The Sun. — London, England, 1830-02-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE , PUBLIC JOURNALS. The . 'town was extremely astonished, and even terrified, yesterday and the evening before, by the news of the sudden death—that is, of the self murder—of Lord Graves, one of the Lords of his Majesty's Bedchamber; and this morning we pre sent (such as we have been able to obtain) a re port of what we are sorry to say we cannot call the Coroner's Inquest. We have indeed no hesitation in declaring, that the publication which we now present to our readers (and we are unable to pro cure a better) contains no satisfactory account what ever of the death of Lord Graves, or the causes which led to it And if a Coroner's jury have been induced to make any declaration whatever on the state of his Lordship's mind, upon the evidence which it has been thought proper now to put before the public, they have acted rashly and erroneously. On Saturday his Lordship attended his duty as Com missioner of Excise, and dined out in the even ing with Sir George Murray : he breakfasted late on Sunday, but was cheerful ; and was to have dined out again on that day, when, in the short interval between three o'clock and the hour of dressing for dinner, he -first despatched a letter to Lady Graves (at Hamp ton -court we believe) by one of the coaches, and then, if he be the author of his own destruction, per petrated the fatal act. Is it possible that a jury can have been induced to pass a verdict upon that act, without having inquired into the state of the alleged perpetrator's mind on the Saturday, from his brother commissioners with whom he transacted business? Is it possible that they can have found their verdict, without demanding a sight of that litter which he wrote to Lady Graves on the very instant preceding his death ? Is it possible that they can have failed of requiring Lady Graves to be sum moned, that she might give a description of the feelings of her husband and the causes which pro duced his irritation ? And who, we ask, are the people examined, according to the published ac count? One servant, and the man at whose house the deceased lodged, and one physician. The two former contradict each other in the evidence put forth, and the latter never attended his patient till last Thursday! Is it thus that a British nobleman can be passed out of life into eternity, and receive his passport for Christian interment ? We say that his Lordship ought not to be buried on such evi densei—the Coroner ought not to have granted his warrant for the purpose. The causes of the mur dered man's death must be further inquired into ! And then let the nation look at the time at which this inquest is held. Ilis Lordship was destroyed after sun-set on Sunday night (" there were two lighted candles standing on his Lordship's dressing-table,"—Servant's ev id ence ), an d t h e Jury met before sun-rise on the Monday morning ! At a quarter before eight the inquisition began. The notice, therefore, required by law to be given to the Coroner of the death, the issuing of the Coro ner's precept to the constable, and the summonses by the constable, must all have taken place by night—in the darkness of the very night on which the deceased breathed his last ! The Jury must have been called out of bed to receive their sum monses, and groped about ere day broke for the dress which they had quitted the night before ! Is this usual, we ask ? Is it decent ? Does not na ture revolt at it ? We again say, then, that a fresh inquisition must be held. It is impossible not to connect this fearful act with a rumour which has been for some time in circulation; and to recall the public attention, however painfully, to another std. cede,—an inexplicable and mysterious suicide,—with which a name that has been so often mentioned of late was also connected. We require to know who were the Jury that came to this rapid decision, — their names, and occupations.—Times. If the intrinsic magnitude and importance of the subject of British trade to all parts of Asia be not increased by the near approach of the period at which that great qnestion must be permanently set tled, the interest attached to it at least becomes stronger, even for those who may be called spec tators of the struggle, with every fresh proof of the degree to which it has engaged the feelings of mer chants, manufacturers, and friends of free trade, throughout the country. The Leeds meeting was of the same complexion with others which have been held in places- of equal or superior consequence within the last twelve months. The present mono poly of the India Company was, by the general sense of a numerous arid enlightened body of gen tlemen, condemned; and a set of resolutions, in favour both of unshackled commerce and of au thorized colonization in India, were adopted, of which Parliament cannot wave or long retard the discussion. The Company seem disposed to pretend, that by asking for perfect liberty of commerce with all countries eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, the British nation makes an attack on the "property" of this corps of merchants. How is the trade to China their property ? Indeed, how is India itself their property ? They have had a lease of both from Parliament for 20 years; the term is about to expire; and whose is then the property of the do minions and the commerce so granted in temporary and terminable possession ? It is the undoubted duty of the Company to prove their right to a renewed monopoly both of empire and of merchan dise in the East. They must prove their'title to be more favoured than all other classes of British subjects : the universality of the right is the rule, the restraint of it is the exception. Let the Com pany show why that exception should be revived in their favour, and against the people of England. Their partisans—one of whom appears to hale figured at Leeds by the name of Foster—tells us, that the Company supplies us with better tea for the same money than we could do ourselves. That is our business,not theirs :—we like t o b e our own purveyors. If they can undersell the private mer chant in his dealings with Canton, nobody pre vents them from continuing to frequent Canton with their ships of 1,400 tons and upwards—no one has the impudence to tell the Company, as they tell the people of England—" We, private traders, in sist on it that you gentlemen of the Court of Di rectors shall not provide your own breakfasts—that you shall drink no tea but sech as we choose to sell you." On the contrary, by all means Jet the Com pany still carry on the trade with China. If they can really furnish better tea than the private trader, it surely follows that they cannot fear his competi tion. If they are quite satisfied that their private trade to China will terminate, as they rather comi cally assert that the trade with India has done, in the ruin of all those merchants who have increased every year since 1813, in numbers and enterprise, as is manifest on the face of the returns, why should they be so wonderfully anxious to prevent an expe riment by which they must themselves be gainers ? What is it to the Company if the British merchants (poor ignorant blockheads as they are !)—have set their hearts upon an unprofitable and destructive commerce ? It will only go to restore, by the irre sistible operation of a mercantile necessity, that which the Directors are now impolitic enough to push for,by the more invidious, but not more certain, mechanism of a positive Act of Parliament. We submit, therefore, that the Company and its advo cates are taking a childish course. if they wish to talk like rational creatures upon the question, and to lay aside the practice of an odious, though flimsy hypocrisy, which deceives nobody, but by which every man of sense and honour is disgusted, they will admit that their repugnance to any opening of the trade with China arises from their making so good a thing of the monopoly that the fear of losing it fills them with mortification and despair. Why, the confession of the large revenue derived to the Company from the tea trade is the very proof we want of the extent to which it injures the commu nity; and what becomes of those enormous profits ? Not to support the Government of India ; no such thing : the Indian Government is maintained by the land revenue of 22,000,0001. sterling per annum, the rack-rent levied on the miserable occupant of the soil, or rather wrung from his vitals, as if the most wretched of the Irish peasantry paid the produce in kind of their con-acres directly to the Government collectors. The profits of the China trade are expended by the Company in pa tronage—in the apparatus of an extravagant factory at Canton, out of which inconceivable fortunes are " raised like exhalations," and almost as suddenly-- in immense towers by way of merchant-ships, built, appointed, stored, and navigated, at an expense so utterly monstrous, that freight on board a regular Indiaman is upwards of 20/. per ton, when a private ship carries goods from 71. to 101. No small share of the said profits, moreover, goes to keep up the Babylonish magnificence of Leadenhall-street—not a very essential article, we presume to think, in the estimate of a successful commerce. But we have pursued these topics further than we at first in tended. The Committee of Parliament will be immediately appointed for taking into consideration the whole question of the trade with Asia, and if the merchants, as clients of the Com m itt ee , are behind-hand in diligence when compared with their monopolizing rival, the loss will not fall on them selves alone, but through them on the whole com munity.—lbid. That part of Friday's discussion in the House of Commons, which related to the course of policy pursued by the British Government as between Spain and Mexico, having excited some attention, we are inclined to notice a little pamphlet of 20 pages, which was sent to. us on Saturday, (the morning after the debate), and which we are told only issued from the press while Lord Palmerston was in the act of bringing the subject forward. The complaint of the Noble Lord, which was afterwards repeated and enforced by Mr. Charles Grant, Dr. Lushington, and Lord John Russell, amounts to this —that Spain having been for a number of years preparing to make one or more attacks on Mexico, and the Mexicans conceiving that their most effec tive mode of self-defence was to anticipate the as sailant by an immediate attack on Cuba, were given to understand by the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, that no suck aitae 7 ; on the island of Cuba would, on the part of England, be permitted. The Mexicans were thus prevented absolutely, by the menaced interposition of this country, from defending themselves in the only manner which could avert an in iasion of the soil of Mexico; and Cuba was pro tected, for the benefit of Spain, from the arms of a state with which, though at peace with the rest of the world, Ferdinand thought proper to persist in carrying on hostilities. The declared system of England, from the hour at which the independence of Mexico was recognized by Mr. Canning, and in deed throughout the latter periods of the preceding contest for her freedom, was one of " strict and im partial neutrality." There are two kinds of neu trality,—one which disavows and abstains from all interference whatever; another which, on a specific principle, does not admit a qualified interference, but an interference which, to be just or honest, must beper fectly equal in regard to both the belligerent parties. England, then, having interposed to save Cuba from an attack by the Mexicans, appears to have afforded the Republic a serious topic of complaint, in having granted to Cuba full permission to become the nucleus and depot of all the armaments made by Spain, and despatched across the Atlantic, for over turning the infant State of Mexico. Lord Palmer ston put it concisely thus—" that having already saved Cuba from Mexico, it became our unquestion able duty to save Mexico from Cuba." It seems probable that this subject had not been pressed with much force or diligence on the British Go vernment by any friend of the Mexican nation, since the expedition under Barradas, which was prepared in the port of the Havannah, sailed against Mexico altogether unmolested, and previously not discoun tenanced by this country. If there be (and we do not deny that there may be) sufficient motives to justify the British Government in protecting Cuba from invasion by any transatlantic state, Mexico, it appears, would be quite content to see that island neutralized by the orders of Great Britain, and ren dered at one and the same moment unassailable by any American power, and incapable of becoming the assailant of any. That there are British interests of immeasurable value involved in the question whether the old Spanish colonies (and especially Mexico, the most important of them) shall make rapid advances towards national prosperity, or shall continue desolate and bankrupt, from exposure to the ruinous expense attending the maintenance of standing armies to protect her shores from invasion, no candid person will deny, and least of all, from the known sentiments of some of them, his Ma jesty's present Ministers. As for any dread of a war" with Spain, arising out of the substitution on our part of an impartial for a unilateral policy between these powers, we presume there is little to apprehend. Other European nations were probably well disposed to lend assistance to Ferdinand in his attempts to reconquer America, but we have never heard of their threatening England with " war" on account of Mr. Canning's public declaration to Par liament, that we would not suffer any foreign Go vernment to take part in the colonial contest. This country has, indeed, no very obvious right to found a system of partial interference between two foreign states, and deeply to the detriment of one of them, on any view of mere selfish advantage. But if in terest, not honour, were to guide as on this question, it is far more essential to have Mexico prosperous, than to have Cuba undisturbed.—lbid. Mr. Denison, on presenting a petition last night, after briefly recapitulating the obligations of the country to the Duke of Wellington, concluded with observing, " that much still remained to be done; and all the country looked for reduction—not the reduction of a few paltry clerks, but of such offices as the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, together with every other useless place and sinecure." It is a favourable sign when men of Mr. Denison's weight in the country call for the abolition of useless places and sinecures, beginning with the most useless and the most extravagantly paid of all—the Lord Lieu tenancy of Ireland—and propose that in the expen diture of the public money utility alone should be our guide. No man has a deeper interest in an economical expenditure of the public money than the person who now receives this 30,0001. a year— the Duke of Northumberland. A great landholder like his, Grace must lose much more by the pre sent system than he can gain by it. We have more than once observed that it is a fiction to say that there are two Houses of Parliament. The Mem bers of the House of Peers sit personally in one House, and by proxy in another. Whenever a Commoner acquires a considerable property in boroughs he is made a Peer. The Peers then are the rulers of this country. But then, as the King can make Peers when he pleases, and as the old Peers, when they lose their property and influence, still retain their votes in the Upper House, the Peers possessed of large estates and influence are forced to admit their needy brethren to a share of the plunder of the country. Such men as the Dukes of Buccleugh, Northumberland, Devonshire, and Bedford; the Marquis of Stafford; Earls Gros venor, Fitzwilliam, Lonsdale, &c. are great losers at this game, for they pay f ar m ore as th e i r s h are of contributions to the State to quiet the consciences of their needy brethren than th e y can p oss ibly ga i n in offices and sinecures. It is possible that now that we seem to have nearly reached the limits of taxation, this discovery may be made by the richer part of the Peers. No doubt there is a pleasure in being able by a display of power to obtain a share of the public money ; and we can understand how, for the sake of this display, men should be willing to pay more than they thus obtain. Some people, we are also aware, have the plea sure in receiving money enhanced by the tits honesty of the mode of coming by it. It was Lord Malmesbury, we believe, who observed last year, that it was with men as with dogs ; there was always a little of the wolf about them—that as even a pampered dog would carry off bones and hide them, so men always had a hankering after regular modes of obtaining the goods of their neigh bours; and a contemporary lately observed, that ,;here was something shockingly human in the way in which the monkeys at Exeter 'Change, in feeding, chose each to eat out of his neighbour's dish. It may be urged, in extenuation of the conduct of so many wealthy Peers, in endeavouring to ruin them selves for the sake of ruining others, that the wild ness of their nature has never been overcome by dis cipline. Ignorance, too, of the extent of the injury they inflicted on themselves,:may have had its effect, Thus, for instance, we are told by a memoir writer. " that the post of Captain of the Band of Pensioners was vacant; the King wished to give it to a Gen tleman whom he desired to have about his person. The Minister (Mr. Pelham) proposed to give it to another Gentleman; but, after some struggle, the Minister yielded, arid the post was des tined for the King's friend. At this mo ment, before the place was actually given away, Lord Falmouth signified to the Minister that he wished to have the employment. Mr. Pelham remonstrated with him that the place was destined for a personal friend of the King; the only answer which Lord Falmouth made was, Sir, we are nine.' This was the only answer which the Minister could obtain from him; and because Lord Falmouth named nine Members of the House of Commons, the King and the Minister were both obliged to submit." We suppose even then Lord Falmouth's share of the taxes amounted to more than he could clutch in this way. But then there was the plea sure of depriving the King of the presence of a man personally agreeable to him, • arid of forcing another on him whom he disliked, and there was the pleasure which Lord hlalmesbury supposes all men have in putting their hand into their neighbours' pockets. But, however this may be, certain it is, that till we have a House of Commons fairly representing the country, and an end put to the borough-mongering, it will not be in the power of any Government to protect the people from aristocratical beggars. We may be sure that the expenditure will always approach as closely as may be to the limit of ability to support taxes. There are alwa) s needy men in excess well connected to be provided for. The bo rough-mongers are merely the heads respectively of a large partnership, with all the members of which in the ratio of their influence they are obliged to share the spoil. They are constantly beset by an army of dependents, who acquire places of all descrip tions, down to the situation of a clerk, tide-waiter, arid exciseman. The moment that there is a pros pect of increased means, the desire to obtain it will give being to a faction, which can only be kept in check by the usual means. The present distress awes the possessors of influence, and gives a power for a time to the Duke of Wellington; but the first fair weather will bring out the vermin from their holes. We were sorry to see Mr. O'Connell advocating the existence of such an unjustifiable sinecure as the Lord Lieutenancy, on the ground of the money be ing spent in Dublin, where there were 7,000 persons living on the charity of lid. per day. If Mr. O'Connell ‘vislies money for the poor, let him have it in a regular way. The giving 30,0001. to a Nobleman for the sake of the poor of Dublin, re minds us of an observation of an acute Ecclesiastical historian, that the Clergy used to call themselves treasurers for the poor, but they collected this re venue of the poor at the expence of 95 per cent. It was happily observed by Mr. Hume, that we should never be in want of abundance of gentlemen who would consent to receive public money, on the con dition of spending it for the good of the country. His Majesty, God bless him, builds palaces for the good of the people, and finds employment for British workmen in ornamenting them ; arid if we praise Patriot Lord Lieutenants, why refuse to praise Patriot Kings ?—lliorning Chronicle. The state of the labouring classes in England rapidly approaches the lowest point at which the degradation of human nature can arrive, in what is called a civilized country. If the present system, that " grinds the faces of the poor," and desolates the morals of the people, should go on much longer, England will not be able to boast that her land re tains a single trace of that " bold peasantry—a country's pride," for whose manly virtues she had been so long celebrated. Distress and misery are performing their work of desolation, and fast re ducing the industrious classes to the wretched and destitute condition of the populace of some of those Continental States which Englishmen used to con trast with their own with mingled feelings of pity and patriotic exultation. The accounts which we have of late given, fram time to time, from various parts of the country, of English labourers set up to auction, or carrying sand or earth from one place to another to keep them out of idleness and mischief, spoke badly enough for the effects of a system which is working the downfall of the country—but the statement which we subjoin from the Manches ter Advertiser surpasses whatever it has been our melancholy duty heretofore to publish of the distress arid debasement of the working classes. The state- merit to which we allude runs as follows : Considerable surprise has been excited in the town dur ing the present week, by the appearance of several waggons loaded with flour, coal, and potatoes, which were dragged by from sixteen to twenty agricultural labourers, regu larly yoked to the waggons like a team of horses. Yes terday a waggon-load of potatoes were brought into the town by this mode of conveyance, in which twenty men were yoked,by threes. On inquiry, we found that the pota toes were brought from Tarvin, in Cheshire, a distance, we believe, of between thirty and forty miles. They were for a huckster in this town, and the price of carriage for the whole distance was two shillings per load, of which the waggon contained five and twenty—just half-a-crown per head for labourious employment of this kind, which would, at least, occupy three days in coming here and re turning ! The wan and emaciated appearance of the greater number of these poor men, who had to stop every few moments to recruit their exhausted strength, afforded strong evidence of the state of the agricultural population, and of the stern necessity which prompted them to become substitutes for beasts of burden. —Here is a picture of misery that the slave islands have never presented. Here are the blessings of peace to the most industrious and once the most comfortable population in the world, in the fifteenth year of our " amicable relations" with all the Courts of Europe. Let the Duke of Wellington, let Mr. Cam Hobhouse, Mr. Hume, and Lord Howick, with their Whig associates, who denied by their votes the other night the existence of general and grinding distress in this country—let them contem plate this picture, and say if, in that " partial suf fering which occasionally takes place in the progress of a nation to improvement," it is necessary that Englishmen should be converted into beasts of burden, and usurp the offices of the brute creation I There were feudal Lords in France, who, before the Revolution, used, when they pleased, to yoke their serfs to water-carts, and rejoice in degrading to the condition of the inferior animals those whom it was their interest, as well as duty, to have raised in the scale of social existence. France was th en , no d ou b t , as the Duke of Wellington says of England, in the progress to improvement; but it was that im provement which was to be pursued and attained through the terrible scenes—the crimes and suffer ings of a ferocious revolution. Dreadful, then, was the recoil of oppression on those who practised it — fierce was the retaliation of those human beasts of burden, who sprang from the passive submission of the slave into the attitude and action of the vin dictive and unsparing oppressor. The feudal system does not harness men to carts and waggons in Eng land; but distress produces the same effects. Men are driven by their misery to supply the place of oxen and horses, while machinery, in its turn, displaces men. The Duke of Wellington is not answerable for the origin of this state of things. He was not the father of the war, and the National Debt, and the Currency Bill, and the free-trade system; but lie takes upon himself a heavy respon sibility when he endeavours to conceal from the Sovereign and the Parliament, and as much as pos sible even from himself, the alarming and univeral distress of the country. In so acting we do not charge him with cold and premeditated inhumanity. We believe the errors of his policy to arise from ig norance, and that, though a crime in a Minister,is not of equal magnituJe with the cruelty that knows and scorns the misery which it occasions. We be lieve the Premier has been led to suppose that the present sufferings of the people of England arises from temporary or accidental causes; and, there fore, he trusts more to the " working of events" for a remedy than to the exercise of any human wisdom. This only proves that a man of the first rate talents for war may be very incompetent to the conduct of civil affairs. It was not the " working of events" brought us into the state in which we are—it was the active folly of our Statesmen and Legislatures, and nothing but fortitude enlightened by wisdom can extricate us. Where the physical strength of the country is falling as rapidly into misery and degradation as we see it in England by the pressure of national calamity, there is nothing can save the State from eventual convulsion but the intelligence, decision, and energy of its rulers. A Government that, in such times, shrinks from the truth, and places its confidence in other acts of statesmanship than those of candid arid intrepid wisdom, only accelerates the crisis which every lover of his country would wish to avert.—Morning Herald. It appears to be a matter of consolation with the thick-and-thin supporters of the Ministry, that from what has hitherto appeared of the Opposition, it is made up of numerous small parties, who oppose it on distinct, and sometimes adverse, grounds; but we question much whether there is in reality so much reason for congratulation on this score as they seem to imagine. The Opposition, we allow, is made up of small parties, no one of which is capable singly of making head against the Ministry; but it ought not to be forgotten, on the other, that although these parties may take very different views of the domestic and foreign policy of the Government, they all concur in censuring and opposing it, and that though they would undoubtedly be more formidable were they to act in concert, their numbers are such, and the points of attack so many, as to render their opposition extremely embarrassing to the Ministry. In the division which took place on the Address to the Throne, it is confidently asserted that but for the timely and disinterested aid of the Whig Leader of the House of Commons, the Ministry would have been left in a minority of three. As the matter stood, however, the Opposition minority was indeed frightful; and from the accounts which have reached us from well-informed quarters, we have strong reason to believe that it will be still more frightful on the next occasion of a division. That the Ministry have a difficult task to execute in the present state of the country, no one will deny ; but we can see no excuse for attempting to represent that distress as partial which every one knows to be general, and which even one of the ministerial organs, in moving the Address, characterized as ex traordinary—still less reason has the country to be satisfied with a Government which acknowledges the error of its past ways, and yet refuses to amend them—which saddles the country with a practical addition to its burthens of fully 25 per cent., and has no other mode of relief to propose but re trenchment. Retrenchment might have done some good when the national debt only amounted to a few millions, and the taxes that were levied went in the most part in payment of the services of the year; but retrenchment can do but little now.— Three-fifths of the revenue pass into the hands of the national creditor : and we are confident that we do not exaggerate when we state that out of the re maining two-fifths any saving that can be ef fected—though the least saving is a good—must be wholly inoperative in affording relief to the country. The more, in fact, that we look at the state of the country, and the causes by which its present ruinous condition has been brought about, the more are we persuaded that the small-note currency must be restored ; and that however the Government may oppose a return to such policy, the distress of the country will ultimately force it upon it.—Morn ing Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 8. BRETT V. BEALES ♦ND OTHERS. Lord TENTERDEN delivered the opinion of the Court in this case, in which Mr. Taunton, in the early part of the term, moved for a rule nisi for a new trial. His Lordship stated that the Court was of opinion, on the authority of several cases which he cited, that there was no evidence to sustain a toll thorough, and that the case had therefore been properly left to the jury upon the single question whether or not the fact of the existence of a toll traverse had been made out. The Learned Counsel consequently took no rule. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEE. S. MURRAY V. NICIIOLLS AND OTHERS. This was an action of false imprisonment, libel, and trover, and was also tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at Guildhall. It arose, it will be recollected, out of a contract entered into and sub. sequent disagreement between the plaintiff and de fendants, relative to the publication of a series of maps of the inland navigation of Great Britain. After a considerable number of subscriptions had been obtained, the defendants disclaimed a partner ship with the plaintiff, treated him as merely an agent or canvasser, and upon his refusing to give up the subscription books in his possession, had him apprehended on a charge of embezzlement, conveyed from Manchester to Wakefield on the top of a coach, handcuffed, his trunk seised and searched, and afterwards advertised him, although he had been discharged, as being under prosecution for em bezzlement. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 5001. for the false imprisonment, 300/. for the libel, and 101. on the count in trover for the seizure and loss of the trunk ; in all 8101. It Michaelmas Term Mr. Serjeant Cross obtained a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial, on the ground that the damages were exces sive; upon which occasion the Court intimated an opinion that the payment of 5001. to the plaintiff might, perhaps, be the fairest and most satisfactory mode of settling the matter. Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated that his client would consent to receive the sum suggested by the Court. A verdict for 5001. damages upon the count for false imprisonment, and Is. each upon the other counts, was accordingly entered for the plaintiff. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 8. George Ranger, a Surrey rustic, was opposed by Mr. Marnes, a horse-dealer, in the great Dover-road. . . After hearing evidence, the COVRT ordered the in= solvent's petition to be dismissed. Thomas Justice, a yeoman lately residing in the county of Berks, applied for his discharge, which was granted accordingly. The cotton market has not experienced any change within the week. Prices have again become steady, and 4000 bags were Bold 01 Thureday.—Manchester Advertiser. Mr. BITIIRAY, optician, of the north gate Royal Exchange, states the extreme of cold in London, by his register thermometer, for the last week, to be as fol lows, the freezing point being 32 FAHazniziT : Jan. 31 Feb. 1 2 ...... 3 4 -- 5 6 The severity of the weather at Southampton is beyond all precedent, scarcely a night passing in which the thermometer does not ',ink to 14 or 16. A poor man, a boatman of Hythe, had his fingers so affected by the frost on Friday, that they were all obliged to be ampu tated ; and on the evening of the same day, the river was frozen over from one end to the other. A curious ap pearance was witnessed on the morning of this day. The sky was generally clear, and at times almost cloudless, but the atmosphere was filled with small frozen particles, resembling flakes of snow, very minutely divided ! su minutely, indeed, as scarcely to be visible, except in the glare of the sun . Thi s could only be pro d uce d by ve ry intense CUld. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a man, named Giles, owner and driver of the hackney-coach No. 244, was summoned be fore Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, by police-con stable George Twoling, for having refused to take up a fare on the 28th of January last, while plying for hire in Pickett -street, Strand. The constable stated, that he was on duty in Pickett-street on the day named in the summons, when a gentleman fell suddenly down in a fit. Wit ness immediately ran to his assistance, and the gen tleman having so far recovered as to be enabled to state his name and address, witness called to the defendant to draw his coach off the stand, and drive the gentleman to where he lived. The defendant however refused to do so, merely because the gen tleman had fallen in the dirt. The defendant conceived he had no right to take the gentleman up, his clothes being in such a state that the seats of his coach would have been spoiled, had he been put inside it. He then submitted, that the coach being his own property, he had a right to deal with it as he pleased. Mr. HALLS told him he was quite mistaken ; coachmen were obliged by law to take up fares when required to do so. The defendant was accordingly fined in the miti gated penalty of 10s., which he paid with a very bad grace, observing that he considered he was an injured man. LAMBETH.STREET. A man named John Jacobs, alias " Sooty," who only returned a short time since after undergoing seven years' transportation, was yesterday brought before Mr. WYATT, in custody of Pendergrass, the officer, charged with committing a robbery on the hsth of January, in the house of a Mrs. Wal lace, residing in York-street, Commercial-road, when a number of valuable articles were stolen. He was accordingly remanded. Charles Shepherd was brought before Mr. WAL KER, charged with attempting a robbery under the ollowing circumstances : _ Mr. James Chesham, a chymist and druggist, residing in High-street, Whitechapel, said that about ten o'clock on Sunday evening, he was sitting in his back shop, when he heard a noise in the front part of his shop, and immediately ran there, and saw the prisoner leaning over the counter. The till was half open, but in consequence of having been several times robbed, he had lately not used it as a till, and there was no money in it. The prisoner, immediately upon seeing witness, asked for a penny worth of pipe liquorice; but upon being searched, no money was found upon him. The prisoner was committed for two months to the House of Cor rection. :UNION-HALL Yesterday a man named Weller: was brought before Mr. SIYABEY, charged with having inflicted two very severe wounds on the person of William Priestley, with a penknife, during a pugilistic en counter between them. The complainant went into a public-house in that neighbourhood for the purpose of taking a pint of porter; and in order to make it more palatable, he poured it into the warming-pot, which is common to the room, and placed it over the fire to take the chill off. While thus engaged, the defendant, who was anxious to follow the example in using the warming pot, snatched it off the fire, and in his eagerness upset half its contents. The complainant remon strated against such conduct, upon which angry words arose between him and the defendant, and the former challenged the aggressor to decide the quarrel on the spot by a recourse to their fists. The challenge was accepted, and in the first round the complainant felt that he was stabbed in the arm, and, on examination, two wounds were on his arm, and it was subsequently discovered that they were both inflicted by the defendant with a knife, which he had taken from his pocket unobserved by any of the persons present. The Magistrates (two being present,) after having severely reprehended the conduct of the defendant, adjudged him, under Mr. Peel's act, to pay a fine of 31. and costs. WHI'I'ECHAPEL HAY M A RKET.—Feb. 6. H.ty 60s. Od. to 90s. 0,1. Lt. lorcr 0.1. to 110 g. Od. 36.1. Od. to 49, Od. LONDON HOSPITAL. Yesterday Almeroth, the constable of White chapel parish, and Miller, the chief officer of Lam beth -street, were called upon by Hirst, the surgeon's beadle at the London Hospital, immediately to lend their assistance, and that of all the force they could command, to counteract the attack of a body of Irish inhabitants of Holloway-downs, Wanstead, who were besieging the Hospital, and endeavouring, vi et arntis, to remove the corpse of a countryman of theirs, who had expired in the institution. O n reaching the spot Mr. Miller perceived a cart stand ing outside the gate, which he ascertained to be in tended to take off the deceased's remains, and con vey them for waking and interment homewards. On asking the reasons for their being in such a hurry, the deceased only having died on the previous night, h e was told that there was an apprehension that the body would be anatomised and mutilated, for which, after his death, there was no necessity. He remon strated with them, and assured them that no such thing should take place, and, acting upon this pro mise, they quietly dispersed. Previous to Mr. Miller's arrival, however, seven or eight persons, among whom were the poor man's wife, had got into the room, and they refusing to leave at the de sire of the beadle, he was obliged to lock them up, and seek for the police. On the door being opened, they were all found plunged in sorrow, and seemed little to regard their imprisonment, so long as their presence preserved their friend from the violation of the dissecting knife, The wife had the corpse en circled in her arms, and was, while the tears were streaming down her cheeks, kissing-the face, and calling on it in tones of the most endearing affection to account for his death. Those to the bystanders were perfectly 'unintelligible, but being explained to them by a person present, who was well acquainted with the Irish character and language, the laughter which it first excited was turned into abetter feeling, and the sorrow of the widow respected. The arguments of the officers prevailed with the male portion to depart quietly, on the pledge that the body should not be disfigured, but it was with considerable difficulty, for reason was lost upon her, that they were enabled to extricate the wife from the close cling which she kept to her inanimate hus band, and place her in the cart for her removal home. The cause of the deceased's death was mortifica tion, brought on by the extreme severity of the late frost. STATB OF TRADE.—Huddersfield market on Tuesday last was comparatively brisk ; it is to be under stood that this remark does not extend to fancy goods, but has been confined exclusively to cloth. The fancy trade, like that of plaids at Leeds, is becoming extinct, and the manufacturers will eventually be compelled to manufac ture some other description of goods. At Bradford the sale of stuff goods has been this week very considerable, and both the manufacturers and the merchants seem in im proving spirits.—Leeds Mercury. The frost was so intense on Tuesday even ing, about seven o'clock, at Bratton Fleming, that a far mer having occasion to wash his hands, according to usual custom, at a small lake of water running near the entrance to his dwelling-house, took up a bar of iron of 121 b. weight, which he had been using, to carry with him, which the frost so fixed to his hand in half a minute, as to bear up the weight thereof, the hand being perfectly open, with the back side uppermost, at the same time car rying it from the water into the house, and through three rooms, before it dropped, in the presence of several spec tators.—North Devon Journal. THE WEATHER.—The thaw which com menced on Friday se'nuight was succeeded on Saturday night iq a severe frost, which still continues with un abated rigour. The cold is intense, and as yet we have hardly had any snow. In consequence of the severity of the weather, several hundred labourers are thrown out of employment, and the dearness of fuel aggravates their dis tress. Their claims on the more affluent are urgent, and we are glad to find that exertions are making to mitigate their sufferings. The Corporation lass voted 5001. towards the relief of the poor,llank Chronic's, RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. A. to r. d. Per Stone. a. d. to I. d• Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 2 Ordinary I 8 2 0 2 2 6 Market Calf- 6 (leach. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10(1. for tfid 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from )id. to Oid. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Feb. 8. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) t2s. :525. fine 53e. I ° g : Old Ditto Ditto , --s ....s. fine --4. .._ New Foreign Ditto . 445. 50s floc 60 0 . 10, ' Old Ditto 30s. 40s. fine 50e. 65 '_,. New White Clover 4os. 60s. fi ne 70 e . 50. Old Ditto Dittc 60s. 70a. fine iiifie: 8416 New Trefoil 137. 24 ' 6 . . ine 30s. 39'• Old Ditto -9 . —9. fine .....5 40!. Rib Grass - ........- 166. 2fils. fine -s. ''''.. English Carraway Seed - -a. 40s. 446. fine --ff. Foreign Ditto . -5. --6. --s. fine ... 4 Coriander -.. -s. 14s. fine --s. 51 0 .• St. Foin (per Quarter)---- -s. -s. 325. fine W. Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding -e. 3Ss. fine -s. 4 0, • Ditto, for crushing Canary Seed, New Ditto Old -6 -s ." 425. 41. 4 fi 2 n g e --a line . 40 6 . -4. _ -s. -s. -s. fine ••••••• While Mustard Seed......(per Bushel)-.os. 6s. Ss. Od. fine --s• Brown Ditto . -s. 96. 14s. Om. .- 4 . Turnip Seeds, Rounds-..- - 8 . -s. los. One 126. Green and Red I)itto -s. -s. 12s. tine Os. Tares, Old -6. 346. 40s. fine -. 4 . Ditto New - -s. -s. fine 446. 496 . Rare Seed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 321. ....... Foreign 271. 304. --- PRICES OF HOPS.-Feb. 8. Kent Pockets 6l (Is. 'll. Os. to 16/ Os. Syssex Ditto ',ex Ditto Farr Lam Ditto, 0/. Os, Pl. Os. to 13/ 13s. Seconds 01. Os. 91. Os to 101. 10e. 51. Its. 61. 108. to 81. Os. ss. 6/. Os. to 61. 6s. 12s. 6/. 6s. to 7/. 70. Kent kags..— F,sex Ditto., Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATO ES.—FO3. 8. Kidneys Scotch Reda 41. 15s. to 51. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws 3/. ss. to 31. 10s. ditto. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 411. Os. Refined Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton.. PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 80ttg.......-50 to 561 b..... ISi 19j Ditt0,,,.,,.-60 to 661 b.— 21 22 Dressing Hides 14 16 Fine Coach Hides 18 19 Crop Hides, 35 to 41.11 b. 14 16 Ditto 45 to 501 b. 16 18 Ditto lB 20 ii a s o LEATHER.. l'er lb. d. tod• Tanned Horse Hides.. Hi IS Spanishpitto Per dozen. Calf Skins...3d to 411 b. 18 2.1 Ditto -- 50 to 701 b. 22 2 ! Ditto 70 to S(►lb. W 21 Small Seats, Greenland 20 21 SHEEP SKINS. Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Od. to Ss. 04 . Downs , ls. 3d. to 21. Od. COAL MAR A dair's East Percy. 32 6 Felling 31 6 Holy 36 0 Killingworth 37 6 Liddell's 31 6 Peiaw Tanfield Le , 3O 9 Townley--, 36 6 Willington _ 39 0 Wylain 36 6 Walls End Btll and Co. 38 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 39 3 Ditto Burraton 37 3 Walla End Boundary 34 6 Ditto Brown's unsm—.... 37 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. 35 9 Walls End Carr and Co. 35 0 Ditto Cram1ingt0n........... 34 6 Ditto Gosforth . 39 6 Ditto Heaton 39 6 Ships at market, 123N—Slii K ET.—Feb. ff. Walls End Newmarch,. 338. 64 . Ditto Hilda V I Ditto Hotspur--...... V 0 Ditto Northumberland 33 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 33 rs Ditto 39 3 Ditto Russell's Ditto Walker. _ 39 6 Lambton's Primrose .... 35 6 Russell's 39 (1 Walls End Helton**. 41 3 Walls End 1Ambt0n....... 41 6 Walls End Lyons.-- 33 6 Walls End Siewart's 41 6 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 41 0 Cowpeu 33 6 Hartley - , 34 6 Llangetinech Coal 41 0 Pemberton Llangennech 0 Wall's End Elgin- 91 1) Eillson small ..... Si 0 Is sold, 46 1 A-Unsold. rgs. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET.—Feb. 8. Our farmers brought in a large supply of Wheat to-day; the condition much better than of late, and sales were brisk at an advance of Is. rer quarter. There was also & large supply of Oats, which sold readily, at a trifle higher. Barley has been in fair demand during the week at our quotations. Fine Rye good sale. Little doing in Beata• or Pease. New. ad. Wheat, Northumberland ......... faSs. M 5..... --8. - 4 .‘ - Norfolk and Suffolk 575. 60s. - Berwick and Scotch 566. 58s. -8. -4. - Dantsig -s. -S. Rye, Norfolk and Salolx .325. 305......., -e. -4. --Foreign .-6 -I. 325. 365: Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Surfolk 225. M 5..... ..-6. --8. - Grinding and Feeding 245. 265....... -s. -s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk --s. -s. s2s. 575. Beans, Small -e..-.e. - Tick 365. 384. -6. -4. Pease, White -6. -6. ---- Gray .325. 366. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 22s. 255. -s -B. - Feed 16s 19s. -s. -4. - Foreign -L -4. -a -4, Flour, Fine (per sack) --s -4 434. 458. IRISH MARKETS. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel , 20 atone. 16 atone. 14 stone. Ist. Sti• _. --------- ---- --- s. d. aa. d. s. d. aa. d. a. d. as. d. a. d. as. d. s. d.all• d ,.., Cork ... —.. •e.s2 6-31 0 11 6-14 0:9 6-11 2 16 0--20 ( '7 0.-11 N Limerick 124 0-28 0 10 0-12 0 89— 9 4 IS 0-21 0 0 0- 41 : 7, Waterfordl2s 0-30 0 12 0-14 0 9 6-11 0 18 0-24 010 0-1 5 " 16 0 Clonmel —124 0-30 0 II 0-14 6110 8-14 0 20 0-25 0 12 0---, ~ Carlow ..--126 0-30 0 12 0-19 0110 0-13 0 20 6-41 0 0 0--1 , .....!." -----, Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. ---.....-- ----•• d f ....._. e a r 1 2. 6. ti p . er lb ad .. c p d er . a cw. ..td. a. d. 4 . .2 .2 .. :14:1. a. (1. .4.td.h. li.td.li: Cork 4-6 1 6 18 0.-23 1. 71 0870 61 056 I mi ~ Liinerick— 4 —5 4 —6 23 0-30 0.66 060 054 049 o 14 v Waterford 3 —5l 31 51 23 0— 25 6'75 0 78.0 57 053 0 g Clonmel :31 —4 3 —4l 25 0-26 068 000 054 1; 52 0 50 Carlow.-- 4 —5lO 0 00— 00786740 64 0 54 0 1 KnAtxxxr.—Butter 156 i to 688. per cwt. ; Wheat 28$ . to 3 15 • per barrel ; Flour 18s. to al e . per bag; Oats 9s. to 11e. per bar rel; Barley 10s. to 125. ; Beef 4d. to 5%4. per lb. ; Mutton 2( 1 . to 4d. ; Potatoes sd. per stone; Coals 18. 2d. per cwt.,; J3aeon Pigs 24e. to 26s per cwt. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 1,707 0 Average I'roduce 7 i A i 0 Quantity of fine Copper 192 0 Amount of Sale, 8,757/. I Is. fxl.—Average Standard, ILO& is. 00. Report has circulated that Mr. SHELL sUC' ce2ds Mr. LESLIE FOSTER in the Law Ailvertisership to the Commissioners of Exeise.—Limerick -evening Post. A conditional rule for a criminal information, has been obtiined in the Court of King's Bench, Dubllsh on behalf of THOMAS SCOTT, Esq., a Magistrate of the county Down, against Messrs. Wiwass B&ETT and Groaae O'Haa.ax, the proprietors of the Louth Free Press, for a libel published in their paper upon that gee tlen►an, connected with transactions arising out of religious dissensions. EDITIONS OP VOLTAIRE AND ROussEAth BETWIEN THE TZARS 1817 AND 1824.---The Gazette& Lyon contains an enumeration of the editions of Vorv' TAI ne and Roils:Eau, which have been published at Paris in the interval between the above-mentioned years. The Gazette lays this enumeration before its readers, in order to show the depravity which the'present age has ar rived at. From this enumeration set forth in a tabular form, it would appear that, of the works of Vot.v.tizat 1,417,000 volumes hays issued from the press, and t h atof those of RoussrAu but 480,500 have been publishido making in all 1,697,500.—L0nd0n Express (a new' Parisian Journal.) TIIE ODDINGLEY MURDER.--In this case the Jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against T. CLzwas and GEoßca BANKS, and that such m urder was committed on the night of the 25th Jude, 1806. THE SNOW STORM.—The road over Black • stone Edge is rendered nearly impassable through the snow; in Clayton Heights, it is in some places drifted higher than the roof of an ordinary ecach; many labonr era have found employment in cutting through it; and on Wednesday the very curious circunistanee‘was wit nessed, of the outside passengers gathering sttow'm the each other.--- Leeds Patriot.travelledeoeaeli along, and snow-balling BIRTHS. On the sth inst. Mrs. Win. Holborn, of Camberwell, of a daughter. Southwark, of a daughter. 3IARRIED. On the 4th inst. Mrs. R. G. Whitfield, St. Thomas's, On the 4th inst. at St. Pancras, F. Chan; Esq. of Luton, Bedfordshire, to Emily Thomasina, youngest d a egh , ter of C. Knight, E'q. On the 6th inat. C. Harrison, Esq. of Berkeley-itriet , Berkeley-square, to Hannah Maria Lockett, daughter of the late It. J. Lockett, Esq., of Liverpool. • • DIED. On the 4th inst. at WoodAeat, Staffordshire, suddenly, after a protracted illness, Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart. On the 4th inst. at Kendal, Mrs. A. Wilson, formerly f Richmond-hill, Surrey. On the sth inst. Chitties Davis, Esq. of Milman-street, Redford-row. On the 6th inst. at Brockhatn-green, Suriey, , Marl Eliz theth, wife of E. H. Noy,'Esq. of th a t place, a nd of Tower-etreet. PAINTED AND PIMILISHKI) EP 1411711D0 YOMCG; ruz SUM OkIICE, 112, STICANP, ritoi‘ It ha Affairs Pren e h exist e d the Re E Christie Illockad not b et Ports of The 'Waugh ltivirew Orkney The David the unit 814 Y, in "Itery , ItEXIIE' Cou/ O'Grad rick, in Willi Feb. 9 sioners. Willi to sun March chison 1 Geor 1 2, at -, Commi• Rent 93 , anc tonere. Thor Per Thi aad M a Smith, Thor at one, aioners. road. John St • J o b and m a Ashursi will' 12, at Commie Eden Inn at Elliott, John' lirerpc 23 , at Adlingt sh am, i Jose print er 14,1 B Winterl Chance Joh; ] three' r shir e , Stockp Robe tuorcha Court ( ditch. Will home-d Castle Gray's. Carl March Bebb Liverp, Joh] Feb. 2 field, a and E Walker _ . Geo 24, 2: Liverp Liverp .1o1;1 Feb. 5 Messrs .o n , Presto York worst 4 Tree l Russel Geor Fran