santa Cruz —Parkfield, Whiteside, Dec. 20, from London—sailed the 24th to Australind. Arrivals at Mauritius.—The Marion. Rose, Oct. 14. from Glasgow; Newburn, Adams, Marseilles; Spinuel Baker, Wild, 15th, from the Cape ; Sir Archibald Camp bell, Hancock, 15th, from Calcutta; Sir Wm. Heaiticote, Munson,i 17th, from Algoa Bay ; Adolphe Fanny, Bonnet, 17th, from Bordeaux. Departure from Alauritius.—The Vigilant, Walton, Oct. 16, for Bourbon. Arrivals at Macao.—Fort William, Hogg, Oct. 12, from Bombay ; Moira, Owen, Calcutta. Arrivals at Manilla.—The Louisa Campbell, Darby, Aug. 2, from New South Wales; Lord Goderich, Kay, from Port Philip, and loading for London ; Isabel', 2d, from Santander. MARKET IN TELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of January 19. ) &CAR. -There has been an excellent demand front the grocers for mid good and fine yellow descriptions, which have brought an advance on former rates cf is per cwt, the supply being rather small : brown and low yellow sorts cannot be quoted higher, still a fair inquiry has existed. From the refiners there has been a good demand, and rather higher rates have 'been paid for strong sorts. Jamaica, fine yellow has been disposed of at 83s to 345, low and good 72s to 805; Trinidad good brown 693 to 71s ; Antigua good and fine yellow 80s to 83a, middling and good middling 73s to 795; Grenada and Dominica good middling and good 77s to 795; Demerara and Berbice very dark greyish brown with some heavy samples amongst them 64s to 655, good and fine 69a to 71s, low middling yellow 72s to 73s per cwt. To-day the West India market presented a firm appear. ance, from both grocers and refiners ; there was a brisk de mand for strong grey, and colory descriptions, which brought prices in some cases rather above those of Friday, and the operations would have been to a greater extent if the market . had been better supplied; for soft and brown sorts there was not much inquiry, still a fair sale was experienced for such, and former rater) were fully supported. The purchases amount to 700 hods and tree, including a public sale of 78 lids Barbadocs, which went briskly, establishing an advance on the rates of the last auction of 2s to 2s 6d per cwt-good and fine yellow fetched 82s to 84s, good middling 81s to 81, 6i! per cwt. REFINED.-For Refined Goods rather higher rates have been paid for the better descriptions. Standard Lumps at 93s ; Tittlers and timbres Loaves, good 94s to 965, fine 97s to 995; brown Lumps, fine 91s 6d to 92e, good 90s to 91s, ordinary 88s to 89s per cwt. Treacle, com mon in small parcels has been selling at 365, patent 37s to 38s, best old make 41s to 425, golden syrup, 42s 6d to 43e. Pieces have improved ; fine sorts at 82s to 86s, good 793 to 61s, middling 77s to 78s, ord 751 to 765. Bastards of common descriptions as low as 49s to 50s, but the better kinds have brought full prices ; middling and good descriptions at 56s to 675, fine 6is to 70a per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 6d to 32s 9d for first qua lity. For Loaves prices are firm ; 14lbs have been dis posed of at 375, 10lbs 37s 6d to 38s, and 61bs 403 to 41e. Treacle at 14s 9d to 15s. Bastards 16s to 193, and Pieces 20s to 255. Dutch Crushed Sugar on board 31s. To-day Refined Goods were in steady request for Ironic use, and prices firm ; Standard Lumps at 93r. In 'Treacle not much was transacted, but no further variation in the value occurred. Bastards and Pieces were in brisk re quest, and the rates quoted above fully supported. For bonded Crushed Sugar the demand was dull, at 323 3d to 32s 6d per ctvt. Mauemus.--This afternoon a good demand prevailed, especially for colory descriptions; 694 bags ware offered at public sale, and sold at former prices, middling brown fetched 57s 6d, - low and middling yellow 73s 6.1 to 77s 611 per cwt. - EAST INDIA.-This afternoon an excellent demand pre vailed for Bengal ; 5,500 bags 10 cases were submitted to public competition, and all disposed of with fair spirit at full market rates, fine white fetched 85s to 85s 6d, mid dling and good'B3s to 84s 6d, low middling 81s 6(.1 to 82s, strong chrystalized yellow Bls 6d to 83s 6d, brown bis to 585, damps anal washed of various kinds 803 6:1 to 84s per cwt. FOREIGN.-Yellow Havannah at rather higher rates, 24s for middling quality ; Cuba, imported from Jamaica, fetched 22s 6d to 23e 61 for middling yellow Muscovado, the re mainder 223 6d, to 24s 6d for mid and good clayed yellow, and one lot fine.2ss per cwt. In white prices do not give way. Porto Rico at 23s to 23s 6d for good middling greyish yellow. Come.-The transactions in clean descriptions of British Plantation have been on a more extended scale, and by private treaty a fair business has been done at full former rates; only 10 casks ordinary have been put up at auction and sold at 70s to 755, but unclean sorts aro totally neglected. This aftern‘an the home trade were more on the alert, pribes were firm, and a fair demand pre vailed for most descriptions of both East and West India ; the public sales comprised 136 casks 12 bags British Plantation, 304 bags East India, 42 bags Ceylon, and 600 bales Mocha; of the B. P. 110 casks consistedad Berbice of the new crop, well adapted far the home ,trade, it sold at full prices, viz, at 1063 to 112 s for mid and good mid, triage 101 s, a few lots coloury unclean were however taken in at 903, few casks good land fine clean middling Jamaica fetched the high rates of 133 s to 1445. East India fetched the full value-viz. faie:mixed Java 51s to 535, ordinary Padang 41s to 425, Pale Cherebon 44s 6d, Ceylon 741 6ut for fine ordinary. Mocha taken in at 115 s for fair br o wni s h mixed being nbeve the value, damaged, however, sold at 102 s to 1059 per cwt. TEA.-There has been a much better demand for Free Trade since this day week, the last considerable reduction in prices having caused buyers to be desirous to get into - stock, and a good deal of business has been done in cash parcels to supply both town and country orders, but scarcely any improvement in prices has taken place since Tuesday, many parcels being offering for sale. The public sales which took place to-day were looked forward to with much anxiety by all parties connected with the article, and there was a large muster of the trade present from both town and country ; the quantity offered amounted to 8,653 packa4es, 5,469 consisted of Congou, arid the remainder of various descriptions, but the trade were less inclined to do business ; the sale opened with little desire on tlieir part to purchase, although the mer chants were dispoSed to accept the rates previously esta blished, and the biddings throughout the sales were very languid, not above 3,500 packages were actually disposed of, but former - prices were maintained ; Congou fah: blackish leaf went at is 71el to Is 6d, good is Bi•d to 1s 10d ; Twankay, fair Is lid to is 8d per lb. The specu lative market closed quiet ; Company's Congou Is 61c1 cash. This afternoon the public• sales consisted of 370 cases Cassia Lignea, 6,,659 bags Pepper, and 60 bags Pimento; Cassia soli briskly, is to 2s above former rates. good mid dling bright fetched 90s 6d 91s 6d, ord coarse 83s to 84s 6d, damaged 83s to 87s. Pepper was only partially sold, but prices were supported, ordinary light Sumatra fetched 31,d, fair 31c1 to 3,id ; Malabar light and half heavy aid to 4d. Pimento 3id for middling, being the full value. FRUlT.—There have been several arrivals. The business done was partial, the importers continue to farce sales of Turkey Figs., especially those parcels in bad condition ; a public sale has been attempted consisting of French Fruit, Lipari Currants,. and damaged Valencia and Denia Rai. sins, a very thin attendance, and nothing appeared to have been sold. RlCE.—Former rates have been fully maintained for Bengal. Carolina has been in good demand for home use at 345 to 365. This afternoon Tess demand existed for East India, but prices were firm ; 2,849 bags Bengal, and 1,423 bags Ma. Bras were offered at auction ; the former was taken in at the full value, viz., good middling white at 14s to 15s, the latter was principally bought in at 103 to 12s 6d for low yellowish to good white, being full prices. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been a fair demand for Jamaica Rum, and 150 puns have been disposed of. since this day week at full prices; fine sorts arc much wani.cd, but of such the supply is small. Leevvards have maintained former rates, and a steady demand has existed ; the sales Lave amoun!cd to 300 puns, proofs at 2s 9id, 2 to 10 overproof 2s 10d to 3s ld, 12 to 15 over 3s 2d to 3s 3d, 29 to 36 over 5s 2d to 5s 6d. East India has been only in limited request, and prices gave way id; 100 !Aids Calcutta have been sold at 28 ld, proof strength. Brandy has been in fair request, and prices have assumed an upward tendency ; sales in Cognac first brands of the vin ta, a of 1836 have been made at as 3d to 5s 5d in hlds and puns ; ditto .1837, 5s 1 d to 5s 3d ; ditto 1838, 4s lld to 5s ld ; ditto 1t439, 4s 9d to 4s lld ; the yin. tage of 1840 may however be purch.ssed at as Di in lihds irid 3s 7d in puns, being the former value. Geneva has been in steady demand, and prices have improved, 21 2,1 paid for shipping quality, and 2s 7d to 2s 8d forfin4 for home use. British Corn Spirits have been in goqd request. t 108 cash. INDlOO.—The quarterly gale of Fast India commenced this day in the presence of a large attendance of the home trade. 662 chests have passed the sale, they sold with fail spirit at from October price to 4d advance. o iLs .— In the early part of last week the market for„, common descriptions of s Fish Oils presented a quiet aspect. •he lea two days i fair demand has prevailed principally from the home trade, pale Seal at 331, yellow and brown ti to 301; Cod 271105, Southern ordinary 251 Igs. EVENING EDITION and fine 261 15s to 291103; for Sperm prices all, the decline, 1051 is the value of first quality; Prices declined for Linseed Oil on the spot to 27s 3d to 27s For delivery in the next two or three months 28s to 2 " nd cwt ; for Rape, prices had an upward tends 74 Pale is worth 46s to 46s 6d, Brown 45s to 45s 6d* 0 East India Cocoa Nut Oil, 38, i s th e neares t quotatitj first quality. Prices are o n th e a d vance f or Olive ; Sr' 621 per tun. A kr TALLOW.—There has been only a li m i te d dercan- id o Russian Tallow on the spot since this day week, have accepted 46s to 46s 3d for P. Y. Candle, being a tion on former rates of 9d per cwt. For delivery price s io fallen to 46s 3d to 46s 6d for the n ex t two or t o months. South American 38s to 45s 6d for low di r 'of good bright quality. Town Tallow lower. 1 .0411 P. Y. Candle the nearest price on the spot was Os delivery 46s 3d but few buyers. IRISH MARKETS. Lll OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ending: Averw From To 763 Wheat,per barrel Vt. stone.... 26 0 37 0 4'.6 Bere...-- l6 stone l2 0 13 0 529 Barley t '25 Oats is stc-hc5...... 10 0 12 0 0 Flour, per cwt. .. ! , I stone.... 0 U 12 i 312 0atmea1..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 8 stone.... 11 0 H 6 Sold to Bakers only. di 1 11,613 Cwt. Hour ....... ........ . lO 0 25 0 Average price of Vl, heat ana 'lour 51 81. per 10,0 c pd i • Fino ..... ...... from 21.5. (kl to Y i l i stt Receipts of Flour, 9 ' 65. " / tjecon.ts . - . from It-s. Cd. to .. , e , IS S.do. of Do. 11,3Y7 ... , retruA ..::::. from 10,.. Od. to " YItICI Or BREAM Quarterr, I.oat 9d. i halt Quarter,' CORN MARKETS—Jas. 16 Wheat (per 1.104.)25s (M. t 3ls. 61. vats (per 14st. 10 6d. 10 g fln I ley (per 16st.)1:1 6 14 6 Flot , r (per cwt , II Oatmeal (per ..... Od to 16s trd ;leer; 4d. to 7d.—Muttoo, M. to 6.l—Veal, 4.1 to fd Pork, 41,1. to 5d.--Fresh Butter, lhd. to ltd per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the M • Coo ul To the Merchants. To the , - 96 . First Quality... ....... Second 'hird Fourth Fifth Sixth 79 CLONMELL 41 A fiKETS.Jart. 10 Per Cwt. 6 s. d. s. d. s d. New Butter ...... oto 90 0 Hides t- lA , Oatmeal 12 0 12 3 Bacon Pigs ...... Rendered Lard 0 52 9 Per Bag. ytl ll flour, Second 0 44 i r tour, —Household P 42 0 1-- Fuunns..... 22 0 Per Barrel. 3apeseed 20 0 0I ' litre 8 4 10 0 1 j Barlizy .„13 ~ t. , ' , Gals ...Pm... ..... ...... v KILKENNY MA RKE I Wi,cat,per barrel)3os Od. to 375. Ott. Beef ;net lS. lh, 03. 0% ! Flar , cy "0 0 22 0 Morten 0 5 0 ; 'vats Ps 6 14 6 pork tj 4 0 Flour (per bag) 3C 0 40 0 Veal 6 „ 11 Buttcr(percwt.) 90 0 4. 0 eresb Butter Bacon Pigs 35 0 36 0 S a l t Di t t o 6 u 0u 1 Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes per st,l U 2 LIVERPOOL RACES, 1841.—The entri e ; principal stakes at the above meeting have just closed' dl being now pretty generally known to the cognoscen,t l o hardly necessary for us to expatiate on the good tb Id ullo store, further than to express our decided opinion list is one that may vie with any other in th e kingle tl d in our local racing annals quite unprecede n t e d. Liverpool may venture to take first rank as a P r° " l 4o , arena of turf prcceedings—whetber we consider Sb e sp ol lity of the sport, or the noble piece of ground se t , Ili for the purpose—yet we c a nn o t w ithh o ld t he fae lo Oi the modicum of support extended towards it is far , of° what we sjmetimes m ee t w i t h a t tur f gat h e ring.; p$ much less attractive character. H owever , l e t Sh i bl eir for the 'mew.% and look forward w ith h o p e to e goi l state of affairs. The forthcoming July Races,. 41 0 , the weather prove favourable, w ill, we think, ast°',e proprietors a tolerable es ti ma t e o f w h at d egree Of S ,'dL,„" ~1 may be expected in time to c ome , as %be ll a s 8 which to direct their f u t uie e ff orts i n catering i-cs" amusement of the " Dicky Sams." T oo muc h Pre o ci l ' not be bestowed upon the Committee of Nlallage.oo The new rules are judici o usly f r a me d. P unc tualiti l ti ,l o time of starting was a consummation d e vouSli j oi wished." The various impro v e men t s e ff ecte d in an d ro f the Grand Stand, as well as the approaches to Sb, e to ground, have also been universally acknowl(dgee hi tlY most successful in their operation. L e t us hope next July Meeting may not lack that d egree of en c° „ o oi; mont which it so richly deserves at the hands of ar' n e in general, but more particularly fr om t h e inhabit' the " good old town."—Liverpool Chronicle. c oil NORWICII.—T RIBUTE TO R. M. n'ticeti ESQ.—The many yea rs d evote d to t h e pu blic se r „ - de the Editor of the Norteich Mercury, his unflinchiegose cacy of Liberal principles, and of the rights of b ii , trymen, against f rau d, f act i on , an d o ppresse s, talents as a wr it er , an d hi s i ntegr i ty as a leBl,''rtsi° called forth an express i on o f the respect eat- o tlr towards him by the principal noblemen 1 ° 1 ' 1 , 1 ,114 men on the Libe ra l s id e , w h o h ave p l ace d in of a committee the sum of 2001., collected by ` ll subscriptions, to be expended in the purchase of a Parts'plate, to be presented to Mr. B acon , as a l as ting woe cot' of the estimation in which h e i s held. Arneetit.tlbelpil tributors are the Duke of N o rf o lk, E ar l of Earl of Leicester, Earl o f R ose b ery , L or d 13 0 T -0,, 7 Colborne, Lord Stafford, Sir Jacob Astley, E. L. Bulwer, Bart., and many others. BURGLARY AT RAMODEN In T a h n ur n s a d m ay ed la j st am at e m s i T d h n o ig m h p t, sol a l, o b n ec near Billericay, was forcibly entered at the bac; 01, which was broken open with an iron crow-bar. tfdro o immediately proceeded up stairs and entered the T v J O of the poor old man who lives in the house eat ire (he!! on which be called out " Who's there?" One,„ ° ,, - „ t i erl lains replied "We want something to eat." *Z: 0 0: beer-house l u s s cl e e n kCelip C tA r b a Y y y s S!l i ssl t il l said he had nothing for them, when one af, ; t ; t o "We are very hungry —we must have somelnlif and to drink too." A fellow then throwing bins ti t ob, the bed, confined the old man down and held nve r he Or; a plough coulter, threatening that it would be t 7i t oet: for him if he made any resistance. During 0 ' 3 4 toa r other three ransacked with a light e v e r y part cf t" They broke open four larg e c h es t s rifling them vo nl /0 contents, consisting of clothes belonging to Thoo e gt his late wife, and in consequ ence o f t h e i r threats b ring 4 s ' them all the money he had i n hi s p oc k ets alue u r osic, about 18s. They also t oo k awa y with th e m a silve r some silver tea-spoons m a rked W. M. S., an d other tbel Having regaled themselves with such provision°ooo could find on the premises they quitted them, ane l lbee m l every exertion has since been made by the police u ppir ties have at present escaped detection. They are g- ii e to belong to the same gang (if they were not the sa i d cf sons) who broke into and plundered the hous e 1 Bones, of Langdon Hill s .—E sser H era ld. DRESS.—It requires a long apprenticw hi l h yo l no little tact, to be come an unexceptionable dresie r ' c ketl; a votary of the g o dd ess " Fashion" has been so e bit a t o the shoals and quicksands of dandyism. We O r !, term—we never in our own minds can distingui"" oo osr tawdriness, frippe r y, f o pp er y, an d b a d taste ---tbe, tbn is irrepressible; we couple it w ith a ffectatl' „ tension, and vulgarity. —Sportsman. VICTORIA PATTERN Pb A. B. SAVORY and SONS, G o ld sm ith s, N o . 14+ London (opposite the Bank of England), inform t h en that, in addition to their many p a tt erns o f p l a i n a nd '" i o s cor , , VER SPOONS and FORKS, th ey h ave finisheu ~p elegant new pattern, after th e a d m i re d sty l e o f l ate' The following are the usual weights : £. s l oe. d. .0 0 12 Victoria l'attetn Silver Table S 11 ditto poon s ' l la e b s l s si er r t s ork . s on. 7. 7 0 6 , 11 9, 12 ditto ditto Dessert Larks 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle 4 ditto S auce Ladles l2 8 4 ditto Salt Ladles (gilt bowls) ......••••"'' 8 , 1 ditto le Fiddle Pattern Silve r Spoons Slice ‘ t e i,,g a p7 S m i . i in o ,.. o l n a,gn s sd . fl ed 12 ditto (piercod and stt. oo ' ditto King's Pattern Silver . Swoons and Forks, 7s. 4d s tre , N.B.A ilav p oe r dr ie o e r e s u h rrent, vamped as a newspaper, i ", u „ the , drawings,chase of containing etael de plate,very n in fe a r y m b a c t i o h u a relativ e . n .a r i scv t t i i r e T s. ; will he sent int. Use country, free of postage, in A paid letter. 11°: SILVER PLATE.—Now published gri d i'ter,, , will be sent p ost f ree, if P.pplied for by a Pai 4 ,Sraf Pamphlet of T. COX SA VORY'S P r i ces o f Sily and Forks, with Drawings of the Patterns, Tea and L "'a fOir, tel vices with D es i gns, P resentation Plate, Silver-edg e a fro f Ware, the new Plated on White Metal Sp coos en lac Ladies' and Ge n tl emen ' s G o ld an d Si lver W a tchcs, nr ie Jewellery, C u tl ery , L a di es ' G e ld N ec k Cha i ns, with eV' of the New P a tt erns . it ' The ground floor, first, second. and third floors are for the exhibition of an extensive stock. T. COX SAVORY , e tor cir Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill (Sev en doors from street), Landon. i z SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE 1 ,:n; y i ts ,i 1. Globe Bd. Vlachssh i : aepr eTdTeoaez-aet-nrua,ryislll: Tea-urns, gothic iutc,a quarts, o;o'3,;:mg-t. the 9e 3picwiirsnt,..l::l;leael,:spr,.:,a: 'lll. Handles, e perit, l4 p o a . i r p ; e r Tabledobape, zen Kni D ve es s se w rt it i ll, Pwi j tje is Df ois b full siz es . n fa r Catalogues, co n t a i n i ng the 'mice .f every articl e ing ironmongery and catlery, , tr eeS' RIPPON and BURTON ; Wells-str ee t, °Oar" A - Established 1820. f l • A' BIRTHS. Vro• On the 12th i ns t., at Bouscat, near Bordeaux , c ., o r Birkett, jun., of a son. ° f On the 15th inst., the lady of R. Mathews, r' s q' ham-rise. Surrey, of a daughter. gall" On the 16th inst., a t R oc h ester, M rs. Step h e n n o daughter. Orr" On the 18111 inst., at West Molesey, the lady of G. Esq., of a son. E - s -o :; — o th i le t — h l r e - 3: ‘ l i e ns p t l . ac n e t : M S St. Pancras ----'---- et , , 000.„ of Bath, to Miss White, granddaughter of thci late V • R Pa ß nc i r E as p new churen. N T ' ii i h i. ' ict Ma O u n nde t r li , e 14th inst., et Heavitree, ne•Ar Exeter , DIED. t or , there, and Co., Liverpool, and Port-au-Prince, HaY t " pl , Republic he had been generally a resiO.ent since 18 1 ,1:,, h od t be EN•I. abed 51 years, of the fill"' of Maw:" e i,:0 1)1 On the l'ith inst., at Upper Tooting, Captain " : 1"„ , of sager, Member of Parliament for the eastern divest viji county of Surrey, kge.l 60. c , i .,, d Ivi d lid On the 29th of November, at Bombay, a''''-a;rdent' se Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ist European IMP: - we Secretary to Government in the Military and Dia ls • i , I Co l° .9 ments, and son-in-law of J. Durant, of Poole. On the Bth of December last, at Acre, Lieutenart- • if r W. Walker., C. 8., of the Royal Shrines, aged 57 t',, ill '‘ fi r vic e s Chi the 13th inst., at St, Helier s, Jerse', Augtri.' , g, of C. H. Hall, Esq., of Horning's-heath, Suffolk. neg. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Price, widow of the la" at Price, of liridgend, Glamorgan l ' aged 76. phil'P' r 5 nre, . h gtor, Note On the 14th inst., at Kingsgate House, Wine e • ' Win' elv widow of the late Rev Harry Lee, Fellow , 11 ,111 a College, and youngest daughter of the late Sir Wlin • 0 1 , D a r t az il c/o r • PO stone, Kn:ght. t o s f th the in 6 s t t h Fo O ot n , l t a h t e e 47 1PATzdsciainslrb r - ' it - - 0 -r a f 46 4' 1 1 .i....smtnsesw London : Pisietect and Published by lIIIiRDO , s t ole-, Dragoon G uards, leY'in No. 112, Strand, at The Roe, Office, Nn• 11 ' 2 . 0, 1 0 ' . the county of 111kWlesex.—Wednesday, January agKeden6tl.Captitn,, ~, . 5 1 131 'n all P aYtie P • • arguriai Vii' pr of 46 ' nude Bank N ,-olnifnun 0 1 lut or ii ° 4 , in knetin n ' O l, to i s irihur Richard Si r * Pra Jo T tic's s air now 4 ?;Xxi ScitterSTl t2be Sand t Dii th b• °41 1 , 4y 1, . ty of ptios u 14 A pplie:: !t ol* SI f Fel tideid out No fortl lit u)ooth l tr The full 1 ~ jM :: h 14fr- ab lial t 'to wi