The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

er , "'Prig, that as he was aware fro m experi ,Tee of the caution necessary in the matter, "le most implicit confidence might be reposed in the "'ter of this letter, though he was entirely unknown to hi m• General Robertson took no notice of this el) and laid it aside. On the 12th of August, , 1 : 842 , Mrs. R o b ertson, w if e of General Robertson, 'ceived another letter, and addressed to his resi dence, el le; 53, Baker-street. It was dated from the post office, South ampton. The writer stated that he was hi ac q uai nted with many gen tl emen o f e d uca ti on and gh standing in society, who were desirous of ob taining commissions in the East India Company's service, and that having the confidence of many of the Board Directors , he had the honour of making aPplication in favour of those gentlemen. The .etter also stated, that if Mrs. Robertson exerted her Influence the writer would cause a sum of 2,0001. a 3;ear to be given to her banker, one quarter in ad ice. He concluded by saying that he was a pro- Prietor of India stock, and that the utmost reliance t night b e his honour and integrity, placed in of e second letter was signed K. C.B. Applications a similar description in the same hand-writing were made to the wives of two or three oth er 1/irectors. All these letters were in the hand tlA'riting of Mr. Sh arpne l. Th e statute un d er w hi c h t ,e ( e the Attorney-General) made the application wa s 49th Geo. HI., chap. 126, which enacted that Personbargainin g f or or se lli ng an y o ffi c i a l com i;8"311, &c., as d escr ib e d i n t h e 6t h of E dward VI. , , lb, should b e d eeme d an d a dj u d ge d gu il ty of a pa l,sdern eanour. When not on ly one b u t severa l r s of this d escr i p ti on were wr i t t en to diff erent th e it was f u ll ti me t o as k f or t h e i nterpos i t i on o f Court in the matter.—Rule granted. B ANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) IN RE HENRY S. COLES. The baikrupt, had been a bill broker in Finsbury scent, and he amount of debts and liabilities was r ated to exceed 60,000/. His available assets would scar ce ] 0 Y pay one shilling in the pound. att . n the last day of examination, a proof which was o e i Plited to be established upon a bill, drawn by th e Z e IY Cassidy, was adjourned, in order to allow • li nider to establish the. fact of its being for con slderation. pt West now proved, by the evidence of the ac besicr, that he had paid Cassidy47o/. in ready money, e es giving him a phaeton and pair of horses. at tio j n e jal proofs were admitted without opposition, h further the aggregate to about 13,0001., after e th hearing was adjourned for a month. POLIcE INT EL LIG ENCL. M ARYLEBONE—(THIS DAY). noon our youn _ g lads, named Wm. Restall, Wm. Bay bete; j i ," 4 Welsh, and Daniel Hogan, were placed police_ 4 r. Long on suspicion of burglary. ahetitleTe,-constable 89 D saw the prisoners skulking even. -"-dgware-road at half-past twelve yesterday foll o in g , and seeing that they wished to avoid him he s t , pd at a distance through Lisson-grove, and up the, nhlfs-woodfroad ; there he stopped them, and as 8n late e ntddi eno sate acty . ki v • . vWait44Witle'dtit; searo,; li t e took them ; to the station-h ouse . Wh en Nver re all e, d, sever a l i mp l ements use d f or h ouse- b reak i ng eun d upon the m . R es t a ll, B a y nam , an d H ogan °I th e h fl own to the police as associating with thieves Jo °oat de s p erate c h aracter. , lae e b s ?P l i Hutton said, that while in a public-house in treaLi s mews, he heard the prisoners planning the some n g into some house, and speaking of borrowing v,h o f chisels for the purpose ; he informed a friend, but i'llowed them for a little way down the mews, mturterwards returned. teth e . „ . „ 4 scr discharged Welsh, as he was unknown teeti o "'ice, but sent the others to the House of Cor n for one month each. ,CI4R KENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) ehit-aniuel Dyer, a famished looking tradesman, was 11 1 , 1 4 ed with selling lucifer-matches by William T h.. ") a . mendicity constab . le. Ivl lern e Prisoner's wife and six children, the, eldest of tald W a'S Only nine years of age, came into Court,. st ar tote shocked the Court and spectators, by their Ttied, sickly look. p r i s ' l e offence stated by the constable . was that the kn ° ll ll s e .„.. r „h, ad been found selling lucifer-matches . in e veai n " le x - square, at seven o ' clock on the previous ta g . , , g• Ile actually heard him say to persons pass litrn ‘IIII Y a box, I am a very poor man and very he r, a 3 :,''' „Three of his children were by his side. til e ', l ' l t onty one or two boxes , of matches . Witness 11 1 ) fni. t i i i i k to the station - house, where he was locked k r ..,,, 0 night. 11 )g , ; kiosinE said he had never seen a more distress p(4,:ae. Why ;(said. the worthy Magistrates) these 1 little hett.Children seem to be in a state of . starvatioll : %ti e , „saw such misery. I will not punish the pri P r - i: 11 ° 11 gb the law makes his act an offence. qtai,,, - • °° er---I am a gas-fitter, and have struggled to The w° t l c, but could not get it. fro t , : Wife ---Oh, ypur Worship, I never begged lb ' -113 ' ° ne poor as I am ; I would rather starve 1 1 1 / . l* AC* liave pity on our poor little children. t)11. ' l 'l' llll E—l tell you I am not going to punish coggiri ."'" constable says the prisoner was never seen - ng befor e ; but the children will perish iftheyparish allt17„ 111 : e in the same state. I will send for tbepar an h d t l s . a oo l l i ti es, and have you all taken . good care of; . sg e in as the prisoner has a fair prospect of earning ...e a ,-, he shall be • lf and ou, 4 tlib e .. 8 of supporting himse Y Yoa . r tY to leave the workhouse, and do his best for UN ,y .............., .' (3-.4:1 Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. i The CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. '%l,„aCeeartits from Liverpool state that there . has ef the -tor e a Brit d isposition to sell Cotton since the arrival he -uritannia_, but that prices have not gone lower. Iti el. qua Which changed hands was 4,000 bales.— d(ale.allwaY Shares there was only a small business B3; 13 iii Eastern Counties were 81; Birmingham, Th i e t" ' 35- i ; and Great Western New, 59k. (.%‘ a „„ - vel. quick passage of her Majesty's packet that ~,-'I from Rio de Janeiro, furnishes advices from 431. trace as late as the 13th October, from Buenos onte 1 id co s o nf the 16th of September, and from 11 is gat ed f . the 17th of September. From all that b th e I t i& much to be feared that the contest e the st i j„ l Y is as and the Oriental republic will end in aim of 1)118'stion of the latter, though, perhaps, if h ( 1 1 1en c . "; °s as be simply to displace Rivera, the co . n- INN 14 ' s roay not be very serious, Rivera having -4Yrea,,'sas good cause for offence. The Buenos ° Pnh; Gth°vernmentl has done at least some good by I 'alni e . 4 . e navigation of the Parana and the coin- A tini anon t had wit Uruguay, finding, probably, that our Places." set off in another direction for this latter eial i ii i , l nd being jealous also of the growing commer- The Portance of Monte Video. ti The v f°ll ° wing is a statement of the number of 13r . i the vessels that entered the port of Monte Video in pn rt 3 : l e ars 1830 and 1841, and which shows the im the 11 „ a „ e ?,° 1 ' our trade with that Republic :—ln 1830 1s n, "er was 41 ships, with 7,480 tonnage and 425 34,6...whi1e they had increased in 1841 to 159 ships, 43,ng, and 1,788 men. hit 4d utner in return proves the relative rr.iag liv „ e .of the trade of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, ViT e '``lng the number of merchant vessels. In Monte at NO there were 112, of which 24 were British, and .1; enos .Ayres 45, 10 bein British. Ilateliehseliterns are sufficient to show the interest we It in the disputes of the two Republics. ,illit „, v aS thought the corn trade had settled down, °ere are sorry al a i a to hear of two other failures, both I nenti cs , ,t Amsterdam, in addition to those which we i In th%eY.Qsterday as having occurred at '.ll , on iti ! d on a ted st 3,,cllnts received yesterday from Canada, win Ll 'at the settlement of the Boundary Ques- Illeat:'''.loPen 11 a most splendid country for settl r e e - P ah 'etv i . -11 tbe valley of Aroostook alone, thenrde ca ahl," pwnships of - six square miles each, a tin g a tile ' -i° ;e: 11 5 1113(31. population of 100,000 souls.. i . c i iti ee, a distance John is navigable by boatsup to its eat, ,tance of 360 miles from its mouth..A v . , enterpris Qltlit , i e and capital, as the country in the those few qqrt,),..'"ee°lnes Populous, will overcome . s nd it Pais for the peopl e of this part of the province, l a. ,3,,i.sialar, to set about laying the foundation o u t. thr:ll,lfitercourse which - otherwise may be diverted Thksen sorne other channel. 'ew er exchange from Hamburgh comes over + mark il \)* V i l i f . t 13 7 .1 ; and the price of gold 4311. ie au t ' v e an unfavourable report of the prospects of tT he Inan fair at Frankfort on the Oder. og ." orals have shown great firmness this morning. 1 ° , 1 4 for thr, " M oney and A ccount h ave both been sold Pas 4 The Commission ers f or t h e Savings' Bks, lt , si ° this their brok an ers, made a f ur th er sma ll T hre e atn nuat morning. Altogether a considerable of business has been transacted. Reduced atid„4..Aer Cents. have reached 93 • Reduced Three all* a lf Per Cants. 1004 ; the ' New Three-and liailk Stock Cents. 101 i, and Long Annuities 12 7-16. Ac e , t uck has fallen to 169, but India Stock for the l iill s 11 . 14 Is vbas reached 2611. The value of Exchequer for I to , '.. t .„her lower, the premium now being 55, and The,r,a 'Bonds 51 53 premium. xh _ have n ir l . t i l , i e, ; ore has been a .good deal of business transacted Securities to-dav, especially in . Spanish, , T he en s have reached 19. The price' now is 184 i. „ l' ettlipt l , is h . hre per-Cents. have risen to 231. The -Chr ee 7 "e -trve-per-Cents. may be had at 38.1, the i t Skives,. Per-Cents. at 22 1; Dutch Five-per-Cents. 5 . 2 8 , at I°l ll - ; and Belgian, at 1021. Mexican i i , ari has been pretty steady at 321 to 331. Colom- Phe at i ?i i ,i, and Brazilian at 65. heen -4 'nuon and Birmingham Railway Shares have share, 7;equest, and the premium has reached 95 per eentl . i ei g• a much higher price than has been re in r.Z_°utained. The Brighton, too, has been to-day v rather better demand. South Western was a shade to '‘,e,r .than they were, and the same remark will apply 44(1/16r.market for the Great Western, the Edinburgh las gPvv, the Midland Counties and the North • Midland Shares. Joint Stock Bank Shares were very steady. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — to - Ditto New Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London am Brighton London and Birmingham ...... ... 90 lB5 ...... to ' London and South Western ... 41% ••• 1 Midland Counties 100 • 6.14 ..... to Ditto I Shares North Midland ... ...100 Ditto 4 Shares Paris and Rouen ... .... . ...... 20 South Eastern and Dover... Ditto Scrip... ......... ... MANCHESTEIL STOCK EXCHANGE, NOY. 17. There is no new feature in our Market to-day, busi ness still continues limited, and prices generally are unaltered. South Eastern Scrip, I7i to 17i ; Man chester and Birmingham, 19i to 19$; North Mid land Halves, 30 to 302 ; Manchester and Leeds, 681 to 691 ; !Edinburgh a n d Gl asgow Q uar t er Shares, Lli to 4k; Manchester Assurance, 9. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Wheat up to our market this week being on the increase, and there being seve ral parcels in bulk offering which remained over from Monday last, the demand for that article was again heavy, and the prices were quite is per quarter lower than last noted, and yet a clearance was not effected. Rather over 6,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come in, while the inquiry for both home and bonded sorts, was heavy, and the rates had a downward tendency. Although we had nearly 10,000 quarters of barley on offer, the best kinds commanded full as much money ; but other qualities were neglected. Malt, oats, beans, peas, and flour were unaltered in value. SMITHFIELD. In to-day's market we had a comparatively scanty number of beasts offering, but the whole of them, with the exception of about five, which cam© to hand last week from Hamburgh, were English fed. The attendance of buyers being numerous, the beef trade was firm, at in some instances, improved quotations, say 2d. per lb. The n u mb er of Sheep was scanty, which produced a ready sale for them at full rates of cur rency. In Calves a fair amount of business was done at a rise of quite 2d per 81bs. The Pork trade was steady, at fully Monday's figures, As to the general quality of the supply, this was very inferior. Milch Cows moved off slowly, at from 151 to 191 each, in cluding their small Calf. PRICES PICK STONE OF BLB., TO SINK THE OFFAL. s. d. to s. d. r. el. tae. d. inferior Beasts .. ."" 3 0 3 2 Inferior Sheep ... . .. 3 0 3 2 Second quality Beasts 3 4 6 Second quality ditto... 3 4 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Coarso-woolled ditto.. 8 8 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 2 4 4 Sonehdown Wethers 4 2 4 6 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 2 Latge Hogs 2lO 4 4 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4, Small Porkers 4 6 *4 8 Suckling Calves, each 18 029 Quarter old Pigs, each 16 u 20 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Eeasts. Sheep. I Calves. I Pies. I 420 3,050 212 483 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Qur market, to,day, Was liberally sUmilibtd`:With meat, while the demand was firm, at the following prices : At per stone, by the C. r.al e s. d. to s d i s d to s Beef, inferior OlO 3 0 , Mutton, inferior 3 0 3 2 - middling...... r. 3 0 321 - middling 3 4 3 8 - prime large „.... 3 2 3 4 - prime 3lO 4 0 - prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large 3 6 4 0 Veal 3 2 4 2 -small 4 2 4 6 BOROUGH. Although we have not to say a large supply of hops pressing on the markets, we have still to report a very heavy inquiry for them, at barely previous quotations. The duty which will, no doubt, be announced next week, is again called 160,0001. East Kent in'pockets, 51 10s to 6/ 8s; Mid Kents, ditto, 5/5s to 61; Sussex, 41 lOs to 51 8s; Parnhams, 8/ to 101; Old Hops, 3/ to 4/ 10s. THE SUN, LONDON; FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1842. del, and it was subsequently bestowed on the " Good Duke Humphrey." Hen. VI. Ann. 25. Lord Say of Seale, who unhap pily was beheaded by Jack Cade. Edward IV., Ann. I. The famous Earl of Warwick ; after whom, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, subse quently Richard Henry VII., Ann. 8. Henry, Duke of York, the King's second son, afterwards Henry VIII. Henry VIII. Thet Duke of Richmond, natural son of King Henry VIII. Charles I. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. For some time after this reign, the officer of the army that commanded the Castle, acted without patent as Lord Warden ; the patent, however, was again resumed, and has been at times as honourably filled since, as it was in its early periods. The nature of the Lord Warden's office, as regarded particulars, appears to be in exercising the jurisdic tion of a Sheriff ovor all the ports and members, in the execution of writs and custody of debtors. The Admiralty jurisdiction in the Lord Warden's hands is expressly reserved in that clause of the Municipal. Reform Act which abolishes chartered Admiralty jurisdictions in general. A branch of thin jurisdic tion appears in the Court of Lodemanage, so called from the Old English word Lodeman, a lead-man or steerer, which is held for the licensing and regulating of pilots, by the Lord Warden and a number of Com missioners. The Lord Warden seems anciently to have held a Court of Chancery in one of the churches at Dover, but it has long been obsolete. At present the efficient authority, charge, or pa tronage of the Lord Warden is not very great. The honourableness of the situation, however, makes it paramount to all minor considerations, the salary it self not being more than 3 ,oool.—(Macculloch's Dict. Commerce.) The Barons of the Cinque Ports, who form part of the Court and State attendant on the Lord Warden, have, time out of mind, had the honour to carry the canopy over the King and Queen at their coronation, and dine with them the same day. Their service is thus stated in an old document :—" To bear the silk cloths, sustained by four staves silvered over, with little silver bells gilded, over the King and Queen, on the day of their coronation ; and after the service per formed, to receive and have the same cloths, with their appurtenances, as accustomed fees. And also to sit at the principal table at the right side of the hall." The Barons of the Cinque Ports numbered 32, and in the grandeur of theprocession and cerefilon,y, formedno small part. The derivation of the names of the different Cinque Port towns over which the Warden exercises juris diction, has been settled by antiquarians and etymolo gists thus:— WINCED:MBA, written also Winchilsey, is said to signify Wind-cold-sea (dell, an old word, yet in use for cold), according to the Latin word Frigo-mare ventus, for which now its modern name is used. " Well," sayt an old writer, " might the ancient town deserve that name, standing, as it does, in a low plain, open both to the winds and the sea." RYE, or Rhie, written in Latin Ria or Rhia. Some concluele t. tpbei:t4, called , froth it that coin. Others, that it is 'named from the rivulet FOLKESTONE, famed in times of Popery for its monastery, long since swallowed up by the sea, with its five other parish churches. It was in former times so well traded and peopled, that it acquired the name of the People's-town, or Folks-town. ROMNEY.—Some consider this to mean the high way or port to Rome, reckoning from Canterbury, the head kingdom of Kent, in which time there was great posting thither. Parkinson, however, says that here the Romans found quantities of the Roman nettle, indigenous to the soil nn their first landing, and thence named the land Romania, corrupted into Romney. HYTHE.—This in the Saxon tongue signified a haven. DOVER.—In ,Latin Dovoria and. Dorobernia, in Saxon Dofra. All of which seem to be drawn from the British word Dufirha, high or steep, alluding to its cliffy aspect. SANDwicir.—ln the Saxon, Sand - vvic—that is to say the Sandy town or bank. King Canute gave to the haven of Sandwich, the royalty of the water on either side, so far as from a ship there stationed a man could cast a short hatchet out of the vessel into the bank, to Christ's Church in Canterbury. The Romans called it Sabulovicum. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THZ MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, TIIIIRSDAY EVENI NG . TIMES.—It appears by the New York p a p ers th a t a meeting of ship-builders was in contemplation at Boston, to take i n t o cons id era tion the depression that Complaints o f th e has occurred i n th e i r b us i ness ."' sort, and of the decline of commerce, are said to be very common in the New England States, and this decline is attributed to a variety of circumstances. Many of the gre a t f or t unes a t Boston having been made during the war,. in consequence of the immense carrying trade of the United States, a great portion of that trade was continued even after the proclama tion of petiee. But as there has now*been a peace for nearly 30 years, other countries have gradually ex tended- their ,merchant-marine, and the Americans find themselves no long e r p osse i se d o f a m ono p o ly : This is a state of things which some of the journal ists sa y cannot raise any ju s t cause of Complaint, however it may be lamented. If the • United States hold com mercial intercourse with any other. nation, it is natu ral to suppose that nation will do half the business ; and the complaints which are Made by the American shipowners would seem to have in view the absurd theory, that the United States will hold no intercourse with foreign nations unless all Owed the whole business of fetching and carrying. SUN.—Public Securities left off with a good appear ance this afternoon, and Consols both Bills realised both for More and and Time, were 94* to 944 ;Exchequer 56 to 68 premium, and I n di a Bonds a t 51 t o 53 premium. The other Stock underwent no alteration. In Spanish Bonds the improvement was maintained up to the close of business, the. Actives being marked Chilli 18*, and the Three per Cents. 22i. i. Mexican were done at 33 ; Colombian, 21-4- ; Chi 89 to 91, and Brazilian, 654. Portuguese CO nverte d b roug ht 324 ; Russian, 113, and Dutch New Fi ves, 9 9g. No animation was exhibited i n Sh ares , an d th e quotations were heavy, except f or Bi rm i ng h an i, which touched 9 3 * and 94 premi um. Croydon were 4-.} discount. In Brighton Railway there was scarcely abargain. Great Western were 18* premium. An- ' glo-Mexican Mint Shares were 2k premium. The large amount of 1,700,000 b roug ht by the Curacoa, fro m R io Jane i ro, i s ex pected dollars in bullion, to have a favourable effect upon the foreign ex changes here, as we can afford to send some of it abroad. BACKING OUT of a DIFFICULTY. We understand that mis apprehensions have existed n d against t f tra many vn n r i regarding rd u i_n g th e declaration' sub scribedj the Edi n b urg h an d persisted in running their trai ns y an the Lord's Day. i r i n l la t e h s ge min d s terms Glasgow g a ai Railway, o f tthe e declaration long a the. Railwa Company s were, that " the sub _, scr ibers would give a preference to other . modes of conveyance"---not that ink eas e however pressing and urgent, would they travel by the railway. This was the cnini tinterpretationmt Committee who unanimously put upon the clause fram e d it : and the di fficulties arising out of the misapp re h ens i on of the de b y the de claration having lately been represented to them, we understand that they have again e xp li c itly s t a t e d this to have been their meaning. Since the date of the declaration, several other modes o f conveyance have been withdrawn ; and in many instances the warmest friends of the Sabbath are left no .alternative but tra velling by the railway. We are s a ti s fi ed, however, that the scriptural opposition to the desecration of the Sabbath in the way referred to, will not be with drawn, but that by' all cOmpetent means it will be zealously prosecuted. Earnestly do we hope that the Directors and Shareholders will soon see it to be their duty, as well as their interest, to remedy the evil corn plained'of.—Scottish Guardian. . It required no gift of prophecy to foretell from the outset that this would be the upshot of the agitation against the Edinburgh Railway. The Non -Intrusion coaches, which were kept for months on the road, although scarcely any passengers travelled by , them, must have cost a tolerably comfortable sum to certain of the parties engaged in the struggle ; and, now that these vehicles have been abandoned, it would be not a little instructive could the public procure inforina tion regarding the expense of the frolic. We suspect that this will be kept concealed; but it must prove satisfactory to those who signed the declaration against railway travelling to learn, that they hav e now ob tained a dispensation from their spiritual superiors, and may henceforth make use of this sin f u l means of communication. It is well that a. loophole o f escape has been provided for tender consciences, and it is rumoured that, in' consequence of the 1! oan of the Kirk having been thus removed, the Directors of the Railway, by way of showing their gratitude to the clergy, propose to start a special train for the ap proaching Convocation, the sale of the tickets to be confined to the Kirk Sessions and the members of the Church Building Society. Further particulars man be learned on application to Mr. W—rn C—ns, or Mr. W--m C—m P—l; and travellers by the Greenock or Ayrshire Railways will obtain every information from the Rev. J-5 (3-- --n of K_____ v . —Glasgow Argus. delivered 1 y or's C our t, yesterda -- - by ERRATUM[—In Sir R A T u m James. the rTn judgment in t h the re e _ d e e l h i and reported in The Sun, for " Howard," read "Ha - yard: Company's Mail Pa T cl il ie e t arrived off i f g . a c tio h n ees C m o a rn n , G c e a n i e e r d a o l ni S a, te c a a m pta N in ari the Tower last evening, at 10 o'clock, with ' the Ham burgh Mail, having had a most splendid passage of forty-six hours only from liarnburgil. GREAT CHARTIST MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR. charged with conspiring and meeting on the I ;ail Of August, and creating certain rows, al riots on the lst.—(Laughter.) There was a good deal of art anddeceit i n this mode of prosecution. i t NlVvaanstneed the Income-taxcessaryforS f to irßobeorrt—Peelketoepshdoowwn those whatlie rascally ag buaboChao to frightenrtists—anti h th t as e landlords, hewould and reconcile kee p Ch art i sm as them to his new imposition. It was weii known that in attacking him (Mr. O'Connor), an attack was made upon the - Chartist body generally. • But the enormous expense of these prosecutions, some 380,0001., must fall upon the middle classes. There was always an increase of 30 per -cent. on the secret service money, whenever there were political prosecutions ; and when there was a general election the secret ser vice money was doubled. And what was tl e te-e Many of the Chartists had been convicted benere, and what was the consequence? They were beck at their work again. —(Cheers.) After commenting :mon the state of the law as regarded trial ley jury, 1111.. O'Connor said, that supposing the lec:et audi kind liest feeling prevailed generally throughout the country towards Chartism, still it WZI.S in the p:over of the Crown,to select theforty-eight jurors to try their political prisoners from among 'that part of a leiety which had not as yet thrown, off their old prejudices against such doctrines. The present struggle was for the advantages promised to the people by reform, and they ought to rejoice that the outbreak had taken place, because it showed that the people when ie power were incapable of cruell2, using it.— (Hear, hear.) The state of the disorder of the country arose from class legislation.—(Cheers.) They were likely soon to have a large addition to the ranks of Chartism—the shopkeepers were on the eve of bankruptcy, and, let the great Tamworth doctor patch it up as he might, he could not put down the Chartists' till he could get pure gold out of dirty poen— (Cheers.) The cotton lords, too, were all going to the dogs, and when they were engulphed in ruin, out of chaos light would come again.—(Cheers.) He would be the last man to bring about such ruin, but they were doing it for themselves.—(Cheers.) The 1 3 1-ess haddone all it could, but without avail, to put down the Chartists, and one paper, the Sunday Times, had saij• that they pandered to the worst of passions, and that every one of them, like the trumpeter, ought to be hung upon a tree. • ow with respect to that paper, he wouk say to all present, wherever you see it put it behind the fire, and do not leave the room till it is nothing but ashes.—(Cheers and lauglite.r.) He congratulated the Chartists that at last they had I got weapon for weapon.--(Cheers) They had got the Little Evening Star and the G real Northern Constellation.—(Great cheering.) The former was losing 801. a-week—(Hear)—but if it lost JON. or 200/., all the combined power of the Government or the Press should notputitdown, although the y had not a farthing of the money of the Duke of Buck ingliam, the Carlton Club, or the Corn-law League. Mr. O'Connor, after appealing to the meeting for contribu tions for the purposes named in the resolutions, ob served, that as far as he was personally concerned, his o* . n -expenses had rie'tter:--Oost ethe countrraaything, nor ha 4 heeVer'it6eeitkd'at'fartftirieqrotraadiving maw to defray them. The expenses of his prosecution had cost him about 2001., for he had had to carry his phy sician, his attorney, and his bondsman to Liverpool, and professional men did not travel for nothing. lle then congratulated the meeting on having Mr. Dun combe in the chair. They did not disregard rank and t t'e when placed upon honourable shoulders, and they del not honour Mr. Duncombe the less because he was not a working man, but the more, because, belonghor as he did to the higher orders of society, he had proved ° he could feel for the distresses and wrongs of the working man. After exhorting the meeting to form a firm union, he said he knew there were spies abroad drawn from different Classes of life, but if lie had health he would, in the course of ten days cr a fort night, show those new disputants who had lidely been in the habit of meeting them that they were humbugs, and that nothing but the Charter would achieve the regeneration of the people of England.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. FUSSELL proposed, and Mr. AVEsTtatToN se conded the next resolution, as follow, :—That while your petitioners readily admit that persons convicted on true and sufficient evidence before a just Judge and honest Jury, of any real crime connected with thee la mentable outbreaks referred to were deserving of pu nishment, they think that such punishment should have been awarded only in proportion to the wrongs proved to have been inflicted on society, and with a due regard to that mercy with which the administra tion of the law should have been tempered, especially under the peculiar circumstances." Colonel Tnomnsoaa who was received with loud Cheering, supported the resolution. What a shame it was, he said, that the law could not be administered in a way to carry with it the good opinion of the people. He feared he saw a recurrence to those crimes of the law which had disgraced a darker and bygone age. When they saw men who filled a situation in which they were bound to weigh crime as if they were above all the passions of humanity, land one of the scales of justice with angry passions, class inte rests, old prejudices, and evil feelings, he must say, that bad was the conditiOn of the people who were forced to depend upon such an administration of jus tice. Had they not seen the people ground down un der the abhorrent system of class legislation ?—(llear, hear.) Why a no class was fit to govern all other classes.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially supported flee resolution.—(Cheers.) The resolution was then carried by acclaination. Mr. CLEAVE then proposed the following resolution : —" That nearly three hundred families having, by the sentences passed during the late Special Commis sions, been deprived of their natural protectors, and reduced thereby to a condition which presents no other alternative than to seek refuge in union work houses, or to become houseless Ad destitute wan derers; and such enormous expenses having been entailed upon the individuals indicted, who have traversed their trials, as to demonstrate that justice (which should be freely dispensed), to be pro Cured, must be dearly purchased ; it therefore, now b:iloves the friends generally of humanity, apart from all re ference to individual, political, or other opinions, to testify their sympathy for the unfortunate families of the men already sentenced, and at the same time their desire to see justice secured in future, by establishing a General Defence and Support Fund." He exhorted the meeting to be liberal in their sub scriptions, from the amount of which both friends and foes would judge of the intensity of their feelings. Mr. JENKINS seconded the resolution. Mr. SPURR supported the resolution. If every person in that assembly would only give ld. each it would raise a large sum, and tend to alleviate great distress. He was not one who would break the law till nature forced him—(Great cheering)—but this he would say, it was better to obey the law of God than man.—(Cheers.) He was never a coward, neither had he ever attempted to commit suicide, but he thought he-should be doing so if lie was to allow himself to starve in the land of plenty.—(Clicers.) Many had proposed remedies for the people's dis tresses, but in his opinion there was no other than the People's Charter. It was cowardice, and that alone, that prevented them from obtaining the Charter.— (Cheers.) Englishmen at the present moment, the majority of the masses, were afraid to declare their sentiments even in their workshops, or. any where at all. If they were prepared to carry out their prin ciples as their fathers of old did, they would get their Charter.—(Cheers.) Let them when thrown into prison stop there, let them not spend their money in Peeing Counsel, or getting bail ; no, rather let them feel it to be an honour to know they were suffering in so glorious a cause. The resolution was declared by the Chairman to be carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then announced that 'Mr. Roberts, of Bath, who had generously given his gratituitous services in defending the prisoners at Statlael, would address the meeting. Mr. ROBERTS presented himself amidst great cheer ing, andassured cause tiner anything by that that his aiiu had o ccurred. He gloried in leaving shaken hands with Chartist W. Ellis, who he (Mr. Roberts) avowed was not guilty of the charge imputed to him. But the secret was that Mr. Ellis had, on a previous occasion, suc ceeded in ousting the aristocracy from the very hall in which he was tried, when they had met to move men Address of Condolence or Congratulation to our 11106 i gracious Queen—(Laughter)—or it might be Prime .Albert—at all events one of the Royal Family—and what did Ellis do ? He .simply moved au amend ment, to the effect that the people should be condoled with too.—(Hear, hear.) Ellis succeeded in ousting the Lord who sat in the chair, and in taking it him self.—(Cheers.) Why, it was admitted that Ellis was not guilty of the crime for which lee was tried. ()n the Saturday, at six o'clock, when the case for thee prosecution was closed, Chief Justice Tindal proposed that the Court should adjourn; Sir Wile Liam Follett requested t hat the defence shoul d he proceeded with, and that defence wa s , that .the pr i s oner was in bed at the time charged. Oh- but b e tween that time and Monday morning, time time was well employed, for people were brought up in chaises from places miles away to prove that the neer was not in bed at the time.— (Groans and 1' eases ) Mr. Roberts then strongly appealed to the g for funds, and concluded by proposing the following resolution, and the prayer of the petition James Scarlett, Lord Abinger, Chief Claim of' lie ‘l i t Majesty's Exchequer, one of the Jud ges op ioitned her preside on such Special Commissi on , did deliver Jude qn t b er y ta r e i p n re c s h e a n r w s , e r w e h i i m c h p , r a o s pe y r o , u a r s p p e r t o i c t an unfai r , un j us t , an d pli ttehe ndepneenycl;l:cbaelcing of ula . ted to prejudice, mislead, and t u i p c o al n exasperate the minds of the Juries to whom such charges were addressed, and bywhom the individu als indicted as participating i n the late disturbanef2', were to be tried. , " Your petitioners, therefore, mos t CUTiI estly but THE LATE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS. A gfeat meeting of those persons who are advocates and supporters of the People's Charter took place last night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proceed ings of the recent Special Commissions, and to adopt such measures as might be deemed requisite to insure a fair, patient, and impartial trial to parties yet un tried, as participating in the late lamentable disturb ances in the northern and midland counties; as also to afford relief to nearly 100 females, who, by the conviction and sentences, lately passed, had been de prived of their natural protectors, and were thereby left no other alternative than to seek refuge in union workhouses, or tobecome houseless and destitute wan derers through the land. Long before the hour ap , pointed for taking the chair the great room of the ta vern was crowded to suffocation, and many hundreds, we feel no doubt, sought admission in vain. On the platform and in the gallery were a great number of females, among whom was Miss Walker, who called herself into such celebrity among the Chartists, by her speeches in their rooms at the Old B a il e y. Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., who was the great lion of the evening, and whom it was advertised would take the chair at seven o'clock, did not arrive till ten minutes before eight o'ciock ; and on his entering the room, and taking his seat on the platform, the most .enthusi astic cheering resounded from every part or the vast assemblage. Mr. Duncombe was attended by Mr. F. O'Connor, colonel Thompson, and several Chartist leaders. Mr. DUNCOMBE, on being unanimously called to the chair, felt convinced, that, to those high-minded independent men with whom the meeting had origina ted, the noble manner in which these acts had been responded to by the vast numbers that had attended that evening must be a source of the highest gra.tifica tion. For himself to be unanimously elected to preside upon an occasion so interesting, and in a cause so id fecting the rights and liberties and distresses of the working classes, heconsidered one of the highest ho nours that could be conferred upon him.—(Great cheering.) Notwithstanding the fact that a Learned Judge of the land, in his most inquisitorial charge to the Grand Jury, had been represented to have had the audacity to assert that 3,000 or 4,000 Englishmen could not meet together to deliberate upon and discuss a public grievance without being what, in the eye of the law, or _rather in that of the Learned Judge— (Cheers and groans, and cries of "We wish we had him here")—was an illegal assembly ; he (Mr. Duncombe) trusted that the vast number that had assembled in that room, and if it had been five times larger, he was sure it would have been filled—(Great cheering)—would give the lie and practical contradiction to the assertions of that Learned Judge.—(Cheers and cries of " We will.") It was his duty as Chairman rather to explain the purposes for which the meeting had been convened, than to express opinions of his own. They had met there '-nottn sympathise' With britne;'lnot z'in justify disoVdietreeioqhe advoCitd i ads of lence—(Hear, hear)—but they had met for the proper and legitimate purpose of discussing calmly and in public, according to that privilege which was their birthright as Englishmen, a great public grievance; and if in the administration of affairs there should be anything deserving of condemnation, they were there loudly, firmly, and boldly to condemn it.—(Hear, hear.) They were to judge whether those Special Com missions which had been issued in consequence of the unfortunate disturbances that had taken place in the manufacturing districts in August last, had fairly, honestly, and impartially fulfilled their duty.— (Groans, and cries of "No, no, •certainly not.") And if it could be shown that a prejudice had been un justly created against those who had been put upon their trial, it was the duty of the meeting, as English men,. to denounce the oppression resulting from such a prejudice. They had met there to express their sympathy with the fatherless and the widow—with those 300 families who were now enduring the greatest misery in consequence of the sentences that had al ready been passed. Some of those who were suffer ing, or were about to suffer, might have committed crime, but it was crime with which, considering the peculiar circumstances ofthe country, and the distress that prevailed, the middle classes should be disposed to deal leniently. It was the duty of Englishmen, if the law had been strained to meet these particular cases--'-(Cheers)—to assemble together, and to express their opinions, and to create a protective fund to de fend themselves against the repetition of such oppres sion. —(Hear.) As to those who were sentenced by the' law, it was at least a consolation to know that they had been tried by a fair and impartial Juryand an honest Judge.—(Cheers.) Let the meeting look at the case of John Mason. That man, with others, had, on the mere representation of a police-constable—(Hear, hear)been sentenced at Quarter Sessions, Mason to six months' imprisonment, and the others to two months. The night before they were tried, the Magistrates had sent to say that if the prisoners would plead guilty to having attended an unlawful meeting, the record should be with drawn.—(Groans and hisses.) But those men had properly said, "We have been guilty of no crime, and therefore we will not plead guilty. We met peaceably in public, as Englishmen have a right to do, to discuss a public question, and you had no right to interfere."—(Great cheering.) But the authori ties did interfere, and what had been the result ? Those men had been convicted.—(Hisses and groans.) But a subscription had been entered into, and he trusted the families of those men were now kept from want.—(Hear, hear.) He contended that an unjust prejudice had been excited against those who were put upon their trial even at Stafford, although he was disposed to do all justice to Lord Chief Justice Tindal. The Chairman then alluded to the case of Peplow, who had been interrupted in free ingress and egress to and from a public Court of Justice, by order of the High Sheriff, on the ground only' that he was known to be a Chartist, and it was not until Mr. Russell, the Counsel, hail applied to Lord Chief Justice Tindal, 'und represented the impossi bility of conducting his case, and procuring justice for his clients, unless his messenger were permitted free access, that this man Peplow had been allowed ad mission. —(Shame.) But he (the Chairman) would come to another point. The meeting had no doubt heard of one Judge Jeffries.—(Hear, and laughter.) Now, the treatment the Chartists had received at Liverpool and Chester reminded him of a passage in the life of that personage. An individual was brought brought before that celebrated Judge, and it was found that the charge laid against him had no founda tion in fact. At the last moment, however, the counsel against the prisoner stated, as an addition to this charge which could not be sustained, that the man sometimes attended church and sometimes the conven ticle—in short that he was a trimmer. " Oh, oh," said Judge Jeffries, "he is a trimmer, is he ? I have heard of that monster before, but I have never seen one. Stand up, prisoner, and let me see your shape, that I may know how these monsters are formed." Now that man was condemned, not because he was guilty of the crime laid to his charge, but because he was a trimmer. He (Mr. Duncombe) believed that many persons had suffered, and that, unless the people bestirred themselves, many more would suffer, not be cause guilty of a specific crime, but merely because they were Chartists.-:-(Great 'cheering.) If there was an Abinger among them, let them give that Abinger a fair hearing, let them attend to all he might say with patience, and then he would with shame confess —(Cheers)—if there was any shame in him, that he had maligned Englishmen when he said that 3,000 or 4,000 could not meet, and quietly and legally discuss remedies for grievances which either the Parliament or the Government had inflicted on the people of Erie.- land.—(Great cheering.) Mr. BALL proposed the following resolution " That this meeting most deeply regret and sympa thise with the degraded and distressed condition of the labouring portion of their fellow-subjects, shown so particularly throughout the late unfortunate dis turbances in the northern and midland counties." Dr. BOWKETT seconded the resolution. The time had come when they must have a real religion instead of a false one, and real charity instead of a bastard one. True charity was now required in aid of those who were persecuted, and he had no doubt it would be brought to light by such meetings as the present. If they could not hear in churches of the distresses of the people, they must be sounded forth in such places as the present. Mr. F. O'CoNricet then rose to support the resolu tion, and was received with tremendous cheeringfrom all parts of the room, accompanied with the waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which lasted for several minutes. He was one of the victims of the perse cutors.—(Cheers.) He had had the honour of six criminal prosecutions within the last five years, and still he was there as large as life.—(Laughter, and cries of " Shame.") Now, what was the object for 'which the present meeting was convened ? It was a meeting of all classes. of all shades of politics, of all men loving justice.—(Cheers.) They were not there to express their approbation of crime really committed against the law, even in aid of parties, but to evince their abomination and abhorrence of the law being stretched for the purpose of putting down the public sentiment.—(Cheers.) But there was a living spirit which no Judge or Jury could put down or destroy. For himself, in his own person, however he might suffer paint end punishments by the misconstruction of the one, and the penalties imposed by the other, if the people pronounced him innocent what cared he for any verdict given by packed. Juries ?—(Great cheering.) He had been cited last Saturday before the Queen's Bench to answer to the accusation of several conspiracies. Why it was the law that con spired against him, and not he against the law. He had never attended a secret association in his life, and yet for all this he had been persecuted at an enormous expense to himself. • But the singularity. of the thing [lves, that on the present occasion he and others we're - • _ . - . ve:;p2ctfully, pray your Honourable House to institute such an inquiry—by the appointment of a Conimitte, or otherwise—into the proceedings of : th e l ate Special Coro nissions, as your Honourable house in wisdom and jwitiee may deem fit. And your petitioners further pray your Honourable House to address her Majesty, that she may be pleased to visit the Le - Core-mentioned James, Lord Chief Baron Abinger,'with such a mark of her Royal displeasure, us may induce other Judger hereafter to preserve the purity of the judicial func tions unsullied by political rancour or party spirit. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." Mr. RUFFY RIDLEY seconded the resolution, and, commenting in strong terms upon the conduct of Lord Abinger, said he trusted they would never cease from agitating till that monster in the . form of man was . removed from the judgment- seat. Mr. FBASER said that the modern Jeffries had said that which would bring him into a predicament he would not like. He had declared Chartistn to be because it did not suit the views of the aristo cracy. Ile ou g ht t o b e i mpeac h e d , an d th e b est Way 07 impeaching him would be for all classes of honest Reformers to join cordially together, and prove to the aristocracy that they could not put dawn Chartism, or any other ism."—(llear, hear.) Th e speakenon i tilari e andar petitionnesta were te . l app, al formot-1. agreed clu l d ,h ed with resolution to, and a committee nominated to the ' • carry out objects of the meeting. Dr BLACK . .then moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried amidst tremendous acclamations. . Mr. Durscomna in returning thanks - for the honour done him, observed that when he took the chair he felt that the task would be an easy one, and he had not been disappointed. The persons present had con ducted themselves in a manner that he was sure Eng.. lishtnen would always do when they met for such a purpose.—(Cheers.) He had asked them at the commencement to give to every person NV 1 10 might differ from them a patient hearing. lie wits happy to find that no such differences had taken place. Would Lord Abinger, he would ask, now say that 3,000 or 4,000 Englishmen could not meet for serious discussion ?—(Cheers.) That meeting had nobly done its duty, and it remained for him to do his, and to present to the House of • Commons the petition that. had been unanimously agreed to that evening.—(Cheers.) That petition called for inquiry into the proceedings of the late Special Commissions, but more especially into the conduct of Lord Abinger, and it asked, if the result of that inquiry should prove the .allegations founded, that the House of Commons would address the Crown for the removal of that Judge for his dis honourable conduct. He (Mr. Deneon;be) would feel proud in presenting that petition, and the gre a t es t gratification in givin g e ff ec t t o it bir moving for the inquiry, being convinced that-upon that inquiry being instituted the public would find tilt Chartists were not such monsters as they had beeh represented to be; that their views were honest,, and- that they were entitled to their .suffrage, and votes .in the Jlouse :of; Commons, as,well , as the aristocracy were in the House of Lords:, , -(Cheers.) That he believed would be proved upon inquiry; it would also be shown that the Chartists wished to show no violence to persons or property, and that the manner in which the late Special Commissions had been con ducted, were a disg race to the Government—(Cheers)-- and that the conduct of Lord Abinger was most violent, and hat he ought, therefore, no longer to remain on the judgment seat. He hoped the petition would not stop there; it was a most excellent one, and when it was read, as he trusted it would be by. every con stituency in the kingdom, and by every working man, by every Noble and Judge in the kingdom —aye, and by every policeman, new magistrate, or constable, — (Great cheering)—he trusted there would not be a single man, who wished to be thought well of by his fellow men, who would scruple to attached his signature to it.—(Tremendous cheering.) Ile hoped, also, that every constituency would put it to their representatives, either to support the petition, or to give up their seats.—(lncreased cheering). The conduct displayed at that meeting that evening would be worthy imitation of the House of Commtms, and he (Mr. Duncombe) trusted, when he presented their petition to that House, its Members would give him the same attention as those now present had done.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Duncombe) was so con- Went of the goodness of their cause, that the blame would rest with him and not with them, if they did not succeed.—(Great cheering.) A vote of thanks was then carried to Mr. Roberts for his gratuitous services to the unfortunate Chartists at Statlbrd, three cheers were given for Mr. Dun combe and Mr. O'Connor, and the vast assemblage eparated at nearly half-past eleven o'clock. A collection was made in the meeting and at the doors ; which amounted, we believe, to.a considerable sum. • COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There continues to 1e scarcely any de mand for British Plantation, and prices must be quoted again rather lower, more particularly for the inferior. About 800 have been sold this week, inclusive of 112 casks Barbadoes at auction, which found buyers at 61s 6d to 69s 6d for low to very fine quality, being fully previous prices. Molasses have been only partially inquired for at the prices of last week. Mauritius and Bengal-854 bags Mauritius, and 1,819 bags Bengal, mostly sold, but went off heavily, the former at 58s to 65s for low to good, bright yellow, low to fine brown ditto, 52s 6d to 575, and the latter at 638 to 70s 6d for low to fine 'white, mid to fine greyish yellow at 59s 6d to 61s. 1,044 bags very low soft Penang offered at public sale, were all taken in at 465, being above the value. Privately very few transactions have taken place. Foreign—There has been rather less demand for these descriptions, but holders are extremely firm, and purchasers 'cannot be made at lower prices ; the business - done privately is confined to from 400 to 500 boxes Havannah and Cuba Muscovado, at 16s to 18s, being the previous value. The public sales have offered 385 boxes white Havannah, 189 chests white Pernambuco, and 2,974 bags Manilla ; the two former parcels were all taken in, low to white Havannah at 30s to 355, and the Pernambuco at 20s 6d to 25s 6d for very low to fine quality; subsequently, however, three-fourths of the latter descriptions have been sold at 19s 6d to 23s for low to mid white. The Manilla all found buyers at 14s to 15s for low soft to mid brown (chiefly damps), being comparatively cheap. Refined. Grocery descriptions remain much leglected, although continually declining prices are accepted. For Crushed there has been rather more inquiry, and some rather large transactions have taken place at 255, which is the previous va lu e , bat at this price it is difficult to purchase. COFFEE.-All descriptions continue much depressed, and the parcels brought to public sale, coilisting of 155 casks 76 barrels British Plantation, 403 bags Ceylon, and 1,650 bags East India, were all taken in or withdrawn (excepting .the Ceylon) for want of buyers ; good ordinary brown and Singapore Java at 33s to 365, which are again lower prices. Ceylon sold at 62s 6d to 79s 6d for fine ordinary, being about former rates. Privately scarcely any thing has been done. Foreign sorb are likewise neglected, and, in the absence of any demand, must be considered nominal. Only 273 bags St. Domingo have been brought to auction, the sound of which were taken in at 31s 6d for mixed, good ord, pale, and coloury quality, being a decline of fully ls. A few lots Ist and 2d class damaged, so ld a t 27 s 6d to 295, which are rather lower rates. CocoA.—The public sales have contained 522 barrels and bags Trinidad, and 500 bags (damaged) Guayaquil, the former sold at 32s to 36s 6d for mid grey to good red, which is rathei lower, and the latter at 25s to 31s, being comparatively cheap. Rum.—The transactions reported since our last, consist of 300 puns Jamaica at 2s 10d to 3s 8d for' 28 to 36 per cent overproof, of common to good quality, fine do, 34 to 38 over, at 4s to 4s 9d, and 100 puns Demerara at 2s 9d to 3s ld, for 30 to 38 per cent overproof, being about previous prices. Ric E.-416 bags brought to auction sold at les 6d to 11s for mid white Bengal, being fully last week's prices. A limited business has been done privately at former rates. SALTPETRE.—Of 1,943 bags only a small portion found buyers at 28s 6d for 44 to 2f per cent. re fraction, which is fully Gd cheaper ; the remainder were taken in at 28s for 5i- per cent. reffa2tion, and 241 also at 28s, being for the latter above the value; some parcels have been sold privately at prices fully establishing the above decline. There has been rather more done in Nitrate of Soda, at prices a shade higher, viz., 19s to 19s 6d. SPICES.-883 bags Pimento, and 500 bags Pepper, have been brought to auction; the former all found buyers, but went off very irregularly, at about former prices —viz., at 2d to 28d for mid to good quality. The Pepper was all taken in (ex cepting two lots) at 2id for good clea n Pe nang, being the previous value. Cassia Lignea has been inquired for privately, but for the want of parcels offering, scarcely any transactions have taken place. COTTON.—A fair business has been done in this article, at the prices of last week. _ _ TEA.—This article is in restricted demand, on ac count of the approaching public sales. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is rather firmer, being 48s 3d to 4iis 6d on the spot. HAMBURGH. and FLANDERS MAIL. BERLIN, Nov. 10.—This forenoon the concludin, sitting, or last meeting of the Committee of the Es t "- tates of the Kingdom was held, after which they were dismissed in due form, in the presence of the King and of all the Ministers of State. After this there was a grand dinner in the White Saloon, to which all the Ministers, the Marshals of the Estates, and the Deputies were invited. His Majesty spoke in the most gracious manner, first, in general, and afterwards to several individual representatives, expressing his satisfaction and thanks. The Treasury has paid, without distinction of classes or of ranks, to every De puty three dollars per day from the time of their set ting out, and one dollar ten silver groschen for every post-mile, according to the distances from their places., of abode. HANOVER, NOV. 11.—We hear that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince will set out to-morrow to pay a visit to his bride. He will stop a fortnight at Altenburg, and before his return pay a visit to Berlin. His Royal Highness enjoys excellent health. On the other hand, neither the journey to Rothenkirchen nor his return to Hanover appeared to have had any favour able effect on the King's health. It is said that within these few days some circumstances have happened which have cast a gloom over the generally cheerful temper of the King. One of these circumstances is the death of Dr. Kohlrausch's widow, who was for many years the attached friend and companion of the late queen. She was' buried yesterday, an,d by the King's order all the household and servants of the Queen attended the funeral. The • death of this lady is said to have very greatly affected the King. DiuscirAN, Nov. 7.—%V have had constant frost for several days. This morning Reaumuy's thermometer was 61 degrees below freezing point, in consequence of which there is so much ice in the Vistula that it was neces sary to begin late yesterday evening the taking up of the bridge of boats; the passage over the river is now effected by boats, which are able to force their way through the ice, which at present is but thin. The Vistula is rising everyl day. This is the first time for many years that - the bridge has been removed so early. The King, the Ministers, and other persons of dis tinction, who went to Tournay, arrived at Brussels yesterday evening. We are assured that M. Van Volxem ' the Minister of Justice, has made a report to the King on the escape of General Vandersmissen, and •that he pro poses to his Majesty to exercise a new act of clemency towards the other three, prisoners Vandermeere, Van Laethern, and Verpraet. BRUSSELS, Nov. 16.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 7c., and that of rye 14f. 10c. per hectolitre. Wheat therefore is still exempt from im port duty. On rye the duty is 21f. 30c. per thou sand killogrames. The export duty on both wheat and rye remains fixed at 25 centimes per 1,000 killo grames. _ _ The journals contain to-day long details of the opening of the sections of the iron railway between Courtray, Mouscron, and Tournay, and the manner in which his Majesty was received. THE OFFICE AND AUTHORITY OF THE LORD WARDEN of the CINQUE PORTS. " They that bear The cloth of State above her, are four Barons Of the Cinque Ports."—SasxspEAßE. It appears, from the above passage, that the pro cessions of oyalty in former times were wont to re ceive no small accession to their " pomp and circum stance" by the presence and service of the Cinque Port Lords and their supporters. But, on looking over the scrolls of their history, we find mention of none who has bestowed greater dignity on the office itself, or stood by his liege in a more commanding as pect than the Illustrious Duke, who now, advanced in years and full of honours, waits for a last time the duties of his office upon her Majesty, before he re signs them, it is rumoured, to the princely Consort of our Queen. The ancient trading towns of the Cinque Ports, over which his Grace has for some time past exercised the powers of Lord Warden, lie on the coast of Kent and Sussex, and were selected from their proximity to France, ,and early superiority in navigation, to assist in protecting the realm against invasion. Royal charters were on these grounds granted them, invest ing them with certain privileges. The ports so privileged, as we at present account them, are Dover, Sandwich, Romney, Hastings, Hythe, and the two ancient towns of Winchelsea and Rye; al thouglivt4 two latter places appear to.4ave,been only originally members. The services which they were appointed to perform were either honorary, viz., assist ing at the Coronation and sending Members to Par liament, or auxiliary to the defence of the realm, as furnishing a certain supply of, vessels and seamen, on being summoned to that service by the King's writ. The supply of shipping which in former times these Ports divisionally afforded was, according to Thorn, as follows :—Hastings provided 21 vessels, and in each vessel 21 men. To. this port belonged Seaford, Pe vensey, Hedney, Winchelsea, Rye, Hamine, Wakes bourn Creneth, and Forthclipe. Romney provided five ships, and in each 24 men. To this belonged Bromhal, Lyde, Oswarstone, Dangemares, and Ro menhal. Hythe furnished five ships, and in each 21 seamen. To this belonged Westmeath. Dover, the same number as Hastings. To this belonged Fol kestone, Feversham, and Marge. Lastly, Sandwich furnished the same with Hythe. To this belonged Fordiwic, Reculver, Serre, and Deal. Until the time of Henry the Seventh, the Crown appears to have had no permanent navy: the Cinque Ports constantly furnished nearly all the shipping re quired for the purposes of the State, and their assist ance to the King's ships continued long after that time. When ships .were wanted, the King issued his summons to the Ports to provide their quota. In the tip e of Edward 1., they were bound to provide fifty in number, fully equipped, at their own cost. . eriod of gratuitous service was 15 days. In and the Third's time, the summons seems to have apportioned the ships among the Ports and their mem bers. Some of the members had to provide one ship, and in some cases two of the members had to provide one between them. In process of time the Cinque Ports grew so power ful, and, observes Chitty (Commercial Law, vol. ii.), by possession of a warlike fleet, so audacious, that they made piratical excursions in defiance of all public faith. On some occasions they made war, and formed confederacies as separate independent States. It ap pears, however, that these irregularities were soon suppressed, when the Government was strong, and sufficiently confident to exert its powers. So long as the mode of raising a navy by contributions from dif ferent towns continued, the Cinque Ports afforded an ample supply; but since that time their privileges have been preserved, but their separate or peculiar services dispensed with. The towns of the Cinque Ports, owing to various causes, have, however, long since lost their ancient importance. This may, in part, be attributed to the physical changes that have taken place in the course of ages upon the coast-line. Rye and Romney, once standing on the shore, are now at some distance from it. Sandwich is only accessible for small vessels. The ancient site of Folkestone, one of the members of Dover, has been almost wholly washed away. The' chief cause, however, of the extinction of these Ports must be attributed I4Rthe complete organization of a permanent navy in our island ; while again, compara tively with modern improvements, their inferiority as ports, and their distance from all the great seats of English manufacture, will sufficiently account for their present commercial insignificance. Alf the circumstances that tended to diminish the maritime influence and importance of these Ports, how ever, did not prevent them from sustaining, until the recent measures of general reform, considerable poli tical authority. Each of the five original Ports re turned two Barons to Parliament as early as Ed ward I. Before the Revolution of 1688 the Lord Warden assumed the power and right of nominating one, and sometimes both, of the Members for each of the port-towns having Parliamentary representation. The Reform Act of 1832 has worked a considerable change in the political relations of the Cinque Ports, diminishing the number of representatives from six teen to eight. The title pf Warden of the Cinque Ports was first bestowed on the Constable of Dover Castle by William the Conqueror. That King, considering Dover as the key to England, gave the charge of the adjacent coast, with the shipping belonging to it, to the officer above-mentioned, whose trust was one of the most important in the kingdom. But, remarks Camden, if the Conqueror was the first appointer of a Warden, King John first granted them privileges, and that upon condition that they should provide eighty ships at their own charge for forty days, so often as the King should have occasion in the wars. John, be it remarked, at the time of this grant, was then strait ened for a navy to recover Normandy. The Warden of the Cinque Ports, now commonly styled the Lord Warden, because oftentimes the wardens have been of the nobility, and sometimes Princes of the blood royal, is an office which none ' less than a knight can occupy. This great officer, or " Limenarcha,' as Camden terms him, was created in imitation of the same officer which the Romans esta blished for defence of our coasts. By them he was termed LITTOIIIS SAXONICI COMES, and had under him the charge of nine sea-ports. There is no doubt, ob serves this learned antiquary, in reference to this title, that these Cinque Ports or towns were under some special' government even in the time of the Saxons, necessity so requiring. These Wardens also, beingset for the defence of the coast and ports, and being also the commanders of their ships which they furnished for sea, had bestowed on them the name of Adyirals. Their office was large. Not only confined to the jurisdiction of the sea in their district, they had in their keeping and preserving the inland ports —were mediators in maritime differences—guards against the encroachments of foreigners, and correctors of errors and irregularities in all marine transactions within their rules. That the Warden of the Ports might have a seat suitable to his quality, the Castle of Dover, of which he was appointed Constable, was committed to his charge and custody. We have before observed that many memorable persons, and among them several with blood royal in their veins, have filled the office of which his Grace the Duke of 'Wellington has been the last representa tive. In Mr. Jealce s invaluable book (Charters of the Cinque Ports, fol. 1,727), which, in absence of other documents, is frequently consulted by the Lords of the Admiralty as authority, we find an accurate and extensive list of every officer who has enjoyed the dignity of Lord Warden from the Conquest and sub sequently From these we select the highest and most 'notable names : Edward 1., Ann. 34. Lord Henry Cobham, whose son founded Cobham College. Edward 111., Ann. 19. Bartholomew de Burghesh, one of the first Companions of the Garter. Edw. 111. Ann. 50. Edmund Earl of Cambridge one of the sons'of King Edward, and who, survivin g his father, had th e office re-granted by other letters patents. Richard 11. Ann. 7. Sir Simon Burley, who was condemned for treason, and executed on Tower-hill. Ann. 21. Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York and Aumerle. Hen. IV. Ann. 12. Henry Prince of IVales, who resigned it on becoming King, to the Earl of Arun SOUTH AMERICA. BRAZILS.-lier Alajesty's brig Crane, of six pins Lieutenant Lewis, Commander, arrived at Falmouth from the Brazils on Wednesday, ha v i ng ma d e th e passage in the extraordinarily short period of 34 days. The Crane left Rio de Janeiro on the 13th of Oct., a month subsequent to the departure of the• Swift from that city, whose arrival we announced on the 12th current, though it will be recollected that the latter had to call at the northern ports. The Crane has brought two passengers only—viz., M. L. Monaeft; Russian Ambassador at the Court of Brazil, and Count Stackelherg, his attache, on their return home. She has also in specie, &c , a freight equal to 19,0001. on merchants' account; and by her we have con firmed the account received per last packet, of the province of Minas having been subdued to good order and tranquillity by the Government troops. Baron de Caxias, the successful Imperialist General, was about to leave for Rio Grande, where he was ap ointed to the two-fold capacity of Commander-in- Chief of the army and Governor of the province. When the Crane left Rio Commodore Purvis was there with the Alfred, also the Curlew brig and the schooner Viper. The Satellite had sailed for Valparaiso, and the Malabar for MoUte Video. The American ship of war Delaware was also there, ac coinpanied by the schooner Enterprise. to.Th e pr ms employed z: Her Afajesty's steamer Growler was g one t o Ri o Francisco to assist in saving the effects of th e l a t e s hi p Middlesex. The Satellite had left for r oun d t h e Horn rdepothre reported by the would last be arrival, sent h ia tilcCockat i r n ic c e rn fo is r n ß lg u ; en a t TheA th y e re p s. han m Curlew been t .n he co b ri tt d te e r mn.ed, n vessel, a with her living cargo, in a day or two, for Demerara under charge of Lieut. Lang. The latest quotation of exchange at Rio shows an advance of as on that re ce i ve d by the . 1 packet, being 27, at w hi c h rate a b out 150,009 Z. had be en ne gotiated. Government Sixper Cent. Stock, 70 + ; Silver Coin,_ _ . 7O to 88 ; Spanish Dollars, 1.860 to 1.850 ; Doubloons, 28.900 to 29.000. The opening rate upon London was 25, 25 to 25k prevailed until the 14th, when a large amount was negotiated at .26, and at this and at 26k, the remaining business for the Swift packet., sailed 17th, was done ; from 17th to 20th (her Majesty's ship Curacoa), 26 to 261- were the rates, and the largest sums were passed at 261, the rate thenceforward until 24th, when the amount was taken at 27, and although bills were subsequently negotiated at 261 and 261-, the bulk of the transactions, and the amount was heavy, until the close of the month, was at 27. BUENOS Arabs.—The latest dates from Beetles Ayres were to the 26th of September. The Buenos Ayrean army, 12, • 000 strong, had received all their re. inforceinents in horses, &c., and operations were ex pected to commence in the beginning of October, when they would cross into the Estado Oriental ; an d their squadron was in readiness to proceed down th e river, to co-operate with the land forces. Accounts have been received from the Upper Pro vinces, where all was quiet; a good understanding prevails between Senor Fene of the province of Cor rientes, and Roses. The former, it_ app ears, saw nothing but destruction by joiningFructos in the strife. Roses has opened the trade to the river Parana and Uraguav in places unoccupied by the enemy, and la delivered' conseq uence up all the vessels detained in loaf un infringinement whilst the port was closed. In rat cons equence of this business was h rather brisk at Buenos Ayres. A fair amount of b • ness was be ing transacted ; on some arti c l es an advance ust of 10 per cent. was readily obtained. Flour in bond 12 Spa nish dollars per barrel. M e di terranean produce look ing down. For Brazilianproducts an active demand ex i s t e d. In home produce 53 to 54 for salted cow or ox hides. Freights to England 40s. for tallow and salted hides. Doubloons 268 to 275 dollars. Six per cent. stock 65 to 68 Eng land 2 15-16 d. to 3dper cent. Exchange upon Eng . In consequence o f th e d ea th o f th e D ue d'Orleans, her Brittanic Majesty's vessels Pearl, Partridge, and Viper, displayed, on the 12th inst., their own and the French flag half-mast, and the two former fired 21 minute guns. A similar demonstration was made on the 13th by the United States corvette Decatur, French schooner of war Eclair, and Argentine brig of war General San Martin, with this difference, that the two latter had their yards crossed, and their firing was at half-hour intervals from sunrise to sunset. According to accounts from Monte Video, British ship ping in that quarter had greatly increased within the last few years. In 1841, by an official tab u l ar state ment, 159 British ships had entered in at Monte Video, making in tonnage 34,537 ; while in 1830, there were only thirty ships, amounting to 7,480 tons. Exchange on England at Monte Video 42d. to 43d. INCOME - TAX. — Several motions and other applica- tions have been made during the present term to the Lord Chancellor and the other Equity Judges re specting difficult legal questions arising out of the ope- ration of the above tai. There appears every proba bility of the prediction of the VieezChaneellor bemg fulfilled, vi z ., th at i t w ill occupy years t o dec i de al4 the questions relative to the incomeltax,