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Vbirb mon THE FUNDS-(CL BRITISH, Bxnk Stock l7l 3 per Cent. Red ...., 94 3 per Ceut. Cons 3i per Cent. Red 101 k New 3i per Cent Cent New 5 per Cen' — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ... ...... 124 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 USING PRICES.) FUNDS. India Stock 'Ditto Bonds . . 43 pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 52 um Ditto 500/...... 52 pm Ditto Small 52 ' gy m Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... Consols for Opg. I FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic — FORM Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, per cent Brazilian Bonds... Bnenos Ayres 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BOA Danish, 3 per _eat Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1625,6 per ct. SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5 Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 58 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) - Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ..... 9 London and Brighton (50 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) lO Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (90 paid) Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, Deferred.... .. French, 5 per cent. —f —e. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2 per cent. — Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 1001 17a SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We shall not enter upon a controversy as to the causes of the distress which desolates Paisley —where out of a population of sixty thousand, eleven thousand are daily dependent on the precarious, in sufficient, and necessarily decreasing supply afforded by private benevolence. It would militate against the design with which we bring this lamentable exhibition before the eye of the public, were we to make it the text of an argument, possibly - leading to a controversy, but little advantage - OU3 to the general sympathy we would fain create for the sufferers. It may be, and probably is, true, that the staple manufacture of Paisley has ceased to be in demand, because of the change which ever-varying fashion has undergone. Shawls of a cheaper fabric, manfactured elsewhere, have super seded those long almost exclusively produced in Pais ley. With distress, however deplorable and extensive, caused by such fluctuations, the Corn-law, say its advocates, can have nothing to do. But if want of employment fur the labouring population, occasioned to a great extent by the restrictions imposed upon trade by this and other modes of protecting class-interests ot the expense of the community, had not inflicted distress and suffering upon every manufacturing dis trict in the kingdom, the unemployed work-people of Paisley would have sought, and many of them would have found, a market for their labour in other places ; while those who remained would have obtained relief by the benevolent efforts of the inhabitants. The local funds would not have been taxed, as they have been, beyond their powers of endurance; and these, if necessary, would have been increased by supplies sent from other quarters, raised by those appeals which are never made in cases of real necessity, without being responded to with promptitude and effect by those who possess the power of doing good. But the widely-spread depression of trade in the manufacturing districts has called for the utmost efforts of the benevolent, who possess the means, to mitigate the sufferings of the unemployed who dwell in their own localities. The help which would have been readily extended to Paisley by those resident in Manchester, has been demanded by masses perishing around them in their own town, or in those other densely-populated places within a short distance of it. The general distress of the country, which we charge on the Corn and Provision-laws, has paralyzed the powers of extended benevolence, byl restricting its ex ertions to the localities within which its agents have their own residence. Thus are the Corn-laws, and their kindred enactments, chargeable, either imme diately or remotely, with national distress, and with such instances of local destitution as is presented by the population of Paisley. STANDARD.—There has rarely occurred a case in which the exposure of deliberate and systematic fraud has been so complete, as in the recent attempt to excite discontent and alarm in the agricultural class by the threat of a meditated change in the pro tecting laws. The enterprise was begun by a series of misrepresentations of the speeches of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the landed interest, and sup posed to be in the confidence of the Government — misrepresentations as gross and audacious as ever were employed to deceive the public. These misrepre sentations supplied texts from which the Whig-Ra dical journals expatiated, day by day, upon the un grateful and dishonest policy of the Government. -At length the artificers of fraud had wrought themselves up to the pitch of confidence to dare anything, and forth came the impudent lying announcement of the Globe, that the graduated scale was forthwith to be replaced by a fixed duty. It is not to be wondered at that a scheme of false hood, so artful and so audacious, succeeded in swaying the opinions of some of even our most in telligent and honest journals, particularly, if like the Times, these journals had a bias in favour of the change announced ' • perhaps it is as little astonishing that the ps eudo -Conservative journal, written and compiled in concert with the evening organ of the Whig-Radical Ministry, affected to give implicit credit to a story dishonourable to Sir Robert Peel's Government, and even went beyond its Whig-Radical playfellow in pretending to cast doubt upon the contradiction of the lie, when that contradiction appeared by authority in the Stand ard. That this combined movement of Whig-Radicals and mock Conservatives, which succeeded to some ex tent in imposing upon even honest and intelligent journals, has proved at least temporarily injurious to Sir Robert Peel's Government cannot be doubted. It was designed for that purpose, and for that purpose only ; and how could it fail of misleading simple minded men, who believe others as honourable and candid as themselves, such as constitute the majority of the agricultural lass ? DREADFUL FIRE at LIVERPOOL. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) Great as the destruction is, the result may be con sidered as a fortunate escape, and the town owe the credit to the fire-peke in particular. No accident, h app ily, oc curred to life or limb, so far as we could learn, though one man had a fearful and narrow escape. The first estimates made of a loss are generally much exaggerated, and for this there may be some excuse. The loss, we believe, will be found (i n place of 70,0001. to 100,0001.) to be, in all, from 45,0001. to 47,0001. —chiefly in the following articles 7,000 to 8,000 quarters of wheat , 1,400 bags of cotton, 50 casks of madder, 100 barrels of tar and turpentine, 30 to 40 tons of dyewood, &c. About 91 tuns of olive oil, worth about 5,0001. (not included in our estimate), are vef in the cellars of the eastern warehouse (called " Crane's"), but every hope is entertained that it will be saved. The western warehouse is called " Guyton's." The fire was so far subdued by one o'clock, the flames being reduced to the vaulted cellars under the west yard, that little ap prehension was entertained of its spreading to any of the adjacent property, much of which was long in jeopardy. The two warehouses were both of great height, and eovered an area (together) or 1,460 yards. One con tained principally grain, wool, and some brimstone; the other cotton, grain, fustic, and tallow. During the early part of the fire, Lieutenant But ler, in command of H.M.S. Etna, sent his marines on shore, in charge of Mr. Wright, chief officer under him ; Captain Cumming, of the 15th Regiment, from the barracks, Duke-street, without requisition, also brought up his men, and rendered efficient services, in maintaining order and keeping ample space for the firemen, until their services were gratefully dispensed with.—Liverpool Standard. HORRID MURDER, near ILKLEY. On Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of Ilk ley, Addingbam, and the neighbourhood, were hor rified by the finding of the murdered body of a man, aged about 50 years, in a field in the township of Nesfield, through which the public highway from llkley to Beamsley and Bolton Bridge passes, about a mile distant from Middleton Lodge, the residence of W. Middleton, Esq., and less than a mile distant from the village of Ilkley. The gamekeepers and watchers of Mr. Middleton (six in number) found the body about two o'clock on Saturday morning. Life was not then quite extinct. The deceased was laid on his right side, and his hat over his face. On the keepers attempting to raise him up,.and on removing his hat, they discovered that his head was broken to pieces, and his hat nearly filled with blood. He expired immediately on being moved. A short walking-stick with a most formidable head • was found by the body, covered with blood. The body was then moved to Ilkley, by the constable, whom the keepers at once applied to, and the body was identified as that of Wm. Hustwick, of Beamsley, a labourer, who, it was ascertained, had left Ilkley about half-past ten o'clock the night before, in com pany with his cousin, Joseph Hey, of Beamsley, carpenter. On the body being undressed, a mast frightful spec tacle was presented. Although the thee was not much difigured, the head was literally smashed to pieces, and almost the entire body and Bulbs were covered with bruises. ley was immediately inquired after, and taken into custody, to await the result of the Coro ner's inquest, which was held on Monday before Thomas Brown, Esq., of Skipton, and a respectable Jury chosen from the townships of Nesfield, Ilkley, and Addingham ; G. 0. Green, Esq., of Woodhouse, was foreman. E. C. L. Kaye, Esq., of Farfield Hall, 1 the nearesident Magistrate, was also in the jury- I room, with seueral neighbouring gentlemen, and a crowd of other spectators, There was great excitement exhibited during the examination of the witnesses, which occupied about seuen hours ; but the material facts deposed to may be more briefly stated. John Lister, of Ilkley, innkeeper, proved that the deceased and Joseph Hey, both of whom he well , knew, came together into his house on Friday even ing, and that they left in company together. Thomas Hardwick, the house watcher at Middleton Lodge, said—At ten minutes or a quarter-past 12 he heard a distant noise from the direction of the river where the body was found (distance a mile). The night was windy. It was a man's voice. He went on the front of the house to hear more distinctly, and walked backward and forward for an hour, during all which time he heard repeated sounds from the same uuarter, as of blows, or as if stones were thrown into the river, and occasionally from the same voice he thought he heard words like " Help me Up." or " Let me get up," but could not be certain. About one o'clock the sounds ceased. About half-past one the keepers came to him at the lodge. He mentioned what he had heard, and set off to lead the keepers to about the place where the sounds came from. He led thorn almost direct to the place. After all the evidence had been heard, Joseph Hey said,—" After going a short way, deceased began to stagger, I took hold of his arm. We went gently on. He would sic down. We got too near the lime kiln. He then lay down and said he would stop. I said, nay, come on. He said, I'll lie down a bit and then follow thee. I then left him." He went on to state how he had proceeded homewards, sitting down in different places, hearing a clock strike twelve, and getting home at two. The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," against some person or persons unknown. The mur dered man was not married. Hey, after the verdict, was set at liberty, and attended the funeral of the de ceased next day by invitation of his friends.—Leeds Mercury of to-day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec, 23. (Before a Common Jury.) POTTER V. STUART. BREACH Or PROMISE OF MARRIA.GE.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compen sation in damages for an alleged breach of promise of marriage. Mr. HUMPHREY, for the plaintiff, said the parties were both in a humble station. The plaintiff, Catherine Potter, who was twenty-five years of age, was the daughter [of a hair-dresser living at Ken nington, and the defendant was a farm-servant living at Sydenham. The plaintiff had lived in the service of Mr. Deans, a farmer of Sydenham, as housekeeper, where she had: become acquainted with defendant, who was eventually received by herself and her friends as her acknowledged suitor. So far had the affair proceeded that the banns of marriage were put up between plaintiff and defendant, and on the very Sunday on which they were asked for the last time the banns of marriage between the defendant and another woman, to whom he had since been married, were published for the first time. The defendant had taken advan tage of the plaintiff, and had, under cover of thin promise of marriage, seduced her. Mrs. Saville, in whose service plaintiff was at the time, having dis covered she was in the family way, sen iher home to her friends, but such was the hig l *pinion that her mistress entertained of her, that s n s.: milling to take plaintiff back again into her sery t .as she would herself inform them. It was for the Jury to say to what amount of damages she was entitled for the misery she had endured in consequence of defen lant's misconduct. The Learned Counsel then ealled he father, sisters, and brother of the plaintiff, and Also Mrs. Saville, in whose service plaintiff had lived, orthe purpose of proving his case. They were severally cross-examined by Mr. Cum rom for the defendant, who elicited from them the facts that plaintiff was about twenty-five years of age, and that a young man named Roots had walked home with her from Kennington to Sydenham after nine o'clock at night. It also appeared that the defendant was twenty-four years of age, and that plaintiff had been I told that defendant was engaged to be married to his present wife before plaintiff became acquainted with him. Mr. Cntimas, for the defendant, admitted that it was impossible to call upon the Jury to give a verdict for him, but he submitted that the smallest possible amount of damage would satisfy the justice of the case. It was preposterous that such a case should have been brought forward in that Court. The ques• tion for them was, what dama,,,o-e had the plaintiff sus tained by not marrying the defendant? She was a servant of all work, he was a farm-servant; and as to his property, there was no evidence of it whatever. Her child, it appeared, had been born in September, so that the intercourse mu. t have taken place soon after her arrival atDean's farm, and soon after she had been tad that he was engaged to be married to an other. If the child were really Stuart's, they might have gone before a Magistrate, and she could have compelled him to maintain the child. The father might have brought his action for seduction, but here they were left to guess as to who was the father of the child ; and they had no right to let that weigh in the consideration of the damages due to her for this breach of promise of marriage. Lord DENMAN summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 101. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 23 YOUNG U. FISHER. This was an action brought by an attorney against a client, to recover the amount of three bills of ex :thange for 20/. each, which were given for his ser vices as an attorney, and for a further sum of 71. 10s., for subsequent services. The defence was that the debt was covered by the bankruptcy of the defendant, and that the bills were accepted for the accommodation of the plaintiff, and that the services for which the ad ditional sum was claimed, were rendered before the plaintiff had taken out his certificate, and he was there fore not qualified, and could not recover his costs. Verdict for the plaintiff. The Court then adjourned to Wednesday, Jan. 11, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 23.—The transac tions since our last have been quite insignificant; the near approach of the holidays and the general flat state of the trade entirely suppressing all desire to purchase. During the ensuing week the offices will be closed.—Bristot Mercury. CAUGHT IN A SPOUT.—We relate a tale as we heard it. Mr. • Ridsdale, baker, in this town, occupies a bakehouse an d flour-room over it, not attached to his house, in an entire yard in Hounds-gate. On Thursday, th e 13th instant, soon after dusk in the evening, one of his passedme a l u ig p ht, the as entr h y e an d at once proceeded with out knew the premises well, to the flour-store, and un a board on th e fl oor, w ith tyi n g a bag, turned up a view of shooting a quantity of flour through a spout into a bin, in the bakehouse, as it was his custom so to do just before they mixed the dou g h, in tended to be baked as bread. His fellow-workman, waiti ng in the bakehouse for the descent of the flour, and perceiving that none came down, called out to John to know wh a t he was about, and why he did not shoot the flour down? John having turned a large quantity out of the bag, and being puzzled to ascertain what was the matter, at length thrust his hand and arm down the spout, when 10, and behold ! he met with an obstruction. He called out hastily for alight, and on a candle being taken into the room, what should be found in the spout but a man almost suffocated ; on being asked how he came there, he replied, that he was only come for a night's lodgings, as he had no bed to sleep on ; and fearing, no doubt, that he might not be able to find anything suitable for a pillow, it was dis• covered that he had provided himself with an empty bag ! He was taken before the Magistrates at the Police-office, and examined on Friday last, when he gave his name as John Groves, baker, aged nineteen years ; and in order that he _may not do the like again at present, for want of lodgings, a bed was ordered at the House of Correction, to be there oc cupied by him for the next six weeks, and during his leisure time in the day, he is to recreate on the tread-wheel.—Nottingham Review. THE COW AND THE SCHOOLMASTER.--A very ex traordinary circumstance occurred in Carrick-on- Suir on Thursday. A cow, the property of a farmer near this town, influenced, no doubt, by a thirst for information, forced its way up a long flight of stairs into our news room, and caused, as you may well imagine, no small sensation, by breaking, in its way upwards, several pines of glass in the lobby window, and bellowing awfully. The proprietor of the house, who is a teacher, and a person of high literary attainments, feeling highly exasperated on the occasion, had the farmer brought before our local Magistrate, and sought to recover damages for the injury done him by the cow, which claim the farmer resisted, observing to the Magistrate, with a good deal of naivete, that had not the schoolmaster been abroad, the cow would not have gone in. Upon this very conclusive argu ment, the Magistrate dismissed the case. The matter, however, is likely to claim the most serious attention "in horse hair," as the schoolmaster, who the is ge ati inn ein ofe n means, as well a s p ar t s , ha s resolved of n a to set himself right by an appeal to a jury of his coun trymen.— Tipperary Free Pre ss . The Lord Chancellor leaves town to-day 'for his seat Turville, near Maidenhead, where the Noble and Learned Lord, we understand, intends to pass the Christmas vacation. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1842. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 21. An Address of congratulation on the Birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, from the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, having been transmitted for pre sentation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, has been presented by the Marquis of Exeter to his Royal High ness, who was pleased to receive the same very graciously. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 23, 1842. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—General Henry William Marquis of Anglesey, K.G. and G.C.8., from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Colonel, vice General Viscount Hill, deceased, Dec. 20. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant-Gen. Sir James Kearney to be Colonel, Tice the Marquis of Anglesey. appointed to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, Dec. 20. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 23, 1842. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following officers to take rank, by Brevet, as under-mentioned ; the commissions to be dated Dec. 23, 1842 : To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Major G. Browne, of the 41st Foot ; Major G. Hibbert, of the 40th Foot ; Major T. Skinner, of the 31st Foot ; Major J. Simmons, of the 41st Foot ; Major 0. H. Lockwood, of the 3d Light Dragoons. To be Majors in the Army—Captain A. Ogle, of the 9th Foot; Captain G. Baldwin, of the 31st Foot; Captain M. Smith, of the 9th Foot ; Captain F. Lushington, of the 9th Foot ; Captain F. White, of the 40th Foot. To be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the Army—Lieut.-Colonel S. Bolton, of the 31st Foot, vice Colonel T. Mackrell, killed in action. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 23. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the follow ing Officers, of the East India Company's Forces, to take rank, by Brevet, in her Majesty's Army in the East In dies; the commissions to be dated 23d December,lB42: To be Lieutenant-Colonel—Major G. Huish, 26th Bengal Native Infantry. To be Majors—Captain R. Codrington, 49th Bengal Native Infantry) Captain T. Polwhele, 42d Bengal Na tive Infantry ; Captain F. Abbott, Bengal Engineers ; Captain T. E. A. Napleton, 60th Bengal Native In fantry; Captain G. Burney, 38th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain John T. Leslie, of the Bombay Horse Artillery; Captain J. 11. Craigie, 20th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain J. Ferris, 20th Bengal Native Infantry ; Cap tain G. C. Ponsonby, 11th Bengal Cavalry ; Captain J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery •, Captain W. Anderson, Bengal Artillery ; Captain J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery; Captain C. Bloed, 'Bombay Artillery ; Captain W. Rid dell, 60th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain 11. M. Law rence, Bengal Artillery ; Captain T. Hare Scott, 38th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain D. F. Evans, 46th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain J. Macadam, 33d Ben gal Native Infantry. To have the local rank of Major in the Army, in Afighanistan—Brevet Captain F. Mackeson, 14th Bengal Native Infantry. To be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the East Indies—Lieut.-Col. G. P. Wymer, 38th Bengal Native Infantry. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 23. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the follow ing officers to take rank, by Brevet, as under-men tioned ; the commissions to be dated Dec. 23, 1842 To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Major C. Warren, of the 55th Foot ; Major G. A. Malcolm, of the 3d Light Dragoons ; Major D. L. Fawcett, of the 55th Foot ; Major J. B. Gough, of the 3d Light Dra goons ; Major N. Maclean, of the 55th Foot. To be Majors in the Army—Captain J. Paterson, of the 26th Foot ; Captain W. Greenwood, of the Royal Artillery ; Captain W. R. Faber, of the 49th Foot ; Captain A. O'Leary, of the 65th Foot; Captain H. C. B. Daubeney, of the 55th Foot ; Captain D. MSAndrew, of the 49th Foot ; Captain F. Wigston, of the 18th Foot ; Captain F. Whittingliam, of the 26th Foot. To be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the Army.—Lieut.-Colonel C. Campbell, of the 98th Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel P. E. Craigie, of the 55th Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel E. Morris, of the 49th Foot. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 22. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the follow ing officers, of the Royal Marines, to take rank, by brevet, as undermentioned ; the commissions to be dated Dec. 23 : To be Majors in the Army—Captain J. Whitcomb ; Captain F. S. Hamilton. WAR-OFFICE, DEc. 23. - Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the follow ing officers, of the East India Company's forces, to take rank, by brevet, in her Majesty's army in the East In dies ; commissions to be dated 23d December, 1842. To be Lieutenant-Colonels —Major F. Blundell, Ma dras Artillery ; Major C. W. You n g , 14th Madras Na tive Infantry ; Major J. Campbell, 41st Madras Infantry. To be Majors—Captain W. IL Simpson, 36th Madras Native Infantry ; Captain F. A. Reid, 6th Madras Na tive Infantry ; Captain R. Shirreff, 2d Madras Native Infantry ; Captain T. T. Pears, Madras Engineers ; Captain R. C. Moore, Madras Artillery. ADMIRALTY, DEc. 23. Naval promotions which have taken place in conse quence of the recent war in China : Commanders to be Captains—lL Boxes, Esq. ; C. Frederick, Esq. ; C. Richards, Esq. ; H. Kellett, Esq. ; R. B. Watson, Esq. ; W. H. A. Morshead, Esq. ; R. Collinson, Esq. ; E. . Troubridge, Esq. ou Id- Lieutenants to be Commanders—J. Tudo r , E sq ., th e Honourable East India Company ; R.B. Crawford, Esq.; J. J. M‘Cleyerty, Esq. , t he Honrable East ; G. Ski, Es ; J. India CoinHarri pally son, E C. Wise, Esq . p q. with sq. ; C. Starner , Esq. ; J. Fitzjames, Esq. ; H. C. Hawkins, Esq. ; J. Stoddart, Esq. ; P. A. Help man, Esq. Mates to be Lieutenants—Mr. 11. Clarke. Mr. A. T. Freese, the Hon. East India Company; Mr. E. L. Strang ways, the Hon. East India Company ; Mr. E. W. Van sittart, Mr. A. R. Henry, Mr. H. F. N. Rolfe, Mr. A. P. Greene, Mr. IL S. Hillyar, Mr. H. Phelps, Mr. A. An so , Mr. N. Vansittart, Mr. C. K. In addition to t he above promotions, orders have been An derson, ja n c , k M so r n . . G. H. Hodgson transmitted to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, the Commander-in-Chief, to report, for promotion, the names of the Senior Lieutenants and Senior Mates of ships engaged ; the services of which s hips shall, in his opinion, entitle thm to such reward, and who shall not be in cluded in the foregoing list. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham. Durham Militia—E. K. Fairies (and not E. H. Havile, as stated in the Gazette of the 16th instant), Gent., to be Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, DEC. 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Banks, of Preston, in the county of Lancashire, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 9. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Wood burn the younger, of Liverpool, in the county of Lan caster, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. D. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Edward Silvester, of Beverley, in the county of York, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed James Tas sell, of Faversham, in the county of Kent, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS BLASON, innkeeper, Ecton, Northamp tonshire, Dec. 29, at two, and Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall•street. Pennell, offi cial assignee ; Pell, jun., Northampton. CHARLES JONES, tavern-keeper, Devereux-court, Strand, Jan. 5, at twelve, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, Alder manbury, official assignee ; Austin, Threadneedle-street. CHARLES ALLEN, saddler, Walsall, Staffordshire, Jan. 4, at two, and 'an. 26, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore , Birmingham ; Hill, Birmingham. PITT, wine and spirit merchant. Selby, officialll Yorkshire,Ny assignee, ja n 5. and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds • Bunney and Preston, Hull. JAMES GREGORY, table-knife manufacturer, Shef field, Jan. 4, at one, and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Broomhead, Sheffield. JOHN HERRING and WILLIAM HERRING, merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 28, at one, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy. Baker, official assignee, New castle-upon-Tyne ; Williamson and Hill, Gray'a Inn, London ; Ingledew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. JOHN BENNETT, railroad contractor, Reading, Jan. 3, at twelve, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Johnson, official assignee, Basingliall-street ; Wansey, Lothbury. JOHN BUCKTHOUGHT, currier, East Looe, Corn wall, Jan. 4, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Exeter Dis trict Court of Bankruptcy. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Surr, Lombard-street, London ; Lockyer and Bulteel, Plymouth. ROBERT BARNES, tanner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 4, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at one, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy. Baker, New castle-upon-Tyne, official assignee ; Meggison, Pringle, and Co., Ring's-road, Bedford - row, London ; Philipso n, Newcastle half- upon-Tyne. GEORGE RICHMOND, corn dealer, Cowley , Ox fordshire, J an. 7, at h a lf-p a st twelve, and Jan. 31, at P ast one, at the Court of Bank ru p tc y , Basinghall street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Cox and Williams, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; M a ll am , inn., Oxford. THOMAS FRASER, Italian warehouseman , Brook street, Bend- street, J an. 10, a t eleven, and Jan. 24, at one, at ' the C our t of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Lackington o ffi c i a l ass i gnee , Coleman street-buildings ; Moseley and Channel) , Bedford-street, Covent•garden. WILLIAM • BOWLER, comb maker , Castle . lane, Southwark, J an. 7, at half-past one , and Jan. 31, at eleven, at th e C ourt o f B an k r uptcy, Basinghall-street. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, official assignee; Collins and Rigley, Crescent-place, Bridge-street, Black friars. GIOVANNI BATTISTA SALVL wine merchant, Duke•street, Portland-place, Jan. 14, at two, and Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall , James's. street. Groo m , Ab c hurch-lane, Lombard - street , official assignee 1 ;Lov e ll and Halliwell, Great Ryd er-street, St. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) WORSHIP-STREET. George Jenns, a middle-aged person of respectable appearance was re-examined before Mr. Bingham upon a charge of having embezzled various sums of money amounting to upwards of 5001. the property of Mr. Wm. Weedon, the proprietor of a patent leather japanning manufactory, in Hoxton Old Town. Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, with Mr. Hobler, con ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Bodkin defended the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson in stating the case said, that the pri soner formerly carried on the business of a leather japanner in Hoxton, on his own account, that his affairs became embarrassed and he was ultimately made a bankrupt. Mr. Weedon, the prosecutor, was his creditor to the amount of about 4901., and before he obtained his certificate, the prisoner urged the latter to take the business and allow the prisoner to manage it for him. The prosecutor acceded to the proposal and engaged the prisoner as his servant at the weekly wages of 41. The business was carried on for a considerable time under the prisoner's ma nagement, but the prosecutor at length discovered that the amounts of several bills had been paid to him, although he was not authorised to receive money from customers, and that he had appropriated them to his own use, on which he gave him into custody. Several witnesse§ were examined who deposed to their having paid the prisoner -various sums on ac count of the prosecutor, which the latter denied having ever received. In answer to an application to admit the prisoner to bail, the Magistrate said that he should require two sureties for his appearance in 5001. each. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a person who attended professionally on the behalf of Lindsey Cranford, the claimant to the Crauford peerage, who was brought up to this Court on a charge of being a returned convict some time ago, made the following application relative to that individual. Having described the circumstances under which Mr. Crauford was brought to that Court, he intimated that he was now in Ireland awaiting his trial at the spring assizes for returning from trans portation, it being alleged he was sentenced to banish ment for life for horsestealing in the county of Lon donderry. The object of the present application was to ascertain from the Magistrate whether at the period Crauford was brought before him, a witness, who stated himself to be the Captain of a convict ship, did not prove that a man named Cranford was one of the convicts whom he took out to South Australia at the period it was said the claimant for the Crauford peerage was transported, and that the witness on seeing the latter individual admitted that he was not the man. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that he recollected a person coming forward when the individual alluded to was brought before him, and stating that he was not the convict of that name who went out on board the ship of which he was the Captain. The applicant said that he had received a commu nication from Ireland on the subject of Mr. Crau ford's detention in that country. That subsequently to his having been discharged from that Court he was retaken and conveyed to Guildhall, and thence sent to Ireland on a warrant backed by an Irish magistrate. Applicant having attended the examinations that took place at this Court on the behalf of the accused, he, as well as his solicitor in Ireland, was most desirous that his trial should take place here, as the principal wit nesses were in town. If all the circumstances con nected with Mr.Crauford's case were known, it would , be found that a foul conspiracy existed against him, principally owing to his exertions to obtain his rights as claimant to the Cranford peerage. Applicant added, that in the event of being unsuccessful in re moving the trial from Ireland to this 'country, he should obtain the affidavit of the witness alluded to in order to prove Mr. Cranford was not the convict who went out on board his ship. At the period it was alleged he had returned to this country, there was no notice given at Mr. Capper's office of the escape of a prisoner of that name. It was true Mr. Cranford had been in Van Diemen's Land, and at the time of his leaving the colony he made his intention known by public advertisement, a circumstance at once proving that he was not a returned transport. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that if the allegations of the applicant were founded in fact, and as yet they were not controverted, a trial in Ireland would answer precisely the same purpose, for if the case was not made out against the individual referred to, no doubt he would be acquitted. THAMES-POLICE. Yesterday a weather-beaten sailor was brought be fore Mr. Ballantine, to account for his being found in the Thames at a very late hour on Thursday night. - Reuben Webb, a policeman, said a waterman gave the prisoner into his charge, and said he found him floating in the Thames at Blackwall. The sailor was very drunk, and could not stand. The sailor said his name was Henry Holm 6, and he belonged to the Royal Mail steam-packet Tweed, which arrived in the river, from the West Indies, on Wednesday night, and he afterwards came ashore. Mr. BALLANTINE—You were not ashore when you were picked up? The Sailor— I will tell you how that was, your Honour. You see, I came ashore to see a friend, and gets a precious sight too much grog. Well, I rolls down to Blackwall-stairs, and pays a waterman to take me on board my ship, the Tweed; and when I gets alongside , they would not lower the gangway ladder, and so I climbed up the paddle-box, and fell off, and the v. aterman picks me up, and takes me back to the shore. I could get no one else to con vey me back to the steamer, so I determined to have a swim for it; and so here I am, and I don't how how. Mr. BALLANTINA—You would never have reached ship ; and i you had not been picked up by a water man, you must have been drowned. The Sailor—The liquor was too much for me. If yt c will let me go, it shall not happen again. Mr. BALLANTINE—If you are picked up in that way again, I will send you to the House of Correction. Get back to your ship as ,fast as you can. EDWARD FOX, beer house keeper, Sheffield. DANIEL BANFIELD HICKIE, schoolmaster, Hawkshead, Lancashire. CHARLES GOUGH, attorney-at-law, Upper Say- mour-street, St. Pancras. HENRY ANDREWS TAYLOR, artist, Halton,Whit kirk, Yorkshire. JOHN TASKER, tailor, Hudderzfield, Yorkshire. JOHN GARFORTH, manufacturer of lastings, Ha lifax, Yorkshire. ROBERT PARRY PUGHE, schoolmaster, New town, Montgomeryshire. JOHN WOMACK, baker, Doncaster, Yorkshire. JOHN COOPER, farmer, Scholes, Yorkshire. THOMAS PRESTON, civil-engineer, Lower George street, Chelsea. , DANIEL HOPKINSON, coachman, Masbro', York shire. JOHN SHACKELL, accountant, Beauvoir-crescent, Hackney, Middlesex. ' JOHN EDWIN PIPER, chemist, Watney-street, Commercial-road, St. George-in• the-East, Middlesex. THOMAS MOORE, licensed victualler, Carrington, Cheshire. THOMAS JORDAN, auctioneer, Birmingham. S A MUE L DAV lES, labourer, Wem, Shropshire. MATTHEW KNOWLES, cooper, Tadcaster, York shire. . THOMAS COLES COX, milkman, Cheltenham. THOMAS WADE, grocer, Castleford, Yorkshire. JAMES ROGERS, billiard-table maker, Exeter. GEORGE ODELL, painter, Wellingborough, North amptonshire. RICHARD BUTTERY, wood-ranger, Little Wen lock, Shropshire. THOMAS M'DERMOTT, military knight, Lower Ward, Windsor Castle. HENRY BURGH, farmer, Stanley's-end, Gloucester, JOSEPH GARDNER, licensed victualler, Hall street, Dudley. JOHN GILLIBRAND, coal dealer, Birmingham. JOHN WILLIAM HENTIG, jun., gentleman, Judd place East, New-road, St. Pancras. HENRY DELCOUR, appraiser, South Molton-street, Oxford- street. EDMUND NASH NORCOTT, Captain on half-pay in the Navy, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. THOMAS RUSSELL WILKINSON, mercantile clerk, Saint Pancras, Kentish-town. JAMES SMITLI, cheesemonger, Lombard-street, Chelsea. BOLTON EDWARD STRETCH, Lieutenant on Half-pay, Westbourne-street, Eaton-square. JOHN KAY, beerhouse•keeper, Doncaster, Yorkshire. JOHN MAY, beer retailer, Golcar, Yorkshire. SIMEON 110LROYD, grocer, Clayton, Yorkshire. ROBERT BARKER, saddler, York. WILLIAM SCRUTON, grocer, York. JOHN EDWARD PEARSE, beerseller, Manchester. THE LATE POISONING CASE IN THE BOROUGH. Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Brown Bear, Southwark Bridge-road, on the body of Robert Westwood, aged nine years, who died from the effects of poison, of which he had partaken, in conjunction with six other boys, about his own age. The details of the circumstances were given in this journal of Wednesday. Charles Chambers, a boy, ten years of age, deposed to having, whilst on his way to school, picked up something lying at the edge of the pavement in Castle street. It had the appearance of brimstone, and being sweet, he ate a portion, and gave the rest to the de ceased and five other boys on his arriving at school. The deceased ate more than the others. Mr. Wood,-surgeon, said he was called in to attend the deceased. Witness believes he died from the effects of poison (a portion of the stuff remaining was here shown Mr. Wood, who pronounced it to be the yellow sulphate of arsenic). Mr. West, of No. 21, Castle-street, clerk to Mr. Jarrard Haller, made a statement to the following effect: 7 —That he had only removed to his present re sidenee"ahout ten days ago ; the poison had been given to him for 'the purpose of destroying rats, and had been in his possession about two years, and ho supposed that in the bustle and confusion it had been forgotten, and was inadvertently placed in the sill out side of the window, and his children had knocked it into the street whilst playing. The CORONER, in summing up said, great blame attached to Mr. West, for incautiously leaving the poison about, and that persons placing poison in any place where it could be got at, were guilty of a very serious offence, and punishable by law. The Jury said, they hoped the press would give publi city• to th e C oroner ' s remarks, which would operate as a caution to p ersons having poison in their possess i on, and then return e d a verd i ct of " Accidental deat h b y inadvertently takin g a deadly poison." EXTRAORDINARY FARM PBODUCE.—Perhaps the Most successful example of what land is capable of under proper management, in Ireland, and what im mense crops can be raised, may at present be seen on the national model farm, under the Board of Educa tion, of Glasnevin, near Dublin. This farm is con ducted strictly on the improved system of gr een crop ping and house feeding. The farm contains fifty-two statute acres, is conducted on a scientific rotation ; on it are kept during the year twenty-two head of cattle, with three horses. It supplies on an average ninety persons during the year with farm produce, such as milk, butter, potatoes, vegetables, &c. &c., and the farming establishment with pork, besides a number of private families, in the above articles. A consider able quantity of vegetables are carried to market, and all kinds of grain, which is abundant. There is at present a crop of oats upon the farm, the produce of fourteen and a half British acres. It is secured in eight stacks, and is estimated by the best judges to be equal to the average produce of fifty acres. It stood perfectly close upon the ground, averaged six to seven and a half feet in height, the head and ear corresponding. The other crops, potatoes, turnips, Italian rye, grass, &c., &c., of like quality. The manager conducts the farm on his own account, pays 257/. 7s. Bd. per an num of rent, besides other expenses, amounting in all to upwards of 4001. a year ; and we are informed and believe, that he realizes a very handsome annual sum Ifrom it besides. He labours and manages it almost exclusively by a number of boys, agricultural pupils, and teachers, who are there in training in the science and practice of agriculture.—Farmers Magazine for November. NOTICES OF BANKRUPTCY. THOMAS RICHMOND, coal-meter, Stepney-green. JOHN DAWSON, tailor, Huddersfield. BARNABAS BUSHELL, seller of horses on corn.- mission. Harrison -street, Gray's Inn-road. ELIZABETH BROCHARD, Gloucester-place, St. Pancras. JOHN WEBSTER. beer-seller, Bradford, Yorkshire. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, pig dealer, West Hendred, Berkshire. THOMAS LYNCH, licensed victualler, Bradshaw street, Manchester. JAMES SCOTT. linen-draper, Deptford. CHARLES MORRIS KING, jun., attorney, Old Ford-road, Bow. Died, at South Newton, Dec. 7, Mrs. Elizabeth Blake, in her 86th year. She was mother to 12 chil dren, grandmother to 45, great-grandmother to 65, and to one in the fifth generation. She was married in her 21st year, lived with her husband 62 years, and was a widow three years. There are at present living six of her own children, and 111 grandchildren, making a total of 117.--Devizes Gazette. SECOND NOTICES. JOSEPH BLICK ATHERLEY, chemist, Wardle worth, Rochdale, Dec. 29, at two, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy. Fraser, official assignee, Town Hall-buildings, Manchester. WILLIAM BOURN, blacksmith, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee. TIMOTHY TERRY, paper-hanger, Shrewsbury, Jan. 17. at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court of Bank ruptcy. Bittlestone, official assignee. JOHN HUTCHINSON, butcher, Sunderland, Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy. Baker, official assignee. FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR BAYLEY, author, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, London, Dec. 28, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Lack ington, official assignee. WILLIA M FRANCE, engraver, Liverpool, Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court of Bank ruptcy. Bird, official assignee. ROBERT FRANCIS, dealer, St. Mary Bredin, Can terbury, Jan. 19, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall- street, London. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street. THOMAS, DYER FRY, schoolmaster, Holton Old Town, Dec. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, official assignee. WILLIAM HENRY W ILLIAMS, beer retailer, Poplar-row, New Kent-road, Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Johnson official-assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Tomlin and W. Mann, merchants, St. Michael's alley, Cornhill, Jan. 13, at half-past eleven W. Stewart, muslin manufacturer, Ludgate-hill, Jan. 10, at twelve-S. Moore, woollen draper, King William-street, City, Jan. 13, at half-past twelve. In the Country. Isaac Sealby, edge-tool manufacturer, Keswick, Cum berland, Jan. 14, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy-W. Fletcher, oilman, Birmingham, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy-J. France, cotton manu facturer, Manchester, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court of Bankruptcy. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. W. Gooding, boot maker, Chatham, Jan. 17-C. O'Neil, R. Salkeld, and G.S. Digby, i - . on founders, Brindei Works, Glamorganshire, Jan. 13-R. Wilson, hosier, Aldermanbury, Jan. 17-E. 11. Waller and W. Waters, timber merchants, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Jan. 19- T. Benson, grocer, Darlington, Durham, Jan. 17,-W. Seddon and F. Jordan, millers, St. Helen's, Lancashire, Jan. 17-R. Brown, miller. East Stour, Dorsetshire, Jan. 14-E. Massey and R. Lambert, warehouseman, Watling-street, Jan. 17-C. Gatehouse, brewer, Chi chester, Jan. 19-Rt. and Rd. Steam, ribbon manufac turers, Coventry, Jan. 18-J. Matthews, builder, Led bury, Hertfordshire, Jan. 17-J. Edwards, banker, Shrewsbury. Jan. 18-F. Arthur, coach maker, Bir mingham, Jan. 17-J. Barlow, ironmonger, Lichfield, Jan. 18-J. H. Anderson, printer, Manchester, Jan. 24 -J. Ford, hat manufacturer, Stockport, Cheshire, Jan. 13-T. Johnson, printer, Liverpool, Jan. 13-R. Lyon, cabinet maker, High Holborn, Jan. 13-A. Bower, banker, Basford, Staffordshire, Jan. 13-J. Butterworth, cotton spinner, Heyrod-mill, near Mosley, Lancashire.' Jan. 13-11. Jacob, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 13- ' A. F. Donovan, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 13-W. Miles' and J. Dawkins, boot makers, Southampton, Jan. 13- T: Wooster, merchant, Liverpool-street, City, Jan. 13- J. Scott and H. Coker, woollen warehousemen, Wood street, Cheapside, Jan. 13-G. F. Sizer, linen draper, Worcester, Jan. 13-J. Flood, surgeon, Dean-street, Westminster, Jan. 13 - J. Simpson, licensed victualler, Camberwell, Jan. 13 R. Bainbridge, wool stapler, Leeds, Jan. 13-A. Christie, spirit merchant, Eastcheap , City, Jan. 13-J. Bryant, bookseller, King William street, Jan. 13-A. Mathe and S. Moore, merchants, Liverpool, Jan. 13-J. and T. Frankland, merchants, Li verpool, Jan. 13-W. Urquhart, merchant, Wellington- Street, Strand, Jan. 13-J. Cockcroft, sen., and A. Flet cher, jun., stuff merchants, Cheetham, Lancashire, Jan. 13-E. and F. Mountfhrd , drapers, Bath, Jan. 13-J. E. Beerbohm and W. E. Slaughter, merchants, Fenchurch street, Jan. 13-D. Antrobus, salt merchant, Great Bud worth, Cheshire, Jan. 13-P. Williams and C. Mottram, Manchester warehousemen, Wood-street, Jan. 13-G. Greenwell, J. B. D. Dearberg, and W. Whitehall, silk manufacturers, Fore-street, City, Jan. 13-J. Hayward,' bookseller, Manchester, Jan. 13-J. Scott and 11. Coker, woollen warehousemen, Wood-street, Cheapside, Jan. 13 -T. Maguire, publican , Liverpool , Jan. 13-R. Spencer, scrivener, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 14-G. Dodson, wool dealer, Boston, Jan. 17-11. Budd. cigar dealer, Birmingham, Jan. 18-Ja. Wood, Js. Wood, Jh. Wood, Rd. Wood, Jn. Wood, and C. Woodall, fancy cloth ma nufacturers, Denby-dale, Yorkshire, Jan. 16-J. Thorp, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 20-J. and J. J. Shury, en gravers, Charterhouse-street, Jan. 13-F. Alaking, currier, Langley-street, Long-acre, Jan. 13-J. Mills, canal carrier, London-wall, Jan. 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Bird and G. Marsden, accountants, Liverpool-H. and W. Binns, woollen drapers, Sunderland-R. Craske and E. Youngman, drapers, Beckford- row, Walworth road-T. Lowe and G. Stringer, house agents, New Compton-street, Soho-R. Tanner and G. Young, ac• countants, Leeds-J. Griffiths and R. Heath, brass founders, Limehouse-J. Harper, J. Martin, and J. Morton, provision dealers, Liverpool-J. da, S. Soares, T. J. Duarte, and E. Potter, merchants, Figueira, Por tugal-W. Frisby, T. Frisby, W. Katterns, and J. Ben nett, hosiers, Leicester-W. S. Smith and G. Wharam, ironmongers, Doncaster-T. Gilpin and T. H. Davis, woollen drapers, Holborn-N. Lee and J. Harrison, painters, Liverpool-J. Gibb, G. Gray, and J. Gibb, warehousemen, Manchester (so far as regards G. Gray) -J. Saysell, W. Jones, and M. A. Milsum, drapers, Waterloo-road-H. and W. Cremer, wine merchants, Lime-street, City-J. T. Titterton and F. Leedarn, auctioneers, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire -W. Boulton and W. F. Palmer, architects, Stafford-W. W. Cox and W. Lambton, surgeons, Chiswick-11. L. Medder and H. J. Syred, pawnbrokers, Liverpool-M. and S. I'. Rackstraw, fishmongers, Lamb's Conduit-street -J. Mott ,R. Mott and M. Mott. farmers, Weathers field, Essex-T. Platt, T. Slater, and J. Whitehead, commission merchants, Manchester-S. Parker and J.B. Lillington, millers, Birmingham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JAMES SMITH, sen., shipowner, Leven, Fifeshire, Dec. 28 and Jan. 18, at twelve, at M'Glashan's Inn, Kirkaldy. JOHN THOMSON, coal merchant, Greenock, Dec. 29 and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Chambers of Williamson and Glassford, Greenock. WILLIAM DRYSDALE, jun., and SON, woollen manufacturers, Alva, Dec. 29 and Jan. 26, at one, at A. M'Martin's Inn, Alva. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Dec. 20, 1842, is 335. lid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. How TO GET A FEATHER. BED.—" In carrying off even the small thing of a feather bed, Jack Tate, the bowld burglar, showed the skill of a high practitioner, for he descended the stairs backwards. " Back wards !" said Larry Hogan, " what's that for ?" " You'll see by an d by," said Groggins ; " he descended backwards, when suddenly he heard a door opening and a faymale voice exclaiming, Where are you going with that bed ?" I'm going up stairs with it, ma'am,' said Jack, whose backward position favoured his lie, and he began to walk up again. Come down,' said the lady, we want no beds here, man.' Mr. Sullivan, ma'am, sent me home with it him self,' says Jack, still mounting the stairs. 4 Come down, I tell you,' said the lady, in a great rage, there's no Mr. Sullivan lives here." I beg your pardon, ma'am,' said Jack, turning round, and march ing off with the bed, fair and aisy. Well, there was a regular shiloo in the house when the thing was found out, and cart ropes would'nt howld the lady or the rage she was in at being diddled."—Lover's Handy "Inc PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY. LONDON, DEC. 26, 1842. The following average prices of Brown or Musco does British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub lished in the Gazette of last night : West India 345. lqd. per cwt East India 3l 31 Mauritius. No returns. The average price of the two kinds, j ointly computed, exclusive of duty, is 335. lid. per cwt. The actual weights of sugar sold on account of the importers, in the week ending the 20th inst., accord ing to the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro kers, in compliance with the Act of. Parliament, and on which weights the above prices are computed, con sisted of 15,250 cwt. West India, 14,592 cwt. East India. About 2,000 cwt. of very dark unsound sugars have been sold at 18s. per cwt. in the same week ; these having been classed in the returns as East India, unfairly depress the average price of that kind of sugar, as well as the total average price. The total sales of British sugars for the above quoted week in Mincing-lane were 29,842 cwt. Assuming -that the sales of sugar out of London by importers, were to the same extent as the weight sold in it, the con sumers bought 59,684 cwt. of sugar at 335. per cwt., amounting in round numbers to 98,480/. ; they might have bought 59,684 cwt. of Foreign sugar at 18s. per cwt., amounting to 53,7161., exhibiting a difference of 44,7641. ; that is to say, the 'nation, by buying foreign instead of the monopoly sugar, would have saved that amount, which, added to 375,978/. (see The Sun of Dec..l7) gives 420,742/., the precise value of the sugar monopoly to the sugar producers, and the cost thereof to the public for eight consecutive weeks. 800,0001. are annually taken out of the taxes of the country to pay the interest on the twenty millions given to the West Indians as compensation for liberat ing their slaves; there are no justifiable means of reduc ing that charge ; 800,0001. a year must for ever be paid by the mother country on account of those colonists. One weed' suppose that that sum would abundantly satisfy the claims of the West Indians upon the na tional purse, without any endeavour on their part to devise schemes by which they would obtain more; yet the rumour to which we alluded last week, of a large reduction in the duty on British sugars, assumes more and more a substantial form ; the chance of such an event is openly spoken of, and moreover it will be seen by the Jamaica papers that the House of Assem bly has had the same subject under discussion, during which a reduction of duty from 255. to 15s. per cent. on British sugars was freely alluded to as likely to oc cur. One of the spedkers went the length of showing, by calculation, that under a differential duty of 153. per cwt.—that is the difference between 30s. per cwt. on fereign, and 15s. per' cwt. on British sugars — the West Indians would at all times obtain a price of 375. per cwt. for their sugar. The member's calcu lation was this :—" For a series of years," said he, " the average price of foreign sugar has been 19s. per cwt. in London ; when that class of sugar is admitted to British use, its price will rise to 225. per cwt., which being added to 305., the contemplated amount of duty, would oblige the British consumers to pay 525. per cwt. for all the sugar used in the United Kingdom;" from that price the British con sumers would have to deduct a duty only of 15s. per cwt., leaving them 375. per cwt. as the ex-duty price with which he argues the Jamaica planters ought to be satisfied. In round numbers there are four mil lions cwt. of British sugars imported annually. Sup posing the Government here threw off 10s. per cwt. from the present duty, the immediate and certain Joss to the revenue would be two millions ayear, in the event of such a serious loss, Sir Robert Peel, 'however he may feel disposed, would be unable, from the crippled state of the finances of the country, to rescind the ob noxious Income-tax. The nation will not be long in determining whether it will yield quiet submission to the inquisitorial vexations and evils of the Income-tax for the sake of a reduction in the duty on British sugars for the benefit of the sugar-growers, or whether it will get rid of the obnoxious Income-tax, and con tinue to pay the duty on British sugars, as heretofore, for the sake of revenue. The reduction of the duty on foreign sugars to the parity with that imposed on British sugars, is the reduction wanted. That would destroy a monopoly which has robbed the country for ages. BRITISH AMERICAN ASSOCIA. TION. A public meeting was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the Report of a Committee of disinterested gentlemen, appointed to investigate the affairs of this Association. The chair was taken at one o'clock. The Report stated that the Committee had come to a resolution of inviting Sir John Pirie, Bart., John Walter, Esq., M.P., and several other gentlemen, to join the Committee of In quiry. Since that period, the Committee had met from day to day, and had had before them the whole of the books and documents connected with the forma tion of the Association. The Committee had submit ted the whole of the executive officers to a strict viva rove examination, and they (the Committee) had come to the resolution that the whole of the charges which had been brought against the Association, founded on recent proceedings at the Mansion-house, were un founded in truth, andunsustained byevidence, and that the conduct of the Alderman, then the Chief Magis trate of the City of London ' in writing the letter to the Duke of Argyll, which had led to the withdrawal of his Grace, and other influential Noblemen, for the present, from the list of the friends and supporters of the Association, was entirely unauthorised and pre mature. IThe Committee had instituted the most searching inquiry into every circumstance con nected with the deportation of the emigrants in the brig Barbadoes to Prince Edward's Island, and they fully exonerated the Association from the charges preferred against it in connexion with that vessel at the Mansion-house, and most particularly by the Press. They noted the fact that the single emi grant family which went out by that vessel, shipped by the Association, voluntarily preferred sailing in her, when apprised of the delay to which they would be subjected. The Committee, at the same time, were decidedly of opinion, that the lateness of the depar ture of the vessel, as a precedent, was to be condemned. The Report then went on to state, that Captain Fret well had expressed the utmost confidence of safely accomplishing his destination on this occasion, as he had seen the waters open and free from ice so late as New Year's-day, and that they (the Committee) had conclusive evidence as to the state of the stores from the Government agent, and a letter from Captain Fretwell, dated at a distance of 700 miles on the voyage, in which he said he had supplied the wants of the ship Caroline, bound to Liverpool. The Com mittee had fully investigated the accounts of the Asso ciation, and had found that the principal officers 'had received no remuneration. The Report concluded by recommending that the steps taken towards procuring a charter be persevered in, and that the full number of Commissioners provided by the constitution be im mediately made up and established in office. • MARKET INTELLIGENCE. • ( From the London New Price Current of December 23-) SUGAR.—To Ia the surprise of several parties , the market forw Sugar continues in a dull state, notwit hstanding the i large consumption going on and prices moderate in comparison with those of former years ; this unsatisfac tory state of affairs can only be attributed to the report that Government have it in contemplation to make some alteration in the duty on Foreign Sugar in the en suing year. To-day holders of West India Sugar refused fur ther to gave way in price, but the market was in a dull state, an the purchases for the week are only 1,000 hhds and tierce's ; early in the new year, however, a better de mand for Sugar is expected to take place, as the trade are but indifferently supplied. . REFINED.—To-day the home trade operated with much caution, and 72s Gd to 73s is the value of Standard lumps. Bonded Crushed Sugar is selling at 27s 6d to 27s 9d and wanted. In other articles there is no variation. MAURITIUS.—HoIders of this kind of Sugar show firmness, and have refrained from offerine• any at auction, the purchases made by private contract have been uPoo a small scale only, but former rates have been sustained in irost cases. This afternoon there was no public sale, and privately few inquiries exis ted, excepting for fine yellow sorts, which are scarce and wanted. EAST INDIA.--The good and fine whit e descriptions of Bengal Sugar have been in bet ter re q uest, and h a ave, commanded full rates. Manila at full rates. Jav a ' mid previous prices. Siam at 2 2 s 6 d to 25s for low to tiling white. This afternoon white Bengal Suear was in much bet' ter request, and 3,000 bags were sold privately at 66s to 70s F per cwt. OREIGN.—The market has again assumed a lifeli appearance for Foreign Sugar, and holde rs display much firmness. To-day several inquiries existed for Foreign Sugar, and 21s to 92s 6d paid for yellow Havannah• The market closed with a firm aspect. Siam was s ought after, and fi3s 6d paid for 600 bags common white. " MOLASSES.—The transactions have b een u p on a snla" scale only ; good sorts are held for the former currency' but common kinds are rather lower. Come.—lmporters of West India have supplied the market sparingly this week, and former rates have been sustained. To-day there was no public sale of any kind of Coffee, and the business transacted by pr ot i va , te contract was extremely limited, but hol ders were nle dined to further give way in price. India have c osn o ue f r at le . o—rtePdw Trinidad,rin coheofsufu fair ihave further eerlr? tdifi b ac e t a e 3t n e3 ss: depressiongs t: e a ef i 6d n deadrpefeyorr l'i r es t - 6d, Cocoa.ha na Cocos.—Prices or F°rell.l"9;ltt..°l'3F:rrg.ttleetist -30s for dull red. part of e TEA.—There is still a desire shown on the holders of Tea to realise, and they have Pressed large parcels upon the market this week the trade stlll declined for both black and green Tea ; entertain an unfavourable opinion towards the sal e . e t ; and notwithstanding the kite considerable ileclineetiii, prices, they purchase with much caution, taking, y ample for their immediate wawa.marke t To-day there was little passing in Tea, and the i has a heavy appearance ; is 2d is the value of fair sou ni common Congou, cash.request FRUlT.—Valencia Raisins have been less in 953 this week and prices are not so firm, not more t h a n n „ Culla ts can generally be obtained for first quality. ;price s have furtlT. have only been in moderate demand, and there are ' i el s l e e l r l! at the following rates :--Cephalonia and Zante , ol d to ing at 42s to 435, new 47s to 49s ; Putras, old 44s ... 455, and new 52s to 555. Black Smyrna Raisins are S e , t , i !J ing at 51s, red do. 325, Sultana 52s ; and Turkey P 1 . 111 ., 0 Figs 50s to 705 per cwt ; in other articles there is ' change. -- . aICS RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For fine ea.-• ,T, i ‘,, Rum full rates have been obtained ; b ut for fi at other sorts of West India Rum rather lowe r prices have per taken. Demerara of fair quality at 2s 10d .110 30 ent cent overproof, and Jamaica at ,3s Id for 30 P er l e , id overproof. East India at is 3d to is 6LI with, and at t;oes to ls 2d without ; certificate. The low des to of Cognac Brandy have been in brisk request a t 25 1 1 1 of 2s 3d per gallon, but all other kinds have become d a , o f sale, and prices are rather lower ; Cognac bes t si3 9 the vintage of 1838 hhds ss, puns 4510 ; -T gi s hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d ; ditto 1840 hds 4s 31-1, I?L n. 4s Id ; ditto 1841 hhds 3s 11d, puns ss od Per q` or a Geneva spsir pitscEa s sells .9—sll s n l p o to w er l t9 y esr a sB t od f l pc s e ra 9 sg d sei al t l o eLn l i. s 10d. a g lis It sales, and prices have suffered a degricleinne9roef s 2 ti s il t r 3esssiPengr cwt this week. Pimento has been in excellent requeset' and former rates have been fully sustained. Ging:v. has sustained the former value, and the demand is st ea o ai Nutmegs have sustained the former value, and g ij' ° o• sorts are in request, but common are dull of sale' t the . bu 4 to day there was some inquiry for Cassi a Lignea prices offered were under those holde rs were disPs'iloe accept ; an opinion is getting current that prices seen their lowest. Flour , SAcie—Prices have further improved for Sag . ° 4 01 and at 15s to 16s a - good business has been transes:ersi by private contract. Sago is in request, and 15 ,1 raid, parcels have been sold at lOs to 14s 6d for low 90 15s to .18s for . goM - 1, and 19s to 23s for fin e. ~ w as Ptiovisroxs.—The market continues flat. Theiriale a little demand for Mess Beef; fo r shipping 51. S i . 5$ new India Pork 61 15s per tierce, ditto Me ss t i er ce, per ditto ; prime India Pork 4/ 155 Re r - 2 COO second quality 41 8s to 4/ lOs per ditto l Mess 2/ 15s per barrel, other qualities ditto, and DI ( 21 5s to 2110 s per barrel. It is stated that 150 10 : 1 : 4 1. :Cs ° C prime new Hamburgh Mess beef was sold last Frl", - 4 'p r 412 s 6d to 413 s tree on board, the sellers to draw 103 per tierce short of invoice. New India Beef 61 55 Pe" - 41 Mess ditto 4110 s to 4/ 12s do ; last season's India Port;lio lOs per trc, Danish 2/ 12s 6d, Ilamburgb 21 IndiaCailli:el 21.4 s ; two seasons' old Ilamburgli 2/ Gs ; dittt free on board 5112 s Gd to 5/15s per tierce, ,less 4/ 3s to 4/ ss, Mess Pork 2/103 to 2/ 05 per _ 5, in Trish Bacon Me . Danish 2l 12s. Something done 25 6d to 41 15. ; prime vacon perP ork ti l e a r s e t e N . vee s k i . ige D l e h b d li i t a i Messditte Boee: 54,1 4110 s ; Mess 21 lOs to 2111 s. • rat° RICE.—The market for Bengal is firm, previous _.., have been fully sustained. Foreign East India sorts, wanted, Madras good low white Pearl Barley kind fi s i:,l to lOs 6d, sea damaged Ist class 98, and 2ddittowB. re, prime :Mess Pork 2/ 15s per bardritetl,od'Aititeossl3adcitotn per cwt. Java at lOs 6d to Ils Gd for low to gat 3Q5 and yellow 9s to 10s 3d per cwt. Carolina, ti t ' 3 lO Patna at canted the best, and 25s to 28s for other kinds. to 21s. Rice Meal at 5s to 7s, but Rice dust is I v ' at SALTPETRE 6d to 5s per cwt. wet° firint .—To-day holders of rough public and bought in the whole of 1,715 bags Calcutta s t p to 7 1 sale at an advance of 6d per cwt, viz. mid gref 8 8 peg per cent. refraction at 26s 6d, low grey 8 1 t° , - )6 , cent 265, low white ii to si per cent :bile per cent middling white 26s 6d, good middling.vatelY 6,i per cent 265, and unrefracted 26s per ewt : P" 2 84 fine white was in request, and commanded 2 7 s 6d to per cwt. Wit ted su TALLow.—Holders of Russia Tallow have OO the to a reduction on last week's rates of 3d per e"esr cle f spot at 47s 9d to 48s per cwt for P. Y. Csrld t i o e livery 48s have been currently accepted up the year, and for spring months. south Arn :l:l7 4 ieco l 3 3 ll' 161 good quality sells slowly ; common kinds a t pale' to 43s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow has . met with a v ,.q o ale, , To-day there was little business done in r• .„* re els e ` and 47s 9d is the quotation on the spot for r, c wt. first sort. South American at 41s 9d to 463 6d pe r have dee , 4 31 Ores.—For Olive Oil this week prices Gallipoli at 51/ lOs to 524 Spanish .504 and Bar b t?, per 15s to 49/ per tun. Linseed Oil at 30s 9d to ' cool cwt. Rape 41s pale, and 40s to 40s 9d brown . (roo' Nut Oil at 38s to 39s 6d. Palm 32s to 333 6d fe, r ,f3e4 and fine quality. Pale Seal at 40/, Cod . 311 1° 1 ( 1 ' 35 11° Southern good and fine 381 to 40/ 10s, low and, mid 3,1 371 lOs per tun. Sperm at the rates previous*? 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The fifth volume of jArn-morisier land's "Lives of the Queens of Englencih' c--ILAjari smalle g u Queens of Franc,o, iv, the Lives of Queen Katharine Parr an d ' llee-- 0 1 Bochsa and Mrs. Bishop have been The Dramatic and Ifusical Review s tate: _,.,, i f ; followinge by most of the German cities, and are ng.;inagt c)°llirani"Lil'efe change in county "justices' justice" THE MAGISTRACY.—The desire for a c ° l . ll t i lag increasing, and the glaring misconduct of 1 ":. o bla deo 5 yStelll P lo y 0 1 the "great unpaid" is fast hurrying on that change.—Nottingham Review. _.. - -- _____ ____ t he BIRTHS.the ladY °1 On the 9th alt., at Bishop's Lodge, Jamaica, , Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Jamaca, of a daughter. f 0 5 , 1 1 0 f 000 c Colonel i ott t hoh h e e es l 2 2 21,2 2 2 id d do i inst., nn n i : s y, t t 0. .. :,, i C. at P S EB at. Earl's-terrace, Park. i a o: Streatham - hill, h . t a e m r r . a h o i e l 1 , , Mrs. li. '," e i 1 ° t . ti • J ° l' Kensmgtom 0 1 Parkinson, of a daughter. Woodford, issex, inst . , f a the e n . On the 22d Esq.l J g " de, lad s f t yareseootfn, James :s e : e:::qua- -re ' t i b io s j , On the 23d inst., in Bedford-street, Covent-gar Seneca Hughes, of a son. ...----,,, MARRIED. h 4 ' o On the 21st inst ., at Marylebone Ch u rch, Rie -93.` 0 0- ' Esq., surgeon, of Crawford-street, to Miss Lydia iii Great Queen-street, Bryantton-square. cr tecii# On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Waltharnstosr, gef, Bedwell, Esq., to Eliza Mary, third daug hter of the 64 11 Wilson. W a lter 7isr On the 22d inst., at Cambridge, the Rev. ..,„ 0, Dumergue, to Lucretia, only daughter of the late ' • r . land, Esq., Assistant Commissary General at Gibralti r P "' DIED. w a lte- On the 15th of September, o ff Nankin, P 4 of her Majesty's ship Cornwallis. vs wll* On the 26th of October, at St. Lucia, J. G. '-'° f cl ass On 33d Regiment. On the 21st intt., the Rev. Robert Price, " ,ear ham, Kent, aged 69. et, On the 22d inst., at Cadogan-place, Sloane street, Mackenzie, in , of Bursledon Ham .hire I'. , 1 ) .- • 3 1 S. On the 22d inst., Louisa, second daughter of . of Shacklewell. , On the 22d inst, at St. John's-wood, Admiral Law ford, K. C. B.'. Robert I • d - 01 IP London; Printed and Published by MURDO stisf! 4,, ' No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office , N o. 11%4 16 the County of Middlesex, Saturday, December' VEXATIOUS ASSESSMENTS. The income tax is bad enough per se, and it would only have been prudent had Sir Robert Peel taken care that the Jacks-in-office by whom it is assessed and managed should perform their functions with as little annoyance as possible. But they seem to treat all parties as a set of rogues, who should be put to as much inconvenience as possible, assessing every one in the most extravagant, and even absurd manner, and casting upon the unfortunate tax-payer the trouble, inconvenience, and expense of an appeal. We are acquainted with some cases in which the occupiers of freehold houses are assessed, first, at the full value of the property as owners, and again, as occupiers, in other words, at double what they ought to pay, casting on them the burthen of repealing. We know of one case in which a house let at 601., and rated on the parish books at 501., was assessed at 2001. On appeal the amount was reduced at once to 601. The only effect of this was to put the party to the greatest inconvenience, on account of two whole days' attendance, the assessors all the while grinning their great satisfaction at the annoyance they had created. There was the same sort of incivility,—the same disposition to vex in the case of the required returns. It was difficult to get information from the official persons employed under the Act; and yet the Act is couched in language so utterly unintelligible, that a sworn interpreter, acquainted with its language, should have been provided in every district. The responsibility of the tax itself now rests with the Legislature rather than with the Government, but the odium of all the insolence with which it is administered belongs to the latter. A Govern ment which continues to shut its ears to the constant complaints that have been made of the mode in which the business connected with the Income-tax has been performed in all parts of the country, is guilty of a foolish disregard both of public comfort and its own popularity. Ours is a mere vague and general accusation, but we do not intend to cite cases. Sir Robert Peel must have abundance of evidence of the truth of our general proposition ; and it would redound to the credit and popularity of the Ministry, if a general order to be at least civil were issued, accompanied by an intimation that the penalty of disobedience would be instant dismissal. An amiable tax-gatherer may be deemed by some of our readers to be a lusus ma'am, but surely gross incivility and vexatious conduct may be guarded against.— Liverpool Mercury. A STRANGE SUIT. ---- The Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1736, has the following among its news of the month A young lady being sued by a gen tleman for refusing to perform a marriage promise to him, pleaded she had good reason to alter her mind, upon hearing him declare himself no admirer of Fari nelli, and disapproved of balls, masquerades, and late hours ; adding, she doubted not but that the Court would think she had a fortunate escape."