The Sun. — London, England, 1830-12-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Lord Althorp appeared prominently lust night in his chat-deter of Chancellar of the Exchequer, and his propositions Were received . generelly with great Whinge ; the; first' Wag, to appoint a Committee, on Thursday next, to consider at once, and before any thing le received, what reductions ought to be made in the salaries and emoluments of all officers tickling places et the pleasure of the Crown. The next was, to call for a veto of. credit on Farley, on account, 'Litton the Civil List, in order to carry over the ques tion of its pirmenent i podification till after the re cess, the intervening time being necessary to arrange, reduce, and render simple, and intelligible that dark and oppressive account. We were sorry to observe Sir Robert Peel, generally so candid when in the ministry, start a technical difficulty on a matter of form,--as if, because a Committee on the Civil List had been appointed by the motion of Sir Henry Parnell, on which the last ministry was dispossessed, therefore the labours of that Committee could not be suspended. Lord Althorp showed, however, that even in point of form ne such difficulty existed. It is, we believe, determined by the Ministers, in commendable compliance .with public feeling, that Dr. Phillpotts shall riot hold Stanhope in commen. dents with his distant Bishopric . ; but it has been in sinuated that Lord Grey now intends that valuable living for his brother. We believe his Lordship's good taste will have prevented him from intending any such thing, rind that it Is the good nature of the world, or the kind regards of his political enemies, that would impute such a project to him ; at least when his Lordship know* what the feelings of the Church and of the country would be upon such an issue of the Mug:agitated question of Stanhope and Exeter, he Will abstain with promptitude from what, if contemplated at all, can only have been contemplated through inadvertance.--Times, It was not without reason that we urged the people generally to press forward now, with ten fold eagerness, to secure for themselves a solid Re form of Parliament —now, when the Government, being pledged to that all-important measure, may be said to have thrown itself upon the nation, to assist its efforts in the great cause of freedom against the common enemy. The nation are rneeOng every where—the English, Irish, and last, but not least valuable of all, the Scotch—have acceded to the holy league in favour of a literal, as well as real and practical, representation of the people. No where has the public feeling been held in such contempt us in Scotland. In no part of the empire has the ep paretus for choking every whisper of independent opinion, through the organ of the legislative body, been so dexterous and perfect as there. In Edit'. burgh--a city,. a capital of 140,000 inhabitants— the person who pretends to represent their in• teteats and wishes has been returned to Par liament by thirty-three electors! Electore,elected as their fathers were before them the humble ad hereto-of family . ,‘ of which, whatever individual was pointed out by the head of it has had their votes for a series of generations, and with as much right to designate himself the mem ber for " Edinburgh" as for London, Paris, or New York. Imagine all England to be an overgrown Old Sarum, and you have some idea of the system of Scotch representation. Accordingly, the people of Scotland have struck upon the heated iron of this great crisis, and have declared in language, and with a unanimity,'in which an honest Government must lee its most powerful support, and a corrupt or op pressive one its immediate downfall, that thq will have Reform. Even the corporations begin to find that their hour is come, and, folding up their robes, they prepare to die with decency. 'That of Glas gow: has acknowledged its Own constitution to be cone, which .reoeires atnendenent. But a meeting has taken place at Edinburgh, to which public attention ought to Aasepointedly invited, where the people of highest atinseter ' and influence crowded the spaci out assettablyarooms in Georgesstreet, listening with eigortuate to the indignant condemnation pronounced by sonny able spec kers upon tife degrt4di;rg iiondition under which those who ought to form the constituency of &offend had been so long dein ived of their most obvious rights, and passing without a dissentient voice resolutions which indicated that they would no longer submit to the privation. When we recol lect that the whole body of Scotch electors, as well for counties as for burghs, amounts to only about two thousand five hundred voters—not above half as many as are polled at any contest for a moderate sized English county—we can the better sympathise with Mr. Adam Black (Master of the Merchant ' Company), who exclaimed, One only wonders that this wretched system should have round abet tors and supporters fore so many generations. Is it not as true us it is humiliating to Scotland, that the Scotch Members are a proverb and by,word for sub serviency, even to' the most profligate Ministers, who constantly look to this steady phalanx for their unflinching aid against all crusades against liberty at home and abroad, in the perpetrating of every job, and the maintaining of every abuse ? Who supported the Bathurst and Dundas job ? I low did the Scottish Members vote on the last do claire question of the Civil List ? We find that 30 voted for a large and long-continued txpendi lure, without inquiries, and only seven for inquiry and retrenchment." This appears to us a satiable rory proof that the Scotch are neither blind to their political situation, nor likely to remain dumb as no its vices and disgrace. It is at the same time requi site tO add, in the words of another eloquent mem ber of the same meeting, " that although we have won the Government, we have not yet won the Legislature." That, indeed, is true ; one branch . snore particularly of the Legislature has slot yet been won to the cause of Reform—we mean the Barre 'of Lords; end we would, therefore, with much deference, put it to their Lordships to consider how &On - Ole—how desperate—how lost—would be their condition, if, unhappily, the House Com - : .mons should pass a Bill for a substantial and thorough purification of Parliament, and the House of Lords venture to reject that Bill I So much for the principle of Referm. With respect to the details of it, much, doubtless, is yet to be determined.— Morning throttle/4 Ltest,night , a very pertinent question was ad 7 dreseed by,Mr., G. It. Dawson to the Chan c ellor or .the. .I . txchstquer, respecting the rumour of an inten-, tion to remove Sir Anthony Hart froM the Chan.' cellorshlt.'a relatsrl accompanied' by a pathetic' latnentatton, Olaf due of the first acts of the new. Government would thus fix upon the country en' additional pension. •I`so doubt the Ex-Ministers' sorely , feel the substitution of pensions in their own ease for the emoluments of office; but with what greet* this question was proposed will be seen by . that which Wee retorted by Me. Tennyson on Mr. Goulhurn. It appears that after the Kx4Vlinisters were, in feet, out of office, and only held the seals . until in w arrangements could be completed, his Greco the .Doke of Wellington uctoelly granted four additional pensions to favourite* of his own; none of theta, es we learn, person, who,had rein dared any service to the public, sod two of the four parties, who, if entitled to any remuneration, ought to have reenlist! it front his Graces' privy pursei for personal assistance to himself. He: might with as much propriety have granted pensions out of the public-money to his house-steward and his better, as to his . priVate eecretaries-Ifferniog Chronkle. Lord Althotp, last night to the state of the disturbed districts, observed,, that ireadditioh to the Commissions already issited,,another .had Upotted the Great Seal, fo r t h e tr i a l o f- o ff en d ers in ucisinghamshire. There s s en,ld he in the issue of any wt*S;lPortuniseiritie eimeiderable difficulty in -huffing dodges : to try the etrAltititt, ' He fully ton carted with. his Noble Vriend, that none of these persons ought to 4 0 tried by the Magistrates under whose warrants 'they were committed, or by any person liable to he eweyed by local or any undue in f . m anc e This opinion highly creditable to Lord Althorp. We trust the principle invoked itr it will rec eive in time greater extension. No man might to be a judge in his own cause; and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the Magistrate is judge in his own case, or - he judges in a similar cause of his neigh bour ; and his neighbour, in' return, judges in a si milar cause in Which he is a party. Hence the com bination under which the peasantry have at length sunk, and from the pressure of which they are now making a desperate effort to extricate themselves at the es:pence of the 'peace Mid security of the country. We consider the Magistrates far more to blame in these disturbances than the peasantry. We are as sured by a gentleman of the East of Rent, that nothing would have beets more easy than to have arrested the disturbances in the commencement. Two or direct labourers went about from farm to farm, collecting here a couple of men, and there a couple. lied these men met with deterMination, they could have math! 1115 head. But the Parson Magistrates took fright, end the rioters began to think themselves more formidable personages than theyleally were. The trifling punishment of three days' confinement, and the recommendation of the Magistrates to the furniers .to raise wages, set the whole country in a flame. A gentleman from the part of Sussex where the disturbances began, as sures us that the evil had its origin there in the same source. Preto tattle to the Bother, a wild, woodland country, of about tea miles in length, and about the same in breadth, there Is no Magistrate. Our informant tells us that on the Wednesday be fore the outrage:, as he was passing to Hastinqs, he found a number of men assembled, who were dis satisfied with the conduct of the Overseer, who had, they thought, been unnecessarily severe towards them, and they civilly conducted him out of the parish. This passed. On his return on Vriday he found that they had assembled, and forced the far mers to agree to raise their wages. Still this passed. On the Monday and Tuesday the whole district was in insurrection. The only Magistrate of that part of Sussex who has acted with vigour and energy is Sir Oodfrer Webster, and be has had two farms fired in consequence of his seal. Our in formant had a conversation with a yeoman possessed of a small property, rat the subject of establishing a watch and ward, which he exerted himself fruit. lessly to effect. This man remarked that " Sir Godttey Webster was well served—that he had no business to put himself forward." There can be little doubt that many Magistrates allowed their fear of their property to prevail over their sense of duty. The old remark has been exemplified—what is every one's business is no one's business. The Magistrates are ready to act when their activity is mischievous I when their services are really wanted they are not to be found; --Morning Chronicle. In our report of the proceedings of the House of Commons, on Monday evening, it was erro nenasly stated that Mr. Tennyson had then pre sented a petiticn from the electors of Stamford, complaining of the conduct of the Marquis of Exeter at the last election. We find, however, on a re ference to the printed votes, that Mr. Tennyson only gave notice of his intention to present that pe tition on Tuesday next. The subject is one to which we have repeatedly adverted, and we now entertain sanguine hope that, under the auspices of the new Administration, the House of Commons would do its duty in this matter. Whatever reforms may be contemplated, unless ballot is to form a por tion, the Constitutiou will always he open to inva sion by all such political poachers as Lord Exeter and the Duke of Newcastle. The discussion, there fore, which is to take place on Tuesday, is one to which the attention of the public will be anxiously directed. Stamford not being a decayed borough, and possessing at present an admirable franchise, will not have to undergo any reforming operation, except such 'as may protect it in future against the only evil of which its inhabitants complain. ..re curious to learn what the remedy proposed for ouch cases as Stamford and Newatk may be, and to see the Members for Aldborougband Boroughbridge and for Stamford itself, resisting any attempt to pinion their Noble Patrons.—Morning Chronicle. No plan of Parliamentary ReforM 'can be efficient. in itself, or satisfactory to the nation, Which does net go the length of cutting off that mockery of re presentation which exists in the decayed or rotten boroughs, such as Old Serum, (Litton, Corfe Castle, East and West Looe, Dunwich, Ludgershall, Bramber, Castle Rising, and others of that descrip tion. Such disfranchisement —or, at least, the transfer of the franchise to great and populous towns, such as Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bir mingham, Bolton, Stockport, Blackburn, Brighton, Cheltenham, and u few more at present unreke sented—would not be a violation, but a revival, of the Constitution. The principle of representation Was originally regulated by the joint considerations of Property and population. The decayed boroughs have, as their name implies Jost those characteristics. They have, in the efflux of time, wasted away from their original importance into suck a state of utter insignificance as operates as a virtual disqualification to send Representatives to Parliernent, there being nothing for that high privilege to work opine accord ing to the sense in which it was conferred by the founders of the Constitution, But this subject in volves the question whether the proprietors of those boroughs are entitled to compensetion or not. The author of a pamphlet on " The State of the Repre sentation," which Was addressed to " Henry .Brcugham, Esq , M.P., for Yorkshire," a short time before the elevation of that distinguished individual to the Woolsack, is of opinion that they are entitled to compensation, and he argues the point in the fol lowing words :- 4 4 Now, without supposing for an instant that any person can acquire a moral, or even strictly, a legal right to sell the power of making Members of Parliament, - still a kind of conventional right may be acquired. The case seems to resemble that of the slave-holders of the \Vest Indies, who cart have no abstract right to detain for a single day their fellow-creatures in bondage, but who yet cannot have their slaves justly taken from them, by a Legislature which has sanctioned the existing state of things without being allowed a pecuniury com pensation for the property of which they would thus be'rleprived. in like manner the House of Commoes have long known and long permitted the sale of seats for the decayed boroughs, and the sale of the property in those boroughs. They must not, there fore, now affect ignorance—nor must they teke from a man a property which may have cost him, within those few yeers, a large f,t/111 of money, without affording him a fair remuneration. A borough is generally reckoned to produce its owner about 3,0001. a year, the seats being worth 1,5001. per enema, About 60,0001. might, therefore, be the value of the franchise to the patrou. Now if this be the only obstacle—and I believe it to be the only real one that exists-'--I doubt not that the people of England would willingly make the neces sary sacrifice. Let Commissioners be appointed to treat. for borough property, and let about 150,0001. per annum be allowed them ;—two boroughs might be thus purchased annually, and, in tea years, twenty large towns, now unrepresented, might re ceive representatives. Where is the difficulty of the plan, if the will to make these necessary im provements be not wanting ?"--sSo far this advocate for One" vested rights" of the borouglimongers;— though, for our own part, we are not acute enough apprehend ;saw it is- possible for arty .man to have a vested right in a public wrong. The author of the pamphlet, indeed, admits that the patrons of rotten boroughs have neither morali, nor, strictly speaking, legal right to sell the power of making Members of Parliament, and therefore he is under the necessity of propping up their claim for compensation upon what be calls a " conventional right,'' and compares it to the case of the slave holders in the West Indies. Let us try the sound ness of this argument. Every body will at once ad mit that there can be no moral right in a corrupt practicee--no legal right in an illegal practice—and no constitutional right in a practice which goes to subvert the Constitution. The making Members of Parliament for a venal consideration is declared to be.eurrupt, illegal, and unconstitutional, by the law • of the land, and by the law of Parliament, Which is putt of the lex torte, • is punishable by fine and imprisonment, as a corrupt and illegal practice, eon etitUting a breach of privilege and a high misde meanour. Can any man have . a conventional right to commit a misdemeanour? The supposition is absurd. Can Parliament recognize, in the prac tice of violating its own privileges, a valuable right, the taking away of which establishes a claim to compensation ? The notion is ridiculous. But then the patron of the borough may have paid a large stun for this " right.' An illegal prac tice ►s not the better for being founded on a corrupt consideration. 'Whoever pays money to enable him to do an illegal act, pays it in his own wrong, He makes a contract not valid in law ; he does not, when he asks for compensation, come into Court with clean hands. Let us suppose a man makes a contract with another, founded on a breach of the revenue laws he cannot enforce that con tract by law; it is null and void—and It would be a most mischievous example if it were net ;—but the violation of the laws to secure the purity and freedom of Parliamentary election is a more im moral, a more dangerous, and ought to be a more detestable crime. The wrier in question says, "The House of Commons have long known, arid have long permitted, the sale of seats." We admit the Members of the House have known of such things individually, but, in their collective capacity, they have always felt themselves bound to denounce the practice. What wm the alleged reason for not prosecuting the late Lord Castlereagh for an offence of this nature ? Not that the practice was permit ted, but that the alleged sale of the seat had not been completed. What sent Sir Manasseh Lopes to , prison for two years? Was it the exercise of a conventional right? Can is man claim money from Parliament for being deprived of the power of doing that which, when proved, only gives him a claim to be sent to Newgate ? The House of Commons, corrupt as it has been at some periods of our history, has never bad the shameless effrontery to avow any sort of right or permission to the purchase or the sale of seats—al though the fact of such things being very generally done was admitted by the late Lord Colchester, when he stated in the House of Commons that "such practices were as notorious as the sun at noon-day ;" notorious, not in the way that legal evidence could be furnished of them, but in the same way that smuggling, or the sale of game against law, are no torious, or any other illegal act, which is oftener practised than detected. But then, if detected—if brought home to the perpetrators by proof—the law is bound to punish. Supposing Parliament was so base, so venal, so profligate, as openly and un blushingly to acknowledge a right in borough patrons to corrupt the public privilege of representation at its source, and to acknowledge they had a vested in- terest in the profits of this most scandalous venality, would the people sanction the appropriation of their money to reward those plunderers of their constitu tional rights ? We apprehend not. Yet here is a modest proposal, that the people shall place 150,0004 per annum in the bands of Commissioners, that in ten years they may pur chase twenty rotten boroughs, and transfer their franchises to as many populous towns 1 We are not told what salaries those Commissioners are to have who are to execute the delicate trust of com pensating, with the money of an over-taxed people, the regular and avowed traffickers in Parliamentary venality and corruption ! We know there is a pre cedent for what the writer proposes in what took place at the passing of the Act of Union with Ire land; when each patron of a borough disfranchised by that Act received, we believe, 15,000/. Such a precedent is " more honoured in the breach than in the observance." No precedent can contravene the known and settled principles of the Constitu- . . don. • if it could, any historical fact of the most pernicious consequences would have the authority of law. As to the patronage of boroughs being like the property in slaves, we will merely obserVe that, whatever may be thought of the question in a moral and abstract point of view, the master has in reality a legal property in . his slave. We wish it were otherwise, but there is nothing more certain than the legal claim to this degrading right, which has been repeatedly recognised by Acts of Parliament— and thus has the sanction not merely of connivance but of positive law. Besides, there was formerly, even in England, and that, too, since England had a Constitution—a legal property in slaves, who tilled the soil in as abject a state of bondage as the slaves in the %Vest Indies; but no person ever had a legal property in the corrupt practice of selling seats in Parliament.—Morning Herald. The country is at length awake on the subject of Parliamentary Reform; and, what is more gratify ing, even that portion of it, over which a worse than Bcentian darkness and insensibility was generally supposed to have been irrevocably spread, is ex hibiting a spirit which must stimulate thousands to follow its example, and diffusing; a light, whose cheering influence will, we hope, extend throughout every quarter of the kingdom. In a word, the North, the representation of which was notoriously the most vicious, but whose inhabitants were thought to be satisfied with the slavish inactivity to which they had been condemned by vicious legislation and aristocratic influence, has been the first, and the loudest- to call for Parliamentary Reform. Ott Zia. Outlay last a meeting was held on the subject of which we give an abridged account elsewhere—on the preceding duty another great meeting, principally composed of the most wealthy merchants of the " Modern Athens," was held—in Glasgow similar proceedings have either taken place, or are stirring —in Leith a meeting has been held, expressive of the sense of the community respecting a reform of the representation—in Kirkaldy there has been an other to the same effect—and, in fine, turn to what quarter of the North we may, end we find the same spirit prevalent, and the same resolutions unani mously passed. Nor has Ireland been idle. There has been a meeting at Belfast—there has been another lit Derryand another at Armagh, and there will be " another, and another, and another, and the last more heart-stirring than the first 1 " So be it. But what is doing here in the mealtime P —The King—our most gracious, and most popular Sovereign—has declared, that Reform is necessary—'' the Ministry stands or falls on the question of Re form, and yet, we again ask, what has been done in this quarter of the United Kingdom, to forward the interests of the cause, and support the only King and the only Ministry svho ever gave earnest of their being on the side of the people ?—Nothing, absolutely nothing comparatively. A few meetings have been held; but they have only answered ex pectations by their favourable results—the great mess of wealth and talent in the country has not yet exhibited itself, and until it takes an active part in the question no favourable hopes can be enter tained of the results of the anxious desire enter tained by his Majesty's Ministers to place the re presentation of the country on a firm and perma nent basis. Tho cause is good, and it ought to prosper' without being " bolstered;" h ut l et t h e people only think for a moment of the (1461110 es to be encountered by his Majesty's Mini sters , l„ currying a question which strips the aristocracy of its power, and unites the people and their repre sentatives in the closest bonds, and they will be. .convinced that, though they have justice and reason 4upport whi c h th e . It is not aon their side, they require all the vox populi can possibly afford them, re formed Parliament, be it remembered, t o w hi c h t h e decision of the question is to be referred, but a feel the li ve li est sympathy with the Parliament elected the old :system, and, t h ere f ore , not likely to people's tights. But, to conclude, in the language of The Sun of yesterday evening, " lint people may rely on it, that they cannot be trio persevering, or too united in their demands for reform. If they desire to see the failing health of the Constit u tion recruited—corruption deprived of its influence— taxation reduced—the Corn Laws modified—the name Laws abolished—suritice rendered cheap and accessible to all—ifs in short, they desire , to see England as she should be, but as she never yet has been, free, prosperous, and happy, tranqu i l at home.' respected abroad, the envy of Europ e an d the EXETER 111 Al Reef (score) 7s. 6d. 81. 04. Mutton (1 ) s ) 0 4 0 'Veil and I Ands —A 7 0 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Oeese (each) 8 0 4 6 I)ucke (coup'e) 0 4 6 Fowls 3 0 4 0 K ETS.—Dec. 1. Wheat (bushel) Bs. tk3. R. 3d, Barley 4 n 4 0 Oats 2 9 3 0 Beans 5 0 0 0 Butter (Ib) 0 0 010 Eggs (10).....» 0 0 I 0 Potatoes (peck) 0 0 7 8 GLASGOW M A nKrrs. (From the Glaegow Herald of Monday.) The transactions in Raw SUGAKS have been 'rather the isles are only 165 hbds. and trs., and prices are without variation ; moist brown Demeraras and Trinidad. sold at 455. dry browns 465. a 495., and middling at s la• 641 . ; refined and crushed Sugsrs are without altera tion ; Candy, 10Id. a I Otd. British Morasses 20s. One hundred and fifty hap dark ordinary Demerara Comm were brought forward Ly auction, only 89 bags of the quantity were sold, the remainder having been with drawn for higher prices; broken, Shs. a 85s. 6d. ; sound, 40e. a 404. 6d. A small parcel of Ptstarcro was sold at 41d. a hid. Nothing doing in Rum ; prices are without alteration. About 100 casks TALLOW sold at 435. 6d., and emsll parcels at 446. 6d. a 450. No alteration in the demand or value of other articles. RKETS. ITE.--Fatinilf, Dec. it From 'Fo w. p. ,158 Wheat,per barrel 20 stone 28 0 441 0 34 gg 21',11 Here l7 atone 12 0 15 0 14 0 4511 10 stone 14 3 15 0 15 4 2,758 Oats l2 biome 11 0 15 0 13 3g 11,457 Cwt. stone' 7 0 28 0 058 8 stone 12 0 17 0 14 8 Sold to Rakers only. 10,242 Cwt. Average price Receipts of Flour. 11 Sales of Do. 11 IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET No. Is fl f Wheat ana Hour nin Fi ' Th rth!, froi fro "irds , fro] TRICZ 0? I) AD. 10,1, I Half Quart, 28 O I 21 2% Od. per sae . rm 2lis. od. to 25.. Od. lin Mt. M. to 214. Od rill '7l. Od, to 144. Od. Barley. per barrel Itt stone. Oata. Flour, per barrel 14 :dune. ht. orld,—if the people really desire to see this, they lvdl not cease to thunder at the gates of the Legis ature till their rightful claims are granted."—Morn nq Advertiser. MARK ET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Peke Cart:all of yesterday.) SUGAR,—.-The alarm amongst the West India merchants iast week was excessive; several failures were announced. The consequence was, extensive selling of Sugars at what- ever pricer could be procured ; very considerable parcels were forced off at a further reduction of 2s. per cwt. ; coloury Sugars, 445. and 455. were the cheapest descrip tions in the market. The public sale of 450 hhds. and tierces St. Lucia went off rather higher than the previous prices by private contract, dry brown 41s. a 41e. 6d., bright yellow 48a. The stock of Muscovades is now 45,826 Wis. and tee., being 532 less than last yesr. The stock of Mauritius Sugar 29,516 hags, being 1,228 more than last year. The delivery of Muscovades last week 2,862 Wills. and tre. being 93 more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 2,423 bags, being 879 lessthan the corresponding week of '1829. At the close of this day's market the esti. mated sales were fully 900 hhds. and tree., the market is much snore firm, and the trade evidently nut of stock. In the Refined Market there were several forced sales of low Lumps 61s. and 61s. 6d. The crashers purchased several parcels of large and small Lumps 625. a 635. and tits. ; small purchases of crashed 80$. a 32e. were made 'for the Mediterranean. The fine goods for the home con sumption of the country were also bought on rather lower terms. Molasses dull. This afternoon there is more firm ness, as the holders who forced sties are for the present out of the market. Molasses dull, and 6d. lower. FortziaN Sunam..—The only sails last week were small parcel, yellow Havannah taken in at a late public sale, purchased at about 225. or 235. EAST INDIA SuGAL—There were no sales of Mauri tius or East India Sugar last week worth reporting. This day at public sale 2,607 bags Manilla, 1,706 bags Mauri tius Sugars; the Manilla was taken in; the present mar ket prices would not be accepted. The Mauritius sold at full market prices. COFFEE.—There were very limited public sales last week ; the fine Babies supported prices, the lower de scriptions were dull. A parcel of St. Domingo by private contract was reported sold at 3Ss. I3y public' sale this day 47 casks 18 bags British Plantation, 01 bags Ma nilla, 80 bags Brazil, and 542 bags St. Domingo; the latter was old, but of even quality, good ord. ; the two latter taken in at 355. ; the Manilla at 30s. ; the British Plantation sold at former prices. The Market unvaried. Bull, BRANDY, AND Hounxns.—The demand for Rum revived considerably last week, owing to the advance in the Corn Market and in British Spirits, in connection with the very reduced prices, and the probability of a considerable part of the usual supply going direct to the United States, on account of the removal of the non intercourse between the West Indies and the American States. The chief purchases were low, Leeward., Is. 7d. to Is. V. Brandy was held with more firm ness. In Geneva no sales were reported. This afternoon the demand for Rum continues general, four and five over sold at Is. 9.1. ; the late sales are estimated at 700 puncheons. The prices were decidedly higher this after noon ; few parcels offer at Is. 70., and we think it would be difficult to purchase any quantity under Is. Bd. llEste, FLAX, Awn TALLow.—The Tallow Market continues to fluctuate violently—the price rose to 445., fell to 425. 6,1., and this aPernnon the quotation is 435. 3d. Hemp is a shee lower. Flax held with much firmness, and rather more money asked. INDICIO.—Tu East India Indigo there are no sales to report. Ily public sale yesterday 22 serons Guatemala sold 3d. above the lust public sale prices. Corrox.—The Cotton Market is more firm. Sales, 850 Surat, ordinary, 4 d ., fire, ; 100 Egyptian, Sid. The 245 bdls. Surat advertised for public sale, sold previously to the commencement of the sale. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. HOtton - 67. 30 21 33 Gainshorough 70 37 21 42 Grantham 08 73 35 40 24 21) 40 42 Grimsby 58 68 25 36 16 22 30 34 b 4 (10 25 33 15 20 90 48 Lincoln 9pilsby. 64 70 30 40 22 20 3'2 34 Stamford M) 75 35 43 26 32 44 56 74 32 41 '2O 30 38 48 LEWES MARKET.—Dec. 7. White Wheat (per quarter) .£3 8 0 to £3 12 0 Red ditto 3 7 0 3 10 0 Barley Oats New 1 0 0 1 2 0 _ _ LE' White Wheat , Red ditto Barley Oats, New . Beans Oil Cake, New ES MARKET.—Dec. 7. r quarter) .£3 8 0 to 3 7 0 1 8 0 1 0 0 1 12 0 1 11 10 0 per Of 1 13 0 ious and. NORWICH, Dec. 4. Our market being moderately supplied, and there being some spirit of speculation, Wheat again met a further advance of 2s. per quarter, with a ready sale for all descriptions. The supply of Barley being lessened, good samples have been sold Is. per quarter higher. Oats, Beans, and Pease, fully maintain former prices. Flour advanced is. to 2s. per sack. Wheat (per qr.) BSI. 725, Beans (per qr.) .. 323, 38s. Barley Oats 2fis, INs. 30s. Flour, fine (per sack) sls. 535. CANTERIMiIt, Dec. 4. The demand for Wheat being very lively, although we had a considerable supply, caused our samples to be taken off at prices rather beyond last week's quotations, The quantity of other Grain was limited, excepting Barley, which was dull of sale and Is._ per quarter cheaper. Wheat, white fat. to na. --- red 565. to 70s, Barley, Malting 14s. to Ws, Oats Beans 2ll. to 355. ...... Old . NIL to tic Pease 'ids. to 501. cwt. s. d. s. d. is.d..s. 41. as. 41. 15 6 10 2-13 4 18 6-21 12 2 8 0-15 0 18 0-22 15 0 11 0-12 0 17 0-2.1 115 0 1015.12 II 20 0-22 19 0 10 0—.13 0 2O 6-21 fork, Butter. per cwt. ist. 4. d. as. 41. s. 41... 43. s. 41. s. d. *, 41. 21 0-30 0 t4l 0 06 0 !)2 0 88 1 8.2 0 32 0—.35 4399 096 00 os4 070 0 :32 0.-25 6109 0 115 078 /V 3 057 0 0-30 0182 78 9 9 0 00— 00 78 7.10640540..0 s. d.as.d. 7 0..10 0 00.150 100-150 12 0.-18 0 00— 00 KILKOMNY.—Butter On to lOU per cwt. ; Whe.at 30a. to 351. per barrel ; Flour 245. to SSC per hag; Oats Via. to I Is. par bar fe l , auley Its, to Inc ; Beef 2d. to 411. per lb. ' • Mutton 4d, F ; to Potatoes 3d. perstone; Coals 10. 2d. per cwt:; Bacon, t'lfti; s. 355.-per cwt. atTS. AX PO Quarters Loal Wheat, per barrel 2) stone, I a. d. a a. d. Cork 3-415 0. l,ilp~ rick do 11-435 o' Wa te rfo rd I 0-3.5 Minitel H 2116-4311 A l Carlow `2 3 0-30 t) s.d. al 11 11,..'. I I 13 (I I 12 Oeef, M per lb. I p 1 tit tond per lb. I ~----__ Id. A d. d. A li, 1 Cork ........—,31-0 : ..... 5 Limeriek,.. 3 —4 3 -- 4 Waterrord 2 —4 3 6 Clownel ...• 3 --3 3 -- 5 Carlow.-... 4 —si 0 0 COTTON WOOL, LIST OF ►SIPOS,TS AND Exrl 114 PORTED. same pe., This tied last year.. year. Sags, Sze. 4,iverpool 731,1153 London 24,407 rilaar ow , ‘ 441e11 i 1 °tat ex 441 n L. Same yetiod IVO /Sago &c 01r1,409 65,964 Vt,),601 Pt d. Previous.. ly this year. Rage 11i c. Bags q 122 1 0,25 300 22,041 151 ~116.10% CORONERS' INQUESTS. On Monday evening . an inquest was held before Mr.' &lilt bila at the Prince of Brunswick, in White Conduit-fields, on view of the bodies of Janet and Bessy Brown, two children, one seven, the other five and a half years old. George Waddington, police-officer of Hatton. garden, had a warrant against the father of the chil dren for unlawfully pawning some materials with which he had been intrusted by his master to work up. On Friday morning, at a quarter to eleven o'clock, lie went to the house in Rodney-street, and saw his wife, who on being made acquainted with his business, burst into tears, and said that two of her children had died within the last few hours, that another was in a dying state, and that her husband and she were in the worst state of poverty. Wit ness said he would send medical assistance if she wished it, and she said she should be extremely grateful, and that she wished very much that the bodies of her deceased children should be opened.— The apartments and the appearance of the family were of the most deplorable description. There were three other children. The CORONER—Yes, we have had an opportu nity, in viewing the bodies ' of knowing that fact. I scarcely ever saw so much wretchedness; the very place itself, from the confined nature of it and the number of petsons huddled together, would seem sufficient to breed contagion without any thing else, although the poor mother and every thing about the place appeared remarkably clean. I hope you did not execute the warrant ; for if ever a man could be excused for unlawfully pawning, it would be this poor fellow. Charles Brown, the father, a man of exceedingly good address, but,of most miserable appearance, was called, and said he was a watch -escapement-maker, but had scarcely any thing to do. He said that Janet the eldest child died at eleven o'clock at night, and Bessy the youngest very suddenly, at half-past one (two hours and a half after). The latter ap peared in good health half an hour before its death. The witness then went on to give a heart-rending description of the wretched state of himself and family, but expressed his gratitude for this investi gation, as some unpleasant rumours had gone abroad in the neighbourhood. The ConoNEß:humanely gave the poor fellow a sum of money from his purse, and said he hoped his case would be properly taken up by the parish officers. Mr. Whitmore, the surgeon, said he would answer for that being done, and the Jury ceturned a verdict, " That the deceased children died by the visitation of God." Yesterday an inquest was held in the Committee room of Camberwell workhouse, on the body of John Clarke, about 40 years of age, who died in consequence of taking prussic acid, after having made an attempt on the lives of Mr. Westbrook and his wife. Charles Smith, of Meeting-house-lane, Peckham, sworn—On Sunday morning, between one and two o'clock, I was confined in the cage at Camberwell, and at that time there were two others confined in the same place. In the same afternoon I was present in the cage when the deceased was brought in, and I asked him what charge he was brought there upon, and he replied, " You shall know what it is in the morning," and that it would be all over with him by the morning. Ily the CORONER—I did not communicate to the police or any other person what the deceased had said. Witness proceeded—The deceased complained very much of a burning sensation in his eyes when he had been in the cage a short time, and this har ing been communicated to the police-constable, he offered to take him to the station-house, and send for a medical man, but the deceased declined, say ing that light would affect his eyes still more. The deceased sat on the tipper part of the bench in the cage, and appeared anxious to avoid conversation; and witness, as well as the other persons locked up, went to sleep, about tetro'clock the same night, and on awaking the next morning at six o'clock, they discovered the deceased lying dead on the floor of the cage, with one hand placed on his breast, and the other by his side with a piece of newspaper in it. At this stage of the investigation, it was stated that a penknife, and also an empty phial were found in the possession of the deceased after death. The Jury were of opinion, that the knife must have been concealed in the deceased's coat. The Jury here requested that the letter found on the de ceased might be read, as it would show the govern ing principle that actuated the deceased. The letter was of immense length, and its contents plainly evinced that he was an unbeliever in the doctrines of Christianity; it vowed great love for the person to whom it was addressed, and strongly censured the conduct of the friends who had prevented their union. He declared that he cared not what became of his body after death, and cited instances where suicide was admitted in some cases to be perfectly justified. The epistle concluded with the writer ex pressing his determination to destroy M r . an d M rs. Westbrook and himself. Mr. Plower, surgeon, of Camberwell-green, examined the body of the deceased, and assigned his death to have been produced by taking prussic acid. The CoRoNER inquired if any person was there to speak as to the deceased's state of mind. ..... The answer being in the negative, the beadle stated that he had been that morning at Mr. Car lile's shop in Fleet -street, and that person said that he knew the deceased, who had lived with him a few years ago in the capacity of clerk, and that he (the deceased) had suffered imprisonment for three years, in consequence of his connection with . him (Mr. CE►rlile.) The latter did not know the de ceased's friends, but believed he had none in London. The Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour, and returned a verdict offelo de se. Yesterday an inquest was held in St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, before W. PAYNE, Esq., the City Coroner, touching the death of Thomas Bradley, aged seven years, the son of a respectable tradesman, in Brill-place, Somers town. The decanted, it ap peared, was brought into the hospital, on , the 261h 1 ult., in consequence of having introduced a nail (a kind of trunk or coffin nail) into his ear, which he was afterwards unable to extract. The unfortunate occurrence took place at school, where, having told his play-fellows that he could play the hocus pocus, and astonish them by his art of conjuring, he said he would put a nail into his ear, which should pass through his nose. Shocking to relate, the nail re mained fixed in the ear. He was immediately taken to a surgeon in the neighbourhood, b u t w h o , f rom the boy's impetuosity, was unable to extract it ; and he was afterwards brought to the hospital, where the surgeon found it so completely jammed' into the ear as to baffle all attempts then to get it out. In this state he remained until Saturday, when the nail was extracted by the forceps ; but on. the Monday following he died of inflammation of the brain—Verdict, " Accidental death." Yesterday afternoon an inquest was holden at the London Hospital, before Wit. BAKER, Esq., and a respectable Jury, on the remains of Martin Martens, an infant 10 mamba old, who came to its death from tl e cruel treatment of a girl named Elizabeth Smith, in whose care it was left, and who is at present in custody on a charge of having wit. fully inflicted those injuries which produced its dish solution. The first witness called was the mother of the deceased. She said that the girl Smith was very good tempered, and always took the greatest care, and appeared mo s t f on d o f t h e d ecea sed. She c ou ld hardly think that she indicted the injuries wilfully. but had exposed the child to the tire in order to frighten it. An aged man, the grandfather of the deceased, heard the accused, about a fortnight ago, say to the infant that if it wetted itself again she would do it some mischief. In reply to the Coroner, however, he could not say whether the expression was not uttered in jest. Jane Smith, the mother of the accused:-.Ort Thursday evening last her daughter came to bet house in Queen-square, Moorfields, with the ceased in her arms. On entering her apartment she appeared much dejected, and on her (witness) till ing her what was the matter, she replied that ibe had had a misfortune : that she had applied tip posteriors of the child to the fire, in order to *ll water, and kept them so close to the are th i p . i o blistered, and she applied a wet cloth to them, ness examined the child, and, on removing the eletitt the skin of the posteriors came off with it. 'SI then applied some linseed oil to the burnt party ' afterwards took the child home to its mother...We daughter, the accused, was always of it mild sitien, and particularly partial to children, 'Sallie witness felt confident it was not her intention to h r jure the deceased. James Wallace, a pupil of the Hospital, stated that the death of the child, which w as brought 10 the institueon on the Friday morning, wait producid by the effects of the buntings. The CORONER summed up, and the Jay retu rne . ~ a verdict, " That the deceased came to - t i e , des frorn the effects of burning, produced by the cut' pable conduct of Elizabeth Smith." SPORTING INTELLIGESCL the Th alterationse TATTERSALL'S, Dze. '7. • m a '. Or betting yesterday niiilou iers w . u Brea h d heavy, e , rm n general,ai ned ol in i dlinfortn oh ti r e , 1 % ...., ., , but it was evident that his partisans were weid—ef SO' , mate .. so sanguine as last week. Lord Jersey's Blundgrgfillfil colts were all the rage, and both were backed to „ If!'" . the last-namcd in particular, was supported b 421 6, 4 ' ..T ii k a influential par ti es in the room. Antiope and • .rm' e tliat on the rise. Caleb, Cobwrb, Bohemian, and COlwtbli he . in any request. A change 1,1 also obeerrebto hi . nier="ds Yorkshire mare being quoted at evens with Orlir ffs are numerous. Several bets about nalllintl.„ e l l / C tie latest were made in the course of the afternoon. .v.. 0 at — , . odds : Tilt DFABY. JO to 211.1556 to 2 7 ag g i ii l t Lord de agst ILA3i,ourr.:B3Jeeearrraesdesyissorßeilisulodergitec7iwtetskiok:cts) (taken) " 17 to agst Mr. W. Chifney's Caleb 21 to agst Lord Exeter's Bohemian 90 to agst Lord Exeter's }hernia • 22 to agst Lord Verularn's Varerineseolt 23 to agst Colonel Udny's AntlaPec i* l II to eget Duke of Grafton's Pastille etkl 33 to agst Lord Jersey's CObweb eolt Cob. 2100 even on Blunder and Filagree agst Hatitinss .l . o ` . " ."? web, and Cressida (taken) ; • • 1200 to 1000 on _Blund st Filagree a t AntlePe 500 to 40 , t0n Bras de Fernnd Cobwebpt 116.,•1 (taken) 2400 to 200 agst Fltemus and Antive (taken?, nt ,bi and Clr -9000 to 30 agst Lord Jersey's tbree.win t rir" eagian tke Oaks and St. Leiter And ZIOP 2000 to II apt Colsvick for Derby, Curt — e I® to 5 apt Blunder, Oxygen, for the St. Leger (taken) land B ra' de Fe r, for O. • events (taken 100 to 5 agst under, B Delight, find Zany. forik„,,,t 001. 21 4 C 600 to 500 and 500 to 400 on Bras de Fer ?r web (taken) OAZI. moo n 5 to 1 apt Mr. flouldsworth's 5 to 1 apt Duke of Grafton's Oilb l4 or „ 11 to 1 apt Mr. Sadler's Deli g ht th e 41 Circassian appeared by the general bettluttfts ge rgel l o l Oxygen ; Indeed, in a bet of I4XOi between tnw.s"" for choice of Circassian. DOIWASTE It ST. TAGIL' 12 to 1 on the field. ---------------- HUNTING INTELLIGENCE« The µ FOR TIM TILISIINT Witgl C !.oo; 1 Tlt Nk aririckshire Hounds meet on McOndah it Elours.... sod 00 , Tuc.day, at Hampton Wood; Thursday, at lanabri."l. , ,°' 1 turday, at Swaycliff,—at half past ten. ' Wednesday, at Harriers meet on Monday, at Nairo,ll3 II Ke„„el.lj; Aa!'lhe' (the °ltem" NVe4"11420714° I and F riday , at TelescombeTr--st ' ed% n ThevArighton Harriers meet on Monday, near Patchattli , , near the Race Course; and Friday, nest thaßr•-- - I half-past ten. WO. t The Puckeridge Wands meet on Monday, at Insust.,i m g; ncsday, at Easney Park ; and Saturday; at Raidock.' . 1•1 past ten. N ATIONA L LIBRARY, Q. ter L ll / 2 I History of Chivalry," completed in a single volume, b r / 3 " Jabs, the well known author of " De L'Orrnes',..,lint Sce., forms the fourth number of this valuable publiosPr. In the course of his souk MT. LULU has givers Siliu" t able narrative of the Crusades, togs thi r wi t ' ll 5 elm/Plii 1 of the conflicting statement of the various Wrltentaa t . I delightfulsubject. The details of the prim e a' choali .1- ' Europe—of the Siege of Antioch and Jerstealetn...a* extraordinarye i L n l s P u h i Land, which i : , i i. o i cr Tales luarct taao:friverthhntaiLreeiefcatnnrut-hhudopielloryBkdedroulTßhost mairS4l:lliiini:'th'sholislifiteScCaltk:44ll: iit'' subjectnbelti Amusements. eitnl rl House , selected. forbYuP:et : : : : s i pin:lpee:iteos:n:ftechhggia nihaelig ItPif3,ltetTlisealiti'vnelerth‘n:F.iv'efia n r17 1 1 c :1 40; could n a m f o r Til n : : :: 1 7 1 ; :r bidesvti 1 1 l . 1 1 V • h :1 F RENCH * CONSCRIPTION....":rhe 1 telP wouldiple"npcel: the e p e appear an ai of fe universally conscription, e t r r a r e e ahawa‘ribdPiserh:ill)::, Fin :i t nalcoti,hitiittsiiiiii!f:jarii '',llll them. The gallant General LA 34 Amos, w . _ith af r ivh i c h be it for this institution natural W the profeasr in h .;'ig is .‘ a 11 has acquired so much distinction, telliaiatithat with- ,s necessary condition olthe French existent* , t n . nstion." i out it France would cease to be an indepeaget. h i t AN ~. He supports his assertion of the favourWitll Tit. de o. ;I viewed in France by the curious fact that in g'6".,,,1pt a menu there was only found one refractory tor ..41,00 ii year: that in four others, only one in 1W" ni t bud ° o i l , i i i in the department of the Votive there hattla ti bail ! ten years 1— Ti mu. iioUnCed I P S WlfdCnedlLwraieb,ihtdeohDuaiilnettiteyedtEcaCn.n6o i, It . br a ving - OW , id take that a meeting of the labouring close, WO , t (turn this morning at Rushtnere Heath, tivo mile* ais lion for 1 spnb,al l l,.,a p youtiai s te.dgor w ri at se, diutipvirhnc,p:::;re:tba,taajoiurtttnibyhtye tumult Aga g i s r a thatt es hnsidiernitadhaesostirric PnrePferatioroiallsoi li memos assemblage. The yeomanry, al rhe — , n ottaie d I several hundreds, were early on the ground, se rn- 11.11 py I it t ha t e l neigh bour i n g l A l adta s e e dmbt g ypoblati r :et e r tnyi a lntye t e great er g part i e t r r g s a f t t n e lit ge n try ly e 0 ,,. 1 , 0 ti t * t t , b i r ii e Y bh il.n i o ' . 1 :b e i l s i ii r .. 4 1 1 about one o'clock. Soon afterward., a few 01" • I doibolni:isgsytptsuhceiu.irrlelbaslsteLas,vneoocespra,onfrbeoniingpaarisikkeesd t a i t ici a r coot: jesicdterisable:;:gr lis:aftid comingat o b n a o n: i ti l e: ea b c a it : , t an o o nso r i:01. g t : 0:: : :var idn ' ........„, : ; c rut: ee:Opilititiot. il 1 vnefavornertlrtyyointlduttieileretbstnl,e tpriribiaoaesitcrorejibed eitixy,,b:,:ailincen:bueie nip, few ti i.l d measures fbe. w l e lsvo a r n d d asd no o e.t o g w yf f ht p ,: e k re met ex p o. abo ut tulat i 0 n a , trnti l t ) th r i , eeei t: si m riewmi i)xne)ucestuieti excitement mni d ) ge e er,n o s ,t f an t a l odn l f e dca y t e lhc o eu rnattr e y givin ' hhiglisl u ri , C ot ' ss : i f ft m ji o a s t t ice res to pe a c d tf d uli t y ha s t r t i he p le ce s s a t i ti ? Too m uc h d mac . tab satisfactory irliaiu willing completely evoi:otrlatitorlirefb s that the labouring 0 lab 00 d general l y ar e populartamte:didtiscoeutrWroanYlatnlunilailettialligth°ffru'aeliacinYirdlidillihraVtitfl,reinakeleffrni.r..inirrtiliP::‘ll:re:lllll:liSldintiA:lsioll:l:erll.°llSirltibtlienrmerlll:l ;ili gp s tifying circuinstaneelthst thentisereantaw"° „flitertuall far ete disappo inted . o rw:vi t :iei well-grounded publicrTone administer dr e la ° e te l :L a i n liail::: she. e c u br i ° i t ) p a r: : ~'i l l .—______ square,oO n n b 4 t t D h h : in ; i.. "— a —a t ot C a r 'hi-- - -Rdi BIRTH eßghGaTill-Pne Gr ac e ' s : hr:i sur s ' ..4l3te ilicr:l:lji I I fl. : i:: 11 oßfea(v).nso;ilie. Maxtor, i t n o e n t : Aatial:ClhaAerwßseßElTldErwinaisg.l,llessigir .A:l°tl3l:Yotj %tit' 177, ti. 1/14 00 e the Mancheiter and Liverpool District Batik , ie /4 ';igge...„, second daughter of John Bald, FA+ of " se i se' . Onthe gr 4 o t ee h r ir , u t t o . atmSists. Noicuhlloyl,aso'sn'Clybudrlicullgthnorti4:do'bior'• ,:ii4 Ingram, Gully, Quern Bess Tavern, !WW I. • On the 7th inst. at Abbots RIO" Hooting-- li• E. Panty, DUI, Commander, R. N., to Mies 00. sit :,, On the 211 inst. at St. lkiarylebone, Henry TYl„rf'. o iy , youngest . arm : of Cololltl Tyler, to Igsris Jo n ' 1 1 daughter of the late J. Caterell, Esq. of W0r139/7r,;bellorl t.. 1 On th e 2d hut. at the Collegiate Church, sa c b e P t " Mr. Win. Thompson to Miss Ann Stella, both o f li place. ‘.. DIEDr t of his: .na t t On the 6th inst. at Gumley Hall, the i t ea- p 0 ' C ' ' in-law, the Right Hon. Mor ton Lord Ileole iiis :. t in he O h G 6 n r t:h 9 r e e tt . ; dYTetiniprsp.te.ritatryn.rigii ton,. Lieut.-C(1100: Nilll-o,°:..'•'Di of the 12ci Life Gusrds, Second son of T. 1011111. -- ' ...traits On the bth inst. in 13rornpton-squares Airs; i l aged 73, - -, _—.-----_.-- ' 41 as a r,„ y DNS PAINTS!) A/ID PUSLIS/ 11411 SY WM) - ° , A . 1 Tut SUS OffICS, 1 12, &titan', LoYone --