The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

EVENING SUN MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNIAIG PAPERS OF THIS DAY. POST.— The new Spanish Minister, Senor Sancho, has, we find, reached London, as was anticipated. The Commissioners charged with the Thee per Cent. capitalisation of the coupons of the Active Debt may be looked for almost immediately. • The failure of the small, but respectable, bank ing7house of Messrs. Hector and Co, of Peters field, of which some mention was made in the City on Saturday, appears, tmfortunately, to be confirmed. The liabilities of the concern are estimated at 30,0001. The effect of the failure of the Chi Chester Old Bank, recently made public, on the local interests of the neighbourhood, was, from all accounts, greatly mitigated by the seasonable interference of some members of the Lennox family, and other influential residents of that part of the country ; but, although Messrs. Hector and Co. are said to be sanguine as to the payment of a good dividend, we do not hear that they have as yet been able to make any arrangement that can be attended with pre sent benefit or relief to the holders of their notes, and creditors generally. CHRONICLE.—The banking-house of Hop kins, Druid, and Co., of Arundel, has been com pelled to suspend payments. In these alarming times of monetary pressure and commercial dis tress, the fluctuations or contractions and expan sions that have taken place in the currency ne cessarily demand attention and inquiry. We have frequently traced back the serious contrac tions in the currency to the stringent operations which the Bank of England was compelled to adopt in self-defence, after the abstraction of 7,000,0001. of gold from her coffers in a few months of the year 1839, to pay for food to the people after the bad harvest of 1838, whereby the gold in the Bank coffers was pulled down fi•oni 9,600,000/. in December, 1838, to 2,500,000/. in August of 1839. We have shown repeatedly, by facts and figures, that from that time to the present the Bank has been labouring hard, and that with all her appliances of the screw the Di rectors have never got much over 5,000,0001. of specie in their coffers since that time, and at the present the stock of bullion does not exceed 4,500,000!., while it is threatened with a spring ,drain to pay for further importations. The cir culation of the Bank drooped from 20,249,409/. in July, 1838, to 15,823,0001., in December, 1839; and in December, 1840, it stood at 15,714,2001., while the bullion at the last-named period was Only 3,942,000/. These are clear results from plain causes. SUN.---We have had very little doing all day in any of the Markets, and prices were flat, except as regards Spanish Stock. Money was scarce. Consols for im mediate transfer brought 88?-, to 89, and for the open ing 891 to 89g. Exchequer bills were depressed to lOs gild 7s. premium, and India Bonds to ls. premium and ls. discount. Bank Stock was dull at 164, and India Stock at 249, being the previous value. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised only 99 to 98 1 1. Spanish Active Bonds were quoted 24i in the morn ing, and 25 to g bore the close of business. Portu guese New Five per Cents. went up from 324 to 331 to while the Three per Cents. were at 20. Brazil Bonds were markol 581, and Colombian 19. Dutch Two-and. a-Half per Cents. were .521 to t. There was no. positive decline in the Share Market, hut very little inclination existed to do business. Great Western :Railway Shares were at 141 to 15, and South , 1 stern 16i to 17i prem. Brighton were 13+ to I$L, and North Midland 35 discount. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTE IZS ALUS.-YESTE RDA Y. Of the few Derby favourites mentioned in the course of the afternoon, the Lord of Holderness and Bailin lieele alone were backed with any spirit ; 25 to 1 was laid twice against the first, and several parties were anxious to invest upon the same terms, but the general offers fell five points short ; against Ballinkeele the odds quoted below were laid to about 3001., the betters and takers being very fairly balanched. If we except a dis position to back William de Fortibus, there was no other change. For the Oaks, Passion was again in force at 7 to 1, taken eagerly ; 1 . ,200 to 100 was also taken, " bar one," but the name of the filly .was kept a profound secret ; offers to take 30 to 1 each about the Duke of Rittland's Bizare filly and Mr. Thornhill's Eusebia. No others mentioned. THE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila 14 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken i 3 O to I agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holdeniess ;10 to 1 agst Mr. faber's Ballinkeele—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Curator 40 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's William de Fortibus—t. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Palinunts 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Osborne's Master Thomas—taken 100 to 1 agst Mr. Bird's Dr. Allen 25 to 1 agst Barrier and Defier—taken 1000 to 50 agst all the Mares—taken TR OAKS. 7 to I agst Mr. Sadler's Passion—taken 12 to 1 agst " bar one"—taken 4 %.7i to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Ensebia 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Bazarre filly 4 3 to i agst Lorl G. Bentinek's Topsail THE LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. The Lprd Bishop of London has been applied to by the Gresham Committee to write the inscription for the first stone of the Royal Exchange, to be raid in January liext by Prince Albert, and his Lordship immediately- ac quiesced in the kindest manner. The preparations will be upon a scale of elegance and splendour worthy of the occasion. The entertainment to be given by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house to Prince Albert Will be the first grand entertainment of the .Mayoralty of Alder man Pirie, the first day of which Mayoralty has been dis tinguished by the birth of the Heir Apparent to the Crown. The following, brief extracts from the Corporation Re creds have reference to the two occasions on which a Inilar ceremony was performed by Royal personages : " 1667.—8 e, it remembered that the King's Majesty Ring:charles d came to the Royal Exchange on the 23d. Octoer, anno 14;07, and there fixed the first pillar thereof, which is that standing in the west side of the north en trance. He entertain:Ad by the City .and Company ,with a chine of beet; grand dish of fowl, gammons of bacon, dried tongues, anchovies, caviare, Sze., and plenty of several:serts of wine. ,He gave, 201. in gold t o th e workmen. The entertainment was in a shodd, built and Adorned on purpose in the Scottish Walk. 1570.—1 n the year a thousand five hundred and st r v e n tt e .; on the 23d of Januarii, the Queen's Majestic attended ‘l , itit her Nobilitie, came from her house iu the Strande, calL , tl Summerset House, and entered the Citic by Temple Bar, through Fleete-street, Chepe, and so by the north side of tl;e Bourse .to Sir Thomas Gresham's, in Bishopsgate, where she dined. After dinner liar Ma jesty, returning, througim Cornhill, entered the Bourse on the south side end, after that she had viewed every part thereof above the ground, especially the Pawne, which was richly furnished with all sortes of the first wares in the Citie, she caus e d th e time Bourse by an Herald and a trumpet to be proclaimed the Royal Exchange, and so to be called from - thenceforth and not otherwise." AMERICAN CENSUS, JUNE 1, 1841. .F'ree whites.—Maßes Females Free coloured persons.—Males... 186,467 Females 199,778 14,189,10 S 386,245 1,246,408 Females 1,240,805 2,487,213 Aggregate •• ''''''' ....... 6- 9 ,J66 ************************* 0 r " On board vests of war .............. ............ 6,100 ! 717 ,756 ; i n commerce Total 1 7,068,666 Employed in Agriculture, ? 117,.575 ; in manufactures, 791,545 ; in sea navio•atior; 56,625 ; in inland navigation, 33,067 . ; .in learned pro- Sessions 65,236 ; students and pupils in colleges an d schools,' 4,493,900 ; number of whites . 1., above tw ent , years of age who cannot read or write, A9,693.—r 4 ...ite rary Gazette. ------------—_ A NOVEL, BY THE TIM M AT CH-MAKER, AUTHOR OF " COUSIN GEOFF REY ; wr iters (observes the AND "THE MAltn Y""- INC MAN."—Among that cla ss Court Journal) which ranks a s peculiarly o this can novel c lovely and v t ery accomplished _authoress ,e presume, of holds a distinguished place. No one, be indifferent to the unaffected charm of style, the acute perception. into motive, the caustic , y e t 4 place, the racy indi weak • good humoured exposure of awithal, " . vidual personal sketch, the pathos, the well timed power, the ever easy drollery of Miss Ferrier (author of` Mar riage," " Destiny," &c.), of Miss Austin, and of ` tlie writer of "Cyril Thornton." And in the lady to wh an om d we owe " Cousin Geoffrey," " The Marrying Man, " The Match-Maker," will be found all these im p uted merits. Those scoarges of society, the real vischio makers, were ae;ver before so broadly held up to the ridi cule and contempt they merit, as in these three volumes ; and although the satire is pungent in the extreme, yet is the good faith so obvious, that we doubt not a great moral result will be attendant on their perusal. In consoquence of the great inconvenience felt. attended with injurious effects, to persons' eye-sight its the country, by their not being mabled to be properly suited with Spectacles, &V.. and which have come under the notice (to some extent) of the Messrs. S. and B. SOlornons, Opticians, &c., at, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City ; the have contrived a mode by which individuals at the most remote part of4lio globe Call be suited with their Newly-invented Spectacles, as correct as if the person were present ; by those who have never made use of Spectacles, stating the number of inches they can see moderate sized print from the eye, and those who are snaking use of Spectacles by sending them, and making the same statement when in use. Immediately the Newly Invented Spectacles are placed before imperfect vision that mist and dullness which appear before the eyes is at once rely oved ; every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright anti brilliant, and is brought to its Youthful, natural, and original state. Their Sound Magnifiers Invisible Voice Conductors, will enable ... ~ persons at an advanced a ge, and of 40 and 50 years ' s t an ding of 4 11 . 14 , S 7 eaffense - doeAsess to join i 41 general conversation, and to catch the ...: sound of a distant low swaker at a public assembly ; they are not ;5.:.1j-„, ' In the least.pereeptitle, /for more uncomfortable, than having a C.-;,... •.--_,.. small piece of fine wool in its place. The Sound Magnifiers, I nvi.. ( -••••Th ^ffnf r Ode Voice Conductors and Sp ectacles, are sent daily (b y post) to .. various partsof the country. 29, Albemarle-street, Pi cca dilly, op_ t`= posite the York ITotel, and 76, Xing William-street, City,—No ---)___ connection with persons of the tame name. =-4-4....: _‘.......:...). . --.....,._.....' 1111 a . 0 ( r Z .k 4 i47 L ~~~ =- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Ino2l THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The sensation produced by the abrupt termination of the Michaelmas Term, and the adjournment of the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday last, has by no means diminished. The act itself was extraordinary, and wanted that to which lawyers attach commanding import ance—precedent. The manner in which, it. was done is also commented upon as partaking more of temper than of dignity, and as therefore calculated rather to diminish respect for the Court than to reprove with effect the absence of Counsel, or to promote the public inte rests, by securing a more regular attendance of the Bar. There can be no question that the absence of Counsel from the Court, when the case is called on for argument or for trial, is as disre spectful to the Court as it is unjust to the party who has retained and actuully paid for the an ticipated advocacy. Lord Denman, by suddenly closing the term, in consequence of the absence of Counsel, in cases which stood in the paper, in flicted severe injury on the parties, whose inte rests were thus necessarily postponed. Thus pu nishment was inflicted upon them of no ordinary weight, although they were altogether innocent, both in intention and in act, of the " disrespect to its dignity," which the course adopted by the Court was designed to punish. Lord Den man's conduct in his high office is generally marked by consideration combined with dig nity. The suaviter in mode has seldom been found blended with the Artiter in re more happily than in the conduct of this exalted judicial functionary when presiding in the Court of which he is no less the ornament than the oracle. Conceding to Lord Denman this un constrained testimony of well-earned commenda tion, we the more deeply regret the absence of his usual consideration, and the momentary sus pension of his proverbial equanimity, in the pro ceeding to which we have alluded. The reason as signed by his Lordship for this proceeding was, we think, insufficient to justify the extraordinary step. If " the time of the Courts of Justice be the pro perty of the public," as his Lordship observed when animadverting on the absence of Counsel from their posts, then the public functionaries, who preside as Judges in those Courts, and are paid by the public for their presence and services, should not be too prone to consult their personal convenience when the public interests call fbr its occasional sacrifice. A very short retirement by the Judges from the Bench to the adjoining Chamber would have enabled the attorneys to have gone or sent for the Counsel they had re tained, and thus have obtained their presence. STANDARD.—Lord John Russell has writ ten to certain persons at Plymouth, in reply to an address of condolence. There is not much in the letter, but the following sententious apology for the abortive budget, justifies a remark " They attempted, above all, to subject the ad mission of foreign corn to a known and moderate duty, in place of a scale so curiously adjusted, that it baulks the farmer at one moment and starves the people at another, while it defrauds the revenue at all times." Allowing for monstrous exaggeration, Lord John's view of the Corn-laws has some founda tion. These laws, though they do not " baulk the farmer" as is .proved by the rapid advance of agriculture, or starve the people, as we see by wheat at als. the quarter, after four successive bad harvests, certainly do temper prices, so as to prevent desperate speculations in agriculture, and to control, though they cannot prevent, desperate speculations in commerce. Thus they • certainly do support prices at one time, and reduce them at another, so as to keep a steady supply ; but what does Lord John mean by "defrauding the revenue at all times ?" the phrase with which he completes his triad. Does his Lordship maintain that food is natu rally a proper object of taxation, or that corn can he justifiably taxed at any time, except with the view of rendering justice to all classes of the people—a constant supply? Lord John must either mean this, or he writes non sense. Where there is no right there can be no wrong, and a fraud upon the revenue can be committed only upon the hypothesis that a revenue is due. But is a revenue due from the food of the people ? Perhaps the Morning Chro nicle, or sonic Corn-law lecturer, will answer us. Lord John says that the Ministers who have suc ceeded to him and his colleagues have an easy task; and an easy task no doubt they would have, if, like the Whig Cabinet, they had no care ex cept to keep their places; for few will propose to dismiss Sir R. Peel's Cabinet, in order to bring back their predecessors. But with a war in China, a war in Central Asia, jealousies in America and on the Continent, a repeal sedition in Ireland, and an toiti-Corn-law sedition in England, a deficient harvest, and a revenue minus the necessary expenditure, Sir Robert. Peel has certainly inherited no " bed of roses; " but still there i 3 no cause for despnding when Sir Robert Peel is Prime Minister. FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. (From the London and Paris Ladies Magazine of Fashion).. _ _ Manteaux vary from one which is little more than a large pelerine to the long one reaching the feet ; cut biais, almost without a seam, they hang very well, and are simple ; short manteaux a l'Espagnol are cut as a very large pelerine, en biais, falling in folds, with small square collar ; they are made of coloured velvets, lined with satin or ermine. Pelisse cloaks are made of black or violet velvet, with revers and facings embroidered in cordonnet, and lined with silk of the same colour ; more simple ones are made of levantine, with pclerine of velvet, of the same colour. Large pelerines, or capes, are worn in Paris, of black velvet, lined with deep blue or violet silk, fastening at the throat with a cordeliere or brandenbourgs ; another manteau, termed cloches. is without hood or cape, the fulness guaged on the shoulders. Velvet is very much used to trim and ornament dresses, and, though flounces of the same material as the dress are not approved, those of lace continue to be worn, particularly black lace on dark dresses. The cor sages continue to be made tight, with point or rounded point ; and sleeves are still tight, but sometimes a cou lisses ; the skirts are worn very long, almost training. Redingotes are made with revers, and pelerines of velvet ; those of toile de laine are made very high, closing with buttons ; corsages are also made with flat folds from the shoulder to the waist ; skirts are still ornamented, en tablier, with bouillons, fringes, &c. In Paris the pelerine is quite the fashion of the moment. The pelerine camail is well adapted for the morning n•eglige ; made a little smaller they embellish the other dresses, and ornament the plain body, parti cularly when finished with rich fringes or lace ; they will also be worn in full dress of black or white lace, sometimes formed of one piece, or of rows of lace laid on plain, forming square, The bonnets now worn are very pretty : the crown is low, and the former, narrowing over the forehead, widens at the cheeks ; the corners are sometimes a little turned up. Velvet, velours epingle, satins, &c. are the materials used, and the colours are ra ther dark ; feathers are universally worn, and flowers of velvet, or with feuillage of velvet : some arc made without bavolet, and satin bonnets a coulisses have ruches of tulle between each runner. Caps a is Puritaine are formed of lappets of lace, with eoques of velvet fixed in the centre, in each of which there is a pearl button. Coiffures ala rosiere, ala Chatelaines, a l'lsabeau, are amongst the fashionable caps now worn ; in dress hats, petits bores Victoria, hats a la Jean Bart, turbans a jours, are all in favour, in the shades of mais paille, mineral blue, sable d'Egypte, and Giselle a rou ge . Velvet flowers of brilliant colours are made both to ornament caps, or for the head. ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION NEAR TIPTON, STAFFORDSHIRE. BIRMING HAM , SATURDAY EVENING. —Last night, be tween eight and nine o'clock, as Mr. John Prince, of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, was returning home, he was met near to his residence by a man named Ed ward Bridgewater, licensed victualler, of this town, with whom he had had some money transactions, who pre sented a pistol at him. Mr. Prince struck him on the arm and the pistol fell upon the ground. Bridgewater then drew another pistol from his pocket and fired it at Mr. Prince, which happily did not take effect. Bridge water made his escape and returned to Birmingham. This evening he was apprehended, and will be brought up for examination before the Magistr a t es , at Bil ston, on T u esday morning. Mr. Prince is au extensive coal mer chant. a two s go D OMES TIC ECONONIY !—S3rne time b ro thers of the commu ne of llu gey , in th Loire, had to d ivide between themselves the proper et of their deceased father. Among the effects ' an old upright clock , which one might have supposed was easily divisible , b ut the difficulty was got over by 01‘, taking the works, and the other the case. When the lat ter brought his share home, his neighbours inquired w h at use he could convert to. " Oh! ' said he, "it will serve to put my wife in when she is dead, and it will soon be wanted, for she is confined to leer bed, and cannot live long ?" The poor woman heard the conversation, and with tears and cries remonstrated with her unfeeling; husband. He, however, placed the clock• case by the side of his bed, and there it remained as a warning to the poor creature, who nevertheless staggered on against her complaints for two long years. She died at last, and was by her determined husband locked up in the clock case as her coffin. In spite of the outcries of his fellow parishioners, and even the more solemn representations of the Cure, he insisted upon having his late partner thus interred, and interred she was aecordingly. On Wednesday last, the old British Constabu lary of Merthyr were superseded by Sir IL Peel's imita tion of the French Gens-d'arrnes. Of the latter, we en tertain the best hopes.—The Silurian South Wales. THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1841. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE CORN-LAWS.-PROGRESS OF INQUIRY. We learn that Sir Robert Peel has sent agents to the Continent for the purpose of collecting detailed informa tion relative to the average rates of wages, the prices of food, and other circumstances bearing on the condition Of the humbler classes. Judging from the characters of the gentlemen to whom this mission has been entrusted, there would appear to be every disposition on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet to obtain accurate and un biassed information. To what use he may hereafter an alliance of the monopolists with all who have, or be disposed to turn that information, time only can show. He has been raised to his present exalted position by who believe they haVe, an interest in the maintenance of corruption. Such alliances have occurred in earlier periods of the Right Hon. Baronet's history, and the world need scarcely be reminded of the fact, that, after using Such alliances as means towards the attainment of power, the Right Hon. Baronet has abandoned the im practicable policy of a party held together by such ties, and has, with the assistance of his political opponents, carried out measures to which he had throughout his whole previous career, declared the most irreconcileable hostility. The fact, that agents have been sent abroad to collect the information to which we have alluded, indicates a wish on the part of Sir Robert Peel to be prepared to choose his own course in the storm which he sees gather ing. We do not give him credit for any broad statesman like views on the great question of the Corn-laws ; we do not suspect him of a wish to break up a party, bound by no sympathy but the love of corruption ; but when_ we contemplate his previous career, and find him in the most important acts of his public life, avowedly ready to sacrifice principle to expediency, and party predilec tions to political convenience, we are naturally led to at tach some signification to the private missions of which the knowledge has reached us within the last few days. Of one thing Sir R. Peel may rest assured. The same disinterested support from the Liberal party, by which he and the Duke of 'Wellington were enabled to convert the abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts into a Government measure—the same cordial co-opera tion without which it would have been impossible for them to carry Catholic Emancipation—will be given to them, should they come forward in the ensuing Session, and call upon Parliament to unshackle the trade of the country, and remove those barbarous restrictions which create famine when abundance is within reach, by con demning thousands and tens of thousands to idleness and hunger, while food and employment are courting their acceptance, and are placed beyond their reach only by the selfish grasping conduct of a tyrannical oli garchy. In the meantime, we may, perhaps, anticipate some of the information which Sir R. Peel looks to obtain through the medium of' his agents. The statements we have published for some time past relative to the prices of food abroad and at home, have been extremely distasteful to those who advocate the continuance of our present famine laws. For that we were prepared. Our facts have been occasionally carped at, but having been cau tious in our assertions, our opponents, with the best will in the world, have not been able to convict us of one material inaccuracy. The only resource which remained for them, was a vague assertion, that if food was dearer in England than elsewhere, wages at least were higher. We denied this from the first, but we were not prepared with details ; we felt the necessity, however, of demolish ing the last hold in which the advocates of dear food had entrenched themselves, and lost no time in setting inqui ries on foot in different parts of the Continent, as to the current rates of wages, and the prices of those articles of food usually consumed by the working classes. To some of these inquiries we have obtained replies, and though we hope, before long, to collect more complete materials, we think we are already in possession of sufficient infor mation to justify our laying a portion of it before our readers. In the statements we are about to make we shall confine ourselves to Germany. From all parts, then, of Germany to which we have addressed our inquiries, we have been assured, in the first place, that employment is readily to be had by those wish to obtain it Nowhere do we hear of large bodies of well-disposed workmen being out of work. This we were prepared for. There are no Corn-laws in Germany, and on that very a:f.count there are fewer fluc tuations in trade. Their foreign commerce is less ex tensive than ours, but more re7ular, their merchants not being obliged every now and then, like our merchants, by the capricious operation of a sliding scale, to with draw their capital from its customary employment. This subject, however, would lead us too far for our present purpose. We have facts and figures to deal with, and will abstain for a while from more general questions. Let us see, then, what the wages are in Germany. In Harnburgh we find the current wages of able-bodied workmen from 96/. to 14s. a week. These are not the wages of skilful m ochanics, nor of men employed at piecework or for a few weeks now and then, hut men employed all the year ro:ind at fixed wages. In su g ar refineries in Hamburgh, all workmen receive their board and lodging, and about 6s. a wesdc in addition. In Ham burgh, let it be remembered, we .iiave stated, more than once, that meat costs about half what it costs in London. Our correspondent assures us we have rather overstated the Hambugh price. The rye breaO, which German labourers eat in preference to wheateD bread, costs in Hamburgh 1- 3 4 d per lb. The wheaten bread is for the most part very nearly as dear in Germany as in England. This is because the people at large consume but little of it, and what is consumed there is mostly sold in the form of what in this country would be called fancy bread. In the interior of Germany we find provisions cheaper and wages lower. At Berlin, rye bread is sold at id. a pound ; the best wheaten bread at 2-Id. a pound ; beef at 4d. ; mutton at 31d. ; and the wages of able-bodied men range from 7s. 6d.' to 9s. a week. At Leipsic 7s. 6d. are the average wages of able-bodied labourers, and the prices of food are nearly the same as at Berlin. . We have returns likewise from Kid, Breslau, Konigs berg, and Hanover, at which places the average wages are a trifle lower than at Leipsic, but food of every de scription considerably cheaper. It is not only bread and meat that are cheaper, but all the little luxuries of the poor, such as tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, &c., are incomparably cheaper. The prices of these articles sent us from Hamburgh arc the wholesale prices at which they are bought by the shopkeepers, so that some addition mast•be made for the retailer's profit. Brazil coffee sells at from 3d. to 54c1. a pound ; Havan nah, 41d. to 64d. ; white Brazil sugar at from 41d. to 6d. a pound ; brown at 3d. to 4; 3 4 d. Bohea tea at ls. 7/d. a pound, Congou at 2s. to 2s. Vid., Hyson at 2s. 31d. to 3s. 7: 1 2 1 -d. a pound. American leaf tobacco at 2d. to 51d. a pound, St. Domingo at sd. to 112 d. a pound. Yet Hamburgh, take it all in all, is not a lightly taxed State ; but the taxes are not thrown almost exclusively upon the food and comforts of the poor. Herrings and sprats, if caught by foreign fishermen, are not rigorously excluded from the provision market, while lobsters and turbots are admitted duty free. The Hamburgh mer chant is allowed to buy his wheat and rye wherever he can buy it on the best terms, and the cheapest oxen and sheep are those which the Hamburgh butcher purchases, let them come from his own neighbourhood, from Prussia, or from Hanover.—Morning Chronicle. BERNARD CAVANAGH, THE FASTING MAN. (From the Berkshire Chronicle.) The expose of this man's pretensions to perpetual abstinence from food, and his committal to Reading Goal, have produced a great sensation, both here and in the metropolis. We should here state that some portion of his food was missing, in the early part of the week, but he de clared that he gave it to his companion, Tiernan, which the latter admitted, but his testimony is not free from the suspicion of collusion. Up to yesterday (Friday) he had eaten nothing discoverable, but a small quantity of water had been taken out of the allowance left by the turnkey. It must be very obvious to persons at all acquainted with the process of digestion and secretion that the real mystery of Cavanagh's case was not in the extraordi nary length of time he could abstain from food, but in the alleged fact that neither of the ordinary human evacuations was to be discovered, although the frame appeared in a healthy condition. There is also the startling circumstance that, while abstinence may be a voluntary act, the other processes are involuntary, aad, for any length of time, uncontrollable. Yesterday, how ever, dispelled this part of the mystery. Cavanagh was observed, after chapel, engaged in washing his hands near the water-butt, and with great adroitness took that opportunity of disguising a fact to which we need not more particularly allude, but which has de stroyed any further chance of reviving his imposture. The deputy governor and assistant surgeon were in formed of the suspicions entertained, and, causing his dress to be examined, were satisfied there could be no further doubt on the subject. Cavanagh still refused to take food, but we have good reasons for believing that he will not continue to refuse over a certain num ber of days, when his powers of abstinence become exhausted. We are firmly persuaded that this man has really a great power of endurance, that be can abstain from food without inconvenience, for a much longer period than usual, and that he has a strongly-retentive power. But we are equally convinced that, not satisfied with being a physiological curiosity, he or his managers have grafted a scandalous imposture on his physical capabi lities, and that he is himself, though a shallow dupe, perfectly aware of the deception, and anxious, both from vanity and avarice, to keep it up to the utmost. We hear much welt-meaning, but morbid, sympathy, fbr this man ; but when we read his pretended miraculous cures in Manchester, his alleged intercourse with spiritual beings, and the disgusting profanation of sa cred things, intermingled with his fasting performances, and all subservient to the collection of money, we think the strong and stern arm of the law judiciously exercised in terminating so nauseous an imposture. 'There can now remain but Effie of interest in the further development of this fellow's proceedings. We should 'lava advocated leniency to him 9.3 the crazy dupe of his own imagination, or of the sordid g an g who mad e a profit of his exhibition ; but w hen we recolle c t th e consc i ousness of i mpos i t i on h o manifested, in disgui s i ng hi s the last c i rcumstance, which we cannot so conv eniently person while purchasing food , a nd in demonstrate, we think his sentence deserved, and his treatment quite good enough for a convicted pretender. - - A fine female otter was shot by Mr. James Ginn on the 15th inst. in a meadow adjo'ining the river in Sudbury. Mr. Ginn, accompanied by a retriever dog, was snipe-shooting on the meadow, when the otter sud denly issued from its covert of thick bushes, and attacked the dog. The skin is intended as a present to the Mu seum of the Mechanics' institution.—Chelmsford Citron. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 29 (Before the Vice-Chancellor of England.) SALISBURY V. MORRIS. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England sat in the Court in Lincoln's Inn to-day, for the purpose of hearing the remaining argumetts in this part-heard case. Mr. RICHARDS repliej at great length, and His HONOUR stated, that he must consider the case before he gave judgment. In the course of the morning', his Honour intimated that he would sit in his private roam on Wednesday, to hear the case of a ward. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 29. ,ROSS V. CLIFTON. John Elliot (who was under examination when we went to press yesterday), gave the following evidence : I purchased the land in which the cottages were built from Pocock, and sold it in 1830 to the plaintiff. I built the eight cottages which plaintiff now holds. I applied to Liyeock, the owner of the wall, to use it, and I got his consent by paying for half of it. He stipulated that I should not drain into the ditch, but into Pocock's land. I built the cottages two at a time. • I drained from the roof down upon the washhouse, and thence into a cesspool upon the premises. I cut holes through the wall into the ditch as a ter.:.po rary measure, but I did not obtain Laycock's consent to do so, nor was he aware of it. I never represented to plaintiff that I bought the wall. It was Laycock's wall. Thomas Stein, a surveyor, examined the wall at the back of plaintiff's cottages, and was of opinion that it was a party wall. His opinion was founded upon the manner in which the wall was used in building the cottages. The wall was fourteen inches. thick, and the houses had been built upon nine inches of it. The Foreman of the Jury here intimated that they were satisfied that the wall was a party wall, and that it was unnecessary to call further witnesses. Mr. Sergeant SHEA then replied, and Lord PENMAN having summed up, the Jury found a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 29. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WiRLD. The defendant in this case was formerly a supervisor in the Excise. The Crown sought b y this information to recover &on him four penalties of 5 001. each, for that (as was alleged) he dishonestly colluded with the de fendant in the former case, in order to keep certain glass made on the premises of the latter from charge, and thereby defrauded the revenue. From the evidence which was adduced it appeared that in 1837 and 1838 the defendant was supervisor in Liver pool, and his duty as such led him to attend the Old Swan Glassworks. He ought to have gone at unknown periods in order to have checked the books of the officer, but in place of that, it was given in proof that he was daily on the premises, and superintended the weighing himself ; in fact, that he performed the duty of the officer. The weighing was not performed ho nestly, and the defendant was content to take the weights from a man in the employment of the Company. It was further proved that the whole of the glass made was not put into the scale. In November, of the latter year, the officer under the defendant gave information, and on one day in that month the Collector of Custom; went to the premises, just after the defendant had weighed the glass for that day. He was making up his books. The Collector asked to see the glass, but was told it had gone to the cutting-room, and was mixed with the others. He went to the cutting-room and found such was not the case. He insisted upon its being pro duced, which was then done, and on being put into the scale was found to weigh 40111 m. more than it appeared to do by the defendant's books. It was also proved that both he and the officer often went to public-houses with servants of the Company, and that the bills for what was supplied were paid by the Company. The Jury found a verdict for the Crown. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would be content to enter the verdict on one count only.—Verdict taken ac cordingly for 500/. The Attorney-General, Sir Thomas Wilde, and Mr. Jervis, were Counsel for the Crown ; Mr. Humfrey and Mr. C. Jones appeared for the defendant. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 29. VAItTY AND MOPSEY V. NUNN. Dr. LUSHINGTON, at the sitting of the Court this morning gave judgment in the hackney Church-rate case, which has excited so much public attention. The Learned Judge said, before he proceeded •to deliver his opinions as to the admissibility of the allegation in this case, he wished to inquire of the Counsel whether he had rightly comprehended the objections taken to the libel, and whether they had included all the objections in their arguments ; for he had upon the narrow examination which the facts, as put together, allowed him to make, found it a matter of extreme difficulty to ascertain the objections intended to be raised against the Church-rate in question. According to his conception of the case, the first objection was, that the rate had been made by the churchwardens, whereas it ought to have been made by the trustees ; secondly, that the rate was invalid, be cause it ought to have been made over the whole parish, • and not upon a part only as divided ; thirdly, that no no tice had been given ; and fourthly, that the rate was in valid, because the churchwardens had, or might have had, funds in hand. Were those all the objections ? Dr. BAYFORD believed that they were. Dr. LUSBINGTON then said he was about to consi,Rer whether the allegationWhieh had been offered in this case on behalf of the party cited was sufficient answer, or any answer at all, to the libel given in. The suit was brought by persons representing themselves as the churchwar dens of St. John's, Hackney, and the libel was in the common form in such cases. Assuming the facts to be true, the rate was legal, and the defendant was bound to pay the same when assessed. But defendant had offered this allegation in .defence of his refusal to do so. The plea was two-fold—one part denying the averments in the libel, and the other part avoiding them. He must, according to the well known rule, first assume the facts to be true, and then determine whether, if true, they wou!d form a good defence to the suit. The first objection was, that by virtue of the local act of George the Third, the rate ought to have been made upon the Whole - of the ancient parish. Now to dispose of this part of the question, it was necessary to look at the law prior to 1790. 'The whole of Hack ney then formed one parish, in which was situated the ancient parish church, which the inhabitants were bound to repair by the common law of England. It was not the Ecclesiastical law which imposed such bur thong. The principle was_ recognised by all the com mon law authorities, by Lord Coke, and before his time in the reports. But by Lord Coke's and all the authorities which ever had existed down to the time of Chief Justice Tyndal, the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts and the Judges of the Exchequer Chamber, all were agreed upon this point. The principle was fur ther recognised by various statutes from the time of Edward the First down to the present day. It was. indeed recognised by every Act of Parliament touch ing the collection of Church-rates. The legal obligation to repair the church was then approved. This then was the common law of the land, which could only be altered by Act of Parliament. The question was, whether the local Act altered the common law of the land, which he was of opinion it did not, although there was a great want of clearness and specific enactment upon the sub ject in all the local enactments which had been passed. He was also of opinion that it did not lie with the trus tees to repair the church ; indeed it was impossible that that burthen could be placed upon the trustees. It did not come within the principle intended to be applied. He then went through all the points of the case, and concluded by rejecting the allegation—thus deciding upon the validity of the rate. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT, Nov. 29. RE DAVID 11. TARBOTTOM. The insolvent in thi3 case was a miller and corn dealer near Leeds, and his application to be discharged was opposed by Mr. Woodruffe, on behalf of Mr. Thos. Freeman, an extensive corn-dealer and farmer, and several other creditors. It appeared by the examination of the insolvent, that he had in the mouth of March executed a bill of sale in favour of a relation named Saunderson, giving him com plete power over all his stock in trade, furniture, &c. Some short time afterwards he got wheat from the op, posing creditor to the amount of 119/., and from several other persons to the amount of 5001. or 600/. ; immedi ately after which Saunderson put his bill of sale in force, and swept away all the property, amongst which was the property he got from the opposing and other creditors. lie then left Leeds to avoid being arrested at the suit of a creditor for 41. lOs., who had offered to take a composition of 10s. in the pound. At the time he left Leeds he had 81. to take him to London, where he was soon afterwards arrested. Mr. WooDauFFE addressed the Court in aggravation of judgment. and contended that the insolvent was ar rested by a friend, for the purpose of enabling him to pass through the Court. He must have been dishonest, for he left Leeds with more than three times the amount of the sum for which he was sued. The Learned COMMISSIONER said, in the present state of the case he would not pass judgment on the insolvent, but enough had been elicited to induce him to state that when be did, the judgment of the Court should be a very strong one. He should adjourn it to the 17th of January, and, in the meantime let the attorney prepare a new special balance sheet. RE FREDERICK ROGERS. The insolvent was a wholesale straw-plait and bonnet manufacturer, residing in Brighton. He applied on his petition to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr. Cooke for Messrs. Barford and Meakham, for Tuscan straw, and other articles connected with his trade, sup plied to the insolvent. The ground of the Learned Counsel's opposition was- the suppression of the books. containing his trade entries. Several witnesses having been called, who deposed to the fact of h av i ng s e en more books with the insolvent than those he handed into Court, Mr. Commissioner LAw said he considered the fact of the insolvent'A wilfully suppressing his books to be fully made out. The longest term •or remand which the law allowed for this serious offence was for three years. lie should, however, only remand him for twelve calendar months from the date of his vesting order. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. Moses Hunt was indicted for stealing , and John Row land for r ece i v i ng , w i t h a guilty knowledge , two nose bags, contai n i ng a quan tity of oats, the property of Tho mas Johnson. The prisoner Rowland pleaded guilty. The property was missed by the prosecutor, and he, suspecting. the prisoners, had their houses searched, and the bags and corn were found upon the premises. The Jury at once found the prisoners Guilty. The two prisoners were then severally sentenced to five months' imprisonment and hard labour. _ _ , _ - Sir James Graham left town on Sunday by the nine o'clock London and Birmingham train for Netherby Irall, Cumberland. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. John Farrell, a young man of respectable appearance and connexions, was brought up in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, before Alderman Copeland, charged with having stolen two 301. Bank of England notes. Mr. Walton, the solicitor to the London and West minster Bank, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Hobler, jun., appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Charles Beamish, cashier in the London and Westminster Joint-Stock Company, stated that the pri soner presented a check at the counter for the sum of of 481. 15s. 6d., drawn by Douglas and Co., between four and five o'clock on Saturday, and wished it to be paid in four notes for 101. each, and the rest in money. Witness paid the check. Shortly afterwards a person presented a check drawn by Mr. Rokosky for 601., and asked for two notes of 301. each. 'Witness went to another clerk in the office to ask a question, and then took from his drawer two 301. notes, and gave them to the man he supposed they belonged to. Alderman COPELAND—Do you recollect whether you gave the notes into the hand of the person they belonged to, or placed them upon the counter ? Witness could n')t say. He afterwards paid another check. He saw a person standing at the counter, and asked him what he was waiting for, to which the person replied, tliat he was waiting for his two 301. notes. Witness told that person that he had paid him the notes, and was told that he had not done so. Witness immediately got the numbers of the notes, and went ovar to the Bank of England to make the necessary inquiry, and found the prisoner there re ceivingmoney. _ Mr William Wybard (a clerk in the Bank of Eng land), stated, that he paid the prisoner sixty sovereigns for two 3d. notes on Saturday evening between four and five o'clock. (Here the bank notes were produced.) Witness had not seen the prisoner before to his recol lection. The name of John Smith was on the back of the notes at the time, and witness told the prisoner to write his name and address (a customary thing) on the top of the face of the notes, and the prisoner then wrote the name " John Smith, No. 7, Aldgate." Mr. Thomas Phillips (a clerk in the Bank) produced the two bank notes, which were identified as those paid by the cashier of the London and Westminster Bank to the individual he believed them to belong to. Alderman COPELAND lamented that he was obliged to commit a person who had held a resp ec t a bl e stat i on i n society. The check paid in the first instance was the property of the prisoner. He (Alderman Copeland) could not see that any reason could be given why a re mand should take place. There appeared to him to be quite sufficient grounds for committal. He had no idea of sitting in the Chair to hear a trial of the case—a practice he considered too prevalent in Police Courts. The evidence was quite enough for him without the cross-examination and arguments of Counsel and soli citors.—The prisoner was then committed for trial. • GUILDHALL. Benjamin Lambert was charged with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty.: Sergeant Arnold stated that about a quarter past 12 on Sunday night, he met the prisoner and a person named Hadley in Long-lane. They informed him that they had Ift a horse and cart at the door of the Portland Arms for a few minutes, and that some one had taken it away. He accompanied them in search of the policeman on the beat to make the necessary inquiries, and they ultimately met with that policeman (Creaton) with the horse and cart under his charge. Creaton said that finding the horse and cart without a driver, he had taken it off to the station-house, and that the inspector (Wood mile) had ordered him to impound it in the Green yard. On this, Hadley, the owner of the horse and cart, said something about making it all right to the police man for his trouble, but Creaton said he must obey the inspector's order, and proceed to the green-yard. Had ley swore that the horse and cart should not go to the green-yard, and seized the reins. He (the Sergeant) suspecting that a rescue might be attempted, had pre viously called another policeman (Davis) to his assist ance, and on Hadley seizing the reins he himself seized Hadley, and immediately received a severe blow on the left temple from him. Hadley then in turn seized him, and Davis drew his truncheon and plied Hadley with it to make him lose his hold, and Davis received several heavy blows in return. He (the Sergeant) ordered Davis to spring his rattle, which brought a fourth po liceman (Heygate) to the spot, who, with Davis, took Hadley off to the station-house, while Creaton proceeded to the green-yard with the horse and cart. He then him self looked after Lambert, and took him to the station house, where he found Hadley bleeding profusely, and, by the order of the inspector, he at once removed him to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. ALDERMAN—What did the surgeon at the hospital say to the man's wounds ? The serjeant said that the sur geon did not seem to think much of them, but he had re ported the man as unable to appear for some days to come. Thomas Creaton, 31, corroborated the evidence of the serjeant as to the horse and cart being found in the street, and Hadley seizing the reins when he told him of the inspector's orders that the horse and cart should be taken to the green-yard. Hadley struck both the serjeaut and Davis, and they both beat him with their truncheons. Mr. PAYNE—When you found the horse and cart standing against the door of the Portland Arms, did you inquire at the house whether the owner was there ? Creston said he did not think his duty required him to do so. Mr. PAYNE—But if you had a grain of common sense you would have done so. The ALDERMAN asked if there was any certificate from the hospital as to Hadley's condition ? Inspector Woodruffe said that he had received a report from the surgeon that the man was not in a fit state to be removed. . _ liadley's wife asked the Alderman if she might be permitted to speak, and on the Alderman desiring her to do so, she said that she had seen her husband in the hos pital, and lie was in a desperate state. She did not ex pect that lie would leave the hospital alive: The ALDERMAN said it would be a serious matter for the policemen if such should be the result. Mr. PAYNE.—It is quite shocking that out of such a trifling case so much mischief should occur, and all for the want of a little discretion in the policemen. When they found the owner of the horse and cart, they should have gone back and informed the inspector so, and he would no doubt have ordered the horse and cart to be given up. The ALDERMAN-I do not blame the sergeant so much as the policeman Creaton, for he is the author of all the mischief. He is not fit to be an offiear at all. There is no case against the man at the bar ; indeed, the case at present is more against the policemen than any other party. Lambert must therefore be discharged, and we will see to-morrow what further steps are to be taken in the business when we have learned more of the condition of the man in the hospital. WORSHIP STREET. John Stoker, an elderly man of respectable exterior, was charged with having violently assaulted Mr. Wood hatch, a grocer and cheesemonger, in South-side, Finsbury. The complainant stated that he was formerly on mate terms with the prisoner, who was a frequent visitor at his house, but the latter availed himself of the oppor tunities thereby afforded him to engage the affections of his wife, on discovering which he broke off the acquaint ance. It having come to his knowledge, however, that a clandestine intercourse was still carried on between the parties, he sent his wife home to her friends, but con sented to allow her a separate maintenance on condition that she discontinued the disgraceful correspondence. Apartments were taken for her in Brunswick street, Hackney-road, which were furnished at the expense of witness, and on Sunday evening he proceeded thither with a friend, in order to restore to her a necklace which she had left behind, but he was informed that she had gone out to spend the evening. Suspecting that she had an assignation with the prisoner, he resolved -to remain in the street till she returned, and after waiting some time he saw her approach in company with the prisoner, who entered the house with her. Witness followed them, accompanied by his friend, and finding the prisoner seated in the parlour he began to reproach him for his perfidious con duct, upon which the prisoner got up and immediately knocked him down. He then wrested his umbrella from his hand, and beat him with it till it broke. The land lady of the house, on hearing the disturbance, called in a policeman, who took the prisoner into custody. Police constable N 173 stated that on entering the apartment he found the complainant standing passively in a corner whilst the prisoner was striking at him right and left with his fists. The complainant's nose was bleeding, and he appeared to have suffered severe ill-treatment. His wife was, in the meantime, engaged in a struggle with her husband's friend, whom she had grasped so tightly by the throat, that he was almost strangled. Upon being dragged away she said she did not care a d—n for her husband, but she addressed seve ral endearing expressions to the prisoner, and she was about to give him a parting salute in the street, but wit nets prevented it. Mr. BROUGHTON said that the prisoner had been guilty of a very violent and unjustifiable outrage, which was greatly aggravated by his previous conduct, as de tailed by the complainant. He should order him to pay a fine of 305., or be committed for one month to the House of Correction. The fine was paid. UNION-HALL. Yesterday the case of Jane Graham, who claimed a man named Beevor as her husband, and under that sup position had assailed that person and his wife in the public streets, came on for rehearing before Mr. Cot tingham, the woman Graham having on the last exami nation undertaken to produce evidence of his identity. When the case was called on Mr. COTTINGHAM, ad dressing Jane Graham, asked her if she had any addi tional evidence to prove that Beevor was her husband. She replied in the affirmative. Several witnesses were called, all of whom expressed their belief that the prisoner was not Graham. They said Graham had marks of small-pox. Mrs. Graham said that a good deal of stress had been laid on the fact of Graham being a little pock-marked; how easy it was for a man to - conceal it, and she believed that he had recourse to some expedient to do it, and she now wished to put him to the test. She here pulled a small stone bottle out of her pocket, and also a clean towel, and requested that the Magistrate would give her permission to wash .Terry Graham's face. She they► proceeded to pour water out of the bottle on the towel, rubbing the latter over with soap. " Now," said she, " come forward, Jerry, my dar ling, and let me wash your sweet face, and let me see if I won't get out some of those pock-marks, as you . calls them." While she was making these preparations there was great laughter in Court, which was even increased when the advanced towards Beevor, who shrunk back, exclaim " I'm if you shall touch my face with that towel; how do I know but that the bottle contains vitriol, and that she wants to scald the eyes out of my head," — (Laughter.) )Ir„ COTTINoHA3i—•J dare say you would have no ob jection to stand the test she proposes, when it is ascer tained that there is nothing of a deletrious nature in the bottle, and that it is merely " aqua pura." " Try what it is," added the Magistrate to a policeman who was standing by. The policeman took the towel from Mrs. Graham, and, having applied it to his nose, smelt it, and said that it was nothing but water and soap, and that he would not be afraid to apply it. He then rubbed over his face with the towel. " Now, Jerry," exclaimed Mrs. Graham, " are you satisfied that I intended you no harm. Now will you let me wash your face?" Beevor declared that he would not permit her to touch him, but that he had no objection to any other person using the towel. Upon which the police man went up to him and commenced rubbing his face all over, Mrs. Graham during the time desiring that he would rub his nose well, for it was on that prominent part of the face that the witness said Jerry Graham had marks of the small-pox. When this operation was over, the Magistrate desired Mrs. Graham to examine Bee vor's face to convince herself that there were no marks of the description alluded to there, and it was highly amusing to witness the manner in which he stretched out his neck for the purpose, while she was staring in his visage to detect 4the imposition, as she termed it. Beevor—l have no marks of the small-pox about me, " and surely," said he to Mrs. Graham, " you will be satisfied now, and let me alone from henceforth." Mrs. Graham—lndeed, Jerry, I'm not a bit satisfied after all. Mr. COTTINCRAM said that he thought the inquiry had been carried quite far enough ; that Beevor's face had been well rubbed, and he was willing to undergo any other ordeal to convince the woman that he was not the man for whom she took him. It was quite evident that Mrs. Graham was labouring under the delusion that Beevor was her husband, notwithstanding the evidence that was produced to negative such a supposition. How ever that man and his wife must be protected from such a system of annoyance as had bezn pursued towards them, and he (the Magistrate) should, therefore, have some security that Mrs. Graham would not persevere in such conduct and that the sooner she disabused her mind on the subject the better, for it would be an ex ceedingly awkward dilemma for her if her husband re turned one of those days from Swan River, and found that she was perpetually annoying another man, and claiming him as her husband. The Magistrate then ad judged Mrs. Graham to enter into her own recognizance in the cum of 20/., and find two sureties of 101. each to keep the peace. GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL. CHATHAM, SATURDAY, Nov. 27.—A court-martial assembled on Friday morning, at eleven o'clock, in the general Court-martial Room, Chatham Barracks, to try John ITGuin, a private of the 16th Regiment of Foot, for having fired a pistol loaded with ball at a non-com missioned officer of the same corps. President, Colonel Weare, K.H.P.B. Major Pipon, K. 11., Deputy Judge-Advocate, then read the following charge against the prisoner :—" For having, on or about the night of Tuesday, the 2d of November, 1841, in a public-house, near the town of Dover, assaulted acting-corporal William Kain, of the same regiment, by then and there wilfully and maliciously presenting a pistol, loaded with powder and ball, at the said corporal, saying at the time, Do you see this ! have a care,' or words to that effect, and thereupon pulling a trigger of the said pistol so presented and pointed at the said corporal, with intent to murder him, or to do him some bodily harm, and the said pistol snap ping in the pan and failing to go off, the said private John M'G uin did thereupon deliberately re-cock the said pis tol, and wilfully and maliciously discharge the same at the said corporal, by then and there firing the same under a table at which the said corporal was sitting, and thereby wounding the said corporal in the foot. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Several witnesses were examined in support of the charge, when The DEPUTY JUDGE-ADVOCATE intimated to the Court that he expected several civilians who saw the transaction at the public-house; they, however, had not arrived from Dover. The Court adjourned at three o'clock, and assembled again on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, when, the Court finding the witnesses had not arrived, they called Sergeant Cannon who, being sworn, said he had served certain summonses; one on Elizabeth Spratt, Sarah Featherby, and William Richards. The summonses were by order of the Court to attend a court-martial. These summonses were under the authority of the Judge- Advocate. I served them personally on the parties on the 23d inst. Major PIPEN said he believed the grounds of excuse the parties made were, that they had not the means to bring them. The COURT asked the prisoner if he had anything to say in his defence. He answered " No." The prisoner left the Court under a military escort. It appears the prisoner has been twig years in the service, and has borne a good character. It is the intention of Major Pipen to write to Lon] on the subject of those witnesses who would not attend. CURIOUS TRIAL IN HOLLAND. A letter of the 19th instant from the Hague notices a prosecution then pending before the Provisional Court of that city, which m e mentioned some time ago, and which at the present moment excites public curiosity in Holland in the highest degree. It arises out of an im putation of fraudulent bank; uptcy against a late manu facturer of Leyden, named Adrian, who in times past had received pecuniary assistance from the present King of the Netherlands when Prince of Orange. Adrian has previously been accused of forging the name of the Prince to bills of exchange, and sending them into circulation, having antecedently discounted ether bills actually signed by the same personage. In the first prosecution Adrian was said to have escaped because he threatened to inculpate the Prince. This rumour coming to the knowledge of the King, his Majesty was extremely anxious that the new process should be carried on, so that his real share in the transactions of Adrian might be made apparent. Adrian, among other witnesses, demanded that the King should be cited, and even sent him a formal summons. It was, however, the general opinion that his Majesty could not possibly be allowed to appear in Court. From the Handelsblad of Amsterdam we learn that the trial commenced on Friday, when, after the indictment was read, a list of twenty-three witnesses was given in, with several important documents, among which was a letter from M. Van den Bosch, ex-Minister of the Colonies. The Counsel for the defendant intimated that.he,had also cited three other witnesses, ono of whom4as a valet-de-chambre, and another a footman of the King. He further stated that he had written to the Pro cureur-General to say that he wished to have the evi dence of the King himself, but this having been con sidered as inconsistent, he was obliged to renounce the idea, whereby Adrian was placed in a difficult position. He was accused of not accounting for a sum of 4.5,000 florins, which he received in the be ginning of 1840 from M. Van den Bosch, which sum, however, Adrian affirmed he had returned to the King. On Saturday the hearing was resumed, and lasted from ten in the morning till four in the after noon, but was entirely occupied with the examina tion of one witness, Mr. J. Montague of Leyden, one of the curators of the bankruptcy, whose evidence confirmed in most part the statements in the in dictment. The proceedings of Monday established the fact of the King having drawn upon a respectable firm of Amsterdam for a most enormous sum, and in the name of Adrian, who had received in cash the whole of these sums, and remitted them to the King, who will not admit this position, which would save the accused. It is now a question, in the event even of it being proved that the said Adrian did not remit these sums to the King, what could have induced the latter to lend such an enormous sum of money to a man of bad re pute, and whose existence in the city wherein he re sided was, according to the energetical declaration of one of the witnesses, exceedingly enigmatical. The Phare de la Manche gives the following account of the loss of the Ville du Havre, of the New. foundland fishery, which sailed from France on May 13th, with a complement of 63 men. She made a good voyage until June 17, when, about three in the morn ing, the men of the watch found that she had struck violently against some ice. All hands were immedi ately turned up and set to work at the pumps, but the leak she had made gained upon them so fast that their labour was in vain. They had only two boats on board, and these together would not hold more than twenty people, with a small supply of provisions. The Captain, with all the courage, judgment, and promptitude the case required, maintained order, until, by successive trips, he placed his men on two of the floating masses of ice. This was accomplished within thirty five minutes of the first shock, at the expiration of which time the ship went down. At daybreak land was discovered in the distance. Some of the men were allowed to take the largest boat for the purpose of seeking a more firm part of the ice, where they might remain in greater security, hut this part of the crew were no sooner in the boat than they rowed off with all their strength, leaving their messmates to their fate. At first these were thrown into the deepest despair, but after a while hope was revived, by perceiving that the ice was drifting to wards the land. In the afternoon they found themselves within three leagues of the shore, when some more of the men got into the small boat which had been left and reached it in safety. About twenty were forced to remain on the ice all next night, but in the morning of the 18th they, too, were saved, having been out 37 hours. A Correspondent at Vienna informs the Presse that during the late visit of Prince Metternich to Johan nisberg, negotiations were set on foot between him and Count Von Maltzalin, the Prussian Ambassador, rela tive to the adhesion of Austria to the German Customs' Union. These negotiations, the Correspondent says, are now sufficiently advanced to allow of a favourable re sult being anticipated. The Presse attributes this ap proach to a more intimate alliance between Austria and the other States of the Confederation to the necessity of union among all the Germanic States, which was so much felt while the rumours of war were prevalent dur ing the latter half of last year. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS MOLy. NEAu x._Died, this morning, after a short illness, Gene ral Sir Thomas Molyneaux. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his son George, now Sir George Moly neaux,e t. containing T he tSupplement to which the London reacii Gazette ed town this morning, announced t h e lie Brevet, Tuesday, o f ßaron promotion of the late Baro net to the rank of General in the A A rmy.--Dublin Mail of Friday. EVENING SUS MESMERISM, BY MR, 1-IAI.S-14. at A the L c ec i t t u y re H u a p u o , n ch th an is ae s r u y b - j l e a c a t e :vas yesterday deli W. H. Heise, who promises in prove not only th e reality of the infl uence called a: 0 magnetism, but to produce evidence through i" 131 , t he of " an i n t erme di a t e li n k b e t wee n the physic al an G od, spiritual wo r ld," and to display " the revelation et u D err b h y i s a a g d e b v e t i r e t ril i s e a M b e n n otlt °1 co ts as the Triune M agne t o f un i ver sal attraction, ge dy ed tive peace a nd l ove ." Th ere w ere about on e lon and twenty persons present. e vbst Tbe Lecturer read a well composed but .so m e ~t o. minute history of Mesmerism, from the days of i" ': 01 posed founder, and declared his belief in the esistenctr,l a transmissisle nervous fluid, the course and ° P er d 3' o u a et . rse of which, in one human being, could be regal° governed by the will of another. Some imPa tle ho having been manifested on the part of the audieneje,tio postponed, to a future occ as i on , the further el"' _30,3t of this theory. He r e l a ted th e following case " o f (we understood) of one of the patients wham he about to introduce : s ef " A friend of min e ( a f e male about 20 YrarTbe age) consented to allow me to mesmerise ber • dee ' first attempt continued for h a lf an hour, but a ° co , was produced. The nex t d a y I repeated the °P iot° Lion, and now partially succee d e d, for I threw b_ e hou r such a profound s le e p, th a t we w ere fUll half an the awaking her ; still there was nothing : w a ll e re• profoundness of th e s l ee p w hi c h appeared at 14 ark' markable. On the n e x t d a y I again l ienf and in two minutes she was in the mean The effects now produced were beyond what idea of, and I respectfully request particular to my description of them. I took her bY and lifted the arm i n a horizontal position ; go her hand, still th e h an d an d a rm tewaine position I placed it. I now lifted the other at° same manner ;it also remained fixed. 11 1, 113 with her two ar ms ex t en d e d, an d as mo w " statue.at e I She continr arms in their continued thus forteo which time form Lion. She now opened her eyes for a few mr they were fixed to one spot ; I tried if the would follow the m o ti on o f my b an d, but 1 fr i would not. When I lift e d h er arms , whic h : wards several times, I always noticed that:thew_ A ' a sudden shock or t w it c h pass t h roug h them, a nd moment they became a s st iff as an i ron midi' pal periment was to go to the other end of the rat ° to see it she would attempt to follow me, bese ts ' I then called to her, and told her to come to ate' moment I was most terribly alarmed, for-the; scarcely escaped my lips before her h a nds-WI in violent motion st r u gg li ng t o r i se f ro m o ° t 7 . her in this way for on e m i nu t e an d then W en. she was immediately still. I again went t 0 end of the room, but I had no sooner mo ve d attempted to follow me ; I aga i n a pproaeh e u by the aid of her sister, we lift e d h er from t he I told her to walk with me ; there was now A a served on her countenance, and she walk e d 'ir occi i r ; well ; but the most remarkable thing of all I f 1 w, r i red. I feel a curious sensation run over al e ,. her[ it. Whilst she was walking round the t° e " . l tog' was continually turned towards me ; at O w r notice of it, but having d es i re d h er mother ' her whilst I attended to something else, b er A claimed, ' Look at her, she's turning her h e ti after Mr. Halse, she'll surely twist her neck e"' ' e a heard this I approached h er; h er h ea d had rer ai ~,,, tural position (her eyes were close shut all the t' to t o' a o , her face was drawn towards me, and, wisbieg A b ora t were really the attracting power, I requag te :d 'ol f , ° !, ther to take my place as before, whilst I s t ' d I s ton,o of her. I had no sooner quitted my Place a ,,,,,, 0 yea lr jo front, than her face was towards me ; I nar l m o ved ' i ds side to side, and whenever I moved, she "" tber s is Being beside her mother I quickly got to t t e h t a b t e i,f t b r e o r i e !tt o of her by walking behind her back, had been open she could not have seen pw p al e e a t i s e,a fa te c l e ; : ' :o t , say, the head immediately turned, and be t, - bie a ;o l again opposite to mine. I now back, the head made a sudden twist ; I ial faru t)o l of ) 3 in front, and the head regai ne d its place. f 110 ' l lf tempting to leave her she struggled bard te i j e a o , 01 1 1 6 I therefore conducted h e r t o the sofa. " . ` ma rO b some more remarkable effects ; indeed, so O w it ' to me, however, that when I awoke next no rn i i i , ' some time before I could be convinced that t ! , not a dream. Being firmly seated on the sofa w' turned towards mine (whichever side of h er asked what the time was, she said somethif could not make out what it was ; again and she replied in a very low voice, aPP a '' f, the sound came from the stomach, ' half-pag t si referring to my watch I found that this wag e ,, time to a minute, 'ln ten minutes after, 1 " I her ; she replied in the same voice, ' I don't requested her father, mother, and sister, to ' they did so, but no reply whatever could he ' ho t A from her. I again put the question to he r, to o talked in an unintelligible manner for abf e t t o / I flutes, and as often as I would speak to nel: 0 would she reply—but she would never rep! others ; this I considered most strange. ei f " My next experiment will cause more di,b el any of the rest, for I candidly admit I expe ct to believe those accounts ; and it' this letter the production of any one else and I bad, should certainly have cried out, ' impostor ; such experiments, before me, I b e lieve, in futlj r l e' consider no man an impostor before 1 lin e v 'koot to be such. To speak the truth, I scar c b e ,veve, to credit it myself, so unwilling am I t a nr i n cie c l; effects of the mesmeric influence. is i f no ent bu t l e e: 3 for mentioning this, is to show I. a°ll3nat to P.° this science, if it may be so termed. , s uch a m I requested her to sing — s h e did so, b e l t ioll' f '" ) I never before heard, y et no t i n the ler t , ' ' r , 1 then desired her to sing "R o ry O' ta te, it as perfect as she wou ld is h er wakieg s cee i exception, that the sound appeared to P re tu nes, stomach. After desiring her t o s ing varimo j ot request she complied, I ma d e se veral e'e r c oo and the only thing I could c om pare th e 3 ,, s teel the magnetic power o f a l oa d s tone o n " be sa' for she would follow m e w ith precisely, t het larity. I applied very strong anamilaa k t „°„ r so strong that neith er o f us could "" b e e t , second ; she took not the least notice o ,f i b e t cold black bottles to h er f a ce and neci" 0 . WAS produced—she was asleep' as Inni % he n was now time to aw a ke her, for she ha 1 ,. mesmeric state about an hour, and her lirn, "j ci , Ling as cold as ice ; we therefore proPe ge 1 half so, to lead her down stairs, but when abont.ler partially awoke, and her mother noticing ',' ~,ii, hand to the back of her head, requested sl s ' e a f t erl d i awoke. I consented, and in a few minikt e rop isil t or' she was out of the mesmeric state. She c° ,, 0 4 0 13 ' great stiffness in her limbs, and of a hea v tl ' i a ell o ho her eye-lids, and she felt exceedingly aet y° 3 bo i tlf ii ' On telling her she had been asleep lil ) ", a il ose'prj was much surprised, declaring she had ow un a oli, ft' minute or two. On telling her to look ar ° g itste f er where she was, she became very roac h ° e ye:: ; into a sleep for a minute or two, and th en a n d fectly composed." p ipe. i s te The lecture. which was read in a n `h oP o pr modest manner, was concluded amidst ma c ..., of notwithstanding the previous manifestatie" ti of f ° 0 tience which we have noticed. thr e e ;lee. Mr. Halse then produced successively ocE ic I tir ladies, who were severally sent into the ni l O A the ir and gave, in a series of varied experimeat,_',,, of ,i i er , peared to us to be unequivocal naanifestatieulogoe'v s complete reduction under the power of th e ree te'Liot t The interruptions, however, which w ere c lot iP,, , is large portion of the audience, preveoted :airesalootii development of the phenomena which h a irbe °P` o f sg other cases, been reported in The s un ' m ean ° °r oo f; tioa which the Lecturer met with was b y nee, elsaierfeci illiberal character, and, although sornetira, w i t li P, 0 19 was at all events ingenuous , and conductea tiler r o of fairness. After three hours of ' ca villing , r a e to ,g. 0 0 than ill-natured, Mr. liaise's opponents ca 9 ! , W e :, derstanding with hi m , th a t they we n° g r ' t ' aia ell i opportunity of tryi ng hi s powers upon a ce pe r t. of individuals, t o b e se l ec t e d by thetuselvcsb.e egad ,elr It is due t o M r . H a l se t o say, that es , on a il f himself' throu g h ou t w ith ver y rare ealinneh or possession, u n d er very trying circumstanc j O l first appearance before a public comeaq' OP el ; vO‘ ' The lecture will b e repea t e d on W edes . o a° 3" ; t ° hope that the ca n d our w hi c h was evid ent 1 w ill ° M were most prominent in th e ir In • terruPtions•,.inv , oa them to a more orderly course of p r°„Aed occasion. / ...---------- -.090 R DI 11 ,5 ' 1/ 1 SILVER PLATED CORN Q•iverol'litf,t•li A. B. 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