The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

FRAN CE. - The Ordre says—" The Patrie announces that M. Drouyn de I'Huys, Ambassador of France at London, who has just arrived in Paris has received from the President of the Republic the offer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the room of M. de Rayneval, who has declined it. M. Drouyn de I 'Huys has, it is true, come to Paris, en conge, to settle some urgent affairs ; but we believe that the Patric is mistaken in its con j ectures as regards the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. We were assured at the Assembly yesterday that, on the refusal of M. de Rayneval, this portfolio would be offered to M. Thuriot de la Rosiere, ex-secretary of the embassy at Rome." The Patrie has an article in favour of more enlarged and liberal views in French commerce. Considering the semi-official character of this journal, the article will be read with some interest. It is as follows : " We think it useful to return frequently to the great reforms in matters of political economy effected in 1842 in England. Our legislation in that respect is far from being perfect, and, without servilely imitating the English reforms, could wo not take them for model, in modifying them so as to suit the particular neces sides of our country? One of the principal argu ments brought against a moderate reform of our tariff is this : Of what use will it be to lower the rights in foreign Merchandise if foreign countries do not act in a similar manner towards you? You may import more, but can you increase your exports in the same propor tion ?' Thanks to the experiment in England facts can beibrought to give the answer to the objection. Although England has effected her reforms without de manding any reciprocity, she has seen both her im ports and oxporLa increased under the empire of free trade. The following were her exports before 1842 : Ft 1836, 53,368,572/. ; 1837, 42,070,7441.; 1838, 50,060,9704; 1839, 53,233,5804 ; 1840, 51,406,430/. ; 1841, 51,631,6231.; 1842, 47,381,023/. Sir Robert Peel Dame into power, and effected his reforms. The following was the account of the exports : —1843, 52.279,7094; 1844, 58,584,2924; 1845, 60,111,0824 ; 1846, 57,786,8761; 1847, 58,842,3771.; 1848, 52 ; 849,445/, The falling off in 1848 is explained by the troubles which agitated Europe in that year, and by the crises which wt.re the consequnce of that state of things. And we may remark en passant that this depression in the trade of . England refutes peremptorily the popu lar prejudice that England is interested in the nations of the continent being poor and wretched. Her interest, oe the contrary, is to see them flourishing, for in that state they evidently can purchase more. The i depres sion of 184 S has fortunately not continued n 1849. According to the Economiste, the amount of exports arc likely this year to go beyond the average of the nae:C pr. .sperous years. This may be imagined by comparing the results of the first month with the ebr re:,p,,ndi:)g months of the preceding years. We give the amount from January 5 to September 5 of each year -1845, 36 408,595/.; 1846,34,531,4351.; 1847,35,309,7981 ; 1848, 31,633,214 7 .; 1849, 39,203,392/. But it is only in 1849 that the experiment of free trade has been made on a really large scale, for the sliding-scale of corn remained in force. in 1848, and that article entered free only siece January, 1849. It is in particular in the intercourse between England and the Uni:ed SLites that the aindioration is apparent, England has, it is known,' suppressed the duty on cotton, aed imported large masses of bread-stuffs from Ame v:c I almost without duty during the period of dearth. The following are successively the figures of gar expor tations to the American union—in 1840. 5,283,0001. ; 1841, 1,098,6121. ; 1842, 3,538,8071; 1843, 5,013,5141.; 1811, 7.938 ; 0791.; 1845. 7,142.8391.; 1846, 6,830,1601.; 1847, 10,974,1641 ; 1848, 9,564 9091. Yet in return for the favours which she accorded to the United States, as to all other nations, Engband neither asked for nor ob tained any reciprocal concession. Thus, therefore, facts are now in accord with theory to demonstrate that the diminution of import duties is sufficient to increase the exports of a country, in other word:, the sum total of labour, wages, and profits. Shall we know how to FrAt by this !eseon in political economy given us by Eegland ?" The following appears in the National:— " Conciergerie of Versailles, Nov. 14. " Ciiizcn Felitor,—The judgment of the High Court, of Versailles belongs to history; it will judge it impartially, but that it may he able to decide the facts must be exectly known. It is said in the judg ment:--‘ After heaing the udeucates of the accused.' Wh , ! , n the Prcsiflent pronounced those words. all the pri4oeers declared that there had been no defence. It is true that, contrary to our expectations, some advocates of the le:r of Versailles consented to take their seats on the benches of the defence; but, on the one hand, those advocates in accepting a responsibi lity of which they will alone bear the weight, declared that they only appeared to obey the requisition of the llth Court, and that none of them would speak; and on the other hand, their presence on the benches of the defence was formally disavowed by Citizen Devine, one of the aemeed, in the name of all. It is then incorrect for the judgment to say, ' After hearing the advocates of the :mused.' None of them spoke ; they could not speak, the privilege having been in terdicted. We have been condemned without being heard. " GEINARD, LANGLOIS, MAIGNE, DANIEL LAMAZIERES, MENDET, SUCHET, LE BON, VAUTAIER, 130 CA, DUPELIX, FAR DOULET DE CHALANDAR, COMMISSAIRE, SCHMITZ, MAYA, CHIPRON, ANDER, PASQUET, GAMEON, FARGIN FAYOLLE DEVILLE." The Committee on Stamps on Commercial Bills has terminated the !discussion of the second part of the measure relative to shares of companies. In stead of a duty of one per cent. on the nominal capital, the committee adopted, for existing com panies, one-half per cent. paid annually on the average price of shares during the last five years. The companies which are to be formed after the pro mulgation of the law are to pay one-half per cent. on the nominal capital. The Committee has decided that any agent de change or courtier who may have taken part in the sale of a share liable to the stamp duty, but not stamped, shall be subject to a fine of 10 per cent. on the capital. AUSTRIA. It is stated, in a letter from Vienna of the 10th, that the Austrian army is henceforth to consist of 3581 battalions of infantry, 384 squadrons of cavalry, and 766 guns. The troops of the military frontiers are not included in this number. The New Gazette of Prussia states, on authority of a letter from Vienna, that a few days ago the mu nicipal authorities, having been asked by the military governor if in the event of the state of siege of the city being raised they could answer for the mainte nance of tranquillity, unanimously answered that they could net. The letter adds that in the faubourgs the populace still display a bad spirit, daily resist patrols, and otherwise oppose the authorities. The Austrian Government has definitively appointed M. de Lubeck and General Sehcenhals to be its Commissioners in the new Central Government of Frankfort. The Austrian Lloyds announces that warrants for the arrest of seven other individuals suspected of having taken part in the assassin4tion of the Count, de Lambert, hare been issued. One of these persons is an advocate and ex-deputy, named Ballo/AL DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Kolner Zeitung states, from Berlin, of the 13th inst., that there is a strong probability of the Prussian troops being recalled from Schleswig before January next. It seems determined that the Prussian Cabinet will not consent to engage in another Danish war on the subject of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, because no less than the utter ruin of the Prussian Baltic province is expected to result from the renewal of hostilities. On the other hand there is a likelihood of the Prussian garrison at llamburgh being reinforced. ITALY. By a decree of the Roman Minister of War, the pay of sub-officers and soldiers is reduced to the standard fixed by the decree of 20th April, 1845. The Roman Government has invited Engineer Ferlani to present to it the drafts of two railway pro jects, viz., from Castelfranco to La Porretta, and from Castelfranco to Ancona. The Giornale di Roma quotes a letter from Naples of the 3d, stating that the Pope left Benevento to return to Portici on the 2d, at 5 P.M. WOOD PIGEONS.—In consequence of the very serious injury sustained by the tenantry in East Lothian from wood pigeons, the Local Agricultural Society in the beginning of this year drew the attention of the landed proprietors to this increasing evil, and solicited their co-operation in attempting to mitigate it. The society also allocated 201. annually for three years to wards the remuneration of persons employed in destroy ing wood pigeons and their eggs; and premiums for the period from the 10th of March to the Ist of Novembne 1849, have been awarded as follows:-1. Adam Morrison Dunglass, 51.; 2. John Burnside, North Berwick, 31.; 3. John Lloyd, Lochend, 2/. Also awarded as extra premiums: —James Miller, Gosford, 2/.• James Wood, Newby th, 21; Thomas Martin, Tyninghame, 11. 10s.; Donaldoimnls Stewart. Lennoxlove, 11. 10s.; James Ne a l e , , V.; William Gloag, Gleghornie, 11 ; James Sinkteerrt,7 unraw, V. The movement met with the cor dial support of most of the proprietors, and has been attended with much success. At Dunglase, Mor rison, who h as awarded the highest prize, destroyed 1,15 4 birds and and 786 eggs. At Gosford, where the Earl of Weroys o s od for . many years hadgiven w di re ctions to extirp a t e the th mon s as much as pos sible, the numbers destroyed this had he corn year were 916 birds and 8 96 eggs, and the gamekee p er, peted, wou ld have been entitl e d to the second highest premium. Within the more limited grounds of Lechend, 804 birds and 418 eggs were taken. The aggregsee of the returns exceeded 8,000 head, counting two egp, equivalent to one bird, and it is believedlarge quantities have been killed for which no returns were made. Next year, a period of twelve months will be embraced in the returns, and with the continued co-operation of the pro prietors, it is anticipated that a much greater number will be destroyed. In awarding future premiums, four eggs are to be reckoned equal to one pigeon. Wo regard this preceeding with much satisfaction; and as the Dal keith Society has set apart some of its funds for a simi hr purpose, it is to be hoped much benefit will accrue from the combined efforts to alleviate the raveges of the most destructive vermin to which all kinds of crops are exnesed.—Edinburgh Courant. •In the arrangements of nature there is nothing dens iu vain,—Eliza Cook's Journal. ITEMS OF IRISH NEWS. (From the Provincial Papers of Wednesday.) One of the most desperate riots that happened in the King's County for a long period, occurred in a place called the Yew Tree, a short distance from the village of Kilcommon, and within one mile and a half of Shinrone, on Tuesday evening. The contending par ties numbered about fifty, and were nearly equal num bers on both sides. Some of the combatants fought with bill-hooks and other weapons, and stones were thrown in all directions, which told fearfully on the heads and faces of the unfortunate sufferers, many of whom were cut, bruised, and mutilated in a frightful man ner. The battle raged for nearly an hour, as there were no 'police nearer than the Shinrone station to quell the riot. The original cause of the riot was the stealing of a quantity of apples from a man of the name of Lewis, who holds an orchard from Mr. Fleetwood, who resides near the old castle of Beha more.—King's County Chronicle. MURDER OF Ma. CAGE.—The persons in custody upon this charge were brought up for examination on Friday last, at Ferbane, before John G. King, J.P., D.L., R. Lauder, J.P., and Wm. L'Estrange, J P., Esc's. Sir St. G. Gore, the proprietor of the estates of which Mr. Cage was agent, was present at the ex amination. John Julian, Esq , the Crown Solicitor, was also in attendance. After a lengthened inquiry, three persons named Bernard Dunning, Edward Farrell, and Patrick Kelly, were fully committed to abide 'their trial at the ensuing assizes.—King - s County Chronicle. James Connors, who committed a daring robbery at the Rev. Mr. ialkuer's last week, was arrested on Tuesday evening, near Lisronagb, by the police ef that station, driving nineteen sheep stolen from a farmer, between Thurles and Cashel. He had driven away the full score from the field, but disposed of one of them on his journey along.— Clonmel Chronicle. AFFRAY BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND POLICE IN LONDONDERRY.—On Monday evening last, in con sequence of a riot taking place at the 'Bridge, be tween a number of soldiers of the 95th depot, sta tioned in Derry, and some men who were engaged in driving into town, Sub-constable. Gregg interfered, and advised the soldiers to go quietly to their barracks, when immediately one of the military struck Gregg a violent b:ew w h a stick, and inflicted several wounds on his head. Sub-constable Greg; then returned to the police barracks, when acting constable Stewart and a party of police accompanied him, for the purpose of arresting the offending soldier. Before the military were overtaken they had got into a public-house at the waterside, into which Constable. Stewart entered, and to!d the soldier that he was his prisoner until the picket should arrive. The soldier then deliberately retreated a step and dealt Stewart a blow on the head with the stick, a hich injured him severely. The warfare now became general, and lasted a considerable time, until at length the soldiers were overpowered, when the ori ginator of the affray and two of his comrades rrere secured and detained until the picket came forward, who conveyed them to Ebrington Barraeks.—Lon donderry Journal. Within the last few nights a tenant of L;tephen Charles Moore, Esq., residing on his property at Grenane, in the county of Waterford, and swing reet to the amount of over four hundred pounds, removed away from his farm, all the corn, cattle, horses, Sce. No clue has as yet been had as to where they ere removed;as only two of his horses have as yet been made out, which have been impounded by the agent.— Clonmel Chronicle. • Saturday night last another attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Francis Kiernan, agent over the property of Messrs. Scott, at Loughorna. Mr. Kiernan was sitting at the fire with some friends, when the shot was fired through the window of the room. Moat providentially a sack of oats had been removed near the window a short distance before, which intercepted the ball, and saved Mr. Kiernan's life. The bailiff who had been wounded in August last, on the lands of Loughorna, returned to Borrisokane on Saturday. Ile is lamed for the remainder of his life.—Limerick Chronicle. Friday morning last as John Tighe, a bailiff to Mr. Joseph Kelly, of Bloomfield, was serving a writ from the Court of Queen's Bench on persons named Dalys, of Ardikillen, he was violently attacked by a number of persons who beat him so dreadfully with an iron shovel and sticks, that his life is pronounced in very imminent danger.—Limerick Chronicle. One nobleman, holding a charge of 40,0001. on an estate in the county of Galway, has given directions to his Dublin solicitor to offer, through the instru• mentality of the Encumbered Estate Commission, a certain rate of purchase of the estate ; and if he should be the purchaser, to re-let by farms of fifty acres. — Roscommon Journal —[The nobleman mentioned is Lord Lorton.] . . . On Friday night a most destructive fire took place at Moylough, near Carrick-on- Suir, when the dwell ing-house and out offices were burned to the ground. The property belonged to Mr. Scully, of Tipperary. It is believed to be the work of ineenniaries.—Cion i met Chronicle. EMIGRATION.—The barque Menapia sailed from our quays on Tuesday for Savannah, North America, baying cn board nearly 100 emigrants, mostly of the better class of farmers—Wexford Independent. The take of fish at Dungarvan is almost incredible. The best haak is offered for sale at lid. each, but the poor people have not means to purchase salt for curing.— Waterford Mail. _ _ A — DANGEROUS CHA EtACTER.—An old woman, named Martha Richardson, had her throat cut on Tuesday night, by a person named John Scott, re siding in Bridge-street. It appears that Scott, who is much addicted to drinking, becomes a complete maniac on those occasions. It is feared that the man has drowned himself.—Londonderry Journal. Constables Thompson and Brown, of Thurles, have been reduced to the rank of sub-constables for out stepping their duty. The first had some intelligence of the person who lately robbed Mr. Prendergast of 591., and went to Liverpool to apprehend him without acquainting his officer in Thurles. In a short time after Constable Brown went to Dublin for the same object, without informing his officer. Neither sue ce:xled in apprehending the robber, and on their return both were reduced.—Limerick Chronicle. In our ( Wexford Independent) last number we ex pressed a hope that the rumours of some cases cf " crop lifting" having occurred within our peaceful precincts would prove to be without foundation. We are deeply pained to find, from the following com munication, that in one instance, at least, it is too true :—" On Sunday night, Philip Cagaghan, holding a considerable portion of the land of Old Bormount, collected horses and cars to the amount of some hundreds, and carried off the entire of the crop, stock, and farming implements, owing 180/. to his landlord, James Gethings, Esq." FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 13, 1849. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Niven li<•rr, Esq., her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Cyprus, to be her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Rhodes, and the other Turkish Islands in the Archipelago. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 13. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ed ward Mangens as Consul, at Liverpool, for his M , jesty the King of the Belgians. WHITEHALL, Nov. 14. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Alexander James Moorhead, Esq., to be Secretary and Registrar to the Commissioners for the government of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, in the room of Lieu tenant-Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson, deceased. WAR OFFICE, Nov. 16. 2d li!giment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Charles William Calvert, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Key, who retires; Cornet 3ohn Griffith Price, to be Li, u tenant, by purchase, vice Calvert, Nov. 16. 7th Dragoon Guards—Captain Charles Pynder Beau. champ Walker, from the 33d Foot, to be Captain, vice Gore, who exchanges; Lieutenant Arnold More Knight toibe Captain, vice Alleyne, who retires; Cornet Thomas William Goff to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Knight, Nov. 16. Ist Dragoons—Cornet John Coltman Davenport to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henley, who retires, Nov. 16. 16th Light Dragoons—Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, G.C.8., deceased, Nov. 10. 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Robert Carter Bamford, from the 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Piercy, promoted, Nov. 16. 17th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Winter Davis, from half-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Baxter, ap pointed to the 75th Foot; Ensign Clement Henry John Heigliam to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davis, who retires, Nov. 16. 22d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Leith Adams, M.D., from 64th Foot to be Assistant-Surgeon, vi*.e M`Grath, deceased, Nov. 16. 24th Foot—Ensign Frederick William Adam Par sons to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Woodington, who retires; Ensign Philip L. Tillbrook, from the 12;h Foot, to be Ensign, vice Parsons, Nov. 16. 33d Foot—Captain Annesley Paul Gore, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Walker, who ex changes, Nov. 16. 56th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Luke Barron, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Cowper, who resigns, Nov. 16. 64th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Ed ward John Kennedy, M.D. from the Staff, to be Atsistant-Surgeon, vice Adams, appointed to the 22d Foot, Nov. 16. 75th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Baxter, from the 17 , h Foot to be Lieutenant, vice Bamford, appointed to the 2d Foot, Nov. 16. 3d West India Regiment—Acting Assistant-Surgeon, Robert Thomas Deakins to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Sanders, appointed to the Staff, Nov. 16. Ceylon Ritle Regiment—Second Lieutenant Robert Atherton has been permitted to resign his commission, Nov. 16. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff Assistant• Surgeon Charles Bash Hearn to be Staff Surgeon of the Second C:ass, vice Barron, appointed to the 56th Foot; Assistant• S Henry Shearly . Sanders, fr om t h e 3d West India Regiment, i;.liment, to bo Assistant-Surgeon to th e F orces, vice Hearn, promoted; Acting Assistant-Surgeon Ed ward Touch, M.D., to be Assistant• Surgeon to the Forces, vice Kennedy, appointed to the 64th Foot, Nov. 16. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 14. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Peter Pickmon Faddy to be Captain, vice Fulford , placed on retired full-pay list ; First Lieutenant Edward James Paterson to be Second Captain, vice Faddy; Se cond Lieutenant Shadwoll Morley Grylls to be First Lieutenant. vice Paterson, Nov. 3. GHUZNEE AND SINDE PRIZE MONEY. Royal Hospital, Chelsea , Nov. 14, 1849. Notice is hereby given, that the unclaimed shares of the Prize Money for the capture of Ghuznee in July, 1839, on account of the 16th Dragoons and 13th Foot; and for the captures in Lower Sinde in 1843, under General Sir Charles J. Napier, G.C.8., on account of the 41st Rogiment (only), will be payable at this hos pital on and after the 3d of December next, between the hours of eleven and two o'clock. F. H. TALMAN, pro Secretary. IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH. Michaelmas Term.—Thirteenth Victoria. 14th November, 1849 This Court will hold sittings, and will proceed in dis posing of the business now pending in the Crown, New Trial, and Special Papers in the following orch , r : Tuesday the 27th and Wedneed.4 the 28th days of No vember instant, the Crown Paper; Thursday the 29th day of November instant, the New Trial Paper; and on Tuesday the 4th, Wednesday the sth, Thursday the 6th, and Friday the 7th days of December next, the Special Paper; and will also hold a sitting on Tuesday the 18th day of December next, and give judgment in cases pre viously argued. BY THE COURT. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Michaelmas Term.—Thirteenth Victoria. Friday, the 16th day of November, 1849. This Court will hold sittings on Saturday the Ist day of December next, and on every succeeding day (Sundays excepted). until and including Monday the 10th • day of Doceniber next, and als') on Saturday the 22d day of Decerah,•r next; and at such sittings will proceed in disposing o: the business then pending in the Paper of New Trials, in the Paper of Special Cases, in the Papu of Demurrer=, and in disposing of the motions a n d ap pli cat i ons w hi c h shall, then have been made, and shall be then pendibg. FRED. POLLOCK, PARE. E. 11. ALDERSON. R. M. ROLFE. BANKRUPTS. John Morrison, tailor, Craven-street, Strand, to sur render, Nov. 28. and Dec."2l, at one; at the Court of Bankruptcy. Smusfeld, official assigner; Sheard, Old Jewry. Richard Good, stationer, Bishorgate-street Without, Nov. 27, at eleven, and Jan. 4, at halt-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official aisignee, Ba singball-strcet; Richardson, Mocrgate-street. William Durrant, cattle dealer, Brenchley, Kent, Nov. 27, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official a±signee, Cole man-street; Appleton, Philpot-lane. Arthur Williams, draper, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, Nov. 27 vcd Dec. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Leman and Homphr)s, Bristol. Maria Frances Th:mas, hotel keeper, Bristol, Nov. 29, and Dec. 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Castle and Henderson, Bristol. Thomas Sawttil, baker, Newport, Nov. 30, and Dee, 26, at el,ven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Wilkes, Gloucester. Govt r, hatter, Tetbury, Gloucester shire, Dec. 3 and 31, at the Brist,,l District Court. Hat. ton, official assignee, Bristol; Kearney, Stroud; AbbOt Bristol. Thomas Wheeler, fruit merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 28 and Dec. 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Tyrer, Liverpool. John Moulton, joiner, Ho!me, Llncaahire, Dec. 3 and 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. Ilitchins, Chichester place, Gray's Inn-road, and Upper Whitecross-street, leatherseller, Dec. 7, at one— G. Holditch, J F. Ho'ditch, and B. D. Ilolditch, Bank side, Southwark, cichr merchants, Dec. 8, at one—G. Morgan, Warminster, Wiltshire, maltster, Dec. 8, at one—C. C. Butterfield, Petersfield, Hampshire, banker, Dec. 11, at one—T. Partridge and J. Jordan, Luton, Bedfordshire, wino merchants, Dec. 7, at eleven. In the Country. G. Cowan, Coventry, draper, at the Court, Birming ham, Dec. 18, at twelve—T. B. Jones, Brecon, maltst« r, at the Court, Bristol, Dec. 13, at eleven—W. Newton, Bath, builder, at the Court, Bristol, Dec. 13, at eleven—G. Brown, Carlisle, draper, at the Court, New eerie-upon-Tyne, Dec. 13, at balf-past ten—T. Davie:, Liverpool, merchant, at the Court, Liverpool, Dec. 17. at twelve—W. Cochran, Lima, South America, and J. P. Robertson, London, merchants, at the Court, Liver pool, Dec. 12, at eleven. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 17, 1849. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. T. Skipworth, Belton, Lincolnshire, miller, le. 107., on Friday, Nov. 16, or any subsequent Friday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Hull. F. C. Veith, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, ls. 7d., on Friday, Nov. 16, or any subsequent Friday, between eleven and two, at the effice of Mr. Stansfeld, Hull. R. Wake, Kingston upnn-Uull, merchant, 31d., on Friday, "Nov. 16, or any sub.equent Friday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, R. B. Burton and G. Bulpin, Dublin, drapers, 65. Bd., on Saturday, Nov. 17, and two subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Ediviird's, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghali-street. H. Bensley, Southtown, Suffolk, bricklayer, Dec. 8, a half-past twelve. _ . _ In the Country. P. Walker, Stockport, cotton.waste dealer, Dee. 10, twelve, at the Court, Manchester—Mary B. Schoolbred Manchester, cotton manufacturer. Dec. 10, at twelve, a , the Court, Manchester—W. H. Richardson, Darleston Staffordshire, tube manufacturer, Dec. 18, at twelve, al the Court, Birmingham—P. Watkins, Wanton, Hereford. shire, tavern-keeper, Dec. 10, at ten, at the Court, Bir tningham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. W. Wilson, Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square, apothe cary, certificate of the second class—TV. Welton, Sun derland-wharf, Rotherhithe, timber merchant, certificate of the third class—W. B. Williams, Burr-street, East Smithfield, wine merchant, certificate of the first class— E. Munn, Beckenham and Deptford-bridge, lisnt, far mer and corn dealer, certificate of the third class—R. Webster, Cornhill, chronometer maker—B. C. Stenlake, Tavistock, watch and clock maker, certifiate of the first class—D. Baseley, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth, cheese mong( r, certificate of the third class—J. Stott, Bolladon, Lancashire, cotton spinner and manufacturer, certificate of the third class—T. Harris, Liverpool, auctioneer, cer tificate of the third class after 21 days from Nov. 12— J. Yates, jun., Ceiwich, Staffordshire, corn factor, after 21 days. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Yonge and C. Hancock, Tokenhouso yard, City, attorneys—R. Tait and E. Sheppard, Enfield, surgeons —W. Roberts, E. Chadwick, and A. P. Wood (as far w. regards E. Chadwick), Chancery-line, auctioneers—E. Easel( and A. B. Springweiler, Cousin-lane, Upper Thames-street, dealers in glass bot!les—J. Woodhouse and J. C. Willoughby, Ripon, Yorkshire, silk mercers -11. N. Pink, and D, Lloyd, Greenwich, surgeons—W. flare, J. Hare, and J. E. Clarke, East Stonehouse, Devonshire, brewers and mal:sters—J. Morgan and E. H. Sexton, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, stationers—J. Crook and J. Angliss, Cambervrell•plac Upper Grange-road, Old Kent road, parchment manufacturers —W, Harrison, J. Scars, and G. Taylor, Hadlow, Kent, rualtsters—D. Boobbyer and J. 11. Boobbyer, Stanhope street, Claremarket, ironmongers —M. L. Parnell, J. H. Railton, and H. Burton (as far as regards J. H. Banton), Little Queen-street, Holborn, ironmongers —N. Jowett and J. Jowett, Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturers—J. G. Heard and W. Griffin, Upper Whitecross-street, fancy stationers—J. Batten and B. P. Batten, Penzance—G. Gaskell and G. T. Gaskell, Kendal, grocers—T. Rvlands and J. Clegg, Liverpool, trunk and portmanteau manufacturers—T. Marston and J. Williams, Runcorn, Cheshire, grocers—N. Varlay and J. Taylor, Opera-arcade, Pall-mall, music sellers— W. C. Barrett and W. Roue, Bristol, hatters. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Lees, Birmingham. Thomas Willetts, Birmingham, assistant to a butcher. Thomas Lynam, Birmingham, huckster. Edward Jones, Aston, Warwickshire. Joseph Green, Harborne, Staffordshire, corclwainer. Joseph 11 ,-, well, Watts, Aston, Warwickshire, painter. Thomas Whittington, Birmingham, omnibus proprietor. Miles Scott, Birmingham, assistant to a bootmaker. Ana Puckett, Milton, near Gravesend, Ktnt. William Farrant, Kingsdown, Kent, wood dealer. Culy Harpham, Wnaplode, Lincolnshire, farmer. James Tobutt, Uandcross Slaugham, Sussex, carrier. Thomas Robinson, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, grocer. James Holland, Bury, Lancashire, overlooker, William Lewis, Cheltenham, news' agent. Thomas Haigh, Huddersfield, sbopman. John Rymer, Stockton•upon-Tees, Durham, boot and shoemaker. James Chatfield, Newport, Isle of Wight, cordwainer. James Ide, Portfield, Sussex, I) aybinder. John Holder, Worthing, Sussex, dyer. John Row•bothsm, Hyde, Cheshire, tea-dealer. EI ward Jallands, Nottingham, baker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. . W. Calder Greenock, coal merchant, to meet within the George Inn, Greenock, Nov. :20 and Dec. 12, at twelve. J. Harvey, Glasgow, warehouseman, to meet within :he Glob,: Hotel, Nov. 22 and Dee. 12, at tw,Plvo. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending November 13, 1849, is 245. I Id, per cwt. GRATITUDE.—About three years since Mr. George Smith, of Bredfield, a filmier, who had retired from business, took up his residence at Ipswich, for the benefit of his health. In the course of the summer of 1848 he was in the habit cf bathing at the Ipswich bathing place, on the River Orwell. Upon one occa sion he had the misfortune to get out of his depth, end having sunk once, his life was saved by the attendant at the bathing-place, John Actin' Dardy Simpson. Mr. Smith died on Monday last. In his will, as a mark of gratitude to Simpson for his " act of heroism," ho has left to Simpson a life interest in five tenements of the value of 501. per annum.—Bury and Su/folk Herald. LA.W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 16. (Sittings in Banco.) COBBETT V. SIR GEORGE GREY AND ANOTHER. This was an argument on demurrer in an action of trespass. The plaintiff pleaded his case in person. Mr. CODBETT, in support of the demurrer, complained that Mr. John Hudson, the keeper of the Queen's Pri son, acting under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, had wrongfully treated him (Mr. Cobbett) as a first-class prisoner, in confining him in a part of the Queen's Prison set apart only for pri soners of the first class, incarcerated for offences not bailable. He contended that the Secretary of State had no power by law to give a command, or the said John Hudson to obey it, for placing him (Mr. Cobbett) in that part of the prison, inasmuch as there was no such thing as a contempt for not paying costs, with which he was charged, and that there was no power in the Court f Relief of Insolvent Debtors to make an order upon him (Mr. Cobbett) to file a schedule ; that in fact no single Commissioner had power so to act under the Act of Parliament. He submitted that the pleas put upon the record by the defendants furnished no answer to his de claration, inasmuch as they had not traversed the declaration at all, but merely went on to justify them selves in putting him in a first class department. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said the only pant was whether what the defendants bad stated was an excuse for what they raid they had done. Mr. Copse - rr said the defendants did not admit in their plea that prisoners of the first class were not bailable, and he contended therefore that their plea was bad. Ile sub mitt. d, secondly, that there was no warrant of commit ment shows, and thigahe was confined in the part of the prison in qu stiou without any sufficient warrant of corn eattnent. There was no warrant of commitment either from the Bankruptcy or the Insolvent Debtore' Court, for not filing his schedule, and the Secretary of State bad no power to supply the want of a warrant from a competent cent t. Mr. Baron ItoeFe said there was an Act of Parlia ment whic'a said that persons who refused to file a schedule in the Insolvent Debtors' Court should he con need as firs'-class prisoners. Mr. Hudson had alleged that he (Mr. Cobbett) had refus e d t o fil e suc h a schedule; and the cnly question was, whether Mr. Hudson wits tight in treating him as a fire-class prisoner. Mr. Baron PARKE said either Mr. HudsoTl 2 6 act was jtaltifiable by the Act of Parliament, or not. If it was justifiable, he did it under the sanction of an Act of the Legislature, and not by the authority of the Home S cretery. Mr. COBBETT, regardless of these adverse intimations from the Court; went on for several hours urging that he had been wrongfully treated as a first-class misde meanant. At tho conclusion of his address, Mr. WELSBY Ins about to sprak ou behalf of th;l cl,feudalts, when The LORD CHIEF BARON intimated that the only point on which the Court had any doubt was whether the attachment, which was the foundation of the who'e proceeding, was set out with sufficient fulness; and M. Welsby would please to cot,fine himself to that point. Mr.VVELsnr. said the plea did not set out the writ et length, but it said that the plaintiff was under and by virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the High Court of Chancery committed to the prison of the Fleet. The Fleet was the proper prison for imprisoning parties charger! with contempt of the Court of Chancery. He therefore cJiitendcd that the attachment was act out with sufficient amplitude. Mr. Comma. briefly replied, and The LORD CHIEF BARON said the Court would Wu ime w cLusider, and deliver ita judgment .on Wed letday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREP,7: Mr Bodkin attended on behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum to prefer a charge against Mr. John Williams, artist and publisher, 141, Strand, for having wilrully neglected to furnish the Museum with copies of certain publications issued by him, and thereby infringed the Copyright Act. As the defendant did not obey the summons nor send any explanation as to the cause of his non-ap pearance, the case was proceeded with in his absence. Mr. Bodkin, after referring to the sth and 6th of Victoria, chap. 6, under which the present proceed ings were taken, to show the authority of the trustees to demand a copy of every book or other publicatioo to be deposited in the British Museum, called Mr. Harding, one of the solicitors to the institution, to prove that repeated intimations had been given to the defendant in December, February, and June last, that copies of his publications had not been delivered, and that proceedings would be commenced against him if he continued to disregard the requirements of the Copyright Act. _ _ Air. Harding stated that promises had been repeat. edly given by the defendant that they should be sent, but they were never obeyed; although when he re ceived the summons, in which two or three of the least important publications were named, such as the Artisan, &c., copies of the particular works specified were sent. Mr. J. C. Knight having proved that certain pub lications purchased in the defendant's shop had never been sent to the Museum, Mr. JARDINE convicted the defendant, and fixed the penalty at 31. in each of three Cati€S, and the cost of the periodicals, and the summons ; leaving the advi sors of the trustees to exercise their discretion as to enforcing the penalties, in the event of a continued resistance to their demands upon him. It was stated that one or two of the books required by the trustees were published at two guineas and a half and three guineas, having expensive illustrations. AIARLBOROU6II-S'TREET. Mrs. George came yesterday, by appointment, to receive the money which has been sent for her relief since the publication of the particulars of her desertion by Mr. Crouch, the composer. Mr. IlAnDwica. told Mrs. George that her case had excited so much sympathy as to induce several bene volent persons. to subscribe towards her relief and the relief of her two children. Mrs. George expressed her gratitude for this timely assistance, and added, that since the report in the papers of her peculiar situation she had received offers of assistance from many kind persons who had known her reputed husband. The St. Andrew's Lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Mr. Crouch was a member, bad promised to take her case into consideration. Mr. filyanwlcx said that promise had been fulfilled by a subscription amounting to 6/. 65., which would be handed to her. WESTMINSTER. A fashionably-dressed man, about five feet six inches in height, of dark complexion, with black whiskers, who has passed by the names of Thomas Tucker, Alfred Sinclair, Barclay, Wilis, Praed, and other aliases, was charged with defrauding Messrs. Rogers and Dean, of 23 and 24, St. G e orge's-place, Knightsbridge, of a great quantity of valuable fur niture. Mr. BURRELL remanded the prisoner, who made no reply to the charge, for a week. _ _ Mr. Games asked if he would accept bail ? Mr. BUARELL replied, certainly not. The prisoner Was charged with fraud upon a most extensive scale. Robert Marly, Thomas Bentley, and William Carden, three well known burglarN wore charged with entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Sherron, Westbourne-place, Belgrave-square, and stealing a gold watch and a great number of brooches, ring', and other articles of jewellery of considerable value, -as also two sovereigns. The circumstances were these :—Miss Sandford, a lady residing in the house with the family, at about a quarter- past ten o'clock on the evening of Wednes day week discovered that her dressing case and a drawer in her bedroom had been broken open, and the valuable property stolen. Information was given to the police, and through the exertions of Mr. John Lund, inspector of the A division, and Sergeant Loom, of the B division, the accused were appre hended, and the case strongly proved against them. It was shown, by the evidence of a girl who had been on terms of close intimacy with Carden, that he and the other two went out together on the evening of the robbery, and returned is two or three hours, when Carden told her they had done something that nigh.t, and entered into a full detail of a robbery he and his companions had been engaged in, in the course of which he said there was a woman in bed in one of the rooms (which was, on other testimony, proved to be the case, the lady being an invalid); but that, had she stirred, he bad something in 'his hand which would have kept her quiet for some time. Carden then showed her a gold watch, which he said he had token ; and then, at his request, she went to a pub lic-house in the neighbourhood, where Bentley was counting some money, which he divided with the other two. Bentley then gave Carden a bracelet, which he handed to the girl, and it was subsequently placed in the possession of Mr. Lund, and was identi fied as part of the stolen property. Carden subse quently found fault with the girl because, as he said, " she would not mix in the ups and downs," when she declared she did not mean " to go out thieving, as be did," and complained of having been deceived by him as to his course of life. The officers engaged in the case had very properly corroborated her evidence as much as they possibly could by other testimony, as it was elicited in cross-examination by Mr. Wontner, that she had been in Newgete herself for some offence previous to her living with Carden, and that on the morning when they parted, after the robbery, he gave her a black eye. Carden was found by Mr. Lund in possession of the key of the lady's dresaing case, which had been carried off by the robbers, who had effected an entrance to the premises from an empty house three or four doors off, by . walking along the parapet and entering the attic window, which they forced open. They were all committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial. CLERKEN WELL. James Sturlantr,aioung man of respectable ap pearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Mr. Thomas Davies, chemist and drug gist, of No. 13, Hereford-row, Bayswater, with having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 3601. Mr. Sidney, the solicitor, attended for the prisoner. The prosecutor stated that he formerly carried on business as a chemist and druggist at No. 37, Red Lion-street, Holborn, but in consequence of ill health he determined to dispose of it, and he negotiated with the prisoner, with wham he had been acquainted, for the sale of it, and he ultimately agreed to advance to witness 4751. for the purchase, and he paid 251. down, and gave him a bill of his own acceptance for 3691. 155., at 14 days after date. It became due on August 19th, and was dishonoured. Witness subsequently met the prisoner, who proposed to renew the bill to him and get it accepted by his brother. Witness did not agree to that, and the prisoner then said he would send down to his father at Stretton, near Chesterfield, to have it accepted by him, which witness - acceded to; and this was also dishonoured. Witness afterwards saw the prisoner on the matter, and commenced proceedings against him through his solicitor, and he was served with a writ. Witness proceeded to Stretton, near Chesterfield, and had an interview with the prisoner's father, a respectable farmer, and on presenting the bill to him he said it was a forgery. He denied that it was his handwriting, or that he had ever accepted the bill, and he handed to witness a written document (now proluced) to that effect. He returned to Lon don and gave the prisoner into the custody of a police man, who took him to the station-house. The prisoner, it appeared, had sold the business soon after he made purchase of it. Mr. TYRWUXTT asked the prisoner if he wished to put any questions to the witness ? He put several irrelevant questions, and said his father lived at Smithymore, not at Stretton ; the person who had accepted the bill resided at Stretton. Mr. Thomas Francis Footboy, of No. 10, Gray's Inn-place, Gray's Inn-square, said he received the bill from the prisoner, it was at his suggestion that he drew the bill on his father. Witness drew the body of the bill to send to his father. Mr. Thomas Davies, the prosecutor's father, gave corroborative evidence. The policeman who apprehended the prisoner said he searched him and found in his possession a letter (now produced), of which the following is a copy, viz. :- " Chesterfield, Nov. 9. " Dear Brother,—l received yours this morning, but I do not feel satisfied about your business yet, or I am afraid they will do you yet if you do not mind ; if you have put an appearance to that writ it will be rite, but if not, it will be rong. Now if you and. I go I can bring anything from home that will do for us. I shall have made father write before I go, and hope that will not be long, for it is all their talk that I have not had a writ, and they will not wate. Nov it is a hard case for about 504. I could go on in a first-rate stile, and get a girl in a month or 2 with about G or 700/., and that would set us up, bat I cannot get it, but it is a bad job for all, as our credit is gone in this country. I go, but write per return of pose, as father is very anxious to hear from you. " Yours, " TOM. " P.S. If you should have any money to spare, i3t us do as well as we can at home; praps you will meet me at Darby on Sunday, but write in a dayor two. " TOM:" Mr. TYRWHITT remarked that it was a most cruel case, and he remanded . the prisoner for the produc tion of further necessary evidence. He Was then locktd up. THE DUTY UPON TEA Commencing the survey of our fiscal system with the Customs, we find among the yet unreduced items of our Tariff an impost opposed to the first principle of fiscal justice—which forbids that the necessaries of the poor should be disproportionately taxed—mid opposed no less to the universal doctrine of all sound economists—that exorbitant import duties defeat their own object. We allude to the duty of more than 200 per cent. upon tea. We challenge contra diction to the proposition that tea is at the present day, even to the poorest classes, a prime necessary of life. Avoiding all verbal controversy, we take our stand upon the practical definition of the term "n 1 cessaries," as applying to an article whit absorbs a portion of the lowest earnings b which labour is sustained, and which aivides with bread itself the expenditure of th'f poorest of the poor, who just make a shift to live. On this point we may safely appeal to the evidence disclosed by the investigation which we are now carrying on into the daily life of three separate classes of our population. All alike—whether it 14 tip under-paid labourer of the fields, the manufac turing operative, or, lowest .of all in the scale, tl4 oppressed slop-worker of the metropolis—all spend q portion of the miserable pittance which is inadel quate to keep hunger from their doors, up on th e half-mince or even quarter-ounce of that h e rb, tht comforting or stimulating properties of which are to their sensations even more indispensable the nutrition itself. It is idle to question the Economy of such a preference, or to at tempt to dictate to the indigent, as some well. meaning persons are inclined to do, a more profitable mode of expending their earnings. The poor, for the most part, learn pretty well by severe experience in what way the money goes furthest, and they are th 4 best judges as to the measure of comfort which it will yield them. We find that, even when most pinch,:d for want of bread, they will buy tea ; and who shall say that they are improvident or culpable in so doing Yet is a fact, that for every penny so laid out—the produce of intense, uncheered, Sabbathless labour, in, garrats and cellars—two pence at, least are appro-, priated by the Customs; and the coarse, flavourless; and adulterated compound which is bought is not really worth one-third of the price that is paid for it., Is this humane or righteous legislation ? . The present duty upon all kinds of teas is 2e. 2/1. per lb. The high- flavoured hyson of the rich, and the article which is ticketed in the cheap shops of thei metropolis as "good serviceable tea," at 3s. 4d., or even a less price per pound, pay alike. The ad 1 valorem system, indeed, has been tried, but, by; almost universal admission, it was found impracti ' - cable and the present equal duty may be deemed a t fiscal necessity, but its exorbitant amount is not only; an oppression and a grievance, but—what will weigh still more with some , people against it—it is a fiscal mistake. It does not, - nor ever can, an swer to the Exchequer to impose upon an article of almost universal demand a tax so high as to stint, to an unnatural degree, that consumption, which is the most fertile source of all revenue—the consumption of the great bulk of the people—and which is derived from the wages of labour. It is the labouring, not the spending classes —the many, not the few—the Excise arid Customs, not the Assessed Taxes, nor even the Income-tax—that constitute the most productive sources of the public revenue. It is, therefore, by facilitating and extend ing consumption among the millions of the working classes, by multiplying those innumerable rills which make up by their aggregate supplies the great stream of national wealth, that the most successful financial results are to be achieved. All theory, all authority— the judgment, we do not say of the mosteminent, but of all writers of any degree of reputation on public economy and finance, are in favour of the superior productiveness of moderate over extrava gant import duties. And experience, which we happen to possess in an abundant degree with regard to tea itself, as well as in the analogous cases of coffee, sugar, and other similar articles, confirms .the assumption that, if we desire to increase the. amount now yielded by tea to the revenue, the almost certain method of doing so is to decrease the rate of duty. The history of the variations which have taken place during the last hundred years in the amount of this impost, and the effects , which have respec tively attended them, afford one of the most in structive studies in finance. We shall briefly reca pitulate the leading facts of the case. Previously to 1745, tea was charged with an Excise duty of 4s. per lb., and also with a Custom's duty of 14 per cent. ad valorem. This was, at the prices of the day, equivalent to about 114 per cent. The average amount then entered for consumption was 768,520 lbs. a year, and the average revenue from the ' duty 175,2221. In 1745, a re-adjustment of duties took place, the effect of which may be briefly de scribed as reducing the rate of taxation to about 50 per cent. In the very next year the consumption was almost trebled—amounting to about 1,800,00011;s,, while the revenue rose to 230,4001. In seven years more the entries had risen to 3,000,0001b5., and the revenue bad augmented in a like proportion. These striking results took place at a period when tea was a much less general article of consumption than at present. Unhappily, however, the lesson afforded by the experiment of 1745 was lost sight of. Between that year and 1784, the tea duties were again tam pered with, and they fluctuated from time, to time between 65 and 120 per cent. ad valorem. The natural consequences evinced themselves in a check given to the revenue, in unbounded smuggling, and in excessive adulteration. The enormity of the evil compelled the Government to try once more the policy of reduction. The duty was lowered, at one step from 119 to 12f per cent. The success of the measure was instantaneous. Smuggling and adul teration ceased—and the sales of the East India Com pany, which had been 5,857,883 lbs. in 1783, were 10,148,257 lbs. in 1784, and 16,307,483 lbs. in 1785. The revenue, instead of falling in the proportion of 119 to 12k, declined, notwithstanding this great and sudden downfall in the duty, only in the proportion of 2to 1. But the temptations to which financiers are too apt to yield, of raising more money for the Ex chequer, though at an increased pressure upon the public, once more prevailed. in 1795, and at several other periods between that year and 1819, the duty was again, from time to time, augmented, and in the latter year it was raised to 100 per cent. on teas above 2s. per lb. It would occupy too much space to exhibit, in detail, the results of all these fluctuations, for which we must refer our readers to the Commercial Dictionaries. Suffice it to say, that they all tend to confirm the conclusion—as to the operation of a moderate duty in stimulating con sumption and revenue, and the reverse effect of an opposite policy—which had been illustrated by the two great experiments of 1745 and 1784. It our limits would allow us to go into similar de tails respecting the fiscal alterations that have been made, from time to time, in the analagous cases of coffee, sugar, spirits, &c., we should be able to adduce at least as striking instances as the above, of the mis chievous financial effects of exorbitant taxation. Two or three facts only respecting coffee may be briefly mentioned, on account of the close analogy between the two cases. In 1784 the duty was reduced from ls. 6d. to 61. per lb. The consumption of legally imported coffee was immediately increased ninefold, while the reduced rate of duty yielded a trebled revenue to the Exchequer. In 1807, the duty, having again been raised, was ls. Bd. a pound—the consump tim I,l7o,l64lbs—and the revenue 161,2451. The next year the duty was lowered to Bd.; and in 1809, 9,251,8471b5. were entered for home consumption, and 245 8561. were paid into the Exchequer. In 1819 an incr,:...sc of duty to ls. per pound caused the consump tion to declini 50 per cent.; but, having been again lowered to 6d. in 1824, an immediate reaction took place. The consumption rose in 1830 to 21,840,5201b5.; and in 1842 it had reached 28,519,6451b5. The revenue which, under the shilling duty, had yielded in 1820 b'ut 340,2231., produced a nett return of 768,886/. from the sixpenny duty in 1842. At tha same time it is worthy of notice that the increased consumption of coffee was attended by no diminution in that of tea. These facts speak for themselves, but it is impor tant to observe that none of them furnish an adequate illustration to meet the case of the existing tea duties. Taking the average price of bohea and the lower sorts of congou, in bond, at from 103.. to ls. per pound, the present rate of duty on tea far exceeds in exorbi tancy any of the instances above referred I to. The great reduction which has taken place in the market price of the article has enormously increased the relative amount of the tax—so that the 4s. Excise duty of 1744 was a low per tentage compared with the present. This reduction in price has operated of late y ears to neutralise in some degree the prohibitory effects of the high duty, and at the same time to sus tain consumption. Still there can be no moral doubt that consumption—and we do not hesitate to add, re venue also,which depends on it—is unduly checked, and would be found to expand to a very considerable extent under a relaxation of the duty. The revenue for the last two years—years of vastly increased importation in other articles—has not exhibited a satisfactory progress. The rate of consumption per head—whit. h has been ascertained to be only 11b. 10oz. as respects the population of England generally, while in the navy it is Sibs 40z., and in the workhouses 31bs. per head—justifies the belief that if the price were not so exorbitantly enhanced by duty, a much larger use of this universal beverage would take place. We cannot now advert to the important commercial con' sequences dependent on an extension of our trade with China, to the effect of an increased consump• tion of tea upon the revenue derived from sugar, or to many other collateral considerations involved in this question. At present, we confine our view to the propriety—not, indeed, of a pre cipitate descent from a high rate to a low one— but at least of a moderate and partial relaxation of this extravagant impost, as an act of justice to the poor, who are taxed to a degree much more than commensurate with the berm& derived by the Ex chequer. We do not, indeed, overlook the impor , Lance of sustaining the revenue of the country—far from it; but we are quite sure that in demandifg relief from a duty of more than 200 per cent. on tai article of universal consumption, we are advocating no change that can imperil the public income. And we may make hold to ask whether any Chancellor of the Exchequer is to be round at the present day, who, while any practicable source of impartial tax;l• tion remains open to him, will undertake to vindicate, in the face of the country, a tariff which, while it levies the rate of the duty above named upon tl:e beverage of the poor, does not at the same time im pose more than from 6(30 , to 70 per cent. ad valorem upon the more costly article purchased by the rich ? —Chronicle. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Nov. 16.) .._ .__..._ .. ._. SiTGAR.—To-day West India Sugar met with little attention for home trade purposes, and in some cases the rates acceded to were 6d per cwt under those currenr, previously. The purchases were only 420, making for the week 1,470 hhds, &c. For all sorts of Sugar the market closes with a quiet aspect. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was dealt in with caution by home dealers, and a desire was evinced to sell brown Lumps at 475, and fair grocery at 48s per cwt. There is a fair supply of goods at market. Bonded Crushed Sugar is held with firmness at late terms. MAIIRITIIIS.—To-day there was no public sale of Mauritius, and the small parcels sold by private treaty were at barely former rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales of 3,617 bags Bengal Sugar went off quietly at barely former rater, but nearly all sold; fine strong yellow at 42s 6d to 43s 6d, greyish ditto 44s to 44s 6d, tine soft yellow 37s 6d, low to middling 31s to 335, and brown 29s to 303 6d. Of Penang 2,397 mats were only in part sold; white at from 38s to 40s, yellow 35s to 376, and brown 32s to 345. 1,874 bags Madras, good and fine grainy yellow 38s to 406 6d, low and middling 35s to 375, soft ditto 31s to 32s 6d, and brown 29s 6d to 30s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—To- day there was little disposition evinced to operate in Foreign Sugar by private treaty. Of 587 hhds, 4 trc., 247 barrels offered at public sale, a part only fbutal buyers at barely former rates ;_ low to middling yellow went at 37s 6d to 38 s 6d, good to fine 39s to 413. MOLASSES —Only limited purchases have been made this week in West India, still holders are not disposed to press sales, and require 15s to 18s per cwt for low to tine quality, whilst lower rates are not expected to pre vail. Large parcels of Bengal Treacle cannot be pur chased under 14s per cwt. For Honey prices have still a dowrelvard tendency. Cocos.—The market continues to be plentifully sup. plied with West India. The parcels offered at public sale have amounted to 646 bags, but a small portion only found purchasers; Trinidad, red at from 40s to 455, grey 37s to 425, and damaged 34s to 383 61 per cwt.; the chief portion of the supply consisted of the lower kinds. Of Grenada 200 bags in part found buyers at from 36s to 39s per cwt. Holders of foreign display more firmness. By private treaty the business concluded has been upon a larger scale at 26s to 27s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon the market for both ship ping and home trade kinds of Coffee :presented a quiet aspect, whilst the rates accepted were generally rather under those current previously. At public sale 20 casks Jamaica were sold; low middling at 534;, fine aficl fine fine ordinary 47s to 50s, and triage 38s 6d; 376 packages Malabar, fine ordinary 42s to 50s, good ordinary 44s 64 to 483, damaged 42s 6d to 48s 6d; 129 pkgs Tellycherry, fine ordinary 54s to 565, good 47s to 48s, damaged 43s to 50s. Of Plantation Ceylon 140 casks 123 bags were only in part sold, good 61s to 655, middling 55s to 595, and other sorts 44s to 545. There are sellers -of good ordinary Native at 45s 6d to 46s by private treaty; still few buyers are to be met with. TEA.—There has been a good business concluded in Green this week, and rather higher rates have been paid for low and mid sorts. The market for Black remains in a quiet state, town and country dealers still operate with caution, yet holders are firm, and will not sell but at full rates. The value of low and guod ord Congou is Bid to 9:1, medium kinds 9d to is Id, and superior is 2cl to is 9d. There is still a brisk sale for Scented Caper and Orange Pekoe, whilst former rates are, however, well kept up. _ _ RICE.—To-day there was little passing by private treaty in East India. At public sale 494 bags were only in part sold at barely former rates—Bengal, mid white went at 8s 6d to good mid was taken in at 9s 6d to 10s, and white Madras at 8s 6d to 9s. SPICES.—To-day at auction 592 bags African Ginger were sold at 35s to 36s 6d for sound; 717 bugs of East India at 21s to 21s 6d per cwt for expert sort; these are, however, rather rather lower rates. SPIRITS,—OnIy limittd purchases have been made in Jamaica Rum this week by shippers and home dealers, yet holders are firm and will not sell but at fully late terms; there is also only a moderate supply.at market. The value of 20 to 29 per cent. over proof is 2s to 2s 4d. 30 to 36 over 2s 5d to 2s 10d, fine and superior 34 to 4s. The rates asked for East India aro is 3d to is 3id proof, still only limied parcels have been disposed of, but for other imports there is firmness. Demerara has been dealt in with caution at 2s to 2s 3d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof. For Leeward Island the rates asked are is 4id to is Sid proof, but few buyers aro to .be.met with. The demand for Brandy has been much better for all purposes, and higher rates have been paid; on the part of holders there is also much business. Geneva is offered at former rates, but met with little attention. In the value of British made Spirits there is no variation to make known, but the market has a more active appearance. FRIIIT.—Two public sales took place yesterday, con sisting of 54 butts 19 crtls 23 brls 13 cases new Patras, 42 butts and 15 ertls Zante, all damaged. A few•lots of the Patras sold at 378 to 395, and the Zante at 36i to 375. All the Valencia Raisins in the importers' hands are held firmly at 453. Fine Turkey Figs and Muscatels are much in request at high prices, but low and mid dling qnalitios of the former being abundant are dull of sale at lower prices. SALTPETRE.—There has been a further increase in the supply of Rough at market this week, whilst im porters evincing a desist to sell, and buyers operating with caution for all purposes, prices suffered a decline of fully 6d per cwt. Of 1,650 bags Calcutta offered at public sale a small part only sold at from 258 to 26s 6d for 121 to 7 per cent refraction; the chief part consisted of ordinary qualities.. British refined is offered upon lower terms; still only small purchases have been made at 29s 6(1 to 30s. Nitrate of Soda 12s to Its 3d per cwt. TALLOW.—This afternoon the quantity of Tallow offered at auction was large, still the chief part sold; 1,160 pkgs of South American went at from 33s to 365, and 1,000 pkgs of Sydney at 33s 9il to 36s 6d per cwt. Cir,s.--Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Seal Oil this week, and holders exhibit firmness; there is also a less quantity on offer of all sorts. For pale the rates paid have been 391 to 40/, straw and tinged 361 to 381, yellow and brown 321 to 351 per tun. C o d at 311 w 311 103. Of Southern previous rates are well sup• ported. The value of low to fire is 321 to 35/ per tua. Sperm is held with firmness, an d t rans . actions are to a fair extent. The rates given for fine Colonial are 85/ to 831, and Headmatter 841 to 85/ per tun. , Olive Oil.—Sales of Gallipoli have beea made at 441 to 451, and °tinr sorts at 421 to 431 lOs per tun. The value of Lucca remains at 5/ 17s 6d to 6/ periar, end Florence at 17s to 21 3 p er h a lf- c h ests. With Palm the market continues to be scantily supplied, whilst the rates paidfor fine have been 323 to 42s 3d per cwt. Cocoa Nut i offered at from 30s to 34 for low to fine, stills only small purchases have been made, and large parcels are on offer. Rapeseed Oil is still scarce, and former ad vanced rates are supported, but not much desire has been evinced to operate. The value of pale is 42s 6d to 435, brown 41s 6d to 425, and refined foreign 42s 6d to 43s per cwt. Linseed Oil has not improved in value, as production continues to get larger. The rates paid are 28s 3d to 28s 6d on the spot. To-day of Cocoa Nut Oil 500 casks at auction were only in Dart sold at 32s to 35s . THE COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD, Nov. 16.—The supplies of wheat and barbi are great, and of other grain moderate. The trade is exceedingly quiet to-day, and there is very little passing in any article; the finest qualities of wheat are retailed at a decline of is per quarter, and for inferior samples there is little or no inquiry. Barley is in very limited request at a reduction of la per quarter, and only the best meet with attention. Oats and shelling maintain their late value. Beans sell slowly at a decline of is per quarter. New. Old. WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bush& s. s • s, g. Suffolk. Essex, and Kent, red ... 41 to 44 41 to 43 Ditto, white 46 —5O 47 —49 Norfolk and Hunts., red 39 —42 41 —43 Ditto, white ... 43 —46 44 —47 Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... 36 —4O 40 42 Ditto, white 42 —45 43 46 Yorkshire, red ... ... 36 —39 40 —42 Ditto, white .. 42 —45 44 47 Dantzic and Konigsburg, white .. 45 48 41— 47 Lowerßaltic and Hamburgh, red... 40 —42 39 —42 Mediterranean, red ... —— 34 —37 BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels : Norfolk and Suffolk... .. 30 32 Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 25 —2B Scotch ••• ••• Grinding per 80 stone 21 —23 Foreign ... ... 23 —25 —— BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b Small, fine ... ... 30 —32 32 —34 Ticks ... 29 —3l 29 —Ol Foreign ... ... 29 —3O 26 —3l OATS, per stone : Mealing . ... 9d to 10d 80 to 103 Feeding ... ' 83 to 9d 8d to 9d Foreign ... —d to —d 8d to 9d SHELLING: per load of 2611 b ... 22 —23 MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 35 37 PEAS, per Imperial Quarter Blue and white boilers Grey ant Feed ... 29 - 32 26 - 29 26 - 29 ARM Qrs. Wheat ... ... 16,931 Barley ... ... 5 647 Oats ... ... 211 Beans... ... ... 1,163 Peas b 72 Tares ... VAL 9. Qrs Rapeseed ... .., ... Shelling 533 Linseed Malt ... ... . . ... Flour ... ... BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 16.—The market has been very dull this week, indeed the transactions since our last report are scarcely worth enumerating, but prices are firmly supported. Importers show no dispo sition to bring forward their stocks pending tho present inactivity in the market, and the offices are consequently but badly supplied with samples. Refined goods find a steady sale at former prices. Rum is held with some confidence, and the stocks in first hands are now much red u ced.—Bristol Mercury. EXETER, Nov. 16.—Cattle Market.—The supply of beasts was moderate—that of sheep large. Fat bullocks sold at prices quite equal to these of last week, 8s to 8s 6d per score, at which they met a ready sale. Cows and calves, 81 to 131 each. There were but few steers in the market, some rough ones were offered at 6l each, whilst for good bullocks, 12/ to 131 was asked. Bar reners were also scarce, and must be quoted at 4s 6d to 5s per score generally, although some meaty bullocks must be quoted higher. The supply of sheep was large, about 300 more being driven in than on last Fri day. There was, however, a brisk demand, and the greater part were sold at rather higher prices than last week. Fat wethers were worth 5d to sid per lb; and ewes, 44c1 to .sd. Store sheep must be quoted is to 2s per head higher than of late; store wethers selling freely at 30s to 355. Pork Carcases—A pretty good supply, which sold at 6s to 7s 6d per score. Pannier— Turkies, 4s 6d to 6s each; geese, 4s to 6s ditto; ducks, 3s 6d to 5s per couple; fowls, 2s 6d to 4,6 d ditto; phea sants 5s 6d ditto; partridges, 2s 6d to 3s ditto; wood cocks, 4s 6d to 5s ditto; snipes, is 6d ditto; roasters, 45 to 5s 61 ditto; butter, lld to Is ditto; eggs, 12 to 14 for is. Corn Exchange, One o'Clock—Not many Bain pies have been shown, nor has much b us i ness b een d one up to this hour. The millers were acting with great caution, and refusing to give more than 5s 6d per bushel for the best samples of warranted English wheat; we believe, however, that no very large quantity could be purchased at this price, and that were there much de mend prices would advance. Foreign wheat is now in a tew hands, and there is no reduction on late rates, it still remains at a considerably higher relative value than English; for instance French red wheat, certainly much inferior to the best samples of Devonshire produce has sold at 42s per quarter, or 5s 3d per bushel—whilst for white wheat 46s per quarter was asked, but not obtained, and as foreign wheat is sold at 601bs the bushel, and English, when warranted, at 65lbs, the difference in price is material. Malting barley is not in much request, and must be quoted at 3s to 3s 6d per bushel. Oats, 2s to 2s Id per bushel. Flue flour, 30s to 31s per sack of 2SOlbs. BARNSLEY, Nov. 14.—A moderate amount of busi ness was done in both wheat and barley, at the rates of last week. Butter was a little higher, and potatoes at last week's prices. KNARESBOROUGII, Nov. 14.—The market was well supplied with wheat, barley, and oats, but beans were very scarce and higher in price. In wheat no alteration. Wheat, 4s 6d to 6s Od; beans, 4s 3d to 4s Gd per bushel; barley, 24s to 28s; oats, 16t to 21s per quarter. NORTHALLERTON, Nov. 14.—White wheat 5s 6d to 6s Od, red ditto, 4s 6d to .ss; oats ls 6d to 2s 3d; beans 33 6d to 4s 6d, barley 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel. Schamonouan, Nov. 14.—T0-day being Seamer hirings, our market was but badly attended, the supply of grain was consequently but limited, though quite equal to the demand. The prices generally may be quoted the same as last wetk. New wheat 5s to 5s 6d, old ditto 5s 9d to Gs 3d per 5 stones; new oats 7id to Bd, old ditto 9d to 101 per stone ; mating barley 23a to 245, grinding barley 21s to 22s per quarter of 32 stones; super fine flour 35s to 365, seconds ditto 29s to 30s per sack of 20 stones. RHYL, Nov. 13.—Our supply of wheat was not quite so good as last week; but the trade was rather brisker, more (specially for best sorts of wheat, which made 14s 6d per 1681b5., being 6d per hobbet more than last week. There was no advance upon the second sorts. Fine samples of barley commanded 9s per 1471b5. Other kinds f grain remained the same as last week. INVERNESS, Nov. 13.—01 d wheat, per quarter, weighing 641 b per bushel, 43s to 48s; new ditto, ditto, 42s to 44s ; old barley, per quarter, weighing 541 b per bushel, 24s to o.ls ; new ditto, ditto, 23s to 00s ; oats, 421 b per bushel, 20s to 21s Od. Oatmeal, per imperial boll, 16s 6d, second, 15s; barleymeal, I Is 8d; peasemeal, 14s to 15s; bran, per stone, Od to 8d; first flour, per 2801 b, 36s to 375; second, 28s; oatmeal, best, per stone of 14Ib imperial, is 8d to Os Od; second, Is rid; barleymeal, is 2d; peasemeal, is 4d; first flour, 2s 9d cash, 3s credit; second, 2s 3d cash, 2s 6d credit. Pota toes, per stone, 4d to Od ; beef, per pound, 4d to 7d; veal, 4d to 6d; mutton, bd to 8d; pork, 4d to 6d; fowls, each, OOd to 00d ; chickens, per pair, OOd to tad ; ducks, each, OOd to 00d ; eggs, pr dozen, 8d to 9d; butter, fresh, per ib, 9d to 10d; salt, 12d to OOd; croudie (curds) 2id to Od; four pound loaf, cash, 6d to 7d, credit, 60 to 7d; coals, per cwt, 9d; hay, per stone, 8d to 9d. COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Carr's Hartley ......... 14s 6d Hutton Davison'sWest Hartley 15s OdlLambton East Adairs Main..... 1 to 6d Lumley l 6s 6d HastinfsHartky ...... 14s 6d P1ummer........ .... Holywell Main ... ..... 16 s 6d i Russell's Hetton Newcastle Hartley .. 14s Oct Stewart's Ravens worth's W.Hart 145 Cdi Whitwell .. l6s 3d South Peareth l4s Od;Cassop.. ..... .... l7s Od Stewart's Hartley— l4s Odl Heugh Hall West Hartley ........ 14s 6d South Kelloe ... 165 6d Westerten Hartley ... 13s Od West Hetton l6s 6d Wylam Wall's End, &c. Brown's Deanery l7s Od Hotspur lss Od'Cownden Tees ... ..... 163 3d Northumberland Percy... Riddell's lss 3d Tees Eden Main l7B ed Cowpen Hartley Lambton Primrose ... 17s Od Howard's W. H. Neth 152 Od Belmont l7s 6d Nixon's Merthyr and Hetton .... lBs Od Cardiff .... 213 04 Haiwell lBs 3d I Sidney 's Hartley Ships at market, 242. 7 .. ... Lis 6d [ ADTERTlSEMER T.] — Unprecedented Cure by Hol loway's Pills—Thomas Symonds (formerly of Chatham. Dockyard), residing in Gravel-lane, Southwark, had been unable to do his work for three years ; his lungs were sup posed to be effected, having a distressing cough, with feet and legs swelling, besides which he could scarcely ever keep anything on his stomach, and was generally so weak and ill as to barely have power to stand ; yet in three months this poor man acquired almost a new constitution by taking Holloway's Pills, and has now become so thoroughly strong and well as to be ably to undertake the laborious duties of a carpenter on board a vessel about sailing to New South Wales.—These invaluable pills are sold at Professor Hollo way's establishment, 244, Strand, London ; and by all dealers in medicine. BIRTHS, On the 13th inst., Mrs. Joseph Fry, of Grove-lane, Cam• berwell, of a son. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Moses Levin, of Great Alie-street, of a daughter. On the 15:11 inst., in Regent•street, Mrs. William G. Tay lor, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th ult., at St. Bride's, Fleet. street, Charles Pear son, fourth son of William Pritchard, Esq., of Doctors'- commons, to Adeline Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Robert Obbard, Esq., of New Bridge-street. On the 14th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, James Yourg Jamieson ' Esq , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Emma Elizabeth, e ld es t dough er of the late Richard Cundell, Esq., of Greville-place, Kilburn-pi iory. DIED. At Newhaven, near Edinburgh, on the 13th inst., in the 78th year of age, Justina Ogilvie, only surviving daughter to the late John Ogilvie, Esq , Inverness, and relict of the late John Simson, Esq., Dingwell, in the county of Ross. On the 9th inst, at Newton-house, near Tamwortb, aged 79, William Princep, Esq. On the 12th inst., in York-street, Glocester-place, William Burge, Esq., Q.O , aged 64. On the 2th inst., aged 49, Mary, the wife of Samuel Vcsey, Esq., allot.- house, Halton Holegate, Liccolnshire. On the 13th inst, in Albion-road. Stoke Newington, aged 74, Thomas 0. Stock, Esq., late of Tunbridge-well. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, f; o. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 x: Strand, in the Precinct of the SavoY • in the eettutY 0 ' Middleeez, Saturday, November V, 1840. I