The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-08 00:00:00

ti ~~ . MOIRG SUN SERIOUS FIRE-GREAT NEGLECT OF THE FIREMEN. Ws are sorry to announce that a very serious fire oc curred last evening on the premises, No. 26, Stangate street, Westminster-road, occupied by Mr. Fatche, a straw-bonnet maker. The spot seems to be ill-fated, as it was a few months back the scene of another and more serious fire. We allude to the destruction of Astley's Theatre, which event must be fresh in the recol lection of our readers. The fire, from inquiry made on the spot, was discovered about ten o'clock, and was caused by the gas, which had been left burning in the shop, igniting a portion of straw plait hanging over it. The fire was first discovered by a neighbour, who imme diately burst in the door, and in a few minutes the shop was one mass of flames. The family was immediately alarmed, and the children, seven in number, were prordptly rescued. A scene of great confusion then ensued, caused by the neighbours removing their furniture into the street, by which the street was completely blocked up. The fire had now ruched the higher stories, but no water was obtained, nor had any engine arrived, and the opposite houses were in danger of falling a prey to the destructive element. It was upwards of an hour and a half after the fire was discovered before any engine alai rived, although we believe there is a station within a few streets distance of the place. The house was com pletely gutted long before the engines began to play, but we are happy to say the fire was confined to the one house, though the inhabitants an mud must have sustained a seri, us 1 )ss by the removal of their furniture. We were unable to ascertain whether the house was insured or not. , FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Another zneeting to consider the propriety of taking measures fur assisting Mr. Southwell in his defence against the charge of blasphemy brought against him at Bristol, was held la:)t night in the Literary and Social Hail, John-street, Tottenham -court-road. The meeting was well attended. ResolutiGns condemnatory of the persecution suffered by Mr. Southwell, in favour of a totally free press, both on political and theological sub jects, and for raising a subscription in aid of Mr. South well's defence, were proposed and agreed to with enthusiasm. Mr. South well addressed the meeting in defence of the articlo for which he- stands indicted ; and in the same strain, as on the previous night at Lambeth, pledged himself to pursue his object, the obtaining of a wholly free and independent presi, with all his ener gies, whatever might be the result of the coming trial. A collection was made at the door, a n d suscription papers ordered to be provided at different stations throughout the metropolis LORD ASHBURTON. TIIE DISTRESSED PRINTERS. A numerous meeting of the letter-press printors was held last night at the London Mechanics' Institution, Chancery-lane, to receive the report of the Compositors' Committee, appointed in. the October of last year to re ceive subscriptions for the relief of the numerous mem ' bers of the trade thrown out of employment. The re port of the Committee was accordingly read by Mr. Parker, the Secretary, from which it appeared that the e:eipts had been as follows : s. d. Balance in hand from last Committee 24 0 0 Country subscriptions Donations from master printers and others connected with the trade Other donations . Subscriptions from the London printers in employment Iso 0 0 63 0 0 308 18 71 Total 1,042 7 94. Out of these receipts 4-41/. 3s, 6d. had been spent in, the relief of applicants, whichlogether with the share of do nations to the press committee (2461. Is. 10d.) and sun dry necessary expemes, made a sum expended of 756/. 14s. lid., leavings. balance in the hands of the Compo sitors' Committee of 285/. 12s. 10d. It further ap peared from the report that the rate of relief per week had been ss. per head for the unemployed single men, and GS. per head fur the unemployed married men, with 6i. additional in the ease of the latter fir each child they had. The Report congratulated the trade upon the fact that several of the great houses, which had teen empty of hands some time back, were now full; which had had a beneficial effect ; and the Committee taking into consideration thu_ the temporary pres sure w hi c h they had been appoinat to relieve, would determine on the meeting of Parliament, recommended that their (the Committee's) labour should come to a conclusion in the first Week after the meeting of Parliament, and that meanwhile no further subscriptions should be received, considering the balance which was in hand. The Re port concluded by expressing the thanks that were due to the proprietors of many of the London papers not only for their donations, but for having most kindly ul- loejed the insertion of advertisements free froth charge except the duty, as well as to many private in, viduals, amongst whom were part;calarly noticed t Rev Nil- Fi,lce (who had sent in a donation of 304 . . Lord Panmure, the Archbishop of York, and the clergy -of his diocese. Tho Report, which was most copious and interesting, was heard with marks of general appro. }ration, and universally adopted. Some discussion ensued upon the causes which had occasioned so much distress at different periods of late among the trade, and an understanding was come to that the Committee should state in their printed balance-sheet, as fully as possible•, the nature of those causes. _ _ Auditors having been appointed to look over the ac counts, and thanks having been vattql to the Committee for their zeolous exertions, the mee'ing separated. TIIEDISTRESSED SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. —On Wednesday night, at seven o'clock, a very nume rous meeting of the unemployed and distressed Spital fields weavers was held, by adjournment from the Satur day previous, at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town, Bethnal-green, for the purpose of obtaining information from the actin° . Committee, when the funds in .the hands of the Lord Mayor would be distributed ; Mr. Britten in the chair. The Report of the Committee was given by Mr. Claisse, the Secretary, from which it appeared that he had that day seen Mr. Miller, the Honourary Secretary to the Committee formed for the purpose of distributing the funds in the hands of the Lord Mayor, and by whom he was informed that probably the distri bution would commence on Saturday, and be in full opeaition on the Monday following. Several weavers then adiressed the chair, lamenting the delay, and alluded to their resignation under the trying circumstances in which they had been placed. They observed that they knew of many families who had no coals at this season, and who - were without food, and where, if relief were delayed beyond the Saturday, fatal consequences might arise. It was then movad, seconded, and unanimously resolved, " That in consequence of the number of indi viduals who have not been visited, a deputation be ap pointed to wait on Mr. Hanbury, at 'the brewery in Brick-lane, to solicit that the labours of the acting Com mittees be continued in the visiting department, and that the immediate di-tribution of the funds to those who have been visited take place." Upon the resolution being adopted, Mr. Hornsby appealed to the meeting to know who had not been visited, w h en near ly h a lf the meeting held up their hands-. He then suggested that when the deputation was formed, it should be a recommendation to them to impress, in their interview with Mr. Hanbury ; the necessity of appointing some locality where a box m i g h t b e placed, into which applications from those weavers who La I not been visited might be placed, stat ing their circumstance=. A deputation of six was then formed, who were directed to request that, if possible, the funds at the latest might be distributed on the ensu ing Saturday. The meeting then , after havi ng voted thanks to the Chairman, who replied in a few words, broke np at a late hour. An occurrence of a most distressing descriptio n took place on Wednesday afternoon, which has plunged a highly respectable family of St. Columb into the deepest affliction. The eldest son of T. Whitford, Esq., solici tor, a most promising youth, was shooting with two others near Nantwhyden. As he was getting over a hedge, his gun went oil*, when the whole charge passed through his head, and carried his cap to a considerable distance. He was found by his companions immediately after, quite dead.—Sherborne Jpental. }7 7Z 9 A / "Z/ The critical question of the right of search of slave ships, and the unsettled lines of boundary, have induced the Cabinet to send out to America an " Ambassador Extraordinary," in the person of Lord Ashburton. His Lordship has some qualifications for thin delicate mis sion, but they may be neutralised by his proverbial in firmity of purpose. As a politician he has been noto riously inconsistent. rt decided Whig to the year 1830, when, disappointed of office from Lord Grey, he joined the opposition to the Reform Bills. On the 21st July, ' 1831, he justified the rotten borough system by com paring the people to a dangerous man with o ne h an d .tied behind - him, the nature of the man requiring that . one hand should be thus placed in restraint. *His Lord ship said, his answer to the demand of release by the.one armed man was, "No ; he is a violent, dangerous fellow, • and is not to be trusted with the use of both his hand.i." . And, in the same speech, this noble husband of an American woman teelaryd " that the people were no more to be trusted 71.11!lirpower than children with edge-tools I' When taxe.l •aitli his gross political in. consistencies, in the debate on the English Municipal Bill, 27th of ! August, 1835, the Noble Baron thus pro te3ted against recurring to men's early life for charges of inconsistency of opinion. "He had himself entered po litical life with libral views, but never with extreme . ones ; and, if his ideas had undergone a change of late, it was because he had at the outset of his career much less apprehension of the danger of democracy than he entertained at present." The change in Lord Ashbur ton's "ideas " was his change of class. The merchant dealer in cotton and tallow, the loan-monger and money-changer, was metamorposed into a Peer and landowner ; and this revolution of his circum stances, doubtless accounts for his disgraceful vacil lation of opinion on the Corn-laws. How far such a . public man will be an acceptable mediator at \Washington, or how far qualified for his mis sion, may reasonably be doubted. Certainly his appoint ment is universally unpopular in the City of London, whore he is best known. Indeed I have been surprised by the outcry against it. The mercantile interests :also suspect a job. They think that the Ambassador Extra ordinary has private interests iri the United States, in land and State Stocks—a greater object to him in his transatlantic journey than the public interests of the mission. His Lordship was President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint, in the Peel-Wellington Cabinet of 1834-5 ; and the merchants fancy that, as Sir Robert Peel would not hamper himself with the Nob' Baron in the present Administration, the diplomatic Ap pointment is a sop to his Lordship's wounded vanity, to be followed up by the gift of an Earldom. I believe the 'citizens are right ',a their suspicions ; and that, further, it is very convenient for Lord Ashburton to be absent on the discussion of the Corn-laws in the House of Lord. Jonathan is not likely to be tickled by such an anti-' democratic Peer being accredited to the Republic.— London Correspondent of the, Scotsman. ~. ~,, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1842. SPIRIT of the. PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE ETENING PAYERS or TESTERD..”'s GLOBE.— Aristocratic amusements , even i n , are sometimes apt to take rather an atrocious direction ; but some paragraphs which have lately appeared in the Irish papers would seem to indicate thin a recent that fashionable pastime pastime in the sister country hasbeen, stance, carried to an excess of almost unheard-of bar barity. When the account of a rumoured outrag e in King's County was copied into the Gl o b e , a no t e was added, expressing a strong hope that there was no foundation for the statement put forth in the Irish journal ; but it is 'clear, from an article in the Dublin Evening Mail of Wed nesday, that an idiot boy has somehow met with his death under circumstanc es th a t ca ll e d f or t h e h o ldi ng of an inquest. It is stated, in vindication of the charac ter of the gentlemen said to have been concerned in the matter, that after an inv es ti ga ti on b y t h e C oroner ' s j ury , a verdict of "Died by the visitation of God" was agreed upon, but we do not quite concur with our Dublin Con temporary in considering this conclusion altogether satisfactory. There may have been cruel treatment practised towards the unfortunate deceased without its I having caused his death ; and we think a full report of the proceedings which led to the verdict would have been a better criterion of the merits of the case than a mere statement of the result of the inquest. It is ad mitted, in the very paper that endeavours to exonerate the " gentlemen" said to have been implicated, that 'the occurrence has produced a deep and unpopular sensation," and we do not think the matter should be suffered to drop until the public mind has been thoroughly satisfied whether any outrage has or has not Leen committed ; fur though the verdict, supp: s sing the inquest to have been properly conducted, ac quits the parties of the crime of murder, it still leaves them liable to the imputation of heartless cruelty. As gentlemen, and as " officers," we should imagine, that if they have ben blameless, they will be desirous of vindicating themselves from suspicion in the most public manner possible ; but if, on the other hand, they have acted in such a manner as to have given any real founda tion for the charge brought against them, their position in society should be an argument for exposing rather than for screening them. In the few observations we have made we must not be understood to prejudge the case against the individuals whose reputation it affects ; but we think the facts, whatever they may be ought to be made known, in order to satisfy the public mind, that outrages of a disgraceful nature cannot be committed with impunity, either in England or in Ireland, by per sons occupying the station of gentlemen. STANDARD.—We have more than once shown that w e are no enemies to mechanical improvement in manu facturing enterprise ; but we must ever deny that Great Britain owes her wealth or her power to either, or that policy or justice can permit the sacrifice of other interests to the interests of agriculture. Had half the capital invested in manufactures since 1815 been invested in colonisation and maritime com merce, it is our firm conviction that the em pire would be richer, and no one will dispute more powerful, than it is. Let men remember what two mil lions of Dutchmen were able to effect by maritime com merce, proceeding from a country without a single good port, and unable to sustain itself, and then compute what. England may do though without manufactures — were manufactures lost. Let us look to what the United States have done in less than half a century by agri culture alone, and then tell us, if they dare, that the wealth and power of the British empire are ab solutely dependent upon manufactures. Let us again guard ourselves ; we are no enemies to manufactures— we propose no hostile movement against them ; we merely, in resisting aggressor show as easily as we can show, that the aggression proceeds upon grossly falla cious grounds when he assumes that manufactures are essential to the being of England. COURIER—We were curious to see how the revenue returns would be treated by the Whig press, now that their former patrons of the Treasury have fortunately no longer the power of tampering with the national re sources and yearly bringing them more nearly to a con dition of bankruptcy and beggary ; and accordingly we find that the surplus exhibited in the returns, both for the whole year and the quarter just ended, as compared with those for the previous year and quarter corre sponding, is sofar from gratifying to the patriotic journals 'of the ex-official tribe. They seem to be in no small trepidation lest the State should be enabled to pay its way and steer clear of the insolvency to which the late officials _were rapidly reducing it ; and there fore dwell with much greater satisfaction upon the last quarter's decrease in the Excise of 277,0001., than on the more cheering increase for the same period of 414,0001. in the Customs ; or on the total increase under the separate heads of revenue taken together of 338,5001. for the quarter and 506,0001. for the year. These honest, and now for the first time most tender. hearted gentlemen, find out that under a Conservative Government the falling off in the Excise is a sure test of the severe distress and privations under which the labouring population are suffering. The discovery is made rather late in the day, it is true, for unquestionable as to a great extent is its truth, it was no less a truism under the Whig than now under a Constitutional Administration. But there is this differ ence in the matter, that the general distress was aggra vated in the Whig time by the levy of additional im posts, the burden of which was rendered more intolerable by the novel rigour with which the collecting screw was then first ordered to be applied. - - Maule in passing sentence, that.during the time the pri soner had been in' Newgate, he had been greatly rnis ccnducting himself. i LEAD STEALING. —James Holmes and Martin Kelly, I were indicted for s t ea li ng 60 lb s . we i g h t o f l ea d , va l ue nine shillings, 'the property of iiiines Compton and others, being fixed to a building. A policeman, named Gifford, observed the prisoners talking together near Kelly's house. When they saw him they went away. He took Holmes into custody, and found various quantities of lead in his possession which had been stolen from the houses of the prose cutor, and of other persons situated near to Kelly's house. ,Kelly was subsequently taken into custody. Kelly received an excellent character from several witnesses. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty. They were again indicted for stealing 261bs. weight of lead, the property of Thomas Hodges. The evi dence was similar to that given in the previous case, and they were again convicted. It appeared that Holmes had frequently before been' convicted of stealing lead, and he was sentenced to seven years' transportation f or eac h o ff ence . Th e pri soner Kelly was sentenced to six months' imprison ment with hard labour for each offence. Mary Hill was indicted for stealing three shillings, the property of Amelia .Spiers, from her person. The prosecutrix, who had recently come up to town from Gloucester, met a man in Tottenham-court-road, late on -Tuesday evening last, and was induced by him to accompany him to a public-house. The prisoner had previously joined the party, and they had some rum. It appeared that they wandered abotit from public-house: to public-house until a late hour, when the man knocked at the door of a house of ill-fame, and the prisoner told the prosecutrix she would wait outside for , her while she went in to warn herself. She went in, but when she discovered the character of the place she left, and the man also. The man then went away, and left the prisoner and prosecutrix together in the street. They continued together until nearly two o'clock in the morning, when the prosecu trim accused the prisoner of having robbed her. The -policeman who took her into custody had seen her .fumbling about the prosecutrix's gown. When appre hended, the prisoner said she had no money, but when searched at the station-house three shillings and other monies were found on her. The Jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mary Phillipps, aged 51, was indicted for stealing a coat, the property of James Kenway. The prosecutor is a silk mercer, residing in Norton Folgate. On the Ist of this month the prosecutor's son met the prisoner on the stairs of his father's house with the coat under her apron. No person on the premises knew anything of her, and she was immediately given into custody. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The Jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. SEEING IN THE NEW YEAR.—James Harding, John Bennett, and William Gibbs, were indicted for stealing a breast pin, value 21., the property of Charles Evans Mar riott, from his person, on the Ist of January. The prosecutor, who is an architect, had been on the morning of the Ist of January in company with his friend Mr. Cutler, a gentleman residing in Farring don-street, to see a friend of Mr. Cutler's home in a cab to Newington. They left the gentleman at Newington, and Mr. Marriott and Mr. Cutler returned to town in the cab, and as the cabman had been very civil, Mr. Marriott desired him to stop at the first public-house, and they would give him something -to drink. The cabman stopped at the Princess of Wales public-house, in the London-road, where Mr. Marriott ordered some stout for himself and Mr. Cutler, and a glass of rum for the cabman. When they entered the public-house, there were upwards of twenty persons at the bar, among whom were the three prisoners. When Mr. Marriott had paid for the stout and rum, the persons present commenced hustling them. Mr. Marriott swore that Gibbs threw his arm across his (Marriott's) face, and Harding snatched a breast-pin from his (Mr. Marriott's) breast. Mr. Marriott seized his arm and held him for some time, but he got away from him. Mr. Marriott called out that he had been robbed, and desired that the door should be shut. A man near the door, however, kept it open, and the prisoners escaped. Mr. Cutler corroborated Mr. Marriott' testimony, and said Bennett had attempted to rob him (Mr. Cutler.) A policeman about a quarter of an hour before had seen all three of the prisoners at the bar of the Princess of Wales,jsnd on receiving information from the prose cutor of what had occurred, he went to St. George's market, and there in front of the George public-house he found several persons standing together, among whom were the three prisoners, who were pointed out to him by Mr. Marriott, and he took them into custody. Both the prosecutor and Mr. Cutler were sober. Mr. HORMY and Mr. CHARNOCK addressed the Jury for the prisoners Bennett and Gibbs, and contended that the whole was a mere public-house row, in the course of which the pin had probably been lost. The prisoner Harding said he had only been two days in London, and was not in the public-house at all that night, but was standing in St. George's Market, when he was taken into custody, another person having been previously spoken to by the prosecutor as the man who robbed him, but let go by the policeman, on one of his brother officers stating he was a respectable man. The policeman, who was recalled, contradicted this statement entirely. Mr. Justice MauLE summed up, and the Jury found the prisoners Not Guilty, observing, " We do not think there is quite sufficient evidence to convict them." The verdict seemed to excite great surprise in the Court. William Jackson, 24, a well-dressed young man, was indicted for stealing a silver watch, the property of Ellen Best, from her person. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prisoner. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prosecutrix was in the service of a gentleman residing in Russell-square, and last Sunday evening, as she was returning from chapel, while passing through Guild ford-street, she felt her watch pulled from her pocket. She immediately turned round, and caught hold of a boy who was standing close to her, and at the same moment she observed the prisoner have some communication with the boy, and directly afterwards he ran away. The pri soner was followed, and in his flight he was observed to throw something over the inclosure in Brunswick-square. He was eventually taken into custody, and, upon a search being made in the inclosure, the stolen watch was found lying upon the ground. When the prisoner was taken into custody, a gold watch, several rings, and other articles of jewellery, were found in his possession. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice MAULE said there could be no doubt that the prisoner was a practised thief ; and it was very ne cessary that the public should be protected from the de predations of such persons. He then sentenced the pri soner to be transported for ten years. Some other cases of no public interest having been dis posed of, the Court adjourned until the 31s1 inst. MONEY MARKET and CITY-NEW& PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The intelligence from China and India, published exclusively in the Times of this morning, ex cited the greatest interest in the City, and all the places of commercial resort were occupied with it, almost to the exclusion of every other topic. It was the more gratifying to the merchants, as they had hardly ex pected that so rapid a progress could have been made in the military operations against China ; and it need scarcely be adverted to, what immense commercial inte rests are involved in that enterprise. It is almost un necessary to say, that not a syllable of news from the same quarter transpired through any private channel in the course of the day, so that even the great speculators in tea, who have usually been so active on these occa sions, were indebted to the Times for all the information they obtained. The market for this article, so import ant was the news, was quite paralyzed, so that little spe culation occurred. We have had a much firmer market for the English securities to-day, our intelligence from China being con sidered highly satisfactory. This was also the first day for private transfer in the stocks, which hare been closed for the January dividends, but business was not exceedingly brisk. It was check e d in a measure, we be lieve, by the withdrawal by the East India Company of monies afloat in the market on the deposit of stock, which caused a temporary scarcity. The fact that the divi dends were paid to-day on East India Stock, is quite suf ficient to account for this movement. LAW INTELLIGENCE. . SECONDARIES' COURT; Jan. 7. DROADRICIE V. ARNOLD. NEW COURT. John Jones, a young man of respectable appearance, was - indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Henry Squires, and stealing three sovereigns and four shillings. Mr. PHILLIPS defended the prisoner, and in the course of his examination of the prosecutor elicited from him that he could not swear that he lost three sovereigns, but inferred it from there being found on the prisoner, with other moneys, which he was able to identify. The evidence on the part of the prosecution being con cluded, the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and The COURT sentenced him to 10 years' transportation. The three sovereigns were handed over to the Sheriff. Joseph Johnson was indicted for stealing a parcel from a common stage waggon, from Abingdon to London, di rected to a firm in King William-street, City. The examination of witnesses had not proceeded far before the prisoner cut the matt er s h or t b y a d m i tt i ng that he stole the parcel, A verdict of Guilty was there fore recorded, and The COURT sentenced him to three months' imprison ment and hard labour. John Boyle was convicted of stealing a great coat on the 28th of .December, the property of William Sams bury, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.. George Drake, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of stealing one shawl, 30 lbs. of beef, value 365., and money, - *ilne. 2s. Lid., the property of Andrew William Osborne. The COURT sentenced him to six months' imprison ment and hard labour. Eliza Warner, aged 23, was indicted for stealing five Bank of England, notes for Si. each, 30 sovereigns and other money, to the amount of 51, the property of Robert Potts, from his person ; and George Randall, aged 28, was charged with feloniously receiving part of the money, well knowing it to have been stolen. He was also charged with harbodring Eliza Warner, knowing she had committed the above felony. Mr. Clarkson stated the case to the Jury at consider able length, and Mr. Doane defended Randall. The prosecutor stated that he was a - corporal major in the 2d Life Guards. On the 6th of December he was quar tered at Knightsbridge, and on the evening of that day he walked from thence to Brompton, where he met the female prisoner. They went to the Two Brewers, where he treated herand several other girls who were there. He left there a. little before twelve o'clock, much the CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. worse for liquor. The female prisoner took him to her 04D COURT. lodgings, where he undres se d an d wen t t o bed, but \ , • whether the female prisoner came t o b e d a l so h e cou ld STEALLIG COALB.—James Irons and S ara h irons, father not say, as he fell asleep almost directly: Before he g o t and daughter,were placed at the bar, charged into bed he took his notes and mon e y ( a b out 60/. i n a ll) with stealing a quantity of coals, the prop er ty o f Wil- ham Knight, of Regent's-squ a r e , from his fob; and put it for safety in a p oo k et i n a belt Le ore next his skin, and buttoned it up. Il e awo k e a b out had lived w It appearedappeared from the evidence as that ervant, an the female prisoner w six in the morning, when he found that th e p r i soner an d s the his money were gone, as also his watch an d hi s pocket where the female prisoner hai gone down into the area o f th e house, handkerchief, which he: left in his cap. Had se en one o f emale prisoner h a d g i ven hi m t h e coa l s i n question. They were caught in th e f ac t, an d i mme di ate] the stolen 5L notes since, which he received from Cor y given into cus he saw the girl it was at Newbury, in Berkshire.tody. porta Dixon on the 30th of November. The next tim e The RECORDER, in summing up said, th a t t h e secret Cross-examined by Mr. Doane—The money was all of the great consumption of coals in famili es was , the his own. He was sur e the 5/. note in Court was one of open area• gate, through which servants supplied th e i r friends. two he received from Co r por a l Dixon. Witness usually The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were carried his money i n th e b e lt w hi c h he wore round hi s waist, but on the d a y i n ques ti on h e h a d t a k e n it out, as each sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. he had to pay some private bills. He had paid 51. on that day to a Mr. Burton. It was likely the female pri- George Langley, aged 13, was indicted for embezzling soner might have seen him place the money in his belt. and stealine , various sums of money, the property of Mr. Arnold was one of the cashiers of Messrs. Cox George John Poacher, his master. and Greenwood, the army ag On the 30th of No- The prosecutor is a stationer, and the prisoner, who ents. vember he paid two b an k notes to Corporal Dixon, and I entered the numbers an d hi s name. The note now pro ' was in his employment as errand boy, had, on various occasions, received different sums of money from cus- duced (No. 49,652) was one o f th em, tomers on his master's account, for which he had never accounted. Wm. Dixon was a Corporal i n th e 2 d Lif e G uar d s . He received two U. notes from the last wit ness us s t a ted, The Jury f oun d t h e p r i soner G u ilty, b ut recom- and paid the note now produ c ed t o th e prosecutor t h e mended him to m ercy , ;- 1 w hi c h recommen d at i on the prosecutor joined, on account o f t h e exce ll ent character I same day. Wm. Woodman was a cabman. O n th e Bth o f De borne by the prisone r ' s parents. He was sentenced t o b e i mpr i soned for two months, cember he saw the male prisoner in P a ddi ngton; h e hi re d his cab, and told him to drive to Willi am - s t reet . Wit and kept to hard labour, an d, to b e once nr i whipped It appeared, from wh a t fell from tel va ness asked him if he meant William •street, Regent's . Air. Justice This was an action to recover the sum of 21. 18s. 9d., for work done and performed. Mr. C. Jones appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas for the defendant. The ground of defence to the action was, that the plaintiff was not in a position to sue, as he was not the creditor. It was alleged, on the part of the de fendant, that the plaintiff's son was the creditor, and that the plaintiff had been put forward as creditor in order that the son might be admitted as a witness. - Mr. THOMAS called two witnesses, who proved that they were engaged by the plaintiff's son, who is a car rier, and keeps a waggon-yard. The father lived near, and only came to the place about once a w;eek. The name of the plaintiff's son was on all the waggons and carts. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, having summed up, he Jury returned a verdict for the clefendent. COURT OF BAIVKRUPTCY, Jana 7. IN RE KERR, DANGHAM, AND HAINES. The bankrupts, who were army agents, carrying on business in Suffolk-street, passed their final examination. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 7. IN RE JACOB COHEN. The insolvent had been a general dealer and mer chant, trading between the Continent and Sunderland. It appeared, from a lengthened examination, to which he was subjected, that, in the spring of 1840, he bought a large quantity of pottery from Messrs. Dixon, of Sun derland, and also some linen-drapery goods, which he shipped to Rotterdam. There he sold the pottery to a person named Smith, with whose place of residence in that town he was unacquainted, for • one-third less than what he paid for it in Ragland. Being unable to find a market for the linen-drapery, he went to Friesland, and sold it by auction. Whilst there, he met a person, to whom he was indebted in the sum of 6,000 guilders, who threatened to incarcerate him for five years, unless he paid the debt. He paid away much of the proceeds of his sales to this person, and then returned to England. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said it was a case requir ing searching inquiry, and he should therefore adjourn it, that insolvent's special balance-sheet might be amended, and to have the affidavit of Smith, the person who bought the goods in Rotterdam, produced in Court park, to which the prisoner replied "Drive on." Whoa he - got there the prisoner said he meant William-stret, iiii'ghtsbridge, anti desired to Upon witness appearing reluctant to do so the prisoner produced a 51. note, and said he need not be afraid as he had several more of them. When they got to Knights bridge the prisoner disputed about the fare and wrangled with a man he met. Witness then handed him over to the police and alto the 51. note. Cross-examined by Mr. DoAsE—The prisoner was the worse for liquor. He said he had three or four more notes, but witness coulihiOt say whether he said "in his pocket." Inspector Forbes received the male prisoner in the sta .; in-house on the evening of the Bth of December; lie was stupidly drunk. The cabman 'gave witness a f./. note. Witness produced the note to him, and asked. him from whom he received it. He replied from one of his te nants, but he could not tell the 'name. Upon being pressed on this point, he changed his story, and said he found it in Hyde Park. Benjamin Burn, a policeman, confirmed the statement of the last witness, and added that he searched the pri soner's house in King's Head-row, near Brompton, where he found a letter, which he now produced. Mr. Justice WrgirrmaN, after reading the letter, served that he did not think it relevant to the case. James Penning, was shopman to a linen draper in Shoreditch. On the 7th -of December, both prisoners came to his mast, r's shop, and the female purchased articles of drapery to the amount of between 31. and 4/. Alfred Milton, was chief.constable of Newbuty. He apprehended the female prisoner at the house of her pa rents, who lived in that town. She was ill in bed at 'the time. He told her the nature of the charge, and on searching her bedding, he found eight sovereigns,.andin' her box a quantity of new female apparel, furs, &c. &c. which were worth 9/. or 101. She denied the robbery, and said a man of the name of Byron gave her tfie money and purchased the clothes. The case tier the prosecution having terminated, Mr. Domtu addressed the Jury for Randall. The female prisoner had no counsel, but denied most positively that she had robbed the prosecutor; thz•re was another woman.with him besides herself. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up, and The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. Mr. Justice WIGHTmaN sentenced Warner to ten years' transportation, and Randall to six months' im prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. POLICE INTELAAGENCE. _ MANSIOIV-HOUSE. Mr. Smith, generally known as "Boatswain Smith," who has been many years preaching to sailors and sol diers, and has by the acknowledgment of many_ ex perienced persons, done much good amongst the humbler classes, appeared before Alderman WILSON for the pur pose of making an appeal to the Magistracy of the City, on behalf of the East I n di a an d China sailors, great numbers of whom were, he said, at the East-end in a most wretched and neglected condition. Alderman WILSON said that he should willingly at tend to any statement, the publication of which would be likely to lead to the redress of any grievance, the re sult either of accident or ignorance. Mr. Smith said, that during the existence of the Charter of the East India Company, the Directors had a large range of premises at New-road, St. George's in the East, where all native sailors from the East Indies were lodged, boarded, and managed by suitable officers and efficient control and medical attendance. The Charter having expired and free trade being established, some thousands of native seamen were brought to this country and left to any chance management, and without any fixed and suitable place of accommodation on shore. Now, he considered that it was most uncharitable to abandon poor men of different castes and manners to the vicissitudes of such a place as London. There were at present nearly five hundred men at the East India Dock, and Basin, at Blackwall, who appeared to him to be a mixture of eight or ten different nations from the islands and confine* of India and of China. They had been brought to England in some of our largest Indiamen, such as the Fort William, the Sealesby Castle, the Lord Lowther, and the Buckinghamshire, and had been shipped from their native climates for the service of this country, to navigate our ships, and bring home their valuable cargoes, when there was a deficiency of English sailors abroad, either from deaths, desertions, mutinies, disease, or crimp -inticement for the country trade. As they supplied the place of our countrymen, it was no more than common humanity to save them from perishing. Alderman WILSON said that those captains who brought the foreign sailors alluded to here, were under legal obligations to take them back. Mr. Smith said he was perfectly aware of that; but the misery to which the unfortunate men were subjected here, by exposure to cold, most woefully thinned their numbers. He had been to visit them in the wretched sheds in which they were located last week, and a most lamentable spectacle they presented. They came from a very hot climate, with thin clothing, and in the depth of winter, complete strangers to our cold damp northern latitude ; and while Englishmen starved and died, the victims of bleak winds and heavy rains, how much more deplorable must be the condition of these poor creatures ? But in addition to the natural effects of such a change of climate, it had to be considered that there was no atten tion whatever paid to them beyond the ordinary pro vision of their serang, or boatswain, as far as could ba ascertained from actual observation and various inquiries. Alderman WI - most—Do you complain that these men are left without proper sustenance ?—Mr. Smith said he by no means meant to say that they had no abundance o food ; but they were literally perishing with cold, and their cry, when he went amongst them, was for fire and blankets. In the shed to which he al luded the misery was indescribable, and in some of the vessels where they were kept between decks in this severe weather, their sufferings were scarcely less severe. If such an asylum could be procured as that which was prepared for the reception of the houseless poor, the evil would be remedied ; and if, through Alderman Wilson's interposition, such an accommodation could be supplied, the poor strangers would not have to say upon their return in diminished numbers to their own countries. that they did not know what was the meaning of the word Christianity. Alderman WiLsoss - said he felt convinced that the merchants who derived advantage from the labours of the Indian and Chinese'sailors were not aware of their exposure to the severities of the climate, and that when they were informed of the fact they would give such, directions as would render any further complaint unne cessary. Mr. Smith said that the humane • manner in which Alderman Wilson had expressed himself as to the con dition of these poor men, and his expectation that the merchanai would interfere, were sure to have a benefi cent effect. He felt assured himself that a prompt at tention !,( z ) the suggestion and wishe s of' the Alderman would saive many a fellow -creature's lire. He they most heartily thanked the Alderman and retired. TREET. princip a l p ropr i etor o , Norton Po!gate, appeared the M c n itye f Chr istopher Leede eCoTehheerat 'Theatre, the to a summons, in which he was charged with having un lawfully permitted and suffered a quantity of gin to be sold on his premises, without being licensed so to do. The barge was prosecuted by a person named Robert Potinges who described himself as an attorney's clerk, living t No. 11, Brunswick-street, Stamford -street, Black - friars. Mr. Heritage, thesolicittir, attended for the defence. After evidence had been heard, Mr. BINGHAM said that no case had been made out against the defendant. The informer had not only failed to show that the defendant knowingly permitted the spirits to be sold, but he had not even proved that he was the proprietor or occupier of the premises. The informer said that he would have no difficulty in completing the evidence if the Magistrate would adjourn the case. He would summon the Clerk of the Peace to pfove the proprietorship. Mr. BINGRAX—You ought to have been prepared with the necessary evidence before you put the defendant to the inconvenience and annoyance of coming here with his witnesses. The charge is dismissed. NORWICH QUARTER' SESSIONS (Before Mr. J. JEREMY, Recorder.) NoRWIOR, JAN. 4.—Thomas Hewett appeared to an swer to an indictment for a misdemeanour, having, with other evil-disposed persons. carrying various sorts of arms, unlawfully assembled to disturb the peace, on the 16th of November last, at Catton New Church, and then and there made a noise, riot, and disturbance, for. the space of an hour or more. lie was further indicted for having on the same day a second time, with other evil disposed persons, unlawfully assembled, and thereby created a disturbance during the ceremony of consecra tion at Catton New Church; The case excited great interest, the Court being com pletely crowded during. the whole time of the trial. Many of the Magistrates were present. Mr. Evaras appeared for the prosecution. Hewett, ho conducted his own case, objected to Mr. Nurse bei.ig sworn on the Jury, alleging that he was prejudiced against the Chartists. Mr. EvANS called the following witnesses : Robert Coleman, policeman, deposed—He was ordered to attend the church at New Caton, on the 16th of No vember, and at about half -past ten o'clock was stationed at the gate of the church. I saw some persons with a band coming towards the church. I saw Hewett close by the church gates ; 'there.were about 300 persons as sembled ; they were conducting themselves in a very to • inul mous planner. People were not able to get up to the church-yard before the Bishop's carriage came up. Se veral attempts were made to get into the c hurchyard. I saw Hewett very ac tiv e an d prominent in those attempts. When the bishop's carriage came it could not be driven up to the gate ; there was a great deal of hooting and diffe rent expressions used,directed against the Bishop.Afterthe carriage came up the persons i n it o bt a i ne d entrance in to the church by sheer force. The Mayor then personally as sisting the Bishop succeeded in obtaining admission. About half an hou r a f ter t h e gate was broken the con duct or the mob w as suc h as to terr if y pe ople attending the service. Af ter t h e Bi s h op came out o f the church the band and banners returned. The Bishop went round the churchyard ; the band was playing and the people we e r r e tshheouti rails.ng . I l h s e a a s r v d Hewett him s a t y a ksemanebtahninile:, and hold it ov recollect th e wor d s. Th e M ayor then too k tbut Hewett intodo not he p custody. Th e Chartist's behaved in a riotous manner, and attempted to rescue him. He was put car riage and conveyed to the station-house ; into a ut his head out of the window and shouted "Hurrah for the Char tists ; three ch ee r s f or F eargt . s O'C onno r.". Superinte n d en t Y arr i ngton eAa i n i ne d —Hewett headed a procession at the church with bands and banners. Hewett and a num b er o f ot h ers came u p and asked for admission. A r us h ensue d, and an attempt to force open the gat e , w hi c h was br o k en. I saw Hewett, who called o ut, "G o i t , my b o y s ," or words t o that effect ; he was foremost amongst those who made the crush when the Bishop's carriage came up. After the church was consecrated the Bishop came out consecrate the churchyard ; then the same band came LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON; JAN. 7.—Wind ( I .:y s z ()cm N RAMsGATE, JAN. 6.—The Angelique, from Cupola hagen to Cadiz, which was ashore on Margate Sands, with loss of mainmast, Ste., has put in here. OFF DOVER, JAN. 6.—Jan e t Gibson, Rio for Hamburg h. SALCOMBE, JAN.'s.—Arrd. Victoria, London for the Azores. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind N.E.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Isis, South Ameiica. FALMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind N.E. to E.N.E.—SId. Helston, London, with part of the cargo of the Orient. A vessel schooner rigged,waterlogged, stern out of water, no name, but the Castle of Hamburgh painted, with a red moulding, supposed to have been run down, was fallen in with this morning about fire miles E.S.E. of the Manacles. CROOKHAVEN, JAN. 3.—A wreck, supposed a schtoper, was passed 31st ult. in lat. 44, long. 15, by the Peri, Dawe, arrived here from Terceira. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.E., fresh —Arrd. from the River and ski., Princess Victoria, Calcutta ; Bencoolen, Sydney; Delhi, Cape ; Lady Hild a , B ar badoes. Arrd., Mandane, Sunderland, and sld: the Cape. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Wind Arrd. Little Won der, Terceira. Sld., St. Lawrence, Bombay ; Sweet Home, Rio - Grande ; Andes, Bahia ; Springfield and Emerald, Savannah; Champion and Susan Drew, Phila delphia.; Scotland, Charleston; Joseph Yeoward, Malta. PORTSMOUTH, JAN.. 6.' Wind N.N.E.—SId., Pomona, St. Michael's. CLYDE, JAN. s.—Acrd. Rainbow, Scott, Montreal. Sld. ' Satins. Demerar a ; L ou i sa an d M att h ew , King, Tri nidad ; Metaxa, New Yotk ; Minerva, Cape. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 5. The Aurora, Jaraner, from Liverpool, was f a ll en i n w i t h a b out mid-Channel, with a flag of distress, and supplied with provisions by her Ma jesty's steamer Urgent. BRISTOL, JAN. 4.—Sld. Hannah, Africa. OFF . SCILLY, JAN. 3.—John Esdaile, Ochey, Quebec. CARDIFF, JAN. 5, Ski. Charles, Leghorn. THE MARKETS -YESTERDAY. COIN EXCHANGE. The supplies since Monday have been small. "Wheat and Barley very heavy, and hardly supports Monday's prices. Beans and Pease as last reported. Oats met a better demand at Monday's terms. Flour heavy sale. SMITHFIELD. The supply of Beasts and Sheep was large, the de mand heavy, and the annexed prices were with difficulty' obtained. Of Calves and Pigs the supply was mid dling, and the demand good. Beasts, 651 ; Sheep, 3,510 ;' Pigs, 487 ; Calves, 146. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s."811.; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. Gd. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per stone. COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were fair, both for home use and ex port, and prices were firm. TEA MARKET. The demand was limited, and prices looked downward. Company's Congou, ls. 9id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. A good demand for P.Y. Candle, at 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 495. for delivery. COAL MARKET. - Ships arrived since last maricet day, 3fi, Wylarn Walls End Clennell l7 0 Walk End Hilda. ........ Walls:.End Hotspur Walls End Perkins ls 0 Walls End Hatton 2.3 0 s. d Walls End Musgrove........ 21 6 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Bentley's Hartlep? , Walls Et.d Bowburn 2O 0 Cowpen - 17 MORNING SUN This afternoon there was only a limited business done, but former rates were supported : at public sale 532 pps 64 hhds 57 brls South American, 300 skins 31 cks Cape were offered, the former went at 40s to 45s 6d for low to finer, the latter at 43s to 48s per cwt. COI'NTRY MAR- ET'S. Wheat. I Barley. I o , t . f'PoSe --- Per Quarter. Is.to s. a. to a. a. '• • S. a. to s. lath giandford 52 72 31 32 L 3 26 46 dridport 88 • •! 7 hard 51i 72 28 32 22 26 3t 42 Exeter .. n 4 70 27 31 21 • 28 40 Gloucester 56 63 26 38 21 L 8 40 42 dui Id fo rd 58 78 30 59 23 31 i 34 42 kiewbury 45 74 26 33 118 30 40 48 Reading 45 72 25 35 9 31 i 33 44 Salisbury 52 72 27 34 i 0 38 140 50 ShErborne 7l 72 28 35 32 42 4 Snepton Mallet 5.; 72 28 37 27 i4O 48 Uxbridge 37 43 28 Warminster 54 69 28 35 4 29 42 50 Worcester 64 IS 32 3i i f 2S 8 42 teovil 65 70 24 30 3 32 i4O 44 ................. a . toE. 40 Yi •••• 40 - 41 4 .° 37 40 :35 48 6 a -, -.. 4. • ;40 4 .1" ) 36 LEEDS CORN 51 tRKET. Wheat, Norfolk and Stith,lk, 601 b --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b... ....... .....,..... 56:. Barley, Norfolk and S u lthlk ....... Yorkshire and Linc o l ns h ire ---Grinding s • ileans 63lb. Ists, Potatoe 241. —Alealing, I•or. ltd. tol2d• Eng. MO. , o 13d. ;belling .8. to 3 DEVIZES COltN MARKET. Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quai ter. a. d. s- d r ) First Wheat 35 0to:6 0 Oats... ...... ........ 21 0t092 ' Second 10 6 33 6 Be ans ( per sack)... 13 0 :4 t!. - mini 'Paley 25 0 C 6 0 Bread (pet ga ll on ). 1 4 v CH ELTENH A NI MARKETS. l'er Bushel. a. d. to s. d., Pet lb. Wheat 7 r 9 0 13ecf Barley 3 0 3 9 Mutton Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Beaus r ease 5 0 8 0 lamb Hay 41.55. to 4/. 10s. Od. per lon. CANTERBURY MARKET. . Wheat, white,..„.......... 043. to 7.5.....,, 01d............... —l. to 76s -- . red................... 6,5. to Wis. ..—. 01d............. —a. to s Barley, Malting .—... :tea. to 3.:1s ~..... Grnding.. —a. to --s. Oats ......... 2ls. to 21.5..,,..,. 041 __ . —s. so .....s. Beans —.........--....... 30s to 345. 0r... 01d...Awe,. ...9. to I. Pease ......—..—.......... 355, to —a...... Grey.......... Llis. to --s. CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White 57 to 681 Oats io to g Red 53 65 Pease, Gray 31 9 Carle y Chevalier... ..:3 35 Beans, Tick •-i5 o '.. 14 finding - 23 20 Maza ga n 26 0' to '730 1 to 71s. V: to 31s. 4 to 31s. $ to 30s - to ,11 to 43i. .I.' to 251. • . per scoot h. per Isai d. it d. 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 9 7 9 MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of-" A Table of Mortality its the Metropolis, showin g th e N um b er of Deaths from all Cause o Registered in the week ending Jan. 1, 1642." The Tablel. Issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— _ . CAUSES OF DEATH. weekly Total. vomit s 163.1-9x o 204 15 Epidemic, Fridemic, and Contagious Diseases 194 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5B Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels 3O 18 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 65 60 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c • 4 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Co.d Age, or Natural Decay B2 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 41 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 1037 -- Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Average Population Deathe Weekly enu- in Deaths merated the, 1.3?-9-49. lbsl. "%Nevi. , West Districts—Kensington, Saint George ( Hanover-square); West minster, St. Martin in the Fields, St. James North Districts-- St. Mary-le .bone St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 163 365,660 194 Central Districts—St. Giles and St. George, Strand, Holborn, Clerk enwell, St. Luke, East London, West London, City of London ... 190 373,806 207 East Districts—Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. Geor ge in the East, Stepney, Poplar 2ll . 392;49i 226 South Districts—St Saviour, St Olave, Bermond.ey, St. George, Southwark, New ington,Lambeth, Camberwell, Rotherhitke, Green wich ... 223 438,060 245 ._-..... Total 926 1,870,727 1037 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised tbs 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Loy. don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties a Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality - and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras. Kensine,i , Fulham, H ammersm i t h( C hapelry), St. Luke (Ch elsea). 'rag' dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Seoul ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nleholao and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population.** enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, sva.. 1,870,727. The weekly avenge for 1838, 1839, and 1840. was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING 1 Dec. s 25. Jan. 1. 0 4 37 39 6, 18 3 1 0 2. 31 Highest Lowest . Daily Mean ......... General Register 01lice, Jan. A heavy fall of snow took place yesterday to the south of London, and in parts of the Weald of Kent it was lying more thaji a foot deep. A fire, supposed to be caused by, an incen diary, which destroyed the house and premises of --- Jackson, Esq., at Orpington, Kent, occurred yesterday- The premises were insured. An order was made, on the motion of Mr. W. 11. Payn, to allow the attendance of the reporters of the Dover newspapers at the meetings of the Council ; this' is the first step towards open Courts which have evert year been moved for by the Liberals, but invariably posed by the Tories. Some of the Ultras indeed ors this occasion opposed even the admission of the reporters. —Kent (Jerald., Oil Thursday Mr. Baker held no fewer than five inquests on persons who had died suddenly. The verdict in each case was " Natural death." Major Shaw has quitted the police force of this borough, having been appointed to a situation in the • police of the City of London, under Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey.—Birmingham Advertiser. . • Primroses have already made their appearance in the hedge -rows in the grounds of Mr. W. Rookes,.. Heavitreee- road, near this city.—Sherborne Journal. THE JEWS.—Last Friday, at noon, the JOYS, shaved, bathed, and adorned themselves, to prepare for the new . year, which is, in most countries, proclaimed by" them with the sound of trumpet. Their feasts on Sa turday abounded with wine, meat, and sweet fruits of all sorts. It is, we believe, not generally known, that the synagogue in this town is the room over the shop in the occupation of Mr. Ashtbrth, opposite , the Hope and Anchor, Parliament -street. Here a few descendants of Abraham meet regularly every Saturday, for devotional exercise.—Nottingham Review. THE WRAXALL BURGLARY. --The men charged with this robbery were examined at Bath on Sa turday, at the Lion Hotel, before a bench of Wiltshire- Magistrates, T. Clutterbuck Esq., presiding, assisted by W. Toogond Davis, Esq., C. Batsfurd, Esq., &c, The: evidence given by Miss Alethia Awdrey precisely cce- responded in its substance with the statements which have • already appeared in The Sun, and the testimony of the • secondary witnesses was in exact corroboration of tba circumstances detailed by that lady. The prisoners were' ultimately c , nitwit ted fur trial at the next Wilts Assizes. A SIXPENCE.—" Why are you so melan. choly ?" said the Duke of Marlborough to a soldier, after the battle of Blenheim. "I am thinking," replied the man, "h o w muc h bl oo l I h ave shed for sixpence. PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and. SONS. Mantt. facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank England).—The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern Silver Spoons and Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. Tbe following are the weights recommended, but the articles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce : 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 l 2 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 73 4 12 ditto - Table Forks 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 2 ditto G ravy S poons 10 at 7 2 ... 3 11 8 g 1 ditto • Soup Ladle... 10 at 7 2 ... 811 83 4 ditto r Sauce ditto... 10 a t 7 8 ... 3 16 ti;` 4 diKo` Salt Spoons(gilt strong) 1 0 61* I 12 &Ito Fish 51ic e ........, . . 4 2 10, 0 1 L---- - ditto Tea Spo ons ... 10 at 7 8 ... 3 16. • ditto • Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 015 0 N. B. A price current, stamped as a newspaper, illustrated by drawings, and containing every information relative to theipur chase of silver or Sheffield plate; may be had on applicatioia, or will be sent into the country, free of postage, in answer to a paid letter. Oil-at 36s on the spot, and 37i; for delivery ati clit , nper ; -pale at 525, sail brown 51s Fcc cwt f PAlin it 32i r,r the b,!st. (Aire has- further given way ; Gallipoli at 731 , an d S pan i s h 63 1 t0 641 per tun. East. India Cocoa, Nut at 41s 6 , 1 t0.41s 9d for gCiod quality. TALLow.--For Russian buyers have come forward 0 with more freedom, and on the spot a goo d demand has existed at 48 s id to 48s 6d for. Prime Yellovf Candle, at which rates the market is firm ; for delivery in the next two months 49s is asked, and 49s to 49s 3cl for the last three months, but the operations have been upon a small scale only. Town Tallow has been in good demand. • up with the flags ; they came up playing r' God save the Queen," and halted at the corner. After the Bishop had wile round the churdiyaid he went into the church porch to read the service of constcration. The bar d then played the Old Hundredth Psalm. The pe, pie were arraying the banners on the church rails. I saw Hewett plant a banner myself. The Mayor asked me to go with him and apprehend him. We did so, and the people endeavoured to rescue him. I saw the defendant in the station-house afterwards. He considered it a d—d odd thing that he could not hire a band and have it play without our interference, afid that we had no right to stop his Men on the highway. Hewett and the people with him acted together. Their conduct was such as as to alarm persons who might wish to attend the ceremony. Sergeant Copeman — stated—l attended at New Catton Church when the Bishop was consecrating the church yard. After he had been round the churchyard he went to the Church, and Hewett and others said, " Now we'll go and consecrate it." Hewett had a large banner, with the inscription of the Bishops' and others' salaries. Hew ett was then taken into custody. By Hewett—You said " Go it, my boys," when the rush was made to force the gate. The COURT (to Jlewett)—You said you were going to call witnesses ; what are yon going to prove ? Hewett—l want to prove that no alarm was created at Catton. Mr. Kitson, respecting this, deposed that during the reading of the , service the congregation rose up in alarm in consequence of the door being suddenly opened, and the service was fur a few minutes stopped. The proceedings were such as to terrify people. It was quite impossible for females to obtain admission into the church. By Hewett—The band was not playing when the con gregation rose. _ _ - This was the case for the prosecution. Hewett, in defence, said he could not see that there was any charge made out against him, and cited the act relative to riots. The Learned RECORDER statel that any proceedings which had a tendenc . Tto riot were unlawful, and in sum ming up explained the difference between a riot and a rout—that where persons tumultuously assemble together for the purpose of doing an unlawful act, and Such assem bling is accompanied with some circumstances of actual violence, or is calculated to inspire people with terror, and if they proceed to execute any unlawful purpose, then it is a riot ; but if they do not so proceedto execute any unlawful purpose, then it is a rout. The Jury, ,consulted for some time, and returned a ver dict of Not Guilty of a riot, but Guilty of a rout. The Learned RECORDER then, after remarking that the Jury had found Hewett guilty of the minor offence only; and condemning such proceedings as took place at Catton. sentenced him to be imptisoned for two months, and to find two sureties after that time of 501. each, and be him. self bound over in the sum of 1001. for his good beha viour for twelve months. THE NIGER EXPEDITIGN We have this morning been favouiedwitl; the sight of a letter, which gives further accounts of the Niger expedition. Thus, we learn, that " the Albert alone remains in the river ; that she has but twelve white men remaining, besides Captain Trotter the surgeon, Dr. M‘Williain, and three or four other officers." Two of the twelve men spoken of by the writer were taken ill before his letter was closed, and an early departure from the coast was anxiously looked for. Reduced to this state, no hope can remain with the most sanguine and zealous of those who yet live that anything serviceable can be achieved by further per severance in the ill-projected _undertaking ; and. we trust that the sufferings and struggles of - the .men who remain, will not -be prolonged by the false notion that duty requires anything beyond the immediate abandon ment of an exploit which the early efforts of the expe dition, while the individuals who composed it were fresh in health and vigour, were incapable of accom plishing. _ In confirmation of the facts contained in the letter before us, another correspondent writes that " intelli gence has been received that the Niger expedition has become dispirited, and that the whole of the steamers would rendezvous at Ascension on the Ist of January. The Wilberforce, which steamer was intended to remain in the Niger until the next season, had already arrived at Ascension. The expedition was reported to have'left colonies up the Niger.; but what will be their fate with out any establishment to communicate with outside, it is, perhaps, not difficult to foretel." The expedition to the Niger •has 16ng since been regarded in the maritime world as a failure and loss; and the only useful effort that can now be made is to save as much as possible from the wreck which has so unhappily befallen the adventurers.—Shipping Gazette. VENTNOit, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) JAN. 6, 1842.—We-are now in the heighth of our season, and the most of our houses are let, yet we feel the effect of the times ; money is not circulated so freely as usual, and to make things worse some heavy runs have been made on the banks. The long-continued southerly gales drove- some of our company away, but the wind having now set in from the north many will wish themselves back again under our sheltered Much has ()Elate been done to accommodate the visitors, but much remains to be done in this Madeira of Eng land; our flowers are even now in blossom, spite of the northern gales, but we have too few of them to please the eye of the invalid, and too much of stone and sea —scarcely an evergreen shrub can be found. The white the white roads, and the white stone houses, with our mild air, may make the stranger almost con ceive he is in the parched-up regions of still warmer climes ; but he would be better pleased was he also to see the beautiful myrtles, bays, arbutus, laurels, evergrecn oaks, anti other lofty evergreens, in that wild luxuriance in which they at every turn meet the eye in the neigh bourhood of Cowes, where they are exposed to the wild north and east, while here they would be sheltered from it. This, and the removal of some of the hills which lie between this town and Newport and Ryde, and are rather too much in a state of nature, would be a great improvement.. The island has suffered more from fail ures in the past year than in any former one, which, addectto the wet season, has crippled its trade. New port has suffered the most, and Cowes next—the latter place has her shipwrights, rope-makers, and sail-makers unemployed. Signor Arsini, conductor of the" Philharmonic Concerts and the Opera of Rome, Will make his first ap pearance before a British publi c , as conductor of the Promenade Concerts, ,t -the English Opera House, on Monday evening. I ependently of his talent as musi cal director, Sign Arsini is a first-rate composer, and will produce s rtly several of h;s compositions. CHRONO-THERMAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. —The Author .of this system, in his " Fallacies of the Faculty," proves beyond question that all diseases may be cured solely by attention to. temperature. Speaking of the " Fallacies of the Faculty," the Statesman says— " We noticed this excellent work at some length on its first appearance, and the speedy demand for a second edition amply justifies our opinion of it. Dr. Dickson, its author, has introduced a variety of important facts in illustration of his system, which cannot fail to increase the interest it has already excited, as well among the medical world as the public at large. The bek test of the efficacy of the Chrono-thermal System is its unparal leled success." The September nurair‘r of the Revue de Versailles devotes upwards of nine Columns to an analysis of this system, and concluded by stating, " Cette theorie ' du Docteur Dickson simplifierait beaucoup la route qu'il faut suivre pour arrives a l'adoucissernent des maux qui affligent l'espece humaine ; elle arracherait l'etre soul frant aux speculations harsardees et dangereuses ; et elle donnerait enfin a la medecine des regles fixes qui per. mettraient d fa considerer des or ma i s comme une sci ence." F eigners will be gratifi e d t o k now t h at M essrs. Simpkin nd Marshall (the Lond o n p u blish ers o f t h e "Fallacies of the Faculty") will shortly be prepared to advertise a French translation from the pen of M. le Marquis de Chesnel. THE DISTRESSED SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. —On Thursday a deputation of the unemployed Spital fields Silk-weavers, appointed at a meeting held the pre vious night, waited on Mr. Robert Newbury (Treasurer to the Committee by which the funds in the hand of the Lord° Ma y or are to be destrihuted) to request that he would grant the relief, generally on Saturday morning, instead of on the Monday following. The deputation saw Mr. Hanbury, who upon hearing the application, said the request should be complied with, and also stated that he had received a letter that morning from the Lord Mayor, in which his Lordship stated that he would give to him, Mr. Hanbury, the money, as soon as applied for. It was further intimated, that as the district would be divided into 18 sections, that in each section, a house would be selected where those weavers who had not been visited, might send their applications for relief. Yesterday morning, shortly before one o'clock, as a respectably-attired man, apparently about fifty years of age, was coming out of Providence-row, St. George's-in-the-East, which is a nest for pros titutes and other characters of the very worst descrip tion, he was observed by Kench, a police-sergeant on duty near the spot, suddenly to stagger and fall heavily on the pavement. He immediately went to his assist ance, and found him lifeless. The body was subsequently removed to St. George's Church, and in the course of yesterday afternoon he was identified by a female living in Providence-row as a person named Fore, living at a place called Melton, in Shropshire. Mr. Baker, the Coroner, has deemed sufficient suspicion attaching to the case to order a post mortem examination of the body , prior to holding an inquest. At Guildhall, yesterday, Mr. Alderman Cope land expressed a wish it should be known that he had that morning received a note from the Worshipful Com pany of Skinners, enclosing a cheque for Si. for the use of the Poor-box in the office. He felt happy in seeing the example first set by the Goldsmith's Company; so liberally followed by this guild. We understand that Mr. Peel, an uncle of Sir Robert Peel s, died very suddenly at Exmouth, in De vonshire, on Wednesday, having fallen from his chair in a fit of apoplexy while sitting at table with his son. The deceased gentleman was possessed of immense wealth and is said to have died intestate. The divi dends accruing on his funded property for the past half year amount to upwards of 0,0001., which were received yesterday by power of attorney, and it is rumoured that he has left upwards of two millions of money. THE INCENDIARY FIRE AT PANFIELD HALL FARM.—A man named Samuel Richardson, has been apprehended for setting fire to the farm property at Penfield hall, Essex. He was taken on Tuesday last, at his own cottage. Whilst on his way from Panfield to Braintree, he told Howl e tt, one of the constables, that he effected his diabolical purpose with a brimstone match, which he lighted from a tobacco pipe. He was com mitted for trial at the Quarter Sessions, where he yes terday pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 15 years transportation.—Chelmsford Chronicle. ( Front the London New Price Current of January 7.) The Markets have decidedly presented an improved appearance this week ; a good demand has existed for all the principal articles for home consumption; shippers have been more on the alert, and prices have been well supported ; indeed in some cases they have improved. Mercantile affairs are altogether looking healthy. The favourable accounts from the manufacturing districts, and Money being plentiful at 40 to 4id per cent., tended greatly to improve confidence amongst mercantile men. SUGAR-The market for British Plantation Sugar opened quietly on Tuesday : importers were however firm, and refused to sell excepting at prices fully equal to those paid prior to the holidays ; higher rates have been paid for bright yellow sorts, other kinds have fully maintained the previous currency. St. Vincent's good inid strong grey have been disposed of at 66s to 66s 6d ; Grenada rather inferior 64s 6d to 65s ; Demerara low mid yellow 63s 6d, good brown 60s to 61s ; Jamaica" strong low brown of rather a dark description 595 to 60s per cwt. To-day the merchants evinced increased firm ness ; the trade were disposed to operate, and for both brown and yellow sorts the demand was good. The prices paid are 6d percwt. above those current previous to the holidays. The total sales for the week are 1,700 hhds and tierces. The market closed firmly ; the show is small and indifferent. REFINED.-For all descriptions of Refined Goods this week prices have been steady, common brown lumps at 73s to 765, Patent 77s to 78s, Standard Lumps 80s 6d to 81s, Titlers common 79s to 89s, middling to good 81s to 86s, fine 87s to 91s, Hamburgh Loaves 82s to 933, and double 100 s to 120 s per cwt. ; there is a fair supply. Bastards common and middling at 41s to 465, good to fine 47s to 60s. Pieces, fine at 71s to 745, good 67s to 70s, low to middling 60s to 67s per cwt. Treacle has brought full rates. Golden Syrup 32s to 33s 6d, Patent 29s to 31s, and common 28s. to 28s 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 29s to 29s 3d for first sort; some parties will not sell under 29s 6d per cwt. Loaves 10 and 14 lbs at 31s 6d to 32s 6d, and 16Ibs 32s to 345. Treacle fallen to 124. Bastards and Pieces at 14S 6d to 21s. MAURITIUS.-The demand was good, at auction 4,083 bags, 21 casks went b r i s kly at an advance of is to is 6d per cwt. ; it was a good grOcery parcel ; fine yellow fetched 69s to 71s; good 65s 6d to 98s • middling 60s 6d to 64s 6d ; low 54s to 58 s , l ow to middling brown 42s to 455, good 52s per cwt. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon the public sale consisted of 1,692 bags Bengal, 110 baskets Java, and 1,282 bags Manilla. Bengal sold at the full value, ord to good brown 42s to 47s 6d ; very inferior 39s 6d per cwt. Manilla taken in above the value, low mid yellow at 18s, damaged and washed however sold at 15s 6d to 17a. Sound Java taken in at 17s 6d to 19s for mid yellow, being above the value ; good damaged brown went at 15s 6d to 16s 6d, low 14s 6d. FOREIGN.-There has been increased demand for yel low Havannah, and the large quantity of 1,000 boxes has been disposed of for exportation at an average of 20s for fair quality ; fine quality at 21s 6d per cwt. ; white good strong quality at 30s per cwt. Brown and low middling yellow sorts of Brazil at lis to 17s 6d per cwt ; white at 19s to 24s for low to good quality. MOLASSES.-For West India full prices have been paid, and a fair demand has existed; sales of fine An tigua have been made at 30s per cwt. Bengal Syrup sells steadily at 24s to 255. But Foreign Molasses ai'e dull of sale.at 78 to 7s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.-The market for British Plantation Coffee has presented a• more lively appearance this week ; good demand h as ex i ste d .for all clean descriptions from both town and country trade, and the prices paid arc 2s to 3s per cwt. above those of this day week. This afternoon a good demand existed for Coffee- for home consumption. The public sales consisted of 198 bags Ceylon, 70 bales Mocha, 1,100 bags 50 csks Dutch Company's Java, and 152 casks 108 bags.Biitish Planta• tion ; Ceylon sold at stiffer rates, ord pale at 66s 6d, good ord 69s to 69s 6d. Mocha fetched full value, fine 131 s, good ord brown 87s to. 90s, paddy 53s 6d. Java taken in above the value, viz., at 60s for good yellow. West India went at stiff rates, Berbice good middling at 108 s to 112 s, middling 92s to 102 s, low middling 87 s to 91s, fine ordinary 71s 6d to 795, Demerara fine ordinary 71s 6d per cwt. CocoA.-Prices are looking down for West India- Trinidad low to good red 36s to 445, grey 36s to 40s ; St. Lucia and Grenada 33s to 383 per cwt. Foreign dull of sale, and prices with difficulty maintained. This afternoon at auction, 360 bags Para fair red were taken in at 365. TEA.-There was a brisk demand for all descriptions of Free Trade Tea in the early part of the week, and prices advanced id per lb ; Common Congou in large parcels were disposed of at is 9d to Is 10d, and ord Twankay at is 9kd. In Company's Congou many sales were made at is 10d to Is 101-cl cash, at which rates the market was firm ; at public sale 2,600 pkgs Congou were offered, 1,300 sold readily at the fol lowing rates : but mid rather coarse Is 94d to Is 10d, but mid rather coarse burnt little strong Is 10d to is 101-d, but mid rather strong rather blackish leaf Ankoi Sou flavour is 10,1 d to is I 1 d per lb. Yesterday, however, there was a considerable falling off in the demand for Tea : the accounts received from China, stating that trade was going on briskly at Can ton, and -that many chops of new Tea had arrived, together with the advantages gained by the British forces, caused the trade to operate with much caution. Holders were more disposed to realize, and prices de clined id to „id per lb ; sales of Company's Congou were made at is 90 to Is 9id cash. To-day the market was in a dull state for all sorts of Tea ; is 9d is the value of common Free Trade Congou cash, and Is 91(1 Company's. For public sale 20,000 packages are declared. SPies's.-Tleis afternoon the public sales consisted of 15 bags Pimeato, 678 bags Pepper, 11 casks Cloves; Pimento' sold at 3d, Pepper went at 24d to 2P for good Potatern, being barely the former value. Cloves sold ather lower ; fair bright Bencoolen at is 3d to Is and ord Amboyna at is Id per lb. RICE.-In Bengal Rice prices have further given way. Sales privately of fine white have been made at 12s, good lis to lls 6d,.. middling lOs 6d, and low 9s 6d to lOs per cwt. Middling white sold at 103 6d, being rather lower. Carolina for home consumption 30s to 36s per cwt. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-We have at length to report a more lively market for West India Rum, A good demand has sprung up for Leewards, and 300 puns have been disposed of at -id advance ; proof selling at Is 10d to is 10J; for. common brown ditto ls lld to 2s ; and 10 per cent over 2s 3d. Jamaica has at tracted more attention, and some small parcels have be, n sold at full rates, viz., 5s to 5s 9d for 30 to 36 cent over proof of good and fine quality. Calcutta has been i n improved request, and price's have risen id per gallon ; the sales have been 200 puns at is 3id proof ; there are large buyers, at Is 3d. Brandy has been in good re quest and prices are firm. Cognac, first brands of the vintage of 1835, lihds 6s, punss!ssldo.dp;udnos 5158337dh;1idd50515873,14 puns 5s ;do 1838 hhd s hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; do 1840 hhds 43 3d, puns 4s ld per gallon. Geneva is difficult of sale at 2s Id to 28 2d for common, and 2s 6d to 2s 9d for fine. British Corn Spirits have moved off slowly, and prices are Id lower, les Id having been accepted for cash. The stock of East India Rum is 1,617 puns, 5,511 hhds; at the close of December 1840, it was 468 puns, 802 hhds. The stock of West India is 2,808 puns, 697 hhds less than in Dec. 1840. OILS.- There has been more activity in the market for common Fish Oils this week. Pale Seal at 42l las, yel low 34/ to 391, brown 331 to 331 15s, Cod 30110 s; South ern, common 321 to 331 mid to fine 33l lOs to 361; Seal Oil taken in, but sold at 421 lOs for pale ; Cod Oil 301 15s; Sperm fine British at 90 Ito 90110 s per tun. Linseed BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., in Grosrener-street, the Lady Mary Far - quhar, of a sett. On the 6th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, the lady of John Murray, Esq., younger, of Philiphaugh, of a son and heir. On the 4th inst., at Chester-place, Regent's-park, the lady of Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th mist., at Crabbett, Sussex, the lady of Fran tie Scawen Hunt, Esq., of a daughter. MA RRII?D., On the 4th inst., at Epsom, by the Rev. B. B. Boe:Sett, C. Button, 'Esq., of Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-squa r e, to Jessie, youngest daughter of the late J. T. Baker, R.N., of Ipswich. 'On the 6th inst., at All Souls Church, Langhs m _plaee, Mr. 'Thomas Harrison, of Tugby, Leicestershire., to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. S. Ray, of Great Castle-street, Re gent-street. DIED. On the 4th ult., at Figueira, in Portugal, Mary, wife of S. Tozer, Esq„ aged 71 On the 30th ult., at Edinburgh, Henry Serymgeour Wed. derburn Esq., of W e dd er b urn. On the 22d nit., at the Elms, llingoood, Hants, Willis." Clark, Esq., aged 79. London : Printed and Published, by itteßDO YOUNG, of No. 112. 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