The Sun. — London, England, 1830-05-15 00:00:00

S:';1,11' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Nothing can more strikingly show the beneficial tendency of free discussion, under an enlightened and docile Government, disposed to watch the pro gress of , opinion, and to embody the results of ascertained truth in official or legislative acts, than the :Bill now in progress through Parliament for openlsr the beer-trade. The barefaced and shame le,:s jobbing of the licensing justices,--their alternate pa tiality and oppression in awarding or reftising their corrupt favours,—the vassalage in which they kept the publicans, and the injustice which they in lbeted on the community by interfering with the na tural course of trade, arid establishing a monopoly which enabled the brewers to deteriorate the qua -I:ty or to heighten the price of their beer,—were as fLigrant, notorious, and easily demonstrable, ten or t %verily years ago, as at the present moment, but the comer) , was not equally prepared to believe them, or to support those who endeavoured to reform the abuse. Cant, hypocrisy, and affectation having passed into our Acts of Parliament, and been erected into a privilege of the quorum, had interested so many people in their favour by pretending a regard for the morals of the poor, that they could be only overthrown by repeated assaults. Hence, only a few years ago, Mr. Brougham could only obtain a small minority for a measure which Mr. Calcraft cirried in the House of Commons on a triumphant majority of about 200 to 28. The argu ments by which the framers and the supporters of the Beer Bill have maintained their position against the honest though mistaken attacks of the publican , , and the more doubtful objections of. the magistrates, seem to us irresistible. It would have been not only useless but injurious to have removed the : , :upervision of the Excise over the manufacture of beer, without at the same time destroying the monopoly of .the brewer exercised through the licnising, power of the magistrate. If we required any additional support on this subject, we should ihni it in a very sensible pamphlet published by Mr. Cullen, entitled, A Letter on the Arbitrary Licence AS:ystem, addressed to Mr. Calcraft. Mr. Cullen, who e.wected to be called as a witness on the Sale of Beer Committee of which Mr. Calcraft was Chairmen, has, in this letter, embodied the substance of the evidence which he intended to have given I:ad he been examined. Being a lawyer, the chief interest of his pamphlet consists in the full enume ration and correct description of those Acts by which the Magistrates have hitherto been empowered to interfere with the sale of liquors or the regulation of public-houses. The Acts of Parliament on - this subject prior to the Revolution, while directed chiefly to the preservation of the popular morals and tie public peace, included provisions against mono poly, and were not particularly liable to abuse. Since that era the two Acts which are the founda tion of the present system, are the 2d Geo. 11., in 17 29 , for licensing common ions and alehouses, and the 2d. Geo. 111., c. 14. On the former Mr. Cul len remarks, that Before this Act, the justices in any part of the country might license persons in any part of the country. Parti ality in the granting of licenses, therefore, could not pre-. vail. This Act teems to have kid the legal foundation of that monopoly which was deemed illegal, censured, and meant to lie repressed by the 12th of Edward IV., and by the hostile proceedings against monopolies and patents of that King's reign; and of James the First's reign, fur he too granted patents to persons to grant licences. This Act, too, limited the licence to a year, and one day in the year, and altogether created a patronage, which never ex isted till then. &on afterwards the value of the patron age and monopoly was discovered." The latter, together with Mr. Cullen's observa tion upon it, is as follows : <, Whereas brewers, innkeepers, victuallers, - or other retailers of strong beer or ale, have been threatened with, aid may be subject to, vexatious prosecutioni, for ad vancing, or having advanced, the price of strong beer or ale, however justly and reasonably,—enacts, that no !newer, innkeeper, victualler, or other retailer of strong beer or ale, shall at any time hereafter be sued, hnpleaded, or mo lested by indictment, information, popular action, or other- Irise s for advancing or having advanced the price of strong beer or ale in a reasonable degree, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.' " The assizes and other regulations for protection of the ' ,wiz! were in this century, after the revolution, aban dont-L. The patent of patronage was granted to the justice's by the Act of Geo. 11. ; and then, by this Act of (ten. 111., the brewers, innkeepers, victuallers, and retailers were freed from the laws against monopoly, extortion, combination, &e., and left at liberty to conspire, as they have since successfully done, to impose as bad and as dear Leer on the public as they found profitable or prudent." Now that beer is to be allowed to be brewed with out duty,—that any person can set up for a brewer without the superintendence of an excieeman,—that nil the world is to be permitted to make beer for themselves, their neighbourhood, or the public,—a small remnant of the jobbing Magistrates, backed with a body of the alarmed publicans, insist on the rieeessity of enacting that shops for the sale of beer shall not permit beer to be drunk on their premises. The publicans, apprehending as they do, a diminu tion of their trade, or afraid that their " vested rights" in monopoly are about to eease, may be ex cused for resisting a measure which may establish a rival in the green-grocer at their door; but we can not so well understand on what grounds parties pre tending to be disinterested can stake their character in opposing a change obviously so reasonable and expedient. The pretence which they put forward, we are aware, 13 a regard to the " morals" of the general body of the community, and particularly the • lower orders. The morals of the poor as well as :of the rich (except in so far as they may be affected by laws applicable to all) are best left in their own keeping. But even though we admitted in the latter case a - greater latitude of interference, we might still ask how the good conduct or sobriety of the poor can be promoted by driving them to a tavern instead of a beer shop,—by compelling them to drink bad ale in a house licensed by a Magistrate, instead . of good ale in a house li censed by the Excise—or by sending them half a mile from their families to avoid being poisoned with a monopoly liquor, instead of allowing them the choice of wholesome " homeebrewed" at their next door? Are the morals of the lower orders or the public peace to be best preserved by potronis inz tap-rooms, where all liquors are found, and dis couraging the consumption of beer where no temp tation but beer exists—by making the poor man swallow his pint of malt liquor amid the tempting fumes of rum-pimeh, or by placing him side by side with those who indulge in higher and more costly excitements than his purse east obtain, instead of slowing him to enjoy his bumble refreshment with sills neighbours? But it is said that if an excise licence is to be the Dilly requisite for selling (Aar, beer-shops will be multiplied to an alarming extent, wed the danger of intoxication and riot will be pro portionably inereaaed. Such an apprehension be trays a total ignorance of the usual course of trade, or of the motives of action in that class of society - to which the opponents of the Deer Bill are desirous of extending their unsolicited pateotiege. Beer drinkers will not frequent the houses of deelere, be cause they are near at hand, but because they want refreshment, because they can find good beer, and can afford to pay for it. If the object of the Le gislature had been to prevent them from indulging in this taste, or to discourage the use of bear (as the friends of monopoly must assume), why abolish the beer-duty ? Nothing less than higher duties, or even severe penalties, would suit such reaacners. If Leer-drinking is criminal in itself, we should no more licence a house to sell beer than to receive stolen goods. If it is not criminal, no more reason can be given for prohibiting a poor man from drinking his pint of ale on the premises of a brewer, than from e ating his p enny loaf in the shop of a baker. Nor are the beer-shops likely to be multiplied beyond the demands of the neighbour hood by the mere permi ss i o n to open them. Beer sellers, like bakers or any other class of tradesmen, must live by the profits of their business. If the demand for the article which they supply is thought sufficient to enable them to earn their livelihood by the extent of their custom, they will establish or continue time sale of beer. In this case it is evident • that their interest is identified with the public con, venience. If their profits are too high, or their business too extensive, competition will r e d uce th e former and narrow the latter: If, on the other hand, they do not find beer-drinkers in sufficient number to pay their licence, and to support their families, it is self-evident that they must discontinue their trade, without any warning from the self erected patrons of morals or enemies of drinking. In all cases it ought to be recollected that none of the magisterial powers exercised over public-houses for the protection of the public peace have been di minished or abolished by this measure; that the beer-sellers must shut their doors at the proper hours as well as the publicans, but (what is more ques tionable policy to some, but what ought to satisfy the scruples of all) that the licence of the former may be taken away on account of misconduct as well as that of the latter. Let us, then, hear no more of that interested sophistry which justifies the abridgment of the humble en joyments and acknowledged rights of the poor on pretence of protecting their morals, but with the real design of profiting by their necessities. While the wealthy bacchanal is permitted to regale himself as long as he pleases at the tavern, without hindrance or admonition, singing appropriately " Mihi est propositum in taberni mori," and may have when dead drunk, like the jolly friar, a choir of magistrates, if not of "angels to chant over him "Deus sit propitius huic potatori," it is really insulting to common sense to hear our pretended guardians of popular sobriety object to the permission granted to the poor of enjoying their own humble beverage in a convenient beer-shop.— Sir James Graham's motion last night was de feated by a majority of 84. lie made an admirable speech, full of just and pungent observations. The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, however, a very gallant defence. The result is such as may be expected when the party concerned are really in earnest to protect their own interests. —Times. The announcement of a meeting of the Anti- Slavery Society this day reminds us of a speech de livered by Henry Pownall, at the anniversary meet ing of the Anti-Slavery Association of Chelmsford, on Friday, the 30th of April last, in which he pointed out an evil which the slaves have been sub jected to in consequence of passing from a Catholic to a Protestant Government. We suspect, how ever, that Mr. Pownall has gone too far when he states, without qualification, that the slaves in the British Colonies were worse off than in islands be longing to other Powers. " He recollected (he said) that in 1823, a resolution was passed, and an Order in Council, he believed, issued, to the effect, that the slaves should be allowed the Sunday to cultivate their own provision ground and to go to market. But in what situation were the slaves placed by this? Why, by this very enactment, they were placed in a worse situation than they were before ; for mark the injustice of this—the slaves being allowed to work on the Sunday were compelled to work for their employers. The slaves in the British Colonies were, in fact, worse off than in islands belonging to other Powers. He would instance the case of the island of Trinidad. When this colony was taken by General Picton, it belonged to the Spa niards, who, being Roman Catholics, kept the Saints' days set apart by that religion—amounting to 85. The slaves were entitled to these 85 days to go where they liked, in addition to the Sundays, and by this means many of them were enabled to purchase their freedom by their own industry. But the English, considering that these f“rms ought not to be kept up, abolished all the Saints' days, and the poor negroes were obliged to go to market on the Sunday." The world owes, no doubt, much to the honest and conscientious men who effected the Reforma tion in the sixteenth century; but it is, at the same time, greatly to be lamented, that, in their hostility to the Catholic Church, they too often abandoned usages which contributed much to the happiness of the people, and their views were narrow and gloomy. Among the usages, the abolition of which has added so much to the gloom of the lower orders, not merely in Protestant countries, but in Catholic countries, we may name holidays. The labourer gains nothing by working so many more days, be cause the principle of population will always re duce his earnings to the amount necessary to the subsistence of himself and family, and he would have had the subsistence whether the number of holidays had been one or sfry. The first Refor mers were honest men, and did not intend to add to the sufferings of the lower orders; but selfishness and avarice have availed themselves of their work to make life a gloomy business to the mass of the people. In most Protestant countries, it has be come but too common to think only of the lower orders as beasts of burden—as instruments necessary to production, but whose happiness or enjoyment are undeserving of a moment's consideration. As an in stance we may mention a number of pamphlets which have been sent to us on the subject of Temperance Societies. In one of them, " A Letter to a Member of the Dublin Temperance Society on the sup posed value of ardent spirits in relation to national wealth, government, revenue, rent, and agricultural profits," it seems to be taken for granted, that a human being ought to be considered as an appen dage to a cotton machine, or some other piece of mechanism. " The amount of productive labour (says this sage) is not necessarily in proportion to the number of labourers, because any circutn stances, not unavoidable, such as a multitude of holidays, may prevent the labourer doing all he could in a given time, and to that extent he is an idler; if by his own fault, a criminal one. The effect upon national wealth is, however, the same, from whatever cause the idleness may proceed, be cause the capital designed to employ these labourers is dormant so long as they are idle. The idleness of a professed labourer or mechanic is more mischievous than it may at first seem. He is generally a part of a system of productive labour, upon which a large amount of capital is employed, and his idleness is like stopping one of the wheels of a machine—the whole work mu-t be suspended for a time. The capitalist can not employ his idle funds on new labourers, nor direct them to any other profitable occupation ; because, though the whole period of the forced stagnation of capital is often very great ; it occurs at irregular in tervals ; or, if they be regular, the periods of idle ness, though frequent, are but of one or two days eac." What a pity that the capital expended on machinery shouhl be unproductive even during one day of the week—the Sebbath ! In truth, we sus pect the Christian religion would be in some danger in this country, if another were to start up offering to our mm eyed men the advantage of no Sabbaths and no holidays, so that the machinery might work every day in the year. !and what is the end of all this' straining—all this eyerlasting tell ? Is it not to minister to the wants and enjoyment of human beings ? What is the object of the man who em barks his capital in machinery, but to obtain the means of more extended enjoyment ? And why should the working man be degraded to a mere piece of machinery ? Why should it be made a crime in burn that he wiehrs occasionally to stop in the path of life to pluck the flowers with which it is strewed ? He has his feelings, his aspirations, as well as his employers—why should he never be allowed to forgat his cares, and to taste the cup of pleasure ? Man requirea something more than merely eating and sleeping ; and the ideas which dictated the above passage, however common in this ava ricious and unfeeling age, are not the less to be reprehended. The Marquis de Mirabeau, though an economist, in Ilia Anti des Ilomnies, takes a much more philosophical view of holi days :—" The Reformation (lie observes) beasts of having increased the sum of labour in the Static which have embraced it, by the suppres sion of festivaia, Let it, however, always be borne in mind, that a festival suppressed is but 'nine hours, et most, added to the year ; whereas ono hour of sleep makes 36.5. Besides, we must not believe that holiday.; are a pure loss. Man requires relaxation, and it is so necessary to him that God ordained, in the first institution, one day of repose in seven. This day recruits the strength of man, bent down under the weight of weekly labour. But besides repose we must also' have joy, and merry meetings, and society. Examine our festivals in their institu tion, and in joining to them the usages and habitual practices added to them by an ant►que simplicity, you will see that there is a truly wise policy in them. The views of the Church are all spiritual in the worship which she prescribes' to us; but she has, in her condescension, made allowance for the relaxa tions which the union of the soul with our machine has rendered necessary, and has permitted order and civil usages to introduce into them a variety and an action calculated to interest us. This deference has even had an influence on her own ceremonies; for, with the exception of half a week in the year, quite consecrated to prayer and meditation, and the ob servance of which is not even obligatory on working people, all the rest has for object occasions for joy and merriment. The festivals of Christmas, of Twelfth Night, Easter, Whitsuntide, all the grand festivals, in a word, are of this kind. Let us exa mine, next, what the customs of our fathers added to these solemnities. At Eater the heads of fami lies distributed eggs to all the household, even to the lowest medal. I am often, tempted to sit at table with my servants, to cut their bread, to drink of the same cup, to remind myself that we were all of one stock, that I ought to consider them as such, and constrain them to love me. These sorts of as semblies, these revolutions at stated times, create society and establish confidence. Whatever is a re medy against exhaustion is a spur to industry.— Whatever inspires us with a desire of conviviality, and renders us necessary to each other, is a fresh encouragement. I have said enough to show that holidays do not interfere with labour. If we could go incessantly like machines, time would have to be calculated by the inch and the line, that we might not lose a minute of time." In a recent Treatise on Festivals by a Catholic writer, he observes, " The Protestant theologians and the financiers adopted the sordid notion, that the production of wealth was to be considered as the chief object in this life, without reflecting that man and his enjoyment, which evidently gain by a moderate number of fes tivals, ought to be the chief aim of all economical production; and nature yields enough to the labour of man for his necessities without abridging him of festivals." The Prelates of the Protestant - Church are men of the world, who chime in admirably with the notion that man ought to be considered as a mere piece of mechanism. Hence the cold-hearted proscription of all innocent relaxation to the poor by the Bishop of London. The Puritans were honest men, and really meant well to the people. Richard Baxter, who thought that the Sunday should be spent in religious exercises and meditation, did not wish that the poor should be kept to incessant toil. " Let landlords," he says is his book on the Sab bath, "abate their tenants as much rent as one day's vacancy from labour in a month or a fortnight will amount to—or let the common Saints' days, which of the two are more at man's disposal, be made their sporting days, and rob not their souls of that one weekly day which God hath separated for his worship." The heads of the Protestant Church, in the present (lay, are too knowing in their genera tion to interpose between the rich and the poor— they abandon the latter to his task-master for six days of the week, and seem to have no other care than that he may have no more comfort on the re maining day than on the other six.—Morn. Chron. It will be seen, from our Parliamentary report, that a most important petition, praying for the aboli- tion of the punishment of death for forgery, was last night presented by Mr. J. Smith, to the House of Commons. The Hon. Member stated that it was from three individuals, whose names and character need but be named to be known as among the highest in time commercial world. The first name was that of M. Rothschild, whom he described as the greatest merchant in the world, and one through whose hands more Bills of Exchange passed than through those of any twenty firms in London. The second was that of the firm of Overeat:l, Gurney, and Co., through whose hands bills of exchange to the amount of 300,0001. passed last year; and the third was that of Mr. Sanderson, a bill-broker, and also a Member of the House. After this we hope we shall hear no more of the cruel and disgraceful law of forgery being preserved in compliance with the wishes of commercial men, and for _the purnose of affording proticetiori to (tie preiperty'of baidera. We trust Sir Robert Peel will now be satisfied that to retain the punishment of death in cases of forgery of negotiable securities for money, as he proposes to do by his new Bill, can only do violence to the feelings, and injury to the interests, of those very persons for whose advantage he represents the bar barous enactment as especially intended. The Hon. Member who presented the petition expressed his conviction of the impolicy of the punishment of death fOr this crime, and declared that, with respect to himself, many instances had occurred on which he would not prosecute, because of the penalty of death. He, however ' was of opinion that transpor tation to New South Wales was no adequate pu nishment, because the man who could defraud the public of 8,0001. or 10,0001. might have that trans- mitted there, and live in luxury. The punishment ought to be one infamous, degrading, and uniformly applied.—We agree with him as to what the prin ciple of the punishment ought to be, but its precise nature is matter of detail on which we need not at present enter. WTe understand that M. Rothschild, it as well as many others, has had to bear with many losses rather than be instrumental to the shedding of human blood by prosecuting the offenders to con viction. This is as creditable to his character as it is disgraceful to the existing law. We have beard of one house that some time ago put up with a similar loss of 5,0001. rather than prosecute. Thus injurious is the law to the interests of bankers It will be seen that three other petitions of great importance on this question were presented last night, concurring in the necessity of abolishing the punishment of death—the one by Sir John New port, from the Directors of the provincial bank at Waterford ; the .other by Mr. S. Rice, from the Directors of the provincial bank of Limerick ; and the third by Mr. Latouche from the Directors of the provincial bank of Sligo. The Hon. Members by whom those petitions were presented, advocated their principle, and concurred in expressing their opinion that the existing law was detrimental to the banking interest by tending to increase, rather than diminish, the crime of forgery.—Morning Herald. The castigation which the Honourable Member for Clare is represented to have received at the hands of Mr. North, appears to have been admi nistered with • ability and effect; -judging.fron2 the tameness of his reply, the former seems to have quailed under the caustic severity of his new anta gonist, and to have almost kissed the rod which had so severely scourged him. Though we are far from finding fault ourselves with the subdued tone which distinguishes Mr. O'Connell's speeches in Parliament, compared with those imputed to him elsewhere, we very much doubt how far his ad mirers on the other side of the channel are prepared for such a total change of tone and of manner as the Learned Member's short Parliamentary career has exhibited. Never were mighty promises and por tentous expectations doomed to be so miserably falsified. On the occasion in question the Learned Member for Clare undertook one of the most impor tant and doubtful tasks a Member of the Legislature can engage in—that of rendering the House of Commons a Coort of Appealagainst the ordinary de cisions and proceedings of the Courts of Law —a power which it can and ought, indeed, very rarely to exercise, and which, if brought yf may prove the and a gr i evous hin drance severest operation injury u o n n y e a c r e t s i s e a s r , i of public justice. We would not, of course, impute to Mr. O'Connell any such unworthy motives as professional pique or political malevolence in the task which he undertook; at the same time it is impossible to have witnessed the complete answer given to the charge, first by Mr. Doherty, and then to the still more triumphant one which it elicited from Mr. North, and not feel that it was an occa sion on which the Hon. Member for Clare had put himself in what the French call a " false position," from which he could neither advance with honour nor retreat without disgrace. If any proof were wanting of .the truth of these observations, it would be found, we should think, in the smallness of the minority which were found to support Mr. O'Con nell's motion. It affords but poor and ominous tes timony to the force of Mr. O'Connell's judgment arid talents, that on his first division the selection of his subject was so unfortunate, and his oratory so ineffective, that only twelve persons could be found to agree with him. When things come to the worst they mend—we hope to see the Member for Clare improving--there is room for it. Hitherto his Par liamentary career has only exemplified the insigni ficance into which the idol of a multitude may sink when he happens to find himself in that higher region of ambition were true genius only rises to the full measure of its fame.—ltforning Herald. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Anna Maria Johnson, West Smithfield, victualler. Abraham Samuda, Spital-square, Middlesex, broker. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Joseph Tarver, Wolverton, Warwickshire, carpenter. Matthew George, Margate, Kent, draper. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Bond, jun., Honiton, Devonshire, coach-maker, to surrender May 26, 27, and June 25, at eleven, at the Country Hotel, Whimpole, Devonshire. Flood and Mules, Honiton ; Rhodes and Beevor, Chancery-lane. William M'Kenzie, Boshler's-court, Oxford-street, tea dealer, May 28, June 4, at ten, and 25, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Amory and Coles, Throgmor ton-street. Jelin Penning, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, cabinet maker, May 21, at eleven, June 4, and 25, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Sidebothana, Hutton-garden. William Perry, Witham, Essex, coach-maker, May 21, 28, and June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bromley!, Gray's-inn-square. Edmund Whitehead, S Alford, Lancashire, victualler, May 27, at three, 28, and June 25, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row ; Morris, Manchester. John Spantou, York, bookseller, May 27, at three, 28, and June 25, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, York. Williamson, Gray's Inn-square; Blanchard and Richard son, York. Luke Sykes, George-street, Mansion-house, merchant, May 21, at three, June 1, and 25, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Spurr, Warnford-court, Throgmorton street. DIVIDENDS, S. Smithson, Leeds, grocer, June 4, at twelve, at the Court-house, Leeds.--.J. King, Austwick, Yorkshire, grazier, June 5, at ten, at the Golden Lion Inn, Settle, Yorkshire—G. Scott and T. Surr, Manchester, dealers in porter, June 7, at three, at the King's Arms Inn, Man chester—M. and R. Holt, Huline, Manchester, dyers, June 19, at nine, at the Blackfriars' Inn, Mancltester—J. Tessi rnond, Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturer, June 12, at four, at the Roe Buck Inn, Leek—J. S. Sweeting, Lud gate-street, straw warehouseman, June 8, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—G. Brooks, Town Mailing., Kent, linen-draper, Ju9e 8, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners—C. Tap, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, coach-maker, June 4, at nine, at the Court of Commis sioners—W. Fry, Peckham, letter-founder, June 4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—W. Gans den and J. Jacobs, Barbican, clothes-salesmen, June 4, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Potter, Maidstone, grocer, June 4,, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners—S. J. King, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick shire, upholsterer, June 4, at one, at the Court of Com missioners—W. and T. Culverwell, Bath, carpenters, June 3, at eleven, at the Christopher Inn, Bath—R. Charles, Liverpool, ship-chandler, June 7, at one, at the Clarendon buildings, Liverpool—J. Till, Basinghall-street, woollen draper, May 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners— G. G. Giroux, St. George's Circus, Southwark, music seller, June 4, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—G. and A. Geddes, and I'. Milliken, Fenchurch-buildings, merchants, June 4, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners—J. Revill, Newark-upon-Trent, whitesmith, June 8, at one, at the Swan Inn, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire— R. Spofford], jun., and J. Peirson, sen., Howden, York shire, scr►vener, June 4, at eleven, at the Booth Ferry Inn, Howden—J. Marks, Bristol, tailor, June 9, at one, at Savary and Clark's office, Bristol—J. Cunliffe, Rainhill, Lancashire, miller, June 7, at two, at Curry's office, Liverpool—R. Hughes, Manchester, tailor, June 7, at ten, at the York Hotel, Manchester—M. Haine, Lis.. lceard, Cornwall, draper, July 12, at oue, at the Commer cial-rooms, Bristol—R. T. Bishop, Birmingham, woollen draper, June 4, at three, at the Court of Commissioners— J. Aldti,dge, Wandswortk, calico-printer, May 2fi, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. CERTIFICATES.-JUNE 4. W. Smale, Bedminster, Somersetshire, victualler—M. and W. Wainwright and J. Johnson, Cateaton-street, woollen-warehousemen—J. Oxley, Barnsley, Yorkshire, butcher—Mr. J. Lawson,. Lombard-street, bill-broker— W. Herbert, Broad-street, Ratcliffe, wine-merchant—J. Atlee, Liverpool, merchant—C. King, Liverpool, clothier —J. Hutchinson, Liverpool, merchant—W. Scott, Bristol, merchant—J. Allday, Birmingham, wire-worker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. and N. Pickton, Liverpool, confectioners—S. and T. Thorpe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, importers of foreign wines—E. Murphy, E. Symmons, and E. Murphy, Bailiwick, Somersetahire, lodging-housekeepers—W. Draut and H. Gould, Black-Prince-row, Walworth-road, Surrey, grocers—D. and M. G. Forster, Otley, York shire, oiled leather dressers—R. and T. Lavender, Bedford, carriers—G. Cuming and W. Cowles, Bedford-place, Corn mercial-road, timber-merchants—J. and J. M. Key, Ab church-lane, stationers—H. Jump and G. Dearden, Li verpool, smiths—W. Ridgway, J. R. Greer, and H. Allis, Bristol, general-merchants—S. Cardsll and E. Light wood, Birmingham, coal-dealers—S. Dixon and W. Waller, Drury-lane, grocers—H. Talbot and E. Ladds, Sussex-street, Cambridge, printers. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending May 11, is 245. 10d. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGMNCIL LONDON MARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of yesterday.) Suoaa.—The market continues to be better supplied with new Sugars ; the demand is still general and exten sive; the purchases for the week are estimated at 3,300 hhds. and trcs. ; the prices are fully supported. In the Refined Market there is little change;, considerable orders are unexecoted on account of the inadequate supplies, but the buyers wait till the goods are brought forward, and refuse to give any advance. This afternoon there is little alteration ; large and small Lumps, Prussian Lumps, and low single Loaves, continue to be taken off as they are brought forward, both for packing and crashing, and the prices of last week have been fully maintained ; for crashed there is still a good deal of inquiry, particularly for the low qualities, 325. a 325. 6d., and middling 365. ; the scarcity of goods, however, still prevents the orders being executed. Fine Hatnburg and Powder Loaves for double refined bounty continue to be taken off without alteration in price. Grocery goods are in demand, hut the supply at present is very small ; in prices no alteration has taken place. Molasses lower. Fourciart SVGAR.—The purchases by private contract are small parcels of white Pernams at former prices, and low yellow Havannah at 245. At public sales 212 iboxes Havannalt; all the white taken in, good strong 425. a 425. 6d. ; the yellow sold, fine 279., low soft 21e. EAST INoLS SUGAS.—•This day, at the public sales, 11,338 bags of Mauritius, making about 24,000 bags during the week; the whole sold with some briskness at full market prices. CoFFEE.—There have been considerable public sales this week; the prices are fully supported, but there is no briskness in the demand, nor are the orders so extensive as generally anticipated ; considerable parcels of ord. Brazil and St. Domingo were taken in 31s. a 325. There were no public sales of Coffee this morning; some good ord. Batavia has been sold 31s. 6d. a 325. 6d. ord. mixed Ba tavia and Sumatra 27e. a 30e. FROM—In Fruit there is no alteration. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDq.—The only p urc h ases of Rum to any extent are a b ou t 350 puncheons Leeward proofs at Is. 9d., and some fine Jamaica, 3s. 4d. a Si. 6d. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. Mcg.—There is no alteration in Rice. HEarr, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Trllow market is little varied ; it is rather more firm. Flax is higher, Hemp without variation. The letters from St. Peters burgh are dated the 27th ult. Exchange 10d. 13-32. Tallow 93 rubles. Bought 500 casks. Inuit PnovlstoNs.—ln Beef and Pork there is little alteration. Bacon is dull, and a shade lower. There is HAW HIDES. Per Stone. a. El. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to 5. d. Best Heif yrs& Stsers2 8,3 U I Ordinary 18 2 4 Middlings. .2 2 2 6 Matket Calf.... 6 0 each. little Irish Butter offering ; Dutch is in consequence on the advance. Corrorr.—The demand for Cotton continues general; the prices steady. The sales for the week ending last night inclusive consist of 120 Bengal, 4jd. a 41-d. ; 410 Surat, qd. a iv. ; 100 Pernams, HOPS.—Hops have advanced ss. a lOs. per cwt. on accoent of the appearance of the fly and blight on all trees and young plants. INDIGO.—There is a general demand for Indigo, but the holders refuse to sell, except at an advance of 2d. to 4d. on the late India House sale ; it has been realized on 300 to 400 chests, and the market looks very firm. Toaacco.—A public sale was attempted on Tuesday, but there were no offers at market-prices ; it consisted of 63 hhds. ordinary Virginia leaf. There are no purchases by private contract to report. COCHINYAL.-At public sale 82 serons Cochineal, silver, sold 9s. a 99. 6d., some black sold up to 11s. 4d. for fine. The quantity taken by private contract is about 100 serons. Ous.—ln common Oils there is little variation. Sperm is 21. a 31. higher, as the holders refuse to hell except at an advance, on account of the sasall supplies expected for some time. EAST INDIA SALE THIS DAT.-Nearly all the dry salteries offered at the India House this morning were taken in; the following only were sold :-618 boxes Lac Dye, T. M. R. mid. quality bought in Is. 9d. a 2s. 3d.; 14 boxes T. D. sold from ls. 7d. a ls. 9d. mid. to fine; 624 boxes H. T. S. bought in (a few sold) 21. 4d. a 2s. 7d. Turmeric N. 6d. a 16s. ; ord. to mid. Bengal Sapan Wood 3s. a 9s. EAST INDIA SALE Or DRUGS, Day SALTERIES, 355 chests Gum Benjamin, lsts, fine 571. ; 2ds, good 251. 155., mid. 221. ; 3de, fine 101. IN. a 141. 101., good 71. 55., mid. Si. 108. a 6/. 10s. ; 2 chests Gum Myrrh, good in sorts, 14/., small 5/. a 81. ; 84 chests Gum Olibanum, good in sorts, taxed at 605., mid. ditto at 505., •rd. at 255., all bought in ; 7 chests Guns Dragons' Blood, good colour 20L, mid. in blocks 61. ; 84 canisters Musk, Tonquin, good 48s. a 505. ; 40 canisters Oil Ani seen, good 5d., unsold ; 284 bales Senna, good mid. 9id. a 10d., mid. 9d. ; 14 chests Cardamums, Malabar, good 6s. 11d. a 7s. ; 650 duppers Castor Oil 10d. a Is. ld. ; 115 chests Borax, good 655. unsold; ISO chests 26 tubs Camphor, good English sort, Si. 7s. a Si. 10s. un sold ; 24 chests Nux Votnica, good 7s. 6d. a Bs. 611; 195 chests Star-Aniseed, good 91s. a 995. ; 13 sacks Tur meric, fine Bengal 165., fine Java 20s. a 225. ; Bengal and Java, ord. 125., unsold. PRICES OF HOPS..—May 14. Kent Pockets 5l, 16s. 61.:153. to 01 ss. Svesex Ditto liseex Ditto., . 51. 16s. 6/. 11s. to 71. ss. Fateliam Ditto, Fine. . 0/. Os. 81. 86. to 91. 16s. Seconds 0/. Os. 71. 5s to 81. Bs. 5/. ss. 61. ss. to 71. Os. 5/. Cs. 51. 15s. to 61. Os. Kl. 66. 61. Os. to 6/. 12s. Essex Ditto„ Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES.—May 14. 0/. Os. to 31. Os. per ton. 0/. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto. Scotch Reds PRICE. OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 391. 6s. Refined X4l 6 Linseed Oil 23 10 9 10 4 15 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. _ d. to tl. Per lb. d. to (1. 8utt5..........50 to 561 b.... 19 191 Tanned Horso Hides... 16 19 to 6131 b.,. 21 22 Spanish Ditto 21 25 Dressing 14 16 Per dozen. Fine Coach Hides 17 19 Calf 36 to 411 b. 14 18 Cs op Elides, 35 to 401 b. 14 19 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 26 Ditto 45 to 501 b. 141 171 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 18 21 Ditto lB 191 Small Seals, Greenland 20 211 WHITECHAPEL HAY AIARKE r.—May 13. thy 50. , . Ott. to S4l. Od.l plover 0.1. to 100 s. Od, Straw 464 Od. to 54i. Od. SHEEP SKINS. Polled 3s. 6d. to 58. (Id. Shearlings........— N. Ott. to N. 6d. Downs 2 6 3 4 I 1 3 1 9 PRICE OF TALLOW, SO. Town Tallow --- 335. Od. Yellow Russia 36s. Od. White 365. lid. Soap Ditto 355. 6d. Melted Stuff 2Bs. Oil Ditto Rough l7s. Od. , AP, &c. per 112113.--May 14. Yellow 50ap......«........,.... 72.1. 0,1. Mottled 'Ns. Od. White.............--................. 824. Od. Graves — ......— 14s. Od. Good Dregs......w.,..weevo f.S. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone et 811).--May 14. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) .-2s. Old. PItICE OF The price of Store Candles, in I Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od, CANDLES. the retail shops, is as follows : . I Moulds, per duzeu —....9q. lid. COAL. M A It Adair's Benhams Main 29 0 1-lebisurn Main 31 6 1.1'.. 7 May 14, Walls End Newmarch.. —s. Od. Ditto Not tliumberland 30 9 Ditto Peareth 29 6 Ditto Perkins and C 0.... 31 9 Ditto Illildt 33 0 Ditto Russell's- 34 6 Ditto Walker --.—. 34 0 Lamleton's Primrose 32 9 Walls End Hetton 35 0 Walls End Lanibton...... 34 9 Walls End Ly ons 32 3 Walls End Stewart's 35 0 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 35 0 Cowheu 3O 0 Culm 27 0 Pemberton Llangenn ech 35 0 Silkston Holywell 32 6 Killingworth 31 9 Newburn 31 0 Percy Bensharn -,. 30 0 lantield 30 0 Townley—. 29 6 Willington . .3'2 0 Wylain Walls End Bell and Co. 33 0 Ditto Bell Hobson & Co. 32 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 33 9 Ditto Burraton 31 6 Ditto Crainlington--.. 29 0 Ditto Hilda 31 0 Ships at market, 544—Shit 30 0 lin sold, 27%-Unsold, 26%. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 24 29 20 30 22 32 22 26 21 28 29 31 20 33 20 31 24 34 22 24 19 25 19 33 2t 34 24 30 20 26 20 26 . !6 28 22 24 r. d. a. d. 56 70 HYMENEAL AGENCY OFFICE. PARIS, MAY 9.—The Court of Correctional Po lice was yesterday occupied with a case of rather a singular description. In the place usually occupied by criminals stood a young woman of a most grace ful figure, and whose dress was in the utmost degree recherche. Madame Houdard (the name of the ac cused) was no other than the presiding divinity at a celebrated agency office for marriages, which she has lately established in Paris, where she has out rivalled several others of the same class. She has for some time been offering to gentlemen tired of celibacy tender companions for life, ladies of known discretion and high respectability, gifted in a moral light with the most desirable qualities, and in the worldly sense, with marriage portions of from one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand francs; consequently, it may be easily imagined how her office was beset with applicants. To believe her own ac count, she has brought about some of the most for tunate and advantageous matrimonial engagements. Her services, however, were not to be obtained gratis. In order to obtain her favour, and a place in her re port, it was absolutely necessary to become a sub scriber to her list for three months. By virtue of this subscription, entered upon beautiful roae paper, and a payment of 72 francs, Mad. Houdard engaged to exhibit to the subscriber, for the space of three months, all the young ladies whose hands, hearts, and fortunes happened to be at her disposal. Her truly benevolent occupation was, however, interrupted by a disappointed wine -merchant, who preferred a com plaint against Madame, charging her with swindling. The complainant will be better understood in his own words :—" I applied to Madame to procure me a wife (said he with a half-simple half-sly look at the accused); she instantly said to me Ah, mon Dieu, Monsieur Lazard, you • have just come in time; I have just what will suit you; there is now at my disposal a most lovely creature, a sweet young widow, who has lately buried her husband. She is related to an eminent counsellor, and is every thing a man can wish for. As to her fortune, Cast superbc ! c'est magniflque ! 150,000 to 200,000 francs, and a quantity of other property.' I immediately said I should wish to have all the particulars and terms. Madame told me that the first step was to become a subscriber, and pay 72 francs. This I complied with, but after waiting anxiously for some time, nothing was effected, and I was told that a great deal of delicacy was to be observed in bringing the matter to a happy issue. At last I was invited to dinner, where the gay widow was expected to make one of the party. I went at the hour appointed, ha v i ng t a k en care to dress in the best style. Sh or tly a f ter my arrival at the office, a young female, eleg a ntly attired, made her appearance and joined the dinner party I subsequently understood that this Doctor's widow —this niece of a Counsellor, as she was describe d to me, .was no other than Madame Aldegoude, $ sempstress, and something worse. I soon had littl e doubt that Madame Aldegoude made a livelihoo d by lending her services on those occasions; but wishing to see how far this farce would be carried , I pretended to be anxious to bring matters to a coo' elusion. She made a thousand excuses and hesitated a great deal; and I at last received a letter, which gave me to understand, in very plain terms, that tiV visits would not be acceptable after that p er iod--" that the Counsellor, her uncle, wished to marry h ig niece to a gentleman in the Treasury." Mdlle. Bonhomme, formerly servant to the se 1 , cused, was called as a witness by the complainant. She stated, whilst she was in Mdlle. Houdard service, she saw several gentlemen come to the house in order to get wives, and whatever gentle' man came the same lady was presented to him, Bed that lady was Madame Aldegoude. When two or three gentleman happened to come at the same tippet Madame Aldegoude after seeing one, made some er!i cuse, and retired to another room, where Madano Houdard introduced her to another candidate. Whop the gentlemen went away, these ladies amused thee' selves, and laughed heartily at their expense, (Mor i , ing how many more.fish were caught in their ne±"- , PRESIDENT—Have you known any other pate complain of having been deceived in this way ? "„ Witness—Oh, several; and amongst others, a to" strapping serjeant-major of theßoyal Guard. Madatrs Houdard said to him upon his first application , " Come, Monsieur, turn about. I must examine' your figure, in order to see if you will match the WI I have in my eye for you." The accused, on being called on for her dekncet denied the charge altogether, declaring that - oh. h 11 4: effected several marriages amongst persons of great , distinction, and whose names she would mention but from motives of delicacy, and. if sot prevented by the confidence reposed in her. The only thing that hindered the complainant's marriage, w a s the bad account which she received concerning his as' rafter, and therefore she was not surprised at his wishing to be revenged. With respect to her ser vant, it was the c om pl a i nant w h o i n d uce d h er t° quit her place, and she heard that he had since been taking particular care of her. The Court, after some consideration, were .of opinion that the facts did not amount to swindling , according to the meaning of the 405th article of the code, and discharged the accused. This pug woman was so overjoyed at hearing her acquittal/ ' that she fell into a swoon, and was removed from the Court in a state of insensibility. Per Quarter. Ashburn.—.—,.,... Basingstoke -,-- Bath Bridgewater Bristol ---...—,.,.,. Chesterfield ..... Derl?y —."—, Deviies Doncaster Dorchester..... Exeter eter - Gloucester-.. Hungerford Newbury Romsey ......—...—. Shaftesbury —........., Shepton Mallet ..,, 5herburne...........-,... Taunton ...............—.... Yeovil Per Bushel. Shrewsbury ....,..—,.. 56 62 55 80 46 70 62 68 61 68 60 70 72 74 56 72 60 70 54 76 58 78 54 SO 34 35 28 38 24 36 21 35 34 35 30 35 48 78 56 68 48 62 59 69 140 74 B° . d 5 6 . 8 s . d. 111 0 11 3. 21 33 30 38 30 33 34 36 30 36 20 36 37 21 33 26 3/3 31 26 33 24 32 18 33 34 33 s. d. s. d. 46 60 Beans. 42 46 38 45 40 56 32 40 38 44 40 46 39 44 32 48 45 47 - 52 44 48 34 46 37 40 - 42 38 48 40 52 40 48 36 45 44 43 s. d. s. d. 00 00 Kent INTERESTING FRENCH WOMAN. (From Lord Londonderry's Narrative of the War in Germany and France. I witnessed here a very interesting, but I for unfortunately too usual an occurrence, that took place in the capture of the convoy and enemi 9 baggage, &c. at Fa Fere Champenoise. forward in the melee, I perceived that some 0 ' the Cossacks, most probably from Bashkir, had not only secured a French Colonel's caPche and baggage, but one of them had seized his wife, whose cries rent the air, and with the aid of two other gallant Tartars was placing her behind him- I will not detail the frequent histories of lawless troops, nor add to these pages instances of bar barity which I fear have been too justly given of the conduct of the Russian predatory hordes in their march through France ; but I reflect with sa tisfaction that it was my good fortune to rescue, even for a moment, a lovely and most interesting Frenchwoman from the hands of these wild soldiers. Being, however, unable to listen to her afflicting details, and not knowing in what man' ner better to place her in security, I ordered my own orderly hussar, of the King's German Le gion, to place her for a moment en troupe, and carry her to my billet at the head-quarters. I was unwilling, and indeed could not at that mo ment leave the field ; but consoled myself with the thought that--when I returned at night to my quarters, I should received the gratitude of a beautiful creature, and pictured to myself ro mance connected with this occurrence. But , alas ! how little can we reckon on any future event, and how idly do we all build des chilteaux en .Espagne ! I fear that my precautions were not so great as I flattered myself they were : the distance be tween the champ de batallie and Fere Cham penoise was inconsiderable : the town was in sight ; and from the number of officers and troops moving about, I could not imagine that my beautiful prisoner would be recaptured ; but, sad to relate, either the same Cossacks returned, or others more savage and determined, and per ceiving my faithful orderly hussar and prize, fell upon him, and nearly annihilating hint re-seized their victim ; and although the strictest investigation was made throughout his whole army, by the Emperor of Russia, to whom I immediately repaired, and related the melancholy tale, (and who heard it with a ll that compassion and interest it could not fail to inspire,) the beautiful and interesting French woman never re-appe are d. I d rop a ve i l over the horrible sequel which i mag i nat i on m i g ht conjure took much bl ame f or my n e' up, and glect of a sufficient escort. My hussar crawled to me next morning, half dead from ill usage; and his pathetic tale placed me in a state of mind scarcely _less deplorable. EXTRAORDINARY FIsII.—LAS Mr. lioNl - of College-street, watch-maker, along with another gentleman, way, fishing for pike in the neighbourhood of Pocklington, on the 12th inst., they were surprised, after having laid their lines, by the appearance of a very strange looking bird on the opposite side of the river. Their 6ret impressions were to run for a gun to shoot it ; but on closer examination they perceived it was held by a line ; and, on a still closer view, found that it was actually caught by one of their own lines, having dived, and takefl the bait intended for the pike. On their approach, it made directly for the water, but was ultimately'smittred, and proved to be a very fine crested cormorant (Pho37 . cracorax Cristatus). It is now in the hands of Mr., DIXON, of Walmgate, bird•stuffer. York Chronicle. BIRTHS. On the I2th inst. in Bedford -street, Bedford4quare, the lady of Capt. Ilockings, 11. N., of a daughter. On the 4th inst. at Friedberg, near Frankfurt on. the Maine, the lady of the Baron de Langsdorlf, the Hessian Minister to the British Court, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. in the chapel at Charlton-housi, by special licence, the Rev. Arthur Drummond, to Margaretta Maria, second surviving daughter of the late, and sister to the present Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart. On the 15th inst. at Kennington, Mr. James Pratt, of Wootton Bassett, Wilts, to Rose; daughter of T. Freak, Esq., of Greenwich. DIED. On the 6th inst. at Chesne, near Geneva, Catherine, the lady of the Right lion. Sir James Mackintosh. On the 14th inst. in Elder-street, Spital-square, Stephen Auber, Esq., age , ' 64. On the 12th inst. at Greenwich, in her 20th y e ar, Emily Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Philip Beaver, R.N. On 'the 14th inst. in Upper Baker-street, Portman square, aged 24, Letitia, wife of Mr. W. G. Pau. On the 13th inst. in Essex-street, E. S. Fox, Esq., in his 75th year. On the ith inst. in Salisbury-street, Strand, Sophia, widow of the late Theodore Critico, Esq. of Constanti nople, aged 46 years. She had recently returned li on► that city, where she resided 19 years. 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