The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In expressing our lively satisfaction at the impetus which has been given to public feeling throughout this country with regard to the half-ruinous condition of the navy, it is do more than our bounden duty to remind the public, that the chief part in the production of so great a benefit be cngs to a gallant member of' that noble service, namely, the " Flag Officer." whose short, pithy, and rousing letter to the Duke of Wellington was, at the first moment of its pub lication, transferred to the pages of this journal. Official persons, however high in station, or however subordinate, whether occupying posts like that of Lord Minto, whose knowledge of our marine amounts just to a familiarity with the secret of turning his patronage. as First Lord, to his profit as a Cabinet Minister, or like that of Sir John Bar row, whose knowledge (for of ignorance we acquit him), whose prejudices, jealousies, and sorenesses, he being a fixture of the Whitehall edifice, are all brought into ac tion by whatever his habits have prepared him to look upon as an intrusion from without—such official gentlemen, we say,have displayed a good deal of starched and sullen arro gance, at what they go so far as to term the " treasonable" violation of professional duty perpetrated by naval officers who have brought to light the criminal neglect or incapacity of Lord Minto and his colleagues. The charge is, that the " Flag Officer" and Captain Craufurd have been guilty of some monstrous misdemeanour in disclosing to foreign 'Go vernments facts connected with the fallen state of the Bri ti-h navy, an arqaaintanee with which facts may be used to the detriment of Great Britain. Now, there is not a de cently-informed foreigner, nor any Englishman above the rank of an idiot, who does not know that the business of every foreign Ambassador in this country (and of every British Ambassador abroad), is to obtain, by all the means within his reach—those means being innumerable, and easily acces sible everywhere—the most exact information respecting the public force, military as well as maritime, of the Govern ment to which he is accredited. British Ambassadors to the several ruling Powers of Europe, Asia, and Ame rica—and even British Consuls, in whatever city of the earth, would, if this Whig Ministry were like any other Ministry, incur prompt dismissal on the earliest evidence afforded of their ignorance or misinformation touching the resources, naval, military, financial, or commercial, of the country wherein they were stationed. It is a farce, there fore, and an impudent farce, for men in office here to make believe that they " are afraid of foreign Powers acquiring," from pamphlets published by individual Englishmen, one particle of insight into :the re::! position, the wants, and weakness of our national establishments, beyond that which they are already and have long since been possessed of. Why, it would be as ridiculous to imagine that any novel facts were conveyed through such channels to rival or hostile Courts as that the " Flag Officer " or Captain Craufurd had made the Russian Government wiser than it was already, by detailing for the information of the people of England the number of vessels, men, and guns, which composed the strength of the Baltie fleet or of the squadron in the Euxine. Yet part of Sir J. Barrow's vituperation launched against the above gallant officers seems actuary pro voked by the crime of their publishing so accurate a state ment of the naval force of foreign Powers, that such Powers themselves would thus become more formidable by reason of the new light imparted to them by a British visitor con cerning their own armaments and resources! The real offence, however, is simply that the pamphlets which we refer to have succeeded in effecting the honourable and patriotic work which they were designed for—viz., opening the eyes, not of foreigners, but of the British nation, to the manifold dangers and disgraces which impend over them, which have originated in the supineness and miserable self ishness of these same official intriguers, and of which the exposure has done more towards destroying the foundations of the Melbourne Government than the failure, or even than the threatened success, of any one of its measures of internal policy. It is clear, upon the face of these profes sional statements, and still more so from the reluc tant acknowledgments of Sir John Barrow—first, that Russia has of ships in commission just double the num ber of line-of-battle ships which he (Sir John Bar row) assumes, and incorrectly assumes, are now ready for sea on the part of England. Russia, accord ing to his avowal, has 40 sail of the line in commission (be sides 24 heavy frigates), of which 27 sail of the line are fully armed, manned, equipped, and provisioned for four months, within, a week's sail of Hull or Edinburgh, while England, according to his assumption, has 21 sail of the line in commission (with only nine frigates), of which 21 sail of the l:ne three are without their lower-deck guns, and three others—to wit,the guardships—without hands enough to navigate as many frigates ; so that the total of our effec tive line of battle ships does not exceed 15 sail in commis. sion, manned with only the peace complement ; of which 15 sail not a single ship, save one at Sheerness, is sta tioned to the northward of the Downs, and not so much as a watch or sentinel has for these four years past been so placed on any part of the eastern coast of Great Britain as to give the alarm in case of an enemy's fleet passing the Sound towards the westward. But as for fight ing such a fleet, or snaking even a show or mockery of resistance, the British Ministers have never dreamed of it. They have left the shores of this great kingdom utterly defenceless, without either ships to prevent an enemy's landing, or troops to punish him for having done so ! Sir John Barrow tries to sneer at all this, and would actually persuade the people of England that it is a mere joke to talk of Russia with a well-prepared fleet of twenty seven sail of the line, and without the chance of meeting a solitary British frigate on their passage, having " had it in her power," any time these four years, to despatch the said fleet against any port of England that she pleased, landing her troops wherever she pleased, and committing whatever destruction of life and property it might suit the caprices of her semi-barbarous myrmidons to inflict upon us. Why, let us ask, what was to hinder the Russian Govern ment from invading us if it had thought proper ? We seek a reply to the question. What hindrance had she to fear? Was it the Admiralty telegraph at Whitehall, swinging about its helpless arms, fatiguing the eye of foot-passen gers with its interminable contortions, and beating the air with signals to the out-ports, which there was not a single sloop of war to obey ? Was the obstacle that scared the Government of St. Peterslaugh no thing more than a broadside from the Secretary of the Ad miralty, in the form of a contemptuous appendix fired at the head of the Russian Admiral, as a similar battery has recently been discharged at a " Flag Officer" of the British navy, and with an effect so pitiable ! We ask again, srliat, when the frost breaks up, two months hence at the latest —what is still to prevent the Russian fleet from attacking the shores of England this very coming spring, if Nicholas feels that he has any just vengeance to satiate on Viscount Palmerston ! Will there be a fleet, or a squadron, a squa dron even of steamers, ready for service in the North Sea this spring ? Are the smallest preparations made for it ? Have any ships been put into commission since the Ganges and the Powerful, both destined for the Mediterranean ? We apprehend not one. Fortifications, proh pudor . 1 are erecting in the Thames to save Sheerness, about 40 miles east of London, from falling by a coup-de-main, with its fine basins, dockyard, ; but of our wooden walls we hear no syllable ; from Mexico to Cron gtadt there waves not a British pendant, A valu able hint was thrown out by the " Flag-Officer," ad vising the convcrs;on of a good number of the old eighteen pounder 46-gun frigates into 26-gun corvettes carrying Bft. 2-pounders on a single deck. They would then become truly formidable vessels of a class which is deplorably wanted, far superior to the Curacoa, once a 42-gun frigate, and since cut down to a24on a single deck. The stability of the above description of men-of-war would thus be sensibly increased, their draught of water much reduced ; they would become buoyant and lively as seagulls, and the f astes t Sailing vessels in the navy. Arm them as they were formerly, with 28 18-pounders and 18 32-pound car ronades, and there is not an American or French corvette of 20 guns that will not be sure to capture them. But make them razees, and arm them as now proposed, and no corvettes equal to them will swim the Atlantic Ocean. ,However, the neglect of this improvement forms but one amongst innumerable heads of charge against tha Mints, dynasty. Sir John Barrow may attempt to snub down and intimidate the free expression of their sen timents by officers of the marine of England. But it will not do. We have before us a short pamphlet by a o Naval Officer," who tells the officials of the Admiralty some ::!Ime truths. It is entitled " Observations upon a "Letter au '“-iressed .PY to the Earl of Minto, by One of the people." In „ P 1 to the author of the last-mentioned publication, who rei'm mends "for our defence a flotilla of war steamers , in the asts4ence . „ of ships of the line, the Naval Officer' asks , ver y nail'. ally, where is that flotilla to come from ? ' Where are 12, or 6, armed steamers to be found in our port s ? We are just as destitute of steamers, fit for war, as we ar e of every other naval defence.'" In fact, Sir John Barrow, in his table, acknowledges that of war steamers actually afloat (besid es fi ve w hi c h are only building), Great Britain bas n o t more th an seven, while France has twenty eight—four to one ! and Russia eight. Sir John indeed, attempts by an inuendo to smuggle the unarmed and undersized Po s t- o ffi ce p ac kets of England amongst her steamers fit for w ar , b u t th a t i s ludicrous to any judge who bas seen the packets. The " Naval Officer" then goes on It is not one flag officer, or one captain, or one lieu tenant, in the British navy, but the generality of naval officers (not allowing party feeling to interfere with their judgment of what is for their country's interest), who coin cide in the remarks and facts contained in the " Flag Offi cer's" letter. Naval officers are not dispirited from want of zeal, but from knowing that if a war should find England in her present state, they must be blockaded in their own ports, and this, Sir, you carify when you say we are now relying on the forbearance of 7 In short, the un pavy has been varnished state o ' the navy is that !he starved by a false economy, to help out Mr. Spring Rice's }h r it tlng jobbed by Whig official kri, ;try to keep I'2 bad political characters in the occupation of rather more than that num ber of places, and in the receiptiof a sum exceeding 50,0001. per annum. How long is this to last ?—Times. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DERBY BETTING. 11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton 15 to 1 asst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh—taken 200 to 10 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus CHESTER TRADES' CUP. 11 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole 11 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren 12 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon . 18 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Modesty 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway RIO to 3 agst Mr. Buckley's Dick HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Lord Moreton's hounds on Thursday at Lydiard Park ; Saturday, at shrivenham—half-past 10. The Essex and Suffolk hounds on Friday at Wiston-11. Lord Clinton's hounds on Friday at the Kennel. Mr. Tudway's hounds on Friday at Yarlington Lodge. Mr. Bulteel's hounds on Friday at Torr Bridge—half-past 10. Mr. Leche's hounds en Thursday at Worthenbury—half-past 10. The North Shropshire hounds on Thursday at Waltherton Lodge ; Saturday, at Wytheford Wood—qr. to 11. Sir 'l'. Boughey's hounds on Friday at Knowhvall Gate, Trent ham—hall-past 10. The Ludlow hounds on Wednesday at Oaker; Saturday, at Nor ton's Camp-10. The Herefordshire hounds on Friday at Callow Turnpike-10. Mr. Candler's hounds on Friday at the Lickey—half-past 10. The East Kent hounds on Wednesday at Sweech Gate ; Satur , day, at Cheriton Wood—half-past 10. The East Kent harriers on Thursday at Pineham—half-past 10. The South Wold hounds on Saturday at Ravensby-10. Mr. Foljambe's hounds on Thursday at Eaton Broken ; Friday, at Steckham ; Saturday, at Thoresby Park—half-past 10. Duke of Cleveland's hounds on Friday at Barton Lane End— half-past 10. The Sinnington hounds on Friday at Rivaul's Bridge-10. Mr. Drake's hounds on Thursday at Edgeot Village; Saturday, at Stratton Audley—half-past 10. Mr. Giles's hounds on Thursday at Highnam-10. The Hove harriers on Saturday at Erringham, near Shoreham— half•past 10. The Badsworth hounds on Thursday at Dorrington : Saturday, at Britton Village—half -past 10. Mr. Dyson's harriers on Friday at Bolton—half-past nine. Mr. Sandiford's hounds on Wednesday at Paterstone House ; Friday, at. Fulingdestone-11. The Tweedside harriers on Saturday at Proctor's Smithy-1. The Fife harriers on Thursday at Mount Melville ; Saturday, at New Inn—half-past 10. The B. V. H. on Friday at Burton Common. The Crewkerne harriers on Thursday at Barrow's Hill—hf-p.lO. Sir M. W. Ridley's hounds on Wednesday at Rothley Village ; Friday, at Pouteland; Saturday, at Newton Underwood—hf-p.lO. The Galewood hounds on Wednesday at Donaldson's Lodge, be tween Cornhill and Twizel Castle ; Friday, at Sandy House, near Milfield—half-past 10. The Knapton harriers on Friday at Happisburgh-11. The Alnwick hounds on Thursday at Beanley Moss-10. The Haydon hounds on Wednesday at Elrington ; Saturday, at Haydon Plantation-10. Mr. Surtee's hounds on Thursday at Ministeracres South Lodge —I 1. Mr. Watson's hounds on Thursday at Widdrington ; Saturday at Longherst-10. The Morpeth harriers on Thursday 'et Hepseot-10. The Tynemouth beagles on Friday at Preston-10. The Brancepeth hounds on Friday at Esh-11. The Lancaster Union harriers on Wednesday at Arkholme ; Friday, at Newton-10. Mr. Farrington's hounds on Friday at Littlewood—half-past 10. The Carlisle hounds on Wednesday at Burthwaite ; Friday, at Cumwhitton-10. The Inglewood hounds on Friday at Rose Wood—half-past 10. The Wigton harriers on Wednesday at Blencoss; _Friday, al Kedgill7B. Trio Eamont harriers on Wednesday at Ranbeck ; Saturday, at the Grotto--half-pass 10. The Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hounds on Thursday at Tor phiehen Bridge ; Saturday, at Blackburn—half-past 10. The Perthshire hounds on Saturday at Gask—half-past 10. Mr. Villebois's staghounds on Thursday at Barton-11. Colonel Wyndham's hounds on Wednesday at Cocking Hill ; Friday, at Aldsworth Bridge—half-past 11. The Duke of Beaufort's hounds on Wednesday at Lydiard Plain ; Friday, at Tormarton ; Saturday, at Grittleton House—hf-past 10. Sir J. Flower's hounds on Wednesday at Caston Green-11. The Cleveland hounds on Thursday at Court Green-10. Lord Suffield's hounds on Wednesday at Stanton Wyvil ; Thurs day, at Keytherpe : Friday, at Widmerpool Inn—half-past 10. The Atherstone hounds on Wednesday at Hopwas Bridge ; Thursday, at Wharton Village; Saturday, at Coton—quarter to 11. The Marquis of Hastings's hounds on Wednesday at Clifton Vil lage ; Saturday, at Chaddesden Cross Roads—half-past 10. The Oakley hounds: on Wednesday at Millbrooke ; Thursday, at Crawfield ; Saturday, at Snelso*-11. The Cambridgeshire hounds on Friday at the Kennel—hf-p. 10. Mr. Muster's hounds on Wednesday at Holme Pierreyont--12 ; Friday, at Redgate Spring-11. At Lord Chesterfields hounds on Thursday at West Haddon ; Friday, at Buttock's Booth ; Saturday, at Fineden Poplars—half-past 10. The Duke of Grafton's hounds on Wednesday at Ashley's; Friday, at Whistley o •cl —1 1 . The Skythrop hounds on Thursday at Ditchley; Friday, at Tangley. The Craven hounds on Wednesday at Hampstead Mill ; Satur day, at Dornington Gate. The Craven harriers on Wednesday at Holme Bridge ; Friday, at Carlton-11. Mr. Fane's harriers on Thursday at Wapsgrove-lane ; Saturday, at Watlington. The Norfolk hounds on Wednesday at Chapel Mill, Gressenhall ; Friday, at Duke's Bridge—half-past 10. The Warwickshire hounds on Thursday at Eatington Village ; Saturday, at Avon Dassett—half-past 10. Mr. Phillipps's hounds on Thursday at Bradridge Farm-10. The Fowlescombe harriers on Wednesday at Loddiswell Village; Saturday, at Hanger Down-10. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 26.—The Powerful and Zebra are fitting at Sheerness, for the Mediterranean. The Cleopatra, 28, was commissioned at that port on Thursday. by Capt. Lushington. Sir Robert Otway has struck his flag to attend his duties at the Palace for two or three weeks. The Daphne, 18, Commander Darling, went out of harbour on Tuesday, and will proceed in a day or two, with the Ganges, 84, to Lisbon. The Jaseur, 18, Commander Boultbee, arrived at Gibraltar on the 4th inst. The Inconstant, 36, Capt. Pring, left Cork, for Halifax, on the 18th inst., with troops on board. The Wolf, 18, left Trincomalee, for England, on the 27th October. The Imogene,2B, was at Callao in the early part of November last. The Hastings. 74, has left Malta for Minorca, for a month; the Rodney was under repair on the 6th inst., on which day the Minden, 74, proceded to Malta. The Wellesley, 74, with Rear- Admiral Sir Frederick Mait land's flag on board, was at Madras on the 14th November, completin g her provisio n s ; s h e was go i ng t h ence t o Trinco malee and Bombay. The Revenge,' ; 76, is ordered to be got completely ready for commission in March. The .iEtna is ordered to be rigged, and to he sent to Liver pool, where she is to remain as a receiving ship for volunteer seamen. The Seaflower cutter arrived yesterday (Friday) from Bris tol, with ten volunteer seamen. The Britannia now musters nearly 1,000 men, including her crew. The Cameleon, which sailed on Saturday for Plymouth, put back on Tuesday, and proceeded again on the following day. In the Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Electra, Messenger (steamer), Seaflower (cutter), Cracker (tender). At Spithead—Ganges, and Daphne. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. - Captain— Stephen Lushington, to the Cleop.itra. Commanders—John Adams, to Acorn. Anthony W. Milward, to the Hydra steamer. Lieutenants—William Morris (b) to the Trinculo ; H. A. Story, to the Cornwallis ; W. Austen, to Acorn ; Assistant Surgeons—Thomas Duff Milne, to Hasler Hospital ; J. Hodge, to the Britannia ; J. Walsh, to the Princess Charlotte. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, JAN. 26.—Her Majesty's ship, Hercules, 74, Captain Toup Nicolas, will go into the Sound, on Tuesday, and be paid wages on Thursday mat. Her Majesty's ship Malabar, 74, Captain E. Harvey, being found very defective, her stores arc all ordered to be returned, and it is expected the Agincourt, or Bellei3le, 74, will be com missioned in her place. Her Majesty's ship Phoebe, 42, having been ordered as a receiving ship for supernumeraries and volunteer seamen, was warped to her moorings near the Royal Adelaide, on Wednesday. Her Majesty's brig Came'ieon, 10, Lieutenant-Commander G. Hunter, arrived here on Thursday, from Portsmouth. She will proceed to Lisbon with the prize crew of the Diligente, captured by the Electra, afterwards to Sierra Leone, and run down the African coast, and finally proceed to Rio Janeiro to join Commodore Sullivan. The keel of her Majesty's ship Spartan, 42, ordered to be built in this yard, was laid on Saturday last. Her Majesty's brig Rolla, 10, Lieutenant-Commander C. Hall, sailed on Tuesday for the North Coast of Spain. The crew of her Majesty's packet Opossum, 4, Lieutenant-Com mader R. Peter, were paid wages on Wednesday, and sailed on Thursday for Falmouth. Her Majesty's ship Acorn, 16, is daily expected to be commissioned at this port by Com mander Adams, late of the Water Witch ; she is to have a complement of 110 men. Five boys were entered as apprentices to shipwrights in this clock-yard on Wednesday. Ships in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, 104, Captain T. White; San Josef, 110, Captain T. Taylor ; Malabar, 74, Captain E. Harvey; Hercules, 74, Captain T. Nicolas; Meteor, steam-vessel, 2, Lieut.-Com. D. Pritchard; Dili gence, Naval Transport. In the Sound—Cameleon, 10. Orders have been received at this dock-yard to report to the Admiralty the period of time it will require to complete the Nile, 92, - for launching. Her Majesty's ship Inconstant, 36, Captain D. Pring, arrived at Cork on Saturday, the 12th instant, and was to sail in a few days with detachments of the 37th and 69th Regi ments, for Halifax. Her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, 26, is ordered to be com missioned at Sheerness, by Captain S. Lushington. Mr. John Boon, of Stonehouse, is appointed Clerk of her. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1839. ANTI-CORN LAW MEETING IN KENDAL, This meeting took place on Tuesday evening at the Town hall. It excited very great interest in the town, and soon after the appointed hour of assembling the Hall and Council chamber, which had been thrown into one, were crowded. A strong feeling of enthusiasm prevailed. The IVlaloa, on taking the chair, read the requisition. Mr. ISAAC WILSON had been requested to move the first resolution--" That this meeting views with alarm the present limited supply and rapidly-increased price of corn, which is the chief subsistence of our working population ; and that it regards the present legislative enactment on the importation of fuleign grain as the source of this crying evil." Foreign nations had given over growing corn, in consequence of the cessation of cur demand for it. As we had resolved to manu facture, if he might be allowed the expression, our own corn, they had determined to establish manufactures for themselves. Mr. RICHARD WILSON felt great pleasure in seconding the resolution. It had been stated that land would go out of culti vation if the growth of corn was discouraged. Had the pro gress of manufactures put land out of cultivation, or of rail roads? The moment you set down a little manufacturing village, that moment you double land in value. If you can make manufactures general throughout England, you will double the value of land throughout the country; and if we can be supplied with food without artificial limitation, the popu lation will be increased and more flourishing. The resolution was put to the vote, and carried by a forest of hands, as were all the others. Mr. YEATES proposed the second resolution—. That the Corn-laws are mo. t decidedly Frejudicial to the manufactur ing and commercial interests of this country, without con• ferring any single benefit on the British farmer, crippling the enterprise and resources of capitalists, oppressing the energies of industry, and causing the labour of our artisans to be super seded by foreigners both at home and abroad." In advocat ing it, he said that he stood in a peculiar position. A re duction of rents would materially affect him, because it was from the produce of land that his income chiefly came. He had, however, always been an advocate for repeal, and still was so. Long before, when he was engaged in commercial pursuits, he had seen the fatal tendency of Corn-laws, and he had waged arguments, many years back, with friends who were full of the landed interest as opposed to the commer cial. The Corn-laws, in their present operation, weighed upon all. He only wished the prayer of the petition might be such, that as many as possible, even landowners, could join in it. Mr. Yeates sat down amid great cheering. Mr. NICHOLSON, paper manufacturer, rose to second the resolution. He could tell the meeting that the cotton and woollen manufacturers were not the only sufferers by foreign competition. The trade he was engaged in (the paper ma nufacture) he could tell them was seriously affected ; for not only were our exports of paper rapidly on the decline, but paper-making machinery was every year shipped off in great quantities to foreign countries, where we lately had a good market; ay, and they were actually now exporting rags front Liverpool to the United States—so that this was a two-edged sword against us, raising the price of our raw material, and depreciating the value of our manufactured produce.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Three or four years ago the house he was con nected with had very frequently nice export orders, but now they could not send a ream. He had written to a friend of his, in Lancashire, in the same trade, a gentleman who at one time had his traveller out six months in every year, in Germany and the Low Countries, and he had received his friend's reply by the post that afternoon, which showed how gradually and rapidly the exports of that maker had fallen off for a number of years back, from some hundred thousand pounds weight of paper per annum, till now he confessed he wag fail ly beaten out of the market I He quoted the quan tities from 1833 to the present time. The foreigner was get ting our machinery, and our best men to put that machinery in motion. Mr. Nicholson stated that they had some time ago a clever workman, a paper-maker, who was glad to get his 11. a week with them, till a machine-maker at Bolton, who was exporting a quantity of paper machinery to Russia, wrote to this man, and offered him the choice of two situations, one at St. Peteraburgh, with 3001. a year, or one in Moscow, with 2301. a year. Now, any check in the demand for goods in creases the competition in our own markets, and produces a fall of prices. Five years ago only they got 10s. for a ream of taper, which they were now obliged to sell for Bs., a reduc tion of twenty per cent. He would ask for repeal, total re peal, and nothing less than repeal. Mr. Nicholson seconded the resolution, and resumed his seat amidat repeated cheers. Mr. THOMAS WILSON (Netherfield) moved the next resolu tion :—" That an Association be now formed, to be called The Kendal Anti-Corn-law Association,' the object of which shall be to communicate with other kindred associations ; to collect and spread information on the Corn-law question ; to prepare petitions, and to watch the proceedings in Parliament on the subject. That the Asasociation shall consist of all per sons who may subscribe to the declaration annexed to this re solution, ani who shall Make"payment of not less than ls. That an executive Committee of eighteen members with power to add to their numbers, be appointed to conduct the affairs of the association (five to be a quorum), and who shall meet ac cording to the exigencies of the occasion. That the attention of the Association shall be confined to the objects here stated, having no reference to party politics." " DECLARATION.—, We, the undersigned, viewing the present Corn-laws as the source of great privations to the working population, and as a severe check upon our national prosperity, do hereby form ourselves into an Association for the purpose of diffusing information on the subject, and petitioning Parlia ment for remedial measures." Mr. JOHN JOWITT WILSON seconded the motion. Mr. JOHN WHITWELL supported the resolution. The main argument with him was, that instead of lowering wages in Eng land, we should raise wages abroad; instead of depressing our artisan to the level of the foreigner, we want to raise the fo reigner to our own standard. Let the English buyer go into the market of Dantzic, Odessa, or Naples, and flour would soon rise. No sooner did the Americans learn that wheat was coming out of bond in England, than their markets rose 6a. to 7s. a quarter. So would it be all over the world, the only difference in price being the expense of transit and the prefits of the importer. Let us then he put on a level with other nations in the price of food, and with God's blessing, the industry, talent, and ingenuity of the British artisan shall yet brave the opposition of the world. We must honestly pay our debts, but let us away with the Corn-laws, and we shall yet be able to compete with those for whom those debts were incurred. What did the meeting think of printed calicoes and hardware being imported from Germany into the Clyde of woollen cloth selling in England cheaper than we could make it? He (Mr. Whitwell) had seen, in a merchant's ware house in London, cloth from Germany which cost ss. per yard, and which could not be bought for less than 7s. 6d. per yard in Yorkshire or the West of England. So also the French had bought Irish wool, made it into mouselin de laine, ' and sold it in London below what our spinner, weaver, or prin•er could do. He appealed to Messrs. T. Wilson and Sons, whether their once-large trade to Germany, in fancy waist coatings, had not been stopped, and whether the Germans had not said, " If you would take our grain we would take your manufactures ?"—( Mr. T. Wilson replied in the affirmative.) Another manufacturer here had received letters from America, stating that they had begun to make their own Kendal cotton. Once the staple expo: tof the Kendal trade. The hosiers of this town had serious statements to make of foreign opposition. Look at the exportation of machinery in the three years, 1831, 1832, and 1833—its average value was 135,6571. ; in 1836, 1837, and 1838, the average bad increased to 365,414/. or nearly treble, and this amount was nothing to the immense machine-making establishments abroad, and generally under the superintendence of British skill, and to some of which nothing in England could be compared. The foreign manu facturers had likewise learned the importance of English wools, and had taken away 8,000 packs of 2401b5. weight each last year, in fact, mere than the growth of all Cumberland, thus greatly enhancing the value of the raw material to the Eng lish manufacturer, while, if the foreign and home manu facturer went to the Liverpool or London markets for wool, the former could buy his wool in bond at id. less than the Englishman, while the latter would have to pay that amount of duty (or Id. per lb. if the wool was worth above ls.), the foreigner takes his away free. The inevitable cothe quence of this state of things was seen in the increased exports of foreign countries; thus, taking the average exports of the five years from 1820 to 1824, and from 1832 to 1836, the increase in the intermediate period had been front England 18 per cent., from France 91 pee cent., from America 65 per cent. These were facts, not theories, and should tell upon the judgment with irresistible force. Mr. ISAAC ED➢SONDSON, manufacturer, moved the follow ing resolution :—" That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby presented to the Mayor, for his able and im partial conduct in the chair," which was seconded by Mr. EDWARD GIBSON, and both of those gentlemen avowed them selves total repealers. Mr. Gibson said that if the petition to emanate from the Association did not pray for a total repeal, he should not put his signature to it. This declaration elicited a loud burst of appleuse. The MAYOR briefly, but appropriately, returned thanks. At the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Edmondson exhibited some specimens of German manufacture, in woollen caps (an extensive branch of business in this town), at fifteen per cent. cheaper than they could be manufacture dat here. The meet ing then separated. ANTI - CORN-LAW MEETING AT STROUD. On Wednesday last a very numerous meeting was held :it the Subscription Room, Stroud, pursuant to advertisement, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament on the sub. ject of the present Corn-la w s, with a view to their repeal. The hour fixed for th e meeting. was one o'clock, and by that time a very large company had assembled. Altogether, per haps, the: company present might be computed at from 1,700 to 2.000 persons. CHARLES STANTON, E sq. , having been called to the chair, addressed the meeting to the following effect : It is my deliberate co nv i ct i on, Gentlemen, a conv i c ti o n not formed at the present time, but many years since, and to which conviction each year has added new strength, that our present melancholy commercial condition does depend upon unjust and partial legislation, and nothing else.—( Mr. Stanton here gave a succinct statement of the various changes which the Corn-laws have undergone up to the pre sent time.) The,e laws (he observed) have been for many years entirely prohibitory ; for it is quite clear that unless prices are driven up above 60s. no corn can possibly be taken from the foreign grower except at a loss, and he, finding the British market closed upon him and the capital he has ex pended in raising corn unproductive, ceases to cultivate for the English market, is satisfied' only to grow enough to meet the probable demand, and gradually withdraws his capital from the soil to make use of it in a more remunerating manner. The consequence is, that with wheat in this country at 10s. a bushel, there is not probably corn in Europe sufficient to supply our deficiency. There is also another effect of these laws ! e, Le 1 1 will just mention. At Udesea wieeet ix per- chased at from 40s. to 455. par quarter. It will cost 20s. a quarter more to bring it over, and as much as three months will elapse before it reaches this country. But by that time the averages may have fallen considerably; and if they have only fallen to 70s. there would then be a duty to pay of 10s. Bd. a quarter. There is also another view to be taken of this question, as applied to foreign cultivation of wheat. Capital was invested in foreign soils with a view to the supply of the English market. This has necessarily proved unpro ductive, as the market was closed, and capital, instead of con tinuing to be wasted, has naturally been withdrawn from the lend and converted into manufactures. On my visit to Germany last year, I was told that a large mercantile order had even come to Vervier, in the Netherlands ; thus showing the commencement and rapid progress of a system of competition, which, unless met by a better system with regard to the price of food than at present, must b.t ab selutely ruinous to this country.—( Hear.) I now come to, to you, as so many of you belong to the labouring classes, the most interesting part of this subject, namely, the bearing of the Corn-laws upon the rate of wages. It is in this view that you are chiefly interested in this subject, and I am sorry to say a great misunderstanding exists in re ference thereto, owing to the poison instilled into your cars by the landed aristocracy, who, if they can keep up their rents, care little, I fear, for the general prosperity. Why do we want corn cheap ? That we may have labour cheap. Why do we want labour cheap? To have goods cheap. Any why do we want goods cheap? Why, to comp, to with these very men in Germany and other places, who are even now manufacturing cloths and other pro ducts which are driving us out of the markets. There fore to that extent what you have been told is true, that it is the tendency of wages to accommodate itself to the price of food. But, let me ask you, have you found your wages rise with the price of wheat?—(No, no.) Have you even found your wages stationary under the operation of the Corn Bill ? On the contrary, have not your wages been declining year after year ?—( Yes, yes.) And such they will continue to do unless these laws be altered. I believe that we possess within ourselves, by a proper alteration of the Corn laws, such a power of stimulating the demand for labour in this country as to absorb the whole supply.—(Hear, hear.) Although the tendency of the abolition of the Corn-laws, and an attendant decrease from the present high prices of food, might be to create a corresponding lowering of wages, yet the condition of the labourers would very soon be improved by the increased demand tor their industry. At the present moment how is the principle operating ? You are all paying 10s. a bushel for your wheat, and when Saturday night comes do you take as much of your wages as you used to do to the shoemaker, the hatter, and the draper ; or do you not take a much greater portion to the baker ? I think I can answer that a great portion of your wages is absorbed in bread.—[" We don't get half enough of that !"] Here then is at once seen the effect of the Corn-laws. An other point which I would just touch upon, is as regards the agricultural labourers and the farmers themselves. It is a known axiom in political economy, that in proportion as the price of wheat rises the landlord obtains an increased rent. If by an Act of Parliament the price of corn were fixed at 1003. a quarter, would the farmer or his labourer be benefited ? Not a jut. Why, the landlord would at once say to the farmer, Thomas Styles, things are better, Thomas; you now get 100 s. a quarter for your wheat, and you paid me such a sum when you could only get 70s. fQr it. You must pay me the difference Thomas, in rent, or else Jack Straw is willing to come in and take the farm out of your hands."—( Hear.) The consequence is that all the difference goes to the landlord. CHARLES STEPHENS, Esq., having read a series of resolu tions, observed, the resolutions I have had the honour to read to you designate the present Corn-law as a landlord's tax ; or in other words it is a monopoly of the sale of corn for his benefit. It is undoubtedly intended to be for the benefit of the proprietors of the soil, who are, I am quite free to con fess, a most valuable and influential class in the country. The interest of manufactures, and of commerce more especial ly, above all things, requires the rescinding of these laws. Our former boasted supremacy of capital, machinery, and en terprise, I am sorry to say, is fast vanishing under the fatal operation of the present Corn-laws; and it is a fact both humi liating and distressing, that British capital and British skill are leaving these shores in vast masses to take root in th© more genial soil of the Continent, where these objectionable restric tions have no existence. I can only refer you at this moment, for a! proof of what I say, without taking up too much of your time, to an extract from the Leeds Mercury.—[Mr. - Stephens here read a statement from the above paper, which said that several eminent machine makers, and a number of spinners, were about to emigrate to Belgium, where large machine-making establishments and manufactories were greatly on the increase. The same article also gave a comparative statement of the increase of foreign trade in the tlaree countries of England, France, and the United States, on the average o f five years from 1832 to 1836, compared with the five years from 1820 to 1824; from which it appeared that the increase of English exports had been 18 per cent, while the French exports had increased 91 per cent., and the American 71 per cent.'] It is right (continued Mr. Stephens) that I should het e notice the usual plans upon which the proprietary ground their claim to legislative protection. They are chiefly two. First, the burdens which English lands are called upon to sustain, and the danger of throning us dependent upon foreign countries for a supply of corn. The burdens alluded/to consist principally of poor's-rates and tithes, and I am most happy to have an op portunity of congratulating the landed proprietors and the country in general upon the very considerable alleviation of these burdens by recent enactments. The poor -rate, that most grievous and heavy burden, has been materially diminish ed ; and, as regards tithe, the Tithe Commutation Act, at this time in operation, is calculated to effect the greatest good to the farmer, by removing one of his most serious impediments. Mr. WILLIAM Lizwrs seconded the resolutions, which were put by the Chairman to the meeting, and carried unani mously. SAMUEL S. MARLING, Esq., rose to move that petitions to Parliament embodying the resolutions be prepared and signed, and that the one to the Lord? be presented by Earl Fitz wil liam, and the one to the Commons by Lord John Russell ; and that Mr. Scrope be requested to support its prayer. We have the Lords against us, it is true, for they were the party most concerned in passing the present Corn-laws, and most interested in their continuance ; and if it had not been for the landed interest in that House we should have had a much bet ter system of Corn-laws since the time of Mr. Canning. Still, if we succeed by the force of public opinion in carrying our measure through the House of Commons, the Lords will then knock under.—( Cheers.) We have been the manufacturers of the world simply because we were able to produce cheaper and better articles than any of our competitors. If'the Corn laws were abolished, the effect on prices would be reciprocal in this and foreign countries, and bring them towards an ap proximation. It would lower prices here, and enhance prices on the Continent. Mr. ANTHONY FEWSTER came forward to second the reso lution. It is not, my friends, and lam glad you feel it, out of any prejudice to the farmer that we now come forward to peti tion against the Corn.laws; our object is not to ruin the farmer, but, if possible, to introduce such a system of free trade, whereby the farmer, in common with every other man, will reap a fair reward for his capital and labour.—Loud cheers.) I will go a step further, and I say that Ido not conceive the object we have in view would injure even the great landholder, but that it would operate for the general welfare and prosperity of the entire community. 1 should think it was not necessary to prove that our produce is not equal to our consumption. If it were, I need not go very far back. Let us take from 1826. In 1827 the import of foreign corn amounted to no less than five millions and a half of quarters ; all of which was consumed ie this country, as well as nearly a million in 1828, a million and a half in 1830, a million and a half in the spring of 1831. From 1828 to the end of the succeeding five years, 5,700 000 quarters were ad mitted, although there was not one decidedly bad year during the whole of that period. It may be said that we had cheap bread since 1832, but this was owing to the ex traordinary produce, and produce is the principal thing that rules prices. 1832 was a fair sear of produce; 1833 was a large produce ; and i i 1834 there was the largest produce ever known in this country except that of 1820, which was the largest on record. My opinion of the effect of the abolition of the Corn-laws is that a general rise to a certain extent will take place in the price of corn on the Continent, and a gene ral lowering of corn in England, so as to produce something approaching to an approximation. I think that instead of much land being thrown out of cultivation, the landlords themselves will be ultimately much benefited by the abolition of the Corn-laws, as well 0,2 the whole mass of the population. It will give an immense ilimulus to trade, and enable the working classes to purchase more of those articles for which we expect there will be an increased demand as well as a much greater quantity of food.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he had great pleasure in reading to the meeting a letter which he had received from their representa. tive, Lord John Russell. It was needless for him to say that anything coming from the Noble Lord was of much greater importance, from his position as a Cabinet Minister, than if he were a private individual. After some further remarks, the Chairman read the letter from his:Lordship (which has already appeared in the The Sun), and congratulated the meeting and all classes in the country on such an expression of sentiment by a M nister of the Cabinet. - G. P. SCROPE, Esq., M. P., being called for by the meet ing, came forward, and was received with much applause, and after the cheering had subsided, the Hon. Gentleman said—l have always expressed my opposition to the leading principles of the Corn-laws, opposed as they are to the great principles of free trade, of which I have always been the advocate. Ac cording to those principles, every industrious producer ought to be allowed to take his goods to the best market where he can find purchasers, and to go for the ariicles which he requires to the cheapest market where they can be purchased. This is the general principle of the free trade which I have always supported, and which I desire to see form the basis of our commercial legislation. At the same time I hive ever thought that in the period of transition from war to peace there might have been some reason for introducing a moderate graduated scale of duties.—(Cries of " No, no.") However, that is a mere opinion, and as I am speaking of a period of twenty years since—l am alluding to an enactment with which I have nothing at all to do; and at all events I see no excuse for the imposition of 80s. a quarter as the price of wheat, whatever opinion I might have of the propriety of let ting down the grower gently. I understand upon the same ground that the present object, as embodied in the resolution to which you have all agreed, is not that the duty on the im portation of corn should be immediately and entirely abolished, but that a moderate fixed duty should be substituted. With that proposition I entirely agree; and it is one which I shall be happy to support in my place in Parliament, whenever an opportunity for doing so is afforded me.—.(Cheers, and cries o f .4 What arnourt?") Reall , , saii the Horn Wrnber, is a qu;‘,.,tion , i7i-.!) . 1 I ought to 9f you, 71. not stat-Al your resolution, and it is indeed one of detail, which can only be decided upon after much thought and diseussion.— ( Hear, henr.) After the feeling you have shown this day, and having witnessed as I have the unanimous passing of resolutions in favour of an alteration of the present Corn laws, I shall not hesitate to bear my part towards effecting that charge.—( Long, continued cheers.) I may have among my constituents persons, not only farmers, but some trades men who may perhaps think themselves interested in keeping up prices. I will not enter into an argument with them. but at present will only say that I agree with what has fallen from Mr. Fewster, that an alteration, even to the extent of free importation, would not produce that great depression in the price of corn which many farmers anticipate. The home price, upon an average of some years, has not been above 50s. a quarter, and I do not think it possible for the Conti nental grower to supply us with corn at a lower rate, when introduced into our markets. Upon that ground, if any alteration do take place—if we should succeed in obtain ing the repeal or revision of the Corn-law—l hope no one. engaged in the farming interest will take the alarm, and suppose that he will not be able to live by it as he has hitherto done, but that he will, as in all bad times the manu facturers have done, put a shoulder to the wheel, and like them, with a little extra exertion he will be able to get round the corner. Mr. CHARLES HOOPER moved the third resolution, which related to the publication of the resolutions in the Gloucester Newspapera and the Times and _Morning Chronicle. He would not, he said, stand before them to advocate the repeal of the Corn law, if he felt it to be a mere personal grievance ; but as he employed some hundreds of people, all of whom were deeply interested in the question, he considered he should not be performing his duty to them as well as to himself, if he did not raise his voice against these laws. Mr. Hooper then alluded to the fact that the greatest cotton manufacturer in Great Britain had already opened an establishment in Ger many, breaking up two hundred looms in this country in 1837, and two hundred more last year, while the same firm was de liberating whether from the operation of the Corn-laws they should not open two manufacturing establishments in the United States, and leave this country altogether. He always heard with regret of entire families or single men in any branch of manufacture being obliged to quit England, for it was nothing more than putting means into the hands of competition to beat us in the foreign markets. Mr. EDWARD DAVIES seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, said the obser vations of Mr. Hooper had reminded him that when he first attended the foreign wool fairs about ten years ago, the Eng lish buyers were followed about like princes, and were always asked to put a price upon the wool brought for sale. They had then no competitors worth speaking of in the market. Since then, however, a gradual increase had taken place in the native purchasers year by year. This was at first thought little of, but it grew so rapidly that three years since the English no longer ruled the markets, but the foreign buyers took that positi,n, and now the English were not first but fourth-rate buyers in the wool markets of the continent.— ( Hear, hear. ) The resolution having been passed, a call was made upon Mr. NATHANIEL PARTRIDGE, who came forward and spoke as follows—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen : I think an alteration of the Corn-laws would be of tile most vital interest to the coun try. Indeed, it appears to me a question, the result of which will determine whether this country shall rise in prosperity or sink in adversity, whether it shall progress in wealth or sink in the scale of nations.—( Cheers. ) Thanks having been voted to the chairman by acclamation, and Mr. Staunton having expressed his acknowledgements and made a few more remarks illustrative of the operation of the Corn-laws, the meeting separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'SCOURT, JAIN . 26. THE ATTORNEY• GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF WARWICK. This was a suit by the Crown, at the relation of Dr. Wade, the Rector of St. Nicholas, Warwick, for an increase of sti pend out of certain lands, given by the charter and grant of Henry the Eighth, on the dissolution of the smaller monastery in the town of Warwick, for the purpose of supporting two Priests with the cure of souls in that town. The arguments of Counsel on either side having been heard, The VICE-CHANCELLOR dismissed the information. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, J. 26. IN RE THE CANADIAN PRISONERS. At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. Hill begged to state to their Lordships that he had affidavits of the Canadian prisoners, and his intention was to move that those affidavits should be filed, and also to move, with reference to the amendment which their Lordsbips had made in the return at the request of the Attorney-General. It was understood that that the motion would be made or, Tuesday. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 26. _ . After a few motions of unimportance, the Court proceeded to the new trial paper. MILLER AND OTHER ASSIGNEES V. REMINGTON AND ANOTHER. In this case the trial had taken place at the last Assizes at Liver t ,ool, before Mr. Justice Williams, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. On a former day, Mr. Creswell, with whom was Mr. Wat son, obtained a rule, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial had. The case was one of account, arising out of mercantile trans actions betwee❑ a house in Liverpool and another in Bombay, with reference to certain dealings in cotton. Mr. Wightman, with whom was Mr. Crumpton and Mr. Ellis, this day showed cause. Mr. Creswell and Mr. Watson having been heard in support of the rule, The Court discharged the rule as far as related to the nor:- suit, but made it absolute in respect to the new trial. WATsON AND OTHERS V. MORT AND OTHERS. This case was also tried before Mr. Justice Williams, at Liverpool, and was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who arc steam-engine and machinery manufacturers, against the de fendants, who are owners of extensive potteries, to recover a certain sum alleged to be due to them for a steam-engine. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages for 2201. Mr. Creswell, on an early day in the Term, obtained a rule, calling on the defendants to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had. Mr. ALEXANDER, with whom was Mr. Wighrman, now showed cause, contending that the machinery was precisely such as had been ordered by the defendants, and that they, the same parties, were, prior to the erection of the engine itself, cognizant of the extent of its powers. Mr. CRESWELL and Mr. HENDERSON were heard in support of the rule. Lord AU LAGER said that the case was one of some difficulty but that, under all the circumstances, the Court were of opi. nion that there should be a new trial on payment of costs, and the money being brought into Court, The rule was made absolute accordingly. CONSISTORY COURT, JAN. 26. ANACHINI V. ANACHINI. This was originally a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights promoted by Mrs. Anachini against her husband. The parties were married in February, 1823, and cohabited till 1836, several children being the issue. Since the commence ment of the cause separate prayers have been made by both parties, and recriminatory pleas given in. In answer to the original prayer for restitution of conjugal rights, an accusation of adultery was set up against Mrs. Anachini with persons of the name of Ayling and Morton, as well as a charge of cruelty, and a prayer for separation was made by the hus band on these grounds. An allegation was then given in on behalf of the wife, in which Mr. Anachiai was charged with adultery with a maid servant, of the name of Blake, and in which, likewise, a sentence of divorce was sought for by the wife. On the allegations in the cause having been admitted, the arguments on the main question were delivered this day. Judgment was deferred. POLICE .; N TELLI GENCE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday AnthonyF inne;iy,ariold man, aged seventy two, applied to the Magistrates, stating that the order made by them upon the Guardians of the West London Poor-law Union, for granting to him relief out of the workhouse, had been refused by them, and the applicant urged for a peremp tory order, signed by two Magistrates. The applicant was, in addition to his great age, nearly blind, and quite incapable of working at his trade of a tailor. The Relieving Officer said, that the applicant had two shillings a week and a quartern loaf, until he had quarrelled with his wife, when the Guardians refused to give him any relief out of the workhouse. The ALDERMAN said, that as the old man wished to be re lieved out of the house, the Guardians should grant it to him. After a short discussion as to the right of the Magistrates to grant a peremptory order without summoning the Guardians, they decided they had the right, and granted the poor man's request. HATTON-GARDEN. A person of the name of Pike, attired as a countryman, was fully committed for trial, charged by Miss Lorina Wat kins, bookbinder, of No. 47, St. John-square, Clerkenwell, with having stolen 100 copies of Pilkington's Works. It ap peared that on Wednesday last Messrs. Johnson and Barry, the printers, of Mark-lane, sent 400 copies of the work to the prosecutrix's to be bound, and whilst they were in a truck at the door the prisoner stole the property, but he was stopped. I`cr Quarter. C Fkx ham )rpeth Pen rit h Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen-... Y to P S. t'." , S - 38 - 29 - s. to s. 80 64 CO 76 25 46 1 28 36 7f 36 40 1 24 f.,'2 75 - :59 - '29 St -- 41 I - 26 E 8 33 40 2 3. 27 s. d. B.d. b. d. F. tC s. d.' ofi 9 8 0 0 4 0 0 0 44 :00 0 00 40 00 3( Newcastle (Staff.) 0 0 Nortliallerton 9 0 9 0 Swansea 9 0 Warwick 9 0 Per 8011. Barnarde.astle Durham Richmond —,..... Stockton toy 36 40 IU3 36 461 106; 40 481 0 0 40 501 11 0 3(1 461 3 0 3 6 33 40 30 34 26 30 20 33 s. 41 42 44 48 42 .15 s. d. fr. d. 0 001 56 0 0 5 0 5 3 1 1 , 6 6 0 60 67 00 00 56 60 F. to +• ,29 45 49 3a . 34 s. d. s.d. o o t , 00 00 00 000 0 00 00 0 150 22 0 8 0 93i 7 0 88 90 120 10 0 220 70 80, 5 3 7910 0 110 18 0 .21 0 7 0 9 015 0 8 0 9 0 li 0 170 196 VO 99j 76 80 76 Sc WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —Jan, 25, Wiieat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. 765. to 76s fine 70.;. Lin. and Cam to Tss. fine 78 , . Yorkshire —s. 7"s. to 765. fine 765. White Foreign, Ned —s. —s. to —s. fine --S. White —s. —s. to —s. nne Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, Small Tick 40s. to 44.5. fine Vic Oats, Potato .gs. to 28, fine 33' Poland —s. to 28s. fine :2s. Friezland and Sins): —s 245. to 265. fine 18s. Mealing Sh4lling Malt 42s. fine 48s. per Load. Rapeseed —.l. Os 29 . Os. 321. Os. per Last. 16 11 0 86 9 0 90 00 00 00 sco Wheat. 'CH MA: Barley. RKETS. Oats. Beans. i Oatmeal. 4 4 7 0 to 4:0 klscrdeen 75 to 80 3O to 36 22 to 28 —to lkrwiek 5O 60 25 29 17 23 30 Celdstream . 55 24 26 17 18 27 22 Cupar ;Fife) 46 65 126 31 IS 22 22 26 Dundee l4B 98 30 33 20 25 30 31 —.. ".. Elgin - Inverness 62 70 tltt 32 25 26 32 33 Kelso .., , - Kirkaldy Perth - .-•• Thu size of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDINGf ON CORN MARKET.—Jan, 25. Wheat. I Barley. oats. 1 Pease. Beane:, S4s Od 45s Od 36s 04 45 2 od 47 3 Od , 72s Od 446 Od 314 Od 41s Od 45. 0 11 , 686 Od 42. 02 28s 04 I 384 Od 40e 02 Average 3l, 12i Od. 3-12ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—Jan. 24 First Second Third Wheat. Barley. Oats. ['ease. Beans. Find I fsOs Od 44s 6d 31s 8d 47s Od 47s Od Second 748 0,1 40s lid I 21is 6d 44s Od 44s Od Third . s7e Od 29i Od ,I3s 4d 33s 0.1 33. 0 I EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Jan. 2$ We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, and the sales We re rather dull. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Bean" First 9os. Od. 458 Oct. 375. 4d. 465. Od 438 v`' Second BO 0 40 0 30 0 43 0 43 0 Third Average price of Wheat 3/. 153. 6d. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 4d. to Os.7d. Freshßuttel,lb......s.lol. to Is.o l Mutton 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditto oal 11 11 0 7 1 0 Ditto, per ca t..... 84 92 0 Pork 0 6 0 7 Eggs, per dol. —, 0 0 1 ° 00 46 2 0 0 O vtr a h tS e t a r t ew p i t tl..L....-1 0 0 R 11 iy‘ 2uartern UlO 11 Barley Ditto 8 0 10 v, Potatoes, 141 b....., 0 6 0 0 Hay, 1 1 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—Jan 22. There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's . market, and tht sales were rather heavy. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto Barleyinera. .. I 17 0 Peasenssal I 15 01 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 1 25.-2 d, GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doini Wheat, ?.er 24010. s. d. s. o. British, old 4l 0 t 044 0 new 32 0 :IS 0 Canada, free 3B 0 42 (1 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English Scottish Irish Truro.... ...... Helstone St. Austell Bodmin Liskcard Launceston Camelford Penzance. 33Q 360 23 0 33 0 `sou 340 Per Stene ot 141 b. Imp. 8 First Oatmeal £0 2 Second ditto Barleymeal ....... 0 2 Peasemeal 0 2 „ 14s. —3d , 16,-4th, 18 s. —P ea 1, MARKET.—Jan. 23. in Grain ;, prices steady. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 5 ' a. Trish 420 te 265 British 0 26 ° Beans, per 2601 b. pi o English Scottish Pease, Scottish ...„, 24,0 F,'' - Oatmeal, per 1401 h - Flour, per 2solh SS 0 67 0 )RNWALL MARKETS. :elated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. s. d. to e. d. 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 6 0 24 6 0 22 0 0 24 6 21 0 24 0 24 0 26 0 Barley. MINI SG INTEL Quantity of Copper Ore sold Quantity of fine Copper Average Produce Amount of Sale. 15 5.5:21. Od.—A s. d. to s. d. 0 12 0 0 9 2 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 9 0 U 10 0 0 11 0 L d. to 1 2. 0 0 2 0 0 o 0 0 • —0 , 0 —0 ' 0 7 0 0 0 ° 0 LLIGENCE. Tons. CVlt* 9" 2,872 21 n 207 74 7 1 " tverage Standard, 113 E. THE LATE CASE OF STABBING AT H O XTON!_ The adjourned C oro ne r ' s I nques t on th e b o d y o f the cabinn Rushbrook, a ll ege d to h ave di e d i n consequence of a %collo inflicted upon hi m by a young man named Bull n ow in O s ' tody, was resumed y es t er d ay at S t. Leonard's' Workhouse Shoreditch, before Mr. Baker. The additional evidenc' brought forward yesterday was principally that of the P ef ;, sins who were present with deceased a t th e ti me of t e a fatal occurrence. They were for the most part cabmen, a p e detailed the particulars of the affair in nearly the WI; terms as the witness Farmer, who was examined on Tuesdki They admitted that they had been drinking the whol e ; the evening, but denied that they were drunk. They 5 ; 1 deceased make a movement as if going up t o th e accus e ; but heard no words pass between the parti es , nor g a ht any blow struck. If this had taken place they thata they must have known it. They denied that they h a d ies ti : ha s Mr. Lee, one of the witnesses previously e x am i ne d, but n j gentleman being recalled, swore positively to the fact, 1 : 1 , identified the witnesses as those who made up the party- Phillips, who attended for the ac cu s e d, cross - exam i ne d the v:/ 1 d nesses at considerable length, one of them especially, and eliel te , e that he had been tried for burglary. Som e di scuss i on too k 1" 8- 0 between Mr. Phillips and the legal ad v i ser , w h o was p r esent, ° b behalf of deceased's friends, as to the propriety of putting at, questions to the witness, but the Coroner decided that Learned Gentleman had a right to bring forward anyti bearing on the general characte r of th e w i tness as a cr edit person. Two surgeons were examined, an d m i nute l y d e scribe" A the nature of the wound which had caus e d th e d eat h o f 1 05 ,, b ; brook. They had no doubt it had be en i n fli c t e d w ith t" weapon now produced. One very important point in the !li e ; dical testimony a as, that the wound (which was under the rig"., arm) could not have been inflicted unless de cease d had bee" holding his arm above the level of his head. The Coron er ' in summing up the evidence, explained, at considerable 10 , 4 the distinction between murder, manslaught er , an d justifiv'a homicide. The Jury retired for nearly an hour, and return% with a verdict of " Manslaughter against John B u ll." lb s Coroner immediately issued his warrant for his com mitme: t to Newgate, but it is understood that he was to be aga i n broug before the Magistrates of Worship-street this day. ROUND SILVER W Borders. AITERS, with rich Shed Plain Centres. Chased Centres. _ll , oz. s. d. 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Ellen Saggers, the wife of a respectable man, was com mitted for stealing from the sideboard-table of an elderly lady, named Kitchener, a friend of prisoner's, a 51. note About half-past twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning St. Thomas's Church, situated in Arbour-square, Commer cial-road, St. George-in-the East, narrowly escaped destruc tion by fire The fire originated from a stove which had been on the previous day overheated. The Church is supposed to be insured. The Athenceum states, that of the one hunched thousand pounds left by the late Angelo Taylor, Esq., to en dow a college of languages at Oxford, thirty thousand pounds has already passed into the hands of the lawyers ; and that " the crows have not yet done with the carcass." MARRIED. At St. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, by the Hon. Rev. Edward Pellew, Mr. G. B. Palmer, son of James Har r ' Palmer, Esq., to Betsey, daughter of the late John Bracey, 9q 4 of the former place. On the 22d inst., at Black Rock, Cork, John Hugh Bainbridg e Esq., to Jan , . Anne, you ngest d aug ht er o f t h e l ate Henry Wet' ropp. Esq., of Richmond Villa, Limerick. On-the 24th inst., at St. Clement's, Hastings, Henry Gilber t Smith, Esq., to Eleanor, daughter of the late Rey. Webster ler, Rector of Hastings, and Newtimber, Sussex. On the 24th inst., at Donley, Bucks, James, only son of S„ iC James Nicoll Al'Adam, of Whit e h a ll an d T en d on - en d , E ssex . ' Angelica, eldest daughter of Philip Palmer, Esq., of Dorney_woodi granddaughter of the late Sir Charles Harcourt Palmer, Bart., Derney-court. DIED. On the 23d of December, at Cairo. aged 20, Octavius, the youngest son of William Young, Esq., of Highbury.grange. On the 16th inst., at Chaillot, near Paris, Charles Lloyd, Escl il aged 64. On the 18th inst., at Hampstead, Anna Lane Townsend, seceo 4 (laughter of the l a t e Mr. William Townsend, of Wood- e nd, Bee ' , inghamshire. On the 21st inst., Maurice Butcher, Esq., of Porchester-plac e ' Connaught-square, aged 64. On the 22d inst., at Northampton, Lady Throckmorton, wid° of Sir George Throckmorton, of Weston Underwood, Buck' Bart., aged 73. On the 23d inst., at Crediton, in Devonshire, aged 7, Williar° Lancefield, eldest son of F. Drake, of Bouverie-street, solicitor . On the 29th inst., Matilda Eliza Silver, wife of James Silve r ' of Hatton. garden, aged 44. London Printed and Published by IV URDO YOUNG,ofT 6° ; 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in the eennv of Middlesex.--Monday, January 28, 1839. THE MARKETS !ORN MAR Y,E - r` , : 0! .R.EN Wiuu. rt CotTNTRY w'i I 'CetS, BIRTHS. On the 25th inst., in Cornhill, Mrs. Ferguson Camroux, of a son' On the 24th inst., the lady of Sir G. Young, But., of Forme ,* of a son. On the 25th inst., at Blackh ea th P ar k , t h e w id ow of the Isto Adam Gordon, Esq., of a son. T.,AST I Corr be flint lit DF CA; •eve Pub ono Cs I 1 r' R I Pe Pa un