The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

VENING EDITION. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. ..—...ar,— (WED.NES T JAI' EVENING.) CHRONICLE.--T l- .e near settlement of the Ciiina question following 'ch . )? e upon the heels of the settlern-nt of the Syrian qu est.ron, together with the surrender of Post Mohammed. - and the submission of the Belooche2s, i.rougeht by the overland mail, have produced very general satisfaction, 'And given a renewed impulse to the English Funds. The st`Atempt that the Emperor o f Chi na h as agree d to ray '.3,000,0 - 00/., as an indemnity for the opium seized, andL for the expenses of the expedition, has been much lo )ked to; but the mere exp•ense of the expedition and in d malty of the opium are trifles in comparison with the extension which the trada and commerce of Great Britain may derive from the completion of a treaty with the Celestial Empire. The subject is too vast and extensive for us to discuss, but the results are likely to be mo mentous in the annals of civilization, and must present themselves in a. forcible manner to the minds of all. What a noble field for British enterprise do we perceive in contemp)Ating the demand for British manufactures, which wceuld tie produced by throwing open the markets of Chin.—the supply of three hundred millions of 5)015 1 `V-.shirt the last few years (Mr. M'Gregor says) the cce, i s ual ption of British cotton has diminished to the extent ~ Af one-hall in all the Rhenish States, and the eorhurap• ttiion is now supplied by the print manufacturers of Berlin, 'estphalia, and Ssxony, and also by some very large ma nufacturers established in Wirtemberg and in the great Duchy of Baden, and also by the Swiss manufacturers. When the spring season advances, and the northern ports re-open, we shall be able to judge how far the recent re strictive action of the Bank en the circulation hes, b) forcing down prices, tended to improve the export trade. We cannot, however, expect that, under our existing sys. tern of prohibitory and protective duties, the continental trade will again resume its former importance. 'We must look to our colonies, and the immense undeveloped regions of the East, for the means of compensation. Tao accounts of the Revenue for the year are mere en couraging than was generally expected, and the feeling runs strongly in favour of the prosperity of 1841, as corn pared with its predecessor. Tie new year has certainly an auspicious beginning. Advice! , from Rio Janeiro of the 29ch of October have been received ; the price of Stock had advanced to 77, and the Exchange was 33 to 33i. ,HERALD.—The important news contained in the Overland Mail from India, communicated to-day in the Merging Retold by extraordinary express from Marseilles, imparted. as might be expected. an immediate impulse to Home Stocks, the effect of which might perhaps have been still greater but fur the uesetisfactory exhibit of the quar terly ruturne of revenue made public this morning. '1 he meeting of Portuguese bondholders to-day was the most numerously and respectably attended which was ever itnessed perhaps cn any similar occasion, and altogether tee feeling, as the proceedings and resolutions, were abet f;" thee of the most unanimous, manly, and decided cite eelieSer. It is nut necessary to particularize what fell from she speakers further than to remark that Mr. Tasker, the gentleman in the chair, went into and directed the whole usiness with a right-minded earnestness such as seldom Arti• - • been seen before, and which, followed up vigorously either by himself and fellow members of the committee, ee all its consequences, will go farther to obtain re dress for past damage and grievance, and security for future eTood faith than all the memorials ever presented to this etovernment, negotiations with that of Portugal, or appli cations to and remonstrances with contractors, which have been imagined, tried, and hitherto resulted in smoke. But in the sense of the general good much more important eensequences must follow. For the immoral and most :iniquitous system of loan-jobbing will come in such case to ne sifted to its core, and some of the body of loan contrac tors might find themselves perhaps not exactly on the bed of roses, that is of loan premiums by the million, which they may now be dreaming of. It is not enough that loan jobbing be legislated against and the public protected for the future against the system of loan plunder to which they neve so long been left a free prey, but that the past should be raked into, and for the sake of justice public examples made of delinquents whenever and in whatever staeion found. The morality of foreign loans or of stock-jobbing need not now be discussed, for it may be admitted that the surplus capital, or industrial accumulations, of a foreign country may be applied with advantage in loans to foreign coun tries, where the obligations of common honesty arc under stood, and adequate securities in the shape of public reve nues or property are made patent and assigned, when a higher rate of remuneration can be procured than similar investments in home stocks would yield, or when no other advantageous modes of employing surplus capital can be conveniently met with at home. For example, when money can be profitably loaned on substantial foreign twenty to pay 6 or 7 per cent. interest, whilst Console only yield a return at the rate of 31, it is no disadvantage to the community, but the reverse, whilst it is a posi live gain to the individual, to make his investment in the foreign loan. Ile makes a clear surplus profit upon his capital of !4 or 31 per cent. beyond what the British Funds would render, whilst so much more annual income flowing in to the individual is so much annual addition to the money stock of the community at large, inasmuch as the public fortune, so far as money capital, is made up of a mass of individual mites, or capi tals, great or small. The 2e per cent. surplus of interest profit thus made and regularly remitted by the foreign debtor will, in a given number of years, repay the amount of the original capital lent, to the lender, who then re mains in the fortunate position of having been in receipt of the whole of the ee per cent., which he could only have received from the British funds, of regaining the amount of his capital lent by the accumulation of the 21 per cent. surplus interest profits within a certain period, and finally the supplementary advantage afterwards, unless paid off at par, of the original capital still out and bearing interest so much beyond what could be obtained at home. It is re ported of a certain wealthy individual, whose stake in Bra zilian funds is nu doubt more considerable than that of any other person here or in Brazil either, that by this process the capital originielly invested in these funds has been re turned to him twice over ; that is, by the ex-difference in excess of interest received beyond what he could have obtained by the employment of the same amount of capital in British stocks. Thus his original invest ments of one, two, or three, or more, hundred thousand pounds have in amount been paid back to him in surplus interests alone beyond what would have been yielded by the British funds, leaving hint still with the same original end larger interests performing the same operation over again within a period of equal duration. If the surplus in terest received were to be forthwith laid out in the same manner as the capital, the amount of profit would of course be materially enlarged. In the example cited, it is fair to say, that, as understood, the investments in Brazilian stock many years ago were at considerably lower than present rtes, and to a large extent in stock of the domestic debt *bearing a higher rate of interest. This is the fair and justifiable side of the foreign loan system, and may suffice for explanation that no 'algae or ignorant prejudice is entertained against a .ystem honestly understood which adds to the income net of course the substantial wealth of the country. To the Bank of England, when real capital only is nt out thus, and not credit, that is bill drawing. re eivring, and paper accommodation finessed in either ;vays which some of the loan contractors are quite at home about), to the Bank in such case no damage can accrue by the sudden abstraction of masses of bullion, because, when real surplus capital, and not credit, is lent, it never can be of more than moderate amount. When twenty millions, for example, arc loaned oat to foreign States evithin one year, it is clear the operations arc based on credit and bill-drawing, because there can be no such real excess of industrial accumulation or unemployed capital existing i n th e country . Th e l oan -j o bb er i n ta ki ng the contracts therefore is erculatieg upon futurity and the easiness of credit. By that credit abroad and at home, and by exchange combinations founded on aibitrations of exchange, he can manage to procure funds, that is bullion, to the value of hundreds of thousands, or perhaps minim's , without in reality being in advanee of one pound of send money himself far a long period, for the round of ex changes, or bill accommodation, may be gone over again, if not ae ' ain e and again, s h ou ld no money crisis intervene. Whilst the Bank by the regular incomings of large inte rests on foreign loans punctually paid, is regularly placed in receipt of bullion funds, because such interests would generally be paid in bullion, or in the equivalent, by pre venting bullion being drawn away for payment of balances cf trade abroad. But the care is matcrialty different in respect of foreign loans where no interest is paid by faithless or unfortunate eta t e s. The capital is sunk irretrievably, whilst at the stale time not one sue/do of interest is receivable. Add to principal thus wrecked, and interest unpaid, the compound in t e rest which equitably may be surcharged to show loss as wdl as profit, and the amount of actual loss to the coun try is incalculable upon this description of insolve n t foreign debt. It will hardly be credited, but the tact, as stated by Mr. Tas ker, may be assumed to be approxi mately correct, that the amount of capital lent to the non paying foreign states, with the simple interest accruing iskteed, ascen d s to about one hundr ed millions ster li ng, sunk and lost, that is yielding no returns or interest, except re eeetly so tar as the unfortunate state of Mexico, which gave a signal example of good faith under its present Go. %eminent, and Chile, which unwillingly has been forced inZo a Conti lerniSe. Observe that these one hundred mil l:cies (eeteeighth of the wewie national debt of Great Britain), thus sunk and lost, are exclusive of any addition tor compound interest whatever. Such are the loan bene fits conferred upon this country by the Governments of Spain and Portugal. In the meantime whilst the bondholders have been beg gared, and Spain and Portugal themselves prejudiced be e ess sea of money easily obtained and profligately squandered or appropriated by successive Ministries, loan contreetees have grown into unwieldy f ortunes from' nothing. Their refits may he reckoned by millions, and Aladdin's lamp hich with proper strokes gave out gold, silver and prese t. us stones in heaps, was, in comparison with stock -job bieg, but as a farthing rushlight. It may be supposed these people rat, mighty risks, and that realising rnill:ons of profit they made advances out of their own particular capitals by tens of millions sterling to the state Contract e;; ! c ane. Nothing of the sort—net a sou of their own, end the man who dines in Sr. James's Park with Duke Humphrey, is quite as well qualified to loan millions, in respect of previous advances made and therefore risk run, as many of those people regularly practising in the loan trade. The money for the leaes is furnished, n o t b y t h e - e n:rector, but by the credulousb pub rea , on , an d i n d ee d i t h ap p en s not untrequently, that the ests:tour should eold a single bond. An ungreas,:d new ed in the hand of a contractor three months after an °sue of a loan would be quite a noveleY• The subject may be resumed, for it is one of public interest to unfold and trace the windings of the lone-jl6- ';:ng system. TIMES.—The accounts from India and China have had a marked effect on the value of Government secu rities, and appear to have brought a class of purchasers into the market who were kept out of stock by the direct ening aspect of afftirs in that quarter, and who never ex pected so speedy a termination of hostilities. The advance which took place was a steady one, and was well main tained up to the close of business. The return of the quarter's revenue has provoked very little observation here, and it could not he said to have , ny influence on prices one way or the other. The accounts from Manchester, which describe a very decided improvement in trade, advert at the same time to the difficulty of obtaining money, especially among houses of the second class, as having much increased within these few days. In this respect the pressure for money is likely to have an unfortunate effect, and to prevent our reaping the full advantage of the foreign demand which has arisen. SUN.—Everything in the City wore a cheerful appear ance to-day except in the Tea Market, where there was a kind of panic, and a fall in price, though no bargains of any magnitude were entered into. Company's Congou on 'Change this afternoon closed at Is. lid. per lb. It is not unlikely but that many failures may occur among the speculators. The publication of the detailed accounts by the over land mail from India, sent up the price of Consols this afternoon to 891 for Money ; and to 891 for Account, making the advance to-day per cent. ; Exchequer Bilis were is. to 93. premium ; and India ;Badonds touched 5s discount ; India Stock ' rose to 243 n Bank Stock to 1614. At the meeting of Portuguese Bondholders to-day, the last terms offered by the Lisbon Government were rejected, and new propositions are to be submitted by the Bandhol ters. The New Five per Cents. were flat et 32 to 3 The Three per Cents. were not dealt in. Brazil Bonds realised 714, Colombian 23k, and Mexican 28 3 4 .. Spanish Stock was depressed at 24 to 4. The Share Market was brisk, and prices moved upwards a little. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. so much out of the way as that on which he has actually fallen. From its first sailing from Singapore, every step the ex. pedition has taken seems to have been precisely the re verse of what was guaranteed or expected for it in Eng land, or what the most ordinary prudence would have pointed out. Passing over the early parts of its progress, the Admiral's line of proceeding on entering on terms with the Emperor seems as simple as possible. Compen sation for our past losses, and for the expenses of the ex pedition, were the first things to be procured ; and a po sition ought to have been taken up as strong and as near Chusan as possible, till every tittle of the agreements on this head was fulfilled. Arrangements were to be made and insisted on for securing our trade on a broad and safe foundation. But with the Chinese commercial treaties arc worse than so much waste paper. unless we have a force at hand ready to compel their fulfilment. They would have laughed at our beards had we dreamt of such a thing as good faith on their part an hour after our armaments were withdrawn." There may be some force in the observations of our correspondent; :but to us, we will confess, these observa- tions appear decidedly unreasonable. It is, let it b,. observed, by no means clear that Admiral Elliot will permit himself to be trepanned into any indefinite scheme of negotiation. It is by no means clear, that he will relinquish possession of Chusan, or leave the coast of China, under the stipulated compensation shall have been made good. When it is borne in mind, moreover, that, perhaps, for the first time within the range of his torical record, the Emperor of China has become a direct party to a commercial treaty with foreigners, it may not be too great a stretch of magnanimity to give his Impe rid Majesty credit for intending to keep his word. As to the effect on public opinion in China, of Admiral Elliot's apparent submission to the Emperor —w hat, let us ask, is Chinese opinion to us ? If the Empe ror shall observe faith with England, he will be perfectly justified in or, serving as large a measure of importance as he can, in the eyes of his own subjects. We are dispo- ' sed, in truth, to fear that some portion of the disappoint ment manifested by our countryme❑ in India, in refer ence to Admiral Elliot's arrangements, may be caused by a violent anxiety to re-establish. at all hazards, the opium trade with China. Now, we do trust, that neither Admiral Elliot, nor his official superiors, will seek to abuse the advantages which have been vouch safed to us, by an attempt to force upon the Emperor of China a trade which his Imperial Majesty most justly deems to be prejudicial in the highest degree to the best interests of his subjects. It may be well, per haps, to demand, and to accept, compensation for the opium destroyed ; but to seek to re-establish the opium trade on the old conditions, after the efforts of the Empe ror of China to suppress it, could be regarded in no other light than as a most tyrannical exercise of the law of force. A great revolution is evidently approaching . in India ; and if we do not greatly mistake the signs of the times, the colonial empire of England is about to re ceive a mighty augmentation. The force of circum stances would seem likely, with scarcely an effort on the part. of this country, to transfer to us the dominion of the Punjaub of Lahore, and, perhaps, of Afighanis tan. To govern India wisely, is, however, a matter in finitely more important than to add to the extent of our Indian territories ; and we do trust, that the eclat of these recent successes will not be allowed to pass away, without leading to extensive changes in the whole of our economical arrangements in that interesting portion of the British empire. The industrial energies of British India want scope ; they stand in need of a fair field for their exercise. Let that be secured to them, and more shall have been done to strengthen the real power of England, than may be supplied by fifty successful ex peditions to China, or to Affgbanistan—if the success shall extend no farther than to mere military operations. (From the Morning Post.) (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) (From the Morning Chronicle.) The joy excited by the glorious triumphs of British arms and policy in the East, has hardly had time to subside before intelligence of successes, equally bril liant and equally important in another quarter of the globe, comes to give a fresh impulse to the national en thusiasm. Never. even in the days of Chatham, did a Session of Parliament open under more glorious aus pices than that which will shortly commence. Syria rescued—the strongest fortress in the East captured in a single day—the empire of our Turkish ally rescued from impending danger f?nd its independence secured by the guarantee of the Great Powers—the balance of power in Europe restored, and the prospect of a general war skilfully averted ; add to these, our Indian em pire extended end secured, the throne of our ally in Affghanistan esta 1 lished by the defeat and submission of his rival, and the moral influence of the British name spread far and wide, into the very heart of Asia ; and, though last, not least, the speedy and complete settlement of our dispute with China, by a treaty which satisfies the offended honour of the British flag, provides for the compensation due to British subjects, and holds out the promise of incalculable advantage in our future commercial intercourse with the Celestial Empire— these are results which, in the course of one single vacation, have attended the policy of an Administration which its opponents arc pleased to designate as " weak and incapable." If the Government by whom :hese great results have been achieved are" weak and in Ta ble," what shall we say of the Opposition, by whom - •eir policy was thwarted, their motives attacked, ant •he very steps which have led to the most signal suet, , es denounced as rash, impolitic, and ruinous ? Witi. .-e -ference to this very Chinese war, which has termine in a manner so advantageous for the most import .tit interests of the country, what were the conduct eed language of the Conservative party ? Were not Mi nisters upon the very brink of being turned out because they had not counselled abject submission to the indig nities heaped by Commissioner Lin upon the British flag, and the injuries inflicted on British merchants ? Will any one now say that it would have been better for the nation if Sir James Graham's motion had been carried, and a resolution of the House of Com mons, condemning the policy of the Chinese war,. had been sent by way of instructions to the Admiral of the British fleet, when on the eve of commencing operations? It is impossible to conceive a question upon which the personal credit of the leading men on both sides was more completely staked, than upon the policy and prospects of the war which has just been concluded with China. The remoteness of the scene, the novelty of the circumstances, and the vast popula tion and singular nature of the empire with which we had to deal, all conspired to render the issue doubtful, and test the sagacity and foresight of those who ven tured to predict the result. The gloomy forebodings of the Tory leaders are fresh in the recollection of our readers. The following is the view of the question to which Sir James Graham, the leader and organ of the Tory party, upon that occasion pledged his reputation. We give it in bis own words : " I am persuaded that this is no little war,' to be con ducted on a peace establishment, and to be terminated in a day. My belief is, that the attendant circumstances of the war will not be less formidable than the magnitude of the interests at stake. If this war is really to take place, it is to be carried on at the most remote point of the habitable globe—at a point where the monsoon must con stantly interrupt the communications between the forces which we employ and those who are to direct their ope rations—a point very distant from our ports and arsenals, and where the squadrons and the forces which we employ must be exposed to dangers without end—a point accessi ble only after a long voyage which will transport our troops into a burning climate, where the new scenes to be encountered will be to them an object of horror, and where energy soon dies away. When we see, on the part of those who are her Majesty's present advisers a most pertinatious adherence to an erroneous course repudiated both by experience and reason—when we see that they have attempted to force on a proud and powerful people a course of proceeding to which the weakest would not tamely submit—when we see nothing done, nothing attempted by that Government, while her Majesty's Superintendent is left without instructions, and without an adequate force to support him ; when we see this. I cannot help asking the House if they believe that the people of England will re pose confidence in an Administration, which by its misma nagement has destroyed a trade which has flourished for centuries ; and, in addition to the losses and indignities we have suffered, has plunged us into a war, in which suc cess will not be attended with glory, and in which defeat will be our ruin and our shame ?" It is superflous to add a word of comment. Here is the formal, deliberate declaration of one of the leading Tory statesmen, adhered to, with the illustrious ex ception of the Duke of Wellington, by the whole party. The rely is written in events. Could it be more speedy, more conclusive, or more overwhelming ? ( From the Morning Herald. ) The news from India which we published yesterday, in a third edition, is of the very highest importance. Our military demonstrations on the coast of China, and throughout the whole sphere of our operations in India, would appear to have been crowned with the most wonderful success. There seems, in fact, a fair pro spect of adjusting, on most honourable terms, our quarrel with the Chinese ; while the surrender ley Dost Mahomed, of his person, to the British troops has re moved the most formidable of the obstacles to the pa cification of Aff ghanistan. We have, all along, dis approved of the principles, in vindication of which our Government thought fit to wage war on the Celestial Empire. We have, all along, regarded as most im politic, our interference in the affairs of Affghanistan. Our opinions on these points have not been in any de gree modified by the results of the enterprises in ques tion. Mere success in its prosecution will not convert an unjust into a just quarrel. But, on the other hand, it were uncandid to deny, that as failure in these military enter prises would have covered the present Ministers with obloquy, so, in common fairness, success ought, e con verso, to secure for them a considerable degree of cre dit. That measure of credit we most cheerfully concede to them. Up to the present point, they, unsloubtedly, seem to have been most successful. Should the ulti mate results prove less propitious than they promise to be, Ministers must not, however, shrink from the abuse, which, according to this doctrine of chances, will yet be their assured portion. For our own parts, we rejoice at the strec:ls which has crowned our arms by land and sea. We rejoice, because the skill and bravery of our soldiers and sailors constitute a rich portion of our na tional inheritance—of that inheritance, which it were not only discreditable, but perilous, to see lessened. We rejoice, moreover, becausa as failure in our expdi tions to China and Affghanistan might have shaken our Indian empire to its b Ise, so success, if not abused, may enable us to strengthen our position, and to retrieve, what we cannot avoid deeming the inhereAt error of the expeditions themselves. We may now, in truth, act in the spirit of Fal.ita d f's precept, and " turn disease into commodity." From China especially, the accounts appear to be satisfactory, According to our narrative, Admiral Elliot, after sundry successful mili tary demonstrations, was admitted to the honour of an interview with the Emperor, found his Imperial Ma jesty in a very gracious humour, and arranged the pre liminaries of a treaty, on the basis of ample compensa tion to England, flnd the establishment of a new com mercial arrangement en more liberal terms than have eve r been conceded by the Chinese. Tile amount of indemnity to be paid by the Chinese is stated to be two millions for the opium destroyed, and one million to wards the cost of the Eaglish expedition. This, as far as we may judge, appears a most favourable ar rarpiement for this country, yet it would not seem to have given satisfaction in India. Our correspon dent in Bombay writes iu the following strain : I am concerned to state, that the opinions of all par , h ti e%d in the all news,qu a t e a r r s e , t h still e r morein India e o d r C a n h d i n a u , n w a ni o rn h oti have s: There is one feeling of nniversal indignation and dismay capreesed a t th e t urn w hich things have taken. The Chi nese have already got us fast in the tr a p the y laid for us, into w hi ch we seem to have walked with our eyes open— " negotiation"—and there we will flounder till the ohsjects of the expeditio n are undone. The very return of the Admiral and his forces from the Yellow Sea is a great triumph to them, and will at once be represented through out China as a victory. If we transfer our negotiations to Canton, the consummation is completed. Famine, and pestilence, the C E e l i nd ne s etime, shipwreckan d t a h r e e m a l f r o e r a d t b y e d i r o i a n l g l e t s he , theyi w ork. Give will speedily cripple our strength, and claim the victory. The courses which might have been pursued by Admiral Elliot I are so numerous, that it seems most extraordinary even as the mere doctrine of chance, he should have stumbled on one In Chins, so far as we can gather from the present accounts, everything yet remains to be done. Some fighting had taken place at Macao, and also at the port of Amoy, of which the ample details we have given elsewhere will be found interesting and curious. But neither of these affairs seems to have been of great im• portance, or to have produced any considerable effect. The grounds for the statement of the French Consu! at Malta, which was telegraphed from Marseilles to Paris, that " the affairs of China are o❑ the point of being terminated," and that " the English were to re ceive three millions sterling as indemnity," arc such as would far better have tiarranted 'the statement that the affairs of China are very 'far from being terminated, and that the indemnity or satisfaction the English are to receive, and when they arc to re ceive it, are as little known at this moment as they were the day after the opium smugglers at Can ton were induced by the bilis of Captain Elliot on the British Treasury to surrender their illicit cargoes. MI that was known at Chusan about the matter at the date of the latest intelligence was that the British Admiral had proceeded to Peiho, where he had several interviews with a mandarin wearing a red button, and said to be the third man in rank of the Celestial Empire, and that on the return of the Admiral from this mission the utmost secresy was maintained as to the in cidents or result of these conferences. That the Admiral himself was satisfied with what took place was naturally enough inferred ; but in this feeling, if he really enter tained it, the Admiral must have stoJd alone, for all other persons were dissatisfied that this armed negotiator should have returned without having accomplished any one substantial object of his mission. At Chusan all rests upon supposition. It was supposed that Queen Victoria had been recognised by the mandarin with the red button, not in the old style of " a barbarian tribu tary'," but as the " Queen of a great nation." A mighty acquisition this, truly, to have extorted from the gentleman with the red button ! Again, it was sup posed that the negotiations were to be transferred from the neighbourhood of Pekin to either Can ton or Ning-po. Again, it was supposed that the Emperor had promised to send Commissioners to Can ton to investigate the conduct of Governor Lin, and subsequently to confer with the British representatives. Again, it was supposed that the basis of a Treaty had been laid down, in virtue of which the said Lin was to be tried for his violence and insults. And again, it was supposed that something had been said, though nobody knew what, about an indemnity to the English of three millions sterling. The upshot of the matter is, that nothing had been done, and that the British Admiral had consented to have the questions he was sent to de cide, and the demands he was expected to enforce, bandied about from one Chinese functionary to another, and the ❑egotiation respecting them transferred from the heart of the empire to one of its extremities, where negotiations have heretofore been carried on with no very prosperous issue. The Emperor of China, it was said, had offered to give up to the British the island of Liutin, if they would evacuate Chusan ; but to this the Admiral had refused to accede, much to the dissatisfactio❑ of the garrison of the latter, who evidently do not relish the prospect of being com pelled to winter in a place the unhealthy climate of which has already committed fatal ravages in their ranks. (From the Times.) The intelligence published in our second edition yes terday brou;ht down the transactions of Admiral El liot with the Chinese to the 30th of September, and was such as to raise in the minds of many a sanguine hope that the Chinese quarrel would he speedily termi nated, or at least that hostilities would cease. Indeed to talk of " hostilities" in such a case is ridiculous, if the word be meant to imply a recourse to warlike ope rations. The interest excited in the present instance has not been of a military or naval character. Few people felt the least doubt, or suspense, or anxiety respecting the result of whatever degree of force might be applied to the objects of the expedi tion, which was exclusively penal. A party of police men despatched after a herd of pitable runaways (offenders it would be harsh to call the Chinese peo ple), might have stirred the blood as much, and by their success would have caused as much national pride and triumph, as any victory that could have been gained by Adrni:al Elliot, or any concessions, whether commereiel or political, that could have been extorted from the brother of the sun and moon at Pekin. Yet how this opium tempest is to be ultimately quieted, the voluminous letters of yesterday do very vaguely and imperfectly in struct us. Chusan was still in possession of the Bri tish troops and authorities, of whom there seems to have been a mournful certainty that a shocking num ber would perish through the unwholesomeness of the climate. The 26th Regiment alone had, at the date of the above advices, 543 (or two-thirds of the whnle bat talion) on the sack list. Should this go much further, even a Chinese force might succeed in recapturing the island. Among the statements made, it is not easy to determine which may be worthy of credit. A nego- Cation was said to have been promised by the Emperor, who would send a man to Canton to treat ; thus gain ing as much time as possible, and fixing the scene of the discussions at as great a distance as possible from Pekin, a scheme not unnatural for any personage who had in prospect a demand upon him of a large sum of money, by way of indemnity to those British dealers in opium who had been checked in their laudable endeavours to force a poisonous trade upon the territories of an un willing Power. It was said at the same time, but somewhat inconsistently, that the Emperor had already agreed to pay to Great Britain the enormous sum of 3,000,000/. sterling-, but whether for the benefit of the opiu m merchants, or in compensation to the British Crown for the cost of the expedition, or how to be dis tributed between them, is not specified, nor is there any distinct or ascertained authority given for that important fact. There are further allegations, on the strength of private letters, that the British squadron, stationed at or near the mouth of the Canton river, have cannonaded and captured the forts of the Bocce Tigris, and that some of our men-of-war have proceeded u? towards Canton ; also that a blockade of the river was to be rigorously enforced. It seems to he supported by more tangible authority that there was sonic partial fighting in the immediate neighbourhood of Macao, where a few lives were lost on both sides, a small Chinese fort taken, and the cannon spiked. Governor Lin is reported to be in disgrace, and Chusan is to be retained until Great Britain has received her money. From all this mass of statements collectively con sidered, we hive little doubt that some symptoms of submission had been exhibited by the Chinese Government, but that a definitive settlement of the grievances alleged by Lord Palmerston had been ar- TT-1141 SUN G LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1841. rived at, or any near approach to one, be,for the 'etters recently published came away, without absolutely denying that such may have been the case, we see at least no proof, nor even ground of probability, in the communications referred to. The news from India is of a more authentic, as well as more decisive, nature. The sovereignty of Lahore has been snatched by a fa tal accident from the hands of Nou-Nahal Singh (grand son to the famous Runject), who had succeeded for one (lay upon the death of his father, Kurruck. The Prince thus prematurely cut eff is said to have been a sworn enemy to England. But a more important cir cumstance is the surrender of the turbulent Dust Ma homed to Sir Wiliam M‘Naughten, our Minister at the Court of Shah Soojah. After being more than once de feated, and a fugitive for his life, this usurper finally gave himself up, and restored a better chance of security to our north-western frontier. The Nepaulese, how ever, on the opposite side, are asserted to be in motion with a formidable force, instigated, as we are told, by China. This may not be true at the present mo ment, but it cannot be questioned, r.or ought it, for the sake of our great Indian empire, and especially for that of the Company itself, to be disguised, that the system of indiscriminate and senseless parsimony, pursued so obstinately by the late Lord W. Bentiock, was such as to hold out the strongest baits to war or insurrection on the part of all the native Powers. From all quarters we learn that by the Noble Lord the Indian army was reduced to a scale of numbers and of general efficiency below what bad been known to India since the days of Mr. Hastings. It was not merely the native rank and file, but the amount of European officers, which was cut down without mercy or the least regard to prudence ; and, as it were in emulation of the Royal army of Great Britain, the troops were everywhere severely and ruinously overworked. A return of the European force now actually effective in the East would show to what straits Lord Auckland must have been lately striven to find men for the double operations beyond the Indus and in the Chinese seas. There is, as we have heard stated on the most respectable autho rities, no parallel to the existing weakness of our mili tary resources ; and without a large addition to the estimates, military as well as naval, in this Session, the most ordinary services of India, the Mediterranean, and North America, will be left absolutely unprovided tor. The good fortune which has attended us in Aff gbanistan is not a contingency on the permanence of which we can rely, and the only sure expedient for guarding against the appearance of other Dost Ma homeds, is the continual maintenance of a force which may place us beyond the reach of average misfortune. An occasion may offer for touching on the Egyptian news (which, however, is not of prime interest or im portance) in connexion with matters nearer home. From the Morning . Advertiser.) The approaching Reform festival at Leeds is looked forward to with the deepest interest by all classes of the community. The Liberals look forward to it with fond and sanguine hopes, because they confidently anticipate, from the proceedings on the occasion, a new and powerful impetus to the popular cause. The Tories look forward to it with fear and trembling, because they clearly foresee in the events of the day the post ponement for an indefinite period of their long-cherished expectations of en immediate advent to office. Nor are these the only classes of politicians who regard with a peculiar interest the approaching festival at Leeds. The Chartists are not indifferent parties in the matter. They look forward to the occasion with mingled emo tions of hope and fear—with the hope, on the one hand, that they may convert it into an occasion of confusion, disorder, and mischief ; and with the fear on the other, that their perverse and wicked purposes may be frustrated by the foresight of those who have got up the meeting. And so we hope they will ; but they can only be so by the adoption, on the part of the enlightened and judicious friends of free principles, of measures of precaution. It is, we are informed, sup posed by one of the Reformers of Leeds that no other precaution can be needed against a Chartist demon stration on the occasion, than what will be afforded in the price of the tickets to the dinner—that price, mode rate though it be, being above and beyond the means of the Chartists generally. There is, doubtless, some force in this ; but we warn the friends of the ballot, household suffrage, and triennial Parliaments, in Leeds, against trusting too implicitly to this as a secu rity against Chartist mischief. It is to be remembered that a mere handful of persons, possessed of superior stentorian capabilities, and resolutely bent on what, in expressive though homely phraseology, is termed 'ta row," may, by acting in concert and with pertinacity, disturb a meeting consisting of some thousands of per sons, and offer a very serious interruption to its pro ceedings. To be forewarned is to be forearmed ; and it were to be deeply deplored if the proceedings of a meeting from which we anticipate such essential service to the cause of good government, were to be in any degree disturbed, through want of a few precautionary measures, by a class of persons of whom it is difficult to say whether their folly or their wickedness be greatest. We are gratified to learn that the pending festival will be attended by the most distinguished Reformers from all parts of the country. We are no less pleased to be informed that a perfect unanimity of sentiment will, in all probability, characterise the speeches which will be delivered on the occasion. This latter is of unspeakable importance. The proceedings of the day will derive their greatest moral weight, next to that derived from the character of the speakers, from a sub stantial accordance in the purposes and plans unfolded in the speeches. Nothing could be more judicious than the conduct of the Leeds Reform Association in limit ing their objects to the three great principles we have already named. They are not only principles of para mount importance, but they are calculated to command the concurrence and co-operation of a far greater num ber of intelligent and influential Reformers than any ether that could be mentioned ; and, as the associa tion is based on these principles, and limits its labours to their recognition and adoption by the Legislature, we trust that the speakers on the approaching occa sion will also, one and all, restrict their observations to the vindication and advocacy of these momentous rinciples. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Glebe.) The Standard last night " out-heroded Herod," or, to describe its credulity and extravagance yet more strongly, excelled itself, by the illustration of these dis positions. An article headed " Rewards of High Treason by Lord Melbourne's Cabinet," introduces a letter from Liverpool which is so full of incongruities and absurdities that its deceptions would have been ma nifest to any one not predisposed to credit anything that would serve for a peg on which t o h ang a t i ra d e aga i ns t the Government. The writer asserts that he has received " exclusive intelligence that Frost has been pardoned, and has been appoiated to a respectable clerkship in the Commissariat Department of the colony ;" and that this is the prelude to something yet better in reserve for him ! We give the most absolute and comprehen sive contradiction to all and each of the statements con tained in this fabricated latter. Every petition for a pardon to Frost and his associates, or for any mitiga tion in the treatment shown to ordinary convicts in the colony, has been rejected. They were sent to their destination with the ordinary directions ; and if Frost, or any of associates, are employed i n an y d e p a rtment of the Government works, it is as conv i c t s , un d er the se verely stringent discipline to which convicts are invari ably subjected, and from which nothing in their case justified a departure. (From the Standard.) The Morning Chronicle and the Leeds Mercury have just now a sharp controversy as to the prevalence of Whig-Radical or Conservative principles in the seve ral largo towns, and in the rural districts, of Great Britain respectively. Into this controversy we do not design to interpose ; hut a passage in the Morning Chronicle's article of tins morning suggests considera tions which, if carefully weighed and expanded into a full inquiry, would, we think, lead to the most useful results. The following is the passage to which we refer :—" A man is not made a Tory (Conservative) by not living in a town." Cer tainly net made, but a man is born and educated a Conservative, because he is born and educated in the country, and of country parents; because he is born free from evil influences, and receives a Christian edu cation at his father's hearth, and in the church of his ancestors. " God made the country, and man made the town," is (we hope we say it without irreverence), as true in the moral as in the physical view. When relieved from all self-application by removal to a coun try which is not our own, we can all see this very clearly. The Frenchman of the country or of the is, whether gentleman or peasant, almost universally amiable, honourable, and religious ; the Parisian is what all the world has too much reason to know him to be ; and it is just the same in principle with ourselves, though practically in a less degree, arising out of the more constant and extensive intercourse between town and country. Towns are the great corruptors of morals and the greater consumers of population. This latter function is the happy counterpoise of the former ; for, were it not for the constant influx of moral as well as physical health from the country, to repair the waste of the town life, the morals o f g reat cities would in a littl e t i me be utterly c orrupted. How, then, stands the matter as regards the proposition of the Morning, Chronicle. "Men are not made Conserva tives by not living in towns ;" but they are born and educated Conservatives, when they are born and edu cated in the country. They go to great towns, and there they become Liberals with, and because of, other town vices. The process is simple and obvious. The town presents lessons and opportunities in cor- ruption which are wanting in the country. The experienced cheat is seen and applauded amid the rich temptations to fraud, which a town affords envy and discontent are provoked by the presence of wealth and grandeur which ,cannot be enjoyed : then follow the sensual vices, for which the town affords a field, leading to looseness of life, which necessarily leads to looseness of opinions, and looseness of opinions leads to liberalism—more properly speaking, is liberalism. It is idle to tell us that town populations are more intelli gent than rural populations. The education re- (From the Aberdeen Herald.) turns referred to by Lord Brougham prove that the children of London and Middlesex are the worst educated children in the United Kingdom ; but the more intelligent any class, the more anxious will they be to bestow the blessing of education upon their children, if they can ; and it must be the greater indifference of the parents, not the want of opportunity, which causes the children of London and Middlesex to be worse educated than other children. The truth is, that in mankind generally, as we see it too often in the higher classes, there is a natural companionship, a sort of " elective attraction," between vice and Liberalism. Men in their simple unsophisticated state are, with Christian education, naturally virtuous and Conservative. This accounts for the predominalice of Liberalism in the abodes of vice, and for its comparative absence fiord places where the agencies of moral corruption are unfre quent or weak. NTEMPERANCE AT ABERDEEN. The growing vice of intemperance is matter of deep and anxious regret to every rightly-constituted mind ; and there is no man who wishes to see his country ex hibiting all the amiable and attractive characteristics iof moral and Christian virtue, but must deplore the ex s tence of the evil, and sympathize with the benevolent motives of those who are evincing a strong desire to keep it in check. That much good has been done by the social bodies who proceed on the extreme principle of total-abstinence, we are free to admit, and so long as they confine their exertions to a faithful exposition of the vices they deprecate, and truthful statements of the evils they regret, they do well ; but the moment they overstep the sacred . limits of truth, and substitute unmeaning declamation for honest ar gument, they forfeit the confidence of the wise and the good, and expose a benevolent principle to the blighting influence of suspicious distrust. That such associations as those to which we refer have, in some cases, been reckless in their statements, uncharitable in their writings, and imprudent in their actions,. cannot ' be denied; and as this is to he regretted, ieis even more so to find those who ought to know better sup plying them with materials which, in the hands of some may be turned against the interests of morality, while ostensibly used for the contrary end. We allude to the list of police cases for the past year, handed in to the Board of Police, on Monday last, by the Superin dent, and published in another column. We do not by any means assume that the statement is posi. tively incorrect, but we complain with the Provost that it ought to have been submitted without qua lification, calculated as it is to produce an impression on the public mind, very unfavourable to:the mora lity of Aberdeen. The idea of three thousand seven hundred females being taken off the streets of the city, " drunk and disorderly," is enough to make any one's blood run cold, and at first sight presents a picture of immorality and vice that could not find a parallel in the history of any civilized nation. We re gret that we have not the means of analyzing the list ; but, judging from a statement of the cases for the year ending December 1838, drawn up by a party whose sta tistics are allowed to be exceedingly correct, it must be reduced by two-thirds at least, and after all it is bad enough. In writing thus, let us not be misunder. stood. We have no wish to underrate the amount of vice amongst these poor unfortunate creatures, but we contend for truth, and however painful it may be to dwell on such details, we cannot permit exaggerated statements to go abroad without explanation, nor allow a libel on the morality of our citizens to pass current without contradiction. PRETENDED MAGIC. (From the Gazette des Tuibunaux.) Paul Lasserre, born in the commune of St. Rade gonde, of a labourer, is himself a labourer ; but ambi tion and that thirst for fame which are the great evils of the present times, assailed him in the midst of his honest labour. A thousand chimeras arose in his imagination, and in the excited state of his mind he arrogated to him self the power of curing diseases, and, in case of need, of preserving fields from the destructive visitations of Heaven. A great sensation was immediately created in the village, which soon spread like wildfire throughout the whole commune. The story mentions not what impression was made on M. le Maire, but this it does testify--namely, that an important functionary under his immediate command, the garde champetre, placed im plicit faith in the report, and that the sanction of his belief added considerably to the credit of the visionary. The crowd flocked from the surrounding hamlets, a crowd of livid faces and bandaged heads, imploring the gift of health in return for a few coins which they brought as a tribute. We give a few of the answers given by this oracle " Take a St. John's cross ; at midnight carry it to a cross-road, and there deposit it. This done, draw a few paces back, and, should any animal approach it, stand under no apprehension. Four minutes after you have returned home, tie the cross on the sick man's breast, where it must remain for a fortnight. Should this prove ineffectual, take a large toad and place it under the bed. You will see the reptile absorb the malady, and gradually waste away, while the sick man grows better and better ; or, it you prefer it, let him wear these talismans about him, but you must not seek to discover their composition or properties ; or, again, he may rub himself with this liquor. Perhaps the medicine may not operate immediately, but do not let this discourage you. I have seven Fridays to myself for effecting the cure. And now, let it be understood, that I have entered into a compact with the demon to whom I am accountable. Give then, but give in odd numbers, for such aro dear to the evil spirit." Some gave five francs ; some gave much less, but on none, as may be conceived, did the remedies operate. At last, one of the patients rose one day from his bed, and lodged a complaint with the Justice of Peace, who referred the case to the Procureur. An inquiry was instituted, and when summoned before the Magistrate Lasserre did not make his appearance : he had taken flight. After having during two months escaped the authorities, he was apprehended, and was brought to humiliate his science before the Correctional Bench. He was condemned to a month's imprisonment, a penalty of 16f., and the costs. We understand his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge will in the course of a few weeks be promoted in the army. A very serious accident from the incautious use of fire-arms, and which might have been attended by the destruction of the lives of two persons, occurred on Sa turday at Beddington. It appears that on the day in question several young men, who had been out shooting, entered the parlour of the Plough public-house, Bedding ton, and after being there some time they commenced amusing themselves by discharging their percussion caps at the candles extinguish them. It appears that at this time a loaded gun was standing in the corner of the room, and one of the party, named Francis Lovell, took it up, and, holding it in the direction of the candle, pulled the trigger. The gun exploded, and tho greater part of the charge entered the thighs and lower parts of the persons of two men named Laxmer and Burgess, keepers to Capt. Carew, of Beddington Park. The wounded men were immediately put to bed, and a medical man promptly at tended, and rendered them all the assistance in his power, and extracted a great number of shot from their persons. Information of the occurrence having been forwarded to Croydon, Mr. Collier, an inspector of the R division of police, went to make inquiry, and he deemed it advisable that an investigation should take place before a Magistrate, and he directed Lovell to attend at the Town Hall, Croy don, where Mr. Sutherland the Magistrate entered into an investigation of the circumstances, and the above facts were detailed in evidence. Lovell, on being questioned by the Magistrate, said he was exceedingly sorry for what had occurred, and assured him that it was quite an acci dent, and he had not the least idea that the gun was loaded when be took it from the corner of the room. Inspector Collier said that, from the inquiries he had made, he had every reason to believe that the affair was the result of accident, and that Lovell had not the least idea of injuring the two men. The Magistrate said it was a most dan gerous practice for persons to meddle with fire-arms, and it was continually the occasion of most serious accidents, and in the present instance two lives might have been sa crificed. The Magistrate having ascertained that the two wounded persons were going on favourably, ordered Lovell to enter into his own recognizance to appear at any future time, should circumstances render it necessary. _ _ - ' REPRESENTATION OF MONAGHAN.—Mr. Lucas, the Toy Member for Monaghan, has announced his intention of retiring from the representation of that county on the dissolution of the present Parliament. Mr. Lucas is a prudent man, and we believe he has come to a very prudent determination. At the next election an effort—we hope and trust a successful one—will be made to rescue Monaghan from the abject and degraded condition to which the Machievellian policy of the Wes tenras has reduced it. Lord Cremorne's zealous and dis interested exertions have placaol the Reformers in a posi tion to vindicate their own consistency. Mr. Lucas is, no doubt, aware of the fact, and, like the prudent man he is, " makes a virtue of necessity."—Dublin Freeman. SIGNIFICANT.—The Standard, alluding to the retirement of Lord Hill from the Horse Guards, doubts whether there is any foundation for such a rumour, but adds, significantly, " If anything should induce his Lord ship to resign the post which he has filled with so much honour and benfit to the country, it will be the state of his health, which has, we regret to learn, been indifferent for some time past."—Globe. MANCHESTER, JAN. 6.—During the night of Saturday last, or rather at an early hour in the morning of Sunday, between three and four o'clock, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a tremendous storm of hail, rain, sleet, and snow ; accompanied by a great many flashes of lightning, two of which were extremely vivid, and fol lowed by loud claps of thunder. There was a strong breeze, at times amounting to a gale, from the N. and veering to the N. W. The time of one of the most vivid flashes of lightning, followed in six or eight seconds by a loud peal of thunder, was about twenty minutes before four o'clock. During the night, the barometer fell as much as nine-tenths of an inch, viz. from 29.80 to 29-90. Here the weather continued stormy all day, the wind blowing from the N. W. There was rather a heavy fall of snow in the night. The temperature was not very low ; 28 dogs. being the lowest point on Sunday night, and 33 dep, being the temperature daring the storm. CENTR, IL CRIMINAL COURT. (OLD COURT.) (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE and Mr. Justice COLEIUDOIE.) FORGERY t'PJN THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—James Fieligate Porter, aged 22, was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a warrant or order for 3801. with intent to defraud the Govenor and Company of the Bank of England. In another count the intent was laid to be to defraud Messrs. Sandys and Co. Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Bullock, appeared for the Bank of England. Mr. Clarkson de tended the prisoner. Sir Frederick Pollock having brieflly addressed the jun , called the following witnesses : .Mr. Robert Curtis stated that he was a clerk in the Private Clearing Office of the Bank cf England, and that Messrs. Sandys and Co. had an account at that establish ment. On the 11th December the prisoner came to the Bank and presented a check, apparently signed by that firm, for the sum of 3801. ; and the prisoner wished to have 2001. in gold, and the remainder in small notes. Some suspicion was felt respecting the signature, and witness communicated with Mr. Palmer, another gentleman on the establishment, and a messenger was sent to Messrs. Sandys and Co., and the prisoner was desired to wait for a short time; and in consequence of what was ascertained, he was given into custody. The witness then produced the check that was brought to the Bank by the prisoner. Mr. James Palmer proved that he questioned the pri. soner respecting the check, and he told him that he had got it from a person of the name of Brett, and that he had met him in the street, and he was to take the money to him to a public-house in St. George's-fields. William Brand, one of the City Marshals, proved that he took the prisoner into custody, and he asked him where he got the forged check from. Ile replied that he had re ceived the check from a young man named Brett, who lived in the Westminster-road, and that he was to take the money to him at a public-house in the neighbourhood of that place. He was about to search the prisoner, when he said that Brett had given him a book to put the check in for the purpose of keeping it clean, and he produced the book. On searching the prisoner he found a canvass bag which, he said, was to put the money in. Some other evidence was adduced, when it appeared that Brett a as formerly a clerk to Messrs. Sandys and Co. and that he had absconded from their employ. It also appeared that the minute the prisoner was taken into custody, he begged that the officers would go with him to secure Brett. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE upon this intimated his opinion that the Jury, under such circumstances, would not convict the prisoner of wilfully uttering the check, knowing it to be forged. The prisoner it appeared all along told thc'same story, and it was very probable that he had been deceived by the young man Brett. The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not guilty. William Johnson, 23, was indicted for forgery and uttering an order for the payment of 101 103., with intent to defraud Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Co. , the bankers. . . Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had for merly been in the service of Captain Charitie, of the East India Company's service, but had left his employ some time prior to the 18th of December. On that day the pr soner went to one of the Captain's tradesmen and wished to pay for a hat he had purchased, and tendered a check, apparently signed by Captain Charitie, for ten guineas. The tradesman to whom he applied happened not to have sufficient change, and the prisoner left the shop. The next day the prisoner went to the prosecutors', where the Captain kept an account, and told the - cashier that he had been sent with a check that had been pre sented at his master's by a servant of Captain Charitie's, and that he wished to know whether it was a genuine one, and was sent for that purpose. Some suspicion was created, and the prisoner was given into custody, and when the officer was taking him to the Compter, he tore up a piece of paper, which turned out to be a fac simile of the forged cheek. T..e prisoner's former master gave him a good character during the period he was in his service. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence—Ten years' transportation. John Castles, aged 21, was indicted for stealing a 101. Bank of England note from a letter, that had ceme into his possession as servant to a post-master. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. Judgment deferred. Thomas Rosser, 33, and David Smith, 29, were in dicted for assaulting and robbing William Dowst upon the Queen's highway, and taking from his person a watch, and 30s. in money, his property. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution. . This case occupied the Couh for some considerable time ; but, as the facts have been given very recently, it will be unnecessary to report them upon the present oc casion. They were found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for life. (Before Mr. Sergeant ARABIN.) James Dutton, aged 3g, was placed at the bar, and in dicted for feloniously sending a certain letter to George Lane Blount, Esq., charging him with having committed a certain offence, with intent thereby to extort money from him. The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the charge. Mr. Sergeant ARABIN having looked over the deposi tions, addressed the prisoner, and told him that he had pleaded guilty to a charge of.the most serious character, and it was an offence which at one time would have subjected him to czpital punishment, and that punishment would, in all probability, have been carried into effect. The sentence of the Court, under all the circumstances was, that he be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENC E. MANSION-HOUSE. Three young men, of respectable appearance, named Gibson, Brown, and Tizza'd, were summoned before Alderman Pirie by the London and Blackwall Railway Company, upon the 3d and 4th of Victoria, commonly called Lord Seymour's Act, cap. 97, section 16, by which it is enacted. " That if any person wilfully obstruct or im pede any officer or agent of a Railway Company in the execution of his duty, or if any person shall trespass on any railway, and refuse, upon being required, to quit it, he may be detained until he shall be brought before a Justice, and fined any sum not exceeding 51., or in default of pay ment of the penalty, be imprisoned for any period not ex ceeding two calendar months." The prisoners were also charged with having assaulted one of the officers on duty. The Solicitor to the London and Blackwall Railway Company attended to prosecute, and Mr. Hill appeared as solicitor to the prisoners. The Solicitor to the Company having mentioned that the public safety was deeply concerned in the preven tion of all obstructions, briefly stated the facts as they were detailed subsequently in evidence. He declared that, as impediments had frequently occurred, the Com pany was determined to prosecute every violation of so salutary an enactment. Rutherford, a porter of the Railway Company, stated that, on the evening of the 24th of December, it was his duty to let passengers in and out of the first and second classes of carriages. Upon the arrival of the train at the Minories he let out Tizzard, who was in the second-class carriage, first; he then let out Brown and Gibson, who were in the first-class carriage, and pointed out to them all the way from the station. Tizzard said that he wanted to see the ground, and took no notice of his request that they would go on. Gibson then said to witness, "If you insult my friend, I'll smash your face," and held up his fists accordingly. The guard then came up, and said that Gibson must not strike witness; upon which Gibson said, " I will strike you too." It was necessary, as the train sets off every quarter of an hour, to have the station cleared for the passengers who were to go down, and the defendants would not go until they were forced away. They made great resistance, so that it took ten or a dozen men to put them down. Gibson was most particularly , offensive, and struck the poticeman employed on the sta tion. The three defendants were drunk. The witness gave his evidence in such a manner as led all who heard it to believe that his tone and manner in a place where he might venture to assume authority must have been intolerable. _ _ The Ticket Collector to the Company stated that he observed the three defendants quarrelling with the first wit ness and the policemen, and obstructing the ingress and egress of the passengers. The policeman was endeavour ing to prevail upon the defendants to go away, and was struck by Gibson, who was the most violent of all. Wit ness, when be saw the policeman struck, said that the de fendant must be takenito the station-house. Alderman PIRIE—In what condition were they, intoxi cated or sober ? Witness—They were all drunk. Dempsey, a policeman acting for the Company stated that lie was called to turn the defendants off the platform. He requested them to go, and Brown said, " they would see him d—d first." The check-taker told witness to do his duty, and turn them off the platform, or the passen gers who were about to go to Blackwall could not be known. Witness then proceeded to move them off, and when they got into the yard, Gibson, who was exceed ingly violent, struck him. They threw themselves on the ground, and resisted most violently, and Gibson's coat was torn in the struggle. The foreman called out to wit ness to take the men to the station house, and he did so with the assistance of seven or eight others. Mr. Hill said that one of his clients wanted to go back to the carriage in which he arrived for his handkerchief and gloves, and if he had been in common courtesy per mitted, not one word would have been tittered ; but the request was not only refused, but refused in terms of in sufferable insolence. The fact was that Mr. Gibson, when very reasonably expressing his indignation, was most roughly handled and dragged to the station-house, and his two friends, after subsequently calling at that place for the purpose of administering to his wants, were detained in order that they might appear as defendants instead of wit nesses. The statement of the defendants was to the following effect :—Upon leaving the carriages, Mr. Brown having dropped his glove, stooped down to look for it, whereupon the porter said, D—n you, Sir, walk one way or the other." Not relishing such an address, Mr. Brown said that he should take the number of the person who used such language, and complain to the Company. At that mo ment another of the persons upon the railroad said, ‘' Oh, d—n them, they are only Custom-house officers ;" and the persons who had given evidence immediately proceedei to act with great. violence, and dragged Mt. Gibson to the station-house, where they put handcuffs upon him, and the two other defendants having called to bail him, were de tained. They complained that the po►ice sergeant at the station-house not only exercised the most tyrannical au thority there, but refused to let them have a messeuger to inform their families of their situation. As for the charge of having been drunk, they denied that they had drank any thing hot porter or ale, which they took in modest quantities. Two of them were Custom-house officers, and had been doing duty on board the Rockers, near Gravesenel. Alderman PIRIE—The witnesses have sworn that you were all drunk, and I have no reason to doubt that you caused an obstruction. Now the danger arising to the public from confusion and impediments in such a place is extreme. I can easily perceive that the porter acted upon this occasion with a spirit which shows that he is not a fit person for the situation which he holds. Civility is a ►ery cheap commodity, and it is evident that he has it riot. I fine Mr . . Gibson; who acted most violently, twentj shillings, and each of the other defendants ten shillings. The defendants immediately paid the fines andileparted. THE SHIP DRTAD.-It is but justice to Jame s Stott, who was apprehended on suspicion of having been implicated in the frauds upon the Insurance Companies; together with Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wallace, and Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace, is now considered, after a searching investigation, which has taken place, to have been wholly ignorant of the designs attributed to these two pri soners with respect to the ship Dryad. Mr. Stott is to be examined as a witness on the trial. The suspicions against him were caused by the anxiety which be exhibited to do business as broker on the occasion. EVENING EDITION GUILDHALL. A Smithfield drover, named Streik, was charged before Mr. Alderman Johnson with savagely assaulting Joseph Ratcliff, a constable of the Animals' Friend Society, Mark-lane. The complainant stated that he was ordered by the Society to attend the markets in Smithfield, and on Friday last he observed the prisoner, who was without the usual numbered badge required to be worn by drovers, cruelly beating some sheep. Witness attempted to take him into custody, but the prisoner knocked him down twice, and whilst on the ground kicked him in the most savage many tier ; and had it not been for the interference of the police, he should have been seriously injured. Mr. Alderman JonntsoN asked whether the prisoner might not be ignorant of Ratcliff's capacity? Mr. Roberts the Society's Secretary said such could scarcely be the case, as the constable bad attended the the market every Monday and Friday, for upwards of _ti! twelvemonth. He would press for an exemplary punish-. meat in this instance as the complainant had been veil brutally treated, and amongst the class of persons like the prisoner who frequented the market, if such assaults were allowed to pass with impunity the constable's life would be in danger. Mr, Alderman JOHNSON ordered the prisoner to find bail to answer the charge at the sessions. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday Thomas Webb was indicted for feloniously stealing a sum of 161. 10i., the property of William Eades and others. There were other counts in the indictment laying the money as the property of other individuals. Mr. Chambers conducted the case for the prosecutions Mr. Wallinger the defence. It appeared from the evidence that a club was esta blished at East Hasley by a number of labourers and others in the nature of a benefit society. The members were to subscribe a certain sum monthly, and the accumn' lated fund was to be divided every five years. The prisoner Webb was app o i n t e d c l er k i n 1838, an d h e un d ertoo k le t lodge the money subscribed in the Guildford Savings' Bank every three months, or oftener if necessary, being paid 2s. 6d. for each journey. When the five years ending June, 1840, had expired, it was ascertained that there was n° money belonging to the Club in the Savings' Bank, having been withdrawn by Webb. With respect to the sums laid in the indictment (161. 10s.) the Actuary at the Savings Bank deposed that it had never been paid in . at all. Mr. Wallinger took an objection to the indictment that it had not been laid to be the property of the trustees is whose name the money wa; lodged in tho Savings Bank , but the Court overruled the objection. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and Mr. Chamber s then said there were other indictments against the prisone r for stealing other sums amounting in all to nearly 1501. the property of the same Society, but he would not go on with them. The COURT after consulting together sentenced the soner to seven years' transportation. It was stated in the course of the trial that some wealthl individuals in the neighbourhood had subscribed a sum is • reimburse the poor men who had been defrauded. The other cases tried were of no public interest. CORN AVERAGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN d For the Week ended Jan. I, 1840, made up from the Return; the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat ...... 645. Sd. Oats Arley ns I 11d. I Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST Sl% WEEKS. Week ending WiIEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. 1 RYE. 3BANS. pA - - .- -- -----/ Noy. 27 6O 0 33 6 22 :2 34 10 43 10 43 0 Dec. 4 5.) 7 32 7 22 - 1 34 11 43 0 41 1 11 59 11 32 0 21 Il 31 4 42 4 4d $ IS 59 1 31 6 21 4 32 I.) 41 i 4 0 1 25... Jan. 1 .., IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE Six WE OS O Wheat s9s. 10d Oats ......... 21s. 93. Beans ..... ...AU. Barliey, 'l2l. ne I , Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORP. 04 Wheat......... 275. &I. I Oats Barley l3s. 103, 1 Rye THE MARKETS. COAL M Ships arrived since :ARKET. last market-day, 52. s. d, Adair's Buddle's West Hartley 2O 0 Carr's Hartley Llolywed Main 2l 6 Leaze's Main Ord's Hedhugh West Hartley ...... .. Wylani Walls E d Bewicke and C •i3 6 Walls End Clennell Walls End Clarke and Co l9 0 Walls End .losforth Walls lend Heaton "3 3 1 Wall, End Hilda ........ ...... 22 6 I Walls End Killingworth ... 3 0 Ditto reshipped Walls End Verey Bensham 22 0 Eden Main 22 0 r•di W. E. Braddyll'aHetton... j „A , Walls End Hetton ............ I, Walls End Larnbton ......... Walls End Stewart's ........ Walls End Whttwch Walls Ei)d Hartlepool ..... Walls End Apel,de ....... ;1: 2 Walls End Cornforth Walls End Coundon ................. Walls End Richardson's . re :;, 3 1 Walls End South Durhalr•••'ij f Walls End St. Helen's lees A V 1 ails End Seymour Tues ; ; Wal s End Tees Cowpen Walls Newton E n Main l ... COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. ---", yes,. Wheat. j Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. . .......-- 8 -- -.-- : Per Quarter. s, to s. s. to a. a. to s. a, to a. 8 . t " 4 4 Boston Braintree 56 66 24 34 f 6 :30 38 46 40 .41 Brighton 59 78 2S 36 22 26 39 47 3 2 6 0 , Cambridge — Cl 32 21 38 -- •4 1 Chichester — 61 :32 2:3 4`.: •^"" 4 4 Dunmow 6l 63 28 36 24 30 35 41 40 , Grantham - ..,, Grimsby 59 60 35 39 22 26 42 44 -- ' .44 Hailsham 52 62 26 32 22 29 40 -- , Hitchin 5B 60 30 38 22 30 28 3! -- 4 4 Ipswich 53 60 30 34 24 28 38 40 38 g Lewes 5B 66 34 36 21 23 34 138 SI 4 4 Lynn 54 64 38 39 24 28 42 44 -- / Maidstone 59 66 36 39 '26 32 40 50 .-- 44 Norwich Petworth Rom ford 59 '7O 28 36 20 28 34 46 30 e i Sandwich 56 67 34 43 27 34 33 45 3 8 1I Tnetford 56 59 28 32 24 30 36 40 40 - / Wisbech ....„ 6O 66 28 34 24 30 44 45 -- 41 Witham 57 67 . 26 34 '25 28 38 47 36 0 Yarmouth 6O 65 27 31 21 30 40 42 3 8 Li VERPOOI. CORN ikl.trucer.—Jan. 4 Os $ 1 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. ~... . 61, to v ----- Red 6 6 0 '. 4 Scotch, Welch, and Manx -- Irish, White 8 e • i -- Red '7 3 6 8 -- Foreign .. OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 :, JO Irish ... ... 3 0 0 1 0 Foreign 19 1 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ...... Scotch and Irish, pea 601bs. 40 50 —... /4 42 44 .42 # 46 48 44 4% 34 46 3 0 4 0 . :33 45 3 8 : . 36 40 40 "/ 44 45 36 47 36 0 40 42 3 8 .—Jan. 4 0 , 9 1 9s, lil I, to •„' i 6 " 6 6 '1 610 S 6 8 a 7, i '7 3 v Forel ; OATS, English, Irish ... 3 0 0 9 Foreign BARLEY, English, Maltin 36 0 3 ' • . 5 Scotch and Iris: Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 43 38 1060 4 4 :l '''' Oi Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 4 !, a --Foreign FLOUR, English, per 280:b. 43 0 ~. .' 0 " . Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2416bs .. 26 n :1 - 5 0 INDIAN CORN, p(r 4801 b. ..... 34 0 , Il RYE, per Imperial quarter :16 4 , 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 50,. 584, 645. Red 466. 585. t 2" Foreign 4n, 5-is. FW. Barley, Malting 9 03. 326. :-' 4s ' Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans 405, 4 , 25. 455 Pease, Grey Blue and White 405. 41s. 4N.. Linseed... ................. - 425. 4f s. 485. Flour (per sack) c. it 44... COs Rapeseed per 10 quartcrs) —l. %sl. sa CHELTENHAM 161AlthETS. 0• 1 d. c 1 Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.? Per lb. Wheat Barley 4 0 40 i Mutton Oats 4 0 50 1 Veal Beans Pease 6 0 is 0 Lamb ...,.. ........... ..... 0 Hay 41.1:15. to 5!. Os. 01. per Inn- CANFEBBU RI AIARKET. Wheat, white........-- Os. to 68s. * Old— ....,_ __.q. to _4 .. -.• ••• • -. red.................. 575. to 6-41. --0 1 d... —s. -.-s. to ---- Barley, Malting..... :i A. to 355. tirntling.. —s. to 4. Oats .rownowsweweet 235. t•'2;f-. ......._ 01,1 ...... —s• 1 0.'7. Beans ................--..... 3is '0 4s. 01,1--- --F. to ' Pease ~....---... 425. to —e. —.... Grey ........... 43.. to .....' CHELMSFORD MARKET. 2g g° l f (17 to 71 , Oats 57 64 Pease, Gray ,ir 33 36 White 40 . 36 37 Beans, Tick 4O 23 32 Mangan ...“ Wheat, White Red Barley Chevalier Grinding s , SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to Sil ver for n ; rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons or Forks, Idtif Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoo ns , s s . p er d ozen; Table Candles'l * lb 1 1 8 inches high, 7s. p e r p a i r; th e particular metal of to these articles are ma d e i s so lik e s i lver, that it can only 11;far from it by the stamp; every article made in silver s lured in this material by RIPPON and BURTON ; W e ll s - s t ree t, Oxford-stre e lAs Who, to pre ven t i mpos i t i on , con fi ne t h e sale of it to then's. Ca . talogues of prices gratis BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., Mrs. J. T. Hall, of a son. , on fr At Ahmedabad, India, the lady of Sir R. K. Arbil iP Bart., of daughter. I , On the 28th ult., at Leicester, Mrs. J. F. Ball, of a avg../ DIED. the 4 le On the 2d inst., after a long and afflicting illness, at - ,400- ' C ol V ol of 67, to the deep regret his family and friends. 101 illornby, late Commandant of the Portsmouth division of j Marines. dsfe On the 6th inst., in Park-street, Westminster, E ash' Rushton Preston, Eeq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister -a' aged 28. h On the 31st ult., C a pt a i n J. C ross ley, late of the .It goon Guards, aged 55. f On:the 30th ult., at . Burgh Castle,. Ann, the relict 0 Cory ~Esq., jun., late of Great Yarmouth, aged 64. . o . o l l ' On the 2d inst., at Norwood, Surrey, Marian, w i fe _d ' V Dawson, Esq., formerly of Walthamstow, Essex. On the sth inst., Henrietta Lode, fourth daughter Hornidge, Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell-square. tl4 O l On the 4th inst., at WI ymouth, Sophia, widow of Sir W. H. Mulcaster, R.N. On the sth inst., Charles, fourth son of the late P . Thomas, Esq., of Highbury-grove. ........._ • „ ri s ; jo London: Printed :Ind Published by 11111111)0 Yuc-” i, No. 11'2. Strand, at The Sqn ()Mee, No. 11 Z. °, l - 1 1, ~ the county of Alickileim—Tharaday, January 7 1". may b, Isl 9 Tr eatv far Ev v j ratty, compat gaging inm of the to bep t , Per' thr I ITRAI Arm /tore a, eatss es tit les tett si of the 1,4 4 ttr6-p on the 6, on ; ;bitr's gati on , aruin baß e d •nR a td *us e , , smell i People, to tile: i/ . ~~((\ 4' e MARRIED. oar On the sth inst., at St. Mary's, Reading, Mr. G. 1 3 .," S man, Old Kent-road, to Ann, youngest daughter of J. of man, Esq., of Reading, Berks. On the 6th inst., Sarah, only daughter of S. Levy, E s( l .f Wellclose-square, to Mons. D. Picard, of Paris. At Ross, E. Townsend, Esq., Captain 83d Regt., to - 53 60 daughter of the late Rev. H. Townsend, of Rosscarberry , At Rio, Lieut. A. Heseltine, R.N., to Georgina, de li & of Lieut. J. R. O'Reilly, R.N. 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