The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-23 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1833. We have received since our last the Paris Papers of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The accounts from Spain are satisfactory for the QUEEN'S Government. The Carlists are dispersed on every point as soon as they show themselves ; but, as might be expected in a country like Spain, they generally contrive to make good their escape, and to re-organize them selves in smaller bodies. The illadrid Gazette of the 6th inst. contains another decree confirm ing and extending the former decree against Don CARLOS. Paris is tranquil ; but a little apprehension is entertained lest there should be a disturbance on the opening of the Chambers, in consequence of the arbitrary and stupid pro secution of the 27 conspirators, as they are called, belonging to the Society of the Rights of Man. The trial was expected to conclude on Saturday. If the Jury decided according to ,evidence, they have recorded a verdict of ac quittal, and given another discomfiture to the press-prosecuting spirit of Louis PHILIP. The French Funds are a little lower, owing, pro bably, to the unfavourable reports about Russia. FRENCH FUNDS.-PAWS, DEc. 19. Five per Cents., 10:3f. 80c. 95c. 85c. Four and a Half per Cents, 99f. Mc. Four per Cents., 90f. 50c. Three per Cents., 75f. 741. 95c. N.l.tional Loan, 03f. 75c. Bank Actions, 1,740 f. Rente de Naples, 91f 10c. 91f. 91f, Ito. Roman Five oer Cents., 91% 92. Rente d'Esp;goe, Five per Cents., 18 Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40% 41% 41. Royal Spanish Loan, 8 6 U % Rente Perpet. d'Espagt,iy, Five per Cents., 69 6.Sii Belgian Loan, 1831, live per Cent., 96%. ExclialvGit ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, -f. -y.. Three months, paper, 9.5 f. 20c. ; money, -1. -c. --fours Authentiaue. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paals, Dec. 20. Five Nl* Cents., 103 f. 85c.65c. 75c. Four and Half per Cents., 9!lf. 90c. Four per Cents., 901.49 c. 50c. Three per Cents., 741. 85c. 70c. 65c. Bank Actions, 1,740 f. Rente de Naples, 90f. 80c. 70e. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., 91%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40% % %. Royal Spanish Loan, 86% SO. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 69N Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96 1 A. Ilaytian Loan, 280 f. EXCIIANOE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, -f. -c. 'Three months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 051. 20c. --Lours Authentigue. It is reported in the diplomatic circles that there is some difference of opinion between the British and French Governments as to the course of proceeding proper to be adopted towards Russia, and that the return of Prince TALLEYRAND to this country, a month earlier 11,an was at first intended, is connected with this subject. According to the report in question, Marshal SOULT, who is for extreme mea sures, has ie.commended that as the SUL TAN has shown that he cannot himself de fund the Dardanelles frtim either the Egyptians or the Russians, they should be oaken possession of by the joint fleets of France end Great Britain. Our attack on Copenliaggily which was so much lauded by the Tories, has, it is said, been referred to by the Marshal in support of his proposal. By accounts from Lisbon, we find that the arrest of the Conde de TA IPA by the Portu guese Ministry, to which allusion has already been made in the English Papers, has produced a severe remonstrance to PEDRO, on the part of the Peers, who complain that the arrest took place in contempt of an article of the Charter which the REGENT had sworn to maintain. Among the Peers who signed this remonstrance we find the names of PA LMELLA, TERCEIRA, and LOULE, the latter the REGENTS brother. in-law, and several others of high influence and character. Don PEDRO has disclaimed all knowledge of the arrest, but has allowed his Ministers to reply to the remonstrance of the Peers in a style which must be productive of VA, great injury to his own character and interests, inasmuch as the only offence of which the Conde de TAIPA was guilty was the publication of two letters, in which he addressed the REGENT in a manner not very agreeable to courtly ears. We shall not enter upon an inves tigation of the grounds on which the Por tuguese Minister, M. DE CARVALHO, justifies the arrest of the CONDE DE TAIPA. It is sufficient for us to know, without reference to the privileges of the Portuguese Peers, that the offence which led to the arrest was the publicn don of two printed letters in a country which, according to the Charter and the declarations of the REGENT, ought to enjoy the liberty of the press. If there was any thing false or unfair in the publications alluded to, they ought to have been prosecuted in a different form. It is going rather too far, we think, in a Government pre tending to be Constitutional, to arrest a man, whether Peer or peasant, by a common police officer, for having published papers in which perhaps, after all, there was nothing but unpala table truth. Wishing well, as we do, to the Constitu tional cause in Portugal, we cannot but regret the occurrence of any circumstance which has a tendency to show that the Ministers of Don PEDRO are as arbitrary in their way as the Usurper was in his. It is, besides, much to be deplored, t.:,.4t at a moment when union is so requisite for the cause of the QUEEN, we should find nearly all the most influential Peers, in eluding the brother•in-law of the Regent, the President of the Council, and the Commander in-Chief of the Forces, in hostile collision with the Ministers, with whom they ought, as far as the interests of the QUEEN are concerned, to be in cordial league. With respect to the declaration of Don PEDRO, that the arrest of the CONDE DE TAIPA was unknown to him, we have only to observe, taking it for granted that he has spoken the truth, that the Ministers who could issue an order unknown to the REGENT, and in an affair regarding his own honour and interests, are not worthy of the confidence which they seem to have enjoyed. The Tories will chuckle at this exhibition of arbitrary power in the Portuguese Govern• ment. But how will they get over the fact, that all the most influential men in Lisbon, notwithstanding their connexion with the RE GENT, have come forward in support of the charter which they conceived to have been attacked. It is true that in the present in stance their intervention has been in defence of their own privileges„ but we believe the same men would have come forward in support of the rights of the meanest man in Portugal. Would the minions of the Usurper have dared to do so much in defence even of themselves, under his system of government ? Certainly not. The very attempt, therefore, of a Minister to violate the Charter, has furnished an instance of the value of the present system of government, as contrasted with that which has been displaced. We have this morning received Brussels and Frankfort Papers, the former to the 20th, and the latter to the 17th inst. Their contents are not of much importance. It is stated in a letter from Berlin in one of the Frankfort Papers, that there is to be a concentration of the Russian forces in Poland, but with what object is not mentioned. The Belgian Papers announce that a material reduction has been made in the budget for the present year. We subjoin the last quotations of the Vienna and Belgian Funds:— VIENNA FUNDS, DEC 12.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 94 4-5; Four per Cents. 84 11-32; Bank Shares, 1224%. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BarsseLs, DEC. 20. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 95 Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Our commercial readers will not be surprised to learn, after what we had stated of the pro ceedings of the Council of Manufactures, Com merce, and Agriculture in Paris, that the result of their discussions will prove exceedingly unfavourable to the objects for which they were assembled. They have not consented to a single concession of importance, and the French Ministry must either abandon the projet for a reduction of the tariff, or bring it before a Chamber predisposed against it by the decisions of an Assembly to which they have been accus tomed to defer in matters of manufactures and com merce. There is very little reason, however, to expect that the French Ministers will propose to the Chamber any very liberal concessions to the free trade principle, considering that from the constitution of the Council of agriculture manu facture and trade, they could, if they had chosen, have forced a decision in that body favourable to the views which they pretend to have espoused. Out of the 138 members of which the Council is composed, the Ministry have the absolute nomination of 70, being a majority of the whole ; and of the remaining 68, at least 30 are more or less subject to Ministerial control. M. THIERS, therefore, was either never serious in his free trade declarations, or he has given way, perhaps reluctantly, to prejudices, where he might have enforced the adoption of liberal views. According to the accounts which we have re ceived of the decisions of the Council, the Council of Agriculture have declared against reduction of the duty on wool, and demanded the continuation of the existing duties on coals and cattle. On the other hand, the Council of Manufactures propose A reduction of the duty on wool to 22 per cent., with the further gradual reduction to 11 per cent.—the reduction of the duty on cattle to 40 francs per 1,000 English pounds, and a small reduction annually for 5 years on iron in bars with the maintenance of the pre sent duty on manufactured iron. The Council of Commerce propose similar reductions of the duty on cattle and sheep, the reduction of one third of the duty on coals, with total exemption for coals, used for steam navigation, and a re duction of one fourth of the duties on iron of every description, but the reduction not to com mence until after the expiration of five years. The questions of cottons, iron railways, and many other points, remain for discussion, but . . - there is very little probability of their Wing adopted in a liberal sense. The only point on which the Three Councils are agreed is that respecting the exportation of silks. We wish to direct particular attention to a letter signed " A Moderate Reformer M.P.," copied into The Sun from the Times of this day. The just, rational, and patriotic sen timents of the writer do him great honour, and the abuses which he signalizes will, we are sure, excite so much of public indignation as to make it imperative on the Legislature to re dress them. The people of this country are not niggardly of reward for real cervices, but it is too much to require the continuation of a pen sion and superannuation list on the corrupt prin. ciple, and high rates, which were regulated by war prices, whilst thousands of industrious artisans are scarcely able to keep themselves from absolute starvation, and the classes who are now directly called upon to contribute to the support of these drones, find it difficult to main tain their position in society. Madras Papers to the 24th August, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house : (From the Paper of Aug. 22.) "If the conduct of the rice merchants in raising the price of this article of food has been the subject of just animadversion, the forbearance of the poor, under all the horrors which they have for a length of time suffered, and all the miseries which they still endure, has been equally matter for wonder, but peaceable, timid, and pusillanimous as the natives of Madras are, they have bee❑ driven to desperation, and unless G wernment interfere., it is dig. tressing to think of what may be the consequences. On Monday last the merchants combined to raise the price of grain, but this determination was no sooner known than the people simultaneously resolved to frustrate their attempts. At Chindadrepettah the first step was taken to bring these avaricious and heartless slavec of lucre to a sense of their conduct, and a mob collecting round the B.,zaars began the work of plunder. The example was quickly followed at Triplecane, at Choolay, and the Beach. The bazaars at Triplecane were forced open, and nearly cleared by the populace when a party of the body guard came up and dispersed the people, and a guard was instantly placed on the beach, but the crowd became denser, and more threatening in appearance. A strong force of the 15th regiment, No. 1, about two o'clock in the afternoon, was ordered to the place for the protection of property. Immediately on the arrival of this body, the poor assembled gradually retired, and, as far as we can learn, no great loss was sustained. Native accounts from the South of the Nurbudda speak of the famine existing in that quarter as dreadful. NACPOOK —The accounts received from this quarter mention that several dreadful conflagrations have lately taken place in the city and its neighbourhood. We have received the Manchester Times of Saturday, containing a long account of the dinner given on Thursday to the Members for the borough ; but the quantity of matter which usually presses upon our columns on the present day of the week, compels us to postpone giving our extract of it till to-morrow. We cannot forbear, however, quoting in this place a portion of the speech delivered by Mr. GREG on the occasion of the toast—" May the present Corn Laws, so pernicious to the Commercial and general prosperity of the Country, be speedily remedied." " Gentlemen, to men like ourselves, actively engaged in the pursuits of commerce sad manuractures, who find the extent of all their operations limited, and the profit on all their adventures curtailed, or absorbed by the un kindly influence of the Corn Laws, no argument can strengthen the conviction of their injurious effect and ruinous tendency, and every discussion must end in this simple question, " How can we get rid of them ?" Aye, gentlemen, that is the question, there lies the difficulty, not by dint of argument to prove that they are an evil. Who indeed seriously doubts it is an evil to be compelled to eat dear bread, to wring from an ungrateful soil a scan'y sustenance, and to labour two days to pur. chase what the labour of one day would suffice to purchase, but for the Corn Laws ?—(Cheers.) Who doubts that such hard necessity is an evil? Does the Philosopher ? Does the Moralist? who knows that want of bread and want of virtue are cause and effect, and that misery and vice are brothers ?—(Cheers.) Dues the Eco. noraist, whose business it is to investigate such matters, and who has no personal interest in the result ? Does the statesman, or the merchant, or the manufacturer, or the soldier, or the great mass of the middle or lower classes of society, do any of these doubt ? No ! Who then do doubt of the wrong inflicted by the corn laws ? The corn monopolists, and no others.—(Cheets.) Are they wiser than all the rest of the kingdom? No! Ate they more numerous than all the other classes ? No ! Are they more powerful? Aye, there's the rub. But it is said they must be reasoned with; they must be convinced. Alas ! here' lies the hopelessness of the task. `For who is convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still, And howsoe'er we turn about, 'Ti6 interest that solves the doubt.' Gentlemen, the Corn Monopolists are beyond the reach of our arguments, and unless the rhetoric of Ministers, and of our right honourable representative, be armed with sharper weapons than reason can supply, I fear the day of conviction is yet far distant. There is a work lately published, entitled, England and America, containing so much interesting and I think novel remarks connected with the Corn Laws, that I cannot refrain from briefly alluding to it. The first chapter presents us with a gloomy picture of the wealth of En g land, wealth not confined to a few, but widely diffused, and exhibitin g undoubted proofs of its exuberance at every step. The second chapter presents us with as lively a description of the great numbers of indigent, of the poverty of the lower classes, and what he calls the uneasiness of the middle classes, an uneasiness arising from the difficulty of employing their capital profitably, or of obtaining such interest for the use of it, which will enable them to live in com fort. This state of the country, be shows, has not been considered by the political economists of the day, who, laying down but two elements of production, capital and labour, have confined themselves to showing in what proportion the produce must, in different cir cumstances, be divided between the capitalist and the labourer. But our author points ont the amount of the produce to be divided as a more important matter than the proportion in which it shall be divided; how much both shall have, rather than how much each shall have. Thus, if now the capitalist takes half the produce, and the labourer half, double the produce, and the wages of the ibourer are doubled, and the profits of the capital are doubled also. This most important point, the amount of the produce, he shows to depend on a third element, which he calls the field of production, or the means of employing capital ; and he shows, I think, dearly, that the small extent of this field in England, in proportion to capital and labour, is the cause of both being so ill re quited. To illustrate this, he supposes a strip of fertile land 300 miles wide, to rise from the ocean and to en compass England, and he shows bow instantly all classes (except the present monopolists) would be benefitted by such an acces,ion of territory. The superabundant capital and labour find there profitable employment, but profits and wages would rise to the same level in the old country. Gentlemen, such a strip of fertile land, not hundreds, but thousands of miles broad, does now encompass England, which might furnish profitable employment for our idle millions both of men and money, for age s to come why, then, do we not avail ourselves of it? We are prevented by the Corn Laws. The barrier rises up between, and forbids approach to these fertile re4ium, it issues its stern and tyrannical edict t o the wealth and industry and the population of England. So far shalt thou go and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.'"._... (Cheep.) The cheers with which these sentiments were received do honour to the enlightened auditory iqr. GREG addressed. it is to the people of Manchester that we more particularly look for some active exertions against the present attempts—vain attempts -- of the landowncrs to :~:, enrich themselves at the expense of the com munity. It is not enough that they see the owners of land are cutting their own throats, or consider that their piggish conduct is its own punishment. If the landowners alone were concerned, they might, if they chose to neglect the friendly warnings given them, be left to their own wilfulness. Unfortunately there is not a man, woman, or child, through out the empire, whose interests are not vitally affected by their insane conduct. Again, there fore, we say to the Manchester people, let not the knowledge they have of the evil be as nought ; let them not sit down as if they saw it not. Of what use is their electing liberal Members into the House of Commons—Mem bers willing to do justice, unless, as Mr. P. THOMSON said, " they strain every nerve" to support them in the struggle they have to make in their behalf. There was a remarkable circumstance oc curred at the dinner, which it may be worth while to note here. Mr. ABSALOM WATKIN, in the course of an eloquent speech upon the condition of the labouring classes, took occasion to urge the necessity of a poor law for Ireland, as well for the sake of the English as the Irish labourer, and concluded his speech as follows : What, then, are the destitute labourers of Ireland, and their Eugl:s,h brethren who suffer from that destitution, entitled-to expect at the hands of a reformed Parliament ? On behalf of the working classes I answer, a " poor hiw to Ireland."—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The extension to that unhappy country of the great charter of the destitute—the work of no less men than Bacon and Walsingham, Coke and Raleigh, which will compel the rich to feel for the poor, and which will drive hack, by the all-powerful impulse of self-interest, those absentees from Ireland who now riot on the produce of her fertile fields, while the labourers by whom they are cultivated perish with hunger. (Enthusiastic and long-con tinued cheering.) To you, gentlemen, the representatives of this borough—the representatives be it remembered, of many thousands of indu-trions Irishmen who reside in it, I commend in the name of humanity and sound policy an attention to this great measure.—(Cheers.) By the wrongs of our Irish fellow-subjects—by the sufferings of our own most worthy labourers upon whom those wrongs have been severely visited, I entreat you to lose no time in urging the adoption of a system of parochial relief in Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) In this effort may the blessing of heaven be upon your labours ; and may it stand re corded to all succeeding times, that in the first Reformed Parliament, by the exertions of the Members for the new borough of Manchester, an Act was passed by which the influence of nefarious agitators was annihilated, and the union of the constituent parts of the British empire permanently secured by giving to the long-suffering population of Ireland the blessing of a legal provision for the destitute poor.—(Loud, enthusiastic, and often rep.ated cheering, in which Mr. Thomson and the other Members of Parliament heartily joined.) Slight as the indication of the intentions are, perhaps we should rather say the wishes, of men in office, contained in the last line, it does, we confess, give us a gleam of hope that a por tion of the Ministry, at least, are seriously in favour of introducing some kind of poor laws into Ireland. They will meet with the op position of Mr. O'CONNELL and those of his tail, who wish, by means of the starvation and the absenteeism they so often pretend to lament, to keep up the ferment and agi tation which has elevated them into their present unnatural situation, as we may almost call it, of legislators ; but they may depend upon the support of the wishers of peace both in England and Ireland. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY), FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 22.—Wind S.W., strong during yesterday, and today gales at intervals from the westward.—Arrived a French Government steamer from Calais. Sailed his Majesty's ship Rover for the Mediterranean. The Water Witch, for Geneva; the Londonderry, for Jamaica; and several others lost anchors and cables ; also the Jupiter, of Bremen, and the Elizabeth, for Sierra Leone, has put back, and remains with the outward-bound. The brig Aurora, of Bremen, passed for Ramsgate this morning, with loss of anchor and cable off Dungeness. Sailed the Lord William Bentinck and homeward-bound, for the River. Five p.m., squally.—The outward-bound appa rently well. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21 ♦ND 22.—Wind S.S.W. to W. S. W. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 2l.—Wind N.W. ; it blew heavy yesterday, and last night increased to a gale from S.W., hut moderated, and shaped this morning to N.W.— Arrived the Mary Jane, Barrett, from Prince Edward's Island, with loss of foremast, boat, bulwarks, &c. FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Since the 19th instant to this morning it blew with little intermission a strong gale, with violent squalls from S.W. to N.W., but from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to-day, moderate breezes from N.W. to W.S.W.— Sailed his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, for Oporto and Lisbon, with mails. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Tiber, Candler, from Odessa. RAMSGATE, DEC. 22.—Arrived the David Walker, Morris, from Dublin. PORTLAND, DEC. 22.—Arrived the William Irving, Herbert, from Prince Edward's bland. BRISTOL, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Caroline, from Richebucto ; and Reform, from Oporto. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Welcome, Castle, arid the Tyrer, Ellis, from Bengal ; Bridget, Corn% from Africa; Broad Oak, from Bahia; John Joy, Glover, from New York ; Rosina, Martin, from Odessa; James Dunn, Turse, and Ann Paley, Robston, from Lisbon. The Canadian packet, Reichan, foundered near Newark, on the 18th init. The Mary, from Newry to Liverpool, is waterlogged. Cargo much damaged, and must discharge. The Hamella, from the Clyde to Demerara, put into Derhyhaven Bay. Cargo shifted. The Industry, Rendle, from Dublin to Plymouth, put into Bideford, leaky, and with loss of anchors and ca ble•, &c. &c. The Mary, Croinarty, from London to Barbadoes, put into Portsmouth, leaky. The Isabella, M'Quoid, of Belfast, put into Milford, with loss of main and mizen masts, bowsprit, starboard quarter, &c., hiving been run foul of by the Eliza, of London, which also received damage. The Ruby, Isaacs, of Campbeltown, was driven on shore at Milford, on Friday. The Hope, from Down to Glasgow, was on shore on the island of Magee Piasi. The Constitution, Dagen, from Christiansand to Bar celona, put into Stourniway, with loss of keel, having struck on a rock, and must discharge. Th. Lively, Farmel, from London to Sligo was driven on shore in Witlewall thy, 9 , h inst. The Allegbany, from Liverpool, is on shore in the Delaware. Cargo discharging. The Limerick, from Lon-ion to Charente, is on shore near Weymouth, but expected to be got off. 25th T ult. The Lord Byron, was on shore on M irarni chi bar The Hepburn was on shore in Miramichi river, 25th ult. Repairing damage sustained by the ice. The Margaret was on shore near Esquimsux Point, 25th ult., and not expected to be got off. The Brandy Wine packet, Duel, from Calir ; Mervin, from Wyburg to Boston and the Lord Nelson, from Lynn to Hull, were driven on_shore near the Spurn, dea ling a gale on the 17th inst. The Thetis from London to Liverpool was op shore near Yarmouth yesterday, but expected to be got off. The Clyde, Parfitt,frotn Glasgow to Bristol, was driven on shore near Newton Stewart, 17th inst., and the master drowned. All yesterday, and more especially this day, London has been visited by a dense gloom and constant r ain, unusual even at this perioii of tbn year., S cAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Sttux — New 5 per Cent. 3'per Cent. Red. 885i% India Stock 3 Per Cc.‘nr.Con , je t . shut Ditto Bonds.. 5 !4 per Cent._ O tto Red J! .97► i VA Old Annuities 147!4 New 3% per Cent 9 ter Cent. Ann. 17'26 .... 2 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... 4 per Cent. 11 4 24 Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto ...... ......500 43 45 pm. Jan. 5, ;kw ..17 1-16 i Ditto Small Oct. 10, :SW l9 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5. ISM — Ditto Advertised ...... ... Pm. YKICES OF' STOCKS TO Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 - I Bar. k for Account !India for Account Cons. for Account 89%•% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 97 Belgian Bonds 96 Ditto Account P6 Brazilian Bonds 67 Ditto Account 67 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds .. 1 9 14 Ditto Account Ditto Bond?, 1924 22LG Ditto Accnittit 4,34 Danish Bon Ditto Account 7 . 2 Greek 80nd5......... Ditto Bonds, Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 29 1 4 Ditto Account Litt , r, per cent 37 Ditto Account 37 NelpolitaN B9 THIS DAT AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds '9V, Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account 57 1 Ditto New Bonds I Ditto Account 56% 14 4, 4 Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 1822 ... ...... 103 Russian Bonds, 1822 ....1 102 1 4 l Ditto Account lei Ditto 111 lO6 pnnish Bonds, 1821 0334 1S Ditto Acc. W•A Ditto Bonds, 1893 ooN , . Ditto Account !French Rentes, sp. c. —r —c. ----- Exchange —f —c. '----a per cent. -1 -c. Exchange —f —c Dutch, 24 p. c Y , % 3 4 c Ditto Account 50 5 ,44$ Ditto, 5 p c c gMiN Ditto Account 94% Mi A, French Scrin 4 pm. PRICKS OF SHARKS THIS DAT AT ONE o'cLocr. Paid. Per Share Alien Mining Company £7 7%. Anglo Mex. Min. c.o. uss. at 51. pm ) £lOO 854 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 1425( Brazilian Mining Company £s ' 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (Ist. at 51. pm.) -C2ro f 2 Ditto National ....... ..... ....... Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 174 Cata Branca Mining Company 334 5 1 4 British Iron Mining , Comoanv £so 29)4 Columbizn Minim Co. 'lig at 51. pm.) 5154 234 English Mining Company 1234 2Mi Oeneral Mining Association Hibernian Minin7Co. £lo 4 Mexican Mining Co. £4B 1154 Real dcl Monte Mining C,o....(unreg.) .5.`N United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm ) 411 11ii Ditto New Scrip 5 14 3 -i Alliance Fire Insurance Comp I() ii!.4 Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company l7 48 General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of I reland 25 41,4 1 39%4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 20. Bank Stock —lSt. Patrick Insur.(perShare Consols, 3 ner cent Goy. Stock, 3% per cent. 955 7 4 "lational Ditto Ditto New 95% ;Patriotic Ditto 4 per Cent — i Hibernian Bank 2 3,i Gov. Deb. 3LG percent.... 88% Provincial Ditto — Royal (anal Stock ......... 40% Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Imperial M1ne.......... City Deb. 4 per cent 75 Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. Commercial Buildings 33% HAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg ........ ..... 1 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica................ 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 2 Dublin 0 1 Lisbon 1 1 Flanders (1 0 Malta . 0 3 France... .......... ..... 0 1 0 Sweden O Guernsey &Jersev.. 1 ' 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Norninsr... 0 minutes after 0.1 Evening... 7 minutes after 0, efir g‘tin est!,, viCE.CRANCERY COUItT,—(THIs DAY. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SHORE. The arguments in this case were resumed to-day by Mr. BOOTH, who appeared with Mr. PEPYS and Mr. RoLFE for the grand Trustees. At the conclusion of the Learned Counsel's address, Sir CHARLES WETHERELL proceeded to address the Court on behalf of Mr. Wellbeloved, and had not con cluded when our Reporter left at half-past two o'clock. The Court was as crowded as on former occasions, and the case appears likely to take up the whole of to. morrow. KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY). (Sittings at Guildhall before the LORD CHIEF JusTlcx and a Special Jury.) THE KING V. OLD, THE YOUNGER. This was an indictment at the instance of the Corpora tion of London against the defendant, a wholesale fish monger at Billingsgate Market, for having unlawfully exposed for sale a quantity of fish that was unwholesome, and wholly unfit for human food. Mr. FOLLETT having stated the case for the prosecution, called the following evidence : Mr. John Goldham, the yeoman at Billingsgate, said that it was part of his duty to inspect the fish that arrived there, and also to destroy such as proved to be unwhole some and unfit for sale. The defendant was a fish salesman there. On the 26th July, in last year, witness went to the defendant's shop, from information which bad been communicated to him, and he found a quantity of fish—chiefly small salmon-trout—that was unwholesome. The defendant was afterwards summoned to appear before the Alderman (Ansley), who ordered the fish to be de stroyed. The defendant at that time insisted that it was wholesome ; it was however destroyed. Julia Kate, a fiahwoman, stated that she purchased some of the same description of fish of the defendant at 2d. a pound. _ _ Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—The fish were in a box ; some appeared to be tidy, but there were a great .„.aftny loose fish among them that were good for nothing. She knew that fish brought from Scotland Ns packed in boxes. When she first went into the shop of tile defendant the fish were in a box, and those on the top were pretty tidy. The fish laid in the box in "rotation," 10 or 12 in a row. Re-examined—lt was usual to pack up fish in ice, but these were not. They were all in a lump. After the preceding witness had seized the fish the defendant re turned her the money, saying he knew it was not very good. By his Loansinr—She took the fish to make the best she could of it, and she did not complain of it until Mr. Goldham seized it. She should have sold it for the best she could get for it. W. Kelly, another fish dealer, proved that he bought 90 lbs. of the same sort of fish at 2d. per lb. ; that it was shortly after seized, and upon going back to the defendant's shop he received back the money. The fish was very bad. . Cross examined—The fish were not injured by any pres sure against the box : they were in a putrid state. He should have sold them if he could. Re-examined—When he bought it, the people in the market who saw it weighed exclaimed " shame," and said it would give people the cholera. There was a great deal of bad fish then in the market. Mr. Crimpling Smith, a surgeon, stated that about noon on the 26th July, Mr. Goldham showed him a large basket full of fish in a putrid state, and unfit for human food. Crow.examined—Any pressure and squeezing of the fish would bruise them, and cause their entrails to be exposed. The 26th of July was very warm. Re-examined—Believed the fish had been putrid for two or three days. M.. Goldham was recalled by Mr. FOLLETT, and stated that the fish seen by Mr. Smith was the gime as was taken from the defendant and condemned; he also exhi bited it to Mr. Myers, and several other fish salesmen. The price of good salmon trout was then Sid. to 4d. a pound. Cross-examined—That was the price of unbroken and good fish. If it were merely damaged by being broken (and not putrid), it would be worth less. If fish were merely damaged on the voyage, and wholesome, it would be worth 21i. to 3d. per pound. In July, 1832, there was great alarm respecting the cholera, and consequently all fish, vegetables, Etc., on which there was the slightest suspicion should be rejected ; he always rejected it. Had the first information of this fish from a fishmonger. He usually when lie seized fish condemned it if the party admitted that it was unwholesome, and if not he took it to the Mansion House, and gave information to the party to attend. He believed on this occasion he did not ask the defendant if he admitted the fish to be bad, and the reason was, that he had made one or two previous seizures from the defendant, who then gave his word of honour that lie would not have such fish again in his possession. This fish, he believed, came from Scotland. Did not knew of a large arrival of 237 boxes front one Scotch house on that day, and that this was part of them. Mr. Michael Myers, a fishmonger, saw the fish at the Mansion House; they were not fit to sell. He dal not deal in such sort of fish ; they were not sweet. Cross-examined—Was not fishmonger to the I.ord Mayor, but was to the King. He sold none but the best sort. Often bought fish of the defendent, and knew his father for 30 years. During that time their characters were those of fair and respectable traders. Fish damaged, pressed, or broken on the voyage, would, on being ex posed to the air, become unfit fer sale before any other; it would in hot weather cause it to be putrid in three or four hours. Re-examined—That fish he supposed bad not been sweet for a day or two before. Mr. John Searle, a fishmonger for 30 or 40 years, saw the fish on the 26. h of July at Goldham's office, before it was taken to the Mansion House. It was about 8 o'clock in the morning. There were 50 broken and in a putrid state. Ten were in the same putrid state and not broken. They appeared to ba all of the same" Catch." They were not fit for human food. Cross-examined—After being before the Lord Mayor went to the Anti-Gallican public house. Did not then say a great deal of the fish was so good that be would have eaten it, nor anything to that effect. Never said so in the presence of either Darling, Hildyard, or Payne. Mr. John Daniel Bayley, a fishmonger, also saw the fish at Goldham's office at nine o'clock in the morn ing. They were in a bad state, and not fit for human food. Michael Hirlock, an officer in the market, stated that the fish was putrified and rotten to the back-bone. He saw it at nine o'clock in the morning. He thought they were in that state for a fortnight. He was of opinion they had lost their passage from Scotland, and kept until the next vessel came away.—(A laugh.) Mr. Edward Inglefield, a fishmonger, stated he saw the fish while it was being weighed ; it was the worst fish he ever saw, and they were putrid. He, in consequence, gave information to Mr. Goldharn. That was about seven o'clock. John Robertson, an officer under Mr. Goldham, gave similar evidence. Mr. KELLEY then addressed the Jury for the defendant, who, with his father, he stated, carried on business as fish salesman with great credit for upwards of half a century. The defendant was criminally charged with wilfully ex posing for sale fish that was unfit for human food, and the question was, whether th it exposure of a single box out of GREAT LOA N.—A very eager desire has a large quantity landed by him an the 26th of July, was been manifested to come at the circumstances of the a wilful exposure, or o ne th a t h a d, by mere accident, reported loan to certain great capitalists, on the part of the been exposed. It, in fact, wou ld be p ro ved, that it was Bank of England or the East India Company, to whicb only one out of above seven ty b oxes l a nded for the de- the rise of the funds has been generally ascribed. Numee tendant that morning, and it was already ia evidence that roue reports are afloat on the subject, but the account the defendant did not himself personally sell the fish, or which appears best entitled to belief, and to which we are that he had reason to believe it was unwholesome. The in fact, disposed to give nearly implicit credit, is, that both learned counsel having submitted that there was no those great public bodies have a pert in the affair; that proof that the defendant was personally proved to have ahe East India Company, in the first instance, having a sold the fish, and that therefore the evidence did not very large surplus, of unemployed capital, amounting to support the criminal charge of wilfully exposing for between 3,000,0001. and 4,000,0001., has agreed to sale u nwholesome fish, detailed the facts of the case for place in deposit with the Bank of England, for a fixed his client, as he would prove by evidence. The defers. period, a portion of it, said to be 1,50D,000/. ; dant was in the habit of receiving for sale on commission that the Bank is to pay interest at the rate of two as many boxes in a day as 50, 100, and even 200. On per cent. on this deposit ; and that it is to he lent the day in questio I he received 71 boxes by the smack Iby the latter at a higher rate of interest to two Mary ; that vessel brought at the same time 206 more of the leading city capitalists. This is not to he boxes f o r oth e r salesmen, and yet out of those 271 boxes confounded, as some have im igined, with those loans made only one had been seized as being unwholesome. The de- for the temporary accommodation of the monied interest at fen lant's servant superintended the landing, and the de. the Bank between the period of the shutting the stock fendant himself never saw the box in question opened. It books and the payment of the dividends, but it is, we would also be proved that the defendant's commission on believe, made on different terms and for a longer period. the sale of the one box would not be above 7d. or Bd. ; The transaction, if the view taken of it is correct, is and was it to be supposed that he would risk his credit, curious in,another point of view, since it is the first and subject himself to a criminal charge fir such a trifling instance known of any payment of interest on deposits sum ? The Learned Counsel then called the following made at the Bank of England, and may lead, in time, to evidence : important changes in the banking business oft the metro . Mr. Benham Old, the elder, stated that he was a fish polis. It is said that the possession of this large amount factor at Billingsgate, and has been so for thirty years. of unemployed capital by the Etat India Company, which Was now in partnership with his son. In July, 1832, I could not remain concealed from the lead e rs ' o f the received a parcel of 71 boxes of fish front Hogarth and i monied interest, has giVen rise to several negotiations to Co., of Ab,rdeen. R ece i ve d t h e m Ly the itlary, op the obtain the use of it, but the Company has been unwilling' evening of the 25th. The average passage from the River to trust it to the risks of private credit, however high that Spey, where th e y were caug ht, was about a week or eight might be. A great increase of the circulation seems to be days. He sold merely as agent. The price of small jat hand, from the Circumstances described, and indeed to 'almon.trout was then about 2id, t o 3d . or 3i.d. Did be inevitable, but the recent experience of its consequences no t k no w it was then selling at 2d. ; but there was a I may, perhaps, in some measure guard against therm—. depression in the price. The hot in question ;came in Timcb the; PareA It fi k ily Mrt>re d s , ags d. i t was lowtr price. Cross-examiner!—Lived in the country, be cause to town every day. Could not say, ex books, what fish was at the shop on the 25 broken as described, was nit worth more I pound. Could not say whether any other bo' 2d. per pound. Re•ezamined—The rassage of the Mary six days. . The profit on the box was 91 or defendant had buia moiety of that. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Yes, but the coil lose the whole. Mr. J. Hogarth stated that he was a SI Thames_street, and sold by commission at I Mr. Hogarth, of Aberdeen, consigned to him, of July, 70 boxes, a part of the Mary's cargi fendants Mr. Gouter and Mr. Curling, also lo By witness's invoice, No. 1 box, was sent as . , quality. The Mary arrived on the 25th quality of witneßs's '7O boxes was generally were all sold by himself, and no col . . made of them. Had known defendant five years. His character as a Ilk tradesman w , Witness's box of salmon trout sold for 1/. we'ghtof it being 99 lbs. If the ice bad brol • it would reduce the price to about 163. Tha were decayed and unfit for food. If they broken, and not decayed, be 'should have sol 3d. per pound. It sometimes happened that the fish, and yet the fish may be sound and sweet. that time there was great alarm about the cholera, will had the effect of depressing the prices of flab to a considi able extent. Cross-examined—The price witness sold his fish Sid., fish was often imported in a putrid state, and the was ugu4l to give Mr. Goldbam information; witness:l then in the habit of paying particular attention to I condition of the fish ; all the salesmen bad recelt directions so to do. He thought the Mary arrived on I afternoon of the 25th, but he could not say. Mr. Curling, also a fish factor, received part of Mary's cargo, consigned to him by Hogarth and CC he received about '7O boxes; they were sold on the 28 and would probably have been received by him on I 25th. Among them was one box of small salmon trot They were in good condition, and not broken by the - ic t i He sold them for 17s. 6d. It was only part of a box, 0 : weighed 661bs. It was at rather more than 3id. per 17 Defendant always bore a respectable character. Mr. Henry Gouter, also a fish factor, received a part °( the Mary's cargo-37 boxes. He received them on t/ e i 25th in the evening, and sold them o n th e 26 t h. Hell° a part of a box of small salmon trout, weighing 50 lbt d which he sold for 14s. 6d. It was a little over 3d. per IL'' No part of them was damaged. The Mary had a6 l days' passage. Had known d e fend a nt 30 or 40 years , 0 be bore a highly respectable character. Cross-examined.--When fish came in a putrid state,M always gave information to Mr. Goldham. Would 0 / swear he had not done so ten times ; sad then lgf' Goldham took them away to destroy them. Thomas Darling, a porter, was occasionally emplole l by the defendant. Remembered defendant receiving lb ( 71 boxes by the Mary, on the 25th of July. They wel l , all sold on the 26th. There was one box of trout amoo them. Witness opened it on the morning of the 260' Did not take out the fish. The grating in the box preserve the fish was broken, and it and the ice pre heavily on the fish. The fish looked v er y b a d, b eca use ~ was broken. By the Jury—The defendant ordered him to open the box for a person to see it ; the defendant was outside the ' door, and called to witness to open the box. Every fish the box was wholesome for that day. After they well sold he assisted in weighing part of them. They wer e then objected to. By his Loitrscur—lf the defendant did not know the fish were badly broken, witness should not think it bi t duty to inf,rm him of it, Jess 9 Hillier, in the defendant's service, remembere 4 the sale of the box of fish to a man and woman, but b e did not know their names. Did not see the box opened , but when it was opened, :be was ordered to weigh the' , when they were sold. A man who bought some ireful° to take them, as they were too much broken. After tha t a woman bought them, but be did not know the p r ice Could not tell who named the price. When they wer e sold, the defendant was outside the door, where he gent', rally was. Could not say whether the defendant cool see the fish weighed or not. Heard Searle say that b e would be glad to eat part of the fish. Cross-examined—The defendant sold the fish in th e usual way. Henry Payne, in the defendant's service, stated that at eight o'clock in the morning, a complaint was mad e of the fish by a woman who demanded her money bie 4 again ; before lie paid the money back he sent witness Mr. Goldham's office to look at the fish. He did so, and then went and told the defendant what had happened. Sao' Searle take up some of the fish, and he said he should be glad to eat of them. 'Witness said so too, and Mr. Goldham ordered witness nut of the office. There were about ten persons handling the fish. The fish were good for that day, but the entrails were pressed out- Cross•examined—Defendant received the money fro' the woman. Mr. FOLLETT then replied to the evidence on the pars of the prosecution, contending that his case had beer , fully made out. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE brirfly summed up the evidence, and left it for the Jury to say whether the evidence showed either that the defendant knew the fish to he unwholesome when he sold it, or that there will such a suspicion of it that the defendant neglected to inform himself of the fact. The Jury found the defendant Guilty. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and a London Commission.) COHEN V. TOWNSEND. This was an action of trover to recover a quantity of Furs. The plaintiff was a fur manufacturer. The defendant an exporter of manufactured articles. In May, the plaintiff, being in want of money, sent a quantity of goods to the defendant, and through his son borrowed upon them the sum of 10/., with a proviso that he might redeem them in a month for 11/. ; but if lie failed in that, then the goods were to become the property of the defendant. The only witness who proved these facts was the plain tiff's son, who, in his cross- xamination, swore that the goods did not belong to him, though, till withia a week or two of the transaction in question, be bad dealt with the defendant on his own account, and 4 1 the same line of business. Neither did he, at the time he received the money, give any invoice. A paper was put into his hand which he said was in his handwriting. It was put in by defendant's counsel, and proved to be an invoice of the goods in question, with the agreement as to the power of redeeming them wrote at the bottom. His Loansasir summed up, and commented upon the conduct of both parties with some severity. He said he always thought it the safest course to pursue to give credit rather to the writing of a party made at the time in preference to a subsequent oath. 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