The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-28 00:00:00

CHESHIRE COUNTY METING. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the county of Chester, called by the High Sheriff, pursuant to a requisition signed by a number of landowners, was held on Monday, at Aorthwich, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament, " for relief from the present dreadful distress which unhappily affects so many of his Ma jesty's subjects." The following noblemen and gentlemen were upon the hustings :—The Right Hon. Lord Delamere, Charles Cholmondeley, Esq. (brother to the Noble Lord), Sir G. S. Stanley, Bart., Sir H. M. Main mitring, Bart., the Rev. C. Stanley, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., M.P., G. Wil braham, Esq. M.P., Thomas Darnley, Esq., E. D. l)averiport, Esq., Colonel Parker, Colonel 13arnston, J. G. Shakerley, Esq., S. H. Harper, Esq., J. G. Tollemache, Esq., S. France France, Esq., J. Sud worth, Esq., R. M. Fielder), Esq., R. G. Perryn, Esq., and George Walmsley, Esq. The High Sheriff was requested to take the chair. E. DAVENPORT, Esq. rose and addressed the meeting. He said the county stood precisely in the same predicament that it did eight years ago, when it fell to his lot to petition the Legislature for a reduc tion of taxes, and an alteration in the currency ; which petition was attended to, and a good deal of money drawn from the pockets of the people was returned into circulation ; and he little imagined then that the country at this period would have been reduced to such a pitch of distress. Ile was confi dent that the gentlemen present would acknowledge that the distress of the year 1822 was in active operation. He had thought most attentively of the cause of our progressive distress for nine years, and he had found that it arose from the system of spoliation, which was now ripening to frightful maturity. It had made its way from the pocket to the understanding; and those who differed with him in 182 .9 , were now ready to give their support to him. The meeting would be aware, when they saw Whigs, Tories, and Radicals combined, it must be a very weighty affair, and they might be sure it was time •for the people of the country to combine and endeavour to save themselves from ruin. It was the interest of all classes, where labour was their subsistence, to combine against those who cheapened commodities for their own purposes, and there was no other way titan by petitioning the Legislature. The system which had been adopted was plunging the country into ruin and crime, which embarrassed the Mini stry ; and yet it was said that it was riot a proper time to address the Ministers, because of their em barrassment. Part of the Government, he had no doubt, were anxious to back out of the dilemma, but others were urging them on to pay taxes, with out money for food scarcely, or in fact without money, like a King of Egypt who wished to compel the Israelites to make bricks without straw. Cheese, the staple commodity of Cheshire, had, he was given to understand, fallen 30 per cent. The ma nufacturers were not in the least better off than the agriculturists. So lamentable was the distress in the county of Chester, that at the recent Sessions several children were prosecuted for stealing bread. Mr. Davenport entered into a long detail of the ad vantages which would accrue to the country by a re-issuing of the small notes; at the conclusion of which he read a series of resolutions, which were intended to be embodied in a petition to both Houses of Parliament. The resolutions having been read, Lord DELAMERE rose and objected to them, as not being sufficiently respectful, and as being calcu lated to cast aspersions, upon his Majesty's Mini sters, whom his Lordship was disposed to consider entirely free from being responsible for the distress under which the country laboured. His Lordship then read a petition, which he stated to have been prepared that morning whilst he was at breakfast. Mr. DAVENPORT objected to it; on which Mr. Wthmtatuat proposed that Mr. Davenport's resolutions and Lord Delamere's petition should be referred to a committee of four gentlemen. This was agreed to, and the Committee retired for a few minutes. On their return they produced the following petition, taken partly from Lord De lamere's petition, and partly from Mr. Davenport's resolutions : The humble Petition of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the county of Chester, " Shotveth, That the distresses which exist in every part of the country, agricultural as well as commercial, com mand the most serious attention. That we are sensible of the extreme difficulty of pointing out the causes, or of sug gestiog any effectual remedy for the relief of this calamity, from the various opinions entertained upon this subject, dough we cannot but attribute it in a great measure to' the late alterations in the currency. With those itnpresaions, we strongly recommend that the earliest possible day after the meeting of Parliament be fifwl for taking into cot.side ration this momentous subject, when we find that a reduc tion of taxation in the country at large, as is consistent with honour, may beetfected, and a rigid system of economy in every department adopted and enforced, to answer tha deficiency in the revenue, will comb generally to take place, and that your H inourable House will further adopt such Ine,sures as may tend effectually to reaisdy the present state of distress." The petition having been unanimously agreed to, Mr. DAVENPORT again rose, and said that he should not have raised the least objection to it bad he the wish and the opportunity of being made a Peer. Lord DELA3IERE said, that Mr. Davenport airs peered, from Lis manner, to make an allusion to him. If that was the case, lie was glad of the opportunity of stating to him, and to the meeting, that he (Lord Delamere) was raised to the Peerage irides pendently ; lie never was obliged either to the Mi.- nisters or to the Parliament in his life, arid though his Majesty had conferred so high an honour upon Mtn, lie considered that he was in an equally re spectable sphere of life previously.—(Cheers.)—lf the meeting would listen to him, rind lie had found them exceedingly kind, he would state to them the circumstances which led to his being raised to the Peerage. In early life, said the Noble Lord, I was intimately acquainted with his Majesty—was biro companion—his friend; and oft his coming to the throne, his Majesty did that for me which one friend would do to another. His was sorry to see so many opinions as to the cause of the general distress, arid various remedies were recommended; some said, take the revunues from the Church; but in his opinion there was only one remedy for the agricul tural distress, and that was a reduction of the roots by the landlords.—(Tremendous cheering.) Sir H. M. Mainwaring, Sir John Thomas Stan ley, George Wilbraham, Esq., Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., M.P., Charles Cholmondeley, Esq., and several other gentlemen, subsequently addressed the meeting. Mr. WILBRAHAU moved that the petition be, signed by the High Sheriff, in the name of the' county; but subsequently it. was deemed more ad visable to send it to the House of Parliament with the individual signatures attached ; ultimately it was. agreed that petitions should lie at eaci. market town in the county, for one week, in order to obtains signature.ss Thanks seere then voted to tb.2 High Sheriff for convening the ri - aseting, and for his is in the chair, and the riveting separated. The number of actions cornmeuced in the superior Courts at Westminster, on an air 'tie of five )ears, amounto to nearly 80,000 per annum. THE WEATHER.—The season, in this titian ter, has been extremely inclement since our last. We sever recollect to have experienced eu4 rapid variations of temperature. Heavy showers of snow th,ioughout the week, have been followed by sudden thaws, and those , ceeded by frosts of the most severe character• that can he conceived. The coat:lames And guards of the Lincoln coaches represent the weather os. that side to have been such, as they scarcely ever encounter a 4 The snow has been so deep es to oblige theta to work nearly throughout the journey with six horses, and the winds were so I:o,is terous as to drive the snow and sleet with e. violence that was seriously irksome to both men and horses. On this side the Humber, however, 61 4 .snow does not appear to have fallen in such quantities, as we have observed the York coaches have only employed four Itwes As usual.-- Hull Packet, EAST INDIA MONOPOLY. (From the Times.) We noticed on Tuesday the fact that a meeting, on the subject of the East India monopoly, had taken place at Manchester, and had been attended by many manufac turers and merchants of high intelligence, reputation, and property, who were unanimous in their resolutions de precating any renewal of the Charter by which the yoke of that monopoly has been imposed on the people of Eng land. Such meetings were held in various parts of Great Britain early in the year just el ipseel, and we ven ture to say that they will become more frequent, as well as, beyond measure, more importunate and ur gent, when the season arrives for bringing before Pa:- liament the portentous question which occasioned, and which still provokes them. It was not until at a recent date, however, that we had materials furnished to us explanatory of what had hitherto seemed the premature alarm of the commercial body, lest their rights of free trade to countries beyond the Cape, including the finest field for peaceful enterprise in the world, should be further violated by another twenty years' monopoly, after that now afflicting them should have expired. We were not long ago accidentally informed that a letter had been cir culated throughout India, purporting to be transmitted by some individual in authority to another. The names of both were given in a Mahornetan or llindoo form, and the language of the writer, who talked like a very great person indeed, was sufficiently alarming to all friends of liberty, whether civil or commercial, in India and in Great Britain. To cut short preliminaries, we publish that famous letter; and if any - . thing can add to the reader's surprise at its contents, it will be his finding that a literal translation of the Asiatic names affixed to it, gives that of Lord Ellenborough for the writer, and Sir John Malcolm for the party to whom it was addressed. Now Sir John Malcolm being Governor of Bombay, who some time since had quarrelled with the (falsely called, as we shall see by and by) Supreme Court of Justice in that Presidency, and Lord Ellenborough being no less a person than President of the Board of Con troul, it is of manifest importance to get hold of a document which discloses the views of so very emi nent a functionary, on points of such moment to every Englishman, as—first, the principles on which justice is, with the sanction of the Board of Cuntroul, to be administered to the natives of India ; and, secondly, the policy of that Board with regard to the renewal or non renewal of that Charter which the bulk of the British nation exclaims against as a grievance calling loudly for redress. How this letter has reached our hands, cannot much signify to the public. It has been sent to vs with assurances of its authenticity so strong and so accredited, that we cannot withhold from them our belief. The President of the Board of Controul, then, in the first place, lays it down in substance, if not in terms, that a Judge of that Court, which is described as " su preme," ought to administer, not that law which results from his own learning and judgment, but such as shall be pleasing to the political ruler of the province or presidency where his tribunal happens to he placed. In characterising the new Chief Justice D,war, who from Advocate-General, was, •on the recommendation of the Noble President of. the Board of Controul, made Chief Justice over the head of Sir J. Grant (a Judge whose law appears to have been intractable for promotion), he, Chief Justice Dewar, is panegyrized as one who appears to be " on terms of confidence with" tie Governor. So, the Puisne Judge appointed to com plete the Bench of Bombay, is praised for having such " right notions of his duty" as will " lead him rather to support the Government" than resist it ; and it', with two such guides and coadjutors, Sir J. Grant showld still be rash enough to betray symptoms of troublesome inde pendence, why then, in the amusing language of the letter, he will be " like a wild elephant led away between two tame ones." How would the late Lord Ellenhorough, we should like to ask, have stomached such notions of jt. dicial dignity and independence as are here avowed (if the letter be ge nuine) by the representative of his name and honours ? But the second subject of this curious epistle is even more critically startling : for we are told therein,—.and the communication purports to be dated as far back as the 21st of February, 1829,—that there was a chance of the India Campany's charter being renewed this year, 1830—thrt e years before the expiration of the former one! If this be so, it is time indeed for the friends of commercial freedem to be, one and all, at their alarm posts. The following is the letter : " India Board, Feb. 21. Sir,—l had not intended to write to you until I could communicate to you the opinion of the law-officers of the Crown upon the difference which appears to have taken place between you and the Supreme Court of Bombay ' • but the Chairs have just informed me that they wrote to you by a vessel which sails to-day, and I am unwilling that you should not receive a letter from me at the earee time. " I believe there is but one opinion in this country as to the conduct of the Supreme Court. Their law is consi dered bad law; but then errors in matters of law are nothing in comparison with those which they have com mitted in the tenour of their speeches from the bench.— Had Sir C. Chambers lived, I think he must have been displaced. Sir J. Grant seems to have confined himself more strictly to a legal argument. He may have been led by his erring chief ; still there is much to cen sure in his conduct, and although I think it will probably not be considered necessary to recall him, his case is by no means decided upon. I ton to have some conversation upon it with the Chancellor in a few days. We are so much occupied with our Roman Catholic Relief Bill at present, that w have little time for other matters, however important : to this circumstance must be attributed the delay which has occurred on the part of the Law-officers. There was none in sending the case to them. In the mean time the King has, ou my recommendation, made your Advocate-Genera', Mr. Dewar, Chief Justice. I advised this appointment, because that gentleman appears to have shown ability and discretion during the late conflict with the Supreme Court, teed because he appears to take a right view of the law, and to be on terms of confidence with you. " I thought the putting him over Sir J. Grant's head would do more to notify public opinion than any other measure I could at once adopt I ana you have him iii ac tion two months sooner than you could have any other sent fro es here. I hope this arrangement will be satisfac tory to you. " The Puisne Judge appointed in the room of Sir C. Chambers, is Mr. William Seymour, of the Chancery bai, The Lord Chancellor has a very good opinion of him, and generally, I think, he appeared to have higher claims than atiy other candidate. He is a gentleman in his manners, and a man of cultivated mind. Ile seems to have right notions of his duty, and of the law which has been so strangely misinterpreted. He will rather sopport Government than use the autho rity of the Supreme Court as a means of raising op position. At least, if ha is not all this, I have been de ceived in him. He will embark in less than two months. He will probably be knighted before he sails ; and as it will not ha right that the Chief Justice alone should not be knighted, we mast consider in what manner that can be best effected. I believe it may be done by patent ; but my present idea is to empower you, as Governor, to confer the ho..our of knighthood on Mr. Dewar. This will evi dently place tie.; Governor above the Court. It will magic you out as the King's rearesentative; you may make the cere mony as imposing as you pleeese. I have written to the Heeald's-office, to know if the thing could be done accord ing to precedents. " It is as yet elradecided, the law-officers not having as yet given their opinion ea to the law whether a declaratory .et will be required. Perhaps the opinions of the law offieera, and those which I may obtain of the Lord Chan cellor and the Lord Chief Justice, may be sufficient to in duce Sir J. Grant to revise his notions of law. At any rate, no more mischief can happen, as he will be like a wild elephant led away between two tame ones. , g See re may not impossibly renew the Charter next year, we may ta;:e that opportunity of rectifying the ex pressions of the Act of Parliament, should they require it. Many persons think it wouid be inexpedient to open a ellsenettion on Indian matters this yeae, if it could be avoided. gut ae I tell you no decision is yet come to. " You will see that there is no intention of deserting you. You have acted with r.eueli firmness and prudence. I entirely agree in the view you lieve ezpeeesed of the dan gereitee consequences which would result from the eaten eion beyond ;11e limits of the Presidency of the powers claimed by the Skive:roe Court. Orders have been given for expediting the'pator e t of ahe Chief Judge. " It is with sleep regret that iciity,e heard that the Cotn pany anti the country are so soon to 0i,04r E:eFyteestn jadis. j could not ask you to stay one hour r k;p danger of ,yotea vajuable life ; but I am confident you will stay till you have re e eseal,lished the authority of Govern ment in the opinion of ,the oetiyee., I trust, indeed, that the unbending firinnees yoo have displayed will have pre vented much of the evil which might have beer, te•peateal to ,t,ow from the conduct of the Judges. am going to send you a very excellent new Bishop, whenever Pr. James resigns—Mr. J. M. Turner. The Archbishop of Centeeleteey, the Bishop of London, and in deed all the Biehops I haKe eeeo are quite satified that Mr. Turner is as fit a mart as Mid be elected, will be mild and Arm. He is a very good and pious man, without worldly motions, and really devoted to his high calling. " I feel sa ti.fled that you will act with the same firm ness under ail circumstances, and at the same time with moderation and discretion. You may thus depend upon the support of the Board of Controul, which I have the honour of presiding over. " I have, &c. (Signed) " ELLENBOR9UGH. " Sir J. Malcolm, G.C.B. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. The innkeeper at the Blossoms-inn, Lawrence lane, was summoned before Mr. Alderman COPE land yesterday, at the instance of the Rev. Dr. Farrington, of the Rectory-liouse, St. George's-in the-East, for neglecting duly to deliver to him a basket brought to the inn by coach on the Gth and not delivered to him until the 12th. A solicitor, who appeared for the defendant, called on the Rev. Gentleman to produce the address affixed to the basket, which he did. It was di awn up in these words :--" The Rev. Mr. Farrington, Rectory-house, St. George's, Middlesex." The solicitor then proved by the porter and another wit ness that the basket was carried about the parishes of St. George, Ilanover-square, and St. George, Bloomsbury, both on the sth and 7th ; the third St. George's in Middlesex, not occurring to the mind of the porter. All the mischief arose from the vague ness of the direction. The Rev. Gentleman thought the porter ouaht, with such an address, to have tried St. George's-in the•East first. Mr. Alderman COPELAND felt some difficulty in deciding on this case, and would take the opinion of a brother Magistrate (Mr. Alderman Ansley) then in the private room. The Alderman returned in a moment, and said, that upon asking his brother Magistrate what parish was intended by the address, which he exhibited to him, he at once said St. George, Hanover-square, and he (Alderman Copeland) must therefore dismiss the complaint. The Rev. Gent. then pressed a second complaint for not making out a ticket to be delivered with the basket. He said that the porter, after being re peatedly asked for the ticket, and where he came from, at length produced a blank one from the Blos soms Inn. The Solicitor had hoped, after the explanation that had been given, the Rev. Gent. would have been satisfied there was no wilful neglect. The pro prietors of the inn were sorry for the delay that had occurred, and would take care lie should not have reason to complain again. He could make no de fence to this charge. . . The Alderman fined the defendant ss. on this com plaint. The Rev. Gent. then preferred a third complaint for demanding, in respect of the porterage of the basket, 18d., being more than the defendant was entitled to charge. Ile said the porter first asked for 18d., but when questioned about it, reduced his demand to 10(1., but complainant did not pay him arty thing. la reply to a question from the solicitor, the Doc tor admitted the porter complained of having had some trouble to find him out. His house is in Cannon-street, East. The solicitor said the porters had conceived, that having had so much trouble through the vagueness of the address, they were entitled to charge some thing extra ; their porterage to the two p.►rishes in the we,t would amount to Is. 113,, and to this was to be added the 10d. for the distance to the right of St. George. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said if he admitted the propriety of this, the porters would discover a vagueness in many addresses, and parcels would be hawked all over the town, merely to increase the porterage. At the same time he did not think he ought to convict the defendant under the circum stances of this case : he therefore dismissed the complaint. John M' Grath, a young man about 20 years of age, was charged with committing wilful damage at the shop of Mr. Bowtell, the bootmaker, in Cheapside. Committed to hard labour for two months. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday morning three females were charged before Mr. MINSHULL, by Serjeant Lovegrove, of letter F division, who stated, that on the preced ing night he observed them in Long-acre behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner. When he first observed them they were standing in a door-way, in viting the male passengers to join them. He cau tioned them to move on, at which they became vio.. lent, and loaded him with abuse. With the assist ance of a constable, he was at last obliged to con vey the defendants to the police station. The ser jeant added his belief that they were all common pro ritutes, and, as two of them were known to be such, the Magistrate ordered them all to be committed for seven days to the House of Correction. The woman who was not known as a prostitute, said her name was Jones, but declined to give any further account of herself than that she was a married woman, and her husband was a tradesman in the city. She denied in general terms the conduct imputed to her. But Serjeant Lovegrove having positively sworn that she was in the company of two known prostitutes, that she was intoxicated at the time, and, moreover, that he heard her speaking to several men as they pa.sed the door-way, the Magistrate could see no thirg in the case of the third female to exempt her from the punishment awarded to the other two, and she was sent to the House of Correction accordingly. Yesterday morning a respectable-looking man came before Sir R. BIRNIE, and stated that his name was Oliver, that he was a freeman of the city of London, and carried on the business of a ladies' shoemaker in Bishopsgate-street ; and, further to prove his respectability, he produced his banker's book. He then stated, that he was husband to the female who gave the name of Jones, and who had been committed, by Mr. MINsHuLL, on the previous day, as a common prostitute. He declared that she was perfectly innocent of the charge, arid could not have behaved in the manner described by the con stable, who, he alleged, had taken her into custody by mistake. She had been, he said, to visit her grandmother, a very old and respectable inhabitant of St. Martin's-lane, and was on her return home through Long acre, when, hearing the dispute be tween the officer and the two females, she stopped from curiosity, and was taken into custody with the other females. Sir R. BIRNIE referred the applicant to Mr. Minshull, by whom the case had been disposed of, and who soon after took his seat upon the bench, when Mr. Oliver repeated the statement he had already made, adding, that he felt the imprisonment of his wife not only as a very great hardship, hut a serious loss to his business, as she was in the habit of attending in his shop during his absence, and he had no other person upon whom he could equally rely. Mr. i‘lfsellum , was extremely sorry to find a re spectable man placed in such a situation. He, how ever, had acted upon the evidence of the police con stable, and had no other alternative than to send the three women to prison as prostitutes. M. Oliver declared that his wife was no pros titute, and said it was a cruel thing that a re spectable married woman should be thus stigmatized and sent to prison with two abandoned females, on the mere assertion of a police constable. It was quite impossible, he added, that his wife would have acted irs the manner described. She had left the house of her grandmother but fifteen minutes, when she was seized by the constable. Sereartt Lovegrove here came forward, and was strictly questioned by Mr. Minshull with reference to the transaction of which Mr. Oliver complained. He repeated that the woman who said her name was Jones was in company with the ether two; that she 'aa in 4 state of intoxication, and that he distinctly heard her crying to different men as they passed, " Come here, my dear." Mr. Oliver—lt is quite impossible that my wife could have acted thus, This officer, your Worship (pointing to Serjeant Lovegrove) declared to me last night in presence of a witness, that he had not described my wife as a prostitute. Mr. INTlNsntm, expressed some surprise, and asked Serjeant Lovegrove if he had said so. Serjeant Lovegrove said no such thing. Mr. Oliver appealed for the truth of his asser tion to a young man by whom he was accom panied, and he corroborated what Mr. Oliver had said. Mr. MlNsllum. had already decided the case, and could not try it twice over. The officer had in the first instance sworn positively to the truth of what he had advanced, and he was ready to be sworn again. If the female was quite innocent, why had she not declared whose wife she was, and sent for her husband to prove her respectability, instead of which she gave another name. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that the circumstance of her giving a false name looked certainly very suspicious. After again repeating his belief that his wife had been falsely charged, Mr. Oliver requested an order to see her, which Mr. Minshull most readily granted, and Mr. Oliver and his friend retired. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds" I— Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds '7 1 1,,y I,', % Peruvian Bonds I9N Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds (3034 1 Chilian Bonds — Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New Ditto, 1824 24 % 14 %, Russian — Danish 75Y6 ,Spanish, :821 113434 Greek Bonds 35 6 1823 — Ditto, 1825 36 '7 6% 7 French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — I --- Exchange —f. --. Alexican Bonds — -- 3 per cent. Ditto, 1825 — Exchange —f. —c. HATTON.GARDEN. An Irishman, who gave his name Patrick Hanky, which there are some grounds to suppose was but assumed, and that his real name is Tpacey, was yesterday brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. RoGERs, in custody of police constable Wilson, charged on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of a young man of the name of John Quinlan, at the fair of Ardpatrick, in the county of Limerick, Ireland, on the 17th of March last. John Fitzgerald, an Irish labourer, residing in Buckridge-street, St. Giles's, came forward and de posed that the murdered man Quinlan was his brother-in-law. He produced a letter, received some months ago from Ireland, communicating to him the news and circumstances of the murder of his relative; and informing him at the same time that three of the murderers had fled the country, and took refuge in England ; and that a fourth, who was only an accessory to the crime, had been appre hended, tried, and found guilty upon the charge at the subsequent Assizes at Limerick, and sentenced to transportation for life. An accurate description of the persons of the parties who had escaped from justice, together with their names, was given in the letter, and Fitzgerald was desired to ascertain, if possible, whether or not they had proceeded to London, to exert himself in their apprehension, and have them transmitted in custody back to Limerick. Two of them are named Callaghan, and it was sup posed that they had proceeded to an uncle of theirs residing at Islington, and the third is named Patrick Tracey. Accordingly, since Fitzgerald received the letter, he omitted no opportunity of detecting the accused parties, or of finding out some clue to their retirement. Having the description of their persous impressed upon his mind's eye, he took more or less notice of every stranger he met, and on Tuesday afternoon, about three o'clock, while employed at the Bazaar in Oxford -street, he saw the prisoner pass, and instantaneously it struck him that he answered the description of Tracey. His entire frame trembled at the moment,and he felt convinced of the prisoner's identity. He immediately went up to him, and addressing him said, " lam glad to see you ; how do you do, Nlr. Tracey ?" The prisoner by his manner acknowledged the name ; he mani fested not the least surprise, and coolly replied that he was quite well. At this moment the police officer Wilson came up, and Fitzgerald gave the pri soner in charge, who then declared that there must have been some mistake as to his person, for that his name was not Tracey, but Patrick Hanley. In reply to the Magistrate's interrogatories, the prisoner persisted in saying that his name was Han ' ley ; that he was a native of the province of Leinster, and that he had never been in the county of Lime , rick, or any other part of Munster, in his life. He had been nine years, he said, in England, and he seemed to be struck with astonishment that any suspicion of having committed a murder should at tach to him. He added, that he had a wife and family in London, and that he was forty-eight years of age. Mr. RoGEns inquired of him where he and his family resided in London ? To this the prisoner replied, that he had gone home in April last, for the benefit of his health, leaving his wife and family here, and that he had but just then returned, being only two days in London, • and he was unable to trace out his wife's lodgings, she having in the mean time left her former place -of residence. Fitzgerald said that there was a friend of his, of the name of Niacnarnara, living in Gravel-lane, in the Borough, who, if he were present, could identify the prisoner, if he were the same man as described in the letter under the name of Tracey. The description, however, did not seem exactly to suit the prisoner, but Mr. RoGEtts, after some hesitation, said he would remand him till Friday next, to have the evidence of 'Macaamara, and to give the officer an opportunity of making further inquiries into the prisoner's cir cumstances. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 1:100 Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (its. at 51. pm.) £ 2O Ditto NationAl lO United Alex. Min. Ce. (iss. at '2l. pm.) £ 39 % Ditto Subscription lO Liverpool and Manchester Railway 9O 26? 274 27 174 162 UNION-HALL Two men, named William Wilding and James Harvey, were charged with robbing a Brighton coach. The Magistrate remanded both the prisoners, in order to have the attendance of the proprietors of the coach from which the parcel was stolen. Yesterday a man named Wright was brought be fore Mr. HONE charged with creating a disturbance in the Coburg Theatre, and assaulting one of the constables who attend there to preserve the peace. The defendant was tined 31. for the assault on the officer, or in default of payment to a fortnight's im prisonment. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN 25 Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, 34 per cent. 99%; National Ditto — Ditto, New 4 per Cent IOIV, ;Hibernian Bank — Gov. Deb. 3!4 percent.... 9114 Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock — Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent — Mining Co. of Ireland ...... 4 /,, i Ballast Office Deb. 4 p. c — Commercial Buildings — to the fall of M. de Villele, by opprixtunely open" Ing his mouth at the last moment." FRENCH FUNDS.-PA as, JA.N. 2.i.—Five per Cat- 1 .0 10Sf. 35c. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 84f. 50c. tee. 55~• Bank Stock, I,BBof. ; Naples Stock, Spanish Loan,lSSif. ; Spanish Rentes PerpetuelLs, 62i; Llaytian (Loan, 427 f. 50c—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 60e. ; three months, 25f. 45c.—Cotas Aug' Frankfort and German Papers of the 21. st instant have been received this morning. The extreme severity of the cold in the east of Europe was highly favourable to the health of Moldavia and Wallachia, where the virulence of the plague was daily diminishing. The possession of the Principalities by the Russians promises t o be of great benefit to those countries, if the several improvements contemplated be carried into effect. There can be no doubt that the pro' gress of civilization will be greatly facilitated by the influence of Russia in the East. It appears that Lord COWLEY is on his re' urn to London from Vienna, but whether for a permanence or not we cannot say : BUCHAREST, JAW. 7. The severity of the winter impedes the communication i❑ an extraordinary degree, but has proved extremely fa vourable to the health of the country. For the last four weeks we have not heard of any cases of plague, and the sanitary regulations are now considered as superfinous. The list of persons to be proposed for the office of Hos podars in the Principalities is said to be already drawn up, and it is stated that the election will very shortly take place. As may be readily imagined, great eagerness is shown by the great families of both provinces to get one 0 1 their own members elected, in order to enjoy the advan tages of such a connection. It is probable, however, that favour alone will not determine it, as was the case in former times, but that regard will be had to the qualifications of the persons chosen, for the Russian Government most earnestly desires to establish the kappiness of the Princi palities. Gold dust has been found in the northern frontier of Moldavia, and the soil is to be more carefully examined, in the hope of finding the pre cious metal in larger quantities. General Giesmar, who is now at Jassy, is expected here. Great improvements are to be made in the regulation of out; posts, which stand much in need of it ; good post-houses (those now so called are wretched huts) will be built, and proper waggons introduced. The charges must indeed be increased, but this will be compensated by the increased speed and convenience of travelling. Notwithstanding the deep snow that covers the country, many officers of en gineers are engaged in surveying the Danube. As soon to spring is set in the navigation will be regulated, for which purpose men acquainted with the subject will be employed• In general we expect great improvements in our insti tutions. FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, JAN, 0. Great dissatisfaction is observed in Servia, which, since the peace of Adrianople, is directed against the chiefet especially Prince Milosch, more than against the Porte• The Prince is reproached with having preferred his oWi , interest to that of the nation, arid with having acted oo this principle during the negociations. They speak also of a correspondence between him and It foreigner of distinction; which is not at all calculated to re" cover the confidence of the Servians, which he has lost. It is said that since the Russians left Adrianople arrests have taken place, which give reason to fear a regular sY'' tem of persecution, notwithstanding the amnesty. The sanitary state of the city was such as to give ground for alarm, and many persons had lately died in the city itself, as well as in the military hospitals. The Commander of the Russian troops left to take care of the hospitals, has adopted strict measures to prevent all communication with the inhabitants, but keeps up a regular correspondence with the Russian head quarters at Bourgas. The- Grand Vizier had come from Shumla to Adria nople, where he intended to stop some days, at d then go to Constantinople. Two French merchants lately passed through Sonlin , on their way to Constantinople, who were sAid to be going to offer a loan to the Porte. VIENNA, JAN. IS. The Turkish mail of the 24th December has not yet arrived, probably in consequence of the deep snow, but yl expect it every hour. A Russian courier is gone to ItalYi and an Austrian arrived from Paris. Lord Cowley go° to London next month. VIENNA, JAN. 18.—Metalliques, 104 7-16; four per Cents., 96-; Bank Shares, 1,2681. SWITZERLAND, JAN. 21• The rich Englishman, who Las for some years inhabite d the castle of Goldenberg, has presented 1,000 louis <no to the Government of Zurich, to be employed according to its own discretion. The Government has thanked the generous donor, and has assigned half the sum to improv e the salaries of the masters of the primary schools ; the other half to enlarge or repair the hospitals of the canton. The severe season has caused great distress in the c anton of Vaud ; the poor are more in want even of wood than or bread. The Lake of Neufchatel is frozen from Yoerdun to Grandson. The ice is nine inches thick, and extend° 2,000 paces from the bank all along the lake. By Brussels Papers of yesterday's date we are informed it was reported at Florence that Lord COCHRANE (who is now in Italy) had been ap plied to by the Emperor of BRAZIL to resume the command of his fleet, preparatory to an at tack upon Portugal. We hope his Lordship will acquiesce in the proposal, and give a g ood account of the Usurper's fleet. A bold a ttack' upon Lisbon might set the loyal Portuguese in arms against their keeper : CONSTANTINOPLIL, JAN. 4. , M. de Ribeaupiere has ar r i ve d i n t h e Dardanelles, an ! •. been received by the Porte with all the honours due to 10° rank. The Grand Vizier arrived on the 17th at Adrianopl e with 2,000 regular troops. Perfect tranquillity prevail° in the countries evacuated by the Russians. The Pash a of Scutari was on his march to Albania In Macedonia, and partieularlYat - 6 rama and Scres, the authority of the Ayans nominated by the Porte has boo re-established. In consequence of the measures taken by the Porte in favour of the American Catholic families, the Catholic Armenian nuns, who were exiled to Pandurma an d Mulhallidsch, have returned to Constantinople. The revolt of the Zeybecks in Asia Minor is whollY quelled ; o❑ the 18th December they were defeated ant! driven from all their positions near Baindri, by the unite' forces of Ibrahim Paella, Dana Osmond Oglou, and ElizAga. The men of war that conveyed the Turkish Ambas 9 a" dor to Odessa returned to the Bosphorus on the lAth• On board one of them is Mubtapha Bey, son of Jussuf Pasha of Varna, who bears the rank of Colonel in the Turkish army. FLORENCE, JAN 6. It is reported that Lord Cochrane has been appli e d to bf the Emperor of Brazil, to resume the chief comman d of his naval force, to direct the attack which is to he mad e upon Portugal. • Letters from Naples, of Jan. 1, say that the Marqui s Rotu, famous for his observations on Vesuvius, has af firmed that before the 15th instant there will be an erur tion of the volcano, more terrible than that in 1802. - BRUSSELS, JAN. 24. The inconceivable decree of the Sth instant is still subject of general interest, and the Honourabl e Meinhe r° of the two Chambers who are victims of this act of 111ints' terial despotism and ignobl e v engeance, excite more a nti more the interest of their fellow-citizens. The south wind has entirely cleared the Scheldt heftsr e Antwerp of the ice which obstructed it, and the navigatto°' of the river is now free. BRUSSELS, JAN. 2 5 . His Excellency M. Mercado, Minister from Mexico to the Court of the Netherlands, has arrived in this city Wit h his family. As many as fifteen swans have within thi g month been shot in Shoreham Ilarbaur by one person who has sold them to the furriers, Messrs. DONALD so Co. at ss. each. The weight of each averaged 281bs/ Brighton Gazette, THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. We have few arrivals of ship letters this morning, and these are of old dates ; they were delivered at a late hour. The foreign letters by the French and Flanders Mails are not yet delivered. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 20 minutes after 5. I Evening... 43 minutes after 5. THE FUNDS. The Consol Market has resumed its former firmness, and appears looking up. Consols, which left off yesterday at 972 - 93 for the Account, opened at 93 and have been done at 934 ; at present they are 93i 1, with a steady market, as the Bulls have succeeded in stopping the pro gress of the Bears, and the latter are making their retreat in good order, watching the future operations of the Bulls. In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds have improved ; Brazil Stork is not so good. In other Securities little or nothing doing as yet. ENGLISH Bank Stock, 219 20 India Stock, 232 3 3 per Cent. Cons. 93 Do., for Account, 93- Ditto Reduced, 93i a FUNDS. 3} per Cent. 100 i Nero 4 per Cent., 101_1 i 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Bonds. 72 73 Exchequer Bills. 74 75 I FUNDS. Greek, 351 61 Mexican, 284 1- Peruvian, 181 191 Portuguese, 60 61 Prussian, Russian, 1091 10 Spanish, 114 TWO O'CLOCK. MA: Arrived. Due. O America O Brazil O Buenos Ayre. 0 O Cartliagena 0 1 Dublin 0 O Flanders 1 1 France 0 0 Guernsey&Jersey 0 Arrived. Due. O Hamburg 2 O Holland O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands 0 O Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford OREIG Brazilian, 711 Buenos Ayres, 30 at Chilian, Colombian, 23 4 Danish, 751 French, 5 per Cent. 108 9 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 84 Letters received of a late date, via France, from Mexico, state that the Government have levied u, on all goods which entered to the capital 25 per cent. On the original imposts at Vera Cruz' the addition on the liquids is 37i per cent. VIE FUNDS. The Consul market continues firm : in the early part of the day, they were done at 93, afterwards leached 93it f,l . the account, at present are 93i to I. Aa good deal of business was done in the course i f the morning. Money is plentiful. It is settling day in de F, reign Market, which is going off well. Greek Bonds is the chief speculation, which have reached 37. Accounts from Lisbon represent that city after the death of the Queen to be in great confusion, and the streets are filled with the agents of the police and the Royal Guards, this does not prevent the Constitstionalists from express in g their joy. TER EE 0' CZ° C L Consols for Accouc, 93i -1-, PORTRAITS BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. THE Portraits of Countess GOWER, Hon. Mrs. HOPE, and Lady CHARLOTTE BURY, from Paintings by Sir THOS. LAWRENCE, are in preparation for the forthcoming Nos. of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE : in which work have lately appeared, from Paintings by the same Artist, the Portraits of the Countess of SUR REY, the Marchioness of LONDONDERRY, Lady ELIZABETH BELGRAVE, Mrs. ARBUTHNOT, and EMILY, Marchioness of LONDONDERRY. LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE is progressively forming a Picture Gallery of the Female Nobility ; and in addition to the Sixty-two Plates already published, there are in preparation the Portraits of the following distinguished Personages :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CUM BERLAND,—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CAM BRIDGE—Princess ESTERHAZY—Countess of WlCK LOW—Countess VERULAM—Countess of ERROL— Lady NORMANBY—Lady JOHN THYNNE, &c.&c.&c. Whittaker, London ; Waugh and lanes, Edinburgh ; and J. M. Leckie and Co., Dublin. DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9 3 34% i 3 per Cent Cons. 43 !,,', 3 per Cent . Ditt) Red. ko!iii 100 4 per Cent. Ann. Ditto, 1826 Bank 1. Ann. 194,11-16 Ditto 30 years Ditto 50 years India stock Ditto Bonds '73 '72 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .E 1,010 2d. 74 '75 pm. Ditto lid. 7475 Ditto .....».....54 2d. 71 75 pm. Ditto l4d. 74 75 pin. Ditta Small 24. 71 75 pm. Ditto lid. 74 75 pm. Bank for Account India for Account „,..„ 233 2i4 Cons. for Feb 125. ..... ..."93 THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE for FEBRUARY will contain—l. Mother Shipton's Prophecies—H. The Year 1830—III. The British West India Colonies—As they Were, and As they Are—lV. London Anomalies by fludibras, jun.—V. The Greek Fire—Vl. Our Church Establishment in England and Ireland—Vl'. Calamities of the Fro,t in London— VIII. Moore's Notices of Byron—lX. A Christmas Dinner—X. The Lamplighter Extinguished—Xl. Walks in Ireland, No. V. ; Red Gap Inn; the Man with the White Horse ; the Devil's Fudge—Xlll. Theatrical Matters—XlV. Notes of the Month on Affairs in General—Review of New Books—Varieties—Works Published and in Preparation—Patents—Biographical Memoirs—Reports, &c. &e. &c. Whittaker and Co., London ; Waugh and Innes, Edin burgh; and M. Leckie, Dublin. L .4 i' .. .* ip ,—, Mk. . 4 , aft tribr ,T , t4t e o l ok.. ,---ttn• LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1880. The preparations making at Toulon for fitting out an expedition seem to be carried on with un ceasing activity. Not only at Toulon, but at Brest, Rochefort, and Cherbourg, are vessels getting ready, ar.d all destined fur the same object —Algiers. The following communication from our Paris correspondent does not speak much for the hopes of the French Ministry,—and it even seems doubtful if it will face the Chambers as at pre sent constituted : " PARIS, JAN. 2G. " ' The 2d of March will avenge the Bth of August,' is the universal cry among all classes of the people who are hostile to the present Ministry, and it appears as if the election at Lisieux, where the whole strength of the Ad ministration has been exerted in favour of the Royalist candidate, would tend to verify the exclamation. The Liberal party in the interest of M. Guizet, on Saturday last, the 23d inst., triumphantly carried the preliminary point of the election of a secretary and a provisional bureau, by the commanding majority of 120 voices, the number of electors present having been 396, while the total number inscribed in the rolls of the College amounted to 563. Every thing, therefore, seems to announce that the popular candidate would be elected on the first scrutiny on Sunday last, the day fixed for the nomina tion. The success of the Liberals in this parti cular instance, will form, of course, but a unit in the decision of the leading question on the Ad dress, to he discussed at the opening of the Session ; but it cannot fail to he attended, in directly, with much more serious consequences to the views and feelings of all parties, since it may materially affect the reliance of Ministers on their last resort, of an appeal to the constituent body. As to the influence of the individuals of whom the Cabinet is composed, it is daily felt as I have all along stated, to be weaker and more weak. It contains, in fact, only two persons of any true or recognized importance. These I need not say are the Premier himself and M. de Chabrol. The latter, who in England, perhaps, is the least known of the two, has shewn himself to be a mar, of personal integrity, and of great practical knowledge, moderately counter revolutionary, and it may not he too much to say also mode rately constitutional in his opinions. Cautious aid well advised in all he undertakes, he does not think it necessary to tell even a truth to the King, his master, until it is first demanded of him, but prompt and ready to put his hand to the work when any great event is about to take ' place. It is thus that he has already been so in strumental in the making and unmaking of former cabinets, and that two years ago he contributed SHIPPE DEAL, K Oa, from Cynthia, PottTs] rived the LtvEal Ayres, tl Ciesar, N New Yor CONES SkVstnnali DOVEI3 . from nos PAL3IO from jam LAW The Co cues, none lating entil The CH hitiCe P. lifter ten o to far reco t e'unie ilis appearance Short confi YET ♦Nn Geo r co,partn perio❑ c It am rilpts in 6,0 001. lion, a , 1 ,400/. and as t tku come up their del the coma Tit( ice that week, i c "ived A1.,1,1 dtnied STY . . thank A! yekterth t o ded I °N, E %Ulu NRL, "R4VI Tag