The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, We have repeatedly warned the workmen and journeymen who have entered into Trades' Unions, for the purpose of compel ling their employers, under the menace of a " strike," to raise the rate of their wages when the market for labour was supposed to be im proving, or to keep them up when it was declin ing, that if their demands were pitched unrea sonably high, or if their pretensions involved propositions inconsistent with the ordinary ex istence or reasonable profits of their masters, they would themselves be the first to suffer from their conduct. If the manufacturer, acting under such a threat, engaged to pay more to the workman than he could obtain from his customers for the manufactured commodities, after deducting hi s own ordinary profits of stock, it is plain that 'his capital would soon be exhausted, and that along with that exhaustion his means of em ploying labour would be destroyed. If, on the other hand, he attempted to shift the burden from his own shoulders on to those of his cus iorrrers, and charged a higher price for the ma nufactured article in order to indemnify himself for the additional rate of wages to the workmen, the increase of price would diminish consump tion, and leave the manufacturer and his opera tives in a worse situation than they were in before. But the evil generally would not be allowed to run this experimental career. The employers of labour would not consent, with their eyes open, to he the first victims offered on the altar of combination, and would resist the intended sa crifice with all the force and energy of numbers and concert. This has for some time past been threatened at Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Wakefield, and other towns of Yorkshire, where the despotism of the Trades' Unions has been lately exercised, and it has actually been accom plished in the less extensive manufacturing town of Derby. We learn this fact from the Derby Reporter of Thursday last, and from the resolu tions adopted on the preceding Monday at a meeting of the masters and manufacturers of that borough. " The number of the members of the Trades' Union," says the Reporter, " in this town has increased 200 since our last publication. There are now upwards of 1,000 of the operatives associated, nearly the whole of whom have been dismissed, or have left their work, in conse luence of a tesolution of the masters and manufacturers not to employ any member of the Union. Notice, we understand, Ls been given to the remainder to quit their service at the expiration of their engagements, so that in a few days there will he 1,000 workmen out of employ, and in consequence a much forger number of women and chil dren. The Mayor and magistrates have taken precautionary measures to preserve the peace. A number of special con stables have been sworn in, and a troop of the 2d Dragoon Guards, or Queen's Bays, arrived in this town from Not tingham on Friday. Several of the manufactories stopped this morning, and oonsislerable excitation was observable amongst the assembled workpeople in the neighbourhood of the mills. Loud complaints were made hy some of the female bands that they had nothing whatever to do with the Unions, yet they were deprived of the only means they possessed of procuring bread for themselves." The resolutions of the masters are firm, and decided against the claims of the Unionists, while they are so reasonable as to allow their workmen that freedom of combining which they insist upon exercising themselves. The follow. ing declaration to that purport, contained in the first resolution, was never (that we remember) so unequivocally avowed on any similar occa sion:---" This meeting acknowledges the right of workmen to give or withhold their labour, and asserts the equal right of masters to give or withhold employment ; and that when work men unite to impose ternts upon their employers, the latter must either submit to that dictation or resist it by a similar union." Here, there fore, we have camp against camp, union against union, and a combination of capitalists against a combination of workmen. The only office left to the Government in such an emer gency is to see that the public peace is not broken, —that the powers of neither union be exercised with violence towards its antagonist,—that no obstruction be offered to those masters who choose to offer better terms to their workmen, or to those workmen who choose to continue their work on the old footing,—in short, that even where numbers and parties act in concert, con tracts may be individually voluntary. No re medy could have been found for such a case in the combination laws, though they had been still allowed to exist. No man can be compelled to work for less wages than he thinks himself en titled to receive, without being reduced to the condition of a slave ; and if one mechanic or artisan can leave his employer unless his situation is improved, the same right cannot be denied to a thousand. Combinations, therefore, existed under the protection of public sympathy, and sanctioned by a sense of natural right, even when they were prohibited by statute, and could not now without positive injustice, or perhaps sanguinary violence, be extinguished by the re enactment of any obsolete law. The masters, from the smallness of their numbers, and the facility of their communication, have always had it in their power to combine ; and it would have been inconsistent with natural equity to have denied to the weaker party that which was en joyed by the sl-onger: lut it is easy to see who will suffer most by a perseverance in unreason- able demands, and who must first yield in this contest of combination. The masters, whose means of daily subsistence cannot be immediately affected by the cessation of their works or facto- ries, may hold out for a considerable time without personal suffering or inconvenience. They may live on their capital or on the accumu lation of their saving till they try the experiment of obtaining cheaper labour. If, alter all they fail in their object, they may, though at a great loss, but without absolute ruin, remove their business to some other place, or transfer their capital to some other employment. We have had frequent examples of this fact in the mi gration of different kinds of manufactures to new localities (as in the case of the silk trade), or in the increase of certain branches of business at the expense of others which have ceased to be profitable. But the needy workmen who agree to engage in the Union, and abandon their employers, have not the same resources. They generally possess no accumulations on which to toll hack, and a month's want of employment is consequently to them a sentence of starvation. The funds collected from those who have work are not sufficient to form a military chest to maintain an army of idlers for fighting the battle of wages, and those who strike for work must soon strike their colours from famine. In such a case the parish poor-rate offers no relief; and all the contributions of the union club must soon be exhausted. If it were other wise for a time, and if the Trades' Unions could maintain their members till they wrung from their employers a compliance with their unreasonable demands, the evils which would result from their success would be still more aggravated, and could not fail ultimately to reach fiemselves. By suspending our manufacturing I ndustry, and interrupting our foreign commerce, 'they would teach our foreign customer to resort to other markets for a supply of the goods which we now furnish, and consequently would convert a temporary into a permanent cessation of their own labour. As some of our staples are chiefly consumed abroad, the trade of the country would thus be paralyzed, not only in the exports of our manufactures, but in all that colonial and foreign produce for which they are usually exchanged. The Derby masters, in announcing the objects of the Tr a d es ' U n i on , su ffi c i ent l y po i nt ou t their dangerous tendency : " To regulate the price and bouts of labour," say they, " to abolish piece work, and to substitute day work in lieu fit (thus placing the industrious and skilful upon the same level with the idle and unskilful workmen), to dic tate to the masters whom they shall or shall not employ, and the number of apprentices or learners they shall be allowed to take, and, in case of disobedience to the man date of the Union, to withdraw his work people simul taneously from the service of the party disobeying, and to prevent any other workmen from enterine hi, employ, are notoriously the ohjccts and practice of the Trades' Union." They have endeavoured to counteract this declaration by agreeing among themselves not to employ any members of the union, and al though the present inconvenience of the struggle must be great, we have no doubt that it will soon be terminated by an amicable compromise. —Times. At the Anniversary Dinner of the Essex and Colchester True Blue and Conservative Club, at Colchester, on Tuesday last, `lr. Alexander Baring made a violent anti-reform and anti free-trade speech. Speaking of the Reform Bill, he said " he could see nothing in the important change which could benefit the country; he was no enemy to change, if it could be brought home to his understanding that any benefits were likely to result from it ; but he opposed it on principle, when he found it would nol benefit the country. The present Parliament was constituted for Revolution ; it was framed on the basis of Revolution." This sentiment was loudly cheered by the meeting. What does Mr. Baring mean when he says that the present Parliament is constituted for Revolution ? Does he mean by Revolution, the overthrow of the existing institutions of the country by physical force ? It would be strange if the inclination of the people to recur to physical force should b strengthened by the knowledge that the Re form Bill has placed within their reach the means of redressing their grievances by the working of the Constitution. But Mr. Baring calls the fair working of the Reform Bill Revolution. By the Aristocratic Revolu tion of 1688, the Oligarchy have been enabled to corrupt every institution of the country, and one encroachment on popular rights has followed another so closely, that the contemplation of the mass of abuse is sufficient to fill the stoutest hearted Reformer with dismay. As the physical force resides necessarily with the people, it be came at last prudent to prevent the possibility of any recurrence to such force, by making Parlia ment in reality what it was only in name. Down to the passing of the Reform Bill, no measure which in the slightest degree struck at the power of the Oligarchy could possibly be carried. Par liament was an instrument in the hands of the Oligarchy to plunder the people by excessive taxation; and all that the people possessed was the power of returning a few Members who could raise their voice against the evil. This Par liament was constituted for Revolution in the sense in which Mr. Baring uses the word ; but it was Revolution towards Oligarchy. The Reform Parliament has given to the people an instru ment by which they may, in time, strip the Aristocracy of all the privileges which they have usurped, that may be found unjust and incom patible with the interest of the community. If this be revolution, then revolution is a good thing. In human affairs tliere is a constant progression. The difference between ihe period before, and after the Reform Act, is merely this, that the progression is now towards good, whereas before it waE. towards evil. The Oli garchy are yet in possession of many of the strong holds of abuse ; but the Reform Bill will enable the people gradually to dispossess them. Some impatient persons are dissatisfied with the Reform Bill, because all abuses are not at once remedied under it. They would even put to hazard all that we have obtained, rather than submit to any temporary postponement of the measures on which they have set their heart. Mr. Baring, however, knows that the revolution, as he terms it, though slow, is sure. In the struggle with the privileged classes, and all those interested in the perpetuation of abuses, the people will acquire additional knowledge, and be better fitted for the prudent enjoyment of what they succeed in obtaining. It is not well that every thing should be obtained per saltum. We shall he obliged to struggle with a party yet sufficiently powerful to compel us to prove our title to what we demand ; and we ought not to obtain our demands on any other terms. It has been said that the only oracle consulted by Mr. Baring is the breeches-pocket. When he was the representative of a trading town, all his indignation was directed against the landowners. He is now only alive to the distresses of the landowners. We remember well when a cry of indignation burst from the House of Commons against him, such as we never heard in the House either before or since. He was arguing against the Corn Bill, and he contrasted the splendid mansions, the sumptuous establishments, and the luxurious mode of living of the landowners of this country, with the comparative poverty of the landowners of the continent, who, so far from living like great feudal Barons, were obhged to live in an obscure manner in some city or town. This difference was, he said, the first thing which struck every Englishman on leaving his own country. If the landowners could have crucified him at that time, they would have done so. But the contrast is not greater between the English and Continental landowners, than between the Mr. Baring of that day, and the Mr. Baring of this :—He said, " The agriculturists maintained all the rogues of the country—they maintained all the poor—they kept up the gaols—the proceedings of justice, and the whole machinery of domestic government were raised and kept up at the expense of the land—and surely they were entitled to some allowance for that. He must say there was danger, and he would venture to predict, as certain as any one conse quence ever resulted from any one act, that if protection were taken from agriculture, it would bring down a cer ' tain revolution in this country.—(Hear, and cheers.) Yet such were the doctrines entertained by Cabinet Ministers —they did not, perhaps, at once declare their sentiments, but they sent out men for the purpose, as might be ev.nced by Mr. Poulett Thomson, of the Board of Tiade. He was not awace that at any time such conduct had been practised by any Government. They had enemies— enemies in high places." We are no advocates for any measures calcu lated to produce confusion in the country. When changes are effected, they ought to be effected in such a manner as to cause the least possible injury to existing interests. 'Though Mr. Baring's statement as to the burdens borne by the landowners is exaggerated, even if it were true, it is only just that these burdens should be borne by the land. It is well known that land never was absolute property in this or any other country. The land of every country belonged originally to the nation, and it was granted to individuals on the condition of defending the country against external enemies, and preserving order at home. The whole burdens of the country, down to a comparatively recent period, were in fact borne by the land. No change of occupants can vitiate the original covenant be tween the State and the occupants of the soil ; and it is, therefore, absurd in landowners to complain of the burdens thrown on the land. The people have much better reason for com plaint that the landowners have thrown burdens from their own shoulders and fixed them on the shoulders of others. They might as well com plain of tithes as complain of the other burdens borne by land. But though land owners are not entitled to hold the language of Mr. Baring, we are far from wishing for any change which should effect any great revolution in their fortunes. Reduc tions of rent, however, to some extent are inevi table ; and Mr. Baring may call such reduction s revolution if he pleases ; but it will requir e more than his ingenuity to show how they can be prevented. Mr. Baring is too good a tac tician to allow Ireland to pass without notice : " Look (he says) to the proceedings of O'Connell, using the worst scurrility any person could put into English, and he actnally collecting at every church door, money for the avowed purpose of agitation—openly and confess edly collected for agitation ; and then behold our Govern. ment truckling to him—doing only what be permitted them—and cashiering the honest Protestants of the country.__( Hear, hear,) If that conduct was to pro ceed, it would be expelling the Protestants from those parts of the country where their numbers were small, and tinally exterminating Protestantism in that country alto gether. He should be sorry at any time to sound reli gious alarm for political purposes, but it was impossible to look at Ireland and not see that that was the case; and the only solution of it was, that a party was sscrificin! everything for party purposes and party power.—(Hear)." Would Mr. Baring wish to make a second conquest of Ireland, in order to give stability to the Protestant Church Establishment ?—Morn big Chronicle. The Beer Bill, as we anticipated from the moment it was introduced into Parliament, is working the most baneful effects among the pea santry of England. Ample and melancholy evidence do every assizes afford to its fatal effi cacy in demoralising the rural population, and extending the contagion of evil example, and its consequent crimes. The country is studded with the hovels of dissipation which the worst characters in society may open, without any of the guarantees of good conduct which are re quired of the licensed victualler. The unlimited increase of public-houses was restrained by its being imperative on the applicant to produce testimonials to character, and to show that the house for which he asked a license was required for the public accommodation. We entreated the Legislature to introduce these or equivalent restraints into the Beer Bill, whatever change they might think fit to make in the power of licensing; or if not, that at least they would add a clause to prevent the beer being drunk on the premises, which would oblige the labourer to take it home to his family, and thereby escape the sottish habit of tippling, and the evil association to which he is now exposed, in those obscure dens of rustic intemperance, where thieves and poachers " most do con gregate," and where the simple peasant, who goes to refresh himself after his labours, is too often tempted and tutored into crime. The environs of towns and villages in many parts of England absolutely swarm with beer shops, while in less populous places they deform and defile the landscape every where. At the corners of woods, on the lonely common and the wild heath, they are to be seen, the haunts of the s e characters that love secrecy and seclusion, and who lay the traps and snares of vice for the rural population of the vicinity as assiduously as some of them lay other traps and snares for the game of the neighbouring preserves. Many are the victims which are offered up to our angry laws on every circuit, and whose ruin has been the beer shop, which make the Legislature in some degree responsible for their crimes. It has placed the temptation in their way—it has widely disseminated the materials of demoralization. We have, from time to time, remarked on the cases of persons whose initiation in crime has taken place in the beer shop, and Who have stepped from that vicious rendezvous into guilty enterprize and a prison. We must still go on, as occasion offers, until the country is relieved from this moral curse, although it may be held to be a libel deserving of a State prosecution to endeavour to bring the Beer Act into contempt ! A new instance of the baneful effects of the beer•shop system has occurred at the Hertford Assizes, where three men, named George Copps, Georp,e Hall, and James Biggs, have been convicted of a highway robbery, and left for execution, by Mr. Justice Gaselee, without hope of mercy. It appears both the prosecutor, who is a gamekeeper, and the pri soners were all drinking together in the beer shop, whence the latter followed the former on his going away, and, having followed him into a field, knocked him down, beat him with their fists, and one of them drawing a clasp-knife, such as all labourers have to cut their bread and cheese with, pretended to be about to cut his throat, which, no doubt, they might have done if they had any real intention of doing it, for nobody interrupted them ; but they were not so bloodthirsty as to take that course of silencing for ever the only witness of their crime. The prosecutor was able to walk home afterwards, so that although he had been ill-treated, he received no blow that disabled him. Some money was taken from him —we are not told how much, and his watch was demanded, but it is not said in the report of the trial whether it was taken or not. It appears there was no moon on the night in question, but the prosecutor stated on the trial that die starlight was sufficient to enable him to know the faces of his assailants. Two witnesses, however, swore that they heard the prosecutor say that he did not, on the night of the robbery, know the men who had attacked him, but that he identified them on seeing them next day. It behoves Courts of Justice, even where the most heinous of all crimes are charged, to be very cautious how they take human life on the evi dence of a solitary witness to identity ; however positively he swears, more especially when the crime has been committed by night, with ou t a moon, and when the mind of the prosecutor has been under circumstances of great alarm and confusion. Fatal mistakes have occurred in this way. The records of the criminal history of this and other countries afford melancholy proofs of the fallibility of human evidence under such circumstances. But supposing the guilt of these men had been placed beyond all doubt, we still think their crime is not one which, taking the whole of the circumstances into consideration, ought to be visited with the extrem e penalty of the law. The culprits are the victims of a demoralizing system, which the Legisla- Lute itself unfortunately established. The Beer Shop Bill has every where spread the :snares of crime throughout the country, and our penal laws exterminate a considerable portion of the victims that are caught in them. It is stated by the Chaplain of the Preston House of Cor rection, that of 189 offenders of all classes, there were 116 who attributed their crimes to the temptations held out to them by the alehouses and beer shops. It is frightful to think how the Legislature has, by one stupid and unfortunate measure, assisted the march of demoralization. But we forewarned our rulers and Parliament at the time of the moral and social consequences of it. Another circumstance fit to be taken into consideration is that the three men, if really the guilty persons, had it in their power to silence effectually the only witness of their crime, who was the prosecutor. He was alone against three—they had him on the ground. It was a lonely place—they had clasp-knives with them, such as all peasants carry—they were uninter rupted. They made a threat of killing him indeed, but surely, if in earnest, they could easily have effected it. They beat him it is true—but when they left him lie was able to walk home. If the judicial authorities are satisfied of their guilt, let them be severely punished ; but is it right or consistent with public policy to take their lives, and thereby instigate other robbers to take the dread ful precaution of getting rid of the evidence of an inferior crime by the commission of a greater one ? We would advise all persons who take an interest in the reform of criminal justice, to look into the little and excellent work of Mr. Woolrych, the barrister, entitled " The History and Results of Capital Punishments in Eng land," in which the hopelessness of extirpating, or of materially diminishing the crime of robbery by the gallows is practically demonstrated. We have left ourselves no room, at present, to make any extracts, hut the facts and tables which the author adduces, are worthy the attention of all Legislators. We would also suggest to those in authority the perusal of a small pamphlet, containing " Observations on the case of David Gulliford and Benjamin Bartlett, executed in May, 1832, at lichester, for an assault and robbery," ascribed to the pen of Sir Edward Strachey, Bart., who, we believe, has served the office of High Sheriff of the county of Somer set. He truly observes that our code has not yet attained the proper standard of reason and humanity—that it is still blackened by cruel pe nalties, opening lay far too many vistas to the gallows. Why, we ask, persevere in those human sacrifices against which public feeling revolts, and which produce only spectacles of blood that are barren of all moral consequences. —Morning Herald. The Corporation Commissioners have met with some severe rebuffs and stubborn obstruc tions, and they are yet destined to endure other and deeper mortifications of the same kind. It would be a disgrace to the character of England and of Englishmen if this prediction should not be verified. A Ministerial Contemporary of last night quotes our testimony to the triumphant manner in which the Corporation of Liverpool have passed the ordeal of this illegal inquisition, as a proof that Corporations who have acted honestly have nothing to fear from the inquisi tion, and no motive to resist its proceedings. The logic of our Contemporary is that of a drowning man who eagerly catches at a straw. The Liverpool Corporation, we believe, -had nothing to fear from an inquisition into their conduct; few of the Corporations of England, compared with their whole number, had, we believe, anything to fear from any inquiry, however severe, into their conduct, in the management of the trusts con fid e d to t h em ; but b the Liverpool and every other Corpo ration bad much to fear from that derelic tion of their duty, into which too many of them have fallen, in recognising an illegal autho thy. The proneness of individuals to succumb to illegal oppression, in cases where their sepa rate interests are concerned, is a characteristic of human nature, which first suggested the esta blishment of incorporations of citizens, and which has in all ages imparted to them whatever value they have possessed. They must be ca pable of acting upon general principles ; they must be habitually and constantly jealous of the establishment of dangerous precedents; they must always be prepared to act in bold and con temptuous disregard of the feelings by which individuals may be tempted to bend to arbitrary power, or, so far from being valuable and useful institutions, they become a mere incumbrance upon the action, and a revolting excresence on the face of society. To talk of the danger to existing Corporations, from the few and insigni ficant instances of delinquency, which an illegal inquisition has been enabled to detect, is mere nonsense. The real danger with which they are me naced arises from no other source than the servile submission to the mandates of illegal authority, into which so many of their number have been betrayed. To this argument, and to no other, will any man worthy of the name of a statesman resort, when he means to aim a deadly blow at Corporations. We are told of " the utter want of motive on the part of such Corporations as duly fulfil their trusts to avoid the inquiry of the Corporation Commissioners;' but we have, we think, suggested the highest motive upon which rational men can act, not merely to avoid but to resist such inquiry, namely, that resistance is the duty of Corporations. We are entitled to assume, for nobody that we can hear of pretends to dis pute, that the corporation Commission is illegal ; and is it to be pretended in England at this day, that illegal authority of any kind is not a dangerous and mischievous thing, independ ently of the object to which it is diiected, or that it is not the duty of all, with whom it comes in contact, o resist it to the utmost of their power ? We hope the time is not yet come when submission to illegal power can he condu cive to the welfare of English society. The case which can justify it must be extreme. There must be no other possible remedy for the evils complained of, and those evils must be not only incapable of any other cure, but intolerable to human patience, before the citizens of a free State, can be justified in submitting, in expecta tion of their mitigation of extinction, to illegal and arbitrary authority. Do the abuses of our municipal corporations, in the most exaggerated view of them that can be taken, present such a case ? These questions and remarks, we shall be told, are common-places. Unquestionably they are so. Oppression and misrule ha7e been so familiar to mankind that all the topics which can be urged to induce a community either to submit to them or to resist, have long been ex hausted. It is a common-place also to say that popular institutions afford a better guarantee for a nation's happiness and welfare than any despotism, however mild or well conducted. And this common-place must be despised and rejected by all those who advise the corporations of England to submit to the inquiries of an illegal commission, if those advisers be rational and consistent men. We are the enemies of the illegal Corporation Com mission, upon the very same principles which lead us to prefer the Government of England to that of Russia, although practically, at the present moment, we believe that of Russia to he by far the better of the two. There is one incident belonging to the proceedings of the Corporation Commissioners, which would alone be sufficient to convince us that every magistrate who assists them, or even who tolerates the erection of their mockery of a court within the limits of his jurisdiction, is guilty of a very gross and inexcusable dereliction of his duty. These Commissioners are required to take evidence upon oath, while the parties swearing before them are not liable to the penalties which in any other case await those who are guilty of perjury. 1,1 7 e do not speak of the danger which must arise from this circumstance to the reputation of innocent men, although this consideration has been repeatedly recognised by the tribunals of justice, and by the Legislature, at periods in the history of this country, of which we have on every account the greatest reason to feel proud—at periods when the spirit of freedom was at once the most indomitable and the most sedate. We speak rather of the injury to public morals, which seems unavoidable, when the Executive establishes a standard for the value of an oath, and a degree of civil responsibility for false swearing, irreconcileable with those to which the mind of the nation has been fami liarised, in every age, under the guidance of its permanent and constitutional legislation. With every disposition to deal candidly with this sub ject, we take no view of it which induces us to swerve from the opinion we have repeatedly ex pressed, that the authors of the Corporation Commission, all the persons who act under it, every man who submits himself to the examina tion of the Commissioners, and, above all, every Magistrate who permits such examinations to be carried on within the limits of his jurisdiction, are acting in their several spheres, and to the utmost of their several capacities and powers, as enemies to the laws, the character, the honour, and the security of their country.—Morn. Post. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SucAn. —The estimated sales last week were 3,500 hhds. and era. at rather firmer price, hut towards the close of the Market the demand for Muscovades became very limit , ll. The Market opened rather heavily this morning, notwilistanding the weekly deliveries continu ing considerahl-, and exceeding the delivery of last year. It app-ars the trade, having supplied themselves last week with staffi..ient stock for immediate consumption, refrain from purchasing further supplies for the present; the sales today are only 600 hhds. and trs., at the prices of Friday last. The Barbadoes sale this day, 127 hhds., sold at full Market prices. The stock of West India Sugar is now 43,607 hhds. and trs., being 9,921 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius 78,002 bias, being 15 ; 811 more than last year. The delivery of West India is 2,902 !Ads. and trs., being 347 more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius is 1,293 bags, being 5,309 less than the cor• responding week of 1832. lb Refined goods last week the sales were not extensive ; the holders asked 329. for fine Crashed, but few sales were reported. There were renewed inquiries for low Crashed, for which there ap pear to be extensive orders. The supply of low Lumps continues so small that all parcels meet an immediate s as they come forward ; they are taken for melting. The fine goods for home consucnrition are in good supply and are heavy. The Refin d Market this afteronon is rather heavy ; fine Crashed 31s. 6d. ; Lumps nominally 635. a 64s.,but scarcely any parcels arc on sale. Grocery goods are very dull. Three of the houses who manufacture from Foreign Sugars have goods on show at low prices, but no progress has yet been made in sales : these goods occasion the Market to be more than usually heavy. English Mo lasses 245. 6d.; Patent 23, ; from West India 20s. MAURITIUS SUGAR, —The sales last week were incon siderable; there was no alteration in the prices. This day's public sale 2,374 bags Mauritius sold Is. lower, a very ord. parcel of Sugar. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—Considerable parcels of Siam Sugar were taken off last week at 22e. a 235. for yellow, and white 235. a 255. ; soft mid. to good Manilla 265. 6d. a 213. ; 389 bags Bengal of good yellow sold freely at high prices, on account of the fine quality 235. a 255., and fine quality 265. a 28s. FOREI SUGAR.—It is reported that considerable parcels of Brazil were taken off privately last week by the refiners, brown at 21s. 6d. to 255. for white. There is likely to be an immediate adjustment between the buyers and sellers of Foreign Sugars as to thy question of tares. Average Price of Sugar I/. 9s. O'd. per cwt. WEsr lmniA MOLASSES...-.-There continues to be a good demand for West India Molasses ; a few sales are reported at 275. and 28a., and rather large parcels at 275. 6d. COFFEE. —There is a little alteration in Coffee; the chief sales lately are 500 bags Brazil, good to fine ordinary 58s. a 60s. ; Sumatra, ordinary to good ordinary, 475. a 50s. 6d. ; good yellow Batavia, 565. 6d. and 575. The British Plantation descriptions are held with much firm ness. This day's public sale 25 casks 177 bags Demerara Coffee sold Is. to Is. 6d. lower. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS —The Rum Market has been very dull ; the prices are a shade lower ; proof Leetvards sold at Is. I Id., and more offered at the same price; 7 to 11 over at 2s. Id. ; Jamaica descriptions are also exceedingly dull, and are offered at lower rates without facilitating sales. Brandy has been heavy, not withstanding the opening price in France his been raised 5 francs. Geneva is still neglected. This afternoon there are more inquiries for Rum ; the market has a firmer appearance. - TALLOW.—TaIIow remains very firm, notwithstanding all the efforts of the speculators to depress prices; one of minor consequence has absconded, not being able to fulfil his engagements in delivering Tallow ; in fact the trade is now a regular Stock Exchange affair and the great specu lation for a fall being unsuccessful, a re-action to some ex tent is not an improbable event. WooL.—Wool continues at firm prices, but there is little business doing, owing to the season of the year, and also to the expected public sales. Tormcco.—The late purchases of Tobacco continue confined to parcels for the home trade; the Market is firm and 'he late prices are fully supported. SrICES.-Pepper is steady, ordinary to good half heavy 31d. a 31(1. Pimento also maintains the late currency, but there are few sales. Purchases of mid. Cassia Lignea are reported 765. and 765. 6d., being steady at the pre vious quotations. SaLx.-There is a considerable reaction in the prices of Silk. The late imports of Italian are in few hands and are held with firmness, but the China descriptions have fallen ls. per lb., and other qualities 6d. to Is. per lb. Ixtstt Paovistosts.-In the last week there were not any arrivals of Friesland Butter, but from Kid, Leer, &c., there were 2,948 casks. and from Ireland rather an ex • tensive supply, say 28,966 firks., and 7,316 bales of Bacon, with further arrivals yesterday from that country of 2.942 firks. of Butter, and 263 bales of Bacon. We cannot note the least improvement in the Butter or Bacon Market since this day se'nnight, nor the slightest appear ance of such taking place, at least in the present year. The mildness of the weather, and the heavy supplies from Ireland, add not a little to the depression which exists; in our quotations of prices this day we must not only quote them lower for most descriptions of Butter in particular, but many of them must be considered nominal. Foreign Butter at the quay varies so much as to quality we quote the price 80s. a 925. per cwt. ; Carlow, as to repute of the shippers 80s. a 84s. on board, 80s. a 85s. landed; Belfast 80s. on hoard, 81s. a 82s. landed; Water ford 70s. a 74i. on hoard, 71s. a 755. landed ; C irk (as to the assortment) 7'2s. a 739. on board, 755. a 765. landed; Limerick 71s. a 725. on board, 745. landed; Sligo 68s. a 695. on board, 70s. a 71s. landed ; Dahlia 66a. a 67s on board, 68s. landed ; Westmeath 68s. on board, 695. a 70s. landed ; Newry 675. and Banbridge 68s. on board for parcels now on the passage. Prim e small singed Bacon 36'., in some partial instances 375. and heavy 30s. landed, no speculative sales making for forward shipment. Bale Middles 31 s . a 325. „„ board, 325. a 335. landed ; :Belfast Tierce Middles 324. a 365., and Limerick 365. a 375. landed. Belfast Hams, 41s. and 543. and prime small Limerick 68s. to 50s. Belfast Bladder Lard 465. on board, 48s. landed ; Water ford 48s. a 50s. on board, 50s. a 51s. landed ; and Lime rick in small packages 50 s . on b oar d , 52 e. a b3s. Aert In Beef and Pork no business doing worth noticing au l at least to enable us to give correct quotations of price', SALTrrritE.—There is little alteration to notice Saltpetre, 2 to 5 refraction 34e. a 355. 6d. 20 at 32d% IN - med.—lndigo continues to he held with some 6 7 ; nest' ; there are, h o w ever , f e w sa l es reporte d. This . 1 ' 80 !wrong, 11 chests Guatem a la Indigo so ld at goo d prig 2d. to 3d. per lb. higher than the general valuation. ce RlCE.—This day' s p u bli c sa l es 199 tn. Carolina 11 ', all taken in at 32 5 . ; 4 562 b ags E as t I n di a so ld 6d. $. Is. lower; Patna kind 13s. and 14s. o f Cartox —The Cotton Market ctintinues in a state great depression ; the sales are tod inconaiderable for enumeration. TURPENTINE.-The last arrival, about 1,400 br 1 : 1 ; bought by one of th e d rawers at 13 s . 3d. per cwt ., customs, tare, and four months' credit, equal to ¢b ° " 145., Loadon terms. ASIIES.-Nothing doing. OlLS.—Fish Oils are firm, with little doing. S l6l Oils are steady in price, with but little doing. GLAS G 0 IV MARKETS. In the early pin of the week th e r e w as a goo d detuip l i for Raw Sugars, at an adv ance o f 6d. on b rown an d ni l "' tiling qualities; latterly the demand has subsided; prielf however, are fully m a i n t a i ne d. Th e sa l es amount to 5S hhde. and trs. Good strong brown Jamaicas for refiner' 545.; for middling, 545. 6d. ; middling and good n' dling, 555. a 565. 6d. ; good, 591. Brown Demerara' 51 6d. a 535. 6d. ; good m iddli ng , 56 9 . G oo d w hite , Barbadoes, 60s. 6.1. a 613. 6d. No s a l es ma d e i n 0.6., India Molasses. Refined Sugars are without any alters' don in price; brown loaves, 721. up to 82s. for 6 1 ! e ' Candy, 10d. a lOid. Crashed Sugars are still tG limited supply. and selling very freely; browns and ye s ' lows, 555. a 595. ; middling and good middling, 60s. $ 635. ; good and fine, 645. a 675. Treacle dull at 221. 225. 3d. No sales made in Coffiie, Ginger, or Pimento. Rum remains flat; the trifling sales of Demerara 16 0. P., were at 2s. 7J. a 2s. 81, and Leewards at 2s. for proofs. Nothing done in Dyewoods. A.hes are dull of sale; Pots 235. 3d. a 234. 6d., and Pearls 255. 6d. Y. C. Tallow selling in small parcels at 475. Fish Oils in steady demand ; Whale, 181., and Cod ad Pale Seal 191. per tun old measure. COUNTRY CORN lARK.ETS DURING THE WEEK._ Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Bean& --.'------"' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. S. to s. s. to F . Boston. 42 50 26 32 16 22 32 40 Gainsborough .......,.,.. 57 34 IS 40 Grantharn ............--. 48 50 20 31 20 26 35 40 Urinasby---....,,. 46 52 26 32 15 •2•2 36 4° Horncastle—.....s. 44 54 26 32 14 20 30 3 4 Lincoln .... 46 51 28 33 17 22 36 4° Spilsby . 44 48 26 30 16 18 34 40 Stainford--...... . 40 52 30 32 16 22 38 4° , 0 York— 44 60 28 31 16 23 32 ''''' NORWICH, Nov. 30. Wheat (per qr.) .... 40s 525. 60s. Beans (per qr.) Barley ---.....- 9.05. 265. 355. Pease, 365, 4,5. Oats Wheat, whit, CANTERBU Itl, Nov. 30 575. to 635.....,,. Old —s. to 465. to 6 , 13 —Old —L to --s 265. to 325. Grinding.. 225. to 275. 2(ls. to 255. 01d—......... 20s. to 2401. 318 to 35s —s. to — O . 30s. to 365. 30s. to 345._ Barley, Malting - Oats Beans Pease MANCHESTER, Nov. 30. Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. Od. to Ss. 2d. Red 3 75. 2 9.1. to 39 I) Barley, per 6016 5 0 5 6 O ats Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bu s h e l ge. . 23 3' 5 0 5 ?, Malt, per 6 Imperial b us h e l s 3B 0 42 v „ Flour, per Sack of 280 lb IRISH MA: DUBLIN MARKET NO] 919 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 68 Bete l6 stone 831 16 stone 3,090 Oats 12 stone [3,631. Cwt. Flour 9 stone 840 Oatmeal.„-... 8 stone .RKETS. FE.—FRIDAY, Nov. 29. From To Average• 19 0 30 0 23 10 9 8 12 0 10 12 3 14 0 12 " 8 6 13 0 9 10 5 0 20 0 — 0 9 0 14 0 12 Sold to Makers only. 11,056 Cwt. Flout I 13 6 I i2O 0 Average price of Wheat and Flour 403. 0.1. per Firsts, —,—,. from 17s. ed. Receipts of Flour, 14,133' Seconds from 13a. 6d. T Sales of Do. 13,931 . . s, ' tura from ss. Od. PRICE OF BRE•D. Quart= I Half Quartern 15 6 aCK. to 2ils. „ A v". to 166. to 105. w• CORK MA RKFIS.—Nov. 30. Wheat (per 20st.) Barley (per lest.) Oats (per I4st.) Flour (per cwt.) 5 0 18 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 6 Beef, sd. to 6d. • Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. to Bd. ; Pork, 2d. to lid. ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 151 per lb. - PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country. First Quality 745. Second 7O CO Third 6O 5O Fourth Fifth Sixth CLONAIELL MARKETS.—Nov. 29. Per Cwt. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (1,; " New Butter 72 0t075 0 Hides (r aw ) 'l 2 oto 34 Oatmeal 10 6 0 Bacon Pigs 0 2 0 25 6 Rendered Lard 0 38 0 Heads 18 0 -- 6 Per Bag. Flour, Second .... 0 31 11l Flour- Thirds 24 0 -1 / —Household— 0 29 0; Fourths 14 0 -- 0 Per Barrel. O —Ol Barley 11 6 13 C P O 11 0 Coals Per Stone. 2 1 31Tallow (rough) 5 6 6 8 0 01Potatoes O3l 0 4 Per Pound. O 1 21Mutton 0 4 0 5 3 0 41Veal O4l o_6 Rapeseed 20 Bere 10 Wheat I Oats. 0 Fresh Butter 1 Beef 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 755. to fas. per cwt. ; Wheat 225. to 25% per barrel ; Flour 12s to 30s. per bag; Oats Bs. to Ils. per bar' rel; Barley lls. to l2s. ; Beef 3d. to aid. per lb. ; Mutton 41t• to .sd. ; Potatoes: 4d. per stone; Coalsls. Id. per cwt.; Bacorl Pigs 2iis. to 275. Od. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN M A RKET.—Nov. 29. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First sBs Od 30s Od 21s 34 283 Od 31s Od Second 5.3s Od 214 Od 19s 6d 26s Od 29s Od Third l'here were 470 qrs. of Wheat in market, 409 whereof were sold. 51 Unsold.--0 Grey. 2/. 13s. Id. 4-12ths. Average. DA LKIETH CORN MARKET.—Nov. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First Ms 04 31s (ki 22s Od 33s Od Second Ms Od 27s Od 203 Od 293 Od Third 4ls Od 183 Od ((Is 4d I 26; Od Beans. 33s 0.1 29s 04 :Xis Od MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, DEC. 5. DIVIDENDS. '. W. Wilkinson, woollen-draper, Holborn-bridge at 11 H. Carter, chymist, Hastings J. Callow, silk-mercer, Birmingham 1 T. Greenhill, flour-factor, Great Dover-street C. F. Woolcott, glazier, Tunbridge, Kent l2 J. Stead, colour-manufacturer, King-street, Clerkenwell J. L. Gardner, wine -merchant, Little Tower-street ll J Abbott, bookseller, Elliott's-row, St. George's-fields 2 D. 0. Blyth, merchant, Colchester, Essex l2 H. Hunt druggist, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square G. Dean, druggist, Maidstone 1 A. K. Mackenzie and t 0., merchants, Austin-friars l2 J. Macnamara, merchant, London 2 BIRTHS. On the ‘26th ult., at Naason, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Dean Pitt, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Xi, Melville.street, Edinburgh, Mrs. Rhind, of a daughter. On the 26th ult., at Manor-place, Mrs. Ewen A. Cameron, of a son. MARRIED. On the 2d inst., at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, Captain C. Bulkeley, to Charlotte, daughter of Sir William and Lady Todd, and niece to Charles Lyne Stephens, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Trinity Church, Brompton, Mr. Thomas Nash, of Goswell•street, to Jane, only daughter of the late John Wilkinson, Esq., of Pimlico. On the 21st ult., at St. Mary's, Bishophill, junior, John Fen ton, Esq., third son of James Fenton, Esq., of Hampstead, to Miss Brazier, sister to Mrs. Boyd, of Holgate, near York. DIED. On the 3d of April, of fever, at the Sudder Adawlut, at Surlier Augusta Fanny, daughter of Captain D. George Duff, BombaY army. On the 28th ult., aged 71, John Acton, Esq., St. James's' square, Cheltenham. On the 28 inst., aged 80, Sarah, wife of Mr. Wm. Lake, au t. geon, of Goswell.road and Fore-street, Cripplegate. On the 28th ult., at Penzance, aged 19, Frances Louis , ' eldest daughter of Colonel Win. Napier. On the 22d ult., at the house of his father, in Fitzroy' square, John, son of John and Mary Raphael. On the 28 inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Letitia Leath, Nvido l ' aged 82. of On the 19th ult., aged 75, Wm. 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