The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-07 00:00:00

EVENING SUN• ANIMAL MAGNETISM. (From the Medical Gazette.) We hare attended one of the exhibitions by M. La fontaine, at the Hanover-square Booms, and should have given reports of his proceedings, had net that task been already performed by those for whose pages things having but little connection with science are better suited—we mean, the newspapers. Through their medium the magnetism of M. Lafontaine has already become a matter of notoriety ; and in the Times, the accounts, though written with more respect for the marvellous than one accustomed to observe in medicine. would have shown, are so correct, that we can refer our readers to them for the apparent facts of the proceedings. We shall only say that the impression conveyed to our minds was, that M. Lafontaine is but a poor magnetizer, or rather that his patients are of an inferior class. The phenomena which they exhibit are of the most ordinary fund ; they are merely thrown either into a state like that of a natural somnambulist, or into a deep cataleptic sleep, in which they are insensible to such impressions as the pricking of pins, or a slight galvanic shock, and in which some of their limbs are rigidly fixed. Blit there is neither clairvoyance nor prevoyaree, nor the de velopment of any extraordinary power of the muscles, or of the imagination, or of the invention. The phenomena are far less striking than those produced in the patients of either Dr. Etliotson or the Baron Dupotet, and of course far less marvellous than those to which we re cently referred as forming the staple of the modern magnetizers in France. There is nothing, therefore, in these exhibitions, from which any member of our pro fession would derive either instruction or surprise ; he would find in them no phenomena with whose existence he is not familiar, nor anr that would give him a deeper insight into the nature of the influence called magnetic, than he probably already possesses. With the public, however, the case is different ; to them the phenomena are striking, and being novel, are of course thought to be the results of some marvellous and newly-discovered influence. Nor would it be easy, till more stirring events than are now occurring engage their attention, to convince them of the contrary, or to prevent their being, for a time, cheated out of their com mon sense. Till some more diverting amusement is in vented for the loungers about town (of whom the great majority of M. ontaine's spectators are composed), till Parliament meets, or till some fearful murder iscom mitted, or some new genius in music or in acting ap pears, animal magnetism will, in all probability, be the leading topic of the day ; and will be discussed with all the curiosity and all the credulity for which unemployed Englishmen have ever been remarkable. To make that part of the public by whom such exhi bitions are frequented judge rightly in a matter of science, or to make them believe anything to be fess marvellous than it seems, when their discernment is flat tered if they disbelieve the truth, is what no reasonable man would undertake. If it were desirable, it would not be difficult to show the fallacy which lies at the foun dation of a belief in animal magnetism—that is, in the possession by any person of a power, peculiar and else unknown, by which he can produce in others conditions in which their senses aro displaced, or any of their faculties m2rvellously exalted. We believe that every rational man, accustomed to observe diseases, finds in the real facts of magnetism no more than the results of dis sedconditions, whose natural occurrence iewell known, though rare, and which are produced in those who are unfortunately subject enough to such influences, by vari ous impressions on the mind. The question so incessantly put, "Is there any thing in animal magnetism ?" cannot be answered so indefi nitely as it is asked. If it be meant to ask whether, in the exercise of animal magnetism, there be employed any force different from those which are in operation every day, or deserving to be called by any other name than the force of imagination, or of imitation, or of fear, or of some commonly employed impression on the mind, no one need hesitate to answer, No. There are in the facts of animal magnetism no other things than were known before it was invented ; no others than have been Often seen, both before and since, in diseases over which no pretended magnetic influence had ever been 'exercised ; no others than exist in the ordinary phenomena of cata lepsy and somnambulism, as they occur in those diseased from natural causes. On this too much stress cannot be laid,—the facts of animal magnetism are not new, nor pecOar to it ; and the novel effects to which it pretends to give rise, the seeing without eyes, the discernment of internal diseases in the patients themselves, or in others, the power of pro phesying deaths and ocher events, the peculiar discern ment of metals, the magnetizing of inanimate objects, the cure of organic diseases—all thse, and all like them, are fallacies. For those who believe or profess them, there is no alternative but to regard them as either gross deceivers or themselves deceivece; of folly or dishonesty, each in its highest degree, they, by the very fact of their pro fession, convict themselves ; for the effects, in which they declare their belief, have repeatedly, and spite of them, failed of being produced before competent wit messes, To adduce but one example—the great make. rity of magnetisers believe that patients can see by othe-s means than eye-sight ; yet though M. Burdin has, for the last two years, offered a handsome premium to any one who will bring him a somnambulist that can read after her eyes are blindfolded, to, his and others' satisfac tion, none of the many who have tried to gain the re ward have ever sueceeeded. In every case the failure has been signal, and has manifestly been due, not to an zeridental defect of magnetic power, or any such thing, but to the difficulty of accomplishing the trick of dis placing the bandage from over the eyes, when all the movements necessary for that purpose were accurately watched. These facts admit of no dispute ; and if, after knowing them, any person can still put faith in the as sertions of these extraordinary results being produced by magnetic influence, he must surely be insane in the love of error. But if the same question, " Is there anything in ani mal magnetism ?" only means, " Do the persons pro fessing to magnetise possess any power of throwing others into states of sleep, or catalepsy, or somnambulism ?" it would be unwise to answer it with an unconditional ne gative. There are unoubtedly some unfortunate persons, weak and excitable girls especially, in whom these condi tions may be produced by any thing that strongly affects their minds, and more particularly by anything which they have known to produce the same effects in others or in themselves before. Such a patient once affected by what she has deemed an extraordinary or even a super natural influence, is afterwards completely in the power of her magnetiser ; each time that she is acted on, the mind becomes weaker and less capable of resistance, if there be any desire to make it ; till at last the phe nomena of the fit may even surpass, though they will not differ in kind from, those known in the strongest natural catalepsy or somnambulism. Yet in all this there is no new power employed or engendered : in all ages effects similar in kind have been produced confessedly by mental excitement, and none know better than the mag netisers themselves that their manipulations are only essential, because the patients believe them to be so, and regard them as the sources of the strange influence. The influence of impressions on the mind, as the sole and sufficient means by which are produced all the mag netic effects that are true, is abundantly proved. In the times which the magnetisers speak of as the earliest of the practice of their art, these were the only agents employed, and they produced effects which modern manipulations hare not surpassed ; the history of fana ticism has facts far more marvellous than M. Lafontaine's. By the first Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Paris also, the energetic influence of the imagination was proved beyond a doubt ; patients exhibited the same effects whether they were magnetised or not, pro vided they believed they were so. In subsequent years, and especially by M. Bertrand, himself for a long time a believer in magnetism, the same influence has been re peatedly shown ; and if there be any change in the cha racter of modern magnetism, it is only that now there is much more intentional deception. The late proceedings in France have sufficiently proved the readineseof magnet isers there to resort to any attempt at a juggle, when their experiments are in danger of failing ; and although we fully admit the possibility of phenomena, such as insen sibility, somnambulism, and so on, being produced at will in certain persons, we should not, without close in quiry and examination, believe in the genuineness of even these ordinary phenomena, in persons influenced by any professor of the art, who came without good creden tials of his respectability. It is a very bad sign of the character of any thing th at pretends to be a science, when its professors call upon the public - to - be judges of it ;—to a man with no - more caution than is essential to one looking after truth, such a proceeding is at once sufficient to brand it with a strong suspicion of imposture. And this suspicion i s increased almost to certainty when any professed science has been repeatedly before the public, and repeatedly examined and discussed by competenqudges, and has yet made no permanent progress either in, the certainty of its evidence or in the number and importance of its sup porters. This want of progress has been peculiarly ti e lot of animal magnetism ; nor would a person e" . ordi nary discernment in such matters, need ore than the knowledge of its history to convince he some great fallacy in it. It than in the time of 3lesmer .gas fewer disciples now that there must ; and among them there are fewer than ever of in: who can lay any pretension to the possession of sound judgment : th e f ac t s i n its favour are not more. .inmerous nor m ore cogent : i t h as l e d to 1 2° gener..l rides, no useful applications : it has been found to exercise no more general influence, and to have no more connection with any other science, than it was suppoaed to have at its first invention. In a word, as sClenr,e, it has not made in the last sixty years one step. liow it is ridiculous to refer this to the incredulity of the public, or to the bigotry of men of men of science, or the prejudices of the interested. In the same period during which animal magnetism has made no progress, nearl:; every true science has had its field enlarged more o .6in in any preceding period of double the extent, and those only hare not made such progress which before ivere nearly perfected. In the same period, chemistry And electricity, and magnetism proper, have risen from being hardly more than collections of strange facts to the rank of certain sciences ; and why, if there be any truth in it, has animal magnetism alone stood s till? A s f or t h e prejudices of the public, has not th e , same period of year s just passed seen more customs willingly abolished, more improvements, more reforms, more applications of science to the every day affairs of life, than ten times the num ber of years in any preceding age? For the willingness of medical men to admit improvements during the same period, need we do more than point to the establishment of vaccination after a few years' partial opposition ; to the use of the stethoscope, now so general; to a thorough and repeated reformation of nearly every part of physio logy? There can be no doubt that the predominant cha racter of the last half century has been the love of no velty, the avidity for discovery; no period could be ima gined better for the promulgation of a new science ; for nothing but inherent error, and that of the most obvious kind, can in these times long hinder the acceptance of a new doctrine. It is as absurd, therefore as it is impudent, for inn netiser3 to rank thez e selves , with the p ersecu t e d, an d t o peace thems e l ves i n Gali lee. an d J enner; the o same list with Hervey , and Gali - PPosttio that these met with was speedily beaten down, and served only to demonstrate the force of their troth. If magnetisers dare to assimi late themselves to these great men in being opposed, why have they not long since, with every advantage of mo dern times and circumstances, proved themselves yet more like them in triumphing? For this simple reason— that in animal magnetism there is no new discovery to be made, no fact of which the like has not been long known, no force which has not been long exerted. It is now earnestly to be hoped that its practice having passed into the hands of those who make money by the public ex hibition of its unfortunate victims, it will soon cease even to pretend to be a science. It may then be turned to the only use of which it is capable ; its facts, if they can be winnowed from its falsehoods, will afford an in teresting volume of evidence on the effects of impression on the mind. RUSSIA. The following communication has been received by the Seeretary of the Russian Company.:— " ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 12, 1841. " SIR-I have the honour to transmit the copy of a note from Messrs. John Booker and Son, addressed to the Treasurer, dated July 8, 1841 : " We have to inform you that the Custom-house of this place has acquainted us this day that the following tax has been laid upon all the shipping, both foreign and Russian, for the use of the cookhouse, dedicating the amount to the profit of the town of Cronstadt : " ' Every vessel trading to this port is to be charged three roubles silver per last each voyage. " Every coaster with one mast two roubles silver ; and with two or three masts, three roubles silver for one summer. " Every vadovick, or deck boat, employed in ca ry ing iron and deals, fifty roubles silver each voyage. " Every cutter employed in transporting goods one and a half rouble silver one summer. " Every ship proceeding to Petersburgh without en tering the harbour is exempt from paying. " That it is the intention of Government to request the Vice-Consuls of the different nations to collect this revenue. •' Taking the lastage of the last year as a criterion, the British ships produced 74,233 lasts, at three roubles silver per. last. Silver roubles, 2,227. 14 ; or B. N. roubles, 7,794 99. . (Signed) " ' JOHN BOOKER AND SON.' By a manifest dated July 1, 1841, his Imperial Ma jesty orders the issue of notes of fifty roubles silver, of a new form, to the amount of thirty millions of silver roubles, to be advanced against securities of immovable property ; half the interest to be made by the banks of Moscow, and the other half by those of St. Petersburgh. These notes to be placed on the same footing as the notes now in circulation, and to be convertible into the precious metals on demand. " For every issue of such notes. to any amount, the banks are obliged to deposit coin to the value of not less than one-sixth of the amount of notes so issued. " " An ukase has just been published, ordering an ad dition to be made to stamped paper required for peti tions, billets of residence, &c. Bills are not specified : it is to be presumed they will remain as before. This ukase to take effect from Jan. 1, 1842.—1 have the ho nour to be, Sir, your most obedient . . " CHARLES MOBERLY. " Thomas Cope, Esq., Secretary, Russia Company." CANADIAN USURY LAWS. A subject of considerable importance to our Canadian colonies, which from being perhaps imperfectly under stood has not attracted the attention of the press in this country, is dwelt upon in most of the advices to hand during the last few weeks, from that quarter ; we allude to the state of the usury laws. The experience of man 7 years must have taught the thinking part of the British community the folly, and, indeed, the absolute danger of investing their surplus capital in foreign loans or improvement schemes, and it has often been a matter of regret that a good portion of the heavy amount locked up in those sources had not been em ployed to the benefit of our own transmarine posses sions. The small amount of money circulating in Canada is absorbed, at high rates of interest, in those necessary works and establishments, canals, roads, banks, and forwarding companies, and there is still a wide field for the profitable outlay of much more. An important artificial obstacle, however, has hitherto presented itself to the introduction of Britith capital for agricultural purposes, and thus is the great dispre,‘ portion between the legal rate of interest in the col any, per cent., and that currently obtained from in; estments in trading speculations, viz., 8 to 12 per cent. To remedy this, a Bill has been introduced into tb Provincial Par liament, under the auspices of Lord Sydendam, but which, it appears, will require some amendments to meet the exigencies of the case. The whole matter is well ex plained in the subjoined comments of a local writer:— " Every one in Canada," he observes, " is aware that tnoney is worth more than 6 per cent., the present legal rate—that while thousands are willing to borrow at a far higher premium, few are willing to run the risk of losing principal and interest by a violation of the law. While such a state of things lasts, the country can never prosper, or her resources bo sufficiently developed. Capital will not be loaned by those possessing it when the law forbids their doing so, except at an undervalue and a sacrifice. " The change we should like to see effected in Canada would be this—declare that any rate of interest that the parties may agree on, not exceeding the tithes/ possible value of money, say 12 per cent., may be received on any contract. When no rate is fixed, then the law should declare some adequate general standard. Our landed property will never become available as security for the raising of money until the lender and the borrower are allowed t o fix on any rate of interest they please, and make any bargain they like without the intervention of a usury law, which may vitiate the whole contract, if they pressurise to receive a higher interest than the present rate, which every siMple ton knows is far below the actual value of money in this country. "Bank Stock, insurance companies, marine railways, forwarding speculations, pay their 8, 10, and 15 per cent., and, as a natural consequence, engross every disposable farthing of capital in this country. Not a penny can be spared to lend the poor farmer to improve or pay for his land. True he can offer undeniable security, but the law says he must not give more than six er cent., and. the moneyed man to whom be appli es , tells him very coolly, buttoning his pocket at the same time, ' my good friend, I can invest my money in the Bank of Upper Canada, in the British American Insurance, in the Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company, and get my ten per cent., and a handsome bonus occasionally—surely you cannot expect one to be silly as to lock it np with you at six per cent. ?' This is common sense. We cannot blame the capitalist, and yet we must pity the farmer. " We understand that a Bill was to be introduced into the Provincial Parliament, to assimilate the usury laws of Canada to those of England—in other words, to abo lish them so far as they affect bills of exchange and pro missory notes that have more than twelve months to run, and leave them untouched so far as they affect monetary transactions. "A change of this nature will be totally inoperative as a means of alleviating the evils now pressing so heavily upon the mass of our population. It can in no respect benefit the farmer, whose interests wo are espe cially anxious to promote.; but it will be of no small benefit to moneyad men and nil banking institutions. " We want in this coitntry banking institutions which will readily advance money on security of real property. English capital, - we advisedly assert, can be readily ob tained for such investments, provided a rate of interest be allowed by law, which will be something like the value of money." SLAVERY IN TEXAS. Texas papers recently received to the end of May give some curious details of the workings of republican slavery principles. In justice, however, it may be re marked that a peremptory denial is given to cer tain allegations made in this country respecting slave importation from the coast of Africa. The Galveston Gazette observes on this head that—" Sir Fowell Buxton, the Eriglish abolitionist, states in one of his publications that he has it from ' high authority which he cannot doubt,' that 15,000 slaves were imported into Texas from Africa during the ' , ears 1837-8. Now the whole number of slaves in the country last year, as appears from returns of the assessors, is only 11,323, and of this number we do not believe a single one was was ever imported directly' from Africa." These remarks wou ld seem to ev i dence a laudable desire on the p art of Texas to bleach herself white of the re proachof slavery in time if not presently, but they contrast strancrelv with the tenour of a legisiati re enact ment in the strangely same paper, entitled " An Act concern infg}:ree Persons of Colour." By the first section ..nis Act it is ordained " that it shall not be lawful • for any free persons of colour to emigrate to this re public." By section 2' it is ordered that the sheriff or any constable of the county, in which such free per son of colour shall be found to have immigrated, do arrest him, after ten days' previous notice, and take him before the Chief Justice of the county or Judge of the district, whose duty it shall be to receive the bond of the prisoner in the sum of one thousand dollars, with the approved security of a citizen, for his instant departure from the territories of the Republic. Section 3 provides that if the person of colour shall not be able to give the bond security provided, he shall then be committed to the public gaol, with an order to the Sheriff to expose him for publi c sale to the highest bidder, with four weeks previous notice in the journals, and sell him into slavery for the space of one year, If, at the expiration of the term, he be able to give the bond security, he may be discharged, but if unable he must be re-delivered 'to the Sheriff, who shall again advertise him for sale into in slavery fort ife. T wo years are allowed for the emigration of all f ree per sons of colour actually the Republic at the passing of the Act. But if any master of a vessel, or other person or the in sh tr o o u duc lythieondeoefianneyd gfrueieltpver a dfoorlla-Irlsooft; spoeiriscoifnsCobloeuaer eines Texas,sory t o they less n misdemeanour, e o a n n e o ur, nor and raor o e n t l i t i o a n n v i t c e t n ee n th o fi us n e a a n b t l i e cooks or other hands on board vessels n t o h t e A bein e g consi dered to come within the provisions oft. It i s for the is at least no immediate intentionprovide to for j quite clear from the specimen of Texa n le g islation that a the gradual extinction of slavery, or to mitigate the seve rity of servile legislation. ANIMAL MAGNETISM.—The aristocracy, 83 the London papers tells us, are filling up the interval between the elections and the meeting of Parliament, by crowding to the Hanover•square Rooms, where M. Lafontaine puts people to sleep by the wave of his hand. As Sir Robert Peel passed through town the other day, a worthy friend of his—one of that good class who take a man by the button, and bestow all their tediousness on your weeship—wished him to stop and take a lesson. " Me !—no, mon ami," said Sir Robert—" M. Lafon taine may put his audience to sleep by a wave of the hand ; but when I dare wave my hand, I rouse 300 horn nets." row. Sir Robert THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1841. SECOND EDITION THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock — ' India Stock ..........» 3 per Cent Red. 9O Ditto Bonds —pm 3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 9Bl Ditto New Annuities... Now 3i per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2id 16 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ l7 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l7 pm Jan. 1860 l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. !Consols for Acct 894 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... !Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgidn, 5 per cent 1024 !Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... !Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent 79 Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, I 825, 6 per et Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 2O Ditto, Deferred ... French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 21 1 per cent. ... 52 Ditto, 5 per cent. 102 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5B Ditto Fifth (4 paid) - 91 London and Brighton (50 paid)... 43} London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15} London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 160 London and South Western North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 78 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENINN PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Mr. Smythe (if we recollect right), or some other Tory speaker, lately at Canterbury affirmed, that there was not a worse paid class in the country than that of the farmers. Here is a class then, protected" with the utmost rigour of the law " for the last quarter of a century, and for whom this plea ad misericordiam is put in after all ! We beg to say, we do" not doubt the truth of the Tory statement. The first Committee on Agri cultural distress after the passing of the Corn-laws, con tained evidence that many most respectable farmers, chargeable with no imprudence but that of ha.ving trusted to protection, and allowed their rents to continue screwed up, in the hope of screwed up' prices—had been utterly ruined and reduced to breaking stones on the road. This was under the first Corn-law, while import was' prohibited under 80s. Agricultural "protection" seems as fatal as " protection "to a seduced female. The first gay Lotkario of the land was Prosperity Robinson, who turned the frail one over to Canning, who transferred her to Wellington, from whom the intermediate charge of protection has devolved upon Chandos, by whom, and his tribe, the poor victim is consigned to the cold arms of Peel. How much longer Land is to be " protected," or how soon recommended to repentance and the Magdalen, is a matter for speculation. That this battered Vast has not been much the better for protection, seems admitted. The farmers, says a Tory champion, are about the worst-paid class of men in the country. A worser, per haps, is to be found in the class of agricultural labourers. The Wilts Independent reports two cases which were brought before petty sessions, of farm labourers who had been hired by the year at 6s. per week. We may sup pose these cases below the average rates in their dis trict, but they give an idea of the comfort of agricultural labourers, with bread at high prices. And it appears that as prices have risen, wages have fallen rather than risen along with them. This is precisely what all ra tional theory would have led us to expect ; but precisely the contrary of what is asserted by those who pretep , l that artificial prices secure artificial wages for ILA mur. STANDARD.—The Conservative party., and more particularly the Conservative press, are present placed in a position of some difficulty. The, reflection that must enable us to get through the ew.' - darrassment is this—that 'l:nation, but a case of th e it is not one of our own common lot of all hones. men when beset by persons wh o t, are the reverse of.h'meg. Whatever the Conservatives may do or say be tortured, if possible, to their dis advantage : Indeed, the ingenuity of our adver sar i es for it founds heavy charges upon s il ence goes fari . 3 , - „ er, In some instances, in others invents falsehood to srspply matter of accusation. " Why will not Sir Robert Peel explain his plan of government ?" is vociferously inquired on one side. " Sir Robert threatens to make a Conservative of the Queen in six weeks," is slyly whispered on the other. And so the game is kept up. This is no doubt the scheme of vexation which the Morning Chronicle had in prospect when it threatened that Sir Robert Peel's difficulties would be greatly aggravated by the prolonged continuance in office of his predecessors. This, too, as an auxiliary to the love of salary, is no doubt a strong motive for the violation of the constitution and the insult to Parliament offered by that continuance, now, it is said, to be protracted another month. It is now time to speak a word for ourselves in reference to this perplexity, created by the profli gate dishonesty -of Minister. When changes of the greatest moment are depending, our readers naturally expect from us daily some intimation of the time, the nature, and probable consequences of these changes. Now, generally, we are unable to give any such intima tions, and if we could form confident conjectures in par ticular matters, we must feel it a duty to keep such evil : • riahtor wrong, our speaking at all could be scarcely otherwise than mischievous. The example of the wisest of our leaders teaches us, that it is unsafe to promulgate, per haps as yet to form, any more precise plan of govern- , ment than the faithful observance of the Constitution in all its cardinal provisions ; to name the future occupants of office more distinctly than by saying that they will be the Conservatives most*distinguished by ability and zeal for the Constitution, and most like to reflect honour (which in politics is power) upon their party by their personal characters. More specific information than this cannot be given without furnishing arms to the enemy— arms which they will well know how to employ. COURIER.—Our Contemporaries of the Sun and Chronicle appear in ecstacies of delight at the prospect of the good to be effected by the proposed conference of dis senting ministers of every denomination which is, we are told, to take place at Manchester on the 17th inst., and at which, we are further assured, upwards of two hundred ministers have already expressed their determination to attend. The Corn-laws and the cause of humanity are to constitute the subject matter of consideration and debate in this pseudo-religious gathering, from which our Contemporaries expect such mighty beneficial results. Now, for our parts, without at all meaning to question the motives either of the parties with whom the bright scheme originated, or of those who embrace it, we are of opinion, after a mature, and, we trust, an impartial consideration, as well of the means proposed to be em ployed as of the object to be accomplished, that nothing can result from it but pure unmixed mischief. We equally object to the composition and competency of the tribunal, and are firmly persuaded, be their notions of the cause of humanity what they may, that the professed ministers of religion cannot engage, as such, in political discussions without seriously compromising their charac ters, derogating from their usefulness, and damaging the cause they mean, or pretend to promote. Besides what claims to weight or consideration can such a body put forth for its decisions ? -On what rounds, we should like to know, do these teachers of dissent, and we fear in too many instances preachers of discord, assume to them selves the right of deciding upon grave questions of poli tical economy—questions upon which the wisest and most experienced statesmen may differ—and the tho rough comprehension of which requires the most inti-, mate acquaintance with statistical details—with the principles that should regulate commercial intercourse between nations, and all those various and conflicting considerations which limit, qualify, and determine their application ? Of all the questions of the day, that which demands the largest measure of comprehension and of knowledge, not only of general principles but of particular facts, for its clear elucidation, is the Corn-law question. SROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST. THE HARVEST.—Reaping has commenced in this neighbourhood. Tuesday and Wednesday's rain has laid several fields of wheat, but no mischief has as yet been done. _ SOUTH OF DEVON.—The late rains have, in some places . where there is a great shear, laid the wheat. The crop of new potatoes is very good, and they are selling from Bd. to 10d. per peck. SALTASH.—The weather here has been more like No vember than August for the last two days—incessant rain and wind. It is feared the corn that is in a forward state will be beat down. The wheat certainly looks very fine and beautiful, and harvest has commenced in some parts of the country ; should the weather be fine, the harvest would be general in a few days. Potatoe crops were never so fine, and in some places the apple -trees are weighed down with fruit. THE WEATHER . AND THE CROPS! IN CORNWALL. —The cold ungenial state of the weather lately, has tended much to retard the ripening of the crops ; and the wind and rain of the present week have beaten them down and done them considerable injury. A few days of fine weather would render a great number of fields in different parts of the county fit for cutting, but the pro spect of having such weather is not very encouraging at present. A correspondent from an extensive corn district in the north-west of the county states that the appearance of the wheat crop is all the former can desire, and the sprin g corn is looking very promising. The markets have, however, advanced considerably during the week.— West Britton. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN NORTH DEvoN.—We are exceedingly sorry to state that since our last the weather has continued of the same ungenial description which we have had occasion to notice for six weeks past. Some portion of the hay remains in the field, much of it mowed, and it must have received material injury; the price of good hay is likely to be very high. But attention is principally directed to the corn crops, of which the reports are most satisfactory. The bulk is said to be very good, but in consequence of the coldness of the weather and its extreme wet the ears have not filled; and, what is Worse, the canker or yellows and the rust have appeared generally, the former especi ally in the white wheats. The maturing of the crops is greatly retarted, and the harvest will certainly be very late. The barley is said to be lay - ed greatly by the rains, and though there is every appearance of a full crop, it is likely to be thin and coarse. The oats look better generally than either of the other crops, but they are very much laid, and the yield will not at all ap proach the result of last year. We have only heard of a single instance of the commencement of harvest, which ofis i s n el t f hp p sown wheat of Bishop'sheat wasreaped Saturday where last, a s small fie vo e r h d Devon Journal. A lady belonging to the Church last week re fused to have her baby i nocu l ate d w i t h vacc i ne virus taken from a Methodist's child. She said she would not allow her children to be wade Methodists of. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—Lewes, August 6. CROWN COURT. Robert Taylor, 20, John Owen, 25 and William John son, 27, , labourers, were indicted for flavinm, in the parish of Cuckfield, f e lo n iously att em pt e d t o suffocate Henry Hilton, a police constable, with intent to commit the crime of murder. Mr: Cobbett conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Creasy appeared for the prisoner Taylor. Henry Hilton deposed that he was a constable in the employ of the Brighton Railway Company. On the 4th of May he was called into a beer-shop, known by the sign of the Hit or Miss, at Hayward's Heath, about a quarter before ten at night, and the landlord requested him to assist in clearing the. house, and told him that he had a " rough lot " inside. On going into the house he saw the three prisoners and five or six others, and he asked them civilly to leave the house, but they all refused to do so . , and Taylor swore he would not go out for him or any one else. Kenward, the landlord, told them they must go out, and witness said if they did not go by fair means they must byfoul,and witness laid hold of Johnson and . . put hint outside the door, and Kenward took hold of Taylor, who resisted, and witness then caught hold of Taylor and put him outside, and at the same moment Johnson struck him on the face, and he drew his trun cheon and attempted to take him into custody, but be ran back, and as witness was following him, the other men seized him, and threw him into a hole of soil. The hole was about two or three feet broad and about four feet deep. They put him in with his head down wards, and his head went completely under the soil, and they kept him there for a minute or so, and then dowsed" his head up and down, and at the same time he was hit and kicked in all parts of his body, and he received twO kicks on the back of his head. He called out " murder" as well as he could, being nearly z strangled, and they said " kill th e -, smother him." and they then shoved his head under again, and with their hands forced 'some Orthe soil into his mouth. A person came up and struck the prisoners with a poker, and he was released. He then saw Owen and Tlor close by him, and they were fi g hti ng w i t h the wothan, Weaver, who had come to his assistance. Taylor and Owen soon afterwards ran 'away, an d w it ness , whose_ head was bleading very much . at the ti me , pursued them, and ho look , Taylor, and Kenward secured Owen. In . consequence of the injury he received. he was unable to do his duty. for a fortnight, and he was attended by a surgeon for three weeks. iiichard Kenward, the landlord of 'the beer-shop, cor roborated the testimony given by the constable. 'He also proved that upon his asking the people to leave the house, Johnson. said " he would see him and all the po licemen d—d before he would go out." He also was knocked down,and kicked by the prisoners and their companions, and he saw them beating and kicking the prosecutor, and he also saw Owen straddling across him in the ditch, and he heard him say,' I'll kill the ----." Cross-examined—Could not say whether Taylor was knocked down - with a poker, iv witness knocked him clown with a stick after he, himself, had been struck to the ground by a brickbat. Did not hear Taylor cry out " Murder," but he heard him call out to the others to murder the policeman. Was certain it was the voice of Taylor he heard cry murder, although he had only seen him for two hours. By the COURT—Is sure the prisoners were all present and took part in the affray. Lydia Weaver, servant at the beer-shop, gave similar testimony. She also preyed that the prisoners were pre sent at the attack upon the Prosecutor, and on her seeing what was going on, awl ;milli , * the men would be mur dered, she gottliv: poker and knocked Taylor down with it. The'J o then said that if she interfered further or alteilli:`ed to rescue Hilton they would kill her. She " . .7,0 saw the prosecutor lying across the hole, and Owen was standing on him and pouring the soil into his mouth, and Johnson at the same time was holding him by the collar, and Taylor laid hold of him either by his ears or by his hair, and shoved his head under the mud. Cross-examined—She hit Taylor as hard as she could and knocked him down, and the poker was bent by the force of the blow. She afterwards hit Owen and did the best she could to protect her master and the prosecu tor too. Wright, a policeman, proved that he took Johnson into custody, and when he told him what he was charged with he said it was " the beer that done it." Mr. Byas, a surgeon at Cuckfield, proved that he at tended upon the prosccutor,•and that he found a wound on the back of his head an inch-and-a half long, and that he was under his care for three weeks in consequence of the injuries he received. This was the case for the prosecution. Chief Justice TINDAL intimated his opinion that the evidence did not clearly make out the intent of the prisoners to be to murder the prosecutor, and there fore they could not be convicted of felony. Mr. Creasy said he could not hope to rescue the pri soners from a conviction for an assault. , The Jury found the prisoners Guilty of assaulting the prosecutor. Chief Justice TINDAL addressed the prisoners, and told ihem they had been convicted of an assault under very aggravated circumstances, and they might think them pelves very fortunate they did not go a little further and destroy the life of the constable, for if they had their own _lives would most certainly have been forfeited. The civil power of the country must be protected, and as a warning to others the sentence was that they be impri -soiled and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. 71.,. P.....ehti 19. ' , curs indicted for foil-m;(1114v stabbinfr and wounding Wm. Coxhe u d, with intent to maim ana disfigure him, and in another count the intent was laid to 'be to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Johnson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Cob bett defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was a private in the 14th regiment of Dragoons, and at the time the transaction took place he was billeted with some others of the troop in the neighbourhood of Chichester ; on the 3d of April, the prisoner and several other men were at the Half Moon public-house, near Chichester, about eleven o'clock at night, and a man named Ether ton, accompanied by a person named Dunnaway and about five others, were in the house at the lime the pri soner came in. The prosecutor went into the house alone about eleven o'clock, dressed in his regimentals and quite sober, and he joined the party of Etherton and drank with them, and remained in the house about half an hour, and shortly afterwards the prisoner and all the others left the house. When they had got a short dis tance a quarrel took place between the parties who accompanied Etherton, and those who were with the prisoner, and the former stayed back to allow the others to go on without coming in contact with them, but it appeared that the precaution was unavailing, and a man named Dunnaway, who was of Etherton's party, was heard to call out for assistance and some one said " your eyes, have not you got a knife ?" The prosecutor, who was at some distance off, returned to render assistance, and he was heard to call out that ho was stabbed directly afterwards, and he fell to the ground, and the blood streamed from his side. At the same moment the pri soner and Dunnaway were observed struggling upon the ground near the prosecutor. The prosecutor said that the prisoner was the man who stabbed him, and it also appeared that he ran away and was apprehended at some distance from Chichester, and a knife with blood on it was found in his pocket, and on his hands there were some spots of blood. The surgeon who was called in proved that the prosecutor had received a very severe wound, and it was three weeks before he was in a fit state to be examined by the Magistrates. Mr. Cobbett on behalf of the prisoner remarked that the evidence was insufficient to warrant the serious offence imputed to him, and he suggested a verdict of assault against the prisoner. Chief Justice TINDAL summed up, and the Jury re turned a verdict of guilty of an assault only. The Court sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months. NISI PRIIIS—AUG. 6. GAY V. FLEET. This was an action against the defendant, who is the proprietor of the Brighton Herald newspaper, for publish ing a libel upon the plaintiff. The damages were laid at 5001. The defendant pleaded a justification. Mr. Thessiger and Mr. Cobbett were for the plaintiff; apd Mr..Platt and,Mr. Creasy for the defendant. Mr. 'TAESIGER addressed the JUry, and said the plaintiff was a highly respectable tradesman at Brighton, and he brought the present action to vindicate his charac ter from the attack made upon it by the defendant. There were a variety of publications put forward at the present day in . private. eliaraeter_was, assailed,..but the nature of these publications gave them very little influ ence; but the ease was very different where a respectable newspaper iike the Brighton Herald,the organ of the predo minant party in the State, thought fit to attack the character of a private individual, and in such a case there was no alternative.: but an appeal to a Jury of his Lountry. It was known that . the Chartists had one great object in view —viz. to effect the liberation of Frost, Williams, and Jones, who were convicted at Monmouth ; and it appeared that an application was made to the High Con stable of Brighton, by the plaintiff and two other parties, for a public meeting to address the Queen, and call upon her to grant a free pardon to those individuals ; but the High Constable thought fit to refase the request. In a subsequent publication of the Brighton Herald, the libel complained of appeared. (The libel was read,it stated that the plaintiff, with a hundred others, had gone to the High Bailiff with a requisition for a meeting for the purpose specified, and that, on its being refused, the plaintiff said they would go in a body, and " if blood were required, th e y wou ld die man by man, and see who should be masters." In a subsequent paper the article was again alluded to, and it was still asserted that the language had been used, and both articles attacked the opinions of the Chartists.) The Learned Counsel said that the imputation con /eyed in those paragraphs was a most serious one, and that it amounted almost to a charge of high treason against the plaintiff, and the plea of jus tification put upon the record greatly aggravated the offence. The Learned Counsel concluded by calling upon the Jury to give such compensation as they considered would meet the justice of the case. The proprietorship having been admitted, Mr. Coppard was called to prove that he purchased a paper at the defendant's office. Crosc-examined—Knew the plaintiff by sight for the last seven or eight years. Witness is clerk to Mr. Faith- 1 full, attorney for the plaintiff. Didn't know that the de , fendant was a political opponent to Mr. Faithful'. It was generally said that the plaintiff was a stirring man among the Chartists. Mr. PLATT submitted there was no proof that the libel, if libel it were, applied to the plaintiff. Mr. Bowdieh was then called, and he expressed his opinion that the article referred to the plaintiff. Cross - examined —Considered both the articles, al though no name was mentioned in the second, referre4 to plaintifE He did not believe that Gay was a Char tigt. Never heard Mr. Gay talk of putting down Kings and thrones. Did not b e li eve h e wou ld do such a thing. Gay was a. quiet peaceable man, and he never intruded upon any public meeting.. Had not heard Gay advocate the principles of th e Ch ar t er . - Mr. PLATT then addressed the •jury in a powerful and able address, and he said dig it the jury found such SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. an article as the brie brought before , their notice to be a (LLOYDS. libel, theft was an end of freedom of discussion by the I VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Reindeer, from Li press. They were all aware of the character and ob- verpocil to Constantinople, Bth ult., lat. 35, lon. 4, by jects of the Chartists, and it was evident that the object the Martha Jane, arrived at Falmouth. Ramsay, Ham of the article was to attack those opinions, and to hold lin, bound to Calcutta, 3d inst. ; St. Andrew's, Lon them up to the contempt and execration they deserved, don to Quebec, 14th ult., lon. 33 W. ; Johannes, Bre and he contended that so far from the article being a men to Baltimore, 15th, lat. 45, lon. 31, by the William, libel, the defendant in publishing it only performed the arrived in the Clyde. Hope of Mary -port, 10th ult., off strict and honourable duty that devolved upon the press Anticosta, by the Lord Goderich, arrived in the River. of this country, and had conferred a benefit upon the Sir Walter Scott, 6th ult., off St. Peter's ; Lavina, of State and upon the public. It appeared that the plaintiff Liverpool, 10th, lat. 46, by the M. Marshall, arrived was to be made out not to be a Chartist, but could they at Wigtown. Homer, Sunderland to St. Andrew's, out doubt that he had given correct instructions to his 31 days, lat. 46, lon. 38, by the Aurelia, arrived in the Counsel, and that he avowed himself to be a Chartist, Downs. and consequently a supporter of those opinions which, if carried out, must inevitably destroy all the institutions of the country, and bring ruin uponit . .? and he thought it monstrous that a man having put himself publicly for ward as the advocate and supporter of Chartist opinions should have resorted to an action for libel for strictures upon that public conduct. The Learned Counsel then went through the alleged libels, and submitted to the Jury that there was no pretence for construing them into an attack upon the private character of the plaintiff ; which would form the real foundation for an action for libel. All that was intended was to express an abhor rence for the principles of the Chartists, and to hold them up to the contempt and indignation of the public. Every little inaccuracy on the part of a Newspaper Pro prietor, was not to be visited by an action for libel, for if it were, the, liberty of the press would be completely de stroyed. He left the matter with 'confidence in the hands of the Jury, and said he was sure they would by their verdict protect the press that had rendered and continued to render such essential service to all classes of the community. . 's. Mr. Servant TADDY summed uN.and the Jury, with out hesitating a minute, returned a verdict for the de fendant. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE WAR-OFEICE, AUGUST 6, 1841. . _ Scot's Fusilier Guards—J. W. Hay, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lyttleton, who retires, Aug. 6. 2d Regiment of Foot—G. Burgh, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oldham, promoted, Aug. 6. 21st Foot—Lieut. E. Edwards, from 30th Foot, to be Lien tenant, vice Wrixon, promoted, Aug 6. 23d Foot—W. P. Campbell, Gent., -, to be-Second Lieu tenant, without mchase, vise A. J. Campbetl, promoted in the Royal Canadian R4iment. 25th Foot—T. L. Mayne, Gent., to be Enaign; by purchase, vice Taylor, promoted, Aug. 6. 26th Foot—Ensign E. G. Whitty to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Staff, deceased, July 18 ; G. N. Bredin, Gent., to be Ensign, vice. Whitty, Aug. 6. 30th Foot—Lieut. J. W. Shawe, from the half•pay of the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Edwards, ap pointed to the 21st Foot; Ensign T. W. Wilkinson, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shawe, who retires ; E. A. Whitmore, Gent., to be . Ensign, by purchase, vice Wlkinson, Aug. 6. 54th Foot—Lieutenant H. Brown, to be Captain, by pur chase, vice F. Parr, who retires; Ensign P. L. C. Paget to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Brown; 'l'. Y. Ridley, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Paget, August 6. 58th Foot—Capt. R. H. Wynyar4 to be Major, without purchase, vice Grant, deceased ; Capt. R. Hutton, from halt pay Us,attached, to be Capt. vice Wynyard, August 6. 82d Foot—Major J. Mackay to be Lieutenant without pur chase, vice Marshall, deceased ; Capt. W. Slater to be Majiir, vice Mackay ; Lieut. D. Watson to be Captain, vice Slater ; Colour Serjeant H. Bruce to be Adjutant. ( with the rank of Ensign), vice*Watson, promoted, June 3; L. F. Bernard, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Glynn, appointed to the Rifle Brigade, August 6. Rifle Brigade—Assistant-Surgeon E. G. Lloyd to be Sur. geon, vice R. Ranken, who retires upon half•pay ; Al , sistant. Surgeon H. Hadley, M.D., from the 40th Foot, to be As. sistant-Surgeon, vice Lloyd, Aug. 6. 2d West India Regiment—J. H. Hardie, M.D. to be As. sistant-Surgeon, vice Shirrefs, who resigns, Aug, 6._ _ Royal Newfounlland Veteran Conipaities-:Staff-Sergeani W. Bold, from the Liverpool Recruiting District, to be En sign, without purchase, Aug. 6. Royal Canadian Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon W. Hall ; from the Staff, to be Surgeon, Aug. 6. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major Alexander Murray Tulloch on half-pay Unattached, to be Major, without purchase, Aug. 6. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Cornet Corbet of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, are Vincent Row. land, not " Andrew" Vincent Rowland, as previously stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, AuausT 4. Ordnance Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Williams to be surgeon, July 23. AUGUST 5. Royal-Regiment of Artillery.—First Lieut. H. S. Tireman to be Second Captain, vice Bevan, retired on half-pay ; Se cond Lieut. B. Willis to be First Lieutenant, vice 'fireman, July 21. The following places have been duly registered for solemniz ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th and 7th Wil liam IV., chap. :-- The Tabernacle, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The Relief Meeting-house, Alnwick, Northumberland. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES TRAPPS, victualler, Abridge, Essex. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. ALEXANDER WETZLAR and JULIUS WETZLAR, lace manufacturers, Nottingham. BANKRUPTS. JUDAH SOWERBY, innkeeper, Leeds, to surrender Aug. 17, at twelve, and Sept. 17, at nine, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Leeds. Naylor, Leeds; Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London. PETER TAGG, corn-merchant, Tooley-street, Southwark, Aug. 14, at halt-past ten, and Sept. 17, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tutquand, Copthall-court, official assignee ARCHIBALD THOMSON, merchant, Leadenhall-street, Aug. 14, at one, and Sep. . 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official s.ssignee, Copthall-buildings; Powys, Staple Inn. WILLIAM JENNINGS, maltster, Bung ay, Suffolk, Aug. 1 16 and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the King's ead Inn, Beccles. Clarke and Metcalf, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Margitson and Hartcup and Smith Bungay. FREDERICK STUBBS, linen-draper, Caistor, Lincoln shire, Aug. 16 and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Lion Hotel, I3rigg. Hardwick and Davidson, Cateaton-street, London ; Marris and Smith, Caistor. HENRY WOOD and ALFRED WOOD, Blackwell-hall factors, Basinghall-street, Aug. 19, at twelve, and Sept. 17, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Gale, Basinghall-street. SAMUEL STOCKS, Sen. and SAMUEL STOCKS, jun., bleachers, Manchester, Aug. 27 and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Hadfield, Man chester ; Johnson, Son, and Weathers% King's-bench-walk, Temple, London. , HENRY GREENAWAY, painter and plumber, Bristol, Aug. 14, at eleven, and Sept. 17, at one, at the Commercial rooms, Bristol. Makinson and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle temple, London ; Haherfield. Bristol. ALEXANDER THOMAS HARWOOD, lodging house keeper, Streatham, Surrey, Aug. 13, and Sept. 17, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Maugham and Co., Chancery lane. RICHARD TUNNARD JONES, chemist, Oxford, Aug. 16 and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Town hall Tavern, Oxford , Philpot and Son, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury; Rack, strove, Oxford. WILLIAM GRABURN, coal factor, Downhum Market, Norfolk, Aug. 18, and Sept. 17, at eleven, at the Duke's Head Inn, King's Lynn, Norfolk. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett ' Bedford-row, London ; Spurgeon, King's Lynn ; Taylor and Westmorland, Wakefield. GEORGE EDWARD DEBENHAM, builder, Bayham street South, Camden-town, Aug. 16, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Ba singhall-street, official assignee; Manning and Son, Dyer's buildings, Holborn. AYSHFORD WISE, WILLIAM SEARLE BENTALL, and ROBERT FARWELL, bankers, Totnes, Aug. 17, at three, and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Edwards, Totnes, Devonshire ; Fronde and Edwards, Lin coln's Inn-fields, London. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. - J. Fisher, miller, Frinsbury, Kent, Aug. 27, at half-put one —J. Topley, grocer, Greenwich, Aug. 30, at twelve. In the Country. - H. Hawksworth, edge tool manufacturer, Sheffield, Aug. 31, at one, at the Town-hall, Sheffield—J. Salter, farmer, Patting ham, Staffordshire, Aug. 30, at twelve, at the Sun Inn, Wel lington, Shropshire—J. Willerton, wool _buyer, Swineshead, Lincolnshire, Aug. 30, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Boston —H. L. Orton and E. Paxton benders, Box, Wiltshire, Aug. 27, at twelve, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—S. P. Ward, common brewer, Liverpool, Aug. 30, at three, at the Claren don-rooms' Liverpool—T. Goldney, clothier, Chippenham, Wiltshire, Aug. 30, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol —J. Mullowny, merchant, Bristol, Ang. 28, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. CERTIFICATES—A ua. 27. E. Scholefield. warehouseman, Watling-street---E. Seddon. cotton spitlner, Shuttleworth, Lancashire—W. South, licensed victualler, Brick-lune; Spitalfields—J. T. Milner and C; Bed ford, confectioners, Kingston-upon- Fehningham, saute manufacturer, Bath. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. White and J. Jones, mercers, Manchester—T. Hood Ind S. Garrett, painters, Chudleigh, Devonshire—W. Highley and W. Short, grocers, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire—R. Tur ner and J. Sugden, manufacturers of fancy goods, Woodsome Lees; Yorkshire—S. Duplex and I. C. Naeltjens, merchants, Nottingham—J. 'l'omsett and E. Murrell, ginger-beer manu • facturcrs—A. Freemsn and G. Nimmo, wine merchants, Fen church-buildings—J. Clark and J. D. Dupree, cotton winders, Huttoft,.Lincolnshire—B. Bowman and J. Brookbanks, jun., drapers, Dudley, Worcestershire—W. Icon, jun. and .G. Bennet, coal masters, West Bromwich, Staffordshire—W L. Clarke, W. Clarke, and C. S. Clarke, attorneys, Bristol—E. Lanrence and J. Richards, paper hangers, Coventry-st ree t, Haymarket—D. Thomas and J. Keymer, Cheapside—R. Fred sham and W. Horsman, ale brewers, Liverpool—J. Wright and R. Pickering, commission agents, Birmingham—J. B. L. Far rant and J. Peppercorn, jun., wholesale ironmongers, Maid stone, Kent—ll. Morton and T. Kendall, furnishing ironmon gers, Ripon—J. Parker, 11. Parker, jun., J. Rhodes, and J. Rhodes, coal miners, Shefaeld—J. Corf and W. Oulton, but chers, Liverpool—J. and T. Walter. straw bonnet dealers—J. P. Bradly and C. T. Smith, brass founders, Guildford -street, Southwark—J. Harrison and R. Hopwood, sen., iron founders, Nova Scotia, Lancashire—S. Ross, T. Ross, and H. Ross, worsted manufacturers, Leicester (so far as regards H. Ross, —J. Southan and W. North, coal masters, Bilston, Stafford shire—B. and H. Worthington, hotel keepers, Dovor—J. B. Gore and D. Lewellin, attorneys, Rells'-chambers, Chancery lane—J. Liviey and W. Mason, common carriers, Heywood, Lancashire—G. Jamieson, J. Cuthbertson, and J. How, mer chants, Glasgow (se far as regards J. Cuthbertson)—J. P. Redmayne and D. Haddock, tea dealers, Preston. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns mule in the Week ending Aug. 3, 1841, is 375. lid. per Cwt., exclusive Of the Duties of Customs paid c r payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—The Indemnity, Roberts, from Port Philip, in the Downs—sailed Bth April ; Brougham, Kettlewell, from New Zealand, off Newhaven—sailed 4th May ; Velox, Falconer, from the Cape of Good Hope, off Ply mouth—sailed from Table Bay, 2d June. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.—The Munster Lass, Carre, May 10, from St. Helena • Bril liant, Ritchie, 20th, from Cork ; Ligonier, 24th, from Breede River; Louisa, 27th, from Mossel Bay; Le Paix, 29th, from Bordeaux ; Nehaut, 29th, from Boston ; Martha, Ashope, 30th, from Liverpool ; Hugh Walker, 30th, from Bombay; Sovereign, 31st, from Saldanha Bay. Departures from Table Bay.—The Matilda,. Roberts, May 20, for New South Wales; Dale. Park, Snell, 20th, for Calcutta ; Superior, Bell, 24th, for London ; Queen Victoria, 25th, for Algoa Bay ; Apprentice, 28th, for St. Helena and Rio. Arrivals in Simon's Bay.—The Princess Victoria, Blackmore, May 22, from Calcutta ; her Majesty's ship Melville. Dundas, 24th, from Macao to England. Arrivals at New Zealand.—The Lady Nugent, Sanley, from London to Hobart Town ; Bailey, Sinclair, from London ; Olympus, Whyte, April 20, from London. Arrivals at Port Philip.—Sophia Pate, Harrison, April 2, ft-6in Sydney ; William Hughes, Cuthbertson, from Launceston ; Caroline, Wooden, 3d, from Hobart Town ; Fortitude, Hutton, from London and the Cape. • Departure from Port Philip.—The Eagle, Backley, April 1, for London ; Indus, Clarke, to sail on the Bth, for Sydney. Arrivals at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land.—The Gem, Pearce, March 22, and William Hughes, from Port Philip. • Departures from Launceston.—The Fox, Lowe, March 22, , for South Australia, • Arrivals at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land.—The Skerhe, March 19, from Hokianga ; Abeona, 19th ; Isabella, 20th ; Maguaslia and Elizabeth, Lloyd, 21st— all from Port Philip. Departures from Hobart Town.—James Todd, March 21, for :New Zealand ; Maid of Mona, to Calcutta ; Napoleon, to sail April 1, for Swan River ; Hindoo, early in April, for London. .Arrival at Swan River.—The Stirling, Foster, from London. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S NEW WORK.—" The recent elections have 'furnished abundant materials for sober reflection to men of all parties ; and Mr. tuck ingham, having had an opportunity of seeing the work ing of our system, and comparing it with that of Ame rica, has given to the world the result of his conclusions, in an original sketch of an entire new plan of fixing the qualification, registering the electors, and . taking their votes, so as to prevent much of the excitement, riot, fraud, bribery, and corruption of the existing system. The subject of free trade also is treated theoretically and practically, with reference to sugar, timber, and corn as well as to manufactures. It is a small volume, neatly got up, at a vary moderate price, and, from its high moral tone and tendency, deserves extensive circulation.!'— Globe,- . . MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Fro:n Vie London New Price Current of August 6.) SUGAR.—There has been a considerable falling off in the demand for British Plantation Sugar this week, and the market has been in a dull state ; the great increase in the comparative stocks of Sugar subject to the 24s duty, and the large shipments that are making at Calcutta for this market, have caused both grocers and refiners to purchase very sparingly, and al though the merchants have ;submitted to a reduc tion on former rates of per cwt, still the quantity disposed of for the three market days has been only 600 hhds and trs ; there have been no public sales. To day the market for West India presented a quiet aspect, refiners as well as grocers operated with much caution, and the limited business done was at prices in favour of buyers, making the decline for the week is to Is Gd per cwt, and the total purchases only 800 hhds and tierces ; the greater decline has again been on the infe rior sorts. BEFINED.—For refined goods this week, prices have further given way is per cwt, Standard Lumps at 93s a 93s 6d. Tittlers and Ilambro' Loaves, common 92s to 93e, good 94s to 975, fine 98s to 104 s, brown lumps 91s to 925, for melting 89s to 90s per cwt. Bastards have given way, low sorts 47s to 495, mid 50s to 545, good to fine 553 to 62s per cwt. For Pieces prices are on the decline, good to fine sorts at 68s to 765, mid 65s to 675, ord 62s to 64s per cwt. Treacle at higher rates for the better sorts ; common at 25s 6d to 265, ord Patent 26s 6d to 28s, good 29s to 31, golden syrup 32s to 35s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 30s to 30s 3d for first quality ; Loaves, 101bs, at 33s a 345, and 141bs 32s a 32s 6d per cwt. Treacle, 13s 3d. The demand has been dull for Bas tards and Pieces ; the former we quote 13s to 15s, and the latter 16s to 20s per cwt. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 28s on board at Amsterdam. MAURITICTS.—This afternoon the trade operated with caution, and at the public sale of 5,141 bags, 149 bar rels, &c., the biddings were languid, and prices further declined is per cwt ; fine yellow sold at 63s to 655, good mid and good 59s to 625, mid 57s to 58s, low dark brown 38s Gd to 40s, low to mid 43s 6d to 49s 6d, good to fine MS 6d to 55s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the demand was limited for Bengal, 5,742 bags, 71 casks, &c. were offered at public sale, which went off heavily at a decline on pre vious rates of Is to Is 6d per cwt, fine crystalized yellow went at 72s to 80s, fine white 69s to 70s 6d, good 66s 6d to 68s 6d, middling 63s to 64s 6d, low 60s 6d to 625, mid dling to good yellow 5Gs to 58s 6d, ordinary brown 4Cs To-day there was but a limited demand, but holdel's refused to take lower rates. At public sale 80 chests, 101 brls, 500 bags Brazil and 200 chests damaged Ha vannah were offered ; the former all taken in at full rates, viz., good to fine brown 15s to 18s., low 14s 6d ; the latter sold Is to 2s cheaper for white, and fetched 25s Gd to 275 . 6 d, for mid' to good fair, slightly damaged. badly damaged 24s 6d, yellow went at 19s to 20s for good mid, being the full rates. MoLAsiEs.—A better demand has prevailed for West India, and a large amount of business has been trans• acted at full rates, 400 puns have been disposed of, prin cipally mid Trinidad, at 245. 6d. per cwt.' TEA.—This has been a week of great excitement in the Tea market. Tne furious edict issued by the Em peror of China against the English, and the reduced stocks of Tea in this country, caused both the trade and speculators to come forward with increased freedom, and for both black and green descriptions of Free Trade Tea the demand has been extensive all the parcels offered for sale have been disposed of, and the prices paid are 2d to 3d per Ib, above those of this day week ; Common Congou in large par cels for cash has been disposed of at 2s 6d to 2s 6i.d, blackish leaf rather strong 2s 7d to 2s 71d ; Twankay ordinary, 2s sid to 2s 6d ; Hyson, common, 2s 9d to 2s 10d, and ordinary Souchong 2s 2d to 2s 4d per lb, upon which terms some of the merchants will not sell, there being every appearance, according to the last accounts received from China, that the season's supply of Tea has been lost, and that which will be got out will be surreptitiously. Se veral orders this week have been prevented from being exe cuted owing to the want of parcels offering for sale : the total stock at all the ports is only adequate to ten months' consumption. The speculative market has been brisk, and in Company's Congou an extensive business has been transacted at advanced rates ; at one period sales of Com pany's for cash were made at 2s 7i-cl to 2s 8d with short prompts, but yesterday prices declined to 2s 7d to 2s 74d cash. The stock at all the ports is now only 30,000,00 lbs, of which 6,000,000 cannot be consumed in this country, and 11,000,0001bs are held by the trade and speculators, &c., consequently the quantity available is only 13,000,0001b5. For public sale on Tuesday 9,000 pkgs are deelared. At the principal Foreign markets stocks rare small, and prices rule high. To-day a good demand existed for common sorts of Free Trade Tea, and prices were firm, Congou at 2s 6d to 2s 61d, and Twankay 2s 6d per Ib, but in the better kinds there - was not mach business done ; the rates previously established have been fully supported ; Company's Congou met with attention, and a good many purchases were made at 2s 7kd cash, at which the market Closed firmly. COFFEE.—The trade has been anxious to purchase all clean descriptions of British Plantation Coffee this week, but the supply being small, has materially operated against business, and the parcels disposed of privately have been at an advance on last waek's rates of 2s to 3s. per-cwt, mid kinds however were the most in request. To-day the market presented a firm appearance, and the demand was good from the home trade. The public sales consisted of 373 bags Ceylon, 64 casks 95 bags Porto Rico from the Cape, 40 ea;ks British Plantation, 300 bales Mocha, and 477 bags East India of various sorts ; Ceylon sold briskly at a further advance of 1 s, good ordinary pale went at 755, good or dinary dingy coloury 76s Gd to 775, Porto Rico went at an advance of 4s to ss, middling in casks at 63s 6d to 655, fine and fine fine ordinary in bags 59s to 625. Plantation sold rather higher, Jamaica low mid at 105 s 6d, fine fine ordinary 93s 6d, Dominica fine fine ordinary unclean 76s to 775. Mocha was all withdrawn ; East India sold 2s higher, and fetched 63s 6d to 64s 6d for good and fine ordinary greenish Java, Batavia good ordinary 38s, low 35s Gd per cwt. Privately some parcels of Coffee were sold at similar rates, and the market closed with a firm appearance. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been less activity in the Rum market this week, and both shippers and the home trade-have been cautious in their operations. Holders, however, have been firm, and the rates previously established • have been supported ; the purchases in Jamaica hive • been 120 puncheons, 30 to 32 per cent over proof at 5s 2d to 5s 6d, 33 to 35 over 5s 7d, to 5s 9d, fine marks 6s to Gs 2d ; of Leewards 130 puns have been disposed of, proof to 2 per cent. over proof at 2s ld to 2s 2(1, 7 to 12 over at 2s 4d to 2s 7d ; of Demerara 60 puns fine have been sold at 4s 3d for 36 to 38 over proos. In Calcutta small sales have been made at is 6i-c1 to 1s 7d proof. For Brandy there has been a fair demand, and rather higher rates have been paid. Sales of Cognac first brands, of the vintage of 1836, hhds 58 7d, and puns 5s sd, 1837 hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d, 1838 hhds ss-2d„ puns ss, 1839 hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d, 1840 hhds 3s 7d, puns 3s sd. Geneva has met with a slow: demand, but prices have been sus tained, and common quality is not to be purchased under is 11d. For British Corn Spirits there has been an excellent demand at lOs 2d cash. RICE.—The market for Bengal has presented a more lively appearance this week, a good demand has prevailed by private contract, and the prices paid are 6d per cwt above those of last Friday. For Java and Madras ra ther higher rates have been paid ; Carolina at 34s to 36s per ewt. To-day the demand was good for Java, and some par- • eels were sold at stiffer rates, making the private sales for the week 4,000 bags at 8s 9d to 116, for low to good mid dling white. • FRUIT.—In Currants there has been some large busi ness doing, the buyers continuing to select the best parcels at the best quotations. Red Smyrna Raisins have become very scarce, and a good deal inquired for ; the other des criptions remain much the same as last last week. Liguea, mid - at 81s to 89s 6d, ordinary COUNTRY CORN MARKET 5............,../ Wheat. barley. Oats. Beam , -- ---e. ....... ---- • ; ---,- Per Quai ter. s. to a. s. to s. s. to a. s. to .. A 4 ' Abingdon 5B 70 27 31 25 3c1 40 44 .... ... ... Andover 56 64 27 28 •.:3 27 Banbnry 54 63 '29 1:3 24 28 sa 40 4 0 As 42 !lasi, gstoke 1 , 4 72 31 3a '24 27 40 IN' s 3 •-•• Cirenc-ster 56 65 29 21 27 37 40 46 --" Coventry — ft/ 30 37 51 32 :19 --' ••• Daventry Derby 6B 74 32 34 26 ....9 40 42 -.. ''' Howden — fiR 3i 22 ——'3 o 13 4g Hungerford 50 74 29 37 25 : - 0 40 43 r, .41 Mallon - Mai- en head 54 77 32 35 25 31 40 44 4v •-• Nottingham 64, 74 31 3C ...3 27 38 42 .... '.. ..... ~, Wantage 63 80 30 34 30 32 36 ~, .v Warwick - 4 _, 11 Winchester es 36 29 " ..... '„. .. York 7O '29 22 -.. ~" . , e d 1 66! ' Per Bushel :A. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. $. 4, s• ~• 6 0 Birmingham 7 8 84 36 46 36 4060 HULL CORN MARKET. .2s. Wheat, Whitt (per Quarter) . 661. 704' ,„,4. s. 565. 61v • ' f ru. Red Me. 6 ° s ' i - Foreign4 o c.. g o., 505. ,-;,,_ Barley. Malting 261 . 'AI' ^6t- Grinding Oats, British s• ° s . :0, Foreign (in bond ) - 00, ls. - . Oa. 706 . 0 OA. 61v • io: L . ::: Ms. 605 ' i v, 29*. 305. ~,,',. ::: 28s. ..,94...',1 Oats, - " 'I:V. ' ,2 .'• * ,,.' - Z Ft Beans 33 , Pease, Grey Blue and White Linseed Flour (per sack) Rapeseed per 10 quarters) EDINBURGH CORN MARKET1:::'°I:1::: 5145"38'.19r;.:45'.-7925".: I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. EtoOld . 374. Od. 2ls 4d. 0 , . 2 d * (0 0 35 0 V 6 0 4 0 ". ( 0 0 32 0 23 0 38 0 erage price of Wheat 3l. 186.6 d. PRICRS OP PROVISIONS. AC. , d I , ..... US. dil. to Os.7d.i Freshßutter, B ?i. f. lb . 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditt0 ...... ..* 0 0 7 010 Ditto,per cs t... 8 el . 0 • Fi at Second Av, Beef, per ►o. Mutt0n.....,,., Vea1..,...,,.,., reof 40 ° 001 1 go n 0 5 0 n 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 7 Eggs; per dos.. 1 0 Lamp, per qr. 2 6 5 0 OatStrawitpliok 5 6 Fallow, 0 41 0 Wheat Ditto.' 0 0 Quartern Loaf UB4 0 9 Barley Ditto it Potatoes,l , llb..... 0 0 0 6 Hay, EDINBUROH MEAL MARK El,, t b. 0 Per Sack of 280Ib. Imp. Per Stone 01.- LO First Oatmeal 3econd ditto - 0 1f: trleymeat IIO 0 Barleyr , eal ........... 0 ) P ruenteal 1 s 0 Peas meal . ...... .' .......... Vnt Barley from :103. to 455. Per sack( 30RNWALL MARKETS. OcHlated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) (Calenlated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. 1413tt..‹ d i I. d. to s. d. s. d. to 5. d. tv Nur° —o 'B4 —0 38-0 ; HeMelte 8 2 0 34 0 3 St. Austell 0 7 7 0 3 0 0 2odmin 0 88— 0 44_ 0 is 'Askeard 0 76 6 •3 t. 0 2 0 Launceston 0 8 3 - 0 310 - -0 •.1 Camelford IA 0 B>i 3t) 3 4 2 R 1 6 Penzance 7 4 86— 0 4 0 0 iii -- MINING - MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tole' 0 2nantity of Copper ores sold at Redruth lat week... SAD' Average Produce '; 0 ... (2,i:sooty of tine Copper O2l I S tkl. ..... 00000 ..•.... if i s , Amount of sale, 1F,50') . Hs. 6.1 —Average I tender& Igih ' Paris has now upwards of twtmty-seven_,,,r papers, the average sale of which exceeds 90,u ni diem, while London has only nine daily papers, vij sale of about 45,000 per dierit. • FADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILI' - ' r of Professor Holloway, the discoverer and sole proprietncon, these wonderful and extraordinary medicines, in t he sequence of their infallible efficacy in curint,,,tr b o a space of a few days (when they are used togetner,/,evil legs, the most dangerous wounds, ulcers, and king tiira or scrofula, has just instructed all his agents to rc ,, for in future to persons whatever money they may P,,f these remedies whenever they may fail to cur e To bs the above cases, however desperate they ma y be. eto ati, had at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, °`,„ re' where advice may be had gratis; and sold at eleeirol spectable chemist's throughout the kingdom , in Pcn-coli• boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., I Is., 225., and 335' -----------A"...57,, pi 6 PATENT LEVER WA T u"- - 6 £ 6 With silver double-bottom cases • It `MTh silver hunting cases is celebrated construction (the most 'accurate) ° 3 t o a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest is t r i ; o let , ments i. e. the detached escapen.cnt, jewelled in ft r main' capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, sn A be taining power to continue going chile winding up , at tn' price. sb* A printed warranty is given, with fixrd terms, en wh ich Watches will always receive any attention neede d. T. COX SAVORY, • s erl d Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill (Win from Graceclnach-street), London. '' N. B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exell4vg--/- REGISTER STOVES, 3 It. wide, 10.; , o esoF Poles for Window Curtains, Is. 3d. per foit. Registe r ;-yaeels Bd. per inch ; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; registe,o r alt h with bright fronts, bright and black bars,' bronzed •TM - , ; .,00 1 1 Ioos. ; brass poles for window curtains, 1 i inc h du ff ' Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. Ltd. ; a 2 inch 'Ales D IP' inches long, with ends, rings, and brackets, complete, _t r o y ilis Catalogues gratis, containing the price of every sr' ronmongery. et , RIPPON and BURTON. Wells-street , Ox ford-in. hl.fi Tli S. .. e he L l 4 On the Ist_jpst., at New-street, Spring-gardens, '" Mary Hoare. of a daughter. • - . - 'h e 101 i'. On the Ist inst., in Oxford-square,Hyde-park, t- - Henry Stalrnan, Esq., of a son, still born. ' „, parts * On the 3d inst., at Offly, the Lidy of Thomas O . Esq., of a son and heir. mc latt ere° On the sth inst., Mrs. W. J. Cheshire; Covent-garden, of of a daughter. bil l, ltd le On the 6th inst., at Adelaide.road , Haverstock.- I W. C. Stamp, of a son. F.- 4 1'' On the 6th inst., the lady of George Augustu s Beer' surgeon, Artillery-place, City-road, of a son. , g ags°. On the 6th inst.. at Tottenham, the lady of Pu rl '' Esq., of Finsbury-square, of a son. -- MARRIED. , 1 W0° 4 ,,; On the 29th ult., at St. Mark's, Kennington, S . - • f t'' Esq., of Ashby-street, to Mary late Mr. J. R. Cassell, of Old-street. vi m, Ann, eldest daught er . On the 3lst ult., at St. Martin's, Guernsey, T. 0 11 ',.", r herin e ' t rs A abe ue lli hin ' " °°4-j CaPes ig is Esq., of Harleyford-place, Kermington-cominon, tse "' relict of the late John Oldham, Esq «' re e i 81 3 an d t te, i AE ni eg t x. ..,. ans a ud t regr T eWo r r i j n al, i l t tao y cei‘ C ,la h Er . a .g p a e .r : e , ,ot Edinharg-_,, iron i, if_ _ Ay illi a° John Liddell Frances Robin' 1, 23 y0u nßgeesgtimd daughter teßr of terß u O r t of n On the 3d inst., at Trinity Cha p el , Edinburgh, ,„,„, ombay Light n virri Esq., M.D., of Kensworth, Jo • mama. ri E. On the 4th inst., at Portsmouth, Commander lhe I t a -- tsis' A. Harris, R.N., to Emma, youngest daughter of ' Chambers, commanding her Majesty's ship Monarch- ~e IV. On the sth inst., at St. Mary's, Richmond, SerreY , ''' visit' Edward Roberts, M.A. , incumbent of Pant Blyddyn, 0 s cit shire, to Charlotte Eliza Browne, daughter of Mr. lir° w Marsh-gate. .-------"--' t he lateel,f2l3. Th 1.114 D lED. • Tiole r, On the 2.1 of June, at sea, in her Majesty's srinotb- Frank, youngest son of J. M. Lacen, Esq., of Great Haraidwielge On the 29th ult., at Boulogne-sur-M e r, Thomas f Ober Hewett, youngest child of the late Rev. Dr. Hewett, o hithe, Surrey, aged 7 years and 10 months. _We i ' On the Ist inst., at the Rectory House, Little oire r o riesr - Charles Edward, the infant son of the Rev. Henry Jr' wo tbse bery. Also, in the evening of the same d a y , Ann, the re i , of the Rev. H. J. Newbery, aged 7 6 . n Hs ! ''' o be On the 3d inst., at Brussels, William Robertso of ; of Peckham, eldest son of the late W. Hayward, f'"l-' Inner Temple, aged 34. n e org e On the 4th inst., at Trelleck-terrace, Pi mlico, "' Watkins, Es. q _ w on, •On the 4th inst., Edward, eldest son of Mr. George of Lower Grosvenor-street. b th, ° e l. Oa the sth inst., at Ramsgate, Margaret Eliza _beta fant daughter of Mr. L. M. Ateryon, of the Grove, (-41' 4 , f OLIN G ' • oa Lond : Printed and Published b' MCPDO , - v ~,,,, , ,j, In No. 112, Strand, at Vie Sax Off 1 ce, No. 11, :" • the C ounty of :diddlekez, Saturday, Aug ust 7, 10 EVENING SUN. coarse 83s to 85s, good middling at 955. Peppor is held firmly at '3O 3.-}d for cdmmon and fair Sumatra and F e l ; nang. Pimento at 3,id to 3fd for middling quality. 13 9 t East an 1 West India Ginger at stiffer rates. :Nilt l " at firm prices. In. Cloves prices. do not give w a r' Cinnamon prices equal to those of the quarterly sales. This afternoon Pepper was only in limited request / 2,014 robins Malabar were offered at public th e sale, c 1 only Flatly sold at aid for good half heavy, bei n g full value. CoooA.—This afternoon the demand was good for W( st India, and 138 bags Trinidad at public sale sold at 41s to 49s 6d far low to good red, being full value. Hops.—The market is in a quiet state, but prices ha ve been supported, the stock being small, and the sccount3 from the Plantations less favourable. The duty is esti mated at 160,0004 . TALLOW.—This afternoon prices remain firm , and the demand good for P. Y. C. at 48s 9d on the. spot and for delivery in the last three months. Of South Araerical! 316 pipes 149 hinds 74 brls were sold at public sale, good to fine at 45s to 485 3d; ordinary to middling 425 to 44s 6d per cwt., which is rather higher. . OILS.—For Southern Oil prices have advanced 5s to W per tun ; fine quality at 271 to 271105, good 261 to 26155 , ord to mid 25/ to 251 lOs per tun ; Seal, pale at 321, 3' l ' low at 29/ to 30/, and brown 26/ to 27/ per tan Cod Oil 271 to 271 lOs ; Newfounland Whale 1 t 24/ lOs to 26/.5s ; Sperm has given way; British At 911 lOs to 92/, ord dark 90/ to 911, very inferi or 771 W 82/ per tun ; fine quality at 931 to 941 per tun. O n " seed Oil at 29s 6d to 29s 9d per cwt. Rape at 465 to 46s 6d, and brown 45s to 45s 6d per cwt. Oliv e hsg been in good request, and advanced rates have been gile rh Gallipoli at 68/ to 69/. Spanish at 601 to 621 per tio: Palm good quality at 341 per tun: Cocoa Nut Oil a , 38s to 39s 3d per cwt. PRICE OF BREAD. tbe 421 The higher rri( e of mremd i the Marc - T.)11s: la 930. fo- Loaf. Gutd Bread may be had at 7%t1: PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 ' ' Per Quarter ..., .-i Scw Engl . sh Red C10ver...503 P4s i St. Fein Old 1 itto Ditto . —s —s —s Rye G ass... ...... ....rs New Foreign Di.to —s 56s SOs Pacey Grass •f .... 011 Digo Di to —s — s —9 I)l4Ctfi, for fe. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ; 7 „ °. : -.: t il rcw White Clover 40s ses C3s Dit o, for sowing ...-. 4Ol Old Dittl Ditto ... '''''' —s 42s 46s Ditto, far crushi .. g ..e''' 4 5 5 1 s.t‘v Tre 0i1.... —s :lee, 4ts 1 - 1 , m Old 1 itto s I9s B's Canary Tr font= - s .ogs 70& Per ". ll :-. 7: 11: ;7: 11 :,: le : t r: E gush Carraway —s Os 5i s White' Mu:t..rd ...., - ~ , ,„ Ils" Foreign Ditto , 44s tks Brown Ditto 145 ,',. p fU . 68 ed tt Coriander ... —s s—s Tares PRICE OF TALLOW SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. ,Id lown Tallow .-.............4. , ii t .lifeltiny Stuff ............. •. l 4. Yellow BUHL; ' " ~, 2 ,, 9 { Dittolllough ..... 0 1$ White • ...1 0 C Graves ..................... ... 0 4 Soap Ditto 0 .0 0 Good Dregs .... ... ....... **** PRICE OF RAW FAT, per ston e of Sibs. 1 , 8 , fli Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Metters) ..... .......• Pit ICE OF OIL Rape Oil, brown, per ton , •• ....k V( fri 45 o Ditto, refined Linseed Oil . 3O 3 ° Lilts, ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 104.0)1 g !fa, e t Ake, per to., . COAL. M Ships arrived since 1 s. d. Dean's Primrose l5 I Hebburn Main... ......... H Nelson's West Hartley 16 • 1 Old lanfield M00r.... Pontop Windsor Ravensworth's W. Hartley 16 0 :south Hartley Wvlam ........ ............. 16 ! Walls End Clennell ...... 16 0 Walls End Hedley 'A It KM'. last market day, 20. W. E. Braddyll'sHatton *" . 21 Wall •End Ha5we11....... Wails End Hetton... ....... Walls End Lambton ........ yl ; Walls End Hartlepool ••'". Tennant's Hartlepool ..... •••••• 19 _ Walls End West L ietten:•• u_ ..... ....... e Hartley .........