The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-01 00:00:00

birtt 2htilon THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per .Cent, Red. .. 94 Ditto Bonds 3 per . Cent. Cons 94f, Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent... .... loli Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 48 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 500/...... 48 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1660 ...... .., 12f f Consols for Opg. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, b per cent — Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds... 664 Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent....., Chinon, 6 per cent. BB Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent lBl Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... . Cub:Bonds, 6 per cent 794 French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Danish, 3 per 'ent — Exchange —f —c Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 percent .—f. —e. Itleiican, 5 per cent 304 Dutch, 24 per cent. s2[-, Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 a Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. SHARES. Eastern Counties (23 paid) 9 Ditto New (—paid) loi Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ••• ... 48 i Great Western, (65 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 35 London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s , ItliK1) 54 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 60 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9k Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) paid) Ditto Scrip (20 paid) QUEEN'S BENCII.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius after Term before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and a Middlesex Common Jury.) The Court was occupied the whole morning in trying a case of ejectment, which presented no fea tures of any public interest. EXCHEQUER COURT--THIS DAY. WILLIAMS V. SALTER. This was an action of trespass against the Board of Guardians of the parish of Hammersmith, for re moving a fence erected in a place situated within the parish, called Brooke-green, which the parish au - - thorities considered to form: part of the public high way, and therefore ordered it to be pulled down, which was the cause of action. The case had been commenced yesterday, and was resumed at the sitting or the Court this morning. A number of witnesses were produced on both sides, who deposed to the shifting of paths and fences, and-the right of highway for more than half a cen tury. The evidence turned exclusively upon these points, and offered no subject of general interest. The Jury, after a few moments' deliberation, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 40s. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) IVQOD V. SINCLAIR. This was an action for false imprisonment, arising out of circumstances which at the time of the occurrence excited much public attention. The plaintiff is an ar chitect, residing at Brompton, and the defendant, a hatter, carrying on business at the West-end, but re siding in Alexander-square, Brompton, and lately one of the Churchwardens of Kensington parish. It ap pears that permission had previously been given to the respectable parishioners, having family graves in Brompton new churchyard, to adorn them with shrubs and plants, upon the payment of sums varying from 71. to 101. The plaintiff having availed himself of this perinission at the price of 81., was indignant at find in,- that the defendant and the clergyman had caused the plants to be rooted up. The petitioners, whose feelings were hurt at this proceeding on the part of the churchwardens, wrote to the Bishop, who in answer said that the hurchwardens had no right to remove the plants without having first consulted him, but that if he had been consulted he would have ordered them to be removed, as they ought not to have been allowed in the first instance. Upon this the plaintiff and others ornamented the graves anew, and again the Plants were destroyed. An altercation took place upon the subject in the churchyard, in the course of which the defendant ordered a policeman to take the plaintiff into custody, but at the station-house refused bo make a charge against him. As some personal collision had taken place on this occasion, the de fendant was indicted for an assault, but was acquitted at the Clerkenwell Sessions in June last. The pre sent action was for the alleged false imprisonment in giving the plaintiff into custody. The case occupied the whole morning, but the evidence was, with little &Lance on either side, to the above effect. The Jury, after a short consultation, found for the plain ti 'Ages 201. ARCHES' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) KEED V. EVERARD AND CRESSIVELL.-CMJRCH- RATES.-JUDGMENT , This was an appeal from the Consistory Court at 'N e orwieh, against the admission of an allegation, on the part of the respondents against the appellant, for the sum of 17s. for Church-rates. In July, 1842, a Church-rate was levied in King's Lynn, and the ap pellant was summoned before the Magistrates, for re fusing to pay his quota of 17s. The case came on for hearing, but the Magistrates refused to adjudicate, as the original rate, or a copy thereof, could not be pro duced. The Churchwardens, therefore, instituted a suit in the Consistory Court, and this was an appeal therefrom. Sir 11. JENNER FUST, in giving judgment this morning, said the simple question for the Court to determine was, whether the party had been pro perly cited before the Court or not. It was unfortu-. nate that there was no principle to govern this case, as in many others there was. It was a most important case both to the individual and the parish citing him. The libel stated that the churchwardens had sum moned Reed before the Justices of the Peace for the non-payment of the rate; that Reed attended the summons, but refused to pay on the ground of ille gality of the r a t e , i n consequence o f w hi c h t h e J us ti ces declined to proceed with the case. The answer to that libel in th e C ourt below, which was rejected by the Chancell or o f t h e diocese,' was, that the appellant did not object to the legality of the rate, but stated his unwillingness to pay if so decided by the Magis trates, and therefore the Magistrates sent an officer to obtain the rate, or a copy, but which could not be ob tained, as it was in the Consistory Court. The Court now thought that the answer ought to be admitted; as it appeared that, before the Magistrates,Mr. Reed did not refuse to pay the rate, on the contrary, he was willing to abide by the decision of the "Magis trate, so that the averment in the libel was untiue ; and it also appeared that one of the Magistrates advised Mr. Reed to object to the validity of the rate, so that it might be at once disposed of, but this Mr. Reed refused to do, but said he would abide by the decision of the Magis• irate, and accordingly the rate was sent for and could not be obtained. So far upon this specific averment on the part of the churchwardens that he objected to the rate, Mr. Reed had a right to contradict. The question and the principal one before the Court was, who was to pay the costs in the Court at Norwich, as it was alleged that the churchwardens had proceeded with unnecessary harshness in the matter. But the churchwardens had a right, to proceed with the matter in this way, geeing that they were not able to pro duce the original rate or a copy required of by the Magistrates. It might certainly be a serious ground, undoubtedly, of charging the churchwardens with mis conduct who, from neglect, had been unable to procure it. lie was therefore of opinion that their allegation was proper to be admitted, withithat part being struck out which related. to Mr. Reed's opposition to Church rates in gener a l. • - - - - BA NKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) TIW T ILICRE COAL COMPANY-IN RE CHAPPELLOW. The bankrupt, in conjunction with Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood, the late unsuccessful candidate for the Mayoralty, and several others, had been one of the principal Directors and originators of the above Com pany. He had also carried on business as a bridle bit manufacturer in Long-acre. This day was ap pointed for resuming his examination, which had been adjourned over from the last day in order that he might afford a more specific detail of the appropria tion of the sum of 5,0001., which he embarked in the early part of 1841, when commencing business in part nership with his son in Long-acre. Mr. E. JAMES, who appeared on behalf of several Creditors, said the chief object of his clients was to come at the disposal of 5,0001., which had not been accounted for satisfactorily in his schedule; instead of which a long and irrelevant statement had Z - _ , een put in, which the bankrupt styled " a narrative." After some uninteresting discussion, the fur,: - .her examination was adjourned to the 6th of January. IN RE HENRY WM. WEBBER. The bankrupt in this case had been an extensive corn and coal merchant. The amount of debts in his schedule was 3 4,7001., and the available assets were stated at about 15,000/. The choice of assignees being fixed for this day, a number of proofs were admitted; after which Mr. Henry Jones, of the firm of Jones and Sons, and Wm. assignees. Western, were appointed ------ --= SINGULAR REWARD FOR THE DETECTION OF A FELONY.--A reward of 51. 10s., and an acre of land for fi ve years, rent free, to any poor man, has been offered fo:r giving informatio n w hi c h may lead to the conviction of some persons who, on the 9th of No vember, or early on the following morning, wilfully amid maliciously cut down an avenue of young trees, the Property of Richard N. Cartwright, Esq., gro w i ng i n the abbey grounds of Ixworth.—SsfroTh Herald. • - QUEEN-SQUARE. -(THIS DAY.) A striking instance of cruel treatment on the part of the police was brought under the notice of Mr. Burrell, the sitting Magistrate at the above Court, this morning. It appeared that Hugh Plumpion, an intelligent looking little fellow, about 11, who had been been lately released from the House of Correction, where he had been imprisoned a month for begging, had by dint of great exertion and uniform success in horse holding, &c., amassed a little capital of 2s. 6d., which he had invested in some half-bushel of walnuts, and a wicker-basket, and he had commenced this, his first morning in business, in Tuthill-street; a policeman of the B division, however, came up and pulled him off to the station-house. Mr. BURRELL asked this functionary if he had been aware of the circumstances above related, and his reason for taking the boy up, while trying to obtain an honest livelihood ; to which the policeman replied that the boy being newly out, with the fact that he was on the pavement while selling the nuts, were his motives in taking him before the Magistrate. Mr. BURRELL advised him to temper his zeal for the future, and gave the boy great praise for his de termined efforts to escape from his former mode of life. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Not only do we claim with confidence for the late Government the merit of having laid down for the guidance of the naval and military com manders, in carrying out the objects of the expedi tion, the identical line which they pursued to so successful a termination ; but we also claim, and challenge successful contradiction either in Par liament or by the Tory press—for the late Government, the merit of having prescribed, in all their principal particulars, the very terms which Sir Henry Pottinger has made the bases of the treaty of peace. In our state ments of these claims we have endeavoured to set them forth in the plainest and most unmistakeable terms. We have pinned the Times and its auxiliaries down to facts. We have sought to confine the con troversy within the limits to which those facts apply. The whole question, as between the two Governments and the parties they respectively represent, turns upon them. The very shirking of those material facts would be sufficient to excite suspicion of the advocates and their cause ; but when our opponents remain deaf to the repeated calls and challenges to -controvert those facts, if they can, and if not, to be silent, the insolence and dishonesty which persists in keeping up a con troversy on such terms, are deserving of the severest reprehension from the public, which is sought to be imposed on by such pertinacity. While on the sub ject of the treaty with China, we may mention, that in the statement we made of the sum to be paid by the Chinese Government to Great Britain, we rather under-rated the amount. The proportion which the 21,000,000 of dollars, bears to British money, is after the rate of four dollars to nineteen shillings British. On this estimate, the Exchequer of this country will receive little less than five millions sterling, instead of four millions and a half—the amount at which we originally estimated it. This will strengthen the position we took up with relation to the Income-tax. It will require more than the proverbial plausibility of Sir Robert Peel to per suade the country that, with five millions from China, between five and six millions from the first year's In come-tax, with decreased army and navy estimates, and an increased revenue derived from an increased consumption of the principal exciseable articles—with all these " appliances and means to boot," by which the Exchequer will be replenished and relieved, Sir Robert Peel will, we think, find it difficult to show that the Income-tax, with its iniquities and enormi ties, can consistently be continued beyond the present year. STANDARD.—Has the increase in the population been caused by an increase in the demand for manu factures ? We answer, no, except in a very small degree, and in that small degree only in so far as the protecting laws have communicated to the agricultu ral classes a share of the benefit resulting from the in creased demand for manufactures. For the proof. It is not very long since the free trade journals made it subject of boast that the manufacturers took off the surplus population of the agr i cu lt ura l di s t r i c t s , an d th e boast was founded upon statistical evidence that the manu facturing class could not keep up their number without large drafts from the agriculturists : it is plain, then, t o w hi c h class the increase of population (the considerati on now in hanod? ! to be imme • dte lyassigned.the But remote influence y their demand may be claimed encourage increase among the agriculturists, and under the protecting laws are compelled to aid the increased population which they promote. A credit for this influence we do not dispute; indeed it is a part of our case ; but w e m ust not overrate it, and to judge of its real amount, we must look over a wide field. Population has increased in the United Kingdom about 50 per cent. within the last 30 years; but has it not also increased in other countries, as well as the Unitenearl d Kingdom ? in es; we find it doubled in Prussia, y doubled the Austrian dominions, and indeed in al l Euro p ean countries, except France, Spain, and Italy- ; much more than doubled in the United States, and multi plied three, four, and five-fold in some of the British Colonies. This surely cannot be,all the work of Ark wright and Watt, for some of the countries in which population has made the most rapid increase are purely agricultural, and too far removed from manu factures to have any such relief as the manufacturers claim to afford to the British agricultural class. Peace, order, improved morals, a more diffused sense of religion —these are the causes that have augmented in such an astonishing proportion the population of the civilised world ; and if any one doubts that this is the case, he has merely to glance at the nations of Christendom, or say which population has retro graded, stood still, or made but a slight progress. George the Third, Wesley and Wilberfore, Burke and Pitt, have fully as much to do with the increase of the population of the United King dom as Arkwright and Watt—gratefully as we are bound to remember the names of the latter. Before we withdraw attention from the increase of population abroad, it may be well to consider what has been the effect of this increase upon our own manufactures. Is it not quite sufficient to account for the increase in exports ? and, the same causes c;intinuing to operate, does it not afford proof that, wit.`' occasional fluctuations, our exports must continue to inc,:ease? MEETIN,O OF PARLTAMENT.—It is now generally supposed thin:* the Legislature will not assemble for the dispatch 01" business until the usual period, viz., the first week in February, but nothing certain can be known on the sukiect until the next Privy Council. DETERMINED SUICADE AT HASTINGS.- - On Mon day afternoon a most determined suicide was com mitted by one of the men belono-ing to the Coast Guard service. It appears that, wile on duty on the beach under the East Hill, Hastings, he was observed by some persons at a distance to place his blunderbuss d fo d u is n c d har th g a e t it. the ball had passed On runnin to his assistance, g against his s i i t de wa an s through his heart, killing him on the spot. The un fortunate man has lefts wife and eight children. ----- CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) I EAST COWES. —ISLE OF NIGH T. NEW COURT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) John Collins was indicted for stealing 31. 2s. 6d. in 1 Nov.3o.—The Windsor Castle steamer, which can le money from Thomas Foster, his master Another lad into this harbour about two years since in a damage d named Charles Priestley, was charged with receiving state, in order to her being repaired on Mr. Ralsey' s the money, knowing that it had been stolen. Both patent slip, discharged her cargo into Mr. Auldjo'o prisoners bore a very respectable appearance ; they stores, then tenanted by Col. R. Hunter, Consul from each pleaded Guilty. Their previous character not the United States at this port. In consequence of being at all in their fav o u r, the y were sentenced to differences between the owners of the vessel and the seven years' transportation. They were ordered to be captain, and afterwards with the agent (Mr. Edward sent to the boys' ship to be taught a trade. Day) and since with another agent, the clerk to J. M'lntyre was indicted for stealing a quantity of Col. Hunter (Mr. Knowles), the . cargo has remained copper coin • he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to in the store, with four locks on it, to the serious in three months' ' imprisonment and hard labour. jury of the shippers and consignees, persons in DO way EMBEZZLEMENT.—J. R. Doyle, a young man of mixed up or promoting these suits, but whose pros respectable exterior, was indicted for embezzling va- perty was left to perish waiting their decision. After last Mr, Aulajo's . crcntl . r 7 .. rious sums of money, to a considerable amount, the ruinous expenses had been incurred, four property of Mr. Robert Harmer Macorel, in whose came down On Sunday last, to endeavour to get pos employment he was as clerk and servant. The pro- sion of the cargo. .z.: - : Tuesday secutor did not press for a heavy judgment, and the agents, assisted by the police and some labourers, prisoner received a good character. He was sentenced made their appearance, and served a notice on the o six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Collector of the Customs, who attended and removed lIODBERIES OF WlNE.—Emanuel Mallard was the Queen's lock ; at the request of the landlord, the chargod with stealing a quantity of wine, the pro- other three locks were then broken off (Captain Ema perty of J. Shoulder, his master. Being strongly re- nuel's, Mr. Edward Day's, and Mr. Knowles'). commended !As mercy by the Jury, the Court sen- Mr. Auldjo being satisfied for the amount of rent tenced him to o_vilY on e month's imprisonment. in arrear (two years, 1000, the London gentlemen Richard Sly was indicted for stealing severa l bottles took p ossession of their g oods, and are this day (Wed of wines, the properly of Mr. W. S. Markwell , the n esda y) busil y em p lo y ed shi pp in g it on board the rietor of the North and South American Coffee London trader Vectis, Jeffery, master, H for Cotton's o p use, Threadneedle_ s s ree ,‘,• where he had lived as wha rf. It consists of p orter in barrels and bottles, waiter. A boy named Charnc.' ell was the chief wit- mess beef in barrels, butter in firkins, flour in barrels, Hess against the prisoner, and it a p Teared that he had none of which appears to have received much damage, himself partaken of the wine taken; and had even nor the barley in bags, and the cases of plate glass; stood on the stairs while the prisoner went into the but the candles in boxes have perished, of the hams cellar. Six bottles were taken at one ti fle, five of nothing remains but the bones and the skin, and the them being put aside for a person of the n1:111° of cheeses are also in a bad state. The cargo altogether Blythe, a discharged waiter. has not suffered so much as might have been expected, The Corral . left it to the Jury whether they would ' when it is considered that the salt water was one foot convict on the evidence of a witness who had shared deep in the stores on a high tide, soon after the cargo in the crime and kept it a secret for four months. was lanfled. The 500 sovereigns are ordered to be The Jury acquitted the prisoner. placed in the Portsmouth branch of the Bank of Eng- Another indictment was preferred against him for laud, by Saturday next. The demands on this cargo stealing a number of goblets and tumblers in the exceeded 3,0001, but possession has been obtained by month of October, the glasses being the property of payment of only 1001. There is also in the store the the prosecutor in the last case. mac hinery of the steamer, and her spars and sails ; it Mr. Markwell said, acting on information he had will requirst another trader to convey away the whole. received, he went to the prisoner's lodgings at Char- POTATOES.—Six sloops, with west country potatoes ing-cross, where he found the glasses. Witness said for the London market, have been detained in Cowes he bad twenty-four waiters in his establishment, most harbour, during the past week, by the weather. of whom lived with his predecessor, Mr. Davis. - The barometer, which was at four A.M. on Monday A waiter of the house proved the ownership of the at 28.38, is now at 29.53. _ property. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to six months' hard labour. RADICAL ARITHMETIC VERSUS• TORY DISHONESTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sm,—One of our Tory journals—the same that was prosecuted to conviction a year or two ago for a series of lying libels on the character of some of our most respectable citizens—on Saturday last thought proper to call in question your arithmetic, in a para graph which appeared in The Sun, respecting the contributions to our local charities, and in order to show your inaccuracy, proceeded to place the sum contributed by the Grateful Society . to the credit of the Tory party. Now, my pur . pose is to inform you of a fact with which the Tory .editor was previously very well acquainted, viz., that the Grateful Society is avowedly non-political,, and is attended by persons of both parties ; therefore, the sum suloarlbad by that Society should either be left out of the account alto gether, or equally divided between the two parties, which would leave the result exactly as you stated, Having thus corrected the Tory version of your "Radical Aiithmetic," I will take the liberty to pro pose a problem of another kind, which I 4144 by happy to see solved in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal of Saturday next:— Whether is it more immoral, un wittingly to commit an arithmetical error, or lipoongly to publish a dishonest misrepresentation lam 11 - 1 T formed that the President of the Grateful Society this year was a Liberal; whether that were so or not, of this I am certain, that I am A LIBERAL WHO WAS INVITED TO DINE AT THE GRATEFUL SOCIETY, BY THE PRESIDENT. Bristol, Nov. 30. (From the Bristol Gazette.) The Journal of Saturday, in giving a paragraph from The Sun, relative to the collections of the dif ferent Societies on Colston's Anniversary, adds the following : " Now for the figures.—The two Tory Societies (the Dolphin and Grateful) contributed 8111. Bs. clear of all expenses. The Radical Anchor Society, 3801. 3s. , from which sum is to be deducted for 80 dinners (not to be too nice), say 501. Thus, instead of the Whigs " beating the Tories by nearly 1004" the To ries licked the Whigs to the tune of about 4811. We wonder who the wiseacre is that does the Bristol correspondence of The Sun ?" The statement of The Sunmight be excused on the plea of ignorance, for we do not expect the London journals to be accurately informed on mere local mat ters, but what shall be said of our Contemporary, who being on the spot, very coolly sets down the " Grateful" as a Tory Society, and claims the whole amount of its collection as a party subscription ? It is perfectly notorious that the "Grateful" is a neutral Society, and politics are carefully and strictly es chewed. Whoever may be the "wiseacre" that fur nished the statement to The Sun, he stands in a better position than the writer in the Journal, inasmuch as lack or knowledge is venial compared with wilful misrepresentation. TEMPLETON IN PARIS.—The English primo Lenore has been much feted by the elite of the musical pro fession during his late visit to the French capital. All who have heard Mr. Templeton are unanimous in praise of his rare qualities as a vocalist. On Saturday week Auber, the distinguished composer of Massa niello, Fra J)iavolo, Gustavus the Third, Lestocq, &c., gave Templeton an entertainment, and invited a large party of professors and dilettanti to meet him. During the evening Mr. Templeton delighted all present by singing several morceau from the various composi tions of his distinguished host, the maestro himself presiding at the pianoforte. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The list of Com missioners appointed by her Majesty for inquiring into and considering the most effectual means of im proving the metropolis, and of providing increased fa cilities of communication within the same, will appear in the Gazette to-morrow evening. The Committee of States having concluded their labours at Berlin, and returned to their respective pro vinces, Miss Fanny Elssler is, at present, the undis puted lion of the Prussian capital. A caricature has lately appeared there, with a view to show the com parative importance in which the Representative As sembly and the danseuse appear to have been held by the public. COAL M Ships arrived since s. d. s. d. Adair's Holywcll Main l7 6 Walls End Morrison ...... ~. IV 6 Nelson's %Vest Hartley l6 6 Walls End Russell's Hetton 20 6 Old Tanfield l6 6 Walls End Stewart's 2l 3 Ord's Redheugh l5 6 Walls End Sunderland lB 0 West Vs ylam l6 3 Walls End Cassop 29 6 Walls End Clennell l6 6 Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Sosforth Walls End Heaton l9 0 Walls Ei d Evenwood Walls End Hilda l7 6 Walls End Richardson'sTeesl7 9 Walls End Norihumberland 17 0 Walls End Seymour Tees... 19 6 Walls End Riddell's lB 9 Cowpen l6 6 Walls End Wharncliffe l9 0 Howard's West Netherton 16 6 Walls End Haswell 2O 1 Hartley l6 6 Walls End Hetton 2O 9 AR KET. last market.day, 2. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy Basinghall-street. J. Hopkins, butcher, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, Dec. 22, at half-past eleven—R. March, hatter, Cheap side, Dec. 22, at half-past eleven—J. Cockburn, mer chant, h w a e n ly t e , — lsT j e w. Brookß Broad-street, - andstre eTt Worcestershire, re rr e a s y t l e o r r s , h a ir n e d , Dwe.c.ls, Shand, Lo. i3ro n o d i o c, n , d D ra e p c e r 2 s o , , s a t o t u h r a b l f-p a ridge,st pas o— t merchants,tw a j un tjha,lf chester-street, London, Dee. 22, at half-p as t one —J. W. GreatG . B Win chester-street, igns Thomas, corn-merchant, New Corn-exchange, Mark lane, Dec. 22, at twelve—S. Jackson and T. F. Jtokson, woolstaplers, Bermondsey-street, Surrey, Dec. 22, at eleven—F. Preston, ship-builder, Southtown, Suffolk, Dec. 22, at half-past twelve—B. Sibarr ons aneJ. Brook , ironfounders, Folly, Dockhead, Bermondsey, Dec. 22, at half-past eleven—J. Hutton, merchant, Fenchurch-street, Dec. 20, at half-past one—J. Simmons, corn-dealer, Longwick, Buckinghamshire, Dec. 20, at one—H. T. Harrison, hotel-keeper, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, Dec. 20, at half-past twelve—H. Brand, coal-merchant, Cambridge, Dee. 20, at twelve—W. Brocksopp, grocer, High-street, Southwark, Dec. 20, at half-past twelve— J. Richmond, merchant, Lime-street, London, Dec. 20, at eleven—E. T. Gough, patent agent, Strand, Dec. 21, at eleven—G. A. Kollmann, pianoforte-maker, St. Mar tin's-lane, Dec. 20, at one—J. Kingsford and F. E. Kingsford, wine-merchants, Dever, Dec. 20, at twelve. In the Country. D. Buglass, victualler, Sunderland, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Sharp and R. Pearson, machine makers, Bradford, Yorkshire, Dec. 20—R. Lamb, iron merchant, Stockton, Durham, Dec. 20—J. and D. Arthur, iron masters, ‘Neath, Glamorganshire, Dec. 20-11. Morris, timber merchant, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Dec. 20 E. Minty, maltster, Warminster, Wiltshire, Dec. 20—T. Worinton, hosier, Burbage, Leicestershire, Dec. 20—W. Stewart, muslin manufacturer, Ludgate-hill, Dec. 22 W. Kearse, tailor, Belgrave-place, Walworth-road, Dec. 20—J. E. Beerbohm and W. E. Slaughter, merchants, Fenchurch•street, Dec. 22—T. Scott, commission agent, Bow Church-yard, Dec. 23—W. Ansel!, shopkeeper, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Dec. 22—C. King, J. San dell, and D. H. King, paper stainers, Berners-street, Ox ford-street,Dec. 24—J. Atkins, sen., and J. Atkins, jun., lime merchants, Coulsdon, Surrey, Dec. 23—W. Mills, innholder, Caterham, Surrey, Dec. 23—R. B. Culyer, currier, Clifton -street, Finsbury, Dec. 22—T. Wooster, jun., merchant, Liverpool -street, City, Dec. 22—F. J. Osbaldeston, horse dealer, St. Alban's, Dec. 22-4. Rey nolds, sen., and J. Reynolds, jun., drysalters,•Dowgate dock, Upper Thames -street, Dec. 20—J. Ivery, car penter, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Dec. 20-3. Flood, surgeon, Dean -street, Westminster, Dec. 21-li. H. Smyth, merchant, Cornhill, Dec. 23—J. J. Smith, bookbinder, Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Dec. 23 J. Simpson, licensed victualler, Camberwell, Dec. 20—T. Humfrey, jun., bricklaye r , Great Stanmore, Middl esex , Dec. 22—W. and B. Cribb lucifer match manufacturers, Regent's-canal-basin, Dec. 22—F. J. Mitchell, builder, Aldersgate-street, Dec. 22—G. F. Sizer, linen draper, Worcester, Dec. 20—G. Greenwell, J. B. D. Dearberg, and W. Whitehall, silk manufacturers, Fore-street, City, Dec. 21—J. Bryant; bookseller, King William-street, West Strand, Dec. 20—J. and J. J. Shury, engravers, Charterhouse-street, Dec. 21—C. Newman, ironfounder, Scrips, Essex, Dec. 22—J. Reeve, carver, High Holborn, Dec. 22—J. Dover, merchant, Three Cranes Wharf, City, Dec. 23—J. Mills, canal carrier, London-wall, Dec. 23- 8, Smith, timber merchant, Pump-row, Old-street-road, Dec. 23—W. N. Hunt, stationer, Watling-street, Dec. 23 —T. Maguire, publican, Livernool, Dec. 21—H. Brand, slater, Cambridke, Dee. 20-1). Antrobus, salt merchant, tireat Budwortb, Cheshire, Dec. 22—T. G. Martin, A. Great A Winchester-, ath ean ds.lo s o t r re e, et d eoailedrs,Tlroad -swtrineeet,mDeerce.h2a3n—t, Liver pool, Dec. 21— G. P. Kennan and A. Samson, calico printers, Manchester, Dec. 22—J. Brookbanks, draper, Dudley, Worcestershire, Dec. 23—J. Hayward, book seller, Manchester, Dec. 22—R. Wharton, innkeeper, Oldham, Lancashire, Dec. 21—H. Hepworth, cloth manu facturer, Leeds, Dec. 22—J. Ross, woolstapler, Halifax, Yorkshire,i Dec. 22—W. Reynolds, cotton spinner, Breightmet, Lancashire, Dec. 21—F. Arthur, coach maker, Birmingham, Dec. 26—J. Pidcote and T. Barton, corn factors, Nottingham, Dec. 22. TILE LONDOI T) THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1842. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Maguire and H. Higgins, woollen-drapers, Bir mingham—J. S. Taylor, R. Lees, E. Lees, and H. Lees, coal-getters, Sconthead, Yorkshire—J. Murch and J. F. Kilner, wine-merchants, Exeter—J. Braddock and 1-1. G. Ratcliffe, dress-makers, Stockport—J. Souter and E. 0. Symons, builders, Exeter -street, Sloane-street, Chel sea—B. Butcher and E. Butcher, mercers, Chesterfield, Derbyshire—T. Rayner and J. Thompson, attorneys, Sheffield—S. Hardman, I'. Shepherd, and J. Warburton, spindle-manufacturers, Farnworth, Lancashire—D. Birt wisle, W. Birtwisle, T. Birtwisle, R. Birtwisle, and D. Birtwisle, jun., carpenters, Bury, Lancashire (as far as regards D. Birtwisle, R. Birtwisle, and D. Birtwisle, jun.) —J. F. Earlidge and T. Finley, sago dealers, St. John square, Clerkenwell—H. Richardson and E. T. N. Jen kins, out-fitters, Mark-lane—J. Whitley, M. Whitley, and H. Wilson, confectioners, Wakefield—J. S. Phillips and F. Sandon, dentists, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square —J. Steer and W. J. Richards, engravers, Coventry street, Haymarket—R. Whipp and J. Hayhurst, cotton , spinners, Constablee, Lancashire—J. Kelsall, J. Reed, and B. Taylor, earthenware-manufaCturers, Ferrybridge Pottery, Yorkshire—W. Batt, scn., and W. G. Good acre, pawnbrokers, Reading—P. Weston, T. Weston, and A. Weston, drapers, High Wycombe—P. Cochran, W. Thomson, and J. Todd, ink-manufacturers, Liverpool —E. B. Wilson and F. A. Prater, merchants, Kingston upon-Hull—J. Smith and H. Smith, earthenware-dealers, Great Marlow--J. Heap, G. Bury, E. Riley, and A. Moadsley, calico-engravers, Accrington, Lancashire (so far as regards A. Moadsley)— C. Cave and J. Cave, far mers, Fletching, Sussex—M. Ashton, H. I'. Ashton, 3. Neale, J. Hartley, and Jas. Hartley, iron-founders, Liver pool (as fur as regards J, Hartley and Jas. Hartley). REPEAL OF THE INCOME-TAX. The provincial journals have commenced an appeal, which we trust the Liberal Press throughout the country, backed by petitions to the House of Com mons, will continue to urge upon Sir Robert Peel, for the removal of this now unnecessary impost, until it is abandoned. The Durham County Herald has the following : " One of the most obvious and immediate advan tages of the treaty of peace which Sir Henry Pottin ger has arranged, is the vast amount of money which will be brought during the next three years into the national treasury. The primary reason alleged by Sir Robert reel hig speech on the 11th of March, for the imposition of the income-tax, was the heavy expenditure on account of the China expedition, which he estimated for 1842 -43 at no less than 1,500,0001, If only on the ground that the heavy drain an the treasury to meet the expenses of this war will be stopped, the na tion may indeed rejoice at peace being restored in the East; and sinee 1,00 0 ,000 Of dollars are destined to fall into the lap of the Government, let the people not only hear, but also feel, the felicitous effects of the grateful intelligence, by the immediate abrogation of the Income Tax—a tax so odious, so abhorrent, so de spotic and inquisitorial, as must render it alike the policy and happiness of a great Minister to repeal it instanter, at a moment so propitious. " In order, however, to aid Sir Robert Peel in so praiseworthy an object, we would urge upon the in habitants of this and every other town in England and Scotland to petition Parliament for its abroga tion. And if the Premier should in this matter dis appoint the nation's, hopes and wishes, he may rest assured that when that high office may again become ' vacant, the community will never more ask for re- Peel! " The news from China and India is already highly gratifying, and corning. a t the present juncture, when t y La l d i e o i a n ic e u v i e a r td every quarter inspiritritthe British people, and to arter is drooping and depressed, it is induce them to a nticipate brighter and better days ; but if the repeal of the Income-tax result from this arrangement, the gratification of the country will be greatly enhanced." The Caledonian Mercury speaks thus :—" When Sir Robert Peel introduced the Income-tax, he esti mated the deficiency in the year ending sth April, 1843, at 2,569,00 01 . to which there fell to be added a sum of 700,0001., or 800,0001., on account of the Chinese war, over and above the 500,000/. already assigned for that purpose; then there was the defi ciency on the last five years, ending sth April, 1842, of 7,200,0001., snaking for the six years, ending sth April, 1843, a deficiency of about 10,000,000/. The total produce of the Income-tax was calculated at 3,771,0001., and the additional. Irish duties at 410,0001. " While the estimated deficiency in the current ex penditure was to be made good in the shape of addi tional taxation, of course the debt of the by- one few years was not to be redeemed all at once. Well, then, in what shape is the country to receive the benefit of paid by China ? Had the settled on the present terms the Chinese 5,000,0001. question t b o een be previous to March, 1842, when the Income-tax was announced, Sir Robert Peel would never have ven tured on such a scheme. And because this unlooked for and prosperous contingency arises when that tax is adjusted and in the course of being imposed—and simultaneous with the announcement of the final vic tories in India, which contest was another ground for the imposition of that grievous tax—is the country still to be kept under so odious and galling a yoke ? There must be a mitigation more or less when Par liament meets, or Sir R. Peel will be hurled from power." At a meeting of the Glasgow Town Council, on Thursday last, Mr. Bell gave notice of the following motion :—" That this Council, in consequence of the happy adjustment of our differences with China, and the prospect of the speedy termination of the war in Affghanistan, memorialise her Majesty's Government, praying that Government may submit to. Parliament, as early as possible, a measure to repeal the Income and Property-tax."—Glasgow Chronicle. At one of the stated meetings of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, held yesterday at their Hall in Hunter-square, Mr. ROBERT CADELL begged to submit a motion for an early meeting of the Company to con skier of a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the Income-tax, not three years hence, but on the close of the first year, on next sth of April. Every one was aware of the glorious news of the last few days ; they had removed every reason given by Sir Robert Peel for the imposi tion of this abominable tax. The fears from collision with the United States were at an end ; the Chinese war, one of the principal reasons for the impost, is closed ; the Afghan war, one other reason for it, may be said to have ceased ; but, above all, nearly five millions of money is to be paid, which will meet half the declared deficiency of the revenue, one, main cause of the tax; a saving on the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. will b r i ng in one million more ; and there is the grinding of the drain on our incomes for the difference. During the war, which many here must recollect, the severity of ten per cent. was less felt be cause every man's hand was full—prices high —money yielding a high interest—and we had, as a nation, the monopoly of the trade of the world. The tax was not felt by those Sir Robert Peel meant to feel it—he thought to relieve those who had some one hundred and fifty pounds a year, while, in fact, he had placed it on the lower or working classes. The rich cut down their establishments; the middle classes save it by ecenomy ; every trader feels the effect of all this ; and the poor man-servant or maid-servant is turned adrift—they are the real sufferers. Now is the time to make a movement. The greatest politi cal blunder of our time was made by Lord John Russell, in not protesting against this tax, as one only to be levied in peace, oh the day its was tabled by Sir Robert Peel. Let that eminent nobleman go forthwith to the Guildhall of London, and lead a cru fthGatreaiotnßgreirtaitnhatno the o s t t h h er A , p a r n i d l, 1 1 8 et 43 h , in it s sade against thi s t ax, an d h e w ill b e respon d e d to f rom giveone end for t h o , shall not last. The meeting received this proposal with one burst of approbation, and appointed a meeting to be held in their Hall, on Friday the 2d December, to take the subject into consideration.—Scotsman. [This example should be universally followed.] - DICKENS'S AMERICAN NOTES.—The Harpers, too, have brought out this work, in the form of their select novels, at the small price of one shilling ; which , we should say, i s just about as much as it is worth. It is however, written in a lively, oil hand style, and so is likely to be read with pleasure for the moment. The Harpers have stereotyped it.—New York Paper. By the death of Sir George Townshend Walker, Bart., G.C.8., a vacancy has occurred in the household of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to whom that gallant officer was for many years " Groom of the Bed chamber"—a fact that showed great political impar tiality on his Royal Highness's part, as Sir George was, to the last, a stanch Tory. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 30. BBITNATTI V. CIOZZOITO. This was an action brought by an Italian inter preter, to recover the sum of 601. Is., alleged to be due from the defendant, the captain of a Venetian po lacca, for work and labour done, and for money paid. The defendant pleaded that he had made various payments to the plaintiff, which, together with a sum of 17/. 10s. lid. paid. into Court, made up a sum of 361.105. 7d. which was all plaintiff was entitled to receive. Mr. noggins appeargd for the plaintiff and Mr. Watson for the defendant. For the plaintiff several witnesses were called, who proved that the plaintiff had acted as interpreter daily for the defendant, for about three months, and had paid some small sums as boat hire, and as tavern re konings, on his account. The plaintiff charged 105.6 d. a clay for his labour as an interpreter, snd alleged he had been employed 84 days ; and a witness, named Mocada was called to prove that the charge was a reasonable one. On his cross-examination, however, he admitted that he himself was as good an inter preter as Brunatti, that the highest amount of remu neration he had ever received was 7s. 6d. a day, and that only on one occasion, and that on all other occa sions he had received only ss. a day. For the defendants, the clerk of Messrs. Pope, the ship-brokers to defendant's ship, was called to prove various payments made to plaintiff on defendant's ac count, and a host of interpreters, who all swore that it was not usual to make any charge for interpreting, but to leave the question of remuneration to the gene rosity of the captain. The utmost ever given where a ship remained even for four or five months, was 101. The usual remuneration was Si. for the.time the ship remained in port. It was proved also that plaintiff lived with the captain and took his meals with him, and that he had been paid Si. allowed by Lloyd's to the captain for an interpreter, and 9/. 10s. by Messrs. Pope as commission for getting them the ship. The Jury found a verdict, stating that they con sidered he was entitled to 7s. 6d. a day for his ser vices for eighty-four days, and that they disallowed all his other claims except a sum of 3s. 2d. The verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff, damages 31. 2s. 5d., being the balance due, after de ducting the money paid into Court, and the payments made by defendant. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Jnstice CovniAN.) LETTER STEALING.— William Taylor, aged 24, a post man, pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a letter, containing a half sovereign, the pro perty of the Postmaster-General, Mr. BALLANTYNE, for the prisoner, called several wit nesses who gave him an expellent character, and deposed to his having suffered great distress and poverty in con sequence of ill health, The Learned JUDGE postponed passing sentence. CHARGE OF FORGERY.— Daniel Beckenham, 30, de scribed in the calendar as a founder, was charged with forging the acceptance of Messrs. Evans and Co., the druggists, of Thames-street. Mr. CLARKRON, for the prosecution, stated that the prosecutors, upon consideration o f the case, did not think it advisable to offer any evidence against the pri soner under the circumstances. A partnership to carry out a patent had existed between the Messrs. Evans and the prisoner, which had terminated. They had reason to suppose the prisoner did not think it had so termi nated at the time he accepted the bill, in the following terms :—" For Messrs. Evans, Brothers, and Co. Daniel Beckham," As there was every reason to believe the prisouer had no felonious intent, with the consent of the Court, the prosecution would be withdrawn. After a few observations from Mr. Boniutt on behalf of the prisoner, Mr, Justice COLTMAN said he had no objection to the adoption of the course proposed by Mr. Clarkson, under the circumstances. The Jury consequently acquitted the prisoner. CHILD MURDER.—EIIen Mitigate, a good-looking young woman, aged 20, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate male child, on the 21st of October last. Mrs. Pratt lived at Camden-place, Camberwell, with her brother. Knew the prisoner at the bar, who lived at her brother's house as servant. Recollected .on Friday evening, the 21st of October, taking the prisoner up some gruel. The prisoner was lying on the bed with her clothes on. She had been complaining of a pain in her stomach, Witness told her to undress, which she did, when witness saw blood on her clothes. Wit ness said to the prisoner, " You are unwell," to which she replied, " She was." Witness then came down stairs and told her sister of the illness of the prisoner. Witness again went up, but nothing passed between her and the prisoner. Saw the prisoner again the next morning, and in a band-box in her room, under a bonnet, she discovered the dead body of a child. Her sister was in the room at the time, and exclaimed, "'Oh ! Ellen, how could you do such a thing as that," to, which the prisoner made no reply. Up to the time of the prisoner's being taken ill she had done her usual work, and there was nothing in her appearance to shew she was with child. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner only came to witness's brother's house on the 17th of October. Her brother. in-law had taken the prisoner into their service from her previous good conduct in her last place. • Ann Long recollected going to Mr. Pratt's house on Friday, the 21st October. Went up stairs to the prisoner's ;room. She appeared to be unwell ; and upon witness asking her how long she had been so, she answered nearly two months. Witness observed spots on the floor, which :induced her to ask the question. Witness was with the prisoner the whole of Friday night, and on the following morning a search being made, the body of the child was ;discovered in her band-box, Saw no marks of violence on the body of the child. Saw something round its neck like a dark piece of ribbon, but witness could not tell what it was, The lips and right side of the face appeared black. The body was cold. Mr. Green, a surgeon at Camberwell, was called in to see the prisoner, and found her unwell, but he did not think at that time that she had been delivered of a child. On discovering the body of the child its countenance appeared distorted ; a piece of green ribbon was turned several times round the neck tight. On examining the child, the lungs appeared partially inflated, the heart in a healthy state, and there was every appearance to denote that the child had been born alive. Witness had no doubt that the prisoner had recently been delivered of a child. On the cross-examination of this witness by Mr. Clarkson, he stated that the ligature might have been placed about the neck of the child by the prisoner, for the purpose of aiding herself, not having any other assistance ; and all the marks described by him would have existed from the application of the ligature, whatever might have been the cause of its application. Inspector Walters produced the ligature found on the neck of the child. • • This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. CLARKSON most feelingly addressed the Jury at considerable length on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up, and the Jury after a short consultation, found the prisoner guilty of concealing the birth of the child. Justice COLTMAN sentenced her to two years' imprisonment and hard labour. STEALING LETTERS.—Wm. Taylor, who pleaded guilty in the early part of the day to an indictment, charging him with stealing a letter containing half a sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-General, and whose sentence the Learned Judge deferred, was now called up for judgment. Mr. Justice COLTMAN sentenced him two years' imprisonment and hard labour, observing that he at first doubted whether he ought not, consistently with his duty, to sentence him to transportation. Charles Williams alias George Thompson, 30, was indicted, for that he having been before convicted of uttering counterfeit coin, afterwards committed the offence of uttering counterfeit money. Mr. Ellis and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecu tion. The case was of the ordinary description ; and it appeared that, in the month of January, 1840, the prisoner was tried at this Court, and convicted of the offence of passing counterfeit money, and he was sen tenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. It was proved that the prisoner had since passed a counterfeit shilling. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was ordered to be transported for ten years. Charles Bounton, 37, was charged with a capital offence upon Clara Tilley ; and Thomas Howard, 28, was charged with being an accessory to the commis sion of the offence. Mr. Ballartine defended the prisoners. It will be remembered that the prisoners had the charge of a Windsor waggon, and that the prosecu trix, who is the wife of a soldier stationed at that place, rode in their waggon ; and it Was alleged that Bounton, taking advantage of her unprotected condi tion, committed .the offence imputed to him. The case, however, was by no means satisfactorily made out. The Jury acquitted both prisoners. Daniel Beekham vas charged with feloniously ut tering a forged acceptance to a bill of exchange for 163/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Evans Brothers, and Co. The Jury, by direction of the Court, returned a verdict of not guilty. The Recorder sat in the evening, and disposed of several cases, none of which possessed any features of public interest. NEW COURT. ROBBERY ON THE THAMES.—Henry Gaines, 22, and John Kelly,lB, lightermen, were indicted for stealing 48 quarters of beans, and 133 quarters of oats, and a barge, the property of William Batt, value 2951. There were also indictments charging the pri soners with stealing the barge, 364 sacks, and a skiff. It was shown by Mr. PAYNE, who appeared for the defence, that the prisoners had been found sleeping upon some sacks, and that the vessel which they had been seen to enter had, by some circumstance, floated from its first spot, carrying them with it. There was no evidence to show that they moved the barge, and their statement that, on going home late, they had got into the cabin to sleep, was nothing improbable. Several witnesses who had known Kelly for years, spoke of him as an excellent character for general honesty. The COMMON SERGEANT said, if the Counsel called witnesses to character, the jury should know all. lie then summed up the evidence, considering that the charge had been clearly proved against the prisoners, but the jury immediately found both the prisoners not guilty. There was a disposition in the audience to applaud the verdict given, but it was immediately checked. The COMMON SERGEANT then ordered the prisoners to be detained on the indictment for stealing the skiff. John Holland was charged with stealing a purse and 51. in money, from the person of Eliza Aline Club borne. The police said the prisoner had long been known as a member of the " swell - mob," and that he was in the habit of frequenting places of public resort. —Guilty. Transported for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. THE RECOVERY OF THE STOLEN NOTES OF THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.—At the request of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Bush, the Solicitor to the Com mittee of Bankers for protection from forgeries and fraud, waited upon his Lordship for the purpose of communicating what had occurred with respect to the extensive robbery committed by the clerk of the London Joint-Stock Bank upon that establishment on Saturday. The Lord Mayor having been informed 'by Mr. Bush that all the bank-notes and all the sovereigns, with the exception of between 3001. and 4001., had been restored to the managers of the bank on the pre ceding night, His LORDSHIP asked whether the reward was still offered for the apprehension of the robber, or whether, as the property had been almost entirely returned to the Directors, they had thought proper to proceed no further against that individual ? Mr. Bush replied that the Bank Managers were determined_toproceed against the offender as if no restitution had been made. They entertained not the most distant thought of a compromise. The property had been given up to them quite unconditionally, through a friend of the clerk. The LORD MAYOR supposed the delinquent could not have made use of the note 3 without considerable difficulty. Mr. Bush said that there were difficulties oertainly in the way of disposing of notes under such circum stances, and that the Bank had promptly adopted the most effectual means of preventing them from being passed to other parties. The offender had possessed himself of 600 sovereigns, as well as the bank-notes mentioned in the advertisement, and of these he had returned so many that the deficit did not amount to more than 300/. and 400/. The LORD MAYOR said he had no doubt the secu rities of the offender would be made responsible for the deficiency. Mr. Bush—Certainly ; the securities are liable. The LORD MAYOR stated his object in making the inquiry to be to satisfy the public of the restoration of the property, the disappearance of which, under such circumstances, had caused a very general feeling of regret. WORSHIP-STREET. Harriet Surgrove, a young lady of very interesting appearance, aged 22, was charged by her father, the Rev. John Surgrove, the Rector of St. Mary, So merset, Upper Thames-street, with having absconded from home, taking with her the whole of her ward robe, and also with having obtained goods in his name from different tradesmen. The Rev. Gentleman stated that he was under the painful necessity of charging the defendant, who was his youngest daughter, with having absconded from home in company with his gardener, a young man named William Godfrey, and with having, since her departure, obtained a variety of articles from different tradespeople on his account. On the morning of Sun day last he left her in charge of his house in Dalston terrace during his absence at church, and on return ing home in the afternoon he found that she had gone away, and had removed the whole of her wearing apparel and everything belonging to her. Mr. BINGHAM inquired whether he had been in the habit of authorising his daughter to give orders for goods in his name, previously to this unhappy occurrence. The complainant answered in the affirmative, and said that she was treated with the utmost indulgence in every respect. Mr. BINGHAM said, that as a Magistrate he had no power to deal with :the case, and discharged the pri soner, who then left the court with her father. TILE VICTORIES rig - ASIA.---AS may be naturally supposed, the whole interest, conimercial and political, is centred in the important news from the East. The success of our arms in Affghanistan, and of our negotiations at Nankin, have caused an excitement which has been rarely witnessed : the favourable operation upon our manufactures has been imme diate ; and those who were loudest in their blame of Lord Palmerston, for what they called his anti-com mercial policy, are not backwerd in their rejoicing at the bright prospect the triumph of his policy has afforded to us. The unscrupulous attempt to de prive him of the credit of this important result, and to appropriate the merit to the Tories, has wholly failed ; the most that ,the public will admit is, that the virulent opponents of his policy have the good fortune to be in office when the triumphant issue has been achieved.—Glasgow Argus. TILE INCOME-TAx.—The labours of the Commis sioners are rapidly drawing to a conclusion, in as far as the eastern district of the city of London is con cerned. They met on Saturday, at ten o'clock (the Commissioners present being Aldermen Wilson, Gibbs, and Musgrove, Mr. Deputy Blackett, Messrs. Pea cock, R. L. Jones, Sampson ' and Melville), but they adjourned at eleven o'clock, having no business before them. The sitting was resumed at a later hour, but all the business was finished before two o'cloc1;. On Monday there were 132 numbers taken out, the greater portion of which were satisfactorily disposed of. In one case only—and that a very bad one—was the ap pellant sent back to amend his return. We understand that the Commissioners, finding that their leniency has been abused, are now leaning to a more strict in terpretation of the Act ; but this only in cases when the attempt at evasion is palpable. the Commission ors attending on Monday were the s ame as on Saturday, with the addition of Alderman Musgrove and Messrs. Carter, King, and Mr. Deputy Allen. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Tuesday night between five and six o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower part of the premises of Messrs. Warren and Co., blacking manu facturers. In a few minutes three of the Chandos street engines, with Mallet and several firemen, were on the spot, and instantly got the engines into opera tion, but from the dense smoke issuing from the cellars where the fire was raging among the straw in the crates, considerable difficulty was experienced for some time to bear upon the flames, till fortunately the County, Farringdon-street, Crown-street, West of England, and also the City engines arrived to their assistance, with Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent, when the supply of water being abundant, they were enabled to pour streams of water into the lower part of the premises, and thus prevented the fire reaching the shops, otherwise the whole of that extensive establishment must have been destroyed. It is said that the fire was caused by an explosion from lucifer matches. Tun CHINESE WAR.—The following is an extract of a letter from that gallant officer Captain Hall, of the Hon. Company's steamer Nemesis, to a gentleman in this city, dated Nankin, August 31, 1842 :—" Now the war is happily over, I have time to think of my old friends. Yes, thank God, we have at last brought these fellows to respect the name of our noble coun try, anal to speak of us with respect. They have been regularly beaten into it; and I feel proud and...thank ful in having taken such an active part. The parti culars you must have seen and heard all about before this. 'Yes, the Chinese know her well, they call her the devil ship; fire ship, a n d a ll sor t s of names. Well, I do think myself truly glad to get out of it as I have. At'Chapoo I had two of my men shot at my 'side ; and tIM other day, at the taking of Woosung, one of my men had his right arm shot off, the arm chest near where I was standing shot to pieces, and fifteen shots struck us that day. I hope some of these' days to give you all particulars myself; for the Present, you must be content with this short scroll. eace was signed on board the Cornwallis on :he 29th instant. 'I was present, and a very interesting sight it was; and the day before I was at the top of the far famed Porcelain Tower, and had the pleasure of drinking the Queen's health and friends north of the Tweed. The sight was truly splendid. We rode out,' about twenty-five of us, on Chinese horses, and had a good dinner there, and returned the same even ' ing to our outer advanced guard, where our artillery was. The latter are a fine set of fellows."—Caledonian Mercury. ;;The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 29th ult. states, that for some time past alarming reports had been in cir culation at Vienua relative to Prince Metternich's health. "It is true, " says the Gazette, " that the Prince had been slightly indisposed, and had even a consultation of physicians, who recommended that his Highness should take more exercise than he had been hitherto accustomed to do, but that there was nothing in his case to cause the slightest alarm amongst the Prince's numerous friends." Tax WEST INDIA AND MEXICO MAILS.—The following notice was issued on Tuesday at St. Martin's le-Grand and the branch offices :---" The Clyde steamer for the West India mails for the Ist December (to -day), not being ready for sea, will be detained until the arrival of the post of Saturday, the 3d of December, at Falmouth. The Tay steamer arrived at Madeira on the evening of the 9th or morning of the 13th inst. ; she was prevented by a gale of wind from touching at Co rti/31M POLISH REVOLUTION. Tuesday, being the twelfth anniversary of the Po lish Revolution, a great number of the Poles assembled at the rooms of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, in Duke-street, St. James's, to commemo rate a day glorious in the annals of Europe, as hav i ng given occasion for a display of valour and patriotism unparalleled in the chivalrous ages. Captain Jablon ski having been called to take the chair, addressed the meeting in a very energetic speech, and reminded his countrymen of the glory which Poland has acquired, and the services she has rendered to Europe. lie then glanced at the later periods of the history of that country, and forcibly expatiated upon one of the most in famous transactions recorded in history — t he parti tion of Poland, and the annihilation of her theindepend ence. Having come to the anniversary of day of the 29th of November, 1830, in the event of which every one present at the met ing had taken an * active part, he assured brethren that the struggle for liberty and natins! independence was .not yet at an end ; that they woulq all be again called upon to rescue their nati ve land from the yoke of the oppressor. That sorry as he wa s he to embitter their already protracted suffering s, could not pass over in silence that religious persecu tion which the remorseless hand of their ene m y has recently inflicted upon their country. He cou ld not refrain from saying that the faith of their ancestors,: the churches wherein its rites were celebrat ed, ana the clergy who administered its consolation d to a people deprived of every earthly blessing, had nTb with treatment at the hands of the Emperor of Russia which would have disgraced a barbarian conqueror. . But it was not for him to relate the part i cu l ar s of th e unexampled cruelties perpetrated by the ambition of Nicholas; the public press had already brought. them. to light, and he trusted that the Almighty , I .a the justice, would decree that these insults offered in name of religion to the principles of ChrishaniMi should be of no long continuance. Suffer, as th e y a t h must,. to see their father-land reduced to such adPrs n. e o . f misery and abasement, to find themselves Iva in a foreign land, and severed from the ties which are dearest to humanity, still (continued Capt. ja . bl° l3s 1 ` in ultimatelyt triumph, and this conviction oug ht they must not yet despair. The cause of justice mils spire every one of them with certainty that thecae cause of Poland is not lost, but she is destined once become a barrier against the irruption of A s iatic pai d harians (he could give them no other nam e) ' , 513 0 f prove, as she has often proved before, the bulwark .Christendom . and of Europe. Captain jablen!..' having concluded amidst loud cheers, .55u3liur. zewski, Mr. Wiercinski,) Mr. Prusinowski, Reczynski, and the young poet, Mr. Olizart ro wl successively addressed the meeting in ye r Y to s_ langu . age, particularly the last, whose poetical eo.o_ po . sition bore the character of religious with . regard to the duty imposed upon every Fe le ' as children of one and the same mother, the unfor o . nate Poland. The speeches were in Polish, th e the sembly being composed entirely , of ales; in sensation produced by these energetic appals in a . remarkable degree powerful -and affecting• o f meeting then broke up, amidst the ardent wtsb e ,li g . all present that the next anniversary m ight be brated in Poland. exhortan:: STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterdaYiljo, MANCHESTER.—Since the market of y'es te week, a slight advance has taken place in so me , of scriptions of manufactured goods, and also in y'¢ current current numbers, and ready for immediate deliv6,,ed Yesterday, however, th e d eman d appeared to he chochso, by the advance ; many foreign orders for god' re . ing been sent with limits considerably below the p, ln, sent rates, are necessarily lying over for fortherco structions ; consequently the market, though perf e un t firm, did not exhibit much activity; and the st n° of business done was comratively limited. oR The ROCHDALE FLANN EL MARKET, Nov. -- _ n d demand for flannels continues extremely brisk On. to-day's market has been equal to any of the .I ) _ 4 l ` ceding ones. Yet, with the ready sale that Pler to have met with, the manufacturer has not been ° ver y obtain any advance of price. There has bee n the little doing in the wool market, on account ° ,.. c e, dealers attempting to obtain an advance ill PsAin which has been resisted by the manufacturer s. b etter wool is more difficult to buy, and rather bav e prices have been given ; but other descriptions the been sold at former prices. It was state d in d market, that at the London sales, the l a tter en d o f last week, skin wool had been sold at an advs ne° one pound per pack. !,( hIC D ' STATE OF TEADE..=--The revival in tra de ' ctlatx' had begun to show itself in the first portion month, has received a decided stimulus from Om ° ; e ft of f pected settlement of the dispute with China. wh h i ope, it must be admitted, mi n gles in the tee i , now pervades the manufacturing and faercsa.cii tile circles. But, besides the beneficial effects svnide the d restoration of peace cannot fail to have cn trade an commerce, by removing a cause of exPe nse un fi certainty, the triumph of our arms has forced °P en t a f eld so extensive for British enterprise that exe e nc e t ; a ion can scarcely be too highly raised as to the e ll i a l which the event is lik e ly t o h ave on the c° innl W ere ld/ et prospects of the country. The entire Eastern with the exception of Japan, is now laid °pan to j o t % merchants; and, great as is our trade in th e wi at impossible to e sti ma t e th e h e i g ht to which it tain in the altered circumstances of that heall.t-selif, populous, and productive hemisphere. Ch ina„ ! with its teeming population of three hundred 11111: instead of being accessible to our control ° ti ,,;. a ffet l i port only, and that one not the best fitted for is now accessible at five ports, and those,unlike t ar ,'" 10 so situated as to make it certain that, in less t i r i i - pa months from this time, British manufactures No i r e. their way into every part of the Celestial fi°o,3o, cheering; and no sinister event will, The prospect is, it must be admitted on all:J ar iae w e ow' , a l of to cloud it. Nothing is now wanted but the r e P e o ore the Corn-laws to enable England to spring once to t he forward in the career of prosperity ; and, thank: event energy of the Anti-Corn-law League, even thn" f the is more probable than the continued existence ° present atrocious statute.—Liverpool Albion' 500 THE NEW NAUTICAL NOVEL, " CLUB," BY "THE OLD SAILOR."—" The p°Pu la Mr Barker's writings have acquired is well des fa icl it will not subside, but will doubtless strengthebe has extend, both among the members of the servic e c lass so faithfully described, and among the nurnet°ll-facti of readers, who, though they know nothing P iuse cally of the service, find an endless source of and ment in perusing illustrations of the character:i'llich narratives formed of the soul-stirring incidents whose abound in the eventful lives of British seamen,lw the foibles are forgotten in the fun they in s p ire ofte n drollery in which they invest the mischief they bast perpetrate. In The Naval Club' Mr. P.Bl.:'eoonse in his best manner, brought befbre us an the variety of those incidents, in which the grave_ia oafhl gay will alternately find matter for serious srorreen' and hearty hilarity. Life Afloat and Life in iglus' with Hospital—interspersed with ane cdotes t cole trative of the characters of some of th e In the dif; brated of the heroes of the quarter-deck — ' , " stiPP' , . l ferent gradations of their professional career ire the subjects of these volumes. TheY P ala u interest which cannot flag; and will he among nautical men, as they cannot fail t ° general readers."—Globe. SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS.—TUegwv gospe. Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Aliddlesl J o seph tai on the body of an aged glass stainer, nan' e he wio Miller. A gentleman's servant said dud, passing the end of Newman-mews, Oxfor"' saw deceased in the act of cutting his throat arms razor. The witness instantly pinioned the a ro of. the deceased and forced him to throw away the tro y He asked deceased why he had attempted askrae? himself, when the latter said, " How can yolioly I did it from distress." As he was bleeding P r i c' co y from a wound in the throat, he was prowl from veved to the above hospital, in which he di erelli' mental depression and loss of blood. Mr. Total!, t hat a sculptor, of the Cornwall-road, Southwark, sal" ali a he had known deceased for the last fifty vears,oo6o had taken tea with him on Monday last, at year 11 . 1 A, in Golden-square. He then appeared of weak In' la:trewe.t,,2les and had been so for the last eight or nine months. post nzortern examination, of the head of deceas'A into the ventricles of the brain. Verdict—Temporar.t showed a large effusion of serum on the surface an d insanity. • habi C Among the 178,000,000 individua ls who lit or Europe there are said to be 17,900,000 beggarnyl, persons who subsist at the expense of the commun'h without contributing to its resources. In Denium..n the proportion is o• per cent., in England 10 per ce n t., in Holland 14 per cen t. __ _ _ _ ____ ___ _ -- Jane Swinburn, of twins.R/R TES. On the 25th ult., at East Done, Isle of Wight, the Loll Esq., of a son. nar O a n , the 28th ult., at Southampton , the lady of Joseph Be'- On the 29th ult., at Her eford, Emma, Wontner, of Isn London, rdof a daughter. On the 30th li tilt., at gton, Chelmsfo , Mrs. Edwar d Co p land, °f I daughter. wife of Mr. J osh ------- MARRIED. Dot' rby, ', On the 22d tilt., at St. Weiburgh's Church, o Francis Johnson, eldest s on of Francis Jessop, Esq., f E by; to Margaret Sophia , s ixth dau g hter of the late Cap tam, peb R.N., of Saling Hall, Essex. Also, at' the s eam e time lot", place, Lieutenant Dobbie, R. N., of her Majestys shi p Eac e/len t eldest son of the late Captain Dobbie, to Lucy .Anne, daughter of Francis .3ti,Dici l ______...------ _--- ' DIED- dVforri oo eldes On the 27th ult., in King-street, Cheapside, Thy Pmas - E s q., aged 85. Mr. . 13°" On the 26 th nit. , Eliza bet h Ann,the wife o f Edwards, of Cornhill, City. or London Printed and Published by MU RDO !N' 4 , in No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, the County of Middlesex, Thursday, December p• _..-,~. - r ,, , i wh ii,