The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA. Wise people are fond of repeating, generally too late for practical purpose, that "there is nothing new under the sun." They do not, however, tell us the converse of this proverb. There is no event, no crisis, no prodigy, no discovery, which we may not expect to see repeated, and possibly eclipsed, by some new birth of time. Changes utterly incon ceivable by the rule of the present gene ration become possible on a more extended in duction. We will forbear to recall the numerous examples spontaneously suggested by the memorable year of which we have ..,aken leave, and go at once to the last nine days' wonder—the fields of gold in California. The supply of the precious metals in the hands of the civilized world has always been subject not only to fluctuations, but to extraordinary accessions. The conquering empires of antiquity accumulated gold and silver at their victorious capitals, to an extent which produced many changes, and not a few evils. Ransoms, tributes, bribes, contributions, and plunder flowed in a golden stream to the great cities of Asia and of Greece, and lastly to Rome. The discovery of America, the sack of its palaces, and the opening of its mines so aug mented the stock of precious metals in Spain and Portugal, and through those nations in Europe at large, that prices which had remained almost stationary for ages advanced per saltum nearly to their pre sent average level. Since teat great era there has been a continual current of the precious metals into Europe. Their uses, however, have equally multi plied and increased. The demands of luxury and trade have grown upon the supply. A metallic circulation in the British Isles approaching to t 0,000,0001., and another in France exceeding that sum in silver alone ; circulations proportionally increased in all Europe; besides a vast consumption in gilding and jewellery absorb annual millions without much impression on the value of the precious metals. The boasted relief from the Oural mountains has hitherto proved but a drop in the ocean. Hence for some time past gold has been regarded as the type of unchangeable value, and there has even been a show of popu lar clamour against the national Acts by which the debts of the State have been represented in a medium more likely to be enhanced than depre ciated. It was scarcely to be suspected that we should once more witness the ships of Tarshisb, the spoil of Corinth, the treasures of Arabia, the chambers of Montezuma, or the hall of the Incas; but—" there is nothing new under the sum," nor yet anything old which shall not be again—the plains of gold in California seem to beat them all. Gold is a vulgar material, much decried by poets and forbidden by philosophers ; but its history be longs to romance, and its vicissitudes are associated with the fortunes of our race. Every now and then an El Dorado has been announced in some remote region, some new continent or world. At one time the mines of Spain and the rivers of Portugal ; at another time commerce with India; then Mexico and Peru; then the deadly coast of tropical Africa ; and, still more recently, the frozen mountains and plains of Siberia—have suddenly presented themselves to the aid of our bank rupt Exchequers ; creating the wildest desires, and rendering some real assistance, but more generally diffusing misery and ruin. The glittering commodity has not been found amongst us ; we have not lighted upon it in our subterranean wanderings ; no stratum has been found " cropping out" on the hill side, no gold stone has caught the eye of the wandering miner; all the rivers and mines once of fabulous splendour have been utterly worked out; no sooner is the spot fairly embraced within the pale of civilization than gold seems to vanish like a legend of the past. The rock no longer glitters, the sand is washed in vain. But forthwith a cry reaches us from the ends of the earth. Gold is found again. What region is so inaccessible as the western coast of North America ? It is " the far west" of the whole world, for after that begins the east again. Though now included within the territory of the United States, it cannot be reached from New York within less than six months by Cape Horn, or about three months by Chagres and Panama, and about the same time overland by Sante Fi. In that remote corner, the banished genie reappears. If he seems to promise a greater abundance, or a more constant supply than in times past, he yet preserves his dignity, by inter posing twenty thousand miles of ocean between himself and civilized man. The golden fleece of Colchis and the golden apples of the Hesperides were not more remote or more carefully guarded. Speculation, of course, will be active, not merely as to the actual profits of the working, but, what is more important, its effect upon the commerce of the world. Till the region has been more widely surveyed, any estimate of the product must be pre mature. We only know that there have been many such discoveries, if not on so large a scale, and that they have all been speedily exhausted. The sands of the Tagus and the Pactolus have long since been sifted to the last flake of gold. The great mine §of the New World are generally exhausted. What chiefly leads one to sufpect that even the vast gold field of California may follow the fate of its predeces sors in the old world is, that the form in which the mineral appears is the same as of yore ; virgin gold in flakes, grains, and occasionally in larger pieces, charily diffused over the soil, and brought to light in ravines, gulleys, and watercourses. It looks the old story all over again. This does not augur inexhaustible abundance. Experience is equally against the pre sumption that California, be its treasures great or small, will prove a real benefit to the United States. The invariable fate of the finder of hidden treasure or the pauper heir has often come to pass with nations. Gold-hunting, whether pursued by the solitary Indian or the great commercial company, is not one of those branches of ordinary and legitimate trade which train men to useful arts and steady habits, and so draw down a blessing on society even when they fail. It is mere gambling; —an unhealthy flush of prosperity indisposing the population for regular industry, and entailing a subsequent collapse of national energy, and, to some extent, of the national independence. Myriads, it is said, are now hastening from the ports of the Union, having relin quished their trades and social positions. Merchants and shipowners are preparing to supply the ad - venturers. The enterprise promises to absorb a vast amount of industry and wealth. Whether we look to the prospects of the new colony assembled in California, or the spirit diffused over the whole Union, we see little to regret that the region is not ours. The universal increase of population, commerce, and wealth, requires a corresponding increase in the precious metals, besides what is wanted to repair the constant waste. Should California yield three or four millions a year, which some will think an ex travagant estimate, it is questionable whether that will d© more than meet the demand. Should it affect the price of gold even in a small degree, it would close many mines now worked at a mere nominal profit. An annual supply of many tons which some American journals anticipate, would, o course, depreciate the metal; but, as that would pro bably cause its more general use both for ornament and for coin, the depreciation would so far be checked by the increased demand. It cannot, however, be denied that there is now some likelihood that gold will fall to a rather lower value as compared with silver and all other articles. In these days an abundance of gold in the United States will be immediately communicated to other nations, and equalized over the world. The result will show itself in that general rise of prices which some ingenious philosophers think so necessary an element of prosperity and happiness. It will also depreciate all existing money rents, dividends, and charges; enhancing in a corre sponding degree all other kinds of property. It will thus avenge the old quarrel of th e " i nconvert ibl e " financiers, by reducing the public debt and all other mortgages towards or to the war standard. We cannot think, however, that any great change will be ex perienced for some years to come.— Times. 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It is remarkable that this phenomenon shortly preceded the eensiderable change which has taken place in the wee %or% The ' Arnemsehe Courant informs us that this shock ':felt lik ew ise at Arnhem. In that town it lasted for - 1 611, seconds, and, caused objects hanging from the ceil 'nqrtale houseato vibrate.—Brussels Herald. 7111 JA 3 SUANT DrvionNDs.—Yesterday the divi dends due on the sth instant, were appointed to be paid to the public at .Abe Bank of England on Tuesday the 9th instant. The - books of transfer will re-open on the lath and.l6th inst. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Joseph Saysr, a person in the employ of Messrs. Caldicott and Co., of Cheapside, Manchester-ware housemen, and Harriet Sayer, his wife, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having plun dered the premises of the prosecutors. Mr. Hobler, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that there was ground for believing that Messrs. Caldicott's premises had been extensively plundered; that the male prisoner had been concerned in the robbery, and that the woman at the bar, who was supposed to be his wife, had such knowledge of the transactions as induced the prosecutors to have her apprehended and detained until their relationship to each other should be clearly ascertained. Part of the stolen property had been found on the premises of the prisoner, and the prosecutors required some days' delay in order to make an effectual investigation into the particulars of the charge. Thomas Cobley, K 65, stated that in consequence of information which he had received he went to 14, Goodman's-yard, Goodman's-fields, where the pri soners lodged, and found there a rod hanging on the bed, and asked the female prisoner how she became possessed of it? She replied that her husband had brought it home to her. Ile also found some articles which it was believed were the property of Messrs. Caldicott. Mr. John Wilcox, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Caldicott, identified some of the articles produced as the property of the prosecutors. The male prisoner declared that the woman who was charged with him was his wife. He stated that he had acknowledged to Mr. Caldicott his crimina lity with respect to one of the articles he was charged with having stolen, and that gentleman had held out an inducement to him to make the confession by offering a remission of punishment. Mr. Caldicott denied that he had uttered a word from which his forgiveness of the offence could pos sibly be inferred ; on the contrary, he had cautioned the man as to any confession he might be disposed to make. The prisoners were then both remanded. The LORD MAYOR, requested that the press would announce his grateful thanks, upon the part of the poor, for the following sums of money :—From Mr. Mitchell, on behalf of the drapers Company, 101. 10s.; the Mercers' Company, " Ma. Wt.," 10/. ; through Messrs. Hoare and Co.; anonymous, 51.; Merchant Tailors' Company, 101. 105. ; Messrs. Williams, Dea con, and Co., 10/. ; " L. M. H.," 21. ; for Felix Lay cock's service, " H. W. P.,",55.; " W. G.," 11. ; " A Lady," 11.55. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN ITA'R Y 3, 1849. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, Michael Leary, &well-known impostor, who has been brought up to this court an innumer able number of times for begging and exciting the sympathies of the :public by pretended illness, &c., was charged before Alderman Lawrence with a simi lar offence. The prisoner, who was allowed to stay in the ante room instead of being locked up in the cells, continued groaning all the time, declaring that he was dying from rheumatic pains, and when helped into the court he redoubled his cries of " Oh, my back, my back," and clung to the railings of the dock, in which position he continued moaning at times, and to all appearance suffering great pain, while the evidence was being taken down. John Snellgrove, 267, of the City police, said that about eight o'clock the previous evening he was on duty in Holborn, when he observed the prisoner walk from house to house begging, after which he went into several public houses, and obtained a quartern of gin, which he drank, and at last became rather intoxicated. The prisoner, forgetting all his pain, exclaimed in a firm tone of voice, quite different to the whine he had kept up, " Oh, he would actually swear my life away. Alderman LAWRENCE—Do not say anything yet awhile ; you will be heard presently. Snellgrove then went on to say that the prisoner then went into a coffee-shop, but did not get anything, and on his coming out he took him into custody, knowing him to be a rank impostor. He made a most determined resistance, and kicked him several times, but finding his efforts ineffectual, he went on another tack, and suddenly dropped down on the pavement, declaring that he had got a rheumatic attack and could not walk, in consequence of which a stretcher was sent for, on which he was conveyed to the station-house. On attempting to search him, the prisoner said that he had only lid. about him. Prisoner, again forgetting his assumed character, said—That is false. I said I had Is. sd. The officer proceeded to state that he found Id. in the prisoner's jacket pocket, and Is. sd. wrapped up in a paper, and tied in his shirt. Prisoner—l only had that amount altogether. Alderman LAWIENCE asked the officer how the prisoner walked when he first observed him ? Snell grove replied that he was walking as well as any per son from Hatton-garden to Leather• lane. That he had got a union jacket on, and was the worse of liquor. . _ _ Prisoner—What a falsehood—am I drunk now ? I was no more intoxicated then than now. Alderman LAWRENCE asked the prisoner what he had to say ? The prisoner said he had only been turned out of the workhouse the previous day, where he had been ill for the last eight days, and that he went to Hatton-garden to see one of the overseers, but he did not succeed. He then went to the coffee shop to get a pennyworth of tea, which they would not serve him with, and on coming out he was taken into custody. He was much ill used by the officers at the station-house, although so very bad. Alderman LAWRENCE—That will not do ; you are too well known to make me believe you were ill at all, and it is all sham now. When were you last in prison ? Leary—l had six months at the sessions for an assault on the police, but I was in good health then. Alderman LAWRENCE—And you had a knife in your possession fur th• purpose of stabbing them ? Leary—No, I had not. David Sutherland said the prisoner had been twice committed from this court for similar assaults. Alderman 'JANI'2E/ICE—There is no doubt you are one of the greatest impostors in London, and are well known. Prisoner (with great frankness)—Well, I will not tell a falsehood, but admit that I am a little known—(Laughter)--but I wish you would send me to the workhouse, to keep me out of the streets. Alderman LAwRsNcE—I shall send you some where else before you go there, and that is to prison for fourteen days on bread and water. The prisoner was then carried out by the officer, he having suddenly remembered that he was suffering severely from the rheumatics, and therefore cried out most lustily about his back. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY AT AN HOTEL.—John Williams, a per son of respectable appearance, was brought before Mr. Hard wick fur final examination, charged with having committed several robberies at the Colosseum Hotel, Park-road, Regent's Park. It appeared that the prisoner went into the Colos seum Hotel, kept by Mr. Grace, on Friday night, and applied to be accommodated with a bed for the night. He was furnished with a bed, and in the morning he left. Soon after he was gone the waiter, William Pizzey, went into his bedroom, which was close to the room occupied by the prisoner, and he immediately missed his watch, which he had pre viously placed on the top of the drawers. On making a further search he discovered that a quantity of wearing apparel had also been stolen. On stating below what had occurred, Ann Otley, the cook, recollected that she had borrowed a watch from Miss Grace, the proprietor's niece, the over night, which she had left in her bedroom, which was opposite to the prisoner's room. She ran up stairs, and on look ing into the room she found the watch gone. Infor mation of the robbery was immediately forwarded to the police, who tent it round to the various pawn brokers. Charles Thomas Yardley, of Tottenham-court road, pawnbroker, said the prisoner came into his shop on the following Saturday, and offered to pledge a watch. From the appearance of the prisoner and the watch, witness suspected that it was part of the proceeds of the robbery at the Colosseum Hotel, and accordingly he detained him and gave him into the custody of the police. The watch was identified by Miss Qrrace, and the prisoner was also identified as the person who had slept at the hotel on the morning of the robbery. The discovery of the second watch was made in a singular way. When the prisoner was remanded he had the watch upon his person, concealed in such a way as to escape the search to which he was previously subjected. The prisoner was placed in a reception room in the House of Detention, for the first night, and he then contrived to place the watch beneath the saw dust in a spittoon in the ward. Not being aware that the regulations of the prison required a prisoner to be placed in a different ward each night,he left the watch in its hiding-place when called the next morning into the washing-room. On learning that he would not be sent back to the same ward, be told one of the turnkeys where he had placed the watch, with a re quest that he would go and get it, and keep it for him until he was released. The turnkey found the watch as described, which was delivered to the police. When the watch was shown to rizzey, the waiter, he iden tified it as his property. The various witnesses who deposed to the above facts were then bound over, and the prisoner was fully committed. WESTMINSTER. IMPORTANT DECISION. — About a fortnight ago an order was obtained at this court against James Law rence, of No. 1, College-place, Chelsea, to remove a nuisance. On that occasion some conversation oc curred between Mr. Broderip and Mr. Ryder, th e chairman of the board of guardians of St. Luke's, Chelsea, in th e course o f w hi c h the latter expressed his objection to the expenses necessary in the prose. cution of cases under the " Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act" being defrayed out of the sums collected for the relief of the poor, and having intimated that an extra officer had been ap pointed, and that the labours of another were mate rially increased, whose amount of remuneration the board had not yet determined upon, in order to carry out the provisions of the Act of Parliament, inquired what amount of costs the magistrates would call upon those to pay whose non-compliance with this sanitary enactment rendered prosecution necessary ? Mr. Broderip declined to give a general opinion, and left the parochial authorities to raise the question upon the case above alluded to, if they thought fit. Mr. Ryder, considering that if the great burden of the costs should fall upon the defendants, the statute only requiring the removal of the nuisance, without imposing any penalty in the event of the order of the magistrates not being obeyed, there would be a readier obedience to the law, availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded of setting the matter at rest, and a summons was accordingly taken against Lawrence, to appear yesterday, to show cause why he should not be adjudged to pay the costs incurred in prosecution, amounting to 18s., the items of which were, half a-guinea for the parish surveyor, Ss. 6d. to the inspector of nuisances, and 4s. costs of the summons and order of this court. Proof having been given of the service of the order, summons, &c., Mr. BRODERIP said—The extraordinary items con sist of a claim by the surveyor and inspector—both public officers—for attendance, &c. This application is singular, so far as the practice of this court is concerned. The parishes of Westminster within the district generally, whose officers have to deal with a locality abounding in abominations, and who have dealt with them most efficiently, have not asked for any such fees. The inspectors of nuisances in those parishes have been most active, and I am bound to say that, owing to their zeal ankthe discretion of the parochial authorities a great and happy change has been effected. It has been urged that the expense of carrying out this most beneficial Act ought not to come out of the poor-rate, and that the officers employed putting its provisions in force should be paid by the orders of the justice. See to what this would lead ; it would lay the officers open to that suspicion which it has been the care of all modern Acts of Parliament to prevent—namely, their having a direct interest in getting up cases, anti thereby rendering their evidence suspicious and un satisfactory. Again, how is to be assessed ? There may be one hundred cases, there may be five, what is to be apportioned to each defendant ? A great deal might be said in answer to the argument that the ex pense should not come out of the poor-rate. Eren if the parishes were to pay a great deal more for carry ing out sanitarylmprovements, it would be found to be a wise economy. But the I4th section of the Act is conclusive as to the expenses being paid out of the poor-rate (the worthy magistrate here read the sec tion, which directs that persons employed in carrying out the provisions of the statute shall be paid out of the poor-rate.) The truth is, and I say it from ex perience, that the Act can in general be well carried out by the inspectors of nuisances, who as well as the surveyors, are salaried officers, and do not come under the category of those whom the justice may order to be paid. There may be particular cases, but this is not one of them. . . By this decision the costs at this court for sum nionses and orders were only allowed. _ _ _ - BEFEYOLENCE.-101. was received from the Men cers' Company for the poor-box. WORSHIP-STREET. ELOPIMENT AND ROBBIIRY.—A young man named William Smart was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged with having stolen a cartload of household furniture, the property of Mr. John Groves, a poulterer, in Pool-street, Holton. The prosecutor, who displayed much mental distress and emotion, stated that the prisoner had lodged in his house for four months past, and that although circumstances had arisen which induced him to fear that an improper intimacy subsisted between Ow latter and his wife, to whom he had been married nine years, and had a family of four children, nothing occurred to confirm his suspicions until the morning of Saturday sennight, when, upon re turning home from business at Leadenhall-market, he was shocked to find that his wife had absconded, leaving her children the eldest of whom was only seven years of age unprotected; and that the whole of his furniture and every article in the place had been carried off. Having ascertained from his eldest child that the goods had been removed in a cart, under the direction of his wife, and feeling satisfied that she had acted in collusion with the pri soner, he obtained the assistance of the police, but every effort to trace out their retreat was unsuccess ful, until a few days since, when he accidentally discovered him at a house in Tabernacle-walk, in company with his wife, and gave him into custody ; and he afterwards traced his property to another house in the same neighbourhood, where nearly the whole of it was recovered. Police-constable Curzon, G 126, stated that he accompanied the prosecutor in search:of the fugitives, and while passing down the street in question he caught sight of the wife of the prosecutor, with whose person he was acquainted, at the top window of one of the houses. He immediately made his way up stairs, and having asked her where the pri loner was to be found, she disclaimed all connexion with him, and denied that he was there ; but upon searching behind a turn-up bedstead at the end of the room, he found him secreted there, and at once se cured him. Henry Niddle stated that at an early hour on the morning of Saturday seennight he was knocked up by tha prisoner, who told him to proceed immediately to the house, 33, Poole-street, to remove the goods of the occupants, who were about to change their re sidence. 'rho prisoner accompanied him a short distance with a horse and cart, which he had brought with him to execute the job, and upon reaching the house it was loaded, with the assistance of the prosecutor's wife, who was shortly afterwards joined by the prisoner, and he was directed to drive to a house in Mark-street, Finsbury, to which they both proceeded with him, and he left them to ge th er . At the close of the evidence the magistrate asked the prisoner if he had any answer to the charge, but before he had time to reply the prosecutor's wife pressed forward from the back of the court, and with much boldness and flippancy intimated that she would take upon herself the whole responsibility arising out of the transaction, as the abstraction of the goods was her own spontaneous act, and the prisoner had taken no culpable part in their removal. Mr. ARNOLD commented upon the disgraceful con duct exhibited by the parties, and said that as a clear case of asportation had been made out on the part of the prisoner, he should order him to be remanded for the completion of the case. The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler; but the instant he left the dock the prosecutor's wife, with an endearing expression, caught him round the neck, and gave him a parting kiss, to the chagrin of her unfortunate husband, and the disgust of every one present. SOUTHWARK. Yesterday Henry Barron, a corn porter, of George street, Bermondsey, was brought before Mr. Cotting. ham, charged with committing an outrageous assaul on policeman 45 M division. The policeman stated that on the preceding night, while on duty in George-street, Bermondsey, he heard screams of murder proceed from the prisoner's house, and on going to the door and listening he found that he was beating his wife, who still con tinued calling out for assistance. He (the police man) knocked at the door, which was at length opened by the prisoner himself, who inquired what he wanted there; and when told that he came there to protect the woman who called out murder, the prisoner said that he had as business to interfere ; that his house was his castle, and that he should allow no person to enter without his sanction. The prisoner then hastily shut the street door, leaving the police man outside ; and immediately afterwards cries of murder were again heard from within, when the latter, finding that he could not obtain access by the door, threw up the parlour-window with the intention of going in by that means to deliver the woman from the hands of her assailant. The moment, however, he appeared at the window the prisoner, who had armed himself with the poker, made a furious attack on the policeman, who, to avoid a blow aimed at his head with the weapon, warded it off with his staff, which was broken in halves owing to the violence with which it was struck with the poker. The prisoner then made another blow at the policeman with the poker, but the weapon slipping out of his hand he then ran to the fire-place, and snatched up a pair of tongs, when his wife, fearful that murder would be perpetrated, rushed in between the parties, and at length the prisoner, after a desperate resistance, was secured and taken to the station-house. The poker, and also the policeman's truncheon, were produced in court. The policeman add e d that the prisoner was not sober at the time, and when in that condition, which was fre quen tly the case, his conduct to his wife, and others who interfered for her protec tion, was violent in the extreme. The prisoner said that he was only having a scuffle with his wife, and that the policeman insisted on ; entering his house, and broke two panes of glass in the attempt—that he and his wife could settle their differences without the interposition of the police; and he (prisoner) admitted that he armed himself with the poker to seek recompense for the breakage of his window, and that he was struck in the first instance before he retaliated. Mr. COTTINGWAM said that it was providential for the prisoner that he was not standing at the bar on a charge of murder, for if the blow aimed at the police man's head had not been warded off in the manner it was, in all human probability it would have fractured his skull, the broken condition of the truncheon ex- Whited the tremendous violence which rfiliet hive been used on the occasion. The prisoner had in sinuated that the policeman had no right to enter his house, but he (the magistrate) would tell him that he was perfectly justified even in breaking into a house from which cries of murder proceeded, if he was re fused admission; and that if he (Mr. Cottingham) was aware that any policeman acting in his district did not perform that duty when there was occasion for it (as in the present instance) he should take special care that such an officer should, at all event , , no longer remain in that division. The magistrate added that his only reason for not sending the case before a jury was in consequence of the policeman receiving no injury at his assailant's hands ; therefore he should deal summarily with the charge ; but, con vinced that the fine he was empowered to inflict was inadequate to such an offence, he should sentence the prisoner to one month's imprisonment, and at the ex piration of his sentence to find two securities to pro• tact his unfortunate wife from his violence. LAMBETH. EXTRAORDINARY CAss.—Yesterday, Mr. George .England, the eminent engineer and proprietor of the Hatcham Iron Works in Pomeroy-street, Old Kent road, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to two summonses taken out against him by the Rev. Angus his Kerr Boni Grenville, incumbent of St. James, Hatcham, the one charging him with using threaten ing and the other abusive language to that rev. gentleman. Mr. Grenville, upon being sworn, said—On Fri day last I was walking with my wife, and met the defendant and another man by the Railway Tavern at New Cross, Deptford. They came out as we were passing, and on seeing me he (Mr. England) called me a vagabond parson. He also said I was a scoun drel, and that he should like to kick me. I looked to see if I could recognise the person who was with him, when the defendant said, "If he looks round again, I will punch his face." The defendant also said, " I will never let him alone while he is in the neighbour hood, I will stick to him." I had, by virtue of my office, to remonstrate with the defendant, and I did it in the mildest manner possible, in 1845, and ever since he has annoyed me whenever he has seen me. On his cross-examination by the defendant the reverend gentleman said he was certain defendant came out of the Railway Tavern, and thought he had waited there until he and Mrs. Grenville came up. On a former occasion he had slackened his pace on meeting the defendant, because he was looking out for a policeman. On this occasion he had also passed his own house, because he was in search of a constable, the defendant having then abused and threatened him. On Friday last he (Mr. Grenville) did slacken his pace; but that had been occasioned in consequence of Mrs. Grenville becoming ♦ery unwell. Mrs. Grenville was next sworn, and sail—l was walking with my husband on Friday last, and we were followed by Mr. England and another man. Mr. England called my husband a rascal and a vaga bond, and on my husband looking round, he (Eng land) said, " If he does it again, I'll punch his head ;" and also said he was sorry I was married to such a vagabond. He then said, " I'll stick to him as long as he is in the neighbourhood." I was so frightened at the defendant's manner, that on my husband taking me into a shop, I fainted. Mr. England, when called on for his defence, said the causes which led to the present complaint were of some years' standing. In the first place, he had been instrumental in the appointment of Mr. Grenville to the incumbency of the hamlet of Hatcham, having been a member of the committee who had petitioned the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to send him to that newly formed parish. Having taken an active part in the financial matters of the hamlet with the view of checking as much as possible all unnecessary expen diture, he became obnoxious to the rev. complainant, and considerable annoyance was the result. Mr. ELLIOTT here remarked that he could have no thing to do with matters that passed some years ago, and requested Mr. England would come down to the circumstances of Friday last. Mr. England, however, went on to say that Mr. Grenville had summoned him before a magistrate at Greenwich for an alleged assault, when he was fined 51., and he in his turn brought an action for damages against the rev. gentleman for a counter assault, and got Is. damages, each paying his costs. After this the rev. gentleman sought various means to annoy him. On one occasion he went so far as to denounce him from the pulpit for keeping a woman, as he alleged, and called upon his congregation on that occasion to assist bim in getting rid of him, Mr. England. And on another he objected to his becom ing a member of the Foresters Club, held at the Railway Tavern, declaring him, Mr. England, to be unfit for the society of moral or respectable men, and said that if elected, he, Mr. Grtsaville, should with draw from the society as its honorary chaplain. The Rev. Mr. Grenville—ln reference to the alleged denunciation from the pulpit, and ,the other matters alluded to by Mr. England, he would only say that at the time the whole of the circumstances were brought under the notice of his bishop, who thoroughly investigated them ; and, after such investigation, ac quitted him of any charge of impropriety. Mr. England having been repeatedly requested by the magistrate to come to the subject matter of com plaint, said that on the day in question he was walking with a friend, and on seeing the complainant be, addressing his friend, said, " That is my beautiful parson ; that is my vagabond parson." He denied using the vulgar language mentioned, and expressed much regret that anything he had said should annoy Mrs. Grenville, as nothing could be more distant from his intention than that of doing so. He then called a witness, who corroborated his statement. In reply to the Msoisraivre, he said the de fendant's first expression was, "That is the parson I told you of." lie then said "Heis a beautiful fellow to go on about me as he has done. He is a pretty vagabond parson to talk of me." He did not hear anything said about pinching or kicking, nor did he hear any bad language. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that there could be no doubt the expressions and manner of the defendant were highly improper, and for the abusive language he convicted him in the penalty of 405.; and for the other he ordered him to find bail. The defendant complied with both, and was at once discharged. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. FOREIGN.OFFICE, DEC. 29, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Spen cer N. Dickson as Consul in London, for the Republic of Chili. WHITEHALL, JAN. 1, 1849. The Queen has been pleaied to direct letters piton to be passed under the Great Seal of the United King di ni o m s 0 for nominating, for England, in h eo the room and appoi n ti ng Matthew Talbot Barnes, Esq., to b e a P oor -L aw C nm . room of Charles Buller, Esq dece a sed. n WHITEHALL, JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. George Gibb to the church and parish of Gleejila, in the presbytery of Meigle and county of Furfar, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. James Watt, late minister thereof, to the church and united parishes of Cortachy and Clove. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 1. Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants—Royal Regiment of Artillery—Frederick Miller, vice Govan, promoted; Robert Wolseley Haig, vice Ingilby, pro moted ; Charles Henry Owen, vice Gabbett, pro moted ; George Alderson Milman, vice Yates, promoted; Robert Boyle, vice Ferrers, promoted; Claudius Buchanan Piers, vice Thrupp, promoted; Ed ward Luce, vice Mainwaring, promoted • Lambert Henry Dunn, vice A. Gordon, promoted",; George Malcolm Pasley, vise W. J. Williams, promoted Paget Walter L'Estrange, T i cs You ng , pro moted ; Charles Edward Burt, vice Freeling, promoted ; Grey Fitillenry L'Estrange, vice Stokes, promoted; Constantine Lemon Hotham M'Ternan, vice Pennycuick, promoted; Hazlitt Irvine, vice Grimston, promoted; Claud George William Lasciolles, vice Guille, promoted; Shadwell Morley Grylls, vice Olderahaw, promoted; Honourable George Victor Agar Ellis, vice W. 0. S. limner ; Reginald Henry Champion, vice L. D. Wright, promoted, Dec. 19. Corps of Royal Engineers—Edmond Frederick Du Cane, vice Warren, promoted; William Crossman, vice Williams, promoted, Dec. 19. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant Frederick Miller to bo First Lieutenant, vice Johnson, promoted; Second Lieutenant Robert Wolseley Haig, to be First Lieutenant, vice Connell, psomoted; Second Lieutenant Charles Henry Owen, to be First Lieutenant, vice M'Crea, promoted, Dec. 19. ADMIRALTY, Dice. 30, 1848. ' Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Thomas George Shelton Meheux to be Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Montagu Herbert Graham to be Se cond Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet William Tau z i a Savary to be S econ d Li eu t enan t ; Gentl eman C adet George Gill to be Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet George Brydges to be Second Lieutenant. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire, Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia —Charles John liemeys Tynte, Esq., to be Colonel, vice the Most Honourable the Mastitis of Bute, deceased, Dee. 26. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Ensign Charles Lindsell to be Lieutenant, vice Aldersey, resigned, Dec. le; Norborne Gilpin Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lindsell, promoted, Dec. 20. 'BANKRUPTS. Charles Mayer, merchant, Mark-lane, City, to sur render, Jan. 12, and Feb. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Marten and Co., Commercial Sale Rooms, Josiah Tibbs, wine merchant, Railway-place, Fen church-street, Jan. 11, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street ; Pain and Hatherley, Basinghall-street. Frederick Batchelder, hay and straw dealer, Queen borough, Isle of Sheppey, Jan. 11, at eleven, and Feb, 10, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Basiughall-street ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. Henry Edward Stevens, grocer, Grays, Essex, 44. 110, at half-past one, and Feb. 8, at one, at th e C ou r t o f ! Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basis ghall street; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. James Thweat Bourne, earthenware dealer, Dil horn, Staffordshire, Jan. 16, at eleven, and Feb. 13, at to ,n, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, officio d as sign: e, Birmingham; Bishop and Twigg, Staffor' lshire Pot teries. John Fitzgerald, coal merchant, Portlantl-place , Jan. 17, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official aiignec, Coleman street- buildings; Harrison, Bloomsbury -scut are. Job Spender, builder, Brixton, Jan. 16, a t two, and Feb. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. .Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Lawrence and El, ems, Old Jewry. James Alexander, merchant, Great Winches' ;er-stre e t, City, Jan. 11, at half-past twelve, end Feb. 15, ,at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell official as . nee, Cole man-street; Crowder and Maynard, Colem 51 g treat. John William Ambrose, stationer, Bangor r, Carnar vonshire, Jan. 16 and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, I.iverpool; Clark and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields; Griffiths,. Bangor; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Richard Matthews, baker, East Reach, Somsorsetshire, Jan. 10 and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. klirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Cole 3, Taun ton; Terrell, St. Martin's-lane; Bailey, Shaw, Smith, and Bailey, Berners-street, Oxford-street. George Thomas Arnold, news agent, Liverpool, Jan. 16 and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool Eistrict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Sharp() and Co, Bedford-row ; Lowndes, Robinson, Bateson,, and Lowndes, Liverpool. Alfred Kinsey Taylor, dr A per, Led bury, Herefordshire, Jan. 18, and Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. lralpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram, Knight, and Eminit, Birmingham. William Okill, share broker, Liverpool, Jan. 15, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District C:ourt, Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Johnson anet Co., Temple; Grocutt, Liverpool. James Johnston, tea dealer, St. Thomas the Apostle, Devonshire, Jan. 10 and Feb. 7, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Fryer, Exeter; Makinson and Sanders, Temple. Matthew Gaunt, grocer, Bradford, Yorkshire, Jan. 23 and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee; Clark, Southampton-buildings; Terry and Watson, Bradford; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Henry Rotherham, plumber, Chesterfield, Jan,. 15, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Cutts, Gray's Inn ; Lucas and Cutts, Chesterfield; Sale, Worthinglon, and Shipman, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall- street. S. Berry, Ipswich, licens( d victualler, Jan. 23 at eleven -H. Rideout, Woolwich, cheesem )nger, Jan. 26, at eleven-J. Steere, Guildford, Surrey, watch and clock maker, Jan. 27, at twelve-C. Edmonds, Strand, book seller, Jan 27, at eleven. In the Country. J. Plumley, Bower Ashton, Somersetshire, market gardener, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. T. Martens, Middlesborough, Yorkshire, merchant, Is., on Tuesday, Jan. 2, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds, J. Gomersall, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, corn miller, 4s. 4d., on Tuesday, Jan. 2, or any subsequent Tuesday. between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. J. Senior, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer, third dividend of five-twelfths of a penny, and first and second of 3d. and I Id., on Tuesday Jan. 2, or any sub sequent Tuesday between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. T. Hanson, Clough Bottom, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturer, second dividend of Is. lid., and first and second of 7s, 7id., on Tuesday, Jan. 2, or any subse quent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. A. A'l'Donald, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, confectioner, 45., on Saturday, Jan. 6, or any subsequent Saturday, be tween ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, New castle-upon-Tyne. J. Lowe and T. F. R. Shaw, Birmingham, factors, 80., any Thursday between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. Hansfortb, Newchurch, Isle of Wight, upholsterer, Jan. 24, at eleven-J. Hignell, Colchester, grocer, Jan. 24, at half-past one-M. Sheen, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, potato merchant, Jan. 24, at two-W. Browning, Whit stable, Kent, grocer, Jan. 25, at eleven-J. Brown, Cold Harbour-lane, Brixton, builder, Jan. 27, at half-past eleven-J. W. Spokes, Strand, bookseller, Jan. 24, at twelve. In the Country. J. F. Cartner, Ashwick, Somersetshire, surgeon, Jan. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—G. Browne, Twy ning, Gloucestershire, wharfinger, Jan. 26, at half-past twelve, at the Court, Bristol—G. Wood, J. C. Spender, J. W. Little, W. Brunton, and J. Rusher, Abchurch lane, City, and Maesteg, Glamorganshire, iron-manufac. turere, Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—M. Warren, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk dyer, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Jones, Stockport, Cheshire, ironmonger, Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—A. Drake, Barnstaple, Devonshire, attor ney, Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—J. J. Palmer, Birmingham, wholesale jeweller, Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Wilcox, Bir mingham, provision dealer, Jan. 23, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham. _ _ Court of Review, Jan. 23. J. Pratt, Liverpool, stock and share broker—N. Gar diner, Manchester, share broker—J. Johnson, Great Winchester street, City, merchant—C. Oldham, Liver pool, auctioneer—G. Robotham, Lane, Staffordshire, currier—S. H. Billingay, Commercial-road, East, iron monger—J. W. Hammon, Seckf o rd- s t ree t, S t . John street-road, watchcase maker—T. Ankrett, Walsall, Staffordshire, spur manufacturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. H. Hill, N. Hill, G. G. Hill, N. Hill, jun., and J. tr. Hill, Riga, merchants (so far as regards the said J. H. Hill)—B. Whishaw, W. Whishaw, B. Whishaw, jun., J. H. Hill, J. Hill, T. Hill, G. G. Hill, and C. Hill, St. Petersburgh, merchants (so far as regards the said B. Whishaw, W. Wishaw, and J. H. Hill)—J. P. Kennard and S. P. Kennard, London, merchants—W. Whishaw, G. Hill, and C. Hill, Arch angel, merchants (so far as regards the said W. Whishaw) —J. Smith, W. Derbyshire, and H. Taylor, Egerton and Manchester, dyers—Rebecca Harris and Agnes Hill, Gravesend, school mistresses—lL T. Mitcalf and R. Richardson, Leadenhall-street, ship brokers—T. Hughes and E. S. Evans, Newport, Monmouthshire, ship bro • kers—Anne Mary Barclay and Isabella Sarah Suther land, Ash borne, Derbyshire, milliners—C. Trampler and H. P. Rouquette, London, merchants—T. Wood and R. Walker, Leicester, hosiery manufacturers—H. Green, T. Green, J. Green, and W. Green, Ramsden, South. ampton, farmers—ll. Pound and J. Tasker, Leadenhall street, trunkmakers—W. Llewellyn. W. Llewellyn, jun., L. Llewellyn, J. Rowland, and J. Budd, Aberdulais and Ynispenllwch Works, Glatuorgan.hire, tinplate manu facturers (so far as res'ards the said J. Budd)—R. Wood and H. S. Samuel, Mincing-lane, colonial brokers—J. B. Heath, J. Fume, R. A. Heath, and W. E. Few, Old Jewry, merchants (so far as regards the said J. Furse)— W.T. Callon and J. P. Teebay, Liverpo.)l, surgeons—B. Hagen and J. Morenthal, Aldermanbury, importers of foreign goods—B. Furst and 11. Hiller, Manchester, mer chants—H. Parker, T. J. Rooke, R. S. Taylor, and H. Parker, junior, Raymond's-buildings, Gray's-inn, attorneys—C. Le Neve and T. J. Sturley, West Smith field, cattle salesmen—R. Moreland, jun., G. Andrews, and R. Moreland, see., Old-street, St. Luke, millwrights (so far as regards the said R. Moreland, sen.)—G. Reeve and J. Price, Greenwich, common carriers— J. Johnson, jun., and T. Royston, Raildon, Yorkshire, stone dealers—J. Longton and T. Donnison, Liverpool, ship brokers and commission merchants—S. Bentley, J. Bentley, J. I. Wilson, and 11. Fley, Shoe-lane, printers (so far as regards J. I. Wilson)—lt. Ferrer and J. Jack. son, York, stock and share brokers—J. Holliday, S. Holliday, R. Holliday, and R. Holliday, Gildersome, Yorkshire, coal proprietors (so far as regards S. Holli • day)—W. Martindale and J. Banks, Liverpool, general brokers—T. Kilner, W. Mellor, and G. H. Kilner, Huddersfield, woollen cloth merchants—Ann Tarr and N. Tarr, Church-street, Bethnal-green, licensed victual lers—J. C. Wilson and W. S. Briggs, Liverpool, agents to the Low-wood Gunpowder Company—W. J. Konigs warter and M. J. Konigswarter, Copthall-court, merchants —C. Douglas and F. W. Froggett, Gould square and Corn exchange, Mark-lane, cornfactors—T. Gilchrist and C. Inchee, St. John's, New Brunswick—S. Skee and H. M'Cole, South Shields, ship and insurance-brokers—R. Howard, J. E. Howard, and J. Kent, Stratford, Essex, chemists (so far as regards J. Kent)—N. Duckworth and J. B. Marsden, Liverpool, cotton-brokers—Eliza Cox and Ann Frances Box Drayton, Amersham, Bucking hamshire, schoolmistresses—C. Cakebread, jun., and W. Johnson, Portsmouth, linendrapers—C. Harris, G. Du plex, and S. Harris, Fenchurch-street, surgeons (so far as regards G. Duplex)—J. Spencer and W. Manvell, Bow Church-yard, City—H. Castellain and 0. Bru chards, Liverpool, merchants—W. P. Groves and R. 11. Hartley, Liverpool, vinegar manufacturers and wine and spirit dealers—C. Vachell and W. Vachell, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, ironmongers and plumbers—R. O'Brien and W. Stonnill, Manor-grove, King's road, Chelsea, cabinetmakers and undertakers—C. Redden and C. J. Redden, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, linen drapers and hosiers—Elizabeth Smith, C. Smith, Mary Smith, and J. Smith, Mold-green, near Huddersfield, drysalters and oil merchants (so far as regards Elizabeth Smith and Mary Smith)—J. S. Budgets and A. B. Cooper, Moor-lane, City, dealers in cabs and horses— G. Tonge, J. Hodgkinson, R. :Hodgkinson, and G. F. Hodgkinson, Upper Thames-street and Lambeth-hill, City, chemists and druggists (so far as regards R. Hodg kinson)—J. Pennington and G. Pennington, Bristol, builders—W. Bowes, sen., and T. Bowes, Sunderland, limeburners—J. Rolls, B. W. Noble, J. Noble, and T. R. Hoare, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, colour and varnish manufacturers (so fur as regards J. Rolls)—W. J. Bryant and G. White, Edgeware-road, surgeons —H. C. White and T. L Bowley, Great Tower-street, City, tea brokers—T. Sands, C. Turner, C. Congrcve, T. B. Sands, and J. Church, jun., Liverpool, commis sion agents—J. Hargrave and C. W. Hargrave, Wood-street, Cheapside, umbrella manufacturers— J. Candy, W. Linton, J. Linton, and W. Q. Eggar (so far as regards W. and J. Linton), Bristol, wholesale drapers—C. W. H. Herbert and T. H. Herbert, Leices ter, builders—J. Henry, W. H. Harton, and W. Jo sephs South-street, Finsbury, merchants (so far as re gards W. H. Harton)—J. Mattick, E. Mattick, and J. Mattick, Midsomer Norson, Somersetahire, saddlers— W. Smith and B. English, Princes -street, Leicester square, engineers and machinists—R. Wassail and R. Hunt, Bierley-hill, Staffordshire, stone and earthenware manufacturers—J. Dix, jun., G. Dix, J. Dix, sen., J. Williams, Mary Dix, and T. Dix, Bristol, crown window glass dealers—R. Baxter and J. Moo, Newcastle, coal fitters—W. B. Wood and E. S. Turner, Barbican, gold and silver refiners. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. James Froome, Ba:h, h.er-house keeper. James Anderson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, joiner. ‘Villiam Wilson Robson, Newcastle-upon-'Pyno, James Imes, l'slcaitle-upon-Tyne, joiner. Simeon Me , tdo, B-clfordshir. , , upholsterer. William Dearden, Bury. Lancashire, agent. Thomas Holt, Pudsey, Yorkshire, joiorr: Jonah Bulman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, e-trman. Joseph Briggs, Bradford, Yorkshire, picture frame maker. Francis Hooper, jun., Batb. Charlotte Heath, Sheerness, hairdresser. John Norman, Devizes, hairdresser. James Platt, Bath, brightsmith. John Addison, Bridgnorth, jeweller. John Richard Evans, Swansea, liceased victualler. Richard Gittins, Bridgnorth, machine maker. Francis Wicks Polglass, Falmouth, grocer. William Swaine, Bradford, Ycrkshire, beer house keeper. James Howarth, Pre-stwith-cum-Oldham, Lancashire, journeyman butcher. Edward Ray„Aston_Botterel, Shropshire, farm bailiff. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. R. Watson, jun., Paisley, manufacturer, to meet within the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, Jan. 8 and 29, at one. M. J. Comber, Burnend of Carnousio, farmer, to meet within the Banff flotel, Banff, Jan. 8 and 29, at one. Helen Rober:son or Lamb, Old Meldrum, merchant, to meet within the Lemon-tree Tavern, Aberdeen, Jar. 8 and 29, at one. J. Rattray and W. Rattray, Dundee, brewers, to meet within the Britihh Hotel, Dundee, Jan. 5 and 26, at two. T. Oldham, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, railway con tractor, to meet within Philp's Inn, Aucterarder, Jan. 6 and Feb. 3, at one. W. Black, Airdrie, engineer, to meet within Drum mond's Hotel, Airdrie, Jan. 8 and Feb. 2, at eleven. James Anderson, Edinburgh, writer, to meet within the chambers of James Neilson, Edinburgh, Jan. 11 and Feb. 8, at one. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 2.) SIISAR.-To-day the West India market opened with a favourable appearance; there was much firmness dis played by merchants, whilst on the other hand grocers and refiners manifested a strong desire to do business. The rates paid in the private market are 6d to is above those current previous to the ho lidays; brown of low to fine quality is worth 33s 6d to 355, yellow 35s 6d to 425, grey 34s 6d to 38s 6d per cwt. A public sale of 150 hogsheads and 2 trcs Barbadoea went off with spirit at 6d to is advance, fine yellow realised 41s, good 38s 6d to 39s 6d, middling 36s 6:1 to 38s, low 35s 6cl to 36%; 42 hbds and 15 tree Demerara crystallized fetched high rates, brown went at 34s 6d to 365, yellow 36s to 475, and white 48s 6d to 51s per cwt. The total quantity of Sugar sold to. day amounted to 500 hhds, &c., and operations would have been upon a larger scale had holders been more disposed to sell. REFINED.-To-day Refined goods met with much at tention from the home trade, and stiffer rates are paid, brown grocery Lumps selling at 48s, and Standard Lumps 49s to 49s 6d, at which the market is firm. Crushed Sugar is much wanted, and prices keep on the advance, British selling at 27s to 28s, Duteh 25s to 26s 6d, and Belgian 24s to 25s 64 per cwt. MAURITIUS.-There was no public sale to•day, pri vately several parcels were sold at an advance of 6d to ls. The value of good and fine yellow is 37s 6d to 40s, low and middling 35s to 36s 6d, middling to fine brown 32s tes.34s 6d, low 30s to 31s, ordinary to fine grey 34s to 38s 6d, indeed some parties will not take these rates. EAST INDIA.-To-day there was much inquiry after Madras Sugar, but holders insisting upon an advance of is, operated against business; of 4,766 bags offered at public sale about one-half sold ; low damp brown went at 28s 6d, middling 295, good 29s 6d to 30s, low yellow 30s 6d to 31s. 01 Bengal several parcels were sold privately, and at stiffer rates. 2.747 bags at public sale were disposed o ; fine grainy yellow went at 42s to 445, good 39s 61 to 41s 6d, middling 36s to 375, ordinary 355, damp and washed 35s to 41e per cwt. FOREIGN.-To-day there was much firmness in the market for Foreign Sugar, but the stiff rats still asked prevented business of moment. The value of brown Havannah, in bond, is 17s to 18s, yellow 18s 61 to 235; Brtzil, brown, 16s 6(1 to 17s 6rl, and yellow 18s to 20s per cwt. There was no public sale to-day. COFFEE.-This afternoon a public sale of 700 bags 5 casks Plantation Ceylon Coffee went off with spirit at stiffer rates ; fine fine ordinary greyish realised 45s 6d to 465, fine ordinary 40s 6d to 455, good ordinary 37s 6d to 38a, bold triage 31s to 33s 6d, and pea berry 48s to 49s 6d. At another sale of 1,080 bags the whole was taken in and withdrawn much above the value ; the chief pile at 50s for fine ordinary grey. Of Mysore 127 bags were sold at 60s 6d to 61s for fine yellow, rich flavour, being high rates. Native is wanted, and holders of good ordinary quality insist upon 31s 6d to 32s per cwt. All other sorts of Coffee are in good demand, both for home use and export, and prices are on the advance. MOLASSES.-There is firmness in the market for this article, and a better demand is expected to take place shortly; the stock is also small. The value of West India is from 14s 6d to 17s, of Mauritius 13s to 14s, and Bengal Treacle 153 per cwt. TEA.-To-day there was a much better demand for black, and holders were enabled to obtain rather higher rates. The value of common and good ordinary clean Congou is 7d to 8d per lb. Green also has been dealt in with more readiness, and there are sellers upon late terms. There is a less quantity on offer of all sorts, and no public sale is at present declared. RICE.-To-day there was no public sale of Rice, and privately little desire was shown to du business. The value of mid white Bengal is 9s 6d, low and mid pinkey white Madras 7s 6d to Bs, and cargo 7s per cwt. SPIRITS.-To day there was greater firmness in the market for Rum of all sorts. A good business was con cluded, and at better prices. Proof Leeward realised Is 43e1 to is sd, East India is 4d, Demerara 30 to 38 per cent. over proof 2s to 2s 4d ; Jamaica plain and middling quality 28 to 33 per cent. over proof 2s 10d to 3s 2d, good middling and good 33 to 36 over 3s 3d to 3. 9d, fine and very superior 3s 10d to 4s Gd. Brandy finds a more ready sale, and holders display firmness; the rates paid are 3s 10d to 4s for Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1847, and 3s 4d to 3s 6i for 1848 ditto. Geneva is not much wanted, and is 10d is the value of exportation. British made Spirits is quoted at lOs proof. Gin 22 under proof 8s 2d, and 17 ditto at 8s 9d, at which the market is firm. SALTPETRE.—To-day there WAS not much desire evinced to do business in rough, and holders displayed less firmness. At auction 1,0.)0 bags of Calcutta went rather cheaper; mid grey 9f to 7f per cent selling at 25s 6d to 265. COCHINEAL.—To-day the market was firm, and a good demand existed. At public sale 22 bags Mexican sold at 4s Id for silvers, and at 4s 5d to 4s 6d for blacks. OlLS.—There are symptoms of an improvement taking place in the market for common Fish Oils. In Cod the operations are upon an enlarged scale at 25/ 5s to 23i 10s per tun, at which there are not free sellers. Seal has been sold to a fair extent. Purchases hare been concluded in Southern ; the rates paid are 25/ to 26/ 10; for good and fine, and for low to middling 231 to 24/ 10s. For Sperm the market has assumed a dull aspect, and prices are nominal at 831 to 831 10s for fine Colonial. With American the market will be well supplied shortly, and the reduced duty is in operation. Linseed Oil has been dealt in with greater readiness for home purpose;, and prices are firm at 22s 9d to 23s on the spot. For forward delivery several contracts hare been entered into at 23s to 23s 3d, and there are not free sellers upon these terms. Rape Oil is wanted ; pale at 36; 6d, brown 35; 6d, and Foreign 37s to 38s. The market is less freely supplied, and deliveries con tinue to be of a satisfactory nature. Palm con tinues to be dealt in with caution, and prices are retrograding—the last is not worth more than 30s. At public sale 50 casks were taken in at from 28s to 30s for mid to fine. The moderate rates cause an increased consumption. Cocoa Nut is neglected and offered upon lower terms; the value acording to the quality is from 83s to 38;; there is yet no increase in the consumption, whilst the stock is extensive. Olive is in mach better request, and higher rates are paid; Gallipoli selling at 431 to 44/, Spanish and Sicily 411 to 421, Levant and Portugal 40/ to 41/ per tun. A further increase is apparent in hone trade deliveries, and the stock is only a moderate one. Lard Oil is 44s to 465, and Ground Nut 82s. The sales made are trifling. TALi.ow.—Prices have further receded for Russian on the spot, and rule at 41s Od to 42s for P.Y.C., yet both soap makers and chandlers operate with caution. For forward delivery there has been little passing, as low rates are expected to prevail. Home melted is offered at 42s net cash, still only a small business has been concluded, and the supply is much larger than last season. The public sales went off with dulness and at reduced rates. Rough Fat is difficult of sale at 28 6d per stone, and the stock is unusually large. For public sale the quantity of Tallow declared is 400 csks, &c. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL, Ja N. 2. Messrs. Taylor and Brights' circular states that the weather during the past week has been raw and cold, but with little of frost and no snow. The wind coming north-easterly has brought in a further considerable ar rival of grain and seed, making within fourteen days an almost unprecedented import, especially of barley (38,000 qrs), wheat, and peas. So heavy a simultaneous arrival on a previously dull market, has depressed it considerably, and certainly if ever prices did invite to speculation, it must be at this moment, when every article of the trade is obtainable at so much below the cost of production and import ex penses. As is, however, almost invariably the case in times of depression, the market is forsaken of buyers, all classes hold back for the period of free trade becoming " a great fact," anticipating a still further reduction in value under its dreaded influence, and forgetting, per haps, that stocks are meanwhile reduced by steady con sumption, and that when all are buyers, tho tendency of prices is upwards. We decidedly expect a better demand ere long. The show of wheat at this day's market was more than adequate to the demand, and condition being for the most part bad, the range of prices for such was Is per quarter below last week. Anything good in qua lity and condition was not procurable on lower terms, and a better tone pervaded the mat ket. A good choice of foreign samples, but not offered at lae low rates, rather than submit to which importers generally prefer going to granary. Still speculative purchases are to be made, and it must not be forgotten that the better class of millers' wheats do not form the character of the pre sent stock, nor that supplies from the north of Europe and near ports will now cease, their navigation being fully closed. More inquiry for bonded wheat. Barley, unless the fine qualities (Saal, Rhenish, &c.) is a com plete drug, and price quite at the option of the buyer: the same remark applies to white peas, which arrive much bey.,nd the wants of the marknt, and are pro curable at unpre , :echnt, d lew rates. Not so many beaus on sa!e, and late rates are supported; old rot offered at any pl - oportifit in pi - ice. Very little pas.ing in oats of any description, with a small stock on the market. A good arrival of linseed is met by a steady market, while Calit•ti are procured on terms in favour of the buyer. The imports of seed for the twelve months just ended is consi•lerdbly beyond VI -it. of any previous period. The stogy kof good rapes , - d being small, prices are well supported. Nothing passing in cakes. Bones steady, in the absence of actual business. The following are the present prices of grain :- 8. s. Linseed cakes, English, per Wheat, red ...... 42 to 441 ton ... B/ 10, Od f , o. new do 4O —44 Do. foreign, do 7l to 810 s Do. white 44 46'llape cakes, do .87s 6d Do. new do 44 —46 Booes, do Bss Od to 87, 6d Do. Dan zit ... 46 —5 0 1 Guano 4/ to 9/ 5s Do. Lower Baltic & FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND. Hamburgh ....... 40 41 The free prices less current Barley,m,,lting 26 —30 j Do. grinding Oats .. Do. Danish l2 14!Do. Archangel & Petersburgh Do. Friesland l6 18j13.1rIev, S aa l and Magdeburg Do. Russian Beans 33,oats, R uss i an Do. foreign 2B 34' Do. Danish and Pomeranian... Peas Linseed, crushing 34 38 — 4 ,) Do. do. feed Do. feeding .. Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 241 to 26,1 Peas HULL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN OF THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 26. Wheat. I I Barley. Oats. 556 Qrs at 45s Od I 148 at 30s 10d 124 at 15s 10d Rye. Beans. Peas. I I 0 Qrs at Os Od 23 at 36, Od oat Os Od IPSWICH, JAN. 2. We experienced a more ready sale for wheat to-day, without any improvement in prices. Barley continues in a very heavy state, and prices declined from is to 2s per quarter. Oats and beans are a shade lower. Boil ing and grey peas is cheaper. Malt dull, at is less money. Flour, no alteration. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 4os to 505 Beans 2B, to 34s Barley.. 23s to 305 Peas. Oats Ry e .. ....... 27s to 30s Flour, per sack.. 39s to 43s AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 30. Wheat 1,154 quarters at 45s 10d. Barley Oats 20s 10d. Beans 57 „ 32s 2d. Peas..... 2O 333 6J. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—At this day's market there was a fair attendance of dealers, but a slow inactive demand was experienef.d, without any material change in prices since Friday. Free wheat in some instances was sold at a decline of ld per 701bs on prices of this day week, but generally holders were firm at previous rates. Several parcels of bonded wheat were disposed of at about 6s to to 6s 2d per 701bs for Black Sea, 6s 6d to 6s 8d for American, and 6s 8d to 6s lOd for Lower Baltic .yellow, but the exact prices were not allowed to transpire. Oats and oatmeal being more plentiful were easier to pur chase. India corn and corn meal met a slow sale, at the decline stated above. Barley, beans, and peas were all dull, with the turn in favour of buyers. Flour scarcely inquired for, and Irish and Canadian were rather cheaper; Western Canal and Ohio, in bond brought 258 , 6 d per birrPl. PETERBOROUGH, DEC. 30.—The supply of wheat is not so large as of late, but there is an increased quantity of barley, beans, and oats offering. Wheat that is in good condition maintains its price, other sorts are rather cheaper ; barley, Is lower ; o a t s an d b eans, each 6d to is lower. Currency to the 4 growersi—Wheat, new 383 to 425, to 00s; fine, 44s to 465; old, 42s to 465; fine, 48s to 003. Barley, 28s to 30s; fine, 31s; malting, 00s to 00s. Oats, new, 15s to 17s; fine, 18s to 21s; old, 20s to 265; fine, 00s. Beans, 38s to 40s; new, 00s to 00s per qr. Inspector's corn return for week ending Dec. 30—Wheat, 1,189 qrs. 0 bu. 42, 8d • barley, 324 qrs. 0 bu. 29s Od; oats, 155 qrs. 0 bush, 14s 7d; beans, 00 qrs. 0 bu, 003 Od; peas, 00 qrs. 0 bu. 00s Od per qr. Misacir, DEC. 29.—Where was a good attendance at this market, and a fair supply of wheat and other grain, the prices for which remain about the same as last week's. Per quarter imperial to the grower—Wheat, 41s to 455; fine, 48s to —s per quarter. Oats, 10fd to lid per stone. Beans 34s to 36s per qr. BrsHor's STORTFORD, DEC. 28.—There was scarcely anything doing, where sales were made it was at a fur ther reduction in price. For the best descripti ns of barley last week's prices were obtained, for inferior sorts the price was is per quarter lower. The supply was large. In other articles trade was dull and prices de clining. Inspector's corn return for week ending Dec. 28:—Wheat, 652 qrs. 5 bu. 42s Oid; barley, 3,985 qrs. 6 bu. 32s 11id; oats, 25 qrs. 0 bu. 18s Od; beans, 40 qrs. 0 bu. 32s 64(1; peas, 5 qrs. 0 bu. 37s Od. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. I.—There were 112 bags of oatmeal, 24 of barleymeal, and 3 of pot barley at this day's market; sales dull; oatmeal down 6d per bag; barleymeal also declined 6d per bag; pot-barley 6d bag down. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. ... 27s Od 26s 3d 25s 6d Barleymeal, per ditto 20s 6d —s Od —s 6d Peasenaeal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —8 Od —s Od Pot barley 25s 6d 24s Od —s Od CORR, JAN. I.—Flour—First quality, 1556 d to 163 6d; second ditto, 14s Od to 15s 6d; household, lls to 14s; third ditto, 9s to lOs per cwt. Oatmeal, 12s to 12s 6d per cwt. Indian corn, 71 5s to 81 lOs Od; Indian meal, 91 to 915 s per ton. Bran, 4/ 55 to Si 5s per ton. Hay— Farmers', 22s to 505 Od; average, 44s ; retailers, 42s to 52s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far mers', 22s to 335; average, 255; retailers', 00s to ()Os per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof, 6s 31 per imperial gallon. Bread, bid to 8d per 41bs. Fresh butter, 10d to 12d per lb. Beef, 3d to Gd; mut ton, aid to 5d ; veal, 31(1 to 41d; pork, Sid to 7d ; bacon, bid to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals —New port, 17s; L) dney, 18s. Calm, 16s per ton. Potatoes, white, 10d to 14d; Minions, 20d. Hides—Market ditto, 11 s to 17s; salted ditto, 12a to 17s per cwt; market skins, 2d to 2/(1; calf ditto, 2d to 24d; veal skins, 3d to 3id per lb. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebeo red pine, 3/ 15s; yellow ditto, 3/; deal, 171 to 20/per hundred ; Bangor Queens, 31 2s 6d per ton. Scotch herrings,l9s to 20s per barrel; Norway ditto, 00s. New foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 lOs per ton. Tallow 475. Wool, 103 to 12s per stone. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market is more buoyant than usual. The sales are—Great 'Western, Quarters, 2% dis.— Ditto, 171. Shares, 2 dis.—Midland Stock, 87—Old Exeter, 29 dis.— Ditto, Thirds, 10. LIVERPOOL, Jai N. 2. STOCK EICIIANGIL—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 31/. Shares, 9 , 4 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 27/. 105. Shares), 15 , 4—Caledonian, Preference, % dis. - Great Northern, 9 c. dis. ex int.—Ditto (B Shares), 1 3 4 die ex int.—Great Western, Quarters, 3 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Leeds), Quarters, 5 1 4 dis.—Ditto, fifths, 31. Is. 3d. di..—Ditto, Hales (late Liver• pool and Bury), 13 dis. —Ditto (late West Riding Union), 4/. 13s. 9d. dis.—Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 3 1 4—London and North Western, 126%—Ditto, Fifths, 54 p.—Ditto, New Quarters, 21. 6s. 3d. p.— Ditto Quarters (C), 2 3 / 4 c. p.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Liecolnshire, Eighths, 57. 13 dis. ex int. —Ditto, 10/. Preference, 11 , A— \lidland Stock, New Halves, 6% dis. ex int.—North Staffordshire, 3 1 ,2 dis.—Scottish Central, 264, Shropshire Union, 2/. 13s. 9d. die. es int.— South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Eighths, 7%—York, New castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), liy c. p. ex int. MAiNCHESI'ER, JAN. J. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—South-Eastern and Djver, No. 4, 7 11-16 with int.—Caledonian, Preference, 3 % p•—West Riding Union, 4% dis. n. Scotti,h Central, 26—Grimsby Docks, 12% dis.—North Staffordshire, dis. —Huddersfield, Thirds, 8 1 4—Leeds, 321. Shares, 7 1 ,4 dis. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. STOCK EXCHANGE.— There was a considerable amount of business transacted to-day, and prices looked up. The sales are—London and North-Western, 127—North British, Thirds, 41. 18s. 9d.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 31. 19s. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 31. Se. 9d. dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 5/. 13s. 9d. dis.—Ditto (B), 3/. ss. Bd. die. —Ditto, Preference, 1 p.— Shropshire, 21. 3s. 4d. rADVERTISEMENT.j—THE EARL OF ALDBOROUGH AND HoLLowAT's PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine, alter every other means had failed. See extract front his Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1645. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your.pllls have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the most eminent of the facility, at home and all over the continent, bactDot been able to effect; nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or Ma rienbad. (Signed) " ALDBOROUGH." 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