The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-16 00:00:00

EVEN /NG EDITION. at all. In the first place the issue or amount of paper money should be equable under all circumstances, un less when reduced or amplified by the milowing or out /inuring of gold, that is, the regulator should be the foreign exchanges, and the reduction or amplification contemporaneous with and contingent on the stock of bullion in hand. This results naturally from the position, financially as commercially, of the country. For it 13 very easy to make laws de claring Bank of England piper legal tender, and in vesting other bank paper more indirectly with the same privilege, but however stringent may be these laws here they are entirely inoperative in all other couctries with which exchanges have to be made, and which exchanges of values have to be determined and measured by the common law of conventional agree ment about the money standard. There must be fixed principles about paper money, if it is to represent value, as there is about gold and silver, whose value is contingent on quantity and production. The only basis for paper money is the amount of gold which is its substri.tum, and the criterion of the comparative value of gold is the product of the gold mines above or be low the waste or luxury of the country. Mr. Gilbert, in his essay on Banking and the Currency, in the Westminster Review, sticks to the unlucky theory of the advantage of paper money in the sense of its easy contraction and expansion, according to circumstances or bank interests. The city editor of the Chronicle speculates in the sense that the Bank should " force" up or force down prices, as a principle of action. Ex pansion or contraction of currency, however, dependent on individual or corporate will, is about as mischievous as the idea of a bank charged with the management of the circulation, regulating its issues with a view to force up or force down prices is eminently absurd and would b.: most disorganising. CH RON IC LE.—The favourable turn in the Fo reign Exchanges manifested in the early part of the week has, on the whole, been maintained to-day, and expectations are entertained that a considerable im portation of the precious metals will be received from liamburgh when the navigation is re-opened. It is further antisipated that our export trade will evince unusual animation this year, causing a material increase in the revenue. These anticipations have led to the belief that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be enabled to dispense with a loan, and that the Bank of England will relax their stringent action on the currency. The sales of the Saving Bank money, which we have noticed lately, are said to have been made on account of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it is probable that he may, from time to time, supply his wants from that source, until he sees how the important negotiations with the Chinese empire are likely to terminate. These favourable circumstances have been much looked to, and have induced a strong impression in favour of spe culations for the rise. They are no doubt flattering, and by no means unlikely to be realized ; but until the bullion in the Bank is more than 5,000.0001., instead of 3,511,0001., we do not see that the Directors could, with propriety or safety, encourage an advance in prices by an expansion of the currency. We must not shut our eyes to the fact that various foreign states are watching our Money Market narrowly, ready to come forward with proposals for new loans so soon as they find a suitable opportunity. . . . . . A private letter from Chinn has been received by an eminent house connected with the Canto❑ trade, of the 15th October, being several days later than any other despatches brought by the last overland mail. This communication confirms the intelligence that Commis sioners had been appointed by the Chinese Govern ment to proceed to Canton, in order to enter into nego tiations with Captain Elliot for an amicable adjustment of the differences with Great Britain. This was settling day in the Consol Market, but although the extreme fluctuations have amounted to about 3 per cent. during the Account, it was by no means a heavy settlement. The continuation to-day fell-off to 3-16ths to per cent. for the February Ac count, showing pretty clearly that the jobbers were Bears of stock. Supposing that a clause in the Act of renewal of the Charter of the Bank of England, binding the Directors to manage the national currency on fixed principles would be effectual ; that there would be no departures from it on account of extraordinary circumstances ; and that no bills of indemnity on account of extraordinary aid to commerce under pressures would be sought for from Parliament, we ask the people of this country, should such an arrangement be approved of by their re presentatives in Parliament ? Would it be conducive to the prosperity of the trade and commerce of this country that the Bank of England should retain its privileges as the national bank of issue ? or should those privileges be enlarged by making it the sole bank of issue ? If the first question be answered in the negative, it solves the second ; therefore we shall con fine our observations to the first ; and we say that the functions of the Bank of England, as a bank of national issue, ought not to be continued, because they would he more prudently and beneficially exercised by officera under delegation from the Crown, subject to the supervision and control of the people through Par- Why should the country or the Crown abdi ate the sovereign right of furnishing the coin of the realm to individuals, and allow those individuals a profit upon the paper money which they put into cir culation ? It is giving encouragement to the absurd principle of allowing those individuals to create capital at their pleasure, to increase or diminish it as they may deem expedient, and, by merely fixing the proportion which their paper shah bear to their bullion, we should only put a limit to their power of mischief ; we should not eradicate it ; it is a false principle of action alto gether, that of allowing individuals to issue paper money-. The coin of the country is made at the Mint. 'Y he Bank of England must send their bullion there to be coined, and the Mint should be the place from which all tie money of the realm, whether gold or paper, pay- Ahlc in gold, should take its origin. Reduce, then, the al;nwance to the Bank of England for paying the di vidends within moderate terms ; pay off the debt due to the Bank by the Government ; constitute an al. cient Crown board of issue, and the whole business of coining and issuing money might be consolidated, and better and more economically managed, under the di rection and eyes of Parliament and the public. It may, perhaps, sound rather unpleasant to cars polite to men tion such a work a* the " Black Book." We never theless, take the following extract from its pages. The sitehor, alluding to the benefits expected front a reformed Parliament, says—" A national currency would be is sued under the control of the Legislature. Private individuals, who offer no security to the public, would no longer be pe;mitted to issue bits of paper as repre sentatives of real property. Fluctuation in the cur. rency would be guarded against, and the value of money rendered secure and uniform. But tlis is not all : an immense saving would accrue to the commu nity. We have seen the bankers gain three millions annually by the issue of their notes. The same clearly belongs to the State rather than individuals. If a paper currency be unavoidable, let the public have the benefit of it." There is much strong sense in riles° remarks, and they point clearly to the true quar ter—the additional security and uniformity which would be obtained by a national currency, issued under Parliamentary control ; we should no longer be alarmed with mysterious accounts of runs for gold upon this bank or that bank ; panics from such causes would cease ; the country banks would have no issues except the legal money of the realm, and if they should over trade, or enter upon speculative transactions which caused them to declare insolvency, there would be no ruined holders of their notes to swell the list of bank ruptcies. Every banking co m p an y o f th e country would issue the Queen ' s coin, or the Queen's note, the repre sentative of, and convertible into, coi n , an d no ot h er ; the coBntry would enjoy additional security ; commercial enterprise would be entered into with increased confi dence ; and trade would be more prosperous and safe ; we s dno longer be racking our brains in vain eon jectu ss to the policy of the Bank parlou r ; t h at se cret and really irresponsible tribunal would no longer exercise capricious control over the property of their fellow-countrymen ; e verything connected with she m a . aagement of the currency would be open and above kard ; and the proceedings of commercial men would ve fair play. POST.—The Hampshire Banking Company, a joint stock bank, having its head office at Southampton, is, we understand, on the point of coming to an arrange latent, if, indeed, it has not done so already, with the Bank of England for the withdrawal of its own notes, and the substitution of those of the latter establishment. The precise conditions under which this arrangement takes place need not be stated. The present case o: junction, or coaliti on , b etween t h e B an k o f E ng l an d and a joiat-stock company is worthy of some attention, as it appears to be the first in which a bank in an exclusively agricultural district has been concerned. This was account day in the English stock market. It proved a decidedly bear account, and the differences of the speculators and jobbers being disposed of, all of thee satisfactorily as fir as we can learn, the quotations :unproved materially. Money was found to be suffi ciently easy for all purposes connected with the opera tions of the market, though in Lombard -street it cannot, in the existing state of affairs, be over plentiful. The intelligence received in the course of the day from Madrid, respecting the good intentions of Senor •Gamboa, looks flattering, more particularly for the Molders of the indemnity bonds, but nothing was done la those securities that we arc aware of, and the decline %Alicia occurred in the Actives, in the face of his Ex ceCeney's promises, seems to indicate but too plainly that oo great faith is placed in them. The knowledge that Senor qiinaboa has the well-known trickster, Men dizabel, at s elbow, the author of the dishonoured 'Treasury hills, and issuer of spurious securities during a suspension of payment of the dividends, is certainly aware than enough to explain the excessive distate that N ah a been created for Spanish securities, whatever their dtveornination. 'figs correctness of the announcement made by the man sgers of the telegraph at Brest, with respect to the tfettleraent of the Buenos Ayres question, being by the French Govern men t, a h ope i s ex . confirn-O TTIE SUN, LONDO.N,SATURDAY. JANUARY 16, 1841. pressed by the holders of Buenos Ayres stock that the respectable house of Baring, Brothers, and Co., as the contractors of the loan, will lose no time in pressing their long-neglected claims upon the attention of the Government of the Republic. The aggregate thes: claims, independently of the interest due upon them is, as in the case of Chili, less than a million sterling, and, considering that the dividends on the home debt have always been attended to—always punctually paid—as they became due, as, again, in the case of the Chilians, and, we might add, in that of our own Consels also, for such is stated to be the fact, on the authority of Sir Wathen Parish, our late Consul in the Republic, we do think the claims in question are er,titled to the immediate attention both of Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., and of the President, General Roses. It is a grievous hardship upon men who have ad vanced their moneys, perhaps, in many cases, their all. upon the faith of a Government, and the first commer cial house in Europe, that they should have been kept out of their revenue, arising from the interest accruing upon such advances, for the period of thirteen years ; but, on the other hand, it must be consoling to them to know that, amidst all his difficulties with the French, General Rosas has not entirely lost sight of these na tional obligations. In one of his recent manifestoes, or State documents, the English debt is referred to in the following terms : " Notwithstanding the embarrassments of the public Treasury, arising from so great a complication of diffi culties, the claims upon the loan negotiated in England are not forgotten by the Government. No opportunity of placing these claims, which have been unavoidably post poned, upon the most equitable footing that circumstances at all admit of, will be lost." With this assurance, as well as the examples of Chili and Mexico before them, Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., may, we should hope, call upon the Argentine Administration, in behalf of their unfortunate clients, with a very great chance of success, especially as the claims are so limited, and they are sure of being effec tually backed by Mr. Robinson and the committee of Spanish-American bondholders. We may be permitted to intimate that a very small appropriation of Custom-house receipts, as made by the Mexican Government, would be adequate to the dis charge of the interest oa the original claim, the ar rears being left to be disposed of upon some fair and easy principle of adjustment. SUN.—As the weather now seems to bid fair for a return to mildness, the shipping trade of the port of London is becoming more animated ; and this, coupled with the easy state of the money market, gives pro mise of a good business in the City markets, within the next week or ten days. The Foreign Exchanges were flat this afternoon. Three months' bills, on the principal cities of the Con tinent, were negociated as follows :—Paris 25f. .55e. to 57c. ; Amsterdam 12 22 to 4 ; Antwerp 12 2/ to ; Hamburgh 13 69 to 7/ ; Frankfort 148 1 ,- to ; and Trieste 10 to 10 I. The settlement of the Consol accounts went off satis factorily to-day, and the extreme fluctuation was shown to be about 2 per cent. The speculators for a rise were the gainers this Account. For present transfer, Consols realised 892 to and for the new Account 891 to 90k. Exchequer Bills were also higher—viz.4Bs. to 1 la. premium, but East India Bonds remained at 10s. to Ss. discount. Bank Stock improved from 165 and 166 to 167 and 168, and India Stock from 249 to 250} and 251. The Reduced Three per Cent. Annui ties were at a rise to 902 to Not many accounts were understood to have been carried over by the jobbers. The Foreign Stock Market is still in a heavy con dition, and there is a great paucity of speculative opera tions. To day the Spanish Active Bonds were at 2.-1 to 24i ; the New Portuguese Five per Cents. at 32 ; the Three per Cents at 20/ ; Brazilian at 71/, or per cent. lower again ; Colombian at 23, and Peruvian 141 to 15 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were steady at 50- to 50g. Railway Shares support their value well. We quote Great Western to-day at 30 ; ditto New, 14/ t) 141 ; London and Birmingham, S 2 ; South Western, 191; Manchester and Leeds, 10/ ; Midland Counties Quarter, 52, and Greenwich Scrip, 1 prem. ; Brighton Shares were 5e ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 15 to 16 ; Eastern Counties, 14/ ; Blackwell, 3i-, and Croy don 1 discount. Australasia Bank Shares were at 14i premium, and Union Bank of London at k discount. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The tranquillity of Canada continues uninterrupted, and the latest intelligence adds nothing to our previous descriptions of the satifactory progress of things towards good government under the United Legislature. It is satisfactory to know that emigration to the Canadas has begun to revive. The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec in the year 1839, was 7,439 ; being more than twice the number in the previous year ; and the emi gration of 1840, the returns for which are not yet re ceived, presents also, as we understand, a considerable increase. The Governor-General is fully alive to the importance of promoting the settlement of the country by means of a good system of thedisposal of the public lands. In Lower Canada grants and.salas by auction have been discontinued, and waste land is now sold at the uniform price of six shillings per acre ; a price per haps as high as could well have been fixed, with out incurring the hazard of driving the settlers into the United States. Lord Sydenhatn has reported to the Home Government his conviction of the propriety of adopting, as soon as practicable, the valuable sugges tions for colonization contained in Lord Durham's Re port (Appendix B). A material feature, however, in the plan proposed in that Report, is one which cannot be carried into effect without legislative aid, viz., the imposition of a tax on all uncleared lands. It is true that the right of the Crown to the disposal of the pub lic lands has been reserved by the Act of Union, but this right does not of course enable the Crown to im pose a general land-tax, nor has the Crown by any means the power of raising an ac'e 4 uate emigration fund, without the co-operation of the Legislature. Lord .1. Russell has therefore intimated his wish that the a hole subject should be brought before the united Legis lature of Canada, with a view to a permanent plan for the encouragement of immigration, and the Governor- General will accordingly bring it forward at an each period. That some comprehensive measure of the kind will be adopted there can be little doubt. Indeed, pre vious to the Act of Union, the Assembly of Uprr Canada had addressed the Crown, declaring their rea diness to concur in the appropriation of die land sale in that province to purposes of colonisation. Lor I Sydenham has already done so much for the peace of Canada, and has introduced so many important practical reforms by his system of registration, and the establishment of municipal institutions, that he need not fear charges of inactivity, or of having retarded measures of public improvement. He may well afford to be indifferent to the censures of those who accuse of remissness one of the most. diligent Governors that ever exercised the Royal authority. He need not fear the idle tales reported to his disparage ment in the C'olonial Gazette, which as the Gazette itself disbelieves (though it does not scruple to give them circulation), we may well receive with utter in credulity. Nothing is easier than to impute ground less enmities and private piques to public men, who are not in a situation to reply to such accusations, or indeed to enter into controversy at all with the pubic press. If the Colonial Gazelle really thinks it probable that Lord Sydenhain would go out of his way to injure any persons in this country, on the grounds insinuated, why does it not state plainly who are the parties ag grieved, and what is the grievance ( From the Morning Advertiser.) Fortunately the triumphant success which has crowned our policy and arms abroad, affords to the Impericl Legislature ample opportunity and scope for concen trating its attention upon the consideration of those causes which have produced so much dangerous dis content and agitation at home. If the most virulent of the opponents of our foreign administration be not lost to all sense of self respect and decency, they will remain prudently silent rather than provoke discussions which must tend only to confirm the exalted and proud opinion which the nation entertains at least towards that department of its Goverment, and to cover with shame—if they be sensible of such sensation—and con fusion, in which they make themselves worse confounded, those who so insensately and inveterately opposed and denounced a course of action which they had neither the foresight to comprehend nor the capacity to execute. Vic tory rests upon or hovers over our banners ia all parts of the world—from east to west—from north to south from China to Canada—from St. Petersbur g to Alexandria— in Constantinople, Syria, and Central Asia, exist the glo rious records of the judicious, vigorous, and effective manner in which our foreign and coloni a l po li cy has been recently directed. Years of Tory misrule, rapa city, and imbecility, have received a most salutary cor rective in the sound, straightforward, and unswerving guidance which presided over British diplomacy in that glorious era of' its annals-1840. Now let us look at pit is besetrospectisn by no means so cheering. O n with perils, stratagems, an d treasons, which must strike the stoutest statesman with apprehension. We have the the home. contrary, peril of insurrection in our provinces and rural districts—we have T ory stratagem!, eorruptionsond frauds, which make that peril more immi nent—we have treason in the very camp where we might expect friends—we have Chartists enforcing, or attempt ing to enforce, abstract but inapplicable rights by physi cal force—we have Liberal statesmen withholding those rights to which even a tyrant expediency can give no effective denial—and, finally, we have eight mil lions of the Irish people vociferating for that right upon which no abstract principle of justice can put a nega tive —the self-government, right o f or rather local legis lation —f or it it is not self-government, but local legis dation which Mr. O'Connell proposes by a " Repeal of the Union." The representative principle may be as effectively asserted in England as in Ireland. It is a matter of contemptible indifference, whether the representatives of Ireland assemble in College green or St. .Stephen's ; if i t represent fa i thfully the people whom it is supposed to represent, it may as semble in Karntschatka or the Torrid Zone, and the laws which it promulgates will prove equally bene ficial to the country with whose affairs it is ea• trusted. Absenteeism is, no doubt, an evil, and Ire land in its depressed state grievously suffers by it ; but had Ireland a Lir representation —n o t in the pre sent Parliament, but in a Parliament fairly repre senting the people of Great Britain —she might regard her absentees as so many useless outcasts. It is nor they who draw away the rents of Ireland that should be regarded as the basis of its wealth or prosperity ; but they who labour for the production of that rent. What care the industrial classes where their Parliament assemble, if they have even anything like a fair field of exertion, and a fair mart for their labour and its pro duce. " A full and fair representation of the British people," and not a " Repeal of the Union with England," should he the watchword of Mr. O'Connell. It is just and judicious laws, and not a local habita tion for its law-makers, that is essential to the well being of a country. The Repeal of the Union, as it has yet appeared before the country, is sheer farce or pantomime, of which Mr. O'Connell is the over grown harlequin. He strikes his magic wand on one side, and up starts "Repeal ;" on the other, and" Pre cursor" occupies its place ; then "Repeal" again, and so on to the en d o f Government patronage ; and then Ireland will awake, after dozing over the per formance, and ask—" What is it it has gained by the exhibition ?" What must in such case be the reply ? Mr. O'Connell gained Catholic Emancipation and im mortalized himself, and for the rest of his life, despair ing of effecting anything greater, he trafficked with his fame, deluded his countrymen with false expectations, and forfeited one of the most glorious occasions that ever offered to any man of regenerating and elevating an empire. Such will be Mr. O'Connell's history, un less he change his policy. " A single step into the right hath made This man the Washington of worlds betrayed: A single step into the left has given His name a by-word to the winds of heaven." The opportunity i s yet open to hi m o f effecting ob jects greater than any he has yet accomplished. We trust he will avail himself of it. And in reference to the approaching Session of Parliament we trust all par ties will prove wor,hy of and adequate to the responsi bility of their position. The country will be no longer deluded by pretences. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTEkDAY. (From the Globe.) The Time.c of this morning, in setting forth the claims of the Hon. G. P. Sidney Smythe, the son of Lord Strangford, to the favourable regards of the Canter bury Tories, by aid of si hose suffrages he hopes to enter Parliament, mention " the public services of his father," as one, among several, arguments in his behalf. Having some recollection that this was not the first occasion on which Lord Strangford's "public services" had been referred to by the Times, we have been at the pains to search its files, and have been amply rewarded for our labour In the Times of August the 7th,1828, Lord Strangford's " public services" are thus held up to his admiring countrymen—his Lordship was then about to take his departure as Ambassador for the Bra zils :—" We had thought," says the Times, " that his Lordship was too well known to his past and present patrons, to be again trusted with, or in, any negotia tion of importance. The extent to which he misled his own Government, and through his own Government that of Russia, with respect to his negotiations at Con stantinople, and the unceremonious manner in which the Emperor turned him adrift, when sent by Mr. Canning to St. Petersburgh to justify his conduct, are now, unhappily for his Lordship, as well known as his pretended triumph at Lisbon about twenty years ago. The more than diplomatic freedom which his Lordship takes with matters of tact, makes him the jest of all diplo matists, while otherwise his manners and conduct beget towards him in Courts a distasteeven greater than the dis respect of statesmen. These qualities ought to save the Emperor of Brazil from the infliction of his Lordship's mis sion, even though he had done nothing of late to excite public attention to his character. But, unhappily, his Lord ship cannot remain quiet : he cannot enjoy his British Peerage and his red riband in tranquillity. He must not only be a negotiator, but a parliamentary orator, and a pamphlet-writer in abuse of his deceased patron (Mr. Canning) and in praise of himself. He must not only enact Pyramus, but play likewise the parts of Moonshine, and the Hole in the Wall !" The Times then proceeds to remark on his Lordship's then recently published pamphlet, respecting his Portuguese mission ; in which he takes credit to himself for having induced the Regent of Portugal to embark with his family for the New World, in November, 1807, in a despatch, from which the following is an extract : " I accordingly requested an audience of the Prince Regent, together with assurances of due protection and security ; and, upon receiving his Royal Highness's answer, I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th, in his Ma jesty's ship Confiance, bearing a flag of truce. I had immediately most interesting communications with the Court of Lisbon, the particulars of which shall be fully detailed in a future despatch. It suffices to mention in this place, that the Prince Regent wisely directed all his apprehensions to a French army, and all his hopes to an English fleet; but be received the most explicit assurances from me, that his Majesty would generously overlook those acts of unwilling and momentary hostility, &c. &c., and that the British squadron before the Tagus should be employed to protect his retreat from Lisbon, and his voy age to the Brazils." The Times, in the same article, thus comments on this despatch :—" This remarkable despatch is dated Nov. 29,1808, his Majesty's ship Hibernia, if the Tagus.' Now, who would believe, unless almost on the evidence of his own senses, or the confession of the party implicated, that this Hibernian despatch, dated off the Tagus, November 29, was actually written in Bruton-street, London, on the 19th of December ; and that the Diplomatist, who on the 27th of November so dexterously landed in Lisbon to direct all the Regent's 'apprehensions to a French army, and all his hopes to an English fleet,' never saw the Regent at all on that occasion, and was only admitted to an audience after his Royal Highness had ac tually embarked. This freedom with facts—this undeni able departure from truth—was known and established by irresistible evidence soon after the Brazilian emi gration ; and, being safely established at Rio Janeiro, King John was exceedingly amused on reading in the diplomatic despatch an account of the agency by which he was persuaded to leave Europe. But it was only within these last two months, and in his pamphlet in answer to a note in Col. Napier's " History of the Pe ninsular War," that his Lordship confessed to the charge of having written this despatch in England, and of hav in,; never seen the Regent of Portugal until on board. (From the Standard ) Four hundred guests assembled in this dreadful weather at the Town Hall, Buckingham, on Wed nesday, to celebrate a Conservative festival. The four hundred came, as the Duke of Buckingham and Caen dos remarked— " At a time when one of the severest winters experi enced for some years rendered it no easy task to bring from a distance parties who knew that they would have to en counter bad roads and dark nights in returning home.— (Cheers.) This was a proof which would go to the very hearts of their opponents—a rroof that nothing would pre vent Conservatism from coming forward when they had a duty to perform to their country." Let us add what must have occurred to every man in the room but one —" when they have such a leader as the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos." It is his Grace who has made Buchingharnshire not only the most Conservative, but the most efficiently Conservative county in England. Had every county possessed such a nobleman, we should have heard little of Whiggery or Radicalism. 'file Noble Duke has all the qualifications that command the un• bounded confidence of a moral, a free, and an intelligent people : such a people require that their leader shall be loved for his private virtues, respected for his kind tem per and demeanour, and proved worthy of trust by his talents and his undeviating integrity. Beyond this, too he must have the hearty, tree, and elastic spirit, without which no man is qualified to lead. Such is the leader of the Conservatives of Buckinghamshire ; and who can wonder that he leads the model county of England ? We must, however, point to a possible delusion into which the happy and even glorious—for what can be more glorious than the adoration of all within one's sphere ?—position of the Noble Duke may have led him. In Buckinghamshire he sees a people devotedly attached to Conservative principles, and reposing an un reserved confidence in Conservative statesmen, and in the Conservative aristocracy, because he is to this people the representative of all Conservative principles, Conser vative statesmen, and Conservative aristocracy; but Con servatism is, unfortunately, not so favourably represented in other places, and it would be a hasty conclusion to decide that all England is well prepared for a Con servative administration because Buckinghamshire is prepared. This conclusion, however, the Duke must naturally form in the first instance, because, like all truly great men, he underrates his personal merits and their influence ; and it is little likely to be shaken by the suggessions of the hungry expectants of office about the Carlton Club. We will, however, go a little way with his Grace. We will ask him what, in dependently of his personal virtues, is it that has won for him the devoted attachment and the bound less confidence of the people of Bucks ? Is it not his immoveable attachment to the constitution in Church and State, and his indefatigable exertions for the good of his agricultural neighbours, both at all times fearlessly attested by his conduct ? Now, let his Grace look to the list of Conservative statesmen and to the roll of the Conservative aris tocracy, and say to how many can he assign the same title to public favour and confidence P We do not sug gest the question with any disrespectful purpose to any. It would be, i n d ee d , a severe test of public and private virtue to bring men to the standard of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and reject all that fall short of that standard. We put the ques tion, that hie Grace may know that the feeling of the county of Bucks, or the feeling of all England towards himself, is no fair criterion of the general sense of the nation upon the forming of a Conservative Adminis tration, romt ne Courier.) Two better men and better names could not have. been found to fight the battle of the Constitution at W alsall arid Canterbury than the son of Lord Strang ford and the brother of Mr. W. Gladstone, the dis tinguished Mcruber for Newark. Not, only are they men of station entitling to respect, but of talent and character to command and deserve it. The voice of those two boroughs so represented cannot fail to be in fluential in the Commons' House, and in all that propor tion so must honour redound to the constituencies, as well as advantage to the nation. Walsall, as a trading community, cannot be more appropriately serve than by the son of one of the most extensive, able, and succes,ful merchants of this great empire, who possesses besides the vast additional recommendation of f:aternal alliance with one of the leading and most rising statesmen of the day. Canterbury, the capital of a large and wealthy agricul tural county, is in like manner fittingly mated with a gentleman whose interests are identical with those of the electors, and who brings as the indisputable voucher fur his own merits, were it wanting, the half a century's approved service in the highest walks of diplomacy of his distinguished father. Such being the unquestion able testimonials and rightful claims of these two candi dates, it is quite clear that any hostility to their elec tion must be grounded upon exactly opposite principles and qualifications. At Walsall, accordingly, wt , find Mr. Gladstone, the Conservative, the supporter of the Church, of the Constitution, and of the general trading and agricultural interests of the country, confronted by Mr. J. B. Smith, whose manifesto is the exclusive ascendancy of one class, and of his own miserable cotton profits, who as a crab-faced (the Walsall people are able to see whether the descrip tion suits or not) and selfish sectarian would pull down the Church, and as a Radical would degrade the Mo narchy and the constitution to the level of the republican standard, which is the god of his idolatry. Such is the man whom a knot of miserable intriguers in Manchester and this metropolis have set up for the loyal people of Walsall to tall down before. They are insolently ordered to pay homage to and return a man too well known and judged upon his merits for his own town to be insulted with his pretensions, and whose only qua lifications for a legislator, even among his own party and friends, is that he is a member of the Anti-Corn law League. PRICES OF CANAL,OOCK,ASSUIt- ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &e. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 12. Number Dividend of per ihare4. Annum. (:i'-kikTrll.. Price Der Shirt 1,7011 7 per cent. Asnton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 112 ,492 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch ATLrage 11;11.sh . ;2 ,2tlo Ba3ingstoke 1110100. 5 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny'' 1504. sh. P 3 9,0601-16th. 10!. Birmingham, I.loth share ....St/. & 711. 201 4, , 00 Ditto & Liverpool Junct. Mt. sh. 100 pd 26 600 :it. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pd 100 51. Cheinaer and Blackwater lOOl. sh . 101 500 321. Caventry 1001. sh. 660 Croydon. Average3ll.2s 10d. sh . 060 51. Os. Dudley . lool.sh. 97% COO 131. Derby lool.sh. 1:'0 20,001 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd 2.1 3,5751 4' Ellesuwreand Chester Averzgel33:.sh. 81 231 621 Erewasn lool.sh. 750 1,207 30/. Forth and Clyde... Average 4(.101.165. tn. 6` o ) 11,01.0 8/. Grand Junction 111(11.s n 142 1,F.L19 255. Grand Union lool.sh, 20 1,500 .... Grand Surrey 1,000! 41. percent. Ditto (optional) an 1001. 3 , 196 Grand Western 000 13/.125. fild. Gl:onqrganahire, Aver. cost 17'.a. I3s. 4d. 749 12t. Gratithi , n - 6,238 '2l. Os . Fluddei..ield Average •Z, 11. 6s. 63. sh '27 100 Kensington lOO sh. allpd 10 2i,1.28 11.103. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391. Ns. 111:1. sh 123 11,6991 IL 7s. Lancaster Average 471. Os. 83 2.71.4 2,8971 30/. Leeds and Liverpool 10111.2h 760 545: 151. Leicester 140/. st 14'1 1,897 5/.00. Leicester & Northamptoniver 831.1 W 73y0 2.400 101 Monmouthshire lOO/.Bl' 200 1001. sh. 2c.G 150 101. Melton Mowbray .. . _ ._ iiiii 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh. 565 5,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield IOU/. sh. all pd 343 247 171. Neath lOll/.sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Avti.ge about 78/. sh. 75 21,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. sh. 104 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 67 500 81. Shropshire ../251.5h. 137 800 10/. Os. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 180 3,6 m. 4} percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock ...... ...121 10s. sh. 114 700 361. Stafford and liVorcester. 140/.sh. 650 500 151 Shrewsbury 300 91, Stourbridgef......--.... 145/. sh. 396 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on.Avoi. nrer....791. 9s. t4d. sh. 41 533 12t1 Swansea lOO/. sh. 265 3,762 2/. Bs. Severn and Wyc and Railway Ar. 35/. sh. 45 2,600 i sh . 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share lOOl. sh. 580 8,149 I,oooshi 161. Warwick and B ; rmisigham lOO/. sh 245 00(4sh. 950 13/. Warwick and N a in. n' 100/. sh. 175 7,000 41 , Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.81. sh. 56% 5,000 325. Wilts and Berks Average 671. IN Bd. sh, 26:1 4 800 6.. Wyilev and Essington 125/. sh '74 .26 Wisueacn 905 1/, Wey and A , llll llOl. en. 22 DOCKS. I * soo 8 ' 9n c. Commerc al lOOl. sh. 65 1,06515 h. . • East and West India ....Stock 99 3,238,3114/. 60s. p.c t. London Stock 67 Ditto Bonds 2,009 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14^/. 9s. sh. 75 68,324/. 5/.percent. Ditto Notes, various amaunts lOB 352,750 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 99% 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier 0 01. sh. 001. rid 10 BRIDGES. ,600 10s. Hammersmiti, 50/.911. 21 7,031 Southwark, Old ... ... ...Av. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 2% 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent., 501. oh. 13 0,000 .. ... .... Waterloo 1001. sh. 3 5,000 .9•23. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8! 601. p 4 20% 5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4O!. pd 18% 00,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds • 99% 5,848 :266 Vauxhall .......,.Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 264 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 50,000 [(li n er cent . / Allianceßritish BcForeignloo/. sh. 111. pd 13% d 151. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pd 5% 4,000 fl. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 143' s 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham lire 0 50/. sh. 55/. p 3 107% 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 504 pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/. sh. M. pd 5% 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical & Meditol Life, 1001. sh. 01108 pd 44 4,000 310 s County lOO/. sh. 101. pd 10 20,000 ss. Eagle. 200 S 5 per cent ./ Economic Life 10001. sh. 250/. pd 400 /and 301 bs. 2,271 225. per cent. European Li ie 20/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2!. pd 13‘, 1.000,0061. 6/. per c t Globe Stock 122 20,000 51* Guardian 30,000 s. ad. Hope 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 5% 2,400 5!. 7s. ad. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 135 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 8!. pd 30 2,020 31 10. Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 00% 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/ sh. 12/. 10s. pd 18% 3,900 10s. London, Ship .........251 sh. 121. 10s. pd 18% 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life _ __ 1i )0,000!. 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lite .501. sh. 2/. pd 016 s 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fire 201. sh. 21. pd 18s Od 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1601. sh. 5/. pd 53! 2.500 11. Provident Lire lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 290.002 7s. Rock Life 5l. pd 1.% 89,2201 51. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 200• 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite 1001. sh. 5/. poi 5 1 4 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 7% JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of Ireland2s/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 54% 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank ..- 5O/. sh. 101. pd 23 39,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 25/, pd 24 ►q 60,000 54 London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13 .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. tOl. pd 30 25,000 Liverpool lOOl sh. 101. pd 21% 50,000 71 per cent, Manchester and Liver. ] 50/. sh. 151. pd 10% pool Distri^t 20,000 7 per Cent. Manchester lOO4 sh. 25/. pd 41% 20,000 00,100 5 ler cent. National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 171/. pd 10. 10,000 5 per cent. National Provi.,cial Eng.loo4 sh. 35/. pd 353. 10,000 Ditto New 10i. sh. lOL pd 10% 10,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10/. pd 30 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 British 401. sh. 16/. pd 185 4 s,nn„ fsl.percent./ Ditto Provincial """ /and Bs. 65.320/. sh. 19/. pd 25 928 5/ 10s Birmingham 50/• sh. 96 __. 4,250 21 Os Bristol' 2O/, sh: 36 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 14 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. IS!. pd 9 2,471 4* per cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated -.75/. 6211. pd 105 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... .....lOW. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOOl. lib. 75/. pd 150 4,000 31.05. Equitable 5O/. pa 20 10,000 2i percent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 58 800 51. per cent. Isle of Tnanet 251. sh. 201. IA 18% 2,350 6/. per cont. Independent 30/. sh. all r, 49 9,000 41. per cant. Phoenix 5O!. sh. 39/. pd 34 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff lOW. sh. 90!. pd 63 4,000 South Metropolitan 50/. sh. 191. pd 17 9,000 4/.per cent. United General 501. sh. 471.0 33% . 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22 2,060 1. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 511.9h. 10/. pd 11 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 10s. Birmingham "5/. sh. 25!. pd '22 4,434 71. East London lOW. sh. 170 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 46. sh. 65 2,000 21. Kent 1001. sh. 45% 372 10/. Liverpool !tootle 2201. sh. 320 1,500 2 /105 New River London Bridge Water Ann... 110 6,486 2/ lOs Manchester and Salford 109/. sh. 55 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOO/. sh. 104% 8,294 4jl. West Middlesex Average 63/)l2s. 9d. sh. 101 1,360 11 14s York Building Lo. Lessee Prop. 1004 sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby .. „. lOO/ pd 7618 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester I CO/. pd 84 15,110 0 Bristol and Exeter 11)01. sh. 651 pd 3 ' 7500 Cheltenham &G. Western 100/. sh. 62 ,/. 31% 3,009 Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 25 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd 50,008 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd 8 7 %, 10000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 70/. pd 51% 10,918 14 percent. Grand Junction lOO/. sh. all p 4 21*. 25,1100 Great Western l9Ol. sh. 65/, pd 95 25000 Ditto New 50/. sh. 50/. lid 04N 5,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 50/. sh. 351. pd 42% 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 115% 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 504 pd 435 k 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65% 5,100 )0 percent. Liverpool & Manchester 10( /Jib. 1001.154 185 7,9118 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5 l l/. pd S 7 q 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ' , 51. pd 45 36,000 . ..... ... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 50/ pd 435 94,000 London and Blackwall 251. sh. 22.0. pd 19% 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. 814. 2111. pd 8% 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 90/. pd 172 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares 2isl. sh. 5/. pd 27 31,250 Dit o New Shares 32/. sh. 24/. pd 49 30,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. 96. 58' 33,000 London and Croydon/ 12.4 Ditto New Scrip.... A y' 13/. 15s. 96 ' I‘2l, ... ...... 13,000 Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. 701. pd tiON 13,0;10 . Ditto Half Shares 501.'51. pd 31% 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 271 4 Ditto Extension 7l. pd 3 1 4 10,000 Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 10/!. pd S 4 15000, North Midland ...... ... • 4.01. sh. lON pd 70 Ditto New 40/. r 6 40% 5,128 Northern and Eastern.... 601. sh 301. pd 27 2000 Preston and Wyre 5O!. sh. 301. pd 36 ks,ooo ... ...... South Eastern and Dover 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... „ 100/.sh. 275 9,000 Thames Haven 50/. sh 5/. psi 6.000 York and North Midland 50 . Bh. 50/. pd 71 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. 14. 31/. pet 12 4,000 I/. ss. Alton l5l. sh. 12/. ii rpd 10 111,000 ... ..... Anglo slexican,iss. 51. pm.lool. sh. a 1 I d J Ditto Subscription ".5/. ini I% 2,000 tot. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd 35 10,000 I/. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pin 35/. sh. 20/. pd 12 ! 6,000 Macaubas do Cocaes United 25/.911.254 pd 15 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2lll. sh. 14/ pd 21 4 10,0011 Bolivar Copper Company , 201 . sh. 201 . pd 1 10,000 Ditto Scrip lOl. sh. 10/. pd 2 200(8), British Iron 50/. sh. 551. lid 1 000 British Copper 5/, sh. 41/. pd 116 C 1 - . i Br.inca 6l/. nil St 4 ••••••••• Candonga 7il. pd 5 In,ooo I; COpi2po ... . '2ol. sh, 13/. pri 10 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. Si. pm. 55/. sh. 55/. pd (IN 2,850 3/. English l4/. Cs. pd 2 4000 0,155 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 0741 ini Ii 3,1810 Polberou Consols . lO/. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered uy, Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 160 ' United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. sh. all pd 2 MUG Scrip 3 14 Ditto New Scrip 51 )..A 5 1 4 West Cork 5Ol. sh 50/. pd 38 LITEIt A RV INSTITUTIONS. 10.111111 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. Iti 1,500 London University lOO/. sh. all pd 8 700 Russell ,) sgs. gh. King' College lOO/. 1i MISCELLANEOUS. . . ...... _ . - 10, N' 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/.lsh. 28/. pd 37% 8,1X.C, 1. per cent. British American Land Company 23i. pd 10 10,01:C 1. per cent. Canada Company lOOl. sh. 30/. pd 311 00,0 Q; 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent ioa General Steam Navigation 151.:h. M. pd 25!,4 !r cont. Hudson's Bay Stock .. . ... I!. 6s. 10/.pF! ,008 . London Corn ii, . Sale Rooms....Av 75/. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 12i/. pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compatsy...so/ pd 12 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001. pd 110 0 ,033 51. per cent. Ditto New WO/. sh. 100/. pd 117 4,000 ,o.uou 6 s . Van Die.ner.'s Land ....100/. sh. 1711 , pd g LIST of SCOTTISH COM PANIES' PRIDES JAN. BANKS. ,000,004• 1 • 6 1 p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...83/. Os . Bd . s h . all pd 102 1• , 11 ~ 00 R of Scotland O,OOC/. 61, ct. c.)• ~ lOO/. sh. all pd 155 '500,0001. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd :21 500,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 17434 500,0001. sn. ct. National lOO/.sh. 101. pd 14% 500,0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 25(1/. sh. 501. pd 84 1,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 72W INSURANCE COMPANIES. • 150.0005 h. 6} p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 11. pd 258.64. 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. pd 13 i , 100,000 sp. ct. insurance Co. of Scotland .10/. sh. all pd 03( a 50,000 Bp. ct. North British 2001. sh. 104 pd 183 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Li/e. 1001. sh. 10/. pa 11% 100,000 3} p. rt. West of Scotland lO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 .... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/.sh. all pd 10 Ditto Allocat , yd! 061. sh. all pd 47 5,40( 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck Water 251. sh, all pd 35 2,0005 h :5 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh 481. pd 53 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass '2O/.sh. 16/. pd 1 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... —.25/. sh. all lid 59 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas ' , 5/. sh. all pd 5234 75U 7i per cent. Leith Coal Gas 2O/..h. all pd 51 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rai's/ay 50/. sh S 6 THE INCREDIBLES OF PARIS.—We per c ire by an advertisement in the usual part of our Paper, that " Les Encroyables," or the " Incredibles of Paris, are announced for Monday next at the Victoria Theatre." The performances of these extraordinary artists created a great sensation in Paris, in fact they are there quite the rage, and even the ladies' ribbons are called " Les Encroyables." Great preparations are being made in the theatre, as it is intended to introduce these won. derful men in a grand ballet of action, written expressly for them by M. Bolon. We sincerely wish the spirited lessee success in this undertaking, and hope the Incre. dibles will prove as good a card to him as the Bedouin Arabs did 19 Davidgel LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 13. StIREWSBURY V. BLUNT AND OTHERS. _ _ Mr. Sergeant HALCOMBE moved for a new trial in this case, which was an action of tort, brought against the Directors of the Wheal Brothers Mining Company, to re cover the amount of shares which the plaintiff was induced to purchase in that concern, by the alleged fraudulent re presentations of the defendants. The jury found for the defendants, and the Learned Sergeant contended that this verdict was against the evidence, which, he said, had clearly established the charge of false and fraudulent representa tion on the part of two defendants, Blount and Harrison. Although the other Directors were not awaro of the false hood of the representations by which the plaintiff and the public were imposed on, they were Habig for the damages, inasmuch as they gave their sanction and authority to those statements. The COURT were of opinion that the Judge, Mr. Justice Erskine, had rightly put it to the Jury to say whether the evidence was sufficient, that the defendants knew at the time when they published their prospectus, that the mine was worthless. If they were not, they were entitled to a ver dict according to the decision in the great Scotch case of Ilayeroft v. Creesy. The Court would give no opinion on the point of law, as to the responsibility of the Direc tors for the truth of their representations, because the ques tion had been put to the Jury, whether the plaintiff had been induced to buy shares in August 1836, in conse quence of the representations made by the defendants in the April before ; and the Jury had found in the negative. Nor did there seem to be any reason for impugning that verdict, for it was plain that the decline of the price at the time when the plaintiff pnrchased, was sufficient to inform him that the golden promises of the prospectus had not been realized. Their Lordships therefore refused the rule. SECONDARIES' COURT, JA.v. 15. BILL V. INNES. In this case Mr. MATTUEWS appeared for the plaintiff, a solicitor ; and Mr. FORTESCUE appeared for the defend. ant, who is brother-in-law of Mr. Stockdalc. The action was brought to recover 7/. 3s. 6d., for money lent to the defendant, to enable him to release Stockdale out of the custody of the Sheriffs of London. William Chapman, a Sheriff's Officer's assistant, esta blished the plaintit's case. Mr. FOTESCUE contended that the only undertaking. Mr. Trines gave Mr. Hill to re-pay the money was of a collateral nature, inasmuch as he promised to pay if Stockdale did not. Stockdale, however, it had not been proved, had ever been applied to, and that even if the undertaking was of a positive character, the Statute of Frauds required that it should be made in writ ing. He (Mr. Fortescue) would be able to show that there was a collateral undertaking in writing given, which he submitted would at once put the plaintiff out of Court. The Learned Counsel then commenced reading a docu ment, but was stopped by The SECONDARY inquiring how the paper could get into the defendant's possession, if it was given to the plaintiff? Unless the defendant could prove that it had been in the plaintiff's possession, he could not be affected by - Mr. FORTESCUE, not being prepared with proof of such a description, he proceeded to argue that the Jury must be fully satisfied that the money passed from Mr. Hill into the defendant's own hands, and that it was a bona fide loan, to enable the plaintiff to recover. The Learned SECONDARY summed up, and the Jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 71. 3s. 61 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Inspector M•Lean stated that he waited upon his Lord. ship at the desire of the City Police Commissioner, to mention that, notwithstanding the notice which had some days ago been sent round to all the inhabitants of the City to keep the pavement opposite to their doors properly scraped and swept, some of the great establishments to tally neglected to pay attention to the direction, although sanctioned by an Act of Parliament. Ile particularly al luded to the Bank of England, the London Dock House, alid several buildings i❑ the immediate vicinity of the Mansion House. The Commissioner also ordered him to mention that London Bridge was both as to the pavement and the carriage way in the most filthy, and almost im passable, condition, although it was understood that men receivedweekly salaries for keeping, or pretending to keep, it clean. The Lotto MAYOR.—I ordered a notice to be put up, directed to the inhabitants, and stating the necessity fur observing the rule. lam surprised that it has not been observed, particularly with respect to the Bank of Er►g land, to which such multitudes now Clock daily on account of the payment of dividends. Inspector Nl‘Lean said that the notice which the City Commissioner had sent round was as follows City Police-office, Guildhall, Jan. 9, 1341. " The Commissioner feels it to be his duty to call the attention of the inhabitant householders within the City and its liberties, to the following provision in the City Police Act ; and also to apprise them, that the officers and constables of the force have received strict orders to sum mon all persons who shall be found offending in this respect. " Every occupier of a house, or other tenement, who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed all footways and water-courses adjoining to the premises occupied by him, shall be liable to a penalty of forty shillin , 2s ; and if any tenement be empty or unoccupi e d , the owner thereof shall be deemed the occupier with reference to this enact ment." The Loan MAYOR directed the Inspector to go at once to the owners of the premises complained of, and state that the police had been obliged to make complaint to the Chief Magistrate on the subject, and to request that in future due attention should be paid to the Ant, the violation of which he was sorry to have attributed to establishments which were supposed to be inclined to do everything for the public conventenoe.. The Inspector accordingly waited upon some persons in authority at the establishments particularly alluded to, and upon his return to the Justice-room, informed his Lordship t hat peremptory directions had been issued to attend to the Act of Parliament by the gentlemen to whom he had de livered his Lordship's message, and that at an early hour every morning the pavement should be scraped and cleansed. He also stated that the Comptroller of the Bridge House had sent adlitional scrapers and sweepers to London-bridge. Two young fellows, named Baker and Andrews, were brought up in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with having been on the watch to plunder people who came out of the Bank with their dividends. Forrester said that he saw Baker, whom he knew to be a pickpocket, " give the office" (a certain signal) to An drew's and another lad, and immediately follow a lady who came out of the Bank down Bartholomew lane, which was so narrow, on account of the shoring up for the Royal Exchange, as to afford great opportunities for thieves. The two who were with Baker pressed close upon the lady, in order to give him the power of robbing her, when witness seized the prisoners. The other got away. The Loan Maloa—You have no doubt that their in tention was to rob her? Forrester—Not the least doubt of it. My aye was fixed on their motions, the meaning of which was very plain to me. Had Baker seen me, he would have run away. The Lora) NIAYOR—WeII, Baker, what have you to say ? Baker—Nothing at all, but that I was taking a walk in the City. As for this gentleman (Andrews), lam sure I never saw his face afore. Andrews—Never, my Lord. I don't know Mr. BaNr, if that's the gentleman's name, at all. The LORD MAYOR—Be SO good as to tell me who you are. Andrews--Who I am? Why I comes up to town from Bath on a visit to London, and I just walked up to see what the people was about when I was took into custody. I'm sure I never expected such a thing. One of the officers stated that he had observed Andrews in the company of thieves frequently. The LORD MAvon committed both prisoners to Bride well for two months, for having been in the neighbourhood of the Bank with intent to steal. ALGIERS.-- The French Government has 70,000 soldiers in Algeria, of whom 12,000 are in hos pital, and of whom 1,500 died in the month of October alone. M. Blanquy says_.. The army of Africa is d'- vide(' into two portions, of which ono romains prisoner in its camps and dies of the fever ; whilst the other portion is decimated by dysentery, gained in running along the roads to get news of the first portion. After ten years' occupation of Algiers, it requires 390 men to carry a letter, and 3,000 to protect a convoy. 20,000 THE CANTERBURY ELECTION. (From the Kent _Herald of yesterday.) The canvass is going on with activity on either side, and as usual, both parties speak confidently of success. But it is obvious thzt at th's period of the contest nothing can be safely predicated as to the final prospects either cf the Li berals or of the Tories. The last election showed an al most equally balanced state of the constituency ; although the result of the poll might have been materially different had the Whig party been less confident and used the same activity as their Tory opponents. There was also at that time a lurking grudge between some sections of the Reform ers, which we trust is now sufficiently obliterated. What are the feelings of the rate-paying electors, is clearly enough evidenced by the fact that at every municipal election of late years the Tories have been entirely beaten out of the field, there not being a solitary Tory left in the Town Council. The result of the Registration, too, was shown to be in favour of the Liberals. Thus then, if a cordial union prevails among all classes of Reformers there is little to apprehend for the result. Differences of opinion and a sturdy maintenance of them while the com mon enemy does not profit by the dissension, is a condi tion of existence with an independent party—but though this may embarrass the commencement of proceedings it has no unfavourable influence on the polling, as long before the day of action, a perfect re-union may be effected and tenfold activity at a later period would more than compen sate for the original coolness and delay. Mr. Henniker Wilson appears to have every claim to the confidence of the electors. He will have the votes of all who desire to sec the present Ministry continue in office and Sir Robert Peel and the Tories kept out—for the loss of the Canterbury election would be fatal to the Administration. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest r rit e of +-credo i , the Metroplis is Nti for the Ilb Lt of tidt d Bread may be had at Nil. PRICE 3 OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 Per Quarter New Engl'sli Red Clover...sos 84s St. Fein —s 56s 70s Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Rye Grass —s 186 308 New Foreign Ditto —s 55s 7 s Pacey Grass —s —s —i Oil Ditto Ditto —s —s —s linseed, for feeding ~.—s 506 51s New White Clover 45s 50s COs Ditto, for sowing ......—s 60= Eris Old Ditt:. Ditto —s —s —s'Ditto, for crushi.,g ....—s 46s 48r mew Tre:oil —s ',Ss 46s liern, , —s 363 4 , 6 Old Ditto —B 20s 30stanary —s 856 965 Tr folium —s 488 705 1 Per Bushel. English Carraway —s 50s 51s White Mustard .... .1s Od to Ifs 0 , Foreign Ditto .--6 46s 50s Brown Ditto 14s Od to 17s fd Coriander .... —s 14s 18s , Tares .766d tc lOs 04 PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £4l 0 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil Lins ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) l4 0 ltai e 1 ake, per too 7 0 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 h. Town Tallow X"' 13 6 Melting Stuff £1 19 0 Yellow Russia White 0 0 6 Graves Soap Ditto 0 9 • Good Dregs 0 5 0 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs, Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) Os. fd 'COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market-day, 39. s. d. s. d. Tanfield Moor, . 22 6 Walls End Hedley 23 0 Townley .. West Hartley .......... Walls E d liewicke and Co. 23 C. Walls End Hartlepool 24 9 Walls End .3osforth Walla end:Heaton .. 23 3 (From the London New Price Current of January 15.) SUGAR.—Holders of British Plantation have displayed firmness this week, and the grocers have been anxious to purchase ; good and fine yellow descriptions have been in brisk request, and the market has been daily nearly cleared of such ; the supplies being rather small, buyers have been compelled to pay an advance on former rates of 6d to Is per cwt ; brown and the lower sorts of yellow have been disposed of to a fair extent at previous prices. The refiners have not evinced much desire to do business, still they have been on the alert, and a steady demand has existed for all strong sorts, which have fetched fully former rates, but soft kinds have moved off slowly ; fine yellow Jamaica has fetched 83s to 84s, mid and good mid 73s to 793, low 72s ; Trinidad, good brown 69; to 71s ; Antigua, good and fine, but not with much colour 793 to 81s, mid and good mid 73s to 79s ; Grenada good mid and good 77s 6d to 793 ; Demerara very dark greyish brown, with some heavy samples amongst them 645, good and fine brown 683 to 71s, low mid yellow 72s to 73s ; Dominica good mid 775. To day there was a good demand for middling to fine yellow, and strong grey descriptions, which brought rather higher rates; making the advance for the week is per cwt, brown and low yellow sorts cannot be quoted higher, atilt they were in fair request. The :total sales for the week reach 2,400 hhds and trs. REFINED.—There has been an excellent demand for Refined Goods from the home trade since this day week, and rather higher rates have been paid for the better de scriptions. Standard Lumps have been disposed of in large parcels at 933 ; Tittlers and Hamburgh Loaves, good 94s to 965, fine 97s to 993; Brown Lumps, fine 91s Gd to fos, good 903 to 915,. ordinary 88s to 89s per cwt. Treacle common in small parcels at 365, patont 37s to 38s, best old make 41s to 421, for golden syrup 42s Gd to 435, Pieces have been in excellent request, and prices have further improved; fine sorts have been selling at 82s to 863, good 79; to 81s, middling 77s to 78s, ordinary 75s to 765. Bastards of common descriptions may be had as low as 493 to 50s, but the better kinds have brought full prices ; middling and good descriptions at 563 to 675, fine 68s to 70s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 6d to 32s 9d for first quality. For Loaves prices are firm ; 141bs have been disposed of at 375, 101bs 37s 6d to 38s, and Gibs 40s to 41s. Treacle at 14s 9d to 15s. Bastards at 16s to 19s, and Pieces 20; to 255. Dutch Crushed Sugar on board at 30s 6d. To-day prices were firm for Refined goods, but there was only a limited business transacted for home consump tion, in other articles no variation occurred. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon a fair demand prevailed, and 1,049 bags at public sale sold 6d above former rates, fine yellow fetched 83s, good 793 to 803, low and middling 74s 6d to 75s 6d, fine brown 68s Gd, low 50s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—Fine Bengal has been disposed of at 85; to 86s, good 84s to 84; 6d, mid and good middling 82s to 833 Gd, ordinary 81s to 81s Gd. Low dark. soft brown at public sale was bought in at 51s to 523, 50s Gd was offered for a part. 300 bags yellow fetched 71s 6d for soft dingy and washed 693 per cwt. Manilla for Refining un der bond at 21s a 22s 6d. Siam at 26s for good mid white. This afternoon 5,720 bags damp brown Bengal were of fered at auction, and all disposed of at, and after the sale, 3s above the general valuations, low quality realized 55s to 58s 6d, the bulk went at 57s per cwt. FOREIGN.-Brown descriptions of Brazil would com mand full former rates, but the limited quantity has re stricted business; 25s for middling white; yellow Ha vannah rather above former rates ; middling quality has fetched 245. Cuba imported from Jamaica, tierces fetched 22s 64 to 23s 6d for middling yellow Muscovado, and the remainder 22s 6d to 24s 6d for middling and good clayed yellow, and one lot fine at 253 ; if holders would accept 23s 6d for fair yellow quality of Havannah, it would lead to the disposal of large parcels. Porto Rico continues in request, and prices are firm; at auction 208 hhds fetched 23s to 23s 6d for good middling strong greyish yellow. MOLASSES —For West India there has been a good de mand, and 200 puns have been disposed of this week at rather higher rates; fine Demarara has been selling at 32s to 335, Antigua 38s, Berbice and Grenada ordinary 303, Dominica and St. Vincent's good 32s to 33s per cwt. COFFEE.—The trade have not evinced much desiro to purchase clean descriptions of British Plantation this week, still holders have displayed firmness, and the former rates have been supported. For Ceylon full prices have been paid, ordinary sorts at 72s to 735, good ordinary 745, fine ordinary coloury 75s to 783 per cwt. Java at 56s to 57s for good ordinary pale. This afternoon there was a fair demand from the Home trade, and prices were firm, 768 bags Ceylon ; and 10 casks B. P. were offered at public sale. The former sold readily at full prices, good ordinary fetched 73s 6d to 743, fine ordinary pale greenish 75s to 765, fine for ordinary even pale 80s to 81s. The latter, of ordinary quality, fetched 70s to 75s per cwt. Cocow.—British Plantation has maintained its former value, but there has been only a limited demand privately, i and none has been offered at auction ; a large parcel has arrived. Foreign in small quantities has been selling at late rates. TEA.—There has not been much activity in the market for Free Trade since we last wrote. The business done has been almost exclusively for cash, and on the following terms :—Congou common is Gd to IsAid, coarse is GI-d to Is 7d, fair blackish leaf is 7d to is lid, mid is 8d to is qd, good and fine Is 9d to Is 101 d, very fine Pekoe flavour Is Ild to Is l lid, Twankay common is 7d to Is Bd, good brightish leaf Is Bid to is 9d per lb. The operations have been principally in the lower kinds of Congou. In the speculative market a fair business has been done; but prices have been unsteady, and have varied between is OAd to Is lid for Company's Congou cash ; the closing quotation yesterday was is God cash, and is 7d prompt one month. For auction on Tuesday b,OOO packets are declared. To-day szveral parcels of free trade were disposed of, and upon the whole a fair amount of business was trans acted, prices were firmer, and the lowest point of the mar.. ket for common Congou cash is is qd per lb ; of fine kinds of tea there do not appear to be many parcels pressing for sale. Company's Congou was in steady request, and closed at Is 64d a Is 7d cash. SPICES.—For Pimento holders are firm, and former rates have been maintained; ord coarse at 2P., and low mid 3d per lb. Cassia Lignea is held firmly, and prices have an upward tendency ; mid descriptions at 90s per cwt. For Black Pepper, holders are firm ; common Sumatra at to aid qd, fair Malabar 3-7. id, and 44 to 4id per lb. West India has been in fair request, Cloves are held firmly. In Nutmegs prices are inclined to advance. RICE. —This afternoon less demand existed for East India, but prices - were firm; 1,993 bags, and 788 pockets Bengal, 1,191 bags Madras, and 961 bags Siam, were of fered at public sale. Bengal was taken in at 14s 6d for good middling white, being the full value, and Madras at lOs 6d for fine yellow ; Siam sold at 93 Gd to 103 per cwt. FRUIT.—The business done has been partial this week the importers continue to force sales of Turkey Figs, es pecially those parcels in bad condition ; a public sale was attempted yesterday consisting of F renc h . Fruit, L ip• dr i Currants, and damaged Valencia a nd Denis Rals:,,i ; a very thin attendance, and not hi ng a pp e ared to ..ave been sold. Rt/M, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.--Por Jamaica Ruin there are several buyers, espec i ally of fine descriptions, and full prices have been offered, but the short supply at market has restricted business, and the sales this week have not exceeded 100 puns at the rates quoted. Lee wards have been less in request, still a fair business has been transacted, and former prices have b een ma i ntained, 200 puns have been disposed of, proofs at 2s 9d to 2s 9kd, 2 to 10 per cent over 2s 10d to 3s Id, 12 to 15 over 35 2d to 3s 3d, 60 puns Demerara I have been sold at 5s 2d to 55 6d f or 29 to 36 over-proof. The demand has become dull fo r E ast India, and prices for Calcutta have fallen to 2s d to 2s lid for proof, at which 80 hhds have been disposed of. The arrivals of Rum have been 570 puns and hhds since this day week. I The transactions in Brandy h ave b een on a more extended EV scale, and a fair business has qeen transacted at imPrq rates. Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 , b d s been selling at 5s 5d in hhds, bs 3d in puns, do 1937 bP do 53 3d, puns 5s Id, do 1838, hhds On Id, puns 43 11d , 1839 hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d, new sorts of last seals vintage, however, have been only in limited request , bh d at 3s 9d, puns 3s 7d. Geneva has been in fair detAlD„' and the supply being small, prices have improved , have been made for shipping at 2s Id to 2s 2d, and fin e n ,,,Pr home consumption has been selling at 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Pr tish Corn Spirits have been in good request at 105 cash_. OILS.—For common descriptions of Fish Oils this s e rf prices have been steady. Pale Seal 33/ to 33/ l'"' yellow and brown 27/ to 311. Cod 9 7/ 103 Soutberi 25/ lOs to 27/ for ordinary and middling, and 27/ to 291 103 for good and fine. Sperm t i to 106/ for first quality. In Linseed oil P" — ,, have fallen to 27s 6d to 27s 9d. For &life', in the next two and three months at 28s to 29 561 Rape Oil prices firm, Pale at 46s and brown 451 ; a Palm 351 for first quality. East India Cocoa Nut at 3° for good quality. Olive Oil has been in good request; u TALLOW.—Prices have still a downward tendency. I : i s demand has been limited for Petersburgh Yellow Cs% on the spot, and although holders have accepted 46% 0 ' to 46s 6d, being a reduction on last week's ri l ; of 3s 61 per cwt, still both chandlers and soap-Wa ke d . , have purchased only sufficient for their present 1 111 For delivery in the next two and three months the till actions have been on a small scale only, and prices 11 , 1 1 declined to 46s 6d to 403 9d. For some small parce ls South America 39s a 45s 61 have been taken for low OP o to good bright quality. Town Tallow has however been fair demand. Some small parcels is been Tallow have of s been received from the East Indies. COUNT Y COW Wheat. Barley. Per Qua•ter. l Abingdon Andover Banbury Basi, gstoke Cirenc'ster Coventry Daventry Derby Howden Hungerford blaiton Mai• enhead Nottingham Wantage Warwick Winchester York Per Bushel Birmingham Per Sack, First Wheat Second Third S. to S. 54 66 54 60 52 60 !,0 (14 52 61, fi 4 72 ( 2 ft; 50 6tt 52 75 51 67 63 80 - 70 - 60 S. to s. :;0 40 33 41 2":' 31 27 38 34 36 38 44 :i0 t 6 32 ,r) 35 :38 35 40 20 3t: :t4 44., 34 40 3-2 40 8. to s. 21: 04 6 34 24 29 21; 29 32 21i 35 '2.4 31 24 3t 23 33 22 33 25 34 _4 2ti 32 29 38 23 30 Beane. S. to c. S. 44 5•? 44 4S 52 41 40 42 46 - 4 0 30 44 -- 48 50 -- 40 42 -- 44 52 39 43 5 , ) 42 47 0 -- 36 46 -- - 43 s. d. s. d. Is. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d, s. d. s. 70 34 39 53 40 49, 5 6 68 6a DEVIZES CORN MARKET. s. d. s. d. Per s,juat ter. s. d. 31 oto 39 0 Oats ... ........... 2.3 oto 29 0 31 0 Beans (per sack)... 22 2 24 0 26 0 hour (per 0 28 0 41 6 Bread (pergallon). 1 3 dLaley CORNWALL (Calculated at 9.4 gal MARKETS. tons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. s. d. to I. d. s. d. tv s. d. z. d. to i Oruro — 0 7 8 0 3 8 0 Helstene 9 0— 0 4 0— 0 , St. Austell 0 75 0 36 0 5 Both= 0 89— 0 40— 0 g. Uskeard 6 6 7 6 3 0 3 G— 0 4 Launceston.... - 0 3 3 0 Camclford 6 8 7 8 3 6 4t3 2 4 ' 5 Penzance 6 6 7 4 4 0 4 4 2 4 HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. HAMBURG GB, Wheat, Marks 324 to 354' -- Magdeburg 333 to 354 Auhalt, white 330 to 354 red 333 to 354 -- Brunswick 324 to 3121 -- Mecklenburg 27ti to 3541 -- Polish - Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg , 22S to 2641 -- Dantzic -- Elbing and Ko nigsburg 225 to 246 - Upland - Riga 2lO to 240 con Carolina and Tennessee 7 %to 9% Georgia, let so►t 7 7% 2d 64( 65 3d and 4th 5% 6% CC* Mocha 13 to 13% Batavia 5% 5% Sumatra — Rio 4% 5% Bahia 4% 5 kAi h 8% Discount.) , 1 0 ' Bahia, White 521, I Brown 5 Pernambuco, White ?% Brown own, 5 to 634 .IN. Barley, Mecklenburgh ISS : -- Magdeburgh , 186 -- Holstein w Summer 132 Oats, Eider 1 26 ° -- Mecklenburg -- Holstein 1 39 te , I-- Dist Friesland lil •;, !Pease, Mecklenburg !2 25 1 0 Beans Buck Wheat la (0 Rapeseed, Hanover - Malt Tares 319 t i) CON. Maranham 11 ° Madras 4 Surats 4 Domingo ....., 6 FEE. 1 Domingo La Guayra 4% , Porto Rico 54 i Havannah 4 SUGAR.—(Wit llavannah, White 6 to 9 'Brown 5 Rio, White 514 6% Brown 4% 5% Manilla, Broi WOOLWICH -FRIDAY. Information reached Woolwich on Wednesdarl, f , death of Lieut. P o ph am , o f th e R oya l H orse A r tiir t on the 30th ult., at Florence, whilst travelling c' D Continent. The deceased was 28 years of age' had been ill nine days. A Committee of Officers, consisting of Lieut.-0 pl Wallace, Captains Pascoe and Morris, asset& Ma/ the 11th instant, to investigate a report on tb 14 made for clothes destroyed or damaged at the ,late on Woolwich-common. I Art Captain Williams having been appointed 'co a P i cular service in the East, Captain Gossett, ' ritkeschj of Major Sinclair's company, Bth battalion, until I.' orders, The non-commissioned officers and me lt Vgeo fi d ° 4 3 pension list by the C omm i ss i oners of ex e l s eti I -I° f were discharged on th e 18 t h i nstant, by order Master-Gene-al. GENERAL oRDEY:. 8 41. 1 lintrary - 1 The Master-General is mucli. gratified in td known to the Royal Artillery an oxtract from a d il l' addressed to Brigadier-Generit Mitchell by the Hon. Lord Pa'm ers t on , ex p ress i ng the appr Obati°oo her Majesty' s G overnmen t at the good conduct ;pt detachment of the Royal A.rtillery, under Lie o 4o Colonel Higgins in the rect.:a operations against P' (Signed) IL 1.,. ROSS, Colonel, Deputy Adjutant-Uen er Extract.—" I have to express to the officer s 04 men, who, under Sir Charles Smith's com mands t , employed in the ope ra ti ons aga i nst Acre, the great 7 faction which her M a j esty ' s G overnment have fait 11 " )0 / important result s ac hi eve d b y the capture of t fortress, the approbation of her Majesty's Gover n ,: ir of the share whi c h t h e o ffi cers and men took in ° di ,' tack, and of the zea l an d act i v i ty displayed by the—' repairing the d e f ences o f t h e place after its caPtuf s, (Signed) "PA LMERSTON tw' 1 1 1 Mr. Harrison, barrack sergeant, delivered tw' n uo t, tures on his system o f menta arithmetic, at Lb', w Artillery Institution, on Wednesday and Thu permission of the Commandant. There was. a fu ll tendance of officers at the institution. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Soudan, iron steam vessel, Commander 7 ;1 4 Allen, left Woolwich for Deptford, on Saturday. W ())! she will receive stores for the IsF,ger expedition• non-commissioned officer, and, eight sappers en d ners, have volunteered for this service, and will el' at Deptford. ROYAL ARSENAL. jO The Mary Ann lighter was employed on Tues‘ lAsl y i conveying 5,000 thi rty - two pounder shot from t i is senal to a vessel in the Docks about to sail for 04 Indies. The Chalton lighter was employed on the sitnierd conveying 2,000 e i g h t -i nch shells to be put on btijio vessel in the Docks under orders for the East '- Company's service, „of' The Queen, or d nance sloop, arrived on se r euni from Puttleet, w i th a cargo of gunpowder to be made for service by the workmen in the Royal Ars'auj• ORT OF SPAIN.—TRINIDAD.-- An Ord er ; Council appears in the Gazette of last nigh,t, dated 14° 01$ ult., which refers to and recites an ordinvice made b r ji li Lieutenant -Governo r an d Council of Trinidad, ,° ll OO 26th, 1840, and th en di sa ll ows so much of the 54t h ceooll of the said o r di nance as enacts, that all actions as ef°• r , shall be brought and tried in the Court of First leo - , I/ of Civil Jurisdi c ti on , an d not i n the Complaint Coarjet in any othe r court or tr ib una l .. It is also hereby f ordered, that it shall be competent for the Coot , " Court, in the said island. of Trinid a d, to try and &Wite all such action s as a f oresa i d, under the ordinance eviory recited, notwithstanding any thing to the contrary d, tamed the said ordi nance. And it is hereby erditd, that, subject to the above amendment, the above re: s ae ordinanc e s h a ll b e , an d the same is hereby, oonfirro'da allowed, BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Gunton-park, Norfolk, the 1 1 ° 11. Sanderson, of a son. On the 29th of October, at Cavvnpore, Bengal, th e W. Muir, Esq., Civil Service, of a son. On the 1 Ith inst., at Islington, the wif e o f W. li. SOith' Esq., D.C. L., of a son. On the 13th inst., at Weddhall, Norfolk, the Lady of the St. Vincent Beechy, of 4 £0„. ,/ On the 6th MARRIED. of October la s t, at Graham's Town, CAI P e sr hte , ( fang 1 7 ^— Good J. G. _ - - - _ tbe klin, Esq., ur to of J. ..th e r s t one , Esq.,ran S District geon Emily, second . c On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Dryanston-siln at Vart Rev. A. Cameron, Perpetual Curat of burst, Berko, r_ r socy youngest d aug h ter o f L . Currie, Esq., of Great Cum," place. DIED o On the 9th i ns t., at Gl ouce ster, . nwliog• the Rev. J. G. '-'" M. A., Rector of St. Mary de Crypt, in that city. Dra w- On the 10th inst., Mr. 'l'. Debney, Cremer-street , wick square, aged 75. a 75. On the Bth inst.. at L e e, K en t , L ance l ot L oat, Esq.! a P coje,t, On the 12th i ns t., M J Airs. S. Smith, w id ow o f Mr. .'— formerly of Long-lane, Smithfield, saddler.t _ On the 12th inst., in Bedf or d. square, J. IldozgaaP Es° ;' frg• On the 12th inst., at the Pavilions, %mitten- o We' , - M. Hamilton, aged 85. l v lc ols, On the 13th inst., at Richm on d , Surrey, Kos. A. N . widow of the late D. Nicola, Esq. aged 86. h ai l ' On the 13th inst., at Camberwell-green, Mrs. Sara maid, aged 85. -.....04 London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN u No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, Ns. 112, Stud the county of 111id111..... c., A__ r_ ig4l. MARKETS. Udtb. M ( LOT D I , IOAI t . , 110 3th L"' be Er , 01B e , ' I)ep(xit Pft f . , ' ° itlare a l * Pi:Hi ts - is 41 after S at 16 the of the full iiti, E .. Lige-VI:I' 1 il r teak E h I ,1, 4111 1 et G. NV, 1E r , N, `"xnun t t lnporp . m 2 * Motion ih',toii , Arth ur lelia r d John 11p rane . IS ; Vith PO, 114 utzi ~~ . S~ ~ICITI ) Theo , I °rY and `'"n l Paa , bitt y b r kr iPtioal will be al of 51. be of XlO, N o f ui 41z "lout The A .fa, emo Cm!frttz (0i ,• Ini Rp 3IC This fri ' '" 4l futtn te t l . i larg 1 4 P0!ed . alro „2. Wt T 1 . ste e Z: et tt," %Im es , 3. A tr ° l4 an nth th, C "ern: 5, Ti Th 7 %tit le d it eg o _ent, 4 4d sQ S M c rtEN t 1 di mAL 0 A p /971,4414.11:51ual ^, 'I SOLIC 911 REGISTER sTovEs, 3 it. wide, 245.; 13 ,1 oi e° , Poles for Wint/i o c Curtains, l s . 3d. per f oot. Re g inter s;.o"yef Bd. per int, l ; e llipti c staves, 4 d . per inch ; r e g ister s' e ptft with briP l- 4 fronts, bright and black bars, bronzed orls°,ter9 I00s• brass poles for wind ow curtains,l inch di al f : e t 6 Is.' 3d. per foot ; 2 i nc h es , I s . Bd . ;a 2 inch pole, inches long, w ith en d s , r i ngs , an d b rackets, complete, ~ l e Catalogues g ra ti s , con t ain i ng t h e price of every ar ts- ironmongery. tr_fL t e i" RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxfor -I / L ~,.~1