The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-17 00:00:00

E , If • N, 47X P c b THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH 4UNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 921 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Con. 3i per Cent. Red 1001 Ditto New Annuities... hew .3i per Cent... loli Ex. Bills, 1,060/....2d. 57 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001— .. .57 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 57 pm Jan. IS6O Oct. 1859 Jan. 1660 — !Consols for Acct....... 93i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 37i Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent. .: — Buenos A yres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent — Chilialy6 per cent B4 Ditto, :Metal'ie..-- .... Colombian, 61;er cent - -i Spanish, 5 per cent lei Ditto, 1424 2O Ditto, Deferred.... .. Ceba llotitts, 6 per cent. Danish, 3 per :eat. Greek, 1t.:23, 5 per cent Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, t; per cent. 1K37 Peruvian, 1625, per et. 79 - French, 5 per cent. —l. —e. lExchange —f —c. French, 3 percent —f. —e. 324 Dutch, 21- per cent. 54 - Ditta, 5 per zent. .. ... 100 i SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... Leinburl.zh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 46 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... 364 London and Blackwali ( paid) ........... 6 LOlltiOn and Birmingham (P 0) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) Lcndon and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4(114) 5 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pri) 4lanche4ter and Leeds (70 raid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... I9i North 'Midland Railway ( IOU) Ditto Thirds (21/. 13s. 4d. paid) l9i South Ea4,ern and Dover (50 paid)......... 22i Ditto Scrip (15 paid) SPIRIT of tile PUBLIC jOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Canada has contributed its share to swell the discontents of the Tory party with the policy of the Ministry to whom it committed the powers of government. Sir Charles Bagot, the successor of Lord Sydenham, instead of risking a rebellion, which might have severed that im portant dependency from the British Crown, by attempting to govern it upon the old system of ex clusion, has deemed it necessary to infuse a con ciliatory spirit into his policy, and to accompany his professions ofa determination to administer the Government in perfect conformity with the letter and spirit of existing institutions, by - some acts which give value to his professions by attesting their sincerity. Lord Sydenham only waited nutil.the state of society in the Canadas should have recovered from the shock which the widely spread insurrection had inflicted, and had become somewhat familiarised with the legislative union by which the discordant and gloomy elements of the one section should be connected by the more practicable and British dispositions of the other, to give a practical demonstration of the paternal dispositions of the Parent State, by giving to each of the sections its fair proportion of power and influence in the goverunicut. The appoin tmen t of a Governor-General by a Tory Cabinet revived the hopes of the party in Canada which, under pretence of being exetusively devoted to British interests, and claiming a monopoly of the quality which pisses current in certain circles under the name of loyalty, hoped to be again in the ascendant, and to be placed in the possession, and and protected in the • abuse, of those powers which they had employed for their personal aggrandizement, while they had insulted by their arrogance, and goaded by their injustice, the other classes of their fellow-citizens into dis content and ultimately into open resistance. They found the day was gone—we trust for ever—from Canada, when the great body of the people were subjected to the domination of a clique; and, deprived of a fair share in the Govenunent to which they were required to be obedient, were treated as serfs rattier than as subjects. From time position of parties in Canada, on Sir Charles Bag-=it's preparing to meet the Legislative As- sembly, it was obvious that, unless some advances - were made toward bringing about a better under s-tanding than that which existed between the E:e:ecutwe and Legislative departments, disputes aiid collisions would arise, which would be detri meatal to the prosperity and fatal to the peace of the . enlony. Two'courses were open to the Go- • vernor•General, each of which was strongly urged undo his adoption by those who sought to direct his policy by their counsels : the formation of a Government based on a union of the Upper Canada . 'furies and Lower Canada French, or of c ere combining the Lipper Canada Reformers and OW Lower Canada French. After some ne gotiations, which at one time threatened to be 'abortive, the latter has been effected. The two least popuh,:r members of the Cabinet have re tired. Their places have been supplied by two highly pcpulat 'leaders of the Liberal party in the two divisions of Canada—M. Lafontatne and Mr. Baldwin. The principle of "responsible government" is now recognised, in Canada. Its practical results will be seen in the satisfaction of a population long agitated by disOrection, and weakened by divisions ; upon whom in* riot's influences were exercised with success, anali discontent was fomented into insurrection, and the destruction of the community was threatened through the feuds by which it was cony I:sed and torn. STA..NDARD.—We are induced to insert the followhlg letter by the consideration that it ex hibits strong colourS indeed) the errors of most of those who quarrel with the financial ar rangemen!'s of last session : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. " Oct. 14, 1842. LABOUR IN THE WEST INDIA COLONIES. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state ofthe different West India Colonies, in reference to the existing relations between employers and labour ers, and the cultivation and economy of these islands, have published their Report, the most prominent fea ture of which is the distress generally created by the lack of a supply of labour, and a consequent decrease of production, since the abolition of slavery. The difitcul ties of the West Indian proprietors at present are said to be entirely attributable to this cause. We deduce, therefore, from different pages of the Report, such statements as relates to and illustrate this subject. The inability of the planters to obtain steady and continuous labour, and the high rate of remuneration which they give for even the broken and indifferent work surrendered, lies, it is asserted, at Oe head of the diminished production and its attendant distress. The smaller and more populous islands have not yet felt this to the full extent ; but the larger colonies of Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad, have had many of their most prosperous and productive estates altogether abandoned, or cultivated for the last two or three years at a considerable loss from this circum stance. The distress generally has been most intense during the last three years. The excessive amount of remuneration which the West Indian labourer receives, is the leading cause of this general neglect of work. By the statement of a West India agent (31), it appears that an ordinary labourer's allowance is as follows, viz., nine hours' labour per day; five days in the week ; is. 6d. per day currency, equal to about Bd. sterling for the first class ; house rent free ; two allotments of provision grounds, one in the mountains, and one on the estate; medical attendance and medicine ' • a gratuity of 21bs. of salt-fish weekly, provided the labourer gives satis faction ; and sugar or rum at the discretion of the manager, according to the work. The allotments mentioned above are certain pro visions which grow better in the mountains than on the estates, and they have an allotment of an acre of land in the mountains, and a quarter of an acre at tached to the estate ; the ground attached to the estate they work during any hour they can catch from the field work ; the ground in the mountains they cultivate on Saturdays. This system of "provision-grounds" is the most striking proof of the over-amount of remuneration allowed in nearly all the colonies; a system under which these grounds are allotted to the labourers generally to an extent limited only by their own wishes, and generally without any, or at least airy adequate, rent being exacted in return, and which thus enables them, in those fertile countries, to derive a considerable income altogether independent of, and in addition to, the high money wages which they re ceive—a system which has a tendency, by rapidly en riching the labourers, to remove them from the labour-market, and which acts as a constant induce ment to them to devote to the cultivation of their own productive grounds that very time which is so essential to the welfare of their employers. Task-work was introduced among them after emancipation ; this practice, in St. Vincent's, con tinued to succeed for three months, but suddenly, without any cause, except that they said it was too hard, they gave it up. This is now generally the case, and it is considered that it is entirely assignable to the system of provision-grounds, which prevents task-work altogether. While, however, the labour market has thus de creased, from the causes above given, the character of the men themselves has, since the passing of the Emancipation Act, greatly improved in a variety of respects. From almost every colony it appears, by abundant testimony, that the negro shows an in creased and increasing desire for religious and general instruction ; a growing inclination for marriage and Vie duties of domestic life ; improved Morals ; rapid advance in civilization ; increased sense of the value of property and independent station ; and, generally, good and steady conduct. Of the irregularity of work, however, and the optional manner in which it is carried on, the sub joined clause (103) furnishes a view. It respects one of the St. Vincent estates, being a return of the labour on it for the first five months of freedom, from the Ist of August, 1838, to the Ist of January, 1839, by 85 labourers, of whom 58 were in the first class, and 27 in the second. Out of the five months, con taining 126 working days, the men worked 34 out of the 126 by agreement. Seven of the men stuck by the agreement, and worked 92 days ; five men and three women worked 85, and took 7 days without leave • four men and six women worked 82, and took 10 days without leave ; seven men and six women worked 78 days, and took 14 days without leave ; seven men and five women worked 72 days, and took 20 days without leave ; one man and six women worked 68, and took 24 without leave ; three men and five women worked 64, and took 28 without leave; two men and three women worked 58, and took 34 days without leave ; one man and three women worked 54, and took 38 ; five women worked 746, and took 41; ; one man and five women worked 40, and took 52. In all there was a loss in five months of 579 days of field labour of males, and 1,255 of females. Calder estate, be it remarked, being a very fair average estate of second quality. In 'exemplification `of the diminution of produce attendant upon the decrease of labour, we turn to the well arranged tables, which furnish at p. 18, 19, 21, &c., a return of the crop produce of various planta tiwis daring the slavery, apprenticeship and free pe riods. From the first it appears that the total produce of 21 estates, there enumerated, was, during the three years of the slavery period, from 1820-4, at the rate of 18,128 hhds per year; in 1828, 19,960 hhds. ;in 1829, 17,500 hhds. In the year of ap prenticeship, 1836, it had decreased to 12,684 hhds. In 1839, under the emancipation system, the produce had fallen to 10, 650 hhds ; the year 1840 brought in a return of only 5,940 hhds., and last year, 1841, the crop produce was 8,278 hhds. The next contrast appears in the sugar production of the Argyll plantation. During the apprenticeship period of 1836-7 the sugar crop yielded 534 hhds., and in 1838, 368 hhds. The returns for the period of freedom are as follow :-1839, 260 Mids. ; 1840, 115 hhds.; 1841, 154 hhds. Clause 391 furnishes us with a document, showing the quantity of sugar produced during slavery, ap prenticeship, and freedom, for the years enumerated as under :—For the three years of slavery immediately preceding the hurricane of 1831, an average of 18,169 hhds; for the last three years of slavery, 14,028 hhds. ; for the three last years of apprentice ship, 13,134 hhds. ; for the last threeyears under free dom, viz., 1839-40-41, no more than 8,290 hhds. From this return, as Hay M'Dowall Grant, Esq., the witness under examination, observes, the results appearing on the face of it strongly support the opi nion which he has formed, that the average amount of labour nominally engaged in agriculture has decreased during th ree y ears o f entire emancipation to an ex tent greater than one-third of what existed during the last year of apprenticeship, and that the average crops produced during those periods have also de creased in the same ratio ; whilst on comparing the average quantity of sugar raised during freedom, with the re averagepreceding the of the destructivethree years hurricane o f s l slavery immediately o iy lB 31 th ede crease p will be found to be considerably more than one half. Deficiency in labour, he further adds, has been gradually decreasing each year of fre e d om , an d un l ess a remedy is applied by the introduction of additional labourers suited to work in a tropical climate, he fears greatly the prosperity of the colonies will dim' "'SIR —Perceiving it stated in your paper of the 11th mutant, that there was no other resource but to impose a Property-tax, allow me to state that it ap pears to me that not only the deficit, but even a larger sum, might have been easily levied by taxing locomo tive steam-ergines ; and if this had been done at any thing like the rate imposed upon post-bores, the re turns would have been immense ; and without any person feeling_ injured by it. This was clearly indi ceed to Sir Robert Peel, but although it would h a •Ne been a much fairer and easier paid tax than the f o; mer postage of letters was, yet it would not have be e :" so directly popular with the Radicals (et id genus omne l as a direet tax on property, which latter seems to me the very worst tax that ever was invented, &c. am , Sir, your most obedient, LL 'The %Y.-iter of this letter is an individual of hi g h ra l nk and education, and the reverse of a prejudicCd man, and yet the mistakes into which he falls at e surely such as would be discreditable to the j uu Tment of even the most illiterate. Th e -p r opos't 1 substitute for the property-tax is a tax upon locomotive steam-engines, and we doub .; whether any one of those who cavil at the p ropety-tax could propose a better substi tute. The lailure of the five per cent. duties had proved the hopelessness of any addi tional vevenue to be obtained from addi tional taxation u p on articles of consump tion, and the continued decline of the Excise re venue puts the seal upon the conclu sion. Some such tax, then, as the tax upon locomotive steam engines would be inevitable, if a tax upon property was to be avoided —and we doubt whether any more eligible object of taxa tion than that suggested could (upon the hypo thesis that a property-tax is inadmissible), pre sent itself. But here comes the question. Would a tax upon locomotive steam-engines prove ade quate to supplying a deficit of three 'pillions .sterling in the annual revenue? Has our corres- Tondeut been at the pains to inquire what is the whole amount of the net profits of all the :railroads in the island, and whether that :hole amount of net profits would, in fact, 'ord the sum which he proposes to take p oh t it in tax? It is quite true that if locomotive steam -engines were taxed in the same proportion horses be (and that the present railroad as pog,' traff i c preserved), the returns would t •se. This is quite true, but be immeequally true is it that 1 1 . beer were taxed in the same propor tion as toba-cco (600 per cent. upon the p r i me cost), w i t h ol at causing any diminution in the con sumption of k 'eery the returns would be im mense - also. In each Case, however, the conditio n i s t h e t ration. Could beer be raised t o i,iaterial consid th ree shilling's a o rl on , without causing- it to dis lountry—could the rail way fares be trebled — an t: something like this w ou ld appear from the! 'afford any profit to the nec " sox y, in order millions upon of three. l'llureholdeys, after a tax' the present lc, without' causing every railroad rusrass? tie country to be covere 4 ti Our n , susses t and n would re g ion all esp oh d,lnt s su, e.‘CeptiOn, Without the railroads 'bout ati bringing a pennywi. to the Exc:tkequer after the first k ~o p tptax or a a - Year wh the haekruptc . - 71111 At coat, '• appear. WYATT'S STATUE of WEL LINGTON. The model of this magnificent work of art has just been, completed. It is a bronze equestrian statue, in tended to be placed on the triumphal arch facing Apsley House, subscribed for by the country at large, and undertaken by Mr. M. Wyatt, whose energies have been unceasingly devoted to its production dur ing a period little short of two years. The model gives promise of a result alike honourable to the art ist, the country, and the man. It is of colossal di mensions, measuring in height from the horse's hoof to the crown of the warrior's head, 28 feet 2 inches. Some idea of its magnitude may be gained from the fact that a Life Guardsman, armed cap-a pie, can ride with ease under the belly of the animal. A new stu dio and pit for casting the various portions have been rented near the artist's residence, at Padding ton, and the completion of the work may be confidently expected in the course of the ensuing summer. The effect of the model on entering the studio is grand. The happy moment chosen by Mr. Wyatt is that in which the Duke is supposed to he giving the memorable words—" Up, Guards, and at them !" The horse is standing in a quiescent attitude, but the distended nostrils and eager gaze beautifully display the feeling of excite ment with which the animal may be supposed to have been agitated amid the roar and din of battle. The , Duke is attired in a Field Marshal's uniform, with a military cloak thrown over his shoulders his face slightly t clines to the left, while in his right hand he holds the baton of command by which his directions are made known. The head is already cast, and, if the other portions be hqually successful, the whole will indeed be a triumph of art. The metal used is , chiefly, if riot altogether, formed of guns captured by our countrymen in various parts of the world, and the weight of this latter (the head) alone exceeds 3001bs. The boot s are a l so c ast, an d j o i nt l y we i g h 5001bs. The whole statue, when completed, will ex ceed 40 tons in weight, and the metal required for the purpose of its production, owing to waste, &c. will amount to 50 tons. _ . TIIF. ACCIDENT T.: - / SIlt• WILLIAM GEARY.—We are happy to learn that, n ot withstanding the serious apprehensions which were :tt • one period entertained for the safety of Sir a eary, after the extra ordinary and very serious n eck lent which befel the 11(01. Baronet, he is now co n ed to be out of dan ger. Intelligence was rec( dyed ,by this morning's post, at the house of his fr ienul.l,Zr. AlexandEr, in Carlton House-terrace, and !i n a uswer to the nu merous inquiries made there. to ,d a y by the friendi of the worthy Baronet, it was sta. '-k .d th:at he w s much i*tter ; and the following buII In lay n the hall for, inspection :—" Sir William Cl eary Ts going on as . favourably as can be expected.'" ---___ THE NEW TARIFF.--FALMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Very Thebur‘ gl' s , n rab prime corned pork and b ee f, i mported from IT am -. has been in demand aid. and 4.;d. per lb. :landed to-day, direct' from Corunna, 38 head of oxeri-;. they are fine:Cattle, and will be sold by., auction. ~V '.'...',., THE SUN, LOSDOI'4II . MONDAY 'EVENING, OCTOBER 1?, 1842 . A WHEELING ARTICLE. Going to dinner. the other,day-, we saw a little cod ger, about two years old, sitting in a wheelbarrow and trying to wheel him Self. It struck us that many people in this world are often caught in the same act, and we shall always think—hereafter, When we see a business man trusting every thing to his clerks, and continually seeking his own amuse ment—always absent from his counting-house, and yet expecting to get along,, he's sitting in a wheel barrow, and trying to wheel himself. When we see a professional man better acquainted with every thing else than his profession, always start ing some new scheme, and never attending to his his wardrobe and credit will soon designate him as sitting on a wheelbarrow, and trying to wheel himself. When we see a farmer with an over abundance of " hired help," trusting every thing to their manage ment, his fences down, implements out of repair, and land suffering for want of proper tillagetoo proud or too lazy to off coat and go to vork—he's sitting in a wheelbarrow, trying to wheel himself. When we see a mechanic run half a square every (lay to borrow a newspaper, and may be have to wait ten or fifteen minutes before he can get it, we shall suspect that the time he loses would soon pay the subscription, and consider him sitting in a wheel barrow, and trying to wheel himself. • When we see a man busily engaged in circulating scandal concerning his neighbour, we infer that he is pretty deep in the mud himself, and is sitting in a wheelbarrow, and trying to wheel himself out.- 7 - Wheeling Gazette. LONGEVITY "MAN AND BEAST."—Mr. farmer, of Cheddar, aged 90, attended the late Dray cot fair, riding a mare 36 years old ; the united ages of the man and horse amounted to 126 years ! Cambrian. SPECIAL COMMISSIONS. STAFFORD, SATURDAY. mitted that there could be no doubt that the words were used, and in the sense meant. The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence very briefly, after which The prisoner said—My Lord, I have witnesses to prove I never used such language, will you allow me to call them ? The JUDGE said he might. A number of witnesses were called and examined, when the CHIEF JUSTICE said—All these people are speaking to a different meeting. All they swear is that they did not hear him use such language at diffe rent meetings. They do not speak to the same time. The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE - said he had been found guilty of a serious offence, and he must say he was quite satisfied with the verdict. The consequences which had followed such harangues were lamentable, and he did not hesitate to say that it was to the addresses of the prisoner, and persons like him, that the destruc tion of property and life was to be attributed. The unfortunate men who were exiled had to blame them for their misery. He sentenced him to two years imprisonment. • (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.) SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS. Mr. Baron Parke, upon coining into Court, ordered the prisoners who had been found guilty before him to be - placed at the bar. The Learned Baron then proceeded to pass the following sentences : Thomas Kelsal, to be transported for fifteen years. William Fern and Isaac Colclough, 'the former to be imprisoned for twelve months, the latter for six months, and then both to be transported forseven years. Thomas Wakefield, who had pleaded guilty for a riot at Burslem, was discharged upon his own recog nizances for 501., for three years. William Plant, Smithchild, David Parkes, Thomas Adams, William Napier, and John Hulne pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, which term ended this day. They were therefore discharged, upon their entering into their own recogni-ances of 501., to keep the peace for three years. John Hall and Samuel Lockett were sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for intimidation. William Garrett and George Nixon were sen tenced to two years' imprisonment in the House of Correction for assaulting the military, and unlawfully preventing persons from working. The prisoners next sentenced were Ball, fifteen months and hard labour ; Davidson, one year and hard labour ; John Jones, fifteen months and hard labour; Joseph Wilcock, one year and hard labour; and Samuel Nixon, fifteen months and hard labour. The Learned JUDGE having concluded passing sen tence, said that public justice had now been vindica ted, and he trusted that the great object of this Com mission would be obtained, which was to prove that the laws of this country could not be violated with impunity. The prisoners were then taken from the dock. Joseph Linney, previously convicted of an unlawful assembly, was again arraigned for sedition. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and Mr. Godson prosecuted; Mr. Neale defended the prisoner. Mr. Sergeant Lunaow stated the case, and called the following witnesses : Richard Price—Heard the prisoner address the mob of colliers at Brockmore on the '27th of July. He said on, that occasion, " Lads, you have got a great burden upon your backs, but if you will join the Chartists you will soon get some of it off. Thousands have joined us in the Potteries, and in York shire and Shropshire ; and if you will be stout and join, I can let them all know in twenty-four hours, and we can all rise together. Never mind the sol diers ; they cannot be everywheae. There is one man in particular who is a great oppressor of the poor— that is Sir Robert Peel. If you will be stout this time, we will soon make him lose his head. The Queen and the little Princesses wear little flowers about their heads, but if you will be stout, we will soon have them off." Air. Reuben Plant, coal merchant, heard the pri soner address a mob, on the 3d of August. He then said, "'The masters in my country are calling out for protection, but I bid you stick out and be ruled by me, and you shall haveyour wages and all you want. Why are the masters calling out for protec tion? Because they know that the poor are starving, and that a starving people are a rebellious people." He told the men that had 2s. 6d. a day not to go to work till they had 4s. a day. He said they would put the masters and their protectors in a ship, give them a good shove, and three cheers, and never have them here again. He said, "We - will have the land, cul tivate it, and live upon it ourselves." James Griffith and Edward Guest gave similar evi dence. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury immedi ately found the Sentence—Fifteen months' imprisonment f or th e se dition, and six months for the unla wf ul assembly. His LORDSHIP then retired, and thus closed his Court. prisoner guilty. Late on Saturday night ten convicts were conveyed to the railway station on the route to Woolwich. A report immediaiely circulated that the rioters sen tenced to transportation at the Special Commission • were about being hurried away, but it turned out that the prisoners were convicts from the last assize, who were going off to Woolwich preparatory to their be ing transported. The wretched men appeared re signed to their fate, and as if convinced that they were enduring the just punishment of their crimes. Mr. Baron ROLFE passed sentence on the two fol lowing prisoners :—Joseph Broston and James Wol ley- were sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and hard labour. The trial of Ralph Boon, William Hulmer, Thos. I Starkey, John Jones, and Samuel Robinson, who were indicted for a riot at Stoke, and were put on their trial yesterday, was then proceeded with, and when our report was sent up, the Learned Judge was sum ming up the evidence given against and for the pri soners, who set up an alibi. The Special Commission was proceeded with this day. The excitement in the town, although great, is not of so active a character as when the proceedings under the Commission commenced. The troops are still here, and owieg to the late determination of the prisoners confined in the gaol to break out, it would appear that their presence is still highly necessary. It is stated that the plan for breaking out of the gaol was concocted by Ellis, who has lately been found guilty of arson, and who was an active Chartist leader. Had the plan succeeded it is impossible to say what might have been the consequence, as there were sixty stand of arms in a place which could have been reached by the conspirators with the greatest possible ease, as the only difficulty in the way of the prisoners getting there would arise from a wooden door, and the atten tion of the turnkey, who it is thought could, from his not being prepared for the outbreak, be easily disposed of. Since the anthorities received information of the intended outbreak, every precaution has been taken to prevent a surprise. The troops are kept in a constant state of readiness for action. The wardsmen in the prison are well armed, and, indeed, every necessary means have been adopted for the security of the pri soners. The result of this attempt on the part of the prisoners will be that those sentenced td transporta tion are to be removed immediately. It is, however, understood that those who have been sentenced to seven years' transpdrtation will only be removed to the model prison. (Before Chief Justice TINDAL.) This morning, at eight o'clock, 'William Capper, of the Potteries, was charged with sedition. Mr. Wad dington opened the case. Sir WM. FOLLET then stated the facts, which will be found in the following evidence : William Smallwood examined—l lived at New castle. lam a joiner, living at Smallthorn now. I know William Pepper, who lives six doors from me. I know the prisoner, who is a blacksmith, living at Tunstall. On the inth or 22d February, being Sun day night, I saw from 30 to 40 persons in Pepper's house. I was outside, and first heard them singing a hymn. I saw the prisoner standing. The com pany sat down when they were done singing, and he said, "The words of my text shall be to night, To your tents, 0 Israel.' The meaning of that is, to be ready in your clip houses." He then cried out "Are you ready ? . Are you sure you are ready ?" Some body then said, " Yes, yes.' The prisoner then said, " Have you got your guns or bayonets ?" Some of the people s laughed at him, and he cried out, " I suppose you think Capper is come with his physical force again." He said, "It's no laughing matter, we shall have a severe fight, but it will be but a short one." He then said, " What will you do when you have got the Charter ?" Nobody aswering him, he said, " Well, as I am to be your leader, I shall tell you what I should recommend you to do. We will take the bishops, clergymen, hypocritical dissenters, and Ma gistrates too, and we wilt put them into a vessel to be transported to Affenger,' to be massecude ' or sasined ' amongst the Hindos." That was all he said. Then he talked about Feargus O'Connor. I have seen him several times in that same room, and heard him in the market-place. I beard him again in the same house. There were a good many women amongst them. He was addressing the women, and lie said, "If you can't fight, you can torch ; you see what they have done by starring and clamming the people, and driving them to madness." He said, " You see what they have done in other towns," and I think he referred to Nottingham and other places. On Whit Monday night the person who owned the house at - tacked me for a spy. They held their meetings con stantly. Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEN—I live by work. I owed the prisoner money, and was ordered to pay him by instalments .... I paid him every week, except my wife may have missed. I paid five times, but cannot say more. I do not know whether I have paid all the money. I made my first payment on the 11th April. He charged Fie with V. ss. ; but there was a dispute of ten shillings between us, about an oven I ,bought from him. I received the goods in 1841. I attended the summons in February, and he put me in the Court in April. I received my sum, mons before I was ordered to pay. I left Smallthorn at Midsummer, to go to Newcastle. He put me into the Court of Requests at Stoke. I did not go to Newcastle to avoid paying Capper ; I went to avoid the ruffians of Chartists. I owe no rent now. I have lived at Burslem, Smallthorne, and Newcastle, since 1841. I have lived in two houses in Burslem and one each in the other places. I worked for a next-door neighbour last week. There was no curtain on the window. I heard all this language through the window. I signed the deposition now produced. I did state, when beore the Magistrates, that I would not be positive about the towns. I said I could not say what towns. Ido not know .that I told the Ma gistrates it was Moscow and Hamburgh he alluded to. Hamburgh is in my deposition, and Moscow also is in. I have been told since I signed the deposition, that Hamburgh could not be referred to, because the fire did not take place.until May. I signed the deposition in March in which Hamburgh is named. Thomas Firth examined—l am a tailor, living at Tunstall. I recollect the 24th of June, and saw Ellis and Capper at, a meeting. Saw the prisoner ad dress the people from a stool. He said, "We are met again upon the old score, upon the Charter. 'We must have the Charter, though I suppose they are bringing the red-coated men to stop us, but there are not many of them in England now. They have been sent to murder the poor innocent Chinese. There are not many of them now, only five to every town." He " You. have only got to arm yourselves, as the noble Chartists of Lancashire and Yorkshire have done, for you to have sufficient strength to put them down, and our tyrants too." He then spoke about the State Church. He said it had its origin with that bloody tyrant Harry VIII., who had his wife be headed one day, and married another wife the next. The prisoner carried on a similar strain. He said those who could not afford to buy guns or pikes, might at least assist them with the torch. He then begged to introduce Ellis, and he addressed them in a worse strain. He spoke of the Queen. There was cheering, and cries of " Hear, hear," and some clap ping of hands. The meeting was stopped by one of the lessees of the market. BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS. A young man, named Henry Coy, about 24 years of age, of respectable appearance: was brought up in custody of Police-sergeant Poole, T division, before Mr. Henry Pownall, the sitting Magistrate, charged with having embezzled monies to a. very large amount, the property of his employers, Messrs. G. and J. Clark, solicitors, of New Brentford. It appears that Messrs. G. and J. Clark, in addi tion to a most extensive and lucrative practice as soli citor:, are also elerks to the Divisional Bench of Ma gistrates and to the Board of Guardians of the Brent ford Union. TIT prisoner had been in their service as clerk for about seven years, and from his general good behaviour, was eventually entrusted to act confi dentially as assistant clerk to the Union. No suspi cion of his dishonesty was entertained until the 24th of last June, when he absented himself from his situation, and on inquiry at his residence at Isleworth, it was discovered that he had absconded. From inquiries subsequently made it was ascertained that he had em bezzled' between 500/. and 6001. belonging to the Union tunds, for which his employers are liable, as well as various large sums he had received for parties for whom Messrs. Clark are acting as agents. Al though every exertion was made by the police to as certain what had become of the fugitive, no trace of his retreat could be obtained, and it was believed that he had fbil to America, but recently it having transpired that he had been seen in the neighbourhood of Cado gan-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Sergeant Poole was sent in di3guise to the spot, and,after waiting some hours, succeeded in meeting him in the street and capturing him. Sufficient evidence only was gone into to warrant a remand to a future day, in order to collect the nume rous witnesses necessary to ensure a conviction. ----- --- . RAPID VEGETATION.—Some surprise was expressed by a Correspondent the other week at hearing that a second crop had been obtained from the same ground in one year by Mr. M. Brown. This was most sa tisfactorily explained by Mr. Brown ; but we have s omething still m ore sur p r ising for the ear of our cor respondent—namel v , the raising of a third crop from the same ground ! This'has been done by our worthy friend Mr. Moor, of Houghton, in the garden of Mr. Stordy, of Cross-hill. After taking two crops of po tatoes off the ground, he planted a third in the first week in August ; and on Thursday last we had the We were also shown b Ale. pleasure-of partaki ng o f a dish from that planting— and certainly fi ner fl avoure d -potatoes we. never tasted. Moor a sampl of new They were of la rge s i z e, and the crop' is abundant. potatoes grown from seed raised this year !—a e circum stance, we ' believe, almost unparalleled. They were planted the second week in August, are already of a good size, and pivsent a most healthy appearance. It is Mr. Moor's intention to let them grow till Christ mas. From a t ree i n th e same garden in which these wonders have be en w it ne ssed, a dozen pears were taken this week, which we ighed upw ards of 12 ounces each, io pe r f intoe perfection i 0 this is till Marchcountry and measured 12 inches each round. The pear is pr r i zerica, and can be kept _Carlisle journal. called the English Ball, has but r ecentl y - been intro ducedHor INTELLIGENCE. __.... AV ORCESTER, OCT. 14. Owing to the short supply of new hops (not exceeding 500 pockets) sent to market on Saturda y last, th° demand became. very animated, and at the close of the day's business, the greater part of the new hops left unsold the previous market day was disposed of. The scale returns show that 1,174 new, and 12 old per cwt. :—New, pockets were sold and delivered by the planters on last market day, and 1,306 new, and 82 old in the 355. to 60s.— week ; prices may be quoted 2s. higher. Currency, Herald. tine, from 84s. to 90s ; yearlings, from 70s. to 80s.; other ages, from TUE WFATilta..—From the continuance of remark ably line antt dry weather,_we;learn that,many. mills Worf from 605. - e driven by water have been obliged to stop•working-- ;n circumstance afthis time' -of .the year, without any piffallel in the recollection of the_ oldest inhabitant." —Belfast Chronicle. "TO THE EDITOR. Cross-examined—l have no recollection of the pri soner having been a collector of taxes. I have known him as a master blacksmith. He has a large family. There were no riots in Tunstall, with the exception of ducking the police. Many hundreds were assembled at the meeting. Mr. ALLEN then arose and addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner. Re said if the words attributed to the prisoner were spoken by him, and in reference to the subjects to which they applied, he trusted his respect for the Jury and for his Lordship would pre vent him from saying that such language could not be allowed to be spoken with impunity in a civilised society. While he made that admission, and fully concurred in all that had been so ably said in denun ciation of such language, and the great danger of ad dressing the people in such extravagant terms, he must implore the Jury not to forset that they were sworn to say whether the words in the indictment were really spoken by the prisoner in that order, and spoken with that meaning and intent, and with a de sign to produce the consequences set forth. He ap peared on behalf of that old bald-headed man in the dock ; and through him the prisoner most positively denied that he ever uttered the words ; and, secondly, that he ever had any such purpose or intent, as that alleged in the indictment. Mr. Allen then dwelt upon the great impossibility of the witness hearing the words spoken by the prisoner, he being at the time outside the house. He would call witnesses who would prove the prisoner to be a man of irreproach able character, and not one likely to use such language. Mr. Harrison, called to the prisoner's character—l know the prisoner, and I never knew a man with whom I would ratherl transact business or live nigh as a neighbour.' 'I accidentally attended one meeting where - the prisoner and Ellis were. - • Other witnesses' were - called - but did not answer. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then replied,- and sub- 1-}Ol.lcE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDA Y.) MANS/OS-110 USE. A BLACK Joll.—Two men na.ned Hawitius and Mt) riand, wh ) had been charged in the coursd of the week with having gone into houses as chimney sweepers, with sooty faces, and committed robberies, were brought up for final examination. Unfortunately for the ends of justice the servants in the houses which the prisoners plundered could not swear to the iden tity of the two thieves, who appeared at the bar with well-washed faces and curled hair, and lau4herl at the transformation which a little soap and water and a pair of tongs had made in their appearance. . Two master chimney-sweepers, named Bolton and Hicks, who are well-known in the City as respectable men, stated that they knew the prisoners to be as des perate and dangerous thieves as any in the metro polis, and that the fellows got into houses, which they never failed to rob, under pretence of belonging to some chimn ay-sweeper of repute. Itawkins—Why I never was in a police-office be fore in all my days. Besides, I don't know this here gentleman. (Pointing to Morland.) Morland—Nor I. lam sure the people's mad to say they know me. I don't know whit the inside of a prison is, excepting from the report of a gentleman I SEC stowed away for being lushy. Mr. .Bolton stated that he lived in Duke-street, Aldgate, and that Morland, who went occasionally by the name of Bill Smith, stole a chimney-sweeping ma chine, value 41., from his premises. A female saw him running away with the machine, but he escaped with it, and the evidence was not considered sufficient. Mr. Hicks stated that Hawkins stole a machine from his premises, value .51., and got clear away. Several of the old officers of the City, recognised the prisoners as thieves. For them nothing could be too bad or too heavy. They were both, the officers declared, in the habit of breaking open cupboards, and clearing them of plate, and of stripping the pegs in halls of great coats, cloaks, &c.; and they generally found that work easy, as the hours at which they began were so early that the servant girls could scarcely be said to be awake, at least not sufficiently awake to cope with persons so - wide-awake as the black-faced thieves they had to encounter. Morland-You say my name is Bill Smith. Now I never changed my name in my life It's a very good name ; and I aint ashamed of it. As for these here fellows as sweeps chimleys, I know nothing about em. The LORD MAYOR—You shan't do much mischief at any rate for three months. Hawkins—Why you aint a going to lock us up for nothing, are you? The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not. I am going to lock you up because you are two notorious thieves. Hawkins—l'm blest if I don't appeal, eh Bill ? Morland—•lt's no use ; they all row in the same boat. The innocent must suffer for the guilty some times, Jack, and no mistake. • The prisoners were committed to hard labour at the tread-mill .or three months. GUILDHALL. On Thursday a linendraper of the name of Bar nard, alias Ruffnell, lately residing at Waltham Abbey, was committed to Newgate for obtaining • goods of various tradesmen by means of - false representations. It was alleged' in the course of the investigatior that the prisoner gave references to Mr. Earp, tailor, in Fleet-street, and a person of the name of Sculthorpe, living in Goldsmith-street. On Friday Mr. Earp caused a letter to be inserted in a morning paper, in which he flatly denied that the representation that he gave, as alleged in the Guild hall police report, was correct. Mr. Goddard, the solicitor to the prosecution, in serted a reply in a morning paoer of Saturday, in tL shape of a challenge to Mr. Earp, of which the fol lowing is a copy : " Sir,—The attention of the warehousemen who have been sufferers by Samuel Ruffnell, oliav Bar nard, of Waltham Abbey, draper, has been drawn ti a letter in your paper of thin morning (Friday). dated 'Fleet•street,' and signed 'James Earp,' in which that gentleman denies that he ever made any statement with respect to Barnard, or ever saw the party who made the inquiry. lam instructed by my clients to invite the attendance of Mr. Earp before the sitting Magistrate at Guildhall to-morrow at 12 o'clock, that they may have an opportunity of testing the accuracy of his assertions. And if he will have the kindness to bring his foreinan, John Parkins, with him, it will add to the obligation. " Signed, GODFREY GODDARD, " Solicitor for the prosecution. " 101, Wood-street, Oct. 14." Mr. Goddard having stated these facts, said he un derstood that Mr. Earp was in attendance, pursuant to the invitation, and perhaps he would give an ex planation. Mr. Fraser, the barrister, said he was in attend ance to watch the case on behalf of Mr. Earp. • Alderman T. WOOD said the evidence was so strong, tLat he had no hesitation in committing Bar nard for trial, and he could not see how he could re ceive further evidence in the case ; yet the matter was open to explanation so far as Mr. Earp was concerned, if he wished to give any. He (Alderman Wood) could not refrain from saying that the evidence in ferred a conspiracy very strongly, but he did not order the attendance of the parties implicated, .knowing that the prosecutors would act bona fide. Mr. Goddard then called Mr. Earp, who was in attendance, and desired him to explain and state any thing in his power by way of exculpation. The mat ter was important, because a connexion would be proved between some of the parties and Shackleford, who was convicted of swindling at the last Old Bailey Sessions, in obtaining property by false representa tions. There were eight indictments against him, and the property obtained amounted to several thou sands of pounds. After a few questions had been put to Mr. Earp, which led to no result, Mr. Fraser, the barrister, interposed, and told the Bench he had advised his client not to answer any more questions. Alderman T. WOOD said the Learned Gentleman had exercised a sound discretion ; and, after a desul tory conversation, the parties., left the Court. MARYLEBONE. Alice Low?, charged with robbing Lord Frankfort, with whom she was living, of iewellery to a consider able-amount, was this day brought up before Mr. Long, for final examination. Long before the usual hour, the Court was crowded to excess. The prisoner did not appear in the least anxious or concerned at her situation. • The former depositions were read over by the clerk, and assented to by the witnesses, and this being the whole of the evidence for the prosecution, the prisoner was called upon for her defence, when she said, "AL I have to say is, that Lord Frank ort gave me the things produced in this Court, and be did so to induce me to leave him." Mr. Adolphus reserved his defence for another Court, and as no witnesses were called for the de• fence, the prisoner was committed for trial. LAIIIBETH-STRPET. Edwai'd Baker, an active-built fellow, with all the appearance of a thief, was placed at the bar before Mr. ITenry, on a charge of attempting to steal a basket of plate, of the value of 201. and upward 3, the property of Mr. John Roberts, a gentleman residing at Upton-place, Essex. Caroline Reynolds, a very good-looking young woman, servant to Mr. Roberts, deposed, that on Fri day, about half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, as she was about to enter the parlour, she observed the shadow of some person in that apartment, and the fa mily being from home, and there being no person in belonging to the establishment at the time but herself, she became somewhat alarmed, but at the same time determined to see who it was. She accordingly en tered the parlour, and saw the prisoner standing close to a table in the centre of the room, with the plate-basket in his hand. On seeing her he in stantly rushed towards the window, which was open at the time,and got into the garden,carrying the basket and plate with him. She instantly followed, and seized him as he was about getting over a railing, and took the basket from him. She held the prisoner by the skirts, and called out for assistance. Finding that the prisoner was about to slip out of his jacket, and fear ing that if he did so, he would attack her, she let him go, but the instant that she relinquished her grip and secured the basket with the plate, she hastened to the 'front of the house and gave an alarm. The basket contained sixteen forks, six dessert-Spoons, six table spoons, two salts, eleven tea-spoons, a gravy-spoon, and a fish-slice ; and these she saw safe in the basket on the sideboard about a quarter of an hour before she observed the prisoner in the parlour. The doors of the house were fastened, so that the prisoner could not enter by them, and he must, therefore, have got in by the window at which he had got out. The hat and coat produced were those worn by the prisoner when in her matter's house, but the fbrmer he had dropped - in the garden with a number of religious tracts. The plate attempted to be stolen was of the value of 201. and upwards. Mr. Samuel T. Miller, who had been for nearly 8.5 years chief officer of this establishment, and who at present enjoys a pension for his services, said that on the preceding afternoon he was driving to town in his pony chaise, and on passing Upton-place was in formed by th e ast witness of the attempted robbery, and the escape of the thief. He in consequence drove towards West Ham, and in a few minutes saw the pri soner run across the fields without hat or coat. He drove to the point at which the prisoner was about to 2 et on the road, so as to intercept him, but the prisoner took another turn, which prevented his capture. He, however, drove in the direction in which the prisoner was running, and ultimately saw him secured. John 'Wilcox said that hearing a cry of " Stop ,thief!" and seeing the prisoner run, he pursued him, but before he. could get up with him he was secured by a ygling man belonging to a parcels-delivery cart. - He took him to Mr. Roberts, at Upton-place, and the young woman (Reynolds) at once recognised him as the person who had escaped frem her. The prisoner, in reply' .• ;E rvud." must - say something; and I - Sappo:.e 1 inu. - it bear it.. The prisoner denied that the coat and hat produced were' his, or his being the person who had attempted the robbery, but on the former being put on him, they fitted exactly. fu il lly committed to Newgate for trial. KENSINGTON. Eliza and' Caroline Foster, two respectably-dressed young females, of the respective ages of 17 and 16 years, were brought up for final examination before Mr. T. Pay rater, the sitting Magistrate, on a charge of havingstolen a diamond-ring of the value of 501., the property of Captain Davis, of Turnham-green. Prom the evidence adduced at the previous examinations, it appeared that, on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 4th instant, the prisoner (Eliza) went to the shop of Air. Watts, the pawnbroker, in King-street, Hammersmith, and offered the ring in question (a cluster ring, con taining 33 brilliant; the centre one being a large, one) in pledge for 3s. Gd. Mr. Watts suspecting from the small amount asked that she was not aware of its large value, and that it had been stolen, told her that he could not by that light tell if it was worth 3s.fid., but if she came in the morning he would examine it in the mr antiine. In the course of the same evening, however, the other prisoner (Caroline) went to Mr. Watts and demanded the ring, which she claimed as her pro perty, which increasing his suspicion, he again re fused to give it up before the morning. He then gave information to the police, and police-constable, T. 50. was placed the next morning on the watch, who took the prisoners into cutody, as they were leaving the shop with the ring in their possession. Before the Magistrate, they both stated themselves to be ser vants out f place ; and Caroline accounted for her possession of the ring, by saying that it had been given her, about nine months since, by a gentleman whom she met in the street at Hammersmith, while she wigs living in the service of a surveyor, named Layton, in the Suspension-bridge-road. At the second examination, it however appeared that the ring was the property of Captain Davis, of Turnham green, and that having been dropped in one of the rooms, it had been swept up by Ann Reynolds, the servant, who put it on the kitchen-table until she could return it to her mistress. At that juncture the two prisoners, who were acquaintances of Reynolds, called to see her, and after their departure the ring was found to be missing. Neither Captain •or Mrs. Davis were, however, in attendance, and the prison ers were again remanded, in order to ascertain it they intended to prosecute, it being known that at; ittempt•to compromise the case had been made. 0; iaturday, on the prisoners being placed at the bar, Inspector Morgan, T division, informed Mr. Payn tor that neither the Captain or his lady were present. He had that morning called at their residence, bu: , hey both refused to see him, and sent him word that hey declined to prosecute. Mr. PAYNTER said Captain Davis should not the;; lave the ring. which would be sold, the same as other tures, for unclaimed property. The case was a ver:. iad one, and the only thing in the prisoners' favou vas the small amount they had asked at the pawn 'iroker's. He should, therefore, not let them escape mnistiment, but would take the case as one of unlaw al possession. The father of the prisoners, with tears in his eyes, nplored the Magistrate not to send them again to wison, or it would occasion his wife's death, s&,, aving taken it so Much to heart as to keep her Nei- since the prisoners' apprehension. Mr. PAYNTER said, under those circumqtmces, he wou1:1 inflict a fine upon them. and as he supposed it woul 1 come out of their Path: is pocket, he would oilly inflict on each of them the penalty of 10s., or twenty one day's imprisonment. The father immediately paid the fines, and they were liberated. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. THE SCOTCH REFORMERS OF 17. A. At the usual weekly meeting of the Vestrymen of St. Marylebone on Saturday, Mr. H. Tabram in the Mr. FLOOD, the Vestry-clerk, read the Report of:: '... 4 ormnittee appointed in consequence of a letter re ¶eived from Joseph Hume, Esq.; M.P.,- to the effec 1 - hat a monumental column he erected in the parish o. Marylebone to the memory of the Scotch Reformer: )f 1793-4, he having the sum of 5001. to be devote( to such purpose. The Report, which agreed to the erection of a monument, went on to state that the moss eligible situation was in Regent-circus, Oxford-street where the lamp now stands ; but that permission mus ►e obtained of the Commissioners of Woods and Fo rests for its erection. That if that was rejected, an other site for the erection was opposite Trinity Church. where only the permission of the Vestry was required. Mr. GRANGE said, before the Report was adopted !le should like to know what kind of Reformers they were, as that was the first time he had heard anythin i ,. , it all about it. Mr. Gomm said that, as the gentleman did not un derstand the question, it was as follows : = Mr. Flume, some time back, had two sums of five hundred pounds placed in his hands, for the purpose of having two monuments raised to 'the memory of the: Scotch Re formers of 1793, one in England - and one in Scotland, and had most handsomely asked the Vestry to grant a site for the column, giving Marylebone the prefe e ce. A Committee was appointed, and they adopted the Report just read. There would be no expense whatever to the parish, the architect saying that the money Mr. Hume had was quite sufficient. Mr. NISBETT R ould like to know if some of the Re formers whose memories were about to be perpetuated had'not been hanged for carrying on a correspond ence with France, and what kind of Reformers the . ) were, whether consistent or not ? _ _ Mr. SODEN said that he was surprised that any ob jection should be made to the Report, but now it must, of necessity, stand over. Mr. GLAZIER said the men whose memories were wished to be perpetuated were most consistent Re formers, more so than the gentlemen who asked such questions. _ _ . After some further remarks, the Report was or dered to stand over. BANKING HOURS. (From the Atlas of Saturday.) , A proposal for altering the hours of busine amongst the. bankers and monied men of the City, 1,. shutting the banks at four instead of five P.M., as 1. present, has given rise, during the past week, to mile discussion, and to some of even an angry character On the one hand it is urged that the change would ly attended with very little inconvenience to the public, and with very great advantage to the bankers' clerks. Now, whilst from principle and inclination we are al ways disposed to regard with a favourable eye any pro nomtion which tends to increase the comforts, and to di minish the labours of the middling classes, yet we cannot admit that the proposed change in the hours of keeping. open banks would " he attended with little inconvenience to the public." We will take one example ; that will suffice. though we could name at least fifty. The example drawn from the commercial department of bills of ex • change. An honest tradesman gives his acceptance in the usual course of business. When he gives it, he has every reason for believing that he shall be pre pared to meet it on the day it will become due. But he is disappointed in the receipt of money ; • hip customers are backward in their payments ; and . a somewhat large bill is returned to him protested for non-payment, and he must at once meet it, or lose his credit. The consequence is, that the dis heartened and wretched man is obliged to run half over London to get five pounds here, and ten pounds there, very often in cheques on bankers residing at the antipodes of Pall-mall and Fenchurch• street. At last he succeeds in his obiect, and his hands hold within them the money's worth—but nor the money ; for though he has the cheques, and they, are all good, he has to get them cashed ; and miles must be walked—many miles—before he will be able to go to the banker holding his acceptance, and pay it in due course and order. But the fatal hour of four would strike before this could be effected, and the honest • tradesman would be annoyed and confounded, as well as injured and disgraced. We have addressed ourselves to a fact of every-day occurrence where the extra hour of four to five would be of vast import ance. Another objection has been made, arising out of the second delivery of letters by the Birmingham train at such an hour as to render it impossible to transact the business directed to be done at the Stock Exchange on the same day, if the banks closed at four. LIVERPOOL SPECIAL COMMISSION. — The Judges appointed to try the prisoners at this Commission, have brought their labours toa close at a much earlier period than was anticipated, considering the very large number of prisoners for trial. The business terminated at two o'clock on Thursday afternoon ; and, almost immediately afterwards, their Lordships left the town, by special train, for London. The main cause of the early close of the proceelings is the fact of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and upwards of fifty other defendants, against whom the Grand Jury found a true bill for misdemeanor, having traversed till the Assizes in spring. Another cause is, that many prisoners, who had counsel, were recommended to plead guilty, and were liberated, on entering into their own recog nizances, and finding sureties to appear to receive judgment when called upon. Throughout the whole proceedings, the Attorney-General appeared to us to act with great mildness and forbearance. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in his addresses to the Jury, repeatedly stated that his instructions were not to strain the law, so as to answer particular purposes, but simply to vindicate its supremacy, and to show that, under no circumstances whatever , could it be violated with impunity. A summary of the sentences will he found in another column.—Manchester Guardian. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, OC F. 14. Without much appearance of business, there has been a fair demand for sugars of viol quality, at steady paces. CotiNT RK ETS. !I Y COR N . Al AiM ET,s W t, eat, ,•,,; Bl aus Pt3a, Per Qua , tar.• s. to s. Abingdon 57 7•2 Andover...- 51 64 Banbury sd (0 114s:ngstoke :A 6 Cireueener tO '26 17 29 S. tO 1. S. ti 4. I tO S. 1 (2 :31 35 4:38 - 1 ,: - - t - A 36 40 ; :32) ; •33 38 q.t . ? , 31 43 • 44: 38 - *-6 ; - 10 -- ;6 , 33 36 0 -- 2" i 5 33 36 29 - - 1 0 VA 3 42 22 34 i 25 3) :36 .31 21 6i3 2 36 Si)32 36 4:: 26 ;pl. - 211- A, 20 2 , - - : 4 5 24 20 Coventry .'avenhry Der Irv'.' - ow den Hunger ford Malt u . Nia . r..en head Nt.tt Ingham Warwick .. Wi , :chester York - Cr" fi .lit 55 • 7 29 29 :J2 26 3_ 32 3 , , •8 :0 34 8 a 4 3ti 40 4 [6 5 68 52 62 511 55 6S 41 --' - 51 - - 5.d. 5. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. 5. d. 5.d, .5. cl. 70 ¶ 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 HULI. CORN MARKET. White (per quarter) 52.; 543.:6 6 . Red Foreign Malting Grinding 25 ...75. • Se. Oats, British Forcgu (in bond) ltis . PS. 203, Beans Pease, Grey ... ... Blue and White 36i.: I - iSs. 405. Linseed 46s. :Yes. 565 Per Buche , . Birminghom sect -- IS Wheat, Barley, Flour per sack Rapeseed (per IU quarters) DEVIZES CORN MARKET. s. d. s. d. Ver Quarter. a. d. -- 58 Uto F 2 0 Oats tl oto -1:" 54 0 59 0 Beans,.. 3O 0 a 0 1: 1 38 0 f•lt 0 Hour (per sack).. 40 0 " :13 0 28 0 Bread (pesgalloni. 010 -- I. J. Per Quarer. First 1V heat .econd rkint darley :ORNWALL MARKETS. Llculated at 24 gallons to the bushel .. Wheat. Barley. Truro St. Austell...— Bodanin Lis :earl Launceston Ca:ntlford reuzance. ..... s. d. to s. d. s. d. t• •. d. u 610 0 3 7 0 —0 SO - 0 710 0 3 8 —074 0 4 4 —076 0 3 —075 • 0 3 s 6674 3 J 3 4 6878 0 4 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 ."") .... 0 2 6 .... 0 ° SINGULAR GYPSEY FUNERAL 'AT LITTLE COO GESLIALL.—For some time a numerous tribe of gYr sies have pitched their tents in Cut Hedgesroadi, Little Coggeshall. One of the party died last week.'ls soon as life wa s exti n ct muc h ceremon y was ou" k _ served. The body was dressed in a Scotch plaid go wnF silk stockings, and satin shoe s ; wax t a pers we, e ournt, and the remains lay in stat e . I ns t ruc tions rot the funeral were given to Mr. Clements, the under taker, and no expense was spared to render it most re', spectable in all its appointments. The coffin was °' the oak, studded with gilt nails, and bore a brass date, upon which was engraved " Cecila Chilcattl I )ied Sept. 29, 1842, aged 28 years." On Sunday l a7-* s. _ the funeral took place, and her remains were interred 1 P; :he parish churchyard, by the Rev. W. Wigson, curate :n :n the presence of a concourse of bet we e n 4,000 11Z-43!: ,i,OOO persons. The pall was supported by fbur.7k2' pectably dressed females deeply veiled, and about,,• if the trills followed all dressed in black, the vearing black cloth cloaks. The greatest d e cora`',!, • as observed by the whole of the p ar ty, and a ro °re s , spectable funeral, we understand, has not been se e :". the town for many years. We are credibly •Ini armed that in the colin. were placed by the side ° the body the deceased's watch and a purse of mon e y' or the protection of which a person is appointed 6 watch the grave for some weeks. The father of t ' ll _ leceased, attributing the death of his daughter to to ~emoval by the police, threatens to take legal W: 4°v ' . :sgs against the parties.--Chelmsford Chronicle. t REPRODUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC AIR.-31' ?lei :iard has submitted to the French AcademY sciences a communication on the means of remai nin s e g or a long period in a limited quantity of air, by T e , osorption of the carbonic aci l gas exhaled, and to t, enewal of oxygen in propo: ton to its consu ra q ion. That the carbonic acid gas exhaled, a n which, in excess, becomes fatal, may be abso rve y `)y lime, is a well known fact; but as it is nec e le lay, in the purification of air, to replace t' es xygen, which is the vital principle, as wd i the -0 get rid of the excess of what is injurious , in .neat object to be obtained in cases where, as le a living bells, it is important to make the same !lin: co volume of 'air serve for several hours, is to pow il o , )xygen with ease and certainty. 111. Thenarcl ,Piar,o soses to employ oxygenated water, and has sh° of hat not less than 375 times the volume of „voter ixygen gas may be compressed in this vehicle, a n ,.. 0 subsequently liberated as required. But to prod d, this result great care and expense are necessary,n."ne when obtained, the difficulty of preventing the es if the oxygen, when not wanted for immediate us e ' tlso very great.—Medical Times. tier to- EFFECTS OF THE RAILROAD.—Erery trave-- de s wards the north cannot but have noticed the w° fl ing . ?ul alteration that has taken place since the 131 r since ham Railroad has been working. A few yea° oily, ..)4 coaches used to pass through St. Alban's some enlivening the town with the presence, Tittle to the profit of the t th r s a ei t d tt e iol s;l l l: o , ,n,r a st n t ; , : en e a d r ad ril d n P ,i i g i s : n : Y itad : l l: s o::: as g il t. :lumber of poor people, who now may be seerPA flag ‘ st , ,( i ) t n h es nt a i t m t e i r l o e u ( s u p tr o a s n tb c o e3o , T . the corners of the streets, finding a difficulty ferring their labour to another source. On Saturdat .ast the Leeds Express, formerly called the Sleero Leeds, which has been on the road upwards of 0 : years, ceased running its daily journey, it being i n f I cnger a profitable speculation; and we have be ard ° 0 mother, out of the four remaining, that is likely l er to follow the example. Barnet Redbourne, and a' towns in the route, that depended upon the traffic, lace • nere shadows of the past. Between the fornarr P as St. Alban's grass, to the width of two feet, 11).4 seen growing in the middle of the road, too Flaw", demonstrating the effects complained of.tha THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS.—The emigration oi l f Mormons, o: Latter-day Saints," from this no!! O f 'hilly increasing. Notwithstanding the rascaliti", oe , .heir apostle, Joe Smith, having been so often siunced and exposed, these well ' inc aning but deltite, iit.husicists continue to leave their native country ioo undreds, in order to swell the number of his dupes he other side of the Atlantic. The class of Pe r ' c . hus emigrating are, in appearance and worldly,ir sumstances, above the ordinary run of steeragOrol engers. The bulk of them are from the rnintheir Bounties—farmers and farmers' servants, wi th /p i. wives and families. Upwards .1 . 5,000 have alread.Y _etore stateo, and en equal number will probably leave 70,4 bring. As no better freight is offering, the New q r' h ick . essels are taking these disciples of the knavish D lith ata very low figure. The Sydney, for` n 5 4 - t u o' my received 115/. for 180 of the Mormons, iA". 00 0 lenry has agreed to carry 140 for 1001.--little of Ilan 15s. a head ! All this is clearly indicatieehe, wo things : first, the utter stagnation of trac_i ween this port and America at the present snoT ih r Ind, secondly, the prevalence of superstition anueitot ,licity amongst a class of our countrymen wh°.„d s ol 0 know better than to leave their homes and klq. is.- in order to follow the fortunes of one of the ni°7vhsse riorant and impudent quacks of modern days' `ll snavery is so transparent as to be seen thrtfisiaa• every serson of ordinary capacity.—Liverpoo‘ o fficei VEGETABLE CURIOSITY.—We had left at our s 6OO on Saturday, a twig off an apple tree, bearing IM blossoms and two or three buds not yet buy- 4 ' o o l s flowers had the most fragrant smell, and w ere. The in the beauty of their tints, to spring blooro s i ' oog 4 twig was plucked from a tree in a garden hq . b e an' to William Haresnape, of Far Cross Bank. ‘ 0 tif 6° tiful rosy-cheeked apple, of the kind cal led hs the apples," was also left with us the same dg e drat grower, Mr. J. Lucas, of Crosthwaite. Th is size' curiosity about this vegetable production i" si f e reoc e : It measures more th in 12 inches in e ireil' ai A pple; Mr. Lucas stated that he had plucked sever s sisst,„ l/ s from the same tree fully s inch larger, a ° sr ovvru s has them still in / his possession. The tree is a i - nino on a portion of the recently enclosed comin°,Zoft part of the Underbarrow valley. —Kendal roor aiPg . SUSPECTED MURDER.—On WednesdaY, giltoi_at; was found, in a mill-pond, in the parish ° i on , i: ° , next Sittinghourne, the body of a young wt e broi s s e o had, it is thought, been murdered, from W l _ 4a sc2 ahe had received, and then throssit:nie • pond. She is respectably dressed, but a s v , r o 1/ the neighbourhood. The pond belongs `• Prentis, miller, of Milton.—Kent Herald. the lOt h t 1 . Isabella 11., Queen nf Spain, completed on a ge a ge inst. the twelfth year of her age. 1-his is ; t n t Spa sif which, according to the text of the ane-e -law, the minority ceases. BIRTHS. Toe, A l°97" On the Bth inst., at Cu rs it or - s t re et, Chancery- r' of the wife of John Johns o n, o f N ew York, of a ;%; CooO On the 11th inst., at B a tt ersea , the lady 0 . '-'-' o f a s Kent' the on. 1 0 1) On the 14th inst., a t D ar tf or d Vicarage , ri the Rev. F. B. G ran t, o f a d aul hter. f 0 On the 14th i ns t., i n Hyd e -park-gardens , the la" ° wo e :, James Wheeler, Esq., of a daughter. ma • il• r• , On the 14th inst, at Upper Norwood, --- ' , o f •• ton, of a son. the W I - On the 15th inst., at Upper Harley-street, , r , Bonsor. Esq., at Polesden, Num y, of a daughtet% .4 0 , 0 , 1 ' On the 15th inst., at Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, the '" Butler, Esq., of a 50... 11f.4RRIED• ... r,(1 001 On the 6th inst., at Walcot Church, Bath, the or c„,,130 0, Elton, Al. A., of Balliol College, Oxford, to Har i e n ' t V a°c° younger daughter of the late Rear-Admiral V. a Ballard, C. B. • z' 'nd L' .la Ott the Sth inst., at Trinity Church', Rath , ...'` °° , o , et the Ilagshawe, Esq.. son of the lUte Sir William liafg'nsoy kluge Oaks. Derbyshire, and of Bath, to Elizabeth Anne' ° ter of John Aues. Esq., of the same place. Juba .1)11..:1). On the I lth inst., at Dorset -plane , D or set•Ma~~ Dick, Eau., late of Orange-park, Jamaica. ~.,,bittn, il 'i .? On the 14th inst., Fanny, the wife of .11- P"' , nartiel surgeon. G rge On the 14th inst., at Cannon street, City , --e° Halle tt, 1 - 0 11 e Esq., late of the Ordnance, Tower. John Dorset.o4o On the 15th inst., at Sloane-street, Chelaes' Esq., aged 64. • ter, V avill on the 16th inst., in Queen-square, Wei tillins - W,lli , m Gregor'e, E. q . ________ o4 - ---.... 0 , 1 ---no y 0 _, 0 London . 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