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'off Q e• nS -Arr4 - 1 bl ult.; Sir kl e see • Jo 0 ' ia bh r Los:wale %eii i )Bpect, Ne s nelO" ingapore; Ralachicoll i joe inerio ; try uron, rsarle from Sist f er* rington, no3o' BushbYv i n # l o s, Ry l ; terdatn- fj*P" E.—Arrn• .00°' richolas boco i w , Pern,,olniise P li t oeft6 it, for A ° o ff amen,Sr, sot sud 15AP;;t phi, hi d ' e y strol 3 g• p a DP o 'i burgeo 4 ,0 orauFn' r i atl et. :eord Acw" TALLOW. Since our last report, the demand for all kinds of Tallow has been in a very inactive state, and prices have had a downward tendency. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot, is selling at 38s 6d per cwt. For forward deli very, exceedingly little is doing. Town Tallow, 39.1 6d per cwt. net cash; rough fat, 2s 3d per Sibs. Letters from St. Petershurgh represent the trade heavy. 1845. 1846. 1847 1848. Stock this day • • ...1 Price of Y. C. •... 34,947 45,566 42s 9d to 38s 6d Os Od to Os Od 1,860 2,337 58,515 h5,03S 631 2,048 85,929 78,071 Delivery last week; .. Ditto from June 1 •.. • :fir , ivals last week • Ditto from June 1 ... Price of Town • • • • .. 453 Od 1 423 Od LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDICIAL COMiIITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.) GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. A statement in the Western Times of Friday to the effect that the Committee of the Privy Council, so far as respected this case, stood adjourned to this day, induced us to think that judgment would have been given this morning; but from the inquiry of one of our reporters at the office of the Privy Council this morning, we find the statement referred to above is incorrect, for the Council did not sit at all to day. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chimf Justice Wilde and a common jury were occupied this morning in trying the case of Steer and others v. Goodall, which involved a matter of account transacted on the Stock Exchange, only of interest to the parties immediately concerned. This is the last day of the sittings after term. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittingz at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) UPSHER V. TRUNDLE. The plaintiff in this case was a draper, carrying on business at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, and he sought to recover from the defendant, who is a miller at Spalding in Norfolk, the amount of a bill of exchange for 259/. _ _ Mr. Watson and Mr. Duncan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Willa for the defendant. The particulars of the case were simply these :—A person named Charter, a draper, at Grimstone, in Norfolk, obtained a quantity of goods from the plaintiff, for which, owing to embarrasse3 circum stances, he was unable to pay ; the plaintiff brought an action for the amount, when Charter got his father in-law, the present defendant, to give a bill of exchange to the plaintiff for payment of the debt and costs. Subsequently Charter became a bankrupt, and the defendant refused to meet the bill of exchange, and the consequence was the commencement of the present suit. The defence was, that the bill of exchange had been satisfied by an agreement entered into between the parties, and several witnesses were called to prove thlt this was the case, and the question simply re solved itsc'f into the amount of credibility which could be attached to the witnesses on either side. The jury interrupted his Lordship almost as soon as he had commenced summing up, to state that they had already made up their minds that the verdict should be for the plaintiff.—Verdict accordingly for the plaintiff, fur the full amount. MARLBRCY-STREET-(THIS DAY.) EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Thomas Eagles, a welt-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Hart wick, charged with embezzling upwards of 581. belonging to his employer, Mr. John Rogers, tobacconist, 392, Ox ford-street. The prosecutor stated that the risoaer was employed by him as clerk aid collector. It was also his duty to take orders and collect in all moneys due to the estab lishment; and the utmost confidence was reposed in him up to the 6th instant, when he absented himself from his employment. Not making his appearance the following day, witness suspected all was not as it should be, and, upo❑ subsequent inquiry, ho discovered defalcations in the prisoner's accounts to the amount of 581. Witness saw nothing more of the prisoner until the 10th inst., when he met him in King's-read, Chelsea, and imme diately taxed him with robbing him. The prisoner expressed his sorrow that things had taken such a turn, and begged to have a private interview with prosecutor, when, no doubt, all would be made right. Witness accordingly made an appointment with the prisoner to meet him between eight and nine the next night at his (witness's) house. The prisoner came at that time, and, in the course of conversation, he asked witness to convert the money in question into a debt, and pressed him much to do so, promising to pay him 11. per week, till the whole amount was paid. Wit ness declined to accede to these terms, but told the prisoner if he could find good and substantial security for the payment, he (witness) would consider about employing him again. The prisoner then left the house, and, in consequence of further defalcations having been discovered, prosecutor gave information to the police, who succeeded in apprehending the prisoner at his lodg ings on Saul day night. The prosecutor could, if the prisoner WAS remanded, bring several other charges against him. Mr. Ilaapwrcx remanded the prisoner until Thurs day re xt. BENEVOLENCE. — The Magistrate requested our re porter to acknowledge the receipt of 11. 145., being the proceeds of a sixpenny subscription for the relief of the casual poor, collected by Master Charles Cook, of No. 8, Clifford-street, Bond-street ; from the • Goldsmiths' Company, 201. (annual) ; and from E. C., the whole of a Bank note for 51., to be applied to the same benevolent purpose. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received Cape of . Good Hope papers to the 3d of November inclusive, but the intelligence they contain differs very little from that supplied by many of the late arrivals from that colony. The people at large maintained most firmly the " pledge; but the Government had always obtained what they required for convicts, troops, and every one else who needed assistance. The Admiralty House is converted into a cattle kraal, and the Court House into a slaughter house. The Government makes its own bread and biscuit, kills its own cattle, and procures its own vegetables, without the aid of contractors. Some fifteen or twenty individuals have incurred grave censure by supplying Government, either directly or indirectly, with different kinds of food. Among the number are the names of Messrs. J. B. Ebden and Co., Hendrick Morkel, sen„ Henry Boast:, and Samuel Drake. The strictures upon the conduct of Mr. Ebden have been exceedingly severe, for, Mr. E. occupied the chair of the Anti- Convict Association for a considerable time. He was one of the first who advocated and insisted upon ap plying the " pledge" to the naval department at Si mon's Bay, and so impressed was he with the neces sity of resistance, that he even promised to die in the cause of the people. This gentleman is now charged with selling some 2,000 muids of wheat to the Go vernment. Ebden has written the following letter in justification of himself:— "Cape Town, Oct. 31, 1849. " Sir—ln reply to your letter of yesterday, received at a late hour last evening, stating that you had been directed by the Anti-Convict Association to ascertain from me the correctness, or otherwise, of a report that I, or my firm, have either directly or indirectly been supplying government department , , I hasten to say, without recognising for a moment the right of the association to c4techise me, or in any way to inter fere with any transaction of mine, in the ordinary course of business, that neither I nor my firm, have een supplying g )verrment departments;' but while I make this statement without any mental reserva tion, I have no wish to disguise or to conceal from the public the fact of my having sold a quantity of wheat to Mr. Edmund Leahy, for cash, which wheat, as I have been informed by Mr. Leahy, has sinee been resold by him to the Government at a considerable profit. " From the 18th of June last, the day on which, as one of a deputation from the Anti Convict Asso ciation, I presented an address to his Excellency ,the Governor, up to the present hour, I have had no communication, either directly or indirectly, with the Government, or any department of the Government, regarding supplies or any other transactions of business i and it is matter of notoriety that, since the S U N, and a hoard marlt-d John He d" in yellow haters, have wa.h'd n r •tt DOVER, DEC. 23 —Tne Mlrwtrettd. Kioge Jersey, sunk 21.4 t in.tant R.lnnt , y Hy; crew saved. GREENOCK, l.)cc. 23.—The R gam', Liveipo 1 to Glasgow, which ran on shore 5 . 5. h instant, has bot.n g.,t off an taken Ardroisan, with consider Ible PLYMOUTH, DEc. 23.—1 t hai blown a stro, g o,lc all night from the eastward, and continues_—Arr 7 l. her Majesty's ship Britomart, Sierra Lecne; John Wickliffe, Daly, China. Off Port, Apex, Pixley, Bombay. The Dahlia, from London for Valcntia, has put in here with damage to hull and spars from contact wit 1 a schooner off Dungeness on the 19th josh BRISTOL.—SId. Emerald, Barbadoes. CORK, DEC. 22.—The Osmahie steamer, of and for Liverpool, from Palermo and Gibraltar, has p it in with damage from contact, last night, with the schooner Cape Packet from Antwerp. The latter was struck amid ships. The mate and tour m+ n got on board the former, leaving behind only the master and a boy. Her Majesty':: reamer Trident has been dispatched is search of the latter vessel. Haawlett, DEC 22.—1 t I.as blown hard all night from the eastward. A schooner is reported to be on shore on the Gunfleet Sand. LOND NDF.RRY, DEC. 21.—The Science, Constanti nople to Westport, has a.rrived here with pumps choked and cargo heated; will di.eharge. DovEn, Dec. 23.—Wir.d E.N.E„ strong.—Acrd. Catherine., Nelson, Richibucto ; Thomas Edwards, Clarke, Rio de la Ila?. 1 )e. OFF DUNGENESS.—RO/MpOt, Do Boer, Batavia, for M.d•telburg. CLYDE, DEC. 20.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Parkfield, Smith, Callao; Elias' eth Ma' garot, Duthie, Newfound land. Sid. Mury Ann, and Pursuit, Trinidad; AA:Omits, Barbadoes. KINGSTOWN, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Brothers, Pernambuco. QtraErrsTowN.—Arrd. Huskisson, De Witt, Bonny. ABERDEEN, DEC. 22.—The Clio of and from this port for Cromari-y, was wrecked near Rosehearty, 19th inst ; crew not heard of. WHITSTABLE, DEC. 23.—Several pieers of wreck and a counter board, marked et Perseverance," in gilt letters, a quarter board, painted green, with yellow moulding, her., been picked up at Seasalter. REDCAR, DEC. 22.—Part of a stern of a vessel has come on shore this mornin g ; with the name of "Ranger" cut out in gilt letters on ablue ground. MILL, DEC. 23.—The wreck of a large brig, about 300 tons, mast-heads above water, was passed the 20th, at Middle Biuks, bearing N.N.E. i mile. MARKET N E THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The country markets held on Saturday were very steady for Wheat, at, in some instances, an advance in the quotations of Is per quarter. Grinding Barley, the beat Oats, and Indian Corn, moved off somewhat freely at full prices. In all other articles very little business was transacted. Our advices from the large shipping ports are to the effect that very few transactions have lately taken place in any article on English account. Very moderate supplies of English Grain were received up to our market last week. From Scotland, upwards of 8,000 quarters of Oats reached us. The imports from abroad were liberal, viz., 12,338 quarters of Wheat; 22,109 ditto of Barley; 16,846 ditto of Oats; 220 ditto of Beans; 3,231 ditto of Peas; 100 ditto of Tares; 2,058 ditto of Linseed; 10 ditto of Mustard Seed; 58 ditto of Sundry Seeds ; and 3,353 sacks of Flour. The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to this morning's market coastwise, from Essex and Kent, was moderate, and of somewhat improved quality. From Lincolnshire, Cambridge, &c., the receipts were small. By land carriage and sample the supply was slightly on the increase. The show of all kinds of Wheat of home produce was limited, owing to which the demand for all descriptions, especially the finest white, ruled firm, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday last, and at which a clearance was readily effected. Several offers came to hand from Lincolnshire and other quarters, to ship Wheats at present rates. With foreign Wheat we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily supplied, and we may remark that the number of really prime parcels was small. Fine dry Wheats moved off steadily at fully last week's currencies. In the middling and inferior kinds only a moderate business was transacted at late rates. In floating cargoes next to nothing was doing; the im porters are mostly landing in warehouse. Very little English Barley was on the market, but the supply of foreign was tolerably good. Malting parcels were a fair Inquiry, at full prices. Ia grinding and distilling sorts comparatively little was doing, but we have no decline to notice in ♦alue. Notwithstanding that the supply of Malt was small, that article moved off heavily, at unal tered quotations. The aggregate supply of Oats was tolerably good. Fine dry Corn sold without diffi culty, .at full pricer, but damp and otherwise out of condition qualities met a slow sale. The quan tity of foreign Oats at this time in warehouse is small. In Beans, the supply of which was very moderate, next to nothing was doing, at a decline in ♦alue of is per quarter. The sale for Peas was dull in the extreme, and prices of most kinds gave way is per quarter. Indian Cor❑ and Meal were held at full prices; but the inquiry was limited. The Flour trade, owing to the pressure of foreign qualities for sale, ruled dull, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Whgat—Essex & Kent, 31alt—Chevalier .• • • 568 to 58s Red, New . • .. 37s to 44s Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 40e 485 Lincohish., Feed 143 168 Norfolk and Lin- Potato l7B 228 coin, lied. • • 383 405 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White• ••• • • is 44s Black .• • • 138 15. Irish, 1ced........ 385 4^ll Cork, White l4s 16' Ditto,White— •• .. 403 43s Scotch, Feed. • • lBs 21' Rye—Old • • 24s 255 Beans—Tick 2ss 31: New. ••• • • • ...... 245 255 Pigeons .•• . • • Barley—Grinding .•• .. 20s 235 Peas—Grey .. •• • 255 27: Malting .•• • • 24s 26s Maple... ••• . • . 26a 28: Chevalier •••• • •• 26s 303 White. •••• • • - 265 29: Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •••• . •• folk •• • • ...... 13.5 56s Flour—Town-made.-3 5 s 40 8 Brown .•• • • • • 44s 47s Suffolk Kingston and Ware 55s 565 , Stocktn & Norfolk 30: 33: SEED MARKET. Clover, Linseed, and f-1,-iupseed are in steady request, at fully last week's quotation. All other Seeds move off slowly, and late rates are with difficulty supported. Both Linseed and Rape-cakes are lower to purchase. Turnip,White, per bush. lOs to l is Carra r. ay •• •• •• • 293 345 Red wad Green— • • lOs lis Corander • • ...• •• IGs 22s Mustard, Brown.. •• . 95 12s liempseed, per quarter 323 358 White ••• • • 7s 95 Linseed, Eng. ;owing • • 54s 568 Tares, New Winter 5s Od Os 6d Crushing 408 43s Old• ••• • • .... 4s 4s 6d Baltic •• • • ...... 38i 443 Canary, per quarter • . 78s 88s Odessa •• • • . • 425 43s Rye gra55........... ••• • • ... 20s 245 Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo— Red En_ . (cwt.) 35s LO.: English .... .91 Os 91108 White •• • • .• • 35s 50s Foreign, per ton 610 s '7l 15s Foreign Rad.. •• .. 32s 42s Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 5s 41 4s White.... 30s 44s Rapeseed, New, prist 28/ lOs 3210 s Trefoil .. ••• • • ... • • 14s 18s SMXTEUIPIELD. Owing to the partial closing of ihe navigation abroad, the, importations of foreign stock into London, last week, were comparatively small. Tho total arrival was con fined to 2,388 head. At the corresponding period in 1848 we received 3,656, and at the same time in 1647, 2,834 head. The quality of the stock at band, since our last report, has been good. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam ... 314 ... 858 .. 149 ... Harlingen.... 47 ... 97 •.. 8 Nieu Diep 58 ... 405 Amsterdam... Antwerp ..... - - - _ - .• ••• 111 ... 14 - ••• .•• 23 •••. Total 419 1,6€0 ... 295 .. 14 Corresponding week in 1848 628 ... 2,681 ... ... 14 t ... Same week in 1847 1847 4 20 .. 2,400 .. ... 64 ... Very few arrivals have taken place at the outports. By sea, Irons Ireland, 117 Oxen have come to hand for this market. Much attention has been directed of late to the high prices charged by the butchers of the metro polis for the supplies of meat disposed of to their cus tomers. That prices in this market have fallen fully 25 per cent. during the present year is a well-known tact, and yet we perceive that the consumer, up to the present time, has derived little or to advantage from this fall. According to the present rat ge of value in this market, the best joints of Beef and Mutton could be sold at 74d. per lb., if for ready money, and then a large margin of profit would be left the hutch , rs. A contemporary, in reporting the trade here on Monday last, observed that the best Beef was selling at 4d. per lb. Such was not the case, as the primest Scots produced 4s 6d per 81bs, or nearly 7d per lb. If the ready money system was generally adopted we should speedily find a considerable decline in the quotations of meat—we mean those charged by the butchers—all over the country. Long credits are sure to entail heavy losses upon the purchasers. This being almost a holiday market, the supply of beasts—which was chiefly composed of the refuse of that exhibited on Friday—on offer to-day was limited, . but of full average quality. All kinds ruled heavy, and were lower to purchase, the best Scots realising only 44 per Bibs, and a clearance was not effected. The numbers of Sheep were very small. Nevertheless, so little business was transacted in that description of stock that prices were nominal. Calves were in short supply and heavy demand, at barely stationary prices. Scarcely a transaction took place in Pigs, the number of which .was trifltag. Per albs. to sink the offal. ds. d. to s. d. .to s. d, Interior 80a5t5..... 3 0 3 4 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 I Second quality •.. 3 4 3 6 Coarse-weolledditto3 10 4 6 'Prima large Oxen:. 3 S -3 10 Soutbdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots •• • 3IS 4 0 I)itto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 ;..arge coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Lar g e Hogs •• •• 3 1 - rime until ditto .. 3 $ 310 'mall Porkers •• 3le 4 2 -uckling Calves . quartar old Pigs •• Inferior Sheep • • 3 0 3 2 Lambs •• •• • .... o II 6 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET Roasts 9(Sheep. Calves. 1,541 75 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. 450 62 SCOTCH. I Sheep. 70 ~acts. 250 Beasts. 40 I Cakes. rigs. i 140 rigs. I rigs NE UTGATE AND LEADENRALL. Tt e supplies of Meat on sale in these markets since Monday last, for Christmas consumption, have been unusually large, even for the time of year, and of excel lent qus.l.ty. Their extent will be better understood when we observe that nearly 20,000 carcases of Beef, Mutton, and Pork, have arriv , d hither from various distant parts of Eogland, including Scotland. The sea sonable cling& in the weather has been productive •of a very steady demand, and good clearances have been eff••cted at improv , d quotations. The show of foreign blest has fallen off. per stOwe by the Carcase. 3 (1. v 1. R. d. os. d. iiierior•• •• .. 2 8 210 Mutton, inferior •• 2 8 210 -- middling •• •• 3 0 3 4 middling.. 3 0 3 4 primeiarge •• 3 6 3 A prime .... 3 6 310 prime small .. 310 4 0 rork, large •• • . .... 2 8 3 4 a o 310 +mall 2 6 4 2 11303MOUGJI SPITALFIELDS. Coahtwi3e, about 3,500 tons of potatoes have reached the water-side during the past week. The receipts, by railway, htiTe exceeded 1,000 Lena, mostly in excellent T H E c Thz! ill-Torts from 0)r.. , t0l hay, ain,,o, led t) I 67 tons from o,tend. 320 ditto f.om TOt;ertir,m, 462 ditto from Rouen, 422 ditto frt.m Antwrrp, 75 & : + o _. I from litivry, 74 ditto ir - an Dunkirk and 34 di to from Ghent—forming a total :up ply of 1,454 top.s. Notwiths tanding the seaionaWe cfnuige in the weather the tie- maid, owing to the large bupplks offering, has - been very inactive. and, in so.ne itivtacces, hage had a down ward tendency. Per Ton. York. Regents 90s to 1103 Ditto Shaws —s to s Scotch Reds 65s to 75s Ditto min. Cups 4 s to 603 Ditto Buffs ... 50s to sr.s Blues ...—.. sss to 60s Pink Eyes ...... 55s to 60s Lincoln. Regents. 80s to 955 Wisbeach ditto 60s to 75s itto Kidneys .. eos to 75s Newcastle Regts. 60s to 75s Per Ton. Common Whites 45s to 50s Kent Kidneys 7os to 85s Essex Regents —s to —s 1 itto Shags —s to Ditto Kidneys —s to s French Whites COI to 75 8 Ditto Reds ... 6ss to 70 8 Belgian ditto 4os to V 8 D Ito Reds s to s Dutch ditto German ditto BOZtOUGU BOP MXLIUCET. Rally 6e bops—the supply of which is small—are in steady rt quest, at fully la►t week's quotations. In all other kinds niy a limited business is . doing, at late rives. New Mid and Esst Kent pockets, 61 lOs to 12/ ; New Weuld of Kent ditto, 61 5i to 81 0,; Now Sussex ditto, 51 15s to 61 15s ; New Furnhams, :2/ to 131; Yearling bents, 31 to 41 12—, Yearling Sussex, 21 8. to 31 17s; Old Hops, 11 to 41 pr cwt. Only three bales of Wool, if we except a few parcels from Ireland, were imported into London last week. Since the conclusion of the public sales, a very limited amount of business has been transacted in the private contract markets, arising, in a great measure from the holders having raised their pretensions to some exteut. The quantity of Colonial Wool at this time in London is unusually small. 24,260 10,100 51s Oct 40s Od to Os Od to 46s 3d 1,855 2,054 53,439 56,336 622 796 67,976 58,337 53s Od 495 6d LONDON, 28th of Sl:ternber last, I have openly, in common with s-,ver4l of the principr.l merchants of this place, condenlntoi and rep rebated, in the n:ost unqualified manner, the resolutions of the associ•ttion proscribing all intercourse with the Government, in and• shape or on any terms,' as certain, in my humble opinion, to injure the cause we have at heart; and further, in the present position of the question, I have no hesi tation in declaring, that I would as readily have sold the wheat to Government as to any private individual, had any application been made to me by them. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " J. B. EBDEN. • " ➢lr. John Saunders, Secretary to the Anti-Convict Association. " P.S. I observe by the Advertiser of this morning that, without waiting for the information desired, touching the truth er falsehood of the report alluded to in your letter, the association have announced the firm of J. B. Ebden and Co. as under the pledge; and I have only to remark that I shall be prepared to app!al to the laws of my country for the redress of any loss or injury I may thereby sustain." A serious attack was made upon Mr. Hendrick Mocked, Justice of the Peace for Somerset Went, he having supplied Capt. Stanford with sheep, knowing that they were intended for the Government. Mr. Morkel and his two sons arrived at Stellenbosch on the '2sth of October, when the whole village rose in commotion. These gentlemen were pelted with rotten eggs and mud, and soon became soiled from head to foot. One of the sons was severely in jured, and the magistrate himself was struck on the ear. His Excellency Sir Harry Smith, vice regret to hear, is seriously indisposed, owing, it is believed, to the intense excitement under which he has laboured for some time past, caused by the discontented and inflammatory state of the colony. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MALLS. SOUTHA MPTON, MONDAY MORNING, FOUR O'CLOCK, A.M.—The royal mail steamer Dee ' Captain W. Allan, arrived off this port at two o'clock, bringing the usual West India and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieute nant South, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates from Mobile are to the 22d of Novem ber; Tampic ), 13th; Vera Cruz, 13th; Havannab, 27th; Jamaica, 21st; Demerara, 18th; Barb3does, 27th ; Trinidad, 20th ; St. Thomas, 30th ; and Ber muda, Dec. 6. The day after the 'Dee left Bermuda a gale at north- west commenced blowing, and she has experi enced extremely heavy weather the whole voyage. She brings the following very valuable freight— viz., on merchants' account from the Gulf of Mexico, &e., 1,841,933 dolls., and 69,998 dolls. for account of the Mexican dividends—total, 1,906,931 dolls., or say about 382,0001. sterling; also 65 cases cigars, 91 bales tobacco, 18 live turtle, 339 serons cochineal, 33 serons jalap, 6 bales sponge, 10 cases succades, and 47 pack ages sundries. There are only 22 passengers. Our advices from Jamaica by this steamer extend to the 22d of November, being twelve d-ays later than received via Liverpool. The Legislature of the island continued in session, and its proceedings were of the same unsatisfactory character as at the date of the previous accounts. The House of Assembly had passed a string of resolutions declaratory of the right of the House to direct, limit, and appropriate the public money, and defending the course lately pursued by the country party. These resolutions, upon being reported to the Council had drawn forth from that body a series of counter resolutions. The excitement upon the subject of retrenchment had in no way abated. The Council had unanimously rejected a Bill contemplating a decrease in the salaries of the public officers, which had passed the Assembly. It was stated that the Government party was anxious to provoke another dissolution of the House of Assembly. Mr. Bristowe, a member of the Government party, had given notice of his intention to bring forward a motion for the imposition of an income-tax in order to equalise the revenue with the expenditure of the island. This proposition would doubtless be rejected. The Hon. Mr. Stanley had arrived in Jamaica on his tour of inspection. There had been some disturbances in the parish of Manchester, and the Governor had sent a detachment of military to the district. Happily nothing serious occurred, except a slight outbreak on the part of the black population, instigated by a famous " Obeah man." The island was healthy. The estates on the south side and a few on the north side had commenced sugar making. The weather had become very fine and particularly pleasant. Subjoined are the details of the most important quotations in the Jamaica markets, extracted from De Cordova's Mercantile intelligencer :- Flour-The fullowing have been the transactions since our last, reported in the order in which they occurred :-200 barrels of Baltimore, in small lots, at 328.; 200 barrels of New Orleans, at 305., and 100 barrels at 328. ; 250 barrels of Baltimore, at 328. ; 800 barrels of Philadelphia, and 100 barrels of Baltimore, at 325. ; 250 barrels of Baltimore, in lots, at 325. Gd. ; and 200 barrels of Baltimore, in lots, at 345. The remaining parcels of Baltimore and Philadelphia are now held for 345. Hams-Lancashire rule at Bd. to 9id. ; American, sd. to lid. Herrings-In consideration of the moderate stock, 20i. has been obtained in parcels. Lard-The stock is ample. Prices range at from sd. to 6d. for prime qualities ; 100 kegs have been taken at sd. per lb. Lumber-The demand is so inactive for white pine that, notwithstanding that the stock is moderate, only 80s. can be obtained for it. White cedar shingles come under the same observations; they are not worth more than 15s. to 16s. for the best, and 104 to 12s. for the commonest descriptions. Mackerel-The arrivals having been moderate, 245. has been obtained for small parcels. Meal has advanced since our last report, but the operations have been confined to small sales, at 18s. and 19s. Holders are now asking 19s to 203. Oil-Cod is scarce, and would be taken at 2s. 6d. per gallon. Pimento-Buyers are endeavouring to effect a decline to 3d. per lb. ; 3d. cannot now be obtained. Pork-Mess is looking up ; 68s. has been refused for 500 barrels. There is not anything to report of other descriptions. Potatoes-The market is glutted, and almost any figure would he accepted. Rice-East India is inactive, and remains at our last rates, viz.-131. to 13s. 6d. per 1001bs. for ordi• nary Bengal, and 14s. for the best sorts, and 11 s. Gd. to 128. Gd. for Madras. We have not anything to report of Carolina, which is scarce. Rum is sold at 2s 9d for proof 21, but the demand is very limited on account of the uncertainty which exists regarding the Rum Duty Bill. Soap-We have no transactions to report. The article is very inactive, and the stock is exceedingly heavy. Sugar-Prices range at from 15s. to 16s. for dark, 17s. to 18s. 6d. for middling, and 19s. to 21s. for fair samples. Tobacco-Sales of a few bales leaf have been made at 625. Manufactured has been moved at Bd. Tongues-American pigs' tongues are unsaleable. Irish are scarce. Ox tongues are much wanted. Exchanges on London-Jamaica Bank, 90 days, per cent. premium ; 60 days, one per cent. pre mium. Colonial Bank, 90 days, I per cent. pre mium. Our accounts from Havannah, of the 27th ult., mention that the planters had gradually reduced their pretensions for sugar, and lower rates were accepted, at which considerable purchases took place. The prospects of the growing crops were favourable. A considerable demand for coffee had shown itself, and an advance in price had been the result. Freights to Europe, 21. to 21. 2s. 6d., and to Fal mouth and Cowes, and a market, 21. 10s. ; Exchange on London, 11 to 11i per cent. premium; Paris, par; New York and Boston, to premium. In Trinidad the weather bad been variable. Little, if any, sugar had been made, but the cane fields promised a large yield. Commercial matters were dull. Exchange on London, 00 days, 485 ; 60 days, 487 ; 30 days, 489. In St. Lucia the weather was very fine, and a few estates had commenced operations. The small pox was thinning the ranks of the labourers fearfully, otherwise the island was healthy. We learn from Antigua that the weather in that island had become extremely dry. The yellow fever was raging amongst the soldiers at Shirley Heights. About 24 deaths had occurred. Deputy- Commissary General Price died on the 29th of November, of yellow fever, on board the royal mail steamer Conway, off Guadeloupe. All the Windward Islands were healthy, and crops looking well. From Martinique we are informed that Governor Brunt, who is more than suspected of being 'a Schoel cherist, was far from popular amongst the Creole citizens of the French Antilles. At Barbadoss there had been some rain, and the crops were very promising. A quarantine was im posed upon all vessels coming from islands where the smallpox prevailed. In Bermuda the elections had passed off without disturbiace, and the island was Perfectly quiet, no riot or insurrt ction whatever having occurred as stated in some of the American papers. There is no news of importance from Mexico. Everything was quiet and no fresh revolt was imme diately anticipated. A more just and correct method of collecting the customs revenue had been adopted, which will doubtless be of advantage to the holders OF Mexican bonds.* Her Majesty's ship Wellesley, Admiral Dundonald, and her Majesty's steamer Plumper, were at Bermuda. Her Itajesty's ships II incowalee, Sappho, and He- MONDA Y EVENING, lens, were at Barbadoes, preparing to sail for Gray Town, Mosquito Sh9re, to protet.ft British interests re lative to Nicaragua dispute. The Great Western sailed from Bermuda on the 6th just. for New York ; the Thames and Medway were at Havanna!) ; the Avon in the Spanish Main ; the Conway on the Demerara route ; and the Eagle at St. Thomas. ISIR. COBDEN AT BRADFORD. (From the Times) Mr. Cobden's-speech - at Bradford on our colonial system is . a masterpiece Of agitation. It is a suffi cient answer to those simple souls who think that agitation ever dies, or is ever likely to die, in this world. - We have no wish to disparage a trade which, besides its uses, appears to. be a necessity of our existence. If the man is to be honoured who brought philosophy from Heaven down to men, we presume that some prai,e is due to the man who brings politics from Dowring•street to Bradford. The schoolmaster is' eh:cal; if any one doubts it, let him read Mr. Cobden's " Colonial Policy made easy to the Meanest Capacities," and he will see that whatever difficulties and scruples may perplex Parliament or the Colonial-office, it is all as plain as A, B, C, in the Temperance- hall at Brad ford. The artizans there have learnt one simple rule for dealing 'with all dependencies, from Van couver's Island to Ceylon, and from Canada to Corfu. The rule is not exactly the rule of thumb, but, certainly, is not more artificial. It corn-ists in cutting the connexion altogether, or at least as expeditiously -as is agreeable to both parties. Should the colonies still cling to us like " mammy sick" children, Mr. Cobden suggests that we should wean them at once from the sweets of the British Exchequer. Should England, on the contrary, still push her parental authority, the colony would do well,or ra then are already doing well, in showing that they are no longer children. The same rule holds for the whole family. England is to send to all our fifty colonies a circular certificate that they have come to man's estate, and are free. They have only to send back a message equally obliging, and the famous mother country, of whom we have heard so much in grave school- books and conversational pamphlets, may forth with throw up her cap, and sing, in the lines of the old stave : SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Royal Family took walking exercise. The Queen and Prince Albert, with her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, their Serene High nesses the Princesses Anne and Amelie of Saxe- Weimar, and Prince Edward and Prince Gustavus of Saxe-Weimar, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service in the private cltapel this morning. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. "I care for nobody, no not I, And nobody cares for me." But let us look a little into this new agitation. We will neither be fascinated by its simplicity, nor abashed by . its grandeur. In the first place, the sub ject matter is a good one. It is as good as Catholic Emanipation, the Reform Bill, or the repeal of the Corn-laws ;—nay, granting these three premises— granting that England has now foresworn religious, civil, and commercial monopoly, colonial independence is a necessary sequel to those great national acts. The doctrine has now gone through all its ordeals. It has been talked about and written about. It is the conclusion of a long controversy, and among many proposals is that which survives. In several leading instances it is the actual state of the colonial game. By a natural process the leading colonies have worked up to it, and their independence is a great fact, whether we _ like it or not. The doctrinaires, Wakefield, Roebuck, Buller, Molesworth, have culled alt the statistics and argu ments of the question, and nothing remains to be written or calculated upon it. Blue-books have been accumulated ad nauseant, till the labour of their peru sal is so great as to be an excuse for utter ignorance of the subject. When the question is in this state, the old theory of a great colonial Zollverein is sud denly abandoned. Only the other day men still dreamt that it was possible to s'retch England like a belt round the globe, and buy and sell chiefly with our own fellow-subjects. That is past away. Meanwhile the estimates show the enormous expenditure of solid coin which we suffer for a merely sentimental return. One thing only was wanting, and that is now supplied. The colonies, after going through nearly the same process of argument, have arrived at precisely the same conclusion. They announce to us and to the whole world, in the most energetic and striking manner, that they will he independent. Thus the facts of the case almost anticipate our own hesitating judg ments and tedious calculations. All this time our first-born coloay shows the way, and stamps on the most loyal and most imperial mind the sure convic tion that, sooner or later, every other colony will set up for itself, and that this is the order of nature and of Providence. Such is Cobden's case; and, if Cobden had not been born, the case would be the same. Find ing it, however, he picks it up, and, by his singular gifts of agitation, will probably make it his own. We have described a great controversy, a great conclusion, and a great fact, which severally forte the idea of colonial independence on the public mind. How, then, does Mr. Cobden appropriate the idea? First he reduces it to its simplest and most popular form, by treating it merely as a ques tion of economy and independence. "Save your own pockets, and give the colonists their liberty. Let the tie grow less and less at the pleasure of both parties, till it is attenuated or sublimed into the growing sym pathy that binds the Britikh empire to the United States." If the matter does, indeed, depend on a vote ; if the separation could be effected by merely tearing a bond, or dissolving a legal partnership ; if it could be done once for all with each and every one of our colonies, and the matter were sure to end there, then, certainly we might save our ten millions, more or less, and make the colonists happy. But in most, if not all, of the fifty instances to be dealt with, there are difficulties which could not be thus quickly dis. posed of. It is questionable whether a single colony can be independent with safety to population or com merce. Mr. Cobden takes the strongest case, that of the Cape; and he quotes for his purpose a distinguished military autho rity, the Rev. Dr. Adamson. This divine points out pretty clearly to the lambs of his flock that their geographical and social position offers peculiar facilities for shutting out British interference, and taking to the trade of piracy. Granted. But un fortunately they have frontier as well as coast to defend, and Kafirs as well as British to keep out. There may be another Kafir war, and that war a war of extermination. Should the Kafirs be worsted we can easily imagine that the British and Dutch boers would soon balance in South Africa the Cave of Dahra in the north ; not much to the credit of the British name. Should the colonists be worsted, it is not likely that England would sit still at home or sail quietly past the Cape, while merciless savages were carrying death and destruction to the very nails of Cape-town. Mere instinct would compel us to inter fere. With such a danger and such an interference in prospect, a statesman will consider some time be fore he resigns a colony to its own discretion and its defences. With all the smaller settlements in Australasia and elsewhere the case is still stronger. The colonial politicians themselves think to meet the difficulty by proposing a defensive and offensive league; or, in _other words, that England shall re tain the power of settling the foreign relations of fifty Lilliputian states scattered over the globe. Mr. Cobden is judiciously silent on this point. He abstains from filling up the blank with any positive sugges tion. He knows full well that a league, offensive and defensive, with fifty helpless and quarrelsome little communities, most of them at the antipodes, and the rest in the jaws of our greatest rival, is simply a chimera. Such leagues can only 'be made with powerful and well-established states, or with near neighbours. They suppose common inte rests and facilities for mutual counsel and co-opera tion. They suppose a mutual and equivalent service. There could be- nothing of the kind with our fifty colonies. Yet—and here is the great natural diffi culty of the question—should we allow our own offspring to be devastated and reduced without rushing to their aid? Would not nature restore the colonial system when political economy had de stroyed it ? Mr. Cobden says nothing on this point. Such misgivings interfere with the force of popular appeals, and find little favour with profes- sional agitators. After supplying the people of Bradford with two simple reasons for sending the colonies adrift, the agitator's next object is to give , an equally compendious and intelligent account of the opposition he is likely to meet with. Mr. Cob den gives his hearers to understand in very plain terms, that the colonial system is kept up in this coun try for the sake of the patronage it involves ; in other words, that we go to an expense of perhaps 10,000,0001. a year for the sake of the governorships, deputy governorships, and other appointments at the dis posal of the _Colonial Minister, and the indefinite multiplication of generals, colonels, admirals, and captains. Now, it may suit Mr. Cobden's purpose to say that our colonies are simply a Ministerial job ; but a person of common sense and common candour will assign to a very different cause the favour with which they are regarded. The bulk of the educated classes have been taught to regard the colonies as almost indispensable to the commerce, the power, and especially the glory of this empire. They know not otherwise how it can be called an empire. The colo nies they treat as an exiting fact; and, though they may not be prepared to dispute the economical reasons now urged ter abolishing that fact, they think it the safer course to maintain and preserve an existing dominion. They can hardly take up any classical writer of the last generation, or any historian, how ever enlightened, without finding our colonies spoken of as appendages of the most uuquestionable advan tage and hononr. Thus, the regard felt by a large class at home for the colonies may be a prejudice, and may be a mistake, but it is rather patriotic than selfish. We will venture, to say that of those who would now hold up their hands in favour of retaining colo nial supremacy at almost any cost, not one man in twenty has the least prospect of patronage, or prefer ment, or any other boon a Government can confer. But would it answer Mr. Cobden's purpose to make No. object is to divide party against party and class against class ; to fill the many with suspicion of the few; And to represent the whole Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, for Frogmore House. Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess of Saxe- Weimar, the Princesses Anne and Amelie of Saxe- Weimar, and the Princes Edward and Gustavus of Saxe-Weimar, left Marlborough House on Saturday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary honoured the establishment of Mr. C. P. Hancock with a visit on Saturday. Dispatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office. THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS. 'Twas joyous Christmas, merry Christmas eve, And on that blessed night each child, 'tis said, Forms golden dreams, builds castles in the air, And goes to bed smiling with happiness. They say the Christmas Angels (no child doubts it) Gently fly from the celestial vault, And descend that night upon the happy roofs Where sleep those children most beloved by them. On that night they enter not the usual way, To weave their charms, to bring their gifts, But 'tis said, under all those chosen roofs, Wh: re balmy sleep smiles o'er each little cradle, The Christmas Angels enter softly, Not by door, or window, but the chimney. Oh, good Angel ! breathed softly in his curtain'd cot A rich and lovely child during his happy dream, I beg of thee to fill the mantel-shelf With dainties rare, and pretty playthings; Those of last year I've lest, others I want, And many such, to make me happy. Oh, good Angel! sobb'd a starving child, With tearful tunes, in tatter'd threadbare clothes, I'm hungry--'tis freezing, and I'm very cold; Then shed thy bounties o❑ our wretched home, And bring us bread in pity, Angel blest. In our chimney dark, the wind now loudly howls, Bring us some cods, and wood, to make a fire— I neither ask for dainties rare, or playthings choice, But bring us bread. Oh, hear my humble pray'r. On Christmas-day more bright than ever Glisten'd each expecting little eye, Sme found new frocks, and hats p ith feathers, Others trinkets, playthings, cakes and comfit:4. The dainty had their cakes, the merry their play things Each had his gift according to his wish. Bat in the attic's gloom, where pined the starving child, How did that wretched creature pass his Christmas day ? Who fill :d the mantel shell with much long'd fur bread? Christie n Charity!!! The Christmas Angels heard his lowly pray'r, And pitying his helpless misery, Each bounteous Angel wing'd a different flight — Ono gave pleasure to the happy rich, The other bread unto the starving poor. H. J. ST. LEGER. Christmas, 1849. LEGAL EDUCATION.—We understand that the ancient usage of readings is about to be resumed at the Middle Temple. Readings will be delivered by Mr. Bowyer, D.C.L.; and barrister-at-law (who has been appointed to perform the duties of reader), on the evenings of the three Wednesdays in Hilary Term next, the 16th, 23d, and 30th of January, in the hall of the Middle Temple; and all the students and other members of the inns of court will be admitted, without payment of any fee, to these and the subsequent readings. A favourable result may be hoped from the opening of these meetings to the profession, and their transfer from New Inn to the fine old hall of the Middle Temple. DEATH FROM NOT GIVING A COUNTERSIGN.—A most melancholy circumstance cccurred here recently, which deprived an octogenarian suddenly of life. A deaf Jew, above eighty years of age, one evening Tined a sentinel of the c.ls le, near the Bernadiner church, without replying to the call. The sentinel passed again, but the poor afflicted man went quietly and steadily on. He might, perhaps, as the sen ti ne l ma i nta i ns , h ave un consciously tre:Tassed on the ground prohibited to the public. The sentinel, however, did not wait long, and fired; the ball took effect, and the old man fell. Ile died a few hour after.—Jewish Chronicle. The Observer, on Sunday morning, Dec. 23, gave six of their folio columns of the proceedings at the meet ing of the shareholders in the London and South- Western Railway on Saturday ; also the letter of the chairman, W. Chaplin, Esq., M.P. The extensive pub lictrion of the Observer commences at four o'clock on Sunday mornings, in time for the early Sunday morning railways. Monday's edition of the Observer, best for the country and abroad, at four on Monday afternoons. MARYLEBONE VeSTRY, DEC. 22.—PAYING OF OXFORD STREET. —Mr. J. Bird moved the appointment of a committee to consider the propri-ty of paving with granite 14,000 yards of Ofcrord-street. Mr. Bridgeman secondtd the motion, which was warmly supported by Mr. Garnett. Messrs. Joseph, Wilson, Potter, and Helices, opposed the motion, as it contemplated an un necessary expenditure when the parish could least afford it. On a division, there appeared 17 for and 16 against the motion. A committee was then moved, after which the vestry broke up. FIRE AT ROLLS' CHAMBERS.—On Saturday, about half-pest eight o'clock, a fire, which caused considerable damage, although of short duration, broke out in the premises termed Rolls "Chambers, situate at SO, Chan cery-lane. The premises, which had a frontage in Chancery-late, extended backwards upwards of 150 feet into Chancery-court, and from the fact of the houses in Carey-street and numerous other buildings abutting upon the ono on fire, a fearful conflagration was ex pected. With the exception of the front shop before alluded to, the whole of the upper floors were occupied by gentlemen connected with the law, as chambers, and although most of the apartments have escaped the action of the fire, the water thrown by the engines into the flames has penetrated every room, and done much mis chief. The damage done by fire is confined to the de struction of several chambers en the upper part of the building, and the lower floors arc severely damaged by water. In about an hour the fire was extinguished. THE GOVERNMENT AND CHRISTMAS GRATUITIES. —Tire Lords of the Treasury, as will be perceived from the subjoined circular, have determined to abolish all gratuities generally termed " Christmas-boxes," after the present year, as the sum annually given by the dif ferent public offices form in the gross a very large amount. The following circular has been delivered at the several public offices and commissions:— "Audit-office, Somerset House, Dec. 1849. "Sir,—A. practice has hitherto prevailed of charging in some of the public accounts at Christmas, to postmen and other parties, and the attention of the Lords Com missioners e f her Majesty's Treasury having : bet n called thereto, they have been pleased to direct that the Commissioners for Auditing the Publ'c Accounts should make known to those public accountants in whose accounts such chargss have hitherto appeared, that no allowances of this descriptii n are to be paid -by them on behalf of the public after the expiration of the present year, and that notice should be accordingly given to the persons who have been in the habit of receiving them. I am, therefore, directed to communicate to you this decision of their Lordships for your future guidance.—l am, &c., " Vat. BROMLEY, Secretary." ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.--At a meeting of the council on Ftiday evening the following gentlemen were admitted members of the college:—H. T. Spratt, Bridge street, Southwark; J. S. Stocker, Baker-street; H. S. Locock, Lee-patk, Blackheath; and Henry Col lins, Birmingham. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, DEC. 22.---. The market today was very firm, with a contin u ed and de cided tendency upwards, both in yarns gad cloth. DECEMBER 24, 1849. system of Government as a conspiracy against the THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. freedom and the pockets of the people. As if to show f TO THE EDITOR Or Tile SUN. how utterly groundless is Mr. Cobden's account of SIR,--'As the great Council of the Nation will be the feelings shown in favour of the colonial system, shortly convened for the dispatch of business, I beg he is obliged to exclude expressly the two persons leave to suggest to you, as one ever ready ,to advocate just now most involved in the matter—Lord Grey and reasonable reforms, the propriety _of your rousing Mr. Hawes, though he might have reflected that the public attention to the horrid state of affairs in the case on which he dwells the most, viz., that of Labuan, Channel Islands, especially es regards their laws and has originated under the present Ministry. But the the mariner in which they are administered. charge has no basis whatever except on the exigencies I will give you a case by way of example. Some of agitation. For that purpose it is necessary to in- months ago, Mrs. Belson sued her husband, Captain vent an enemy. A candid and faithful account of Belson, late of the Rifles, before the Royal Court of our colonies, and the present state of our intercolouial Jersey for separation pant aux biens, not fur cruelty, relations, might answer every legitimate purpose ; but immoral conduct, or wastefulness of property, but on something else is to be done. The aristocracy is to account of his unsoundness of mind, and claimed a be blackened, and Mr. Cobden is to be glorified by maintenance and the care of their children. After representing the former as the selfish maintainers, the hearing evidence on the allegation, the learned Jurats latter as the heroic demolisher of the present costly shirked the question as to whether the Captain was and discreditable colonial system. I insane or not ; and without granting act of separa tion or a maintenance, decided to deprive him of the COURT CIRCULAR. I custody of hi s t wo y ounges t c hild ren ; b ut mar k— no t I OSBORNE, SATURDAY. 'on the ground upon which it was claimed, but in The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of consideration of their tender age ! Now, this is not a Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Prin. valid reason in law; for a father is entitled to the cue cess Alice, the Princess Helene, and the Princess tody and control of his children, regardless of their Louisa, left Osborne at seven initiates before ten, , tender age or sex, because it makes him responsible A M., on Saturday, for Windsor Castle. ! for their ci% il acts and their maintenance • and he WINDSOR, SATURDAY. cannot be lawfully dep r i ve d o f th a t custo d y and control Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince until his disability to exercise it has been established. Albert, with the Royal Family, and -attended by the In the case of " Rex v. ;De Manneville," before the Marchioness of Douro, the Hon. Miss Lennox, Lord Queen's Bench, it was held that the father of a child A. Paget, Colonel Buuverie, and General Bowles, was entitled to the custody of it, though an infant at arrived at Windsor Castle from Osborne at twenty- the mother's breast, if the Court saw no ground to five minutes past one o'clock. The royal party tra- impute any motive to the father injurious to the health yelled by a special train on the South- Western Rail- or liberty of the child. In the present case, the Jersey way to Basingstoke, and from thence by the Great Court deprived the father of his, common law right Western Railway to Aindsor. A Guard of Honour without imputing to him anything that disqualified of the Grenadier Guard's received the royal party at him from enjoying it; but, in lieu of it, they imputed the railway terminus at Windsor. The guard was tenderness of age to the children, which does not affect commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton. that right. This is the baneful consequence of our Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe- Jurats exercising the functions of judges instead of Weimar, with their Serene Highnesses the Princesses those of jurors, by which they decide points of law Anne and Amelie of Saxe-Weimar, and their that they have never studied, instead of questions of Serene Highnesses the Prince Edward and Prince fact, which their humble education fits them for. Gustavus of Saxe- Weimar, arrived at the Castle this The bailiff, who is Chairman of the Bench, and was day on a visit to the Queen and Prince. bred to the law, never enlightens them, and never Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent joined Idecides any question whatever, excepting when the the royal party at dinner this evening. Jurats are equally divided in opinion ; and even then he is bound by his oath of office to adopt one or the other view, though both should be contrary to law and repugnant to common sense ! ! If this is not info. mous, I declare that I know not what is I Well, Sir, the usual course for a party who is dis satisfied with this sort ofjustice (!) is to appeal to the Privy Council ; but as it was probable that the chil i dren would become man and woman before judgment should be rendered, Captain Belson resolved to adopt a more summary course. Doubtless, he had heard of ' the case of Peter Br ou ard, w hi c h has been pending before their Lordships nearly 15 years, to compel a Jerseyman to restore avessel he had plundered him of, worth about 1 ; 5001., and that was enough. Poor Brouard has been reduced from comparative affluence to complete beggary, and is now in London, seeking means to carry on his case. Charitable persons may find - him at Hercules-buildings, Lambeth. Captain Belson had lived long enough in Jersey to understand that en appeal to Council was a dilatory proceeding, and his children being wards in Chancery, he very properly moved the Court for a habeas, and the result was, that about two months ago, a tipstaff came down to Jersey with two writs, one for Mrs. Belson, and the other for a Captain Hartman, requiring them, as having custody of the children, to bring up their bodies, with the cause of their detention, before the Vice-Chancellor. The writs were returnable forth with. After they had been served, the parties went before his Lordship and showed cause, by means of a Jersey advocate, why the said writs should be quashed, as having been issued inadvertently, or without due consideration ; but did not succeed! The time for making the returns was enlarged; and it is said that the parties formally engaged to obey the mandates. Having, however, failed to do so, warrants of attachment for contempt were issued against them, and brought hither by the tipstaff, who had instruc tions to seize the parties, take them across the Chan nel, and commit them to the Queen's Bench prison 1 The officer arrived here about three weeks ago, and applied to the bailiff to back his warrants, or grant assistance to capture the parties; but, in the mean time, the latter moved the Court for protection against the invasion of their liberty, pretending that, -by a certain charter of Charlas the Second, they could not, as " inhabitants," be forcibly taken out of the island to answer for any matter or thing before an English tribunal. The Court granted their request, and in terdicted the tipstaff from serving his warrants. He, however, still remains here, waiting further orders. Captain Belson next complained to the Privy Council of the conduct of the Jersey Court in having obstructed execution of process ; upon which an order was sent down, commanding them forthwith to show cause to their Lordships. The bailiff and Jurats have held secret councils, day after day, to concoct their justification, which, it is sail, has been dressed up by a Chancery barrister in England. The contents of it have not transpired, but it is understood that they have alleged that not only the warrants of at tachment. but also the writs of habeas that preceded them, have no force in this island, not having been registered to give them vitality (!), pursuant to an Order in Council, dated the 21st May, 1679 ; that the Acts of Parliament, also, on which they wore issued, viz., 31 Chas. 11. and 56 Geo. 111., have no force for the like reason (although the island is expressly men tioned in there, and the bailiff and Jurats were com manded by Order in Council, in 1832, to register them); that by the said Acts, the Lord Chancellor ' had not the power given to him, like the ether Judges, to issue a writ of habeas; and, lastly, that the charter of Charles 11. provides that no inhabitant shall be forcibly taken from the island to answer for any mat ter before an English Court. Now, it may be easily shown, that neither of these reasons are tenable. In the first place, the Order in Council of the 21st May, 1679, was repealed by one of the 17th of December of the same year : but, inas much as the former was surreptitiously introduced N i l n ,as to r t e he Code vivea; w of he L re a a w s, s o t f he l r 7 e 7 i l s , the ar C id o e u r r p t la p e r e e d te a nds tth i e t end, which declares that if any Order in Council had been omitted that was not repealed, it should still have force ; and if any was inserted that had been re pealed, it should have no effect ! The parties who su perintended the printing of the Code were roguish enough to get this rider intermixed with the law re lative to the cutting of sea weed, that it might escape observation ! There has, however, been a judicial decision upon it, which puts the matter at rest. When the father of the present bailiff was appointed Attor ney-General, the Court refused to register his patent, because he had obtained the office without their re commendation ; and they held that until it was regis tered it had no force, and prevented him from exer cising his functions ! Mr. Le Breton complained to the Privy Council; and when the Court was called upon to justify their conduct, they adduced this order of the 21st May, 1679, which runs as follows : " The laws and privileges of the Island of Jersey are confirmed as of ancient times, and no orders, war rants, or letters missive of any sort, shall be put into execution within the island till after having been presented to the Royal Court, in order that they may be registered and made public ; and in case any such orders, warrants, or letters missive shall be found contrary to the charters and privileges, or burthen. some to the said island, the registry, publication, and execution may be suspended by the Royal Court until the case has been represented to his Majesty, and his will and pleasure on the same be signified." The matter was referred to the Committee of Council, when their Lordships decided, that " having maturely considered the order of the 21st May, 1679, and also another of the 17th December, 1679, by which it was repealed, are of opinion, that the reuse' of the Jurats to enregister his Majesty's letters patent was a grave contempt of his Majesty's Royal authority ;" and in a subsequent order to this the King confirmed ,the report of the Lords of the Council, by which it was recommended-to his Majesty not to act with rigour towards this Court, considering that the Jurats sinned through error and net through obstinacy, in conse quence of which they were peremptorily ordered, to enregister the said patent, and to carry the same into execution on pain of his Majesty's great displeasure. The Court complied, and there the matter dropped. Thus, it will be seen that the Jurists escaped puuiah ment for their contempt. This is vastly different to the fate which their countryman, John De Carteret, experienced, who, on the 25th March, 1588, was com mitted by the Lords of the Council to the prison of the Marshalsea, there to remain until he did humbly confess and acknowledge his offence, and promise to behave himself as a good and loyal subject in future I As to the Habeas Corpus Acts not having force in Jersey, because the authorities refused to register them in spite of the Order in Council, it is perfectly ridiculous. They cannot take advantage of their own misdeeds ; besides, the orders expressly say that the registration is not essential to the Acts, but only that his Majesty's subjects may have notice of the said Acts having passed, and " that they are bound thereby." In this matter, I happen to know that the autherities committed a breach of faith. They memorialized the Government ; and finding that they could obtain no relief, they promised the 'Under Secretary of State, Mr. Lamb, "though reluctantly (I quote his They words) that they would register them forthwith." They have, however, never fulfilled their engagement. A few days since, it was found necessary to make formal proof that the Acts had not been enrolled. A member of the Court was called upon to search the records, with the view to pass an affidavit of the fact, bpt he declined ! It has, nevertheless, been accomplished. As to the power of Chancellor, it is true that none is given to him under the statutes, because he already possessed it at common law, which the other Judges did not. I should think that little strength c i i l n be placed on the charter of Charles (if ever he g rated any) in face of the 4th e. 83, which provides_for the service of writs of subpoena from the , Courts of Chancery and Exchequer (it is presumed) to compel attendance in England, because that Act establishes the principle. The merits of Bels-n's case lie in a nutshell. The Jersey Court hos done him a great inju'tice, and they wish to obstruct inquiry ieto it, to shelter themselves from disgrace, and prevent him from obtaining redress. This is shocking, but still it is true. It is said by way of excuse, that if this mode of revising their pro ceedings were tolerated the independence of the tribu nal would suffer ; but I hare yet to learn that the Royal Court of Jersey is beyond the control of the superior Courts of Westminster when a proper case is wade out for their interference. Even the charter by which it was instituted expressly provides for the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, in these words, which are translated from the Latin,—" No man shall be compelled to answer concerning the free tenement which he has peaceably held for a year and a day, without a writ obtained from the King's Court of Chancery, expressly mentioning the tenant and the tenement (ate 9 h Art.); and no Order in Council, custom, or usage, can take it away. I hold this to he incontestable. lam aware that the Jersey Court has for a long period interdicted the ser vice of process; for I find that in 1766 June 21, Philip Colitis was sentenced to a fine, and struck off the roll of solicitors, for having served a summons from the Court of Chancery on Deb. Dumaresq. I'hey have also interdicted the service of proce-s front the Court of Admiralty. In the case of Hillary Brocq, a Jersey pirate, who plundered four English vessels, richly laden with merchandize, off the Welsh coast, and brought his booty, to the value of ten thousand pounds, to Jersey, a warrant was sent over here for his apprehension and removal to England for trial, where all his accomplices had been convicted sad executed; but, strange to say, be escaped punish ment, the Court having interdicted service of the war rant for his protection. The Lord High Admiral " did greatly marvel, and thought it meet that the bailiff•andJurats should be called thither to answer their disobedience." (See his letter, dated June 17, 1593.) In 1608, a warrant from the Admiralty was sent to Guernsey, under cover of an Order in Council, for the surrender of a vessel found on the coast of Sark, which had been abandoned ; and even this the Court of that island reused to obey ; but in another case, 1660, the Lords of the Council issued an extra order to compel them to execute all orders, warrants, decrees, and judgments, which the Court of Admiralty should from time to time make, give, and set forth in that particular case, which concerned a frigate and prize. It is not long since that a Guernsey merchant committed an act of bankruptcy in England, and re fused to surrender to the fiat, upon the pretext that he was a privileged person. His Guernsey creditors also held that they were privileged to plunder his estate by attachments. However, the bankrupt was out lawed, and threatened with an indictment before the Central Criminal Court, which had the effect of bring ng him to his senses; and an interlocutory decree of the Privy Council stayed the plunder of his estate, which, after some difficulty, was equitably distributed among all his creditors. If an inhabitant of these islands can be exempted from the laws of England for acts that he may commit there, by merely escaping back to his country, the sooner such a system is abo lished the better. It is injurious to the body politic, and must be got rid of. Hoping that you will lend your powerful pen to accomplish this object during the forthcoming Parliamentary campaign, and to obtain for us English laws and English judges, I subscribe myself, Sir, Your ever faithful friend in the good cause, ABRAHAM JONES LE CRAS, Author of a work entitled " The Laws, Customs, and Privileges of the Island of Jersey." Aldenhury Lodge, Les Petit Vaux, Isle of Jersey, Dec. 20, 1849. TO THE EDITOR OF THE [SUN. Sla,—Having seen your remarks a few days ago upon my speech here at the cattle show dinner, I sent you on Thursday a Birmingham Midland Herald, which contained a much more correct report than any previous one. I see that you object to raise revenue upon the importation of corn, and so do I; but as long as you raise revenue upon the importation of manufactures, there is no valid or reasonable objec tion why you should not do so on corn alto. I cannot admit your objection, " that it would be a small amount for revenue compared with what would be lost by the higher price of corn here." In the first place, I do not believe that the price would be as much higher as a low duty ; all the experience of former times from 1700 to 1790 shows that it would not; and nothing since 1790 can he received as evidence, because so many extraordinary circumstances affected all prices. Again, I have yet to learn that the nation sustains a loss or obtains an advantage by any altera tion in prices of either agricultural or manufactured produce by which either class obtains the produce of the other cheaper. The one interest or the other may be gainers or losers, but the notion as a whole can only be aWected by very low priers giving an advan tage to all the idle money interest over all the indus- trious classes, as is now the case I should prefer that all import duties should be sbAshed, ;Aid the whole revenue be collected by a tax on prorrty. As to pro tection, which I am confident our heavily taxed industry requires against the lightly taxed nidusiry of the rest of the world, that can only he justly ob'ained by such an equitable a lt era ti on o f our monetary system as will protect our industrious classes against our idle classes. I have always been of opinion that manufacturers and agricul.urists have an equal right to live, and those of either class who think to live long upon the other will find themselves egregiously mistaken.— Yours respectfully, _ - G. F. MUNTZ. Ley Hall, near Birmingham, Dec. 22d, 1849. A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS EVE. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) I cannot let my harp be still While holy chimes and bells are ringing. Come round me, neighbours, if ye will, And help me in my carol singing. Chaunt, loud and long, 'tis " Christmas Eve," We've got a merry time before us. And now, old friends, by your good leave, I'll troll the song and ye the chorus; And this shall be the theme for glee, A theme no cynic dare condkmn, May kindly word and loving heart . Be household " stars of Bethlehem." We all have had our yearly share Of pains and griefs and:sad vexations, For grim old Care comes everywhere, And claims us as his near relations. Our heads bate ached, our hands have toiled. But blackest bread may hold some leaven, And all earth's trials never spoiled A spirit that had faith in heaven. Crashed bloom a perfume still imparts, Though hard the blow that smote the stem, And hearts that feel for others' hearts Are human " stars of Bethlehem." But surely some bright hours have come Of Hope and Joy, of Peace and Beauty; Some welcome ray has cheered our way, And lighted up the path of Duty. Some blessings have been scattered round, Some d: ups of mercy have bet n showered; Some heavy chains have been unbound, Some clouds have passed that darkly lowered. So let us raise the notes of praise, For gratitude is Nature's gem, And breasts that wear it stied a beam Like holy " stars of Bethlehem." Let friend and foe, let age and youth, Let weak and strong draw nigh together, And spread the wing of social truth Without one rough or broken feather. 'Ti. fit that such a time as this Should link us closer to each other, To spread the circle of our bliss Until it . reach our poorest brother. Ob," help the Leedy, ' Air 'tis said, The hands that raise and succour them Will find a friend in Him who made His sign " the star of Bethleh,an." God give us might, God give ui will To render thanks for Plenty's measure, And may our bounty ever spill A goodly portion of the zreasure. May blessings fall on each and all ho rightly use the gifts entrusted; But shame to Wealth that keeps in stealth Its " talent" cold, and dim, and rusted. The pearl of Charity is yet The Christian's purest. fairest gem, And every bosom where 'Lis set . Serves well the " star of Bethlehem. ElarlEl' there are merry bells without, And let us ring our chimes within, Let mirth and music breathe abOut, For simple pleasure killeth Chaunt loud and long. 'tis "Christmas Eve," Come help me, neighbours; in my singing, Ye give true notes, and by your leave, I'll string the echoes ye are flinging. And thus the glsd refrain is heard, A theme no cynic dare condemn, • May loving heart, and kindly word, Be 'howehold stars of Bethlehem." ELIZA COOK. STRIFE OF POUTERS AND DRAYMEN ON THII MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Tlinr.itiay morning n o ti ces were posted at Leeds, offeri, , g employment to able bodied men as porters at tie goods station of the Mid land ItailwAy, in Ilunslet-lure,, at wages of 16s. per week. 111, , deinund' for' these men has arisen In con kqueoce of the vrters at present (mployed having refused to accept reduced wege.- Their wages have been 17i. per week, and the directors have • determined to reduce the& to 165. The draymen, Fe ho have been in the receipt of 18 s per reek, have also been offered a reduction of Is.; and they, like the porters, have deter minednot to accept it. Thu consequence is tbit about forty men employed at the Leeds goods station will leave their employment at the end of the present week; and the girectora were sitting yesterday (Friday) at the station to engage new bands to supply the place of thaw who had turned out.