The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Parliamentary reform means in substance, if it means anything, a security lodged in the hands of the people for the redress of whatever they conceive to be a national grievance, authorized, or not prevented, by the existing law. But the right and power to redress all grievances which afflict the people collectively involves the duty of legislating for the redress of whatever grievances affect a particular portion of the people, otherwise the most precious of all rights, viz., that to equal justice, might be altogether ex cluded from our idea of upright government and of civil liberty. The class of oppressions which men feel most deeply are in general those which are imposed upon them because of their opinions, and they re'er.t and murmur at more than all those which are inflicted on them be cause of their religious opinions, inasmuch as, first, a man's opinions upon any subject are, strictly speaking, involuntary ; and 2d, those which he entertains concerning his relations to the Creator are not merely matter of necessity, but of conscience ; and the law or political insti tution which visits him with penalties on their account invades the most sacred sanctuary of his whole being, and constitutes, in his eyes, the most intolerable species of persecution. It is no wonder that since the day of Catholic emancipation, and the repeal of the Test Act, froth of which measures recognized the principle of unrestrained liberty of conscience, the pro testant dissenters should have felt at once the sense of their remaining vexations aggravated, and the hope of their removal strengthened. That sense and that hope have naturally derived fresh vigour from the great temporal emancipa tion bill of all—the reform of the legislative power. They are little acquainted with the condition of our protestant dissenters who sup pose it to be one approaching to equality with protestants of the Established Church, even in points which concern vitally the domestic inte rests and comforts of men, or their self-respect and honest pride as Britons, notwithstanding the repeal of the Test Act. They know still less of the protestant dissenters, who judge them to be indifferent to such inequalities in their condition. The mind of that body has been undergoing a very considerable, and by no means unna tural or reprehensible, excitement, and, we believe, that a strong sympathy, with them, has so far gained ground among the represen tatives of the people, as to insure an en forcement of the claims of dissenters, to relief from certain legal disabilities early in the ensuing Session. A pamphlet has been submitted to us, in the form of a letter to the Lord Chan cellor, entitled " The Case of the Dissenters." It is a temperate but decided and unflinching work. It states much in the way of burden which ought to be, and must be, speedily re moved from the shoulders of our Dissenting brethren ; but it puts forth also much in the shape of objection to the first principles on which the Church of England is politically and legally established in this kingdom, and to the means by which it is upheld, which undoubtedly will not be acted upon by Parliament ; nor, we believe, be concurred in or encouraged by the bulk of the nation. The heads of grievances numerated by the Dissenting author are six : I 1. The state of parochial registration, as it affects Dietenters. 2. The present state of the marriage law in its operation upon them. 3. The law regarding the burial of the dead. 4. Their exclusion from the Universities. 5. Their being " compelled to contribute towards a church from which they have withdrawn, and from which they derive no benefit." 6. The preference afforded by the state to one deno mination of religknists before others. It will be seen at once from the foregoing catalogue of alleged grievances, that the three first in the list are of a nature vshich renders them severely oppressive upon the comfort and feelings of private families, as well as detrimental to their worldly interests ; that the fourth is partly in the nature of an exclusion from the benefits of a system of education to which Protestants of the Established Church have access, and which, therefore, to that extent, savours of palpable in justice to individuals, and of grave impolicy to wards the state itself: We shall see, however, in the course of some future references to this pamphlet, that " exclusion from the Universities" means a good deal more than a mere repulse from the opportunity of classical and mathema tical tuition, and from the power of acquiring th grees, and that the: redress demanded by 1 this volunteer champion of the Dissen ters would imply both an invasion of the rights of property and an encroachment by the ministers of one Christian sect upon the performance of those sacred duties to which the ministers of another sect have been specially destined, and for which they only by creed and instructions have been qualified. This can never be conceded by any just or rational legis lature. The sth and 6th heads represent as a grievance the existence of the Established Church itself, and if the Dissenters do not mean to in dispose towards themselves the feelings both of the large majority of Parliament, and of all the zealous friends of the Church of Scotland, as well as that of England, they will not set on foot a resistance to the settled prepossession of both countries, that some religious establishment is an institution conducive to the ends of civiliza tion and morality—a matter, therefore, of fun damental importance to the nation as a whole, and one for whose maintenance a public fund (not tithe, unquestionably) may with justice and wisdom be appropriated. On Monday we shall enter more into detail upon the statements and reasonings of this pamphlet or manifesto of the non-conforming Protestants, specifying what appears to us well founded in both, and what untenable, or at least impracticable, in the pre sent stage of our national opinions and existence. —Times. Mr. Sadler has been haranguing at a great rate At Huddersfield. On Monday and Tues day last he delivered orations which are extolled to the skies by the Conservative journals, and which, as they throw some light on the policy of that party, are deserving of more notice than they otherwise ought to receive. Mr. Sadler boasts of being the universal favourite, both at Leeds and Huddersfield. " I am happy," he says to the people of Huddersfield, " in being able to tell you that I have lost no friend in Leeds, and at the time I was called upon this morning from all parties, except that party that I hardly know how to designate—the se s ! it fis h h and interested Whig party — l sa y that, that exception, all parties have come to support me." And no wonder that he should be so general a favourite, seeing that he is so much superior Am to " any Whg, according to his own account. I a Whig ? God forbid ! Look at the conduct of the Whigs. Always patriots when out of place, but mark their conduct when in place. When out of place much was said by them of the necessity of doing something iorj the good of the people—of shortening the duration of Parliaments—and of extending the suffrage. What did the Whigs do in for mer days? Parliaments being originally short, and the Whiga being then in office, they decreed, by a most flagitious Act of Parliament, that they who were elected For three years should sit for seven years." Oh ! the wigged Whigs ! Before we proceed to notice further the orations of Mr. Sadler, we will devote a few words to the chapter of Whigs and Tories. That since these party names were known among us, the conduct of the Whigs has always been free from objection, is what no honest man would think of maintaining. The Whigs, in fact, have always had great difficulties to struggle with in reducing their main doctrine to practice. The Whigs not only maintained what even despots affect to maintain, that Government ought to be conducted for the benefit of the people, but they maintained besides, that the Governors are accountable to the people. Now, as the en lightened and well-disposed part of the people are not always the majority—we have seen of late that in Spain they are but a comparatively small minority—the asserters of liberal opinions are always in danger of seeing the people become the tools of those who have sinister objects in view. Mr. Sadler, for instance, instances the Septennial Bill of the Whigs as a desertion of their principles. If the people of England had been polled at that time, the Tories, High-Church Parsons, and Jacobites and rabble, would have carried everything before them, and the House of Hanover would have been driven from the throne. The Whigs were reduced to all manner of expedients to prevent the people from becoming the blind instruments of those who wished to enchain them. We find the Tory Swift actually advocating annual Par liaments and universal suffrage ; and it is quite certain that the Whigs were the first great organizers of boroughmongering. In the last number of the Edinburgh Review there is an ingenious article, attributed to Mr. Macaulay, in which the corruption by means of which Sir Robert Walpole, one of the best IVlinisters this country ever had, carried on the Government, is not altogether correctly accounted for. " Now," he says, " that the Court was at the mercy of the House of Commons, that large body of members who were not returned by popular election, had nobody to please but themselves. Even those who were returned by popular election did not live, as now, under a constant sense of responsibility. The constituents were not, as now, daily apprised of the votes and speeches of their representatives. The privileges which had in old times been indispensably ne cessary to the security and efficiency of Parlia ments, were now superfluous. But they were still carefully maintained—by honest legislators, from superstitious veneration—by dishonest le gislators, for their own selfish ends. They had been a useful defence to the Commons during a long and doubtful conflict with powerful sove reigns. They were no longer necessary for that purpose, and they became a defence. to the Members against their constituents. • * * The Government could not go on unless the Parliament could be kept in order. And how was the Parliament to be kept in order ? Three hundred years ago it would have been enough for a Statesman to have the support of the Crown. It would now, we hope and believe, be enough for him to enjoy the confidence and approbation of the great body of the middle class. A hundred years ago it would not have , been enough to have both Crown and people on his side. The Parliament had shaken off the control of the Royal prerogative. It had not yet fallen under the control of public opi nion. A large proportion of the Members had absolutely no motive to support any Admini stration except their own interest, and in the lowest sense of the word. Under these cir cumstances the country could be governed only by corruption. Bolingbroke, who was the ablest and the most vehement of those who raised the cry of corruption, had no better remedy to pro pose than that the Royal prerogative should be strengthened. The remedy would no doubt have been efficient. The only question is, whether it would not have been worse than the disease. The fault was in the constitution of the Legislature ; and to blame those Ministers who reanaJed the Legislature in the only way In which it could be managed, is gross injustice. They submitted to extortion because they could not help themselves." The constitution of the Legislature no doubt rendered corruption necessary ; but we very much question whether matters could have been much mended at that time by any other constitution of the Legislature. Richard Baxter, in his Holy Commonwealth, written at the in stigation of the celebrated Harrington, towards 1656, states it as then admitted by all men of political experience, that wherever the elections were popular, the people were mere tools in the hands of rich men, who treated them to drink. The intelligent few were everywhere overpowered by the mass. It is notorious at this day, that the Democratic Cantons of Switzerland are, in reality, Oligarchies, as one or two families use the people for their purposes, and these Cantons have always been the most illiberal of all. By the system of corruption, Sir Robert Walpole was enabled to withstand the popular clamour for war, and under his long and peaceful admi nistration, the industry of the nation struck deep root,whence we obtained a numerous and substan tial middle class, without which no Government can be stable. The principles of the Whigs, if ri gorously acted on, would more than once have ruined the country. The Septennial Act was a departure from their principles, but it neverthe less was essential to the salvation of the country. It was much easier for the Tories to preserve their constituency. The Czar of Russia is con sistent, because his principle is, whatever his mandates, the people must obey them. The Tories allowed no freedom of movement to the people, and therefore they had less to dread from the ignorance of the people. Sir Robert Walpole organised corruption, to prevent the Legislature and the people sacrificing the liber ties of the country. The Tories, since their accession to power, availed themselves of the command of venal boroughs, to plunder the people by taxation, to a degree of which there is no example in the history of the world—wasted the produce of the taxes and loans in wars, in support of despotism abroad, and to keep up mis government at home. The Whigs might not always be able to preserve consistency, and their principles and practice might occa sionally be at variance ; but the object of th e Tories was uniformly dishonest. They did not lament the ignorance of the people, and wish to remedy it, in order to prevent them being made tools of by their enemies. They, on the contrary, rejoiced that the ignorance of the people made them the more available to their purposes; and they unifbrmly opposed themselves to education, and all means by which the people might be able.to, distinguish between their friends and their enemies. If the Whigs had done nothing more than 'destroy the nomination boroughs, and give the suffrage to the intelligent middle classes, it would be difficult to over-estimate the value of their services to this country. But they have since, shown that they are determined to avail themselves of the power which the Reform Bill has given to them. They may not proceed with the rapidity which some impatient spirits would wish. They may even stand so much in awe of the House of Lords, though those who are behind the curtain may see dang ers that escape the eyes of those without. Be this, however, as it may, it is impossible not to see in Ministers an honest disposition to improve the institutions of the country, and to free it from the abuses which a long-continued misgovern ment have accumulated in every department of the State. We everywhere see inquiries going on, with a view to enable the Legis lature to proceed with due knowledge of the abuses to be remedied, and the wants and wishes of the people. But this, of course, is what the Tories dread above all things; and as Tories never scruple to deceive the people, we see them now even hoisting radical colours, that, by the aid of the people, they may be enabled to retain the power of plundering them, and defeating the reforms in which Minis ters are engaged. Thus, we find Mr. Sadler at Huddersfield, the candidate supported by the Conservatives, advocating universal suffrage, and lamenting that the Whigs should have dealt so unfairly with the working classes. " If Igo to Parliament (he says), my first and main ob ject shall be that which a great writer of this country says is almost the exclusive object of all true and grand legislation—namely, to protect the rights of the oppressed, to defend the cause of the defenceless, and to assert the rights and interests of the poor.—(Hcar.) Those who have no voice for me on this occasion, if I re present you, gentlemen, I shall hold as the most sacred part of the constitutional body ; for though a pretended Reform has passed, which allows no man in the humble ranks of society to exercise the Constitutional privilege of voting for his representatives in Parliament, it behoves me, as a consistent Englishman, and aspiring to be again a senator, to pay attention to that numerous and essential class of society, that is left totally out of the political scheme of your modern reformers." After retailing the old misrepresentations that the Whigs destroyed the nomination boroughs of their opponents, and retained their own, we have the follow- ing precious argument against the Reform Bill :—" The old Constitution gave, in some part of the country or other, to every man above the rank of a pauper, a vote; for instance, in such places as Westminster and Preston, and others. Every class of individuals, therefore, had a voice. The lower ranks of society might not be, nor were they sufficiently represented, but they were not totally unrepresented ; whereas prospectively, when this Reform comes into full operation, every man who does not happen to live in a 101. house is to be put out of political life entirely, and we are to have a race of men like the Helots of Greece, who, though they fight the battles of the nation, and contribute to its strength and defence, yet, in a political point of view, are not worthy to be con sidered, and ten thousand of them clubbing to gether are not worthy to have a single vote. Gentlemen, I don't call that a Reform Bill ; and as especially before it did pass you were carried in crowds to be polled, but when it was passed not a poll among you was called, not a head among you was reckoned; I therefore thought that a more mixed system of representa tion, which should give the honest and indus trious classes of the community, at least, some consideration in the Senate of the Empire, ought in all fairness—in all justice—in all common sense—to have been conceded to the people of England." And then he endeavours to enlist the people against the corporation inquiry, telling them that " the people who have been lett by the Reform Bill will have no vote in the new Corporations." Arguments like these betray the greatest contempt on the part of the speaker for the intellects of those he is addressing. Of what use was the suffrage of the people in a few places like Preston and West minster ? These instances did not affect the power of the boroughmongers. "I he present constituency can prevent measures injurious to the community, therefore the boroughmongers hate the Reform Act ; the few popular consti tuencies were of no avail, and therefore the bo roughmongers had no objection to them. But was it for the Conservatives to dwell on the nar rowness of the constituencies, and to preach up universal suffrage, when we know that the great cause of their hatred to the Reform Bill was, that it made the suffrages too extensive? Were they not constantly dwelling on the three shillings and sixpence a week voters, and contending that the reform was universal suf frage in disguise ? The advocates of the Re form Bill were again and again put to the proof that the 101. constituency would not be the low, ignorant rabble the Tories contended they would be. Now, however, they turn round and lament to those whom they would delude, that the suffrage has been too much narrowed. Surely the Radicals are not so besotted as to be gulled by these dishonest, but thread-bare tricks. The Halifax and Hudderffield Express concludes its report with the following account of the state of parties : " We learn that the leaders of the Radical party are at loggerheads as to their future proceedings. Some wish to support Saddler ; while others are for Blackburne, as most congenial to their own views; and a third portion wish a candidate of their own. The condescending man ner in which the Tory now offers his arm to the Radical, and the novel intimacy of these sworn foes of yore, furnish much amusement to the other party, while it disgusts the more consistent of their own political partisans. On Tuesday evening some of the Radicals burnt in effigy, in the mai ket-place, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. W. Moore. Squibs are issued in an abundance that must be both gratifying to the lovers of gossip, and profitable to the printers. One bill, printed at Leeds, and bearing the name of Richatd Oastler, brings serious charges against the postmaster, Mr. W. Moore; but we refrain from com ment, as we believe it will furnish employment for the gentletnen of the long robe." We understand that the coalition between the Tories and Ultra-Radicals, though General Johnson and Captain Wood are said by Mr. Sadler to have been instrumental enough (we aßdelackgbreuartne,waoyn with will not use a harsher term) to promote it, w ill a n n o d t go down. Tuesday the voters, who generally were aware of Sadler's Wednesday, made designs. The following observations of the journal to which we have just alluded must, we should think, carry conviction with them to every man who can connect two propositions together : " The Tories, leagued with a few of the Radicals, are arranged on the side of the former ; but the great strength of the liberal party—a decided majority of the voters—is with the latter. We will not insult our Huddersfield readers, by instituting a con3p“ri-on betwten the viudi- dates. ! Mr. S idler is well known as the ex-nominee of my Lird Newcastle, and as the seconder of General Gas eoyne's insidious motion against the Reform Bill. In his speech on the latter occasion, he insisted that ' virtual representation' was necessary for the preservation of pro• perry,;and that the then existing system—the old boroughs, with all their rottenness and corruption--was the most perfect form of government that the wisdom of man could devise! Every vote which he gave, while the now exploded system put nomination into the hands of his patron; was against reform, and opposed tr every principle of liberty. The Bill under which he now seeks to repre sent the new borough of Huddersfield, was the object of his deadly hatred ; and it would, indeed, be a strange order cf things, were the electors to choose one who did his best to prevent their enjoyment of the franchise. Mr. Sadler, his political principles, and his new associates, they know too well to be deceived. " The other candidate, Mr. Blackburne, is the man to represent their borough. He is an honest and honourable man-.—a steady and consistent friend to every rational reform. His speech to the electors on Tuesday last— which' we give in a subsequent column—is highly charac teristic of his fearless independence. It speaks for itself, and needs no lengthened comment. The voters of Huddersfield will have been enfranchised in vain, if they reject such a man, for one who has, through the whole of his political life, strenuously contended against the progress of reform, and vehemently denounced every effort to promote the spread of civil and religious liberty. We do not believe that they will."—Moraing Chronicle. Our attention is again very forcibly called to the affairs of the East, and more especially to the conduct of Russia, by the report that not only has that grasping and insatiable power procured the complete cession of Walla chia and Moldavia from the Porte, but that a Russian fleet is immediately to put to sea, in consequence of orders to that effect having been received from St. Petersburgh. For what pur pose this " aquatic excursion," as it is justly termed by a contemporary, is to be undertaken, and more especially at a season of the year which, as every one knows, is most unfavour able to a navigation of the Black Sea, it is dif ficult to conjecture ; but that it is connected, in some way or other, with some immediate, or re mote, design of aggrandizement at the expense of some other state, there can be no doubt. The Autocrat of Russia does nothing without a reason. He neither sends armies into the field from mere caprice, nor issues orders to his fleets—for Russia has now fleets—to leave their moorings, without meaning that the expense of the expeditio❑ should be ultimately defrayed by some other than the Russian treasury. Such, at least, has been the uni form practice of the Russian Cabinet, and so uniform has that conduct been, that the past may be safely taken, in all cases, as a solvent of the future. Taking it for granted then that the Russian fleet has not been ordered to sea without special reasons, the question to be solved is what is its destination, and for what purpose has it been put in motion. That its movement is of a nature hostile to the great ob ject of Russian ambition—the seizure of the capital of the East—is scarcely to be credited ; for although Russian policy is sufficiently un principled to commit, as well as to medi tate, such an act of aggression, and the state of the Turkish empire sufficiently disorga nized to render the time favourable, the effect of such a proceeding would inevitably be not only a war upon Russia by the only two powers that have sufficient strength to chastise her, but the revival of feelings of the most hostile character on the part of others—Prussia and Austria for example—whom film has hitherto contrived to blind, to bribe, or to bully into acquiescence with her nefarious schemes of aggrandizement. It is not, therefore, we presume, to be supposed that she contemplates at present the adoption of such a nefarious proceeding ; and the only probable supposition that remains is, that the object of the expedition is to support the treaty into which the Russian Cabinet lately tricked that of Turkey, and which, among other notable points, provided for the closing of the Darda nelles against the ships of all other powers but Russia, whenever the latter might call upon the Sultan to declare them closed. Against this treaty, it is well known, that both France and England have protested in the most energetic manner, and that accounts are daily expected of their having forced the passage of the Dardanelleq, in defiance of the compact. It is, therefore—supposing the account of the orders received from St. Petersburgh to be cor rect—barely possible that Russia may contem plate a breach of the kind alluded to; but although the supposition is the only one that seems to afford anything like an explanation of the Russian movement, we are frank to own that we do not consider it to partake of much probability. What chance has the Russian naval power, even combined with that of Turkey, of coping successfully with that of England only, not to speak of France ? The former would annihilate both in less time than it would take ' to tell the story of its destruction ; and if Russia be foolish enough, as has been asserted, to believe that France will not, and that Eng land dare not, engage in a contest with her-- those who administer her affairs were never more grievously mistaken. There is no thing so much hated throughout all Europe, but more especially throughout France and England, as the very name of Rus sia—there is nothing which deserves to be so much execrated. The blood-stained ruins of Poland are fresh in the indignant mind of libe ral Europe—and the spoliation of Turkey has not tended to obliterate the impression made by it, of Russian cruelty, Russian rapacity, and Rus sian fraud and aggrandisement. The question of the treaty into which the latter has been tricked, is not only one of high commercial moment, but of European importance ; and, therefore, what ever the Autocrat or his minions may think, we beg to assure them that there is no possible war, in support of which men of all parties both in France and England would so cheerfully come forward, as one, the object of which would be the chastisement of Russian insolence--the abasement of Russian pretensions—and the resuscitation of the victims of Russian barbarity, perfidy, and cruelty.—Mornin g Advertiser. F lRE.—Yesterday morning about two o'clock, a fire was discovered in Messrs. Ashton and Ginn's ship. building yard, Waterloo-road, which completely destroyed a counting-house, stable, and smithy. The Sun fire engine was the first on the spot, but, as mud, it was so difficult to oht tin a supply of water, that the fire engines were of little use.—Liverpool Courier. FURIOUS DRIVING.—Two gentlemen in a gig were driving up the Blackfriars-road between 4 and 5, on Thursday afternoon, and when near Rowland Hill's Chapel they knocked down Mr. Thomas Manning, the wheel passing over his hip and leg, hut providentially without fracturing a bone. He was seriously bruised, and was conveyed home. His snuff -box, in his coat pocket, was literally Jammed to pieces from the effect of the wheel passing over him. The inhuman brutes neve r waited to inquire after the gentlem an , but drove on at a furious rate. BRAWLING IN CHURCH.--A young man named Thomas Short was married on Sunday last, at All Saints' Church. He disputed the amount of the lees, and, when ordered out of the Vestry-room, knocked down the beadle, assaulted several others, and ran away. He was, however, secured, and was to be examined before the Magistrates oa Wednesday...•Maidstone Gazette, COURT OF KINGS BENCH, DEC. 13. FOX, QUI TAM, V. KEELING AND NECK. This action was brought upon the Statute of Usury (12th of Anne) to recover a number of penalties. The defendants were charged with taking usurious interest on bills of exchange. The statute gives treble the sum usuriously taken, and the whole of the treble penalties amounted to 6891 M. BARSTOW stated the case. The question with regard to the usury on the bills was clear. Messrs. Keeling and Neck carried on some time ago the business of bill discounters. They were also attorneys, and their practice was made subsi diary in bringing a multiplicity of actions. Their terms for discounting bills were 35 per cent., and they had a peculiar mode of transacting business. Per sons who were compelled to pay 35 per cent. signed a paper by which they declared they had only paid 5 per cent. The business of these gentlemen was extensive. A Mr. Newton was a very constant customer. From time to time he discounted bills with one or the other of them. Newton paid no less than 21. Is. 6d. for discounting a bill of 351. drawn by himself on Joyce and Son. He should call the witness and prove the facts. Something had occurred with respect to Keeling and Neck, which made it doubtful whether the penalties would be paid. Mr. Keeling was a person going through the rules of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The Learned Gentleman then called his witnesses, after which Mr. HUTCHINSON replied for the defendants, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff on all the counts in the declaration—Damages 6891. The Counsel for the defendant gave notice that he should move for a nonsuit. PREROGATIVE COURT, DEC. 13. (Before Sir JOHN NICHOLL.) IN TIIE GOODS OF THE REV. MR, BOLLAND, DECEASED, In this case an allegation was offered to the Court propounding, as the last will of the deceased, who was incumbent of the Rectory of Fitcham, a paper, dated in January last, but not completed, which was opposed on the ground that the deceased had, in December, 1832, duly executed his last will, dis tributing his large estates, which consisted of real property amounting to 40,0001., and a personalty of 60,0001. By the facts in the cause it appeared that the Lady of Baron Bolland will be largely be nefitted by the testamentary acts of the deceased. Dr. LUSRINGTON and Dr. ADDAMS supported the admissibility of the allegation on the ground that on his death bed at Brighton the deceased referred to the unexecuted will propounded, and that before it could be fetched from his rectory the deceased died. The KINWS ADVOCATE and Dr. DODSON opposed the admissibility of the allegation, contending that the paper propounded being an unexecuted docu ment could not operate to set aside a regularly ex ecuted will. Sir J. NICIIOLL said, looking to all the circum stances of the case, the Court was bound not to defeat the intentions of the deceased, and it would be departing from the principle held in favour of regularly-executed papers if it did not reject the allegation, as, if all the facts stated in it were ca pable of proof, they would not be sufficient to in duce the Court to give effect to the unfinished paper. PALACE COURT, WESTMINSTER, DEc.l3. HORDER v. WOLLIN. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a professor of music, residing in Clement's Inn, against a gentleman, who had been admitted an at• torney, but had not taken out his certificate, for the tuition of his daughter. The plaintiff claimed 2/. 12s. 6d. for one quarter, besides 6s. 6d. for Griffin's Concerto, and 2s. for the overture to Tancrcdi, making in the whole a claim of 3/. Is. This demand was resisted by the defendant, upon the following singular grounds—namely, that it was an entire contract to teach the young lady the art of thorough bass, which was contended to be the basis of music. It was taught without the aid of a mu sical instrument, and through the help of a musical slate, pupils were taught to read it as one would read a newspaper. It was stated that an eminent composer had never touched an instrument, and that Rossini had composed music in bed. This being an entire contract, it could not be apportioned; and therefore the plaintiff could not recover anything, even for the music supplied. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 3/. is., upon the ground that the plaintiff had offered to teach the lady thorough bass without any extra charge, which he would have done, but could not get his money from the de fendant. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The Sugar Market has been very heavy all the week ; no general reduction in the prices can be stated, yet, as usual in a dull time of trade, the buyers have pur chased in several instances a shade lower ; the estimated purchases for the week are 2,700 hhds. and trs. ; there is more business this afternoon, and the Market has a firmer appearance. In Refined goods there is much heaviness, there being no export demand, and the wholesale grocers purchasing for the home trade on the most limited scale. The shippers have taken fine Crashed to some extent at 301., the reduction having attracted their attention ; 400 hhtls. are reported sold, and only 295. 6d. is now offered ; for mid. descriptions of Foreign 28s. 6d. has been refused. This afternoon the Market continued heavy, and the Re- finers having shown a disposition to effect sales of the qualities entitled to the bounty on double refined, some parcels were sold Crashed at Is. a Is. 6d. per cwt. re duction, viz., at 30s. a 30a. 6d., and offers still continue to be made, but the holders are now more firm, and re fuse to sell under the latter quotation ; in other descriptions there is only a partial business doing, and scarcely any alteration in prices ran be notice';. MAURITIUS SUGAR.—The few purchases of Mauritius this week were at the reduction we stated in our last pub lication. This day's public sale 1,022 bags Mauritius, a very inferior parcel ; the very low did not sell ; the few lots disposed of sold at full market prices, 495. _a 525. 6d. EAST INDIA SoaAa.—Tbere are no sales of East India Sugar this week to report. At public sale this day 49 casks 190 bags Bengal new quality Sugar sold at full prices, 255. 6d. a 345. 6d. ; 75 bags Siam 225. 6d. a 255. FOREIGN Sawa a.—Foreign Sugars continue neglected ; the only sale this week is a cargo of Bahia deliverable at a Dutch port, the brown sold at 20e., the white at 245. COFFEE.-There is little alteration to notice in Cof f ee; there are no sales of Foreign, and of East India only a parcel of ord. brown Sumatra 465. and 475., and ord. yellow Mocha 711. and 755. The ord. clean Jamaica descriptions are scarce, and command high prices ; good to fine ord. 85s. 6d. a 91s. ; all other kinds of British Plantation Coffee are dull. lii the public sales this day 48 bags Sumatra sold at 475. 6d. ; 28 bags Brazils very ord., 555. 6d. CocoA.—There are few sales of Cocoa lately. A parcel of ord. to good Trinidad was all taken in 445. a 503. It is this afternoon reported that some Brazil Cocoa has been sold at 21s. RUM, BRANDY, AND HoLLArins.—There is little al teration in the prices of Rum, but there is considerable improvement in the deinaod ; the nearest quotatioi of proof Leewards is Is. 11,1., arid numerous offers at 1.. 10d. ; 10 per cent. Demerara 2s. 2,1. a 2s. 3d., and offers made freely Id. under that rate - ; of Jamaica extensive sales of fine and favourite marks reported 3s. 2d. a 3s. 4d., com mon quality 30 over at 2s. 9d. Brandy maintains the late advance, and the Market appears firm. In Geneva there is no alteration. TALLOW.—The Market continued steadily to advance till yesterday, when accounts were received from St. Pe tersburg!! of open weather, and the vessels at Cronstadt only waiting a wind, and as it had gone round here to the northward the speculators for the fall showed theta• selves as sellers, which occasioned the pries of Yellt,w Candle Tallow to drop from 46e. 61 a 465. 9d. down to 465. 3d. This evening the wind is again more to the westward, and the Market has assumed snore firmness ; the nearest price is 465. 3d. a 465. 61. Warr Puovlsrosrs:—Tne Market continues in a very dull and depressed state for not only Butter and Bacon, but for all other articles. Under this head prices must be nominally considered the same as those quoted in our last of Tuesday. SncEs.—There is no alteration in Spices. In public , ales a part parcel of Pepper," sold heavy at 41d. and the ' remainder was taken in 41.1. a 4id. ; mid. quality of Pi' mento was taken in at 4,11. ; 389 chests mid. Can l4l Lignea 755. 6d. and '761., all at former prices. SALTPETRE. —There is little alteration to notice 1 Saltpetre; the lowest quality of rough is held at 335. RICE. —Rice continues dull at the late reduction, ord. white Bengal 11s. ; Madras ord. dusty 9s. 6d. a 10. FRUIT.-There is a considerable demand for Fail generally, and at fair prices. Figs 58e. a 605.; 'Da; superior quality 653. In common Fruit there has ben' much briskness ; large - sales of Valenti," are reported nt 425.: , in the finer sorts the business is more limited. Corrox.—The market is more firm on account of the' large transactions at Liverpool, and that market being, well supported. The sales here are quite inoonsiderabfe , but there is some disposition evinced to purchase extensive parcels at low prices. The saes of this week are 25 0 , Surats, sid. a 5I(1. ; 130 Trinidad, Bd. ; 120 Cartbagennt bid. TEA.—The Sale has finished. The Campoi were : nearly all refused. The selling price of Souchong, 2 1 . i , a 3s. 11d., but 1,103 chests were refused. Twankal at last sale's prices 2s. Odd. a 2s. Id. The total gusto thy of tea refused this time is opal to 570,000 IW. weight, viz., of Congou, 3,324 chests; Campoi, 1,902 Souchong, 1,103 ; Hyson Skin, 169; Hyson, 990. TOBACCO.—There is no alteration in Tobacco. The late sales were only small parcels for the home trade. Itturao.—There is no alteration in the demand or is j the prices of Indigo. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, compttte o t from the Returns made in theiweek ending the 10th day Dec., 1833, is tiSs. Ii d. per. Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation - ' thereof into . Great Britain. PRICES OP HOPS.--Dec. 13. New EMU Pockets (per cwt.) ... 51. Os. 61. Os. to 61, 104 Choio• East Kost.... i 71. Os. Pl. Os. to 81. Os. Choice 81. 10s. 01. Os. to 91. Oil. New Sobsex Pockets 51. i.s. 11. Os. to 5/. 101. Superfine t)itto 61. Os. 0/. Os. to 61. 6s. Farnham Its. 01. Os to 121. Its. Ditto (seconds) Os. 01. Os is 111. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os• "worm Refined 0 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 0 Italia Cake, per ton s'lo PRICE OF POTATOES.—Dec. 13, Shaws --............ _ _34 Os. to 31. lOs. per ton. Middling —o/. Os. to 21. ss. ditto. Marsh Champions .......--.....41. Os. to 41. 101. ditto. Scotch Reds 31. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. Chats .-----....... 01. Os. to 2/. Os. ditto. WHI I'ECHAPEL HAY id A HKE 12.. Hay 604. Od. to 804. Od. I Clover 655. DLL to 955. 04. Strain 244. Od. to 304. Od. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d . to d. Butts, 14 25 English Horse Hides.. 14 19 Ditto, Foreign 13 21 Spanish Ditto 17 26 Dressing 11 15 Per dozen. Ditto l4 16 Calf Skins.. 30 to 401 b. 13 21 Ditto, light •••••• I Ditto 40 to 601 r): 17 23.. Ci op Hides, light 12 14 Ditto 70 to 901 b. 20 23 to 501 b. 13 161 Small Seals, Greenland 16 16 Otto 14 i 8 Large 12 16 RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. • Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)—.....2s,loBd. PRICE OF TALLOV rown Tallow . Yellow Russia 48s. Od. White .. . _ _ s. Od. Soap Ditto s. Od. Melted Stuffw. 375. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap. 62s. Od. Mottled . 70s. Od. Whit 725. Od. Graves 14s. Oda Good Dregs .56„ PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows v•-• Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. j Moulds, per dozen-9s. 6d COAL MAR Per Tor,. kdair's 16 0 Dean's Primrose 15 0 East Percy l4 3 Hebburn Main ............... 15 9 Holywell 16 0 Orti's Redhugh 14 9 Pontop Windsor 15 6 ran 15 6 West Hartley 16 0 Wylam Walls End Bell & Brown 16 9 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 18 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 15 6 Ditto 14 0 W.E. Clarke and C 0.... 15 6 Walls End Heaton 17 0 Walls End 16 3 Walls End Hotspur.— 16 0 Walls End Killingworth 16 9 Walls End Newmarch.—. 16 3 Ditto Northumberland.. 16 6 Walls End Peareth....... 15 9 Ships arrived since 1 :ET.—Dec. 13. Per Ton. s. ( 1 ; Walls End Riddell's 17 %` Walls End Walker 16 6 Lambton's Primrose —...- 17 Walls End Braddyll's 18 ,u Walls End Hatton 19 Walls End Lyons 17 6 Walls End Lambton 19 n W. E. Russell's Hatton.. 1 8 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.-- 17 Walls End Stewart's...-. 19 u n Walls End Butterknowl 16 y Walls End Adelaide 16 6 Dixon's Butteanowl.,.... 16 a u Walls End Gordon...—. 17 W. E South Durham.. 17 0 ' Walls End Tees _ la CO:Pewrtalern d y 'sNethertonMain 1 1 5 5 H H ' 5 : New Flockton, Milne , and Co. 6 fi 9 Silkstone Simpson l5 - is T t h n o la rp rk e' e s t.d Ga a w y, be iz r H . all 14 9 COUNTRY CORN MARKEI'S DURING THE WEbil* Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Ashburn 50 56 32 34 Basingstoke 48 58 25 30 16 22 34 38 Bath 4B 58 26 32 20 26 38 42 Bridgewater 53 60 26 28 25 38 42 Bristol 48 56 28 32 16 20 34 38 Chesterfield 44 54 28 36 17 25 44 48 Derby 48 55 33 35 20 24 34 42 Doncaster 48 60 26 34 117 25 40 46 54 27 23 35 40 Exeter 4B .56 26 28 — l6 20 36 40 44 54 25 30 17 24 36 42 Huogerford 46 56 22 29 15 22 34 39 53 -- 34 —•24 42 Newbury 37 56 23. 30 17 30 33 4 2 Romsey 56 62 25 29 18 22 36 4 2 Shaftesbury 54 25 17 41 Shepton Mallet 46 52 26 30 22 24 34 44 Sherborne...—.—...... 50 54 24 28 21 23 38 42 48 50 24 28 21 23 32 34 Yarmouth 46 51 26 33 23 25 32 34 Yeovil.. 52 56 26 30 18 22 34 42 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. As. d. s. d• Shrewsbury 69 76, 36 40 40 58 00 00 DEVIZES CORN MARKET—Dec. 12. Per Sack. s. d. s. d.I Per Quarter. s. d. s. d. Best Wheat...... 26 6 to 27 6lBarley 25 oto 29 2 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Qi. Best Wheat 96 6 to 27 6 Barley Second 24 0 26 0 Oats ...... Thirds 2l 0 22 0 Beans (pel 950 Sacks of Wheat sold l A , 0 Flour (pet at the average of " Bread (pe] —Dec. 12. Lrter. s. d. s. d. 25 0 to 29 18 0 25 0 , r sack) 16 0 21 0 r bag) 4O 0 42 0 • T gall) 1 2 0 ° BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Dec. 12: '' Wheat 62 lb. • Barley,. imperial quarter 3O 0 34 0 Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b Old Beans, 66,4 lb 15 6 17 0 New ditto l4 6 15 0 New White Boiling Pease, 3 imp. bush. 22 0 22 6 Ditto Grey ditto lB 6 20 0 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) ON MONDAY, DEC. 16. DIVIDENDS. if. F. Foster, tailor, Oxford-street at 11 2 R. Fiddes, tavern-keeper, Hackney DERBY TRADES' UNION.—We regret to say the members of the Trades' Union in this borough are still " out." Tbere are non', in consequence, about 1,800 men, women, and children, out of employment. Most of the manufacturers are doing a little, partly with their old hands, but chiefly with new ones. It may , however, he taken for granted, that with so large a num ber of persons out of employment, very little business can be done. The privations of the hands must be very great• We sincerely wish they would abandon every thing like co:npulsion or coercion towards their employers in ti , e terms of the Union, then there could be no obstacle to as amicable return to their employment.—Derby Reporter. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Enfield-wash, Middlesex, the lady of John Itayer Hogarth, Esq., of a daughter. . , On the sth inst., at Wimborne, Mrs, Henry Castleman, of a daughter. At Froyle Parsonage, Hants, Mrs. Langford Sainsbury, of s son. On the 12th inst., at Camberwell, the lady of the Rev. Thos. Dale, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Child Okeford, Dorset, the lady of Thos• Oliver, Esq., jun., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., John Harding, Esq., of Shirehampton, to Jane, eldest daughter of Charles Morgan, Esq., of Park.strcet, Bristol. On the sth inst., at Box, Wilts, the Rev. Fulwar William Fowle, rector of Allington, and perpetual curate of Amesbury. to Anne Fawcett, eldest daughter of the late Rev. R. Watson Moor, rector of Sanford Orcas, Somersetshire. On the 7th inst., at Bathwick, the Rev. Benjamin Evans. lecturer of St. John's Church, Swansea, youngest son of 17. Evans, Esq., Kelyblaidd, Carmarthenshire, to Mary Ann, eldest danghter of George Bridges, Esq., of Bathwick, late of Lawford, Essex. On the 10th inst., at Stratford-under-the-Ca stle, Mr. W. Rawlins, of Yeovil, to Ann, only daughter of M r . W. Keyneo. of Castle Cottage. On the Sth inst., at St. George's, Hanover -s q uare, Mr. Bat ton Kewell, of Newington, to Susanna, se cond dau ghter of Mr. Bird, Pease_hill, Cambridge. Mr. F. W. On the 12th inst., at Blunham, E. Jowers, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Samuel Sutton, Esq., of Muggerhanger. DIED. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Freeman, relict of the late John Free- Surrey. man, Esq., of River's Hall, Essex, aged 83. On the 11th ipnnhsstt.. Travers,ca t h a H r l i e g s h E : se u ql r d, y e - so g tf r o sso v w e ni , tohf M i niu r i T a: r i a ae v: ia, r g s se , :r w gv i eo d . o n : r. and scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, aged 2 1 . On the 3oth June, at Sydney, N. S. Wales, J. Lardy, of the 4l o stzo r huro t dt : nhyo e rt l mh a ote t pfh e teElol : ti o ;: s al e inmg, 's own) Regiment, son of the late Colonel PRINTUD AND Pt:M.II , IIED BY MU RDO YOUNG,4rtilli RCN Ornes, 11:3, STRA.NII. ' TO N,A :NOD: 41 tIzt, subscribes iouthwarl 4 nd that 40aeil fro: Office C • riIHE 1. CO 42 second :Coals, the ART'S, t2s. ; Ha *very exp And Coal Live any Wire. New al X By Including " Aboi 'he eye w " One Atlas. 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