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213 in favour of Sir John Beckett, at eleven o'clock, continued to diminish regularly through out Friday, vet at the close of that day Mr. Baines was still 69 behind him. On Saturday, at two o'clock, Sir John was still four a-head of Mr. Baines. Immense importance was at tached to this election at Leeds by the Tories. They had, as they thought, made their prepara tions so skilfully, and brought their whole force to bear on what they considered vulnerable points of their opponents, that they were con fident of victory. Our contemporary (the Standard) had already sounded the Io Pearl of victory. But the good cause has triumphed ; and the House of Commons will have in Mr. Baines an honest and intelligent advocate of the rights of the people, intimately acquainted, from long experience, with the interests of the great commercial town for wl ich he is returned. This election will not be without its use ; and we cannot help calling, in a most earnest manner, the attention of Ministers to the danger to which they are exposed, by whatever resembles indiffer ence to popular interests. The Tories exert them selves throughout the country to produce an im pression OR the people, that were they in power they would he as anxious to promote measures of economy and retrenchment, and to protect the rights and liberties of the people as the Whigs, and they have cunningly availed them selves of the deference which Ministers have shown to the House of Lords, to produce in the minds of the people a notion that Ministers only wish to keep themselves in office, and hav ing obtained what they want, they will do as little in the way of substantial reform as they can. Their sneers and insinuations have not been altogether without effect. There is little doubt, notwithstanding the small number of votes obtained by Mr. Bower (only 24), that Mr. Baines did not find among the electors that enthusiasm for the Whigs which would have been manifested a yearago. He was sharply catechised as to the extent he would go in the way of reform,and obliged to declare—" A gentleman in the other box has said lam a nominee of the Whigs. I deny it.—(Hear, hear.) I will support the Whigs when they support the country, but I will oppose them whenever they oppose the great interests of the country.—(Loud cheers)" Mr. Baines will no doubt, in his place in Parlia ment, endeavour to impress on Ministers the danger of even appearing for a moment to identify themselves with the Conservatives. They may be sure that the Conservatives are too old birds to be caught by chaff, while the simple minded people are disheartened by what they may not comprehend. The Tories are lying in wait to avail themselves of the first moment of desertion of the Whigs by the people, the people by the Whigs, and we know that if their arts had been successful at Leeds just now, they would make their ac count of it. The Whigs must never forget that nine-tenths of the clergy of the Established Church are Tories ; that four-fifths of the Aristocracy are Tories, and that without the middle classes they are not much. They have now been three years in office ; and yet, not withstanding the tendency of office to draw the great towards it, such is the inveterate Toryism of the Aristocracy, that at the late election for Berwickshire, perhaps the richest and most im portant agricultural county of Scotland, in which there is a numerous resident gentry, a Tory was returned, because there was not one Whig squire, though a majority of the electors are Whigs and Reformers. What did Mr. Baines say on his nomination day ? " But, gentlemen, it is said that we have a very un fortunate combination against us. I admit it. We have , he aristocracy and all the landed interest of the neigh bourhood, the Leeds Corporation, the Trusties of ' Pious Use' Property—(Laughter)—the clergy, and, in reality, we have arrayed against us all of what may be called ' the privileged orders.' But white these are all against us, what have we for us ? The unhought suffrages of the electors of Leeds.—(Enthusiastic cheering, waving of hats, &c.) I have no claim to nobility, I have no claim to title—(' We like you all the better')—but I have a claim to your support on another ground, and that is— lam one of your own body.—(Cheers ) If you elect tne, you elect the man who is taken from your own com munity, and who is least likely to abuse the confidence you may repose in him." Thus we find all the aristocracy, all the clergy, all the corporators, and men who have to handle the money of the people, arrayed against the man, whose defeat would instantly have been proclaimed in every quarter, by hun dreds of tongues, as a triumphant proof of the loss of influence by the Whigs. We look on the conduct of Ministers, on Friday night, in consenting to the motion of Mr. O'Connell, as calculated to do them infinite good, by strength. ening the conviction in the minds of the people that the distinction between Whigs and Tories is not an imaginary one, and that the Whigs sympathise with the people. The speech of Lord John Russell breathed an excellent spirit. It was due to the people to show that they will not protect every foolish and impertinent Tory who abuses his privilege to attack the Go vernment, and foment divisions and factious heats, and that while they wield the powers committed to them in protecting the lives and properties of all classes of subjects, and in repressing violence and disorder, they will not countenance a Tory Judge any more than a brawling Repealer in his tnischievous endeavours to produce disaffection. The true way to destroy the influence of agitators, is to manifest a sympathy with the people ; and we therefore cannot sufficiently applaud the wisdom of the determination of Mr. Littleton and those who sided with him on Friday night. The people, we ;-.dini!-, ought to be slow to suspect the honourable intentions of the Ministry, who obtained for them the charter of their rights and the bases of all possible ameliorations ; but more allowance ought to be made for the mistakes of the people than the mistakes of their superiors. The people would soon find out that there was a very serious difference between V's and Tories, were the Tories once fin possession of power. Mr. Bower, the Ultra Radical at Leeds, observed, " You have heard me say that I admire the Whigs. They gave us the Bill ; but what is it without we put it into ex ecution ? Sir John wants not to let the Whigs have the ir own way. But if the Tories should happen to slip in, we must make them carry it forward. —(Cheers.) I wish to argue the question fairly, but I do not wish to throw out any slurs. I will say this—that the Tories do the thing freely, when they are made to do it. My Noble Duke, with Sir Robert Peel, carried Catholic emancipation manfully. I say Peel, though lie is a Tory, is a man of girt abilities, and I should love to see him take an active part in the afftirs of State.—(Cheers from the Tories.)" Mr. Bower and his friends would soon feel to their cost that a Tory Ministry would not be so easily spurred on as he supposes to effect a reform of many important abuses, such as those in municipal corporations and courts of law, &c. We defy the Tories to act as they did before the Reform Bill ; but Tories in puwer might de price us for years to come of many important consequences of the Reform Bill necessary to the welfare of the people. We repeat it, the Leeds election ought not to be a lesson lost on Minis ters.--Morning Chronicle. In order to point out to the mercantile world the extreme irregularity and impropriety of the conduct imputed to the official assignees, in keeping large balances in their hands, we solicit attention to the following exposition of the law. By the Bankruptcy Court Act, it is provided, that if any official assignee do not make his pay ments, in such manner as the Lord Chancellor and Court of Review direct, he is to be charged twenty per cent. on sums improperly kept by him. By the same Act, the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Review may make orders to regulate the conduct of these gentlemen, and by virtue of such powers they have, by one of their general orders, dated the 12th ofJanuary,lB32, directed that each official assignee shall give a bond in the sum of six thousand pounds; one of the conditions of which is truly to observe and perform all the regulations of the Court, as far as their duties are concerned. Each assignee has entered into such a bond with two sureties. In further exercise of the power given to them by the Bankruptcy Court Act, the Lord Chan cellor and the Court of Review have by the same order directed that each official assignee shall pay into the Bank of England all sums received by him as soon as they amount to 1001., and that he is to take the receipt for the money to the Accountant-General, who is to give him a voucher for it, which voucher he is to take to the Commissioners, to whom in any case of doubt or difficulty he is to apply for advice. So much for the law on this subject. How far it has been complied with, and how far the condi tion of the bond has been fulfilled, the balances in the hands of the official assignees not paid into the Bank will show. There is yet another point, namely, the allowances made to these gentlemen, which appear to have been enormous. The Lord Chancellor and the Court of Review have, in the order before referred to, recom mended the Commissioners to allow those gentlemen one per cent. on all their receipts, and one and a half per cent. on all the sums of money they divide, which per centage is, nevertheless, subject to be in creased or diminished, under special circum stances, to be referred to the Court of Review. That this per centage is sometimes greatly in creased no one can doubt ; we never heard of its being diminished, and we believe that there never has been any reference, under any such special circumstances, to the Court of Review. We think it right that the merchants and traders of this country should be put in pos session of the facts above mentioned, and leaving it to their own good sense to stir in the matter or not, as they may be advised, we take our leave, only adding that we apprehend that any creditor might successfully petition the Court of Review to charge any one of the official assignees with the 20 per cent. penalty given by the Act of Parliament on all sums re tained by him, contrary to his bond, the law, and the regulations of the Lord Chancellor and the Court.—Morning Post. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 1.6. nting 1 for 213 riday lion s, on !ction ckeu. ing a !cover ty of Y ,..... , .~ ~ _. BARBER V. WEAVER. Mr. THESSIGER stated that this was an action brought to recover damages for a violent and most unprovoked assault committed by the defendant upon the plaintiff. The defendant carried on the business of a butcher in Farringdon-market, and the plaintiff was his journeyman. On the Ist of June last the defendant came into his shop, and without say provocation began abusing the plaintiff; with the left hand he took from him a cleaver,and with the right struck him a violent blow over one eye. The plaintiff in this state, and almost stunned by the effect of the blow, staggered to the shop of a neighbour, who instantly advised him to go to a doctor. He went accordingly to a Mr. Roberts, who kindly attended him for nothing. There would therefore be no charge against the defendant for a doctor's bill ; but the plaintiff claimed compensation for the pain he had suffered and the time he had been out of employment. Mr. HUTCHINSON, for the defendant, said the de fendant had been to market on the day in question, and had left the shop in the care of the plaintiff, who, with his younger brother, a boy of about twelve years of age, was in the service of the de fendant. He had also desired the plaintiff to cut up some meat while he was away. On the de fendant's return he found that the plaintiff was not in the shop, but at a neighbouring public-house; that the boy was playing in the market; that the meat had not been cut up in the way he directed; and that several persons, who were looking at his meat, had nobody to serve them. Of course lie sent for the plaintiff, who when he did return was insolent, on which defendant was angry ; with one hand he went to push away the plaintiff, when one of his fingers slipped to the corner cf the plaintiff's eye and inflicted a slight scratch. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff — Damages 151. ADMIRALTY COURT, FEB. 15. TILE CALYPSO. This was a question of some interest to the mer• cantile and shipping interest. The Calypso having put into Revel for repairs absolutely necessary to enable her to continue her voyage home, advances were made by parties in Revel, and a mortgage bond on the vessel was given with the usual condi tions. The custom of Revel is, however, for par ties making advances, to charge two per cent, in addition on the value of the cargo and freight. The extra charge was disputed. Counsel having been heard for and against the extra charge, Sir JOHN NICHOLL said the Court was bound to uphold bottornry bonds, and lie very much doubted whether the merchants of this town, perhaps the most honourable set of men in the world, would, under the circumstances of the present case, the cargo having been unloaded and in the charge of the advancers of the money to refit the vessel, have made a greater demand than the two per cent. lie should allow the two per cent. upon the actual outlay, and refer the question to the Registrar and mer chants to inquire into the custom of the port of Revel, and if they decided that the charge on the value of the freight and cargo was fair and customary he should feel bound to allow it. THE SUSAN. This was a vessel which suffered during the late dreadful gales. She was on her voyage to the port of London laden with corn and malt, and on the 20th of October was driven on the Maitland Sands, which she was assisted off by smacks who were upon the look-out for vessels wanting assistance. The cargo and vessel were worth 8781. and the owners tendered 401., which the sailors refused. Counsel having been heard on both sides, Sir J. IN ICHOLL said, in this case the claim for salvage services was slight, and under all the cir cumstances he should pronounce that the tender of 401. was sufficient, and should condemn the salvers in costs which had accrued since they refused the tender. General Iturnigny, the second to General Bugeaud in the late unfortunate affair of " honour" at Paris, arrived in town, the day before yesterday, fa n% Paris. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Ellen Allen was brought before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of being examined as to the present residence of the father of her illegitimate child. The investigation disclosed an odd workhouse scene. Ellen Allen had been from her earliest infancy a pauper of one of the city parishes, and had resided in the workhouse, except at intervals, when she went through the country as a regular tramper, sell ing confectionery, and now and then a little contra band rum and Hollands. It happened that a male pauper, named John Hearas, had been pretty nearly in the same circumstances as to the parish, having been born of paupers in the workhouse, and brought up there, and being of course marked with all the virtues of his parents and his birth-place. He too was given to the tramping system, and as the two paupers had contracted an intimacy which was likely to add to the obligations the parish was under to them, ne objection was made to their summer excursions together. After some considerable de lay on the tramp, the woman returned to town with a fine male child in her arms, arid immediately ap plied to her parish for relief, stating that she did not know where the father of the babe had sojourned. The authorities desired to know where the child was born, in order to send it to its birth-place, upon which there was a legal claim of support, but the woman declared that she could not point out the place, that she did not recollect the name of the parish, but that it was off the road, and somewhere near Manchester, and that her accouchement took place in a waggon, after which her companion left her, and she tramped to London. The parish officers believed that the woman knew where the father was, and hoped the Lord Mayor would grant a warrant for the apprehension of so mischievous a pauper. The woman repeated her story, and assured the Lord Mayor that she wished from her soul she could tied out the. fellow who had used her so ill. Overseer—My Lord, we have to support a former child of hers by the same person, which was born in the workhouse. She is hackneyed in the way of deception. When she was in the family way of her first child, she said to us, when we reproached her with the expense upon the parish, " Oh, brother! give us a few pounds and we'll go into the country, and the child be born as many miles off as you please."—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—IS it worth your while to send a warrant after such a fellow as this ? Are you not happy at being rid of him ? Overseer—Our object is to prevent these dis. agreeable additions to our parochial expenditure. I am convinced that this woman has made money by travelling into parishes when near her time, the great object of the parish officers being to get rid of persons in such a condition in the quickest time possible. The LORD MAYOR—You don't think she has acted unkindly to you in looking for another birth place for her offspring? Overseer—We are con vinced that she and the man are regular jobbers, and that he carries her from parish to parish in an advanced state, to frighten the money out of the officers.—(Laughter.) Indeed we don't know whether this may not be a borrowed child, brought forward to deceive us. The LORD MAYOR said that it would, in his opinion, be imprudent to add to the burdens of the parish by apprehending the male pauper; but as the parish authorities were of a different opinion they should have the warrant, and might avail them selves of the opportunity of bringing up an increasing family of paupers. BOW STREET. A DESERTER.—John Lambert, who was charged on a former day, and who now declared his name was William Johnson, was brought up for re. examination on a charge of desertion from the 14th Regiment of Foot, from Bristol, on the 21st of December last. The prisoner was _apprebendattby Tipper, of the F Division, at the Lamb public-house, Lamb's Con dui•-street, when, on searching him, four silk band kerchiefs and two silver spoons were found in his possession, besides eight pawnbroker's duplicates, relating to various articles of plate which had been pawned. These articles, the prisoner declared, were the property of his sister, who was in his company at the time he was apprehended. The prisoner was ordered to be transferred to his regiment at Bristol, and the spoons, &c., to be de tained until the prisoner's sister should prove them to be her property. QUEEN-SQUARE. EXTRAORDINARY PAUPER CASE.—The attention of Mr. GREGORIE, the sitting Magistrate, was for a considerable time occupied with the case of Wil liam Butler, who attended with his wife and five children, in consequence of being refused relief by the authorities of St. Margaret's workhouse. Mr. GREGORIE found the case to be one in which there were so many peculiar circumstances that he felt it his duty to enter into a minute inves tigation of all the particulars attending it. It then appeared that the man Butler was formerly a servant in the establishment of Mr. Fane, M.P., of Great George-street, and Leuthnor, in Oxford shire, where he resided for a number of years, during which time he married a fellow -servant, by whom he had his present family of five children, one of which is in arms. After leaving the service he became reduced, from want of employment, and in December, 1832, after residing three weeks in Marylebone, he made application to the overseers of the parish for relief, which was granted to him self and impoverished family; but on inquiring into his case, the authorities considered that he belonged to St. Margaret's, Westminster, and the family were consequently removed to the latter parish by the usual order, bearing the signature of two justices of the peace. Here they remained for some time, until the usual inquiries were made, from which the overseers deemed that they had no right to be bur dened with the party, and they gave notice of ap peal. The officers of Marylebone held a consulta tion upon the case, which terminated in their agree ing to take the paupers back, and cancel the magis• trates' order upon St. Margaret's, without prejudice. The family had not remained long in Marylebone workhouse before they were removed to Leuthnor below-Hill in Oxfordshire; but it being proved that They had no claim upon that parish, they were brought back to Marylebone. It was then believed that Leo: hnor•ahove-Hill wasjustly entitled to support the family, from the circumstance of Butler having resided there during a portion of his servitude with his master Mr. Fane, who has an estate there. The parochial gentlemen, however, deemed that they had no more right to be saddled with the family than either of the other parishes, and they appealed to the Middlesex Quarter Sessions against the magistrates' order of removal. This appeal was heard at Cher kenwell last week, and in consequence of the au thorities of Marylebone not having sufficient evi dence to prove that the parties belonged to Leuth nor-above-Hill, the order was quashed, and a few days since the last named parish had the family ifmeoarnedtochoille t presented themselves relorennv,eytehden ohoisncew Marylebone overseers for relief, when the messenger at the workhouse gave them ss. to get rid of them, at the same time desiring them to procure a lodging for the night in St. Margaret's parish'. They ac cordingly slept in the parish one night, and the next morning made application to be admitted to the workhouse. This was refused, and hence arose the application for the interference of Mr. Gregory. Mr. Nicholson, clerk to the overseers, attended, and clearly stated the peculiarities of the case to the magistrate, who immediately wrote to the overseers of Marylebone upon the subject. One of the as sistant overseers answered the letter, admitting the truth of Mr. Nicholson's statement, and also ac knowledged that the giving the family ss. to sleep in another parish was an irregular mode of proceed , ing. Mr. Gregorie then enclosed the assistant overseer's letter to the magistrates of Marylebone police office, and those gentlemen sent an order to the Marylebone authorities to relieve them. They complied and the family are now inmates of the workhouse from which they were originally removed. The money expended during the eighteen months the family was sent from parish to parish, is said to amount to nearly 2001., and during the investigation Mr. Gregorie remarked that the money expended in endeavouring to gain a settlement, would have ren dered this unfortunate family comfortable. MAR YLEB ONE. Two men, named Davis and Tames, were charged with carrying on an illegal manufactory of soap, at No. 10, Harrow -street, Lisson-grove. The excise officers proceeded to the house, where they found the defendants. On the ground floor one of the rooms was locked, and Bird, a surveyor-general of excise, having broken it open, perceived, at the ex tremity of the room, a dark passage. He groped his way along it, and then got into another room, where he found a soap copper, of about two tuns capacity, and 2,5001b5. of yellow soap, in some large frames. The defendant Davis said he was merely on a visit to James, and knew nothing of the capper. James admitted this, and Davis was therefore discharged. James was fined 301., and, in default of payment, committed for three months. Mrs. Delovally, a middle-aged woman, of re spectable appearance, wife of a blacksmith and bell hanger, residing at 27, Brown-street, Edgware-road, was charged with an assault on Mr. Masters, of 35, Lisson-grove North, Collector of the Maryle bone parochial rates. The complainant, having called at the house for payment of a rate, the de fendant became exasperated, to the highest pitch, and called "Bring the bucket of water, and give the rascally tax-gatherer a cooler, and make him jump out a little quicker than he came in." Find ing that these menaces did not cause the complainant to vanish, she seized him by the throat, and tore his throat. The complainant, discovering that this was no joke, turned tail, and flew up the street like lightning, his ears tingling all the way with the shouts of the fair lady and a crowd, which accom panied her part of the chase.—Held to bail. UNION-BALL. Edward Haylock was charged on suspicion of having been concerned in robbing Benjamin Kitchin, a Lincolnshire groom, of 1131. in sovereigns and notes, of the Grantham Bank. _ _ The complainant, who was dressed in a blue smockfrock, bedizened in front with a profusion of fancy needle-work, a broad-brimmed hat, and long leathern gaiters, had come up to town to lodge 1004 in the bank. While gazing at the monument, and lost in wonder, a well-dressed man came up to him, and having introduced himself as a native of Lin coln, fell into conversation with the simple country man. They ultimately adjourned to the Rose and Crown, in Collingwood-street, Blackfriars, where the well known trick was played off. A second man entered the parlour, and pulled out a quantity of flash notes, which, he said, he should for security place in his fob. The two fellows then asked the countryman whether he had brought any rash up to town, and, little thinking of the character of the parties into whose company he had ventured, he did not disguise the fact, but immediately drew from his pocket one hundred and three sovereigns, wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, together with two .5/. notes of the Grantham Bank. The moment the strangers saw the money, they implored the owner to take care of it. Oue of them pro fessed to wrap up the money carefully, and to place it in the fob of the countryman. Shortly after the strangers withdrew, and the poor yeoman, on being called on to pay' the reckoning, found that some coppers had been substituted for his 1131. He then roared like a bull, and deplored the loss of his sovereigns, bewailing the day that he had ever visited London. The prisoner, who is one of those fellows termed " Magsmen," was taken into cus tody on Friday evening; he was identified by the countryman. There were three other men with the prisoner, but they escaped, and in his pockets were found three sovereigns, besides several flash notes.—He was reminded. WORSHIP. STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF EXTORTING MONEY. —Samuel Hewson, a bricklayer, living in Orange street, Bethnal-green, was charged with having un lawfully ob ained, trom Mrs. Thomas, the wife of Mr. Thomas, of 225, Shoreditch, a surgeon, the sum of 401. Mrs. Thomas stated, that the prisoner came to her on Sunday the Bth December, and said, " This is a bad job between my wife and Mr. Thomas; he has violated my wife, and I must have means to leave London." Witness told him she did not believe it was possible. The prisoner assured her that the charge was true, and that Mr. Thomas could be tried for his life. Unless he bad money to take himself and wife from town, he must go and make a charge before Mr. Broughton, of Worship street, with whom he was well acquainted. Wit ness feeling alarmed, a'ked him what money he re quired ? He said he would leave it to me. Witness said she would give him 201., and fetched him 20 sovereigns, asking him if that would satisfy him ? He put himself into a violent passion, and said, " That's not enough. If you wish to see your husband where I said he should go, you may do so. If you like to make it 201. more, that will do. I will take 401., but not less. Witness gave him 40/., and the prisoner left the house. Mr. Thomas had attended the prisoner's wife from July last to October; during that time he never had any criminal connexion with her what evor.—The prisoner was remanded. Letters from Paris state, that an application was about to be made on behalf of the Bank of France to the Chamber of Deputies, to be allowed a deviation from one of its rules, relative to the security required on making loans or advances on Government Securities, which is found, from its gr• at strictness, to be an impediment to general business. It is intended, we believe, in future that the loans shall be made at the rate of five, or perhaps ten per cent., below the market price of the day, and that only one personal security besides shall be required in the transaction. _ .................... A letter from the Bishop of Exeter to one of his clergy in Cornwall, rela tive to the burial of unbapt i sed children, has just been published. The clergyman in question had refused to bury a child who had not been baptised, but had been named b y a Baptist minister, in consequence of which re fusal g reat excit e ment had pre vailed in his parish, and be wrote to the Bishop of hisdio cese for instructions in the event of such a case recurring. The Bishop states in his letter, that it well he the clergy. E BaronT he man's duty to do as be has alrea d y don ,, as the rubric e xpressly says, " The office of the burial of the dead i s no t day TN beforeSS.— to be used for any that die unbaptised." EVIDENCE vidce OF w,O A gi N ven lß th lS e IRISH other W i following e evidence Smith :—Plase your Honour, it was on the morning of the blessed St. Patrick's day, and _l just saw a man with his legs over the wall—Pat, says I ; what, says he—bist, says I ; wist, says he—here, says 1; where, says he— and piss,. your H gour, that's all I'm afther knowing about the whole matter. MYSTERIOUS.—A perfect gentleman, calling one e th o f s p o u u r r s, i n a ns la (i r i n e il n i l t e cr y i :) e, an h d a s a d b m e e i n r s n t g a himself Captain Hor n by, d resse d i n a f roc k coat an d b oots w w fe n w s o days at one of our inns (Henley,) and admiring the town so much, sent for his moth e r, th e H on . Mrs. Hornby, of Brunswick • y t i h n e g t o a terrace, Regent's Park, who was expected to arrive last evening. Previous to this, however, the Captain takes a well-furnished lodging, and, as his mother was coming, he must prepare the fatted calf; accordingly, wines, grocery, piano, medicine ! wearing-apparel, &c., all march in, in due order, and a check or two is changed, drawn upon the town bankers. This morning (Friday) the window of the Captain's bed-room was observed open, and when mine host came down stairs, the front door was found alsa open. The Captain was found to have gone out for a little walk, and the wine, grocery, wearing apparel, were gone also. Numerous inquiries were made atter the worthy gentletnan, and some faint hopes were entertained that the Hon. Mrs. H. (Oh !) would arrive in clue course ; but here again was disappointment. She was by some unlucky accident prevented then, but was t x 'meted about this time. Up to the present moment, 9 P.M., no arrival has been announced. Perhaps it would not be cruel to state, that our " shaver" has some idea of advanc ing his price during the present unlooked-for disastrous season...—Berkshire Chronicle. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Beans. Oats. Barley. Wheat. Per Quarter. Carlisle* tiexham Nforpeth • Penrith Sheffield *owe , . ewe... Winchester Per Bushel. Cowhridge Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton S. to S. 47 -- 48 52 37 45 49 S. to S. 24 28 25 27 ..... 26 S. to S. 17 IS 20 15 18 .... 19 s. I. 40 '' 46 55 s.d. s.d. 50 5 6 66 7 0 80 89 70 9 3 80 86 69 70 89 99 24 28 ad. g• dg 25 28 29 30 4 6 5 0 36 46 40 48 29 36 30 46 7_ 19 18 22 _, s. cf. u o • 20 23 3 0 3 4 33 40 3 0 3 4 19 22 20 33 A 2 d. g nj 00 v i 56 5 50 53 56 53 60 61 00 60 3 56 112 0 11 9 11 0 ill 3 14 6 136 16 6 136' 80 86 70 76 E 6 90 86 90 46 8 8 , 46 a 50 64 40 ¢8 8 6 100 79 89 86 ?5, 80 - ----------------------11 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. -Feb. _ ~. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -s. 445. to 48s. fin e 5 0a ' Lin. and Cam. ......... -s. 425. to 475. fine tr .. -.----.''-'" Yorkshire ..... ... ......... -s. 425. to 465. Vl _ r 4. - White -s. 475. to 525. e .',;,',. -- Foreign, Red -s. 38s. to 475. fine T4 r ,. White ............... -s. 405. to 50 4 . rine f', Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ................ 279. w 30s. fine ..)..L: - Lincolnshire ........................... 255. to 2SS. fin: M. Yorkshire Wold .................... . 255. to 235. fin_ f: s. - Foreign ................................. -s. to -4. fin' 4G Beans, Old - New 355. to 3Ss• fine lr. Oats, Potato. .............................. .. - Poland -s • l7s. to 19s. 6IM - Friezland and Small ........... --s. 16s. to 16s. fie:j„ Y e Z - Mealing 9d. to 1014 d. per .. 0 %", - Shelling 235. to 265. 91 Pe. r,:id. Malt 3ss. 395, fine 425. per le 4 / . . t. Rapeseed ------ SCO' 'CH M, .RKETS. Wheat. Barley 21 16 1 8 18 1 3 26 30 3 ,2 24 25 2 ° I 6 19 23 29 23 26 asure vari Aberdeen .—., Berwick Coldstream 40 46 30 24 35 42 48 56 50 6 0 40 50 14 1 1 1 3 12 14 13 14 2 0 18 222 30 22 20 5 31 16 20 23 92, 15 17 23 2 ~11 12 20 14 7') 16 45 48 20 22 22 -25 Les throughout the Cupar Dundee...~... Elgin Inverness...-. 38 44 Kelso 37 54 Kirkaldy,...... 48 61 Perth 56 The site of the in_ N MARK all kinds ( of Grain t Say, and EDINBURGH COR We had a large supply of , the sales were not brisk. Wheat. Barley. Oats• Pease. First s7s Od 32s Od 21s 4d 21s Cd Second s2s Od 27s Od 19s Od 303 M 1. .. Third 449 Od 18s Od 16s Od 29s ix , . V 2v i irm a ai l i.___,:ie .... Beef, per lb. Os. 3fd. to Os. 6d. Freshßutter,lb.s.loJ. tO 1 r alutton —........... 0 3jl 0 6 Salt Ditt0......... 0 8 0 , r p n c e wr Loafll r . . 3 020 5 0 804 0 0 3 20 7 1 0 606 7 0 PRICES OF PROVISIONs, &C. 5. -A oEB Ditto , gaahgtrslseetayrt p pwl) r )rittt c dktt i o 1L 1 ... . ) 7 6 C 0 ) ; 8 00 . io. „ . 6, 1 1 0 0 Potatoes. 171 lb . 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 5t..,..... , 0 7 v Bea" 31s Oa sgs Od 29s Od EDINBURGH MEAL There was a middlingsupply o and the sales were dull, at last v. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal LI 8 0 Second ditto 1 6 0 Barleymeal 1 4 0: Peasenaeal 1 4 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12s L MARKET: —Feb. 11. .f Oatmeal at this day's marls reek's prices. Per Stone of 141 b. 111*, 0 First Oatmeal X° Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 a Peasemeal 0 I .-2d, ISs• GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Feb. 12. The arrivals of Grain are moderate, and we note no alterl' tion in prices. Wheat pe I Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 0 1 British, , oldr 2401 b. 26 oto2B 0 Irish l4 Oto „ --- n ew 22 025 0 British l4 0 16v Canada, free 2B 0 29 0 Beans, per 2601 b. ° 17 0 ..., 0 I r i s h Barley, per 3201 b. Sco ttish l5 0 4 0 English 0 C Pease, Scottish ... 16 0 1 4 0 Scottish 2O 0 22 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 1 3 0 ,, 43 0 I r i s h u CORNWALL MARKETS. 7s. 94 ' Tautto—Wheat (average) I9s.9d.—Barley, ST. AUSTELL—Wheat, —s. to 20s.Barley, Os. to 10s.- - "' 7s. to 7s. 3d. oath to 10s---•- PENZANCE—Wheat, 19s. to 20s.—Barley, 9s. ~,, to 5j..... Os. to 7s. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 51(1-- - P" k . vu. Butter, 12d. per lb. 0. 0 ( 1.0 0, LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 199.6.1—8a1ch —• ths. 6d.oats, „. 0 , 6s. &I.—Beef, 51d.—Mutton, 6d. la. cod+Oats, W. LISKEARD--Wheat, --S. to 20s. 0d. —Barley, 9 s • ' to 6s. 6d. Bonmur—Wheat (average) 19s. —Barley, .... -- ~, , e ' ni - --- " --Clatii 78 .0 HELSTON—Wheat, 1 9 s. 6 d.—Barley , Ps v"' Sr. CoLumo—Wheat, 19s. to —5. ....,8ar1eY, .-94'4. to 108. Bee and Mutton, 51d. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lam" , ed• ____—........ MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BAS I NGRA LL-STREE ., I - - (From the London Gazette.) jj TO-MORROW, FEB. 18. j J. Garnett, hat-manufacturer, Chiswell-street... ..... ..••••• o D. Hamilton, tailor, Nicholas-lane, Lombai &street ...... R. Shea and T. Fenn, tailors, Great Pulteney-street . ..... f C. L.ampon, feuraoniter. 'Tyer's-gateway, Bermonesey... DIVIDENDS. ,at IQ Sir G. Duckett, Bart. and Co., bankers, Pall-mall I T. Homewood, brewer, Pollard's-row, BethnalLgro. - ....... a W, Best, ironmonger, Noble-street ........................... T. Sherwin, cheesemongar, London-wall ............................ ai W. Roberts, merchant, Angel-court, City ....................... A. C. March, navy-agent, Great Scotland yard..... ••••••• Interest, it is said, is making in the hig e ; quarter to obtain for a son of the Marquis of Winebl;l the Colonelcy of the 15th Hussars, vacated b y the disns. of Lord Brudenell. . The il ara t " he b ee ° i r ° INCENDIARY FIRES.—At a late hour. O l o i f w ha e y te , thdeisoporovepteerdty to o f — be C o a n in fi , t E e. sq , Friday evening last, the carthouses and severa l etici l such rapid progress before the discovery af all endeavours to save any part of the propertY were less. There appears to be no doubt this is the wa — ac kl work of an incendiary, as the carthouses and hsYst ioei is enterts to were on fire at one time. Suspicion against an individual who was observed at the fire at SOU de' commencement, an I he was apprehended on morning near Windsor. The value of the PrO eftl io o the LA I/ re in etroyed is immense, but is amply uau d • Insurance O ffi ces. __. _.............. near Cranford -130 fled; _ - BIRTHS. f A lfred On the 13th inst., at Merton, Surrey, the lady o M r arjoibak Bnds, Esq., of a son. Bed for d's re° On the n 14ths o inst., Mrs. Edward S. Meyer , Covent-garden, of a daughter. oidirlP On the 14th inst., New Broad-street, Mrs. 1 1 . 1 of a daughter. ople. On the 16th inst., in Southwark -bridg e-road, Mrs Wilson, of a daughter. ler On the 14th inst., in Bedford row, the lady of Char . Ge ° ' gan, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. the gel. On the 13th inst., at Westerfield, the lady of .A. Whitefoord, of a son. Clive , of a s o a' the Bth inst., at Powis Castle, Lady Lucy ti d o w, At Leylands, Yorkshire, Mrs. Mary Ann Du ck ' A . : gre• three boys and two girls, all of whom are since dea d ; lost her husband about two months ago. MARRIED, t00; On the I Ith inst., at Devizes, William shaw, Ow ' n w l , P Ramsey Henderson, daughter of Mrs. Water' On the 14th inst., at Peckham, Penelope, relict - 54 George Bayly, of Gracechurch-street. Se a 4, On the 14th inst., at Muswell-hill, Thos. Bird, 800,40- On the 11th inst., at Newton, Burgoband, Leice`,, William, eldest son of Mr. William Moore, Great QU eeli AP" Lincoln's Inn-fields, in his 27th year. On the 14th inst., in Sloane-street, Frances Jane, ro e / of Colonel Cromwell Massey, late in the East India C° 00. service, on the Madras establishment. t d i° 4 On the 14th inst., at Hoxtable-house, near Dartfo sjoef 77th year, Isaac Espinasse, Esq., barrister - at - la w, a fiev,,glei the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, and one of his gaies tices of the Peace for Kent. On the 11th inst., at Henley-on-Thames, Henri °OA, Parker, Esq., youngest son of the late Anthony Parke of Castle Louth, Ireland, and late of the 9th Lancers- gore"! On the 22d ult., at Nunton, near Salisbury , G eo. ip• Esq., R. N. Afilh On the 11th inst., at High-row, Knightsbridge, i* wife of Robert George Bankes, Esq., of Hoddesdon, "." St 3 : sister of the late Thomas Truman, Esq., of St. Martin $' ford Baron, Lincolnshire. „.pie On the 11th inst., Mrs. Ditchman, of Th- rl° - Hackney-road, aged 78. n ster!;sl , On the 13th inst., at Blakebrook, near Kiddera lt- % lr o f her 36th year, Elizabeth Pratt, wife of Thomas Sinic°o.4. E,q., and eldest daughter of the late George Sirace % ' Harborne, Staffordshire. James r°i? On the 13th inst., Mary, daughter of the late J . o f Eel., of Sunning-hill, Berks. ,‘ lat e On the 14th inst., in London, Captain James G a r'' the Royal Regiment of Scots Grays. / II ° - -- a _ (h." PRINTED AND PUILIPIIED sYMURDO YOUI4 Suzi Orvics, 112, STRAND. Frances Ramsey tlenuclov.., ~..,.....___ _.... .. _ Hampstead. er° f Bush, il eldest daughter ° the 13th at Fulham, F , r ll , a l n r. c ß is o , ccius, late of Sher b ou , B. Barth, Cockspur-street. ~ 0 0 On the 15th inst., at Cheshunt, Herts, Mr. John vl or yb, of London, to Susan Ann, second daughter of gn i ' Waltham Cross. orint On the 15th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, John Vl _ o f Jo•-, Esq., of Highbury, t o C aro li ne Ell en , f our th daugh ter , ~ Jeaffreson, Esq. Euza, tri • On the 15th inst., Mr. J. Burridge, surgeon, to eldest daughter of the late Mr. S. Cortissos. DIED. ag73,0 44 On the 11th inst., at Wiliesley Hall, Derbyshire, 5 Lady Hastings, relict of General Sir Charles Halting ' ;,,. ' G.C.H., Colonel of the 12th Regiment of Foot. 10 ,10.' On the 11th inst., at Ryde, in her 73d year, En ° ' l, ode ' of Thomas Keate, Esq., late of Chelsea College. t o, • On the 13th inst., in her 81st year, Mrs. Gough, ° _i s y row, Peckham, widow of the late Joseph Gough, 0 . ...AA, ° .E. s q' t t hew :, 5 - 24 25 28 _ ... - •••• r _ "--- / •••• - , 18 ". :.; .'" 4 3 44 intrl• will ila• he the lar ed fly )e- rge ely ich ber let the ted was had ►ma .il's n a arts, 'fines have nip not- with Sure, c in ding )n n- in :1 for ships >nes, shua 'ance the ation !ding yor's n his I his t he hies, ,ence 'ding their six