The Sun. — London, England, 1825-12-27 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Rziraets from the Morning Pvers,Dec.27, 1825. [THE TIMES.] If the combinations of country gentlemen to keep up their rents, which have been forced to the present standard by a rise of prices, pro duced in its tarn by an overflow of Bank-notes thiltitigh the country -L-if, we say, these combitia tient, would leave things to their natural course, ivimight be pronounced that the confusion which vq . ehave recently witnessed in all pecuniary tfairsactions would end in effecting an immense Wait - benefit ; and t no distant day, credit, if let alone, Will again become that which it used to' be for our ancestors—the representative - of solid property ; not, as it now too often the case, aii:axpedient resorted to by mere adventurers pursuing their own schemes at the risk of any Ttikt? l would trust them ; nor is it merely the mo- APOlists in wheat who are capable of embroiling tkitter •by their selfishness the inconveniences . 30tchliave lately been experienced, and which, perhaps, are now in the act of transferring them " sehes 'from the class of bankers to those persons engaged. in" merchandise, who used to be accom ritodated by them. Other descriptions of mono- POWs, all who think they suffer from the change in our commercial policy which has just been ac complished by the . Cabinet, may join their strength to that of the land-owners, and combine for a common purpose. The bond of union in that CR9e will be, that the dealers in land shall press upon Ministers the expediency of repealing or qualifying. the recent measures for opening our foreign trade ; while the manufacturing monopo -bits: in silk and other articles lend their lungs and votes to their new allies, and obstruct the reformation of the laws against importing corn..-We-do not deny that in this manner some mischief may be effected—much uncertainty of commercial dealing—considerable fluctuation in pricei—continued uneasiness and alarm as to the nature of the system which is finally to be adopt ed. Such are the probable consequences of these morcenary, though shallow, and, if Ministers be firm, unsuccessful struggles, to push the interests of individuals by the sacrifice of the national welfare. We have supposed a case, which is not altogether imaginary ; but, in fact, the success of such a project, in the extent which the par ties to it would contemplate, is altogether impos sible. It is scarcely possible that Government Should now re-impose the shackles from which they have just liberated our commerce. Mr. lictskisson would reject so puerile an inconsis tency, even if the great body of the British mer chants had not felt in practice the beneficial re sults of this amended policy. The only question, therefore, of the two, on which a stand of any importance seems feasible, is that of the prohibi tion of foreign corn. And here we shall take for granted that the system of average, with its long train of frauds and injuries, is to be prolonged by the confederate land-owners, in defiance of the Government and the nation. Even this, we Can tell them, will but poorly serve their purpose. If they wish to maintain the present price of provisions, no corn law that ever was de vised will enable them to inflict much longer that severe calamity upon their countrymen. To keep iappriees at their present rate, the land-owners must, as a, necessary auxiliary, superadd to their corn law another law, perpetuating the excess -of that paper which their friends, the country bankers, have been issuing. They must continue the system of one-pound notes ; they must pro vide for the necessary, if not the immediate, fruits of an excess of paper, by an exclusion of the 'metallic currency and a renewal of the Bank re striction. It is physically out of the question that the paper system throughout the country should go on as it has for some time existed, without producing, occasionally, just such con vulsions as a mixture of panic with more substan tial causes of embarrassment has brought upon all dealers in paper, great and small, within the last three weeks. Now the Bank of England can hardly desire the recurrence of similar crisis; Government must dislike them. Commercial business disturbed, 'and the revenue in part sus pended, are fearful things for an English Admi nistration to encounter more than once. We should be sorry, therefore, not to be secure that his Maje,:ty's Government will take some steps for guarding the people of England against evils so sensibly felt, and so easily to be avoided. There was not many years since, when the country paper-coiuers were smashing by the score, a good deal said about exacting secu city from such bankers : the plan was scouted. What we should like better would be, a virtual security : tie them up from issuing their own paper—force them to pay in that of the Bank of 'England, or in gold—and it will follow, as the day the night, that only men who are capable of so paying will attempt the -business of bankers. But we return to what we have already stated—Without allowing an un 'lljniteci ei4uNtinn .of country paper, it will do little for the landowners to leave them their' mo tanpoly of corn: The priCes must otherwise come . down—not quite so low, perhaps, as with an open trade, but too low to serve the projects of the landlords. ' . _That, however, is not enough—the nation must break up their monopoly altogether. A protecting duty to the amount of the taxes paid by land alone may be awarded in their favour—even that is in derogation of general principles, and of the manufacturing interests of the country—but it carries a specific act of justice on the face of it, and we hope would satisfy the people. There are some other considerations connected with the present or late crisis which we must now reserve. [MORNING POST.] We regret to find that in the County of Lin coln a number of Agricultural Proprietors have considered the period of agitation and difficulty, from, which we are slowly and labouriously emerging, a fit , season for throwing the great question of the Corn Laws upon the Govern ment and the manufacturing and commercial in. terests of the country. The only reason or elt. case which they have for taking a step so likely, if followed up, to delay the complete restoration of public confidence and tranquillity, is the intimation given by Mr. Huskisson in the last Session of Parliament, that a Committee of the House of Commons should inquire into the effect of the existing Corn Laws, and report according to the evidence which they should col lect. Surely in the course of the six months which have just elapsed, they might have chosen a more favourable moment than the present for raising considerations of this importance, and raising them, for what purpose ? Were an Act on the point of being passed which they thought injurious to their interests, it would he reasona ble and natural that they should be eager to op. pose it without suffering themselves to be re strained by the hopes or wishes of others. But here there is no such danger, and their real object must be to prevent, not a legislative enact ment, but a Parliamentary inquiry. This is going rather far : farther indeed than has yet been done since the establishment of a Con stitution in this empire, which, for sound and cogent reasons of national utility, permits and even ordains that the doors of investigation into all that concerns the welfare of the public should never be closed. To decide, as the pe tition of the Lincolnshire Landholders takes upon itself to do, that the result of what a Committee of the House of Commons would report after a due and formal inquiry, must be nothing but " theory and speculation ;" and to pray that the "c agricultural interests may not be sacrificed," to such theories and speculations, which, on the contrary, may prove to be sound practical wis dom and justice, is to attempt that which no man is justified in doing'. It is to calumniate Parlia ment by anticipation ; it is to alarm the only inte rest which has remained unmoved and uninjured during the late agitation, and it is to do so at a time when every true friend to public advantage and national prosperity would be anxious, on the con trary, to assuage unreasonable fears, to re-unite all disparting views, to restore confidence, and to strengthen public credit. The Lincolnshire Landholders have agreed upon petitioning : at least the comparatively few who attended the Meeting have done so. Let them present their Petition, uncalled for as it may be ; but let them not be so inconsiderate as to carry into effec their resolution of convening district meetings a this moment, if the general peace and welfare o the country have still any value in their esti ma Lion. rIifORNING CIIRONICLE.I The Francis Freeling Packet arrived on gator. day from Brazil, in 44 days, having touched at Lisbon on her way home, no doubt, for the pur pose of landing dispatches from the Brazilian Government and Sir Charles Stuart. The ad. vices brought by her from Rid are up to the 28th of October, only a few days later than those already received from the same quarter, which we have previously published. Since the 12th, the Emperor's birth day, nothing material had occurred in the Brazilian capital, except the arrival of official news from Baron de Laguna, at Montevideo, giving the details of a rencontre with the Orientals, as published in eur Paper of Saturday. By the packet came an English mes. server to our Government from Sir Charles Stuart, and also M. Bento Lisboa, with dispatches to the Brazilian Embassy at ,our Court. We have every reason to believe that both were bearers of the new Treaty concluded be tween Great Britain and the Emperor of Brazil, and we have no doubt the object of the packet touching at Lisbon, on her way home, was to leave another copy of the Treaty there. The formation of this Treaty may be considered as a necessary consequence of the one previously con cluded between Brazil and Portugal, sanctioning the separation and acknowledging the independ ence of the former. With both, whilst united under the same Crown, we were connected by a treaty of friendship,alliance, commerce and navi gation, signed at Rio de Janeiro on the 19th Feb. 1810, and usually called Lord Strangford's Treaty. Although according to the 32d article of the above treaty, it was stipulated, " that its provisions should be unlimited in point of dura tion, the obligations and conditions thereof perpe tual and immutable, and that they should not be changed or affected in any manner, in case the King of Portugal should re-establish the seat of the Portuguese Monarchy within the European dominions of that Crown ;" it was nevertheless agreed that the same should be formally renewed at a stated period, and this expired some time ago. The new relative situation, however, in which both Portugal and Brazil are at present placed, required entirely new treaties with us, many provisions of the old one having become obsolete as well as inconsistent. As far as regards Brazil, our manufacturers will, no doubt, be ad mitted on the same basis as those of Portugal, whose subjects are equally considered in the light of foreigners, that is, on the payment of 15 per cent. duties. The introduction of some clause for the protection of British property end subjects may further be deemed necessary ; but many of the other provisions, extending in all to 32 Articles, are rendered useless by the establishment of an independent Government, on a liberal and constitutional basis. Most pro bably, the new treaties with Portugal and Brazil will not he made known to the public until they are laid before Parliament at the ensuing Session, and then, it is to be hoped, they will be found more concise, explicit, and, we may add, more I mutually satisfactory,.than the former one. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The Continental Journals that have reached us since our last, contain accounts which must con vince the most sceptical that the Emperor Alex ander came to his death by natural means. We dwell upon this point the more strenuously, be cause the event is, in all conscience, important enough of itself, without the addition of vio lence; and we suspect that the latter rumour was put forth with the view alone of diverting the public mind from a calm consideration of the consequences likely to Row from an occurrence, as momentary as it wa's•unexpected. Both the Hamburgh and Paris Papers contain advises from St. Petersbargh of the 9th inst., whore the melancholy intelligence was received the day before, and where it is said to have plunged the inhabitants of all ranks into the deepest affliction. As soon as the news reached that ca pital, there was a meeting of the members of the Imperial Family, of the Council of State and Ministers, at which it was resolved to proclaim Constantine, as Emperor and Autocrat, without any delay—an additional proof, if such were wanting, of the gratuitous malignity on one side, and of the inexcusable credulity On the other, in which the pretended assassination originated.— The Empress Mother, whose attachment to the late Emperor was well known, and which was only matched by the unremitting attentions she had never ceased to receive at his hands—was present at this meeting; and, at its breaking up, the Grand Duke Nicholas was the first to take the oaths to the new Sovereign. His example was immediately followed by the troops who form the garrison of the capital, and who compose a corps d'elite, amounting to about 50,000 men of all arms. Thus no demonstration has been exhibited as yet of that resistance, or rather aversion, to the rights of Constantine, of which we have heard so much of late ; and, if the exact truth were known, it would perhaps be found that it has occasioned more joy than grief or consternation, particularly as far as the senti ments are concerned. The pacific policy of Alexander, however it might have met the wishes of the enlightened portion of the Russian nation, could not have been very acceptable to a body of men, to whom war is a trade, and rapid promotion the grandest object of their desires. The martial ardour of their new Sovereign will reconcile them at least to his authority : and, to shew his gratitude, he will probably lose as little time as possible to gratify their ruling passion. [NEW TIMES.] The country papers are full of ►►otices, issued by Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Traders, declaring their confidence in particularTßanks. The effect of these notices has been highly beneficial ; they have checked a panic which threatened the most disastrous consequences ; they have stopped runs which had begun on several substantial firms; and they have restored tranquillity to the alarmed mind, and security to the intercourse of commerce. The Journal which, above all others,was active in creating the panic, and to which, above every other cause, the sufferers feel that they owe their own ruin, now turns round, and, with an odious hypocrisy, sheds crocodile tears over its victims. It talks of " compassion for the thousands of poor, credulous, and unoffending persons, who, with their families, are consigned to destruction, by the failure of any extensive Bank. " How many poor tradesmen's bills (says the writer) are left unpaid, by the extinction of deposits, which had been left for the discharge of them ! How many small farmers thrown upon the parish by the swallowing up of the sums laid by for their rent day ! What numbers of small annuitants, and of industrious shopkeepers, all whose savings had been locked up in the neighbouring bank !" True—too true. But who is the cause of all this misery ? Who alarmed the whole country with a false and fabricated conversation between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank ? Who whispered away the credit of houses that could command millions ? Who la boured to defeat the means adopted for restoring confidence ? As Nathan said unto David, "`Thou art the man." [BRITISH PRESS.] When the protection of our manufactures, by prohibitory duties, began to be denounced as im politic, and laws were enacted which should lay them open, under certain regulations, to foreign competition, it was easy to foretell that the agri culturists could not long escape the operation of the same principles of free trade, and that the manufacturers, in their turn, would call for the abolition of the Corn Laws. They would say, naturally enough, " If you are to have manufac tured goods cheaper, let us have provisions lower; that if we were to reduce—as we must— the wages of our workmen, they may be enabled to live cheaper, in proportion to the fall in the price of their labour." And in this there is nothing unfair, for if the principles of free trade are to be acted upon, they must be acted upon impartially, and the husbandman must be put upon a level with the manufacturer. They must both stand or fall together. A more momentous subject, or one in which the whole kingdom is more vitally interested never came befor;Parliament than the abolition of the Corn Laws. All the great branches of our national industry are linked in separably with the prosperous state of agricul ture—all the great sources of our wealth and power low from it, as from the parent spring. No error can be more fatal than that which re presents the manufacturing and the landed inte rest as opposed to each other. This subject pre sents a wide field of discussion; we have consi dered it fully, and in all its bearing, hut we shall not at present enter upon it. The County Meet ings that have already begun to assemble will press it soon enough upon ourattention. In the meantime we would remark, that the divisions of opinion, which unhappily prevail upon this great question, require that so far as the daily Press takes part in the argument, a journal, if it furnishes nothing in the way of reason and sound argument, would do well' to abstain, at least, from abuse and irri tation. We say this with reference to the Times, which opens the discussion by observing that " The landed men are actually beginning their machiria tions fora continuence of the monopoly in bread." Such language may excite the lower classes to acts of insult and outrage, but as to any good effect, it can have none. It may generate vindictive feel ings, but it can afford no useful information ; as applied to the Agriculturists as a class in the state, it is unmanly and invidious. The subject involves in itself enough of disunion, and the less inflammatory matter that is introduced into it the better. [MORNING HERA f.D.] The trustees of of the Kensington-road are ad. vertising, we see, for a loan of 5,0001. Now as this money, if raised, as well as the interest, most be repaid out of the pockets of the public, we think there would be no great harm if these gen tlemen were kind enough to let us know for what purpose this or any other loan can pos sibly be wanted. We are aware that these good people, like many others 44 dressed in a little brief authority," are rather grand i❑ their no tions, and somewhat touchy in their temperament; and that, like Falstaff, though reasons were as thick as blackberries, they will give none 44 upon compulsion ;" and as we have no disposi tion to raise their ire, or power to compel the production of their reasons, we will merely,argue this matter with them on the ground of precedent and the reasonableness of the thing. There is no principle more clearly inherent in the spirit of our free Constitution than this, that no money shall be raised upon the subject without a full knowledge on his part of the purposes for which it is wanted, and the objects to which it is applied. Parliament happily retains this principle unimpaired ; and it is, unfortu nately, local, petty authorities, like those to which we are now alluding, which assume and exercise a power unknown to the King himself, or to any department in the State. Thus we have Vestries, and other mean and incongruous bodies, who raise money without limit and without ac counting for it; and Turnpike Trusts which not only tax us by tolls for the repairs of the roads, but with the payment of heavy loans and interest, the necessity and appropria tion of which are only known to themselves. Now, though we dare say the Kensington Trustees have abundant and substantial reasons for borrowing money, the necessity of such pro ceedings is not so obvious as to preclude the ne cessity of any information being given. In the first place, from the largeness of the tolls, and the immense traffic on the Great Western Road, there may be people ignorant enough to imagine, that so far from having occasion to borrow money, the tolls themselves ought to be lowered ; and we go still farther than this, and actually think there should be no such Trust as this Kensington one in existence, but that it and every other so near the metropolis ought to be abolished altogether. To be sure, when we consider the snug pick ings and the load of patronage and consequence our principles tend to overthrow, we are some times half-inclined to relent; but still we cannot persuade ourselves that it is not just as fit that we should have turnpike gates in Cheapside and the Strand, as between Sloane-street and Piccadilly. But, besides the enormous amount of the tolls collected on this road, it is to be remembered that on the recent removal of the gate at Hyde- Park-corner to its present very objectionable situation at Knightsbride, the trustees contrived to exempt themselves from the repair of so much of the road as lies between the sites of the old and new gates, being above half a mile in length, and that the worst and most expensive half mile on the road, and amounting, we should suppose, to one-tenth of the whole. Now, in private life, when a man's expences diminish, and he has fewer calls upon his income, he necessarily be comes the richer, and of course has less occasion to borrow: So, we think, it ought to he with the trustees ; and as their borrowing at a moment when Parliament, it is t& be hoped, has it in agitation to cut short their existence, may have the appearance of endeavouring to keep themselves and their powers alive by fictitiotis means, we trust they will either at once give good reasons for the step they are taking, or post pone its adoption till the sense of Parliament on the general question of continuing their's and the other gates round London has been 4scertaitied. FONTHILL ABBEY. We cannot but regret haying to announce the demolition, in great part, of this most magnificent fabric, which has been so universally anti deservedly admired. On Wedues day afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, the tower, which rose to the height of 270 feet from the centre of the building, fell with a most tremendous crash, breaking through a great portion of the roof of the Abbey, and instantaneously present ing an immense Mass of ruins. Most fortunately no lives were lost. The tower, it appears, was of too light a construction, and, from certain indications, its fall had been expected for se veral days previous to its actual occurrence. It declined in its descent a little to the south-west, and fell into the fountain court, destroying the hall, the whole of the octagon, and great part of the galleries, north and south, together with the first crimson room, leaving the grand entrance standing, with the organ in it, and the statue of the late Alderman Beckford. Mr. Farquhar was in the large east wing of the building at the time of the disaster, and it is said that he was not much alarmed, as he had expected it. Seven servants were also at the time en gaged, by his orders, in taking out the painted windows of St. Michael's gallery, and they all escaped unhurt : one servant boy, however, was considerably injured. A great quantity of plate is still buried in the mass of ruins.—.(Salisbury Journal.) On Wednesday afternoon the inhabitants of Fonthill Abbey were alarmed by a most tremendous crash, which seemed like nothing more nor less than the sudden crushing into ruins of the whole building. Their terror was however soon abated by finding that the lofty tower had fallen, and burst through that part of the building which nearly adjoined it, without occasion ing any personal injury whatever. It appears that the pro. prictor, Mr. Farquhar, had strong apprehensions of this la mentable occurrence, and had removed most of the costly embellishments to secure them from the *pending danger. The cause of this event is not attributable to any limit of the architect, but to the instability of the materials. It not being at first designed to be raised to any thing near its height, the architect had, of course, fixed the foundation proportionately ; and when it was proposed to raise it to its remarkable elevation, the building was too far advanced to allow of any adoption to render the foundation sufficiently strong to support it; and, in order to meet the wishes of the then proprietor, William Beck. ford, Esq. in raising it to its noble and. commanding height, and thereby add so greatly to the magnificence of the whole, the architect was obliged to use wood in its erection. But, alas ! this was not of that quality to render so beautiful a structure a lasting monument of the taste of its designer, and, as a display of architectural excellence, an honour to the country.—(Bath. Journal.) The Hospital at the Salpetriere, at Paris, is a most extensive establishment. The kitchen contains four boilers, each of which will hold two oxen, and convert,them into soup. They are cal culated to contain 12tH) pounds of meat each. The extent of the wardrobe may be estimated from the following specimen of the lingerie, or store room for clean linen, which contains 38,000 sheets, 19,51 X) pillow cases, 29,000 women's neck hand kerchiefs, 22,000 night caps, and 36,600 chemises. . . SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. JONES GIDGEON, Ininia ture-painter, in Duke-street, Oxford -street, was found dead in his bed on Sunday. He was a . fine healthy man, of thirty years. of age. He complained of a swimming in his head on Satur day night, 'but it went off, and he enjoyed the company of a small party at home. He has left a needy family. • A LITTLE DOG, WITH GREAT SPIRIT.—A few days since, as Mr. SlONs, , of Castle=strect, Bristol, was return ing from Thornbury, on the road between Elton and Horsfield, he was stopped by a single footpad, who, without saying one word, took him in his arms, and lifted him up from the ground. Mr. Sions endeavoured to disengage himself from his assailant, and, in the struggle, they both tell. At this moment a small . terrier dog, belonging to Mr. Sions, seized the fellow by the thigh, and compelled him to quit his hold. The dog then seized the fellow by the throat, and held him tight till his master was enabled to effect his escape. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis, is la ft the 41h, loaf—there are ethers who sell from a [mitring' ti t woPenee halfpenny below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN- LAST WEEK. irit, English. Irish. i t or e Wheat 6,001 - Barley Malt 6,090 ..:,--.• --- Oats Rye Beans 1,836 Peas .. -- T 49 4 ares . - Rapeseed - -- 0 0 Brank -- Mustard . • - Seeds -- --- Linseed .. - ---• Flour . - 540 8 ~~ SEEDS, Dec. 26. New English R. Clover, pei cwt...63s 74s—fine - -9 81 , 6 , Old Ditto - New Foreign ditto —s —.s—fine —$ --41 ,_ Old ditto ditto .22s 40s— fi ne 42s 4D. Now IVlliteditto 56s —s—fine 62$ r Old ditto 35s 445—tine 305 3 60 New Trefoil.. per cwt 254 295-6ne 34s $5 l Old ditto 9s 15, .fine 185 fat Is—, New Itibgi ass —s —s—fine - -4 .. 4 , . r . , Old ditto 243 305—fine 33. 0°- English Carraway Seeds SZis 36s—fine 38s 40. Foreign ditto . , --s —s —s---fine.-4 Coriander do. lOs Oil 12s—fine ids • -0 • St.Foiii.... per tir . Rye-Grass Macey ditto Linseed for feeding Ditio, for crushing Canary Seed . 7 2 36 0 i 5 s 2 4 81 2 360 6 8 1 . . 0 - 1 4 21 5 h 6 L:_i de. ;3 400 :0 00 1 Whitt! Mustard Seed.. per bushel.... 14,---fine il° l- fi n 40$ Brown ditto . .... 13s 18s—.- 8 ,6 $ Turnip Seeds Hs 15s Od--150'5, Tares --6eW 75' -1 231 251 261 --"S Rape Seed ..., per last .... NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL -111ARKETS) n g By the Carcase. Id Beef 3s Od to 4's 4d Veal 4s Od tos Mutton 3s Od to 4s 4d Pork 4l Cu' to is Laath, Os Oil to Os Od. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, Dec. 24. ,d Clover, 0. i cos od to 107 s (3d Hay, Old 90s od to 91 4 ,0 d —1nf..... 8:1, od to 976 6d —N e w l u f. 67 s 6d to ,wosol —New.... —s od t o — s od S traw .... 366 Oil t• . ST. JAMES'S. pd Hay ' , Os oil to 103 s oil I Clover 72$ 6d to pit New Ditto — s Od t o — s O d (0 4s' WHITECHAPEL. Clover ....9os Od to isoi Od I Hay 7os Od to 1 '- Straw ....34s Od to 42s 0(11 Inferior —s Od PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Dec. 26. . ort• Kent Pockets Sussex Pockets Essex Pockets 161 os to 171 Os t o 171 176 P er ot 01 Farnham. fine.— 281 Os to 251 us—Second s , 201 0s t° 2 o% , Kent Bags Sussex Bags Essex Bags HAW 1111)ES. IS 441 [lest 1 - lei fors & Steers, per st. Ordinary Ato 2s Ou ,4 -. 9.s 8(1 • 3 • ' b.. .to 35 Oil ;Market - Call .. eacP.• as. SHEEP ud Middlings 2s 411 to 2, 6,1 Lambs.... Of Od ") - SHEEP SKINS. 04 Polledn , to OS 1 Ss Od to 4s 6d I She...dings ..03 o t..- 0. Downs ss 0.1 to 4s Gil Lambs is Ckl 10 Ss _....., PRICE OF LEATHER. tld Best Dressing Hid e s p er lb !Bid t° 101 l Crop Hides Crop Hides, t 5 to 38lbs for cutting .. 1.5(1 vi t° . I tO Ditto .... 40 to 451tts Ditto .... 45 to 50Ibs 10d t ° g 65 Calf SkinS..:;s to 40lbs Ditto 45 to 5511 ts o ° ' 2 5 J. , to 0- Ditto 55 to 751bs 92u -- • Small Seals (Gre en t an d) 19d isif Large ditto ....16d t° is i. 'fanned Horse Hides l4d t° i d 0 /8 Spanish Horse Hid es IS PRICES OF TA ',LOW, sOAP, &c. per I 1211).- -D -- 4 ‘ 7 46 Town Tallow 44s Od — s od Y e ll ow S oap ......... • Yellow Russia 39s Od — s od M 0tt 1 e d ..... ....... .... White ditto.. 421 Od —s od Curd ....................... Soap ditto. 38s —s Od Graves .............. 6 1 0 Melting' Stu tr 35s 00 —s Od Good Di egs .......... Ditto Rou l rh.. 93s Od —s od PRICE OF CANDLES, raom TA Li.ow CllANnuert's"/‘:;d, Price of Candles, per dozen, fis tid a 7s—)Mould', B'l (I pPr zen allowed for ready mono) PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 611).--Vec' 93. Price of Tallow (as steed by the Tallow Melters), COAL MARKET, DEC. 26. n Adair's, 35s 6d—Burdon, 355--Beaumont. 34s 6d-- - ;: e ad.• Ie P l ri b m b r u os rn e, ll 3 l 4 a s in, s —Forest 9tto 36s Main, 34s—Heaton, worth, 36s—Liddel's Main, 32s 9d—P e l a w, 37s —r e "' 35s 6d —Pontop Windsor, 32s - Bd—Tanfield Moor, 3d_iioiy e 3 i 6 wL s 6 35 d s c o t Townley, 35s 6d—Willington, 36s (d to 37s 3( 1-- " 1- iilte 37s 9d—Walls End Bell and Co. 36s 6d—Walls End Be,r,: a llt and Co. 39s to 39s 6d—Walls End Brown's, 3 5 s 6( 1-- "„ :'sna End Burraton, 34is 6d—Walls End Green's, 348—Wa" ' israll! Newmarch, 37s 6d—Walls End Northumberland, 355-- End End Riddell's, 38s—Walls End Russell's, 38s 3d 31.tte Walker, 37s 3d to 39s 9d—ll e tton' s sma ll, 21s 6d--C..ic;ci Main and small mixed, 34 s 6d—P e l aw Trader, 373,--J'ie _tt Trader, 30s 2d—Cowpen, 37s 9d—H ar tl e y, 40s 6d-- 19 4,6d Main, 34s 6d—H et] worth Main, 33s—Lambton Prirnrose,f "„aps Montague, 31 s—Lyon's Main, 37s 6d—Russell's Hetto n's End, 41s—Walls End Hawn', 41s—Walls End Lai", bWil ibiPs Walls Ind Stewart's, 41s.—Ships a t market, INC— sold, 911—Unsold, 64 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—It is gen era ;a known that the new Weights and Measuresti , come into operation on the Ist January nu d e but as the duty on the several articles is t° levied on the new standard after the sth' 3 2, 1111 p a e , next, an Order in Council, dated the 13th o c cember, provides that, from the Ist to the 6th te January, the duty, &c., shall be levied at a 1.- equivakut to the new standard. On Monday night, after Carron CeroPl, oo l' messenger, John Wilson, had retnthea j r is Falkirk, and was in the stable putting uP,,,,A horse, the animal became unruly, and srit":ist a the unfortunate man with such violence 0:., the stall that he fell insensible,and was so (11 ; 11 7 0 . fully bruised as to caus e his death alm ost , On Thursday, the 22d B in I s i t H at . Northileet t Johngon, ofa 'daughter. ID. e 11 ' On the 23d inst., at his house in Mecklenburgh-oPlard'ood muel Parkes, Esq., aged 65, member of many lea rr ' e scientific institutions. for O n/ On the 3d inst. at Lisbon, Garret Gould, Esq ., years an eminent 'Brish tien in that city. gi a ' of On the 23Eh inst., Ann, wife of Mr. E. I. ChiPP erii 'Whitechapel High-street, aged 67. , r a.rool On the 24th inst., in Old Millman-street, Bed ri o , f C h an. Mrs. Lawes, widow of the late Mr. Edward Laves, , cery-lane. . . , „d r oan ' On Tuesday, the 13th inst., at his house, rdil e- f — r e Mr. James Humphreys" builder, in the 41st year of h , s4aoa, On Mondayy, the 19th inst., at Mrs. Frances Lees , l',',. arj ge• Essex, Mrs. Blake, widow of Mr. W. S. Blake; of 'Cu alley, in the 73d year of her age. , ___.—..." Painted and POlished for the PROfPIV/CTIE, a the I\C.l 2, &nand, by .1 13