The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In another column will be found a report of the pro ceedings of a very numerous meeting of the Marylebone Vestry on Saturday last, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of presenting a petition to both Houses of the Legislature for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. It was stated by a gentleman at this meeting, that a petition of the inhabitants of the borough had already received upwards of 10,000 signatures. A meeting has been called by the Mayor of Leeds, on a very numerous and respectable requisition, for Tuesday next (to-morrow). The Leeds Mercury, alluding to the proceedings at Man chester on Thursday last, at which it was determined to tender evidence at the bar of the House of Commons, and a subscription entered into towards defraying the expense, observes— " We are deliberately of opinion that the emergency calls for this line of proceeding. We trust it will be i Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Halifax, Sheffield, and Deputations and witnesses should be sent to London from every town, and from every trade. There has not for many years been so favourable an opportunity as the present for urging a repeal of the Corn-laws ,• and it will be blindness in deed, if the great commercial and manufacturing communities neglect to avail themselves of it." The manufacturers of Kendal are, according to the Carlisle Journal, taking measures for having a meeting this week. In the interval between this and the assembling of Par liament meetings for a repeal of the Corn-laws will be the order of the day. The Leeds Mercury justly observes, that the enormous sum required this year, beyond the ave rage amount, for food, must be withdrawn from the pur chase of clothing and other commodities :- 0 If thirty millions of the national income is expended this year on food, beyond the average amount, that immense sum must of course be withdrawn from the purchase of clothing and other commodities. A widow of very limited income said to us the other day, Last year, bread for my family cost six shillings a week ; this year, it costs ten shillings a week.' Now as her family must have bread, the purchase of new clothing will of necessity be very greatly restricted. The experience of this widow will be that of hundreds of thousands of families in the kingdom. This must soon be felt by our manufacturers ; and if, from the state of the money market here and in Ame rica f o e the last two years, there had not been a thorough clearing oft-,?f stocks, and great caution on all hands in renew. ing them, the inju&tts effects of the bad harvest would have been felt already in a great depression of the markets for manufactures." Should there be a want of work in the manufacturing disricts, at a time when prices are at their height, the conseqoences may be serious. This is an ad ditional rea son for urgirvr the repeal of the law with as little delay as possible. The laTe of a brighter future would go far to tranquillize the people under their privations. Mr. Waymouth at the Marylebond meetmg observed, " that nothing could be more groundless than the apprehensions of the landowners, that a free trade in corn wCuld produce a ruinous depression of prices in this country. It will effect an approximation to an equalization of prices be tween tills country and the continent ; but this is very different from ruinously low prices." The English land owner is led to false conclusions from not correctly under standing the cause of the low prices of wheat till the last year in the ports of the Baltic. Wheat could not be raised by farmers cultivating with a view to obtain a fair return on their capital at a lower price than it could be raised at in this country ; but it so happened that the wheat sent down the Vistula to Dantzic, and obtained from other countries on the Baltic, is obtained by the labour of the serfs, who give so many days' labour to their lords. The lord must dispose of this wheat for what it will bring, as it is his chief means for procuring the luxuries of which he is in want. By this wretched mode of cultivation the supply can never be greatly augmented. But a free trade, by giving a permanent demand, would gradually lead to the in vestment of capital in cultivation by a more sub stantial class of farmers. The cultivation of the soil would now be conducted on the principles which go verns all trades : the farmers would expect by the prices obtained to repay' himself the expenses of cultivation, ' and a. suitable return on the capital employed. Now what Secret would the Polish or Prussian farmer have to enable him to cultivate more cheaply than the British farmer? Mr. Nimmo, long employed by Government as an engineer in Ireland, observed in his evidence before a Parliamentary Committee, that labour was in reality cheapest when it appeared to be highest priced. Thus, for instance, it was dearer in the county of Galway when it was only fourpence a day than in the county of Down when it was a shilling ; and it was dearer in the county of Down than in the county of Middlesex. A good farmer would never think of underfeeding either his men or his horses. This is not the sort of economy by which he could expect to thrive. A case which occurred several years ago will illustrate what we have been stating with respect to cheap ness of labour : an English gentleman made an attempt to introduce a manufacture for dressing and preparing flax in three or four counties of the south of Ireland, and, to teach the natives the processes, took with him several Dutchmen and Yorkshiremen. The Irish were sufficiently willing to work, but the experiment was ulti mately ahandoned, it having been found, on keeping an ac count of the work respectively done by the Yorkshiremen and the best of the Irish, that the former in quality was to the latter as 6to 1. No one would think of comparing a skilled English or Scotch agricultural labourer with a Pole or Russian. The quantity of work done, and well done, by the former would be nut of all proportion greater than the quantity done by the latter. The various implements of husbandry are better in this country than abroad. In all that regards system and distribution of labour, the Polish farmer must y'eid to the British. From the severity of the winter, too, both men and cattle must be unemployed for a long period, which, of course, is the cause of more work re maining to be done in a comparatively short period. All this is expensive. Then in such a severe climate as Poland is in winter, a greater outlay on buildings is necessary. We cannot therefore see how in the long run corn can be raised at less expense in the countries on the Baltic than in this island. A free trade in corn would produce some results exceedingly gratifying to a man of humane feelings. At present, the cultivation of the soil, being conducted by serfs, agriculture is a degrading occupation. But to obtain an increase of the quantity of corn, a different mode of cul tivation must be resorted to. The cultivation by serfs being unprofitable, their place will be supplied by respectable farmers and skilled labourers. In this way, the amount of human misery will be diminished, and the amount of human happiness augmented. The free trade in corn will r.o doubt make the price somewhat lower than it can be under a corn monopoly ; but its chief benefit will be the securing us against ruinous fluctuations, and the causing the labour of the people of this country and elsewhere to be more pro fitable than at present. The English will gain in their labour being better rewarded more than in the cheapness of corn ; and they will have the satisfaction of extending the market for their manufactures, and converting rivals, driven by necessity to manufacture for themselves, into customers ready to exchange their food for the products of British industry.—llforning Chronicle. The Citizen-King, whom his flatterers absurdly desig nated the " Napoleon of Peace," has already had quarrels with three republics—America, Switzerland, Mexico, have all in turn provoked the hostile feeling of the " peaceful" King of the Barricades. In the two former instances, how ever, the threatened hostilities evaporated in smoke. Pre sident Jackson cowed the " Napoleon of Peace," and Swit zerland defied iijm. The American President, by strong language and energetic conduct, obtained the payment of the debt which the Frisach Government would have shuf fled out of by picking a quarrel, if the American Govern ment had been as pusillanimous as our own, or the Ameri can State as weak as Mexico. If the Swiss, when a French army was put in movement towards their frontiers, had not shown that they inherited something of the manly courage and patriotism which distinguished their heroic ancestors when they smote the legions of Burgundy, and routed the Austrian invaders, their magnificent country, rich in the recollections of ancient virtue, would now be crouching under the Gallic yoke, and the last continental asylum of the exiled Poles would have been, like Poland itself, blotted from the map of Europe. Thereby the King of the Barri cades would have established additional claims to those which the betrayal of Poland and Italy gave him to the favour of the northern despot. Mexico was weaker than America or Switzerland, and Mexico has felt the full force o f the " pacific" arm of the Citizen-King. " I called," said Canning, with something of a thrasonical boast, " the new world into existence, to redress the balance of the old." Now may the Citizen-King say " England called the South-American states into existence for France to knock them on the head. Mexico, besides being a republic, and a republic created by England, has the additional crime to answer for of being a large purchaser of English goods. The very fiat effect of the blockade of the Mexican harbours by France was to prevent half a million of ,merchandise from Liverpool of a market. Our pusillanimous Ministers submitted to this, as they do to every insult and injury offered to England by foreign powers, with the most smiling submission. May we ask Mr. Poulett Thomson and Dr. Bowring if this is the " re ciprocity" by which they assured us years ago that France was about to meet the liberal folly of our free-trade system ? What with her restrictive tariff at home, and her cutting off our customers obroad, t he ruin well repaid for the liberal legislation that has cause ruin of thousands upon thou sands of our ingenious worken and artisans, to enable rival countries to pour their goods upan our markets while they shut us out of our own. Let that folly-be consummated, as the Whig Ministers seem to desire, by abo:Shing the Corn laws, and making England dependent for her suhsbtenco on the Polish granaries of Russia, and the doom of EneXtd will have been sealed, not by the armies of a foreign con queror, but by the suicidal hand of an insane Legislature, The English flag has been deliberately insulted by the French at Mexico. Neither in that matter will there be any " reciprocity," for our Government will not dare, in turn, to insult that of France. Government had not spirit to demand that France should desist from accomplishing a vast plan of conquest in Africa, along the shores of the Mediterranean, at the expense of our Ottoman ally, al though France bad given a solemn pledge not to make any permanent settlement on that coast when she captured Algiers. A little longer tenure of office by such a Government as we now possess will inevitably place it beyond the power at least of human wisdom to save the empire from utter ruin. —Morning Herald. The greedy manufacturing capitalists, and the journals in their interest, continue their efforts to work up a cla mour against the Corn-laws. It is gratifying, however, to observe that all the ignorant violence on this subject is con fined to knots of selfish individuals and their newspaper or gans. The mass of the working people seem, in this in stance, to have seen through the fraud intended to be prac tised upon them, and the efforts made to agitate them against protection to the agriculture of their own country have so far been made in vain. The working people, in deed, know well enough from experience that the ordinary price of bread in Great Britain is no hardship to them. They have often found that, when bread was at the cheapest, their condition was the worst, and therefore they do not, and cannot, believe the impudent lies which are attempted to be forced upon them by the gross grasping, and greedy capitalists, and their persevering hire lings of the Press. Every workman who can remember the price of bread for the last seven years must know that it has been for months upon months during that time at little more than half its present price, but they may also remember that at such periods they were very frequently much worse off than they now are, and so were their mas ters, too, notwithstanding the noise which they have now the effrontery to make about the Corn-laws. Were it not that in these days the impudent selfishness of manufacturing traffic knows no bounds, we might almost be surprised at the hardihood with which complaints against the Corn-laws are now uttered, for the circumstances of the time—the ac tivity and prosperity of the manufacturing districts, not withstanding the high price of corn—are a direct and palpable proof that the complaints of the factious ma chine-owners are without any honest foundation. The working people in the manufacturing districts cherish no greedy enviousness of the landowners and the farmers. " Live and let live" is the principle upon which they are willing to go ; but the machine-owners are insatiable in their covetousness, and almost cry with envious vexation that any should prosper but themselves. They desire— like their appropriate champion, Joseph Hume, who in gross stupidity, inordinate self-conceit, and intense selfishness, is their matchless representative—they desire, like him, that there might not be another blade of corn grown in England, but that the rich and smiling face of our beautiful country should be changed into a black wilderness, studded here and there with hor rible smoky aggregation of toil, and dirt, and despotism— the despotism of capital and machinery over miserable men. The working people in the manufacturing districts are well aware that if the English agriculturists should be delivered up to the ruin arising from competition with untaxed land owners, whose ground is tilled by wretched serfs, these agriculturists would be forced, in turn, to ruin the ma nufacturing labourers by competition in a field of labour which is already full. The machine owners look with no apprehension, but with gladness rather, upon such a pro spect, for it seems to be their maxim, that the worse the condition of the labourer the better for them, since he is thereby the more completely in their power. Their object is, not that the people should be largely prosperous, but that capital should make a large profit. This object they pursue with a stupidity as gross as the object i:self is sordid and'selfish ; for, though they might make larger profits by grin - ding down a whole population dependent upon them for existence, yet such a process would take away all the se curity which they now enjoy in the possession of their pro perty. It is perfectly incredible that security for capital could continue to exist in this country, if the greedy capitalists were allowed to have their way in the Legislature. We are told, day after day, that the insecurity of the South of Ireland is owing to the circumstance of the population being forced upon one line of life. There are no manufactures to re sort to, and ejected tenants murder those who have put them off the land—the only means they have of living. Can any rational being doubt that with such a population as ours the circumstance of having no agriculture would be even much more perilous than that of having no manu factures. If legislators were so mad as to annihilate one, and by far the greatest branch, of our industry, is it con ceivable that we should be safe from the desperation of such us could not find a remuneration for their labour ? If the envious machine-owners should have their way, and all the enormous capital devoted to agriculture—capital so immensely exceeding all that they can pretend to possess—should be sacrificed to their folly and cupidity, how could we expect anything but such a re-action of the wronged as would sweep away cotton-capital, and cotton mill, steam-engine, and spinning-jenny, in one resistless • tempest of national fury and destruction ? But there is • no end to the absurdity of the supposition that the agri culture of England should be given up, because the manu facturers think it would be more for their interest to ex change their manufactures for foreign corn. If they rind something so enchanting in cheap corn, and in exchang;ng ' their goods with foreign farmers instead of British, why do not they go away, and make their exchanges without the trouble of marine transit ? They who go away be cause they have not in this country sufficient opportunity for the exercise of their sordidness would be no loss, and even if they were, it would be but &very temporary loss, for right sure we are that they woul d soon be glad enough to come back again to freedom, security, and the dear corn of England, with the English market, which is so good, be cause the a griculturists are not serfs, but owners of pro perty, who, as they sell their corn well, can afford to buy manufactures for themselves, and to give such wages to their labourers as enable them also and their families to buy manufactured goods. The reiterated nonsense and falsehood of the organs of the manufacturing ca pitalists compel us to keep before the public the plain facts which refute this nonsense and falsehood. We are unwilling that by the mere force of uncontradicted effrontery any one should be led to suppose that the anti-Corn -law agitators have even the smallest particle of reasonablenths on their aide. They have no such thing. It is only by audacious assertion of what is utterly at variance with fact, or by the enunciation of general principles which they falsely pretend have an applica t io n t o the existing system of Corn-laws, that they can maintain even the appearance of a case in their favour. They think, however, that they must make the best of their time in getting up popular agitation, and drawing rash and shallow people into pledges on the subject, before Parliament meets. They know that as soon as it does meet their shallow sophistries will receive a decisive answer, and the agitating manufacturers be visited with the rebuke which they deserve.—Morn. Foal. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (Moll THE HORNING PAPERS or THU; DAY.) TIMES.—An important circular has recently made its appearance on the subject of the new transit dues, equal to a prohibition, so far as the products of this country and its colonies are concerned, imposed by the Danish Government on the traffic by the road between Hamburgh and Lubeck, a part of which passes through the Danish territories of Holstein and Schleswig, Lubeck being the nearest, as it was the most economical channel of trade and communication for the Baltic. The extent of the com merce of Lubeck may be understood from the fact, that the imports during . the year 1837 amounted to upwards of 2,500,000/., without taking into account the corn, rapeseed, &c., from the surrounding country. So far as the autho rities of the city were concerned, every exertion appears to have been made to improve the accommodations and lighten the charges on the foreign transit trade, to which end, a few years ago, only the duties inwards, which were about i to 2 per cent., were reduced to about k , and on articles of value to I per cent. Between Hamburgh and Lubeck the two roads pass through the Danish possessions of Schleswig and Holstein, the principal one through Schonberg to the distance of about sixteen Eng lish miles. These roads have always been free by special and ancient privilege and treaties from the imposition of any tax other than a trifling toll on every waggo nload of goods. But, although till now no direct attempt has been made or has succeeded for the imposition of a tax on this road, yet indi rectly every impediment has been thrown in the way of the trade on the part of Denmark. Notwithstaading repeated offer, made by the two cities of Hamburgh and Lubeck to construct roads and even railroads at their own charge, which have been invariably refused, and representations as to the state of the Danish portion of tho road, yet it has been suffered to continue in the same wretched plight, " through masses of sand, or over large fragments of stones," sometimes almost imp/losable. It has long been the subject of "the execrations and complaints" of travellers, and yet for the use of the 16 miles of this probably worst road in Europe a tax if to be exacted ten shillings Lubeck currency (or eight shillings Lam) per 100 lb. Nor is this the whole of the scandalous imposi tion ; for 6 per cent. additional is to be charged on the amount of duty for fees. In order fully to appreciate the nature and extent of these exactions, it is only necessary to cite the transit c harges es tablished in other countries, by which it will be seen that nowhere else perhaps in toe whole world can anything so flagrant as the conduct of tke Danish Government be found. According to the Prussian tariff, which has always been considered sufficiently high, 16s. banco per cwt. are exacted on transit of goods ; but this is the whole. charge for hun dreds of miles of *sport, from to Rhine to Memel, front the frontiers of Switzerland to Holland, from the Austrian frontiers to Hanover. Should the goods have to pass through a short distance only of the States, members of the uriioe under the Prussian league, the impost is reduced to 'is. banco. Tho transit tax from Hanover to Brunswick for the whole line is but 41s. banco. In Austria, where the distance does pot exceed 10 German (between 40 and 50 English) miles, xs, panco only is Charged, pa F r#499 § free t r ansit is THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 183 g. allowed through the whole kingdom, on payment of 2is. banco per 100 kilogrammes, or somewhat more than 2001bs. From these data the extraordinary nature of the Danish extortion may be readily estimated. It amounts, in fact, to nothing less than a repetition of former nefarious attempts, in other ways always defeated, to damage or ruin irretrievably the commerce of the flourishing cities of Lubeck and Hamburgh. The gross injustice of this toll prohibi tion is, moreover, as regards this and other countries, offen sively enhanced by the prominent partiality displayed on the exemption of Russian products, either wholly or in part, from its operation; for, although goods and produce despatched from Hamburgh to Lubeck, consisting in a great proportion of co lonial produce, British cottons, &c., are subject to this transit tax of Bs. banco, per 1001bs, yet, on the contrary, on raw produce and commodities forwarded from Lubeck to Hamburgh, on the same road, a tax of one-half only, or 4s. banco, is levied, from the payment of which various articles of Russian produc tion are even specially exonerated, such as tallow, flax, hemp, pitch, cordage, linseed, &c. The importance of this exemp tion will be understood, when it is remembered that during the winter months, when the navigation of the Baltic is closed, it is by this road that the western parts of Europe are supplied with Russian as well as Swedish products, nor will the disad ♦antages to which British and other commerce has been thus arbitrarily and partially subjected be less apparent, when it is considered that in the shipping season larger quantities of ma nufactured goods and colonial produce are despatched by way of Hamburgh and Lubeck to the coasts of the Baltic, and that from this oountry particularly by no other way can they be then forwarded with greater expedition. On the most impor tant articles of this trade, the finer qualities of manufactures, fine spices and dye stuffs excepted, the transit tax amounts to double the carriage from Hamburg to Lubeck, and in " many cases may be regarded as equal to a prohibition." The extent to which the traffic will be thus burdened may be appreciated by the following examples, taken from the circular alluded to. On coffee, Havannah and refined sugars, pepper, pimento, &c. the impost will amount to 2 per cent. ; on Brazilian sugar, Virginia tobacco, tin plates, 2j- per cent. ; on white lead, hops, ginger, &c., 3 per cent. ; on train oil, 3i per cent. ; rum, raisins, lead, &c., 4 per cent. ; brimstone, 7 per cent. ; earthenware, 5 per cent. ; English vitriol, 14 per cent. ; slates, 23 per cent. ; salt, 44 per cent. ; cement, 24 per cent. ; coals, 80 per cent. These are articles in the trade of which this country is more or less deeply interested, and the injury inflicted—as ,it will be perceived—is of an amount which, without prompt redress, must tend to the serious detriment of the commercial interest con cerned, if not to block out our trading intercourse by that road entirely, which would be tantamount to a stoppage of trade with the Baltic for a considerable part of every year on the average. The value of the imports from Hamburg in transit or for home consumption into Lubeck for the year 1837, is calculated at upwards of 15,000,000 of mares banco, and its superior importance will appear by contrast with the value of Russian and Swedish productions and naval stores imported and despatched to Hamburg for export, which for the same year amounted to about 2,300,000 mares banco, or about one seventh of the former amount, from which it will appear not only how considerable the injury really committed towards this country in particular would be, even had Russian products been made liable to the same charges, but how unjustifiable and in sufferable in addition is the preference shown towards Russia by the solitary exemption of her products from this vexatious and iniquitous toll impost. It is surely time that Government should interfere in this matter, not in behalf of Hamburg and Lubeck only, but of the interests of British commerce, which generally throughout the Continent has of late years been in any but a flourishing condition. POST.—The return published in last night's Gazette of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, for the quarter ending on the 11th instant, gives the following results :—The stock of bullion in the vaults of the Bank has diminished, on a comparison of the present with the return of last month, from 9,362,0001. to 9,336,0001., the difference being 26,0001. The deposits have increased from 9,033,0001. to 10,314,000/., showing a difference of 1,282,000/., and the securities from 20,707,0001. to 21,680,0001., the difference being 973,000/. In the circulation we find a decrease from 18,469,000/. to 18,201,00(11., the difference being 268,000/. In the accumulated profits of the Bank there is a further and considerable falling off. The amount exhibited by the De cember return was 2,567,000/. By the present the ave rage is 2,500,000/. The diminution is consequently 67,000/. From what has been so confidently stated, with re spect to the exportation of the precious metals fur corn and other objects, it has surprised many persons to find the average of the first item still maintained at so high a point. The fact is, we presume, that much of the gold and silver specie imported into this country is not imported on British account at all, but as the easiest and readiest medium that the shippers can find for the transmission of treasure to the Continent and other parts of the world. The Custom house returns only give an aggregate of about half a million as the quantity entered for exportation from London since the commencement of the year, and this, we dare say, is consi derably beyond the amount actually shipped. The state of the Bank Rest shows how unprofitable it is to the Proprietors to retain in their possession so enormous a sum of bullion as they have done for a very long period, and how little objection the Directors could probably have to the taking of a few millions from them for any lcgimate purpose. It is estimated by persons best competent to form an opinion of their value, that the shipwreck of the three New York packets, off Liverpool—namely, the Penns,lvania, the Ox ford, and the St. Andrew—will involve a loss to the owners of 75,000 dollars, or about 15,0001. each. They are, however, understood to be fully insured at New York. HERALD.—The publication of the quarterly returns of the average liabilities of the Bank of England has excited the usual degree of interest here, and, so far as may be ascer tained by a comparison of the present specimen of mystifica tion with the former, we have arrived at the following results. It appears that the circulation of the Bank of England, on the aggregate of the quarter ending with the present month, has decreased in the sum of 268,000/. ; that the deposits have increased in the large sum of 1,282,0001., the securities in the sum of 973,0001., and that the amount of bullion has decreased in the sum of 26,000/., but the circulation on the year has increased in the sum of 301,000/., and the stock of bullion in the sum of 441,000/. The amount of the rest is 2,600,000/., which is less than at the previous return by the sum of 67,0001., and on the year by 1 09,0 0 0 / . The reduction in the amount of bullion, as is shown by this return, is not of much moment, though it evidences the fact that bullion is at present a source of profit by exportation to the Continent, though more is shipped by private parties than through the hands of the Bank Corporation. The large amount of the deposits in the hands of the Bank of England, which are a sort of dead weight upon their hands, equally as unprofitable as the heavy stock of bullion which they retain, and whilst it shows that much capital usually devoted to com mercial purposes is out of employment, proves also that the business of the bank has been very considerably affected by their powerful rivals the joint-stock banks, at present esta blished in London, all of which have singularly prospered during the past year—a circumstance which proves that the contemplated new Commercial Bank of England has a wide field for the exercise of its intended operations. As we are on the subject of banking, it may be as well to say that the private bankers are generally understood to have done extremely well during the past year, and that they have rather benefited than the contrary by the ope rations of the joint-stock banks established in Lon don, as they have opened extensive sources of obtairOng money for commercial eizeounts, which were formerly, and to the public opinion, and, a l t h oug h commercial interests, most inimically confined to the mono poly of the Bank of England. In fact, j o i n t - stock banks are pthroegpreoswseir of n the issuing paper in L on d on, t h ey are exempt from the tax of keeping a lar g e amou nt of tmhaekyinhgave rapid no t bullion on hand, and at the same time are free from the same chances of a run during the period of any political crisis to which the Bank of England is exposed from its close connection with the Government. The firmness of the market of the British Fund: to which we have lately referred has been fully main tained to-day. The transactions in the Foreign Market have been more limited to-day, but there has not been any material alteration in the quotations. Shares have been but in little request. REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. On Thursday evening last the City Corporate Reform As sociation completed the discussion seriatim of the various pro positions contained in the scheme of reform lately proposed for their consideration. It was referred to the Committee of Management to revise the propositions as a whole, and present them, with such suggestions as may appear expedient for giving effect to them, by:petition to Parliament, or otherwise, to the Association at their next meeting, on Thursday, the 17th ofWanuary, when a very large attendance of members is antici pated, more particularly as it is very confidently reported that the Law Officers of the Crown have received instructions to prepare a bill for the reform of the two metropolitan cities of London and Dublin, to be presented to Parliament as one of the earliest measures of the ensuing session. The following is the scheme, as now agreed upon by the Association : " I. That with a view to the attainment of the most effec tive an least expensive system of local government, it is the opinion of this Association that all corporate reform should halve for its object to place the election of the representatives and governing officers of the citizens, and the administration of their public fends, under the effectui4 control of the citizens. " 2. That en uniform right of voting should be established for the election of the mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, chamber lain or treasurer, eommon-councilmen, and auditors of this City. " s. Thet such right of voting should be enjoyed by all persons who shall have been for a period of not less than six months occupiers of houses, lends, tenements, or premises within the city of the annual value of not lei than 101. ,• that such persons shall, by virtue of such occupancy, and during the continuessce of the same, be deemed isz be free of the city; and that all ices and foie now payable on adatiesion to free dom, and all exclusive rights of trading, ott i ght to be abolished. " 4. Ties the bonsa of the several tolls ;Should be al tered, so le to make them as nearly equal with respect to the number of electors in each we i rd as nosy be practioable. " 5. The. the number of words in the city should be 12, and thst there should be elected for •cals ward one alderman amd nine eoramon-councilmen. " 6. That the common-councilmen should be elected annu ally by the electors of each ward, assembled in their respec tive wardmotes. 7. That the aldermen should be elected triennially by the electors of each ward, assembled in their respective wardreotos. ‘4 a. What the mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain or treasurer, and auditors should be Plecte4 email f y in the common-hall by all the electors there assembled, and without any veto on the part of the aldermen. 9. That the times for holding elections should be conso lidated, and that there should be two days for nomination and one day for election—viz., one day for the nomination of mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain or treasurer, and auditors, in common-hall; and one other day for the nomination of alder men, common-councilmen, and other ward officers, in the several wardmotes : the former to take place a few days be fore the latter, and in the event of a poll being demanded in either common-hall or wardmote elections, the poll to be taken in each ward of the several electors therein on the day follow ing the wardmote nominations. " 10. That the vigilance of the electors is sufficient to pre serve the respectability and character of their representatives without requiring any pecuniary qualification, and that every person qualified to vote in the choice of aldermen and com mon-councilmen, and none others, should be qualified to be elected to those offices. " 11. That the Court of Mayor, Alderman, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, should be authorized and re quired, from time to time, to nominate so many fit and proper persons, not exceeding 26 in the whole, and being severally members of such Council, as to such Court shall seem expedi ent, as being qualified to act as justices of the peace for the City and its liberties, and that such persons should thereupon under the several letters patent and grants from the Crown to the citizens now in force be authorized to act, and thenceforth continue to act, as such justices in the same manner as alder men now act as such, provided that every person so to be no minated and authorised be resident within the city of London, or within 10 miles thereof, during the time lie shall act as such justice of the peace. " 12. That it is expedient that one or more salaried police magistrates should be appointed for the city and its liberties; that the Court of Common Council should be authorized to nominate such fit and proper person or persons for that office, and to direct such salary or salaries to be paid to him or them out of the corporate funds as to such Court shall seem expe dient, and that the person or persons so nominated should thereupon, if her Majesty shall think fit, be appointed by her Majesty a police magistrate or magistrates, and a justice or justices of the peace for the city and its liberties during her Majesty's pleasure. In all cases of vacancy in such office of police magistrate the same course to be pursued with refe rence to any new appointment. " 13. That the mayor should be chosen from the unpaid magistrates of the city, who have served the office of sheriff. " 14. That the Court of Mayor and Aldermen in the inner chamber should be abolished, and its civil functions, in the election or admission of officers, or otherwise, transferred to the Court of Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled ; and that for the future the funds and in come of the city should be under the control and expended only by the authority of such Court of Common Council, as being the representatives of the citizens. " 15. That the number of members required to be present, in order to constitute a Court of Common Council, should not be less than one-fourth of the whole Council ; that the mayor, if present ; or, in his absence, such aldermen ; or, in the ab sence of all the aldermen, such common-councilman as shall be chosen by a majority of the members present, should pre side at such Court, and have a second or casting vote in all cases of an equality of votes ; and that in case the mayor should at any time refuse to call a Court of Common Council, after a requisition for that purpose, signed by at least ten members of the Council, such Court should be called by ten members signing the requisition. " 16. That by two several charters in Parliament of the 15th of Edward 111. and 7th of Richard 11., it is granted and confirmed to the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the City of London, that if any customs of the City shall be harsh or defective, or any new emergencies arising therein shall need amendment, for which no remedy had been before provided, the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty may, as often as it shall seem to them expedient, ordain and provide a remedy accord ing to good faith and consonant to reason, for the common advantages of the citizens and people resorting thither, pro vided that such ordinances be useful to the King, and his peo ple, agreeable to good faith, and consonant to reason, as afore said ; that such legislative power was with all the other rights and privileges of the citizens of London confirmed by the sta tute of 2d William and Mary, passed on the completion of the revolution of 1688 ; that it has been constantly exercised, and forms the foundation of many of the more useful and important ordinances made by the mayor and aldermen and commonalty from the earliest possession of the power to the present time ; that it has also been established by various decisions of the courts of law during the same period, and that in the opinion of this association such legislative power of remedying defects in the civic constitution is essential to the maintenance of the rights and privileges of the citizens, and should therefore be preserved unimpaired. " 17. That the Commissioners of Sewers, the corporation of the Irish Society, and all other commissioners or commit tees for trusts, or for charitable or other purposes, appointed by or emanating from the Court of Common Council, under acts of Parliament or otherwise, should be under the direct controul of and amenable to that body. , " 18. That such further legal powers should be conferred on the Court of Common Council as may be required to en able the Court to abolish all useless offices and places, and to consolidate such as it may be expedient so to deal with. " 19. That the right of addressing the Sovereign on the throne, and all other the powers and privileges of the Court of Common Council not hereby proposed to he altered and not inconsistent with the principle hercinbefore declared, nor in compatible with the interest of the metropolis at large, should be continued to that body. " 20. That the Court of Hustings, the Court of Mayor and Aldermen in the outer chamber, and the two Sheriffs' Courts, should be consolidated into one court, of which the Recorder and one or more qualified persons, as may be necessary, shall be the judges, and that all barristers and attorneys practising in the superior court should be permitted to practise in such new constituted court. " 21. That the Act of the 11th George 1., c. 18, for regu lating elections within the city, should be repealed, and such other legislative meaeure applied for as may be required to carry into effect the preceding resolutions, leaving such of them as can be effected by the authority of the Court of Com mon Councilt o be perfected by that Court after it shall have been reconstituted as heretofore proposed." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—The Electra, 18, Commander Preston, arrived on Monday from Rio, whence she sailed on the 22d of November, having 15,0001. in specie on board. Extract of a letter from the Havannah, dated December 10, 1838:—" Her Majesty's ships Madagascar and Comus, and the United States ships Boston and Ontario, are lying here ; the former waiting for a wind to sail for Vera Cruz for the protection of British interests. On the senior officer of the British ships returning the American Commodore's visit, he hoisted the English ensign, and saluted with 13 guns. Her Majesty's packet Sheldrake arrived at the Havannah on the Bth of December. It is stated that the Frenchmen at Vera Cruz fired a shot across the bows of the latter as she went in, she having at the time her pennant and ensign flying." Her Majesty's packet Sheldrake, Lieutenant Passingham, arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday, from Mexico ; sailed from Vera Cruz Nov. 10th, Tampico on the 26th, and Havannah Dec. 11th ; had on freight 100,000 dollars, and passengers, four miners. _ _ The Donegal, Tribune, Scylla, and Espoir, were lying in the Tagus on the 31st ult. ; the Wasp was at Gibraltar on the 27th, and Trincula at Cadiz. The Menai (R. Y. S.) schooner ( Harvey, Esq.), sailed from Gibraltar for Algesiras, on the 27th. The Ganges, 84, Captain Reynolds, C. 8., and Daphne, 11, Captain Dalling, are ordered to proceed to the Mediter ranean, and will sail in the course of the ensuing week, touch ing at Lisbon, where their attendance is required to make up the number of Captains necessary to constitute it Court-mar tial ordered to be held on a Lieutenant of the Tribune, on that station. The Camelion, 10, Lieutenant Hunter, is ordered to South America, and will sail in a day or two. She went out of har bour to-day. The Zebra, 18, has been commissioned at Sheerness, by Commander Robert F. Stopford. The Marines for the Powerful, 84, were marched, on Satur day last, from Woolwich to Chatham, a very fine body of men, 160 in number. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch's beautiful yacht, The Flower of Yarrow,.Lieut. Henry Smith (b.), R. N., com mander, sailed on Wednesday for the Mediterranean. The Horatio transport arrived here to-day, and came into harbour to embark a detachment of the Bth Regiment for Ja maica. She will proceed also to Cork, to take on board de tachments of other corps. The City of Rochester, freight ship, will embark from this port, in a few days, detachments of the 67th and 89th Regiments for the Leeward Islands. The Ethelred, transport, will take detachments from Cork to the West Indies, in a few days, for the 14th and 70th Re giments. The Russell, 74, Captain Sir William H. Dillon, Knight, K. C. H., arrived at Sheerness on the 4th instant, wind and weather having detained her some days in the intricate navi gation of the mouth of the Thames. She was inspected and exercised on Saturday, the sth, by Sir Robert Otway, the Commander-in-Chief of the port, when the gallant Admiral expressed himself much pleased with her state of discipline and the appearance of her crew. The paying off a line-of battle ship's crew, with eighteen months' wages due, is a for tunate circumstance for the Powerful, just commissioned. It is generally understood that the Admiralty have always a small reserve of commissions to fill up at this time of the year. Could they do better then to bestow one on the Lieu tenant of the Navy who first so skilfully navigated the Great Western across the Atlantic Ocean. This would be a compli ment to skill and science that would alike do honour to the giver and the receiver. PaomoTioNs AND ATPOINTMENTIL—Lieutenant Francis Higginson. Surgeoni_J d mes E. Good ridge, Charles Priulx, and F. W. Le Grand. Commander R. G. Stop ford, to the Zebra. Lieutenants—Bell Robert Owen, and F. olin , S i . a.c T d h o u n r a a l b d y, t othe C the to surveyin g G Speck, of As sistant Surveyor o f th at vess el, vice Collinson. Assistant- Sur geons—Edward Nulloth, to Malta Hospital ; and Thomas E. Keewn, to the Powerful, (From the Desonport Indepondent.) PLYMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Her Majesty's Ship Scylla, 18, Commander Hon. J. Denman, at Lisbon, having been relieved at Cadiz by the Trinculo, to proceed to the Coast of Africa, has been surveyed and found defective. She is ordered at this port, and may be daily expected. Her Majesty's Ship Malabar, 74, Captain E. Harvey, will be taken into dock on Tuesday to be repaired. Her Majesty's Ship Inconstant, 36, Captain D. Priig, sailed on Wednesday for the Cove of Cork, from whence she will proceed to Halifax, with the 37th and 69th depots. Her Majesty's Brig Rolla, 10, Lieut.-Corn. C. Hall, ar rived on Thursday, with volunteer seamen and boys, from the Cove of Cork, who were put on board the Royal Adelaide the same day. Ships in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide. 104, Captain T White ; San Josef, 110, Captain J. N. Tayler; Malabar, 74, Captain E. Harvey ; Hercules, 74, Captain J. Toup Ni cholas ; Opossum • Asia, freght ship. In the Sound—Rolla, 10, Lieut.-Com. C. Hall. In Barnpool—Acheron, steamer, and Nightingale packet. The Board of Admiralty, it is stated, intends to place the Ordinary Establishment, at Portsmouth, Devonport, Sheer ness, and Chatham, on board a sea-going ship of first or second rate, and to keep several hundred disposable supernumeries on board these ships and the flag-ships, which, together with the vessels usually fitting for reliefs, will present, on emergency, a fleet of 8 or 10 sail of the line on the home station. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BAIL COURT, JAN. 12. COCKERILL AND UXOR V. STARKIE. This was an action of trespass in this case by the plaintiffs against the defendant for damages as compensation for an in jury alleged to have been sustained by the wife of the plaintiff, in consequence of wilful negligence on the part of the defendant. On the 12th of August last, while Mrs. Cockerill was cross ing the Holloway-road, she was knocked down by the defen dant's cart, which at the time was proceeding at the rate of eight miles an hour, and seriously injured by the wheels and the feet of the horse. For months she had been confined to her bed or chair, owing to the injuries she had received, and it was even doubtful whether she would ever be restored to health, or enabled to do any thing for her family.—Damages 151. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 12. PALMER V. REIFENSTEIN. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, on the part of the plaintiff, applied in this case for a rule to discharge a commission, which had been issued in May last, to examine witnesses in Canada, and proceed to trial. The ground of his application was, that no proceedings had been taken under that commission, no wit nesses examined, and the only produce which had resulted from it during the whole of this time was a letter from a party in Lower Canada, stating that the commission could not be executed, as it was directed to the Judges of Lower Canada by name ; and since the issuing of that commission a new Judge had been appointed in the place of one of the old Judges named therein. There could, however, be no doubt that that was a mere pretence for further delay, and as the examination might have been previously commenced, the Court would not allow the action to be stayed any longer._ The COURT granted a rule to show cause. WEBB V. WALL. This was an action for a malicious arrest, in which a verdict had been found for the defendant, and a rule obtained for a new trial. The defendant had acted as the plaintiff's stock broker in various transactions on the Stock Exchange, and some di-putes tetween them the defendant arrested the plaintiff for upwards of gOL, a balance which he claimed to be due to him. The question whether the defendant had rea sonable and probable cause for that arrest depended on evi dence which was given as to certain payments said to have been made by the plaintiff, as to the state of the accounts be tween them. There were several affidavits on both sides, which were entirely conflicting, and the rule for a new trial now came on to be argued upon these affidavits. After Sergeant WILDE had been heard against the rule, it was agreed that the case should go down for a new trial upon payment of costs. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 12. SELWAY V. HOGU. This case came on for trial before Lord Abinger, when the Jury found for the plaintiff—damages, 171. Mr. HUMPHREY having moved for, obtained a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be sete asid and a nonsuit entered. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, J4i.r. 12. ADVANTAGE OF THE BAIL CLAUSE. Thomas .Danby appeared to be discharged under the Act. This insolvent had been out on bail, and his case presented a contrast to those heard under the old law. He had been in custody but a few days, and then liberated on bail. Under the former Act he would have been confined about six weeks be fore he could be heard. Instead of idling his time in prison, bail had been procured, and be had been the driver of an omni bus. He had formerly been the proprietor of " busses" and had lost no less than 201 horses by death from February, 1835. He was ordered to be discharged. FRAUDULENT DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY. Charles Slatter, who had been a proprietor of cabriolets, came up for judgment. The insolvent was opposed on the part of several creditors, on the ground that be had fraudulently made away with his pro perty, to the injury of his creditors. The Learned CHIFF COMMISSIONER adjudged him to an im prisonment of fourteen calendar months, for fraudulently mak ing away with his property. IN THE MATTER OF THOMAS HALLS. Mr. WOODROOFE, at the rising of the Court, applied in the case of Mr. Halls, the ex-Magistrate of Bow-street, for further time to file his schedule. The Court granted ten days' further time. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS;UN-HOUSE. On Saturday eight men, the crew of the Sisters, a collier, from Sunderland, appeared before the Loan MAYOR, to state that their lives had been saved by Captain Barclay, of the Emerald fishing-smack, on Wednesday last. In the course of the conversation between his Lordship and the crew of the Sisters, some information upon the subject of the coal trade was casually given. The LORD MAYOR—How is the trade now in the north? Captain—Very dull indeed. There is but one pit at work. The LORD MAYOR—How many voyages have . you generally made? Captain—Nine a year; but we could make twelve if we had a quick delivery. The Lotto MAYOR--What is the freight ? Captain.—Eleven shillings a ton. The Loin MAYOR—But you could do the thing for less if you were allowed to make more voyages? Captain—No doubt of it. We could, if allowed to m dte twelve voyages, do it for nine shillings. The LORD MAYOR—Nine shillings I Could you not do it for 7s. 6d. ? Captain (laughing)—Why, yes, we could. The LORD MAYOR—I know that thirteen voyages can be made. Captain—Yes; but not as circumstances are. We are obliged to wait for our turn, and cannot make more than nine. The LORD NIAYOR—You only deliver 49 tons per day now. Could you not deliver 100 tons Captain—Certainly. We could deliver 150 a-day. I have known 165 tons to be de livered in a day. The Loan MAYGR— And the captains of the vessels would be glad of the quick delivery ? Capta:n—Very much indeed, my Lord. Mr. Morris, the manager of the East London Coal Com pany, appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer the complaint of Mr. Starr, of Catherine-wheel alley, Bishopsgate.street. The defendant said that this was an attempt upon the part of those who were interested in the combination to keep up the price of coals to injure him because he sold the article at a much cheaper rate. He was not able to deny the facts that the machinery was out of order and the weights were left be hind, but he made his scale-maker and his carman responsible for the consequences of any faults of the kind. He alwa)s gave directions to these persons to be very particular in their preparation for delivery, the more especially as he knew that he was marked out by the combination. The LORD MAYOR. said that he felt it incumbent upon him to inflict a penalty is every case in which so important an Act was violated. It had been proved to him that the machine was out of order, and that there were no weights with the cart. He should, therefore, fine the seller of the coals 5/. and the car man 21. Mr. Morris paid the penalties, but stated that he should stop th• amount from his scale-maker and his carman. GUILDHALL. William Martin, a pawnbroker on Snow-hill, attended to defend an information charging him with receiving as pledges upwards of 1,000 books, in an unfinished state. The books bad been entrusted to George Baker, a bookbinder, to bind, by Mr. Clark, of Holborn-hill. Baker had been forgiven on his stating where the property had been pawned, when a search warrant was granted, and 1,700 unfinished books were found in the defendant's house. The books, which were stitched, hut had no frontispiece, were sent in, and the defendant's solicitor attempted to prove that they were finished without further binding. After two hours' argument Sir PETER LAURIE gave it as his opinion that the books were unfinished, and fined the defendant for receiving work in an unfinished state 51. and costs. Q UEEN-SQUARE. Johanna Jeffery, a young woman, who stated herself to be a servant, but persevered in refuting to give her address, was charged by Mr. Kilrick, silversmith, 194, Sloane street, with smashing his shop window, and stealing a gold watch. Hearing the crash he ran out of the shop, and stopping the pri. Boner found the watch in her hand, which he identified as his. —She was fully committed for trial, WORS HIP- S TREE T. George and William Walker, father and son, who bad been remanded for re-examination on a charge of robbing a vene rable old gentleman ristmed Waite, ninety years of age, who lodged in the elder prisoner's house in the Hackney-road, of his gold watch and a considerable quantity of plate, were fully committed to Newgste to take their trials. It was stated that a love o f gam bli ng had instigated t h e prisoners to the above act. The father held a situation of 4001. a year in a banking-house, and the son had been employed in St. Ka tharine's Dock as a clerk. LAMBETH-STREET, Henry Boxer and Ann his wife, and Thomas Snoohes, were placed at the felons' bar, and afterwards remanded, on s charge of plundering the dwelling-house of Mr. James Bruton of cash and property to s cunaiderable amount. Died, on the 28th ultimo, at Swansea, in her 75th year, Mn.l Hutton, only survi v inesister of the late John Philip tremble, Esq., and Mrs. Siddons. As " Ann of Swansea , " she was well known to the literary world as the authoress of several novels and poetical productions, which evince that vrith. the name she inherited also the genius thi.t distinguished so mane of her teleoted TH MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST 4VEEI, Beans. Pease. 8, to 8. S. I. 41 - s. to s. 29 28 36 24 26 42 44 45 48 23 27 s. ti. s. d. 00 44 00 36 30 36 30 3 !), 26 30 i 2 0 33 42 45 e. d. I. d 00 Q(• 56 00 50 S ri 56 6 0 60 67 00 00 56 60 35 34 s. d. s d. 00 00 00 p 0 I 0 0 00 00 08 00 00 00 6P 0 0 0 0 76 110 $6 90 90 P 0 00 0 Wheat. ! Barley. Jats. Per Quarter. , s. to s. 6. to Carlisle l9 1 39 Hex ham 61 76 ; 25 46 norpeth '64 78 '33 40 Penrith 76 —33 Sheffield 33 1 37 Winchester 66 86 j 32 35 1 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. 6.E1. s. d. ; Carmarthen 0 0 9 8 0 0 40 ; Cowbridge ~10 0 0 0 0 0 4(3 Newcastle (Staff.) 9 0 10 9 3 6 401 Northallerton 9 0 10 3 3 6 4 6 9 0 10 6 4 0 4 8 Swansea l9 0 00 46 50 Warwick '9 0 11 0 3 0 4 6 Per 8011. Sarnardcastle.--.119 0 22 0 Durham 116 0 22 0 Richmond IS 0 21 0 Stockton 0 19 6 WA KEFIELD 80 931 7 0 S 8 90 120 , 70 8 0 5 3 7910 0 110 70 9 0 5 0 80 90 li o 90 9 9 7 6 S 0 76 SG CORN MARKET—Jan, 12 There is a large supply of Wheat as well as a fair arrival of other grain fresh up for this day's market. We have a thin attendance of Millers this morning, who purchased Wheat very sparingly at a decline of Is. per quarter, yet at this re duction holders were not disposed to press sale. South Batley must be quoted Is. per quarter dearer, but no improvement could be established in other descriptions. In Oats, Shelling, or Beans, no alteration. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -s. 765, to 82s. fine 84s. Lin. and Cam. -s. Ms. to Ws. fine 82. Yorkshire -5.124. to 765. fine 82,. -VOhite - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to fine -s. White Barley, Norfolk and Suffelk - Lincolnshire - Yorkshire Wold - Foreign Beans, Small 47s. to 48s. fine 50, Tick Oats, Potato -s. to l'.o fine 31s. - Poland -s. -s. to 30s. fine Mr. Friezland and Small -s. 245. to 265. fine 28 s . Mealing Shelling Malt as. 41s fine Ifis. per I oak. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Oatmeal. kbcrdeen 75 to 86 3O to 33 22 to 28 —to -.. Berwick 46 60 25 29 17 23 30 Ceidstream Cupar (Fife) 4B 65 126 31 16 22 22 26 .... ••• Dudee 4B 98 30 33 20 25 30 31 -.• Elgi n n 6S 70 36 38 98 35 23 30 .... -••• Inverness 62 70 214 32 25 28 32 33 -- Kelso . ...., - Kirkaldy Perth ig.:: - ,, The siz . of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDINGfON CORN BIARKET.--Tan. 11. Wheat. Barley. oats. 1 Pease. Beans. First B6s Od 49s Od 35 3 Od 42s 04 46s Od Second 766 Od 42s 03 31s Od 40; Od 42 . Od Third 703 Od 39s 6d 283 0.4 361 Od ' 37s Oct Average 3/. 16a 21. 11.12ths. DALKEITH CORN 14 ARKE'r.--Jan. 10 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. B eans . First lns Od 44s 6,1 34s 8d 48s Od 48 Od Second 77s Od 381 6cl 29s Od 46s Od 46. 0 . 1 Third . s6s Od 994 01 15s 43 32s 04 32 Oct EDINBURGH CORN MARKE.—Jan. O. We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, and the skies WWI rather quick. _ 40 to 44 4; 5 0 .... .... Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Pease. B ea ns First 9os. Od. 45 s Od. 1 . 37 s 41. 465. Od . 46s Ott . Second 6O 0 40 0 30 0 43 0 43 0 ' Third ... 614 0 35 0 25 4 40 0 40 0 Average price of Wh ea t 1 1. 161 2J. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. ........... Os. 4d. to Os, 7d. Freshßutter,lb........loJ, to s. 11 4 . Mutton-,.................., 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditte..........,,...., 010 811 Veal 0 7 010 Ditto, per cwt.-84 0 :92 0 Pork= 0 6 0 7 Eggs, per d 01....". o 0 0 11 Lamb, per qr. ...... 0 0 2 0 O a tSt raw( kpl.).......lo 0 14 0 Tallow, cwt......,..,46 0 49 0 Wheat Ditt0.,,„.,.,,. 9 6 ii • 2uartern Loaf—.... UIQ 0 114 Barley Ditto ........... 9 0 ig 0 Potatoes, 141 b......, 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 5t...............,, 010 1 1 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—Jan. 8. There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's market, and the sales were rather heavy, Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal ' £2 11K0 Second ditto.,.. ` Barleymeat ll7 0 Peasemeal I 16 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 123.-2 d GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doing Wheat, per 240113. a. d. 8. d . British, old 4lO 10 45 0 ---. new 42 0 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 3l I 33 0 Scottish 29 0 31 0 Irish Per Stene of I4lb. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 9 Second ditto 0 2 6 Barleynteal _0 i ° Peasemeal 0 9 0 , 148.-3 d . 1 6*-4tb,ltils.--Pssil, 20 11 . MARKET.—Jan. 9. in Grain; prices steady. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d• Irish 2l ote2l o British 2lO 20 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish 2O 0 11 0 Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l9 0 22 0 Flour, per 2501 b.....,, 60 0 70 0 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. Truro..... ...... Helstone St. Austell Bodmin Liskeard Launceston Camel ford Penzance. s. d. to s. 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 s. d. to o. 11. - • 12 0 -• 9 2 —0 1 6 —0 g 6 —0 • • —0 9 0 0 10 0 0 11 0 M Quantity of Copper Quantity of tine Col Average Produce.. Amount •f Sale. 23, [INI NG INTE: rOr sold )pper 1,7201. I Is. CA—Ai 0 10 • —0 • • —0 $ ° • 0 $ —0 7 ; - o 7 0 $0 • 0 • ° .L I GENCE. Tons. Cwt. Q" 3.170 21 • 290 "5 ,reraga standarioludo. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's G atette.) Azalias, Rhododendrons, and various other showy for forcing, may be removed into the stove ; take especial car that those previously removed there be well watered, whiled"' buds are swelling or the bloom advancing. Roses may also be placed in a warm greenhouse or copse ° vatory for the purpose of forcing. Greenhouses and conservatories must have all the air Pr sible on mild day s , b ut t h ey s h ould have occasional fires foggy or damp weather. If the weather be damp some dal together, give a little extra fire, and give air at the same til l* it will dry the house. Pits are better open than shut all mild days, but f e r aj° should be admitted. Kitchen garden ; the operations here consi-t chiefly ° I : r.Tetition of former work. Peas and Beans for successi o crops ; earthing of celery; blanching of endive ; giving a ir° , and weeding th e see dli ng lettuces, and other salads in frames ' digging and dressing vacant spaces, &c. Orchard ; training espaliers and vsall fruit trees ; prusii o nailing, and regulating. Watch T u lip s , an d as t h ey come out of the ground, co ger them well with little heaps of silver sand an inn b over a t less This must not he neglected. Auriculas_keep dry ; pick off dead leaves. Other operations as before, whenever he weather lermito. ST RA w.—ln consequence of the immense quantil of straw whi c h h as b een an d w ill b e required to make goL the damage done to houses, outbuildings, stacks, So., "J„ the late storm, th a t ar ti c l e h as almost doubled in prie within the last few days at Preston. PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTATIONer4, A. B. SAVORY an d SONS , M anufacturing Silversmiths, No. Cornhill, London, (opposite the Bank of England), submit for I . ll _ l spection in their show rooms, every variety of Silver Plate adap for this purpo se . E m b osse d and plain Salvers, Silver Tea Trar', Silver Centres, Epergnes, and Candelabra, Wine Coolers, Din Services, includi ng C orner Dishei, Soup Tureens, &a. ; Bread *IL Cake Baskets, Silver Sailing and Racing Cups; Silver Inkstan from 10/. to 401. always ready for selection. Drawings of anY l 5l the above articles are sent for the approval of committees to parts of the kingdom. HORIZONTAL FLAT WAT CH EF with accurately finished jewelled movements, warranted, are off in Silver cases , pr i ce Fi ve Guineas each ; or in Gold eases, Prl, Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmak e r, J•' ler, and Silv ersm i t h , 47 , Cornhill, London (Seven Doors fr ° Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRT.HS. On the 11th inst., in Upper Stamford-street, Mrs. Thornton, of a daughter. On th• 11th inst., at Runnymede, the Hon. Mrs. Nevile Re id' of a son. of On the 11th inst., in Stratton -street, Piccadilly, the WV Allan Maclean Skinner, Esq., barrister -at-law, of a son. -.• MARRIED. At Corvisel House, on the Bth inst., the Rev. Michael "Steol Johnstone, Minister of Minnigaff, to Lilias Miller, only daughter Captain John M'Kirlie, R.N., of Corvisel House. On the 10th inst., at St. James's, Clerkenwell, William TRH'elde Esq., of Rome and Percy-street, Bedford-square, to Mary - 01 7„" eldest daughter of Mr. John Arnett, of the Customs and Pen vale. " DIED. At Gibraltar, on the 18th of December, Thomas J. Durie: Esq., Ensig n 48th Regiment, elde s t son of the Hon. and Rev. if the tal of , Zetland.Re or Northampto ns hi re , an d nep hew ° un r dast of ar p o l e, At Cawnpore, on the 4th of June, Edmond, the infant aos Major-General Thackwell, of the 3d Light Dragoons. „,,,t November of zb- At the British C onsu l ate -General, Bucharest, on the Margaret Charlotte, wife of R. G. C o l q uhoul Esci.,of iat ' Fincastle, her British Majesty's Consul-General there, sT youngest daughter of the late Thomas Hog, Esq., of Newlistui" North Britain. On the 6th inst., in East- s t ree t, R e d Li on - square, aged 69, 31.„.11. Dorothy Guildford Matilda P urser , re li ct o f t h e late William ser, Esq., of Christchurch, Surrey. At Cambe rwe ll , on the 6th inst., aged 72, Elizabeth, relict of the late John Lamb, Esq. On the 7th inst., at Kennington-common, John Jones, Eg" aged 81 On the 9th inst., at Bristol House, Leicestershire, aged 61, Jul Mansfi e ld, E sq., formerly one of the representatives in Parliame nt for the borough of Leicester. On the 9th inst„ Miss Peltran, of Upper Woburn-place. On the 10th inst., aged three years and four months, Will' George, son of Geo. Harrison, Esq., of Great Marlborough-stree t ' On the 10th inst., at Maida-hill, William M'Michael, F. R. S., aged 5.1. Sers h On the 10th inst., at Allingtc,n, near Lewes, aged 63, ..„0 Dawson late of Great Cumberland -street, relict of the late JaP . Dawson, Esq. On the 10th inst., at Canterbury, aged 22, George Arthu r, eldest son of William Mount, Esq. On the 10th inst., at Norwich, Thomas King, Esq., M.D., et Maddox-street, Hanover -square. of On the 11th inst., Sarah, the wife of Mr. William Graham , St. James's-street, aged 73. On the 9th inst., at Walvrorth-terrace, aged 20, John Auguste, third son of th e l ate J ames Wilde Dixon, Esq., of the same pito' and grandson of the late Samuel Dixon, Esq. London. Printed and Published by_MURDO YOUNG of i 112, Strivud, at The Sun Offic e , N o 112, Strand, is the 00 f Aliodstss.—mostiay, Jamu l ' 14, 18811. ri ght td Part ; '•n 1 31 rty i n It rthe next Depn ! 414(1 pros Lot Liv Riri Edi Gla Dur Abe Dur C. into hi s I to fin a Health m Letters Court, DZ _ Al A Dated th 1L Tht held induce Ginge r a Elder., - C om Port, Sher] N.B.—f, ?allowed for Orders fr e xecuted wi I. Fi , Str ati , ‘A ' opp S WAI A 1, a 44 .a. `k , I P end* ;we( 1)44 nei; 8 8 . 13 ___ . _ ....s( ° ,_ Dr eues of anY devi • L Uw e ', fi n , 73e Ad thirty ye; ve . ry, fain caseo Obsi rehr J• Ni IN. 2 If* Ji %0I Bank by th cemb Carry Bark Roy a l Britis) C°,lnrs Scot ICatior, hutd 1 T]