The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-21 00:00:00

POLAND. PARIS. JAN. 16. —The French Ministers and their friends, particularly M. Thiers and General Bugeand, have asserted in the Chamber of Deputies that the Polish question is foreign to the interests of France, and that it was im possible for the French Government to do anything to save Poland. The reasons by which this assertion is supported are 1. That Poland is 400 leagues distant from France. 2. That France must have had an army of 900,000 men to lie able to transport 400,000 to the Vistula. S. That in attempting to succour Poland France would have turned Prussia and Austria - against that country and herself. 4. That if Prussia had thus been rendered hostile, she would have immediately united her armies to those of Rns•ia, and Warsaw would have been taken in a fortnight. 5. That even Napoleon was not able to re-establish Poland. _ _ In the course of the discussion a generous orator declared that with regard to Poland the question for France was not one merely of honour, but of morality. He was of opinion that the prior relations of France were sufficient to bind her to give support to a cause which she had often proclaimed sacred and truly French, and which during the course of a century bad always been common and ad. vantageous to herself. But the Ministers appeared to defy their opponents to explain the means whereby they could have given support to the late struggle in Poland. We accept the challenge, and the question is still not without interest, for it does not relate merely to the past. It is not to be disputed that in ordinary times France could not think of a war with Russia unless she had 400,000 men in the field. Rut at the period of this Polish insur rection Russia was in a state of momentary weakness. The Russian army had sustained four successive cam paigns against the Persians and the Turks. These wars bad cost Russia 300,000 men, and at the beginning of 1834 all her military depots being drained, the reorgani zation of the army became a matter of difficulty, and occasioned much delay before some corps could he brought into the field. Of the eight army corps, of which the Russian army was then composed, only four were com -namely, the Ist, the 6th, the Grenadier corps, and Guards. The 2d, 3d, 4th, and sth were almost - ely composed of recruits, and were besides numerically it oroplete. The four first-mentioned corps, a part of the Guard which remained at St. Petersburgh excepted, entered Poland in the beginning of February, 1831. The 2d and 3d entered successively, and took their positions in line. The sth occupied nearly the whole of the time Podolia and Vollaynia, and was opposed to the insurgents of those provinces, while the 4th in like manner had to contend with the Lithuanian insurgents. Moreover, one half of the sth corps had been left in Wallachia, and one half of the 4th in the Caucasus. Finland, too, could not be entirely stripped of troops, for appearances of discon tent had there become manifest. In the course of April and the following month the 6th corps was nearly destroyed by the war and the cholera, and by the end of May every corps of the Russian army was considerably reduced. The campaign was afterwards carried on during several months with varied success. How, then, can it be said that 400,000 men would at this time have been necessary to establish an equilibrium in the force of the contending armies ? Energetic and sincere counsels accompanied by subsidies might have had the effect of rousing Turkey, and she might easily have sent 30,000 or 40,000 men into the held. A French division of 6,000 men, draughted partly from the Morea and partly from Algiers or Toulon, would have formed a nucleus for this army, which, without difficulty, could have invaded or at any rate menaced Wal lachia and Moldavia. The sth Russian corps, the only corps remaining disposable, would have been forced to oc• copy those principalities, leaving Podolia, where immense stores of arms and ammunition existed, unprotected. Thus a powerful and decided impulse would there have been given to the insurrection. In the North an Anglo-French fleet might have occu pied the Baltic, and cut off from the Russian army all its communications through the Prussian territory, which afforded the only routes remaining open during the last two months of the war. To bring the affair to a speedy conclusion it would have been advi.able to embark a corps of 20,000 men at Polan gen, in the beginning of June, with arms for the insurgents, amounting to 15,000 men, and ammunition for the 15,000 regular troops who were on their march to that point from Warsaw. This demonstration would have compelled the Russian army to retrograde beyond the Niemen. Had the force of that army been divided, the part left before Warsaw might have been annihilated : at any rate, that capital would have been placed out of danger, while at the same time it would have ceased to be of exclusive importance. Other centres of operation would have been created, and even the occupation of Warsaw by the enemy would not then have been regarded as an event of overwhelming influence as to the result. But supposing all this to have occurred, we are told that Prussia would have marched troops against Warsaw, and that the fate of that city would have been decided in the space of a fortnight. We are of opinion, however, that Prussia would have deliberated more than once before she rejected energetic notes from France and England, supported as they would have been by the camps upon the Meuse and in Hanover. But, admitting this supposition, an armed interference by Prussia in the affairs of Poland would have been an European event more calculated than any other to bring the Polish question within the scope of the general treaties of Europe, and it would, therefore, have held out to Poland, even after subjugation, a fate infinitely less un fortunate than that which she experiences under the un controlled dominion of a single Sovereign destitute of com- passion. However, to confine the question to narrower limits, the mere neutrality of Prussia would, according to all probability, have saved Poland. France and England would then have had merely to declare, as they did with regard to Belgium, that events had broken the compact pf 1815, and rendered a new modification necessary, which must be adopted in concert. This language would, in no respect, have been menacing to Prussia, and the Polish subjects of that power had looked forward to such a atate of things, for they bad made the greatest sacrifices to their country, by repressing their enthusiasm at home, while they sent men armed to Warsaw. Thus the Polish possessions of Prussia might have been guaranteed to that Power, while, on the other hand, her possessions on the Rhine were menaced, if she did not maint.in her neutrality. In a word,Poland would have been saved had France and England merely declared to Prussia, as they lateiy did to Spain, when, without deviating them .elyea from neutrality, these two Powers found the means of ob!jeing Ferdinand to remain neutral also. The result pf tl;is neutrality, strictly watched, as it would have been, by the friendly Powers, would have been of incalculable advantage. On the approach of winter a repose of six months would have been obtained, as well on account of thz season as of the immense loss of the Russian army. to Austria, she would not have thought of offering any opposition. One half of her people, nay, of her army, felt the most vivid interest in favour of the Poles ; the neighbourhood of Russia has long alarmed this Power ; hot as soon as she shall perceive the western Powers of pprope . united in the prosecution of an enlightened and energetic policy, she will cheerfully join them against Russia. That day will surely come, for Russia will not halt in her present career, but will proceed to menace England and France in their possessions, and even to threaten the anni hilation of their European importance. In this great struggle, the crusade of civilization against barbarism, the in p a t eminent part belongs to England. The part sl.e would have to act is ably pointed out in the memoirs of Ole French General Pelet on the campaign of 1809 (chap ter 2). Ltstly, the case of Napoleon has been alluded to. But no one % could have had to reproach that great man, nor ould he have re p roached himself, with the desertion of ;oland as one of the chief causes of his ruin, could it with justice be said that he wa s not able to re-establish her independence. If France and England, just now too much engrossed with their own internal affairs, and not well instructed in the real bearings of the question, which was fir ten months at issue on the banks of the Vistula, failed to perceive all the vital importance of that struggle to their own imme diate interests, and to adopt the measures which the cir cumstances required, let the Ministers of those Powers at least abstain from replying to just reproaches, by general assertions of impracticability, which are as detrimental to their own countries as to that nation which has fallen, though without ceasing to live, or to prepare for the future. During the year 1833 there entered the port of Havre, from long sea voyages, 447 vessels, foreign and French. Of these 44 were from Martinique, '7B from Guadaloupe, 3 from Senegal, 2 from Cayenne, 11 from the whale fisheries, and 213 from the United States. The number that sailed was 3'75, of which 32 were for Mar tinique, 45 for Guadaloupe, 1 for Cayenne, 2 for Senegal, 5 for Irciia and China, 24 for the whale fisheries, and 192 for the - MA/4 'firm During the last year there arrived is the Por of Mass& 98 American vessels, measuring together 11,40 touto fes,\ : „ rf")cF tllll4 - '""Ti 44 , a t LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1834. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning. They contain no news of interest from Spain. Some of them, however, publish the address of General ',LANDER to the QUEEN REGENT. This document, although it does not go quite so far as the Ultra. Liberal Papers in Paris had stated, is of considerable importance as the manifesto of the Constitutional party in Spain. The Journal des Debats, which is the semi-official paper of the French Government, is displeased at the conduct of the Spanish Con stitutionalists, but intimates that the French Ministry will not interfere against them on behalf of the Queen of SPAIN. There is every reason to believe that the in tention of sending troops to Portugal, which is said to have been entertained by some of the Members of the Government, has been for the present abandoned. When it was first asserted by one or two of our Contemporaries that it had been resolved to send troops to Portugal, we stated, from an authentic source, that nothing had occurred to indicate an intention of sending British troops to that country. This statement is now fully confirmed. We regret the confirmation on two grounds,—First, be cause we consider that the presence of Bri_ tish troops in Portugal would not only esta blish order there, but also tend to the preserva tion of the peace of the Continent, by putting an end to the intrigues of the Northern Sove reigns in the Peninsula ; and secondly, because the abandonment of the intention, coupled as it is with a report that it has been caused by the disinclination of an illustrious personage to sup port the views of the Premier against those of other Members of the Cabinet, shows but too plainly that Lord GREY has not the influence to which he is entitled by his eminent services and high talents, and which is essential to the welfare of the country. This fact becomes the more important from the consideration that the want of influence to which we allude is the consequence not so much of an impression pro duced on the mind of " the illustrious person age," by representations from Lord GREY'S colleagues,—if colleagues they can be called who pull different ways,—founded on their own mis taken views of the policy proper for the Cabinet to adopt, as of the interference of a clique, a back-stair faction at Court, of which some mem bers of the family of that illustrious personage form part. We have heard, from a source on which we can place reliance, that on a late oc casion at Brighton the influence of one member of this family was exercised in a striking degree, and it is stated as a curious fact that the friend of the Duke of WELLING TON, the ex-whipper-in of the House of Commons,was on the spot at the time, daily and hourly, receiving information of the proceedings of the Premier, of whose embarrassments and difficulties he seems but to have been too well aware. It must be painful to persons who wish well to their country to learn that great and important questions, whether of foreign or domestic policy, are decided by this clique, and that the man who took the helm of state at a time when, but for him and those who acted under him, a convulsion destructive to all good institutions—the necessary consequence of long, and severe endurance—must have en sued, has now no alternative but the abandon. ment of the government of the Tories, or concessions to a party from whom, on great questions of national interest, he can obtain no concessions in return. How long this state of things is to continue we know not, but we do know that it cannot continue without the most serious injury to the cause of reform. Lord GREY will, we hope, take advantage of the next session of Parliament to strengthen himself against the faction that besets him, and to insist on the possession of the power and influence which every Prime Minister ought to possess. Hops and tobacco furnish two prominent instances of our practice of sacrificing industry for the sake of revenue. We imported hops from Flanders before they were raised in En gland, and because a considerable revenue was derived from them through duties of customs, we subjected the home growth of them to a duty of excise. With the exception of the malt duty, the hop duty is the only direct tax upon any raw material of home growth. It is infinitely more objectionable than the malt duty. Indeed, so long as any excise duty is levied, we do not know any tax less objectionable than the malt duty, which is levied only upon a portion of the barley raised, bears but a small pro portion to its value of beer and ale, and does not interfere in the smallest degree with the cul tivation of the soil ; whereas the hop duty is levied upon the sylloie of the produce, is small in gross amount compared to the gross amount of the malt duty, is much more expensive in the collection compared to the gross amount, and is felt the more that the expense of cul tivation is great, being at the rate of thirty pounds per acre, while the crop is, of all others, the most uncertain, and the duty is felt the most severely when the crop is most abundant, because then it bears the highest proportion to the value of the article. For the relief of this branch of industry, therefore, the hop duty (we mean the excise duty on hops) should be repealed. The net duty last year was only 294,3251., whereas the net malt duty last year in Great Britain was 4,579,1691. No hops are raised in Ireland, and the malt duty there last year produced of net revenue only 254,9661. We can spare the hop duty, but we cannot afford to part with the malt duty, nor until the operation of the present corn laws be removed, ought we, on any account, to part with it. When, by restoring the operation of the corn laws, which prevailed previous to the year 1815, the cultivation of the soil shall be restored to the poor as they enjoyed it for forty-two years be fore that year, and when, by a proper modi fication of our duties of customs we shall have so increased the public revenue as to enable us further to relieve home industry, by repealing duties of excise, then we may consider of the reduction of the malt duty, which, however, is one of the last of duties of excise which we should think of repealing. Compared to its amount, it is little expensive in collection, does not interfere with any branch of home industry, applies to an article of universal consumption, and affects it in a smaller degree than any tax which can be laid on any article whatever. But what we desire more immediately to apply ourselves to at present is the absurdity of our policy with regard to tobacco. We origi nally got our chief supply of this plant from Vir ginia—as from a mistaken policy with regard to our colonies, we subjected them to the mono poly of the home market for their supplies, so it was but reasonable that we should secure to them the monopoly of the home market for their productions. We thus prohibited the cultivation of tobacco at home in order to insure it to our then colonies in America ; but we levied a heavy duty upon it, which we have continued ever since, and last year the net proceeds of this duty were 2,428,5391. This was the amount of the duty received upon our own consumption. But the amount of the duty (3s. per lb.) is so excessive, com pared to the value of the article, that both the smuggling and adulteration of it cannot be otherwise than excessive ; so that large as the revenue derived from tobacco is, it should be much larger, even upon our own consumption, and our own consumption would be much larger if it were not for the heavy duty laid upon it. But it is a singular circumstance attending this plant, that though not known before the year 1560, it has since become an article of desire by the most savage, as well as by the most civi lized nations, and is used by all ranks and de grees among the latter. 'What then must be the quantity of tobacco required for the con sumption of the whole world ? and why should not we try to supply the consumption of the world ? The climate both of Great Britain and Ireland is similar to that in which the plant is grown. There is in both countries the sort of soil in which it is generally cultivated. But though Virginia, where it has been chiefly cul tivated, is a sandy soil, it does not follow that a sandy soil is the best adapted to it. On the contrary, from experiments that have been made in Ireland, it flourishes luxuriantly in a soil of a very different description. And here we beg leave to address ourselves to the common sense and right feeling of our country men. We have torn up the Tobacco Planta tions in Ireland. How revolting ! Why should Ireland, or the people of Ireland, be prevented from exercising their industry in any way they think fit, and particularly in a way so naturally arising from the situation of Ireland, namely, in the cultivation of the soil in every way in which it is susceptible of cultivation? Can it be otherwise than that the feeling in Ireland is deep, though the complaint may be smothered on this account, and is it not a positive act of injustice as well as of impolicy ? Even with reference to revenue, can it be supposed that Ireland will pay one sixpence of tobacco duty, if she can avoid it ? With the resolution of alAbole people not to pay a duty upon an article of universal demand, means will be found to have the article without paying the duty in spite of all revenue laws whatever, and how wicked and absurd to prevent a people from raising an article of general demand among them for their own consumption, and the consumption of their neighbours too, if they are willing to buy from them. From the numbers required to plant, transplant, prepare the ground, keep it clean, cut the crops, sweat it, and otherwise fit tobacco and snuff for use, the cultiva- on of this plant is peculiarly desirable at this time in Ireland. The people are willing to cultivate it ; the Government prevents them. Can this be, and must not the Government apply themselves to the consideration of this matter as well as of the other matters we have already suggested with regard to Ireland ? Let the duty on tobacco be reduced to 6d. per pound, with the removal of the prohibition of the culture of the plant in any part of the United Kingdom. As a larger revenue is now derived from coffee than formerly, when the duty was six times its present amount, so a similar result may be expected in the case of tobacco. There will be an end of its adultera tion and smuggling, and the additional quantity thus paying duty will go in aid of the increased consumption to augment the annual amount of duty. But the main advantage will be the em ployment of Lumbers of the people in cultivating and preparing the plant for use, the taxes paid by whom, moreover, upon articles of consump tion, will further increase the public revenue. We have perused with great pleasure a letter just delivered from the Vote Office, from Sir JOHN F. BURGOYNE tO Sir JOHN CAM HOB HOUSE, Bart., when Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, relative to the Navigation of the Shannon. This letter refers to four Reports made by Mr. RHODES, Civil Engineer, which are printed with it, accompanied with maps or plans, showing the improvements which require to be made from its source, near the town of Sligo, in the north of Ireland, to its mouth below Limerick. We formerly suggested that the superintendence of the navigation of this noble river should be intrusted to Commis sioners, similar to those to whom the making of the Caledonian Canal was intrusted, to hold their sittings in 'Westminster, and issue their directions from thence. As the Highland roads and bridges, as well as the Caledonian Canal, were made under the direction of such Commis sioners upon the reports of Mr. TELFORD, SO we beg leave to suggest that this letter of Col. BURGOYNE'S should he referred with the re ports of Mr. RHODES to Mr. TELFORD, to examine the whole of the navigation reported upon, to consider which of the improvements suggested by Mr. RHODES should be first begun, and the succession in which they should be ex ecuted, and whether any and what alterations it may be advisable to make upon them. Such directions may be immediately given by the Lords of the Treasury; but for the purpose of giving effect to the reports to be made by Mr. TELFORD, Commissioners should be appointed in the way we have suggested. We have received Frankfort Papers to the 16th inst. They contain no news of importance. We subjoin the quotations of the Austrian funds : VIENNA, JAN. 14.—Five per Cent. Metallique., 95i ; Four per Cent., 85 ; Bank Shares, 1,229. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Up to the present hour we have no arrivals of the least im portance, and the express from Paris is of a very meagre de scription. The letters from Barcelona speak of a Constitutional Regency i gong to be established there. M. St. Hilaire passed through Bordeaux as extraordinary courier from Madrid to Paris. It was stated that he was the bearer of important despatches from the Queen of Spain to the French Government with an account of some new event in Ca talonia. The letters from Madrid report that a council of Ministers was held on the reception of news from Catalonia. The writer adds, that they are every day expecting some important crisis. _~~ ;Lli 4.-d `i` j o: 40z S DAY AIkONK O'CLOCK. I:ank Stcezc 213 12u, Kew 5 per Cent............. 1 per Cent. Red. BB% 9 8% India Stock 3 per Cenr.Com 9BU 14 1 4 Ditto Bonds. 22 24 pm. 314 per Cent 96% South Sea Stock litto Red 96% 7 6% Old Annuities .... kTew 3% per Cent :95 % 6% 5% New Ditto aa ••••••• 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... 1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... 1 per Cent. 1826 Rank Long Ann. to expire Ditt0.....'......50 0 .-46 45 46 pm. Jan. 5, IS6P l7 1-16 Ditto Small ... ...... 46 45 46).3m. Oct. 10, 1859 l6 15-16 17 . Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 I 1634 15-16 , Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 ;Bank for Account — April 5, 1880............... —llndia for Account - Jan. 5, 1870 — !Cons. for Account B9N %14 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 98Y4 8 Belgian Bonds 96 Ditto Account 96 Brazilian Bonds (9% Ditto Account 67 1 A %% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 21% Chilian Bonds Ditto Account ‘ , 34 Columbian Bonds l9g, Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1924 ...... 22 Ditto Account 22 Danish Bon :A Ditto Account 7334 'reek Bonds Ditto Bonds, !825. Ditto Account %lexicon Bonds, 5 per cent '29 Ditto Accoun't, £, o, 6 percent 394 Ditto Account 3B geapolitan... ............. 89 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE o'ctocr. Paid. Per Share. Allen Mining Company £7 Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm ) £lOO Bolanos Mining Company .£l5O Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. 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Morning.. 32:minutes 'after 11.1 Evening... 0 minutes after 0. On the Ist of February, complete in 1 vol., neatly bound and illustrated, price 65., printed uniformly with the Waverley Novels, revised and corrected, with a New Introduction and Notes by the Author, written ex pressly for this Edition, THE WATER WITCH; Or, The SKIMMER of the SEAS. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, E.g., Forming the Thirty-sixth Volume of THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES, Publishing Monthly. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Of whom may be bad, uniformly printed and embellished, each complete in 1 vol., price 65., The Spy Last of the Mohicans The Pilot The Prairie I The Pioneers Lionel Lincoln And The Borderers, or the Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish. PRICES OF STUCK~ TH THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 199 Portuguese Bonds 57% Ditto Account 57% Ditto New Bonds 57%4 Ditto Acconnt 57,12 Prussian Bonds 102% Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO2 Russian Bonds, 1822... ...... 104 Ditto Account. 1037 i Ditto 111 103% (Spanish Bonds, 1821 23%'4 Ditto Ace. ...233; Ditto Bonds, 1823 ......20 5 4 ; % Ditto Account 20% French Rentes, sp. c. 1001 --:•.. ---- Exchange 9.5f 50e.. —3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch, 21 p. c 49%14 Ditto Account 49%%% Ditto, 5 p. c. 95% Ditto Account 9 5%% French Scrip .04 pm. THE FUNDS. This day, at a quarter to four o'clock, is the fixed time for the put and call to take place, and tomorrow is settling day in Consols, consequently, up to the present time there is little or nothing doing in the Consol Market. Consols, which left off yesterday at 89 j % for the Account, opened at 89 .4 buyers, at which price they are at present. In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock has improved about 1 per cent ; this may be attributed to most part of the dividend for the above Stock having been received. The other Foreign Quotations may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday. HALF-PAST ONE. We are very dull in the City for want of political intelligence. It is stated that new proposals are going to be made to Don Miguel, that if he consents to leave Portugal, England and France will guarantee to him an annual income, with several of his estates. Consols have continued during the whole of the morning at 89 14 Y. for account, with little doing. The Foreign Market also remains firm. Portuguese Stock has improved to 691;j. The other securities may be quoted at yesterday's prices, No fresh arrivals. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account 891 -. BARON BAYLEY.—Notwithstanding the contrary rumours which have existed fur some weeks past, there is, we believe, now no doubt but this venerable and excellent Judge retires at the close of the present term ; and that though he is nominally appointed to the Western Circuit, its duties will be performed by his successor. Who that successor will be is not at present the least known. Among those named are, Sir William Horne, Mr. Coltman, K.C., Mr. Evans, and Mr. Starkey. The Attorney-General, it is said, has no wish for the ap pointment. The late regretted Lady Lyndhurst was for many years distinguished in the circles of ton for her eminent personal charms and fascinating manners. Her Ladyship's splendid soirees at the mansion in George street, Hanover-square, during the brief chancellorship of her noble husband, were attended by the elite of the beau monde. After the change of administration Lord and Lady Lyndhurst removed to a smaller residence on Hyde Park-terrace. Her Ladyship has left three daughters of tender years to lament her premature decease, namely, the Fi nn . Strait Elizabeth Copley, born the 16th of March, 1821 ; the Hon. Susan Penelope, born the 23d of July, 1822 : and another daughter, born the 15th of April, 1828. Her Ladyship, as the widow of Colonel Thomas, had the usual Government pension. JUNIUS.—It is now said that the secret of Junius rests with Lord Nugent ! 'Who next? It would seem as if St. Swithin had this season transferred the annual period of his reign (rain) from Midsummer to Christmas. The trade of Paisley still continues in a flourishing state, and rather to improve than otherwise, work continues abundant, for all classes of weavers, and for tradesmen of every other description. In weaving of covered work in particular, prices have improved conli. derably of late. Trimming weavers are very much in demand at present, and engagements at this description of work, are readily procured at 2s. per cover for sixteen hundreds, and the other numbers in proportion, being an advance of about 30 per cent. above the table price, and a higher rate than has been paid for several years past. Women's work is also plentiful and as well paid as it has been far some years past, and we have beard of the novel circumstance of the sewers in one warehouse having struck work within the last two days for an advance of prices.— Edinburgh Evening Courant, COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF GOLDSMITH, A LUNATIC. Mr. BLUNT stated that he had obtained an order of reference to the Master upon various matters in this lunacy, one of which contained an inquiry as to what debts were owing by the lunatic. It turned out that the lunatic owed nothing, and therefore the parties engaged in prosecuting the inquiry were desirous of having this part of the reference expunged, with a view to save unnecessary expense. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked how it appeared there were no debts, and if the lunatic's property was small ? Mr. BLUNT said, it only appeared, by the statement of the parties acquainted with the lunatic's affairs, that there were no debts, and that the property was very considerable. The LORD CHANCELLOR refused the application. He was of opinion, that, under the circumstances, the safe way of proceed ing would be to adhere to the regular practice. KEPPEI.L V. BAILEY. Mr. LYNCH commenced his argument for the defence in this motion, which was not concluded yesterday. KING V. lIAMLET. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that at the rising of 'e Court he should give judgment in this case. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ARMSTRONG V. ♦RMSTRONG. Mr. TINNEY appeared in this case for the plaintiff, and the bill was filed by the representatives of Mr. Samuel Warner, for the purpose of having it declared by the decree of the Court, that under the effect of a deed which bore date 1810, he was to be considered a partner in a pawnbroker's establish ment, carried on by the late' Robert Armstrong, and that the usual accounts might be taken. The arrangement on which the question of partnership depended, and which was made between Armstrong and Warner, provided that the latter should on advancing 2,000/. receive at the rate of 101. per cent. on that and all other sums he might contribute to the concern. It was alleged that he had made various further advances, amounting altogether to 4,300/. Shortly before his death, Mr. Armstrong executed a trust deed, by which he settled all his pro perty and stock in trade for his own absolute benefit during his life and after his decease to his widow and children ; the trustees however, never accepted the trusts, and the widow, after her husband's death, took out administration with that instru ment, as a will annexed. The children filed their bill against their mother for the purpose of having the accounts taken, and their legacies paid ; and Mr. Warner, in a cross bill, in sisted on his rights as a partner in the concern. At the original hearing considerable doubts were entertained as to the reality and validity of the partnership alleged to have subsisted. It was insisted that the arrangement which had been entered into was not intended at all to constitute Warner a partner, but merely to protect him against the consequences of loans on which he was to receive interest at a usurious rate. The other ground on which the claim was resisted, was, that it was contrary to the several Acts which from time to time had been passed for the regulation of the business of pawnbrokers, in which it was provided that there should be no secret partnerships, and as Mr. Warner's name never appeared over the door, or in the certificates or memo randa used in the business which the policy of the law and the provisions of the different states required of partners in pawnbroking establishments, such a dormant partnership, if it had been contracted for by the deed or had ever existed, was altogether in contravention of the law, and inconsistent with the protection of the public interests. His Honour, consider ing it a matter of nicety and considerable doubt, directed an issue for the purpose of trying the legality of the alleged partnership, which was tried before Lord Lyndhurst, and the jury found in favour of Warner's claim. A bill of exceptions was then ten dered, but in the Court of Error the plaintiff was again success ful. The cause now came on upon farther directions ; and the whole history of the case will again be gone into. It is likely to last during the whole day. VICE CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) INJUNCTION-SANDERS V. ARGENT. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN applied this morning ex-parte for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from the calling in; the sum of 7901., selling the mortgaged premises, pro ceeding with an action of ejectment, or instituting any other proceedings. The plaintiffs were the widow and infant chi!_ dren of a gentleman named Saunders, and the defendant was one of the trustees of a sum of 7901., which was secured upon mortgage, and given by the testator to the defendant and ano ther gentleman in trust for the use of his widow, with remainder to his children. The defendant had given notice of his intention to sell the mortgaged premises on the 24th of the present month, and it was sworn by one of the parties, that he had pledged the mortgage deeds for his own private debt; in addition to which the solicitor to the mortgagee swore, that the money had been tendered to the defendant if he would produce the deeds, but he could not do so. His HONOUR immediately granted the injunction. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE EARL OF DURHAM V. THE NEWCASTLE JOURNAL. Last term a rule nisi was obtained in the above case, for a libel which charged the Noble Earl with threatening to sweep the village of Philadelphia from the face of the earth. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now moved that it be made ab solute. Mr. PLATT showed cause. He commenced by reading the affidavits upon which the rule nisi was obtained, and also the libel. He then read a letter from Lord Durham to his solicitor, directing him to institute these proceedings, and also a state. ment from the journal in question, expressing the regret of the Editor that such a statement as the one complained of had in advertently found its way into his paper, and accounted for it by saying that reports to such an effect were in general circulation at Chester relative to the village of Watton in place of Philadelphia, and concluded by expressing the wish of the Editor at all times to exclude from his paper all matters that were not based upon truth. The Learned Counsel then said that the first intimation the defendant had of the want of truth in the alleged libel was from a letter published in a rival newspaper, written by the Noble plaintiff to his Solicitor, denying the truth of the libel, and directing him to institute proceedings against the defendant. The moment the defendant saw that letter he made all amends in his power, by at once publishing the state ment he had already alluded to, and under those circum stances he would contend that there was nothing that called for the interference of the Court by way ofcriminal information. The rank of the Noble Earl did not entitle him to claim such in terference, instead of going before a Grand Jury. After the explanation given by the defendant, he had hoped that the rule would never have been moved for, and even now he hoped that the Solicitor-General would consent to its being discharged upon payment of costs, as in his opinion that would be sufficient punishment for the defendant. The defend ant in his affidavits denied having ever published in his paper any thing respecting the domestic conduct of the Noble Earl. His remarks had been confined entirely to his poll_ tical character, upon which he had a right to comment. He (Mr. P.) again asked would the Solicitor. General consent to his proposition. (The Solicitor-General took no notice of this offer.) His Learnel Friend " made no sign." Was he to appre hend from that that his offer was not assented to ? If so, he must make some remarks upon the alleged libel itself. It commenced with the words " The Liberal Earl of Durham," and spoke of him throughout in that character. Was it a libel to call him a liberal? In the new comedy of The Wedding Gown, a housemaid, speaking of patriots, said they were all a set of seedy fellows, and they were so, sure enough, for patriotism was now going out of fashion. All that had been said of the Noble Earl was in his character of a Liberal—surely he was not already ashamed of that character—a character that he had professed in public and advanced in private—or did he mean that his liberality extended merely to the protection of himself? The question after all was what constituted a libel ? It was not everything that might chance to give a man offence that was to be called a libel. Was it a libel to say that a man threatened to pull down his own property, or " to sweep it from the face of the earth." There was nothing in the libel addressed to the pitmen calculated to disturb public peace, or anything that had such a tendency ; it did not excite persons to any breach of the law, and he would contend that there was no thing in it that could be construed into a libel, and he therefore called upon their Lordships to discharge the rule. The SOLICITORAIENERAL said the Noble Earl would be wanting in the duty he owed to himself if he did not call upon their Lordships to make this rule absolute. The Court interrupted the Learned Gentleman, and said that the alleged explanation was a mere re.as,ertion of the libel. It says "that inasmuch as the Noble Earl denies the story we are bound to believe the truth of his statement." This was an inference that the defendant still believed the truth of the charge. The rule must therefore be made absolute. COURT OF EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY.) A soap-maker, named George Dommit, appeared in Court, at its sitting, to plead to an information filed against him by the Attorney-General for penalties alleged to have been incurred by him in the conduct of his business. The information was read by one of the side clerks. It contained twenty-seven counts, and took upwards of an hour in the reading. The penalties sought to be recovered amounted to upwards of 10,0001. The defenda nt p leaded (in person) Not Guilty, which plea was recorded by order of the Court. BEST V. GOMPERTZ. Mr. JOHN JARVIS moved that the defendant in this case, who was brought up by habeas corpus from the King's Bench Prison, be charged in execution. Mr. HUNIPIIRIES, for the defendant, objected to it on the ground that a writ of error had been allowed, and that the same defendant had been brought up under similar cir cumstances only last week, when he was only remanded to the same custody. He trusted that the same course would be pursued then. Mr. JARVIS said he had an affidavit that would set that matter to rights. It was sworn that the judgment was upon a cognovit in which the defendant had bound himself not to bring any writ of error, nor to take any one step for the purpose of delay. It was clear such was the object here, and the cases had l a id i t down over and over again that er ror obtained in such a man ner as against good faith would not act as a super se d eas. The matter stood over for a s hort time in order to afford Mr. Humphrey time to make inquiries and to give him an oppor tunity to answer the p l a i n tiff's affidavit ; but he n o t b e i ng a bl e to do so, the defendant was ultimately handed over to the care of the Warden of the Fleet in execution of 3,000/. upon a number of actions. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) BELciica V. PRETTER. At the sitting of the Court this morning, the arguments of Counsel on the motion for a new trial of this cause wer e resumed, and were proceeding at the time of our go i ng to press. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice GASELEE and a Middlesex Jury. VENAFRA V. JOHNSON. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for a malicious prosecution. The facts of the case were fully lai d before the public on the occasion of a former trial of the cause , when the plaintiff was nonsuited. The second trial was Pr ° ceeding when our reporter left. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wind moderate.—The outward bound sailed this morning with a light breeze from W.S.W., but nearly all have put back. Arrived from the river and- remain the Underwood, Wood, for Demerara ; Hampton, Wilson, (of Tobago; William Manning, —, for St. Kitts ; and the Philadelphia, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind W.N.W,—Arrived -the Andromeda, Gales, from Batavia—sailed the 9th August , Cape the 12th Nov., and St. Helena the 2Sth, leaky, and part of her cargo thrown over board. Off port the Kenphauser, Right from Batavia—sailed the 12th Oct., Cape the 24th. Nov. FALMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind W.S.W., light breezes. STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Vulture, Grills , from Denia. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 19.—Arrived the New Orleans, Patter from New Orleans ; Birmingham, Patterson, from New York; William Reir, Kellich, from Odessa; and Tom Tough, Wi l " liamson, from Charente. GREENOCK, JAN. la—Arrived the Samuel, Ben, from Mar seilles. BANTRY BAY, JAN. 19. Arrived the Allen, Yeoman, from Porto Cabello—part of the cargo thrown overboard. DUBLIN, JAN. I9.—Arrived the Comet, Robins, from Seville• CORK, JAN. 1 8. — Arrived the Boreas, Baggage, from Nevi Orleans; Antelope, Dalrymple, from Pernambuco; Julia, Taylor, from Newfoundland ; and James, Cook, from Cadiz. WEXFORD, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Nonpariel, Williams , from St. John's, New Brunswick. DROGHEDA, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Two Sisters, Strangue , from Lisbon. STROMNESS, JAN. 19.—Arrived the Margaret Hudson,•John ston; Nathanial Graham, Weatherburn ; Robert Scomfoldi Cloak; Globe, Mill; and Pambrook Castle, Stanbury, from St. Petersburgh. The Jane and Mary, Reynolds, of Truro, was wrecked on the Skerrie, 15th inst.—crew drowned. The King's Fisher, Brown, of Padstow, was on shore at New Quay, 18th inst. The United Kingdom, from Galway to London, was a t anchor in Malbay, 17th inst.—abandoned by the crew. The Harriet, Sillis, from Newcastle, was on shore near Wells, yesterday. The Mary Ann, Walter, of Bideford, was driven on shore near Plymouth, 16th inst.—crew saved. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY M A RKETS.—( At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Fine Upland Meadow Hay 2s. per load higher than List quoted . ; prices otherwise stationary. Supply moderate, and trade rather ' brisk. 1 Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow H a y 3 New Meadow Hay O4 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay Oat Straw £1 BtoXI 10 1 Wheat Straw ...44 6 : 1 1 5 0 3 0 0. fr 5 00 t o . 1 13 SMITHFIELD. 44 1: 4 Supply limited, trade dull, and prices stationary. 5 Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 2 Useful Old Ditto - 3 5 3 1 ' . _ _ Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... 4 4 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 0 ..Generally 3 10 4 15 oat Straw ....El 4to £1 6 1 Wheat Straw.... 1 8 1 10 HAMBURG MARKETS. BORSEN HALLE, JAN. 14.—HALF-PAST TWO, P. 31.-"". The prices of funds were lower to-day than yesterday , owing to the arrival of lower quotations from almost every foreign money-market. Russian Bonds were yes terday done at 92, and Austrian and Bank Shares at 1,247. " Discount 3 per Cent. End of January Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent. 7O Anglo-Russian _ 98,4 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 ......— Ditto, ditto, 1831 91% ;;' Ditto, ditto, 1832. 91% Certificates 92% 9• Polish Bonds 125% 1, Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1228 Ditto Metalliques 9sg Ditto 4 per Cent. 8.5% Spanish 3 per Cents. Ditto 4 per Cent 44% • Dutch 2% per Cents. 48% Ditto 5 per Cents 92% - -Hamburg Reporter. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, JAN. 13 St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent 974 96% Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent 103% 103 Ditto 1822, 5 per cent.... 103% 103 Ditto, Bonds lB3O, 4 per cent.... 91% 91% j —Prussian State Gazette. Jan. 14. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 14.-13 7% ; two months, 13 5%. .. STOCKHOLM., JAN 7.—Two months, 13 14. CHRISTIANIA, JAN. 4.—Three months, 5 76. BERLIN, JAN. 11.—Three months, 6 24. ; BREMEN, JAN. 10.—Two months, 604 605. •c We are informed that there are now 400 horses at Portsmouth, waiting for a fair wind for Portugal: they appear to be of the best description of English cavalrY horse. They are furnished by the Messrs. Elmore, who have contracted to supply a still larger number. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF RESTITUTION' —Yesterday a brown paper parcel was left at a house i 0 Mealcheapen-street, in this city, directed to the " EV" cutrix of the late Mrs. Elcox." On being opened, it was found to contain a new silver watch worth ten or twelve guineas, accompanied by a note of which the following to a copy About 1798 the writer removed from the house of Mrs. Elcox a watch in a tortoise-shell case. With sincere repentance the writer requests the relatives of the deceased to accept the enclosed, and prays for their for.. giveness and the mercy of God. Please to acknowledg e , the receipt immediately in Berrow's Worcester Journal.' —The family of Mrs. Elcox have not the slightest suspi° cion as to the individual who wrote this note, but 60' recollect that a watch was lost about the period named..." Worcester Journal. DEATH BY BURNING.—CLIMBING Boys. —Last week,. one of those melancholy cases occurred which have been unfortunately too common in the history of chimney. sweeping. A little boy had ascended a chim ney, while the fire was not removed from the grate belovir but merely covered with a girdle, which it was supposed , would be a sufficient protection to the poor child. The soot fell down in great quantities on the girdle, and in s little time it ignited. In spite of every effort, the blaze communicated to the chimney, which was soon in one mass of burning flame, whilst the poor child was pent uP in the midst of it. After a considerable time, he succeeded in getting down, but when he did so he was in a frightful condition,—the flesh being literally roasted on his bones thetho u h g a h sp h i e t a w s h s e t i r l lel he vi e og He w remained. aa a n sp le s t e i e m d e ily in co conveyed ve s y ta er t l e to f excruciating ag ony. —Belfast Newsletter. AWFUL INSTANCE OF MORTALITY.—Th e solemn proverb " in the midst of life we are in deaths" was never more forcibly exemplified than in an instance we are now about to mention. On Saturday last, Mr. John Boothby, a respectable farmer of Fox Bank, Sutton, was in the market here, transacting some business with Mr. Cheetham, butcher, and from thence they adjourned to the Punch Bowl public-house, to get some refreshment. They sat down to some beef steaks, and the moment Mr. Boothby put the first piece into his mouth, he was ob served to appear as if he were choked. On being struck on the back, the beef fell from his mouth, but all con sciousness seemed to be gone from him. In a few minutes Mr. Ainsworth, surgeon, was on the spot, and attempted the Guildhall , t but A no c e ci ff r u o s n i e n fioallgouweesdt, was se held being at co Guildhall on the Monday, when a verdict was returned that the deceased died in a fit of apoplexy. He was, are understand, upwards of 70 years of age.—Macclesfield Herald. CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Monday last, John Parker, jun., of Long Preston, aged 24, was corm. roit.ed by the Magistrates at Gargrave to York Castle, charged with the wilful murder of Jane Airton, a young woman who, it appears, was with child by him. The case is involved in considerable mystery, and it might be unfair to the prisoner now to enter into a detail of the circumstances which induced the Magistrates to commit him. The young woman had been servant with Mr. Preston, of Aleer Beck, near Long Preston, and left his •ervice in consequence of her pregnancy, on Saturday morning, the 21st of December, intending to visit bet friends near Gisburn. Her way lay through Wiggles worth, in which township, in a very small stream of water, not far from the highway, in a secluded spat ; bet body was found on the 26th of December. On the fol lowing day a Coroner's inquest was holde- .Afore Mr. Brown, when no marks of violence appearing upon the b uly, or other cause to excite suspicion, a verdict of " Found Drowned" was returned. Since the irquest suspicions have arisen, and the body has been disinterred :and —na op tze egeidr e si n e hi d, from w has st eirijegae ndcee h srt i . c r a h y i e t d hyat appearshe other clear that bands th the u than hern 100;1: El