The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

EVENING SUN CHEAP AND ELEGANT CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Each complete in One Pocket Volum e . I. BECK FORD'S ITALY ; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, and an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha, embel ished with a fine Portrait of Mr. Beckford, from the original painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Price 6s. 2. WASHINGTON IRVING'S ASTORIA, with Por trait of the Author. Price 6s. 3. GLEIG'S TRADITIONS of CHELSEA HOSPI TAL,with Portrait of the Author. Price 6s. 4. Mrs. TROLLOPE'S DOMESTIC MANNERS of the AMERICANS, with 15 Engravings, including a Portrait of Mrs. Trollope. Price 6s. 5. Captain CHAMIER'S LIFE of a SAILOR, with Engravings. Price 6s. 6. MAXWELL'S WILD SPORTS of the WEST, with 15 Engravings. Price 6s. 7. HOWITT'S BOOK of the SEASONS, new and im proved Edition, with 13 Engravings. Price 7'. 6d. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also of all Booksellers. FIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, -- His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain- Alg LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGIX and at LUBECK, (re now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBUrioNs. _ _ . Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO -BP-ECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DI S TRIBUTION contains D. VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to Loudon; 3,600/, 8001, and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/, 700/. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distributiai to England, Ireland, and ScotlanL Direct fer Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 _BO Sterling. or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UVDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS, THIS EVENING, DEC. 14, ' Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollie, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her Nineteenth appear ance upon the English Stage). After which, the New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleberough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Matter and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to Fe opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2s. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with United Service, and Wooden Leg. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully east— Mr. Gi tham, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta lent of the Company. THIS EVENING, DEC. 14. Will be acted Shakspere ,'• Tragedy of JULIUS C/ESAR. Marcus Brutus. Mr. Graham ; Caius Casbius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Anthon, Mr. H. Hughes; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Mughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &e. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Another week cf continuous success has added fress laurels to the brilliant career of this now magniffcent and favourite otablishrnent. Third week of " The Locksmiths." THIS EVENING, DEC. 14 ~ The TWO LONDON LOCKSiIITHS; or;the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Tom Lively, Mr. Gardner ; Bsrny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. After which, THE WONDER.—Don Felix, Mr. Osbal diston ; Violante, Miss Vincent. Te conclude with THE FLOATING BEACON,—Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Saville; Angerstoff, Mr. Date; 51ariette, Mr. Lee; Christine, Mrs. Howard. Hostes, 2s.—Pit-, Is.— , 6d.—Hlif-price to theßoxes only, at. Half-past Eight. To-morrow, The Locksmiths, Woman's Love, and Duke of Shorediteh. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.—The RAILWAY SUN, being out of print, will be RE-PUBLISHED TO-MORRO W. TiH E CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dee. 14, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot use Mr. Ilinton's and a national Chartist's - communication. We will give a report of the proceedings referred to by two Correspondents at Devonport to-morrow. THE WEATHER.—Noon, DECEMBER 14. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 37 Highest 47 Lowest . 36 Barometer 29.63.—Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. 111 CM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW M riling .10 minutes Mtn 4.- Evening as minutes after 3. ,11N- ) 4s, dA ll ' sv , kse • M 0 14 iJt.%‘lltin, LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1841. If the Corn-law repealers, and the strenuous advocates of emigration on the WAKEFIELD prin ciple, have come a little into collision, the fault does not lie with the Cern-law repealers. If some of the latter arc also advocates of this sys tem o f emigration, whil e others are opposed to it, the inconsistency, we think, belongs to the advocates of emigration, and not to the repealers. As there is such a collision, and as the advocates of emigration do not spare sharp censure and bitter abuse, we must explain why w e think that they are inconsistent and in error. The contest now going on relative to trade, MIAS on the principle, that every man i s t h e best judge how he shall employ his own capit al or his own industry. This principle, recognised by every writer of the least authority since the day s o f ADAM Smyry, and obviously founded in the moral nature of man and on the equal rights of individuals, carries with it the denial of the right of the State to interfere with, or influence, indivi duals, in order to direct them how they shall em ploy their capital or industry. The State, which means either the whole community or a few men acting for the whole community, cannot possibly know, as well as individuals, how they can direct their exertions to most advantage. Its duty, therefore, is to abstain from all interference with trade, foreign or domestic. Such a principle is strictly coincident with the theoretical idea of Government, namely, that it is stablished to protect individuals in the pos ession and exercise of their rights, and espe cially to protect their right of property. It may on this ground interfere to restrain one man who is injuring another, but when no injury is done and no Complaint made the Government is not to meddle. It is to protect, not direct, individuals. In truth, when an individual is not left by the Government at perfect liberty to use his capital or industry as he pleases—short of inflicting in jury or ` other --his right of property i s i n t er f ere d with, curtail ed, or absolutely abrogated. Let it be remarked, too, that all such i n t er f erence or restraint is so much unmitigated wrong and evil. Time restraint is a m ischief the men who impose it are not benefited b y i t , y the communit is injured by the injury inflicted on the individual as much as if the injury was done by a foreigner, and the whole nati on rose in arms to demand re dress. Of this extensive system of free trade— deduced from the natural the principles on which stem_ Governments are esta blished, and much e x p er i enN.ceof ti evil e I r . e e p s e u a l resulting n o g f from acting on a different s 'the Corn-laws is only a part, Mankind are now struggling to wring from Goverments and monopolists a freedom to buy and sell when and where• they like, as they have already wrung from Governments the freedom to worship GOD after their own hearts. The solemn principle for which the free trade party now contend is, that there must be no more re straints on trade than on conscience. Unfortunately, however, there arises every now and then from amongst the mass of free traders, or professed free traders, some man who, with a smattering of worldly knowledge, reasonable assurance, and great ignorance of principles, has formed some scheme of his own ; or has adopted the scheme of some stronger. headed and cunninger man than himself to im prove the condition of the Society. For this one particular love of his, the hoarded experience of ages, the wisdom of the wise, and the knowledge of the learned, are all to be set aside. The ge neral principles of free trade, which can never be enough admired on the hustings, are of no avail against such a pet project. Though Col.- BERT and Pier, though Parliaments and Kings, have in all cases most egregiously failed when they have undertaken to direct the employment of capital and industry, the professed free traders, who advocate the WAKEFIELD system of emigration, think they are sure to succeed; and. that, if they can only get the Legislature to direct a large stream of capital and labour to the mountains of New Zealand, the sheep pastures of New South Wales, or the estates of the British Land Company in Canada, the community will be prosperous and happy. The advantages or disadvantages of their scheme we are not about to discuss ; we only wish to make our readers aware that in opposing it we are consistent, and that its advocates, who at the same time call themselves free traders, and ask for a repeal of the Corn-laws, are inconsistent, or do not under stand, and therefore betray, that system of free trade which they pretend to advocate. Thus a writer in the Weekly Chronicle on Saturday, with a kind of holy fervour, in favour of trans porting his 'countrymen, exclaimed— Are we to advocate the "Let-alone" system, until the whole fabric of society is broken up, because we cannot carry our own peculiar views ? Or, must we not rather ask, whether the object proposed to us be good, so far as it goes ?—whether the means suggested for its attain ment be adequate ? and whether, it attained, it will af ford relief ? The " let-alone system" which is here sneered at, is the system of free trade, which this writer, for the sake of his crotchet, would trample under foot. Is he then ignorant that the " let alone system" wherever it has been acted on— as in the supply of the markets with food—as in the bulk of our internal trade— as in the growth and extension of our vast 'system of combined labour, commonly, but inaccurately, called division of labour—has been productive of im mense good, and that it is acting on the meddling system advocated by him, as exemplified in Sugar Duties, Corn-laws, &c., &c., that society is overwhelmed with difficulties? He does a most glaring injustice, therefore, when he implies that the " let-alone system," if followed, will cause the whole fabric of society to be broken up. The meddling system is bringing it to ruin. If it be proper for the Parliament to direct capital to wards New Zealand, may it not direct it to culti vate our waste heaths? May it not, also, direct it to improve the cultivation of the land already cultivated? To admit that the " let-alone sys tem" will cause the breaking up of society is to en courage the meddling of knaves and fools with the production and distribution of wealth, of which they are more ignorant, while they are selfishly interested, than of the laws of planetary motion. The writer in the Weekly Chronicle, in his eagerness to justify the interference of the Le gislature with emigration, gives up the whole case of the Corn-law repealers. We may command, he says, no doubt, unlimited sup plies of food, but the extension of our markets must be the result of more extended cultivation, and of a change in the policy of many of the Continental States : and it is upon the increased demand for goods that the increased comforts of our manufacturing population will depend. Besides, it is not to the manufacturer alone that we have to look ; and a man must be blind, indeed, not to see that however beneficial the change of system may be ultimately (and no one can be more intimately convinced of it than ourselves), it must cause, in the first instance, a great disturbance in the existing relations of society, and above all in the distribution of agricultural labour, for which it will be as necessary to provide a vent, as it is to afford rtlV to Stockport, or Paisley, now. This is what the pro-Corn-law men say; and if the repeal of the Corn-laws is to cause as much distress to the agriculturists as is now suffered at Paisley and Stockport, they should be maintain ed. But it is false to say that the extension of our markets requires a change of policy in many Continental States. Though not a single alteration were made by them, our trade with them would be enlarged by the abolition of our own restrictions; while America offers us a boundless market for our produce, would we • only accept it. It is false to say that a vent must then be found for agricultural labour. There is not the slightest reason to believe that any laud would be thrown out of cultivation by the repeal of the Corn-laws. Such an increased demand fbr food would take place in the manu facturing districts that our own agriculturists would not be able to supply it, let them exert themselves to the utmost. This advocate of emigration, therefore, sacrifices the cause of Corn-law repeal, which he pretends to support, and he sneers, either from ignorance or silly conceit, at that great system of " Let-alone" in the employment of capital and labour, for which men have been struggling since the days of SMITH and FRANKLIN. The passages we have quoted, appear in the Weekly Chronicle, and that Journal is said to he edited by Mr. WARD, M.P. for Sheffield. If he have written the article, as we believe he has, or he have sanctioned its publication, we must plainly tell the honest free traders of Sheffield that their confidence in him is misplaced. He is unworthy to represent them. The writer of that article neither comprehends nor heartily supports the only system on which they can con sistently demand the abolition of the Corn-laws. A letter which we insert from "A Metho dist,"states that the Sunday Schools of the Society are deserted by many pupils, their parents being able to provide only a scanty supply of the coarsest food, but not to clothe their children decently. The same fact has long ago been stated of the hand-loom weavers, which brings educatio n before us an alarming cause, so far as school can improve man, of the future dete riorationof our people. Those who want food cannot think of education,and ing classes dow n by extreme poverty is to de grade and brutalise the next generation. They will be fit, perhaps, for performing those mere me chanical operations to wl • itch the aristocracy wish to limit them; at the same time it will be neces sary to take care lest such a population should at any time break loose, for having none of the restraints of reason—being kept in subjection by terror, whenever that shall be at an end, even for a moment—their furious passions will project them like an avalanch . e on thei r masters, and they will destroy all before them. The Church of England may find it s a d vantage in this state of things. We do not say that th e clergy side with the landlords in order to thin the schools of the Dissenters, and lessen th e incomes of their ministers; but if such were their design, they could not have fallen on a mo re certain method of accomplishing it. The Dis- senters chiefly inhabit towns, and by starving or impoverishing the townspeople, the income of dissent must be extinguished. The income of the Church, however, and of its schools, being mainly provided at the public charge, will not be diminished, and so the clergy will tower higher and higher above the Dissenters, and their schools will continue to flourish, though the Dissenters' schools decay. The Corn-law may serve the double purpose, therefore, of making the next generation orthodox, while it starves the present race into poverty and submission. We saw it stated a few days ago in a Alan- chester Paper, that the Anti-Corn-law League had completely ruined itself by entering into an alliance with the Conventicle; which would in dicate that the design is actually entertained of extinguishing dissent, as well as checking the growth of manufactures, by the Corn-law. A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon the Foreign-office, Downing-street. All the Ministers in town attended. It is understood that the ratifications of the Treaty of last July, were exchanged by the Am bassadors of the Five Powers yesterday after noon, at the Foreign-office. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY..--AR accident occurred on the works of this line on Saturday last, as Kelvedon, which might have been at tended with fatal consequences. A viaduct of three arches is being erected over the Black water river, in that quarter, and as the weather has been so unpropitious of late for carrying on the work, the contractor has seized every oppor tunity to hurry up the brick-work; but, un luckily for himself and others, he has made more haste than speed. He persisted in running the rings out of one of the arches, although forbid den so to do; whilst keying the last ring, the centerings g ave way, the brickwork f o ll owe d, and with it a ll engaged upon the arch, miracu lously without loss of life or broken limb. Eleven of the men were more or less bruised, but not serieuly injured. STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES.—A very nume; rously-attended public meeting was held on Wednesday evening last at the Town-hall, at Devonport, according to a respectably-signed re quisition, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of memorialising her Majesty's Govern ment on the contemplated appointment of new Borough Magistrates, and praying the Legisla ture to take into consideration the whole present system of magisterial appointments, with the view of substituting for them Stipendiary Magis trates, to be paid by the State. Mr. Little, after animadverting j with severity on the st range man ner in which justice is administered by the un paid, moved a petition to the House of Commons for an inquiry and with a view to the appoint ment of Stipendiary Magistrates to be paid by the State. An amendment was moved repu diating the proposal on account of the expense, and carried by an overwhelming majority.—De vonport Independent. We have copied from the Globe a paragraph setting forth the plan of Sir Robert Peel re specting the alterations which he intends to pro pose at the meeting of Parliament in the Corn laws. We place little confidence in the state ment, and regard it as an idle rumour in the City, put forth by the Tories or by certain Whigs who are all but Tories. A miserable scheme of this kind, without any reference to other great na tional interests, is a mockery. Any plan which includes a sliding scale can only be put forth to deceive the public, and till we have some better authority on the subject we shall refrain from making any observations on it. MR. SERGEANT ARABIN.—It was announced last night that this Learned Gentleman yet re mains in a very debilitated state, at his villa, at High Beach. For some time past he has been attended by Dr. Copeland, Dr. Hume, and other eminent professional persons. On Saturday last they performed an operation upon the patient, and extracted a stone of considerable magnitude. Some time will elapse before the Learned Ser geant will be able to resume his judicial duties, but sanguine hopes are entertained of his re covery. CORN-LAW COMPENSATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The leader in the Times of this morning on the subject of the claims for compensation ad vanced at the Conference at Derby, induces me to endeavour to point out the experimental proof furnished by the leader aforesaid, that a bounty on foreign corn, in duration and magni tude equal to the past duty, is the form in which the demand for compensation is most ef fective, and least easily opposed. A tax of tsventy millions a-year upon the land may be easily represented (as it is the ten dency of the Times' article to do), as a mere effort to take because there is the power. But a bounty carries with it its own explanation. If a landowner exclaims against the horror of so depressing the value of his 'land, the reply is ready, " Why is it more horrible, than your in flicting a similar depression on the value of our manutheturing capital by a duty?" If the bounty is represented as amounting to " the overthrow of the whole landed proprietary of England," this is promptly met by the cquest►on, why it should be any worse than "hallooing upon the premises of Mr. Strutt and Mr. Evans, and half a hundred other millocrat millionaires" with a duty. On one point the landowners are very • dense, and they can hardly be blamed for it. They will not see, that the demand for a bounty rests on the ground of a judicial punishment; the same ground, in fact, which justifies the judge in decreeing the deprivation of property against the vulgar depredator on the property of his neighbours. If they plead the suffering—the very thing intended is that they should suffer. The object, whether they comprehend it or not, is to leave an example which shall deter future parties from acquiring legislative power, to turn it to the pecuniary robbery of their country. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Dec. 14, 1841. LLO ID'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 14.—Wind this day at noon N.W. RAaISCATE, DEC. 13.—The Proven, from Altona to Swansea, which put into this harbour on the 7th instant, did not strike on the Brake, as reported. Arrd. Mary Dicks, London, for Rio Janeiro, with loss of anchor and chain ; British Queen, Shields, for Mauritius ; Argo, London, for Trieste, with loss of anchor and chain, anti Windlass upset. DEAL, DEC. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. from the River, Ellen, for Berbice. Put back, Dovecot, China. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Lady East, Carless, Bombay, sailed from St. Helena Oct. 28 ; Champion, Brown, New Orleans; Shenandoah, Philadelphia; Queen of the Ocean and the Duke, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, - :DEC. 13.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W. strong. Put back, Wellington for New York. FALMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Wind W.S W. to W., strong gales.L-Arrd. Margaret steamer, Gibraltar, left 4th inst. Cadiz 5, Lisbon 7, Vigo 9. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 12.—Massachusetts, Virginia. STRANREAR, DEC. 11.—Acrd. Chevalier, Clyde, for Trinidad. The Theodore (with herrings), in entering the harbour to-day, took the ground, but is not expected to suffer any damage. OFF CORK, DEC. 11.--,kimwell, Hesse, Calcutta, and sailed for Liverpool ; Margaret, Christie, Richebueto. HULL, DEC. 13.—Wind, S.W. by S.—Arrd. Hercules, Ames, New Orleans; Bon Accord, Cape Breton. The Euclid, from Port Dundas to Dunkirk, sprung a leak off the Goodwin Sands, and sank; crew saved. The Royal William, fro m St. P eters b urg h , off this port got in contact with a vessel belonging to Sunderland, the former lost bowsprit, &e., the latter mainmast, &c., and both have put into East Ries to repair. OFF ROMNEY, DEC. 13. Janet, Wilbridge, Quebec ; Johan Christopher, Altona, for Bahia. BIDEFORD, DEC. 13.—The Agatha, from Havannah, which put in here 11th inst., with rudder damaged, &c., is very much strained, and must discharge. PORT FLEETWOOD, DEC. 13.—The Hazard, from Strongford to Maryport, parted her anchors, and drove on Bernard's Wharf, but without damage. SCARBOROUGH, DEc. 13.—The Betsy and Anne, from Maldon to Newcastle, has been brought in here with loss of mainmast, and other damage, having been in con tact with the Jemima, of North Shields, last night. HARWICH, DEC. 13.—The Beulah, Dodds, bound to Woodbridge, which was ashore on the Bar of that place, has been got off and carried THE IVIARKETS.-,(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, and prices suffered little alteration. B. P. Sugar in slow demand. Low to fine yellow, 635. to 735., and brown, 545. to 625. 6d. per cwt. In Mauritius and Bengal few sales made privately, and the public aution of the latter went off quietly, at previous rates. Coffee very dull, and prices on the de cline. Cocoa in very limited request, and prices in clined to give way. Prices of Rice a shade lower. Spices almost without demand, except Cassia, which being scarce is held for high prices. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1841. county in England where such an offence would be com mitted. At Marylebone Police Court, yesterday, John Light foot, a stoker on the Birmingham Railway, was fined 40s. under Lord Seymour's Act, for being drunk while on duty. Richard Light, a respectable-looking man, was charged with bigamy at Union-hall. Three marriage certificates were produced, and it was stated that the prisoner had three wives all living. Mr. Light stood crying at the bar, and said he had made .a full confession on promises of forgivenness being held out to him. The Magistrate remanded him for further evidence. =TEL./lA.IM AND SCIENTIFIC. The Council of the Royal Society on lately awarding the Royal medal to Sir John Herschel for his catalogue of Nebulm and Clusters of Stars, observed that `•. this was the second time a Royal medal had been adjudged to Sir John for researches in a department of astronomy, which has descended to him •as an hereditary possession. The catalogue contains a list of 2,500 nebulm, and forms a noble basis for ascertaining all celestial changes, pe • riodical or not, which the heavens are likely to undergo. There exists throughout China but a single News paper, which is published at Peking, and bears the title of King-Paou, or " Messenger of the Imperial Resi dence." It consists of extracts of what the Emperor has examined or ordered in Council. It is published daily, and the price is Bs. 4d. per annum. TEA ivIAAKET. Prices a shade firmer, and more disposition was evinced to make purchases. Almost the whole of the breaks bought in at the late auctions have been sold at the buying in prices. Company's Congou in demand at Is. 94d. to Is. 9id. per lb., cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, and a steady bnsiness done ; fine Yellow Candle worth 48s. to 483. 3d. ; and for delivery in the spring 48s. 9d. was asked. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was good ; fine qualities met with ready buyers at the present prices, and the middling and ordi nary sorts were more in demand. Clover, 31 to 51 13s ; llay, 21 to 418 3 ; Straw, 118 s to 1112 s. .E LATE LORD MONSON.—WC have re ceived a letter from a friend at Reigate, in which he says, "We already feel the loss of Lord Monson deeply. Up wards of one hundred workmen were discharged on his death, and Gatton is a complete blank." We understand the weekly wages of these workmen (including masons, bricklayers, &c., employed in the extensive improvements of the mansion) amounted to considerably mere than 100 L ; and well may it be said that the stoppage of their employment has left Gatton "a complete blank."—Wur wick Advertiser. fine black tiger, from India, a very rare spe cies, has arrived at Havre, for the Garden of Plants, and also some gazelles and It dog from Jaya SCIENCE AND ART. At Jenkin's nursery ground in the New-road, Mr. Kirk has laid down his new skating-room, composed of some slippery crystal substance, in blocks of about two square feet each. A great assemblage of skaters have tried it, and the Skating Club pronounce it to be better than bad ice, though inferior to the best. THEATRICAL. The next part selected by Miss Adelaide Kemble is, we are given to understand, Amina in La Sonnanibula. Senor Forti, the tenor singer of Vienna, has, a journal states, just gained in the lottery a prize of 80,000 florins, or 200,000 f. COURT-FASIZOIVILBLE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland intend to leave Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, the first week in February, for town. Lord Francis Egerton, we learn, has purchased the mansion in which he now resides in Beigrave-square. Bridgewater House, it is said, will occupy seven years in rebuilding. Sir John Shelley has arrived at the Marquis of Exeter's, Burleigh House, near Stamford. The Earl and Countess of Sheffield have left Harewood House for Leamington Spa. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday evening the Cumberlauds rang a complete peal of treble, twelve in, consisting of 5,136 changes, being the first peal rung on the twelve bells of St. Bride's Fleet- street, for the last 60 years. The time occupied was three hours and 53 minutes. A poor man, named Charles Musgrove, an operative 'mason at Sidford, near Exeter, is a claimant and the supposed heir to 30,0001. in the funds, besides large landed property in Somersetshire. Among the most recent " fashionable arrivals" is that of the boy Jones at Liverpool. We understand that in consequence of the late lamented death of the Chimpanzee, a deputation of the managers of the Zoological Gardens had an interview on Monday with a certain Honourable and Gallant Tory Member of the House of Commons, requesting him to officiate as a substitute, until a new Chimpanzee could be caught. The deputation, (adds our informant), was much struck with the likeness between the Gallant Member and the la mented deceased. We are credibly informed that the Marylebone Tories have made the elephant in the Regent's Park a ten-pound householder, in order to enable him to vote against Sir Charles Napier at the next election. The Bury Herald says—" A Chinaman's tail was for warded, on Friday, through the Post-office, to a trades man in Suffolk."—lf O'Connell's tail could be forwarded in like manner, it would save each joint a good round sum in travelling expenses. RITIVIOITELS Or TKZ DAY. It is stated, in a country paper, that the Queen Dowager has given another donation of 3,0001. towards the erection of a church at Malta. This must be a wicked falsehood. Is it at all likely that her Majesty would at present send out of the country such a large sum for such a purpose, when poor women in England are committing murder and suicide from want of the necessaries of life ? MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 13.—There is no change of importance in the Market to-day. The sales comprise 3,500 bales, consisting of Surats, New Orleans, Pernams, a few Egyptians, without change in prices ; 500 on speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 13.—The transae tions :comprise —Eastern Counties, 81 ; Grand Junc tion, 197 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 224 ; Ditto, New, 55 ; Manchester and Leeds Half Shares, 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 17i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 13.—There continues to be a good demand for Railway Stock. Lancaster and Preston, 281 ; Liverpool and Manchester Half Shares, 911 ; London and Birmingham, 162 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 28 -; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21. 16s ; Bank of Manchester, .li. TUE FUNDS. The English Stock Market continues firm. Consols being still quoted at 8811:1 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium. In the Foreign market a further advance has taken place in Spanish securities this morning. The Active Stock is now quoted 2141 ; Passive, 5 ; Deferred, 12+ ; Portugue3o Five per Cents. are 33i ; ditto Threes, 191 20. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. • Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O 36ii ... to London and Blaekwall LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY COUTtT.-(THIS DAY). NEILSON. V. MARFORD. His LORDSHIP on entering Court proceeded to give judgment in this case. The motion was one to review an injunction. The injunction had been dissolved by the late Lord Chancellor, the defendant undertaking to keep an account, and the plaintiff either to bring, or to pro ceed in, an action at law for the purpose of trying the validity of the patent. The question had been since tried, and jud gmen t h a d b een entered in the Court of Exchequer. It was under those circum stances almost a matter of course that the injunc tion should be allowed, but some objections had been made on the part of the defendant. It had been stated, on his part, that the Learned Judge who tried the case, and who was one of the Judges of the Court where the question was finally decided, dissented from the opi nion of the rest of the Judges of the Court ; and it was also stated, on the part of the defendant, that, from the course which the proceedings took, he was deprived of the right of bringing a writ of error. Now, he did not find that the Learned Judge, to whom reference had been made, had dissented from the opinion of the rest of the Court. The Learned Judge had said undoubtedly that it was a case of great nicety, and that he en tertained doubts upon the question ; but he him himself delivered the judgment of the Court, and said in the course of delivering the judgment, that he could not see that the construction put by the Court upon the specification was wrong. It was also objected that the defendant was deprived, by the course of the proceedings, of his right to bring a Writ of error. The facts of the case were these :—Towards the conclusion of the trial, the, Learned Judges suggested, as a proper course to be pursued, that the facts should be stated in the shape of a special case, or that they should be put upon the record, in order that the case might necessarily go to the last resort. The Counsel for the plaintiff ac ceded to this suggestion. The Counsel, however, for the defendant, the late Attorney-General, finding that the opinion of the Learned Judge was with him, thought it more advantageous to adopt a different course ; and he insisted that the verdict should be entered on the issue. Now he (the Lord Chancellor) thought that in pursuing such a course he waived any future right to a writ of error, and made his election to abide by the decision of the Court of Exchequer. His Lordship was the less disposed to depart from the usual course in cases of the kind, after having considered the judgment of the Court as competent with the specification ; and he thought the construction put upon the specification was a rea sonable construction. The plaintiff allowed the de fendant to use the patent by way of trial, for a certain period. He did use it for that period, and kept an account and rendered that account. He was allowed to make the trial with a view to his afterwards taking a license, and paying, if he thought proper, a cer tain allowance for the use of the patent. He did not take the license, but he afterwards continued to use the patent, and refused to render any further account ; in consequence of which notice was given to him to discon tinue to use the patent. After that notice it was clear that if he continued to use the patent, and he did con tinue, he was liable to be proceeded against ; and for these reasons his Lordship was of opinion that the in junction should be allowed. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY V. THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY. The further arguments in this case, which turned upon the interpretation of certain Acts of Parliament, were resumed this morning at considerable length. His HoNoun said it was evident that there was a blunder in the Act of Parliament, which professed to extend the powers of the Lords of the Treasury in rela tion to the purchase of certain tenements for the erection of the new Custom•house; and that those powers were not really extended by the terms of the Act. Under those circumstances he should make no order, and the Com pany would therefore be liable to the costs. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) CLIFFORD V. TURRILL. The bill was filed for the specific performance of a parole agreement between the defendant and the plaintiff, by which the defendant agreed to allow the plaintiff an annuity of 401. a year for life, and a house to live in worth la a year. The case was part heard on Satur day, and the arguments were concluded yesterday. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Tripp appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Simpkinson and Mr. Chandless for the de fendant. His Ilosoua, in giving judgment this morning, said the plaintiff had proved a case entitling him to the speci fic performance of the agreement alleged in the bill. In the account to be taken between the parties, the annuity of 401. a year was to be considered as commencing on the 22d of January 1840 ; and with respect to the other part of the agreement, the plaintiff was to have the option of having a house to live in of the value of 101. a year, or that sum in money for his life. With regard to costs, the plaintiff having asked for more than he was entitled, and made charges against the defendant which he had not been able to sustain, his Honour said he was of opinion that he ought not to give costs up to the hearing of the Cause. COCKBURN V. SINGLETON. This was a suit instituted by Dr. Cockburn, the Dean of York, against Mr. Singleton, who had held the situa tion of his agent, and another defendant of the name of Milner, for the purpose of setting aside certain inden tures of lease, dated the 29th August, 1835, on the ground of fraud and misrepresentation on the part of Singleton, and of collusion between Singleton and Milner. The bill also prayed an injunction, and certain accounts alleged to be unsettled between the Dean and Mr. Sin gleton. Mr. COOPER opened the case for the plaintiff. The plaintiff had not thought it necessary to enter into any evidence in support of his case, and he could not, there fore, push the case beyond;an inquiry. It was contended by the defendant that the account had been settled as far back as 1835 ; but notwithstanding that, he trusted the Court would come to the opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to an account. Mr. ABRAHAMS followed on the same side. The further hearing of the arguments was postponed till Monday next. - (Before Vice-ChnOcellor WIGRAM.) SLADE V. SLAD...: . The bill was filed for the admin,.:tration of the estate of a lady named Anna Slade. it was file d by ono of the next of kin against some ethers who administered the estate , and also parties in distribution as others next of kin. The defendants pleaded in answer, that Anna , in March, 1839, a few days after she came of age, had settled an account with them, by which she agreed to accept 2,1401. as her share of the property. In the amended' bill it was al leged that the defendants had taken advantage of Anna's ignorance of such proceedings ; that the property of her father amounted to up wards of 50,00C1., and that her share in that pro perty amounted to about 11,000/. To this bill the de fendants now demurred, on the ground of multifarious ness, improperly mixing up matters which related to two separate estates. Mr. Sutton Sharpe and Mr. Freeling appeared for the defendants; Mr. Teed and Mr. Wilcock for the plaintiff. The question turned on the rules of pleading in equity. The case was part-heard yesterday, and his Honour this morning overruled the demurrer, allowing six weeks time to answer. London and Birmingham Ditto New - '2 ...... :251, to Midland Counties North Midland Ditto Thirds HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange. Consols have been 884 buyers, and are now 884 sellers ; Exchequer Bills firm at 10 12 prem. ; India Bonds 2 3 prem.; Bank Stock, 1651 165; Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 24i ; Passive, 51 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 194 1 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99/ 1 ; ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511 s ; Mexican Bonds, 26. The following are the only transactions in the Share Market: Great Western fifths, 9i; London and Brighton, 361 ; London and Birmingham, New, 251 ; Midland Counties, QUAR T E R PAST TWO O'CLOCK. Consols,. account, 8S 1; Mexican, 251 26 1 1 3 - ; Portu. guese, 34 33 ; Spanish, 24 1. QUARTER TO THREE. One of the ultra French papers has been adverting recently, with evident satisfaction, to the defeat off Princess Iskuid, Africa, of the British vessel Iris by the slaver . Negro, and it endeavours to envelop the affair with as much exag geration and mystery as possible. It i s st a ted that the Commander of the after his repulse by the piratical ship, one of far superior mettle, and with a much larger farce than his own, had made for the nearest African port to repair damage, &c., but sedulously concealed the fact of the encounter, to all but the Government authorities of the place, who will no doubt be on the look-out for the slaver. Greek pirates have also ap peared recently, if the information received lately is to be depended upon. PIIR ENOTYPICS.—Air. C. Williams delivered a lecture last evening on Phrenotypics at the Mechanics' Institution, Westminster, to a crowded room. Mr. Wil liams commenced by reading a brief essay on the frailty of memory and the advantage of mnemonics, and illus trated his theory by the examination of several of his pupils. The lecture seemed to give general satisfaction . The auditory were principally composed of ladies a kind of indirect satire on the lect u r e , as we seldom find ladies troubled with short memories. THE MOST EFFECTUAL CHURCH.—TO myself, the most effectual Church is that in which I see the signs of Christian affection in those around me, in which warm hearts are beating on every side, in which a deep stillness speaks of the absorbed soul, in which I recognise fellow-beings, who in common life have im pressed me with their piety. One look from a beaming countenance, one tone in singing from a deeply-moved. heart, perhaps aids me more than the sermon. When nothing is said, I feel it good to be among the devout ; and I wonder not that the Quakers, in some of their still meetings, profess to hold the most intimate union, not only with God, but with eac h ot h er. It is not wit h the voice only that man communicates with man. Nothing is so eloquent as the deep silence of a crowd. A sigh, a low breathing, sometimes pours into us our neighbour's soul more than a volume of words. There is a communication more subtile than freemasonry, between those who feel alike. How contagious is holy feeling ! On the other hand, how freezing, how palsying is the gather ing of a multitude, who feel nothing, who come to God's house without reverence, without love, who gaze around on each other as if they were assembled at a show, whose restlessness keeps up a slightly disturbing sound, whose countenances reveal no collectedness no earnest ness, but a frivolou s or a b sent mind ! The very sanc• tity of the place makes this indifference more chill ing. One of the coldest spots on earth is a Church without devotion. What is it to me that a costly. temple is set apart by ever so many rites for God's service, that priests, who trace their lineage to Apostles, have consecrated it, if I find it thronged by the worldly and undevout? This is bo Church to me. I go to meet, hot human bodies, but souls ; and if I find them in an upper room, like that where the first disciples met, or in a shed, or in a street, there I find a Church. There is the true altar, the sweet incense, the accepted priest. These all I find in sanctified souls.— The Church; a Discourse by Dr. Channing.just published. The greatest expedition is being used in the equipment of the several ships fitting out at this port; scarcely a day passes but some communication is made from the Admiralty, urging the authorities to adopt every means for expediting the work.—Hampshire Inde pendent. - The Vindictive, Warspite, Hazard, Carysfort. and Ringdove, are being fitted with all dispatch; on the former ship the workmen are employed by torchlight, so great is the demand for the services of this ship, as well as that of the Warspite.—Hatnpshire Independent. At a shop window in Holborn a paper is exhi bited, on which is written " A perfect blind painter wanted." It is presumed that the blind painter must be able to 800 his way in the "transparency line." SAY OF MEIVS AND i3ttiqtr Opinion. " Who runs may read." roF.]proN. Letters from Lisbon of the 7th instant announce the arrival in that capital of the Austrian Minister Baron Marechal, and M. Huhner, Secretary of Legation. The Pope's Nuncio had not arrived, but was daily expected. Lord Howard de Walden, the British Ambassador, communicated to the Portuguese Government a note ad dressed by Lord Aberdeen to the Regent of Spain, re minding his Highness that England, as the ally of Por tugal, could not permit any invasion of her territory. The Court was delighted at this, and the promulgation of the account of interference so generous, stilled for a moment the clamours of the press against England. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times has a leading article on the subject of the Derby Conference, which seems to have given it no slight uneasiness, as appears by the following passage :—" No doubt the difficulties of legislation very speedily vanish before a financier who proposes to relieve the pressure of taxation upon one-half of a country by shifting that taxation upon the other half, in addition to the taxation which this other half had to bear already. This is easy work ; and at such a rate Mr. Cobden would make as good a first Minister as Sir Robert Peel. Perhaps this was the inference which Mr. Cobden sought to establish. But presumptuous rashness is not the worst of his offend ing. He is answerable also for the crime, and there can hardly be a more heinous one, of uttering those presump tuous and rash effusions to a population who, if his own account be true, are in a state of unexampled distress, and therefore naturally in a temper of irritation and excitability. If the evils he alleges have any existence (and we are far from denying . that amid all the exagge rations of this subject there is still, unhappily, but too large a proportion of truth), is it to a starving mul titude that a Member of the Legislature ought to appeal upon the philosophy of taxation, and the adjustment of the doctrines of political economy ?" If the opinion laid down in the above passage is to be considered as sound doctrine, then nothing can be more signally improper—nothing more injudicious—than to state the truth to the poor and destitute. It is the duty of all wise men and good citizens to keep them as much in the dark as possible respecting the causes of their sufferings, and the abuses which aggravate their distress, least, by enlightening them on the subject, they might inconvenience the Government by insisting on redress ! Such is the doctrine laid down by the Times, and excel lent Tory doctrine it is; but the people at large repu diate it as false, hollow, and selfish. The Chronicle remarks, in reference to the wretched condition of the poor in Ireland :—" We have in Ireland a specimen of the tender mercies to be expected from a legislature of landowners when they are allowed to have it all their own way. They have had it all their own way with a vengeance in that unfortunate country. The landlords conceive it quite a matter of course to retain the peasantry in abject misery, and, when the fit takes them, turn them out by hundreds to beg their way t- - ) this country, or die in ditches at home. There is not a. spot in Ireland where a poor man can say, the law gives me a right to remain here. The landlord is all in all."— Here is the great secret of Mr. O'Connell's influence. He is the legitimate creation of the landlords and Orange men in Ireland. Between them both they have raised him to his present elevation, and there they are likely enough to keep him. In O'Connell the oppressed Irish poor find a voice whereby to express their wrongs ; and when redress is denied them with scorn and contempt, in him they find an avenger. The Advertiser says—" Some months ago we endea voured to prove,'in a series of articles, that the Corn monopoly is essentially a question of humanity and reli gion, as well as of commerce ; and that, consequently, Christian ministers were not only justified in throwing their weight into the scale, in opposition to the mono poly, but that they were bound by the obligation they owe alike to the Creator and their fellow-creatures to bring all their energies to bear against it. In arguin on the religious bearings of the question, we principally dwelt on the fact, that as it is one of the lcadininjunctions of the New Testament to feed the hungry and to clothe the naked, and as the obvious and admitted tendency of the Corn-laws is to withhold food from the famishing, and clothing from the naked, it necessaril became the duty of every Christian, but mak especially of every minister of the Gospel, to make every effort to procure the extinction of the bread mo nopoly. Circumstances, however, have since then transpired, which place the religious bearings of the Corn-law question in a still more striking light. It is now ascertained beyond the possibility of denial or doubt, that the effect of these abominable laws is to prevent myriads of religiously-disposed persons from attending any place of Christian worship on the Sabbath day."— If this be the case—anti we have little doubt that it is so —then we have a right to expect that the whole army of saints, headed by the Agnewites, will enlist under the Anti-Corn-law banner. If they have any respect for consistency and principle, they will do so as a matter of course. They are indignant and hostile enough with the law which enables poor apple-women to sell fruit on Sundays ; how much more indignant then—how much more hostile—ought they not to be with the far more oppressive law that prevents the poor from attending to their religious duties on the Sabbath ! We claim the religious world as our allies in this just and righteous warfare against the Corn-laws. It is evident, by the following extract from the Post, that the recent addresses of Lords J. Russell and Pal merston are still rankling in the sides of the Tories. Their ill-concealed uneasiness is a proof that the faction by no means think themselves strong in their present position:—" The noble ex-Secretaries for the Colonial and the Foreign Departments are by this time, we sus pect, anything but proud of their smart replies to Ply mouth and to Bridgnorth. It is, at all events, evident enough that their friends who instruct the public' in the newspapers find the task of defending these ex- Ministerial replies a very heavy and difficult one. • The perseverance, however, with which they labour at it is commendable. The blunder which the ex-Secretaries have made is that of throwing truth overboard, in so open a manner that every one of ordinary observation and recollection must perceive what they have done. In be coming shameless themselves these ex-Ministers forgot that they could not make others absolutely forgetful." We quote the following from the Herald:—" The principles avowed by each of the parties engaged in the controversy touching the eligibility of the Pusey candi date for the Oxford professorship are now broadly de fined. None can mistake, who are not vs ilfully blind to them. It is true, indeed, that Lord Dungannon, a little while ago, was 'ignorant of the existence of any party in the Church of which Dr. Pusey could be con sidered to be at the head.' We suspect his Lord ship has since been amply satisfied upon that point. We are only sorry to perceive that a similar igno rance still exists in the same quarter as to the rela tive forces of Puritanism and Romanism in their hostility to the Established Protestant Episco palian Church.' His Lordship's letter of the 10th inst., which we republish from a morning journal, neither recti fies the error of the position assumed by the noble M. A. in his former manifesto ; nor is it calculated to procure for him much credit, with any party, by reason of his un called-for demonstration against, what he terms, the self-styled evangelical party. If the Noble Lord be as sincere as he is vehement, in his unmeasured deprecation of the essential doctrines and leading principles of the Church of Rome, as enumerated in the second paragraph of his letter, we venture to tell him that he cannot give any assurance to that effect which will be so satisfactory or so emphatic, as to record his vote against the Pusey candidate." MONEY - TIVIDp - comanratcm. The number of paper mills throughout the kingdom amounts to about 300 ; of these only 120 arc i n operat i on . At Maidstone, where papers is the staple manufacture, only 23 vats out of 51 are used, and out of seven ma chines only one is at work. The river Wandle, at Mitcham, is not surpassed by any river in the kingdom for its pu re wa t ers , w hi c h never freeze, and are the best in the world for calico-printing. InilBl6 and 1817 there were 17 printworks on the stream, employing 1,200 persons ; now there are only six, and no more than 300 persons. In 1820 there were 12 print works, employing 1,920 persons, whose wages amounted to nearly 3,00(1. a week ; now the wages do not average more than 250/. per week. CONLIVEMRCIILZ, REFORM. A Reform dinner in the Potteries, to J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, will take place to morrow, at Burslem. Extensive preparations are making for the occasion, and a numerous party is ex pected to assemble. R. E. lleathcote, Esq., will take the Chair. It appeared from a statement made at a special meet ing of the business and district Committees of the Me tropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association, held yesterday at the Society's Rooms, in the Strand, that the various branches of the Association itself have effected great things in the business of petitions and memorials. The petitions praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws had ob tained 255 signatures in two days ; the Ladies' memorial to her Majesty, 1,000 ; Christchurch, 33 petitions, with 801 signatures ; 22 memorials, with 260 signatures ; Paddington, petitions, 760 signatures ; memorial, 20. Lambeth, petition, 6,000 signatures ; Mitcham, petition, 450. The central office itself had issued 397 petitions, 89 of which had been returned with 10,844 signatures attached ; 251 were now in course of signature. PTIBLIC INIPROVII7CENTS. - _ The Marquis of Westminster has opened a road from the foot of Vauxhall-bridge to Knightsbridge, through the fine streets and squares erected by Mr. Cubitt on the Pimlico estate of the Noble Marquis. At a meeting of the parishioners of Hammersmith, held yesterday in the Broadway, on the subject of light ing the roads through that parish, it was moved that the provisions of the General Lighting Act be adopted in the district. A. stormy opposition to this ensued, and finally a poll under th e A ct was d eman d e d, o f which ten days' notice must be given. . 11 .G7MULTURAL. The farmers in Kent complain of the bad prospect of spring crops, the heavy ra i ns having in many low lands washed the seed out of the ground. ECCLzsx.a.sTIC.A.M. The Bishop of Londo n , a short time since , made a speech to the Chapter s o f St. Paul's Cathedral, against the wooden block pavement which the Chapters thought of putting down round St. Paul's Churchyard. When the Bishop had finished, the Rev. Sidney Smith re p lie d to him thus:—" After the s p eec h with which your Lord ship has favoured us, I w il l only sa y, will be no difficulty in putting down this wooden block that I think there pavement if we can o n l y l ay a ll our h ea d s together. MAW AND POT.7.CEL At Romford, l as t W ednesday, William Sorrell, a butcher, was fined 18 s . f or cruelly b eat i ng a nd ill-treating two calves. One w ou ld have thought Essex the last NEW ORDERS. bIEUX V. BELL. The arguments in this case were brought to a con. elusion. His Hotioun, after intimating his intention to deliver judgment on Thursday, made the following observations in reference to the Masters' Report in this case, and Masters' Reports generally, as affected by the new orders. When the Court directed an inquiry before the Master, he was required to find facts upon which the Court might act ; and not merely to examine witnesses and take depositions, and then send them to the Court to make such use of them as it could. If the evidence were sent up to the Court without any precise finding, it was impossible to say upon what ground the Court should proceed. The 48th of the new orders was in tended to guard against cases of that description. He had been informed that that order had been under stood by the A. asters as directing them merely to state what affidavits were filed, what statements of facts were carried on, and what witnesses were examined. That was certainly not the intention of Lord Cottenham. Before that order was framed the Masters might state depositions and states of facts, and draw conclusions from the evidence, and give the grounds of their judgment. There was nothing whatever in the order which pre vented the Master from finding that certain evidence had been laid before him, finding certain facts, and drawing his conclusion, and stating the reasons upon which they wero founded. Having taken part in the suggestion of that order he could confidently say that Lord Cotten ham's view was that the Court derived no benefit from the Master finding depositions and affidavits, and that what the Court wanted was the Master's con clusion, judging for itself whether that conclu sion was borne out by the evidence. The 48th order, it directed the Master not "to state depositions or states of facts • but it did not p ro hibit hi m f ro m stating wills or deeds. The reason of the distinction was, that the former were, while the latter were not, kept in the Master's office. The order was framed with thegreat est care, so as to leave the Master at liberty to do every thing except find the affidavits and other matters recited. QUEEN'S BENCII.--(THIS DAY.) :Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice WIGILTXAN and a Common Jury.) HAYWORTH V. BOURNE. This was an action upon a mortgage deed, brought by the plaintiff, a solicitor of Beckington in Somersetshire, against the defendant, a gardener at Frome. It appeared that the defendant obtained a sum of 1501. upon a mort gage of his premises in Warminster-road, and of that stun w ith interest up to the 20th 501. principal had been paid, February 1836 ; and the present action was brought to recover the interest due from that date up to the present period, amounting to 261. odd. For the defendant it was shown that notice had been given to the plaintiff, that on the 20th February, 1836, the defendant was ready to pay up the principal due, amounting to 100 L, and requiring the deeds to be de livered up. On that day the defendant and a friend waited upon the plaintiff with 100/. the balance admitted to be due, but the plaintiff refused to take it, stating that the deeds were in London, and that he would write for them, and have them sent clown in a few days, adding that he would not expect to receive any int eres t a ft er h nt in th e e money was afterwards placed hands of his attor ne y, Mr. t b l y t e 2 th O e th d iz e e fe b n r d n a a Whittaker, who called more than one upon the agents in London, who. held the mortgage deed, and ndoffered the mone y requiring the de e d to be delivered up. The agents, however, refused to give up the deed until 1501. ,EVENTING SUN, had been paid, and the 100/. was lodged in the Ban k where _ it still remained. The action was now brought to r ecover the interest alleged to be due up to the present time. ,he The Learned JUDGE observed that foitunalely for be defendant in the present action, the only qu e stion to h t , submitted to them was one of damages. i thot d might have tendered the principal sum due, if he fetterbee that tender with any conditions as to the validity of the deed, in strict law an action would be maint. ,i na ble : be the principal and interest, even if the party ho: ding deed had refused to deliver it up. He Would Ortio however, that it was fortunate for the defendant OA' b 9 uestion was one wholly for the consideration O 0 Jury, and they were to say, looking at the circurnsti IL" of the case, as stated by the witnesses, whether t he p tiff was or was not entitled to interest to the present t * T r The Jury immediately found a verdict for the fendant. COMMON PLEAS—(THIS DAV WHITE V. NICHOLSON. pran ises t The defendant was executor to a person who had been tenant of the plaintiff; in the occupation of Bath- street, Newgate-street, and this action was broug b u v to recover damages for dilapidations occasioned o Q t : „'',. reasonable wear and tear, but by the premises hav;; been used in an "untenantlike and improper" Ot t o by the occupant. The declaration set forth nunieras' particulars of dilapidation, breakage of wind Z g rea eli and improper removal of fixtures, besides a speetal "; o ne of contract, in nut restoring the premises in the state as when the tenant entered upon them. , 9 e r. The defence was generally not guilty, and W-_,l*to geant BOMPAS for the defendant insisted that it''' be inferred from the plaintiff's own evidence, that de had been no untenantlike conduct on the part of the;Lrly ceased, but that the alterations complained of , esPec— that of the ground floor, were made for the purpose, improvement, the plaintiff's own son having admittte eare the witness-box that the change did not deteriora the' value of the premises. The Learned Sergeant als o tended that the window-panes to the value of 101 or must have been broken whilst the house was unoeculale" after the termination of the testator's tenantcy. The LEARNED JUDGE, in summing up, left it %tell: Jury to say what part of the fixtures removed was , t ha as the defendant was entitled to, in consideration °` sum paid for fixtures at the commencement of ti!eoi., tator's tenantcy. As the plaintiff had not put 0 1 se d, dente the inventory . of fixtures paid for by the &c the the Jury must conjecture from the evidence 11111 ~,,by own experience. There was one, however, a partit4" sor which the cellar was divided into a counting-house u - go s store, which seemed to be one, the tenant could fOO no right to remove. With respect to the alteration it;tkd. shop, or ground-floor, the plaintiff was clearly eir:fee. to a verdict, if the Jury were of opinion that the i n meat bound the tenant to restore the premises 1 :f dr same state as he found them. But the amount eat mages must be regulated by their estimate o f the 3111 to the of deterioration in the value of the promises , o r i p ight inconvenience or expense to which the plaintilA bi have been put by the alteration. It had be en sly°ri ira some of the witnesses that the alteration was er loss provement, and that the plaintiff- suffered Wi t ' hil nor inconvenience thereby. t for i ll° The Jury in a few minutes retnrned a vererie' plaintiff—Damages is. 54 SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS'• trate An action was brought by Mr. Parry, a*Tofth- . and Coroner for the county of Flint, to re eol ts Dls r defendant, Mr. Truman, who is a manufacturer ; he late chester, damages for an assault committed at ferf election for that place. The assault was of a on serious nature, and the facts, as stated by defer stable, were these : The plaintiff an,,,, n dant were in the field where the pow - z o nu: was, when some angry words, - w hich oefolsto heard by the witnesses, took place, and the p ith struck the plaintiff several blows, at least a doseP,ettee stick, and caused a wouni in the temple, and '7 o yeta l . him down, and the defendant struck bialniiietiff' times afterwards. It was stated by th e ,. ; „ r iff a f 's 4 brother, who is. a surgeon, that the P', - saf e" still suffering from the violence. The oul aa b sition was that the ill feeling whic h ' igos1 11) between the plaintiff's party (the Hon. Mr. va and the defendant's had affected thAe latter to w e uncontrolable extent. rlefend s t Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury for tau--jded Ost end expressed regret at the occurrence , but w 04. 7 the affair had been much exaggerated. 0 0 The Jury returned a verdict for plairatiff ---33115" A .y . ) BAbTKRUPTCY—(THfS 00' IN THE NATTER OF WM. HITCHCOCK, 1'114E144 OF REGENT-STREET, A BANK car P 1 .%, wa g rtr The further examination of this ban kruP,vhe too° sumed this morning shortly after 11 o'ci c ck. tb e was, as on former examinations, crow rdecl, loot er greatest anxiety appeared to be excited to bear bee r ments of the bankrupt. The bank ru p t baT called in, 0 f e fr i ‘ Mr. SHURST proceeded with his e xamilla t lfi r ehcee . ," lows :—What was the actual amount, /tr., the goon s received by you from Mr. Christopher Leaf' e , r a s to the invoiced by you at 2,800/. ?—I am not cerbon loo t exact arnouut, but I believe it to be 1,85'0 1 . t:a e oats to my book I find it to be 1,7501. I shL•tad De' s tio that Mr. C. Leaf claims to prove on my es tate for sat n oo of 80/., he having advanced that sum beyond the which the goods realised. ?I fes d . Did he sell at those prices with your a.pprobatioto - ,, se , Now will you state what you did with the mone 4 ;yet t the dates when you received it : first the dates w b- 00 received it ?—On or about August 21, 5001,-L; or about August 24, 25G/. ; on or about the 28tb, or about the 31st, 5001. Now proceed to answer the first question, "' A l' 3 l . i t re did with the money ?—The money was receiv i rd - to the gent-street, mixed with other moneys, and e l l- i e bh-b e°-. general purposes of the trade, as show nin tho l e; c gOOC IS Now, as you have sworn that you St Lit °n u t : and Glad were, for the purpose of being delivered stone, and as you do not disclo.se wine tell; g ot re,a, .11 e 1 Prtid ng be eo c tt a t u hi s iiae e nmd Messrs. Cook and Gladstene,w:OottC._o::::atis benefit from it, and as Cook and u' eL r x ist ot. if ye- could viously told you they would give yali whY Y e e- be out, themand v e a r s t i l h l R e t mwasonetyheyortri:ecei, lor t goods, Th e b w a l n ia k t r s o h p o t iLl e d ro yo s t t i a d te o d w t - h it a h t i b t? e did he ad 10 1 ' his not thin;' t his examination in s uactihena of f ta t t h e a m t e d n a t y y m es i tehrtdabye,ja.eittld .re cl u es Mr. ASHURST having read g the extuni netion the 411 The bankrupt said, my reason for not PaYintgof ti, Cook and Gladstone was, that it was a P 3 ; suo iri i ii , g ,l : l - c h rangel ,:ent not to pay any cash, as I wa s the cash we could get to meet other engagertl th th e were more pressOg d . „ vi Now state when . tht;t arrangement was n i " t h e La e° and what passed ?—Ear;; in July, at one of t in the library or drawing-ru, , m. Gla d s tone' Who was present ?—Messrs. cook and Both ?—I believe so. w ill. jo g Will you swear they were both .000 01 • tiv -, da r , it Now state what was said. —At 'that no,e thea', Vac conversation relating to the 19,0,90/. 1- oy . t,i e vi would not be desirable for me to pay tirel u to and that I could get them out better without it, to they assented. r I sOP"'" Now tell me what they said ?--Very wel l, ° that effect ; or we think so. he °t bel. Wits that in the presence or hearing 0f t,, se quea t .go Yes. I rh.;yer did pay them any mo ney 5 1 .,!!' is i n ess t' that understata::::ng, although I w as in or months afterwards. c lib °l/ to I s e - a Now you have stated that you been o k your bills in July, and this conversation W eio s ore July. Now did you not early' in JulY r c ; s , 0 4• lawyers' letter threatening proceedings ? - „, -. 0---A,,rtba Did you not dishonour your bills in -a- I. °g.; bills °I . State what part. Did you dishonour Y°"" on th° 4th ?—I think not all. iota ° cas h ' State what you paid and what you dishol- 4 , t he • ro f 4th ?—The bankrupt said (after looking , 14 :',, 0e e off book), I am unable to state without the asetsn , 0 40 4 clerk, what bills were paider what dishonouroo. Ago having further time, and the clerk's assist i anc e st h fe r perceive from my books that on the 4th of i'a i l a boer for paid an acceptance drawn by Johnson awl,. , an doe ; a , 641. 14a., and also an acceptance in fay.iotuhr for th a rt et 7 141. 13s. 4d. Now I am not sure, lv quiry and reference, whether we did not b°r!;'' raid f , ~,h of those monies wherewith to pay them. ; he I°`,. ) th, acceptance in favour of Wheeler and Co., calA the ' in August, for 161. ss. Our settling day was - 4 .," 11 c" being and we paid most of our accounts then due , tba 3 number . twelve. D ora° l r. Asnuasr—Now just state the pro. ay spa}' bears to the portion you dishonoured Y f a d s lo proportion. We paid as far as we ha d the for During both months ?—Yes. y Was no t your brother George at th is t ll it r you to Mr. Pritchard, the brother of your Ow bo th What time do you reftr to ? Net ia ce to y In Jul and August.—l think not. months ; .1 am not certain, but I can tell by refaro:l $ my . books. to ta te W i l la Will not your cash-book enable You s ires, "%1 sums you paid, and when, to Mr. Pritchard.-- we ea t now looking for them. On the 9th of August 200 / t o to Marsden and Pritchard 100/. ; on the lot °ic e B. Pritchard; on the 18th, 200 i. to R. Pritchar. 00 tb f 21st, 600/. to B. Pritchard, and interest, 3 1 . 17°.; s ive ° T s2 h u a d t . I o on e t i h i e e v 3 e l , s i t s , 24th to Marsden and Pritchard, under the i n itcha rclj Gandell, 3101 19s. 2d. ;on the 28th, to r „l e a Pritchard ;on the Ist September, .l arsden ' f / lf 24th ° SI there is 5201. paid to Marsden and Pritchard for a 4 1 1 1 2, ./ 6s. tid , and 140/. to 1110, 55, C°s Mr. ASHURST—Go back I to se t e h et that tt on the t J h t e l I .Y. ters: 4 I see there are two sums paid to thenl,_:tebor and 701. The amount paid to Marsden and I t r il ' erth 5 5 on the 24th of July, per Coster, was paid to he soli ci ; my solicitors, to settle a debt with Mr. Burt, t tor of Coster. I think the 701. and the 301 wer;:ago to them for the same purpose. I had given . 0 Pr' order. which will account for my paying thern te i r. lat t e i ference to other parties. That was to paY Co ster" next sum, August 9, is 100 L, that was for Iv "" 4 . aye tirf Mottram's bill of costs. The balance in ' 'lee" small amount, was placed to my credit. don't re co llect' What „ay' What was the amount of that bill ?---I it was near 100/ The next item, August 10th, ls,",ften ment of 200/. made to B. Pritchard, gentlernap!.4hieli ham, being a part payment on account of a . 1011 _ 1 „,. s for was over-due. The amount paid on the 1801 "" the same purpose. hard 1/i°l' Pritc Mr. ASHURST—Did you pay it to ,0 sinr oett 11 self, or to Marsden and Pritchard ?- 7 - r w b e the and Pritchard. lam not q uite sure , . tcha ro the payments were made to Marsden and 0,1 , 0 o Theo account t x o t f s u a m f , 0 6 rtn n e t r , b o i n li, th a e n 2 d :3t a l n o o f th August'3blo o t h:30_111; eia t,lllo. were over-due. August the 24th, was the amount which Marsden and Pritchard rbeeo Gandell and Co., bill-brokers. I think I 31 Pie In!" 28th obliged to give them also a Judge's order. 0 taco, !Paid 14; 4 ' 110, y(4 l f t